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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-24

present Governor, but their Cover
nor to be, and one who was deeply
lterested in schools and education,
their interest became intense, and
they seemed to feel that here was
the man who was to be theif.futlire
benefactor.
When he stepped into the halls,
the faces OF the children fairly
beamed upon him and they were at
once inspired by his fine physique
and commanding appearance, and
eagerly proclaimed him, ssOur
Educational Governor" which ap-
pellation seems to precede him to
the towns he visits. The follow
ing distinguished citizens Fac
companied him to the school bnild-
ing: Mayor John t. Walker, Judge
A.. ]. Lawson, Senator Seid Wad-
dell, Capt. H. c. Alexander, Col.
D. A. Edwards and Lexie S. Parks.
We also note with pleasure the
visit of Miss Purser, of the Hall
Moody Institute, who favored the
school with several selections.
M. E. B.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-24
DUTY.

There are many teachers, and
good teachers, who think that be-
ing agreeable and gentle and sweet
tempered is a substitute for the
stern integrity that does not falter
before the highest demands of duty.
AS long as everything runs smoothly
they are all right, but when the call
to duty comes woe unto them! Gen
tleness, agreeableness and sweet
ness are valuable acquisitions, and
we'll enough in their places, but
there comes a time to every teacher
when she must firmly face duty.
When wickedness or disobedience
appears in the schoolroom, the only
proper thing to do is to quench it
without delay.
Froebel taught that it is the
teachers duty to provide the right
kind of employment if she would
keep the active young minds and
hands out of mischief.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-24

the pages of history-certain con-
sequences always follow certain
courses of action. This is an
object lesson for all that should
teach us to emulate the wise and
avoid the foolish and hurtful.
Children's actions, sympathies,
thoughts, and ideas of right and
wrong are determined as much by
their reading as by their contact
with the world. The stories of
history become living realities, and
what their hero does they will feel
justified in attempting to do.
Example is the school of man
kind. Who can tell how far it will
reach and where it will go?
THE plays the thing, I'll catch
the conscience of king" A good
book is the consecrated essence of
a holy genius, bringing new light
to the brain, and cultivating the
heart for the inception of noble
motives. History is full of
splendid, heroic characters just as
they exist all around you.
The gathering of historical facts
about an interesting parsonage,
ideal or real, gives coloring and
depth that can not be supplied IN
any other way; these facts invested
with a portion of the interested
and the attributes of life, that
attach to the person whose career
and experience are being followed.
Their lives will grow toward
:hese lives which they study and
admire.
They will consciously and I'M
consciously strive to realize in their
what attracts them in the
conduct and lives of their heroes.
The modern writer's, whether of
looks, magazines, or daily papers,
make constant reference to the
,ast. Then if the American youth
leslres to read intelligently the
pen pages of to-day, they must
ave in their possession the key
hat unlocks the past.
c. L. w.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-24

E. v. S.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-24
LAW AND CHANCERY COURT.

Our sister county of Obion is an
empire in herself and has large and
intelligent population, but the people
up there are greatly inconvenience
in the matter of their court facilities.
The courthouse is at Union City,
having been removed from the famous
old town of Troy several years ago.
Union City is not the center of the
county of Obion by any means, and
the people from the extreme southern
and southwestern part of the country
have hard and expensive trip to get
to court at all. The Rapid Transit
and prominent citizens of this section
of the country are working hard to
obyiate this great inconvenience and
to establish law and chancery
court at Obion, Tenn. Obion is a
thriving and progressive town, in the
heart of one of the best sections of
West Tennessee, and a special law
and chancery court would add largely
to her dignity and prosperity as well
as to the convenience of the people
of that territory. AS a matter of fact
the courthouse ought never to have
been moved from Old Troy, but it is
not probable that the politicians and
leading men of Union City will suffer
Obion to have her wish and permit
second court of law or chancery to be
established in the county. The best
thing for us and for the convenience
of the citizens of the southern part of
Obion county to do and all they can
accomplish in our opinion is to annex
to Dyer county, as Dyersburg is much
nearer to several districts than Union
City. The Obion River has been
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-24
VISITORS.

