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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-03

all the machinery of your school system,
that prosperous and successful men have
in their business. If you can exercise
the same energy, interest, and exactness
and discipline in the management of
your schools as Col Richardson
requires in his business matters, igno-
rance and intemperance would stink
away before the influence of your grow
ing and advancing schools as night fogs
before the morning sun.
A young man here on May lst con
tracted TO commence teaching ON Sep
tember Isl, but he was required by his
contract to spend the months Of May and
June visiting our best schools, and the
summer months in preparing for his
coming work. But they pay MIN
nine hundred dollars for his years
work, and require all his time. Who
ever heard of requiring a teacher ia
Mississippi to spend two months visiting
good schools as a qualification for
teaching? Don't need anything like
that in your State, As long as teachers
and County Superintendents do not need
preparation, as long they are not paid
enough for preparation and hard work,
as long as they are not expected and
required to render an account Of their
stewardship, the Common Schools in
your State will remain as they are.
Yours very truly,
w. b. CUNNINGHAM
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-03
Billy Mehiggin.

Old Billy Mehiggin wss an Irishman,
a drunken Irishman, and that was his
fault. With the money he got for saw
in. bought whisky and he
dl-r~, "a wife, Bridget BIehiggin,
drank, and dulcet chorus it was that
came from their cabin down by the
lake. But Billy joined the temperance
society, and took the pledge, placing his
name with his hard, horny hand where
he ought to place it when he took the
obligation.
Not long after Billy went one cold
day to saw some wood for a whisky
shopkeeper in town; for alas! there was
one.
Billy said the tavern keeper, "arn't
you cold inside?'
Sure am, said Billy.
Thin drink they leave you, don't
they, them temperance folks?' said the
landlord.
''Tain't very thick, ye're right, said
Billy.
Now, Billy" said the whiskey-dealer
with a twinkle in his eye, wouldn't you
like a drop of something warm? 1t
sha'n't cost you anything"
Billy wiped his mouth with his hand
the hand that had figured in the
taking his obligation-and slowly said:
Wont We tell|'
mo no." said the tavern-keeper, rub
bing his hands and smiling through his
eye "What shall it be, Billy"
"Cowld wather," said Billy, with a
sneer.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-03
StimuIants in Arctic Regions


Lieut. Greely remarked that breathing
air OF such intense coOlneSs had some
thing Of the effect produced by breathing
pure oxygen. As for pulmonary trou bles
lie heard no complaint of them while the
party was at Fort Couger. in Lady Frank
lin bay, ST a latitude Of So where the
first two Wears were spent Even simple
catarrhS were unknown. the on'v thing
from which the men suffered being occa-
sional rheumagiSmS and stiffness of mus.
cles and Joints The party had ferocious
appetiteS during all the long so;ourn il
the north. each man eating with relish
three meals of animal food and TWO
lunches every Gay. and craving fat.
though not TO the extent which some
arctic travellers report Not even when
The thermometer registered 90 degrees be
low zero did these men Indulge in crude
blubber ar tailow candles, which tradition
has designated as the customary food OF
arctic voyagers nor was even pemmicas
regarded as a rare aud dainty dish by
them
Canned meats Of which they had an
abundance during the first two years.
and a STEAK or ragout from the walruS.
seal. or polar bear. were priced as tie
eSsCntia. conditions Of we'll. being As
for spjrituous liquors they were used
with great moderation. and doled out 10
the members OF the expedition as occa.
sion seemed 10 demand and only when
some unusual eXertion or exposure
brought some extraordinary fatigue or
roStraiiOu. As means 10 fortify the sys
TEN against cold or brace it up for forced
marc hes, whisky. Ium aud other alcu.
mol. imulants Were regarded as of lit
tie benefit
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-03

