have received in doing family chores. He did a good moral work no doubt but it is not all he should have done for himself.

Manual training is the best moral training in the world. The boy who goes into schools and learns to touch things with no talk of morals learns accuracy without his own knowledge, and this law of accuracy or obedience is inexorable. It brings him to know the law of material things. He must go to it as it will not come to him. When the manual training system comes into all the schools I shall be thankful. The professions allow too much inaccuracy.

Goethe truly said that self-consciousness is sickness. I want to see how we can get absolutely free from self-consciousness in morals. I think my mother taught me more benevolence by far, by sending me off to some poor creature with a kindness than she would have done by lecturing to me about the sweet fruits of charity. The philosophy of morals has much to do with children. Can you imagine that the advice of a father, with a cigar in his mouth, advising his son not to smoke would have very much weight? There is too much of this sort of precept.

J. WILLIAMS THORNE: This is one of the most important questions we will ever be likely to have before us. The King of Sparta was once asked what a boy should learn, and his reply was "That which he expects to practice when he becomes a man." Example is far better than precept and the example set outside of the schoolroom will be far more convincing to the child than the teaching within it. We must learn to excel in little things. If we could all be Miltons or Newtons we would be of as little use as any nation on the face of the globe. We should stop spending so many millions for the teaching of things we do not need to learn, and which we should not teach. The schools are only teaching the A. B. C. of the practical experiences of life.

In the early days of this century there were no women teachers and not until the latter part of the last century were they sent to school. Even Milton one of the most important

men of the times thought it unnecessary to teach them to write their own language.

Upon being put to vote the resolution was unanimously adopted.

The resolution on Finance was again read and the question placed before the house. The discussion was opened by LUNDY KENT.

Our government has made but little advancement in the right direction recently. In 1864-5-6 we created a national debt of nearly $3,000,000,000. We have already cancelled two-thirds of it, but it will take more of the real sinew of the country to pay the remaining one-third than it would have taken to pay it all at the time the debt was created. The cause of this is that the purchasing power of the dollar has been changed and also the circulation has been seriously decreased. In 1866 with a population of 35,000,000 we had a circulation of $2,000,000,000 while at present with a population of over 60,000,000 our circulating medium has been reduced to $1,600,000,000. Thus you see money is scarcer and the purchasing conditions have been changed. This condition of affairs renders it much more difficult for the poorer classes to gain property.

Although at our National Election last fall this question was one of the most weighty to be decided yet it was scarcely, mentioned by our political speakers. The shortage of money is increased by the speculators who lock it up as much as possible, thus compelling the poor farmers who must have money to sacrifice their products at prices fixed by the dealers.

The remedy for this state of affairs is to let more money come into our circulation.

Wendell Phillips once said and truthfully I believe that a dozen men in New York could have forced a panic upon the country which would have ruined two-thirds of the manufacturing plants. Abraham Lincoln in the midst of a great defeat said he did not fear the issue of the war, but he feared far more some other issues which may come upon us.

A vast worth of this country has been sold to England

for one-half the value it should have brought us. We want an increased circulation and if we had silver back again I think it would be far better for us. England furnishes working capital for 2 per cent. while we want 6 per cent. Thus England gains control of our industries.

JESSE P. HANNUM asked the speaker how the general public would obtain possession of this money should it be placed in circulation.

MR. KENT: The government might construct highways, public buildings and postoffices. Thus the money would get out.

MR. HANNUM thought it would be unwise for the government to coin the money and then contrive ways of spending it. By our prescnt banking methods it is not necessary to handle nearly so much money as before the system became established.

S. P. ROBERTS, Philadelphia: This question is closely connected with that of education. It is a notty problem and various theories are advanced for its solution. It is self-evident that we need more money. The legitimate use of money is as a circulating medium, and not for investment. As a rule the whole scheme of Americans is to gain money. This is where the trouble is. Suppose all the money earned were as promptly spent, then we should constantly have it with which to carry on improvements, etc. When the principle of love comes to rule the Universe we will not have this difficulty, for then those who have plenty will want to use that plenty for the benefit of others.

