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X ... AY - i - t, - ' ffioCI siiT i -.; 4.i ; 'l n .-jt 1 - i i i it a f W. J. YATES, Editor isd Pmmiitob ET08 i-'X ;'' ; '.J vriAp CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1881. TWENTY-NlNTir TOLUnE NUMBER 1465. A a ' - arm -ff m u vm. a ' i ii 1 I U I II 111 III I. II I - a - a . a - $ VV 111X1 11 I I i 11 AY ur 1 II iCVLJ AV 1L IR UV AviU AVT AVX v 7l AY ii i ii vii ii rn mi ij-ii i it i-ii v i-ma jit in ii ii ii . ' ' ' " i ' " i 7 ' -. ? - T - - : ' i lift . : : THE Charlotte Democrat, PtTBIiISHKD BT ' WILLIAM J. YATES, Editor and Proprletoln Terms T WO DOLLAR8 for one year, or One Dollar for six months. Subscription mutt be paid in advance. . o ' Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte, N. C, as second class postal matter, according to the rules of the P. O. Department. ROBERT GIBBON, M. D., CHARLOTTE, N. C, Office orner5th and Tryon Street,) ; Tenders his f rofessional services to the public, as a Dracticat Surcrton. Will advise, treat or operate in all the ci Here: t departments of Surgery. Patients from distant , when necessary wilLbfi. f nrnjahed comfortable qaarters, and experienced nurses, at reasonable rates. Address Jjock box no. 3d. March 5. 1880. y Dr. JOHN H. McADEN, Wholesale and Retail Druggist, CHARLOTTE, N. C, las on hand a large and well selected stock of PURE DRUGS, Chemicals, Patent Medicine, Family Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dye Staffs, Fancy and Toilet Articles, which he is determined to sell at the very lowest prices. Jan 1, 1879. DR. T. C. SMITH, Druggist and Pharmacist, Keeps a full line of Pure Drugs and Chemicals, White Lead and Colors, Machine and Tanners' Oils, Patent Medicines, Garden Seeds, and every thing pertaining to the Drug business, which he will sell at low prices. March 28, 1879. J. F. McCombs, M. D., ( iffers his professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both night and day, promptly attended to. Office in Brown's building, up stairs, opposite the ( harlotte Hotel. Jan. 1, 1873. DR. J. M. MILLER, Charlotte, N. C. All "calls promptly answered day and night. Office over Traders National Bank Residence opposite W. R. Myers'. Jan. 18. 18r8. DR. M. A. BLAND, Dentist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Gas used for the painless extraction of teeth. Feb. 15. 1878. A. BURWBLIu F. D. WALKER. BUR WELL & WALKER, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. Office adjoining Court House. Nov. 5, 1880. DR. GEO. W. GRAHAM, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Practice .limited to the . EYE, EAR AND THROAT . Jan. 30. 1880 i ROBERT D. GRAHAM, Attorney at Law In the State and United States Courts. Collections, home and foreign, solicited. . Abstracts of Titles, Surveys, &c, furnished for compensation. Office: corner Trade and Tryon Streets, Jan. 9, 1880. yr Charlotte, N. C. RTTFUS BARRINGER, Attorney at Law, Also, l?nds money on Real Estate or good collat erals ; negotiates loans, Stc. Bank rules and rates strictly followed. Charlotte, Dec. 24, 1879 ly-pd T. M. PITTMAN, Attorney at Law, (Opposite the Court House, Charlotte, N. C.,) Practices in the State and U. S. Courts, and gives prompt attention to business. ' Will negotiate loans. May 28, 1880. y WILSON & BURWELL, Wholesale and Retail Druggists. Trade Street, Chablottk, N. C, Have a large and complete Stock of everything per taining to the Drug Business, to which they invite the attention of all Duyere botn wholesale nd reuil. Oct. 8. 1880. HALES & FARRIOR, Practical Watch-dealers and Jewelers, Charlotte, N. C, Keep a full stock of handsome Jewelry, and Clocks, Spectacles, Ac, which they sell at fair prices. Repairing of Jewelry, Watches, Clocks, &c, done promptly, and satisfaction assured. Store next to Springs corner building. SPRINGS& BURWELL, grocers and Provision Dealers, Have always in stock Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, Syrups .Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard, Hams, Flour, Giass Seeds, Plows, Ac, which we offer to both the Wholesale atd Retail trade. All are in vited to try us from the smallest to the largest buyers. Jan. 17. 1880. SIM. B. JONES, M. D., Offers his professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. Office with Drs. Jones & Graham, over Wilsou & Burwell's Drug Store. St pt 24, 1880 6m j. Mclaughlin, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Groceries," Provisions, &c, College Street, 1 Charlotte, N. C, 8ells Groceries at lowest rate for Cash, and buys Country Produce at hiehest market price. Cotton and other country Produce sold on commission and prompt returns maae. Nov. 1, 1880. Kino,, fCoTTON.