WOBR OF EDUCATION.
, MEETINC OF THE NEBRASKA
teachers’ association.
Th* Report of the Educational Connell—
An Iitaratlaf and Instructive Doc a*
•nent—Legislation of the Fast nnd
Whnt la Heeded—As to Compnlaorjr
Education—The Present Law a Failure
—Election of oncers and Other Mat
ters.
Nebraska Teacher*' Msetkr
The meetings of Nebraska teachers at
Lincoln was very largely attended and.
great interest in the matter of educa
tion manifested. In the neighborhood'
of twelve hundred instructors were
present, thus eclipsing any former at
tendance. On the last day of the ses
sion the report of the Educational Coun
cil was read by President Pearse of the
Omaha schools The report of this
body is always looked upon as the im
portant part„of tbe annual meeting,
and this year it was especially inter
esting. It dealt with the work of the
legislative committee largely, and
briefly reviewed the operation of the
free high school attendance law, the
free text book law and the report of
County Superintendent Baer of Lancas-'
ter on the “Country Schools,” and the
problem of supplying teachers fitted
« for work.
** The report of the committee on high
1 schools, which had charge of the prob
lem of the high school course study,
was touched upon, and the fact that it
had been re-referred was mentioned.
The free text book law of Nebraska
has come to be looked upon as a' model
of its kind, and the fact that several
states are commending its features,
made this part of the report more than
ordinarily interesting. The report
showed that the law is generally popu
lar, though some of the districts refuse
to comply. These, it is said, are shown
to be tbe worst in the state, and many
of the most enterprising even go be
yond the requirements of the statute,
and furnish free of charge, as a part of
* the necessaries, articles which are not
provided for in the law.
The report also went into the subject
of needed legislation, and on tbe point
of what had been attempted and not
obtained in this matter had this to say:
“Among the measures very generally
deemed of considerable importance that
failed to become laws at the last ses
sion was a bill providing for several
changes in the details of organization
;!i and administration of schools in the {
% different classes of cities and a bill to
provide for a state board of education;
and while these important measures
failed to become laws your committee
on legislation realized that progress in
educational legislation, as . in other
lines, is necessarily slow, that many
times we must wait for those things
which are good; that if a little prog
ress be made each year or two years
we shall gradually work into the en
joyment of those improvements that
seem desirable.
“Probaby the most important bill
, presented to. the last legislature with
reference to school matters which failed
to become a law was that providing for
compulsory attendance at school of all
children within the state. It is uni
versally recognized that the present
so-called compulsory attendance law is
not a compnlsory attendance law. No
penalty lor non-compliance with its
provisions has ever been inflicted under
this law, and it does not in any way
answer tbe purposes of the state in se
curing the attendance of all its chil
dren in the schools.
“The bill drafted and presented to
the legislature was an exceedingly
moderate one, and there was no
thought on the part of those engaged
in its preparation and presentation that
any reasonable citizen of the state
could And objection to it It provided,
briefly, a definite time when the at tend
ance required of all children between
tbe ages of 8 and 14 should begin, and
did not leave it to the discretion or
caprice of the parent as to whether the
attendance should begin tArilli the be
ginning of school or whether it should
be delayed to the very latest possible
moment in the year. It provided that
it should be tbe business of some par
ticular person in each school district to
ascertain whether or not children of j
tbe age contemplated by the law were
in attendance upon school; if they were
not, why they \vere not, and in cases
where it seeriied neeessary to begin
prosecution under the law of parents
or guardians willfully or unreasonably
neglecting to comply with its provi
sions
“it provided farther that each child
should attend daring the time required 1
by the law at some school in which he
should learn to read and to write in the
English tongue. It was not required
that he should study geography and
arithmetic or history in English, but
that he should learn to read and write
tlife English tongue. It was a great
surprise to those charged witii the care
of school legislation to find that this
law aroused active and bitter antago
nism on the part of some of the citizens
of the state.
"It Is not believed thnt the objectors
to tfce law'were numerous or that they
formed any considerable element of the
population of the state, but they ap
peared speedily, they were active, they
were outspoken, they were exceedingly
determined that the bill shodld not be
come a law, they were present in force
and talked to. and in many instances
threatened, the members of the legis
lature. The (treat majority of the
friends of the bill, confident in the
sentiment of the state upon this mat
ter,. made no effort to express them
selves or to bring any influence to bear
in favor of the passage of the law. So
as your committee believes, because the
enemies of the law were present and
active. While the friends of the meas
ure were absent and inactive, the bill
failed to become a law.
