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BEYOND THE STARS--WHAT 1
'ris easy to trace the soul to the hour
That deprives the form of its breath;
But who shall follow the spirit's flight,
When it seeks the portal of death?
Who rend the vail that hides from our vie%
The future, beyond the bright stars?
Who follow the spirit's upward flight,
Wheu it breaks through our earthly bars ?
What-ah! what is that future state?
And where, oh where is the goal
Which Christians say is the resting place
And home of the deathless soul?
Is it beyond the dark blue sky
Beyond where the stars now shine;
Where the angels sing their songs of prais(
To the Spirit of God divine?
Can life be the end of all our hopes?
Is the struggle with death all o'er ?
Or is there a life beyond the tomb,
Where the soul lives evermore?
Does the soul exist when life has flown,
Or sink, like the corse, into night?
Let us rather believe the brilliant mind
Still continues its upward flight.
Let us th ink that the soul can never die
That its mission will never end;
That there is a land beyond the sky,
Where friend will still meet friend;
That, freed from the turmoil and ills of life,
From its troubles, wounds and scars,
The soul will worship the God of Light
In His mansions "beyond the skies."
FoR THE HERALD.
BROADBRIM'S FOREIGN
LETTER.*
NO. 17.
Lake Lueene-William Tell's Chapel-Berne
and the Bears-Mishaps by the Wayside.
We parted company last week on
the shores of Lake Leman in sight
of the Swiss Alps, grandest among
which Mont Blanc rears its snowy
crest into the clouds. The day
was lovely, and a soft breeze swept
down the lake, just sufficient to
raise a slight ripple upon the sur
face of the water. On either shore
sweet little villas, quaint cottages,
and odd-looking chalets nestled
among the trees ; occasionally some
mansion of grander pretensions
might be seen, surrounded by beau
tiful flower parterres and ornamen
al shrgbbery ; and on the distant
hills old castles crowned the sum
mits, where in the olden time fierce
barons kept their state, and among
whose traditions are those terrible
stories of cruelty and sin that make
up the romances of the past. A
little after mid-day we reached th(
castle of Chillon, and there, leaning
beside the stone pillar to which
Bonivard was chained for so many
years, I heard recited Byron's poen
of the "Prisoner of Chillon." There
are few lovelier spots in the world
than Lake Leman, rich and noble
people froin all quarters of the
world have settled there ; the sweel
and quiet little villages that dot its
shores everywhere seem to promise
to the passing traveller health and
peace. Every point is crowded
with tourists, and the scene is ons
which, having been witnessed once,
will not easily be forgotten.
The next day found me on m3
way to Lucerne, and on the road
we passed the quaint old City o
Berne, whose traditions are amongsi
the oldest in Switzerland. Berne
is the city of the bears ! bears
bears ! bears ! big bears and little
bears ! fat bears and lean bears
tall bears and short bears ! oli
bears and young bears ! and bears
of every degree. It is the coat o:
arms of the city; belles just in fron
the country to do a little shopping
had small wooden bears hung al
over them ; the men had little bears
in their hats, and they wore minia
ture bears for breast pin~s. :Ever1
lager beer-house in the town sporte
a bear on its sign, and I record i
here as a zoological fact, that the;
have yellow bears, green bears, blu
bears, and pink bears, and that the;
are quite as common in Berne a
the white, black, and brown bea
of other lands. In front of. th
depot where we stopped to chang
cars, was a magnificent sign, wit]
this admirable animal standing or
his head, while an enterprisinm
Switzer was tickling him from be
hind with the end of a long pole
It was an exquisite piece of art, an<
evidently belonged to the age whe:
painting was first invented. Sur
veying the sign, I was soon bu.rie<
in profound reflection as to th
riin of bars, when I was startle<
by a cry from my friend Gubbs, for
Gubbs had lost his money. Now
Gabbs was my treasurer, and se
questration or loss of the public
funds involved the most serious dis
aster. I searched his pockets, I
examined his hat, I made him pull
off his boots, I went through his
vest, but without the slightest suc
cess ; blank~ ruin stared us in the
face; we rushed up to the officer on
guard, and stated our case in the
.most intelligent German that we
could muster, to be met with a
bluff Nix for Stay, accompanied
with a gentle hint that he did not
understand Russian-Russian be
blessed, said 1, I am an American,
a distinguished American traveller,
beware how your Swiss bear arouses
the American eagle. While we
were talking the train moved quiet
ly off, carrying with it my railroad
ticket,my boots, my hat (for the jour
ney being a long one, I had been%
indulging myself in slippers and
smoking cap), and in addition to
the loss above stated, was some
valuable property which I could
have mortgaged for a dinner or a
lodging if I had been reduced to
that dire extremity. A Swiss town,
or more especially the city of the
bears, is not a pleasant place to be
caught in withoqt money, for they
have lots of their own kind in that
predicament, and I regret to say,
that travellers without money in
Switzerland are held but in in
different estimation. While iunk
in the lowest depths of financial
misery and disaster, a ray of sun
light came. One fat policeman
rushed up to another fat policeman,
there was a hurried confab, and the
result of it was that some one had
found Gubbs' money; then came the
necessary forms to get it back
identifications, affidavits, measure
ments, examinations-and at last,
after eeveral hours' delay, Gubbs
recovered his funds, which were
sadly depleted by the necessary
gratuities, which testified our ap
preciation of the sterling honesty
which distinguishes the city of the
bears. With light hearts again we
proceeded on our journey, Gubbs
putting seven pins over the tops of
his pocket to assure us against the
recurrence of any such disaster.
