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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-07-05

Spragins & Co, will furnish you
all the fruit jars you need. They are
Mason's and the best. l5d&w
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We are finishing thousands of ko-
dak pictures. Let us finish yours.
SO. WEBB, the Photographer.
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The Benevolent Society will meet
with Mrs. w c. Kendall Tnurs day
afternoon at 3 o'clock.
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Ed House Of Davis is in the city.
c. W. Rowland OF willis is In the
city.
+. G. Tucker of Quanah is in the
city
J. r. Lawrence Of Ada is in the
city
T. NJ. Bechey Of Francis is in the
city.
Ell. Bozarth Of Oklahoma City is
here.
Henry Pruitt is in the city from
Cornish
w. L. Peters of Cnickasha is IN
the city.
]. NJ. Lindsay of Gainesville Is in
C1o city.
Price Patterson of Mays,ne Is IN
the city
\ J. Foster is in the city from
Berwyn.
c. l.. Evans is in the city from
Gainesville.
c. \. Berles is in the city from
Burneyyillc.
T. c. Braunum OF Pauls Valley is
in the city
W. ]. Rogers is in the city from
Connersville.
Dr. Everett Booth is in the city
from Graham.
Les Kearney returned yesterday
from St Louis.
Jesse Holland was here today from
near Overbrook.
w. l.. Buckholts of Duncan was in
the city yesterday.
r. West and W. E. Haggard are
here from Madill.
w. n. Taliaferro of Madill was in
the city yesterday.
G. r. Cathey left today for a busi-
ness trip on the Frisco.
H. p. Markham and family are in
the city from Pauls Valley.
Mrs. G. T Cathey and baby left to-
day to visit relatives at Wynnewood.
d. NJ. Hyden, Whit Hyden and ST.
mon T. Lewis are here from McGee.
l.. 7. Smith and daughter, Miss
Eva, are in the city from Lexington.
w. II. Moore and c. II. Humphrey
of South McAlester were in the city
yesterday.
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turned from a stay of three months
in Los Angeles. Cal.
Miss Maye Young returned yester-
day from Fort Worth where she has
been visiting friends and relatives.
w. l.. Kendall and wifo Douglass
Haggard, ]. S. Welch a.. family,
Mrs. ]. f. Mcmillan and Miss Lula
Price of Madill are in the city.
Jerry Washington is here from
Marietta
A. S. Burney from Marietta came
up this morning.
Joseph Smith left for Dallas yes
| teruay afternoon.
A, c. Cruce and family leave tomor-
tow for ST. Louis
Sid Mullhallan returned this morn
ing from st. Louis.
Mrs T. Y. Bonner went to Tisho-
mingo today to visit friends.
Misses Tena and Daisy Harris have
returned from visit to Pauls Valley.
Harold Wallace has returned from
Terrell, Texas, whero re visited rela-
tiYes.
w. b. Johnson and c. o. Bum left
yesterday for st. Louis and the Dem.
ocratic convention.
j, w. Evenridge, Jno Oaks, f. NJ.
Evenridge and r. NJ. Eaverton are in
the city from Grant, l. T.
Rev. c. c. Weith and family and
Porter Staples and family left today
for an outing at Oil Springs.
G. b. Bingham, Clint Graham, j, II.
Addle and VIII Bleakmore left for
Tishomingo today on business.
Prof. j. K. Hendrix left today for
Ada, where he has been elected SUI
perintendent Of public schools.
Miss Willie Attoway who has been
visiting in the city for some time re-
turned to Norman this morning.
Mrs. Edna Harper and children who
have been visiting in the city return
ed to their home at Sulphur today.
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Court adjourned yesterday for the
term and Judge Townsend will leave
for his summer homo in Colorado to-
night or tomorrow.
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J. C. Freddy makes a speciality Of
handsome buggy harness. 3
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Nice road buggies from s35 up at
Williams, Corhn & Cos.
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Moon Bros. buggy, the queen of the
road, at j. c. Preddy's.
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FOR RENT-Four room cottage. with
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street. Apply l. r. Mason's office.
27tf.
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FOR SALE-One 20-horsepower side
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Bile engine. Positively good as
new. Also one large double-door
Cary safe. Easy payments or
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FOR SALE-Cheap, a second hand
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good as new. Sidney Suggs.
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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-23

