Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-17
OUR LOCAL EDUCATORS.
Some Compliments For Them.

Some Compliments For Them.
A correspondent of the Erening Bulletin,
writing to that paper from York, reviews
the late meeting of the State Teachers asso-
citation in that town and in her (?) awards
of praise is quite liberal with our local
educators for instance:
The most practical thing done during the
three days sessiOn-the thing which will
probably do the most good to call the
world and the rest Of mankind'-wa the
exposition Of "Star Study" made by Mr..
j. d. PyOtt, of Lancaster, and Was the
outcome of the work of the Star club Of
this place, founded by Prof. j. p. McCas-
key, principal Of the boys high school.
BY the aid Of charts and diagrams, shown
with the stereOpticOn, this gentleman proved
conclusively that astronomy could be
taught in every schOOlhOuse in the land
that the teacher need not wait for Orrery
or telescope nor the scholar for textbook
or chart, for without any Of these aids the
teacher can teach, if not the science. all
the elements of that great study. and the
child can learn not alone what others have
told of the wonders Of the starry heavens,
but call the stars by name and number the
consultations as they wheel over his head,
and feel that they arc all as familiar and
well-loved rs the flowers under his feet.
1t was q good thing to do.
j. +. McCaskey, one Of the editors
Of the Pnnd. School Journal. Speaking OF
him, lot me not forget to mention what
every woman in his audience must have
thanked him for-his brave and manly
protest against vulgarity either Of thought
or speech, and the standard of purity
which he held up when he said that NO
man had any right to use language at any
time which he would not use in the pres
encc of his mother or his sister. 1t made
one think Of Bayard and Sir Galahad.
Last, but not least in any sense, for he is
toe big q man to be left out, too good 4
man to be forgOttcn-our president, b. F.
Shaub, of Lancaster, who also spoke for
morality and the right.
Woman, too, had her place Oh the pro-
srammc and floor. Miss Johnston, teacher
in the Mansfield normal school, read n
bright and suggestive paper upon moral
culture, and Mrs. Mayne Archer, of Litiz,
one upon "Esthetics in the SchOOl-rOOm,"
and made Il remarkably good point in the
debate, which hit the nail so squarely on
the head that it made the other speakers
seem almost like bunglers. Intuition, was
it? Perhaps; but it did the work OF rea-
SOn. one ,Jumpeu III nCc cOnclllSlOn: los
sibly; but it landed her where she wanted
to go.
The same correspondent recalls the fol-
lowing incident which has some local in
terest:
In 1774 Queen Caroline Of England sent
to the Episcopalians of York church bell !,
which was brought from Lancaster upon
pole between two mules. This they hung
up in the steeple of the court house, be-
cause they had no building-their churcl,
being used Us ali arsenal, and under its pull
pit years after they found the powder
placed there by those who honestly be-
lieved there was "a time to fight as well as
pray" When the court house came to be
torn down, the commissioners coOlly cut
off the coat Of arms and claimed tho bell.
But the Episcopalians were on tho watch,
and when it was lowered to the ground
seized and hid it, and so came to their own
again. When search had ceased they
placed it in the belfry of st. Johns, and
there it hangs to this very day, the same
yet not the same, for it was afterwards re-
cast, and calls to prayer and praise, rs
Caroline Queen Of England planned, II
hundred years ago.