The Chippeway herald. [volume], May 01, 1909, Image 2

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ning than to cure in the end. A young
weed is easj' to kill, but a garden full
of half-grown or mature weeds is as
formidable as a band of savages. The
gardener who lets weeds get the start
of him will inevitably fail. The object
should be not to have to clean the gar
den of weeds, but to never let a weed
£l ro w in it. This is easy to do, except
in times of prolonged rainy weather,
when the soil is too wet to admit of
cultivation. In dry times it is much
easier to keep a clean garden than in
wet times. This accomplished by keep
ing the surface of the soil dry and
loose, so that weed seeds can not ger
minate.
The garden is usually annually fer
tilized. Early and frequent culiva
tlon mixes the fertilizers with the
soil and makes of them a uniform
mass of plant food. The more manure
and other fertilizers are mixed with
the soil the more good they will do.
It is impossible to mix them too much.
The trouble with the most of us is
that we do not mix them half enough.
The good gardener and the good baker
never fail to mix well their soil and
dough. They can not hope for good
results without it.
Having the garden planted in rows
all one way to admit of the use of
horse tools, cultivation with a one-horse
or a cultivator without covering up any
of them
A. H. Gillet, in The Indian News
The Man. Who Does
Things.
Every institution wants him. He is
not lookig for positions; positions are
looking for him. He does not complain
he acts. He accomplishes results and
accomplished results speak more loud
ly in his favor than acres of subsidized
news papers. What the world wants,
what the world rewards, is the man
that does things. Discouragement and
failure are meaningless nothings to
him: results are the substantial things
for which he strives and attains. There
is a settled air of assured success in his
manners and in his very movements.
There is no trouble in selecting him
from a crowd. He can be picked out
just as unerringly as his opposite, who
abides with discouragement and fail
ure, and they leave a more impring on
the contenonce. Men can do things in
industrial, commercial and financial
life are as their opposites are plenti
ful.
The tree of opportunity, heavy with
I golden fruit is ever waiting for the
man who does things. Opportunities
are not scarce, they are plentiful,more
plentiful than ever since history was
written. They await the poor boy who
does things without looking at the
cloek. People who are always look
ing at the clock never amornt to much
in anything. Men who do things never
consult the time to see if they can stop;
they know time “was made for slaves,”
not for verile men who enthusiastically
do things. Employes who frequently
consult the clock will always be em
ployes with no hope of rising.
The man who does things may in
his absorption forget his meals or his
bed, but his opposite will be ever
ready ahead of time for both or either.
Concentration ot thought and his
absorption in inflexible purpose mark
the man who does things. Looseness
of thought and scattering- of purpose
mark the man whe never does any
thing The public soon knows the one
from the other, and accord him the
recognition he deserves.
The man who does things is always
at a premium, his services never go
begging, he is ever welcome, success
attends his footsteps and failure stands
aloft from him.
—lndnstrial School Times.
Armstrong’s Influence on
Educational Methods.
Booker T. Washington, speaking re
cently on “Some Results of the Arm
strong Idea” said: “The Armstrong
idea is felt in the changes which have
taken place in educational methods
throughout the country; and in some
far-off time when passion and pte
judice have ceased to do their work,
this country is going to recognize the
fact that the change which has taken
place in its methods of education is due
more to that little seed which was
planted here years ago by Armstrong
than te any other one influence. His
idea was to bring hand and head to
gether. When Hampton Institute was
planted, the old idea —that education
must be imparted for culture’s sake —
prevailed not only throughout the South
but largely throughout the country.
But General Armstrong saw more
quickly than anybody else that when
a whole race was hungry it needed
some thing more than culture:when you
get four million and now ten millions,
of people hungry something is going to
take place. The hungry man cannot
live on culture —but a hungry man can
learn to combine culture with intellect
and hand power so as to produce a per
feet man. In a report made a few
months ago bj’ a committee headed by
the Honorable Carrol D. Wright to the
Legislature of Massachusetts, it is
recommended “that argricultare be
plaed in the high schools and the pub
lic schools of the state”. General
Armstrong preceded them in that twen
ty-five veare ago. It is further recom
mended that “in certain high schools
and public schools half the day be given
to industrial training and the other
half to mental training.” Twenty-five
years ago General Armstrong was
ahead of them in that respect. It was
still further recommended that “in the
towns and cities there shall be night
school for the white boys and girls of
the state of Masachusetts.” Mire than
twenty-five years ago General Arm
strong got ahead of them in that respect
for we had night school at Hampton
and we have had it ever since. To
have been the pioner of these education
al reforms means a great deal for the
glory and for the pesmanent memtry
of any individual.
The Kind of Boy Wanted.
Boys are always in demand because
they are the material out of whicn men
are made, and as first class material
is always at a premium in every line
of trade, so the boys who give promise
of making first class men are most
eagerly sought after.
The hoy the world wants today is
the one who can be trusted to handle
money without any of it sticking to his
fingers and finding its way into his
pockets. He will take as much
interest in the affairs of his employer
as if they were his own, and will stay
fifteen minutes without being asked, to
finish a piece of work after the whistle
blows and the rest ef the men have quit
work. He will be able to write a
business letter and spell the words
contained therein correctly, and to add
up a column of figures promptly and
accurately. He will lift his cap as
readily to his sister as he would were
she the sister of some other boy; and
he will not be ashamed to go to church
with his mother, show her into her
own pew and sit beside her during the
service. He will be careful in making
a promise, and just as careful about
keeping it. He will have sufficient
moral backbone to say no to those who
would lead him astray, and will have
enough courage to own that he is striv
ing to make a man of himself.
—lndustrial School Times.