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I have recently taken a survey of the localities spoken of above and I find a better look. Seventeen of these places are practically closed, and all but four of the others claim they sell nothing stronger than three per cent. beer. The four seem to be determined to defy the law. Some of the individuals form- erly selling liquor have removed from the town, while others are earning a living by pursuing lawful occupations.
I have found the less than three per cent. beer one of the worst features of the present law. I have known cases of in- toxication from the use of the so-called weak-beer. The keep- ing for sale of three per cent. beer is used, in some cases, as a cloak for some stronger beverage, and I have taken in a num- ber of instances, samples of beer claimed to be under three per cent. which have analyzed quite a per cent. above. I have had
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forty-two samples of beer analyzed, which have been taken from dealers in this town, most of them stronger than the law allowed.
I have sworn out sixty search warrants, most of them hav- ing been served.
Twenty-eight seizures have been made and prosecuted, and twenty-four of them confiscated. Three of the seizures proved to be beer containing less than three per cent. of alcohol, and were returned. One was of liquors claimed for family pur- poses and was also returned. Three seizures have been made from teams while transporting or delivering beer. These seiz- ures were confiscated without opposition.
The liquors confiscated have been sent to the State authori- ties, and were a various assortment aggregating about three hundred gallons. I have brought eighteen cases before the lower court where conviction has been secured ; three of them paid fines and costs, two went to jail and thirteen appealed to the Superior Court. Seven of the appealed cases were suc- cessfully prosecuted, and paid the county for their misde- meanor, while three were given to the defendants, and three withdrawn.
There are four cases pending which will come up at the April term, and others to be prosecuted. Of four cases where warrants were sworn out for the arrest of parties for illegal sale or keeping of liquors, all left the State before arrest could be made ; one man came back after two months and was pros- ecuted, while three are still pending.
There are some cases where the second offence might have been brought, but it was thought best to take the word of the parties and let them reform without further prosecution. I would say, however, that those cases are still in abeyance and if found illegally dispensing intoxicants, action will be taken against them.
In the work of getting evidence it was thought best to em- ploy outside men for the purpose of getting sales, and four different men were so employed with comparatively good re- sults. The rumseller cries out against the employment of de- tectives claiming that it is unfair, and even the lawyers whom
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they employ to defend themselves endeavor in every way pos- sible to belittle honest evidence from whatever source. Men having been treated with liquor and robbed of their money and possessions, will yet go into court and perjure themselves to protect the scoundrels who have debased them.
I have never caused a search of premises without satisfac- tory evidence that liquors were illegally kept thereon, and in many cases have procured a sample of the liquors they were selling before the warrants were issued.
The parties who have caused the most trouble in this town are the wholesale liquor dealers of Milford. They defy the laws of the Commonwealth and the regulations of the town with impunity. They send their whiskey and strong beer into town in the night, while their weaker drinks are sent in dur- ing the day.
If our town was properly guarded by night with police whose duty it was to report to the proper authorities all irreg- ularities and unlawful deliveries of liquor which came under his or their notice, the night deliveries could be stopped or made so expensive it would not pay them to continue the traffic.
I would recommend that every man coming on to the street drunk or disturbing the peace be summarily dealt with and made to suffer the full penalty of the law. If this should be done drunkenness would be less frequent on our streets.
I have visited a few of the families in town who are cursed by rum and rumsellers and they, without exception, hope the no license policy of the town will be continued.
There is one matter I must speak of before I close this re- port that is quite important to the town ; that is, the difficulty in finding a Trial Justice. I have had cases where it was necessary to get warrants quickly, and in nearly all those cases, after a vain search for the Trial Justice here, I had to go either to Wrentham or Bellingham. I now take nearly all my cases to Wrentham. If there could be a Trial Justice who would have one day every week when he could surely be found, it would remedy the difficulty greatly and also save expense.
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I give below the financial report of my work from April 1, 1886, to Feb. 1, 1887, ten months inclusive :
Received from the Town Treasurer,
$1,157 38
Court, 131 91
Total,
$1,289 29 Paid services and expenses of detectives, $661 35
for teams, travel, blanks, etc., 180 71
services of self, 447 23
- $1,289 29
All of which is respectfully submitted.
AARON R. MORSE, Special Police.
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VITAL STATISTICS.
BIRTHS REGISTERED IN FRANKLIN IN THE YEAR 1886.
