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TUESDAY, N gO VEMBER 16, 1897.
.Is Education an Unmixéd Good ?
If contentment is the highest good,
it is probable that education is a mis-
take, since contentment and ignmance
men. more frequent coincidence than
contentment and lea1ning,, says the
Lewiston Journal. It is the function
of education to kindle ambition and to
' gratify it, but not to satisfy it. There
is always more beyond. All England
is now stirred by the pessimistic ver-
sion of’education already alluded to in
these columns, given by Prof. Mahaffy
inacollegiate event at Birmingham.
, He doubts if the schools give as good
an education as they did thii ty years
agp; at any rate, he discovers fright-
ful ignorance among graduates of his
acquaintance. He has himself 'known
students of his own Trinity College,
Dublin, to turn out remarkable crimi-
nals. Did not that argue something
‘wrong with the system ‘9 He modestly
said nothing about what it argued in
the teachers. But, however, that
might be, he had the gravest doubts
whether the diffusion of education had
diffused morality or happiness.
That a distinguished professor should
take such superficial views is the
strongest indictment'that‘w‘e have seen
of such partial mental discipline as
that of Prof. Mahalfy. Everybody
knows that the intellect and the char-
acter are not invariably developed in
.the same degree; but everybody, ex-
cept Prof. Mahalfy, knows that ignor-
ance and vice averagedto go together,
._';a,lth0ugh, fortunately for society, only
amoiety of phe ignorant are cr1minals,
" and only a moiety of the vicioUs are ed-
ucated. we are concerned not with
exceptions but with rules. The Duke
of Devonshire says that even if educa-
tion does not make happiness, it is we
essa’ry if the 1‘11‘0dern_'man and woman is
successfully to compete for a large1 ex-
The fact is that education
makes usefulness, not contentment, the
basis of happiness, and thus Substitutes
a larger for a smaller life.
istence'. ,
The fact is that false education sup-
plies Prof. Mahafiy the basis of his in-
dictment, V. An education. that unfits a.
man f01-life, that leaves him'powerless,
is not education in the sense of relation
lto thiéh'actual world. They talk in
Europe‘of the learned proletariat—that
is, of a body ofrscholars that. oah scan
Virgil and interpret Plato, but who
knew nothing of affairs, little of science
and am Here' 13 wheie om education-
al systems the weak. ,To . enter upon
life we must have science and art, be-
cause modern life 15 scientific, and its '
successes must be wrought out-— that 1s
the .Vonrke1 must know‘ how to think
aright and how to act‘ aright. The
tradeschool, the-technical school, a1e
eSSential if we one to produce some-
thing above P1 of Mahaffy' spessimism.
England is. fast losinglher industiial
- preeminence because her technical
education is far beneath-that of Ger-
many. The-application of science .to .
art, of knowledge of things to construc-
tion, ,isjthe German genius.
"United States we need especially to en?
courage general education, as we now
do, but to turn the enthusiasms of mus-
cular effort from football fads " to the
scientific battle with steam, water,
" hydrbgen, oxygen, and the factors of
force and matter. . In grammar and in
high schools we are wastingnthe high-
est power by allowing. ourselves to be
dissuaded from constructive effort by
destructive engagements. from the con-
structive genius of peace to the des-
truCtive genius of war. To nourish
courage we want less pigskin and
more of the spirit that suffers long and
V' is kind in the science and art of indus-
trial evolution on which social ev01u-'
tion is based.
FEMININE CHAT.
The furnace man now begins to smile
Plaid silks f01 petticoats are selling
well.
White ink' 15 used on the intense sta-
tionary now in vogue. ' ’ 4
N 0 man can hope to rival his children!
in his wife 8 affections.
, Many guest rooms look as though
they would be more correctly termed
prison cells.
‘ quietly puffing.
In the ’
The man wh0m losses would make
desperate: Good luck would make equal-
ly so.
- It IS a married man who doclares it
much easier t 0 win‘ a woman than
live with hei.
Why, oh, why, one men so careless
about the notes confiding women write
to them?
The man who can get- d1 unk and not
make a fool of himself‘ 1s a hero in his
particular line. We seldom meet with
many heroes in this line.
Though we may think we have
quite outgrown blushing there are
times when the tell-tale colorV comes to
' our cheeks and causes us much embar-
rassment as when we first made our bow
in society. ; ’
Many a person who this autumn de-
clares the summer in Europe to have
been a perfect dream speaks the abso-
lute truth, the warm, weather season
having been spent by them on some se~
eluded farm in this cOuntry.__
Economy in the‘matter of coal these
day 3 means ext1avagance in the matter
of doctms’ bills.
You1 word is your servant so V10ng as
you 1etain it, but it becomes your mas-
te1 when you suffer it to escape.
Leathe1 and enamel belts that cost
in the neighb01h00d of twenty dollars
are wo1n with the smartest fu1 coats.
The love affaiz that flouIishes with
the greatest vigor is the one that has
the most discouragement to encounter.
No one who has not us 3d candles for
the bed r00m can appreciate their
no unpleasant, unhealthy odor, as there
may be from gas or kerosene, nor the
staring whiteness of the electric light.
Lamps are pretty for the bed room, but
it is almost impossible to turn them
Out without leaving some odor in the
r00m. But candles are for retiring
only, ' when they furnish sufficient
light. N 0 room can be too light Where
a woman is dressing. ' She should be
able to see every detail of her dress
from every point of‘view from which
it will be seen by many eyes in a draw-
ing room or ball room. If there were
more mirrors in the world, and they
were better distributed, there would
be more well-dressed women. For
other purposes the candle is infinitely
restful to the eye.
