vol.

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No. i

normal School
herald
OCTOBER, 1898.

CONTENTS.
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“ Cracky Smith,” .....................
Memories of an Ungraded
School,;;..................................
Members of the Class of ’78,...
Changes in the Faculty,.........
The English la n g u a g e,.........
Editorial,.................................. .
Obituary,........ ............................
Where some of the Class of ’98
are Teaching............................

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The Post Graduate Students,..
Alumni P e r s o n a l s , ........
10 Marriages,.................................
12 E ocals,.....................................
16 The Christian Associations,....
17 Athletics,..... .............................
18 Philo Eiterary Society............
20 Normal Eiterary Society,.......
Clippings,..,.............................
22 Advertisements,.......................

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SHIPPENSBURG, PA.

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V oi,. III.

OCTOBER, 1898.

and

Ju l y .

No. 1

“ Gracfci?” Smith.
H E afternoon sun had begun to look into the south-side
windows of Blakeville schoolhouse. Within, Seventypupils were crowded into the rough hand-made pine desks.
A t the larger desks in the rear were seated the big boys, who had
come into school a month ago when the “ huskin’ ’ ’ and “ fodder
haulin’ ” were done.
On the front seats were ranged the younger pupils, three to a
seat, while on benches around the wall, with feet dangling in mid­
air, sat the A B C class, whose only armament against the forces
of ignorance was a slate and pencil.
There was an air of busy idleness about the room. The chart
class was telling in monotonous drone the story of ‘ ‘ the pig and
the pen,” when the door opened and in walked a tall man. The
teacher hastened forward to greet her visitor who entered thus un­
announced.
As he removed his overcoat an audible whisper went over the
room, “ The County Superintendent.”
The primary classes soon finished their work. The teacher
announced “ B, Geography.” There was a general shuffling in
the front and central portions of the room, as fifteen or twenty
boys and girls moved forward to the recitation seats.
Just as the class was seated, a big ungainly boy, with freckled
face and hair that seemed to have borrowed its color from the
bricks of the schoolhouse, wriggled out of one of the seats and
shambled down the aisle, pausing long enough to kick the shins
of several of the boys. Arriving at the front he dropped upon
one of the recitation seats with a force that made it creak.
The superintendent glanced inquiringly at Miss Murdoch, the

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teacher, who flushed deeply, and then said: “ Edward, didn’t you
hear me call the class?
v “ Yis mum.”
“ Then why didn’t you come promptly ? ”
“ I t jist didn’t suit me, mum.”
A t this a few boys laughed aloud. With a deeper flush Miss
Murdoch said: “ Do not fail to heed the signals, Edward, or I
shall have to punish you.”
The boy in question turned round and winked at the boys in
the rear as he replied, “ Yis mum.”
The lesson was finally begun. The Scandinavian Peninsula
was the subject under discussion. Questions were given in rota­
tion until finally the teacher asked, “ What can you say of the
Maelstrom, Edward?”
“ It’s extensively exported, mum.”
A roar of laughter greeted this answer. The superintendent
frowned deeply and said, ‘ ‘ Miss Murdoch, allow me to question
this boy.” Then turning to him he asked, “ Do you study your
lessons?”
“ Y is sor.”
“ Well, we’ll see; what’s the capital of Sweden?”
Cornstalk.”
“ You ignoramus, what do you mean by that? ’¡fly
“ Why, that’s what Jimmy Go wan said it was.”
' “ I didn’t, ” exclaimed a bright-faced younger boy in the class,
“ I told,him he could remember Stockholm, if he thought of a
cornstalk. ’ ’
p i l Oh, yis sor, that’s' what he did say, but I got the stalks
mixed.!” '
The superintendent continued his questions, but the replies
were all as incorrect and many as ludicrous as the first.
As the class filed back at the close of the recitation, the Su­
perintendent said to the teacher, “ I believe that Smith boy is
worse than ever, and if such a thing is possible, more ignorant.”
It is necessary to interrupt the proceedings of the school long
enough to learn something definite about “ that Smith boy.”
Edward Smith, the teacher called him, all others named him
“ Cracky.” How he came to have the name no one seemed to
know, but to speak of ‘ ‘ Cracky ’ ’ Smith was to call to mind the
butt of the neighborhood, and one of the worst pupils that ever

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caused a teacher’s heart to despair and seemed to overthrow all
the theories of the training schools.
Cracky’s father was a happy-go-lucky Irishman, lazy as could
be, who worked only that he might be able to secure whiskey.
Cracky didn’t see much of him, for the police court records every
five or six weeks read, “ Thomas Smith, drunk and disorderly, 30
days, ” The mother was a large, rough-featured woman of un­
certain nationality. She took in washing and did odd jobs, but
her care of Cracky seemed to be limited to telling him how worth­
less he was. Strong as Mrs. Smith was, her language, if profanity
strengthen language, was yet stronger.
Cracky was a bundle of contradictions. He was just what the
Superintendent called him, Ilian ignoramus.” He was in his sev­
enteenth year, but he was associated in classes with pupils of ten
years.
In spite of his dullness no boy attended Blakeville school more
regularly than did Cracky. He often came in late as if to tanta­
lize his teachers, for just after the roll had been called and the
teacher had thought with satisfaction that he was rid of the worst
boy in school for a half day at least, in would come Cracky with
a grin upon his face.
The teachers of Blakeville school were selected with special
reference to their ability to “ handle that Smith boy,” and Cracky
could tell the relative merits of the “ knights of the rod ’ ’ from
Mr. Johnson who “ walloped yer till yer thought all yer bark was
pealin’ o ff” to old Mr. Small whose “ lickins wouldn’t hurt a flea. ”
It may seem strange that Miss Murdoch should have been
chosen for a school where “ lickin’ and lam in’ ” went hand in
hand. The truth is that another teacher had been’elected but he
resigned a day or two before school opened. And so it happened
that Blakeville school was without a teacher when the first day
of the school term arrived. During that week there was but one
applicant, Miss Murdoch. With many misgivings, the directors
agreed to employ her. What may have decided the event in her
favor was a report that Cracky Smith did not intend to go to school
that winter, There could be no doubt as to Miss Murdoch’s schol­
arship . She came from a Southern family which had been reduced
to poverty. She had bravely accepted the changed conditions
and prepared herself for teaching. She heard in some way of the
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It is possible that Cracky may have decided to remain out of
school, but when he heard that a woman was to teach, he changed
his mind and seemed curious to see how matters would go.
The quiet, lady-like bearing of the new teacher told insensibly
upon the rougher natures of the pupils. A change for the better
was perceptible in the morals of the pupils, there was less pro­
fanity, although Miss Murdoch had spoken but once upon the
subject. She entered into the life of the girls and boys to a de­
gree that no other teacher had ever succeeded in doing. The in­
born chivalry that is found somewhere in even the roughest boy
was aroused in the larger boys.
Thus it came about that though the order of the school was
far from perfect, though there were lapses on the part of many of
the pupils, the school would have gone on nicely if it hadn’t been
for Cracky., He was the bane of the school. There was scarcely
anything bad that he wouldn’t do. Thé teacher spoke to him,
kept him in after school, that is when he was willing to stay, and
had even tried whipping as a last resort. All to no purpose.
W h y didn’t she suspend him? For two reasons : Miss Murdoch
herself never thought of such a course ; and with Blakeville di­
rectors suspension and expulsion were unheard of expedients.
It is now time to return to the school-room as it was that after­
noon in December.
The pupils were seated when on a sudden a number began to
sneeze violently. As the sneezing contingent seemed to radiate
from Cracky as a center, it was natural to suppose that he ‘ ‘ was
up to snuff.” According to his statement he ‘ ‘ was just cleanin
out this coat pocket, and here was a lot of stuff all powdered up,
seems sorter strong lik e .” A half hour after this incident the air
of the room suddenly became heavy with the fumes of something
decidedly strong. A brownish-red substance smoldering and
scorching on the stove showed that some one had placed cayenne
pepper there. The peculiarly innocent expression on Cracky’s
face told who the guilty one was.
There was but one thing to do, throw open windows and doors
and give the afternoon ‘ ‘ recess ” somewhat earlier than usual.
When the boys had gathered outside the school-house, Cracky
exclaimed : “ Didn’t I entertain that old guy ? Just trust me to
do the entertainin’.” : And it was a fact that Cracky made it his
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The Superintendent was preparing to depart. He said a few
words to the teacher in a low impressive tone. It was evident
that he was not in the best possible humor as he passed out of the
school ground, and a snow ball that whizzed past his head didn’t
tend to put him into a better mood. He doubtless felt justified in
marking Miss Murdoch in his report as “ an utter failure as a
teacher. ’ ’
Just before dismissing school that afternoon, the teacher re­
quested Cracky to remain after school. Another boy, whose in­
terest in the events of the afternoon had surpassed his interest in
his work, was also asked to remain.
After the other pupils had gone home, Miss Murdoch turned
to Cracky. She spoke to him in a low but firm voice. It is not
necessary to tell what she said, for who has not realized that words
derive their value chiefly from the personality behind them.
Cracky found himself in a new situation. I f Miss Murdoch
had raised her voice in denunciation, he would have found the
occasion rather enjoyable, but what was to be done when a wom­
an’s tones were low and kind, breathing friendly interest. A t last
he roused himself and assuming his defiant don’t care expression,
he exclaimed, “ It ain’t no use, Miss Murdoch, nobody ever cared
for me, I can’t larn nothin’ an’ I ain’t worth nothin’ . ”
“ W hy Edward, you are worth something, I ’ve never heard
that you steal and you’ve never told me a a lie. ”
“ No, mum, I jist couldn’t tell you a lie, if I wanted to.’ ’
The other boy in the school room looked up in astonishment.
He had never before heard Cracky Smith express trust in a single
human being. There was more than a suspicion of moisture in
Miss Murdoch’s eyes as she replied, “ I ’m glad to hear you say
that, Edward.” Continuing she told Cracky that good and true
men were needed in life, more than learned ones, that he could
make a name for himself if he only tried, how agreeably he could
surprise the neighborhood and the school. She dwelt upon his
good qualities and asked him to make a confidant of her, because
she trusted and believed in him.
A ll this will sound commonplace enough to the reader, but
somehow it didn’t seem at all commonplace to Cracky Smith,
as it fell from the lips of that woman,: It wasn’t that Cracky
hadn’t had “ appeals ” made to him before, other teachers had
told him they were anxious to help him, and he laughed about it

