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HELPING THE AMERICAN'
LANGUAGE
These golf and tennis and auto
m'bUe days .ire adding much to our
everyday vocabulary, says the Ta
corua News. New; nouns are boru
over night; verbs burst into the
light o' day with the effervescent
suddeuiK-ss of dandelions' blooming,
•Lad adjectives aud adverbs filter
luto commou-usage with every tour
nament. Which •"remiadu us"—
A city man explained the pleas
ure of city life thusly:
We certainly; have been hav
ing fun the last few days.
Thursday we autoed to the
Country club and golfed until
dark, then trcileyed back to
town and danced until inorn
iUS
llis country cousin, not to be
outdone, followed with this crisp
description of pastoral delights:
We have had pretty good
tiuies here, too. ■ One day
we fcuggied out to Uncle Ned's
aid went out to the back lot,
where we baseballed all the
afternoon. In the evening we
sneaked up into the attic and
-jokered until morniug.
Ihe hard-headed old farmer who
overheard the exchange then con
tributed th following:
1 was having some fun about
thf£ time myself. 1 muled out
to the cornfield and gehawed
until sundown. Theu 1 sup
i f red until dark and piped un
til 9 o'clock, after which" I
bedsteaded until the clock
lived, after which 1 breakfast
ed until it was time to go
wuJztig again.
SOME ASPECTS OF ENGLISH ED
UCATION
Frcu a state of incoherence, ed
ucation in Eugland has evolved, dur
ins ">* l^t forty-live years, ou to
a plane of increasingly efficient
organization. The days when the
par.-nt was considered to be the
solo arbiter of the child's future
aro numbered among the oast, and
tho claim of the state to the con
tro; oi the country's primary edu
cation, if not education generally,
h.is been recognized as paramount.
It is now fully admitted that the
future of tho child is of no less im
portance to the state than it is to
the twrent; so much so that there
is some danger of the parent being
ousted from all yart in school man
agement. '
This assumption of responsibility
by the state has been extended in
recent years in the direction of
mote systematized organization.
The old order is changing, and the
adjustment of educational needs to
the new social order which is
arising will tax to the full x>owers
of the best thought out organiza
tion. A prevailing weakness in most
suite s^tems is a lack of elasticity.
The essence of the existing control
is co-operation between the cen
tral and local authorities. The pos
sibility for friction and conflict be
tween a central controliug body
and Independent local authorities
!s manifest, but occasion for such
conflict is minimized bv a growing
tendency on the part of the cen
tral authority to refrain from at
tempting to administer, and to leave
the management of details to those
on tne spot.'
1'tt local management is cap
able of arrogating to itself a con
trol which may too extensive, and
public recognition of the danger
of entrusting too much detail to It
will not only prove a safeguard
against inefficiency of managemont,
I'Ut also against the crushing of all
individual and voluntary effort. The
mac: iuery of control is a delicate
mechanism, and it has been wisely
realized that 'no central authority
can possess due knowledge of, or
give the required sympathy to, the
needs of day schools; It can only
be tully 'understood and provided
ior jy those on the spot, who are
in tcuch with tho life of the lo
calitv in which the schools are situ
ated
Private or quasi-private effort is
the distinguishing feature of Eng
lish secondary education, and tra
ditiou forms both the strength, and
thj weakness of the older see
on iaij- schools; their weakness,
because of their inability to adapt
themselves readily to changing
uteris and ideals. Some zealous re
formers, • with a view to co-or
dination, are anxious to see an
extension of state control which
would bring under 'ho aegis of the
government the secondary education
of the country aa completely as
that of tho primary schools. Others,
who foresee in tho achievement of
th-Vi views a couflict between tra
dition and progress which might
prove iufmical to the highest in
toruits of education, would prefer
to base any desirable reforms up
on all that is best in the v^wt.—C.
S. .Monitor.
SHINGLES LIMITED TO
10 BUNDLES m POST
Ketchikan Progressive: Recently,
tho postmaster at Everett was sur
prised to see a truck from a local
shingle mill unload 25,000 shingles
at the back door of the post of'
lice, with the request that it be
shipped to an east-of-t he-mountain
town. This was refused until in
quiries had been made of the de
partment. In course of time, the
postmaster received 'an order that
not more than teu bundles of
shingles could be shipped by par
cel post at one time.
INDIAN' JIM SENTENCED TO
THKEE YEARS AT M'NEILS
Auchorage Pioneer: Manslaughter
was tie verdict of the jury iu the
case of the United States versus
Indian Jim, charged with the killing
of Chief Steoan, another aborigine.
District Attorney Spence and As
sistant District Attorney Munley ap
peared for the government, while
K. E. Ritchie, with the floating court
as attorney for the defense, re
presented the defendant.
The killiug, which Indian Jitu
did not seek to deny, occurred in
the Ochenu country late last fall.
