The Anaconda standard., 1899-05-25

manity, was declared and the peace
treaty signed in less than a year, for
which credit is due President Mckinley
and the people of America.
Electricity in Modern Warfare-Edwin
Corbin.
Although the study of electricity has
only been developed within the last
century, there is no doubt that it's ex
istence was known to the civilized
world of 1000 years ago.
Of the future of electricity there can
be no doubt-this omnipresent fluid that
kills and destroys, and is gone. This is
the agent that has almost revolution
lied modern warfare.
Only little more than six years have
elapsed since the navy department
fitted out the frigate Trenton with an
electric incandescent plant, and, as far
as known, she was the first naval yes
sci to be lighted by electricity. Foreign
countries were not slow to follow the
footsteps Of the United States, and the
latter government gradually extended
the system of electric lighting to other
vessels of the navy.
To-day no modern warfare vessels go
to sea without complete electrical
plants, both are and "incandescent,
the latter for interior light and the for
mer for operating the "search-light. .
This light is mainly employed in search
ing for the enemy, and one of the mod
ern $4,000 candle power search-lights
will show an enemy's ship at two
miles; thus rendering firing guns at
night as easy and accurate as by day.
We Americans know too we'll the
deadly effect of the submarine mine.
Two hundred and fifty-three of our
brave boys in blue went to watery
graves in Havana harbor.
Not alone in naval warfare does cleo
tricity play an important part. 1t has
recently been remarked by a foreign
military authority that $50 important
will be the part played by military tel
egraphy in land warfare that the army
which has the most efficient system of
electric signalling will hold the trump
card which may be a decisive influence
on the game in any future European
war;
The giant strides of electricity will
affect the pitch of battle, the flashing
guns, the thickening fumes that fill the
air, and the tramp, tramp of the boys
in blue to victory or death.
Reformers: Pestalozzi and Froebel-DeIia
Gibbons.
Education is a better safeguard
than standing army How beauti-
fully such men as Comenius, Locke
Rousseau, Pestalozzi Froebel and a
host of others, who Illuminated the
armament of the reformation of educa-
ton. verify this axiom!
In the armament there are stars
which shine with more resplendent
luster. So also in the armament of ed
ucation, there are reformers brighter
and greater than others. BY this COM
parison, L am alluding to Pestalozzi and
Froebel Come with me back to the
time these grand men lived and we
shall trace their life's story.
The acme of Pestalozzi's life was to
find means of rescung the people
from degradation. AS the direction of
the education of the day was without
to within, Pestalozzi attempted to
make it from within to without. While
teaching he insisted on silence as an aid
to application and always appealed to
reason and justice as human knowl-
edge derives it's real advantage from
the solidity on which it rests"
ITO be wise is the highest aim of
man." How will he attain this aim?
Froebel tells us by studying nature and
educating himself in the value of art"
In his Songs for Mother and the Nur-
sery," our German educator gives
many devices for the benefit of chill
dren. Play, which children enjoy and
make SO realistic, can be made-a step
ping stone for teaching. Sir1pfsss' hough
this may be, it has it's good effects.
Each of us, like tiny ants, may add his
mite to the store of good, for Things
small in themselves are often great in
their consequences
In 1910 Froebel, after many years of
experience and a lifelong study dis
covered the law of nature which gov
erns the development of the child and
made it the basis of the new study of
education. To his first institution he
gave the name of kindergarten, child's
garden.
Such men as Pestalozzi and Froebel
will ever be remembered by educators.
There is hardly a method used to-day
that is not based on the methods of
these great men. Their names shall
live forever. as "They who instruct
others unto justice shall shine as stars
for all eternity
Psychology in the observation-disclosures
Holland.
The Importance of the study of chill
dren is beginning to be recognized as
one of the prominent features in the
search for practical methods to employ
in educating the child.
In former years the study of educa-
tional methods was entirely confined to
the study of mere theories; but little by
little educators have come to see that
after all it is of much more Importance
for teachers to study the minds of
their pupils as they come in contact
with them day by day in the school
rooms.