SEPT. 17. 



MOORE'S RURAL N3EW-YORKEK. 



TBACflBRS' ASSOCIATIOJf— AHSBAL HHIlKfiS. 



Tdk Stato Teachers' Assooiation of Michigan, 

 dow one of tbe recognized educational institutions 

 of the Peninsular Stale, held ttl annual meeting 

 at PonlbW. Addresses were delivered by Prof 

 D. a P/««e. ReT - Dr - E °- H* v en, of Boston, 

 •ntl by the retiring President of the Association, 

 I'rof A. Wuichell. The addresses wore eminently 

 practical. According to the Miehigan Ar/jui, the 

 alt* u dance upon the Association was fmr, but not 

 as large a* it should have been. There is power 

 in these meetings, and the teacher who will not 

 make some little sacrifice to attend them, either 

 dots not properly appreciate their benefit or his 

 position. During the session, papers were read 

 upon various topics connected with teaching, by 

 Messrs. Richards, of the Albion Female College; 

 Fisk, of the Agricultural Collcgo ; und 3riggs, of 

 the Ann Arbor Union School, which severally 

 elicited considerable discussion. 



The Journal of Education was continued in its 

 present able hands until tbo close of the year, 

 when its future will be provided for by the Execu- 

 tive Hoard. 



The following officers wore elected for the ensu- 

 ing year :— President— B. J. Born. Vico Presi- 

 dent -lrt District, A. L. Welkins; 2nd, G.tW. 

 Perry; 8d, D. II. Davis; 4tb, E, L. Ilipley; 

 nib, E. Olney; 6th, Rov. D. J. Poor; 7tb, Rev. 



B. U. Fay; 8th, E. D an forth ; Uth, H. Dross; 

 10tb, A. L. Bingham; Lake Superior, 0. E. Ful- 

 ler. Rec. Secretary— Frank I'envey. Cor. Secre- 

 tary— D. Putnam. Treasurer— D. D. Briggs.— 

 Executive Hoard— Hon. J. M. Gregory, Prof. L. R. 

 Fisk. 



re chosen for the 



lm, of Bradford. 

 , J. I, Richards 

 s, of Cbesler; 



The Slate Association of Pennsyl' 

 at West Chester, Chester County, 

 and continued in session three dayi 



The following officers \ 

 lag jcar I 



President— C. U. Cod 

 Presidonts-J. E, Wm 

 I.m.li no, Jonathan (iiu 

 Dennisoo, of Allegany. Secretaries— Wm. Ster- 

 ling, of Philadelphia, and S. D. Ingrabam, of Uar 

 risburg. Treasurer— A Rowe, of Lancaster. Cor. 

 Secretary— Wm. II. Johnston, of Bucks. Execu 

 tive Committee— Messrs. Allen, Sherman, Thomp- 

 son, Wiekersham and Lawrence. 



A WORD TO TEACHERS. 



What do yon teach * This is a question upon 

 which teucbers should think and ponder— a ques- 

 tion that should not be treated with ridicule and 



that should engross attention; one upon which 

 you should briog your minds to bear, and see if 

 you are training the young minds entrusted to 

 your care in such manner that, wilh a clear con- 

 science, you can stand up and say,— I have done 

 my duty— I havedoue the best that I could— I have 

 sought to train (hem up in the way of truth and 

 morality, and the fear of Goo. There ate many 

 wbo call themselves teachers— instructors of the 

 young mind— that cannot, I very much fear, sa 

 this ; that, if called upon today to give au accoui 

 of the time they have speot, would bo "weigbe 

 in the balance and found wanting." 



