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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20

walk. Copson & Carson, $2,136;
grading Sixteenth. Mitchell Bros,
1895; Sixteenth av. sidewalk,
Copson & Carson, $2,13S; grading
Providence, Mitchell Bros, Sass;
Providence sidewalk, Copson &
Carson. $2.525.
The Bernard st. contract was not
let, as the lowest bid, that of Mitch
ell Bros, for 1904. exceeded the
engineers estimate by $1,000.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
LAF0LLETTE FOR
COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 20.
-Sen., Lafollette today introduced
bill, which was temporarily laid
on the table, providing for a tariff
commission. The bill provides that
a permanent committee of nine
members shall he appointed by the
each member will be required to
show that he is possessed of the re-
CURED amount of information on
the subject of international tariff
laws.
The duty Of the commission will
be to investigate cost of home and
foreign production of various COM
modities under the tariff.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
HOME FUND GROWS

Prospects for the new Home for
the Friendless are still brighter.
The bartenders' union last night
voted a donation of 800 to the
fund.
The management of the Spokane
theater will donate the playhouse
to the committee for benefit per
Torrance. The usual rent of the
theater is $3.50 a night.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
CROWNED HEADS WILL
HOLD Pow WOW

BERLIN, March 20.-Unless the
plans of Emperor William are in
terferred with he will leave for his
new villa on the island of Corfu to-
morrow. A visit with King Victor
Emmanuel and Emperor Franz
Joseph is on the program during
his cruise on the MEDITERRANEAN.
1t is rumored the sultan of Tur-
key may send a delegation to
meet the kaiser at Corfu.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
FOREIGNERS BLOCKING WEST

About 900 foreigners. passed
through the city, bound west. yes
terday, on the Hill lines. Most of
them were Italians too poor to re-
turn to the old country, and who
have spent the winter in the East.
They are looking for work.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
HILL LINES CLAIM
THEY'RE COMPETING

Claims of competition between
two Hill roads Is made by the G..
N. lin serving notice that the rate
on cereals to Montana points will
be reduced from 80 to 40 cents per
100 pounds April 16. The G. N, has
applied to the Interstate commerce
commission for permission to
change the rate on the ground that
II is forced to meet N. p. eompeti-
ton.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
TOMMY BURNS MUST
COME HOME

DETROIT, March 20. .--. Mrs
Thomas Burns, wife of the prize
fighter, is seriously Ill at the home
of her mother at Preston. Ontario.
and Tommy has been cabled To re-
turn with all possible speed. Prob.
ably Burns viii throw up all on
gagemOBs and return at once.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
DEMOCRACY ONLY HOPE

CHICAGO. March 20-Bryan
celebrated his 4Sth birthday last
night with a speech In which he de.
clared corporation domination is
the great political evil of the day.
He argued that the democratic
party holds out the only certain
prospect of overcoming this evil.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20

was a labor agent he swindled five
Italians. out of S. apiece and Dor
rowed more than 5000 from them.
1t is said that he has paid back the
money and his accusers do not now
desire to prosecute him.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
DEADLY DUEL
BY MOONLIGHT

Ell PASO, March 20.-By the
light Of the moon, with no other
human being in sight, two Ameri-
can custom house inspectors, c. n.
Jones and Charles Logan, fought a
duel to the death.
Beth were found this morning,
revolvers gripped in haINls, bullets
in each body, cold in death.
The men lay about 16 feet from
each 0ther.
The. cause of the trouble will
probably never be known
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
TO RAISE
ORANGES

LOS ANGELES, March 20.--Ac-
cording to a story emanating from
Santa Barbara. Admiral Evans will
make that city his home after re-
linquishing command of the Attain
tic fleet.
1t is stated that negotiations are
under way for his purchase of 80
acre orange orchard.
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HANGS ON A SHOE STRING

TOLEDO, o., March 20.-Insane
over religion, Joseph II. Large, 3S,
made moose of his shoestrings
and hung himself to his bedpost.
According to the coroner he must
have suffered great agony and slow
death by strangulation.
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he SWlPED TWO QUILTS

