The Ketchikan miner., 1908-01-11
enough people on the streets now-a- days. at any one time, to b'awl or fight about anything. 4l l-
EDUCATIONAL. COLUMN (Prof. Leo Ranney)

nave organized boys giee club, with rhe following officers; Edward l.. Campbell, presidents; John Rounsfell, vice. president; Ralph Kitzmiler, sec retary; Homer Ball, treasurer. The boys have been fortunate in securing the services of Prof. Mitchell as director.
 Responding to many requests we publish below a Monday morning talk to the pupils of the, higher grades:
 How much are you going to be worth? l feel, pupils, that we have by this time become fairly we'll ac- quainted, and as an acquaintance ard friend of yours 1 have business prop osition to present to you this morning. Some of.you will treat it lightly, or pay no heed to .it-it is always SO while some of you, know, will take it to heart and consider it, and you who will do this will make the teaeh- CTS life wol tn while.
 Now, l take it that most. of you are looking ahead to the time when the schooIhouse doors will have clos ed behind. you forever; believe me, that time is almost here. Think of something that happened four years ago. Why, it seems to you but yes terday. In four years more, years just as short, most of you will have determined what your whole life will he. President Angell, of the Univer- sity of Michigan, says that from his experience with tens of thousands of students he has decided that their lives have been mapped out. at the age of eighteen, Not one man or woman in a hundred changes his am- bitons or manner of life after he has reached twenty .a ..f,a
 'How much are you going. to he worth? What are you going to be? If this is not a business. proposition, then l know of none. It, is. about time for you to decide. Your life has be- g h. When the Lusitania made her recorl run 10 New York how long did she drift. before steering for her des- tined port? A schoemate ofsmine in childhood always had sharp; knife and with it he was always whiting and carving,: he was always making something: he D9catRe--a carpenter, the best in town: he went to college and became an arohitect: later he de- sigued state capitol, a splendid mon- ument to any mans name. Begin now, in any line, and you'll be an ex- peet in that line. Ted Geapy, as a schooboy in Seattle, was always mak- about boats: he sailed boats.a Last summer the boat he designed, built, anl sailed won the championship cup from Canada. Abraham Lincoln, when he was sixteen aimed for the presi- deacy of the United States. Years ago in an eastern state a boy of four teen was working cn the section. His fellow workmen laughed at him be- cause he carried little book and wrote in it while resting. He said that he was going to be governor and few states have known a better governor than Coz. Pettigrew.
 "Are you going to sit Gown and wait for something to turn up?' Then take your place with the millions of worthless men and women in this country today: they have waited a lifetime, and other. millions have gone down to heir graves waiting for that which never will turn up. Tine fool will learn not even by his own experi- en3e: the average man does lealn by his experience: but the wise man learns by the experience of others.
 Are you going to sail or drift? Most men drift. It costs labor 10 sail. Lazil ess is easy labor is hard. It is easy to just keep alive: what's the use of hitching your team to star. when you can just as well hitch it to a gar- 1 bage wagon? There are men in this tlan today doing nothing who might have been great statesmen Or business Kings. there are men III helcnlkan today who night have been milioi- aires, and they have n)t even hone; there are men here today who might have been leading thousands, and they can't lead even one. Where are you going to ta6e your place?
 ''lt is easy to sit down with folded arms and say, I cant. 1 can't' when you find any thing hard. It's oa.y 10 let q lesson gN by, easy to copy some one's else ~ora-.hat who arc ycu cheating! Does il harm your. teauii- cts? Honestly, no@, whp l, peing cholted? Napdle9u sa.d ii.at gan U IS only in the vocabulary ot sDne. What does rho world c,re for ltet alan or @onian who suAp.2 saHf;, 4 Gtp [, i can'tT IL kltka .ta4:ps. ip 4h nt th3 say a.d ra-hef pa. bste.u.!f7iti idgl Il Cod th t |, ih l3ti. | h., id D leifies, ~ , ,di.l.,ag,."p. ,dt.A l :ln't. 1hs %rf d nJs.93t. .aliae.Far q ieliyh,h. Nete. give np. T.ls,e a'e l tHore, ,itre i1 'his oom MiD can he .ph great Wr!lets, Niin ni> soiao dag | tIlr for t!lpir anf's ru r. ai Nill l f 1 if ,i 4tt, mi