The Oskaloosa herald., June 24, 1886, Image 2

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VETERINARY SURGEON.
lk P. STEDDOM.
* Veterinary Surgeon.
(Graduate of Toronto, Ontario, Veterinary
Collate'. Office on second floor lu the Times
Block, Oskalooa*. lowa. 37if
DU. W. H. KBILLV.
Dentist,
Office over Dodge's Boot and Shoe Store,
went aide of the square, Oskaloosa. lowa, ltttf
Ur- U. MII.LA It.
. Dentist.
Office oa aouth aide of Square over J. M. Jones
* txi's.. shoe atom. Nitrous Oxide Qas used
tor painful operations. -jo
| \R M. L JACKSON,
1 Surgeon Dentist.
Office in Kxebanire block, on High street.
Oskaloosa, lowa, over J. w. Morgan's drug
Store. So
\J JOSEPH INK TKNSKV. M. D.,
ivl. Physician and Surgeon.
Office on west side of public square, over
Miss Anderson's millinery store. Night calls
promptly attended. *
/ i EO. J. TURNKIi, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office on Market street, over Boyer it Barnes’
store. Residence two blocks south and two
blocks west of postofflce. >0
J \K J. C. BARRINGER,
U Physician and Surgeon,
Oskaloosa lowa. Office northeast corner oi
square, middle rooms up stairs in new Masonic
building. Residence on High street, 3 blocks
east of square. Telephone connection at offlee
and residence with all parts of the city. 20
I \R. W. M. WELLS.
U Catarrh,Throat «te Lung Physician,
Aud Specialist for Chrome Diseases generally.
Consultation personally or by letter. Office
and Dispensary over Mays’ Drug Store, West
High Street. Office hours fromU to 12 A. n.. and
from Ito sp.m. Consultation free. n2o
t> A Huffman. M. D. K.C. Huffman, M. D.
I vRS. D A. A K. U. HOFFMAN,
Physicians and Surgeons.
Ohio two doors north of Simpaou M. K.
oh u rub, near 8. K corner ol square. Oak&lnosa,
low*. Residence on Main street, three blocks
east of the public square. 'JO
J. L. OorriH.
/ ViFKIN A HOIK; E,
Physicians «& Surgeons.
Will attend all oaiia. day or night. Office in
(he Frenkel rooms iu Union block. Dr. Coffin’s
residence, corner ol' Gllen and Jefferson; Dr.
Hodge's, residence on West Main Street. 8#
To Physicians and Familes !
I am a Proleceional Nurse, and those requir
ing the services of such can find me at the resi
dence of Mrs. J. C. Fisk. Heferenoe from the
leading physicians of Denver— my late home
furnished it desired.
a*tr mks. m. s. linkman
■ v M. PRKDUR.
* Attomey-at-Law,
and Notary Publio, Bose Hill, lowa.
| AS. K. SERVERS
*’ Attorney-at-1 .aw.
And Notary Public. Office in Union block,
• ■vor Moores llilllnery store, Oskaloosa. la. 40tf
m fCFALL A JONIvs,
Attorneys-at-Law,
And Notaries Public. Office over Smith A
Brewster's hoot au>l slioe store, Oskaloosa. _*o
/ t REASON A HASKELL,
Attorneys-at-l.aw.
Office in i'hterilx block. Oskaloosa, lowa.
Business promptly attended to. 20
JOHN A HOFFMAN.
** Attorney-at-Law,
and Notary Public. Office southwest corner of
park, over Levi's clothing store. JUtf
I lOI.TON A MOOOV,
** Attorneys-at-Law,
Oskaloosa, lows Office over Knapp A Spald
ing’s hardware store. 20
/kLIVBKN. DOWNS, ,
Attoruey-at-Law,
Oskaloosa. lowa. Office over Mitch Wilson’s
V K. corner <•! Park. Farm and city property
tor sale. a&tl
| aLAN' HARD A PHBsTON,
Attorneys-at-Law,
Oskaloosa. lowa. W,ll practice in ail the
courts Office over the Oskaloosa National
Bank. **
IT M. DAVENPORT,
* * Attorney-at-Law,
Oskaloosa, lowa. Business attended to in both
State sod Federal Courts. Office, rooms 1 and
*, over W eeks a steward's store. A)
Gao. W. I.trrikH. Gao. C. Mokoah.
| AFFKRTV A MOKG \N,
Attorneys-at-Law,
Offioe over Osksloosa National Bank. Oska
itxaa lowa '•*>
c. P. Sisahlk. L. A. Boorr.
KARLS A BOOTT,
Attorneys-at-Law,
and Notaries Public Office first door west of
Reorder's office. National Bank building,
Oskaloosa, lowa. '■*>
I I OBKKT KISSJ'K,
Attorney-at-I^aw,
and Notary Public, Oskaloosa, lowa. Office in
Centennial block, over Frankel's clothing
store, north aide square. Practice In all of the
esnru ot the State. W*
1 OHN r. LACKY. •
* Attorney-at-Law,
tad government claim agent. Office in Boyer
4 Utruet' block, Oukaloosa, low». Prompt at
tention given to collections. Probate business
L. irlll receive careful attention. Business at
tended to in the U. S. and State courta.
K 1 >H I LI. IPS a G KEEK,
* Attorneys-at-Law,
and Collection Airenta. Attend to any local
business in the Stale and Federal Courts eu
truated to them. Office ovcrS. V. -until k Co a
Jewelry Store, south side of public square, Os
kaloota, lowa *i
James Cabrolx Dabibl Uavis.
A KKOI.L k DAVIS.
J Attorneys-at-Law.
* Oskalooaa, lowa, will practice in all courta.
Collodions made a special featura. Office over
Frenkel Sc Co's., Bank. Branch office at New
Sharon. _ _ »t
J. A 1.. Cbookhab. J. G. Ckooebab.
/ KOOK It A M k <'KOOKHAM.
" J Attorneys-at-Law,
Oskalooaa, lowa. Office over Mahaska County
Bank, southwest comer public square. Col
lections made and remitted promptly. Convey
ancing done. 2°
BANKING.
• JNO »IBBEI. Jno. H. WaHKEM,
President. Cashier.
L C. Blanch ari.. Vice-President.
The Farmers' & Traders
NATIONAL HANK,
or OSKALOOSA, IOWA.
CAPITAL 1100,000.
DIKKCTOKS:
Jao. Siebfl. L. C. Blase-hard,
T. J BiaCkstone. U. 11. McFali,
U w McNeill, Matthew Pieksn,
W. C. Hheppard. Pater Stumps.
J.B Whitmore.
OOKHKSPONDENTB:
First National Bank. Chicago.
Metropolitan National Bank, New York.
2b Valiev National Bank, St. Louis.
BANKING HOUSE
-or-
FBIMBL, BAGS A CO.
. The Oldest Bank in Mahaska County.
Will receive deposits and transact a general
banking, exchange, and collection business, the
aame as an Incorporated bank
Exchange on all the principal cities of the
United states and all cities of Europe bought
and sold at sums to suit the purchases*.
