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The San Francisco call., 1904-11-27
STATE SCHOOL TRAINING YOUNG MEN TO FARM

istry relating to the soil, air,
crops and manures. Botany calls for
study Of roots, stems and leaves and
the influence Of heat, cold and moist
ure. Lectures and recitations on agri-
culture include discussions on tillage,
alkali soils, rotation of crops and farm
management. Horticulture deals with
the special theories and practice of
fruit growing in California and all that
relates to the care of vines and trees.
Animal industry and poultry require
thorough studies of breeding and feed
ing Dairying, forestry, irrigation and
veterinary science also claim consid-
erable time The practical work done
in this school will be increased as
rapidly as the State supplies the equip
ment. Students may enter from the
eighth grade of grammar schools. OF
fifty-two enrolled in this. the second
year of the school, twenty are regis
tered for agriculture.
1t is apparent that the school world
furnishes no exception to the sweep
of the mighty social and economic
forces of this age. Consolidation and
concentration seem to be two of its
watchwords late instance of this
worldwide impulse is seen in the plan
for association of the Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology with Harvard
University. A few months ago when
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Magazine. This article gives an ac-
count of the Chicago School of Edu-
cation, which is connected with the
University Of Chicago. Here there is
little need of discipline, as that is or
dinarily understood, for from the first
grade upward the child's attention is
absorbed in fascinating occupations.
1t is a school where not only the child
learns to do by doing" but what is
of vital Importance, learns while do
ing. For the most effective work the
children are divided into groups. In
one of the rooms the little folks may
be noticed as engaged in playing at
farming with boxes of earth in which
various grasses and grains are sown.
Each day the children come to mark
the growth and changes. In summer
this time is spent in work and obser-
walton out of doors. In other rooms
children may be seen using many kinds
of tools, or occupied in cooking, sew
ing. basket making, drawing or paint
ing. One group is busy with mixing
cement and sand, each carefully
weighed and screened, for building a
real furnace. The furnace completed,
the boys build a fire in it and melt va
rious metals, thereby learning many a
lesson in the physics of drafts or the
chemistry of minerals. If left to
themselves all these employments
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Santa Rosa is in straits to furnish the
school children with accommodations
and a bond issue is suggested for the
erection Of one or two school houses.
Mr.. Brush proposes to supply all the
stone needed for one of the buildings,
delivered at the quarry without cost to
the board. Such benefactions are sure
to increase with the growing wealth
of California and the enlarging con-
sciousness that the urgent educational
wants Of small cities cannot be pro-
vided for alone by taxation
The Sacramento County Institute
held during the past week was en-
riched by two lectures given by Rev.
Charles r. Brown of Oakland In these
addresses upon respectively THE Eth
cal Elements in a Teachers influence
and The Life Complete" the speaker
presented the high ideals which may
inspire every teacher and the fullness
of power to which every teacher may
attain. Not the least of the advantages
which are afforded through the annual
institute is an opportunity. not often
otherwise enjoyed. of listening to those
who, from the largeness of their own
experience, can touch the minds and
hearts of those who are daily mold
ing the lives of children.
Five hundred commercial exhibits
are being prepared by the commercial
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would be but play to the children, but
through the instruction given these ex-
ercises in reality become simple les
sons in physics and chemistry, the tex
tile work introduces history and meas
urements required in the carpentry
open the doors to mathematics
In addition to these engaging lessons
the study of modern languages, music,
drawing and color-work runs through
all the grades. Dramatic art is not
overlooked and history is enriched al
most beyond recognition Everywhere
knowledge is studied in its relations
and as nearly as possible in all its rela-
tions. The supreme Importance of the
school is, however, not to be found in
what the children now in school may
acquire nor in what their student
teachers may learn of the science of
teaching. Instead, this institution may
be regarded as a great laboratory
where the problems of education are
being investigated as in those devoted
to physics, chemistry and botany. In
this light the work is unique and is
almost certain to lead to far-reaching
improvements in elementary education
everywhere.
Only the other day splendid thing
wac done in Santa Rosa when an offer
was made by F. A. Brush of that city
to the school board Just at present
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question, he says. Thank ye, says Casey.
