Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-14
CORNING. NOVEMBER IA, 1884.

the variety of dishes, there was depressin
 monotony of flavor. Everything had sod
 den appearance, and crispness and delieac
 of taste were unknown in these viands Diff
 faculties arose in the management also; GUS
 toners fell off and the company went f,
 ruin Another company, however, with
 larger capital is said to be about to repea
 the venture, and New York papers say ther I is certainly demand for service of thi kind.
 The negroes in the South are reall,
 troubled because the Democratic party seem.
 likely to come into power, and some of tht southern papers are doing all they can te I quiet their fears. The Atlanta (Georcia 1 Constitution says: ''The negro will stand tc l the white man if he can be sure of protection ! and peace. At present he is nervous. He is f alarmed over situation that he does not un- derstand because it is both new and sud- i den. He is in a thick fog, and is cast down l It is both our duty and our interest to see
 that he is quickly assured of safety and pro 1 lection, including, of course, all his war created rights. If every good citizen will take hold of this matter at once, in a week every darky will be made happy, and he will go to work to earn living and to lend a hand toward carrying on the great industries of the South. We cannot afford to have idle hands about us at this season of the year. and the leading men in each community should endeavor at once to restrain the thoughtless of the white race and to reassure
 the ignorant and deluded victims of partisan
 cunning" The Memphis Appeal Dem says:
 ''The Appeal, speaking for the national De-
 moeracy, and especially for the Democrats
 of the South, takes pleasure in assuring the
 eolored people that the election of Cleveland
 will not take from them any of the rights
 and liberties that they now enjoy. On the
 contrary, they will be benefited by the change, and in less than two years they will
 be ashamed of their present ignorance, and see how they have been deluded by the ad- venturers who have used them for selfish purposes"
 In an interesting lecture delivered the other night in Boston the Rev Edward Everett Hale gave his idea of model school He would reeo gnize each boys drift. Then he would have half-time and full-time courses; that is, complete courses requiring only thir- teen weeks attendance, as we'll as courses covering period of forty-six weeks This would be half-tirne study, but it would be concentrated, and boy could begin one year just where he left off the preceding. We should gain regularity where now we have ir- we should know our work and the boy would have time to earn something On the teachers side of the question one thing was plain Something must be done to relieve them from overwork. The number of teachers applying for leave of absence on account of Illhealth increase year by year ,and some relief must be found for them. Of study at home he spoke very deprecatingly saying that it had been carried to excess and was growing more and more so. In some schools all the study done outside, so that the public teacher was simply devoted to finding out what had been learned elsewhere This was 8 growing evil in the Boston public schools, in his judgment He wanted his audience to see that our American system attempts too much, and does not accomplish what it aims to do. Boston's public schools cost $1 ,500, ,00O year, outside of the new build ings erected, and what do we get in return? We find about four-ffths of our pupils under thirteen years of age, and we cannot tempt older pupils to continue their studies His aim in the lecture was to show how much care and study is needed for better results But who is to examine this study and carea Who determines the theory of our schools? A school committee of twenty-four persons presided over by the mayor, and who are these persons9 He ventured to say there were not five persons in his audience, out side of any possible teachers or other closely interested persons present, who knew by sight or name the members of this commit tee. There were some ten or twelve mem bers of the committee who were qualified for their position, but the others appeared to have been selected by ward politicians who wanted some recognition. Men passed judg- ment on the expenditure of $1 ,50O, 900 whose opinion was never before sought on the in of $1 800.