Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 8, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 December 1895 — Page 6

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TAL3I AGE'S SEB3IUN.

HE TAL1C3 TO THE GATHERING CONGRESSMEN. He I Sure taat Divinity Is on Onr Hide, and thattheChiirch Will Purify I'.ltt t - iin 1 lVoUct tlie llatlot 15ox in tlic I'ind. lol and tho Nation. M:,i;v .f the nu c.d-ers were present at th.- iiv ry in Washington of his last Sundae's sermon. Dr. Talmage took a mot appropriate theme, showing that in nil 1 1 i r work they might realize that (I oil Inn always bei n on tin1 side of this nation. Text. 11. Kind's vi.. 17. "An.l the Lord opened ti.t eyes of tho young man. and lie aw. and, behold, the mountain was fiiii of horses nnd chariots of tire round ahot.it lilisha." The American Congress is assembling. Arriving or alre:ly arrived are the repre-8-:itatives of all sections of this In-loved land. Let us welcome them with prayers and hem dictions. A nobler group of men never entered Washington than those who wi!! to-morrow take their places in tie Senate chamber and the House of llcproer.tatives. Whether they come alone er leave their families at the homentead far away, may the blessing of the Eternal Cod be upon them! Wo invite them to our churches, and together, they in political spheres and we in religious circles, will give the coming months to co-, si. ! ration of the best interests of this country, which (Jod h::s blessed so much in He pat that I propose to show you and show then, so far as 1 may now re.iv !i thtir car or to-morrow their eye I th:-ou-!i th.. printing p: s. that tied will j be wi:h thtm to help thm as in the text If tilled the mountains with help for l..!S.,.i. As it cost Imgland man? regiments i ni '! S .' " '.' "i1' a year to krp safely a ; tr-::i ! s.ea -aptive a.t St. Helena, so the Kb..: of Syria scuds out a whole army to ;:; :;! o:e minister of religion p rhaps nam to take KUsha. During the !,,. ,.f Syrians i-::i:it arottml Vie tillage vit" i'othan. where the prophet w.o. siayi: g. At early daybreak the m uimivüht '" li!l'!a ri:.-h.d in und sail: "What :.'i! We do? There is a whole r.rriy o.mo i. d -stroy you! We must die! We ne.:-. Ii '." Hut lilisha was not ii-:'.'cd a i'it. for ho looked up and saw the n:ou:if;ii;-.s all around full of sapor-iiatui-ai i"-.v s. and he knew that if there were r S.vrrns against hin there w i ;e icK.fiht ;ii:iri ls for l im. and in antiwar to prophet's prayer in behalf of his :; lVi-1 g i it t d man-servant tic young r:v n saw it. too. Hordes nf tire harnessed to ehari-d of fire, and drivers of tip' polling r; i.is of on bjt oT" lire, and warriors of tire with brandished swords of tire, anil the brilliance f that morning .im rise v.'a .e. -hosed by the galloping splondo;s of .-el stial cavalcade. "And the Lord .,pe;Md til( eyes of the young" mail, and he saw. and. behoM. th mountain was fi'! of horses and chariots of fire r i:r..l about Kiisha." I speak of the upper forces of the text that are to light on our side as a nation. If all the low kvels arc fUled with armed threats, I have to tell you that the mountains of onr hope and courage and faith are full of the horses a: I ehaii ts of divine rescue, j The 1:5 vine lbitiipaue. ' You v ' i:-;U e that the divine equipage In always !i pr sented as a iiariot of tire. II;.' ki l end !-aia!i and J.dm, when they eoi.te to describe t!iC divine (quip-tgf. always x.-j ri st nt it ;es a wl-eeb i, a harnessed, an upholstered coniiagrj "tioit. It is not a chariot l:':e kings and conquerors of earth mount, bnt an organized and coin-pr-"--.- ,; ;"rc. That mc.-i.s purity, justice. ch:;ü.-eiieiit, deliv-rnee through burning c.v.-.: pes. Chariot of rescue? Yes. bat a chaiior of lire. Ali our national dis nt!ira!i..ents ha Lern thrmigh scorclui.g a--nles and red disasters. Through tribulation the individual rises. Chariot of rescue, but chariots of lire. I'.ut how do I know that this divine equipage is f:-. the sMe of onr institutions? I know it by the history of the last Iii years. The American revolution started from the pen of John Hancock in Independence Hall, in 177. The colonies, without ships, without ammunition, without guns, -.without trained warriors, without uioney, without prestige. On the other side, the mightiest nation of the ' earth, the largest armies, the grandest navies and the most distinguished com- j maiulors and resources inexhaustible, und ; ; nearly all nations ready to back thorn up ' t in the tight. Nothing as against im- ' mensify. ! 1; The cause of the American colonies, ' ' which started at zero, dropped still lower ; through the quarreling of the generals, ami through the jealousies at small suci cesses, and through the winters which r surpassed all predecessors in depth of snow nod horrors of concealment. l-lisha surround- d by the whole Syrian army did I vot Mem to be worse off than did the ihirfeii colonies encompassed and overi Iiadovtcd by foreign assault. What de- 1 tided the contest in our favor? The up- J ;. per forces, the upper armies. The Irit n ! ' a.id White mountains of New Knglaud, : the highlands along the Hudson, the j i tnoudtaius of Yiryinia. all the Appalach- ' : ian ranges were full of re-enfon cments j which the young man Washington aw ; by faitli. and his men endured the frozen ; i feet, and the gangrened wounds, ami the I exhausting hunger, and the ions march, ?ec itise "the Ionl opened the eyes t the young man and he saw, and. behohl. the j runtttain was full of horses and chariots - of Sro round about HHsha." Washington ! hiintelf was a miracle. What Joshua was i. sacred history the first American Iresidrt was in .secular history. A V I thousand rdher men excelled him in difI j fereni things, hut he excelled them all in ! ! roundness and completeness of c'isractei. j j Tin world never saw h?s like, and probI j ably never will see his like again, been use I I ther-i probably nnr will be another such j exigency. He wa let down a divine iu- ,) terposition. lie was from t!ol dirett. j God's Chariot to the Kchciic. I do nit know how many can read the ; J history of those times without udmitling . the contest was de-ided by th, upper forces. Then, in 1SJ1, when our civil war opened, u.any at the North and at the , South i rotiounecd it national suicld. It ;? a? not courage against cowardice; it was i not wealth against ioverty: It was hcroI ism against heroism; it was the resources of marii' generations against the resources of general ions: it was the prayer of the Keith against the prayer of the South; it t wa t one half of the nation in armed wrath Unifying the other half of the nation in I' onn(l imlignation. What could come but , extermination? 1 At the oiening of the war the com- ; j iivwider-i it-chief of the United States 'i JorN? vv:;s a man who had been great in Ifcattlp, but old ago had come, with many lutiiuiiilc. uud " Lad a right to quietude.

