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CO OPERATION OF PARENTS child lie regular and punctual at school.
gaged in reciting lessons, provision is cause them to bless tuy memory, by
| Among tile evils that mav be con­ made for their spending time in study guarding them against my mistakes and
AND TEACHERS.
nected with a school, there are none and other suitable ways, so that there by giving them better advantages than
To the Patrons of the Public (greater
than that of irregular atten is no idle time and there are no profit­ I had, and I am so determined.
Schools of Tillamook County.
G. A. W alker .
dance. The effects of this evil are not less hours. Teachers feel unwilling for
Bay City, Ore.
Parents are more largely responsible | only felt by the school as a whole, but these and other reasons, to grant excuses
for
lateness,
or
to
consent
to
early
dis
­
they
extend,
in
a
still
greater
degree,
to
for the education of their own children
Personal and Otherwise.
than are professional teachers, the com­ the individual pupil. Much of the irregu- missal,and beg that parents will not make
such
applications
except
in
cases
of
im­
I
lar
attendance
in
our
schools
is
caused
munity at large, or the state. To give
Never mind the vagaries of the ther­
perative necessity.
to every child a physical, intellectual, ; by a misunderstanding of its effects;
mometer. It will climb down soon.
and moral education is a duty imposed through an indifferent view of the re­ If it is desirable that a pupil should
Among its other qualifications as a
on every parent. If for convenience or sults. Parents are often to blame for the take private lessons in special studies summer resort, New York is now filled
for the sake of getting better results we backwardness of their children in school, from other teachers, or assist in any with mosquitoes.
delegate any part of this work to others, and it is not to be wondered at that home work, a very little contrivance
Mr. Jeffries’ gray matter is sound. He
if we commit the child to the keeping of pupils sometimes fail to retain their will, in most cases, secure hours for these offered no objections to the retirement
places in class. Experience shows that purposes, other than the regular school
nurses, and to the curative art of phy­
of Mr. Fitzsimmons.
most of the “demoting'* in school is hours.
sicians, his intellect to the guidance of
caused bv irregular attendance. The
Li Hung Chang is not talking for pub­
I
believe
that
the
best
interests
of
the
teachers, and his soul to the tuition of
pupil who is absent a day h-re and a children are secured, and their future use- lication. He is on the premises merely
Sabbath school instructors and pastors,
day there, has lost a link in the chain of i fulness advanced, by having them feel as a guarantee of good faith.
we may thus delegate the work—we can­
reasoning that must be continuous from that in connecting themselves with the
Mr. Fitzsimmons retires to private
not delegate the responsibility. We
lesson to lesson; he is conscious of weak school, they enter upon the preparation life with the sweet consciousness of hav­
shall be held responsible for the educa­
places in his recitations. The loss of of themselves for the real work of life, ing left his imprint on the strenuous pro­
tion our children receive, whatever may
one ortwo recitations might be remedied, that for the time being it is as real as fession.
be onr agents in giving it. The teachers
to a certain extent, by extra exertions anything can be in the future, and that
Commissioner Peck shows delicate
are responsible to us, we to posterity.
on the part of the pupil; and vet he is | therefore they should cultivate habits of respect for the constitution by putting
Parents being always responsible for
lower. He loses the enthusiasm that a i promptness, patience, and fidelity. But away the Legion of Honor medal until
their children's education, must always
class gives him from not being present i a pupil who is taken out of school to at- he retires from office.
watch and superintend it. When we
[ to recite with them. In almost all ' tend entertainments, to perform some
The Honolulu Republican is joyfully
send our clnldren to school, we do not
classes there are new thoughts and ideas , household task which might be attended munching the first sweets of journalism
and cannot, as some think, transfer to
developed in every recitation. He loses Ito at some other time, or to gratify —a large, juicy libel suit. Evidently the
others all the care and responsibility of
these. The pupil who is absent several | some caprice, is apt to conclude that his Republican is there to stay.
their education. Unless we send with
days in a month, losing a number of school-work is of but little importance,
The medicine administered to the rail­
them our watchful solicitude, wrapping
recitations, becomes hopelessly dis­ I and he thus grows up without that road holdups at Goodland, Kan., did
them about as a protection against evil
couraged eventually, unless he be of an | painstaking earnestness and sincerity not have a deterrent effect. Still a con­
influences, and attracting to them all exceptionally hopeful disposition. Soon which have so much to do with success
possible influences for good, we are un­ all is darkness and blank. He does not in whatever may be his calling in the stant repetition of the dose will prove
natural and recreant parents; and it is I see why “this is so'* or ‘'that is so.’* future. Our schools are to be regarded effective in time.