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afterwards. This time he didn’t wish to laugh but suddenly
throwing himself forward on the desk he began to sob piteously.
I f the boy who was listening to that talk had seen Cracky cry
anywhere else he would have been very eager to tell the story to
his schoolmates, that he might enjoy their expressions of wonder
and incredulity, but somehow or other he didn’t think of telling
anyone about it, or deem it remarkable that Cracky should cry.
He couldn’t hear the conversation that followed, but he did at
last hear Cracky say between sobs, “ Yis, Miss Murdoch, I ’ll
try.” '
Some minutes afterward the listener was trying to recite the
lesson in which he had failed. Miss Murdoch’s mind was evi­
dently upon something else, and as the boy gazed upon her he
might have perceived by the pallor of her face and the luster of
her eyes that the deadliest and most deceptive of all diseases had
placed its stamp upon her. But he did not think of that, instead
he wondered as he walked home, whether Cracky Smith were
worth the interest that woman showed in him.
It is certain that Cracky did do better, although there were
many lapses from grace. But a look from Miss Murdoch and he
understood. He helped her about the school house in various
ways, brought the coal in, built fires, swept the room. It would
be pleasant to be able to say that he improved in scholarship, but
the truth is he didn’t. Try as he would he couldn’t learn. He­
redity was too much for him, he was destined to be a ‘ ‘ block­
head.’ ” ' ,
When the term came to a close, Cracky experienced the first
real sorrow he had ever known, as he parted from Miss Murdoch.
Shfe returned to her southern home and he sought work among
the farmers.
It would be quite romantic tomarrate how Cracky became a suc­
cessful business man in spite of his dullness, and how finally he again
met Miss Murdoch, and told her ‘ ‘ an old, old story.” But this
is not a romance, only a true story of the dunce in a village
school.
Another teacher taught Blakeville school the next winter and
Miss Murdoch was all but forgotten by the people of the village,
until one evening late in the winter, one of the directors received
a letter bearing a southern post-mark. There was the usual
evening crowd in the store and postoffice. The director tore

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open the letter and after glancing at its contents exclaimed, “ You
all mind Miss Murdoch who taught here last winter ?’ ’
“ Yes, what about her, is she goin’ter get married ?’•’
“ No t h is ’ere letter’s from her sister. She says Miss Mur­
doch died of consumption last week.”
Various expressions of surprise and sympathy followed. Then
came a general talk about the inability of Southerners to endure a
northern climate.
There was one auditor upon whom the news fell with crush­
ing force. He said nothing, but with a blanched face he left the
store and hurried away.
It was Cracky Smith.
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It was the night of the twenty-third of December.
Snow covered the ground to the depth of a foot, and the
winds held high carnival, shrieking and roaring with tireless
energy.
But the people of Holtzburg were slumbering peacefully
enough, that is the majority were, but at the outskirts of the
town where immense buildings loomed up in the night, more than
five hundred men were toiling away, preparing and packing e x­
plosives of various kinds; for the firm of Holt, Allen & Co., oil
refiners, manufacturers of explosives, etc., had received a large
order which had to be filled by the first of the new year. A ll the
machinery was running to its fullest capacity.
A t seven o’clock Jack Henry came to the engine room which
was at the side of and partially under one of the main buildings,
to take his place as engineer for the next eight hours.
As he shut the door against the wind he exclaimed, “ Whew,
I ’ll tell you what, Bd., this is a rousin’ night! The wind cuts a
feller like razors!’ ’
The man who was addressed had just finished shoveling coal
into the furnace of the engine. “ I t’s too cold to think of going
over to the boardin’ house, I'll turn in on that bunk back there,”
he said, indicating an old cot that had been placed in the back
part of the engine room.
As he turns his face toward the burning gas jet, he is easily
recognizable as our acquaintance of the Blakeville school. The
same red hair and freckled face. The same Irish brogue of a

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dozen years ago. He had drifted into the oil regions, after leav­
ing Blakeville and at the time above mentioned, he had been in
the employ of Holt, Allen & Co. for a number of years. He was
regarded by his employers and his associates as a faithful, honest
workman. No one knew much about his past life ; but he was
known to have a kind heart, so kind indeed that his small sav­
ings were continually given to every one who appealed to him for
help.
As he was about to go to his bunk, Jack Henry turned to him
holding out a flask, “ Ed. you’d better take some corn juice, it’ll
warm ye up a night like this.”
■ o No thank ye, I don’t keer for it,” replied Ed. but suddenly
looking up toward the roof, he asked, “ Did you tell Snyder to get
a wire for that whistle?”
“ Y es,” answered Jack, “ he said he would when he had time,
but he guessed that rope was strong enough to pull the whistle
all we wanted to.”
Ed. was soon fast asleep, and Jack left to himself looked after
the fires about the engines. As the night wore on he began to
feel drowsy from the effects of his walk through the wind. He
tried to fight off the drowsiness by taking frequent swallows from
his flask. He imagined he was succeeding and settled back in
his chair to rest but he began to feel more drowsy than before.
‘ ‘ Oh well, it wouldn’t matter if he did snooze five or six minutes.
Edward Smith sleeping had a sensation of oppressive heat;
he opened his eyes. What was that lig h t! Another moment and
he was awake to find the engine room a mass of flames. How
it happened will never be known. A barrel of crude petroleum
near the engine was burning furiously, and every portion of the
wood-work was in flames.
As he sprang forward he ran against Jack Henry asleep in his
chair. Seizing him by the collar he shouted, “ Jack! jump, get
out! Y e ’ll be burnt up, run man, save yourself.” The roaring
flames acted as a sharp stimulant to the drowsy man. He stum­
bled up the steps toward the door. Ed. sprang forward to grasp
the rope which was attached to the whistle twenty feet above at
the top of the roof, but the flames had already made short work
of the cotton shreds. What was to be done? Above in the pack­
ing rooms were hundreds of men handling explosives, uncon­
scious of danger. The flames were already at the only door

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that communicated with these rooms. He did not hesitate.
There was a rough spiral flight of wooden steps winding around
the engine up to the place in the roof where the whistle was.
This stair-way was already on fire. Up he sprang through the
flames.
Just as he starfed up, the now sobered and aroused Jack
Henry called to him. 4 “ For God’s sake Ed. come on, you’ll be
burned to death.”
Ed. shouted as he climbed through the blinding smoke and
flame, “ I ’ve got to save the men up there.”
Jack hastened out of the flames and heat, just as E d’s, hand
grasped the lever of the whistle, which now sent its sharp, terrify­
ing shrieks into the night warning the men everywhere of danger,
and rousing the sleeping inhabitants of Holtzburg.
The men hastened from the buildings, a glance told all, and
they rushed away to avoid the explosions that were certain to
come. The whistle had ceased to blow,', but the warning had
been given, and not a moment too soon, for ere the last man was
at a place of safety, the explosion came, throwing down the walls
of the building and sending brick and mortar flying high in the
air, injuring some of the workmen who had not gotten a suffi­
cient distance away.
The work of destruction was done; the explosion scattered
the wood-work of the main building to such an extent that there
was nothing left to feed the fire.
The next day workmen found the crushed and charred
body of Edward Smith among the debris of the engine house.
To his honor be it said that Jack Henry told the whole truth
as far as he knew it, regardless of consequences to himself.
And thus it came about that many a husband and father, as
he sat in his home on Christmas Day with wife and children
about him, thanked God for the heroism of Edward Smith, who
had died that others might live.
On the day after Christmas all Holtzburg turned out to attend
the funeral of as true a hero as any Cushing or Hobson.
The minister read as his text, “ Greater love hath no man
than this that he lay down his life for his friend.”
In the Holtzburg cemetery there is a marble shaft erected by
his employers and fellow workmen, that tells the story of Ed­
ward Smith’s heroic act, Children like to have their parents*

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tell the tale as they stand about his grave. But who of all those
who stand there knows that the battle that changed the course
of Edward Smith’s life and made him a man, was fought in a
school house in old-fashioned Blakeville, with none to encourage
him but a woman who now sleeps in a southern'.graveyard and
whom a presumedly competent authority had pronounced ‘ ‘ an
utter failure as a teacher.” .
—E zra L ehm an , ’89.
N o t e .— The above story is not a fancy sketch. The incidents are substantially as nar­

rated, names and places only are changed.

