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PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY II. WEBB.
VoUmie'flll. BILOOBISBURG-, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1839. Number 20.
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The Educator is the title of a publication
leeently mado in England under tho sanc
tion of the General Society of Education,
and of which the object is to devise the
best means of raising the social position of
teachera From this work the following
arc extracts :
What Education is. Education does
not mean merely rcadinsr and writing, nor
any degree, however considerable, of more
intellectual instruction. It is, in its largest
seneo a process which extends from tho
Tommenocmcnt to the termination ofexis
tcucc. A child comes into the world, and
once his education begins, Often at his
birth tho seeds of. disease or deformity are
sown in his constitution; and while he hang3
at his mother's breast, ho is imbibing im
pressions which will remain with him
through life. During the first period of in
fancy, Alio physical frame expands and
strengthens, but its delicato structure is in
fluenced for good or evil by all surrounding
circumstances cleanliness, light, air,food
warmth. Bv and by, tho young being
within shows itself more. The senses
become quicker. Tho desires and affec
tions assume a more definite shape. Every
object wluch gives a sensation, every desire
gratified or denied, every action, word,. or
look of affection or unkindness, has its
affect, sometimes slight and imperceptible,
sometimes obvious and, permanent, in build'
ing up the human beings or rather iu deter
mining, tho direction in which it will
shoot up and unfold itself Through
tho different states of the infant, the child
tho, tho boy, tho youth, the moral nature
on tho various circumstances of his condi
tion incoasanlly acting upon him the
uuhealthfulnoss of the air he breathes; the
kind and the sufficiency of his food and
clothing; the degree in which his physical
powers are exerted; tho freedom with which
his sense are allowed or encouraged to ex
,rcise thoincsclvcs upon eternal objects;
,tho extent to which faculties of remember
ing, comparing, reasoning; are tasked; the
sounds and sights of homo, tho moral ex
amples of parents; the discipline of school;
the naturo and degree of studies, rewards
and punishments; tho personal qualities of
bi3 companions, tho opinions and practices
of tho society, juvenile and advanced, in
which ho moves, and the character of the
puplic institution Under which he lives- The
successive operation of all these nirenmstan
cc3 upon a human being from his earliest
childhood, constitutes his education; an ed
ucation which does not terminate with the
arrival of manhood, but continues through
life which is ilsrlf, upon tho concurrent
testimony of revolation and reasons, n state
of probation or education for a subsequent
and more glorious existence.
Importance of Physical Education.
The iiifluenco of the physical frame upon
tho intllcct, morals, and happiness of a hu-
man being, is now universally admitted.
Perhaps tho extont of tho subject is exam
ined. Tho train of thought & feelings is per
petually afl'ectod by tho occurrence of sen
sations arising from tho slato of our eternal
qr"ans, Tho connection of high menial ex
citement with the physical system is obvi
ous enough, when tho latter is under in
fluence of stimulants, as wine or opium; but
other mental states depression of spirits,
irritability of tcmpcr,indolence, aud tho cra
ving for sensual gratifications, arc, it is
probable, no less intimatclyjconnected with
the condition of tho body. The selfish, ex
acting habits which so often attend ill health
and the mean artifices to which feebleness
of body leads, arc not, indeed, necessary
results; but the physical weakness so olten
produces moral evil, that no moral treat
ment can bo successful which overlooks
physical causes. Without reference to its
moral offects, bodily pain forms a large pro
portion of tho amount of human misery.
It is therefore of the highest importance
that a child should grow up sound and
healthful in body, and with tho utmost dc
gieo of muscular strength that education can
communicate.
Advantages of Strength. It should be
an important object in education to givo a
child a considerable degree of bodily
strength. It is not merely of high utility
in the laborious occupations in which most
persons must spend their lives; it is often a
great support to moral dispositions. We
should excite good impulses in children,
and also givo them the utmost strength of
mind and beauty to carry them out. A
child ought to be able to withstand injus
tice attemped by superior strength. No
thing dcmoializcs both parties more than
tho tyranny exercised over younger chil
dren by elder ones at school. Many good
impulses are crushed in a child's heart when
he has not physical courage to support them.
