Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-21
MIssTATEMENTS IN THE CUTTING
CASE,

The official interpreter in the Cutting
tended to muddle the case, to the
effect that the American was tried for the
publishing of the libel on American soil
If this were true it would put very diff
ferent face upon the whole matter. But it
is not true. Senior Vina, distinguished
lawyer of chihuahua, prior to the trial
publicly announced:
The olIense for which Cutting is to be tried
was committed in Chihuahua, where both the
accused and the accuser reside, and where the
cause remains pending for the reason that the
accused violated the dctO de reconciliation, there
by arnulling that agreement ana leaving the
case as il stood before.
At the trial, Judge Ramos, presiding,
announced officially:
The oiTense charged is the original publica
ton in El Centiacid Cuttings paper in Chihua-
hua for which he was arrested and before the
Court retracted, or promised to retract, the
lihelous publication. His violation of that con-
tract not only left the charge pending, but was
a circumstance i'll aggrayatlon of the ohcnse.
To give the lie fatty TO the sensational
story of the interpreter, we have the Off
cial report of the whole proceeding as
published in Fl Diario Official at the Next
can capital, in which it is shown that the
basis of the trial was on the libel in III
Csptiaela of June 9th, published in the
State of Chihuahua. That an agreement
to retract was signed bat not fulfilled.
That the libel was reasserted, but that this
did not constitute new oliense, but was
an affirmation of the old crime There
fore the responsibility attached because of
the original publication, and the violation
of the compact of reconciliation
COLONEL WALKER, the distinguished
educator, in an address before the Teach
ers' Institute of Alameda county this week,
on the inestimable Importance of object
teaching, referred to the use of pictures
made by teachers themselves as of the
highest value in the eyes of the children.
For that reason he insisted that every
teacher should know how to draw. The
reason is Il new one enforcing an old, in
deed, trite conclusion. That teachers
without exception should be possessed of
sufficient skill in free hand drawing to
give object lessons to children off hand
and at any time when the need presents,
is unquestionable The great majority of
teachers cannot do this, but they should
be required to possess this accomplish
ment. Art teaching is so plentiful now
adays that there is no excuse for delin-
quency in this matter Most teachers
paint little-more's the pity, because so
many make this the substitute for the
fundamental, drawing. Only the few
draw, and but the very few of these draw
we'll. Colonel Walkers observation has
taught him that the teacher who can
illustrate with ease before the class by free
hand drawing, most successfully teaches.
and hence his conclusion that every
teacher ought to know how to draw. In
truth all men and women ought to possess
the accomplishment We cannot recall a
vocation in life in which the way is not
smoothed, the labor lessened and human
capacity to enjoy enlarged by the acquire
ment.
Or the 18th instant, at Salsborg, En-
peror William said some pleasant things
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