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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08
COMPARATIVE PEDAGOGY.
Sensational Result Of an Educational
Iuauiry In SprinRAeld. Mass.

Sensational Result Of an Educational
Inquiry In Springfield, Mass.
A most remarkable piece Of educa-
tional investigation has recently been
accomplished at Springfield, Mass,
which goes far toward deciding the
question as to whether or not the
schools of our fathers and GRANDPA
theirs, with their narrow curricula, pro-
duced better spoilers and better cipher
ers than the present day schools, with
their more elaborate programmes, says
Ossian II. Lang in January March Fo-
rum. It came about In this way: Some
eight years ago, in cleaning out the
garnet of the old high school in Spring
field, there was found in a rubbish
heap a bound volume containing SPELL
with answers, of the year 1916. DR..
Ballet, to whose work as superintend-
ent Is due the exceptionally good name
Of the city's schools, placed the volume
in his safe and on leaving Springfield
brought it to the attention of Mr.. Ri
ley, a very efficient and keen sighted
grammar school principal. Mr.. Riley
at once recognized the peculiar value
of the find and made it the basis of
series Of educational tests which es-
tablished beyond reasonable doubt the
superiority of the work of the modern
elementary schools over those Of sixty
years ago. The results Of his tests were
published in the Springfield Republican
and reprinted in the School Journal.
Since the appearance of the Forum
articles on needed lines of educational
research this Is probably the most i'm
portant contribution to tangible peda-
gogy. For the want Of testimony such
as this there has been no end of lam
entation over the decline Of the eff
cheney of the schools in the SO called
practical branches. We have been
told in season and out of season that
spelling and arithmetic were never
more poorly taught than at present and
that the only salvation was to be found
in a return to the three r feshpots Of
old. Now comes the awful disillusion-
ment Of the pleaders for the ways Of
the fathers. There Is no getting away
from the cold logic of the tests sup
piled by Mr.. Riley. He shows that the
pupils attending the present day gram
mar schools Of Springfield not only do
much better in arithmetic, but spell
better than their forbears in 1916.
The results Of this investigation con-
firm emphatically the contention Of
Or. j. NJ. Rice to the effect that in
crease of the time devoted to the three
RS does not produce corresponding in
crease of efficiency. His researches
established that spelling and arithme-
tic may he as successfully taught
where a rich curriculum is in force as
where the programme confines itself to
the narrowest possible limit. In spite
of the comprehensiveness of his proofs
some people sought shelter behind as
sertions going back Of present condi-
tons to the past, claiming that what
ever may be said of the schools Of to-
day those Of the past grounded the
children more thoroughly in the SO
called essentials" This prop Of COM
fort must feel rather shaky after the
Springfield examination.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08
New Name For an Ohio Town.

A meeting was held few evenings
ago and an organization was effected
to change the name Of Upper Sandus-
ky, o. A petition will be presented to
the common pleas court praying for
the change, and it is believed the move
ment will meet with success, says an
Upper Sandusky correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer. Three names are
suggested, all authorizations and adap-
tations Of the present name-"Usando."
"Upsan" and "Uppersan." The objec-
ton to the present name Is the con-
slant confiction with the city of San
dusky, causing much delay and annoy
ance in the miscarriage of mail, etc.
Several years ago a corpse intended
for Upper Sandusky was shipped to
Sandusky, causing a postponement Of
the funeral.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

gift and moved that the bill provid-
ing for the appropriation be passed
by reclamation.
This gift is also to be taken as q
token of Cuba's good will toward the
United States and will operate toward
the establishment of relations of
greater confidence and esteem be-
tween the island and the big republic.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08
Written In SlanR-

Matthew Henry's commentary on the
Bible was written for the common peo-
pie and in the slang Of the day. In
commenting on Judges TX he says: I'VE
are here told by what acts Abimelecb
got into the saddle. He hired for his
service all the scum and scoundrels Of
the country. lothian was really a fine
gentleman. The Sechemites were the
first to kick him off. They said all the
i'll they could Of him in their table
talk. They drank health to his confu.
sion"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08
DIAMONDS.
! II You Want to Make Them. Here II
the Process Of Manufacture.

