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Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-08
Life Diplomas am Incentive
For Highest Development
NY MARK KEPPLER

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consider these questions seriously. What
subject would you leave out, gentle
reader? On the other hand what addi-
tional subjects would you put into the
course of study?
1t was not very long ago that COM
mercial work was confined to business
colleges Now, every well regulated hlgn
school has it's commercial course, but
the establishment of commercial
course in the high school has not re-
lieved the high school from the necessity
of teaching the subjects that were
taught before commercial work was
added Wherever money is available for
it the high schools are adding manual
training departments, and the addition of
these departments means in every case
an increase of attendance at high school
and not a decrease in high school re-
uuirements. Evidently what the people
need is Not another Eden, but more
fruit from tho tree of knowledge" In
the early days of American education
there was a winter term of school at
tended by the boys and taught by male
teachers, and summer term of school
attended by the girls and taught by fe-
male teachers. Each term required
three months of time and the profess
sional training of the teachers was sim
nle indeed Now the average term is
above nine months, the schools are at
tended alk, by the boys and the girls
and the teaching body is highly trained
and carefully prepared one
In our own county, including Los An
geles city, 2050 teachers are now at work
in the public schools. OF this number
300 are men and the remainder are wo-
men. The average experience of this
body of teschers is trifie over four
school years, and 1900 of them are grad
uatesl either of colleges, normal
schools or universities. 1t is neither ex-
aggeration nor flattery to say that Los
Angeles county's 2050 teachers constitute
one of the most representative, most
progressive, most highly cultured and
most thoroughly trained body of
teachers in the world.
Our state normal schools and our uni
versities have a high and advanced
standard of educational requirements,
and the widely known city of Los An
geles, whose very name is synonym for
progress and prosperity, attracts hither
the highest type of teachers from all
parts of the country, and in numbers far
exceeding the demand. Under these cir
cumstances our boards of trustees and
boards of education have and exercise
an opportunity for wise and careful Sc
lection. 1t may be truthfully said that
the teachers are selected not Only from
California but from the whole country.
The people of this county are firm and
steadfast believers in the efficacy of ed
ucation, and willingly and gladly assume
the heaviest burdens for the erection
of school buildings and for the payment
of teachers. In kindergartenS and In
high schools we lead the west, and in
our public schools we are abreast of the
best. However, with all our progress we
are yet far from where we ought to be-
We need tremendous development along
| three agriculture. manual training
and science.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-08


prince whispered: !: Hello, grannie DEAR
adding, as he beckoned her to join him,
is she after you, too? Come under here;
I'll take care of you, and it's perfectly
beautiful
Patrick Brannigan had contracted to
dig well in the sandy part of the town,
and he had dug down some forty feet
when, on coming to work one morning,
he found that the last twelve feet of his
well had caved in and would have to be
dug out again. He sat down by the well
to wait for his helpers, when happy
thought struck him. He arose, took off
his coat, hung 1t up in plain sight, hid
his tools and walked away.
few minutes later his helpers came,
and finding Pats coat and seeing that his
tools were gone, came to the conclusion
that their boss was buried under the
fallen sand, and with the help of all the
neighbors Immediately set to work to
dig him out. Not till all the fallen dirt
was taken out did the men in the least
suspect that they had been hoaxed into
doing just what the boss was trying
to dodge.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-08

