The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-04-02
: i4TIPTON, IOWA APRIL Q, 1863
Education Ou1side Of Books.

h Education Ou1Dide Of Books.
A child eagerly examines every object
around II, in lack objects, then the
! pictures or images ~ objects. Bnt be-
tween the child and nature, we inter
pose All opaque rnedlum, called a book,
| and we expect child to profit by SYM
bols, which to use, Indeed are full Of
meaning, but which to it are mysteries,
| whose significance e slow to discover.
Pedants snort disdainfuly at the thoupl,t
of teashing childrsn science. Yet what
i.is science, in great p1rt, but observation
inethodiEed. A chiA cannot be easily
kept from observin91pd even from gem
eralizing. The qucaon is, wether it
shall do both ignorantly, Of its own wild
fancy, or under the ocsidance Of mature
judgmentsand ampisr knowledge. As
all children not wholly specified by the
com preston and distortion of the SCHOOL
form for themselves = kind of science,
draw differences, and make gencraliza-
tons, shall they be left without guild
ances, rs without encouragement
THE AMERICAN EAGLE AFTER TUE
NEGRo.-The Leon Pioneer Of Feb. 18th
says that a Gray Eagle made decent
upon little ''pickaninnie." three or
four years old, near that place few days
since, and came very near capturing
him. The boys father and another he
gro hearing the screams Of the youthful
colored gentleman went ID his rescue,
accompanied by alarge dog. One of the
negroes was armed with club. Eagle
pitched into them and free fight of
about ten minutes duration ensued: dog
got "whaled' in the early part Of the
engagement. Negro with the club came
cut victorious and killed the eagle with
his club after a severe struggle, but his
clothes were nearly all torn from him
when hostilities ceased The eagle
measured seven feet from one tip of his
wing to the other. The "bird o. free
dom" evidently does not share Demo-
cratic dislike Of the negro.-Statc Reg.
lister.
THE LAST MAN.-The "last n1an" Of
the Revolutionary War Is John Gray,
who lives with his step daughter, Mrs.
Mcl;lroy, in Brookfield township, No.
bic county, Ohio. He is one hundred
and four years of age, having been born
In Virginia, few miles from Mt. Vern-
on, February g. 1894. He was at the
seige of Yorktown when in his eight
zenith year, but never obtained pension
until year or two since, when it was
granted to him by a special act Of Con-
gress, through, the efforts of Hon. John
4 bingham. He is now nearly help.
less, his ho~"i"a bad, and his eyc.ir,,.
nearly gone, yet he can walk ol, crutch-
es. He has been great tobacco chewer
all his life, to which his premature de-
cay is probably attributable.
WHISKY poR RATs.-A correspondent
OF the arkansas Conservative, whose
house was overrun with rats, says: A
servant girl, who had seen the effect of
whisky OH bipeds, thought she would
try an experiment upon rats. Accord
ingly she took small quantity, made
1t very sweet with sugar crumbled in
bread enough for the crowd, and set the
dish in the cellar. A few hours after
she went down and found several rats
gloriously "fuddlel." engaged in throw
ing potato parings and healing one an
other up to drink. These were easily
disposed of, and those not killed left the
premises Immediately, suffering from
severe headache.
a religious paper declares: "Thc le-
sitimate sphere of the press is to preach
by wholesale. It sets all the world to
talking and that is preaching. Truth
we'll shaken up with errors will find
its level at last, and error like chaff is
blown away.
Benefit your friends, that they may
love you still more dearly benefit your
enemies that they may become your
friends, is an old Arabian maxim worth
cultivation.
People think it a weakness to forgive
an insult. Then God would he the
weakest in heaven or earth, for no one
in heaven or earth, foryives so much as
he.
AS every joint ofsugar- cane, from the
root to the top is full Of sweetness so ev-
cry page of the Bible is filled with the
most precious instruction.
That is a bad religion that makes us
hate the religion of Others. .81H
IT contentment were here below heav-
en- were not heaven.
Life is a business in which we do not
clear expenses.
Private charity-the good we might
but never do.
Great hearts, like the ocean, never
CONCEAL.
Write benefits on marblc-injuries on
sand.
If you would kill slander, let it
alone,
A modest woman must often neither
see nor hear.
A truly well-hred man makes every
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