anaheim-gazette 1872-08-03

Southern California Published Every Saturday. CHAS. A GARDNER. EDITOR and PROPRIETOR. OFFICE AT CORNER OF CENTER AND LOS ANGELES STREETS. TERMS For One Year (in advance.) ..... 5 00 " Six Months," " " ..... 2 00 " Three " " " ..... 2 00 Business Cards. O'MELVEXY & HAZARD, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. OFFICE, IN TEMPLE'S BLOCK, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. Special attention given to business in U.S. Law Office. MRS. S. A. HAWKINS, Dress Maker, Center Street ANAHEIM. MRS. A. HIGGINS. LADIES PHYSICIAN AND MIDWIFE. Particular attention given to diseases peculiar to women and children. Office and Residence Corner Lemon and Center streets Anaheim. DR. J. S. GARDINER, Business Cards. Dr. V. MARTIN. Office and Residence Cor. Los Angeles and San Francisco. E. A. PULLEN, PAINTER AND PAPER-HANGER At Lease upon Clark's Bedroom. D. W. DUNK & BROWN, CONTRACTORS and BUILDERS. Renter to the Brewery. GEORGE BAUER BOOTS AND SHOES Made and repaired at the lowest cash price. All orders promptly attended to and work guaranteed. GEORGE BAUER, Center street, opposite the Brewery. PIONEER DRUG STORE. Center street, corner Lemon, Anaheim. WM. M. HIGGINS, PROPRIETOR, DEALER IN Drugs, Perfumery and Garden Seeds. ROE & GARDEN, Dealers in HAVANA AND DOMESTIC CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES AND YANKEE NOTIONS, ALSO HATS AND CAPS. 52 Main Street, Los Angeles. S. C. FOX. PIONEER SADDLE and HARNESS MRS. S. A. HAWKISS, Dress Maker, Center Street ANAHEIM. MRS. A. HIGGINS. LADIES PHYSICIAN AND MIDWIFE. Particular attention given to diseases peculiar to women and children. Office and Residence Center Lemon and Center streets, Anaheim. DR. J. S. GARDINER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BUILDING, ANAHEIM. JOB M. SEAMANS, MANUFACTURING JAWELER & WATCHMAKER, And dealer in Precious Stones, Jewelry, Etc 67 Main St., Los Angeles. ANAHEIM LODGE NO. 192. I.O. O.F. REGULAR meetings of the above are held in their Hall every Tuesday evening, 8 o'clock P.M. FRANK R. LAFAUCHERIE, R. S. ANAHEIM LODGE NO. 207. F. & A. M. REGULAR MEETING Saturday of or succeeding the full moon in each month. THEO. REISER, W. M. J.W. CLARK, Secretary. Major Journelling Brethren, in good standing, are respectfully invited to attend. J.W. CLARK, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Land Agent and Convoyancer. Acknowledgments Taken. Office in Enterprise Hall Building, Anaheim. JOHPH ENNERSCHEDT, TIN AND COPPESMITH. Center street, Anaheim STORES AND TINWARK ALWAYS ON HAND. SAMUEL MEYER, Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, Oils, Gas Fixtures, and Kitchen Utensils. COMMERCIAL STREET - - - - LOS ANGELES P. A. CLARK'S BOOK STORE, [Below the Southern California Office] ANAHEIM. A large assortment of SCHOOL, BOOKS, BLANKS, STATIONERY, AND Miscellaneous Books. Full Stock of Cigars and Tobacco. JAMES MELLUS, DEALER IN HAVANA AND DOMESTIC Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, Yankee Notions, Etc. No 40 Main street, next to Blue Wing, Los Angeles. ROE & GARDEN, Dealers in HAVANA AND DOMESTIC CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES AND YANKEE NOTIONS, ALSO HATS AND CAPS. 52 Main Street, Los Angeles. S. C. FOX. PIONEER SADDLE and HARNESS MAKER. Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Saddlery, Leather and Findings No 17, Los Angeles street, Los Angeles. NEW YORK BREWERY, CHRIS. HENNE?.. Proprietor, 219 Main Street Los Angeles. The Best of Lager Always on Hand. D. DESMONL HAT STORE, MAIN STREET, LOS ANGELES. NEW YORK BREWERY. Anaheim Agency. Parties in Anaheim desiring to procure the excellent BEER manufactured at this establishment can do so by applying to Mr. TIMM BOEGE. Anaheim. City Hacks and Barouches, FOR THE ACCOMMODATION of the public with careful drivers, can always be on hand; at my stand, in front of the Pico House or Temple Block, Los Angeles. Parties taken to any part of the city, or parties converged to Pic Nic, or on Pleasure or Business Excursions to any part of the surrounding country. J.H. HEWITT, Proprietor. L.CUNTHER, BOOT & SHOEMAKER, Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. A good Fit Guaranteed. NEW AND FASHIONABLE MILLINERY. MRS. ELDREDGE MILLINER. P. A. CLARK'S BOOK STORE, [Beneath the Southern California Office] ANAHEIM. A large assortment of SCHOOL BOOKS, BLANKS, STATIONERY, AND Miscellaneous Books. Fall Stock of Cigars and Tobacco. JAMES MELLUS, DEALER IN HAVANA AND DOMESTIC Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, Yankee Notions, Etc. No 40 Main street, next to Blue Wing, Los Angeles. CARPET WAREHOUSE. Aaron Smith, IMPORTER AND DEALER IN Carpets, Oil Cloths, Paper Hangings and Upholstery Goods. No. 8, Commercial Street, Los Angeles, Cal. Carpets sewed and put down neatly. PEDRO SILVAS, BARBERO (BARBER). Next to the French Restaurant, Los Angele les street, ANAHEIM. F. SIGNORET, HAIR DRESSING SALOON. Main Street, corner of Arodia, next to Gates' Saloon, LOS ANGELES. A. T. KING. M.CONNELL & KING, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Downey Block; Main Street. LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA BREWERY, Seventh North street, between Los Angeles and Lennox. ANAHEIM. F. CONRAD,... Proprietor. The best Lager Beer by Bottle or Keg, ways on hand. Orders promptly filled. Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. A good Fit Guaranteed. NEW AND FASHIONABLE MILLINERY. MRS. ELDREDGE MILLINER. CENTER STREET...ANAHEIM. Hats and Bonnets made to Order. INSURANCE! FIRE AND MARINE!! HOME MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, CHARTERED CAPITAL...$1.000,000 Principal Office 433 California street, San Francisco: THE UNDERSIGNED WILL TAKE BOTH FIRE and Marine risks at as low rates as any responsible Company. JOHN FISCHER Agent for Anaheim and Victory. FOR SALE CHEAP! 40 ACRES OF GOOD FARMING LAND, with good facilities for irrigation; situated off and onehalf miles South-west of Anaheim; and containing 1 Good Frame House, 1 Stable & Chicken house, 1 Good House, 2 Sets Harness, 2 Piows. 10 Acres set with Vines. All of which is for sale at a low price. Enquire at LANGENBERGER & CO.S. Anaheim, or to EVERS & RICKMAN, Anaheim Landing. Twenty Years Ago. The soft exquisite kind above entitled will be appreciated by most of our readers. They belong to that rare class of poets which, some real haunt the imagination with a perpetual charm. A more natural expression of true solitude falling thus that contained in the chasing stares, is seldom found: I’ve wandered to the village. Tom; I’ve sat beneath the tree. Upon the school house play ground, which sheltered you and me; But none were there to greet me. Tom; and few were left to know. That played with us upon the green, some twenty years ago. The grass is just as green, Tom; bare-footed boys at play. Were sporting just as we did then, with spirits just as gay; But the “Master” sleeps upon the hill, which coated o’er with snow. Afforded us a sliding-place, just twenty years ago. The old school house is altered now; the banches are replaced. By new ones, very like the same our penknives had defaced; But the same old bricks are in the wall: the bell swings to and fro. It’s music just the same, dear Tom, ‘twas twenty years ago. The boys are playing some old game, beneath that same old tree; I quite forget the name just now—you’ve played the same with me. On that same spot ‘twas played with knives, by throwing so and so; The loser had a task to do—there twenty years ago. The river’s running just as still; the will-much faith in the power of wise kindness that a part of the people in every district which is not quite benighted, will be shocked by a resort to violence, and their estimate of the teacher’s work as a whole will be deservedly advanced by an administration made successful through parole moral power over the pupils. Nor will the modern knight of the birch be always so charitably judged as was a Michigan school master, who sets the village in an uproar by one over-dose of discipline. An investigating committee reported that he was not guilty of willful cruelty, but was misled by an undae estimate of the thickness of the boys pantaloons. 4. The teacher needs to be largely endowed with the Faculty of Encouragement. We all want to hear the preacher who can interpret the Gospel as Heaven's word of infinite encouragement to man; for "we are saved by hope." There is no movement without motive. You and I do nothing without mental stimulent. Courage is a thing of the heart, as its etymology testifies. (Cor, the heart, and ago, to act.) It implies soundness, life and power at the core. Hence to be discouraged is to be disheartened. What can a child do—nay, what can we expect of a man—with no heart for his work? Paul says to fathers: "Provoke not your children in the teacher by a law that of the State is certain outside of and well rounded; they shall give the children some finer qualities standard of life than will even see at home their fault; that so bring to the school rough, coarse, half-ahead. In many cases, they will with anything like true positiveness or not unless suplied to the morpheme of the Their improvement is from being lectured for their own rude woe they may be as innocuous as of the shape it is rather to come it ultimately treated with which inspires self-recognition ladies and gentlemen deserve it or not. tendency in our country all down to one low rarity, to elevate incivilational habit, and to do is