--Edwanf Atkinson.' r of Boston, ays that wo do not begra as yet. to . . . . -m m - . appreciate the magnitude pi. the , weaitn to K jm r - . . ,. . i ' w rcpu!iroia ooiiOD cuiutfe uavpia conn- try. He tsava tha ttreaent . croro of, cotton will be 25 per cent larger than the largest ...... a i i . . . i . . "it wrwp ever raisea py Binvea ina 13, 11. ytm exceedfiJ)00.00Q haLsa 'If. it he of that amount, It will produce ,000,000 .tons-of coiion aeec, Desiaet Beea lor planting, whtcn will yield 90.000.000 crallona of oil. 1.300.000 tons of oil cake, and' 1.500.000 of hulls suit able for makingpaper. Each ton of oil-seed meal will Ice ep five sheep six months. Thus the cotton-seed rop will support millions of r . l - 1 -3 .1 1 :t:. needed to grow more cotton. He further says that the present ; cotton acreage of the South covers lesathan S ner r.pnt. of lhn'cnl Sale of Valuable Real Estate Near the City of Charlotte, N. C. By virtue of a decree of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg county, I will expose to public sale at the Court House in Charlotte, on Tuesday, the 18th day of January, 1881, to the highest bidder, a val uable Tract of LAND, containing about One Hun dred and Eighty-five (185) Acres, lying near the limits 01 me uity 01 Charlotte, directly on and north of the Carolina Central Railway, adjoining the anas 01 v. v. uarnnger, Mrs. 'Fanny Kicks, and the lands of the late J. S. Means and others. The land will be divided and sold in lots of about 40 acres each. Also, at the same time and nlace. an undivided interest in about 16 Acres of Land, lying within one mile of Charlotte, known as the John R. Williams Mine Tract, adioininsr the lands of John W. Wads- worth, D. Asbury and others. une-iourth of the purchase money will be re quired in Cash and the -remainder at one and two years, in equal instalments. wth interest at 8 per cent irom date 01 sale. Title reserved till purchase money is paid. 1 ; I Persons desirous of purchasing the Drooertv are iucugu vj uaa. jr. irwiu, wuu win pnow me same. T T T ' 1 Hi 1 . 1 " - GEO. E. WILSON, rec. 17, 1880 4w Commissioner. Administrator's Notice. Havinsr taken ont letters of Administration on thn Estate of John L.Caldwell, dee'd, all persons hold ing claims against the Estate of said John L. Cald well, dee'd. late of Blackstock. South Carolina, are hereby required to exhibit the same to the under signed, at his office in Charlotte, on or before the 9th day of December, 1881, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of any recovery against JOHN C. BURROUGHS, Administrator of John L. Caldwell. Dec. 10, 1880 6w LATEST ARRIVAL of New Goods. We are now receiving for the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY trade a large assortment of .desirable Goods, purchased by our Mr Elias. who has re mained constantly in the Northern markets during the entire season, watching for Bargains and taking advantsge of the late rise in price of cotton goods. we are now enabled to oner both to Wholesale and Retail buyers inducements to make their pur chases of us. We have a new stock of Dress Goods, Prints, Flannels, Blankets, Cloaks and Dolmans. A large stock of Clothing, Carpets, Boots, Shoes, and general merchandise. By examining our stock before buying, you will save money. . ELIAS & COHEN. Dec. 10, 1880. IMPORTANT NEWS. To Mothers, Fathers and Guardians. We are prepared to. clothe your boys from four years old and upwards at the most reasonable pri :es. We have 1,000 Suits for Boys and Youths of the most desirable fabrics. Try our $5 Boy's "Knock-about" Suits, the test production for the purpose in the country. uur otocK 01 Men s Suits and Overcoats Is immense and of exquisite designs. We especial ly call your attention to our S3 and 110 cuitr a special drive. Our Custom-Made Clothing We ask yon to examine, because it cannot be ex celled in any appointment, especially in fit. Suits irom $3 to $ w, Overcoats $3 00 to f 3o. tW" We ask but your inspection of these Goods : as to pleasing you. we have not the least doubt. WITTKOWSKY & BARUCH. Sept. 24, 1880. HARDWARE. BREM & MCDOWELL, (Successors to Walter Bremy Agent,) Have a full and new Stock of Hardware for the Wholesale and Retail trade and invite an inspection before purchasing elsewhere. Corner Trade and Tryon Streets, Charlotte. Oct. 8, 1880. SEASONABLE GOODS We have a larae stock of . Ladies'. Misses and Children's Cloaks and Dolmans, very cheap. We have a full line of Repellants, Water-Proof Goods, &c, very cheap. We have a beautiful line of Basket Flannels, and all other kinds of Flannels, cheap. We have a large stock of DRESS GO ODSt Pretty and at low figures. We have a large stock of Blankets, very cheap. Ladies', Misses' and