He could not mount a hor)e, and lie rode on the battlefield in a carriage, asking tho driver riot to jolt it too much. Lurinc the most of the four yours of the contest on the Southern side was a man in midlife, who had in his veins the blond of many generations of warriors, himself one of the her es of i "hnruluisco nnd Cerro Gordo. Contivras and Chapnlteic As l ho years passet on and tho scroll of carn-ige unrolled there came out from both sides a l.-rois'.i. and a strength, and a determination that tho world had never seen marshaled. And what but extermination could come when Philip Sheridan and Stonewall Jackson mot, and Nathaniel Lyon and Sidney Johnston rode in from North and South, and (Jrant and Lee. the two thunderbolts of battle, clashed? Y'et we are a nation, and yet we are at peace. Kart lily courage did not decide the conflict. The upper forces of the text they toll us there was a battle fought above the clouds on Lookout Mountain, but there was something higher than that. Again, the horses and chariots of (Jod came to the rescue of this nation in 1S7, at the close of a Presidential election famous for ferocity. A darker cloud jet settled down upon this nation. The result of the election was in dispute, and revolution, not between two or three sections, but revolution in every town and village and city of th1 United States, seemed imminent. The prospect was that New York would throttle New York, and New Orleans would grip New Orleans, and lioston Boston, and Savannah Savannah, and Washington Washington. Some said Mr. TiMen was elected, others said Mr. Hayes wa elected, and how ner we came to universal ivassacro auie of us guessed, but Jod only knows. I ascribe oir escape rot to the honesty nnd righteousness of Infuriated politicians, but I ascribe it to the neper forces of the test. God t.'ic Friend of the Nation. Chariot of mercy rolled in. and though the wheels were nut heard, and the Hash was not seen, yet f.li through the mountains of the north, r.nd the south, and the cast, and the uos. though the hoofs did r.ot clatter, the cavalry of (Jod galloped by. 1 tell you Hod is the friend of this nation. In the awful excitement at the massacre of Lincoln, when there was a nrospoct tlint greater slaughter would pei u;,on this lu'fion. (Jod hushed the tempest. In the awful excitement at the time of (lartield's assassination bd put Iiis foot on the in 'd-c of the eye! .ue. To prove (bid on th- tide of this nation I argue 1'rota the las eight or nine great national harvests, end tr. in the national health of toe last quarter of a century, cpidimics very ev.it i.nal. and from ihe gnat revivals of religion, and from the si'ivading of the church of (led. and from the continent blossoming with aylums ar.d reformatory iinitiiut ions, ami train an Kdvnizatioii which promises that this whole land is to be u paradise, wlv-re liod shall walk. (!ou will save this nation through an aroused moral Kontinent. There has never been so much discussion of morals ami immorals. Mn, whether or not they aeknowlele what is rigtit, have to think what is right. We have men who have had their hands in the public treasury the most of their lifetime, stealing all they could lay their hands on. discoursing eloquently a!out dishonesty in public servants, and men with two or three families of their own preaching eloquently r.bout the beauties of the seventh commandment. The question of sobriety and drunkenness is thrust in the lace of this nation as never before and takes a part in our political contests. The question of national sobriety is going to be respect fully ana deferentially heard at the bar of ev ry legislature, and everv iiou:,.. of

