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The Teacher's Mission.
BY FANNIE C
The youthful mind, a goblet fair
Of the Master Workman's skill,
Is wrought from jewels far more rare
Than gems from far Brazil.
By wisdom's fount the teacher stands,
The task devolves on him,
To fill it up with willing hands
Till the waters touch the brim.
As drop by drop he places there
From the deep exhaustless tide,
lle wonders when the liquid clear
Will mount the goblet's side.
From morn till night, in joy and pain,
Is truth with care instilled,
Despair cries out, "toil is in vain,
The cup will nc'er be filled."
But care-worn teacher, struggle on,
'Tis useless to repine •
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The distant goal shall yet be won,
And a rich reward be thine.
Then let the thought these lines engage,
Sustath and comfort thee,
This fountain shall the thirst assuage
Of millions yet to be.
The waters bright shall reach the brim,
The height shall be attained,
Nor till the stars of Heaven grow dim
Shall the goblet e'er be drained.
tgl,ralliAg thr
The Democracy South.
The Old Rebel Spirit.
Their Treasonable Utterances.
GEORGIA READY FOR WAR.
[From the Atlanta (Ga.) News.]
Our only hope ii in a stern, resolute
resistance—a resistance to the death if
necessary, with arms in our hands. Let
there be White Leagues formed in every
town, village and hamlet in the South,
and let us organize for the great struggle
which seems inevitable. If the October
elections which are to be held in the North
are favorable to the Radicals the time will
have arrived for us to prepare for the
worst. The radicalism of the Republican
party must be met by the radicalism of
white men.
We have no war to make against the
United States Government, but against
the Republican party our hate must be
unquenchable, our war interminable and
merciless. Fast fleeting away is the day
for wordy protests and idle appeals to the
magnanimity of the Republican party. By
brute force they are endeavoring to force
us into acquiescence to their hideous pro
gramme. We have submitted long enough
to indignities, and it is time to meet brute
force with brute force. Every Southern
State should swarm with White Leagues,
and we should stand ready to act the mo
ment Grant signs the civil-rights bill.
If the white Democrats of the North
are men they will not stand idly by and
see us borne down by Northern Radicals
and half-barbarous negroes. But no mat
ter what they may do it is time for us to
organize. We have been temporizing long
enough. Let Northern Radicals under
stand that military supervision of South
ern elections and the civil rights bill mean
war, that war means bloodshed, and that
we are terribly in earnest, and even they,
fanatical as they are, may retrace their
steps before it is too late.
'LET SLIP THE DOGS or WAIL
At a meeting in St. Louis on Tuesday
evening, A. P. J. Garesche, a prominent
lawyer of that city, said :
My sympathies are with this people, and
my purse is open to them ; and if in their
struggle the President dares to interfere,
I say, "Let slip the dogs of war," and
"damned be he who first cries, Hold,
enough !" Ido not forget how Kellogg
got into power, sneaking under the guns
of a United States frigate, and he now
slinks from the outraged people whom he
has persecuted and oppressed, and sneaks
into the United States custom-house, un
der protection of Casey, the brother-in
law of Ulysses I. I say, let him go, and
let Grant provoke the contest. Let the
President's minions beware, for they may
be damned.
After Mr. Garesche concluded, the chair
man, General Shields, said : "Before I an
nounce the adjournment of the meeting I
wish to say that we know not what a day
may bring forth. I ask you to go to your
homes, prepared to come together at any
moment, to assemble here again not only
as you have to-night, but ten times the
number. We know not what we may be
called upon to do to aid our suffering
brethren in Louisiana, but I am sure from
the manifestations you have made to-night
that whatever the call may be, if it is in
furtherance of right and justice, and op
pressions, the people of St. Louis and cit
izens of Missouri will never ihil to respond
to it."
MURDER JUSTIFIED,
[From the Shreveport Times.]
The corrupt and incompetent officials of
Natchitoches, Lincoln, and other parishes
ought to have been got rid of by legal
means; but there was no possibility of
reaching them through the machinery of
the government, and the people were jus
tifiable in resorting to the law of self-pro
tection and forcing them to abdicate. The
six carpet-baggers of Red River parish
ought to have been arrested, tried, con
victed, and punished through the courts
of the State, but the courts of the State
were their creatures and instruments, and
the people rightfully judged, condemned,
and punished them.
WHAT TOOMBS SAYS.
