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EDUCATIONAL. DEPARTMENT*
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Organ of the Georgia Teachers Association-
Organ of the State School Commissioner, G. J, Orr.
yv. IS.jltONXKIjIj, Editor.
Official Organ of State School Com
missioner.
Tht State School Commissioner will
make this department of the iSunni/ South
the medium ot* his official decisions and
communications.
All County School Commissioners
and all teachers employed by the State,
under the common school law will find
it important to have the paper for tin's
reason. Let the County Scnool Com
missioners take note of our special
clubbing rates, published elsewhere;
let each exert himself to send to the
editor of this department a large list
of subscribers.
Columbus Female College.—We have receiv
ed a catalogue which shows this institution to
be in a very prosperous condition. It is man
aged by Prof. G. II Glenn, Prof. H. W. Key
and Prof. J. II. Chappell, and a corps of able
assistants. Columbus offers many advantages
as an educational point.
GENERAL GRIST*
rUBLIC SCII'^L ITEMS.
Pennsylvania.—Phonetic spelling is to be in
troduced into the Philadelphia public schools.
Mr. John S. Davidson has been unanimously
elected President of the, Augusta Board oi Edu
cation.
Tbe citizens of Maccn Ga. propose to estab
lish a Kindergarten, alter the Froebel system,
in that city.
Mr. B. Mallon has been reelected as Superin
tendent of tbe public schools of Atlanta. There
■was some opposition to him, and his reputation
as a teacher and superintendent was unjustly
assailed, but tbe people are satisfied that he is
the right man in the right place.
Professor B. M. Zettler,Macon Superintendent
of Public Schools, has just completed the school
census of the city, and tbe following are the fig
ures: White males of school age, 7215; while fe
males, 723; total of white pupils 1,458; colored
males, 1104; colored females 077; total colored
attendants, 1881, aggregating in the city. 3 330
children who properly belong to tbe class of
school children.
The report if this year shows a slight falling
off over the census tf last year.
The re-election of the old board of Trustees
of the West Point public schools, indicates that
tbe old regime will be undisturbed. Col. Mootv,
tbe superintendent, has recently banded in his
report for the last scholastic year, by which it
appears that tbe erst of the schools, for the past
yearhasbeen $1.18 per scholar per month,
against $1.42 last year. If this is nota good
showing, we'd like to know what is. The peo
ple oi West Point have a good thing, and we
hope they sufficiently appreciate it.
VIRGINIA,
Tbe enrollment in the public schools of Rich
mond Ya.; lor tbe first two days of tbe sesson,
last week, reached the number of G,200—2421
being colored pupils. It is said that about a
thousand children caDnot be taught at all this
season, chiefly lor want of funds, schoolrooms,
and other necessaries.
Samuel Miller, of Richmond, who died leav
ing nearly $1 500,000 for tbe education of the
poor children of Albemarle county, bad only
$300 worth of furniture. The Miller Manual
Labor school buildings, costing $100,000 were
recently dedicated. The school has an en
dowment of $850,000.
The school population of this country is said
to be 14 300,000.
The only medical college for negroes is in
Nashville. It has an ample endowment.
The public schools of Now York city will cost,
tbe present school year, $4 448 000.
There are four hundred colleges in this coun
try, with an aggregate of three thousand seven
hundred professors.
Newspapers are used in many schools in the
West instead of reading books.
George Bancroft, tbe historian, has presented
to the town of Lancaster the sum of $1,000, for
the benefit of Ihe town library, the income to
be ixpendeil in the purchase of books in tbe de
partment of history. It is to he called the Sam
uel Ward fund, in honor of Captain Ward of
that town, who assisted Mr. Bancroft in defray
ing his college expenses.
