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The Daily Missoulian., 1914-06-11

An audience whose number indi-
Gated no change in the apathetic at
titude of Missoula people toward the
splendid opportunities offered by the
university summer school in it's
course of public lectures. heard DR.
Lotus u. .Coffman speak last evening
on "Thc Three Duties of the School" :"
Again the lecturer analyzed school
problems rather as aspects of general
social evolution than as detached
questions of administration, furnish
ing in his discussion interesting ma
terial for that mysterious individual,
the Average Citizen, While seeking to
equip his audience of teachers with
an understanding of their duties.
The three duties of the school he
described as protection. education and
selection. He pictured the public
school as a social machine for the
performance of these processes not as
an institution for the indiscriminate
heapng of information upon all chill
dren. There is, he said, an 'intellec-
t1lal caste" and the ultimate function
of the school machine is the selection
and development of this caste.
There follows brief of the lecture,
the dry, bare bones of what was a
living discourse. In the transfer from
the platform TO the page the speech
must have lost the light of the lee
turer's personality, but the resume will
serve at least to show what so many
people missed last night.
Duties of the School.
No individual lives by himself alone
All the world lives for him; he lives
for all the world. At one end of the
scale stands the individual; at the
other the great world Education oc-
| ours when one of these forces plays
upon the other. Both forces, the ind-
| Vidual and society, are constantly
changing, and the great problem OF
| the school is to fit the ever different
| individual to a shifting environment
| The problem is further complicated
| by the fact that the world is composed
| of two elements, nature and human
| nature, the one static. its blind evo-
/ luton governed by immutabe laws;
| the other always changing, conscious
| ~ evolving. The problem really is
| then, to fit changing child to &
world whose static side, regarded from
/ within the school, is ever seen a lit
| tie moro clearly; whose human side
| beyond the school. is forever shifting
| The problem is to be approached il
| the light of the three principal char
| acteristics of ali children-deDenden
| plasticity variability. The child. new
| to the world, is a helpless thing, tt
be guarded to maturity from forces
| inimical to it. The manner of this
| protection, the influences brought t.
bear upon the growing child mould {
| mind open 10 impression, seeking eX-
| preston through the most convenien
/ channels. No two children are alike
| Each is differently fitted for life, has
/ individual capacities and characters
| tics.
The three prime traits of all chill.
dren are, then, dependency, plasticitA
| and variability. These traits determine
| the three duties of the school-pro
teetion for helplessness, education
for Elasticity; selection, for variabil
| ity.
Tho protective duty of the school j.
| but today receiving proper cInphaSiS
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-06-11

My neighbor has a daughter who
Takes singing lessons. as girls do.
She practices the morning long
Six weeks she's sung the same
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-06-11
The eighbor.

My neighbor who resides next door
Forsakes his doWny couch at four.
Most cheerfnlly 10 NOW his lawn,
And rouses all of us at dawn.
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-06-11

Ny neighbor has a raft of boys
Who make most astounding noise;
They play baseball and "one old cat, =,
For racket there's some class to that
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-06-11

Performance is continuous,
But still the neighbor next to us
Is ono of MANY on the pike,
For neighbors are most all alike.
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-06-11

Tho protective duty of the school is
but today receiving proper emphasis.
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-06-11

In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fx'd; It's fix'd as in a
frdst;
Contracted all, retiring to the
breast;
But strength of mind is exercise,
not rest.
Pope.
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-06-11

The three prime traits of all chill
dren are, then, dependency, Elasticity
and variability. These traits determine
the three duties of the school-pro-
lection, for helplessness; education,
for Elasticity; selection, for variable
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-06-11

My neighbor has a kid who yells
From midnight on in frequent spells;
He keeps on yelling until dawn;
Then dad gets up and moWs the
lawn.
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-06-11

Ny neighbor has three charming
maids,
And YOU should hear the serenades
The young men sing beneath the
bower
It doesn't matter at what hour.
The Daily Missoulian., 1914-06-11

