Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1886 — Page 3

LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Ai Teacher and How to Tmcfu Ve the Xditor of the Indianapolis •Journal: I bare no desire to antagonize my brethren and array myself against those whoae experience in teaching is greater than my own, and whoae success is better, but there is a reason somewhere for the fact that people are not satisfied with the public schools. Complaints are heard on every hand, and these, in my opinion, hate evidence of being well founded. Teachers themselves cannot have failed to see that the lavish expenditure of public money for thejeupport of schools does not yield an adequate return, and the teacher, I think, is responsible for this waste of the people’s money and of the pupils’ liuie. Too often ho feels no deep, unselfish interest in the welfare of his scholars, and sometimes the strenuous efforts he makes to impress on his charges’ minds his own superior wealth of knowledge and moral worth are not justified by his well-known character and attainments. He attends the sessions of the county institute and the four or five weeks of the normal prefix, “stands in” with theconnty superintendent, and succeeds in having his moral character and scholastic acquirements certified to in the form of a license to teach. Men remarkable for nothing but their immoralities and their general unfitness as teachers, “bull” their way through, term after term, butchering and blundering along with le3B care for the welfare of their boys and girls than the farmer feels for bis calves and pigs. Yet, notwithstanding the great number of sneh instructors, and the probable harm that results from their unworihiness, indifference and ignorance, 1 believe the foundation for most of the criticisms wo hear may be looked for in the “improved methods.” The modem teacher is loaded down with new methods, and the teacher with anew method is anuisance. Sometimes he is burdened with the idea that his chief business is to teach his pupils how teaching should be done. He “takes the hoard” and recites well, and convinces the class that if there is anything he doesn’t know and cannot explain, that particular thing was sent to oblivion ages ago on account of its slight importance. Ho remarks, incidentally, to his admiring listeners, that they must not expect to do these things as well as he, not yet, bat, that in the dim and distant future, when the dizzy height of knowledge has been climbed, after years and years of patient, faithful labor, the light will begin to peep through, and they can then behold, far above them, tho sunlit summit upon which he stands and looks down. He uses Harvey’s Grammar as a textbook, and assumes to disagree with the author. Harvey is ridiculed until tho pupil loses valuable time iu wondering whether the the teacher will attack Ray’s Arithmetic next, and prove that three times two is not six, or assert, on the authority of some celebrated professor in history at the University of Danville or Valparaiso, that tho story of the discovery of America by Columbus is a fable, or paralyze the geography class By demonstrating the time-honored theory of the revolution of the earth on its axis to be a delusiou and a snare. Ho initiates his pupils in the mysteries of the objective subject and subjective object of the infinitive verb and the quasi-retroactive participle. or whatever he calls it, and finds himself each evening a good deal nearer the grave on account of the severe mental strain he undergoes for the sake of unadulterated truth. He parades vtp and down, back and forth, industriously, to Icefip prder and let the children admire his graceful carriage. Now let me saj% just here, that the teacher who can not keep his seat and control his school has not the genius of command, and he who can and does not lacks the good naanen to avoid making a spectacle of himself. In either case he ought to sign a petition to the county superintendent to revoke his license. The teacher should keep quiet, and the scholars should do the same. When he moves around all eyes are centered upon him, consequently he shouldn't move around. He should remain at his desk, with his face toward his pupils, and require them to keep their faces toward him. It is his business to hear hi3 classes recite and to see that lessons are well prepared—-not to do the reciting or the studying ' i< Jr TnrT'scßbol. If he would manage this successfully he must not advertise himself, ala street parade, as the most attractive menagerie on the road. Ten or fifteen minutes each week devoted to the traveling circus part of the proram me will fulfill the requirements of the aw, and satisfy everybody concerned, if he can bo made to believe it Look back and you may see that your quiet, silent teachers were the most successful and the best liked. A teacher should prohibit whisperiug, borrowing and lending, and the assisting of one another. Children should be required to study, or at least to put on the appearance of it. A lazy boy condemned to look at his book will finally read it to vary the monotony. Let foreign objects alone, and embrace new methods as yon would a rattlesnake. Don’t condemn the text-book, for the probability is that it will he exchanged soon for one not half so good. A free circulation of the people’s money requires that school books should be changed frequently. But keep to the text-book as lone as you use it. If Harvey is wrong, write to him and have him correct the error, hut don’t expose his ignorance to your boys and girls. The boys might throw stones at him if they should meet him, and the girls would titter in his face. Keep to the textbook, and let your pupils learn the side issues after their leisure of a finished education has come to them. B. w. c. Ridgeway, Ind., Dec. 30.

