Western Series of Readers. Select List of Books Four Great Books Edited by Harr Wagner. For WESTERN TEACHERS. PUBLISHED BY THE WHITAKER & RAY CO. Key to State Advanced Arithmetic. A valuable book for every teacher who desires One Thousand Questions for Primary An attractive book of seventy-five pages, con- As the questions are those used at recent exami- Price, 50 Cts. Postpaid. BY WESTERN AUTHORS Cloth.. .75 "Hail California"-New State Song........10 Cts. 10 Cts. Lyrics of Golden West.. $1.00 1.00 1.00 .75 One Set Western Readers, 4 vols, in box, Boards, postpaid, $2.00. Cloth, $2.75. Special Offer to Teachers! One of each above (six in all), $1.75 Postpaid. Orthography and Spelling (Four parts)... 1.00 OUR NEW BOOK AND IS NOW READY! 160 Pages. Very Artistic and Interesting. WRITE FOR IT! THE WHITAKER & RAY CO. 723 Market, Street, S. F., Cal. 2 THE Western Series of Readers FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADES CONTENTS-The Story of How Balboa Discovered the Pacific. The Story of the Missions. The First Ship to Enter the Golden Gate. The Discovery of the Rocky Mountains. The Story of the Donner Party. The Bear Flag Republic The Discovery of Gold. The Golden Gate. The Story of Fremont. How California Came into the Union. Old Californians who named California. Magellan, or the First Voyage Around the World. Cabrillo. The Story of Drake. The American Flag in California. As a text book in hands of pupils in the sixth grade of the San Francisco schools. In the course of study of the following counties: El Dorado, Modoc, Lake, Merced, Santa Clara, Butte, Contra Costa. Alameda, Glenn, Inyo, Riverside, Kern, Trinity, Amador, Sutter, Santa Cruz, Ventura, Sonoma, in fact in most every county in California. VOL. II PACIFIC NATURE STORIES IN PREPARATION BY HERBERT BASHFORD ....TALES OF OUR NEW POSSESSIONS.... Vol. V-THE PHILIPPINES. Vol. VI-SANDWICH ISLANDS. trated. Superbly written. Intensely interesting. 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FISCHER KIMBALL FRANKLIN BLASIUS MASON & HAMLIN KNABE Everything in the line of Musical Instruments wholesale and retail KOHLER & CHASE, 26-30 O'Farrell St. A committee of the N. E. A., consisting of Wm. T. Harris, F. Louis Soldan and T. M. Balliet, reported on the following list of words with simplified spelling which were adopted for use in all publications of the N. E. A. Program-(programme); tho(though); altho-(although); thoro-(thorough); thorofare(thoroughfore); thru-(through); thruout-(throughout); catalog --(catalogue); prolog-(prologue); decalog-(decalogue); demagog (demagogue); pedagog-(pedagogue). The rites and ceremonies of Christmas have an educational value that is not realized. The gifts are baubles and toys, are sweet things and fancy articles, are trash and worse sometimes, but the giving. It has its lessons. No child ever remembered its playmate on a Christmas morning who did not receive a blessing. No man has ever opened his purse, or done some little act of kindness on a Christmas day that the star of Bethlehem did not shine more brightly for him. It is the one day in all the year that the manger is more than a palace to the human race. The halo on the brow of the Christ-child is for the one day a halo on the Christian world. Christmas day is a day of stars in the midnights of our existence, and to the pagans it is midnight all the time. It is very old fashioned to talk to you, the reader, but the editor knows so many of you personally, and the clientage of the JOURNAL is so personal, that just for Christmas morning we will drop the formal we, and we the editor will step outside the office and say, "I wish you all a merry Christmas." GREAT DATES. Fresno Dec. 21, 22, 23, '98. Santa Rosa Dec. 27, 28, 29, 30, '98. Los Angeles July 5-10, '99. NUMBER 12 ESTABLISHED 1852 CHRISTMAS JOTTINGS. The sweetest Christmas music is the unsung song in the heart of a thankful child. * If you cannot give anything else to your loyal friends, the childred-give them a smile. * * If you teach Fairy Stories all the year, one week before Christmas, at least, mention the Babe of Israel. * * There is more pleasure in giving than receiving to a man who has just received a pair of ear mufflers in California's balmy climate. * * There are few people who know how to give. It is a science. The matter of giving is not measured by the size of one's purse but the largeness of one's heart. It is also as important to give the right thing as it is to applaud in a theatre at the right time. The saddest Christmas of all is for the mother who sees a vacant chair, the toys laid carefully away, and knows the childish voice is for ever hushed. All silence, silence, all a memory, except memory itself. Subscribe for the Western Journal of Education. 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