The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 23, 1915, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
Published every Thursday in The
Herald building, on Main street, in
the live and growing City of Bamberg,
being issued from a printing
office which is equipped with Mergenthaler
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Thursday, Sept. 23, 1915.
Weekly Weather Forecast.
Issued by the United States weath...
1 er' bureau at Washington, for the
week beginning Wednesday, September
22, 1915. For the South Atlantic
and East Gulf States: /
f'V ? Generally fair weather and moderate
temperatures throughout the
- week.
^ : ^ According to the census report on
. cotton ginned to September 1st, the
' (? number of bales this year is 4,305
llfSagainst 14,633 for the same date
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s~\ . last year. Considering tnese ngures,
it is not at all surprising that cotton
is n*w worth ten cents and more.^
|| v The crop wilhbe, it is stated by many
r-: farmers who ought to know, about
the same proportion when all the
ginning figures ar? in. |
The prohibitionists have won the
: * first round in the campaign against
| 4 whiskey Jn South Carolina. But it
' should be distinctly understood that
.yV it is only the first round. Real prohibition
will never be a fact unless
there is a concerted determination to
t'^%. enforce the law. If the mass of peo?
* pie who buy whiskey are prevented
from doing so, by any means whatso-1
ever, the condition of our great State
will undoubtedly be greatly * bettered.
0& course, under the law, those
who are able to do so can still order
Br'i'/*'
whiskey to the extent of a gallon a
month. But the great majority of
' persons who use whiskey will not order
it, and it is pretty safe to say
p-y ' that if they cannot get it at home
? they will not drink at all. The prob^
- lem before the la,w-loying people now
is the enforcement of prohibition.
; There are officers who are charged i
- ' with the duty of seeing that the lawt> j
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S'-. aro not violated. and that violators'
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are brought to justice. Let the good
people of the* State stand en masse
,* ; behind these officers, and let them
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know that the best people of the
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State can be depended on to render
: all possible aid in the enforcement,
| not only of the prohibition law, but
of all laws. The present State adg?'
ministration is pledged to law enforcement.
The people have declared
, for prohibition. Let the people rule.
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Last week The Herald published
an excellent article by Mr. Clarence
n.f + V> <-v Prncrroccivo Par
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^ mer, oh the cottonv situation. Mr.
p - Poe atgues that cotton should be
worth- twelve cents, and gives statisffe;
> tics to prove his contentions. He adv
vises the farmers to hold for this
; price. While we agree fully with Mr.
Poe that cotton is well worth twelve
cents., in fact we believe that it is
- worth fifteen cents, but we would be
slow in advising farmers to hold'for
this price. The unusual conditions
>^prevailing make the cotton market
very uncertain^ When farmers sell
i-;./' cotton at ten cents, they receive at
least three cents more than the maf
/ jority of them counted on getting
when the crop was planted. We believe
that when a man?farmer, meichant
or what not?owes money it
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is his duty to pay?because, by holding
up payment waiting for cotton
to go to twelve cents, he is helping
\ to jeopardize the creditor's business
and financial status. The withholding
of payment of debts, when it is
, possible to liquidate them, stagnates
business in general. If the planters,
at least all of them who owe any
, considerable debts, wish to hold their
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cotton, which they may do if they are
x able, they should store it in wareVirtiicoc
arirl borrow on the Cotton to
liVUUVU VVAAV*. * w - ? liquidate
their debts. Cotton may
' sell for twelve cents or maybe fifteen,
fT V" but it is no certainty by any means,
- ? " and in the meantime those who have
' been good enough to credit the farmer
?41 the year, waiting on him to
sell cotton, may be in great need of
money. We could name some of
Kf C * them
who are.
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Living in the Family.
We all know the type of persoi
who likes to spread the thin buttei
of his philanthropy over as wide ai
area in the community as possible
where it will show, instead of wast
ing it within doors on the tacit, un
grateful acceptance of his own fami
ly. Who expects the great virtuos<
of song or piano or violin to giv<
concerts at home to the plain litth
temperamentless woman who keep:
the books of the firm? Who expect:
the world-molding orator to influ
ence the domestic circles with Hi
subtle persuasiveness, his mounting
fires, his rhapsodies and metaphors'
One man goes out and faces an au
dience; quite another being come:
home and toasts himself superbly ii
the firelight. He could "not take i
out of" the audience; he could no
vent his spleen in public; he had t(
smile and be affable, no matter hov
he felt; so now comes the reaction
and his mind can don fatigue uni
form, and with no appearances t(
maintain he can be just as insuffer
able as, he pleases.
