Perhaps many of our readers do not know of the Prison Mirror, published by the inmates of the State Prison at Stillwater. The publication of the Mirror is most commendable, a true reformatory enterprise. Its motto "It is never too late to mend" should incline us not to forget the fallen and unfortunate. R. L. H. Lord of Bird Island is a candidate for county superintendent of schools, Renville Co. SCHOOL EDUCATION HELPS, In 1890 3 Cities YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS THEM. In United States had population over a million-New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and The North-Western Line is Best Line from Minneapolis and St. Paul to these cities. Supt. of Only 14 John Moore remains as Supt. of schools at Crookston. It needed only vox populi to decide the question in his favor. On board the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha we have always been impressed by the quiet, easy business manner of the employes, with the well ballasted roadbed, and with the comfortable and attractive equipment of cars. Upon our return home from a trip on the Omaha wife invariably greets us at the door with "I am so glad, on time." RENVILLE.-William W. Barnum principal of schools, to Miss Edith H. Law, of New Richmond, Wis., Aug. 29, 1893. The bride and groom were classmates, '93, at Hamline University. We extend congratulations. From the nice things we hear said of Miss L. we do not wonder now at Supt. B's beaming smiles. CARVER,-Married. Prin. C. H. Smith to Ethel C. Eggleston, at Austin, Minn., Sept. 3, 1891. The many ladies who met Mr. S. in his work for "SCHOOL EDUCATION" will surely congratulate him. In United States in 1870 had population over 100,000, but in 1890, 28, and The North-Western Line is Best Line from Minneapolis and St. Paul to a large number of them. Soo & Sound right but they don't look Sue which The North-Western Line runs Superb Pullman Sleepers between Minneapolis, St. Paul and Omaha. right for SIOUX CITY through To secure an agency to represent SCHOOL EDUCATION gives promise of advancement. Last year one of our agents Tickets Via The North-Western Line, was married soon after closing his campaign for us, and is most happy in his new home life. This year two of our men were hired by the state to teach in the summer schools after having worked only a few days for us, and since the summer schools have closed two others have been married. Send in your applications early for agencies. Why not take an agency for your county now? and full information as to through rates and routes for vacation trips can be obtained by calling on agents: CHICAGO. PULLMAN AND COMPARTMENT SLEEPING CARS. SOO-PACIFIC LINE LAKE LOUISE. GLACIER HOUSE, B. C. Short Line to the East. Low Rates to the N. E. A. Convention. For full particulars call on or address W. S. THORN, H. E. HUNTINGTON, City Pass'g'r Agent, 127 Third St. S. City Pass'g'r Agent, 398 Robert St. (Hotel Ryan), ST. PAUL. Elements of Algebra-MILNE. Chemistry-STORER and LINDSAY. English Grammar-R. C. & T. METCALF. New Intellectual Arithmetic-THE ROBINSON SERIES. First Book in English-W. H. MAXWELL. Inductive Studies in English Grammar-WM. R. HARPER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Examinations will begin Tuesday, Sept. 4. Work will begin Tuesday, Sept. 11. Professors MacLean and Breda and instructor Andrist have spent the summer in Europe. Professor Hough will spend the coming year in England writing a book on legic, also one on ethics. Professor Benton will spend the year in study and travel in Spain, France and Germany. He will make a special study of Comparative Romance Literature. Prof. MacMillan and instructor Sheldon have spent vacation at the Lake of the Woods, studying the flora of that locality. They report a prosperous summer. They found that the flora of that locality was of the same plant zone as southern Minnesota. Prof. MacDougall has issued a new plant physiology during the summer. See notice July SCHOOL EDUCATION. President Northrop has been "on deck" all summer; he will take a vacation later in the fall. The cooking school at the Experiment Station, St. Anthony Park, was an unqualified success. Instructor Babcock will spend the coming academic year in graduate study at Harvard. The University will open with new men in several departments this fall. Dr. H. T. Eddy, formerly president of the Rose Polytechnic Institute, will have charge of Mechanics and Engineering. Frederick Woodbridge will have charge of the work in Philosophy and will be assisted by Harlow S. Gale, who will have charge of the Psychology. Charles L. Wells will assist in the department of History. The Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. have just issued a neat hand-book (Vol. VI.) for free