Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 30, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 February 1896 — Page 3

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THE TJiüM PET BLAST.

REV. DR. TALMAGE ON " BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES." JTe S!mv.s How tsomc Mighty Sickles Mjy He Vm (or the Gospel Harvest A Powerful Sermon to an Immense TTifonix. The Harvest I Kipe. Dr. Ta image pivaehed Sunday at W;th!ng:...i t' an immcn-e coin-our'-. The subyct of iii sermon v.. is "P. ringing n the Slier.ves," in t.M being Joel iii., 1". ve in the slckh, l r the harvest is ripe." The sword h::s hern poetized. anl tho v i;M i;i celi-hra ted the sword of i IiVit, the svrd of Corles and the sword ! L.tfnyeitc. Tie p-.'ii has been properly cue gized. ai!l the vrll has cclebraN'd tl.. "".t of Addison, the pen of Sotithey inn! the pen .f Irving. The painter.-' peti-4-1 .'::!:: beeil h :' -red. and t lie Wrld has e. rated Ii-.' p ti-i! of Mnrillo, the pencil i It.;be::s and the pem-il f P,i-r-tadr. Tie- .' .:;;( i's vis- I has come in for ! : ir ! i ": .r.ium. and tic- World has celebrated i. chi !. arid Crawfrr chisel. r:ii i rri-m-ivr;".- eh'sel. Put tin-re is one in.-l.sttr.-mt about v. hie! I sing t!:e first e; :.:i tie1.; was v s::ng the sich'', the -;.:.:. r :he nibie, tho si. uie that has I tile h;-rve-: of many ceu'iirhs. S'. ;"; and hen: I . a in'.eirele and g'itt :-. ;:-.r. ties ri;,;;,u' boo!:, no lo;::-r than y-has 1'; t r:: : '.:i i t!e levad for tii i.xvA i f ars. lis j.-erssivs ha vi i tin' wealth ip" !i;i;';..:is. It lias had m. : " d wl'h :he World's pr egress than t- : i pen and pem-il and chisel a!! p:-: P-gi : ie.T. Christ p.-s the sickle into ex.j-;l:1e s.-n;;oii!e simile, and v u sitii;; ::.( rnnii'.-it Jhish all up :lll,l down She A;-.oahp-e as St. John swings ir. while th. -ugh duel in my tet !e.d command ti:-- pivp'e, as through his servants now lie commanded them. "Put ye in the sickle, for ;:.' harvest is ripe." l.stimatc of Values. T.ist N nemher there was prent rej.de4 Ti r all over the land. Wish trumpet and eerm't and orcan and thousand voieed P-:.!r.i v.e p:ai.-e.J the Lord for the tem-Io'-:l harvists. Wo praised lied for the wi .-::t, tl; " rye, ihe oats, the cotton, the r:-- . all tie' fruits of the orchard and nil tin grains of the liehl, and the nation never di es a hetler tiling than when in the n!';ma it gathers to festivity and tlfanks ;-'d ..r tlie pn'atness of tho harvest. t.;t I conn' to-day to speak to you of richer harvests, even the spiritual. How shall we estimate the value of a man? We say h is worth so many dollars, or lie lias ftehicwd ,s-.;. h and such n position, hut we know ery well there are sojne inen at th- Jf-j i?f the ladder who ouirht to he at th holtotu am! some at the bottom who e;hl 1o he at the top, and the only way to e.-;lima te a man is hy his soul. We all kne.v that we shall live forever. Death v.MioJ kill us. Other crafts may helraw:i Ir.: r!i' whir!pod or sliivcn d on the rock, lee; th.is life within us will weather all 'mis and drop no am-hor and ItU HM m hj jears after deatli will shake out signals ;. thi hi-,'h seas of eternity. Veu put the lie ndira::t off yonr doorstep and say he js :.! n l c;r;rar, Imt lie is worth all t.'ie irold of mountains, wortli all the pearls of tl." :-ea, wort it the solid earth, worth sun in. I uiooii ami stars, worth the entire :i: Serial universe. Take all the piper trat t vrr enmc from the paper mills and jeit it Kid" hy side and sheet hy sheet ami h : men with th-rpM pens make figures on t:::.r paper for Hmkim j ears, and they will oi.ly have hexnn to express the value of the f.. ill. Suppose 1 owned Colorado and N. and Australia, of how much value Wi aid Ih'it M. to iie one moment sifter I th irled this life? I low mueh f 1'hilah Ij.iiia does Steplieu Uirafd own to-day? llovv mm li of Ihe-ton property does Ahlo?t Lawrence ow:i to-day? The man woo l'day hath a dollar in his pocket li tili mere v. oi ldly estate than the millionuire who died last year. J low do you i;l' se I fee!, standing here surrounded hy :i muHiti:d' of souls, each one worth si.-. .