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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-09
GEOGRAPHY.

Geography in its interest and
attractiveness for children.
when properly presented. does
not give place 90 any subject in
the curriculum of our primary
and grammar schools. Embrac-
ing as 10 does tho clements of
natural u istory. geology.
physics, and meteorology. il is
"a source of never failing inter
est TO the young and the open
sesame TO many of the secrets
and laws of nature which APP
peal to their inquisitive minds
and vivid imaginations.
I'm it's descriptions of foreign
people and its stories of their
peculiar manners and customs.
10 is always "a source of delight
and instructiveness.
In matter and treatment, the
subject Of geography has made
immense strides ina progress in
recent years. Tt is now no
longer merely a description of
the earth and its inhabitants
but the Investigations and
treatises of such men as Maurv.
McMurray, Redway, Guyot.
Iarr. and Frye. have placed the
subject upon "a scientific basis
and IN all the manifestations
of nature IN connection with
the earth and the movements Of
mankind upon It's surface the
laws of cause and effect have
been investigated and applied.
The value OF a knowledge OF
geography is not to be under
estimated. 1t has it's highest
usefulness IN revealing the pro-
cesses by which the differences
OF climate, soil, productions
and races OF men Oh the earth
arise and develop, and in show
ing the inter dependence of
civilized men. It's highest les
son is that of the triumph of
human mind over the obstacles
% nature and even over the
limitations of climate and soil.
Do you wish 20 study
history intelligently and profit
ablys Do you wish to under
stand the great movements of
the human racer Then it will
be necessary TO view them
through the interpretations of
geography.
The influence of the science
is dominant even in some phases
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-09
ARITHMETIC.

Arithmetic is an old subject.
for "a long time it has been ne
garded as essential 60 success
I'm life. II occupies time
honorcd place In the curriculum
of our schools and I'm former
days 10 served as a test of "a
teachers scholarship. This is
still true in some country dis
tricts. Years ago Archimedes.
that famous mathemticlan OF
antiquity, declared that no one
could claim Co bee but half "a
man unless he had a good
knowledge of arithmetic. This
subject still occupies the prin-
cipal place in our schools. OF
recent years, however, its scope
has been enlarged. and now it
includes many of the useful ap-
plications of the sciences. The
arithmetics OF the present day
differ in many important re-
spects from the arithmetics Of
Groenlief, Robinson and Ray.
They are written with two
objects i'm view. to furnish use
fui and pratical knowled0o
along with the necessary men
tai discipline The problems
given are free from puzzles and
obsolete processes. They illus
trate the business practices of
the day. In this way pupils
see that schools arc necessary
TO success in this commercial
world of ours. Again, in our
best textbooks on this subject
stress is being placed upon
thought work. Pupils are re-
quired 20 tell why they do this,
why they do that. Formulas
have gone, and let us hope for
ever. ln our modern books we
miss many chapters of subjects
considered important a few
years ago. Ia other words. we
are trying 10 give our instruc-
tIon a vocational turn.
lt has been the opinion for
many years that the subject Of
arithmetic, as it is too often
studied, yields a smaller return
for the time devoted to Il than
any other subject taught in our
public schools. Our pupils have
only mechanical knowledge
of the subject; they do not know
the principles upon which the
processes depend. There is
fear that the art of "cipherin9''
has been developed at the ex-
pense of the reasoning faculty.
In the teaching of this subject
have you insisted that your
pupils shall quote the principles
upon which their statements
depend? Do you teach princi
pies first, then rules. Do you
tell your classes that rules are
subordinate to principles? I
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-09

Those attractive women who are lovely
ID face, fern aud temper are the euvv Of
many, who might be Ike them. weak.
sicklT women viii be nsrvous and irritable.
Constipation or Kidney poisons show Ia
plnpleS, bl0tehes. skin erupfions Nnd
wretehed complexion. For an snch. Elec.
tric Bitters work wonders They regulate
stomach, Liver and Kidneys. purity the
blood; give stgcne nerves, bright eyes. parc
breath. smooth, geiyety skin. lovely com
plexion. Many charming wopren eve their
hga,th aud beanfy ~ them. SIC n J.. W.
Kefvs Urrr stbfe.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-09
ENGLISH HISTORY.

