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Show VAiiuiiir. Minn trims u cu. mciiun mm utti.MMi Till. MlL'.Mi. Till-columns of tho oMInary news-ls-r are largely devoled to don ripll ni ufirunlnal ixplolls, griat and small. Die spacv devolcl to acts of vlrlu and inirltorloiit detuls It comparatively limited. This exhibit fanilltarlrr h,i. pie with crime, Its hasct being dlslud up to tin ill at o vi ry meal. Theionw-ipience Theionw-ipience Is Inevltallit slu Ihiwiucs lest rejslve. When thu moral sriitn Is thus blunted the lullvlluat lecoinit mow liable lo wroincdoln' lu hit ov. n i-onluct. Thu ciruct Is somewhat similar to that proluced upou tint minds of tut-eptllila mid roruantlo young opIe rrom tliu nailing of dlmu novels. With a a lew to correcting this tiinlincy Mrs, (Iraut tlarled, In thu Journal ot omwri llcirjt, " Iteoord of Virtue." This lnl to tho making, by a clergyman, of an experlnieut, which was described, Under tho lie.il of "Moral Chemistry," In an article by Miss Auna (I irllu bpeucir, lu the Ik-cfmUr Ik-cfmUr Unfury, "An Eplaeo-ial minister lusl a Nun lay school cl its til 10J boys so rough and rude llu' lbs regular Sun lay school ti-aehers would have u ithlng lo tin n tin tlivul, an I turnetl them oulof tho Sunday fchnnl, It was uiun this very unproin Mug ntdtcrUl that the exier!euea of t'Moral riiettilstrl" was tried It was tnxastBl to hlltl that It might Inttrtst bit one hun Ired b 1 1 bj t In ihst pursuit, an 1 otfer pHtts to thoss w lio vould retmrt a eerialu numbsr nf iioo.1, or kin J, or uible deads willed they hal tltoiusulioi w luiested, or hr I, or raa 1 about, tela r attlieprcsonttlmsorln pstt bistort I fitl so strongly that l'n right wa to help It In present exsniiilet uf goodtiett liittvs I of ploiurhig wluko.lnt.ssn I -e, tint I think this experiment might be worth trying No s.Mntrstldthiiu dine, Tho mlnjater In qustitoo btgn ntwra, tr.loiii mjol lo wi "Iwlllbii) nil) liilln nawdi Mkt to be glvsnto the larger bni-s. In wltleli u may w lite down the Ii ! best and noblest aois Ilwy haressen or rea I In tit urt during ins ruiljaar ntrUtmxi woek I tvlll,giM a grand Uupiot. Ihe boys sh all sit d iw u lo a Tiuil an I at lit uluo n song or twn-somii bulla 1 of braio and nobli deeds khill be luiy, followed by a rraltngrif some lleblo a-, aflsr wlihh llu rian shall lie bruuilhl out nnd airar I o I tj the ftticrossrul ooinpetltor." After the Imki were purchwed lin liiHrte, In Rich a printed tllpou which were the following words: "Wrlto In this biuk the Ion kindest, noblest, nr best nets you hsvo read or beeu told, Wrlto plainly an one sldo of the paper, and as short at possible, and return Clitlttmts." Thu ex lerlmeul was Immensely successful. suc-cessful. When Uio booh came In they con'.-ilnojati Interesting collection uf i-rulsly comtrui-tod stories, Hut the tt'tcher derived almost at much ad. vantija at the scholiri fro-n tha ex-lierlmeitt. ex-lierlmeitt. The Ixiys had tent to many of their friends lo find kind nnd brave dieds In thu newtiMiir and etsewht re. tome of tha conclusions Wire aery curious. Here, for luslince, aro the entries madu by one hjy who did not till uk anything worth w hlle pulling In his book Hut hu could no', find In tho lllhlei "Jaeob wxs vor) kin 1 his brothers sold him an i lun hu brothers war In nee-lo ho took them In his liom. in.M mm bi tie iiiiu ha klllt Cloll-alhwhllatlliig Cloll-alhwhllatlliig "niwm klllal 1001 vsopt with a initio jaw tioon and ho pulled a lien Jaw Into Daniel was, a brave nun he was In by 7 Mm The sQifnjoA baothertwas brtvontid Uteri mother the were killed be thy noutl it e it pork.H The at-ond eet of boikt allowed dr-cllol dr-cllol ingress. The following wrru tha directions for the second yean "Wrlto plainly In this hook ten nf the klndi-t, bravest, anl h illicit acts yon l.iliored,stllor lieetllold. Tit design of this rampi'tltlotl Is to tenth voir to stsk f ir anl ti loaelhsl which Is kin I, genii an 1 bravo, an I to shun and hat lho things which are base, Ignobl and wrong." Miss Hpvncer, tho writer of the Vcn. lury article, tayi: "Tha second set of books It an adranco illnl tin first In iiudtrstliidlng of lit In-bittlou In-bittlou of Mr. Wlilts. In uestttsit, lu accuracy, ac-curacy, and In the proportion of thote hevluj the fill! number of Items. In some Inttsncralho'aaiit ltoya tried again, and Improviil iteeldsilly upon their origin il work, although .now lug that .they could not gttanithtr prtat. "The far gfeater number nf kind or douo by nttmhln it-op!o In eatrt lay fri-hlou whlci aro re-sirloil m the second set of books ahiw that Ih boys ba.1 at lstt understiKKl tint they were askol lu not tltat which touc'ied or might alfect their own Urea clossly, and not merely to starch history for subllino dee Is of great men. "Hie whole oolleitlon of books glisn In tills atcop 1 coutsst sh istt much moral illtcrliulnaUou, nnd nuny lueldsiits recorded re-corded lorn It u.on thnio finer and mora delkutiijslaiiymiaof kindliest and nobility nobili-ty whloh tit boya could hanlly have set it tnwh of In tholr homes. Tno prln-plo prln-plo of litis anliuo enterprlso In moral training I of universal application tho prlaclpl Ih-il attractho jioirer towards the good rather Dun repressive isiwcr towanls lit ld Is Ih mighty lever In cllaraltelullllpg, "Tho great Interest alrea ly manlfnted In litis boj s' Itecord of Virtue,' wherever llhasboen known, Justlilr this publlo recital of a most prliat and personal work.1 Perhaps tha foregoing recital will bu of aome aiilsUiica to prrsons uugaged In thu ciro an I training of t'lv jouug |
