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Connecticut western news., 1910-08-18
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 bet a punkun against a postul kard fonetik spelin1 bekum poplur ip mi deestrikt.
 Said one of the North Kanun town committee: "Luks like graft when U fust SC it; the more U lux at it the betr yu like it. Itz like politix; yu'v got to get uzed 3 it be 4 U r eny good at it." r
 Said Clint Rorabaok: "I ges Gal Higher aint the only wun thatz krazy. Any man who wud think uv spelin that wa must B krazy as bed bug. It wud mak me krazy tu reed it. Looks some thin like football Signul practice; darned hard to understand unless urs onto the game"
 Paul Guerney sez: "It lux like the letur mi gurl wrote me when she hurd of mi misfortun in that mock triul."
 A. J. Wigglesworth said: Reminds me of job ov house pipin. The shorter the cut the quicker the job and greater the cost.''
 Joe Ganci replied: "I'u write my friend Victor Imanul 3rd about it un if yul kal in tumoro Il giv yu an ansur."
 Henry Ives remarked: "It is 8 fao simile uv letur got from Lu Roads recently. Its going tu B poplur among fishermun at the laix.
 Station Agent Finney said: "Our kumpany wud favor that kind uv spslin fur it's az sensibul as our chargin peepul 20 per sent more fair fur riding than we uzed tn do. Its great skeem und ot tn bring big dividenz; ours has,"
 A Nuze reporter tried to see School committeeman Freeman to get his views on the subjec, but he wasn't in. A janitor about the Canfield buildin, how ever, said he new how Freeman felt about it Asked tn outline the commit eeman's views he sed: "Speakin " now with the dignity ov a committeeman and not as janitur Iwun sa fur Commit teeman Freeman, This kind uv spelin reminds me strongly uv the spelin of the average graduate uv the hi skul. So it dug not strik me az hard as it uther- wiz wud. I am inklined tn sancshun it's adoptun in the skulls uv our deestrik as a means uv hidinl present incapacrity in skull spelin. It wud B godsend to many hi skull graduat who now haz difikulty in handlin his or her job if sum such spelin wuz poplur. It wud kun natchural tu him when he has tn rite frum dictashun.
 Judge Ford put on his glasses and, lookin ovur the spelin remarked; "That luks nacherel tn me. Mi warunts are all made out that wa. Kaut 0 no trubul with that spelln."
 Finally goat wuz seen out on the sand barrens and he was asked what he thot uv such spelin He stopt chewin "A Messunjur rum Jarvis Sexun" poster long enuf tu remark: "I'm goat, but I'd go hungry before I'd eat 8 poster spelt that wa. If did eat that kind uv gibberish it would create a complex fatuation which wud result in in compound pressure of the diavolicus ratification of the membranatic diafale- trus of my nunnychuck and I wud drop ded after eatin it. I've got Doc Lees wurd for it, and that's good enuf fur me-"
 With wise shake uv his he'd the goat resumed his feast and the Nuze- man came tn the konklusun that the kommunity appears tu be equally divided az tn the meritz uv fonetio Spel- in. Thoz who naturally spell that wa, favur it, and thoz who go thro the old form, at presunt sit on the fenoe."
Connecticut western news., 1910-08-18
How the Political
 Game is Played
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in the state. Whether or not the colonel quartermastsr-C collector and the com- missionsr-ex-chairman gave anybody anything to be expended in carrying their caucuses" could not be learned.
 Senator BulItslev in Action
 Senator Bulkelry was bustling about with his pockets full of cigars. He gave away the cigars, called people Bill, Jack and Jim and otherwise showed himself a good fellow thoroughly well qualified to represent Connecticut in the United States Senate. Ex-Gov Mclean was not quite so much in evidence. Bob Eaton did most of his trailing for him. To those who marVelled that federal official should be so conspicuous in state politics it was explained that Bob Eaton would sure lose his job if Bulksley carried off the victory.
 Senator Frank Brandegse was also much in evidence. He is for Bulkeley. Bulkeley once helped the junior Sena- tor defeat Mclean and the junior Sena- tor is firm believer in the great Blaine principle of reciprocity. Senator Bulls- ley didn' t eat anything. In some quar- ters this was regarded as significant The colonel-quarter-mastsr-co collector and the commissioner ex-chairman ate com prehensively, So did most of the other law-givers.
 The New Haven Journal Courier's young man, who has a handsome gold stop watch, estimated that Senator Bulkeley occupied two hours walking the length of the Oolonnade tables shak- ing hands with people. The duties of a United States Senator are onerous. Ex- Gov Mclean stood up most of the day shaking hands. In statssmanship more depends upon the hand clasp than upon the Payne law.
 Most everybody was mum-to the mum, ex-Gov Mclean was mum. MT Goodwin was mum, ex-Lieutsnant Gev- ernor Lake was mum and most of ths bottles were Mumm. Representative Chandler of Rocky Hill the daddy of the public utilities bill was not SO mum. He said two out of three people in Con- neoticut were for Mclean, and that Mo Lean would win. He wouldn't predict as to Goodwin and Butterworth and he wouldn't say whether or not he would upset the maohine's kettle of fish by asking the nomination for Congressman at Large.
 Abnsr Hayes Makes a Promise
 In the Shepard Mclean situation both candidates were much in evidence. But terworth has practically every delegate in the Second Congressional District as- sured. This would be significant, but for the fact that Shepard has practically every delegate in the Second Congress sional District assured. The Waterbury outfit was quizxed a good deal about which way the cat of their town would jump in this contest. Shepard has long had corps of workers here. His re- presentatives are Abner F. Hayes, Capt Henry B. Carter and Maj Archibald E. Rice. Maj Rice is somewhat new ts active politics, but Messrs Hayes and Carter are reputsd to have control of the Republican organization. Mir Hayes assured Ool Shepard yesterday that Waterbury would be all right.
 On the other hand, however, Butter worth adherents feel fairly well assured that the delivery will not be so easily accomplished. A Butterworth organiza- tion is already at work. It takes live interest in MT Hayes.
Connecticut western news., 1910-08-18
NATIONS LUXURIES
 COST S25O,OOO,OOO
Expenditures For Jewels, Wines
 and Flnery Break Record.

