Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 January 1881 — Page 5

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THB PEOPLE.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL Js a good medinm of communication between Terre Haute business men and tbe people who buy their goods— Because, It has the largest circulation of any paper published In this city. Bat not on this account alone, but—

Because, It goes Into the family circle on Saturday evening, and daring Saturday night and Sunday and is read thoroughly, advertisements and all, by every member of the family who can read, after which it is loaned to the neighbors.

Because, After having been read by the borrowers and buyers in the city, it is enveloped, stamped and sent to some friend or relative in some other town or city.

Because, It is a paper -which reaches all classes, high and low, rich and poor.

Because, Of Its very large circulation among farmers. Because, It is an especial favorite with the ladies, who do a large part of the buying of household goods, in addition to the Jewelry and dress goods they wear, and are critical readers of advertisements.

Becausc, Two editions are published, Thursday and Saturday evenings, and all advertisements go in both editions for price of one issue. Because, Jts rates arc cheaper, all things considered, Urnn those of any other paper in the city.

City News.

PLENTY of amusements next week.

IT costs about §18,000 a year to police this'.-ity. THK fire department is now in tip top running order.

THE trial of Elijah Pierson has been sot for noxt Tuosday.

INTEREST in the temperance meotings is constantly incroasing.

THE Stato capital has been kopt lovel with Torro Ilauto talent this week.

THERE woro not so many New Year's calls this year as in somo formor years.

THE Friday evening entertainments have been rottunied at the Baptist church.

THE police aro running in all tlio unlicensed dogs they can lay their oyes on.

THI: sum of $15,49-1.98 was paid last year for maintaining tho fire department.

JAMEH DUNN, tho tomporance worker, will speak at the Opora House to-mor-row night.

THERE is no scarcity of ice water and not a single case of sunstroke has been noted this week.

How many can say they haven't covered that 0 with a llguro 1 in writing the date 18&1 this woek?

MONHTEW-catflsh,

weighing seventy-

live pounds, was caught this week in tho Wabash near this city.

OUB people aoom to havo been decidedly oii their good behavior this, tho first week of tho new year.

IT is understood that tho grand jury, now in session, will find an unusual number of indictments.

TUAMTS, in considerable numbers, aro seeking tho station liouso for lodging, which is given, but no meals.

THE nextlocturo of the temperancc course will IWJ delivered by Hon. "N\m. Kggleston, on Monday evoning.

THE Ringgold Band lias leased Dowling llall—tho Light Guards retaining tho lower rooms for arn\ory purposes.

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THE early spring candidates are budding and will soon ty) in full bloom. Ah how many of them will be blasted.

AN admission feo of fifteon cents will be charged for the temperance entertainment at tho Opera Houso to-morrow evening.

FR. ,^K TUOMM.EY was taken down to the penitentiary this week, for three years, tho motion for a now trial being overruled.

THIS holidays ore nice things to come onco a year, but ain't w© all glad when they are over, and wo settle down to regular business again.

THERE is no lack ot ice this season. All who are putting it up will have their houses chuck full, and be able to pile several chunks on top.

THK temperance workers watched the old year out and the new year in, and during the owning forty-six persons resolved to drink no more liquors.

THE Nail Works of this city paid its employes, last year, $185,000. ThoWaUinh iron Company paid $172,000, and South I lager mid about $135,000.

THERE is one good feature about the past cold snap—tho notable absence of railroad accidents usually attending such seasons of extreme cold weather.

JOHN HoorENUAUNRR, eighty-five wars of age, and for forty-five years a resident of this city, died at his home on xouth First street, Wednesday morning.

m-RJNo the year 1S80, Seath A Wager made 1$7» cars at their works. It's a pity they couldn't have turned out one more, ao a* to have had a coincidence of ftpurtss. —The 'Utile man eloquent" at the Oj orn House Sunday night.

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A SENSATIONAL seduction case is set for trial in the Criminal,«£Sourt next week.

