THE TEACHERS' WORLD. All t'iwhr nml frlrncls of dliirntlun aro oonlliilljr tnvlhtl to contribute wtmtoviT mnr ho hitlpful or sinrirwtlve to other In thin line or work. UomnmnUwt.lons will he frlmlljr mcolvcil by the editor of this tliv partment. MILFORD SCHOOL. Grmlo 5 Intermediate Department Arithmetic. Prof. J. ('. Watmm, teacher. Pek Namks. Cents. PorcyHnrt W?, Henry Klitor H8 Allio Kinerston Honsie Vnnoliiuliv 70 Ruth Do Witt 85 Clyde Kipp Willie Turner Oi Rosetta Wacker 00 Mutel Davis 0 Bert Cjuinn uH JjillieUourluy 67 Ellen Bra it t OuorgeWugner 4 Thotims Htt-olo 64 William Steele 64 Floreneo Van Cainpen 60 .ToHie Hearclsley 60 Frod Wai'ker 39 Roswell 1'almer 37 POINTS WORTH REMEMBERING . Here aro some points to think about given in the Intelligence : A recitation -without attention )h waste of time and energy. All teaching should be to develop the lowers of doing by doing. The sure way to make study de lightful is to teach as if It were. Iu written exercises, train pupils to correct one another's work. Use slates and the blackboard in teaching reading from the begin ning. Soe that the school room has a steady supply of fresh air through the day. Teach figures precisely as you teach words, by the simple law of association. The teacher should ascertain the pupils manner of working and habits 'of study. During recess the windows should lie opened and the school-room thor oughly aired. In teaching geography do not crowd the minds of the pupils with dry facts and names. The teacher needs not only to awaken a love of books, but to guide In their selection. Where one man inspires twenty in any other profession, the teacher inspires a thousand, or ought to. The minds of pupils will grow to ward improvement if we will but free the way before thoni. Do not allow yourself to be hedged in by a wall of self-conceit so that you cannot look beyond yourself. A school teacher who does not take a good Bchool journal cannot keep up with the ago in which he lives. One lesson depends on another, Evory unlearned lesson weakens the foundation on which the others rest. A lesson in the first and second grades should not exceed a quarter of an hour in length under any cir cumstances. Singing is one of the most valua ble instruments in a skilful hand for keeping alive the tone and activ ity of the school. Teachers must not foiget that cor rect thinking must precede all at tempts at talking, whether by young and old. Your work as an instructor of boya and girls is an exceedingly no. bio one, and as a teacher you can and ought to be one of the best. The greatest care should be taken to have pupils write figures and signs very distinctly, .to arrange their work neatly, and never do one bit of work carelessly. In teaching history, supplement the dry, condensed statements of the textbooks by anecdotes, incid ents, etorios, and biographical sketches of noted men, drawn from your memory or from good books. A SCOTCH EDUCATOR'S OPIN ION. "The first great misconception in this business is what I might call the besotting sin of the professional educator, to act exactly in the teeth of what the word ctymologically means, as if education meant 'put ting into' a man, instead, of 'draw ing out.' But the human brain is not a knowledge-box.to be furnished all round and stuffed all through with all torts of scientific facts, historical dittos, and dogmatic pro pitious, duly stomped and labled like so many articles ina shop. "Not so. Tho human mind is a soil and a garden and a growth ; and the seed that grows there is planted by God Almighty, and not by any mortal man. On this principle the wisest of the wise Greeks, tho great preacher of reaaou, t'ojratcs, oou- stitntly actjd j as an educator he , aspired to be nothing more than an "oboUitrical attendant, wisely watch ing and helping an intellectual birth with tho cruationof which ho had nothing to do. "Ou this principle, tho firwt busi Ui.jjJ is to watch the natural craving of the growing creature, and supply ita wants with a wise discrimination and here it is evident that the main thing to do is to bring the organs of the crtattiro, the eye and the enr and the hand into living touch with their natural surroundings j in other words natural history, drawing and music and recitation ought to form the foundation of all education ac cording