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VOL. XL.
MONTPELIER, VT., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1883.
NO 11.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1883.
Berlin Superintendent's Report.
The following report of the town super
intendent of Berlin, A. L. Hewitt, is
published at the unanimous request of the
voters of the town, as expressed in their
annual town meeting
It is impossible to give a full report of
the soboola of the town at tins time, for
the registers have not been delivered to
me and the schools have but just finished;
therefore we cannot state the attendance
or the number of pupils that have attended
school in town during the year, but will
state their condition as near as I oould
judge when I visited them.
district no. 1.
Summer term was taught by Miss Mary
Terrin of this town; number or pupils 9;
attendance, discipline and progress, good;
teacher and scholars seemed t make good
use of their time. Winter term was taught
by Miss Grace L. Slocuni of this town.
Was not visited,
district NO. 2.
Summer term was taught by Miss Helen
S. Merrill of West Newbury, Mass ;
number of pupils 1 6 ; attendance fair ; order
very good. This was a very interesting
school; found some children only 11 years
old who were as far advanced as interest
in tho practical arithmetic; teacher and
pupils" soomed to work together with
iutenst and profit. Fall term was taught
by Miss Fannie Martin of Willlamstown;
whole number of pupils 27 ; attendance
and order very good ; this school seemed
to keep up the intorest shown in the
summer. Winter term was taught by
Miss Addie Cobleigh of Northfleld ; whole
number of pupils 24 j order good, attend
ance fair. This appeared to be a successful
closing of a successful year of school in
this district. Was much pleased with the
gentlemanly and ladylike deportment of
the pupils, which spoke well for their
home influences.
DISTRICT no. 3.
The first six weeks of the summer term
was taught by Miss Evolyn Whittemore
of Northlield ; whole number of pupils 23.
This teacher was a good worker but
lacked in order. The last six weeks of the
term were taught bv Miss Alice Warren
of this town, who is an able and successful
teacher and always gives satisfaction.
The winter term was taught hy Miss Julia
McCarty of Northlield; whole number of
pupils 34. The teacher seemed willing to
do her part towards having a good school.
There was some complaint arising from
some misunderstanding, or perhaps mis
takes on both sides of the house; but hopo
they were satisfactorily settled.
district NO. 4.
The summer term was taught by Miss
Alice E. Kinney of Montpeller; whola
number of pupils 2G; attendance good;
order very good ; all seemed to be inter
ested in the work. I taught the winter
term, and (although I have nothing to
say in favor of the teacher), tho scholars
deserve special mention for their good
behavior and their kindness in always
being ready to help their teacher. All
were studious and orderly, and several
went through the whole term without
missing a word in spelling or having an
imperfect lesson. (That beautiful and
valuable present from the scholars to the
teacher showed that our children are
ready to do their part towards having
good schools if we are willing to do ours
and make no mistakes.) Whole number
of pupils 38; average attendance 33 1-2;
whole attendance 1967.
DISTRICT NO. 5.
Rummer term was taught by Miss Alice
Roberts; whole number of pupils 36;
attendance fair; order not above the
average, but seemed to make good
progress in studies. The fall lerin was
taught by Miss Caribel Boyce; number of
pupils 31; attendance and order good for
so large a school ; considered it a good
school. The winter term was taught by
i he same teacher but was not visited.
DISTRICT no. G.
Summer term was taught by Miss
Minnie R. Swasey of this town; number
of pupils 17; good order and progress.
One little boy only 7 years old was
ciphering in United States money in the
praotioal arithmetic. Fall term was taught
by Miss Kate Webster of Montpelier;
number of pupils 23. This school snowed
considerable interest in the work but
lacked in order. Winter term was taught
by Alice Roberts but was not visited.
DISTRICT no. 7.
Summer term was taught by Miss
I.ibbie Whitmarsh of Northfiold ; number
of pupils 10. This teacher was also
employed to teach the fait school, and
succeeded in keeping up an interest in the
school and gaining the confidence of the
children. The winter term was taught by
Miss Jennie E. Barton of Montpelier;
whole number of pupils 20, but the
attendance was not very good. This
teacher is capable of keeping a very good
school if she would only keep good
natured.
district no. 8.
Miss Anna Olincs of this town taught
both terms, and think aha gave general
satisfaction. This school is small.
district no. 9.
Summer term taught by Miss Jennie
Barton; number of pupils 6 There was
neither an absent nor tardy mark in the
register during the term. Winter term
taught by Miss Minnie E. Smith; number
of pupils 12; attendance good. The
icachcr worked hard to make the school
interesting and profitable and succeeded
very well, although order was not any
above the average.
district no. 10.
Summer term was taught by Miss S 'rah
L. Rhoads of Waterbury ; number of pupils
13; attendance good and all seemed
interested in the work; ordor verv pood.
Fall term was taught by Miss Lilla M.
Ailer ,of Montpelier. Do not think the
teachod sufficiently realized the rosponsi-!
bilily of her position, and it will be
necessary for her to letm more of what
are the duties of a tcachor in order to
sucoeod us an instructor of young minds.
DISTRICT no. 12.
Summer terra taught by Miss Hattie
Smith of Northlield, who gave good
satisfaction, and was employed to teach
the winter school. Lurgost number of
scholars 20. This teacher took special
pains wilh reading classes to explain
words they could not understand, and to
teach them bow each lesson should bo
read.
Tbere have been 2G terms of, school
taught in town this year exolusivo of
district No. 11, whioh is reported In
Moretown. Seven districts have supported
two terms each and four districts throe
terms each. I think the majority of
sohools have boon suooessful, but I fear we
are apt to consider the education of the
young as a secondary object, and are not
alive to the responsibilities that rest upon
us as parents, teachers and sobool officors.