The shadows of night were falling
as we entered Lucerne, and in a
very short time we were snugly
ensconced in the Switzerhof in a
room looking out upon the lake ;
all along the shore the lights
twinkled and shone r-like little gol
-den spangles, and on every side
might be seen the dim outline of
those grand old mountains, for
ever linked with the names of Tell
and liberty. The sounds of sweet
music floated over the waters, and
the gay laughter of merry voices
added to the charm of the scene,
and thinking of my distant home,
and of the chances of ever seeing
it again, I was soon in the land of
dreaams. Bright and early I was
up and rushing around to see the
sights. One building particularly
struck me on the hill ; I was won
ering whose castle it was, and what
were the traditions of the noble
lord who inhabited it ; how many
princesses had been hurled from its
battlements ; and how it had with
stood the attacks of the invading
foe. Just then a fat- fellow came
along, of whom I enquired for a
1few scraps of its early history,
when I discovered it was a lager
beer brewery. The great Lion of
~-Lucerne next demanded my atten
tion, for every traveller makes it a
point to see this magnificent work
of art, carved in the solid rock to
commemorate the heroic sacrifice
of the Swiss general who perished
in defence of the Tuilleries, at the
coumencement of the French revo
ltion. A trip up the Lake of
Lucerne was one of the pleasant
events of the tour. Away to
'the right, the Jungfrau, wrapped
in her mantle of spotless white, lay
peacefully against the sky, and on
the left, the Riga rose majestically,
from whose summit can be seen the
grandest panorama in Switzerland.
Looking out on the magnificent
landscape, the harsh lines of whose
crags and rocks are sweetly round
ed by the fleecy snow or the soft
green of the mountain fir, you no
longer wonder that the people are
free, and that they have been able
to maintain their freedom through
all these crmhling centuries. They
see freedom in their crags and hills,
it is reflected in their streams and
lakes, they breathe it in the very,
air; they could not live as a nation
of slaves. William Tell's Chapel
and Schiller's Rock also claimed a
portion of our homage ; and with
the evening I started for Mayence.
For years I had longed to see the
Rhine, the beautiful Rhine, so cel
ebrated in song and story. It had
been the dream of my youtb, the
hope of my manhood, the solace of!
my old age, that I was going to
see the Rhine. In fact, I was sorry
that there were not two Rhines, it I
seemed to me altogether too good
to be kept in one. It is true I had:
surveyed some fine scenery in myI
time. I had climbed the Himalayas;
I had rambled through the Cor
dilleras; I had sailed up the Ama
zon and down the Mississippi;
Australia and New Zealand were no
strangers to my wandering foot
steps; and in years long gone by I
had chased the springbok where
"Afric's sunny fountains roll down
their golden sands." The Rocky
Mountains were to me a familiar
playground; and I knew every inch
of the Sierras from Yreka to Yose
mite Valley. Every one of the big
trees I knew by name ; and the Falls
of Niagara were mingled with the
associations of my boyhood. One
pleasure was yet in reserve for me,
I had never seen the Rhine.
Mayence was reached, and, with
a beating heart, here at last we
were upon the banks of the Rhine
-Old Fader Rhine, the beautiful
Rhine, the Ihine of song and
story. As a matter of fact, I had
composed some sweet little verses
to the Rhine, myself, which were
considered very fine by several im
partial friends to whom I showed
them. It is true they never got in
to the papers, but if they had they
would have created a profound sen
sation.
