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Year: 1878

For the New England Journal of Education.


There are teachers and teachers.
There are, for example, those who ap-
ply themselves to their work as an art,
and improve from year to year. There
are, also, those who pursue the daily
school-room round as mere labor, and
who, by the second or third year, are
less able to stand an examination, and
are less efficient in their teaching, than
they are the first. They not only do
not improve, but they actually deterior
ate. And among at least the lower
grades OF teachers, these largely out
number the former class.


Now what is the occasion Of this fall
ing-off in knowledge and efficiency?
Simply this,-that when the first en-
thusiasm or necessity has passed, its
place is not made good by the continued
study of the branches taught, and by
careful perusal and use of the proper
guide-books of the art. There goes on
from day to day certain formal round
OF so-called teaching, but there is no
accompanying teaching of the teacher,
than which nothing could be more fatu-
itOus.


Now the query forces itself upon us,
Ought not this gross neglect of the
teacher $ professional duty to be official
ly looked after and corrected? Why
should not teachers of lower grades,
and yet unestablished knowledge and
skill, be kept somewhat under inspection
and control? Why not, to this end,
require renewal Of license to teach, on
actual examination each year, increas-
ing each year the breadth and severity
Of the examination? Especially, why
not, in each examination, make point
of testing the teachers attention to the
reading and study of works on the art
Of teaching? Would this be any more
than an honest attempt to make our
system of supervision and examination
decently honest and effective? Would
it be anything more than the wholesome
restraint and stimulus absolutely needed
by large class Of teachers? Would it
be any more than justice to our schools,
and indeed to the better class of teach
ers themselves?
Year: 1878

DEAR BULLETIN The Science In
stitute and State Association Of Princi-
pals and City Superintendents have now
been in session four days. The two are
so arranged that those present may at
tend the exercises of both. A goodly
number of the leading educators Of the
State have been in attendance, and the
exercises have been both pleasant and
profitable.


Besides the papers and discussions
before the Association. we had the
pleasure, on Tuesday, of listening to
President Pickard on Wednesday Of
seeing an Illustration Of the Natural
Method of teaching the Modern Lam
guages, and of listening to an excellent
lecture by President Welch, of Ames !;
and to-day of hearing Prof. Leonard, on
The Planet Saturn"


The Association will adjourn this
evening to be followed by the State
Normal Institute" which will continue
through next week Among the resolu-
tions adopted is the following. presented
55'y Dr. Fellows:


- Resolued, That the interests of our country
demand a fuller recognition of the claims of
educational news and discussions in the col
umns of the daily and weekly press and that
we shall hail the day when all our leading pa
pers shall follow. in this respect, the example
set by the Chicago Journal.


OF the Science Institute we will give
some account after it's close on Friday
of next week. Suffice it to say now
that Professors Calvin, Heinrichs and
Philbrick have full classes and keep us
hard at work. But we must close, for
our head is full of Brachipods and Tril-
obites and besides it is not"
Year: 1878

A school boy was asked by his teacher
to give an example of earnestness. He
looked bothered for minute, but his
face frightened like the dew drops
glistening on the rose in early morning
as he delivered himself of the following
happy thought: when you see boy
engaged on a mince. pie till his nose
touches the middle plumb and his ears
drop on the outer crusts, you may know
he has got it.
Year: 1878

In the higher moral education, the
management Of the passion of fear is of
the greatest consequence. The evils Of
operating by means of it are so great
that it should be reserved for the last
resort. The waste of energy and the
scattering of the thoughts are ruinous
to the interests of mental progress.
The one certain result is to paralyze
and arrest action, or at least to concen-
trate force in some single point, at the
cost of general debility. The tyrant,
working by terror, disarms rebellious-
ness, but fails to procure energetic SER
vice, while engendering hatred and pre-
pairing for this overthrow.-Prof Alec
ander Balm IN Popular Science Monthly.
Year: 1878

"You need not be afraid oh giving toe
much" the old darky said. IF any oh
you know oh any church wat died oh
liberality, gust tell me where it is, an
will make pilgrimage to it, an by dc
soft light oh de pale moon l will crawl
upon its moss-covered roof an write up
on the topmost shingle, Blessed am dc
dead who die in de Lord"
Year: 1878

