SCHOOLJROUNOS
How the Girls and Boys
Would Arrange Them.
GREAT HINTS FROM LITTLE FOLKS
THE SCHOOL CODE
county appointed by the state superin
tendent, and the examinations will be
such aa to test the merits of each ap
SUGGESTIVE QUESTlSliG
On the Sunday School Lesson by
Rev. Dr. Llnscott For the In
ternational Newspaper Blblo
Study Club.
TORIA
plicant.
How It Will Affect Wayne
MAIL ORDER
County Districts.
Suggestions by the Children as to
the Kcst Way to Make Them
Attractive Competitive
Articles. ,
ALICE N. 8LUMAN.
I shall make a few suggestions regard
ing Hie new school grounds. I think it
would be nice to have grass planted all
around, also a concrete walk, which is
better than nny other kind, as it always
is clean and looks nicer. There is noth
ing more beautiful than flowers growing
along the sides of the walk ; also around
tin building, and a round circle In the
middle! of the lawn on each fide of the
walk. An ivy vine climbing up the wall
would look very beautiful. If there Is
going to be any play ground, which I
think there ought to be, it should be In
back of the building. In fronton each
Ride should be nice maple trees with a
bench under each to sit down on when
one is tired. These kind of (lowers
would be nice growing along the sides
of the walk : dwarf nasturtiums that do
not climb, geraniums, china pinks, and
other beautiful (lowers. A fountain in
the renter of the lawn with all different
kinds of stones around it ; also some
flowers around it, would improve the
ground. I think after the old buildings
are torn down and all improvement's on
and around it finished, it will be beauti
ful. CIIA1U.ES hwekxky.
I think the new school house grounds
will look very nice when the old build
ing is torn down. I think a lawn should
be made in front of the school building
with gravel walks and flowers planted
along- the side of the walks. And
think it would be nice to plant ivy be
tween the brick building and the new
school house building. I think the nicest
place for a play ground would be south
of the building, and along the northeast
aide. I think it would be well if there
were flower urns on each side of the
stens at the Church and Court street
entrances, and if trees were planted on
the front and through the playground,
I think the gravel walks would be the
best because they would not have to be
swept off so much, and the reason
think trees would be nice in the play
ground is because on a hot day it would
be nice and shady.
MAIIKI. HECK.
As the sshool house has a large yard
in front I think a nice lawn would look
nice, with concrete walks. On each
side of the lawn a round flower bed with
low flowers; also around the edge of the
walks, low flowers ; around the bottom
of the building a flower bed with low
flowers ; ivy vines growing up the back
and side of the building and some lilac
trees in front on each side of the lawn
If we are to have a playground, I think
in back would be the place for it, if not
in the rear some trees and benches on
one side and on the other (lower beds,
each one owned by one grade. Every
day the grades could take care of their
own flower beds and water them. In
front, around the lilac bushes, benches
could be placed ; also some other low
trees in front and benches around them.
On each side of the entrance, two large
urns, filled with ferns and red flowers
MONEY-MAKERS NOT AL
WAYS INTELLIGENT.
People are very apt to imagine that
a man 'vho has acquired wealth must
be a particularly intelligent man,
whoso advice It would be safe to fol
low on almost any question, but as a
matter of fact there Is probably more
practical common sense to be found
among those who have to work hard
and Uvo from hand to mouth than
among those who have plenty of
money ana nothing to do; for the
workers have more conscious need of
wisdom and give more thought to the
practical problems of life.
Fow persona seem to be aware of
the fact that the human brain is not
a simple but a complex instrument.
It possesses many different faculties,
but not by any means In the same
proportions or In the same relations
to each other In all individuals.
The faculty for acquiring wealth la
r very convenient one, which most of
ua would like to possess in some
measure at least, but it Is far from
being ono of the noblest of man's
faculties, and does not Indicate great
ness of any kind,' although it not un
commonly enables- the man who pos
sesaes .t to attain to much promi
nence and perhapa to political aa
social power.
That Stitch In Time.
