News Standard, The (Newspaper) - December 21, 1893, Uniontown, Pennsylvania THE NEWS Volume DECEMBER Per PEDAGOGUES FEATURES OF THE 4OTH AN Teachers Taleen Over the Old Grounds Once Carl tons Entertaining Lecture Complete of Are The wielders of the birch are here and before 9 oclock Monday morning the town was in their They began com ing in Sunday order to be well ready for the and their ranks began swelling very early in the Some came on some camo in buggies and wagons and some but the greater part of them got here as the enrollment curd showed in the after when it registered showing only 44 The great struggle in the morning was to set In early and secure a good The in front of the ticket office at the opera house was crowded throughout the There was con ramming and jamming and the Erst to register wrere the ones having the greatest amount of There was also a great deal of hustling around to secure lodging for the Every room in nearly every hotel had been taken up In Some went to private families while filled up the board ing The institute by was called to order at He made but a short address to the teachers in regard to the work to be and then introduced of who will which Ehrenfeld read as a script ing the week EJH that he would be con scious all the time that what he would say would only be that which many of the members of the institute had gone over at some time in his said to the ladies that the mnn for whom they were looking is 1M pounds in 6 S inches in The trouble with the ladies would bo to recognize the man when they saw In speaking of the component parts of the body he said Carbon is the food stuff and fuel stuff of the The puzzle of physiology to day is the nitrogen of the Of the 1541bsofthe ideal hydrogen and nitrogen make of that amount 1J6 12 taking from this some other minor elements and of solid matter is all that is A very carefully prepared analysis of the ele ments of the body was presented on the was introduced and talked somewhat on the subject of lan Some of his expressions are these It is a question whether we can think without Shall instrument by which we communicate our thoughts be put in the best shape possible Do we as teachers use as good language as we might Wendell Philips spent much timein looking up the niceties of lan He suggested that the teachers would do well to give some time to the Porter made some announcements and Miss Wakefield gave a choice solo after which the first session of the institute TUESDAY Smith led the institute in singing have charge music during the Smith made a few remarks about the music of the institute and then had the teachers join with him iu stuping Coro The religions exercises were con ducted by Kelson of Boyle of the church of this place was He made the address of welcome which was lis tened to with the most intense No regular program was followed during the remainder of the He would have the public schools in every respect so that Catholic and Infidel might all receive the benefits of tion Hie would not have one Jol public money used for the ben of sectarian He concluded jy wishing that harmony pervade all the deliberations of the institute and that the time might soon if it were lesson 1 2nd and offer ed Smith occupied some time in the practice of vocal Hugus occupied the first period of instruction on Elements of the Success ful He outlined the subject as follows character and He said to educate a child perfectly requires greater more profound thought than to conquer an em pire or govern a The enjoyment and preservation of our liberties are found deeply rooted in our public lie one hour per day to One hand only was A few gave onehalf more onequarter of an b Too many There are SOUdates in History 12 are very c Verbatim You will never teach history in this All the ef fort of the mind is fixed on committing the text book Let the child learn the facts of history and then tell them in its own d Imitating Every teacher must teach in his own he cannot be successful by trying to imitate some one Some aids were given in teaching history as fol lows a Nearly all persons have n There are about 200 nicknames in Enough to last a whole Murphys time being up he left the subject at this point to be con on Nelson continued his talk on phys for his theme He said there are different varieties of food and yet there are but four principal ca nitrogen and Any one who wants to investi gate truth can find it in the study of his own He followed a portion of food from the time it is taken into the mouth till it becomes Digestion is tbe preparation of the food for 300 grains of nitrogen are thrown from the body in a It takes 4J ounces of meat to furnish the necessary amount of nitro The loss of the body by activity must be made