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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-11-12

1t appears to us that of all the incar-
nate fends, he who calmly sits down and
plots the destruction of woman, is the
worst. Every brother. every father can
fully appreciate this. Let him bring the
matter home to himself And still, the
astounding fact is that the veriest Eber-
tines, providing they are fascinating in
manner and gaudy of dress, are tolerated
by good society, and their wrong doings
passed over with a wink. There is a
great necessity of two things in this
world-honest men and heavy boots.
Let our readers draw their own inferen-
ces.-C0lumbus Gazette.
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The Heavenly Secret.
BY GEORGE COOPER.

BY GEOk6E COOPEk
Does the dark and soundless river
Stretch wide
The homeward rolling tide
Over which have crossed
Our loved and early lost,
That their unsealed eyes may never see
The further side,
Where still amid this coil and misery
We hide?
Is the realm of their transition
Close at hand
To this our living land?
Nearer than We dream?
Can they catch the gleam
OF our smiles and hear the words we speak
And see our deeds?
And, looking deeper than our eyes may see,
Our needs?
Do they mingle in our gladness?
DO they grleve
When ways of goodness we leave?
Do they know each thought and hope,
While we in shadow grOpe?
Can they hear the Futures high behest,
Yet lack the power
To lead US to our ills or arrest
The hour?
When they End us bowed with sorrow
Do they sigh?
Or when earth passes by
For them they do forget
The cares that here beset
Their well beloved? Or do they wait
And watch beside the golden gate
For US?
We are yearning for their secret:
Though we call,
No answers ever fall
Upon our duIled ears,
To quell our nameless fears,
Yet God is over all, whate'er may be;
And trusting so,
Patience, my heart! little while, and we
Shall know.
We wait, then, in patience; or
We pant, we strain, like birds against the wires
With beating our bruised wings against the rim
That bounds our utmost flying,
When we seek the distant and the dim.
But-We wait.
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A clerk who had mind for logic 'Fap-
piled it to farmer with advantage,
thus:
Farmer-"Got any COW bells p
Clerk-"Yes step this way.
Farmer-'Those are too small haven t
you any larger? p
Clerk-"No sir; the large ones are all
sold"
Rusticus started off and got as far as
the door, when the clerk called him
back
Look here, stranger; take one of
these small bells for your COW, and you
won't have half the trouble in finding
her; for when you hear her bell, you'll
know that she can't be far off
The logic was irresistible. and the
farmer bought the bell.
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A little Bridgeport shaver who wanted
to be good boy, was told by his mother
to pray He said he had prayed, but he
didn't get good. He was told to keep
on praying But" said he, 81 don't
want to keep teasing Him all the time. ;"
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TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

Stations marked thus ~ are flag stations, and
trains will stop when signaled to do So.
w. w. PEABODY, Master Transp.
w G. EVANS, Agent at Jackson.
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RAILROADS.
NTARIETTA AND CINCINNATI
R a AILR O a ID
ca r d TIME

Took effect Sept. 10, 1874
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COLUMBUS AND HOOKING VALLEY
r A RO A D.
SHORT LINE TO LAKES & NORTHWEST.
TIME TABLE.
Two express trains daily as follows:

Dlrect cOnuEcLIOns maue Hl LaIIctlsUFI ,oI
Circleville, Zanesville and all points on the
Cincinnati & Muslzingum Valley Railway-and
at Columbus for all points East and West. No
change of cars from Columbus to Philadelphia,
New York, Indianapolis, and Chicago.
MN. GREENE, Vice President.
W. A. Mills General Ticket Agent.
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ENGINEER, ARCHITECT, &C.
Arthur =. Hobby


