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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-05-20
WHY
.ohl I hate Latinl Why
atudv T,at;n90

s'Ohl I hate Latinl Why need I
study Latin?"
That is q fair question, "Why?"
There ought to be reason why Latin
is studied; there must be reason why
time and labor are expended on this Ian.
guage; and there IS a reason. This
study gives the mind strength and more,
it aids one to understand English; for
you must remember that the English
language is made up of other languages.
"a study of Latin helps to strengthen
both the memory and the judgment in a
wonderful way. This fact leads teachers
to recommend it; and parents who want
their children to have we'll trained minds
insist on their studying it.
John Adams, the second President of
the United States, used to tell this inter
esting story of his early experience in
studying Latin:
When I was boy, had to study the
Latin grammar; but I was dull, and 1
hated it. My father was anxious to send
me to college; and therefore I studied
the grammar till I could bear it no
longer; and, going to my father, I told
him I did not like the study, and asked
for some other employment.
It was opposing his wishes, and he was
quick in his answer: "Well, John, if
Latin grammar does not suit you, you
may try sitching; perhaps that will!
NY meadow yonder needs ditch, and
You may put by Latin, and try that"
This seemed delightful change, and
to the meadow I went. But I soon found
ditching harder than Latin; and the first
forenoon was the hardest ever expert
enced. That day I ate the bread of
labor, and glad was I when night came
on. That night / made some comparison
between Latin grammar aud ditching,
but said not word about it. dug next
forenoon, and wanted to return to Latin
at dinner; but it was humiliating, and
Icould not do it. At night, toll con-
quered pride; and, though it was one of
the sererest trials 1 ever had in my life,
I told my father that, if he chose, l
would go back to Latin grammar.
Latin grammar, hard and dry as it
was, made him President of the United
States.-Erchange.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-05-20
READING AN HoUR A DAY.

There was lad who, at IA, was an ap-
prentice to q soap-boiler. One of his
resolutions was to read an hour day, or
at that rate; and he timed himself by an
old silver watch, left him by his uncle.
He stayed seven years with his master !;
and, when he was 81, he knew as much
as the young squire.
Nov, let us see how much time he had
to read in seven years, at the rate of one
hour each day. It would be 1855 hours,
which, at the rate of eight hours per
day, would be equal to forty-fve weeks,
or eleven months-nearly years read
ing.
That time spent in treasuriDg up useful
knowledge would pile up very large
store. am sure it is worth trying for.
Begin now. Do what you can. In after
years you will look back upon the task
as Che most pleasant and profitable you
ever performed.-Naiad.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-05-20
READING.

Not long ago the writer was asked how
he wished reading taught. The question
was proposed by young teacher who
had just been appointed to take charge
of primary class. The answer was that
all the rules for reading were to be Joined
into one. Viz: "Read as you talk"
Require just as much thinking on the
part of the pupils in the reading class as
in any other. Too much thoughtless
reading is done in our schools. This is
often caused by the teacher. Many
teachers correct errors in reading by first
reading a sentence right, after which
they call on the pupil to read the SEN
tence as he has heard thread. The pupil
then reads, and, no doubt, reads it right,
but he has done no thinking; he has
simply initiated or aped his teacher, and,
of course, he learns nothing by such
api6g except in the sense that parrot
learns. Because parrot can be taught
to say "Polly want cracker" we must
not conclude that be is any nearer a hu-
man being; for he is no nearer than the
crow which flies through the air with his
"Caw-Caw." So with the child who is
taught by the parrot methods. He is
not helped any nor is he brought any
nearer the development required by his
Creator. Did you ever think, young
teachers, what the work is that you are
doing? Some one has beautifully said {:
"What considerate man can enter a
school, and not reflect with awe that it is
seminary where immortal minds are
training for eternity"
We do not agree with some teachers
that it is the much reading that is the
best. We think more of the quality than
of the quantity Of the reading. We have
heard very interesting reading lessons in
which the pupils were called on to read
less than dozen words. More thinking,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-05-20
A Tornado In Missouri.

