Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-24
SOMEBODY has lately admonished


school days. In a few years, perhaps less
the kind parents who now take such pride IN
YOU, and make such efforts and even sacri-
fices to educate you, may be taken from you
or compelled by necessity to remove you
from school, place you at work. You will
then find that the choice positions, the advan-
tages of every kind in business or social life,
are reserved for those possessed of superior
knowledge and culture, while you are COM
PEELED to remain ''hewers of wood and draw
ers of water" Then you will bitterly regret
the time that you may have spent when at
school in inattcntion and idle conversation
and which should have been employed in
studying your lessons.
That is the gravity Of the situa-
ton from the standpoint of pupilage
interest. Humanity has but one
golden period Of instruction-boy-
hood and girlhood. A year thrown
away during adolescence is one Of
incaIculable and irredeemable loss,
and there is no telling the possibili-
JlcS III carries Wlln ii.
1t was not an exaggerated meas
urcment of this multiform fatality
that induced the JOURNAL lately to
awaken popular solicitude for the
advancement Of scholarship in the
schools.
1t was, on the other hand, a con-
scientious, but still inadequate esti-
mate Of the value of time during
youth that induced it to arrest popu-
lar attention and turn its burning
eye from other matters, public and
private, to one of pre-eminenI i'm
port to every parent, especially every
child.
The fault found was not with the
unconscious school goers; it was not
that they were suicidally throwing
away their own opportunities. Their
condition of pupilage pre-supposes
innocence Of wrong, active, passive,
subjective.
But it was ali apparent want, in a
higher circle, Of capacity or disposi-
ton to measure the value of time IN
y0uth-a circle charged expressly
with the solemn duty and responsi-
bility Of making that tine as effective
as possible while it lasts-that time
Of which the great poet, Young,
spoke Of as demanding enumeration
"by hours as we'll as days"
In some degree the JOURNAL sue
ceeded. But the reform is a sickly
one, and more tonic treatment will
be needed to keep it alive. In this
direction the JOURNAL will continue
to do its part.
Meanwhile, no tangible improve
ment will follow until the taap0Yers
take the run Of the schools out of
the reach Of Hme-kiUers and t0r-
cutters.
The republican parade which oc-
CURED in this place Tuesday evening
in celebration of the election of Har-
rison, Morton and McComas, was
probably the most imposing demon
stration Of the kind ever witnessed
in Frostburg. 1t was a thoroughly
creditable affair IN nearly all its
features, and while there was no lack
Of enthusiasm the proprieties were
respected in a manner which is note
worthy considering the widely di-
vergcnt prejudices which obtain in
this community. Outside of one or
two coarse allusions to the president,
an especially gratifying feature was
shown in the general respect which
was exhibited toward the office.
This will probably be the last
ebullition of political feeling in
Frostburg in connection with the
presidential contest, and return to
business and the prosecution of the
common, every day duties of life will
be gladly hailed by this great com,
munity.