The Jersey City news., 1892-06-02
COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS.
In Which the Editor Gives
Vent to His Simple
Trivial" Nature.
MEMORIES PLEASANT AND SAD.
But Goodwill Always-Homesick'
ness in the Army.


The Companion lately printed ar
article calling attention to the trivia
nature of much of the local news In coun
try papers. The items were. indeed, very
trivial. But what If they are read with
the greatest INTEREST,"
The reporter" is often an aged man
who has always lived in town. aud who
knows everybody. Many of the items
have quaint literary flavor which makes
them interesting to those who do moi
know the persons and places referred to.
They have the interest Of old associations
to many others.
For instance, 1 give the weekly bulge;
from SprucelaDd. together with the men
tal comment, as he reads it, of one who
used to live there:
sPRUcELASD.
Aaron Putnam has caught 100 skunks q
woodchucks, 10 foxes and bears SO far this
Fall
What. old trapper, at it still? You
gave me my first lessons in woodland
lore. / we'll remember the time when the
bear came down the mountain In the
night and stole the fresh meat from the
open pantry window. You took me with
you in pursuit, and l was thoroughly
frightened when the bear turned ana
faced us. until you put bullet In his
brain.
Abner Baldwin has moved off from the old
Benjamin Gutterson place.
$50, then, another "old place" is broken
up, and must be counted among the
abandoned tarmsl Grass Will grow III
the cid road, the farmyard will De filled
with Il tangl d crop of smarLweed, the
lilac trees will go untrimmed, and the
cinnamon rose bushes will choke the
pathway to the weather-beaten door.l
May Martin teaches in the Kingdom and Slat
Hollow district this Fall
[Riverdaie Academy girl, no doubt,
teaching her first term Of district school,
with about eight pupils. Taught my
first term there IN the winter OF 1873. Can
it be as long ago as THAR Slab Hollow, y
indeed! Very hollow. sun rose at half
past ten, aud set before three
Deacon Isaac Pettengill has gone down below
to spend the winter with his son Charles who
has fine position shipping potatoes West. The
old gentleman Is quite feeble.
II suppose the old Vermont people will
speak of Massachusetts and Connecticut
as "below" as long as they I've. Nc
doubt the deacon will stay "peiow" until
he finds the heavenly ladder that he used
to sing about:
If Jacobs ladder l could find,
And be allowed to climb,
I'd leave all earthly things behind
And bid farewell TO time
Mrs. Henry Maynard passed away last Sunday
at the age of thirty-siX. She was one that viii
be good deal missed among u.s.
NELLY dead In the old days you Were
a leader in our happy band. Your hail
rippled down in i'll brown waves, as the
girls wore it then, your eyes were full of
twinkliug light, your smile was the
brightest, and your sweet voice was
always humming the song we loved tC
hear. And so shall you always be in
memory
Willie Randall spent the biggest part of las
week with his folks under the mountain.
["Willie" Randall! Well, no doubt he
still seems boy to the elder people. But
know that in the wide kitchen of the
farmhouse "under the mosntain" there
hangs a great Thanksgiving proclamation
framed and signed, by the Governor
William Randall. Secretary of Civil and
Military Affairs.
And SO the country newspaper goes
about as messenger OF home, awaken
ing memories pleasant and sad. When il
comes 1t is eagerly opened; and am sure
there is more to be said in its favor thar
tor the society news of the METROPOLITAN
pupers.-JOhn Merpin Hull. In Youths
Companion.
The Admission of Women to Yale.
In regard to the admission of women t.
Yale College, President Timothy Wright
says in the June Forum:-
"The authorities of this university have
not attempted. in connection with theil
action; to decide the question of the bes
possible method of carrying forward
undergraduates education for the two
sexes under all circumstances. They hav,
observed and considered the existing
facts, and in view of them have taken
what they believe to be Il desirable course
for all the hi CHEST Interests in the case.
The decision to which they have come !!
to open the graduate or. as they are fire
quently caile,i, the postgraduate courses
of study leading to the degree OF doctor
of philosophy to candidates of both sexes
These candidates are to be graduates OF
colleges, or in exceptional cases,
by special permission. other per
sons of liberal education. The
| number of such exceptional cases
body of students tn these courses, sub
stantinliy. being college graduates. NJ
others have been admitted whose progress
and attachments have not been ascer
tained to be abundantly sufficient to quail
ify them for pursuing the studies, ant
also for pursuing them on equal term
with their associates who have obtained
y
en-, accordingly, VINO will be received viii
he of an age ana at Il stage of develop
ment aud progress which are beyond tn,
undergraduate period. They will be. lik
the young men of the graduate depart
ment. persons who are giving themselve
to special studies much after the sam,
manner as professional students who de
vote themselves to the work Of the profes
sional schools"
Inconsistencies in the Army.
1t would be an incomplete story of lif
at post which said nothing of the visit
of homesickness. which many strong me
in the West have confessed to me, is LII
worst sickness with which man is curst
Aud 1t is an illness " hich comes at II
regular periods to those of the men wn
know aud who love the East. 1t is not
homesickness for one home or for one PEI
son, but "a case of that madness whic
seized Private Otheris. only in q les
| m lignPnt form. and In the officers quar-
ters. An impotent protest against tn
| immuta bility of time aud of space Is one O
| its symptoms-a sick disgust of the planl
prairie, blsckrneda by tire as though it hi,