The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-08-09

seem of small moment to some, but let
such require the assistance of copy
ist, and employ one after another of
their young acquaintance. Then,
after they get from the Dead Letter
Office letters that should have been ad-
dressed Newark, o., but which the
careless writer addresses Newark, n.
j., from sheer mental inertia; after
they get other letters returned with re-
quests for better direction. because
street and number have been omitted;
after they find that double quotation
marks have been placed where singles
ones were in the copy; that paragraphs
have been made where none should be,
and have been omitted where they
should have been; that words are ab-
breYiated with no pretence of regular
Ity; and that compound words are left
hyphenless, while others are improper
ly uniIed,-in short, after they find
that they must do the whole work, oyerif
it is to be done correctly, their estimate
of the value of accuracy will be marvel
lously increased.-Hdrlan II. Ballard.
SUPPLEMENTARY READING.
This is the season of all others to de-
vote to supplementary reading There.
is always time and a season for every
good thing, time when every effort
tells vastly more than at any other
time, and no single exercise counts for
so much as supplementary reading
from nature. The study of nature is
a good thing, but reading nature
through the eyes of John BRrrough or
ThOreau, under the direction of skill
ed teacher, is a good deal better; and
when Is cents will purchase timely Sc
lection from either of these delightful
essayists, they should be found in all
our schools. The regular readers
have been almost learned by heart;
and as birds moult their feathers, as
change is the order of the day in all
vegetable and animal life, a change in
readers, bringing something fresh and
joyous into the schoOlroom, is in order.
The danger at this season is that the
weary teacher will be more exaeting,
and, if ever. fretful, the approach Of
the close of the term intensifying that
tendency. Pupils are now beginning
to be restless and languid, doing less
in quantity and poorer qnality of work,
failing to respond to any attempt to
goad them on. We have known many
teachers to resort to a lively campaign,
in supplementary reading at this sea-
son of the year wit h admirable results.
1t is worth your while to try it in what
ever grade you may be teaching, for
happily the publishers have now sup
piled an abundance of the best mater
ial for every grade, from the first-read-
er class to the senior class in the high
chool.-Jouralat Of Education.
HOW TO SUCCEED.
This is day when one may succeed
in almost any honorable calling in
which he may engage, whether he be
a maker of horse-shoes, manufacturer
of fabrics, builder of locomotives, q
a merchant, a school teacher, or pro-
fessional man of whatever sort. But
the prime requisite to success in any
line is that one must do tOeH what he
undertakes to dO-that he must s0orE,
and work zealously; yet one can hard
ly do a0eH what he undertakes, and
work with enjoyment, without a loCe
for his work, or without such desire
to excel in his work as amounts al
most to love or passion for it.
George Eliot. in Middlemdrch, makes
Caleb Garth say: You must be sure.
OF Two tnihSS; you must love your.
work, and not always be looking over
the edge of it, waiting your play to be-
gin. And the other is, you must not
be ashamed of your work, and think
it would be more honorable for you to
be doing something else. You must
have pride in your own work, and
in learning to do it well, and not al
ways be saying, there's that,-if had
this or that to do, l might make some
thing of it. No matter what man is,
i wouldn't give two-pence for him,
whether he was the prime minister or
the rick-thatcher, if he didn't do well
what he undertook to do"
Adam Bede had much the same idea
with Caleb Garth: Il can't abide to
see men thu. away their tools i that
way, the minute the clock begins Ia
strike, as if they took no pleasure i
their work, and was afraid o. doing a
stroke too much. / hate to
see mans arms drop dOwN as if he
was shot, before the clocks fairly
struck, just as if he'd never bit of
pride and delight in's work. The very
grind-stone 'un go on turning bit
after you loose it. The School Teacher.