St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-01
A FOOLISH FIGHT.

A FOOLlSH FIGHT.
With fame N just proportion envy
grows.
The man that makes character, makes
| foes. Pope.
/ Truth never hurts those on
Truths size. Every successful
man or instita.ion may expect to
DC msligned, but need not dreat;
the effect of Islander, for q lie seems
to nave particular love .or It's
originator, and, soon or late, re-
turns to him. Generally 1t is BEST
to let it find its own way back, but
occasionally time may be saved by
assisting it back 10 lis master.
The la.,er course has been tholstt
70 be advisable IN dealing with he
few individuals who seem to p.eier
"eaikness ra.her than light" in
matters OF education, although it
viii o.o3s3ly flstier their vanity
70 fird that they have made them
selves heard.
Like all other insti.ut o1s for
the elevation o. mani I'd, the
movement to establish q G.2ded
and High Schoo! in Cov.ngton was
opposed BY small body Of ilte:-
ested people. When success was
assured they subsidized, Dat - they
see its steady growth from be-
ginning Which surpassed the ex-
pec.ations Of its most sangu.ne
Supporters, they mus. needs vent
their spleen in slurs, used princ;-
palIy IN try;.,g to perscade people
not 20 atte.ld o. send their chill
d:en.
Be--orescho began parents were
coulseled not to send, TO. their
children xould be obliged to ssmix
with me common crowd Just
what they meant IS not known, IN
less it is by the g.vers Of the
gratuitous advice. If 1t is . re-
fiction upon the sscommon peo-
ple," the advisers might ponder |
upon the opinion Of the statesman,
that 'sGod must love the common
people best, or He wouldn't have
made SO many more OF them"
People who, in their opinions, are
uncommon, are generally uncom-
mon in respects which their friends
deplore. This story was 50 thin
they concluded it would be less
transparent If they colored it, SO
they began to assert that negroes
would be admitted with the whites.
If any person could be made to
believe such an idiot;c report, we
have no grade in scnool low enough
to accommodate him, so it does
not affect us-we merely adduce it
as An example Of the arguments
used.
Another canard is to the effect
that the institutions from which
the Superintendent holds diplomas
are not reputable" 1t is really
> waste Of valuable space to reply,
for the National Normal Univer-
sity Is now in its forty-sourth
year, and its last annual enrolment
vas more than $500, from thirty
Xix States and Territories, and
rom three foreign countries.
Among its graduates might be men
Toned some of the most successful
awyers, physicians, teachers, min
STEERS and scientists in the United
States, and not q few from abroad.
t the persons who assert that there
. no such institution, because they
lever heard of it, will give me
heir address, shall see that they
&c supplied with catalogues. Il
would invite their attention to
'chillef's reply to q question,
'Th;nkest thou, perchance, that
hey remain unknown, whom thou
newest not?'' Ii the more than
$1,000 students who have been
ducated there have been deluded,
have another proof which should ,
ppeal to all persons educated and
ducati1g 1.-the way they do in
ale. = While we do not use such :
lethods ourselves, believing that 4
,ethods adapted to University Il
lasses are not best for Graded and E
high School pupils, the A. B. de- I
rec from the National Normal Il
University Is accepted in Yale as y
qulvalent to her own. This state A
rent can be verified, if any one a
ares to express > doubt, for one o
{ my classmates, J. Q. Creager, v