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SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1892.
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ALBANY HERALD.
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nbserlntions payable In ndynneo;
0 to this rule In favor of anybody.
Drilling rates reasonable, and mode
n on application
p stall
up stairs, west sldo of Washington
R Daily Hkrald gives oil the local nows
f the city and section, and Is on sale at the fol
.1 named places:
Htlsman It Agar Co.'s Book Store, cornor
Broad and Washington streets.
. Crain It Sons' Hook Store, Broad street.
T. 0. Parker's Bows Stand at Union Passen
r Depot, or can be purchased from news boys
1 all trains leaving Albany.
Secretary Blaine In orltloally III
agnln.
Ir we must have another waterworks
election, let’s have It.
Thb silver question Is giving the
Democrats In Congress more trouble
than anything else Just now, They
daisent let It alone, and yet what can
they do with It?
Senator Hill hae arranged to take
a Southern trip through the South
nest week. It is to be made after the
lion of a triumphal tour, and If the
ople along hit route will do their
; it will no doubt be one.
Tbb Dawson Nows has our sympa
..lies. With two of its distinguished
fellow-townsmen In tho ratio for Oon-
, It finds Itself In—well, the pra-
lent Is not quite as bad as being
between tho devil and the deep sea
but tho situation Is embarrassing.
Toe Atlanta Constitution, In an ar-
tlolo about the Central Railroad pass
ing Into the hands of a receiver, says:
"Tho Central's dally Income Is about
ilrty thousand dollars now. During
tho busiest season It Is near fifty
thousand dollars a day. Tho total re
ceipts of the whole Richmond end
Danville system are said to bef90,000 a
Hon. O. B, Stevens has been en
dorsed by the Seobnd District Al-
ie, but thoro doesn’t appear to be
] anything like a stampede of Alllanoc-
:6n toward him. Upon the oontrsry,
> are many gopd AUianenman in
li|trlot who are going to follow
Individual preferences until after
e Democratic nomination, just
though the Alllanoe had not anted.
There are getting to be so many
’da and flunkies In the country that
l a man has to do to have a crowd
unnlng after him as If to ldolatrously
ouoh the hem of hie garment is to get
ilm a newspaper correspondent and
i or threo other fellows to guard
1 and make up the “distinguished
ty,”and take a trip through the
utb in a private oar.
Senator Zne Vance, of North Caro
lina, la of the opinion that the Demo-
orate will make a mistake if they nom
inate either Hill or Cleveland. He Ie
quoted by a Washington oorreapon-
as saying: “The people of
Worth Carolina! are for Arthur P.
nan. We believe he Ie a man both
tlona will combine upon and a man
1 elect. Should the party insist
a Weitern man, I think Gen.
cveuson would be the beat seleotton
weoould make. He ie well known,
avlng served In Congress and as As-
alstant Postmaster General.”
Caw. R. Hobbs, Chairman of the
Democratic Executive Commit-
[of the Second Congres
sional District, has issued a
call for the Committee to meet at his
office in Albany on Thursday, the 81st
A The object of this meeting Is
ave a consultation aud take the
R neoessary steps to oarry out In this
' Ilstriot the request made by tho State
"‘ommlttee with reference to Demo
tic organization. The meeting
rill have Important matters to take
nto consideration, and It is to be
hoped that every member of the 00m-
■ mlttee will be present.
The Boston Journal tells a story
i" Illustrating' the power of a strong
V, will. Some forty years ago a Massa-
i chusetta good wife lay In her bed ap
parently dying with consumption.
As the family lived four miles from
the undertaker and pastor, and as the
roads were badly blocked with snow,
- r ’ the husband when oalledto the village
on business on Tuesday decided-
thoughtful man—to save an extra
Journey in that bitter weather by en-
" (faffing the minister and undertaker
at once, and appointingtlie funeral for
■. .Friday. Ip. some way on Wednesday
the sick woman heard of this, and
arousing herself from her supposed
tying condition declared, “There’ll be
so funeral In this house this week 1“
■ e funeral was accordingly postpon-
It took place last Friday, forty
after it was originally set. The
is still living, at the age of
ALL TOGETHEB NOW.
The people of Albany have again
declared In favor of a system of public
waterworks to be owned and controled
by the city, and this time they not on
ly voted for waterwerks, but for sew
erage as well.