THE town clock has been pd tin charge of H. F. Schmidt fc Co., and correct time a

THE residende of Will Cruft narrowly escaped burning last night. Cause, a defective flue. Damage, $150. .^4

THBRB were eighty-three entertainments at the Opera House last year— and we got the best that were going. The house was not opened during the months of July and August.

WOODLAWN cemetery has been in use for forty-four years, and over 9,000 bodies have been laid away there. The interments for last year numbered 403— a greater number than any previous year.

J. W. SHIELDS, an old and respected resident of this county, died at his home soucheast of the city, on Thursday, at the ago of sixty-five years, after a long illness. The funeral services will be held to-morrow morning.

SEVEN persons—four men and three women—have committed suicide in this city within a year. Two of the women used morphine and one strychnine. The men used the pistol, except one, who did tho work with a razor.

THE Express, Gazette and Ledger, at the close of the year, indulged in columns of local chronological review. Such work shows enterprise, but it is a sorry fact that few people so far forget themselvos as to read it through.

IT bogins to look like the days of the Criminal Court are numbered, and that its place will be taken by a superior court. In this case Judge Long will be legislated out, and the new Judge will be selected from the Republican ranks.

AT the sixteenth annual meeting of tho Horticultural Society last Saturday all the old officers wore re-elected as follows: Joseph Gilbert,president Mrs. A. 13. Pogg, vice president Lucy Woerner, secretary Mrs. T. Hulman, treasurer Mr. Soule, H. D. Scott, Mrs. Ponce, Mrs. Schultz and Mrs. Gilbert, executive committee. Tho next meeting will be hold at Sugar Grove school house on the first Thursday in February.

THE stockholders of the Terro Haute and Indianapolis road (Yandalia line) held their annual mooting, on Monday, and elected as directors: W. R. McKeen, Alox. McGregor, Henry Ross, D. W. Minshall, Jos. Collett, F. C. Crawford, and Geo. E Farrington. Those, in turn, elected tho following officers:

Win. R. McKeen, president. Goo. E. Farrington, secretary. J. W. Cruft, treasurer. The following appointments were confirmed for tho ensuing yoar:

W! R. Roney, auditor D. W. Caldwell, general manager Col. J. Hill, genoral superintendent Chas. R. Peddle, superintendent of motive power and machinery F. C. Crawford, paymaster E. A. Ford, general passenger agent H. W. Hibbard, general freight agent, and J. R. Kendall, assistant general freight agent.

MARRIAGE LICENSES. Tho following marriage licenses have been issued since our last report:

Euos W. James and Sarah liny worth. Stephen A. D. Lamb and Effle A. Rlchey. John Roberts and Elizabeth King. Bonlmm R. Stewart and Kettle Hughes. Thomas Schaefenocker and Annio Duan. Henry Roser and Annie Edwards. Hanry I. Robinson and Clara E. Witt. Jacob D. Westra and Ora L. McDaniel John F. Carey and Mattie S. Black. John McMann and Eliza J. Bland.

BALLS.

Tho T. II. A. D. Club gives its first private reoeption at Dowling Hall next Thursday evening.

Tho invitations—elegant specimens of typography from the press of Moore & Langen—aro out for tho fifth annual reception and ball of the Typographical Union, at Dowling Hall on the 17th— Franklin's birthday. Holders of invitations only will bo admitted.

The Ringgold Band announces its fifth annual masquorade on the evening of tho 19th.

Tho members of the Fire Department aro working up a reception and ball at Armory Hall on the evening of February 11th.