Living in/the family is a fine art
too. It is a dexterity to be cultivated
as one would habituate the hand anc
the intellect to the contrivance 01
some advice or memorial form o:
beauty. Many never come anywhen
near proficiency in what seems st
easily attainable an art. Roberl
Louis Stevenson knew that it was 2
hard thing, demanding faithful application
on the part of the practitioner.
Admirable and amiable as
he was, it requires no very shrewd
guesswork to reach the opinion thai
he was letter-perfect rather thar
deed-perfect in the part. Yet he
never posed as an angel, though
Henley so sadly and unaccountably
pretended that he did. He surely
was a much better man man most
of us are. And in moments of engaging
frankness he let us into the
open secret that it is easier to belong
to the community, like an endowed
public institution/ than to be
the property of a clinging, .intimate
little group by whom you are named
"husband" * and "father." They
know you and love you?or dislike
you?for what you exactly are; they
travprap tha fare value t.n the real
and spiritual appraisal; and you cannot
go on fooling your wife and children
after-they have found you out.
The family stiucture rests on tolerances,
latitudes, concessions?all
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of them things that procee^ from
the undying, underlying fact of love
as the rivers of paradise issue from
the world's exuberant garden. Where
love is not, it is useless to* try to
have a satisfactory domestic arrangement.
The strain and friction inciV
' i
dent to every day of living are inevitably
so severe * that all the
strength the primal feeling of the
heart can bring is needed to assure
the lastingness of a sympathetic
union, and a steadfast and single
purpose. There must be no. ugly
duckling, > no evicted prodigal, no
hundredth sheep left, wandering. The
arm of love is longer in the outreach
than astronomic distances. It can
go beyond the stars, if ifeed be, to
reclaim an angel out of heaven.?
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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The Country Church, v
One of the graduates of the Columbia
seminary,' the Rev. W. H.
Mills, of Clemson, is becoming quite
a specialist in the field of the country
church, its problems, their solution,
methods of advancing the interest
of the rural dommunities and
serving the community life. The
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unuea. oiattss ueyainiimi ui a.&iivmture
is aiding him in his work.
Mr. Mills has had overtures to
give his whole time to this field in
the employment of the United States
bureau of education. He is already
doing very valuable service in this
field in his> native State of South
Carolina. The Columbia seminary is
very fortunate in securing him to deliver
a series of lectures, during the
next year, covering this field of the
country church and rural sociology.
There will be five lectures, which
will perhaps treat the subject under
the following general heads, with
such modifications as immediate
nronoMtinn mnv lpnri him t.o make:
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First, "The Kingdom of God;" second,
"The Church as the Means oi
the Bringing In of the Kingdom.;"
third, "The Country Church and Its
Problems;" fourth, "The Countrj
Church and Its Solution of These
Problems;" and fifth, "The Countrj
Minister as the Centre of the Whole
Question of the Relation of the
Country Church to the Whole Community."
It is very necessary that students
should hear from specialists in this
field this whole subject treated, ir
order that they may be prepared
wisely to serve the rural churches
of which they themselves becoms
pastors. Perhaps the most important
and practical ecclesiastical ques
tion that is now confronting th(
Christian people is the problem oi
the country church and the prepara
tion of wise and effective minister*
to fill these fields.
Seventy-five years ago there were
Hard to Rebuild Giant Mastodon.
a The preparators and aides in the
r section of vertebrate paleontology of
1 the United States National Museum
are busy putting together the bones
. and fragments of a huge skeleton of
_ a mastodon recently secured near
_ Winamac, Ind., by the assistant cura^
tor of fossil mammals, James W. Gid2
ley.
3 The laboratory where the skeleton
5 is being assembled, with its corps ol
3 earnest workers, reminds one of a
_ lot of children working on a cut-up
s picture puzzle, only the problem becnionfict
nnri his assistants
T 1V/1 C uvivu tiw w ? ?-.
3
? is a more difficult one; it is a three.
dimension puzzle, with some of the
3 pieces missing, and others broken in!
to many small fragments, says a
I Washington special. Nevertheless
( they are forced to resort to a system
) similar to that employed on a picj
ture puzzle in many ways, for a small
piece is first examined carefully, then
. tried here and there, until presently
j ?eureka!?it fits exactly, or so
. nearly so that its position is definitely
determined, and then the assembler
takes up another fragment w^th
i renewed interest.
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Nearly a year ago a mastodon skull
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l and several other bones were dug up
f by a steam shovel in the course of
j constructing a drainage ditch in a
, swampy deposit on the farm of H. H.