Life, Love and Wisdom are the attributes expressed in the human soul, and we are all coming to recognize them. Let us grow out of the thought of hoarding. Nature is so prolific

that we cannot want.

As the hour for the noon intermission had arrived it was decided to lay the resolution upon the table until the opening of the afternoon session when its further consideration would be taken up.

For the benefit of those not familiar with it WILLIAM

KENT read the preamble and by-laws of the Longwood Financial Association. WILLIAM KENT moved that the chair appoint a committee of five to solicit subscriptions to this financial association. The motion was carried and accordingly the following committee was appointed to act in that capacity:

WILLIAM KENT, SALLIE S. TAYLOR, SALLIE P. MARSHALL, JOSIAH PYLE and KATHERINE HANNUM. The meeting then adjourned until 2 p. m.

SEVENTH-DAY,-Afternoon Session.

When the session opened promptly at 2 o'clock, there was a larger attendance than at any previous session. The audience joined the Swayne Family in singing a hymn.

The committee appointed to audit the treasurer's account, reported that after examining the report they had found it to be correct with a balance in the treasurer's hands of 22 cents. SAMUEL PENNOCK asked if it would not be well to have bondsmen appointed, as it seemed a very large sum to trust in the hands ot any one man.

The report of the memorial committee was then called for. PATIENCE W. KENT read the following memorial to CASTNER HANWAY.

CASTNER HANWAY.

One week ago the earthly form of Castner Hanway was laid in yonder cemetery. A quiet, unobtrusive man, he gave no token that his name was one to conjure newspaper notoriety or stir the wrathful vengeance of the baffled slave-power, as it did at one time. Yet in him was "the stuff" of which heroes are made. He "stood by his colors," when that was all

he could do.

When slavery, to save itself by enlarging its territory, had deluded the American people into compromises with evil; into the Mexican war; had attempted to broaden its boundaries northward through Kansas with ill success, in mortal fear it dictated the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850, making slave hunters of the northern people and all the northern states its hunting ground.

Then the slaves poured northward in numbers greater than hitherto by dozens and by scores. The slave-holder, armed with this new authority, grew bolder. The fugitives, in certain localities, combined to defy the pursuer on American soil instead of fleeing far away to the severer climate of the British Provinces.

Christiana, Lancaster county, Pa., became such a centre. The presence in that region of a large number of anti-slavery Friends made it possible for them to stay there, in a degree of security impossible under different conditions. There Castner Hanway was living in 1851 when a slave-hunting raid was made on the home of an intelligent colored man, in that vicinity, named William Parker. Elijah Lewis and Joseph Scarlett, residing in the neighborhood, hearing of the fact, went to the place to help if needed. Lewis, on his way, called on Castner Hanway with the information, asking if he would go, and passed on. Castner mounted his horse and followed. The rest is history They found their presence unnecessary. The colored people were there in force equal to the occasion, the hunters, in imminent peril, and most of them thoroughly. frightened.

Later in the affray a slave-holder, Edward G. Gorsuch, was killed, his son, a youth of twenty-one, seriously wounded by a ball through his lungs, and another of their party slightly hurt. Some of the colored men were hurt but not so as to disable them. A doctor in Penningtonville (now Atglen) removed ball and shot fram the legs of several of them that day, but he and they "kept their own counsel."

This was the first open resistence to the Fugitive Slave Law, by combination, on the part of the colored people. It was their "Lexington" and meant to them vastly more than even that 19th of April, '75, did to the revolutionary fathersthe choice between freedom and chattel slavery.

Here was also a crisis that tested the metal of our friend Castner Hanway. The slave-holder demanded that he help capture the slaves in Parker's house, the Deputy United States Marshal at his side producing the warrant of arrest signed