We are responsible in a groat measure for
tho future of our children. Tho success of
our schools depend greatly upon the
advice given the teachers by tho commit
tee, especially when we hire young teach
ers. Sometimes the committee will say
the school must be governed any way if
nothing else is done. It is not eo much
the words, but the uiannor in which they
are spoken that implies to the teacher that
be must bo strict and stern, and the
consequonce is a barrior between the
teacher and scholars; and the scholars
will not work with the courage they
otherwise would. A child must be
encouraged and loved or he will nover
learn to advantage. A loaohcr is sotno
tlmcs liable to think he must appear very
grave, dignified and learned; tho result in
this case is the children have no confidence
in him, and they dare not ask assistance
from so dignified and loarned an indiviil
ual. A teacher to be successful must be
on the same footing with tho children ; be
interested in their work, their little troubles
and their plays; and a teacher never
should ask of a child anything ho would
not do nimselt. A child has I bo same
feelings of love, gratitude and right, as an
adult only more sensitive; tneroiore it a
teacher should wrong a child before the
school he should ask the child's forgivonoss
before the school. Then two great points
are gained. He sets a good example before
the school and gains the confidence of the
scholars, and we can do anything with
children alter we gain their confidence.
Perhaps we may think this to be tho
teacher's responsibility and that wo have
nothing to do with it hero; but I think it
is our duty to advise the teachers to this
effect and to see that our advice is carried
out. Also it is our duty to make home
interesting to young scholars by furnishing
interesting and instructive books, and
encouraging them at home. Give a young
man a book and you make him a denizen
of all nations and contemporary with all
ages. I do not wish to advocate any new
rules in our schools. We have tried too
many of them already, but simply state
facts that wo are all aware of. I do not
wish to advise older and abler men than
I, but will say that as young trees lift up
their branches through the thicket to get
a gleam of sunlight so necessary for their
lifo and growth, so let us as parents,
teachers and school officers, lift up our
hearts and minds to God for love and
wisdom so necessary for the proper
instruction of our little ones that they may
grow up ornaments to society, blessings to
their country, and comforts to thoir
families. Arthur L. Hewitt,
Town Superintendent of Berlin.
Tho Wonders of the Kile For the Young:
Reader,
BY MRS. CHARLES rARKIIUUST.
Perhaps nothing is more wondorful than
the history of the efforts to discover its
real source. The names of Speko, Grant,
Baker, Livingston and Stanley are forever
linked with the Nilo. Baker declared
that the Nile had its source in the lake
which he named Albert Nynnza in 18G4.
Tho rivor forms several cataracts or falls
on its way, but during high tide they
completely disappear and may bo passed
by steamers of light draught. It follows
a course nearly north until within 125
miles of its mouths, when it divides and
forms, between these branches, a triangu
lar island, called the delta. This Island
is traversed by several smaller branches
which enter the Mediterranean sea. The
mouths of the Nile, 9 in number, include
a territory of 150 miles between tho outer
branches. Tho fertility of rho soil of
Egypt for miles, on cither side, is due to
the overflow of the river. Tho annual
rise and fall of the Nile is so constant
that it may bo anticipated within n few
hours. Tho deposits spread over the soil
and make it so rich that three crops are
raised in a single reason. The mould left
consists of a black mud of a clayey
nature. The length of the Nilo is about
3,300 miles; tho greatest breadth is 12
miles; tho least 2 miles. Over fifty
varieties of fish are found in its waters.
Amcng the trees that fringe its borders
is the date palm, or breadfruit tree. This
supplies the native with food, clothing
and furniture. The papyrus grows here
from which the Egyptians prepared their
paper used in writing. This treo was
largely utilized in constructing light boats
and in the manufacture of sails. The
acacia is common, from which comes tho
shittini-wood of the Bible and from which
the ark was made. We find loo the
syoamoro tree.
The faithful beast of burdon, tho camel,
plods along its banks. The hippopotamus
is found on (he upper banks of tho Nile.
Along the very streets of sorno of the
larger towns the night is nindo hideous
with the cry of the wild dog and the
hyena. The crocodilo laves in its waters
and basks in the sunshine upon its banks
of sand. The most curious specimen
among the feathered tribe is the "crocodile
bird." This bird subsists upon the flies
and insects which gather in the mouth of
the sleeping crocodiles, and, as a faithful
monitor, wakens the crocodile by a shriok
of alarm at any approach of danger. The
picture of this bird, standing unalarmed
betwoen tho hugo, open jaws of its patrol
monster, is an impressive sight. There
may be seen "Pharioh's hen," perched
with trailing wings and drooping tail,
upon the rulnod monuments of those old,
desolate cities. So tame are many of the
smaller birds that they light on the deck
of your vessel and catch at a fly on your
foot. So necessary is the Nile in its
overflow to tho prosperity of Kgjpt that
It was doifiod by tho people. Thoy
believed that the God Osiris was buried in
its watore, nnd roso onco ovory year to
bestow blessings.
On its banks wore cortain prieits who
faithfully rondored services of devotion to
this doity. Thoy wore to porform burial
sorvico also for any doad body found upon
its banks. No dead body was allowed to
ho thrown into tho rivor lost it should
defile its waters. Hence the roason for tho
vast rock hewn tombs that bordor on its
banks. A crier annually goes up and
down tho banks of tho Nilo, culling out
the foot of its overflow. Many festivals
were coloV.ttod as tho waters of this
sacred river began to rise. You remember
how the daughter of Pharaoh, going down
to the river to bathe, or as whs probably
true, to perform some religious ceremony,
discovered the ark which contained the
great lawgiver and leader of the Hebrews.
Into the waters of this river Nile, that
anxious mother had plaoed his little bark.
About six miles from the banks of the
river were the pyramids, those mountains
of stone, for sepulchres. They are thought
to be the tombs of distinguished kings.
The ancient dwellers beside these waters
believod that the body, alter being dead
for a certain length of time, was to be
raised again. Ilenco they took such
special care to preserve the body after
death. You remember that Joseph's body
was thus preserved, so that when the
children of Israel wont out of Egypt they
took his coffin with them, after bo bad
been dead more than fifty years. It was
the custom of kings to commence making
their sepulchre as soon as they were
crowned, and to work upon it until their
doath; then it was sealed and the entrance
hidden from detection with the greatest of
oaro. Ileroditus tells us that so large
wero some of these groat stone structures
that two thousand men were employed for
three years in removing one block. All
along its banks are the ruins of tho oldest
and most beautiful oities in the world.
