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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-16
FIRST FLOOR PLAN

paths, which may lead where he re-
fuses to go, he should find before him a
broad, free world, but with the danger
spots marked. After a year or so in
the high school, he should be free from
all, or nearly all, restriction, except
the general one of having his choices
approved by parents and principal or
superintendent. He will make mis-
takes. In one sense, the more he
makes, the better, for this will save
more costly experimentation later on.
He will look back, at the end of four
years, as you or l may DO, whatever
our time of life, and see where he
could have saved many deviation
and doubling on his track, and taken a
much more direct course to his goal.
He may even blame somebody for not
having compelled him to follow that
course, forgetting that, at the end. he
knows more about himself than any,
body did at the beginning. But the
view is o-faced-there is a future.
If he has found himself ana found his
work, there opens up before him
splendorous panorama of busy days
and joyous evenings, of dizzy and
romantic fancies, too good to be true,
which only melt and fade before reali-
ties so fair that all his finest visions
seem like shadows. Dream then your
dreams, young man: let no iconoclas-
tic sneer disturb you. Pile the airy
palace high and garnish it about with
gints Of pleasure: you cannot COM
pass, in your widest dream, one-half
the beaI1ty or One-half the jOy that lie
before you in welllived life.
What shall be the curriculum of a
high school that fulfills this purpose OF
vocation finder, personality - re-
vealer? In the first place, your child
Is a modern child, receiving his intro
duction into a modern society. This
does not mean that he should sever
his connection with all things past, for
history is, so to speak, the memory OF
the race. But your most essential
memories are, in general, your most
recent ones. Suppose-though it is
absurd-supposc you should forget the
location of your residence, your own
name. or the names of your creditors
1t would matter less if you forgot the
location of the old home of childhood
days, or the name Of the man whose
perf1dy caused your fathers ruin. sc
the chief interest of society, it's i'm
mediate safety. lies more with things
modern than things ancient. The ole
things like memories of childhood. are
mice to know" but as for those classic
tears of Xerxes, they are nothing to
you compared with those of your own
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-16
THE ADDITION TO
CONY HIGH SCHOOL
CONTINUED From Page Eleven.)

year special course. Before associating
himself with Mr.. Freeman, he was con-
nected with such firms as Peabody &
Stearns, James Purdon, and other
large concerns in Boston, and had a
wide range of experience in all classes
of buildings, especially schools, church
es ard private residences.
Mr. Wilcox became associated with
Mr. Freeman and Mr.. Funk about five
wears ago. at which time the firm Of
Freeman, Funk and Wilcox was form
ed. Mr.. Wilcox received his early ar
chitectural training in Boston offices,
and then took course at the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, in
Guiding the postgraduate course. He
has since been associated with such
welI-known firms as Peabody &
Stearns, Parker & Thomas, of Boston,
and spent some time in New York with
the firm of Hale & Rogers, in the
construction of such works as the
Claflin Building and the United Engi-
neering Building in New York City.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-16

part Of our whole educational system
Is the college. particularly the small
college. I would not advise anyone to
formulate his educational doctrine
from what is done in most colleges.
Then. too. the small college cannot
afford to offer the electives it ought to
provide. and which the larger and
more progressive ones do provide. In
the second place. if the pupil has no
idea of what is best for him. then no
one under heaven has. unless 1t be a
skillful psychologist who makes a
careful. individual study of him. The
task Of finding out what he is good for
and what he should do with his llfe'
settles down heavily on his own
shoulders. 1t may even cause him
some years of perplexity and anxious
thought, but the decision should be ms
own. He is in somewhat the same
situation as a weanling child: such
child does not know, consciously, what
he should eat but dare you mark out
a fixed diet for him, determining both
kind and quantity of food? Even II
Won could for one child, you could not
A. the needs of all. Better offer MIN
plenty Of opportunity to taste ana
chose. allowing his constitution to at
once express and satisfy its needs'
only preventing him. in a general way
from injuring himself. SO the secon-
dary school pupil should follow ms
bent. under the general guidance ana
sanction of parents and teachers. IN
utaad Of being confined to one or TWO
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-16
(By a High School pupil.)

