Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1898-01-25
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Some person unknown LETT Q team
horse, sleleh, etc. at Hotel Long stable
Friday afternoon, the l4th, and left Tor
parts unknown. The team was claimed
later BY West Paris parties.
Mrs. Wyer Greene Of Portland visited
her sister, Mrs. Murdoch, over Sunday,
Jan. 10th.
Dyer's stereopticon lecture and scenes
were given Monday evening, the 18th, TO
q good house for the benefit Of the Bap-
tist Sunday School library.
Mrs. Lizzie Spaulding Shaw ID quite
sick.
R.C. Bradford and wife Of Portland
were In town this week.
Rufus Hines OF Pennington Is the
guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. II. ID. Irish.
About ten inches Of good snow was
the result of Thursdays storm.
Presiding Elder Corey was to have
lectured at the N. E. church Thursday
evening but for the storm.
VIM. J. Wheeler OF South Paris WAS
In town Friday.
Josiah Hutchinson and wife are quite
III Of the grippe.
Benz. Spaulding has been confined to
the mouse Win cola.
The ladies OF the Baptist circle gave q
supper at G. A. X. Hall Friday evening.
Sheriff Porter Of Rumford Falls was
In town Friday on official business.
Paris has furnished Its quota OF win
ter teachers for this town In the persons
| OF the Royal sisters, and l have 10 say
/ that they have proved to be royal teach
ers, one OF whom Il teacher Of expert
ence and might very properly be called
a model, and the little, inexperienced one
stands near enough to touch hands with
her.
All our teachers who are just closing
their lsbors have proved to be very sue.
cessful and perfectly satisfactory TO the
supervisor and think TO all those who
are more Intimately concerned. At least
have heard no unfavorable "yip" from
the critics anywhere, II you will believe
me. IL has been said that there are some
schools In town that are difficult To man.
age. don't think so. All that Ia nee
cssary IL n little tact on the part OF
teachers, and a little judicious manage
ment OF the psternal organs Of speech,
and the children are Nil right. doubt
II there IL vicious one 10 the entire BOG
The Federal school has been enlarged
more than 80 per cent, but not from
natural causes. There has been q STAN.
pede from the Line school, so that now
the house IL well filed. In times past IL
Was no unusual thing for tempest Ia
rise in the Federal teapot, but II Is TO be
hoped that nothing OF the kind Will hap
pen again.
Did hear you ask how like 1t as far
"a have been: Not well enough To circ
for repetition OF the dose. As must
die greatly prefer tn die q natural
death. When the schools are all com
plcted each district will have had TWEEN
ty-seven weeks OF schooling under the
present administration. Not all OF the
lsborers have been equally profitable, but
there Ia nothing peculiar about that
They never are. have charity TO believe
that each one lived up To the light that
was In him or her, and that no one was q
mere eye-servant. In most OF the schools
order has reigned but without resorting
to harsh measures, which are very seldom
necessary.
| Are the SCHOOLS OF to-uhy 50 very III
In advance Of the schools OF our boyhood
and student daysi Whatever the cause
there are fewer all around, thoroughly
good scholars In our schools to-day than
there were forty years ago. Outside the
villsge high school six months ago II
would have bothered you TO find n
scholar who was sure Of himself Ia quite
simple sentences In his grammar. lie
would reel st noun, stumble at an sd-
jective, and fall fat Mt conjunction. To
be sure he would guess right sometimes
More interest has been manifested along
that line In the winter schools that have
been visited. Scholars OF that age forty
I've years ago were dipping into Thomp-
son's Seasons, dissecting Young's Night
Thoughts, delving for nuggets 10 Psrs-
disc Lost, where the Miltonic angels were
cuffing the DEVILS Brigade with invert-
ed hills, and MASKING Its members with
upturned mountains-if you remember
Perhaps there are greater number OF
students In town who have smsttering
OF Latin and lingo than there are who
have thoroughly mastered their mother
English. We have reason to think so,
but perhaps We ought not to tell tales
out Of school. JOHN.