AX APPEAL FROM THE LADIES' AID SOCIETY. During the sevore weather tho calls upon tho Ladies' Aid Society increase? and to be able to relieve these calls, the treasury must bo replenished by the public. Tho wards of tho city have two visitors each, who to the extent of their means, assist all worthy applicants. We havo many poor and sick among us, and many aged persons who are assisted regularly from tho funds. Many a home is cheered by tho visit of these, often their only friends. For December one hundred and seventy-seven families were assisted. Tho ladies of the society have secured the vacant room, No. 385 Main street, four doors west of Fonrtib, south side, where they will receive donations for one week, beginning Thursday next, 13th, in dry goods, groceries, aec-ond-hand clothing, money, «fcc. The Society have never yet appealed',for aid in vain, and they trust the same general encouragement heretofore given will be again extended.

Temperance at tlio Opera House Sanday night.

MAKE HOME PLEA SA XT. There is nothing mote pleasing in the home than the introduction of music. In order to make room for stock now constantly arriving, a number of Piano® and Organs, in complete order, will be rented at low rates, at Kuwnera Palace of Music.

INSANITY seems to be on the increase In this locality. Daring the past year twenty-seven persons were sent from this county to the State hospital for.insane. They are: John C. Baumgardner, Pleasant F. Howk, John W. Minnick, Wm. Aue, Redmond Welch, Sylvia Bargees, Helen A. Donnelly, Eliza Calhoun, Levi Ward, Gradia Coordes, Maggie Dixon, Sarah A. Cory, Samuel Fecheimer, Elisha Winburn, John Rush, Frances Barbour, David A. Harrison,

M. Gray, Philipina Altenburger, John Cole, Thos. Burk, Luanda Stewart Mid Lizzie Shackelford. J* ,.

THB ./Etna House at Danville, Ills., is a perfect gem of a hotel, and under its present management, the Danvillians aro mighty proud of it. Heinly & Watson of the National here are the proprietors. Last Monday evening it was a scene of gayety never witnessed in that pretty town. A reoeption was given by the proprietors, and there was an astonishing responce to the invitations sent out, for over three hundred.persons partook of the feast, enjoyed the dance and declared it a most delightful social gathering. The supper lasted from nine to near twelve o'clock, when the floor of the large dining room was cleared, and to the music of Salisbury's orchestra twenty dances wore had inside of three hours.

Terre Haute, Vincennes, Chicago and

VIGO'S VICTIMS.

During the past year Vigo county has sent twenty-five convicts to Jeffersonville, as follows:

May 7th, John Lewis, petit larceny, one year. June 12th, Thomas Sibley, burglary and larceny, two years. lfith, Samuel Perry, petit larceny, two years. 18th, Bird Crowder, grand larceny, two yearn. 2-Hb, Wm. Collins, petit larceny, ope year.

gery. two

^September^ith, William Burns, grand larceny, two years. November 16th, George Kernan, grand larceny, one year. 17th, William Graham, petit larceny, one year. 26th, Thomas Welch, burglary and larceny, one year. 29th, Charles Kline, grand larceny, one year.

December 13th, William Bischoff, forgery, two years. 15th, Christopher Oschler, grand larceny, two

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Frank Trombley, assault with intent to kill, three years. 27th, Joseph Pierce, grand larceny, one year. 27th, William Calso and John Murray, grand larceny, two years each.

THE DEATH ROLL

For the month of December the following interments wew ntsde in Woodlawn Cemetery:

December 1st, Mrs. M. J. Lock wood, GG yean, Paralysis. 1st, Child of John 8hirkinder, fire Months, pneumonia

