6 Money and Banks. Money Rates. The steady accu mulation money in New York through shipments from the interior constitutes ui important factor in the money market at present. Currency is being received in large packages from the West, and banks with important Southern connections report that the practical completion of the movement of cotton to market is bringing ad vices of intended shipments from that section. The outflow of currency is of small proportions, being confined practically to the provision of pack ages of small notes required for mer chants in neighboring cities for pay rolls. It is impossible for them to place all their available balances at the rate of i per cent., which has been current all this week for call loans at the Stock Exchange. In the outside market the rate has declined to the same basis, except for an oc casional contract on securities with a slow market at i J per cent. About the only hope for a more active mar ket held out by the banks is the pos sibility of the withdrawal of a large amount of money through a new issue of Government bonds, but this pros pect is not viewed with unmixed sat isfaction. The banks appreciate that if an issue of much more than $50, 000,000 were to be made, and pay ment arranged in New York, it would be necessary to call a good many loans now carried on active stocks, and that the etlect upon the market for securities might be important through forcing much liquidation. Many of the loans being carried by Wall Street houses on call are regard ed substantially as time loans, as they have run for a long time at 1 per cent., with no indication of any de sire on the part of the banks to ter minate the arrangement. There is at present very little evidence of dis crimination as to the character of the securities accepted among lenders, largely because the amount of new business is comparatively light. In time loans the market has con tinued narrow and very featureless. The demand has been very light, be cause of the limited amount of new commission business in stocks and the ease of the call loan market ; but at the same time there has been no evidence of pressure of funds among lenders. All appear to be awaiting the outcome of the currency discus sions, with the object of being pre pared for a possible bond issue. For eign bankers are not an important factor in the market, both became their European connections decline to place balances for definite terms at ruling rates, and because few bor rowers will consent to sign gold notes. Rates are 1 per cent, for 30 days, 2 2 J for 60 days to four months, and 3 for longer dates ; but these quota tions are largely nominal. Banks and brokers agree that there is no impor tant amount of new paper coming in to the market from any quarter, and it is difficult for brokers to accumu late important lines to offer for dis count. Importing houses appear to be the only sellers. Rates are 2$ 3 per cent, for best indorsed receiv ables ; 3 3 J- for best single names, with most business at 3 ; and 4 6 ' lor singles not so well known." The above, which we extracted from Dun's Review, fully exemplifies the financial condition among bank ers, brokers and speculators. The sum of it is interest far too low to suit them, and their principal hope is to effect such straightened condi tions with the Government that it must issue bonds whether it wants to or not. These conditions are now very promising to holders of idle cash. Onions and Parsley, It is a fact, not generally known by the fair sex, that parsley deodorizes onions, and that onions aie remaik ably helpful to the complexion and nerves. To make a fair test of the efficacy of parsley the lady should wait until the night she expects him, then take to onions freely, providing she's got the parsley for the second course. To retain the virtues and overcome the loudness of the odoriferous onion she has only to eat a small sprig of this pretty, green herb the aromatic pot pie flavorer, so well known to all good cooks as parsley. It may be eaten with your onions or immediate ly after with the same effect i for he won't smell 'em. There will be noth ing in the breath or about the person at all suggestive of onions five minutes after the parsley is eaten. Any one can have pars'ey ; for it may be readi ly grown in any warm sunny window. Soak the seeds in tepid water twenty four hours before planting and water plentifully after planting, The young parsley will peep through the earth in aboat two weeks, and, when well grown, your window will not only be ornamented, but you can eat your onions without regard to who is com inp, and )our complexion will be as fine as your breath is sweet just as fine. Chestnuts grafted 011 scrub oak is said to be the best way to get your hag feed. This discovery is accredited to a Columbia county farmer whose scrub oak was giving him no return, but instead a great deal of labor. Qeneral News. The little bicycle and electric c.ir hn nt only displaced mid relieved over A million horses, hut have also very materially Icisen ed the dividends arising from passenger traf fic on railroads. Evidently railroad stock as an investment has reached its maximum. There is no telling what the minimum value may he in the future with the electrical cur rent as an obstinate competitor. Should China ever get the Japs on the run there is no telling how little indemnity she would he willing to pay Japan to have her cease hostilities. With the enemy on the run we have an idea that the Chinese are ugly fighters. Mr. Bryan has submitted a resolution pro viding th:it no person shall succeed himself as 1'residcnt of the United Stales. It is quite possihle that a l'residcnt would find himself less nfllicted with self interests were it not possible for him to succeed himself in ollice. The same may be said of minor of fices. 