I and W. D. Pattison, several miles
L northwest of Winamac, Ind. These
. bones were generously donated tp the
. United States National Museuifi by
5 the Pattison brothers, with the priv[
ilege of making further search if de
sired, and it was soon decided that a
L further search would yield valuable
> results. The remains of this mon
L ster were found in good condition
r although near the surface, having
r laid without being disturbed for
: thousands of years in marly deposits
. of an ancient swamp.
, A small appropriation was secured
. for further excavation in the localV
M
. ity of this find, with the result that
> Mr. Gidley has just returned to the
city witfi nearly all the other bones
[ of this gigantic mammal. Practical.
ly a complete skeleton was found
\ except two large limb bones, many
- of the foot bones, and the tusks, for
[ which a further search may soon be
. made. When mounted the museum
. will - possess one of the most complete
specimens of this great beast
of the ages just preceding the PFes(
ent. There is a small mastodon
specimen in the museum collections
, secured in 1901 from the peat deposits
near Church, Mich., but the
, new one will overshadow it by over
( two feet in height and several hundred
pounds in weight. x
Will Stand Ten Feet. *
It is^believed that this fskeleton
, will stand fully ten feet high. The
, fine state of preservation of yie bones
is duer to the fact that it has lain con,
tinuou&y since its entombment be^
neath the water level of the swamp
. and thus has not been affected by
the oxidizing action of the air. Mr.
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Gidley feels certain that with par
tience and by draining the ditch, the
missing portions of the skeleton will
be found.
The Specimen is believed to be
that of a full grown male, although
not an old individual, who lived^in
the Pleistocene age, probably 150,000
years ago. This animal, while it is j
related -to the elephant family, differs
in general proportions of the
skeleton, and through the character ,
of its teeth, which, unlike the flat,
grinding ones of the elephant, are
more of a rugose type, with pointed
corrugations calculated to have been
used in crushing as well as grinding
the coarse vegetable food on which
it lived. - The largest of the teeth
measures nearly seven mcnes in
length., and is about four inches
across, weighing several pounds.
Prospects for continued excavation
and search are promising and Mr. |
Gidley, with his corps of preparators,
i is anxiously awaiting the .time when
the missing pieces of their great puzi
zle may be found and put in place. / I
Easy to Spell.
Young Arthur, the pride of the
famiiv haH hopn attending school all
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, of six weeks, and his devoted parent
thought it was high time he should
. find out how things were running.
? So he asked one afternoon:
"And what did my little son learn
. about this morning."
"Oh, a mouse. Miss Wilcox told
5 us all about mouses."
r "That's the boy! Now, how do
> you spell mouse?"
, It was then that Arthur gave
promise of being an artful dodger.
He paused meditatively for a mo,
ment, then said: >
s
"Father, I guess 1 was wrong. It
wasn't a mouse teacher was telling
I us about. It was a rat."?Harper's
, Magazine.
31 throughout South Carolina hundreds
' of country churches that were the
" bed-rock of the civilization of this
3 country. Today their people are
^ scattered, their influence ^waning.
" They must be - revived.?Columbia
5 Record.
i\ Read The Herald, $1.50 a year
A Cow in Pocket Edition.
Originally she came from count:
Kerry, in the southwest of Ireland
and being blessed with a gentle dis
position is always assured a welconn
wherever she goes. About fort:
inches in height and weighing be
tween six and seven hundred pounds
she possesses excellent milking qual
ities, being capable of averaging
eight quarts daily for ten months ii
the year. Indeed, it is generally ad
mitted that for the food consumec
she gives a larger return than an:
other breed.
"That sounds very encouraging,'
remarks the reader, "but it woulc
be interesting to see in dollars anc
cents whether it really pays to keei
such a beast." So let us look int(
the facts of the case. The average
family, consisting of two adults anc
two children, besides a maid, woulc
easily require two quarts of milk
costing ten cents per quart, and i
pint of. cream, costing thirty cents
making the milk and cream bill av
erage fifty cents per day for fift:
weeks. The table butter bill woulc
average about four pounds per week
or 200 pounds per fifty weeks, anc
with butter costing forty cqnts the
yearly total amounts to $80. Afte:
t*he little Kerry had supplied thii
amount of milk and cream she coulc
.only give half this amount of the table
butter, so in adding up the accoum
we will say that the milk and crean
and half-the table butter amounts
yearly to $215. A cow, then, tc
prove her actual worth must returr
more than $215 per annum.
