The Greensboro patriot [June 9, 1885]

              THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT.
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MM si IIII S. NO. 1HH. , GREENSBORO, X. C TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1885.
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I . regent anil vice regents of
the association, as the members ol
i Itf governing board are termed,
are well known ladies in the States
which t In-v represent, and from
their loug connection with this pa-triotic
work, as well its their high
al standing, their annual meet
ings arc occasions of great interest.
As il ' appointment is for life,
many of the ladies have been con-nected
with the association since
Ij life, ami it.ivi- literally grown
ij in the service. The present
regents, Mrs. Lily I.. Macalister
Laugbton, nf Philadelphia, was
made n regent when quite a yoang
girl, and from the active work
which the association in ita early
and struggling days required she
ad) in assume the more re
-*i...i isible duties of the chief office
when the Brst regent, Miss Anna
P.' unningham, ofSouth Carolina,
passed away. During the past
year the association has been call-ed
ii|K>n in mourn the loss of two
of their number, Mrs. N. \V. Yulee,
tin- wife nl ex-Senator Yulee, of
Florida, and .Mrs. Ella S. Herbert.
the wife of Representative Herbert,
ni Alabama. Of the twenty six
ladies composing the association,
there were present at the meeting
this year fourteen, the rest being
detained In ill health and other
anuses. Those present were Mrs.
Lily L. M.u-alist.-r Langhton, Pa.;
Mrs. Susan E, J. Hudson. Conn.;
Mrs, Mary T. Barnes, D. C.j Mrs.
Pbiloclea Edgeworth Eve, <ia.;
Mrs. Ida 31oeon.be Richardson,
li : Mrs. Margaret .1. M. Sweat,
Me.j Miss Emily Harper, Bid.:
Mrs. Nancy W. Ilalstcad, X. J.;
Mrs. JustineVan Rensselear Town-send,
N. V.; Mrs. Letitia More-head
walker, N. c.; Mrs. K, ■
Read Ball, Va.j Mrs. Ella Basaett
Washington,West Va., Mrs. Alex-ander
Mitchell, W'is.
As maj be seen many of these
ladies come from Ionjr 'distances
and some of them at great personal
inconvenience, and sacrifice. How.
neither personal considers
1 ■ or advancing years seems to
have diminished the patriotic seal,
winch L'T years ago, under the
magnetic promptings of Miss Cun-ningham,
inaugurated this public
work. The idea ol preserving the
home ni <..ii. Washington as a
memorial to the American people
-in.ii>'1 with a woman, and
II was carried into execution'by a
woman. Ii was first advocated in
iIn- year 1850, by Miss Canning-ham.
and owing to her seal and
energy, the women in all parts of
nntrj were interested, and
the work ol raising the necessary
monej went on with so much sue
that in the year 1859the man
si f Mount Vernon, with all its
permauent belongings and 200
seres of the Mount Vernon estate,
was purchased l.y the Ladies'
Motiul Vernon Association, from
John Augustine Washington, Jr.,
00,000, A hunt one fourth of
purchase money was obtained bv
the individual efforts of Hon. Ed-ward
Everett, of Massachusetts,
by the repitition of his oration up-on
the "Character of Washington."
The remainder was raised by or-
*l contributions, uireel dona
the -ales or photographs and
i .1 views uf the house and
grounds, of canes from sticks cut
upon the estate,and from the hold
IIIJ: ni fancj fairs. Alter the place
had been purchased steps "were
taken to improve and beautify the
grounds, but the breaking out of
i caused the contributions
to fall oil. and the association was
able to do inn little except to
guard and protect the property.
Since that time, however, through
tie- annual revenue derived from
the throngs of visitors that come
I" the place, as well as the liberal
donations of money and Interest-ing
relics, ihr bouse and grounds
have been kept in order, and the
attractiveness of the place increas-ed,
both for the men- pleasure
Hid those who have an in
li lest in memorials of bygone days
and customs.
The name Mount Vernon was
given to Hie place in honor of Ad
miral Vernon, of the British navy.
Lawrence Washington, the half
brother of Gen. Washington, and
owner of the place at that time,
had served in the British army be-fore
Carthageua when Vernon was
the naval commander. Lawrence
Washington died in July, 175:.',
leaving a wife ami infant daugh-ter.