DATE. 1836
NAME OF CHILD.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
Jan S Etta May Wilson
8 Ida Agusta Vandalen
10 Ruby Pearl Redpath
66 28 Evelyn Barro
Feb. 7 Nina Ada Smith
10 Agnes Richmond Furgeson
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15 George Calvin Hurd
66 23 Earle Francis Austin
Mar. 4 Mabel May McDougall
66 10 Anna Louise Taft
11 Ada Maria Desper
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22 Elliott Heywood Barrett
April 7 McCarty
66 13 George Henry Snow
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27 Sire Wellington McManus
66 29 Robert E. Russell
May 4 Elsie Louise Snow
7 Ada Hamilton
66
11 George W. Skuse
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14 Anna Burley Clark
. 6 15 Harriet May Briggs
66 19 Wilfred Boucher
66 20 Mark Hobson Greene
23 Andrew Albert Curry
24 Charles Edward Nelson
25 Elsie Merritt Crowninshield
June 5 Elizabeth Callahan 66 7 Charles Thurston Nye 66 7- Canty 66 7 Leroy Leslie Woodman
21 Margaret Ann Cody
21 Eva Estelle Merryfield
22 Annie Louise Weeks
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23 Albert James Pettison
July 2 Clifford
66 10 Arthur Besso
11 Ann Cora Robetaille
66 11 Alice Elizabeth Bernard
60 15 Thomas Anderson
66 15 Francis McCarty
60 19 Peter Walter Laundre
.6 21 Rosie Raymond
66 25 Frank Albert Richards
66 26 Rosa May Ledbury
66 31 Margaret Ellen Donovan
Aug. 3 Harold Eastman
A. W. and Clara E. Wilson Chas. D. and Nellie S. Vandalen Andrew and Euda V. Redpath Clem and Emma Barro James A. and Minnie Smith James and Mary Furgeson Calvin M. and Rebecca A. Hurd William H. and Emily F. Austin Win. and Catherine McDougall Daniel W. and Millie H. Taft James and Hattie R. Desper S. H. and Annie L. Barrett Daniel and - McCarty Frank and Eliza Snow
Bernard and Hannah McManus Chris. R. and Mary L. Russell Herbert C. and Katie L. Snow Agustus and Katie Hamilton John and Joanna Skuse Joseph E. and Flora B. Clark Hiram E. and Adeline N.Briggs Agustus and Celina Boucher Lewis A. and Rose A. Greene Andrew and Katie L. Curry William and Esta A. Nelson W. E. and A. H. Crowninshield Edward and - Callahan Chas. F. and Idella M. Nye William H. and Winfred Canty Frank and Maria L. Woodman William G. and Nora Cody N. R. and Cora E. Merryfield Leander E. and Sarah J. Weeks A. J. and Bridget D. Pettison Arthur M. and Nellie T. Clifford Lewis and Mary Besso Francis and Julia Robetaille Alfred and Jane E. Bernard Timothy and Helen A. Anderson Jeremiah and Jennie McCarty Adam and Nora Laundre Joseph and Josephine Raymond George C. and Lizzie Richards Henry and Mary L. Ledbury James and Ellen Donovan Geo. W. and Annie E. Eastman
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DATE. 1886
NAME OF CHILD.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
Aug. 6 Florence Agusta Gay
7 William Alexander Peden
11 John William Savage
14 George Albert Kavanaugh
66 20 -- Hunter
66 20 Edith Minnie Richardson
66 23 Myra Louise Osgood
- 28 Mabelle Adeline Nye
Sept. 6 Jessie Mckinnon
66 10 Grace Abby Knowlton
13 Randolph Arthur Spear
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22 Harry Leroy Newell
23 Ethel Fiske
66 26 Inva Ginnis
27 Frederick Henry Fiske
Oct. 3 Katie Geraldine Desmond 5 - Ross
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13 Karl Linton Souther
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14 Sarah Gertrude Conroy
15 Charles Raymond Stowers
66 27 George Frederick Boulton
Nov. 5 William Francis Fealy
N. A. and Emma M. Daniels .. 6 Frank Jefferson Daniels 22 Blanche Helena Lutie Adams John H. and Grace A. Adams
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24 George William Nickerson
6.