Memories of an Tftngra&eb Scfoool.
By

an

O l d Su f f e r e r .

I.
Have you ever gone into a large country school,
Where each of the “ kids” tried to act like a fool,
Where the teacher “ walloped” and thumped and roared,
And the boy that could “ thrash ’im ” walked ’round like a lord ?.
‘ ‘Oh dear ! what can the matter be,
Oh dear ! what can the matter be,
Oh dear ! what can the matter be,
With the kids that come into my school ?”

II.
They stand on their heads when they hear the bell sounded,
They shuffle and talk till they see the desk pounded,
They sit pigeon-toed while the Scripture is read,
And later they act as if they were in bed.
“ Oh dear ! what can the matter be.
Oh dear ! what can the matter be,
Oh dear! what can the matter be,.
With the kids that come into my school ?”
III.
To their classes they come like a cyclone that nears,
They show you the slates with the plentiful smears.
They get up to recite and then stand there and giggle,
While their arms and their legs they continually wiggle.
“ Oh dear ! what can the matter be,
Oh dear 1 what can the matter be,
Oh dear! what can the matter be,
With the kids that come into my school ?”

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IV.
At recess they go out and whoop and yell,
And, of course, they never can hear the last bell,
They run and tu m b le — and quarrel and fight,,
And play in the dirt till their skin’s“ out of sight.”
.'“ Oh dear ! what can the matter be, .
Oh dear 1 what can the matter be,
- Oh dear I what can the matter be,
With the kids that come into my school ?”
V.
At noon time each one will fill up his_ cheek,
Grab the rest in his hands and “ light out ” like a streak,
Play just twice as hard as he did at recess,
And come in with himself and his clothes in a mess.
“ Oh dear ! what can the matter be,
Oh dear 1 what can the matter be,
Oh dear ! what can the matter be,
With the kids that come into my school ?.”
V I.

At night they go home and they fight on the way,
And the boy that “ gets licked ” t ^ » h i s “ Pap ” what to say.
“ P ap” sees me and tells me, some kids must be thrashed,
Or my fame as a teacher ’ll be awfully smashed.
“ Oh dear ! what can the matter be,
Oh dear ! what can the matter} be,
Oh dear 1 what can the matter be,
With the kids that come into my school ?”
VII.
“ School teaching is pleasant, there’s no doubt of that,
Erom nine until four, and then put on your hat,
At the end of the month, draw your dollar a day,
And get public notice along with your pay.”
But, '
' “ Oh dear I what can the matter be,
Oh dear ! what can the mattei' be,
Oh dear ! what can the matter be,
With the kids that come into my school ?”

“ Young man don’t pedal so hard on the bicycle of pleasure
that you will have no energy left to push the wheel-barrow of
necessity. ’ '— Exchange.

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Ube /Ibembers of tbe Class of ’78.
T h e lives they have lived since they left Normal.

Extracts from the Class

History read before the A lum ni b y Mrs. Sallie A , Otto.

R. M. I,. B e c h te l , Millstone, Md., writes: “ I was back at
Normal in ’81. I was married May 19, 1879, and have
four children. The eldest, a daughter, was married re­
cently. The other three are boys.—not very smart, being ‘ chips
of the old block.’ I have taught every winter but one since my
graduation in ‘ My Maryland.’ I made a short visit to Normal in
’93. Prof. Angell visited me in my school i n ’81.”

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Miss Eaura Harvey (Shearer), Shippensburg, Pa.: “ After
graduating at Normal I taught three years in the public schools
of Cumberland county, then took a summer course at the National
School of Elocution and Oratory in Philadelphia. I went to Cobourg, Canada, and finished there in August, ’82, in September
to Lock Haven Normal and taught Elocution and Drawing three
years. Then I taught one year in Darlington Seminary, West
Chester, and two years in the Millersville Normal. I was mar­
ried in Shippensburg July 13, 1887, to Mr. John Shearer, U. S.
Pension Examiner, and we took up our residence in Cold Water,
Michigan, for two years, when Mr. Shearer was called to Wash­
ington, where we remained four years. He was then sent to
Concord, N. H ., afterwards to Manchester, where we resided
until his last illness. We removed to Mr. S .’s home, Spring Run,
Pa., where he died December 10, 1896. I now reside in Ship­
pensburg with my two little girls, Ruth, aged 7, and Marjorie,
aged 2.”
Mr. William Goodhart, Newville, Pa.: “ I have been teaching
all but two years since graduating, twelve years in Newton
township, two in Newville, three in Upper Allen, and one in
Upper Mifflin. I was married in March, ’86, to Miss Sallie
Rhoads of Newville, and am now living at that place. I opened
a grocery and confectionery store in 1890 and have successfully
conducted it since. ’ ’
Miss Emma Gracey, Newville, Pa., writes briefly: “ I taught
eight years and am now living an uneventful life in the little town
of Newville, enjoying single blessedness.”
Mr. Ethan Allen Drawbaugh, Steelton, Pa.: “ I taught the
High School at Eewisberry, York county, during the winter of

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’ 78-’79, attended Normal Spring Term of ’79. I taught at Golds­
boro ’79-80, attending Normal Spring Term of ’80. In the Fall
I returned to Normal, taking the post-graduate course, making
five terms at Normal after graduation. In the fall of ’81 I en­
tered the Taw Department of the University of Pennsylvania at
Philadelphia. I remained there one year. The next year I began
teaching at Steelton and for the past five years have been Princi­
pal of the Pothergill School.' The past ten years‘I have also been
engaged in journalism and have been correspondent for a large
number of the leading journals in the United States.”
Mr. George O. Atherton, Reform School, Washington, D. C.:
“ I taught in Shippensburg the term of ’78-79 and since that
time have been employed here. My life has been uneventful but
full of work. We have no vacation in this school. I have charge
of about fifty boys or young men— ages from fifteen to twenty-two
or twenty-three. They are here- for one, two, or five years.
Many of them have spent their former years in crime and some
return to the same life after they are released. They come to us
too late in life. Reform Schools are in their incipiency. The Re­
form Schools of twenty years hence will be as much changed as
the public schools since the days of their ‘ Old Masters.’
“ Being a day student and backward at Normal, I knew the
ladies of our class slightly but was intimate with the boys. I was
the recipient of a cane with the names of all the boys cut on it,
made by John McCune, which I still possess.
Miss Annie E. White (Kuntz), deceased. On account of ill
health she never taught. She was married to Mr. M. G. Kuntz
of Garden City, Kansas, at which place she lived several years.
She then lived one year in Oklahoma, moving thence to Wichita,
where she died April 10, 1896, leaving one child, a daughter now
five years old.
Mr. D. M. Hunter, Cowles, Webster county, Nebraska: “ I
taught school two years at Shimpstown, Franklin county, after
graduation. I returned to Normal the next spring to take up
special studies. The following winter I taught in Franklin county,
then went to Normal again for one term, holding the position of
assistant teacher while there. In ’82-’83 I was Principal of schools
at New Cumberland. I went to Nebraska in April, 1883, and
taught school four years in Webster county, conducting a music

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class in the evenings. In ’87 was appointed Principal of schools
in Guide Rock; same county, which position I held until ’90. I
was married to Miss FUa Croxton of Guide Rock in March, ’90.
I taught in the County Teachers’ Institute in the summers of ’88,
89 and ’90. I was appointed to fill the vacancy in the County
Superintendency in ’90 and was three times re-elected, serving in
all a little over seven years. I taught one term more in Cowles,
my present home. I was one of a committee of seven county su­
perintendents appointed to assist the State Superintendent to frame
the present state course of study for the public schools of Nebraska.
I intend to give up the profession and retire to my farm four miles
east of town, and shall be glad to receive a visit from any of my
friends, especially the class o f ’78. My family consists of myself,
wife, and four children, one girl and three boys.”
Miss Ella Rarey (Ileidrick), York, Pa. She taught four years
subsequent to graduation, then married, and now lives in her own
home happily with her husband and three boys. We regret that
ill health has prematurely injured her eyesight.
Miss Jennie Donnelly (Hill), Lexington, Nebraska: “ I taught
first two years after graduation in Cumberland county. From
!8o to ’86 I lived in Shippensburg. In ’86 I went to New York
City and remained a year. During the winter of ’87~’88 I taught
in MaCungie, Lehigh county, and in ’88 and ’89 at Steelton. I
was married July 29K89, and came to Diller, Neb. In ’93 we
moved to Lexington, our present home. I was Fast during the
summer of ’94.”
Miss Annie P. Heagy (Smith), 10x4 Franklin Ave., Colum­
bus, Ohio: “ I taught two years after graduation, then married
Mr. J. O. Smith, July 16, 1880, and moved to Columbus in 1884.
Mr. Smith teaches mathematics in the high school, and your
classmate is at home monarch of all she surveys. Two children,
Fdith, 16, who is a senior in the high school, and Fdgaf, our boy
of i2. I have been Fast four times, but always too late for Com­
mencement at Normal. Great changes have taken place in 20
years. Your remember our class poem— one stanza:
Some may go to Greece or Spain,
Some to Egypt or ,to Rome,
Some to Greenland’s icy mountains,
Some may always stay at home.