1-1 There is some hinting at the possibility of reducing the salaries of some slate officials. It is quite probably only a hint, however. If l'attison failed in this respect, as now claimed, the great saving affected under the Hastings administration will show up the more clearly perhaps. 1-1 It is now the effort of the War Depart ment to concentrate in the larger cities the few troops now stationed at the outlying military posts. The safety and pecuniary advantage of the presence of disciplined troops is (in advantage no doubt that is worth the effort. It has failed however, thus far. I"' The State guards of New Jersey are held in readiness 10 act whenever called upon, to suppress all riotious acts should the sym pathetic strikers extend their operations that far. The establishment of creameries has done much to enlighten the farmers They have been compelled to give some consideration to the breeds of catile, to use better imple ments in the dairy, and to produce better butler in order to compete for the highest pr.ccs. Those who patronize the creameries have lessened their labor, and combined several other pursuits with the keeping of good cows. On farms where formerly only milk and butter were sold there is now a di versity of crops, and varied products are shipped to inaiket. At this season, when the roads nre made alternately hard and soft by freezing and thawing, fanners are nearly blockaded in some sections It is a good time to sludy the problem of good roads, and make resolu tions regarding them another winter, but in the summer the question of taxation will take the preference. Now is the time to estimate how much you are losing from bad roads. The tax is a small sum compared with the advantages gained by good roads. Tlowing should begin just ns soon as it can be done on the approach of spring. If the frost leaves the ground and the land is plowed, the late frosts will pulverize it. Proper preparation of the soil for a crop should lie made. Furthermore, the more freezing and thawing the soil gels the great er the diminution of insect life that is fre quently so destructive to crops. We must not flatter ourselves that the road to sucjess is any other than earnest, diligent, persistent labor. If there is any one thing more than another that is casting a gloom over agriculture, yea, over every in dustry, it is the thought that has taken pos session of ihe rising generation that there is no dignity in labor; that it is to be shunned; that by hook or crook they will get a living without work. n 1-1 The Chicago "Record," forgets all about the lake "breezes" when it delivers the fol lowing panegyric : "Chicago's climate is the only genuine article made. All others are spurious. If there were a hill within gunshot of here Chicago might easily be taken for Naples. We have the sky, the sunset and the water. In w.nter we have the invigorating air that makes Christiana, St. Petersburg and Minneapolis famous in glacial effects. With a couple of grapevines Chicago could not be distinguished from sunny France in springtime." Oleomargarine has no terrors for a large class of Ooiham diners. " There is a vast deal of the mixture served in the restaurants of this city," says the New York "Sun," "and it is very much superior to much of the butler that is sold. It is often unsalted, and has the pleasant flavor of fresh butler! New York is so thoroughly hardened to oleo' margarine that doubtless the foolish laws of some States, rc paring restaurants that pro vide oleomargarine for llieir customers 10 announce the fact conspicuously, could b; enforced here wiihout seriously injuring the trads." "U is unlucky to'have t3 at table," es pecially if you have arranged things for two or three. liut then some folks are hit a un lucky about eating, it seems. President William li. tlornblower, of the Princeton Club of New York entertained the alumni of the college at their annual banquet with his views upon fooi-b.tll His remarks must have been heartfelt, for upon one his toric occasion between the President and the Senate Mr. Hornblower was ma lesomething of a foot-ball himself. Wal cr Ilesant, the novelist, h is be-n en. gaged for twenty-six years in writing a his tory of London. The work is now said to be ready for the publisher!. When Robert Burns wrote: "O lif.'l Thou art a calling load, Along a rough and weary road, To wretches such such as I," it was after a royal indulgence in una dulterated and old time booze, which the present generation supposes was chock full of purity and healing vir tues. The fact is the alcohol ,f tn. day js just as gooo as that which isurns imbibed, thougn no doubt he had the very best. Almost a Now York Daily. That Democratic wonder, The New York Weekly H'orM, has just chang ed its weekly into a twice a week in. per, and you can now get the two papers a week for the same old price $r.oo a year, with The Columbian $t 75. Think of it I The news inm New York right at your door fresh evcty three days 104 capers a year. tr. THE COLUMBIAN, METHODS OF PRIMARY READING!. VIII. Phonetic Method. By William Nootllng. As rcmatked in a previous article, the phonetic rrethod has been present ed in as many diflcrcnt forms as it has had authors. Dr. Adolph Donai, of New York, a highly educated Osr man, and a teacher and writer, in 1S72 published his " Series of .Rational Readers, combining the principles of Pestalozzi's and Froebel's s) stems of