They bad i 



wed a Utile praise, (whit 



"beechen rule,") dividing a little [tail 



laying I would do the same the oem 



well. As tbey went quietly to 



r people lived no', for they bad 



MOORE'S &TJKAL KSW-YORKER. 



fVgrfrfnrf - J W. BeLKLitT, of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 IW/WAfcuft-T. W. Valentine, N. Y ; D. B 

 Ilugor, UUf.f Wm. Robert-, Peon.; T. C. Taflor, 

 Dll | Elbrltfg- Smith, Conn.; Daoiel Bead. Wis ; 

 None Stone, III.; A. K. Rikoff. Ohio; C 8. Pen 

 Dell, Missouri; J, N. Hcjilton, Md.; BylreBter 

 BeoLt, Vu ; 0. C. Nwt'erode, Iowa. Secretary— 

 Z. Richard", Pistrictof Columbia. ZtaoiWW-O. 

 C. Wight. Dmlrict of Columbia. Counsellors — 

 James Cruik.bnnks, N. Y.; J. W. Allen, Conn.; 

 II. C. Dickok, Peon ; Wm. McCatbrnn, D. C. ; 

 John O. Ell'olt, N. C. ; 8. J. C. Sweezy, Ala. ; Wm 

 E. Tbeldon, Uua.; Daniel Reed, Wis ; J. D 

 Yemen. Md . F. II Edward, Vo, ; D. McNielTur- 

 Der, Fla. ; A. Drurj, Ky. ; Wm. 11. Stark, Mo.; 

 Asabel Elmer, III.; L. C. Draper, Wli.J B. W. 

 Smith, Ind.; R. McMillan, Ohio. 



irks as follow 



"It i 



i ,.|„ 



•nd profitable, was largely attended by 

 school officers, and friends of education, and wo 

 believe will be productive of much good in uniting 

 together the various parts of our educational sys- 

 tem, ia giving point and efficiency to the efforts 

 heteafierto be made in the direction of progress 

 and reform, and iu establishing and promulgating 

 correct views of the teacher's profession, proper 



tnoco with Hie best means to be employed in its 

 successful prosecution. 



Tno weather was nil that could be desired, the 



to the members of the Association, and the exer- 

 cises were generally very interesting aud profita- 

 ble. The inauguration of Chancellor BAUNAno 

 was a special feature of tin- occasion, and was wit- 

 nessed by no audience which filled the City Doll to 

 ita almost capacity. Dr. Bad^auds inaugural ad- 

 dress was characteristic of (be man, giving in 

 earnest, eloquent language, b.oad and comprehen- 

 sive views of education and educational systems, 

 pervaded all through by strong common sense, and 

 a practical adaptation of general views to the par- 

 ticular circumstances surrounding the field iu 

 which he expects to work. 



The nddrees, on behalf of the Uoiversily, by 

 Caul Senium, Esq., was worthy of the reputation 

 this gcntlemou bos acquired as a profouud thinker 

 and finished scholar, and that of J. T. O. mik, Esq , 

 on behalf of the Normal Regents, was well written, 

 in good taste, aud appropriate to the occasion. 



The address before Iho lilorary societies by Rev 

 Dr. Smith, of Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, the sub- 

 ject of which was " Decision of Character," secured 

 the unqualified approbation of all who heard it. as 

 a powerful and scholarly production, worthy of the 

 reputation of the speaker, and abounding in valua- 

 ble thought. The week will be remembered by 

 many a teacher as an epoch in his or her educa- 

 tional life, and the knowledge gained and acquain- 

 tances made will exert n happy influeiuc, inducing 

 more rapid growth, a broader development, and 

 an increase of zeal in the good work." 



TEACHING THE A B C'S. 



Dei 



. the i 



ibservcd in the Educational 

 >unt of a vory learned and 

 iaching the usually uninl 





talouled genth 



eating and much dreaded ABC 



by drawing upon the blackboard a 



telling the letters of which it is 

 district school teacher with from 

 scholars, — nearly all having different booki 

 would scarcely find time to draw horses, d< 

 fishes, etc.,— neither nro there many who co 

 surpass tbo idea of them already stamped upon 

 the child's mind, if time would allow. I hare 

 , aud, I think, a more simple way. 