If we make a child as strong as his age and
constitution will permit, ho will have cou
rage to face greater strength. A boy of
this kind resisting firmly the first assump
tion of an elder tyrant, may receivo 'some
hard treatment in one encounter, but ho will
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have achieved his deliverance, ins cour
age will secure respect. The tyrant will
not again excite the samo troublesome and
dangerous resistance. This is certainly
not intentcd to encourage battles at school;
far from it. But until a high degree of
moral education is rcailizod.the best security
for general peace amribg children of differ
cnt ages is to give each strength and spirit
which no one will like to provoke. It will
further give each a confidence in his pow
ers, and a self-respect, without whicluiore
of the hardy virtues can flourish.
From the Dublin University Magazine.
HINTS TO PARENTS.
Tho propot regulation of tho imagination
is a duty of unquestionable obligation. Wo
men, especially, are prone to rrcfupon mere
feeling, and it is a kind of beneficent provi
sion of Providence that their feelings are so
often as corrcci as they aro acute, and there
fore, in some sort, stand them in the stead
of the judgement and principle of men.
But then it is plainly a radical and danger
ous error to educate them rather to feel than
to reason. By their very constitution, they
naturally possess feelings more quick and
susceptible, with judgement less strong and
disciplined,than men. Hence their conduct
generally will bo guided rather by fooling
than by reason. Their education should,
thercfore,we conceive,bo shaped to strength
en that which is weak in them, and to regu
late that which is too apt to bo sensitive to
excess. This is one great reason why ve
ry much novel-reading of any kind and all
bad and trashy novels, should bo carefully
interdicted. They aro far moro pernicious
to women than to men. Almost evory.man
has, of necessity, so much collision with
tho realities of life, going forth to his work
and labor till tho evening, in this draggletai
dreary dun of a work-day world, that the
interferenco and disturbance of real business
and worldly interests must servo to rouse
him perforco from ldlo dreams, and disen
chant him from any spell of romanco in
which ho may have sillily entangled his im
agination. But with a girl it is not so.
Living at homo, with no property to man
age, no interest to cultivate, no family to
provido for, no contention at the bar, no de
signs to forward at court, in the camp, or in
the county no bargains to mange there
" whero merchants most do congregate;"
nothing, in short, which she cannot, in some
measure, transform and accommodate to her
own ideal world, she may very easily, if
she yield to her imaginative impulses, live
as it were, in an dream, a stranger1 to her
real duties, and wasting all her energies and
sympathies on unattainable combination of
circumstances, or undesirable combinations
of qualities. Thus sho may regard her
first suitor (a short, fat, good-natured, red
faced man, of no particular ago, and an ex
cellent estate in tho country) as a repulsivo
and detestable wretch, to whom sho is to be
sacrificed for money; or she may array the
tall, lathy curato of the neighboring parish,
or tho sighing subaltern of a marching regi
ment, whom sho meets at a county ball, in
all the glories of one of her favorite knights
of romance. In any case sho stores up
much unhappines for herself. For, at tho
best, and supposing no actual imprudence
to result, she must, at length, wake up, as
married moman, to butcher's bills and
browing, to suckle babes and chronicle small
beer, to plaguy servants, smoky chimneys,
squalling children, and, above all, to imag
ined neglect or want of tenderness and lover-
ike attention on the part of her good man.
Causo and effect then carry on their usual
action and re-action. But the natural death
of love is an ungrateful and ungracious
theme, on which we disiro not to dwell.
It frots and worries (and injures us too) to
depict all that seems best and most amiable
in our natnre, as only hollow, and fugitive,
and illusory. But it is quite another thing
to guard against misapprehensions and mis
take to leach the fanciful and, perhaps, the
wayward girl that she must open her eyes
upon the ups and downs, the clouds and
sunshine of married life, which, for our last
ing good, are so diversified, and from which,
solid happiness may bo extracted by a well
regulated spirit, with really reasonable ex
pectations; but which yet is' so unlike the
cloudless paradiso of a dreamy gill's imag
ination that the houri who has dwelt in that
intoxicating atmosphere is a creature help
lessly unfit to live and breathe in the terres
trial air of connubial reality.
