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1 developed, as one which had reached
 'the opulence of a copious and polished
 tongue"
 But this decision did not terminate
 the controversy between manualism
 and oralism, and it is only within the
 past twenty years that a way has been
 suggested of reconciling the conflicting
 elements. Until very lately the sup
 porters of each method have demanded 1 that the other should give way. But
 it is to the credit of the American in- structors that in this country, first of all, 1t has been shown that the best education of the deaf could be secured, | not by the exclusive practice of any enc
 method, but by a judic1ous combination
 of all
 For fifty years following the estab- | lishment of the first school in this country at Hartford, Conn.,, in 1S11s
 the manual method had almost exclus- i've sway in the schools for the deaf ln the United States, although in sew eral, notably the parent school, in- struction in speech was afforded 10 a limlted number of pupils. During this half century the schools Of the United States, though they taught few of their pupils to speak, gave them the essen@ ttals of a, practical education, and sent them out in the world fitted to be hap py upright, intelligent, and self-sup- porting citizens. So much cannot be said of schools for the deaf in any country where the method of pure oral ism has had undisputed sway.
 In 1867 two schools were established on the German or oral method, one at Northampton, Mass, the other in New York city, There were then about twenty-five schools in the country, in which there were nearly 5000 pupils. In 1868 a conference of principals met in Washington, D. C., and was attend-i ed by seventeen heads of schools, in cluding'the most prominent and exper- fenced. These men were al support CTS of the manual method, and yet they were so open to conviction as to the oral teaching that after careful con- sideration of the representations of sev- era1 members of the conference who had made exhaustive examinations of the oral method as practised in Europe and ins the new schools in this country they unanimously adopted resolutions declaring it the duty of all institutions for the education of tho deaf and dumb to provide adequate means for impart- ing instruction in articulation and lip reading to such of their pupils as might be able to engage with profit in exer- cises of this nature.
 The result was the general and speedy adoption of speech-teaching in the established institutions, and sys- tenn of education in which the two methods so long contending against each other might be harmoniously com bined came into vogue.
 In 1894 there were SS schools in the United States and Canada, with an at- tendance of 9,5S4 pupils, of which only three, with 23 pupils, were conducted on the manual method, and IS only, with S20 pupils, confined themselves to the oral method. In all the others, containing S,691 pupils, a combination of methods exists, and of the pupils in these schools 4,O9O, or nearly one-haIf l are taught speech.
 The great body of intelligent instruc-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-29

"Oh, now" laughed the editor. ''you don't want me to believe you Killed a bear with a 22-calibre pistol, do you?'
 ''Who said I killed it?' asked tie wis., itor, bridling up. That's just where my story gits interestin', I didn't kill it, and about three minutes after my friends heerd my shot and yell and come with their guns, they didn't know whether it wuz a bag nv rags CT me that the grizzly wuz throwin' up an ketchin' and playin' ball with. haint lived in the fer west sense," he econclud-, ed, "and you kin bet yer paste-pot Il don't want to nuther,"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-29

moved with great earnestness for the
 adoption of broader and more flexible methods in the schools of their country
 They have held public meetings and passed resolutions similar to those adopted by the Chicago congress. They have sent in monster petitions to the emperor begging for the introduction of manual methods into the schools
 A similar course has been pursued in France
 In England a commission of eminent men, appointed by the queen to make careful investigation into the subject of educating the deaf, and to take note of all the different methods and means employed, visited many schools in the United Kingdom and on the Continent, and summoned experts to London from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland and from America. Strenuous efforts to secure a decision in favor of res- trloting aid to purely oral schools fail ell, and the commission recommended that, while the policy should prevail of giving all deaf children an oppor- tunity to learn to speak (which is also one of the aims of the combined-sys- tenn schools of America) the support of the government should be accorded to all schools, of whatever method, that could show good results in intel lectual development.
 A new school for the deaf was estab- lished last summer in Preston, Eng land, whose managers were led by the weight of the evidence given by an American witness before the commits sion to decide in favor of the American combined system, although they had been offered considerable sums of mon ey for the school as inducements to adopt the pure oral system exclusively. A recent letter from its head master reports that the forty-four pupils have been divided into four classes, one man. ual and three oral, that very gratify- ing results in speech have been attain ed, but that fin written language the pupils of the manually taught class made during the first term at least 30 per cent. better progress than the oral pupils"
 An important element in this sys- tenn is the language of signs, which the oralists of to-day prescribe and re- ject, on the ground that the use of signs by deaf children operates very unfavorablS on their acquisition of speech. This opinion is not shared by teachers who have worked long under the combined system, for their experi- ence shows them that deaf children as well as others may learn and use two languages, pari passu, with success. And it appears further that deaf chill dren who have the natural ability to acquire speech, which is a power in them akin to the musical or artistic faculty in normal children, will do so under proper instruction, even while they are allowed a reasonably free use of what is indisputably, to them, a more natural and satisfactory means of communicating thought than speech. But what is of even more consequence than this, experience has fully proved that the language of gestures furnishes means of easy and early communica- tion with deaf children, and in all stag es of their education a source of mental stimulus and satisfaction, of which nothing can fully take the place.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-29
SHOOTING 4 BEAR.
He Did It With Small Pistol and The,
 Was Trouble.
[Fr6m the petroit Free Pres