4 pianola, too has he,
He hits il up in greatest glee.
He starts to PLAYING it at eight.
Till midnight he keeps up his gait.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
EVER HEAR A WHALE sNoRE?
Sailing Captains Are Divided on a 1 Story From the Deep

Do whales snore? Science says so
 and it's a 5O-5O vote from captains of
 sailing vessels at New York ports, says
 the New York Sun.
 The question arose to distract the minds of New Workers from heat and the com
 ing gubernatorial campaign when Captain Clifton Smith, his officers and passengers on the Stephano. arrived in port with the story that they had run close to sleep ing mammal and heard him snore. F. A. Lucus. director of the Museum of Nation al History, was asked about it. "A whale snore? said Director Lucus "If Captain Smith says so 1t must be true-as true as the story of the whale into whose blow hole a barnacle fell, and who ever thereafter whistled when he blew. They said of this whale that he learned to answer the whistles of the ships. If you believe one you's ss have to believe the other"
 Captain Joshu Edwards of East Hamp- ton, L.. l., who has sailed round the world four times and doubled the Horn seven," says "sure a whale snores I've heard 'em." Captain James F. Avery, an- other widely known ola salt. upholds the
 snoring contention.
 Captain w. I. ShockIey says whales don't snore but that they do sing All humbug." said Captain George Baker Whales don'ti snoro It's wheesing from
 the salt In thqlr lunGA"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
.BESSEMER DEPOT CASE WILL COME UP Railroad Commission Will Consider Important Mat
 ter Monday

Montgomery. August 1.-(Special)-The Bessemer Union station case will be the principal matter before the state railroad commission next Monday when that body convenes in regular monthly session.
 Two petitions in regard to the matter have been filed with the commission, one by the Alabama Great Southern railway ct al, asking approval of the location selected as the site of the union station, and the other by the Bessemer Board of Trade, protesting against the proposed site. Members of the Board of Trade will appear before the commission in the in- terest of securing another location.
 Another case which the commission will hear will be the petition of the South ern Express company for change of cer- tain rates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
A Story From the Sums

This is the story of Thomas Brown, h years old, resident of big city. who had a good impulse and carried 1t out in an uncommon way.
 He lives with his grandmother. Not long ago he was visiting one of the neigh bors and was told by the woman of the house that she was in hard straits; that there was nothing to eat in the house, in fact and very little prospect of there being any.
 Thomas is unusually sensitive for lad of his age, and the woman's plight and tears impressed him greatly. If he had possessed a rich boys pocket money of course the problem would have been easy of solution; but, unfortunately, Thomas and all of his relatives are poor.
 But he had a sudden idea. Cheer up,'' you"
 He returned to his own home, where in a closet, hung a new suit of clothes which his grandmother had bought for him not long before. It cost s and he had no difficulty in pawning 1t for 75 cents The money was given to the poor neigh bor. and Thomas felt the well earned glow of righteousness which accompanies good deed.
 The grandmother of course knew noth- ing of the transaction. Thomas, being worldly wise like many city boys, as well as philanthropic. thought 1t best not to tell her about the pawning of the suit-for awhile, anyway.
 But the next day hunger poked its head into the home of Thomas and his grand mother, and the old lady told him that dinner would not be served that even ing unless means were found of raising money. So Thomas, ingenious soul for getting that he had already pledged his new suit to relieve a neighbours necessity offered to pawn his new suit that he and his grandmother might eat. Of course when the closet door was opened the absence of the suit was dis covered. Then Thomas remembered, broke down and confessed his action of the day before. Instead of taking him ir her arms and praising him for his gen. erosity the grandmother had him brought
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
Our Children