All teuchers impart knowledge for money. Thi 

 is well, certainly every teacher should expect and 

 reei-ne a reasonable compensation for his scr 

 but there ore those who make this the great nnd 

 only object of teaching. Tuke the young man, f 

 instance, who has been through the Arithmeti 

 looked inside of a Grammar, and, in a word, has 

 merely skimmed over the surface of cor 

 English. He thinks if he can engage a District 

 School for a winter's term, it will pay pretty 

 And then it is something to hare the unc 

 being a school-teacher. Ah, bow it will lift 

 empty -brained fools above the "common li 

 to leach a school. Observe some of the young 

 ladies— (I fear 1 should offend some verdant M: 

 if I did not cull her so,)— juat obtaining a. smalt. 

 ing of common English, and preparing to Ut 

 school It would not look well to stay at ho: 

 and help mother— her hands are too tine lor bl 

 drudgery — she cugoges a school, and is tnelam 

 phoscd into u school teacher. Dressed to " kil 

 ■he parades into the school-room. It is a mat 

 ul'liitlc moment whether the lessons are learned 

 "i not, il the time passes by all is well. Ad 

 hum ilium alhur is the instruction of Hie youn, 

 anything to kill time is the object sought. This 

 , but I tear i 



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muy. 



Teachers, did yon ever realize what a responsi- 

 ' ' u' apoo you— did you ever consider 

 that you are framing the mind's and making the 



morals of a future genera. Perhaps you have 



under your charge one whose logic and eloquent 

 ■* * and hold thousonda in its mjsl 

 ■ instructing 



, lulu.. 



rofoi 



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upon themselves the duties or the si _ 

 pass it lightly over, as they contemplate and ft"el 

 how susceptible are the minds of the young au d 

 how lastiog are early impressions? We all know 

 that the minds of tbo young learn evil very quickly 

 One act, one word of the teacher, may entail upon 

 lbs ohild ii lift of misery and woe. ne sees the 

 teacher do thus and so, and he thinks, why may 

 not I do the same. He observes tbc teacher com- 

 Du pb] m< :il wrongs — lie does the same. 

 lou may s »y one crror cannot effect much harm, 

 but remember, drops make the ocean— little sins 

 make the hardened and confirmed sinner. Next 

 to the mother the teacher bos the strongest influ- 

 ence on the child. Then should you not keep 

 watch over your actions— lead the young by the 

 band of love. And if you feel weary, or if your 



patience is tried almost as much as it will bear, 

 mt way to the feelings, but ever keep a sense 

 of right beforo your eyes. Press on through the 

 difficulties that surrouud you, and remember. 



BIGHT KIND OF TEACHERS. 



nirtAMOnciiTT, Principul of the Ladies' Seminary 

 North Granville, in a little work entitled "Glean- 

 gs from School Life Experience/' thus speaks in 

 lation to teachers: 



"A blight upon the (rusting mtnd of tonth." 



"We need the noblest order of minds for this 



ork. We need persons of ripe, extensive, thor- 



jgh scholarship, persons of refined, elegant tastes, 



and high and commanding intellects; but they 



be individuals of perfected power, who can 



if profound impulses and burning 

 sympathies, who have souls to move the world. — 

 Thero is an acknowledged want of this kind of per- 

 sonal power in many of our teachers. They may 

 exhibit no prominent defects, either in character 



may, indeed, be living editic 

 text-books, capable of patient elaborations and 

 tson tho subjects before them, but 

 they are destitute of all vital, transmissivc, inspir- 

 ing influence; no virtue goes out of them as they 

 ngle with their scholars; they never stir tbt 

 ep fountains of their souls, nor waken in thcit 

 bosoms those lofty seutiments that incite to grealei 

 efforts and oobler deeds, The teacher who cannol 

 his pupils to think and act for themselves, 

 wbo is satisfied to drag the almost lifeless body of 

 uninterested class through formal recitations, 

 does Dot deserve the name be bears. No maltei 

 how great his abilities, or how extensive his learn 

 ing, bis main work is undone. The high cilice of 

 the teacher reaches far beyond the mere formalities 

 of the schoolroom. Where acquisition ends, the 

 highest education begins; hence, the paromount 

 im of the teacher should be to cultivate the facul- 

 ea and cherish the spirit of a nobler life. If bl 

 assesses such a power, an unconscious tuitioi 

 ill be felt upon all around him; his spirit wil 

 have all the glow that imagination kindles, and 



ill he filled with impulses more stirring 

 chivalry ever excited. Such a spirit will c 

 crate him to bis work, and bear him through his 

 labors as a glorious pastime." 



COMMON SCHOOL STUDIES. 