Children's Hosiery, in, all shades and sizes. Shirts, Laundried and unlaundried all kinds for men and boys. A splendid line of Flannel Shirts for Ladies, Gents and Children. Just received a nice line of WOOL 3HIRTS for Children. A large stock of Ready-Made Clothing. The best stocked Carpet Department In Western North Carolina. ALEXANDER & HARRIS. Nov. 5,1880. Superior Groceries. LEROT DAVIDSON Has now in Store one of the nicest stock of Family Groceries ever offered in this market. In addition to Groceries, he keeps an ascrriment of the various Winter Fruits, all fresh and sound. Ladies especially are invited to call and examine his stock of foods, as the can find anything they w.tnt in the Eating line. Nov. 25, 1880. h m;Senrice'0f England. : ; In ailetter addressed to President Hayes by Rev. Dr:j James McCosh, who is a na tive of Scotland speaking of civil service reform and, the good that would result from it, be said he lived in Great Britain when the civil service question was discussed and settled there. Said he: "When the measure was . passed we had an immediate and manifest' improvement in the character . of the officers. I had no credit in passing the measure. J It was car ried by the influence of high-class men as Macaulay and Trevelyan. But on its being passed I had the honor, on the recommenda tion af the Duke of Argyll, to be appointedy by the Crown as a member of a commis- i sion to organize the system of competition, and to apply it to the civil officesf-Irdir; the most lucrative in the world. The Com missioners appointed at once commanded the confidence of the country (of course I do not speak ot myselt.) 1 am not sure that I can name them all, but I remember Sir James Stephens, our Chairman, Bishop Temple. Jrrof. Kawlinson. Max Aluller. irot. Stokes, Sir Alexander Grant and Prof. All- man. At a series of meetings we organized the system which, with seme modifications suggested by experience, is in operation this day to the great benefit of the hundred million of the Indian Empire. We also conducted the first examination, and I recol lect that in the department of mental and political science the voung man who was placed first by Sir Alexander Grant and myself was the son of a house painter, and stands first at this day. and is Foreign Sec retary for India, with a salary higher than that of the President of the United States. It is acknowledged that no governmeut in the world has better servants than .Logland has in those appointed on this system. Much the same may be said of the civil offi cers of Prussia, elected on a similar method. I have never heard of the civil officers either of England or Prussia being even suspected of corruption." K5gr" Senator Jones, the energetic, self made man Irom Florida, says : "We have not the material wealth that we had before the war, but in my opinion, children now living will see the South far wealthier and more independent than it ever was. Not even the recuperative powers of France, after the German war, have surpassed the energy and spirit ot the South since her people have had control of their own affairs. My life has been spent in the South. I know what it was in the past, and I do not think I exaggerate regarding the future. After the passions of the war have passed away, and a wise governmental policy is adopted, we shall soon have all the pros perity we desire." Postponement op the Cowpens Cen tennial. The celebration of the battle of Cowpens, with the unveiling of the monu ment of Daniel Morgan at Spartanburg, S. C, is postponed from January 17th to a later date not finally determined on. The object of the postponement is to give an op portunity lor the co-operation of New Hamp shire, Connecticut, Ne w York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, whose Legislatures meet next month. NEW GOODS. Our whole Stock is new, fresh and attractive. We have a large line of Black and Mourning DRESS GO ODSt Comprising Cashmeres, Henriettas, Tamise. Em press, Momies, Black Silks and Satins. Also, a large line of Fancy and Plain Dress Goods. Jiivery thing that is now out m Dress Trimmings. A large line of imported and domestic Hosierv. A handsome stock of Nottingham Laces, Lappet Netting and Lace Lambrequins. Don't fail to examine our stock of Ladies and Gents Merino Underware, Flannels, Blankets, Sheet ings, Tickings and Bleached Domestics uur stock of Ready-Made Clothing, Over-Coats, Ulsters and Ulsteretts is large and very attractive. Come and get one of our cheap Cloaks or Dol- mons. We have an elegant line of BOOTS and SHOES, Slippers and Rubbers. Also, a full line of City made Shoes, as cheap as the cheapest. in short our btock is complete in every detail and persons visiting the City will do well to call before purchasing. Personal attention given to orders. HARG RAVES & WILHELM. Dec. 10,1880. FALL TRADE. Groceries aud rxvrriaivuo, BAGGING AND TIES. We are now receiving our Fall Stock and will be prepared to offer inducements on all goods in our line. - See our prices for Bagging and Ties before buying. . We are selling the new "Arrow Tie," and will sell as low as any other new Tie offered in this market. Give us a call. SPRINGS & BURWELL. Aug. 13, 1880. Fresh Seasonable Goods, Just received by WILSON & BURWELL, Drufgi8ts Trade Street, 30 Lbs. ground Sage, 300 lbs. ground Black Pep per, . 