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Viiil Real Rotate A(reat, Clearfield, Pa.
OB.a oa Third .tr.at, bat. Cherry A Walnot.
-Rapalfolly ofori bla aorrieos la aolllnf
and buying Ian da In CloarOold and adjoining
oouatlos and with an osporieneo of oror twootr
ysara aa a larroyor, lattora hlmaalf that ho oaa
r.naar satlafaatloa. Fob. 18:.1af,
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LUTIIERSBURO, PA.
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OBoo on Market Street, Claartald, Pa.
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OBoa la reaidraea oa Fit at at.
; April 14, 1071. CleerOeld, Po.
i JR. D. B. VAN VALZAII,
CLEARKIELD, PENN'A.
OFFICE IN MASONIC BUILDING.
p- OBoo boon From 11 to 1 P. M.
May II, 1171.
D
R, J. P. BURCH FIELD,
Late Sargeoa of thoSSd Raglnont,PannaylranlA
Volaatooio. haolog rotaraod froa the Army,
oflera hie afofeeaiona! eerrleea to Ikeeltlaoae
of CloarOold eooBty.
afZ-ProfoaaioBal ealla proaaptly attended to.
unoe ea Boeoae etreei, loraaorlyeeoaplo ay
t Dr.Weode. apra,'00-U
, A17ILLIAM H. HENRY, Juhtioi
it er raa raAca i Hc.irixa, LUHHBK
' CITY. Oolleetiona aaado and aaoaoy promptly
paid eror. Artiolea of egroaeaeal end doada el
ooavoyaaee aaatly eaooBtod aae warranted oor
; raol or ae eherge. lAJyTS
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; li BARBER AND BAIRDRE88ER.
! Shop oa Market St., eppoelte Ooarl lloan.
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f Alae naaaafaetarer ef
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; . Vlearlold, Pa. Bay 10, 'It.
JOHN A. BTADLER,
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:, Freeh Brood, R.ak, Rolla, Piea and Cakes
oa hand er aaado to order. A general eeeortneeat
of CeefesUeaerroa, Fraiu aad VaU la steaks
lee ITeesa aad Oyatora ia seaaoe. nalooa nearly
, oppoetto the PoetoaVee. Prieae Baederate.
t Marah 10-71.
j Clearfield Nursery.
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tl tion anally executed at thle offloa.
HENRY BRF.TH,
(ortriiii r. o.)
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
roa BOLL foWRiuir.
May I, 1878 ly.
JOHN D. THOMPSON,
Juitloe of the Peaoa and Berireaer,
CurweniTllle. P.
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JUATICB OF TUB PEACE
row
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allad. rjjl67i
WARREN THORN,
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER,
Market t., Clearfield, Pa.
In the abop lately eeooplad by Fronk Short,
one door weat oi Alleghany House.
REUBEN HACKMAN,
House and Sign Painter and Paper
Hanger,
Clearfield, Penn'a.
teojuWill axoeutojobs la his Una promptly aad
in a workmanlike manner. BFro.oi
G. H. HALL,
PRACTICAL PUMP MAKER,
NEAR CLBARFIKLD, PENN'A.
Pnn.pl aaJwayi on hand and niade to order
n inort notico. fipM bored on reasunauio trma.
AH Work warranted to randar tatlifaetlon, and
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Seal Estate, Square Timber, Boards,
6IIINQLES, LATH, A PICKETS,
il07l Clearfield, Pa,
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Hav IaOh and lenmbor,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
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I. SNYDER.
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ABO BSALBB IB
Wstcbea, Clock) and Jewelry,
01-eaWe Rom, Mark 8trt,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
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aded to. April 11, 1074.
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The ooderaigood would Inform the publto that
ho bee opeoed a new Majble Yard on Third etroet,
oppoaite Ibe Lutheran Church, where he will keep
oon.lantly on hand a atook of rarieua kioda of
matblo. All kinda of
TOMBSTONES, MONUMENTS,
Poata for Vemtlery Mota,
and all other work In hta line will b proeaptlj
exeonied in a neat and workmanlike Manner! at
reavooablo ratei.
lleguarentMaiatiifertorr work and low prloti.
Qire bim a call. J. VLAHARTV.
Cleartield, Pa., Mirth 17, 1HT8-1.
ANDREW HARWICK,
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Con hi, Blanked, Rubee, ele alwaji on hand
and for aale at the loweit oaih prloai. All kind
of repairing prompt I j attended to.
All kicdi "f bldei taken In eiehanjra for har
ueil and rrpalrlnff. All kindl of barnaxa leather
kept on band, and for eale at a mall profit.
Clearfield, Jan. IV, 170,
E. WARING'S
LAW BLANKS
Per aale at the Clearfield Rart aticAB offiee.
Tht mom Complete HrrUt of iAtw
Btanka pmblUhtd.
Tbeae Blanki are gotten op In superior ttrla,
are ef anifona ilie, and fnrnlehed at ver low
Afmee for eafh.
Call at tbe Rbh'licab ofloe aid e tan la
then. Orderi by m promptly filled.
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Jaly Sfi, IMT M. Clearteld Pa.
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PENTZ A BROCKBANK, Agenla.
(RBeeeasors to Murray A Qordoa.)
Tbo following flrat elaaa eompanlea ropreeeatodi
North Brltlah A Mereeetile Fire lea.
Co., of England fl,0l,OM
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Kagleod. ...$I0,000,000
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Walortowa Fire, Now York. la.irM
farm ninperty oaly H 700,000
Mobile Fire Dopanmanl In.. Oe 170,000
Pereoa. la the eeaatry waatieg laaaraaee, oaa
have It promptly atteoilod to by addree.iug aa IB
aereoo or by letter. Loweet possible rates in tlrat-
elaae eomnaaiee. Nm .....aeieiila. Office in Pie'a
Opera House. ANUHHW PRNTH, Jr.,
8. T. BROCKBANK,
Cleerleld, May 1, 1110-ly. Ageota.
JOHN TROUTMAN,
DEALER IH
FURNITURE,
ITfATTIlKHHES,
AND
Improved Spring Beds,
MARKET STREET, REAR P.O.
The aaderslgaed begs leave to Id form the vAtl.