The importation of luxuries into the United States was larger in the fiscal year 1910 than in any earlier year in the history of our commerce.
 Figures prepared by the bureau of statistics of the department of com merce and labor covering the com merce of the full fiscal year show the importation of fully $250,000,000 worth of articles which may properly be classed as luxuries, that total exceed ing by more than $25,00O,OO0 the fig ures of the former high record year, 1907, and being actually more than double those of the year 1900.
 Diamonds, jewelry, laces and em- Droideries, furs, feathers, beads and perfumery on the one hand, and cigars and tobacco, wines and liquors and automobiles on the other are the prin- cipal articles forming the $250,000,000 worth of luxuries imported, though to these great groups must be added a third which includes art works, deco rated china, bisque, musical instru- ments, toys, orchids and palms,
 Diamonds and laces run a Close race with tobacco and liquors in popular favor, as measured by the value of their imports.
Connecticut western news., 1910-08-18

Joe Cans, the negro
 pugilist, who was once the champion light
Connecticut western news., 1910-08-18

bet punkun against a postul kard fonetik spelin1 bekum poplur ip mi deestrikt.
Connecticut western news., 1910-08-18

The Esperanto con- gross, with about 1000 delegates from
Connecticut western news., 1910-08-18
GEN E RAJ EWS
HAPPENING.


