Che entre Le Circulation, Over 3500 Teachers Institute Now in Session Large Attendance of Centre County Instructors--Complete Re- port of the Various Sessions, Oar town is enlivened this weeek by an army of enthusiastic, energetic young men and women to whom is entrusted the important work of directing the youthful mind. Teachers Institute is a rest from the tiresome monotony of the | school room, aud while an enjoyable vacation amid new scenes, there isa vast benefit derived therefrom, that in the end is beneficial to our school system. Institute is well attended this week. From expressions we hear among teach- ers, the corps of instructors is not up to the standard of former years and com- plaint is common. Iu this connection it is proper to men. tion that Dr. Hulley, of Lewisburg, is of the life of institute and has captivated the teachers and the public. He is one of the best. Herewith we present a complete re- port of the various sessions of institute kindly furnished by Prof. G. Dorsey Hunter, principal of State College borough schools : MONDAY AFTERNOON. The first session of the fifty.sixth an- nual Iastitute of Centre county began at 1:30 Mouday with two hundred and six ty-two teachers enrolled. Doubtless the stormy weather kept the crowd away as the attendance at the opening session was small. The institute was called to order by Sapt. C. L. Gramley, when a song service was introduced with Pro’. | Meyer, of Boalsburg, leading and Miss | Bessie Dorworth, of Bellefonte, at the piano. miliar songs, Rev. H. C. Holloway of the Lotheran church, conducted the de. votional exercises. Sapt. Gramley, without attempting a forma! address, ex- pressed his pleasare in seeing so many of the teachers present. With his intro. duction of Dr. Wm. W. Parsons, of Terre Haute, Ind., the real work began. Dr, Parson took as his subject, “Way, Rule, Principle and Method in Education.’ He stated first that the topics, upon which he was to speak, were to be con. nected, and in a measure, were to em phasize each other. He then made it clear to the teachers that there is an un- | derlying principle in education. He explained fully and clearly what meant by a principle in education and | showed by illustration that itis wholly different from rule or method. With this | he closed his talk. After an intermission Miss Elizabeth Lloyd, of Philadelphia, | was introduced. Her subject was the she gave many hints as to how the subject may | She | does not advise the going over the sub. | teaching of Physiology and be made practical in the schoo!. ject time after time, when it becomes tiresome, but advises the giving of less time tot, and filling this time with thoroughly practical lessons upon the care of the human body. She closed her talk with some suggestions vpon the oral teaching of this subject. The third speaker was Dr. Lincoln Halley, of Lewisburg. Although Dr. Halley's sub. Jet was “the Common Branches,” he talked particularly upon the subject of Arithmetic. He claims that the subject is considered uminteresting in most of the schools, but if so, it is because the teaching makes it so. He advises the omitting the rules of the arithmetic that are of no practical use and the spending this time in drills upon the fundamental rules, such as addition, subtraction, etc, Dr. Halley claims that by such teaching of the subject the interest in it will be stimulated and the subject itself will not be considered as dry and uninteresting as it commonly is. TURSDAY MORNING, Tuesday morning dawned bright and i clear. The session began with a song service conducted by Prof. Meyer. Not all of the teachers had yet enrolled but the attendance was larger than Mon. «day. Following the singing Rev. Perks of the United Brethren church conducted a devotional exercise of concert reading and prayer. Miss Lioyd was the first instructor and her subject was **Alcohol and its Effects.” Before beginning ber subject she spoke, by request, upon the temperature of the schoo! room, and ad- vised the frequent consulting the ther grometer in the school room by some one the pupils appointed for the purpose. Miss Lloyd does not believe in depriving pupils of their intermission as a penalty, rightly claims that other means will the same result. Iu her subject + Miss Lloyd took the ground that must be able to dispute conclu ‘sively that beer or alcoholic drinks are ment found in a glass of beer to that 4 iis y fat te After singing a number of fa- | is | | found in a loaf of bread and a glass of | water and said that chemists will | you that the latter contains ten times the i real nourishment of the former. {cited many illustrations to show that { habitual drinkers do not have healthy and length of years seem to indicate the fact. She impressed upon the teachers the fact that the measure of a man’s life | is not length of years, but what he has accomplished in these years, From the | battle fields of the Spanish and Boer wars, from the foot-ball field and from | other activities of life she brought illus: trations to show that there is a difference | | in what can be accomplished by tota) | abstainers and by those accustomed to the use of alcoholic stimulants. She | closed with saviog that the great danger | in the use of alcoholic drinks lies in the fact that a little creates the appetite for more. Following Miss Lloyd Supt. Gramley announced the dates of the various Dis trict Tustitutes as follows : First district ~composed of Miles, Penn, Millbeim, | Haines and Gregg, Feb. 13.14: second | district—Centre Hall, Potter Harris, | Ferguson, College and Sate College bor- ough, Jan. 16 17; third district—Belle- | fonte, Spring, Benner and Walker, Feb. 28; fourth Milesburg, Boggs, Curtin, Howard, Howard borough, Lib. { erty and Marion Jan. 10 31; fifth district Ugioaville, Union, Huston, Worth, Taylor, Half Moon and Patton Feb.20-21: sixth district—Philipsburg, 8 Philips burg, Rash, Burnside, Feb. 67 district Suow Shoe and Dr. Parsons followed and explained more fally PRINCIPLE m education as used preceeding talk. His for this morging was “The Child as the Sabject of the Educational Progress.” Teachers | must remember that the child is the sub. ject of the whole edacational progress, and that the whole interest centers in the child as a human being. He says that teachers do not teach arithmetic but teach the child using arithmetic. Dr. Parsons said that the whole business of education is enobled and made grand by the fact that each child taught is a child of God. There are two views of the human mind, the materialistic and the spiritnalistic. Materialism says that the brain thinks, spiritualism says that | the spirit or soul thinks with or by means of the brain. Then followed interesting illustrations of the difference and rela- tion of these two terms. The second partof his talk was upon the nature and capacity of the being we are called upon to educate. The child, he claims, is a | unique being of the finite world. | unique because he can turn upos him. self and think his own divine being. He the meaning of the word in his subject ideal. After an latermission of five minutes Dr. Hulley came forward Jas the last speak. er. In bis subject “Relation of Geogra- phy to History’ he first showed by humorous illustrations how the geogra- phy of a country impresses itself upon its people. Hence geographical features come lo determine the history of a peo- ple. Dr. Hulley, believes that the mountains of Switzerland have made the liberty loving Swiss people, and that the porthern exposure of Germany, with the resulting cold climate, has made the sturdy, rugged Germans. He showed that the eastern question, or the juestion of the disposition of the Turkish Empire, is a matter of geography, yet it is infla. encing the history of both Russia and Eagland. By the distribution of the first colonies and towns along, the coasts and rivers Dr. Hulley proved that the geo graphical features of our own country have determined its history and the dis- tribution of its population, In a humor. ous view, be told of five states bordering on the Mississippi river, which furnish one-half the corn supply of the United States. He illustrated the volume of this product by saying that teams hauling this corn would form a line reaching al. most six times around the world, The natural question follows : What is done with this marvelons supply ? It is not consumed by our own people but is fed to the hogs and the pork is exported, forming one of the valuable articles of commerce. Dr. Hulley closed his talk by comparing the area of our country with that of the various European countries, TURSDAY AF TRRNOON, Sapt. Gramley called the {nstitute to order promptly to the minute, thus giving the teachers a good example of the ¥ tell | She | bodies, even though physical appearance | He is | Is unique also because he can by his vol. untary act, struggle to meet his higher i BELLEFONTE: PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1903. | promptness he asks on thelr part. A | fine audience greeted the speakers, and | certainly gave them added inspiration. Dr. Hulley was allowed to take the first { period for his talk in order to depart {on the 2:15 train. He bandled his sub. | ject “Fads in Education’ in a manner | wholly unusual and first illustrated the { definition of the word ¥AD, for he said {that it could not be defined except by | illustration. Dr. Halley is unusual in | saying, as be dia, that fads have their | good use, and that he bas yet to see the | fad that did not do » good portion of the { people a great deal of good. He gave | as the three great fads { Nature Study, Physica! Culture and | Kindergardens. Nature study is a fad that is going to do the schools a great deal of good. It can be put the more important subjects, but to take the time when rest from these subjects Dr. Halley said that he | would rather see physical culture in the { schools than physiology. said to belittle any of the work of Miss { Lloyd or the importance of physiology is needed. | itself, but was intended to be a plea for ' a wide study of hygiene, body as the beginning of education. | ! | day it is born. It begins at once to get | impresdons from the outer | through the avenue of the five senses. Let the schooling of the child begin as | early as possible and the earlier the bet ter. While they seem vothing, they are gathering impressions in the greatest of all schools, the schoo! of experience. to