The trustees of the Peabody Educational
Fund, present at tbe meeting last week at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel were:—President Hayes,
Secretary Evarts, Chief Justice Waite, Mr. Ham
ilton Fish, IP. Rev. H. B. Whipple, Bishop of
Minnesota; Robert C. Winthrop, of Massachu
setts; A. 11. H. Stuart, of Virginia; Samuel Wet-
more, of New York; ex-Governor Aiken, of South
Carolina; Surgeon General Barnes, of the Bai
ted States Army; General Richard Taylor, ol
Virginia; Rev. Barnas Sea ,- s, 1). D., of Virginia;
Colonel Theodore L"j man, of Massachusetts,
and Mr. George W. Riggs, of Washington, D. C.
On one of the islauus off the coast of Maine,
is a gigantic schoolmistress seven feet high,
weighing three hundred pounds, strong in pro
portion and very handsome. Once she was
sent off to reduce to order a school of savage
young men, who thrashed their teachers and
turned them out. Her advent was enough to
make them meek as lambs, all save one young
man of twenty-one, handsome and curly-haired,
and who regarded himself as a privileged char
acter. He began to cut up one day before the
girls, whereupon, in the twinkling of an eye,
the handsome giantess bowed him across her
knee and spanked him with her ruler. The
boys laughed, the girls tittered, and that was
the end of that young man’s pranks.
A report ju-it made by the inspectors of the
eastern penitentiary of Pennsylvania, at Phila
delphia, shows that the failure to teach young
men an honorable trade has quite as direct a
tendency to lead them to become criminals as a
lack of general education. Of one hundred and
eighty prisoners admitted during 1870 under the
age of twenty-five years and convicted lor the
first time, one hundred and thirty-five could
read and write, and one hundred and thirty had
attended public schools. Of this number one
hundred and thirty-seven had never been taught
any trade.
Idleness is the mother of vice, and a boy who
is allowed to grow up in idleness is pretty sure
to be a vicious man. The parents of such boys
have a fearful responsibility resting upon them,
when they let their sons run about at late hours
of the night instead of keeping them at home
reading good newspapers and books, and train
ing them in morai habits so as to become re
spectable men instead ot idlers, rum drinkers, j
generally, and of parents particularly. Solo
mon’s oft quoted maxim, ‘Train up a child in
the way he should go and when be is old he
will not depart from it,’has been attacked, criti
cized, and condemned as untrue.
Instances have been adduced to show that the
rule is not universal, that the principle is not
corivet, that the result is not inevitable.
These objections may be answered by stating:
1st. That the fact of exceptions, even when
proved, is by no m n ans a refutation of the rule.
2nd. That the deffieulty lies in a misapprehen
sion of word train, both in the minds of the
objectors to the rule, and in those whose duty
it is to apply it.
Telling is not training. The father my be
ever so upright and honorable, and he may tell j . . .
his son every moment in the. day not to decieve ; Ushers ol the principal journals,
nr betray trust; but if no pains are taken to im
press the boy’s mind, by all possible means and
on every fitting occasion, with a sense of honor,
it need be no surprise to any one, if, when
gnwn, he should turn out a defaulter, a forger
or a thief. The mother may be intelligent and
sensible and pious, as every mother should
he; and she may be incessant!)’ drumming mora
er on deck she hung about him in such a way,
that, as I noticed over and over, it brought the
blood to bis cheeks and made him ashamed to
raise his eves. Depend upon it, that young man,
in spite of his infatuation, said within himself
To Members of the Ga. Teacher's As
sociation.
(OFFICIAL )
The Committee on Publication, appointed at ! a hundred times on bis wedding journey, ‘Poor
our last annual meeting,and cinsisting of W. B. ! innocent little darling ! she lias no idea of the
binnell, W. F. Slaton, J. il. Chappell, B. Mai- attention she attracts to us.’
Ion and G. J. Orr, met on September 2 1, in the ■ Mrs. M. (eagerly.) Y’es, she did know all
office ot the State School Commissioner. After j about it. She was so proud of being newly
consultation in regard to the matter of the effi- I married that if every one with whom she came
cial organ, it was decided to authorize the sec- j j Q contact wonld not allude to her position she
retary of the association to issue a circular in- i ma ,] e a point of confiding the fact that she was
iting proposals from several of the leading pa-
ers of the Slate.