Passage tickets to sod from all points in
Europe for gale at tbs lowest rates.
Coilections will receive prompt attention.
We do a strictly legitimate hanking business,
and give the wants of customers special at
tention. _ *>
U. L. Hr*g< kk, O. K Lon. A Mb,
President. Cashier
—THE—
Oskaloosa National Bant
OP OSKALOOAA. IOWA.
DIRECTORS:
Wg. h Hakvaas. JW.McMili.im.
J. H. (iKiW, D. W. Ix>aimg,
W James McCulloch.
W CORRESPONDENTS:
First NatioeaJ Bank, Nsw York.
Gilman, bon A Ob-, New York
First Nsueaai Bant. Chicago.
« i twee's Nat'l Bank. Des Moines.
Ms Davenport Nst'l Bask, Davenport.
J. A. L. CBOouui. H. I. Howard,
Pwwdoot V.-Prue.
JOHN K Bahru Caabier.
lADiSIi COONTf Bin,
OPOBKALOOSA, IOWA.
Organized Under the State Laws.
PAID OP CAPITAL, SIOO,OOO.
•tockboldera I table for doubt* the amount
of Capital Stock
DIUBCTOKB: „
J.A L Oroobkaax f. A. Saawera. J«to O.
MUmmdhtokbem. Jitot Vbtbuo
W. C- Khtbetaart, E. Reduiau, W.C.
Kugtaod John Voorheei,
John NMk, ud
g H * Howard-
VERNON’S
MACHINE WORKS.
W E. VERNON. Prop.
MANI'PACTruEK OP
Small Steam Engines, Steel Dt«,
Medele aad ail General
Job Work.
Btf OARAXOOHA IOWA.
Professional Cards.
sate under this head will be charged
at the following rates :
DENTISTS.
MEDICAL.
J. S. Hodgb.
ATTORNEYS.
VOL. :17, NUMBER 44.
GROCERIES.
FAMILY GROCERIES.
POwt
Fresh Family an Fancy
Groceries.
Queensware and Classware,
Provisions of All Kinds
AND
FRESH VEGETABLES,
In their season, go to
A. W. MARTINSTEIN,
3' Southeast Corner of Souara.
I VH. J. W. MORGAN,
Eye and Ear Physician.
OSKAI OOSA. IOWA.
GRAIN.
J. H. Sheak,
DC At.IK IK
okßa-ajcust,
Will pay the highest market prl .'c in ('ash
For all Hinds ol Grain.
YOU WILL FIND THE
ELEVATOR
"o the Central of lowa Railway Track, West
High Street, Oskaloosa.lows. *2O
Seevers & Neagle’s
PRICE LIST :
11 Tt.s Granulated Sugar #1
12 M>s A Sugar 1
13 lbs White ExtraC Sugar 1
14 lbs Light Brown Sugar 1
IN lbs Good Brown Sugar 1
7 tbs Arbuckle’s Coffee 1
10 tbs Good Green Coffee 1
8 It.s Choice Browned Coffee 1
20 tbs Itice 1
20 lbs l’runes I
20 lbs Dried Beaches 1
23 Bars White Russian Soap 1
15 tbs Lard 1
King of Dakota Flour i>er sack... 1
White Rose Flour per sack 1
Tallow, per It
n2lyl Southwest Corner Square.
H. Snyder & Son,
-DEALER* IN—
GROCERIES
Will Mil as cheap as any other houM in the
city. If you want a sack of the
BEST FLOURI
In the city, call on us.
Everything Fresh.
H. Snyder <k Son.
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IMPERIAL ICO FOOD
WILL MAKE HCNS LAY.
MONEY, LAND, Ac.
Israel M. Gibbs, Broker.
Loans of all kinds negotiated. Mercantile
paper liought and sold. Room 8, over Farmers
Traders’ Bank, Oskaloosa, lowa. 20
Chas. Phelps’
INSURANCE AND LOAN AGENCY.
Money to l.oan in sums of S2OO and upwands
at lowest current rates of I merest. Office north
side square, over Fran kel, Bach & Co’s., Bank,
Oskaloosa, lowa. lotf
JOHN F. LACEY’S LAND AGENCY.
I have on my books a large number of farms
and bouses In town; also many thousand acres
of wild land. If you have real estato to sell or
wish to buy, give me a call. 1 pay taxes in any
part of the State. Conveyancing done. Office
In Boyer & Barnes’ block, Oskaloosa, lowa.
One hundred nice building lots in Lacey's addi>
tion to Oskaloosa. 20
Land Agency
Farms ami Town Property for
Sale, Taxes Paul, ami
Conveyancing Done.
Office over Oskaloosa National Bank.
2t» 1-alTerty A Morgan.
M. E. BENNETT,
Real Estate & Loan Apt
MONEY TO LOAN
In large or small amounts, on long or short
time, on Real Estate Security. 20
SIOO,OOO in SIOO,OOO
Money to Loan!
At Six Per Cent Annual
Interest,
on 5 years’ time, in loans of SSOO and upwards;
with privilege of paying SIOO and aoove In an
nual payments, if desired.
20 JOHN P. HIATT.
Cowan & Hambleton’s
Loan & Abstract Office.
•200,000 to loan at *1 per cent interest on flve
years time; borrower having the op
tion to pay part or all of prin
• oipal after tirst year.
We also have a complete set of Abstract Books
of all
Lands and Town Lots
In Mahaska County, iowa.
ABSRACTB OF TITLE MADE ON BHORT
NOTICE.
Office in front room of new Masonic building,
north-east corner of l‘ublic Square.
n2O OSKALOOSA. IOWA.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mahaska lough no. i«, i. o. o. f„
meets every Saturday evening at the Odd
Fellows' Hall, one block north of the Fostoffiee.
Visiting brothers cordially invited to attend.
• has. Wray, W. l. Howa,
Secretary. [SIJ N. G.
pHAS. W. TRACY.
Civil Engineer.
Office and residence on High street, •'! blocks
east of Court House, Oskaloosa, lowa. 20
Henry Walling,
Dealer in
Building Material of all Kinds,
and contractor of
BRICK AND RUBLE STONE
WORK.
Cisterns, Fldes and Cellars
Built on short notice. Also have good Brick
for sale at lowest market price,
nfio Oskaloosa lowa
CiKRtT F.N4. I.IMI lIKNEIIV. Ml K
RAT'S RMOPM,
A guaranteed cure for all nervous diseases,
such as Weak Memory, Loss of Biain Power,
Hysteria, Headache, Pain in the Back, Ner
vous Prostration, Wakefulness, Universal
Lassitude, In either sex. caused by indiscretion
or over exertion, and which ultimately lead lo
Premature Old age. Insanity and Consumption.
SI.OO a box or six boxes for $5.00. Pent by mall
on receipt of price. Full particulars i.i pam
phlet, sent free to every applicant.
WE CUABANTIE MX BO\IN
t<> cure any caae. For every ss.ooorder received
we seodaix boxes, with a written guarantee to
refund the money if our Specific does not ef
fect a cur.. Address all communications lo
the Sole Manufacturers,
THE MURRAY MEDICINE CO.