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That is where I am and I give a hearty invitation to all our class
to visit me when they come this w ay.”
Mr. J. G. App, Lewisburg, P a .: “ I taught several years, then
thought farming would please me better.- I took up that occupa­
tion, but was not satisfied and again turned my attention to what
affords me more pleasure and success than anything else, viz:
teaching. I was induced to be a candidate for County Superin­
tendent in Union county at the last election, but shared the same
fate as my opponent— a third party successful. I still expect to
continue in the good work. Already I can point with pride to young
men who hold ¿positions in the National and State governments
who have gained their inspiration from my feeble efforts. And in
nearly every profession of life I see boys that were once under my
care.”
Miss H. Mary Winters, 1323 Poplar St., Philadelphia, Pa. :
Her brief history given in her own words is as follows: ‘ ‘I taught
for several years after graduating, and then went to Philadelphia
where I studied stenography and entered upon its practice.”
Miss Sue B. Kauffman (Elly), Chambersburg, P a .: “ I taught
three years at home in the high school. I was married in March,
’81. Since then I have resided in Chambersburg. I have been
a teacher in Sabbath School for the past twelve years. I am also
much interested in missionary work.”
Mr. John McCune, 80 Broadway, New York City, N. Y . We
have learned that Mr. McCune has been very actively engaged
most of the time since he graduated as an expert accountant.
Mr. C. F. Johnston, Steelton, P a .: ‘ ‘I taught the first term
after graduation at New Lancaster, Cumberland county, the fol­
lowing four years in Shippensburg. I married Miss Lizzie Early,
o f Jacksonville, December 25, 1879. I left Shippensburg and
taught two years in the New Cumberland high school, and since
then, for the past thirteen years, have lived and taught in Steelton. Mrs. Johnston died May 5, 1891, leaving me with my two
children, Early and Grace.” Miss Annie Steele : We learn from one of the members of the
class that Annie was appointed assistant teacher in the schools of
Harrisburg about eight or ten years ago. A t present all efforts
to trace her have been unsuccessful.

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Miss Sallie A . Meixel (Otto), Boiling Springs, Pa. : “ I taught
two years after graduation, then was married on May 10,1881, to
Mr. C. W. Otto, also a teacher and once a student at Normal.
We have one child, a boy almost fifteen years of age, who will
enter Dickinson College the coming Fall Term. I have also taken
charge of a little girl of eight and a boy of twelve.

Changes in tbe jfacultg.

P

ROF. P zr a E f h m a n , who has had charge of the English De­

partment for the last three years, has been granted leave of
absence for one year. He'has been entered as a student in
the senior class of Bucknell University, Eewisburg, Pa., and will
graduate next spring in the Classical Course. During the years
that Prof. Eehman has been a teacher in our Normal School he
has earned a reputation as a scholar of brilliant attainments, a
sympathetic, painstaking teacher and a gentleman of genial dis«position. The Professor knows all about Normal School life, as
he himself graduated from this-school both in the Elementary and
Scientific Courses. He will be missed in many ways during the
year, and teachers and students will have a hearty welcome for
him whenever he honors us with a visit.
Prof. Herbert W. Bieber, of Fleetwood, Pa., has been chosen
as Prof. Eehman’s successor. Prof. Bieber comes to us with the
finest of recommendations. He prepared for college at the Kutztown Normal School and entered Eafayette in the Fall of ’90. He
graduated with first honors in the class of ’94. Since graduation
Prof. Bieber has taught two years in thé Albright Collegiate In­
stitute at Meyerstown, Pa., and two years in the High School of
Warren, Pa. From both places come reports of his wonderful success.
Prof. Bieber has already become very popular with the stu­
dent body and has shown remarkable ability in the line of his.
work. He is commendably enthusiastic and energetic. While
at college he was one of Eafayette’s star foot-ball and base-ball
players and he will be able to give the Normal athletes much ad­
vice and àssistance.
The other new teacher is Miss Edith Barnum, of Potsdam,.N.
Y ., who takes Miss Eockwood’s place in the Music Department.

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Miss Barnum has devoted most of her life to the study of music
and is a graduate of the Potsdam Normal School, also of the Crane
Conservatory located in the same place. Since her graduation
she has been so well thought of by her former teachers as to se­
cure a position in the Normal School and in the Conservatory.
She comes to us direct from her work in the Potsdam Normal,
and therefore thoroughly understands the work that is to be done
in our school.
Miss Barnum is undoubtedly an artist. She is a brilliant
pianist and has a beautiful soprano voice. She appeared for the
first time before the students at the Y . M. C. A . and Y . W . C. A .
Reception, and before the people of the town at an entertainment
in the Methodist church. A t each place she delighted her audi­
ences and was enthusiastically encored.

Ube English 2Lagguage.
When sound and sense don’t harmonize,
The cause in our English Language lies.
For we’re wrapped up in our beds at night
And again rapped up at the break of ligh t;
A lover’s knot them together will tie,
The not of father will pull it awry ;
Ye knight of old maintained the right,
Yet a night has oft hid crime from sight;
Should a pilot be reckless out on the sea,
’Tis likely that wreckless he then would not be.
Oh English ! Oh English ! It’s certainly strange
That one letter left out will make such a change.

H O M E S IC K .

“ You ought to be contented, and not fret for your old home,
Ina,” said the lady, as she looked at the dim eyes of the girl.
“ You are earning good wages, your work is light, every one is
kind to you, and you have plenty of friends here.’ ’
“ Y as’m ,” said the girl, “ but it is not the place where I do
be that makes me vera homesick, it is the place where I don’t
be.’ ’— The Youth's Companion.

...THE...

N ormal S chool H erald.
P u b l is h e d Oc t o b e r , Ja n u a r y , A p r il
S h ip p e n sb u r g , P a .

and

Ju l y .

G e o j îg e H . E c k e l s , >91, Editor.
H . M. R o t h , ’89, Business Manager.
A d a Y. H o r t o n , »88, Personal Editor.

eac ®u^script^on Pr*ce 25 cents per year strictly in advance. Single copies ten cents
Address ali communications to T h e N o r m a l S c h o o l H e r a l d , Shippensburg, Pa
Alumm and former members of the school will favor us by sending any items that
they may think would be interesting for publication.
B 7
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Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office, Shippensburg, Pa.

OCTOBER, 1898.
HE H e r a l d with this number begins the third year o f its
life. It has been quite successful, we may venture to say,
but now it has been abandoned to its fate by its former
guardian and has fallen into strange hands. A new dress has
been given it, however, and this may reconcile it to the change of
sponsors.

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As noticed in another column, Prof. Ezra Lehman, the former
editor, has been granted a year’s leave of absence. During Prof.
Lehman’s absence from the school, the present editor will strive
faithfully to keep the H e r a l d up to the high standard set before
it.
From the very beginning, the H e r a l d did not purport to be
an educational paper, but merely a school paper— a means of com­
munication between the graduates and students of the Shippens­
burg Normal. For this reason more than the usual amount of
space has been devoted to Personals and Locals in the present
number-. We believe that in these columns will be found some­
thing of interest to every alumnus and student.
In order that this department may.be made, yet more interest­
ing, will not all the members of the Alumni send us notes1of in­
terest in connection with their own lives or those of any other
graduates? We would especially call the attention of all Class
Historians (permanent or not) to this matter. Let us have a live,
interesting Personal Department.