Remember the truth of the old
saying, "A stitch In time eaves nine,"
and mend any worn places or torn
parti in all garments before sending
them to the laundry, and the time
added to the life of the garments
will more than repay you. What la
only a small hole In a garment be
fore it Is sent to the laundry often
times v-cl! o a fair-sized rent when
It returns.
TEXAS ALONE IN THIRD CLASS.
How Directors arc to be elected
Regulations as to School Build
ingsWho may not teach
No Graft In Text Books.
Governor Stuart is busily at work ex
amining and disposing of the many bills
passed by the last Legislature cither tv
anDrovinc or vetoing them. What will
be the fate of the new school codo can
not as yet be safely predicted, although
it is .the general impression that it will
be signed. It isa very lengthy act, many
of its provisions relating to cities nnd
large towns, and not applicable to diH
trictH with leas than three thousand pop
ulation. This cuts out all of Wayne
coitntv with the exception of Texas,
which, by the cenpus of 11)01), had a
population of about 4,000. The census
of next vear will without doubt put
Ilonesdali! in the third class, but at
present. In common with all the other
districts in the county, it is in the fourth.
It is quite possible that Hawley, also,
will bu advanced a step when the en
umeration is taken in 1910.
In fourth class districts the number
of directors is (ixed at five. In each
district live directors will bo chosen
next February, one foroneyear, one for
two years, one for three years, one for
four years, and one for five years, and
one shall be elected every year thereaf
ter for a term of five years. If a bor
ough is in the fourth class of school dis
tricts and has five wards, each ward
will be entitled to one director, but there
are no Ave-ward boroughs inLackawan
na, Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wayne,
Monroe, Pike or Wyoming counties.
The county superintendent's salary
shall be not less than fifteen hundred
dollars nor more than two thousand
dollars a year, but the directors at the
convention electing a superintendent
can make the salary more than two
thousand and then it comes out of the
state appropriation pro rata according
to the districts.
In all the schools every door that
opens inward must be changed before
school opens next September, and all
buildings must have fire escapes if they
are more than one story All hereafter
built that are more ;than two stories
must be firepro6f, and the plans must
first be approved by the state board.
Every room must be not less than fif
teen feet square, and the light from the
windows must not enter against the
faces of the nunils seated. No more
pupils will be permitted in any room
than will be afforded two hundred cubic
feet of air space each, and all rooms
recitation or otherwise, must be arrang
ed with windows or other ventilating
apparatus capable of furnishing thirty
cubic feet of fresh air .per minute per
pupil.
No pupil shall be permitted to attend
school who has tuberculosis, nor shall
any person be employed as teacher or
janitor who has such disease.
Where stoves are used for beating the
same must be incased in galvanized iron
sheaths or other suitable material, and
the mean temperature of every room must
be kept at seventy degrees Fahrenheit, the
coldest day.
For defacing the walls, or other parts
of buildings a penalty is prescribed, and
any one caught writing poetry of an
obscene nature in or around a school
building or grounds is liable to six
months in the county jail.
Text books cannot bo changed oftener
than every five years, and every dealer
or publisher of text books must first
submit a sample of ,his products to the
state board together with a list of prices
they will furnish them in any district in
the state for five years.
The board of any district is empower
ed to seize land under the right of emi
nent domain, where it cannot agree on
satisfactory terms with the owner, when
the land is needed for school buildings.
The court appoints viewers to assess the
damages.
No board can appoint the father,
mother, brother, sister, wife, son, daugh
ter, step-son, step-daughter, brother-in-law,
sister-in-law, grandchild, niece,
nephew, uncle, aunt, or even first cous
in, or husband, as women can hold
office as director, to the position of
teacher unless three-fourths of all the
members of the board shall vote for his
or her appointment.
No teacher, superintendent, director,
appointee or employe of any board
shall have any interest, financial or
otherwise, in any contract for supplies
or books for the district in which ho or
Bhe is engaged, and violation is punish
ed with not less than thirty days nor
more than one year in jail. Promise to
pay or payment of a sum for appoint
ment as teacher, employe, appointee or
superintendent, is inflicted with a fine
and imprisonment not to exceed one
year. .