-v than the material universe? Oh v. as 1 not rijrht in savin;; this spiritual Larvc-,1 is richer than the temporal harvest? l must li-htert the girdle. I must tl trpen t.'ie sickle. I must he careful how 1 suinrj ihe instrument for j,-a,thering the ftr tin Jisst. one stalk he lost. One of the most powerful sickle for reaping this f.dritual harvest is the I.r.a'hin;: .f the gospel. Jf the sickle have :i rosewood handle, and it he adorned with precious stones, and yet it cannot I rin- down the grain, it is not nnyh of a si. kle, nnd preaching amounts to nothing n:dess it harvests souls for IJod. Shall ve preach philosophy ? The Kalph Waldo Jhners.Mi.s could heat us at that. Shall we preach science? Tho Ajrassizes heat us at that. The minister of Jesus Christ with wölkest ana going forth in earnest prayer f.nd wielding this sieklo of tho gospel .hall lind the harvest all around him waiting far the angel sheaf hinders. Oh, this ii.'ixvpst of souls! I notice in the fields that tho farmer ,li, ,0t stand upright when ho gathered tho grain. I noticed Je- had lo stoop in his work, and I noticed in order to hind tho sheaves the hotter ho had tf put his knee upon them. Ami as we g. forth in this work for Iod wo can:ot stand upright in our rhetoric and our metaphysics and our erudition. We have to stoop tf our work. Aye, we have to p it our knee lo it, or wo will never gather he-arcH for the lord's garner. I'eter fr .vung that sickle on tho day of Pentecost, und o.fHK) sheaves came in. Richard Baxter Mvung that sickle at Kidderminster, and McCheyne at Dundee, and vast multitude cume into the kingdom of our ;!. The Mighty Gospel. Oil, I hi. is a mighty gospel! It raptnreI not only John, the la nth, hut Paul, the lion. Men may gnash their fifth at it ami eliiirh their lists, hut it is tno power of tlod and the- wisdom of God unto salvation, lint, alas, if it is only preached in pulpit and on Sahhath days! We must g' forth into our stores, our shops, our hanking houses, our factories, and the Kfreefs. and everywhere preach Christ. We hfand in our pulpits for two hours on the Sahhath and commend Christ to the jMople, hut there are LIS hours in the week, ami what are the two hours on the tSahhalh against the !',;? Oh, there comes d v.mi the ordination of God this day ujmmi sill the people, men who toll with head and Siaml and foot--the ordinatiot comes up on all merchants, upon all mechanics. upon fill toilers. :mil God says to you as To hays to n.e: "du, tench all nations." lie that hi li 'vi'th and is hapfized shall he saved, and he that helieveth not shall (be damned." Mighty gosjvel, let the whole earth hoar ill The story of Christ is to rencrate

rtio nations: it is to eradicate a'.l wrong: it is to turn the carrh into a paradise. An old artist painted the "Lord's Supper." and he wauled the chief attention directed to the face of Christ. When he invited his friends in to criticise th picture, tlcy admired the chalices more than they did the i'aee. and the o!d arti-t said. "This picture is a failure." and lie dashed out the picture of trie cups ami said: "I shall have nothing Jo detract from the face of the Lord. Christ is the all of this picture." Another powerful sickle for tho reaping of this harvest is Christian song. I know in many churches tho whole work is delegated to a few people standing in tho organ loft. Uut, my friends, as others cannot repent for us and others cannot die for us we cannot delegate to others the work of sinking for us. While a few drilled artists shall take tho chants and execute the more skillful music, when the hymn is given out let there he hundreds and thousands of voices uniting in tho acclamation. On the way to grandeurs that never cease and glories that never die h t us sing. At the hattlo of Lützen a general came Jo the king and said: "Those soldiers are singing as they are going into hattie. Shall 1 stop them?' ".o." said the king. ".Men that can sing like : Ii.it can light." Oh. tho power of Christian song! When I argue here, you may arirue hack. The argument you make agai::-t religion may he more skillful than the argument 1 make in heiiaM' of religion. I.eS who can stand J.efore Jhe pathos of sem uplifted song like that which we Sonic im es si::g: Show piry. Lord: O Lord, forgive! Let a iv;n ntir.g rehel live! Are net thy tm ivies large and free? May not a sinner tiust in thee? An I.tTcctive Sickle. Another mighty sickle for th-.