Practical Methods OUTLINE FOR REVOLUTIONARY WAR. a. Extent. a. Extent: July 5, 1776, to July, 1778. b. Object: July, 1778, to 1783. b. Parties: Americans and French Against British. c. Plan of British: To begin at South and work up, that part, if not all, might be saved. d. Events: 1. Campaign at the South: Movements at Savannah. Charleston. Camden. Cowpens. King's Mountain. Guilford Court House. Cornwallis Retreats to Wilmington. Battle of Camden. Cornwallis Hastens North. Green Forces British Back to Charleston. 2. Campaign at the North: Attack on Newport. Massacre at Wyoming. Massacre at Cherry Valley. Capture of Stony Point. Arnold's Treason. 3. Siege of Yorktown: Arrival of French Fleet. Cornwallis Surrenders. e. Peace: 13. Describe the cities which you passed on the way. 14. Tell when you finally arrived at the coast and mingled with the water of the Ocean again.--Ex change. WORD STUDY. Have pupils select words from their readers to which "ing" can be annexed. Show them how to make such lists by beginning with the first lesson in the reader, and from the "new words," generally listed at the head of each lesson, select those to which "ing" can be annexed. In like manner let them proceed from lesson to lesson until the book has been completed. The teacher should keep the list of words in a note book for future use in reviews. A good plan is to have the second reader pupils make such lists from the first reader before beginning similar work in the second reader. After "ing" has been annexed to each word, have words divided into three lists, as follows: 1. Words that do not change on adding "ing:" George III. Acknowledges our Independence. Treaty Signed at Paris. -Popular Educator. THE STORY OF A DROP OF WATER. Imagine that you are a drop of water, which was at one time at the bottom of the ocean. 1. Describe your abode there. (a) Tell whether it was dark or light. (b) Describe some of the animals that were your neighbors. (c) Describe the queer shells and stones that surrounded you. (d) Tell about the noise made by the waters above. (e) Tell whether or not you could see the ships as they sailed over the ocean. 2. Tell why you wished to come to the surface. 3. Tell how you finally reached the surface. 4. Describe your feelings on being brought to the light of day. 5. Tell how you rose to the clouds. 6. Tell how you were drifted over the land. 7. Tell what caused you to fall to the earth. 8. Tell in what kind of a storm you came down. 9. Describe the place where you fell. 10. Tell whether or not you sank into the ground. 11. Tell how you finally reached the river. 12. Describe your journey towards the ocean. 10. Buy. What people settled there? What ship is meant What university? Name some illustrious Americans who studied there. What bay? 2. I have a very warm climate. I was bought by a president from a great French hero. If you will look over my surface you will see plantations of cotton and sugar. I am constantly increasing in size and I contain the delta of the largest river in the continent. I was named after a king. Who am I? What president is meant? What French hero? What delta? How am I constantly increasing in size? After whom was I named?-School record. THIRTY GATES. The following conundrums, published in the Youth's Companion, will be found very useful for a Friday afternoon exercise, the conundrums being proposed to the entire school and answers being called out by any one who may get them first. will be a good drill in the derivation of words: What gate proclaims and publishes"? (Promulgate.) What gate unyokes and sets free? (Abjugate.) It A gate which connects and classifies? (Conjugate.) A gate which acts as an ambassador? (Legate.) A gate which increases in length? ((Elongate.) | A gate which goes to law? (Litigate.) A gate which soothes and alleviates? (Mitigate.) A gate which conquers and subdues? (Subjugate.) A gate which places itself under bonds? (Obligate.) A gate acting as a representative? (Delegate.) Write the correct abbreviation of each of the following words: Sunday, Wednesday, September, Mister, postmaster, principal, superintendent, Ꭰar . rels, dozen, interest, month, number, postoffice, first. second, fourth. Write the plurals of the following names: Tree hird, wing, grasshopper, cricket, stick, stone, flower, meadow, potato, cargo, family, turkey, hawk, woman, gas, bench, tooth, knife, wolf, thief, plow. monkey, handkerchief, country, cherry, buoy. Write the feminine forms of the following names: Lion, poet, prince, adventurer, actor, executor, test ator, king, father, negro, emperor, duke, hero, widower, tiger. Write sentences containing the following words used (1) as nouns, and (2) as verbs: Man, load, passwork, play, hand, whip, heat, chain, stand. fly, rock, strap, point, milk, fan, iron, water, fire, sale. Substitute a single word for each of the following metaphors: Earth's white mantle, the land of nod. the vale of tears, the staff of life, the king of the forest, the ship of the desert. Which of the bracketed words is preferable: It tastes quite (strong, strongly) of cloves. He told them to sit (quiet, quietly) in their seats. They live just as (happy, happily) as before. The carriage rides (easy, easily). Your piano sounds (different. differently) from ours. Doesn't that field of wheat look (beautifully, beautiful)? The plurals of some nouns differ in meaning from the singulars, as salt, salts. Give other illustra tions. Selected. A man endowed with great perfections, without good breeding, is like one who has his pockets full of gold, but always wants change for his ordinary occasions.