The children of the Public
School looked forward with great
expectancy to the visit of the Judge
James B. Frazier. When the little
ones were first told of their Gov
ernor's coming, they did not quite
having another visit
from him so soon, but after being
informed that this was not their
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-24
HAS DIR. ELIOT MADE A DISCOVERY

HAS DIR. ELIOT MADE A DISCOVERY
The statement that the future O.
our country lies in our public
schools, is a very true one. Oul
public schools are the safeguard Of
our republic. In an address to the
teachers association of Connecti-
cut, Dr. Charles u. Eliot, presi-
dent of Harvard University, read
an indictment against the pres
ent system of the public schools of
America. In very strong and i'm
pressive terms he deplores the fact
that the results of this system have
fallen far short of the expectations
of the founders. He attributes much
of the vice, drunkenness, gambling,
industrial wars, which we know eX-
list to an alarming degree, to the
lack of mental training gotten in
our schools. DR.. Eliot says "The
world has been made over IN the
last fifty years, but the educational
world has not adjusted itself to
these sweeping changes. While
we may not agree with DR.. Eliot
entirely, there is great food for
thought in this able discourse.
These conditions exist. There
must be radical changes. Where,
when and how ? are the questions.
There is no doubt that we are en-
tering an era of amazing changes
and improvement in the school sys-
tenn. American people will multi
ply by four and. FIVE the present
average school expenditure per
child and per year. Instead of pro-
riding teacher for forty or fifty
pupils, one will be provided for
very ten or fifteen pupils. AS in
lividual teachers, let us not fold
'ur hands and say, "When the new
rider is ushered in we will try to
dust ourselves to it." but be on
N the alert, endeavoring to bring
t about, for, however meager our
POSITION, we are all members of one
Profession, with one aim.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-24
Special educational Copies,

who expresses clearly must think
clearly.
A fifth purpose is character build
ing. This is the supreme end Of
education. Here it is that the
teacher may display his power and
proclaim his mastery of the subject
Few indeed are the facts that come
before the class in recitation that
have not some connection with
mans relation to his fellow-man
and TO God.
r " g
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-24
MORAL TRAINING.

The business of teaching is tt
make men-men in the highest
sense of the word.
In education as we'll as every
where else, we must look to results
The making of a man is not the
work of chance, nor is it always
the work of one generation. Wher
we see how many weak immora
men have found their way into
public trust, we are inclined to be.
lieve that many animals in human
form have never been made, NOR
ally, at least.
Whatever is right is moral and
whatever is wrong is immoral.
In every moral act there are two
forces which impel the will, one is
moral judgment, the other is
moral sense. We tell the truth,
not because some one orders 1T, but
because we know it is right and all
right-thinking people and all living
together depends on it.
All natural laws are moral, when
we think of them in connection
with human life.
Moral education then has moth
ing to do with part of life, but
with the whole.
No phase of teaching requires a
clearer head or stronger conviction.
To give a child a correct moral
character is the most difficult
problem for a teacher.
acknowledge stimulates feelings,
feelings solicit the will and the
will determines the conduct"
The teacher must ever bear in
mind that only permanent results
Ire of any value. There are many
ends to be attained and many ways
n which to attain these ends.
Biography, history and general
literature furnish never ending
source of material for moral culture.
Too much OF the moral training of
children is left to the teacher.
1t is needless to say that if the
lone training was what it should
re, the teachers burdens would be
lighter.
The true aim in moral culture is
roader and more difficult than is
ften imagined. Moral culture is
reeminently the aim OF all educa-
ion. ,
"The ultimate end of all educa- .
ion is to lead men and human ,
oc1ety toward their highest moral
estiny. Education must be based, :
OF on utilitarian considerations,
ut purely on the considerations of
=
Education can not create any =
ling in the pupil, can not put
nything in him from without; can
My develop into consciousness +
lie powers that are in him, by n
him to self-activity. r
Education finds it's aim in the 4
OF character, in self y
nancipation, in self-government, h
Character building is the only +
innate aim of all education"
A. c.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-24
HISTORY READING FOR BOYS AND
GIRLS.

HISTORY READING FOR BOYS AND
GIRLS.
The most important reading
done in America is by its boys and
girls.
They are to-day molding, shap.
ing, and directing their mental,
moral, and physical habits, in the
dawn and morning of the twentieth
century. They are to be the
dominant moral and intellectual
influence destined to sway most
powerfully the character of this
nation along the highways of the
centuries. They represent an age
when no amount of time, effort, or
money is considered too much of a
sacrifice where their advancement
is concerned. The great acts and
great actors in the tragedy and
comedy OF this worlds history,
must be fascinating study for the
boys and girls. While they are
learning the history of the past,
the history of the present is being
made, and they will soon be identi-
fed with that of the future, to
make the world better, or to be
weight on the influence that tends
to uplift humanity. There is one
law that stands out prominently on
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-24
WHILE Governor McMillin. E:

WHILE Governor McMillin, Elk
Governor Taylor and Congress-
man Richardson nimbly caper to
the fancy of the populace, with
covetous eyes upon the Senatorial
toga of VIM. B. Bate, there are
ominous signs of a new Richmond
in the field, who may dislodge
their beautiful dreams.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-24