1st, Child of Isaac Worrel, 1 year, disease unknown. 34, Joseph Hickman, 72 years, general debility. 8d, Child of F.' A. 8toecker, one month, heart disease. 3d, Mrs. Nettie Budlsill, 25 years, spinal disease. 4th, Child of James P. TOwnley, 1% years, carlet feve* 5th, J&mes Hutchinson, 86 years, consntop tlon. 5th, William H. Hayes, 66 years dropped dead. 7th, Child of Joseph Carr, 1 year, burned. 7th, Infant of Alvin H. Whited, 1 month, congestion. 7th, Child of James Land ram, pneumonia. 8th, Child of Joseph Bilby, 7 months, lung fever. 8th, Infant of John Wueruele, still-born, 9th, General John Scott, 83 years, general de bllity. 9th, Mrs. Mary Bartlett, 73 years, general debility. 10th, George G. Stewart, 33 years, consumptlon. 12th, Louis Hay, 82 years, consumption. 12th, Child of Christ Schafer, 5 months, dropsy of the brain. 12th, Louis Haynes, 27 12th, Infant of Laura disease unknown. 12th, Georglana Howell, 14 yeant, typhoid fever. 13th, Martha Curtis, 20 years, rheumatism of the heart. 13th, Stephen Rice, 73 years, general debility. 14th, Richard La wish, 74 years, general debility. 14th, Mrs. Anna Gaylor, 28 years consumption. 15th, James Lowe, 21 years, typhoid lever. 15th, Child of Comadore Cheek, three months, lung fever. 17th. William Norman, 12 yean, inflammation of the brain. 19th, Mrs. E. M. Knapp, 72 yean, consumption. 19th, Mrs. M. A. Markle, 62 yean, general debility. 20th, Mis. M. A. Woodson, 86 yean, consumption. 20th, William Sheldon, Si yean, typhoid fever. 21st, Hiram Smith, 41 yean, abscess in side. 22d, EllcaB. Williams,fcOyears,dropsy. 23d, Infant of Charles Riser, 14 days, bine heart. 23d, Infant of T. J. Oottam, still-born 25th, Oliver O. Morrill, 58 years, consumpl 28th. Mrs. Jane Scott, 80 yean, lung feyer. 30th, Infant of W. L. Vanghom, still born. 81st, Child of G. C. Dodson, 3 months, pneu monia. 31st, John Stewart, 22 years, suicide. City.... Country and elsewhere- 4 42

Total.

TERRE HATTTE S A I I E N A I

14 months,

—Hear Jimmie Dunn at the Opera House Sunday night.

—Havo those worn-off spoons repiated by J. W. Hellish, 523M Main street.

—MONEY TO LOAN to Farmers on the best of terms. RIDDIJS, HAMILTON & C*.

—Orders for HAY, CORN, OATH or MILL FEED left with Wright & Klufman, grocers, corner Wabash and Seventh, a Fourth livered

LEAVE YOUR ORDER

to-dit with Wright A Kaufman

also a full assortn the best brands pawm, •»..

OUR SCHOOLS.

SOME OBJECTIONS TO THEM.

REMARKS OF HTN. N. G. BUFF AT THE HORTICULTURAL MEETING.

At the monthly meeting ofthe Horticultural Society last Saturday, the main' jsnbject for discussion was: "What are the objections to our school system

——, The remarks of Hon. N. G. Buff caused Martha A. Bright, Martha J. Stevenson,. a stir, and have provoked much Wm. Davis, Geo. W. McMurtrie, Olive

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other cities were represented among mate

Long years of experience in the school room, of"high and low degree, have helped

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February 3d, John Moore, petit Urceny, ona protection. year. I am your brother—a prodigal brother overtree, robbery and larceny, _return^ng {rom

^Stb^Frank Lukes, assault with Intent to kill

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two years. old family board. 21st, William Hammond, grand larceny, two

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the guests. ,, opinions of school teachers.

broad right and duty of the State to educate her children simply for good citizenship, he digs deeper and wider than is necessary for this superstructure.

The same right and duty would require the State to provide good mechanics, good farmers, good physicians, good hiwyers, good preachers, good husbands, good wives, good everything that goes to make up a good State. The proposition is wrong.

The original object of the common school was, and should still be, to educate the masses of poor children, who have not the means or facilities for an education within themselve&i

The early'ichool laws of New York, and of the New England States where the common school had its birth, declared it to be the object to establish common school* for the poor who were unable to attend the private or select schools.