Possibly many of the friends, and
even some of the pupils of the Cony
High School. do not realize that the
school owns library of more than
twelve hundred volumes. These books
are scattered through six different
bookcases in different parts of the
building. but if they were brought to-
gether, they Would look like a good
sized library, A few reference DOCKS
have been furnished by the city, and
some books have been given to the
school by friends, but the larger part
of them have been bought by the stu
derts themselves, with money earned
by the annual fair
Let us take a half-hour to look over
the book cases and see what we lind.
The first small case that we come to
is full of poetry There we see many
volumes Of the best poets who nave
written in English, from 'Chaucer,
Shakespeare and Milton, down through
the English, Irish, Scotch and Amefi-
can authors. to the present day, anu
Kipling's vigorous poems in The FIVE
Nations" On one shelf are Alllbone'S
Dictionary of Authors, and very COM
ple1e illustrated history of English Lit
erature by Garnett and Gosse. Here
also are severa! other histories of Eng
lish Literature and many studies OF
prose and verse by Dowden, Moulton,
Mimic, Fields and others.
Now, turn to the next case. Most OF
the fiction and essays that the library
contains are here. On the upper shelves
are works by Macaulay, Emerson, Lo-
well, Holmes, Ruskin, Carlyle, Mat
thew Arnold, John Burrough and Tho
reau. Next, comes translation Of
those two powerful stories from old
Morse Mythology. Siegfried and Beo-
wulf In the other side of the case are
many stories: Adam Bede, Johnson
Rasselas, The Vicar of Wakefield, The
Last Days of Pompeii Westward Ho!,
a complete set of Dickens novels, 1rv-
ing's works, Sir Walter Besant's Lon
don, The Jessamy Bride, The Last OF
the Mohicans, The House of Seven Ga
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I bles and many others. The fiction de-
partment is the smallest in the library.
| The aim is not to have great many
books here, but to have one or Two
works Of each of the best authors, that
the students may make their acqualn-
| lance. Since both the Lithgow Library
and the State Library are well sup
piled with good fiction, the pupils can
go there to find more books by the
same author.
| The next shelves are full of biogra-
rhy, mostly of English and American
| authors, among which are Morley
English Men of Letters series. Then
come histories, The Epochs of History
Series, nearly thirty different periods
written by the best historians, and
| Creasy's -F'ifteen Decisive Battles "
| The rest of the case is full of English
histories: Green, Gardiner, Knight and
Bright; Freeman's Lectures on Old
English History, The Puritans in their
| Three Homes, Queens of England,
Queens of Scotland, Westminster Alb
hey, The Tower of London and Hare's;
| Walks in London.
| In the main room we see the Century
Dictionary, the New International En-
cyclopedia and several Greek and Latin
| LeXicons, always ready for reference,
and a large book case in the corner of
the room filled with biography and Am
erican History. On the top shelf stands
| the American Statesmen series, the
lives of all our greatest men written
ty our best authors. Then there is a
full set Of Fislles Histories and His
torical Essays. Here, also, are large
number of American histories: Park
mans works. dealing with early periods
of United States History; McMaster's
History of the People of the United
States; The Rise and Fall of the Con-
federate Government, by Jefferson Da-
Wis; Horace Greely's American Con-
tlict; Bryce's American Commonwealth;
The Narrative and Critical History of
America; and MackenZie's America and
History of the 18th Century, one of the
most instructive books 1 ever read
But that is not all this case contains
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-16