H7ATERLAND 1 is the name of an
w amphibious automobile invented by
Jules Reveillers OF Paris, and which
proved it's right to the name in public
test at New York Monday. 1t looks like
yawl, with deck fore and aft of the
pit where the chauffeur sits. 1t Is
thirty feet long, six feet at the widest
point and draws twenty-five inches OF
water. "A De Dion two-cylinder, twen-
ty-horse power engine, which can be
transferred by a most ingenious con-
trivance instantly from the wheels to
the propeller, or applied to both stimuli
taneously furnishes the power. The
four wheels are of wood, thinly plated
with steel. They are thirty-four inches
in diameter, are chain geared and have
hard rubber tires. The four-bladed
propeller is of brass. It's bearings are
protected from dust by metal hood.
which is lifted as soon as the machine
enters deep water
s.
The project to build railway to the
top of the Matterhorn has aroused
storm of opposition. The Swiss League
for the Preservation of picturesque
Switzerland has organized branches in
England and other countries of Europe.
The bishop of Bristol, representing the
Alpine club, has said that, in the eyes
of all to whom sublimity of nature ap-
peals, the projected railway would act
as a proclamation and that the sacrif1ce
of such a mountain as the Matterhorn
to sectional interests and to the mater
ialization of the age, would involve an
irreparable loss to humanity, and
wrong to succeeding generations. The
matter will shortly come up before the
Swiss parliament.
Sc
Germany and England are making
great progress in utilizing surplus
gases from coke ovens, etc.
So
Timber killed by forest fires is now
being used extensively for making
cracker boxes.
OF our gold coin $15O,oOO,o00 has been
melted for use in the arts and indus
tries.
The average cost of each piece of
United States currency in circulation
is about one and three-fifths cents.
" -
In Belgium the school children are
made familiar with historical charac-
ters by means of dolls in characteristic
dress and attitude.
-T-
For penknives the steel is tempered
at 47O degrees, for table knives at $50
degrees, for saws at $50 degrees.
s.
In aerial photography, as 1T is
termed, the shutter of the camera is
connected with silken cord, which is
paid out as the camera ascends. The
instrument is fastened to wooden
framework which holds it rigidly in
| such manner that the lens faces
downward and forward at slight
angle. The direction in which the lenz
! is to point is regulated by a simple
contrivance attached to the framework
The shutter is fastened for an instan-
! taneous exposure or for one of sec
ond's or several seconds length, ac-
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-08

~ ECENTLY The Herald announceo
that the county superintendent Oh
.AU schools had received one hunoreu
life diplomas for Los Angeles couii'S
teachers. These diplomas are the ne"
issue designed and prepared by State ou
perintendent Hyatt and are the most GIG
CANT life diploma issued by any sta'e
life diplom 8 of four grades are issueo
to California teachers by the state poaro
OF education upon the recommenoation, " "
county boards of education. bele,e .ii9
recommendation can be received the
nIicant must have taught forty-elshe 7 :
,,nnth. a,ccsssfully. twenty-one OF
which have been in the schools OIL can
fornia. ,s +o
Special life diplomas are issueo "
teachers of music, drawing, physical cui-
ture and the commercial sup1ects'
do.oorten life diplomas are issued 10
holders of kindergarten primary certni-
oates Grammar school life diplomas
are issued to teachers who holu q ai,iia. nc
school certificates; and hign scnooi
diplomas are issued to those "ho iui NJ. =
high school certificates, and have tausl,I
,,nt ,or, thon twentv-one months in high
schools. ...,. ;.s
The California life diploma entities its
holder to teach his lifetime in any
school of the state corresponding u 'no
grade of diploma. The life diploma 10
a special privilege, properly lish''
highly priced by those to Whom IL 10
granted Since the life diploma inahee
the teachers right permanent one 'ae
diploma ought not to be given except "
those who have proven their righI " :.
nv successful teaching. A teacher WHO
sent the highest ideals of the profession
If is not enough that the teacher snail
have taught forty eight months Much
more sho;:ld be insisted upon by county
and state boards of education. ne
teachers work should go hand In nano
with the highest type OF professionals
self-development. There was time
when the three RS were enough, put
the schools of today must not only Sc
cure better results in the essentials than
were ever secured in the past. but they
must also cover many lines of work not
dreamed of in the old schools. Frequent
Iy complaints are made that the course
of study is too full, that useless studies
are imposed upon the children. Ihere
may be a degree of truth in the COM
plant, but it is more likely that the fauit
lies in moor teaching and not in too many
subjects to oe studied
Whenever fatigue, either mental OF
physical seizes the child, progress stops
for that day. Tho wise and capable
teacher economies time and effort and
in that way gets every bit Of work done
with profit both to the pupil and to the
community.
What shall we leave out from the
present course of study? Are there any
things left out that ought to be put inY
These are pertinent questions whicn
every course-of-study-m making body must
seriously consider. Every patron OF the
school who is dissatisfied ought also to
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-08
Foreign