to nature and the divine constitution of the universe. Young persims oujjht to bo taught to use their eyes in the direct observation, and discriminating description of what lies lxforo them and about them ; a proem of training not only not performed, but systematically contravened in much of our modern teaching, substituting, as it does, dead rules for living facts, and for eign echoes for native voices. "The root of all this false method lies in the prominent place occupied in our modern training by books. Books certainly aro n great help in this acquisition of various kinds of knowledge but they aro useful only in a secondary way ; useful as 'the stones in thequarry are to the archi tect, or wood to the cabin maker j as a substitute for living formative force they are in all cases null. No man learns dancing, fencing, draw ing, singing, painting, by reading IxHiks ; but he dances, and fences, and dra ws, and paints, and sings as a matter of living practice in the first placo, and only then may care to hear about the bookish thoory. The substitution of books for the living exercise of the faculty, no doubt has arisen from the facility which it affords to the teacher of doing a great deal of apparent work with the least possible trouble; take the book and learn the rule; and, if you can repeat it accurately, I have no more bother." Herbert thought that the ago of about nine or ten to twelve or thir teen, boys were better fitted to un derstand and appreciate tho sub stance of Homer than at any other age. Tales from Shakespeare, not like those ot Lamb, but told with more spirit, more phrases f rotn the original, and especially with quota tions or taking passages. Much of Dante if adapted from a standpoint like that of Rosotti's " Shadow of Dante," and so on through much of the most important literature of the world, can be intelligently and last ingly impressed on the minds of children before tho average age of leaving our high or even our gram mar schools. What is needed here is true child editions, made not by literary mon, not even by well-read and successful teachers or superin tendents, but by special teachers of reading, who would patiently test many children and classes with the work by piecemeal, and cut and adapt the material till it really and closely flttod tho minds rtiid hoarts of the children. These we shall have as reading becomes a sp.x;ialty in pedagogy, as it ought and is sure to do. The danger now is that badly mado editions will make us sceptical of tho true way. As a rule, the younger the age for which such inn teriul is adapted, the suror it will be relished by all. The End of the Century. Fredorick Campbell writing to the Evangelist on this point says : The question as to whon this cen tury will end and the next begin b more and more upon us, as the few years that intervene are rapidly diminishing in number. The con troverey appsared in the columns of Tho Evangelist some months ago, and it has been carried on widely. Same maintain that the now century begins the moment 1899 turns to 1900; others that 1901 is the first year of the new century. There is one consideration which I have not seen advanced. If we . can tell where fractions of this century ended and began, there ought to be no difficulty in determining whore the whole ends and the next will bo gin. JNo one will dispute time tne first decade of this century ended with the year 1810 ; the first quarter ended with the year 1825 ; tho first half ended, not with 1849, but with 1850, and therefore the complete oeutury must end with 1900; other wise we have only forty-nine years in its second half. There is yet an other way of settling-the question. The first century did not end with the year 99, but with the year 100, and the second century began with the year 101 ; the second century therefore must have closed with the year 200 ; the third with the year 300 ; the tenth with tho year 1000 and the nineteenth must close with the year 1800. The simple rule is that it takes a full 100 years to mako a century ; therefore full 1900 years to make nineteen centuries. The next century therefore does not be gin with 1900, but with 19(1, just as the first century began with the year one. Consequently, including the yeur begun, we now have four years remaining of the nineteenth