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The radical change in the size and dress of the H e r a l d has
been under consideration for some time. The change has seemed
best for a variety of reasons, and we hope our readers will like the
new H e r a l d . Tet us hear from you your opinion of the change.
Any suggestions will be welcomed by the management and care­
fully considered.
&
Members of last year’s graduating class will be able to locate
many of their classmates by consulting “ Where some of the Class
of ’98 are Teaching,” found in another column. We would like
to hear from others, and to tell their friends where they are in the
January H e r a l d .
JIn the Commencement number, the editor promised to publish
the Class Histories of ’78 and ’88 in full in the October and Jan­
uary numbers. On account of the change in the size of -the
H e r a ld we find it impossible to fulfill this promise. With the
permission of the Historians we have, therefore, simply taken ex­
tracts from the biographical sketches contained in the histories.
The History of the Class of ’78, in this form, appears in this
issue, that of ’88 will appear in the next. It is our hope that the
members of these classes will find much pleasure in reading of the
lives of their classmates.
The question of changing the weekly holiday from Saturday to
Monday was raised for the first time at Shippensburg a few weeks
since. Many schools have already made this change and seem to be
delighted with it. Many others have preferred to stick to the old,
time-honored custom, feeling disinclined to experiment. We have
never seriously thought of making the change before. Saturday
has been our school-holiday so long that we are fain to believe it
ordained by Nature for that very purpose. It is on Saturday that
we have always visited our friends, it is on Saturday that our
games of ball are always played, on Saturday occur many of the
most interesting events about the town— No ! It does not seem
possible that Monday will do. It would be quite as strange as if
Christmas and the Glorious Fourth were to change places in the
calendar.

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But a little earnest thought given the matter will do a great
deal toward reconciling us to the revolution. This was witnessed
by the fact that when the students were asked to vote upon the
proposed change at the chapel exercises, a large majority favored
Monday. However the minority presented some very good rea­
sons against the change.
The main argument for the change seems to be that it will do
away with Sunday studying and give us a better study-night in
Monday than we have been having in'Saturday. In other words
“ Blue Monday ’ ’ will be no more.
Against the change it is urged that many of our day students
could not possibly come to school on Saturday on account of
home duties and that Monday is a poor day to visit, friends or en­
gage in athletics.
No final decision has yet been reached in the matter, but it
seems improbable that a change will be made this year.

©bituarg.
M rs . Ca r r ie J eeferis (D avidson ), ’90.
/t

Died August 28, 1898.

\ h e death of Mrs. Jefferis was very sudden, and the circum-

stances leading up to it made it inexpressibly sad. She
and her little son, Ernest, died within a half-hour of each
other from the effects of poison which they had taken into their
systems by eating toadstools in mistake for mushrooms.
The circumstances were about as follows: Carrie, with her
husband, the Rev. Mr. Jefferis, and little boy, an only child, came
to Shippensburg on the 9th of August to spend a month with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Davidson. Mr. Jefferis was on a va­
cation from his pastoral work at North Wales, Pa. On Tuesday
of the week before her death, Mrs. Jefferis and her husband had
gathered some mushrooms and eaten of them with no ill effects.
Accordingly on Thursday they mounted their bicycles and rode
out into the country a short distance to Craig’s Woods, where
they gathered some more of what they supposed were mushrooms.
They all partook of these at dinner and at supper on that day,
and in the evening became very sick. No one seemed to suspect
the real cause of the sickness. Medicine was procured from a
physician, but on the supposition that the sick ones were merely

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suffering from Cholera Morbus. Later the doctor was called in
and at once saw that they had been poisoned. Every effort was
made to save all three, but on Sunday morning the mother and
son succumbed to the poison. Mrs. Jefiferis had been unconscious
for some time and she died “ as if overcome with sleep.” Mr.
Jefiferis, after a hard struggle against the terrible poison, has fully
recovered.
The death of Mrs. Jefiferis and the sad circumstances attending
it evoked much heartfelt sympathy from the people of the town
and community. And many members of the Alumni who knew
her as Carrie Davidson while she was a happy Normal student,
will feel their eyes fill with .tears when they read of her death.
Graduating from the school in ’90, she taught the next year
in Chester, Pa. Here she met Mr. Jefiferis and they were married
on September 2, 1891, and went to North Wales, Montgomery Co.
Pa., where he was pastor of St. Peter’s Lutheran church., Mrs.
Jefiferis was a strong woman. She was very bright intellectually
and of a sweet,; lovable disposition. She was an energetic Chris­
tian worker and very highly esteemed by her husband’s congrega­
tion. The members of the class of ’90 and all of the Alumni will
join us in expressing our deep regret over the untimely death of
our sister in the School and our great sympathy for the afflicted
husband and relatives.
“ S afe from tem ptation, safe from sin ’s pollution,She lives whom we call dead.”

M iss J e n n i e V. M om,, ’89.

D ied Septem ber 17, 1898.

The death of Miss Moul occurred at Mayersville, a suburb of
York, Pa. She had been re-elected to her position as a teacher in
the public schools of East Berlin, Adams county, her native town.
About a week before the opening of the schools she went to Mayersville to visit a friend. She had been ill for some time and dur­
ing the journey to York she became very sick, succumbing to a
fainting spell at its end. She grew gradually worse from that time
until death relieved her.
After Miss Moul graduated from the Shippensburg Normal she
taught every year but one in the East Berlin schools. Her work
was so satisfactory that when it became known that she would not
be in condition to teach at the opening of the school term, a sub-

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stitute was secured and the position held open for her. She is
remembered by many of the teachers and graduates of our school
as an intelligent student and a woman of beautiful character.
This is the first death that has occurred among the members
of ’89, and it is certain that Miss Moul’s classmates will learn of
her demise with the greatest sorrow. The H e r a l d extends its
sympathy to the bereaved mother and sister.

Where Some ot tbe Class ot ’98 are teaching.
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7 y r u r r a y L u t h e r D ic k , Pleasant Grove School, Silver Spring
1
township, Cumberland County.

J. Will Kadel, Mt. Vernon School, Hampden town­
ship, Cumberland county.
W. F. Stitt, Neelyton, Dublin township, Huntingdon county.
Alice Hays, Gallows, Bucks county.
Amanda E. Bennett, Seven Stars, Adams county.
W. K . Stouffer, Rock Dale School, Amtrim township, Frank­
lin county.
Anna Cook, Sylvan, Franklin county.
Elizabeth McElheney, Concord, Franklin county.
Katharine McElheney, Concord, Franklin county.
J. G. Benedict, Mt. Vernon, Franklin county.
W . K. Rhodes, Fairplay, Adams county.
John E. Weakley, Barnitz, Cumberland county.
A . W . Crouse, Shade Gap, Huntingdon county.
J. T . Swartz, Good Hope, Cumberland county.
J. Kent Hays; Newberry town, York county.
A . Barbara Kob, Falmouth, Lancaster county.
Anna G. Dukehart, Rouzerville, Franklin county.
Isaac S. Hershey, Hockersville, Dauphin county.
Bessie Lamaster, Foltz, Franklin county.
J. W . Shive, Matamoras High School, Powl’s Valley, Dauphin
county.
Bertha D. Eby, Oberlin, Dauphin county.

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Maye Anthony, Mt. Top, York county.
Ethel A . Ruth, Highspire, Dauphin county.
Emily K . Ayres, Springet, York county.
Geo. A . Leopold, Centre School, Granville township, Mifflin
countyG. H. Fickes, Shady Grove School, Penn township, Cumber­
land county.
H . W . Fitting, Rheems, Lancaster county.
Ella I. Baker, Lykens, Dauphin county.
Elizabeth K . Driscoll, Wiconisco, Dauphin county.
Alice Hager> Antrim township, Franklin county.
Verna Horton, Enid, Wells township, Fulton county.
F. R. Bushey, Biglerville, Adams county.
Nettie Jacobs, East Berlin, Adams county.
Lizzie Jones, Wiconisco, Dauphin county.
Cora McDowell, Hollowell School, Antrim township, Frank­
lin county.
D. P. Finkenbinder, Green Hill, West Pennsboro township,
Cumberland county. '
C. M. Graham, West Pennsboro township, Cumberland
county.
Phineas Morris, Wellsville, York county.
Carrie Sparrow, Liberty township, Adams county.
E- S. Stambaugh, Farmers, York county.
E. N. Walter, Liberty township, Adams county.
J. M. Plank, Freedom township, Adams county.

'Ebe ipostx&rabuate Stubents.
AST year eight persons were graduated in the Regular Nor­

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mal (Post-Graduate) Course and one in .the Scientific
Course. This comparatively large number of students
. made the prospect for the rapid growth of these courses very en­
couraging. The attendance this year indicates that the growing
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without foundation. There are now fourteen post-graduate stu­
dents and others will be in during the year. They are Minnie G.
Eckels, ’91, C. A . Deardorf, ’91', Lola Wierman, ’96, Frank
Mitchell, ’96, Nan Johnston, ’97, Myrtle Wolfe, ’97, Mary Wierman, ’97, Ort Eckels, ’97, Helen Dykeman, ’98, Josephine
Hughes, ’98, Eaura Peffer, ’98, Melva Wierman, ’98, Robert
Cline, ’98, and Raymond Gettel, ’98.
This course ought to commend itself to more of our graduates,
especially to those who have belonged to the Honor Group or
have kept up a good standing in their Elementary Course. The
Regular Normal and Scientific Courses are adapted particularly
to the needs of those who wish to engage in high-school work.
The high-school curriculum is now so extensive that the Normal
School graduate is likely to be rejected because he has not cov­
ered the ground. This is especially true in the Languages and
Mathematics. These post-graduate courses will put you practi­
cally on an equality with the college graduate as far as your abil­
ity to do the high-school work is concerned, and other things be­
ing equal the Normal School man will then be preferred to the
college man, because of his training and practice in Methods of
Teaching. These courses will also fit you to enter the higher
classes at College, if that is your aim.
This is what the Post-Graduates are doing this (Fall) term :
Literature, “ As You Like I t ; ’ ’ Psychology, Roark’s Psychology
in Education ; Latin, (first section) X X I Book of Livy, (second
section) Cicero’s Orationes in Catilinam ; Mathematics, Went­
worth’s Higher Algebra and Solid Geometry; Natural Science,
Zoology; History, Myers’ History of Rome.
e^ j
C R O S S IN G T H E L IN E .