-Steele. Children's Corner. The Bottomless Jug. I saw it hanging up in the kitchen of a thrifty, healthy, sturdy farmer in Oxford County, Maine-a bottomless jug! The host saw that the curious thing caught my eyes, and smiled. are wondering what that jug ging up there for with its bot1ocked out," he said. "My wife, s, can tell you the story better can; but she is bashful, and I ain't, so I'll tell it. "My father, as you are probably aware, owned this farm before me. He lived to a good old age, worked hard all his life, never squandered money, was a cautious trader and a good calculator; and, as men were accounted in his day and generation, he was a temperate man. I was the youngest boy, and when the old man was ready to go, and I knew it, the others agreed that since I had stayed at home and taken care of the old folks, the farm should be mine, and to me it was willed. I had been married then three years. "Well, father died-mother had gone three years before-and left the farm to me, with a mortgage on it for $1,500. I'd never thought of it before. I said to Mollie, my wife: "Mollie, look here. Here father's had this farm for years, with all its magnificent timber, and his six boys, as they grew up, equal to so many men to help him; and he worked hard, worked early and late, and you look at A mortgage of $1,500. What can I do?" "And I went to the jug-it had a bottom to it then-and took a good stiff drink of something much stronger than water. "I noticed a curious look on the face of my wife just then, and I asked her what she thought of it, for I supposed she was thinking of what I'd been talking about, and so she was, for she said: "'Charles, I've thought of this a great deal, and I've thought of a way ia which I believe I can clear this "Says I, 'Mollie, tell me how you'll do it.' "She thought for a while, and then said, with a funny twinkle in her blue eyes-says she: "'Charlie. you must promise me this, and promise me solemnly and sacredly: Promise me that you will never bring home for the purpose of drinking for a beverage, at any time, any more spirits than you can bring in that old jug—the jug your father has used ever since I knew him, and which you have used since he was done with it.' "Well, I knew father used once in a while, especially in haying time, and in winter when we were at work in the woods, to get an old gallon jug filled; so I thought that she meant that I should never buy more than two quarts at a time. I thought it over, and after a little while told her that I would agree to it. are "Now, mind,' said she, 'you never to bring home any more spirits than you can bring in that identical jug.' And I gave her the promise. "And before I went to bed that night I took the last pull at that jug. As I was turning out for a sort of nightcap, Mollie looked up and says she, 'Charlie, have you a drop left?' "There was just about a drop left. We'd have to get it filled on the morTOW. Then she said if I had no objections, she would drink that last drop with me. I shall never forget how she said it, that last drop.' However, I tipped the old jug bottom up, and got about a great spoonful, and Mollie said that was enough. She took the tumbler and poured a few drops of water into it, and a bit of sugar, and then she tinkled her glass against just as she'd seen us boys do when we'd been drinking good luck, and says she. 'Here's to the old brown jug!' mine "Sakes alive! I thought to myself, Mollie had been drinking more of the rum than was good for her, and I tell you it kind o' cut me to the heart. I forgot all about how many times she'd seen me when my tongue was thicker than it ought to be, and my legs not so steady as good legs ought to be; but I said nothing. I drank the sentiment"The old brown jug'-and let it go. and "Well, I went out after that, then went to bed; and the last thing I said before leaving the kitchen-this very room where we now sit-was: "'We'll have the old brown jug filled to-morrow.' "And then I went off to bed. And I have remembered ever since that I went to bed that night, as I had done hundreds of times before, with a buzz. ing in my head that a healthy man ought not to have. I didn't think of it then, nor had I ever thought of it before, but I've thought of it a good many times since and have thought of it with wonder and awe. "Well, I got up the next morning and did my work at the barn, then came in and ate my breakfast, but not farmer with such an appetite as a ought to have, and I could not think that my appetite had begun to fail. However, I ate breakfast, and then went out and hitched up the old mare; for to tell the plain truth, I was feeling the need of a glass of spirits, and I hadn't a drop in the house. I was in a hurry to get to the village. I hitched I went up and came in for the jug. for it in the old cupboard and took it out and was "Did you ever break through the thin ice on a snapping cold day, and find your self in an instant over your head in freezing water? Because that is the way I felt at that moment. The jug was there, but the bottom gone. Mollie had taken a sharp chisel and a hammer, and, with a skill that might have done credit to a master workman, she had clipped the bottom clean out of the jug, and then she burst out. She spoke oh! I had never heard anything like it. No, nor have I heard anything like it since. She said: "Charles, that's where the mortgage on the farm came from! It was brought home within that jug-two quarts at a time. And there's where your white, clean skin and your clear eyes are going. And in that jug, my husband, your appetite is going also. Oh, let it be as it is, dear hearts. And remember your promise.' "And then she threw her arms around my neck and burst into tears. She could speak no more. "And there was no need. My eyes were opened as though by magic. In a single minute the whole scene passed before me. Sitting on a bench outside the door, I saw all the mortgages on all the farms in the neighborhood; and I thought where the money had gone. The very last mortgage father had ever made was to pay a bill held against him by the man who had filled this jug for years! Yes, I saw it as it passed before me-a flittering picture of rum! rum!- debt! debt! debt! And, in the end, death! And I returned to my Mollie, and, giving her a kiss, said: "Mollie, my own, I'll keep the promise! I will, so help me heaven!' "And I have kept it. In less than five years, as Mollie had said, the mortgage was cleared off; my appetite came back to me, and now we have a few hundreds at interest. There hangs the old jug-just as we hung it on that day; and from that time there hasn't been a drop of spirits brought into the house for a beverage which that bottomless jug wouldn't hold. "Dear old jug! We mean to keep it and hand it down to our children for the lesson it can give them-a lesson of life, happy, peaceful, prosperous and blessed!" And as he ceased speaking, his wife, with her arms drawn tenderly around the neck of her youngest boy, murmured a fervent "Amen!"-Boston Traveler. THEIR COLORS. They perched in a row on the garden gate, Little lads two and one little maid, Bobby and Benny and serious Kate, Thoughfully watching a rainbow fade. "Which of the colors do you like best?" Dr. M. H. Henry, New York, says: "When completely tired out by prolonged wakefulness and overwork, it is of the greatest value to me. As a beverage it possesses charms beyond anything I know of in the form of medicine." Descriptive pamphlet free. Rumford Chemical Works, Providence, R. I. 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