At a meeting to sympathize with the
Louisiana rebels, held in Atlanta on Tues
day, Robert Toombs said :
He opened his address with an imme
diate onslaught on the Government at
Washington. He said it was the vilest,
the most corrupt and dishonorable admin
istration any government had suffered since
the birth of Christ. They had inflicted on
the Southern States, for the last nine years,
humiliation after humiliation, without ces
sation. Poor Louisiana has been robbed
of everything she had. Her Governor was
ejected, her legislative halls had been filled
with thieving scoundrels from the North,
ready to do the bidding of their wicked
masters. They Lad bowed meekly to insult
after insult until nothing was left for them
to do but rise and strike or die in their
chains. That sickly cry of "Let us have
peace," came back as the only answer to
their pleadings. The Bible commands us,
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1874.
"Let us first be true and then peaceable,"
and I say to you we can have no peace
until the corrupt and villainous invaders
are driven out of the State. His whole
heart and soul were with the people of
Louisiana, and he would take a hand with
the boys of Atlanta to prevent troops pass
ing through that city to interfere with
the down-trodden in their struggle for jus
tice. He continued : I am an outlawed
man, ostracised from my country, but I say
to you that had I been as true to my God
as I have to my country I should be better
prepared to meet my final account.
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Our New York Letter.
The Last Fraud—Real Estate—Beer—
litnerals— Cremation— Beecher- Tilton
—The Graphic—Business.
NEW YORK, Sept.. 28, 1874.
A NEW FRAUD.
If the dishonest men would give to hon
est employment half the shrewdness they
do to their swindling schemes, they would
be the richest men in the world. For cer
tainly the genius wasted in roguery, that
always ends badly, could not but pay
largely in any legitimate business. The
last dodge in thievery has just been un
earthed, and a most ingenious dodge it is.
A scoundrel sailing under the alias of
Walker, a few months ago, went to work
and deliberately forged conveyances of real
estate belonging to the estate of a man
who has been dead five years. He made
deeds from Isaac Young, the aforesaid de
ceased, to himself, of land worth $50,000,
and went with them to the Register's of
fice and had them recorded. Of course
this was all regular, for the registery clerks
have no means of knowing whether Isaac
Young is a live or a dead man. The con
veyances put upon record, Walker takes
them and goes into the street to negotiate
a loan upon them. He finds a man who
has money to loan upon real estate. The
Register's books are examined, the con
veyances are all clear, the money is loaned.
Walker disappears. Of course the fraud
is discovered after the lapse of a week or
two, and Walker is arrested, and will go to
Sing Sing. Now, it strikes me that a mind
capable of conceiving and executing so
magnificent a piece of villainy ought to
know that legitimate business is its proper
field. What combinations could not such a
genius efl'ect in dry goods !
If that man had to be a rogue, why did
he not go to Wall Street, or get into pol
itics in this city?
These are safe fields for such geniuses,
where there is ample scope for scoundrel
ism without risk. But they never do it.
When Walker gets out of Sing Sing he
will get into a similar transaction in a
week, and go up again. Such men only
keep out of prison a few weeks at a time.
When in quod, they devise schemes that
invariably takes them back again. Speak
ing of
Sonic of it New York has a value despite
the terrible depression. Mr. R. A. Witt
hous has sold to the Union Dime Savings
Bank, for $275,000, the plot of land on
the southerly side of Thirty-second street,
between Broadway and Sixth avenue. The
buildings are of little value, and formed
no part of the value. The lots front on
the triangular public place at the inter
section of Broadway and Sixth avenue, 42
feet on Broadway, 40 feet on Sixth avenue,
and about 100 feet on Thirty-second street.
The price is at the rate of $175,000 for a
lot of the usual size. Mr. Witthaus paid
$45,000 for the property about twenty
years ago. Isn't that rather a steep price
for so small a piece of earth ? At this rate,
what is New York worth ?
BEER.
The Germans are up and in arms. Wed
nesday last three thousand saloon keepers
met in council, and resolved that the li
cense laws must be repealed, and that the
traffic in beer must be treated the same as
any other business, and also that this ques
tion must go into politics, and be made an
issue. The beer interest in New York is
one that has possitive power, and of course
politicians will be found who will recog
nize it. The German element is immensely
strong here, and on the question of free
beer and the right to drink it Sundays as
well as other days it is almost an unit.—
They do not like to be driven out of the
city for their Sunday recreations, and they
will make a vigorous fight for what to them
is a vital matter. This question is one of
the disturbers that come up every little
while to vex the souls of politicians. The
American religious element is inflexibly
opposed to the violation of the Sabbath.
the German is as inflexibly determined to
spend it as he pleases. Imagine the per
plexity of the ambitious politician in whose
district these elements are about even !
Won't lie have a splendid opportunity for
dodging !
EXPENSIVE FUNERALS.