In pursuance of this resolu tion, the following
ircular letter was prepared and sent to the pub-
OFFICE OF SECRETARY.
Georgia Teacher s Association.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 2 !., 1878.
Dear Sirs.—It is the wish of the Georgia Teach
er’s Association to procure as the medium for
the publication of its annual proceedings, (1
a bride of a week, and actually wore me out
with pouring her raptures into my ears.
Miss A. Jenny, you should not have told
that It will confirm Mr. Beverly in his cyni
cism regarding her want of taste.
Philip. I remember the morning the youDg
fellow and I walked into Chicoutimi together
that I said to him, ‘Lately married, I believe?’
and he only nodded stillly and pointed out the
falls in the distance.
Beverly. Now, it is a deliciously pretty blun-
sentiments and religions precepts into the ears j papers ot t ie State
essays read at its meetings, and other education- i c ^ er for a bride to proclaim her good luck, but
al intelligence, one of the leading weekly news- I i* * s a blunder, nevertheless. For six months a
of her children, but if she does not by her
own persistent attention, and consistent exam
ple, carefully train them in the ways of gentle
ness, modesty and grace, she must regard it her
own fault, if, when they are grown, their con
duct should b» characterized by rudeness, im
pudence and immorality.
So with the teacher upon whom so much of the
child's future depends. The pupils, the class,
the school, must all be carefully drilled in habits of
neatnese, and order; must be practised in atten-
im and obedience, must lie trained to do right
and av i l wrong. Mere telling will not accom
plish anything. Training everything.
Georgia Personals.
Gathered From our Exchanges.
Prof. G. A. Granberrv has been made an A. M. the edit r, either as salary or a per cent of the
by Mercer university.
Prof. White, of the University, has returned
to Athens after an extended Northern tour.
Mr. G. A. Miller, a veteran journalist of this
State and North Carolina, is teaching a school
near Chalybeate Springs.
dential, if you desire.
Furnish us, also, with an estimate of the cost
T. A. Means has opened a High School in At- ' ®{f? f copies of the Proceedings
4 - i j s TT i alone in pamphlet form.
man forgives it; after that he has no fondness
for being paraded as a part and parcel ol a wo
man’s belongings. By that time he has proba
bly found out that she is not all gushing uncon
sciousness. Beside this adorable innocence I
observed something else in this pretty bride.
Despite ber fresh raptures, she was capable of
jealousy; if her husband left her for an hour he
found her a trifle sullen on his return.
Miss A. She had nobody else.
Mrs. M. She naturally wanted to feel that he
was interested in nothing beside her.
Beverly. But she should not have shown it.
This is another perverse and suicidal incon
sistency on a woman’s part; she should never
ixhibit these small meannesses of pique, sullen
tempers, jealousy, to her husband, since they
place her wholly at a disadvantage, making her
less attractive than the objects she wishes to
detach h ; m from.
Mrs. M. (a little embarrassed and looking
toward her husband deprecatiagly. at which he
laughs and shakes his head.) Woman is a crea
ture of imnulse. She does not study what it
The extent of your circulation (this conii- j is m08t politic for her to do; she gives herself
’ ' j utterly.—she simply asks for everything in
it is proposed when such an organ is selected,
to have this department edited by one elected
from and by the Association (at present the Sec
retary being editor) and he is to receive for his
services such compensation as may be agreed
upon.
The State School Commissioner is also invited
to make the paper his official organ.
It is hoped and believed that such a feature
would add materially to the interest, value and
circulation of the journal selected, while it would
prove no less advantageous to the Association
and the cause of general education.
We therefore solicit from you, the most libe
ral offer you can aflbrd. State defluBely.
1st. How much space of each weekly issue
you will place under our control for education
al matter?
