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The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
TRAINING TODAYS
 BOYS AND GIRLS
Children Are Neither Angels Nor
 the Opposite.
THEIR CONDUCT IS INITIATIVE
At First, Whatever They Do Is Quite Without Any Moral Significance and Often Results From Pure
 y lnstinctive Impulses.
By sIDoNIE M. eRuENBERe.

n ONALD and Louise, cousins sey- 0 eral times removed were becom- ing acquainted for the first time while Donald was visiting the city with his mother They were getting along beautifully, Louise's mother observed. They were playing railroad with the chairs and hass0eks.
 Don't move thatr' shouted Donald. You'll get right in front of the train ,' Louise continued to push the chair against which she was leaning. Don { do that - repeated Donald, with lit tle more warmth. The chair moved over about half yard. Bans Louise rolled over as if struck by an automo- bile. She had been struck by Donald instead
 Up jumped the mothers. You naughty boy" came from both HIS though they had rehearsed for the chorus. Louise did not make demon stratiOn of severe, suffering so they were able to give all of their attention 10 the naughty boy. "Who would ever have thought it of him?" asked the SAA' - AAioIhtAt i3A N1a ai'1N1iii7 t'Ahi 'tAN to answer her And Donald really did not look very vicious, with his pale hair and eyes, and soft voice and shrinking manner. Certainly his moth CT had never thought him capable of so violent and so ungallant Il deed.
 But there could be no mistake; he had pushed Louise over very roughly, very unkindly, almos cruelty. And Louise, standing by her mothers side, ii picture of injured innocence, was absorbing the warm sympathy of the elders and gloating in the discontinue of the naughty boy. Her mother al- ready knew how angelic she was, and now DOnalds mother was finding out.
 Donald,s mother had always sup posed that her child was an angel too, and she could not understand what had happened to change him. A pres tige of primitive superstition popped into her head, and she reflected that having been "too good" for so long. he was about to even things up by giving the devil the upper hand for while. Louise's mother did not seem 10 wonder at all. She knew that her child was one of the angelic kind. and now she saw that Donald was one of the other kind.
 The fact is that Donald was just as angelic as Louise, and just as angelic as he had ever been. Louise explained that she had only moved the chair; vet Donald had not only told her-at leaSt twice-not to de se but lite had very good reason on his side. "She put that pile of wood right in front of where the train was coming, and it would have been wrecked and all the people killed" Any boy who would
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26

dollar which phaHtrophy ng oIlarsc out c
 bde doesn't expect to make will do
 An which he allows ferlzes the
 sell build he have it. brothers until he needs
 at hill q eghyseqen who Is famous for he vegetable their borrowed land Some men have been The industrious rgardens the is available for
 with Not with of three oft tn samepo onesxh of
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Safequardina Bread.

The custom of safeguarding the sale of bread with the utmost care is as old as civilization itself Loaves of bread, stamped with the bakers name as a fixing of responsibility, have been found in Pompeii. and bas-reliefs on the tomb of Eurysaces, who was rich baker in Rome and no doubt a good advertiser, show the whole history of baking at tine time, from the grain to the weighing and delivery of the bread. The arms of the bakers guild of Lonr don, chartered under Edward H. shows balance scales dependent be- tween three golden sheaves.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Eriendship Without Alloy.

Friendship to be valuable, must be uttered, just as gold must be pure to be really gold. Every grain of alloy pulls the assay down. If your friend is but moderately your friend. and not altogether your friend; if his eyes look into yours with any lack of frankness or confidence: if he commits himself to you guardedly and stands for you only part of the time; if he can listen unprotestingly when others speak slightingly of you, his alleged friend ship is of no real avail.-Richard Wightman.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26

the bls a healthier balk The bridge has than $600oo0 The first bonds December The bond the
 
 o years In the building 1aky muen the old house of delegates and city council kicked back and forth bills held determine the approach This 
  all would East
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26