influential citizens of Jackson to settle in the
town, begs to announce that he has decided to
do so. and has commenced business Us a
civil and Mining Engineer,
Land Surveyor and Architect,
and has opened an office in the Sternberger
building at the S. w. corner of Main and
Broadway Streets, opposite the Court House.
He has been brought up to the professions,
has had nineteen years practical experience,
and holds the highest testimonials, both as to
ability and trustworthiness: and has all the
necessary instruments of the best modern con-
Struction, both for out door and office !;
therefore he has no hesitation in guaranteeing
first class work in every respect.
He will be pleased to undertake any work
you may require to have done, and will spare
no pains to give satisfaction, and hopes by
strict attention to business, and reasonable
charges, to secure your support.
1t is his intention to devote special attention
to the provisions of the 'tAct to Regulate
Mines and Mining" passed by the Ohio LegiS-
lature, March, 1874; and he will be happy to
to make the Surveys and furnish the Maps and
Plans necessary to comply with the said act.
REFERENCES
Col. Kuper, late Chief Engineer of the Eliza
bethtown, Lexington Big Sandy r. R., now
of Stannton, Va.
J. Mel. Staughton, Esq, Chief Engineer and
Sup't ofthe E. K. r., Riverton, Ky.
Evan L. Warner, Esq, Lexington, Ky.
Lexington & Carter Co. Mining Company
Lexington, KY, and Mount Savage Furnace
Messrs Mason & Hoge, Contractors, staunton,
Va, and late of Lewis Tunnel, c. & o. R. R.
14may74-tt
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IMPROVEMENT In SCHOOLS.

The question of improvement in schools
is broad one. 1t would be impossible in
the limits of an article to treat it exhaus-
lively. Let me rather suggest few points
for the thoughtful teachers careful consid-
Grafton. Do the several common school
studies receive, relatively, fair share of
time? Has not the subject of geography
received more attention than its relative
Importance demands? Not that any pupil
should fail to secure in school, general
and eventful knowledge of physical and
political geography; but are there not in
all our textbooks upon the subject, many
details that are of no Importance, and
might just as well be omitted? Should
not the study Of natural history be pursued
to some extent in the common schools?
May not something be done, also, to shorten
the time usually devoted to the subject of
arithmetic? Then, on the other hand,
have we not of late, neglected the import
ant matter of penmanship? For some rea-
SO successfully taught as formerly. We
have but very few elegant penmen. Is a
good handwriting really inconsistent with
a great mind? Let me suggest only one
other delinquency. AS people we are
poor readers Is it true that but few of
our clcrgymen can read the scriptures or a
hymn with proper effect? that but few
persons can read even simple narrative
not to say poem, or other difficult selec-
ton with passable propriety? 1t will
hardly be disputed that to be good reader,
is an important accomplishment. Is it not
a much more important matter than that
one should be a good singer or good
player upon musical instrument? Yet
how many more professional teachers of
music we have, than professional teachers
of elocution. Would not our schools be
doing noble and useful work, if they
should make good readers of all their
pupils Pr. l. Scho0lmdstar.
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Astrakhan and its Buddhist KalmuckS.

