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Show Say of Other Editors Hickory and the Boy. Salt Lake Herald; Tho Now York board of education Is considering faorably a change In Its rules which will permit corporal punishment punish-ment of refractory pupils under certain conditions, condi-tions, which provide that punishment shall bo administered with the permission of the parents pa-rents In tho presence of a principal. Where parents refuse permission or refuse themselves to administer punishment, tho pupil Is to bo recommended for suspension, which would carry with It Imprisonment In an Institution for the Incorrigible. This reversion to first principles Is a step hi the right direction. Some pupils can be reached only by the Indignity and bodily pain of the rod, and to some It Is the most salutary method of correction. The newfangled new-fangled notion that no child should suffer bodily bodi-ly wrongdoing a notion that has been followed by lax discipline in homes as well as In the schools has been responsible for a good deal of the growth In juvenile waywardness and crime. The child's most Important lesson In life Is the knowledge that wrongdoing Is Inevitably followed fol-lowed by suffering. The rule holds good throughout all life; It applies In moralt'in business, In physical existence; and the boy or girl who falls to realize the certainty of the law's workings has missed the most significant thing In life. I Business Rapidly Improving. State Journal, Ogdcn: Business Interests generally seem to be rapidly assuming the normal, nor-mal, as tho early demand on tho part of merchants mer-chants for spring stocks would Indicate and not only Is this positive evldeuco of the necessity neces-sity for these goods but It is also clear that tho merchant believes that tho cash is In sight to pay for them, which Is quite Important at a time when money is supposed to be very scarce among the people. This condition Is specially favorable from the fact that it Is only a short , time since that the large eastern Jobbing houses were very much perturbed as to whether It were good policy to prepare for the usual spring trade or not, or would It be good business Judgment Judg-ment to trim these stocks as much as possible. However, at this early date there appears to be not only the usuaKcall for goods of every description de-scription but many new fines are already rep- ' resented In New York wholesale establishments anxious to secure the very best In the market. At this time there are no less than three thousand thou-sand buyers in New York, 25 per cent of whom represent new firms who have never been represented rep-resented In the eastern jobbing houses before: Play Was Hard on Dickens. Provo' Enquirer: "Ir a play presumably written to please the first row In the gallery, a number of people appeared Saturday night at the opera house and tortured the few people who dared to venture out. The story of 'What Women Will Do,' was taken from Charles Dickens' Dick-ens' masterpiece, 'David Copperfleld,' but had that eminent author been able to watch the characters of his favorlto story awkwardly played to the 'roost he would have wept with chagrin to think that his pet Imaginary persons per-sons should be used for such purposes. Probably Prob-ably the thesplans were beginners and will learn to act in time, but the people of Provo would much prefer to have them begin before a teacher who makes it a business to watch those performances for pay, than to have them invade the city with their rare and beautiful posters and be taxed 75 cents for the opportunity oppor-tunity of being ashamed to say they saw the show." Chicago Caper Nominates Taft. . Chicago Tribune: It straw ballots nominated, nomi-nated, the secretary of war would be busy to night preparing his speech of acceptance to be read to the notification committee. Out of 5,792 ballots for first choice received by The Chicago Tribune Mr. Taft's name appears on no less than 3,164. This Is 65 per cent of the whole, or a clear majority over all the other candidates. His nearest active competitor Is Governor Hughes, who has only 12 per cent of the total, and figures fig-ures run down from that to a vote too small to measure In comparison with the grand total. The lead of the secretary of war Is over-, whelming. If these ballots, sent to The Tribune Trib-une without a suspicion of Influence, are any , Indication of the result at Chicago next June, Mr. Taft will be nominated by the republicans for the presidency, notonly on the first ballot, but practically without serious opposition. Weber Peaches Warth Miney. Deteret Farmer: Samuel S. Ferrln of Pleasant Pleas-ant View, Weber county, his a small peach orchard or-chard consisting of thirty Elberta trees, ten years old, planted twenty feet apart, from which during the year 1007, he- received the magnificent sum of $612 25 from the following persons: James Jensen, a local shipper, bought 010 cases at 80 cents per case, which equals $488; alsoseventy-twocases at 75 cents per case, which amounted to $53 60; twenty-one bushels were sold from the orchard at $1.25 per bushel, $20 25, and eight cases were sold to James Jensen Jen-sen at 80 cents per case, $6.40; making a total of $012 25, or $20 40 per tree. A Good Idea. Deserct News; Thcro Is a movement on loot In New York for the establishment Ir. that state of agricultural colonies in which to pro-, vide work for unemployed men ablo and willing to earn their living but not in a position to do so In tlmesof financial stringency. The United Charity Organization societies of New York have considered and approved a plan for such farms. The Idea Is to made them entirely self-supporting. self-supporting. They might, for example, produce and prepare supplies for the state's charitable and penal Institutions. ' Hammer Useless in Sawing. Park City Record: You can't saw wood with a hammer. Neither literally nor figuratively, figura-tively, and the sooner everybody In Park City realizes the fact, tho better It will be for all concerned. To go pluggllng right along, minding mind-ing your own business, boosting a little and always "sawing wood," you won't need any hammer. A hammer is to "knock" with; you can't saw wood with it, so lay it away and boost all the time. If you're not a booster, lay your hammer .way anyway, and Just "saw wood." |