The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-02-08
Educational Column.
CONDUCTED BY GEO. R. WILSON co. suPr
Man is a force bearer or force

Man is a force bearer or a force OF
producer. Every person and every
hing is surrounded by an atmos- br
phcre. Every mans personality Is
Ihe center OF force. If there is W.
Iipht in his heart he shines; If he IS
corrupt he poisons. The part OF o,
personality that is the most potent
is the moral energy that moves out. q
Man is not SO powerful in histpower =
to mold another's life as to receive :
influences. Indeed, some philoso- :
pliers think that character is simply . :,
the sum total Of the climate, indi- q
yiduals and influences that sur
round man. 1t is marvellous pii, I
grimage that man makes while az
the forces, all these influences, al i
these friends report themselves to 6
his sensitive soul center. Every
hour is big with destiny to such q
soul. A mans personally and al
mosphere are equally potent 70
blight and to shrivel. Not time ou'
man is the great destroyer. Men
talk Of the tooth Of time and OF
saws. aTime is scytheless and time
is toothless." 1t was man VINO
went like a pestering flame, con,
{ suming all the old Libraries ana an
the works Of art. Think you not
that the marble Of Phidias would
have stood the atmosphere OF the
museum or Of the gallery as well as
Il did that of the hills inthe eastern
!. country? 1t was mans DESTROYING
y hand that opened the great galleries
= Of Italy to the damp winds OF the
= sea. Yet there is more good than
n "This influence of personality is
u u voluntary. 1t is the foundation o.
y =. instruction. A single speech has
y detected the march OF nations
u Man has also an utterly unpurposee.
influence. The soul does its wori
= : automatically. Accom- n
~ =, much by plan, man accompiishe
a. still more bv the unconscious weigh
ne n Of his personality. With or with
es @ out consent, character works, tolls
- - lifts all the time. Great heart
es change the climate when they eros
nj the threshold. They interprt
'rs Christianity, while the churches az
g: g. often like SO many coffins set up Q
~ :. end, or like SO many candles q
III unlighted. with their latent ligf
-, o. and heat unused.
i,s =. There is another form OF iniiuen'
~ which continues after death-u'
eis conscious immortality. Death III
e'l 81 no power to destroy the value
Ihe books or of electricity or OF any
ne, ne, the inventions of the great me-
'.1 .l'l Every man who builds home or
.,io !. shin works for the next generatio
the M These men intellectually and spir
l'n m ually are unconsciously immo
mes tai This is fame. Herein is .
" :, test Of a mans greatness. Has
y 60 incarnated himself in his III
!he work that when he dies the gre
'lel' enterprise Of his founding NOV
on without jar?'
- =.
Miss Mary +. Morrison, OF ,
q Francisco, has just graduated frc
the the Medical School Of CaliiorI
ing University, with the highest !
had centage ever reached in that insti
sep tion-91.1.
re- - %
,;au ;a0 Teachers desiring samples OF V
orar tical writing, now being introdut
the into many good schools, should SC
not 10 cents for sample vertical "
zen. ing copy book to Geo. Sherwood
wful Co.. 307 Wabash Ave-, Chicago
ma
,rlds Mr. Frank Stouch, Of Readi
been Pa. although in his eighty-seve,
m Of wear. still teaches dancing, and
wart. said to be as active and as vlgor
as a man Of fifty. During his
career as a dancing master ne
uo,,o ,ho had %, 900 pupils.
,sults -
sown South America mas ,'ic o'
forth unbroken extent Of level surface
any country in the world.
Ilanos Of the Orinoco are SO
that the motion Of the rivers
scarcely be detected over an are
with 1900 square miles.
er OBJ - =.
q ih'o "Shall | clean the snow
mixers MADAME asked the little DO
! '''a, Ia, Boston lady. mo" she rer
ere = severely, you'd far better {
mixers school and learn that it is the
la'he'S ment and not the snow that l.
cleaned off."--Harper's Bazar
ds us,
. ororv Tlo aro forfv-ive survive