THE RECITATION AND ITS PURPOSE.
The term, "recitation,' is not
altogether pleasing one. 1t rather
impli IS the mere act of reciting
something that has been committed
to memory, and may De to a degree
responsible for the long prevalent
idea among American teachers that
their chief duty was clearing les
sons" l say "American,' for we
do not find the term in any English
work upon education. The English
educator speaks of the "lesson. !"
Which term may be the better, it is
not my purpose to discuss, but only
to call attention to the fact that the
term is peculiarly unfortunate in
it's suggestiveness. Nevertheless
the term has been accepted and
given a place in educational termi-
nology. Roughly defined, it is that
period of the school day in which
the teacher and his class come into
closest personal contact for the con-
sideration of some definite portion
OF human knowledge. On the part
of the pupil it is a reproduction OF
facts and the thought about them
that makes for assimilation. On
the part of the teacher it is an effort
to test and to intensity this assimi-
lation through the medium of ex-
preston.
Certain we'll defined purposes
should mark the recitation, and |
certain clear cut principles should
guide its conduct. The first pur-
pose of the recitation is to secure
and maintain an interest in the
subject being studied. The work
Of the lesson period presupposes
attention to the subject in hand.
The problem of attention is but the
problem of interest. The pupil who
s really interested will be attentive.
The second purpose is to test the
extent and content of the pupils
acquisition and assimilation of the
acts OF the lesson in all their rela-
ions. That is, it is for the teacher
10 ascertain not only what the pupil
Knows, but how he knows; not only
what he does not know, but why he
loes not know, that such knowledge
nay be made the basis of the teach
ng acts.
A third purpose is to explain, or
make plain, such difficulties as the
of the class by their best
.fforts are not able to master. 1t
las been said, ''Never do for a pu-
Ill what he may be able to do for
limseH. !" With some limitations,
his rule is perhaps good one, but
are must be used in its applica-
ion.
A fourth purpose of the recita-
ion is to train in accurate express
ion. Repeated expression strength
MS impression. If the expression
5 inaccurate, the impression is
lost likely inaccurate. The pupil ]
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-24

WE Would take it as a great ia
vor if those of our subscribers sit
uated along the rural mail routes,
whose addresses have been changed
from the old post offices to these
routes, would notify US as soon as
possible, so that we can arrange to
have their papers delivered prompt
ly. Please tell us what route you
are on if you wish your paper
changed.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-24

Ex-SECRETARY OLNEY still ap,
pears to the more conservative ele.
ment of the Democratic party the
proper man to head the national
ticket. He is no turncoat nor trick
ster, but a man whom the people
can trust. He would make an ideal
President in just such crises as ap-
pear to confront us very soon in the
solution of the trust and labor prob
lens. Hill is a brilliant debator,
but lacks the quality of greatness
which makes the statesman. Olney
would be impregnable alike to
and the allurements of
power.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-24

Drldged ana all Things considered l
the best point for the people of Min
$ nick, Glass, Obion and other places il
: the southern part of Obion county TO
a county seat. If we could get thes,
districts Dyer and Obion would ther
be about the same size, as they ough1
to be. Neighbors, if you can't gel
what you want at home, come ovel
and be a part of us. We will give you
cordial welcome.
The above from Meals State
Gazette, one of Dyersburg's excel,
lent newspapers, might have been
very shrewd observation way
back years ago. The fact is we
don't know whether it would be
altogether right to oppose the peo-
pie having the advantages of a
branch court in the southwestern
portion of the county if we were
not living in an age of rapid transit
and communication. We haven't
got all these improvements yet,
but the country districts North and
East are fast becoming an inter-
minable network of trolley car
lines, and the day is only few
years ahead when we will have
them in the South maybe not so
long, and then Union City, Troy,
Reelfoot Lake and Tiptonville will
be connected with electric roads,
with interesting lines from Obion
and other points. Then also we
will have a trolley to Paducah
Junction to connect with the Hi
nois Central trains. This may
sound a little optimistic to some of
us old fogies, but not to those who
are in touch with the progressive
spirit in various sections of the
country. Seems to us there is al
ready the promise of splendid
investment for capital in an cleo
trio line from Union City to Reel
foot Lake and Tiptonville. We
don't know but what this might be
a very nice proposition to present
to some influential electric railway
company, and if we had CONNER
cial club it might be done now.
Nevertheless, these things will be
taken up in time, and not very
long at that. Then everybody can ;
get to court-one place as easily as
another. We are not living in the
old days. Troy lost the county /
seat because she failed years ago
to take advantage of railroad OPP I
portunities. Union City, already s
grown up, had similar expert
ence in bidding for a road. Now
she is reaping the reward of look
ing on while great railroad car
res its traffic by just three miles :
rom her border. No use, how :
aver, to bother about "what might i
nave been," but get the best you t
IAN. And we believe it is altogether g
90 late now to begin the agitation Il
# a branch court in Obion county. F
rs to division of the county, we t
elieve the people adjoining Dyer c
refer to be residents of Obion, 5
aking everything into considera- =
ion-railroad and other advan- T.
ages. We think much of our II
riends in Dyer, but we have evolv- Fl
d from cavalier times-''it is all f.
ours" :.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-24
MISSISSIPPI.
WEST KENTUCKY

and Creal Springs and Dixon Springs in
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
are similar resorts concerning which
an illustrated book has been issued,
which can be had free on application
to the undersigned.
A. H. HANSON, G. P. A.,
Illinois Central R. R., Chicago, Ill.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09
search Marriage and Divorce Records