The Mount Vernon estate
was bequeathed to that daughter,
southern Progress*
A correspondent of the Chicago
Inter Ocinit.A paperthat is not giv-en
to praising the .South, has been
traveling through the South, and
it is evident that his experience
was ft revelation. After compar-ing
the South to a juvenile Bip
Van Winkle, whose lusty condi
tiou is not appreciated by the peo- CO
pie of the North, he says:
•■However, let our marble men,
our coal men, our iron men, our
manufacturers, come down hero
and go over the route which it has
and. in the event of her decease I been my .privilege to take, and they
without issue, the property was to
pass into the absolute possession
of Oeorge Washington, to whom,
in Ins will, Lawrence hail entrust
ed the chief care of bis all'airs.
Gen. Washington was then only
twenty years of age. The daugh-ter
did not long survive the father,
and Mount vernon became the
property of George Washington,
Where he lived after his marriage,
and where lie hurried from the
cares of state to superintend the
erection of buildings and the plant-ing
of the crops. In a letter to a
friend in London soon after bis
marriage he wrote concerning Ids
home: "No estate in the United
States is more pleasant|\ situated
—in a high and healthy country,
ill a latitude between the extremes
of heat and cold, and on one of the
finest rivers in the world." The
visitor today, as he stands on the
eminence in trout nf the bouse and
looks down the sloping lawn anil
through the vista of forest trees to
the river's edge, and then out upon
the broad surface of the shining
river as it winds along between tin-thickly
wooded shores, will not re-gard
this encomium as exaggerat-ed.
And as he turns and looks
through the w ide doorway opening
into the generous hall and then
out upon the broad grassy lawn at
the rear, dotted here and there
with large trees, he will be inclined
to think that lor a country place
Mount Vernon has attractions even
in these days. In addition to the
associations which cluster about
the place, and which even in a
country where there are no ruins
and only a callow past evoke a
certain consideration, Mount Ver-non
is charming because it is so
real. It reminds one of the old
farm with which he was familiar
years ago, and while it is a South-ern
farm, with the distinctive lea
tares of slave quarters and a bouse
on a grander scale, yet I he repose
and rural simplicity appeals to
the mind and calls up memories of
the past, whether 'he visitor be
from the North or the South. To
those who were familiar with coun-try
life in the South before the war
came with its changes the place
has almost a pathetic interest.
At present the old place is en-livened
by tin- presence of the lady
regents, and while their occupation
of the house is only temporary, a
sort of camping out, yet it gives
the rooms a home like appearance.
During the day they occupy tin-stale
dining room and group them
selves about a long table, which is
Covered with papers and ink and
pens, as indications of the business
"ill opeii their eyes. They will tinil
the South, which has been so long
regarded as almost incapable of
producing manufactured products,
in a fair way to undersell the
North in her own markets with
Staple goods. The manufacturing
and business revival in the South
is simply marvellous, and our
Northern men must look well to it
or they will be badly left on many
things.
••If the South on its part will
continue to cultivate more toler-ance,
more respect for labor, and
more general education, aud the
North will acquaint itself with the
existing state of affairs here, show
consideration for the feelings nf
the i pie and invest here as at
home with the knowledge that the
laws protect all races, creeds, and
politics alike, then will the tidal-wave
of prosperity, already start-ed,
sweep over Hie South."
The lii'rr (hi n it's correspondent
is just learning lo appreciate what
In- would have appreciated years
ago if hi' had made a tour of the
South while iu an unbiased frame
of mind, and his remarks arc preg
nant with suggestions. All the
South has In do is to keep right
along in the road she is travelling
in order to become the most pros
perous region under the sun. Some
one remarked the other day that
the secrel of North Carolina's pro-gress
since I he war was that she
had "made a business of attending
to her own business." Theoxpres
sioil is a gooil one, and is a truism.
Let each Southern State make a
business of attending to her own
business and it will be only a ques-tion
oftime when it will be nnnecea
sary to solicit capital to come to
her.
The Capture el John Brown.
From an account in the .June
Century of John Ilrown at Harper's
Perry, written by one of his pris-oners,
who was in the engine house
during the insurrection, and after-ward
held the rank of captain in
the Confederate army, we quote the
following: -'When Lieut. Stuart
me in the morning for the final
reply to the demand to surrender,
I got up and went to Brown's side
to bear his answer.
•■Stuart asked, 'Are you ready
to surrender, and trust to the mer-cy
of the Government V
"Brown answered promptly, 'No,
1 prefer to die here."
"His manner did not betray the
least fear.
'•Stuart slepped aside and made
the signal for the attack, which
was instantly begun with sledge-hammers
to break down tbo door.
