The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-01-04
THIRTY-FIRsT ANNUAL
Session of the Somerset County
Teachers Institute.
FULL THI OF THE PROCEEDINGS.



CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
Music, song, @The Bells of Time,r h
Miss Maggie f. Dotts, of Montgomery
County, Pa, after which she recited the
poem entitled "The Bobolink- Miss
DOTS is not only vocalist or elocution-
ist. but has method of her own, render
ing the most difficult passages in man
ner new to the ears of our people. After
this the County Superintendent intro
duced Hon. Will Cumback in his lecture,
g The Invisible Some People, He said
Ladies and Gentlemen IF / wished
only to amuse, need only to quote some
of the things that have been said regard
ing the lecture that propose to deliver
On one occasion church had bought q
building and put large mortgage on it,
and after they bad done so they found
that they must do something and decid-
ed to institute course of lectures, and
they called me to deliver the first of the
course and when came they called on
an old deacon to pray, and he prayed
very well and very long, saying, 90,
Lord, bless the lecturer who has come
to speak to us on o, Lord, o, Lord, O,
Lord, | don't know what he is going to
talk on"
There has never been anything that
had a name, that if you come to consider
why he was 50 called, would not be
deemed to have the very best name that
could have been given. Al the invisi-
bles of the barbarians are deemed to be
In making the transforma-
ton from barbarism to civilization, We
simply transform the invisibles into the
remove the witches from the
mind of man. Cotton Mather, of Massa-
chusetts, defended witehcraft, and in his
book he gives very fair description of
the witchcraft of our own time. If the
devil was the author of witchcraft it only
proves that the devil, like everybody else
improves with age. Until the last hun
dred years no portion of the human race
was free from the domination of witches
and witchcrait The more learned the
man the deeper he dived into witches
and witehcraft. Luther, the greatest
mind of the ages, was a believer in these
things, and when a friend visited him,
and hearing some noise, Luther said,
It's only the devil, and he is frequent
visitor"
Luther at one time told the story that
the devil had appeared in court as law
yer and conducted case through court
with the greatest propriety. The men
who take the advanced steps are the men
that viii be denounced. No witch ever
came with a blessing for man; the witch
es of cur day come to destroy mans rep
utation. In the old days if man were
accused of crime they had only to
bring charge of witchcraft against the
chief witness, and they gained their case
by the mere accusation. In our day if a
man wishes to secure divorce ali that is
necessary is for him to bring charges
against his wife, or rice versa.
In old times when men had quarrel
all that was necessary, was to bring such
a charge. Now you hear men say, Peo-
pie say so and so, but if you hear men
say SO, you can conclude that they have
been among the witches. If they can't
get at the truth. they can at least hold
their tongues. Perhaps, more than one
hundred thousand people have been put
to death for the crime of witchcraft-a
crime that never had an existence.
While the old witchcraft has destroyed
one hundred thousand persons, the mod
ern has destoyed millions
The modern witchcraft may be divided
into two kinds the foul-mouthed SIAN
derer and the unthinking tattler. The
former are generally found among men
and the latter among women.
have had the experience in my own
family.
A very fine lady called, and the con-
versation drifted on a man, and one OF
them said . But they say he drinks
Finally interposed, and said, "What
do people say about our neighbor, Mrs.
M?-and she said some people say
she talks about her neighbors."
Men are generally instigated by malice
| have known men in NV experience
that would not only defame their neigh
bors, but would swear to it in Court Ev-
cry lawyer knows this. Cross examina-
ton develops that some people say So
A cross examination generally develops
the fact that the witness is ready to de-
fame all his neighbors if he can.
If the account of human life is faith
fully kept and the items placed on the
proper side of the account, men viii
stand correctly in the future.
The sIanderer belongs to no sect or
class of society. He is found everywhere
in every church in every party-every-
where.
A Yankee hotel keeper was expecting
TO entertain the members of the Legisla
ture in a western state, and after he had
done all he thought he could he conclud-
ed to put up card, and did so, reading
thus:
Loafers in this Lotel are requested
not to associate with members of the
Legislature for it is exceedingly difficult
TO tell the one from the other"
We can beat the Jews and Pharisees.
There are many churches in which pas
tor and people are engaged in a constant
fight against Pharisees, and any such
church that promises people peace and
comfort will find itself unable to keep
the contract. Our modern invisibIes at
tach themselves to any church. We can
not keep them out They viii come.
Politics. is the most inviting field for
the modern witchery. There is more
scandal in politics than anywhere else.
But men are always found regardless Of
political asphyxia, and they will take the
candidacy; regardless of consequences OF
SANDER. If those invisibles would be
driven out of the church and out of poll
tics, our earth would be whittier than it is
now.
Human friendship calls forth the bit
terest efforts of these modern witches
But this demon-like agency can general.
ly array friend against friend.