Under the present system, it costs from
$5O to $l5O to bury a corpse in the most
modest way. The most exorbitant prices
are charged for coffins and the accompani
ments, all of which are paid without a
question, for no man can ask prices over
the dead body of one loved and lost. Then
come carriages, price of lot, etc., all of
which makes a sum that is oppressive to a
poor man or one in even modern circum•
stances. The Germans have a society for
doing away with all this. They have ta
ken up the idea of cremation, and propose
to bring it into vogue. They are building
a ball 60x•10 feet, fitted with an altar at
which religious ceremonies may be had.—
Back of this altar is to be a furnace capa
ble of being heated to I,ooo°, which melts
soft plates in the metal coffin enclosing the
remains, which heat will reduce the re
mains to ashes in an hour and a half. And
all this can be done for $B, which is bring
ing burial expenses within reach of the
poorest. The Germans will take this idea
and act upon it, for this people have not
the reverence for ancient forms that the
Americans possess, and the form of dis
posing of remains is in entire consonance
with their ideas of the fitness of things.—
And who knows but after it has become a
common practice among the Germans it
may be adopted by the rest of mankind !
Tilton's last statement, which appeared
Friday, has stirred up this mess once more.
Public opiuion in the city has once more.
veered to Tilton, and it will probably stay
there till Beecher makes a statement, when
it may shift to him. Tilton gives the world
nothing new in the matter, but he ex•
plains the why of very much of it. For
instance, in answer to the question why,
after permitting his wife's infidelity to re
main a secret with him four years. he gave
it to the world, Ile says that had Elizabeth
remained with him, and the church had
let her alone he never should have divulg
ed it. But she left him for the purpose
of testifying against him, and in sheer
self-defense he was compelled to give the
REAL ESTATE,
BEECIIER-TILTON
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terrible truth to the world. Moulton's
statement is a crusher, and has produced a
profound impression. He fastens his form
er statements and makes his case very
cleverly. Now what will Beecher do ?
Are we to have more statements ? He has
said that he will not open his mouth or
put pen to paper on this subject again, but
will trust to the courts to clear his skirts.
Thank heaven, for no matter who is in
fault the people are tired of the whole mat•
ter. Let us hope it will be settled one
way or another, and that quickly.
speaking of this affair, it is gratifying
to notice the frankness and fairness with
which the Daily Graphic has treated this
matter. Without disguising its own con
clusions, from the reports of both sides,
presented in its columns with an enter
prise which made some of the slow coach
papers, in self-defense, profess old Queen
Annie's horror of gossip, it has comment
ed on the sad affair in a tone befitting gen
tlemen, an example which some of its un
successfull contemporaries might have fol
lowed up with much credit and more
grace.
The way in which zealots on both sides
have carried on the skirmish renders it a
sure thing that nobody comes out of the
scrimmage with a clean coat. That the
Graphic has shown more wit and less tem
per in its share of the sport may be charg
ed to the fact that its editorial columns are
in the hands of gentleman, made such by
virtue of breeding and sympathies, as well
as position ; who know how to hold liberal
views and express them fully, while keep
ing them out of the mire. And I may
say that it is the controlling fore* of this
quiet gentlemanhood which makes the
Graphic such a favorite family paper both
in and out of the city. The rare ability of
D. G. Croly, its managing editor, and the
enterprise and tact of the Brothers Good
sell, have made the Graphic a great sue
less.
BUSINESS
Does not pick up as I (and everybody else)
hoped. The city is full of merchants; the
hotels arc not only crowded but over-crowd
ed but they do not buy. The South is
buying small stocks, very small, but the
West, so far, is only sorting up. The
merchants all say they intend to buy large
ly, but they are waiting to see what the
condition of things is to be. In short,
with wheat at the price it is, they are
afraid to venture. Possibly they are right;
but the importers and jobbers, who have
stocks ou hand, don't see it. And the
summer has slipped away, we are fairly
into the fall, and the goods are all in the
'•original packages." lam speaking now
of the wholesale trade. The retail trade
in the city looks somewhat hopeful this
month, and will keep its cheerful face, for
the people have money, if the trade only
have sense to adopt the rule of the leading
house in America, namely, to do away
with fancy prices for any class of goods,
however now or fashionable, and bring the
most tempting articles at once within the
reach of ordinary buyers.
Nevertheless, the city will see a great
deal of distress this winter. There has
been no building and labor of any kind
this summer, that the working-men have
not been able to keep anything ahead, and
when the frost puts its embargo on out
door work there is going to be an amount
of destitution and actual suffering that the
city never saw before. lleven help the
poor this winter. And let me put in a
warning here to young men—keep out of
New York this fall and winter. There me
thousands upon thousands of unemployed
men in every possible department of labor.
