THE DEMOCRATIC TIMES. clie ílrniocviitií tiimcs.l Official Paper Tor Jackson A Josephine. I Published Every Saturday Morning —BY— P. D. HULL & CHAS. NICKELL. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements will be inserted in the Tncxs at the following rates : Publishers and Proprietors. One square, one insertion......................... $8.00 each subsequent one.............. 1.00 OFFICE -On Oregon street, in Orth’s Brick Buihling. For legal advertisements, 82.50 per square of 121ines. first insertion, an»i $1.00 per square for each subsequent insertion. A lair reduction front the above rates made I to yearly advertisers. Yearly advertisements payable quarterly. Job printing neatly and promptly executed. Kates ot Subscription : Ono copy, p Wazti» i. 27»; inmates, nearly all were reported to Yreka in the express box, when in darkness ? The day of knowledge is The teacher should make it one of There’s a light about to beam ; I’oimty Conmiis-ior. rs.. ( M. II. I»r:ike streaming all around them, flooding the There's a warmth about to glow ; a- ignorant, and 17"> as grossly so. ” the mail bag, that lies right by it in his principal duties to instruct his pu­ Nln»rifi,................................. Tim-. 1'. M' lx» ii/.:»“ There’s a llower about to blow ; ......... P. Dunn • •In the Auburn prison, New York, the stage, I'ncle Sam will for three valleys with radiance and bathing the < ’lerk..................................... There ’ s a midnight darkness changing pils in the laws of health and- of life, i'rt‘a>u rt‘r............................ ............ John llil—« r out »»f 211 inmates, only 3U could read cents take a package of the same hill-tops with .glory; and yet they Into day ; ......... D. IL Tavlor to illustrate the dangers attending the Men of thought ana men of action, weight to th»* furthest corner of this grope on, each wrapped in the dense s,||. > >1 supero».i i»'l»‘ii:... ....... W. J. Stanley ami write.” Clear the *way ! departure from those laws. He should To come nearer home: According great land. This is a -triking illustra­ cloud of hfs own ignorance as in a gar­ Siir\ t• if, ................. ........... J. S. Howard » ’ori'iier................................ ....................1. N. lk ll to the official report of the Superin­ tion of the great truth that afiairs of ment, with never a beam of light or Once the welcome light lias broken, note carefully that the nervous system I U.licial Paper..................... 1»EMIX It »lie Tl.Ml.s Who shall say i tendent, there w»re received at the this uml can always be better carried hope to illuminate the dreary, rayless, is not overtaxed to the detriment of The unimagined glories jo-rrmxE » Ol'JHY. (iregon Penitentiary from S plumber on by the State th in by any number lonely night of his soul. And so they Of the day— the physical, mental and moral. < nyn* v Jii - .................................... I. B. Slfers loth. 1870, to Septemlier 1st, 1872, of individuals or combinations of in­ stumble out of the dark gate of death What the evils that shall perish < .»• >. s. M i' hew son But our teachers, as a class, through In its ray t Is? convicts. Of these 17 had no edu­ dividual-. Of cour-e I do not claim and drop from our sight forever into i <’»>.( •mini—i'»tiers,...... B. I’, sloan. Aid the dawning, tongue and pen ; ignorance of hygiene and physical cul­ Dan. I.. Gre»*n cation whatever ; !(• could b.irely read ; nor do 1 believe that the State can the shadowy, great unknown beyond— Sh».r’fT ................ Aid it, hope- of honest men ; »’lerk. . ................................ .... ...»’ha«*. Hughes anti of the remaining 10b it is safe to manage all hu.-iness better and more souls that never knew their own worth ture, rarely last more than ten years Aid it, paper ; aid it, type ; Wm. Nauck»* Aid it, for the hour is ripe, <>r strength — minds that never were cheaply than individual* can. My po ­ -ay that not more than a dozen had re­ on an average, before life fails, and sm ’- osc »r.............................. Thus. G. Patmrson And our earnest must not slacken S IpHil supcrmielldent,. .............. \. J. Adams ceived a good common school vduca- sition i- that public business can be thrilled with the electric life-giving Into play ; they become wrecks upon the ocean of best conduct» d by the public, but 1 power of thought. Think of the grand Sun . a or.............................. ............. \lex. W ' ts tied. Men of thought and men of action, life without sail or rudder. ......... < ;»•»■>. E. l’.rigirs < ’»»rom-r.......... Clear the way ! l'hese facts are terribly significant, am just a- confident of the truth that aggregate of intellect thus wasted by l':''t»>« K.