Kansas City, Mo.
*gr Sold in Oskaloosa by
W. A. Wells & Co.
38yl Sole Agei t.
PATENTS
Obtained, and all PATENT BUSIN ESS at
tended to for MODERATE FEES.
Our office Is owpoaite the U. S. Patent Of
fice, and wc can obtain Patents in less time than
those remote from WASHINGTON.
Send MODEL OH DBA WING. Wo advise
as to patentability freeof charge; and we make
no Charge unless patent is se
cured.
Wc refer here to the Postmaster, the Supt. ol
Money Order Div., and to officials of the U. 8.
Patent Office. For circular, advise, terms and
references to actual clients in your own State
or County, write to
C. A. SNOW & CO.,
Opposite Patent Offioe. Washington, D. C.
nSltf
Elys catarrh
CREAM BALMMfT, TMffi
Wipes Relief
once and Cures H Ur ,M I
COLD in HEAD.
CATAKKH. FH/VFEVERB^
HAY FEVERK,
tin Up, UI Rou'tb r
Free from fnju
riouM Drugs x - o uaa.]
offensive odors. HAY-FEVER
A particle is spoiled into each nos'ril and Is
agreeable. Price 50 ceuts at Druggists. By
mall, registered, 60 cts. Circulars free. ELY
BROS., Druggists, Owego, N. Y. noyl
MARBLE works,
Oskaloosa Marble Works.
F. W. McCall,
Dealer In
Monument* Tombs, Head Stones, scotch and
Aanrlean Granite Monument*, Ac.
W OSKALOOSA. IOWA
FINE STOCK.
A. J. LYTLE,
OHKALOOSA, IOWA,
•Breeder of Premium
POLAND CHINA SWINE
of the cholacsi atraina. atoek all recorded.
Prioea reaaonable <‘orreapoodenee aollelted.
Kealdeooe >4 mflee N W.of Oakalooaa. llyl
Garfield herd of S&ortlorns
•'jwf
Thos. C. Beach, Proprietor.
Farm 4i miJea northwest of Oakalooan on the
Pella ioail Onljr keep a few, and they areot
the beat Young Maryt. Louiaaa, Pana a, Uoae
of Hbkruna, l.adj Barmptoua, Ac Voutur
•lock for aale at all time*. A few (rood young
thoroughbred bulla now on banda for aale at
r—no—ole pnoaa. Alao a few high grade bait
era Addraaa P. O Box a*. Aijrlpd
The
GR»
Cures Female Complaints. A Great Sidney
Remedy. IT SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
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Toroid oondittonof the Liver. It Cure* nyura-pA
Con«tii>atii>n,pil.ouaneH*, JTuimlioe, IT•.adaihc. Malaria,
Kheumatisin Mom lnM‘a**« n -aultfmm an I'nhralthy
Liver than any other cause. F>r Sanford’s I.ivtr InvUr
oratori:<irul»f«« the Rowels, Purities the Blo<'<1 l asaints
l>Urestlon, Strcn -thcns the Rvstein, Prevents Fevers.
Bntis Aiin.nßi ': amdinvaluabli Family MYim-mt,
THOUS AND SCC TESTIMONIALS PROVE ITS MfRIT
A.NV i.ALUUUT \ ILL TILL YOU ITS EEPUTAttML
11 A I nWlli i MUI.E TRIAL ron
flv I 11 Ivin nice* tk« oust skeptical
GERMAN ASTHMA CURE.ML
most violent at tin k insures comfortable sleep;
effects cures where all other remedies fail.
No waiting for results. Its action ia
immediate, direct and certain, and a
cure is effected in all CT It ABLE CASKS
It i>criiiaucu(ljr cured in* ■ R* ter to me >t auy time."
Hon. B. l oti. St. Haul. Minn.
"I am entirely reetoreu to health by Uermui Aathma
Cum." Tkvt niton. Hamilton. Ohio.
"German Asthma Cure U aU you claim for it. It never
fail*. ‘ Prof. B Von ringcrlm, tlreenvilU, 3. C.
“My physician rec'.mmcnded Herman Aitt.ma Cure It
cured me ‘ Ji- , M 1.. Trtnck. L.mJonderrf. OMto.
ThouMnds of ,'mli.r Letter, on Sle J.t »n, druirvbt
about It.
German Anikina Cure is sold by mil drag,
gists at AOc. and »1, or seut by mail on receipt
of price. I nal itaoka- - free to aii> address for
K.wCHIKrMAXMJ,. St.Paat.Mtaa.
SCOTT’S
EMULSION
OF PURE GOD LIVER OIL
And Hypophosphites of Lime & Soda
Almost as Palatable as Milk.
The only preparation of COD LITER OIL that
can bo taken readily and tolerated for a long time
by delicate stomachs.
ANI> AS A REMEDY FOR COXSTHPTIOX,
M ROHTXHS AFFECTIONS, ANAEMIA.
KRAI, ID liILITV. fOI'GHK AM) THROAT aF
FF.t TiAS's, and all WISTINQ IMSOItIOKS OK
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l’n-scritK-d anil endorsed by the best Physicians
in the countries of the world.
For Sale by all Druggists.
(Copy ) Chicago. Apxtl 21st, 1886.
This is to certify, that the Illinois Trust and
Savings Bank has this day received from the
Union Cigar Company of Chicago, to be held
as a Special Deposit,
U. S. 4°o Coupon Bonds,
as follows :
So. s*o*s i*. s&oa , Market Value of which b
“ 41*04 100. I
:: :::?5 ,*ss
•two. ' (S.) Jas. S. Gibbs, Cash.
We offer the above as a FORFEIT, if our
“ FANCY GROCER” does not prove to he a
genuine Havana-fillerCiirar.-Union Cigar Co.
fANCy
(iROCCft
CIGAR
Our LA LOXA 10c. Cigar is strictly Hand
made. Elegant quality. Superior workmanhip.
Sold by all Grocers.
UNION CIGAR COMPANY,
76 N. CUnton SL, • CHICAGO.
Retail by
nloyl H. Howard & Sou.
ARE BY FAR THE MOST POPULAR COR
SETS EVER INTRODUCED.
HI? fi f Iltf F ,a superior to whalebone
I •UA ALljlL cannot be broken.
I j I* flexible and easy to the wearer.
la used In no goods except those
made by Warner Broa
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FOR ANY BTRIP OF COR ALINE THAT BREAKS
W'TH SIX MONTHS ORDINARY WEAR IN A CORSET.
AVOID CHEAP IMITATIONS BONED WITH VARIOUS
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STEEL COVER.
For Sale by all Leading Merchants.
Warner p#, h 1 ‘jsssk **
\ V WHAT WOMAN
I V WANT*
* MOt * :
Ist. A Neat, Close-fitting and Graceful
shaped Shoe.
2d. No brealrlng-in torture. Easy at
Ttret, and always snug and handsome.
ALL THESE DESIDERATA SHE CAN FIND IN
The celebrated ••J. A 7. Cousins' New
Tfork Shoes. '' of all kinds and materials, in
14 widths and 10 shapes of toes and heels.
