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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-01-10

1t is miracle how quickly and
easily DR.. Shallenberger, the Chicago
specialist, cured me Of plies without
a surgical operation after suffering
the torments of everything for long
time.
H. F. Klemp, Readlyn, Iowa.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-27

We desire to have teachers send in
to this department the most laugh
able happening in connection with
their school work.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-27
nights. I've got my lessons" What

nights I've got my lessons" What
is the matter with the boy?"
We said 1t is our opinion that the
fault Is in the school system. Forty,
fifty or sixty children of one grade
but OF various capacities are all put
into the same hopper and at the end
of ten months run out of the same
spout. The brighter pupils are held
back by the duller ones and soon they
have so far Outstripped their less
brilliant class mates that they have
nothing to do or SO little to do in
order to keep along with the class
that they become indifferent and dis
interested. Children should be al
lowed to pass from grade to grade
according to their ability to do so
rather than at certain specified times
OF the school year.
1t might not be quite SO easy for
the teacher, but we must remember
that we pay teachers to work-not
to seeek out the paths of ease.
This same plan seems to me to be
the basic principle which will solve
the boy problem. We must find
enough to keep him employed in some
thing useful.
Young life is full of vitality ever
on the move. Some brains like some
muscles are more vigorous than 9TH
ers; capable of greater eXertion with
less fatigue.
We once heard of a man who when
he had nothing else for his boys to
do, set them to work carrying stones
from one pile across the road to an
other and then back again.
He had grasped the idea that en-
ployment is cure for mischief MAX
ing. but he had not gone deep enough
into the subject to know that boys,
like men, take interest in work only
when something is being accomplish
ed-some good is being done. We
must not keep boys at some drudgery
simply to work off their energy. 1t
must be something useful so that an
interest will be taken in the work.
They must know that it is better to
put this surplus energy into some
useful employment than to waste it
in useless hilarity.
Football, basketball, baseball and
kindred games have been adopted by
many schools and colleges and those
in measure accomplish that end
work off the vitality; but the interest
is often so great as to cause falling
Off of interest in studies This is one
bad feature of school and college
games.
There seems to be born in almost
every child, a spirit of conquest. They
should be carefully guided out of all
paths OF selfish rivalry lest they make
ignoble conquests.
The spirit of money-getting, for a
good purpose, is we'll enough but when
the aim is not we'll directed it may
lead to much harm
We frequently meet men past the
meridian OF life, whose sole aim
seems to have been to get rich and
now as they pause on the brink of
their graves they find they have been
leading a selfish life-some a dishon-
orable life, and they look around in
vain to find they are not appreciated
in their community; they begin to
realize that character is worth more
than money; that while money will
buy friends, it will not buy the de-
sirable kind
Let all your aims be high, your
labors we'll directed, your time we'll
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-27
because they are naturally mean and
maljciOuSly inclinod

