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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-01-08

JndG us Influence OIGen OuGWelgnS CnaC
of the home and the church. It can
not, therefore, be desirable or ad-
vantageous that religion should be ex-
cluded from the school. On the con-
trary, it ought to be one of the chief
agencies for moulding young life to
all that is true and virtuous aud holy.
To shut religion out of the school and
keep it for the home and church is
logically to train up a generation that
will consider religion good for the
home and church, but not for practical
business and real life. But a more
false and pernicious notion could not
be imagined. Religion, in order to
elevate people, should inspire their
whole life and rule their relations
with one another. A life is not
dwarfed, but ennobled, by being lived
in the presence of God. Therefore the
school, which principally gives knowl-
edge fitting for practical life, ought
pre-eminently to he under the
HOLY INFLUENCE OF RELIGION.
Two objects, therefore, we have in
view-to multiply our schools and to
perfect them. We must multiply them
till every Catholic child in the land
shall have within its reach the means
of education. There is still much to be
done ere this is attained. There are
still thousands of Catholic children in
the United States deprived of the ben
eft of Catholic schools. Pastors and
parents should not rest till this defect
be remedied. No parish is complete
until it has schools adequate to the
needs of its children, and the pastor
and people of such parish should feel
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-02
PUBLIC OPINION,

Never allow pupils to spell a word
wrong; if they do not know it, train
them to know that they do not know
it.
The relation of friendly sympathizer
and guide rather than arbitrary ruler
and governor, sustained in most cases
by the teacher to her pupils, has Sc
cured the success achieved.-N s..
Bishop, NoraCich, CT.
Textbooks are as essential a part of
the appliances of the school-room as
fuel and furniture, and in the nature of
the case, there is no reason WHY they
should not be classed in the same cate
CORY, and paid for out of the same
fund.-Pen71. School Journal.
Fine school-houses are fine things.
but fine school-houses are not fine
schools. have seen poor schools in
good houses, and good schools in poor
houses. Let US have both fine houses
and good schools if we can, but if not
both, good schools at all events.-THe
Educatt0niSt.
The sarcastic remarks in which a
teacher now and then INDUCES in ad-
dressing an. offending pupil, very nat
urally provoke that ''impudence" and
''disrespectful department. which are
given in the reports made to me as the
two most common causes for the infiic-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-02
SCHOOLS IN AUSTRALIA.

Schools worked on the half time sys-
tenn are invariably over three miles dis
tant from each other; but the distance
varies from three to eight miles The
teacher in charge of two of these
schools, in order to work them with
some convenience to himself, is forced
to try to obtain either lodgings or
residence midways between his schools;
and, should residence be attached to
one of his schools, his salary is decreas.
ed by the amount of rent, either six,
eight or ten shillings per month. The
teachers of full-time schools should
place themselves in the position Of
teachers of half-time schools, and then
grumble about having rent deducted
from their salaries. If it be possible to
obtain the required accommodation,
the unfortunate is forced to fall back
upon the house provided by the De-
partment, and every other day TO per-
form journey of from s to Is miles,
which, by-the-way, he is supposed to
foot, as an allowance of a hOrseiS grant
ed only to the teachers of such half
time schools as are more than. seven
miles distant by road. In what other
branch of the government service are
the servants expected to walk from four
to six miles before commencing their
duties? How fresh and fit for work a
person feels after performing this Jour-
ney, either on hot or wet day, espec-
tally when enlivened with the feeling
that another such trudge is to follow
the school duties.-AuStr0Iian School,
master
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-02

