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Year: 1874

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The object Of education is very


vaguely understood by many per-


cons. Atschool children are usually


taught to read and write, and some


people think that this is education.


But no one is benefited by the mere
knowledge how to read or write.
The good to be obtained is from the
use made of this knowledge. All
kinds of work can be done better by
an intelligent man than by one who
is ignorant. In all countries the
condition and character Of the peo-
pie correspond with the degree OF
intelligence. Where the greater
number are ignorant, there is the
mcst abject poverty-there the
great mass of the working people
are very poor. In many countries
there is a class of educated men who
control the affairs Of thes nation for
their own benefit, who possess i'm
mense wealth, while the majority Of
their countrymen barely exist in the
lowest degree Of poverty. Where
ever this is the case we find that
the common people are uneducated
and ignorant. The attempt to es-
tab1ish schools for all classes and to
instruct all the children has been
but lately made, and there is not
yet any country in the world where
all the children are taught just as
they should be. The most enlight- !
ened communities are yet far. from |
having perfect system Of common
schools. Yet the difference between !
the people who have maintained
public schools in some form and |
those who made no effort for that |
purpose is very great. In most Of
the Northern States the public |
school system is improving year by |
year, the best men are engaged in


the work and are sustained by the


people. Here in Louisiana the


work is scarcely begun, and many


Of our citizens do not understand
the benefit to be derived from the
education Of all children in public
schools Some think that an edu-
cation will make one able to live
without work-will enable one to
make money easy. This is q mis-
take. Education helps a man Ito
work to the best advantage, and
helps him to secure the best result
tom his labor. = 11 /


But true education does, not con
ast alone in the study of books.
Children should also be taught to
% prompt, punctual and orderly
taught to be honest, faithful and
Industrious. They should be taught
I" be and to do just that which Will |
make them useful and. worthy men +
i. md women. This is. true ednoa-
a0n. This is the work of the true
'eaeher. The ability to read is but
o. one Of the helps TO- accomplish this.
i Iney read that they may learn, and
'ney learn that they may become
worthy citizens, able to live well
and honestly by their OWE inteli-
gent labor. l.
Year: 1874

Rev. DR.. Bacon the moderator of the
Brooklyn Council used these words in an
address to the Yale Divinity students:


My theory of all these transactions and
troubles proceeds on belief in the high
est Christian integrity of Mr.. Beecher. /
believe that the infamous women who
have started this scandal have no basis for
it. Applause. If it was their testimo-
ny alone, it would not be worth kicking
dog. But / doubt not that he has his in
trinity, which is to let unprincipled men
know too much of him. object not to
being friend to publicans aud sinners.
Our Lord was. But the harlot who washed
his feet with her tears, and wiped them
with her tresses, was Il repentant harlot
So must one hedge himself in little.
And you, as you go out to preach, be on
your guard, lest in your anxiety TO do
good to the low. You become liable to be
charged with their sins.


Another part of my theory is that Mr.
Beecher's magnanimity is unspcakable.
never knew man OF larger and more
generous mind. One who was in relations
to him the most intimate possible, said to
me, "lf | wanted to secure his highest
love, l would 60 into church-meeting
and accuse him of crimes.n This is his
spirit. But l think he may carry it too
far. a man whose life is treasure to the
Chuch Universal, to his country, to his
age, has no right to subject the faith in it
to such strain. Some one has said that
Plymouth Church's dealings with offenders
is like Dogbenys. The comparison was
apt: ''lf any one will not stand, let him
go, and gather the guard and thank God
you are rid of such knave." SO OF
Lance, who went into the stock and pill
lory to save his dog from execution for
stealing buildings and geese. think he
would have done better to have let ven
geance come on the heads of his SANDER
ers.