maliciOusly inclined.
The first class needs our greatest
sympathy and best instruction.; the
second, our patient endurance and
constant watchfulness; the third
class belongs to lower type of hui
mainly and needs subduing by>force.
They are the ones who need the rod
and need it badly sometimes. OF
course a mere laying on of the switch
In an indulgent sort of way as if one
were half afraid may do more harm
than good.
Before using the rod, however. one
should endeavOr to reason with the
child and point out the path of duty
and show what will result from
wrong-doing. Never promise a child
if he does that again YOU will punish
him. II he has done that which calls
for a punishment he should have it
and no one knows it better than the
child. Very many parents and teach
ers lose control of children by letting
them off with Il promise to punish
them ii they repeat the offense: moth
ers VINO are peer home rulers and
teachers who make failures in school
management have cOwardly way of
saying: IF you do that again I'll re-
port you to your father" or Ito the
superintendent of the school" as the
case may be.
This Is an admission of your own
inability to govern and the child quick
ly determines this.
There are other important matters
that need our attention. Every child
should be taught to do something USE
full at home; to help maintain himself
hn, ,crht 1,6,, hoy
cient means to allow his children to
grow up in idlaness.
The one great aim in life should
be to be OF some use to ourselves
and to the world in general: to make
humanity better for our having lived;
to SO live that when we have gone
our good deeds and good examples
remain to tighten the paths of 9TH
ers.
How is this to be accomplished?
the cities seem to be blessed with
the largest families: the father and
mother work from morning UNI
til night fighting the wolf from
the door and have no time to
devote to the case of their off
spring; they have no work for little
hands to do and children grow up
in idleness and Satan finds some
mischief still for idle hands to do"
If children are not given some good
work to do they will find room for
mischief. Let us lay this down then,
as Il cardinal virtue: Children must
be given some useful employment"
1t is very necessary that both par
ent and teacher give heed to this.
The successful teacher has learned
that busy work" is the key to sue
cess in the management of even little
tots. How much more essential that
older ones, whose power for doing
evil is greater, should be kept busy.
Only recently Il parent said: You
have had long experience in the
school room. Tell me what is the
trouble with my little boy. When he
first started to school he was greatly
interested in the work; he is bright
and learns his lessons readily; he
used to bring his books home and
study nights: he seems to have lost
interest in his school work and when
asked why he does not bring his books
home says: Il don't have to study
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-27
The Boy Problem.

Written for the Home and School
Dept:
There cOnfrOnts every parent of a
boy. at some stage OF that boys ca
reer, an enigma, conundrum, Il
problem or some mysterious question
to solve, the solving OF which seems
beyond human ken.
1t has been said by some sage:
Give me the handling of a boy until
he reaches the age Of eight and I
will vOuch for him ever after" If this
he true, that the proper training of Il
boy lies within those few brief years.
then the problem must he solved chief
ly by the mother with the assistance,
part of the time, from six to eight
years OF age, of some lady teacher,
for 1t is during this early period OF a
boys life that very few fathers give
very serious attention to his boy.
Sometimes the child may be placed
under the guidance of a nurse: some
times the child, by the loss of his
mother by death, divorce or from
some other cause, becomes the charge
of relatives or entire strangers, SO
that. after all, the mother is not al
ways responsible for even this period
of child-life.
There seems to be no definite plan
to fOllow--no well-defined course laid
down for the guidance of the child.
In fact, it is stated that what is food
for one is poison for another, and we
find that all boys, because of their
different temperaments, cannot be
handled precisely the same in all
things, yet there should be some we'll
defined general course to pursue in
the rearing of children.
Whether we are to let them just
grow up like 'Topsy," or put them I'M
der strict discipline, or whether it
is better to strike q happy medium are
questions we must determine or
should determine before we become
parents.
Anyone who has passed the meri-
dian of life can recall those days of
corporal punishment in our homes
and at school when it was generally
conceded that to spare the rod was
to spoil the child. OF course. in this
matter, each parent and teacher puts
his own construction upon the mean
ing of this and the limit to which it
must be used or spared, and there
were many extreme cases that
brought the rule of the rod into dis
repute and our lawmakers took the
matter up and passed anti-corporal
punishment acts.
1t was soon found that where the
teacher was entirely prohibited from
using corporal punishment that he
lost his governing rover and modified
acts were passed to give him permits
sion to use the rod in extreme cases
Or by getting a written permission
from parents or guardians.
Moral sllasion has been advocated
as better plan and both parents and
teachers have exercised much pa
thence and perseverance in trying to
discipline wilful lad, when a good
birch rod would have done it in less
time and more effectually.
1t seems to us that we must go
about this ruling of the boy in more
systematic manner. We must care
fully classify them. We have placed
children in three groups, viz: They
do wrong because they don't know
any better. or because they are so
full Of vitality they cannot resist, or
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-27
CINCINNATI .GYM, MEET.