Boaa of CloarOold, aad tbo pBblle ganeraJly, thai
he ha. ea head a 0a. assortment of Ferail.re.
eaob ae W.laet, Oheelaet aad Palatsd Ohamber
Bullae, Parlor Baitea, Reslint.g aad Ritonsioa
Chairs, LaoW aad 0 sals' Baay Oh airs, tbe Per
foratod Hiatal aad Parlor Chairs, Oaae BoeU aad
Windsor Chelre, Clothe. Ban, Htew aad Kite.
tloa Laddere, Hat R.oha, lerabblng BraBkw,A.
- Motannto ab picture frames,
eeklog SlaMee, Ckreeaee, Ae, wklek weald
ealubl. for Holiday areaeate.
dMlO'70 JOHN TROUTMAN.
s.
TBE DUTIES OF TOD A Y.
ADDRESS DELIVERED BY COLONEL A. K
M CLURt BEFURE TUB LITERARY SOCIE
TIES OF PENNSYLVANIA OOLLEOE, GET
TYSUIIRO, PA., WEDNEHDAY EVENINO,
JUNE 213, 1878.
Genth-men of the Literary Societies :
This is one of the occasions wbon
tbe truth, fur tho truth's eako, can be
most fitly presented. Rhetoric here
plays its part, aod it is one of no mean
importance. Tho honor of which the
student dreams, and for which be so
(urvently struggles before unemotional
judges and sympathising frionds, aro
battled for, aud won or lost ; but I am
called to maintain tbo time-honored
custom of living counsel to the teach-
era ot the future, who are soon, at the
latest, to fill tbe places of those who
aro the leaders ol to-uuy. With all tbe
wide diffusion of general intelligence
among tbe people of our land from
our multiplied schools and colleges
and popular publications, the duties
and responsibilities ol the educated
men, the scholars of tho country, are
greater now than ever before in the
bwtory of tbe republic. And you,
whom I now addross; you, who look
to fur distant days of sober manhood
and its grave exactions, will soon
pause in the fitful, fleeting visions of
youth, to wonder how they have mock
ed and tied, and lett you chief actors
in society and government.
And to what duties are yon to be
called r JNot merely to those to which
tbe present has boen schoolod ; for
every new generation brings new oc
casions, and nw occasions bring new
necessities. The generation that has
preceded you on the theatro of human
action has mado tbo history ot man
illustrious in heroism and in tho
achievements of science and statesman
ship. In our own green land, patriot
ism has written its brightest and most
imperishable annuls, and freo govern
ment has taught civilization its price
less value by the onsparing sacrifice of
the noblest people ot the earth for its
preservation. Those who have seen
and felt the passion and the sorrows
of fraternal war ; who have cherished
the long lingering memorios of be
reavement, and noted tho fadeloss scars
upon tho very altar of authority, may
tell you that your lots have been cast
in pleasant seasons, and that no great
struggles are to confront you. It is a
delusion, a grievous error; and to im
press this truth linon vou. with sll the
earnestness of heartfelt sincerity, is
me ouice l nave accepted.
l-iot me go directly to tbo lesson 1
would teach. Those who bave eono
before you have rescued free govern
ment from armed rebellion, and we
are remiirtind that free institutions are
the "ecu red patrimony for our childi en
and our children's children. We are
pointed to our battle-fields of world
wide fume for skill and gallantry; to
tbe wisdom and patriotism which ruled
io civil authority through tbe distrao
tion of bloody sectional conflict; to
the supremacy ol tho laws of the union
in every clime; and we are told that
tbe rcpullio has triumphed over all
its foes, and that its peace, progress
and perpetuity are no longer problems
to vox our people or employ our states
manship, It ia not ao. The danger
to free government, and to the benefi
cent civilization that alone oould bave
created it, was never so great and
never so immediate as now. I do not
except even tbe dark day when the
flag of rebellion first flaunted its threat
ened desolation from Seminary bill,
and tbe sullen retreat of the Federal
armies through tbe streets of Gettys
burg, ana tbe shouts or insurgent vic
tors, told that a Reynolds bad fallen
and that the first struggle of the de
cisive battle of the war had been lost.
There were brave and skillful captains
and corps or veteran soldiers hasten
ing to the conflict to retrieve the dis
aster, and behind them were twenty
millions of unfaltering and unconquer
able pooplo and a country teeming
ith wealth and plenty. It was but
tbe darkness that precedes the light.
and there was abiding faith not only
atom? tho rude battlements of Ceme
tery bill, and throughout tho ranks of
the hurriedly marching oolumns, but
in the homes and in tho hearts of the
people as well, that no defeat, even to
tbo annihilation of an army, could,
compass tbe dismemherinont of this
union. Do you ask wbat poril can be
greater T what can bo gravely threaten
the liberties ol a nation that is at peace
with all the world and its authority
confessed by all at homo? Whnt can
have entored the tomple of free gov
ernment but fifteen yours oltor its ro
dedication It its holiest purposes on
tbe memorable field of Gettysburg, and
dimmed the lustre of its palirotism,
and palsied tbo grandeur of its achieve
ment? It is no longer the flame of
battle, that gatbored its tearful har
vest of death hard by us, that calls us
to guard our homes and our govern
ment, it is not the tempest that pro
claims its coming by tho distant thun
ders, and warns all to be io readiness
fur its shock ; but it is the subtlo moral
miasma that courses unnoticed thro
tbe political system and that withers
patriotism and blunts public sensibili
ty, until demoralization reigns In
church and state. Tbe generation
with which you whom I specially ad
dress will act, and for which the men
of your class, in a greater or less de
gree, must act, will, I verily believe,
be culled upon to solve tbe problem of
tbe perpetuity of this ropublio and tbe
supremacy of tbe Christian civilization
that gave freedom its birth in the New
World a Century ago. Tbe arcb eno
my is before you, behind you, on every
side of yon ; it crowds about the sano
tuary, deforms tbe cabinet, poisons
the bom and makes tbe very atmos
phere we breathe sickening with its
pollution. Let me strip it of its mask
and Introduce It to you by the name
that all must rocognixo. Gentlemen,
scholars, statesman, leaders of the fu
ture, 1 present to you The qrowinq
contempt for Public Morality, for Law ,
and for Ktligion I
These are the fool with which yon
mnht aeeept battle, and ere your gen
eration shall bave wrlttou Its brief
records, thore will be no Christian
civilization, and no ropublio on tbis
conlinont, which are not living lies, or
there will be s return to tbe sanctity
of public and private morality that must
shams tbs mousing placeman from
official trust, and recall society, its
homes, its altars, and all It obaoDels
of effort, from tbe liberty of Ikxhibs to
the liberty of law. Do yon ask whore
this terrible toe is to be found f where
its Intrenchmenta, where its lines ol
battle f I answer wbore are thor
not? Look sut over tbe broad land,
enter the highest temples of authority,
mingle with the most Conspicuous
statesmen, drink of the fountains from
which com oar laws, aad tbsncs Urn
to the social strnstors that is tbs first
author of all that is good or evil in any
people and the rrmet amnv will arm.
