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There is a scarcity of teachers in Idaho.

There is reported a great scarcity of teachers in Minnesota.

F. H. Plumb, of North Yakina Schools, Wash., has been called East by the death of his wife.

Superintendent Jas. A. Foshay of Los Angeles and Superintendent Greeley were in San Francisco the week of October 5th, attending Masonic meetings.

The citizens, teachers and officers are making preparations for an excellent meeting of the California Northern Teachers' Association at Chico, Oct. 30, Nov. 1, 2.

Arizona now has a compulsory school law which requires that all children between the ages of eight and fourteen years, shall be compelled to attend school at least six weeks in each year.

Charles E. Schwartz, a graduate of Stanford, son-in-law of John Swett, has been elected successor to A. H. Suzzallo, of the Longfellow School, Alameda. Mr. Suzzallo will study at Columbia University next year.

Superintendent B. F. Howard and wife of Sacramento have returned from a tour of two months in the east. They visited the musical centers as well as New York, Buffalo and other points of interest. Superintendent Howard is back at the old stand at the Court House greatly improved in health.

President Pierce, of the Los Angeles Normal, has invited Superintendent Hyatt to address the classes of the Normal on the practical side of teaching in the rural schools. The movement that President Pierce has inaugurated to bring the Normal in closer touch with the rural schools is most excellent.

Vice-Principal S. P. Meads of the Oakland High School has resigned owing to the fact that the Board of Education a short time ago materially reduced his salary, under the pretext of economy. For twenty-three years he has been at the head of the scientific department o the school. His salary was reduced from $2,100 per year to $1,650. Professors Koch and Beidenbach both left the department because of the reduced salaries.

The San Francisco Board of Education has elected the following teachers to the eligible list: Elizabeth B. Moore, Cecilia M. Gilchrist,

Dorothy Vogelsang, Clare E. Rodgers, May E. A. Gray, Kathryn H. Daly, Mollie McLaren, Lois Angeline Peckham, Annie Whitley, Agnes McDonald, Kernan Robson, Anna Dwyer, Ellen C. Gaines, Ethel Washington, Ida L. Downing, Clinton E. Miller, Annie Harrower, Adelaide M. Cobb, Emma L. Noonan, Edith S. Humphrey, Elvina Berard, Marie F. d'Or, Maude Schendel, Helen M. Hogan, Margaret A. Noon, May T. Gaffney, Anna G. Brittain.

Three of the above are graduates of the State Normal School, San Francisco. Three are graduates of the Normal during the regime of Miss Fowler and Mrs. Fitzgerald. Three are from Fresno County, one from Butte, one from Santa Clara, one from Tulare, one from San Joaquin, etc.

The pupils of the Grant School, San Francisco, have been corresponding with similar schools in Kentucky. The difference in the writing, the composition, the neatness and illustrations of the papers is very remarkable. Leslie A. Jordan, the deputy superintendent of schools of San Francisco, has taken great interest in the correspondence, not only on account of the fact that it shows the superiority of the work done by the pupils of the Grant School, but because in such a correspondence there is created a keen interest on the part of the pupils for more adequate knowledge.

Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst announced that she had offered to the university a department of anthropology, and to maintain it at a cost of about $50,000 a year. The offer was accepted and in accordance with her suggestion the following Advisory Committee was selected: President of the University of California; F. W. Putnam, curator of Peabody Museum, Harvard; Zella Nuttalb, honorary assistant in Mexican archælogy, Peabody Museum; Alice C. Fletcher, assistant in ethnology, Peabody Museum; Frank Boas, professor of anthropology, Columbia University; J. C. Merriam, assistant professor of paleontology, University of California.

Announcement was also made that Mrs. Hearst has given $2,000 for a geological and paleontological research of the gravel formations of California, with reference to a determination, if possible, of the geological time when man first appeared. Professor J. C. Merriman will have charge of this work.

The "Atlantic Monthly" for October contains a most touching tribute to McKinley. It has many other able and high class articles.

Southern California Teachers'

Association.

The annual meeting of this association will be held December 18, 19 and 20 of this year in Los Angeles. The prospects are for the largest gathering in the history of the organization.

am much better. I think this change is exactly what I needed and that the climate will agree with me.

I am living with Mr. and Mrs. Brink in one of the finest Filipino houses the country affords. There are six in the family besides the six servants the postmaster, Mr. Brink's secretary, another teacher and myself. We have a good sized orchard in which grows nearly every variety of tro, ical fruit. The river, heavily wooded on both sides, flows in front of the house. The "bancas," or long, narrow boats, going up and down, make a beautiful picture. My school house is near, so I can walk even in the worst weather.

