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Hours With Men :iti'! Women of
ih<> Revolution.
^ -opvri rlitoil, !>'?S8, by Funk A Wa/mtlls.
t Y' !l pleasant day in parly March,
1801, I crossed the Hudson Kivor in
a small hoat with in o\j)crt oarsman,
from the western shore of Tnppnan
lhiv to the mouth of the Crdton River.
i was then on the quest for materials
for lev "Hudson from the
Wilderness to tie- . en," first published
in the I .on Ion >'t Jouvtml. Wo
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passeo liiiK- sipiaoinns c>r me m>ai'iiice
on tlio way, anil tarried a
n *> 1
while at ('roton (formerly Teller's)
pointV visiliiijr Italian villa and the
vineyards of I )i\ * nd'-rY . where
hundrdes of tons <"/ In.- vr rapes
wore raised every veur. then
rowi'd up to ( roton I'av and passed
under the drawbridge of the Hudson
*
River Railway into the month of the
('roton River. We found the .current
<?f the stream very rapid, for the
tide in the Hudson was ebbinj*.
When nearly abreast the \ an
t'ortlandt Manor House, the oarsman
found it impossible to stem the our- >
* rent any longer, and as the water was >
too shallow to bear tlie boat to'
the rij^lit bank, as I desired. 1
was landed on the rue^ed left bank.
1 clambered up the acclivity alon<^
the margin of a little brook, cheered
^ bv 1110 notes of (to me) the first bluebird
of the sea on,'perched on a spray
overhead. Following the post-road
that skirted the elevated shore of the
stream, ! reached the rieke'y uhi<di
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nriug."?the iurnous"t roton I fridge !
of Revolutionary times -at or near
sunset. It was a picturesque struct,
lire, spanning rocky gorge, through :
which the Croon Riwr was running!
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rapidly. Near the bridge I obtained j
a charming view of the mouth of the j
Croton, with Dover Kill Island near, j
the broad 'I'appaau Bay and the blue
hills in the distance beyond.
After making a sketch of the old
bridgo 1 strolled down the road on
the high light bank of the L'roton, as1
t it sloped toward tho Hudson, and
reached 'the Van Cortlandt Manor
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House at twilight. At its entrance
gate i mot Colonel I'icrre Kan t'ortlandt,
the proprietor of the estate,
and < eccptod his cordial invitation to
pass the night under his roof. J was
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KlllUiy WClCOIlied l>v -HI'S. > Jill v ort
landt, ?a daughter of tho eminent
Professor T. Romeyn Boek, of Albany.
.The house* yet presorvod in
its ancient aspec., :s near the shore of
what was one* the toper part, of the
beautiful , Croton Ba>, in which vessels
of considerable si/.e often anchored,
and which was also the resort
of vast flocks of wild ducks and
shoals of shad. Karl^ i.. PHI heavy
rains and inciting s(l >ws caused the
sweeping away of ti great Proton
Bum, and an iminensc volume of water
released rushed river ward, carrying
nfitfh it loosened earth sufficient
V e
^ to half fill Croton Bay and convert
:? - ~i.~n
unveil <-'i n a miiiiiow Ma't'llll.
fho Van Cortlundt Manor House
was erected at tlio bojnunini'' of the
O O
last century by .lohn Van Cortlundt,
son of Stephen Van Cortlandt, the
first proprietor of the cutout domain,
whoso, father, OlofT Stevens \ an
Cortlundt, was a linial descendant of
the Dukes of Courland, in Kussia.
His ancestors, when deprived of them
duchy, emigrated to IJouand, v.heneo
Orloll came to New Netherlands in
1080, in the service cf the Dutch
West India Company. The family
name was Stevens or Stevenssen,
that of Van Cortlnndt being only titular.
The family became allied bv
i marriage, in time, with the Van
Uonsselaers, the Schuylors, the Bayurc|s,
the Do I'oystera, the Living-;
stoiw, and othc leading families in;
the province and State.
The Manor Ilouse was built of
heavy stone, and the thick walls of:
the basement story wore pierced with
loopholes for the use of musketry, in
defence. These still remain. The
mansion commands, from its i>road
piazza in front, an extensive view to
the southwest of Tnppaan Hay and
the rugged hills beyond. Itissheltored
on the north by a high hill covered
with sturdy forest trees.