Ilelipolis, "called the abode of tho sun,"
was the oldest city of Egypt. It is sup
posed lo be tho birthplace of Moses.
Joseph, too, married his wife, a daughter
of ono of the priests in this city. From
tho trees of this city was taken the "balm
of Gilead, brought to Solomon by the
Queon of Sheba. Shakespeare beautifully
describes a barge on this river, painted in
gorgeous colors, trimmed with gold, with
brilliant sails and oars of silver, and in
this boat are seated the queen, Cleopatra,
and the hero Antony, conquered by her
fascinating charms.
In Alexandria, perhaps the most beau
tiful of the cities of the Nile, were two
towering obelisks called "Cleopatra's
needles;" one of these stands today in
Central park, New York.
And wilh this we come back from the
is no to our own land, and close our
glance at the wonders of this monumental
Sunday School Lesson Soles.
BY REV. J. O. SHERI1URN.
March 25th, Quarterly Review.
Dr. Vail, In his notes for this in the
Christian Advocate suggests that Acts 4: 33
would bo a proper golden text for the
quarter.
We have been at work upon lessons
which all have to do with the new dispen
sation, the dispensation of the Holy Spirit.
For while we know that He had been in
the world inspiring men and dictating the
scriptures before given, yot his work had
not been so prominent beforo us now.
God the Father was the leading person of
the Godhead brought to view in the Old
Testament times. In due time Christ
came and the attention of tho moral
universe is turned in wonder upon him.
But he plainly told bis followers that It
was expedient for them that he should go
away; and this was the ground upon
which he made that assertion, "If I go not
away the Comforter will not come unto
you."
In the first lesson of this quarter we find
the infant church in a position of waiting
for this promised Comforter.
In thojfew verses which make up the first
lesson we find the Holy Ghost mentioned
three times, and this before His special
coming at Pentecost. They were yet
waiting for Him. One thought connected
with these lessons ought to give them
particular interest for us. We live under
the Spirit's dispensation. The divine
method in our time Is the method of
Pentecost. As the early disciples reached
tho wonderful qualifications which the
Spirit gave by waiting In one aooord for
him, so may we at tho present obtain tho
like blessing. The lessons following the
first give us many views of what practical
results were then reached under the work
ings of the Spirit. Let us study them. We
are taught that "The Spirit is given to
every man to profit withal. The gain in
achievements for God and humanity then
ought still to appear in our times. The
second lesson shows us that with the
coming of tho Spirit camo also great
power to communicate the truths of tho
gospel.
This was a practical result of the Spiri'ts
aid, needed now as then for the progress
of tho church. We may not now expect
the rpecial gifts of tongues which will
enable us lo tell the wonderful things of
God to all people by divine empowering,
but if the Spirit's power really rests upon
be ohurcb, a way will bo found out soon
o give the glad tidings to the nations.
The Spirit's presenoe makes evangelists
of men always; and either they will
personally goto carry the word of life to
those who are destitute of it, or tbey will
send, by giving of their means to enable
others to go.
The third lesson shows as tho results of
preaching under the power of the Holy
Spirit.
Men were pricked in thoir hearts, a
rosult vastly more to bo desired than to be
ploasod in the mind or satisfied in our
sense of the fitness of things. When the
heart is reached and moved the lifo will be
changed. Those who wore convicted
under the power of the spirit wont forward
at ono j in the way of owning Christ. Tbey
wore babtlzed, and joined themselves to
the oompany of the disoiplcs. They were
continuously engaged in Christian service
and were sound In doctrine. They loved
each other and lived for others; told their
possctiitni. Tho coming of the spirit
makes men loyal, loving and liberal. The
same results follow his work io-day ; and
we need not flatter ourselves that wo have
the gift of the spirit unlosj there aro theso
marks in our lives.
Lesson four shows us I hat under the
Spirit's power bodily healing was wrought.
Tho Spirit makes men ablo to alleviate
even bodily Ills. This ability is still given;
and whotbor a man speaks tho word - of
honling, as Peter did, or Is moved to found
nnd endow a hospital which shall be a
perpetual source of healing, the work is
the same, and prompted by tho self same
spirit.
Lesson fifth gives a marked manifesta -
tion of the courage, fidelity and charily
Which are manifested Where tho spirit
reigns In the heart. Courage in tho plain
preaching of Peter before the multitude In
the temple, fidelity to tho truth of which
tbey Were witnesses, and charity in that
the ignorance of the people and rulers was
, r r
taken into account.
Tho sixth lesson shows us the confound-
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ing oi auversaru s anil opposnrs of ine
Spirit's aid. Nothing could then bo said
against the good work wrought by the
power of the Holy Spirit in healing the
lame man. So now the work of the spirit
commends itself to every man's conscience
.
in ine sigut oi uou. iienco men must set
themselves wilfully against tho spirit,
boing fully convinced of the tiuth, or must
yield to the Spirit's teaching.
The Spirit gives boldness also before
human tribunals, nnd sends men forth to
seek by united thankful supplications the
greater aid which Ihey aro conscious that
tbey need. No rash or over confidence is
ever the work of the Holy Spirit. This is
shown in tbe 7th lesson.
In tbe 8th we havo the most solomn
warning against hypocrisy. A sin is
specially heinous when it is committed
under tho prelenco of acting by divine
prompting. Tho Jows b asphotiioufly
attributed Christ's power to tho wicked
ono. It is no loss blasphemy to attribute
tho work of the devil to the spirit of tioil
luo lesson also shows that swilt ven
geance often follows sin against great
light.
Tho Oth lesson shows us that corrupt
and sinful men will naturally bo opposed
to any work wrought by the divine spirit,
but Ihf t the power of God is superior lo
all tbe devices of evil men to hinder his
work. The rulors could cast the apostles
into prison, but divine power found an
easy way for their releiso.
In tho 10th lesson tho Idea is brought
out that tho Holy Spirit is needed lo
qualify men for the temporal business of
tho church. Emphasis needs to be put
upon that lesson in our times.
Lesson 11th shows us that while a man
acting under the direction of tho spirit
may incur hatred and find himself in peril,
and may even suffer doath; yet bis death
will be triumphant and glorious, and God's
work be advanced even by seeming calam
ity and loss.
