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No artist would attempt to paint a
picture until be tad a dear and definite
idea of what he wished to portray. ; A
sculptor would scarcely begin to use
his chisel until he had ' seen with his
mind's ere the angel la the marble,
i ou, would not induce a builder to be
fria work until be bad ready all the
plans and specifications of the-building
he intended to erect. How mneh
less then can we, who are to mold the
lives and characters ,of the youth ia
our schools, expect to accomplish any
thing unless we set el early before our
selves the ideal we are endeavoring to
attaint. We must know Just what we
are trying to 'secure as a result of oar
work, benee the necessity of discussing
again and again such questions as we
have before us, today. "
Let us ask then, to what extent the
public school should fit for life, and
try to find an answer to the Question.
Before attempting to do this, how
ever, it is -evidently necessary to know
just what, we mean by the-little phrase
"to nt for life." ,
A study of the history of education
reevals the fact that the meaning at
tached to this phrase has undergone all
ttorts of changes and variations. We
find that among the Jews it meant
moral and religious training; the men
of Sparta were fitted for life when
they were prepared to fftidure without
a murmur all the hardships of war;
the ideal of the Athenian was aestheti
cal culture; and the more practical Bo
man looked upon . education as a means
of preparing him to make a good liv
inb all one-sided views, and yet all
having in them some elements of truth.
These ideals either alone or in com
bination continued to mold education
for several centuries. But with the
revival of learning in Europe, there
came in a new and different view of
education. The humanists declared
that fitness for life is general culture,
and they sought to attain that culture
through a study of the Greek and Latin
classics. After a j time they were in
their turn opposed by the realists,
.whose aim - was utility, ' and whose
method the study of nature.
For years the advocates of these two
opposing ,w theories j of education have
waged a war of words over the true
nd and the proper method of training
the child. Nor can it be said that at
the present time educators are. unani
mous in their . opinions of what is
meant by fitness for life. We pride
ourselves, it is true, on what we are
pleased to call the '"New Education,"
and flatter .ourselves that in it we
have combined all the best ideas of
the past, together with much that is
new and valuable. Most of us are quite
willing to accept ; the theory "Make
your man .and he will make his liv
ing' but we 'still seem to differ about
the kind ' of - man we want to make,
and are unable to decide just how to
make him.
To be sure, we no longer think of
education as purely moral or mental
cr physical. We insist that power
rather than knowledge is the end to
le attained, and are willing to admit
. that abstract human education is a
very poor preparation for real life.
Few of us vwouId. favor the view still
held by some, namely, that to be able
to earn one's Living is the, sum total
of fitness required. Ve are all agreed,
too, I believe, in thinking that though
a man may have wealth, power-and
position, if he bave a poor character
all these things will profit him nothing
PUBLIC
r
Cardinal Gibbons, the cnerablo iri
mate of the Soman Catholic church in
America, if a fervent advocate. of Walk
ing as a means of prolonging life and
adding to health and vigor. The card
inal has passed the allotted nge of man,
yet be can do his ten miles a day with
out the slightest inconvenience, and be
accomplishes this j task faithfully ex
cept ia extraordinarily ' ' inclement
weather. To Baltimoreans he is a
familiar sight out for a jaunt, but
trangcrs ' generally are -astonished
when told that the diminutive, some
what shabby looking man, without one
single exterior sign of his dignity, is
the illustrious churchman and scholar,
lie usually walks alone and .it is a
.. token of marked favor to be invited to
join in his rambles.
Not many , moons ago Sir Horace
Plunkatt, the Irish patriot and mem
ber oT parliament, was visiting this
country, and he brought among other
letters of introduction, one from the
Archbishop of Westminster to his em
inence of Baltimore. " Sir Horace ar
rived just before the cardinal's noon
day meal, and as the ancient traditions
still bold in Baltimore, he was asked
to -take 'his luck at the board. The
conversation took a turn on the cardin
al 'i hobby, the benefits tp be derived
from long and constant walking. Sir
Horace agreed with all the arguments
advanced, but purely in a perfunctory
way. A The cardinal was delighted and
proposed a jaunt right after luncheon.
; The visitor sized up the physique of
the prelate and as he already knew
that he had reached bin, seventy-second
birthday, he thought it a safe proposi
tion to consent. The cardinal started
out on his jog trot, telling his guest
many interesting thing as they went.
