The Newtown bee., 1892-01-08

comes law or eQuallZaGlOn. when man comes to possess more than he can use for his own best good and the high est interests of others, in justice, the surplus belongs to others who have not enough. Hence the wise man is not anxious to take more care and responsi- bility than naturally belongs to him. Let the man to whom the baggage be- longs carry the burden and have the care. There are none too many good things in the world and it is best that every one should have his share. If a few men monopolize the necessities of life, in the long run they must expect to pay the bills.
 We have often had occasion to warn people to take heed as to the manner in which they read the newspapers. Not that the newspapers are to be summed, but that they should be used with right judgment and reason. With some, news paper reading is simply habit. The paper comes regularly, and therefore it is gone through with at the appointed time. There is no particular interest in reading the news, except, perhaps, a natural curiosity; but it is simply hab- it. Such a mere habit, without any par ticular motive, we think is deplorable in itself, and may easily lead to still more deplorable results. Some people read for the sensation of startling events, and are disappointed if the latest news has nothing to shock their nerve centres. With some, their daily paper is their law and gospel, and cyclopedia, and the daily food of their minds and hearts. The world. to many, is what the news paper makes it, and hence it is matter of the greatest importance to have a good paper and to know how to read it.. In the first place, the discrete reader will bear in mind what the grand purpose of the paper is. What is the standard What does it aim to accomplish? What is it devoted to? Has it principles, or does it pander? Is it merely a money making enterprise, or has it moral con- victions to fight for? Does it seek sim- ply to report striking events to startle it's readers, or does it aim to instruct and guide also, by drawing suitable lessons from the worlds experience? Again, it should be considered that in the nature of things evil is much more conspicuous than good. Sin is unnatural and, there fore, it is startling and dreadful, and makes a greater sensation than good. Defalcations and robberies, seductions and murders, wranglings and wars make up the burden of some of our daily papers. Ugly facts they may be, worthy of the regions of the internal; but the reader should be careful how he judges the world by this side of the picture only. We need to look at the other side of the worlds bulletin also. Truth is mightier than error; good will at last triumphs over evil, but the left hand knoweth not what the right hand doeth. the best newspaper to get the good ot that.
 One of the most essential things in the management of district school is the simplest classification possible. The fewer classes the better. There should not be q minute wasted in the handling of superfuous divisions of pupils who for all practical purposes might recite al the same time, even if they are not quite together in the same books. It is not l profitable to have a constant marching and countermarching of classes to and from recitations. Some teachers are prone to spend a large proportion ot time and energy in the mere manuverine of the school. Everything should be subordinate to mental activity.
 Education means the drawing out and training of the powers of the soul in har- mony with each other and according to the designs of God. It embraces the moral and spiritual nature as well as the mental faculties. The teacher should ever remember that moral character is the standard of the man. Better neglect everything else than the manners and morals of the school room. It is quite possible that school may be so conspic- uous for dirt. disorder and neglect of all questions of right and wrong that the general effect is degradation and not ed ucation, notwithstanding that the text books are we'll taught.
 We wonder whether it ever occurs to farmers, generally. that there is great moral responsibility attaching to the use they make of the farms they own or hire Men are apt to forget that their private hnaippGS nf naaassitu inunlvpS aIen fhp public good. Cupidity makes people short sighted and dull to perceive right and wrong relations between man and man. Indeed, in the long run, selfish ness over-reaches so much as to defeat itself. What right has farmer to raise crops of any kind simply to get the most money for his labor, without regard to the welfare of those who may buy his products? Is it not putting the cart be- fore the horse to do so2 A farmer should get the most money for his crops because they are the best and therefore most per. fectly suited to the wants of consumers and in the long run he will. A mans oc- cupation is his means of doing the most good he can for our common humanity and his own personal benefit comes in as the natural result of his service to his day and generation. "The earth is the [ Lords and the fullness thereof, the world and all they that dwell therein" In what sense does any man own lands ex- cept as he holds them, for time, to use them for the common good? The farm. CTS task is to feed the rest of the world
 What right has he to produce poor pota- ] toes that he may raise great crop in or 5 der to make great gain? What right has anu one tn nrndnca an inferior ma lit V n1