I have tn names iv few fellows that have
wurruked hard an I'd like to find places FIR
thim,' he says. My man. says tn Judge,
dye raize that ye ar-re talkin' to tn Pris-
idnt-ilict iv these United States, he says.
IF l did not feel kindly to'rd ye fir ye'er
arnest if sometimes misguided efforts in
me hehalf. l wud have ye raymoved be tn
durekeeper,' he says. AS it is he says, 'ye
can sind tn applications iv ye'er frinds to
tn clerk iv tn civil sarvice commission,
who has charge iv tn day laborers, he says.
AN there ye ar-re. Why do boys go to
Harvard an Yale? Is il because iv Eliot
an Hadley or because iv Hurley an Hogan?
/ read tn accounts iv tn futball game. Th
line up was as follows: Hogan, Rafferty,,
Murphy, MCGUIRE, Hurley, Cooney, Shev-
lin, Muldoon, Cassidy, Peabody, Van Rem
seller. Afther fifteen minyits Peabody re-
tired At tn end iv twinty minyits Van
Renseller was called out be his ma Fla
herty an Hinnissy in. Hogan through
guard. Murphy pushes Mcclure through
tackle. Cooney slams Satonstall on tn
ground an breaks his back Shevlin throws
Witherspoon over tn fence. An so on till
me eyes fill with tears an | have dhreams iv
invadin' Canada with an ARMY iv young
Anglo-Saxon futball scholars firm Kerry an
tn County Mayo. An that night Prisidint
Hadley or Prisidint Eliot makes an address
at tn Kings birthday dinner an rejoices in
our inthrest in Anglo-Saxon spoorts an con-
gratylates TIL wurruld that hereafter if Eng
land has a war we will have a chance to do
most iv tn hghtin' an pay half tn money.
Il wondher why it isl l suppose it's be-
cause we like tn game more thin TIL re-
wards Wan iv tn Anglo-Saxons who helped
ilict Rosenfelt wud give up his job rather
thin be pollytician an l suppose Hogan
is thinkin' all through tn game that it's tn
Prince Nv Wales he has against him on tn
opposin' line"
well" said Mr. Hennessy. IF thought
this was an Anglo-Saxon victhry ! wud
niver have voted TIL way I did"
What" exclaimed Mr. Dooley. "An' did
you, too2 Well, be Hivens. if it hadn't been
Fl me. if wud have been unanimous"
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Vt cannot be doubted that a great
boon has lately come 10 Califor-
MIA through the establishment Of
the Polytechnic School at San
Luis Obispo This is a State in
stitution OF high school rank in
which no charge is made for tuition.
Prominent, If not chief, among it's ben
efts is the thorough and scientific in
struction given in agriculture. No
teaching Of greater material value.
present and future, can be offered in
this State. The course is one of three
years In the first year the work is
the same for students in agriculture
and in mechanics. During the second
year while due attention is given to
mathematics. chemistry. English and
drawing, the number of periods per
week devoted TO agriculture is increas-
&c 10 twelve In the third and last
year the agricultural subjects are given
fifteen periods each week 1t is TO be
understood that as this school has for
one Of its chief objects the training OF
young men for farming, an intelligent
understanding Of the problems Of their
life work must involve familiarity with
q broad curriculum. This embraces
some knowledge of the general prInci-
pies Of physics, and a more intimate
acquaintance with agricultural chem
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museums of Philadelphia to be placed
in the public schools throughout Penn
sylvania. An experiment made with
several Of these exhibits a few years
ago became so popular that the Legis-
lature was besieged with requests to
have them prepared on a large scale.
Last year an appropriation of s25.OOO
was made for this purpose.
The value Of school fire drills was
shown November 9 during a fire in
Public School No II In New York
City. Under the management of the
teachers all Of the 1900 children march-
ed out in perfect order, not a child
breaking from the ranks, though every
one Wv the building was on fire. The
school was emptied in record time and
when the fremen arrived there was no
one in the building TO interfere with
their work. These fire drills take place
in every New York public school as
often as once a fortnight and may be
called at any moment during study
hour or recess time The regulations
provide for records of every emergency
drill, giving time of first signal and
the actual time of dismissal. Other
rules are in force. having in view the
possible failure Of signals, as well as
the assignment OF certain teachers to
definite locations. from which direc-
tions are to be given.
