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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.-All the questions were solved by Joel Hendricks; No. 3, by Eli T. Tappan; Nos. 1 and 2, by A. A. K., J. B. Dunn, A. B. West, W. H. Dressler, and W. L. S. Bailey; No. 1, by J. A. H. C. R. S. will find that if be put for d, m" n' will be We publish only a synopsis of the solution of No. 3, as it will probably prove satisfactory, and the entire solution was necessarily lengthy.

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LOVE IS POWER AMONG CHILDREN.

As Maying time has come, and flowers are on the lea, it may not be ill-timed to relate for the benefit of boys and girls, the following story, as to the angry assertion of supposed rights.

Ruth and Amy were sisters. In early spring, as the violets began to bloom, they were playing in a meadow near their father's house. They both happened at the same time to see a violet before them. Both ran to it. Ruth, the elder sister, came to it first and plucked it. Amy was angry and cried out, 'I saw it first, and its belongs to me!' 'No, it is not yours, it is mine!' said Ruth; 'for I saw it as soon as you did, and I got to it first, and plucked it, so I have got it and you shall not have it!' Amy was quite furious, snatched at the flower and struck her sister. Then Ruth became angry and struck Amy. So they fought about it and screamed, and beat each other. Their mother heard them, and came to see what was the matter. She found her little daughters tearing and beating each other.

'What does this mean?' asked the mother.

Ruth got my flower;' said Amy.

"No, I did not, mother,' said Ruth; 'it was mine. I saw it first, and plucked it. But where is the flower?' asked their mother.

Lo! it had been torn to pieces with the fight! Thus each claimed the flower by right of discovery; and in fighting to decide who saw it first, and who should have it, both lost it.

How could this fight have been prevented, and the sweet violet, and the sweeter spirit of sisterly love and affection, been preserved? Ruth said she saw it first, and claimed it. Amy said she saw it first, and claimed it. Now, though Ruth had the violet in her hand, if, when Amy said, 'It is mine-I saw it first-I will have

it, Ruth had said to her, 'Sister, if you think the pretty flower is yours, you may have it; I should rather let you have it than keep it myself; I would rather have your love than all the flowers that grow;' would there have been a fight-any cold. ness or unkindness between the sisters? None. Well may the Ruths, Amys and Georges of our schools exclaim, 'I would rather have the affection of one kind and loving heart, than all the gold and silver of the earth.'

THE WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT.-A naval officer of distinguished merit, speaking of Sir Alexander Ball, an eminent naval commander, said: "Sir Alexander Ball has (1 dare say) forgotten the circumstances; but when he was Lieutenant Ball, he was the officer whom I accompanied on my first boat expedition, bcing then a midshipman only in my fourteenth year. As we were rowing up to the vessel which we were to attack, amid a discharge of musketry, I was overpowered by fear, my knees trembled under me, and I seemed on the point of fainting away. Lieutenant Ball, who saw the condition I was in, placed himself close beside me, and still keeping his countenance directed towards the enemy, took hold of my hand, and pressing it in the most friendly manner, said in a low voice, 'Courage, my dear boy! don't be afraid of yourself. You will recover in a minute or so. I was just the same when I first went out in this way." "Sir," added the narrator, "it was as if an angel had put a new soul into me, with the feeling that I was not yet dishonored. The whole burden of agony was removed; and from that moment I was as fearless and forward as the oldest of the boat's crew, and on our return the lieutenant spoke highly of me to our captain."

It becomes the sacred duty, not less than the high privilege, of the schoolmaster, to foster and protect the boy of genius, struggling amid the pressure of indigence and persecution. When his heart is about to sink under the conflict, let him be told of the triumphs of those kindred spirits who have gone before him. Thomas Simpson, who studied mathematics at the loom; Hugh Miller, who mused on geology when he was hewing stones; Michael Faraday, who made chemical experiments when he was a journeyman book-binder; Ferguson, who watched the stars as he tended his flocks; Gifford, who studied Latin when he was making shoes; Peter Nicholson, who wrote his work on carpentry when he was at the bench; Robert Burns, who carole dhis sweetest songs as he followed the plow; Benjamin Franklin, who drew lightning from the clouds when he kept a printer's shop.