At the time of my visit there was j
a broad lawn at the front, and a path ,
led through the oid garden to the
ancient ferry-house, a building occu-1
pied during the Revolution as a'
"BE TL JErSTTZE
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.a. itoOKitn, i * it i > 11 m 11 <* i*. \
i^uard-hoiise. Tito Baron <lo Kalb
was stationed there in ITTH, and in
tin* wintsr of 1782 a detachment of
Now York levies, havintr just returned
there from a scout to Morrisana,
u-nxu .. K !..?
?.1 <>b .. wu.,1 r tl.O I.-. ry-house
l>\ some of the oiioiny's
cavalry. Olio of the 'ontinentals"
\v;is killed; the romainder esettpod on
the ice. The broad entrance hall of
the mansion was adorned by the
horns of stately sta^s, killed on the
manoi when wild deer roamed over
the domain. The rooms were enriched
with nuuy family portraits, anei"nt
audi modern, and other \vorks
of art; and the library displayed
many precious mementoes of the colonial
and Revolutionary period*.suf'fieiet
t to hold the attention of the
enriou antiquary for days.
()n t' o nomine* after inv arrivnl at
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me .uiinur iiouso .Mrs. \ :im I ortlamlt
invitoil inn to visit aged twin-sisters
living at tho village of Proton, about
two mill's up '.ho rivor. She kindly
accompanied mo to introduce me to
the nonagenarians tho were over
ninety years of ago. ()n the way wo
drove into the beautifully situated
cemetery of the Vim Portland!. family,
on tho summit of a hill west of
the mansion. It commanded an extensive
view of the Hudson southward,
with the 'entire range of tho
Palisades from Piormont to Hoboken.
\t a little west of the cemetery, at
tin? neck which connects Croton
Point with the main land, is the^site
of the old fort or cattle of A itrh-a
icitn (the original name of the Croton
1 liver) was pointed out. It is
said to have be^n the oldest Indian
fort south of the Highlands. It was
built by the Saciiom Proton, and
there he gathered his parties for
hunting or for war.
At a little oast of the sit<> of the
fori wo came to A'ifc/t-it-n'a/t burviii<r
PTound, in a beautiful nook at
the entrance to "flaunted Hollow,''
concerning which old superstitions
supplied many weird stories of early
times. The people believed that
they saw in the eroves and olcns the
forms of the departed rod-mtfn whom
they called the Walkino" Sachems of
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Teller's Point.
< )nly one of the twin sisters could
be seen- -Mrs. Miriam Williams
the other, Mrs. Kuuico McGord, !* ing
too feeblo in mind and body to
receive visitors. Their maiden name
was Teller, and they had long been
widows. Tliey were descendants of
Andrew Teller, who in 1(571 married
a daughter of ( >lofF Stevenson Van
Cortlandt, at d a sistt r of the first
proprietor of tlv \'an ( ortlandt Manor.
"Teller's Point" received its
name from a descendant of his who
occupied it.
The memory of Mrs. Williams
seemed to be but very little impaired
by age, ihe reecollections of her
childhood and early womanhood being1
very vivid. She well remembered
incidents connected with the encampment
of tiie American urmv it
Yerplunck's Point, in the fall of
1182. She and her sister were then
twelve years of age. She remembered
seeing Washington ride up to
the gato in front of their house one
day, with only a single attendant,
dismount and ask her father, who was
Standing near, for some food, as ho
had been detained on busines below.
The twins were standing at the chair
as the General entered the house, and
placing his hands on their heads
said:
"You look as much alike as two
eggs; may you have long,life."
"The wish of the great man lias
been granted," said Mfs? Williams.
' for wo have lived Jonir. We were
o
ninety years old l i-l August. Wo
had ve;fy liti'e in the house at. that
time wherewith to entertain such a
guest. My mother could set upon
the little table only some old ham,
fresh rye bread, sweet butter, a bit of
choose and some cold water. Wo
children were peeping through the
open door into the room, and I remember
as well as if it happened yesterday
.eeing General Washington,
before sitting down to partake of the
simple meal, placo one band on the
table and closing bis eyes ask a blessing.