_ They will notrip; will not slip at the heel;
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Look on Soloa lot Name and Addict* of
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Oskaloosa
OSKALOOSA, MAHASKA COUNTY, IOWA, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1886.
MEDICAL
CORSETS.
AN ORATION
DELIVERED BEFORE THE ALUMNI OF
IOWA COLLEGE, BY PAULINE GIVEN
SWALM, CLASS 71, MONDAY EVEN
ING, JUNE 21, 1886.
Fellow Alumni and Friends:—
There is in our hearts something of
both joy and pain as the rushing mem
ories of the past crowd into our thought
on this occasion. As the astronomers
tell us the rays of light from the dis
tant planet Sirius must travel nine
years through unmeasured space before
they come within line of our vision, so
we appear to be stationed where the
events of fifteen, sixteen, twenty years
behind are just reaching up to us here;
so distinct and forceful does that col
lege life stand liefore us to-night. We
close our eyes and how vivid is every
lineament of the familiar picture; the
two plain old college halls amid the
green of the campus, and the summon
ing notes of the chapel bell echoing in
our ears. We range ourselves again
on the old-time benches of chapel and
class-room, and become again a part of
the old-time scripture-reading and
song and lesson. Ah! how this vision is
peopled to-night and made glad by the
presence of many who have long since
passed out of our lives, and some of
them out of this human life forever!
Here they come trooping by in platoons,
some foremost and some lagging,—we
know each one in his place,—the genial
spirits and loved comrades of youth.
Again we recite the old lessons to the
old teachers, some of whom we see here
still, and at last with what ceremony
and beating heart do we stand up in
line in the old church and answer to
our names as the honored President,
with his kind words of fatherly admo
nition, liestows upon our brothers the
coveted sheepskin and upon us the
blue ribboned diploma that is both the
end and the beginning. With what
fondness do we now recall thosehopeful,
eager days, when alma mater was more
than a memory, and school days other
than the pantomimic beginning of the
play of life, in which we all show
so little art in the performance, and in
which we begin but dimly to learn our
parts when the Ilnale is rung and the
curtain rolled down. Hut vale and
salve, with all our hearts. We would
not love the present of our alma mater
less, but its past more for the treasure
of its memories and the life it holds
for us.
And as we, in our lesser fulfillment of
life’s demands, stand weakly to be
sure, but as best we can, as representa
ti\es of the humbler days of lowa Col
lege, so, student of to-day and the fu
ture, will it be yours, strengthened by
the help of this larger equipment and
broader sphere of instruction, to be
wiser than are we, and better lilted and
more competent for life’s serious tasks.
Let it not be said of you that with this
chance for the training of your best
faculties you yet bring to the world no
useful force, no helpful capacity, no
fitting compliance with the circum
stances of your lives and your duties.
It is better to recognize the fact at the
outset that the distrust of higher edu
cation to develop useful men and
women has come to he a growing
thought in the public mind, and that
when you go out into the world with
your college sheepskin in your hand,
both you and the cause of higher edu
cation, as represented by you, are on
trial for your lives. And why? Some
thing has brought about this distrust;
what is it? It is not that the teaching
of these institutions is defective, or
that there is any false note in true edu
cation. There have been pretenders
to many thrones. The world is full of
sham and pretense. So in education.
There are men and women passing up
and down like spurious coins, parading
a college diploma as their title to
resjiect and consideration, who have no
single individual merit or worthy per
formance to justify their claims. They
are too good and too wise to be alto
gether a part of the great mass of their
fellow kind, or to he involved in the
same human destiny. They scorn both
toil and toilers, and ignore the plain
facts of life and the fiat of God and
nature. By the sweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread is the Divine command
to all the ages. In the light of this oroi
nipotentdecree.whodares set up his pet
ty scorn and puerile pretense? Will
you dishonor your birthright and claim
exemption from the law? Nay, the
the only ignoble thing is not to labor.
Homer makes Ulysses build his own
house in classic ancient Greece, where
the scholars were teaching the false les
son that manual labor belonged only to
slaves. We think more highly of Sir
Walter Raleigh liecause his friend said
of him, “I know that lie can toil ter
ribly.” When Michael Angelo was
sent to paint his beautiful frescoes on
the walls of the Sistme Uhapel of the
Vatican, it is related that he went into
the Pope’s garden and dug with his own
baud and shovel the red and yellow
ochres, which he mixed with his glue
and water and brains. Napoleon was a
master workman. He said there was
nothing iu war that he could not do.
“If there is nolxnly to make gunpowder
I can manufacture it. The gun car
riages I know how to construct. If it is
necessary to make cannon at the forge
I can makethem. The detailsof working
them iu battle, if it is necessary to
teach, I shall teach them. In adminis
tration it is I alone who have aranged
the finances, as you know.” Martin
Luther, who broke the spell of Abso
lutism, who converted Germany to the
Reformation, and changed the Lice of
Europe, was a miner’s son, and worked
himself at a turning-lathe for a liveli
hood while carrying on his great re
form. Suppose to Luther’s mind had
come the blight o f pretense and vanity!
But Luther was all his life a most sim
ple man. “Do not call yourselves
Lutherans,” he said to his followers,
“call yourselves Ohristiaus. Who and
what is Luther? Has Luther been
crucified for the world ? ” What great
ness in such simplicity, and with what
regal humanity is such a life clothed!
Education is only forceful when it takes
real root in your mind and becomes a
self-instructive factor of your charac
ter; when it gives direction to natural
forces and development to natural
tastes. Then it becomes masterful,
and real, and unpretentious and noble.
Michael Angelo said that an artist must
have his measuring tools not in the
hand, hut in the head. When a man
sets out in life carrying his education
in his book satchel he is a more help
less and appealing creature than a babe
which carries its sustenance about in a
bottle. For time is daily mending the
helplessness of one, and daily increas
ing that of the other; as it is said of
the mistletoe and lichen and other
parasitic plants that nature at length
removes their self-sustaining elements.
“Having to live in this world,” says
Froude, “how to live greatly here is the
question for us.” What are the signs
of greatness ? When it was asked how
Hercules was known to be a God the
answer came, “Because when I beheld
Theseus I desired that I might see him
offer battle, or at least guide his horses
in a chariot race; but Hercules did not
wait for a contest, he conquered
whether he stood or walked, or wlmt
everthing he did.”
It is true that nature has been
more or less partial in the distri
bution of her better gifts, and has des
tined some persons to till a larger place
in the world’s history than others. But
it is a cheering sign, also, that the great
men do not always sit upon thrones or
occupy the chief thought of the world.
A humble Corsican boy was destined to
become the idol of great a people and to
occupy the throne of a Charlemagne.