But he went and went. He passed the
straggling houses of ' the suburbs and
finally got into the Open country. - Oc
casionally a carriage would drive by
and the occapants would draw up and
ask if they could give his eminence and
his friend a "lift." The , cardinal
would .then carefully explain that- his
friend was a stranger ana he was show
ing him the sights. ' " ,
Sir Horace Plunkett confided after
wards that he had not walked ten miles
consecutively in aa many years, . and
lie was so lame the next day that be
could not keep an engagement with a
party of scientists at Columbia Univer
sity in New York. . ,
Faul Morton, he secretary of the
navy, has a grim sense of humor and
his way of showing it sometimes makes
havoe , -with departmental traJi'ionis.
The other day Ir. Morton returned
from a cabinet" meeting asd hia secre
tary pointed out ra pile-- .documents
and asked his, to, affix his name. Me.
erioa took u2.oa.0 p" ta. Xetters ia-
to far as right '-. living Is concerned.
Thse are the particulars ia which we
agree there are other points, many of
them, on 'which -we-differ. - -
1 Up to within recent years we find
colleges and universities shaping their
courses almost entirely according to
humanistic ideas, and . as our public
schools are an outgrowth of the higher
institutions of learning, we find these
same ideas have had no slight influence
upon our secondary schools, and have
even been felt, though to a much Jksj
extent, by the primary schools. " '
1 Now that education is no longer the
exclusive privilege of the few, but the
unuouotea rigut or. the many, a change
in the . curricula i to be expected.
Many colleges have already responded
to this change in conditions and are
offering courses of study- parallel with
the classical course, and - equal - to it,'
but substituting modern languages or
science for the -Latin, and Greek.- That
the tendency to make education more
practical is felt by the public school,
no one can doubt. - Chicago is testing
tm commercial ana manual training
in its high schools;, New York has a
splendid new building where is to be
conducted a commercial . high school;
while in all parts of the country school
boards and superintendents are dis
cussing the wisdom: of following the
example set. by these two cities. -The
same thing is true of the, grades. In
dustrial education and manual train
ing are the topics of the hour, both in
educational journals and in teachers
associations.
To those wedded to the 'traditional
courses of study, these -symptoms of
change are alarming. -That there is
danger in the movement few thought
ful people will deny. Forgetting toat
"man -cannot live by bread alone,"
the advocates of a practical education
are very apt to demand-that, unless a
subject have utility value, it-, shall be
dropped entirely. 'Such utterances as
the following are evidences of' this ten
dency: "The man who possesses it
(L e., a classical ' education) may
through his knowledge claim a -more
or less conspicuous place in" the -aristocracy
of letters, out his ability to
conjugate an irregular' Greek verb-'can
scarcely be expected to pay- his coal
bilL'' i
Not only does, this remark show an
otter misconception of what constitutes
the real end of education, but it shows
also, lack of proper appreciation of the
power jtbat. comes from the mastery
of any subject. While it must be ad
mitted that the utility value- of Greek
is low, and that the time spent in it
study might be, in many cases, far bet
ter spent in mastering something more
useful; yet I believe that the amount
of that quality known as "stick-to-it-iveness,"
which is developed in the
process of - really learning a Greek con
jugation, will be of no inconsiderable
value in any one's struggle for a liv-;
ing.
But that is not all. However desir
able it may be for a man to pay hi
coal bin, however necessary that he'
be able to earn his living, we certainly
do not wish to make mere money-coie-ing
machines out of what were intend
ed to be men and women. If trade
or business is made the end and whim
of . life, . iuany a poor fellow, who has
made a success of that .kind of living
will, like Marleys ghost, exclaim:
"Mankind was my business. The com
mojn welfare .was, my business. Mercy,
forbearance and benevolence was all
CHARACTER
fpcCt(l it carefully and t!en gravely
asked the scribo where he should tigtt
it.
"Way, in the same place you always
sign,Y answered the writer of letters,
surprised.
"But, do you think it safe?" Dfkcd
Mr. Morton. . .
Safe," ejaculated the other. " Why,
I donl't know what you mean." i
"I can bet a good round sum you
don'tj" answered the naval- chief; but
you step across the: hall and tell-the
assistant secretary ofthe navy to come
around. Then get tha judge advocate
of this department, and if you rappen
to see anv admirals or bureau thiefs,
convey them hither." T, ""
Tiief private tsecretary looked aghast,
uui Jiiauc no cuvri 10 move. - - .
"Tes, 1 mean every word," Mr
Morton persisted, solemn as an owl.
"If I sign-these papers I . -may go to
jail. ;X suppose I most take some risks
in The lfae of my dury, but I Sm going
to get all the advice -on the subject
that can bo gotten in this departd?ut
t won't be rash, anyway." 4
The tapers related to the transpor
tation' of supplies for the Mare Island
navy yard Across the continent to Can
forma, and only after a half hour's
humorous consultation with various .of
ficials did Mr. Morton sign them and
confide into the hands of the wnUhtg
messenger of be chief clerk. .' 11 the
while, i; -the messengers, clerks and all
within reach of the rumor were wait
ing amazed for the termination of such
a remarkabe proceeding. '
4 . j 4 - ; . . - " .