10 inherit officially as your trustees,
heSpeak for YOU their most hearty
good viii, their most loya! support,
and a united responsiveness to any
thing you may suggest for the bet
telment Of our schools. | have every
; reason to believe you will enjoy the
same kindly courtesy from school
officers, school patrons and school
children.
have no ADVICE to offer you in the
administrations Of your work, yet |
assure yon that l shall not hedge my
self about with an Invisible wall OF
GOODNESS, but that should you deem
LIT judicious to hold a consultation
with me at any time for the purpose
of voluntarily securing advice, l shall
| be pleased to counsel with you.
You bring to your work the largest
and most comprehensive experience
of any man or woman who has ever
filled the position; therefore, we all
unite in looking to you for great
things. i trust you may keep your
health and enjoy the work as great
ly as l, and l %bequeath to you a rev.
erent friendship and my best wishes
for your constant success.
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Pop-Gun Education.

''rhere is, however, n defect in
your present work, that needs to be
remedied. This is pop-gun edu-
cation. BY this | mean that facts
are given to the chiids' mind in the
same fashion that a pop-gun is load
ed. One wad is put in and then an
other placed behind it, and by. means
of a hammer, the first n is blown
out. Just so in our school work.
One fact is given to the child for
absorption. The next day, without
any review or attempt to fasten the
first fact in the child's mind or to
connect it with the lex idea, a new
one is inserted, and by means OF a
rapid examining process, the first fact
is shot out while the new n is
moved forward to take its place"
After making some recommendations
along this line, he gave the following
recipe for teaching:
"An ounce Of praise, an ounce of
blame.
OF smiles and frowns about the same;
a pinch of humor, one of fun;
Temper smooth to make things run:
a soft word dropped, a harsh word
broke
These to be moistened with a joke;
(Don't let it be too dry.)
A dash Of vigor, n of health;
No foolish dreams Of easy wealth;
A cup of patience, one OF love,
With sympathy just as above:
a pound Of judgment, one Of sense,
Three Of eternal v%ig;lance;
a little sweetness, tact, and calm;
A hint Of muscle-quite enough
To head off any kind Of Lluf;
OF knowledge just an ample store.
The methods must be OF the best,
Strong enough to face a test.
Now add firmness to the rest:
Pepper with the rod and rule,
To preserve order in the school.
Mix these all with greatest care.
Coed results will then be thine
And your friends will come to dine
Mr.. Coursey criticised at length,
many of the modern methods of in
struction, showing that from results
obtained they were not as good as
former methods, He said: "1he
tendency Of the present teacher is to
help a pupil out of every tiny diff
Guilty. Everything is sugar coated and
fed to them i'm such a way that they
acquire it like parrots. repeating it
at will, but crippled forever to com
bat with the great struggle Of life.
Our Washingtons, Lincolns, and Nc
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Discipline.

This leads US a to a discussion of
The question OF school discipline. |
have at all times urged you to MAIN
tain a high standard Of discipline i'm
your schools, for nc school can be
made q legitimate factor in educa-
tion without it. Whenever trouble
has arisen because of some punish
ment administered, | have invari-
ably sustained the teacher. One of
the most abominable fads ever inject
ed into modern pedagogy, is the
aheory of 'self-guvernment' iu
school,. 1t might be made to work
in cur colleges where only mature
minds are assembled together(yet his
assertion Gems highly improbable
when we stop to consider the number
II students facultized in each Of
them, each year,) Or in our high
schools to a certain extent or in a
ANAL country school where only a
few 'goody eoody' children are as
Semtled together; but it never
has and it can be made
to work....successfully in the average
rural or graded school.
HIn theory it is all right. | am will
ing to admit that 'self-government
based upon honor is the highest kind
Of governments but from observa-
ti0n and experience | am not so sure
that our average class of bows and
girls, in their natural tendencies,
quite approach this ideal. This was
she first kind of government ever
aIied on earth, inaugurated in the
Garden of Eden, when Adam and
Eve were entrusted with self-govern-
Ment, and it proved a hopeless fail
aIe, leaving its consequences to
furse, for all times, the unborn en-
frations of the earth. 1t is wrong
10 think that it can be used with
unqualified success in the average
school. | am glad to note that the
pendulum is swinging from the old
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-23

