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EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
CALAIS.
May %, 1886.

MAY 20, 1886.
Mr.. EDlToR: Seeing there ie still
spaee IN lbe educational column of syom
most welcome paper / send short COM
mpnieation to have inserted iherein.-
AS offered few thoughts in regard to
the employment of teachers I will In
tro6uee few more on that subject
Now it seems to ne that directors do
not ai0ays fully understand the duties
theY are expected 10 perform, if they
did things would be quite different from
what they are. The question to be de-
ciaed is not who will teach for the least
amount OF money per month, for the
loves ia not always the cheapest and
.thei@fcge not the best. Norris the qdess
tion whether sach one will suit my
children m y
Neither is the problem TO be solved
whether such tescher will favor me in
some way II employ him, nor would
it be detrimental to my business if / op-
pose such one. Bat the great .quea-
tions that should be uppermost ip. our
minds are these. Is The man who offers
himself as teacher worthy man2 Has
be qualified himself for the work 2 Is
t for the public good that such q one
should be hired2 Is it for the best in-
terest Of the school in the district We
have been chosen to represent. Is be q
model manp One after whom parents
in general would be pleased 10 have
their sons and daughters pattern1 One
whom II our children initiate and follow
after his example they will be growing
up in the way they should go. i1 ~.
II these questions are answered IN the
affirmative, then I would say employ
such one and pay him reasonable ws
ges. furnish him With such thingsas are
needed in The school, and all will be well,
every one will be benefited, the school
will be raised to higher standard and
the cause of educeton win advance
."Dude" represents ne as saying that it
is not proper to hire relative to teach,
and then says be agrees With me. ]
wonder in what text book he found bis
rules TO justify this construction OF my
language. wish be would use "Direct
Quotation when he refers to me and let
the readers OF The paper put proper
construction on the language and then |
will be fairly represented.
But probably be had forgotten Just
what did say. or else he was in deep
meditation over that moral question that
be and A. B. have proposed to debate.
Bu; this is foreign to my suhjees and
not interesting and viii leave the rest
| wish to say I'LL see him, and then it
he wishes to fnrther discuss the matter
we will do so.
Ihave been asked NY views by cor.
respondent lson Sycamore Valley, and
have given some in this paper, would
like 10 hear from other teachers on cd
nca;ienal subjects, let every teacher as
sist The Editor in making this column q
success, what / have writer is on gen.
eral principles, do not wish to, be per-
sonal, may write again by consent OF the
Editor.
P..W. HANNAHa.
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"Dat Las Ole Goose"

In Fairfax County. Va, Aunt Dilsey
bad charge OF all lhe poultry on tie
place She declared that she scarcely
got wink Of sleep fer va ching pouI-
try Nevertheless ducks aud turkeys
and geese disappeared With rapidity.--
Nobody could be mo-e astonlshed and
shocked taan Aunt Dilsey. 'i'ee done
eheryihing savin' 10 pray fo' da' thiel in
meeiin', and hress God I'm gwine to do
dat Sholy de good Lawful gil after
him, and hep as to hole on to DAT las
goose" he asserted, ss Aunt Dilsey was
very piuus, eyerg body knew size would
pray loudly Tor the goose Although
her employer believed in Dilsey's piety
be determined to watch the poultry house
tha. sight Soon after meeting be was
startled 10 see Dilsey creep in and
snslching Up sdat las goose" whip of
its head snd Iun back TO her cabin -,
No hing dsunted by discovery. Dilsey,
the very next night asked leave to 60 to
spray in moe.in'" "FIow can you go
there Dilsey, when you have just stolen
my gooaep" asked her employer
"Lawd, honey" retorted Dlsey, scorn.
fully, .'you don't think Pm gwine 10
low dat las ole goose TO keep me from
my Savior"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-06-08
DR.. Blacks Ten Laws of Health.