But Napoleon had also his master—a
vanity and overweening ambition that
would admit of no equal and no inher
itor. “My son cannot replace me,” lie
said. “I could not replace myself. 1
am the creature of destiny.” And yet
this “man of destiny,” as he was so fond
of calling himself; this hero of Toulon,
Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena, and fifty
battles; this warrior who wrote
the annals of his life in the blood of
three millions of his loyal people, and
whose genius was in fact phenomenal,
and whose energies were tremendous;
this master of men had also his Leipsic
and Elba, his Waterloo and St. Helena,
and lived to feel himself hated by his
idolaters, to hear his worshippers cry
“Assez de Bonaparte,” to find his last
hope at the mercy of his arch enemy,
and to end his days beating his proud
heart against the narrow confines of a
wave-worn, rocky prison home! I have
stood many times at the magnificent
tomb of this masterful man in the
gilded Hotel of the Invalides on the
banks of the silvery Seine. What a
lesson that life holds of the vanity of
unworthy ambition! There he lies,
grandly entoml>ed— all his mighty en
ergies stilled—among a jieople whose
throats he clutched with a hand of iron,
now a free people, and to whom he is a
memory of war’s brutality and pride’s
imperialism. Charles the Fifth was
once the most powerful potentate of
Europe, wielding an empire so vast
that the sun never set within its bor
ders, and one of ‘nature’s noblemen.
I And yet he loved the inquisition and
its work as his soul, and bequeathed it
to his son, l’hilip the Second, as his
most precious legacy. How blind are
the wisest of men! how brutal are the
kindest, sometimes, in the mistaken
motives that actuate their lives! Every
way-farer knows now that the very
agency that Charles the Fifth and
l’hilip the Second used so woefully to
keep iutaet and supreme the principles
of Catholicism was the fiood-tide that
opened the eyes of the people and
hurled the truths of the Reformation
upon all succeeding generations. But
with this immense power, little less
than omnipotent, the sweets of sov
ereignty yet became bitter to Charles
the Fifth, and at an early age he relin
quished the mighty sceptre of human
power and spent the rest of his life in
the monastery at Yuste, seeking the
salvation of his soul! We see now,
what history alone reveals, how vain
were the imperialistic dreams of that
other Charles, centuries before, Charles
the great of France—Charlemagne-
We know* how soon that Roman em
pire, resurrected for a day by this am
bitious Ca»sar for a Caesar’s crown, top
pled over and fell to pieces at the death
of this second Casar as at the first;
and how, even in his own empire, his
work was quickly undone and his
dreams swiftly forgotten. Alas! how
cruel is fate in this world to achieve
ment purely selfish and having for its
ends only personal advantage! Every
page of the history of human ambition
teems with this bitter irony, and em
phasizes it; and derelict indeed to his
duty to himself is he who fails to read
it aright.
There is another kind of greatness in
the history of man more pleasant to
contemplate than these schemes of con
quest and self glory. Ages ago, in the
groves of Athens, Socrates and his
greater pupil, Plato, out of their broad
wisdom gave utterance to philosophic
truth which still so illumines all
thought that we sometimes say there
has lieen nothing worthy since. Cen
turies before Christ the genius of Ho
mer made pictures of life that are to
day domesticated in our homes as
familiarly as the events of our.own
time. To what feminine heart does
not the picture of Andromache making
roses in modern cross-stitch, and Helen
winding her worsteds while she enter
tains Telemaehus, come with a fellow
kinship that makes the Iliad and the
Odyssey modern books to our thought?
Shakespeare revealed the mainsprings
of human action and sounded the
depths of the human heart for all time.
There are few such interpreters. Na
ture wastes no force; few are needed.
It seems as if when life has any distinct
message to utter it brings forth its own
messenger to deliver it. The ancient
Assyrians found in the l’arseeism of
Zoroaster their ultimate expression.
India’s highest thought finds utterance
in Hrahminißm. The modest Prince
Gautama translated into living action
the loftiest longings of the Hindoo and
oriental heart aud called his work
Buddhism. Mohammed was called to
dethrone the idolatry of the Arabians.
It needed but one man, coming in hum
blest way, with the Divine truth on his
lips, to supplant all this imperfect ex
pression and sound the glad tidings of
man’s salvation throughout eternity!
Nature, likewise, concealing her mys
teries with such consummate art, re
veals herself most generously to him
who holds the key, and gladly acknowl
edges a master. Thales, who believed
that the earth was fiat and floated on
the water, had yet many of the unalter
able laws of astronomy revealed to
him. Pythagoras observed in Egypt
that the Nile was carrying mud to its
mouth and forming new land, and out
of his thought and observation stated
some of the distinct laws of the earth’s
changes and of geologic fact. Hip
pocrates began to study the human body
and was not long in discovering that
the god Esculapius had nothing to do
with the physical weal or woe of man,
and so founded the science of medicine.
Aristotle, famed as an astronomer, in
terested himself in the study of ani
mals, and zoology was the result. The
ophrastus made of plant life a science.
Archimedes, by an accidental observa
tion, discovered the law of specific
gravity, and so on. Throughout all the
things of life and nature we see thus
the most perfect adaptation of the
mind of man to the forces of the world.
We see from flrst to last in the history
of mankind that the want of nature
and life ever finds itself supplied by the
need of man; that hidden secrets that
await revelation and thoughts that re
quire utterance have in the human
mind their sufficient exponent and ul
timate hope. When Faufet summons
the Spirit of the Age in self-seeking
comradeship, its answer defines the
limitations of all human achievement
and destiny: “Thou art fellow with the
spirits which thy mind can grasp, not
with me.” This is a potent thought*
Herald.
The greatness of human character in
any station is to be yourself at the best;
to give utterance to your utmost po
tentiality. Be a Gallileo, a Newton, a
Bacon, a Mendelsohn, a hewer of wood
or a drawer of water—be the best that
you can be,—only be a good and useful
force somewhere in life. There is a yet
broader view of this self-training and
self-greatness, speaking altogether out
side of any strictly religious view. We
see that right education is always a po
tent, masterful, noble force in this
world. What shall it be in the world
to come, where we may reasonably be
lieve that the largest activities of our
higher natures will prevail, and where
the dross and alloy of humanity which
hides so much here will be eliminated
by the revealing realities of eternal
truth!
Every generation seems to come into
the inheritance of its own opportuni
ties and necessities. “You cannot
bathe twice in the same river,” said
Heraclitus of old. So life is the cease
less, on-flowing river of time, changing
and renewing itself with the goings and
comings of the ages. The ebb of one
generation is the flood of another, and
the flood of the one the ebb of the
next. The downfall of the throne of
the Caesars wsis the result of autocrat
ic power and unlimited sway, the very
forces put in action to perpetuate it.
The French Revolution grew out of a
hated tyranuy that in turn revolved
to the top again under Napoleon. The
Reformation was the ebb of the domi
nancy of priestcraft and omnipotent
superstition and stifled conscience, yet
Luther himself might have hesitated
to break the shackles of mau’s con
science, could he have foreseen the
Thirty Years War, and the materializ
ing tendencies of modern thought.
