The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-02-11

the other by merely touching finger
to the rosy cheek. You can verify
these statements by reference to any
resident of any place in that section.
Value Of Observation.
The late Rev. Henry Ward Beech
er said once that he never saw any
body doing anything without watchn
ing to see how it was done, as there
was no knowing but that some time
he might have to do it himself. This
habit of observation once served him
in good stead. II was going,N he says,
across a prairie when my horse be-
gan to limp. Luckily, | came across
blacksmith shop, but the smith was
not at home. | asked the woman of
the house if she would allow me to
start fire and make the shoe. She
said might if | knew how. So |
started the fire and heated the shoe
red hot, and turned it to fit my horses
foot, and paired the hoofs and turned
the pc ints of the nails out cunlingly,
as had seen the blacksmith do, so that
in driving into the hoOf they should
not 20 into the quick, and shod the
aorse. AT the next place | Went to
[ went straight to smith and told
him to put the shoe on properly, He
looked at the horses topt and paid me
the greatest compliment | ever re-
ceived in my lie, lie told me that
it put on that shoe, | had better
follow blacks mithing all my lite:
Now, should not have known how
10 do that II | had not looked ON and
seen Others do it."
Another writer in a contemporary
on the same subject says;
Every one should cultivate the tac>
ulty Of observation. If he does so de-
signedIy, it will not be long before he
will do 50 unconsvlously. 1t is better
to learn a thing by observation than
by experiences especially ii it is some
thing to our det1ment. 0Ie would
prefer to know which is the t0adstool
and which is the mushroom by obser-
walton rather than by experiment, for
the latter might cost him his life.
There is hardly vocation in which
observation is not of great service.
and in many it is absolutely essential.
1t adds to the proficiency of the chem.
ist, the naturalist, the mining expert.
AMI the bushman. Observation
quickens experiment. 1t leads to
inference, to deduction, to classiiiea-
ton, and thus theories are tormulat.
ed, sciences established. An observ>
ing boy will become an observing
man, an das boy aud man, ,he will have
an advantage over those who have not
cultivated the faculty. He knows a
thousand things that the unobservant
boy does not know. He does not get
the knowledge from books or from
others, but acquires it for himself
through the use of his eyes and ears.
and properly appreciates it for that
reason. A child may know more han
philosopher about matters that may
not come under the observation Of the
philosopher. A little girl entered the
study of Mezerai, the celebrated his.
toIan, and asked him for coal of
fire. "But you haven't brought n
shovel" he said, 81 don't need any,
was her reply. And then, very much
to his establishment, she filled her
hand with ashes and put the live coal
on top. No doubt the learned man
knew that ashes were bad conduc-
tor of heat, but he had never seen the
fact verified in such practical man
ner. Galileo noticed the swaying of
chandelier in a cathedral, and it
suggested the pendulum to him. To
another inventor the power of steam
and its application was suggested by
the tea kettle on the stove. A poor
monk discovered gunpowder, and an
opticians boy the magnitying lens.