 HAppEMIMee 1000 delegates from / '''~r N'Neo' all parts of the world, is in session at Washington. The pro- ceedtngs are entirely in Esperanto, "the universal language" pr. l.. L. Zamenhoff of Warsaw, Poland, the creator of the language, is present John Barrett, director of the interna- tional bureau of American republics, is president of the American Esperanto association. pr. Zamenhoff made the opening address, after which the ses- sion was devoted by the Esperantists to conferences and speeches on the re- lation of Esperanto to the professions.
 Mayor Marshall of Columbus, O., has called for 2,0O0 men to act as vol unteer police in the present car strike. This action came after the suspension of thirty-two regular policemen who refused to do strike duty. The re- mainder of the force have been noti- fled that the policy of placing the men on the cars will very probably be con- tinued. The most remarkable situa- ton in the history of strikes in Ohio developed when the policemen were suspended by Chief of Police Garter for open mutiny. Mayor Marshall openly states that he sympathizes with the union car men and that he does not blame the mutinous policemen for re- fusing to go on the cars. Anarchy practically reigns in the city after nightfall.
 Mrs. Margaret Emerson McKim, the well known society woman, has re- ceived an absolute divorce from Dr. Smith Rollins McKim. The decree was granted at Reno, Nev., without a question by Judge Pike after she had told her story accusing Dr. McKim of cruelty and drunkenness. Mrs. McKim testified that she was married on Dec. 30, 1902, in Baltimore, lived at Irving ton from Mays 1904, to July, 1908, sum- mering at Newport, and went to New York in October, 1908.
 A meeting of all the Rockefellers has been arranged for Sept. 9 at Newburg, N. T., and it is hoped that John D. Rockefeller will attend, although he has not accepted the invitation posi- lively. Those invited are lineal de scendants of Johann Peter RockefeI- Ter, who came to America in 1723. A history of the Rockefeller family will be read, giving the origin of the family name and a history of 1t down from 800.
 The state Democratic convention held at Galveston, Tex, adjourned aft CT ratifying the primary nomination of Oscar Branch Colquitt for governor and indorsing Senator Joseph w. Bai- ley for president in 1912. The issue of the campaign-prohibitio buried in the rush to place the senator back in power as the leader of the party in Texas Any opposition to Bailey was hissed down.
Connecticut western news., 1910-08-18
GRIM ES
 AND CASUALTIES.


 CASUALTIES. owner. was found bur. jed in the yard in front of her home in Lancaster, Cal, it was a pet dog that uncovered it. Murder, with robbery as the motive, is suspected, and the woman's brother-in-law, Otto Schultz, who left after saying he was bound for Germany, was captured in Los An geles a few hours later, the police sus. pectfng him of having committed the crime. Mrs. Castine was last seen when she went to Lancaster from her ranch to receive q remittance of S6OO0 from relatives in san Francisco In. vestigations tend to show that the woman was attacked as she drove into the yard and was tn or'u into the shallow hole while yet alive Mrs. Castine's son found his mothers body, half uncovered by the dog; when he returned from trip. A wide wound in the back of the head, evidently infiict. ed by an ax, showed the work of the slayer.
 An express train bound from Boston for New York on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad killed three boys and seriously wounded an- other. Parts of the bodies were strewn along the tracks for % Irds.
Connecticut western news., 1910-08-18
Tell Us Who's Who

If you have any friends stopping with you now or at any time during the camp kindly send to the News mention of that fact with their names that it may appear in the camp news column.
 Saturday Nights Reception
 Saturday evening there will be a general reception and introduction of those who are to take part in the Ohautauqua of the coming week.
 General Notes of the Camp.
 Mrs Sanford and son, Brooklyn. arrived Monday.
 The Misses Diffenderfer arrived in camp Tuesday as guests of friends here. MT Harrison Moore, from Washington, is a guest of Miss Lizzie Odeu of Acadia.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-02-11
The Box Supper Friday Night

On last Friday evening the To-
cal mem bers of Canyon lodge of
the order of Modern Brother
hood of America gave box
supper and extended an invita-
tion to the Amarillo lodge, M. b.
"A. No. 2215, to attend. About
twenty memb bers of the prize
team from Amarillo came in
body and it is said that they
did some fine drill work, demon
strating clearly to the local
lodge that they could do the
work in an efficient manner. 1t
might be said of Number 22l5
NJ. b. A. of Amarillo that it is
the banner lodge of Texas. In
a contest between it and the
Dallas lodge, it was proved that
the team from Amarillo was the
prize team and that their lodge
was the banner lodge, all of
which is gratifying to the Pan
handle country.
Some of those present Friday
night for the exhibition drill
work were: Mesdames Viola
Burnett, Faulkner, Brewer,
Morgan, Jefferies, Hantz, Nc
lean, and Harm, Misses Bertha
Sewell, Minnie Brewer, Eva
Blackwell, Sylvia Boswell, Lo-
rena Cox and Ila Samples, all of
whom were chaperoned by ii.
b. Martin.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-02-11
Williams is Given Six Years.

