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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28
Employment Wanted.

Wanted, by a large number of orators
out of q job since Nov. 5, employment
as agitators for schemes which will fool
the public. Great ability as denoUncers
of everybody and everything guaranteed.
Glowing promises and general humbug
a speciality. Speeches five hours long
delivered at the rate Of $50 revolutions
per minute. Choice selection of epithets,
such as "'robber bankers, "''goldbugs,"
''money sharks and "bloated capital
ists'' furnished in quantities to suit.
Wool pulled over dull eyes. and ears
tickled by smooth phrases at reasonable
rates. Plans for making everybody rich
in three weeks e1pounded below actual
cost. Rural districts gulled at Il great
bargain and fake stories Of the money
power 3 crimes invented fresh each even
ing.
Address Messrs. Stewart. Bryan.
Bland, Harvey, Blackburn or Morgan,
care American Bimetallic league, Wash
ington. References from estate Of for
mer employers, the late FREQ silver issue.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28

The great cause of 16 to l is still
feebly kicking 4 little, like a hen whose
head has been cut off, but is dead just
the same. Conferences will not revive
it. In neither the Republican nor Dem
ocratic party is it a living force. III
neither of the great political conven-
lions next year will it be more than Il
dead duck.
Appealing to the pockets of the sill
veriues in the south, the Louisville Post
dem. tells them that eff Texas will
Join hands with Kentucky. Georgia
with Tennessee and Arkansas with Lou
isiana in Il determined effort to end
once for all this craze for adebased cur
rency, and so end it, we can turn with
open countenances and welcome incom-
ing capital, which will begin TO flow
steadily toward us as oon as this i'm
portant question is settled, and settled
riphtly.n
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28
Greenbacks and Cheap Silver Dollar

The United States note WIS Il forced
loan from TIE people to the government.
which the government promises to repay
in dollars, but the free coinage of legal
tender silver at the ratio of 16 TO l, or
at any other ratio not corresponding
with the commercial value Of the two
metals, would be a forced loan from the
people to the owners of silver mines and
silver bullion without a premise Of re-
payment by anybody. One loan was
forced for the benefit of the government
in a time of war, but the proposition of
the advocates Of free coinage is to force
another lean for the benefit Of private
individuals and corporations i'll Il time
of profound peace.-Hon. John G. Car
Isle, Nov. 10.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28
Ordinance no. 566.

An ordinance assessing. apportioning. levying and taxing the cost Of
gravelng Middle street. between Broadway street and Themis street, in the
city of Cape Girardeau. Missouri. against the owners of and the lots fronting
IN said Middle street.
Be it ordained by the Council Of the city OF Cape Girardeau. Missouri. as
Oilcws:
SECTION ONE IL APPoRTIoN1IENI. ETC, OF COST.
Inc sum Of one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and seven cents ($l2SG11
having been by due course of law and ordinance. expended in the graveing
of Middle street between Broadway street and Themis street. in the city OF
Cape ii"ary.au, Missouri the said sum is hereby levied. apporioned. as
sssed and t1"ed against the owners OF the lots and IN the lots or parts of
lois said lots being in said city of Cape Girardeau. Missouri, as hereinafter
ct out ai described. to-"i:
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28

And now st. Louis wants The Dem
Ocratic national convention, but it
will not get it if President Cleveland
can help it. Grover remembers 1888.
and the election which follow his nom
nation at ST. Louis.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28

They have q Justice of the Peace
down in Scott county who has held
that Office ever since tie Rebels fired
on Fort Sumter, and he is still an
active official.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28

The Vice-President OF the Kennett
Railroad takes a female with him
when he goes over the road looking
after business. He is now u married
man. We wish him we'll, and hope
he will live to raise L big family of
little Kcrfeet.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28

The DEMOCRAT wishes its thousands
OF readers "a happy and prosperous
New Year. 1t wishes that several
thousand OF those who are in
arrears for subscription would call
and pay up.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28
No More

Both the great parties, by straddling
The silver issue, ''have given encourage
&thent to delusions which have worked
immense mischief" says the Pittsburg
Chronicle Telegraph (Rep.). "This
shutting, evasive policy has passed all
federation, and any party that fails here
after to meet the financial issues fairly
and ~squarely will suffer for its Gov
lea"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28

The Republicans of Stoddard county
want a Republican newspaper in that
county and they say they must have
one. There is a proposition on foot
to establish the paper at Dexter, the
home of Congressman Mozely. but
Mr.. Motley is to have no interest in
-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28