Mayence was reached, and I
rushed down to the river. I recol
lect once, in my boyhood's days,
going through a hole in the ice,
when I was trying to cut the alpha
bet in capitals, winding up with the
American eagle. The sensation was
very much like that I experienced
at my first look upon the Rhine.
The romance of a life was destroy
ed ; the visions of years went up in
a balloon ; and I felt that I had
been the victim of the most atro
cious humbug that ever was palmed
off upon an unfortunate tourist.
The scenery remipded me of some
of the worst stretches of the Erie
Canal, for with the better class
scenery it would not begin to com
pare. "Ahi !" said Gubbs, "this
ain't the part, me boy. Wait till
you get down a few miles, and then
you'll see something." The shock
I had received had knocked all the
romance out of me, and I had be
gun to grow savagely critical.
Mile after mile was passed ; at last
we reached a portion of the Rhine
where the hills made some faint
attempt to look like mountains.
Dotting the crags and hilltops here
and there might be seen some
crumbling old ruins or moss-.covered
walls; and even when the houses
were in good repair they must have
been exceedingly uncomfortable to
live in. What did they know about
telegraphs, telephones, stationary
washtubs, and all other modern
conveniences ? One place, pointed
out to me as one of the most ro
mantic upon the Rhine, looked
about like a second class brickyard,
while no portion of it will compare
with the noble landscape of the
Hudson. I am astonished that two
respectable nations should ever have
had a fight ab)out it. There are
plenty of places where you could
buy just as good a river for a song,
and there are parts of the world I
know where they give them away
for nothing. E~vening brought us
to Cologne with its traditional
smells and its Cathedral-and look
ing up at its slowly rising spire I
could not but contrast the unfi.nish
ed structure with its seven hun
dred years of history, with the
energy of the plucky race that
built St. Paul's and Westmninister
Abbey, a race that has sounded the
depth of every ocean and every sea,
that has scaled every mountain top
from the Himalayas to Mont Blanc,
that helped Uncle Sam to lay the
Atlantic cable, and then Uncle Sam
bimself with his Pacific railroads
running in direct lines for thou
sands and thousands of miles, and
[ said to myself reste tranquille
mon brave, we don't want any
Dathedral of Cologne. The Catbe
:lral is to Cologne what Genesee
Fall- are to Rochester, the great
eature of the place. Begging as
ails you as you descend from the
railway station, mendicity follows
your footsteps wherever you go.
Even beneath the shadow of God's
sacred altar youre not exempt, for
here neither the priest nor the
evite feels inclined to pass you by.
rhe beggarly spirit which is the
bane of Continental Europe to day,
seems to have infested all classes.
Foreigners of every degree are look
d upon in the light of legitimate
tame, and as subjects fit only to be
;poiled by the Egyptisms. De
-idedly the most respectable and
iristocratic looking class of people
o be found on the continent are
;he waiters-arrayed in swallow
ailed coats and immaculate cravats,
[ really envied their distingue ap
>earance. One fellow I met at
3trasbourg was so nobby in his ap
)earance that 0 ate three dmners
n one afternoon, for the simple
?rivilege of looking at him. He
asrted bis hair in the middle, and
ore a Piccadilly collar that dis
?layed his manly neck almost to
iis armpits. He was a stunner-so
eeling that imitation was hopeless,
[ comforted myself with his photo
raph, which I h- 7e filed away
;vith the souvenirs of my trip. It
Pvould add no interest to these let
ers to attempt to describe the
athedral of Cologne. The gran
leur of its Gothic architecture, the
;plendor of its decorations, the
nagnificence of its proportions, I
Lm ashamed to confess, made on
ne but little impression. I would
ooner have seen that rAce built up
md trained to independence, than
o admire the hundreds of tapering
innacles over which so many cen
~uries have rolled. I believe in
~hurches and in church organiza
ions ; the community where they
~re not sustained is a miserable one
o me ; but I do not believe in that
>stentationis display which rears a
~emple at the cost of countless mil
ions, while the poor wretches
hom it was reared to save, are
lying of starvation at its very
gates.
Of all the continental countries
-Belgium seems like one of the
rost blest-aff'o the very mo
ment you cross its borders a new
state -of affairs becomes manifest.