The last Legislature prohibited the
sale of whisky in Copiah county.
The law went into effect on the 1st of
last May, and Copiah is now no longer
cursed with dram shops.
Mr.. WI. Smith, who recently applied
for license to sell whisky in Brookhaven,
failed to have the requisite majority and
therefore did not get his license renew
ed. His failure was due 20 the effects of
the Prohibitionists.
LUTHER BENSON, the renowned tenn
perance lecturer, has again returned to
the State. The friends of prohibition
welcome his advent.
Mr.. ECKFoRD's attempt to secure an
other license to sell the devil insolutien
in Columbus met with its deserved fate.
This is proof that the prayers of the
signers of liquor petitions are not always
granted. But for the W. c. I. T., of
Columbus, the result would have been
otherwise Away with the idea that
women have no part to perform in this
great reformatory move.
THE colored women of Columbus
have organized a Woman's Christian
Temperance Union.
A AcoLoRED saloon keeper of Meridian,
recently closed his bar-room because be
said majority of the best people of his
race within the city were opposed to the
traffic.
The Prohibitionisjs should not forget
that there is to be a Prohibition Con
ventien held at jackson, on the first OF
July next. The friends of the cause
should organize forthwith and elect
delegates to attend the Convention
The Executive Committees in those
counties which have already organized
should call County Conventions for the
purpose of choosing delegates. 1t would
be advisable to take up small eollec
ton to defray the expenses of dele
gates.
Much has been said and written about
the fanaticism of Prohibitionists We
think the term more appropriately ap
piled when use1 in connection with the
ideas and measures of the pro-whisk ]
men. The latter have resorted 10 threats
have mutilated registration books, ane
even committed murderous assaults il
order to successfully maintain theii
position. This was exempiifed wheI
the saloons of Shubuta were closed.
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The Common Schools.
CHIcAeo. Nav 24th 1855.

CHICAGO, May oath 1885.
EDITOR CLARION: In last weeks
CLARION | read an article on your
Common Schools. The prosperity OF the
Common Schools of Mississippi has
always been a matter of great interest
to me, and that is why ! write. Many
men refuse to settle in your State
because your schools are not good.
Good men and women shrink from
raising their children in ignorance.
You should improve your schools, and
this viii insure more schools in all coun-
try districts.
The way to do this, in my mind, is to
pay enough to State Superintendent OF
schools to secure the services of one of
best men in the State, such man, for
example, as Rev. Chas. b. Galloway
He is able, energetic, efficient, and q
hard worker. If he were to devote, say
four years of his time, to educate and
improve the children and youth of the
State. he would not have so much hard
work with the old folks thereafter. If
such man would work entirely for the
benefit of the schools for period of
years it would be happy day for your
great State. In speaking as / do, | do
not in any way wish to reflect on your
present State Superintendent, for be
NAV be better man for the place than
Mr.. Galloway for anything | know.
Your State Superintendent should
make it the duty of County Superinten-
dents to organize Teachers Associations
| in every county in the State, and the
State Superintendent should attend
these and instruct the teachers and
| County Superintendents in the theory
and practice of teaching. And when
teachers are examined they should be
examined in the theory and practice OF
reaching in the schools. In this way
teachers would find il a necessity TO
attend the County and State Teachers
Conventions, and otherwise qualify
themselves. You should get passes on
your railroads for superintendents and
i and teachers to attend all these school
conventions. Your State Superintendent
and as many County Superintendents
/ as possible, should visit the best schools,
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Illinois. and see and hear how the best
icommon schools of the country are
managed, and whatever is new and good
in these schools should be applied In
your schools. If your State Superinten
dent were to visit the schools North, and
lin England and Germany, it would be
money well spent to your State, as he
would gather so many good things from
4 such trip. But / think you should
Il nav your State and County Superinten
dents more than you now do. County
Superintendents should get enough ts
nav them for spending ak their time il
fbe;r school work. If the teacher
knew that the County Superintendent
4 would visit them once a month, boti
teachers and scholars would have lessons
| department and everything else per
tanning to the school in better shape
Reports Of each school should b
| regularly required, 50 that the degree 9
prosperity Of each school would Be full.
| known and the defects remedied. 4
other words, you should have the sam
! discipline ID every department, and u
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-03
How He Changed Cars.


