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STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.
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OUR S0P.MAL SCHOOL.
It is but fitting that in this, our an
niversary number, our State Normal
School should be represented.
The cut as shown above will doubt
less be a surprise to many to whom
this paper may come. Students of
twenty years ago will hardly recognize
the "old place," so many and so
varied have been the improvements.
And to those who are not intimately
acquainted with Bloomsburg's great
school, we beg to say that but few
schools, we believe, have ever enjoyed
so great prosperity.
THE SCHOOL'S GRADUATES.
What better proof of excellence
need any school have than to note
the annual increase of its graduating
classes, provided, always, the standard
of scholarship be rigidly maintained.
The first class to graduate from
Bloomsburg numbered just six mem
bers; the last class, that of '95, num
bered one hundred and fifty-three.
When one casts about making in
quiry of the present home of all these
highly esteemed sons and daughters
of the school, and also, of the entire
number graduated here, he is amazed.
About twelve hundred graduates
have gone from the halls of this
school, and about twelve thousand
young people have, in whole or in
part, been educated here since first
its doors were opened as an institution
of learning.
STATES AND TERRITORIES REPRESENTED
It is the occasion of no little sur
prise to find that the school has
among its alumni, young people work
ing in Pennsylvania, New York, New
Jersey, Delaware, Ohio, West Virginia,
Virginia, Maryland, Washington, 1).
C, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Minne
sota, Missouri, California, Texas,.
Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Kansas,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah,
Arkansas, New Mexico, Idaho and
Washington.
Beside this great list of states, our
school may point with pride to far off
India, China, Syria, and Mexico, and
find glad response to her alumni roll
call from the missionary field, for in
these distant lands there are graduates
of old Bloomsburg, laboring in the
spirit of love for the enlightenment
of heathendom.
THE PRESENT ENROLLMENT.
Almost every year since the first,
has opened with a greater enrollment
than the preceding one. Last spring
term there were assembled "on the
hill" the greatest body of students
ever gathered there in any one term.
This year more than one-third ot
all the counties of our state have
representatives on the enrollment
books, and in addition to the gener
ous contributions ot the old Keystone
State, we find Vermont, New Hamp
shire, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
New York, North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Indiana enrolled.
This is indeed a great showing,
and one that any board of trustees or
faculty may well feel proud of.
A FEATURE IN GOVERNMENT.
Of all the many influences apart
from the actual class-room work, that
have contributed to the success
of the school, that of its government
stands out as one of the foremost in
point of influence.
It has ever been the thought of
those having in charge the govern
ment of the school, that all influences
should be formative rather than coer
cive. To build up, or rather to de
velop character has been the one
great aim of the school. To talk to
young people about goodness in the
abstract, or yet about being good
themselves is one thing, and to
' properly environ the boys and girls so
as to bring them to earnestly desire
the attainment of a strong christian
character for themselves is quite an
other thing.
Just as .we go to press we are ad
vised that there is now pending a
movement which has in view the or
ganization of a sort of Senate com
posed of certain students and mem
bers of the faculty, to which shall be
referred all important items of disci
pline. This argues for a high order
f things in the matter of school
government.
PROJECTS FOR THE CURRENT YEAR.
On the side of the intellectual there
are many good things in contempla
tion for the year. Just now the Uni
versity Extension Course of lectures
is being arranged for. Prof. Elson
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of Philadelphia, has been engaged as
the first lecturer in this series. lie
will give a course of six lectures
on American History. He comes
most highly recommended, and all
our towns people have herein a grand
opportunity to review at little cost,
their American History. The sub
jects as chosen arc:
1. Between the Two Wars.
2. Two Great South Men.
3. From Van Buren to the Mexi
can War.
4. The Mexican War and What
it Meant.
5. The Fall of the Big Tarty.
6. The Great Political Duel Pre
ceding the Civil War.
These lectures will prove a great
help as those did last' year. Then
the Society reunion and literary en
tertainment for Thanksgiving day.
Later in the year, probably im
mediately after the Christmas vaca
tion, the regular Students' Lecture
Course will open.
We are glad to be able to ' state
to our towns people that Mr. Leland
T. Powers will be the opening num
ber of the course. Everybody who
ever heard him will, of course, hear
him again, and bring all their friends
with them. The excellence of iny
lecture course which includes such
eminent talent as Mr. Powers is fully
assured.
On the physical or athletic side,
the field sports and indoor gymnastics
promise fine sports and much profit
for all students. The foot ball team
played its first game last Saturday in
a contest with Berwick, and won
easily. The team shows some strong
material, and doubtless by the end of
the season there will be as many
strong men as our Normal team ever
had. Engagements are being made
for a number of games which promise
real enjoyment for the lovers of foot
ball.