representatives, nd every State fenaV. and an omnipotent vdco will rin dev'i t the sky and acss this la ml an 1 back ! again, sayii.gtotcse rising lidos of drunk- j euuess which threaten to whelm home ami ' church and nation, "Thus far shait thou ! come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be staid." I have not in my mind a shadow of di--hiartmcnt as large as the shadow of a Louse fly's wing. My faith is in tho upper forces, the upper armies of the text. eJod is not dead. The chariots are nt unwheehd. If you Would only pray more and wash your eyes in the cool, bright water fresh from the well of Christian reform, it would be sail of you, as of this one of the text, "The Lrd opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Kiisha.' Politico Needs Kelijiion. Have you any doubt about the need of the Christian religion to purify ami make decent American politics? At every yearly or quadrennial election we have in this country great manufactories manufactories of lies and they are r tn day and night, and they turn out half a dozen a day, all equipped and ready for full .sailing. Large lies and small lies. Lies private, and lies public, and lies prurient, lies cut bias, and lies cut diagonal, long limbed lies, and lies with double back action; lies complimentary, and fies defamatory; lies that some people believe, ami lies that al! the people believe, and lies that nobody believes; lies with humps like camels, and scales like crooodiVs, and necks as long as storks, and feet as swift as an antelope's, and stings like adders; lies raw and scalloped and panned and stewed: crawling lies, taid jumping lies, and soaring lies; lies with attachment screws and millers and braiders and ready Wound bobbins; lies by Christian poop! who never lie except during elections, and lies by people who always lie, but beat themselves in a Presidential campaign. I confess I am ashamed to have a foreigner visit this country in such times. I should think he would stand lazed, his hand on his pocketbook, and dare not go out nights. What will the hundreds of thousands of foreigners who come here to live think of us? What a disgust they inust have for the land of their adoption! The only good thing aljout it is many of them cannot understand the Knglish language. But I suppose the (iennan and Italian and Swedish and French papers translate it all and peddle out the infernal stuff to the subscribers. Nothing but Christianity will ever stop such a flood of indecency. The Christian religion will speak after awhile. The billingsgate and low scandal through which we wade every year of every four years must be rebuked by that religion which speaks from its two great mountainsfrom the one mountain intoning the command, "Thou shait not bear false witness against thy ueighbor, and from t lie other mount, making plea for kindness ami blessing rather than cursing. Y'es; we are going to have a national religion. There are two kinds of national relic ion. The one is supiortcd by the State and is a matter of human politics, and it has great patronage, nnd under it men will struggle for prominence without reference to qualifications, and its archbishop is supported by a salary of ?7.",000 a year, and there are great cathedrals, with all the machiu-

erycf rau-sloand canonn-aK nnd rcom for 1.000 people, yet an uli-ioe of fifty peo- j pie. or twenty j-ople, or ten or two. W-5 5 want no such religion as that, no such ! national religion, but we v. am ih?s !;h.. ! of national r ligion t he vaM majority of t tile people co:if;ii d and evangel:;-., d ' and then they will inana" !: te.-nlar as ' well as the religi-ms. j Church Will little the Uu !t Jiox. j Io yo i say that tins is itipr.nii-alo? , No. The time i. coming just as certainly ' as there is a Cod. and that tins is hi ' book, and that he has the strength ami the '. lionosiy to fulfill his promis s. ( ne of tha i ancient empt iors used to pride himself .-i J performing that which his counselors said