What compensation you will agree to give
I subscription. If the latter, state what per cent,
3. What per cent of proceeds of advertise-
ments obtained by tbe editor will be allowed?
lanta tor boys and young men. He proposes to
prepare them for admission to college.
Miss Forrest Fielder left Cuthbert last Thurs
day to enter Wesleyan College, in Macon. Miss
Forrest graduated at Andrew College, under
Prof. A. H. Fiewellen in 1870 at 14 years old.
Mr. Samuel Barnett, Jr., recently elected Ad
junct Professor of Mathematics at the Univer
sity of Georgia, hf
University of Louisian
will not locate in
We learn from the Athens Chronicle that Mr.
David W. Barrow, of that place, has been elected
by the Prudential Committee of the State Uni
versity adjunct professor of mathematics in that
institution.
We lea-n from Mr. W. A. Brown, our able
and efficient County School Commissioner, that
there are in Hall county 4 901 children of school
A copy of our last proceedings is herewith
mailed to your address, on which you may base
the estimate.
We hope to receive a favorable reply at an
early date, not later than the 20ih inst.
Respectfully your obedient servants,
. Jiaiueunuics ai me uuiver- > W _- B - Bonnell (Chairman.)) ,
ias acce P te , d a Position at the ! J ’ i^allon^’G' H. ChappeR. - p abhu J ioQ
isiana, aud, we regret to say ] JH - allon < u - ■>. uir. )
Athens. j T° this, all the responses were quite liberal.
The different propositions were submitted to
tbe committee, and after due deliberation it
was tbe decision of those present that the Sun
ny South should be selected as our official or
gan.
In many respects we deem this a wise and
most fortunate choice. While there are reasons
that operate powerfully in favor of a paper which
age, and (hat sixty-six teachers were contracted •’ educational in its cuaracter, stid, . w pp
with for 1878 ' I m vlewr °* P ar tially developed condition of
The election of Rev. Leonard McManus to the th, f s and our siater stfttea - and in
position of principal of the North Macon Gram- * L n clrc « m «tances of the vast
mar school by the county Board of Education, ■ n "! J ’ nit ern teacuers, it was exceed-
J - - - 3 ' mgly nesirable and important that an organ
seems to meet the hearty approval of all.
He has had considerable experience as a
teacher and has been very successful, lie is a
gamblers and loafers, which is sure to be tbe | graduate of Mercer University and a son
MASSACHUSETTS.
Tbe public schools ot Boston have this vear
adopted a new programme in their system of
instruction.. In the primary department tbe
teaching is to be entirely oral, and tbe scholars
are to learn from objects and from the teacher,
instead of fiom the hook. Oral lessons will be
given on pictures, plants, animals, form, color,
measures, vegetables, minerals, etc., and the
children ir this way accustomed to the use of
words. Attention will be given to fables, sto
ries and simple poetry. The entire system will
be taught from the metric apparatus. The pri
mary speller will be discarded, and easy, com
mon words from the reader substituted. Ii
tbe grammar grade the grammar, in name at
least, is abolished, and also tbe spelling book.
In tbe place of grammar is ‘language,’ which
means less attention to parsing, etc., and more
to composition, the construction of sentences,
use of capitals, letter w riting and analysis The
amount of writing in copy-books is to be re
duced one-half, aDd instead, more writing in
blank books.
Our Colleges.
Tbe Wesleyan Female College received its
charter in 1835—thus being the oldest char
tered female college in tbe world. It Las grad
uated 773 young ladies. Owing to official busi
ness Judge James Jackson (during the last com
mencement) resigned his position as mem
ber of the Board of Trustees of Wesleyan
Female College, and Col. Isaac Hardeman,' of
Macon, was elected to lill the vacancy, and Rev.
J. E. Evans, Atlanta, was chosen President of
the Board, which position was held by Jndge
Jackson.
The State University.—We are gratified to
learn from the following that the prospects of
our principal seat of learning are very good:
The lali session of the University opened this
morning, and the prospects are very promising.
