Punxsutawney Spirit, 1904-07-06

              Jr. « iRil * ■« NO. 6. VOL XXXII. JUV CLEARANCE SALE Hiiving rented tin- additional store room formerly occupied by Sprnnkle and Elwuod, our stock must Ik- greatly reduced.WEBERS AT GENUINE BARGAINS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT 100 men's suits eo at £ off the former price. We placed these suits on a separate table, take your pick, and deduct £ and hand us the balance. tt SWEEPING REDUCRIONS IN BOYS' CEOTHING it Men's $15 12 " 10 9 6 suits now $10 " " 8 6.67 6 4 $20.00 Suits for $15 18.00 Suits for 12 15.00 Suits for 10 12.00 Suits for 8 10.00 Suits for 7 7.50 Suits for 5 Men's Men's Men's Men's Men's Men's J. A. WEBER There are no fake prices. Our reputation would not allow us to advertize anything in the fake line. 4.00 3.00 2.50 2.25 $6.00 suits now $5.00 5.00 4.00 3.50 3.00 This sale includes every boy's short pants suit in the store, none reserved. Norfolk, double breasted, single breasted, 3-pitce suits and Buster Brown. The One Price GlotHler PUNX9UTAWNEY, PA 2 CARS COMIMj IN THIS WEEK SPECIAL NOJg / A beautiful lace (rimmed Waist worth d*| C $1.75 for • • • " * priceless to-morrow. Naturalness in pose Clean Work One car is coming fiom Florida with Potatoes, Tomatoes, Cantaloupes and Water Melons. The other is coming from North Carolina with Cabbage, Potatoes and Cucumbers. We also have Water Melons, Tomatoes, Cucumbers and Onions in stock now. 200 bunches of bananas coming in this week. $3.00 Ladies' Lawn Waist with lace yoke and lace trimmed C bertha at - - GIVE US A CALL AND GET GOOD SERVICE tM N. Flndkj St., V ■ j ,( JUDGE RBKD'S ADDRRMg. IMIvpiwI at thta I'lare liiiM \V«'k Ih-furr Ihf Jefferson County School Director*' Convention. Remodeling Sale Men's and Boys' High Grade Clothing Note These Special Prices To 5TH THIS SALE COM V1EINCES TUESDAY, JULY, And will positively close July 23 Make Room for the Carpenters Every Suit of Clothes in the house reduc«*«1. Men's and Boys' Furnisher FARMERS' NAT'N'L BANK B'D'O H. J. LOEB half j rice Grenter reduction on small lots. Odd and end suits at just THE PITTSBURGH DRY GOODS CO, Are the Children Growing LONG BROTHERS Afftli their six bought hundreds of dollars worth of the finest merchandise at 25 to 50 PER CENT. LESS than COSt and now we are offering these goods to our customers at the same low prices. Seeing tit to stand the loss, and make a sale of a million dollars worth ot fine merchandise, which was all due to the wet asd backward season of the year and pictures of them to-day may be They are children but once remember postpone having them | photographed. Constantly changing, and yet you New riounts, are some of reasons we are kept busy We can give you the best prices on trunks, grips and suitcases. Good suitcase for ONE DOLLAR. See new stock before you buy. Kodaks and Supplies E. T. White, Picture Framing 131 Mahoning St., PtINXSUTAWNEY, PA. ROSA MAMBUCA Begins Next Week WATCH Clearing-up Sale 1—C I. I H I INJ LONG PUNXSUTAWNEY, BROTHERS PENN'A A manufacturer of decorated lamps that needed money and business being slow made us a concession of 25 per cent. less than their prices. #»»r this reason we bought as fine a line as has been shown in riiiS-city. Realizing that this is not the best season for lamps the customer gets the same concession. Sale starts Friday, June 24th. Now is the time and this is the place to buy your stock of muslin underwear, knit underwear, muslins, calicoes, etc. CHINA DEPARTMENT SALE OF FACTORY LAMPS [Continued on page 8, column 1] they live. I' would rather pay for nervous energy, for spirit, vigor, a lovely personality and enthusiasm in a teacher than for scholarship. I do not mean to underestimate the value of the latter, hut of the two I deem the former the most Important. The moulding of character is the greatest work assumed by the state, and the common school system is the agency adopted for Its execution. We know that home training may be altogether neglected anil at best is not uniform. It is liiis neglect an.l this inequality which the state aims in some measure to correct. The various school hoards are its agenls for seeing that the work is properly [done, and these annual directors meetings are designed to be helpful In that direction. The importance of an office is not determined by the salary or emoluments attached to it. If It were, that of school director might he treated as one of little significance. But we all know that its duties are manifold and of the highest importance to the people served. It calls for many personal sacrifices on the part of the one who Alls It and frequently brings down upon his un- I offending head the wrath of the very people whom he Is serving best. It ( requires courage, patience and tact to All the office acceptably to the state. But over and above this it requires a disposition on the part of each director to make his school a model