The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-08-25

morals Of the tenement population Of
New York in that II has given them an
opportunity for glimpse Of sunshine,
and breath OF fresh air now and then,
that they otherwise could never have ;
and in proportion to physical comfort
the morals Of the lower classes improve.
He showed how, before the OWL War,
the South had gridiron system Of rail.
ways very few running north. How
gradually since then, railroads have as-
sumed checkerboard appearance - the
old prejudice has been swept away. One
by one these prejudices disappeared as
northern men and industries located in
the South, until at last only one was
left. That one dwelt in the breast Of
John Leviticus Brewn, man who never
surrendered, but built him hut in the
woods, raised by its side flag staf and
hoisted upon 1t confederate flag.
Every day he put up his flag until the
until the beginning Of the Cuban war,
when his flag staff was seen to be
empty. When the neighbors asked him
the cause he answered, "Well reckon
I'm doin consida'ble lot o. thinkin',"
and the next day when the neighbors
looked out, instead Of seeing the Stars
and Bars, they beheld on the top of his
staff and floating proudly on the morn.
ing air, the stars and stripes Of Old
Glory.
FRIDAY.
After few familiar hymns DR.. Redway
read q part OF the 22nd chapter OF
Matthew and all repeated the Lords
Prayer.
The first lecture was on the SCORE Ia
ton of History with Geography" by DR..
Redway. He said this presupposes q
thorough knowledge Of History, on the
part of the teacher, ,as we'll Is knowledge
of Geography" That all history has
been determined by the topography ofthe
country where the events occurred; -
the movements OF armies along the path
Of least resistance; the reason for 30
many battles at narrow pass; why the
battles of Ticouderoga and Grown Point
were fought just there and no where
else; cited the pass of Thermopolae, and
of the Tiber Pass, OF which Mohammed
said "Whoever controls it is master Of
India," told how the Mohawk gap, msde
by the glaciers Of far away ages, furnish
ed roadway for the Erie canal, which
carried the grain products of the west to
New York and this changed the great
shipping interests from Philadelphia to
New York. Before this ships from Liv.
erpool bringing merchandise to Philadel.
phia had been obliged to carry back .
load OF useless ballast; after this, they
carried grain from New York, and thus
caused immense growth in commercial
importance. He mentioned also the
discovery of q passage around the cape
of Good Hope and its effect in increas.
ing the traffic between Europe and East
ern Asia. Looking at the matter from
DR.. Redway's standpoint no teacher can
successfully teach Geography without q
knowledge of History nor without cor
relating the two.
Miss Hughey gave some some fine Sc
lections as being suitable for school Lit
erature and Recitations. Among them,
"Telling the Bees" by Longfellow, and
"Alice Cary's Beautiful Pictures" Her
instructions were on Gesture" "Let
gestures be few and suited to the subject" +"
Miss Faris gave her method in Pri.
mary Arithmetic which was essentially
the CRUDE method.
Supt. McKinnon on The Preparation
of Teachers emphasized what had already
been said in regard to a careful training
for the work and showed the difference
between telling child anything and
teaching it to him, admonished teachers
to require of their pupils, neatness, &C.
curacy and rspidity in all their work.
To give an adequate report OF all the
good things in musical way, furnished
by Prof Scott and his pupils on Friday,
is almost impossible. There was the solo
by Miss Wright and the Qusrtette BY
Misses Oldaker and Wright and Messrs.
John Richards and ]. E. Wright. Misses
Augusta Ingebrand and Ella Harshs
gave some fine selections on the piano
and Miss Augusta Ingebrand and Philip
Berg mandolin duet with other from.
bone solos by Philip Berg.
Prof. McKinnon gave his last talk and
his farewell at two o'clock. His talk in.
cluded "the power to retain and recall
and the cultivation of Imagination and
memory. He gave an incident that oc,
Cured during the Civil War. A mar
had piece of his skull shot away with
out injury to the brain As the surgeon