Dr. Mell, Chancellor of the Univefsity, is full of
Lope and rejoices over the future e Georgia’s
Institution. Over fifty new students ». ,m dif
ferent portions of the Srate entered this morning,
and two or three times that number will enter
this week. Nearly all the old boys and all the
under-graduates Lave returned, and in about a
month the roll will be over two hundred.
Mercer University.—We were in Macon on
Tuesday ot last week tbe day before the opening
ot the Fall session of the University, and were
much gratified to learn from D. A. J. Battle, its
worth) President, of its very flattering outlook.
A larger number of students than usual for one
seesion, were then present; the steward’s Hall
was even then full. This week we learn there
are over odo hundred regular collegians matric
ulated, there being no preparatory school con
nected with the University. This is certainly
a most gratifying exhibit, and evinces the high
appreciation in which the institution is held.
case with tbe night runners and flay idlers, then
it..- responsibility is increased. Svvo iLe beys
plenty to do, and you will pieserve their mor
als. Better a tired boy than a vitiated mind.
NEW YORK
At a meeting of the New York Teacher’s Asso
ciation in Albany, on the 10.h of July, Mr. Hen
ry Kiddle, Superintendent of the New York City
our present Ordinary Judge McManus.
-.vh4-£!1 the pc-sv: at*;4iiy.
Mr. James F. Park, the principal of Park
High School, Tuskegce, Ala., is one of the most
successful and eminent teachers of a pri
vate scboil, south of Baltimore, and any boy is
fortunate who can be under his tuition. Prof.
Park lias been making a tour of Europe this
schools, made an address on ‘Compulsory Flu- summer and during his absence, the University
oafinri * A 1 rrt Vi r? oftov I 1 .1,....... „ „ _ i. 'i 1 lU ~ c t\ . „
cation.’ A lengthy discussion followed, after
which a resolution substantially declaring the
compulsory law a failure and recommending an
amendment of the Vagabond Act, was offered
and referred to the Committee on Resolutions.
The annual meeting of the trustees of the Pea
body Educational Fund took place on Cct. 2,
in New Y'ork, and was attended by President
Hayes, Secretary Evarts. Robert C. Winthrop,
president of tbe Board of Trade, made a short
address, congratulating the members upon the
presence of President Hayes, who had broken
away from his official duties to show' his interest
in educational matters. Notwithstanding the
serious shrinkage ot income he said the cause of
free public schools at the South had made most
encouraging progress the past year, and while
they could do nothing as a board to aid in reliev
ing the physical suffering of their Southern
brethren, while the plague was raging, still they
conld do, and had done, and were doing, not a
little to promote that intellectual and moral im
provement which must sustain them in every
trial and be the basis of their future prosperity
and welfare.
The annual report was read. It says: The
years just closed has been one of unusual pecu
niary embarrassment to all the schools of the
South, and while every department of education
has been affected, that relating to the employ
ment of teachers and public officers has suffered
the most. Cheapening the labors of men on
whom the vitality of the system depends is a
more dangerous experiment than is generally
supposed. The scholarships established last
year have had an excellent effect. In the Pea
body Normal Seminary of Louisiana, one-fourth
of all the female teachers of New Orleans, du
ring many years, have been educated. The fol
lowing figures show the distribution of the in
come of the fund during the year. Virginia,
$15 350; North Carolina, $4,50(1;South Carolina,
$3,000; Georgia, $0,000; Florida, $3,900; Alaba
ma, $8 000; Texas, $8,550; Arkansas, $0,000;
Tennessee, $14,000; West Virginia, $5,050.
The trustees completed their labors on the
next day. The following officers were elected:
President, Robert C. Winthrop, of Massachu
setts; First Vice President,Hamilton Fish;Sec-
ond Vice President, Governor Aiken, of South
Carolina; Treasurer, Samuel Wetmore, of New
York; Secretary, George Peabody Russell; Rev.