front yon wheresoever yon wander. It
is not wholly illogical that it should
bo so. There are seasons of greatness
and seasons of deoline in tbe history
of every nation, and in none can tbe
transition bo so swill and so sharply
contrasted as in a govorninont like
ours. It bus no example in all the
achievements of men. It is the only
great ropublio that the world has ever
known. There have boon free Democ
racies where the ebbs and flows of
popular passions rulod, until anarchy
was overthrown by despotism, and
thore bave been republics in name
without any of tho essontiul attributes
ot the individual sovereignty of tbe
people ; but here, for tbe nrst time in
tbe varied experiments oi civil gov.
ornmont. has s nation peopled a conti
nent extended over distant sections
with diversified interests, maintained
the absolute soTereignty of tbe private
citizen, and made liberty and law the
foundation of social order and national
safety. The generation that is rapid
ly passing away from you witnessed
the noblest efforts ever made by man
for man. Free government tunght
the world tbat all the accepted possi
bilities of human achievement in tbe
past, had to pale before the devotion,
the heroism, the sacrifice of a thor
oughly independent people, tbe direct
authors of their own rulers laws. But
in peoples, oh in all the domain of na
ture, perfection is but the date of de
cay, and the vory inspirations which
mado ours tbe grandest people to
whom the world bud ever given bom-
age, loft behind them tbo seeds of de
moralisation and death.
"War ia savagory," wisely said one
of the greatest of our yot living war-
sitied. It calls into exhaustive play
the noblest and basest passions of man
kind, and the worso survives long af
ter tho best has performed its offices.
When rebellion bad boon overthrown,
and the unity of tbe ropublio was de
clared by the docroo of the sword, the
fierco passions of the conflict remained,
and tbey have been the potent weopon
of tbe demagogue and the pretender
with which to smilo opposition and
enable them to usurp the honors of the
country. Reconstruction came in tbe
howl of the tempest, and the most mo
mentous acts oi a mighty nation, do
fining tho policy of free government
in the restoration of dismantled com
monwealths and of oight millions of
solf-alicnated peoplo, were moulded
through tho iuteuneot antagonisms of
the legislative, executive, and judicial
departments of authority. Who were
in error and who blameless, it does not
become me now to inquire. It is
enough to know that passion reigned
wbore sober statosmanshiD and patri
otism should have been enthronod, and
tbat tho corruptionist profited and
mcun ambition won its stained and
speedily-withering chaplets, as hatred
and cowardice fought the battlos of
the war over and over again, lost
pcaco and justice should come to com
mand storn accountability from all
who had climbed into public trust.
Thus did demoralisation creep into
every highway that led to honor and
power, and impassioned fidelity to
country scaled the lips and paralyzed
the efforts ot the best oitizons, until
enforced toleranco of wrong bred in
difference, and indifference ended in
tbe active or passive ascot to degen
eracy. Could tbe better men of tbo
country bavs drawn aside the curtain
tbat separated them from the future a
decade ago, and gazed upon tbe wide
spread and growing contempt for pub
lic morality that is presented to-day,
they would bave recoiled from it with
horror, and passion, party, friendship,
everything, would have boen disre
garded to arrest tbe demoralization
tbat was then insensibly winning the
mastery. When the hero of the blud
goon struck Charles Sumner down in
tbe Senate, tbe boasted chivalry ot tho
South was true to itself doapite its sym
pathy with the cause of the brutal of
fender, and united its denunciations of
tbe act with the justly inflamed repro
bation of the North. A low years ago
a graver crime was committed is tbo
American Senate, wlion Charles Sum
ner was smitten by partisan hatred for
daring to be just, and dograded in bis
groat office because be was one of the
low who illustrated tho ablest states
manship by tbe purest publio and pri
vate morality. Ten years oarlier none
would bave dared to attempt bis deg
radation; but demoralization was
schooling its mediocrities to bring all
places, however high or sacred, within
the scope ol their ambition, and Sum
ner fell with scarcely a ripple of pro
tost from a sullenly submissive nation.
Had the bully como again in 1H70 as
ho did in 18&C, and felled tbo honored
Massachusetts Senator, thore would
have boen tbe sudden outburst of pub
lio condemnation and swift retribu
tion ; but when the stealthy growth
of contempt for publio morality hod
unmailed the spotless statesman and
loll him in almost dcfensoloss solitude
in his own political household, bis hu
miliation was an easy task, and the
nation apparently assented to its own
shame, i have no criticism for bim
who happened, by senatorial rank, to
suoceod to the mantleof Sumner. Itwas
not Cameron's battle to promote Cam
eron, and it would have been made all
the same if any other had been the
heir apparent to Sumner's unsullied
honors which blistered moaner mon.
It was the battle of a domoralizod au
thority to degrade one who, groalor
and nobler tban those about him, was
a standing menace to the degonerate
leadors of the day. It was but histo
ry repeating itself, save that at no pre
vious period had there boon the de
moralization of war to mako tbe pop
ular approval or toleranoe of political
debauchery possible. It was the samo
contempt lor fidolity In publio trust in
the opposing political organization a
score ot years ago that made Douglas
a faction lot, made Trumbull and hun
dreds of others of national fame the
rebellious founders of a new party, and
norved the murderous arm tbat sent
Broderick to an nntimoly grave.