'•Finding it would not yield, the
soldiers seized a long ladder for a
battering ram, aud commenced
beating the door with that, the
party within tiring incessantly. I
had assisted in the barricading,
fixing the fasteniugs so that 1
could remove them upon the first
effort to get in. But 1 was not at
the door when the battering began
and could not get to the fastenings
until the ladder was used. 1 then
quickly removed the fastenings,
and after two or three strokes of
the ladder the engine rolled par-tially
back, making a small aper-ture,
through which Lieut. Green,
of the marines, forced hiniseif,
jumped on top of the engine, and
stood a -second in the midst of a
shower of balls, looking for John
Brown. When be saw Ilrown be
sprang about twelve feet at him,
and gave an undcrthrust of his
sword, striking him about midway
the body and raising him complete
ly from the ground. Brown tell
forward with his head between bis
knees, and Green struck him sev-eral
times over the head, and, as I
then supposed, split his skull at
every stroke.
"I was not two feet from Ilrown
at that time. Of course I got out
Of the building as sunn as possible,
and did not know till some time
later that Brown was not killed
Popular I :II.,I ■. Concerning Health.
l'rof. Geo. EL Kobe, of the Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons,
Baltimore, in a recent lecture on
'•Some Popular Errors Concerning
Health and its Preservation," quot-ed
the saying, "One man's meat is
another's poison,"and showed that,
while idiosyncrasies with regard to
certain articles of food or medicines
do exist, they are far less frequent
than is generally believed. Arti-cles
of food which ordinarily dis-agree
may be better borne if dif-ferently
cooked. A more serious
error is that one should rise from
the table hungry. Tho sensation
of hunger is a cry of the tissues lor
food, and should always bo appeas-ed.
Much of the ill health ot brain
workers is due to a lack of suffici-ent
foot!. It is impossible to lay-down
hard rules as to the quantity
of food one should cat, but the re-marks
of the old country doctor
who had lived in good health, do-ing
hard work until fourscore and
ten, might be taken as examples:
"I have always eaten when I want-ed
to cat, as much as I wanted, and
tbo best 1 could get." Another
fallacy is, that all diseases are due
to disturbances of digestion. Gra
ham bread, oatmeal,cracked wheat,
etc., are more difficult of digestion
than "'Me wheat bread.
It is a dangerous error to with-hold
cold drinks from persons sick
with fever. It is cruel, objectless,
and the dangers that are said to
follow it are imaginary. The ef-fects
of alcohol upon the body were
discussed at some length, aiid the
conclusion drawn that alcohol does
not supply heat to the body, but
rather withdraws it. The greatest
danger to the man who gets dead
drunk in cold weather is that he
Wedding Present*.
The Wooden Wedding —The wood-en
wedding is the fifth anniversary
of the marriage. The invitations
should be upon thin cards ot wood.
Or they may be written on a sheet
ot wedding note paper, and a card
or wood enclosed in the envelope.
The presents suitable are most
numerous, and may range from a
wooden paper-knife or trilling arti-cle
for kitchen use up to a com
plete set of parlor or chamber fur-niture.
The Tin Wedding—The tenth an-niversary
is called the tin wedding.
J he invitations may be made upon
cards covered with tin foil, or upon
the ordinary wedding note paper,
with a tin card enclosed.
The guests have the whole list
of the tinner's art from which to
select.
The Crystal Wedding—Next comes
the fifteenth anniversary. Invita-tions
to this wedding may bo on
thin transparent paper, oil colored
sheets of prepared gelatine, or on
ordinary wedding note paper, en
closinjr a sheet ot mica.
The gaests will make their offer
ings to their host and hostess of
trifles of glass, which may be more
or less valuable, as the donor feels
inclined.
The China Wedding—The china
wedding occurs on the twentieth
anniversary. Invitations should
be issued on exceedingly line, semi-transparent
note paper or cards.
Various articles for the dining or
tea-table or for the toilet stand,
vases or mantel ornaments, are all
appropriate on this occasion.
The SUver Wedding—Ocean on
the twenty-fifth anniversary. The
invitations should be upon the
may freeze to death. The use of | finest note paper, printed in bright
alcoholic drinks in health is injuri ' silver, with monogram or crest up
oils, but its medicinal use is valua on both paper and envelope in sil
ble iu many instances. The notion ver also.
that we should not bathe while: If presents are offered by any of
overheated is as unreasonable as it the guests, they should be of silver
is widespread, but persons should and may be the merest trifles or
not remain iu the both loug enough
to become chilled. The traditional
axiom that boils are an evidence of
good health is a snare and a delu-sion-
Prof. Kobe said: "For my
own part, I should prefer to be
It seems that in making the thrust w'{hout that sort of health. Even
Hot..
