The Republican journal., 1892-05-05


We summer vacation had comme
Ye birche and We rule We're hung on We pegge,
Ye urchns had left on We t1eete-fOoted legge,
And ye master hummed softly a songe.
We thoughts meditative We're filling his
bralne,
We harde o'erworked organ so longe,
OF We longe idle weeks when We saarie
stoppes,
Yet We wants they increase lyke We sandes
in We boXe,
And We bills they 1eepe running right onne
We lack of harde cash smote We master fulle
We while he was humnng We songe;
We White Mountain excursions, and thynges
by We score
Vt We srhoole papers praise, but we purse
doth depore,
Filled We master With sadness tnlle stronge
We sleeke man who rules DER We bigge city
schoole,
In We office 50 snugge and 50 warm,
Far away from sc noise of ye troublesome
bOyeS,
Vt ve schoomarme must heare tho She
scarcely enjoves,
Has ye crealMe vt he Worles not We farme.
Thus thought We good, man as he safe at We
deSke,
Nc dave when We schoole worke was dome
And ye tune Vt he hummed made him dou-
bly, depressed,
y G refr;line OF which was, REST We weary
one. rest
Yet in iellene>, rest found him nome.
W yelrcS three score were impending before
When We master should ice onlle Sc shelf,
Yet noncompliance woune for We life setting
SOME,
When We daNes should I've free and ye cares
should he nOnne,
And We thoughtes should b., far hevonde
stfe.
But We master he saitr, a, he thonghte and
he praN,le
Der We lot which to lj:nme seemed harde,
''le goode Lorde o,4 hyghe who ruleth We
skye,
Knows what's lntett for his inortals far bet
ter than !
And We croWne of rewards which now seem
eth not nve
May be We welle dome in We mansions so
hyghe,
When We servants account to their Lorde.'
III ]. Mathewson in Boston Transcript
At a recent meeting of Cumberland
Pomona Grange the first topic for dis
c1,ssion. 1.-The Study of Agriculture in
the Public schools, was opened by Pro
fessor Corthell. principal Of the State Nor
NAL school at Gorham. He said that the
Massachusetts in method of teaching and
the schools il tile rural districts of Maine
are far behind those of the Maine cities
The approved Massachusetts method is
what they call there teaching nature.
hut Il better name for it. the speaker
Thought would be to call it teaching the
elements OF natural science. They are
teaching this in the city schools. not with
the object of making farmers. bat be
,ailst, they regard it as essential to a real
education. that the pupils should be train
ed Ia know and appreciate the facts of life.
Agriculture as an art must be learned by
practice. There is knowledge of the
nature of things the farmer deals with
soils, plants fertilizers. animals. insects,
heat and cold and drainage. Elementary
science is taught successfully by people
wlls teach SUPPLEMENTARY. In the kim
eergarten children learn facts about
plant life through planting seeds and
watching the daily growth. Chemistry,
zoology and mineralogY are taught eX-
perimentally to-day, where i'll former
wears it wa, attempted to teach them
from the text books only. 1t once
was the idea that children must be
taught to read III word, Of two or three
letters; the az abs, AMI at. ats. ETC..
bnt that idea is nj exploited said the
speaker: | can teach a child rlle word
wheeibairow, if he knows a whrelbalrow
when he see, one quicker tllan / can
teacll HIM the word lat. - viii stake
my reputation IL teacher upon the state
nent that 30 m;tii orw"man can teach the
fact, of agriculture except experimental
ly 81 effectively. Ii Yea add a text book
Yoll merely add dnothrl to The. collection
and make The knuwieJ-e OF the pupil
thinner than before. There is a pressure
being brought to bca! upon the teach
ers Ia get them t." teach agriculture.
but in the rural districts the teachers are
not at present adapted 10 teach objective
~ hf j'hDi4t, iapNtN'l. VIII bHiN nave
TO make the demand when We shall see
the bright girl teachers prepare them
selves for the work. People who are alive
30 years from now will see the schools of
Maine based upon an entirely different
system.
Hon. Warren ii. Ninton was the next
speaker and continued the discussion.
He said it was melancholy to look over
the schools and compare them with the
scho':> of 10 years ago. Where the schools
used t. be overlooking, now the scholars
have disappeared. Though we have ten
times rs much money to put into them as
we haet then, the schools do not begin to
compare with those Of 40 years AGO. Then
the teachers We're for the most part Young
men raibltious to succeed: now the selec-
ton OF Il teacher is Il squabble OF election
in the school district. and fitness is hard
ly considered. We are taxed to dt ath for
schools, and we are willing to l,c. We
want all the children to be educated and
will cheerfully eXpend any sum for that
object but under the pre sent inefficient