There are one hundred appicants for every
vacancy. Except upon a sure thing, stay
where you are, if you can earn bread and
clothes. PIETRO.
Miscellaneous News Items.
Mosquitoes are troubling London.
Swarms of winged ants fly all over Fog
land.
Gen. Spinner has started on a tour among
the Northern lakes.
New Jersey expects an abundant grape
crop, counting goosberries in.
A Middletown boy played with a bull
and came off the little end of the horn.
gored.
George P. Hoar announces his willing
ness to be a candidate for reelection to
Congress.
In Williamsport temperance lecturers
are stoned, and the militia arc not even
called out.
Narragansett Pier visitors have warly
all disappeared on account uf the cold
weather.
Owing to the ravages of worms, the
Cape Cod cranberry crop will be a failure
this season.
The walk from the Ling Branch hotels
to the bathing beach is becoming shorter
ever week.
It is rumored that a n►agnifcent Union
Depot will be erected at Harrisburg, with
in two years.
West Indian Spaniards affect extreme
indignation over the reported cession of
Porto Rico to Germany.
It is reported that an order will soon
be issued expelling from Russia all fin•eign
priests, monks and nuns.
It is reported the centennial managers
pay Col. - Forney $16,000 per year, and
expenses, as European agent.
Four thousand Americans live in Paris,
7,000 Englishmen, 47,000 Germans, 32,
000 Belgians and 12,000 Swiss.
It announced that nearly every ves
sel arriving at Baltimore from the \Vest
Indies has had yellow fever on board.
Gov. Dix has revoked his notice to
Havemeyer to appear before him and an
swer to the charges made against him.
A later account of the Austria Polar Ex
pedition states that the explorers have pen
etrated to the eighty-third degree of lati
tude.
A cargo of tea valued at $40,000 has
been seized by the Collector, at New York,
on a charge of an attempt to defraud the
revenue.
Letters headed with pictures of coffins
are not a literary success in Ireland. The
writers are kept incarcerated until they
explain.
An official army order has been publish
ed authorizing the removal of the army
headquarters to St. Louis on the Ist of
October.
The Crane Iron Company, Lehigh coun
ty, have notified their employees of anoth
er reduction on and after the 12th inst
keepers reicaving $2.00 per day, helpers
$1.85 and fillers $1.75.
Notes of Travel.
TANGENT. OREOO,II,
h;eptember 21, 157.1. j
MR. EDITOR :—We have endeavored to
give some idea of this country as a farming
section, but it also presents novelty of sce
nery and territory to the pleasure seeker .
At any time a spectacle of true grandeur
will meet the gaze, in both the Cascade
and Coast Mountains. The cones of eter
nal snow, which dot the green heights of
the President's range of mountains, rise on
the dark outline of the distant lands and
hang glittering in the sky like Wands of
precious stones, so bright do they shine in
the setting sun, and so completely do the
soft clouds around their base seem to sep
arate them from the world below. When
the wind blows down from these snow
fields, tempering the heat of a dazzling sun,
you long for a si...ta in their cooling
shadow.
Since we have hiei a trip tai Mary's
Peak, the highest pint in the Coast
range, a PAT days ago, we will try and give
your readers some idea with what exertion
the pure air of these peaks are breathed.
Not many persons make the ascent of this
fir famed peak, deterred pertly from lack
of strength, and the difficulties of the
journey. Our party consisted of three.
and with a 1,,00d supply of blankets and
provisions we set out in a wagon, to com
plete the first day so much of the journey
as could be done in this way.
Twelve o'clock the next day f eund us:
with horses packed and all ready to begin
the ascent. We left the wagon road and
took a narrow trail which struck directly
into the mountains, and one Kitt C inset)
would have thought too narrow to climb
the "Delectable Mountain. — Our horses
were forced, with great difficulty, to take
the trail, seeming to know the terrible pull
that awaited them. hided it was a ter
rible pull, for we hail not made many hun
dred yards before onr leases stopped.
gasping for breath. The trail entered a
forest of fir and pine, over the tops of
which we now and then could catch
glimpse of' the peak. An interminable
forest surrounded us during the liret four
oe five miles. la this distance a fez
knobs or projections from the Uric of a<-
cent fltvored the poor beasts for awhile.
but it was not long before this ceased, and
the terrific slant of the mountain presented
itself, unrelieved, to be overcome. And
now picture to yourself three ants clam
bering up a church spire, awl you have
our party making this last ascent. The
trail was a mere mark in the gravelly soil.
