County Teacher from Belleville, Kansas • 3

Miss Lottie Stover, formerly a teacher of this county, is now engaged in the millinery business at Republic. Miss Rose Taylor will attend the State Normal School at Emporia dining the coming year. We understand that Miss Mabel Daniels, of Belleville, will attend school this season at Lincoln, Neb. Edgar E. Bayard, Secretary of the County Teachers' Association, is located in District No.

11, which is not far from Cuba. An education enables people to know a good bargain when they see it. Mr. Victor Carlson and Miss Maggie Bell, both graduates of the Scandia High School, were recently united in marriage. These young people have industriously worked through the course of the Scandia school, and have many warm friends in that town and vicinity, whom the TEACHER joins in extending congratulations.

Tom Charles, one of Republic County's progressive teachers, has begun a regular course at the State University. m- W. F. Howard, a former teacher of this county, was married on the 23rd ult. to Miss Minnie Hayden, of Lamed, Kansas.

They will make their home at Dighton, Kansas, where Mr. Howard is engaged as principal of the schools. Out of the 1 52 taking the examination at the close of the Institute, 96 received certificates. Of this number two were first grades, sixteen second grades, and seventy-eight third grades. Mrs.

Bertha A. Hoard, of Munden, and Mr. C. A. Melton, of Cuba, secured the first grades.

A very eminent professor in one of the greatest American universities was asked this summer concerning the progress of a teacher who had become one of his students. His reply was: "He is doing fairly well, but he has been a schoolmas- Do thine own task and be therewith content. -Goethe. A bound sum never squares a crooked business. Young1 Men's Era.

A strained imagination makes a muddy mind. Rural New Yorker. A man's confidence in his own experience is in inverse proportion to his age. Truth. Don't have your feelings around like a cat's tail to be stepped upon.

Arkan-saw Traveler. The most distant relatives are not always those who live farthest away. Philadelphia Record. There is little mercy in stabbing with a word as there is in doing it with a knife. Ram's Horn.

Robert Lewis Stephenson's new story: "The Ebb Tide," will be published simultaneously in England and America A Japanese novelist has produced a story called "The Romance of a Dog," which is to appear in one hundred and eight volumes, issued at short intervals at a popular price. "Love in Idleness," a short novel by Marion Crawford, will shortly appear It is a story relating to life af Bar Harbor, and includes several of the characters already known to us in "Kath-erine Lauderdale." The catalogue of the Bibliotheque Xationale, of Paris, the largest library in the world, will shortly go to press. This catalogue, alphabetically arranged, has over two million five hundred thousand titles, and will comprise eighty quarto volumes. BAY OF FUNDY'S TIDES. There is a fall in the tide of twelve to fifteen feet at Grand Manon.

At both Lubec and Eastport the tide boasts a better record, which is twenty feet. The tide at St. John varies all the-way from twenty-four feet to thirty feet. feet is what the tide has registered at Moncton, on the bend of the Peticodiac. The -difference between high and low-water mark on the Cobequid river is twelve miles, the river being twelve miles longer at high than at low water.

SEEN IN NEW YORK CITY. There" are perhaps thirty private hansoms in this city A man appeared in South street recently selling shirts from a wagon negligee shirts, and white shirts and collars. The street stands along South street, from which oysters and clams are sold at one cent each, are well patronized. "Meals for private families at all prices" is a significant sign in a poor and densely crowded east side street. Unfermented grape juice has considerable sale in New York the year round, not only to such religious sects as refuse to use alcoholic drinks at the communion service, but as well by all sort.

of perjoiio. ter almost too long." An explana-I tion was demanded of this remark, and the professor went on to say: "A teacher tends to become a sort I of spout a knowledge spout. He I loses all interest in the facts them selves. He tells the pupils that the world is round, but does not conceive how he would find that out or I how men find it out; and so on. I Teaching, as it is ordinarily done, suspends the investigating faculty, the inquiring faculty.

You do not 1 find the average teacher looking in-j to things as the student does. So I i say, with all due deference to the teaching class, that teaching, as it And still they go! On the 22nd of August Chas. M. Houghton and Minnie Nelson, both of Kackley, were united in marriage. Mr.

Houghton has for some years been a teacher of this county, and is one of oiir brightest and most energetic young men. We understand that he will teach in this county the coming year. The best wishes of the TEACHER go with the young and happy couple. The regular quarterly examination of candidates for teacher's certificates will be held in the Belleville high school building on Saturday, October 27th, commencing at 8 o'clock. The county examining board has discontinued the practice of combining and advanced the requirements for third grade certificates.

Applicants must be seventeen years of age and must pass a satisfactory examination, making a general average of seventy-five per centum and not falling below sixty-five per centum in any branch. E. Glasgow, Co. Supt. is usually done, puts an end to mental progress." Is this a fact? Are the teachers merely sponges that soak up some knowledge to give it out again to their classes? Is such the best kind of teaching? Are such the successful teachers? Does it make any difference to a pupil whether his teacher is an investigator on his own hook or not of the knowledge he imparts? School Journal..