Smyrna times., 1889-12-24
Teachers Tnstitute.

The annual meeting of the teachers,
which will be held in the Dover OPERA
House, Jan. IA, 1890, is matter of
general interest throughout the county.
All of the schools will be closed at the
time, and teachers who attend the In-
stitute will be entitled to pay for those
days the same as if they were teach
ing. 1t has been announced that the
daily attendance of each teacher will
be reported to the school committee
employing him ; and no salary can be
legally paid for days when he may not
be in attendance.
The evening lectures are 80 attrac-
tive that they will probably be at
tended by people from neighboring
towns as well as by the teachers, and
the people of Dover. The first lecture
will be delivered on Wednesday even
ing, Jan. l, by Peter Mamreoff Won
FInkelstein, on the subject, 'City Life
in Jerusalem" He was born and
brought up in the sacred city. The
immediate object of his lecture is to
refute the peTversiOns and distortions
OF infdel lecturers, and to show by
realistic costume and faithful repro
ductiOn of customs, the accuracy of
Biblical history. His fine powers of
expression in our language, coupled
with his thorough knowledge of the
historic East, enables him to give a
superb entertainment. Bishop New
man has said of him: Palestine is a
changeless land. Customs two thous-
and years old are the customs of to-
day. To reproduce these in illustra-
tiOns of the sacred story is the mission
of Mr.. Won FiDkelstein. To see him
in his oriental costumes, and hear him
in his prayers and hymns, is to spend
an evening in the Holy Land"
On Thursday evening Rev. VIM.
Collins Handy, who has been for sew
eral months supplying the Presbyte-
rian pulpit in Smyrna, will lecture on
the Making of the Anglo-Saxon
Race" The lecture has been carefully
prepared, and will be thoughtful and
eloquent analysis of the sources from
which our race drawe its distinctive
characteristics.
On Friday evening the lecture will
be by Will Carleton. the famous poet.
orator and lecturer. Possibly we have
no more widely read poet. You will
find his books in brOwnstOne houses
and farm cottages; you will run across
them on the Centre-tables of marble
dwellings, and in the poorest novels OF
America and England. Among his
poems. "Over the Hill to the Poor.
| house," Gone with a Han'somer
Man" Betsy and l are Out" and
others, are familiar to every one, II
is said that over 100000 copies of his
books have been sold. His success as
a lecturer has been as great as his sue.
cess as a writer of poetry. Judging
by the prices that lecture committees
pay him, he is the most popular man
on the platform. His lecture at Dover
will be on the Drama of Human Ma.
ture." In it he will recite many of hi.
poems, ,publishedand unpublished. Supt
Handy has yentured something in en-
gaging so expensive q lecturer, but we
believe he is right in supposing that
the people will appreciate the best
and will patrOnize the lectures ac
cordingly.
The price of admission TO the frs
two lectures will be twenty-five cents
reserved seats thirty-five cents. Ad.
mission to the Carleton lecture will bC
fifty cents, no extra charge for reserved
seats.
The arrangement for the day ses
siOns is also creditable. Among th,
day instructors will be DIR. L. o. Lyte
of Millersville Normal School, Super
intend A, ]. Bethel of Cumberland
county, Pa, Superintendent Robert B
Handy of Northampton county, Va.
Examiner w. H. Dashiell of Princes.
Anne, Md, DR.. A. N. Raub, of Della
ware College, and the various county
superintendents of this State.
Superintendent Handy announces q
new departure in assigning one session
of the institute to the discussion O
questions of interest to school clerks
and commissioners. He hopes to hay,
all of the clerks and commissioners o
Kent to meet with the teachers OIL
Friday of institute week, this day
being set aside as school commissioners
day.
The usual reduction in car fare anC
rates at the hotels has been secured
Persons desiring card orders for tn,
reduced car fare can get them from The
county superintendent.
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