- reaping of the gospel hi'ivcst is prayer. What does God do with our pravers? Does he go on th h.it:lem; nss of heaven and throw ilicm off? No. What 1 you do with gifts given you l.y those who love you ery much? You keep them with great sacrediicss. And do von suppose God will take our prayers. die rod in the sincerity and love of our hearts, and scatter them to the winds? Oh. no! lie will answer them all in some way. Oh, what a mighty thing prayer is! It is not a long rigmaroie of "ohs" and "ahs" and "for ever and ever, aniens." It is a Lreathing of tin; heart into tho heart of God. Oh, what a mighty thing prayer is! i'lijah with it reach c ' up to the clouds and shook down tho sh w Ts. Willi it .lohn Knox shook Seoth'M.l. Wish it Martin Luther shook the can it. And when Philipp Mcl-atK-hthon lay sick unto death, as many supposed. Martin Luther came in and said. "Philipp, wo can't spare you." "Oh." said he, "Martin, you must let me go! I am tircl of persecution and tired of life. I want to go to he with my Gad." "No," said Martin Luther, "you shall not go. You must take this food, r.nd then I will pray for you." "No, Martin." said Melauchthoti. "you must let me go." Martin Luther said. "You take this food, or I will excommunicate you." lie took the food, and Martin Luther knelt down and prayed as only he could pray, ami convalescence came, and Martin Luther went hack and said to his friends. "God has savisl the life of Philipp Melanc ht on in direct answer to my prayer." Oh, the power of prajer! Have you testiil it? Dr. Prime, of New York, in his heautiful lok ntitled. "Around the World," descrihid a iii.iieoli'iiiii in India which it I oid; LV.iihii men tv"nty-t wo years to huild --that and tl" hirldings surrounding and he says. "Standing in that mauso

leum and uttering a word, it is echoed hack from height of loO feet not an ordinary eel.-., hut a prolonged music, as though there were angels hovering in the air." And every word of earnest prayer we utter has an echo no! from the marhh cupola of an earthly mausoleum, hut from the heart of God and from tho wings of angels as they hover, crying, "P.ehold, lie pra.vs!" Oh, lest it! Mighty sickle for reaping this gospel harvest, the sickle of pra.v er! forms of Little Consequence. It does ii"t make so milch difference ahoiit the posture you take, whether you sit, stand or kneel or lie on your face or i t your physical agonies lie on your hack. It does not make any difference alxuit the physical posture, as was shown in a hospital, when the chaplain said as he looked over the heds of the suffering: "Let :v!l those wounded men hero who would like to ho prayi'd for lift the hand." Some lifted two hands; others liftisl one hand; some with hands amputated could only lift tho stump of the arm. One man, hotli his arms amputated, could give no signal except to say: "Me! Me!" Oh, it does i.ot make any difference nhout tho rhetoric of your prayers. It does not make any difference ahout tho posture. It does not make any difference whether you can lift a hand or have no hand to lift. (Jod is ready to hear you. Prayer is answered. God is waiting to respond. "Lift up your eyes ujton the fields, for they are white already to harvest." How many have you reaped for God? Do yoji ask me how many 1 have reaped for God? I cannot say. Now, can you say how many you have reaped? I hope there are some who have been brought into the kingdom of God through your instrumentality. Have there not been? Not one? Y'ou, a man .'?ö, 40, r0 years of age and not one? I see souls coming up to glory. Hero is a Sunday school teacher bringing ten or fifteen souls. Here is a tract distributor bringing in forty or fifty souls. Here is a man yu never heard of who has been very useful in bringing souls to God. He comes with 1Ö0 souls. They are the sheaves of his harvest. How many have you brought? Not one ean it be? What will God say? What will the angels say? Hotter crouch down in some corner of heaven and never show yourself. Oh, that harvest is to bo rcaiod now! And that is this instant. Why not be reaped for God this hour? "Oh," says some man, "I have been going on tho wrong road for thirty, forty or fifty j' ears. 1 have gone through the whole catalogue' of crime and must first got myself fixed up." Ah, you will never got your.u-lf fixed up until Christ takes you in charge! Y'ou get worse and worse until he comes to the rescue. "Not the righteous sinners Jesus came to call." So, you see, I take the very worst case there is. If there is a man hero who feels ho is all right in heart and life, I am not tjilking to him. for he is probably a hypocrite. I will talk to him some other time. Put if there is a man who feels himsilf all wrong, to hin I address myself. Though you be wounded in the hands, and wounded in the feet, and Wounded in Ihe head, and wounded in the heart, and though the gangrene of eternal deatli be upon you one drop of the elixir of divine life will cure your soul. Though you be soaked in evil indulgences, though your feet have gone in unclean place, though

