The Arizona sentinel., 1905-03-08
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EubIic School News
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Mr. Charley Woodson, son of ye ed itor of 'SchCol News" is now taking course at the Pacific School Of Teleg- raphy in Los Angeles, and when he graduates, in April he will be assistant in the same institution.
 Prof. Claude Riddle left Friday night for Watsonville, California, where he contemplateS purchasing an orange farm. Our socialist friends here thus lose one of their strongest advocates, but they will continue on the cold trail, always dreaming that beautiful dream.
 Isaac Polhamus, Jr.; one of cur brightest seventh grade boys, has re- gently been appointed city circulator for the Los Angeles Times, which work he does at night when most of the other school boys are wrapped in the arms of Morpheus.
 Last Saturday evening our seventh and eighth grade pupils read story about Montezu,na; the last emperor of the Nztecs, and then reproduced same ii essays. Prescott the historfah has written much that fascinstes both boys and girls, and this story from his Con quest of Mexico" is one of his best. You ought to have heard these essays, containins from 15O to 300 words: they | vern hi0hTv credifab1e,
 Our trustees Will please accept th8 gratitude of all the patrons; teachers and pupils for the fifty dollars worth of standard works that will be placed in the schools some time in next month; part of them have already been ordered: We also make grateful acknowledge ment for forty pounds of scratch paper and three gross of lead pencils for all grades of pupils. Our public schools are very fortunate, t0o, in being too high for damages by the recent floods in the Colorado valley. While many other public schools are suspended and the pupils scattered, our Yuma pupils continue in school.
 Yuma public schools have the best and most extensive library of any pub lie school in this part of Arizona. By reference to our librarians books we find that our seventh and eighth grade pupils have read about 150 choice vol umes since the beginning of the pres ent session. No doubt the pupils of the other grades are reading under the direction of their teachers, who, by the way, are always encouraging their chil- dren to read the very best books; and this is right at all times.;
 Let not a systematic course of read ing be passed by as unimportant. Too much of our reading is done merely to kill time: it is an attempt to fly from self. Many of us dare not be alone - even in the rail-car OF on the steam boat. The mind seems endowed with : inertia; hence the cheap hovel-Nick Carter, Diamond Dick or Tip Top finds ready sale. And-too much read ing is done by only the eye, and the tale thus read cannot be recounted, the process of reasoning repeated or the main proposition stated. This should not De a5 any time; hence this advice
 to younger as we'll Gs older readers
 As the lines glfd9 before the eye Fet the powers of tFe mind. be taxed. ! the book Be a HolUme of travels the
 reader should transport Himself to th(
 localities and the scenery described
 let Imagination use her wings ant lively synipathy go forth and mingle with the people Of the cline. This my friends; is reading With the spirit The value of reading also depends < much upon yourself as upon tbe boo: read-pafha,sss r5ore. Frequently therefore, lay aside the book and care fully fecotlecs Wfhrt yoa' have re;sa. il this way retlory vii accu>hAt04at5 fstt
 in history, biography a3f 5hzfoSo 5hy You will also acquire principles f5ST fG ture use, and better still, tha beautifu
 and eevating pictures of yorr fa7orit' poets and prose authors will continu'
 to dwell in your minds even amid tn,
 declining years of cheerful old age
 Coleridge says: "Whatever you read
 have an object in reading it. Read fo
 the discipline Of your mind; the eleva
 tion of your taste, the extension of you e lznowledge; the Improvement of you y heart and the regulation of your con duc5 and life. Read that you may stor' e up lessons of wisdom to apply to your D self; tha6 you may follow every goo y and avoid every evil example, and thu : Fdaify become wiser, happier. broade e and E1tOHe useful to your generation" w