The question which every boy
discusses at some time or other is, Green Was'
What arc parents good for ' and
not every boy arrives at any defin-ite
conclusion. We have received
a letter from a youth who feels
himself oppressed by what Ireland
is praying for, home rule, and ask-ing
us ''why bins are not born
grown men '"
A boy is an odd sort of institu-tion,
but we should like to give a
bit of advice to this one. It may
seem paradoxical, but it is never
theless true, that when we are in
the gully fluff period we know more
than we do at fifty. When we he-gin
to know that we don't know,
and really think instead of merely
thinking that we think, we are
reryglad
Green's sword struck Brown's belt
and did not penetrate the body.
The sword was bent double. The
reason that Brown was not killed
when struck on '.he head was that
holding his sword iu
the middle, striking with the hilt
and making only scalp wounds."
that we have parents
The ordinary specimen of the aenus
cliaracterottheconlerenees. When /,„„,„ is |,.asl ,■„,„, of ,,is „,.,„,
the boat arrives the regents take a when he needs them most, and
> ! moot fond of them when be needs
them least. A good woman's slip.
per, properly and vigorously ap
plied, is a means of grace if no! of
salvation. Its application has fall-en
into disuse of late, and perhaps
that is the reason why so many
boys are asking what parents are
good for.
The old word for mother meant
house goddess. Iu some Eastern
countries the son who was disobe
found point'"
interest to t.
move about fi
tired in house
their friends who may have come
from the city, or even may be
out some object ol
trangers. As they
'i room to room, at-costumes,
to which
some of the ladies add little caps,
the old house loses the cold aud
dreary appearance which uuiubabi-tetl
rooms acquire, in spite of con-stant
care and attention. As is
usual with old places, improve-ments
and alterations are constant
ly being made, and this year will
prove no exception. The ladies
find that it will be necessary to
spend quite a sum of money iu re
pairs. The old wharf will* be re-placed
by a new one. the floor in
the main hall will be renewed, the
walks repaired, a green house built
and a number of other improve-ments
made, involving an outlay
Of quite a large amount of money.
Tin- association derives its revenue
mainly trom the entrance fees paid
by visitors, and during the past
year there were I7,(MMI visitors,
making the fund from this source
about 10,000. A smaller amount
is obtained from the sale of the
(arm products. The annual rec-line
is sufficient to keep up the
place, but there are many improve
disgraced. She was "the enlarger
of the family," and, as the Pull
Mall Gazette says, "a son might
buy his freedom from duty toward
his father, but could not get free
I'uhllr Spirit.
-i a,. Chronicle.]
The national commercial conven
tiou that has just been held at At
laiita was an assembly that ably
discussed the leading economic
and business questions of the time
and gave that city such an adver
tisemeiit as nothing else has given
il since its great exposition. Half
the great newspapers iu the Union
have published long editorials
about it, all have had dispatches
and letters, and the universal talk
now isot the chances aud prosper
ity and soiindhess of business views
iu the South and in Atlanta in
particular.
now was all this done! Done?
Why by the energy and co opera-tion
of a few leading men of At-lanta.
!t was somewhat dull time.
An advertisement, it was felt,
would come iu very opportunly ;
and so they went* to work and de-vised
this plan of making one. Of
course it cost money—a good deal
of it. Of course it cost personal
trouble—a good deal of it. But
the enterprising men of Atlanta
have a habit of spending both for
•lob, when siilleriag from an aliun
dant crop, could not gain consola
! tion from his would-be comfor-i
ten."
That vaccination docs not pre- '
! vent small pox is a very dangerous
; error, but that it is preventive of
other diseases is equally a fallacy.
Statistics prove that before the in-troduction
ol vaccination deaths
annually from small pox numbered
nearly 3,000 for every million in- I
habitants. Since the practice has
more expensive, as the means and
inclinations of the donors incline.
The Golden Wedding—The close
of the fiftieth year of married life
brings round the appropriate time
for the golden wedding. Fifty
years of married happines may in-deed
be crowned with gold.
The invitations for this auniver
sary celebration should be printed
on the finest note paper in gold,
with crest of monogram on both
paper and envelope in highly burn-ished
gold. The presents,* if any
are offered, arc also of gold.
Tho Diamond Wedding—Few in-deed
may celebrate their diamond
wedding This should be held on
the seventy fifth anniversary day
Laths MM-•. Co.