was impossiuo. and 1 have to til von today that man's impossibles are Cod's easies. "Hath he said, and shall he not doit? Hath he commamb-d, and will he not bring it to pass?" The Christian reIigum is coining to take possession of ev i..,n i c i n t er ballot box, of every s,hoolhouse, of every home, of every valley, of every mountain, of every acre of our national domain. This nation. isv??l.hstanding all the evil influences that are trying to dostroy it, is going to live. Never since, according to John Milton, when -satan was hurled headlong Haming lrom the etheral skies in hideous nun and combustion down.'" have the powers of darkness been so determined to win this continent as now. What a jewel it is -a jewel carved in relief, the cameo of this planet! On one side of us the Atlantic Ocean, dividing us from the wornout g.v - ernments of Kuropi. On the other side the Iacihc Ocean, dividing us from t he superstitions of Asia. On the north of us the Arctic Sea. which is tho gvmnasi.im in which the explorers and navigators develop their nmrage. A continent lt.",i;) miles long. 17,n:0.(H0 siuare miles, and all of it but about one-seventh capable of rich cultivation. One hundred millions of population on this continent of North and South America Km , n m i.( KX) and room tor manr limiOrnil rn uiiw ri..v. - ........ Ul ..... ' - All flora and all fauna, all metals and nil in.,.;,!., ...1 u l .,ii l t wwi i Hill .111 aill il 1JII 1 Ik 11 fruits. The Appalachian raupe tho backbone and the rivers the ganglia carrying lit'' all through and out to the extreiniti- s. Isthtnus of Darion the narrow waist of a, giant continent all to be under one government and all free and all Christian and the scene of Christ's personal reign on earth if according to the expectation tf many good people he shall at last set c.p his thro-ie in this world. Who shall have this hemisplier.? Christ or sat an? Who shall have the shore of her inland sc:,--, the silver d" iier Nevadas, the gold of h.- r C.iiorad.s. the teh soj.es of her observitri:es the brain of her universities, the wheat of her prairies, the rice if h--r savannas, the two meat ocean beaches, the one reaching from Ihillin's r.av to Tierrn del Fuego and the other imm I'ering Strait to Cape Horn, and all tho n.;ral and temporal and spiritual and everlasting interests of a population vast beyond all human computation? Wim shall have the hem.nereV You ami I will dec-'le that, or help to de-:de it, bv conscientious Aoto. by earnest pravef, by maintenance of Christian institutions..' by support of jri-eat philanthropies, by putting body, mind and sul tin the right side of all moral, religious and national nuntsWlien the Trump Sound. Ah. it will not bo long before it will not maKe any tili rence to you or to me what becomes t this continent so far as earthly comfort is concerned. AH we will want of it will be 7 feet by H. and that

will take in the largest, and there will bo : ecmpliancc to tii.sr recirenn uis. boroom and to spare. That is ail of this 1 cause they are reasonable and wise-.

country we will need vt ry roon tiic yoiingi st if us all. P.at we have an anxiety about the welfare ami the hnppim ss of the gen-rations that are coming on. and it will be a grand thing if, when the archangel's trumpet sounds, we find that our sepulcher. like the one .bis-oh of Ari-

m.ithea providc.l for Christ, is in tho i trolling and directing the s-. hool. Inmidst of a garden. ! deed, the fewer rules :;e nj tempts to Have you faith in prayers for national I enforce the more speeesb'ul will be his welfare? After all the chariots have been j dis. jplin I'npds soon b-ari to re.-og-onwh eb-d. and after all the war chargers ! , j'ac' tint !l aehe -s wiiill"" have been crippled, the chariots which j to trn,t ,1, ;5i' !;.,'s" cimridem-" in Idisha saw on the ra,rn,ng of his peril , f , . t , ;!ll!1;,,.v(N will rod on in triumph, followed bv all . ...

lrt ormlna P l.n,-r. ..r, i.-l.U.. 1 1111- U1U1I' i '. IIV II 1 I II ill! nioivr I1UIM , (iod eottld do it without us. but he will not. The weakest of us, the faintest of us, the smallest brained of us, s-hall have a part in the triumph. We may not have our na'-re. like the name of Sostratus. tut in imperishable rock and conspicuous for centuries but we shall be remembered in a better place than that, even ,n the heart of him who ca ne to red,em us and re-. deem the world, and our names will be seen close to the signature of his wound, for, as to-day he throws out his arms to us, he says, "Heboid, I have graven thee on the palms of my hand." Iy the mightiest of all agencies, the potency of prayer, I beg you seek our national welfare. Some time ago there wore 4.(iX.(XX) letters in the dead letter iiosfflice in thru city letters that lost their nay but not one prayer ever directed to the heart of Cod miscarried. The way is all clear for the ascent of your supplication heavenward in behalf of this nation. lUfore the postal communication was so r.sy. and long ago. on a rock 1U) feet high, on tho ag ago. on a roes im, icet nign. on mo astof Imglan.l. then was a barrel fastCO

