THE SIOLX COUNTY JOURNAL.
HABRISOX. : : NEBRASKA.
Turkey will probably fall without
kindling a great European wax. Tbe
bear and the lion fear a much as they
hate each other.
Somebody ha invented a elothes
waahlng machine, and In order that It
may Dot be entirely worthies has fixed
!t so that It may be osed as a chum.
When Qneen Victoria's chaplain, who
has just preached his five thousandth
sermon, looks at Albert Edward he
must sometimes ask himself what's
the use.
Farmers throughout this section re
joice in the rains. Crops are mainly
out of harm's way, and the long-parched
earth drinks in new value with ev
ery precious drop that falls.
Judging by the fact that LI Hung
Chang's bill at the Waldorf Hotel in
New York was only $12,WO, there must
be some mistake in the statement that
he stayed there three days.
Indications are that the fur seal will
presently pass out of ex'steiice along
with the buffalo. Hunters slay hun
dreds of females, thus destroying their
owe livelihood, and exterminating the
species. .
A sea captain has arrived In New
lork who expresses his willingness to
make affidavit that his ship ploughed
through fifty miles of snakes off Bor
neo. The air or the whisky oft Borneo
must have a strange effect upon the
human mind.
Some people fail to see why it Isn't as
virtuous an act for a Christian multi
millionaire to pay his taxes without
kicking as to give money to tbe endow
ment fund of a college. Can it be that
the publicity of the latter form of ex
penditure makes the difference?
Brooklyn's water supply is so bad
that a Brooklyn man says that he has
to take five drops of nux vomica In
every half-glass of water, and even
then the water tastes vile. If he will
Increase the amount of nux a little the
taste won't bother him any more.
A New York court has decided that
a girl may keep an engagement ring
after breaking off the engagement, by
way of compensation for gas and coal
used during the courtship, so young
men had better see to It tht the ring
Isn't worth more than tbe gas bill
comes to.
How many people of this country
would submit to the transfusion of
African blood Into their veins In or
der to be prepared to endure the Afri
can climate? But Stanley says he
submitted to such an operation five
times; and to this fact he attributes It
that he Is the sole survivor of the most
dangerous of his African trips.
The runner is disgraced by being
made the tool of gamblers; the trotters
are temporarily unable to hold tbe pub
lic eye by putting forward any new
champion of sensational ability. This
la the year of the pacer. The people
come oat to see tbe battles of the kings
of the side-wheel gait, and fashion in
the East, at least, has set its seal of
approval upon the pacer for road rriv
lng. The long-despised has come Into
iila kingdom.
At an auction sale in Charleston, just
before tbe breaking out of tbe war,
tbe auctioneer, after knocking down
odd bits of dry goods and remnants,
picked up an American flag and cast
It down with tbe contemptuous re
mark that he would not ask a bid for
that useless rag. This was too much
(or one of the bystanders, a rough
looking man, and be called out: "I bid
ten dollars!" At the word be elbowed
his way through the crowd, took the
flag, and bore it off.
Tbe cheapness of lard, caused largely
by cotton-seed oil substitutes, baa
taken off the advantage which the ex
tra fat corn-fed bog had In the market
It no longer pays to grow such animals.
A thrifty pig with plenty A lean meat,
and little more than fat enough to cook
it, makes better pork and what will
bring the highest market price. It may
not be cheaper for the farmer to pro
duce this lean pork we doubt If it Is
but it certainly will be more healthful
food for the port consumer.
Fifty well-to-do ladies in a certain
block In St. Louis, enraged at the con
tinual neglect of the street depart
ment to clean tbe alley running be
tween their houses, and afire with the
spirit of the "new woman," took the
matter In their own hands tbe other
day, and with shovels, hoe and brooms
In a few minutes gathered ail the dirt
and filth In piles, which they hired
the ash man to carry away; so that,
at the close of tbelr effort, their alley
was "clean as a kitchen floor." And
Bow the city officials are scratching
tbelr head and wondering If It
wouldn't be policy for them to attend
a little closer to their duties in order
to bold on to thetr Jabs.