unwashed, unkempt with the name simplicity.” All the men should this tendency those who are chaotic." By now ones, very like the same our penknives had defaced: But the same old bricks are in the wall: the bell swings to and fro. It's music just the same, dear Tom: 'twas twenty years ago. The boys are playing some old game, beneath that same old tree; I quite forget the name just now—you've played the same with me On that same spot 'twas played with knives, by throwing so and so; The loser had a task to do—there twenty years ago. The river's running just as still; the willows on its side. Are larger than they were, Tom, the stream appears less wide— But the grape-vine swing is rained now, where once we played the bean. And swung our sweethearts—pretty girls—just twenty years ago. The spring that bubbled 'neath the hill, close by the spreading beech, Is very low—'twas once so high that we could almost reach, And kneeling down to get a drink, dear Tom I started so. To see how sally I had changed, since twenty years ago. Near by the spring, upon an elm, you know I cut your name. Your sweetheart's just beneath it, Tom, and you did mine, the same; Some heartless wretch has peeled the back, 'twas dying, sure but slow. Just as the one whose name you cut died twenty years ago. My lids have long been dry. Tom, but tears came to my eyes, I thought of her I loved so well, those early broken ties. I visited the old church yard, and took some flowers to strew Upon the graves of those we loved some twenty years ago. Some are in the church-yard laid—some sleep beneath the sea; But few are left of our old class, excepting you and me; And when our time shall come, dear Tom, and we are called to go. I hope they'll lay us where we played, just twenty years ago. Extra-Legal Qualifications of Teachers. Address delivered at the Graduation Exercises of the State Normal School of California, San Jose, March 28th, 1872. BY CHARLES G. AMES. [Concluded from last week.] Government includes the three functions—legislative, judicial, and executive. It is easy to lay down the law; not so easy to enforce it; hardest of all to apply it wisely and fairly. The judicial faculty is of slow growth and rarely comes to perfection. The unjust judge is in every school room and family, by times. To be always perfectly reasonable and passionless in dealing with offenders and suspected offenders infinite encouragement to man; for "we are saved by hope." There is no movement without motive You and I do nothing without mental stimulent. Courage is a thing of the heart, as its etymology testifies. (Cor, the heart, and ago, to act.) It implies soundness, life and power at the core. Hence to be discouraged is to be disheartened. What can a child do—nay, what can we expect of a man—with no heart for his work? Paul-says to fathers, "Provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged"—as though discouragement were the one most damaging disaster: How shall the engine work if the fires go out? To fire the heart of of the pupil is the sure way to set in motion all the machinery of the head. When all tasks are done cheerily, the best scholarship comes. But this implies a heart in the teacher. How shall be kindle others who has no spark in himself? Remember the words of Pestalozzi: "Faith and love are the true foundations of education." The most successful process of mining is that which draws most gold from a ton of reluctant rock. If one ton will assay two thousand dollars while another ton will yield but fifty cents, modern art forbids the miner to reject the poorer ore as worthless. Children differ quite as much as samples of mountain quartz. There is the transparent genius which is like free gold in the nuget; and there are all degrees of alloy. But gold is gold, and mind is mind; and all the processes of education look toward liberating it from dross. The teacher's business is not only to get the best out of the best, but also to get the best out of the worst. Never enter a school room, never lay hand on this sacred material of mind, unless you have faith in the noble possibilities of human nature. In most schools the intellectual differences of children range all the way from genius down to the neighborhood of idiocey. The geniuses hardly need the teacher; but he must give himself with generous patience to the idiot, the semi-idiot, the demi-semi-idiot, and the hemidi-semi-idiot not forgetting that his own mental light may be partially obscured by the same clouds. Both in Europe and in America successful Idiot Schools have been founded; institution for the reclamation of these unpromising swamp lands of humanity—for arousing the torpid faculties of downtown natural-born fools, incapable even of feeding themselves; like arrested which inspires itself being recognized by ladies and gentlemen deserve it or not. A tendency in our country all down to one low rarity; to elevate incivil national habit; and to do is unwashed, unkempt with the name simplicity," all the men should this tendency take those who are charged with education of America. 