KANSAS CIrY, Mo-, May IA fear
full storm of wind and rain swept over
this city to-day, continuing from IL
O'Clock till noon. The court house on
Second street was totally demolished
above the second story. The Lathrop
school building on Eighth street was
partially wrecked and many children
caught in the ruins. An overall factory
on Second street was blown down. The
old wa works building near the court
house was blown down. At the Western
Union telegraph Office but one wire is
working out of the city. .Communica-
ton has been established with St. Louis
over that wire by way of Dallas, Calves
ton, New Orleans and Memphis. One
span at the North end of the railroad
bridge across the Missouri River was
blown into the river, blocking the Han.
nibal and St. Joseph, Rock Island, Wa
bash and Kansas City, St. Joe and Coun-
Gil Bluffs Roads. Eight girls have been
taken out of the overall factory, four of
whom are dead; many others are in the
ruins, but there is scarcely hope for
their lives. In the confusion it is i'm
possible to ascertain definitely the extent
of the calamity, but it is said that over
twenty employees are imprisoned in the
basement of the factory. The disastrous
fury of the storm was confined to the
North end of the city except in the de-
struction of the Lathrope school build
ing on Eighth street. The buildings
generally excepting those mentioned
withstood the fury of the storm.
At3p. NJ, as nearly as can be learned
amid the intense excitement and confu-
sion, about twenty persons are known to
be dead. At the Lathrope school eleven
children are reported dead. Of the four
buildings wrecked all were more or less
unsound. The school building has been
twice condemned and the court house by
many was considered unsafe. No one
killed except in these four houses. The
storm, although entailing such heavy loss
of life, was nothing of the nature of the
tornado that visited the city three years
ago. 1t was violent wind, accompanied
by a food of water and heavy hail,
which turned many streets into rivers.
Signs, shutters, chimneys, etc., were
blown with the gale and number of
vehicles were overturned in the streets.
The black clouds that rolled over the
city created almost the darkness of night
and made timid ones crouch in terror in
cellars. The streets were entirely de.
serted, and in some instances horses were
seen wandering about attached to We.
hicles and seeking refuge from the pelt-
ing storm.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-05-20
A Modern Monte Cristo.

The most successful effort at escape
from prison walls in the fece Of seeming.
ly insurmountable obstacles, since the
days of the renowned Jack Sheppard,
was made last night by Louis Wan, the
convict of St. Vincent de Paul, in Mon.
treal, who led the revolt of that Peniten.
tiary on April Oath. He is man of
medium height, wiry and tough, and ca.
pable of great endurance and pluck, as
was proven in his fight with the prison
officials a short time ago when being
searched. After the revolt he was put in
the dungeon on bread and water. He,
in some way, secured knife and made 8
saw with it, He had also piece of pail
handle and fragment of stone. With
these he tunneled a wall three feet thick,
built of stones and bricks. This brought
him to the corridor, where he tunneled
another wall, this time Of brick. There
was still another heavy wall between him
and the outer air of the prison yard.
BY the dim light of coal oil lamp he
did the work of tunneling this latter OBJ.
stacle, leaving the rubbish in the inner
passage. He had very little TO do now
in the way of tunneling, but had to scale
walls twenty-five feet high. Workmen
had been using derrick with which
they were erecting new wing. Climb
ing like cat on this derrick, Wan cut
one of the ropes. He then with the aid
of the rope climbed from the new wing
to the roof of the main building. Here
he was seen by the guard. $50 back
there or III fire." shouted the guard, q
dead shot.
The desperate convict lodged back,
ran along wall, dropped into garden
on The other side and dashed through
the village, having just three hours of
darkness to aid him in his escape. The
Montreal city police are searching for
nim now
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-05-20
however, was required than is often