education, with a systematic clasiifica tion of English words, by which their pronunciation, orthography, and ety mology may be taught readily with out any new signs." In his Manual for Teachers the learned Doctor arraigns not only the methods of teaching one subject, for the unsatisfactory results so common in all grades of schools, but all of them. Though twenty-three years have elapsed since these charges were made, they apply with nearly equal force to the school work of to day. The following are some of his state ments : " It would be unjust to over look some of the impediments to a higher standard of education, which retard the progress of our common schools such as the lack of Kinder gartens ; the admission of too many children into the lowest classes ; the irregular attendance of pupils, and the short p riod during which many of them are kept in school also the very poor preparation of most teachers for their difficult and all important calling. But if the efficiency of our methods of teaching were what it ouht to be, all these impediments might be overcome. Tcacning it a feeding of the mind; if the food of our schools were more palatable, the at tendance would be considerably larger, teachers would find more self-enjoyment in their calling and would feel encouraged and stimul.tltd to do more justice to it, and better results of their efforts would lead to further improve ments such as are necessary to a more rapid progress. " lhe manner ii which what are called ' the common English branches' (pronunciation, orthography, gram mar, etumolojy, and elocution) are commonly taught, presents a strange contrast to the progressive spirit of our age. It consumes almost all the time in the teaching of language, as though there were no such things to be learned in the world as Natural Sciences, Arts, and Mathematics ; it succeeds even in teaching English S3 poorly, that there are very few persons in the country who can in every case determine, on sufficient grounds, what is really good :.nd correct English ; it develops the mind of the pupils in a most one sided way, addressing itself to the memory and passive receptivity of the learner, and neglecting the cul ture of his intellect, moral faculties, and artistic tastes and abilities, as though there never had existed those great prophets of harmonious dC' vehpment and reformers of pedagogy, Pestalozzie, Diestermeg, and Froebel; it makes the teacher a mere machine for rehearsing recita'ions, the pupil a mere machine for committing to memory the sounds and spellings a definitions of words, and thes . content! of some text books, which are soon after forgotten in short, its results are trivial in comparison with the time and money spent on attaining them. But what is worse, it does ir reparable harm by blunting and im poverishing the mental and moral fa culties of most pupils, so that they re main forever beyond the pale of self improvement. "A onesided development of hu man faculties will always blunt and impoverish, if not stifle, those which are neglected. The cultivation of the receptive powers merely must needs curtail the measure of the reflective, active and sensitive powers. Dwarfed powers beget discontent, while an over-exertion of the one power begets disgust with its exercises. Those who overcome that disgust and are assigned a great number of spell ing exercises of difficult words, with out learning ttyniologically their ap proprtate use in language, can certain ly not be said to make much progress in the development of their reflective, active, and artistic powers. Again much of their school-time is wasted on dry lessons in that driest of all studies grammar. The study of this sub ject, as commonly pursued, is'about as nearly useless as anything can be. It consists chiefly in memorizing defini tions and rules (many of which are at variance with the teachings of com parative philology) and in parsing and analyzing sentences without at tending to composition. Pupils are required to continue separating lang uage into parts, without being taught how to construct it into corrsct and appropriate sentences. Indeed the pupils are pot even led to see any practical use for their knowledge of grammar, and finally they detest it al together. " Language is but a means to an end ; it is not in itself an end. It is an organ or tool of production, not production itself. Mankind have to learn so many important, nay, even indispensable things, that the learning of language, the medium merely of all other learning, should be made easier. jjesiutfs, me rapui gro.vth in our age of all the science 1 and arts swells the volume of things to bj learned in you h to buch dimensions, that the BLOOMSBURG, PA. acquisition of pronunciation and orthography, and grammar, the veriest rudiments of language, ought to be facilitated as much as possible. If our boys and girls spend the great est part of their school days in master ing the difficulties of the mere out ward form of the language, without its contents, they are cracking nut shells without ever getting at the kernel. " And here we must premise that we cannot introduce rational teach ing into one branch of instruction alone ; we must introduce it into all, if we are to make it easy and efficient. This great truth, which ought to be self evident, has been forcibly illustrat ed by the experience had with ohject teaching. Object teaching, in order that it may reap its full bene fits, ought to be carried through all branches of elementary, and even higher instruction through languages, natural science, mathematics, and the arts. The result of the narrow appli cation of object leaching has been to retard a great reform in education. 