]. J. Burns. of 12a Main av.,
rented a room to a stranger last
night but the stranger only tarried
long enough to steal two home
made quilts. Burns notified the po.
lice and secondhand stores are be-
ing watched.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
TWO CONTRACTORS
M0NOPOLIzE WORK

Theh board Of public works has
awarded the following street i'm
provement contracts:
Blaine av. sewer to Foster Il
Goodwin. $3,299; Knox av. side
walk, A. X. Copson, $1,21S; Elm ST..
sidewalk, ]. c, Kennedy, $500;
grading Fifteenth av., Mitchell
Bros, S2,725: Fifteenth av. side
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
NOT BOUND TO BRYAN

NEW YORK, March 20.--The
democratic state central commit
tee refused to commit the party to
a delegation instructed for Bryan.
The state convention will be- held
in Carnegie hall April IA.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
COURT SENTENCES
PAIR TO PRISON

Judge Huneke this morning SEN
fenced Howard Lynch to from two
to IA years in the penitentiary on
a burglary charge. and Arthur De-
lorme to one to ii years for
forgery.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
BEWARE CHARITY lMPoSTER

The police have been notified that
a woman beggar is going around
soliciting funds for different char
tiles. and that she is an imposter.
Police Chief Rice has instructed
his men TO bring her to headquar-
tiers II they ind her.
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ACCUSED OF ROBBERY

Tony Nitro. an italian, was ar
rested this morning on a warrant
charging him with obtaining money
under false pretense Ii is alleged
that on the representation that he
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
STILL DECLARES DIVIDENDS

WALLACE, March 20.-Although
the Hecla mine has not been work
ed since the first OF the year. the
third monthly dividend of $4,000
for this year has been declared from
the surplus. The total amount OF
dividends paid to date is $3.50, 900.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
ELECTRIC LINE IN CASCADES

WENATCHEE. March Gothic
Seattle Electric Co. has applied for
a franchise for an electric line from
this city up the Cashmere valley to
Leavenworth. The company will
agree TO have cars in operation Is
months after the franchise il
granted
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
REJECTED LOVER TAKES ACID

MOSCOW, Idaho, March 90
Oscar Grendahl swallowed carbolic
acid last night and was discovered
just in time to save his life. He
had been rejected by his sweet
heart.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
SEN. BRYAN MAY
NOT RECOVER

WASHINGTON, ID. c., March 20.
Sen. Bryan. OF Florida. youngest
member of the upper house. suffer
ed a severe hemorrhage today and
is in serious condition. His recov-
cry is doubtful
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20
CONVICTED ADMIRAL NEBO.
GATOFF FROM HIS CELL Is
SUES MORTAL CHALLENGE
TO CONVICTED GEN. STOES-

ST. PETERSBURG. March 90
The latest challenge to a duel is
directed against Gen. Stoessel, re-
Gently sentenced to 10 years i'm
prisonment in st. Peter and ST.
Paul fortress for surrendering Port
Arthur during the Japanese-Russian
war.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-03-20

st. But said he, Bryan is the
same type of man, free from Wall
st. influence, honest and true. He
would make great president.
Seriously, | believe he will be
nominated and elected"
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he do? Anyway, admire the man,
and he has done his country great
good"
Mr.. Croker wanted to add that
Roosevelt was the first president
since Lincoln not tied up with Wall
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OLYMPIA, March 20.-April 9
has been Officially named as Arbor
day by officoial proclamation of
Gov. Mead.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-05
SCHOOL SYSTEM DEFECTS.