l Pare air is the food OF the lungs.
This ia ohtained by scientific ventilation,
which consisla in admitting currents or
movements OF air into the apartments
through wo or more aperatures.
2 Good and properly cooked food
Dat focd ssasoned to cover up decay,
partial or complcte.
3. Wate, not iced, hnt cooled by be-
ing placed npon ice, either in pi'chers. or
bottles.
4 Adequate exercise in the open air
in order to help the skin to throw Of
efIete matter.
5. Tie sun bath. No sitting and
reading in dsrkened rooms or those
lighted by gas. Gas burns up oxogen
very rapidly Sitting under a jet turns
the hair gray, and by Nesting the scalp
DESTROYS lis vitality causing the hair 10
fall ont.
6. Proper and sufficient clothing. That
which is loose, light and YARN Light
colors for summer, dark for winter. In
winter were a flannel bandage around
the abdomen
Z. Occupations which are Of an out
door ohsracter-eight hours for work,
eight hours for sleep, and eight for rest
The ten hour rule has killed more than
disease.
8. Personsl cleanliness is essential.
Battle once week. Baths t. be OF the
same temperature as the body Bathing
enables the skin 10 throw off effete mat
Ter, causing The dead and useless cpl
dermis to peal off,
8. No marriage With near relative.
No Jewish marriages..
10. Avoid vine, whisky, beer, tobacco
and evil associations. Keep thy soul
and body clean.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-06-08
Laughter.

How much lies in lapghter-the ci-
pber-key wherewith We decipher the
whole mani Some men wear an ever
lasting barren simper; in the smile of
others lies the cold glitter as OF ice; the
feWeet are able to laugh what can be
called laughing, hEt only sniff and litter
and snigele from the throat outwards, or
at least produce some whiting, husky
cachination as If they we're laughing
through wool. Of none such comes
good Carlyle.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-06-08
Humility-Imitate Jesus Christ


AE Somebody has condensed the
mistakes Of life, and arrived at the con-
cuslon that there are fourteen of them.
Most people would say, il they told tie
truth, that there was no limit to the mis-
takes Of life, that they we're like the
drops in The ocean or the sands OF the
shore in number, but il is well TO be ac-
curate. Here then, are fourteen crest
mistakes: It is G., a, mistake 10 set up
our own standard Of FIGHT and wrong,
and judge people accoTdingls; to meas
ure the enjoyment Of others by our own !;
to expect uniformity of opinion in this
world to look for Judgment and expe-
rienee in youth; 10 endeavor to mould
all dispositions alike; to yield to imma-
terial triflss; to look for perfection in
our own actions; 10 worry ourselves and
others with what cannot be remedied
not to alleviate all that needs alienation
as far rs lies in.our power; not to make
allowances for the indrmi;ies OF others !;
TO consider everything Impossible that
we cannot perform; 10 believe only what
our finite minds can grasp; to expect to
be able to understand everything.
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A Terriahle Fire

aronses The appreaensions OF whole
city. And yet The wild. havoc OF disease
s,srtles no oHe. Sad t. relate, women
suffer from year to year with chronic
diseases and weaknesses peculiar to their
sex, knowing thai they are growing
wo;se with every day, and still take no
measures for their own relief. DR..
Pierce's Favoiita Prescription" is the
result Of life-loug and learned study Of
female complaints. 1t is guaranteed to
cure
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-06-08
A Code of Morals.

The following list OF morals, virtues
was drawn up by DR., Franklin for the
regulation Of his life
Silence--Speak not but what may
benefit others or yourself; avoid tri1ing
conversation.
Order-Let all things have their place i;
let each part Of your business have It's
time.
Resolution-Reso!ve to perform what
you ought; perform without fail what
you resolve
Frugall,y--Incur no expense but to
do good TO Yourself or others; that is,
waste no!hing.
Industry--Lose no time; be always
employed in some;hing useful; avoid all
unnecessary action.
Sincerity-Use no hurtful deceit;
think innocenily aad Justly, ana if you
speak, speak accordingly,
Justice-Wrone none by doing iDju.
ries- or omit ting benefits that are your
duty
dera'ion-Aroid extremes; for
tear resen,ing injuries.
Suffer no uucIeanllness
in body, clothes, or babitation.
Tranquility-Be not disturbed about
trifes. or at accidents common or una
voidabie.
Bumility-Imitate Jesus Christ
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-06-08
Decay of the Bones.

