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The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-11-26

but you see you must come all the
same"
Not without her husband ~ ex-
claimed voice, and Frank stepped for
ward to the girls side.
"You married to that girl % said the
mother
But the lady, with look Of fury,
turned away.
Come away. We will go,' she said,
firmly. 81 can do nothing now.'
She entered the carriage and was
driven down the road.
Rose turned to Mrs. Speers.
You have heard of the Norman
property ?" she said. CT was Miss
Norman, its heiress. The lady who has
driven away is my step-mother, whom
my father married late in life. He made
her my legal guardian until came of
age or married. AT either of these
periods her power over me ceased. She
has son by former marriage to whom
she desired to give me and my fortune.
While was still only child 1 prom
ised to marry him, but as grew older
i found him to be bad, coarse and mer-
cenary. l did not love him nor did he
love me. refused to fulfill my engage
ment. From that moment she behaved
in way that terrified. AT last, finding
me determined to leave her house, she
locked me in the garret, without my Or
dinary articles of clothing. AT night L
found means to escape; fortunately, i
had upon my finger ring of some little
value. This l gave to an old woman for
the cloak and shoes which / wore on
my arrival at your door. 1 intended to
conceal myself until my next birthday
gave me thefight to be own guardian -
Your son desired to marry me that L
might have protector; but by the act
he also made me rich woman for the
fortune my father left me is now mine,
and 1 am indeed happy to share it with
one who loved me when he thought me
poor girl. Now, you know my mo-
tive; will you forgive me, mother Y''
Mrs. Speers thought that it was better
to take upon herself the role thus offer
ed, especially as her daughter brought
into the family that wonderful Norman
property which she held in such re-
spect.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-11-26
An Educational Revolt.

FT7HE reign of cram in primary school
Il ing is seriously threatened, and Bos-
ton leads the revolt Henceforth, if
success attends the effort, the Boston
public school teacher will teach, not
simply hear recitations as heretofore
and the pupils will acquire knowledge
after the normal method of childhood,
by being taught, by seeing and think
ing, instead of by the memorizing of
words from books. Language will be
taught by talking-lessons with and
about pictures, plants, animals, every
day life and experience. Oral instruc-
ton will also be given upon form, color,
measures, animals grouped by habits,
vegetables, minerals, hygiene and the
human body. The metric system will
be taught from the metric apparatus. No
spelling books will be used, the reading
books taking their place. In the gram
mar grade, grammar, ,as generally studied,
has been abolished with the spelling
book. In the stead of parsing and other
technical work, lessons will be given in
composition, in the use of capitals, in
letter writing and in the arrangement of
sentences. Much of the time formerly
devoted to geography will be given to
natural philosophy and physiology.
Oral instruction will be an important
feature of all the classes, and in the low
est two it will predominant. In the
lower classes the subject for oral instruc-
tion will be natural history, plants from
May to November, animals from No
vember to May, trades, occupations, COM
mon phenomena, stories, anecdotes,
mythology, metals and minerals. In
the upper classes, physiology, life in
the middle ages, biographical and his
torical sketches, and experiments in
physics.
This method labors under one serious,
we fear fatal ,difficulty-the teachers will
have to know something. Their knowl-
edge will have to be real olive" knowl-
edge, not dead verbiage; and they will
need to know good deal about the nat
ural, social and industrial life that the
children come in contact with out of
doors and at home. Such knowledge is
not to be gained from books and it is
hard to turn book student into prac-
tical observer. We sincerely hope, how
ever, that the teachers of Boston will
succeed in their difficult task, and dem
onstrate to the rest of the world the
feasibility of this promising and long
needed reform.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-11-26

spectacles emerging from his blighted
home. The troubadour permitted the
perfldious proprietor to draw within
short range, and then fired hen pro-
duct that took the amorous old gentle
man between the eyes, knocking his
steel-rimmed spectacle Off, and so blind
ing him that he could not see his assail-
ant. He opened his mouth to protest in
some profanity, when another of the
fixed ammunition entered that oriflce to
his mental edifice, exploded and render
ed him hors du combat.
The betrayed and blighted being con-
tinued his assault before gathering
crowd, until the aged deceiver was COW
cred with the spoiled product of the hen
house.
The projectles being exhausted, King
David retired, amid cheers from the
populace. His accuracy of aim was
greatly admired, for only one projectile
missed its mark and hit the town con-
stable in the commissary, while hurry
ing up TO quiet the disturbance.
The proprietor of real estate and late
steel-rimmed spectacles " "skipped' the
town, as they say out West, and King
David has many honors conferred upon
him. He is the hero of the hour and
the hen-yard.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-11-26
A Strange Scene.