No boy or girl need to think of en
gaging as a teacher hereafter, unless be
or she feels that after five years either of
tbem can take a state examination for
permanent certificate. This examina
tion is conducted by a board in every
How Home Merchants are
Hurt by Them.
GOOD HINTS TO LOCAL DEALERS
What Practical Men Suggest as
to the Best Means for Over
coming their ItuinouB In
fluence on the Country
Trade.
We hear much complaint to-day of
the curse of the mail order evil and the
menace that these great' retail institu
tions arc rapidly becoming to the small
retailers of tho country. Wo hear on all
sides the lameutntions of the retail mer
chant and bis appeal for protection from
this great retail octopus, whose tentacles
have penetrated every hamlet and every
bomu in every country upon every rural
route throughout the country. The pic
ture of this great evil has not been over
drawn, nor has the danger been over
estimated. The menace of the mail order
house to the small retailer is present,
and exists to an alarming degree.
It may well be said that this is a great
evil; that it does exist and that it is here
to remain permanently.
There is no escape by legislation.
There is no such thing as relief through
public sentiment. It is now a clean cut
issue between the mail order house and
the retail merchant for the business of
every community. The result will bo
determined by the future, and it is but
a question of the survival of the fittest.
It may well be said that there is nothing
left for the merchant but to fight for his
existence, and there is but one weapon
with which to fight. The old adage of
"fighting the devil with Are" is very ap
plicable in this case. The mail order
houses of this country are a living ex
ample of the value of retail advertising,
They have built their business from a
small foundation into the enormous con
cerns that they have now become, largely
through the judicious and extravagant
use of printer's ink. They have placed
a catalogue of prices in the home of
nearly every farmer upon every rural
route in the country.
If the retail merchant in a country
town would place himself upon an equal
ity with these larger concerns he must
convince the people that his store can
serve them be?t; he must place his ad
vertising in those homes also, so that the
things which he has to sell and the prices
that he gets for them may be compared
with the prices of the mail order house.
A very prominent merchant says :
"I am a firm believer in' the generous
use of printer's ink. I attribute to a very
large degree what little success I have
made in business largely to two things
first, effective advertising, that brought
people to in v store, and, second, the
fact that 1 delivered the goods when they
came, according to tne advertisement,
" There has not been a year m the
past thirteen years that the volume of
mv sales has not shown a considerable
and substantial increase over the year
previous. I have frequently thought
tnat my business was a sort ot mush
room business in other words, it has
grown out of proportion to my surround
ings. It is a sort of high pressure busi
ness. That is to say that through strong
advertising and keeping continually at
it i nave got to a point where advertis
ing has become an absolute necessity to
keen it at' that point. I am firmly con
vinced of this, and I believe that my
advertising is directly responsible for the
size of the business, and I thoroughly
believe that if I should discontinue ad
vertising for n single year my business
would decrease 30 to 4U per cent, m vol
ume." A WORD OF
DEFENSE.
"Carmen oylvia." Roumanla's liter
ary Queen, has something to say
worth noting on the patience of the
husband so much maligned where
feminine heads get together. "A
standing complaint among women,"
she says, "Is that husbands have no
appetite, that they are taciturn or sar
castic In their society. If men com
pelled their wives to swallow the very
bad lndigestlbles some men are treat
ed to, and also ho lllnatured remarks,
scoldings, complaints and assurances
of contempt my sisters are In the
habit of spouting forth at meal-time
the number of female dyspeptics
would be vastly larger than It is now."
FIVE KINDS OF
NOVELS.
Clement Shorter, the English critic
finds five kinds of successful novels:
First, the novel of genius; secondly,
the work ot the skillful manufacturer
from history; thirdly, the novel of in
decency; fourthly, the novel of bjgo
try, which plays upon the prejudices
of the reilgous public; fifthly, the
novel of commonplace reflection and
cheap claptrap conversation. In Amer
ica, at least, wo know a sixth kind:
novel which, born, not of -history, geni
us, blgqtry or any debatable thing, has
a season's success as little explainable
as a spo radio caje of measles.
The only kind of ethical passion
that greatly benefits the public
that which expends itself at first hand
In the rlcbt conduct of the individual
moved by it, and in the inspiration of
those who coma immediately within
to sphere of his Influence.