But he stands before his Master and not
before men. hope ever to feel the full
est confidence in his character, and to see
his influence enlarge and round out more
and more.
Year: 1874

How TO MAKE SUPERIOR CoFFEE.-Dl-
vide the quantity generally used into
two equal portions; put one into the
coffee-pot on the, stove, pouring cold
water npon it. Let it boil five or SIX
minutes; then pour the boiling coffee
upon the dry coffee in another pot for
tbe tsble. You have thus all the stren'th
.n,a.a mart of the aroma Of the one'haif,
and ali tho aroma and a part OF the
strength Of the other half. This mode,
when once tried, will be always applied
in the making of coffee. 5ao
Year: 1874

u One day little boys mother
gave him long lecture on rnisdeanor
of which he had been guilty. When his
father came home at night be also began
to talk to him on the same unpleasant
subject. whereupon the little fellow
looked mp honestly and said, ''See here.
pa, ma has tended to that" The father
took the hint.
Year: 1874




WATER IN THE HoUsE.-A prom nent
writer says =" Let nobody be deferred
from bringing water into the house by
any fears of failure and perplexity. You
might just as well stop the circulation
of blood in the body because it is sub
iect to derangement, as to refuse the
circulation of water in the house be-
cause now and then pipe overhows
and YOUR frescoes are ruined. Good
workmen will prevent any such accident,
but if they cannot, give up your fres-
Goes; do not give up your life-blood.
When see the farm-houses, the dairies,
the kitchen, whose only source of sup
ply is the well in the yard or the hogs
head at the back door, how life would
be heightened and sweetened if all this
heavy and hard slow water bringing
could be supplanted by a turn of screw,
I wonder that we do not manage to in
troduce it, somehow, in our marriage
contracts. What an increase of vital
force would ensu6; what a diminished
demand for divorce; what strengthen
ing and up-building of the family bond,
if the girl should refuse to marry until
there was an inexhaustible supply OF
water, at least in the kitchen. A house
without water-works ought to be con-
sidered as incomplete as a house With
out doors, and rs incomplete in the
country as in the city," mi
Year: 1874

The regular monthly meeting Of this spirited
organization was held at its rooms, Court and
Montague streets, last evening, President T. w.
Ostrander IN the chair. The only matter or in
terest laid before the members was the report Of
the Committee on the Revision OF the Constitution
and Bylaws. The several provisions and articles
desired 10 be changed or stricken out were read
wnen the matter was ordered to third reading
and final action at the January meeting. The
sloop yacht Red Jacket was added TO the neet oi
thn
Year: 1874

In Kerosene Lamps the light often is
unsatisfactory while all is apparently in
good order. 1t should be borne in mind
that, though the wick is but very grad
ually burned, it is constantly becoming
less able to conduct the oil. During
several weeks some quarts of oil are
slowly filtered through the wick, which
stops every particle of dust or other
matter that will with the utmost care be
in the best kinds of oil. The result is
that the wick, though it is of sufficient
length and looks as good as ever, has its
conducting power greatly impaired, as
its pores, SO to speak, or the minute
channels by which the oil reaches the
place to be burned, becomes gradually
obstructed. 1t is often economy to sub
stitute new wick for an old one, even
If that be plenty long enough to serve 70,
some time to come.
Year: 1874

An economist, or a man who can por-
portion his means and his ambition, or
bring the year round with expenditure
which expresses his character, without
embarrassing one day of his future, is
already master of life and free man.
Lord Burleigh writes to his son that
one ought never to devote more than
two-thirds of his income to the ordinary
expenses Of life, since the extraordinary
will be certain to absorb the other third.
Year: 1874

In his last illness Goethe was reported
to have said, "Let mental culture 90 on
advancing; let The natural sciences go
on gaining in depth and breadth, and
the human mind expand as it may-it
will never 60 beyond the elevation and
moral culture of Christianity as it glis-
tens and shines forth in the gospel"
Year: 1874

