Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 December 1896 — Page 5

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MAN ABOUT TOWN.

The public schools of the city of Terre Haute bsve a progressive management. They have an energetic, painstaking, efficient management. Superintendent Wiley is always on the lookout for the best ideas and methods, and yet he attempts to keep expenditures within reasonable and proper limits. The taxpayers of the city are being saved $8,500 this year by a sensible combination of German and English teachers that in no way injures the schools, but simply causes a certain numoerof instructors to be a trifle broader and to work a little harder for the cause.

It will be remembered by those who pay any attention to the public schools that last year there were five special German teachers. They had no regular rooms where they spent all their time. On the contrary, they went from place to place imparting to the youth of the city instruction In their special and exclusive branch. They taught the German language and nothing el.se. This arrangement does not obtain at present. It has been abolished for a wiser and more economical plan. These teachers have not been discharged, but they have been required to take upon themselves additional duties. They have been made teachers of English as well. On the other hand, a number of persons who taught only one language last year, and that English, havfTbeen made to add German to the list of subjects taught by them. •Several rooms have been added to the public schools this year. Places for about ten additional teachers have been created by the advancing requirements of the children. of school age. Hut ten additional teachers have not been employed. Only about half that number have been added to last year's list, and this was made possible without impairing the service by the combination above referred to. It is said that only a few persons are objecting to the arrangement and they are those whose duties and responsibilities have been augmented. Superintendent Wiley thinks that neither English or Gorman is suffering in the slightest from the operation of the plau. Indeed, he is of the opinion that tlje two departments have been strengthened by the change.

That coterie of people which has upon its conscience the serious responsibility of looking after the Intellectual and moral development of the childreu of the city during a large part, of the time has long been doing its best to control the reading of its juvenile charges. For about three years the High school has had something like 1,.KX) volumes in Its charge and these have been divided up into sets. It has been .the practice to send the sets out among the districts to le read and return«'d. It was decided at the beginning of the present year that this manner of handling the books was brooming too cumbersome and that some other arrangement would have to lie hit upon. Accordingly, a little branch library was established in each district to be under the supervision of the tvnehers. Among these libraries "J,000 volumes were distributed and they are I added to front time to time ns the library 1 advisory committee of the schools tinds desirable books anil the means to buy them,

The literature supplied to the various •list ricts Is selected with the utmost care, It is made up of thni»»classes. travel and

geography, history and reference books. The latter arc composed of dictionaries, gazct teers and eneyeloptslias. In the old days when the school children were fur nished with literary pabulum at the public library a place hen- they yet are allowed to draw one book a week the character of the books they read was promiscuous and not always in each particular case what I was best suited to it The librarian, however diligent and capable, could not! look after the interests of the juvenile mulcts with projier care. She could not have done so even had she personally known each one and l*vn familiar with his jxvuliar temperament

aad

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cause her other duties were too numerous and exacting. The teachers in the public sehool* know and understand their pupils. If the latter have weaknesses, their lu structors itre cognizant of them ami are often able to counteract them by mentis of intelligent direction of their intellectual

life So the branch libraries arr coming j,h Hood's Sarsaparilla. to l»ea vitally important adjunct to the schHils.

There are some p«s»p!e who imagine that the life of the sch»n»l teacher, compared with the life of the average toiling mortal, is a kind of a long drawn out holiday "Why." they say. "she teach** only (our or flvr hours a day and does not have anything to do on Saturday. I«ook at the girl in the store or factory, with her long iMrvtohe* of unbroken service!" Nobody certainly is going to say that the girl in the store or the factory ha*

a sinecure.

body will pretend that her lot Is anything els*» than a hanl one. and that the system which makes it a necessity of her existence unnatural and wrung.

less be admitted that the school

has a more desirable position than many

The school teacher is a hard-working man or woman. He has much more to do than merely to "teach four or five hours a day." Indeed, the teaching is probably the small* est part of his labors. His heavy work is in getting ready to teach and in keeping ready to teach. In the educational world there is no such thing as rest. The teacher who rests rusts. His boat is in flowing water and his destination is up-stream. He must bend to the oars or float forever farther away from all efficiency in his profession.

At present the teachers in the public schools of this city are hard at work on "Thring's Theory and Practice of Teaching." They are making such a study of it as a botanist might make of a flower that he had never seen before. They are carefully moving, counting and noting the sepals, petals and stamens of the book. They have cross-sections of its stem under the microscope. They are examining stigma, style and pistil, and by next May the superintendent expects that they will be able to tell what kind of a flower it really is, and to record it in the field manual of pedagogy with minute and exhaustive observations on its peculiarities. From month to month at present different teachers are submitting for the attention and discussion of grade meetings analyses and criticisms of successive chapters of this work. When the book shall have been completed, then it will be reviewed as a whole by all the teachers and its merits fully appropriated.