General Funston's headquarters are here. He entertains frequently and is very nice to the people in general.

Many wealthy natives are here also, and as they open their homes to us I get a great deal of amusement and pleasure out of them. J. ANNABEL REED.

The teachers' institutes held in the various county seats will close their sessions Wednesday afternoon, December 18, and teachers will go to Los Angeles to be present at the opening of the S. C. T. Association Wednesday evening. A rate of one are for the round trip has been obtained the best concession the railroads have ever allowed the association. A very large attendance will surely result. Five of the seven southern counties have agreed to unite in this meeting, and the others will probably join. With the co-operation of the State Association, E. Benjamin Andrews of the University of New York has been obtained for this meeting and Dr. Jordan and Dr. Wheeler of the California universities have consented to be present. It is expected that Dr. Livingston C. Lord, President of the Eastern State Normal School of Illinois, will attend. He will take part in the institute work of some of the counties. Programs for the meeting are about to be arranged. Foll wing are the officers of the association: L. B. Avery, Redlands, president; Edward Hyatt, Riverside, first vice-president; Ednah A. Rich, Santa Barbara, second vice-president; F. W. Guthrie, Redondo, recording secretary; F. A. Bouelle, Los Angeles, financial secretary; C. A. Kunou, Los Angeles, transportation secretary; E. P. Rowell, Los Angeles, treasurer.

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Teaching in the Philippines.

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Superintendent J. B. Brown held his institute at Eureka, Sept. 16, 17, 18. The instructors were Professor T. L. Heaton, Miss Jennie Long and Mr. Lemon, the tree expert. Miss Long's "Common Sense in Reading was greatly ap preciated by the teachers. Professor Heaton: ave practical work along the teachers' experience in primary and grammar schools. Superintendent Brown conducted the institute in a business like way. The most notable event of the institute was the strong rendition of a chapter from the Bibleby Miss Long.

SAN FERNANDO, PAMPANGA, P. I., August 18, 1901. Mr. Harr Wagner, 723 Market St., San Francisco. MY DEAR MR. WAGNER:-Manila is all right; however I am at San Fernando, Pampanga, a town of perhaps twenty thousand inhabitants. It is on the railroad about forty miles north of Manila. It is said to be the finest town in the provinces and I believe that it is true. My work is very easy. The school hours are from seventhirty to ten in the forenoon, and from twothirty to four-thirty in the afternoon. As far as the climate is concerned I have not found it unpleasant, quite the reverse. After living so many years in a dry country I really enjoy the heavy rain all. I have not entirely recovered from the sickness I had in San Francisco, but

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Publications.

We have received from Lewis B. Avery a copy of the Course of Study of the Redlands High School. It has many unique features.

A most attractive catalog of the Los Angeles Military Academy has been recieved. This excellent school is now conducted by Walter J. Baily, formerly Superintendent of Schools of San Diego County.

The Review of Reviews for October contains a most excellent account of Mr. McKinley, also of Theodore Roosevelt.

The National Magazine of Boston held a voting contest recently on the foremost living Ameri can authors. Three Californians are near the head of the list: Joaquin Miller, Edwin Markham and Jack London. The letter of Bertrand Waterman, champion of Joaquin Miller, drew the first prize. Here it is:

"Joaquin Miller is foremost among American men of letters now living. His work, it may be conceded, is done; he will probably not produce anything hereafter of the rank of his great epic, 'Sapho and Phaon.' Yet he is spared to us in person, and long may he be spared! I place the 'Poet of the Sierras' first because he has, alone among American literary men, given adequate poetic expression to the majesty and beauty and romance of the far West's deserts and rivers, its mighty mountains and forests, and to the Pacific ocean. He has been better known in the East and in Europe for his less meritorious early pieces than for the later and immeasurably greater productions. Altho other living American authors of the first class have reached very much larger audiencies during their lifetime, there is in my mind no doubt that Mr. Miller's fame will expand after his death for hundreds of years, until he shall come to his rightful place as the one American, Walt Whitman alone excepted, who has created great Homeric poems out of material characteristically American. I do not forget, In this connection, the claims made for Henry W. Longfellow as an epic poet, on the strength of 'Hiawatha' and 'Evangeline.' Far greater than these, in power, beauty and the free spirit that is the essence of all really great poetry, are Miller's 'Song of the Sunset Seas,' his 'Rhyme of the Amazon,' and his 'Sapho and Phaon,' the last named a magnificent epic of the Pacific."

