The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-12-06
For THE Bloomfield Times.
AndersOnhurg Orphan School.

MR.. EDITOR Il had the pleasure of
spending thanksgiving day this year at
the Soldiers Orphans School, at Anderson
burg. believe it is conceded that this is
one of the best conducted schools of the
kind in the State. Mr.. Motzer and his ex-
cellent lady, who have the care Of this
school, are very much beloved by the Or
phans, than whom you will never meet with
happier or better behaved set of boys
and girls. They call Mr.. and Mrs. Motzer
by no other name than Papa and Mamma (;
and to these children they truly act the
part of father and mother and this not
from policy, but from q heart overflowing
with genuine Christian sympathy. AS an
illustration of this, Sampson Lanehart has
been at the school since early last spring
without an order from Superintendent
Mcfarland. Speaking of the boy, Mr.
Motzer remarked: 81 could not turn him
away And so he has been teaching, board
ing and clothing the boy for over seven
months gratuitously. The boy is n bright,
young lad, and was admitted on order in
the last of October. Mrs Motzer has
another soldiers orphan in his school for
whom he is tcnderly caring, but who is too
young to receive an order for admission.
Professor VIM. II. Hall, who has the care
of the department of instruction, has a
very happy faculty of controlling the school
and imparting knowledge. The school
numbers between 1870 and i50 orphans
There is no comparison in good behavior
between this and our common schools. |
have never heard a boisterous or unkind
word from any of the children, and l have
frequently been among them. Kinder lit
tie hearts you do not meet with anywhere.
Their mental improvement is everything
you could expect. The older ones are
perfectly familiar with the multiplication
table, and with the maps hung around
the WALL AS an illustration of the form
er they will mentally follow you in ques-
tion of this kind, and as soon as you are
through proposing the quest!on--if you do
not speak too fast, be ready with the an
swer. Ex.-TalSe 10, add 8, subtract s,
multiply by 8, subtract 12, add Z, result,
and they will answer 30.
AS an illustration of the latter, as soon
as would touch State upon the map
with the pointing rod, they will call out its
name, and SO on any of the countries of
Europe and when gave them the point
ing-rod and requested them to point out the
scene of the war of Europe it was Instantly
done.
With regard 90 the singing, [ would re-
mark, there is at times little harshness on
the part of the boys. | would suggest to
them that the beauty of music lies in the
softness and sweetness of the voice, mot in
the loudness, and when we cannot sing
loud without harshness we had better not
sing loud. The louder the better if it is
only soft and sweet, but by all means avoid
a grating harshness.
Some of these boys and girls whom the
State is educating in these schools will un-
doubedly make their mark in after life, and
will repay the State for her motherly care
of them. 1t is true, the State is not edu-
eating them as an object of charity, but of
debt, which she justly owes to them for the
life Of their fathers so nobly given in de-
fence of our government, but she will be
doubly paid in their usefulness hereafter.
Yours, truly, j. J. HAMILTON.