You are not too old to learn a thing
or two. and now just keep yonr mouth
shut and your ears open / had run on
the special Chicago express. Every Sat
urday night | wanted to stop off at the
town where my girl lived but the train
made no stop there. 20 / had to 90 OF
up the road to syracuse and there take a
local train back
-One day it occurred to me that by a
little strategy might get off the limited
at the station aud save all the time. had
noticed that just before we got to the
station where my girl lived we always
passed a local train. running in the same
direction we were. and on the track mex
to US Usually our train was going Just a
little faster than the local So one day |
locked up my box. put some candy in my
pocket and got down on the lower step
just as we caught up with the rear end
of the local | stepped across to the lower
step of the last Car of tae ether train Ii
was just as easy as stepping from one
freight car TO another in the same train.
even if we were making fifty miles an
hour. In five minutes the local Stacked
up and stopped at the station, and there !
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-03

my N money is the saving of seven
years, since | was married. You know
I've lived in comfort, and now and then
had an outing with the family, and none
of Us lacked, while none OF Us wasted
The week / was married sad to Polly:
My girl, let Us own a house SAYS
Polly, You're joking, Tom; We own s
house If wep ay our rent we'll do we'll
See here, Polly, | said, III spend
no money, on whisky, beer or tobac-
co. Free.of all that spending, and all the
wasting those things bring, Pm sure
can in time buy house; for plenty of
workingmen Polly spend at the tavern
what would buy 'em a house twice over.
With home of your own in your eye,
Polly, and me wasting naught, you'll be
likely to save where you can, and a house
we'll have"
But l cannot believe that mere
savings out of beer, DIT of liquor, and
some tobacco will build a house, Hob
SON."
Cry. In seven years you'll have as
good a house, or may yhap in much less
time. Wages are higher, and your
missis has more experience in house
keeping than Polly had when she be-
gun
"But few shillings week, Hob
SON"
Money breeds money, my man.
Your bit of money will inspire you all TO
save and earn. You'll lend il to some
interest, too; and the time you put in
at the cornerstone you will spend in
earning extra dollars. There's demand
for work. Besides, until YOU study it
up, you've no idea the amount of good
cash that goes in bad smoke and drink.
You get a book called Our Wasted
Resources 1t is a tough name, bHt
there's good plain talk in it. You'll
find it in the library or you can buy it
in New York. That's book will open
your eyes as to what we are doing with
our money. 1t shows plain if there was
prohibition in this country every work
ingman could have a house of his own,
and his wife could have nice silk Sun
day gown.-Nationol Temperance Aaro-
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-03
The Darkey and the Crab.

A St Simon's 14-year old darky
came to grief as follows. While fishing
in the river a large crab took his hook
and pulled him in- When just at the
surface of the water, fearing be might
lose the very much desired crustacean,
the darky inadvertently slipped his
hand under the hook and crab In order
the more certainly to secure the prize.
No sooner done than the crab. with his
largest claw, closed in on Cuifee's fore
finger. This was dilemma, but Cuffee
forcibly thought himself equal to the
emergency, and caught the crabs claw
between his firm-set teeth At this
time the crab fastened his other claw
into Cuffee's fiat nose This state OF
things so paralyzed him that be bel
lowed loudly for help His wailings
brought 70 his assistance kind hearted
gentIeman passing BY, who. with some
stones, crushed the crabs claws, thus
relieving him from his predicameni
and pain. Macon (Ga. Telegraph
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-03
The House.
BIZ MRs. ]. ncsAIE WRIGHT.

"A house, Hobson-Y You buying a
a houseg Bless my life. who died and
left you money, man. wish | had the
luck, but / never shall"
ssNo one has left me money; earned
every cent of it,
@Ehs You don't say Why heard
You we're paying eight hundred cash for
the house and. meant to lay out
two hundred more in paint, fences,
small fruits, cow-shed and % on"
.Well. it is true. That is just the
figure"
II cannot see how you did it. We
earn the same wages, we have neither Of
US been sick, your family is one larger
than mine, and though I'm not ia debt
and I've always taken credit for that
Pm not forehanded a dollar, and
YOU are buying a house. With nc
rent to pay, and garden to diaw hall
your living from, you'll grow rich al
this rate. Tell us your secret. if you'v "
mind to do good turn TO an old neigL'
bor.n
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ALlVELY DISCUSSION.
Brother Gardner Says a gill of Argu-
ment Is Worth a BusheI of Abuse.