you have hnmpir'mVI with tho abandonel and tho lost, one touch of divine grace will save your soul. 'Whosoever Will." I do not say that you wiil r.t have struggles after that. Oil. m! Put they will he a different kind id struggle. Y'ou go into that hattie. and all hell is .-.gainst you. and you are alone, and you light, and you light, weaker and weaker and weaker, until at last you fall and the powers of darkness trample on your soul. Put in the other case you go into the battle, and you light stronger and stronger ami stronger until tho evil propensity goes down, and you get the vieiory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (Hi. come out of your sins! Have you not been bruised with sin long enough? Have you not carried that load long enough? Have you not fought that battle long enough? I rattle tho gates of your sepuh-her today. 1 take the trumpet of the gospel and blow the long, loud blast. Kola ml went into battle. Charlemagne's army had. been driven back by the three armies of the Saracens, and Poland, in almost despair, took up tho trumpet and blew three blasts in one of the mountain passes, and under the power of those three blasts tho Saracens recoiled ami lied in terror. Put hN'iory sa s that w hen he had blown tho third blast Poland's trumpet broke. I lake this trumpet of the gospel and blow the first bh-.sJ. "Whosoever will." I blow the secelid blast. "Seek ye the Lord while he may he found." 1 blow tie- third blast. "Now is the accepted time." Put tho trumpet does not break. It was handed down by our forefathers to u-. and we will hand it down to our children, that after we are dead they may hlw the trumpet, tilling the world that we have a pardoning God. a loving God. a sympathetic God. ami that more to him than the throne on which he sits is the joy of seeing a prodigal put his linger en the latch of his father's house. I invito any one the most infidel, any one the p-ost esthetic. 1 invito him into the kingdom of God with just as much hearlimss as those who have for fifty years been under the teaching of the gospel and believed it all. When I was living in Philadelphia, a gentleman told me of a scene in which ho was a participant. In Callowhill street, in Philadelphia, there had been a powerfud nnvting going on for some time, and many were converted, and among others one of the prominent members of rlie worst clubhouse in that city. The next night tho leader of that clubhouse, the president of it. resolved that ho would endeavor to get his comrade away. He came to the door, and before he entered ho heard a Christian song, ami under its power his soul was agitated. lie went in and asked for prayer. Pefore he came out he was a subject of converting mercy. The next night another comrade went to reclaim the two who had been lost to their sinful circle. He went, and under the power of the Holy Ghost became a changed man. and the work went on until they were all saved and tho infamous club-house disbanded. Oh, it is a mighty gospel! Though you came here a child of sin, you can go away a child of grace. You can go away singing: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I om e was lost, but now am found Was blind, but now 1 see. Faith I te Imi cd. Oh, give up your sins! Most of your life is already gone. Your children are going on the same wrong road. Why do you not stop? "This day is salvation come lo thy house." Why not this moment look up iuio Ihe face of Christ and say : Just as T am. without one ph-a Put that, thy blood was shed for me, And that, thou bid'st me come lo thee O Lamh of God, I come, I come! God is going to save you. You are going to be among tho shining ones. After Ihe loils of life are over you are going up to the everlasting rest. You n.v going up to join your loved ones, departed parents ami departed children. "Oh. my God," says some man, "how can I come to thee? I am so far off. Who will help me? lam so weak? It seems such a great undertaking." (Hi, my brother, it is a great undertaking! It is so great you cannot accomplish it, but Christ can do ihe work. He will correct your heart, and he will correct your life. "Oh," you say, "I will stop profanity." That will not save you. "Oil." you say. "I will stop Sabbath breaking." That w ill not save you. There is only one door int- the kingdom of (Sod, and that is faith; only one ship that sails for heaven, and that is faith. Faith the first step, the seiend step, the hundredth step, the thousandth step, the last step. Py faith we enter the kingdom. Py faith we keep in. In faith we die. Heaven a reward the faith. The earthquake shook down the Philippian dungeon. Tho jailer said. "What shall I dor" Some of you would say, "Potter get out of the place before the walls crush you." What did the apostle say? "P.elieve