1 ne unoie 1 ennis l.iud has ar
ranged a tournament for the young
ladies to begin October 7. There
will be two contests, a free for all, and
a novice tournament. Interest in
these games is growing daily and the
laches are very hopeful of presenting
more interesting games than those
played by the gentlemen last spring.
Thus the great work of the school
is being carried on. Pupil and teach
er are ever busy; the one preparing
for life's duties, the other busy always
with devising the things that will best
bring into the life of each student,
those qualities and attributes that
shall fit him for a life of usefulness.
LOVING TOO LATE.
A Common Enough Story Portrays a Pathetic
Moral.
Not long ago I met a young lady in
poverty whom I had previously known
in wealth, and this was, in substance,
the story she told me : " Father died
suddenly in Washington, and the pro
fessional skill through which he had
coined money for us died with him.
1 am not weeping because we are
poor. I am broken-hearted bscauae
none of us saw that he was dying.
Was it not pitiful that he should think
it best not to tell any of us that he was
sick ? And I, his petted daughter,
though I knew he was taking opium
to soothe his great pain, was so ab
sorbed by my lovers, my games and
my dresses, that I just hoped it would
all come right. If I could only re
member that even once I had pitied
his suffering or felt anxious about his
life, I might bear his loss better I"
The story is common enough. Many
a fathei, year after year, goes in and
out of his home carrying the burden
and doing the labor of life, while those
whom he tenderly loves hold with but
careless hands all of honor and gold
he wins by toil and pain. Then some
day his head and hands can work no
more ! And the hearts that have not
learned the great lesson of unselfish
love while love was their teacher
must now begin their sad duty when
love has left them alone forever.
Amelia E. Barr in October Ladies'
Home Journal.
" I was broken out with hives, and
bought a bottle of Hood's Pills, and
they gave me relief." Mrs. H. C.
Wolf, Bloomsburg, Pa.
No man was ever so much in love
that he was unable to sleep on Sun
day morning. T?xa$ Siflinga.
Drug envelopes, Nos. 1, a and 3
manilla, white or colored, coin envel
opes, and shipping tag?, with or with
out strings, always in stock at this
office. tf.
J'ho I'roblcin of IVonciinjr.
No subject Is more Interesting1 to the
fcncrnl putlie than tlm cost of living;.
The problem tho majority uro trying to
solve is how to savo money and make
H10 best possible- appearance. Usually
It Is discovered tbat tlio bit n't account
Increases as tho family curtails Its
wunts. Tho length of tho bank ao
count is in proportion to tho Inereaso of
the things not bought. Once in awhile,
writes a philosopher In Outing, when
patience is exhausted, because even
going without does not bring tho de
nlred results, one is tempted to accept
that fallacious definition of economy:
"Economy Is going without something
you do want, in case you should soma
day want something you will not
want.1 Ecououiy is the promise of the
future, the despair of the present, with
most of us. We act on the same prin
ciple that governs us In the treatment
of our favorite sins; we are waiting for
the miracle of accumulated streugth to
overcome them. We would scale
mountains without walking In tho mo
notonous road that leads to them.
After all, what Is economy but pro
portion? To refuse to spend what la
legitimate, In order to sccuro future
wealth, Is putting a heavy mortgage on
life with tho prospect of very uncer
tain returns. To spend regardless of the
future Is to ignore an investment that
makes a sure return. Tho courageous
are those who live in harmony with an
educated conscience. Theso build on a
sure foundation. They are tho only
true, the only wise, as well as the only
courageous people. May their num
bers increase.
Conventional Standards.
It has been quite a feature of the
last summer season that a number of
brave rescues have been made, not only
by men, but also by women and chil
dren. Theso results show perceptibly
and eloquently the changing of the
conventional standards. Till of com
paratively recent years self-reliance
and courage were looked on as exclu
sively masullne virtues, and the wom
anly character was considered as more
strikingly in relief when displaying ut
ter dependence and inability to face or
fight danger. Now, owing to the phys
ical and mental training of women, the
new Ideas that none of her natural re
sources are to be stifled, but rather to
bo developed, have obtained sway, and
with their ascendency has come the
downfall of the theory that a woman
who has nerve and coolness enough to
help herself and aid others In case of
danger is unscxed thereby. Graceful
faints arc no longer characteristic of
tho woman of to-day. She may have
lost some of her angello air, but the
atmosphere of sturdy common sense
which has taken its place is much more
refreshing for the public and infinitely
safer for herself.
A prominent Chicago physician,
Dr. F. W. Reilly, pathologist, bacte
riologist, meteorologist, arcbceologist,
and erstwhile editor, says that
the common practice of kissing is
"vicious, intolerable, barbaric and vile.
