The Arizona sentinel., 1905-04-05
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Public school news is scarce and we
must have something doing. If no
teacher resigns. gets married or dies
how are we to report the sad news to
the l0ng-suffet'ing and expectant pub
lie? If school trustees, patrons and
professional men Will not visit the
schools we cannot say in this column
that our schools have received the dis
tinguished honor of their presence.
Something ought to be doing in our
public schools to induce school officers
and patrons TO show teachers and pu-
pills more appreciation. For our part
we are simply spreading ourself all
around and doing our best to give the
pupils, patrons and trustees the high
est results that can be obtained in our
public schools. All of US have our ide als:
and our patrons and trustees havs ideals
too, and we may fall far below any of
these ideals In fact whenever any
teacher or set of teachers believe that
thcy have their work VI to the high
est standard of perfection their schools
are sadly in need OF new teachers live
teachers, whose ideals are always ad-
vancing, and which ideals they are al
ways striving for, but which they can
never reach.
tits with genuine sorrow that this
column chronicles the sad news that
Prof. Henry +. Miller, cur predecessor,
lost his life somewhere in Lower Cali
fornia. Let US hope that Prof Miller
has returned to Los Angeles and that
some of us may soon hear from him,
that he had a successful trip, reached
home in safety and is now teaching in
the city schools as he expected.
Taking up the thread Of our editorial
on Reading" in our last paper, we ask
the patient fOrbearance of our readers
while we adduce another illustration
this time more homely but none the
less apt and true, to show why the
teacher and student should never tire
in :he pcrusal Of the best literature Q,
though rewards may come slowly.
.{n old settler from q neiglrbOring
state, who had cmigruted from the
east at an early day, once said that be
had threaded the naZes OF unbrOken
forests, and tra9ersed fruitful fields and
boundIess prairies, had passed through
towns and cities, crossed rivers and
mountains, and had Witnessed monoto-
ny, beauty and grandeur; but OF no
scenes or localities could he give so &C
curate description as the places where
his team had "stafled"--those places
which had caused him labor, perplexity,
perspiratfon and fatigue he evercould
forget. Here is the homely lesson:
The sleeper and more rugged the path
way up to the mountain summit, the
more extensive the prospect; if the
conflict be long and fierce the trophies
of victory shall be commensurate with
the courage displayed and the official
UttS Wv COuDC.
Napoleon, the little 'Corsican lieu
tenant" passed over many a bridge of
which he was wholly forgetful an hour
afterward; but he could no sooner for
get Lodi, that SPAWNED the rushing
waters of the AIDA, than Washington
the passing of the Delaware, or Hanni-
bal the scaling of the snow-clad Alps,
the Siege of Sagdntun, or his oath of
eternal hate to Rome. But the student
e.s well as the soldier has his triumphs.
F'Peace hath her victories no less re-
lrowned than war" Suddenly acquired
wealth does rot remain long with the
possessor The duration, value and
usefulness of all Things in nature bear
a just proportion to the time required
for their acquisition, maturity and per-
lection. The butterfly natures in a
day and sports on gay wing but little
longer, while the years of mans ma
turity rise above 81 score, and yet to
four score and ten are they sometimes
prolonged. Tke sparrow, after few
short weeks, escapes from its nest per-
feet and ftedged in beauty; in as many
years its sweet wsrbles are forever
5tilled, and the forests are resonant
with the music Of other and gayer
songsters; tire eagle, regarded by the
ancients as the messenger of Jove, ac-
fruires its full size not until the lapse
of many years. and its lofty fight is
almost as boEndless. The little plant
that sees but single vernal shower
and then blooms scarcely gladdens the
beholder with its beauty and fragrance
ere it fades forever; while the grand
old forest oak, whose growth is scarcely
perceptible, deffes the storms and tenn
pests of thousand years after the
hand that planted it has mouldered into
dust. w.
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