distribution. The book is a valuable help to new students especially and is not without use to old students. Twelve alumni and one professor have "embarked upon the sea of matrimony" during the past summer. It is said that during the coming week, two more intend to do likewise. The University mourns the loss of the coliseum, that ungainly but most useful building. It was the only building upon the campus that furnished room enough for the purpose for which it was intended. It is missed now, but will be missed still more when another commencement comes. REPORTER. B. F. Remington is nicely located as principal of schools, at Iron River, Wis. He writes us that great interest is taken in educational affairs in Northern Wis. Iron River is near enough to the locality of the late fires so that last Friday was a dark day with them. The Werner Company take pleasure in inviting the attention of Teachers, Superintendents and School Officers to the fact that they have recently acquired by purchase the school text-books formerly issued by Messrs. Porter & Coates, Philadelphia, and the Columbian Book Company, St. Louis. They will hereafter publish and supply these standard books, and add to the list in due time a complete series of texts covering all departments of school and college work. It is their aim to furnish the best books at the least expense possible. To this end the Company will spare neither pains nor expense in securing the most competent authorship that the educational field affords. Their long experience and extensive knowledge of book making are evidence of their ability to place upon the market standard books possessing the highest degree of mechanical excellence. With these promises the Werner Company bespeak the confidence and business support of the American Educational Public, feeling assured that their ability to merit the same will rest not only on the superiority of their publications, but also upon straightforward and honorable business methods. Correspondence with reference to the examination and introduction of their text-books is cordially invited and will receive prompt and satisfactory attention. Information in regard to proposed changes will be appreciated and acknowledged. Price list and particulars supplied on application to any of the above addresses. Respectfully, THE WERNER COMPANY, Publishers. IT TAKES THE LEAD. WHEN I RECEIVED FRYE'S PRIMARY GEOGRAPHY, I READ IT THROUGH, GREAT BOOK. SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, KANSAS CITY, MO. The popular demand for Frye's Primary Geography The Geog By the fifteenth Has been as remarkable as the merits of the book. raphy was published the middle of last June. of September the publishers had been obliged to print 180,000 copies and to start another edition of 50,000; in all 230,000. BOSTON. Descriptive circulars sent postpaid to any address. GINN & COMPANY, Publishers, INK. * * NEW YORK. A Boon and a Blessing! An end to the Bothering carriage of Ink. DUCKETT'S Dissolves in Cold Water producing best and cheapest black School Ink known. Genuine Ink; not Aniline Dye. Writings with aniline dye ink smudge if wetted even months after being written; whereas Writings with DUCKETT'S become waterproof by the action of the air. NOT SPOILED BY FREEZING NEVER MOULDS. NO DREGS. Canisters for half gallon 25 cts., gallon 50 cts., two gallons $1.00, by mail postpaid. Canisters worth $6 sent by Express, carriage paid, for $5. 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Nothing is neglected that a child whose little fingers are first closing over a pencil should know; nothing that an expert who has de MENTION SCHOOL EDUCATION. voted his life to teaching should know. Analytical, synthetical, inductive. It has the element of life in it and the element of "get there" for those who use it. It is made for Common Schools, High Schools, Normal Schools, Business Colleges, Academies, for Penmanship Supervisors, Grade Teachers, Business College Specialists, for students in any kind of school, for students out of school. For more explicit information you must see the book itself. If we had the entire SCHOOL EDUCATION at our disposal instead of this expensive corner of it, every line of space in it would be required for the next twelve months to present the matters treated in the 284 large pages of this book. Until November 1st we will send the book in fine cloth covers to teachers or to any one for introduction, on receipt of $1.00 Take advantage of this offer while you can. Address KANSAS BOOK COMPANY, DOWNS, KANSAS. The Fact in the Thing; The Law in the Mind; The Method in Both. Editorial Notes. "School Education Helps" have now been mailed for July and August and during this month we shall mail September and October numbers. We are very