however, was required than is often
called for in dozen pages. Let us sup
pose we have class before us. We
write the word "sir" on the blackboard,
and ask the pupils to read it, which they
do in an ordinary tone of voice. We
look at them, and say: "Class." 'Sir"
say they, when we repeat with slight
emphasis: "Czass." ".Sir," is repeated
by the class. Again we say: "CLAss, :"
when they repeat: "S1R." In a naughty
manner we say: SECT out of my way"
when the class, in tone of contempt,
read: "Sir" Next we write the word
"Whae' on the board, and again say Z:
"Class." "What," answers the class.
"Cgass," by US; What," by the class.
"C.1Ass," with cross tone, by US;
"WHo.AT," is answered in the same
tone, with no hint from the teacher.
"May Rash has run away with John
Badsome," we say, and at once the class
answers: "W-H-A-Tw Everything so
far has been read right; because the
children have the thought. and nature
has taken its course.
Next we write: ri can hear gun"
The pupils are told to read it. They in
in conversational tone. We then ask:
"Who can hear gun?" when the SEQ.
tence is read, 81 can hear gum" "No,
you cannot hear gum" we answer;
when the sentence is read. ri can hear a
gum" "Oh, no." we say, ''you can see a
gum; when the sentence is read, ~ can
hear gum" "You can hear DRUM"
by us. "I can hear gun" by the class.
Now we ask: "Who can use the same
words and ask question with them ?
George may do So" George reads:
"Can I hear gun?" George has never
learned the rule, "Direct questions that
can be answered by yes or no, require
the rising infection" Still be makes no
mistake in his infections. "Good," we
say, and write Georges sentence and
place period after it. At once up go
all the hands, and we ask: "Why, what
is the trouble?" 20, you have put
period where there should be q question
mark" they all cry, and perhaps some of
them raise right out of their seats, and
do you believe it, my dear reader, We do
not think to give them disorder mark,
and, strange to say, the roof does not fall
because we have thoughtlessly(a) worked
in little language lesson during the
reading period!! When QUIET is re.
stored, we write the question mark in
place Of the period, and ask, "Who can
read the sentence so that we will know
who it is that desires to hear the gum"
Mary is named and at once reads: "Can
Ihear the gun?" "Good," we say, sand
now who can read it so that we will
know what the questiouer wishes to
hear?" John is called and reads: "Can
I hear the guns" So we continue the
exercise, and at its close, which is little
before the pupils wish it, all are full of
animation, and we feel that it was no
such Lesson that suggested to Edmund
Burke the following lines written by
him:
''To read without rejecting,
Is like eating without digesting."
-Wm. NJ Griffin, 4. H.. in Practical
Teacher.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-05-20

= "Isn't my photograph excellent?
said young wife to her husband,
"Well, my DEAR" replied he, II think
that there is little too much repose about
the mouth"
Mr.. Whittier is said to have lent a
work of Plato to a Connecticut farmer,
who returned it, saying: II like him
frst.rate. l see he's got hold Of some
of my ideas"
"A young gentleman at Kansas City
sent seventy. five cents to New York, for
method of writing without pen or ink.
He received the following inscription on
q card: "Write with pencil"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-05-20

On returning to my regiment few
months subsequently, after being ex-
changed, found myself advanced from a
junior corporal to orderly sergeant, with
q second lieutenant's commission in the
course of preparation for me. The cap.
tain had been killed, the first lieutenant
disabled and all the sergeants and cor.
porals in the battle, down to myself,
killed or injured for life. On the day
after the battle my company mustered
one officer and four men for duty out of
nearly fifty present two days previously.
II. w. HAIGHT in Nenoniae's News.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-05-20
Shall we Let the Negro Go?