Father, meanwhile, stood with
his head uncovered in the furthon
part of the room. And here," said
Mrs. Williams, "is the voiy tublo at
which General .Washington stood
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3 TO -2"?-CTI3 "V\7"CTSX
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and asked a blessing," pointing to
small oval table standing near nor'.
"You seem to have much bodil
strength and good health," 1 remark
fed, uf<?r a woman so old."
"Yv s," she answered: "sister and
have never had any dangerous sick
ness. We were married when w
wt:nT <puie >uun;^; nuve i;nviiys live
prudent and* generally happy lives
ill ways had plenty of sloop, and wer
no gadabouts as most women ar
t:o\vada\ s! Why. you'll hardly la:
liovo mo when I toll you that noithc
of us was ovfr moro than live or si
niiloji fr.?in *a !!#?.* <? we woro born. Tit
Tollers are a strong-bodied ant1 lon?
lived people."
The story related to mo a ho
hot rs itor was .a conlirmation of th
niMiranoe ,It. t the Tellers possosso
er.'dt '?od Iv vie-or.
"l>o you remember the Krone
army encamping near hero the sain
fiiW when you saw ( 'euoral ashine
ten?" I ltiouirod.
u( )h, yes," she said. "Thoy oau
from the south. They crossed t
river at Kine's Forrv, and all man
r.
ed hy our house. They encamped
Cromford, helow here. 1 rotncml
how afraid and vet deliohted sist<
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and I were as we watched them fror
our window as they passed by W
never saw so many soldiers, nor sue
iditlerinrr uniforms as some of th
; ?> m
oflicors wore; and wo never hoan
such drums bent. We were bowil
dered with the show, and dreamed c
it many ni-dits afterward."
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I said farewell to the venernbl
woman on whose head the hand <
Washington had been laid, at d t
whom kind words had 1 m utlere
hy his lips. \t her carriage in fron
oT Mrs. Williams's house I parte
company with Mrs. Van t .tjtland
and .soon afterward rode to the hofts
of a friend about two miles furtlie
north. With a i eiehhur of his w
climbed to the top of Prickly Pen
Jlill, the sununit of wnich, live hun
died feet above the river, was quit
thickly strewn in some places with
ppecies t>1 cactus bcurinir thut nana
from which the eminence derived ii
titled.
From that elevation we obtained
most extensive view of the lowi
Hudson and its shores, and a clustc
of localities of the most stirrin
events of the old War for Indepent
enco. That pinnacle Washingto
i made his chief point of obsorvatio
while the American army was et
i camped near, in the fall of 178'
'! I.f?m \v tKitllurton niwl 1.1 ?- olVinnr
... . . .. m.-.k M - l< >i| IIIIM I t I ."> *'UIV;V I
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ami Roohambeau and his French oil
eors had viewed the scenery togetI
er wilii proband admiration. A
or.o sweep of the vision might h
seen the loftv cruras of tlie Higl
lands and the Pishkill Mountuii
; str. iv. :.i.?g erstward, with all tIks ii
U naming < o intrv adjacent, to Pool
skdi, vOrplrnck's Point and Ston
Point, tho theatres of important mil
tarv events during the War of lli
Revolution, dio.i drawing to a clos<
P. fore them was Havorstraw, net
which Arnold and Andre complottcc
Teller's Point, off which tiio Vultui
lay when Andre went to meet Ai
j nold, and from which she received
caiinonadini' that drove her down tli
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river; Kino's Ferry, where the Atne;
ican armies crossed and recrossed tli
: Hudson and Andre made his way t
the eastern shore; Tarry town, whei
he was captured, ami Long Wharf i
Piermont, near Tnppnan, where i
was executed. All tlicse, with il
villages on the eastern bank of tl
Hudson from Crui/or's* to Yor
O
Island, might be soon.
As we were looking at Teller
Point, projecting far toward tli
western shoro of tho Hudson, I r<
marked that 1 hud a most interestin
interviow at Croton that mornin
with a member of tho Toiler iamib
a woman ninety years of age an
possessed of exceedingly'groat phyi
iinil viimr
PS""'
"Ono of the twin sisters?" said on
of tl)6 gonntlonion. "1 nover kno
a Toiler who was not possessed of a
ftbundanco of bono and sine.v. Ma\
you over heard the styry of a Fisl
j kill bully who encountered a yolin
daughter of a roller living i , th
: neighborhood?"
n
"J have not."
