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t . EDUCATIONftLDEPflRTMEHT P. T. BRODIE. - - EDITOR. Tha Study of English. Columbia^Register. J The Boston Journal of Educatioti contains an article by Hiss Mary j Leonard, of the Wiothrop Trailing ! School, in which are some suggestions tonching the superficial^knowledge of the English language ac> qaired by some pupils in/ onr common schools, not to raei/tion college gradnates. The ineg&iency of old methods of teac^jfag grammar, so lar seioey enable toe popu to apply in the acfcoal business of is ootid, but the hope is expressed that there is a growing determination mSB to improve. On this point Miss T Leonard says: Pi "Within a few years text-books in grimmer have freed themselves from r /.ncoh chaff, aua the forms of grammatical statement have lost much of their verbosity. Teachers have learned that correct habits of speech are to be sought through other means than grammatical rules. They have relegated syntax to its proper place in the higher grades of school work, anri a.a looirin/Y fn onnlo frv if mnra WMU U4 U DOOAlUg WW W AH UlViO rational methods of instruction. It may be still a question whether its place is not higher still, among the dogies of the high school course. "Bfit we venture to predict that * * r the study of the construction of Ecg* lisb sentences can never be eliminated from oar courses of public instruction "At present geography and the < various natural sciences are the eotresof interest with most teachers i But we are confident that all efforts J to displace the higher forms of l^n- i gU8ge study will lead to a re-action ? in the form of renewed interest in < the structure of the noble language 1 which is the heritage of our Eoglish 1 speaking people." " 1 The increased attention paid, in 1 colleges as well as in schools, to the 1 study of English is one evidence of ' the conviction of educators that our * language affords opportunity for * quite as much investigation as to do ( dead languages, or the inflexional * languages of modern Europe. The 8 insane notion, rather prevalent thirty 1 years ago, that the meotal discipline 1 afforded by Latin and Greek could 8 sot be supplied in the study of Eng 6 lish has given place to the desire to place E&<Hish hiffh ud in the nniver- 1 | ?ty course. This old idea was the c result of ignorance. Philology had c was deemed to be a subject with which every Englishman or Axneri- ' can was innately conversant As one 1 should be no more excuse tor bad English when it comes from the buss cess men or the artisans than whet [ it is found in the utterances of the professional teacher. The inability of a large class of the people to have their children learn any other lao gttage suggests the importance oi teaching English. The common ; Bchoofe. should pay especial attention tothe matter, though it is now adof uuireraity instruction. The sob ject^a&y be profitably studied up tt . the stttdeot's graduation. of bomamty once^ave his woo Id-be midst of them and exhorfedrtoerir'. learn of it? This you wih Sna imiA-isc/to Jrf fiitvni of lock, rafhef than iteose, lie strikes the right nnmb8r, bis yomhfal, y$ to exhibit unbounded delight at sacl ^ & hippy termination of bis matbes matical investigations. WbereSt tbj >v small pupil, nolike as older ones o ^yie? enthusiastic years, straightway rm i mm ntfrriir m mymmmmmmmitt?aa? begs for mora^qQestions an(j importunes bis ^Kaminei* to "gimme another." Sfappy enthusiasm of childbood!f#Whoever heard of an older c^ftiid&te for examination asking for fifcen one more question? Now all these things, though apparently insignificant, if carefully observed, will teach as more about \ childhood than all the . books we could read for the rest of oor natural lives. A young law Btudent, in trying to make a favorable impression upon Daniel Webster, bad managed to remark: "I confioe myself vary eloaely to my books. I rarely spend an evening oat of my room, and never s day from the office: Webster an sweted: "Xoong mao, yon are making a grave mistake. Great as are the advantages of a good law library/ (and Webster believed in bopka?be bad a thirty thousand dollar library), "yon peed these much, bat