The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-24 00:00:00

ROWLEY REGIS.

SCHOOL 13o.ian.—Mr. G, Green presided on Tees..
.iny night at the monthly meeting of this Board.
rito Attendance Officer reported that the attend-
ance was satisfactory,— The Chairman said there
were a Dumber of absentees, and moved a resalu-
ion requesting the teachers to assist the Board in
4( tting them to school. The motion was carried.
On the recommendation of the Financa Committee
accounts were ordered to be paid amounting ,to
£60(1. It was also decided to grant a cheque ,for
£l3OB to the contractor who is erigaged in cr cting
the Spinner's End Board Schools. Mr. Cave pro-
duced a stimmona which he said had been issued
against him by the Government auditor for the
payment of a surcharge amounting to ..t25 Os 2d.
He considered it to be a great4shame that he should
have to appear in the Police Court through other
people's ricglience, It was explained that the
members of the 130ard:1ia:1 been surcharged in con-
sequence of the teachers having omitted to collect
some of the school fees, The whole of the mem-
bers with the exception of Mr. Cave had appealed
to the Education Department to remit the sur-
charge, and the Chairman contended that Mr. Cave
was himself responsible for the position in which he
w(,s now placed.

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A HARD NUT TO CRACK.
The Blackburn Times says : The following inter
esting parti,:ulars concerning an astonishing ex•
rerience recently met with by a rf siclent of Mack-

urn, have just been bought to light. We may
say that the flirts as civen have been eirefully
invest4r,ated by the well-known chemists, Messrs.
J. TA. Jacks .)n & Co., of No. 9, To ) of Penny Street,
who vouch for the entire truthfulnesses of every ,
word that is here stated. As the event is of decided
pablic interest, inasmuch as it relates to a discovery
aLout which considerable talk is now appeati !g
it the newspapers, permission has been obtained to
pl ice all the circumstances before our readers. Mr.
' jtekson, who made these investigations to satisfy
his own mind, very aptly remarked to a repr senta•
tire of this paper that the astonishing results which,
to his own personal knowledge, had been achieved
by the agency in question, bordered so closely on
the miraculous as to present to scientists and
sceptic "a hard nut to crack." The facts in the
ease are these :

William Henry Holden, residing at 21;, Whalley
Old Road, Blackburn, has ever since 1872, at fre-
quent intervals, been subjected to indescribable
suffering, owing to terrible attacks of intense pain
and swelling in his feet. His agony at such times
almost drove him frantic. As is na'ural to suppose,
everything that was recommended for the ailment,
which was of an acute rheumatic nature, was used,
but either owing to the stubbornness of the com.,
plaint or other causes, all the remedies applied
proved futile. A few weeks ago Mr. Holden,
hearing how the life of Mr. William Buchanan,
cne of the Canard Steamship Company's engineers,
had been recently saved by St. Jacobs Oril, after he
had been given up by the Liverpool doctors to die,
and had been at times deprived of his reason by
suffering, resolved to induce his son to try this Oil,
and procured a bottle from Jackson & Co's drug
store. To his utter amazement and that of all the
members of his family, the excruciating pain and
t rrible swelling left after only a few applications
of the remedy had been made, and the young man
is now free from his sufferings. "The charge brought
about by this bottle of St. Jacobs Oil is simply
Nonderful," remarked Mr. Holden, and "I gladly
' say that it has done more for my son in a single
minute than all the remedies we had used before
1-.114 time had accomplished in fourteen years. This
;nay seem like a broad statement, but it is the
plain, simple truth, and I gladly give my consent
to the publication of our experience with this
wonderful remedy."
It may here be stated that leading newspapers of
Manchester and Liverpool have recently reported
similar remarkable cures. Among these is that of
Mr. John Tetlow, a well-known resident of Oldham,
who had long been so seriously afflicted with rheu-
matism that he was unable to walk, He was bent
with agony. A single bottle of St. Jacobs Oil ef-
fected such a marvellous change that he is not
only free from pain, but, although sixty years of
Age, he can walk as well as ever. So delighted
was he with his relief that he personally sent a
testimonial to the Groat Britain Branch of the pro-
prietors, The Charles A. Vogeler Co., 45, Farringdon
[-toad, London, with full permission to have such
use made thereof as they wished. The case of Mrs.
. Ann Watson, of Upper Pitt Street, Liverpool, is
another instance of tne incalculable value of this
marvel of healing. The lady writes that she had
been entirely deprived of the use of her feet, owing
t, rheumatic troubles of longstanding, Physicians
could dolnothing forher and all medicines which she
used were without avail. St. Jacobs Oil was finally
used with the in ame astonishing results as in the
instances above reported. She can walk as well as
ever and is in perfect health.
Facts like the foregoing speak for themselves,
And it must be admitted by all that so valuable a
discovery as that herein referred to deserves to be
mr,de known everywhere and by every means.

DUDLEY SOHOOL BOARD AND
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.

On Monday afternoon the monthly meeting of
thiA Board was held, Alderman Howat presiding.
The Rev. C. Wyncoll moved (1) that a portion of
the Bible be read each day in all the schools con•
fleeted with the Board, and that the teachers be em-
powered to give such explanation as shall render
it intelligible and interesting to the children, all
mAters of doctrine being strictly prohibited; and
(2) that a form of prayer be approved to be used at
the opening of all the schools.
Dr. Higgs seconded this, remarking that if the
borough of Dudley were polled, 80 per cent, would
hold up their hands in favour of religious teaching
in the Board schools.

The Rev, G. McMichael proposed that the Board
pass on to the next business. At present a portion
of the Bible was read each morning in the schools
without note or comment_ This resolution virt-
ually made the teachers teachers of religion, and
doctrinal points would be bound to creep in.
Teachers might be followers of Colenso, Huxley.
Arnold, or Herbert Spencer, and it would not be
right for them to be allowed to interpret the
Scriptures to the children—(Mr. Bagott : Absurd).
The Sunday School, Mr. McMichael contended, was
the place for imparting religious teaching, and he
held that the Board was elected on condition that
the Bible was to be read in the schools without
note or comment.

Mr. Greenway seconded the amendment,
The Rev. S. J. Marriott supported the motion,
and said that only prejudice could make any mem—
ber vote against it.
Alderman Howat thought it was a great pity that
the matter should have been brought forward, as it
was ou condition that the existing rule should not
be alteied that the parties there represented wer
able to effect a compromise at the recent election,
The amendment was carried by five votes to four,
and the Conservative members announced their in-
tention of polling the parish on the point.