In Wieliszcka. near Cracow, there are houses all made of salt.
 New York may prosecute property owners for the cost of fighting fires where fire prevention laws have not been obeyed.
 Kansas City. Mo-, finds it has only 1,o06 school pupils with perfect teeth. Of 17,024 pupils, 15,00o never use tooth brushes.
 The new bridge across the Fiber at Rome, having a span of 23S feet, Is the longest re-enforced concrete arch in the world.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
ROUMAN|ANS DRIVE
 TEUT0N FORCE BACK
ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL STATE. MENT INVADING UNITS ARE
 PUSHED BEYOND BORDER.
600 PRISONERS CAPTURED
Minor Engagements Took Place in Re aion of Vrancea-On the Frontier at Table Butzi There Were Light
 Engagements.
,ueharest-Roumanian troops are

eharest.-Roumanian troops are pushing back the invading Austro German forces on the Pennsylvania frontier. At Predeal, according to the official Roumanian statement issued the Roumanians drove back Teuton units beyond the border The Rou. manians also claim to have gained ground in the Bran detile.
 In the Trotus Valley the statement adds. the Roumanians forced the Aus. tro-Germans to retire and took 60e prisoners and 12 cannon.
 Another Roumanian detachment, at tacking from Goioasa, in the Trotus area, surprised the Teuton troops and took 300 prisoners and so9e machine guns.
 The official statement follows:
 "On the north and northwestern fronts there have been artillery ac tions at Hughes and Bioaz.
 One of our attachments. passing by way of Lampris Mountain to Agas in the Trotus valley. attacked the enemy with the bayonet and destroyed 12 of his cannon and limbers. It fore ed the enemy to retire and captured 600 prisoners.
 "Another detachment, attacking from Goioasa, in the Trotns, surprised the enemy taking 300 prisoners and capturing some machine guns.
 In the Uzul valley we repelled enemy attacks In the Cituz valley fighting continues with extreme vio lence. Minor engagements took place in the region of Nrancea. On the iron. tier, at Table Butzi, there were light engagements. In the Buzeau valley artillery fighting is under way. The situation is unchanged at Bratocea and Predelus.
 At Predeal we drove back beyond the frontier small enemy units which were advancing toward Chabueepul and Taurului. We gained ground in the Bran defile.
 "The indications from DragoS1avele are that the small enemy columns which had advanced toward the Scara Pass have been stopped
 "On the remainder of the front the situation is unchanged
 "On the southern and southwestern fronts Dobrudja and the Danube line) the situation is unchanged.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26

or Louise may do just what she is told not to do without yielding altogether to the demon of unrighteousness.
 A woman recently asked: Do you believe in the spiritual interpretation of child nature, or in the scientific in terpretation?' This question assumes that there is a conflict between scien= titic truth and spiritual truth It is Il mistake to assume that the lack of cer- tain spiritual" qualities is q spirit ual" explanation of q chi1d'S conduct. The scientists have shown that the ability to choose ones actions. and the consciousness of purpose and of conse- quenees, develop very slowly in the ehild's mind. Until there is conscious Hess of right and wrong, and until the child is quite able to choose what he does and what he does not do. it is useless to speak of the moral quality of his acts, no matter what their ac tual consequences may be or how they harmonize with our notion of what ought to be done.
 To say that childs conduct is un- moral does not take from him the pos sibility of spiritual development. On the contrary, the assumption that the child is a moral being would seem to leave nothing for growth. The sense of righteousness and the feeling of guilt are not born in the child; they have to be achieved through trial and suffering
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Jan umnires Use Fans.

At wrestling and fencing matches In Japan the umpire always uses q large fan. and the various motions of this fan constitute Il language which the contestants understand perfectly and to which they pay prompt atten- tion. The servant girl has flat fan made of rough paper to blow the char coal fires, or which she uses as a dust pan.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26

on the per Stood very bedraggIed dog. held by watchman, and fairly shrieking with joy. The instant the gangplank was pushed over. the dog broke from the man and shot on board to hurl himself into the engine room. Patsy had "come back"
 Pasty, who is all dog, was picked up two years ago by Stephen Flynn, engineer of the Berkshire, while he was on board the Trojan of the same line. The dog had crept into the shelter of the pier with a broken leg.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Foets' Names.

If 1t be true that words create for themselves special atmosphere, and that their mere sound calls up vague outer things beyond their strict mean ing, so it is true that the names of the great poets by their mere sound by something more than the recollec- tion of their work. produce an atmos- phere corresponding to the quality of each.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
A Musical HAoMlern

The Los Angeles Music Student gives this, from a musical history examina tion paper: Beethoven discovered the sonata In four moves. Before this 1t was a sweet. He wrote many piano sonatas for the violin and they were called string quartets. When a plano sonata was for an orchestra 1t was called a symphony. The Ninth piano sonata he wrote for voices to sing"
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26

pints well 
 Patsy attached himself ferred to the Berkshire he followed him and became of While the Berkshire with stewards
  morning that he econfeSs
 Early next day the watehman the barking dog and Patsy his handsome took him until
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Odd T ermS.