"After discussion of the measure the
educational council believes it would
be wise for the state association to take
at its present meeting a firm stand
upon the question of the enactment of
a proper compulsory attendance law. a
law which shall make it possible to se
cure the benefits of that eiiuc ion
which the stafeso freely provides.
"It is believed that three essential
provisions of this law should be:
"First—A definite time when attend
ance at school by children within tiie
ages covered by the law should begin.
"Second—The fixing of the respousi
' ‘ ■" .. •- •• ■( 'v- •
bility for seeing' whether or not chil
dren are attending school as required
by law, and if not, why not, upon some
officer, whether called truant officer or
by some other name does not matter,
and whose duty it shall be in the event
of failure of any other means to enter
complaint and begin prosecution of
parents or guardians failing to comply
with the law.
“Third—That in order to comply
with the law children should attend
for the compulsory period some school
in which is taught the reading and
writing of the English tongue.
“It is believed further that during
the coming year measures should be
taken to secure expression upon this
matter from all educational organiza
tions and influences within the slate,
such as teachers' associations, county
and district, from county institutes,
from boards of education in cities ami
from district school boards, from citi
zens within the state who have an in
terest in the mattey, and that when
the next legislature convenes, one year
from this time, this association should
have in its possession and ready to be
placed before them such overwhelming
expression of the sentiments of tbe citi
zens of Nebraska upon this matter that
no member will be permitted to be in
doubt as to the wisdom and demand for
such a law."
The presence of three candidates iu
the field for president of the associa
tion brought about an awkward condi
tion of affairs, which was relieved by
the good natured action of the candi
dates themselves. The balloting is car
ried on during the meeting of the asso
ciation, and on the last day the ballot
ting committee canvasses the votes and
reports to the general session. The
balloting committee found that as
no one had a majority, but that
Maynard Spink of Grand Island
had a plurality, with J. 8. Bear a good
second, Kennedy being third, it conld
only report and leave the association
to take action. Bear and Kcnnedy
inade matters easy by the former
moving and the latter seconding a pro
position that the secretary cast the
unanimous vote of the association for
Spink. Lancaster county was awarded
the banner for the largest enrollment.
AN ORLEANS SNOW STORM.
An Antonlllilng Event to All the People of
the City.
"Mamma, Dod’s making pop-corn."
piped Bobby's shrill little voice, as ho
stood upon his chair at lunch time
and gazed wonderingly through the
window at the snowflakes.
"Lor.’ de streets look like roads to
do cotton feels in Cabling, ” said old
black Mandy.
Then mamma went into the library
and got papa's, microscope, and cook
went but into the back yard and
cooled her black shawl and caught
snowflakes on it; and. while mamma
showed Bobby the wonderful beauty
of snow crystals Mandy stood by and
grinned.
A fall of snow in New Orleans is an
astonishing event. Men would
scarcely bo more excited if the Clay
statue were to evolve into the cra
ter of an eruptive volcano or tho
streets be puddled with drippings of
cream from the milky way. That
snow is a most wonderful intoxicant
can hot be a matter of. doubt to any
impartial or unprejudiced observer of
the antics of Orleanians.
Foremost in the ranks of the snow
’drunk was the powerful small boy—
the Bobby of tho mansion, the mickey
of Bank alley. Bobby scraped from
bush, lawn and doorstep sufficient
snow to make his first snowball and
pelted therewith nurse coachman and
cook. Mickey scrambled with his
ragged fellows for the meager fall of
snow upon the curbstone and pave
ment and as he waited with red,
shining nose for the evening papers,
he sent up many a merry shout and
shied many a whizzing snowball..
As the fluffy shower began to freckle
tho gloomy atmosphere about noon
pedestrians stopped in their mad rush
along the thoroughfares to stand shiv
ering beneath’ protecting sheds and
gaze curiously at the snow as a thing
rarely seen.
Clerks and shop-girls thronged to
windows and show-cases and flattened
their noses against the panes to see
the flecks; upon St. Charles avenue
and Prytania street one might have
thought from the number of ladies in
shawls and ulsters upon galleries and
windows that some great procession,
was passing. There was quite as
much enthusiasm, nervousness and
color.
Not a few of the schools and acade
mies gave their pupils a half holiday
with instructions to see the snow and
take advantage of the opportunity to
study tho phenomena pertaining
thereto.