The o~fice-seekerS are beginning to
tip theic hats TO the voters. They will
soon warm up and get down to hand
shaking.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28

We viii have no war with England.
There is no power on earth that cares
to fight Us. We are world conquorers.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28

There is no danger of war With
England. The Englishman does not
want to fight the American.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28

Just as the Georgia free silver people
are in the midst of their calamity groans
the price of Gotten comes up to plague
them.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28

Your Congressman did not co2ne
hPme to spend the holidays.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28

This cold weather has no effect on
David B. Hill; he is used to frosts.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28

Cleveland is like the contents of his
game bag-he is a dead duck.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25

delicate, sensitive children with teachers
afflicted with tuberculouS diseases, certain
Affections of the nasal and respiratory pas
sages, which are considered contagious,
etc, has become a serious question with
parents and our more intelligent boards of
education.
Advocates of manual training claim
that any system of education is one-sided
that provides for a purely mental training
and will inevitably fail to produce the
most symmetrical character, as the pupil
has learned merely to think and not to act.
The study of botany without the an
alysis of the plant, of zoology without dis
section or of chemistry without laboratory
work can never be mastered thoroughly.
Manual training, like the kindergarten,
is based upon object teaching; that is,
teaching with the things themselves in
stead of their symbols.
Critics justly charge that our system of
education is superficial; that our city
schools are fitting our boys for colleges aud
not for artisans; that our pupils have a
decided prejudice against industrial work
in spite of the fact that large percentage
of our people are engaged in the useful
arts.
1t is also claimed that the storing up of
knowledge without any practical applca-
ton to the use of things is a waste of power
and that the cultivation of the absorbing
side of the brain without the expression
side results necessarily In one-sided de-
velopment.
1t is only question of time before the
work in our public schools will be broad
ened by the general adoption of system
of manual training in connection with
the mental work, and then the charge will
cease to be heard that there are no Amer
can craftsmen.
1t has been demonstrated that the boys
who spend half the day in the workshop
and laboratories, working out the truths
they are learning, attain fully as high a
standing in their studies as those of equal
ability who spend the entire day in study
and recitation. How much better equipped
to cope with the world is the boy who
leaves school familiar with the use of the
principal tools and with an understanding
of the subjects taught from scientific and
practical standpoint!
Aside froil the purely socialistic side of
sthis question is the influence upon char
acter.
The concentration of thought, steadi-
ness of nerve acquired, the patience exer-
| cised in working for days upon some
model to illustrate some mathematical
truth, the judgment developed which will
prepare the pupil for a tTuer moral esti-
mate of life, are only few of the moral
results of manual training.
Tna uapoDton NormcI School -, cI,,oo,
! ter County, Va, founded by General Arm
strong for Indian and colored students
has more nearly attained practical stan
dard than any other institution of it's kind
i'll the United States.
Previous to entering the normal proper,
the student is expected to work IN the shops
| from A. NJ. to 5 P. NJ, where the various
trades are taught. After the first month
or so, he is paid an amount not to exceed
sis per month, out of which he receives a
| certain per cent for current expenses, and
the balance is retained to defray a three
years normal course. If he fails to take
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25

flowers, insects, ETC., becomes a source OF
purest happiness and yields most bene-
fetal moral influence.
The introduction also of myths into the
work adds to their vocabulary, stimulates
the Imagination, widens their information
and places before them many noble ideals
Preparation for this work is also one of
the requirements of our normal schools.
Attached to each normal school is a
training department, consisting of all the
grades of primary and grammar school.
Student teachers are obliged to practi-
cally apply in these grades, under the 81
pervision of the critic teacher, all theo-
retical knowledge obtained from their
normal teachers.
Each Normal teacher in addition to her
class work, should be required to carefully
observe the working out of her methods of
instruction by these student teachers, and
see if they are successful in practice.
The Critic teachers also have charge
of the government, classification, reports,
etc., but the teacher at the head of the
pedagogical department is expected to SUI
pervise the method work and direct the
practice work of the critic and student
| teachers.
The subject of physical training is such
serious one that it must not be omitted
This department should be in the
| charge of one who understands not only
the principles of physical exercise, but
also one who has had professional train
ing in some first-class medical college.
| Pupils have been permanently injured
by many of these so-called physical exer-
cises, and only by the greatest wisdom can
such disastrous results be prevented.
There should be apparatus in each gym
nasium for testing and recording respira-
tory movements. circulation, etc., and the
effects of exercise on these processes should
be carefully watched.
There should be methods of measuring,
testing ana examining to determine the
fitness of any pupil for any given exercise.
| A careful study must also be made of
any emotional disturbance or excessive
mental strain.
| Tests of sight and hearing are necessary,
| as many times these defects are the cause
of apparent stupidity.
| The growth of children at different ages
and their mental and moral states at these
periods if carefully noted would be of
great pedagogical value.
The time is not far distant when every
pupil in the State will be as familiar with
| shorthand as he now is with his alphabet.
| What pleasure will it then be to take
notes OF an interesting lecture!
Three exercises per week during the last
five years of the primary and grammar
school work would so familiarize the pupil
with shorthand that he would use it I'M
consciously; it would become by force of
habit part of him.
Add to this typewriting, which is easily
acquired, and the great mass of pupils who
never reach the high schools would be
prepared to take an active part in life.
This is one more subject for the progress
sive normal student to master.
M -(
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25