The Indianapolis Xeics says i
Edwin Byrkit, of this city, has re-cently
made and patented an in-vention
so wholly original and un-like
anything applied to the same
purpose, and so likely to work a
revolution iu an important part of
the business of house building that
it deserves notice. Everybody
knows that the old split oak lath,
and the later sawed pine lath, not
only allowed plaster to crack in the
corners of walls and ceilings, but
accumulated heaps of wet mortar,
between tho lathing and the wall,
where it had fallen through the
■paws of the laths, and this wet
muck would frequently warp the
"washboards" nailed oiithe freshly
plastered wall. Mr. Byrkit's in-vention
dispenses with laths alto-gether,
does away with tho irregu-ar
and springy surface that is so
bard to make the "first coat" stick
to, and allows no possibility of the
plaster a—Man'nvtol'Jll%. TtJir,-,
sort of ceiling of plank, toii?u<x!
ana groovetl lika u ttoor. o-«fc #.7««*
channelled iu tbe b*ok to prevent
it from warning, and the whole
inuer surface plowed a three-quar-ters
of an inch deep at intervals of
an inch or two, the projecting ton-gues
taking the place of a lath, and
doing its service far more effectual-ly
by being wider at the surface
than at the bottom, and catching
the plaster on the projecting edges,
while the solid portion of the
plank keeps the mortar iu place
and prevents its being forced
through and lost in tho hollow of
the wall, as iu the old way. Less
mortar is needed tor any room
thus ceiled, and the solid plank
backing of the plaster secures it
against cracking, while the T-shap-ed
tongues hold it firmly against
any disturbance that would loosen
it. The plastering, in fact, is a
solid mass, tilling certain vacant
spaces in a solid plank wall. The
invention lias been tried within a
month or two, and found to work
as perfectly as was anticipated.
As it costs less, or no more than
lathing work, the probability is
that it will come into use speedily.
The tYumpa.
Tho buwumpeonieii when the hour ii
h°i"?l"mP.s'»'"L-.' Ihe Bid.
The dr."u!3l rue ii
- - !u|.
_ shining..
- the garden iraio
ininK.
4^«a»»MwJr»tafcc the stealthy wink
'.take, a drink
The puewutnp kkw thel!11 ho'' baiting.
And folds him to her b»wm„.
And the mugwump waita lor ulflPr P**.
The liei i-i ,| Verniou.
A monkey and a parrot uHe
Left in a room together
llegnn to light, and fought ft) hard
1 li.-.v nearly killed each other.
Their minrcAi coming homo perceived
Their wrongs they had been righting.
And -ut.l to them. -I'm deeply grieved
lo think that you've hceu fighting."
The m,,nkey really fell luilo bad
In thinking of ho crime;
Tho parrot, gleeful. Bid, -We've had
A nhaol ol a time!"
The Hoarder's Morning s,.|||„,1Uj.
How swift the hours or sleep glide by!
1 hear the -i.;irr .w chinning.
1 lie luaekerel peddler's screeching cry
1 roclauus that day's beginning.
Once moro to drees 1 must begin
That make* tho beot**-'* frr**~
i IM \ nn-.
who woul.l gain raeeestv goal
Must never flirt with alcohol,
Socioly V made op of much that is ■hgcUr.
And ho who would enter it surely wili
His worth will be gauged by the dress on his body.
And never at all by the garb of his mind.
Defeat brave souls can ne'er dismay :
SlniigMf..rward still they press.
And with their failures pave Ihe wav
Thit leads up to ran
Economy wilt alw I pay;
The man who save- is wise.
And tho.-e content with mush to-day
Will one day cat mince pies.
X,,w nature wears a lefOM smile.
1 he girls arc wearing feathers.
And tho dude is out ill In- new while tile.
And a pair of patent leathers:
Ones more tho days are warm and bright,
Ihebird- are gayly singing.
AM the icecream peddler'- Lull at Light
In the thoroughfares is ringing.
II.in. ..in i.-.. ouifju me practice lias i ^ " ., —.'
become general the percentage of I "" I1"''" 1'rc tbe" .<><*'"-''ences that
dient to his mother was publicly, the city's advancement; and this
habit is precisely what has made
Atlanta all it is.
IVtrok-uiii.
Iii the London Nature is an in-ol
bis obligations toward the house teresting article showing that pe
goddess. A great many men who troleu.n was not unknown in the
in their youth chafed against the time of Alexander the (ireat. That
restraints ol home would in their
old age give half their fortune to
see the old mother's face once
more.
The Porpoise lloiiaaza.
