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School Notes.
[Edited by E. D. Palmer, county com-
mmsioner of schools. Teachers and
other*, are invited to contribute school
reports and school items and maters ot
educational interest for this column.
Such items should be sent directly to
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Just because other concerns are going to the wafl
an account of lack of capita!, and two years of the
saw, we do not
spHied milk" but
have hustled all the harder and at present our
stock is one of the most complete and best selected
stocks of Groceries in Northern Michigan.
We promise our friends and the public that we
shli.i confine ourselves strictly to the grocery business and shail push our trade as hard as is consis-
tant and try and make it profitable for all classes
of consumers to purchase their goods of
not'for one hour, a day. or a week, but for every
ho>J*% every day, every week and every year if Low
Prices, Good Goods and Courteous Treatment will
do it
) We intend to make Mason & Boyd's Grocery
Store, in the Woisky Block, the most popular grocery house in Olare or Isabella Counties,
Very Respectfully,
ASON
TEAOHBIt   3?It0ai   A  COMMISSIONER'S
STANDPOINT.
Teacher has been defined- as one who
has special aptitude'foraTousih
minds of pupils those intellectual activities by which knowledge is acquired, and
special skill in imparting that knowledge
in « Hear, thprc-ngb, and systematic
manner.
As the < flico of Commissioner of
Schools is one created by our stato government for the purpose of having some
otic' to pxweisa supervision over the
schools and to counsel witli teaohers as
to how the schools may bo bettered, it
necessarily follows that the teacher from
tho commissioner's standpoint is the
teacher who goes into our district schools
improves upon the methods which have
been in vogue, and does all within his
power to better tho school.
AU the works on pedagogy, all the real
principles of teaching presuppose that
the teacher possesses those qualifications
essential to put thorn into successful
practice. These necessary qualifications
Cannot be named in an order of importance. They are so closely connecied
that wo cannot say. "This is the most im-
•portant or that is tbo most important.
Thoy may ho considered separately, still
ihe most we can say of each is that it is
important.
One of the qualifications which the
commismoner oxpects every teacher to
possess is a well rounded education. It
is no enough that be pass the required examination. A person may be
able to master tho branches from one set
of school text books, and be enabled
thereby to secure the required por cent,
which entitles him to a third grade certificate, but that i.i not evidence of good
scholarship.
The scholarship of tho teacher should
be liberal, embracing a knowledge of
many things, and any teacher can make
his culturo liberal if he uses rightly the
leisure time his pursuit affords. He
must bo a specialist in whatever relates
directly to tho scienife of education, and
he is judged by bis success as a teacher,
not as, a scientist, not as a writer, lecturer or poet. Blackiesays: "Tho original
and proper Bonrces of knowledge are not
books, but life, experience, personal
thinking, feeling and acting. But the
teacher should not neglect books. I
want my boy to be taught number by a
teacher who has some knowledge of
geometry. I want one who is familar
with botany, geology, and zoology, to
teach my boy geography, and how much
better will be his understanding of English, if his instructoris KfMi.tr'with'
Shnkespeare,Milton,Burns and "Whittier."
Tho farmer, if he has but little grain
to reap, does not say, "The sickle is good
enough for me," He does not say, "I
have only a little to plow. I would havo
gotten along just as well if Jethro Wood
had not invented the iron mold-board
plow." He dors not uso tho old-fashioned "poverty club" to thresh Iub stack of
wheat. No. he uses the self binder, the
steel mold board and the steam thresher.
But when it comes to educating his girls
and boys, be says anyone has education
$i.,-iiT£_i tt*i.tfiftuh them, Tift en/jAwst* the
best physician, the most practical lawyer,
the least qualified teacher.
If in tbia.aro.afc electric ace wo have no
uso for tlio tallow eandlf-, no use for ths
stage coach, iio Use for the hand-looin, no
use i'or the iiiftuy tilings of the past centuries, wo should have no use for the ante -deluvian teacher, Along every lino
tbo world moves, and wo expect the
teacher to keep stop.
The teacher should glean from tho experience of others. Aro they doing so?
At the August examination tho question
was-asked, "What helpful educational
works havo yott read during the past
year?" A few had read two or more,
somo had read but ono and in afc least
three instances that one was "Coin's Financial School." Think of it, teachers,
"Coin's Financial .School" a helpful educational work! . It the shade of Cadmus
were io see some of our teachers improving* (?) their minds bo would regret haying invented books. Several teachers
have told me thoy had no time to read,
and I hove seon those samo teachers
promenading tho streets at nine and ten
o'clock iu the evening, or leave the Beading Circle to attehd a mind-reading
sceance.