Following Dr. Hully came a period of good live songs. Prof. Meyer surely bas the faculty of getting every teacher to | sing and it is an inspiration to hear 280 teachers enter with sou) ing of a good song explaining the method of reporting at lear that it is a question of honor and princiy the teachers into the sing- Supt. Gramley, in tendance this year made it ¢ ie with Dr. Parsons, before begining his sub. ject, A Leading Fact about the Human Organism,’’ explained the connection between this subject and the one preced ing it Dr. Parsons said that be is essen. tially spiritaalistic in bis belief in regard to the human mind. He stated as the that every stimulus that comes to this organization th rough what leading fact ever source, has its necessary reaction or response. It is a fapdamenta! fact of the nervous organization. He used various illustrations to show that every stimulus is followed by a reaction and that every impression is followed by its corresponding expression. It's ac, cepted as a fundamental fact in medi- cine that the body, in any wound strug. gles to restore itself to a normal condi. tion from an abnormal one. The pass ing by a saloon brings 10 one a stimuius. What shall be the corresponding reac. deep, tion? Upon this depends the forming of not be expected to treat the subject as a | 1a del i | Philadelphia. | college professor would treat it, but they | stimulus | could be expected to perform some of | | character. What is the educational valoe of this? That every | brought upon the child has its resulting | reaction Hence the importance of bringing proper stimuli to the child. Prof. J. 1. Woodruff, Dean of Susque- | banana Ualversity, talked upon the topic “Reading for Calture.”” He asked why we read, and answered his question by saying we read for influence, for repro. duction of what we read and for char acter building. Ta reply to his question when to read his answer was, now, and urged teachers to try to induce pupils to form habits of reading. In advising what to read he said it was safe to read any book that has stood the test of time. Such works as Shakespeare's or Milton's that have not lost thelr value in the lapse of years are the safe books to read. Miss Lloyd was the last speaker of the afternoon. Her subject “A cause of Degeneracy’’ was an arraignment of the tobacco habit. She quoted many laws and edicts of the olden times forbidding {the use of tobacco. She stated that {the "tobacco heart,” as the term is used, was found in a test made upon | young men enlisting for the war with Spain. Statistics show that college women today are better developed than were their grandmothers, but that college men are not as well developed as were their grandfathers. The cause of this degeneracy is said to rest with the use of tobacco among college students. Laws regulate the sale of tobacco to boysun. der sixteen because the use of it has been proven to be injurious. Miss Lloyd closed with giving three reasons why boys smoke. Thy smoke because they see some one smoking, after whom they in education, | into the | school program not to take the time of | This was not | : Education is | but the development of the nervous sys. | the Peunsylvania 8 int ; | tem, hence the importance of a healthy | sy vania State College, was in- | | In | | his argument for kindergardens he said | that the education of a child begins the | world | be learning | | gram was nicely varied and its variety | was one of the pleasing features | WEDNESDAY MORNING | Following the song period a ballot was | taken among the teachers for institute | officers for the coming year. Dr. Par- | son was the first instructor. His sub- {ject was, ‘Motives on Fducation.” | By his subject he means the different RECENT DEATHS | COMPILED | Brief Obituaries of Those Who Passed Away DURING PAST TWO WEEKS | kinds of reactions resulting from differ. | i {ent stimuli. Original reactions, as he | explained the term, are the foundation | The child inherent Among {of all subsequent reactions. brings into the world certain { tendencies to certain reaction, {these inherent tendencies, or origina! | reactions, be mentioned natural affec. tioa, human fear, and imitation. This isa part of his orgavism until his life ends. Atthe moment of a child's birth it bas manifestations of human fear. This tendency to fear lasts during all the life, hence the teacher appeals to this re- action, We never get rid of the tend. ence 10 imitate, hence this is one of the | origival Competition another original reaction. He illustrat tendencies. is ed this tendency, by the famous “Cre. | ceus” upon the race track. After singing, Prof. H. A. Surface, of | troduced by Supt. Gramley, Prof. Sar- face came to the institute to talk on nature study, and bis topic this morning Method of Nature After a practical definition, or | was "Object and Study." explanation of the term, he spoke of the | difference between nature study and | natural science. Nature study avoids the use of scientific terms and aims to | study nature as it affects us Natura] science gone into the mysteries of nature Prof. Sarface tid the simple experiments that may be per. formed in their own school room. These experiments he said will lead pupils