The result of Tuesday’s election
leaves no doubt of the foot that the
people want these publlo Improve
ments, so neoessary to the comfort,
Ipalth and material progress of the
city, and that they believe the time
haa come to have them.
The voice In favor of waterworks
and sewerage was well nigh unani
mous. Now let us all pull together
and make this overwhelming verdlot
of the people In favor of needed pub
llo improvements for the o|ty mark a
new era In Albany's history. As a
people we are nearer together to-day
than we have ever been before. Now
let us all torn our faees one way and,
with our best foot forward, give our
united efforts to every community en
terprise that la designed for the up
building of our city. With her peo
ple united and working together, other
great Improvements will follow dose
upon those that were voted for on Tues
day, and Albany will soon take her
place In the front rank of the growing
cities of the South.
Now Is a good time for the people of
the town to get together—closer to
gether then they have ever been be
fore—to bands-all-round and move In
touoh with eaoh other, Inspired by one
Impulse, committed to one common
.nterest—Albany
TO THB DZJIOCRATIC BXKCV-
TIVE COMMITTEE OF THE 9ND
CONCHIEBRIONAI, DISTRICT.
Gentlemen The DemocratloExonu-
tlve Oommltteo of the State at its re
cent meeting suggested that a more
oomplete organization of tho party
throughout the State than what now
exists to be desirable. With that
end In view, and for the purpose of
oemonting our ranks In the Second
Congressional district and closing
any gaps that may appear In them, I
write to request you to meet at my
office In Albany on Thursday, the^lst
of Mayoh, isna, wiion wo hope, with
yoiir united wisdom; to be abie to pre
sent to all sides the blue steel of the
Beoond Congressional district De
mocracy that knows not what de
feat is:
Hon. C. R.JPkndlkton,
Lowndes county.
IIon. U. B. Peeples,
Berrien county.
Hon.;e. P. S. Denmark,
Brooks oounty.
Judge W. D. Kiddoo,
Randolph oounty,
Hon. W. A. Harris,
Worth oounty.
Hon. W. N. Spence.
Mitchell oounty.
IIon. T. F. Jones,
Early oounty.
Hon. A. W. Raines,
Quitman oounty.
Hon. P. E. Botd,
Calhoun county.
, Hon. John Triplett,
Thomas oounty.
Hon. John R. Irwin,
Clay oounty.
Hon. Wm. Martin,
Terrell oounty.
Hon. F. J. Walker,
Colquitt county.
Horn E. B. Been,
Miller oounty.
The Hon. Mr. O’Neal, the represen
tative from Decatur, haring departed
this life, the chairman of the County
Exeouttve Committee is requested to
take his place.
Very respectfully,
Richard Hobbs,
Ch'm 2nd Congressional Distrlot.
Albany, Ga., Maroh 8th, 1892.
' OH, BOTHERATION!
WAS TUB WATERWORKS ELEC
TION' LEGAL? *
Oh of the Mangen Salt Net ta Be a
FreeheMei—NekeEr Ceairallag,
Bet Will Ike BeatiOef
Thb Western papers are telling a
story about how a Wisconsin pastor
came to grief. He found it. neces
sary to raise funds for the support of
the churoh, and announced to his con
gregation that on the following Sun
day he would present a plan. At that
’time he stated that he should depend
principally upon the ladies to raise
the money. There was nothing novel
about tflatj the women of the church
frequently do raise the money. But
the Wisconsin divine made his mis
take in not allowing the women of his
congregation to do it in their own
way. Instead of that he produced two
papers, one entitled “Young Lady
Helpers” and one “Woman’s Aid So
ciety.” All under twenty-five were to
sign the former, and all over that age
the latter. When the papers were
returned the entire congregation had
signed the first paper, and when the
minister undertook to remonstrate the
women rose up and departed cn masse.
The minister now has a churoh debt
on hand and lias a pretty good chance
of having to look for a call elsewhere.”
The end is not yeti
A discovery has been made which
seems to oast some doubt upon the le
gality of the eleetlon held on Tuesday
atwhlehthe people voted so over
whelmingly In favor of having the
city Issue bonds to the amount $100,-
000 for waterworks and sewerage pur
poses.
All the trouble—that Is, the latest
trouble—grows out of a discovery
made Wednesday by whioh It appears
that one of the election managers, Mr.