The rich and well to do in life had no need of them nor have they now. The poor have always needed such aid, and need it now. They have no other hope for gaining life's ladder except through the common school, or pri vate schools supported by charity.

What is our common school system do ing for its true beneficiaries—for her own children—the poor? The reports of our superintendents of public instruction show that right here in Vigo county, under the shadow of these immense piles, —these imposing school edifices, nearly one-half of 4he children of school age never enter the school room, and that only 39 per cent, of such children attend school with any regularity, so that sixtyone out of every hundred children get no benefit from our common schools. 1 have it from official authority that this 61 jwr cent, is made up almost entirely of children in the street, upon the highways and In places of idle ana vicious resort, where they grow up to fil^our prisons, poor houses and dens of infamy. The ignorant, the idle and the, poor make up this class. Here is food for the common schools^ such as our benevolent ancestors establuhed. The system must have grown to be very weak if it has net an arm long and strong enough to reach out and gather in this starving and famishing crowd of neglected children. Why is this so. Why fail to reach the very multitude for whom it was created? It may be for the same reason that drives the multitudes from many churches since thev have become so intensely respectable that none but the rich ana fashionable can afford or care to attend them. The poor must worahip God in humbler temples or not at all.

consumption.-# I not assailing the church howeveronly illustrating my subject. But I believe I will risk the assertion that our common schools have become too respectable. Too much the pride of the rich who don't need them, and too far removed from the poor who are starving for want of them. And this I take to be one of the radical defects of the present common school system. It has been taken from the poor and given to the rich. If the experiment were possible .let us buy a

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family ticket for a bed-carrier, a lamp lighter or a street cleaner, with his wife and family of six or eight children, and take them to this Opera nouse on graduation night. Let them see the gas light, the elegant wardrobes, the gilt and glitter of the stage, boards of dignified officers, teachers In bodies, music from the masters. All of which they might enjoy

ing enough money to ran a district school

IbeautiJal mtoxtmon the stage, until

they have lost all resemblance to a school

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jour they have lost all resemblance to a school

Sunday dinner, they have dressed tar Beys, lad or a school lass, and look more like a chickens, geese lamkWin Arnnr h*H or A

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butters, jelly, mince meat, maple syrup, Let such a family behold all this and my honey/buckwheat flour, cabbage, saner word lor it they will sink in dispair. If kraut, sweet potatoes, apples, and any- they had hopes before they are now blasted thing yod may want in their line of buai- forever. There can be no such career nfir* and outcome, for them. Those flowers

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comment. Whether the speaker correct in every particular or not, there is much food for thought, and we give below in full

KB. BUFF'S BPUBXS. •_

To wy anything here by way of advene criticism upon the common school system of Indiana might seem too much like assaulting a friend in his own house.

For this elegant temple (the Normal school building) is but an outgrowth of this popular and msch cherished system.

Propriety and justice would therefore forbid that we should utter a word that is not full of respect for our honored hosts, those teachers.

I wish that all present would

feelings toward and joy

And should any of my good friendB here grow warm under some imaginary insalt and make a thruBt at a lawyer,^he wonld probably miss his aim and strike a teacher.

This warning is given solely for self-

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harsher fields to have a feast around the

J{ we c^Q,t hav„ the fatted caif

April 2d,"Harry Waggy, grand larceny, one least have peace, and no quarrel between ye*r. 19th, John Hilton, petit larceny, one year. 26th, James Hlckey, burglary and larceny, two years.

liitb, Wm. Collins, petit larceny, one year. .. i- noBsessed of a serious de25th, Timothy Keeshan, petit larceny, one

year. lusion. 28th, James Bunch and Charles Johnson, for fhe able paper read by President Brown JuivSd!^vflliam Cochell, asiault with intent

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any impression that a personal assault is to be made upon any one. No personal or professional assault is intended, nor is it deserved.

I indeed should feel very guilty to strike a school teacher for in the face of each and every one I behold a brother—a sis-

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me and thee. The education of children is by far the most important and the most difficult problem of life.

