CARTER COUNTY, TN - SCHOOLS - Abstract, Milligan Mentor, Vol II, No. 1 June 1884 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Cindy McCachern McCachern@worldnet.att.net ==================================================================== From the Milligan Mentor, Vol II, No. 1, Milligan College, Cave Spring, Tenn., June 1884, J. Hopwood, Editor and Publisher, 40 cents a year COMMENCEMENT NOTES Commencement, the week both longed for and dreaded, came and passed off most pleasantly. The old school year died on Thursday, May 13th. When train-time drew near a large procession of students and friends went to the depot and when the steam whistle called the time for good'bye's, many eyes were bathed in tears that were used only to smiles. May that band of students and teachers who spent the years so pleasantly together be united in that land where goodbye is never said. Tuesday May 6 was Prof Epps' day for call examinations, Wednesday, Prof. Tate's; Thursday, Prof. Kite's; Friday A. M., Pres. Hopwood and Prof. Christie; Friday p.m., Primary Department Examinations. If any who were absent wish to know of the comparative interest of those days let him come next year spend a week, visit every exercise and judge for himself. The "Annual Address" by Prof. Jones of Mossy Creek, "Drones and Workers," was a fitting benediction for the year's work. Let each student, whether he return to college halls or goes on to the world's harvest, determine to be a working-bee and not a drone in the hive. The "Address" was unique and elegant, thoroughly practical. An audience at this place has seldom, if at any time enjoyed a healthier interest on such an occasion. DANGER IN SMOKE The Kansas City Times, commenting on Congressman Haskell's death, says things worthy to be read and thought of. How long will sensible, decent men, allow themselves and their children to be enslaved by a habit so expensive, filthy, and to most constitutions, so dangerous and unhealthy? But hear the Times: "Mr. Haskell died from two causes only. First, over work; second, over smoke. He ought to have lived; he might have lived, with reasonable husbandry of his resources, until seventy-five or eighty years would have still found him in the harness. He delighted in physical exercise and had tremendous muscular powers, until within a few years, hard work, broke him down and cruelly, wantonly, wasted his energies. At the early age of 41 he died a victim to the two causes named above. During the long hours of the night that he devoted to the study of industral questions he was an invveterate and constant smoker. Even during the sessions of the House he persisted in his "day smoke" and the inevitable chewing of the stump of the cigar. Scheyler Colfax would have been in his grave years ago if he had not stopped smoking. He was on the point of breaking down, when he listened to wise counsel and threw away the cigar. And Stephen A. Douglas robbed the world of twenty years of his labor by inattention to the laws of health; in a word, by intemperate habits. And many a youth of today will sink into a early grave after a useless life, by reason of the abominable practice of smoking cigarettes, even as many have gone already. But words of warning will do no good to such. Smoke has a terrible power to burn the sensibilities, as it manifested in the selfishness of smokers, who seem to have no manner of regard fomr the feelings of others, but remorelessly puff the nauseating fumes into the faces of men, women and innocent children. We have known husbands and others, who pretended to have such affection for their families, who would persist in smoking a dirty pipe in the room where a wife or child was suffering with diseases! Such conduct is worthy only of barbarians. If their sensibilities could be aroused we would that some of them could see these words, and be led to consider the crime which they are committing. Articles of interest in this issue include: MARRIAGE The following is part of a letter written to a well-loved neice, Miss Maggie Frame, of Bethlehem, Iowa, who is now Mrs. Kneeland, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. GAMBLING by S. R. Callison, Camden, Ill. Morgan (My horse) FACTORS OF A PROGRESSIVE SCHOOL A TRIP TO BUFFALO MOUNTAIN by James B. Lyon, Milligan College, April 30, 1884 SCOTCH SNUFF OUR FATHER AND HIS CHILDREN ALCOHOL THROWING DICE FOR SODA WATER LOCALS Sale of Geo. D. Williams estate passed of quietly. Heirs bought most of the lands, not all however. A cool season in our Alleghany country. Harvest a few days later than usual. The farmers ought to raise more orchard grass in this country. We are sorry not to publish Prof. Jones "Annual Address." It is too long for us and too good to be lost. Our readers shall yet have a part of it. One man at the last Milligan commencement scattered the measles over three or four States, and they are still spreading. This disease and leprosy are somewhat alike. Leprosy is a type of sin. Two daily trains each way on the E.T. & W. N. C. R. R. now. See the time table. Ye sight-seers will rarely find more daring and romantic sights in this world than between here and Cranberry, N. C., thirty miles away. Prof. James A. Tate has gone to Lexington, Ky., Lebanon and Cincinnati, Ohio. His hopes and joys seem full as mortals can often become. The other teachers are all enjoying the sweets of home.