Under the working of tho spirit all is
gain for God's people.
Bovs' Lecture. Some fellows client
when they swap. I know a story of a
boy that cheated. He bad a new jack
knife, and soon's he began to whittle with
it the edge turned, because it was rot
good steel. He ground it off smooth and
made it look like new, kd1 swnpped it
with another fellow and did not toll him
the blade was bad. Then be oheated
another fellow with a ball. It was a
pretty ball, worked all over wilh rod.
But the yarn was rotten jarn. He knew
it was rotten yarn, for a liltlo of it had
begun to wear off in one place where tho
ball was most new, and he got the place
mended and swapped it with Dan Elliot
for a first rate bow and arrow; nnd made
him think 'twas good yarn. Yes, mean!
That was what made Dan's mother tell
Dan that the other fellow got tbe Worst
of the bargain. She told him 'twas worse
to bo mean than to get cheated. My
cousin Ti m knows a fellow that knows
another fellow that had a brother that lied
when he swnpped off a ball. He said it
had an old fashioned India i libber inside
the middlo of it, when all it had there
was a horso chestnut. I will bow tell
you a funny story about niy cousin Tom
and a fellow named Simeon. One day
when they were coming home from school
Tom said, "Let's swap pockets even." He
meant swap what was in their pockets.
Simeon said, "I'll do it." Tom said, "t
mean everything," nnd Simebn said, "I
mean everything." And then they swapped
even without knowing what they were
going to get, but took whatever was in
each other's pockets. Tom's bad a cake
of paint, some string, a piece of chalk, a
slate pencil, a handkerchief, a jewsharp, a
ball, a little bottle and some crumbles
The other fellow's bad some string, a slate
pencil, some gum, a toothpick, rt boat's
anchor, a jack-knife with ono blade broke,
a comb, some crumbles, a handkerchief.
And they both kept the things tbey got
from each other, only their mothers
washed tho pocket handkerchiefs and sunt
them back lo tho ones that used to have
them, and Tom let the fellow have bis
anchor back, because he had a boat that It
belonged to. Somo fellows will agree to
swap and then won't hold I mean won't
keep what they got, and mako you t ike it
back. Once Tom swapped a tin music
box for a valentine, and swapped fair.
The boy brought the music box back and
said he wasn't going to swap. And Tom
thought he'd let him have his valentine!
back, and gave it back to him. But if you
swap away something very good that your
mother is not wil ins; you should, then tho
other fellow's mother ought to tell him to
swap back.
The Benefit of Reading. It is not
tbe amount of reading that does one good,
out ine amount oi iniormation or tho
incitement to thought and imagination
that is derived from it. Tho professer was
quite right when, his pupil boasting that
be bad rend ten hours a day, he said,
"When do you think?" Bacon said that
some books were to be tasted, some to be
swallowed, and some few to be digested.
There is no reason against the tasting or
the swallowing, but to be lasting or
swallowirg everything and digesting
nothing leaves the mind in the same state
that the body would be under tho same
circumstances. Much of our newspaper
reading is of no value whatever.
If we consider tbe amount of independ
ence it creates, the entertninment It
affords, the ease with which it may bo
obtained, and the lime when it may be
pursued, there is no occupation that can be
compared with reading. It Is a faculty of
me nignesc vaiue to mankind, nnd Bhould
be cherished accordingly; for, no matter
in wnal mood a man may be, ho can
always una some dook innt will he a
friend and a companion. In justice to
uioso wno, oy moir great industry and
taienis, nave produced works ot groat
vaiue, we ougnt to cultivate something
like a discipline in our reading, to enable
us to discriminate between tho valuable
and tho worthless, and to give to those
who have been the world's greatest teach
ers tho greatest share of honor. Home
Journal.
A gentleman askod nn Amorlcan the
oilier day what he thought of the English
climate. He laughed, nnd said: "Wbv.
yon havon't got a climate; you have only
got samples."
waitinh AMI WATCIltNti I'.tu JoilN.
B4 Divn, hilt,
I" - -, " ,
, 'Stnt " " ' " 1"u
Rocking the lulaut to dreamland, slnglug the cradle
jAw.Zug backward aud forward, night after night
Muunw,
i'" ,orllnst affection, watching the feeble flame,
M,m',1" I,vo tLo "0"r' ""n
Till the caudle lu the socket was burned completely
. , ,
, And oft beside the window, peering through a broken
bane,
'8"ooKi rr bis footsteps, thrown the dark aod
dismal rain.
Oh,ad Is the woman's lot, who ou earth is forced to
dwell
In huugsr, poverty and dirt, lu wretchedness as well:
Oh. sail IB tho woman's hit, bh, sad Is tho woman's way,
When tho dark shades of affliction surround her night
aud day.
; IIorB 18 a mi ail tatters, hero stands tho wreck or a
c'lnlr.
The dishes are crackod aod scanty ; tho wal Is look old
and bare
Aud I feel woak and weary, and sigh tor tho days that
aro gouc,
Weak aud weary with watchlng.-waltiuir and wateh
luir for John.
Aud yet I wait and watch for hiul, till ho comes reel
ing lu.
Tipsy, bloated and cursing from his drunken haunts
of siu;
Taunting the patient woman, ignoring the tears I've
shed
'Till checks grew haggard and sunken, oyes grow
swollen and red.
Oh.livlug reality proves that life has troubled streams
Oone are the Koldeu fancies of my childhood's happy
dreamsi
Gone like tlie sickly Sower that withered within the
shadet
Uouo like tho foolish bubble that wl thin the auubcam
played.
But why keep murmuring thus? I'll dry these
woman's tears;
I'll wait aud watch no more; I havo done it now for
yours,
I will show him that a woman, If drivon to dospuir,
Can make hard a woman's heart, with uo throb of
feeling there.
And so, when he shall como home, If ever ho comes
at nil,
He shall And but mocking echoes to answer to his call,
lie shall lind the house untidy, tho table hud uu
Bpread; In placo of a heart of love he shall Aud a heart of lead.
And should the hand of sickness smite hiin with
poisonous stthjr,
And he look to me for solace, I will uo solace bring ;
Aud then he will learn to kuow. if never be knew
before,
The worth of a woman's love, aud appreciate It more.