\n> i’i.'ir- < »ffivial Paper It is true that the cultivation only It is useless to deny that education individual bu-iness can l»e conducted want of culture. Every graveyard in »•ot r.r - ittinos . i JllMtAI. <-| LT5 HL. the land is tenanted by poets who nev- of the physical makes us splendid an­ t» ml- to prevent crime when we see best by individuals. The State al- »/(■'f reciuiit- ut. tìr-l Slonday in « a» h inonth. t n time- their proportion tivation only of the mental makes us TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE BY PROF. W. takes the management of matters that by the lire of education. There is mel­ i >u '•/ » ir.-uit « olir:, -»'cond f »r »»nr prisons. weak, effeminate, and good £br no­ T. LEERE, OF ASHLAND. ancholy truth as well as poetry in the It i- cheaper, too, to prevent crime arc in their nature private. thing. by proper in-truction than to punish Now, education i-. as has already language of Gray’s “Churchyard Ele- bool It follow-, therefore, “as the night the JUstiee of t !»«• r. Sonic heart once pregnant with celestial lire; are cheaper than ••Gardiner I »«»» >k s day, ” that the State can carry it on at row.'; Hand- that the rod of empire might have that no nation could long exist without ed to the athlete, the other to the stu­ ¡(lent, shai'kl« ” Why. ju-t think of it ! It 1»—^ eo>t and w ith greater effectiveness sway»‘d. physical culture. The history of na­ dent and philosopher. The former costs this State, on an average, some- than anylwtdy else. Intlecd, 1 need Or waked to ecs'.acv the living lyre. Trust» thing near s : 10,000 a year to keep le— not go out-ide of tin* bu-ine— itself to ‘•But knowledge to their minds her ample tions and individuals from that lime produced great strength, while the to this has proven the correctness of latter was resorted to as the surest than a hundret I convicts in the peni- prove it. To be convinced ol the page. tentiary, af ter the buildings are pro- truth of my po-ition. you have only Rich wit li the spoils of time, did ne’er unroll; hi- assertion. means ol securing that delicate sus­ R corder....................... Trea.-ur< r...................... vided. And yet probably not more to compare the relative cost of instruc­ t hill Penury repressed their nobl»? rage, In the palmy days of Rome, her ceptibility ami elastic vigor which Mar-h il......................... than -loii, ( iuo , at a rough e-timate, i- tion in public and private schools Ami froze the genial current of the soul. S' reot ' 'omni'. —mr r. sons were wont to cultivate the phy­ characterized the Greek poet and ora­ r e.x]>en»ied for the education of the «3*J » - throughout th»1 country. Every State ••Full many a gem of puYcst ray seri ne ooo - c I km .I children in the Sial» in the I'nion can. by a -mall annual Tile »lark, unfathonicil caves of ocean bear ; sical even more than, the mental; tor. 8 ) IE I V NoTii ES. many a ilower is born io blush unseen. but w ealth produced habits of luxury The latter system is one which wo Nearly olio a year paid for each coi tax. maintain nourishing public schools Full And waste its sweetness on the desert air.” .¡ci and les- than -•”» for the - lioolii and indolence, and the power of find best adapted to the wants of the in almo-1 every neighborhiMXl, and But would it not be true if society Rome vani.-hed like the morning dew, »•t'cich child! \Ve must rcmembi yet, in the -atm* localities, private youth in our public schools, and is to-.*, li«.; the cost vi the p< iiitciitiai - hoo’i- and academies, of tiic .-ante woul'l but do its duty. There is no leaving but ruins and hi.-tory to toil of styled Calisthenics. Calisthenics are on! :• ingle item in th< long bill grade, will requite immen-e fumie»i pearl in the deep -ea of ignorance that her ancient glory. most easily taught with the aid of a cX] th b crim.* aniitially m po-' en»li»w meh i - in addition to the exor- may not l»e brought to surface, There Greece, the scat of learning and phi­ piano or a drum ; in the absence of i i “ii < .:e.j>n. Adding thereto the e bit.uit rate? of tuition that they charge is no flower in the vast wastes of un­ cultivated intellect that may not be •> ■!