Wbo can turn to our National Capi
tal to-day without feeling the blush of
shams upon bis cboeka 7 1 bero Is vun
blo the terrible harvest of the sowing
of the people in their contempt for pub-
iru morality, isiiu tea reapers uuuiw
from every political faith to gather in
fullness as tbey have strewn in boun
ty. Two great parties sonfront each
other, and for wbat do they strug
gle in ceaseless effort t We know
tbat lbs Republicans havo a party,
and tbat lbs Democrats bavs s party.
but where is the party of the republic f
Wbo is thore great enough ana bold
enough of either side to declare hit
party wrong, sves when party wrongs
are piled up mountain high about him,
and so plain to sll tbat ths wayfarer
can not Mistake them T W ho dares to
demand ths truth tor tbs truth's sake,
evon when ths most vital principles ol
govern aoxint are assailed f Whodarssto
maintain ths right, because it is the
right, it, it shall reproach ths record
or his own political associates f Ons
school of statesmen will demand the
exposure and punishmeat of the pat
ent lrauds ot tneir opponents in ure
gon, and the other school will plead
that nobodv was actually defrauded,
and that there must be immunity to
men in biirb political and social post
tion because they only attempted a
public orime und were defeated in the
effort let there stands tbe record ot
a consuming fraud, deliberately plan
ned and forced thiough various stages
of execution, almost to to the light of
noonday, nntil its consummation be
came utterly hopeless; and yet who
of the loaders of tbe party in whose
interost tbis wrong was conceived, has
vonturod to speak of it as a Benton, a
Calhoun or a Wright would bave spok
en a generation ago? And those who
should shield tbe Oregon orime, are
lorcmoet in demanding the pitiless ex
posure and punishment of the Lou
isiana frauds; while those wbo de
claim against the political turpitude
ot the fur .Northwest, with ono accord
furnish excuses for the ineffaceable
stain flung upon the nation by the rul
ing criminals of tbe South. There is
the record of Louisiana, s solomn re
turn of the vote of a sovereign com
monwealtb, and there is scarcely a
line, or a figure, or a certificate, or a
signature, that has escaped the finger
of crime. And who of those whose
party has profited, or apparently prof
ited, by this unblushing fraud, has dar
ed to speak of it iu the councils of the
nation, as Abraham Lincoln, or Charles
Sumner, or Honry Wilson, or Horace
Ureeloy, would bave spoken, in the
name of bis political faith, down to the
last moment ol tbeir lives r
And do you realize what those
crimes contemplated, and wbat they
possibly accomplished? It was not a
mere eruption of debauchery in some
district or State, whore fretted ambi
tion summoned venality to win doubt
ful honors. It was no mere barter for
a sonatorial commission or for a gu
bernatorial chair. For such offenses,
which, in tho bolter days of tho re
public, would havo hurled the criminal
usurper from bis place into lasting in
famy, we bave learned to be tolerant ;
but the contempt for publio morality
that baa assented or submitted to
frau3 in appropriating lessor places
bos finally reached its full fruition in
a desperato contest betweon opposing
criminals for the titlo to the bighost
civil trust of ths world. It was the
title to tbo presidency ol the United
States that has been tbe stake, for tbe
possession of which multiplied and in
terwoven crimes of bewildered versa
tility and desperation have been per
petrated, nndor tbe direct sanction of
national leaders of both parties, and
without one brave voice rising from
either household to declare tho whole
truth to tho nation. The grave Son
ate, whore honor and p-triotism should
yet have rcfugo, passed npon those
crimes; the House, tbe organ of the
people whooo highest and holiost gift
was cast in the soothing cauldron of
debauchery, passed npon them, and
the judges of the court of last resort,
tbe tribunal to which the people should
be able to cling as the one rock of
safoty against every form of wrong,
passod upon them; and, save two in
effectual exceptions in the House, each
party protected its own crime and
rejected the crime of its adversary.
Judge tbis strange record by the pre
cedents given os by our loroluthors,
and ths contrast must fill every patri
otic heart with sorrow.
In 1800 the little nation of but a low
millions was first startled by tbe at
tempt of ambition to grasp tho crown.
An able and unscrupulous man saw tho
glittering prize almost within his roach,
and bo employed tbe technical forms
of authority to aid bim in his effort
to pervert tbe verdict ot tbe country,
lie did not summon fraud, for that
would thon have doomed bun to im
mediate and irretrievable inftmy ; but
be saw tbat the law was lame, and be
demanded his own elevation to anoth
er's place through tho law's infirmities.
It you would learn how tbe popular
regard for common morality asserted
itself in that day, road tbo history of
the wanderings of a stranger to the
peoplo who bad once loved bim, as bo
waded through tbe hissing scorn of
civilization from tbe Vice i residency
to.tho long unmarked and ever un la
mented grave where moulders tho dust
ol Aaron Burr. A quarter of a centu
ry later, tho brilliant and boroio Clay
poured bitterness into the cup of Jack
son, and tbe poisoned chalice was press
ed to bis own lips, until defeat after
defeat sent a weary, hopeless heart to
its final rest. Tbore was no violence
to law in the preference for Adams
over Jackson ; all was done within the
strictest letter of tho constitution ; but
the spirit of freo covornment was as
sailed in tho lawful choice of a chief
magistrate airniiist the popular will.
and the sound morality tbat ruled in
tho public sentiment ol that ago made
the slogan of "bargain and sale" the
sure precursor of rcpoatod retributive
condemnation. Recall to-day the rev
erence for publio morality that aveng
ed the inordinato ambition of 1800 and
1824, and what would be tbe measure
of retribution for tbe crimoa in high
places which now reproach freo gov
ernment? Of all our great political
leaders, wbo could stand the ordeal un
scathed ? Of those who were cbojen
from the many to contest ths chief
honor ot Ibe republic, would oitbcr os-
capo the seal of publio vengeance?
And it sucn retribution snail not come,
with all Its desolation, in the higbost
councils of the great political organiza
tions, then bave wo entered the star
less midnight of gloom, and tbe histo
ry of our free institutions and of our
boaalod Christian civilization is a com
pleted rooord, save the painful pictnre
of tho oonvulsivs throes in which they
must be effaced from the land and peo
ple which bavs made them aliona.
Tbe growing contempt for publio
morality is prolific in its legitimate and
terrible curses upon mankind, and Its
most pestilent offspring is tho wide
spread contempt for law. Do not as
sume that 1 shall turn to tbe riotous
ornptions which unsettled social order
and dostroyed millions of property in
various localities during last year, as
ths chief illustration of the Arrowing
disregard of law. They wore but tbe
inevitable floods which were born of
countless streams of lawlessness, pour
ing out from almost etrery class and
condition ol society. They came as
tbe thundorbolt from lira black cloud
tbat bad boon formed by the gathered
poisons ot ths atmosphere. Tbey bad
their erestloo In the subtile currents oi
moral miasma which cams from tbs
law makers, from ths law administra
tors, from tbs marts of the trade and
from tbs social circles ; and they bavs
been fostered and strengthened by ths
passive submission of Christian people
and by tbs ailonce ot unnsuan teaabers.