 ml of my spring term, I had 

 f ten small children, mostly those who 

 r learned a siuglo letter. I tested several 



judgements of men from little things 



owner, perhaps, 



thinks. In earlier years, wheo traveling in 



the We3t, wl 



ind every settler's bouse 

 was a house of " Entertainment," it was a matter of 

 omp importance and Borne experience to select 

 risely were you would put up. And we always 

 10k for flowers. If there were no trees for shade, 

 io patch of Dowers in the yard, wc were suspicious 

 of the place. But, no matter bow rude the cabin, or 

 ugh the surroundings, if we saw thai tho window 

 :ld a little trough for flowers, and that some 

 neslwincd about strings letdown from theeaves, 

 e were confident that there was some taste and 

 carefulness in the log cabin. In a new country, 

 hero people have to tug for n living, no one will 

 ike the trouble to roar flowers, unless tho love of 

 them is pretty strong — and this taste blossoming 

 of plain and uncultivated people is, itself, like 

 ump of haro-biills growing out of tho seams of 

 ick. We wore seldom misled. A patch of flow- 

 came to signify kiud people, clean beds, and 



, othei 



■ joglillliTir 



1 otlie 



ates of society. Flowers about a rich man's house 

 ay signify only that he has a good gardener, or 

 at be has refined neighbors, and does what he 

 es them do. 



But men are not accustomed to buy books unless 



they want them. If, on visiting the dwelling of a 



,n of slender means I find the reason why he has 



:ap carpets, and very plain furniture, to be that 



may purchase books, ho rises at once in my cs- 



m. Books are not made for furniture, hnt there 



lolhing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. 



The plainest row of books that cloth or pnper ever 



covered is more significant of refinement than the 



nost elaborately-carved ctagerc or side-board. 



Givo me a house furnished with books rather 

 ban furniture 1 Both if you can, hut books at any 

 ate! To spend several days in a friend's house, 

 nd hunger for something to read, while you are 

 reading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxu- 

 ious chairs, and sleeping upon down, is as if one 

 i-ere bribing your body for the sate of cheating 



' pitiable to see a man growing rich, and 

 beginning to augment the comforts of home, and 

 lavishing money on ostentatious upholstery, upon 



e table, upon everything but what the soul needs? 



We know of mooy and many a rich man's house 

 where it would not be safe to ask for the common- 

 est English classics. A few garish annuals on the 

 table, a few pieloiuil monstrosity ;, t-gcthcr with 

 the stock of religious books of his " persuasion," 

 and tbat is all ! No range of poets, no essayists, 

 no selection of historians, no travels or biogra- 

 phies — no select fiction* or cut ions legendary lore: 

 but then, the walls have paper on which cost three 

 dollars a roll, and tho floors have carpets that cost 

 four dollars a yard I Books are the windows thro' 

 which the soul looks out. A house without books 

 is like a room without windows. No man has a 

 right to bring up his children without surrounding 

 them with books, if he has the means to buy them. 

 It is a wrong to hi3 family. He cheats them! — 

 Children learn to rend by being in the presence of 

 books. The love of knowledge comes with reading, 

 and grows upon it — and the love of knowledge, iu 

 a young mind, is almost a warrant against the in- 

 ferior excitement of passions and vices. 



s pity I 



u poor rich n 



olive ha. 



At tho 



> their 



, but I 



• others would look I 



play with each other, and then, before I could get 

 back to this one again, he would forget what it 

 was. At length, when almost discouraged, I hit 

 upon this plan :-[ arranged them in front of the 

 blackboaid, and asked how many of thorn had a 

 cat at home. They all raised ih^ T bands (my 

 usual affirmation.) I then asked what colors they 

 were, what they were good for, elc.—cach answer- 

 ing accordingly. After talking a far momenta 

 about them, perhaps tailing a short, amusioK 

 anecdote, I told them I would print 

 hlickboLi-d, and wanted them to I 

 which could learn it first. Now they w 

 animation, their before expressionless ey< 

 tened with pleasure, and every nerve seemed 

 ■trelched to iu utmost — each tried 

 other in being the first to see it. 



After they wcro able to tell the word upou 

 »eomg it in any book, I told them it was composed 

 of letters, ^j Uioy must learn those too. I next 



I upon the 



[y in greot bookless hoot 

 the poor that, in our day, books arc so cheap that 

 a man may every year add a hundred volumes tc 

 his library for the price of what his tobacco aud hit 

 beer would cost him. Among the earliest ambi- 

 tions to be excited in clerks, workmen, journey- 

 men, and, indeed, among all that are struggling up 

 in life from nothing to something, is that of own 

 ing, and constantly adding to. a library of goo 

 books. A little library growing larger every yea 

 is an honorable part of a young man's history. I 

 is a man's duty to have books. A library is not 



uxury, but one of the necessaries of life.— Htnry 



Ward Bee, ' 



I 

 HORACE MAXTOR LL. D. 



