The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-05-26
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Hon. r. l.. Mccormick, OF Iacohla'
bae withdrawn from the race for sena
torship. owing to serious illness. MI
McCormicb was strong man, anu
canable one. and had he been electeo
Washington would have had occasion
tn be proud of him. His great wealth.
was his only drawback as canul-
date. AS matter of fact Washing
ton is proud of him anyway. Mr.. NC
Corn!cx il liberal with his wealth
There are few worthy charities tna'
do not know him.
This withdrawal leaves only three
candidates who have any strength
in che field-Ex-Senator Wilson, pro-
badly the strongest west of the noun
ta;ns man, Congressman Poindexter'
from East of the mountains and Judte
Burke. of Seattle, who is backed by
the Seattle Times, a democratic pap
er. Besides these, Judge Smell, OF Ia
coma is talked of by few. He can
MT possibly get the support to make
a showing for himself, but may aid
in throwing the second senatorship
east or the mountains.
The Tribune wants to compliment
Supi. French and his able assistants
on the successful school work OF the
year just drawing to close. We are
not apt to give compliments where
compliments ere not due. The Lyn-
den schools have kept up with the
rapid progress of the town. They
have made wonderful strides.
While the graduating class is not a
large one, it too is to be compliment
ed for the final years work has
been I,loe as difficult-as exacting--
as in any school in the state, and
these two young ladies have accom-
plished it with honors. They are the
first students to finish the full high
school work provided by the state, in
the I.yndea schools, and from here
are entitled to go into any state col
lege in Washington and into many of
the ot!;tr leading educational institu-
lions of tn, country.
L.nde:, has reason to be proud of
its schools 1t will be prouder of them
from now on, for all like to see big
classes. And, the undergraduates Of
the school give promise of many hon.
Orable graduates to come. The 1911
clas.; contains about a dozen students,
and as an evidence of the thorough
work being done we want to quote
what an instructor said to us recently
concerning them:
Il examined the class in history"
he said, asking questions that would
have puzzled many an older student.
Not only did they answer my quest
ions but they went on and gave me
Information l had failed to ask for.
They showed themselves not only
familiar with the history, but inter-
ested in it."
Isn't that pretty compliment?
And from what we know of the
schools we honestly believe the same
could be said of any of the upper
classes in it. The students are inter-
ested, and that means the school is
What is the comet? Where is the
comet going? What would you see.
II, with the comet you should go sail
ing off on that 75-year cruise through
space, that to our minds seems limit
less? Who set the comet in the sky?
What is its purpose in the great
scheme of the universe?
Senseless?
Yes, prehaps for they are only a
few Of the thousands of questions
That man can ask, but cannot an
swer. How wise We are, but are we? A
a few days ago the scientists of our
age were smiling to themselves ut
the little HALEY, the discoverer. of
this comet, knew. They werer telling
us Its composition, it's size, its dis
lance from the earth, Just when It
would pass the earth and hundreds of
other things that seemed wonderfully
strange to us common mortals. But
when the comet should have passed
the earth it didn't. Then they lost
the comets tail. Now we may laugh
a. the scientists. We don't know. but
we know they don't know either. The
comet. like SO many other things. IS
beyond human ken. This is not to
belittle the scientists, it is only to re-
call their limitations. We must give
them great credit for the things thew
do know. They must admit to us
that they don't know everything.
Evolution?
Evolution counts for so much now
a-days, but who was the Father of
evolution? Who, What rules the Uni
verse? Are we, mere atoms of atoms,
in that universe, setting ourselves up
to understand it? We may deny much
but dare We deny Supreme Being?
Dare any man deny God.
The Bellingham visitors at the Lyn-
den creamery last week drank seven
gallons of butter milk. That isn't
proof positive that Bellingham is go
Ing prohibition.