The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, November 20, 1884, Image 1
VOL. XIV. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
Looking Westward.
There's a long bright island of violet cloud
Low down in the wVost, where the sunset
sleeps'
And sails of snow like angels go
Over the crystalline amber deeps.
With never a roar on the jewelled shore,
With sprinkling crests of diamonds bright,
Long waves of gold aro tenderly rolled,
Rising and falling in tremulous light.
Into gulfs of darkness the glittering isle,
With its purplo peaks and shining shore,
Melts from the view, and the white sails too,
Are whehned in the waves to rise no more.
But lot like showers of golden flowers,
Boattered down through tho vanishing
sunset hars',
B twos and threes, and in countless seas.
loom out from heaven the eternal stars.
Now that the darkness of trouble and gvief
linth shutfrom my soul all its visions of
rest
Moro joyous and bright than the islands of
'I iht.
That stud the glad sea of the glittering
West
Lot me still see thy love, which, all starlike
above
Waxes brighter and fuller as shadows fn
crease;
And the radiant beams of those swift-fnding
dreams
Will be lost in the promise of golden peace.
AT NIAGARA FALLS.
"Oh!" squeaked Mrs.. Spoopondyke,
hysterically, as she gazed on the falls
with one eye, and furtively threw the
other around on the other women to
see if they were any better dressed than
se.o was. "Isn't this wonderful? Say,
my dear, shouldn't you think that little
Island would be afraid over there alone
by i.self P"
"It's safer there than It would be
ashore," muttered Mr. Spoopondyko,
dropping a highly wrought bead baa in
,his effort to jam a pair of moccasins,
Stint weren't mates, into his pocket.
"If that Island is any way hard up and
half smart, it'll stay whore it is, and
hold on to what it's got! I say, what're
you going to do with these shoes if you
ever get cm home?" he continued, as
the larger one hitched up and dropped
to the ground.
"Don't lose it!" exclaimed Mrs.
Spoopondyko, anxiously. ""I am going
to hang them up in the parlor."
"If the man who sold them was any
way reasonable in his charges, I'd like
to hire him to get into 'em about the
time the hanging comes off!" growled
Mr. Spoopondyko. "Look here! Have
you any fixed idea of the distance you
expect me to lug this old shinney stickP
Got any accurate notion of the labor
involved in hauling the dod gasted
tHng aroundP"
"That's an Indian war club," protest
ed Mrs. Spoopondyke. "I want that,
and you mustn't lose it for anything."
"From my experience around hero I
don't s'pose I could lose it for noth
ing!" grunted Mr. Spoopendyke. "But
what 1 want to know," he continued,
settling one end of the club in his hip
pocket, and trying to conceal the other
under his coat. "What I want to know
is, when the measly thing is calculated
to go on a peace footing. Iiere! In
what portion of my habiliments am I
expected to secrete this cometryP
Where does this rapidly-growing-in
popularity grave-yard goP"
"Oh, my! It's a work-basket!" chir
ruped Mrs. Spoopondyke. "You must
carr that in your hand, or you'll break
It! say, dear,"and she took his arm
and crept more closoly to him. "Don't
you enjoy It? Isn't that awful fall of
terrible water just too lovely? What
makes it fall down like that?"
"I don't know," retorted Mr. Spoop
ondyke, eyeing the scene with a scowl,
and dropping an arm full of sterooscop
ic views. "I suppose it falls like that
because it can't run up. If you could
get into the confidence of the thing, I
presume it would refer you to the
.theory of gravitation, and that would
turn you over to the doctrine of p)ress
.ure. By that time we wouldn't have
;monoy to get home with. Say, do you
really think you're going to need this
~gun boat for anything to which you can
give a definite diescriptionP"
''Oh, my little canoe!" cried Mrs.
.Spoopendyke. "I'mu going to hang
.that on the chandelier with pretty ri.
4 'bons."
"'That'll provide a good deal of en
tertainment!" snorted Mr. Spoopen
dyko, hunching the canoe into his arm
pit so as to get a better grip on the
keel. "But nmy judgment is that this
self-acting chunk of aboriginal trans
portation is-going to need IBcsomer
steel chains to hold it. I can under
* stand how a savage could sail in the
4 ~thing, but what I svanit nowv is the com
bination by which lie sto ped it when
ho got ready to-ld~ on! Catch hold
of that jtunk, If you calculate to save
it! Shove it under my arm, will ye?
Now, tip up the other end' so I can get
a putrchiase! I don't know, though,"
ruminated Mr. Spoopendy ko, gutteral
ly, "a man don't want m'ueh help to
find a purc so around hero," and he
glared abTut him and then stooped
over to pick up a tomahawk and a
pipe.
"W~,o've got lots of nice things to re
m'd s oN Niagara, haven' two, dear?"
smiled Mrs. Spoopendyko, encourag
ingl y. "But I want to get a few little
tnkots for the ladies in the church.
Only little ones, you know."