TEACHING, GROwTH-So many
teach only for time-men until they
can prepare themselves for something
else, women until they can marry-that
instances of lifelong devotion to school
keeping, though by no means rare, are
not as common as they should be. For,
after all, teaching is business to grow
into, nor can it be we'll done unless it is
loved by the doer. Adopted merely for
the sake of stipend, degraded to me-
chanical routine, made only an affair of
textbooks and formal recitations, nev-
er getting beyond drill of classes, the
term-time all too long, and the vacation
all too short, the monotony varied only
by quarrels with committee and
controversies with fault-fnding parents,
teaching under such pitiful conditions
and limitations may we'll wear out the
nerves and dwarf the character and turn
the school-keeper not only into ma.
chine, but into machine constantly
disordered. The distemper Of discon-
tent is contagious, and reaches from the
desk of the principal to the desk of the
pupils, until what should really be de-
lightful occupation both for the teacher
and the taught, becomes WEAKNESS to
all the soul which either has left.Ne,c


York Tt1bune.
Year: 1878

[Oil City Derrick-]
Most potent, grave and reverend seignOrs,
That have tn en- away this old man. daughter
Is most true; true, have married her,
Who is Justice Of the Peace down in Herki.


mer.


By your patience


will plain, unvarnished tale deliver
Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what
What conjuration, and what mighty magic
For such proceedings am charged withal
l won his daughter with


Her father loved me: not a continental
Did care for the old mans love.
But pretended to reciprocate his affection,
And in this way did make myself
A very MuldOOn with him in sOlidity.
He oft invited me to tell the story of my life,
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes.
Etcetera. and so forth, and so on
With which had been stuffing him..
ran it through cen from my boyish days,
And you can bet your sweet lives
That spread it on pretty thick;
spoke OF most disastrous chances,
But did not stop to say they were with
cOnfOunded Constable who wanted me
For the small offense of jumping board bill
OF moving accidents by flood and field;
OF hair-breadth 'scapes in the imminent deadly
Or some other place that had read of;
OF being taken by the insOlent foe
And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence.
And with it all my travels history,
Omitting that part when was introducing
The North American Corn and Bunion Eradi-


Gator,
Warranted to remove corns and bunions
Without pain or loss of blood. =
All these did the old gent swallow,
And to hear which would DesdemOna seriously
,- incline;
But still the house affairs would draw her


thence,
Although in this now suspect my Desdemona
Did dissemble, for since we married are
find she can no more a fiap-jack bake
Than can cope with Hercules!
Anon she'd come again, and with greedy ear
DevOur up my discourse: and free
Am to swear that hers was the
INCEST ear in town, and Ofttimes did wish
l might in turn devOur it.
One day the gentle maid with earnest heart re-


quested
That would all my pilgrimage dilate
Whereof parcels she had something heard,
But not distinctly.
This was great leather and all at once
l did consent.
My story was immense,
And it took me four nights week
For three years to tell it.
When at length the tale was done,
She gave me for my pains world of sighs;
She sWore in faith twas strange, twas passing


strange;


Twas pitiful, twas wondrOus pitiful,
And laid over anything she had ever heard be-
By large majority.
She wished she had not heard: yet she wished
That Heaven had made her such man.
She thanked me,
And bade me, if had friend that loved her
should but teach him how to tell nv story,
And that would WOO her.
This was complete give-away;
That is to say, tumbled did to the racket,
And we were wed forthwith
So there's the long and short of it,
Year: 1878

Rocky Mountain Ners: There is now
on trial in our courts man possessed
Of a good trade, and capable Of earning
a decent living in any city !a or town in in
liquor, a few weeks since, he attempted
to knife man to him unknown, and he
will now pay for few glasses of vile
whisky by spending more or less time in
the penitentiary. Thursdays evening
train brought to Denver another less
fortunate victim. He, too, had been
imbibing vile whisky, and, while under
its influence, drove the lock of a gun
through the brain Of an antagonist, from
the effects of which he died. Here are
two men-a would-be murderer and a
murderer-whosc proper pleas in court
would be, Drunk, Your Honor"
Year: 1878

