The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-09-17
No doubt much of this evil resu1ts from

recognized system. AS says the Phila-
delphia Ledger: "Our system of school
teaching, as it stands now, is based upon
textbooks Nearly everything is made
to conform to the exigencies of tine
books Studying and 'rccitations,"
| questions and answers merit marks
Tor accurate mcmorizing and dcmcrit
marks for inaccuracies-all from the
oooks-tnese make up the greater part
OF what is called teaching But there
is Just next to nothing worthy of the
name of teaching about it. Yet this is
not the fault of those who occupy the
positions of teachers. 1t is the fault of
the system, which is built upon text
books and made to conform to the trade
IN textbooks and is primarily the fault
OF those who do the legislation for our
school system, who seem to have no ca
paclty Tor substituting system of real
teaching OF knowledge that will be use
tul to pupils in their after lives in place
OF the citetc system of memorizing and
parrOt-likc repetitions of words and
forms from textbooks which do not
reach the understanding, and most of
which are forgotten in a few weeks or =
few days."-N. ". CM istium Adcoc,,te.
Personal and Literary.
Prof. Pepper is to reside permanent
ly in this country.
| Elizabeth Stuart Phelps protests
against the stcam-whistling nuisance, be-
cause slecplcssncss-and its cOrollary,
paralysis-is becoming our national dis
ease.
| w. F. BOarlman, q compositor on
the Portland (N1c.) Bulletin, and his
brother arc said to have fallen heirs to
over $5OO,OOO by the death of Il relative
in England.
-Bayard Taylor says that he offered
an 1cclandcr piece of money for some
small service rendered and the man ran
away laughing ut him. Strange people
those in that frozen to-dcath country.
| Ex-Postmastcr-Gcn. Crcswell has
become counsel of the Government under
the Geneva Award act at salary of
! $40, 900 year, and a Commissioner of
the Frccdmcn's Bank at Il salary OF 81, 900.
| "A Paris journal, speaking of the
great scandal, says "Monsicur Bccchcs"
was an actor before he turned clergyman,
and that " Monsieur Titin" is an English
lawyer who had gained il wide reputation
in Boston rs Il prosecutor of criminal
suits.
Miss Flora w. Charts, a young Shal
crcss at Canterbury, N. H., has fallen
heir to fortune of $4,000 Il year. The
question now is, Will she shake the
society where everything must be held
in common, or cling to the faith of her
fathers?
The Western papers will have their
jokes. The Detroit Tritune says that i,
distinguished lady "publicly confcsscs
| hat .kU 60 r
who have charged her with being $50
and set down in malicc'-Gruphir.
-Ex-Prcsidcnt Walker, of Harvard
University, who has just turned his
cighticth year, graduated at Harvard
sixty years ago. In 1918 he was or
daincd pastor over the Unitarian Church,
and in 1889 became Assistant Professor
of Moral Philosophy, and President in
1853. Since his retirement in 1860 he has
lived quietly at Cambridge, Il constant
and earnest student, and occasionally
appearing us i; writer and preacher. His
mind is rs clear and his conversation as
bright as ever, though his bodily power
is little Off
Isaac Adams, the inventor of the
Adams printing press, was born in East
| NaoultoAuOlouSH, NldSS. llC SfpcuC Ills
active business life in Boston, and re-
turned some years ago to Sandwich. lie
conceived the project OF raising Il forest
in his native town, and bought up very
large tract of land, and has cntilcly done
away with the little village of East
MOultonboreugh; in Il distance of IL mile
along the road arc fourteen unoccupic,l
houses, and only three which are occu-
pied. The windows of the unoccupie,l
houses are boarded up, and the owner
will not let them, but intends to let the
whole tract grow up to forest. There
was mill in the place, and This, too,
has been stopped.
The late John Tcmplcton, Of Water
town, Mass, had Il certain idea of pleas
ant charity, and therefore made a queer
sort of WILL which has been admitted to
probate and accepted by the authorities.
The conditions are: "To the town of
Watcrtown l give and bcqucalh $2,jOU
tor the benefit of the poor of said town
and direct that the said sum shall be
safely invested, and the income thereof
only be distributed ut Christmas in each
year among the deserving poor under the
direction of the Ovcrsccrs of the Poor or
other proper authorities of said town.
by the poor of SAID town l mean the
needy and deserving residents in said
town, and not paupcrs supported at the
public expense"