WASHINGTON, May 12.-Southern and
Western Congressman are constantly
receiving petitions from their constituents
praying for the passage Of a bill appro-
priating not exceeding 500 per capita,
to be expended under direction of the
American Colonization Society, in paying
the expenses of colored persons desiring
to emigrate to Liberia and the providing
there of six months shelter and support
of said emigrants and their families.
Senator Brown but recently presented 8
petition representing liz families
residing in Whitefeld, Ga. The
average number of each family is five,
thus establishing at once colony of 5S5
persons. There is but small prospect of
bill for this purpose passing Congress
during the present session, although
there is growing sentiment in behalf of
granting the request of these petitioners.
--.D&patch 10 Mc Nc're and r1urirr.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-05-20

A gentleman rode up to public
house in the country and asked: "Who
is the master of this house ?" 81 am,
SIR" replied the landlord, "my wife has
been Il II about three weeks
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-05-20

- Forty thousand dollars worth of
chewing gum is gathered annually in The
State of Maine.
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- The New York World notes that
General Longstreet, although good
Republican since the war, took part in
the Atlanta ovation to Jefferson Davis
last Week in full Confederate uniform.
His reconciliation with Mr.. Davis was
complete and cordial. Negro field hands
sauted the train bearing the ex-Confed.
crate Chieflain as he swept from Mont
gomery to Atlanta, and white militia
companies marched hchind negro bands
in doing honor to the old gentleman.
"Wc arc a long distance from 1851, af:er
ALL"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-05-20

The people of the State have at last
realized the worth of education for the
masses. Both Rich Hill and Westminis-
tor are building public school houses, to
cost 50 900 esch, and last week Green.
vile elected Q Board of Directors for a
free-school system in that city. We are
gradually laying aside all our old preju.
Giices.- Garohna Spartan.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-05-20
TEACHERS Bs'GoLUMN.
j. q. CLINKsoALEs, EDITOR.
We give below a problem which the
teachers may show to their pupils: Out
of the ten digits, 0, i, 8, ,5,6,7,S,9.
how many integral numbers, each con-
sisting of two figures, can be formed?

The teachers of the Townville School
had their examination q week earlier
than they anticipated, Mr.. Thornton be-.
ing called tc leave the school for few
weeks. Messrs. Boleman and Thornton,
having had a fourishing school this year,
We are sure their well-advanced classes
stood very creditable examination.
We are sorry that our circumstances
would not permit us to be with them on
that day. We heard, however, that it
was we'll attended by the patrons of the
school.
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from whom 1 had cut his own in order to
examine his hurt-my blouse was INSULT.
cient to hide the deshabile entirely. By
way of introduction, however, l lifted
the butt of my musket into the air,
pitched it forward on to the top of the
grade, and presently, drawing an anx,
iously long breath, followed my piece.
I looked down from the top upon the
bayonets and into the muzzles of the
muskets of Company E, Montgomery
guards, of the First Louisiana. The
noise of the battle was still so great that
they could not hear my request to be
allowed to jump down among them, but
after an apparently interminable instant
or two, they understood my signs, made
an opening in the line of bayonet points,
and received me with honor and welcome.
The occasion not being adapted for
extensive exchanges of the civilities Of
social life, was ordered to step down
into the ditch, out of the way. Here
were few Confederate soldiers, woun-
ded about the head and arms, for whose
comfort l did what I could while the
battle progressed. Stonewal Jackson
rode along the line close to us, and the
cheering Montgomery Guards" lifted
me into their ranks for view of "the
greatest general of the world" as they
called him. But with Jackson came
The order IN mnvc forward, and 7, ~ a
prisoner, WAS sent with guard to rem.
dczvoas on Cross farm, a mile or two
more to the rear.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16
How a Pitchers Arm Gives Way.