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THE 'JUDGE WAS CONVINCED.
His Ridoof 60 Miles on Hou1 and a_Sand
Bath \Vlien l’ leaks “’ere Applied.
- The town of Victoria, Mex., has
one just -judge.v~A littlegwhilc after.
the railway reached the village the
usual drunken Mexican was killed on
the track in the usual way The train—
men were promptly arrested and the
train held. They said that they were
running within the statutory speed,
and it was impossible to stop in time
to avoid the man 5 death. The alcalde
said he would see about that. He or-
tered the engineer to get up steam
1nd back up the road :to:! a. point- two
niles beyond the place ' where the
-Zeath had occurred. He took a seat
11 the cabs Reaching the desired
spot, he said. “‘Run at the speed you
had the other day, and when. you
ome in sight of the place where the,
man was killed put on the brakes."
it was not to the engineer’s interest
:.0 run 'too's10wly, and the throttle
was thrown 'open. The train went
down, the line at shgtymiles 'an hour.
It was the alcalde’siflrs‘t ride, and‘he
was hanging'out of :the cab window,
delightedly looking at the rushing,
country, when the air brakes were
slammed down for all that there was
in them. He described seven or eight
somersault's and lit on his back twen-
ty feet away. He rose, brushed the"
sand out of his hair and eyes, and
looked at the locomotive, which was
standing some yards further 011 and
“Valga me dies!"
(“Well, dang my buttons!”) was all
he said." He decided. that the train-
men‘were not inpany] way to blame
andtook them, all to dinner with him.
—Ohlcago Times-Herald. ' ‘
A LILIPUTIAN ENGIN E.
Can Be Carried in the Vest Pocket- —A Perl
fact Working Piece. of Mechnulsm. _
The smallest steam engine in the
world is one that was made by an
American boy when he was sixteen
years old. It can easily be carried,
and with room to spare, in an ordinary
vest pocket, and it weighs less than
half an ounce.
Yet, notwithstanding its microscopic
dimensions, it is a perfect ‘machine,
and when the few dr0ps of water its
tiny silver boiler will hold are con-
verted into steam the engine'will run
at the rate of 3,000 ' revolutions .per
minute. In type it is a. high—pressure
1rincipally of gold and silver. All
to d them are over 150 pieces in its
mike-up, some of them so small as be
be almost invisible without the aid of
:1 mr gnifying glass. The diameter of
1313 cylinder is, one-sixteenth of an
19:02:; diameter of flywheel five-sights
c: z 3: inch. The boiler is made of sil-
v:r. in five distinct plates, or sheets.
Thai 3 me no rivets in either the boiler
. 1f r:.y other parts of. the engine, The
:"e . 1ate parts are all held together by
30191me Nothing about the entire con-
struction of this curious, piece of
mechanism is more remarkable‘*than
these screws. They are perfect ‘in
form and detail and hold the separate
parts of the machine together as firm-
yet each of these screws is so small it
can only be picked up by the aid of a
magnififying gla.
value. The light is soft,_and there is'
'1eam engine, and it is constructed,
Iy as though they were riveted, and,
and a sharp-pointed .
pair of pincers.~——New York World. 51 — .
BUSY GHEEKS AND SPABKUNG EYES‘
1 . Followlhe Use of M'Kidney Beans.
The Tu1 ners ’great dishevery. The
warning notes from the kidneys are,
backache, urinary trouble, frequent
thirst, rheumatism, burning urine,
dropsical swellings, irregular heart" ac-
tion. Heed the warning at once. Your
life Is in danger. Utah Kidney Beans
regulate the kidneys, cure all urinary
and bladder troubles surely; and quick- '
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. TURNERs’ LITTLE LIVER TURNERS—
a ve1 y small pill. Turns your liver.
For sale only 1n Norwalk by E. P. Week
druggist. R. H. Plaisted. So. Norwald
Hospital -. - Fair
. BUILDING FUND BENEFIT.
Lockwood’s Hall, Norwalk.
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER |6th and |7Vth.
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
SPECIAL PUNCH AND JUDY MATINEE.
bv New York Artist-s, for the chil-
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GENERAL ADMISSION. - - 25c.
To the Board of County Commission-
eis f01 Fa11f1eld County:
Ihe1eb1 apply f01 a Dluggist’ s license
to sell spiiituous and intoxicating li-
qu01s, ale. 18.0”81 beei, Rhine wine and
cide1 at 126 Washington street town of
N01 walk.
My place of business is located
within 200 feet in a duect line of a
post office.
Dated at N01w,a1k this 16th day of
Nov ,A. D. 1897.
W. H. CHAMBERLAIN, Applicant.
We, the unde1signed, electors and
tax paye1s as defined by law, of the
town of Norwalk, hereby indorse the
application of the above named W. H.
Chamberlain for such license.
Dated at Norwalk this 16th day of
Nov. A. D., 1897. .
Ge0rgeS T1 owb11dge, Moses H.
Glover. A. B. St. John, James Paul
Christian Swa1 tz. '
I hereby certify that the above named
endorse1s are electors and tax payes, as
defined by law, of the town of Norwalk. . .
Dated at Norwalk this 16th day? of ,
Nov. A. D. 1897. " RM
HERBERT B. SMITH Town Clerk.
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