General Craffee, now at the head of
the military staff, does not share Gen
eral Corbin 's sentiment, and the pres
ent. secretary of war thinks matrimony
the greatest institution in or out or tne
army. " But General Chaffee sometimes
gets restless because his young men
are t perpetually; asking leave ear Jy in
the day, in order; to Jget Jntoj their
uniforms' preparatory to acting as ush
er for some brother officer who has been
booked for the sacrifice.'- Lately be
rave I orders 'for these popular youths
to bring their dress uniforms to the.
department and ? array xnemseives in
the cupboards, or any other places they
could find He thought it would -save
time. '
A few days , age the gTlzz.Ted com
raandor of 'the army" strolled into Gon
cral ; Crozier 's room, to have a little
ehat.' ; He found the. ordnance ehjcf in
the throes of getting' into a pair of new
trousers, just delivered 'that morning
and evidently a Sew sixes too small.
General Orfwier, after a few observa
tions of the qualities of soul and body
possessed by" the average army tailor,
complained-, that he -was going- to ;be
best man at a -'wedding and t he wa
retting sick of thef nonsense,8 because
it was tko third (uaa la a wvek ba had
ray business. "The dealings of my trade
were ' but - the- drop - in the comprehen
sive ocean of my Dusiness."
; In spite of this danger, however, a
more practical education is bannd to
come. .Those who work among the very
poor teU us that 'it Is Idle .to talk to
them of' religion and - purity and hon
esty, until the more pressing physical
wants axe. supplied. It cannot weil be
otherwise.- Iiow can we expect to: find
high ideals of purity aid exalted views
of life among people crowded into dark
and dirty tenement houses I . IIoW
modesty and refined habits be enltirat
ed when a whole family, with boarlcr
or two in addition, cook,, eat and sleep
ia one small roomt "Of thornj men
do not gather figs, nor of a bremlde
bush gather; they grapes,' and Aneric
cannot expect a harvest of 'goo I citi
zens from such homes, unless the pub
lic can do - something for the children
of poverty. -
'Teachers,?' says a close student. of
sociological conditions, "can make the
most effectual struggles against the in
sufficient support of the working
classes, and bring . most happiness to
the children of the toiling." But how
can they do ; this unless they awaken
such feelings, better by teaching these
boys and girls some useful employment,
in connection with ordinary .work of
the school f ' -
Turning in another direction we find
that the young men and women from
the eountry crowd into the cities. Now
if these 'young people when boys and
girls in school had been taught some
thing of the -importance and dignity
f agriculture, and had been interested
in the study of God's wonderful handi
work all about them, they - would not
find life in the country- so unbearably
monotonous, and I, for one, believe
that few of them would be so ready
to leave the farm.
The -business world, too, is loud in
its demands for a different 'school
training. . The struggle, there is eharp
and incisive. - No longer can the man
who is content with slipshod methods
hope to win in the fight, i He who suc
ceeds must be quick, accurate, well
trained and far-seeing. While it is
perbapa too much to expect the school
to do this for him, it can at least turn
his face in the right direction.
Nor is this at all incompatible with
the true end of education. Character
may be developed in masterinjg these
things, if ; they are properly taught.
And certainly the more readily and
easily a man can do his bread winning
work, the j more . leasure and strength
will he have for the refinements of
life. Certainly that man is best fitted
for life who. is best traiped, mentally,
morally and physically, to discharge all
the duties he owes to himself, his fel
lows and his God.
To decide just how much of this fit
ting should be done . by the public
school is not easy. If all who complete
the course offered by our public schools
were to supplement that training by
ithree or four years in college or uni
versity, the question might be soon
settled, but less than five per cent of
our graduates are able to do this. And
that is not the only 'difficulty. Many
are never able to finish even the high
school course, but are compelled, after
one or two years, to begin the real
work .life. A .still greater number
fail to finish the work of the grades,
or succeeding in' that are compelled to
become bread-winners at once:
We are bound to dfo something for
YARNS
Itirvn corapclled to dress up during of
fice hours.
"I bave noticed, Crozier," comment
ed his chief, ""that you are getting
mighty fond of this sort of thing, and
I know, from long observation in the
army, that when the Mary Jane fever
gets a man at your time, it's all up.
However, if you feel that way, the re
strictions "of General Corbin 's order
need hot hold. 1 11 dispense you right
how, provided there are no breach of
promise suits' before you decide on the
right one"
It is asserted that this is not alto
gether a 'joke, and that the ' eminent
ordnance officer, how in his fifty 'secoul
year, is going to desert bis old cronies.