An entire loco motive-making plant
Will be taken aoon to St Petersburg
from Philadelphia on the British
steamship Lalenam, which has been
chartered for the purpose. The plant
li to be erected at NIJnl-Novgorod, the
anmerctal metropolis of the Interior
f tbe Rasslan Empire. Contracts for
kKblaery for the plant amounting
CJ vr 1600,0001 wan awarded to
American manufacturer, most of then
Philadelphia firms. Tbe plant is to
be built for in extensive establish
ment engaged in manufacturing cars,
steanitioats. steam tellers, and employ
ing S.imo hands. Tbe locomotive plant
will have a capacity for building 2U
engines a year, and will employ about
l.OnO hamls. All of the foremen and
engineers will be Americans. Tb
buildings have been completed and are
now ready to receive the machinery.
The company will be known as the
Russian - American Manufacturing
Company.
The troubles of the Sultan grow
apace, and among all the embarrass
ments of an external kind the local
question of an empty Treasury come
to the front again, and threatens to
split the old hulk completely asunder.
It is money, rather than patriotism,
which keeps the Turkish soldiers in
line. This may be one of the Ingredi
ents of the patriotism which moves an
army in all countries, but It is, at any
rate, a certain thing that the Turk
needs a salary, and needs It often.
Army and civil officials In Turkey
have been in arrears of pay for a long
time. They have gotten a little now
and then, after strenuous efforts, either
out of the public chest or from the
Sultan's private purse, but there is no
doubt that the financial troubles are
among the most ominous which are
now closing in upon Constantinople on
all sides, and from every direction. In
the meantime, public opinion In En
gland Is teing deeply aroused again,
as It has not been since the Armenian
massacres were at their height, and
the great Eastern drama seems to be
coming nearer and nearer to Its climax
every day.
Preparatory to the rush for Alaska,
in the early springtime, many newspa
pers uttered warnings which, had they
been heeded, would have averted un
told suffering. The latest advices from
our far northwest are most distressing.
Hundreds of Americans whose deslr
for wealth overpowered their Judgment
are now stranded aloug the coust and
praying that the Government transport
them back to Portland or San Francis
co, wlience tramping will be possible.
Alaska's winter Is near at hand. Tc
those residents who have ample sup
plies of the things necessary to make
life possible it bus no charms. To those
who are In poverty and there are
many such the future is as glooruy
and horrible as It could possibly le. It
is likely that the general government
will practically he compelled to assist
the unfortunate, although the Individ
uals alone are responsible for the dis
tressing situations In which they now
find themselves. That the lesson taught
by this misery will be heeded is not at
all probable. Man, the most intelligent
of all animals, rarely profits by the ex
perience of his fellows.
One of the lesser lights of the Orient
accompanying Li Hung Chang reveal
ed the astonishing fact that "only a
small portion of the population of China
is aware that there was a war with
Japan and that the Chinese forces
were defeated." The remark was
brough out in a discussion of the Im
mense revenue China must raise to pay
the indemnity to Japan. It was not
considered desirable to try to obtain
much of this money by increasing the
domestic taxes for fear tbe suspicious
of the Chinese should be aroused a to
this Japan war. If the statement had
emanated from LI himself one would
be Induced to believe it another one of
hi manifestations of wit between
snoozes. One would presume be meant
that even the Chinese realised that the
kind of fighting in which they Indulged
could hardly be dignified by the name
of war, and that a rout so complete as
the one they sustained could not be ade
quately described as a "defeat" But
the titled Chinaman who gives the 'n
formation cannot be suspected of sub
Uety. He means exactly what be says
that most of the Chinese do not know
that a war was waged and ended to tbe
discomfiture of the Chinese Emperor
and Li Hung Chang's yellow Jacket
This blissful ignorance 1 a matter of
no concern to the people of the United
States, except possibly to the students
of ethnology. It has been the common !
belief that China Is four centuries be
hind the front rank of civilized nation,
Vut It 1 apparent that a thousand or
so must be added to these four hun
dred. A nation so beautifully whipped
a was China that ha failed yet to ;
learn of tbe little circumstance seems ,
to be j hopelessly benighted aa to dls- j
eourag? any attempt at enlightenment. 1
The First Yacht Bnllt In America.