Prison RoMANcE.-A few days since fine
double team, with driverand footman on board,
dashed up iu front of the penitentiary and stop
ped, when the footmau fastened into the war
den's Office, and said to Colonel IuDis that a
lady at the gate desired to see the warden.
The Colonel stepped out, and after addressing
the finely dressed madam 10 the carriage, was
asked If she might sec her husband, who was
convict under bis charge. He replied that if
she was the wife Of any man in the prison OF
course she could see him. She alighted and
went into the Office. Meanwhile the man whose
uame she gave was sent for. Before ne came
the woman privately told the warden that she
had bill of divorce from her husband, aud it
might be that he would not care to see her,
and she wanted to be advised on that pSint be-
fore he should come in Accordingly the war
den met the husband in the guard-rcom, and
said to him that his divorced wife was 10 the
Office and desired to see him, if he was willing.
He said he had no objection to seeing her. He
went into the Office, where she met him with a
welcome hand and caress, which we're both
very coldly received. During the conversation
that ensued she asked him If he intended CON-
ing home when his 4ime was out, and told him


that his father had said that he would establish
him in business if be would behave himself He
indifferently replied that he didnt know or
care much where he went to. Her interest 10
his behalf vas not very warmly reciprocated,
and she finally remarked that she would have
to be going AS they parted she offered another
caress, which be accepted, seemingly only as .


matter of politeness. After he bad gone back
to work. she told the captain of the guard to
tell him that if he would be good man until
his time was out and come home she would
again join him in the bonds of wedlock. = Ohio
State Journal
Year: 1874

In previous issue of the Echo, we
expressed pretty clearly our views IN
regard to a question that is now being
quite elaborately discussed by the
Conservative press of the State. There
were whisperings that warned US of an
early agitation of the Convention ques-
tion, and we fastened to commit our
ppper unreservedly in opposition to the
move. We could not believe, with sad
experience of the past i'll View, t..@se
any very formidable effort would be
made to again force this issue. The
signs indicate that we were deceived,
and that very determined fight will
be made to induce the Legislature,
when it assemblies, to issue a
call for a Convention to amend the
Constitution. Among the advocates
of this measure, we regret to see that
staunch, able and reliable old veteran,
the WILMINGToNJ JOURNAL. North Car
olina never boasted paper OF high
er character than that same JOURNAL;
the Democratic party never had
truer, bolder, or more devoted cham
pion. In following its lead, there was
but little danger of going wrong; 1t
gave no uncertain sound" and the
ring of its metal was always clear and
distinct. We are panied to be now
forced to differ with the JOURNAL; a
difference, however, that reaches
no farther than the policy Of
the proposed move. The defects of
the Constitution are huge; they are
many and grievous. and were we sat
isfied that the people of North Caro-
lima would sanction the Gallo "a Conven-
ton, we should give hearty and cor
dial amen to the proposition. But
there is the rub. Convinced, as we
are, that any action looking to Con-
vention will be repudiated by heavy
majority, and that all the good


which would otherwise result from
the victory which we have just
achieved will be lost in the GER
tain wreck of our party, we must op-
pose to the bitter end so suicidal a
course. We prefer "to bear the ills
we have" than fly to those which we
know to be much worse. We repeat
Year: 1874

We make no apology for the length
Of the communication advocating the
call Of convention, which is copied
from the JOURNAL. While not satisfied
with the writer's conclusion, we doubt
whether We could present o.r readers
with an article of eauallengthin i'll which
they would find more to interest and
instruct


There is one matter-the Gisfran-
chisement Of free negroes in the con-
stitution of 1S35-ahout which our
traditions 10 not fully accord with the
statement Of the wliter. The CANA
liel at whose feet we learned our first
lesson in history and politics, and
who by the way never admitted the
Justice of this disfranchisement-w
very decided in the opinion that all
the disabilities imposed on free negroes
in that constitution were intended to
disqualify them for cooperation with
the Puritan fanatics who were cni.eav-
oring, through peddler missionaries
and inoendiary circulars, to excite in
surrections in the South.


