The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-07-24

- The claim of the eagle to the title of
king of birds seems to bo slightly clouded
by an incident reported from Stafford
County, Virginia. A gentleman there was
watching an unusually fine bald eagle
grandly sailing around In the air few
days ago, when he noticed little bee
martin rise in the air and make straight
for the eagle. He wondered what the
martins object could be, and was sur
prised to see it sail in boldly to tear the
feathers out of the big eagle. But he was
amazed to see the eagle, after few mo-
meuts of effort at beating off the little
bird, sail away in full flight, making
every effort to escape from the martin.
The martin followed up closely for awhile,
making savage jab at the eagle every
few yards, but was finally left behind
through the superior retreating powers OF
the big eagle.
Here IL Huxley's definition Of lib
eral education: "That man," said he,
"has liberal education who has been so
trained in youth that bis body is the
ready servant of bis will, and does with
ease and pleasure all the work that, as a
mechanism, it is capable Of; whose in
tellect is clear, cold logic engine, with
all it's parts Of equal strength and in
smooth working order, ready, like o
steam engine, to be turned tn any kind OF
work, and spin the gossamers as we'll as
forge the anchors of his mind whose
mind is stored with knowledge Of the
great and fundamental truths OF nature
and Of the laws of her operations: one
who, DO stunted ascetir, 's full OF life and
fire, but whose passions are trained to
come to halt by vigorous will, the
servant of A tender conscience; who has
learned to love beauty, whether of nature
or of art, to hate all vileness, and to re-.
spect others as himself. Such one, and
no other, has had lib.ral education"
When Zerah Colbnru the Vermont
mathematical "prodigy," visited Harvard
college he told in fonr seconds the exact
number of seconds in eleven years, and
answered other similar questi ns with
equal facility. He could no more tell how
he did it than child in singing can tell
the laws of melody, but it Is certain that
it was done under the natural law and not
in opposition to it. 1t is hardly doubtful
that all such laws are extremely simple,
and that they will be discovered as soon
as investigators cut loose from accepted
theories and apply modern scientific
methods of persistent experiment and
comparison to mathematics. 1t ought to
be taken for granted, when such unex-
planned phenomena are witnessed, that
1.-THE last word" has not been said in
mathematics or anything else.
-"He died with his hand on the air
brake pump and saved the train and pas
sengers." Thus 1t was said Of Engineer
John Patterson, who lost his life in the
railroad accident last Saturday night In
Tennessee. His last thoughts were for
the safety of the passengers on his train.
Had he thought only of himself he might
have saved his own life, with what result
to others none can tell. Forgetting him
self, thinking of the safety of others, he
grasped the Dir brake pump and met
death instantly.
American corn stalk pith has sue
cessfully met all the tests aud has proved
its superiority over the French prepara-
tion of cocoa cellulose. 1t will be, there
fore, used hereafter in the construction of
all ships for the United States navy.