Dr. Sears, General Agent; Executive Counsel,
Governor Aiken, William M. Evarts, A. H. H.
Stuart, Surgeon General Barnes and General
Taylor.
of Alabama conferred on him the degree of Doc
tor of Philosophy.
Prot. A. F. Trimble has severed his connec
tion with Farmers’ High School. We do not
know where he intends to locate; but we do
know that any community that secures him for
a citizen will be fortunate, not alone because of
his excellence as a teacher, but also because of
bi% moral worth, as a man, and for the conse
quent influence that he will exercise. No com
munity in which he has lived has ever given
him up without great regret.
Essay On The Soul.
When we speak of spiritual things we mean
those objects or bodies which the mortal eye can
not .<ee or the mortal mind comprehend. That
(here is such an existance can only be proven by
Pivine Writings,and such bodies are divinity them
selves and can neither be measured by time or
space. The soul is a monitor and never dies,hence,
we know that the soul being immortal is spiritual
aud is that spark of divinity which God likens
unto himself; therefore, tie expression ‘‘in the im
age of God created lie man.’ If we did hut follow
truly aud faithfully the dictates of our consciences,
man would be happy and all things, animate and
inanimate, would appear truly beautiful. The con-
shonld be selected which would prove more geu
eratly attractive to the people.
The la-ge circulation and extensive patronage
of the Sunny South, together with its fine liter
ary, domestic and agricultural features, render
it the best medium of communication that the
Association could obtain. The subscription
price is within the reach of almost every farmer
and mechanic in this broad land, and these are
tbe persons who need to be reached by the in
telligence which we desire to disseminate. The
teachers, we are sorry to say, have shown them
selves either unable or unwilling to encourage
and support an educational journal, and as they
are presumed—though the presumption is false
—to need such information as educational asso
ciations and their organs can and will furnish,
less than any body else, we purpose to address
tbe intelligence of the people directly.
The great questions of education touch every
man in a vital point, and in order that every
man may understand his rights and interest's
in tuis best gift ot God to man, we the educators
and educationists of the country, should use ali
means, this among the rest, to enlighten and
instruct him.
We therefore call upon all friends of educa
tion, whether privste or public, partial or com
plete, rudimentary or liberal, to come to our
aid. Write, contribute, discuss if you feel so
disposed, but be certain to subscribe to this
capital paper, and thereby bless yourself, your
family and your country.
Brides and Wives.
How They May Sometimes Lose Their
Power Unwittingly.
October evenings ar9 delicious. Just cool
enough for comfort, with a hint of coming win-
science never becomes hlunied by passing events, j ter in the crispy atmosphere that draws us
return.
Beverly. Does she give herself utterly ? Does
she not generally keep an accurate debit and
credit account of what is due to her ? Then
the moment she feels her rights infringed upon,
what is her usual course? She holds it her
prerogative to set out upon a course of conduct
eminently qualified to displease the very man
whom it is her interest and her salvation to
please.
Mrs. M. But he should try as well to please
her.
Beverly. That is begging tlie question. Be
side, her requirements are unreasonable. She
holds too tight a rein; a man is never safe after
he feels that strain at the bit. Now, even you,
j Jenny—whom I hold up as a model of a wife—-
you will not let Philip express his admiration
| for a pretty woman without
Mrs. M. (eagerly.) I delight in having him
| admire any one whom I consider worthy of ad
miration. I do not like to see any man run away
by an infatuation for mere outside
beauty.
Beverly. Yet ‘mere outside beauty’is clearly
the most important gift nature has bestowed
upon women.
Mrs. M. )
!- OL ! oh ! oh !
Miss A )
Philip. What is you? recipe, Frank, for put
ting an end to disagreements between husbe.nds
wiv^s ?
Beverly. Wives are to give up studying their
own requirements, and try to understand their
husbands.
Miss A. And what will the result be ?