If the ships all moved in one direction— westward, I mean—
the world would suffer a prodigious loss in the matter of valuable
time through the dumping overboard on the great meridian of such
multitudes of days by ships’ crews and passengers. But, fortu­
nately, the ships do not all sail west. H alf of them sail east. So
there is no real loss. These latter pick up all the discarded days
and add them to the world’s stock again, and about as good as
new, too, for of course the salt water preserves them.— Mark
Twain in ‘ ‘ Following the Equator.”

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Blumni personals.

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ROF. Jo h n D. M in ic h , ’83, President of the Female College,

Lenoir, N. C., was a visitor to Shippensburg for a short
time in September. Prof. Minnich has been very success­
ful in his work at Lenoir.
Mr. D. R. Fogelsonger, ’89, who was elected teacher of the
Grammar School at Newburg, has resigned to accept a position
as book-keeper for the Geiser Company of Waynesboro, Pa. Mr..
Chas. W . Hykes, ’88, has been elected in his place. There were
forty applicants.
“ School Commissioners Reister Russell, John P. Clark, and
Talbott Jones, who are also the Trustees of the Franklin High
School at Reisterstown, met yesterday in Baltimore and decided
to appoint Prof. Albert S. Cook Principal of the school to suc­
ceed Prof. Z. C. Ebaugh, who was recently appointed school e x ­
aminer of the county. The appointment was made by the unani­
mous vote of the trustees.
Prof. Cook is only twenty-five years of age and for the past two
years has been Principal of the High school at Bel Air, Md. He
is a native of Greencastle, Pa., and graduated from the Cumber­
land Valley State Normal School, Shippensburg Pa., in 1889.
He afterward entered the Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg and
took the Sophomore Course. He completed his Classical Course
at Princeton University from which he graduated with high hon­
ors in 1895. He has had a successful career as Principal of the
Bel Air High school and was very highly recommended for his
new position, Prof. Cook is probably the youngest man ever
appointed in this state to such an important position as teacher.
— Baltimore Sun.
Mr. Ralph Gettel, ’96, who has finished his apprenticeship in
the Altick Drug Store, Shippensburg, left on the 1st of Septem­
ber for Philadelphia, where he will enter the College of Pharmacy.
Mr. Lloyd Burkholder, ’98, of Lamasters, Franklin county,
has entered the Altick Drug Store as a student in Pharmacy.
Miss Mabel Geiger, ’93, has been promoted to the first assist­
ant principalship of the High school at West Pittston, Pa. This
is a marked compliment, as Miss Geiger was the only one of the
four teachers in that school who was re-elected.

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Mr. Geo. W . Atherton, ’78, a teacher in the Reform School
at Washington, D. C., spent a few days in Shippensburg during
the first part of September, reviving old friendships and associa­
tions. More extended notice of Mr. Atherton will be found in
the Class History of ’78, on another page of the H e r a l d .
Mr. W . E. Fohl, ’91, is now a Mining Engineer at Belle Ver­
non, Pa.
Miss Flo Walters, ’89, went to North Wales, Pa., on the 27th
of August to take charge of one of the schools there. Her go­
ing to a new place has been made very sad from the fact that she
was to have boarded with her friend Mrs. Jefferis, ’91, a notice of
whose sudden death appears in another column.
Miss Blanche Wagner, ’93, who has been teaching in Eititz,
Pa., will this year teach at Ardmore.
Miss Eaura B. Staley, ’86, will again have charge of music
and drawing in the schools of the Eower Merion District, Pa.„
with headquarters at Bryn Mawr. Miss Staley has had her sal­
ary raised to $65.00 per month.
Mr. Carl V. Diener, ’95, will teach the grammar school in
Mt. Union, Huntingdon county, this year.
Mr. J. Shearer Wolff, -96, who has been teaching at Shirleysburg, Pa., will enter Harvard University this fall. Mr. Wolfl at­
tended the Summer School at the University and by means of
this and private work during the two years.since his graduation,
was able to pass the examinations for entrance to the Sophomore
class. He has also secured a position on the Harvard Advocate
which will be worth five hundred dollars a year to him. Mr.
W olff was a member of the Normal foot-ball team in ’96 and has
also played since graduating ; he announces that he shall try for
the Harvard ’Varsity team.
Mr. C. A . Deardorff, ’91, who had been taking a post-grad­
uate course at Shippensburg, has left to take a position as VicePrincipal of a high school in Osage county, Kansas.
Mr. J. M. Nycum, ’97, is now a passenger brakeman on the
P. R. R. He has the run from Altoona to Pittsburg.
Mr. W . H. Hendricks, ’97, who taught last year in Westmore­
land county, has secured a better position in the Principalship of
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Miss Edith Cole, ’96, is teaching at Green Grove, Lackawanna
county.
Miss Marion Flickinger, ’97, goes from Schaefferstown, where
she taught last year, to the schools of Newport, Pa.
Mr. W . M. Rife and Mr. J. S. Heiges, of the class of ’91, who
graduated from Ursinus College at the last Commencement, have
both been elected to desirable positions. Mr. Rife will be Princi­
pal of schools at Narberth, Pa,, and Mr. Heiges at Derrick City,
McKean county.
Mr. G. Preston Fckels, ’90, is principal of schools at Glen
Olden, Delaware county, Pa.
Mr. P. A. Fishel, ’90, leaves Oberlin, where he has been
teaching, to take charge of the schools of Elizabethtown, Pa.
Mr. John H. Parret, ’98, will enter the Lancaster Business
College, Lancaster, Pa.
Mr. James W . Eckels, ’80, a lawyer of Carlisle, Pa., has just
returned from an extended trip through Canada.
Mr. John Deardorff, ’93, is now in the U. S. Mail Service.
He has the run from New York to Pittsburg.
Mr. John Hoffman, ’93, is a second year medical student at
the Hahneman School, Philadelphia.
Mr. J. L. Rhodes, ’96, and Mr. E. H- Rhodes, ’98, will both
go to Mercersburg College during the coming year.
Mr. John McCune, ’78, who is an expert accountant at 80
Broadway, New York City, recently visiited his father, Mr. E. J.
McCune,. Secretary of the Board of Trustees.
Maud Eby, ’94, and Pearl Beistline, ’97,! were recent visitors
to the School.
A number of the graduates of Shippensburg will enter colleges
this fall. Some have been noted elsewhere. Others are Mr. Robert
Cunningham, ’94, who goes to Lafayette; Mr. Roy Harris, ’98,
to Dickinson; Mr. W. H. Horning, ’98, to Jefferson Medical
School; Mr. Frank Lehman, ’98, to Hahneman Medical School;
Mr. James Means, ’98, and Mr. Thomas Gray, ’97, to Mercers­
burg; Mr. Henry Baish, ’95, and Mr. O. G. Myers, ’96, to Leb­
anon Valley College: and Miss Ethel Smiley, ’97, Miss Sue Brinley, ’96, and Miss Georgia Craig, ’94, to Shoemaker’s School of
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Mr. A . B. Sollenberger, ’92, was recently graduated in medi­
cine at the University of Maryland, and Mr. C. E. Greason, ’92,
at the Hakneman Medical School of Philadelphia.
Mr. Ira Long, ’94, returns to Gettysburg College to take up
the studies of the Junior year. Mr. Long was out of college two
years, during which time he was engaged in teaching.
Mr. Leslie Omwake, ’93, who graduated fromUrsinus College
last year, will this year enter the Yale Divinity School at New
Haven, Conn. Mr. James McAllister, ’93, a member of last
year’s class at Gettysburg College, will go to the Theological
Seminary, at Princeton.
Mr. M. W. Garrett, ’93, taught for five successive years at
Newton Hamilton, Pa. This year he becomes Principal of the
Hazle Township High School, Jeanesville, Pa., at a salary of
$90.00 per month.
Miss Sara A. Roth, ’94, will teach the coming year at Chalfont, Bucks county, Pa.
Miss Zula E. Trostel, ’91, will teach at Ambler, Pa., in the
Cheltenham District, during the year o f ’98-’99.
Miss Margaret Deardorf, ’95, has secured a school at Adamstown, Lancaster County, Pa.
Mr. Oscar Cunningham,’ ’95, has been elected Principal of the
schools at Bell wood, Blair county.
Mr. H. H. Shenk, ’94, was recently chosen editor-in-chief of
the Ursinus College Bulletin.
Mr. G. C. Bollinger, ’95, will go to Macungie, where he will be
associated in his work with Mr. W . N. Decker, a classmate of his
while at Normal.
Mr. H. F. Strine, '96, is a student at the Bellevue Medical
College, New York City.
Mr. C. M. Best, ’94, has been elected captain of the Lafayette
foot-ball team. Mr. Best’s executive ability has caused his com­
panions to dub him “ The Little Corporal.’’ He will graduate
from Lafayette next Spring.
Mr. H. J. Wickey, J93, Principal of schools at Middletown,
Pa., has been incapacitated for work by serious illness. We are
glad to learn that at latest report Mr. Wickey was very much im­
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Miss Maria Young, ’97, will teach this year at Steelton, Pa.
Mr. John H. Myers, ’89, Mechanicsburg, Pa., has just returned
from a tour of several months in Canada and the northern counties
of New York.
Miss Mary Lear, ’98, will take a course in the Business High
School, Washington, D. C. She then expects to enter the Gov­
ernment Service.