Attorney General Moody and Repre
sentative Gillett of Massachusetts and
break up that famous baehelor estab
lishment. . '
W. Marry Crane, sometime Governor
of Massachusetts and at present repre
senting that ancient commonwealth in
the Senate, has been grieved to discov
er that the natives of the national cap
ital are not so familiar with the life
and accomplishments of Daniel Web-
When Mr. Crane set up. his oniee gods
the decorations w bis desk included a
fine photograph of the tgreat ante-bel
lum .statesman. It is a rare picture, a
copy of the last photograph for which
the illustrious patriot posed and the
Massachtifietts man would not part with
it for money. Every visitor remarked
the picture : and. aewed questions and
Mr. Crane rejoiced that in bringing his
pet relie to Washington he added much
to the sum of knowledge.
One morning he was very busy and
one. of his visitors, a Senator from a
bustlioig. Western city, was compelled
to wait. A page came in and while he
also .stood waiting be looked long and
earnestly; at the great man, of whom
Oliver Wendell Holmes said: "No man
was ever as wise as Daniel Webster
looked."; :.t .
Taring aroand Mr. Crane noted the
interested gaze, of the urchin and being
a genial man, used to dealing . with
fooyaj.be asked: "Do yoo like that pie
ture aifd what do you think about itf "
"I was thinking," answered Oie lov,
"that I would like to know who it i's.
t caa?t tell, whether he's a rery smart
man or a very bad man.' f !
Before Mr. Crane, could reply, Kis
brother Senator broke info aloud guf
faw, j "Sonny," he explained, "that
is as, von have been -taught to look at!
inings. m folks would . call .that a
very bad man. esrieciallv temperance
people - when, they see him call him
Kip, and others think him the best : of
his noble profession ia this or any other
generation. I say Crane', looking at
it well, "it's the best rictnre of Joe
Jefferson I ever fcaw. Where did you
cet itl' - V ' .- . - -. " - - k
o
all these pupils what shall it bet Dr.
Nicholas s Murray Butler -, gives us in
a recent address what he considers five
evidences of an education. They are:
Correctness, and percision in the use
of, the mether tongue; refined and gen
tie j manners; the' power of reflection;
the! power to grow; and the power to
do. jt For some of these things we can
setj no absolute standard. Correctness
andj precision in the use of the mother
tongue is not the product of a few
short years; gentle and refined man
ners depend upon the. borne more than
npob the school; the power of reflection
belongs to a more mature period of life
than that reaehed by . most - of our
pupils. - For these three things we can
onfir say that a f ewyears in" school
ougki to make -a marked improvement
in 'them. ..v- ; r p ,;. ' -v: t- v .-:
Tw6 of the. evidences of , education
named by Dr. Butler, however, pupils
have a right to expectifrom the schools,
whether they have . been pupils a long
or a short period. mean the power
to grow and'. tbe power' to do.. - By
thej powef.-' to grow X understand not
only the ability on the part of the
people to observe'.and to draw simple
eonjclusions" from - his- observations, but
also a love for the best, and a desire
to do the best, no matter' in what he
maV ber-engaged.-, - j.
. f he second is the power to do. ''The
truy educated man,' it has been sakl,
"must,-wijh brain, tongue and hand,
be jaWe. to express his knowledge and
leaie the "world other than he found
it. j Indefinite absorption without pro
duction is fatal alike to:character and
to the highest 'intellectual power." If
ourj pupils, when they leave school, are
unable to Io anything well, if they
are! content with slovenly methods of
work, then the school is not. doing its
whole duty. -
As this is one of the most important
results of school .wofk, so also is it
onei of. the most tangible. Ilense it is
in this one respect that our schools are
most severely criticised by. those who
are not connected ; with them. Our
pupils neither Spell well nor write well,
they say, and yet we are supposed to
teach, them these things. They cannot
eontpose and put into good form an
ordjinary business letter; they cannot
compute readily and accurately; they
are seldom able to read welly and when
thejy are, do not care for that which
is jtruest and best in literature; and
wose than this, they are unwilling to
earin' their bread by honest work with
their hands. Are these charges true or
untrue I If they are-untrue, it is our
business to refute them by showing the
results of pur work. If they' are true,
then" let ' U9 find What is the caused of
thef trouble and endeavor to remove it.
lpo not misunderstand . me. 1 believe
in he public schools with all my heart.
Thjere is in the United States today
noj - grander. irfstrthf ion, nor one to
which the country is so much indebted
for its wealth, power and civilization.