A well dressed man walked into one
of the saloons the other day leading a
little boy by the hand, and called for a
drink of whiskey. The little fellow
burst into tears and begged his father
not to drink, and the saloon keeper, to
his credit be it said, refused him, where
upon the man jumped behind the bar
and seized a bottle of the article in ques-
ton. The bar-keeper attempted to take
the bottle from him, and scuffie en-
sued, during which the liquor was
spilled, and the stranger elected. A man
of family who was present was so struck
by the conduct of the boy, that he left
the saloon and made an oath that he
would never drink another drop.
What scene for an artists pencil y
A wonderful battle, in which little
boy conquers the bar-keeper and the
man of family present, but cannot pre-
vail over his own beloved but besotted
father.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-11-26
The Troubles of MIR. Donald.

MIR. DAVID DONALD, of West
lVl Liberty has had some experience
in Grim. con. case that, though not
pleasant to him, was humorous to the
public.
David has or had family - Mrs.
David Donald and four or five little
Davids The little Davids resemble their
father, in possessing enormous appetites,
which tiddling at froics and slo W sort
ofjobbing failed to satisfy. 1t is said that
under stress of an inefficient commissary,
Mrs. Donald became too intimate with
David's landlord, one Thomas, an elder
ly gentleman of some real estate and
amatory propensities, who looked and
courted his neighbor's wife through
pair of old-fashioned steel-rimmed
spectacles.
The visits of the proprietor of the real
estate and magnifying glasses became so
frequent-he went, he said, to collect his
rents-that the village gossips took cog
nizance of the same, and noted that the
rents were always demanded in the alb
sence of David, as good sort of King
David as his better half was Mrs.
Uriah. And all these facts coming to
the ear of the King-come to think of
it, we are getting these scriptural refer
ences somewhat mixed - well, to sum
up, David threw up his matrimonial
rights and hauled off. He employed
learned counsel to procure him di-
vorce and-as he wanted alimony also
to enter suit for damages against the
said Thomas aforesaid, proprietor of real
estate and old-fashioned steel-rimmed
spectacles, for Grim. con.
David was aggravated by the slow ap-
proaches of the law, and furthermore by
Mrs. Donald serving notice publicly that
she would not be responsible for David's
pecuniary obligations. The poet of the
village put this last in rhyme, and David
was veXed in soul, being himself mu-
sician, to hear bad little boys singing
about the streets
"Dave Donald's left my bed and board,
These few days, these few days;
lie went away OF his own accord,
And amt a-coming home.
warn the town from trusting Dave,
These few days, these few days;
His little bills they'll have to shave,
For he amt a. coming home."
This was but a sample of many verses,
and to create diversion David went to
all the stores and volunteered to sort
over the old eggs, taking therefrom the
spoiled ones, claiming to know these
through dexterous shake that betrayed
their inner quality. In this way he col
lected quite basketful of C decayed hen
fruit,'' as it is called in the village. Thus
armed and equipped David stationed
himself on the picket line, as it were,
hid by a picket fence, in sight of his late
happy home, now blighted and forever
lost to him, through an unfalthful wife
and proprietor of real estate and steel
trimmed spectacles.
His watch was well rewarded in the APP
pearance of the proprietor of land and
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-11-26

Eay A little five-year-old boy at Hart
ford was asked by lady few days ago
for kiss. He Immediately complied,
but the lady, noticing that the little fel-
low drew his hand across his lips, re-
marked, "Ah, but you are rubbing it
Off"
"No, 1 ain't," was the quick rejoin-
der, "I'm rubbing it inl"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-11-26
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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-04-18
Fretting Over TRIES.

People who fret over triHes are not only
in hot water themselves all their lives,
but they keep other people there, too !;
they are always in trouble of some kind,
and nothing goes on as they would have
it. 1t always storms when they want
pleasant weather, and when they could
enjoy rainy day it is sure to be bright
and sunshiny. They have most pecu-
liar faculty of being miserable; if it is
not one thing, it is another. They are
sure to find something to groan and croak
about. In the summer they complain of
the heat and collie; in the winter of cold
and rheumatism. One would think they
enjoy being miserable They are always
borrowing trouble. We remember wo-
man who went to church on Sunday
morning; her little girls she took with
her, but the boys were left at home. She
told them what they must and must not
do during her absence, and charged them
to be obedient and good. During the
long prayer, her nina wandered Oft, and
she commenced thinking about the ur
chins she had left behind, and she thought
that if Jimmy should go out to the big
barn to look after hens eggs, and should
climb up on the high beams, and fall and
break his neck; and Tom should wonder
why Jimmy was gone so long, and go out
to look for him and go into the stable,
and the colts should kick him and break
his leg; then, if Will should wonder what
;ne boys were doing, and go to see; and
the bull should get loose and gore him TO
death. She worked herself into such a
nerv us state of mind that she went home
earlier than she had intended, and found
that not one of them had been into the
barn while she was absent. Any person
could say it was perfectly ridiculous for
her to get up such an excitement and
make herself uncomfortable, all for moth
ing; but it was her way, may be her tenn
permanent; and there are plenty of indi-
viduals who do the same continually, and
so deprive themselves of happiness that
they might enjoy, if they would only take
thinks as they came, and not borrow
trouble. B.B.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-04-18
The Fork.