RUlaboth lit, Bacon gat-]
The porpoise fishers of Halteia-have
cut Offaud hung up and have
sung the fisher's song of the sea-son,
and if they haven't made big
money they have deserved it, for
in all weather, through sunshine
and storm, for several long mouthi
Emperor must have opened bis
eves when, according to Plutarch,
the barbarians of Media, to show
the King its force anil the subtlety
of its nature, scattered some drops
of it on the street which led to his
deaths has fallen to about one-tenth
of the former number. With-out
vaccination the deaths from
small pox in this country would be
| I."i(l,(M)0 a year. Vaccination has
i not increased other diseases. That
: any one remedy is a cure for all
diseases that afflict humanity is an
absurdity. While hydropathy and
electropathy are unquestionably of
benefit in some diseases, they can-not
be relied upon for the cure of
all diseases.
The Alcoliollr Diseases.
[Quarterly JooggoU.]
An examination of alcoholic in-temperance
in its origin can only
terminate in one result—that is, in
tire conviction that it belongs, both
physically and morally, to the class
of fermentative or zymotic diseases.
Xo mere deprivation of natural ap-petite
will produce it; never does
it exhibit itself till alcohol has been
consumed ; and what is tspecially
to be remarked is that alcohol acts
in the production of the. intemper-ate
habit by poisoning the blood
and arresting the healthy opera-tion
of tho nervous system. It at-tacks
the higher faculties; those
qualities which give a moral tone,
and lead man up to true happiness
and a virtuous life. It dethrones
reason, and retrogrades its victim i
to the level of the brute.
In this manner, ami in no other. ,
the craving lor alcoholic drinks is |
produced—which is always a phys-ical
malady in its inception—until
by continuous indulgence it takes
custom has sanctioned no particu
lar style or form to be observed iu
the invitations. These invitations
may be issued upon diamond shap-ed
cards, enclosed in envelopes of
a corresponding shape. There can
be no general offering of presents
at such a wedding.
Alaska.
Poor expeditions have been sent
lo Alaska within two years, and
have succeeded iu giving us a
knowledge of the magnitude and
possibilities of that once despised
possession, which is inspiring lofty
dreams of national and private
wealth. Its fisheries have return
ed the government an interest of
nearly live per cent a year on the
17,200.000 which Secretary Seward
paid Hnssia for Alaska in 1SC7,
and now it is found that the pos-session
which we then did not want
especially contains vast rivers,
mountains, forests, and mines of
undreamed of riches. Private com-panies
are contemplating the ex-ploration
of the country; there arc
rumors that they are already being
carried on in secret and lor dis-honest
purposes; while a fifth gov-ernment
expedition is nearly ready
to sail from San Erancisco under
the command ot Lieut. George M.
Stoney.
Tins young officer has already
headed two expeditions iu the In-let,
south of the Yukon. With two
men ami a dingey and ten days'
provisions he explored it ."i0 miles.
The Voralag SjrttM. in Teaching.
Illostin Journal of Education.!
One error into which some of our
theorists are. falliug is the notion
that everything possible in the de-velopment
of the mature mind can
be undertaken in the earliest years.
Many of the most important ten
dencics of human nature are of
later development, and are only
blighted or stung to premature ac-tivity
by an attempt at the all sided
training of infancy. One of the
most difficult and delicate offices of
the teacher and tho mother is to
know just when the child emerges
into a new realm of his opening ex-perience,
and to meet it at the
threshold with wise and not too
helpful advice and direction. There
is constant danger that the teacher
will fall into this most dangerous
of all delusions—that she is the
center of the child's universe, aud
bis whole life must be adjusted to
her plans of operation. The simple
truth is that the teacher in any
school is only one of a group of in-structors
iu that art of living which
we call education. The family, the
church, the occupation inlife, soci-ety,
cili/.c.iship, arc the other fac-tors
; and all this work is encom-passed
by that mystery we call the
material and spiritual universe,
moving under the direction of infi-nite
wisdom, beauty and love. Tho
wise teacher sees most clearly what
ortler of faculties live within the
scope of school work, and at what
angle he is brought in contact with
the most marvelous of all creatures,
the little child.
Fart, and l-'ancie>.
—Needles were invented in 1615.
and some men haven't learned to
thread them yet.
—At a hugging sociable iu a
Michigan town it cost *3 to em-brace
a willow, and .'! cents apiece
for elderly maidens, or two for a
nickel.
—Do not bo cast down, my son,
because somebody else profits bv
your labor. The man who open's
oysters is not usually the one who
eats them.
—"My dear," asked Mrs. Wiggs
of Mrs. Diggs, "can you tell mo
why they call them toumurest"
"Vcs,"' was the reply; "it is be-cause
you have to tournuro head
around to sec how it hangs."