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President Pritchett placed before the
alumni of his institute a proposal for
such a union it was received with
marked disfavor. Later thought and
consultation, however, are bringing
the support of leading minds in both
institutions The institute, or Boston
Tech" as it is Familiarity called. is the
second technical school in age in the
United States, and in the forty years
since it's doors were first opened has
with its twelve or fifteen courses in
chemistry, electricity, mining, en-
gineering and allied subjects furnished
the finest and most thorough instruc-
ton on scientific lines 1t is not say
ing too much that its 1000 graduates
scattered all over the world have been
leaders in the worlds progress and
material development. BY the pro-
posed union of interests the institute
will doubtless continue to receive its
accustomed income from the State of
Massachusetts, the benefit of it's own
large endowments and, further, will
have the advantage of the fund of
100000 recently given to Harvard
University for science teaching.
One of the most attractive schools
in the country is described in the in
teresting article, "A Radical Expert
ment in Education" appearing in the
November number Of the Booklovers'
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generosity.
Is it, say, a mere accident that the
season pre-eminent for its giving
should also be pre-eminent for it's hap
piness? Is it not rather the operation
of the law of cause and effect? When
are so many bright faces to be seen
on the streets, in the homes-both of
the rich and of the poor, in the hos
pitals, in the almhouses, as can be seen
in these days of exceptional giving?
These are the days when the gener-
Gus mans philosophy needs no argu-
ments to back it. 1t is put into prac-
tIce by the community and demon
strates itself.
These are the days when some of
those hoary old maxims of respectable
selfishness, such as business is bust
ness''-by which is meant that any
amount of grasping and pinching and
squeezing is allowable If by those
means figures can be piled up on the
right side of the cash book; these are
the days when men see the fallacy of
that kind of sentiment and blush for
it. On these ripe days of the year men
look back over the months that have
passed anu lHey see lndl, HIeSpoSdNS
of the cash book, the transactions and
investments that have paid best have
been those which have been
aetuated by the spirit of brother
ly kindness. These transactions and
investments draw compound interest.
Men who have done business of this
kind are constantly surprised by the
returns it brings in. Good measure,
pressed down, shaken together and
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reason the feeling of superiority doesn't
satisfy. That little world (himself) in
which he lives doesn't seem quite so
engrossingly charming during the last
five weeks as it did through the earlier
part of the year So this is the selfish
mans dull season.
What is Thanksgiving day to the man
who lives wholly within himself and
for himself2 Only a day of grudged
ertravagance. On that day when, TO
all right hearted men, the family table
becomes a family altar-laden with Of
ferings to the God of the home-with
father and mother jointly officiating as
priest and priestess, on that day the
selfish man is particularly unhappy
Under pressure Of custom he has been
compelled to expend on this folly most
as much as his cigars will cost during
a whole month and it fills him with re-
sentiment.
May God pity the man who had no
home in which to celebrate Thanks
giving day, but may He also deal
wisely with that man who, hav-
ing a home. either sighted altogether
that sacred day or went through with
the celebration of It grudgingly.
Thanksgiving was a dull day for that
man. And now we are fairly started
toward Christmas. For the next few
weeks most people will be thinking lof
nothing else so much as of that glad
day With all who respond to the real
spirit Of Christmas the happiness of IT
will increase with every day. But the
selfish man viii only grow more un-
easy. and for him each succeeding day
will grow more dull. With his hand
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While Jawn Hay, that gr-reatest iv Ameri-
can statesmen an almost good enough fr
amy Office iv a parochial nature in this
country, remains in charge iv tn govern
mint at Wash'nton. it can have our frind
ship with all that this implies. Afther that
we hope TO have our tariff again thin in
wurrikin' ordher an we won't care We
await returns firm tn city iv Texas an tn
State iv Ohio. Massachusetts, before maxim
amy further commint.'