Osk of the most prevailing vices of the present 

 system of education, is the disposition to attacb 

 undue importance to collegiate, and undue indiffer 

 enco to common school studies. Without thinking 

 that collegiate education, if not built upon tb 

 oiigb common school Lruioing, is mere gilding 

 mud; people are eager to see tticir children Haunt- 

 ing their Latin attainments or their mathemfttioal 

 astonishments, as if these were tho end of all 

 , instead effacing onlyooe process, and 



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ind for life labors. The encouragement of this 

 feeling we cannot think either a healthy u 

 tion, or n possible benefit, and we therefore regard 

 with some mistrust tbc great and growiog dispro- 

 portion between seminaries and common schools. 

 Not that there are likely to he too many semina- 

 ries, but that there are too few common schools. 



We n 





fruitful orchards, and we shall be apt to find il 

 best education in those States that give the be 

 care to common schools. They are like the pel 

 nies of Franklin's proverb, take c 



SHOPPING AT JERUSALEM 



Tub bazaars of no Oriental city are comparable 

 to those of Damascus, a city which is so beautiful 

 in every respect, that Mohammed dared not look 

 upon it, fearing that he should find so entrancing 

 an earthly paradise as entirety to rob him of any 

 desire to reach that of tbc skies. But Damascus 

 is not Jerusalem, and as everybody likes to know 

 how one goes shopping in Jerusalem, I shall not 

 withhold a description of its bazaars because of 

 their small share of attractiveness. True, the 

 idea of shopping in Jerusalem is not a very poet- 

 cal one, and some, I dare say, suppose it is an 

 unpracticed art in this city of hallowed nssocia- 

 itions. But not so think the residents, who, not- 

 uittciliiriding the indifference of the shops, find 

 an occasional visit to tbem quite an indispensable 

 requisite to their comfort. My first expedition of 

 tins kind, apart from the novelty, afforded me but 

 Utile satisfaction. Being uninitiated, I gladly 

 accepted the offer of several of my Turkish friends 

 to accompany me, who called quite early in the 

 morning, that we might devote several hours to 

 this all-absorbing feminine occupation, nnd the 

 remainder of the day to a bath. Many quiet 



i thrc 



joir. 





rowd which thronged the b. 

 Jerusalem being a spo: cf so much attraction 

 every nation under heaven, we hero see every 

 variety of costume, making the bazaars a contiu- 

 lal carnival. One moment you are greeted with 

 . garb betokening the lii^'li.'-t civilization, aud 



then 



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B Bedouin from the burning sands of tbc desert. 

 At ono step you meet tbe black silk wrappings of 

 the Egyptian women, and the next, the gfaoatlj 

 white robes of her Syrian sister. But nothing 

 cun compare, in richness and beauty. wilh the 

 flowing robes nnd full white turban of her lord 

 and master. Tbc wayfaring man wears a girdle 



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i the 



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need collegiate education, far more of it than we 

 are likely to get soon, but we need much more the 

 thorough, systematic, conscientious training of 

 common schools. When our colleges turn out 

 graduates every year wbo can't spell, who blunder 

 in grammar, who can't solve a single arithmetical 

 problem, though they may construe Longinus 

 correctly, and demonstrate the binomial theorem 

 easily, it is time that a little more attention was 

 given to common schools.— Indiana Journal. 



NECESSITY OF HOME INSTRUCTION. 



Itii 



:, tbe 



ten, unspoken teachings of home in our tenderest 

 years that our destiny bos its beginnings. Every 

 word, tone, look, frown, smile nud tear, witnessed 

 incliiliihm.nl, pcifiirins its part in training the in- 

 fant for eternity. Instruction should begin early, 

 but let it bo oral, and consist chiefly of a few moral 

 precepts, Bible glories, and chaste fables. A great 

 error in our times is the pressing of the iurautile 

 ind, cramming the memory with what the child 







faculties. 