The study Of English History
is Of peculiar interest TO all
American people because Eng
land is our Mother Country.
We cannot put the proper csti-
mate upon anything until we
know its cost, So we cannot
properly appreciate our present
day civilization until we shall
have learned with what throes
of struggle. and heroic self
denial 10 was planted. and thro
what forges of political revoiu
tion it has passed, thus consum-
ing the dross Of seliishness. and
mans inhumanity 90 man
where "mi4hf made riqh1' and
where self either i'm it's prim-
tive cavern home, or later on
clothed in the supposed "Divine
Right of Kings" where self
aggraudizement became the
controlling motive and purpose
of mans life, and tracing thus
from step 60 step, from age TO
age the successive stages of
mans progress and his cOntri-
button TO the worlds civiliza-
tiOn forms a very fertile field
for research. For after all,
civilization is, as it We're, the
grand emporium of a people. ia
which all its wealth-all the
elements of its life-all the
powers of its existence are
stored up. And the history of
no people on earth is more in
teresting, or furnishes a great
er variety of scenes, or eNem-
plliies more progress in civiliza-
ton, its development of law,
and the true science of cOnstitu-
tional government suited 20 a
free people than the history of
the Anglo Saxon race, it's laws,
literature, and songs. And
when we shall have taken a
comprehensive view of this pec-
pie and their contribution to
the worlds modern day civil
ization, we shall realize how
much we are the "heirs of all
the ages" and thus how much
we owe to the world of human
ity now that we are called the
"arbiter of nations"
The two preceding articles
were written by Prof. John A.
Hicks, principal of the Big
Stone Gap High School, who
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-09

viii teach these subjects in
the normal this year. Prof.
Hicks is one Of the best Untrue
tors in the county and viii
make these subjects interesting
20 normal students.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-09
No23

Of politics. Do you enquire
why tho South has favored free
trade and the North has advo-
c e d "A protective tariff
The answer is found IN geo
graphical conditions.
The effect Of geographical
conditions upon production and
commerce is predominant and
so apparent as not TO need
illustration or even mention.
In this brief sketch no adequ
ate conception of the import
ance Of the science Of geography
can be given, but enough can
be seen TO understand shat il
requires Of the teacher the ap-
probation and skiilful touch Of
an artist; yet il is admitted by
enlightened teachers that it has
suffered more than any other
branch Of study on account of
inadequate preparation and bad
methods. Mere isolated de-
tails have been memorized,
while the great influences and
processes of nature have been
neglected.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-09

Prof g. +. Bennett, who will
again teach geography in the
normal has kindly contributed
the above. Pro f. Bennett
knows his subject and snakes it
interesting. At the Big Stone
Gap Normal the young teacher
will get an exact and scientific
knowledge of the subject of
geography.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-09

Articles on otaeF subjects to
be taught in the normal will
appear in the next issue of this
paper.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-09

The two preceding articles
were written by Prof John A.
Hicks, principal of the Big
Stone Gap High School, who
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-09

The above paragraphs were
written 10y Prof Smithcy. our
popular teacher of arithmetic
for the past two sessions OF the
Normal. Mr. Smithcy viii be
with us again and with his ex-
perience in suiting his instruc
ton 70 the needs of the young
teacher viii render great service
in his department..
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-09

believe IN analysis work in the
teaching of arithmetic. Our
teachers must know the first
principles OF this science If they
would do efficient work.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-05-11
A BIG INCREASE IN THE PEA.
NUT LALUE
CONTINUED from Page One.)

