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TEACH CHILDREN TO THINK
Should Be Taken Out into Woods to
Watch Hab«ts of Animals
and Insects.
One of the new ideas upon educa
tion is that children should be en
couraged to think more and to leave
dry facts alone. It is said, too, that
we cram a lot. of facts down the
minds of our children and do not
give them an opportunity to use
their brains. This new idea in edu
cation says that we must take chil
dren ofteuer <>ul intq the woods to
Jet them discover things for Ihem
uelves; we let them watch the
habits of insects and animals, and
*the ever-varying' phases of nature.
should Jet both boys and girls
«tudy mechanical organism of things
that are in daily use in our big
cities. For instance, a boy or even
f girl, who happens to be in the vi
cinity of an automobile when it
breaks down, might by intelligent i
observation learn a great deal about{
make-up of one of those modem I
conveyances if let alone to watch the
machinist go about adjusting the I
difficulties, saye an exchange.-
L • A very much disgruntled little girl
was overheard saying to her father
and mother, who had dragged her
*away by the hand when she ran with
her brother to watch a man in the
roadside who was fixing his auto:
**Oh, you let Johnnie stay and look
all he wants, but you chase me away.
I like to look at the man fixing
things, top.” Which shows that lit
tle girls sometimes want to investi
«ate.
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The Grocer (hinting)—l—er—er
—hope your husband doesn’t worry
about my bill.
Mrs. Slowpay—Oh! no. He said
was up to you to do the worrying.
THE HOOTER HOOTED.
It was in the rabbit hole railway,
otherwise the subterranean line, and
4hc usual scramble was taking place
at one of the stations as passengers
entered or alighted.
The dear old gentleman was buried
deeply in his favorite weekly—the
one with golden covers —and as he
made his way unconsciously toward
exit he t rod somewhat heavily on
■a burly Scot.
“Hoot, mon!” groaned Sandy, ten
derly caressing the injured limb.
**Are ye blind?’’
The o. g. glared fiercely over the
Hop of his paper.
‘Tloot yourself!” he snarled. ‘‘D’ye
Wink I’m a motor bus?”—Answers.
INDUSTRIOUS HEIRS.
“Those Bingleton heirs are doing
wonders with the old place. They’ve
spaded up the garden and rebuilt the
house and put things in handsome
shape.”
“How does that happen
“Why, they bad an idea the old
waan hid some money somewhere and
ihey’ve been digging and scraping
and looking for it ever since he died.
Fll bes the place is worth twice what
it was.”
‘‘The old man was cute, wasn't
1*?”
UNUSUAL MAN.
t.
‘‘He’s a polite and likable fellow.”
“Yes. one would never think to
meet him that he is in the habit of
beating his wife.”
“You astonish me!”
“It’s a fact. Whenever she starts
far a scuttle of coal or an armful of
wood he beats her to it.”
PROVING HIS OWN MEDICINE.
“That man Biffers was neatly pun
ished the other day.”
“How was that?”
“Why, when he gets mad he always
kicks something, and when he got
mad the other day he kicked the re
volving door and nearly knocked his
haad off.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
OUR MOST COSTLY FOLLY
Running to the Courts With Every De
pute Is Marked American
Characteristic.
If one were asked to name the
costliest folly known in this coun
try he would not be far from the
mark if he should say it was the
American craze for litigation. In
some communities, especially the
small ones in rural districts, a man’s
importance seems to be measured by
the number of law suits he has on
hand, and he who has none is often
regarded as a person of slight con
sequence.
But the habit of going to law is
not confined to small neighborhoods
nor io persons of trifling affairs, as a
single instance will show. There is
now in process of settlement in ft
neighboring state the estate of a
man which at the time of his death
was valued at $1,000,000. Rival
claimants to the property engaged
in litigation which has extended over
a period of several years, and now,
as the end approaches, it is said the
estate has dwindled to about $23,000.
Manifestly, the parties to this liti
gation have made a heavy invest
ment in experience, but unhappily
for them it is not what financiers
call a liquid asset.” —The Docket.
ARE “OLD MAID” FACTORIES
Dr, Sprague Denounces What He Calls
Greatest Evil of Higher
Education.
Denouncing colleges as “old maid
factories,” and blaming women for
being so fond of society and auto
mobiles that they cannot find time
to raise families. Dr. Robert J.
Sprague of Amherst Agricultural
college has found what he considers
one of the greatest evils of higher
education.
“The business life wears off that
restraint between the sexes that
causes interest,” said Dr. Sprague.
“Women become so accustomed to
the constant and daily society of
men. and vice versa, that marriage
isn’t thought of.
“The woman finds she is making
money and has a nice, comfortable
home. Why should she marry?”
“The professional woman has
money of her own —she need not get
it from a husband. Is it a wonder
that she dreads to exchange for de
pendency, for a husband with an in
come perhaps smaller than her own,
for the monotony of a home, and
for the cares of babies?”—Boston
Dispatch to New York Herald.
ONLY ONE ENGLISH POPE.
Many Englishmen have risen to
the dignity of cardinal, but only one
—Adrian I V.—has ever ascended the
papal throne. Adrian —whose real
name was Nicfiblas Breakspear—was
born at Abbots Langley, near St. Al
bans. about the year 1100. His fa
ther was a poor man who entered a
monastery and left his son to fend
fop himself. This the lad did by
crossing to France and traveling
about, supporting himself by begging
until he entered the monastery of St.