6. A high standard especially in the comedy it is possible that Americans have not the moral value of morality and thoroughness; nor evils—public as well mental slovenliness knowledge and concern In attempting to diffuse we have spread it out. The national temper to hastie rather than ness; to sensation raysense. The over-professed spirit of thieves "What can't be done by machinery. Let it be a maxim which might end of civilization there is a growing interest contempt of those applications by which misciplined and characterized Just now you will be mit a crime, viz: to carry out your pupils at their understanding; so rapidly over an amount of studies that of the course they will both knowledge and copy positions in might render a magma to the country, by help intellect, compact and invigorate the rising generation asked to darken, de weaken all by doing hurrielly as to do not multiply impressions brain in such swift steps each impression will preceding, so that, at will be only an exhilarated by disgust and close thinking, yet acct a conceit of wisdom. What is the remission this devil and he will be is to be remedied in this by holding every recurrent performance and event to the common sense what is worth doing as doing well by cross- Government includes the three functions—legislative, judicial, and executive. It is easy to lay down the law; not so easy to enforce it; hardest of all to apply it wisely and fairly. The judicial faculty is of slow growth and rarely comes to perfection. The unjust judge is in every school room and family, by times. To be always perfectly reasonable and passionless in dealing with offenders and suspected offenders, to exercise that gift of moral perspective which sees little faults as little, and some not at all—I can recall not one teacher who came up to this godlike standard, though I could gratefully name some who approached it. The civil law, as construed, permits both parent and teacher to maintain authority by the use of the rod; and I admit it is better so than to let rebellion triumph over rational law and order; but I never whipped a child without a secret shame at my own clumsy incapacity for wielding the less brutal weapons of the spirit. As a rule, we are likely to get what we give: the temper of the subject will respond to the temper of the master. In the State Normal School at Albany was a young lady who gave the faculty a deal of trouble, so that she was always under the shadow of threatened expulsion; but there was no more obedient or honorable pupil than she when under the immediate control of a particular professor. This was her own explanation of the difference: "The other teachers always spoke to me of my faults as if they were mad, and that made me mad; he spoke to me as if he were sorry, and that made me sorry!" In this nineteenth century of Christian enlightenment, there is so must give himself with generous patience to the idiot, the semi-idiot, the demi-semi-idiot, and the hemidi-semi-idiot not forgetting that his own mental light may be partially obscured by the same clouds. Both in Europe and in America successful Idiot Schools have been founded; institution for the reclamation of these unpromising swamp lands of humanity—for arousing the torpid faculties of countright, natural-born fools, incapable even of feeding themselves; like arrested infants. The first point to be made is to overcome the inertia—to set in motion the sluggish wheels of the idiot mind. At every step the one simple rule for awakening and leading forth the faculties of these unfortunate, and preparing them to become self-guiding, self-supporting men and women, is, ENCOURAGE! Encourage!—as the sunshine encourages the frost-chilled buds of Spring. Nothing is so encouraging as the intellectual sympathy of a supreme being. How persistently the children exact our attention to the trials which are to their minds so many newly discovered wonders? "Oh, manma, see this stick. Oh, papa see that dog! Oh, sunny there's a flower!" Within reasonable limits this craving must be met and honored. The need of intellectual Sympathy is as real as the need for bread and butter. The teacher should therefore be a student of human nature, diligently seeking to comprehend the importance, the mental blindness, the limitations and the slow-growing powers of those with whom he deals, so that from his loftier position he may reach down and offer help in the moments of need; or a cheering word, when it is better that the strugglers help themselves. 