leading us a cork-screw kind of a journey
up the side of the peak. where a stone
loosed by the foot would find no rest until
it reached the level of the valley.' and
should sour horse loose his footing, he too
would rest at the foot or the peak. Such
a climb ! If any skeptic is at all doubtful
of the Darwinian theory. let him at once
be convinced of our antediluvian ancestry
or try to scale Mary's Peak. On up we
toiled, stopping every tenth step to rest,
and breathe; up, up to the regions of ever
lasting snow. And now we have reached
the most difficult part of our jaurney.
where the rocks seem over.hanging. and
you feel as it' the slightest breeze would
waft you into the clptels and eter
nity. Slowly, and in single file. stopping
every two minutes to lean upon our lierse's
neck and gasp for breath, we climbed up.
taking heart that this was our last hard
pull. After nearly three miles of this
kind of travel, when strength. hope and
courage were on the point of giving out.
the steep suddenly flattened. and a keen
wind blew over the summit of the peak.
All the danger and difficulty is forgotten
in the magnificent scene that greets our
vision on all sides. To our surprise we
found, what had seemed a peak. an area of
nearly six hundred acres, when below we
feared there would not be standing room
for three. Beneath us lay the whole
world outspread. For the first time we
doubted the spherical shape of ear planet
Surely the vast plains, down yonder.
stretched on and on straight to the rising
sun, and but for the mystical vapors tinged
with faint colors rising far at the horizon
we must see the Sierra mountains, once
so stupendous in our untraveled eye, but
now how infinitely small. We were
in shadow as we sat in `-solemn
and gazed, spell-bound, on the wondrous
scene beneath. The sun had sunk behind
the ocean in full view on the west. leaving
the valley at the immediate base of the
range in shadow. anl it glowed in a
golden halo of sunshine. Here and there
rose fantastic shadows, which grew broader
and taller, until the world below w:.4 cov
ered with a misty pail, and all nature was
"tucked in" for the night. Anti still we
sat in that awful solitude, feeling as Nwsh
must have felt when the waters went down
from the face of the earth, fearing to move
or speak lest we break some mighty spell
that had Nile] upon us. Ittrning to the
west we saw the sun set with refulgent
splendor behind the mighty Pacific. Is it
heaved and swelled like the pul,t2s of some
mighty nation. It was heaving at onr
feet: Steadily wave on wave came and
went, and following each other in claseless
march, pressed onward, as if intent to reach
the solid shores where some resistance
would broach their hidden strength, anti
pour their fury out. By and by the stars
came out, just as they did at home, only
they came nearer and were a thousand
fold brighter, and made one think that
heaven was not so very far off after all.
We now lariated our horses, and after re
freshing ourselves with a cup of coffee
and some biscuit. spread two blankets upon
the ground to try to sleep. No use in trying
to sleep, however, with the moon shining
full in your face, so we lay awake imagin
ing all sorts of wierd fancies. At four o'-
clock we rose from a fitful slumber anti
beheld faint roseate streaks of light down in
the East. We never realized how fast
"Old Sol"-swung 'round the circle" until
standing above him we waited for his
corning, heralded by long. amber-colored
rays that shot up into the sky like the
Aurora Borealis, then a rosy hue spread
all along the horizon a::d the king of day
made his appearance. After taking a re
freshing breakfast we bade adieu to
Mary s Peak, and began to descend to the
terrestrial regions. Here let me add that
it' a cast-iron back with a hinge is good for
gardening purposes, (1 forget whether or
no this is one of Greeley's axioms.) east
steel knees would most admirably serve the
pursose of descending peaks. It was as
difficult to get away from the peak as it
had been to attain it, and after two hours
of toilsome descent we looked back and
found the hoary head but a few rods dis
tant. But we toiled on, footsore and weary,
and like that valiant army of "forty thou
sand men'" marched down the bill in tri
umph, though we were then only experi
encing the real difficulties of the trip.
Nos REDNIN.
PAT your taxes before the 3d pros.
Aim- •
clutat lout.
Report of the Public Schools of Hun
tingdon County for floe School Year
ending June. 1374. R. M. Neflitii.
County Superintendent.
Shortly after publiehing my Annital Ile,
port fir last year. several perms espress
ed their surprise that I should report only
five first.class school h , ,nsei in the whole
county, and intimated that rho report
not fairly represent the condition of the
school property and appliances of the c-min
ty. I therefor,' publish with this repor.
the following special instruction. tw .ruper
intendents. taken front the , tatistieal note
book, from which it will bo sern that I
have certain rule, by which I VD govern...l
in making' this :.-port. I think it will al
so be admitted that I harp dose is., inks.-
tire to any school district in thl connty
the purpooe of secnrin; nnitionnity
in tliJ par:l,7 , ller* name!. thrirogbout the
State. Superintenilen:s are hereby iturtruct
ed to apply in !twit- spirit. the followinz
tlefin it ions :
Szteb-:ent a 4
gronnli in the ennntry. inten.icill to
ate:an an extent it lea-4 halt am aers;
an , ' in to7n7s. of :in event 137.r..t ei. , S
to all.ns all the pupils of the t., eve
iro the. svn 3i with pr.T. , -
gytnna. , tie apprato.4
. .
