The Newtown bee., 1894-06-29
Editorial Ink Drops.

Editorial Ink Drops. TIE BEE plans to give it's entire corps of workers Il holiday on the Fourth of July. Correspondents will confer al favor by mailing their letters day earlier than usual.
  The new time table on the Berkshire division, which went into effect last week, for the summer, could hardly be improv- ed on, Newtowu people are well satis- fled with the scr, lee, and this Is the con- dition of thing, we understand, iu the towns north and south of us.
 
 From reports from various sections of Western Connecticut, it is evident that the hay crop will be a fair average. The May rains came too late to give the big boom to the hay crop, although it saved the crop from ruin. Farmers are now in the midst of the hay harvest, and to those who are in the habit of taking a jug of cider into the hay field, we would say Empty out the cider, and fill it up with spring water. The man who flirts with the cider jug is in dangerous way. It ia the devils tavern on the broad road to drunkenness.
 
 The only thing now that Is needed to insure the success of the coming local Fourth of July celebration, is good weather, and many anxious people will consult the weather indications on Tues day night for favorable reports of We'd nesday's weather. The preparations for the event have been elaborate, and it seems likely that there will be a great NApNt III AONi 'tl tiibb uNNs llt pItS- euce of the Governor of the State will lend special interest to the celebration, and he will receive a cordial welcome. It promises to be red letter day in local history.
 The whole civilized world has been deeply shocked in the awful death of President Carnot of France. The trage- dy occurred on Saturday. The assassin was an Italian anarchist. President Car not went to Lyons to visit the exhibi- tion of arts, sciences, and industries He had taken his seat in his carriage, when the anarchist, a newspaper in hand, pressed through the crowd and sprarg upon the carriage steps. He snatched a dagger from the newspaper and plunged 1t into the presidents abdo men. The president sank back uncon scious and died in a few hours.
 
 I believe, says Thomas Davidson 1T the July Forum, that most boys who find themselves in a position to do SC will go to college. Nor will they bt wrong in doing SO; for, notwithstanding all the drawbacks of our colleges; theil  want of definite unitary aim and ideal their medieval, half-professiona curricula; the dry, uninspiring formal ism and useless erudition of much of the teaching; the easy philistinism or dreary pessimism of many of the older teachers the pert, callow Germanism of many o1 the younger ones; the boyishness ol many of the students; their snug flop pishness and stupid devotion to half-bru tai games and half-silly girls,-notwith standing all this and much more, there are clements In college life which tho youth who aims at free manhood canno afford to overlook. It is at college tha the young man who by discipline, study and travel has attained self-control, al earnest view of life, and a large, gener ous outlook, can best put these qualitie to practical test, by mingling, on ire, and easy terms, with men of his owl age, entering into intimate relation with them, and comparing their aim with his own. He is now old enough t. have definite views and purposes, bu not too old to learn how they must b, modified in order to be servceable in tn actual world. And nowhere can h. learn this sooner or better than at college It is natural enough to suppose that tn value of college life is due to what i done in the solitary study and in tn classroom, whereas in truth it is du mainly to the social and friendly rela tions which the students establish witt each other. Accordingly, the wise par ent, In trying to select college for hi son, will ask first, not where the mos learned professors are (still less, O course, where the best baseball team is or where most sons of millionaire