Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-07-15
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Bill Arp and the Children.

Bill Arp and the Children.
Parents and teachers ought to be very
patient with children. Some have more
capacity than others and some more memo
~. Some are slow and some are quick. 1t
is not the smartest child that makes the
smartest man or woman. 1t is powerful
strain on some of them to keep up, and the
dull ones ought not to be crowded until tney
hate books and dread the time of going to
school. Some folks send their children to
school to get rid of them but my opinion is
that parents ought to help the teacher
every night. It shows the children how
much interest they feel in their education.
1t is a sign of a good teacher when the
children get ambition to keep up and get
head marks, and bring their books home at
night and want to go to school if it is rain
ing little. Wrap 'em up and let .em 60.
There is nothing that demoralizes
school-boy like staying at home every few
days and getting behind his class. We
used to walk three miles to school, and we
never minded it at all. 1t was frollc all
the way there and all the way back and we
did have the best dinner in the world.
Delmonico never had as good things as our
mother used to fix up for us. 1t seems to
me so now. A child's life is full OF ro-
nance and fun-the best sort of fun. A
child's dreams are splendid, but we don't
dream now, hardly ever. I used to read
Robinson Crusoe and dream it all over
again. How did long to be ship-wrecked
on an island and raise monkeys and goats
and parrots.
Slow children are generally the sure
children, but they don't show OF much.
Daniel Webster was almost always at the
foot of his class, but when he learned any
thing he never forgot it. Some boys are
wild and restless and have no love for
books, but they oughtn't to be given up or
hacked or abused continually. Ii they
have good parents they will come to them
selves after awhile.
1t is astonishing how humiliation will
follow boy. One time boy stole a quar-
ter of dollar from another boy at school,
and that followed him to his grave. He
got to be great man and was thirty years
in congress and was senator. and one day
he made a bitter speech against the corrup-
ton of the opposite party and denounced
their stealing and plundering by wholesale,
one of his opponents replied by saying he
would remind the gentleman that preachers
of morality should come into the pulpit
with clean hands-that Ben Franklin said,
ssHe that would steal pin would steal a
bigger thing" and he asked no quarter
| from the gentleman on that score.
| So, boys, remember and keep your hands
clean. Folks will forgive mischief and a
heap of other things, but they won't for
give meanness.
REV. SAM JoNBs.-At the camp-meeting
to be held at Moundsville, W. Va, next
month, Rev. Sam Jones, the noted Georgia
Evangelist, is to be prominent feature. In
addition to the vast amount of advertising
extended to this singular person, a Georgia
correspondent contributes the following:
"Jones is wonderful man; it is doubtful
if his equal is on this continent. The work
he has recently been doing in Nashville has
electrified the people. This is the way DR..
Lafferty describes Sam Jones and his re-
axe at the root Of the tree. Such surgery
was never seen in that city. The black-leg
in ieweled vest and the backslider in broad
cloth were the targets for his denunciation.
The harlots and the ro-dealers repented.
Presently the hard hearts of the ossi6ed and
| nominal Christians came under the steel
rollers of his crushing words. Five hum
| dred rose for prayers at once. Dry-as-dust
preachers shouted. Millionaires arose and
thanked God for bringing salvation to their
homes. Ministers confessed their coward
ice before sin. The city was stirred. Meth
odism from the spire Of the Vanderbilt to
the furnace floor of the Publishing House
has touched the poles of the battery in the
Gospel Tent. The man out of Nazareth, in
jeans breeches, (who despises theology and
botany, but loves religion and flowers },
has electrified the horn blowers and fat
burners in Jerusalem :"
How TEA SHOULD BE MADE Use Chi
ma or porcelain pot. If you do use metal,
let it be tin-new, bright and clean; never
use it when the tin is worn out and the
iron exposed. If you do, you are playing
chemist and forming tannate on tea-ate OF
iron.
Use black tea. Green tea when good is
kept at home. What goes abroad is bad,
very bad and horrible. Besides containing
the 203 authorizations the Chinese philan-
thropist puts up for the outside barbarian,
it is always pervaded by copper dust from
the dirty curing pans of the grower.
| Infuse your tea. Don't boil it. Place
one teaspoonful of tea in the pot and pour
over it one and half cups of boiling water
that is, water really boiling. If your tea
is poor, use more. It is cheaper, though,
to buy good tea at the outset. Put your
pot on the back part of the stove, carefully
covered, so that it shall not lose its heat
and the tea its bouquet. Let it remain
there five minutes Then drink it,
Drink your tea plain. Don't add milk
nor sugar. Tea brokers and tea tasters nev-
er do; epicures never do; the Chinese never
do Milk contains fibrin, albumen or some
other such stuff, and the tea delicate
amount of tannin. Mixing the two makes
the liquid turbid. This turbidity, if I re-
member the cyclopedia aright is tannate OF
| fibrin or leather. People who put milk in
tea are therefore drinking boots and shoes
in mild disguise. Wong CAoo Foo, in the
Cook.
SHE PULLED IN HERSELF. you
pull the bell ?' she asked of the man across
the aisle as the car reached the corner.
ono, madam, he answered with bow,
''but will be most happy to pull the strap
which rings the BELL"
| "Ah! but never mind! the strap is con-
nected with two bells, and you might stop
the wrong end of the carp
And the look that she turned upon him
was full of triumph veneered with cayenne
pepper.-Erchamge.
A preacher who can deliver two strictly
original sermons every Sunday one in the
morning for saints, the other in the evening
for sinners, is wanted by San Francisco
society.
Take all in all.
Take all the Kidney and Liver
Medicine.
| Take all the Blood purifiers,