time three R'S-rud, rule ami rum
ard the new time thee RS run
Things Yourself, rascality and ruin
each extreme producing similar re-
.suitS-back 10 a move respectable
standard where school children are
neither mercilesSly abused nor gov
erened With that deluSive, modern
educational paroNysm-'Govern your
self, Johnnie AS this is n OF the
live questions of the day, | do NOS
desire to leave any doubt as to where
| stand on it. ! believe first, last,
and always in enforced, and when
necessary, in Reinforced discipline ;
in d we'll regulated school; in the as
sertion OF the teachers authority,
and her legal right and moral obli-
CATION to teach obedience to and rev.
erence for superior authority.
After all the question of school dis
cipline centers itself in the personal
lily Of the teacher. This personality,
this indescribable something, is
largely will power unconsciously as
serted. II in the teachers very
countenance is manifested that IN
seen something, which we call per-
sonality, discipline will be easy. II
this is lacking, enforced discipline
becomes necessary with practically
all Of the scholars; If it is present,
few corrections may have to be made.
This is exactly why n teacher can
easily govern a school in which an
other teacher has wholly failed"
One of the most interesting parts
of his address was lis explanation of
a new psychological theory called
The Power of Suggestion" He
showed how a teacher holds over a
pupil in personality, and by calling
him "a thief" or Ia hero he de-
velops along the line of her sugges-
tion. Applying this to his work be
stated that he had never mentioned
any of the bad he had noticed in his
teachers work, hut mad always mag
nitied their good, leaving their in
lirmities to lie dormant while in
many cases these defects had died out
altogether, because the teacher hac
been en!arging along the lines OF hel
best endeavor. He suggested that
the teachers read more newspapers,
school journals and magazines, anc
more books of a general character.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-23
Morality in Education.

''Children are composed of three
natures, body, mind and spirit. To
introduce calisthenics into our
schools for the purpose of developing
their bodies, and a school curriculum
for the training of their minds, with
out employing any agency that would
imprint indelibly upon their con-
sciences their spiritual obligations.
would leave d task for society in gen
eral and for our Sunday Schools i'm
particular, and for the church. that
they would never be able to meet.
In the language of DR.. Thomas Mich
son, Culture divorced from p'ety
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Talks to His Successor.

"Before closing, | wish to say a
few things about, and address a few
remarks to, my successor. First. let
me say that it takes u person possess
ing a multiplicity OF virtues, to
make an all-round, successful county
superintendent. The publ: is COM
posed Of a variety of temperments
and dispositions. The Superintend-
ent is brought in direct contact with
all Of these. While a superintendent
has got to be kind, loving, gentle,
sociable, polite, judicious. reserved,
sober, a leader. a listener, an edu-
Gator, a lawyer. and a politician,
there are still three great qualitica-
tionS that he must possess, and
which. to a certain extent. embody
these other virtues which ! have
enumerated. They are experience,
courage and common sense" after
explaining the three qualifications at
length, and showing how an ont-go-
ing superintendent could either as
sist or handicap his successor, adj
dressing Supt. Quieley he said: :"
have. therefore, done all within my
power to make your work easy,
pleasant and successful. The office
has been thoroughly cleaned, the
pigeon-holes ridded of useless rec
ords. the school blanks carefully class
itied and put in theiI shelves
the certificate book contains a COM
plete description of all the conditions
under which certificates have been
issued; all of the old teachers exam,
ination manuscripts, except for those
certificates now in force. have beer
destroyed my last annual report il
complete and covers all phases OF tllt
work in detail every school is sup
piled with Il good, hard Wor king
teacher, all OF whom are thoroughly
%organized into divisions for monthly
meetings: every school board in the
county has a complete corps Of mem.
bers, and things are in fine working
order. Right here, | desire to drop
a suggestion to you teachers tina.
may be of service to all concerned
n superintendent is simply his teach
ers' mirror. He reflects back to then
only that which lie receives, modulat,
ed but slightly by bis own personality
AS the conduct of children in d Schoo
room seasons the teachers conduct
toward them, so inspiration, enthusi.
assn and responsiveness must eman
ate from the teachers. only to b'
%re-echoed to them by their snperin
tendent. | have never worked will
a class of teachers, Mr.. Superintend
ent. possessed of this spirit in great.
er abundance than those you arc soor
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-23
Has Many to Thank.