flDarriages.
G a rb er — F r e e m a n .— A t the bride’s home on Thursday eve­

ning, December 2, 1897, by Rev. W. D. F . Scott, G. W.
Garber, '97, to Miss Alice R. Freeman.
Pa r r e t t — M cL a u g h l in .— On Thursday evening, July 14th,
at the U. B. parsonage in Hagerstown by the Rev. A . M. Evers,
Mr.John H . Parret, ’98, of Chambersburg, and Miss Ethel Blanche
McLaughlin, of Shippensburg.

^Locals.
Fall Term opened with a large attendance of old and new
students. For the first time in years the ladies outnum­
bered the gentlemen. A t present the ladies and gentlemen
are both quartered in the main building, but some time during the
term the ladies will be moved into their new dormitory. The con­
tract for the building of a new steam plant on the ground purchased
from the Himes Estate has been let, together with the plumbing
of the new building. The furniture has already begun to arrive.
The young ladies are very anxious to get into their new quarters
and seem delighted with the arrangements that are being made
for their comfort and pleasure.
The senior class of this year contains thirty day students.
This is a much larger number than we have ever had before.
Evidently the townspeople realize the advantage of having a Nor­
mal school in their midst.
Miss Eleanor J. Lockwood, who has had charge of the music
department of our school for the last four years, was married to
Mr. Webster L- Chandler, of Ogdensburg, N. Y ., at her home in
Burlington, V t., on the third of September.
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When Uncle Sam made his call for soldiers at the beginning
of the late war with Spain, there was no rush among our students
to enlist. The school, however, was not without representation.
Among the soldier boys we find Mr. Pearle Taylor, ’91, who be­
longs to the Governor’s Troop, of Harrisburg, which troop was
sent to Porto R ico; Mr. Jerome Miller, ’99, also a member of the
Governor’s Troop •; Mr. Robert- Stine, a student of last year;
Company C, 8th Regiment and Mr. William Angle, a former stu­
dent, who belonged to the Naval Reserves and saw service on board
the converted yacht Elfrida. Mr. Angle was a student at Prince­
ton University when he enlisted and, having received an honorable
discharge from service, will enter upon his work as a member of
the Junior class of that institution during the fall. Mr. Bruce
Trimmer, ’94, also left college to enlist, being at the time a Senior
in Bucknell University. Bruce is a member of one of the Penn­
sylvania Regiments, the 12th we think.
The engagement of Miss Bertha Coulter, of Danville, Pa., a
member of last year’s faculty, to Mr. Geo. S. McLean, a trus­
tee of the school, has been announced. The H erald extends
congratulations.
The Music Department is in a flourishing condition. Miss'
Barnum reports a large number of private pupils with prospects
for more.
The Model School opened with a large attendance. There
are about seventy interesting children in the different grades in
that department. The chapel of the Model school was repainted
during the summer, and now presents a most attractive appear­
ance. The Seniors have begun their practice teaching and are
delighted with the opportunities offered them for learning the
best methods of training children in the various subjects taught
in the public schools. The classes in the lower grades are re­
ported to be particularly interesting this year on account of the
large number of bright “ tots” who are now taking their first
steps on the road to wisdom.
Those in charge of improvements to the buildings and grounds
were not idle during the summer: The main building was much
improved by having the exterior wood work repainted in lighter
colors so as to conform to the style of the new buildings. The cam­
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care of the grass during the summer and after having passed
successfully through the siege of the hot summer weather, it now
delights the eyes of the students and townspeople. The trees on
the campus have been carefully trimmed, so that the 'view of the
buildings from the railroad has been very much improved.
Mr. M. M. Horton, whose daughter, Miss Ada V . Horton, has
charge of stenography and typewriting in the school, paid us a
visit during the early part of the term. Other visitors were Dr. H .
W . Fishel, of Harrisburg, Pa., at one time Principal of our Model
»School, and Mr. W ill Nell, of Steelton, Pa., a former student.
The Senior class will this year have special methods in Draw­
ing; one period a week will be devoted to instruction in the
teaching of this much-neglected subject. The Seniors have also
begun their regular Friday morning Rhetorical exercises.
Miss Fitch, of the Elocution Department, and Miss Barnum,
teacher of Music, assisted at an entertainment given, in the Meth­
odist church on Thursday evening, September 8th. The Shippensburg Chronicle has the following to say about them : “ I f pos­
sible Miss Fitch excelled all previous efforts before a Shippensburg
audience and was warmly applauded. Her first selection, “ King
Robert of Sicily,” was especially fine.
“ Everybody was eager to hear Miss Barnum, the new teacher.:’
of Music at the Normal, and nobody was disappointed. She has
a lovely voice well trained and executes difficult music with ease.
Without doubt she is a decided addition to the Normal Faculty
and to the musical circles of the town.”
Prof. Bieber’s class in German has begun work. The class
numbers twelve. They are reading Anderson’s Maerchen.
A telephone exchange has been established in town with the
central office at Hosfield’s shoe store. Miss Alice Fenstermacher,
1 ’96, will have charge of the central.
Mr. Jerome Miller, a member of the Governor’s Troop, of
Harrisburg, anticipating a mustering out at the end of his sixty
days’ furlough, has come back to the school as a member of the
Senior class. Mr. Miller has the distinction of being the only sol­
dier boy in the school, and his neat uniform, which he is compelled
to wear until mustered out, attracts considerable attention. The
Governor’s Troop, to which Mr. Miller belonged, was at Porto
Rico for a short time doing guard and skirmish duty.

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Ube Christian associations.
HE first meeting of the Y . W . C. A . this fall was an out of
door song and praise service, led by Miss Ada Horton.
Those who were present will not soon forget that meeting.
The work was almost entirely voluntary; a very large number
taking part. The little band of Christian workers seemed to be
holding a consecration meeting, the influence of which is still
felt in the life of the Association. There seems to be mote spirit­
ual interest in the weekly m eetiu «- ; this year, probably due to a
greater number taking an active part.
The nominating committee of t" ' Y . M. C. A . made its re­
port at the regular meeting in Jun
id the following officers to
serve for the ensuing year were una, imously elected: President,
J. W . Billow; Vice-President, A . D. Hoke; Recording Secretary,
G. W . Hershman; Corresponding Secretary, S. W . Swigart;
Treasurer, J. Irwin Ruff. A t the regular business meeting on
September 6th, V . I,. Zentz was elected chorister and J. Irwin
Ruff organist. The new committees have been appointed by the
President and the prospects for good work are quite promising.
Already many of the new students have joined the Association
and the devotional meetings have been spirited, interesting and
very helpful.
The membership committee of the Y . W . C. A . has been ac­
tively at work, and nearly every girl in the school is now either
an active or an Associate member.
Rast year the Y . M. C. A.'adopted a new singing book for
use in their meetings, and recently the Y . W . C. A . decided to
use the same book— Soul Winning Songs. The music at the last
joint meeting was spirited and inspiring, adding much to the en­
joyment of the program.
The Students’ Hand-Book of ’98 which has been distributed
among the students by the Christian Associations contain much
information about the school and the town, and serves as a very
useful guide to new students.
A t the first meeting of the Y . W . C. A . in September, the
treasurer, Miss Bessie Rerch, reported a balance in the treasury
of $23.00. It was very encouraging to the Association to start
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Miss Ella Smyser, of Dillsburg, Pa., was elected Correspond­
ing Secretary of the Y . W. C. A . to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Miss Eulu May.
A class in Bible study has been organized with Prof. Roth as
leader. It numbers fifty ladies and gentlemen. The class has
taken up the study o f'“ Normal Eessons,” by Jesse Eyman Hurlbut, D. D.
A reception was given on September ioth by the Associations.
It was an exceedingly pleasant affair. Miss Fitch and Prof. Roth
had the arrangements in chargexgnd the success of the entertain­
ment was largely due to their c^orts. After the formal reception
all assembled in the Chapel.¡where a short program of music,
recitations and other enterte
ig features was given. Miss Barnum sang “ The Switzer’s l lream of Home,” and the enthusiasm
with which she was recalled was an evidence of the pleasure she
gave to her hearers. Refreshments were served in the dining­
room, which had been tastefully decorated for the occasion.
Small tables were scattered throughout the room and the students
gathered in groups of fours to enjoy the delicacies served them.
The custom of giving a joint reception at the beginning of each
term seems growing in favor, and neither association would care
to go back to the old way. It gives an opportunity for the old
members to become acquainted with the new, and for all to show
their desire to do what they can to help each other in the social
as well as in the religious life of the school.
Mr. E. C. Harvey, the College Secretary of the Y . M. C. A .
of Pennsylvania, has resigned and gone back to Bucknell Univer­
sity as a member of the Junior class. Mr. E. D. Soper, Dickin­
son, ’98, has been chosen in his place. He will visit our Y . M.
C. A . on the 18th of October.