so We see. Hinnissy. twas TIL Anglo
Saxon vote that did it. l see now what tn
Prisidint was up to whin he sint f'r Cassidy
iv tn Clan-na-Gael. TIL Clan-na-Gael is
wan iv TIL strongest Anglo-Saxon organy-
cations we have. Its whole purpose is TO
improve Anglo-Saxon civilyzation be ilivatin
it. There's ony one way to do it an that's
til way they do. Th' raison Cassidy an
Kelly an Murphy an Burke an Shea an
all TIL boys up an down tn sthreet voted
fr Rosenfelt was because they ar're Anglo
Saxons Th' A. o. H.. which. iv coorse' ye
know names All or H'Englishmen, H was tr
Rosenfelt fr tn same raison. SO 1t was
with tn Anglo-Saxon turnvereins an san
gerfests Me frind Schwartzmeister down
tn sthreet voted FIR Rosenfelt because iv his
sthrong feein' in favor iv cimintin til all-
ance between tn two nations. An he was
ilicted / hear.
q wondher how he'll threat tn
Anglo Saxon firm now on. I'm proud iv
bein' mimber iv that gr-reat race. now
that me attintion has been called to it.
Gawd bless Anglo-Saxony, says l, with all
me heart 1t has made US a free country.
But in handin' around tn medals afther tn
victhry, fain wud see few pinned to
manly coats that were not made in Bond
sthreet Give all tn branches iv that no
bic herd a chance.
But this is tn way it usually goes: About
year befure iliction man be TIL name iv
Sheehan or Sullivan or Casey makes UP his
mind that it's about time to think iv NOM
nynatin' somebody f'r tn PRESIDENCY. He
looks around him an havin wanst run
acrost a fellow in TIL Ligislachure firm
down tn State somewhere that niver made
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gripping the coins in his pockets he
will watch the busy Christmas shop
pers and frown al the smiles on their
faces. He hates those silly people, for
they keep UP the Christmas sentiment
and by the very weight of the senti-
ment they foster compel even the self
fish man to feign a celebration. BY
every grudging gift he makes he feels
himself detrauded. Who earned this
money which must be spent for Christ
mas? Who loves this money most?
Who would most appreciate the things
this money can buy? To each of the
questions the selfish man says: 1.
He hates Christmas, for Christmas robs
him. And after all, isn't the selfish
man wise when he hates Christmas?
What interest can such a man feel in
the birth, or life and death of One
who was at once the typical gift and
typical gfver of all history? The sell
fish mans quarrel with Christmas is
we'll founded and logical His i'm
pulses are unerring when they con-
strain him to hate the birthday Of Him
who said: ''It is more blessed to give
than to receive;" and then exemplified
His own philosophy by giving His life
for men.
No, there is nothing very surprising
in the fact that the year always goes
out in dullness for the selfish man.
Christendom has conspired-no matter
what philosophy has dominated the
earlier part of the year-that at least
the last five weeks of every year shall
be governed by love and the thought
of others. While the selfish man con-
tinues his selfishness / am glad he
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running over has been returned upon
all such transactions.
This is the season when selfishness
is caught out and kindliness has its
inning. These are the days when the
generous man finds congenial tasks. but
they are dull times for the selfish man.
How apt thing it is that this clos
ing season of the year should begin
with day of thanksgiving and end
with day of giving-apt and yet not
preconcerted. We owe Christmas to
one branch of the Christian church
and Thanksgiving to quite another
branch, so the now accepted order
was not prearranged. 1t simply grew
out of the eternal fitness Of things
first to be thankful for blessings re-
ceived and then to give. Each festival
seems to demand the other.
The man who is out Of sympathy
with this closing season Of the year II
guilty of the allied vices, ingratitude
and stinginess. From friends, society,"
native land, from God above all he
receives the good things Of life and
never says Thanks" With a life
crowned with good things and with
people all around with whom he could
well share his goods he grips his
purse in an iron grasp.
He is out Of sympathy with the
grateful. out of sympathy with the
kind, out OF sympathy with the whole
glad and busy community. Poor fell
lowl Let's pity him and NIL up his
stocking on Christmas eve. Perhaps
his one remaining virtue is a sense Of
shame.
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finds this part of the year unsatis-
factory-a dull season. This is the
harvest time of love and kindness and
good cheer. May the harvest ever be
increased, and the glad reapers more
busy.