Advance sheets of the discoveries of the
German and French expeditions on the
Island of 'Elephanta in the Nile, published
by Prof. Ganneau at Paris, tell how the
German diggers have unearthed an official
document of the seventeenth year of
Earius addressed to the Persian governor
of Judea by the priests of the Temple Of
Elephanta. Heretofore many ancient
Greek texts have been turned up from
the sands of Egypt. but rarely one uf
Hebrew origin like this. Its chief value
is that it deals with familiar figures in
the Bible.
If the number of cardinals were in pro-
portion to the number of Catholics, the
United States ought to have, not one, but
several cardinals. Since the days of Six
tus v the number of members of the
sacred college has been limited to seventy,
although there are rarely more than sixty
at one time, and as the United States Is
the fourth Catholic power in the world
in regard to the number of communi-
eants, she ought to have eight cardinals.
She indeed, has only one, while little
Spain at the present moment has six.
81
The Vatican is perturbed over the reve-
lation of a page of secret history. This
is the publication of a pamphlet detail
Ing a very radical ScneIlle Ol TeIOril LOT
he church, written some sixty years ago
Nv Cardinal Sala, Leo XIII, when @
young man, was the protege of Cardinal
Sala and made copy of the scheme,
which after his death, in 1908, passed into
the Vatican library.
There the pamphlet was seen by tho
g4 andnephew of Cardinal Sala, who had
advanced views, and had always wished
to publish the scheme, and had been un-
able to consult the original document ir
the secret archives of the Vatican. He
l1ade copy of the copy, which he has
published. in defiance of the prohibition of
the Vatican censor.
The book has raised a storm of discus
sion in ecclesiastical circles.
s.
London reckons that she has 5000 Ameri-
cans who prefer Europe to America; how
many Englishmen and Irishmen have
made money over here and carried it
back with them? Twenty thousand Amer
leans live in Paris. At least an equal
rumber are scattered through Italy and
Germany.
80
1t has been found by experiment IN
Germany that deep sea fish can be ac-
climated in fresh water
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-08

rus, tousands of years old, the story OF
the eternal triangle that has served
novelists' and playwrights galore was
treated practically the same as in a
modern work of fiction. The loving
husband, the masher and the wife were
all set forth much as in a modern play.
Surely. the prince concluded, there is
nothing new under the sun.
81
Brigadier General Harry C. Ward, U.
S. A., now residing in Louisville, was
captured at the battle of Fort Stedman.
in front of Petersburg, Va, March "a.
1866. This was one of the closing bat
ties of the Civil War. General Ward
was taken to General John B. Gordon
of the Confederate army, to whom he
surrendered his sword. This sword,
with some other military equipments,
was presented to General Ward by his
friends in Worcester, Mass, his name
and date of presentation being en-
graved on the scabbard. After the
election of President Cleveland in 1892
Phi Alexander, the OFFICER who cap
tured General Ward, returned to him
his sword. having had it in his posses
sion twenty-seven years
81
Emperor William has conferred on
Baron Marschall Won Bieberstein, the Ger
man ambassador at Constantinople, who
was head of the delegation of German
Order OF the Black Eagle, the highest
Prussian decoration. in recognition of his
services at The Hague.
-
The Hon. Joseph H Choate and Gen.
Horace Porter were the guests of
honor at a reception given to them by
the Union League club, New York city,
November 19. Among others present
were Lieutenant General Nelson A.
Miles, u. S. A.; Rear Admiral Coghlan
and Colonels Scott and Dudley, United
States military academy; Rear Admiral
Charles s. Sperry, U. s. navy; Major
General f. D. Grant, United States
army; Rear Admiral G. F. Goodrich.
United States navy.
Sc
Viscount Aoki, the Japanese ambas-
sador to the United States, gave BAN
quet at the embassy in Washington on
the evening of November 16 in honor
of Rear Admiral Robbey ID. Evans.
United States navy, and Mrs. Evans.
The banquet was purely personal
tribute to Admiral and Mrs. Evans
whom the ambassador has known for
many years, and was entirely Informal.
The guests included the Assistant Sec
retary of the Navy and Mrs. Newberry.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Willard I'll.
Brownson, Rear Admiral and Mrs Will
liam s. Cowles and Lieutenant Commo-
dore and Mrs. Albert L. Key.
50
Fire Commissioner Lantry of New York,
in explaining to a reporter his plans for
establishing a firemen's roll of merit, y
told this story:
ut takes pluck" he began, "to be a
fireman. A young fellow of only aver
age pluck was serving at his first fire.
and the chief rushed up to him and
shouted:
Shin up that ladder to the eighth
story crawl along the cornice to the
fourth window, drop down three stories
and catch that wooden sign you see
smoking there. swing yourself along TO
the second window that the red glare is
coming from, break the glass and go in
and rescue those three old ladies-well,
what the deuce are you waiting for?'
For pen and ink, sir said the new
man. I want to hand in my resigna-
ton
-.t-
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland is a prac-
tical dairymaid. She Is also an expert
needlewoman.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-08