OF shelled peanuts have been employ
ed tor the manufacture of peanut but
ter. This butter is prepared by the
ton IN factories, is put up in bottles
or tins containing from one-fourth
pound to five pounds each, and has
become Very popular as a part Of the
luncheon menu and for camping and
cruising supplies. By a little expert
ence n the aid of a small meat
grinder, any one a make good pea
nut butter for home use.
Peanuts are used as food for hogs
IN the South. The famous Smithheld
MANS and bacon ON from hogs that
are partially fed on peanuts, the prac-
tee being to turn the hogs into the
peanut nelds after the crop has been
gathered and allow them to CLEAN the
pods that were lost in harvesting.
The Oil Of the peanut belongs com
mercially in the same class as do cot
ton-seed and olive oil. Peanut oil is
OF a hlgher grade than ~cotton-seed oil
and OF somewhat lower value than
first class olive oil. Peanut oil is
sometimes used for mixing with olive
OIL for the production Of an oil that
can be sold at a lower price than pure
oiVe OH. On the other hand peanut
OIL is frequently mixed with cotton
seed oil in order to Improve The
quality of the cotton seed oil for cer-
tain purposes.
Peanut hay has a value for feeding
purposes. The tops Of the peanut
plant when cut and cured in the Same
manner as other legumes produces a
nay that is almost equal in feeding
Value, experts say. to the best clover
hay.
A Profitable Crop.
A bulletin just issued by the De-
partment OF Agriculture says that ap
acre OF nrst class peanuts, calculating
~ to $40, and so bushels of meas
worth $40 to $50, will give an income
OF from S4S to $40. The cost Of
roWln an acre Of peanuts is yari-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-05-11

Portraits of Davis and Lee Ga.A']
GOIdSbOrO School.

Goldsboro, n. c., May 7.-Iu ..
presence of Thos. Ruffn Cha@+r
Daughters Of the Confederacy,
purchased the pictures for the SC '
a uInbe of the board Of trust
OF the school and citizens and The -a
tire school, drawn up in an imp1-.A-
bOdy III front Of the central tU'..
ing, h presentation OF the sple1'
pictures Of Jefferson Davis and t.""-
ert +. Lee to the school was ms
noon yesterday.
The exercises were opened W.
beautiful prayer by Rev. E. H. lr|'-
pastor of ST. Paul Methodist chur<@
The school then sang in a i"''
The Old North State" after Tal,.
capt. I. w. Slocumb, a veteran o. t"'
Gray, who had been chosen by mos
Ruffin Chapter. Daughters Of the -'"-
federacy, to present the pictures. N'-
introduced.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-05-11
Heavy Blooms on Apple Trees,
BakerSyilIe Eagle.)

- n IUSIN'J
1t IS a subject OF general lnle-f
ina the apple trees are now SHOW
the heaviest bloom known for ye5.
Whether this is an indication o.
big apple crop Seems to be q MAJ
Of mixed opinions. Some Of u
apple growers say not.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-05-11

When one recalls the vast disasters
that befell the South after the cruel.
devilish war waged against it had
ended, and how much of sorrow and
misery was visited upon it, and their
surveys our Southland now in contrast
with 1868. and there is indeed great
reason for rejoicing and comfort. 1t is
really Wonderful that the South is not
after the plllaging and expressions a
vast region Of desolation and poverty
and misery. The Sun referring to the
tprmer conditions in the fair land Of
e Sootn ana the conditions now ac-
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-05-29
BRIEF NEWS DISPATCHES.

William Chandler of Vancouver, B.
O.. the champion long distance rdnner
of the Pacific coast, easily won first
place in Vancouyers first Marathon
race Monday.
Kid Scaer easily knockout Jack
Bennett of ST. Paul ate ranbrook b. O.,
last Monday in the 18th round.
Vic Holm pitcher for the Spokane
won 15-inning game of ball at Port
last Monday.
Hover, Washington, small town on
the Columbia river, was swept by fire
Monday night and seven buildings were
consumed.
Sam Langford easily defeated Mr..
Hague in the fourth round in their re-
cent match for the champion of Eng
land.
A series of sensational burglaries
came to climax Monday at Cedar
Rapids. Iowa when an unknown thief
shot and wounded Mayor John t. Car
mody. While grabpled with the rob-
Der the mayor was shot in the abdo'
men. The wounded man is not seriously
injured,
AS result of almost unprecedented
rains during Monday in Oklahoma five
persons are dead and at least 10 ser
iously injured. several Thousand acres
of crops are minated and every stream
in the northern and eastern part of thu
state is raging
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-05-29
MONTANA NOTES.

