The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-12-20

taining one hundred names, against sev- enty cE them would be written, Neither read nor wrise," wbilst against twenty we should find the words, Read and write indifferentiy." The marriage register instead of bearing the signatures of the welded, against half the names would be 2 c-ess, and this, not because there were no free schools or pArochial schools, but from the fact that parents were not com pelled to send their children to be in- structed, hence the masses of the lower class lived and died illiterate. And there are yet to be found millions of men and women in the United Kingdom of Great entirely out of the question. Now the scene has changed, and the dream Of Earl Russell and his companions, forty years ago, has become real. and that parent who will not send his child to school and contribute toward the pay ment of the sohoolmaSter IS lodged in prison until feelings of humanity towards his child gain the ascendancy in his soul, be 1t one month or three.
 Standing on the deck of tone of the leviathans we watch with interest the re- ceding shore, and bidding farewell 70 the land of our forefathers, Of chivalTy and valor, VIC uncover our heads al the men ton of Plato, of Xenophon and Aristotle. Demosthenes and Phldias, Sophocles, Theocr;tes and Pythagoias, of CatelluS and Lucretius. Virgil and Horace, Cicero and Sallus,, VArro and Viuuvius, of Leo X. and Erasmas, Michael Angelo and Titan, Marcellon, Fontenelle and Burtot, Pope and Addison, Locke and Newton Blair, Paley, and Dick, who though dead yet speaketh, many of whom the world was not worthy, whilst the greatest among them suffered death because of his learn ing and the purity of his life.
 | Read them by day, study them by night, Until thy soul catch their inspiration, | And the unseen dwell with thee.n
 Arriving in the new world what ama1- ing things do we behold A nation born in day, having all the appliances of modern science. A people composed of ali countries, degrees, and shades, yet wondrcusly blending in one harmonious whole, each shouldering. yet each having room for the pursuit of his own enter prise, nor need he meddle with anothers. An overiowing exuberance of benevo- lence is seen on every hand in schools, colleges, and seminaries.
 "PeIhaps 'twere better were il not so, For that which cOmeth not by toll He doth not appreciate.h "
 The foundation of Yale college, New Haven, was lad in the year 700 by ten worthy fathers, who assembled al Bam- ford, and each laying few books on a table said, "l give these books for the founding of college in this colony" Could they now return and view its pro- portions, calculate the good it has done, aud estimate the benefits which shall arise to the nation, methinks they would prostrate themselves adoringly before the Giver of all good and bless Him for conferring so great an honor upon them. Nor would we pass over our own school of learning, the seat of what IS truly great, the pride of America, known in all the world for its superiority. The Pennsyl- vauia university was founded in I7Ss by few benevolent men, whose heart and soul were in the interest of the people, men whose name shall live and shine ia history, like the starry coronals in the dark blue sky, when the selfish specu- lators, wreckers, and millionaires shall be buried in oblivion.
 | tlTklDia anu W est fOlnt are the StaTS in tho Armament of learning, nor will their lustre dim while there beats in the body an American heart and gambling in the veins shall be found the blood of those who laid down their lives for lib erty midst the carnage of the battlefield hundred years ago. What a grand spectacle are our schools, colleges, sem inaries, and universities Could Plato, Socrates, Cicero, Aristotle, but visit this land, clad in human form, how would they rejoice? What a feeling of glorious satisfaction would thrill their souls, whilst Socrates and Cicero would consider the laying down of their lives but small thing in comparison with the great benefits they were the means of conferring upon the world.
 Go on, ye professors and teachers, in your exalted work. Consider whose eyes are on you, and catch the inspiration which the ages of thought and energy wait to infuse. You are employed in a work that angels would gladly engage in, second but to the sanctihed cure of souls in the field of human labor, hay i ing ike aims-the eternal welfare and progress of the people. Carry the lame, help. the weak, guide the strong to the sublime heights of your subjects, and may they ever dwell there in the fear of God, love of country, and in all the dignity and glory of pure and spotless manhood.