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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-27
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-27
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-08
4 Common Mist AXE.

Among the many cases OF discipline
that arise in the SchOoirOOm, per-
haps the most difficult and the most
disastrous are often those in which
parents become involved. We some
times wonder if the majority of parents
know anything of the school beyond
when summoned to the principals
tribunal to answer for the misdemean-
ors of their children. Then. too often,
they come annoyed by the inconven-
fence. impatient of the complaint, and
in no mood to understand the teach
ers's grievance, and ready to take Of
fence at any plain statement of truth.
Severe censure, reckless and preju-
diced denunciation. often follow such
a session. The parent is embittered
against the whole school system, the
child rejoices in his power to excite SO
notable a disturbance, the teacher re-
solves to ignore home relations in the
future, and the attempt at discipline
results in little more than turmoil.
We attempt no discussion of the
causes OF occasions of such failures.
The teacher has our entire sympathy;
so has the parent. But we would make
a suggestion as to the cause Of the
trouble.
The teacher views the case from a
schoolroom standpoint; tie parent is in
clined to see through the child's eyes.
The teacher treats the pupil as one Of
many, subject to rules made for the
good of the whole; the parent thinks
of the individual rights of his child.
The teacher regarding the boy in his
relation to the school, passes severe
judgment; the parent, looking at the
fault apart from the effect upon the
school, thinks the misdemeanor OF
slight moment They look at opposite
sides of the shield. This is not strange.
The wise teacher understands the
parents position, and patiently ex-
plains her own, instead of assuming
that his point of view is the same, and
thus multiplying misunderstanding.
Further, it is well to remember that
the parents have some rights which the
teacher should respect, some interests
which she should consider. some nreiu-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-08
Arithmetical Work.

To be responsible for the vindication
of ones own work. and so instruct 9TH
er members of a class upon puzzling
question, brings 4 zest and Il strength
of mind that increases the value of the
lesson tenfold. if the explanation is
properly conducted. 1t is trying
time TO the lover of accuracy in the
use of language when the poorly
trained class tell the why of their
work.
Pupils who do fairly good language
work in other studies are here often al
lowed to lose sight of the teaching
that thought should be expressed clear
", fully, and precisely. Processes are
substituted for reasons, thereby feed
ing the listeners on husks of mental
truth. The first rules of number are
the servants of the intelligent child
workers, and he should no more be
told to add, subtract, multiply, or di-
vide, in order to get a certain result,
than the carpenters apprentice to get
hammer when nail is to be driven.
If the work is hard to manage, pro-
cess may be designated, and the hand
ling carefully taught, after which the
kind of work will determine the tool.
Pupils should not receive answers to
the questions. Shall add?" or Shall
| divide?n Rules and definitions may
be treated with due respect, and yet
kept in their places.
The multiplicand names the product.
and many complications may be avoid
ed by the thorough teaching of this
principle. The meaning of a unit of
measure should be taught before COM
pound numbers, and used after being
taught. Use it in percentage with or
without the element of time; and, in
fact use it in all arithmetieal work,
never letting the pupil lose sight of it.
The words, at would be, covering so
many insecure points, mean nothing,
and can be banished
Do not disregard the tense of the
question. Even the youngest pupils
soon learn to use the past and present
lenses as readily as the future. This
alone makes the question more practi-
cal and interesting. In sketches of
work to be done on the following day,
tense should be plainly specified.
Find and ''to tindn will soon cease
to be carelessly used, if it be explained
that the words are often unnecessary,
the pupil giving the explanation has
no special right to dictate. b.
WeLch
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-08
The Mannikin MamlOtta of Africa.