'Another great reform Kinder gartening the foundation of true education for childhood --has been greatly misunderstood and misapplied through attempts to graft it upon the old routine of teaching the common branches. " True education is harmonious and therefore systematic. One idea should give law and measure to all its branches. One method should be carried through all its departments, but varied according to the nature of each. A'l the human powers are to be properly exercised in each pupil, and a variety of sciences and arts which mutually complement each other, to be used as the means for se curing such harmonious development. " This great standard truth of mod ern pedagogy, applied to the common English branches, demands that in the very beginning with them all the mental and moral faculties of the pupil should be interested and exer cised. You mutt not benin with (he abstract elements of language and try to impress them in meaningless syllables upon the passive recollec tion of the learner ; you must begin with a sentence fully intelligible by itself. The pupil must be led to find the single words and their representa tives, (a few at a time,) and im mediately after to recompose them them into words and sentences ; first orally and then in writing. " Object lessons should be connect ed with the very first reading and writing exercises ; not only the very first, but all the subsequent reading and writing exercises ought in them selves to be object lessons. The be ginning ought to be made with the sentence, because it is fully intelligible and assigns to each word its meaning in each case ; and we should end each exercise with sentences, so that all the elements mastered may at once be applied, the usefulness of the exer cises at once appear to the mind of the pupil, and so that he may be from the outset accustomed to the practice never to do in school any thing which is meaningless ; never to do anything otherwise than under standing and with lively interest. To keep up his interest unflagging, which vs.'.1' be the case so long as all his faculties are .'I'v ard harmonious ly occupied, it is necessl.r,v to time the stages of his course of studies so as to make him do thoroughly all he can do, but also to carry him just as rapidly from stage to stage of mental and moral development as his powers will warrant without over-exertion. Interest in the object gained is two er gained by the learner," lhe foregoing quotations, taken to gether, are somewhat long, but thoughtful readers will find in them sound pedagogic truth, well worth studying. The next article will contain the method. LIKE A MIEiOLE. Salt Rlioum, Impure Blood and a Racking Cough that Baffled Physicians, Finally Cured. Springfield (Mass.,) Republican. Irrthe town of Amherst. Mass.. Mr. Geo. B. Pierce and his mother are the proprietors of the Amhetst Creamery Association. Mrs. Pierce has suffer ed for a lone time with Sail Phpnm and a cough that forboded Consump uon, out iney nave given way to health and vieor. Ilearintr of this a rpnnricr called on Mrs. Pierce, and the follow ing experience was related : 41 For a long time I suffered from Salt Rheum," said Mrs. Pierce, " but about two years ago I slipped and hurt my knee, which made it worse. I can't begin to tell the agony I was in, my limbs became a mass of raw flesh covered with running sores. My friends would say I could not live long and I thought so too. Well, I heard of Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy and Dr. David Kennedy's Salt Rheum Cream 5 I commenced using them, and in three weeks I walked out of doors. Last night I walked a mile, and I am sixty three years of age. It shows that Dr. Ken nedy's Favorite Remedy and Salt Rheum Cream can do more than the physicians, for they made me well after my doctor told me I was in- t-uraoie. 1 must al3o tell you of another preparation Dr. Kennedy advised me to use, which did as much for me j it was Dr. David Kennedy's Cherry Balsam. I have had a wretch ed cough for the past fiffeen years, the best doctors in the state united in saying that it was incurable, and that it was only a matter of time before my lungi would give out my s'cep was restless, I would lie awake for hours. I well recollect the first time I used Dr. Kennedy's Cherry Balsam. It relieved my throat at once, and I slept all through that night, the first full night's rest I had in several years. It seemed like a miracle, I took but two bottles and was cured. Dr. David Kennedy's Cherry Balsam cures asthma, bronchitis, coughs, colds, incipient consumption, whooping cough or croup. 1 ax.cn with Favorite Remedy, it never fails. Price 25c, 50c and $100 a bottle. Dr. David Kennedy's Salt Rheum Cream is sold at 50c. a package. Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy costs $ 1.00 a bottle or six bottles for $5.00. Favorite Remedy ranks with the medical profession as the most per feet of all blood and nerve medicines. It restores the liver to a healthy con dilion, and cures constipation. It is a certain cure for all diseases peculiar to women, and affords protection from attacks that originate in change of life. It cures scrofula, salt rheum, tumors, rheumatism, dyspepsia, all kidney, bladder and urinary diseases, cravel, diabetes and Bright's diseare. In this last disease it has cured where all else failed. it. DR. E. GREWER, The Philadelphia Specialist, And his associated staff of English and German l'nyslcluns, are now permanently located at, OLD POST-OFFICE BLD3. Scranton, Pa. 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