A recent writer says: The most interest
ing sight in the neighborhood of Astra-
khan is perhaps that of a Tartar settle
ment of Kalmucks. Gen. Kostenkoff, who
| is placed in charge of them, has taken
great pains to improve them, having stud
led their language, written grammar, and
translated the Bible into their tongue. At
present they are Bnddhists, and probably
possess the only idol temple left in Russia,
in Europe. This Sir Arthur Cunynghame
was permitted to visit, as is mentioned in
his works, Tracels in the Eastern Caucasus
The priest lives in a tent similar to those
inhabited by the tribe, but better furnished
with mats and Persian carpets. At the
back of the tent, folding doors open, and
disclose small cupboard, which contains
small, ugly wooden doll in long silk
cloak. This is worshiped many times a
day, and offerings of brick-tea and beans
are made of it; whilst silver lotus-fower
hangs in front. Beyond is the temple,
built in pagoda-form, and gaily painted.
Five boys, forming the choir, squattsd in
the ante-room, dressed in gaudy, yellow
calico; the lama or priest wore painted
brass crown on his head, holding in his
hand pair of brass cymbals, and several
men were playing on trumpets, tageolets,
sea shells and drums, making a most dis
cordant noise.
On table in the centre, seven gods were
placed, each having a small umbrella, sill
yer pot of silver otus-howers, a little cup
of beans, and one of tea; curious silk flags
were arranged round the table, and an
embroidered canopy covered the whole.
At one end of the temple, six more gilt
gods each occupied his niche, dressed in
yellow coats, and with the same offerings;
whilst lamp was kept constantly burn
ing and perfume was freely burnt. The
curious invention of the prayer wheel
stood on each side of the door; they are
wooden drums, about foot in diameter,
and are made to revolve by a leathern strap
and crank. The prayers are carved round
them, and each turn says four prayers;
thus vast amount of devotion is CONS
through without much labor, None but
the lamas understand their books, and the
people have entirely lost the clue to their
religion, not knowing what they do. But
they pay their contribution, and worship,
bowling their heads to the ground. About
a hundred have become Christians, but
a. MAN :, f,ct I,,;pr nuf
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ANTIQUITIES OF EGYPT.-Bayard Tay-
lor, in one Of his letters, entitled Egypt
Revisited" describes some of the articles
lately brought to light from the ruins of
ancient Memphis, to be seen in the museum
Of Marietta Bey, which show that the most
of our boosted discoveries in art were
known to the Egyptians thousands of years
before the Christian era.
Here, for instance, are stools, cane-bot-
toned chairs and work boxes, 1000 years
old, yet no more dilapidated than if they
came out of a garrett of the last century;
nets, knives, needles, and toilet ornaments;
glass bottles and drinking cups, as clear as
if just blown; earthenware, glazed in blue
and yellow patterns, the very counterpart
of old Majolica; seeds, eggs and bread;
straw baskets, and a child's ball for play
ing; paint boxes with colors and brushes,
and boards for games of draughts; in short
a collection almost as varied and complete
as the ashes of Vesuvius preserved for us
of the iGreco Roman life of the year 70 OF
our era. But these Egyptian relics date
from 1000 to 5000 years before our era
began.
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NOTES..

When the love of pupils is given spon-
taneously, it is an excellent thing for
teacher to have. When it can be obtained
by consulting their interest, by expressed
and implied sympathy, and uniform kind
ness it is still more excellent thing to
have. But when the teacher obtains their
good will and affection by weak compliance
with their whims, or by unduly fostering
their ideas of their own personal import
ance, their self pride, or their conceit, he
pays entirely too dear for his whistle, even
if it were genuine, and it is only imitation
after all. 1t is thousand times better in
many instances to act without referance to
their present regard, and trust to the future
for the vindcation of your course in their
eyes. Pupils are placed in school to get
training that shall prepare them for the
duties, realities and responsibilities of life,
and they should not be left to wholly learn
in the heat of the conflict they are soon to
enter, that they are mere atoms in an ocean
of struggling humanity, subject to general
laws and having no special provision made
for their welfare and happiness.
Never teach lesson that will have to
be unlearned. At best the time is doubly
wasted. At worst the evil may be life
long.
The old saw that "practice makes per-
feet" is not invariably correct. Practice
to make perfect must be accompanied by a
sincere desire for, and an earnest effort to
secure improvement.
The season has come when boys love to
ego swimming" Look out for truants
and for the boy who chad to 60 an errand
for father at noon " and who comes in late
with his hair standing up all over his head.
-"The worst reputation to get is that
of being a good fellow, because it costs
more than one can honestly earn to support
such reputation. The name of being
little mean is better name to have. 1t
keeps blood-sucker away, and allows man
to be always just and occasionally gener-
ous."
The teaching of writing in our COM
mon schools has seldom been attended with
that degree of success which is to be
desired. This may be in great measure
attributed to the fact that most teachers
begtn wrong. They require pupils to copy
exact forms before any freedom of move
ment has be acquired. Correct position is
not always insisted upon. Copious exer-
cises tending to give freedom Of movement
and correctness of position should always
precede any imitation of exact FORMS
Some measure of freedom should be secured
before great accuracy is attempted, other
wise the pupils will become discouraged in
their work, and a delightful exercise will
be changed to a distasteful task.
During such weather as we are now
having teachers will do well to limit their
sessions strictly to the hours required by
law
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Written after We left Temple Lyon
BY RRASSEYA ALLEN.