"Yes, I know,' grinnedl Mr. Spoop
endyke. "They'll have to be little, for
I've only got my ears loft to stow in.
Go on and buy them! Don't hesitato
.on my account! Those dod gasted wo
men expect it, and they're going to
have it! All I want now is a war trail
:and a consignment of belated govern
mont rations to look like a measly res
ervatlen! Bring on the consignmenti
Disinfect the goods and file the invoices
on the laok of my neck! If you meet
a man '5 h a lumber yard on his aboul
dor and a hammer in his flat, get him
to build a wing and a loft on me, and
then go ahead with your Niagara fallsl
Whoop! There goes more prehistoric
civilization! Can you reach down and
hand me those spears and that loft.
handed scythe' '. ith a wart on its spinel
Now jusit run 'cm through my suspen
ders behind, and tie that war bonnel
aroundl my neck!"
"What's that in your month, dearP'
inquired Mrs. Spoopendyke, solicit
ouslhy.
"A flint arrow head," growled Mr.
Spoopendyke, vindictively. "And it'll
take a dentist to get it out! Then he'l)
go blowing around that he's fo4nd az
Aztec battle-feld, and they'll fence mi
jaw in, and charge admission! Let i
alone, will ye! I paid three dollars foi
it, azid rm going to chaw onit while i'
last=! Rana hum.h of t.hI.? Wat t
stand around here any longer watching s
that thing squirt?" a
"It's so lovely!" murmured Mrs. 0
Spoopendyke, turning again to the A
falls. "Oh, my dear! Think of a man
going' over those falls!" said Mrs.
Spoopendyke shudderingly. I
"lHe wouldn't be any more of a meas
ly ass than a man who pays a dollar te
go under 'em!" argued Mr. Spoopen.
dyko, who still retained a lively recol
lection of his experience on the Ameri
can side. "If I come hero again, and
if God glyes me my health, I won't, I
think I 11 try to go over the falls, pro
vided there is any chance of my drop- I
ping on the Esquimaux who poured me b
into a rubber bathing suit, with a hole y
under each arm and a slit up the back! d
Say, my dear; suppose we give this 1
fatigue uniform with a bad smell to
some worthy charity!"
"That's my squaw's dress," faltered b
Mrs. Spoopendyke, "and I wouldn't h
take anything for it." c
"I wish the man I bouoaht it of had tl
felt that way!" groaned lr. Spoopen- r,
dyke. "Just pull it through the back ii
strap of my trousers, will ye, and tie 1
those knock-kneed garters around my s:
waist. Look out for that battle-axe! I h
want that myself to open oysters with! tl
Where's the shoo that belonged to the
game-legged warrior with the pip?
Hero's one; where's the other!" it
Mrs. Spoopendyko found it in his hat, v
and then announced her readiness to t]
take in the rest of the show. o
"There's a man down hero that's got h
a whirlpool," explained Mr. Spoopon- it
dyke, experiencing some difliculties in e
getting under way with his trophies. n
"I don't know whether ho is in the y
habit of exhibiting it to band wagons, '1
but if he is and ho don't insist on hav h
ing me buy it, we'll take a look at it. if
Come along!" s
"Is that the suspension bridge?" v
asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, as they drove t
past it. h
"Yes; want it?" demanded her hus- t
band.. "Though I don't know why g
they should c.tll it 'suspension,' when u
everything else around hero appears to 0
be in active linancial operation. Let's t,
figure up how much this drive is going t
to cost. Twice six hundred for the a
horses is twenty-four hundred, and add a
twelve hundred for the wagon makes a
three thousand. Multiply that by the a
distance, three miles. and you get nine
thousand dollars. Cheap. Hero, my ti
dear, what's become of that scalpP v
Where's the scalp of that primeval old i]
convert I gave a dollar for? What's s'
become of the hair of the archa ological
old pirate that sold photographs around g
this corner before the foot of the ad- h
venturous white man over penetrated 'I
those recesses? Do you discover any t]
remnants of a geological formation in 'J
bangs around this display of untutored u
industry?" howled Mr. Spoopondyke, ti
rising in wrath as he vainly plowed a
through his acquisitions for the missing t
spoils of war. "Do you a ppear to ob- s
serve a fugue in wool lurking around f
this dime museum of pre-Adamite rol- a
Ics?" 0
"Didn't-didn't you put it on your- f,
own head?" asked Mrs. Spoopondyko, c
with a misty recollection that he adorn- S
ed himself with his prize. s
"Shouldn't wonder!" grunted Mr. c
Spoopendyko, locating the scalp with- C
out further trouble. "I wanted it to a
feel at home. Here's the whirlpool. f
Look out how you step. Now got into 8
this box and we'll go down whore we I
can se0 it. Be careful how you sit on C
that war hat of dyed hen feathers! -
don't mind your sitting on it, but sit y
down straight so you'll bust 'em all C
even! Lot go, will ye?" 1
"But suppose that rope should P
break!" gurgled Mrs. Spoopendyke,
clinging to her husband's arm with one
han dand the side of tho car with the
other.