D. S. Meads, is not a freeholder.
This question was raised about the
time the managers were aworn In on
Tuesday morning, but Mr. Meads
declared positively that he was a free
holder, and was sworn In. No one
who knows Mr. Meads would suppose
for a moment that he intentionally
misrepresented the faots; but the
records show that his house and jot In
this olty, whioh is the only realty that
he olalms, was deeded by him, in 1862,
to Capt. John A. Davis as trustee for
Mr. Meads’ wife and children. That
deed Is upon reeord, and it does not
appear that the property was ever re
conveyed to Mr. Meads. Mr. Meads
made this deed as a precautionary
'measure, perhaps, just before he went
off to the war, so that If he never re-
turned his wife Bnd ohlldren would
have no trouble about their home.
Time wore on, and Mr. Meads has
since homesteaded the property, for
getting, no doubt, about the old deed
which Is of record.
And now comes the question, was
tho election of whioh Mr. Meads was
one of the managers legal ? Lawyers
will, of course, differ about it; but the
very faot that the question has been
sprung, and that it rests upon Buoh a
state of faots as briefly given above,
will throw suspicion upon the bond!
whioh the olty proposes to Issue, and
may have the effeot of making, people
afraid of them.
Tlie Herald lias heard it intimated
that the objection that was raised to
Mr. Meads when the managers of the
election were being sworn in on Tues
day morning was prompted by cap-
tiousnesB, arid that the Illegality now
urged is due to the same spirit upon
the part of some of our oitixerii' whO
aro, or were supposed to he,' opposed t6
waterworks; but we are satisfied that
there is nothing in this, and that this
view of the matter does injustice to
certain gentlemen whose names we
have heard mentioned In that con
nection.
There were rumors Wednesday morn
ing that the election would be con
tested, but the Herald failed to find
anybody who felt disposed to contest
It or who had any Idea of doing so.
There will be nobody to contest the
election, and so the City Counoil oan
go ahead and deolare the result at its
meeting on next Monday night and let
theeleotion stand; but will not the
dlsoovery that has been made throw a
cloud on the bonds?—that’s the ques
tion.
The Hrrald found a difference of
opinion between lawyers as to
whether Mr. Meads is a freeholder or
not. It seems that In t872 he took the
homestead, and that his plaoe was
then set apart to him as the head of a
family. He has been In peaceable
posesslon of the property since that
.time, and It is held by some that this
gives him title. Then It was learned,
late Wednesday afternoon, that Mr.
Meads owned a lot In the City Cem
etery, and a prominent waterworks
lawyer gave it as his opinion that this
constituted him a freeholder, under a
decision that has been handed down
by the Supreme Court of Georgia.
The deolsion has not yet been found,
however.
Unless it can be shown that the fact
of Mr. Meads not being a freeholder
will not In any way oast any doubt
upon the validity of the bonds whioh
the people have -authorized the City
Counoll to issue, then the best thing to
do—and the only safe thing to do—is
to order another eleotlon.
The Mayor and Counoll will, of
course, take legal advice before acting
In the matter, but If it is necessary to
have another election to get the water
works and sewerage, let’s have It and
be done with It.
Death af a IHatker.
•Mr. Wm. McDowell was startled and
shocked Wednesday morning by the
receipt of a telegram from Blakely
Informing him of the death of his
mother. Mrs. McDowell had been ill
for some time, although not consider
ed dangerously so. Wednesday morn
ing Mr. McDowell received a letter
from his sister saying that their
mother was much better. A few hours
later the telegram containing the sad
intelligence of her death reached him.
He went down to Biakely on the after
noon train.
His many friends here tender their
heartiest sympathies and condolence
in his sad bereavement.
CHAUTAUQUA notes.
A large number of ladles have evin
ced a desire to take- Instructions In
the Delsartean physical cnltnre when
Mrs. Anderson arrives. She will
doubtless be pleased at the size of the
class awaiting her.
Nearly all of the solos and part
songs for Chautauqua have been as
signed and practice on them begun.
The musicians in Albany all have
work' to do Ir preparing the music,
and are taking nold of the work with
a vim and enthusiasm that speaks
wdll for the success of their efforts.
The Instrumental solos have also been
assigned., There is an honest desire
among the musicians to secure the
services of somo well-known special
ist within easy reach of Albany and
the Chautauqua purse. There are two
artists in Atlanta, men who have re
ceived very favorable comment In the
leading musical periodicals of the
North, and whose abilities |n their
line are undoubted. They are Joseph
Denok, planolst, and Blumenberg, the
violinist. Blumenberg oreated quite a
furore In New York by his masterful
bandllug of the king of Instruments:
Albany lovers of good musio are very
anxious that one or both of these men
be Induced to play here during Chau
tauqua. Can It not be managed?