Cincinnati, O., Jan. 27.-With all the
important features of a championship
competition scheduled, and and entry
list comprising many of the leading
college and club athletes of the mid
die west, the indoor games of the Gin
cinnati Gymnasium and Athletic club
tonight promise to be the most event.
full athletic affair held in this city for
many years. The program provides
for races at all distances between 80
Yards and one miles, hurdles, running
high jump, putting 16-pound shot and
pole vault.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-27
Graphology Against systems in
Writing.

In the January issue of The BUSH,
ness Mems Magazine appears this ar
ticle from the pen of Grand Forks
correspondents: 'The vertical system
introduced a decade ago has about run
its race and the happy medium is
now being rapidly installed to take
the place of the new (vertical) or the
old (Spencerian) slant systems 1
believe that the teacher should not
teach system at all, but instead, as
graphology indicates, let each pupil
write his natural slant. The teacher
may insist on legibility, uniformity in
slant and height and spacing, but
should not say a pupil must write a
certain slant or a certain sized letter.
What will be the effect upon
child's character to teach it the YER
teal system? The slant system? The
rounded or the angular hand?"
The editor in charge of the depart
ment on graphology-M Miss Mary
Booth-says: "The writer fully con-
ours with - in reference to. systems
The difficulty which some children ex-
perience in forming angles, others in
making graceful curves as, no doubt,
the effect of tempermental character
istics which influence the movements
of the pen.
LAS the various types of character
are reflected by the hand writing, it is
quite natural that the practice of the
velOp rather than retard the action of
the mind, and contra the vertical
rounded hand favor less spontaneity
and active mentality" What do you
think?
Sentiments of the Schoolmaster.
Add whiskers to self-esteem and the
case is hopeless.
To be important is one thing; to
look important is another-but to feel
Important! There you have the fell
low who enjoy shis own society.
Every nation knows the language
of laugh.
Slang is to speech what discord is
to music.
There is certain refined distinc-
ton between confidence and cheek.
Those who are hard to know are the
only people worth knowing.
Beautiful women are always in the
minority and the majority should be
kind TO them.
If man is not as brave. as his con-
victionS, what good are his conyic-
tons?
When a child doesn't care the case
is almost hopeless.
Half the world struggles to straigh-
ten out what the other half does
wrong.
Keep on killing the fatted calf, SO
long as the prodigal comes.
Don't be fooled by foregone con-
clusion.
The motive is the thingAhang the
philosophy.
Mclaughlin.
County superintendent of schools
throughout the state are invited to
contribute short articles and news of
general Importance to Home and
School Department. If you are in
need of teachers let us know just what
you desire and we will try to supply
your wants.
Teachers wanting positions will
please send references, and state
qualifications and long suit.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-27

Haven't you seen ITO Let" placard
in some particular window SO long
that you come to wonder what was
wrong with the property Placarding
is primitfve-very primitive-advertis-
ing. It's just a little better than
nothing-whfle want advertising in
the Evening Times is a little better
than anything else.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-27

spent in some useful employment.
Let all your ambitions be noble, un-
selfish and generous, SO that when
the setting sun casts its last Pickering
rays upon you, you will have no cause
to look back over a checkered career
and mentally conclude life has been
failure p
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-27
SATURDAY, JANUARY q, 1905
An Appropriate President Day Pro.