Am Stepoff Johnsing in de hall dis
eavenin'?" asked the president, as he rose
up and winked at Samuel Shin to stir up
ihe fire and roast Elder Toots ou. from
behind the stove.
Yes, sah!" replied high pitched voice
rom one of the back corners.
You will please step to de front
Brother JOhnsing has always Dragged
tbOut the length of his heels, and he now
appeared 10 think that the hour had come
when he was to receive a prize chrome.
His face wore broad grin, and Just at
that moment he would have lent Brother
Backslide Davis 90 cents without the
least security.
~Stepof Johnsing.7 said Brother
Gardner in his deep toned voice, 4" | war in
feed stoh de odder- night to see about
gittin two-bits wuth of meal fur my
hens, when you walked in an wanted TO
git trusted fur bale OF hay fur your
mule.
An he trusted me. sab "
:" Zactly, an it pleases me to see it In
few mints de ole man Cummins limped
in. De two of you talked about de gin
eral wickedness of mankind fur few
minits. an den dispute arose as to de
aige of de world
Yes. sab De ole man Cummins doan
know muffin. sab
You called him Il liar
But he called me a fool
You called him bigot
AN he called me humbug
Zactly- zactly-i heered it all Brud-
der Johnsing an now | want to AK you
what you know about de aige OF de
worldr"
"I-I-knows as much as dc ole man
Cummins.
How old am de airth?"
j dunno, sab
-Oh, ycu don't? You an Cummins
call names an almost fight ober what
neither Of you kin cum widin millyun
miles of KNOWN OATS mankind xactiy.
We kin be bluf ed on what We do know
but we woa't back water fur any Iibin'
man on what we doan know. When we
git a theory we fight fur ii sooner dan fur
solemn facks If We can't convince de
odder party by b'ab we am ready to do it
by sluggin' Brudder Johnsing. it will
be well fur you TO disreckolect few
facks. A gill Of argument am worth a
bushel o abuse. 1t takes a man of strong
common sense to admit his faults an
errors. on may believe wild all yer
might an still be in de wrong. Find a
man who prides himself on stickin' TO his
opinyuns, an you has found dangerous
member of de community. You may
how sot down, an we will attack de
reg lar programme
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-03

III raul f1EFasu-f
What candid man Doc is, said that
mischievOus young Pointedtoes as be slid
into the best seat in DIR. Wiggleton's
Office.
You know if a person dies Of malig-
nant disease, the physician has to report
1t to the health authorities. filling up a
long blank with name of disease, cause
Of death, etc
es. said the clerk
Well. Loo. has a case which every
body thought was clearly scarlet fever
but it wasn't
What was il, them
The report read Cause of Death
August Wiggleton. NJ. u.
-Oh. well. you know that was only a
mistake, | got the signature on the wrong
line. said the M -.
so | suggested to DIR. Hoyt, but be
guessed not There were lots of cases.
but physicians had seldom your charm
iug candor
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-03

The most precious sauce, for young
cook, is impudence. oast away and
never be tired Of IT, A modest cook must
be looked on Is a contradiction in nature.
If he be quiet and modest. he viii be held
as a pitiful cook
IL is related OF a famous cook that he
prepared fish 80 sxQui Sltely that they re-
turned him admirirg aud grateful looks
from the frying pan.
1t was doubtless the same cook who dc
clared that he had discovered thc princi
pie of immortality and that the odor OF
his dishes would recall life into the nostrils
Of the very dead.
Il was fechamel who said that with
the sauce he had invented. a man would
experience nothing but delight in eating
his own grandfather.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-03

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His Knowledge aved Him.
Excl angel

Hugh Miller in one of the daring ad
ventures of bis young boyhood, climbed a
lofty cliii to take some young ravens from
nest; but when Just stepping on "A
smooth rock. sloping toward the nest, the
sun broke from a cloud and the surface of
the rock glist, ned His geological knowl-
edge enabled hm TO detect at once a layer
of chloritc. slippery as soap grease lie
turned back. shudderiDg at the danger so
nearly encountered. A few years later. a
skillful cragsman, with no knowledge Of
geology. made the same venture. and shot
straight over the cliff to instant death on
the rocks below
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-03