The parent or teacher who imagines that he has discovered any process or system that is perfect and that is universal in

application is possesseu ui a twriuua ue

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kill, two years. mendition, but when he lays the foundaEbntomhsr 91th wnn«m BtirnR. rr &nd lar0f our

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DAYS OF REDUCTION.

did it. They can have no flowers at home except the simple morning-glory that climbs a string by the door post or over the window. They own no house nor yard, and do not live long enough in one place to own or care for a rosebush.

They leave the place either hardenod or heartless for the future. The system which permits, and by custom makes necessary, such expensive and offensive displays may very well become a choice select or private school for the independent, but is no common school for the common poor.

This is only a Bingle illustration of what I will call the over-refinement of our common schools.

Severe demands in personal appearances and demeanor, and the large expense necessary for attendance, and other requirements distasteful or unattainable to the poor have expelled many good children from the school into the streets.

These matters cannot be followed into detail, and I will name only one item of expense—that of school books.

Five or six readers, three or four grammars, SB many geographies and arithmetics, with innumerable copy and exercise books all costing four times as much as they .are worth, with an absolute certainty that they will be changed every year or two—for what object no one can tell—all this is a severe tax upon many families who have one or two children to provide for, but for a poor family with six or eight it is simple prohibition.

I have it from good authority that publishing houses having the publication of school Dooks make enormous fortunes off of a single set of school books, and that, too, after paying from $50,000 to $100,000 for their introduction—that is to get teachers to recommend, and school officers to adopt them.

Why cost $100,000 to get the best book recommended and brought into use in the Gommon schools?

I would not condemn any degree of expenditure for the education of children whose parents can afford it and desire it.

Neither would I deny them rich and beautiful exhibitions of taste and lovelineu.

I would certainly encourage respectability in associations and deportment. But to erect a standard so exalted snd refined in the common schools and deny the poor any other, is simple expulsion.

The severe demand of time to complete the course in our common schools is an absolute bar to more than one-half the children of school age.

A course of from eight to twelve vears is more than can be spared out of the lives and labor of a great majority of children.

Anything but this regular course is not recommended nor hardly allowed. But there are other forms of over-re-finement in our common school system.

I venture another proposition—that many of the methods of instruction now prevalent are dtbilitaiing and actually paralysing to the mind.

I venture to say that there is too much system in the system. Too much machinery in the machine. Too much order and too little order. Too much talk and too litle study.

Too

Dolmans down to $2.95/

Finer goods in proportion.

Good Cloaks, $1.25. $3 Black Cloaks, $3.95.

Fine Cloaks marked down.

Gray Twill Flannels down to 121-12 cts. White Wool Blankets $1.75 a pair.

,' Finer goods in proportion.

Gray Blankets $1.00 a pair.

Better goods in proportion.

CHILDREN'S CLOAKS

$1.50. $2.50, $3. Finest goods equally cheap.

•HORSE BLANKETS,

$1.25, 81.48. Each grade is a bargain.

LAP ROBES,

Very warm and nice, $2, $3, $4.50, $5, $6, $7, $8.

FOSTER BROS' ONE PRICE HOUSE

The only house in the Dry Goods trade of Terre Haute that is ONE1 PRICE| and we have $500 that says so!

much glitter and too lit

tle gold. System, however, is well. No person or business can succeed without it.

But every person and every business cannot be made to conform to the seme system.

Every successful man has some system, but no two sucoesafnl men have the same system.

Strang and independent minds will not submit to systems and rules not their own.

A whole host of shining lights in the world's best history have been school rebels and rule breakers, both as boys and men.

There have been two extremes in the methods of the common schools—the old methods and the new. The contrast is strong.

They used such books as they hsa in the family or could boy most conveniently, snd were little controlled} by the teacher.

They bought foolscap paper And stitched it together for copv-books. The teacher made good goose-quill pens snd set the copies, and the scholars learned to write around and beautiful hand.