on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be savd." "Ah," you say, "Lhere's the rub!" What is faith? Suppose you were thirsty, and I offered you this glass of water, and you believed! I meant to give it to you, and you came up and took it. Y'ou exercise faith. You ltelieve I mean to koep my promise. Christ offers you the water of everlasting life. Y'ou take it. This is faith. Knter into the kingdom of God. Enter now. The door of life is set wide open. I plead with you by the bloody sweat of (Jethsetnane and the death groan of (lolgotlia, by cross and crown, by Pilate'n courtroom and Joseph's sepulehor, by harps and chains, by kingdoms of light and realms of darkness, by the trumpet of the archangel that shall4 wake the dead and by the throne of tho Lord God Almighty and the Lamb that yon attend now to the things of eternity. Oh, what a sad thing it will be if, having come sc ic.'ar heaven, we miss it! Oh, to have come within sight of the shining pinnacles of the city nnd not have entered! Oh, to have been so near we hare seen the mighty throng enter, and we not joining them! Angels of God, Hy this way! Good news for j'ou. Toll Ihe story among the rcdeiined on high. If there le one there espiH-ially longing for our salvation, let that one know it now. We put down our sorrows. Glory be to G oil for such a hope, for Mich a pardon, for such a joy, for such a heaven, for such a Christ!

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EDUCATIOXALCOLUilN

NOTES ABOUT SCHOOLS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT. (low a Great Amount of Annoyance May He Prevented The Sclioolhousc if a Teacher Count ry Schools Should lluvc Scrap Hooks. Assigning: Lessons. A great amount of annoyance lo both teacher and pupil may be prevented by using groat care in the matter of assigning lessons. Tho work given to young pupils to prepare for recitation should be simply :i reproduction of the work done by the class while lie teacher was "assigning the lesson." or in other words, studying with her pupils. For more advanced pupils it should bo memorizing that which they already understand, or working out problems which will put intj operation the principles ami rules already learned. "As the twig is bent the tree Is inclined." is mi rely true in school life. A ilcdniiion learned before it is understood may cause an almost permanent bond in the wrong direction. I have seen a boy, who had luvn absent when the lesson was assigned to the class, told to commit lo memory such and such things, and then ceiif'Jied o;.-e;uj so he did not lcii'embcr the order of the words in the answer which meant nothing to him. Take, ror ex a in p!.. the first definitions in the crdinary geography Maury's Manual, for instance. Tell pupils to memorize them without any previous talk upon tneni, and see what a miserable result will follow, if you try to have them tell you what is meant by -hat which you have compelled some of them to learn, and also notice how few will have assigned, i. e., give you the word as it really is. I do not forgot that it is thought wo nre after and therefore thought should be the body; but, teachers, don't neglect to emthe it in tho best raiment possible. It is quite right, in fact it is very desirable, to have tho student jrivo you the thought in his own woi-ds, but then I would have you impress upon him the idea that writers who have spent years of study upon the subject are better prepared to express the thought than any student ean be, and. therefore, it is very desirable th:t they commit to memory the better expression prepared for them. Don't be discouraged if you find parents coming to you and trying to Impress upon you that their children knew the definitions, only they could not "give it just as it was In the book." If you are sure that the pupil understands what he has to memorize, insist upon it. Fvery thought well expressed paves ihe way for the next and in recitations insist that the expression be well formed. Are you assigning a lesson in spelling? That is merely memory work with the great er part of the class; but try to leach llietii lo train Ihe eyes as well as the mind. I found that having the words written by the pupil was a uic.it help, and with poor spellers I have requested lliat they bring to the next recitation each word written five limes. This I have found to be nn excellent home task for the poor spell-, or, as in this way he is compelled to give proper attention to ihe hs-.oii. and in a few months 1 have always noticed a decided improvement. Ui member, this applies only to the pupil who usually has a poor spelling leson. H;ivo iilm