Pavson Smith, superIntendent of the Auburn
CNe) schools has pointed out three defects IN
the modern school systematic failure to serve
the Individual; too close imitation of others IN
plans commendable in themselves, but impos-
sible of adaptation to the initiating schools; the
crowding of too much work on the child
Discussing the first fault" Mr. Smith says:
We have spent and we are still spending 50
much time and energy IN teaching iac1s tnat
duty-which is to help children to find them
selves to know and to use the power that IN
them lies The value of a school is not to be
measured by the multitude of things child
must learn under it; rather is it measured by
the question as to whether, from the multitude
of its offerings, he can find the things, few or
many, which will meet his needs.
We are agreed that the subjects which we use
as a medium for the educational process may pe
wisely or unwisely selected from the viewpoint
of the mass. Is it not possible, also, from the
viewpoint of the individual that this selection
presents question to be answered WIN m equ l,,it
mental stimulus for one child may not be at
all the thing necessary for another. To direct
any other than individual treatment is hardiy
less foolish than would be the act of a physician
who should order for all his patients the same
kind of medicine. regardless of the ailments he
is curing or the constitutions OF MS SeNeIdi
patients.
On the subject or efforts to improve the rural
school by initiating the city school, Mr.. Smith
saws the children in the former have been edu-
Gated away from the farms, out of sympathy
with the country and its life, until, for the sake
of self-preservation and happiness, they have
fed to the cities to find there the only places
for which their education has prepared them.
The overerowding of the schools he charges to
three things-the notion that every child must
take all parts of all work offered, regardless of
personal and individual needs; the Chinese
characteristic of our people, which insists that
whatever the past generations had, education
ally speaking. must go into the training of the
present one; the domination of the lower schools
by the classical colleges. To remedy the latter
he suggests that the colleges make a more care
full study of the demands which are being made
in other directions on the lower schools, and
adapt their own requirements to meet them.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-05
ENCOURAGING DEVELOPMENT.

zone of the most encouraging facts in mod
ern educational development says President
Tucker of Dartmouth "is the tendency to look
at the way in which things done rather than
at what is done. A good example of this is in
the passion for reform. When the objects have
been accomplished much of this passion will
pass away We beginning as people to
develop the true artistic spirit, instead of the
commercial spirit.
I'VE ought to make men and women better
and happier; We are coming back to the old
ideals. Everything in this country points to
larger degree of leisure, and what shall be done
with this leisure depends in great measure upon
the schools.
I'm the past men were not lavish of gifts OF
personal service-something which State and
Church have lacked sadly. Men are now giving
themselves. The example of Roosevelt, Taft and
Root will influence all high minded American
youths. can see nothing more, attractive than
for young man to give himself to some high
personal service. such as politics. the ministry.
or even business. ] am sure that these ideals
will become the ideals of twenty years hence
Nathan c. Schaeffer State Superintendent OF
instruction in Pennsylvania, advocates change
in the method of history teaching. He suggests
that the textbooks, examinations and lnstruc-
tioDs glorify the arts of peace above the art OF
war He wants the pupil to be taught that Pas
teur the scientist, has done more for humanity
than Napoleon, the destroyer of thousands; tnat
Carnegie the philanthropist, has done more for
civilization than the admiral who sinks hostile
feet that the men who, experimenting with
their own bodies showed how yellow fever is
transmitted and can be prevented were as great
beroes as the soldiers who faced the yawning
mouth of the biggest cannon ever constructed.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-05
TREND OF EDUCATION.

Three things at the 1908 meeting of the Ma
tional Education Association stand out pre-
eminent in showing the trend of the educational
times and as Indicative of the future. In i'm
portance to educators generally they were: The
election Of a manual training school principal
as president of the National Education Asso-
citation for next year; the recognition Of the
Place of psychology in the theory and practice
of education; the triumph of the cause of women
as leaders in the association.
Manual training, domestic science and art,
trade handicraft and agricultural and technical
instructions dominated the programmes of this
years meetings, showing complete capitua-
ton on the part of those who heretofore had
opposed the doctrine of practical education.
The field of genetic psychology which this year
comes to prominence will be- it was made clear,
not the child study" Of a decade ago. but,
rather, the science of psyche genetics.
That the women have won their fight for all
time was shown in the fact that of the five
general sessions of the Cleveland convention
one was entirely in the charge Of the women
educators, all the speakers being women. But
tEey were not confined to that session.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-05
EDUCATION IN IRELAND.

