The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-10-10

all that is defective in the books placed
in their hands? And, finally, Of wha,
avail will all this be, unless he has his
own mind so throughly filed With the
subject of study, that he will be ready
to explain every thing that may need
explanation, and be able to bring forward
from various authors, as we'll as from the
resources Of his own mind, enough to
make every thing clear and interesting
to tho minds of his pupils? He should
hc able to make the youthful learner
feel, that books are not the only rich
and pleasing source of knowledge.
Do yon ask how this is to be done?
| know Of but one way. He who ;,rc.
tends to teach, must first learn. Let
him not fancy, when he sets out to teach,
that what he has gathered up during
his school days will serve his purpose
now. Then he studies sciM help-now
he must study to give help. He must
now be..preparcd to give the assistance
he then received. Teachers should be
taught to burn the midnight lamp
taught to gather up the thoughts of
many others, and make them their own
-taughtto fall back upon the RESOURCES
of their own minds. They should feel
that it is thei: business to make foot
holds along the sleeper parts Of the hill
Of science, so that others who are more
feeble, may be able to ascend.
sTHE TABLED UpAs TREE What
passes with most as fable, is after ali
q reality. Brooke's Journals of a resi-
dence in Borneo are entitled to all
credit, for their author ranks as one Of
the most remarkable men of the age
having by his individual enterprise, put
in train series of events resulting in the
conquest and probable civilization Of the
savages Of that Island.
While making geological cxamina-
tions in search of coal, he with his
friends discovered an isolated upas tree,
(antearis toxicar;a, } nearly forty feet
high. Its trunk was almost strai ght, its
bark smooth, and OF a red tad color,
andi its head q dense mass, of dark
green gloss foliage. The ground be-
Heath its shade is crowded with tembs,
yet vegetation fourishes iuxuriantly a.
roud its roots.
In tapping it, no bad effects were cx-
perienced from the effiuvia. But on
cutting it to obtain a portion of the
wood. bark and juice, man was so much
stuNeied that he was obliged to desist.
1t is ascertaincd that the bread fruit
tree, the mulberry, and the COW tree of
South America, belong to the same ma
tural order as the deadl, Upas.
~. f.. Puritan.
SMACKING IN = RAILWAY Tunnel.
That pervcrter of female innocence
Cromwell Doolan, had, with his accus
toned gallantry entered into conycrsa
ton with Miss Mary Bull. He saw
her name on the fy-caf of her pocket
edition of "Childe Harold;' and, to he,
astonishment, after fair allowance oi
coquctry on her part, at length explain
cd to her the mystery. Miss Mary
Bull tluted and laughed more than was
quite becoming which tended to increase
Mrs. Bulls i'll humor. Words are
scarcely had enough for foreigners; she
regularly fumea again. Presently
they entered one of the tunnels. which
commence almost Immediately on Law.
ing the station, and come in quick sue
ccssion. between it and Aixla. .Chapcllc.
Cromwell was in one o. his old humors
and ful! oftun. As thought struck him;
he would pay of the old lady for her i'll
breeding; and he impaired his plan IL
Filagree. Shortly after, they were
whisked into a tunnel, and all was
darkness. Smack smack! from Crom
well, and ditto, ditto from Mr.. Muffin
as they faithfully initiated loud kissing.
1t was pitch dark, and the old lady was
eft to be licd.' "Girls, what are you
about?' Smack! smack! again. "Char
lotte.-!Mary!, Girls Smack! smack.
Ga litter from both young ladies. }
"Gentlemen!---my daughtcrs!. !.--do you
hear? .Sacre?' Here that peculiar
light which warns tho traveller by rail
way that he is Just about to emerge into
light glimmered through the car, both
young ladies looked as innocent rs il
nothing had happened, (and nothing
had happcned.) Filagree looked Al
his boots, and our hero scanned mamma
ns if he had never seen her until tina
moment. Ma herself looked daggcrs
Whisk--and into another tunnel like {
shot. Smack. smack! again. "Gen
tlcmen'--girls.-su conduct (Roar!
of laughter from the young ladies'.
Smack! smack "Charloac! Mary.
(Rcncwcd laughter "l'll stop III,
coach! Guard Mary Charlotte Gen