The Ketchikan miner., 1907-09-14
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN
 (By Leo Ranney.

A communication received by Mr.
 Daily from Miss Redding's brother re- ports that Miss Redding is recovering from successful operation, and that she will be ready to begin her work early in October.
 The 'last bell" rings five minutes both morning and noon-from 8 :55 till 9 100, and from F :55 till 100.
 Tuesday we had the pleasure of a visit from Prof. Henry W. Maynard, of Washington, D. C.. who with two other government experts on board the U. s. S. Explorer. now is making I coast survey of Dixon's Entrance. We should like to impresa5upon the minds of the parents that the home and the school cannot be separated, if the school is expected to be successful. They are not separate creations work ing each in it's own sphere, for each is imperfect and narrow without the other. They go hand in hand, ard each supplements the influence of the other. Hence, to be out of harmony with the school is great misfortune to any home. In point of importance the school ought not to compare with the home, for the home is the oldest insti- tuition known to man; in it the found ations of our lives are laid; in it we get our first and lasting views of life : and from it ought to come forth a alliance ana a power that compel men to see its supreme station. School fife is the child's first step into an un- known world, and it requires every stimulus that such a powerful institu- t on as the home can give. Then you must stop and consider again what the school is trying to do-that it is not striving to teach simply reading, arithmetic, and geography, but hon. esty, honor, self-control, justice, right -characer itself.
 Too often it is accepted that if the boy or girl is in school at nine every morning, the success of school life and inf uence is assured. Never could d mistake be more glaring. It is what your boy or girl does, and where he or she is, when outside of school under your control, that determines
 largely the success of our efforts.
 What good does a day of school do to the boy or girl who was "out" the night before? The streets of any city breathe poison into the. nostrils of your boy or girl--they ar e full of the deadly nightshade that blights and blasts and ruins the promising and unpromising alike. Do your children spend their evenings in the streets? Then what can you expect of them when you know as well as we that there even in one night week they may see enough and hear enough that no child should see or hear to blast whatever they might learn of charac- ter at home and at school through those seven days. ''But,' you say, 1 they are UOIu WDdJ IS tlSnU anu bfuS and pure" " Of course they are, but children will do as older people do and not as older people say. They can not see ten years ahead, but you can if you will but look. Let us then look together upon the future as we work together for your boys and girls, that we may never have cause to re- gret any lack of discipline and care- fulness during the past.
 Somebody remarks: "Mr. Foraker does not stand for the Republican
 party" Neither does he go away
 back and sit down for it.
 "Whiskey labeled paint is already
 being shipped into Georgia" Well,
 isn't it a sort of ''interior finish?"
 In view of the cost of keeping hei
 quiet, it is quetsion if it wouldn't
 ha inst as chpan for TTnclp Sam fir