Beverly. Ail men, instead of remaining bache
lors like myself, will become infatuated with
domestic life. No man could resist the pros
pect of being constantly caressed, waited upon,
admired, flattered. And once married, a man’s
own home would become so fascinating a place
to him that he would never, except against his
will, exchange it for his club or the drawing
room of his neighbor’s wife.
Miss A. And in return are husbands prepar-
ed to give up a nice sense of their own require
ments and study to understand their wives ?
Beverly. Not at all; they are far too stupid
to understand their wives; there is something
too fine and elusive about a woman’s intellect
and heart to be attained by one of our sex. Be
side. are things ever equal—two souls ever just
sufficiently like and unlike exactly to under
stand each other? Let women perfect them
selves in the art of giving happiness, and the
good action will command its own reward.
Miss A. Do you comprehend, Jenny, whac
the full duty of woman is? For my part, I
think it is better to go on in the old way, since
j it is said that a mill, a clock, and a woman
j always want mending.’ I think womea have
their own little requirements.
Mrs. M. (who has left her seat and gone round
to ner husband, and is cracking his almonds
with an air of being anxious to conciliate him.4
The fact is Ethel, you unmarried women know
nothing at all about it.
but is the same at death as it was at birth; and af
ter death is rewarded for the good deeds perform
ed in the flesh during life. The soul is a part of
divinity and has the same racio of the evil spirit
to contend with in the single body as divinity has
to contend against in the universe. The soul (or
arouud the centre table and the mellow
astral lamp with that sociality of feeling which
winter always brings. Such an evening it was
that found Ethel Arnold a lovely and accom
plished young lady—a belle of five seasons—and
Beverly Deane—the young Editor of the Cos-
GE51S OF THOUGHT.
The Triple Test.
The Success of Andrew College.—We are
glad to note that Andrew Female College is fast
regaining its past prestige, under the able man
agement of its distinguished ami energetic Pres
ident, Dr. A. L. Hamilton. The present term
opened with over fifty pupils, and since then
they have been coming in every day, and many
more expected next week.
This school is of a high grade, and its gradu
ates are among the brightest female intellects
of Georgia. As in days of old, its faculty is all
that conld be desired and its charges as low as
I any first class school.
At the last meeting of the Normal class com
posed of the public school teachers of Atlanta,
Superintendant Mallon said that there are three
tests of a successful teacher. The first is the
power of enforcing noncommunication between
pupils.
The second, the ability to secure the proper
position of tbe head and body in holding a pen.
The third is the capacity of teaching pupils
to mind their own business, whether in study or
at play.
He maintained that just so far as a teacher
was deficient in either of theses qualifications,
he or she was wanting in the elements ot true
success. The power to do these things implies
the possession of every quality necessary to good
discipline.
Teachers, have yon attained to this standard ?
Can you ? Will you ?
Another point was impressed upon the teachers
j present, that is worth the attention of instructors
conscience) dictates only that which is right,while ; Hiopol.tan, visiting at the pretty cottage home
ws the reverse side of the pic- ! ^heir mutual friends the Mordants. Ihilip
the evil spirit shows tne reverse siue or tne pic
ture, and as the evil spirit has the advantage in
point of temporal pleasure and amusement, it too
often takes possession of the mind and thus man
ages to weave a deadly net around its victims, which
can only be broken by the most stringent observ
ances of the dictates of the conscience, pointing,
a3 it does, to Heaven. Some men claim that con
science is education, but I think this a most grie
vous error. The brain is a part of the organic
system and grows with the body in size and
strength, and is, as it were, a window through
which the soul looks out and makes its presence
known. That an infant does not comprehend the
difference between good and evil is not to be at
tributed to a deficiency of conscience but. (o the
brain, which acls as a vent to that conscience.
This is on the same principal that an infant can
not talk; the tongue, however, is under physical
control, hut the brain not being strong enough to
be taxed, prec tides the possibility of the tongue
expressing a thought which cannot exist until the
brain grows in strength and volume.