up in This is done by the food being digested and ab He spoke of the los ing in weight by friction and being unable M repair while the human body aas tie within itself to regain the Hugus gave a lecture on school dis He said that system and good order are essential of successful Any j system of education that neglects these i elements of the childs nature is Much of the weakness of school discipline is the direct fault of the Perfect school is the result of voluntary effort on the part of the Occasional wrong doings will occur but the power and skill of the practice of vocal His gymnastic exercises furnished much amusement for the Nelson before the institute and took as his subject Yucatan and Denmark are the only peninsulas jutting Many jut southward there must be some reason for We have wasted much time in the study of Harris has said that threefourths is wasted and the remaining onefourth could be better Europe and Africa he claims were once united by an isthmus where the strait of Gibraltar is now There is more geography to be learned along the shores of the Caspian than in any other equal area in the If you add eightyfour feet to the waters in the Caspian you add four hundred miles dresses of those who have spoken so far to its so exceedingly level is the Dave listened to with considerable to thc opera house was somewhat after Kate the style of tho rush of settlers on thc Cherokee The race was to the swift gallantry wasnt In and the Indies to what they could A teacher of few con amusement in a street car yes He innocently took out his which had run and set it by the cosh A teacher who had been enjoying him self on the streets last was what kind of a time he was saving am in reply said I am just having a per hydraulic How expressive The talks of teachers have been a commendable and valuable feature of the institute during the The ad scholarship as one oi the cre best in tis ability t mental elements of the Methods Prevent sudden He first ore valuable only as far aa they are regard made a plea for the ofthe ed as instruments whose worth depends upon the and personal quali ties of the Under character he said God has written everywhere in nature that no man liveth to Let us remember that everything we do or say habits and disposition of the pupil and gave some humorous incidents which illustrated the effects of the lack of a knowledge of the Miss gave aa excellent selec tion which Wood was i when of Fay is written somewhere and it can never be to talk on the method of cite county would take their place second The teacher is the greatest of i readinS Wood is a substitute for to none in the Principal Gans of I character chosen by Superintendent 1orter as tbe j talk on who was unable to come on j account of the sickness of her of money is said to Prof It McKeal then gave a plain lying The Aral and Black seas were once but one body of The highest point in Sibe ria is only two hundred and twenty feet above the level of the Miss Wakefield entertained Ihe insti tute with a Hugus discussed principles of teaching and practically and pointedly on the requisites of the teacher to hear suc a in which he en joined a knowledge of the subject matter of the lesson as not only important but essential requisite of a The next period was occupied by Pro fessor the following as the thirteen important dates of United States history 1863 and This list one teacher asked to be ex tended to fourteen numbers by the inser tion because it was the year in which tbe stamp act was after giving these dates spoke briefly on the characteristic sayings of celebrated principal of the Vander bilt followed Murphy with a talk on WhaSt Shall we Teach 1 in which he spoke practically on teaching unimportant and in teaching that course of most beneficial to the Mosic and In the afternoon Hugus farewell address tothe Earn estness was his Pollard ar rived and gave some instruction in her synthetic system j of reading Major Henry evening was introduced to the institute aud made a short Wood continued the Pollard system of Murphy talked on Delights in Every teacher in Fayette county should read the NEWS STANDARD and New York He can get them both for and by reading them carefully each week ofthe year he need not fear embarrassing questions on current events by Keep teacher of Westbend Luzerne has been secur ed by the managers of the Farmers insti tute to recte at their institute on Friday and Friday night of this Dawson recited at both th e Teachers institute and Farmers institute last remarks on the teaching of mental arithmetic in the com mon schools aroused a number of teach ers who would enjoyed offering something on the other side of the advocated the teaching 01 mental arithmetic only in connection with the The