 " '5pSs as S,ss ,' of ''s w the children of the city and ad- eocating the use of the city's roofs for that purpose, a woman says
 ''It almost makes the heart stand still to picture the great roof spaces of our congested districts covered with happy children playing, under the care of au- thorized play guardians, in the sweet air and sunshine that now go to waste, far from the dangers to life and morals that now debauch our children on the streets"
 The woman who wrote that and more to the same effect is not one of those whose children must play in the garbage filled streets or remain in the close. hot, vitiated air of the tenements.
 The children who are best known to her spend their summers in the windy spaces of the mountains or romping in the meadows or sporting on the cool seashores.
 Yet
 She writes of the children of the tene- ments as "our children"
 I1tI IllUu anu iici Htdlt dL pi6 Siod6A II to look beyond the immediate relation ships of life and find in themselves sym pathies with the little brothers and sis ters of the streets and alleys. They are her" children, not their children
 The call of chilhood rings in her ears, whether it is voiced in the correct lan- guaee of the well kept avenues and boulevards or whether it sounds harshly in the patos of the slums. Her nature responds to the appeal of universal motherhood.
 But there is another side to the ques- ton.
 In a very real and material sense the children of the slums "our chill dren.' If they are neglected, from them spring the diseases which work woe in our homes. Who could tell whence rose the fearful disease which took away the grandchild of one of Americas richest men? The death led him to establish the medical institute which is trying hard to find a remedy for the disease which not only killed his. grandson, but which has taken away the lives of thous- ands of the beloved children of the poor. In the slums arise revolutions.
 The children of the slums of Paris grown to man size and woman size drove the tumbrils to the foot of the guillotine and furnished the women who sat knitting at it's foot and counted the heads as they dropped.
 When a Man Has Paid-FOrget It
 Let a person in the big city go wrong and pay the penalty and he or she has a chance of living in the present and future only. The crowds are too vast, the pressure of life is too strong for any one to remember long the past offenses of his neighbor.
 And that's one of the advantages of living in the city.
 It's different in the country or the small town There too many folks re- member The natural kindlness which comes from contact with the fields and the hills and the brooks is overlaid too often by the desire to gossip about one s neighbors
 In a little town in the middle west
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
Talking With the Other World

My heart was full of bitter sadness and sweet memory when stood beside
 the tomb of my glorious departed friend, General Grant. Of course I was in a
 manner happy to think and know that l could stand at his holy grave and speak to him in the other land of blissfu longevity.
 Tt is at the grave of the departed that ones words are of most effect. The
 spirits finger there to listen, and when
 the distressed friend comes and speaks
 his words are caught up and carried to
 the sacred hollow, where the seven
 springs are always flowing.
 And so I told the spirit of my departed
 and illustrious friend that I had come
 all the way from distant China to look
 upon his tomb, as I had looked upon his
 face so many years ago" o"-From the Re-
 gently Published Book of Memoirs of Ii
 Hung Chang.
 No doubt the wonderful old Chinese, one of the greatest men of the nineteenth century of any land, believed sincerely that the spirit of his friend, General Grant, could hear and understand him. It is not an uncommon belief among Chinese and others. And the time and place, when appropriate. add solemnity and dignity to the communication. What place more fitting than the last resting place of the remains of those who were dear to us when they dwelt with us on earth?
 It is a superstition, of course, and as such not to be justified or defended on any ground of reasonable human experi- ence. But
 | Is it not well, after all and conducive | to right living and thinking to believe I that somehow. somewhere, those who have gone before know what we on earth are doing and thinking and feeling? May not the belief be used to supplement and | strengthen the faith in a supreme being who .'searcheth all hearts?" l It is well, of course, not to be toe
 credulous in this matter, since belief | carried to irrational length may lead one to the door of the charlatans who | profess to be able to establish commu- ncation with the spirits of the departed Their activities are outlawed In many 1 places, and it is well that it should be so, far they bleed of their money folks who can, as a rule, not spare 1t.
 In the olden days all save a few bold thinkers believed firmly in a future life
 and in the existence of spirits.
 Nowadays that belief has been mucf
 weakened, although the efforts of tn,
 "psychical researchers to swing tn,
 pendulum the other way are succeeding
 to some extent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
Heart to Heart Talks
By CHARLES N. LURIE