Augustine Birrell. Secretary for ireland. intro
duced In the House OF Commons recently bill
containing non-sectarian scheme of higher
education for the Irish people 1t would charter
two new universities, at Dublin and at Belfast. and
in neither would religious tests be allowed. Be-
tween them would be divided 100000 from the Irish
church fund. and the management would be IN the
hands OF both Catholic and Protestant bishops and
laymen.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-05
Progress Of the Year in Education,
III. Billion Dollars Annually Spent on American Schools
Trend of the Tmes-Some Problems.of the Future

in the light of his limitations and capacity.
The continuous training OF pupils in morals
and in business and professional ethics. 10 the
end that the coming generation of men of AFFAIRS
may have well developed abhorrence of unfair
dealing and discrimination
Increased qualifications demanded OF teachers
in the public schools
The harmonization of child labor and truaney
laws, so that the education of the. child, not its
labor, is made the chief concern.
Increased use of school buildings for free va
cation and evening schools and for lectures for
adults, and the use of the school grounds for
Fairgrounds.
The reading and study of the English Bible
New-York tribune., 1908-09-05
WHAT EDUCATORS FAVOR.

The association went record as favoring:
The establishment by municipal boards Of
education Of trade schools, industrial schools
and evening continuation schools.
The subordination Of highly diversified and
overburdened courses OF study III the grades to
a thorough drill In essential subjects and the
abandonment of I'll considered experiments and
indiscriminate methodizing.
Careful consideration Of the individuality OF
the pupil to the end that he may be instructed
New-York tribune., 1908-09-05
EDUcATiON'S ENROLMENT.

At this time, Mr. Brown points out. the edu-
cation enrolment for the United States and
Alaska was 1S,SS7,446, distributed as follows:
New-York tribune., 1908-09-05


TN addition says Mr.. Brown. there IS our
large annual outlay for tutoring 1or speclai
coaching and for private individual teaching Oh
other kinds; for teaching by classes IN Young
Mems Christian Association Young Wcmens
Christian Association and similar INSTITUTIONS
for teaching by means of lectures at literary in
stitutes public libraries and the like for all the
EXPENSES connected with public libraries, mu-
seums and galleries of art; for the army Oh
music teachers male and female and tor the
other many lines of educational work In nun
dred phases, which doubtless (without the edu-
cation of the press) bring the total American
outlay for American education of all kinds up
to not far from $500 000, 600 a year. nearly two
thirds as much as the annual outlay by our
government for all other national purposes.
That means that for every dollar spent by the
government each year 66 cents is spent by the
country at large for American education. We
can confidently say that in no other country In
the world is such a grand record established
Moreover the record is not only established
but it is growing record, and one which will
continue to grow in increasing volume. year
after year, while this God favored land of ours
continues in the performance of its mission OF
educating a people and peoples who shall be
eternaly free-free not only in themselves but
lands and of many tongues into equal freedom"
New-York tribune., 1908-09-05

Mr.. Brown regards the current movement in
American education as tending toward a condf-
ION in which the enrolment in schools of all
sinds will be equal to the total population be-
tween the ages Of FIVE and eighteen. He reports
the years increased enrolment in schools and
colleges public and private, was 263,5S5 He
finds in the fact that the increase in the number
of persons receiving education has not kept pace
with the increase in population, and points to
that as the most pressing of present day edu-
cational problems.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-05

Elmer Ellsworth Brown, United States Com
missioner of Education, in his latest report OF
the progress and status of American educatieii,
gives T. total annual public expenditures ior
all purposes as 81, ,445.105.49S, divided as Ioi-
lows: By the United States government $iZo,-
IO5 49S. by the states of the Union, slZo,oOV,-
0oO. nv the minor civil divisions, $60000O000
More than one-fourth of this vast sum was in
vested-not expended form education, in the
following manner:
The Washington herald., 1908-03-27
WOULD USE HALL OF HOUSE.
Congress Wants Use of
Capitol for Debn1eN

The 10.O0O delegates to the great inter
national tuberculosis congress, which is
to be held in Washington this fall. may
be permitted-some Of them, TO transact
business in the hall OF the House of
Representatives-and they may not.
Surg. Gen. Wyman. of the Public Health
and Marine Hospital Service, in company
with half dozen physicians and others
interested in the tuberculosis congress,
called, yesterday, on Speaker Cannon to
inquire as TO the possibility Of securing
the hall OF the House for this purpose.
Mr.. Cannon, who is heartily in favor
OF the ends for which the congress is
to be held, is said TO have Informed the
callers that some action would be neces-
sary by Congress II the hall is to be
used.
To-day the surgeon general and other
interested parties will probably see Elliott
Woods. superintendent of the Capitol, in
a further effort to obtain some suitable
meeting place In the building upon the
hill.
However. II is not considered likely that
Congress will permit the congress to meet
there, as such permission would mean
that other similar gatherings would de-
mand like privileges.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-27
CONSIDER COPYRIGHT BILL.
Joint Committee Reach PhOnOgraph
Section Tomorrow.