much encouraged by the many complimentary words for the "Helps" appearing in educational journals and in letters sent us by primary teachers, so many of whom have subscribed for them and are ordering in quanities for classes. We trust delays in filling orders will not occur again. Dakota county teachers should have Dakota county edition of SCHOOL EDUCATION. The revised edition of the State High School Manual has just been issued by the State Board and may be had on application to the Department of Public Instruction, St. Paul, President Northrop, or the Inspector of State High Schools, Minneapolis, Minn. The address of Emma F. Bates, candidate for State Supt. of Public Instruction, North Dakota, delivered on "Woman's Day' at the Minnesota State Fair, was clear, eloquent and scholarly, and was received with much favor by the large audience and by the ladies who were instrumental in securing her as the leading speaker for the occasion. Cooking may now be taught as a part of the regular course in all the public schools of Massachusetts, and, after another year, towns having a population of 20,000, will be given manual training at public expense. The coming man, it seems, is to live on well-cooked food and he will have the skill required to make an honest living. It seems doubly sad to be devastated by a cyclone so soon after a terrible fire. To extend sympathy to the afflicted by words does not express our heartfelt sorrow. Material aid is what we should offer. Mrs. E. A. Wheeler Goff, the women's candidate for a place on the school board, Minneapolis, has been endorsed by the Democrats, Populists and Prohibitionists, and is quite certain of election. Few women in the city are so well qualified for the responsible position and, if chosen, she will have both the inclination and time to look after the interests of the schools. It is quite enjoyable to read Bro. Vaile's articles in Intelligence, devoted to his artistic "lean-overback" tottering, vertical writing. A page editorial a month upon any one topic is generous, but upon so silly a craze as vertical writing-deliver us. Many of us would not question the propriety of a generous use of space had we confidence that even one unfortunate (like ourselves) could be lifted to the high plane as a practical penman on which Bro. V. has so long stood??? Moral-With great skill some people try to teach what they do not know, when they are in position to spread themselves. New Jersey has this year set aside the school district for what is known as the township system. When will the legislature of Minnesota heed the advice of nearly all her leading educators and do the same thing? Under the township system Massachusetts is extending high schools privileges to every child within her borders. Towns having no high schools of their own are required to pay the tuition of their children in the high schools of other towns, and to pay expenses of transportation. An article on page 22 shows one of the successful modes of transportation adopted in some localities. The new constitution of the Republic of Hawaii forbids public appropriations for any sectarian, denominational or private school, or any school not exclusively controlled by the government. In this respect the new government will take higher ground than our own, with its annual appropriations for Indian schools under denominational control. The following from the Educational Journal, Toronto, has our hearty approval. In substance we have said the same thing many times, but sugar-plum teachers and sugar-plum publishers, especially of arithmetics, are still at work and we feel it to be our duty to refer to the matter again. "We do not believe that in order to make the school-work pleasant to the pupil everything must be made easy. The healthy child likes a sugar-plum occasionally, but does not want all his food sugar-coated. It is not the easy play that is most attractive to the robust boy. He spurns it, and chooses that which calls forth all his power. He delights in the consciousness of physical power. So too, there is a joy in the severest mental effort, if it be but rightly directed and successful. Every true teacher must have watched with keen satisfaction the play of the child-mind as shadowed on the countenance. He delights to mark the clouded face, the wrinkled brow, the down-cast eye, while the struggle for the mastery of some uncomprehended sentence or problem is going on, and to see these quickly give place to the flushed cheek, the shining forehead, and the flashing eye, which tell of victory achieved. One aim of the wise teacher will be to develop this sense of power in the child. He will seek not so much to remove obstacles out of the way as to teach the young thinker how to meet and overcome them." |