Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-04-04
THE ENGLISH RAGGED SCHOOLS.


nobility and gentry participated,
TO consider the matter of educating the neg /
lected and destitute children OF Great Britain.
Interesting accounts were given OF the ragg-
cd schools, which resemble the schools OF the |
Five Points mission in New York in many |
respects. DIR. Guthrie, the founder OF the |
ragged schools In Edinburgh, said he had la |
bored in them for seven years, and gave the |
following interesting description of the schools
and their results:
The children come at seven in the n,orning |
and come in rags and not in decent clothes, |
for that wouldn't do; they would 60 to the
pawn-shop too soon. The first thing that
they do is to strip-not to be thrashed, but
washed and we have long bath, as long as
this gallery, and we make them march along,
as slow as if they were attending funeral and
the consequence is that they get, what lmany
people are not fools enough to get, a delight
tul bath. What comes after the bath P
Some of you are, dare say, Scotchmen, and
will understand me. They get grand break
fast of porridge and milk. Then comes pray
rrI, and a portion Uf the Scripture is read
then the work of the school begins, and occu-
pies four hours of the day; the children learn
to read, and to write, and to cipher and they
learn carpentering, and boxmaklng, and shoe
making. They come to US at halt-past seven
in the morning and at half-past seven at night
we take off their school dress and give them
back thea rags, and they 90 home-and the
rags are not worth the pawning. We never
keep child from home unless the house is
an Infamous den of iniquity or the parents
cruel; we know that in the. bosom Of the child,
worthless as the parents may be, God has
planted link of affection, and what we want
to do is to improve and strengthen that tie
and we have known INSTANCES where those
poor children have even carried salvation to
| their homes. But all this, ladies and gentle
men, requires expense; we must feed and we
must clothe them; it entails the expense OF
teaching and of housing few of them; and
say that they deserve the fostering care-they
| deserve the most fostering protection and help
of the government
| You will very naturally say, You have
told US what these ragged boys do in school ;
now tell US what they do oat of School
| Well, they just get on as well out of school
as they do in; they get on in way we never
expected. When they were getting up ban
quets TO the soldiers OF the Crimea, and TO all
the grand members of parliament,we thought
| we'd give banquet 10 our ragged barns,
who had fought a. great battle as any Crl-
mean soldier, and far harder too. All Of a
sudden the thing was resolved on; all OF a
sudden the thing was done.
We have them, you know-these ragged
school scholars that were-cutting down the
I forests in America.we have them herd NJ sheer
in Australia we have them IN the navy and
what dye think there was an Odo thing
in this way We had a competition among
boys in the navy; and the ragged school boy
carried off the highest prize. We have then
in the army, too just the other day ! had
in my drawing-room one OF my ragged schco
scholars What was he doing there = yol
ask. Well, be was just standing beside a
very pretty girl dressed like duichess, witt
! an enormous crinoline and all that. There b.
, was, on his breast be carried three metals
. He had fought the battles of his country II
the Crimea !; he had gone up the deadly mar
{ TO Lucknow, and rescued the women and tn
children and our soldiers there; and ! Wa
2 proud of my ragged school boy when sa'
D him with his honOrs.
Well. as | sand, we resolved TO give ban
. auet we furnished one OF our best rooms, an
j had it brilliant with gas, and laurel, and ivy
e and the ceral-beaded holy-and the quantit
= of tea and toast 1t isn't to be told. w
II lust sent away through Edinburgh, and IN
r. dav we po. one hundred and fifty, all dom
II for themselves. | was master of the cerem'
= nies. SO heard rush of feet-I was stan'
ing at the door, you know, TO receive m
/ company-and | could not believe my ey'
? wbsnI saw the succession of good-looking, T
~ spectible Young men. and the succession
J. comely, yirtuous-Iooking young women.
girl came up smiling, aud she said, Il ou "
as remember me, DIR. Guthrie; this Is my man,
m and then a great, big, honest looking, Durl
q. fellow came up, and he said You Will r
member me, Doctor; this is my wife Al
h. they filled that room. / never saw mo
respectable company. Aud how they laugh
m ann sung and we prayed too-we prayed, al
ot we gay. them good advice. never spent
es happier night-no, not in the greatest, nobl
house | ever was in-than spent when {
TO tertained my Ragged School children.
MEMORY OF THE ELEPHANT.-A fem
n elephant, belonging to gentleman at u
~ cutta. who was ordered from the upper cot
ar trv to Chttagong, in the route thither, brc
no loose from her keeper, and making her "
- IN the woods. was lost. The keeper m'
every excuse to vindcate himself, which
nc master of the animal would not listen TO,
his branded the man with carelessness, or sol
thing worse for it was instantly suppc
ovs that he had sold the elephant lie was u
+ia for If. and condemned to work on the TO
prv for life, and his wife and children were
do for slaves. About twelve years aIterwaf
OF | this man, VINO was wen AhO"h -
IL, cnainted with breaking elephants, was
tba | into the country with party 10 assist
on catching wild ones. They came upon b
rb+ | and this man fancied he saw amongst
lid proup his long-lost elephant, for whici
ON had been condemned. He resolved 10
oaJ nroach it-nor could the strongest rem
and STRANGE of the party dissuade him from
tbv ATTEMPT. Having reached the ANIMAL
-! snoka tn her. when she Immediately re
II nize his voice she waved her trunk III
md air in token of salutation, and spontaneo
w Lnelt down. and allowed him TO mount
nack She afterwards assisted IN ia
Da.l other elephants, and decoyed three y
his ones. to which she had given blrth IN ne
J.. do sence. The keeper returned, ana the .
,rd lar circumstance attending the recovery
not told. he regained his character ana as
9th compense for his unmerlted suileringS'
,,onr nension settled on him for life. ne eiel
Jul yas afterwards in possession OF w
made Hasting, when Governor-General oil III
. ~ stan.-PopuLar Natural History
the Ev..tE HERoIsM.-We CLEAN the fc
Ia ;no account of female heI osm from The
q ,ba erford (Texas) News:
- .sTh. party of Indians Who pasSed tn'
M ine lack Parker and Palo Pinto counti9
,i'nnr ,iu week. marking their way with desoi
m on ana s'IiAinE ~, .o,;Jance of Mr. Eub
gen. IN faio III I'M 10 doubt forming a plan
paI1 ;be bouse. There was not IN
mson Ia .SoN ,,ren,;ses AT the time Mrs. Eubank
after daughter de"
man alone o1..od ,-;.h ,,;ckets
ID his Inc yaru was NJ NJ Eubank
Dr. his SIX teet nlgh' ",'aI.J -,rcsance of mi
a -
said one so young, se 81 bencb nea
amble Drotnei na' a a"r 80 rneen over without
Vac" ing her body, and then deliberately nl
,son.s the party, which strateegem ara herolc
W. duct doubtless saved her own me; an