yon have greater need of a knowledge of Janman nature. Ton mistake when yon study law in yottr office only. Yoo sbonld study it in the court room That is the best law school yon will ever find." So we teacheft will find oar papils our best instructors. Emerson says: "We send oar children to school to learn of the teacher, bat it is the pupils who teach them/' He might have gone farther and said, onr pn- * pils come to school to learn of as, bat we learn much them. The school ? room, oar own school room, is one of the best sources of information j. npoo the "Theory and Practice of Teaching." Much as we have teed ^ of the best iosfcroctors and the best books o popped agogics, yet we have a greater need of a knowledge of ha- ^ man nature, especially in oar deal- logs with little children. Thatknowl- h adge can best be obtained in the school room with the ohildren before t? as. Little people have been calied"live C( bandies of haman nature:" an apt,ex. pression, for they have not yet learned \o repress their natnral tendencies, j. aor to conceal their motives, nor lave they yet schooled their faces to aide their thoughts from those about ^ hem. One anthor has said: "Chit- ^ Iren are open pages of haman nainre, while grown people are closed N tod sealed volnmes, whose hiddeD w notives and thoghts are concealed mder a strange jnmble of words md expressions." If we propose to si acceed in onr dealings with these 'open pages of hnman nature," it to >eboov?8 as to stody them as well as D< inr text-books. Too freqnently no- , oan natare is the last thing etndied, phen it shonld be first. 01 to the oonclnsion that two-thirds of ill deaths from conghs, pneniBoma g and consumption, might be avoided %} tf Br. Acker's EagiM* sold ander a positive guarantee hy cd ent of an a?bnt in Greeovilla The \ "Agent*, (as the Alliance ooderIstands the duties to be proformsd by } him)?can haw no preforenee? and jg will fatally err, and therefore be man- ^ ifsstlv incompetent, were be to act the part of a "middle man*' inflo?need by personal bias. The leading idea of the Alliance is the promotion J *moug its members of prudence and. ecooemy. No erusade sgainst legitimate busioess is con temple ted i and, so far from "impending compe- tirion," it invites and encourages it. ' There will necessarily be a limit to i competition, as no respectable mer v ' * 1 ebairts will bd expected to offer their J * ood* at a price that would not en$* 9 ^ore them reasonable profit. To obtain and exhibit to tbe-xnemi b?rs of the Alliance samples and | pfices of goods famished to, the a agent's'office wi!J;bfr nofchiiig^ ! oor Jess fchao asamgleroam for the % | if i" m ill> m11 ini i ii iii i w nwriiii THE BLESSING OF SONG. / "What a friend we have in Jesus," Sang a little child one day; And a wear/woman listened To the darling's happy lay. * All her life seemed dark and gloomy, All her heart was sad with care; Sweetly rang out baby's treble? "All our sins and griefs to bear." She was pointing out the Saviour, Who could carry everj woe; And the one who sadly listened Needed that dear Helper so! Sin and grief were heavy burdens For a fainting soul to bear; But the baby, singing, bade her "Take it to the Lord in prayer." 'With a simnle, trusting spirit, ' Weak and worn she turned to God, Asking Christ to take her burden As He was the sinner's Lord. testis was the only refuge, He could take her sin and care, And He blessed the weary woman When she came to Him in prayer. " And the happy child, still singing, Little knew she had a part In God's wondrous word of bringing S Peace unto a troubled heart. ' ??. 'V \ Chips from On Workshop. Ten to one?12:50 o'clock. Siogle stickers?One cent stamp* ( Never borrow money to speculate < rith. ' i Book-keeping taught in one lesson. < >n not lend them. Shan bad company and the preva- 1 jnt vioes of the day. 1 ; 1 California sent 3,500,000 poands of oney to Earope last year. The Prohibitionists of Virginia t ovn nnminefni^ a frill Ct.fa M v w WVM*?MK?WI IV *! <! UUHOVi r 8 If $ man wero bis own enemy whet 1 ard stories he could tell on himself. [ The son is grand, bat the moon t ikes the shine from it when she t )mes oat s Bats sod miee have as great an c version to the odor of chloride of * me as hOmans. 