A number of wealthy gentlemen In
New York city founded the New York '
Boat Club in 1030; and for them Mr.
Francis built the first yacht ever con-1
struct ed 1 In America. He was able,
yon sse, to turn bi hand to almost any
thing which had to do with sailing on
the sea. Some Canadian gentlemen
wanted a racing rowboat to beat tbe
boat of some of their friend from Eng
land who were coming over from tbe
motherland to give them battle at Que
bec.' Mr. Francis waa called upon to
build the boat It waa of mahogany,
brass fastened, and It weighed only
Ixty pound, a remarkably light racing
boat for that day. It. waa four-oared
and waa thirty feet long. They called
It the "Eagle," and It well deserved Its
name, for It won tbe race against the
crack boats of tbe English. It was tbe
first rowboat for racing purposes ever
built In America. St. Nicholas. '
from Alderman to Karl.
Tbe Saxon title of Aldsroaa waa, it
la said, changed Into tbe more modern
title of Karl by William L shortly after
tbe conquest.
Diamond costing less than (100 are
noticed only by people who own small
diamonds themselves.
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Paper Floor. i
At Einsledelu. Germany, pajwr floors j
are manufactured. In the form of a
pasty mass the paper Is sprea I upou
tbe surface, to be covered and sub
mitted to pressure. It behaves like
plaster of Paris, and is said to tie noise
le under the foot, and particularly ef
fective In preserving a uniform tem
perature. Having no joints. It pre
sents a perfectly smooth surface.
Microbes In Kag.
ihs-tor MaeCllntoek, of the I'niver
sity of Michigan, has discovered that
microbes exist In eggs. He took a
ierfectly healthy hen, washed her with
disinfectants and placed her in a dis
infected cage, where she laid her eggs.
The doctor at once broke the uew-lald
eggs and found that they contained
bacterial germs. There Is no reason to
be alarmed, however, becnn.se all mi
crobes are not enemies to man, and
It has not lieen shown that those which
exist In the eggs of healthy fowls are
Injurious.
Hxe and Speed of Wavca.
Many different answers have been
given to the question: "How high are
the greatest ocean waves?" Mousleur
Iibos, a marine engineer, and laureate
of the Institute of France, has lately
made some personal olwervatlons on
this subject He descrllies waves en
countered In the North Atlantic which
had a height of at least forty-five feet
Prlven before a heavy wind, waves
may advance at the rate of from thirty-five
to forty miles an hour, and
such undulations of the ocean may trav
el more than .TOO miles from the point
where the wind created them, with
out lelng accompanied by any disturb
ance in the atmosphere.
HU-rl Diaraonda.
Within a year or two the French
chemist Mousier Moissau. has succeed
ed In making minute diamonds by sat
urating melted iron with carbon, and
then cooling the Iron under strong
pressure. The carbon crystallizes Into
the form of diamonds as the metal
cools. This experiment has been re
peated many times. Recently it oc
curred to Monsieur Rossel that there
must be diamonds In very hard stecL
which Is produced iu a manner ilmHaxf
to the process of Mo.isleur Molssan.
Accordingly he examined many speci
mens of such steel, and discovered
that In fact, It does contain microscop
ic diamonds, mere specks In slice, but
presenting die characteristic forms and
properties of natural diamonds. At a
recent meeting of the Academy of Sci
ences in Paris. Monsieur Koasel ex
hibited magnified photographs of sev
eral of these minutes geras from bits
of steel.
A Beneficent Lake.
According to Professor Forel, of Lau
sanne, the Lake of Geneva, lying in
the deep valley between the Alps aud
the Jura Mountains, performs a re
markable work for the benefit of man.