Nelson had curious account to give
of the dwarfs of the Congo Forest. He
describes them as the ugliest and most
depraved specimens of humanity he
ever heard Of. They struck me as
the dark and forbidding features of a
nightmare, he said, ''rather than
actual human beings, when we first
saw them. O. they're bad lot, tell
YOU. Sometimes we struck a district
where they seemed a tritle less wild or
more confident, and they used to come
in swarms to the camp. They, of
course had never seen a white man
before.
The most disagreeable thing about
them was their guilty, sneaking eX-
preston. They are cannibals, of
course, and it always seemed to me
that they came into our camp for the
purpose of feasting their eyes on US, as
pack of hungry dogs might gaze
longingly at leg of mutton. They
could never look us in the face. |
have felt their baleful gaze on me as |
sat at my tent door, aud the moment
that looked all eyes would instantly
be dropped. But | have detected them
SlZlDg u Inc OtuclS, anu idlIlJ IlChlbS
their chops. 1t used to make my flesh
creep. They used to pay more atten-
ton to Jephson than any Of US. We
were none of US overburdened with
Drawn in those days, but Jephson is of
plumper build than any of the others,
hence his popularity with these impish
cannibals. They admired Jephson be-
cause they saw at glance that he would
cut into more steaks and better rib
roasts than we others.
II tell you what" continued the gal
liant Captain, somebody ought to call
the attention of the missionary societies
to these depraved manikins. 1t would
be a Christian and civilized act to
send out to these benighted beings
twenty or thirty plump, rosy-cheeked
young missionaries and a few bottles
of Worcestershire sauce. There is no
such field for missionary usefulness in
all Africa as in the Congo Forests.
Africans, l know, are as general
thing ungrateful and unappreciative,
but assure you there is a positive de-
mand for missionaries among these
dwarfs, and will guarantee that every
one sent will be duly appreciated. with
or without the Worcestershire sauce"
Thomas SteCenS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-08
What an Imagination!

DR.. Thompson was walking, in his col
lege days, with two companions, one of
whom was Alfred Tennyson; of the NAME
of the other | am not sure. The path by
which they went was one which all Cam
bridge men know, namely y. that which
leads from the backs of the colleges through
the fields towards Cotton. After passing
the brook, which used to be crossed land
perhaps is now by a rude wooden bridge.
it was perceived that Tennyson had Jagged
behind. He had paused by the side of the
brook, brought his eyes as near IS he could
to the surface of the water, and was eX-
amining with intense interest the suba-
queous life which the little stream con-
tanned After time he rejoined his COM
panions, and this was his utterance when
he joined them: What an imagination
God has," The words must have made a
deep impression upon my informant s
mind; otherwise he would cot have retain
ed them in memory and would not have
thought it worth while to repeat them to
me. They made similar impression on
myself when so repeated; and | can not
but regard them as containing true phil
osophy of Nature Whatever may be the
power of natural selection, and whatever
causes may be at work to produce the
varied scenes of life which the world con-
tains, you need some underlying cause.
both of life itself and of reproduction and
variation, and of all natural phenomena;
and if casually the existence of the uni
verse may be attributed to Gods will and
purpose, 50 the endless variety of vital
manifestations may be attributed to that
which in the case Of man we should call
imagination. -Tile Bishop of Carlisle in
the Nineteenth Century.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-08
A Happy Man Was Adam.

When you come to think of it coolly
and calmly after the lapse of all these
years, Adam and Eve were pretty for
tunate people. Adam never had to
run dead heats with the house dogs.
He didn't even have to sit in the parlor
and talk politics with EYES father.
When they quarreled and Eve climbed
tree Adam didn't have to write long
letters and spend hours of anxiety and
postage stamps to make it up. All he
had to do was to sit down under the
tree and wait till Ewes temper recov-
cred its normal sweetness. He never
patronized confectionery stores, he
merely went to the nearest fruit tree,
plucked a nice ripe pineapple, and pre-
sented it with his compliments. Theirs
was a beautiful dream of welded life.
When Eve wanted a new dress, Adam
went to the nearest fig tree and got it.
And Eve never felt called upon to
mend a bursted buttOn-hole or help
Adam hunt his collar-button, or take
all the blame because he stumbled over
the rocking chair. 1t was monopoly
on unauthorized comfort and if Eve
had only had enough feminine sagacity
to lift up her skirts and scream and
run when she saw the snake we would
not be having all this trouble now
WASHINGTON Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-08
The FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
THE MOTHERS WISH.
BOSTON TRANSCRIPT.