''Before closing | desire to thank
those at whose hands | have received
so many courtesieS. | thank the
public for It's indulgence and forbear-
ance; teachers, officers and children
for their loyal support and frlend-
ship; the many families i'm each
township in the county, who have
thrown their doors wide open to me
during my viSltatlonS, and permitted
me to share their hospitality: and to
those trained musicians who. when
ever asked, have responded to my in
vitations to appear before and enrich
our public gatherings with their nat
urai and acquired ability. | thank
my predecessor for his attitude to-
ward me: the state for its service, and
all those who have assisted i'm to-
days program. To one and all | en-
tertain the kindliest feelings.
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aud character, is Il aelusion and a
snare. Again this reverts us to
the responsibility OF the teacher.
Might each of YOU realize how your
lives will bc lived owe again in after
years, by those little ones to whom
you are now imparting your person
a~lltieS. Low dances whose chief eli
MAKES are drunken brawlS. or games
of chance, extreme Stiffness, lack OF
ordinary piety, irreverence for the
sabbath. llght-minded criticisms Of
the church, indecent alluSion to God,
profanity and intemperance, are all
things that will not voluntarily, and
cannot be made TO involuntarily,
harmonic themselves with the
work and life Of the successful teach
er. In my humble Judgment, after
watching for so many years the ire
mendous influence eXerted on plastic
child-mind by the teacher-under
normal conditions, the child's ideal
Il am convinced that the teacher
whose life is pure and refined. by her
example before her children. SILENT
ly, unconsciously and without effort,
breaches to them a more lasting and
%etfectual sermon than any to which
they ever listened from the most
eminent divine. oh, teachers, do not
underestimate your r%esponsit ilities.
The Christianity OF Jesus Christ is
the noblest, the purest. the simplest,
and the truest philosophy eve
! taught His own spotless life is its
purest eNempliticalion. LII that phil
osophy, so beautifully begun by Him
On earth, chrystalizcd and enameled
by His W blood on Calvary. trans
mitted, mistaken by agnosticS, from
the Cross down Through the flood OF
years to the present hour, is valuable
for anything, it is worthy of a place
III every school, not as something to
he taught, hut something to be prac-
ticed. Your emulation of His en-
ample will lie your Su1est foundation
for place, beng to you your highest
reward, and enhance the value oil
YOUR services in any neighborhoOd,
care not what its habits may be.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-23

K!nleys were not trainei in schools OF
this cnaracter. They we're set on
hardwood benches aud told to get
their lessons, The very BEST there
was in them was brought out aud de
veloped. When Il nation was to he
born, a nation saved, and IL nation
reunited, each crisis had its savior"
He declared the wage question was
responsible from the gradual dimi-
mutton in the percentage of men
teachers IN South Dakota, since 1880;
that the increase in teachers salaries
had raised this percentage 3 per cent
since September i, 1908.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-23
Sociability.