The Chautauqua pot is like the
politleal pot, it only simmers as yet
It seems to be a rather diffloult mat
ter to secure musio for the physloal
oulture classes, not that there are not
etiough musicians In Albany, but to
play three or four hours every after
noon for three weeks is rather an
arduous task, and few ladles are will
ing to undertake eo much work and
responsibility.
Next week when the ohorus work
begins Is where things begin to have
an interesting appearance. .'A little
work lias been done on tho music, as
inuoh as could well be attended to in
the absence of the director. Most 6f
the solos, duets nnd part songs have
been assigned and practice on them
is well under way. There will be
some ladies’quartettes and ootettes nnd
a male quartette to give a pleasing
variety to the musio. Chautauqua
music is sure to be a success—maybe
A jfewllng success—this yoar.
''^Vho is to be the queen?” “Who Is
to be Goddess of Liberty?” These are
the questions constantly asked about
tjw Columbian Tableaux. Well, the
i'tter is nearly settled but no one is
erty to disclose the names at
”'A large number of teachers will
doqbtless attend the Teachers’ Insti
tute that will bo held during the as
sembly week. To earnest, live teach
ers the attractions that the Institute
presents are numerous, and the faot
that no teaoher will lose his pay for
the time that he Is in attendance at
the Institute Insures the presence of
nearly all teachers In the ten oounties
designated, by Commissioner Brad-
well.
Fred Emmerson Brooks will be one
of the principal Chautauqua attrac
tions. The managers are to be con
gratulated on their choice of an elo
cutionist to afford that high form of
entertainment that the night enter-
pretatlon of oholee selections of En
glish Literature always affords—enter
tainment and instruction combined.
Hr. Brooks gave one of his unique en
tertainments before the Young Men’s
Christian Association at Indianapolis,
last evening. The following is a por
tion of a lenghty article that appeared
in Sunday’s Indianapolis News: “Hr.
Brooks is a graduate of Madis&n Uni
versity, Hamilton, N. Y. He made his
reputation in California, and Is to that
State what James Whltoomb Riley Is
to Indiana. Like Mr. Riley,' Mr.
Brooks has the power to intelligently
express and interpret hiB poems by
voice and action, a faculty quite
rare among the poets. A mail “fair
to] look upon” In pliysiquq, a
student of elocution, he Is an orator
rather thawa reciter. In heroic pas
sages his voice swells into power, and
in the paths of his lines it melts into
melodiousness, touching the heart.
Mr. Brooks was chosen for one num
ber in the entertainment course of the
Young Men’s Christian Association,
1891-92. The date of that number is
Tuesday, Maroh 8.”
Mrs. C. M. Clark lias consented to
play the piano for the physical cul
ture classes.
Lee Superior Court convened Mon
day morning, and several of the
Albany lawyers went np to Leesburg
on the 11 o’clock train, but nearly all
of them came back in the afternoon.
Tlie Court decided to take up tile crim
inal docket first, in order to clear the
jail of a large number of prisoners, and
as our lawyers were interested princi
pally in the civil docket they came
home.
Poor Chili 1 Xo wonder the little
South American republic lias conclu
ded that she cannot make an exhibit
at me World’s Fair. Tlie claims of
the Baltimore sailors against tile
Chilian government have been filed in
the State Department, and the total
amo lilt elaiihed is about £'->,500,000.
TRAINING IN CITY 8CHOOLS.
Heehanles Taught to Iloy*—Cutting mad
Cooking for Girl*—Lecture*,
Manual training In the public schools
I a foothold end aroused an In
has gained
tetest tliat seems almost Incredible In the
short space of time that has elapsed since
It. was introduced In New York. The
first trial was made in February, and In
four months fourteen different schools—
the primary, girls' or boys' departments,
In the
same building or same district,
counted as separata school*—were work
ing out the principles attabiiahed for this
industrial work. Tlie idea originated In
Russia, and some of the features of it
came from the kindergarten methods of
Germany, The committee who first took
np this new feature of education studied
well tbs work as it waa carried on in
technical schools In this and other cities
They have striven to leave out ell the
weak points as they were discovered and
produce a system that was superior if
possible to any other In existence.