26 Daniel Francis Coughlin
66 28 Inez Belva Loveless
Dec. 3 Francis Edward Gillaney 5 John McGlory
7|Edward James Ledbury
12 Bessie Ormsbie Ross
66 13|Eva May Cody
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13 Nathan Sanford Wales
66 13 Grace Degan
66 22 Lillian Morrissey
66 26 Lillian May McConkey
27 Anna Agusta Kennedy
Oliver D. and Lucy E. Gay John and Elizabeth Peden Michael and Mary Savage Geo. and Elizabeth Kavanaugh Martin and Mary Hunter S. W. and Dora Richardson Frank M. and Emma L. Osgood Perry A. and Effie L. Nye M. A. and Mary J. Mckinnon Wm H. and Ellen L. Knowlton George W. and Emma C. Spear Reed C. and Maria Newell Elbridge G. and Nellie Fiske Simeon and Phebe Ginnis Samuel W. and Lizzie M. Fiske James W. and Flora A.Desmond James and Catherine Ross James and Lizzie Souther Matthew and Mary E. Conroy H. M. and Elizabeth E. Stowers Geo. A. and Jennie H. Boulton Dennis and Julia Fealy
George N. and Lizzie Nickerson D. M. and Mary J. Coughlin C. E. and Dora F. Loveless James and Mary Gillaney Cornelius and Bridget McGlory John and Maria A. Ledbury O. E. and Bessie E. Ross Wm. H. and Catherine Cody A. Sanford and Sarah L. Wales Edward P. and Mary Degan Jas. A. and Margaret Morrissey John and Sabina E. McConkey John and Ellen Kennedy
Males, 39 ; Females, 44. Total number. 83.
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MARRIAGES RECORDED IN FRANKLIN IN 1886.
DATE.
NAMES OF PARTIES.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
Jan.
1 Edwin G Fisher Eleanor P Mayshaw
20 Luther and Susan E Fisher
20 Henry N and Ellen B Mayshaw
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17 James B Brogan Bridget McGlory
25 James B and Maggie Brogan 22 James and Bessie McGlory
" 18 James F Gillaney Mary A Mitchell
24 John and Ann Gillaney 21 John and Catherine Mitchell
28 George W and Ellen E Dean
21 Alvin W and Maria L Phillips
39 Jacob M and Elizabeth Loveless
22 Nathan and Mattie Montgomery
30 Jeremiah and Catherine Desmond 24 Mowry and Sophronia Young
18 Francis H Gilmore Mary McKenna
26 John and Elizabeth Gilmore
23 Edward and Ellen McKenna
66 23 William Henry Bow Mary E Hayes
22 Edward and Margaret Bow
22 Thomas and Catherine Hayes
Mar. 1 Henry Watkins Ida E Blake
44 Emery and Emily Watkins
32 Jeremiah D and Nancy M Blake
". 24 James A Metcalf Ida A Brown
25 Silas H and Rebecca Metcalf 24 Sumner and Ruth Brown
" 27 John H Adams Gracie A Bodge
28 Asa and Olive Adams 16 Rufus R and Sarah Bodge
Apr. 21 James H Donnelly Isabella M Carr
26 Peter and Bridget Donnelly 24 James and Isabella Carr
" 24 Edwin H Ellis Mary A Gilmore
26 Theophilus N and Betsy A Ellis
25 Osman B and Susan C Gilmore
" 29 Frank E Willard Alice M Adams
20 Ashbel and Harriet Willard
17 Albert M and Ellen Adams
31 Michael and Margaret Smith 23 Michael and Mary Cavanaugh
16 William O Rhodes Lizzie B Adams
68 John and Anna Rhodes 50 John and Betsey Drake
23 William E Clark Sarah J Styrns
29 William S and Ellen Clark 22 John and Elizabeth Styrns
66 28 Edgar C Dean Carrie M B Phillips
Feb. 9 James F Loveless Ada Montgomery
" 13 James W Desmond Flora A Young
| AGE.
June. 1 John Smith Ellen Cavanaugh
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DATE.