"You'd have reached the bottom all e
the same," grinned Mr. Spoopendyke,
as the ear came to a stand "Isn't thatc
a great sight? See the whirlpool?" e
"Where?" inquired Mrs. Spoopen
dyke, who was peering into the bushes 1
for snakes.
"Over there. Where'd ye s'po.n t
was--in the weeds? Walk behind
ye? Don't ye see you're upsottir
congregation of genuine Indian,
tigt fre-proof ingenuity?P. Thor
the-whoop! -Catch that canoe!'
In trying to rescue the bar)
Spoopendyko dropped his battle
erboard, and lost his hat, with th
and one moccasin.
"A votive offering to the won
the world!" ho yolled, as l'o fit
other shoe into the rap)ids. "Sp.
dyke and Niagara join handi
style for seventy-live cents!" I
wvoni.t!o war club. "'Or, slnt
has left my breast, keep it, noii
take the roi.t!' " and the steret
views followed, suceedeid bj
sp)ears, a bow, and a quiver of a
"'Go where glory awaits thee!
roaredl, as ho filled the air wit
work and photographs of the
"Gone to meet Captain Webl
shrieked, (lancing a wrathful hor,
and shying the bag and work
far into the rapids. "Oh, 'Maid
Mist,' this is in -our 'line!''-a
squaw's dress sailed out into th
and was whirled away. "Got an
triumplhs by field andi flood?" he,
od1, turning' on his horror-stricke
"Know whore the wvhirlpooli
Got sonic kind of a notion that
pointed it out successfully, have
Vell, I have; andi now you're
home!" -and Mr. Spocopondyko
his cars dlown on his shoulder
starte(d for the car.
"Biut won't you buy some m
the pretty Indian things?" sobbe
Spoopendyko, trying to catch ui
"No, I won't, won't IP" howbt . .
Spoopendyko, without turning. 'Think
i'm going around this fashionable wn-r
tering-place any more looking like a
quarantine? Got a notion that I'm go
ing into another rehearsal for an Indi
aR nenmment, haven't ye? Well, I
ain't;an<t I'm not going to put anoth
er ddgasted mill onthis mecasly wa
ter-privilege, either!"-andl Mr. Spoop-.
enidyke, innooently oblivious of any in
tention in the pun, seized his wife by
the elbow and hurried her away.
"I don's care," murmured Mrs.
8poopendyke to horself, as, seated in
thie train, she was whirled from the<
wreck of her aboriginal hopes. "I don't
earo. I saw all there was, and I can -
get the samet trinket. in New York for
half the mone-o..nl I' ik to.
ome man who was going over the falls,
ud ask him to look out for my little
anoe."-Stanley Runt'ey, in Trars|ers'
fagazine.
WOMAN _(OSSIP.
low n Lady May Presurvo the Glory
of Her Hair-Some Infalliblo
RCemedi(A.
Women Who are Raidly Bocoming
Professional Beauties-Girls In
Other Countries.
TILE IIAIt.
The story goes, says the St. Louis
bat-Dispatch, that the Duohess of Marl
orough. wife of tho "great duke,"
ras so incensed at her husband ono
ay that, to spite him, she cut off her
ixuriant tresses, wijich the duke
reatly admired, and threw them in
is face. Few women, however, would
o willing to sacrifice their hair, which
as been called their "glory," for any
onsideration whatever. So highly do
iey value it, indeed, that several ho
)inos live in history who have earned
nmortality by the sacrilice of their
>cks. Modern cosmetic art gives no
cnall attention to the cultivation of the
air, but, on the whole, singularly lit
o is known concerning its nature and
rowth.
When a hair is pulled from the head,
may be observed that the end which
ras impianted in the scalp is larger
ian the hair itself. This is the bulb
r root from which the hair grows. A
air is. in fact, a delicate tube, round
i straight haired persons, and flatten
d in the curly haired. It Is the flat
oss of the hair that makes it curl.
romen have coarser hair than men.
'he average number of hairs on the
end is about 120,000. This calculation
based upon the ascertained fact that
square inch of the head of a person
rho has an average head of hair con
tins by actual count, one thousand
airs, approximately. In early days
he kings of France used to pluck a sin
1e hair from the head and bestow it
pon one of their attendants as a token
f favor. The hair grows from eight
ton Inches a year. It has been found
Lint it grows faster in the daytime than
t night, and faster in summer than in
rinter. Light and sun evidently have
n influence on the growth of the hair,
s on other vegetable products.
The best hair-restorer known is soft
3pid water, used with a sponge, and
,nite castile soap. This puts the scalp
i good order, removes the scales, and
timulates the growth of hair.
Women frequently suffer from a
radual falling out or thinning of the
air between the ages of 20 and 30.
'he hair has a dry, withered look, and
i2 partings become painfully visible.