The terms, "calf week. ." "cow week" and bull week" are applied in many of England's great industrial centers to the three weeks before the Christi mas holiday week. In calf week" the men work time and third. in COW" week" time and two-thirds, and in bull week" double time, in order to make up for loss of output caused by the Christmas holidays.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Villa On Hearst Ranch.

Fl Paso, Tex.-Francisco Villa is now on the Hearst ranch at Babfcora, according to statement of passen- gers arriving here from Pearson, q station on the Mexican Northwestern Railway below the American eXped'- tionary base Passengers from Par ral say that Villa bands are moving northward and advces from Torreon report them heading northwest
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
INTERESTING FACTS

Quicksilver is 1S1a tines as heavy as water.
 There are said to be 80 uses for the palmyra palm, which grows throughout tropical India.
 Emperor Franz Josef possesses an opal for which he once refused an of fer of S25000O. It weighs r ounces.
 More than forty Kentucky counties are now producing petroleum as com pared with three t. the beginning of the year.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Spain Bars Submarines,

London.-The Wireless Press has received word from Madrid by way of Rome that the Spanish government has given definite orders prohibiting the revictualing of submarines in Spanish waters Several torpedo boats have arrived at Palma and are pa trolling the Balearic islands in the western Mediterranean
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Captain Rush To Retire

Boston-Capt. w. R. Rush, U. $ N, commandant of the Boston navy yard, who led the 6,000 marines and sailors who landed at Vera Cruz from the Atlantic fleet under the act pro yiding for retirement after 40 years service Captain Rush is 5S years old, and was appointed from Louisiana in 1872
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Had Sto.ooo-Has S1oo.

Seattle, Wash.-E. E. Banker, wealthy miner of Marshall, Alaska, who disappeared after he arrived here rom the North with $l0,000 in his pocket, was found in a stupor in a lodging house. He had only $10O when found.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Un Go Prices Of Shoes.

Pittsburgh.-Wh Wholesale prices on mems and women's footwear have been advanced 50 to 75 cents a pain within the last 72 hours, and certain lines have been withdrawn entirely from the market, owing to a shortage in leather, according to officers of the Pennsylvania Shoe Travellers Asso- ciatiOn.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26

L4IV NHItu NIdIts suNtIHHItHI knows where Lemon creek Is and Yes, you've guessed 1t the first time it is talking of improving and en. ,arging the waterway with the name .hat makes your mouth water.
 "On October ?. in the Princess Bay Yacht clubhouse. Princess Bay beach" said the official notice issued by the United States army corps of engineers, Lieut.. Col. c. H. Me Kipstry will hold hearing at BIC D. m. for the consideration of n propo. sitioR 10 improve Lemon Creek"
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Definite.

Stranger-How many machines pass here day?
 Farmer-I couldn't tell ye, exactly. sir!
 Tourist-Oh, about how many? Farmer-It all depends.
 Tourst-Well, on the average? Farmer-Well, stranger. the average varies.-Gargoyle.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26

Fl Paso.-American cavalry col nmns are patrolling territory south. east and west of Colonial Dublan. field headquarters of the punitive expedi tion, for the first time since the Can rizal crash, according to advices brought to the border
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26

balk has been removed, and the steel halter promises to make the mule" q traetable and useful public utility. It no longer is the "endless" bridge. "ap- proachless" Jinx. or any of the other fantastic creatures which jokesters have pointed out as one of the most modern useless structures in the world
 While the bridge was acting like q halky mule, the taxpayers of St. Louis have been feeding $S29 in cash
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26

found anywhere. Jonathan Fly. q farmer lad of eighty-three. last year coaxed at the rate of 5000 out of an acre. A rival agricuIturist who had copied some of Mir. Fly's methods, made Mother Earth give him at the rate of S960 to the acre.
 There are in Philadelphia this year e10 little farms such as these upon which poor families have grown an average of $500 to the acre.
 The Vacant Lots Cultivation asso- ciafion is almost old enough to vote
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Barley Malt Destroyed.

Milwaukee, Wis.-Nearly half a minlon bushels of barley malt in the 44-story elevator of the Milwaukee Western Malt plant was destroyed by fire, causing s200,000 damage.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Tn Alaska For Punitive.

