Year: 1866

UUMMUN SUHUULS. NO s.


There are certain obligations we owe to
ourselves and to society, the right perfor-
nance of which requires intelligence. In
a government where the people are the
rulers, T. e., make their own laws, educa-
tion is both an individual and a national
necessity. An i1norant people never make
wise laws. The community which allows
ignorance to prevail in its midst, can never
be prosperous one. Every good citizen
| is interested in the cause Of Education The
! Common Schools are the only practical
means of affording it to the masses. These
| place an education within the reach of
every one, and if the people would give
the Common School system their united,
earnest support, we should soon see more
virtuous, law-abiding, and successful com
munity. 1t is fact, however, that there
is a species of opposition to the present
school Law. This unfriendly feeling does
not manifest itself in any well defined, tan
gible manner, but is seen in that grumb-
ling, compl lining way, in which many in
dulge when speaking of the schools. Hav-
ing received very limited benefits from the
schools themselves, they denounce the
whole system, in palliation of their own
intellectual poverty"


Fault finding with some persons has be-
come chronic disease, such a habit, that
they do not stop to inquire into the reason
ableness of the thing. The real friends Of
education are not of this class. The ground
work of the above opposition is found more
in the way the school law is executed than
in the law itself, We believe directors are
frequently to blame for the unfavorable
prejudices toward the system They do
not half execute the law, and there will
always be more or less disloyalty to law
which is not enforced Directors, we know,
are much abused class Still this should
not deter them from doing their duty They
have great responsibilities resting upon
them. To them is committed the impor-
tant charge of educating the youth,
and they should see to it that they prove
faithful to the trust Every motive of in
terest and duty holds you to strict &C
countability. To you the friends of pop
ular education look, to make the school
system a success. You are the Executives
of the laws. At the first meeting of direc-
tors for the coming year first Monday in
June) Resolved that you will make the
law honorable by enforcing it. If the law
requires convenient school houses, make
them SO. If good teachers are demanded,
employ no others, and hold out proper III
ducements to secure them. If uniform
books are required bring about unifor-
nifty at once. If the law says visit the
schools once month" do so, or choose one
of your members to do So If the law
makes you the guardian of the children
"from six to twenty-one years O age" see
if you are not robbing them by annually
appropriating five per cent of the school
fund for those the law says you are not the
guardians Of Where the law is faithfully
administered by intelligent directors the
schools will be found most prosperous We
say execute the laws. ALPHA BETA


TAKING CODA "cold" is not necessar-
ly the result of low or higG temperature.
A person may may go directly from hot
bath into cold one, or into snow even,
and not take cold by pouring a couple of
tablespoonful of water upon some part of
his dress, or by standing in door, or other
opening, where one part of the body is cold
er than the other Let it be kept in mind that
uniformity of temperature over the whole
body is the first thing to be looked after. 1t
is the unequal heat upon different parts of
the body that produces colds. by disturbing
the uniform circulation of some part


fyou must keep partially wet garment
on, it would be as well perhaps to wet the
whole of it uniformly. The feet are great
source of colds on account of the variable
temperature they are subjected to. Keep
these always dry and warm, and avoid
draughts of air, hot or cold, wet spots on
the garments, and other direct causes of un-
equal temperature, and keep the system
braced up by plenty of sleep and the es-
chewing of debilitating food and drinks,
and you will be proof againsta cold and its
results


Mrs. Partington is in New York. She
came in from Boston as soon she learned by tel
graph that gold was falling rapidly in Wall street,
but after several unsuccessful attempts to get into
the shower is going back a disappointed woman.
A young widow of very polite address,