'ho young lady who is thus troubled
sually becomes alarmed, and after
eying every "hair restorer" she sees
dvertised, has her head shaved, with
Lie idea that this last heroic measure is
ure to save her from the baldness she
mars. The fact is that the difficulty
rises from some delinito cause, which,
nceo ascertained, must be attacked be
are the trouble can be cured. This
ause may lie in the condition of the
calp itself, or it may depend upon
ome disturbed action of some internal
rgan. Dyspepsia is a frequent cause
f the loss of hair. The blood may be
ut of order, or the trouble may be ro
erred to debility. These are the doep
eated causes of the falling out of the
tair, and must be attended to before a
urc can take place.
If there is a scurfiness present treat
nont must begin with tepid water and
astilo soap. After two weeks the fol
owing solution should be rubbed in
ontly with a soft tooth-brush, morning
,nd evening: Strong decoction of Peru
ian bark, one half pint; brandy, one
vinoglassful; glycerine, one teaspoon
ul. Once every other day-not of ten
r-the following lotion should be ap
lied in a similar manner: Castor oil,
no ounce; best French brandy, two
unces; rosewater, six ounces.
People generally-those who have a
eslthy growth of hair-do not pay
much attention to the care of the hair
iek;
t is
ed,
ved
ash
soft
3m.
,vn.
the
ilp.
be
in
ck,
del
mars
vato
n as
tain
atos
enm
will
be
d.ly
am
mi-o
mtid
tity
too
yan
to
to
the
mot euarty tm single wvomen, the chin
Lfnd upjper lip are tapt to be invyadled by
stubble .by no moans attractive.
'Bearded womn"' are sutpposed to
>we their hirsuto decoration to an
>verexcitod condItion of the hair bulbs.
)riental ladies htave a horror of eu
>erflutous hair, and( thme most anciently
:nowvn doe.pilatories canto from the east.
L'hoe secret prepariatin used in the Asi
itic haremus, called "Riusnma," has been
ound upon analysis to be very injuri
>us. 'rTe safest chemical depilatory
nown is e-1lihed sulphyd rate of calcium.
L'ake: Sulphurot of calcium, two parts;
iuickllme, 0on( p)art; powder them sop
irately; mix antd kcop, in a w1ell s top
ocrod bottle. When wvanted s.Jor usc
nako into a panste with a little water
tnd spread on the patnot t a omaiu
fifteen mi a,or til It beginsI
smart, and then wash off with soap at
water. The most effective method
to pull the hair out by the roots. Ti
best instrument to do this with is ti
psilothorn, as it is called. It is a stk
of resin, tempered with wax, with tl
addition of a strong anodyne. The on
of the stick is softoned and warmed I
hanging it near a candle, and is pres
ed upon the hairy spot for about amii
ute. It is suddenly pulled away, at
this without any pain. To.perform tl
operation with tweezers is most too h
role for most women to undertake, t
considerable pain is iPvolved. A ma
In Waghington has made a great deal i
money by a method which he has it
vented of destroying unnecessary hal
A needle connected with an eloctri
battery Is plunged into the follicil
or sac which holds the hair, and
slight shock is communicatsed to to
root, which permanently destroys I
This is of course very tedious, as oni
one hair can be destroyed at a timi
but il faut soufrir pour etre blecl.
PROFEsSIONAL BEAUTIES.
There are three women on the No,
York stage to-day who are rapidly b<
coming professional beauties. Sadi
Martinot, who is now playing a corned
part in the Union Square theatre, is
particularly handsome woman. Tb
dealers say that her photographs at
selling more rapidly and numerousl
than those of any other two actresse
in America combined. Next to Mi
Martinot conies Pauline Hall, and aftc
her Odetta Tyler. All of them at
young women, and they are certainly
trio of remarkable beauties. Paulin
Hall was a chorus girl. She is no,
playing the principal part in the spe<
tacle at Niblo's garden. She sing
fairly but is not particularly brigh
Her advancement and popularity at
duo entirely to her beauty. She con
mands a salary now that would hav
made her gasp with delight when a
was a chorus girl two years ago. Mb
Martinot married Fred Stinson, wli
formerly mananed Mme. Mod jeski
She only lived with him a short tim
and then they parted, I believe, forel
or, though they have never been d
vorced. A few years ago Miss Mart
not was singing in a variety theatre I
Boston. Now she receives $160 a wee
at the Union Square theatre, and wi;
soon go on a starring tour with he
own company. Odotta Tyler comes c
a good southern family. She came t
New York about two years ago and d<
aided to go upon the stage. She ha
just been married then and her hu:
band was a quiet young man wh
thought it would be rather a fine thin
to have his wife go on the stage. H
supposed that after studying a week c
two she would be able to take one <
the leading positions in a Now Yor
theatre. His mind was disabused wit
this idea after consulting one or tv
cynical theatrical men, and finally b
wife went to study for the stage wit
George Vanderhoff, who was ve
much impressed with her beauty an
predicts a future for her. She hi
played in the Madison Square and soi
oral other companies and has a beaut
ful face. It is of the infantile ordo
with big eyes, what lovers call a ros
bud mouth, and chubby cheeks. The:
are a few facts of a personal natui
about three very beautiful actresses.