an ice dealer was convicted of having incorrect scales on his wagon. He was
 fined and then, having no other means of support, went back to his ice busi-
 ness.
 But he found it hard. The neighbors
 made his way unnecessarily rough by
 talking about his lapse from the ways
 of right dealing. They even rasped his
 feelings by making jest pf the incl
 dent
 So he put the following advertisement
 in the local paper:
 CORRECT WEIGHT-There may be
 people in town who doubt the accuracy
 of our scales which is due, no doubt to
 the fact that we were once convicted of
 having defective scales on our wagon.
 Our scales are a small and delicate appa-
 ratus and are bound to get damaged oc-
 casionally. This happened once last fall.
 We got "pinched'' and pleaded guilty to
 having damaged scales the wagon
 but not to selling ice over incorrent scales. Accidents are bound to happen in any business. Ask Us about it. I think
 we can explain to your satisfaction. Telephone 89 W. Now
 It is hard to believe that the man who wrote that and was willing to ex- plain to any one who approached him properly is a dishonest man. The word ing is frank.
 He appeals to his neighbors, the peo- pie with whom he must live and do business, to believe the best of him rather than the worst. He asks them to take | his word for it that the defect in the scales was there by accident, not by purpose.
 Why not believe him? | Why not believe others that they mean | to do we'll? It is a debt we owe to the human frailty which is common to us all to believe the best we can of our fellow beings rather than the worst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02

to court and told the magistrate that
 he was ungovernable.
 Luckily for the boy, the judge took a
 lenient view of his offense and let him go after telling him that philanthropy,
 benevolence and charity should begin at home. Funny story? Yes. But 1t illustrates several phases of life in big city. Perhaps the one best worth noting is this-the poor are good to the poor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
Education for It's Own Sake


 There is no such thing as pure" use-
 less learning-that is, knowledge which cannot be applied to any useful function of life. Even the delivery into the re-
 mote past of Assyria, passing their days and nights in boring over the stone tab lets whereon are inscribed the records of mans remotest past, serve useful pur- pose. They help to satiate the curiosity of those who, busied in gainful occupa- tions. spend leisure moments in study ing history.
 The Carnegie foundation wanted Yer
 mont to vocationalze the states system of education-that is 1t wanted the edu- cative forces to bend their energies en- tirely or mainly to the task of helping ! men and women to earn their livelihoods. Lay aboard the ship a useful cargo" said the investigators, land don't waste space in the hold on useless branches of l learning, even as ballast"
 "No!' said Dr. John M. Thomas, presi- dent of Middlebury college, one of the | leading educational institutions of Yer mont. "The education which will lift Vermont Is not one which will enable | us morally to haul more to market and quarry more marble and granite. Yer
 mont has been great for her men, and | the education of full grown manhood will alone satisfy the Vermont spirit" | So while Dr. Thomas directs Middle | bury that college, at least, will continue | to teach Latin and Greek and biology and the higher mathematics and other
 branches of learning which some people denounce as mere "fripperies' i! It Is not what is studied and learned | that counts, but what is used and ap- piled to advantage. For some men and wcmen the classics are the lever where with they move the world, resting their l academic education on the fulcrum of their own strong earnest personalities. | In other cases 1t is the practical edu- cation that wins. the coordination of
 mind and hand which brings forth the greatest and finest results.
 | Everything lies in the person. While civilization lasts the world will | demand of it's thinkers that they evolve
 new material for thought, of it's workers
 in laboratory and workshop that they | produce material efficiency.
 The theory precedes the practice. and | that in its turn furnishes new material for theory. Each occupies the van guard in the march of the worlds prog
 ress alternately. and neither is greater 1 than the other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
"Put Gold In the Bank Before Time Puts Silver In Your Hair' ] ]!