NAMES OF PARTIES.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
44 Luther and Mary Tracy
19 Thaddeus M and Hattie Turner
20 Daniel J and Emma Akley 16|David and Sarah Owen
80 Simeon and Sarah Lesure
61 James and Maria Bosworth
23 Joshua P and Caroline Hill
|21 Theodore and Anna Rutherford
24 James and Julia Connors 23 William and Mary Dorington
24 George P and Nellie Woodbury
22 Joseph G and Mary Hills
29|Chas Edward Loveless 19 Jacob and Elizabeth Loveless Dora FrancesStratton 15 John F and Susan E Stratton
Oct. 4 John Albert Waterman Grace G Carpenter
12 James B Mckinnon Maggie G Ford
24 Daniel and Betsey Mckinnon
23 Michael and Nora Ford
34 David and Ann Murray
17 Dennis and Ann Dowling
30 George Smith Hannah H Martin
" 31 James Carroll Anna Tubbs
44 Henry and Ann Carroll 46 Robert and Mattie McNutt
“ 31 George Patrick Keefe Annie Elizabeth Kelley 21
24 William and Mary Keefe Martin and Sarah E Kelley
37 Mack and Abbie Miller
28 Horace M and Sarah M Gowen
John S McConkey Sabina E Costello
21 Alexander and Hannah McConkey 18 Patrick and Annie Costello
66 25 Albert Wheaton Gould 27 Mira Bell Dickey
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William H and Nancy Gould George A and Emma S Dickey
" 25 Henry Earle Eliza Ambler
62 William and Sophia Earle 38 John and Zelia Ambler
26 George B Mohr Catherine Coakley
26 George W and Elizabeth Mohr 25 Matthew and Agnes Coakley
£ | AGE.
June 30 James W Tracy H Mabelle Turner
July 15 Fred S Akley Sarah Owen
Aug.30 Simeon Lesure Julia A Greene
Sept.15 Charles Francis Hill Frances F Rutherford
" 27 James Henry Connors Jennie L Dorington
" 29 Armory T Woodbury Jennie G Hills
21 John and Charlotte Waterman 21 Byron and Jane Carpenter
66 26 Thomas Paul Murray Sarah Ann F Dowling
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31 George and Hannah Smith Frederick and Esther Hawver
Nov. 1 John Wilson Miller Ellen Estelle Gowen
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DATE.
NAMES OF PARTIES.
Nov. 27 Isaac W Geer Julia F Adams
" 28|Henry D Barrett Winona E Barnes
Dec. 7 George S Bent Avis Jacobs
66 24 |William H Collins Anna McDonnell
“ 27 Oliver L Perron Lena George
" 30 Joseph Fletcher Bent Elizabeth Harris
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NAMES OF PARENTS.
57 Isaac and Experience Geer 43 James and Caroline Adams
34 Leander and Hannah Barrett 24 James F and Lucy M Barnes
24 Roswell and Ann Bent 24 Joseph C and Sarah A Jacobs
24 Patrick and Margaret Collins 21 |Patrick and Mary McDonnell
25 Frank and Isabelle Perron
24 Peter and Margaret George
48 Warren and Frances Bent 32 Henry C and Mary A Harris
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DEATHS RECORDED IN FRANKLIN IN 1886.
DATE.
NAME OF PERSON.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Y.M.D
Oct. 22, '85
Ellen Francis Adams
Marasmus
1 0 22
Jan. 3, 1886
John Brown
Broncho pneumonia.
10
Charles F Lesure
Hepatitis. 16 5 17
15
Clarissa W Hartwell.
Pneumonia notha. 81 11 23
66
16
James Adams
Gangrene of lungs
75 6 11
Huphysenea of lungs
70
February 10
12 William J Moore
Congestino-pneumoni
4 10 -
March
2 Elizabeth Dolan
Fibroid Phthisis
55 -
60
9
Laura H Crosby
Paralysis of heart
48
4 -
66
14 James S Corbett
Pleuritis apoplexia.
69
9
66
19 Harriet H Tourtellott
Chronic Diarrhea
67 10 -
Congestion of lungs
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10 125
Old age
93
7 14
Old age .
78
1 5
April 9 Huldah D Willams
Apoplexv
64
4 -
Phthisic.
32
5
Ovarian tumor
63
9
Cancer ..
59
6.
3 Joseph Belleville.
Pulmonary consumption
23
-
11
John B Whiting
Consumption
60
16
James Fisher ..
Old age, asthma
92
9 5
66
1S
Henry E Pond.
Acute phthisic .
62
8 6
66
28 Bridget Sullivan
June
1 Laura E Balcom
Cerebro-spinal-meningitis
20
9
6
4
Adeline L Faxon
Heart disease
19
9
66
11 Frederick L Barrows
Consumption .
36
July 12
Robert E Russell.
Cholera-infantum.
1
3 15
66
27 Arthur Brueso
Anemia
17
66
28 Joanna M Pond.
Paralysis
87
6
Phthisis.
76
3 -
Cholera-infantum
1
1
66
6 Mary C Miller
Phthisic.
70
66
30
Eleen Gowing.
Pneumonia
75
27
66
31 Hugh McCloskey
Railroad accident .
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Septem.
4 Ada Hamilton .
Marasmus convulsions
4
66
5 Joseph Hood ..
Railroad accident . .