BOSTON TRANSCRIPT
81 wish | had an eagles sight!
Said Johnnie, with radiant look,
As all sat round the evening light.
Each occupied with work or book
''Then on far Eiffel tower I'd stand
And view the wonders on each hand"
'sBut you've no ship to cross the seal!
Cried little May in quick reply.
tAnd, if you had-hOw sick you'd be!'
''Td take the eagles wings and fly
Then on and on Ger hill and plain.
Right round the world and home again.
'sPshaw! Eyes and wings" sneered sturdy
Dan
s'Id choose, if / a choice could make,
A lions strength ''And l., said Nan,
1.-THE liIy's breath and beauty take"
Then sweet-toothed Nell piped, For my
Give me, from bees, the honey art"
Wishing ran wild. We all were gay,
Mother sat sewing weary-faced:
Small time had she for books or play
So many stitches must be placed,
Old pussy stretched, lazy and fat,
Close at her feet upon the mat
Mother called Dan, '''Tis your turn now!
What would you take had you the chance?''
She pushed her glasses up her brow
And gave us all a kindly glance
''Well, if | could and twas no crime,
''l'd take she said, 'the cats spare time ;
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-08
The UplOok of Women.


To say the working girls convention
which has been sitting In this city for the
last few days is one of the most remarkable
we have ever had in this city would be say
ing something very commonplace It is
in reality the outward and visible sign Of
an extraordinary change in the outlook of
class which was perhaps less considered
and IN many ways more helpless than any
other portion of the communicable
young girls dependent on the work of
their hands for their own support. That
they should have come up out of the dull
and dreary and lonely obscuriey of their
homes, have organized themselves into
clubs for mutual assistance, enjoyment and
improvement, have provided themselves
with comfortable club-rooms, where they
get hopeful and elevating glimpses of all
that is going on in the great world out
side the humble sphere in which they live
assurances of sympathy, hints about life,
manners, dress and cultivation, from wo-
men more fortunately situated, and pos
sessing a larger experience - that this
movement should have spread widely and
should have resulted in the meeting of 200
girl delegates to talk over common inter-
ests and experiences is certainly very sin
gular and most hopeful phenomenon.
Most of the the large cities have been rep
resented in the convention-Boston, Phila-
delphia, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Chicago,
San Francisco, and many smaller places.
The movement, we believe, originated in
New York. and was due to the initiative
of Miss Grace Dodge and Miss Clara Pot
ter; and it is movement which. of course,
could not have succeeded without the dis
play of extraordinary tact as we'll as prac-
teal wisdom in winning and justifying the
confidence of the girls in their sympathy
and cooperation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-08
A Plague of Rats.

The Laccadive islands are suffering
from dreadful plague of rats which
have destroyed the cocoanut pianta-
tions and reduced the inhabitants to
restitution. The plaster of paris cure
is being tried. 1t consists in sprink-
ling plenty of powdered plaster of
paris upon boiled rice. After eating
it the rats become thirsty, it is said,
and when they have drank the water
hardens the plaster of paris and kills
them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-08
ROY AL NJ TSICIANS.
There Are Many Expert Players in Reisn-
ing Families.
NN.., Nr,I

There are surprisingly many expert mu-
sicians in the royal houses of Europe.
Queen Victoria and her daughter Louise
play the piano and organ with great skill
The prince of Wales knows all about play
ing the banjo and his wife is an excellent
pianist. The Duke of Connaugh can do
wonders with the flute, and the Duke of
Edinburgh is hardly less accomplished in
handling the violin. The Gar performs
famously with a silver trumpet. The EN-
press of Austria is one of the finest either
players on the continent. The Queen of
Italy does the most difficult pieces of Ital-
ian and German composers on the piano.
The Empress of Japan excels in playing
the ''koto, " a Japanese instrument not I'M
like an overgrown either. The gifted
Queen of Roumania is celebrated among
her subjects for her extraordinary per-
formances on the harp and piano. King
George, of Greece, extracts melody from
castanets and wine glasses with the skill
of variety show artist He plays almost
equally well on the Hungarian ''cymba-
lum," concerning which his daughter, the
Crown Princess Sophie, is also learning as
much as two Hungarian professors of mu-
sic can teach her. Prince Henry of Prus-
STA is one of the best amateur musicians
on the continent. He plays the piano
and violin and is composer of consider
able reputatiOn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-08
GROVER cLEVELAND'S WoOINc.
Mrs. Cleveland Tells Why She Said Yes to
the Fat Mans Fifth Proposal.