III omen'd was the fatal hour
That bore me from my native bower,
The valley fair, the sloping hill,
The vocal grove, the silver rill.
And shall l meier revisit more
The meads, with cowslips spangled Ger
And shall 'er the garden view,
Where scented myrtles sweetly blew.
The orchards, once Pomona's care,
The fields, that Ceres lov'd SO dear,
Where l could sweetest pleasure find;
These with reluctance / resigned.
Can e'er thy banks, Avokat, give
Those joys, that could my cares remove
When Temples bowers bloom'd for me,
And finches sang on every tree.
The rosy nymphs, so neat and clean,
That danc'd all liggtly on the green,
More lovely sure than those appear
Who gaily dress on Sundays here.
The flowers of peace, that blew so fair,
Unmix'd with noxious weeds of care,
These sweetly deck'd my native vale,
But here, alas their bloom is frail.
Noise, painful to the tender mind
That joys IN lonely dells can find,
Here in vext tumult, holds it's sway,
To chase the frighted muse away.
Give me again, ye powers, to know
The joys that rural scenes bestow;
The woodland shade, the HILL the plain,
Where happiness delights to reign.
*Her fathers residence.
Upon the Arklow River, Ireland.
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thoroughly understand the Importance of
early training il order to be willing to pay
so much to educate their babies. The State
not only hesitates before one teacher and
$50 worth of apparatus for every two
dozen scholars, but the parent stops to
consider at $50 year for wee object just
out of it's cradle; but meantime enough
are being taught to show the worth of the
system; and the few who have both the
sense to perceive it's advantages and the
money to procure them are likely to see
their reward in the educated perceptions of
their very young children. L. c. NJ.
N Y Trjbune
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THE New ROBINSON CRUsoE.-While
Jules Nerne's books are being made "a
bone of contention" by the publishing
houses, the publication of his serial story,
"The Mysterious Island" in .Scri5ner's
.Honthly, is progressing satisfactorily. The
adventures of the four castaways, in search
of their lost companion, the engineer, how
they found him, his strange story, and the
incident of the extinguishment of the fire,
are all related in the authors interesting
and vivid style. NJ. Verne has the science
of the nineteenth century too nearly at his
fingers ends to make the interest of the
story rest permanently on fire which was
kindled 10y any such artificial means as a
luciler match. No doubt he will find an
other method of relighting it, if necessary.
Meanwhile hosts of delighted readers fol-
low the narrative with all the in crest and
with even greater instruction than that
which characterized their reading, in ear
lier days, of Robinson Crusoe.
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HOW SEA LIONS ENJOY LIFE.

Charlef Nordhoff, in the April number of
Harpsrs, has this interesting account of
the habits of sea lions:
1t is an extraordinary and interesting
bigger than an OK, at play in the surf. and
to watch the superb skill with which they
know how to control their own motions
when a huge wave seizes them and seems
rocks. They love to lie in the sun upon
the bare and warm rocks; and here they
sleep, crowded together, and lying upon
each other in inextricable confusion. The
bigger the animal, the greater his ambi-
tions appears to be to climb to the highest
summit; and when huge, Shiny beast has,
with infinite squirming, attained solitary
peak, he does not tire of raising his sharp
pointed, maggot-like head, and compla
Gently looking about him. They are a
rough set of brutes-rank DULLES, l should
say; for have watched them repeatedly
as big fellow sheuldered his way among
his fellows, reared his huge front to intimi-
date some lesser seal which had secured a
favorite spot, and, first with bowls, and if
these did not suffice, with teeth and main
force, expelled the weaker from his lodg-
ment. The smaller sea lions, at least those
which have left their mothers, appear to
have no rights which any one is bound to
respect. They get out of the way with an
abject promptness which proves that they
live in terror Of the stronger members of
the community; but they do not give up
their places without harsh complaints and
piteous groans.
Plastcred against the rocks, and with
their 1.-the and apparently homeless shapes
conformed to the rude and sharp angles,
they are wonderful, but not graceful or
pleasing sight. At a little distance they
look like huge maggots, and their slow,
ungainly motions npon land do not lessen
this resemblance. Swimming in the ocean,
at a distance from the land, they are incon-
spicuous objects, as nothing but the head
shows above water, and that only at inter
walls. But when the vast SURF, which breaks
in mountain waves against the weather side
of the Farallones with force which would
in single sweep dash to pieces the biggest
Indaman-when such surf, vehemently
and with apparently irresistible might,
lifts its tall white head, and with a deadly
roar, lashes the rocks halfway to their
summit-then it is magnificent sight to
see dozen or half hundred great sea
lions at play in the very midst and fercest
part of the boiling surge, so completely
masters of the situation that they allow
themselves to be carried within foot or
two of the rocks, and, at the last and i'm
minent moment, with an adroit twist of
their bodies, avoid the shock, and diving,
reappear beyond the breaker.
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EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY j. L. HANNA.