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9
6 Horatio E Woolford.
Meningitis
S 26
Consumption
28
4 23
1
John Gallagher
Pneumonia
38
4 -
66
15
Galen P Williams
Old age
13
2 13
66
25
William E Grant.
Consumption.
10 -
Suicide by hanging ..
27 -
October 5
- Ross
Stillborn
-
6
Adin D Sargent
Ramolisement
66 1
Typhoid fever
19 - 1
Dropsy
29
10 15
Old age
93 2
1 -
Novem.
4 Amelia Isadore Armstrong.
Congestion of lungs
4
1
..
5
Peacy B Nason .
Old age, pneumonia.
83
8119
Menseutric tuberculosis
13
-
6
16
Waldo Daniels
Recto-vesical-fistula.
59 3 11
66
1S Gertrude Anderson
Marasmus.
1
4 -
Decem, 10
Thurston Ballou
Old age
84 - 11
66
18 Mary E Bright ..
Carcinoma
41 10 18
66
19 Mary S Emerson
Cancer
64
3
66
23 Julia Murphy
Phthisic.
55
24 Mary Joslin ..
Pneumonia.
30 6
29| Cecily H McKinnon
Acute bronchitis
4
17
Job Greene ....
Heart disease.
81 4
21 Blanche Avery
22
Anna Hills .
Paralytic Mania.
52
1
Pulmonary congestion
88
9
Heart dilation.
23 Rabenia B Belleville.
Consumption.
26
12
26
Frank L Finegan
Diarrhea
1
20
29
Hiram W Simpson
31 Rennie Brien ..
Congestion of brain
August 4 Eliab B Blake
66
15
Mary Elizabeth Granger.
15
Sarah L Chilson
31
Samuel Cook
31 George A Drew.
Paralysis
75
20 Addie C Enegren
Meningitis.
1
-
Females, 34 ; Males, 35.
Total number, 69.
1
30 Mary J Dana .. Hannah P Simonds
Old Age
84 7 18
66
225 Arnold J Newell.
16 Patrick F Murphy
29 Clara B F Coombs
May 3| Martha Wrightington
25 Sally B Allen
64
20 John B Sharon, Jr ..
Cholera-infantum ..
31 Dennis Brogan
Typhoid fever.
8 Nellie J Murphy ..
28 Edwin B Moses
6 Nellie L Hawes
Albert H Staples
AGE.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF FRANKLIN
FOR THE YEAR 1886-7.
FRANKLIN: SENTINEL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1887.
REPORT.
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In compliance with statute demands we turn to the annual duty of reporting the present condition of our schools. The work accomplished therein during the present year, also some suggestions which we think necessary to be carried out in the coming year in order to reap the full advantages of the possi- bilities placed before us. Our report of the school year must necessarily be imperfect and incomplete in many respects, as the vote of the town compels us to incorporate it with the town report which is for the fiscal year from February first to January thirty-first inclusive, while the school year is from April first to March thirty-first, inclusive. Under this system all moneys paid out by the Treasurer, whether for teaching, fuel, or other expenditures, from February to February must be placed to this year's account, when in point of fact five hundred dollars or more of that amount may have actually accrued in the last month of the preceding year, but the bills not being rendered till after the close of the fiscal year must necessarily be charged to the present. At the same time our State returns will be precisely what we expend during the school year. To illustrate : Last year we had thirty-five weeks of school in each and all (High and Grammar excepted) ; this year we intend only thirty-four weeks, still it is quite possible that the bills rendered in 1886 may exceed those of 1885, or by delay in presentation may pass over into 1887, showing a less amount this year than we have really expended. In either case there will be an apparent conflict in town report and State returns ; besides, it requires no small amount of extra time and labor to report in February and to amend that report or substitute another in April. Neither can we see any financial knowledge obtained through the Committee's report of the fis- cal year as the Auditor's report to the town shows what has
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been paid out during the year and for what purposes. Why not then so change the vote of the town that the Committee may make a complete report of all things pertaining to the school year at its close, when they must prepare the State re- turns. That we may have an accurate report of each year's expenditures, of the labor performed and the final results as to average attendance and cost per scholar, we recommend that you so change the vote at the coming annual meeting. With these remarks we turn our attention to the interior con- dition of our schools.