r. You Want to Make Them. Here II
the Process Of Manufacture.
Would you like to know how to man
ufacture diamonds-real diamonds? The
process is somewhat difficult, requiring
time, patience and some outlay of mon
ey, but then consider the possible re-
suits! The diamond, we know, Is SIM
ply carbon In a transparent crystalline
form. 1t comes of humble parentage
and is brother to the lump Of coal.
Unlike easily crystallizable bodies.
carbon Is insoluble In all ordinary solv-
ents, but molten metals will combine
with II. Let the diamond maker choose
iron for a solvent for charcoal, melting
it in an electric furnace, allowing 1t to
take up as much carbon as it can-in
other words, saturate itself with car
bon. The crucible containing the white
hot metal should then be plunged into a
bath of molten lead The result will be
that globules Of iron will rise to the
surface Of the lead and are quickly
cooled on the outer surface. Inside the
hard crust the iron remains for some
time in a molten condition, and as iron
expands In solidifying the contents Of
these little globules receive a pressure
unattainable by any other means.
When the lead becomes solidified some
bullets Of iron will be found bound up
in the mass. Dissolve with some pow
erful acid first the lead and then the
iron, and a residue Of carbonaceous
matter will be found to contain tiny
crystals-real diamonds. Any chemist
with a we'll equipped laboratory can
make diamonds in this way, but the
largest Of them will not be more than a
fiftieth Of an inch in diameter.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

The artists of the country are try
ing to have the duty on foreign
paintings removed. China, Turkey,
Persia, New Zealand, Sierra Leone,
the Bahamas, Fiji, the gold coast of
Africa, and the United States are the
countries that levy tariff on art, the
duty in the last-named country being
the highest of all.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08
New Llxht For Photoxrauhs.

A new light by means Of which pho
tographs can be taken better than by
day has been invented by NJ Raoul
Pictet, says Geneva cable dispctch to
the New York American and Journal.
The inventor has employed his new
means Of illumination under various
conditions. both in and out Of doors,
and has great hopes that it viii revo-
luttonize photography.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

1t seems that Depew was mistaken
about the senators not being glad 70
see him. Still Depew should not
plume himself too much on the rush
made for him in the corridor. Sen
ator Morgan was making a speech or
the floor at the time.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

Poultney Bigelow's publishers are
very hostile toward the senate Tor
refusing to send Poult to JAIL. They
were prepared to spring a bastile
edition of his complete works at a
days notice.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

Reports from the tropics state that
DR.. Dowie is improving rapidly. The
medical situation in Chicago would
be merely commonplace and unroman-
tic without Dowie.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

President Hadley of Yale says that
only a man with sporting blood car
appreciate football. Presumably,
then, such a highly organized man
would be in his glory if he were 10
witness a train wreck.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

The United States, says an ex-
change, consumed more sugar last
year than any other nation and paid
more for it. 1t sweetened the sugar
trust
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

A boy that would haze another be-
cause ne had the advantage of him
would strike his aged father. Hazine
is the essence of meanness. If if Is
not 'un-American," it ought to be
made so.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

why should I resign" asks Depew
OF reasons there are one or two:
You're tired and need rest;
Your work is a jest;
But, Chauncey, we leave it to YOU
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

At Aberdeen, S. D., a man had &
quarrel with his dentist over a bill If
As cents and shot him. A dentist VINO
would render such a ridiculous bill
ought to be shot.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

The census reports show 1000 wo-
men lawyers. 1t is pleasing that
there are even a thousand ladies
anxious to get one out of trouble, in
stead of into it.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

"Oh. N.Y." exclaimed Mrs. Schooner.
i've lost my pocketbookg"
"Never mind, DEAR" replied her hus-
band. III get you another pocket
book. and you can easily collect more
dress goods samples" Kansas CITY
Independent.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

For a very human and lovable
is likely to hold a place of favor on
the book shelves for good many
decades.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

Chinese merchants at Canton are
imposed by a government that wants
to go into the railroad business. In
this country, the money for the roads
is taken out of our hides without our
feeling it-perhaps because the air is
60 dry.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

Every law looks blue to the man
who wants to break it." mo govern
ment could long exist where every
man was his own lawmaker." You do
not for a moment suspect Senator
Aldrich of these lofty sentiments.
Governor Folk uttered them at Bos-
ton.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