exhibit work prepared by the schools of North Union township occupies a very prominent place among the school The work ranks high among the township In addition to the above there is n exhibit from South Union township and one from Miller of Jefferson is among the veteran He has taught 23 Several ofthe other few remaining veter ans are detained from including Anderson of Dunbar and Albert Bolen of The veteran of them Showalter of is not this Nearly three hundred and fifty teachers voted lor Permanent Certificate gavean excellent address on Resl tee The result is M the firet MeSeal discoursed on the Mr Grading of Country The ex were interspersed with instruction and practice in Where do you teach Nora EL1 is is ihe efficient following a Before Ihu response I most It lies at resorted to all Gans other Reading is Bcr through their lesson j he was probably as qualified to J the hardest subject to teach especially in ia aud escape the in make David is the tallest teacher now chairman Anderson Gans Jam ison Cottom David Cloud Thomas P Mosier Eli I lips one of the prominent j teachers and farmers is prominently jj spoken of as a candidate for Legislature liryan Ida Hague MeGinty Annie Swearer Annie Met ray e NEW Hall Jones Annie McDiffet Warren Miner James Mabel Freed Emma Keslar Keefer Elsie Mabel Woodhull Gaus Ella Skiff Cunningham Ella Porter Fannie Greathead Jennette Alice Homer May Johnson Mabel Foust Nellie Hurley Frank Cameron Ella Hyatt Blanche Stillwagon Mattie Hyatt Verda Crossland Daisy SL Gilmore Mary Maude Best Ella Smith Mina Gault Anderson Lizzie Cameron Hatt Belle Rowden Martha Treir Smith Bnice Leonard Anna Carrie Snyder Cropland lie Snyder Dunn Ueath Allic Mots Kuie Anna Slalom Elta Merger Nannie Cox NORTH UNION Alverda Jacob Harvey Belle Collins 7oehraii liny Thompson Addis Frederick Anna Carroll Edgar ONeal Ira Bu Ollie Crawford Ella Springer Newcomer Nettie Jennie Push Honsaker Fast David Walter Oils Miner Sarepta Cooper Franks Mary Spronl PERST Tip Alva Arisen Emma Browneller Renna Albert Mande Emerson Baker Craft Maggie Phillips Scott Ira Steyer Adorns Adonis Solomon Lloyd Dumbauld Adams BROOKS RUNS AMUCK QUEER CAPERS OF A SMITHFIELD BUSINESS He Resumes and Fails He Bought Everything In Sleht and Paid for Finally Left the Town on Brooks has come to grief His numerous creditors here and elsewhere had began to get abont their claims which were due the 20th and began to press him for a On last Saturday in company with went to presumably to get tha money pay His return was anxiously Frost U Leib Jaco Anderson Boru Workman ou Athe lohn Kefler KuUrt M luili P L Ruble lr L Emery i S Conn Carrie Morris Crow Sih to criticise but to gain in the combined use of is uny here i who knows who is not In teaching children the way 6e of being should quit knowledge can he obtained is by He said that he bad tried to j the use of the A certain teacher i thc institute in his usually happy these noon on The entire audience present to hear class of one of tbt i and that the committee on J Carlton on was that i would meet after the Tuesday j and ii Smith then en Salem are attending the i wife of New institute this get were ripe in to furnish thc in and insisted the teachers j By the a toy horse and desired to teach her chiss two new words I hy the tirst was the second was music with gy 1 instructors at the institute this Will Carltons lecture on The of Human was thoroughly enjoyed by a very large audi Carlton is a genui ne student of nature and his interpretations of character 1 rendered a selection entitled The for was the subject taken by A teacher cannot be measured properly as to his qualifications except by the impressions made on the basis of nt a solo by Miss made an address on where are we drifting The benefits of the county institute was The in he try to tell us about everything whereas they should tell us everything about n few Mental ness tor A good I arithmetic should not be taught as scholar will other things being I separate and distinct The scholar highly educated people being able to carry Die results in Murphy read as a lesson the was pres ent during the session of 90th Psalm and led in The bang Nearer my God to McNea then resumed the subject of He said that there is a differ ence between methods and What is the unit of expression with the child is ii I institute on A score of teachers prevented from attending the institute by Many are bid up with the Franks of for many more than two M Martha Williams John Thomas Blanche IMU Berger Alpha F Lizzie Anna Kossell Burchinal May HIckle TE cannot teach school because they lack in other is a necessary qual There is a difference between Uct and A teacher must be felt fa the A teacher moat not too hastily but wait and see