(Copyright, 11)03, by Hev. T. S. Limcott, D.D.)
THE PRIZES.
First Series A gold medal to each
of the first five contestants.
Second Series A stiver medal to
each of the next five contestants.
Third Series A Teacher's Bible,
price $5.50, to each of the next five
contestants.
Fourth Series The book "The Heart
of Christianity," price $1.50, to each of
the next thirty-five contestants.
Fifth Series A developed mind, an
expanded Imagination, a richer exper
ience and a more profound knowledge
of the Bible and of life, to all who take
this course whether winning any other
prize or not.
Each medal will be suitably engrav
ed, giving the name of the winner, and
for what It Is awarded, and In l.kc
manner each Bible and book will be
Inscribed.
All who can write, and have Ideas,
are urged to take up these studies re
gardless of the degree of their educa
tion, as the papers are not valued from
an educational or literary standpoint,
but from the point of view of the cog
ency of their reabuned Ideas.
May 2nd, 1909.
(Copyrlsht, 1008, by Rev. T. S. Linscott, D.D.)
Paul's First Missionary Journey.
Cyprus. Acts xlll:l-12.
Golden Text Go ye into all the
world, and preach the gospel to every
creature. Mark 16:15.
Verse 1 Where was Antioch?
What constituted a Christian church
then, and now?
What was the difference between
prophets and teachers?
Verse 2 What is meant by "minis
tered to the Lord?"
What mental, physical or spiritual
benefits are there derived from fast
ing? How long should a person abstain
from food, In order to constitute a
Christian fast?
What right has the present day
Protestant church to discontinue the
practice of fasting?
When would the ears of a company
of godly men, be most sensitive to t
voice of God, during a feast or a fast?
Was there any connection between
their ministering and fasting, and the
Holy Spirit speaking to them?
Is the Holy Spirit apt to speak to
those who are not Intensely engaged
in the cause of God?
What Is necessary in order to cul
tivate an ear for the voice of God?
Should we all be "called" of God. be
fore undertaking any kind of work?
Verse 3 Ought the church today to
send out missionaries to new districts,
and to heathen countrios?
If It Is the duty of the church to
send out missionaries, is It, or not,
the duty of every person, whether a
member of the church or not, to help
support them? (This question must
be answered in writing by members
of the club.)
Why did they fast and pray, before
sending Paul and Barnabas on their
mission?
Would It be a help to each local
church today, to fast and pray before
each missionary meeting?
Do you think the women took part
In this service, and whether or not,
what reason is there to debar women
from any of the church's work?
Verse 4 Is it possible or practical,
to be guided In every journey we
take, and In all else by the Holy
Spirit?
Should a pastor ever take charge of
a new church, without being directed
to do so, by the Holy Spirit?
Please point out on the map, In
your Bible, where Seleucla, Salamls
and Cyprus are situated. .
Were they consciously, or uncon
sciously, directed by God the Holy
Spirit, all along their Journey?
Verse 5 Should men and women
In the ordinary walks of life, be as
faithful in preaching the gospel, or
testifying1 for Jesus, wherever they
may be, as Paul and Barnabas were?
Verse 6 How many places men
tioned In this lesson, are situated on
the Island of Cyprus? (See your map.)
What motives had likely Induced
this man Elymos, to claim to be a pro-
phot?
Verses 7-8. How do you account for
a man being so bod, as to try to pre
vont another man from serving the
true God?
Verses 9-12. Are good men justified
in rebuking bad men with vehemence,
when they would stop a work of love
and mercy?
Is it possible for a bad man to es
cape the just penalty of his Bins?
Lesson for Sunday, May 9th, 1909
Paul's First Missionary Journey,
Antioch in Flsldla. Acts xlll: 13-62.
Ho (reading) "Of love that never
found his earthly close"
She (Interrupting) Isn't Tennyson
just great? You can always learn
something from him. Now I under
stand why it is that Cupid is always
represented without any. But please
go on! Brooklyn Life.
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see why. What does your papa do?
Little Nell He's a veterinary surgeon)
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