Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-31
s.MIsS BROWN" ON THE PUBLIC
SCH TOOLS

Harty way, feel as IL the Brown family ought
to have a finger in the pie also; and have con-
stituted myself q committee of one to fulfill
that important duty.
In the first place, then, allow me to remark
that live in an intellectual region, fnesr a
school building) know good many teachers,
and have seen and heard so much of the way in
which some Of the worthy trustees tdevote so
much time, day andn night, to the public schools
that l am almost carried away by admiration
You see, in the selection of teachers the old
fashioned saying:
"AGR BEFORE BEAUTY"
does not hold good. On the contrary, fresh
youth and beauty outweigh elderly experience
to any extent; and consequently these poor,
" devoted trustees must needs sustain their
selection with advice and their strengthening
presence, to enable the "young idsa" to properly
carry on their Wanted shooting practice.
(Wbat! it's chat and not assistance they give,
and they only detain the teachers from their
work! Oh! come now, that's only the children's
talk
And even after school-hours some Of these
martyrs offer themselves up on the altar of the
public good with q devotion beautiful to behold.
Why, have myself seen with what touching
parasols for the teachers, at the risk even of
having their better halves demonstrate gently
with poker or broomstlck, till I'm "chuck full'
OF admiration for these devoted beings.
Now, don't know really whether Mr. HIS de-
voton TO the public schools has reached this de-
gree of heroic self abnegation or not: but iud,-
ing from the wonderful originality displayed In
his letter of some time ago, am fully convinced
thai the man who could, on the spur of the mo-
ment.
DRMoLIsH BOTH NOAH WEBSTER AND LIHpLAY
MURRAY
in such gallant and fearless style, is totally
thrown away on such place.
There is a former trustee, Stuart BY name, l
believe, who has sinned enough against the
public to deserve the punishment OF being M ade
trustee for the term Of his natural life. Why,
he has been known to come into a school-room
when every Individual boy in it felt tired and
disguised enough to stick pins into his grand
mother, and the teacher wanted to pull her own
or somebody else's hair in sheer desper alton,
ana by his wicked entertainments would, within
ten minutes, vivify the mental atmosphere to
such an extent that the young savages woult
drink in his pleasant narratives and hints for
improvement with open-mouthed avidity, and
come TO the conclusion that learning ones les
sons, If 1t helped enc to become a man like
that, was not such bore after all; while the
wearied distracted teacher forgot her WORRY
and thought that life was not really such a
thankless tfeadmill existence as il had seemed
to her but short time before. Besides, this
Mr.. 8. is old fogy enough to stick to
THE OLD RULES OF sYNTAx AND oRrHo-
GRAPHY,
and, If for that reason only, ought to be COM
PEELED to do penance as trustee.
Then, thanks to "Ducit-amor PatriR," /
know that it is on the strength OF 81 800 persons
born IN Germany that one or two trustees are
to be of that nation. As that is, no doubt, a
fair adjustment, and as at least half of that
number are women, L would like to know how
many
TRUSTEES OF THE FEMALE PERSUASION
we are going to have to make the thing even
Cont exactly know how many members OF my
sex olive, move and have a being" in this
blessed District OF ours; but az know Of good
many sister women who are called upon with
beautiful regularity to help sustain the schools,
besides all other necessary institutions of the
District; and as moreover, know one or two
ladies who, through experience, education and
worth, are the Interiors of no man, do think
that that Anticipated, blind female, yclept j 1--
least, where the future of our children is con-
cerned; and do hope, my beloved STAR, that
you VIII let your light shine to bring about this
most oesiraDie result. Miss BLOWN.
An Opinion ON Mr. Beecher's state
ment.
From Tie Hartford Times
I've read that Beecher statement through,
from beginning to end"
"And what do you think Of it?"
well; any candid man must admit that
there's no getting around what he says about the
innate depravity of inanims ate mater; but [ do
think th at has description Of tie american dutuHsa
has been ercelied."
BEEcaER's SERMON YESTERDAY AT THB
tbousand people assembled at the Twin Noun
tain House yester day morning TO hear Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher preach. The services
were opened by singing the hymn commencing,
LAS high as the heavens are raised above the
ground we tread" Taking as his text the 4th
and 5th verses Of the 18th chapter Of Romans,
for IN hour or more, dwelling at some length
upon the subject Of Christian unity as against
unity Of the mere outward forms Of religion.
1t Is the part OF true Christianity to exercise
sympathy and love toward all mankind, no less
to the criminal and outcsst than the upright
As the parent prefers the comfort and welfare
the welfare of his fellow-man. We should not
let our adherence OF crime and immor Atty de-
stroy our sympathy for the criminal and un-
cody. At the close OF the services a collection
was taken up for the benefit OF a poor widow
living in the vicinity of the Twin Mountain
House, who was left by the death OF her hus-
OF children. The sermon was pronounced one
Of Mr.. Beecher's most successful efforts.
Services were held in Plymouth church yes
made At either sereiee 20 The was
matter. AT the evening services Mrs. Beecher
had an attack or heart disease, to which she is
subject, and had TO be taken from church.
The HOSTILE SAvAGRs-FIghting the Troops
,eih Fire.-A special from wichita agency says
fighting with the Kiowas and Naconies, which
egan three weeks ago, was continued in a
desultory manner until the morning of the 25th.
The Indians, in bands ranging from nfty to nve
General Davidscn's outposts and set fire to the
prairie grass TO destroy the buildings OF the
agency, but ali their attempts were defeated
and the Indians finally fed westward, carrying
of their killed and wounded. The fire, which
sometimes was as high a. the treetops, was sub
dued after great effort by the troops and the
buildings saved. General Davidson has induced
the friendly Caddoes, WITCH tas, Comanches,
keches, Tawacomies, and other tribes to return
To their reservations. Two additional companies
arrived at Wichita on the 18th. The Kiowas and
Naconies had murdered several white men on
the prairie, and the bodies OF four had been
ught into camp riddled with arrows and hor-
ribly mutilated.
IMMORAL CHINESE WOMEN ORDERED TO BIB
SENT BACK TO CHINA.-In q kd5eds corpus case
OF twenty two Chinese women, passengers by
the steamship Japan on her last trip from
China, and who, 1t was claimed, were imported
to San Francisco for immoral purposes, the 4th
district court Saturday rendered decision sus-
tanning the constitutionality Of the state law
whereby such persons may be prevented from
coming h0e, and remanding the women to the
custody Of the captain or tho steamship Japan,
which vessel Wa about to sail for China The
supreme court OF the state issued an order sup
elemental to the order OF the district court but
the steamship sailed without the women and
they we're al sent back to jail.
TRxAs TIcKs.-The Media, Pa, American
&C oh N