ton Transcript, girls the Remmenon, and the nding them to Fall," before ad "The Swiss think about art ave for us the spiring things, cure, in objects of character. this unless the ing within his hension? Lead understanding, regard art like ation of artists, ove for and an s, birds, flowers, em, and these which is being e. The average medieval archiings of various illiantly plumed or a bunch of ich are within ch contain inary art educalies in infinite in life the art s necessary to of the open to of a hillside, of e the marvelous is the sort of e sincere reflex eptance of the nted five acres isolated nondays. It may be of interest to some of your readers to know that this plan has been successfully carried out for many years at Lasell seminary, Auburndale, Mass. Instead of granting the state and national holidays, occurring during the term, that number of extra days has been added to the Christmas recess, Thanksgiving day being the only exception. For many years this was the result of a vote of the students. A holiday, especially if students are away from home, is more or less of a trial to both teacher and pupil, as well as demoralizing to school work. It is not a comfortable day for sight-seeing or excursions of any sort, nor is it a day for study, consequently it often occasions a certain restlessness which is better avoided. The purpose and spirit of the anniversary, however, are not lost with us, for, during the day or evening, some notice is taken of the events which the day commemorates-either by an attractive lecture, toasts at dinner, suggestive decorations, or an appropriate exercise by our battalion. In this same connection I will mention our conviction, horn of experience, that Monday is by far a better" rest day" than Saturday. The only objections to it are those that would vanish were it universal. The change of interests which come with the Sunday gives a needed relaxation from the cares of the week, and is, on that account, the more appreciated. Monday's tasks, and its dreaded morning session, are not haunting ghosts. The questionable practice of Sunday studying has found its solution. Teachers and students, away for Sunday can return during Monday with comfort as well as promptness. Our students often speak of the advantages of the day as soon as they be come accustomed to it. We believe that it is a method which needs only a trial to make it a permanent blessing. Massachusetts. LILLIAN M. PACKARD. A Very Poor Showing. At the State Teachers' Association, which met here, the real condition of things in our public schools was made manifest. Heretofore, from timidity or other causes, nothing has been said; now the teachers are hese imported beginning to speak out. Professor Root showed by statistics that fifty-seven per cent. of the school population was in the schools; and the school term is but little over three months. I have conversed with teachers who get $14 per month and are employed three months in the year. Of course, they will not attend normal schools when the pay is so small. will flourish in an stand more h as the peach. dates of good be produced in ind California. erimental stare more than August and Jold at twenty1. Packed in ents a pound. the territory 3 to the tree. wn in this res than 2,000 ars by ranchfine condition. appropriation iana interests ations of this ields, fish and mining, and The short term, the poor teaching reacts on the high school. Professor Root showed that about one per cent. of those in the public schools go into the high schools. Thus the education is always of a low tension; the people know only how to read, write, and cipher. This has been my experience in moving about the state. Rarely does one see a newspaper in the hands of the farmers, only in the hands of the merchants, and such people. There are few books bought and read. The laborer stops working and chews tobacco instead of reading. Professor Root has done a great service in calling attention to this desperate condition of things. Will it do any good? The people in generai have so little education that they are not likely to act. If in any locality they wish to expend more money they have no power by law to lay a tax for this purpose. Once this was so in the Northern states but they remedied that; now any town or village at the North can raise all it wants to. know from yea trees was full o was smooth and placard which tree.' The tru covered with d and on none of this specimen st On one end o other, six large bottom upwards sized hens and r bantams, whose ivory. These f much alive, as th showed. Just beside the there would have for the graduate advantage their steam engine, wh of the stage with came sputtered a rate. On the oth ation, and in th from the fully bu built and trimme the great churc main they are a n small army of With.. om year to year so well that the leaf scars on their almost seem to spell of themselves "Class of 1901," of 1900," and so on backwards. One of the peach s full of bright green, healthy leaves, and the trunk oth and brown. Hung to one