Floating coal depots in the British
navy have proved so satisfactory that
the admiralty have decided to build more
OF them The largest now in use has a
capacity of 1900 tons. A new one with
q capacity of 2000s<tons is to be con-
structed and moor d In such a position
that two batueships at time can fill
their bunkers at IT,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-08

Queen Wilhelmina of Holland is a prac-
ticaI dairymaid. She is also an expert
needlewoman.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-08

1t has been found by experiment IN
Germany that deep sea fish can be ac-
cIimated In fresh water
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-05-06
FOR SALE Good gentle all purpose
horse. B. F. Surry. Phone 3S7.
c-5-11
FOR SALE-Best variety cabbage
plants. B. F. Surry, Phone 3S7..
COLL

DRESSMAKING-Experienced and
reasonable Mrs NJ. Hanley, 2O7 s
Chelan avenue. GA
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WATERvILLE MAN
up AGAINST IT
Obtained One Hundred Dollars From
Wenatchee Grain Buyer on
Misrepresentation. :. >.

Last week j. E. keane, of Wenat-
chez, manager of the Hammond
Milling company, contracted to buy
two thousand bushels of wheat of w.
E. Reeder. Mr.. Reeder claimed to
have the wheat on the south side of
Badger mountain and was to deliver
it at Columbia Siding. Mr. Keane
advanced 500 on the deal and Reed
err came to Waterville, paid off a
few debts and was having a good
time.
Mr.. keane wrote his agent here of
the transaction and it was found
that the gentleman never had any
wheat to SELL When Mr. Keane
learned of the fact he swore out a
warrant for Reeder's arrest and
Sheriff Webb wired Sheriff Logan OF
this place to arrest Reeder.
Deputy Fitzgerald took Reeder to
Orondo Sunday morning where he
was placed in the hands of Sheriff
Webb
Reeder returned to Waterville yes
terday and reported that he paid the
money and costs amounting in all to
about s300.-Big Bend Empire.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-05-06
SCORES LEGAL PROFESSION
Bryan's Opinion of the Legal Profess
sion i'm America is Not
Flattering.

CHICAGO, May 4.-William Jen-
nings Bryan told 900 Chicago law
yers last night what he thinks of the
legal profession in America. The
picture was relieved at points with
rays Of something that looked like
hope, but on the whole it was not a
bright one.
AS a graduate of the old Union Col
lege of Law, which has since become
the Northwestern University Law
School, Mr.. Bryan attended the an
nual dinner of the graduates of the
institution. The title of his address
was THE Price of Soul
Il believe" he said, in concluding,
that the day will come in this coun-
try when we will not have so many
men who will sell their souls to
make grand larceny possible.
Perhaps some time it will not be
less disgraceful for a lawyer to assist
i gigantic robbery than for high
waymGn to go out and hold up a
wayfarer. l know of case recently
in which they had TO go to New York
to get lawyers to represent the peo-
pie because all the lawyers available
nearer at hand had been bought up"
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anything about his aspirations. Most
politicians believe that Cortelyou win
never stand chance for the presi-
Gency, but there is a small minority
that holds to the belief that he may
loom up in the next Republican con-
vent1on. At proper time, 1t is un-
derstood, that boom will be launch
ed in his behalf for the vice-presi-
dency.
William Howard Taft is what is
popularity known as good mixer"
Although he was on the federal
bench for many years-judges are
supposed to be very frigid sort of
persons-he is a jolly good fellow,
an artistic handshaker, and in his
personal relations with men ought to
make a good politician. But Taft
is honest, and in voicing his convic-
lions does not mince words. He
talks right out in meeting, and can
not be held down to any set program.
His managers out in Ohio are having
a hard time controlling him. His
friends in the administration tried
to convince him that he ought to
abandon his proposed trip to the
Philippines, go out In Ohio, and
cross swords with Foraker. But Mr.
Taft has declared repeatedly that
he will not indulge in any scramble
for the presidential Office He pro-
missed to go to the Philippines long
before politics got all tangled up in
Ohio, and he is going there, presi-
Dental nomination or no presiden-
tial nomination.
Taft has one defect that will stand
out in bold relief if he is nominated
next year. He is poor public speak
er. He generally reads his speeches.
But he is a wholesome appearing
man. is straight, and looks it, and
commands respect wherever he APP
pears.
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BY way of making up to the diplo-
mats and foreign naval officers for
what happened to them at James
town, the government is arranging
for big state dinner or luncheon or
some similar function for them at
the White HoHse. This is as it should
be. The Wanted hospitality of the
south baked and broke down under
the pressure of the c1l on the
opening day at Jane and. a
number of things HI ID that
must have made the for 3 think
that Dickens was not in his
American Notes. anyv All the
Diplomatic Corps was Is 80 open
ing of the exposition on the 26th.
Going they were tolerably we'll TAX
en- care of. There were so hacks and
other conveyances to meet them at
the wharf and take them to the ex-
position grounds. Where they
scraped up the fifty hacks in Norfolk
will have to be left to the -imagnia-
ton of those who have been there
at other times, but conveyances there
we're, according to all reports. Then
came the awful home coming. Whsn
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Two Monkeys.