school regardless of cost; one that can be refered to with pride, ; and one that Is fulfilling its mission In bringing the desired results in the 1 district where it Is located. It therefore follows that the director must not only have a high anil exalted Idea of the work entrusted to him, but he hay cast upon him the burden of edu- j eating his constituents up to his own ' views or Ideas of what constitutes an i efficient school. He must be a pro- { gressive man, a leader among men, in short he must be the leven which is to leven the lump—the whole cotftmunity-—on tne school question anil I bring it up to tne proper standard for i doing effective school work. My friends you may never be paid in dollars and cents for the- work that you do; you may not even so much as receive that honor and praise in the Held of your labor which you so richly deserve, but you can take courage in the thought that you are engaged In an enduring work whose Influence for good may circle the globe and at last give you a greeting and welcome more sweet and precious than the praises of men. I do not have at hand statistics to verify the statement, but I make it with full confidence in Its accuracy, that all other things being equal the schools of Jefferson county compare most favorably with the schools throughout the state. Without detracting from the credit which Is o.ie to the members of the school boards ill the several districts of the county for this very satisfactory condition of our schools, I think I may say that we owe much to the very efficient work of our worthy County Superintendent. I have had good opportunities for knowing that the one consuming thought of his life Is how he can Improve the schools of Jefferson county and make them second to none In the state. Especially qualified and equipped for the work, and driven by a nervous energy that never seems to exhaust itself. he has not only gained for himsilf but maintains his position among the leading educators of the state. These are not fulsome words of praise, lint a poorly expressed tribute to the worth of a very valuable and growing matt in school work. Ills work has spoken for him beyond the limits of Jefferson county, and I trust I am not betraying any secrets in saying that I happen to know tlijjt he has turned down some very lettering propositions for his services in other fields of labor because of his loyalty to the work which he has In hand and because of his desire to bring It to that perfection at which he is aiming. With such a competent, energetic and loyal leader we ought, and we most assuredly are making progress with our schools. But the County-Superintendent can not <lo it ail. A general may plan a battle, but he cannot fight and win It without soldiers. Next to the Superintendent stands the directors, and without your hearty co-operation and assistance his work will necessarily drag. Sometimes the director gets an idea In his head that his chief duty to the citizen is to economize and to reduce the mlllage levied for school taxes In his district. Let me say to you there Is no economy in buying a second class article in the most trivial matter, and I am fully persuaded that a poorly equipped and poorly conducted school is worse than the waste of the money expended on It. You not only lose the money expended on it but you lose the material on which the money is spent. If the public school is to fulfill its mission; if it is to answer the purpose of its iustltutlou we must not only spend the monej on it necessary to make it effective, but we must Interest Its patrons In It. We must make It the pride of the community and the hand-maid of good citizenship. We must make it the place whore tlio inequalities of character are adjusted; where the life of the youth Is turned into the channels of a useful nnd helpful life; the place where the evil tendencies of the child are corrected and where the good Is touched by the hand of divine Inspiration and is made to unfold Itself in a life of happy contentment In doing God's will. We are told that character Is the one thing that endures the ravages of time; that when this earthly tabernacle shall have been dissolved character will still remain and shall be our passport Into those far countries towards which we are all traveling. If this is true, and I do not doubt it. It Is a common saying that the common school system is at once the strength and prldeof our country. This has the ring of patriotism; it excites pride in the individual and makes him throw out his chest, and while its resonant tones are sounding In their ears he Is disposed to assune superior airs and manners. Hut after all tills saving is a mere platitude; a meaningless jumble of words unless it can be vitalized and made a living truth by the efforts of those who are the especial custodians of the system. A public school may be made a thing of joy and beauty in the community where