Considering all the difficulties with
wbich teachers have ' had to contend,
I doubt if we could reasonably expect
anjr more from the schools than they
have done and are doing. But, .at the
same time, I de not 4hikwe have, by
any means, reachederfection," .either
in matter or'efh'and soy while
without '. doubt ipi -vfv t hoc charges
made are due to tra ignorance of the
facts in the case, still we shall have
to j admit, I think, that some of the
faults mentioned Vlo exist.
Now, as to the-causes Our public
MORE ACTIVITY
PRESENT CONDITION OF THE HOP
- MAEKXT QUITE LIVELY AND
MOST PROMISING.
v
Large Linton Lot Sold to Tacoma Pur
chasers at 26 Cents Krebs Bros. San
guine for Future Condition and Ad
vise Against Harried Sales.
rTlic hop market shows more activity
at
present than it has for the past two
weeks. , .It is all the more&surprisin
in view of the fact that little activity
wag expected at the time. Mrs. Lin
ton of Eugene, has sold sixty bales of
mediums to primes at "d cents a pound
to Isaac "Pincus & Sen, of Tacoma,
Wash. She refuses to1 dispose of the
ret of her holdings, fortv bales, "be
cause she desires to hot$ them until
summer, when she expects to realize
a much higher price.
The Krebs Bros., hop buyers -of this
eiy, are enthusiastic over the turn tak
en; ia the market. They look for much
bolter prices in the near future than
arjj prevailing even now, and predict
splendid .things for the -grower who
will hold onto his crop.
Mr. Krebs takes issue with a , story
printed in a Portland paper yesterday
iitj which J. J. Metzler, hop buyer in
that city, undertakes to assert that the
bottom; has not yet fallen but of the
market but it will. The Portland buyer
aierts that he purchased some bales
of hops from a Chinaman grower near
this city at 2 4 cents a pound, showing
inai tne marset was .on tne toboggin
i v - oui c I, iifza WI U imV DgBt JUT,
Krebs yaid:
" We notice in a Portland paper of
yfsterday that J.:J. Metzler, who in
his own opinion is the best authority
ou wnai eonsiitnres a market in tbie
state, says,' I thought the hop market
naa reacnea tne Dottom about a week
ago, but it seems I was mistaken.' We
npticed Mr. Metzler changed bis mind
because he bad talked an uneducated
Cjhinaman into selling his hops at 24
eentaner round. and of ennru tht tn
Jjr. Metzler V opinion' constitutes the
rnraket.: We know- that: this Chinese
grower, whose1 name Is Wong Hingj
soiq nis nop in IW3 at I3fc cents per
pounc and if be bad held them ho conld
have easily secured 26 cents per poon.J.
. flf..a thousand bales' were purchased
a a certain price; that would establish
ai market for the time being. The bears
will find -est that lb most innnii
niaaipulaton -- AsnOt - keep the market
down permanently ia the face jot a
shortage of thousands ef bales. I ' ,
- "We - weald not reply to such bear
talk as Mr. Metler. gives were it not
fjr the fact that wme growers- who "are
nbt eoaversant with the aetual facts of
te case, might be influenced to follow
ir tb - footsteps' of ikis iaieducated
schools, as I have already said, are a
development or outgrowth of higher
institutions of learning. This natural
ly led to the adoption of such a course
of study ia the secondary schools as
would prepare its .graduates to - enter
college. So we find that until recent
years our high schools, instead ot serv
ing an end in themselves, were mere
preparatory schools, and had included
in their courses all those subjects re
quired, in . the college entrance exam
inations. Hence, , some studies, which
properly belong to the high school were
either crowded back into the primary
school or omitted - entirely. v Other
studies, too,were omitted because they
could be taken up later in the oUege
or university,' thus 'depriving many of
our' pupils -of the- privilege of' ever
studying them. This was true of -the
sciences in particular. - ' ..'.
Do not think me lacking in apprecia
tion of the work of our colleges and
universities., vJI. would not for. a mo
ment put one straw in the way of any
one who wished to enter them., Bather,
I would use every, means in my power
to awaken such a love for that knowl
edge, training. and culture, which such
institutions alone can furnish that, to
satisfy the desire no proper sacrifice
would be too great. But on the other
hand" since about five per cent only
of those, who graduate from the public
school ever enter college, is it fair, do
you think, to -make provision for the
five, and say to the ninety-five, "You
must be satisfied with what we give
youf ? Even if we admit what some
maintain, that such a course, when com
pleted, does fit the- graduate equally
well either to enter, the university or
to begin the serious, business of life,
what are we to say of its value to the
boy or girl, compelled to drop it at
the end of the first or second yearf
There is, without doubt, great dis
ciplinary ' value in the study of 'Greek
and La till) with perhaps some culture
value for the few who .'study long
enough and ftard enough. With most
peble it is, as Quick says, like walking
in the direction of, the British Museum
to consult some valuable - books, and
then finding you -haven't time to reach
the museum. I do not say there is no
benefit derived from the study of the
ancient languages. There is. I ob
ject to their crowding out something
more useful by the "study of . which
equal, training may .be secured. Quick
may certainly have received good from
his walk to the museum, but had his
object been exercise, he might have re
ceived more benefit from an excursion
into the country, where he could have
breathed pure "air and looked, upon
green fields.