CM. Mr. 



■ of the Roi 



icntion of t 



s life uod li 



b the Use 



made brief t 



Qobacb Mann, at tl 

 cuders with such an 

 a space would permit. It was our iutentioi 



igain recur to the subject in detail, and we i 



gladly avail ourselves of the present opportui 

 present (in connection with a life-like portn 

 biographical sketch of one who has probe 

 ne more for the educational interests of 

 untry than any individual now upou tho st 



b hfe. 



H was born in the town of Franklin, 

 s., May 4th, 1736. His father, Tbohas Manh, 

 i was a farmer, died when the subject of our 

 .arks bad attained his thirteenth your, leaving 

 his family little beside tho example of an upright 

 life. The educational advantages of the children 

 ere very limited. In commenting upon this 

 oint, the editor or Life Illustrated remarks:— 

 They were tanghtio the district common school; 

 nd it was the misfortune of the family that it be- 

 longed to the Bmallest district, bad the poorest 

 school-house, and empTcy * 1 the cheapest teachers 

 i iWilf both small and poor. 

 When the obscure boyoYj, '•is obsoore school after- 

 wards became Secretary h£\« Massachusetts Board 

 of Education, it is well MOWS with what earnest- 

 he used to dweli'V'on the impurlaoca of 

 school-house architect'/;, "id with what grabble 

 description Ka would paint the houses 

 which had never been painted in fact. Doubtless, 

 iany of his pictures were drawn, not rrora faocy. 



The early Jife of Mr. Man* was speut in an 

 jscurc country towo.wbeie opportunities lor the 

 jquirement of knowledge were exceedingly mea- 

 gre. While thus employed an itinerant school- 

 master come into his neighborhood and opened a 

 school. The specialty of the instructor was Gram- 

 mar— English, Greek and Latin. Here i Mask 

 Erst saw a Latin Grammar. Having obtained a 

 reluctant consent from his guardian to prepare for 

 College, with six months schooling he learned his 

 Grammar, and entered the Sophomore class of 

 Brown University in September, 181G. This hur- 

 ried preparation left bim with many deficiencies, 

 and extra study was the only means by which be 

 could successfully cope with his fellow-students. 

 Seir imposed labor gained the victory, but at what 

 fearful costl Youthful ambition heeded not the 

 claims of Nature, and, like thousands of others in 

 the land, he left his .^waJ/oftr physically wrecked. 

 When hiB class graduated, in 1810, the place of 

 honor in the Commencement Exercises was award- 

 ed to him, with the uadivided approval of both 

 faculty and classmates, 



At the close of Commencement he entered tho 

 office of Hon. J. J. Fiskb, of Wrentham, as a law 

 Btudent. Only a few months was he thus engaged, 

 however, as be was invited back to College, and 



he mi 



e a tutor in Latin and Greek. In 1621 this 



pn'.t » 



as resigned, and he entered the law a*hoo 





hfietd, Conn., and was admitted to theAar 



in 183 



8. Space will not permit a review of bis 





abors ; suffice it to say, his powers as an ad 





were acknowledged to be of the highes 



ny such information as could he mado avuilo- 

 bome. It is impossible for us to detail his 

 i while actiog as Secretary of tho Educational 

 Board. He wrote twelve long Annual Reports, of 

 e ol which— the tenth— the Edinburgh Revimp 

 ys, "This volume is iudeed a noble monument 

 a civilized people; and if America were sunk 

 neuth the waves, would remain the fdireat pic- 

 re on record of an Ideal Commonwealth." 

 On the 23d of February, 1849, Mr. Jonx Quinct 

 jams, who was a Representative from tho Con- 



Wuilo onr 



Brother Towslst feels deeply grateful for the 



and substantial tokens ol" interest and 



received from the children io every part 



te, where he has so long aud elBcieotiy 



prosecuted the work of the " Children's Jfiowf^v," 



and will ever be ready, so far to figure* oau do it, 



acknowledge to the full oxteut these favors, he 



ly well be pardoned for being unwilling to hare 



do of the mark as the above, g* 



Mr. a 



leofRei 



aim resided, 



been the theatre 

 > be chosen and 



itercd Congreia, and in the ensuing No- 

 e was re-elected by an overwhelming 

 ■eceiving eleven thousand out of about 

 lottsand votes, and was re-elected again 

 ;aiost two opposing candidates, 

 'mber, 1852, Mr. Majtst was chosen Presi- 

 ilirKh College, at Yellow Spriogs, Ohio. 



ras fittingly closed in labors calculated to 



ilato Educational Progress and Christian 

 Knowledge. 



