For the wealth of golden harvests,
For the sunlight and the rain,
For the grandeur of the ocean,
For the mountain and the plain,
For ever-changing seasons,

And the comforts which they bring,
For Thy love so grand, eternal,

We would thank Thee, O our King.

EDITORIAL.

I wouldna gie a copper black
For ony mon that turns his back
On duty clear;

I wouldna take his word or note,

I wouldna trust him for a groat,
Nor lift an oar in any boat
Which he might steer.

-Mrs. Barr.

NEW MOVE No. 2.-Montgomery County is the leader. Supt. J. S. Zuck and his trustees have made a new departure by supplementing the township meeting in this wise: They have agreed to hold joint meetings so that the entire county will be reached in five of these meetings. They have employed Miss Eleanor Wells of Indianapolis to be present and take the lead in these meetings. The meetings are informal and an effort is made to get at the real needs of the teach

ers.

The meetings might be called Round Table meetings in which all are encouraged to talk and ask questions. The superintendent and trustees attend all these meetings and the results so far are highly satisfactory. Miss Wells is a skillful primary teacher and knows how to give other teachers the benefit of her experience. The trustees pay all expenses. Is not this a good move?

The STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, at its recent meeting, commissioned High Schools at Shelbyville and Oakland City. Ruskin's Essays, edited by Mrs. L. G. Hufford, of Indianapolis, was adopted as the basis of literary study for Indiana teachers for the next six months. Irwin Shepard, of Winona, Minn., Superintendent F. A. Cotton, of New Castle, and Superintendent C. F. Patterson, of Edinburg, were made a visiting committee to the State Normal School. President W. W. Parsons, of the State Normal School, President Joseph Swain, of the State University, and D. K. Goss, Indianapolis, were appointed to prepare a circular on English in commissioned high schools. A professional license was granted to Superintendent S. W. Taylor, of Warrick county. D. K. Goss was elected secretary of the board, to take the place of Lewis H. Jones, resigned. The two new members on the board, W. A. Hester, of Evansville, D. K. Goss, of Indianapolis, were cordially received.

Help the NeeDY. Recently an appeal was made through the Indianapolis papers for some poor children who did not have clothing in which they could attend school. This suggests the idea that there are many children out of school for the reason that they do not have sufficient clothing. Very often the most worthy are too proud to ask fɔr help and they should be sought out. If teachers will take some pains to find what pupils in the vicinity of their schools are out of school and the reasons for the non-attendance they will doubtless find that the lack of proper clothing plays a large part. In such cases an enterprising teacher can always overcome the difficulty. If the trustee cannot render the needed assistance there are always to be found those who are ready to assist such cases. This work should be done quietly and unobtrusively so as not to wound the pride of people-as generally the most diffident are the most deserving.

Such an effort as is here suggested, faithfully carried out all along the line would relieve much distress and place hundreds, if not thousands of children in the schools where they belong. Reader, will you do your part?

A WOMAN IN THE FACULTY.

The trustees of the State University have at last put a woman in the Faculty. This has been a pressing demand for years. Every school admitting both sexes should have at least one woman on the Board of Control. We believe that a college that admits only young men would be the better for having two or three strong women in its faculty. The young men would be the better for such an influence both in and out of the class-room. And in an institution admitting young women there are added reasons for having women in the Faculty.

Miss Mabel Banta is the new addition. She will act as assistant in Latin. Let us all hope that Miss Banta will do so well that the trustees will be compelled to give her several lady associates.

TEACHING PATRIOTISM.

The JOURNAL believes thoroughly in teaching patriotism but does not agree with some of the friends in the use of so much "ceremony" as is often recommended.

The JOURNAL believes that every school building should have a flag to use on special occasions. If displayed every day it becomes a thing of indifference. The JOURNAL endorses heartily the ceremony of saluting the flag-but not for a daily exercise. In the hands of most teachers it would become a mere form. The foll wing form of "salute" is short and can be easily learned. Let it be drilled upon till the children know it thoroughly:

The flag is displayed at the teacher's desk. The piano, or bugle, or bell strikes a quick note; every scholar rises, turns his face towards the flag, hands to the side; another note is sounded, every scholar gives the

flag the military salute-right hand lifted, palm outward, to a line with forehead and close to it. Standing thus, all begin to repeat together: "I pledge allegiance to my flag and the Republic for which it stands; one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." At the words, "to my flag," the right hand is extended gracefully, palm upward, towards the flag, and remains in this gesture till the end of the affirmation; whereupon all hands immediately drop to the side. standing, as the instrument strikes a chord all begin at once some patriotic song.

Then, still

Any teacher wishing suggestions and information in regard to teaching patriotism should write Eliza J. Crisler, Greensburg, Ind.

FIRST WOMAN STUDENT.

"Many years ago when Mary Hannah Krout and a coterie of young ladies applied for admittance to Wabash College they we e firmly refused. Ever since that day, however, the granite of prejudice has been crumbling and there is now a big crack in the giant bowlder. A lady is attending recitations in Wabash College. When Professor I. B. Baldwin, of the Quincy schools, came to Wabash for special work his young wife came with him. Mrs. Baldwin is a progressive young lady and became imbued with the desire to take the course in biblical litera ture under President Burroughs. She applied for admission to attend the recitations and permission was finally granted Mrs. Baldwin is now a student of Wabash, and while her name will not appear in the catalogue she is receiving all the benefits of the study she is pursuing. It is a big step toward the inevitable."

