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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-12-26
AFTERNOON
The mex, subjec, was on

The next subjec, was on
ARITHMETIC FOR PRAcTClL ENDS: How
MrcH; How TAUGHT. Nh. W. o..
COLLINS. PRISCIPAL OF Hon School,
NORWAY.
will tell what | teach. In the mrs,
place. time enough Is no, spent on the
fundamental studies. find it necessary
TO use simple addition as an exercise for
a whole year, until they can be sure IN
their work. | sometimes teach the con-
tracted forms, then United States Money,
then Common Fractions, and the Tables
in common use at the present time.
Practical Arithmetic should be divided
into two parts, the practical and the use
les parts. They should be thoroughly
laugh, in Percentage, and Interest. Let
Latitude and Longitude come later in
their course. They should have written
tests on the subjec, every week. Make
them copy Bills, Notes and Receipts as
carefully as possible. Let Medal Pro-
portion and Series come in the appendix,
or second part.
DR.. True spoke of several methods OF
preparing young men for business, espec-
tally in acquiring the facility Of correct
addition, and would, after a scholar can
perform his work by the ,chy method
with promptne,s, omit that and use the
ho,r method. Business men always use
the latter. He then gave several exam
Piles Of the ko,c method in business. The
teacher may instruct his class for weeks
how to explain Division of Fractions.
This may be well, but you never hear
merchant stopping to explain ,chy he in
verts the diyisor. All he wants is hoW
TO do his work the most correctly and ex
pedi,iously. We old teachers sometimes
become too schoolmasterish in our work,
and forget the actual wants Of the busi-
ness man.
Mr.. W. ". Mayo, Principal of Hebron
Academy, said that teachers should make
use Of what will be most useful in the
future. II q teacher goes into a school,
and omi,s any point he is set down as
knowing nothing of the subject. Simple
Fractions and Interest should be taught.
What does the farmer, the mechanic, and
the merchant most need: This should
be taught, and this is Practical Arithme-
tic. II is Of no consequence if he cannO,
do the grindstone example. The first
part of an Arithmetic should be practical,
the last part more theoretical. The time
spent on Arithmetic is out o: all proper
ton TO other studies.
Mr.. Luce would give single sugges-
ton. Much Of the business Of life is
done mentally; then let much of their
Arithmetic be done mentally. Mensura-
ton is practical part of Arithmetic. Pu-
pills are often wronged in doing what has
no future value. Teach scholars to meas
ure things.
COMPOSITION IN MIXED SCHOOLS: WHAT
SHOULD BE ATTEMPTED; METHODS OF
TEACHING. By HoN. y. A. Luce.
The pupil finds when he goes out into
the world that be has to use his mother
tongue hundred times where he uses
arithmetic once. They need systematic
teaching in the use of their own Ian
gusge. in other words, the subject OF
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-12-26
The next exercise was an
ADDRESS By Mr.. LUCE:


New England Schools were establish
ed under the shadow of the Church. 1t
was not Goddess school in those days.
The control of the schools was under
the direction Of the Clergy. The laws
of Maine do not say you shall teach
Arithmetic, Grammar and other studies,
but you must have good moral charac-
ter, you must have certain moral quail
ties before you should be allowed to teach
but in too large sense they have been
fossilized. 1t is the paramount duty Of
teachers to build up good moral char
acter. Children come into our public
schools from all kinds of surroundings.
Here is a solemn duty resting on the
teacher as well as the parent, to see that
impurity shall give away to purity. We
often build better than we know. We
know not how great our influence may
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-12-26

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rom the ohce-whether directed TO his name or
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irresponsible for the payment.
2. IL person orders his paper discontinued,
emust pay all arrearages, or the publisher may
collect the whole amount, whether the paper 10
taken from the ONCE or not.
8. The Courts have decided thatrefnsing to take
newspapers and periodicals from the poet once,
or removing and leaving thcm uncalled for, 10
prsaa facss evidence of fraud.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04
An Engraved Diamond.