to teachers of think for themselves and thus one of the eads of study will be gained. Above | everything else the study must be made practical, and made to be of some use the homes. Dr Robert Burns 0 Hulley followed in his talk upon His sketch of the life and | characteristics of Burns was interspersed with choice selections from bis poems | Beginning with the love affairs of Burns, Jr. Halley told of bis country, his faults and the personal history back of many of The whole was given in such a happy vein that the audience was kept constantly in a good bumor, Talks of the kind truly give ome author and bis works bis poems love for an WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON The session opened at 1:30 with the usual period of song. The life that is thrown into the singing of the institute reflects great credit upon the leader, Prof. Meyer, and the Centre county teachers. The courthouse was com- pletely filled when the session opened | and later there was not even standing {room left. Prof. Surface was the first | instructor. He continued his work om | Nature Study. He said teachers could | the simple experiments, since it could be done without cost and their laboratory | was right at hand. Prof. Surface claims | that these experiments may be perform. | ed by teacher or pupil, without any book | to guide, but from reading and observa. | tion. Pupils must be trained to observe | for themselves, for when they are | trained they are receiving the secret of | self education. Dr. Parsons filled the second period of the afternoon, and his subject continued the line of thought of all his former talks, He announced his subject a “Habit in Education,” as associated with mafural reactions, At his former talks, he de. fined habit in education as acgwired re. action, The child comes into the world with all his original reactions, such as his caprices and whims, and his training must make their reactions give way to acquired reactions. Education consists in giving proper reaction to the different sew stimull. Dr, Par. son says the old maxim "Learn to do by Doing,” only half states what is the truth. He states it, “learn to do by first thinking how to do and then doing.” Education has not reached its proper end until what it teaches has become habitual with us. Our lives are ruled by habit, With the formisg of habit must be considered the breaking out of habit, How are we going to break up habits when once fixed? Auy one who has once formed a bad habit knows how dif. ficult it is to break up this habit, First of all inaagurate a new habit under favorable conditions. Dr. Parson closed by giving some fine illustrations to show how firmly habits may become fixed, Dr. Halley in his afternoon talk, took his andience on a hurried jaunt through the life of Bagene Fields. By lilustra. tion from his poems, which the audience greatly enjoyed, he showed the humorous as well as the tender or pathetl: side of Field's character. Field is right! « called | From all Parts of the County and Ad- joining Counties— Other Deaths Will be Found in the Correspond- ence Department, CARPENTER DAVID :~died at the home of James Bechdle, near Eagleville early Friday morning, Dec. 19. He was aged upward of 850 years and death was doe to old age SAMUEL COWER :—a well dent of Port Matilda, typhoid Knowa resi. Christmas He leaves a wife died morning of fever thirty-one years oid and and two children, was Murs. MARGARET SANDERS .—wife of Jacob Sanders, died on the 11th ult, at her home near Coburn. The cause of her death was cancer. She was aged 65 years, 10 months and 10 days. Joserr DUNKLE (—aged 45 years died of typhoid fever on Wednesday morning, { 17, at his home in Mt. Eagle. He had | been sick about eight weeks and it was | He is sur- vived by awife and three children. thought he would recover. OMAR DEHAAS (—oldest son of Mrs. Susan J. DeHaas, and nephew of A. M DeHaas, residing about a mile and a half north of Eagleville, died Christmas morning after an illness of a few weeks, which terminated ia inflamation of the He was aged 22 years. EnGAr McCroskav:—died Tharsday, Dec. 18, at the Presbyterian Hospital, Philadelphia, of typhoid fever; age about bowels 27 years. For several years be was en. in Zeller's drug store, His bome was at was taken for gaged as a clerk at this place Lock Haven were the body in. terment FREDERICK HOUSER :—a we do died 23uit to farmer of near Houserville very He the Houser suddenly Tuesday morning his to saw shingles and sons had gone to Mr. stooped down as if to pick something up fell and one of woods he dead when His age was 78 years past MiSs MARGARET WANTZ widow of Want: , of dropsy, George died on Wednesday morming, 17 aged 75 years, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Alice Antis, at Walker, She is survived by ber daughter Alice, at whose home she died, and two sous, John and Austin, of Potter county Mrs T A. ArDELL died at her home in Julian, Friday morning, 1gult., of consumption. She had been a patient sufferer from this dread disease for nineteen years. She is survived by her { husband and the following children Mrs. T. V. Stevens acd Gordon, of Julian; Mrs, Dr. Mattern and Robert, of Interment at Dix Run. Mrs Susan P. LARIMER