Decency, good order, thrift, in.
instry, good government, are
plain as the hand writinig Qn the
wall. such husbandry is to be
seen in very few places in the
world, and it really appears as if
tere were no drones in this Bel
gium hive ; work, work, work, re
sounds on every sie towns,
'ilages, and cities follow each
other in rapid succession all along
the route, till you reach the beau
tiful city of Brussels, which is
second to Paris alone. In all of
its associations, save the art ele
ment alone, it surpasses the French
apital. One of the noblest cathe
drals on the continent of Europe
is to be seen at this place, which
in grandeur, combined with sim
plicity, magnificence with purity
and taste, elaborate ornamnentation
without tawdry display, I have
seen nothing that will bear com
parison with it; and the memory
of its grand and noble aisles will
live among my pleasantest conti
nental memories, wvhen S.trasbourg
withb its famous clock, and Cologne
with its infamous smells, are for
otten.
Yours truly,
BROADBRIM.
The excesses of our youths are
irafts upon our old age, payable
with interest, about thirty years
after date.
Nature is to God what speech is
o thought. How vair. to worship
th shadow and neglect the sub
3tance.
To be womanly is the greatest
shar m of woman.
There is even a happiness that
makesa the heart afraid.
GRADED PUBLIC SCHUOLS.
Success of the Experiment at Winnsboro'
The Problem of Education Solved in
South Carolina.
WINNSBORO', Aug. 22, 1878.
To the Editors of the News and
Courier : As the question of graded
schools is being agitated in a number
of the towns in our State, and as in
forfnation is sought as to the mode of
inaugurating, conducting and sup
porting them, a few thoughts on the I
subject may be of interest to your
readers. Let me premise by saying
that this article is not intended for
those who are already familiar with
the system through the medium of
the admirable institutions now in ope
ration in Charleston, but for others
who have hiretofore been accustomed
only to the old-fashioned, unclassified
schools. A graded school, in general
terms, is one in which all the pupils
in the same grade study the same les
son, and each pupil studies every
branch embraced in the curriculum of
his grade. But in the popular accep.
tation at present in South Carolina it
seems to mean in addition a school
supported partly by public funds and
partly by private means. The method
of classifying and conducting a graded I
school can be learned from works on
the subject, such as Wells on graded
schools, or by application to some of
the principals of the excellent schools
in Charleston. In this connection the
writer would return his acknowledge
ments to H. P. Archer, Esq.,'of your
city, for valuable suggestions on this
very subject.
As to the plan of organizing such a
school in any of the interior towns of
the State, a few facts concerning one
that is already in good working order
may furnish some useful hints. In
January of the present year the peo
ple of Winnsboro' 4etermined to util
ize the sohool fund coming to the dis
trict of which the town is a part. Up
to that time education was confined
chiefly to private schools, of which
there were at least half a dozen, each
dragging out a precarious existence,
while a considerable nqmnber of chil.
dren were not in attendance on any
school. The public school trustees
rented the buildings of the Mount
Zion Institute, containing one large
and two smaller class-rooms. A male]
principal and two lady assistants were
employed. The school was thrown
open to pupils of both sexes within
the scholastic age. The Fnglish
branches and a hnietic were taught
free of charge. It was stipulated that4
pupils in the higher mathematics, an
cient and modern languages and the
sciences should pay a monthly fee of
two dollars and a hal!t. Three grade,
reaching as high as the "Third
Reader," and embracing pupils of
both sexes, were placed in ona room.
The remainder of the school was di
vided into four grades. Th.e boys in
these grades wen seated in the main
room~, under the supervision of the
principal, while the lady assistant had
charge of the girls in another room.
Separate play-grounds were arranged
for the sexes, and no trespassing was
permitted. Rao$b sexes recited to
gether, the classes being marched
from room to room under monitors.
(Where the rooms are contiguous the
monitors are nod needed.) The school
opened in February, and all parties in
terested awaited the result, One
hundred and fi.fty-seven pupils were
enrolled the first month, and this
number was maintained during the
session, the actual attendance averag
ing about one hundred and thirty.
Of these, between twenty and thirtyI
were instructed in the extra branches.1
The experiment has thus far suc
ceeded admirably. The school, ow
ing to the excellence attainable
through increased numbers, has been
better than any of its predecessors for
years, and it has been found that the
presence of the two sexes in the same
class is most beneficial, each stimu
lating the other to renewed exertion.