Whetberthey have accomplished this
remains to be seen. They are free to
admit that they are still far from having
a oomplete knowledge themselves, am
exjpCTienco la teaching them important
everyday. Thesohoob are nearly
all private where manual training
' gnt
taught outside of New York, but as the
benefits derived are felt It will undoubt
edly oome Into the common possession of
all the Institutions of learning. One
great fear entertained has been that In
establishing It, time would have to bg
taken from other studies Anything to
unsatisfactory has not been the result.
Instead of impeding progress In other
studies, it helps them by changing the
order of training for the better In every
department. Drawing Is the funda
mental study In Industrial training; It is
the corner stone of the entire structure
of manual work as taught In the oommon
schools It enters largely into the boys'
department of carpentry, and tbs girls'
classes of sewing and oooking.
The girls if they do not know how to
draw straight lines, will hardly be able
“ stralgl
to sew straight seams or make proper
hems and in cooking will not be able to
know the value of measurement. Draw
ing has already been taught for some
tin
je
in tho schools are the workshop for boys
and sewing and cooking departments for
girls and there Is promotion in these
just as in all the other studies
Naturally a great variety of tools and
materials are needed, and even now the
supplies are not all furnished. The list
for the cooking cIobs is os complete as for
a family setting up housekeeping. The
dir • • ■
great difficulty is in finding the proper
teachers for this sort of training. Of
course, it is easy enough to procure a
good car|>entcr, or a good 000k, or a good
seamstress to show how to work in these
departments, but the thing Is to find
some one who can teficli these different
branches—a carpenter, for instance, who
not only knows now to saw a board, but
can explain the reason for' sawing it, tell
kind of wood be is using, and
what
where it comes from, besides many'other
practical points connected with it.
. And so in each of the other depart?
ments. But means.will undoubtedly he
found to meet each want ns time goes on.
The children take a great interest in
manual training, and this is a great in
centive to teachers. The girls are allowed
to have a small repast made of the things
that they have cooked or helped to 000k,
and this increases their interest In the
performance to a vast degree Then,
too, they are inspired to try experiments
at home, which is, of course, exactly
what is desired by the founders of the
work.
The principal of one of the best publio
schools for girls haa made reading aloud
a feature of her school—not elocution,
but reading in a simple and intelligent
manner. She herself as a reward of
merit reads to the girls once a week on
Friday afternoons—not Sunday school
stories or eet pieces from school books,
but standard works In that way she
hopes to Interest the scholars In literature,
a study to which little time is given In
the publio eohools
It has been felt for some time that the
teachers where this new manual haa beat
adopted ought to have some training,
by the board
too. They were assembled
ot education in the hall of the building
belonging to this body to hear a lecture
on the subject A second mooting was
presided over by Dr. Paul Hoffman, the
assistant superintendent who bos tho
manual training in charge. That gentle
man has been a physician, an Arctic ex
plorer, end Is pronounced a man of
genius—the right man In the right place.
He gained the confidence of the teachers
at onoe by his earnestness In stating that
he knew something more about the sub
ject than they did, but not much. He
was thoroughly Interested In it, and
would work day and night if need be; in
order to gain knowledge on the subject.
On them as well as himself depended
the success of the work. He thought the
way to teach manual training was to be
gin in the moet primitive manner and
demonstrate everything in the most
practical way. He wished a child to
“know” that a cabe was a cube, not “be
lieve” that it was because he was told so.
In teaching, tho sense of feeling could be
called largely into play, and the child
must be taught how to see, not what to
see. He must feel of a cube, its edges
and its points, and find out why it was a
cube.
"Children," he said, “aro great Imi
tators and believe what you tell them. If
you take a block of wood in your hand
and say, ‘Do you see this lump of iron?’
each child will answer ‘Yes, when it is
as plain as possible that the lump of iron
is a block of wood.”
We would have the children taught to
draw with a free hand, not painfully and
carefully by measurement Tho method
of teaching, writing and shading the let
ters has caused the children to use the
middle finger in such a strained way
that In many instances it has been found
to be longer than the middle finger on
the left hand. The eyes of school chil
dren aro also being injured by the way
they hold their books or their slates. His
desire was that tile scholars should be
come men and women, strong bodily and
physically, before anything else, and he
behoved that tills teaching would aid
them in that.—New York Press.
Girls are trained to agriculture in Den
mark, the owners of farms receiving
them as pupils.
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