- •' i . aii li; ■ criminal proseeiitioi losophy, well understood the need of these, the voice of the teacher will in order to be able to live at all. transplanted and set to bloom among in »!.»• >t:.ti ‘ , tiic » »»st ot kei ’ pi ’ . ig con B»-i»les, it seems to m<* tiiat there physical culture. Her games, her serve as a guide. Cr "»!ii ¡!i I’jrahouLb Trib. 'u. 1. ¡ pi is a positive «langer in leaving a mat­ the habitations of men. Every intel­ races, and her athletic .-ports were the pr<•»■ ■ 1 or»!( i In our mixed schools, whenever the tin- il< <1 M« • s suited count ter that -o nearly and vitally concerns lect that goes through the world with­ ¡II younger pupils become restless, or the V s-ven situs. Hall the thir l sun in the publie welfare, a- h. there is need—strong, solemn, sank like the meteor, leaving but a minutes devoted to Calisthenics would V» of private enterprise. Ju-t think of P. D. rinj’ox®. c.»' urgent need— for the spread of popu- brilliant trail of light behind. it for a moment. The eternal »lo-tiny send the sluggish blood from heart to lar education in this land, According of every organized society in the An»l Amerita, the great “Empire lung-, and brain, renewing the life and to the census there is to-day r “nvirch- wor!»l hang- upon th«» intelligence of > in-» nrct Pnntrli evi-ry State to m< its member-, and therefore, of liece-- jug and countermarching” over the of the West,” rich in every resource, energy of the student, tranquilizing <>n W» Ine-'luv » fi'«‘»‘ -cl’.ocl -y-lem. upi»cr su»ry <>f sity, upon the kind of training that hillsand valleys of our country a vast with mountains of iron and sands of the nerves, and stimulating the mind BrotlnT- anil si • it a«I* 1 • i■:r 111■1 r»* t» ' they get. A great man once said : army of adult illiterates, thirty-six gold, with Verdant plains and bountiful to renewed exertion. cited I»» ath-inl. inv -’nient to th ‘•Let inc make the ballads of a nation, thousand strong, and nearly every harvests, is in »Linger of the same fate, I think the pupils of primary schools DAMELUR» »NEM1I.LEP., W. 1’. ¡»ower of lhe peon J ohn A. B oy tu, K. s. an»! I care not who makes it- laws.” male among them is armed with that unless physical culture receives the at­ should never be allowed to remain sit­ -ilioh i i which a So I can -ay, with even greater force: dread weapon in the hands of igno­ ting more than half an hour at a time. Wnrr>*n >’<». 1J. 11*. •• t TL. wh< r»‘in hi- efi’cct Let m«' control the school- of a nation, rance—the ballot. Is not this a great­ tention it demands. Hold- its ri-jfiilur «•oininunii-atinns inerea-eil by edic ’ and 1 » are not wk»» <«intr»Js it- legi-la- er peril than the presence of legions of Yet, in the face of this well demon­ If nothing bettor is attempted, a sim­ on the Wedn»>sd;iv »'»••Uinirs or pre- tion. I will liruild it like ‘‘»lay in foreign foes? Oh, we need strong, strated fact, phy-ical culture has been ple march around the room is far pre­ «•••dinz the fitll in J:v!<-'>nviP»', » »re- blc-t manual !al»o formed by a man who is trained to the hand? «»f lb»* p«»tter,” in -pite of pure hands to uplift our constitution, gon. T. G. REAMF>. yy. yj. ferable to no action at all. M ax M ui i l it. . think than by one who i- not. From all «»tiler influences conibine»L A -in­ the ark of the covenant of our free­ sadly neglected in our educational in­ And here it may not be amiss to re­ a -!'ri» - of ct’.H'nil observations in the gle year’s management of the educa­ dom. above the mad surges of the stitution-. and more particularly in our JaiksüHuli Slai ili \u. 11N 1.0. U. M.. factories of New England, Horace tion »»f the thoughtless little prattlers great, awful, -weeping sea of igno­ public schools. Our primary schools, mark that the practice of retaining Hitlds it- regular nm»-tin'.r- every Thur-o » \ ?I:um a-•»■rt.tined that th»»-«* operative- | that to-day romp over the hills and rance that is threatening to engulf it. instead of being the gardens of child­ children under eight years of age, evening at the t >d»l F»,llo.v'> Hall. Br»»thi who coii’al sigil their irnue- to their valleys of thi- broad laiul, taking no Let us not Hatter ourselves with the hood, where the phy-ical and mental more than three anti one-half hours a in ifoo l -tathling ar»- inviteli t<»a 'end. J»». \\ EFFE REE, <».