massacre / called the newspaper boys
all in together Now / says, here is
the dispatch. | put you all on your
honor TO copy and return it to me-
Then | gave it out two pages TO this
one, two pages to that one, SO they
could all work st once. [ turned my
back, and whisk-Jack Robinson-the
dispatch was gone. 1t never turned
up, either, and it is in consequence alb
sent from the place it ought to occupy
in the official records.
The wild mustard in South America
is like that spoken of in the New Tesla
ment, IN the branches of which the birds
OF the air may rest. Coming up out of
the earth so slender stem that dozens
can lind starting point in an inch, it
darts up Il slender, straight shoot. five.
ten, twenty feet, with hundreds of fine.
feathery branches, locking and inter
locking with all the hundreds around
It, till it is an inextricable network like
lace. Then it bursts into yellow bloom
still finer, more feathery and like lace.
At times it looks like golden dust.
With 4 clear blue sky behind it, as it i
often seen, it looks like golden snow
storm San Francisco Bailetin.
The most sagacious sheep in North
Carolina is an old ram that belongs to
j, \. Adcock, in Sandy Creek Town
ship. He cannot only distinguish the
persimmon trees from trees of other
growth in the pasture, but has learned
how to get the fruit down from them.
This he does by butting the tree. He
gets off suitable distance, stands on
bis hind legs, as if in the attitude of
lighting, and strikes the tree vigorous
blow with his head. When he has
shaken the persimmons off he quietly
eats them and goes on his way until his
appetite demands more. This wise old
ram used to rob the apple trees in the
same way.-HenderSO Golden LeGt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-02

ton OF corporal punishment, by few
of the teachers for whom the words of
the good book should read: Teachers,
as we'll as Fathers, provoke not your
children to wrath. ii. IT. Phillips,
PHI. ID.
Many prominent English physicians
claim that there is an alarming in
crease OF nervous diseases owing to
overpressure in the schools. Rev. Ed
ward Everett Hale, at the same time,
urges, the wisdom of keeping children
in the schools only during one-half the
year, suggesting that they be required
to take a course of industrial education
during the remainder of the year. The
cause of education will certainly be
benefited by these suggestions and
criticisms from intelligent persons on
the outside. Many measures have late
" been undertaken to make the school
room attractive and to relieve the child
of the feeling of oppression while in the
enforced suit of knowledge, and it is
coming to be understood that variety
of employment is the best means of
properly developing its latent faculties.
''Over-pressure" occurs only when
there is long application in given di-
rection. A child rarely needs rest; it
needs change.
The public school teacher has hard
task. His patience is sorely tried. For
that very reason it is all the more de-
sirable that he should be restrained
from inflicting corporal punishment on
other peoples children. 1t is said, and
perhaps truly, that some boys can be
governed only by force. In that case
they are better out of the public
schools. Their example is harmful to
other scholars. The schools of this
city bear practical testimony to the
fact that whipping is not indispensable
to good management and obedient,
and welI-disciplined pupils. We be-
l.eve public sentiment is opposed to
corporal punishment in the common
schools, and that it ought to be abol-
ished everywhere as a relic of barbar-
SIN repugnant to the intelligence of the
age.-N. 7. World.
If there is one class of people in al,
the world that needs more sympathy
than another, it is that class of chill
dren who have for teacher a chronic
scoJd. A man or woman whose milk
Of human kindness has curdled has no
business in the school-room,- indeed,
will find few places where his services
are needed. The weak teacher will in
variably try to cover up his weakness
by finding fault with others. NO.
School Journal.
The teacher should not talk too
much, too much talking wearies the
mind and dissipates the attention.
There should be frequent questions tc
awaken thought and allow the pupil to
develop knowledge for himself. Such
an exercise will do more to attract and
hold the attention than the most elo-
quent discussion of the teacher. Any.
thing that arouses mental activity will
secure attention.-Dr EdaOdrd Brooks,
IN Va. Ed. Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-02
He Was Lonesome for Cobb.

