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TIE TEACHERS OF BARTOW. Methods and Matters Pertaining to Instruction Discussed- INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS- Last Days of the Teachers’ Insti tute of Bartow County —Live Thinkers Talk. WEDNESDAY, JULY JOTH. A perfect July morning, meteor ogicallv speaking, with such wea ther as is seldom sent out trom tne weather bureau, the presence of a large number ot the livest, most successful and best looking teach ers of Bartow county, the male I >orti n of them looking unusually suave and the female unusually sweet; a comfortable place for meeting, with a room clean and neat, redolent with the fresh morn ing air and llie peifume of flowers; with Prof. Clayton on hand wear ing his ineffable smile and ready with his cordial gteeting for the teachers as they gathered in; with the work of the Institute to be con ducted by one of the brightest and most popular lady teachers in the county —such were some of the pledges of an interesting and pro fitable day on Wednesday, July ioth. After the usual devotional exer cises Superintendent Ciayton, whose interest in the success of the present institute seemed to grow stronger each day, outlined the programme for the morning and presented some special thoughts appropriate to the order of the day. His lecture on the subject, “Some i things I would do,if I were a teach-) er,” though brief, contained many practical points and suggestions. Mrs. V 7. V. Whittenberg, to whom the work was now turned over, had previously made a care ful assignment of topics, and had so arranged the divisions of each subject as to secure the best pos sible results. Tue session was characterized by unusual harmony, smoothness and dispatch. Mrs. Whittenberg, in all her lectures and comments, evinced the quali ties and qualifications of a success ful teacher, and her management •of the Institute was thoroughly -satisfactory. Miss Cornelia Sewell read an ex cellent paper on “Why I teach?” She magnified the high calling of the teacher, and deprecated the Idea that any one would enter the work from low or trivial motives. The paper read by Miss Irwin, set ting forth the importance that ought to be attached to daily prep aration for class work was in line • with the views of that eminent En glish teacher, Dr. Matthew Ar nold, who said that he' preferred that his pupils drink from a run ning stream rather than from a stagnant pool. Miss Irwin em phasized the value of fresh know ledge on the part of the teacher. The question, “Do you believe that good scholarship adds to the teacher’s governing power?” was vigorously handled by Profs. Boyd, Branson and Jolly, and Miss Dora Bradford, all concurring that other things being equal good scholar ship gives the teacher a decided ad vantage in establishing such con fidence and respect on the pupil’s part as will make governing most easy. Mrs. Whittenberg stren uously objected to Prof. Boyd’s theory that sometimes it may be expedient for the teacher to con ceal his ignorance from the stu dent, and gave some potent rea sons therefor. “State three purposes of the reci tation” was responded to with a well written paper by Miss Alina Hendricks. First, to find out what the pupil knows; second, to giv pupil opportunity of expressing what he knows, and third, to as sist the pupil, were the three pur poses according to Miss Hendricks The-advantages of standing during recitation were enumerated by Miss Anna Foute. ‘ ‘ W hen should rey iews be given?” provoked some breezy remarks from Profs. Boyd, McCloony and Johnston.' Prof, Johnston con demned the catechism fashion of conducting recitations, showing that the better way is to have tlje pupils recite topically. It was well enough however to use the question method in conducting re view’s. Miss Mamie Jones read an in teresting paper on “Some practical suggestions for busy seat work.” She mentioned a number of good methods for busy seat w’ork and gave some of those which she had found useful and satisfactory. At this point, Prof. Johnston re galed the Institute with one of his j instructive talks. Prof. Johnston has a way of laying down peda gogic propositions, which at first glance, strike one as unorthodox but which on being noticed more closely bear the test of the sound est educational principles. Profs. R. L. Boyd and J. L. Wal ker were listened to with pleasure as they recited some of their per sonal experiences in the school room. A brief breathing spell was naw afforded the Institute.during which the teachers had the pleasure of listening to a wJI rendered recita tion by Miss Anna Foute. Mr. Caldwell, representing the B. F. Johnson Publishing Company of Richmond, was introduced and succeeded with a short speech, in placing himself in pleasaut rela tions with the teachers. The paper read by Miss Ann McCormick oti the idea of allow- I ing students in ungraded country schools to select their own studies was addressed to a subject of inter est to all country teachers. She was opposed to the idea of the teachers allowing the student so much latitude. “How teachers may secure the best order in the school room?” was considered by Miss Cornelia Sewell in one of the best papers read before the Institute. “A Few Thoughts on our Pub lic Schools,” an interesting paper by Miss Fannie Gemes, closed the programme of the morning. Prof. Clayton having resumed the stand, a motion was passed that on the two remaining days of the week two sessions be held,from 9 to 12 in the morning, and from 3 to 5 in the afternoon. THURSDAY. JULY IITH. Devotional exercises conducted by Prof. Boyd. The minutes of the first two days as prepared by Prof. J. H. Jolly, secretary, were (in his absence) read by Superintendent Clayton and approved. Prof. Boyd then introduced the subject of incidentals and explain ed the method