this higher course, one-third OF the
amount reserved is refunded.
The evenings are devoted from to 9
o'clock to study and preparation for the
normal course.
A pupil graduates from this institution
not only qualified to earn his livelihood as
teacher of his own race, but also actually
prepared to work at his trade if necessary.
Closely allied to the subject of manual
training is drawing. as it cultivates the
sense of form, trains the eye to be ac-
curate, steadies the hand and renders 1t
skillful.
Many of the drawings and patterns used
as working models are also based upon the
principles of geometry, and the working
out of these models in the workshop
clearly demonstrates many difficult
proposition over which the pupil has alb
stractly struggled
1t is almost impossible to estimate the
value of drawing as an educational factor.
Its influence is threefold in character, VIZ
It's esthetical value as civilizing and re-
fining factor; its ethical influence because
of the inherent necessity for correct repre-
sentation, and, lastly its value merely as
ali income-producer.
Take the interior of any well-appointed
living-room as an illustration of the above.
The paper that covers the wall, the
frieze work upon the ceiling, the gasjet,
the carved mantel and framework of the
chair in which you sit and the designs OF
its softly padded cushion, the carpet upon
which your feet rest, the pattern OF your
dress and the pictures upon the wall, that
please and rest your eye, are all the prod
uct Of drawing.
The new education also calls for very
different line of language work from that
required in the past. In place of list OF
such subjects as Hope, Faith, Benevolence
the lessons, etc., given in former years
to the bewildered pupil from which to
make his selection, systematic line OF
nature-study is pursued, each grade basing
It's language work upon actual observation
and experiment.
Children readily explain in simple lam
guage the result of personal investig
and thus greater freedom of expression is
attained.
Their hands are also trained at this
early stage in ''the art of experiment" and
the innate love of children for birds,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25
NORMAL SCHOOLS.
This Branch of Our Educational
System Is Yearly Ex-
tending Its Great Power
and Its Wide Influence.
BY Mrs. f. A. WILSON,
Trustee OF the State Normal School.

The establishment of pedagogical de-
suited in increasing the demand for teach
ers who have philosophical understanding
of the fundamental principles of the
science and art OF education. A full equip
ment includes also comprehensive knowl-
edge of the leading educational authori-
ties of the past and present and an
acquaintance with the order in which the
different powers of the mind are awakened
and the time best adapted for their devel-
opment.
All applicants presenting diplomas from
grammar schools, no matter how deficient
in scholarship or how physically unfit to
become teachers, have been accepted, with
but few exceptions, in the past.
Naturally there is wide difference in
the qualifications of such pupils, owing to
the variety of instruction and the lack OF
any uniform course of study in the differ
ent counties.
The result has been that after a few
weeks or months many are obliged to drop
out and return to their homes.
The formation of union high schools
throughout the State will probably afford
solution of this problem, as graduates
from these schools would require less time
for academic work, and would, therefore,
be better prepared for a more purely pro-
fessional training.
Great stress is laid upon the necessity
for teachers being physically strong and
free from any serious defects of the senses,
as they are expected to represent ideals to
the youth of our State.
The effect of the constant intercourse of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25

TIE contributions that our normal
schools make annually may be measured
by the reports for 1S94-95, according to
which San Jose graduated 156, Los Angeles
rs, and Chico &c. The enrolment and
teaching force of these schools for 1S94-95
is indicated by the following table:
Pupils in train Teachers
Students. ing dept. Men. Women
San Jose 49,. 672 2l6 IL IA
Los Angeles. .476 ABB s %
Chico .........232 205 8
The apparent disproportion OF pupils
and teachers at Los Angeles is explained
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-06-27
ingalls, Awful Agony,

