fesses to take his text on the spot, and talks any quantity of nonsense, is the idol of many. If he will speak without premeditation, or pretend to do so, and never produce what they call a dish of dead man's brains-ah! that is the preacher. How rebuked are they by the apostle! He is inspired, and yet he wants. books! He has seen the Lord, and yet he wants books! He has had a wider experience than most men, and yet he wants books! He had been caught up into the very heaven, and had heard things which it was unlawful for a man to utter, and yet he wants books! He had written the major part of the New Testament, and yet he wants books! The apostle says to Timothy, and so he says to every preacher, 'Give thyself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted; he who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own. Brethren, what is true of ministers is true of all our people: You need to read."

Football.

Another season of the great American game has gone into history. There were the usual victories, defeats, injuries and fatalities. This year's number of deaths is said to be more than double the average for the last five years. Nineteen

have died and one hundred thirty-seven received injuries worthy of football record. (Nothing short of a broken bone, at fractured skull or an injured spine constitutes an injury worthy of report.)

It is said to be a gentleman's game, but the number of men who are purposely hurt by their opponents leads the unprejudiced observer to think that a good many players are not gentlemen. The game more than any other seems to appeal to the animal in many players, and

to arouse the most vicious instincts in most of the observers.

We must have sport-vigorous, manly sport. Football may be so changed that it will meet these requirements. At present the cost in lives and permanent injuries is too great. The tendency of the

game to develop the gambling instinct and to call out the baser elements in the student body can hardly be ignored by school authorities.

We will not undertake to prophesy. Surely the wisdom of the school men will soon give us some relief. The prayer of parents and sisters who mourn for loved ones can not always go unheard.

Have a Care.

These little men and women of the school room are wonderfully complex. We can not tell what a word or deed may do. It may lead them toward success or it may start them on the road to failure. Little hearts are tender, and so sometimes the thoughtless word of a teacher may crush and ruin.

À business man of forty-five, who is just now beginning to succeed, after years of waste and failure, tells this story: "Until I was twelve I was greatly interested in school, and was full of the ambition to know something and be a man of consequence. For some mischievous boyish prank my teacher placed me in disgrace, to so remain for a number of days. While in disgrace my mother died. When I returned to school, mellowed and softened by the great loss I had sustained, my teacher's first act was to remind me of my disgrace and inform me that I must serve out my sentence. I submitted till noon, and then I fled. For twelve years I was a wanderer, and none of the home folks ever heard of me. After twelve years of such wasted life it tock twenty more years to get possession of myself, and so today I am just about where I ought to have been at twentyfive."

Such tragedies are all too common. Teachers should have a care. Having a care does not mean being softly sentimental, nor does it mean fear of acting with promptness and decision. It does mean acting with justice. It also means such a study of the facts that justice may be tempered with appropriate mercy. No teacher should ever forget that the rights of a child are sacred.

Do Things to a Finish.

Many men fail because they never quite finish what they undertake. One of the hardest problems a teacher has to solve is how to make boys and girls do things to a finish. The habit of flitting from one thing to another is a childish trait, but too frequently it becomes a fixed principle in mature life.

The men who do most in the world are those who do one thing at a time and finish that one thing before undertaking a second. Doing anything so slovenly that excuses must be offered is a sure way to build up a superficial character. Anything done to a complete finish commands the admiration of the world.

It is no disgrace to be a carpenter, but it is a disgrace to make a poor joint. When disgrace attaches to an artisan of any sort it is not so much in what he does as in the way he does it. It is said that the architects of the Parthenon finished the upper part of the wonderful frieze as perfectly as the lower part, because the gods could see from above.

Lord Macaulay gives the following convincing testimony: "When a boy, I began to read very earnestly, but at the foot of every page I stopped, and obliged myself to give an account of what I had read on that page. At first I had to read it three or four times before I got my mind firmly fixed, but now, after I have read a book through once, I can almost recite it from beginning to end."

Our critics from Europe invariably call attention to our slovenly habits, and to our almost utter lack of doing things to a finish. Our workmen and our professional men are too often but half trained. We need a good, old-fashioned revival in the roughness. To be effective, this must begin in the schools. Every teacher in

America should feel that he is called to preach and teach the gospel of doing things to a finish.

Mother.