00 lbs. grouna Cayenne iepper, aw pounas pure Cream Tartar, 5 grose Nelson's . Gelatine, S grose Cbajmer's Gelatine, Baker's Chocolate, Cocoa, Sago, Tapioca, uorn starch, Mace, jxutmegs, ana Flavoring Extract. Toilet Soaps. 350 Dozen Toilet Soap, at all prices. . WILSON & . BURWELL. Nov. 26, 1880. Ready Mixed Faint. We are Agents for the celebrated Averill Paint, the best on the market. 250 gallons, all coUors, at WILSON & BURWELL'S Oct. 29, 1880. Drug Store. Toilet SettsFuff Boxes, Hair Brushes, Tooth Brushes, Nail Brushes, Fine Toilet Soaps, just received by Oct. 2, 1880, Druggists. The Pnblio School Failure as Viewed by a Northern Man. (Extracts from Richard Grant White's article in n north American Keview.J 7 There is probably not oue of those ' vari pus social contrivances, political engines; or modes of common action called institutions which are regarded as characteristic of the United States, if not peculiar, to them, in which the people of this country have placed more confidence, or felt greater pride, than its public school sy stem. - There is hot one of them so unworthy- of either confidence or pride : not' one which has failed so completely to ' accompHph the end fo which it was established. And the cask is worse than that of mr failure; for result has been deolorable. and threat- 1 A ' eni to be disastrous. -'l .1 t m. .1 t . .1 i.iu lugrc wuu usve uui luuugui upuit hub subject, or who have thought tiport it vaguely, and without' careful arid'. conside rate observation of all the facta which bear upon it, this assertion will savor strongly of temerity and folly. The belief that edu cation meanins thereby the . acquit inr of such knowledge as can be got iu schools and irom books is in itself elevating and purifying, and is the most potent agency in the formation of good men and good citi zens, is eo general and so plausible, that it has been assumed as an axiom in that which, for reaions that do not yet quite clearly ap pear, has come to be called "social science." But, however great may be the intrinsic value of education as a formative social agency, the effect of that which is afforded by our public school system has proved in every way unsatiffactory and worse than unsatisfactory. The example of New York was widely followed, actually if not avowedly. On all skies there was a cry for higher edu cation ; and as higher education meant more teachers to be appointed and paid, more school bouses to be built, more text books to be bought by the tens of thou sands, and, in brief, more, money to be ex pended, the local politicians, who with an thropomorphic devotion, worshiped their own glorified and gigantic likeness in the Hon. William Tweed, did all in their power and their power was great to foster the higher education. They fostered the higher education until, as I was told abont ten years ago by a publisher of school books, there was no department of his trade so profitable as that in which he was chiefly interested, but that to "intro duce" a set of two or three text books into public school use cost between fifty thou sand and one hundred thousand dollars (for what, pray let us know, O philanthropic dispensers of the healing light of educa tion ?) ; and until now there is a college of the city of New York, as a part of its com mon school system and a normal school, at which fifteen hundred young women are in structed yearly in the mysteries of teach ing, which but a very few of the fifteen hundred practice, mean to practice, or have the opportunity to practice and until the sum of $3,805,000 is spent upon public edu cation by the city of New York alone, of which Sum no less than $1,009,207 is paid to teachers of primary departments. And such, in a great measure, has the "Ameri- can" system ot public education Decome in all the country lying North of the Potomac and Ohio. Nearly four million dollars taken in one year from the pockets of tax-payers of one city for education more than a million dollars paid to teachers of primary schools, and a similar expenditure throughout the State and in more than half the State ; and what is the result? According to inde pendent and competent evidence from all quarters, the mass of the pupils of these fmblic schools are unable to read intelligent to spell correctly, to write legibly, to de scribe understanding the geography of their own country, or to do anything that reasonably well educated children should do with ease. They cannot write a simple letter ; they cannot do readily and with quick comprehension a simple "sum" in practical arithmetic; they can not tell the meaning of any but the commonest of the words that they read and spell so ill. There should not be need to say that many of them many in actual numbers can do all thtse things fairly well ; but these many are few indeed in proportion to the millions who receive a public school education. They can give rules glibly ; they can recite from memory : thev have some dry. dis jointed knowledge 01 various oiogres ana osophies; they can, some of them, read a little French or German with a very bad accent; but as to such elementary educa tion as is alike the foundation of all real higher education and the sine qua non of successful me in tnis age, tney are, most 01 them, in almost as helpless and barren a condition of mind as if they had never crossed the threshold of a school house. The testimony to this amazing and de plorable condition of the mass of the pu pils ot our public schools is so varied, so in dependent, and comes from so many quar ters that it must be true; it cannot be dis regarded. It is given by private persons, by ofnoers 01 school districts, by teachers themselves ; and it comes from all parts of the country. It cannot be repeated here in detail, for it would fill half the pages that can be afforded to this article. Jtsut one example of it may be given, which fairly represents the whole. Mr lieo. A. w aiton, agent of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, in a report on the public schools of Norfolk county, Massachusetts, a county which borders upon Boston, and the inhab itants of which are somewhat exceptional in wealth and intelligence, sets forth a con dition of things which has thus been graphi cally, but- correctly summarized by the Chicago Times : "The examinations were, in the first place, of the simplest and most practical charac ter. There was no nonsense about them. They had but one object- to see if, in the common schools, the children' were taught to read, write, and cipher. ".! ; The showing made by some of the towns was excellent, and of them we shall . speak pre sently, in the case of others, and 01 many others, it is evident from what Mr Walton says, and still more evident from! what he intimates, that the scholars of fourteen years of age did not know how to read, to write, or to cipher.7; . v, .. . - . i This is the intellectual result of the ope ration of .our much vaunted "American" public school system; during the last thirty or forty years. . Competent observers in all quarters tell the same' story. -Mr Charles Francis Adams, Jr., in hls: paper on "The Ne w Departure in the : Common Schools of Quiocy, says of an examination of, those schools by competent and impartial gentle men is 1873 s, 'The result was deplorable. The schools, went to pieces. -r',f ta. other wordf. jt appeared, as 'the result of eight years school teaching, that the chil dren, as a whole, could neither write with facility nor read fluently." It is needless to waste more words- in setting forth a fact equally sad, disgraceful, ancj. undeniable. And now let us consider that system in relation to the reason, the only reason, which justifies its establishment. It is sup ported by enormous sums of money taken by process of law from the pockets of , in dividuals. Will he, nill he, every man who has property is compelled to pay for the education of other men's children in schools to which he may or may not wish to send his own children, if he has any. The only possible justification for this forcible appro priation of his money is, that it is for the public good, for the common wealth, that the system, for the support , of which his money is taken affords security for life, lib erty, and property which without that sys tem would be lacking. And this is the reason for it, and the only reason that is avowed. Here we have the professed, and the hon estly believed social and political theory upon which the public school system rests. It is to lift the masses. The theory is not merely unsound, it is utterly and absolutely false. Knowledge will not lift the masses, except as a balloon is lifted, because it is inflated with gas. More knowledge does not raise the quality of men's moral natures. This theory itself, however, is the natu ral fruit of