The Educational column is conducted in the interest
Of teachers of public schools Such facts concerning
individual schools likely interest the public
encourage pupils aid teachers in securing good
discipline and progress together with articles upon the
subject of common school education, furnished by
teachers parents others interested thereiu will be
published.
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SThere is one good hint by Mr.. Cutter,
that we call to mind in time to put it in
type. 1t is that teachers direct children to
adopt a certain style in writing their names,
shall be able each to make signature at
once legible and characteristic.
(Lir1pn Ts1nJnr
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Is The most murderous teacher to the
intellect of children is one who keeps them
still without keeping them busy. 70 re-
cover from the stupor into which such a
teacher puts children, it takes not less than
a year nor more than a life time.
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~ There are four essential elements in
the character of good teacher. Firm
ness and good nature, for discipline; and
intelligence and industry, for the promo
ton of scholarship in pupils. Lacking any
of these elements the teacher must fail.
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ANTIQUITY OF THE SCRIPTURES.

Few of us ever stop to think how old the
Bible is. Yet the scriptures are believed
by candid critics to contain the most an
Gent forms of truth now known to men.
With the aid of chronological tables, any
one may easily make profitable compari-
sons between the antiquity of its books and
that of other writings and events. The
Scriptures contain the only authentic his
tory Of the world before the flood. We
find in the Pentateuch one or two stanzas
of poetry composed in the antediluvian
world. The Hebrew statutes were enacted
a thousand years before Justinian reformed
the Roman jurisprudence. In the Bible
we have the record of chartered rights Sc
cured to the people more than two thous-
and years before the Magma Charta.-
What sensation would be produced if the
first chapter of Genesis should appear for
the first time in one of the newspapers to-
morrow Yet there can be no doubt that
that chapter contains the oldest writing,
twenty-five hundred years before the in
vention of printing. Nenophon's record
of the conversation of Socrates, in his
Memorabilia, seems an old book to US, yet
the books of the Old Testament are older
than they. AS to the book of Job, its age
is beyond conjecture. Those who make it
as modern as they can are compelled to
place it's origin at least one thousand years
before Homer. When Priam was king of
Troy, Job was in remote antiquity. The
for us, yet when Alexander invaded Syria,
the book of Job might have been read be-
fore him as the work of an author more
time honored than the name of Alexander
is now. The writings Of Confucius are
modern when compared with most of the
Bible; and the most that the HindoOs can
Justly claim for their sacred books, the
Vedas is that they were written five hun
dred years after the death of Moses. The
Koran is a book fresh from the press COM
pared with the Scriptures.
cB- Three things are Indispensable to a
summers outfit One is small umbrella
which is suspended by chatelaine from
the belt, in all travelling and excursion
toilets; another is one or more wide, hand
some sashes; and third, plenty of black
lace in the shape of polonaise, scarfs, neck
ties, and the like. The black lace polon-
aise, is the garment par excellence in black
lace this season, and is charming worn
over % Princesse' or what is called in
Paris a fourreau dress of light chene silk.
Lace shawls also may be prettily draped
over these dresses.
From Dsmc"est's Monthly for July.