••7`li▪
tably Improveir i. 4 Its:..a,Lovi
'next neatly fioteLol, fret: icons rnbisiols.
Vi:int...l with ,:t a d e (re ». awl properly pre
:E4 p1:1,- , for the play• of rhiltirre.
Unfit f.r I - 4e." a+ appliel I.IP 'whiny)l
• intended to attewn bltkee.4 ir.re
iiut. too ionall. trthealthy uneorolort4-
bk.
;.ateirie.l:o o n ,n,
withon: any privisiun ventilati.nt, er
with .neh a provis.ion fir it a.. apertures in
the ceiling, transom; ov.n. ni• rtivitiz
or lowering win.low..
••Suitahle Privy:* intemiel a. Ammo
a privy with 4epar.atc apartment. Cer boy+
and girl.. kept clean. 311,1 arceisible with
out unnee ,- .. , ...5ary exposure
•-.1 I:irsz-elves :4e.h00l llotase,•• ic. intewii
eil to mean. wli ..,11 appll,` , l to 3111 unizrairiesi
piewantly w.,tl ma
stru.:ted. amply larie, tries a vrtieo
the f7ont or sale., eorireni e nt pas
basket:i awl clothing. a ear for 9WI
apparatus. eeilin; at least twelve feet
with not les• than a hln4re..l noire feet
of black boar] airf see. well vzstiLate.i. anoll
neatly furnish,' with amt. Aare.,
the .it, of pnpil4 , 33.1 when intemieil for
a gr Pled d eler ip t i ne
shook apply .nb;tantinlle to every room.
awl in thews .hottlel be a rising
for the l'rinripnl.
_ _
••Soitable arnitore. - 6 int...n.1,4 to
mean tle.k. an I 41 , 3 t. of %vine 2pprnvo.l
pattern. adapt.-1 to the tie.- of pork a
neat aryl chair f,ir the teseher.
few extra chair. for visitor, scat.. 5,1. tee
itatlODA. 2 elle for hookg anal *pp:irate*.
and other itpli.retisahle article.. .aph as
4toVell. nr heater.. bneket... hennas.. Atc.
-Injttrion. Vlrnitnre. - inteneird to
mean seit.4 or 40_4k. too 111 , :h ~r ton :ovr. r
whivh ronip..! pnr4ii
the I two o:
••Wei.l :.tpp!ie.l with .%ptriratii... • i 4 to
temleii to mean a 94),01 snppline with the
rollowing articles or their "lairslent
black hard. Alltrtels to permit every ors
ber of the lar.:,!,it elas+ to tvie it at the
.acne time. a set of .ettlise n63pl. 3
a eloek. 3 red 3 elms, reailienzsitsi
writinz (-harts. a 4:!t at wrtar., aelrl enbe
root Mocks. a nnaneral !ramie. e‘.l
- of objects 6.r object 1.".01.W.. air s
appropriatA: en..,:rxrin-4.4. a set aw.t.
toes. a I):etionary anal t;uytte..r
.Ipparatni worth Mention
ing is inten4ied m• -.3n .13 anoonnt of
apparatus not eiterolivez bepool 3 onrail
hlackboar,l ar tw, • or a sia T .e... :ulp or
chart
th it the 41:44r.• ankr444:44lpose
should be 344 3.4 tiny carried into elect by
nehrbol direett , r4 a. ponnibie. I here dries
1y applied them .a making la y relines to the
School Department.
In takinT a retrospective view , bir eh*
work of the pit school yews. it zratifv
init i, nie to be able to report priszri-si. it
is trite. in !10n1.7 department, little sir on
advancement ha, been smile. Punt in nihers
the results are quite satisfarrory. and on
the whisk the educational interests of the
comity have 3 4.ure•lty ailvirie- I thrive.: the
year.
Six new It eis., hare been Inse
in Ifuntingslan. two in Lincoln. one in
Porter. one in Shirley. and one is Tell
The house bniit in Illustinzdoe w a two
story brick huililinr, with two .eltoni rams
on each floor. It in pleasantly 60rme4.11,4
eonstructed. well ligate l aril Wrigley sell
heated and ventilated. but is ant isiesbly
supplied with fnrnitnre . k
farnisbed with hotter-tentle MI6 asd
seats, illy adapted to health sod esnernirt
The apporattri e7insists of a =mall portion
of black-board MIAMI Ogre' hiTh 23 to
be nit of reach of moot of the pupils and
consetinentiv or little practical use
The one hii t in Porter is
brick edifii.re supplied with Irma patent fur
niture, but not a welt-intinibed job.