for school of commerce, and its out
look is broader than the spelling tab
let or the letter writer. These, how
ever should not be neglected. We In
sist that there may be as much in the
educational value of the literature IN
a school of commerce as there is III
other classes Of the same grade. We
regard with suspicion, the notion that
English can best be learned through a
study of the classics.
Extended study of at least one Ian
guage other than English, will be
made Local conditions and local de-
1nands will be regarded in this selec-
ton. Our commercial course III the
High School will require pupils to be
grounded in mental and general arith-
metic. and will furnish an extension of
the mathematical idea through a study
Of algebra. Practical geometry and
measurements will also be included to
complete the course
H. history there will be a selection
of facts which will illustrate the in
Gustrial, commercial, and political side
of the life of the peoples studied. The
history of commerce will have It's prop
er place Commercial Geography will
be presented in connection with study
of raw materials and the manner in
which they find their way into the
worlds trade. Science, in the CONNER
cial school, should be a study of the
rhe nomena of everyday life, and to
this end the laboratory will be used.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-16
THE NEW CON-
MERCIAL COURSE

CONTINUED From Page Eleven.)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-16
THE CONY HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY

Here are Motley's Rise of the Dutch
Republic; Prescott's Ferdinand and Is
ahella. and The Conquest Of Mexico;
Ridpath's History of the World; Plu-
| tarch's Lives; Mommsen's Roman His
tory, and shelf of other Roman His
tories.
We will go upstairs now, If you are
tired of this case, although I should
like to stay here some time, san,plins
Harris Source Book of American Histo-
~; Lees Rccollections; and Edward
Everett Hales Stories of Adventure
and Discovery. There are two book
cases at tie head of the stairs. The
first one contains books on science,
chemistry, electricity, astronomy and
natural history about one hundred vol
umes in all. The second case has more
histories in it, mostly Greek, and sever
al very interesting books on mytholo-
gy, such as Bul1nch, Gayley and Fair
banks A long row of Stoddard's Lee
lures and Hubbard's Little Journeys in
the World, complete this bookcase.
Besides these there are one hundred
and seventy Government Reports that
Mr.. Manly gave to the school. These
contain the official records of the Unit
ed States Army and Navy during the
Civil War, documents which are very
valuable for exact history.
This library is not SO We'll patronized
as it would lie if the students did not
have access to both the Lithgow Lii
brary and the State Library, but it
| is a great help to both teachers and
scholars in making the school work in
| teresting. The habit Of consulting the
best authority on any subject is very
! useful to student, and q good library
like this one helps to form this habit.
AS far as possible, these books are the
best authority to be had on the sub
jects they treat, and they make it
possible for the pupils TO follow out
any subject that interests them. 1t has
been said that any course of study is a
complete success if the student is sufii-
GENTLY interested to care TO follow it
up, and to give opportunity to do this
! is the object of a good library.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-16

that is your view of life as seen
through the lens of your own vocation
You cannot escape it if you are really
looking for it. True, these things will
not admit our sons and daughters to
most colleges, but that is due to the
foolishness. obstinacy and poverty of
the colleges; or, to put it in different
way, it is due to the fact that the state
has not yet attempted to organize and
control collegiate education as it is
organizing and controlling secondary
education. The old break between
elementary school and high school has
been advanced step. 1t now
furnishes friction points between high
school and college. If the youth can
not determine in high school what he
is good for, he should go on expert
menting in college. Perhaps this is
what they have in mind who advise
young man to get a broad basis OF
general culture" before specializing.
This broad basis" should include just
two things: first, some understanding
and appreciation of ones own men,
tality--his instincts, powers, capacl-
ties; second, some understanding and
appreciation of modern society-its
organization, agencies, tendencies, OPP
portunities, needs of service. One
then sees what he can do and where he
will fit 1t is well, if possible, to gam
such insight and out-sight before
choosing a career, but many have such
peculiar talent or controlling instinct
that they can choose intuitively. The
time should come when society, acting
as the state, will be in full possession
of all the instruments necessary to
enable a youth to choose his vocation
and fully prepare for it.
n w T,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-16

also furnished plans for many fine
residences, ranging in price from five
thousand to seventy-five thousand dol
lars.
Mr. Freeman, who has personally
supervised the construction of the high
school building, has proven himself to
be an agreeable man to work with
highly efficient, and entirely satisfac-
tory to the Board of Education.
The Columbus journal., 1909-11-24
IMPORTANT NEWS
NOTES OF A week
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED
FORM.
EVENTS HERE AND THERE
Condensed 1nto q Few Lines for the
Perasal Of the Busy Man
Ls4est Personal Infor-
nation.
PERSONAL.

