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

Not drum was heard, not funeral note,
AS his corse to the rampant we hurried;
Not soldier discharged his fare well shot
Ger the grave where our hero was buried,
II.
We buried him darkly, at dead of night,
The sods with our bayonets turning;
By the struggling moonbeam's misty light,
And the lantern dimly burning.
III.
No usele:s coffin enclosed his breast,
Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him;
But he lay like warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around him.
".
Few and short were the prayers we said,
And we spoke not a word of sorrow;
But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was
dead
And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
We thought, as we followed his narrow bed,
And smoothed down his lonely pillow,
That the foe and the stranger would tread DER
his head,
And we far away on the billow.
VI.
Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone,
And DER his cold ashes upbraid him
Bnt little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on
In the grave where Brlton has laid him.
VII.
But half OF our heavy task was done,
When the clock struck the hour for retiring;
And we heard the distant and random gun,
That the foe was sullenly firing.
VIII.
Slowly and sadly we laid him down,
From the field of his fame fresh and CORY;
We carved not line, and we raised not a
stone
But we left him alone in his glory!
THERE is much that is radically wrong in
the educational training of pupils in our COM
mon schools or union schools,
SO callad. Too much is required
OF young pupils; too grehs taus. are exactea
OF them; they are overerowded mentally, a a..
sadly overworked. Boards ofedncation are anx-
ious to see taeir schools flourish; teachers are
anxious to be reported expert educators; and
parents are BATTERED when their children are
pronounced prodigies. Hence it has come to
be a universal custom to force and cram
young pupils, to require them to purse too
many studies at the same time, to meet GER
tain arbitrary high grade of merit, on pain
OF being degraded, and thus the pupil is forced
to 60 through the examining process often to
his great hurt, and without the advantage,
after all, of substantial advancement To
meet his tasks. the pupil is cut off from due
recreation and relaxation; every possible
moment must be employed out of school to
master lessons to meet the next days require
ments; and the duller, slower scholar, with
substantial mental endowments, is forced to
keep even pace with the quicker, we may even
Say brighter, though more superficial
intellect. Thus children are over-taxed, over
worked, ovsr-strained, their nervous forces
broken down, and health impaired. 1t is not
too much to say that girls and boys often,
Gaite too often, go from their graduating exer-
cises into life, broken in health to make fee
BILE, nervous wives and mothers, or men of
acute, abnormal sensibilities, without ade-
euate.powers of endurance. The great fault
is in attempting to make of our common
schools academies and higher seminaries of
learning, instead OF schools for instruc.
ton in the elementary, substantial branches
of education. The pupils turned out ,of our
schools on this examining system, are at the
best generally, only sciolists, superficial in
their attainments, and very far from being
educated in the best sense of that term. Go
slower, then, should be the motto; infict
less number of studies upon the pupil at
given time; afford greater opportunity for
rest and recreation, and not send out from our
schools go many young people of both
sexes, wrecked in their physical structure,
and, as an unavoidable effect, more or less
weakened in intellectual power. The great
criterion of every enlightened educator should
be, SO to conduct his processes OF instruction,
as to secure a sound mind, in sound body.
CHORAL SOCIETIES are highly recommended
by musical experts. In small places where such
societies might flourish, the advantages Of
such organizations are net enjoyed. This
may arise from not being well posted on GER
tain points. Many refuse to embark in these
enterprises in small places and villages, be-
cause of the dreaded expense of music and
books to give sufficient range Of choruses
from the oratorios or masses By the masters.
All such ought to know that prominent
music publishing houses have issued
3 very large collection of Choir
uses Tor mixed voices of many
numbers for ladies' and gentlemen's
voices alone. These collections embrace the
very best that is known in those lines, and
they may be ordered through any music store, |
and the price will be found to be so exceeding.
y low as to present NO obstacle to their pro- |
So cheap is the average price per |
copy that any society can easily afford to pur.
chase any required number, dozen or more,
10 furnish each member of a choral soci, ~.
with copy. Inquire at or write a IN.
nearest music store for information. vr;t.r
n popular magazine says: aeA coea.
we'll conducted choral r-essty is cal.
'ulated to do VILLAGE 4nu-
ically and socially mus,sn good. Ct lifts the
'eopie ABOVE the co-dmon Sunday school and
music it improves congregation
l sing ing, it inspires choirs with
aeas confidence Ia themselves, and brings
er ~ .esocially together, who would otherwise,
= - laps, but very seldom meet" 1t is earn
.ly recommended to the young people of
very town and villsEa, to organize choral
ieciety, even though there be but few MEM
eers, not more than q dozen to 1begin with.
Fhsy will be sure to grow. as their advantages
are seen and felt, and there ought not to be a
village in thelland whsre sagood choral society
S not ua:r.s@...sS.