8 No one is so old that he may not re a year, none so young bat homey .6 e to-morrow. * A doctor may kill a man with the C ?t intentions. A murderer kills ith the worst. p To write a good story for the pab- j, j a man mast have a good npper g ory of his own. a Life is fall of compensation. The a ngneof the deaf and dumb man t svergets him into tronble. t Tabe the first opportnnity to pav a >nr debts. A man is freer when he a ves no man anything. g j summer weather. The gold product of tb? United j tates in 1888 was $33 000,000, and Brown?"I nndersUnd that yon Sowbat ittink. \ The Bwolan Army will soon bo . provided witb breech loadiog rifle# of 9,000 feet Noiseless powder win also' be need in fatare by the army, ^ A eharp taUriog lady ' u3jnV %..V 2 - .*> >s^Q3 * '-''^H t ;'/y -^'^'/'^ ^ J^S* -, ' *^3 - (fl %-^tH m . I ? > | Society Whi Lies. j J I The New York Fashion ]*ar for August Everybody has hea of the frothy > hypobole of *Chin?> (jolitesess "How is your noble ,nd f excellent spouse.?" asks on aristocratic Celestial of anotbe If Mf mean, insignificant old woof Bvhofc not worthy of yonr graciot ^Ld tevated notice, is qaite well," b* thareply Onr United States CoeJkl ofjChina told oq amnsing story <w an Aerican friend of his who iwas absent at s banquet given by aiChinej dignitary. The Americanf did' niUnderstand the polite fotrms in pgae among the Chinese ariffetorcrajk. When the guests wetle leayig the host pressed each one tdb stay-* the most entreating m?noeV; ead polite!; declined the invitHfcion, i it came to the unsophisticated finericat/s time to be implored t to >nain. *Yoa must no* leave me; ast Btny a little while longer;* mv. ljjase. my servants, and myself are a^nr command. I will die if yoojie^G tee/' protested the ...Celestiar*bts queue standing ou end in his tern est obeisance. Overcome by so<b bos pitality, (be American constated to stay; the other gneats^eparid, and be reseated himself to ebeei/with his society the mocb protest/ng boat. The. American, after pitfng some ime unnoticed, "smelt $ ierfce^ and jaietly slipped away. jTi Now our forma of politeness are jot so largely infla'ed as tbeiOhioeBe, jot often they are qaitk as empty. We press onr friends tojcipap to see is; we entreat them to rimam^longer. vnd we are vexed in onrfceaits if tbey .ake as at oar word. 12 his become i matter of coarse to mats whom poa do not want and tojbefc them to itay when you are anxious to have hem go. One should tljiok twice >efore accepting hospittfity- and ibonld always be carefai tm to wear rat his welcome. Itseenlan intuiive social law to. welcomJhe coming rad speed the parting nest. No tost or hostess likes t he Attor, howver pleasant, who makemhe time of tis stay linked s wee tn es Jong drawn inf Tfll arc fin/1 nloriivlnf nATinlA therwiee sensible, who (Kmit th s irror. A few instances Ae to oar iea'8 end this moment JA yoang ady we knew very well :jm visiting ome friends in town, at?c leaving*, aked two of her girl coijpioos to { ceompany her home. Affche train bey were joined by two Arog geniemen who eame to saw good-bye nd see tbem off. in w Warmth nd thonghtleBsne^^ Mttheart, the jfbBS &,. 7 v< " *J > L9&$ C csJfiifts Hi \ frieoCL * _ m s^ < ii_i. > V*r->V4ftv ;,T QQ^'vB ftuO .ilif? p < 'i*^r V' ^_ > . ^ > "' ^*". - r^ . '* - fV' v- -. <^-aS3K*'-?g^3Ci3?;' ./, ; " . s '. V '' * .? -v * JV^W MMMB?faWHt?I .The Wonders of the Body. Snppose yonr age to be fifteen or there a boots. Yon have two hnndrad bones and six handred muscles; ? yoar blood weighs twenty-five pounds, yoar heart is five inches in length and three inches in diameter;it*beats 70 times per minute, 4,200 times per boor, 100,800 per day, 26,792,000 per jear. At each beat a little over two ounces of bloodSs,,thrown out of it, and each day . it receives and dis charges about seven tons of that wonderful fiaid. Yonr laogs will contain a gallon of air, and you inhale 24,000 gallons per day. The aggregate ? t e ,l _ _ - __ii_ sariace 01 me air ceus 01 yuui iuu^o, sappo8iog them to be spread oat, ex* ceeds 20.000 square inches. The weight of your brain is three poands; when youjgm a man it will weigh about eight ounces more. Y< or nerves exceed 10,000,000 in nomber. Yoor akin is composed of three layers, and yariee from ore-foarth to one-eight in thickness. The area of' you skin is aboat 1,700 inches. Each square . inch contains ; about 2.500 sweating tube*-or perspiratory pores, each of which may be likened to a little drainiog tile, one-fonrth of an inch long,makfhg an aggregate leogth of tbe surface of your body of 88,541 feet, or a tiftal ditch for draining the body almost seventeen mites, long. Foolish Women. 