Chief Stepan, his wife and daugh
ter and Indian Jim were together,
when the men engaged in a row
which led to the killing. The vic
tim was a lay reader of the Greek
church and every Sunday, jvhile in
the N'elchina and Ochetna country,
held services. '
Indian Jim was senteuced to
serve three years in the penitontiary
on McN'il's island, Washington.
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will relieve your indigestion. Many
people in this town have used them
and we have yet to hear of a case where
they have failed. We know the for
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Wm. Brltt.
SMALL DUTIES.
True, we can never be at peace
till we have performed the highest
duty of all, till we have arisen and
gone to our Father, but the per
formance of smaller duties—yes,
even of the rmallest—will do more
to give us temporary repose, will
act more as healthful anodynes, than
the greatest joys that can come to
us from any other quarter. — G.
Macdonald.
Coal as a Charm.
In bygone England eonl plnyed ft
prominent part In popular suporstltlon,
but It was n very special kind of coal.
It tvus found (or at any rate firmly
believed to bo fouud) under tho root
of tho plantain on one day of tho year
—midsummer eve. And to Its finder
It brought not only immunity from
"plague, carbuncle and burning," but
also In the case of n maiden drooms
of lier future husband. A versatile
charm and. with plantains bo prolific,
not rare. These "coals" were proba
bly really old, discolored roots, but
none of the faithful believers lu them
would have admitted that—London
Globe.
Successful Men.
Tho successful man—the financially
successful man, that la—not only works
himself to xkln and bone, but he puts
such enthusiasm Into his employees
that they, too, work themselves to skin
and bono for his sake.
Tho manager of one of Andrew Car
negie's mills once telegraphed him:
"Have broken this week nil records
In steel making."
"Thanks and congratulations," Mr.
Carnegie telegraphed back. "Why not
do so every week?"—Philadelphia Bul
letin.
Name to Fit the Trade.
Old newspapers give us many In
stances of men's names fitting their
callings. Thus wo have Last, a shoe
maker of Exeter, and Treadway, who
piled tho same trade in llnmmersmlth.
T'uero was a Bristol schoolmaster
named Rod. Hedge and Wynne, at
torneys at law of Liverpool, must have
been tho butt? of their fellow towns
men. while few could bnve a more ap
propriate name than the Primitive
Methodist preacher Itlvcr Jordan.—
London Chronicle.
Avoiding the Tailor.
"The other people an the block are
sore on me," sighed the tailor. "Say
I have killed business on this side of
'iie street it Isn't my fault, though."
"What's wrong?"
"So many men owe me who cross
over to the other side when they come
to my block."—Louisville Courler-Jour
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The rentiers of this paper will be
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ternallv. acting directly upon the blood
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Sold bv all DruKKistn. 75e.
Talie Hull-# family Pliis for coMtlpatloo.
PLEASURE AND PAIN.
How singular is the thing called
pleasure and how curiously related
to pain, which might be thought to
1 be the opposite, for they never
come to a man together, and yet
he who pursues either of them is
generally compelled to take the
other. They are two, and yet
they grow together out of one head
or stem.—Plato.
Dealing In Futures.
"It Is my flrm belief," announced
Jasper Knox, the sage of Piketown-on
the-Bllnk, "that In tho dim and misty
future there la a faint possibility of
Homo hitherto unknown inventive
genius accidentally stumbling upon a
scientific formula, tho compounding of
which, superinduced by a liberal aud
proper administration of tho same to
teething Infants, will Impart to those
necessary household ndjnncts n sense
of propriety which will enable them to
comprehend tho utter folly of keeping
their overworked father awako half of
tho night, when the high cost of living
demands that ho be up and doing when
tho cuckoo clock proclaims tho advent
of another day of toll."—Judge.
The Samo Thing.
Kasttis—Did yoah eber walk ten miles
j to git some chickens and flu' the hen
coop full ob a spring gun, a bear trap
and a dog? Ephralm—No, Itastus, but
,Ah married foah money oncet.—Phila
delphia Ledger.
§ood Reason Too.
Chollle—And you like a beard on a
man's face?
Mollle—l'es, on some men.
"But It hides tho face?"
"Yes, that's the reason I like a
beard."—Yonkers Statesman.
Hall of Fame Candidates.
"I am the lady who owns a watch
that Is always correct. I wind It up
every night and I never have to aslt
my husband what time It Is. You may
not believe it, but It's so."
"I am the grandfather who never
mentions the fact that my grandchild
Is the smartest and best looking young
one that ever lived."
"I am the utterly unconcerned per
son who doesn't care a single continen
tal or Mexican dollar whether you
print this or not."—Portland Express.
Knowledpo nwl timber shouldn't be |
much used they arc seasoned.—
Holmes. I
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diseases nnd deformities of the eye,
ear, Dose uoil threat.
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In Territory of Alaska.
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