CHARMED BY A SNAKE.-At the
plantation of Mr.. Turner, near Lake
City, Fla, q most singular scene oc-
CURED, the charming of a thirteen
foot alligator by a rattlesnale. The
snake first saw the alligator, and
with his rattle attracted the latter's
attention. Then began the charming
process, which lasted fully half an
hour. The alligator at first turned
his head once or twice, but
wss Immediately called to order by
the rattles of the snake. Toward the
end of the half hour, with fixed eyes
the alligator moved slowly toward
his terrible enemy until within strik-
ing distance, when the snake curled
himself more eompactly, and with
all the strength he could muster
struck the alligator. For a moment
the alligator shook TREMENDOUSLY, and
then, as if by magic, made a semi
circling back ward movementpeculiar
to the species, and brought his tail
down upon the snake with fatal
effect. Our informant then despatch-
ed the alligator, and found that the
shake had missed his mark. The
snake measured six-feet, and had
nine rattles and one button. .-LQke
city Reporter. t...
Year: 1878

would no. did my past
Up from its grave of weakness and regret;
Up from its hores-which glimmered but to set


Its dreams, that could not last


Yet can look before,
And profit by the lessons sadly learned;
As children, playing with the fire, arc burned,


And tempt its glow no more


would not, ifI could,
Live O. 'er again this darE, uncertain lie
This slipping backward in the daily strife


OF Preaching after good.


Yet can know how weak
Are all below, and so sweet charity
Will cling and grow about each form see,


And thus to me will speak.


Iwould not open out
The half.hcaled wounds of other years, long fed
'Twere better they were numbered with the deao


Better than fear or doubt.


Yet can truly say,
Let the dead past bury its dead We go
SO swiftly onward TO liie's sunset glow
And then, there is no day!
Life is too short to waste
In vain repinings or in weak regrets;
The stronge # heart endures and never frets


O'er joys it may not taste.
And he who can go on
Bravely and firmly in The allotted way,
Gaining new strength with every darkened ray
Shall surely reach the dawn.
And so would not lift
Up from the grave the shadows of my past;
The clouds that all my sky once overcast
Into the night may drift.
For there's enough to I'LL
Each hour and moment Of the days TO come;
Then wherefore WOO The shadows TO our home?
I The valleys to our hill?
Year: 1878

Girls talk all alike about marriage, rs
though it were a jubilee, gladstone thing,
a rose without thorn; and so it is, If all
is right, if they go about it as rational be-
ings, instead OF merry making children.
1t is serious thing to marry. 1t is lite
business. Therefore never do it in haste
never run away to get married; never
marry for wealth. or standing, or fine per-
son and manners, nor for both, tor the
qualities of the mind and heart that make
an honorable man. Take time, think long
and well before you accept any proposal
consult your parents, then some judicious
friend, then your own judgment. Learr
all that is possible for you to learn of you'
proposed husband. When all doubts have
been removed fl ON your mind, and not til
then, accept him.
Year: 1878




The custom is now everywhere preva-
lent for pedestrians to take the right side
of the walk The practice avoids much
confusion. particularly on much frequented
walks. The rule has been so thoroughly
established that any person found violat-
ing it is set down as an ignoramus. Peo-
pie now take the right side as regularly in
walking as they do when driving on the
road. This Icing so, common sense sug-
gests that ladies should always walk at the
right side Of gentlemen when going in
couples. If they do that, ladies will never
be jostled when meeting other persons
the gentleman being thus always ON the
side Of contact with people cominS from
the opposite direction.


