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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-09-22

ability to answer questions designed
primarily to show how completely the
pigeon bOles of his mind have been
stuffed with facts. In my estimation
the most important thing is what has
the pupil gained. considered from the
standpoint Of his possibilities"
Concerning the introduction OF uni
versity methods into the high.schOOl
and grammar-schOols, every parent
who has watched the bewilderment
of his sons and daughters at the first
application OF the source method, or
the loss CT balance when the young
sters, for the first time, 60 from one
recitation. room to another. will I'M
derstand DR.. Gordon's structures upon
the introduction OF the scholastic
spirit into the grades. SIN these
schools the general tendency is to
regard the subject taught as Of trans
cendent importance: while the pupil
himself is of secondary consideration.
This is due to several things, chief
among which are, ~ The employment
of college graduates, with neither ex-
perierce nor pedagogical training.
And, generally, as result OF this, ~
The copying of college and university
methods. Teachers come from the
college to the high-schcol. very often
without distinct realization of the
importance of the pupil himself.
Between them and their knowledge
Of the grammar school intervenes
eight years Of work, during which
their studies and experiences have
profoundly impressed them with the
great importance Of the subject mat
ter, and the very small importance of
the individual. By reason of this, I
view with much apprehension the ex-
tension Of the high.school down.
wards"
The sOundness of DR.. Gordon's views
and the correctness of his statements
in regard to the point OF view Of the
inexperienced university graduates
may be tested by the graduates own
confessions. 1t is corrobOrated by my
memory of my own post graduate
view of the relative importance of the
subject and the scholar.
The conclusions expressed in the
whole candid, sensible article. re-
spends to personal experience and ex-
periments in the same way. As the
conclusions Of a man of much peda.
gogical experience who is frank
enough and sure enough of the results
of tbs observations to be willing to
advocate and adopt them. the article
is an admirable contribution to the
literature Of teaching.
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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-09-22
City Lighting.

lily Ii2ntngs
If the city of Lincoln cannot afford
to pay more than $4,000 year for
lighting, that is all it should pay. II
the number of lights must be reduced
in order to bring the bill within the
ability Of the city to pay, then the
localities which have been light must
hereafter go dark, on moonless nights,
or at best only lighted by the never
fading stars. For the first time Lin
coin has mayor who has, up to the
present time, refused to authorize the
spending Of money not in the treas
ury. For this reason there is every
reason to believe that the city of Lin
coin will not now, as in 1895, contract
a debt larger than the annual income
Of the city warrant.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-09-22
The Calaveras Trees.

Destruction is the first law Of the
philistine. In Nebraska he cuts down
trees. If there is any place in the
world where there is something more
beautiful. more poetic. more comfort
ing, more historic and monumental,
or more richly benignant than trees.
be sure there are philistines destroy.
ing it. The b'g trees OF California,
that are not protected by the govern
ment, are being chopped down by men
who are worse than canibals, for thirty
years is enough to grow fairly use
full man, and it has taken from four
to five thousand years to grow those
gigantic trees Ut California. The larg-
est trees in the Calavefas grove came
into the possession Of a lumberman
last April, and he has begun to cut
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-09-22
Galveston Pluck.

In the Netherlands. as everyone
knows. the land is low, much Of it is
below the level Of the sea. The rivers
and canals being elevated above the
surrounding country. Along the west
coast the low lands are protected from
the sea by a line OF sand hills or dunes,
but elsewhere on the ocean coast the
land is protected by dikes. which re-
quire a large expenditure annually
to keep them in order. Engineers,
called the officers of the Waterstaat,
take special charge Of the dikes and
national hydraulic works, at a yearly
cost of about two and one half million
dollars.
1t is question Of how much the
location of Galveston is worth. The
island is slightly above the water,
which is gulf Of the same ocean that
would drown Holland, but for Dutch
defiance. A sea wall must be built to
the Outward of Galveston, deep
enough and wide enough to keep the
ocean back in those rare storms that
wash over il. Galveston pluck is no
degree less determined and daring
than Dutch Obstinacy. aod Galveston
will rise again. new walled city.
Unless the wall is built, the old citi.
zens will be afraid. and new ones
will not come.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-09-22