of the branches was a which said: "This is a carefully cultivated peach The trunk of the other tree was knotted and rough and with dead bark: some of the branches were dead, one of them were the leaves plentiful. The tag on imen said: "This is a neglected peach tree." e end of the stage there rose, piled high above each x large cages of lattice work in which were-from the upwards-geese, turkeys, ducks, two varieties of fullis and roosters, and on top a cage full of dainty white , whose combs and wattles glowed like coral set in These fowls were not stuffed; they were alive, very ve, as the part which they took in the exercises later eside the speaker's desk on the stage, where naturally uld have been a big bouquet of commencement roses raduates to pose behind, so as to show off to good e their white dresses, there was a stout little upright gine, which, being connected by a pipe thru the floor age with a steam boiler, when its turn on the program ttered and hustled its driving wheel around at a great 1 the other side of the stand was an incubator in operd in the background a display of articles ranging fully built and trimmed two-horse carriage to a fully I trimmed bonnet. Above all this, from the arch of t church ceiling, there hung a purple and silver Ready to serve," the class motto. 66 ed my glasses and took a more careful look about is it possible that after many years' experience I was see a really novel and interesting school commence Turning from the stage to look toward the audience found myself facing row after row of negro faces. e Institute Chapel-for I was at Booker Washington's n Alabama-will seat 2,400 persons, and every inch of >om and standing room not roped off was filled solid I shades, from lightest yellow thru the browns, up to stove-polish black. Some of the old heads were These were the men and women who once were ome now to see some grandchild graduate into that us state called "eddication," which to these old peoalways be so wonderful, because for them so unattain hey know only too well how hard it is for old dogs to w tricks. Some of the women's heads are bound in "cloth," or the bandanna, of slavery's time, and on here are huge cavernous sunbonnets from beneath e wearer's eyes gleam white and ghost-like; but in y are a neatly dressed company. ound of a band comes in thru the open church . Many of those in the room turn their heads, but no out. It is too hard to get standing room to risk losce gained; there are too many outside wishing to get chair at the reporters' table being secure, I go out. and is near the church now, all black boys. Behind m comes a line marching four and four, which streams the hot Southern sun as if endless. Company after - of young men and women, and then a hundred teachthen a line of alumni. The band has reached the oor now, but the end of the line, winding in and out the magnolia trees far across the grounds. has not yet sight. Now the advance guard of the first company ned the church. The commandant's voice rings out in command. The company halts, divides, and the men O closely in double rank so as to leave a line between Each succeeding company does the same, and when g women come along they add the length of their lines hers. down thru this living lane of fourteen hundred young en and women come the institute's teachers and the s of other years. The band has stopped playing now. s part of the ceremony there is always accorded the pressive tribute of perfect silence. Washington is a singularly modest man. So far as no one ever has accused him of any exhibition of vanif his heart ever does swell with pride it may not un-ly be at commencement time each year, when he u this quadruple line of adoring faces-for adoration ly word which really expresses the feeling which the at Tuskegee have for the principal - and remembers than a quarter of a century ago, where now is this ny of students and this village of buildings, he began ty untaught men and women in a shanty so shaky that mhealle over the teacher's hood in interest as they have mounted to their places form and have greeted them with polite cordiali have been especially sociable. Nobody minds the grizzled old preacher who makes the invoca speak, his voice, like the deepest, richest notes o easily making his hearers oblivious of every oth The leader in the gallery raises his baton a rises in obedience to the signal and begins to s this they are singing? I do not need to look t to recognize the "Hallelujah Chorus." And sing it. How those superb basses and tenors th lujah! Hallelujah!" While clear and sweet a the women's voices chant higher and still high Kings and Lord of Lords!" "Yes, it's fine," the reporter who sat next to last notes of the "Chorus" died away, "but I' them sing some of their own songs. I don't th to be educated out of their-" The rest of what he said was lost in the sou high pitched, quavering man's voice which cam where among the dark faces up in the gallery. "Oh, give me dat old-time religion," the voi companied and alone. 