"Oh, you must hear it. That To
lor had two buxom daughters, a litt
I more than twenty years of age.
I is said that either of them could li
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0 1ST ID TOUR WCR
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u a barrel of cider. Their father wasl
noted for grent strength and also for
y wrestling and pugilistic skill. One
; day at the close- of tlio Revolution a
large, rough-looking man oamototho
1 ' door of Teller's housed--an old-fashionod
double door- -and loaning on
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o the under one, the upper ono being
d f open, asked one oF the daughters
< vtlllllll, III il lllUO IIKIMIKT,
e "'Is Hill Tailor homo?'
o " 'My father is not at homo,' au*
>- swerod the j*irl. 'What do you want
r of him? 1 attend to his business
x when ho is awn v."
o " 'Vou can't 'tend to "t this time,
- unvlutw. Nobody hut Hill Tailor
himself can,' said the ?n,uit man.
x " 'Come in and toll mo what, your
o business is,' said the tfirl, as she
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il opened t'"* (loer.
i. j. th/; ',l Vt ir and she closed
11 if, COr<a cheat ,l10 "lTur tloor
? ' , 1 .'y<l:ty oecui ne.^V
\f~ |' ,'ou'nd the nei?rhborv\ I he daughter,
souse or tho stochj^^ ^,am' se0 '
tell ye/ growlWe
Tuttlo of
of, ..
V?\ UP tll0r0, I
\J ^ie. 'Fhoy ,
Yyposs rustler
i&o down to
Jrastler.'
Pi business you :
Ld girl, ll cun
r '
nd seizing the j
and the seat
irew him over
5 botore it. ?
limself up, and ,
nt a few mom- j
<> on1' ' ' 1 *o'h JSTm \\ is .standing in
i! tin*, h arms u-kimbo and
i sini 1 i11 placidly, he sneaked oft with- j
il out u U'rue a word.
. s
l, i u 'Any more business to be at *,d- i
j- oil to?' asked the girl in a provoking
r ly pleasant ^'oioe. The man was ioo
e | crestfallen to tarry a moment, lie
ir i joined some companions at the river,
- I who wore waiting for him to return
e with Toller and give them the excite- !
a inont of a tussle.
i, " 'J )id you see TollorF asked one
s i of the company.'
" 'N'tw, 1 didn't,'said tlio follow,
:i in a tono of supremo disgust; 4l see
r one of old 'Pallor's ijals, and that's
.
>r all 1 want to know.''"
Jf ! UliNSON .) . LoSSINO, LL. I >.
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lie Holds the Fence.
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A 1 )otroitor, purchased a piece of!
, land in the west end of the county. J
After the purchase had been completed
he on^aged a surveyor's sor- j
vices to see if he had boon cheated.
The discovery was made that a line-'
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! icnce was over on ins land oi^ht
o I. , *
j inches. When he wont to the own-1
; er of the adjoining property with 1 lie j
the statement the man renlied:
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"Stranger, tho row about that
fence began twenty-eight years ago.
y It was then live feet over the lino,
i-1 and the two men lit and lit until one!
,0 was killed and tho other crippled.
After awhile it was moved a foot, and
then two other owners lit and lit tin- |
til tho lawyers got tho two farms, j
1; The fence was then moved another)
e j foot, and the two new owners spent
j half the.year in jawing each other
! ai." ?i?x. other half in lawingr One
il '
died and tho other sold out on a
10 mortgage, and when I got this farm
i'-1 the fenco was moved another foot.
io Then 1 lit and lit, and two years ago
() was kicked in the ribs and laid up fori
I three months. I 'wring that time the!
.(A n
fence was moved to tho present line. I
i So it's still on your land?" ^
10 ?s.":
le i ' 'Welfc, I "spose the proper.thing is i
j row. If vou'll go out by tho barn
' with voir revolver I'll come out and
^ hunt for v on with tho shotgun. If
I you git the Irop on mo don't le.t go,
's | hocaui o . sbtll shoot to kill."