He leaned up against the counter IN
the office of the fremont House and
asked Charlie Hilton if it was true that
bis side partner. George Cobb, had got
married. Mr. Hilton said it was true.
Ibid YOU see it done?" the man asked.
Mr. Hilton said he did. lis he about?n
Mr.. Hilton said he was not. That he
had gone away on trip. ''Gone away
on his bridal tour, supposed" He was
informed that was true Then the man
looked about the place and finally said:
well, | reckon you may give me a
room, but it seems awful lonesome to
stop here without seeing George Cobb
around. ''You are one of Georges OLD
friends?" said Mr. Hilton. Eyes; [ used
to 60 to school with George, and l al
ways made it a point to come here and
stop with him. Mr.. Hilton came out
from behind the counter and took the
stranger by the arm and led him into
the exchange. 1--WE want to make you
feel at home" said Mr. Hilton, cal
though George isn't here-what are
you going to take?"
''Well, when George was here we
used to take cider, but | don't think
cider will make me forget the loss OF
George Cobb. | reckon I'll take some
of the old stuff" They poured out and
put away some of the nectar, and stood
in silence before the bar few minutes,
when the man said: Il miss George
more than ever" 'Take something
more" said Mr.. Hilton. ''Wel, ]
reckon will, seeing as it's you, for
miss George awfully," said the man as
he filled up the glass and threw the
contents down. After a few minutes
silence the man said: II never felt SO
lonesome in my life. 1t always seemed
so much like home to come in here and
see George Cobb's face looking over at
me. / wish [ hadn't come up. How
long is he going to be gomez Several
weeks" said Mr.. Hilton. ''Have some
thing more" The man said: ''Well,
now, you are making it awful honelike
for me, and to show you that | appreci-
ate what you are doing / don t care if !
do" and he again poured out into his
glass up to the brim and drank itdown.
After a moments smacking of the lips
he said: eve ought to drink to Georges
health" Mr.. Hilton agreed that that
was the proper caper and suggested
that they take another, which was &C
cepted, and again the man covered
the bottom of his glass and slipped it
down.
Every good stuff he said.
'How long do you stop with us?"
asked Mr.. Hilton.
'Stop with you?"
Eyes. How long do you stay in the
city?"
"Why, stay here all the time; live
here"
Mr.. Hilton turned away, and as be
went back to the office he said to
friend: That's the first time I've been
taken in this year"
The man had escaped by the front
door before Hilton could find the por.
ter Chicago Mail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-02
Will B1ood-Stains Wash Out. +.

To the present day superstition is
rife that blood-stains cannot be washed
out. During the French revolution
eight priests were massacred in the
Carmelite chapel at Paris, and the
stains (called) of their blood are point
ed out to-day Sir Walter Scott in his
''Tales of Grandfather" declares that
the blood stains of David Rizzio, the
Italian private secretary Of Mary Queen
of Scots, who was stabbed in Holyrood
palace by certain Protestant leaders OF
her court, aided by her husband, Darn
ley are still to be seen. In Lancashire
the natives show a stone called the
''Bloody Stone" which was so marked
to show heavens displeasure at some
of Cromwell's soldiers atrocities at
Galowscrsft. In Macbeth" act five,
scene one, Shakespeare alludes to the
idea: ''Yet here is spot" The truth
about blood not washing out can easily
be explained. In the first place, if that
of murdered person it is not often at
tempted. In the next place blood con-
tains oxide of iron, which sinks deep
into the fiber of wood and proves indel-
ible to ordinary washing. Thus it is
that true stone of porous nature and
wood not of the hardest kind are sus-
ceptible to the stain of blood produced
by the oxide of iron which the blood
contains. But the blood of a pig is as
good as that of murdered man.-BoS-
ton Globe
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-02
Papermaking in China.
Eiohteen hundred wears aoo the

Eighteen hundred years ago the Chi
nese made paper from fibrous matter
reduced to pulp. Now, each province
makes its own peculiar variety. The
young bamboo is whitened, reduced to
pulp in mortar and sized with alum.
From this pulp sheets of paper are
made in a mold by hand. The celebrat-
ed Chinese rice paper, that so resem-
bles wooden and silk fabrics. and on
which are painted quaint birds and
flowers, is manufactured from COM
pressed pith, which is first cut spirally
by keen knife into thin slices six
inches wide and twice as long. Funeral
papers, or paper limitations of earthly
things which they desire to bestow on
departed friends. are burned over their
graves. They use paper window-frames,
paper sliding-doors and paper visiting
cards yard long. 1t is related that
when distinguished representative of
the British government visited Pekin,
several servants brought him huge
roll, which, when spread out on the
floor, proved to be the visiting card of
the emperor. i Philadelphia Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-02
America EcIipsed by an EngIishman.