Brazil and the Coal Regions Again, ifo the £ditor of the Indianapolis Journal. Please allow me, through your columns, to notice a letter from Brazil, Ind., in Wednesday’s issue of your paper, in order to correct any misapprehensions that might arise from the reading of some statements made in it. Allow me to say, first, that the article discussed in that letter was not written for the Sunday Journal, bat was written two weeks since for Saturday’s issue, and for good reasons existing in the office was not printed; and the writer had already planned for its suppression, as being a little late in publication tor efficiency, when a courteous note from the editor announced ita appearance. Second, the writer of the article in which Brazil was mentioned denies that in that article there is one assertion made upon the writer’s own responsibility derogatory to Brazil, any of its industries, or the morals of its citizens. The coal regions in general were discussed, and Brazil was mentioned as a point at which gospel temperance work was begun. It is the business of the president of the W. C. T. U. of Indiana, where appeals are made to her for special work, to make special efforts to answer such appeals. Tne appeals from the coal regions hare net only come from Brazil and other points in Clay county, but from Fountain, Vigo, and several other counties where there are coalmines and the attendant manufactories If those appeals, with the statements that accompanied them) were made without there being such a condition of affairs as to warrant them, those who made those appeals and gave those statements must be held responsible, and not the writer, who quoted from them. If it is not true that in Brazil the number of saloons is largely disproportionate to the number of inhabitants, then those citizens of Brazil who made the statement must be held responsible for it. If it is not true that there have been hundreds (1.500 was the number given the writer) of miners drunk on pay-day there, a prominent railroad official uttered the slander. If it is not true that those men gave to their families four of five dollars a week to live on, and spent the rest at the saloon, then a railroad official made a misstatement If there was not great need of reform work there, then a large stockholder in a mining company misunderstood the sitnation, and the enthusiastic letters received hy the president of the W. C. T. U. within a woek or two over the triumphs of the gospel and temperance there, are over something that was not needed. If the statement that one saloon-keeper alone claimed that 1 be lost SBOO on the last pay day because of the temperance work going on there;” and the statement that “many men went homo sober ou that sight who had not done so for years” on account of the same work, the writer who made them must be held responsible. The statement in regard to women not daring to go abroad, eto, was told the writer publicly in reference te another town and wa* net mentioned in connection with the Brazil work. The writer ia loath to believe that}

. ——______ daring a late visit in Brazil, all the statements made in regard to the need of poshing the temperance work that was in progress were only for effect, and not because there was not great need existing. Mrs. Hussey and other citizens of Brazil were present when these statements were made, as well as those made by citizens of Coal Bluff, telling of the drunkenness there, and the need of work. If those statements were not true they should have been refuted then. All thestatements given in the article in Sunday’s Journal were made to the writer by citizens residing at different points in the coal regions. Most of them are in writing, and the letters could be published if space could be given. A letter from Snoddy’s Mills, Fountain county, lies before me, asking what can be done there, with temptation presented to tho mining population in the form of seven saloons within a radius of 300 feet, ail selline without license, and selling on Sunday as well as other days? I would not have taken any of your valuable space for this matter, but did not wish it to be thought that there is a difference in our organization where none exists. The president of the State Union and the W. C. T. U. of Brazil rejoice together over the grand temperance work that is in progress there. w They rejoice together over a “White Ribbon League” of more than two hundred men who have signed the pledge and are ready for active work; over the large accessions to the Woman’s Union; over the awakening of temperance sentiment; over the grand loyalty of the ministers of the gospel there, who are carrying on the meetings nightly with such successful results, sparing neither time nor strength in their earnestness and zeal; over the encouragement these results give to push the work in other places. Whether the statements iu regard to the condition of affairs in Brazil have been exaggerated or not, the writer will rejoice fully as much as its loyal citizen, Mre. Hussey, if the effort now being made there shall result in removing, in any degree, the one dark spot upon the fair face of the prosperous and growing town of Brazil. In conclusion, while we commend the loyalty of our friend and co-worker, we recommend her to read (not hastily) the letter she controverts, and notice in what connection the name of her town is mentioned. Josephine R. Nichols, President Indiana W. C. T. U. Prohibition in Kansas. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: As it is for the interests of everybody interested in the various phases of the temperance problem to know what are the facts, I give you the results of my inquiries into the workings of prohibition in Kansas. At Topeka I put tho question to some of the best citizens—among them Hon. John Guthrie, judge of the District Court, and Rev. Dr. F. S. McCabe, formerly of Peru, Ind.—and the reply was, “Prohibition is a complete success. Topeka is the largest city in Kansas, and if it works well here, it is fair to say it works well throughout the entire State, for the liquor interests here were larger and the opposition more determined than at any other point Prohibition is thorougly enforced in Topeka. There is not a saloon in this city of 20,000 people. During the last year SIO,OOO in fines have been collected, and some twenty law breakers have been imprisoned. But the question is settled and the law is triumphant. This talk about the druggists filling the place of the saloons is nonsense. Os course, occasionally a druggist is deceived, but they are not attempting to avoid tho law, and are acting in good faith. The change in public order and morals consequent upon the enforcement of prohibition has been wonderful. The lowa people have made some mistakes, but in tho end prohibition will be a success there also.” Now, the facts as given by such responsible men as these I found corroborated by the absence of liquor shops and drunken men. No prohibitory law will ever completely extiognish the sale of whisky any more than any statute against murder or larceny will completely stop theft or murder. The real test must be, are life and property more, and how much more, protected in these States where these penal statutes exist and are enforced than in those States where their existence and enforcement are nominal? Is life more safe in Mississippi or Massachusetts? So with prohibition. Are there less saloons and drunkenness in Kansas than Indiana? If so, prohibition is better than license. But, it does not follow, because there may be some violations of the liquor laws in Kansas, therefore' prohibition is a failure. lam only giving the facts such as I believe them to be. lam not arguing the right or wrong of prohibition, nor saying whether or or not Indiana is ready for prohibition. The study of remedies is often quite as important as the study of diseases. What is one man’s cure is another man’s kill. And public diseases and their cure are governed by the earner considerstious. Facts precede principles. Enthusiasm is no substitute for experience. Deg 26,1885. D. P. Baldwin.

In Memory of General Hackleman. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Jonrnat: We are informed by General Morris, one of the State-house Commissioners, that there will be at least eight places in and about the new State house suitable for placing statues or memorials. Now, it will be very generally conceded that no more deserving or appropriate name or character can be suggested for such recognition than that of the late Gen. Pleasant A. Hackleman, who was killed at the battle of luka, Miss, during the late unpleasantness; not simply because he was the only general Indiana had killed ia actual battle during the war, bat more especially because he was the ideal of the Indiana volunteer soldier. But it is not the purpose of this article to enter into a history of his life and character, but merely to call attention to the matter, and to request his comrades in the late war, especially the survivors of the oid Sixteenth Indiana Regiment, to go to work in time to secure this much-deserved recognition of one of the great men of Indiana who has been shamefully ignored up to this date. Indiana will honor herself far more than she can honor P. S. Hackleman by doing this sensible act of justice to his memory; and we suggest that there be a meeting of the survivors of his old regiment, called to meet at an early day, in this city, to take some action in the matter, as General Morris also informs us that it will require some action of the Legislature to secure the desired statue on memorial, and, therefore, it will be necessary to begin the work as early as pooible. William Judkins, Robert E. Smith, E. P. Thompson, John Kensler, Oran Perry, Em F. Ritter, Late of Sixteenth Indiana Regiment. • 5 The State Officers and the Police. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Those who criticise the State officers for their officiousness in dictating to the Police Commissioners that such and such men must be put off the force, and such and such put on, and that this line of policy or that must be pursued or the commissioner offending will be removed “for cause,” have failed to carefully read the following: “Section 17. The said Governor, Secretary, Auditor and Treasurer of State shall keep a sharp oversight of the police force and see that they* behave in a proper manner and give no offense to the criminal classes, and in case they do they shall demand the prompt removal of such chief or other patrolman, and if said board refuse or neglect to obey the orders of said Governor, Secretary, Auditor and Treasurer of State, he or they thus refusing shall be removed and one or more appointed who will obey said order.” See Acts of 1883. Page 292. It is the most absurd thing in the world to suppose that the Legislature intended to leave the management of the police force to “three men of good moral character, sober and discreet,” without the oversight of the appointing power. There are only sixteen sections in the aet as printed, and only 291 pages in the official book. The above was strangely crowded out w. Nrrvous headache, —cannot work, —lie in bed. Jacobs Oil curat headache.