Mr.. Bryce Wright has lately received
q very remarkable historical stone. Pre-
vious to the fail of Delhi at the time of
the India mutiny, and the looting which
subsequently took place, this ring was
kept in the treasury of the mogul en-
perors of Hindostan, where it had been
preserved for many years. The ring it.
self, and the back of the oval shield
shaped table which is affixed to it, is
most beautifully enameled with a floria-
ted pattern in red, green, blue and
yellow on white ground. the whole set
in Indian gold framework. The face or
upper surface Of the table is composed
of floral or foliated design in green
and blue enamel, having for its central
ornament an engraved diamond sur
rounded by twelve others varying in
size. The interest of the whole work
centers upon this stone, it being one of
the very few known diamonds that are
cut or engraved; indeed, only about five
are in existence, and OF these it should
be said that the European ones are more
properly ground by the wheel than en-
graved by purely manual labor. The
stone is the work of q Persian artist, and
bears monogram composed of two
Arabic words interlocked together,
making up the invocation 30 Alir'-
London NeaUS. ~..G,.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04
The Denizens Of the 10 Boats.

Pittsburg has a curious little COM
munity who live in what are called 'jo
boats" A jo boat is an old barge or
aatboat, no longer useful for carrying
coal, which has built upon it kind Of
house, like an enlarged freight car, that
serves as human habitation. In the
old times jo boatmen were peddlers, and
carried stocks of dry goods, tin-ware
and notions up and down the river,
stopping for q hail from either bank,
and selling, buying and swapping every
thing that came to hand; but railroads
and steamboats, took their occupation
away, and 10 boatmen have fallen. Now
they mostly toll not, but they steal odds
and ends, pick up unconsidered coal
from about the river, and lead the most
shiftless, worthless, and disreputable
lives. The boats are knocking about in
the water and mud, and sometimes half
on dry land, and are dirty and comfort
less; but they furnish roofs such as they
are, the dingy decks make Fairgrounds
1or the children, and they are free from
visits for rent and tax collectors.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04
A Plug Hat in Wyoming.

The climate Of Wyoming Is not con-
genial to the plug hat You may wear
one at o'clock with impunity, II you
can dodge the vigilance committee, and
at three minutes past one, a little cats
paw of wind will come signing down
from the snowy range, that makes the
cellars and drive wells tremble, and the
hat look like frightened picket-fence.
The air of Wyoming, when it is feeling
pretty well, viii wear out plug hat in
about two hours, and leave it looking
like joint of iron stove-pipe. When
the atmosphere is full of geological
specimens, and blossom rock, and de-
ceased tom cats, it is not good time to
wear the plug hat. At the first sight of
the wind the hat gets fuzzy, like the
corset of a humble bee. Then some
more little whispering zephyrs come
from the same bed Of violets on Vinegar
Hill, and after that man has followed
his hat for fifteen or twenty miles, as
the crow flies, he picks it out of bunch
of sage-brush and it is as bald-headed
rs door-knob. In former years they
used to hang a man who wore a plug
hat west of the Missouri River; but af-
ter while they found that it was a
more cruel and horrible punishment to
let him wear it, and chase it over the
foothills when the frolicsome breeze
caught it up, and toyed with it, and
damned it against the broad brow of
Laramie Peak. An old hunter was out
among the Black Hills, east of town,
last summer, and ran across little
gulch, where the abrupt rocks closed to-
gether and formed little atmospheric
eddy, so to speak. There, in that lone
ly reservoir, he found what he at first
considered petrifed hat-store. 1t was
a genuine deposit of escaped straw-hats
and plug-hats that the frolicsome
zephyrs had caught up and carried for
ten miles, until this natural hat-rack had
secured them. OF course there were
other articles of apparel, and some de-
bilitated umbrellas, but the deposit
seemed to assay mostly hats.-The Real
Bill Me
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04
Elephants.