Russia note on Chinese affairs touches
more than likely that in future years, the What is to be done? The teacher can­ not simply as agencies for gaining in
burden of duty which we would not bear not take the time of the whole class to formation in a few branches of study, a chord in the United States. So did the
when our children were subject to us, clear the pupil’s mind of this seemingly but as helps for the training of charac­ Russian note sent to New York harbor
during the dark days of the civil war.
will come back a heavy,load of unavail­ mysterious subject. The good of the ter.
ing sorrow, and will sit and brood on majority is the object for which the
Remember, parents, that every un­ Twenty-five hundred members of the
our hearts, when their ignorance shall teacher must work. No, the pupil must1
necessary absence is a serious injury to Smith family held a national reunion in
rebuke us, or their misdeeds shame us.
do the best he can, and in most cases he the pupil, and a robbery of the whole New Jersey last week. Pressing duties
Applying this principle to the details of will not be able to regain his footing in
school. If you decide to send your child kept the remaining seventeen millions at
ordinary school instruction, we see plain­ class ; he will lose all his interest in his
to school rather than educate him your­ home.
ly that the parent should interest him studies, and the time which should be
A former Kansas officeholder rushes
self, vou must conform to the prescribed
self in the child’s education, and should spent in preparing his lessons will bei regulations; that is implied in the con­ into print to deny the current story that
convince the child that lie is so interested. wasted in idleness or in mischief.
tract between you and the teacher, and the late Senator Ingalls called him a
It ought to be an abiding thought in the
“louse.” Mr. Ingalls called me a bedbug,”
I recognize the fact that there may be between you and the whole school. You
child's mind, spoken or unspoken,
he explains.
have
no
mote
right
to
break
into
the
order
emergencies which will render the oc­
that my father, my mother are
Eighty-four grandchildren attended
casional absence of a pupil from school of the school by irregularity than vou
very anxious that I should do well at
desirable and necessary, and I also have to stop a train of cars between two the funeral of a Mormon patriarch a few
school. This one influence, if the
understand very well that in cases of ' stations for your own convenience and days ago. The exhibit was a touching
child love and respect his parents, will do
illness there must a relaxation of the to the inconvenience of the other pas­ tribute to a strenuous life in the valley
more to make and keep him industrious
ordinary requirements. But are there sengers. It is important that your child of the Salt sea.
and faithful, than all other influences
Mass meetings are being held in the
not often times that children are kept at ' understand that, while he is attending
combined. The parent will secure this
home for this little thing or that little school, school is the main thing. You south to protest against northern treat­
object in a great variety of ways; in
thing, when it would be better for all ( cannot impress him with the idea that ment of negroes. Being exerts and pro-
fact, if he really has the child’s welfare concerned that they should be in school ? ' education is something to be valued, fessionals in that line, the south natu
and success at heart, there will ordinarily
It is convenient I know to keep them at' and prized, and striven for with earnest­ rally kick against amateur performances.
be no great danger of the child's failing
home to do this and that, but think of ness and patience; in other words, you
Philadelphia has the youngest hero in
to perceive it and to be effected by it. what evils are entailed upon them, when, | cannot educate him at all, unless it is
the bunch. He is only 8 years old and
Still there are judicious and injudicious by a very little inconvenience and effort j made the great thing to which all other
answers to the name of Leo Martin. He
wavs of accomplishing the end which the oil the part of parents, they might be ( things, your convenience and his fancies,
saved his sister from drowning, swim­
parent has in view. When this subject made happy in school, keeping pace with must bend. If it makes no great matter
ming with her to the shore, a distance
is brought before parents, great stress is their wide-awake class-mates.
if he is an hour late, or if he stays out of thirty yards.
generally laid on visiting the school. I
a day or two now and then, to do some
Tardiness is almost as great an evil as
The rare mountain atmosphere,
am inclined to think that undue impor­
errand for you or to gratify some whim
irregular attendance. It begets in the
mingled the salt sea breezes, develops
tance is attached to mere visiting. Some
of his own, why the whole thing becomes
good results may come from it. Both pupil the habit of being behind. A pupil of no great consequence in his estimation, some wonderfully beautiful women in
who continues to he tardy is usually
Salt Lake City. One of the multitude of
teacher and pupil mav be made to feel
and to awaken and keep alive in him
found behind in his whole school-work.
charmers
there is dcscrilied by a local
that the public eye is upon them, and
any high purpose of worthy aim in edu­
paper as “a chic et charmante brunette,
may be thereby spurred to make some He seems to feel that to be his place.
cation is an utterly impossibility.
with a wealth of southern midnight in
By punctually closing, as well as by
exertions to satisfy the public. But a
Bv example, bv precept, by almost her hair and the glorious promise of the
punctually
opening
school,
teachers
aim
far more healthv and more effective
every available means, teachers try to
supervision would be secured if each par­ to set a good example, and by this means remedy the evils referred to; but without north in her broad brow and sunshine­
showering smile.” Pass the fan.