They recited only when they got puzzled. There wss but one general class in the school, and that was the spelling class.

It recited twice a day—noon and night. If a scholar was late or missed a day it wss because he had extra work to do for

Ifoder this system boys and girls wonld go through their hooks just as fast as their would carry them. There was no lagging behind or waiting for a sluggard uaasmate. They learned to read, write, cipher and spell. They wonld stand upon the floor bv the hour spelling the hardest words in the language.

It was not unusual to see a boy master pike or Ray's aritmeti* in two terms. Through these methods came np the great men of the generations past and passing. The scholars, divines, lawyers and statesmen who have msde the name

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of America immortal came up through these old methods of learning. The new methods need no description. Intense order and perfect system prevail {'classification is perfect.

If a boy or girl comee to the city to study srihtmetic, he may wait six months before'he can fall into line in a proper class. Or he may be told that he is not ready for arithmetic by a year. It is no answer to say that he wants to study it. That his parents desire it. That he hss a special need and object in studying it, He must wait for a class.

The doors of the building are opened" at a particular minute. Tbose who come too early have a stone step to stand upon. Those who come too late get but a black mark and a low average at the clone of the term.

The children are drilled like Boldiers to the music of dumb bells, hand bells, pianos and organs. They walk aud talk, work and play, eat and drink, and even think under the restraint of some rule.

The boy that-runs too fast has his legs broken, and the one who runs too slow is put upon stilta in order that ranks, grades and lines may be preserved.

Amusement is one of the branches of study and is being reduced to a science. The idea of a teacher giving instruction to healthy boys and girls how to have fun is too absurd for a moment's consideration.

An innocent old Josh Whitcomb thought of Bending his boy from the farm to an eastern college. He got a catalogue and found the amusements of ball-playing, rowing ana yachting fully provided for, and seriously wrote to the president for information as to whether they taught arithmetic and grammar, and if so woat the extra charge would be.

J. W. Rilev, the Indiana poet, in his inimitable way analyses A pea-nut as an object lesson teacher would do before his class.

The sise, form, color, component puis of hull, shell and kernel, are nccurately detailed from the teacher's siund-point, but by no means as a boy would describe a pea-uut.

The present system seems to take it for grantea that children have only the germ, and that the school is to make the mind. This iB a great mistake.

It would amaze some teachera«if thev could only see how far some of their children are beyond themselves in reach and range of thought.

I well remember that about all I ever learned of botany I gathered from a class of bright girls I was pretending to teach and the only credit I give myself in the matter in that I succeeeded in making them believe that I was teaching them, while thev were in fact teaching me. We were both profited. I gave them opportunity, and they gave me experience, just what we both needed.

Children need more opportunity and less system—except their own system. Give an ambitious and smart boy a fair start and wide opportunity, and no power on earth, unless it would be the modern common school system, can break or check his onward career.

By this time it msv bo gathered that I have objections to tne common school system SB now organized and administered.

The objections named suggest the remedies proposed. Reduce it to common school for the poor—let the rich take care of themselves. They need no aid.

The system has been condemned in the house where it was born—in New England.

Intelligent men like John Quincy Adams, jr., have weighed it in the balaoce and found it wanting.

They have found by general and care* ful examinations that New England children, after having completed the common school course of 8, 10, and 12 years, are most shamefully deficient in reading, writing and arithmetic.

It is gravely suspected that the same condition of affairs exist wherever the modern system prevails.

Thoughtful men all over the country are raising the same questions and coming fo the same conclusions.

The discussion has onl^ commenced. Time alone can vindicate or work the needed reform.

The system is deep-rooted and has grown prodigiously. It would be dangerous to destroy or uproot it.

It may be safely pruned back to the parent stem. Let us examine it carefully and then lsy the ax upon the branch, or at the roo^ if need be. :s

Sign of the Big Bonnet.

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