There are times enough in the
year when it appears, to those
who are not blessed with very
good memory or much insight
as though the selfsn man had
really, the right idea of living. The
man whose philosophy can be COM
pressed into the old saw, Look out
for number one" can under most con-
ditions manage to make what looks
like fair demonstration of that phil
osophy. But there certainly are times
when men see more clearly than at
other times, when their memories reach
back further, and at such times the
weakness of the selfish mans position
is sure to be seen. Self1shness thrives
partly from lack of consideration. Liv-
ing in houses made up too largely of
glass we hesitate about throwing
stones. At this time or the year, how
ever, when generosity both flowers and
fruits, it is easy to muster up courage
and condemn this vice, so common
among us. The selfish mans theory is
false; for the best and happiest and
most prosperous man is that one who
looks out not alone for number one
but for others who are around-who
loves his neighbor as himself.
Think of the results-oIg and little
of selfishness how they have marred
the life of the community in the last
nine and a half months. Think of the
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wrongs, contemplate in themselves,
but mighty in their evil consequences,
which have been allowed to live on,
simply for the want of unselfish cham
pions of the truth What the annual
outburst of the spirit giving should
bring to us this year-the best Christ
mas present the whole community
could have-would be a few more men
self-sacrificing enough to give them
selves as the tireless foes Of unright-
eousness and champions Of the good.
Think of the deserving poor, the vic
Tins of poverty-not of purse alone,
but of mind and body and spirit-who
have gone on in their want simply be-
cause selfishness has found it inconven-
lent to help. Think of the rudeness
and lack of consideration hich have
ruthlessly marred so many lives, and
all because the selfish man las been
too busy thinking of himself to study
and practice the art of kindness. In
this, the busy season of generosity, let
us think of these things and learn the
lessons they suggest.
Is it an accident that these last clos
ing weeks of the year are marked by
exceptional generosity and exceptional
happiness? There can be no doubt as
to these two facts. In these closing
weeks of the old years life there is
more giving of gifts than during all
the other nine-tenths Of the year COM
bined There are gifts TO relatives.
gifts to friends, gifts to the poor. gifts
to causes, footing up splendid to-
tal-almost all coming within the
weeks between Thanksgiving and New
Years. This is the grand festival of
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time keepin' Judge Higgins chained down
at home an feedin him firm time TO time
with canned principles. Th' judge is NOM
mynated an makes a whirlwind campaign.
He supplies tn wind an Casey supplies the
whirl. Ivrybody takes kick at Casey. TIL
opposition papers ar-re in favor iv hangin'
him. The pa-apers iv his own party lament
that tn campaign shud be in tn hands iv
such man whin there are such pathrites
as Perkins an Sanderson who ought to be
at headquarters. They are at headquar-
theirs, on'y tn papers don't know it. They
ar-re at headquarters an Casey is rehear-
sin thin in their speeches an showin' thin
where to mark their ballots.
"On iliction day Casey fixes it up with
his frind Mulligan in New York, O'Brien in
Saint Looey, Mulcahey in Boston, O'Shay
in Hartford, Butler in Buffalo. Doherty in
San Francisco. Dorney in New Orleans,
Hennessy in Columbus. Sullivan in Chicago
an McGann in Keo1uk an Judge Higgins
is triumphantly ilicted. TIL mornin' afther
iliction Casey larns that tn raysult is looked
upon as a triumph fr an Anglo-Saxon pol
icy. He don't shout himself hoorse over
that because his on'y acquaintance with an
Anglo-Saxon policy was whin his family
was dhriven out iv tn County Kerry be a
bailiff with an Anglo-Saxon bludgeon but
he goes over to see tn Judge. We'll. Casey
says he. 1 done very we'll he says 'Ye
did f'r a fact says Casey. 1T was a great
triumph f'r me- says tn Judge. L think
what knocked thin was me last speech in
Hoboken 1T was great vote getter,' says
Casey. Wells says tn Judge, 4 can't spare
ye amy more time to-day, me humble frind,
he says. I'm busy maxim up me Cabinet,
he says. 1 have decided to appint tn Hon
rable Peabody Perkins iv tn District iv Co.
lumbia sicrity iv state. He is particularly
fitted f'r tn place, havin' spint all but tn
las six weeks iv his life in England. His
appintmint is endorsed be tn London
Times. / have also' he says, Offered tn
job iv sicrity iv tn inteeryor to tn Hon
rable Ponsonby Sanderson. He is tn high
chief guy in tn Lille Orange Lodge an will
know JUS how to handle tn public school