bring in the paper for two weeks, then try him for a lim", and as soon as he shows signs of neglect in preparing ivnew the demand for written work. Say to him pleasantly: "Well, .lohn, perhaps you cannot memorize, but yon can write." He will see the justice, ami that he may avoid writing, he will memorize. In mathematics always be reasonably sure they can do the work assigned. Let them do addition one day more for task work, unless you are certain Ihoy can do subtraction. A few moments taken at the close of the school for giving one example similar to the work assigned will often help in home or task work. Don't ussign heavy tasks, for by so doiiexyou only multiply work for yourself. Would space permit, I might mention many devices for making; home task interesting, but each teacher can find plenty of her own, if she will occasionally assign herself the task. Normal Instructor. The Teacher' Personality. The teacher with a winning, pleasant personality possesses a strong ally in her school work. Pupils are quick to perceive ami appreciate a teacher's personal attractions. Uefractory pupils succumb to the power of personal iulluence when compulsion fails. A teacher's personality is a subtle combination of manner, speech, appearance her individuality. I visited a school where a lady teacher of rare ability presided. Her power over the school was like witchery. I lor boys adored her. She was a loving companion with the girls. The little children trusted her like a mother. I made this teacher a study. I tried lo lind her great power. She was not pretty, but her countenance was lighted by a sweet, animated expression. She was not finely dressed, but her dot hing was the perfection of neatiies? i ml taste. Her hair was always lie .oiningly and prettily arranged; her manner was frank and friendly; her voice sympathetic. She was a living inspiration to her school. I beard a boy. one of her pupils, say. "I would rather have any other teacher whip me than to have a word of reproof from Miss I I Miring the noon hour she remained at her school, as did most of her scholars, and she took this occasion lo learn I ho Inner lives of her pupils by ming ling with Iheni In friendly Intercourse; j by eating her dinner with them in the ha do of a tree. Py her hearty Llud-

ness she ma le nil feel that she had a special regard for the welfare of each of them. The teacher who does not value the importance of her personality sutliciently to be neat in dress can hardly hope to secure her pupils respect. Whenever teachers appear in the school room with elbows out, with soiled dross fronts, buttons missing from her shoes, hair slovenly, etc.. so that pupils make tho teacher's untidiness a subject of common remark then more than a hint should be given them. With no one does an attractive manner and neat external appearance have greater power than with the teacher, for the children are much influenced bj these things. School Kdueation.

Fcran-ltook Making:. Few are the schools in rural dis- ? tricts that are supplied with any kind of reference books. j A very useful book can be compiled by teacher and pupils. i A scrap book can be bought for a ' Kinall amount, or one made of cambrie: ; with board covers, and the leaves tilled with historical and geographical sketch es. anecdotes and biographies of endiient men. notes on travel and descrip- t lions of natural curiosities. j In my school was a largo class of well ! advanced pupils who became much interested in gleaning from all classes of papers such extracts as were suitable. As the articles were brought, they woro placed iu envelopes properly labeled, and were pasted in ihe book when quite a collection was on hand. An index neatly written on fust pago aids in liuding the subject to be referred to. All articles should be placed in their proper departments and blank pages should be left for future use. so that sketches and extracts brought in later can be put under their correct head. Interesting facts about plants and animals, pictures and scenery and persona of note, all found a place in our "Encyclopedia." j Pupils will take more interest In this book of their own manufacture, and refer to it more than they would to a winde set of Pneyclopediae. The Public Schools. j A Superintendent's Note to Teachers. Teachers: The follow ing are some of the good points discussed at our last grade and general meetings. Let us see if we cannot establish at least as many in our meetings this week. Come thoroughly prepared in all of the work: 1. No one can consciously follow tho direction of another and succeed. That which best defines a man is not what he is, but what he is trying to become. ?.. All realities" must exist first as "idealities." -1. The teacher must "think" herself into a knowledge of the art and science of instruction. o. Ihlueation Is niidlUonedM by the fact of self-consciousness. d. Life Is not the absence of wrongdoing it is a noble effort. 