Colonel Mann may WELD a trench
ant pen but he certainly made a mis-
take in tickling a mules hind foot
with a pitcnfork.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

l have tried Clevelands Baking
Powder and know Of none that can
compare with it.-Mrs. Harriet Ken
nedy, Walla Walla.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

There is suspicion that what
Rogers don't know" about the system
is more important than anything
Lawson has disclosed.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

The poultry show is a great sue
cess but the United States senate's
Poultney show was rather a sad af-
fair.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

The steel company being so well
organized, a chorus girls union IS
now forming in New York.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

The poultry snow hen gets the rib
bon, but the old reliable barnyard
fowl is saving the country.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

Since the announcement Of Miss
Roosevelt's wedding, do you suppose
King Alfonso sees his mistake?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

The view may be beautiful from the
eighteenth story but the fire escape
looks pretty good, too.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

Attorney Hughes is going ahead TO
a month. He may, perhaps, drop in OF
Andy Hamilton and take his pulse.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

Copy of change of advertisements
must be delivered to the business Of
fee by the hour Of TEN O'CLOCK a.
m. Co insure insertion in the issue Of
4ven date.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

Elegance IL something more than
ease; 1t Is more than a freedom from,
awkwardness or restraint It fmpueaI
conceive, precsaon, Z pofish. =
sparkling. spirtted, vet Aasicata-HS
xlitt.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

If France jumps on Castro we are
likely to hear the Peruvian bark.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-08

No invitation to Sir Nichalas
Longworths wedding for Tillman!
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-11
HOMESTEAD RESIDENCE.

In charging jury during the recent
term Of the United States district
court in this city, Judge Amidon laid
down some law relative to the resi-
dence required by the homestead laws
which, if needed by the homesteaders,
would prevent much of the trouble
some of them are experiencing as the
aftermaths of final proofs.
Judge Amidon distinguished be-
tween the shadow and the substance
of residence; between technical and
actual residence. 1t is supposed by
many that acts unaccompanied by in
tent will establish and maintain resi-
dence. Nothing is farther from the
idea of the law Acts are merely evil
dences of the intention. 1t has been
supposed that if homesteader built
a shack upon claim, put in stove
and bed, and slept a few nights there,
he was maintaining residence. Such
is not correct, however. He may do
these things and still not have a res
idence. That is measured by his in
tent.
If when he did the act which was to
constitute his establishment of resi-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-11

The Evening Times has been
charged with attempting to influence
the appointments to be made by Gov
ernor Burke. This is not correct.
The Evening Times cares not one
whit, so far as the political effect up
on the democratic party is concerned,
who receives the loaves and fishes.
But it is not willing to have the cry
of reform in state affairs proclaimed
from the house tops and then sit idle
by while the promises are swept away
by the rush of the hungry for the pie
counter, without letting the public
know of the same. For this reason it
desires to call attention to the fact
that one of the newspapers of the
state which claims to speak for the
new governor has announced that in
the event of Engerud resigning from
the supreme bench, he would appoint
Judge Lauder to that position. 1t
will be remembered that Lauder is one
of the rankest partisans in the state,
and while anyone would be an i'm
provement on Engerud, it is not doing
much to remove the judiciary from
politics" to appoint a partisan like
Lauder.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-11

so that the shippers are injured there.
by, it is certainly a matter within the
power OF the interstate commerce
commission to remedy the evil. and
Congressman Marshall. who is sup
posed to do things and who has taken
upon himself the task Of enforcing the
remedy. should be able within a de-
cidedly short time to show the grain
shippers that the Great Northern,
Northern Pacific and the 500 have
been keeping the empties out the
wheat growing states for some sinister
motive
The Evening Times has called at
1ention to the fact before that these
car shortages occur in every part of
the country which furnishes large
amount of outgoing freight at one
time and comparatively little at 9TH
er times. To properly handle the
crops OF the northwest as fast as they
are delivered to the elevators in the
fail and early winter would require
ten times as much rolling stock as is
required to handle the freight of the
territory at any other time. The COM
panies are either compelled TO allow
the car famine to occur every year in
this country or build an enormous
number Of cars which would be used
probably one-fourth of the time and lie
idle 1hree-fourths. They seem TO have
preferred the latter course and an an
nual car shortage results.
If the contention of President Hill is
correct, the situation can be some
what relieved by increasing the ter
minal facilities. But in the end it will
be found that the farmers of the north
west will be compelled in time to
build their own elevators, either on
the farms or at the railroads, and
store their grain until the roads are
in condition to handle it. 1t will be
/, found in the end that this will be a
blessing in disguise. By storing their
crops they will be far better able to
control the supply and create prices
which will justify the raising of whea,
and give them the profit on the same
which their efforts deserve and the
, investment demands.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-11