Gentlemen should abandon tho habit.
when promenading with ladies'. of walking
half around them at every turn of the cor
ner. The old custom of giving the ladies'
the inside of the walk, when. walking with
them, has no redeenllg feature, The
lady's comfort and protection is bes. iA-
sGred by her walking ut the right size Of
the gentleman at all times.
Year: 1878




Mr.. VIM. d. Flowers, the owner Of the
Last Chance mine at Red Mountain city,
Deer Lodge county, informed us few
days ago that he was now stopping on the
six hundred foot level, and that the main
incline is down tifty-two feet lower than
this level. Sinking has been suspended IN
consequence OF the great depth. and will
not be resumed until he procures steam
hosting works. He now uses whim
drived by horse power, and it is too slow
70 make it profitable to hoist from that
great depth. This is the deepest working
that has been reached in Montana, as the
lode is almost perpendicular. The mine
at the lowest depth attained is very wide
vet the same high grade of ore is found
lie crushes the ore with four small aras'
tras, and the vi I'D is about 5000 per week
He employs six men; these include min
ers, teamsters and amalgamators. 1t will
be seen by this that he has good mine
and is making a fortune slowly but sure
lv
Year: 1878

December b, Congressman Jones, of Florida, asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to introduce a joint resolution to authorize a treaty with Republic of Mexico to secure protection to capital and labor of citi- zens of the United States which may be invested and employed in opening railway communication in the northern states of said republic; which was read twice by its title, and referred to the Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs between the United States and Mexico. There IS no doubt but a number of railway companies are anxious to extend their lines into Mex ice, but cannot safely do so without better security than exists at present.
Year: 1878

WE referred lust week to the generous hospitality of our popular townsman, MT. M. L. Stiles, who entertained the people of Florence so handsomely on Christmas night. Not being satisfied with this he gave similar party on New Years Eve. The gathering was larger than last week; each sought to contribute as much as possible to the enjoyment of the evening and keeping time with tue quick music, all tripped lightly out of the old year into the new. The first sun that rose so bright and beautiful on the New Year found the merry company still assembled. The coach load that drove up Main street, al 7.5O a. m. looked a little sleepy, but the popular verdict is that "there is noth- ing mean about Stiles,' and his parties are always a success.
Year: 1878

SUPERINTENDENT SCOTT is in town from the R. E. Lee mine and says the last shot in the east drift just before he left threw .out some very good ore, but nothing yet to make a noise about. He is confident, however, that his energetic labors will be rewarded soon and he will be able to place the Lee on the list Of dividend-paying mines. We also learn from him that the shaft on the Hannible is now down about fifty feet in good ore. They have water in the bottom Of the shaft, which is good Indication Of a true Assure vein.
Year: 1878

WE have a letter in our care addressed to James NJ. Cowan. The letter IS from his relatives and he can obtain the same at TEE CITIZEN office. If Mir. Cowan is not in Pinal county, we would be glad Of any information Of his whereabouts.
Year: 1878

Fashion kills more women than toll
and sorrow. Obedience to fashion is
greater transgression of the laws of
wOman's nature, q greater injury to
her physical and mental situation,
than poverty and neglect. The slave
woman at her task will live and grow
old, and will sec two or three genera
tions Of her mistresses fade and pass
away. The ewasherwoman, with scarce
a ray of hope to cheer her in her toll,
will live to see her fashionable sisters
die all around her. The kitchen maid
is hearty and strong, while her lady
has to be nursed like a sick baby.


1t is sad truth that the fashion-tam-
pered women are almost worthless
for all the ends of human life. They
They have still less power of moral
will, and quite rs little of physical
energy. They live for no great pur-
pose in life; they accomplish no worthy
ends. They are only doll-iorms in the
hands of miIliners and servants, to be
dressed and fed to order. They dress
nobody and they save nobody. They
write no books; they set no rich ex-
ample of virtue and of womanly life.
If they rear children, servants and
nurses do all, save to give them
birth. And when reared what are
they? What do they ever amount to
but. weak scions of the old stock? Who
ever heard of a fashionable woman's
child exhibiting any virtue or power
of mind for which it became eminent :
Read the biographies of our great and
good men and women. Not one OF
them had n fashionable mother. They
nearly all sprung from strong minded
l~<,x = IsAA1
with fashion as with the changing
clouds.
Year: 1878

Washington CLa.) Enterprise.]


To put it mildly, this is a very mex
cusable piece of legislation, in our
opinion. We cannot understand how
any Legislature could be persuaded to
put itself on record in the passage of a
law containing such a feature, unless
they presumed upon the ignorance or
passiveness of their entire constitu-
ency, or were themselves inattentive
and failed to perceive the Objectionable
points in the system.