Colonel Pollock, in Sports in British
Burmah." gives the following particu-
lars about the elephant which will be
new to most readers: Elephants when
asleep snore a good deal, and l have Of
ten seen them use foot for pillow, on
which to rest their head. They are very
human-like in many ways. They get q
piece of wood, and use it as a toothpick.
They will plug wound with clay.
They scratch themselves with the tip of
their trunk, and if they cannot reach the
part, they take up small branch and
use that AS rule, they are frighten-
ed at fire; but an elephant of the bat
terry at Assam used to help to put out
fires, and she would do what l never
saw any other animal of her kind do,
and that was, after a fallen buffalo's
throat had been cut all but the vertebre,
when told to do so she would put her
foot on the neck, twist her tusk round
the horn, and hand it up. Some few of
them will hand up birds after being
shot, but they don't usually like touch
ing dead bodies.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04
Wanted to be Equal.

Many persons complain of theil fate
when they compare their lot with thai
of the more fortunate. They forget
that men usually carve out their own
late, be it good or evil.
An lrishman looking abroad and
seeing such difference in the circum
stances OF men, became disgusted witt
his bright hoe and shovel and left
them to grow rusty. On being asked
the reason tor his idleness, he replied
that he thought money ought to b.
more ''aqually divided, so shat hape
OF wudn't be given to one man anc
not a ha'peth to others"
'lve heerd dale aboot folks bein
fraa and aqual IN this country he
continued. II want 10 saa it now. In
fraa enough here, for nobody inter
lares wild me; but l want to be 'aoual
as well as fraa. Then I'd feel like
Iraa born 'merican citizen"
The gentleman to whom Pats com
plants were uttered, answered, swell
now, Pat, suppose that all the wealtt
of the world was equally divide ], ant
that you had received your share
what do you think you would do witt
t?"
Faith, thin" replied Pat, aid jus
live high and have rale foin tim,
with it as longs there war cint O.
would II"
"And what would you do when i
was all gomez" asked the gentle
man.
Pat had not thought of that, anc
scratched his head In some confusion
But mother-wit came to his aid; ano
with glowing face he replied
"What would I do thin, is it
Why, faith, and I'd just have it al
divided over again!"
That is, he would nave others worl
and manage that he might live a lif,
of easy frivolity. 1t would be a "di
viding" all the time, and it would no
be long before the community woulc
We divided into two distinct classes
hose who provided support eithe
by their wealth or their en- prise
and those who cravenly accept d sucl
support ard lived in idleness.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04
The Old Story.

Fogg was sitting in the Transcript Of
fee the other day, when the door open
ed, and ragged and dirty specimen Of
the tramp genus entered. He was about
to prefer his request, when Fogg inter-
rupted him with, "You haven't had any
thing to eat for six months?" The
tramp acknowledged as much. "You
have tried to get work, and nobody will
have youp' The tramp nodded ac-
quiescence. ''You were in the army, of
course, and lost the use of your right
hand?n Another nod. "You have a
wife and ten children at home, starving
for bread?" Another nod, and the
tramp essayed to speak. But Fogg
checked him, and went on. "And all
you want is ten cents to save them from
the grave?'' ''Yes, sir, yes," said the
tramp, eagerly. II thought so," muir
INJURED Fogg, as he showed the fellow
the door. "The same old story. I was
in hopes you had something new to tell.
You fellows are getting terribly weak in
inventive power. If you could only
have brought out one new point, I'd
have given you the dime and let you
have your drink. Hencen'
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04
ROBBERY.
Louis PilllOd Bound, Bqeked and
Gagged. and is Perced to Open
the Safe.