So, then, first of alt, I believe that
our courses of study should be so re
modeled as to give the greatest good
to the greatest number. Now it is
evident that a great majority of the
boys and girls in our schools must
sooner or later be engaged in manual
labor or in business. It seems only rea
sonable, then, to offer them such
courses as will make them better work
men and better business men as well
as better men in every sense of the
word. Judging from present signs, the;
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aay is not i&r aisx&ni waen mere wui
be-in connection with most public
schools a Course of manual training.
To the laborer the hand and eye
trained to be quick and accurate will
be of inestimable value, while the col
lege student and professional man will
in no wise be ' harmed by ' the same
In striking contrast to the biisy,
bustling scenes that have been .enacted
within its saered precincts during the
past six weeks just closed, is the qui-t
emptiness now to be felt at the Capitol.
Where its corridors and high Vaulted
dome jtrave echo back of healed argu
ments, ringing laugh or glad greetintg,
depressing silence now finds no resjon
sive chord and only t!ie soulless foot
steirs breaks in upon the quiet of it all.
More like a pillared and raftered
cathedral now seems this magnificent
pile, the light-treading clerks and pat
ronir.ing oflicial, i s thev dart in and out
of offices resembling nothing so much
as the cowled monk threading his way
from his cell to his orisons in the
ehajiel. - .
In a few weks the Rt;t TTnnu will
le more attractive to daily . visitors,
out now. they walk around as carefully
as thotirgh tbey, were in a haunted
house. i
Late last night after the Oregon un
ions had departed, the State House re
sembled a New York stock exchange
arter wheat or Northern Pacific bad
gone tip or down 23 or SO cents. Papers
and "worthless" blotter. tovered the
floor, chairs were turned upside down,
desks thrown open, through whici- con
glomeration industrious - "relic" bunt"
ers searched for anything that might
be of " intrinsic " value. But there
was little left, in fact, nothing, as e -erything
movable bad been taken hours
before., Karly Fridav morning, long
before either house convened, an unus
aul air of excitement and bustle .was
noticeable.. By some few this was at
tributed to the dosing diy of the Leg
islative assembly. But no. There was
something else uppermost in the minds
of the members of the Legislature and
nearly every one else resent. Who
would' be. the first to get the "spoils."
Pages in both houses were running
backwards- and forwards supplying the
Mongolian. It is a mystery to us bow
the jgTOwers can be induced to go to
Portland whenever they want to-sell
their hope, in view of the fact that all
the buyers io Portland are doing their
utmost to depress the market and
heeee the growers. - ... ; ?- t : -'
'ReceBtIy it ws reported by the
Portland layers that we Were attempt
ing to sell onr holdings, which rs a jkm
itive falsehoo-l. We have not offered a
single bale for sale during the past two
and a half months, and we do not ex
pect to until the latter part of May or
June, unless the market advances far
beyond present prices.1 ; , .
"There have been sent .'out by a
Portland buyer circular Jcttcrs adVis
ng growers not to consign their hops,
but to come an.I ' see him when thev
want to sell. As a matter Of fact.
none' has sought consignments, so these
letters must te-a. little bait to entice
the growers to rortlaii to Le dcyouxed
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training. - To teach all the trades may
be neither 'possible or 'desirable, but
he who has learned one kind of hand
craft well will have -less difficulty in
learning another than be who knows
none at alL ' " ' '
'Moreover,, in ? the' ideal school this
win be supplemented . bv such training
in penmanship, writing business papers,
and in the more general business meth
ods,. that any boy or,glrI will be able
to keep an account of the ordinary
business transactions of daily life.
In the high s school, -three -courses
seem necessary. One leading to-'.Uio
university, one preparing- for. business,
and a third wtih manual labor in view
at its close. These three courses. should
be parallel, and should be w arranged
as to call forth the highest and best
efforts, on the .part of the students. I
kaow , of . course, that" at -least two
courses have been offered in our high
school for a long time, but in many
eases the, classical .course was the one
that received the most careful attention-and
required .the most effort on
the part of the pupiL Too often the
English, or business course, was a mere
makeshift either to hold in school the
pupils -dissatisfied with the classical,
or to accommodate those tod lazy or
too dull to take it. Happily this is
all being changed and, in time the new
courses will produce .' men as well
trained in mind as those of whom the
classical course boasts. In short, as
Dr. G. Stanley Hall has well said, we
want our hinu schools to have a definite
end of their own. Too long already
have they neglected their glorious' op
portunities to train men for life.