Canon City, Col-United States Marshal E. T. Erwin arrived here with Nellie Douglas, a federal prisoner from Alaska, after nearly two months of travelling by dog sledge. steamship and railroad.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26

Looking q abon jump and half Lake island will be
  their loads things The
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Another Objection.

Then you didn't take the house?' No"
 But l thought it just suited you, had enough closets, bright rooms and all"
 Tt did. but my wife thought it was toe far from Il movie theater. Louis vile Gourier-Journal.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
c. & A. Prosperous.

New York.-The Chicago and Alton railroad earned. for the year ending June 30 last, S16,325,000, an increase of s2,07900O, according to repor. made public.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Austria to Use Iron Coins.

A new regulation. issued by the Aus trian ministry of finance. orders the withdrawal of all nickel coins. Iron coins will be used as substitutes London Times.
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
St. Louis Municipal Bridge Finally Is Landed

big balky muee municipal free bridgeas , Mississippi than and tied the approach
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
New York Discovers That It Has Lemon Creek

NEW YoRKclass in New York geography
 " Lemon creek? Of everybody knows the city boundaries but who knows where
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Patsy Was on the Pier to Meet His Loved Ship

NEW YoRKWhen the Berkshire the Hudson Navigation
 " the Albany board startled by the barking dog followed by cheers the There
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Intensive Farming on PhiIadeIpha's Vacant Lots

of the most intensive farming in the country is
The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26

Russians are to colonize in South America.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-27
GEOMETRY ON Tic sRollER
As . Study II is Pretty Well Roasted
BY This caustio Critic,

Euclid is u genilcmfn from whom
credentials ought 10 lie required lie
has long held prominent Iiace ~ elu'
cation as a iEg,ter Of tradition. Jus;
why should John and Sally study plane
geometry. and indeed how docs II come
about that they are studying NJ That
IL n question which cannat he put too
plainly 20 teachers of mathematics
| shall consider for n moment two
possible answers: Geometry Is useful.
you may be toli. or geometry affords
excellent mental discipline Geometry
IL useful Well. how useful and In
what waysy Professor David Il, Smith.
professor o. the teaching OF mathe.
MATES In Teachers college. tells us.
Not mere than ~ per cent Of the
propositions Din geometry, have any
genuine applications outside Of ge0m
ctry." And distinguished physicist
has assured me that the - rer cent Of
propositions tha; are Of no Use are u
even needed TO prove the - per cent
that are OF some use The teachers Of
plane geometry have therefore very
considerable task II they are going TO
justify the time spent on geometry on
the ground that geometry Is useful.
Nor ~ their task easier II they take
the other horn OF the dilemma Sup
pose one did get mental discipline"
from geometry. Is It the sort OF men.
tai discipline that life calls for and
givesy
Geometry as taught is a deductlvc
science. That Is. from certain assump-
tions called axioms and postulates a
long series OF propositions is developed.
II the study of geometry really devel.
oped that kind Of thinking. whom
would It help but lawyersf For prac.
teal life calls for very different type
Of thinking,
In actual life people observe. or they
should observe, and on this basis make
a limited inference which leads to &C.
ton. II the action taken fails. they OBJ.
serve further. construct other bypothe.
ses and act again. II Is the method OF
trial on error.
IL there IL TO be any mental discl.
pline, ought II not to be OF the type rep.
resented by science rather than the
type represented by the conventional
treatment of geometry? - Abraham
Flexner In Atlantic Monthly.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-27
MONSTER BLUE WHALES.
The Most Gigantic crsa.urss This
World Has Ever Known.