About half past one o'c ock Monday
night, three men entered the Office OF
the Ho'gate House, bound, bucked
and gagged Louis Pil'iod, then tied
him to the cot, and forced him TO open
the safe. Fifty dollars was secured
Iherefrom, twenty dollars belonging
TO the Hotel. and thirty to the grist
mill, that Mr.. Pilliod's father and a
younger brother operates.
The hotel Office door is left open for
passengers that may come in on the
midnight train These fellows entered
and before Mr.. Pilliod knew it they
had him gagged and two revolvers
placed before him and forced him to
surrender; alter they had departed
Mr.. Pilliod worked the g-g from his
mouth, and called for help, The des-
peradoes were Immediately pursued.
They stole the hand-car belonging 10
the narrow guage railroad and went as
far as Grand Rapids, where they lett
the car.
The men were masked, but Mr..
Pilhod, sufficiently recognized them
as a set of "Three Card Monte Men, "
who have been Operating III this section
for some time past.-Holgaie Times,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04
Fashion Eotas.

a1l4ou Atltl1I
New hounces are gathered.
Paniers grow more bouffant.
Chenille ruches are stylish trimmings
for mantles
Gold lace is coming into favor as
trimming.
Levatfne satins are superseding Surah
silks.
Virgin gold is pale shade THAT is to
replace old gold.
Solid jet crowns are on new capotes.
The coachman's cape of black fur is
more in vogue than ever.
Primary colors and old-fashioned
shades are announced for spring goods
in place of the faded blues and dingy
green now fashionable.
Roman scarfs on dark self-colored
materials have a very stylish effect, and
persons however quiet in their tastes
need not be afraid to adopt them.
Among the novelties in neck dressing
which give especial cdchet to full-dress
toilets are the deep rolling collar and
high Elizabethan ruff; the former made
of heavy brocade, velvet or satin. the
latter of wide lace of some rich pattern.
plated up exceedingly full inside the
rolling collar.
Short hair is again in fashion, and, in
spite of all that can be or has been said
to the contrary, ladies are sacrificing all
that remains of their ''crowning glory"
which is left from the ravages Of bando-
line, heated slate pencils, and crimping
pins, to the Moloch of the present
fashion.
For little girls, the American frock
is now made with the skirt entirely COW
cred with hollow plaits and a wide scarf
fastened behind. The bodice is shirred
over the chest, giving it a graceful full
ness. For evening this frock is made of
baby blue, rose pink, or doe-colored
cashmere, trimmed with satin, or of
pale-tinted surah trimmed with lace.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04
Never Give Up,

II yon are suffering with low and de-
pressed spirits, loss Of appetite, or any
disease Of a bilious nature, by all means
procure bottle Of Electric Bitters. You
will be surprised to see the rapid improve
ment that will follow; you will be in
spired with new life; strength and ac-
tivity will return; pain and misery will
ce:se, and henceforth you will rejoice in
the praise Of Electric B.tters, Sold at
fifty cents bottle J. G. Saur.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04
Snatched from the Grave.

Mrs. Helen Pharviz, No. 331 Dayton St.
Chicago, ILL.,, is now in her sixty eighth
year, and states thatshe has suffered with
Consumption for about ten years, was
treated by nine physicians, all of then
pronouncing her case hopeless. She had
given up all hopes of ever recovering
Seven bottles of DR.. Kings New Discov.
cry for Consumption cnmpletely cured
her. Doubling one y, plec drop her {
postal and satisfy yourselv: !. Trial be
les free at Saur's Drug Store, Isrg.
lie $1,0O.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04

My informant said that Colorado was
like every other republican state, badly
divided, the politicians being mainly
stalwarts and the voters mainly half
breeds. II expect" said he, ito see a
smash-up, the way things are going.
President Arthur isputting nothing but
stalwarts into Office, and it is making an
undertoRe of such magnitude that pre
emily the president will be forced to 20
into the democratic camp to carry out his
administration, for the stalwarts will be
cut all over the country next fall."-
Gdths correspondence.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04

Digitated stockings, or stockings hav-
ing separate compartment for each toe,
is the latest feminine foolishness in Lon-
don. It's terribly announcement whim.
as the girl has to wear slippers that can
be accidently kicked off, in order to dis.
ply the things. Boston Post.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04