to
lessen,
to
some
extent,
the
number
of
ent should keep himself in constant com­
the hearty coopera tian of parents, the
Whatever may be the condition of
munication with the teacher and the cases of tardiness. Beginning at any­ faithful labors of the best teacherscan
school through his own child, watching time between nine and ten in the but imperfectly produce their results. Indians in other respects, there are no
his progress, bv interesting himself, so morning means closing at any time be­ Regular and punctual attendance of signs of literary starvation in the far
far as he is able, in his studies, by cor- tween four and fivein the evening. Loose pupils cannot be secured without it; nor, east. A floating item, sent adrift as a
recting the misapprehensions that so time at either end of the day makes indeed, can an earnest and cheerful |>er- feeler for an American lecture tour,
frequently arise between teacher and loose time at the other end. Our schools formance of any school duties. “ Make naively tells us that at Lahore, recently,
pupil, and in general by keeping the should not close “ somewhere along our schools as free as sunlight and air— “Paribrajak Srimat Srikrishnananda of
child's confidence, and using the trust for about four.” but precisely at four. We let wisdom cry at the corners of the Benore attended the anniversary of
his good and that of the whole school. should close on principle ami not bv streets—vet if the home does not love | Rawalpindi Hari Snbha and delivered
For every parent has a duty to the whole chance. Promptness and decision in and cherish the school, the latter must' three lectures in Hi idi and two in Ben­
school as well as to his own children— doing common and frequently recurring stand as some mighty piece of machinery, galee.” Come on, Paribrajak! The
and both for its sake and their sake, he duties constitute an important element grand, glittering, golden in promise, but country hungers for a change from
is bound to do what he can to make his in the character of any individual. By weak and imperfect in performance, Chinese, Tagal and Sulu lingoes.
own children diligent, teachable, and lieing prompt, then, in all that pertains lacking that impelling power which
to school we teachers wish not only to alone can set its thousands of w heels in
Notice to Taxpayers.
dutiful.
It might be objected to this view, by set a good example to those under our full and fruitful action.”
Notice is hereby given that on the first
some teachers, that many parents are care, but to show both parents and
To conclude, parents, let us all resolve Monday, the 1st day of October, 1900,
pupils
that
we
practice
what
we
require
incompetent to superintend the educa­
ofothers. and that our schools are man- that our children shall start in life with ' the COUNTY BOARD OF EQUALIZA­
tion of their children, and that such im
a better education than we had. The TION will attend at the Office of the
perfection would in their case result only- aged, in respect to time, on business opportunities are better now than when Connty Clerk of Tillamook County, Ore­
principles. « e say to our pupils "you
in meddlesome and annoying inter­
come at the right-time and you shall go we were children, it is easier for us to do gon, and publicly examine the assessment
ference. So it would in a few cases; but
well by them than it was for our par rolls and correct ali errors in (valuation,
the great increase of earnestness and nt the right-time.’’
ents to do as well as they did by us. Far description or qualities of lands, lots or
Under
the
mistaken
view,
that
a
pupil
’
s
fidelity in the many, would more than
from us be the selfishness and heartless­ other property, and all jiersons interest
compensate for any such annoyances. presence is not needed except during his ness which sometimes say : ” What was ed in said assessment are hereby request­
And I think teachers will bear me out in hours of actual recitation, teachers re­ good enough tor me is good enough for ed to appear at said time and place for
saying that they would much rather en­ reive numerous requests from parents to my children.” Let us rather say, God the purpose of correcting any errors that
counter the flurries which might attend pennit their children to come late, and forbid that my children should ever may appear in their assessment, as no
a universal solicitude, than lie stagnant to leave school as soon as they have re­ know the mortification, the hardships, errorscan be corrected after the sitting
on the dead sea of universal indifference. cited. The right development of the and the failures which have come upon of said board.
But however illiterate a parent may be. pupils demands that they should be pre­ me from a defective education. .Many of Tillamook, Oregon, 10th Sept , HOO.
there is one service he can render his sent throughout each day's sessions, my errors it is now too late for me to re­
J.S. STEPHENS,
child which will be valnable beyond all from the opening to the closing of the trieve, but I can help my children and
County Assessor.
day
s
work.
If
they
are
not
actually
en-
,
computation ; he can see to it that the
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C. E. HADLEY, Proprietor.
Agents for Kopp’s Brewery, the Brewer of the finest Beer in the Northwest.
Strangers can find here a place to write, attend to corresjiondence, privately
confer upon business or social matters and generally feel at home.
Tillamook City,
Oregon.
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PROPRIETORS OF
Tillamook Meat Market
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Shop next door to Larsen’s Hotel, Tillamook
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Carrying U.S. Mail.
Tillamook & North Yamhill Stage Line.
JOHN
BARKER, Proprietor
Stage leaves Tillamook daily except Sunday
Stage leaves N- Yamhill daily exeept monday,
Tickets must be secured the day previous from the Agents at
North Yamhill and Tillamook.
/yien |4ouSe,
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Proprietor
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