A Kerry, or Dexter-Kerry cow (2
cross of the Dexter and Kerry pro
duces an animal about the size ol
the Kerry) costs about $150; inter
est on this sum and depreciatior
(figured at $15) is $24. The cov
will consume the following amouni
of feed, exclusive of green feed raised
on the place; mixed hay, 2.20C
pounds, $22; wheat bran, 901
pounds, $13.50; 'corn meal, 30C
poirads, $5%25; cotton seed meal, 30C
pounds, $5.25; ground oats, 30C
pounds, $5.25. These figures arf
based on hay $20 per ton; bran, $30
per ton; corn meal, $1.75 per hundred
weight; ground oats, $1.75 pei
hundred weight. Add to this feec
bill $10 for bedding and $10 foi
veterinary medicine, brushes, pails
rock salt, and the total amounts tc
$71.25. The question of bull ser
vice depends how far the cow ii
sent. It is safe to charge off $2f
against it, possibly a bit more oi
j less; and as to labor, an ho^a da?
j is ample?that is, on the basis o!
k|45 a month for a man-about-the
Eplace, the actual time given, over tc
[the cow would average $50 a year
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I thus tne expense accoum unauj
i foots up to $146.25. Tp the credil
I side must go $10 for seven tons o:
manure, $3 for a calf (butcher's
price when five days pld) and $24(
for milk, a total of $2o3. Balancing
j debit against credit shows that oui
little Irish cow is $106.75 to th<
good.
Now as to the actual-care of sue!
a cow. About an^acre will* supply
all green food during the growing
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season, and some beets for winter
tTo give a daily grain ration woulc
be impracticable, butv it is wise foi
the beginner to invest in a copy ol
a book containing full information
as to balanced rations and hov
to mix them, also to write to his
State agricultural college, asking foi
bulletins on the feeding of cdws.
The stable should be thoroughlj
cleaned about 7 a. m., the manure
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gutter emptied and dry earth spread
over the bottom of it as an absorbent;
never provide for drainage ic
a manure gutter, but use dry eartli
as an absorbent. The cow may eal
her breakfast, consisting of half the
grain ration, while this is going on
The stable in order, clean the cow
with a brush, wiping her hind quarters
and bag with a damp sponge and
drying it with a towel. Milkins
comes next, the pail should nevei
stand in the stable while the cleaning
goes on. It is also well to add
that under no circumstances should
a cow be spoken to nar?niy or treated
roughly. After milking throw in
a heaping bushel of lawn clippings
or an armful of green corn stalks
or hay in winter. About 9 o'clock
give the cow all the water she will
drink, and in winter see that the
chill *s taken off it.?Boston Transcript.
The Important Tiling.
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Pat and a friend were reading ar
account of a shipwreck, in whict
they were greatly interested. "Pat,'
said his friend, "in case of a shipwreck,
presence of mind is wortt
everything el^e." "Prisence ol
moind, ye say," replied Pat, earnestly.
"Faith and T don't agree wic
ve. Tn toime of shipwreck, absinc*
of body is of far more importance
than nrisence of moind."?National
Monthly.
A -"-pound box of Norris' Cand>
given avay to holder of lucky coupon.
Fridav September 24th. Mar}
Fuller featured Friday night?r> anc
lOcts. Thielen Theatre.
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^ Discipline and Good Teaching.
Disclipine is one of the most
. wrongly designed of all the methods
I '
t employed as a means to good teaching.
The main reason for this is a
) misunderstanding as to what really
} constitutes good discipline. I once
j visited a teacher who thought her>
self to be a model disciplinarian. As
. I entered her room I was greeted
s with this remark: 'John, take your
J feet out of the aisle.' Five of the
fifteen minutes spent in her room
. were consumed in correcting pupils.
. This teacher would have been an ex?
cellent officer of the law; she was
constantly on duty, and she never
' let a malefactor escape her. This
idea of disclipine is not only harrassing
to the pupil, but it places an un.
necessary amount of nervous strain
on the teacher and makes a discon,
nected recitation. #
f In another rdom I found a group
of perfectly drilled soldiers, but
} there was a strained and an unhappy
look on the pupils' faces. The cause
T of this deplorable state was traced
t to the almost cruel severity of the
f teacher. The smallest breaking of
the law was punished with the same
) severity as the worst offense. This
. woman's place was not in the school [
I room; her methods were enough to'
crush the soul?yes, even the life?j
_ out of the child. ^ Such ideas of dis- j
{ cipline must have been handed down
, from the 'stone age,' and they are
r pow obsolete and should be so considered.
