The Press., 1893-06-22

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 All interested in the industrial parade are requested to meet at the borough building this Thursday evening at 7.3O
 (Contributed.)
 The School Library.
 One of the important factors of school life to-day is the school library. Some one has said that the three educational graces are nature, experience and books the three great educators of the human race. These three, and the greatest of these is books. Formerly library in the school-room was considered a luxury rather than a necessity. But, with the system of collateral readings and the en- couragement of original reading and re- search in evory branch of study, we'll fitted library is now looked upon as es- sential. In accordance with this modern view of education the last few years have seen remarkable growth in the number and quality of the books comprising the high and general public school libraries of this place. ..
 
 volumes in the high school library, 249 in the general library. In the former were also 146 duplicates, in the latter 131, making in all in the high school library 342 books, in the general library 38O books, grand total of 722. Since then there have been added to the high school library 437 volumes, to the general li- brary 172. At the present time, there fore, the high school has for it's use 779 books, while the catalogue of the general library shows a list of 552 books, or in both libraries 1881, an increase of 609. This more than doubling of the number of volumes, if duplicates are left out of account, has been possible through the hearty cooperation of the Girls High School Library Club in carrying out the plans and suggestions of those in charge or series of entertainments, the proceeds of which went into the library fund, were the Phila May concert, Dec. 3, 1891; the Girls Bazaar, Dec. 18;' three perform ances of the Dairymaids' Festival in Feb ruary, 1899, and the high school fair on Feb. 1, 3 and of the present year. As a result of these endeavors to please Staf- ford audiences, as well as to get at their pocketbooks, over $475 was cleared, the greater part of which has been spent in giving to the high school pupils of this town collection of books surpassed by few school libraries, even in the cities of the state.
 Not long since reference was made to the wrong impressions that prevailed in the minds of some concerning the pur- poses of this library. It was thought that it aimed to become a rival of the public library in one way or another. This should be denied. The library is not for loan or public use It is for the students in the school, and their use of it is almost entirely within school hours. Reference books form good percentage of it's volumes, including the Encyclope- dia Britannica, 30 vols. International Cyclopedia, 15 v.; Peoples Cyclopedia, 3 v.; Cyclopedia of Universal Literature, 20v.; Lippincott's Gazetteer; Dictionary of Quotations from the Poets; Brewers Readers Handbook, etc., etc. In his tory there are, among many others Ma caulay's History of England, 5v; Greens History of England, v.; Hallam's Mid dle Ages, 9 v.; Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies, v. Prescott's Histories, 5 v.; Lossing's Civil War, 3v.; Stories of the Nations, 10 V. Epochs of Ancient and Modern History, 12 V.
 Under literature and biography are found the Hudson Shakespeare, 8 vols. Dickens complete works Thackeray's, 10v.; George Eliot's, 9y.; Wards En- glish Poets, 4 v.; works of Pope, Milton, Chaucer, Spenser. Goldsmith, Burns, Scott, Byron, Addison, Carlyle, Steele. Also American Men of Letters, v.; En- glish Men of Letters, 12 v.; Ancient Classics, 9v.; Camelot Series of English Writings, 1Ov-; Great Writer Series, 12v.
 In science are the complete works of Burroughs, Arabella Buckley, also writ ings of Thoreau and Reclus.l
 American literature books include the poems of Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier, Bryant, Stedman, Lowell, with the con- plete prose works of Irving, Cooper, Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, Emerson, and Holmes Breakfast Table Series
 These are but few of the books now on the library shelves in the departments spoken of. There are, in addition an i'm mense number of miscellaneous volumes, many of them bearing on the general sub- jects of astronomy, geology, physics, chemistry, civil government and political economy, the whole collection forming a storehouse of knowledge, which will rofit as well as interest the students ot the school and make the work there done broader and better, more solid basis for further educational life and growth.
 Stafford Hollow.
 (Correspondence.)
 Sunday was children's Sunday in both churches, and it was flower Sun. day in both. The Universalist church had their services in the morning. The church was bower of beauty with laure and daisy chains as the chief decorations with choice garden flowers in loose bou quets. The music and the recitations by the children were nearly all about flowers In the Baptist church in the evening tht flowers were arranged in set pieces, dis playing harp and an anchor and cross A ship outlined in flowers was very at tractive. The recitations by the childre1 were also largely about flowers. It ac commodities the community very much tt have such exercises at different hours il the two churches. -...-.
 J. M. Benjamin and family have moved to Willimantic MT. Benjamin will open meat market, and the young people will find employment in the vari Ous factories there MT, Beniamin. has been aworthy citizen, and his family have : been kind and helpful neighbors. May success and happiness attend them is tht wish of The Press Athletic interests are beginning tt l be aroused here. Their first manifesto tion was tub race, divided into two