OTHER GIRLS THAN OURS.
The notion that girls are too delica
to be useful is lihyited to a comparativ
ly small part of the globe. 'Throug
out Asia, Africa, and in large portio
even of Europe and America, there pt
vails an old belief that they were bo
to labor. . In Turkestan, and on t
Tartar steppes, the Kirghese sultann
and their daughters, and princesses
whose veins flow the blood of long lin
of kings, still milk the sheep, cows ax
goats, and perforni the menial offic
of the household, as the Sanscrit mai
ens did six thousand years ago in ti
same localities. They cook, take ca:
of the younger children, make ga
ments. cut the skins of the wild fowl
with the feathers on, for caps, spin cc
ton, weave cloth, and tan loather I
means of sour milk. In this dllctab
region the mother wvears rich attir
while the daughter goes in humbhi
weeds, like Cinderella. If there is
piano, the mother plays on it in tih
front room of the tent, while the daugi
ter brews the koumiss, stows the mu
ton, and broils the camnal chops in tI
back kitchen. This is the benightr
condiltion of a patriarchal pl)ell wi
adhere to a nearly obsolete theory<
filial (duty. Similar ideas prevn
throughout India, China, and amion
the native tribes of Siberia, who has
been driven northwvard by aggressis
neighbors. The Tungusian girl gati
era the snow, melts it, makes the tt
and the fish soup, sews, and, beir
skillful in archery, helps to keep ti
larder supplied with game. Thox Y:
hut and Samovedo maidens, and a
who dIwell along the Arctic ocean, hel
in summer to lay up winter suppllie
and in winter to p)erform all domuest
duties. The Abyssinlan girl grimx
corn in the aim pie mills in use in ti
country. The Kanfli r girl weaves ba
kets and draws water. ThoIx girls in ti.
opher parts of the dark continent pu
verize the grain, weave mats, mal
earthen vessels, and are the hatters<
.their tribe. The theories of the trib<
and nations of Asia andl Africa ai
shared by the Indians of North an
South America, who compel the your
girls to learn the duties and harudsi[
of life at an early age.
The D)igger Indians were, until a foi
years ago. considiered the most ignoi
ant and least intelligent human being
on the Pacific coast. These who liv
on Rancho Chico have naow been cdi
cated in civilized ways. They hav
learned to read and write almost xi
well as white peop)lo, and seome of ther
have oven become musicians. T1heoy ri
cently gave an entertainment in Sa
Francisco, under the care of their ix
structors. Sunday-school hymns. mn
tional songs and other musical an
metrical comnpositions wvore rendere
by their choir iu a very felicitious styl
The Independent American citize
who cats sardines will be glad i
learn that the packing-box is mad
in Jersey City, the wrapper is printe
In New York, the tiu cans are mani
factured in Boston, the fish are caugi
on the Miaine coast, and the oil is e;
tracted from cottonseed in Georgia.
Ld EDUCATIONAL.
is Requisites for Practical Success as a
Teacher.
k qualities which help a tcachoi
d to command a good situation may be
conveniently grouped under tihrec
Y hoads,-power of discipline, a thor
' ough education, and ability to worl
' well with other pOople. Any principa
d or committee seeking a teacher, wish
0 es to find. one combining all thes
3 qualities; but they are rarely to b
5 found in any marked degree in th
n same person. A teacher who unite
> two of them can usually depend o
having a fair position with a fair sal
ary. Accordingly, whoever intends t
0 make teaching a profession must con
e ider his own natural powers in thes
a directions, and decide what kind c
e self-education is necessary for him.
' In schools where the intellectun
y standard is high, what is cc":umonl3
called the discipline is easy, for the
pupils are occupied and interested it
their studies. Discipline is still of im
portanco, but it is of such a natur<
that it may often be best enforced by a
o teacher of gentle mannors. and culti
y vatod mind. But this is not usuall3
a the ease in the lower schools, whore
0 the rough and untrained elements of
o society are to be tutored. Of course, a
teacher need not be rough in dealing
a with rough pupils, and there are excep
s tional persons who combine high in.
r tolleetual attainments and refined
0 manners with quickness of perception,
a and that overmastering firmness of wil
0 which makes everything yield to it.
- authority. Generally speaking, how.
ever, one who has a profound love o
books,-such a love as is needed t<
make a scholar in any high sense,-ba
o this very fact is somewhat incapacitat
. e fo te successful management of
e hard school. In a room whore etorna
o vigilance is the price of liberty, th<
s mind is too much distracted to do any
o Work except on an exceedingly low
z plane. The teacher who has th<
e quickest eye, the sharpest car, th<
. readiest decision,-the one whose fac
. ulties are always on the alert, whos<
wits are always all about him, In the
very room, is the one who succeeds in
such a place, and enjoys his success
If, by any misfortune, a scholar finds
r himself in such a place, ho must makc
f the best of it and cultivate the quali
ties belonging to it, and lie may witl
difficulty achieve success; but he wil
d hardly enjoy his success, for it will b
bought at too great a sacrifice of wha
are to him the essentials of life.