With some thirty other symptoms, mark
the progress of that terrible disease
known as oatarrh. 1t advances from
stage TO stage of fearful annoyances, and
if neglec'ed, is certain to end in general
debility, and possibly in consumption or
insanity. DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy
will cure it at any stage. This medicine
has been long before The public, and
thousands have been restored to health
by lis never. failing virtues.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-06-08
The Longest Word! in the Welsh
Language.

The longest word in the English, or
ralAer Welsh, language, bas, after long
pstiod If Oblivion, been once more ex-
humed Il is Llanfairpwllgw lgwneyllges-
tfobg gilgefchw wyrpby byllgogerbwl'zanttvsn-
icgogogoch. This awful word OF sew
eut9 letters and twentv-two ayllebles,
the name of village in Wales, eonsti,
tutrd tie sub Get of lecture lately civ
en- bg The Rev. J. King, NJ. A, at the
Museum. Berwick, in which be showod
that il means: st. Mary, white hazel
pool, near the turning pool, near the
whirlpool, very near the pool by Liant
siio, fronting the rocky islet of Gogo. F"
81. James Gazette.
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81 There can hardly be found an in
teillgent Christian who, il rightly ques-
toned, will not say that the only hope
OF perpetrating our National lie in the
spirit in which i. was begun is to build
up the Nation on lhe principles of right.
eousness II Is not proposed to intro.
duce religious faiths or opinions into
political or public affairs. much less to
unite the State snd the church by even
the ieeblest bands, but to conduct the
government on established maxims OF
honesty, justice and the civil equality OF
all classes-Central Christian Advocate.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-06-08
A Druggists story.

Mr. Isaac c Chapman, Druggist, New
ourg, N. writes US: IL have for the
past ten years sold several gross of DIR.
WILLIAM HALLS BALSAM FOR
THE LUNGS. ] can say of il what I
cannot say OF any other medicine. /
have never heard a customer speak of il
but to praise its virtues in the hiphcst
manner, | have recommended IL in a
great many cases Of Whooplng Cough,
with the bappiest effects. / have used II
III ny own lamily for many years; ID
fact, always have bottle in the medicine
cles't ready for use.n
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-06-08
WIVES! MOTHERS! DAUGHTERS!

BE YOUR OWN PHYSICIAN! A
lady who was for years great sufferer
from Female Complaints and weaknesses.
SO common to her sex, and deepsired of
neing cured finally found remedies which
completely cured her, aft:r all else had
failed. Any lady eaa use tue remedies
and cure herself, without being subject
ed to medical examination. From
gratitude she will send FREE, Recipes,
Illuntrated Treatise and full directions,
sealed Address with stamp). Mrs.
W. c. HOLMES, 65S Broadway, D. Y
Name paper.
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Roscoe Conkling received $50, 900
Ice In the Broadway street railroad in-
vestigGtion.
A New York editor says that General
Wolseley ought to be "sat upon as a
dangerous firebrand." Who wants 20
sit upon firebreud?
A man in London has been arrested
for Systematically slarvine bis aun, TO
death. For years it has been bis custom
70 locs hefloa room every other say
Without food.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-06-08
4. @. q. Fl. DIRECTORY.

Woodsfield Lodge, No. 377, /. o.
o. F.--Meets every Tuesday evening. O.
LuDE, N. G.; G. B. CLINaAN, Rec. Secretary.
Woodsfeld Encampment,No. 16S.
--Meets in Lodge Room tho first and third
Friday evening Of each month. ASHER OKEY,
Q. p FRITZ REEF, Scribe.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-06-08

! measure my happiness and its oppo-
site by nay nearness to or remoteness
from next Sunday
Ignorance. Detrsction, Suspicion and
Every masqnersde in the robes OF Wis
dom, CHARITY, Faith and Generosity.
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MASONIC DIRECTORY.