pityTndciiarity
Tho very pirate, that dyes the osean
with the blood of his fellow beings; that
meets with his defenceless victim in some
lonely sea where no cry of help can be
heard, and plunges his dagger to the heart
that is pleading for life which is calling
unon him bv all tho names of kindred, of
children, and home, to spare yes, the very
pirate is such a man as you or I might have
been. Orphanage in childhood; an unfriend
ly youth; an evil companion; a resort to
sinful pleasure: familiarity with vice; a
scorned and blighted name; scared and
crushed affections; desperate fortunes
these aro steps which might have led any
one among us to unfurl upon tho high seas
the bloody flag of universal defiance: to
have waged war with our kind; to have put
on the terifiic attributes; to have done the
deed; and to havo died tho awful death of
the ocean robber. How many affection re
lationships of humanity plead with us to pi
ty him. That head, that is doomed to pay
tho price of blood, once rested uprn a moth
er's bosom. Tho hand that did that accur
sed work, and shall soon bo stretched cold
and noverless in tho felon's grave, was once
taken and cherished by a father's hand, and
led in the ways of sportive childhood inno
cent pleasure.
The dreaded monster of crimo has once
been the object of sisterly Iovo and all do
mestic endearment. Pity has blighted hope
and his crushed heart. It is a wholesome
sensibility. It is reasonable; it is meet for
frail and sinning creatures liko us to cher
ish. It foregoes no moral discrimination.
It feels no rime--but feels it as weak, and
tempted and rescued creatura should. It
imitates the great monster, and looks wilh
indignation upon the offender, and yet is
grieved for him.
I'm into you like a thousand of brick,' as
tho wall said ven it came tumbling down up
on tho man's head,
Original Anecdote A few days sincc
a jolly tar who had just returned from a long
cruise, employed a cartman, known about
tho town as Dutch Yacub, to carry his bag
gago from on board the ship to a boarding
house. After every thing was stowed on
the cart to his satisfaction, Jack seated him
self on tho top of his chest and for the want
of better amusements, spliced the end of
tho cart rope together. When arrived at the
stopping place, Yacub, attempted to cast
off his rope, proparitory to unloading. Af
ter searching in vain for the end of it, he
threw his hat on the ground in a rage, ex
claiming, " Dundcr and blixen, some tarn
Yankee's cut off bote do ends of mine ropes
and pool dem were tke ty vel couj'nt vind
him-"
Times'
An Accommodating Chap. A long-hair
ed youth yesterday applied to an intelligence
office for a situation. ' What short of a
place would you like !' was tho business in
quiry. 4 Why,' said Johnny Itaw, 4 1 should
like to get a chance in a dry good store, but
I would work in a tan yard.'
' Daddy, I reckon as how I might go a
courtin' now.'
Yes, son, I reckon so.'
Well, if I don't go to sea somebody's
gal next Sunday, then saw my old hat in
two.'
A Spanish proverb says that the Jews ru
in themselves at their passovers, the Moors
at their marriages, and the Christians in their
lawsuits.
A lady wilh a flushed face and carbunclcd
nose, consulting Dr.tJheyne, exclaimed,'
' Whero in tho name of wonder, doctor, did
I get such a nose as this V Out of tho
decanter, madam, out of the decanter, ' re
plied doctor.
Last Case of Absence of Mind. A.
young lady inB 6treet,camehome from
a rido the other cvoning, and left her horse
at the door of her father's house, walking
herself to the stable and taking the horse's
place in the stall. She did not discover her
mistake till the ostler began to rub her down.
Dost. Post.
' Wha'llyer take for yer dog?' asked one
darky to another who was leading a dirty
looking little cur along wilh a tow string,
tho, other day.
' Five dollar,' was the prompt reply.
Can't offer to gib more'n two dollar for
'em.'
'0 hoo ! dat's not fuss cos I'd looso by
do spcckylashum. Dat too haid could'nt
stan 'em.'
' Wall, the dog law's on an dogs not quite
so waluable.
' Nebber mine, when'o dog law's dun,
den dogs 'ill riz agin, Yer no ' absquatum
late' dis nigger out 'o tree dollar so czy, dar
ky mine dat.'
Red Hair. ' A tinpenny, only a tinpen
ny, your honor,' exclaimed a sturdy beggar,
at a stage-coach door in Ireland, to a Scotch
man with fiory ringlets, but who was quite
insensible to tho appeal: A fippenny, your
honor : a fippenny, or a penny, or a half
penny, plaso ye.' Finding the Scot inex
orable, tho beggar altered his tone, and said,
4 Will your honor plase to lend mo a lock
of your hair to light my pipe with.'
