The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-04-06

SINCE the school exhibition here, the
question has ietn raised, Are exhi-
billions a detriment t. the school?"
Everybody please answer at once.
|
The Worlhingt"m school preceded
its spring vacation by an interesting
and thorough oral examination. The
principal, Mr.. Donovan, is earnest in
his work. We were considerably s:lr-
prised to find 50 few OF the residents
! attending. If people wish to know
| just what has been accomplished dur
ing term of school, the surest way to
| find out is to attend the general review
at the close OF the term.
Our country districts, many of them,
have adopted this plan. and the re-
views are generally we'll attended.
IT would be well for teachers attend
ing the Institute to prepare Il paper mp
on some subject with which they are
acquainted for instance:
Spelling: its objects-its limitations
and difficulties.
2. How, and from what source the
matter Is obtained.
3. Whether oral or written; whether
in the form of lists or sentences.
4. When and how reviews should he
held.
Whatever subject chosen, each point
Of it might be treated separately, and
then the subject as 4 whole.
REPLY TO PEDAG0GUN
EDITOR ADvANCE:-I don't believe
in teachers wasting time writing FIR
newspapers, but read ore article III
the ADVANCE that calls for reply be-
fore it proceeds to too much mischief.
I refer to the article of Pedagogue.
The calling Of teacher is so high and
holy that established customs should
never lie broken nor established forms
laid aside, except under the most ur-
gent necessity. When child has been
taught to obey his teacher, that should
he sufficient. No questioning should
enter his mind as to the right.
''Pedagogue' tells us to he liberal.
It is this very liberalism that is the ru-
in of our schools and Of society. Chill
dren have been taught to he liberal and
the result is Young America libtrally
spends his fathers money to buy toy
pistols with which he may literally do
mischief. say down with liberty in
a school house. The teacher is proper.
ly a despot there; not, to he sure, with
the lives of his pupils, but in regard to
obedience. The teachers authority
must be unquestioned. Tie natural
depravity Of fallen humanity is shown
in the embryo. The child, if given the
liberty to- choose for himself, would
choose to play rather than work; if
given the liberty to reason for himself,
would reason thus, II did not put the
teacher over me, why then should l
obey hm?'' The teachers mind is not
my mind; how then should he know
what is right and wrong to me?'
Reasoning thus the child by natural
depravity would be led-as it were by
the evil one-to choose sin every time.
''Why should | be made to suffer in the
school room when the birds are free?''
No, no; liberty will not do in the
school. Give us liberalism in the school
and you break up all our time honored
customs. Ideas that have become green
with the moss Of ages. become as use
less rubbish in the eyes of these liher-
ais, aud our old friends are changed
for the new. while nothing is left to
remind us that our grandmothers ever
lived. PEDANr.
Mr.. Clifford F.. Hudson, Of Elmira.
n. y, Says: My aged mother suffer-
ed greatly from poor digestion and
general debility. She was always com
planning of her liver. and her bowels
often panied her greatly. She was very
weak. bought her a bottle Of Browns
Iron Bitters, and she says, 1T goes
right to the spot. Clifford.' She has
greatly improved since using this ex-
cellent medicine"
When MI. Robert Ingelsoll read the
dispatch in Wednesdays papers in r.
gard to the outrage and murder of Il
beautiful young lady teacher at Salem,
Ind, we learn that he said lie desired
to withdraw any remarks he might
have made in the heat of debate in re-
gard t" there being no hell. and that
lie k1aeD there WAS no hell he wul Ii
give a Thousand doll RS towards found
ing such place OF endless punish
nent. The poor girl was found in her
school house, with her neck pinned to
the floor by knife which ran through,
her threat. We do not often originate
toast, but "1e,e's to he'll. May it
continue to do business at the old
stand until it has enrolled the names
Of the lnur'!ererS of the Salem school
ma'am, and has burned them until
there IS not enough left to make il
speck on clean napkin. ''-Peck's San
Col. Ingerso1l will conclude before
he dies that there is Il hell. The only
questions between the disputants are
~ as to its duration, and ~ as to the
kind of punishment. The endless pun
ishment theory and the birthstone the
DRY have had their days and are passing
away. But all religions, all reason and
all human hearts teach that there is Il
hell. And there is 10 sudden forgive
ness for the wretches who murdered
this poor girl. They cannot cut her
off in her sins" to use the cant phrase
OF the churches, and then swing off of
the gallows into the farms Of Jesus"
The human soul revolts and vomits ut
the teaching of such sickly doctrine.
We have not the least doubt that these
murderers will have to undergo an age
of torture and will not escape from it
until ample amends have been made to
the spirit Of the young woman.
Elegance and purity.-I>adies who
| appreciate elegance and purity are us
ing Parker's Hair Balsam. 1t Is the
best article sold for restoring gray hair
! to its original color, beauty and lus:er.
i 60. III