NEWS OF THE CITY.

John Cleveland, a well known harnessmaker, died at his home on north First street, last Sunday, aged forty-flvs years.

Goodman & Hirschler distributed to their friends and patrons this week beautiful art calendars for 1897, There were two types, one a "Moorish Scene," in colors, and the other "North Star."

Last Wednesday, the 23d, was the twenty-seventh anniversary, of the hanglast hanging that occurred in this county, that of Oliver Morgan, for the murder of John Petri, north of the city, at the Twelve Points.

The regular semi-annual elections in the various nights of Pythias lodges of this city begin nsxt Monday night with the election in Occidental lodge, No. 18. Following them in succession will occur the elections in Oriental lodge, No. 81, Tuesday night, and Paul Revere lodge, No. 347, Thursday night.

William Holdaway, formerly trustee of Fayette township, has been elected by the county commissioners as superintendent of the county poor farm, to succeed Geo. W. Collister, whose term expires next March. There were a great many candidates for the position, and the selection is looked upon as a very good one.

Detective McRae went down to Jeffersonville this week, and arrested Charles Gray, who is charged with the murder of Wm. Count, a druggist of Reelsville, several weeks ago. Gray was taken to Greencastle, and was indentifled as one of a crowd of men what was seen hanging around Reelsville the day and night before the murder.

The union men employed in the building trades have organized a Building Trades' Council, and effected a temporary organization by the election of the following officers: C. E. Russell, of the plasterers' union, president, and Geo. Young, of the carpenters' union, secretary. A meeting will be held next week to perfect a permanent organization.

Thomas Kyle, a carpenter employed on the addition to the Terre Haute Brewing Co's. plant, fell from the building Thursday anil broke his neck. The accident occurred at 9:1)0 o'clock, and the hotly was not discovered unt il after noon. Kyle was unmarried, and had come here but a few weeks ago from St. Louis.

At the installation of the officers of Euclid lodge Monday night, William K. Hamilton, the retiring master, was presented by the members of the lodge I with a handsome past masters' jewel.

The presentation speech was made by Dr. A. .1. Thompson. Mr. Hamilton is probably the youngest past, master in the Masonic order In this state.

Christmas was celebrated in an uneventful way in this city yesterday. The business houses were closed, as a rule, and the streets were quiet. The churches generally observed the event on Christmas eve, and yesterday the public celebrations were confined to such institutions as the Rose Orphan home, the Home for the Friendless a id the Social Settlement, where special programmes were arranged.

Col. K. K. South, president of the Terre Haute club compose! of members of Mural Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, will t^ive a banquet- at the Terre Haute lujgpi" next Tuesday evening, the 'Jftth, to Ipie local members of the order. Manager Baur, who is a member of the order, has laid himself out in preparing for the event, and it is likely to lie the most elaborate affair ever attempted in this city on a similar occasion.

The best way to cure disease is to drive it from the system by purifying the blood

A woman will push a baby carriage along a crowded pavement anil look daggers at a man whose elbow dints her puff sleeve.

We have no hesitation in recommending "Garland" Stoves and Ranges. Their high reputation for durability, economy of fuel, convenience and artistic finish, stamps them as the world's best. It is the constant aim of the manufacturers to make the very »est stove that can be produced. They are unrivalled.

C. C. SMITH'S SONS CO.. Third and Main streets.

Candy BOXRS

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other people, but the idea that she earns rlllT LJUSK6LS her dally bread by a prolonged participa-

tlou in holiday diversions is humorously In large variety prices to suit the times and ridiculously at variance with the truth. at Kiser's.

English clovers are Irish shamrock. Perhaps no greater myth exists than that relating to the shamrock. 8t. Patrick would find clover in almoet all parts of Ireland, as he would in Englaud, and it was a fitting emblem of the Trinity. Consequently there is little doubt that he used it aa an illustration. How the little fiction that it is a distinct plant and will grow only in Ireland has been maintained so long seems incomprehensible unless it is due to the peculiarity of Englishmen when regarding most things Irish. It is almost as absurd as regarding Lever's characters as typical of the Irishman of today, probably of any day, as he appears to have bad as great a genius in inventing characters as in inventing stories. Ireland largely owes its clovers and shamrocks to its limestone. Around Dublin, where limestone is not very prevalent, the inferior type of clover, the yellow trefoil, is commonly employed as a badge, its convenient shape, owing to its top root, rendering it convenient as a buttonhole flower.