In teachers we have had three or four changes during the year, but with one exception, at the request of the teachers. Change for experiment or to gratify an unfounded prejudice on the part of a small number of parents, or even that a teacher may better her condition financially seldom betters the condi- tion of the school. There is so much to learn on the part of the new teacher as to the natural capabilities and dipositions on the part of her pupils that much valuable time is spent and many a wearying effort made by the thoughtful and judicious teacher in taking her new charge, that sometimes a whole term passes in securing that peculiar atmosphere in the school room which conduces most to the mental and moral well-being of the school. Progress in these essentials is absolutely neces- sary to the make-up of a good school, and as no stranger, how- ever good or gifted, can at once fill a mother's place, so must confidence and respect be first established between teacher and pupil before that teacher is fully prepared to develope and ex- pand the intellectual and moral elements of the children under her charge. The teacher, for the time being, assumes the pa- rents' prerogative and is entitled to all the rights and privileges that will enable her to exercise parental care and authority over the children under her charge. These rights and privileges have their corresponding demands and responsibilities on the part of the teacher, namely : that she so governs self and selfish purposes in her instruction and discipline that every effort shall be for the true elevation of the pupils. Now, the question comes home to us as parents and patrons of the school, Have we anything to do with the teacher's preparation or in impart-
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ing new strength and hopes to her in the discharge of that la- bor from which we and our children are the true beneficiaries ? Or putting the question in another form. Do we not sometimes paralyze the best efforts of the teacher by inculcating a want of confidence and love in the child heart by some careless or cruel word in relation to her discipline and school work? Does it make no difference in the thoughts of the child towards its teacher when it has been corrected whether the parent flies into a passion and upbraids the teacher as a criminal, or asks the child in a kind spirit, If you had so disobeyed mother at home would she not have punished you? Let us try to be con- siderate in this important matter. There is nothing which so encourages and strengthens a teacher in school work as the hearty co-operation of the parents. Nothing which ren- ders discipline so perfect and pleasant and at the same time the schoolroom a delightful temporary home to the child while he is happily engaged in developing those powers and faculties that shall help to make the future history of the world's pro- gress. The discipline of school and home have more to do with moulding the destiny of a republic than any other two combined factors. It is in these dearest places of earth the foundations are laid. 'Tis here the structure of love and obe- dience to every law of right and duty should be so built up and strengthened in the child-mind that it shall become a part of his being so that when he comes to be a factor in the nation's impulses and inspirations his breathing shall be pure and obe- dient to the law of progress in all that pertains to individual or national prosperity. We are happy in the conviction that in the majority of our schools the teachers keep in remem- brance the force of example and do, by deed and precept, so discipline their pupils, not only in moral obedience but in the studies in which they are engaged, as to command the respect and co-operation of every well wisher to the cause of human progress. Still we have some teachers that are apt in teaching and explaining the lessons and principles of mere book knowl- edge that would add much to their efficiency and usefulness by a few thoughtful lessons in self-discipline. Self-government first ; then and only then are we prepared, wisely and prudent-
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ly, to correct our pupils. That hastily spoken sarcastic word which emenates from our lowest self, or that blow struck in spiteful anger, leaves a sting of its own nature. It may sub- due but not reform ; while it is quite possible that a word, more ominous if fitly spoken, may reach the heart and its settings be like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Nor is it certain that scholars are not sometimes healed with stripes, but if admin- istered the child should know by our manner that we so cor- rect because we believe it necessary to his reformation.
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.
During the first term the attendance was very good, filling our school rooms to repletion, and the progress in studies was all that could reasonably be expected considering the crowded condition of the school rooms. Teachers and scholars vied with each other to see which could show the best results at the annual examination in June. Teachers being encouraged by the almost constant presence of all their scholars experienced an interest in their work that rose above bodily fatigue, being sustained by a corresponding interest on the part of their pu- pils. It would be invidious to draw comparisons when all accomplished so much and did it so well. The result was what naturally follows the cordial co-operation of parents and scholars with the teacher in her efforts for improvement, one of the most successful terms it has ever been our pleasure to record in town. Of the second and third terms truth compels a report of a different cast, however unpleasant to hear or read. During the summer vacation every needed facility for school- rooms heretofore existing was supplied for all but the Inter- mediate. The same faithful teachers in their former positions but not all the scholars they had reason to hope to meet, and many that were there only temporarily and at the best with a divided interest. The factory, canning shop and cranberry meadow seemed first in their thoughts and found expression in : " I shall be fourteen soon then I shall go to the mill ; I have been to school more than twenty weeks this year, and shall get a certificate and go to picking cranberries as soon as they be- gin to pick." These and like expressions were presented to
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