Rufus, near Valence. From a very
menial position he presently rose to
be abbot of the foundation. In 1146
he was created cardinal and on the
death of Anastasius IV. in 1154 suc
ceeded him as pope. The one inter
esting event of his rule as touching
England was the famous “grant” of
Ireland to Henry 11.
DEFENDANT WAS PROVOKED.
The Judge—You admit that yon
struck the man?
The Culprit—Yes, your honor.
But he gave me ample provocation.
The Judge—What was it?
The Culprit—Why, I had just met
the man—never saw him before in
ray life, and we hadn’t been talking
more than a minute or two when he
addressed me as professor.
’ The J udge— Discharged.
SMART INFANT.
“Mother, turn the hose on me,”
i said little Willie, as his mamma was
I dressing him in the morning.
“M illie. what do you mean ?”
cried his alarmed and loving parent,
s “You've pur my stockings on the
■ wrong side out.” he said.—London
■ Telegraph.
COINCIDENCES IN DATES.
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It will be a century before the
world will again be able to write the
eleventh day of the eleventh n- TnPi
of the eleventh year, but in Decem
ber of next year there will be a
I close approximafion to it w! h
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WON PRIZE, BOUGHT DINNER
Engraver Made Good on Promise to
Jury Whose Duty It Was to
Award Prize.
Monsieur Patricot solicited the
honor of the chair of engraving at
the institute. He did not deserve it,
and we are surprised that it was
given to him. In default of genius
M. Patricot is a, skillful man. He
wished to go to Rome. He made a
painting, for the awards for paint
ings there are numerous.
They are fewer for engravings. M.
Patricot hastily studied the art of
engraving and took the prize. Re
cently he desired the honor medals
at the salon of French artists. He
solicited it as an engraver, for as a
painter it would be more difficult
He went to see the hundred engrav
ers who constituted the jury, and
said, jokingly, that if he received
the prize he should return its value
in a good dinner. The medal repre
sented a thousand francs; this would
mean a feast at ten francs a head in
some restaurant of repute at Saint-
Cloud. He got the medal of honor,
and the engravers bad their dinner.
“I should do as well myself if I
could,” said an old painter, “but
the misfortune is that the painters
who make up the jury for our medal I
of honor number more than a thou
sand !”- -Le Cri de Paris,
EVER STOP TO THINK OF THIST
The goodness of the world in
creases with the increase of popula
tion. Among 5,000,000 of men and
women there are more who can ba
described as well-doers than there
are among a million, and it may be
that the increase of goodness is
greater in proportion than the in
crease of population, because good
ness, like good health, is catching.
At the same time it must be remem
bered that evil increases with the
growth of population. That which
may be almost unnoticed in a land
where the inhabitants are few may
seem to have assumed proportions
that are exceedingly ominous and
dangerous when the number greatly
increases. If among 10,000 people
ten are infected with the plague,
the relative danger may not be so
great as it would be in a hundred
thousand people where there were a
hundred victims to spread the infec
tion.
MARINE AUTHORITY.
Sir William E. Smith, who’is to
succeed Sir Philip Watts as director
of naval construction of Great Brit
ain, has developed from ropehouse
boy, (har being his first place when
he joined the Portsmouth dockyard
at the age of eleven. He has already
given the service fifty years’ continu
ous service, and his scientific knowl
edge of naval architecture has influ
enced his extensive work towards
the development of warship designs.
At present he is superintendent of
construction accounts and contract
work. His wide interests are sug
gested by his membership in the
British Astronomical society.
NO BAGPIPES ON SUNDAY.
We get a curious glimpse of the
variety of things that were barred on
Sundays in stricter days in an entry
of excommunication cases presented
to the consistory court of arches of
Durham one day in the seventeenth
century : “Barnbrough, May 21, pre
sented Thomas Anderson of Swinhoe
for playing on a bagpipe before -a
bridegroom on a Sunday, and not
frequenting the church and for not
receiving the Holy Sacrament. . . .
Elizabeth Mills, for scolding, and
drying fish on the Lord’s day.”
SUITED HIS TASTE.
Philanthropist—Er—1 sent a
poor, starving man down to you with
a note this morning to tell you to
give him a meal. What’s the bill ?
Bung—Twenty cents.
Philanthropist—Whar are rhe
items ?
Bung—Four beers and two cigars.
PEACEFUL CASUS BELLI!
“I hear war has been declared be
tween the United States and Great
Britain.”
“Heavens! What’s the cause?”
“They couldn’t decide which
should hold the next peace congress.”
—Satire.
SOMETHING HOTTER.
She —Ah, Jack! Whar can equal
the warmth of a true woman’s love?
He —-The heat of her temper, my
cear.— Variety Life
200_ Children s Dresses I
TO be sold at once regardlese of cost.
Must have room for our Millinery
business.
Atkinson Millinery Co.
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ICE-CREAM FREEZERS
WATER COOLERS
OIL STOVES
And a great many otner things that would be of interest
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A (visit to our Store will be appreciated.
ALLEN BROS.
Gainesville, oa.
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