Another of the alarming evils in our day is the 

 circulate of demoralizing publications. Earnest 

 warning entreaties on Ibis subject have often fallen 

 from tbo pulpits. But (be warning cannot be too 

 often repeated. Tbo influence of immoral prints 

 and books is calculated more tban anything else to 

 corrupt the morals, and enfeeble the intellects of 

 the juvenile portion of our country. To circulate 

 such publications is a serious offence against God 

 and man; nnd yet I fear greatly it is a growing 

 evil; nor do I see any corrective so available, so 

 poteulial and so practical, as family government 

 and instruction. Let the home be for amusement, 

 pleasure, knowledge and religion, as attractive as 

 possible.— Dr. ScoU. 



Institute of Instruction held it: 

 . Thirtieth Annual Meeting in New Bedford, Mass. 

 . un the 23d, i-llb and *2Mh duys of August. More 

 | than one thousand teachers were in attendance, 

 and the deepest interest was manifested. 



purpose of a hag, in which he carries Ins money, 

 valuables, and oliier email articles; and in bis 

 bosom may be found his balances, which every 

 Oriental curries at all times, with which the com 

 is weighed and by which its value is determined— 

 and if accompanied by his wife and children, you 

 will be reminded of the words of Isaiah :— " They 

 shall bring their sons in their arms, and their 

 daughters shall be carried on their shoulders." 

 The woman occasionally carries her child on her 

 shoulders, with a water-skin on her buck. 



Along the dark and narrow alleys rather than 

 streets we groped our way, now retreating within 

 a door at the approach of the towering camel, and 

 now hastily stepping out of the way ol it string of 

 donkeys trudging along under a load of brush of 

 gigantic dimensions. This is intended for fuel, 



Savior: — "The grass which to-day is. and to-mor- 

 row is cast into the oven," a parage winch greatly 

 perplexes those living in a country whoso wide- 

 spread forests afford abundance of material for 

 fuel. But in the Holy Land, which la BO SOtntUj 

 supplied with trees, the passage is perfectly appli- 

 cable, for in the absence of wood, necessity com- 

 pels the people to burn brush, roots, dried grasses, 

 and weeds of all kinds, so plentifully growing in 

 the fields; and immense donkey-loads are dmly 

 brought to the city for this purpose. Thorns also, 

 which grow in great profusion, are used as fuel, 

 and explain the figures used in Ecclesmstes :— 

 " As the crackling of thorns under a pot, BO la the 

 laughter of a fool," and in Isuiob, "As thorns 

 cut up they shall be burned in the lire." 



There is a ditch in the centre of most of the 

 streets but there are no sidewalks and no pave 

 ments, for the unevenly laid stones do not deserve 

 the name; nor are there any lamp-posts. Ai 

 night you see here and there the dim flickering of 

 a little earthen lamp of olive oil beside n reclininj 



figure of a man, who lies sleeping i M m,e, 



platform in front of his bazaar; and this is tin 

 onU light one enjoys in a nocturnal walk through 

 the city. Hence the necessity of carrying 

 own lamp-a necessity which is still further 

 forced by the regulation inflicting fine and 

 prisonment upon all who are caught in the st 

 without a light after an early hour. The str 

 are lined with bare stone walls of prison. 

 bouseB, broken by a very few, and very an 

 latticed windows, and covered usually with arches, 

 or pieces of mattiug, stretched from bouse 

 house— the walls generally raised, and the ni 

 ting always tattered. Thus* Jerusalem wear- 

 air of gloom and misery, and its inhabitants m< 

 about in keeping with the wretchedi..- | o] the 

 streets and houses. It is impossible to disc 

 glad face among them, and the camels carefully 



their feet, noiselessly pursuing their way as 

 ;uilively afraid of breaking the silent gloom. 

 Suddenly, however, we enter a street where the 

 people move more briskly— the camels are hurried 

 along by loud tin eats from their drivers, and the 

 shopmen still more loudly proclaim the merits of 

 (heir wares. Country women arc seated on the 

 sides of the streets with baskets of fruits and 

 vegetables. The shops of the dry goods venders 

 are nothing more than rows of small platforms, 

 four or five feet square, with shelves arranged 

 around them on which the goods are placed. The 



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less whether we buy or not ; but presently 

 launches into great volubility on the excellence of 

 his fabrics. Oriental bazaars have not the least 

 pretensions to taste, but often make a great dis- 

 play of richly embroidered goods. A white hand- 

 kerchief is unfolded, u Inch, although embroidered 

 in gold, is of the coarsest cotton, and tears in the 

 opening. Speaking of taste, reminds me that, 

 among other purchases of one of my companions, 

 was o spool of white cotton, with which she in- 

 tended making up her robe of black silk! 