<’. w< kly receipt- for pay could, as a thought for the morrow, would seal delusive notion that we are safe be­ day in the school room, exclusive of M ix M cller , R. general thing, o. 1. and no teacher who is worthy of the “their mark.” 1 doubt not that an in­ liberty. Admit tin* spirit and teach­ telligence among the people is low. I and harder tasks. I Holds it- regular meetings at Turnverein name would bo guilty of such con­ Hall cit ri Saturday evi'tiing. Regular Ex- telligent boil-carrier can ..-iiig eiti’V 'lue- l.'i ami Saturday cie- duct. could save u- from the hand of the the keeping of an enlightened aristoc­ uings. ( HAS. NH’KI'.LL, Pri'-i’lcuit. only know- enough to climb a ladder. oppre-sor. What madness then wouhl racy than an ignorant democracy. 1 we are depends in a groat measure The scientists of the East and of R obt . K ami . i n, Sec’y. In th»-»* days, in particular, the it be to garrison these citadels with believe in the doctrine of popular self- upon what we eat. Lot us compare value of intel!igen»-e and education in mercenaries and bigot-, by opening government, but 1 have faith in it as the average English with the average Europe have advanced the theory that The City Brewery. manual employ ments i- much increased their doors to w hoever might choo-e a guarantee of lre<‘»l<»m only so long as American child, The first, almost in- even the average college student is in­ by the rapiil introduction of improved to enter and control them. Popular the people are intelligent enough to —BY— jured if he study diligently more than machinery. Men w ho think are want­ education is the great fountain of our see the right and virtuous enough to variably strong, robust and healthy six hours per day. If this be true, VEIT Si ili TZ. ed in the shop ami in th»* ti“l»l to man­ freedom, and if we permit wrong­ follow it. Jo-li Billings says that ho the latter pale, weak and nervous. age the labor-saving contrivances of headed men to poison iTs pure water- believes in the »1«) trine of univcr-al And let us look in the dinner baskets how extremely injurious it must be UK. SCHUTZ RESl’E« TFVI.I.Y IN- the day. with the bitterness of hate, ami creed, salvation if you will let him pick the of the two. In the first we find only for the soft and tender brain of the .’1 firm-tie citizens of.Jacksonville and “Other things being equal,” the ma­ ami faction, Liberty will drink and men. So am 1 with reference to this goo»l brown bread and fruit; in the child to work tor that length of time. surrounding country that he is now inanu- terial pro-perity of a State is exactly The numliers of young children who «lie. Oil, then* is peril imminent, doctrine of the power of self govern­ latter we find cake and that indigesti­ 1 •.»•tur nir, mid will constantly keep on hand commensurable with the average in- th«- v»-ry lwsi nf Lager Beer. Tim-«- wishing deadly peril for thi- dear land »»fours, ment by the people. I believe in it, are obliged to leave school on account ;• »•<■<>! »4 L» er should give me a »-ail. tellig» nee of its people. The more e»l- if wo surrender the entire control of but | want to pick the people. 1 do ble compound of -pice and paste called of failing health, and of older students ucation i- »litl’iised among its citizens our educational interests to the one­ not believe that an ignorant, degraded, pie. From childhood to maturity the BLACKSMITHING ! the greater is its wealth-producing sided bias of private or sectarian edu­ licentious populace can rule a nation same state of thingsexists in equal ra­ who fail to graduate from the same cause, would be very materially re­ power. The more school Imuses, the cation. The only safety is in the State wisely and well.K The intelligence of tio. duced if teachers understood and prac­ QUH’K SALES AM SMALL PROFITS i more factories and bu-y workshop- taking the control of the beginning of our people, and not the mere fact that The English la»ly of rank thinks lit ­ i ticed the laws of health and of life. ami cultivated fields. Why, so intent culture by establishing a free system they have the right to govern, is the tle of walking five or six miles a day in thi- direction is the spread ot edu­ of popular instruction. Let the broad real security of our liberties. If they would teach these laws as ' avll Cio^nrillcr &, Co. Looking at this great question in for pleasure, while the American lady they ought, then the inharmony be­ cation among the people that it ha- foundation of liberal American educa­ \ T THE OLD SI AM» OF MILLER A even the power to galvanize into s»,em- tion for all the people be laid in the this light, I believe it is the bounden of equal social status would faint at tween the l»ody and than brain, which Shannon, an prepared t<> do black­ ing life the stagnant civilization ol common schools, and we may safely duty of every lover of his country to smithing of all kin»!