The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1859-01-27

OCS-At the trial of Fawkes, Steam Plow near
Decatur, Illinois. last November, after the expert
mant had been made, Prof Turner was requested
to address the people before they retired to their
homes. lie mounted the steam plow and said;
"I am happy to be permitted TO speak to you
to day, and from this steam plow | consider
il one of the grea test triumphS of my life to be
permitted to ride upon il; how much more u
triumph is 1t for the tilerS OF the soil whom il
is to benefit, and the inventor and capitalist
who have bruug ghi out he machine to its present
state of perfcctiob! The Time is not far distant
when ull these wide praires around us will not
, only be plowed and sown by steam, but they will
be rcaped and mown, ana the grain threshcd
and delivered into the half bushcl ready for mar
ket. 1t will also saw our wood drill our wells.
and pump the water. | said 10 our English
guest and inventor, Air Keddy while we were
riding on the steOmpow, that there was more
land within reach OF this place lying unculti
vatei, that this plow ght work upon, tlun he
whs!a araa "t tiliah!e iagd in England, aud that
! /, u-ilove it will till it within tive years, and
that the consumption Of lime will not amount
to more thandn hour per acer in the cultivation
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! l5yr Mr. IL. l. Stuart, of NV york. in an ad-
dress before the New Jersey State Teachers,
Association gave his idea of the kind OF men
and women teachers should cndevor TO manu-
facture out of the material furnished them. lie
said:
would remark that the teacher should have
an ideal model or standard of man or woman,
toward which he should grow aud cultlvat,
each in ivldual pupil under his care, always re
memberluS that his own influence and example
should he an Illustration OF his ideal.
TO give you somewhat Of my own ideal of the
kind OF men would have the teacher aim tt
produce, | will read the following picture o
The man such as | would have represent al
American citizen, on intelligent Chris in man
IA man typical o! the good time coming.
would say to he teachers Of New jersey, tht
age has need Of, and it askes you TO give 1t
whot. .soulcd men-mcn fit and ready for al
spots and crises, prompt and busy in affairs
gentle among little children ,selt-reiant in dapge
genial in company, sharp in jury-box, 'enac
ous in ID town meeting unseducibe in crowd
tender at siCk-bed, not ashamed to carry lh
baby or bundle in the street, not likely 10 juml
. in the first boat al shipwIeCk, alleCtionate AN
respectable at hons, obliging in travelin
. party, saTewd and just in the market, revcren
aud FunCjuul Mt church, not going about, d
Robert Hall said, with an air OF perpetual uppI
ogy for being in lha world, nor forever slpp,l Cd
ting the worlds special consideration brave i
action, patient in suffering, believing aud cheer
lul ever where, dili5ent in business, Eervent il
= spirit rving the Lord. This is the manhoo
1 that our age aud our country are asking OF il
i educators. we'll built and VITAL mlnilol an
r ha monious full of wisdom, full OF energy, iu
t of foith,' always earnest and abounding in goo
e works Aud wogd have you educate til
4 daughters Of the people to womanhood thd
4; shall be- the counterpart OF this effective, eRmes
, gcniul and generous manhood; and until you
Il girls 0le thus educated, one and all, you ca
never hope to have a community fully harm'
s nous ami Intelligent to illustrate u civiiizito
e such bs our race is ca pable Of