-It is not enough, when you desire to improve minds and render them fruitful, that the things which you propose to them be good in themselves; they ought chiefly to be level to and fit to make an impression upon men of the narrowest capacity. The Great Teacher, when he came to instruct man, delighted in making him find out the wholesome truths in a recital, and in the appearance of a matter of fact. Divine wisdom taught man according to his natural dispositions.

-Public opinion is powerful, in proportion as it is independent; honored, in proportion as it is deserving of honor.

-Only the man who works for the people and with the people, has a heart for the people.

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hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, And the rockets red glare, The bombs bursting in watched were so gallantly streaming.

host in dread silence repo-ses, Now it catches the gleam, Of the morning's first blows, half conceals, half dis-clo-ses?

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THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER.-CONCLUDED.

air, Gave proof thro' the night, That our flag was still there: O, say does that star spangled

beam, In full glo-ry reflected, now shines in the stream: 'Tis the star spangled banner, Oh

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slave, From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, And the star spangled banner in

banner yet

wave, O'er the land of the free, And the home of the brave.

long may it wave,

O'er the land of the free, And the home of the brave.

tri-umph doth wave, O'er the land of the free, And the home of the brave.

4. O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved home and the war's desolation;
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto, "In God is our trust :"

And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Editorial Department.

OHIO TEACHERS-THEIR STATE ASSOCIATION MEETING.

At the same time that this number reaches the teachers of the State, a great gathering of those interested in the through lines of Railroad from the Atlan. tic to the Mississippi, will be celebrated at Cincinnati, on our own soil, a cen. tral point of the Nation's highway, the completion of an uninterrupted railway constructed at a great cost, over mountain, plain and river, from the monumen. tal city of Baltimore to the mound city of St. Louis. Of itself the occasion is one of momentous import, as demonstrating the progress of the West, and her. alding the triumphs of science and art. Presidents and Superintendents. Engi. neers and Conductors, Stockholders and People will unite to congratulate each other that the mountains have been scaled or tunneled, and rivers bridged; and that, by the iron rail and the "Graded System," the East and the West, the North and the South, are in truth a united people. This event marks a period of great significance in Western Progress. Educational men rejoice with Rail. road men in their victories. But in another month, Presidents and Superintendents, Engineers and Conductors, Principals and Assistants, of the great "broad track" Educational "Common School" Enterprise of the day, will assemble on the Banks of the Ohio, at Steubenville, near the site of old Fort Steuben, a military post or garrison, the common name for which at the time was "Mingo," established at the upper end of a broad, extensive tract of bottom lands, once occupied by a band of Mingo Indians, and known as the "Mingo Bottom," where once resided "Logan" the Mingo Chief. What a strange contrast will be presented then, in this July, to the scene of July seventy years ago!

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Two years before the first settlement of Ohio, to wit: in July, 1786, encamp. ed at various points on the banks of the Ohio river, between Little Beaver and the Mingo Bottom, were the Government Surveyors, running the lines of the seven ranges" of townships-the first ranges of public lands ever surveyed by the General Government, west of the Ohio River. This pioneer band consisted of Winthrop Sargent of N. H., Gen'l Tupper of Mass., Col. Sproat of R. I., Capt. Morris of N. Y., Capt. Hoops of Pa., James Simpson of Md., Col. Sherman, of Conn., with Capt. Thos. Hutchens, U. S. Geographer.

To protect them from the hostile Indians-Wyandots, Mingos and Shawnees -Col. Hamtranck, Capt. Heart, and Lieut. Percy, were their attendants, with pack horses and provisions, to escort them to and from the survey: their garri. son and commissariat depot was Fort Steuben.

The contrast, then, is wonderful from the day of feeble beginnings to the proud period of our present advancement. The teachers of Ohio will assemble on historic ground. No inconsiderable part has the school teacher performed in bringing about the triumphant victories which are occasioning popular rejoicings-what they have done is in the past; what more and better they may do, is in the future. Who, next to their parents, have a greater moulding influence on the minds of youth-the future men of our State-than their daily instructors in school? What armaments and supplies, mental and moral, should be in the arsenals of these Majors, and Captains, and Drill Sergeants of the army of Cadets of Ohio!

The educators are the Engineers and Architects of our "Internal Improve

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