I do not believe in a material hell or place of
punishment, but in different heavens or places of
eternal recompense. If a man commits theft ret
ribution invariably overtakes him in this world,
while for the good deeds performed in the flesh
he receives a greater or less reward in futurity.
The knowledge of a wrong committed is a sufficient,
punishment for that wrong, hence, we receive ret
ribution on earth, but a most merciful Father does
not consider the conscientious knowledge and
gratification of having performed a good deed suf
ficient reward for that good deed, hence, with in
finite forethought and wisdom, God has in store
for us a higher, a better and a greater reward as a
gratification for obedience to that spark of divini
ty which we all possess and call “soul.”
Frank J. C.
Rome, Ga., Oct. 9th, 1878.
and Jenny Mordants—two years married—are
seemingly as well matched as a wedded pair
can be. Jenny is pretty, wittv, impulsive and
warm-hear,ed. It cannot be denied that she is
a little exacting and jealous. Fuilip is very
handsome, fastidious, poetical in his tastes,—a
trifle fond of playing grand seigneur, and of ac
cepting rather than giving homage.
The talk has turned upon courrship and mar
riage. It is the young bachelor E litor who is
speaking:
‘I know plenty of men who are absolutely loyal
to their wives—faithful to tbe smallest obliga
tion of married life—yet who regard their mar
riage as tbe great folly of their youth. Now, a
woman’s intuitions ought to be, it seems to me,
so clear and unerring that she should never per
mit ber face and to become unpleasant to
ber husband. A-.. ~ - f g. -'Uv comes
from the absurdity of her „ni>mpt“ m ; m
to her side : they have ended by repelling mm.
Now, if your sex would only remember that we
are horribly fastidious, and that it is necessary
to behave with good taste
Mrs. M. Oh ! oh ! Monster !
Miss A. Barbarian !
Beverly. I will give yon an instance. In our
trip up and down the Sagnenay last summer
yon both remember the bridal couple on board
the boat?
Philip. I remember the bride, a charm
ing creature. The young fellow could not com
pare with her in any qualities of cleverness or
good looks,
Beverly. Perhaps not. At the same time, he
was her superior in some nice points. Pretty
although the bride was, and enviable as we con
sidered his good-luck, one could not help winc
ing for him when this delicate, refined little
creature ‘showed off’ before the crowd of indif
ferent passengers. At the table she put her face
so close to his, and when they stood or sat tegeth-
Shnn evil company, and evil company will
shun you.
Think little of yourself, and yon will not be
injured when others think little of you.
II tbe best man’s faults were written on his
forehead he would draw his hat over his
eyes.
Many a man saves his life by not fearing to
lose it, and many a man loses his life by being
over anxious to save it.
Love is of the nature of a burning-glass which
kept still in one place, fireth, but changed often
doth nothing.
Never purchase love or friendship by gifts;
when thus obtained, they are lost as soon as
you have stopped payments.
We only become moral men when we accus
tom our affections and talents to be directed bv
reason. “
There is no man, however high, but who is
jealous of some one; and therein no man how
ever low, but who has some one who is malous
of him.
Love is the shadow of the morning which in
creases as the day advances. Friendship is the
shadow of the evening, which strengthens with
the setting sun of life.
Fight hard against a hasty temper
will come, but resist it strongly. A spark may
set a house on fire. A fit of passion may give
yon cause to mourn all the days of your life
Never revenge an injury.
Don t always turn back because there’s dan
ger ahead; there may be danger in the rear.
If you would have a blessing upon vour rich
es, bestow a good portion of them ‘ in chari-
ty.
All our friends, perhaps, desire our happi
ness; but then it must be in their own way
what a pity that they do not employ the same
zeal in making us happy in ours !
It is observed that the most censorious are
generally the least judicious; who, having noth-
ing to recommend themselves, will be finding
fault with others. No mao envies the merit oi
another that has any of his own.