Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-12-30
LITTLE GEORGETOWN.
A Serious Accident--News Notes
School Maxims.

A Serious Accident--News Notes
School Maxims.
Whilst removing ties from the track
lat Cherry Run depot, Friday after
noon, James Carroll had his leg broken
below the knee. There is railing
| placed along the platform at that
station and to save carrying the ties
some distance the repair men had
placed skids from the top of the rail-
ing thereby moving the ties over
same tie was placed upon the skids,
but one end slipped off. and before
Mr.. Carroll could get out of the way,
! it caught his leg. It is said, that
every dark cloud has silver lining,
SO is there bright side to this acct
dent. Mr. Eversole in removing Mr.
CAROLS boot set the broken bone.
When Dr. Ross was called later in
the day to give assistance, he found it
only necessary to dress and bandage
! the limb.
Our item in regard to protracted
meeting at Little Georgetown church
beginning last week should have
read, Twill begin after the holidays.
On Christmas Sunday, at ) O'Clock p.
M, services will be held in that
church.
Miss Josephine Hanlmersla, of Hag
erstown, is the guest of her uncle,
Joseph Hammersla, of this place.
Daniel Fleming and wife. of Falling
Waters, was the guest Of his sister,
Mrs. Payne, last week.
Mr. Unger, of near Unger's store,
Morgan County. visited f. H. Tabler,
at Welltown schoolhouse.
CHANGING to be at North Mountain
depot, last Saturday afternoon when
train No. II arrived, west, we noticed
Messrs. James Clary, John Shickels,
Stewart Harrison, Rod Robins, Tom
Bodine, and Misses Katie Nihion,
Bessie Harrison, and Mabel Henshaw
get off the train. From the parcels
and packages carried by some, we
should judge they had met Santa
Clause in Martinsburg and made the
old fellow hand out his holiday wares
ahead of time.
Two of James Paterson's children
have been very sick during past week,
but are improving at this writing.
Walter Householder and several other
school boys and girls have been kept
at home nursing colds.
William Householder, ST., one of
the bumpers at Cherry Run water
station came home Wednesday even
ing very sick From the symptoms,
his trouble seems to be a severe at
tack of la grippe.
Another mad dog scare, near AL
lensville, this time, occurred last week
A dog came along in the night; he
and several other dogs were heard
fighting. In the morning four dogs
acted strangely. They were dispatched
in short order; no one has seen or
heard of the strange dog since.
Oliver Allen and son, James, of AL |
lensville, visited friends in Pennsyl- |
vania recently.
Will the editor pardon a few chest
nuts in the line of educational max
iInso
BE what you wish your pupils to
be.
"Do nothing to lower pupils self
respect.
Free scope must be allowed to the
self-activity of the child in all stages
of work.
In the development of individual
life and intelligence, the more room
we can have for spontaneous action
the better.
Nothing in any system of educa
ton can be substitute for child's
own exertion. No one ever became
scholar by the efforts of the teacher.
The teacher can no more think for
pupil than he can walk, sleep, or di-
gest for him.
"He is master of the field of educa-
ton who possesses the ability to train
pupils to self-action.
1.-The personal influence of the
teacher en- one boy or girl will far out
weigh all the class lectures of an en-
tire school year
Ignorance is not innocence and a
child is more apt to walk straight if
you give him light than if you leave
him in the dark.
Pupils are often permitted by
teachers 20 enter such classes as they
please, instead of being kept in def
mite lines, with prescribed books and
a prescribed course of study. They
thus get into a mental confusion so
great that but very limited number
ever eXtricate themselves from it.
"a popular government, without
popular information, or the means of
acquiring it, is farce, or a tragedy,
or both. Knowledge will govern igno-
rance and people who mean to be
their own governors must arm them
tselves with the power which knowl-
edge gives. N-Iames Madison.