If our account is the true one, we
deem it worthy. at this particular
time, of confirmation, and we shall be
pleased to hear some gentleman who
is familiar with the history of those
times -(Vi,3fO0 RcDOTTCr
Year: 1874

The New York Herald of Tuesday
says:


"a remarkable practical commenta-
ry on one Of the provisions of the Fed
eral Constitution has been furnished
by Governor Moses and Attorney Gen
eral Williams. Moses made applica-
ton to the President on Friday for
troops to suppress domestic violence
in the town of Edgefeld. The Attor-
ney General replied on Saturday, in
forming him that one company was
already there and was deemed suffi-
clent. The grotesque absurdity of
cOnfessing that the whole militia of
South Carolina is incompetent to cope
with local disturbance which a single
company of Federal soldiers suffices to
hold In awe needs no words to set it
forth. 1t IS burlcsGue on that part
of the Constitution which declares that
"a well regulated militia being neces-
sary to the security of free State, the
right OF the people to keep and bear
arms shall Dot be infripged. The
South Carolina militia affards q won
derful security" to that Stree State
when 1t is confessedly unequal to an
eXigency for which one company of the
regular army is ample But this cor
respondence has lis sad as well as its
ridiculous side. It is shame and
scandal that an American State is or
ganized on so false and unsafe basis
that petty local cnacntc threatens to
topple it into ruins. Moses gave as
his reason for applying for Federal
troops that L am powerless to enforce
my orders except by the use of inex-
perienced State miiitia'-a confession
that the negro militia is utterly worth
less in State where the negroes out
number the whites in the proportion
of inearly two to one. BY the last
census the white population of South
Carolina was only 2S9, G68. aud the nc
gro population was 415, 9l4. And yet
Moses quivers with fear, and tele-
graphs to Washington fos aid against
a small LOCAL disturbance in a rural
town =
Year: 1874

Would you show yourself really good to
your daughters ? Then be generous to them
in truer sense than that Of heaping trink-
cts on their necks. Train them for independ.
once first, and then labor to give it to them
Let them, as soon as ever they are grown
up. have some little money, or means OF
making money, to be their own, and teach
them how to deal with it, without needing
every moment, somebody to help them.
Calculate what you give them or will be-
queath TO them, not as is usually done, on
the chances of their making rich marriage
but on the probability of their remaining
single and according to the scale of living
to which you have accustomed them. Sup
press their luxuries now if need be, but dc
not leave them with scarcely bare neces-
saries hereafter, in striking contrast to their
presenthome, Above ALL help them to help
themselves. Fit them to be able to add Ia
their own means, rather than to be forever
pinching and economizing, till their minds
are narrowed and their hearts are sick
Give them all the culture you can to every
power which they may possess. If they
should marry after all, they will be the
happier and the better for it. If they
should remain among the million of the uu.
married, they will bless you in your grave,
and say of you, what cannot be said of many
a doating parent by his surviving child
" My father cared that l should be happy
after his death, as well as while / was hi,
pet and his toy"
Year: 1874

Presently second boats crew ventures
away, and VIC observe signal from the
deck intended for US, which indicates some
thing is in store--a seal has been noticed
from the deck, floating at some little dis
tance, and we steadily 60 10 pursuit Of the
pussy the seaman's name for seal y we
kneel down in the bows, while a sailor in
the stern sculIs warily toward her, stopping
whenever be sees the least motion in the
ever-watchful animal She is resting on
the ice, and as We approach she lifts her
head and turns slowly to look upon US,
when, Of course, We remain perfectly still
until she again settles quietly down. ln
this way we advance to within about thirty
yards, when she turns restlessly, as If con-
templatng a sudden move We see her
keen, inquiring eye turned full upon US,
a warning word whispered by the sailor,
and as We pull the trigger the whisper
is changed into a wild exclamation Of
disappointment for the seal slips quietly
over the ledge out Of sight.


We, feeling perfectly satisfied with the
success of the shot hurry up, and entirely
forgetting the advice of the Hull Harbor
Master, jump on to the treacherous ice and
hasten to the opposite side. There the
ledge overhangs somewhat; the mass yields
beneath our weight, and we are precipitated
head.foremost into the water. Recovering
from our momentary sensation of surprise
and bewilderment, we look about for the
seal There she lies, however, dead upon
a tongue of ice, and just beneath the sur.
face. But for this platform beneath the
waves, which is rather common shape u.s.
sumed by floating ice, it would have been a
difficult matter to save ones self from
drowning, owing to the heavy weight Of
our fishing boots and thick clothing. As
it is no worse we grasp the fipper Of our
dead seal, and with no small difficulty she
is slowed away on board the boat and We
slowly follow From the Gateloay 10 The
Polynesia, Jy Capt. J. c. Wells, r. ".
Year: 1874