a belief which has obtained gen eral acceptance, and which is embodied in an adage that, like so many adageB, is fal lacious, and yet is received without question because of its sententious form. This adage is, "Ignorance is the mother of vice. Ignorance is the mother of superstition, but has no relation with vice. If ignorance were the mother of vice, and if our public school system were what it is set up to be, the fruits of the latter would by this time have been manifest, plainly visible to the whole world, in our moral ad vancement as a people, in a higher tone in our society, in the greater purity ot our fiolitics and the; incorruptibility of our Iegis ators, in the increased probity of the ex ecutive officers of our State and municipal governments and of our corporate and finan cial bodies, in the superior wisdom and more solid integrity of our bench, in the sobriety of our matrons, the modesty of our maid ens, in the greater faithfulness of wives, in the diminution of divorces, in the steady decrease of vice and crime and idleness and vagrancy and vagabondage. If ignorance be the mother of vice, and the public school is the efficient foe of ignorance, the last fifty years should have seen in all . these re spects an improvement so great that admir ing nations would applaud and humbly hope to imitate. But who needs to be told that in all these respects we have deteriorated ? It is a matter of public record. It is known to every observant man who has lived more than thirty years. Our large towns swarm with idle, vicious lads and young men who have no visible means. of support. Our rural districts are infested with tramps a creature unknown to our fathers, and even to us in our youth. The corruption of our legislative bodies is so wide and so deep and so well known that great corpora tions and business men of large wealth can almost always obtain the legislation need ful for their ends, right or wrong. Bribery at elections is almost openly practiced by both our great political parties. The gen eral tone and character of our bench, both tor iearnmg,"ior wisaom and integrity, have fallen notably during the last thirty years. Dishonesty in business and betray al of trust have become so common that the public record of the last fifteen years on this subject is such that it cannot be re membered without shame. Politics, instead of being purified and elevated, has become a trade in which success falls year by year more to inferior men who have a little low cunning. Divorces have , multiplied until they have become so common as to be a stock jest in the facetious column of our newspapers. Crime and vice have in creased year after year almost pari passu with the development of public school sys tem, which, instead of lifting the masses, has given us in their place a nondescript and hybrid class, unfit for professional or mercantile life, unwilling and also unable to be farmers or artisans, so that gradually our skilled labor is done more by immi grant foreigners, while our native citizens, who would otherwise naturally fill this re spectable and comfortable position in so ciety, seek to make their living by their wits ; honestly if they can ; if not, more or less dishonestly ; or, failing thus, by petty office-seeking. Filial respect and parental love have both diminished; and, as lor the modesty of ouf young men, and even of our young women, they do not even blush that they have lost it? The. census returns show that crime, immorality' and insanity are greater in proportion to population in "those com- munities. which have beenj Jong -under the influence of the public ' school system :' tKan they are in those which have ' been 1 wlthbut it.' , The, system,' be it , remembered, is of New England "origin, . andth6 New Eng land States have been longest under its in fluence. The States South of the Potonfao are thdse' which were longest ".without it ; and, indeed,' in them it has hardly ' yet ob tained favor or foothold. : ; - .. '.' '' New England socieiyV formed under the' public school -sVstemi produced one native' . white criminal to'1 every 4 1,084 inhabitants; while1- rthe'-, Southern Stafjes, which had been almost entirely' wrth6ut than, six1 to England States' had 1 one publicly supported pamper tq'feyery lf& "in habitants,'; while the' six"1 Southern which werg'jwithout public schoplshad bui one to every 345. ; Of suicides", there 'were? in! the . New England Slates one to every 13,28$ of the entire population ; but the otheWhad only one to every 56,584. The census of 1860 has no record of insanity; but that of 1870 shows in' New England, one insane person of those born and living in the sev eral States to every 800 native born . inhab