It Is located ; . It may be made a blessing and an up lift In the life of every Individual living within the radius of its influence; it may be made to shed a fragrance sweeter thin the rose and and to yield returns more precious than the ripening crips of the field, or it may be a mere burden endured because the law has fastened it upon the community. Whether it shall be the one or the other depends largely upon the extent its patrons can be Interested In working the plant for profitable returns. If you make a business investment, you keep an eye on the management of the enterprise in which your money Is invested. If no dividends are declared you either revise the management or withdraw your investment. If the schools In your district are not yielding. public benefits, then there is something wrong with the management and your money Invested in them Is being squandered. A business enterprise of any kind to be successful must In the first place be properly equipped for c'olng the work and In the second place it must be properly managed. It is desirable at the outset to have a proper conception of at least tin." chief object of a public school. It is not that those who desire may have the facilities for obtaining an ordinary or practical education. If this were the chief object, then most any kind of a building, regardless of Its surroundings, and a teacher versed In book learning would answer the purpose. We might cite many historical characters to prove that their opportunities for acquiring an educational start were inferior to those just suggested, and yet they became both learned and famous. Sitfh men will succeed in the face of obstacles more discouraging than a poorly equipped school and a blundering teacher. They are the gems of the Republic, and are bound to shine even through the rubbish of the most adverse conditions. They would be beaconlights In the Nation's history If the public school did not exist. Therefore the chief object of the public school is not to give such men an opportunity to develop, or even to give it unto lesser lights wh'o are ambitious to leave the world a little better than they found it To my mind the chief function of the public school Is to raise to the level of good citizenship every child In the conmunlty who otherwise would not attain to that level. 1 need not pause to define to you what constitutes good citizenship, hut If It Is expected to be reaped In the after life of the child the elements entering Into It must be matured and cultivated In the child life. Let nie tell you a few things that cannot be done. You cannot teach the beauty and profitableness of a neat • and well kept farm, with painted buildings and pleasant surroundings, by an old. tumbled-down, marred and disfigured school building, surrounded by grounds littered with rubbish and debris of all kinds; you cannot teach the conveniences and comforts of a pleasant home by bare walls and a scant or Imperfect furnlshment of the school room; you cannot teach neatness in personal attire by a teacher in slovenly dress; you cannot teach the strength and beauty of the English language by a teacher who never uses It except when reading from a text book; you cannot teach the value of a pure and chaste life by a teacher who does not live that kind of a life; you cannot inspire a child to make a man or a woman of himself or herself who will be honored and respected in life, unless that Is the consuming ambition of your own life. These are a few of the things that cannot be done, and they enter into the training of the child for useful olttienship. The school building, the school grounds, the equipment of the school in every respect for effectuating its highest purpose should be made educational to that end; and then the teacher should be employed, not so much for scholarship as for his or her ability to make lasting impressions upon the scholars for their own good and for the good of the comunlty In which Mr. Chairman and members of the various school boards of Jefferson county, ladies and gentlemen: It gives me great pleasure to meet with you On this occasion, and to express my appreciation of the Interest which your presence manifests. It augurs well for the common school system when men of business and of manifold duties on the farm, in the work-shop, behind the counter and In the office are willing to make the personal sacrifice necessary to attend a meeting of this kind. I congratulate you on possessing the proper spirit and the sense of responsibility which have brought you here today for the public good. We have assembled on this occasion for the purpose of Instructng and being Instructed In the greatest work committed! to man. Unfortunately the masses are Indlffeietit to the work and thus the burden of carrying it on successfully rests more heavily upon the few. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., JULY 6, 1004. m 4 Spirit.