century. Ointment fur the Sort Spoil. The orator butcher and Freeholder who so loves to bo known as "Sand Burr" seems to 1m on the ragged edge of something these days. I really suppose he has some soro siKits, but if he will only quit in citing us constantly to bo applying blisters to them they would soon get well without any further medicine. Some one suggests that instead of "Sand Burr" the appellation of "Hilly Billy" would bo more appro priate, and descriptive of the author of so much shallowness. Ever since Everett Crone banged him with his little club up in Montague he seems to have lost some of his buttons. Tliis leads mo to believe that jwrhaps his friends have reason for feiying that softening of the gray matter has not only begun, butjnay bo very far advanced in his case. Imbibing freely of " Spiritus Frumentuni" it is said often leads to that sad end too. It may have never been very firm ot tho best, but ot any rate it would be pitiful if it should suffer any further deterioration. Perhaps Dr. Rymant could aid in nverting so serious a calamity, and it is suggest ed os a last resort that "Silly Billy" embrace "Dick" and the Gold Cure at the earliest possible moment, or at least before the - phoebes nost again. n. The liquor Triffic. I found a statement last week which ought to interest those peo ple who, in their almndonce of pro found ignorance, say that wiping out the liquor traffic ruins a state. Hero it is : Maine is prohibition. Ohio and Illinois are license Stotes. The population of Maine is less than ono-flfth that of Ohio, but they have more than half again os much loid up in the savings bank. Maine has a little more than one-sixth the population of Illinois, but tho de posits of the people exceod twice tho deposit of the people of Illinois Twenty nine States are more popu lous than Maine, but only seven sur pass her in the aggregate of savings banks deposits. In 1890 Governor Burieigh said: "No state has so little property under mortgage, nc cording to vuluation, as the State of Maine. Thore are whole counties in which there is not a farm mort gage, and Maine loans more money than any farming state." Gover nor Foraker said that the peoplo of Ohio wore suffering dreadfully from their heavy mortgages, and that thousands of their farms were mort gaged for more money than they would ever bring. Many of the children in Maine never saw a drunkard. No young person in Maine ever saw a dramshop. Free Press. Storm to Jonah' Retcuo. At the Sundoy-School Convention, under tho auspices of the Pennsyl vanift Association, at Stroudsburg, Wednesday, ex-Judge and former Congressman John B, Storm created a sensation. He is a well-known Methodist layman, and he took oc casion to attack Rev. Dr. Lyman AblH)tt, of Brooklyn, N. Y., for his ridicule of Jonah and the whale story in the bible. Judgo Storm said that the Jonah story could not be thrown out by Christians. His remarks were loudly applauded. Salmon for the Deltw.r.. Tho Fish Commissioners of Penn sylvania nod New Jersoy propose to placo 5,000,000 salmon eggs in the upper Delaware river next Spring. They are to be stmt in cans from Oregon and California. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Statistics show that it costs $:3.82 an acre to raise wheat in Massachu setts. If the average yield is oven 20 bushels, those farmers are get ting behinJ fast enough for comfort. WHY NOT BUY THE BEST? CXfrrTI1rl positively win not Injure yottr f-Jll I Ulty lutuiU or the tliirnt ftt'HKJ. Till tin lt-ii jtrovt.ii by tuitimt tt'i-Ls. CluiJmt. tta-Oietl nh it tM-coiiio wiiiittand olm'h-Msi. ilufWiie fl-r llaitinrltt. bueit) tor tfittaMMittti. V ill r- iitovu t!-uit8 fniiu iiiiu'blti tuiU luoUkt jour Zrt it ttoat W mv speak for ttdf. STERLING n GUARANTEED V. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Thnrtfiar "eh. 1 ! PHirrlniB.ites arms" tlunnlnn trrltory Mve bfn forbidden liet'nuBt nf the In- dlnn plague. J. K. MrCiillnrh nf Wlnnlpep; won the (cold medal and the world's rhnmplon Bhlp at the Montreal skating meeting. The Republican members nf the ways and means committee derided to fix the tariff on nails at half a cent a pound. The Jlritlsh Nlfror expedition has cap tured Hlda. cnpltal of the Foulah tribe. One Krttlsh olFtcer was killed In the as sault. A. L. Qarford of Rlyrla. O., waa elect ed president of the national board of trade of cycle manufacturers at its meeting In New York. It Is rumored that Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller have formed an offensive and defensive alliance to control the steel market of the world. John. T. Bhayne of Chicago tele graphed to a friend In Washington that his brother, C. C. Bhayne of New York, had been selected by Mr. McKlnley for postmaster general. Friday. Feb. 11. King Malletoa has offered amnesty to Matafa and the other exiled Samoan chiefs. Richard Croker was asked to become Tammany's candidate for anayor of Greater New York. The annual meeting of the New York Yacht club was held. J. Plerpont Mor gan was elected commodore. Two employees of the library of con gress were held for trial In Washing ton, charged with stealing valuable au tographs from the library. Chauncey M. Depew was elected chairman of the board of control of the Joint Traffic association at a meeting held In New York. He succeeds the late President Roberts of the Pennsyl vania road. Saturday, Feb. IS Captain General Weyler tiaa given 2,000.000 francs to the Spanish war fund In Cuba. m Robert M. Moore, past grand master of Masons in New Jersey, died at hlfl home In Elizabeth, aged 67. The Greater New York commission adopted the new charter after making several minor amendments. A wreck occurred on the Virginia Central and Pittsburg railroad In which eight persons t ere badly Injured. Secretary Herbert accepted torpedo boat No. 6, waiving the usual formali ties on account of the vessel's fine per formance. Howard C. Benham, a private bank er and prominent citizen of Batavla, N. Y., was accused by a coroner's Jury of poisoning his wife. Governor Black's bill to abolish the capltol commission and complete the building by contract was introduced In the New York state legislature. Edwin B. Aller, a well known music al composer and organist of Baltimore, committed suicide at the Hotel Staf ford. Laudanum was the means used. Rev. Edward Hunting Rudd, late of the Presbyterian church at Albion, N. Y., has been called to the assistant pastorate of Dr. Parkhurst's church In New York city. Monday, Feb, IS. Notice of a 10 per cent reduction has been posted at the works of the Penn sylvania Steel company at Harrlsburg, to take effect March 1. Consul Iaslgl, the sultan's represent ative in Boston, was arrested In New York on a charge of embezzlement. He was remanded tn Jefferson Market court. The regents of the university Issued a protest against the bill permitting the New York Law school to confer degrees without regard to the regents' standard. The works of the Richard Grant company, dealers In cooperage supplies In Jersey City, have been almost com pletely destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $50,000. General Maceo's dispatch chief, Colo nel Carbo, says the Spanish will not permit Miss Barton to carry on Red Cross work among the Cubans, even though Minister de Lome says she may go to Cuba. Miss Sophonlsba Breckinridge, attor ney at law, Kentucky's flrBt woman lawyer, filed her first suit In the Fay ette circuit court. She represented Mrs. E. M. Swlgert, who sues her hus band, Charles Bwlgert, for absolute di vorce. Tuesday, Feb. 16. The new minister from Belgium was received by President Cleveland at the White House. United States Senator Wolontt arrived In Berlin and oonferred with lending Ger man blinetalllstg. Ths trial of William J. Koerner for kill ing his betrothed, Miss Rose Redffnto, last September was begun before Judge New burger In New York. President Elect MnRlnley was confined to bis bed by a cold and by advice of his physician declined to see any visitors. His condition, however, Is not regarded as rious. Alfred Dolphy, a cook, 48 years old. made a murderous onslaught on his wife nd her family In New York. He shot his wife twice, and she may die. A crowd was Dear lynching him on the way to the sta tion. A large bowlder was placed on the Con sol Ida ted railroad tracks near New Haven and securely wedged in with ties, with the evident purpose of wrecking a train. It was discovered and removed with dlllicul- y just before a freight train arrlvod. Wdnidr, Feb. IT. Mrs. Polly Cloud Graves of Lexington, Ky., celebrated bur one hundredth birth lay. The battleship Texas arrived In Galves