cned to a post, and in great letters on the ! . . , , ... , c .I l. if , ,n i l r Tunish when the rules are uisabeved side of the rock, so it could be seen far ' , , ottt at sea. were the words. "IVstofiice." j ls worso 1,1:1,1 lo h:lVt' r,,li's :,t and when ships came by, a boat put out S. Külos should not be indexible. No to take and fetch letters. An.l so sacred i rules are so mischievous ami absurd were those deposits of affection in that j n? those which measure out certain barrel that no lock was ever put upon that j ,,1,..,.; for particular off, tishes. barrel, although it eontamod messages vIthot t;lUil,. (,,ns5(erat ion the for America and I-.urpe and Asia and ... ... .... ... Africa, and all the islands of the sea. 1!lollv'' ' vumstances whu-h Many a storm-tossed sailor, homesick, got ' ,,av lt,1 u 1,r',:kl11- the rule, messages of kindness by that rock, ami ; Thus, a rule which prohibits all whismany a homestead heard good news from porin.g, without inquiring into the moa boy long gone. AVould that all the tive which caused the violation of the heights of our national prosperity were rule, is both unwise and unjust. It in interchange of sympathies-prayers go- m.0'tfUiZe no distinction between innoi t - .

mg up meet ins messing coming uown. Postal celestial, not by a storm struck rock on a wintry coast, but by the Itoek of Ages. Morality. "The teaching of morality, though it Is impressive, can hardly be recovered after h:viiis boon abandoned for a Ions time. Nay, we may rather venture to say that when a, person gets corrupted the doctrines of morality expire al together. Whereas doctrines of relig-1 Ion can never be extinguished to those who once adhered to Its teaching. The . ten commandments being given by the Supreme Power are so deeply implant - eil in the heart of man that they can hardly be forgotten. On the contrary, bey stir up ami remind the wrongdoer of his misihK'tls, so that stumor or latei he repents and turns to do good t- the credit of himself." Lewis P. Hirsch A lobster's skin when shedding split down the back and comes ofT In two equal parts. The tall slips out of th shell like a linger out of a glove.

NOTES OX EDUCATION.

MATTERS OF INTEREST TO PUPIL AND TEACHER. Principle and Regulation for (J:erniiiir tlie School- Wii.it to ! kvitl Dull I'lipils-Urutal CI as Fi -Ms it: tlic Colleger -Kdiicalioual Notes. Kille nnd Herniations. System in schooi management is a , "ccessu. ana ;i uw ge:u : ;u reguiatious inr.y be demanded to preserve ; sysiom and make the s h i i machinery j ()1k snio-.thh- and wiiKmt frb-::..-" . The folhtu ingprin. ipVs are iniwtaii;: i i... , . , , , . ;. ' 1' o rules should ! made. A i . , , . , , ruIe.s Wllh l-' attai ned are to b, avtsl! as much as lu-svible. They an-' dangerous, and often suggest an offense to the puoil which otherwise Would probably never have been thought of. The more rules the more dliacult js üli Wurk uf .1vo,nIn. fl,r uluKu. ,.i, .... . e tbt n,Ie ss5,i" ?Vr-V "'ngemcnt mUst u"y be noticed and the P'l' !' punishment be intiieted. j 'he teacher should seldom refer , to the rules. It is sufib :,-nr to have ili- ' rules known in order that the teacher niay have s.e.netlilnc to resort to in ;ustilication of administering pe.nislP.uer.i . ,.,,., , at tim.'' ,l:iu n,lt' -,v":casi' !i',",lll U't be mentioned except when it is broken. To refer constanily to Ito school n:h-s is simply to set your pupils to thinking .about theiu and to place temptation before them, Huh--: should h r ts unlde Sc'm.oI ruU-s sh-uhl be such as co;am,md th.m- , i. ! ..It ciiiviv ti S'ln wo.iiiii nii "Ii' hi i- 1 ' ' ' , . ' ' I. . rho miliuiicr' oi ' i:b:e- sentnueu i .1. is 111,1 if i-:ielu-i' nilo 1: such as to win the tV.vv i'ie eor.sfderation of b ,h jmnils r.n.i ;.u;-ps. lie kw1 have little f.