The above is clipped from the Crawfordsville Journal and is welcome news. Wabash is the only college in this state, except Notre Dame, that does not admit women. If there could be as much new, this-century blood infused into the Board of Trustees as has recently been put into the faculty, the thing would soon be done.

Women do not ask that the standard of scholarship be lowered in any degree; they simply ask an even chance and they will do the rest.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

DIED OCTOBER 7, 1894.

1809-1894 mark the beginning and the end of the years cf one of America's best known and most widely-loved men of letters, Oliver Wendell Holmes. His was a long life whether you measure by years or events. Gladstone was born the same year. George III was king of Great Britain and James Madison was president of the United States when Holmes first saw the light. He was a dignified professor of physiology at Dartmouth when the young Queen Victoria was called to the head of the English government. In the history of American letters he witnessed the beginning and his death marks the end of that New England school which has given American literature reputation

and standing abroad as well as at home. Emerson, Lowell, Longfellow, Whittier, Hawthorne--he lived, walked and talked with them all, and saw them all pass on into the shadowy land. Now he follows. We place the books of Holmes along with those of his literary associates and friends and think of him as again enjoying their companionship. Perhaps the book that marks most distinctly his individuality is the "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table." Indiana teachers who were members of the Reading Circle for 1892--93 sat around this breakfast table and partook of its wit and wisdom, its humor and satire. Now, the Autocrat's place is vacant but those who were partakers of his bounty must rejoice over a year spent in such society. The Autocrat was written when Holmes had completed his first half century and in it he embodies the thought and feeling he had stored up during fifty years of existence. By profession he was a physician but the cold, practical facts of physiology did not conflict with the humor which so delightfully characterizes his literary efforts.

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Dr. Holmes's pen was equally facile in poetry and prose,in fiction and essay. "Old Ironsides," "The Last Leaf," "The Chambered Nautiare poems that will live as long as the language in which they are written. Elsie Venner, one of his novels, is a delightful study in heredity, giving a glimpse of the borderland between physiology and psychology. But his best pictures of life are in his essays, among which the Autocrat stands out unique.

A London paper of recent date comments thus upon the departure of Holmes: "Dr. Holmes's writings are so widely read and cheap editions are so widely distributed that his name has become as popular in every English household as the most generally known authors of English birth. The Autocrat had more readers than even Lowell, Irving or Motley. He appealed to every class. His chasteness of style was an example to every writer of the Queen's English, and the man's gentleness, charity and ever-ready sympathy secured him as many admirers on this side the Atlantic as on yours."

"PLEASE DISCONTINUE MY JOURNAL."-Occasionally we receive a letter containing the foregoing sentence, with not a word about paying for the copies already received, or not a word of excuse for this setting aside the contract without the consent of the other interested party. When a teacher subscribes for a paper he enters into a contract and is in honor bound by it. The agent has done his work and deserves his commission. The clerk has received the name, made the necessary registration and must be paid. The editor has printed one or two or more issues and paid for the same and in addition has paid the postage. In short, the editor has entered into this contract to furnish this JOURNAL for a year and has advanced money on it. Has the teacher any legal or moral right to ignore his obligation and coolly say, "Please discontinue my JOURNAL. In case of any misfortune or special reason why a teacher cannot easily carry out his contract is it too much to say that he owes it to the editor to make explanation and to pay for what he has already received?

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

STATE BOARD QUESTIONS FOR SEPTEMBER.

Science of EDUCATION.-Discuss the subject of order in the schoolroom, showing whether it is a means or an end, and distinguishing carefully between order as determined by outside force, as that of the teacher, and order as determined by principles implanted in the pupils causing them to control themselves; and show in what ways pupils will be affected as to their after life by these different methods of school government.

PHYSIOLOGY.-1. Describe the central nervous system and locate the centers of voluntary, reflex, and vital actions.

2. Describe the skin and functions of the various parts. (Give a full discussson of 1 or 2.)

U. S. HISTORY.-1. What treatment did the Quakers receive from the Puritans of Massachusetts? Why was this done? How was it stopped?

2.

What were the causes of the French and Indian War?

3. Give an account of the capture of Cornwallis. What was the effect of this capture?

4. When were the Embargo and Non-Intercourse Acts passed? How were they passed? How were they received by New England?

What do

5. Give the most important events of Jackson's administrations. 6. Give an account of the laying of the Atlantic Cable. you think of the importance of this event?

7. What do you understand by the following terms: "Carpet-Baggers?" "Boycott?" "Black List?" "Anarchist?" The "New South?"

GEOGRAPHY.-1. Draw an outline map of the United States. Draw in roughly the Mississippi River system, showing the extent of the territory drained by it. Draw the principal rivers draining the Atlantic sea-board.

2. Tell, briefly, what sort of a geography lesson might be developed from a copper cent as an object before the First Reader class.

3. What countries of the world are crossed by the parallel of latitude which runs through Memphis, Tenn.?

4. What causes operate to make isothermal lines vary from parallels of latitude?

5. What characteristic differences in the governments of Russia, Germany and France?

6. Bound the territory embraced in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado. 7. How do the mineral deposits of the Alleghany and Blue Ridge Mountains differ from those of the Rocky Mountains and Coast Range? 8. What would probably be the nature of the commerce of the Danube River and the Caspian and Black Seas?

9. How does the climate of Orange Free State compare with that of Indiana? With that of Argentine Republic?

10. Describe the Rio Grande River. The Volga system of rivers.