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industrial schools in the interest OF
the mass OF pupils. There is need OF
skilled labor in the development OF
the cOuntry's resources. The time
for system and science in business is
here. We must meet it or suffer the
disastrous consequences.
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Mozart was buried in a pauper's S
grave, unmOurned and unmarked
And just why law abiding folk of
these up-tO-nOw times must be pes
tered, tortured, and driven almost
insane by young women and Young
men who pound, smash, and bang a
piano, who by the way, are far from
being Mozarts, is beyond my com
prehension. While they need not
necessarily be buried either in pri-
vate, public, or pauper burial ground,
! they could be confined in the cellar
for few weeks.
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No thoughtful observer OF the pro
gress claimed for the conquest of
the air can have failed to keep in
mind that the maintenance of equi-
libriun. alpha and omega of man
flight, is subject to numberless po-
tential disabilities. There need be
no restraint on the thrilling perform
ances of Jealous inventors, but the
War Department should no longer
permit any of its accomplished young
officers to take such obvious risks
which have no warrant in any prob
able value to the service.
Those eastern newspapers which
take it for granted that because Chi
cagO and other cities have suffered
damage rather than gaining any per-
manent good from holding fairs that
Seattle will likewise lose more than
it will gain from its Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition, have another
guess coming.
The vast sums of money raised and
spent by those in charge of the ex-
position in preparing the great affair
are being put into many permanent
improvements, such as will be a
credit to the Queen City of the Pa
citic slope
Why, even hotel building lags.
The citizens would evidently rather
take the anticipated crowds of visit
orS into their own homes than invest
IN costly structures for which there
will be little use a long time after
the exposition. The present hotel
capacity of Seattle. however, is very
large, and it is accustomed to enter
tain immense crowds, Us the press of
Washington well knows.
The Seattle business element is
conservative, but desperately sure in |
all its collective undertakings. |
When Seattle is sure it is right, it
goes ahead with an energy as i'm
mense and effective as the pressure
of hydraulic press or the movement
of a glacier. The Alaska Yukon Pa
citic exposition was planned by that
element-and in the achievement of
which 1t has won wider and more
substantial cooperation, at home
and abroad, than was ever won by
any similar enterpriSe-wi not only
be grand spectacular success, out
it will in all probability prove pay
ing investment. inaugurated and car
ried through without any boom"
There will be no depressing reac-
tion when it is over, Notwithstanding
those carping, pessimist-can-s see
nothing -but-failure eastern journals.
He who has watched the current
events during the past decade or
more, cannot have failed to note the
delinquency of courts in the ad-
ministratiOn of justice For years
the tendency was marked, and the
laws delay had become a by-wOrd
in the annals of the poor But a
hopeful sign has dawned and evil
dence of better ordering of the
courts is found in several modern
instances. In truth, it is noticeable
in the conduct of their courts that
several judges recently have indi-
Gated that a decent regard for the
rights of litigants shall be observed
and that lawyers will not be per-
mitted to hamper and delay the pro-
ceSSeS of Justice. For instance, re-
Gently Federal Judge in Texas
who, by the way, has somewhat of d
reputation for promptitude-called
up an old case that had been drag
ging its slow length along through
various terms of court, postponed
from time to time on one preteXt or
another One of the attorneys arose
at once and in measured terms eX-
planned that he was not ready for
trial, and moved for further post
ponemcnt. Then he sat down, feel
ing confident that the incident was
closed for the present.