Lon Twitchell, the promising but
crippled young pitcher whom the De-
troits are holding in reserve, was taken
to DR.. George S. Richards by President
Marsh, to learn what was the matter
with Twitchell's arm.
Twitchel has a right arm that any
lady might be proud to possess. 1t is
fair and exceedingly shapely. Besides
the beauty that the young man keeps
modesty hidden in his coat sleeve there
is an abundance Of well developed
muscle which is perfect in appearance,
but detective EsS5Ti s1Seeeesstie particular
spot. There is an important muscle on
the under side of the arm, above the
elbow, which should bo attached to
that joint, but is not, and that's what's
the matter with Twitchell.
The muscle was detached, Twitchell
says, in the game which he pitched for
Detroit at Cincinnati early last spring
"That is where l did it" said he, ''for
after l had pitched one OF my hardest
and best balls l felt something in my
arm give way. That has knocked me
out for the whole season."
Twitchell has been resting at Detroit
and his Ohio home ever since, exercls-
ing little daily and waiting for his
arm to get well, though he did not
know until yesterday Just what was tn e
matter with it. DR.. Richards, besides
being promising surgeon, is a gray
bearded and bald headed base ball en-
thusiast, and an authority on pitchers
and their troubles, and well up on base
ball generally. The doctor advised
Twitchell to do nothing for three or
four weeks.
'Do not" he said, Gift even a pail of
water. That muscle is detached, and it
won't heal if you use it. Every night
before you go to bed sprinkle it for five
minutes with ice water, and then rub it
thoroughly dry. That will do you
more good than pocketful of prescrip-
tions or all the electricity there is in a
dynamo. You may be able to pitch
again in three or four weeks, and you
may not, but certain it is that if you
continue to use that arm you'll never be
worth base hit as q pitcher. If you
had not used your arm since it was
hurt you would have been all right by
this time"
Twitchell's arm does not trouble him
only when he pitches what he calls his
hard and speediest ball 1t ls sort
of jump ball, and is very difficult to
follow. He throws all other balls with
out pain.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16
A Chapter on TOuts.

A Saratoga letter says: There are at
the Saratoga race course, as at all large
tracks, a number of men, colored and
white, called touts, who operate with
nothing but their wits for capital. They
are similar to the class known about
Wall street as pointers" and their
mission is to give ''tips" to greenhorns
on probable winning horses. If horse
whose name they have given to an in
vestor happens to win the winner is con-
graduated by the tout and gives re-
ward for his tip, and further tips are
taken, and the tout is as literally re-
warded if they prove winners. Some of
these tips are simply the names of the
horses selling as the favorites in the
pools, while others have some value in
that the tout may have possibly learned
from some stableboy that certain horse
was little lame that morning, was ''off
his feed" or otherwise not in prime con-
dition. A tout is a person who, with
out risking any of his own capital, if,
indeed, he has any, pursuades some one
to buy horse in the auction or mutual
pools or the books upon the alleged in
formation that he furnishes. He not
unfreIuently gives several customers a
different horse each In the same race
and then is pretty sure to name win
ner and get fee | have often seen So
given a tout for successful tip, and on
several occasions seen MANY times five
so given. 1t would be very natural for
Il man who had won $500 on the
strength of tip to reward his congratu-
ing Upper, or tout, with a handsome
sum, wouldn't it? The tout, as Isaid,
occasionally gets hold of good bit of
information bearing upon particular
horses, but he must to certain extent
fall back upon his imagination and the
theories and opinions of others. When
he gives a tip, however, he is pretty
positive that he is elating facts. That
the occupation pays, or at least affords
means of existence to those who engage
in it, is evident from the many faces that
are familiar at the TaCe-COurses, and
have been for years, whose pOssessOrs
are known to have done nothing else
since they appeared in the speculative
community about the betting quarters.
As a class the tOuts are a sorry looking
set. Their ranks are recruited from
broken-down spectators of all sorts,
discarded clerks and stable bows. Some
OF them are men who have been unfor-
tunate All of them are slaves to race
betting and are too lazy to work for
living. One of them here boasts of the
salary he used to draw from a large rail
road company and asserts that the con
Germ would only be too glad to regain
his services. Yet an additional shade
or two of seediness would clothe him as
a tramp.