ton after a remarkably fast run from New York. Bishop Doane of Albany declared that Mormonlsm prevails in New York city to sn alarming extent. Cecil Rhodes testified befojv the "parlia mentary eommistiiori in Loudon that he ild not order the Jameson raid upon the 1 raosvaal. Alberto Tedeschl, an Italian barber, was strangled after a desperate struggle In his shop, at 3 Mulberry street, New York, by man who hoped to get bis savinga Throe men attempted to rob Henry Ry lands and his brother, Thomas H., of a utchel oontulnlng f,000 at Bridgeport, Conn. Two of the highwaymen were shot, one fatally. The other escaped. United States marshals forced the door of A. Kllinger & Co. ' cloak factory In Chicago and took posMMttion uuder &u at tachment. The factory bad been clood uuder two chattel mortgagee, and a custo dian Was to charge. Kerr York LegUletare. Albany, Feb. 17. The senate adopted the house resolution coimuuuding the course of ScnaWr Hill in behalf of an American cltitm lmprltiooud In . Cuba. The senate confirmed the nominations of Asbluy W. t'ole, George W. Dunn and Frank M. Baker as railroad oomiulusion era. The aaaumbly paused bills permitting the erection of booths within auiop lines. A hill was Introduced for the erection of a library building in Dryant park, New York. Now Yurkrs sitoke lu favor of the bill to limit the height of building. VKUUNICA 1H13 -sav tri - 'JW UEAUTtFIBR. rHiRONICA" muTi5i)iiR, IS A HOST SANITARY I'XlHUflHT. ! FUL PREPARATION. H PURIPIES AS WELL AS BEAUTIFIES THE SKIN. Guaranteed perfectly harmless, j i Used by people of refinement and i recommended by all who Jiave j tested its merits. By Mill ornt Drugnitts. yi (Send ioc. for sample and circular.) G H E Ml G A L M'FG G 0., I.nUfvIlK-, !M. V. "Pirtlcept Ctimlnei?" During tho last year a couple of correspondent for tho '(Jn.ette" not young, only in exiwience have made themselves ridiculous by pro testing that when I mentioned some particular 1-reach of good morals, or of the law that I was claiming nil tho people of 8andyston were crim inals Proceeding npon this false assumption they assailed me ns n villiflor nml vigorously defended the offenders ngninst good morals as well ns tho open violators of law. It wore the essence of silliness on their part to claim might elsa, but what we bolieve that there are many good people in our town ; that the major ity nre good, nnd fully up to the average of other towns. But while New York hns nmong its criminal classes the Bridge and Stable gangs, nnd Chicago its Slaughter House gangs, yet the majority of tho peo plo of each city aro good citizens. 80 while Bandyston may have its Meat House gangs or other criminals yet no one has ever had nny rea son to infer under color of my writings that the wholo population w.is of that objectionable stripe. The evident relish with which these quill drivers defend this class, would load to the reasonable inference,that there is nt least a fellow feeling. could not understand their notion 011 any other ground. Do not they who njK)logi,o for crime, nnd be come its defenders thereby pirtici pato in snob wrong doings? I have little sympathy with it and I have particularly noticed that whenever I expose wrongdoers those scribes always net very much as if the stone had come through tboir own roof, I leave it to everyone to draw thoir own inferences where their sym pathies lie, and why. H. Giving Away Franchises. If the village, ns well ns the city, would understand the fact that it ought to sell nnd not to give away its franchises, possibly much might be accommplishod. By this moans it could noquire funds enough to en able it to keep its streets in perfect order without extra tax upon the in habitants, so that they would need only to hire a suitable ngont to carry out necessary roforms. European towns profit by the sale of franchises to lighting and transportation com panies, nnd Baltimore raised money by a slight tax on the street rail ways to purchase and maintain its beautiful jmrk. Mary C. Bobbins in February Atlantic. Mileage for GonaUblei. Relative to the much discussed cpaestion of Constables' pay for mileage, Judge John Q. Love bandtxl down an opinion in court nt Ballefonte, on Thursday, in a tost case brought, for back compensa tion. 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