The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-02

The land than they now receive. We have
taken this ground sll along very decidedly
.ra we sre glad 10 see the Examiner follow
inc in our wake. 'tssys:
Oar BOYS and girls should DO ,rsined for
sot;ve sDd practical every cay duties. fla
1clsssies" education must ha included, why
% 10 the Creek and Latin TO the neglect Of
he tsIse old Eoglsh which already COM
nrises within Its literature greater works in
noe,ry, prose, science Gnd art than Greece or
Rome ever aceonplishod. Instead of degot-
Inv the best years Of study to requirement
I'M, lead to nothing, why not abandon the
curriculum Of past ages or abolish all its
rubbish? And especially so IN those schools
which, ike those under consideration, ARE
intended 10 confer special sni technical
eiucslion. A boy need not ba sent away
from hcme u lenrs to hoe and plow, or Il
cirl to BE- initiated toto tho mysteries Of the
Gitchsn. These simple duties can be learned
under the pareu.Al roof. But there is certain.
IL midlls ground between them and the
utterly useless curriculum Of Greek aud Latin
or p;suo drumming aud y scattering of
French. The vas. range Of English literature,
art and science, certainly furnish basis for
development towards practical education,
and those educators who first leave the dusty
maths of elste systems aud inaugurate some
Thing commensurate with the demands of
the day will DO classed Ms pubic benefsctors.
The RocSpors Transcript, published in
COW country, says cattle raising pays and
proves II by the following:
Raising cattle in Texas will pay. Mr.. L.
G. S ugg, the senior Of Sugg IL Putnam, who
have lust sold their cattle for $4,000
emisraIed from Mississippi to Brown county
nipe years ago, and for some time thereafter
mauIed rails for 81 per hundred. He saved
bis money, put it in Something that would
eat grass" and row he effects sale of which
bis share is $55000, and still has 500 head
left.
The Sherman Courier. Chronicle thus dis
courses wisely and trulhfully on the sdvsnta.
ges of advertising:
Who says So? Only those who havn't
bravery and liberty enough TO venture dol
lar on the experiment. You cannot get a
man who has tried systematic and Judi
cious course of advertising to make any such
remark. You cannot keep bis name Out of
the paper by dint of argument, threats or
Cosxing. A judicious advertisement is bound
to make good returns; and by jud;cous we
mean an advertisement properly worded,
attractiyely displayed, 10 good space, fire.
quently changed, and containing truthful
representations. CT course it costs some.
thing TO have this, but the sensible end far.
seeing merchant pays this item OF expense
with pleasure. We have an illustration
before Us. -Four days ago the enterprisng
hardware firm of Wallace 81 Co., received |
sixteen dozen balloon ly-traps. Inmedi-
stely they negotiated for conspicuous place
in the Conrer.C Chronicle. The lly.trsps
have sold IKE hot cakes. They are about
gone, and the firm has forwarded an order
for smother sixteen dozen. DON'T tell us
advertising don't pay.
We do not know whether anybody has
been fattering the Palestine Eastern Texas
News to its face and slsndering it behind its
back or not, but it at any rate INDUCES in
this wise, in few comments upon that un-
brothly class of people:
If man can't have downright friend, the
next best thing is q downright enemy.
Friend or enemy, however, II is important to
know just where your acquaintance stand.
We have great deal of sympathy with the
wsetern hunter who observed" that "the
sttlesnake ia q squar, homes! Ieptyle, that
lets you know when he mtans to resoom bus
iness, and gives you time to step back"
There are SO many so.called friends who love
your pocko.book and your influence, and
who will certainly leave you when these de-
that Ia hI. OH
knowing of given person that he is "squsr,
honest reply To-" There is certain class Of
men in tbe world vino say all sorts Of mean
things about you when you are absent and
all kinds OF pleasant things when you are
present They are unlike any Of tho other
yermn which lavish nature has produced.
Even mosquito would us soou slight on the
Up otyour nose right in front Of your eyes,
as or the bald place ut the back Of your
head, sud The noble wasp or reused hornet
wastes no time in buzzine about tho rear,
but comes in u straight line for the first vul-
rerablo spot. 1t is reserved for tho human
singer 10 DO oauiious-heIce, perhaps, his
name of backbiter.
The Denison uerald-News comes out in
endorsement of nihilism 10 Russia, and gives
tho following reasons:
We have been among those who were
disposed TO believe the measures resorted 10
by the nihilists wero too severe, and that
they were carrying their desperate purposes
10 IN unwarranled extreme. But after
reading the horrible story of Hessy Hef-
mans desth we are free to admit I" Lihi.
Ism in all its atrociousness y lslGod. Our
readers will doubtless u .-...U thai Hessy
Hoffman WAS arrested, VA vng Others, for
completely in the late cars desth, and with
her coniedereles, wss convicted and sem
fenced 10 death. Her execution WIS
delayed owing 10 the fact that she
was soon to become u mother. A few days
since abo gave birth to child in The tomb.
lisn coll in which she had lAin since her con.
vclion. Within four days since The birth Of
her child this unfortunate woman WAS u
corpse--a beaten, bruised aud discolored
corpse Immediately ntlor tho birth she was
taken from her bed and hanged w by the
lhumbs, in the hupo If exloriiug u c0nfts-
sion. This faiiitg sho WAS hanged by the
neck until life was almost extinct. This
horrible torture WAS continued vt intervals
during four da,s, Between the hours Of her
torture che was continually startled In her
cell by the announcement that hor time had
come, She must walk forth TO the gallows.
When the hour for her torture arrived
ihe was again carried flor tho poor
creature could not walk) to the rack
and again put through tho torture. This
WAs rnn,,npat (rnt, hnus N hnur throtiuh