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ROBERT J. ALEY, PH. D., EDITOR.

and to the building up of good school sentiment.

Mr. Cotton has been deeply interested. in better wages for teachers, and in a more secure tenure in position. He has thought, written and spoken much upon these subjects. His renomination by a great political party is a strong endorsement of the idea of tenure in office. It is to be hoped that Mr. Cotton's nomination for a third term will forever dispel from the minds of the politicians the idea that rotation in an educational office is necessary or desirable. In educational work nothing is more valuable than experience. If Mr. Cotton is elected he will be able to do more for the schools of Indiana in the next two years than he has in the past four.

S. I. T. A.

Three thousand.

The attendance great.

The weather the worst ever.

In spite of weather, good humor and enthusiasm.

President E. B. Bryan made a splendid presiding officer.

All the officers did their work with careful precision.

The music at the various meetings was unusually good and added greatly to the enjoyment of all.

The readings furnished good entertainment and were greatly enjoyed. This feature should be continued in future programs.

President Bryan introduced Dr. Jordan as one "who hails from no State, whose country is the world and his immediate vicinity the United States."

President Bryan's inaugural address was upon the subject, "Conduct FourFourths of Life." In his usually happy and convincing manner he carried the audience with him to the conclusion that behaviour is all of life.

President Kelly is an educational speaker that it is always worth while to hear. His style is simple and direct. The listener feels that he means all he says. His paper on "The Teacher's Responsibility for the Pupil's Morality" was one of the best of the meeting.

President W. L. Bryan took for his subject "The Politics of Shakespeare." His analysis of the politics in Julius Caesar, Hamlet and Measure for Measure was intensely interesting and led in a masterly way to the conclusion that honesty in politics is right for its own sake.

Dr. Nathaniel Butler of Chicago University made a splendid impression upon the association. His message is a real one and he delivers it well. His lectures on literature made a deep impression. The teachers who heard them will carry many good results into their schools.

The sections had large and enthusiastic meetings. The High School section and the Shortridge High School students. heard Jordan's great lecture on "The Blood of the Nation." The Grammar section heard Dr. Butler, and the Primary section listened with profit to Miss Brooks and Mrs. Ormsby. The section programs were not overcrowded, and for this the committees are to be commended.

No man has made a greater impress on educational Indiana than Dr. Jordan. As a teacher in the Indianapolis High School, in Butler, and at Indiana he formed a host of friends, whose loyalty has never wavered. He did more than any other one man to put science teaching on a rational basis. We owe so much to Jordan that we are always glad to wel

Pedagogy in Fiction.

Within the last decade a number of good pedagogical stories have appeared. To many the sugarcoating of educational principles is necessary. They will refuse to swallow them unless accompanied by interesting action and a good love story.. These stories serve an excellent purpose by reaching a large number of patrons and friends of education as well as by stimulating many half-hearted teachers.

The Claude J. Bell Company of Nashville, Tennessee, have just issued a splendid story under the title "The Little Schoolmistress." It is the simply told story of the struggle of a girl for an education and for success as a teacher of children. Helen Smith had the only genius that is worth much, the genius to work hard. She went into the school room as a necessity, but with the determination to do her work well. She read with careful thought a few of the best books on teaching. She mastered every line of her educational journals. She studied her pupils, their eccentricities and their environments. With this equipment she soon made herself almost indispensable to the rural neighborhood in which she taught. She developed a passion for teaching.

The book is teeming with practical pedagogical gems. Every one will find the book interesting, but teachers of rural schools will find it especially helpful.

Don't Tell Your Troubles.

Many people drift into the habit of entertaining their friends by detailing troubles and trials. Such a habit is bad from both standpoints. Friends do not care to know the ills of life. They greatly prefer the joys and successes. It is very egotistic to suppose that others are interested in our worries, besides it is extremely bad taste to eternally talk about self.

The excuse so often offered for the nonperformance of duty is "I have been so very busy." Nobody cares how busy you have been. What the world wants is performance. It expects you to be busy, busy enough to do every duty.

Whining about being busy never even creates a reputation for hustling. The man who does the most work, the really busy man, never has to tell people about it.