Yet such wvork is by no means to b,
eundervalued. In some respects iti
r the mos,t important work which can be
done now in this country. To brinr
k the lawless elements in our coni
h munfty under the strict dominion o
o law is so pressing a need that it seem
a sometimes as if our nation's salvatiot
h depended upon it. Happily, there is :
y large class of our teachers who slov
d this special aptitude for governing.
s Only, speaking in general terms, w<
must say the student is not the disci
- plinaiian, nor is the disciplinarian th
r student; so that a teacher, starting it
his profession, ought to consider whicl
1 of these two nature meant him to be
. and to follow faithfully, so far as ih
can, his true bent. Of course the on
who elects to bei a disciplinarian is no
to be content with superficial class
to work. He must know his lessons, an
e. knowv them thoroughly; but lie mm
h1. not think himself fitted for a positio
as demanding wide knowledge, or carefti
c- reasoning, or critical judgment, or fin
rn poetical discrimination. lie must rc
2e alizo that his own proper work is nobi
as anid inidispensable, and lie must not a
in templt to do another's.
os On the other hand, tihe studenti
ud not to be satisfied with lawlessness c
es Inattention in his claisses. lie is not t
I- fix his eyes on time floor and tell his pil
io pius a series of erudite facts. If 1
ro cannot imp)art his knowledige In such
r- way that his pupils acetually receive if
I, lie has mistakenm his vocation, lie ma'
t. be a good writer, or annotator, o
*y translator, but'*not, a good teacher
le The teacher whio is a studlent mus
3, strive for the best possible disciplin
ur among his pupils, but he imst realizi
a that the kind of discipline which h
e can enforce will be that which is al
1- most unconscious; and he imust, if pos
t- sible, findI a piositioni in which th.
o qualities of a student are needed.
d And hero young teachers find a d illi
o0 culty. At graduation, very few peir
>f sons have enough special knowledge t<
il enable them to lull situations ini tI
ghigher s chiools. The number of school
oe in which discipline is time first requi
o site is so much the larger, that a young
~. woman who Is secretly sure that he
a true power lies in t.he directioni o
gscholarship rather than dIisciiin(e, mma,
e be forced to begin in a school whieri
. scholarship counts for little. Of cours,
il she must then (1o her best. Iht if sin
p wishos ever t, dho any satisfactora
s, ork she mst '.Lhook forwardl a little at
C the same time. She will not havy
ls much lei.suro for study, and it will b<
it vain to try to make of herself a uni
3. versal encyclopiedia. Buit if sho wil
o carefully decide the line of st.udy tom
1. which her ability Is greatest, anc
e. steadily pursue that, she will, in 'a feu
,jyears, find herself fitted by educatioir
s for the p)lace for whmich she is fitted b3
e nature.
d llaving decided whether one is
gdisciplinarian o'r a student, and huaving
a~ determined to work in one's owr:
special line, unless tihe fates are mior<
adverse than they usually are, there ih
still something~ of importance to con
sidoer If one wisheus to lbe piractically r
Ssuccessful teacher. Can lhe work wel
with others? With seime p)rinlcipals
this Is the first question in selecting
Steacher. Onoe may be a very Napoleoi
Sfor discipline, andl a Dri. Johnmson foi
learning, andi still be an intolerabb(
teacher.
'Naturally, working well wvith ot,hcrs
.depends on character, but as there arn
., persons of fine character who fail here
d wo will specify a few points of im
portance in securing this c"d. First
~the teacher must understanu. vhcro hi
own place is; that Is to say, lie mums
n do his own wvork without shirking, e
,o expecting other people to help hiir
o out, whille at thoe same time he mum
d obey those in authority over hin
. whether principal or committee. If bi
tthinks lhe can see a better way <
~. working than that proscribed, l
should, of course, say so respectfull,
but ho mnst not I.asit mpo hi ow
way, except in cases of absolute right
and wrong. He may think his judg
ment better than that of his superior,
and it may really be better; but then,
on the other hand, it may not be. At
all events there cannot be two rules,
and a constant struggle for mastery
wastes in friction all the energy which
should go to instruction. The person
who cannot submit to those placed
over him, pannot succeed practically as
a teacher.
3 Second, he must not interfere in any
3 way with the work of others. If a
o teacher seems to do his work badly,
s still it is not the concern of another
2 teacher, unless ho is absolutely asked
- for advice by the teacher who is in
difficulty, or is urged to give judgment
- by those who have a right to his opin
3 ion. lie should remember, too, that
f the teacher he criticises may really be
doing bettor than himself.
1 Third, ho or she must know how to
be absolutely silent on school affairs.