Purlng the summer Its waters store up
a great quantity of heat, which Is slow
ly radiated Into the air In the course
of the following autumn. Thus the
freezing currents descending from the
snow-topped mountains around are
warmed and tempered, and the at
mosphere along the shores of the lake
Is maintained at a moderate temper
ature. The excellence of the grapes
which produce the celebrated white
wines of this region is thought to le
largely due to the Influence of the lake
upou the condition of tlie atmosphere.
But the remote descendants of the
present Inhabitants will experience
quite a different state of affairs, for
Professor Forel says that In G4.000
years the river Rhone will have turned
the lake into a broad plain, by means
of tbe soli It is constantly carrying
down from the mountains.
The Yonngnt Metal.
Aluminum, the youngest of all metals,
Is rapidly coming into general use. It
was discovered by Frederick Wohler,
a German professor. In 1827, but to St.
Clair Deville, a Frenchman, belongs
the honor of being the founder of the
aluminum industry.
The first article made of this metal
was In compliment to Louis Napoleon,
who had helped Pevllle a baby rattle
for the infant Prince Imperial.
In 1858, when the first aluminum
company was formed, the cost of a
pound of the metal was about $200. In
1889 Charles M. Hall, of Oherlln, O.,
patented an electrolytic process. He,
with a few or bis friends, then started
a small plant on tbe bank of the Alle
gheny river, eighteen miles above Pitts
burg. Tbe first year tbe company pro
duced 75 pounds of aluminum a day,
which was sold for $4..V) a pound. In
1805 a company built a large plant at
Niagara Falls, and this year It Is build
ing additional work. When these are
completed they will have an output of
11.000 pound dally. This will put the
t'nlted States In front as tbe largest
aluminum producing country In the
world.
Aluminum weight I about a third
that of Iron, and only steel of tbe high
est quality and the best aluminum
bronse will give a greater strength for
a given weight than aluminum. It
stands high In the list of malleable
11-etaU. and can be drawu Into wire
1-T.o of an Inch in tun ku.-ss. It is an
excellent conductor of electricity, ami
would, at "0 cents a nind. take tbe
place of copper for uil electrical pur-
In ship building, where lightness is
demanded, aluminum meets every re
quirement. Corrosion and galvanic ac
tion are easily overcome by properly
painting the part subject to the action
of the water and by using aluminum
rivets. Fran re and Germany have sev
eral torpedo iHiats made of alumiuum.
and pleasure yachts every year are be
ing constructed of this metal. New
York Sun.
A DEAD-AND-ALIVE CITY.
Cordova Haa Little of Ita Old-Time
Wealth and Power,
From the station we drove through a
staring white suburb, past the well
whltewaslied walls of the hull-ring, to
the Fonda de Orieute. It was still early
In the afternoon, the sun lien v. the
light blinding the hour when all sum
mer we had been sleeping and dream
ing in the Alhambra's halls and the
Geuerallfe's gradeus. Ueniemls-ring
their loveliness, and hoping for new
ts-auty like It, we i-ould not stay in the
dull hirtel lcdnom, though with Its
tiled floor It whs fairly cool and clean,
aud we went out Into the town. Silen
hung over It like a iall. Every wind
ing street lu the labyrinth tieyond the
Puseo was empty; not a living creature
lu sight, only once In a while a beggar,
who rushed from some ist or shade
to assail us; all the low. white houses,
with tbelr Iron-burred 'windows, were
t'ght shut; the place was at mi minted
and desolate. Its silence unbroken "y
sound of toll or traflic.
Was this really the Cordova of Mutm
ami Abderrahman, the Cordova once
called the Bagdad or lemniscus of the
West, whose streets were ever alive
with tlie clang of arms, the pomp of
processions, the clatter of students
going to and from the scIkmiIs. whose
name was a synonym for wealth ami
lower, for culture and Industry the
world-famous town with Its selcntists
and merchants ami women doctors? It
was os if a plague had fallen suddenly
upon the town, ami left not one man,
woman or child to tell the tale. Cen
tury. Standish O'Grady's new liook. to be
expected lu the autumn, is called 'The
Flight of the Eagle."