Parties living in the country are mak
ing preparations to send their chil
dren to town, and the increase will be 1
still larger next year. It is confidently
hoped. that in time Mount Zion In
stitute will again become a flourishing
academic school,with the public school
as a permanent feeder.. The result
will be beneficial, not only in an edu
cational point of view, but also ?s re
gards the material interests of the
town. Every pupil retained at home
means a saving of a certaiw suem of 1
money to theo rwise exode4( 9
During the first five months..
;chool was supported from the,R
unds. For the next session
-eeeive three hundred doll'
Ie Peabody fund, and
will subscribe two or throee
rore, thus securing, at a P a
>enditure of a-few kundred-d
rear's Intructict-r-4f a bi
ifty pupils who.Ce t1ition fles LS
he old sy6tewr woula '
o more than three thou
Chese graded schools solvethe
em of educlation in pove-ty.s
south. Carolina. Witho then,
ands will grow up.in-abslute
ance.
The above is the result
)eriment .if Wi)nsbor.
ffinusburv has doue. otl er
1o, if the people are in earn
,ompctent teachers are emnplo
For rasing the necessary
hree sources exist. Th4 am
)lied by the school fund shou
i school of a hundred andiift
even or eight hundred dollare -
iundred or four hu'ndred
nay be secured from the. P
and. The balance .can be ,
,xtra tuition and by privat6
ion. To maintain a sch'
tbove mentioned size at leaste
iundred dollars should bi
As to the manner. of'o
r6m the Peabody fund i
,an be had on applicationt,..
endent H. S.- Thompson..
>oints connected with it .My h
>e mentioned here. The
he fund will give three hun,
ars to every publie schoolfj
[red pupils maintained fot'
with an average att7endaee._
ivia per cent.,. or folir
ifty dollars for a hunde
>Upils the same time with
ittendance of eighty-fie
)rovided in eneh ease thatthen
unds from other sources
he amount asked from.
und. Application must-,;
he beginning of the ear
urnished by th t States -'
f education.. The promi,
vill he paid at the end oft
)roof that all the conditions
,omplied with.
A few words in conO
erning the third soureeo
[t would be much better to,'
icorporated towns, at l
rision for 4 local school tax
rust to individual er
some argue that the schoolh
-eady 'too large. That this is
s conclusively shown by.
nith other States. South
aises a little over a dollar folr
bild within the scholastic ae
~ther States raise seven-or#ili.
ars per capita, severaloha
welve to fifteen, while
uises each year twenty-one dol
~very clhUd within the p
ges. It is absurd to say w
nuch, or even to hold that
inything like enough.
asier on the individual to py
han pay tuition. ~A tax.off6
>n ten thousand dollars is
-aiae forty dollars. Yet bew'
~itizens worth "not the helf
housand dollars now pay twioe
lollars a year in tuition fees?
~al tax is the cheapest means
ng money,1 Every one is ~
he abuse of the local tar di
lays of Radicalism- But -~
o hedged around with
iever again to beco-ne a burde.,
cheme is as follows: Let -I,
ined to those towns in whc
chools are located. Let the'
imit of the levy be fixed at,'s~
nills. Let a vote of a
hose persone paying taxes oAr
>o-tax be required to levyi<
axpayers will then have theM
n their own hands, and cann
:ompelled to pay the tax,.i
heir will. The restriction oft
o a certain class is perfectly)ii
nate. The Constitution provides#,
>ressly that no capitation taxasi
han the poll-tax, shallu 'be
l'his local tax is therefore, to
>nly by those persons owning prp
a.nd as the poll-taxpayers are~
tffected by the levy of this ett
hey have no right to demand a t
rhile, if the tax is levied, they
enefited indirectly .th'oughr the
erior advantages afforded of eda
heir children. Since it is nnf
ler for a town to levy a tar:
iundred or a thousand 'dollars
or the citizens to sasde
Lmount, an earnest effort
nade-to restore this tax with the
~ations mentioned above. This&
>d is in vogue ina very largenut
>f States.
It is needless to cry out agaisi~
yublic schools. They are a firedi
F'hey are cheaper than privateshh
and can be made better. Iii
.g the system, South Carolin
ye marching abreast, not onl
avery other State in the Union,
f Germany and- ot.herE .-.
iations. No one in castina g
iver the State and seeing the
mumber of children, born of ed7
>arents, now growing up in igdoe
iill deny that we areel
hat something must be don
o check this downward crr
surest remedy- is the
raded schoa
outh Ci~
io a