The Ketchikan miner., 1908-02-29
EDUCATIONAL. COLUMN fprof I ,eo Ranney1

(Prof. Leo Ranney)
 The following pupils were neither absent nor tardy during the month of February: Winnefred Raber, Clyde Doyle. James Doyle, Amanda Howard, Theodore Chapman, Raymond Curtis, Charles Brereton, Cathiline Curtis, Charley Jones, Ethel Witcomb, Mar garet Chapman. Frances Grant, kath- ryne 'McGurn, Dean Preston, Frank Story, May Copeland, Aileen Henrick- son, Alma Kirschbaum, Joseph Chap man, Eldon Oaly, John Heath, Artie Williams, Roy Pittenger, Alma Grant, Alice Heath, Milton Daly, Virgil Morgan, John Pankratz, Val oras McWilliams, Alma Knight, George Cole, Hazel Heath, John Campbell, Norton Mcclellan, Beulah Majory, Zoe Copeland, Willis Conneil, Ru'h Kubley, Jennie Heath, Bessy Symonds, Edward Campbell
 Last Friday afternoon the Fourth and Fifth grades were invited by the North Star Literary society to pa triotic program that had been prepar- ed especially for them. They had likewise surprise for their senior pupils, in some splendid music. At the close of the program, Mr. Chap man made few remarks which were very much appreciated. The program was as follows:
 Chorus
 Personals on Fourth and Fifth
 Grades. Zoe Copeland A Fair Messenger. .... Bessy Symonds Incidents of Washington Boy
 hood. d................H Hazel Heath Incidents of Washington's Man
 hood John Campbell Things d Fifth Grader Can Learn
 from Washington. ton.............
 .........E Edward Campbell Philadelphia Gazette, Dec. 20. l799
 =. George Cole and Jennie Heath Daniel Boone w Norton Mcclellan Reading Valoras McWilliams Cherry Tree Scene. e...............
 John Rounsfell and ByronW Whitfield Schools in l776 ... Frances Preston
 Music by Fourth and Fifth Grades
 Chorus
 We were gratiied to have several visitors that day-and We should like very much to have visitors every day, IS well as on special occasions.
 Don't Be A Croaker. "A patron of The Miner hands in the following, which. whether it be clipping from some other publication, or an emena- tion from his own brain, either way is none the less suggestive and to the point: Don't be a croaker. The croaker takes up more time. ane causes more trouble than he is worth: he sees q ground for worry in every change and a reason for mournlul head-shakings in every move. The substance of his thought and his mot to is-whatever is going to be. is wrong The croaker is a pessimist: pessimism is the mark of timid man, the man who has little faith in HIMSELF. This sort of man is re- sponsible for any continuance of lack of CONFIDENCE, because of the dis couragement he heaps on those who would strive to make things better. The croaker will tell you that busi- ness cannot rally because this is pres identlal election year: the fact that business is rallying, that the world $ busy all around him. makes no diifer- ence. It is not because he is afraid this candidate or that may be elected, but the fact that the election IS con- ing. that something is going to hap pen, ennugh to make him tremble and fear he knows not what. If 1t were not for these croakers. these prophets of evil, and their unfortun- ate capacity for injecting others with their own baseless fears, this country woi Id be 5O years further along in its progress toward general satisfaction and universal comfort. The next time the man whose mouth drops at the corners tells you the country is going to the dogs, that the financial sky is overcast, and that there is no pros- pect of the sun ever shining again don't let the goosehesh rise all over you and pass the scare on to the next man. You know two and two make four, and that every stage ot the worlds progress is a step ahead Of the stage that went before. Don't fail to do your share in the restoration of CONFIDENCE by availing yourself of every opportunity to talk optimism. May the croakers soon crOak anyhow. ''It's easy enough to be pleasant, When life goes along like song,
 But the man worth while
 Is the man who can smile When everything goes dead wrong"
 NOT so BAD IN ALASKA
 While the eastern states are in the grip of an intense cold wave, and some of the people out there are freez- ing to death, and others gathered in their comfortable homes congratulat-