The remainder art frawo beadier. web
er plorly eonAtruete.l. Tile owe in Atirley
+applied with potent rersitsre.
Our , iireetor. 'intake 3 militake in sot
ennameneinz the wiu-k of ..4rl;er
than they fin. Not one of the is lemie•
built &min; the year Ivo onplete.l is
Vast r.f thew were nernpied hy the pa
pa" bef,re the plwtterin was dry. elvveh
1 needle*. expreoire n( the itenleli 4 teach
el% and pupil* ie little Ism ammo crime.
W hen tiireetont ‘lMersine to belied they
ebonld put the work under enema 111114,
in the maeon and retrain, it to be esairay
complete I .it len-4 a mouth heave king
neenpied.
None of no: o" ate 'loftily im
proved. Wont.' that we creohl sonic', an
interest in the Woe& or beatifying wheel
grronntlA. If the yml. wmv. Welly fwnewill
we hive tint a doubt that many of (woo.
ergetie teacher" would. with the sp.imanan
of their pupil". plant sb-mile trees aw I mialle
the scrontide henna"l and attractive
Little has been done kinriteg As year to
wand.' seitabie oat baser.
In our list report wr tarzni
not to segleet this important Ally. amyl se
here repeat that diatriet. fairies Se 'me
uitahle lorries shonhi forfeit. their Stow
A propristies.
The County institute was held is die
Court Howe, at Ilawatintion. awing 111 n
second week in Deeember. it was Imply
attended and rail:wetly heswilleiai is kw vo
mits.
The (iireeton held a several* Dios
Thiersky which was wiliest iris tip
best smeetisw of the kind IPIR Imo easy as
tesded is the eranty. Loin Immipsy
prevail* awl asuserar wow isowsuisi
wllle'b 'if amnia is eedbet geIPIO • se.
jetsam to the amp sr siaseliss.
OwrirtiMMt krienakee was Pat ll_
N ispreillemilme 4 OMB.
AI Wrishir. iiirrriessmilirse 4
',esti_ .1 Irrie Whisr. T R.
f) raufweil. W R Rai.: awl wawa 4
mar 3ipt towels/ere.
Kresint !wearer IMO asimasii
N. I. Sam Wit", I
r 11.214. Prat. N. liamme
is H whae. TM 40, asesisesow
firmr. vow goll aneirepd by dr suplieg
Ilesstinesilee aai eisieity. awl s posed
e.hurstinsai isawast Sr b. IMAM
e 4 k war shrerior trettler i ii
pvereowese* ivy tie ecologies 4 do Halt
214 re .11.- toostimete. limy of am Mai
%fly rt. "vet. inner ehmee beim it
N.sereilliremisig tin sire ieuptatiblie
~q satiene 4 thus mob amine As slur.
I visited *Ark owl, oft" if sea
ripselowl al is the *WWI amp am
It ss 2 priming idee slut eels • 111,
per-alumina 4orntw is oPhoilo ifourfoldr•
num the scholia he sr eat agillolgale p ip
Atty. 11 ltairrvatine agoi
e-garU are dot Oho ustit ow it Awe
see Welvistikoilbed Atm Iy thatilah
Last raw I verfueapee One 411111ikat
;or-II !Mealier" ; a.i alma wary
titstirs:: the whn..l tem our 111 : 1 12
unfit These Emptimp
Irririsy tvri sionsiammill itt .stss
:Imetsin 31,4 otatior.
The nreeher. 4 tins go save adipiampl
;..:nets wevw dam immeglis Twist ad
the urettezo ripeareed igiguariai
?rattail, They any assibil •
peilay the ,e,ivierx owoomoo. Ilky iillottate
sad pat omes
1 sege seeisini ties' I neverialy 111111111111%.
piiwired we: no mos .1 limo hind IN A.
Was $lll4O I i Imo lap by rigida;
orbsne.
In arlilitin• i.• ebror had asWs. cri
wmiewn; mairvie mow had is sea 4
the Tostriet.. w the reiesty. rat .ids
was tr hiring ifirriromm red
r R. eyries ow interest is = ll rl
omina as i mime taipmeive is dle
proorment of the roinnla
' theveral Lyeeneve aid Liter" 111141.11.
11,T4 oincreiveli mai imaissal
vintratine de willow
Diaries loeriaserwore WI is tit Miste.