am able to give some inside infor-
nation about ex-President Clevelands
romance. At the time of the wedding
the mouths of the President and his
wife were as tight as those of a clam
concerning their love affair None Of
their friends knew much about their
courtship, and they went on the prin-
ciple of the great German proverb that
speech is silver, but silence is golden"
The wedding is still gossipped about
here, and the women pronounce it 3
love match, while the men invaria bly,
take the ground that the White House
had a great deal to do with Mrs. Cleve-
lands acceptance. 1t seems that the
men are somewhat in the right, and a
lady who recently returned from a
wedding trip to the Continent gives
one of my friends a conversation which
she had with Mrs. Cleveland not long
ago. The story as it comes to me is
quite spicy, and | do not vouch that the
report of the talk is verbatim. | give
it as l hear it. This lady said:
II met Mrs. Cleveland shortly after
| landed in New York, and ore of the
first questions she asked rae was to
pray tell her how long l was engaged
before | was married.
Il answered her and told her the
story of our courtship. She listened
with interest, and when I was through
l concluded that / would learn some
thing from her in return. l asked
Mrs. Cleveland, | have seen a
great many stories about your mar
riage, and the most | have seen have
been contradicted by you or your
friends. | have told you my story, and
now want you to tell me yours. How
long were you engaged to the Presi-
dent before you were married?'
Mrs. Cleveland laughed and
blushed, and said:
"'Oh. there are the most ridiculous
stories told about us, but honestly
they are hardly as funny as it really
was. Uncle Grover proposed to me
five times before | accepted him. First,
when | was IA, and | just laughed at
the idea, for he seemed so much older.
Then again, two years later, when I
went to college, and the third time
when he was elected Governor of New
York. | was by no means ready to
marry any one, and he let things 90
for year. or until he was nominated
for the presidency. Then he asked me
again, and again refused. At last he
was elected and | promised to marry
him in year. OF course | al
ways liked him better than any one
else, and [ always meant to marry him
some day, but III own the White
House had something to do with hur-
rylng it up. "'-ROcheSter Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-08
A GIANT SCHEME.
Plan to Build a Trans Continental Line to
the Coast

KANSAS CITY, March 5.-A dispatch
from Leavenworth, Kan, says: 4 big
railroad scheme with millions to back it,
is on foot for a trans-continental short
line from New York to the Pacific. The
enterprise is in the hands of a body of
English capitalists and American
railroad men. This syndicate has
been secretly at work for a
time. From Leavenworth to Denver, the
route surveyed two years ago, and known
as the Denver short line, and more recent
ly as the Leavenworth, Denver & Utah
short line. will be used. This survey is
50 miles shorter than any existing line of
railroad now running into Denver. From
Denver to Salt Lake City, the continual
ton of this survey, 200 miles is savad
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-08
A PET COON.