It i I. Detroiter some timo to
convince h<* farmer that he didn't
care for eight inches of land, anil
" that h wouldn't have the fence niov-j
g ed for v >d, and when he had succeed-<
v,! cd tho old man drew a lon</ breath of!
' ' I 1 0
(] relief ami replied:
"That's kind 'o you, and it leaves
my hoys a chance to fit and fit after
i Pm ^one. I liopo you aint coming
out here to live alongside o' mo?"
wj "No."
,, "Glad on't. #lf you please, git.
j some man who'll want them other'
0 eight inches. The hoys and I is;
' lonesome for excitement."- -Detroit
g Free /'ecus.
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Who says that advertising does
j not pay? A Chicago burglar ovorj
looked $80 in a bureau drawer, and
1 the papers so announced. Ho returned
the next night and not only
If secured it, but a suit of clothes beft
sides.?j\. )'. (trophic.
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MAY 31, 1888*
THIS SUNDAV SCHOOL.
Founded in 17HJ l?y a Printer
of Gloucestershire.
Sunday schools were founded
about tho close of the vear 17S1 by
Robert Raikes, a printer in (iloucestorshiro.
Business leading hiin into
the suburbs of the town inhabited by
the lowest class* of people, lje was
surprised by seeing multitudes of
miserably mooed children, who
made the Sabbath day a carnival of
noise and ru^t, in which eursino and
swearing had a Ir.ree part.
To check III is profanation of the
Lord's day he enoaoed four women,
teachers of week day schools, to instruct
such children as ho should
send mom on ine Muulav in reading
ami the church catechism, for which
they were to receive one shilling
each.
A visible improvement, being effected
in a short time, both in the
manners and morals of the children.
Mr. IJaikcs* scheme attracted general
attention. Her majesty <v>ucen
Charlotte admitted him to an audionce,
and expressed high approbation
of his plan. Numerous schools formed
on the same model sprang up in
the principal towns, and a society,
under high DRtronage *|wns formed in
London in 1785 for the establishment
and support of Sunday schools
throughout the kingdom. This was
the first stage of the Sunday school.
G11 ATI' 1 i'Ol'S I NSTUrCTlO Y.
A great impediment to prosperity
was the expense of hiring the teach1
O
ers. It is not certain who fir i. conceive.I
the id *r of gratuilious in-truetion,
but this in time came about,
and the result was that by the year
1800 tonrhn .r ic tl.o Sunday school
was almost universally without rouuinorat
ion.
In 1808 the Sunday School union
was formed, which, hv its numerous
publication, agents and branch so '..-ties
in tho different parts of the
kingdom, exercised a wild influence.
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The Institute of the Church of Knjrland,
wlTfch operated in a like manner,
is of a similar date.
Scotland boasts of Sunday schools
as early as 1782. Hut it was not
tdl 1780, when the Society for Promutiny
Jieligious Knowledge aniotip
the Poor was formed, that they were
publicly recognized, n ? until 1707,
when the first Freo Sunday School
socioty was organized, that free Sun1....
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uuy senooi oecamo general. At first
these met with considerable opposition
from portions of the ecclesiastical
court, but tnis soon vanished, and
Sunday school unions existed in
most of the 1 argo towns.
Sunday schools in Ireland had
been in a measure anticipated in
County Down in 1770, but the sysJ
' w
torn pursued by Mr. U&ikcs was not
adopted till about 178b, since which
date its system has been similar to
that of England.
In Ireland tho Sunday School society
was established in 1809.
The Human Catholics, in the United
Kingdom at least, have numerous
Sunday schools.
I UK IIKS'I IN A M Kit If A.
The First. Day or Sunday School
society, formed in Philadelphia in
1791, is the first pormanent Sunday
school organization in the United
o
States of ,"1 deli there is trust worthy
record, it was composed of members
of different denominations, including
the Society of Friends. Its
constitution required that reading
and writing from tho Bible and such
other religion- and moral books as
the society approved should furnish
t.ie coaj.-.o of in- traction. Tho Now
York Sunday S hoot' union was organized
in 1810, the Philadelphia
Sunday and Adult School union one
year later. These three societies recognized
the union of different denominations,
and led to tho organization
of tho American Sunday
School union at Philadelphia in
1824. Tho object of this union was
to concentrate tho efforts of Sunday
schnol societies in different sections
of the Unitod States, and to start
schools wherever there were children
found in sufficient numbers to
attend them.