AZ ~. sts6 8kuls ~ {3fss
George Washington being the first
president Of the United States, Febrn-
airy 70 is an appropriate day for this
President Day program. Assign each
pupil some president to write up and
take only those who have died. Give
each pupil a space Of about three feet
Of black board and have them draw
tombstone design on tn eboard, put
ting on date born, died and an ap-
propriate epitaph. Then beginning
with the first president W. George
Washington--have each pupil in regu-.
lar succession march up to his de-
sign and give a brief review Of the
deceased. In country schools where
there is not sufficient black board
and get imprinted paper, full size of
sign, leaving tombstone white and
shade the background. Thy this.
You'll be surprised at the skill some
pupils will exhibit and the interest all
will take and the amount of history
that will be learned.
Coming Educational Events.
Department Of Superintendent Of
the N. E. A. will be held at Louisville,
KY, from February 26 to March q
$4,000 for round trip, including sleep
ers.
Annual Tri-county Teachers con-
vention for Grand Forks, Walsh and
Pembina counties. will be held at Graf
ton May IL and IL.
The summer school will open at the
University of North Dakota June Is
and close August 3, 1906.
The National Educational associa-
ton will be held at San Francisco
July 9 to July 10.
Funnygraphs.
A young lady in the physiology class
being asked to locate the heart, said:
1T is northeast of the stomach. IS.
NJ.
We desire to have teachers send in
to this department the most laugh
able happening in connection with
their school work.
A boy in the geography class being
asked, What and where is Cancer?"
replied, ut is a disease located in the
stomach w.
At teachers examination young
lady in describing the process of di-
gestion. said: "The stomach has
revolving movement like q churn."-
B, T.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-27

A boy in the geography class being
asked, What and where is Cancer?"
replied, 1T is a disease located in the
stomach.'-P. w.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-27
FEBRUARY LEGAL HOLIDAYS.
Some Questions for the Children to
Answer.

February II. Lincoln Day.-When
and where was Abraham Lincoln
born? How many years ago? What
was the cause of his death? Was he
rich or a poor mans son? Tell
what you know of his school days and
how he was educated. Why was he
called Honest Abe?" What was his
Emancipation Proclamation and when
issued? During what war was he
president of the United States? In
what wars did he take part and what
positions did he occupy?
February p. George Washington
Day.-When and where was George
Washington born? How many years
ago? Why was he called 1.-THE Father
of His Country? Tell all you can of
his boyhood days, his school days, the
cherry tree incident. Was he a rich
or poor mans son? In what wars
did he take part? Was he an officer?
How did he come to be a great man :?
In Memory Of VIM. Mckinley.
State Supt. w. l.. Stockwell recon-
mends that the schools of North Dako-
ia have appropriate exercises in COM
memoration of President McKinley's
birthday, January 20.
The above three presidents took up
arms In support of their country and
thus showed willingness to lay down
their lives in support of their country.
Name other presidents who fought in
defense of their country and tell in
what wars they took part and in what
battles they were engaged. Which
one of our presidents was the greatest
soldier? Vote on this and let us
know the result of your vote.
Why not have Presidents Day"
on February % each year and take
up the lives of all our presidents?
Better School Spirit.
Supt. j.. Sonderall, of Walsh county,
in his County School Notes" last
week, gives an account of the final
examinations of some of his schools,
showing that since there is a limit
set for rural school work, that in
creased interest is being taken both
by patrons and pupils; that there are
longer terms in many of the schools
and more regular attendance. This is
what he has to say on the subject:
ut seems that where DISCREET has
had pupils graduate, the ambition is
transmitted to the other pupils of the
school, and they wish to do as we'll
as those who graduated before them.
The fact that desire to graduate
from the common school has been fix
ed in the minds of the pupils of
school speaks well for the district. 1t
shows, not necessarily, a large at
tendance. 1t also shows interest on
the part of the parents and the school
board to keep up good school.
The terms are all long,
some seven months, some eight
months and others nine months. It
is impossible to obtain good results
without good school spirit. This
means that the parents must have re-
spect for and interest in education;
that they are willing to make sacri-
fees in order to obtain the very best
opportunities for education.
But first and last it means an earn
est desire on the part of the parents
to set the pace for the children in the
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-27