-ar that there v.-ill ! any ditlieuliy oti!"orc!ng :i:;':u. :: tli OtJicr h:"!.l. toiwi.v' or unnc.v.--.r1-y rules ;-itd to chafe and lift the pupils v.rA j.roiiiee discord and dis -rder rather th:i' prowtit the M. 4. U:t! chaivcte; should 1"' .'ueral ::i S.-io-.-:! rules i:;-!st lie g il ta th :: a'-plb-.it:.m. Special -as.s c.i'i o.ir-.Hv b ".';. q i,y sp'.vijl tn t;P -!: b .,, n;1,s luXÜA ,t ;:s,,t,, . , ,, .... t( ' :5li- 1 K! !V '!''Vit;u:i. ease in wup h t.ie rule Elc.r.ld l:e subject p, .xceiitiops. as vrheiv tho eof-nvMOi'.i would bo urodiictive d' great harm to a nervous or a deformed child. Utiles should be geiicrn n!si) j ;,,ir sjiccili-Mt'ous. j ( p(l!n.;i:. ont inilivll;i; ;;vilsf's R 1 at- : , . ... ... . , taehu: s;mv;öo jsnaluos except hore sp'htlly demanded. : "- Holes si,., ni l aim at securing th ' freutest food. They :rr. r.ot to bo made for the c nveniemv and comfort of the i teacher, but to protect tho rights of tho '' pupils and preserve the ..rbr and barmonv of th'. school as a whole. Their aim should bo to secure the greater pood to the greah-si numb"T Such !-ubs will eomnioml ihtouselvos and sm-ure . Special rules s'aould be ado-pted only when they become nee -;-ary. Tl' tea'.'her who draws pp his rule-; and regulations in advance will i'md quite as liiucii trouble i:t at tempi bur to enfore" th"!il as lie extierjoiiee ill CotlI hedged it! Ü1 I'VOf.V SU.e b.V specltlC rul'-s tin natural questions which :. rise are not. Is Shis right? Will the bieher ! approve f it? b'it ratine-. Is this pro- ! hibited? Is there any rule forbidding it? j 'fhe teacher is entirdy safe in going ! ito -school without a s;::-le rule, and j h,forni'ng his pupils that he has fa'th , 1s;im h.t th.,v ,v1 t lu what , ',.,.,, . , rule may thtn bo made when tho nocesity for it arises. 7. Utiles .should bo such as ran be enforced. Such rules as are merely ornamental, ami such r.s are placed in the lists merely U frighten pupils are not only nnwist, lm also absurd. Among rules of this character may be mentioned all such as a!!ix corporal punishment as a penalty where abiliiy to enforce the rule or administer the punishment depends altogether en the physical devtlopment and courage of the teacher. ! Tl) ,M.Mlit rules to remain on the list 1 .,.,, ....i.r t .it..r.... ... ifriire,nent of i rule ami a will ful disobedience. The teacher win insists upon indexible rules, or rather Invariable punishments for the violation of rules, will ireqin ntly lind himself placed in the unpleasant dilemma of be Ins compelled to administer punishment when he knows himself to be doing wrong or permit a violation of his nilos to p unpunished. I). The pupil should be permitted to assist In adopting the rules. It is a rood plan when a rule becomes neeosi win- to nvii tho neiuls a voice in its ml ',,,,. Thoy wm rMviv nbse their ! prJvlIs aillI whl.n once the rule is ; .u, lu,v nvo;ri,jZc. u ns :l jaw of i thoir own mking. Their obediov to ' . , rulos .,ls0 n,4.omos more cheerful. . TJ. sli.ubl. of cours explain tt them the necessity for the rule, und loatl them to vote for its adoption as a lecitter of choice. Should there be a 1?W , m lnci5no(i to vot0 j aMllHt ir, u call of the roll and a vote j " or uu as cacu name b wni