LFrOm the Detroit Free PreSs.l
 He approached the editors desk with fear and trembling. He had an inter- rogation point in his face and news paoer' in his hand ar the editor greeted him, pleasantly.
 q come in" he said after the greet ing, Ito ask You about an item I seen in the paper about some feller in Floridy shootin' painter with a 32-cahbre pis- tol, and I want to know if it's so.''
 "Of course, if you saw it in the paper it's so." replied the editor with confi- dence; "but what had the painter done?"
 "Dinged eff know. Jist wuz, I reckon. That's enough to kill a painter fer"
 "Ie must have been a very poor art ist," said the editor.
 The visitor looked seven ways for Sunday.
 q reckon .we ain't tallSin' about the same thing, ,mhe said.
 Don't you mean a painter whosis an artist or professes to be?" inquired the editor
 Tn course not" responded the visitor. 'T mean one of them varmints that scratches and screeches."
 "Oh, ah," said the editor; 1T see. You mean panther?"\
 Some calls it that, an some calls 1t painter. It ain't no better, whatsom- ever you call it. But that ain't what | come in to see about. Eff it's so, as you say it is, I'm here to say that that ain't so much of story as mine is. shot al grizzly bear once with a 22-cali- bre pistol"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-29
aHE ED UoAr1oN or DEAF 1rUrEs.
An Interesting Statement by the President
 of the National College.

NoeAA1 hSAAbSAAohbpJ AiAO
 of the National College.
 From the New York Evening Postl
 Various statements that have recent iy been published as to an alleged thew method" of teaching. deaf mutes, which is soon to supersede all others, seem to render desirable an exposition of the truth in the matter. The fact Is that no new method of educating the deaf has been invented for TAO years, and that the oral method, about which so much has been said of late, is quite as old as the equally valuable manual method.
 It is curious coincidence that in 1755 two men of marked ability and learning should have founded in their respective countries, France and Ger many, schools for deaf mutes, out of whichohave. grown permanent national systems for the education of this in- teresting class of persons. As pion- eers in a work of benevolence which commands universal sympathy, the names of Charles Michel de PEpee and Samuel Heinicke will ever be held in grateful remembrance.
 The method employed by De PEpee was based on "the language, natural to the deaf mute himself-that of panto- mine''-and the good Abbe believed that ''this, corrected, enlarged, and perfected by a skillful hand, would prove adequate to interpret written words, and to express every shade of thought De l'Epee taught speech to some of his pupils, but as he made great use of signs and finger spelling, his way of teaching the deaf has very properly been termed the manual meth od.
 Heinicke started out with the pre- posterous and long since abandoned claim that "in mental development the defect of hearing cannot be supplied by the medium of vision, and that ab- stract ideas cannot be infused into the minds of the deaf and dumb by any process of writing or with the assist ancce of methodical signs" He un- dertook to teach all his pupils to speak, and to gather the meaning of the speech of others, by observing closely the movements of their lips; an oper- ation, by the way, the partial success of which at once refuted the first claim, just quoted Heinicke made small use of gestures and none of the manual al- phabet. His mode of educating the deaf has therefore been correctly term- l ed the oral method.
 A long, earnest, and sometimes acri- 1 naonious controversy was carried on by | these two good men as to the relative | merits of their respective methods. | Heinicke so consistently decried the method of De FEpee that in 17S2, after | twenty-seven years of pedagogic war fare, the masters in dispute were sub- mitted to the Academy of Zurich, a body of learned men scarcely inferior to the French academy, which gave it's decided approval to the methods fol- lowed by De FEpee, according high | praise to the language of signs he had
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-15

