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0r coarse a touch. Once .scaiatstetioWs anid
interest here, and neatness in person and dress
will naturally follow. Slovenliness would be
impossible in the midit of such associations.
Respect will also be paid to the appearance of
the school room. The desks will not be cut or
scratched. The books will not be scribbled or
torn or soiled. Rudeness in manners will be
softened, and vulgarity of language be refined
into elegance, by the elevating influence of
this newly developed faculty.

  One great reason why we see so many soIv-
enly school children is, we think, because we
see so many slovenly school lhouses.  They
stand bleak and wate, without the slighteAt at-
tempt at ornament in the building, or the re-
motest hint at adornment in the grounds. Not
a tree casts a friendly shade over the scorch-
ing sides of the house; not a shrub stands as
a fragrant curtain before the glaring window.
The blank, dull monotony of the walls is un-
broken by any object upon which the eye may
rest lovingly.  Not a fence suggests privacy
or home-feeling.  All is repulsive, sombre,
chilling to the soul. The children seem to feel
that neatness or ornament would be entirely
out of keeping amidst such surroundings, and
never make the attempt. The teasher tries in
vain to secure order and attention from the
flock of hardly restrained urchins who are
longing for recess.  The trustees don't care;.
and so goes on tie school, term after term, and
year after year.
  We would have flowers and shrubs and trees
surround the intellectual nursery of -the little
ones. We would have their young eyes open
upon the beauties nf God's handiwork and
man's skill, and not school their rmnads to such
a familiarity with the grosser realities of life
as too many school houses and their surround-
ings would introduce them to.

  The raggedest boy in the street willttep tip-
toe when he enters a room where there is a
carpet, and the most uncouth urchin, is tamed
into a sort of politeness by the neatness of i
lady's parlor. 'Why not use these facts in the
management of our schools f



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  I do not remember the date if 'the batlier
that made -thls mountain memorabl%-noltk
that ~tiffd irt'v~isto.aileigfty io'; ia
interesting. I only know it was in the time of
leaves, and near the asisAeshi of the conse-
oratioh of that temple of nattyq to holiest use.
A year Of 'intense life has gone by, abd rty'
other pictures have been added to the q1lry
of memory, many other impresfionsm grewad
into the tablet of my soul; and yet, i¶ talk
d'istnce, looking out upon the hpbbub ,nd,
dust of a great city, a breath touches my cheekr
and I stand again in the dim cathedral aitlesg
of the summit of Rich Mountain.

  It is hlways interesting tO trace the la* of
associations to the results that often rseemi-
explicable; but time is everything in this cri-e
sis of life and death. Stand with me, just' O'ip
moment, beside the graves $hat have xee4,pd
no monument beyond that the God of the for-'
est and the sky has'reared. '    ' '
  There arre sixteen of them, quite aea-;tu-4
gether, ene only within the encldure of a garll
don, and all marlkpd with the nume, yegipment,
and state of the soldier boys beneathbt These'
being on W oodd rudely bdtas By ~the ji k-hkinf
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of a comrade, were even Shen, at. theleetda
the fiest year, quites indistinct, axid willtsoon
be wholly epfj'eedd.' Whait dilicefico IThe
were soldiers of ieo.American Army, and -trM
died in defence of their country. Is it M1ot4
tohave bein                or  isc.silt or.IV
Mlaine ? W hat if poi~eraty labeled'theirhs
as ha41ng  bteliud~d  lodieftrisk, erif 't foir (IetE~
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