Tho Sommissioner expects thafc tho
teacher bas sirill in imparting knowledge
He should bo apt in devising methods so
that the pupil will bo able to grasp tbo
thought himself. The unskilled teacher's
pbsyeboiogy admits of but ono faculty,
memory, nnd the way be fills hid pupils
with facts, shows thafc he intends to work
tbat faculty to its utmost oapacifcy. How
graphically CarByle has described this
cliuis oil pedagogues, .He says, "My
teai-bers were hide-bound pedants without- knowledge <of man's nature, or of
bojfts, -or of aughtsavo lexicons. Innumerably dead vocables they crammed into us,
and. Called it fostering tho growth of tho
mitid.. How can ab maminat*?, meobani--
cai ^rij-grfiider foster the growth ofany-
tbifeg, uiuch more of mind, which grows,
nqfcjliko a vegetablo by having its roots
littered by etymological compost, but,
lik4a spirit by mysterious contact with
Bpitit^tEd'ugh£landling itself at the Ire
of Hying thought? How can he give
kindling in whose inward man there is
no live coal but is burned out to a dead
gratuuiiitical cinder? My professor knew
syntax enough, and of the human soul
tbisi much—tbat it had a faculty called
meti.dry, and could bo acted upon through
thaj.mnsGuJBr integument by tbo appli-
unei_-of bireb-rods."
A teacher should be able lo give instructions in morals. My teachers were
always preaching to.us sermons of morality. $ermons which, if tbey did no moro
harto, went into one ear and out of the
otbei'. The teacher to aid in implanting
in the minds of his pupils lasting lessons
of right, m at bp of spotless reputation.
There is in every true teacher that xtn-
conscious educating power, silent, involuntary, but which is as necessary as the
most careful preparation be may make.
Ho may not be so brilliant as his brother
teacher, but tbe boys and girls who aro
under his care will have found in him
one who sympathizes with them in all
their efforts to do right.
Htben the teacher's influence is so
greal: if the imprint of the teacher's
character is to bo found in fche pupil's after-life; if the boy is so ready to do what
he sees the teacher do, how necessary for.
fche teacher to make that careful preparation which will enable him to placo before tbe pupil cloar conceptions of what
is right. Swotfc in bis "Methods of
Teaching" calls character the main thing,
that the power of tho teacher is measured
bp his own reserved forces of life and
character, aijd this idea is so folly set
forth by Kev. F. D. Huntington in his
classic paper on Unconscious Tuition.
He says, "My main propositions are these
three: First, That there is an educating
power issuing from tho fceacher, uofc by
immediate design, which is as indispensable to bis true function as any element
in it. Second—That this unconscious
tuition is yet no product of caprice, nor
of accident, but takes its quality from tbe
undermost substance of the teaobor's
character. And third—Thafc Us ifc is an
em nation flowing from tbe very spirit of
liis own. so it ia an influence acting insensibility to form tbe life of the scholar.
Wo are taught, and we tcacb, by something aboufc 'us that nover goes into
language at all. I believe that this is often tho very highest kind f teaching,
tnosfc charged with moral power, most
apt to go down aiming tho secret springs
oi conduct, inoafc effectual for vital issues
lo the very reason that it is spiritual in
its character, noiseless in its pretensions,
and constant in its operation.
"It is time, then, to show moro distinctly a fixed connection between a teacher's
unconscious tuition and the foregoing
discipline of bis life. What be is to im-
partj ho must be. Nothing can come out
that has not gone in. Tho measure of
real inflqenoo is tho measure of gouuino
personal substance. Tho moral balance
never lets us overdraw. If wo expect
our drafts to bo honored in a crisis, thoro
must bnvfi fosi.ii tha deposits of .1 punct*
tial life. Each day recites a lesson for
which all the preceeding days woro a
preparation. Oiir real rank is determined
nobby lucky answers or somo brilliant
impromptu, but by tho uniform diligence.
For the cxhibikon-days of Providence
(here is no preconcerted colloquy—no
hasty retrieving of a wasted term by a
stealthy study on tho eve of tho examination,"
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cf the 'people.
It took 40,000 copies of Rudyard Kipling's new "Jungle Book" to satisfy
the first demand in America and England. Another large edition is now on
the presses,
Mme. Sarah Grand's American publishers not only paid her London pub-
\ Usher, Helnemann, Dut they paid her
Have a big screen fn the room which, a 10 per cent, royalty, which is not'
may be  used- either to shut out the ■ much as royalties go these days, but it
bright light when the patient wishes to ; brought her in more than $10,000.
IN THE SICK ROOM.
Give the room which has the best
means of ventilation and the most sunshine to the invalid.
Have dark-green Holland shades at
the windows.   Green tempers the glare j
of the sun in a way very soothing to j
tired eyes. =
It is not a miracle. It won't curo everything, but it will cure piles. That's
Wbiifc DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salvo will
dOi because it baa dono it iu hundreds of
Cases.