*, and will also keep Asia an»l to make the Chinese a thrifty leave the completion of the structure work steadily and heartily for free ed­ the very idea. The English lady is i , now threatens the permanency of the «•onstantiy oil hand all kinds of iron,-teel, to private and sectarian institutions if ucation by the State. That isour duty strong, robust and sparkling with the i race, would in a few generations be re­ ’’hor-«- shoos and nails, bolts, buggy clips, and pr»»sj»eroii- nation. dee flats,an»l everything in the blacksmith’s It is also th»* duty of the State to we will. Thoroughly Americanize our here in Oregon. The day for a tho­ bloom of health, while her American stored. Children would be taught line, for sale cli»*ap for ea-h, and will -ell lor provi»te for the education of its p<*<»ple children in the public schools to begin rough free school system hits come in sister is nervous, hysterical and lan­ how to dress, eat, drink, sleep, study, «•ash only. 2i»tf. at public expense, for the reason that with ; saturate their very being with our State, and we can have it if we guid, and must go to the springs or it can I k * more chettply ami effectively the spirit of liberty ; immerse them, will. We have only to make It our sca-side, or “she shall die—«he knows exercise, work and live, while our DR. WM. JACKSON, »lone in that way than by private en­ iy orthodox Bajiti.-t fashion, in the objective point to secure the levying of she shall.” _Jt needs no further illus­ prisons and hospitals instead of being great Fountain of Freedom, of which a tax sufficient to maintain free schools overcrowded, as at present, would find terprise. Society, acting as a whole, under I -poke, and 1 am not afraid then to throughout the State, say for six tration to prove that Americans are but few to welcome to their halls. -»»me gc!:er:il system, can carry on any trust them in private institutions, months in the year, and we can push becoming effeminate. May the time soon come when the great work lbr the public good at in- however narrow, and illiberal, and it through. The Legislature can be The crowds of educated young mon teachers of our schools will consider it linit» ly lc-s cost than can all the mem­ proscriptive inay l»e their models. made to see that it has the same right who throng our cities, who have not a duty to instruct and to train, not ber- of that -ociet.y acting separately’ For the ¡»resent, at least, it seems to to levy five mills for school purposes as the physical stamina to work with has to levy three, and that it is sim­ only the mental, but the physical also, SURGEON 1 >EN TIST. and each for himself. L nited efforts be wisest and best to leave the higher it ply a waste of public money to main ­ education to private schools. At least either muscle or mind, and who, if they will accomplish in such cases what of every child intrusted to their care. couhl ncv»T be done by any amount of that has been the teaching of experi- tain schools for only three months, as obtain not light employment, are sure Till then they are too apt M build 1 I.L .STYLES PLATE W< »RK M WE individual exertion. For instance: i ence in the past. But the State must the present tax does. It requires no candidates for the prison or grave, are without foundation, a structure which — such as Gold, Silver, Platina, Alum­ The 1- OC.EOON. 1 F. »Inner < iovi’Tii» >r............................ Secrt tarv ot Slate............. ..... >. F. < liailv irk Treasurer, .......... ............. ........... L. I leiseliner Slate Printer...................... ..... Eugen»' Setnple FlItsT .»cniciAi. nrsTim r. < 'ireult J adz»'.................... .................. P. P. Prim District Attvrney.............. ................... J. R. 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