Il is easy to declaim against the vio
lence of the starveling and tho fury of
ths hapless man wno is overtaken By
dispair In so forced idleness ; bat let as
not throw npon mm mors thsn his
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just share of responsibility for the on
rest tbat now afllicts us. The insecu
rity of to-day has a vastly broader and
deeper source, and nntil sanctity for
law shall be taught, alike by precept
and example, in tbe high and in the
sacred places, violence will be the grow
ing remedy lor roal or imaginary
wrongs, it contempt lor law were coo
fined to mere breaches of the peace,
and tbe occasional destruction ol prop
erty, it would be no cause for serious
concern. A tew more policemcD, with
periodical military parades and the
conviction of some of the lawless lead
ers in the courts, would remove the
veil, and restore the country to order
and safety. But when tbe violence ol
tho victims of want is but the illustra
tion of s contempt for law that has all
places for its temples and all seasons
lor its own, it is idle to dream of well
ordered society, or publio and private
security, or faithful government In
doed, it is but the beginning of tbe end
oi public order, and ot tbe supremacy
ol any form of wise authority. If you
will dispassionately analyze the breadth
and depth of tbis appalling enemy of
every bcnenceol attribute ot our civili
zation, you cannot be blind to its
threatened omnipotence or indifferent
to its unspeakable disasters, if it was
but exceptional in its sores on our po
litical and social systems, the vigor of
a healthy publio sentiment, quickened
visible dangers, voiced in our legisla
tive halts, and enforced by administra
tive power, could be trusted to correct
it; but when the fountains and streams
are polluted, only the angry hurricane
and flood which tear up sources and
courses, can grapple witb it, and tben
the issue may be only destruction and
not restored purity and tranquility.
Turn to the fountain of national au
thority at Washington, and note tbe
contempt for law that pervades legis
lative and administrative circles. I he
terrible crucible in which the vitality
of free government was tested to ena
ble it to survive opposing frauds in tbo
choice of a ruler, seems to have effaced
almost the last semblance of sanctity
for law or justice, not only in present
partisan conflicts, but also in tbe ex
haustive strategy of what we must call
our statesmanship, in maneuvering for
future political battles. Wbon it. be
came apparent that nndcr our laws
sovereign states could bo made tho
playthings ot tricksters, and the solemn
verdicts of their people tossed from
post to pillar between contending par
ties, by perjury, forgery, and violence,
who that revorencod law and govern
ment would have boen content until
tbe integrity of a freo peoplo bad boon
emphasized by tbe most complete stat
utory safeguards against the possible
villainy of succeeding contests ? And
yet a year and a half of lawless parti
san ctlorts, ever multiplying in partisan
devices to serve only partisan ends,
bave boon tbe offering to a humiliated
and distracted people from their ono
sanctuary where the majesty of justico
and the majesty of law should be un
challenged. A foeble voice bos occa
sionally bejn beard proposing a reme
dy for the wrongs which all confess In
tbe abstract and wblcb all dispute in
application to their own political house
holds; but while unfaltering party
lines could be commanded to shield or
expose crime as party interests dicta
ted, there has been no party willing to
Jiruleol our tree institutions by making
uture electoral crimes impossible. And
if we could pause with the accusation
of mere neglect to perform tbis impe
rious duty, tbe cloud would not be en
tirely without its silver lining ; but
when tbo trutn commands me to warn
you that trusted leaders of the great
opposing political organizations are
struggling for advantage of position to
profit bv tbe lawless solution of tbe
Presidential contest of 1880, you must
appreciate bow contempt for law is
scouring even government itseu Horn
its own sanctuary, i bis is a grave, a
startling arraignmont of thoeo who are
charnged with tbe safoty ol our free in
stitutions ; but no intelligent and dis
passionate citizen can study the re
cords mado by the present Congress,
in both branches and by both parlies,
ithout fully and foarlully realizing
that it io just And is it not logical I
Can ths thistles which bave wnllod
tbeir seeds by every breeze and from
every olemont of society, bring back to
us a harvest of figs 'I The growing con
tempt for law that is running its course
throughout the land has welcomed its
countless tributaries as they formed its
rirors, its lakes, and, finally, its bois
terous ocean of lawlessness. They
have boen swollen to frequent angry
floods from social circles; they havo
bubbled in boastod Ullbinoss from the
endeavors of pothouse politicians; tboy
bavo wandered in sluggish murkincss
from faithless preachers and wayward
flocks ; they have roared as raging riv
ers from the publio tbelts, the private
defalcations, tho betrayed trusts, tbe
purchased offices, the business dishon
esty, which make up tho chequered
history ol each day, and tbey bave
whispered in the hidden courses which
creep among the rank weeds of demor
alization, the toleranoe, tho assent ef
the peoplo, the sovereigns ot the ropub
lio, to the pollution of the priceless In
heritance. These bave mot at ine
National Capital as tbe rivors meet tho
sea, and we can thore behold tho dif
fused and varied contempt for law re
flected back upon oursolves in tbe law
lessness that soizos ths vory jowols of
freedom. Tbe electoral crimes and tho
rallying of groat parties to their sup
port, which bavo made our freo gov
ernment a reproach throughout the
civilized world, wore the bold tost of
popslar submission to the deliberate
overthrow of liberty and law. Steadi
ly and stealthily the-contempt for law
baa spread through partisan madness
and Ins tolerance of our better citizen
ship, nntil it baa invaded tbe most sa
ored authority of ths ropublio. Tho
tost bos been made, the people nave
passively assented, and crime is now
the scoepted reserve iorce of the lead
ors of both parties for future struggles
over Presidential titles and publio
spoils. If sny party had declared such
a purpose it would to-day ds impotent
as the tempest tbat sweeps over your
eternal hills, bat tbe evil comes as Abe
voioeless trickling streams and the
silent dews and the Winter frosts and
ths Summer suns, which wear away
the seamless rocks ot your mountains.
It was not the corruption of rulers tbst
bereft imperial Koine ot her power and
left her widowed in the ruins of ber
grandeur. It was by ths vioes of ber
people tbst tbo last ol tbo Itomao trio
nnea loll : and It is bv ths popular con
tempt for law today in lbs most en
lightened government 01 lbs world,
tbat our ires institutions, tbo noblost
offering of Christian civilization to tho
galaxy ol nations is mors gravely Im
periled than when armed rebellion be
sieged the capital and summoned
million men to sacrifice.
Ours is not only a government of
law, out it is ins otisprwg oi lus enns
lian civilization that has inspired tbs
noblest efforts of mankind. There has
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novor, in any ago, boon religion with
out law, and thore has nover been a
law-loving pooplo without religion.
