Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-03-02

Several car loads Of Butler people
went to Pittsuurg on Wednesday To see
..Sinbad. =" the West Penn giving them the
round tnp for one dollar
The northern sky was illuminod last
Friday night between the hours OF y and ~
bv what is called the Aurora Borealis- Il
was beautiful and dazzling panorama, and
il is a phenomenon that astronomers can
not account Tor.
The West Penn hospital in Pittsburg
containing 230 patients, &c female nurses, .
resident physicians, besides clerks. order
lies, cooks and other attaches, numbering
in all over 800 persons, was placed under
quarantine regulations nj o'clock last
Saturday evening by Supt Baker OF the
bureau of health. During the day genu-
inc case Of smallpox developed 10 the hos
pital. the victim being Mrs Eliza Richard
son, col0red q domestic until recently EN-
ployed with family On Stanton ave.
Let oar farmers keep in mind the
Farmers Institute, to be held at Sip perry
rock on Tuesday and Wednesday OF next
week. W I.Dbamberlain viii address the
meeting on different subjects that viii III
terest every farmer An interesting pro-
gram has teen made ont and already pub
listed The Sheuaago road will offer re-
duced rates to all who attend this meeting
and as It's purpose is educational II IS mop
ed that al VINO can will attend. Don't
forget the dates. March 6 and Z.
That's funny country they have on
the western slope Of this continent. Inc
other day man digging cellar IN Taco
ma, Wash, found q vein OF quartz rock
which an essayer tested and found to carry
$50 in silver and S27 in gold per ton.
The ledge runs onIy feet below the sur
face. There is now fear that the city
will be torn up aud undermined. Houses
worth from So. 600 u SO, 600 stand over
the ledge.
1t is seldom that the rod is resorted to
in the public schools Of Batter aud then
only 10 extrsn. cases. Tlis u right If
pupil cannoIi controlled by mara sua
sion or by ~tnl- punishment other than IDr
rod, th ere must be something wrong with
the teacher. Talking with one of the most
popular teachers IN Bzier, lately We asked
How do you punish your refractory
scholars no9f Lambaste 'em with rod"
"No, indeed" was me reply, worse than
that punish them with the constitution.
If boy is pad | give him ten lines of the
constitution of the United States to MEM
orize. aud he remains after school hours To
memorize them. If he continues 20 be
bad give nim fifteen lines more 10 COM
init To memory, and every subsequent Of
fense he gets five lines added until the
total amounts tD forts hnes for one oHense
Then | make him 60 back TO the begin
ming and memcnze and reeite up to the
point be has left off at his last punishment
After a boy has memnrizad the consi1tu-
tiou Of the United StateS / put him %
memorizing the constitution Of Pennsyl-
vania, giving him ten lines the first tine,
and increasing 10y degrees Of i've lines un-
Ill his highest task Is forty lines If boy
is rrone To badness, it is not long before
ne knows botn constitutions by heart and
be can repeat them or quote from them.
Then turn him in or the Declaration OF
Independence, and he goes through the
mill again. You see, aside from the pun
ishment-harmless to bis body, but beneh-
cial To his mind-I am making a good
citiznn OF him. The patriotism and in
formation condensed IN the Constitution OF
the United States and Pennsylvania and
the Declaration of Independence is just
what growing boy needs Alter while,
when the stock OF constitutions and dec
laratlons is exhausted. | will put the bad
boys to memurzing patriotic poems, and
thus do good in another direction There
are too few of the scholars in our schools
who have memoTized our national songs
There should be more" Now there's
teacher with rare good SENSE. Her alleged
punishment will bear good fruit.