The woman who meets her friends with a long face and with a quiver in her voice tells them how miserable she is, and how she has been overtaxing her strength, excites no real sympathy. Her red-blooded friends can hardly wait till her back is turned to laugh at her. They know the complaining is a habit formed to satisfy a morbid desire for sympathy.

The man who is always "just tolerably like" amuses his friends and soon becomes the subject of the corner grocery joker. Complaining is almost wholly a matter of habit. The world admires the martyr who uncomplainingly suffers to the utmost. To him who heroically meets. trouble, we pour out our sympathy unstinted.

Educator-Journal Special to the
N. E. A.

We are pleased to announce that we have arranged for a special train to San Francisco. The train will leave Chicago July 2, at 10:30 p. m. and reach San Francisco July 9, at 8 a. m. One day will be spent at Denver, one day at Colorado Springs and Manitou, three hours. at Glenwood Springs and one at Salt Lake City. This gives ample time to see the most interesting cities in America. The route selected is the Chicago and Northwestern to Omaha, the Union Pacific to Denver, the Colorado Midland to Salt Lake City and the Southern Pacific to San Francisco. This route takes us

through the fertile prairies of Illinois and Iowa, the great plains of Nebraska, the wonderful mountains of Colorado, the great American desert of Utah and Nevada, and the massive sierras of California. The route was selected because

of its directness, its great advantage as to scenery, and its deserved reputation for safety.

No mountain scenery in the world surpasses that of Colorado. Our route gives us the best.

The great advantage the Colorado Midland has is that it penetrates the very heart of the grand old Rockies, disdaining even the valleys and climbing over the very mountain peaks. The result is that there is presented to the tourist a panorama of natural wonders such as no pen can describe, and such as can be seen nowhere save from the window of the Colorado Midland. Truly Dr. Talmage Truly Dr. Talmage spoke wisely and with a knowledge of his theme when he remarked that, "The Colorado Midland is an enchantment from the first spike of the rail to the last switch." Here and there the wild flowers

set the mountains on fire with conflagra

tion of color. No traveler has seen America until he has taken the Colorado Midland Railway.

No one going to California this summer can afford to miss the EducatorJournal special. The trip will be of great educational value. For particulars write the editor at Bloomington.

Brumbaugh's Great Book.

Dr. M. G. Brumbaugh, professor of education in the University of Pennsylvania, is one of the strongest and best known leaders of educational thought. He knows all kinds of school work from the standpoint of actual experience. He has taught in country, village and city; has been county superintendent, president of a church college, and commissioner of education in Porto Rico; has lectured in county and city institutes all over the country and has appeared frequently on the program of great State and National meetings. He is a scholar

who writes in a fascinating and convincing style.

His book, "The Making of a Teacher," is written with the needs of the Sundayschool primarily in mind. But good teaching involves the same essential principles whether it is done in the day school, the Sunday-school, the home, the shop or the field. The things that will contribute to the making of a teacher in any one of these fields will not differ materially from those that should be used for the development of a teacher for any of the other fields. This book, then, has a much wider field of usefulness than the Sunday-school. Parents, ministers and religious and secular teachers, will all find it a source of inspiration and help.

The book is written in such a style that the beginner will find it interesting and easily followed, and at the same time the experienced and well-prepared teacher will find it suggesting new lines of thought and leading him into new and interesting fields.

The titles of a few of the chapters will suggest the plan of the book.

On attention there are two chapters, How to Secure It, and Guiding Principles. Such chapters as The Building of Ideals, The Use of Symbols, Some Laws of Teaching, The Teacher's Personal Equipment, and Jesus the Ideal Teacher, are worthy of many readings.

A few quotations are given to show the style and power of the author.

"Some primary teachers have the idea that they need only some objects like woolly sheep, dolls, rotten potatoes and penny candles, in order to be sure of a successful exercise. They push the woolly sheep around on the table, they exhibit the dolls, they cut open the rotten. potatoes, they light the candles, and they talk, talk, talk, and lo! it is a lesson."

"In play, the interest rests in the process; the result is not significantly regarded. In work, the interest rests in the result; the process is not significantly regarded."

"To illuminate a soul is worth the effort. To enthrone God, sacred and se