We plead in the interest of our nation
against the fashion and extravaganza in
dress that is creeping into our public
schools. We plead here with the lady
teachers, for on these in great measure de.
pends the standard Of opinion of the school.
Let them remember, each day, that they
are going to work, and let them dress in
accordance with this fact--in dresses from
which the chalk-dust will shake easily,
with no fringes and loops to catch in going
through the aisles-no heavy trimmings on
the skirts to make more weary still the
oittimes weary day. Let them not wear
laces, but plain white linen collars and
cuffs. Let them discard all fancy orna.
ments in their hair, and a new and more
healthy tone will begin to pervade our
school-room. More attention will be paid
to work, because less will be demanded for
outward adornment, but better still, the girl
of poor parents will have no need, because
of her clean calico dress, TO shrink from
comparison with her more wealthy sisters,
or try to shine by the addition of faded or
soiled hncry, or grow insolent to make up
for the lack Of it. Can we not in any one
school unite all the lady teachers in plain
dress club for that purposes Of reform?
Year: 1874

FOURTH WARD NoMINArIoN.-At meeting of
the Fourth Ward Republican Executive Commit
tee held last evening, it was decided that the
nomination of Councilman will take place on
Saturday next at the City Hall, in connection
with the nomination election of Assessor and
Cnllectnr
Year: 1874

The President although he will leave Long
Branch about the middle Of September, will not
take up his residence at the White House till
later in the fall. He will go to his farm near st.
Louis for short visit, and will also visit his
relatives at Washington, Pa.
Year: 1874

No efforts will be spared to make the MAINE STAYE
PRESS more acceptable to its patrons. Indeed, the
Publishers will not relax their efforts to make the
paper necessity to those who have been accustomed
to read it. We pledge that during the year 1874 the
Weekly PRESS shall be more a aNEwSPAPER than
ever, that the family that thoroughly reads the
paper will have all the current ereRts Of the dsp.
Year: 1874

Few people In this city are aware OF the fact
that there Is NO keener judge Of borsenesh, no bet
ter fisherman no better Judge OF the lines OF
yacht more Industrious hunter, no better shot, no
better billiard player or pitcher Of quoits than the
great reform reappointer Of shady politicians
Don PEDRO Havemeyer, alias the honest and truth
iui Dutcbman.


An experienced interviewer, familiar with sport.
ing slang, called upon tho honest DESCENDANT Of q
Year: 1874

A visit to the Office of Mr.. Dubuclet yes
terday resulted in witnessing the easy
working of the machinery in the same
pleasant manner as in old days before the
grand war of ipjunctions commenced. Mr..
Dubuclet remarked that since he has been
in Office, from 1868 to 1873, everything went
wen that last year was bad one for the
office, but since the adjournment of the
Legislature the operation of the funding
bill has restored the old harmony. The
tax collectors all pay the money into the
treasury and the Treasurer pays it out on
warrants, just az it ought to be. Not much
money has been received, and as fast as it
comes in it goes out again and goes to all
creditors having proper claims pro rata,
and not to one or two favored individuals.


The honest and conscientious course OF
Mr.. Dubuclet has won him many friends.
He is daily in receipts Of letters from all
parts of the State, and even from Chicago
and other cities, commencing him in the
performance of his duties. A.strong desire
has been expressed by prominent gentle
mem in many parishes that he should allow
his name to be used az q candidate for re
election. and it is probable that he will be
induced to permit it.
Year: 1874

Among the late, if not the latest, at


fractions Of Canal street is the great China
and Japan tea store, located at No. ITO.


opposite the Varieties Theatre. In this es-
tablishment may be found the choicest teas
imported to this country. Black, green, or
mixed, new or old, are there displayed
in all their purity; in fact the imported
plant may therein be seen growing in full
perfection, and it is the intention of the en-
terprising proprietor to make this the tea
depot, par excellence, Of New Orleans, and
to convince those who favor him With their
patronage that the best qualities of tea are
within the reach of the most limited purse.