It may not always be jjossible to
liave all these courses in all schools,
but it any given school let the needs
of the r-ommunity be -considered, and
let us nftt expect to- have j the course
offered in a rich farming i community
or village school identical', with that
given to the children of the slums. To
tell how this may be' done docs not
come within tbev.scope of this paper,
but one thing is. certain, if it should
be -done, a way will Uo found.. .
Now, lest it "lie charged that" by this
change we. are not' giving the promi
nence we ought to the culture clement
of education, let me say that in addi
tion to these changes we ought to give
greater prominence to the study of the
mother tongue.' .It would seem that
in any country the study of the mother,
tongue would be all important, since
in its literature ms crystallized an tne
best of its history and its thought. In
America the importance of such study
is doubed by the fact that large num
bers of the children in our public
schools are of foreign parentage. If
we are going to make good American
eitizens of them we must teach them
not only tq understand and speak Etg
lisli, but to think English as welL
From the moment he enters school,
the child's English should receive the
most careful attention. Two. grfat
things must he learn to do to Undr
stand the thoughts of others when ex
pressed by words or by the written
page; and to express his own thoughts
so others ean understand, him. These
thoughts' of his come from two out
side, sources what he sees and what
he hears. . Hence both his nature study"!
aud his reading' lesson a a be used j as
a raeaaof rousing his own thought
and feelings, and his language lesson
will help him express those same
thoughts and feelings in bis own words.
Technical grammar has, ' without
honorable Representatives and Senators
with " wrapping? paper.
And thev certainlv used the "wran-
pinv" paper. Writing papt , 1 potters,
envelopes, waste baskets, ink. stands.
glue stands ante even cuspidors were
enclosed in its spacious folds. ' By
noon nearly everything of the least val
uc was wrpted up. Clerks and pages
were as busy as tne members. JMo one
dared to venture away from his desk
because if be did, his "spoils" would
probably lc gone. They took no chan
ces. At noon a. long procession of peo
ple left the State Ilonsethe large ma
jority of them earryintg enormous bnn
dles. Most of them bad their "spoils"
wrapped, but others were more brazen.
One Representative was 'seen going
down the street -carrying a "loaded"
waste basket in each ban i. Ho bad a
total of three enspidors. five glue
stands, two ink stands, two large leather-cornered
blotters and writing iper,
envelopes, wrappers -galore It is said
that this Bepresentative, who has been
here before, bronght an extra trunk
with him especially for the occasion.
In the afternoon Le succeeded in
"grabbing" another waste basket,
which by careful strategy and almost
superhuman effort, he filled it to the
brim.
One eagle-eyed Senator, who bas
"never" been here before, made the
boast several days previous that he
could protect bis property or -spoils
without difficulty. He left "things in
the usual "lace. Six times d urine the
morning session some one started to
walk off with his waste laket but he
called 'them down At one person he
grew particularly- angry.' The victim
reluetantlv replaced the- 1aaket and
started to. retreat. - The Senator, bad
beea aroused by the repeated .attempts
and a poor clerk " who had drawn but
, per day .with twenty davs extra
time," hapicned to b the object of bis
by the bears. s-"." -.-
"The report that England bas more
liope than originally . estimated is not
true, as the government statistics, pub
lished jby the London Times, show a
complete and accurate report of 282,
arK) cwts. It is also false that -England
has ever bought, as the actual require
ments are K3,00 ewt, and .the Im
ports added lr the Einihsh protluctitm
amounts to 4.5,(iXI cwt which show
an additional requirement of 2f0,f00
cwf.V The holders should not forget
that there. are seven of the best brew
ing months of the season ahead before
the new erop ran be delivered;" ' ' -,
"It is gratifying to us that the large
holders are not offering their .hops at
any price. There are some smalT, hold
ers who are beiutj pressed by money
lenders, ami "thereby , being forced ' to
sacrifice their product.'' . ' !,'
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doubt, its place in the curhctulum, but
it does not belong in the fira. five or
six years of scliool life. Whirh it dori
come it should Ims taken up and taught
with no hesitaling "name word,"
"action -word" 'foolishness.-1 but as a
logical study of the English1 sentence.
