The Cecil Whig., 1878-03-30

tefhooh, a promising pilgrim IN this val'
of tears was playing on the West India
wharf. Failing to exercise due caution
the little fellow fell into the river. No
having been taught to swim,-a great ovel
sight, all children should be learned tc
swim, it should form part of their regu
lar education; n;-however educational mat
ters generally are not fully understood il
this country; we shall have something fur
ther to say on the subject of education il
the course of few days. To return tc
our present instructive subject, the child
ignorant of swimming, would have paiG
for its ignorance with life itself, had it moi
been for the presence of a sailor. Thus dc
accidents frequently change the currents
of fate, and alter the course of lives. The
sailor could swim, and he was humane
man,-a he avenly attribute is humanity
had the seaman not possessed that, even
his knowledge of swimming would have
been of no avail to the drowning child
Frequently, in life, combination of quail
ties are needed in one and the same indi
vidual in order to insure success Being
human, and swimmer, the sailor saved
the child. The heroic seaman should be
sought out and suitably rewarded. The
performance of humane actions should be
sedulously inculcated; this can only be
done by always bestowing suitable recon-
pense on those that do good service in the
II. T.l1.,
beings may be tempted to regard them
selves as neglected, and feel reluctance to
aid their fellow creatures in distress. An
intensely selfish view of the subject, it
must be admitted; but our world is full of
seltishness. Parents should, from this
occurrence, learn the Importance of not
allowing their children to play in dangerous
localities. Forewarned is forearmed and
we hope that the day is far distant when
it shall again become our duty to chronicle
the possibility of the drowning of child.
These wide divergences in the style of
narrating commonplace incident are not
exaggeratlons, as readers of newspapers
well know. While it is true that political
bias and local predictions give color to
reports in too many instances, it must not
be forgotten that journalists can in this
respect, and in all others, point to grave
and eminent authors i'll all departments of
literature. Historians have their personal
proclivities, which they are at no pains to
hide. There are few histories extant that
have not political leaning, and COM
parison of them will show differences, in
the narration of the same event, as widely
divergent as the various relations of the
manner in which the little boy fell into the
water and was not drowned. Poets, essay
lists, novelists, all see the same subjects in
varying lights, and write of them as their
feelings prompt. From usage, we refer to
writer's method Of treating his topics as
style; choosing to ignore the results of
education and training, political opinion
and religious conviction. Let us in all
fairness regard the variations in these
histories of the world from day to day
the newspapers-withth the same charitable
feelings that we bestow upon the book
treating of subjects in which We have no
personal interest We are all assisting in
making history, and are therefore in
measure responsible for the style in which
the work is being done.