In limestone districts the white clover is more commonly used, though there is no definite rule, as is shown by the specimens collected by natives in all parts of Ireland now to be seen in the Dublin museum. These specimens were allowed to go to flower, and four distinct varieties of clover are represented, each frequently. Even the large red olover is included. There is no other plant shown, because there is no other shamrock. The myth is destroyed, but the clovers remain, and it is due to their presence that the Irish pastures are so rich and so valuable for grazing. They have accumulated fertility, and they have done so in England. Therefore their presence in lawns must not be regarded as prejudicial. —London Standard.

Visibility of IJffht* at Night.

The results of the experiments in light visibility conducted by the international committee on behalf of the governments of the United States, Germany and the Netherlands have been handed in. The German section gave as the distance at which alight of 1 candle power became visible 1.40 miles for a dark, clear night, and 1 mile for a rainy night. The American experiments show that a light of one candle power is visible at 1 mile and one of three candle power is plainly visible at 2 miles. A 10 candle power light was seen with a binocular at 4 miles, one of 29 at 5 miles, though faintly, and one of 88 candles at the same distance without difficulty.

To be on the safe side the experiments wero made with green light, as it has been conclusively proved that if alight of that color fills the required tests a red light of the same intensity will more than do so.

It was found that the candle power of groen light which remained visible at 1, 2, 8 and 4 miles was 2, 15, 51 and 100 respectively. It was noticed, however, that great care had to be exercised in the selection of the shade of the color, so as to give the minimum interference with the intensity of the light. The shade adopted is a clear blue green. Yellow and grass green should not be employed. The tests may bo of interest to railroad men and seamen.—Progressive Age.

A Man la No Hero to HJU Typewriter.

The mystery of men's lives in theworld, out of wliioh illusions are spun, has always had a greater influence ig dcterwioiut? the fate cf women than is readily admitted. To feel transmitted through tho ring finger the electrio thrill of business, of politics, of clubs, of the stirring movements in the life of men, gives any woman vantago ground over others of her sex. Bnt in the actual commerce of business, the community of nffairs, tlio wear and tear of daily life in offices and elevators, this mystery vanishes. A couple of typewriters at luncheon will illustrate badly a situation yet too new to be fairly reckoned up. Over knife and fork they will match employers as small boys do pennies.

Out of hours the boss is only a man of whoso necktie they may disapprove, or of tho way ho wears his hair or perhaps of his grammar, and it may be he appears greatly to the advantage of some young man at a neighboring machine.—Mary Guy Humphreys in Soribner's.

Bonnin Pasha.

Bonnin Pasha, the chief of tho sultan's private police, is a plump, thickset Frenchman. In 1884 he went to Constantinople as a detective with the French embassador. Abdul Hatnid took a fancy to him and desired him to organize a detective force for service ..xmt tho palace. A corps of bludgeon men was tho result, and their tactics muoh surprised tho Parisian agent, Soudais, a few years ago, when he invited his colleague's help in arresting a notorious swindler. Tapping at the malefactor's door, the Turkish official felled to earth the servant who opened it, and the phrty proceeded through the house, knocking insensible everybody they met Soudais was busily engaged in succoring the wounded, while Bonnin collared the real criminal. Bonnin has a comfortable bouse in Pera, and bis wife, as court dressmaker, has considerably increased his savings.—New York Tribune.

Source of Her Coafldcnce. Uncle George—I really can't understand you, Hat tie. All the married women you know you say have made bad matches, and yet you are quite ready to try matrimony yourself.

Hattie Don1! you know. Uncle George, that there's an excellent chance of getting a prise in a lottery where so many of the blanks have been drawn?— Boston Transcript.

Am Kxthaat* of Cooapllaarata. Be—You may be engaged, but I can never conceive of your being in love.

She—And yoo may be in love, but 1 can never conceive of yoor being engaged.—Detroit Free Press.