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Tho innumerable lovers of Stockton's unique stories will be glad to learn that this writer will mako frequent appearances in early numbers of The Century. In January will be given a complete short story by him, entitled “The Clover field’s Carriage,” a story of life in “Old Vir l gmia,” and in February a novelette will babegun with the characteristic title of “A Borrowed Month.” The two years of its existence now closing, have been to the Andover Review financially so successful that an enlargement has been decided upon. Beginning with tho new year 112 pages will be issued each month, or 1,344 pages each year. The price will be increased from $3 to $4. Mr. T. B. Aldrich, the editor of the Atlantic, who writes extremel} little in these days, contributes to the January number of that magazine a story entitled “Two Bites at a Cherry.” In the same number appearthe opening chapters of Miss Murfree’s new serial, “In the Clouds. Lippincott’s, for January, comes out with a new cover design, black and red on creamcolored paper. The contents are from the pens of such famous writers as George Eliot. W. E. Norris, Gail Hamilton. Mary Agnes Tiucher, Ernest Allen, Brander Matthews and others. The January number of St. Nicholas is loaded to the guards with good things. Among the writers are W. D. Howells, Mrs. Burnett. Susan Cooledge, Helen Hunt, H. H. Boyesen, and others of scarcely less note. The number is for the Christmas and New Year holidays. Mrs. John Sherwood's “Royal Girls and Royal Courts,” in the December and January Wide Awake, deals with the Italian court, and present Qneen Marguerite as a very studious and learned lady; the episode of the American Misses Stuart is true, amusing and instructive. Henry Bacon, tho artist, who was a Marblehead boy, sends over from Paris to the January Wide Awake some interesting particulars con cerning “Floyd Ireson’s Rido.” The article is entitled “The Dumb Betty Lamp.” MAGAZINES RECEIVED. Macmillan’s Magazine; Macmillan & Cos., New York. The Overland Monthly. 120 Sutter street, San Francisco. The Presbyterian Review: Charles Scribner's sons. New York. Magazine of American History: 30 Lafayette Place, New York. The Inland Architect and Builder: Tribune building, Chicago. The Art Age: Turnave & Gilliss. 75 Fulton street, New York. Literary Notes. The total number of volumes in the Bodleian library is 432,417. A first folio of Shakspeare at the recent Ellis sale brought $2,025. Mr. W. W. Astor’s novel, “Valentino,” is already in its third edition. Miss Murfree, the novelist, is sketching nature in the Tennessee mountains. Harpers have added “Mrs. Dymond,” a novel by Miss Thackeray, to their Handy series. The subject chosen by the French Academy for the prize for poetry next year is “Pallas Athene.” The March volume of the “Canterbury Poets’ series is to be a selection of tho best poetic work of Walt Whitman. Archdeacon Farrar’s Bampton lectures on “The History of Interpretation” will shortly be published by the Macmillana Mr. W. Clark Russell, the author of the novels of the sea, has been rendered almost helpless bj chronic rheumatism. He has just sailed for

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