Secretary Carlisle expressed his amaze
ment to the merchants of Boston that
anyhcdy could advocate the free coinage
O. silver BY the United States alone. Yet
il was OF ly q few years ago that he was
doing this very thing, and it is a some
what significant fact that he never saw
tho error Of his ways until he became q
member Of Mr.. Cleyeland's cabinet
Then Ecw light burst upon him, and
no has been going round ever since pro-
claiming the virtues of sound currency
az understood by the President. But he
has not alone been cured of free silver,
he has imbibed all Of the Presidents ideas
on the currency and is preaching them
assiduously. In his Boston speech he
favored the retirement of the greenback,
and the turning over to the banks the
entire business of issuing currency. He
talked glibly about the great mistake the
country made in 1862 in issuing green
backs to put down the rebellion he was
engaged in, and blossomed out apparent
ly as sn original gold man, who had been
all his life fighting against any deprecia-
ton of the currency. 1t is not related
that anybody smiled when he assumed
this character and dashed the silver men
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-15

| Henry Clews's weekly financial review
| takes up the subject Of the Kaffir specula-
| ton which is now causing SO much ex-
element in English financial circles. Lit
begins with few remarkable successes
| in South Africa which led to the creation
of ''syndicates' without end, and to
the formation of companies for explora-
! tion and for dealing in the new issues OF
stocks and for the boldest banking under
| takings. In respect to basis, many of the
| schemes have really none except that OF
air; whilst most of those that have aotu-
al property have very questionable de-
posits of the precious metal, and all are
capitalized immensely in excess of their
! actual merits. But, so far as respects the
companies which give more or less pub
| licity to their affairs, there are some 20
| which have been paying dividends. with
some regularity, averaging about 20 per
cent and ranging in some cases as high
as IS, 10, 90 and even 100 per cent. These
may be regarded as bona fide enterprises.
The legal capitalization of these % COM
panies is about s32, 500, 600; while their
present market price represents S192, 500. :
600, the dividends averaging about 8 per
cent on the current price, Besides these
there are 1873 companies reporting on the
London market which are paying no
dividends and pass muster on reiterated
promises that are never fulfilled These
non -dividend paying mines have an ag-
gregate capital of $l39, 100000 Their
market value last month was $685. 900,
600, or exactly four times the par value of
the shares. Besides the 1853 mining COM
panies above referred to, thore are 81 9th
or various organizations, which are con-
cerned in land, banking, estates, promot-
ing, exploration, etc. These concerns
have total capital of $40, 600. coo, con-
sisting principally of Ell shares; and, in
this case again, the market value is e1-
actly four times the par capitalization:
being 1915 600, O0O. Exclusive from the reck-
oping of the % diyidend-p paying mining
stocks, we have here, first, total OF 164
enterprises, representing either no value
or very uncertain value, capitalized at
$21S, 00O, 900; and, second, thisscompara-
lively worthless scrip worked up to a
| fictictious market valuation of $3.50, 00O,-
GOO France has also its schemes Of like
quality and similarly inflated, but we
have no means Of knowing their exact
extent.
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-15

The National Convention of Paint, Oil
and Varnish Manufacturers of Chicago
last week took action in a direction
toward which public opinion seems to
be trending somewhat. 1t recommended
reformation of perpetual non-partisan
comm ission to have charge Of tariff mat
tiers. Experience has shown the danger of
making business matter like the tariff
subject to political exigencies, and there
have been many suggestions that the
country would prosper better if the sub
ject were taken out of politics entirely.
u is advisable to regulate the tariff on
certain articles from time to time to meet
the requirements of the business situa-
ton; but this fact should not be made a
pretext for attacking the whole list, and
especially for keeping business in state
of suspense for a whole season, while rival
theorists are wrangling over it. A COIN
mission which should study the situation
from a non partisan business standpoint
and recommend from time to time such
legislation as will give the people the best
goods for the least money consistent witii
the proper protection of American in
dustries, might save the country from
such disastrous panic as the ona it has
just passed through. At any rate the sub
iect is well worth considering
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-15
Mr.. Reeds Proxy at Chattanooga.
(Piscataquis Observer.)

It is well known that our genial neigh
Dor, Councillor Cushing, represented the
dignity of the stn;e at the recent National
Encampment at Louisville and at Chi jEl
manga AS such representative, on the
day of the grand parade in Louisville,
Mr.. Cushing occupied a conspicuous seat
in barouc;,o. On the march at sight Of
the Maine delegation in the procession in
the procession the shouts from the crowd
OK What's the matter with Tom Reed?"
"Wbere is Tom Reed ?" 'Show us Tom
Reed ;, At point where the crowd was
densest. as The Malneites passed there
cams the shoas where is Tom Reed:"
when m ischieyous son O. Maize pointed
to the good looking Pisoataquis Couil-
cillor, shouting back, There he is. "
Mr. Gushing instantly bBcalne the target
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-15