There are four great words that thrill the heart of every man. They are daughter, sister, wife, mother. The greatest of these is mother, for motherhood includes all the others. A daughter cheers, a sister sympathizes, a wife ennobles, but a mother does all of these, and more. The depths of mother love have not yet been sounded. When a mother first feels that mite of life at her breast, a fire is kindled in her heart that time is powerless to extinguish. The daughter may forget, the sister's sympathy may change to hate, the wife may forsake, but the altar fire of love in the mother's heart burns brighter and brighter as the years come and go. For many a poor soul, the only line that pulls him from the breakers of his wrecked life is the undying love of his mother. It is the mother that saves and makes the man. A great man is impossible without a great mother. God bless our mothers! The debt we owe them can not be paid in gold. It takes finer stuff. Only lives throbbing with love and sympathy, and resonant with the clear ring of truth can cancel that debt.

My mother has passed into the larger life. I will not again see her physical form, and yet, that which made her mother is my permanent possession. That love that encouraged my youthful footsteps, that cheered my first endeavors, that poured a stream of sympathy into my wounded heart when failures came, that ever sent a prayer to the Throne of Grace for my safekeeping-that love is mine through time and eternity.

The corner stone of the John Herron Art Institute, on Pennsylvania and Sixteenth streets, Indianapolis, was laid Saturday afternoon, November 25. The exercises preceding the setting of the stone were held in the Mayflower Congregational Church. Mr. John Herron, the benefactor of the enterprise, died at Los Angeles, California, in April, 1895. He was seventy-six years old and left no nearer relative than a third or fourth cousin. He left by will to the Indianapolis Árt Association property valued at $225,000, which was to be used to educate students in art, to buy pictures for an art museum and to erect a building for such a school and collection of pictures. The fund is now worth $240,000, of this amount $85,000 will be expended on the new building. It will be Italian renaissance in style, 125 feet facing Sixteenth street, 85 feet deep and two stories rising to a height of 80 feet. It is expected that the building will be ready for occupancy May 1, 1906. It is hoped that other buildings in time will be added.

Professor Troy Smith, who has charge of the science in the Union City High School, is doing his fifth year's work in that responsible position. Professor Smith graduated at Indiana University in 1901 and has done special work since.

Benj. H. Sanborn & Company take pleasure in announcing that Mr. Harry Jeschke, who has had charge of their business in Iowa, Nebraska and on the Pacific Coast, will hereafter take care of their interests in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. They bespeak for him the same courteous consideration that has been accorded his predecessor, Mr. Hugh Brown.

An effort is being made to compile statistics relative to the qualifications of teachers of the State. The blank sent out asks the number of teachers who are graduates of colleges or universities, number of graduates

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Men who are prone to financial temptations may find the profession of teaching safer for them than the banking business. The conditions at Peoria, Ill., are very unfortunate and unusual.

Miss Kate McCarty, for many years a teacher in the Wabash schools, died at Springer, N. M., on November 10, where she had gone for her health.

A new school for librarians was recently opened at the Technical Institute at Indianapolis. Its chief purpose is to train young men and women to conduct libraries. It begins its first term with twenty students. The Indiana Public Library Commission has taken upon itself the responsibility of helping to supply trained librarians for the scores of city and town libraries established by the generosity of Andrew Carnegie and others. Miss Merica Hoagland is at the head of the new school and Miss Anna R. Phelps is the chief instructor.

The citizens of Lafayette have offered to throw open their homes to the members and visitors of the Northern Indiana Teachers' Association which will convene there in April next. The hotels will not be able to accommodate the 4,000 members. Purdue University has promised to co-operate with the city in the entertainment of the visitors.

President Bryan, of Indiana University, says that he is a firm believer in athletics, but regrets that so many students of educational institutions bet on games. He says:

"Don't bet. It is bad when you lose and worse when you win. If you are well scorched in the beginning you may learn to keep away from the fire. But when you win the evil fire gets into your liver. The worst of it is the fire in your liver. But that is not all of it. The fire will break out and burn up everything you care for, property, family, honor, everything. These are not melodramatic improbabilities. Every day they happen. Any of us could give names. I could tell of a case which came close to me four years ago, and another last year, and another this week-all of them college men. There is no melodrama about it, There was

suicide in one case; there is the sharp prospect of the penitentiary in another, and in every case there is the disgrace which burns up the innocent and the guilty. For he's a jolly good fellow,' we were singing for each of these men; but now the one who is closest is saying over and over, 'If he had only died first.'"