9 Sumter Advance. As long as womeo will be foolish and make heroes of scoundrels, jost ^0 long will men be base and encouraged in their rascality. According to Dr. McDow'a oh testimony and the facts proved against him, he is a thoroughly Corrupt man, who, on?_ l.'a _?/. .l:ij UtltUlUl IV LilD UWU WHO Hull UUUUi had planned the rain of the Swi& maid. Notwithstanding all this, it is said that after MeDow's acquittal there was a perfect ovation given him at bis office, and that many ladiee called and carried him fl >wers, thus making a hero of the man who merited only their snpremest loathing and contempt. Itisa.eo said that the nest day at chnrcb the ladies gave b;m qaite a reception. Is it any wonder that mien are base when women are so foolish as to make heroes of them and eocourage tbem in their villiaoy . Such actions as this pat a premium pn vice. You Can't Smooth it Over. line while oor old ^ ^ iegro "mammy," a tall, gaunt, connmptive .woman named Rachel, wold blurt oai; "Miss trying to mooth it over for yon, chile, bnfc its * ell; its hell yon gwine to ef yon say ad words T; '? Jolv W.?AU with the oew S'ate law. bra prescribes that exenatioo shall Ire place between the hoors of 1 id 4a m The law limita^hennmr80Qa Isside the ioclosare when _ e drop fell. 5 Balow met death le law provides that newspapers all publish only the bare announce>ot of hftegtnos; but all the Mia- ft apolis and St Panl papers con* B, ned fall details of Babw's execan' > . " . . J|l No man is so important that be /jl inot be spared frbo this world; J as soon, as he disappears there'll by death, eirery man begins to forgotton; and nn'ass there be bar/ IiHiog men are too conch ? '-V-. ' p Spied with matters of life to g r& *h*Ueotion to dead men. What Gra ?q^e bnbble is fame? How soon it ^ effigeat Headers will notice that Esse iiittv Piiic: run u i iiiu s \tot tctcarr<mied tc cure" mil elanmiV yseases, but on] 7 soeh mm result ^^srdcred liter, viz: Hgotostiveness, Bilious' ^ not warruM <n- 1 ^^ ]A?A|U?airlysoasitisj>o?. \itorS Frtee,25cts* v*. ^w: EV^rvrntEBE, 5*?0; ^ [*" Hk^USEMANN ? s ' ' '? > _ . v * / ?*> / f . -'V : i iT' T i ">r i ^^lanm ? j V RldBOURG'S Jewelry and Mnsie Parlor, ! ?REMOVED TO " \ y. Northwest Cor. Kain and Taylor Sts., * ? \ 1 I * COLUMBIA, C. Diamonds, Silverware, Platedware, Bronzes, Gold Watches, Silver Watches, Clocks, Jardinieres, the Choicest Gems, Precious Stones, and every article made for Wedding Presents and home use to please the most fastidious. The new styles in Jewelry are elegant beyond description. A Solid Silver Hunting Case American Watch !8r only $10.00. MUSIC DEPARTMENT. In which will be found the celebrated Stein way Upright, Grand and Square Pianos, of which I have the sole control in this State, also Fischer, Grovenstein and Fuller in all styles. Wilcox & White, and Shoninger Organs of every description. Stringed and Brass Instruments, Sheet Music and Musical Findings. Send for descriptive catalogue and prices, and be sure and- write to B. N. Bichbottrg, Columbia, S. C., before purchasing elsewhere. i , I buy my instruments outright, and can therefore offer you lower prices than those , who have them oh consignment. Jan, 21?tf ; ' ' V > . ;r _ & * V . .' ' '4 " ' New Advertisements. G3S PARKER'S IflBS HAIR BALSAM BBClcanscs fifod thf hainl Promotes a luxuriant growth. I *> Nmr Fa/. I* la Haafara Qrayi I Hair to ii<* Yaaiirfbl Calor. f WpPBvenU Di mdrnff and hair talujaf | !t 60a *nd tl OOatirnnrgl^U. 1 beared tJhorae wit^o^Sl^r expomre. Infallible and CwrildwtfaJ. lim. Tre^Wpag^o^llByma^y^poatgaa Small book, vrm endorse! nenUof the preea, free. 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