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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. - - POOR GROCER | Maateorr j Hfcßt . f JTo ov« f V1 ► 1 Cvj Tor<fcg Z? P/! T J row 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. I . 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 12-12-12 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. ■■ L - HOT WEATHER IS HERE. ' Call early and see our lune of Refrigerators ICE-CREAM FREEZERS WATER COOLERS OIL STOVES And a great many otner things that would be of interest to you in hot weather. We have the best RANGE on earth for the money. A (visit to our Store will be appreciated. ALLEN BROS. Gainesville, oa. ■MMHHHMHMHHHHHHHHBHHMHMnNanHHMMnMMnaHHHaHHHMMnaHMMBHBaMBK ■■■■«» ! The Arlington Annex Formerly known as the Hunt House Is the coolest place in Gainesville Mountain Breezes . Spreading Shades Green Lawns j Furnished Rooms to let. Reasonable. i Table Board at A rlingtonlHotel MRS. J. H. HUNT, Proprietress. CHICHESTER’S PILLS ynis in R<d »e4 Gold fn-taIHc\VDZ IX s** Blue Ribboo. Jrj TXJ other. 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