The procrustean public schools do
their best to mould the small, soft
boned bodies into an average shape.
That they succeed so poorly is to the
credit of the children. aid fertile, I'M
conquerable nature.
Concerning this rule Of nOn-admis-
sion to the building until, nine o'clock
or whatever the hour Of recitation,
whenever it has been proposed that
the doors be opened for the admission
Of early stragglers. and IN pity OF the
forlorn little lOafers. hanging about
the schools. 1t has been said that 1t
would be a hardship on the teacher,
etc. The same argument would apply
To- the locking up Of the university
buildings. until the first recitation
hour. 1t would be much more con-
venient for the teachers. janitOrs and
eurators of the university If the stu
dents stayed outside on the campus
until the beginning of the regular
hour of recitation or lecture. Such a
rule could not be enforced, because
the students are old enough to quickly
resent an unjust hardship. Little
children do not know they have any
rights. Most OF them know only the
statutes of the law Of love, and when
the teacher is Indifferent to their cold
hands and feet, they get their first
vision of a hard world. and associate
that revelation with the processes of
education. The child's persistent ref.
erence TO the dismissal OF school as
the time when school "lets OUT re-
yeals the universal childish regard of
the school as house of detention. 1t
is idle to try to teach them to adopt
the less picturesque and graphic word,
SO long as the pursuit of knowledge is
undertaken by children with a ball
and chain. dragging from each little
tagging foot.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-09-22

ury. FOR tClS reason there IS every
reason to believe that the city of Lin
coin will not now, as in 1895, contract
a debt larger than the annual income
Of the city warrant.
The Shoemaker to His Last,
Once upon a time barber of Lin.
coin married waitress in a western
hotel. His business in Lincoln grew
and grew until he made 81, 400 year.
At first his wife was proud of her hus-
band, her husbands business, and his
good judgment. At first she brought
him his meals, but after awhile the
serpent, in the form of social distinc.
tions, tempted her, and she would no
longer enter the barber.shop and was
ashamed Of her husbands business.
He has laid up few thousand dollars.
and she is urging him to buy bust.
ness Of which he knows nothing, in
order to get out of the barber class"
The hero Of this story is hesitating,
which means that he is lost. He is a
good barber and understands the con.
duct of the business. but that knowl.
edge will not help him in the real-es-
tate or undertaking business, in which
his wife thinks there is an opening.
Once upon time there was man
who came to Lincoln with a few
thousand dollars and an exhaustive
knowledge of one business. He put
all his money and all his energy into
that business and his capital grew and
grew until he had a hundred thous-
and dollars. Then he thought he
was not making money fast enough,
and he decided to start and develop
another enterprise. One man out of
million is universal genius, and
can run simultaneously and profitably
four or five unrelated shows But
such men are rare that it is much
safer for every mothers son to con.
clude that he is but an average man
with his limitations. This mans
spirit fitted genius ability, but that
half was lacking. The profits of his
original business were DETECTED to
operate his new ventures, which, one
after another, he started. He is now,
after twenty five or thirty years. resi-.
dence in Lincoln, where he started,
on the shady side of fifty, and lacking
in the increment Of a life of activity.
There are maby others in Lincoln
who have lost money by diverting
their earnings from their legitimate
business into something which plenty
of other men have made their special
ty, and with whom, therefore, they
cannot compete.
There is much sympathy expressed
for Mr.. Kimball, the director of the
University School of Music. Mr..
Kimball has built up a large and sue.
cessful school. Under his administra-
ton the school is growing and becom.
ing an institution, attractive to am
bilious students in otner states. But
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-09-22


An article in the September "Edu-
cation" by Superintendent Gordon of
Lincoln, is a fOrcible plea for change
a the uuit of measure Of public
school scholars yearly attainment.
The article is primarily distinguished
by common sense aud the rejection Of
dogma in regard to the grades. There
is no question but that the state uni.
yersity is a stimulating il fiuence in
Nebraska, and especially 10 Lincoln,
but. with all loyalty to the institu
ton, il has lifted the grade of the
Lincoln high-school and of the gram
mar schools beyond their place OF
highest usefulness to the pupil. very
small percentage of which go from
them to the university. The effort to
graduate pupils from the high-schOOl
stuffed with facts enough to pass the
entrance examination at the univer-
sity has prejudiced the whole system.
Superinte. dent Gordon suggests, in
The Reorganization of the Grammar.
School," that the pupil he graded &C.
cOrding to the, Increment OF power he
has gained, rather than upon his abil-
ity to pass a certain examination at a
stipulated time. "Ihe basis of pro-
motion should be effort rather than
subject matter. The pupil who has
faithfully and conscientiously applied
himself to his work, has probably
gained out OF that work, if the work
Of the teacher has been well done. all
that is possible for him to get at that
stage. For him. therefore, the work
should be marked Satisfactory no
matter how many questions he may
be unable to answer at an examina-
ton. Going over the same ground
again would have little value, and. in
the long run. would be anything but
advantageous. The thing Of primary
importance here is the increment Of
power gained in relation to the pupils
capacity for growth, while the incre.
meut OF knowledge is Of secondary
importance. A system OF marking
based on the amount of facts which Q
pupil has acquired depends on his
The Wichita daily eagle., 1900-11-28
PROPOsATs.