By what means is the State able to
make rebate of five, four, three, two
and one per cent, for the months Of
March, April, May and June respec-
lively? Evidently by over assessing
in the first instance the entire taxable
property Of the State; for if this were
not done, there would evidently be a
deficit in the fiscal account of the State
exactly corresponding to the amount
of rebates granted. This deficit can
only be met by over assessment. The
question now arises upon whom will
this burden of over assessment fall?
The only reply is, upon those who pay
after the last day of June. And who
are they? Evidently those who find
most difficulty in paying their taxes at
any rate, the small taxpayers who
have least facilities for getting money.


We are forced to the conclusion, that
the com mittee which labored to produce
this paragon of legislation was either
very simple or very dishonest; and
those members who voted for it, must
have done so without due considera-
tion.
Year: 1878

The Thunderer of London is right.
There arc brains In American industry.
Why, the great Corliss engine at the
Centennial Exhibition had brains, for
saw 1t pick up Its own valves and
drop them when there was just steam
enough on, and very few men can DO
trusted to do that. 1t had SO much
sense it would not waste one pound Of
steam, for 1t knew that steam cost


money. American brains shine in the


finish and fitness OF tho work that Is


commanding even the markets of


Asia. 1t is the busy brain behind tho


cunning hand that guides the great


artisan to perfect his workmanship,
just as the colors of tho artist must be


mixed with brains If they are to be


radiant for ever. And yet American


industry has been struggling under


the disadvantage arising from political


disturbances and financial disorder.


We must endeavOr to remove our
professional politics from tho path
way of Intelligent industry. There is a
chance for strokes of craftsmanship.


There is ono virtue I'm which tho
Americans are not conspicuous, they
need to complete the round OF their
triumphs. 1t Is thrift. The growth of
two blades OF grass or two stalks OF
grain where there was ono should be
celebrated. Cutting down trees was
the beginning of our industry. Tho
time has come to plant trees, and to
cover the fields with clover to bind
up tho wounds Of tho soil to restore
to the ffre-swept deserts the blooming
tempting the gentle rains
from heaven that the waste places may
be fruitful, that the rivers may not
run turbid with the riches of tho earth
to the seas, and that the great con-
tincnt VIC inherit may be good for tho
generations to coIne.-A. T. G0sh0,7,.
Year: 1878

It's all very we'll to talk about econ
omy, but tho difficulty is to get any
thing to economise. The little baby
who puts his toes in his mouth is al
most the only person who in these hard
meet.
Year: 1878

TARIFF OF ADVERTISING RATES.


Advertisements will be inserted at one
dollar and fifty cents per square Gone inch
of space or less) for tho first, and seventy
five cents for each subsequent insertion, for
any time under one month. For longer
periods as follows:
Year: 1878

The select committee of four Senators
from Hamilton County reported back in
the Legislature yesterday the House bill to
create Board of Police Commissioners for
Cincinnati, majority to be appointed by
the Probate Judge, and recommended ito
passage with two or three slight amend
ments The bill waslrdered engrossed for
third reading to-day.
Year: 1878

dered was deemed evidence that the Coro-
ner was unduly anxious to suppress the
scandal. None OF those who talked in this
way, however, could say what end could
have been attained by further investigation
excepting to satisfy curiosity.
Year: 1878

LONDON, March 16-It is reported that
Weston, the pedestrian, is very sick and
will, in consequence, be unable to compete
in the six days pedestrian contest which
commences at midnight tomorrow night at
Agricultural Hall
Year: 1878

A large proportion of the Amercan people are to-day dying from the effects of Dyspepsia or disordered liver. The result of these diseases upon the masse, of intelligent and valuable people is most alarming, making life actually q burden instead of a pleasant existence of enjoyment and usefulness as it ought to be. There is no good reason for this if you will only throw aside preiudioe and skeptlclsm, take the advice of drug gists and your friends, and try one bottle of Greens August Flower. Youl speedy relief is certain. Millions Of bottles of this medicine have been given away to try it's virtues, with satisfac- tory results in every case. You can buy q sample bottle for 10 cents to try, three doses will relieve the worst case Positively sold by all Druggists on the Western Continent. For sale by !. NJ IIarkcy & Bro.