So studied it becomes one of the hct
disciplinary studies' of the fcoursc, s
well as a source of valuable ptbowle.le
to one who wishes; to write jgood Eng
lish. . . v. r
- The great alue otf the study of Eng
lish as a means efculture ik, t bat we
bave in our literature some pf the fin
est thoughts ever expressed, clothed ia
language that is pure, noble ijnd elevat
ing. We want our boys and girls from
the time they begin totrcad tjo 11 their
minds with this litJraturi and ta
fashion their lives to accord" with tie
high standard there Wet for them.
Nothing so influences cnaracltrr as tie
study of the lives rtf ohers and Lko
the 'little flower .wnichi toi-k on th
blue, tint of the' sky, aiid had in its
heart, the image of the Wtar that ea B
night gladdened the nkrrow rift of
sky above it, so the boy Jor irl study
ing year after year the words and tie
lives of earth's best and noblest sous
must In. time become more liko them.
Let us then bave all tibe jjiteratur,
all the biography, all tlie bfistory we
can in our courses.' Let us teach our
i.upils to Jove it,, to unurstBua it, to
live it. Then in leisure hours the day
laborer, the energetic man lof bnsinoss,
the busy housewife, the lonely farmer,
and the more favored professional msn,
wilt all alike have an unfurling source
of pleasure and a sure meatus jof growth.
No attempt has been mfcijde-'to li
cuss all the subjects which ftkould form
a iart of the school curricflkim, and it
need only be said of them hwjre, Thte
ought ye to have done and riot to hare
left the other undone." 1
To tvhat extent should ho public
school fit for lifet Let us aquwcr, that
with everr means at its command it
should endeavor to teach tliie put.il to
know the right in thought, word an-1
deed; it should awaken in liim n love
for the right and a desire to do it;
and last but not least, it should teach
him how" to think the right, how to
speak " the" right and how to do the
right. ' 1 ;
; Fraud Exposed.
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A few counterfeiters haye lately
been making and trying to fell imiU
tions of Ir. "King's New I)isfovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds, nntl
other medicine, thereby defrauding
the public. This is to wafn you to
beware of suck people, who BCek to
profit," through stealing the Reputation
of remedies which have beep success
fully curing disease for ovjer thirty,
five years. A sure protection, to you,
is our name on the wrapper. I Look. for
it, on all Dr. King's or liuckten's rem
edies, as all others are mere imitations,
n. E. BFCKLlI L CO., Chjicago, 111,
and Windsor. Canada. I
White Pine and Taj' 'with
Menthol for Coughs and
Croup. F. L HASS, 96
State St., Salem, Or,
Legal Blanks at StatCMman.1 Job OSca
vengeance. When at last he had finish
ed hi tirade he turned nrnuiid to lKnt
of his success with the "relic" hunt
ers. - j
His head was turnc butt a f-onl,
but this wsis .suffieicnt time fhr nu ngilo
page, who . for tno Jmurs p, been
watvhiiar the only iinwr:mix-d wac
basket in the Senate. Th Senator
turned in time to see a small figure
scurrying down, the aisle, basket in
hand. l?p be started in pursuit, but
the pagn a too ui;k and e" miaute
later, was down in one of (the lower
rooms " wrapping" -the murb-eovctM
prize. This was his third. The Senator
who had only gone to the door of tiis
chamber, returned to find Mm self lbs
loser of bis cuspidor, glue stand 4i'i
blotter. A few envelojes wej-e left and
an ink etand. He immediately borrow
ed a piece of pajer from a fallow Sen
ator, wrapped up the remainder of his
spoils. The bundle be placed ynd-r bis
seat and put both icet.on ifi. lie was
bothered no more.
One Bepresentative who was very
busy, tied his waste basket to his dek.
Anther put his cuspidor in tjhe drawer
of bis desk. They had to take draFtio
measures or their "spacious;" 'trunks
and satchels would return hojine empty.
In the afternoon 'the interest! , bad abat
ed. Why shouldn't itl Nothing left.
But you should have ben dffrwn to tlifl
depot when the ecial train left that
evening for Portland. . I)res snit cases
bulged to such proportion tjiat many
of them required additional strop"
Nearly all the passengers bad with
them two or three large bundles cover
ed with yellow 4 'wrapping ' paper. At
about 9 o'clock tie train pulled out.
Senators, Representatives, etc., lookel
oot the windows of the coach loninglv
toward the State House, wondering if
there was anything "left." No! There
wasn't. n '
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Woven Wire Fencing
Page. American and Elwood
Fence are the Best. j
Kach l tha Lest In Ifa class. Car
of AJnerleau and Kl wood fenciug to
arrive about Jb'cbruary G.I Hiiecial
iliwxMint oa ad vauca orders. Ho
wire a sie-ialiy. f.. '
Call or write aud get priiiu."
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