—Nurse to fashionable mother—
'•The baby is very restless, nia'm.
I can't do anything with her."
P. M.—"She's teething, I sup-pose
!"
N.—"Yes'm. I think il you was
to take her iu your arms a little
while it might soothe her."
!'"• M.—'-I ? Impossible. I have
not the time to spare. I am just
making ready to attei.d A meeting
of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children, (live baby a
little paregoric."
Current Xotes.
a trout reaches the
ments which the ladies desire to the, haveplied thei. hardV „,'.
lake when their means will allow venturous calling through the
them
The llialii\ "I »iar.
[PallHall Uudgei.J
Here is a horrible battle picture
Irom Suakim. It is taken from a
letter from an officer of the Scots
Onard8. The time of the picture is
the day or two following the light
at McNeil's zeieba:
"When going from Suakim, the
last three miles of the march w
marked
vere
breakers, into the sea. Porpoise
fishing at Battens is as old as the
memory of the oldest inhabitant,
but the present season of 188."> has
witnessed a wonderful develop,
ment of the business. Hitherto
the Hatli-rassians have only taken
the porpoise for his oil, "gcttiii"
upon an average only about seven
gallonsoft.il to the porpoise, but
now the hide furnishes our shoes,
the blubber furnishes our oil, the
Petroleum was used in lamps by
the Sicilians at the beginning of
the Christian era, and it bubbles
up trom the soil on the island of
reaching Children.
I riiiladelplii.i Record-]
A glance backward at the so
called "good old times" will soon
Xante just as it did in the time of convince the veriest pessimist that
Herodotus, more than two thou-sand
years ago. It is said to have
great value as a lubricator when
mixed with other oils, a fact we
would like to whisper in the ear of
John Roach, who is very anxious
to make the Dolphin do what she
was apparently not to do—namely,
go sixteen miles an hour.
The Till,- ol— Willow."
A correspondent sends the fol-lowing
curious complaint to the
iroaum's Journal: The thought-less
cruelty which at the earliest
i moment thrusts upon a woman be
clinched in the death agonv.tlioii.'li I . -' *,,)'.'"''""« "eglected por-| reaved of her husband the title
reduced to little more than bone ! ,*r """'"K «« «'"-' ««>"t as a "his widow" calls for comment and
factor u, the worlds great pro criticism. Hcsolutions of sv.npa
wwenik'tt'tllie ca't,c"h. w"-aVs a°"st,la°rUg'e alansd' ' s,1u,'cVh' *a«*w" o"m"-a'■"n", •no:ltr" b"v"dhreerssneadmteo
larger than at any tune during the but as '-his widow." " The will is
season, but the sunshine and hot published with the announcement
weather came and broke up the that so much is left to the "widow "
l'iedn,,1!!' i ,''""vr n°t.benan' A",1'is i« the result Ol a custom
Oled tor tUe heat. We. believe the begun when a wife was only an an
largest naui reported to ua by our pendage, with no lei '
friends was, as we re The wrong that
,uti\ sinew. The ground was also
thickly sown with hands and feel
dragged from their graves bv the
hyenas, and the awful stench ami
reek of carrion which loaded the
air will never be forgotten, as 1
think, by any of us. I lay alter day
we passed and repassed over the
same sickening scene with our con
voys, iu blinding dust and under a
scorching su bliged to move at
Hatteras
member, 180a is
ra, existence.
in this would
iu the matter of the treatment of
children the world has advanced
rapidly of late There was a time
iu the history of European civiliza-tion
when the father had the power
of life and death over his children,
and there are still parts of the
world where this idea is not ex
tiuct. There was a time, and it
was not very long ago—scarcely a
century—when the only idea of the
school was a place where a school-master,
drilled with a rod or whip,
force*1 unwilling youngsters to tie
vop. the contents of books with
their eyes and regurgitate them
from their mouth in vain repetition
of words. This idea is not dead
yet, because the old style of teach
er is not dead yet; but it is dyiqg,
as dies the darkness of night, be
fore the dawn of the idea that
teaches that children must be
taught to think, and that their
weakness gives no man or woman
the right to ill-treat them.
.\ Waning to Drinker*.
for nearly 400 miles, and the pres
ent expedition is to continue the
work. The river, he thinks, will
rank among the great rivers of the
world ; numerous streams flow into
it, and it is surrounded by dense
forests of spruce and pine and
birch, and by a general richness of
vegetation unlooked for iu 80 high
a latitude.