Died at her home in Raymond, Neb., on the gth of December, after a severe illness of six months. Her maiden name was Susan P. Lee. She was born in Centre county, in 1829, and was married to M. A. Larimer in 1858. The busband, ;3 sous and one daughter survive her, Le. ander, of Raymond, Neb., John, of Grozs Valley, Cal.; Charles, of Lincoln, Neb.; and Mrs. Kate Bowman, of Lin- coln, Neb. In the spring of 1877 she, with ber family, came to Raymond, Neb. Mas. Eve SuArrEr Suorg :—wife of Barnabas Shope, died at her home near Roland, Sanday morsing, 21ult, of dropsy. Deceased was born near Belle. fonte and would have been 79 years old on the Sth of next May. Surviving her are the following children : Mrs. Henry Shultz, Roland; Jas. E. Shope, Confla- ence, Somerset county; Mrs. George Reeder, Johusonburg, Mrs. Rlizabeth Bubb, Homer, Nebraska, Mrs. Mary ¥, Neff, Mt. Eagle; Constance C., of Minne: IL. at home, cemetery. Mrs, WILLIAM J. SINGER. died Sun. day afternoon 21st of typhoid fever from which she bad been suffering for several weeks. Deceased, whose maiden name was Edoa Clark Trafford, was a daugh. ter of John and Mary Trafford and was born at Alexandria, Pa., 34 years ago on the gth of last March. She was married to William J. Singer at Howard, Pa., on the 20th of November, 18g0. Two child. Interment at Curtin’s ‘Continued on fourth page. 5 ¥ sota; W. Reynolds, Bellefonte, Thomas | NO FACT, FUN AND FANCY. VOL. 2s. I. Bright Sparkling Paragraphs—Select- ed and Original, IS THIS CORRECT ASp m., while pa and ma Helped entertain, with sis Both John and Mary in distant seats Were far apart like this AL Bp And sought his room upstairs Wm. as papa withdrew The lovers found some photographs And hearer brought thelr chairs At 10D. m., mamma decamped Ye goas what bliss The lovers sat til) near Aboutaseloseasthis y one - THE RICHEST MAN The wealthiest man of all | know Does not possess much gold Nor does he owe a large est Nor na. ate eWwWelry unis Nor great Invention has he 1 Nor glory gained, nor fame By deeds herole ade and he wears No handle to his name Nor yet enjoys that precious gift The very best of health For that may disappear with i Eternal in his wenith years No thief can steal bis valued prize It les within the man A great discovery he has made The greatest mortal can He sees two sides to everything Bul casts the aark AWAY, And looks upon That shines as clear as day he brighter side For al If only we wil through life toe bright Is not his health The greatest t The skater should be handy with his eel. looking glasses are flat, but pever days will be growiag longer Some women like blonde fair but false The only and a chef is about $100 The girl with a aware of her scenter of are Wigs ~~ difference between a cook preity nose is quite attraction The doctor and the brewer should be good friends, for the brewer makes other people ale The trouble with the off bhalf-cocked peopie who Eo § that they come back again, worse luck - ANOTHER LUMBER JOB FINISHED The Kalp lumber operation iu the Seven mountains, in the Meadows sec. tion, bas been abandoned for want of timber to operate upon, the great tract owned by the Kulp's having been ex bausted Twentytwo head of horses and other equipments have been remov. ed eisewhere. This leaves but one lumb. er operation in the Seven Mountain region unfinished, that of the Reichly Brothers, who will require some eight years to finish up their operation. The Linden Hall Lumber Co. will not get through with their operation in less than eight years, when the last of the big firms, that have been lumbering for | many years in that part of the county, | will be no more, and our majestic pines, | sturdy oaks, stately hemlocks, and other monarchs of the forests, will be | seen no more to enlist man’s admiration. Woodman spare that tree,” did not cut as deep as the cruel axe swung by the arms of the merciless chopper. Some time ago ibe forestry commission examined the property of the Kulp Lamb er Co. and made an offer for the proper. ty, which comprises some 12,000 acres of land tn Mifflin and Huntingdon counties, and the offer has been accepted. The railroad and mills connected with the | operation will be sold and the stock and other equipments will be taken to Lewis. burg where new branches are being con. structed, so that the trade of the firm will be supplied without any trouble or | delay. The land sold to the forestry de. | partment still has a great deal of timb. | er and there are estimated to be between | 5,000 and 6,000 car loads of prop timber | remainimg on the property which means a great reduction in the supply of avail. | able prop timber, | we | | Married Women Clerks. | Women who marry can no longer | serve the government in the post office department. This ruling was made by Postmaster General Payve last week and was effective after the first of De. cember. The postmaster is not averse to marriage, but he thinks a woman who takes a husband should make the hus. band support her and give her place to some unmarried woman or to a man with a vote, the latter preferred. Mr. Payne does not make this declaration in so many words, but in effect that is what he
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