It naturally camo# about that as
new states wore settled and the various
denominations were strengthened,
increased attention was given
by each to its own Sunday schools
1
crisrTiF^r."
' HI .ttO I'rr A i i u i)i.
ami denominational unions to promote
these weio formed. As years
1 t?assi 1 the (inestion book \vn add? d
to the orijrinal recitation, and at
length in a f^reat decree superseded
it. Later on came lessons, helps,
texts, maps, black-board exercises,
etc. In the earlier schools reward
tickets were jjpven, and when these
had sufficiently accumulated they
were exchanged for hooks. This
stimulated the production of works
of a character suitable to young
minds, and from this has boon developed
the Sunday school library.
Tlint Noble Allium), Man.
Dearly beloved, itjs natural for
' weak, finite man to turn to the ,
clown for funny things, but really
some of the funniest things you read
falls from the pen of the wiso man.
Now read this I don't know who
wrote it. I lin<l it in a "rcligiophilosophical"
paper, hut ?f it doesn't
make von smile yon are devoid of
j the sixth souse: "When one C(t ^
in sight of the nohler side ofhumar:*' ?'
ty it is no linger a surprise thnt**Christ
suffered martv-doni for the
race." Now, it, was a man who
l wrote that; no woman ever said such
a thing; it was a man, and if the
in a a goes to lleavon lie will 'he l?it'
terly disappointed if a delegation of
angel and all the apostles do not
meet him ten miles outside the gate
with an address of welcome and the
I freedom of tho city in a gold box. j
I We are a nice set of fellows for a
j God to suffer martyrdom for. Says
this same complacent man: "Until;
. beings are .ill right; we are;
simply darkened hv the shadow of a
social systoie that offers a premium
upon our worst traits, and deliberately
crushes tho nobler part of us."'
: < )h, yes, we are all right aren't we?
Wo are naturally, Jpreternaturallv,
supornaturally, angelically good, hut
the shadow of a social system "offers
promiuns" and "crumies" us; a
right healthy "shadow" that combines
the functions of a country fair
j and a stono-breakor. I low 'good wo
; are le nature. You hnvo to teach
tlio lisping child his prayers, but ho
learns to lie naturally at, home, and
learns to swear the first day ho
goes to school, lie hates his lessons
and loves to lish. Ho plays
"hookey" and runs away from Sunday-school,
even as he runs to the
circus. The man forgets the text
before the sermon is half through,
n.nd ho forgets the sermon next day
but he remembers every word of a
vile story fifty years. lie growls
flbftllt flirt ivntnr i"n)n ). >? ...... t
j %..W uuo jmjra IUI'
his whiskey without a murmur. The
State hus to keep tip whipping-posts
to keep him from heating his wife;
it maintains almhouses ftjr liis neglected
paronts and 'asylums for his
abandoned children; it build jails to
keep him from stealing, penitentiary
to keep hitn honest, gallows to keep
him from murdering, and but for tho
terror of hell lire bo wouldn't try to i
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go to Heaven. Oh, yes}> man, gen- i
I orally considered, is a sweet b'ird,
1 and when wo come to look at it, tiio
! race conferred an undying honor j
' upon its Savior in permitting Ilirn
i to become a martyr for a crowd of
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j such exalted beings. All that ails
j lis is tho "shadow of a social system"
1 that we--by tho way, who establish'
j od that social system- the at.gels, or |
! these magnificent "human beings"
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1 with a trunk full of "nobler part?1'?I
Ji../.
One Monl 11 l>?iy.