ICEBEE03.-DAJJGEK5 OF THE SEA. 



A oentlkhas who was a passenger in the July 

 rip of the Persia, writing to a friend in Mobile, 

 jives a vivid description of thedangers or Atlantic 

 lavlgatmn. His letler'is dated " Mid-Ocean, July 

 Itb," and he remarks: 



"Then came fog, fog, for three duys and nights, 

 int. I one thousand miles were passed, Cape Race 

 ind New Foundland Banks. Hero the air began 

 .o be very cold, requiring thick winter clothing, 

 odioating that we were approaching the region of 

 cebergs. Sure enough, on tho afternoon of the 

 jib, while wo wcro at dinner, the cry of ' icebergs ' 

 was beard through 



for n 



Ih.'l; 



n B* 



well understood afterwards, when 

 ■ssary for any one to leave before 

 meals were over, and often accompanied with con- 

 siderable amusement;) but to the icebergs. We 

 rushed on deck, and there, far, far away over the 

 sea, was a dim mass of white substance, which w< 

 could not distinguish from land, then anotbei 

 came, very large and grand, about ten miles dis 

 tant— a great mountain of ice like n huge, bole 

 promontory, jutting out into the wild waste o 

 waters, while the waves dashed in foam and spraj 

 old and barren sides. 

 Then the sunlight flashed over glassy height. 

 i/ling brilliancy, reflecting all the colon 

 inbow from peuk to peak, until the mas! 

 ■ to a shadow, and then appeared like i 



i his cry v 



upon il 



n of s 



1 ih- 





I (gaining 

 ,) brought 



rolls being 614,4-iT). There were thirteen district 

 model schools and IOC national agricultural schools. 

 The total receipts of the commissioners amounted 

 to £302,224 and their expenditure to £269,425. 



Amebicax Books-— Mr. Billiard, in a letter fro 

 Liverpool to the Bostoa Courier, states that in t 

 examination of traveler's luggage by the officers 

 customs, American reprints of English books c 

 absolutely excluded ; tbey are taken away and t 

 atroyed. Thackeray was in this way deprived 

 his copies of the Appleton's reprints of his oi 



d faculty exclusively, for tboo 

 canst not use the optic glass 

 ear trumpet— by day reverse 





JJullll 



■ uld c 



; others, it would 



i-fifths of all coi 



siness to him in a copious stream. Id 1S30 Mr. 

 married Miss Charlotte, youngest daughter 

 the late Rev. Dr. Mbsskh, for many years Presi- 



nt of Brown University. In 1832 be was called 

 mourn the death of this lady, and in 1643 



Miss I'KAl 

 t alfec 



i whom he 

 >rtby 



compnnion, but an earnest assistant and sympo- 

 thizer in all his educational labors. 



The political career of Mr. Mann began in 1*27, 

 when he was elected a Representative to the Legis- 

 lature of Massachusetts. In 1833 be removed to 

 Boston, and at the first election after becoming a 

 resident of that city, he wis chosen to the Slate 

 Senate. By re-elections be was continued in the 

 Senate for four years. In ««8 lhlit bod J tlccted 

 him ita President; und again, in 1S3T, in which 

 year he retired to enter upon a new and more con- 

 genial aphere of labor, and in June, 1887, accepted 

 the office of Secretary of the Board of Education. 

 Immediately on accepting the office he withdrew 

 from all other professional and business engage- 

 ments whatever, that no vocation but the new one 

 ght burden his hands or obtrude upon bis con- 



T, ],!.:(.„■, 



Ho resolved to be s 





i, Ldn. 



mspiccs of the Board of Edu- 

 3 private expense, ) Mr. Masn 

 imine the schools, and to ob- 



untouched by that which defiles and darkens. - 

 One, we passed within half a mile, and could wil 

 great distinctness see its huge sides, cut into ridgi 

 and gullies by the streams tbat were tricklin 

 down to the ocean ; on the summit there seemed 

 the form of a house, indeed there was anything 

 there that tbo imagination could picture out of 

 such fantastic shapes and strange appearances. 