method of performing their daily tasks
and duties Of life, whether these duties
be Of a physical, intellectual or moral \
kind. "a good school spirit means a
united effort on the part of the parents
to have their children grow into the
very best types of manhood and wo-
manhood
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1906-03-15
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Baron Guerue has been elected presi-
dent of the Paris Geographical Society
1t il announced that King Edward viii
go to Athens to attend the Olympia1
games.
King Carlos OF Portugal. who is an
artist of considerable ability, usually
sends his paintings as gifts.
Admiral Togo will be escorted on his
trip to the United States next month by
two japanese armored cruisers.
Roger E. Fry of London. England. IS
to succeed George ii. Storey as curator
OF paintings in the Metropolitan Museum
OF Art in New York City.
The Cars eldest daughter has one Of
the finest collections of penny toys in
the world, which have been sent to her
from Paris, London and Berlin
A large bust of the late President
Kruger, destined to mark his grave at
Pretoria, has just been completed by q
sculptor at Saargemund, Lorraine.
The Duke of Teck, who was educated
at Wellington, is descended from Il char
coal burner and has in his armoriaI bear
ings a coal burners hand holding SOME
silver
1t is said that Prince Louis Napoleon.
now in the Russian service as governor
general of the Caucasus, recently object
ed to having soldiers fire on unarme,t
mobs OF workingmen.
The father of Campbell- Zimmerman.
the new prime minister of England. laid
the foundation for his fortune in Glas-
gov by abolishing in his place of business
the system then known as "prigging." To
''pris" was to bargain and to beat down
the price of goods. His goods were mark
ed in plain figures and his success was
almost instantaneous. He was knighteI
by Queen Victoria.
Lieutenant Commander Count Albert
Victor Gleischen. the new military at
tache of the British embassy at WASH
ington. is a second cousin of King Ed
ward and a third cousin of the German
emperor.
Horridge, 'the man who beat Bal
four" as he is already known. is u law
yer and was a stranger in Manchester.
The Liberals thought little of his chances.
but he developed unexpected lighting
qualities and called MIR. Balfour's divis-
ion the Port Arthur Of conservatism
and asked everybody to initiate the jap
anese and take the stronghold.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1906-03-15
IN TIME OF STORM.
= EssEsa EEElEsa
s.7 ND If 1T was the last word I'd eyes until s
N~N~NINNN0N<

-7 ND IL 1t was the last word I'd
AA ever be speakin', couldn't make
1t different It's not that I'll be
,keepln' you from her, Larry Dugan,
but you can't have us both, and that's
the truth I'm tellin'."
"Now, Kitty, darlin', don't be wrong
-ing your pretty face with the hard
words and cross temper It's you I'm
lwantin' and no other. Sure can't man
lbs lookin' pleasant at another lass once
in while and still be true to the one
he's promised"
''Not you, Larry Dugan, when you're
promised to me. It's either the one or
the other, and from the looks O. the
case I'm thinkin' it's the other. I bid
you good-day, Mr.. Dugan, and good
luck to you and Rosie Martin. Good
day. Mr.. Dugan, wish you we'll"
Kitty swept awny with q fine swirl
of her skirts and left her lover in a
condition Of open-mouth wonder.
swell, I'll be" he did not finish
Pis sentence, for Kitty was still within
bearing and turned back to flaunt in
bis face, "suit yourself, Mr.. Dugan."
She was gone like n flash before
Larry could gather his wits for the
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1906-03-15
OHIO SHIP CANAL.
Bill to Incorporate n Company II
Presented in Congress.

The bill to incorporate the Lake Erie
and OEio River Ship Canal Company was
taken up by the House by the vote Of 1S6
to 81. Chairman Davidson (Republf-
can) of Wisconsin of the committee on
railways and canals said this would be
the last link in the chain of waterways
from New York " New Orleans. over
which the commerce of twenty-four States
could go, and. AS canals everywhsr-.
have proved to be, would be a regulator
of railway rates" Lender Williams OF
the minority said he suspected that the
franchise had already been turned over
to the Pennsylvania railroad or some
other railroad interest at Pittsburg. His
objection to the bill was that the govern
ment surrendered its power over a river
and harbor improvement to a private cor
poration. Mr.. Dalzell (Republicanl of
Pennsylvania, who is the author of the
bill, declared it to be n great national
project, the construction of which wOubI
not cost the government Il penny. He
said that the idea of connecting the lakes
and the Ohio had been advocated as far
back as 1924, when the government made
the first surveys.