Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — The Study of Local History. [ARTICLE]

The Study of Local History.

We teach our children of tho glorious deeds of tho Greeks at Thermopylae, of Napoleon at Austerlitz, of Ney at Waterloo, of Sheridan at Winchester. Why not teach them as well of tho bravo deeds of their ancestors here at homo? asks Winfield 8. Nevlns In tho New Enland Magazine. Our school histories tell of Bunker Hill and Concord and Lexington, and other homo events, in the same general way that they tell of Saratoga and York town; enough, perhaps, for a general study. But the children of Charleston should know the story of Bunkor Hill In detail; tho children of Concord and Lexington should be taught tho details of that April day In 1775. What more honorable pages In all our history thau those that tell us of the deods of the men of Marblehead, on land and sea, in 1775, in 18 12 and again in 1861 —the pages that tell of Mugford and Gerry and Story, of Phillips and Martin? Yet how little of this tho childron of that town find In their school histories! Wo might go on with the story of the first armed resistance to British aggression ut the North bridge in Salom, tho resistance of tho Worcester yeomen to the Mandamus councillors, the struggle at Ticondoroga and Crown Point, and other historic episodes all over New England. There Is hardly a town In Now England that is not tho birthplace, or has not been the home, of some man or woman whoso memory tho whole country or perhaps all tho world delights to honor. Beecham's Piles cost only 25 coots a box. They aro proverbially known throughout tho world to bo “worth a guinea a box.” Mohammed heurlng ono of his soldiers say: “I’ll turn my camel loose and trust him to God," said to him, “Tie your camel, and then trust him to God.”