7. Intellect is necessary lo Ihe highest moral actions. S. The function of moral Instructlor is to clinch the good habits.--( loo. 1 Miller, iu Iowa Schools. Ticiiicuihcr That good use of language comes,-. From much practice. From knowing what one wishes say or write. From n desire lo say It well. From having an object In saying it. From noting how good talkers say things. From keeping tho eyes open. From keeping the mouth shut vvtieii ' there is nothing to say. I 'ducat tonal 1 u tell icnce. The Chicago School Hoard had tle Cook County normal schools offered to them by the County Hoard of IMue.ilion; it costs Söö.oc.O a year to maintain if, of this the city now pays :?',mx. 11 was decided to accept the offer. State Supt. Sabin, of Iowa, has divid ed the Committee on Rural Schools, of which he Is chairman, appointed by the National Council of Ihlueation, into four sections with the following topics ; for study: Schools maintenance; super- j vision; supply of teachers; instruction. and discipline. He has outlined a series of topics under each head, which promises a valuable study of this important subject. During the past year a new depart ment has been added to the HaskellInstitute, Lawrence, Kan., namely, the commercial department, making this one of the most complete institutions of its kind to be found anywhere. Tho establishment of this department and the increased at tendance in the normal department, established a year before it. has brought to this institute a large number of advanced students. The Northwest has another State institution in the form of the new Idaho State Normal School, located at LewIston. The institution begins work on a solid basis. It not only has a splendid building, fully equipped with laboratories, libraries, spacious recitation halls and an auditorium with a seating capacity of 7(M people, but it is fully endowed with ro0,0O0 acres of timber land, all very valuable. The school was first opened with an enrollment of fiftytwo. Notwithstanding the fact that Chicago built eleven school houses last year and rents IMo rooms in private dwellings for school purposes, 11,000 or PI.UOO children are deprived of school accommodations. The city superintendent of schools says that twenty buildings of average capacity are needed. These figures, however, do no cover the inadequacy of accommodation, for many thousands of children in the first grades attend school only part of the day, their places being taken by others for the second session. No doubt, the number of children receiving partial Instruction is greater even than those who do not attend school at -IL

SAVED THEIR NECKS.

DAN KELLAR, WIFE, AND SISTER ARE ACQUITTED. Were Accused of ."Murdering; Clara Mianks-Lnd of a Sensational Trial at 'ferro Haute, I nd. - II ist ory of tho Alleged Crime. Story of the Case. Daniel K-IIar. his wife. Nairn jo, and hi sifter. Maggie Kella r. were on Friday acipiittcl .f the nnir.ler of (Mara Shanks. The case w:- tried at Terre Haute on a change of venue fr-.ei Park.' County. The body of Flara Shanks was found in Wolf creek near Wallace, Ind.. the morning of .July. 7. 1-VC. She had li been seen since she left her h-'llie the previous afternoon. She was then apparently in great di;res of mind. due. it was believed, to a story circulated by Haniel Kellar and his wife that s'e- had been on intimaie icrnis with Kellar. Suspicion pointed to Kellar as -i-r murderer, but he was a prominent man iu the little eoii:i!!inlt y of Wallace, and, inasniii' Ii as there was no p.edr ive evidence of his guilt at l'le tllll". the eofoner's Verdict was that Miss Shanks came to her ilea 1 1 I. sllieiije. Marks of Violence I-'oinel. Later a !';.. II" r ol IIIe.I e;1i.ens cotnh'iied to bring the law to bear upon the murderer, whoever ho might be. Tin- l.o.iy was d'ointertvd. ami many marks of violence were t'.'-tad up.oi it. The i..ich and n.ek wen huh br ;k n -goo.J evid-'ic-e that site had 1 1 T committed MI'.lde. A subscription was raided and lleteelives Pyrm-N ami Webster of Indianapolis were t mployed upon the ..