But would I, could I, do this? Could I watch him In
his pain.
Keeping ilrul a woman'B heart, letting no compassion
reit-'u?
No! ,my anger would diminish scarce ere it had
begun,
Aud quickly molt as the showftake under an April sun,
Let trouble came thick and fast, I love my husband
still.
As only a woman cau, as only a woman will.
Let wheels of adversity turn, and grind mo down In
shame .
It never shall bo said of mo, I cursed my husbaud's
name.
So I'll wait and watch for him, as I've waited long
before;
And aBk of Qod to aid me in bringiog him bark once
more.
If I cannot will him back, when I'm laid beneath tho
sod,
IIo'll know I fondly loved him, though upon that lovo
he trod.
Sitting alone lu the fire-light, rocking the babo to
sleep,
Watching tho swinging pendlum; watching tho hour
hand creep ;
Laying out plans for the future; dwelling upon tho
past;
My braiu grows giddy with thiuk!ng,-uow long will
trouble last ?
Gov. Morgan. The following inter
esting incident of tho life of the late Gov.
Morgan of New York, is recalled by bis
death, which took pluce last week. His
life was In many respects an example lor
young men.
In tho early years of his life young
Edwin had the usual boy's farm work to
do during the summer, and in the winter
ho attended the village school. At tho
ago of seventeen he began work ns a clerk
for Nathan Morgan, his uncle, who was
a wholesale grocer in Hartford. His
compensation was agreed upon at $50 for
tho first year, $72 for the second, and $100
for tho third. The young mans oon won
tho confidence of bis employer by his
excellent habits, energy, and ability.
Beforo the expiration of his third year of
service he made his first visit to New
Yoik, and in order to combine business
wilh pleasure he was directed to make
sundry purchases of tea, sugar and other
articles, nnd a lair amount ol corn, Un
his return he showed his uncle samples
of tho corn he had bought, nnd mentioned
that, as it was selling pretty low, he had
purchased three cargoes. In those days
in Hartford that was considered an
enormous investment, and the uncle in
desair, declared that be was mined.
"Very well," said tho clerk, otter listening
to his employer's lamentations. "You
needn't lather the transaction if you don't
want tot for I lmVo already Bold two
Cargoes of it nt a handsome, profit." The
uncle changed his tone at cuce, and tho
next morning young iklwin was called
into the counting room and informed that
a young man wno could suecessltiily
couduct such an operation, ought not to
occupy n subordinate position, and that
thereafter uu oiiouia nave an interest in
tho business as a partner. The energy
and ability of the clerk were redoubled in
tho partner and proprietor, and from that
tiino success marked nearly all of Mr.
Morgnn's operai Ions.
the duties ot tho store did not occupy
all of his time, and Mr. Morgan endeav
ored to make up for his lack of school
training by employing his leisure hours
in study and in forming nn acquaintance
wilh tlo best literary and social people of
tho olty. When only 21 years ot age, he
had bis first tasio of public life in his
election to the city council of Hartford, at
.1 lime when It was composed ot leading
citizens. Besides this, he occupied no
political omce until niieon years later.
A Record of Disasters. In iheyearof
lbBi tlieio were VtS4 steamships and large
river steamboats lost, and of this number
32 wero sunk by collisions. Many of these
losses will be recalled by readers, notably
those of tho Douro, of tho Royal Mail
Steamship company, sunk off Cape Finis-
tere on April 1st, when isi lives wore
sacrificed ; of the Cambronne, sunk in the
British Channel on Nov. 27, with tho loss
of 14 lives; and of tho Principia, oil' Port
Said on March 1; while tho Nankin went
down in Nuw York harbor on May 0, and
the Alcne, of the Atlas lino, came into
collision with the monitor Nantucket in
the North ltiver on October 27. Tho dis
asters of the year thus far are of a still
more startling character. The City of
Bruscls, of tho lnman line was run down
on January 7lti by tho Glasgow steamer
Kirby Hull, while lying-to in a fog near
the lightship off Liverpool. It was stated
that whistles and fog horns wero contin
ually sounded in the city of Brussels, and
the whistles ol the approaching city of
Kirby were distinctly heard. Neverthe
less, tho collision took placo, although the
latter vossle appears to have boen at fault;
two lives were lost; damage tc tho amount
ofjClCO.OOO were claimed for tho city of
Brussels, exclusive of a cargo valued at
$400,000, and lo tho Kirby Hall. The
disaster is worth recalling as being one of
the moBt costly nnd unnoccss nry instances
of uiarino mishaps. Now wo have the
Cimbriu run down by tho Sultan In tho
North sea on Friday morning, her loss
probably accompanied by nn appalling
sacrifice of life, wuile on tho somo day a
costing brig, tho Mariposa, is run down
by I ho steamer Cuniina in Ixng Island
Sound, nnd seven out of her crow of oight
aro drowned.
A Model Corporal Ion.
The Wlllimuntio Linen company is ono
of tho model institutions of the cohnti'V.
and is approaching, in point of care for
the operatives, the well known Cheneys
of Manchester, Conn. By invitation of
President Barrows of ibo company
special train was plaoed at the disposal of
the senior olass of Ynlo college nnd the
students in tbe scientific nnd law schools.
The visit was made on Wednesday. Feb.
21, nnd the following extracts aro from
the Hew York Tribune s account.
Tbey searched among 90,000 humming
spindles; walked over acres or floors thrill
ing wilh tbe lile of busy industry ; peeped
into tho library, school-room and stores of
tho "tariff built fraud ; ' down across the
tumbling cataracts of the Williniantio river
up to "The Oaks," where two scores of
pretty collages wilh gabled roofs told of
the hahllnlions ot a small fraction of the
families employed by tho company, and
further on, up tho bills lh.it skirt the old
borough on the west, saw the snow irlitter
iug in tho grove set apart for the summer
merrymaking ot the Wlllimanlic com
pany's work-people. But they found no
torgotton miih. Woman or child. Tbey
found Instead a wonderfully cheerful, con
tented, healthy looking industrial com
munity.
