The Daily Cairo Bulletin

THE DAILY BULLETIN.
W. C. AND L. ASSOCIATION COLUMN.
Edited in the interest of the Cairo Public Library.
MEN, WOMEN AND BOOKS.
There is not a trouble so deep and swift-running that we may not cross safely over, if we have courage to steer and strength to pull.
Wisdom and truth are immortal, but cunning and deception, the meteors of the earth, after glittering for a moment, must pass away.—Robert Hall.
The "Library" is again under many obligations to Mrs. A. B. Safford for the following valuable books sent from London: Dialogues of Plato, translated by Jewett, five volumes; Problems of Life and Mind, by G. H. Lewis, three volumes; The Physical Basis of Mind, by same, three volumes; The Study of Psychology, three volumes; same on Fragments of Science, two volumes, by Tyndall; Principles of Sociology, by Herbert Spencer.
It is to make men, not to fill them, that we want schools. Our public schools, therefore, should embrace the science of man, the science of agriculture, the science of mechanics, the science of housewifery and the moment we enter the domain of nature our range is unlimited.-William Crandle, twenty years ago.
Mrs. Harriet S. Brooks, associate editor of the Omaha Republican, has been appointed chairman of the department of botany and vegetable physiology in the Nebraska academy of sciences.
It is said that it is not possible to get five lines of authentic information concerning John Harvard, the founder of the American university which bears his name.
The meeting of the Woman's National Christian Temperance Union, which was in session during the last week in Boston, brought together a large band of noble Christian women from all sections of the country, who are throwing the great weight of their associated influence to stem the tide of evil that comes from intemperance. They plant themselves upon broad religious, moral, and intellectual grounds, and perform their great work by reformatory and educational forces, which allies them closely to the great body of American educators who are struggling to elevate the character of the young at the same time they are training the mental powers. The subjects of the addresses, reports, and discussions of this meeting were of special interest, viewed from the educational standpoint, such as Temperance literature, temperance in the schools, juvenile work, etc., the consideration of which will result in much good to the community. The influence of this organization has already been powerfully felt; hundreds of devoted Christian women are enlisted in its service, conspicuous among whom is the mistress of the white house, who for nearly four years has, by her example and steadfast temperance convictions, elevated the social standard of the capital of the nation to a degree unknown for many years.
Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, of Boston, made an able report in behalf of the committee on temperance in schools and colleges. She related how the work of temperance reform had grown from its beginning, which were efforts to reclaim individual drunkards, to a broader scope of work of a preventive nature, and announced that a felt want in the shape of a text-book for the common schools had been provided for by a book, entitled Alcohol and Hygiene, by Mrs. Julia Coleman which has been just published.
Wishing these women abundant success, and bidding them God-speed in every good endeavor to lessen the sin and misery that curses the world through intemperance, we append the resolutions bearing especially upon the educational phase of the work, which were presented by Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, and adopted by the Union:
"Since power to mould our public educational systems and institutions may be turned to excellent account in the temperance reform, by securing the scientific instruction of children and young men and women as to the value and necessity of total abstinence, we hereby pledge ourselves as temperance women to use the educational ballot for this purpose in all those states in which it has been granted"
"We will petition the secretary of the interior to secure to the pupils of Indian schools a thorough education in scientific temperance. We will urge the same upon all organizations formed for the education of colored people, and upon those instructed with the management of the reform and industrial schools."-National School Journal.
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