Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-03
YOUTHFUL STUDENTS
DELIGHT PARENTS AND FRIENDS AT MOUNT
 PISsoN-soHooL EXERCISES.

DELlGEf PAREkT6 AND FRIENDS AT MDUHT
 PISsoN-scHooL EXERCISES.
 MOUNT PISsoN. July 2.-iSpecial Core spondence. l-If effect follows Inc fire, it is not uninteresting to a newspaper to note how young ideas are taught to shoot nowa- days, the teachers part being elaborated into fields once unexplored within the memory of teachers now at work, of so re- cent rule of performance is it.
 Our village schools all went into summer vacation with the closing exercises of the primary, under Miss Rosale DuBose, oi Saturday afternoon last. It was made holiday by common consent, and the eom- munity hied themselves away from home to the shades of the public grove for few hours wholesome entertainment. The brides of last summer and the babies of this; the maids in meditation, fancy free or otherwise: the widows blooming, or in sere and yellowleaf-if any of the latter; men with purpose and men purposeless, came by wagon loads in bright, fresh clothes and happy faces.
 There are no ttslrikes' to laden the air without cries of man B inhumanity to man, aud il man was made to mourn, as the poet insists, there must be flaw in the general scheme of the manufacturer, so far as Ha9ood' s precinct, No. 15, in the assignment of Jefferson county IS con- cerned. When tue seasons are reasonably just we go along as usual with the genera
 
 old names upon the old farms cleared of timber with the red man looking on in alarm are seldom disturbed by land trans fers as the centuries pass. Such is the de- mocracy dreamed of by our titular saint, Thomas Jefferson, and it is good article!
 The school exercises aforesaid were visi- ply acceptable to all lockers on. As tue narrative would be unduly heightened to make full report, suffice 1t to say in ex- planation of the whole that tho class in roo Inv aft ofad nj tfajF1 anti nff ffar the following plan, viz: The pupils each undertook to give an oral description of some state of the republic, selected by him or herself. Each having gone through such exercise, the whole class, one by one, described each after his own fashion the state of Alabama, each presenting to the view of the audience a map of Alabama made by himself on paper.
 The geographical exercise was closed by a recitation in verse commemoratiug the heroism of some Con federate soldier from the state described. Perhaps the old ''rebs' looked down from their exalted niches in the temple of fame to hear the roll call amidst so happy scene. Per the "Little Patriots Drill" proceeded, with wooden swords and wooden rifles, quick commands of infantile officers and steady bayonet charges of their "men,' arrayed like ia stone wall' in bright paper uniforms. Then came the stirring notes of "Dixie" from the whole sscommand, !" with piano accomp apartment. Long live Dixiel
 If the political weather prophet Is not awry, we shall have another play upon the same spot on next Saturday of different character, however. Won't you come outf We are going to have an old-time political talk, where both sides will do their part. They are coming from all the region round about and excitement sensbly grows in an- ticipation. Philip put up his gold against the oratory of Domosthenes and-won Attn ems. But 1t is not all history that repeats itself, thanks be to s'the common masses of the common people, of Alabama.