How it Worries the Life Out of Its Mis-
tress.
A writer in the New York Sun tells d
very laughable story Of young coon that
boy named Ossian Lindley has trained.
Here is an extract:
From that time ON Mrs. Lindley's chief
object in life was the keeping of the coon
out of the house The kitchen doorways
were provided with screens, and Stats
were nailed over the kitchen windows
But that would not do. Somehow the
young rascal learned that the door knobs
had only to be turned to open door, and
when the kitchen door was found barred
some other door was attacked. Incredible
as it may seem. the coon would climb up
the door frame. clasp the knob in its fore
paws, and turning the knob, open the
door. Once inside the house it soon learn
ed how to lift the iron latch that held the
pantry door. It's sense of smell probably
took it to the pantry. There nothing not
carefully covered was safe. Bread, meat.
milk, butter, cheese, sugar pastry, sweets
Of all sorts, in fact, anything from raw po-
tatOes to preserves, from raw pork to boiled
partridge, was found to the taste of the
young beast, but seldom did it seem wholly
to satiate its appetite.
Meanwhile Ossian was training it as
dogs are trained. 1t was taught to sit up
on its launches and fold its paws when
told that 1t was time to pray. 1t would on
the word arch up its back like an angry
cat, and at the same time spread the fur
on its ringed tail in a way that was inter
esting. 1t learned to snarl when told that
dogs were coming, and as climax to all
its other tricks it would, when told to
laugh, lie down on it's back. paw the air
with it four feet, open wide its mouth and
squeal in voice that was overwhelmingly
funny to all that heard it. But as Mrs.
Lindley justly observed, the more it learn
ed the worse it became in its behavior
about the pantry, and the more care had
to be observed to keep it out of mischief.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-08
SchOOlrOOm Notes.

Have you done any professional read
ing this school year9
Better men and women are more
needed than better devices.
The teacher is neither police officer
nor a detective, no more is the superin-
tendent.
The one characteristic of a superin-
tendent that is ineXcusable is fussi-
ness.
Rejoice when you see a pupil who is
able to stand alone in thinking or do
ing.
Charlemagne, in the eighth century,
required that the children of all rulers
should be educated.
The leland school law of 1888 in
sisted upon education because cit is
the foundation of the cOmmOnW ealth. :"
In many schools so much is required
to be learned that no time is left for
thinking, testing thought, or teaching
the art of thinking.
The best thing you can do for your
pupils, especially in the upper gram
mar grades. is to give an impulse which
will prompt them to carry their work
onward into the future.
1t is better for teacher to make
thorough, special preparation in one
subject for few days and then in an
other and another, than to tlatter herself
that she makes thorough preparation
in all each day, which is impossible.
A good memory is indispensable out
of school as well as in. We mean
something more than word-memory.
You can exert more disciplinary
power through the eyes with less men
tai exhaustion than in any other way.
In some way, indeed in every way,
aim at a thorough insight into the
mos, common phenomena of every day
life.
With some pupils the effort of rising
before reclting so dissipates thought
that they are i'll at ease, while with
others it is the stimulant needed for
their best work,
-Jour7aal Of Education.
Martin Luther: Every child is worthy
to have the best education,
Richard G. Boone: The notion of
universal education is common to all
philosophy.
Pres't. L. R. Fiske, Michigan: The
state maintains the school not for
scholarship, but for the public good.
John Lothrop Motley: The New En-
CHAMBERS gained their educational i'm
pulse more from the Netherlands than
from England.
Horace Mann: The transference of
the fortunes of our race from the Old
to the New World was gain to human
ity of thousand y 5ars.
Froebel: The kindergarten can only
have its full development in America,
where the national principle is self
government, in perfect freedom, but
according to law.
DR.. H. Hensoldt, Columbia College:
Natural history is knocking at the door
of public schools, clamoring for admis-
sion; be wise in your generation, make
some concessions, do not let 1t plead in
vain.
George Bancroft's History of the
United States: The common school
system was derived from Geneva, the
work of John Calvan; introduced by
Luther into Germany; by John Knox
into Scotland; and so became the prop
erty of the English-speaking nation.
Professor Frazier, Franklin Institute:
No man who amounts to anything
| works on his subject all the time. The
intellectual leaders of our own age read
novels, and most of them enjoy Alex
| ander Dumas. Life is usually long
enough to read the scientific books
cited and good novels, too.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-08
ASPIRATION.

AS one who tolls by the river side
For treasures few and small,
To change for bread-yet at eventide.
Returns to his home with none at all
So |, through poor unfruitful day,
Of lowering clouds and rain,
Have trod my uneventful way.
And borne LIES unavailing strain.
And now, at night, as I watch the stars
Rise o er the land and sea,
My spirit chafes against its bars.
And struggles vainly TO be free.
A nobler eminence to gain.
As some wild bird of air,
Caught in snare of passion and pain.
And fettered by ignobie care.