We often laugh at the Chinese and
their chopsticks, or small, thin sticks of
wood or ivory with which they eat, and
fancy they must make very dirty work
at their meals, yet they are clearly and
civilized compared with the habits of
our ancestors some 800 years ago. Then
own knife, and at dinner seized the joint
with his hand, and cut off what he
wanted; the dish was then passed on to
the next, who did the same. The knife
then cut up the portions into small
pieces, which were put into the mouth
by the fingers of the hand unoccupied by
the knife.
In many parts of Spain, at present,
drinking glasses, spoons and forks are
rarcties; and in taverns in many coun-
tries, particularly in some towns in
France, knives are not placed on the
table, because it is expected that each
person has one of his own-a custom
which the French seem to have re-
tanned from the old Gauls. But, as no
other person will any longer eat without
forks, landlords are obliged to furnish
these, together with plates and spoon.
None of the sovereigns of England had
forks till the reign of Henry VIII; all,
high and low, used their fingers. Hence,
in the royal household, there was dig
nitary called the ever, who, with a set of
subordinates, attended at the meals with
basin, water and towels. The Office of
every survived after forks came partially
into fashion. About the first royal per-
sonage in England who is known to
have had fork was Queen Elizabeth;
but, although several were presented to
her, it remains doubtful whether she
used them on ordinary occasions.
Forks were employed only by the
higher classes at the middle of the seven
teenth century. About the period of
the Revolution, 1888, few English noble
men had more than dozen forks of sill
yer, along with few of iron or steel.
At length, for general use, steel forks
became an article of manufacture at
Sheffield; at first they had but the
prongs, and it was only in later times
that the three-pronged kind were made.
AS late as the early part of the eighteenth
century table forks---and we may add,
knives-were kept on so small scale by
the country inns in Scotland land per-
haps in some parts Of England) that it
was customary for gentlemen travelling
to carry with them portable knife and
fork in a shagreen case. The general in
PRODUCTION of silver forks into Great
Britain is quite recent; it can be dated
no further back than the termination of
the French war in 1914.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-04-18
Advice to Boys.

Whatever you are, be brave, boys!
The liars a coward and slave, boys;
Though clever at ruscs
And sharp at excuses,
Hes snoaking and pitiful knave, boys!
Whatever you are, be frank, boys.
lis better than money and rank, boys;
Still cleave to the right
Believers of light,
Be open, above board, aud frank, boys.
Whatever you are, be kind, boys.
Be gentle in manners and mind, boys!
The man gentle in men,
Words, and temper, ween,
Is the gentleman truly retined, boys
But, whatever you are, be true, boys.
Be visible through and through, boys;
Leave to others the shamming,
The "..reening' and "cramming,'
In fun and in earnest, be true, boys.
Henry Dolcnton in Leisure Hour.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-04-18
The Cat, a London Gin Palace.

1t was about $50, fairly set in, and the
street below was lit through its entire
length with fame jets from gas and oil
and naphtha, that the crowd began to
make its appearance. From my observa-
tory could see through the whole
breadth of the plate-glass windows of the
Cat, and scarcely yard of the ample
space before the bar, provided by five
compartments, was hidden from me.
There had not been much trade doing at
that establishment as yet; but the decks
were cleared for action, and the crew of
muscular barmen were evidently prepared
for action. There were four of them,
strong and hearty fellows in their shirt
sleeves, which were rolled back above
their elbows, and with white aprons, but
with neither shirt collar nor neckerchief,
the object evidently being to avoid any
superf1uous incumbrance that might i'm
pede free action when the time for dis
playing it arrived MIR. Chowler, the pro-
prietor, was present, but he wore his CLOS
sly hat and his black coat, aud his frlled
shirt with the emerald studs, and loungcd
uegligently at the door of the private bar,
smoking a cigar in manner admirably
adapted for the display of the two large
diamond rings with which his short and
chubby little finger was adorned. The
queen was in her counting-house count
ing out her money. In other words, Mrs.
Chowler, wearing the sleeves of her black
satin gown short enough to fairly reveal
her heavy bullion bracelets, was busy in
the parlor with cash-boX and tray set
ting out countless heaps of change for
sovereigns and halfsovereigns handily
counted and all ready. Seven-7.30
came, and at present the four stalwart bar
men had such an easy time of it that be-
gan to think that had unfortunately hit
on an exceptionally slack night. But my
alarms were soon dissipated. At 7.30
counted 16 people drinking at the bars
at 7.45 there were SO; at Sis there were
so many and the doors were SO constant
ly opening and shutting for the egress
and ingress of customers that found it
impossible to keep count and gave up the
task Is hopeless. There was no rush as
yet. However elaborate might be the
carving and gliding and cumbrous orna-
mentation on the liquor-vender side of
the bar. the most rigid economy as re-
CARDS space was observed on the drinking
side of it. In each of its five compart-
ments-which included the great princi-
pie one, capable of affording standing
room for perhaps 100 persons-every-
thing was as naked and bare as ware
house. Not chair, not form to sit on !;
not table or SO much as an upturned tub
to rest pot or glass on. But as there
was by no means room enough at the long
length of bar to accommodate the groups
of friendly drinkers, who, as the night
advanced, poured in thicker and faster,
there was nothing for them to do but to
stand in the midst of the restless mob in
clusters, sore pressed for elbow-room as
they turned their measure of gin into the
glasses, or raised the shining quart-pot
out of which they were amicably swig
ging.-Bslgrauia.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-04-18