he used in collecting the funds for keeping up the re pairs and meeting the incidental expenses in the way of fuel, crayon and such things. He had found the plan successful and recom mended its adoption by other teach ers. Prof. Johnson made a strong ap peal for local taxation for the pur pose of supplementing the fund for public schools, and suggested the plan of inducing the people to agree to tax themselves for this purpose. Col. Montgomery explained the inability of the county board to go far enough to collect anything for the school fund by taxation. That is the work of the people, and must come from them. Mr. A. H. McCormick spoke fa vorably of Prof. Boyd’s plan of collecting incidentals. The subject of English grammar now claimed the atteutiou of the Institute and was handled prin cipally by Prof. Johnston, who in his lecture which was full of strik ing comments on some of the ab surd methods employed in te c’ling this subject succeeded in impress ing upon the minds of the teacher the exalted position occupied by the English tongue in the great family of languages. The gram mars now in use and as taught failed, according to Prof. Johnston, to teach scientific English. They did not teach how to speak and write the English language cor rectly, The high compliment which he paid to Charley Willing ham on his mastery of correct and clear-cut speech was vigorously ap plauded by the audience. Prof. Johnston insisted upon the force of example and stressed the point that before the teacher can successfully I teach English he must be a master of it himselt. The afternoon session was de- voted to the two correlated sub jects of history and geography. Prof. Johnston called on all the teachers to state briefly their uieth od.- of teaching these subjects. The result was an experience meeting. The teachers all responded one by one, and it was evident before many experiences had been relate ! that history and geography were going to receive a most thorough and exhaustive treatment. Noth ing, in fact, was left unsaid. Ev ery possible method and device which any teacher had used and found servicable was presented and recommended. The symposium was engaged in by too many to ad mit of a separate mention of all the participants. Many of the teach ers, such as Messrs. Colbert, Mc- Clooney and Shelton, and Misses Stubbs, Forshee, Williams, Shel ton, Milhellin,Hendricks and Wof ford, w’ho had preferred hitherto to give a respectful audience to the more loquacious members of the Institute were all heard with inter est and profit. Prof. J. F. Walker, without meaning to wax eloquent came very near doing so in the course of his remarks towards the ; close of the session. The minutes of the last day’s session having been read and ap proved, adjournment was in order. FRIDAY, JULY 12. The minutes of the last day’s session having been read, Supt. Clayton stated subject for the day and asked Prof. Johnston to take charge. “How to teach spelling?” was the question to which the teachers addressed themselves. Hardly a teacher present failed to get up and say something. The oral and written methods, trap spelling, spelling matches, syllibi cation, accent and pronunciation, spelling and defining, the distinct ion between orthoepy and ortho graphy, the proper time to place a spelling book in the pupil’s hands, the rise of the dictionary, the im portance of a thorough knowledge of the elementary sounds, the ap plication of diacritical marks, and a hundred other matters pertain ing to the subject were brought out and piled up on one another; so that when Prof. Johnston had capped the climax and added the finishing tonches in his closing lecture the work of the morning stood forth well rounded, symmet rical, and complete. The cause of spelling had received an impetus that will tell upon the rising gener ation in Bartow county. The committee on resolutions consisting of J. T. Addington, Fred Branson, R. L. Boyd and Mrs. W. V. Whittenburg offered following resolutions which were read by the secretary and adopted: ist —Resolved, that we the tea chers of the Institute tender our thanks to the city school board of Cartersville for the use of their school building, and to the Mason Music Cos. for furnishing the In stitute with an organ without charge, as in the past. 2nd, Resolved that we ask the legislature to arrange son e plan by which the teachers may be paid promntlv at the time their pay is pron i-ed; also that the house of representatives at the next session pass senate bill adding Physiology and Hygiene to the public school course and to require teachers to stand satisfactory examinations on the evils of alcohol and narcotics. 3rd. —That we thank the county superintendent, Hon. R. A. Clay ton and the officers of the Institute for the very efficient manner in which they have conducted the In stitute. After the adoption of the reso lutions, Supt. Clayton offered a few parting remarks, expressing his gratification over the result of the week’s workj an 1 thus closed the week’s session of one of the most harmonious and profitable in stitutes in which the teachers of Bartow county have ever assem bled. The teachers will return to their homes with new ideas and new’ ideals, impressed, as never be fore, with the dignity of their call in ; and strengthened in purpose henceforth to teach more intelli gently and successfully and to lay upon the altar of a correct and wholesome education the offerings or a devoted and self sacrificing heart. “Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of them selves.” Large things are but an aggre gation of small things. If we take care of the small things we are in effect taking care of the large things which the small things com bine to make. Take care of what you eat, and how you eat, and your stomach w’ill take care of itself. But who takes