I You have heard teachers say that
. they must have good order, no matf
ter how obtained. The first of this
. statement is correct, but these teachr
ers make the great mistake of plac.
ing?disclipine above everything else |
. ?that is, they make disclipine an
end in itself, rather than a means
. to good teaching. They are right
in saying that they must have order,
but let this order come from the
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child's self-government and not be a
forced obedience to commands. The
t aim of education is to fit a child for
life, and there is nothing more es-1
sential in a man's life than govern-;
ment of self. If the teacher does all |
; the governing, how can the child,de-1
veiopr
^ The most ideal method of disclip-;
P line is that of no disclipine. Let!
1 there be complete rnderstanding between
teacher and pupil as to what
[ is required, then those pupils who
./fail to measure up to requirements
must be shown in a clear, logical way
wherein they have failed to get the
plan as worked out by one teacher.
This teacher comes to her class,
! abounding with energy, her subjects
[ well/ in mind, her programme defli
nitely made, and, best of all, her
heart full of love for her school. Her
manner is free and Dleasing. the pu
pils enjoy all their ?work and enter
into everything with a 'quiet vim.'
During two hours spent in her room,
the teacher had ideal recitations, tne
class was in perfect order and not
one sign of correction came from the
teacher. This teacher said that time
was tooAraluahle to waste on discipline,
and that she let the child discirline
himself while she taught him
his lessons, and she told me that
during the first week of school, for
about ten minutes every morning.
I she gave a talk on the value of good
order, varying her talk every morn
ing with apt illustrations. A'ter
' this week of explanation and guiding
the child along right lines, the teach*
er began to make a mental note of
I those pupils who were not attentive
because their interest was elsewhere.
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IL YOU NEED IT
resents itself. All that is needed la
who has BANKED HIS SAVINGS
,dvantage. ' .
:OUNT TODAY. ^
9 it and be prepared for the business
3-- $100,000.00
id on Savings Deposits. '
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TEACHERS' EXAMINATION.
The regular examination for teach- ^
ers certificates will be held at the
court nouse 111 tsamDerg on rriaay,
-dy 'cx61 'aaqoxoo isjg eqp ^
plicants are requested to be on hand i
promptly at 9 o'clock a. m. A
R. W. D. ROWELL, \
County Superintendent of Education.
Sept. 8, 1915. .
GLEXDALE MINERAL SPRING.
All persons are warned not to take V *
water from Glendale Mineral Spring
for sale without permission. Glendale
mineral water for sale must be
sealed and labled at the spring,
?adv. JOHN F. FOLK. v
"The winning of Barbara Worth/*
a powerful play, with a big New York ^
company, fine scenery and electrical ^
effects is announced to appear at The
Academy, Orangeburg, Friday, October
8. The play is a stasre adaptation
of Harold Bell Wright's moving
story of love and mighty deeds incident
to the building of the vast irrigation
project in the'now famous
Imperial Valley, California.?adv.
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Patronizing Home Papers.
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The Greenville News, in a local
story yesterday morning, made the
following interesting observations on
the home paper vs. the foreign pa- t
per, with special reference to the At
lanta papers which circulate in this
section:
"Many people were surprised that
the papers from Atlanta Sunday contained
nothing of the cutting of Leo
M. Frank, which occurred at the Milledgeville
State farm near 11 o'clock
Saturday night and which came near
ending his life, Frank not being out
of danger yet.
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"To newspaper men the reason is /
readily apparent that papers in this ^
section of the country had the article,
while the Atlanta papers did
not. The reason is very simple. The
papers which the reader purchased in *
Greenville Sunday morning, from
Atlanta, and other large cities, are
printed all the way from the Wed- >
nesday preceding until the Saturday,
before they are delivered."?Greenwood
Journal. '
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The first Universal feature featur*>
, \
ing Jane * Cowl in "The Garden of
Lies," in 5 reels, Thursday night,
September 30. A comedy will also
be shown along with this big fea-?
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ture. Six reels?iu ana idcis.?
Thursday, September 30th. Thielen
Theatre.?adv. ^ /
Recently compiled official figures
place the gold production of Alaska
to the close of last year at $228,392,240.
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Read The Herald. $1.50 per year.
At the end of the day these pupils
were detained and shown wherein
they had fallen short and how to
overcome this fault. At the end of
three weeks no pupils had to he de- '
tained and the result was the ideal
school room of no disclipine. 1
This teacher realized the vital
fact that discipline is only a means
to an end?good teaching. Her efforts
were centred on the correct *
presentation of lessons, and all other
devices and methods were subserv- ^
ient to this end. A well developed ^
lesson, an attentive class through
self-government, and 2 well informed.
loving teacher are the essentials
of good teaching. When teachers
firmly grasp these essentials and
Hovnto thpir tirrp to Pett" *
trivialities, then, and then only, will
they find that school teaching indeed
an art worth attaining.?H. M.
H. in Normal Instructor.
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