Maarten Maarti ns, who has Just com
pleted a short story of IW.lM) words. Is
visiting friends In England.
Olive Schrelner's articles on South
Africa In the London. Fortnightly are
to be published In volume form during
tbe autumn.
Mr. Crockett's next novel, "Loehln
var," Is half completed, and those who
have read the completed chapters are
enthusiastic In their praise of the
work.
Harold Frederic has tx-gun a new
novel of equal length with "Tlie Dam
nation of Theron Ware," but iu this
book he will for the first time deal
exclusively with English people and
subjects.
J. M. Barrie has finished a Iook on
bis mother entitled "Marget Ogllvy, '
to be published In this country. It Is
not a biography in the ordinary sense,
and Is said to be the most exquisite
piece of work he has yet done.
An English lady of Brighton contrilt
utes a hitherto unrecorded anecdote
of Christopher North. A lady admirer
has Just complimented Kit upon tlie
size of his "noble head" when be rath
er staggered her by replying; "True,
madam; In our village there was only
one bead bigger than mine, mid that
was the village Idiot's."
Prof, lnnbroso contributes a paper
to tbe German review, Xukunft, in
which he attempts to trace the rela
tion lx-tween religion aud crime, and
makes out a bad case for the older
creeds. He sums up: "The religions
which serve as a check to crime an;
those whose controlling force is a pas
sion for morality aud those that are
quite new; the ethical Influence of the
rest Is not greater than that of a the
Urn." Kipling's new novel of the Glouces
ter fishermen, "Captain Courageous,"
has finally ls-en secured for serial pub
lication by McClure's Magazine. The
London Bookman says that Mr. Mc
Clure paid 115,000 for the American
serial rights, while Mr. Henley's New
Review was the highest English bid
der and secured the story for $7,000.
The conclusion as to the relative Im
portance of Great Britain and the
United States from the novelist's point
of view emphasizes Itself. Having
kept the wolf from the door a little
longer by this preliminary sale, Mr.
Kipling has gone to Labrador for a
mouth's fishing.
Facial Resemblance.
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, who was
the temporary chairman of the Demo
cratic National Convention, bears a
striking facial resemblance to the late
Edwin Booth, the actor. The litho
graphs of Thomas W. Keene, the tra
gedian, would serve for pictures of
Wllinm J. Bryan, though the back part
of Bryan's bead very closely resembles
that of Wilson Barrett, the English ac
tor. Chicago Inter Ocean.
An Kxpert Hhot.
Mr. Rtnyscr, of Bummervllle, fla., al
though nearly 97 years old, Is still a
crtick shot. At a recent practice he put
seven bullets out of ten Into a target at
sixty feet
It 1 not the walking that makes a
bill collector tired.
JUST TEN SCHOLARS
HAS THIS QUEER SCHOOL ON
AN ISLAND.
Bequest for Teacher Cemea to the Pan
Francisco rk-bool Board from the
Btrangeat He hoot Diatrict in All
America.
Out in the Pacific.
A few weeks ago a little, modest peti
tion, on paper as white as the wing of
a seabird or the wandering foam, drift
ed in before the San Francisco Board
of School Directors. Iu brief, lis mes
sage was, "Send us a school-teacher for
our little children, and we will pay the
salary and furnish Isiard." The pathos
in this little is-titlon could not be un
derstood without knowledge of tlie en
vironments of the petitioners and of
'the children for whose welfare they are
Stollrltous.