Count BOni de Castellane has been
In Rome two weeks trying to arrange
for papal 2nnulment of his marriage
with Anna Gould. now the Princess de
SaEan, SO he may remarry.
President Simon of Haiti arrived at
Cape Haitien on the gunboat Liberte
and was given an enthusiastic well
come. The town was decked with
flags In his honor
Mrs. Marie Radleigh of New York
city, 4S years old and married 20
years. has given birth to her nine
teenth child. Only nine are living.
but one Of them. daughter 10 years
old, is married and the mother OF
one baby.
Rings lost by Mrs. Goldie Dixon OF
New Town, Mo-, valued at $500, were
found by Mrs. Margaret Adams OF
Chicago at the Union station In Kan
sas City and restored to their owner.
Col Charles Smith. 81 years old.
who served In the Mexican war and In
the civil war. died at his home In
Terre Haute, Ind.
Herman Erenhaft, a New York
tailor with a large family, will soon
come into possession of 100000. he
inherits from an aunt in Austria the
fortune which will relieve him and MS
family from the stress of poverty.
The Columbus journal., 1909-11-24
LAW DECLARED v0|D|
SUPREME COURT PASSES UPON
CATE ENACTMENT.
OLD STATE NORMAL BOARD
They Are Rsinststed BY This .Deeisien
But Eligibility Of Majors Not
Passed Upon.

The supreme court has declared
void the normal board Law which
State Oil Inspector Arthur Mullen had
introduced in the last legislature. Az
the court declared the new board in
valid 1t did not pass on the question
Of the eligibility Of T. ]. Majors Of
Peru who was member of the legis-
lature when he was appointed by Gov
ernor Shallenberger. The object of
the law was to legislate out of ONCE
the old state normal board to give
place to a new one that was to be ap-
pointed by the governor.
The court overrules the demurrer
fled by the new board which alleged
that the petition of Attorney General
Thompson did not state facts SUM-
cient to constitute a cause of action
and that there was a misjoinder Of
parties. The writ in quo warranto
prayed for by the attorney general
will be issued declaring the old nor
NAL board to be the legally consti-
tuted board.
In adhering to the constitutional
provision that an act OF the legis-
lature must contain but one subject
clearly express in the title and that 1t
must name the sections to be amend
ed and repealed, the court finds that
the act did not refer in any way to an
Independent act creating the state
normal school at Kearney which says
the normal board now in control shall
manage that institution. To hold the
new act was amendatory of this
separate act would be contrary to the
and to hold the new act
would result in retain
Ing tie old board in control of the
kearney school and the new board in
control of the Peru school and junior
normals.
The opinion says: "The amendatory
act contains an attempt to amend and
repeal the governing statute of the
Kearney normal school by amendment
Of an Independent statute relating to
the state normal school at Peru and
for that reason contrayenes the con-
stitutional provision that no law shall
be amended unless the new act con-
tains the section or sections so amend
ed and the section or sections 30
amended shall be repealed"
1T was suggested in consultation
mat the point last above mentioned
was not presented on the argument
Dr. in the brief of the relator, and
therefore should not beconsidered.
The answer to the suggestion is that
his is an actioD on behalf of the state
brought by the attorney general to
est and determine the question of the
7alidity of the statute in order to
urther the educational interest of the
state. and If for any reason we are
that the statute is uncon-
we ought to so determine:
or If the courts can. under such pre-
ext, nullify the constitution, We will
Don find ourselves openly defying
he provisions of the fundamental
aw which We have solemnly sworn
o uphold"
The Columbus journal., 1909-11-24
Fine Drove Of hoqs.