Out of tho senior class, numbering
149, 130 were present; out of the scientific
school, ot 49, 32, and tho law students
numbered 75. They were taken at once
to tho packing room of ono of the mills,
where ihey took a luncheon of oysters,
salads, mtudwicbes, fruits, cakes, ice-cream
and coffee. While they wero eating half
a dozen young women in the employ of
the company, in white aprons looped up
wun lalo diiio distributed souvenirs
among them. The taVois were neat boxes.
each containing a Spool of Wililmantic
thread, and bearing a label: "With the
compliments of 'the tariff built fraud.
They wero tied by deft lingers to the coat
buttons ol the young men with blue rib
bon. ilius decorated the whole party
was divided into squads of about twenty,
and under the guidance of officers and
employes of tho company tho tour of the
mills was bejrun. The "Dvnamtbs" plunsf-
cd at onco into the machinery, took indica
tor cards ot tho action of the Corliss
engines, and, under the direction of Col.
Barrows, himself n master mechanic,
examined the details of tho picking, card
ing, spinning and roving machines with
evident interest and profit.
i no "academics " seemed to pursue a
different course that free trado was a mere
theory, and protection a tangible, substan
Hal and generous fact tbey knew the
moment thoy found the lunch room. The
remainder of their inquiries seemed mostly
into the lustrousness of the eyes of some of
tho young women operatives and the
prettihess of their teeth. One would have
thought that the only interesting machines
in tho mills were those whose fair tenders
had clustering "bangs," bright eyes, clear
complexions and pretty smiles; and tbey
were not a few. tt was a Very entertain
way of studying political economy so all
admitted.
Aside from the comparative advantages
of protection or freo trado, this visit of the
students showed them the workings of an
interesting experiment in tho treatment
of mill operatives by thoir employers.
Through a policy for which Colonel Bar
rows claims nothing more than that it is
the wisest, most economical and most
profitable to the company, tho physical,
mental and moral health of 1,600 operatives
is being watched over day and night. It
is an effort on a large scale to solve tho
problem of the relation between employer
and laborer. Colonel Barrows has gone
at it fn a praotioal, business Jtko tunnner,
bringing to the task the knowledge of tbe
mechanic and the sympathy which the
acquirement of that knowledge at tho
mechanic's lathe brought him. A college
professor's son, and a man of refinement
and culture, he served his apprenticeship
in the Lowell Machine shop, worked at
his trade and learned the thoughts and
feelings of laboring men by association
with them in a corporation boarding bouse.
The result of this comprehensive training
Is seen in the theories of mill government
which he has formed, and the manner in
which bo works them out. He believes
that the saner the bodies, minds and morals
of bis work people, the belter will be their
work. His policy is tho policy of the
Wililmantic company, but it has been
enlarged so that it Call Said that it extends
n beneficial influence in the borough
through every channel usually occupied
by philanthropy and charity. Tbe best
illustration of the methods used to this end
was found to day in the more recent im
provements made by tho company to its
property. A new mill built in 187D with
room on a single floor for 50,000 spindles,
and now working 82,000 was found in full
activity. Most of the operatives wefe
women, all of whom wero tidily dressed,
and contented and healthy in appearance.
A fringe of growing plants surrounded the
room, over 800 feet long and 117 feet wide
Into the oloak rooms the light fell through
stained glass nnd sent bands of col or across
beds of tropical and rare blunts nil labell
ed with their names. Here in the forenoon
for hnlf an hour sixty children, under 14
years of age, employed in the mill, romped
and ale a lunch of milk and crackers. The
lloor, covered with tho vast multitude of
machines, thrilled under their pulsations,
but did not shake, for a Wise foresight bad
put tho large pullers and shafts which
conveyed the power frcnl the engines into
a cement floor in tho basement. It is
better thus for Ihe women," said Colonel
Barrows; "It keeps them well, and they
mako better thread."
Across the bill stand 40 cottages built
by the company. They aro of four styles,
front a winding road, and for the sake of
beauty, and to cultivate a love nnd appre
ciation for it, fences are abolished, they
are painted in nenlral colors; no two
iliko, either in architecture or color, are
put side by side, and each has its flower
garden in front. In suiumel tbe growing
of flowers is encouraged by the awarding
of premiums for the best three gardens by
the company. "If they like flowers they
will mako better thread," says Colonel
Barrows. Near ono of tho old mills
stands Dunham ball, a handsome wooden
gothio building, containing a model store
and millinery shop, tho president's office,
a ecbocdroom and a library. In the
schoolroom classes are taught free four
nights each week, the teacher being on
tho pay roll of the company. "We must
havo intelligence," says the president;
"after July 1st till our work people must
be able to read and write. Then the
thread they mako will bo evener and
stronger and better." Ouoe a week there
is a singing school, and once a week also
a drawing school, and the company, which
pays one-third the taxes of the town of
Windham nnd nearly one-ha.f the taxes
of the borough of Wilmantic. supports a
circulating library that has 400 volumes,
out among tho laborers all the time, while
the borough library is open two days a
week. "Wo work our people sixty hours
a week," says the president, "but not ten
hours each day. Tbey work longer five
days, nnd quit at a quarter past one on
Saturday, so that thoy can have a dance
in tho summer over in tho grove under
tho oaks nnd hickories and spruco trees.
We give them the music and it brightens
their natures. They feet a prido in their
belongings, nn intorest in us, and mako
bolter thread."
Mrs. Jennie B. L., asks: "Why is it
that the fashion magazines nover tbow
the styles of dresses for fat girls? Booauao
tho less stylo n fat girl puts on tho bolhsr
81)0 10OKS.
A bright littlo elrl up fown had
goldfish, which, ns all the rest of us must
do some time, died. She und ber Utile
brother took the fish out to bury it wilh
due ceremony, and after it was covered
beneath the sod and a headboard erected,
Ihe brother suggested that a footboard
also bo put up. "No," sbo said, "we
don't want a footboard; fish hasn't feet,
brother; fish bas tails, and we want a
tail board." The "tail" board was put
up, land life monrners went about tbe
street. The Drumniet
The time will soon arrive for those
fortunate enough to own a "sugar bush,"
to begin the necessary preparations for
manufacturing maple sugar. The most
important points to be considered are to
have the buckets sweet and clean; to
suffer no Impurities to be boiled with the
sap; to draw off the syrup as fust ns it
becomes thick enough; never to allow It
to bo burnt in tbe pan; to boil it down ns
soon as gathered; and never lo allow the
sap to remain in tbe buckets to become
sour or ropy. Following these directions
either syrup or sugar may be made of
which the maker will have reason lo bo
proud.