Forgetting; Tbelr Lon.
It ia not unusual (or people who
have lost the use of a sense or of a
member to talk, moro or less uncon
sciously. as it they still possessed it
Not long ago a gentleman living in
the country, who has been totally
blind for many years, but who man
ages to travel about notwithstanding
his atliiction, wrote to a iriend in
London:—
■ I am going to town this summer
to see how the world wagsi and I hope
to see you whilo I am there.”
This is pathetic. More amusing,
perhaps, was an incident, of like kind
which happened during a tour through
the provinces which the French presi
dent M. Carnot made not long back;
At one place where an address was
delivered to the president, the duty of
pronouncing it was committed to a
maimed veteran. both of whoso arms
had been amputated.
Just before the hour for the cere
mony had ar. ived. a local functionary
said to the veteran—
••Arc you sura you know your
•peoch?”
••Know it!" ho exclaimed, confident
ly. “why. I’ve got it right at my lin
gers’ ends!”
A Ila’n !:■< oQststenejr.
••And you call that a stationary en
gine?"
•Of course it is.”
“Of course it's not. How can it bo
stationary when it’s running/”—>hihi.
deiuhlu Times.
Wholly Unprepared.
! Mrs. Col. Verger is a continual
source of embarrassment to her hus
band. Col. Yerger recently grave a din
ner party to a few select ladies and
gentlemen. Of course, he was called
on for an after-dinner speech. Col.
!• Verger got up, and, assuming an im
posing position, began:
| “Ladies and gentlemen, unprepared
as I am—being wholly unprepared to
■ make a speech—being unprepared—”
| He was unable to proceed. There
was a painful silence, which was
broken by Mrs. Verger saying:
“Why, colonel, you knew it perfectly
■ this morning.” Tableaux.—Texas
Siftings.
In Olden Timet
People overlooked the, importance of
permanently beneficial effects and were
satisfied with transient action; but now
that it is generally known that Syrup of
Figs will permanently cure habitual con
stipation, well-informed people will not buy
other laxatives, which act for a, time, hut
finally injure the system. .,. ‘
Hi* Troubled Saul.
They were Quakers, brother and sis
ter. and had lived together many years.
| At last Kenben was taken sick and the
doctor had told him it would not be
many days ere he would be called to
his fathers. Hearing this he moaned
, and tossed on his pillow, and Penelope
endeavored to console him.
“Reuben, why dost thee so fear
death? Thee hast been a good brother;
paid thy debts, given to the poor.
Then why dost thee dread to die?”
“True, true, Penelope; but”—lower
. ing his voice—“I have been sly.”—
Judge.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas
County—ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
is the senior partner of the Arm of F.
J. Cheney & Co., doing business In the
City of Toledo, County and State afore
said, and that said Arm will pay the
sum of One Hundred Dollars for each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot
be cured by the use of nail's Catarrh
Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
my presence this 6th day of December,
A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON.
(Seal.) Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken lnternal
1" and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of th< system. Send
for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY Sr. CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists; 76c.
Hall's Family Pills. 26c.
Information From the Teacher.
The teacher was asking questions—
teachers are quite apt to ask questions,
and they sometimes receive curious an
swers. This question was as follows:
“Now. pupils, how many months
have twenty-eight days?”
“All of them, teacher,” replied the
boy on the front seat.—-Utica Observer.
moH price: for potatoes.
The John A. Salzer Seed Co., La
Crosse, Wis., pay high prices for new
things. They recently paid $300 for a
yellow rind watermelon, $1,000 for 30
fcu. new oats, $300 for 100 lbs. of pota
toes, etc., etc.! Well, prices for pota
toes will be high next fall. Plant a
plenty, Mr. Wideawake! Yoti’ll make
money. Salzer's Earliest are fit to eat
In 28 days after planting. His Cham
pion of the World Is the greatest yielder
on earth and we challenge you to pro
duce its equal.
If you will send 14 cents in stamps:
to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La
Crosse, Wis., you will get, free, ten
packages grains and grasses, including
Teosinte, Spurry, Giant Incarnate
Clover, etc., and our mammoth cata
logue. Catalogue 5c. for mailiDg. w.n.
Hot Water for Complexion.
The hot water remedy is always the
best one for making1 the complexion
beautiful. It is very simple and equal
ly safe, two good points in its favor.