UsiifiTTy brlrg tliern to the'sM? or tha majority. 1 . Tho te;pier slmuid not be severe In ptmiahing a violjiiion of the rvd-'s. He sln-uhl always linpiiiv iini'ro'.viy iijr. the mo'ivc. Tho chihls jihysical and mental rga:iIzat:or. s'.ior.id b wdl cnv:,'e,;,i'l. Tde te;;, 'i. r !:; ui l a:i!v ';;:;ielJ that ;1k tVi :i., is i:.t ;h" result

f s ;me ;r,; of vsieal :;;;iv:ü!t.1": al. tha: it w.:s wi:!;-.:!. am! i-...t tiieresul: '!a. . ;.b i;t ii,- Migh'.lessn :"ss. T. Ii':-, s- , it tb:it .m ar cod. Loi'k t a'l t!i points; '.; ro::so:iabb and jusb and j:j a jM.tj.oily of ctscs y.u wüi lind n,, neevssity for t'.c luiiictioti f jmnislimenr. tilgest ions. 1. In making r eiifoiving,ru V ! ik back to your own uihihood: r.-.-all yot;r own experiences, your impulses. Put yourself in the place of the child to be governed, then act. -. Kegard all pupils as trustworthy until you j'r.id tlmm otherwise. Children rarely forgive a icacher who suspoets them of wnmg when ihey are innocent. .'h Encourage them to bo truthful by remitting penalties as far as possible when they mako a full and free confession. 4. Common stuise and tho ability to judge the guilt or innocence of a pupil is a requisite in successful government. Ö. Allow pupils thi largest liberty consistent with their welfare and the welfare of the school, and when restrictions are placed on t!:e:n explain the necessity for such restriction. o Do n t attempt to eonp.el pupils t inform on one another under threats of punishment. Untlmr h t your own tact govern in the detection of au offen so. 7. Kx plain to your pi-oils tie necessity of proper deportment and prompt di-dicilce. . lo yii'ir own governing as far as p; -ssible; it wea!;i us yo-.ir ; Mt!irl!y bi call upon the superintendent v the members of the School lio.ir i for assjs;:;nce . '.K iiv no lniuvi'v-'ir,- commands. in. Make ooly sucii rules us you ,tre willing to enforce. Kaub's Sch .Managi;iK -nb tlasj l i-llt:.. When one reads items of new.-; ab-.u :h-g; n class lights ami the jj-e he begins to lose faith in tlies. l.i:;ier iiKiituiions and worn! rs how it is possible for boys in a college io grow manly and pre;. are for citizenship. is iH, conduct in which they indulge the evidence of conceit which one may hope will exhaust itself by the close .f the young man's school career? When one reads the following Item with reference to a Western university his faith hi the value of a college education, weakens: The university is in a state of miniature war. On Thürs lay in'uut the s ni. i s held a meeting at the n . idence of the jiresifb-n. whose son is a senior, and members of the under classes attempted to break it up. A senior was cargiit on the lawn and bound with the presMeiit's clothesline and was being dragged away when his chums came to his rescue. A pitched battle follow t 1, in which students were knocked down, but the seniors liaab ly succeeded in dragging Carpenter into the house. wh-re the doors w re barr-d ami she attacking party kt pt out. The j next n.o: ning the si niors appear- d in cl 's j with plevs of lvpe tiid in the buttonj holes of tl.t ir coats as trophies of their i victory, und an attempt was made by j the inemhi rs of the uud-r classes to IIj vest them of tho offensive badges. A t rcatlie followed during the tirst Imur. but the men wire finally separated. As the seniors came down stairs at 1 o'clock tlii " wro net by a det'i-tnitii'd f r e. and j the light was renewed in an effort on one I side 1o get th" pii'ces of lop.e and to rej lain them on the itlir. Members d" the la-u!iy niM!tI to tne scene to separate the combatants. It was half an hour before tinier was restored. Several stud ills on both sides were sadly bruised in the row. A scrimmage like that in a family would properly bring into use the mother's slipper or, better still, a wellseasoned rawhide. lint what can be dune with young men, aged from 17 to "1 years, who will make fools of themselves in an institution whore they are supji.sed to get wisdom, but seemingly without getting understanding? AVrittcn Kxercise. Fill these blanks with -sit," at,' "sitting." "set" or "setting": . the doll in the chair. 1 A fair little jiirl under a tree. .". The maid is tthe table. -1. The table was - carlyto-night. r. There's a merry brown thrush up in a tree. (I. Pussy. beside the lire. 7. The gardener has the tree's in a row. S. How long has the bird on her eggs 7 1. Do not the pitcher so near tho edge of the table. K lticatimiul Notes. P.rooklyn has 11,. SSI inoiy pupils than a year ago. A law requiring physical training to be taught in the public schools hats been passe', in Maryland. It is now a penitentiary offense in Florida to teach white ami colored children in the same school. San Francisco has ".-LOST boys, and :M.."iU; girls, besides 1,10.") Chinese and colored on the census roll of ISPö. After seven years of faithful work Professor 1'. M. Barnard has severed his connection with tho Lick Observatory, and assumed a position at the great Yerkes Observatory. Statistics recently compiled show ! that in the Dniictl Slates the negro race has ."7l colleges ami schools of higher education, in which UP teachers out of 1.1 75 art colored; J.'t.SC.ti teachers add 1. !('.. 177 students in the common schools; IMd newspapers and 17 magazines; '27i lawyers, and neatly that number of physicians; an aggregate wealth estimated at $LM!.(HH, .; and a degree of ability and Industry sufllcient to have produced last year tl.e-o,-(mm) poumbi of cotton and SlöO.üOO.tXH! rrtk t earMLU.

SWINDLING UNCLE! 3AM. Unscrupulous Men 3hike Money by wcniiiiii tloUl Coin. li d: Iniif 1:0 -D known tliat tho most desperate counterfeiting gangs in America have for years nourished and frown rich ui of their unlawful vocation in the neiuniain fastnesses of the Taciiic ona-;;. and it camo t: liglit a f-w days ago that a gigantic scheme for defrauding ti.e government by ".sweating" gold coins has nourished without Interruption in San Francisco for nearly sevcu years. These revelat i.ms -am' to light by the recent conviction of Davis c. Iturke. a learned old man. who. with bis wife, has c.'Uiini:ot:sly conducted an ingenious Iaborab ry at his hnntbb h ime in a tenement ;uarter of the city. The aged criminal has just been o:it to prison for eighteen months for his crime. His method of operating was adroit and successful. It is estimated that he made many thousands of dollars out of his secret operations, during which he extracted about 5 per cent of the value of ovcry gold coin that passed through his laboratory. It is also probable that he handled about ."U worth of gold coin daily. When secret service agents raided his place they found several large bottles tilled with line g dd which had beeti taken fn.ni the coins by what is known as the eyan'.de-oleetro process, which consists of bathing tho coins in a solution of tiie prper strong,!: of eyanid? of potassium with the electric current carefully adjusted, i'.wke was cunning; enough to know je.s, how to time the bathing of the coins, and as a result ho extracted a bent twenty grains of gold from each S'jo piece eml g.:bl in tho snmo ratio from sru-ill cms. Tha grob l thus freed by the process pas: 1 through tho s-anti'.n ;,n! ana -h i !ts:df