The Ripley County High School Teachers' Association is an organization recently perfected by the high school teachers of Ripley County. Prof. L. P. Stewart, of Versailles, is its president, and Prof. C. W. Caldwell, of the Delaware school, its secretary. The object of the association is the improvement of the high schools of the county and the fostering of a popular interest in higher education.

Miss Edna Johnson, of Richmond, Ind.. has recently been appointed instructor in Latin in the Evansville High School.

The Baptist Social Union recently held its annual meeting at the Commercial Club in Indianapolis. About 200 Baptists with Franklin College alumni were present. Dr. E. B. Bryan was the guest of honor and addressed the banqueters on "Franklin College." A movement was set on foot to raise $200,000, one-half of which shall be added to the permanent endowment fund and the remainder to be used for the construction of three new buildings-a dormitory for young women, a gymnasium and a science hall.

Prof. W. M. Lewis has been elected by the trustees of Lake Forest University to succeed Prof. J. C. Sloane as head master of Lake Forest Academy. Mr. Lewis is a graduate of Lake Forest, and has received the degree of M. A. from the University of Illinois.

Mr. T. P. Shonts, chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission, has given to Monmouth College $10,000 as part of the $30,000 needed to secure an additional $30,000 which Andrew Carnegie has promised for a library. Mr, Shonts is a graduate of Monmouth.

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In a recent address before the school directors of Lackawanna, State Superintendent Schaeffer, of Pennsylvania, said: "High schools and colleges of the age think that the greatest thing is play and sports. conversation the college student imagines the only thing to discuss is some sport. Something more than play is needed in the schools; work is required which will bring some realization of the good it will do the student in after life." He also expressed a wish for more women school directors, believing their influence tended for the better development of the school and the pupil.

We receive letters from all parts of the United States for the Educator-Journal. One of these is as follows:

"Alexander, N. C., Nov. 12, 1905. "Educator-Journal Co., Ind'p'l's, Ind.:

"Have you a copy of the Journal containing Judge Stubbs' speech on the evils of smoking cigarettes? I think it was published in the February number. Enclosed find ten cents to pay for this Journal. "Yours truly,

"JOSIE BUNDY."

The educators of the West manifest more interest in educational meetings than those of New England. In many Western States a State Teachers' Association will enroll 2,500, with a fee of fifty cents or one dollar, while in the New England States three or four hundred is considered a large enrollment and the State treasury makes an appropriation which pays most of the bills. The teachers of the West usually travel four or five times as far as the teachers of the East and at a higher rate of fare to attend these meetings. Teachers of the West manifest a spirit of enthusiasm in their profession which is hardly known to Eastern teachers.

Prof. F. W. Bancroft, of the department of physiology of the University of California, has performed some important experiments on the effects of electrical currents on sea life. He has demonstrated that the cilia covering the body of the paramoecium and the cause of their locomotion respond to electrical stimulation by changing the direc

tion of their movement. When an electric current passing through water containing paramoecium is interrupted, the cilia reverse their movement on that end of the animal which is nearer the positive pole. When the current is made again only cilia on the end nearer the negative pole reverse.

The Hamilton County Corn School Club held in Noblesville December 4 was attended by two hundred and fifty country boys. This club was organized two years ago by County Superintendent Haines, of Hamilton County, for the purpose of interesting the boys in country life and keeping them on the farm.

"Our educative influence is determined by what predominates in us. We communicate to children less of what we say than of what we are, and if our moral path be crooked, it is useless to point out the straight and narrow way; the child holding our hand walks as we walk."

Andrew Carnegie gives Luther Burbank $10,000 a year for ten years for the promotion of his experiments.

Prof. D. O. Coate, head of Department of English in the State Normal School, Manka-' to, Minn., writes: "Certainly I wish to renew my subscription to the Educator-Journal. It is a welcome, helpful friend each month. The articles by Mr. Thomas, of Shortridge, are alone worth the price of the Journal in suggestiveness to the English teacher. Find enclosed, please, $1.00."

"Without the love of books the richest man is poor; but endowed with this treasure of treasures, the poorest man is rich. He has wealth which no power can diminish, riches which are always increasing, possessions which the more he scatters the more they accumulate, friends who never desert him and pleasures which never cloy."

While the growth of Valparaiso University has been very remarkable in the past, yet there seems to be no limit to this growth. The principal reason for this is in the fact that the institution continues to in