Milwaukee is discussing the problem
about how long it is proper for lover,
during courtship, to extend his evening
call. It seems to be true that when a
young man selfishly exhausts long even.
ings during courtship he eshould not, after
marriage, expect the lady to superintend
the early morning coffee making on the
strength of the late habits he has encour-
aged.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04

Kernan, of the Okolona States, has
at last settled down where he always
belonged, as editor of a Stalwart Re.
publican paper, the LeMafs Qowa)
Sentinel. He asserts that he was al
ways Republican, and nobody doubts
it. Nor does anybody doubt that he
was hired by the Republican National
Committee to run the Okolona States,
a few years ago.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04
A Finality.

An old woman, who had been reading
q fearful account of q man who had
been murdered, met neighbor, to
whom she began telling the story, en-
tering into particulars with horrible
minuteness.
whit paper was that IMP" inquired
the neighbor.
Nae paper at a.; it was q book it
was in. /"
,Toots! get AVA WI We! It's been a
novel ye've been readin'."
"Novel or no novel; said the old wo-
man. 'the mans lost his life. any way"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04
A Telling law.

Mr.. Charles Law, Jr., in conversation
with one OF or representatives, recently
said; Il have been sufferer from rheu-
matism and neuralgia for the past ten
years, and tried all kinds of remedies.
Having heard SO much about st. Jacobs
Oil, tried bottle, and found it truly
wonderful.-Pottstoion (Pd.) Ledger.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04

Mr.. Bland introduced a bill in the
House to retire the circulation of national
banks, which shall be exchanged for treas
ury notes which in turn shall be exchange.
able for legal-tender notes in sums of
500 and over.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04
The Old Mill at Newport, B. !.


A writer in the Watchman, the Bap-
tist organ, says the poetry has at length
been effectually taken out of the venera-
BILE stone structure at Newport, SO far
as any Scandinavian origin or flavor is
concerned. What all cool-headed and
sensible Rhode Islanders have firmly
believed and steadfastly maintained
from reliable records and analogies has
now been confirmed it was built
for mill by some of the first settlers of
Aquidnec, probably by Governor Bene-
dict Arnold. The proof of this fact now
adduced is a lithograph engraving rep
resenting a mill built at Chesterton,
England, in 1882, near where Benedict
Arnold at that time resided. The Chest
erton mill and the Newport mill are as
much alike as two peas. The Chester
ton mill was sketched and autographed
by P. Newell, an English artist, now
residing in this country, and good
copy is now in the possession of the
Rhode Island Historical Society. Old
believers in the great antiquity of the
Newport mill, that it was erected by
the Northerners for sacred or secular
purposes-one poetical genius imagin-
ing it was baptistery-and all we'll
nigh worshipping under its shadow, are
now becoming beautifully and decor
ously less. Still the old, odd, massive,
rude-wrought structure is worthy of
some veneration, and should be most
carefully preserved, both as the work of
some Of the fathers of Newport and as
the occasion and text of a great many
ingenious pages of prose and poetry.
The old stone mill answered for agar
rison-house for the inhabitants of New
port during the terrible months Of King
Philips War, in 1876, when there
were at least thirteen garrison-houses
in what now constitutes the State of
Rhode Island.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04

r NJ. STOUT, Physician and Sur
" geon, Florida, Henry County, Ohio, will at
and to all professional calls in all parts OF the
county. Saturdays set apart especially for the
examination ofpatientsat my Office. aug19-1y
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04
Mgsirisas.

II B. HARRISON, Physician and Sur
IL. geon, Napoleon Ohio o zee over Saurs drug
store. Ofice hours to9A. M; ~ to1P.M.
andtO7P NJ. NOv2S72-1y
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-04

M RS. P. A. SAUR, Physician and
If1 SURGEON, Napoleon, Ohio Will at
,nd calls in town orcountry. Office at SAUR's
Drugstore. 1jan2-73-tfl