A Lynch Case In Wairen county, Ohio
a short limo since, two very respectable la
dies wero mot by two black fellows, who
insulted them with gross and unmentionable
proposals. Tho ladies had sufficient pre
sence of mind to plead off, by promising to
mr-fti them there at sundown. Arriving at
home, they told tho affair to a brother of
one of them, who raised a party of twenty
men, and two boys dressed in femele appa
rel, who proceeded to the appointed spot,
followed by the men. Upon seeing tho
disguised boys.tho negroes issuing from the
woods caught them and wero leading them
off, when they were seized by tho men,
who tied them to a tree and castrated them.
The writer was surveying London from
tho cupola of St. Paul's. It was a gloomy
day, the fog rolled up its heavy curtains in
a limited radius, so that tho thousand spires
of tho metropolis were shut from the cir
cumference embraced by the eye. As ho
looked around, ho was awaro of another
spectator, standing by his side, who accos
ted him 'Well, I guess this cro is a pretty
great placo from what I sec 1' Our tourist
took him at once for a fellow countryman.
'Yes,' he replied, wilh affected ignorance
'You Englishmen ought to be proud of
it."
'Oh,' said ho in return, 'I gusss I aint an
Englishman; I rather expect that I'm prin
cipally from the United States.'
,So am I,' was the rejoinder. 'Wo are
looking, though, upon an immenso metrop
olis, as you intimated, but wo do not see
its immensity to-day. It needs as clear a
light as possible, for the wide and general
view.'
'Well, yes, I expect it does. After all, it
must bo a desperate sizeablo plnce, inclu
ding the outskirts and water privileges; for
it looks to bo dreadful thick settled jest a-
ong hare, round tho meeting house."
This quotation is from hearsay and mem
ory, but substantialy faithful, in fact and
scene. Knickerbocker.
EPIGRAM Steam versus Horses.
Ye country squiies, yc hunting race,
Who scarce, for love of dogs and chase,
To sober life can settle;
Say, if thro' all the equestrian breed,
You e'er beheld so fine a steed,
Possessed of so much mettle.
Eastern Anecdote. As a woman was
walking a man looked at her and followed.-.,
her. The woman said why do you follow
me?' ho answered, 'because J have fallen
in love with you.' Tho woman said, 4 Why
are you in love with rae ? My sister is
much handsomer; sho is coming after me,
go and make love with her.' The man turn
ed back 'and saw a woman with an ugly
face : being greatly displeased he turned to
tho first woman and said, ' Why do yott
tell rae a falsehood ? Tho woman answer
od, 4 Neither do you speak the truth, for if
you were really in love with me, why do
you leave me to look upon my sister V
A man seeing an old women in the street
who drove some asses, said, Adieu, mother
of asses I' 'Adieu, adieu, my son,' answerd
she, The man felt his cars grow as ho
walked along.
When you hear a young man speaking
lightly of family attachments, and ridiculo
his old relations infer that he is a weak
minded youth and will make a perverse
and uncomfortable companion.
When you hear a young lady declare
that she hates all men infer that some par
ticular one has touched her fancy.
'Your dress, madam, is a beautiful bottle
green,' said a gentleman the other morning
to a lady. 'And your face is a bottle blue,
3ir,' was the reply.
Lorenzo Dow was an oddity of tho oddest
kind. The best anecdote of him is.that be
ing ono evening at a hotel kept by one Bunh,
in Delhi, N. Y. tho residence of the cele
brated Gen. Root, he was importuned by tho
latter gentleman, in presence of the landlord,
to describe Heaven. 4 You say a great deal
about that place,' said tho General, ' tell us
how it look.' Lorenzo turned his grave
faco.and long waving beard towards Messrs.
Root and Bush, and then replied with im
perturablo gravity, ' Heayen, friends, is a
vast extent of smooth and rich territory;
there is not a Root nor a Hush in it, and
there never will be.
At a meeting for the choico of the town
officers, a Mr. Shoto was chosen hog-reeve,
which occasioned tho following impromptu;
Tho wisdom of the town stands confest,
One Sjioat was chosen to govern all the rest.