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About Albany daily democrat. (Albany, Or.) 1888-192? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1889)
Daily Democrat!. THE BEST EDUCATION. An exchange speaking of the kind of education now given in our schools savs that each rear brings to the general pub lic, as well as to the educators, the con vie tion that the present system of education is inadequate to the demands of the da v. The great public, which is more directly interested in school methods than the ed ucators themselves, are waking to the con viction that there is much useless expen diture of time and effort in putting the boy and girl through the course of study in the schools. This conviction is not limited to any class of Intelligence. It is permeating all classes. With this more complete view f education comes among the higher classes a greater respect for skilled labor. In these days when riches suddenly take to themselves wines and flv avvav : when there may be luxury one week and penury the next, it is necessary for every one to be prepared for these emergencies. The ex lgencie6 in business life cannot always be foretold with accuracy. The laws that govern the evolutions of commerce are to a certain extent the same in their tendency and as unerring in their effect as those that govern the evolution of nature. It has long been a great mistake of the rich to educate their children in the efilor. esences of knowledge, and to teack them to view manual labor as lowering in its in fluences. But self preservation is one ef the first Jaws of nature and there are com paratively few people who would rather starve to death than work with their hands. The instant of nature is strong with us all, and there is that consciousness in every one, at least in nearly every one, that forces him to labor in order to save his own life. The complications of social condi tions and the consequent competition in all departments of industrial and professional hfe.together with these sudden disappear ances of fortunes, are impressing upon the minds of all, the rich as well as the poor, the necessity of being forearmed. The man who is armed is always ready for an at tack. The man who has a skilled brain and hand to fall back upon is ready for an emergency. If society is to be compactly built and enduring we must all contribute our labor, not only to make it so, but to keep it so. I We have now as much of the disintegrat ing elements as we need. These are the criminal classes, the paupers, the insane the bed ridden, the homeless, the aged, the infirm. We have in this wide domain many that are n-edy, but that are not yet the wards of the public. With the increase of the population comes an Increase in so ciety's burdens. The complication in social conditions must be evident to every one that will take the trouble to penetrate the slight crust which envelopes life in the United States. The only way to put ai obstacle in the way of this alarming in crease in our non-producing class , or non contributing classes, is to educate our chil dren to become producers and contributors. The present system of education is good so far as it goes, but it does not go far enough. If all members of society were producers as well as consumers there would be less necessity for poorhouses. Practical edu cation misht, and undoubtedly would, les sen the tcnuency to crime. An idle brain is the devil's workshop is a saying ps true as it is old. Thomas Cariyie's ringing sentences may be quoted here. Savs the great philosopher : "Produce, produce, produce. If it be but the most infinitesi mal part of a product, in God's" name pro duce it. 'Work while it is j et day, for the night cometh wherein no man can work." It is the bus'ness of those who direct edu cation to consider these facts dceplv. In Boston more than $ 100,000,000 ot per sonal property is taxed, and more than $563,000,000 of real estate. The Be ston and Albany Railroad Company pays a tax of $108,305, being the heaviest tax-payer n the liit. The actual amount of wealth in the city is, of course, only faintly indi cated by the $ 300,000,000 of personal estate which the assessors found. Vast sums are invested in untaxable bonds, others are un doubtedly concealed, while s'.ill other, psrtly represented by the $100,000, 000, which are annually paid in dividends to Bostonians, are invested in other states and taxed there. How deftly the human spider now and then weaves its web. An accomplished young newspaper man was recently dis patched from Boston to the interiorof New Hampshire to write up the history of an old lady of 9S. He was told that she had never so much as learned her letters. Did he blurt it out