 The cold gushes of wind that swept the ice fields 

 come over our vessel like a wintry blast, producing 

 the intensestcold. They say sailors can tell when 

 tbey approach icebergs, even in the darkest night, 

 by the change in the temperature of the atmos- 

 phere; in their own language, they 'can smell 



How a Rain Cloud Fomis.— Prof. Wise, describ- 

 ing his last balloon voyage, says:— Wc ploiuly 

 saw that the southeast wind below, which drove 

 us to the northwest at starting, bad now supplied 

 tin I ktmosphen with moisture enough to make a 

 growing rain cloud. Slowly, but interestingly, 

 the vapor assumed a milky hue. 1'reseuily it 

 assumed the appearance of a vascularcloud; then 

 it spread out and bulged down in the mi J He, |0 

 f a great udder, with 



THE "CHLLDaEirs MUnSTEB." 



<'■.■/ 



of (In- 



' though only a 

 i removing aa old baru about a jear since, he 

 as struck by a. falling limber, and so injured in 

 is spioe aa to be helpless, aud his life was a for a 

 mg time despaired of lie still lives, but is un- 

 jle to perform labor of any kind. The children, 

 i show their gratitude to one who loved them so 



lUCll. 



VCd 1 



tebt 



grea 



tafll.ction 



as much as 



poss 



bio, raised 









over ono tl 





d dollar*. 



lis f 



they 



seems, by 



aMe.Towst. 



"ri* 



e from an 







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hat by aom 



l i, 



ak of the 



gore 



», which are sa 



d usually to 



tell 



(he truth. 







madealtc 



gether too I 



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Ens 



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L:-Inyo 



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ppr, 





9 folio lV in 



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3 tho injury 



iiioirrci.'hd. 



The facts in this aose ar 

 rom Bro. Towslkt. that to 

 'arious Sunday Schools" s 

 ime (August 3d) amount t. 

 Uven dollars, ($1,311,) in; 

 and. By giving publicity 

 fill greatly oblige all conci 



■tement, you 

 1.8. DnJoo. 



A LITTLE SYMPATHY FOR DOGS. 



artiolea mitten and published in the Rjjaal, 

 total destruetmu of dogs. I diflTerfr 



ling the cause of 

 -ilis? "They bo' 



ghts and bark at us when wo tra' 

 traveled lately, some two or three b 



ngle dog coming out to bark 

 haps they did, but I seldom if 



ind if I did I should say t 

 thai 





It i 



nlty g 





> let ni 



me than they. I 



Id pull a chimney 

 1 1 1 Id not keep 



<. per 





1 the appearau. 

 ooiing throug 

 uod its protut 



Itn 



emed as though 

 iosoming'her mammal to give the 

 tstenonce. I have noticed these 

 ter spouts before. 



a to learn in youth than to be igno- 



it principle 

 :u with death, but 

 e guilty, it would 

 lack the true principles of humanity and justice. 



Friend P. thinks occasionally there is a dog that 

 is of some benefit to his master. I think so, and 



mo. I have frequently heard my father and moth- 

 er sneak of a dog thoy had when they first com- 

 menced keeping house. My father's businoss call- 

 ed him away from home a great deal, and to stay 

 all night, and that dog was never known to be off 

 tbo door step at night, when be was gone. I bavo 

 beard my father say tbat he has been twenty miles 

 from home and tbat dog was with him when the 

 sun was not more than half an hour high, aud ihat 

 same night by tho time it was fairly dai k he would 

 be home on the door steps. My mother always 

 thought he saved her life and all the property thoy 

 were worth in the world, for it was then in the 

 house in money. In the dead of night she woe 

 awakened up by the dog, who seemed to bo in a 

 fight with something; sho got up and looked out 

 of the window, and there saw two men trying to 

 beat the dog away from the door. She encouraged 

 the dog and they left. I b«™ !"<* «"KS that would 

 drive pigs or anything out of mischief, and watch 

 to keep them out, and not a word said. I bad ft. 

 neighbor that had a dog, that if ho left or lost any 

 thing that be could carry, would send him after it, 

 and he would bring it to him. A short time ago I 

 staid all night at a gentleman's house aud in the 

 morning when tbey went out to milk, knowing ho 

 was celebrated for keeping good stock, I walked 

 out to the yard with bim. After we got there I 

 discovered a dog walking about among the cattle, 

 but nothing unusual until an old sow ran up to a 

 calf there was iu the yard as if to bile him «r drive 

 him away. She had not more thau got to where 

 the calf was before the dog was there uod started 

 her out of the yard in a hurry. Tho gentleman 

 said he did not allow any thing to fignioo the 

 farm, and the dog knew it, and helped hitu keep 



PaBrr-CT IIappik«s3.- It is heaven upon earth 

 to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in 

 Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. 