PROPOSALS for Brick School Bullolqs-
Department Of the Interior, ONCE OF IN
dian Affairs Washington D. O. N0Fenn-
Der I, 1900
Sealed proposals, fndorsed Proposals
for Brick School Building" and ADDRESS
ed TO the Commissioner Of Ind15n Al
ceived until two O'Clock D m Of Wednes-
day November Is, 1900 for furnish ng
and delivering the necessary nnateE-aiis
and labor for the construction OF one ~
brick school building at Seger School,
Colony Oklahoma. in strict accOr C
with plans, spec. .fcations and fnstructQ2nss
to bidders on nle in TINS Office, the z nlIed
States Indian Warehouse. Chlca 90 III.
Colony Oklahoma; the Builders ana
Traders Exchange, Omaha, Nep-, ana
the newspaper publishing this adveruse-
ment. ". A JONES,
14q-1St-ex sun Comm ssiOner.
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LOST

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TOST-Ladies' brown Jacket, on East
Kellogg. Return to 17l5 =. Kellogg. or
Wichita Laundry. l-5tA
LOST-An automobile dash clock T.
ward for return to Gidday's smoke
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CLASSIFIED
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PERSONAT-Iadies: L positively guar
antee Golden Seal viii relieve IN Z
longest and most obstinate cases OF
Irregularities Without pain, IN uVe
hours Sent secure from obserVa ion.
81 DR.. Annie Fowler, 214l Olve
St ST. Louis. No. I-A-l5t
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FOUND.

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FOUND-A place to buy horses at your
own price. We will sell 60 head at auc-
ton, at Fair Grounds, December g.
Toler Stock Farm. SIT
The Wichita daily eagle., 1900-11-28
FOR EXCHANGE.


FOR EXCHANGE-F'ine improved farm;
close 10 wichita want elevator ana
home, or stock Of merchandise IN good
country town.
Splendid. S0-acre. Arkansas valley farm,
- mile from good town. want $50 acre
farm in exchange; will p2y einerene e.
Stock clothing, &c, to exchange Tor
Fine. SS2-acre farm, near Lawrence.
Kan value SO per acre; want go9d
merchandise stock $500 to $1,000
Elegant Wichita income property 70
exchange for merchandise stock, S6tO'
to $4,000.
Cali or address
BROWN & GPPHERSON,
7o-vra-s11-2t IA n Main.
MISSOURI FARM FOR EXCHANGE
$50 acres, 45 IN cultivsti ton, s acres Of
meadow; good room house, stable
crib and smoke house; good well; gar.
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white and black oak, We alnut and hick-
ory timber; all good pasture land; 20
miles from St. LOU!=; ! miles TO county
seat and one mile to school a real
, good old fashioned home: VIII trade Tor
Wichita property or farm land IN sedg
wick, Sumner, Butler or hlngmah
county. B. D. ALLEN REALTY co.
139-tf 10 S Market St. wichita ks
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1900-12-11
RernoYed
ONE DOOK ABONE- NARIEE H0ISE-

ONE DOOR ABOVE GARTER HOUSE.
have removed my 9iiice - the buiiding
one door above the carer Hoase, where,
VIII continue th.s Grain and Commission lusi-
ness. also represent tho President Liis. uud
Trust Ceinpauv t!.e lies, LIZ. Insurance Jit,ri-
pauy- as reported hv lnsuraurt COMMISSIONS
ers. IN The Cuueii Stree. via d. .i,.e ~ sue
friends aId patrons in ms uew quaucis.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1900-12-11
THE REST CURE.