LECTURING TEACHER.-When Aaron
Burr was at Princeton College, he took a
strong dislike to one of the professors,
who, being a good deal of martinez,
was in the habit of lecturipg the students
for hardness and other misdemeanors.
The professor was a member of society
of which Burr happened to be President,
and occasionally attended the meetings.
One evening he came in while they were
transacting business. Burr saw his OPP
portunity, and determined to improve it.
With great dignity and severe coun-
tenance, he called on the professor to
rise. He then began to lecture him on
the bad habit of want of punctuality;
adding that the older members were ex-
pected to set a good example to the
younger.
81 hope" he said, in closing, mot to
be under the necessity of recurring to
the subject again. You may take your
seat, SIR
The whole thing was done so naturally
and gravely that the professor submitted
like schoolboy, and it was said that
great improvement in his treatment of the
students followed. He had learned by
experience the disagreeableness of per-
sonal lectures before crowd of witnesses.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-04-18

AMERICAN BEEF IN DRITAIx.-W. w
Woolnough, editor OF the Battle Greek
Tribune, now visiting his boyhood's home
in England, writes as follows of the ex-
element produced among the butchers
by the sale of American beefin that cour.
try: at is amusing to witness the indi-
cations of suspicion and incredulity of
the people in regard to American meats.
The other day We attended the market,
and there saw sharp, laxative English
man selling Chicago hams, shoulders and
bacon. He cut the meat into small pieces
weighing two or four pounds each, and
disposed OF 1t at five pence, six pence and
seven pence per pound about ten, twelve
and fourteen cents our money!, according
to the value of the cut. His stand was
surrounded during the entire afternoon by
men and women both of the town aud
from the rural districts. Those who we're
inclined to risk the purchase of piece Of
Yankee meat "reconnoitered" the entire
situation before doing so. The meat was
picked up, the nasal organ was invoked,
and it was critically examined with the
eye. Our felt hat and general wearing
apparel denoted that we we're u stranger;
the people suspected that we were Ameri-
can. In conversation with several the in
luiry was made IF that meat was put
up il, Americsi" lis it fit to eatl" at
is not well blackened" (smokcd). They
were informed than it VAS rs good meat
as England WAS capsbl. of producing.
1t sold here at from five 10 six cents per
pound less than tn; home article.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-04-18
Result of Over-WOrk.

The victim of an over-worked brain
may readily recognize the symptoms of a
disordered intellect. He is liable to YER
tigo; noises in the ears, dark spots before
the eyes, q staggering in the walk, numb
ness in the limbs and twitching or spasms
in the face. There is n mental disturb
ance which is shown by Authorizations,
and principally 10y slceplessness. The
digestion is impaired. These are the
symptoms in violent cases. In general
the patient is deprived almost wholly of
sleep, or has unpleasant dreams. He finds
it impossible to fix his attention on any
subject, and is attacked by pain in the
head if he makes a mental effort. He
cannot depend upon his memory, but
forgets the simplest facts, and makes
mistakes in using words. There is a
great deal of indecision manifested in
simple matters, accompanied by morbid
apprehension of impending evil, and the
patient is afraid that he will himself COM
nit some dreadful act. have known of
II man who dreaded to go on ferry boat,
because he feared that he would throw
himself off; of another who would not go
near a train for fear he would throw HIM
self in front of it; of husband who made
his wife keep his razors locked up; of a
man who would not take warm bath, in
the fear that he would not turn of the
hot water. Mental disease is more apt to
attack those in middle life than the young
or old. To be cured the patient should
abstain from severe mental work, should
exercise in the open air, indulge in mod.
crate gayety and plain nutritious diet.
Exercise and cheerful society are worth
tons of drugs and medicines.