Swear Not at All. -The too common
practice of U9ing profane language calls
for at least an occasional word of reproof.
and a gentle request to cease what certainly
does not become a gentleman. In n
general order issued by Washington, who
perceived a habit of swearing among his
officers, ho says i
"JNo gentleman uses prolans language.
It is nnneoessaiy to add that no gentle
man will uso profane language in the
presence of a lady. For profanity there
is no excuse. It is a low aud paltry habit,
acquired from association Wilh low and
paltry spirits who possess no sense of
honor, uo regard lor decency and no
reverence or respect for beings ofa higher
moral or religious nature than themselves.
The man who habitually uses profane
language lowers bis moral tone with
every lone be utters. Moreover, the
silliness of the practice, if no olber reason,
Sholtld prevent its use hy every man of
good sense.
Mia. I.iveiimore on Death. Mrs.
Livermore has been lecturing during the
presont season, ns Usual, and has extended
her engagements into Iowa. Though she
has reached the period of threescore, she
shows no decline of vigor or vivacity.
Still she Is evidently not unthoughtful of
the fact that "we all do fado as a leaf."
In a private letter to an older friend, a lew
years ago, she said : "We die daily. And
so gradual Is the approach to the terminus
of earthly existence, so constant I lie fading
illusions, so daily the dying to some
interest, pleasure, or pursuit, that I often
feel that dealh is a very deliberate process,
which begins with life, and continues all
through the journey. I urn sure, from my
own experience, that it cannot be hard,
by-nnd-by to let go all cares and interests.
And I shall go gladly out of life, sure
that its work will continue, sure that tbe
future will be nobler than the past, .'nd
certain that I am not to be entirely
dissevered from the friends and good
causes I leave behind me."
Begin Well As the boy begins, so the
man will end. The lad who speaks with
affectation, minces foreign tongues that
he does not understand at school, will be a
weak chrotuo in character all his life;
the boy who cheats bis toscher Into think
ing him devout at cbapel will be the man
who will make religion a trade and bring
Christianity into contempt; and the boy
who wins the highest average by stealing
his examination papers Will figure some
day as a tricky politician. The lad who,
whether rich or poor, dull or clever, looks
you straight in the eye and keeps bis
answer inside of the truth, already counts
friends who will last all his lifo, and holds
a capital which will bring him in a surer
interest than money, men get to the
bottom of things. You see bow it Is
already ns to that. It was the student
that was grounded in grammar mat iook
the Latin prize; it is the clerk who
studies the speciality of his house in
off hours who is to be promoted. Your
brilliant, happy-go-lucky, hitor-miss
fellows Usually turn out to be tho dead
weight of tbe family by forty five. Don't take
anything for granted; get to the bottom ot
things. JNever oe asnameo oi yourseu, or
be fooled by shams.
Not Your Best Days. One of the
most trying things lo a young mot ner,
when toi n? through her days' duties with
a teething baby inner arms, and perhaps
another toddler about her feet. Is to have a
sallow faced croaker come in and with a
dolorous voice say:
"Ah, Mary Ann, you are having your
good days now, when your children are
little and you Know wnere mey are.
When thev are small they tread on your
toes, but when they are old ihey tread on
your heart.
Don't bel'.cve her, lake the word of a
gray haired mother who tells you these
are Very hard days to you, but they will
make the rest happy in the love ami care
of these children oy and by, doubly sweet.
It is the toilsome, faithful mothers who
have this reward. It is not the children who
re over indulged, who are never made to
mind, who thus repay a parents care and
self-denial. It is not a cause of gratitude
have fostered their selfishness,
and nourished their evil tempers until their
lives are a burdon, even to themselves.
Rut. it la ihe children who are happy in
childhood, who cherish the memories of
those days gratefully. II is mese which
weave the "spens 01 nome, luav ij ouiju
powerful cables to draw them bacK
from the evil allurements of the world.
Th nnats of time run swiit, and soon
the little prattler by yonr side will bo a
honied rrmth. on whose strong arm you
can lenn; tbe boy with a chivalrous devo
tion to "mother" and a reliance on her
judgment still. Our noble Garfield
stands forth as a model to age, of what
a Bon should be to a mother who has toil
ed for him with a devotion that knows no
rest. Tbe home life of Ihis lamily, held
under the burning glass of pnblio criticism
so long, is a legacy to a nation sadly in
need of true homes.
A young mother looked at the babe on
her lap, and said. "If I thought she would
grow up with as little respect for her
motner as i uau iur mmw a buvuih it
m i her In ihe coffin now." It was a
sad oonfession. but it sprang from a home
trninino- where there was no ooeaience,
but uiuob angry fault-finding and jarring.
A wealthy American of St. Petersburg
has given $250,000 to found a college at
Krzroom, Turkey.
Tt. i said that onlv $150 a year will pay
tho hoard, traveling expenses, and salary
ofa lady missionary in Ihe south.
It is estimated that $16,834,485 worth
of diamonds passed through the post
office at Kimberly, South Africa.
Owing to inability to become acclimated
to the climate of Japan where he is
Inhnringr as n missionary. Dr. Frank
S. Dobbins has accepted a call lo the
nastorate of the Baptist churoh, Allen
invn. I'enn. Dr. Dobbins is the author
of "False Gods; or the Idol Worship of
1 1 r .i.i ,,
A Southern Tribute,
Rev.
Dr. A. G. Havgooil, of Emory
College. Oxford, Ga., whose devotion to
his work and uurs has often been noticed
in our columns, paid the following hand
some tribute to oui president on her recent
visit there, and it is sent us by a soul hern
lady with the request that it be published
in The Union Signal; it was originally
given to the Wesleyan Christian Advocate
tf Georgia!