Freeman Reed, clerk of the district
court, received yesterday a most pathetic
letter from Mrs. Elmer LAGER Of Lester
shire, N. Y, asking him to forward her a
copy Of her marriage certificate. She ex-
planned that about nine years ago her home
was burned to the ground and the certih-
cate so badly sco-ched that the writing on
1t was obliterated. Recently she removed
to New York state and complains that her
husbands people have repeatedly insulted
her by alleging that she was never mar
ried to LAGER. The records show that on
April 20, 1885, Matte Killoran Of Omaha,
aged 81, was married In this city to Elmer
LAGER of Lincoln, Neb,i aged S6.
Clerk Reed also received yesterday a let
ter from John c. Hummer Of Macomb, Ill.
who desired to learn II his wife had Sc
cured a divorce from him in the courts here
during the last three years. The writer
explained that he had been up north" for
the last three years and his relatives had
supposed he was dead. He had lately
learned that his wife had married again,
her reputed husband being a rancher living
near Emerson, Ia, and that she was now a
resident Of Council Bluffs. The court rec
ords failed to show that Mrs. Hummer ever
secured a divorce here and the marriage
records fail to show that she secured a
license here.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09
DR.. MARY WALKER TO RESCUE
Writes to sioux Falls wOmen About
the Case of Mrs. Roland ID.
MoIineux.

SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Dec. S.-(Special
Telegram. jim a communication to the ed
itor Of the Sioux Falls Daily Press, which
will appear in that paper tomorrow, Dr..
Mary Walker comes to the defense of Mrs.
Roland B.. Molineux, whose reported isola-
ton at a local hotel doubtless has aroused
the sympathy of the famous champion of
dress reform for women. DR.. Walkers
communication. which Is dated Fruit VAL
ley. N. Y. is in full as follows:
Will you say to the women of Sioux
Falls that all humane women will appre-
ciate them II those outside of Mrs, Blanche
Molineux's hotel will show a little of sis
terly kindness by calling on her? What
she has suffered as the wife of a wronged
man they or their daughters some time
may suffer. Why she deserves a divorce
is her own secret and no polite person
will inquire. Throw a little sunshine into
her life. The sun will not miss the same.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09
Iowa state News Notes.

The town of Sloan proposes to administer
its own public utilities and has just COM
pleted and paid for a water plant.
Lew Mare. a Harlan barber. shaved a
corpse, blood poisoning ensued from a
scratch and he died in a few days.
The agitation for better pay for colAmon
school teachers still goes on In Iowa, but
as yet the pay is no better than II was.
Notwithstanding the teachers complaints
about wages Iowa Is planning a big educa-
tional exhibit at the ST. Louis exposition.
The students at Amity college the other
night hoisted a goat to the top of the OBJ
~servatory. The animal did not seem TO care
half so much as the faculty.
The state capitol ls found 10 be deplor-
ably out OF repair and the repair commits
icners will have to expend thousands OF
dollars more than was expected.
II remains 10 be seen whether the lows
implement dealers. who are now aroused
and I'm a fighting mood, will come out any
better than the farmers with the harvester
trust.
Robert ]. Burdette, jr., has Just begun
newspaper work on the Burlington Hawk
eye, on which his father became famous
as a humorous writer more than twenty
Ave years ago.
With the price for husking corn at 4
cents a bushel Mrs. James Grouse OF
Bushy went with her husband into the
corn field and he has had TO hustle all fall
to keep up with her. She is OF small stat
ure. but has husked as high as sixty bush
els in a day.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09
N. i Plumbing Co.. telephone 25s.
Report Of Public Library.

At the regular monthly meeting of the
board Of trustees Of the free public library
yesterday afternoon ]. ]. Stewart and W.
S. Baird we're the only members present.
The report Of the librarian for November
gave these statistics: Number OF visitors,
1865; number OF visitors on Sundays, 154;
number Of registered book takers, S,lSs;
number Of books taken, 5,4Ss, Of which nc
tion comprised 1894; number OF books in
circulating library. 1880 amount paid out
for rented" books to December /. S32s.25;
amount received from same, Ss29.5l, show
ing a surplus OF Si0.26 on the credit side
OF the ledger. The report OF the finance
committee showed a balance Of S2.035.s6 In
the library fund on December l.