If persisted in blackheads will soon de
part and the complexion will assume
the pink and while appearance of a
baby. The hot water treatment should
bo indulged in every night and morn
ing. At night the face should be
bathed in water as hot as one can
stand, and then thoroughly rubbed
with a good cold cream. Be careful to
use a circular motion in rubbing. In
the morning the cream may be omitted
and the face bathed in very hot water,
and then dashed with cold water. The
diet should be watched with care: also
the complexion.—New York Journal.
Every .tollnr •pent In Pnrkrr'a Ginger Tonic
Is veil Inver eii. It .ubdues pain. and brings better
digestion, better strength and better bealtn.
That man's life work will be great who
fnithfuly does his best every day.
Oooil reason* why you should u«e Hlndercorns.
it i kes out 'be e ms. an i then you bare rea e ml
comiurt. surely a g oj exc.unge. lie, at druggist*.
To polish a rascal is to make him all the
more a rascal.
. .FITS—All Pits stopped free by Dr. Kline's Orest
£®rro Keatorer. No tits after the ur»t .lay’* use,
Marvelous cures. Treatise and #2 trial hot tie free b>
* it eases, baud to Ur. KlmeaS81 Arch St., Philo., Pis
Marriage is a mortgage that cannot be
determined except by death or divorce.
‘‘Hanaon’s Waffle Corn Itlft."
Warranted to cure or money refunded. Ask year
druggist tor it. Price 13 cents.
The woman who hates dirt also believes
in house c.eaniug.
billiard table, second-hand, for sale
cheap. Apply to or address, H. C. Asix,
fill 8. llth St.. Omaha, Xei
Map of the United States.
The wad map issued by the Burlington
Route is three feet wide by lour feet tong;
is priifted iu seven colors; is mounted on
rollers; shows every state, countv, impor
tant town and railroad in the Union and
lorms a very desirable and useful adjunct
to any househo.d or business estab'lshment.
Purchased in large quantities, the mats
c-cst the Burlington Route more than fliteen
cents each, but on receipt of that amount
in stamps the undersigned will be pleased
: to send you one.
I Write immediately, as the supply is
limited. J. Fkancis,
G. P. & T. A. Burlington Route,
_Omaha, Neb.
The devil f.nds it hard to get a foothold
in the home where iove is king.
WHERE DID TOD OFT THIS COFFEE?
Had the Ladies’ Aid Society ot our
Church out for tea, forty ot them, and
all pronounced the German Coffeeberry
eaual to Rio! Salaer’s catalogue tells
you all about It! 35 packages Earliest
vegetable seeds $1.00 post paid.
If yon will cat tbla oat and aond
with 15c. stamps to John A. Salter Seed
i Co., La Crosse, Wls., you will get free n
! package of above great coffee Reed and
our 148 page catalogue! Catalogue alone
Sc- _ w.n.
Spoiled tho Point.
(apt John Cod man confesses to hav
j ing been tripped up by members ot an
i audience out in Utah before whom ho
was arguing in favor of free wool,
i "Free wool,” he said, “will advance the
! price of domestic wool. The demand
| for a manufactured article increases the
I demand for all its ingredients. Many
I cloths and carpets require an admix
; lure of foreign and domestic wool; so
: that tho more foreign wool used the
; more domestic wool will be needed.
| Take punch, for example. To make it
l you require lemon, sugar, rum and wa
ter-” Here he was interrupted with;
l"Oh, h-; we don’t want any water
in ours!” Then C'apt. Cod man changed
j the subject. ■—Boston Herald.
Very Rich Indeed
In the elements that supply the human sys
tem with hone, muscle mid brain substance
Is a circulation fertU *ed with tho supremo
tonic, luisteiter’s Stomach Hitters, which
begets thorough assimilation and digestion,
anil gives a healthful Impulse to every
fiinctiou of the body. Dyspeptic nnd'weakly
persons give strong testimony In Its behalf,
so do those troubled with bllliousuess, ma
laria. rheumatism, constipation and inac
tivity of the kidneys.
Statesmanlike Qualities,
"I can’t imagine what grounds you
have for calling Dodger an all around
statesman. ”
“You can’t, ch? Why he got all
around the tariff question; he got all
around the temperance quektinn and
| coinage question without touching any
of them.”—Indianapolis Journal, -r-,
A novel Idea*
The Omaha Weekly World-Herald
haB Btruck another novel idea for in
creasing its circulation by offering large
prizes to those new subscribers who
construct the shortest sentencc contain
ing all the letters of the alphabet.
