The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-05-03
.,rnino and Teaching in Washington.


..l,r WASH, April 20, 1906. The
.-ek in March was very warm and
..r,u planting potatoes, but Satur-
..0t cold wind began to blow
lose who did not put their pota-
.,s in the cellar got them frozen,
-0 colder every night for several
.tiI we had the coolest weather
.. winter. Some wheat on the
and was killed and hundreds of
tlther east will have to be re-
.. Those having winter rye are
glunate.
most important event in this
...- the state at present is the build
- railroad along the north bank
... .uumbia river, and which is be-
-.5.y pushed to completion. Much
stone bluff along the north side
-.pendlcularly 100 feet or more
....N tunnels are necessary. This
not very pleasing to the cities
.--t sound as it will take much
s.. Portland. This county will
....lt the first bridge across the
lumbia. An electric road is
ryeyed up the White Salmon
The base of Mt. Adams. By
OF land quite few farmers
their farms for s., 900 or SO,
.ldylng supported their families
-aIs by working in logging
. nile clearing up land enough to
b s wing at home.
7ually bring about fifteen dol
at is months and it costs one
....I to winter them where [ live.
regions, where snow stays Oh
costs more
an clearing up forest home
make my living teaching
When our Institute Instruct-
utly advised us to teach
mostly as an art in the low
.- leaving the science until
membered how much time l
PEND years ago down in Maine
Y make the children compre-
we invert the divisor in
fractions.
rs learn by experience that
nations are not valuable to
..i-e pupil and the one to whom
~ value will sharpen his own
studying it out himself, Our
.ol spoke Of visiting the school
Ter Institute Instructor who
gleat hobby of the science of
and he said he was mean
tJ try to find ont what proper
0us pupils could give scientific
....5gus and lie found but two or
u large class. Our Instructor
That a horse trainer gets a
Larry than a child trainer, and
irst has any faults which need
attention 10 effort is spared to
rs animal a success in the race,
pWner of child very grudging-
.~ half day to look after the
Welfare.
ire reminded Of the attention be-
.H ny the dairyman upon his COWS
use which do not come up to the
ed standard are turned for beef.
5reuts give as much attention to
l.dreu in school as they do to
Larry cows. Few acquaint them
with the methods of those who
.eiI children in charge, but the
WI dairy COWS works in perfect
with the man who tends them.
5truct0r illustrated the effect
-utIon by allusion to his own
ar. When she told him she could
Ter problem he would tell her
ut think you could, my daugh-
..s little later in response to the
lark, Il did not think you had
.5ugh, my daughter" Finally
III look Of determination com
her face, like he had sometimes
sd OH her mothers face. Then
- eomething would be done, and
ri problem was solved. Health
faur injured by overwork than by
'gdy.
many agricultural regions, half
teers and half grown boys are
se9 Iust as hard as men because
3 make beef and the other will
be volprs. But no one would think
FyIsug d half grown colt, because
"1t spoil him. Here the greatest
%. epmes from producing well de-
ped animal.
parents would become as much in
SIZED in their sons and daughters as
.re Il their dairy COWS, they would
.o't that they are forming habits
'.rliou and concentration, tor these
.- handspring of education. They
Id sp that the attention is concen-
Ha Upon something useful and not
something useless or harmful.
intellect and soul need food and
mag.
.e one will furnish the material
guIltions for the intellectual
~ If children and parents should
'H'e the best within reach. Nature
$3.50. storehouse of sense knowledge,
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