Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-16
1IILLERsvlLLE NEWS.


Educational and Local Intellgence.
Manor's schools will open on the 10Th.
The township now supports twenty-fiv
schools and pays considerably over six
thousand dollars annually in teachers sal
aries.
The Normal opened on Monday her
twenty seventh year for a winter term of
twenty.six weeks. Despite the proguos-
ticati0ns of the Ne,c Era tho attendance is
rather slim as yet.
The melancholy days are come, the sad
dest of the year when cleaning house
the married man doth rob of earthly
cheer then husband here no Joy can find,
the children cannot play, while on the
wall the wbitewash brush meanders all
the day.
Luther Bowman, Just lately titled B.
E., leaves tomorrow for Steelton, Pa,
where he will become brave wielder of
the birch and broom in the magnificent
new building erected by tho Pennsylvania
steel company for the borough. Miss Ida
r. Weeks, a classmate of Mr.. BIS, deals
out impartial justice and education in a
Bucks county school house. Tx. Wilmer
will resume his labors in behalf of the
rising generation at Dillerville, Man.
helm township; while II. X. Myers
and j. r. Wallick having ex-
change schools in the village, chew the
cud of bitter reflection and contemplate
the instability of earthly possessions. And
all the while DR.. Davis's man George is
trying to explain how that horse rared
up three times and fell back etc.
A Native Temperance Lecturer.
About eight years ago "Jake Hoofstit
ler, son of our merchant tOwnsman, John
II. IOOfstitlcr, was known to everybody
in the community as a man of marked in
tellectual and oratorical ability, whose
powers and health had been well-nigh
ruined by excessive drinking one of whom
the poet Young in his Night Thoughts says:
"When behold a genius bright and base,
or towering talents and terrestrial aims,
Methinks 1 see, as thrown from her high
sphere,
The glorious fragments OF soul immortal -"
He made several unsuccessful attempts
ut reformation; he drifted from bad to
worse and at last took his young wife
and two children with him to the West.
For while nothing was heard of him
but by and-by people began to hear that
he had reformed, then that he had taken
to lecturing in the temperance cause, that
he had developed great powers
of Oratory, and was making his mark all
over the western portion OF the Union.
Three years ago he visited Millersville and
lectured with marked success for week
or more, and established Il Temperance
Reform club of more than two hundred
members. Returning to his home in
Sterling, Ill.,, he resumed his work there
labored with great success in almost every
state and territory, working with Francis
Murphy and other leading apostles of total
abstinence secured thousands of sigma
lures to the pledge, and made himself one
of the most popular men in the Wost.
Several weeks ago he revisited his old
home, and on Wednesday evening, just
before leaving, he again addressed the citi-
zens of this place in Union hall. He spoke
as usual with more than ordinary force
for an hour aud half on the
great subject of which he is SO full. While
telling of an IrishmaI.. Dutchman and a
dog, one of our own imported specimens
of the Vaterland's inhabitants grew in
dignant at the insult heaped upon his
countrymen, and withdrew in great wrath
from the hall, exclaimining, {: Dat s all ]
want to hear from you; haf got enoagh;' y
his exit was succeeded by shouts of laughter
| from those who remained.