Two Monkeys.
I had a little monkey once.
/ tied him with string.
He learned more tricks than I can tell
He could do everything.
We romped and played together just
Like two great jolly boys.
The family said. ''The monkeys mado
An awful lot Of noise
You see, they called me monkey, too,
Which teased my little sister.
didn't mind. but baby did
Because a monkey kissed her!
She said her mother shouldn't be
The mother to a monkey.
Indeed, she screamed and carried on
And acted awful spunky.
But now my monkeys gone away.
I sold him to a grinder.
And sisters sweet as sugar plums,
And I am lonesome--kinder.
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the diplomats came to depart, they
the graceless populace, had looted
the hack stand and there was not a
carriage to be had for love or money.
Then these pampered children OF
fortune, the real esquisite things
that are seen on Connecticult avenue
Of N Afternoon, Had to walk them
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selves a mile and a half over a COM
mon, dusty road to regain their boat.
Worse that that, they had to struggle
with the mob for a ham sandwich
and sinker in the waiting room.
It was too bad. but it will be some
what made up to them In oflcial en-
tertainment At the White House in
the next fortnight.
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OF Course.

This primary teacher is ever watch
full to keep strict guard against dis
ease in the class, SO when Tommie
came to school without his sister she
inquired where Sallie was.
Tommy-She's sick
Teacher--Tommy, where is your sis
ter sick?
Tommy (amazed)-In bed.
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Classified Advertisements
FOR SALE-Sweet potato, tomato
and cabbage plants. Miners
greenhouse. E. and Wash. street.
5-31

IT'S GETTING HOT and you're be-
ginning to want ice. Call up the
Arrow Livery. Well deliver the
clear Mountain Spring ice, best on
the market. Tel 1921. Wagon will
run Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat
urdays.
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''PCRITY"-The ice cream made
especially for the Red Cross Phar-
macy. Guaranteed pure by pure food
laws.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-05-10
Good Insect Powder.

pvrethrum is we'll established as ar
oo+ nowder. 1t is cheap and very
offactual. At the experiment station a
,mbarst Mass, they mixed a table
'a,f,,1 Of the powder in pailful OF
spUoI narts of water and buttermilk
- ~ snrinkled it on currants. potatoes
and other plants infected with bugs
a a worms The buttermilk makes tbs
'n stick to the plants, and il
pSo,,+ half an hour the insects get
~ 49, s,,nnlv of it, curl. drop to the
Ground and die.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-05-10
Rape for Sheep.
rye.

Every farmer who keeps sheer
should try rape this year, if only on
4 small plot, so as to learn how il
grows and what it is worth. Get tho
dwarf Essex variety, plant it in drills
and begin to use it as soon as it is
we'll grown. 1t will grow again after
being cut 1t may be planted in April
even later. Sow it in rows or broad
cast it. Those who SOW it for sheep
broadcast it over the field and turn the
sheep on it at any stage of growth de
sired 1t is now considered indispensa'
BILE to all who keep sheep, but, as it is
also relished by other stock, it will be
found serviceable in providing a sue
culent food late in the season after
grass is gone. 1t is also excellent for
al! kinds of poultry.