Silas G. Pratt has written a most interesting book. It is entitled "Lincoln in Story," and is published by D. Appleton & Co. Price, 75 cts.

Literary Notes.

The Story of a Child. Translated from the French of Pierre Lotti. By Caroline F. Smith, with an introduction by Edward Howard Griggs. C. C. Birchard & Company, 221 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Mass.

Edward Howard Griggs in the introduction writes as follows: "It is peculiarly necessary that teachers harassed with the routine of their work, and parents distracted with the multitude of details of daily existence, should have such windows opened thru which they may look across the green meadows and into the sunlit gardens of childhood. The result is not theories of child life, but appreciation of children.

"It is fortunate that the translator has caught the subtle charm of Lotti's style, so difficult to render in another speech, in an amazing degree. This is peculiarly necessary here, for accuracy of translation means giving the delicate changes of color and elusive chords of music that voice the moods and impressions of which the book is made." Handsomely bound in cloth, and well printed on excellent paper. $1.25.

Ward's Letter Writing and Business Forms Vertical Edition. Numbers I and II, ten cents each Numbers III and IV, 15 cents each. American Book Company.

This series presents social and business letters and forms of all kinds, in the vertical style of penmanship, with very complete directions and definitions to aid the pupil in reproducing similar forms without copy. He learns to do by doing, guided by directions at the head of the page, and assisted by his own powers of observation. The books seem to cover very completely the subjects treated, and to be admirably adapted for successful teaching in elementary schools.

Translations

Literal, 50c. Interlinear, $1.50. 147 vols.

Dictionaries

German, French, Italian, Spanish,
Latin, Greek, $2.00, and $1.00.

Completely Parsed Caesar,

Book I. Has on each page, interlinear translation, literal translation, and every word completely parsed. $1.50. Completely Scanned and Parsed Aeneid, Book I. $1.50. Ready August, 1900.

HINDS & NOBLE, Publishers, 4-5-6-12-13-14 Cooper Institute, N.Y. City. Schooibooks of all publishers at one store.

In the artroom of the manual training building September 18th at Santa Barbara the Educational Association of this city held its first meeting of the school year. Miss Ednah A. Rich. the superintendent of the manual training school, was elected president and Mrs. Lulu F. Mitchell, supervisor of the kindergartens, vice-president. Miss Maude Robinson was chosen secretary, while Prof. W. A. Stafford will have charge of the finances. It has not yet been decided just what direction the work of improvement will be in this year, but it will probably be something in connection with the new High School. It was thru the work of this association that pictures and casts for the schools were bought last year.

The San Bernardino Index publishes the following in reference to Superintendent McPherron, the successor of Lulu Clair Bahr: Our new County Superintendent of Public Schools, Professor Asbury Sullens McPherron, is a resident of Redlands, and a native of Tennessee, where he was born fiftyseven years ago. The most of his life has been spent in Iowa, whither he came in his childhood There the greater part of his life work has been done, thence he went to get his education, and there he buckled on the armor of the Union to fight in his country's battles when civil war broke out. He enlisted at the outbreak of the war in the Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, served thru the most of the war, and has the honor of wearing on his lapel the badge of the Grand Army of the Republic He went to Ohio for a college training, graduating at the famous Oberlin. He was afterwards principal, for two years, of one of the high schools of Akron, Ohio, a town that stands so high in the high school system of that State as to have "set the pace" for it and be the parent of rather than a subjective part of the system. In Iowa he was for some years principal of the normal department of Tabor college. He has had over 25 years' experience as a teacher in college and public schools-chiefly the latter. From Iowa he came to California sixteen years ago, settling first in Los Angeles, where he was for three years a teacher in the public schools of that city. For the past thirteen years he has been a resident of Redlands. The most of the time he has been teaching in that city and at Highland, the last three years in connection with the Redlands High School, and for two years was the presiding officer of its High School Board. He has long taken a prominent part in the county institutes of this county, and for many years has been fully identified with all its educational interests Monday being a legal holiday Professor Mc Pherron only took formal possession of his office yesterday, and speaks in the highest terms of the admirable condition in which he found things left by his predecessor, Miss Bahr, as well as of the grace with which that lady has inducted him into the duties of his office. Altogether, Professor McPherron brings to his office a ripe ex

perience, a high degree of ability and a manly public spirit that promise volumes for its successful administration.

