Show the editor ol of this paper is not much given to bragging but last lait wak we did find one party who told us he did read one good piece in the transcript we were so surprised at the compliment that we we forgot to thank out our worthy friend ehte interstate commerce commis commission siola has issued the most drastic decision y yet et made against the big anthracite coal carrying railroads it finds that for 10 years the lehigh valley road has been collecting 11 cents a ton more for or freight from the m mines 1 ines to tidewater from independent shippers than it was entitled to and now it must make restitution to the shippers ii amounting mounting to several hundred thousand d dollars oll 2 n of the sixty five graduates with degrees from the agricultural college of utah in 1911 it is gratifying to know that the majority have immediately secured profitable and responsible employment five have gone into the government service as experts in agricultural science at good salaries ten have hav egone gone into the service of the state as instructors in id agriculture or as deputies to the state food and dairy commissioner in utah and in neighboring states or in other branches of state service A large proportion have returned to the farm to apply the information obtained white while at the college in building up the west A large number have been secured by the high schools and church chuich schools of the state and throughout the west to instruct in agriculture and general science the record of the elass class of 1911 Is probably as notable astvat as that of any class graduated by the institution ahl bius i ius ae PIC gre great du rie 11 c it I 1 in ing iodia for a reform to in 0 our u i P present r e t moan mode of teachings teaching in our public s schools is and well they may when it takes s ten or twelve years to graduate an ordinary pupil in the eight grade they must see that a great amount of precious time is some where but the 4 great question is where does the fault lie with the teacher or with the scholar or r both our school population as a general proposition are apt and intelligent andoor and our teachers as a general thing xe are progressive and hard jokers and to answer the que question silon as it should be answered might be that the faust fault lay on both sides if i we cannot produce positive evidence as on which side the fault is but there is a class of men and women too in every school district that could throw a flood of light on the subject of education that never seems to be consulted on the matter and that is the district school trustees in the present agitation for school reform 1 t we never hear their name mentioned in connection with this matter and still their position and duties must give them exceptional chanc chances es to learn something of the inward workings of the schools some time ago we listened to a report from one of those trustees that gives a little insight into the workings of one se school hecl he said in our district are some pup its ils taught by five teachers there are 9 grades being taught b but ut the great trouble in our school is that atme some of the scholars knows as much as the principal and some of the teachers a 4 great deal more the report was a simple SIMP le one but it showed a condition in one school at least that could not bring about a very favorable result in all the classes in a series of daring robberies which had baffled the police for weeks the robbers were at last found in the person of three young girls girl s they had got away with a large amount of property before they were discovered TOO io great areat in volume the import importance ance 0 ot f art aaa as of knowledge Is s I 1 ess ap appreciated prie cited be cau its results sa common i one and a fourth million lies in one heap being a pile three feet high and five feet wide represents the slaughter wrought by the small boys of san antonto texas as the result of the fly killing contest which closed there on july 4 robett robert basse carried off first prize of 10 with a record ries flies slain skin an epidemic of an unknown disease is raging in one of the county counti of north carolina and is baffling the skilled physicians ns the malay manifests itself by small blood spots stains on the tips odthe of the fingers passing through the arms into the body and is death within fth ln a few days the plague has claimed several victims one of whom was a skilled physician I 1 embarrassing entanglements entangle ments not uncommonly result from the practice followed in some places of letting young girls act as sunday school teachers to chinese young men in classes of one the marriage ofa of a baltimore girl to a chinaman as the result of such contact has caused the parents of the girl to disown her at the conference of jewish rabbis at st paul it was urged that the study of Shake merchant of venice in public schools should be stopped on account acco of the hateful character given in it to the jew all representations on the stage tending to caricature or ridicule the race were denoun ced and it wal vas also agreed that such hemni as On onward wardi christian soldiers jesus lover of my soul etc should be left out of school song books as being offensive to the jewish raith faith 41 st R holthe he mt nant e cl W i prevent the holdia coming comi n g in into va toire the united UR it states that very fatal disease has landed on our shore and what the end will be no mortal tongue can tell cholera is not net a new disease as we ave it described describe ed by a writer who wrote six hundred years ago but principally within the last two hundred years has its fatal effects been partially recorder there is no part of the world that his has been free irom from ravages and within the two hundred years stated its victims can be counted by the millions hot water is being thrown high in in I 1 the air by the pools south of reno nev known as steamboat springs their activity and the velocity of the water have greatly increased since ance the earth quake for five years since the earthquake in april 19 06 in san francisco the springs had bad beeri been quiet when that shock occurred they showed activity which later ceased the earthquake also did considerable damage at lick observatory on mount hamilton the 36 inch telescope was moved three quarters of an inch out of place on its concrete pier but was restored without trouble after kissing 2 86 babies last sunday ranging in age from six months to four years and consecrating them to the cause of zion overseer wilbur glenn voliva successor to jo john hn alexander dowle dowie stood by a barrel in shiloh tabernacle yesterday and watched his disciples toss into it as a sacrifice offering voliva kissed all of the infants and consecrated them in exactly 48 minutes this yas was the consecration sunday at zion city and in the line of men and women that contributed to the sacrifice fund here were 3 persons |