Huge piles of slippers are tumbled from the 



out ornament, and others with embroidery and 

 rosettes of pearls inclosing colored atones — em- 

 broidered jackets of purple— cotton velvet worked 

 with tinsel nnd bright silks, or gold and silk braid 

 —caps of scarlet cloth with high raised gold 



rd in length— striped silk 

 i— napkins perfumed 

 roidered in the corn 

 and red fez caps without 

 iot only rare, but almost 

 ees nearly as high as those 

 i a fancy shop, with spark 

 ling cut glass nargbilebs, and little coffee-cur. 

 stands of richly-embossed silver — Mohammed'* 

 prohibition of silver to the contrary notwith 

 standing. For thoso they charge a hundred 

 piastres, or five dollars. Other trinkets of ha- 

 reem use are here displayed, and next is the drug 

 bazaar, where all kinds of spices, drugs and per- 

 fumes, are sold. Otto of roses, as well as rose 

 water, made from the roses of Wady el Werd 

 (valley of roses.) can be bought at a marvelously 

 low price. Further on, the respectable Arm 

 is seen manufacturing small trinkets and trifles 

 wilh his scanty supply of instruments, and those 

 ofthe rudest manufacture. With them, hov 

 be forms a ring, or sets an amulet, with wonderful 

 skill. Interspersed union;,' these aie shops where 

 bushels of beads are displayed, made of camel' 

 bone, amber, sandal, and olive wood; (ben thei 

 are amulets, blood stones from India, and Irinkel 

 in pearl, made, by the Bellilehemites, in imitatio 

 of the Church of the Duly Sepulchre, and along 

 catalogue of saints which are in great requisite 

 among tho devout pilgrims. Here and there 

 man may be seen standing by a small earthen 

 furnace of embers, across which he throws wire 

 strung with small pieces of mutton— a very popv 

 lar disb. The bazaar is densely crowded wit 

 shrouded women and pilgrims from all parts c 

 the world, nnd tho air resounds with the scream 

 of the camel aud donkey drivers. Itooh, dahrac 

 woojiic, they cry— "stand aside, your back, your 

 face," which, united to the babel of language; 

 and tbe fierce gesticulation, characteristic <. 

 Orientals, presents a scene of noise and confusion 

 completely bewildering. Add to this tbe br 

 of donkeys, the growling of camels, the clat 

 of lior-e-,' hoofs on the uneven -tones, one 

 to avoid, at every step, tbe accumulated heaps of 

 fillh and debris, and tbe hot rays of the sun pierc- 

 ing through tbe ragged matting overhead, and 

 tbe reader may be content with tbe picture with 

 out wishing to participate in tho reality.— IfaJj 





TtiasisH GnAVB-rAitDS, — The Turkish tomb 

 stoue. if it mark the grave of a mt 

 by a turban, and the diversity of 

 different generations that have passed 

 These round-headed, turbaned stones lit 

 much the uppearance of dwarfish imps, 

 almost expects a pair of goggle-eyes to he 

 well-executed folds of 

 e erected 1 

 rated with wreotba or bunch 



highly gilded. Soincl 

 azure blue, richly decorut 

 tremely beautiful. 



OUR INFLUENCE. 



Etbbt person, however humble his station in 

 life, is destined to oxert an influence, either for 

 good or for evil, upon all W h have intercourse 

 with him., Even though he may not bo aware of it, 

 much good or much evil may bo constantly flowing 

 from our influence, which may not only last while 

 we live, but continue through each aucceeding 

 year, to the cud of time. Truly has it been said 

 ' none stand alone." No person consay that 

 s no iufluence upon auy other person,— that 

 he is independent of bis fcllow-mcn, and that they 

 ndependentof him. Especially arc tbc effects 

 jod and bad influence apparent upon children. 