Our War of the Itebelliou was precip
itated by an endeavor to undo the prin
ciples of our nation’s life, as set forth
by its founders a hundred years before;
and yet we have lived to see a spirit of
truckling to treason and a cringing
apology for patriotism that has start
led us with the thought that after all
the war may have been a mistake, and
the half a million of our country’s
brave died in vain! As there are
men destined to fill a larger place in
life’s history than others so are some
generations born in greater epochs and
to greater destinies than others. Those
of us who can recall the fateful days
of the war for the union, a few years
ago, and who then were inspired with
the mighty meaning of that struggle,
know to what a nobler key was
our thought attuned by the spirit of
lofty patriotism and loving humanity
that then permeated the nation, as the
darkness of night closes in and fills
the day.
And what a day of tremendous his
tory-making is the present! Across
the sea the genius of a noble mind is
relieving a nation of the oppression of
centuries. What a privilege to live in
the generation of a Gladstone! In our
own land it is a time of disintegration,
beyond which, strain our eves as far
as we may, we caD see but little. The
first day of settlement has come to us
ns an industrial nation. Little did our
forefathers dream, that day in the old
Independence Hall, of a country of
such limits and a nation of such ele
ments as the present. From a nation
of four and a quarter millions of peo
ple at the owning of this century we
are now sixty millions of people, of all
nationalities, all tongues, all habits, all
faiths. From a total wealth in 1850 of
but little over seven billions of dollars
we are now crowding close upon fifty
billions. We had in 1830 twenty-three
miles of railroads in all this land now
netted and interlaced from sea to sea
by a hundred and twenty or thirty
thousand miles. Up to the year 1830
less than four hundred thousand aliens
had sought refuge on these hospitable
shores, where now dwell more than
eleven and one-half million foreigners.
What changes iu the relations of in
dustries and affairs are involved in
such prodigious growth and such vast
forces! And as little as our fathers
were able to peer into the dangers that
beset us in our time, so little do we di
vine the trials that will menace the
social life and political welfare of the
infant of to-day, of the school-boy and
school-girl who are the men and wo
men of to-morrow. When our fath
ers, in their sense of generous justice,
made of this land a home for the op
pressed of all nations, how little could
they have dreamed that the day would
come when the pulses of a great city
would be stilled by the voice of an
archy, and armed rioters and bloody
revolutionists would possess them
selves of its every energy, and para
lyze the industries of the land. Yet
this happened but a few days ago, and
may happen again at any time. We
have seen but recently how a small
match may kindle an immense confla
gration and almost obliterate a
great city in a few hours. A hand
ful of socialists, proclaiming the
falsehoods and sophistries of nihilism
and communism have inflamed the
hearts and poisoned the minds of hun
dreds of honest men, and scattered
broadcast the seeds of distrust and un
certainty. And with what truth and
hope do these social reformers come ?
They come with the decree that there
shall be no God, no order, no govern
ment, no property, no marriage; propo
sing to take from us all that we hold as
most sacred and true, and give us in
exchange what? Anarchy and nihil
ism;—the doctrines of confusion and
negation. Under the teachings of a
Henry George they would confiscate
your home and mine, and make of our
government a Russian despotism with
its system of national land-tenure and
communal holdings. Led by a Herr
Most they would parcel out the wealth
of the land with the cry that all value
comes from labor. They would destroy
the Christian Sabbath, violate the
most sacred domestic ties, dethrone so
cial order and pauperize the nation.
Alas! what a mess of pottage for a
king’s feast! what a squandering of a
free people’s birthright! But no, no.
The genius that plans a connecting link
under the sea between continents, and
across desert plain and snow-capped
mountain, the architect, the draughts
man, the surveyor, the Robert Watts,
the F nitons, the Morses, the Edisons,
each alike with the man who holds the
spade or guides the revolutions of the
machine has his dowry of the world’s
wealth in accordance with the unalter
able law of the worth of work. There
is no real conflict between labor and
capital; by and by there will be no
seeming one. The wrongs that exist
will be righted, the inequalities which
nature has imposed between men will
be recognized, and life will be happier.
To work out rightly the just relation
ship between these great potences is
the pressing and self-imposed duty of
this nation now and in the future. On
the one side is a cause whose instru
ments are murder, incendiarism and
armed mobs, and a tyranny that can
take from the hand of the workman his
tool and from his mouth the reward of
honest toil; a tyranny that by the magic
power of secrecy and the pledge of
fraternity may rob his family of its
rightful support and pillage him of the
dignity of a free industry and a personal
liberty. On the side of capital we have
tyranny likewise, wheu left to itself
and unrestricted, with all its ills of in
justice and heartlessness. We have
only to turn for a moment anywhere
else to witness these appalling evils; to
Germany and Switzerland and Bohe
mia, where the wage rate per week
is scarcely more than in these States
per day, and where women are de
graded to beasts of burden and hitched
alongside of dogs to carts; to Stock
holm and England, where women, bare
foot and dejected spectacles, are em
ployed as hod-carriers in brickyards;
to beautiful Belgium, where women
and children are seen emerging from
coal pits, helping to eke out a misera
ble existence; to picturesque Holland,
whose women,
“In petticoats of stainmel red.
And milk-white kerchiefs on their heads,”
toil, bent aud sunburned, on the banks
of the dykes and canals; to that quaint
Black Country of “ Merrie England,”
where, too, with a wage rate of ten and
twelve shillings per week, women and
little children may be seen toiling the
sunshine out of heart and the hope out
of life making nails and rivets !
** Where the forge-sparks glow and glisten,
Where the smoke-clouds veil the sky,
There if you will only listen
You may hear a bitter cry—
Cry of utter woe and saduess.
Rising up amid the din;
Cry of thousands, in their madness,
Vainly striving bread to win.
*****
And these toilers, night and morning,
Are they strong men in their prime,
Weary of their work, but scorning
To be paupers ere their time ?
Nay, but womeu-wives and mothers.
Girls who are but children still,
Slaving on with fathers, brothers,
Many a hungry mouth to fill.”
Never before has a great nation enlist
ed itself in such an object as this. It
was once said of a brave warrior that
he was not himself until the battle be
gan to go against him; that when the
dead began to fall in ranks around
him it awoke his powers of combina
tion, and he put on terror and victory
as a robe. Thus is it fitting that the
powers of this nation now awake, and
that this victory be wrought by the
genius and heart of a people who so
cherish the humanities of life and so
instinctively confide in the bond of
equality and fellowship among men.
We who stand to-day in the noon
tide of life, looking backward toward
the dawn and onward toward the gath
ering shadows, feel the momentous
need of a competent future generation.
The hope of that need is in the right
training of the coming citizen of both
sexes. For this would we hold up the
strength of our colleges and schools,
and by an honoring public trust en
courage the growing potentialities of
youth, and the responsible opportuni
ties of higher education.
ABOUT CALIFORNIA.
SOME RELIABLE FACTS ABOUT THE
GOLDEN STATE.
Oakland, Cal., June 6th, 1886.—Ed
itor Herald: So much has been said
of the sunny side of California that I
thought I would try to find the shady
side. As we have been here two
months I think I know whereof I
write. The State will have to depend
largely on its agricultural productions.