"De«r," ite said, and her swwttel and most engaging smile illumined her face, "if you bad a handsome lap oould yon use iff" "Certainly notrr* he replied. "Yoa know very well that we haven't a vehicle of any description." "That's what I thought" she return' ed, "so I have packed it away. Later, when we are wealthy and keep horses, we can"— "Packed it away 1" he exchumed, interrupting her. "Packed what away?" "Why, the lap robe," she answered sweetly. "But we haven't a lap lobe^" he protested. "Oh, yes, we have," she returned. "I happened to stumble into that department of one of the big stores today, and they had marked them down so low that I felt I ought to get one of them before the opportunity slipped •way." "But we don't need"— "Not now, but we may," ah* interrupted. "It's just as well to get tbewe things when they can be had at a bargain, and this was a real bargain. Ton men are very thoughtless about such thingsi You would never have thought of buying this robe now. Ton wouldn't have the foresight, but would have waited until you had a horse, and then, very likely, you would have to pay a dollar more for it."—Mercantile- Journal.

Vfeotographjr Beats the Fakirs*.

The Indian "mango" trick, in which a plant is seen to grow up from the seed in a few minutes, has been done ia, anew way by M. Michael Cor day of the Eoole Polytechnique in France. M. Cord ay employs the well known, cinematograph, or apparatus for producing "living photograph"—that is to say, photographic images endowed with movement and apparently with liffe. A rose plant is photographed at intervals during its growth until the flower buds and blooms. The photographs thus taken are oombined by the cinematograph and projected on a screen, so as to represent the development of the plant in a short time. The number of photographs taken in six months should be equal to the number which the sensitive band of the cinematograph will continue. Obviously tho same plan will be able to show the changing aspects of the country during the seasons in one progressive illusion, and we venture tc suggest that it might bo employed with advantage in illustrating various scientific experiments and natural processes of an evolutionary or gradual sort London Globe.

Two Pistols and a Bowie In One.

Chief of Police Keefe has in his possession probubly the most unique weapon ever seen in thc^city of Jacksonville. It is a combination donble barreled pistol and bowie and was used in Missouri by a "regulator" when that state was going through the throes of the pro and anti shivery discussion.

The blado of the bowie is about 12 inches long and protrudes from a hilt between two small pistol barrels, each about 6 inches long. The hilt and the hammers are one and the same. When the hilt is cocked into position, two triggers, concealed in the stock, cor^,,, forth, and then the weapon is ready for business, with both barrels and 12 inche$ of cold steel.

A number of hien, It is said, belonging to one organization in Missouri were armed with these weapons, which were seoured direct from Paris. This one ill particular seems to be almost new.—Florida Times-Union.

It is said that the first book printed in this country from stereotype plates was a catechism by a Mr. Watts. This work was issued in New York in the year 1818 and was compiled for the benefit of the children of several New fork churches.

A bushel of sweet potatoes equals 46 pounds in Iowa and 56 pounds in most of the other states.

To make your Sunday dinner complete, go to Fiess & Herman, 27 north Fourth street, where you will always find an abundance of the choicest meats of all kinds They have also on hand sausages of all kinds of their own make. Telephone 262.

If you want Stoves or Ranges constructed upon scientific principles, which are economical, durable and convenient, as well as beautiful and artistic, look for the "Garland" trade-mark, which'is shown upon every genuine "Garland" Stove or Range, and do not. be deceived by worthless imitations and substitutes. "Garlands" lead all others in yearly sales and popularity. Sold by

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C. C. SMITH'S SONS CO., Third and Main streets.

If you use Coal Oil the beat results are attained by burning National Light Oil, for sale by George Keiss, Second and Main streets.

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SEVEN OREAT SERIALS.

A New Life of Grant by Hamlin Garland. The flint, authoritative and adequate Life of Grant ever published. Lavishly illustrated. (Begins in December.) Rudyard Kipling's first American serial, "Captains Courageous." (Hcgun in NovemberRobert Louis Stevenson's "St. Ives." The only novel of Stevenson's still 11 publish ed. (Begins in May.) Chas. A. Dana. "Recollections of Wartime." Mr. Dfkiia was for three of the mosft critical years of the Civil War practically a member of Lincoln's Cabinet, and la probably better fitted than any other man living to give an authoritative history of this period from his recollections and correspondence. Portraits of Great Americans. Many of them unpublished. In connection with thf* series of portraits it is intended to publish special biographical studies umler th* general title of MAKERS OF THE UNION from Washington to Lincoln. Pictures of Palestine. Specially taken under the editor's direction. Stories of Adventure. A serial by CONAN DOYLE, in which he will use big extra-* ordinary talent for mystery and ingenuity which have, in the "Sherlock Holmes" stories, given him a place beside Poe and Gaborlnu.

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Ian Maclaren. All the fiction that he will write during the coming year, with exception of two contributions to another publication which were engaged from him long ago. will appear in MCCM'KE'H MAGAZINE. Joel Chandler Harris. A series of new animal stories in tbe same field as the "Brer

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