Again addressing you all in gener-
al, permit me to say that being a
nan who is extremely sociable by
birth, instinct and training, l have
ut all times, during my official life,
been easy to approach. For this rea-
son | nave been made the c%ontidant
of you all. School children on the
playground, teachers in school and
at my Office. school officers on the
public highway and at their homes.
have all sought tor and have had
periods for private consultation. and
have disclosed to me, not only their
grievances. sorrows, and JOYS, but
their personal desires. Addressing
the graduting class at the corn pal
ace in the summer OF 1901, | said,
The betrayal OF another'S conf
dence is the baSest of social crime.
| enew that same sentiment now.
| take with me from the office a
fund of private information about
practically every home in the county.
This information on account of my
personal accessibility and ready SYM
pathy, has come to me voluntarily.
1T shall not be betrayed. inteno
to leave it all lie dormant i'm the
ante-room Of INV memory and thus
endeavor to bury it in the sea OF
eternal forgetlulness. retaining tol
myself only the satisfaction of having
thus enjoyed your confidence.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-23

ness Of having done my best, putting
forth my noblest endeayor along all
sines of thought, activity aud super
vision, Tor their upbuildine and adj
vancement, will forever he my high
est reward. ask none other. True,
everybody will who is brought into
such peculiarly close contact with
the individual public; yet in care
fully going owe the reasons for this
estlangement. i'm nearly ever case, l
find 1t is the result Of a personal IA
vor to somebody denied on my part,
because 1t infringed upon the law
which l was sworn to uphold and
under bonds to enforce.
81 shall not leave the county, but
shall remain here and be one of you,
and [ sincerely trust that | may en-
Joy your unqualified friendship in the
future, the same us in the past. [
shall not return to the school room
and contine MY future life between
its narrow %prison-like walls, even
though | have always thorouhly en-
ioyed the work and conscientiously
believe that,
No higher nobler duty ever claimed
the mind and hand,
No other field Of labor calls for hearts
more true and grand,
The minds that soon shall have con-
troll of this, u happy land,
Are trusted to our care
" With love toward all, with
malice toward none,' | leave with
you all my best wishes for your fu-
ture happiness and success, and in
the broad range of future years if
you find that | can ..be OF any addi-
tional service to any Of you, feel free
to ask, as | shall at all times hold
myself i'm readiness to try and redeem
my obligations to you, arising from
your confidence your Friendship and
your support. With a grateful heart
for all these blessings, [ bid you all,
for the last time, Officially, an atfec-
tionate Farewell.
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Talks to School Children.

Among tue numerous acquaintance
es l have made while superintendent
there are uone whose friendship |
prize more highly than that Of the
school children OF the county.
have written to you, come to see you.
talked with you. urged YOU to
do right, encourage sou with various
rewards; aud assure you that at this
closing hour OF my supervision. no
relations are harder to break, and
no associations will be mo1e greatly
missed than yours. Having gradual
ed 123 of you, [ naturally feel very
greatly concerned about your future
welfare"
Mr.. Coursey then addressed the
teaches OF the county at length, re-
viewing his relations to them, the
xcessive demands he had made upon
their time and patience, and their
united response at all times to bis
wishes.
Treating the pathetic side of the
question. lie said: ''During the
period of my supervision, Death has
made its encroachments into many
homes throughout the county. but
Gods infinite goodness has spared to
US the life Of every teacher, save
one. Miss Laura Hubbard. a splen.
did specimen of noble young woman.
hood, loved and revered by us all
vas the only one summoned to ioir
sTle innumerable caravan which
moves
To that mysterious liealm where eacf
shall take
His chamber i'm the silent halls OF
death.
X /.
Not forever and not from sight,
But nearer to Gods sweet kindly
light;
Through the mists of a stoYnlcss sea
Where all the heroes of ages Se.'
Discussing a teachers problems he
declared that the greatest problem
before the educational world today
lis the Parent Problem. He said, 81
can only be solved by educating TIL,
parents for several generations to th,
fact that the teacher, from the time
children leave home to go to schoo
until they return, is the compin,
substitute for both father and moth
er, and that they must stand by th,
seacher il the children are ever t.
become law abiding citizens.
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