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■VJ — ' ALBANY WEEKLY HERALt): -v -.-- ^ '■—fr •V • * .,. f . SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1892. w .Jr* ALBANY HERALD. 1 Editor ud'Fiopiiitor, City if Alkaar. a, Sheriff af Deaghertr Ikbald U nnbll»hwl ttery morn* ■ i TlIK WXMLY HKHALI) RATRM OP aUBSORlPTIOK. »nu junr ilx months.. .litre months*... y onb year.......*. tly six months...., | BOO SfiO 1 ti 100 M 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. JOB: In all its branches NEATLY. 1 QUICKLY. CHEAPLY oooeooooooooooooooo" EXECUTED 000000000000000000 off -AT- T. P. GREEN’S Job Office. I am prepared to print any thing from a visiting card to a mammoth poster. New Presses, New Type and Skilled Printers do the work. I make a specialty oi Commercial Printing, and keep a good supply of stationery in stock. Orders by mail promptly at tended to, and prices and work guaranteed. T.P. RELIEVES an Stomach Distress. REMOVES Nausea, Sense of FtSaSS. Conoestion, Pair. REVIVES Failing EN ERGY. RESTORES Normal Circulation, and Wabxs to Tor Tits. OR. HARTER MEDICINE CO., SI, LcqIs, Ho.