The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1879-03-05

bu. always be dignitied and gentleman
ly in your department in all the little
things that pertain to the governing Of
your school, thus silently and imper-
cePtibly lifting them up iuto higher
manhood.-TSunn South.
HARPER's Weekly makes the follow
ing timely suggestion: Those of our
readers who are accustomed to be sur
rounded by books. magazines, and new
papers, whose libraries are overflow
ing, and upon whose tables lie the
last new novels and the freshest peri
odicals, can scarcely imagine what it is
to be almost utterly deprived of read
ing matter. Yet such Is the condi-
ton Of hundreds among Us. and others
Isolated from the world. who
know how to read, and would gladly
avail themselves of any means within
their power of thus spending some of
their time.
Intelligent middle class laborinc
people and farmers families are often
unable to take more than one literary
periodical and have few books.
The French Government has. dur
ing the summer, sent the cshool teach
ers, composed largely Of ladies', to visit
the Paris Exposition, and paid their
expenses for them. They went in
patches of one thousand at a time,
holding conferences in the morning
and then dividing into parties to visit
different points and study systematic
ally.
DE-. WILLARD, of the Chicago
High School, declares that school-room
walls, for the sake of pupils eyes,
should be tinted with a pinkish, green
ism or blush tinge, and the black
board should be green, brownish or
drab in color. He adds that il is a
mistake to think. that the board must
be black To make the chalk marx dis
iinct.
p. 1. BARSUM says: al tell you, as
Snowman, you can't make animals
drink whisky. They know better
The Snowman is mistaken. We once
heard woman cry out of a second story
window to On object that for nearly an
hour had been trying in vain to unlock
the front door: Drunk again you
old hog, are you?" And if hog isn't
an animal, what is it?-Norristown
Herald.
CORRESPONDENTS will please adj
dress me at CeralvO, as | have located
in that vicinity.
ACQUISITION a child as soon as he can
speak to uarrate his little experiences,
his chapter of accidents, his griefs, his
fears, his hopes to communicate what
he has noticed in the world without,
and what he feels struggling in the
world within. Anxious to have some /,
thing to narrate, he will be induced TO
give attention to objects around him,
and what is passing in the sphere of
his observation. and to observe and
note events will become one Of his first .
pleasures; and this is the groundwork !
of the thoughtful character.
NEVER east aside your friends if by /
any possibility you can retain them. .
We are the weakest Of spendthrifts If
we let one drop oil through inattention,
or let one push away another, or If we /
hold aloof from one through petty jeal- I
Ousy or needless slight or roughness.
Would you throw away a diamond be-
cause it prieked sou? One good friend I
is not to be weighed against the Jewels I.
of the earth. If there Is GOODNESS or
unkindness between us, let us come
face to face and have it out. Quick.
before the love grows cold! Life Is
too short to quarrel in, or to carry
black thoughts of friends. 1t is easy
to lose friend, but new one will not
come for calling. nor make up for The
old ONE Selected.
The most perilous hour of persons
life is when he is tempted To deSpond.
The man who loses his courage loses
all; there is 10 more hope of him than
of dead man but it matters not how
poor he may be, how much pushed by
circumstances, how much deserted by
friends, how much lost to the world
If he only keeps his courage, holds up
his head, works on with his hands and
with unconquerab!e will, determined
to be and to DO what becomes man.
all will be WELL 1t is nothing out
side Of him that kills, but what Is
within. that makes or unmakes.-Se-
lecied.
Would it not be a good plan, after
You have become well acquainted with