66 Oh, give me dat old-time religion," a dozen chanted in quick response. And then, "Oh, give me dat old-time religi thousand throats, in the gallery, on the platfor ence, and from the open air outside, the respo dered back, and added to: "It's good enough f "It was good for my old father," the the gallery asserts again, and the ever swelling by the soloist's statement. "It was good for Paul an' Silas." "It is good in time of trouble," the single v and the hundreds thundered back"It's good enough for me." I. looked at the man beside me. "They'r nods. "They can sing both kinds." The program begins. There are ninety-four graduates from the scho partments. In addition to the regular academic students to graduate in such novel branches as cooking, tinsmithing, farming, nursing, millinery steam engineering, carriage building, dairying the same nature. An alert, keen faced young man tells how to p vate a forty acre farm so as to get the most His helpers bring up on the stage a model, twel of the farm he is talking about, in the different of which are growing the crops he describes. A follows him with a clear, concise explanation of wholesome laundry work. She has her basket of soaps, and powders before her. She begins with clothes should be disinfected, and then goes or the housewives present that they ought to m soap, and shows them how to do it. Then s peach stain and removes a blotch of iron rust. the traditional graduating dress of sheerest wh viceable print gown, with a big apron. A ma cans of milk, pats of butter, cheese, and butter what he knows about dairying. His garb is of duck. Having got the milk and butter, naturally th on the program introduces another young wo dress and apron who proposes to show the p knows about" cooking." With a truly laudable desire to help the thin in the next to the upper cage having selected th an egg, announces the fact in a joyous cackle wh taken up by every cackling fowl in the entire col absolute drowning of the young cook's voice. enjoys the situation, and applauds the hen. M performs a vigorous pantomime in which no w guishable, but an usher after trying in vain t fending coop and not being able to reach up. sheaf of long barley straw from the agricultural stage, and standing on a table beats the coop in silence. A young man in overalls and calico shirt shov a pony phaeton, on the stage, and nearly builds other tells how he built the steam engine on explains a really ingenious attachment to it w invention. Nor are the essays and orations all materialistic nature. One young man tells of of the Fittest," in a really scholarly manner. Character.""The Value of Little Things," "6" ; his voice and goes crow together, he with a running acThere is more pand emphatic. Two rice from a nearby olen bed blankets, he roosters subside ir wings and go to to be deceived so k-quack quack!" gram having been re some which is on me, and, even with in my head, almost baton and the choir is the organ. The utlined against the gallery, might have her young woman, atures, has stepped oir. The organist nd the whole great sympathy, for they he "Inflammatus" eet, high, pure, and I first note, sung so oluntarily, knowing >yment. Then the y!" and then, treces is, the obligato perfect ease, trium is more practical ion has a neat, well land woman. The h a capable trained chers at Tuskegee, whose contributions have made his name well known to SCHOOL screens were removed the audience saw a regular iron hospital A clinical thermometer stuck in the patient's mouth and left MCMURRY GEOGRAPHIES THREE, AND FIVE-BOOK FORM se. The three-book set gives the ideal amount for schools with five years to devote to the subject. three-book set, differently divided for the benefit of free text-book towns, which effect a great High School Vse k's COMETRY RES al work. opositions. in a much more than is usual in hich are of funda- ged It introduces the Erical exercises. which theorems which they nd an unusually large ental principles upon refully developed and e in his work. 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ACMILLAN COMPANY that the patient's tem emergency a cold b sheet was deftly slipp elevated, a pan set a willy-nilly, the boy w tient got a good spon the thermometer reli forming them that th degree above the nor needed, they were pre same resignation tha however, he having most tempting lookin set out on a swinging up in bed to eat. Co were brought into re All this is only a p Tuskegee institute, the like of which fo hard to surpass. Is London school board had come four thous for then you are as that it is all right latest improved idea together in the most best style known to t has been at the top untiring efforts of it by unflagging effort In the hearts of the with none to dispute The Best Every desk exactly a sample shown. Sat Every desk warrante Want absolutely the b PIQUA SCHOO tient's temperature registered 105 degrees. In this a cold bath was evidently required. A rubber deftly slipped under the patient, the head of the bed pan set at the foot to catch the water, and then, the boy