.hipe rwl trerher. zenstall dhr diedtdß Om
.pent. Tb. meltery 4 aingitria bib
4aith mot wavily Ow iwitistie
They Isere vilayeel tie yes 414•6•0111
rs, emote &Meg a mud me so s asevers,
prvrer.le 4 obi& sre owl Iv
awl perisilinfo
este 4 the telebraf prelhatile_
I as istorisrol diet tie livieni
hem my preinely iiervatimi op Om
iatlr
lbw t ai here imeiew erseite dhow&
ieniapretiag morpriar .-sally
airtime 4 tapeiwro everreinew-
Trirlartr isiwiro awe imettell it •
ember 4 ifiewartv—in r. dam swim
ierream 4 tee dam per MIN&
Tearker. sre serionsi iv GM die
if they roaliow Malian Wholordlior
ease wake prolamine Aar
her. army IWO 111111116/11/6 somillos
rwegiry Meal 4,301 Nome! lisivalo itta
"von , Won.
re eseeNernew dim mpg**. I ea. di
nit c 4• setreits.te 4 itrecters
ov- z r......ines• •
4 •Enarit huirr too grim «aka&
ft-lonvol Itmerre; overt
ism.: imprimis• the prim with mem lborm
.gied 'apply 'be Immo risk bow gionlbsit
*lra bmier bib is olio tqp Aisle
.it b. ampind Irish pine lirsieswit
Pates *who esel soweeeegg hoPipm.
Ar.- swum AlMibir. sw kV flab sir kr 4111 w
fared by peptic tine beempeeeitenr; si
al.rt• iterrtant thee .a ay swam
ge nor:A int% nyibreeest er der haft ma
fietriptt 4 the repeat Tit iipogisedit
they 31st tom on* it s RUM
fir Get this osystisioss boo poem Aim
to b. Avner ie Er and olio molt
=tee,.. Aimee the PIM& Most isearad
hew fwageor tit Amid erre f liefOMß
Asperietestiret. Aral sonsisity WNW
by tel whoei grtreetera The Ise
th.nat to .who.-rite for a envy fw41111106
brr the bowel and pry Ow dor tee! wi
.4 tbe petit smerry
I wow* ti* tit" ereveril hew* OWL
the right. Tbey mete, MO dim
Ignetrettearine for th.lv a* Aritimpieslllll
be better Silt iissearst Moir Aid
gentile by mohair the *hoe! itewiel.
Loa bet ma 4 Irma iiipmeessi ir•
matter that I Woe mpg fdi Atliiallb
-ppostemilippliame aviefissimeardilosliar
- .graissig Teinimpme
At goer Ir.. liersisor dim 4brase• prow
est Art •liimmar
ties. eneeiveneoty Vamped Or
raminsim.
11~1..4 rest ueorilegrgt * eitior sit
boosillor be zrahri SIM014•111E SP
rifitmer. awe abe with mopes te *eV lOW
am s to onset
I sineereiy bow it die mivolisim
iv. ~riot lie AIM is am, saga
flirt is the segrairy. I ate millida
.fir..-Npre Pm. 114 awe s samorillid
I, dip .elhanie 4 Abe earearllllll,
!L.,9 t 4. saw prepowai dirolll4llllll6
I .T 1,04 111 P, Ibis& 6r si eir
isretsy hoer world Am is die
elasiror 4 spi adrimeimi intim sail
..fn per "••••.Jerstia• is dr diusse
R+ fry. bey" tit we impart,
is dm rsersiail trims:
lisselbov is fir awry
ti
%mew 4 firms—
Isoihrr 4 kw* to
Sembrir ip.z .....
Neusier 4 Lay
Nosiow b
Nenhpf fricelime
% imam , 4 gr'ai'l apirmeit...._..
s !ip *bid, boas am mi.
form_
SS
Nimis , *bid/ or OM ill
Ihnobrir Alia esiglig
001
11.• imp ellirib emu" samir ire
Nime6- 4 pair fimaistkas. lIP
Norbry illempre. govana....
Naller vereivier
sese4rAver
Yhmelor 4 spprominis IS
bellow sral• 4 Asemillhoist—lLlMl
Nalusbirr 4 trim 4= 6:: .- Mf
mospiev imam, _
%Tyne. ago 4
Nnualovr mi. Iwo biliapospit.
'oboe alma
iusit 40
%mist slop hoixtt asmilli •
Soo* Ilisemi Arilma._—_— ir
Nomlow iris beim mei blab 410
trasibieg —......... 11111
Amber :by WS polimilmil _
Soolow who boil paIIINNINIS
ameillowss------- 2
NINII.III/ vi it Or alimb by
nasty aspolailia.-- 211!
Avow der war desll-.... lAD
Sumisr _obi ea AWL« S
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