L IN C O L N .

His was the tireless strength of native truth,
The might of rugged, untaught earnestness.
Deep-freezing poverty made brave his youth,
And toned his manhood with its winter stress.
j^B M aurice Thompson in the Youth's Companion,

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athletics.
the opening of the Fall Term the thoughts of many of
the students turned to foot-ball. But the outlook was
very discouraging. Excepting W ills1, ’99, not a single
man who had played on the team had returned to school.
several weeks it seemed doubtful whether Shippensburg would be
represented on the “ gridiron” this year, but at a meeting of the
Athletic Association it was finally decided to put a team in the
field. Practice was begun about the 20th of September.
We learn that it is doubtful whether our old rival, the Chambersburg Academy, will have a team. If they have, several games
will be arranged with them. Other games will likely be played with
Mercersburg College, Lebanon Valley College, Dickinson Prepar­
atory School and the Harrisburg High School.
Among the new men, Kell, ’99, and Rice, ’99, are showing up
well at half-back. Coover, ’00, bids fair to be a good player.
The material throughout is much better than was expected, and
the prospects for a good team are encouraging. Profs. Bieber and
Eiekels will act as coaches,
A glance over the base-ball material shows that the team next
Spring will be very strong. Prof. Bieber is expected to pitch.
Kell, catcher on the ’97 team, will play. Other old players are
Carl, Rice, Gettel, Drawbaugh and Eckels.
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E t u S h e a r e r , ’99.]

society held its first meeting on Friday evening, Septem­
ber 2d.
When the members discovered that the President and
Vice-President who had been elected by the society at the close
of the past school year were not returning to school, a special
meeting was called. The society elected for their President Mr.
Jacob Klepper and for Vice-President Mr. Hanlin.
A t the first meeting as we looked over the assembly our eyes
fell upon the “ New Seniors,” those who were Juniors in ’98, and
who felt proud to take up the work of Philo where the Senior
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Has* of ’98 had left off. hooking farther on we were delighted
to see other faces, faces of those who had been here some years
before and who had come back to finish their Normal course, at
the same time determined to work for the success of their society.
Going a little farther back we smiled upon other strange faces.
These were boys and girls who were: anxiously waiting for the
President to call up Miscellaneous Business. Then they would
hear their names proposed for membership and have them enrolled
as “ true and active members of Philo.”
A play was not given the first night as has been the custom
but was kept for a later date.
The glee club of the society has a large number of members
and practices twice a week.
It is the wish of our society that the general debates be made
interesting and we think we already see improvement in that
direction.
A t the first meeting in the Model School we had with us many
old members, among these was Miss Fou Martin who gave us two
well rendered recitations.
The election of new officers was held on Friday evening,
September 23d. The following were elected to serve for one
month: President, Mr. Reed; Vice-President, Mr. French; Sec­
retary, Miss Shearer; Critic, Miss Gray.
Philo’s members seem to appreciate,the fact that their society
work is as much to them intellectually as any one of the branches
of study.

iFlormal Xiterars Society.
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b y

G. W. H ersh m an , ’99.]

we trace with a retrospective eye the scenes of past
times, memory adds new colors to events. Well do we
remember the time when we made our first appearance
at the C. V . S. N. S. to enjoy the educational advantages which
it furnishes. How we were met at the stile and given a warm
greeting by the members of the Normal Fiterary Society, which
sent a thrill through our hearts. Since that time the members of
the Normal Society have not been idle, but have grown more
enthusiastic as was plainly shown at the opening of the Fall
Term.
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A t the arrival of every train a number of Normals were on
hand to greet old members and new students that might be per­
suaded to adopt as their motto, ‘ ‘ Science, Friendship and Virtue,
and become true advocates of the “ White.’ ’
The outlook for the coming year is very encouraging, and the
members have returned with the hope and anticipation that this
shall be a year which shall stand foremost in the history of the
society. In order to have this success, it is necessary that every
member feel his individual responsibility to do the work.
Since the opening of the term many interesting programs have
been rendered which have equalled if not surpassed those of pre­
ceding years. The music forms one of the principal features of
the evening’s entertainment, also the debate, recitations and es­
says. .
The exercises of Friday night, September 23rd, deserve special
mention. They will long be rememberedby those present. A t the
close of the evening’s entertainment the society was addressed by
Mr. C. A . Deardorff, ’91, who gave â very interesting talk on the
past history of the society and urged us to be always loyal to the
white.
Mr. C. E. Yost, of Middletown, Pa., will preside over the So­
ciety during October. Miss Mellie J. Stouffer, of Dillsburg,
will be Secretary .
The Editorial Staff of the Normal Gazette for 1899 consists of
the following persons: Editor-in-chief, C. E. Yost'; Editress-in­
chief, Nellie Welker ; Assistant Editor, G. W. Hershman; Assist­
ant Editress, Bertha Gramm; Committee on Advertisement, F. E.
Swigert, Chairman, W . B. Kell, E. C. Detweiler; Committee on
Exchanges, G. E. Zimmerman, Chairman, Phoebe Kisser; Com­
mittee on Personals, W . N. Eehman, Chairman, Nellie Nickles,
Eleanor Nevin, J. W. Singmaster ; Committee on Contributions,
C. S. Forry, Chairman, Gertrude Krall, G, W . Henry.

A SU N SET.

A crimson, gray,' and gold
Enchantment to the eye ;
Some artist saint spilled all his paint
Adown the western sky.
The Puritan,

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Clippings,
Above the chaos of impending1ills,
Through all the clamor of insistent strife,
Now, while the noise of warring Nations fills
Each throbbing hour with menaces to life,
I hear the voice of progress !
Strange indeed
The shadowed pathways that lead up to light.
But, as a runner sometimes will recede
That he may so accumulate his might,
Then with a will that needs must be obeyed
Rushes, resistless, to his goal with ease;
So the new world seems now to retrograde—
Slips back to war, that it may speed to peace.
And in that backward step it gathers force
For the triumphant finish of its course.
—Ella Wheeler W ilcox in the September Cosmopolitan.
J*

War is destructive, wasteful, brutal; Yet
The energies of men are brought to play.
And hidden valor by occasion met
Leaps to the light as precious jewels may
When earthquakes rend the rock.
The stress and strain
Of war stirs men to do their worst and best.
Heroes are forged on anvils hot with pain •
And splendid courage comes but with the test.
Some natures ripen, and some virtues bloom,
Only in blood-wet soil; some souls prove great
Only in moments dark with death or doom.
This is the sad historic jest which Fate
Flings to the world, recurring time on time—
Many must fall, that one may seem sublime.
—Ella Wheeler W ilcox in the August Cosmopolitan.

T H E FREE B O O TER .

Drunken with dew, a bandit bee
Across my flower garden goes;
The noisy knave, what recketh he
To stab a beetle, rob a rose?
—Robert Loveman in the Puritan.

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IN A P P L E T IM E .

In apple picken’ years ago, my father’d say to me,
“ There’s jest a,few' big fellers, Jim, away up in the tree.
You shinny up an’ git ’em. Don’t let any of ’em fall;
Pur fallen fruit is scercely wuth the getherin’ at all.”
I’d climb up to the very peak o’ that old apple tree,
’N’ find them apples waitin’. My! What bouncin’ ones they’d be!
Then, with the biggest In my mouth, I ’d clamber down again,
- ’N’, tho’ I tore my pantaloons, it didn’t matter then.
Since then, in all my ups an’ downs, an’ travelin’ around,
I never saw good apples,'boys,' a lyin’ on the ground.
Sometimes, of course, they look all right; the outside may be fair;
But when you come to taste ’em, you’ll find a worm hole there.
Then leave behind the windfalls, an’ the fruit on branches low
The crowd grows smaller all the time, the higher up you go.
The top has many prizes that are temptin’ you an’ me,
But if we want to git ’em, we’ve got to climb the tree.
—Ernest N eal Lyon in the August Munsey.