While ours bus been the most tolerant
of all nationalities in freedom of faith,
and has justly maintained tbe inviola
bility of conscience, it is none the loss
a Christian government ; and not only
civil liberty, but our revered Christian
civilization, bare boon on trial for a
oentury in tbe ropublio ot tbe .Now
world.
It was the profound moral convio
tion and tbe pervading sanctity ol
Christian precept and examplo among
the people, which have ever boen call
ed into action to retrieve politital de
moralization in tbo past ; and tbey
have come in terrible omnipotence
when degonoracy has mocked thoir
teachings and dared them to battle, It
was upon tbe brood foundation ot Chris
tian civilization that this great struc
ture of free government lias been rear
ed ; it was by its purity and devotion
to right that the Revolution was won ;
and it was by its stubborn faith in the
eternal years oi justice, tbat tho nation
was re-dedicated, by unmeasured be
reavement to regenerated treodom. It
is tbe one bulwark of safety for tbe re
public. It bos its altars in tbo homes
ot the land, and from thenco it can suc
cessfully grapple with every form of
demoralization. W itb its vitality main
tainod bv the people, thore can be no
social sores to blunt tho sensibilities ot.
virtue ; there can be no departure from
integrity in tho overy-day transactions
of lilo without storn reproof ; there can
be no venality in publio places without
speedy and relentless retribution; there
can be no contompt for public morality
or lor law in tbe leadors ol men, with
out tho avenging blow of public repro
bation, and the crimes which now
flaunt tbeir shocking deformities and
fostering scars boforo tbe nation, from
tbe bigb places solemnly dovoted to
honest authority, would bide Irom the
withering scorn of an honest and sov
ereign citizenship. ' Such has been its
mission tor two thousand years. It
has touched no land wilbout making
mon bettor than it found them. It bos
struggled through tho conflictoof count
less foes, and at times has soemed to be
effaced from the world ; but like the
pure mountain stream that is lost in
tbe sands of tho inhospitable plain, it
ro-appoared in renewed purity and
frosliuoss. It bos battled with igno
rance, with superstition, with intoler
ance, but the darkest ugcg through
which it has passed were never
ithout its golden lines of prom
ise or its hopelul disciples. From the
sunset side of tbe waters ol the Paciiio,
it has steadily coursed its way through
barbarism and cultured unbelief, reced
ing or advancing as tbo bnttle-axo of
the infidel or pagan was victor or van-
Suished, and as splendor ol tho scoffer
ourishod or decayed; and now itpointB
back from its graodost temple in the
new world, to every enlightened civili
zation as its'worshipero.
It has completed tbe circlo or tbe
globo its beneficient progress, liberal
izing and purifying as it escaped tbo
daar to wwiImI nrni iiH irwi. nf form n I n I tkA
darkness, until the seed of the May
flowers was strewn on the virgin sou
of our country, and nurtured by tho
blood of matchless heroism and donial,
to ripen the most perfect Christian
civilization ever reared by man or
blessed by heaven. It has tbist follow
ed the god of day from tbe eatem to
tbe western seas, dotting its paths
with churches and colleges and schools,
diffusing civil and religious liborly
broadcast as it hastened tbe star oi em
pire westward, until it bos borne buck
tothecradloot the human race, whence
it started, its richest chaplets proclaim
ing tho peace and good will it has
given to mankind, liore in this groat
ropublio was its holiest altar ; Here its
broadest liberality ; hero its noblest
freedom; here its sublimost achieve
ments in the elovation and advance
ment of citizenship ; and bore must be
its future roign of surpassing grandeur,
or its overthrow in the tempest of hor
rors. As well pluck tho sun Irom its
blue-arched dome above us and hope
for tbe light of day, as to efface our
Christian civilization and hope for the
perpetuity of free government Tboy
are twin-born rulers of our land ; they
havo ever been united in shaping tho
illustrous records we have written, and
if death shall lay its band upon cither,
they will not be divided.
Tbis is the field, this tbe battle, tho
future scholuis, statesmen, teachers
and loaders must accept, and upon you
to whom this painful picture and thiB
earnest appeal are prosentod, must
como tbo shock of the conflict I beg
that you will not misunderstand it ;
that you will not nnderrato the power
of the foo, nor hesitate to mail your
bieasts and brighten your spears for
tbo onset And I beg, also, that you
ill not skirmish with its outposts,
hile its main forces shall be unresis
ted in the work of destruction. From
the nation's capital and Irom other con
trcs of power, you will see its blotted
flag bung out to challongo attack upon
its loadeis ; but tboy aro onlv the bloom
of tbo thistle that has been planted and
watered and ripened by the degenera
cy ol a Christian people. Tbo enomy
is around and about you everywhere.
Il is in the homo, in tbo social circle,
in the political conclave, in Ibo sacred
desk, in ovory channel of human effort
The real authors of tho crimes whioh
have honeycombed our civilization with
pollution aro not those who shiver in
our criminal docks, or who are herald
ed from duy to day as defaulters or
forgors ol eloctorul returns, or who
crowd the pothouso to part the
raiment of tbo pooplo. They are your
neighbors ; those you meet In ths daily
walks of lifo ; who sit at your firesides,
kneel at your altars, and teach in your
sanctuaries; and these are tho sources
of tho publio opinion that makes or
mars the integrity ol a ireo people.
When Beechers can blaspheme in the
church with impunity, is it wondorful
that Ingorsolls can blasphemo against
tbe church, and command the attention
of the multitude? And when the
Christian attributes ot our civilization
can bo jeered as a weakness in stales
manslilp and as a quality oi unntnoss
for publio trust, is it strange that those
who would wear political honors bow
to lbs directing spirit ol tbs times ?
Tboy note tbe startling truth that the
church fails in vital offices of Its rcll-
f;!on; that society is indifferent to pub
ic and private virtue, and that purity
In enacting and administering our laws
is one of tho lost arts of oar Christian
civilization ; and they givs back to so
ciety and religion tbe cup of bitterness
that has been poisoned by the distem
pered morality or the age.