Thomas W. Smith, warden Of the
state penitentiary. has the finest drove
Of red hogs in Nebraska at the state
Institution. The state drove numbers
something over 400 of which log have
been born within the last three weeks
and Mr.. Smith says he does not in
tend to lose pig. In addition to the
hogs at the penitentiary Mr.. Smith
iarmed some 500 acres and now has
slowed away some 900 bushels of 20
tatoes, his crop. he said. being al
most a failure: $50 bushels of turnips.
200 bushels of carrots and 1900 head
Of cabbage. :
The Columbus journal., 1909-11-24
sQME.0F men ALIVE
MOST OF THEM, HOWEVER.
HAVE PERSISTED.
TEN DEAD RESCUED SUNDAY
Ninety.tNSo are Known to ee Dead In
the Nllne and 19e are 9till
Aojsoing.

Cherry, U.-Twenty saved. ninety.
two known dead and 1913 missing was
the record of the st. Paul mine Sun
day night. Ten dead were brought to
the surface Sunday and thirty-seven
more dead were located in the sec
ond level, but were not brought up
on account of black damp.
At the end of the day no living man
or boy had been added to the list Of
the twenty rescued Saturday.
All day long the tolling of church
bells res0unded in Cherry and Spring
Valley. Eighteen bodies were in.
TERED in a field south of the town.
At the mine q dozen cOffined victims
remained awaiting removal. with a
score of caskets piled nearby for the
bodies which are to come.
Services for the dead were held
outside the churches into which Cor
oner Main deemed 1t inadvisable that
the bodies be taken.
From the yet untitled graves In
which the Roman Catholic dead were
placed. the pastor hurried to the mine
entrance, where, with a second priest.
he waited to administer the last rites
for the living. should his services be
needed.
Mayor Connolly telegraphed Presi-
dent Taft at Washington Saturday
night that twenty men had been res
cued and that $50 were believed to
be alive. Each hour that passes now
is looked upon by the watchers as
making the chance of escape less.
"The men they brought up cOul
not have lived more than a few hours
longer" said one despairing woman.
IF they don't come up today they'll
come up dead"
The fire in the second level was
forced back and early in the after
noon the workers could pass it. The
black damp in the east gallery was
the obstacle that proved insurmount-
able to the men.
Through 1t the bodies of thirty
seven men could be seen. Prepare
tons for the taking out of thirty
seven bodies visible to the explorers
were rushed when the morbid throng
about the mine had thinned.
In the mine level the work of the
rescuers went on increasingly. Re-
lays Of eager miners succeeded those
whose strength failed. Those who
staggered from the pit mouth were
instantly and a babel of
questions hurled at them.
I'VE can see the bodies. There are
piles of them. They are dead boys.
all dead" was the reply of the first
answers.
The Columbus journal., 1909-11-24
AFFAIRS IN NICARAGUA.
President and Advisors Confer Over
the Situation.

President and Advisors Confer Over
the Situation.
MISUNDERSTANDING a confer
ence with the president at the White
House Sunday on the Nicaraguan sit
uation, Secretary of State Knox auth
0rized the following statement:
IF certain representations of fact
which have been made to the State
department concerning the Groce and
Cannon cases are verified by inquiries
that have been made. this govern
,ment will at once prepare q demand
On the Nicaraguan government for
reparation for the death of these two
men,"
For two hours President Taft con-
ferred with Secretary Knox on the
Nicaraguan situation. The secretary
of state, accompanied by Henry NJ.
Hoyt, counselor of the State depart.
ment, reached the White House short
ly after 8 o'clock. Previous to 60
ing to the executive mansion. Mr..
Knox held q conference in his home
with Assistant Secretary Huntington
Wilson
The Columbus journal., 1909-11-24
UTAH COAL CASE.

Verdict Set and a New Trial Ordered.
St Panl.-Judge Walter H. Sanborn.
in the United States circuit court of
appeals. handed down an opinion set
ting aside the verdict and ordering a
new trial in the case of the United
States against the Union Pacific Coal
company, the Union Pacific railway,
the Oregon Short Line railway. James
M. Moore and Everett Buckingham.
charging them with violation of the
Sherman antitrust law by forming
an unlawful combination.