After a session of nearly
twenty-five hours, the jury in
the case of the State of Texas VS.
John w. Williams returned a
verdict of guilty and setting a
punishment of six years in the
penitentiary. A motion for a
new trial will be made and the
case will be appealed.
Williams was convicted of the
killing of John Armstrong at
Bovina on Nov. II, 1908. The
story floats from the jury room
that he had close call to life
Imprisonment as the first ballot
stood nine for conviction and
three for acquittal.
The next question over which
the Jurors argued for many
hours was whether a punish
ment of seven years in the state
penitentiary or six years should
be given the defendant, and the
result was a sentence OF the
latter term. Amarillo Daily
NnWS.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-02-11

ty, had not a word to say in the
selection of people whose work
he should direct, criticise and
approve, and whose professional
conduct he should guarantee.
This management of this busi-
ness was as wise as the law un-
der which it was conducted.
AS against others. | must
maintain that the normal school
principal, college president, and
school superintendent, have the
right of freedom from EN- bar
rassment by the zeal of personal
and political friends who press
applicants upon them or upon
the electing boards, without the
consent of the responsible pro
fessional Head. The fight for
positions, if allowable at all,
should be made before the man
who is professionally RESPONSE
BILE, and it should end there.
This principle of school admin
istration will not be admitted as
sound upon presentation to the
average citizen who sees only
soft snaps in school positions,
but it ought to be Self-evident to
intelligent business men and to
school men, whether teachers or
trustees. This policy is again
in contrast with the actions of a
State Superintendent who once
attempted, in his presumptious
attachments to his own conceits,
to put men in a normal school
faculty in Texas without the
consent and over the protest of
the principal of the school.
The principles here main
tanned are applicable to the adj
ministration of all schools and
systems of schools, and they
are recognized in all localities
and by all school boards except
in Dark Corner. All this au-
thority in now by law in the
hands of electing boards. The
light has not penetrated the av-
erage politicians mind and has
therefore not found its way TO
the laws. And what some
school boards do for Superin-
tendents and principals in vlo-
lation of this fundamental law
and elementary principle Is a
plenty. This reminds me OF
/
this story, which Nat, B. Read
quotes from Sam Jones. The
brethren were having an eXper-
ience or praise meeting. Each
was telling what the Lord had
done for him. One brother sat
stopped and drawn with stiff
Joints and wry muscles, tortured
by Rheumatism. The preacher
who was leading the meeting
called the name of this silent
and suffering brother, encour,
ing him by speaking of the souls
of Just men made perfect
through suffering, saying tc
him, Brother, won't you tell Us
what the good Lord has done fol
you?" Arising, half bent. sup
ported upon a staff, with every
feature a chapter of suffering
and sorrow, he replied, Broth
er, he has mighty nigh ruined
me-" The figure heads of many
schools in Texas have beer
mighty nigh ruined" by mis-
guided authority, exercised i
might be in kindly ignorance
his OBLIGATIONS THAT
NO MAN CAN NUMBER.
By the terms of my toast, yo1
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-02-11
First State Bank Organized.

The First State of Canyon was
organized this week and will be
ready for business as soon as
the state charter is issued and
the furniture and fixtures are
installed which will be about
March lst. The following offic-
ers were elected by the board of
directors; j. T. Holland, Pres,
G. S. Ballard, Vice Pres. and
J. p. Winder, Cashier. The di-
rectors are J. r. Holland, q. S.
Ballard, Il. g. Oldham, 7. H.
Rowan and J. p. Winder.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-02-11
management must be true to
Truth, though the heavens fall.