Alfred J. Stephens, pioneer of Mon
tana, died recently at White Sulphur
Springs.
Twenty true bills were returned by
the federal grand jury, which submitted
its report to Judge Bean at Helena Sat
urday.
Despondent because cd continued i'll
health, Mrs. William F. Koehler
drowned herself in the city reservoir at
Missoula.
James Sullivan, Frank Sumo and
George Sasso were killed and Mike So
letto was fatally hurt by premature
blast in the High Ore mine at Butte
Sunday.
BY an overwhelming vote freeholders
of Lewistown granted to S. w. Gebo,
owner of the Spring Creek coal mine
franchises for the operation of electric
and gas plants in this city for 20 years
A Great Northern ore train was
wrecked Sunday between Helena and
Great Falls and 10 cars of ore fell into
the Missouri river. Brakeman Rogers
was killed and Engineer Slebens serl
ously injured Three others of the train
crew were more or less seriously hurt
The men driving logs on the White
fish river are on strike, their grievance
being that the Somers Lumber com
pany, for whom they were working, il
not paying the union scale. Log driv
ers in other parts of the country are
also out. Approximately 1o,ooo,Oo'
feet of logs are in the river here
ready to be foated to the company =
mill at Somers. The river drivers arr
organized under the Industrial Work
ersm of the World, which is behind thu
lstrike
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-05-29
BRUTAL MURDER AND SUICIDE
Mrs. Depew Shot by Joe Ebers (Col
ored) at Spokane.

epokane.-After shooting Mrs. Leona
Depew three times with 3s-caliber re-
volver on the sidewalk and firing
once at her IA year old son, Joe Ebers,
colored man, ran little more than
two blocks and shot himself three
times, finally inficting wound from
which he bled to death before he could
be taken to the police station in the
patrol wagon, at IL O'Clock Saturday
night.
According to the tale told by Mrs.
Depew the negro asked her for money
and shot her when she refused it. Mrs.
Maude James, her niece, was the first
of her relatives to arrive.
alt was that big Joe Ebers that did
it,, was the statement that Mrs. De
pew made to her. cit was Joe, Maude
He asked me for money, and when
didn It give it to him he shot me-
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-05-29
Otis Skinner, Actor.

AS soon as Otis Skinner steps upon
the stage in his new play, "The Honor
of the Family" he commands the at
tention of the audience and holds this
interest in everything he does and says
up to the final curtain fall.
The character of Philippe Bridau is
one of Balzac Is greatest creations. He
is cynical or staggering, as occasion
demands, and is the veritable inearna-
tion of that Gallo proverb which says
that "one has not learned to live unless
one has learned to deceive" Otis Skin
ner presents this complex type with a
multitude of whimsical touches.
"The Honor of the Family" ran fol-
four months at the Hudson theater
New York city, last season, and Otii
Skinner was conceded to be an actor Of
genius. He comes to the Spokane fol-
two performances, Saturday and Sun
day, May 1890.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-05-29

been compiling figures to show the
wealth owned and controlled by mem
bers of the unions of the northwest
and the local order leads all of the
northwestern unions, with a total farm
wealth of $1,5l7 900, the members here
owning 25,46o acres. This is double
the wealth of any other lodge in the
northwest and is splendid tribute to
the Nez Perez prairie.
Mrs. Stephen Shields accidentally
killed her little brother Johnny, aged ~
years, Sunday afternoon, at Boomers
Ferry. She was shooting at mark,
and just as she pulled the trigger the
boy ran past the target, the bullet
lodging in the right breast, killing him
instantly.
Final arrangements have been con
cluded for Idaho's exhibit at the
Alaska Yukon-Pacifc exposition. The
selection of permanent hostesses to pre-
side for Idaho socially and at the ex'
position and to welcome and entertain
distinguished visitors at the Idaho
building, as well as to provide for the
comfort of all in attendance on the fair
was announced by the commissioners
Mrs. Minnie Fairchild of Emmett was
chosen for the first half and Mrs. j. A
Blomquist of Boise for the other hall
Of the fair.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-05-29
BRIEF NEWS DISPATCHES.

