Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-27

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burial. I'he feeling with which ne recited |
these admirable .starZna I shall never forget. |
After be hsd come 10 an 9nd he repeated the
third, and said it was perfect, particularly the
lines:
Bat he lay like a.warrior taking his rest,
with his martial cloak arouud him.
81 shCuld have taken tire WHOLE" said
Shelley, Tor rough sketch Of Campiells"
ono, "replied Bgyons "Cdpapbel would have
cl+imed it if IT had been his.' S:F John
Moore fell il desperate b4ttle With the
French at Corunna, Jan, l3s 1909 While ami
mating the 42d regiment ia . brilliant charge
in an early, stage Of the action he was struck
by It canu0n ball On the left shoulder, aad died
III the moment of victory. he Edinburgh
AnDao& RegiStts OF 1906, said: ".Siv. John
Moore had otter said, that if he was killed in
battle, ne wished to be buried
where he fell. The boGy was
removed at midnight % the citadel of
Corurna. a grave was dng for hirs. on the
rampant there by party of the Ninth regi-
ment. the aides-de-camp attending ~ tnrus
No colin could be procured, and It's officers
of his staff wrapped the body, dressed as it was,
in a military cloak and Blankets. rae inter-
ment was hastened, for about sight in the
morning some firing was heard, and The Off
GERS feared that if q serious attacla,were made
they should De ordered away and not suffered
tn pay him their last cnty. The officers OF
Instantly bore him tC-the gravas The funeral
service was read by the chaplain and the corpse
was covered with ear5A. To make this mar
rativo more romplete- we print tho lines, as
gwen by rte Rev. Mr. Russell, his biographer.
fi.ar.
found in school readers, but a1afrom the au-
chor's OWE manuscript:
Not dram was heard, not funeral note,
AS his eurSe to tie rampant we hurried;
Not a scslier discharged his farewell shot
O'er the grave where our hero was buried
We bEaied hun da&Sly, at dead: Of night,
The S0ds with orr DayoCets Tuning;
By the struggling moonbeam's misty light,
Ana the lantern dimly Burning.
III.
No r1sele. coffi Il enclosed his breast,
Not IN sheet or in shroEd wound hirls
But ne lay like =, warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak arolAnd him.
IN.
| Few and short were The prayers we said,
| And we spoke not word Of sorrow;
Bat we steadgAstly ga aed on the face that, was
| dead,
! Ana we bitterly Thought Of the morraw.
| We though, as we holiowe his narrow bed,
| And smoothed down his lonely pillow,
| That the foe and the stranger would uaad DER
| his head,
And qgs far away on the billow.
VI.
| Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone,
And Ger bis colo ashes upbraid ham
! BuC little ELL geck, il they let him sleep on
I !, lNo,cf - II
Bat half Of our heavy task was done,
When the cock struck the hour for retiring.
and we heard the distant AID random gun,
That the Zoe WAS suilenly firing.
| VIII.
| Slowly and sadly we laid him Gown,
From the field Of his fame fresh and cory;
We carved not liue, and we raised NoJ g
But we left MIN alone in bis glory!
THERE is much that is radically wrong in
the educational training of pupils in oar com
mon schools or union schools
SO callsd. Too ouch is required
of young pupils; too great tasks are exacteC
o! them; they are overcrowded mentally, anC
sadly overworked. Boards OF education are arx
ions to see their schools flourish; teachers are
anxious to be reported expert educators; an(
parents are fattered when their childrel arr
propour ced prodigies. Hence it has come tc
be a universal custom to force and Gran
young pupils, 10 require them to purse to-
: many studies at the same time, TO meet Ger
tain arbitrary high grade of merit, On pail
OF being degraded, and thus the pupil is fcrce
30 go through The crammirg process often Ii
| I,,co h,,rf aIu ton
after all, of substantial advancement. II
meet his tasks. the pupil is cut off from du
, recreation ard relaxation; every possbl
momentmust be employed out of school t
master lessons to meet the next day 3 require
ments; and The duIler, slower scholar, wit
substantial mental endowments, is forced /
a keep even pace with the quicker, We may eTe
Say brighter, though more superfcia
intellect. Thus children are over-taxed, ovel
worked, overst9ained, their nervous force
broken down, and health impaired. It's nc
/, too much to say that girls and boys offer
: quite too often,go frora their graduating exel
= cses into life, broken in health to make fee
BE, nervous wives and mothers, or men {
- acute, abnormal sensibilites, without adt
quate powers of endurance. The great fau
is in attempting % make of our cOmmo
schools academies and higher seminaries {
learning, instead or schools for instru
ton in the elementary, substantial branche
= of education. The pupils turned out OF on
= schools on this examining system, are at ii
:. best generally, only sciolists, superficial
; their attainments, and very far from bein
educated in the best sense OF that Term. 6
6 slower, then, should be the motto; inhict
= less number OF studies upon the pupil at
= given time; afford greater opportunity fo
= rest and recreation, aud not SEND cut frt Oh
J, schools so many young people of bot
n sexes, wrecsed ia their physical structure
e and, as an unavoidable effect, more or les
weakened in intellectual power. The grea
u criterion OF every enlightened educ itor shoU
e be, So 10 con1uct ais process eS OF instruction
e as to secure q sound mind, IN sound body.
CHORAL SOCIETIES are highly recommend:
;, by musical experts. In small places where sue
societies might flourish, the advantages
such organizations sre not enjoyed. TIL
may arise from not being we'll posted on ce
tain points. Many refuse to embark in the
e enterprises in small places and villages, b
r cause of The dreaded expense of music al
II books to give sufficient range of chorust
< from Sic or&torios or masses 10y the master