The Putnam is not so great a
river, however, as the Yutlkon,
which Lieut. Schwatka explored in
18.S3 for 1,800 miles. He crossed
the ciintry 150 miles from Sitka
iu May, to the headwaters of tho
Yukon, where he built a raft and
floated down the stream, through
marshes, deep lakes, and great
canons, where the watei sometimes
rushed for five miles between huge
basaltic cliffs. The Yukon '-is so
long," says Lieut. Schwatka, "that
if its source were at Salt Lake, its
waters might empty into New York
Hay, and its mouth is so wide that
New York would be on one side
and Philadelphia on the other."
Another expedition, under Lieut.
Abercrombie, attempted last sum-mer
lo explore the Copper Itiver,
which is from 400 to 500 miles long,
Keuiliilne I'rlvlleges in Ihe Suuth.
N, w Orleans Titnes-heuiocrat.l
How rapid a progress the women
of the south are making in the
matter of education is well shown
in the University of Mississippi. It
was but a few years ago that this
university was thrown open to
girls, but in that time they have
forced themselves to the front, and
this year they won all the prizes.
A young lady has won the first
honors and will consequently be
the valedictorian. The senior class
will be represented by a young
lady among the speakers, as will
also the juniors, while BUOUg the
the competitors for the sophomore
prize declamation is still another of
"the fair sex." The experiment
tried at Oxford for admitting girls
to the university with the same
privileges as the "male students can
therefore be pronounced a success.
.'.S.ooo Sunday school ( hildreu.
The May march of the Sunday
school children of Brooklyn occurr-ed
yesterday. It is said* that 55,.
000 children were in line. The
army was divided into eight divi-sions,
each of which had a parade
of its own. The church exercises,
consisting of the singing ol the an-niversary
hymns and brief address-es,
began at 2. JO o'clock and lasted
till 3, when the children were
marched to the position in the line
assigned to then. Each division
—tVheu
weight of two pounds or over, he
will destroy more of his kiid iu a
year than he can produce.
—Powdered rice is said to have
a great effect in stopping bleeding
from fresh wounds. The rice pow-der
is sprinkled upon lint, which is
then applied as a compress.
—The first shipment of red slate
ever made to Europe was sen!
within a week or so from North
Grsnville, N. Y. "It is a fact not
generally known," says Jutlive,
"that the only red slate iu the
world is found in four towns ot
Washington county."
—The new Invention for a bal
loon is not so much for recounois-ance
as for waging war in the air,
to be supplied with dynamite bombs,
which cau bo dropped upou a fleet,
a city, a fort, or au encampment of
troops. It promises to introduce
a new and formidable element into
warfare.
—Frances E. Townsley was or-dained
by a council of liaptis't
churches in Nebraska. This is the
first instance, in modern times at
least, of tho formal setting apart of
a woman to the office and work of
the evangelical ministry. The
Methodist Church, though it per-mits
women to speak in its pulpits,
has declined to ordain them. There
have been a few women preachers
like Miss Anna Oliver and "Bible
readers'' like .Miss Smiley, but none
of them has obtained ordination.
This Nebraska case is distinctly a
new thing.
Itorklngliam's fi-iiteiinlul.
iui,i-.;n. Ti
This is the centennial year of
liockiugliam county; in 1785 this
Count] was born, one hundred
years ago, ami as Reidsville has
not bail a 1th of July celebration
since it was a town, let us combine
the two events and have one grand
celebration, one that will give us a
reputation away from home aud
will be of lasting benefit to old
Buckingham. We can have such
a celebration as will draw a crowd
here that will give three times
three cheers that can be heard at
■ the four corners of the county.
* u^!T"U "":..!!";•!. "S ! Wo n0P« °".r ci,-v »thers will take
school had a band of music. At this matter in hand and push it on
„ , m 1 . . I * — "•* .*••»•..•«» *". ".,».!.« ..111. IMISII H l/ll the close ol the parade each school t0 SIICC1.SS with ail ,., a|ld vim
returned to its own church, where j wortuy o|- tlic enterprise of our
the little ones were regaled with nourishing little citv.
U- Journal d' Hyyiene publishes | but ilid not penetrate it far
ice cream and confections.
But this picture was marred by
the bigotry of the managers who
excluded the children ot Cniver-salist
schools from the parade.
Srienre and lla«e Ball.
Science has come to the aid of
base ball players, and announces,
Hallway ■•rojrres* In the African lleaert.
The Time* correspondent iu the
Soudan telegraphs as follows: The
construction of the railway is a
curious and interesting sight. In
advance is a picket of cavalry,
while far off on cither side the
vedettes scout in the bush. At
A