-so. Three daylater l.mie! Kellar. his wife. Nannie, and sister. Maggie, were placed under arrest. Mi-s Shanks was is years old and had borne an enviable reputation among all who knew her. For some reason MrsKellar suspected that iier husband was to intimate with the girl, and when he was accused by her of it. he refused to admit or deny such was the- case. Kcllar's Dastardly Conduct. The husband and wife then visited the home of the Shanks, ami in tho young girl's presence Kellar made the admission. The girl Itatly denied the accusation, but said Kellar had made proposals to her which she had repelled. I hiring llio following night, which proved to be her last on earth, she se med to suffer greatly over ihe imputation cast upon her. and next day .-he left her home suddenly. It was thought at the time slm had gone away to be alone with her sorrow, but now it is believed she went lo confront her slanderers. There, it was supposed, she met a violent death at lie- ha.ids of the angered wife and disgraced husband, and to hide iheir crime they threw the body into the j I where it was afterwards found. Cott of the Trial. With an estimate of S 1 . m mi for the expert chemist and SüiM for the six doctor w ho he'd 1 1n- a titopsy on ; he body of 4 Ma ra Shanks. th st of the trial of the three Kella rs will be neatly SÖ.O(). .lodge Taylor of the Tern- Haute oourt ha made allowances for the costs since tie case was taken there on a change of venue, and the large-t auioant is )1. bo ihe jury. It is meierst I that Parke County will a-k Fountain County to pay half the costs of the case. Mr. Lamb has aid that lo- will bring suit for Miss Maggie Kellar for .so.omm damage again-;! several persons who were active iu the prosecution. The Kellar returned to their home near Wolf reck pool and do Hot expect to be lio. ted. l'a rlel oii'h I'ocin iu h'cul Life. Will C'.ir!etons poem. "Ih tsy and I Are Our." ha 1 u enacted in real life in Carroll County. William and Melissa Long were married n.ote than : quarter of a eiiitniy ago. and by tliei- united efforts have accumulated l!." acres of land in licinoer.il town-hip, -locked with sleek animals and supplied with good buildings and machine!-., . Tin y have brought up a large family of children. m..s' of whom are married and .-oil led upon the broad acres of the home farm. And now. in their old age. .Mr. and Mrs. Long, differing over seine trivial matter, have agreed to separate and journey down the shady side of life .llolie. Together ihey toiled to the top. bllt the descent will be made alone. They called at an attorney's office and arranged an equitable division ol the propcrtv. worth at lea-t S.",n.tMM. Mr, Long gets L'öö acres of land, half the stock and implement and the old home. After ih" papers had been signed t'ii aged husband gave her some money ami t.!d her to g. out -and buy a good dinner. Ffforts of the children and the ivMorney t effect a compromise have proved unavailing, much to tho regret of the community generally, where the aged people are highly esteemed. Fortune for an Indiana Miner. Six months ago Cyrus Pullum, after twi nty-one ears of pmp eting and laboring in ;'he mines of Colorado, returned to his home in Pn-hville, worn out by hard labor and greatly depressed in spirits. The last few ytars he spent in the Cripple Creek regions, where he staked a few small claims, lie left them in care of friends, only a .-king them to do the right thing by him iu -a.se anything ever turned up. Mr. Pulluni was notified last week tii.it his friend- had struck a valuable find on otic of his claims, and further iu formed him that his share was vrorth probably .öo.(Mmi. Pulluin has f.ir the time being forgotten his aching riinh. ami at ome left fr Cripple Creek. !I expects to beeonm a millionaire Im fore long, a his other claims lie near Ihe one on which the lind has been made. JSewH of Minor Note. The Wabash shoe factory, one of the loading industries of Wabash, was destroyed by lire Sunday morning. In lifteen minutes tin- building was practical,v consumed and the walls and rof fell in. (Jeorge Ttuhl, president of the companv. states that the company had PJ.O0O pair if shoes on hainl ready for shipment, worth n an average over J1 a pair. The loss is nearly IsIö.ojmi. (b-orge Palmer, of Wakarusa, disagreed wilh his wife as to whether a gun which was ling n a eiiplMiard va fadel. Mrs. Palmer declared it was imt. and in attempting lo lake it il.nvn th gun was dis harg-l ami instantly kilie-t Palmer, tearing his head from his body. The case -f Ibs.rgo Aldi ich against Comity Ch-rk-elect Oliver P. Wnnhy, charging him with alienating Ihe nffeetiuiis of the forin r's wife, which was on trial at Lebaiu n for several days. ri"suli'd in a verdict fr the hdVmlanf . The case has attracted w'ulesprc.ad attention und was very Nciisationiul.