Do not assume that this black cloud
that bancs over our civilisation mast
galbar in darkness until ths bops of
regeneration is lost io despair. Jieiter,
far better, that the misguided heroism
that made Pickett's charge on yonder
narrow plain Immortal orjomu nave
rent ths patriot lines and made Uettys-
burg the tomb of ths ropublio, than
that, witb such a crimsoned baptism,
degeneracy should sap the vitals of
iroe government and make it lull in
self-inflicted dishonor. There is all the
virtue in the hearts and aspirations of
the people, and all tbo reverence for
religion in the church, that thore has
boen in tho bettor days of our history;
but tboy slumber while crimo sows
its tares and demoralization harvests
its abundance ; and tho dcBtiny of a
civilization and government which
have illustrated tbo noblest possibilities
of man in tho enjoy mcnt of enlightened
liberty trembles in tho balance. These
now perils impose now duties of tho
gravest character upon you who arc
soon to take tho places of tho actors ol
to-day in Church and State and tbo
duties must bo porformod witb a meas
ure of fidelity that has been obliterated
from the present, if those golden treas
ures are to be wrested from tho slimy
embrace, of the spoiler, Christianity
must bo recalled to the acliro guardi
anship of its civilization, ft must pro
gress as the world progresses in wisdom
and guido the car of advancement in
thewaysot purity and order. It must
forget intolerance ; it must loam that
bigotry is not piety ; that creeds and
dogmas aro not inspiration, and tbat
our civilization presents loo many
formidable toes of Christianity for
Christianity to war upon itself. With
tbe infidel invading tbe fountains of
learning and the honors ol authority
in evory Christian Nation, the church
is admonished to discard its relics of,
the barbarous ago that gave sapcrsti
tion and Boctarian hatred to deform
religion. Society must bo invoked to
its own preservation. The homes of
the republic must be the source of Na
tional regeneration, for they aro the
tuiviiun ui me sovereigns oi our iruc
institutions. Thenco let tho pure at
mosphere of devotion to public morali
ty, to law and to religion, go out to
the high places of tbe Stale, and tho
demagogue, the pi-etondor, and the in
ventor of cunning crimo undercolor
of authority will fleo from its stifling
reproacnos. jjOI tbe musters ol our
Christian civilization call, in their war
ranted imperious tonus, their servants
from the paths of crimo and shamo, to
account tor their stewardship, and all
win do won. i o this grand consumma
tion tho duties of to-day command vou
that "govornmont of tbo pooplo, by
the people, and lor tbo people, shall
not perish irom tbe oartu.
THE SORIIO SYS OF GEXWS.
WHAT IS IT THAT KILLS OFF THE W1T8
OF Till COUNTRY.
The night is waning and the bush ofi
inspiration makos the sanctum solomn.
Tbe now oditor bos just written him
solf a New York lcttor tolling all about
the sea serpent The political oditor
is just closing a crusher, full of blood
and thunder, and winding up with a
terrific exposure. The proof reader is
opening a new case of pencils for tbe
purpose of marking all Ibe errors in
six lines of proof. The funny man,
irom the tear mi expression ot bis sor
rowful cotintonancA. is known in h iw
tbe throes of a joke. The joke is born.
and this is its name:
"A man died in Atchison, Kansas,
last week from eating disoased buffalo
moat. A clear case ol suicido death
Irom cold bison."
Kntcr tho intelligent compositor
This Atchison item, what is tbis last
word ?
To him, the funny man Bison.
Intolligient compositor B i-s-o-n ?
Funny man Yes,
Tbe intelligent compositor domands
to be informed wbat it moans, and tbe
pains taking tunny man, with many
tears, explains the joke, and witb great
elaboration shows forth how it is a
play on "cold piscn."
"Ah, yes! says tho intelligent com
positor, and retires. Sets it up "cold
poison."
runny man groans, takes tho proof.
seeks tbo intelligent compositor and
explains that bo wishes not only to
mako a play on tbo word "pison," but
also on tho word !bison."
"And what is tbat?" asks the intel
ligent compositor.
ibo tunny man patiently explains
that it means "butfufo."
'Oh, yos!" shouts tho intelligent
compositor, "now I understand."
Mortillod funny man retires, and
goes homo in tranquil confidence and
growing fame.
Paper conies out in the morning
"cold buffalo."
Tableau Red fire and slow curtain.
THE ARMIES OF THE WORLD.
Three yours ago Major General
Kmory Upton, with credentiuls from
tho United States Govorninont, startod
on a tour to examine and report upon
the condition of tho armies of Japan,
China, Persia, Italy, Russia, Austria,
Gormany, Franco and England. Ho
was gono nearly two yoars, and tho
work embodying the result ol bis ob
servations has been issued. In view
of tbo Ivuropeun troubles and the pros
pect oi war, it has no little popular in
terest for every intelligent observer of
current events. Tho armies of (he
oountrics ho visited aro thus reported :
Peeoe War
footing, footine;.
si,.40 .n.o.io
son, ono 1,00(1.000
ivo.ooo fton.niio
00,000 120,000
11111,000 SUV, 9 10
tso.ono 1,oio,ono
...... Slid, U0 1,0.0,0110
421,000 1,.1.0,00
... 400.000 1,730,000
. :IS,034 641,024
Japan.
China.,
India..
Perala.
llaly...
Hueete
......
Auatria. ....
tiertnany
Fraoso
Englaad
Tola! 1,1181,004 l,8M,kl0
Excluding from consideration tho
first four countries, we find that tho
poaco footing of the Nations mora or
less interested in tho Eastern question
is an aggregate ot 2,09r!,fi0fl men, whilo
tbe war fooling is nearly 7,000,000 men.
Girls, Don't. Girls, don't court a
stranger, and novor answer an adver
tisement with a stranger who tries to
open correspondence through tho
papers. Hero's a warning: "A (armor's
daughter, living near Cleveland, an
swored a personal in a newspaper,
entered into a correspondence with the
'unknown, finally met bim, was mar
ried, wont to tho city to live, and re
turned to hor father's houso in two
months, dressed liko a beggar, and
looking twenty years older than when
sbe went Her husband was a gambler
and a losler. I bis is a 'personal ro
mance in a nul shell."
A Venerable Chestnut Tree. Tho
largest chestnut trao probaly in tho
Stateof Now Jersey was felled recently
in Cumdon. On account of its giant
size it was left standing when the land
on which it grew was cleared by Jobn
Sicklor in 1774. For many years Ibis
monarch of ths ancient forests has
been a landmark fn Camden county
Under Its sbado Indian children have
doubtless sportod, probably in tbe time
ot Columbus. It was tl lest 0 Inches
round ths hull.
EDUCATIONAL.
BY U. L. McQVOWM.
FROM Ut'STON TOWNSHIP.