P. W. Smith, Superintendent of Placer County, has issued the following: I am glad to state that during the past year, with few exceptions, the schools of the county have been prosperous and progressive. The

finances of the districts were never in better condition. All the districts of the county except three were able to pay all their current expenses without drawing on the apportionment made July 12, 1901. Never before in the history of the county has so great an interest been shown in the affairs of the schools and the subject of education in genera. Many of the school bui dings and grounds have been improved and adorned. During the year a County High School has been established and will open for the admission of students in the Sierra Normal College Building. Auburn, on August 26, 1901, under the most favorable conditions. An up-to-date course of study has been adopted. and a corps of able instructors has been employed. The classrooms have been renovated, new furniture has been purchased, and a laboratory has been constructed and equipped with new physical and chemical apparatus. Tuition is free, and a'l who are qualified are welcome to enter.

DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED

by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eusrachian Tube. When this is inflated you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflamation can be taken out and this tube restored to its nor. mal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.

We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best

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A. W. Atherton, head of the Commercial Department of the Berkeley High School, has resigned.

Olive School District.

Editor Western Journal of Education:

DEAR SIR: Some time ago I attended the closing exercises of the Olive school, in this county; while there, I saw something that was new to me, perhaps it may be of interest to

you.

Olive is one of the dryest, barest districts in the whole county. It is difficult to get any kind of vegetation to grow there; and we have just passed thru three dry seasons that have almost turned it into a desert.

Nevertheless, the people there have made noble efforts for their school. Three years ago they turned out to an Arbor Day celebration and planted a fine lot of trees. Then they sunk a well, having to go down a hundred feet; and they put over it a neat little windmill that merrily pumps away whenever the wind blows, sending out a slender stream of clear water that soon loses itself in the thirsty sands. They have managed to make those trees grow and already the children have their playhouses under them and eat their lunches in their shade - they make a striking feature of the landscape.

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For the closing exercises this year the people gathered in again and had a picnic dinner in the schoolhouse a good old-fashioned dinner, with roast chicken, baked beans, pumpkin pie, boiled ham, great cards of new honey and many other things to gladden the heart of man. While the tables were being arranged, the teacher, Miss Mary Mortimer, went out with a pan to a little garden near the well that had been planted and cared for by the pupils during the past term. She gathered a quantity of bright red radishes and sweet young onions and took them in to garnish the tables and add savor to the feast.

Now, may be you think those children were not pleased and proud to see their parents and friends actually eating and enjoying the fruits of that precious garden, and commenting on the success of their labors. It was the happiest day of their lives. Really, it was a fine occa

sion.

I have seen a thousand school districts in California with ten times the natural opportunities that Olive ever had, and that yet remain, year after year, bare, harsh, forbidding, miserable. I wish their trustees and teachers could go with me to a picnic at the little red schoolhouse of Olive, to learn that difficulties are merely things to be overcome. Very truly yours, EDWARD HYATT.

There is great progress in the schools of New Mexico. Over 47,000 pupils are now in the schools.

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In the Great National

Tragedy What Lessons?

In Civics and Citizenship - How vain the blow of the assassin at the machinery of the government which moved on as if he had not been. How interesting-how unforgetablethe study of that machinery at such a time. In History-which thrilled to the ends of the earth by telegraph and cable, thundered in ten thousand presses; in the indignant voice of Civilization and woke the echoes of Past History until its figures lived again.

In Language What inspiration in the vivid pictures of this epoch making time-in a topic which is on every tongue.

In Geography - Every nation in the world flashing its sympathy to the Great Republic.

In Business Methods - How the great ship of Commerce for a moment quivered at the shock, and what an insight into the resources of Financial Science instantly brought into play for her protection.

In Physiology - Hygiene Anatomy. There the world watched with bated breath the vain but mary lous skill of the physicians, and with heart beating between hope and despair counted the pulsations of the dying President.

Did you teach them?

Thousands of teachers used these lessons did you?

They were trea'ed from a school standpoint in THE LITTLE CHRONICLE only. THE LITTLE CHRONICLE is beyond comparison the best "current events" paper, and in using cur rent events in connection with all other studies, stands alone.

Every pupil can afford it at two cents a week Get the parents interested. It is already in use on this plan in fifteen different states.

All the supplies you want for pupils and parents, free of charge, and free desk copy with each club.

The Western Journal of Education State Agent for LITTLE CHRONICLE 723 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal.

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