An English pill-maker has discount
ed even American enterprise in adver-
Using. 1t is true that one cannot in
this country venture to visit any beau
tiful scene in nature without having a
.nostrum thrust under his nose But
what is that compared to the daring
scheme of making the rescuers of be-
leaguered General Gordon emissaries
in the great work of dissemin atino
knowledge among the heather of the
remarkable virtues Of pill? Yet this
mas been carried out in sober earnest.
The manufacturer of the pill has sent
to General Wolseley 10000 hand-bills
eXtolling its merits and check for
$3.50. The hand-bills are to be distrib-
uted among the Gordon relief expedi-
ton, and the $3.50 is to be given to that
soldier who first reaches General Cor
don's palace in Khartoum and pastes
upon its outer door one of the 10000
hand-bills. In his letter to Lord VOL
seley the enterprising pill-maker says
he has sent a large number of hand
bills so that each soldier in the eXpedi-
ton can be furnished with copy and
thus have an even start in the race as
far as he can provide for it. His OBJ
ject in prescribing that the bill shall be
stuck on the palace door is simply to
show who is entitled to the prize, and
he adds that the name of the winner
will be published in every paper in
England, thus giving him undying
fame. There is one man in the world
cheeky enough to give Bridgeport's
Barnum lesson in how to ADVERTISE
Waterbury american.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-02
Only u Girl.

] hear the sharp ring on the frosty way,
And catch the CLEAN of cycle bright,
just glimpse of il form in Quaker gray,
And then. the dear boy! he is out of sight.
All, out and away. ere the SUMS high,
While the early clouds are all rose and
pearl,
And the mir ike a wine that is bright and
dry;
And lm-only girl
j think of the hollows where leaves lie dead;
OF the gaunt trees shadows against the
sky;
OF the cool, clear stretch of blue overhead,
And the low, lush meadows he rattleS by.
] lool. on the road with its dusty track,
Where the wind-gusts meet TO whistle and
whirl;
And-yes, may look for his coming back,
For I'm only girl.
/ may watch and wait all day for the ring
Of his pretty playthings glistening steel:
And, dressed in my gdyeSt, may sit ana sing
Over my work till hear the wheel.
Then shall see the eyes o. my lad,
And he Il cheek and dropping curl;
And-well, yes I'm little glad,
That I'm only girl
Ruth Hall, in Outing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-02

The only cosmetic have used" said
an old lady, sis flannel wash-cloth.
For forty years have bathed my face
every night and morning with clear
water as hot as | can bear it, using for
the purpose small square of flannel.
renewed as often as it gets thick and
felt-like. My mother taught me to do
this, as her mother had done before
her. No soap, nor powder, nor gly-
cerine even, has touched my face, and
this is what my skin is at sixty" she
finished, touching with pardonable
pride a cheek whose peachy bloom and
fine soft texture gave effective emphasis
to the recipe.-Harper's Bazaar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-02

self. His brain seemed on tire. He was
desperately in love. Why had she al
ways seemed SO pleased to see him? He
had thought so differently of her. He
would 90 back and show her that this
strangers presence made not the slight
est difference with him.
Arriving at the spot, he found Miss
Ella alone. He approached, and made
some remark about the weather. Oh,
commonplace young man!
Il was just wishing some one would
come, and had vague idea that the
nymph of the stream might venture to
show herself if no one else appeared, !"
she said.
Il will retire in favor of the
mo: would rather see you now"
Dayton's face lighted up for an instant.
Mr.. Croydon has gone, and | suppose
everyone else is off enjoying himself, :"
continued Ella.
Il thought Mr.. Croydon was Il fix
ture; had come on purpose to see you
that is"
Dear me, nor laughed Ella. ''He
is on his way to Liverpool He is to
marry my cousin in August, and only
stopped here to see papa"
Miss Terrel-Ella-dear Ella! /
have been such fooli''
We willimagine the conversation that
followed. Suffice it to say, there were
two weddings in August.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-02