This question of kissing has been a
bobby with me for some time, and I
have studied Its results. I knew a con
sumptive preacher down in Nokomis
who made a practice of kissing his
flock after service every Sunday. The
mortality in the village increased
twenty-two per cent, in one year, and
when I left there half the members of
the congregation were leaning against
fences for support. The germs were in
the contribution boxes, in the hymn
book racks and all about the pulpit."
Let those who are given to promiscuous
osculation pause and reflect upon the
dangers attending the pleasant prac
tice.
Nearly all attempts to make convict
labor profitable have failed, but Missis
sippi, under peculiar conditions, seems
to have succeeded. Last year the state
abandoned the vicious plan of farming
out the labor of convicts to contractors,
and purchased a farm of ten thousand
acres on which to raise cotton. Nearly
all of the convicts are Hold hands vir
tually expert workmen and it is re
ported that the managers of the farm
have turned fifty thousand dollars over
to the state treasury, representing the
profit made after paying all expense.
This represents five dollars an acre, a
good return on the investment.
Another -farm will probably be pur
chased, that work may be provided for
all the convicts. There appears to be
no objection from free laborers to this
use of the convicts, but there are very
few states that could successfully fol
low Mississippi's example.
la Montana tho penalty for attempt
inff burglary at night is seven years in
the penitentiary, while an attempt to
commit the same offense during the
day is only a year in the county jail.
According to law also the day is be
tween sunrise and sunset. A man waa
tried the other day in Butte for at
tempted burglary in the night, but his
attorney established tho fact that the
crime waa committed at 6:10 in the
morning of August 6. The almanao
showed that the Bun rose at 4i60 a. m.
on that day, and this enabledtlie ac
cused to get off with nine months in
JalL
GaUTOBiriA fruit ha found a elan.'
orous market in London. The keeping
qualities of the fruit having stood the
teat aatlsfactorily, there is every reason
to expect that the trad begun in an
experimental way will rapidly assume
commercial importance with the oozn
th& of another season.
For Real Bargains in
Furniture and Carpets
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A few more of
$20 6piece Chamber Suits.
Our line of Solid Mahogany and Curly Birch
Suits surpasses any line ever brought to this
section.
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npurj i ca nnn 4in and makeet sts.,
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-IS THE CHEAPEST PLACE FOR-
Harness of
Big Stock of Fur and Lap Robes-
Largest and cheapest stock of
GALL BEFORE BUYING
-AND BE CONVINCED.-
H-Ask for
When at the Fair
call and get
PRICE-
On all kinds of
Foreign and
Domestic
Groceries.
His stock is the largest in the town.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
IN SEASON.
CORNER MAIN AND EAST STREET,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
MAX GROSS,
OPPOSITE CENTRAL HOTEL,
wishes to invite vour attention
to a few of his many shoe
prices, which cannot fail to in
terest those intending to pur
chase this Fall.
$1.50 Men's Satin Calf Shoes.
99c. Women's Fine Dongola
Shoes.
79c. Women's Fine Dongola
Shoes.
1 8c. Baby's Patent Tip Shoes.
49c. Child's Patent Tip Shoes,
size 5 to 8.
59c. Child's Patent Tip Shoes,
size 9 to 11.
49c. Women's Leather and Serge
Slippers.
armtrk
AT
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those famous
all -Kinds
Horse Blankets in the county.
Black Beauty Book.
Everybody
buys
Clothing
of
- GROSS
because
his
prices
are the
lowest
and his
Goods
the best.
W. J COEELL & CO.,
Wholesale and retail dealers in
FURNITURE
Parlor Suits
at reduced prices.
ftSSpecial Attention to
UNDERTAKING.
W.H.Gilmore,
POPULAR
RESTAURATEURS
All the Delicacies
Of the Season.
5 BILLIARD PARLOR ATTACHED. 2
Hold 011 There!
DON'T LIMP ANY MORE.
IS GUARANTEED TO CURE
CORNS, BUNIONS, &c
YOUR SHOES WILL SOON
NEED REPAIRING. CALL ON
J. P. JONES,
Boot and Shoemaker,
AND DEALER IN LEATHER FINDINGS.
OPERA HOUSE BLOCK,
BLOOMSBURC, PA.
The largest stock
of Trimmed
MILLINERY
ever displayed in
Bloomsburg, at
H. E. Wasley's,
Moyer Building,
opposite
the old stand.
"Moss Rose,"
S Sigh G(Ade
Improved
Blended lWi.
Made of the best Minne
sota Spring and Win
ter Wheat.
Made at Aqueduct Hi!
Ask your dealer for it.
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