The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-27
LITTLE TROUBLES.

| I
They're only just begun.
Learning your letters Is hard, we know.
| But deep into study delve
| And patiently toll yc workers true
| or rooms Eleven and Twelve.
II learning to write is awful
| =. And the letters won't stay on the lines,
| Nor the pen do as you bid II,
| But cuts up numerous shines,
| just keep on patiently trying
| And deep into study delve
TIL the goal you reach. yc busy bees
or rooms Eleven and Twelve.
There would be some comfort in learning
| III one could get through; instead,
| There are other things awaiting
| And numerous books ahead.
| There are mathematicals tables
And Grammar In which to delve,
| But don't give up, ye tollers true
| or rooms Eleven and Twelve.
Remember that little by little
,. To the m9untain top we climb.
| II Isn't all done In u minute,
| But only step at time.
| This thus that sugcs. learned,
| Did deep into Learning delve.
! Then work with will, We workers true
| or rooms Eleven and Twelve.
Boys and girls, this week your ''un-
Gle will vary little and give you some
short selections from our best educa-
tional writers and 1t Is hoped that you
will peruse them carefully and thought
fully and cndeavor to put into practice
the teachings contained in them. They
are filed with excellent and wholesome
advice which, II carefully followed, will
be of lasting benefit to you throughout
life.
The world being schoolhouse, con-
summately equipped with apparatus and
teachers, and containing the human
race as pupils, the normal course Of life
Is steady process OF education. The
business and end Of our existence is to
learn. We are here really to acquire
knowledge of the infinite wisdom, love
OF the infinite goodness, enjoyment Of
the infinite blessedness. That is, we
are here to study. We are sent out on
this earthly campaign Of life to enrich
ourselves with the spoils of yanquished
difficulties and the wealth Of captured
truth and beauty. The innumerable
suns that wheel and CLEAN through i'm
mensity are shining lessons set along
the limitless asccntiOns our learning
souls must climb Inexhaustible are
the studies inviting us in this primeval
school OF the creation. Every event is
full of meaning babbling to the atten-
tive ear. the secrets OF its origin and its
consequences. Every ray is revealing
flash. Every object is compacted
throughout and written all over with
truth. Nature is Il transparency, ablaze
with black lights OF intention and burst
ing with mysteries. In short the uni
verse is a moving congeries of truths
within truths and good on good, every
member and particle of which it is
meant shall be known.-W. II. Alger.
There is always best way OF doing
everything, though it were only to boil
an egg. Manners are the happy ways
OF doing things, each one stroke Of
genius or of love, now repeated and
hardened into usage. They form at last
a rich varnish with which the routine
OF life is washed and its details adorned.
II they are superficial, so are the dew
drops which give such depth to the
morning meadows. Manners are very
communicable: men catch them from
one another. The power OF manners is
incessant-an element as inconcealable
as fire. No man can resist their influ-
ence. Give boy address and accom-
plishments, and you give him the mas
terry OF palaces and fortunes where he
goes. He has not the trouble OF enter
ing or owning them; they solicit him to
enter and possess. When we reflect
how, in all clubs, manners make the
members, how manners make the ambi-
tious youth; that for most part, his
manners marry him, and for most part
he marries manners; when we think
what keys they are, and to what secrets,
what high lessons and inspiring tokens
OF character they convey, we shall not
ovcrrate ethem.-Emerson
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One OF the prime duties of the public
school is effective moral instruction.
The experience OF school men in all
ages has been that mere intellectual
training, without corresponding de-
velopment OF the moral nature, does
not fit boys and girls for practical life.
Many of the worlds brightest intellects
have been stepped in crime. To insure
the highest good and meet the demands
OF the public, the moral nature must be
cultivated and trained along with the
intellectual man.-Sawyer.
SCHOOL NOTES.
Don't forget that DR.. Nourse will be
hara m Eriduu "a.