While wheat yields a large return, corn
is a failure. How I shall miss the
roasting ears that I so enjoyed at
home. There are other things I miss,
—the social element; but fortunately
I have relatives to make it pleasant for
me. Sunday seems like a national hol
iday. There are excursions on the bay,
ocean, and by rail, games of base ball,
theaters, going to Cliff House and beer
gardens, all draw large crowds of peo
ple. The churches are well filled, and
the ministers seem devoted, yet they
fail to reach a very large proportion of
the people. Groceries, restaurants and
saloons all seem to do a good business
on Sunday.
TIIE ICE CREAM MAN
is out with his wagon, the vegetable
and fruit men calling, “sweet peas, new
peas, 16 pounds, two bits.” It would
seem that a great many people neglect
to order a supply of the needful on
Saturday. Murders and suicides are of
daily occurrence. Yesterday the body
of a young man was found in the bay
who was to have been married three
weeks ago. He was known to have
had four hundred dollars, had obtained
several days leave of absence, and
started out to pay bills for furnishing
a house and was seen near the wharf
late in the afternoon looking for a man
he owed to settle with him. His watch
and money were gone; no doubt he
was drugged, then robbed and killed.
Several boys have disappeared, one a
child of four, and all efforts to find him
have proved futile. The parents have
offered a large reward, and are heart
broken. Persons who have been in
business here for a long time tell me
times are dull. Some of the finest res
idences are offered for sale. There are
diseases that baffle the skill of phys
icians, and you are obliged to give one
three dollars to come in and tell you
you are not very sick. I hope I wont
have to call on one. There are
SO MANY ATTRACTIONS
to spend money that it will take a good
calculator to come out even at the end
of the month at £3.00 per day. The
climate is all that can be desired; that
was the attraction for us, and both are
benefitted, Lee having gained 10 tbs.
I am more hopeful of his restoration
to health now than at any time since
coming. There are so many mutes
here that he enjoys staying. The
mutes seem to know if they meet one
on the street, even if entire strangers,
and take great pains to introduce each
other. Their school closes next Tues
day at Berkley, about 7 miles from
Oakland. Preparations are being made
to entertain the Deaf Mute Conven
tion in July, and the soldiers in Aug
ust. The Herald comes regularly
and is a welcome friend. This dedi
cated to Tiie Herald, or waste bas
ket, subject to the decision of the ed
itor. Mrs. S. A. Perry.
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Educational Department.
HOMER H. SEERLEV,
SuperlnU’iirtout of Oakaloosa City .School*
EDITOR.
Miss Delia Knight will spend a part
of her vacation in California.
Class’hi held a reunion June 8, on
the banks of Des Moines river.
President Argell, of Michigan Uni
versity, delivers the commencement
oration for the State University of
lowa at lowa City, June 22.
I'rof. C. E. Tebbetts and wife expect
to spend the summer visiting on the
Pacific coast. They leave shortly after
the commencement at Penn College.
Seventy young people were admitted
to the High school at the close of the
last term. The prospects for a large
High school next year are very promis
ing.
S. S. Townsley, of the Knoxville
schools, J. K. Pickett, of the Columbus
Junction schools, E. P. Fogg, of Albion
Seminary, were delegates to the Sun
day-school Convention recently held in
this city.
The city Board of Education has re
elected its teachers for the coming
year. The old corps will remain intact,
judging from present appearances. It
is unusual to not elect some new teach
ers at the time of annual re-election.
The National Educational Associa
tion holds its first meeting this year
west of the Missouri river, July 13-16,
—at Topeka, Kansas. As that city is
not such a beautiful resort as Mauison,
Wisconsin, there is no likelihood of so
large an attendance.
Hal. H. Monlux, O. H. 8 class ’Bl,
was present at the recent reunion of his
class. Since leaving here he went to
the State University and completed a
regular course. He then went to Da
kota and took up a claim, and lie is now
a resident of that State.
Supt. J. B. Monlux, of the Hastings,
Nebraska, schools, has had such a suc
cessful year as to be re-elected for a
term of three years. This is strong
evidence that he has given unqualified
satisfaction. He spent a few days in
our city the past week.
J. Frank Longshore, O. H. S.class ’Bl,
at present of Kansas City, spent a few
days here during the commencement
season visiting relatives and attending
the reunion of his old class. He fol
lows the vocation of a stenographer,
and judging from the way he remains
in one office, it is right to infer that he
is a valued and trusty assistant.
The State University holds its twenty
sixth commencement June 18-23, clos
ing with the collegiate commencement
on the 23d. The law class delivers no
addresses this year for the first time.
This custom is changed at the request
of the class. A. B. Cummins, Esq., de
livers a law oration instead of the cus
tomary student orations, after which
the degrees will be conferred.
One of our neighboring cities re
elected every teacher at present em
ployed, with the distinct understand
ing that several were to resign soon
thereafter. This may be the proper
method to pursue, but it is not a truth
ful way. If teachers are unworthy or
incompetent they ought to take the
consequence. It is not right to give
the impression that they were entirely
satisfactory when it is evident that
such has not been the case.
The selection of Miss F. Belle Patter
son as principal of the fourth ward
school for the coming year will give
satisfaction to all concerned. Miss P.
took the place of Miss Regan at the
close of last year, and Mr. Avey this
year, iu both of which places she gave
evidence of unusual strength as a dis
ciplinarian. As a teacher she is ex
cellent and thorough. We predict that
under her management the fourth ward
school will prosper in all respects.
The Sigourney Netos has re-estab
lished its educational column, Miss
Nannie Torrence, the County Superin
tendent, undertaking the editorial
work. There is no question but that
such a department, wisely handled, will
do much to arouse public interest, and
thus hasten true progress. The local
newspaper is a great help in all such
matters. We therefore hope that this
new department may be encouraged
and assisted by the teachers, as its col
umns will be devoted to their better
ment.
The O. H.S. Alumni business meet
ing made excellent arrangements for
the next year. Mary L. Loring was
elected President, and (’has. C. Pike
chairman of the executive committee.
Under their direction the work in hand
must prosper. The literary program
has as orators Walter G. Wilson, Eva
Baugh and Ida M.Street; as declaimers,
Walter N. Wright and Besse A. Robb.
The lecture committee was continued
and enlarged with the intention of giv
ing a series of lectures next year, com
pleted arrangements for which will be
announced by fall. It is gratifying to
know’ that our city is promised such a
work this coming winter. No organ
ization in our midst has theopportuity
to make the success of such an enter
prise as has the High School Alumni
Association.
Sigourney is building a £16,000 school
building, to take the place of the one
burned last spring. It will be furnished
with all the modern improvements,
such as the Ruttan system of heating,
ventilating and dry closets. It is a
beautiful structure, and will constant
ly commend the wisdom and foresight
of the board and the people. Things
are not being done by halves this time,
as can be shown by the way the people
voted to raise the required funds. Af
ter collecting the insurance money,
amounting to £B,OOO, the board made a
call for £4,000 bonds, which was carried
without much opposition. After tak
ing bids it was found that either the
building had to be cheapened or more
money raised. Again the people de
cided, by a vote of 142 for to 60against,
to issue £4,000 more bonds and build as
planned. The work liegins at once,
and by the time of opening in the fall
Sigourney will have one of the most
commodious and beautiful school build
ings in the w*est. Mr. D. P.Savails, a
home builder, has the contract, and
will push matters to completion.