Nat Smith committed suicide at Spo
kane last Wednesday because his sweet
heart went back ON him.
There is big strike ON in Georgia on
account of the white firemen lon the
engines refusing to recogziyze the me-
groes.
One thousand dollars and fine of
year in the Jail was the sentence of
Leander Duncan. gambler and pioneer
at Butte last Tuesday.
President Taft has teen elected hon
airy president of the newly formed Ma
tional League of the Unitarian Lay
men, recently in session at Boston.
Unless further appeal is taken Mrs.
Eva Ingersoll, widow of the late Rob
ert E. Ingersoll, will secure $13S, 900
and interest from the estate of Andrew
q. Davis, who died years ago at Butte
Ingersoll was counsel or several of the
contesting heirs of the will He died
before he got his pay for his services.
John II Williams of Lowell Wash.
HI. b. Sherwood and Frank Putnam,
were drowned near Camano island in
Puget sound, recently. The three men
set out In a yawl to intercept the
steamer WILDLY, and it is supposed the
steamer struck or swamped their boat.
Their bodies were found on the beach.
The Masonic temple at Indianapolis,
Indiana was dedicated Monday. 1t il
said to be the finest building devoted
to Masonry in the world, costing about
| $3.50. 900. 1t is built of steel and stone
four stories high. The temple contains
two restaurants and many private din
ing rooms, and is topped by roof gar
den.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-05-29
OREGON soUIBS.

The trial at Lakeview of Robert Nc
Culley, one of the prominent young
sheepmen of Lake county, for killing
Cornelius Finucane, ended in acquittal
at Portland.
Professor Edward J. Klemme, A. NJ,
Northwestern university, has ," been
elected principal of the high school.
For three years he has been principal
of the Walla Walla high school.
Free buses from trains to- leading
Portland hotels are to be thing of the
past after June 1. A charge of rs cents
each way from the depot will be in
effect.
Old-time river masters and Columbia
river pilots do not look for flood this
year. The general opinion is that the
rise will be later than for number of
years.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-05-29
IDAHO ITEMS.

The Grangeville Packing company
has been organized with 100000 stock
to pack meat and pickle food products.
The county commissioners have called
for bids for the construction of a wag-
on bridge across the Salmon river at
Golf, the cost to be paid by the state.
Heavy SHOWS in the mining district
have impeded travel to such an extent
that the Marshall lake camp has been
idle for two months, because it has
been impossible to get supplies in from
Grangeville.
While digging the Juliaetta city
waterworks well a large artesian vein
of great flow was struck. The well was
first dug Is feet, 10 feet square. Then
a hole was drilled 25 feet. A heavy
charge of 60 sticks of giant powder was
set and when the workmen went into
the hole they were driven out by water
which filed the well to the surface.
The old adage, "In union there is
strength, f" has never been better exem
plifed than in the Nez Perez branch OF
the Farmers union, lodge less thar
IS months old, which has member
ship of $50. The statistics of the farm
srs' organization of the northwest hal
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-05-29
Great Attractions at spokane.

A complete list of attractions that
will appear at the Spokane theater fol-
the remainder of the season is an
nounced by Manager Charles H. Muehl
man, as follows:
May 1925" The Merry Widow. "
May 29-30-Otis Skinner.
May 31-Mme. Nazimova.
June 3-6-Burns-Jo hnson fight pic
lures.
June 7-week-"The Servant in tn
House.
June 13-16-"The Burgomaster. "
July 5-6-John Drew.
July 9-10-Ethel Barrymore.
July 19-20-Mrs. Fiske.
July 26-27-Marie Doro.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-05-29
WASHINGTON WATERWAYS.
Special Director John A. Fox to Pro
mote Movement in West.

Washington.-Special Director John
A. Fox of the National Rivers and
Harbors congress, has planned tour
of Washington in conjunction with DR..
N. G. Blalock, director of that organi-
cation, residing at Walla Walla. The
propaganda started in the east and
south in behalf of a comprehensive
plan of watering development is thus
to be extended to the Pacific coast,
and for the next few months Fox and
Blalock viii meet business men and
commercial bodies of Washington fo1
the purpose of arousing additional in
terest in this rapidly developing sub
ject.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-05-29
GET OATS IN ARGENTINA.
America Does Not Grow Enough TO
Own Championship
Profit in Wheat.

New York, May 25.-Oats from the
Argentine Republic to feed the horses
which pull the plows and harvesters
on American wheat farms is being un-
loaded at Pavonia, N. J.
The Horfeus is the 18th ship to
bring oats to America from, Argentine
Republic this month,
The barges will convey the grain to
railroad terminals and over the Erie
canal and the great lakes to the west
and middle west. The oats were
harvested last October. Another crop
of oats is soon due.