The Chicago Chronicle, the new
Democratic daily, has the following
bit of humor concerning our own
John j. ingalls,; In an authorized
interview Mr.. ingalls, erstwhile a
member of the senate Of the United
States, explains how his defeat in
1890 for return to the senate affected
him. For moment, just one I'M
mortal moment, he felt profound
agony Of soul, ''lt was u beautiful
day. he says, Everybody was
watching me to see how ! was going
to take IT, II was tragic hour. |
went over to my pasture and walked
through the wthered wood, There,
in a little grassy glade, sheltered
from the autumnal breeze, the sun
shining cloudy down, | opened the
windows of my spirit and let the
whole thing in on me and command
ed my fortitude. sat there in that
little dell until the struggle was over,
until | was master Of myself, until |
could talk Of 1t with the same COM
posture as Napoleon Of Waterloo"
Mr.. ingalls, is candidate for sena-
tor from Kansas. The issue will be
passed upon in the same crisp autumn
nal season. 1t may be well for the
ex-senator to keep that withered
wood and that grassy glade in order
that he may again employ these syl-
van accessories for the purpose Of
calming the spirit that willonce again
be feariully perturbed. Once again
Mr. ingalls, will have to 60 into the
wlthered wood and list to natures
teachings Once again the grassy
glade and the November sunshine
will teach him philosophy. Mr.. In.
gals wish to be again in public life
Is, in his own language concerning
the civil service reform, an irideseent
dream,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-06-27
Just Two Candidates.

Mr.. ingalls, sandwiches his pitiiu'
pleas and heartrending worriment fol
his "old place" on which he seems tt
think he has mortgage with re-
marks to the effect that he wants thu
people to decide between him and thu
others. Nothing would give Mr.
Burton more pleasure. Congressman
Curtis said in an interview with Nc,
Kinley;
at now looks as though we were
to have two prominent candidates ii
the senatorial contest. One OF them
will be j. X. Burton, who was a can.
didate and who was defeated by Q
combination when Senator Baker was
and the other will be Mr.. ingalls,. !"
1t is being recognized that the fight
is coming between ingalls, and Burton
and 1t will be fight that will make
the ex-senator seek the glades OF his
bosky wood again and commune with
nature over another Waterloo.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-06-27

nation. Miss Alice Fiddock, Of
Manchester, stands first, making an
average Of % per cent. She will re-
ceive certificate emitting her to
attend the academic department
free Of tuition. This is a deserved
compliment, and we congratulate
her.
The special car to- Denver will
leave Abilene by way Of the Union
Pacific railroad on Monday night,
July 9Th, in order to see the country
in Colorado as we pass through it
the next forenoon. The car will be
set out on the side track and, being
a chair car, we can arrange ourselves
and 60 to sleep in the evening,
Anyone can join the party, but only
40 will be taken in the car as we do
not wish to be crowded. All who
accept Prof. Bailey's offer in this
county will 60 with the party.
Those who intend to follow teach
ing for life should always have first
consideration from district school
boards.
Teacher, what are you reading
this vacation? Wherein will you
make your school Of next year bet
ter than that of last?
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-06-27

There Is one kind Of information
that need not be looked for in this
paper. 1t is the record Of matters
which injure financial standing Of
persons, firms or community without
being in any sense the business Of
the public. The Justice court suit
where because Of inability to pay the
debt a small note comes to law; the
foreclosure Of the home to prevent
which has added to fathers white
hair and the lines in the mothers
face the boy or girl gone astray but
who on the brink Of trouble is being
helped back to rectitude. These are
hot the province Of decent journalism.
1t is easy to get this news. On every
newspaper desk or by a ring Of the
telephone, the record can be found in
a minute. But their publication
adds sorrow to the worlds burden.
1t makes no one better-it may make
bitter days and nights for some dis
couraged soul. 1t causes gossip,
averted glances, impatient creditors.
Life Is too short to make living any
harder for the average citizen than 1t
is. The financial struggle is too
severe to add to its burden unneces-
sarily. The REFLECTOR would rather
say good words, pleasant, helpful,
encouraging things, to build up the
community and It's people. The
other class Of news we leave to our
contemporary, in the families OF
whose "stafr" perhaps trouble has
never entered-or it would be more
kind.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-06-27

1t is not often that all the papers
Of a town excepting one combine to
do up" that one, but such a unique
situation exists in Abilene. The Re-
FLEcToR Is thankful that it is the
zone" It is not only able to dis
lance the field as it has always done
but could do it easily II there were q
dozen more entries.