T here must be no school gossip oven
among intimate friends. Nothing is
more common, and nothing is more
pernicious. Speak of school affairs
only to the persons with whom they
must be discussed as matters of busi
ness. Do not weary the principal with
anecdotes of your dificultios with
your scholars, unless you need his ad
vice and are prepared to take It. Do
not criticise your follow-toachers in
talking with other people. Do not
com plain to the teachers that the prin
cipal is weak and ignorant. Do not
explain in general society that you
hate teaching, or that you love it, and
do not bore the community with school
room experiences. The golden gift of
silence helps a teacher more in work
ing harmoniously with others than any
other trait,-more oven than unfailing
good temper.
The Alarming Increase of Dear
Mutes.
Throughout the sessions of the
Science Association, one of the subjects
that has come up most frequently has
been the best way of dealing with deaf
mutes. An interesting discussion on
the subject took place in the section on
anthropology. Whether it is because
"the chief study of mankind is man,"
this section is always well attended,
and, from the first, more ladies have
attended it than any other section. The
chief interest of the deaf mute discus
sion was the part taken in it by Prof.
A. Graham Bell, the telephone invent
or, whose wife, as it is well known, is
a deaf mute, and was instrumental, it
is said, in his making the discovery
3 that has brounlht him fame and fort
uno. Mrs. Bo'll, who is able to tell all
that is said by watching the lips of the
speakers, was present and sat near her
husband. Prof. Boll's father, who has
given the subject considerable atten
tion, and devised a method by which
the dumb may be taught to speak, was
also present. Prof. Boll is violently
opposed to the existing arranement
concerning the deaf and dumb in' this
country, which makes them a separate
class, and especially objects to the con
3 tinual marriage of deaf mutes, which,
1 he claims, must evolve a race of deaf
mutes in this country. In one family,
lie said, lie had found ninety deaf
3 mutes in four generations, connected
by blood or marriage. Of deaf mutes
t forty per cent. marry, and with each
- sucoceding generation the tondency to
the infirmity increases. Of the forty
t live per cent. of deaf mutes who marry.
1 eighty per cent. marry deaf mutes. To
remedy the evil he said we must sepa
0 rate the doaf mutes as much as pos
sible from other deaf mutes during the
0 time either lie or she is beinig educated.
They should not be sent to asylums;
t,hey should be taught English instead
s of the sign language. They should as
r sociate, duingf play hours, with chil
3 dren not similarly affected, and they
- I should1 be taught here, as they are in
Germany, to enumerate artificially.
SDeaf mnuteism, the speaker declared, is
increaszingt hero at an alarming rate
ChJiicayo T1S'imes.
The Wisdom and Foolishness of
B3athuing.
Our modern habits have madle the
bath-room a most important part of the
- house. Every one bathes. TIho bath
- has been so long and so industriously
3tumpeted as a paaca for almost
overything~ that even those wihio shiver
after a cold bath or feel like fainting
after a warm one will regularly take
either the one or the other. Ho who
(lees not take a morning bath in these
(lays scarcely dare own to the fact, for
h le feels that he wvilh be regarded at
on3ce as an unicleanly person. Yet there
is no necessary coninection between
cleanliness and total immersion of the
body for a greater or less >eriod. The
b)ath, as nowv understood, Is, as is well
known to many phIysicianis, too rude a
treatmient for mnany persons of sensitive
tempjerament. It is not every organ
ismi that can stand the chill of a plungo
In cold water and the shock of a shower
upon the head. If reaction is swift,
aLnd all the organs of the body are In
good workinig order, cold and( shower
ba this may often be beneficial; but if
the tone of the system Is slow the re
action will not take place and( injury
wilhl result. It would be well if we
would trust our sonsatoons more and
follow our wills less. When a person
(lees not "'feel like'' takin a bath, yet
lie wihll take it, lhe is sim py using his
wvill against himself. Cleanliness can
be satisfied by wvashing portions of the
body separately so as not to chill the
entire surface at once. In any case the
benefit of a cold bath conmes from the
reaction andl must be secured by fric-.
tion, followed by active exertion, not
by sitting or standing in the currents
of air.
From the days of Cortez, in 1621,
down to the boginn4ng of this century,
and even to the present time, except
when interruptedi by revolution, the
Mexican silver mines have poured forth
an unceasing stream of silfer, such as
,the world h".e never seen. It is esti
a mated tha the value of the silver coin
t and bullion produced in that country
r since the conquest is over $8,000,000,
~1 000, and it is well known that some of
t the mines have been profitably worked
almost without interruption froem that
e day tothis, and that one of them~ at
'f least is still running out silver at the
o) rate of over $5,000,000 por year.-PML.
e adelpMa Record,
GLEAND'S. t
The oyster interest In Ne *'
Ploys $20,000,000 bapital abd
10,000 men in the wholetWi.
alone. Gotham's averaed
sumption of the bivalve
e10.
About 600 German new
published in the United'
which 7 are in the New
States, 208 in the Middle States,
the Southern States, and. 860 in the
Western States.
Mr. D. H. Eliott, whoso 0 1 a
the devolopment of .tranipctMaI
edilities have built up the Floda
trado, estimates the crop f 1$.