from 1t, and it seems to ME a matter
of right and justice to the people of
Porto Rico. They are loyal, they are
glad to be under our flag. they are
making rapid progress along the path
of orderly liberty. Surely We should
show our appreciation Of them, our
pride In what they have done, and our
pleasure in extending recognition for
what has thus been done, by granting
them full American citizenship.
Under the wise administration of
the present governor and council,
marked progress has been made in the
difficult matter of granting to the peo-
pie of the island the largest measure
of self-government that can with safe
ty be given at the present time. 1t
would have been very serious mis-
take to have gone any faster than we
have already gone in this direction.
The Porto Ricans have complete and
absolute autonomy in all their munic-
ipal governments, the only power over
any kind results from it, and great
benefit to the island, and it should
certainly not be changed at this time.
The machinery of the elections is ad-
ministered entirely by the Porto Rican
people themselves, the governor and
council keeping only such supervision
as is necessary in ordr to insure an
orderly election. Any protest as to
electoral frauds is settled in the
courts. Here again it would not be
safe to make any change in the pres
ent system. The elections this year
We're absolutely orderly, unaccom-
panied by any disturbance; and no
protest has been made against the
management Of the elections, altho
three contests are threatened where
the majorities were very small and
error was claimed; the contents, of
course, to be settled in the courts. In
short. the governor and council are
cooperating with all of the most en-
lightened and most patriotic of the
people of Porto Rico in educating the
citizens of the island in the principles
OF orderly liberty. They are provid-
ing government based upon each
citizens self-respect, and the mutual
respect of all citizens; that is. based
upon rigid observance of the prin-
ciples Of justice and honestly. It has
not been easy to instill into the minds
OF people unaccustomed to the exer-
else of freedom, the two basic prin-
ciples of our American system; the
principle that the majority must rule
and the principle that the minority
has rights which must not be disre-
garded or trampleo upon. Yet real
progress has been made in having
these principles accepted as elemen-
tary, as the foundations of successful
self-govrnment.
l transmit herewith the report of
the governor of Porto Rico sent to the
president through the secretary of
state.
All the insular governments should
be placed in one bureau, either in the
Department Of War or the Department
of State. 1t is a mistake not so to ar
range our handling of these islands
at Washington, as to be able to take
advantage of the experience gained in
one, when dealing with the problems
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-11

dence, he relinquished all claims to a
place of residence elsewhere and dur
ing the time of such residence held it
out to the world as his domicile and
exercised in connection Herewith all
the rights and privileges which such
Gomicile affords, he has maintained a
residence upon the land within the
meaning of the homestead law.
On the other hand fictitious living
upon the claim-even sleeping every
nigh, there-would not constitute ac-
tual residence if at the same time the
rights and duties of the domicile were
exercised elsewhere
Absence from the claim in the legi-
innate pursuits OF business-if such
as would occur in the same manner
as it would if the residence were
decided property-would not vitiate
the residence. 1t is the intent of the
party to make the place his home at
least for a fixed time, which actually
constitutes his residence.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-11

In many particulars the annual
message of President Roosevelt was
decidedly characteristic Of the man.
He dipped into the subject at hand
without preamble or flourish and han
died it without gloves. But when
did Theodore Roosevelt ever say,
write, or do anything that wasn't
characteristic? He is sui generis-in
class by himself-and that partly
explains why the American people are
so fond of him.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-11
. Benner, Beii b Garvin :

them possessed by the insular govern
ments, being that Of removing corrupt
or incompetent municipal officials.
This power has never been exercised
save on the clearest proof of corrup-
ton or of incompetence-such as to
jeopardize the interests of the people
of the island; and under such circum-
stances it has been fearlessly used to
the immense benefit of the people. 1t
is not a power with which it would be
safe, for the sake of the island itself,
to dispense with at present. The low.
er house is absolutely elective, while
the upper house is appointive. This
scheme is working we'll; no injustice of