George NJ Putnam. a publisher. before
the House and Senate joint committees
yesterday opposed a provision in the
Smoot copyright bill giving an author the
exclusive right TO reward the contract
for publishing his works after the first
copyright contract, which lasts forty-two
years. shall have expired.
He said the publisher had 10 undertake
great expense for plates and circulation
Of the book. and II did not seem Just
that the author should be able 10 make
the publisher remake the contract on the
authors own terms o. else lose the con-
tract.
Mr.. Putnam expressed the belief that
he thought the SmoOt bill could be
amended TO protect the interests OF both
author and publisher He objected 10 an
other paragraph In the bill requiring that
American books copyrighted here shall be
bound as well as printed in the United
States.
Il object to this paragraph" he said.
because We have a small but wealthy
clientele, that wants its books bound
abroad. We do the printing and folding,
and then they are shipped TO Italy or
France. where the hand binders do the
finest work"
The hearings before the Joint Patent
Committee will continue until tomorrow.
when consideration viii be given the ques-
ton as TO whether the authors OF song
and music should be paid royalties for
their productions used on monographs
and perforated roll instruments.
Play Piracy" was severely condemned
by George Broadhurst. the dramatist.
and ]. I. c. Clark. of New York. They
declared that heavy penalties should be
imposed on persons who take stenographic
notes In theaters on the dialogue and
stage business OF productions, and sell
them TO piratical concerns in the dra-
matte business.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-27
BEALL CITES HARPER CASE
Representative Says President Act
ed Unjustly.
Texan Scores Mr.. Roosevelt for Ac-
tiOn Against Convicted
Druggist.

During the course of a speech yester-
day, Representative BealI. Of Texas. took
issue with President Roosevelt for his at
titude in the case Of Robert n. Harper.
recently convicted for violating the pure
food law.
Mr.. Chairman said Mr.. Beall. L in
tended to call the attention of the COM
mittee 10 that case. and now Is an op-
perfume time. II concrete illustration
was necessary Of the danger OF the exer-
else OF such a power by the Chief Exeou-
tive. this case most abundantly affords IT,
Let Us look at il for a moment. Here is
a case pending in the Police Court OF the
city of Washington. the judge of which
court is appointed by the President OF
the United States.
"a citizen of the District OF Columbia
was arraigned before that court. tried
and convicted of violation OF the pure
food law. The responsibility rested upon
the Judge OF that court TO impose the
penalty. The attorney representing the
District Is a representative Of the judicial
department Of this government, appear
ing before a judge, a member OF that de-
partment. and this country was afforded
the spectacle a few days ago, as It was
reported 70 the newspapers. OF the Presi-
dent OF the United States summoning 10
the White House the attorney OF this
District and issuing to him his commands
that ne should insist upon a prison pen
atty for that offense. 1 care not whether
the defendant was innocent or guilty.
Let us assume that .he verdict of the
Jury was a Just verdict. and that he was
guilty. Let us assume that he violated
every provision Of the pure-fcod law. II
would be, unfortunately. better. Mr..
Chairman. for a thousand men to spit
upon and defy that law than to have the
President of the United States descend
from his high position and attempt to die
tate to a minor officer OF a different de-
partment of this government what he
should OF should not do" (Applause on
Democratic sidel
'If the gentleman Will yield for that one
other suggestion" said Representative
Hardwick, interrupting. IL we are 20
believe the newspapers, the President not
only made this suggestion to the district
attorney. but he also caused IL 20 be
published as coming from the Executive
Office, so that the judge must see II him
self"
"Of course" replied Mr.. Beall, because
there is one thing peculiar about the
President. He never does anything that
he does not cause TO be published. ZAP
plause on the Democratic slde)