Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-05-14
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SCHOOL GOVERNMENTAL government
is means to an end. School government
should always be treated as means, and
never as an end. We frequently hear young
teachers, especially Of a stronger class, say,
81 am going to have order if do not have
anything else" This class of teachers will,
in alIprobability, have nothing else., What
an unhappy place the family is when the
parent rules with no other object in view
except order. In many families things are
so ordered that little or nothing is ever said
about government, and yet everything is in
perfect order. In some schools, where the
desire for knowledge is created and sustain
ed, good order follows as natural result.
affairs. Nothing along the line Of school
work is more beautiful than this natural, re-
sultant order. ...!..... ...
Much of the disorder in families and
schools results from the want of a proper
centre of gravitation. All governments con-
centric That every particle of matter in
the universe attracts every other particle
with force directly proportional to its
mass, and decreasing as the square of the
distance increases, is law of mind as well
as of matter. If the teacher possesses quail
ties of soul which entitle him to rule, he
will find little trouble in assuming his natu-
raj position, and he will naturally become
the centre of a system. Around him as the
centre will revolve other minds, and all in
perfect harmony. The teacher may fail
to establish himself as the centre. He may
have the qualities necessary, as a college
education, and the advantages OF an early
training; and yet if he lack the tact of i'm
pressing his many good qualities, and OF
showing how much he is really worth to
those around him, he will live at such a
distance from them as to have very little at
tractive force. This may account for the
fact that some of the best teachers are those
of fIimited early education, but having the
power Of coming very near to those with
whom they are associated, and thereby make
up for what they lack in "mass" of mind
qualities. He that hasthe faculty of arous-
ing andof stimulating will have good gov
eminent as the result Of his efforts. If the
order good, it is better that nothing be said
about rules, order or government. Mind
growth-not order-is the great object of
school-Work. Order is means, not an end.
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PUNISHMENT OF FALsIFIERs.-During
the fourteenth century there can be no doubt
chat the companies exercised an effectivesu-
perintendence over trade and manufacture.
The city records abound with accounts of
the exposure and punishment offraud at the
instigation of the companies, whose repre-
sentatives seemed to have used their powers
of scrutiny and search with considerable
vigor. Some of the cases reported with all
solemnity in the "Remembrancia" are very
quaint, and afford curious insight into the
manners of the time. Thus in 1911 we read
of scrutiny of "false hats" being prosecu-
ted "at the request of the hatters," with the
result that fifteen black and forty gray and
white hats were received as false, and con-
demned to7be burned in Chepe, while Ger
tain other hats, O" the bona fides, of which
there was some doubt, were postponed for
further consideration" In 1916, "the good
folk of the trade of potters," denounced to
the mayor and aldermen divers persons, and
especially one "Alyen lie Sopere," who bu-
sled themselves by buying Gin divers places
pots of bad metal, and then put them on the
fire so as to resemble pots that have been
used and are of old brass, and then," the
record continues, "they expose them for sale
in West Chepe on Sundays and other festi-
val days, to the deception of all those who
buy such pots, for the moment they are put
upon the fire and exposed to great heat they
come to nothing and melt. BY which rogue
ry and falsehood the people are deceived,
and:the trade also is badly put to slander."
were not restricted to the dull monotony of
"4Or or month";" and they seem in devising
penalties to have given free scope to their
powers of invention. For example, one
Qulhogge having bought putrid pig, that
had been lying long time by the riverside,
for 4d., cut from it two gammons for sale,
and sold part thereof lin deceit of the peo-
ple." He was sentenced to stand in the pill
iory while "the residue of the gammons was
burnt beneath him." In the same way a
seller of bad wine was condemned to stand
in the pillory, to drink draught of his own
stuff, and to have the remainder poured
over his head. We may we'll envy our an
cestors the protection of this excellent law,
and sigh that the solace fits discriminating
application is denied to us.-LOndon QNtr-
terIy RerieW.