This is sort of reverse of last year’s
prize contest, when the object was to
construct the largest number of words
out of certain letters.
It will be Interesting to note how
short a sentence can be made and still
contain all the twenty-six letters In the
alphabet. The trouble, of course, will
te to get In such letters as x, y, z and q.
Ex-Congressman Bryan, who edits
the paper and preaches free silver coin
age, must have a good Inventive genius
to devise these novel schemes.
The Japanese Nose.
In Japan the nose is the only feature
which attracts attention. The nose de
termines the beauty or ugliness of the
face, according as it is big or small.
This is probably due to the fact that
differences in noses constitute about
the only distinction between one
Japanese face and another. In Japan
a lady who has a huge proboscis is
always a great beauty and a reigning
belle.—Tacoma Ledger.
Koit Irritation of the Throat caused by
Cold or use of the voice “Brown’s Bronchial
Troches" are exceedingly beneficial.
No man ran serve two masters, but all
have tried to._
If the Baby Is Cutting Taetn,
Be sure and use that old and well-tried remedy, Kao.
Wuslow’s Soothing Svnrr for CUIdren Teethlng
If man were less imaginative, woman
would be less attractive.
conus
to stay.
There is more than one food
which will cause the body to
increase in weight. A free
supply of sugar will do this;
so will the starchy foods;
cream, and some other fats.
But to become fleshy, and yet
remain in poor health, is not
what you want. Cod-liver oil
increases the weight because
it is a fat-producing food. But
it does far more than this. It
alters, or changes, the pro
cesses of nutrition, restoring
the normal functions of'the
various organs and tissues.
Scots Smutsm,
of Cod-liver Oil, with hypo
phosphites, Is pure cod-liver
in a digested condition. So
that, when a person gains In
weight from taking Scott’s
Emulsion, It is because of two
things: First, the oil has
acted as a fat-producing food;
and, second, it has restored
to the body a healthy condi
tion. Such an improvement
is permanent: it comes to stay.
SCOTT'S EMULSION has been endorsed
by the medical profession for twenty years.
(Ash your doctor.) This is because it is
always palatable—always uniform—always
contains the purest Norwegian Cod-liver Oil
end Ilypophosphites.
Put up in 50-cent and $1.00 sizes. The small
size may be enough to cure your cough or
help your baby.
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Growing Ten In Arkansas.
A negro planter recently hauled to
Memphis and sold there a wagon load
of tea, grown on his own land in the
St. Francis Basin, Ark. The tea was
tested by experts and pronounced of
good quality. The man who raised it
is uneducated but intelligent. *fle has
hired another negro to read to him
books and pamphlets on tea culture,
and proposes next year to devote a
much larger amount of land to the new
crop. They tried to grow tea in Flori
da a few years ago and failed. Let us
hope that Arkansas is the right spot.
The South needs greater variety in
crops.—New York Times.
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Great Prize Contest. "
1st Prize, KNABE PIANO, style “P” $800
2d Prize, Cash, - ... - ■ 100
3d Prize, Cash, - - - - 0 * so
10 Cash Prizes, each $20, - - .260
IB Cash Prizes, each $10, ■ - iso
28 Prizes, - - - - $1300
The first prize will be given to the person who constructs the shortest
sentence, in English, containing all the letters in the alphabet. The other
prizes will go in regular order to those competitors whose sentences stand
next in point of brevity.
CONDITIONS.
The length of a sentence is to be measured by the number of letters it
contains, and each contestant must indicate by figures at the olose of his j
sentence just how long it is. The sentence must have some meaning. !
Geographical names and names of persons cannot be used. The contest
closes February 15th, 1896, and the results will be published one week I
later. In case two or more prize-winning sentences are equally short the I
one first received will be given preference. Every competitor whose
sentence is less than 116 letters in length will receive Wilkie Collins' works
in paper cover, including twelve complete novels, whether he wins a prize
or not. No contestant can enter more than one sentence nor combine with I
other competitors. Residents of Omaha are not permitted to take any !
part, directly or indirectly, in this contest. |
This remarkably liberal offer is made by the Weekly WOBlb-HiSAiD, j
of which the distinguished ex-congressman,
WILLIAM J. BRYAN, It Editor,
and it is required that each competing sentence be enclosed with one dollar
for a year’s subscription. The Weekly Wokld-Hkhald is issued in semi
weekly sections, and hence is nearly as good as a daily. It is the western
champion of free silver coinage and the leading family newspaper of
Nebraska. Address,
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