There s theory abroad that fat men
are commonly iolier aud of happier
temperament, than lean ones. We fancy
To- ourselves that corpulcnt habit denotes
much pr, sperity. a Ii eral disposition. an
easy, good natured en- loyment of all the
good things of life, with the Joints well
oiled. the angles and the wrinkles
Smoothed out aud the friction reduced to
ITS lowest terma On the other hand we
associate leapncss with a sharp angular
disposisssA. = fTgid temperament and
besettiAs tendency to growi at whatever
goes wrong But these fine theories are
oftentimes Knocked in the head by facts
some Of the merr.est happiest sunniest
people We ever met have cen of the ira.
dictionary thin faced lantern iawed" va
ricty, while We have sometimes encoun-
tered persons whose liberal adipose pro
portions OF body We're accompanied with
about the smallest specimens Of souls we
know Of
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-03

In the markets of New Orleans every
thing Is sold by the eye, and there Is nc
standard of measure Nine tenths of the
hundreds Who sell in the noted French
market of the city do not know what a
bushel or peck is. They buy thOir vege
tables by the lot and place them in little
piles ou tables These piles are of differ.
ent sizes ard prices. The buyer looks at
the piles and buys that which he thinks is
biggest and best Sometimes buckets aud
boxes are used to measure. but they are of
all kinds aud shapes
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-03
Tary for Domestic Use.

Paris correspondent gives one bit OF
Information which IS OF value in the
family circle 1t appears that French
equivalents for ~duc&y. or -ownest. or
-toodledums are chou cheri which
means dailing cabbage aud mon petit
lapin bleu in English my little blue
rabbit Il will be observed that French
taste and ingenuity have failed in deyisi0g
anything better in the way Of verbal taffy
for dcmesi uses than the English Ian
guage alords. One of the crying needs
of the age is a collection of fascinating
pet terms 10 accompany the ? a. m. box
Of propitiatory fried oysters.
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WHO BlbEs HIS lime
james W. Rney.I

James W. Riley.
Who bides his time, and day by dav
Faces defeat full patiently.
And lifts nsirthfal rounielay,
However poor his fortunes be-
he viii not iall in any qualm
Of poyerty-ths paltry dime
II VIII grow golden IN his palm,
Who bides his time
Who bides his time-ae tastes the sxsa.
Ot honey in the safest tear;
Ana though he fares with sIowast feet.
JOY runs 70 meet him drawing near.
me osrds are 6ersi1s of his cause.
And, like never eading rhyme
Aiie roa'3Slde Is, blooms in his appiause,
Who biles his time.
W ho bides his time, and fsvers not
In tie hot race that none achievex
Shall wear cool wres then laurel. vsrof4qi Z
hith crimson berries in the leave.
And he shall reigu 4 Sooiiy king.
And sway his hand Ger every clip,e
With peace writ on his Signet ring.
W ho bideS his time
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Spontaneous Combustion.
Chicago Times.

Dickens has been much criticised for
his apparent acceptance of the fact of
spontaneous combustion, but sir William
Gull lately testified to surprising case
before the COMMITTEES of the house OF lords
on intemperarce- \ large. bloated man.
who was suffering from dinculty If
breathing and disteution Of the venous
system. died at Guys hospital At the
post mortem of the following day there
was no sign of decomposition. and the
body was Believed TO be disiended with
gas. When punctures were made into
the skin. said Sir William. and lighted
match applied. the gas which escaped
burned with the ordinary flame of carbu.
retted hydrogen As many a. dozen of
these small flames were burning at tie
same time
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-03

ard after a trial of no liquor for u
months they have again prohibited the
sale by an increased majority Of sixteen
over last year, despite the argument that
prohibition ruins the business of a town :;
but the largest and most farseeing mer-
chants of Liberty say that they can't
see it in that light, and say that with
crowd of from three to five hundred in
town at the last Circuit Court, there
was only one or two men under the in
fuenee of liquor, land they were from
abroad), and that this fact alone would
cause them to ask for prohibition. Clos
ter will soon join hands with Liberty,
we hope, and prohibit it here.
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