The Republican journal., 1908-07-16
MECHANICAL AND OTHER DEFECTS.

| Most machinery has attained a wonderful
degree of perfection, but the hydraulic ram
is still in its infancy. Having had occasion
to raise water out of q canyon 200 feet deep
last summer contracted with a company
which guaranteed me 5000 gallons of water
per day. They raised more than 5000 gal
Ions per day for few days at time, but
the ram broke often. The company has now
given me new ram in place Of the old one,
and tell them expect the same parts to
break in this which broke in the other
| Other manufacturers make some other parts
too light. The ram furnishing water to
White Salmon had too light an air chamber,
which burst, and they got a blacksmith to
hoop it. All these defects will some day be
remedied, but it is question whether de-
| fects in human nature can be as easily
| remedied
Forty years ago l saw teacher whip
| boy because he would not make a reason
able effort to learn the multiplication table.
That teacher was replaced by a less efficient
teacher. Some pupils are deficient in some
study and they are sometimes unwilling to
make reasonable effort to overcome that
deficiency. If some teacher compels one of
this class of pupils to do what is right and
reasonable the pupil will often retaliate in
every possible way. Teachers generally
have considered it best to keep good order,
but not to force children to learn more than
they wish. This would not be a good prin-
cple on which to conduct business enter
prise, but it is the only practical one Tor The
pedagOgue. There are not only mechanical
and intellectual defects to be overcome, but
spiritual as we'll
Progress should be the watchwOrd all
along the line. Thirty years ago the presi-
dent of Methodist Seminary made the re-
mark that character is more effective in
iiuence in the world than miracles. But
| how many have risen to the level of his con-
ception? Religion deals with the upper
strata of human life and should be confined
more to the present. There are in all de-
| nominations men who have just estimate
of human nature. Salvation has become
great word in the religious vocabulary, but
life or growth is greater word when used
| in relation to grain of wheat or corn. 10
save grain of wheat is of small account,
but when it grows something is accomplish
ed. To save human soul may be of some
account, but life and growth are better.
| Government can and should do many
things to facilitate soul culture. Law could
eliminate silent letters from our language
and make each letter always have the same
sound. Why should every child be COM
PEELED to learn in what words to use to
| represent sound, and when to use to
represent an sound, phi an sound and
to represent sound? The time wasted
! in learning the needless Irregularities of
! our language could be more proftably en-
ployed in learning scientific explanations of
the Mosaic account of creation.
The Mosaic account is as elaborate as the
childish mind is capable of comprehending,
but every child should aspire to the mastery
of all that man has learned.
| Laws foster knowledge, but they foster
vice as we'll. They allow strong drink to
be allurngly displayed before the inexperi-
enced and thus what should be the flower
of human society becomes its dregs. On a
recent trip down the Columbia, heard
soldiers by the hundred singing silly songs
and reeling from the saloons to the streets
as the result of vicious laws. l also saw
the first bridge across the Columbia with
its foundations a hundred feet in the earth,
the triumph of human skill.
Every person should be early taught to
look for and cultivate the native good found
in his own nature. The churches are slow
ly learning that the food most >nourishng
to mans higher nature is not found wholly
in the Bible, that mind capable Of design
ing and carrying into execution any great
human undertaking is worthy of our study.
| What the Bible is to the child, the whole
body of scientific truth is to the man.
In regard to child culture Mrs. Petrie
quotes from Luther Burbank the naturalist:
ssSince you bestow upon the lily and the
rose the highest thought for their develop
ment and culture, is it not a greater duty to
so care for the flesh of your flesh and blood
of your blood?
All animal life is sensitive to environ.
ment, but of all living things the child is the
most sensitive. Surroundings act upon the
child as the outside world invariably acts
upon the plate of camera. Every possible
influence will leave its impress upon the
child and the traits which it inherits will be
overcome to certain extent.
The changes wrought in the child from
the influences without become constitution.
, al and ingrained. The practice is absurd
, of running children through the same mil
in u lot, with absolutely no reference te
their individuality. No two children are
alike. You cannot expect them to develop
} alike. They are different in temperament
in tastes, in disposition, in capabilities, anG
yet we take them in this prescious early age
when they ought to be living life of prep
. aration near to the heart of nature, and W.
: stuff them, cram them and overwork then
, until their poor little brains are crowded ~
to and beyond the danger line." Mrs
Petrie says of Burbank: 'All that God ha
) put upon this wonderful earth has
significant, helpful meaning to him. Tt
him knowledge is an approach to the divin,
7 truth" GEO. NJ. COLE.
Husum, Wash, July 5, 19OS
Homemade Jellies and Preserves.
We saw in local grocery store the othe
day some tumblers of jelly bearing thi