in print ? Not a bit of it. He merely stated in his finely written article that "she can read the finest print as well as she evei could," and sent a marked copy of the paper to the subject of the sketch, More recently the lady died, and when her will was admitted to probate it was found that she had made the young writer her heir. A New Grocery Discovered AT Strong's old corner, opposite Stewart & Sox, First Htreet, Albany, Or, A full line of FRESH GROCERIES, CANNED COODS, DRIED FRUITS. ETC. "Quick sales and small profits," "Live and ls-t live," is onr motto. Flease call and examine our goods and get prices, Satisfaction guaranteed, Produce Taken in Exchange, .Very Respectfully, BARDUE & UNDERWOOD. The value of the South's agricultural products for iSSS was about $800,000,000 against $571 000,000 in 1879, The value of the South's live stock is now $575,000,000 while in 1879 it was $391,4000,000. The production of grain rose from 431,074,630 bushels in 1870 to 626, 305,000 bushels in 1SS7, an increase of nearly 200,000,000 bushels. Kasal Catarrh is probably one of the most disagreeable ailments that a person can bo afflicted .with . If Dutard's Specific is used with a douche or even snuffed up the nose, according to directions, morning and even ing, a radical cure can in most cases be ef fected. Sold by Foshay & Mason. TJOR RENT. The store foroinrlv oo- 1' pied by Monteith A Seitenbaoh, on First street, opposite S. E. Young's, splen didly titled up lor any business. For particulars inquire or Sunders fc Sternbdro. FOSHAY & MASON, V13LI!1 AND RETAIL Druggists and Booksellers, Agents for John B. Alden's publications, which we sell at publisher's price, with poswgeauaea. ALBANY, OUEOON. TIN WARE AND HARD WARE OK ALL KINDS AT DEYOE & ROBSO CLOTHING For Fall and Winter -AT- NEW GOODS NEW SMYRNA RUGS AND PORTIERRES. NEW TABLE COVERS. LINEN TABLE SETS, NAPKINS TO MATCH, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF LINEN AND SILK HANDKERCHIEFS. FINE LACE HANDKERCHIEFS. TRUNKS AND VALISES. SILK DRESS PATTERNS. COLORED AND SILK WARP HENRIETTAS. SILK UMBRELLAS, Boot and Shoe Department. LADIES AND CENTS FANCY SLIPPERS. CENTS FINE SHOES. MISSES AND CHILDRENS FINE SHOES AND SLIPPERS, FELT SLIPPERS OF ALL KINDS. CROCKERY' DEPARTMENT CHOICE NOVELTIES IN'DECORATED CHINA TEA SETS. FRUIT PLATES AND SAUCERS. DECORATED BEDROOM SETS LAMPS, SALAD BOWLS FANCY PITCHERS FANCY CUSPADORES CAKE DISHES AND A LARCE ASSORTMENT OF NOVELTIES IN CHINA Since the divorce act was adopted by the English Parliament thirty years ago, there have been no less than 13,022 suits brought under it, and in 7,295 more than half the court has put asunder Close whum the church alleged God had joined together. Worse still does it appear when the three decades of divorce arccompared with each other. In the first, 1858 to iS67,there were 2,i8S applica.lons for divorce j in the sec ond, 186S to 1877, there were 3,273, an in. crease of about 50 per cent ; in the third, 1S78 to 1SS7, there were 4,761, an increase ot aoout 75 per cent ; in the next decade the lawyers expect the increase to be fully 100 per cent. L. E. BLAIN'S. Rubber Coats and Boots, Shoes OVERCOATS,-FineAssortment, Pea JackctS"CIiincIiilIa. Aslraclian Full Line of Duck Suitings, AM. GRADE WOOLEN OVER SHIRTS Big Stock Cardigan Jackets, HEAVY MERINO AND ALL WOOL UNDERWEAR. Winter Gloves and Samuel K Young. Albany, Oregon Speaker Smith of the house pursued a very discreditable course in making u; the standing committees of that body. The democrats have no representative at all on the following com. mittees: Kducition, Claims, Roads and High, ways, Indian Affairs., Corporations, Internal Improvements, Agriculture, and Alcoholic Traffic. Why should democrats be excluded from these committees? It's using power like a tyrant. ALL WEIGHTS LEATHER BOOTS AND SHOES. UMBRELLAS, HATS, ETC. List but not least a large stock 'of CLOTNINC AND FURNISHINGS JULIO? GRADWOHL'S Golden Rule Bazaar. Ilia stock bas been enlarged so that it equsls any on tha Cms:, and consists of Roger Bro3. Silverware, French China and Crys talware, Boys' Wagons, Doll Carriages, Fancy Goods, and a general assortment of Crockrey and Toys. He buys direct and oarries the largest stock In has been addod a complete line of the Willamette Valley, to whicr FAMILY GROCERIES. Ts Agent for insnrane companies with capital aggregating 75.O09,00J. sTIoI on narle Francais. Hier wird deutcb. gesprochon.-. BIG BARGAINS AT BrowneU D, R. N, BLACKBURN. Attorney at Law OfflceJOdd Fellow's.Temple, ALBANY, - - ORECON. & Stanard's. J. K. WEATHERFORD, (NOTARY PUBLIC,) ITTORNEY AT LAW, ALBANY, OREGON. WW PRACTICE Itf ALL THE COURTS OF THE BMW. Special mention given to collections