This is often the best cure. But
many people cannot afford to rest
indefinitely. Worse still, the very
knowledge that they cannot, serious
ly interferes with the hest use of the
rest they have, Too often going to
the doctor means that the patient
shall stop short. while cares and
duties and expenses continue
Many, therefore. hesitate and delay.
Drs. Starkey & Palen's Compound
Oxygen Treatment presents an easy
way out of the dilemma, it has done
so for more than score of years
aud for more than three score thous-
and people, The agent used is the
Compound Oxygen. The method
puts it where twill do the most good
lin the lungs. The treatment nei-
ther interferes with business nor
pleasure, This simple thing has
made muititudes of rundown, over
worked. nervous and sick people as
good as new. For further particu-
lars send for book of 200 pages sent
free.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1900-12-11

Jno- A. Warrington r, ". Alexander
Washington & Alexander
Insurance Agency,
ONE OF THE OLDEST INSURANCE AGEN-
CIES IN THE STATE
Office Gibson Building. Charles Town, W. Va.
Representing the following Companies
The old and reliable
ETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
of Hartford, Conn,
Giving the best results to policy holders. and
which has larger amount of policies In
Jefferson County than all other Life
Insurance Companies together.
Liverpool 4 London q Globe, of England
Scottish Union and National. of Scotland
and the Royal Insurance CO., of LiV-
erpool, the largest foreign Cos.
doing business IN America.
HTNA. OF HARTFORD.
Peabody, of Wheeling, W. Va.
Franklin. of Wheeling.
German Fire, of Wheeling.
Phoenix, of Hartford.
Virginia Fire and Marine, of Richmond, Va.
Georgia Home, of Columbus. Ga.
Fire Association. of Philadelphia, Pa.
Continental. OF New York.
German-American Fire Insurance Co, of New
Home Insurance Company, OF New York.
Niagara Fire Insurance Co., of New York,
Fidelity and Casualty. of New York City,
furnishing Steam Boiler Insurance aud
Inspections and Accident Insurance
of every kind
Fidelity and Deposit Company, of Maryland.
the only company authorized to grant
bonds and become surety in the state.
JEFFERSON COUNTY MUTUAL FIRE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
All losses promptly adjusted and paid at our
Sdb-Agents:
J. s. FLEMING, Shepherdstown, w Va.
CHAS. II. TRAIL, Harper's Ferry, w. Va.
a sworn statement of the conditions of all
Foreign insurance Companies represented in
this Agency will be found at the Clerk Office,
in compliance with the State laws.
We solicit continuance of your patronage,
Respectfully,
WASHINGTON 81 ALEXANDER.
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Additional trains leave Baltimore for Union
Bridge and intermediate Stations at III q. m
and 2.25 and 6. 10 p. IN, and leave Union Bride.
for Baltimore at s, 20 and $40 q. m, aud u 30
p. M, daily, execPt Sunday.
SUEDAYsONLY.-Leaye baltimore for Union
Bridge aud intermediate Stations 9.35 \ M
and 2.35 p. m. and leave Union Bridge It G45
mediate Stations.
RALTIMoRB q CUMBERLAND VALLEY Il u.
Leave HagerstoWn orshippeDsbur4 and IN
termehlnte Stations at IL % u .apd7 % D. m
For Chambersburg 8 30 am. Leave Shippens-
burg for HagerstoWn aud IntermediafsStafions
at 800 a. m. and 3.03 p. N. Leave Cham
bersburg Las p. m.
TRAINS VIA ALTENwALD CUT-oFP.
Leave HagerstOWn for ChambeFsbnTg nBd
M. and leave ChambeTsburg for HagerstOWn
and Intermediate Stations At 7.1B = N. and
T.49 p. N.
Lave Rocky Ridge for Rmmitsburg II seg
and 1883 a. N. and 3. 81 and 6 81 u. In. Leave
Eminltsburg for Rock Ridge NJ :. 20 ana h, "a
e IN and IS and 4.48 p. IN.
Trains ioTkFederick leave BfuceyiIIe At 8 IS
S.55 ana 1910 q. M, and 532 and o. 80 D. ~
Leaye BFueevtile for Columbia, LittlestoNn
And IaneytoWn a. 9.47 q. m. and 3 I, m
Leave Frederick for baltimore a. 4 20 = M
and and $50 p. m
CONNECTIONS AT caKRRY Kun w. Va
p. az " passenger trains leave Cherry Rnn
Ior Cumberland and intermediate points daily
q S;21 =, m. Cincinnati, st. Louis and Chi
eago Express, daily. at 1850 D N. (,biea.,o
Exprese, daley, at 1899 p. IN.
DAILY. all others Daily, except Sunday
>: u. HOOD, PTes't. and ,ten'l adan'fgr.
3. d. GklsWoLD, Geu'1 Pass. Agent
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Bowmans, Hawkinstown aud Mil Spur, in
Thoroughfare Gap (notshowu on I lime Table,
are flag stops Cor Trains . and IL.
Hos.l4 and 12 connect with main line trains
for all points South and Southwest, and ut
Washington for all Eastern Cities. No change
of cars Observation-Disclosures andHnrrisonburp.
For Detailed imfor alton apply to dearest
agent of Southern Railway. or write to
l.. y. BROWN, Geu'l Ast.,
105 18th ST. ". W. Washington. d. C.
FRANK 8. CANNON. Sd V. P. & Cen'l Mn'gT.
7Q5 18th St n. w, Washington ID. C
j. VI. CuLP, Traflic Manager.
w. \. Turk, General Passenger Agent,
DEG. 4, Wnshington. u. @.
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SOUTHWARK
Train SO connect with Southern K. Il,
at Strasburg junction at 1925 and 7.4S p. M !.