II has been said that the first duty OF
a whale ~ TO bo large The blue whale
IL then tie most successful whale. for
Il N the largest creature which has
ever existed on the earth or In It's
waters. Even those extinct giant rep.
tiles. the dinosaurs. which splnshed
along the borders of the inland seas OF
Wyoming and Montana 100000 years
ago, could not approach blue whale
either IN length or weight
In 1903 u blue whale was weighed In
sections nt Newfoundland. The animal
was seventy.eight feet long. thlrty-1ye
feet around tho shoulders the head
was nineteen feet IN length and the
tail sixteen feet from tip 10 tip. The
total weight was siSty.tarcc tons. The
flesh weighed forty tons. tho blub-
bcr eight tons. the blood. vlsccra and
haleen seven tons aud the bones eight
tons.
Exaggerated accounts or the size OF
blue whales are current even ia repu.
table books on natural history. hut the
largest specimen which has yet been
actually measured and recorded IL
1877 feet long, stranded n few years ago
upon the coast of New Zealand II
must have weighed Ut least seventy
| 1--WE tons,
Whales are able To attain such an
enormous size becausc their bodies are
supported By the water In which they
live 4 bird * limited 10 the weight
which its wings can beer NJ IN the mir
A land animal II II hecomcs TOO lhr.p
cannot hold Its body or the rrouul ar
readily move about md Is duNu ed 20
certain destruction. Bnt n whale has
10 face none OF these problems aud ";.1
grow without fcstralut.
Because whales live In a supporting
medium their young are Of enormous
size az birth. In some Instances the caI'
being. almost half the lcn"th ~ ~
mother once took II twenty-five font
baby, which weighed about eight tons
FROM IN eighty.tvc foo, blue whale g
Roy Chapman Andrews In New York
in,lcpcndcnt,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-27
uPHusH or TIE SAP.
Force u Ersr,s in ''s Mysterious Flow
Throuah the Plnnta

Even now the catiScs which urdcrlr
Tie grcat upward tlow OF Snp n ,ll'
spring are not completely understonl
Tint The movement Ia accompanied hy
considerable ,urcc has rccu demon
stra,cd ln II rcaiaraahlc mnrncr
In HE spring season. when TIE sap t.
tisirg With great rlgpr. tl,r Sicgl VI y
grapevine was cut righ, ncrusS NN1
gs i!t,c loss oC time Ms rus'lhlcN l'Sc.p
0t bladder was tied over the surface ct
tlir wounded part AS Used the hlad
Ger wa ia a stntc Ut roi'nNSc, lGt !.
dld not rcmnin In this condition so"g
Wltam half an hour 1t w.t. ohymG.
thg, I, contained goOd iuNl W ljiUa.
As time went 0n the amount cf f5il
matter increased so much that the
bladder was quite full, Two hours
after liking the bladder was so dis
tended that II was lifted right M Au
hour later the pressure hid MclcascI
- such icgrec that the hlaGGlr
burst heilg nnnhle 10 stand the strata
any longer
In this connection It ~ Interesting to
recall the experiment oG nuirochct
also with II grapevine stem In this
case Il bent tube containing mercury
was affixed to the cut stem In such u
manner that any auld con ing from the
plant would have TO llft ibc column Of
quicksilver, In one of his experiments
II WIS shown that the sap raised the
column ot mercury TO the height OF
thirty inches, Dutrochet calculated
that In such n case the force exercised
hy,thc sap was Ave times greater than
that Of the blood In the crural artery
anatomy TO appreciate the force OF this
statement Baltimore American.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-27

Time Was when hs used to Assist In
Abduetino the Bride,

Do you know why the brldegroom's
Attendant at the wedding Ia called
"bcst man" and how he happens 10 be
such an important factor at u society
wcddlnef lie IL supposed 20 look after
the nsbers, the carrlage. the wedding
ring and host of other things that
the fortunate lover could no, be ex'
pectrd 10 concern himself with nj such
time, hut there was period Ia the
history of the human family when the
best man had other duties than these
10 perform, I, was when there was no
church ceremony and when primitive
people had come 10 tho conclusion that
marriage within the tribe was not good
for the race Then It bccame the fash,
Ion for the young inhn 0f marrngeable
age 10 10 forth IN quest of bride. the
daughter of some ncighboring tribe.
Perhaps the girls were not entirely
unwilling 10 he captured. hut no girl.
either ancient or mod, . would admit
for moment that she had wandered
away from the protection OF her male
relatives FOR the actunl purpose OF be.
ina abducted Even II there was no
brother NJ hand the clrl was likely 20
put M game fight, mud the prospec.
tive bridegroom Ind need Of the assist,
ance Of strong musclcd friend To ald
him In subduIng her There was very
li;tle 20 the ceremony once the Girl had
hreu fRhcn 10 the home 81 lrr future
lord lnl the heat man WIS always a
hotorCd sucsl IN her home especially
II the marriage tur,cd out well In
ngny nhihiglnons parts OF the civi
li.cd world whore old cus,Ams obtain
tho hos, Llau" stit ,tcieads TO assist
~ nIlrflne The hrlde.--st Louis
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