what is thc best The surgeon who waited one half minute before treating a man who would bleed to death in one was asked why ho did not act at to which he simply did not know what to Many tiroes should the teacher wait to what is More depends on the of the teacher than on A flexible disposition an important A teacher who never Unghi may have a difficult time getting Confidence is the was best element or Much upon the with which the teacher to An of ten minutes given during which the were re quoted not to leave ihe room hut move about and to one the superintendent would be an experi ment and If the privilege was not It would be allowed The of Smith of were distributed among the The next period wed by Smith on He to jret full control ofthe and Menu to poa the of very in in hit of McNea occupied the next period of that he had teamed from that of worth more to tW mathematical question and at the same time think out the principle is no evi dence of greater reasoning than to carry the principal Porter then in formed the institute that those eligible to a place on the Permanent committee should hand their name to him after the morning session and he would see to having a ticket Ehren feld occupied the next The fol lowing are some of his We are here partly for entertainment but chiefly for sake of learning how to teach This is the one thing that justifies our and thc whole mat tbe whole subject is involved in how mind may best act upon In order to do this I know thc mind in order know where and how to approach how to touch As object how the mind as instrument is capacitated to act on The Axed and the variable in per All Perception U cs the in it gives us the raw material of But when we come to investigate senses we discover that they differ very ranch in practical re especially aa related to The retention of the percept in the mem ory li vry in one ofthe ho has in of what he hits in another of what he has in another of what he has followed or or accompanied in One hns retention through ocular another that on which the different methods of years a teacher of this attended reading are I believe that i the on tbe idea is tbe unit of expression with the j rof child therefore I would use the word Many touchers are slaves lo the rending These should be only as Vp to tbe time that the I SMe Child bis is ob through the perceptive faculties from the things in and they are r of the Fays City school announces an institute for the third Saturday in instructors at the The institute presents a laughable ap not prepared to take up recorded know when tho teachers attempt All that need bo taught in to follow Smith in his bers during the first year may be included in the rending I do not believe that any special effort should be made to learn thc names of the letters of the alpha The children will learn them with out special The new textbook law will assist the teacher in teaching reading by allowing the teacher to say what books the pupils should Under she former law thc parent would proba 3ly boy a fourth reader for his and the teacher not wishing to discourage thc child and antagonize the would allow the pupil to continue to cripple the The new law gives the teacher a better to his school A pronouncing class is a very profitable exercise whether thc child gets the thought or meaning of the words or In the thought must be thc main result lo be gained or thc exer cise is Some get badly Murphy will go to on Thursday to speak at the Mace of New an instructor at will come here to take his Porter to commended for the good entertainment given and care of any teachers been sick or who are The beit dations possible are The crowds at the institute were pro never known to bo ro early in the us present at the jerred terms as county superintendent of Westmoreland lie is the only man who ever served in capacity for so longti time In ISM be became registered as t law student in thc office of Sloan mi Griffith of the county bar and is at present in the study of fie has given institut instruction in at least twelve counties of this Although not so prominent as some institute instructors his practical talks may prove of more benefit to Fayette county schools than some more widely known The display of school work mounted in the halls of the opera house is evidence or the magnificent success of the plan of Porter oy which it was prepared and Thc exhibit is not only a hut even surprises the expectations of the most The halls are covered with specimens of work that do the teachers themselves and is a grand showing of the work being done in the common schools of the the single rooms are not but Porter aid not expect much from these on account of them being was prepared In the schools of 1 among work has no doubt The