The annual meeting of the American
Bankers Association at Atlanta begins
today. The most important part OF its
proceedings will be a movement to organ
ize a new national association of bank
ors TO be composed of delegates from the
different State organizations. The plan
Il. Il is understood. to create a centralized
section Of tie country and serve as sort
of bankers congress 1t is believed that
such an association, which would of
coarse be able to collect and express the
best banking opinion OF the country.
would bs of distinct service in national
affairs; and the belief must be said to be
well founded Currency questions are
intricate and the great majority of people
have little opportunity to study them.
The bankers have to study them, and if
they do not study them too much from
purely selfish standpoint, their conclu-
sions lney be of great value in shaping
national legislation.
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-15
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and the greenbackers. but those of the
audience who were familiar with his
career must have listened with astonish-
ment to his rebuke of theories which he
for many years had locked upon and de-
Tended as fundamental truths.
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-15

We have bought s633,000 Maine
Central Consol. 4's, due 1912, and
offers the holders Of Leeds and Far
mington 6's, the opportunity to ex-
change the same for the former on
the following favorable terms.
On or before Nov. 18th, 1895, we
will deliver Maine Central Consol. as
at par, and prepay the interest due
April lst, 1896, at 4 per cent per an
mum for the unexpired time, receiv-
ing in exchange an equal number of
Leeds and Pennington bonds, allow
ing par and 6 per cent accrued in
terest to date of exchange.
The above is equivalent to selling
the Leeds & Pennington bonds on a
3 rs per cent interest basis, and OBJ
tanning the long consolidated As at
par, by using the premium obtained
on the former in purchasing the As.
We beg to call attention to the
fact that these 4 per cent bonds are
now practically a first mortgage on
the road, as there will be only ST.
253,300 outstanding when the
Leeds & Pennington are converted
out of total of $9,000,000, to take
the place of prior lien bonds; in five
years this balance will have been re-
tired and the consolidated mortgage
become first lien.
The saving in the interest charges
in the next few years is approxi-
mately $4,000; this is in addition to
amount saved in 1894 of S21 900,
making total of nearly 100000 or
2 per cent on the stock; increasing
the present net earnings to over
100000 or 10 per cent. Oh the CAPT
tai; 6 per cent. is now paid, the bal
ance going to surplus und improve
ments.
We recommend the proposed ex-
change at this time, the holders
thereby obtaining a long, choice Sc
curity at moderate cost.
The 4's not exchanged, as above,
will be offered to the public at an
advanced price.
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-15
trust him
You want SCOTS EnsgrI=


sion. Ifyou ask your drug
gist for it and get 6t-you
can trust that man. But il
he offers you something
just as good" he will do the
same when your doctor
writes a prescription for
which he wants to get a
special effect = play the
game Of life and death for
the sake of a penny or two
more profit. You can j
trust that man. Get what
you ask for, and pay for,
whether it is SCOTS Emul-
sion or anything else.
scoTT & BOVINE, Chemists, New York. SOC. and $500
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-15

The bank wall on the west side of Tur-
ner street. Auburn, just above the Maine
Central Railroad bridge, and between the
bridge and the barber shop is in dan
gerous condition, and may go out at any
moment. Should it go out. the sidewalk
and over half of Tuner streets would GO
with it, and land in the gully. This
wall was built seven or eight years ago
by Jordan and Ross and is about 100 feet
long and 25 feet deep. The wall has
bujged out in the centre about "a inches.
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-15
CITY OF PORTLAND
Notice to Contractors.

GEALED proposals for constructing abou
= 800 feet of 10 inch pipe sewer In Taylor
street will be received at the Office Of the Com
missioner of Public Works until Monday, the
14th day Of October, 1895. at IL O'Clock M,
when they will be publicly opened and read,
The successful bidder will be required to give
bond in sum and with sureties satisfactoi
filment of the conditions of the contract
Blanks on which proposals must be made,
plans, specifications, and further information
can be obtained at the office of the Commits
sioner Of Public Works on and after Thursday.
Oct. 10, 1895. The Commissioner reserves the
right to reject any or all bids should he deem 1t
for the interest of the city so to do. Bids
should be marked, proposals for Sewer" and
addressed to GEORGE N. FERNALD, Com
missioner of Public Works oct9dtd
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-15

The Mormon church seems to have
shown its hand little too soon. Utah
is not vet a state, and this disposition on
tho part of the Mormon apostles to run
things may convince the majority OF the
people that it would be better to remain
= territory while longer. At any rate
It has already aroused good deal
Of sentiment nf that kind.
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-15
TIE PRESS.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER Is.

The New York Staats-Zeitung con-
DENNIS the action of the German Reform
Association in endorsing Tamnany. 1t
attributes it entirely to the free beer
plank adopted by the -Tammany Associa-
ton.
The Portland daily press., 1895-10-15
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

A coroner's jury is in session at Winter
port to decide whether there is any
grounds for the suspicion that Robert A..
Vinal, aged 63, pensioned soldier of the
late war, was poisoned with stry Gimme
causing his death.