MlNGu pass OnAIlGSA 0Wu
az S.2S and 100 a. m. Arrive at Strasburg
Junction at 6.02 and 1898 n. m.
Mixed trains northbOund pass Charles Town
at OF p. M. and 1.S2 q. m. Arrive ut Harper's
Ferry at 1853 p. m. aud 2.15 q. m.
CONNECTIONS.
Train connects at Harper sFerry withFast
Limited Express train leaving atll As m. aud
1914 PIN, arriving ut Chicago $50 a. M; aud
1900 noon, and with train leaving at $40
p. M. arriving at Cincinnati ut 7.45 u M. ST.
Louis 600 p. M. and connects at WeRvertOn
at IL 40 u M, arrive at Hagerstown at 1910
p. M. Washington Junction with train arrtv-
ing at Frederick at 1. 55 p. NJ.
Train IL connects with Fast Vcstibule train
at Harper's Ferry at GAS p. m. for Chicago nt
1921 p. m. for PittSburg and 1905 u. Ia, Tor
Cincinnati and st. Louis. Arrive at Pitts
burg ut 200 a. M, Chicago at 9:45 p. m. Gin
cinnatti ut 5 p. m, and ST, Louis $3.50 o. m.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars are run
through TO Cincinnati, st. Leuis, und Chicago
on all express trains.
For rates. tickets, baggage checked, apply
to any Office of the B. & .. Railroad.
F. ID. UNDERWOOD, Gen'1 Manager.
D. B. MARTIN, Mau'gr Pass Traffic.
Nov. "a, 1898.
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The Light OF the World,
or
Our Savior in Art.

Cost nearly S10o,O00 to produce. Contains
-arly 100 tull-page engraviugs of our Savior
aud his Mother the worlds greatest paint
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IN the hrt galleries of Europe. Every picture
Is as beautiful Ne q sunrise over the hilltops.-
Contains description Of the paintings. biogra-
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OF the galleries in Europe where the originals
may lie seen. Also contains Chld's Depart
ment. including It Child's Story of the Christ
and HE Mother beauiifuiy written, 10 fit
each picture. This woude ful book, matchless
i'll its purity and beauty. appeals TO every
mothers heart. aud III every Christian home
where 5hcre are children the book sells itself
Christian men and women making money
rapidly tuk ne orders. A Christian man or
woman can II; This community soou make
Sl.CCO TALKING orders for Christmas presents.
Mrs Waite. or agent III Massachusetts, has
sold over IS eco worth OF the books il q very
short time. Mrs, Sacbett, our agent in New
York, has sold over $500 worth of the books
ina very short time, The book is printed ON
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Shoes !! Shoes j

a Great Variety OF Shoes aud Slippers 10,
everybody, at all prices. for Spring aud sum
ne ast opened Prices marked down 70
April y. 8. 8. pALqARN.
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Give Me a Sid.

offer my services to the public as an auc-
tioneer. with county and corporation license,
and solicit share of patronage. Having
qad considerable experience guarantee sat
isfactiOn. Charges reasonable
CHARLES RISSLER.
jan, 8, 1897, Charles Town, ". Va.
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SCHEDULE
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Effective Nov. %. 1900.
Grains Nos. 8 and 70 daily trains Nos IS,
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