who had been drafted to personate the pagood sponging in cold water. Another trial with meter relieved the anxiety of the audience by inem that the temperature had fallen to only half a ve the normal. Some simple remedies being now ey were prepared and the patient took them with the nation that he had taken his bath. As a reward, e having continued to improve, he was fed with a ting looking repast which the nurse provided and a swinging hospital table, the patient being bolstered to eat. Convalescence being the result, the screens ght into requisition again, and the stage cleared. is only a part of what this day's commencement at institute, this year, showed me-a commencement f which for novelty and utility I believe it will be rpass. Is it any wonder that two members of the hool board, sitting on the platform, said that they four thousand miles to see Tuskegee, and that if IA If it is the they had come solely for that and nothing else have been well repaid? Of course there were diplomas, tied up with w It would not have been a real commencement other young men and women have worked as hard for th as ever student worked. Yes; harder, a good than many of them. That young man has work years to pay his way. That slender young woman tive oval face and waving hair has worked for f the laundry here to pay her way. After all, perhaps the best diploma which they g Booker Washington told them, "As you go ou there is one thing I want to caution you about. Do and feel that you are better than the rest of the neighborhood because you have been away to sch go home and feel ashamed of your parents becau they don't know as much as you think you know. you are too good to help them. 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Sev- fail to make desirable progress in book r- eral months ago the councils passed an training usually show ability and desire me ordinance to sell a certain piece of school after entering the manual training on property without the concurrence of the classes. ll board of education. And it was this action which led to a request of an opinion e- from the city solicitor. b CO ch Бе Retirement of Dr. Kiehle. university. Dr. David L. Kiehle, professor of pedaEAST ORANGE, N. J.-2,500 visitors in gogy of the University of Minnesota, will one day is the record made this year by the retire from that position after a continuous ch annual exhibition of woodcarving in the public service of twenty-seven years in the rs East Orange high school. The pieces at work of public education in the state. For ch tracting particular attention were two six years he was principal of the St. Cloud e large wedding chests of the kind used by normal school; twelve years, state superinth colonial brides for their trousseaus. Both tendent of public instruction, and nine were richly carved in a design of the years, professor of pedagogy in the state e German Gothic period where oak and S. acanthus leaves are shown. An ingenious Dr. Kiehle will give his coming years to and ornamental device which will serve lecturing and writing. He has been an inthe purpose of a necktie cabinet is fitted fluential factor in the development of the e with a carved door. The ties will hang educational system of the state. His long ch from hooks screwed into the top of the case. service as superintendent of public inA mirror frame carved in the modern struction afforded him particular opporGerman style, and a chair with a fantastic tunities in this direction. His work in emermaid design also called forth much the university has been important inas re admiration. Two models of torpedo boats much as 40 per cent. of the students of were fitted with electrical apparatus, with the university have come under his inelectric lights, running gear, a searchlight, fluence in the lecture room, and of the and American flags. The boys who de- young women students of the university sgined these studied the boats in the har. 60 per cent. This work he has carried on bor while making their models. without assistance, although the state educational association has recently taken up the matter of the department of pedagogy in the university and will urge upon the regents the enlargement of the department. This was done prior to any intimation from Dr Kiehle that he would retire. The election of his successor has not been considered as yet. h se be of he d Four first year students displayed plans on for a contemplated addition to the school e- building. ly The freehand drawing exhibit included e sofa pillows, screens, hangings, and tapesol try whose designs were from the pupils' es own stencils. Book covers were notably d- of superior merit. In some cases Shakespeare may be right, but his lines above quoted will "GRAND RAPIDS" ON A SCHOOL DESK IS EVERYTHING. They insist upon it that the desks they purchase have this name stamped upon them.for then they are sure of one hundred cents value for every dollar invested. "GRAND RAPIDS" desks are made in three stylesknown as follows. 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