management must be true to
Truth, though the heavens fall.
This is not enough. The en-
tire management must be in
harmony with the highest intel
ligence that governs these
schools anywhere. The normal
school is the PROFESSIONAL
school for the training of teach
ers. 1t is the training camp"
for the soldiers who must fight
for the states honor against
the hosts of ignorance. The
normal school is not a mere
academy 1t is much more.
The spirit and ideals of the pro-
fessional teacher must fill the
atmosphere of hall and garden
of every normal school. This
demands that instructor and
student shall follow truth to its
hiding place in every subject
and more. Instructor and
pupil must know the subject
matter, per Sc, and vastly more.
They must learn the laws by
which a growing mind grows
faster and in the right direction
by the mastery of suitable sub
ject matter. In other works,
they must know subject matter
and know how to teach it. No
teacher can claim to be a pro
fessional teacher who is ignorant
of his subject, or ignorant of
how to teach it according to the
laws of the growth of the mind.
The teacher who knows subject
matter and who is ignorant of
the principles and laws of peda-
gogy is, at best, an experiment
ter. The man who knows few
pedagogical devices, learned in
an imitation normal school,
but who is not a scholar in his
branch, is a FARCE in every
scene, and act, and play. Either
alone makes a living falsehood,
while both combined compose
the TRUTH DWELLING AMONG
MEN.
The growing child should be
and is the central thought of the
normal school. He should be
the central figure, present in
person, not in memory or by
representative. He should be
there under circumstance fa-
vorable to his growth, so that
those who are being trained in
the NORMAL SCHOOL may watch
him grow under the skillful
guidance of the trained teacher.
Then. perhaps, the young teach
er may 90 out into the state
equipped to teach subject mat
ter to growing children accord
ing to laws which they them
selves have observed. The inev
liable conclusion is that the
training school, or model school
or practice school, is the chieI
item of equipment in a norma
school. 1t is Illogical and out o
date to teach without specimens
when the country is full of them
1t is stupid to teach about birds
beasts and bees from book.
alone, when the country is aliv'
with the living objects. |
would oe out of harmony Will
the times to have medica
schools or dental schools with
out hospitals and clinics. Their
are no law schools withou
courts. There are no swimming
, schools without water-and We
: we continue an antiquated effoI
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-02-11

may now prepare yourselves for
my speech, which is to follow
the few remarks that | have
made. This reminds me of a
story. Two souls with but a
single thought, two hearts that
beat as one" had occupied the
same chair in the traditional
form for the time that always
seems so short. Said she; My
darling, are you not tired hold
ing me in this way Said he:
Il was tired about two hours
ago, but its all right now, | am
numb. "
Seriously. with your permiS-
sion | will propose a few of
many thesis that are contained
in this part of my subject and
discuss them at some other time.
First. The normal school
principal, conceiving the schools
which are supported at public
expense as the ruling purpose
of the people to educate them
selves, should see clearly the
part that the normal school is to
play.
Second.-He should know the
genesis of the idea and the con-
ditions of its growth in this
country, into fully developed,
definite and fixed factor in the
school economy of states.
Third. He must learn what
normal school is in its highest
development in this country,
and its relations to other kinds
of schools, by familiarizing him
self with the plans, purposes,
performances and powers of
similar institutions wherever
they appear.
Fourth. knowing the normal
school in its historic develop
ment. he should also know the
problems which now engage the
attention of the foremost nor
NAL school men of the country
and should set his own school to
the work it can best do in the
promotion of public interest as
that is affected by public educa-
tion, in the light of past proof
and present problems.
Fifth. He should not only
know what a real normal school
| is, absolutely and relatively, but
he should face the difficulties
that confront the normal schools
in hisown state and declare the
whole counsel to those who la
Dor with him and to the public
at large.
'Thetrut thou hast thou shalt declare
The good thou hast with others share
They only live who dare
The high professional plane
upon which every normal schoo
must live, if it be true to it:
trust. demands that every rec
ommendation made by the pres
ident for positions in its facult.
must meet the high professional
test of having been given be
cause of fitness alone for tn
work to be done, in utter disre
gard of personal and politica
claims or pressure. A norma
school president acting upon /;
lower plane than this is an abor
tive example for young teacher
and administrative officers
This same principle must appl,
to recommendations given t
graduates of a normal who ar
= applicants for positions in othe
j schools. Every motive in tn