Monroe Lodge, No. 1S9, f. and A.
NJ. M.--Meets at Masonic Hall in Woodsfeld, on
Wednesday evenings. on or before each full
moon. J. P. SrR1ees, W. NJ; JAS. R. MORRIS,
Secretary
Woodsfield Chapter, No. So, II. A.
M.--Meets in Masonic Hall. Woodsfeld, on
Monday evening after full moon. ]. p. SPRIaes
M. i. II. P; JAS. R. MORRIS, Secretary.
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| have myself used Ely's Cream Balm
(being afflicted With catarrh) with salts.
factory results, and recommend il to all
suffering with this terrible disease Ii
is giving my trade universal satisfaction.
Il. Z. Gackenbeimer, Druggists, Van
Vert, Ohio.
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NUMBER IS.

ages Abich we enjoy, let US also strive
to boast of our intelligent voters, voters
who are eognizant OF their responsible
ties, end who hold honor aud integrity
in high estimation.
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Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-31
THE coNsERVAToRs, LEAGUE.

One of the signs of the times is the growth
of the Conservators' League of America. It
was organized last April and is working in
four western States, with headquarters, ap-
parently, at Chicago. The purpose of this
league is declared to be to unite in one organ
ization all men who believe in the suprema-
cy of the law and are willing to join in put
ting in motion great moral force to uphold
the law and conserve alike the rights of the
employer and the employed, to protect bust
ness from disorders and from an unlawful
interference, and to promote better under
standing of the true relation of the employ
er and the employe, maintaining the rights
of each and adjusting their differences.
It remains to be seen how popular this
league will become, but it is inevitable that
if the labor organizations maintain their
present attitude there will be an organized
resistance to their demands which will make
itself felt and restrain the lofty and tyranni-
cal labor agitators. Those men dictate to
business men what wages they shall pay, the
hours of work, the number of employees, the
kind of work to be done, and now they an
nounce that they intend to secure, by the use
of the ballot, certain legislation which will
take away all the safeguards of business. If
they succeed there will be despotism in
this country which will be intolerable to all
but the few who will profit by it. The safe
ty of the people is in waking up to the situa-
ton and taking action to maintain their
liberty. If the Conservators' league goes
honestly and energetically to work to arouse
the people it can do good
Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-31
NO. 1872.

Vengeance does not belong to them; and
they are strong enough now to be magnani
nous.
1t is easy for the organizations of labor to
cripple by unreasonable demands the indus
tries of whole sections. TLey have done
this thing already more than once, In the
stoppages and read justments thus occurring
great suffering is caused and no advantage is
gained. An unjust demand, even if it be
temporarily enforced, always reacts on those
who make it. The working classes have now
tremendous power; they may easily employ
it for self-destruction. 1t is quite possible
for them to use their power tyrannically; and
tyranny will not thrive in this day, the tyr
amy of a mob no more than the tyranny Of
an autocrat. This weapon of the boycott
with which the labor unions have lately
armed themselves is pretty sure to prove a
boomerang. If they use it recl-lessly there
may easily arise consumers union to fight
them with their own fire-to patronize those
whom they prescribe. Already the popular
indignation at the unscrupulous use of this
weapon is so strong that the publication of
boycott has proved in several cases an ex-
cellent advertisement of the boycotted dealer.
With all the improved enginery of war the
labor unions are sure to find that war is dan
gerous business. It is all the more danger
GUS because of these improved weapons. It
can never be anything else but perilous and
destructive business. Let not these comba-
tants on either side suppose that they can
hurt and MAIN their antagonists and get no
harm themselves!
Over all this wretched strife one can i'm
agine those "better angels of our nature"
whose ministry Abraham Lincoln once pa
thetically but vainly invoked, bending with
divine compassion and crying to the embat-
tied hosts with solemn rebuke and benignant
appeal: "Is it well, brother men, is it well
to fight? Is it not better to be friendss
Are you not all children of one Fatherg
Nay, you not, as the great apostle said,
members one of another? Your war is not
only wholesale fratricide, it is social sui
eide. 1t is little to say that you cannot af-
ford to fight; you cannot live apart; you
must live for one another. That is the
way you were made to live; and you will
never have anything but trouble and sor-
row till you learn that way and walk in it.
The stars in their courses will fight against
you until you make peace with one another.
Have We not had more than enough of war
and its dismal noises and it's spectral train of
woes; more than enough of silent looms and
freless forges; of ehildren's faces pale with
hunger and womens sunken eyes: of hearts
made fierce and hard by long-cherished en-
mites; of class arrayed against class and
neighbor against neighbor2 Oh, put it all
away from you-the hate the suspicion, the
scorn; stand here together, brethren as you
are, helpers of one another you must be,
and promise one another that you will do
what you can, every one of you, to bring the
day when between labor and capital there
shall be no longer war, but peace for ever
more"
Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-31
FEVER ISH.