Burrouuded by the deep Pacific
Ocean lies the South Famllou Island,
tbe largest of the Farullou group. Its
tbores rise abruptly and form an etern-
' al barrier of stone against the waves
j which thunder against adamantine
; ramparts, pevold nearly of Vegeta
tion, and swept ceaselessly by Uie
I winds from north, south and west. It Is
I like a steru and frowning outjxt cs-
tahllshed for the safety of the white
i 'winged anil majestic shlls tliat sweep
by It proudly lu sunshine and creep tim
orously past when the fog, wraltlilike,
hovers over or settles down and hides
its burled and threatening rocks under
a mantle more dreadful than night
Cut off from the California mainland by
a broad belt of heaving sea, its nearewt
western neightiors are the Hawaiian
Islands, 80O leagues distant. Hen? the
temissts of winter wreak their full
force, and old Neptune, with the trump
ets of the storm winds, calls the bil
lows to the charge.
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TIIK STRANGE SCHOOL
High upon a peak, 300 feet ulsive the
level of the all-cixln-llng ocean. Is
superimposed a tnll lighthouse, whose
eye .f fire, like a cyclops, glares angri
ly through the thickness and blackness
of night uxm watery wastes that, lsik
Ing to the north, west and south, si-em
shoreless. To tlte east and southeast
upon a clear night, other cyclones leer
at the sea and at the ships which sail
or which trail long tanner of smoke
athwart the sky line. In the fog thi-se
kin monitors of like isolation are not
wen by the dwellers ou the South
Farallon. No, the whole world seems
whelmed In a universe of Impenetrable
vapor, and while the sturdy men who
tend the light and keep the siren going
are busied at their lonely pouts their
families, their little children, be
lcagued by all the sea, sleep far away
from city Joys and diversions and com
panionships. Through the darkness,
above the sound of the breaking waves,
loom the fog siren, answered by Its
hoarse neighbor at Point Hcyes, and its
blasts fall upon the ears of the te
leaguen'd listeners with tbe regularity
of tlie tolling of a bull that might le
rung by implacable fate, doling out life
jn periods.
There are eight rosy little children
on the South Farallon and two older
ones. They are there Ix-cause tln-lr
parents are earning a living for them
selves and their families In the gov
ernment service maintaining the light
and the slnn. It was in their ls-half
that their parents have asked for a
teacher. Ten children are all the pupils
there are In this strangest "school dis
trict" In all the earth. They have one
room fitted up for school purposes lu
which there are lit t lo diks, benches
and blackboards and a supply of
schoolbooks, a glotie, which represents
the round earth of which tltey occupy
so small a portion, and that time-honored
Institution, tbe teacher's d-sk.
From the windows of the schoolroom
and hard by Is the engine-house and
siren-house, one furnishing the voi
which comes from the other, punc
tuating the wash of tlie waters and the
voice of the children and their teach
erwhen they have one. During a cer
tain season of about three months' dur
ation hundreds of thousands of sea
birds, lu great flights, circle about the
srhoolhouse, with their discordant
cries, and settle upon the barren rocks,
wbere they make their nests.
As the children study tbelr thoughts
are led to wander by the occasional
sight of a passing ocean steamer laden
with many passenger who seem to !
free to come ond go, and the steamer
and Its freedom stimulates their Im
agination before and after It sinks In
to oblivion below tlie far horizon line
where the sky and ocean meet.
As they bend over their tasks they
know that there will no parade, pro
cessions, circuses, theaters, concerts or
rrowd to divert them Inter In the day.
They occupy a world of tbelr own, ed
ucational and workaday, Into which
outsider very seldom Intrude. Weeks
may pass without a dally newspaper
eoidng to them. Tugboat visit thorn
very seldom, if ever. There are about
four great days In the year when ex
citement runs high among tbe little
schoolchildren.
. ,irr utisrter the I'ultcd Mate
Guvemmeut. through the light hoc
tending steamer, comes plowlug li
way proudly to the island with 1 load
of supplies. Then there Is a holiday,
for the children come lu contact with
the wonders of that outer world In a
faint way, which 1 ordinarily oul a
mrstertous but magnificent and huge
something, replete with the Joys an
terrors of real life, tne vls'ble outer
Is.undary of which Is only a shore line,
piled with breaker and whitened wita
foam.
