The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-11
THE PASSING THROSG.

insenoent Of pubsic schools In St Losis. ana
editor Of the yosss9 q Speculative PAi1sopAy.
ne - now United states commissioner 81 edu.
cation and in doing splendid work. for unlike
many Of high speculative east Of chsractsr.
he Il . man Of high executive ability. It was
said OF him By IN 1nglishman, whose name
forget, but whose opinion was entitled 20 con-
sfdsrafion, that The grsaeass speculative intel
lect Of the ags rsstdsd nos in Euglsnd, but on
the banks Of thu Mississippi" Speaking OF
the question Of public sdueation. Nh. aickod
said: "Ay work hs6 besn entirely In the grade
bslow the eoIisga Times arr very different
now from when nIss taught In lS1n People
now have no idea Of the opposition thssystem
encountered in those days. II II true thai intel
iscts - great - thss Of Herbert SPENCE have
bsen aErayed against public education. asd par
tculaEiy enforced education: but the: objec-
tions 70 the system in itself ars gone. OF -
eonfned mostly 10 matters Of detail I note
with pleasure the great interest and attention
paid 20 these matters BY the PosT-INTHLLf-
aKNc8R A . general thing, think ths criti-
cisms OF and hostility 70 the public schools
which even now creep into print smanaas from
the schools Themselves have changed II char.
actsr: they are in every way batter than n days
gone BY. New methods TO address the cniIdish
intellect and save time In tt education have
been invented and put into practices. and the
old ones. som6 Of them that r.. have been
utterly and forever abandoned. In colleges
and classical schools thssis becoming trus Of ths
teaching OF languages. even Of the dead lam
suagss, and the natural - opposed 80 the
grammatical method II being introduced,
or rather restored, for tt wasc used
centuries ago II Il Of no nee for rssn 70
know subjunctives and the dsclensiof.s and
endless rules to know how 70 express himself
in given tongue for the acquisitions OF
6year-old child In ten weeks will male him
| mi = 49, ~ ~nPk md n
teaching mathematics, and especially arith-
metic, the foundation idea Of recent nsthods
consists In the proposition that all snathe-
NAUTICAL processes viii b best and most Gnickly
grasped II made visible. the visual plal, -
may say. And % " now I'LL . mathst1aticl
text book with pictures A hrst W set child
to work putting match stalks together IL bum
dies OF ten. when b. gets 70 ten he begins at
one again. We tell him that = has ten 4ones,'
not ten 'unitst In his Arst bundle 3 will
readily ke sesn from this that the procesa5of mo-
tation 10 illustrated b. picture Of buEdle OF
sticks, and some loose 'ones:' - becomes
seven bundles and thres loose 'ones:'. eud Ne
explain that In writing this: It has been
agreed to put the whole bundles 20 tss Left
and the sones' 70 the right In addition, We
represent lot Of shelves I'm . picture. each
with csrtain loose sonso' and certain bunsles on
It The process OF teaching subtraction, multi.
plication and division will Be easily undeestood
with this much of . basis to begin On. Is dsci-
mails We dispense utterly in teaching wish the
relationship between fractions and dseimsls.
Instead We give Picture Of . square Igurs.
divided frat into ten long strips. and thsE these
ten 'tenths,' or long STRIPS int 100 small
squares. And 20 on. We even represent much
more complicated processes by pictures Of some
sort or other"
Col 8. 8. C. Parker. . IRE insurance mae from
San Francisco. 70 stopping ut the Occidental
Speaking Of the eject Of the Oregon insurance
law, which requires every foreign cos1pany
doing business in that state to deposit $4,000
with the state treasurer, he said: "The eject ID
that there are comparatively few companies rep
resented there, and yet Ill the companies share
the business the same = II they had aesncies
located there The way the law IL evadee 10 BY
the companies represented there reinsuring
Largo amounts In other companisa By keeping
out competition think it makes the rate sigheR
for the people The bulk OF the insufaace in
this country-three-four ths-is carried by alien
companiea The reason for this u their: enor-
nous wealth and great prestige. Some Of the
companies have been In business hundreds OF
years and have capitals - high a. $40,Do,0O0.
Such strong companies are not liable TO b
weakened by any individual Loss, however
large, or by general disasters which could
wreck smaller companies. This naturally In
spires confidence. and the result 10 that the
alien companies get the cream Of the busiaesa"
TT. Evans, . wealthy capitalist of Council
Bluffs, Ia, 10 visiting his brother, WILLIAM
Evans at the Rainier. He was ont here three
years ago. and was greatly impressed WITH the
changes In the city during that time Ne, Ev.
ans was the protector Of and II the principal
stakeholder In the Omaha Council Blum cleo.
trio railway, which built ami owns the wagon
bridge between the two cdtiea when teid OF
the street car mileage in :his city he oppressed
great sstonishment and said IL showed great
enterprise among the capitalists OF ssattle.
Notwithstanding the fast that Omaha II three
times a. large q Seattle, must confess that the
business portion Of this city IL much better
built up than that OF Omaha. What Jon. now
need is that which has made Omaha Q great
city-wholesale houses. OF course know you
have several already. but you want all yos can
get remember we'll how Omaha captured our
wholesale houses one after another until
eleven large firms had moved across the
river" Mr.. Evans VIII remain in the city .
week or ten dayA
H. @. Powers, Of North Bend. is just in: from
the Okanosan country Qoomiston). and Is stop
ping at the Dillsr. He thinks highly If the
okanogan. "Moat Of the Okanogan properties
! am familiar with are free milling gole, and
there are some fne properties there, tets you.
think that county worth nearly anything that
can be said about It In reason. The Trisns ct
y
week ago. 1t Is one of group including also
the Rainbow and the SPOKANE These ere all
free milling gold properties and are about four
miles from the famous Black Bear mina.
Fred Prankenberg has Just returned fro,a San
Francisco, where he has been on Q visit ief two
weeks. He said yesterday that the REPUBLICANS
of Caiifornia were hopeful Of victory In Nevsm.
her on account of great split In the rsnxs of
the Democracy. He said also that the Rsoub-
lieans were better organized than they OPP
ponents. The Peoples party viii cut no squire
there whatever The merchants there. he ssys,
look with grave concern on the manner in which
Seattle Is cutting into the volume Of theis hole
sale trade
Messra Middleton, Homan and Everett; who
have been In the city for couple OF weeks, and
whoee departure for Portland was noted few
days ago, have retured here and are Quarsered
at the Rainier. They say that they prefer this
city over any other on the Pacific coass, and
have decided to locate here
caps>John Irving. general manager os the
Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, OF Vie
toria, accom- panied by Capt John A. o. Brisa, of
San Francisco, were in the city yesterday. for Q
lev hoars and we're registered at the Eortasru.
The following were registered as New York
hotels last Thursday: J. II. Wrestling, Sest-
minstsr hotel; + Morrison, St Dennis kossl:
p. Miller. Broadway Central
Useful Hint From Butte.
Ansconds standard
BUTTE, Sept 24-Fire newsboys we're gathered
In by the police today fog selling . spesans
Sunday paper. The bows wsro given . .epri.
nand, their papers condscstsd, and theysvsrs
permitted to depart Fighting steve sirsrson
usa than e,rsefAA nv MAMMAL Small .cS Ia