City Parson-Going to have the hay fever
this years :.
Country Parson-No; my congregation
can't afford it.-Chicago News.
Weeping widow-And such a good man,
sir. Busy undertaker-No doubt, no doubt;
but little wide-a little wide for the aver
age man.-New York Graphic.
Philadelphia comes to the front with the
champion modest young lady. When she
hangs stockings out on the clothes line she
puts wells over them.-Shoe and Leather Re-
porter.
City Guest-"These eggs don't seem to be
as fresh as they ought to be-" Farmer
"Great Goshl what kin yer expect! Jest see
the distance they come; New York is fifty
miles from here. Judge.
A lady who is suffering dog-day weather
up in one corner of New Hampshire writes
that it seems as if s'breaths were sold at auc-
ton and everybody was able to bid higher
than u.'-Boston Herald.
A gentleman complains that when he en-
ters church Sunday morning his shoes
ance can be abated. Easy enough. Sunday
morning put on heavy pair of boots and GO
fishing. g.-Norristown Herald.
She gave him all her business. Boy
ssGimme a almanick, will you, misters
Druggist-"Um-I don't know, bub. Does
your ma trade with me2" Boy-tYes, in
deed-y, misterl Regular She buys all her
postage stamps off'n you."-Tid Bits.
Husband to young wife-'I couldn't help
chide me, love. We should not quarrel, for
you know you and I are one, now" Young
wife-"We are one, are wes Well, if we are,
must have been fuller'n goose last night
without knowing it."-Texas Siftings.
t'The poet is born," said man haughtily,
Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-31
The INdMRfriaI Crisis.

Washington GLADDEN. in the Century for August
The present appears to be critical time
in the history of labor. Within the past
few months our workingmen have suddenly
come to the consciousness of great power.
Their more compact organization, their more
effective weapons of war, have given them
advantages that they never had before. The
question of the hour is whether they can use
this power temperately and wisely. There
are ominous signs of disposition to employ
it passionately and vindietively. Men who
speak in the interests of selfish capital are
heard to express the confident hope that the
workingmen will soon overstep the bounds
6f prudence and justice and ruin their own
prospects. That is the real danger. Doubt
less it is hard for those who are smarting un-
der sense of injustice to be always temper
ate and judicious, but the welfare OF these
men depends on keeping their heads cool.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-31

as he received roll of manuscript from the
editor with shake of the head.
ooh, is he?' replied the editor with a
pleasant smile. 'iWel1, when he gets old
enough to write something, tell him to come
and see me. Good BY" and he resumed his
labors.-Washingto Critic.
A Brooklyn man, who has daughter with
two tongues, was arrested by an agent of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children for placing her on exhibition in a
dime museum, where she was obliged to
keep her mouth open half an hour at time.
Ahorrid man, who once attended a wo-
mans suffrage convention, says that if the
agents of the S. P. G. q. think it is cruelty
for female to keep her mouth open half an
hour at time they are laboring under
huge mistake.-Norristown Herald.
A Hopeful Editor.-Colonel Bill Snort,
editor of the Crosby County Clarion and
Farmers Vindicator, made flying trip to
Washington not long since. He is an appli-
cant for any position within the gift of the
President, provided it has an adequate salary
attached to it. ''Where is your Baggage,
Bill?' asked friend who met him at the de-
pot. "Baggage!" exclaimed Bill; chow do
you expect me to have any baggage when
I've not even been appointed yet! Wait
until have been in Office few months and
then [ will show you more plunder than you
can carry off in a four-mule wagon. Texas
Siftings.