The London bridge which the dyna-
miters tried to blow up, was begun in
1924 and was finished in 1927. from de-
signs of John Rennie, architect of
Southwark and Waterloo bridges. The
cost is estimated at between Fl, $780,
900 and e., 100000. 1t is built of gran
tie. in five arches, the center arch be-
inc 152 feet, the next two 40 feet, and
the two shore arches $50 feet each in
span. The bridge is 900 feet long and
"a feet wide The lamp-posts are made
from cannon taken in the Peninsular
war. Over 100000 persons pass over
it every day. Police constables are
stationed in the middle of the roadway
to prevent blocks. 1t is the handsom-
est bridge over the Thames.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-02

The Republic of Nicaragua is the
only Latin American country that
owes no foreign debts, while its domes-
tic Indebtedness can be extinguished at
moments notice by the use of the
surplus funds in the National Treasury,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-02

The trouble with the average legislator
is that he lets the thought and sentl-
ment of his country get IN advance OF
him, and then is surprised to find the
difficulty of catching up.-Chicago
DQilat NeaCS.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-22
The Statesman's Fashion


Mr.. Evarts introduced into Washington
what is called the stateman's fashion Of
wearing silk hats. He wears his hat clear
over on the back part of his head at an
angle of forty-five degrees. He then brings
it forward at this angle until it pushes out
his ears at right angles from his head. There
are a great many statesmen now who wear
their hats in the same way. A man in pub
lie life who wears a new shiny hat right
side front and squarely on his head is
considered man of no promise and with
the certainty of an obscure future before
him. Most of the leading justices of the su-
preme court wear their hats upon the backs
of their heads. Senator Jones, one of the
great constitutional lawyers in the senate,
always wears his hat very much upon the
back of his head, and always wrong side be-
fore.
President Arthur ruined all chance Cor his
administration at the very start. He wore
new, shiny hats and he always put them on
straight. He tried to make a name for him
self in American history, however, by hav-
ing his hats made in particular fashion for
himself. The crown is about four inches
higher than the regulation hat, while the
brim is stiff and fiat instead of rolling. His
white cashmere hat last summer was made
upon the same block. This species of eccen-
tricity, however, did not save him The
fact still remained that the hats were of re-
cent make and were worn squarely on the
head This may seem to be little thing, but
the public men of Washington never had
any confidence in the president when they
saw him ignore this important trademark Of
a statesman.
What Happens in the Happy -Go-Lucky
Business Houses of This Country
Merchants and Bankers Who
Strain Human Nature
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-22
GLOBE REPUBLIC SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY % 1885,

new beginner who doesn't get I'm.
ger or a toe frozen the first day
always feels lonesome But there is
no danger Of freezing when you
once understand the business. This is
good place for a man to let his
beard grow There's nothing like beard
for cold weather" The man stroked with
one huge, mittene1 hand, thicket Of long,
red hair, which covered rly the whole of
his face.
'ls there much danger OF falling into the
waterl'
"Why, that all depends on whether you're
careful or not A man can fall in easy if he
don't look out Somebody tumbles in every
few days. You notice that lots of the men
wear big leather belts outside of their coats.
They are to drag them out by if they fall in.
A pike hooked under one of those belts will
yank man out on solid ice in no time. The
chap who's in the water can't do very much
for himself after the chill strikes him The
first douse is the worst but it don't get
funny no matter how long you stay in"
"What kind of men usually come here to
cut ice!"
'Most of them arc Swedes who can't talk
English. They are a funny crowd gener-
ally. They get Sl.25 a day. The two board
ing houses here charge "a a week for board
They can't be blamed for charging so much,
for ice-cutters eat more than any other men,
They eat awful piles of meat and potatoes
and drink enough roffee every day to drown
themselves in. They could eat four meals a
day and still be hungry. The provisions all
come from Chicago.