Miss Francos Willard is the president
of the "Woman's Christian Temperance
Union" in the United States. She gave
her whole lime and energy to the cause
of Chri.-tian Temperance. For a number
of years she has been engaged in this
work. I have watched her oourse with
great and constant interest. By corre-
pondence 1 have known her tor some
years; last week I met her. heard her,
and had much talk with her of an
altogether cheering nnd useful sort to me.
She came to Oxford from Atlanta imme
diately upon the adjournment of the
Georgia state convention of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. I invited
her to come that sho might speaK to our
citizen?, above all to our students. Wo
are all glad that she came nnd grateful for
the good she did. She said so little of
herself, in either private or punnc una,
that I would have small opportunity to
write of her if left only lo her words. It
did not seem to occur lo Miss VV illard to
speak of herself, except ns it was necessary
to explain her work.
A few words I may say ot her ine
woman. She is a Christian woman oiu
tnd out a woman who believes in God
and both te'-ches and practices religion.
Her writings, her speeches, her conversa
tion! her manner, her work, indicate u
deep and thorough religious experience.
One of Ihe most beautiful and healthfully
stimulating of religious biographies is t
little book, issued Uy ti.o Harpers, Miss
Willard's sketch of the. life, death and
character of a deceaf ed sister. It ought
to be in tho Sunday school libraries, and
it would bo a blessing in every home. It
has been in mine.
Few pel sons I do not say few women
in our country have been uiote liberally
endowed wilh natural gifts; few have had
better educational advantages j nnd few
have made better use of opportunities or
better improvement of "the lalenls. '1 Tho
best scIiooIb laid the basis ; large acquaint
ance with cultured and good people,
constant study, foreign travel and residence,
hard work and above all prayer and
religions conversation, have built nobly
upon the well laid foundation. Miss
Willard Was for years tbe head of tho
Woman's college in the Northwestern
university where she did her best work
after the best methods. So she did not go
into the temperance work lo get a place;
she left a place lucrative, pleasant, honor
able, that any man or woman might feel
it a.i honor lo fill, to do a work to which
she "felt tliKt Uod called her." In this
she reminds mo of our own always our
own, Morgan Callaway. Friday at 11
c 'clock, A. M , Miss Willard spoke in our
church at Oxford to a full bouse. It was
ono of the few bright days wo have seen
in many weeks; the sun seemed to exert
himself to mako the Jay delightful and
fair. I think every student, except
possibly two or three who wero confined
to their rooms through indisposition, was
present. The exercises were opened wilh
reading the Scriptures, singing and prayer.
For ahout an hour Miss Willard talked to
us concerning temperance and righteous
ness. Modest, self poised, with masterful
use of her resources, she gave us the very
best address I have heard on tho subject
of temperance. There was not one thing
to criticise as to argument, sty le, elocution,
spirit, or personal bearing. This is high
praise I know; it is not loo high. She is
eloquent with declamation, in somo
passages impassioned without a trace of
rant. It was a mil, steady stream of
golden words, rich in thought and sugges
tion. Her address was full of instruction
and helpfulness. Il was manifest that she
had studied her theme consecutively nnd
thoroughly, her easy adjustment of her
address to tho environment to the place
and time showed that she was not giving
us "a committed speech.
I helievo that her visit to Oxford left
us a blessing; I know it gave us unmixed
delight. I was glad lhat she came, outside
of my inlirest in her special mission, for
our students wid always have a higher
conception ol what a gifted and educated
woman is. Pity that all our young women
cannot hear her; it would inspire ami lift
them up.
Nothing in Miss Willard or her addres
at Oxford can ho objected lo by fair
minded and intelligent people, oxcept it
bo lhat some say no woman ought lo
speak in public. Beforo we commit
ourselves to this position, it would be
well to have done finally with commence
ment exhibitions at our femalo colleges,
the reading of essays and Ihe singing of
songs by young girls, dressed lor display,
to the very best of their several abilities.
Miss Willard is a mature woman in
middlo li.e, who dresses plainly, and
speaks in behalf of a cause that ought to
be dear lo woman tho cause ol temper
ance and religion.
Before we pluck at her eyes for ono
little "mole" let us ' pull out ' it few
"beams" from our own.
Atticus G Haygood.
Oxford, Ga . Jan. 18, 18S3.
A Half Sf.nsibi.e Landlord. An cx
change says: A littlo incident transpired
some weeks ago at one of our Franklin
hotels, which is worthy of notice. A littlo
girl entered the bar room, and in pitiful
lones told ine keeper mat tier moinor nau
sent her tbere to get eight cents.
"Eight cents, said the keeper.
"Yes, sir."
"What does yo"r mother want with
eignt cenisr I oon i owe nor anviniug.
"Well." said Ihe child, "father spends
all his money hero for rum, and wo havo
had nothing to eat lo day. Mother wants
to buy a loaf of bread."
A loafer remarked to the bar keeper,
"Kick her out."
"No," said the keeper, "I'll give her the
money, and if her father comes back again
I'll kick him out."
The landlord was only half sensiblo; If
he bad been sensible he would have kicked
himself out.
Scoop Us in the Long Run. Appar
ently tbe most solemn part of tho war.
outside ol actual oattieneias, is ine prayers
that are offered in the churches of the
contending nations for the blessings of the
Almighty upon their respective armies.
Sometimes a little anecdote illustrates n
large and complicated subjeot more
effectually than a learned discussion.
During the war between ttiu states, a lime
southern boy was saying his prayers at his
mother's knee, and, of course, it included
a prayor for tho success of tbe southern
cause. All at once tho little fellow stopped
in tbe middle ot his prayor. Anldoa struck
him. He said: "Mamma, ain't little
Yankee boys saying thoir prayers nil over
tbe north P" "Yes my son." "And thoy
nro praying that God will let tho Yankeos
win?" "Yes, my son, but go on with your
?rayer." "But, ma, ain't thero uioro
ankee boys praying than there aro
southorn boysP" "Johnny, will you
finish your prayer, or will you not?" "But.
ma, if there are more little Yankee boys
praying than thero are southern boys,
won't they scoop us In tho long run?"
Tho Capital.
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