Your habits will either m a k e you or break you. Watch them.
 Form those which will be a help and not a hindrance. The habit of saving has made the fortune of many a successful man, and history is ready to repeat it. self. We cordially in- vite you to become a customer of our Sav- ings Department, in which we pay 4 per cent interest, con- pounded semi-annu- ally.
 One dollar will open an account. Open Saturdays 6 to 8 D. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
"Wide Thought and Much Feeling"

It is only a poor sort Of happiness that
 could ever come by caring much about
 our own narrow pleasures. We can only
 have the highest happiness, such as goes
 along with being a great man. by hav-
 ing wide thought and much feeling for
 the rest of the world as well as our
 selves, and this sort of happiness often
 brings so much pain with 1t that we
 can only tell 1t from pain by it's being
 what we would choose before everything
 else because our souls see it Is good
 From "Romola,' by George Eliot.
 It Is a curious fact, but it is true, that
 no one of the many men and women who have devoted their lives to the service of mankind has ever turned away from the work, saying, Tt is not worth while." They have persisted to the end, conf- dent and strong in the belief that it was worth while: that the service of human ity was a great big thing, enriching its professors as well as those who were nom- inally benefited.
 Sometimes the service brings pain. True, but it is the pain that is near akin to pleasure. It Is not pain that lasts. It leaves no permanent scar on the soul. It saddens. but with the sadness comes the feeling that. after all, life Is worth while and that those who cannot see its end here and now will be re- warded with clearer vision hereafter if only they hold to the true course. The highest happiness does not come from the selfish seeking of qualifications for one's own body and soul, but in striv- ing to distribute them among the needy Readers of history know that the great est of the earth have not been the hap piest. They found fame and wealth and power. but happiness eluded them. When | it is pursued selfshly it fees and cannot be overtaken. Turn your back on it and lose yourself in the service of those who are dear to you and of the world, and it clings to you like your shadow. Only it | is not a dark shadow, like that cast by | material objects, but one that is lumi-
 nous and effulgent and lights up ones whole life
 l Happiness does not consist of what one
 has, but of what one is. It lies within,
 not without
 l More
 l It can be cultivated. The habit of hap piness may be acquired, and 1t is catch ing" A truly happy person scatters
 around him the innocuous, beneficial germs of his own disposition.
 | Get into touch with some such person
 and try to catch the disease
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02

VVY1 BITING to a city newspaper or A/ the need of playgrounds foI
 w the children of the city and ad.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-01-23
Love Madness Caused Little Girl to Plot
Her Mothers Death,'' Declares Prosecutor

GALESBURG, ILL.,, Jan. 2S. -
at was love madness that trans
formed little Julia. Flakes affec-
ton for her mother into a relent-
less, ovcrmastering hatred, capa-
BILE Of killing her own mother!"
So believes Prosecuting Attor-
ney Wilson, who has permitted
Julia-15 years old-to 60 to the
home of her aunt, Mrs. Charles E..
Franklin.
But he holds the man-Rob-
ert Higgins, who has confessed.
Wilson alleges, to killing his wife,
the mother OF Julia.
Higgins is a man. 1t was the
beast In him that brought sorrow
to poor little Julia and death to
her mother! He alone should be
punished" declares the prosecu-
tor.
This "love madness" began but
a few months ago-not SO long
after Julia's mamma, a widow,
married Robert Higgins, a wild
over and village beau"
One day Mrs. Higgins came
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-01-23

brief but awful moment she
died q thousand deaths; she
suffered a thousand frightful
tOrtures.
Her daughter - dear lit.
tie Julia - loved her own
stepfather!"
Mrs. Higgins bowed her head
and tried to bring about the old
order of things in her home. She
tried to break up the intimacy be-
tween her girl and the stepfather.
She urged, begged, pleaded In
vain.
Undoubtedly it was love mad
ness" she was combating! Her
efforts only frightened the band
holding the girl and man togeth-
er. Julia's love for her mother
changed into hatred.
Failing in the effort to get heI
mother killed, Higgins himself
volunteered to do it, the prose
cutor alleges. While pretending
to clean a gun, and with Julis
watching, he sent the deadly bull
let through the girls mother'l
breast.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-01-23

TARRYTOWN, N. Y, Jan. 23.
Don't count your eggs before
they're laid" Is new way of
phrasing the old admonition.
Still, the experience of Weston
Wood of this city shows that
sometimes. when you are count
ing on them least, the eggs really
are laid at the psychological mo-
ment.
Wood had bought a hen and
hoped on car to escort Biddy
home. When the con0uctor, in his
aggressive advance, reached