Dr. Tanner, the famous faster, is
l vi; ing iii B1Uheart. Ho now re- i
side; in New Mexico, \\4iero ho has a
ranch of fifteen hundred acres, ami is
interesting himself in a foil lulling as- i
social ion, to bo conducted on vejretn- !
rian principal, and a part of his mis- .
sion to Indiatma is to secure forty in- I
fants. The Doctor is surgeon for the 1
association, and ho expects to secure
the children in Elkhart and surronn- |
ding cities. He lives on one meal a
day, breakfast The fou Ming homo
is an experiment intended to deinoni
strftto that the baser passion arc
( aroused principally by tho use of
animal food. Ho expects to make
good children as well as long lived
' ones by feeding them one meal a
day of a light vegetarian diot.
At tho club J oil oh? Look at
Hrown over there in the cornor.
Smith?Yes; buried in thought.
Jones?Mighty shallow grave, ain't
i it?
NUMBER Hi<'IIIIdr??ii
atul Moiicj.
Somninglv children art- trained in
all branches of education but this;
yet from earliest childhood thoy
should ho taught to value money,
not only as a power to bo duly respected,
but that its consolation is a
positive duty, in order not only to
provide for old noc and as one of
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the grout motive powers of advancement
and civilization.
homo may say thov do not euro for
monov, vet as a wiso woman said:
"Oh no, thov <lo not care for monov
but thoy want very badly what money
will brinir." I know of several
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families who, with tho means of starting
well in life, with intelligence,
ami advantageous surroundiurrs, are
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now drifting into absolute poverty
for want of this early training. In
one instanco old a^e is harassed and
weighed down l>y the aspects cf the
"wolf at tho door," which, with an
early training of the fine talents
nossesvod. would have* -kept him .'or*
K"rr at buy.
^n another, oarents in their old
7 \ . i i r i i ' ?
I y " 1 10 icave :> toveiv
co'.Wtry home, and weat [to join tho
striiL^j^linif liuntlr'.u'in a neighboring
city with a half dozen children
iis untrained as thems dve . N *t
(mining in the saving and oxnonditure
of money would have kept them
l>v industry comfortable and thriftv.
Tho persons occupying tho farm previous
to this family supported euito
a largo family and made enough
money besides to buy another farm.
As an fnstancc of what can be
done we will draw from the expo*
ionce of another family. While very
small tho mother tauglu her children
to count by usir.fr articles about the
homo, such as table and chair legs,
windows, doors, and so on. IW this
menus they very soon learned the
rudiments of arithmetic. As soon as
possible they were sent t>n errand*,
and to market, and taught to look
sharp after the value received for
money, had to bo exact ifc counting
the change so as to have justice
for both parties, and if anything was
wrong they wero sont to rectify it,
and wero made to tako tin- responsibility.
They also had tasks about
tho liouso, and understood that they
wore to attond to thom without their
attention bointf called to tho- duties.
They wore kept busy, and
formed habits of industry, and growup
to bo excellent business men,
and at an early ago had tho offer of
several advantageous situations.
Two boys ol the same family, wore
each given a child's bank of metal
and an account book. in their own
hand-writing they entered in tho
nooK Hi 1 the sinus of money tliev received
as gifts, or which tliev earned
by extra work, cte. The money received
was divided into three parts,
but into several receptacles, and
lodged in the bank. ()no portion
was to bo saved, the next reserve for
gifts or charity, and the last they
were to expend as tliev pleased, with
the exception of a restriction as to
candy and cakes. IJoth these boys
wore cneourag'd to take pleasure in
some 'natural taste fur mineralogy
stamp-collecting. etc. Such tastes
arc strong protootii ns to boys, and
they gain valuable knowledge with
the habit of research. Parents
should show respect for si.oh occupations,
and the continued effort "re
quired to follow them thoroughly,
which should bo insisted upon as a
matter of education, and as forming
property in the form of valuable
knowledge, that always has its use if
only in elevating the taste.
In another case young lady
teacher, whose father being one of
the enlightened kind taught his
r> r>
daughter how to transact various
r>
kinds of business, how to value and
purchase property, etc., became so
proficient in all such mutters that in
the savings of some years she at different
times made advantageous purchases
of small properties, 'in* rents
of which would have, snpnorc.ed her
had her health of powers failed, as
they did in after years through deafness.
How much mote real love of
his children had such a father than
one who says: H)h! lot them enjoy
thomsolves while 'hey are young,"
and then sends them forth totally
unfit for tho contests of life and labor!
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