MY DEAR MISS: In your general management, you fail to realize that sincerity should be the basic principle. I say this in all kindness and as your friend. I tried to believe that your first inaccurate reports were not intentional; but as I saw the same inaccuracy repeated day after day, I felt that I must speak to you. After this, to use your own language, I hoped you would "profit by yesterday's lesson." But the same inaccurate reports continued. Those three children that you sent back to their seats knew they were tardy. What was the influence? You manifest the spirit you have shown in regard to this matter at other points. Unless it is checked, it will ruin your work as a teacher, and take out of your life that quiet, restful peace which is the foundation of all true happiness. After carefully considering the matter, I can see but one of two courses to pursue : 1. To ask for your immediate removal. 2. To try to lead you to see existing conditions in their true light, and help you to bury the past in a future devoted to the highest ideals of a true teacher. I have decided upon the latter course. Now, my dear Miss, let me say to you that there is not anything in life which can meet with real success unless it rests upon the rock of sincerity. Other structures may stand for a while, but they soon become top-heavy and fall. Look at this matter carefully and in the light of judgment, and though the lesson is a hard one, one that will hurt and that deeply, yet feel and know that you can gain from it strength that will change the whole current of your life. I trust you will accept this criticism in the spirit in which it is given, and feel that you will ever find in me a real friend and helper. Sincerely yours, NOTE. The Kansas City, Mo., school report for 1895-'96, J. M. Greenwood, superintendent, contains much .material helpful to teachers, particularly in the lines of language and primary numbers.-ED. Joseph B. Smart, one of the oldest, most prominent, and best known Odd Fellows in New Hampshire, died in Concord, March 16. He was born at Richmond, Canada, April 13, 1810, but spent most of his life in this state. He was a mason and builder by trade and was identified with the construction of some of the most important business blocks in Concord. SAMUEL C. CLARK. Samuel C. Clark, the third oldest member of the Belknap county bar, died at Lakeport March 18. He was born at Gilford January 9, 1832, and was admitted to the bar in 1854. From 1857 to 1874 he was clerk of the supreme court for Belknap county. In 1867 and 1878 he was a member of the house of representatives; in 1870 and 1872 he was assistant clerk of that body and in 1873 and 1875 its clerk. He also held many local positions of trust and responsibility. GEORGE A. BLANCHARD. George A. Blanchard, for many years a famous manufacturer of churns, was born in Concord October 8, 1824, and died in Boston March 13. Early in life he was with the Abbot-Downing company, later went West and engaged in steamboating on the Mississippi, spent a year in Paris, and then came to Concord and engaged in manufacturing until his business was ruined by a disastrous fire. He was the third member to die of the famed Mystic Five. years. NELSON CROSS. Judge Nelson Cross died in Dorchester, Mass., March 13, at the age of 77 He was born in Lancaster and practised law in Cincinnati until in 1852 he was appointed judge in New York. He served with distinction in the Civil War as colonel of a New York regiment and at its close was brevetted majorgeneral for gallant and meritorious conduct. CAPT. G. H. HUBBARD. Capt. G. H. Hubbard, a cigar manufacturer at Manchester for many years, died there March 9. He was born in Wilton October 5, 1830, was educated in New Ipswich, and resided in Boston and Springfield before the war. He recruited 100 men and was captain in the Tenth New Hampshire regiment. He served gallantly at Fredericksburg. He was city councilman in 1867, alderman in 1868 and 1869, and representative in the legislature in 1891. He was a charter member of Louis Bell Post, G. A. R. GEORGE W. DAVIS. G. W. Davis, senior member of the firm of G. W. Davis & Company, machinists, died at Nashua March 11. He had been a prominent resident for forty years, and was known all over New England. He was born in Washington, October 2, 1828. He had held many important public offices in the city, and was a member of the legislature in 1867 and 1868. He was a successful business man and one of the inventors of the Davis-Rollins engine. REV. LUTHER FARNHAM. General Theological library at Boston, Rev. Luther Farnham, librarian of the died March 15, aged 81 years, 1 month. 1816. He was educated in the schools of Concord and the Kimball Union academy, Meriden. He entered Dartmouth in 1833, graduating in 1837. REV. J. B. HOLMAN. Rev. J. B. Holman, a well-known retired clergyman of the Methodist denomination, died in Concord March 11, at an advanced age. Rev. Mr. Holman was for many years a clergyman in the New Hampshire conference. He was then transferred to the Kansas conference, where he spent several years. He returned to Concord about ten years ago. He was a prominent Odd Fellow, and was an inmate of the Odd Fellows' home a considerable time. EING a semi-barbarous nation, the Turks are not allowed by the powers to arrest foreigners except for the immediate purpose of preserving the public peace, and even then they must deliver any one so arrested to his consul immediately. Turkish prisons are exceedingly filthy, and no food is furnished, the prisoners being dependent upon their friends. The result of this is, that the consul is responsible for the behavior of his countrymen within his territory, and so he has to keep up a sort of police department of his own, formed by his dragomen and kawasses. A foreigner is not tried by Turkish courts for offenses he may commit, but by one composed of the various foreign consuls in the vicinity. For this reason the Moslems compel the attendance of a kawasse upon every party of foreigners visiting the harem. Entering the enclosure by the gate in the middle of the north wall, we first turned to the left and looking out and down to the base of the eastern part of this wall, we saw "Birket Israel," a large cistern recognized as the pool of Bethesda of the Bible. The Turk is now busily employed in filling this up. We then passed along the eastern wall, which is here a part of the city wall also, and looked across the valley of Jehosaphat to the Mount of Olives, Gethsemane and the tombs of Absalom, Jehosaphat, and St. James. Both sides of the valley here are covered with graves, those on the eastern side Jewish, and those beneath the city, Moslem. Following along the eastern wall to the southward we passed near its middle point the golden gate, which is now walled up. The Moslem tradition is, that when the Christians retake Jerusalem they will enter by this gate, so they have taken precautions accordingly. Just outside this gate is a stone post called Mohammed's pillar and a stone called Mohammed's seat. Upon the latter the prophet is to sit on judgment day, watching mankind try to walk across |