Show THEY CANNOT SPELL the intermountain republican notes tho the fallaro of young people to spell correctly and fays that students now do not learn to lo spell it Is not alone a condition of the me grale schools it la Is not alone a matter of 0 the high school it estrue ot the universities tint e all al I 1 of them so fur far as we have seen the ot of the graduates those who finish within the past few years are notably bad spellers when words like separate and judgment are am missed by more than fifty per cent of iho ibe 9 grad rad bates there Is something defective with the methods or the men and women who try and wo we believe it is tho the method forty years ago a man named me guffey secured i d the adoption bye chool authorities generally gen trally of a series 0 of readers and a spelling book and coincident with that selection went a fashion ier for spelling As to the readers r mm men of wisdom have said that the mcguff mcguffey ey readers kept the state of kentucky in the union its it ls certain the spirit of patriotism and I 1 nat national lonal unity which breathed through those books exerted a powers po powerful werf til influence inu A u en co on the he t minds of the growing children aad d through them on the homes abo os spelling books contained a peculiarly culi arly disca discriminating selection of words they were in the main such words as a person oi of fair education would require in any avenue of life they did not include all but it is notable that william wirt and daniel webster cabster ster built quite a fair fame without employing a single word not lound found in the mcguffey Mu Guffey speller in addition there thera were some words pt what may mal bo called rare use there were some of and tb the c boys and gitis girls of that earlier day very generally were able to spell and dl di vider ald every word la in the book WOE VOE TO THE supersensitive the butto intermountain says I happye the nation or individual whose hide is full ot of trouble the days of him who sees affront on every forehead and finds food for resentment in every passing re mark better a reputation for callousness ess than the woes boes of the self con and nd suspicious the man who pursue ghis private way indifferent of the criticism of the world unless incas ivo ive and of benefit will go farther than the man who crawls with his ear to the ground for sound of the he footfalls ot of dame grundy comment which enlightens ligh teni is useful ful criticism is not always ill meant or vicious and cm comment ment la Is not always spiteful men must have opinions of all things under their eyes in order not to sink into mental menial apathy and neighbors will ever be theme of discussion whether next door or at next docte differences of opinion need not presuppose antagonism nor preclude operation cooperation co thero there must be chanty for ifor oil all and malice for none noie A thin halde friendship at arms length and robs human intercourse of case A k thin thin skin usually covers a disposition to lo blather blatherskite which indicates weakness fitful temperament and sour digestion one woman and ti a boy died from the effects of a cocktail in the east cast positive proof that cocktails are not made for women or boys pennsylvania is a paradox k kean e a n tho the kidnapped kidnapper kid napper was sentenced to tw twenty years while public bood lers are permitted to enjoy their plunder congress increased the presidents tro traveling expenses from to 50 00 A diplomatic way of saying the former sum will not carry him far enough away after the smoke of 0 battle cleared away the president and the house coq found themselves equally victorious uncle sam lio however wever paw paid lor or the quarrel with three millions of 0 dollars standard oil stands in the limelight which is not no so satisfying or orr profitable as stand ingin ats own light tho the president has attacked a slip slippery peri too foe and needs public support to fight advantageously |