A teacher is wanted In this qifeer
school district. There have Is-en sev
eral off there. The last two were young
ladies who taught awhile and then
sought once more the more numerous
attractions of the shore. A gentleman
taught there for awhile and he found
I i.i little eliiri.'.. attentive, bright and
easily Interested. Here is a chance,
says the San Frnne-o Call, for any
one who can appreciate the ever abid
ing inaj'nty of the ocesu and who
covets a quiet place In which to read
and reflect.
f y in tn t h y.
In what way motive flavors acts at
the same time that it Induce them I
beyond the nwer of metaphysician to
reveal. But that It ds-s flavor them,
we well know. There Is a subtle chem
istry that works silently but forcefully
lietween mind and mind whose laws
have not yet ls-eti discovered by some
of theclcmentsthnteuter Into this magic
play of force are easily iwilapahle. One
of these elements In motive that plays
back and forth lictwccii teacher and
pupil In the business of education is
sympathy -that keen and loving ap
preciation of dllticulty and of need on
the part of one that awakes latent good
and stimulates slumbering activity In
another. When' learning and logic and
shrewdness stand stn-nglhlcss, the look
of sympathy can touch the heart and
move the will. Who would tench the
child must reach him. and would reach
him must feel with childhood. He must
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DISTRICT AN"1 ALL THF.KK IS OK IT.
know Its sources of Joy. lis hills of dllll
culty, Its miry paths - he must have the
boy alive Inside of him. Who has so far
withdrawn from his own chlldlMHsl and
satisfaction n Us enjoyments that the
boy or girl within has long ago is-cn
solemnly hurled has lost the key-flower
that admits to the trejmure house of
youth. Midland Schools.
The liiahop U HIKbt.
Said Bishop Spauldlng before the
N. E. A.: "I have noticed that we are
proud of our wlwsl buildings. I do
not care alsuit that I want to know
what kind of llfp Is fostered there. I
say that many of these factory-like
structures thwart tlie cause of educa
tion. I say the little country school
housc, discolored, and not larger than
a dry gissls lsix. Is a Iwtter place for
education than tlie barracks of our
city school life. The nearer we get to
nature the closer we get to troth. City
life Is decadent, and It would die out
If It were not constantly augmented
from the country. I tell you how to
educate city children is a serious prob
lem. We wear out the teachers and
make a herd rather than an aggrega
tion of individuals." Andngaln: "We
shall never get the best schools until
we get the. best talent, and we shall
never get the best talent until we can
offer better Inducements. It Is wise
to turn our attention to the profcslon
al Improvement of the teachers. But
let us also work for better Induce
ments and more Independence." And
the Bishop Is right-Popular Educator.
A Day When All Goes Wrong.
Po you ever have a day In school
when everything goes wrong? When
the children do everything they should
not do and lave undone everything
they ought to do? When by 4 o'clock
you feel as If your nerves were bare
and the evening's work seems like a
mountain ls-fore you? We all have
such days. Let me tell you how to avoid
a recurrence f such an experience on
the morrow. First temporize wkh your
conscience and let part of that moun
tain of evening work go. Be sure to go
to bed early that night If you never do
again. In the morning put on your
prettiest gown and do your hair up the
most becoming way, and I promts' yon
that Instead of the day of war you aro
expecting yon will And your pupil like
little angels. A. B. C, In School Edu
cation. Warn of the Time.
The student In a Scotch university
have the wwcr of Impeaching a pro
fessor before the university court, and
of forcing bis dismissal If they can
prove that be has neglected his duty to
tho Institution. A curious case of this
sort has Just been brought to public
nolle!. "AD-rdeen undergraduates,"
say tlie Loudon correspondent of the
New York Times, "have Just succeed
ed In a suit of this sort, and secured
the dismissal of the professor of Bib
lical criticism on the quaint ground
that he ts too orthodox, and hangs fail
ed to Itiltlate them Into the higher
form of modern criticism. That itich
a complaint hould be rsgardsd as val
id In Aberdeen, of all pates aa taUfa,
trikc Englishman as a rematkabla
algn of the times."
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