The D'lirwt Inetiluto held its rogu-
TSi M--!r.,-.y-
June20tb. The teachers of tbe town
ship wore all present, and tho meeting
ono of spociul interest. Ex-8iipcrin-tendent
(. W. Snvd ev. who ia now
teaching hi this township, was elected
President Wo doom it but justico to
stato that tbis association bos boon
kept up for the poet flvo years, and ia
ovory year gaining strength and grow
ing more and more cfllcient Wo have
a live corps of teachers in this town
ship, which fact is proven io theabovo.
At our last meeting a largo number of
visitors wore present , Mr. l'ostlo
thwait was elected an honorary mem
ber of tho Institute Tho School
Directors wore in council during the
samo afternoon ; tho object of their
mooting was to appoint teachers for
tho sovoral schools for tbo coming
"winter term. There were many
anxious and care-worn faces around
tho doors ol tho council chamber
awaiting tbo decision of the Bourd.
Atlor some deliberations the appoint
ments wore announced for all except
the Ponliold high school, which was
held over for another week. Tbe fol
lowing are tho official appointments :
Primary school, Ponfiold, A. U. Rosen
krans ; Pine Grove school, Mr. McCul
lough ; Tunnel school. Thomas Kugan ;
Mill Run school, W. J. King ; Wintor
burn, Mrs. Maggio Ammerman. Mr.
King has taught the Mill Run school
for six terms in succession. It any
thing worthy of mention occurs in our
township in matters pertaining to our
educational Interests, you may hear
from mo again.
You in,
lUx.
State Teachers' Association. Tho
twenty-filth annual session of tbe ntitta
Touchers' Association will bo bold at
Reading, Berks county, July 23d, 24tb
and 2,lh. The programme is an ex
cellent ono, boing made up of livo sub
jects, and these assigned to persons of
unquestioned skill for discussion. Dur
ing tho afternoon of the last day's ses
sion, a platform mooting on behalf ot
education, will be addressed by Gov.
Ilartrunll. Judge Woodward, Hon.
Uoistcr Clymer, and others ot equal
prominence. Persons wishing to at
tend can secure excursion rates bar
addressing Hon. Honry Uouck, Harris
burg. Boarding cun bo bad from 11.25
to (2 50.
Gone to Europe. Hon. Jamos P.
Wickershsm, Stato Superintendent,
sailed from Now York on the Btoamor
Circassia, Juno 22d, on a short trip to
Europe. Ho will be abscntduringfho
months of July and August, during
which time ho will visit Ireland, Scot
land, England, Belgium, Holland, Gor
many, Italy and France. Dr. Wicker
sham has served the pooplo of this
State fuithlully and well during tho
past twelvo years, hardly a day bus ho
boen absent from bis post of duty. Ho
takes tho present trip for rest and
recreation, and wo think bo owes tho
peoplo no apology for so doing. Tho
dopurtmont, in his absence, will bo
managed by Deputies Houck and
Lindsey, and all business Directors
und teachers may bave with tho sumo
will recoivo tho samo attonlion as
horotoforo.
Prof. Georgo Marsden, for tho past
six years Principal ot the high school
at Ponfiold, this county, was chosen
Principal of tho schools at Johnstown,
Cambria county, last week.
The School Directors of Lawrence
township aro building a now school
bouse at Paradiso, and the Directors
of Huston are building one at Putnam's
iw, i. -i-ir f , Mjrectors
of Goshen township bave added an
other month to the term, and will hare
six months school taught in all ot the
districts of that township the present
your. '
School Reoulationb. We insist
that teachers givo the following regula
tions, irom too pen oi a icss;cg cupcs
tor, more than a passing notice. Cut
them out and put them in your scrap
book :
The old school master with all his
rules and all his rods belongs to the
past. Though a blundering despot,
be did what bo could. Peace to his
ashes, Tho goodish modern toucher
witb no rulos and no rods is the oppo
site extreme. The efficient teacher
will equally avoid those extremes.
Tho coming teacher witb necessary
regulations, judiciously enforced, is tho
true mean.
i PRINCIPLES.
Great principles underlie all educa
tional processes. These, not whim or
caprice, determine plans and methods.
School regulations should accord with
tho following principles :
1. the regulations should bo few
but exhaustive. Simplicity is ot pri
mary importance in school manage
ment. Many rules occasion much
friction and causo a vast amount of
wusto labor in education.
2. Tho regulations should bo goncral
rathor than special. They should bo
equally adapted to tho primary school
und the collcgo. Special regulations
with specific penalties aro usually edu
cational mistakes.
II. Tho regulations should merit tho
approval of all. Tbey should bo so
evidently just and proper that they
will command too approval and sup-
port of all tcnehors, patrons i
Tbo inlluonco of public soi
and pupils.
sentiment is
immense.
4. Tho regulations should be such as
tho toacbor can and will enforce.
Hulos or laws not enforced tend to
bring all rules and laws into contempt.
0. All regulations should tend to
form dosirublo habits. The school
trains the pupil for citizenship and for
achievement. Tho object of school-life
is to prepare for real lifo.
II GENERAL REOTLATION8.
Tho following regulations aro the
outgrowth ot educational thought and
experience. Ahoy accord with tbo
abovo principles, and though lew, it is
holiovfd they covor all the grouud.
Tboy are now in goneral use and tend
to become universal :
1. Regularity. Teachers and pupils
must bs regular in their attendance.
hen at all possible, cscli ono must bo
present during each day.
i. tremmnme. Touchers ana pu
pils must bo prompt in tho discbargo
of ovory duty. Regularity and prompti
tude aro tho foundation of good man
agement 3. jworum. leachora and pupils
must obacrvo strict decorum. Deco
rum moans propor conduct, good man
ners, and becoming behavior. It
moans to do tho right thins at tbe right
timo, in tho right way.
4. Morality. Teachers and pupils
must sustain good moral characters.
School government should be positive.
il is not cnougn mat ino pupns ircoid
all immorality. Tbo positive virtue!
must be developed into habits. Truth
fulness, honesty, bonovolence, etc., etc.,
must he systematically cultivated.
5. Quietude. Teachers and pupils
roust study to be quiet In ovory
working school there will be the bum
of business. But teachers and pupils
study to avoid unnecessary noise, and
to produco a pleasing stillness. The
duatbliko stillness of inactivity is
equally to bs avoided.
f. I'ommuniration. All communica
tion during school hours must be thro'
tbs teacher. The observance of Ibis
rule prevents a largo proportion of the
disordor often notioed in schools. Pu
pils must not communirato by talking,
by writing, or by signs.