Tkt Work of tko Sunday School.
The State Convention of Sunday
School workers has passed. It was
noted for enthusiasm, for good, ener
getic speeches, and for theoretical pa
pers. There was little said or done
that the teacher present could put
into practice when he returned to his
regular Sabbath-school work. We were
told by persons who claimed to know
that some of the most active and prom
inent in this Convention were distin
guished for staying aw \y from Sunday
School wheu at home, and others who
talked well never tried to put their
ideas into practice.
Were the day school to be as barren
News end Notes.
of results as the Sunday school seems
to be there would be few who would
be favorable.to Us ]>erpetuation. Chris
tian families ought to and must look
after the religious training of their
children. Such an important trust
must not be delivered to the Sunday
school teachers, hoping thereby to es
caj>e responsibility. The Father of
mercies holds parents responsible for
the life and moral training of the chil
dren given them, and they are to avoid
shirking duty.
The actual work of the Sunday
School is to reach the children who do
not belong to Christian homes. If it
does not get into this domain it is not
taking the position which its province
guarantees. Yet an examination into
the facts will show any one that out
side of the children whose parents be
long to the churches, but few others
are enrolled in the Sunday School.
The impression seems to prevail that
the majority of the children attend the
Sunday School. This is a very decep
tive conclusion. It is based upon the
statistics furnished by the secretaries,
who do not discriminate between adults
and children. Teachers, officers, visi
tors, and adult members are all counted
among the number enrolled. As a con
sequence, not over two-thirds of the en
rollment is made up of children. Then,
a good many of the children attend two
Sabbath Schools, and as a consequence,
are reported as two separate pupils.
All these actual errors in the number
in attendance go to make the work of
the Sunday School look more favorable.
One other thing intended for the im
provement arid the benefit of the Sun
day school has proven a hindrance to
true progress and to genuine study. We
refer to the inter-national lesson leaf.
At present, it monopolizes nearly all
the schools and as it came in at the
door the Bibles have gone out. Children
are not owners of Bibles in these later
days as they were under the old system.
The lesson leaf, the Sunday School
quarterly and other scrap book selec
tions from the Bible are the substi
tutes for the wonderful book of books.
Then, in attempting to give help as to
the subject matter, the studying of the
lesson has been nearly destroyed; so
much is this so that the average Sun
day School pupil depends upon the
notes and explanations for his answers
and opinions, and in too many cases
even the teachers depend entirely upon
these lesson helps, and simply hear
what the author of the help has consid
ered as important.
That this system so ruinous in the
end has such a hold is caused by the in
terests of the publishing houses, as the
churches derive a large revenue from
thus supplying the schools. To ascer
tain how far this extends, and how
much influence it has had upon the
teachers, w-e need only visit the various
schools, and see to w-hat extent the
teachers are found using these publica
tions when teaching their classes, and
how few of them use their Bibles if
they have any.
The school has then to a great extent
degenerated into that state which pre
vents the good work that ought to be
done. Scrap book Bible knowledge has
taken the place of the study of the Bi
ble as it comes, and a perverted knowl
edge is iu many cases not only a possi
bility but also a great probability
There is also a tendency toward doing
no personal study and little thinking,
so much so that teachers practice read
ing the helps, instead of seeking to find
out lirst what is in the lesson, and then
comparing their views with those of
the several authors.
The Sunday School needs reform
very badly, if we view this condition
from a true standpoint. It must get
more than from fifteen to twenty-five
per cent of the children under its in
fluence, while it must do a missionary
work among the families of the com
munity that it does not now’ seem to as
sume as belonging to it.
That there is a grand future for this
work of teaching morality and religion
to the young is doubted by none, that
the school ought to enter into its in
heritance and accomplish its destiny is
evident, and it, therefore, behooves
Sunday School workers to get a little
closer to the problem in hand before
trying to solve the difficulties.
Personal and Explanatory. To Whom
It May Concern.
From the Oxkaloosa Union.
The poison of tongues set on fire of
hell rankles and burns. It is an old
and trite, but true saying that an idle
head is the devil’s w’orkshop, a few
scheming rascals who sit on goods
boxes, or loiter round in the way of
other people, have lately busied tnem
selves to our hurt. Without a shadow*
of provocation, and with no suggestive
thought, word or acton our part to hint
a purpose inimical to honest work, and
a straight forward effort to earn a
living lor dependent children in strict
accord with a published prospectus
known and read by all, these character
thieves have invented and industrious
ly cirenlated basest calumnies; have
coined and uttered libels of most crim
inal purpose and intent, and they have
so wagged their vile tongues in the
presence of men of guileless purpose
and lives that unsuspectingly their
ears have caught these words of
offense and our reputation aud busi
ness have felt the reproach.
Supersensitive is honor. Money is
trash compared w’ith character. And
some of the same ingrates had helped
to oppress us and measureably to im
poverish prior to this assault, possibly
with deliberate purpose had done all
they could to rob and plunder of purse;
and' now they seek to take from us
that which is dearer than pelf dr rich
es. With scandalous lies and mouths
big w ith malice and hate they strike at
business, they forge base presentments,
and attribute false purposes to our
cooperative work which simply and
only meant self-preservation. All our
plans were matured publicly, our
papers are ever self-explanatory, and
no more sell-denying, earnest endeavor
could have been made by the publishers
of The Union, during the last few
weeks or months. Ours was but the
work of necessity aud of duty. These
libelers tracking and dogging our steps
found not one astray. We have no
apologies to make, no shame mantles
our clieeks.
Can the maligners ,traducing us step
to the footlights without blanching?
Is there a shade of a shadow of excuse
for this interference w’ith our work?
Ours is a sensitive plant, this news
paper work is founded on confidence,
friends of other years and true, and
those whom we have never intention
ally deceived, can afford to trust us
still. The new* patrons may inquire
of such as these whether our words
are idle or our ways capricious? Stead
fastly we have kept on the straight and
even way. Now who are these vile
wretches w’ho would wrest from us
our good name ? We expect to prose
cute just this inquiry; and more —we
expect to prosecute the men who
mould and fashion these lies.
In attacking us. just now, they fight
women and children—not that we
claim immunity on this score, but the
attack seems more brutal under the
circumstanses. But a little while
we seemed stricken and almost unresis
ting; now, such a bitterness of death
overpast, we may in duty and strength
arouse ourselves to contest the right
of any man, or set of men, to invade
the chamliers where we trade and
work. Our shop door may be locked
and barred against such theives, but
when men charge foul purposes ag tinst
us in w ords, and criminally libel they
can only be brought to properly answer
in court. Aud just here we expect to
bar and lock lips red with scandal and
reeking with the slime and filth of
false pretense and false friendships.
It Hu Come to This at Last.
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editor, “that when an anarchist accum
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tate for a division of capital.”
“Well he has a very ancient precedent
for that,” replied the snake editor.
“Indeed! What?”
“Why you will remember that when
the dove brought the green branch
back to Noah he soon ceased to be an
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