care of such trivial things? That is why, someday, the major ity of people have to take care of the stomach. When that day comes, there is no aid so effective in undoing the results of past care lessness as Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It strengthens the stomach, and restores the or gans of digestion and nutrition to a condition of healthy activity. It cures biliousness, heartburn, fla tulence, indigestion, palpitation, dizziness, cold extremities and a score of other ailments which are but the symptoms of disorder in the stomach and its allied organs. Off for Philippines, New York, July 10. —The trans port McClellan was ready to sail this morning for Manila in place of the Ingalls which was wrecked at her dock. On board the McClel lan were; United States Senator Bacon, of Georgia, and Congress man De Arinond, of Missouri Mer cer, of Nebraska, Gaines, of Ten nessee, Greene, *of Pennsylvania, Weeks, of Michigan, Joy, of Mis souri, and Jack, of Pennsylvania. Congressman Gaines said that the members of congress on board are not going to the Philippines as a commission, but as individual members of congress to ascertain the facts and conditions there. Educate Tour Bowel* With CMearet*. .Candy Cathartic, cure constipatioc forever. 10c, SSc. If C. C. C. fall, druggist* refund money. Round t|e World Letter NUMBER EIGHT.. Solok, Sumatra, Wed., April i7, 1901. We arrived at Emmahaven, the harbor for Padang, on Monday the 15th. Mr. Walsh, with his two Dutch assistants, and I went to the Orange, the best hotel in the place as did the Japanese. I then went around to the Padangshoe Handel Maatchappy to get some money for expenses up here and in this compa ny. But, being with an ; s ronorni cal partv I get a pass for the rail road. Then yesterday morning Mr. Walsh, his party, and I went for the 7 o’clock train from Padang, but were five minutes late although we were ten minutes before hand by our own time; so we came up here at io. I got oflf here but Walsh went on to see the coal mine at Savvah Luento. He came back this evening and goes to Padang tomorrow to go home. On the train coming up was Mr. Abbott, from Smithsonian Insti tute. He introduced me to the following gentlemen: 1. Prof. E. E. Barnard, Yerkes Observatory. 2. Prof. A. N. Skinner, U. S. Naval Observatory. 3. Dr. M. FT. Gilbert, Johns Hop kins. 4. Mr. Paul Draper, Smithson ian. 5. Dr. B. A. Mitchell, Columbia, (N. Y.) 6. Mr. J. E. Jewell, Ass’t Naval Obs. 7. Mr. H. D, Curtis, Ass’t, U. of Va. 8. Mr. W. W. Dinwiddie, Ass’t Naval Obs. Washington. 9. Prof. F. B. Littell, U. S. N. Met before at Barnesville. 10. Photographer G. H. Peters, U. S. N. 11. Prof. W. S. Eichelberger, U. S. N. 12. Dr. W. J. Humphreys, U. of Va. The last four are at Fort de Kok, and I am going there in a day or two; so I will meet all those there from other expeditions. So you see lam right in the swim. Prof. Barnard is about 55 years old, rather stout, mustache and no beard. Very nice kind, quiet old gentlemen. Not very much going on today, only getting instruments located. But in a few days we will have lots of work to do. The instruments arc being put up in an old Dutch fort about five minutes from here, the Telang Hotel. There is not room here for all of us, so Curtis, Gilbert, Dinwiddle and I am sleep ing in the old barracks. But we have army cots, mosquito nets, etc. and so are very comfortable. The Japanese stayed in Padang, at least Prof. Hirayama had decid ed when I left there. While in Orange Hotel I met Prof. Perrine and an assistant, a young fellow named Curtis from Lick Observatory, which I will visit before going home from San \ Francisco, The railroad to this place is 80 miles long but it takes 7 hours to do it for on account of the lightness of their locomotives in seme places they have to use the cog wheel road. But still in one place they put on 2 engines to take a i2£ grade. Most beautiful ricie the whole way np. Cocoanut trees, tree ferns, beau tiful large ferns (ordinary kind,) all tropical growth, and in one place you run along the shore of Lake Sikara for half an hour. Looked like one of the Alpine lakes except for the tropical growth. The water that we drink here is all boiled beforehand, but the best thing out here is the cocoanut milk from young cocoanuts. Prof. Skinner arrived in Solok last Thursday, but Sumatra in the Thursday before that. Rene Granger. Motherly Tenderness to Orphans “l never saw more beautiful de votion to a sick child in my life than that of the matron mothers of the Orphans’ Home at Decatur to the orphans sick with measles.” This expression has come from many visitors during the 130 cases of measles there. The unusual health record of the home was shown again, for only half a dozen were seriously sick. The tender ness to these has been equal to an own mother’s care. There were 30 cases at the baby cottage at one time, and one has been desperately and disagreeably sick, but it has found almost angelic care from the matrons. The love of Jesus shows beautifully in their sympathy and loving devotion. Everv one in North Georgia shou'd rejoice in the tender wise, management of these homes, both for the orphans’ sake, and because amy one’s descendants may have to seek their shelter some day. 1L 1 HfH ~ y ...... * * 7 XVegetable Preparation For As similating the Food andßeguia ting the Stomachs aito Bowels of Promotes Digestion.CheerfuT ness and Rest. Contains neither Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. Not Narcotic. afOULrSAMIUPITCmt fam/Jun Seal ' . Mx-Semta. * J BakdU&Mt- i xtaiee Seed * ftfUtrnmt - > m ixroonatoJtdd *■ 1 HSrrpSeed- I CUnfied Sugar HShtuymeH FUmr. / Aperfecl Remedy forConstipa- Tion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss of Sleep. Facsimile Signature of NEWYORK. 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