5. Another qualification required each impression will preceding, so that, at will be only an exhilarated by disgust and close thinking, yet accustomed to a conceit of wisdom! What is the remnant this devil and he will is to be remedied in this by holding every recurrent performance and event to the common sense what is worth doing and doing well; by cross-make sure that the stands every lesson, merely chatter with parrot; by refusing except for actual attainment breaking up the miserable skimming and skipping less memorizing, which passes for study. One fact ought to seize a discovery of superior ship produced by method; so large as the older pupils are with their own mode. Surely the better class would never willingly upon a defenseless crowds of young men who having passed schools come out only and murder the Republik by habitual mispronounces in common use, is chiefly important but that it is important and these surface disorders are symptoms of the disorder of inaccurate thinking—the kind which is a frustain water for the land and 6. One other quality called for by the law, is to be urged upon your ployers, is yet necromorph your usefulness and sa in the teacher by a higher law than that of the State is Good Manners: a certain outshine of culture, taste, and well rounded wholeness which shall give the children a hint of some finer qualities and nobler standard of life than many of them will even see at home. It is not their fault that so many of them bring to the school such boorish, rough, coarse, half-animal manners. In many cases, through all their early years, they will hardly meet with anything like good society, true positness or nobleness of soul, unless so plied to them in the atmosphere of the school room. Their improvement is not to come from being lectured and hectored for their own rude ways, of which they may be as innocently unconscious as of the shape of their noses; it is rather to come from being habitually treated with that respect which inspires self-respect; from being recognized as prospective studies and gentlemen, whether they deserve it or not. If there is a tendency in our country to bring us all down to one low level of vulgarity, to elevate incivility into a national habit, and to decorate all that is unwashed, unkempt and slattered with the name of "republican simplicity," all the more diligently should this tendency be resisted by those who are charged with the Habit of Self-Protection: Don't overdo. There is a limit to your strength; don't spend beyond the income. There is a limit to your responsibility; don't worry. Do your whole duty; and sing a song. Don't waste any time or strength in "sitting on eggs that are chickenable." Pull while you are in harness but refuse to let it chase you. For the scholar's own sake, throw it off your mind when you are out of it. Be a teacher not one minute after you look the door and put the key in your pocket. Lift up your eyes to the hills; help yourself to the earth and sky; go fishing; collect an herbarium; play a geology; chase butterflies and hunt bugs; or mount a horse and so get about the world. Read if you will, but beware of every book which seduces your mind back to the work, or forward to it. If you would be fresh and elastic next morning, don't carry the school to bed with you. Success depends on good nature; good nature on digestion; digestion on an unwearied brain, which requires regular and plentiful sleep. All dyspeptics are so far insane. Don't let even one percent of yourself go crazy. And with all precautions your nervous system will be so tired at the end of the term that you will join in a fellow teacher's benediction: 'Blessed be the man who is charged with the which inspires self-respect; from being recognized as prospective studies and gentlemen, whether they deserve it or not. If there is a tendency in our country to bring us all down to one low level of vulgarity, to elevate incivility into a national habit, and to decorate all that is unwashed, unkempt and slattered with the name of "republican simplicity," all the more diligently should this tendency be resisted by those who are charged with the education of American youth. 