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i there 



sofa 



nd some from force of habit, and manymere- 

 ■ tbo pleasure of tbe thing, will often, in 

 nee of their own and neighbors' children, 

 make use of profane and vulgar language. If they 

 oware of tbe bad influence their words and 

 actions may have on those who hear them through- 

 all Ihe succeeding years of their life,— ir they 

 e aware of the awful responsibility resting on 

 nselves,— if they were aware of half tbo evil 

 they may be unconsciously doing, surely they 

 would be more careful of their words and conduct. 

 ,r many parents there are wbo will sometimes 

 tell falsehoods in presence of the young, without 

 seeming to think that children, encouraged by 

 their example, will often be tempted to do tho 

 same. There are many children who seem to 

 think that their parents can do nothing wrong, 

 and if they use vulgar and profane language, and 

 toll falsehoods sometimes, Ihey will think it to bo 

 no sin for them to do tbe same. When wo think 

 how much easier it is to learn lessons of evil than 

 those of virtue, and how long the remembrance of 

 a kind or unkind word or action remains, causing 

 us to love or dislike tho giver, then bow impor- 

 tant it seems that we should be very, very caroful 

 how we act in presence of others. It would be 

 blessed to think that good effects are constantly 

 flowing from our iufluence ; that we are constantly 

 exerting our influence for good ; but it would bo 

 terrible to think that our influence is only for evil, 

 —that by the means of our bad influence others 

 are led to sin. This, indeed, would be a terrible 

 thought. Then how very important it is that we 

 should so live that our influence may do much 

 good, and no evil ; that we may appear as a ray of 

 sunshine, imparting warmth and sunshine to all 

 we meet. These remarks are particularly appli- 

 cable to the youth who are just commencing active 

 life. If we can do this we shall not live in vain, 

 and none shall say that through our influence they 

 have been induced to enter the downward road to 

 misery, but many shall rejoice that our influence 

 upon them has been a blessing. 



BLOWING. 



Mant persons are addicted to what is very 



significantly termed "blowing." This senseless 

 practice ames from a belief which is quite gene- 

 rally entertained by young men, too generally by 

 older ones, that talking e<m liberalize ineagerness 

 of speech and facilitate the operations of tba mind. 

 The supposition is that talk begels talk ; well, wo 

 grant it, but talk is nothing, and nothiiuj mny 

 >„■./.■[ niit/iirnj fori'-ir. The fiillucy of this praclico 

 lies in regarding language as a primary faculty of 

 tbe mind, whereas it is secondary. 



Language is tbe vehicle of ideas — the channel 

 through which thought is transmitted. It origi- 

 nates with thought — is its servant. As the thun- 

 der's peal is simply an announcement of the 

 lightning's Hash, so the sound ot words is properly 



Unless words are allied to ideas they become 

 mere talk, and talking is no more the ally of think- 

 ing than the shadow of a man is the man himself. 

 Therefore, it we would speak fluently and forcibly, 

 we must think fluently and forcibly. Tbe defi- 

 ciency iu expression experienced by some is to be 

 attributed, primarily, not to incapacity in the 

 command of language, but to want of ideas. If 

 you would do away with speechlessness, dissipate 

 thoughtleaaOQU. Think, for thinking is the very 

 life of the soul. 



Nothing but lack of judgment will permit a man 

 to speak except as he is prompted by forces from 

 within. No advice is more mistaken or unsophis- 

 tical than that which is frequently given to young 

 men to speak, accompanied by the assurance that, 

 if not interested to do so, it will benefit them to 

 blow. If a man lias anything to say he will not be 

 troubled for words. Idta* art utf-elothi . tboj 

 never come into the world naked. Yet tbe art of 

 silence is mastered by few. Thero are many, too 

 many, who have the presumption to bore humanity 

 with frivolous prating. It is far wiser to counsel 

 a. man to think than to speak— for then he will 

 M[ ,eak uninvited, mih m unction which ideas 

 alwaya inspire, and wilh a power which is over 

 engenderedby thought, profound, original thought. 



j!l„„-in>; never issues from the lips of 