The members of the graduating class of j and review work form day afternoon Both the upper ana tower part of the opera house wai 7 completely well the C hcM me How shall attending thc public on the morning train and pupils lo look for the tbe prob lem that When the lesson is assigned somu direction be given should be the character of the through auditory another through I The thought contained in the reading of touch and tlic aml Smith with in Petite in talk M Mj the the not wh young plucked tho greater part of the Following is a complete list ofthe teach ers of county tor Those nt I 1 ot in Bt the institute arc the I ofthe Roley Annie Coltom U coim sub Wiley John Kvass Field Mary Abraham McCarty Perie Miller Franl Annie Chat Sterling Kendall Christopher John Crow HESEY CLAY Thorau Ettie John Brown if XI Tissue hitta barsie Kiln Kin 1ou Minor Ada League Ann Duncan Auhe Davis Dnie Mary Field Collins Lizzio Black Bowers Lou lUker Wood Ettie UPPER Mary McLaughlin Ella Pull Clam Aona Itel Lucy Hol Liti Ui In school board of curl from the head of a young Indy while wasnt and discovered it a should bt the town parlor Hat One thing the of interest ii l totro will atd In la BELLE tra it Smith I haili ron the WM MM racing H K ph Miller K Dennis Slary LOWEE TYRONE IL Cunningham C Coder Wm Kusli Smith Ren ha Smith Thomlon Tw lad Motter and Both fer 4ET Lambert Ada Cunningham K Kouser Fail M Showman Simon King Firestone S Melia bertha Kymp 80DTH uNIOS awaited depot as each train but when Sunday and Monday passed and he didnt there began a wild rush of thc disappointed creditors for Squire Cores office to file their and court was crowded from early Tuesday morning till after the noon hour by the claimants waiting their torn to file their Stack made a levy on everything jn sight M soon as the last claim was We havent learned the bnt from what we know the as Brooks came to Fairchance on the train due here at Tuesday and came from there here in a He got here just after the levy had been made He didnt stay He got his two little boys and came down to the station when he delivered himself of s vehement tirade against everything and After which event he went into the station and wanted the agent to trust him for tickets for himself and boys to the agent declined to Brooks board t ed the 2 and about a minute after she pulled out the signal stop was heard and those standing around the depot could see three persons get off the hind It is presumed that ductor Kowen had ejected him tor non payment of This fulfills a tion that a gentleman here made of that when he left he would walk Brooks came here some time ago a stranger and started in on the lumber He cut a wide swath until his creditors closed iu on He then open ed ont on a still larger buying every I thing in sight and paying for j until his second collapse SMITHFIELD Death of Thompson and i Thompson was born 4 j died Thompson j was the wife of who re sides one mite south of this She died with of the She was the daughter of Nathan and was horn and raised one mile north of this and his lived with her husband for about 40 Interment will take j day at H oclock Mathiott i niJl a funeral sermon at the i and deceased will be buried in the Baptist There lias been an unusual amount of i sickness in this community for the past two Nicholas Johnson was buried at the Mennonite church on Saturday He died with throat I Showalter has been sick for some time but at present is Sunday school and the Baptist i schools will each give a cantata on Sat i night Admission j THE TEACHER How a Wharton Township School I Was i The Mountain school in Wharton town is The teacher was I but his present are not known to the school patrons nor to It is a common rumor in the district that the tencher was too fond of a thir daughter of George Her father objected to the and kept hi daughter at home few A similar fondness was then shown for others of his female He woald keep them in after and very loving toward on Monday of last week a brother of the Cassidy armed himself with revolver and repaired to the school hone for an interview with The lat ter would not stand an but took to his heels np over tbe mountain pursued by young The school hat since been and the board will have a meeting soon to consider the Teacher who was ram thc Mountain school in Wharton at the point of a revolver In the of young Harry with whose Curstead had shown too much haa been heard He went to on resigning and delivering up the wan allowed to Tbe board will elect some one to nil the In a written examination at the frns school on December a lint hundred words was resulting W Number of Wil lUrn Frankt Mary Ron Franks Roue Franks John Florence Sallie Christopher Mary Nancy Alexander i KLI Try Ue Nnn i