Land Settlers' Rates to the South.
Tuesday, .February 4th, "ancl the first
Tuesday in each month thereafter until
further notico the Ann Arbor E. E. will
sell one way Land Settlers' tickets to
Southern points at extroraely low rates.
Call on agents for particulars or write
W. II. Bejctiot. G. P .,
Toledo, Ohio.
Busy people have no time, and sensible peoplo have no inclination to use a
slow remedy. One Minuto Cough Otiro
acts promptly and gives permanent results.
One Way Settlers Tickets.
On Tuesday, Fobrnary 4,1896, and on
the first Tuesday in each month thereafter, until further notice the F. & F. M.
will sell ono way settlers tickets at reduced rate to certain points in Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisana. I'or rates and other
information call at ticket ofllce.
sleep or to keep off draughts when the j
windows are raised and lowered.
Change the bed linen as often as possible. Once a day is not too often. In
making the bed bo sure that the under
sheet is stretched as tight and smooth
as a drum cover. Wrinkles in the under sheet cause continual discomfort
and sometimes sores.
Keep the medicine bottles, glasses
and spoons out of sight of the patient.
Every sickroom should be provided
with a small bottle cabinet where medicines may be kept. If this is out of
the question a couple of swinging
shelves curtained in silk may be useu. j
Banish creaking chairs from the sick- j
room. Nothing so grates upon the pa- I
ticnt's nerves and so ii-ri taf.es him as {
unnecessary harsh sounds. Don't whis- j
per outside the door. That.is intense- j
Jy aggravating to him, and conversa-1
lions with the doctor may be just as •
well carried on outside the invalid's
hearing.
Bo not ask tho patient what he wants
to eat. Ask the doctor what he-should
eat, prepare it daintily and in small
quantities and serve it to him, arrayed as temptingly as possible. Cover
the tray with a spotless linen cloth,
use the prettiest china and the brightest silver and glass, and adorn the tray
with a flower or two. Daintiness is a
great appetizer.
Follow the doctor's instruction religiously about the number of.visitors
to be allowed in the sickroom. Keep
out doleful and reminiscent persons,
who can' always remember a similar
case which ended fatally. Repeat only
cheerful gossip, and never allow the
conversation to be either exciting or
depressing.
FOR BOOKWORMS.
Japan's great general, Field Marshal
Yamagata, is a poet and essayist—Quite
a magatsine gun in himself.
Beatrice Han-aden's novel of California life is called "Hilda Strafford."
Zola* iu t<* Tisit England again in the
spriag:. Ho ia credited with tho intea-
tM* of 6tw_j«.n*g tt_e provincial Engllsfe--
imk im M*«cfe*a«4m- aad other leftdiKj.
ciU<MU»Jjj_l-i|t». ift#S9lr_al jind social rite
A forthcoming volume will contain a
translation of the memoirs of Bertrand
Barere, the notorious member of the
committee of public safety who Was
railed by Macauley the greatest liar,
debauchee, coward and brute that eves
lived. The memoirs are said to sho\?
rhat Macauley was wrong.
Dr. Conan DoyJc has gone as far-as
!ho pyramids in search of health for his
wife, When he got there he was in-
•Eormed-lvy hir. prfls'.tl hc£«i!_cc-pev that.
his "Sherlock Holmes" had been translated into Arabic and issued to the local
police as a text book.
It is said that in Stevenson's last and
uncompleted novel," Weir of Hermis-
f.on," which is to appear in tho new
-'ournal Cosmopolis, he has devoted -
mere space and care to his women characters than was his usual custom.
W. Roberts says that of the 1,300
'-.ooks printed before the beginning of
'.he sixteenth century "not more than
300 are of any importance to the book
collector"; of the 30,000 .published in
the seventeenth century "not moro
than, perhaps, fifty are now held jn
estimation"; and of the SO.000 published in the eighteenth century "not
more than 300 arc considered worth reprinting and not more than 500 are
sought after."
The youth who sows his wild oats is
apt to mix in more or less tares.
The man who indulges in "horns"
may be expected to go on a "toot,"
It may be better to be right than to
be president, but tho salary is smaller.
The man who always says what he
thinks will soon acquire a reputatisi-*
as a cynic.
"The evil that men do lives affajr
them," and the evil they say is prett|_"
long lived, too.
Jagson says it is a lucky man who
can discriminate between a barber shop
and a hack stand.
When Carlylo spoke of "a maker Q'f
bwoks" he tod ho Uiowghts of tho racecourse bookmaker.
A correspondent wants to know novr
long eel* lm.. About flic ssme as shoft
eels, we suppose.