6. A high standard of principle, especially in the commonest things. It is possible that, as a people, we Americans have not half realized the moral value of mental accuracy and thoroughness, nor the immense devils—public as well as private—of mental slovenliness, superficial knowledge and conceived smartness, an attempting to diffuse education, we have spread it out too thin. The national temperament inclines to baste rather than to thoroughness; to sensation rather than to sense. The over-proud and over-praised spirit of the age says, "What can't be done in a hurry, or by machinery, let it go undone"—a maxim which might easily be the ending of civilization itself. So there is a growing impatience and contempt of those processes of application by which mind is well disciplined and character solidly built: must now you will be asked to commit a crime, viz: to cram the memory of your pupils at the expense of their understanding; to pass them so rapidly over an extended programme of studies that at the end of the course they will have missed both knowledge and discipline. Occupying positions in which you might render a magnificent service to the country, by helping to clarify the intellect, compact the character and invigorate the mental life of the rising generation, you will be asked to darken, dissipate and weaken all by doing everything so curriously as to do nothing well; to multiply impressions on the pupil's brain in such swift succession that each impression will wipe out the preceding, so that, at the end, there will be only an exhausted brain, followed by disgust and aversion to close thinking, yet accompanied by conceit of wisdom! What is the remedy? Resist this devil and he will flee. The evil is to be remedied in the school room by holding every recitation, every performance and every performer to the common sense principle that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well by cross-examining and elastic next morning, don't carry the school to bed with you. Success depends on good nature; good nature on digestion; digestion on an unwavered brain, which requires regular and plentiful sleep. All dyspepties are so far insane. Don't let oven one percent of yourself go crazy. And with all precautions your nervous system will be so tired at the end of the term that you will join in a fellow teacher's benediction: 'Blessed be the man who invented vacation!' You will need also to be fortified against the injustice of patrons and critics. Not that any of us may presume ourselves perfect; not that any of us can afford to miss the help of considerate criticism from our fellows. It is good to learn one's faults, even from an enemy. But be sure of this: you will sometimes be stupidly praised, and sometimes quite as stupidly blamed. Go on with the business and let them rave! Teachers are not above the need of encouragement; they are but children a little further grown. Let this be their encouragement: they are set into the most honorable task of the universe, the task of preparing citizens for earth and heaven. Julia Ward Howe says: 'We want a world people with intelligent and faithful men and women.' Is there any nobler office than to contribute to the increase of intelligence and faithfulness! Amid the inevitable trials, the multiplying annoyances, the monotonous routine, the unappreciated and unobserved fidelities of your profession, look not too much to its stinted outward rewards; consider less what you can get than what you can give; and rejoice in the secrecy of your own souls that you are fellow-workers with all who, in any department of service, have wrought for the highest interests of mankind. You are beckoned to share the toils and honors of the world's prophets, poets, artists and Messiahs; for they also were of the glorious company of teachers. There are other pursuits which make more show and noises: none whose influence may be more gracious or enduring. The brazen triumph of the politician and clarion blast of the warrior, pour out a boisterous peal and win the cheap applause of the hour; be content that the humbler music of your life sings itself into eternity. No notes are immortal save such as transmit themselves in the world of mind, for these sound on and on, when all the echoes of merely outward voices Mortgaging Farms for Railroads. A contributor to the Western Rural writes: "An article written by Henry C. Wheeler, Esq., in the issue of May 25th, is of such a character that it should wake up the agriculturists of the great West to one of the most momentous questions of the age. All the swindles and schemes of oppression sink into insignificance before the great and gigantic schemes of the great railroad corporations for absorbing the real estate of the country. It is not the giving away of the public lands in such uncredible quantities (outrageous as it is) I refer to. It is theunningly devised plan of absorbing all the homesteads of the land, and making the present owners a class of sorts and renters. When you reduce the small proprietors of the nation to a class of renters, you destroy all spirit of enterprise, that is so characteristic of the American people. For what encouragement has a man to labor and [Concluded on Fourth Page.]