to t a" p. is, , iVf -.o of i li ing th'uv so ;hat i: c scraped o!f irt; a !',::. battery, cling:bt rcailiiv bi : .it .1 1 'i ward tre 1 bv tl rd:t:a: Cid iV, 1 1 ; - cess m, yip) into due b-ir,. So pubslo was :!: pr.e.- by w'.:.-:i l;r swiretl the coins that no h;im.:u eye could deter', any il'iTer"t?c"' i: ween ti:- appeara : of ;h: sorni.eis .ri:! the genuine, and i: was op.ly by ;'; i i.r tne sweated Iee;'s n i;--;e-:i: sea . - at t .i" suntreasury til it the si i e-ftge w:'.s detected. To 'vsNiro th ge.id t ::s orig!naI color ilie crite.i:::';! ciseiS: iereautO i .e the reddisii appear in. v mr.d cliemica Is by polishing t !ie j.ii by tiio rs willl a line revolving brr.t, t'ca: d with the lines: cni. ry !b,ar. Ir '-as been diseovoit d that Ittirke and his wife have, .lnrin the las! y-.wv-. sAA many tboC.s;i:;ils of li.ilbl e-;h of d in the form of line bais to local simdting; comjtanies. They w"'e also cunning enough to add a small percentage of base metal --smoh as copper er l-ad to every "run" so as no: io ex.-Pe tl'.e suspicious: of the comp;::!i-'s tluy tloalt with by reason jkf the unusual fineness of the material offcr-d for sale. New York World. lcni"tly tor Insomnia. "Don't." begs a physician, "try to go to sleep wi'ii eotd feet. Von uviy succeed, lint ii is at an un:t"c: ;:try was'e of effort. Dot water baas are n.w so cheap, that eveiy bedrohte in the house may be .-applied with me. mo of the little .lapane.-e hot boxes, which arc even m re convenient, since they do not have to'depen 1 tip-in l'ne boiler .-.apply. More discomfort is had and more: colds, that might never have developed, are cent "iited in this way than in any other." The remedy prescribed by a famous 'ierman physician for insomnia is on this principle: Wring out till not a drop drips a pair of white cotton stockings in cold water, put thorn en as wot ns they will still Lie. and draw over them a pair of dry woollen ones. Let the cotton stockings be larger than those usually worn, ami the woollen ones, of course, still bigger. Hand knitted woollen, or the thick ones sold at the athletic goods shops, are tho best in use. and the result of this steam, ing process, so far from being in any way harmful, as might ho feared. Is sail to be magical in its relief ami aureeable sensations. 3Ioi!erti Tcrusalem. Flour milling has become an important industry in aVrusalem. The product is disposed of entirely for inland consumption, none being exported. During lSP-l between Ji .) and ,"UM.0 :it ks of ID 1 pounds each were produced. The wheat is obtained from the Jordan valley and Samaria. There are also in Jerusalem eleven mills driven by horse power. In Jaffa are ten steam mills but only a very small quantity of flour is imported into Palestine, and that only of the finest sort. Tha restoration and upbuilding of Jerusalem will be done on strictly business principles. A I'cjgiitncr Undeniably. Johnny Spratts Take me word for it, dat boy in tie general eiectric efdeo is a greenhorn in de biz. He's never bin an oflice boy before. Willie Coot I don't see why dat Is. Do told me dat dis was his for't place. Johnny Spratts -Aw. get out; why, he doesn't know how t inhale a cig. New York World. Mater al Spirtts. Medium (who is giving a private seance, in sepulchral tones, The spirits are about us tsharp r.U tat heard in direction of door; shiver runs through audience ami ) The New Servant - Please, ma'am, am I to cook all those sausage for snp-perV-Pall Mall Budget. Con lil n't Stand It. "How do you stand on this here money question, major?" "I don't stand at all. sir! .Money's so scarce tjtat when 1 strikt a dollar it Ju' keels mi over!" Atlanta CoustltUi.OU.