itants; but in the six Southern .States, in question only one to every 1,682 native in habitants. , a The significance of these facts and fig ures can not be mistaken or explained away. Does it therefore follow that Knowl edge is incompatible with virtue, : thrift, good citizenship, and happiness, and that education is per se an evil? Not at all. But it does follow that ignorance, is not the mother of vice; that ignorance has no necessary connection with vice. . It does follow that the public school system is not the reformatory agent which it has honest ly been supposed to be ; that its'. influence is not to make men good and thrifty and happy; that it is not adapted to produce the best government of the people.. ; J ; In 1870 the cost of the system : which co existed with the condition of society indi cated by these figures, and which has been previously described - in this .' article, . was more than sixty four million dollars. The remedy ? . A remedy must be found. It can not be set forth in detail at the end of an article like this, which has already exceeded the limits assigned i to it. But it may be briefly indicated as a discontinue tion of any other education at the public cost than that which is strictly elementary reading, spelling, writing, and the com mon rules of practical arithmetic ; and in the remission of all - education higher than this to parents, the natural guardians and earthly providence of their children, i,-, And those children only should be thus educated at public cost whose parents are too poor to give them even an elementary . education themselves. Supplementary to this simple system of elementary , education, there might be some jealously guarded provision for the higher education of pupils who have exceptional ability and show special apti tude and taste for science or literature. . i i MUMS mm mm,. I I . . . Horse Chestnuts and- Rheumatism. A couple of bur solid citizens solid in avoirdupois as well as in their bank accounts -were m a horse car a few'days since, when a man came limping aboard apparently sut fering from rheumatism.' One of the solid men remarked: "I've never had a twinge of rheumatism in my life," and at the same time he took from his pants pocket a horse chestnut and displayed it with an air that seemed to im ply, "this is the little joker that did the business." rsut no sooner had solid citizen No. 1 displayed his chestnut charm with a contented air than solid eitizen No. 2 also drew from his pantaloons jpocket a horse chestnut. Said the first citizen :. 1 ' 1 "I've carried that for thirty years.' "So have I carried this for more than thirty years," ; Teplied the other; "but I don't carry mine for rheumatism ; I carry it forthegout.n . '! A passenger who had been an interested listner to the foregoing, rather timidly asked one if he really believed there was any value in the horse chestnut. "No I" answered the man. "Then why do yon carry the thing about with you?" . '. j . . "Because it don't cost any thing, and can do no harm if it does.no good." "It shows a little superstition, though;" "Very well, I'll shouidef it. In the mean' i uli u.ruMr7uB ;."-'-it..4.. a-J it thirty years and have not been troubled with rheumatism. And 1 know of others who can testify to the same good result." Then the lame man who had got aboard the car and was the. cause of this episode put his hand into his pocket and drew ont a horse chestnut and held it up to the gaze of the others. A ripple of laughter went up and the two solid citizens who had pin ned their faith to the nut anticipated a set back from the lame man. But the latter remarked: J "Don't laugh, gentlemen ; I have faith iff the horse chestnut. I got a sprain a few days ago. My lameness is not from rheu matism. I had a touch of rheumatism though, about ten years ago and I, went and got a horse-chestnut and have carried it in my , pocket ever since. And, gentlemen, I've never had the rheumatism since." - Perhaps three men carrying, horsechest- nuts is a rather big average for one . horse- car load of passengers, but there, are more masculines with these chestnut charms in their pockets than Doctor Tanner in his philosophy "ever dreamed of."--Hartford Times. : . . ' There is another diplomatic scandab A Washington lady, Miss Carrie Carroll, was marked two years ago to W; H. D Haggard, an attache of the British Legation, The fellow has abandoned her, leaving her in England. ! " , - , " l Poor fool she was for marrying a' dead-head titled foreigner.j; . :". ' 6,070-r-a. disproportion :6f mire one ! ' ThelTew A ! t P
The Times-Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Jan. 7, 1881, edition 1
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