1885 at a million boxes, agaIns t
650,000 boxes of last season.
. The quadric le is the. nam g1a .'
a wheeled vele invented {: I
0. Brown, of Boston. It . atir o
small wheels in front and two 1
wheels behind. The inventor e '
that it is far superior to the bicycle or
tricycle.
There are now in the Treasury vs lbs,
at Washington 186.000,000 s4lver 4o1
lars, weighing nearly 5,000 tons. It
placed in ordinary coal carts; a ton in
each it would make a continuous
cession fourteen miles long. The n ve
figures do not includo the silver bullion
and fractional silvur, of which there is
a thousand tons more.
Miss Nellie Arthur carries a doll.
When she was with her father atKings
ton, N. Y., a woman said: "My good
ness! why does that big girl carry a
dollP" An answer was quickly [vnen
by another woman, who said: "
if the Kingston girls would, oa r? dolla
until they were a little older instd of
running after the boys before tiey
their short dresses off it wotlb
much more to their credit."
What is claimed to be the la'g.st
grain elevator in the world has ben
erected at Newport News, Va., by the
Chesapoako & Ohio Railroad Coaolity.
It is 90 feet wide, 886 feet long Qhd
about 16t foot high, with engine and
boiler rooms 40x1 and 40 feet high .
The storage of the house is 1,600,00
bushels, with a receiving capacity of
30,000 and a shipping capacity of 20,.
000 bushels per hour.
The Chinese have what Is termed the
kite festival on the ninth day of the
ninth moon. Sometimes the ktsye
somblo serpents 80 feet long, at other
times a group of hawks hovering
around a center, all being suspended
by a single strong cord, but each kite
moved by a separate line. Sometines
the kites are east adrift under the be
lief that they will carry away with
them all pending disasters.
A benevolent woman in . Cincinnati
has undertaken to supply.poor, lonely
bachelors in the West with wives. For
$1 she will send an applicant a list of
names of farmers' daughters with whom
he can correspond with matrimonial
intent. It lie cannot, with this advan
tage, capture a companion, he ought to
be doomed to everlasting lone ness.
Several able works on the art of letter
writing contain some effective ammu
nition for this purpose. Having the
girl's name to begin with, he has only
to lire it at the mark.
Coral fishing is largely followed, in
Algeria, 40,000 to 45,000 pounds of cor
al, valued at about ?38,000, being the
yearly production; La Cailo is the dn
ter of this industry, and there are em
ployed annually 160 boats and 1.800
men. The coral is obtained by means
of a wooden apparates in the sliapo of
a cross, having in its center a leaden
slug or stone for ballast. Nets, the
meshes of which are loose, are hung
on the bars of the c&oss and dragged at
the bottom of th' sea, and agnon the
crevices of the rocks. These. nets.
winding about the coralino plant,
break up) or tear offits branches, which
adhere to the meshes. The apparatus
is drawn up bythe fisherrhen whenev
er lie thinks it sufilelently laden. There
is also a not which is provided .with
large iron nails, having thus great
force to break the coral, but this ap
paratus is forbidden to be used.
Has Venus a Moon.
It is not impossible that a new planet
has been diseovered, a very small mom.
ber of the solar system, revolving c'ut.
side the orbit of Venus an'd near 'her
domainm. M. Houzon, the dfreoto,r of
the new observatory at Brussels, an as
tronomer and writer of,rnown, has
an ingenious theory which will be 'enti
tled to careful consideration as comi'
from the pen of a distinguished xUan
science.
Tihere was formerly a goner~ .Uei
that our fair neighbor was, li e e
earth, accompanied by a sateld,nd
one of the first objeots looked A alter
the invention of the telescope, .was Whe
moon of Venus. Seven times atjeast
since that important event a ~ si ~ ob
ject has been seen near Venus. itesent.
lag a similar phase. and bearfng 4,1
dence of being a satellite of th. bright
planet. The first observa4 was
made in 1740, and the last in1764.
During the 120 years that have passed
since, though diligent search ha been
unremittnono vet of the.mythical
M. Houzeau has revived the theme
by the presentation of a curioius and
somewhat startling theory upon the
following basis: A planet ,reyolves
around tho sun, outside of Venus and
near to her. It is very small 'In dinln.
sions, and is possibly an esoaped secl
lite. Neith is the name gven t e
little planet, in honor of th a tl
ous goddess Sais, whose veil no cte
has raised.-8ientiflo 4merigen.
The Poultryj World says thatt4 edig
forenco between an eg31
plump, healthy-fed hen, 4
fre n food daily, and an eg 14 ,
thin, 'voorly-ert hen is a~s *t
diffe''ence betwen goad b
A fowl fed on garbage aut*
with very littlo.grain9f,I1
leg eggs, to be sure, bt.
e es are broken, to bd4e&
watery way over your dish.e
milky white, lustead o so
retain its sap ert
yields to the b tc
with more 'aus% n
conviction hty~
something h..t4b,