Educational Index from Winfield, Kansas • 3

THE EDUCAT THE GLACIER STREAM. BY MISS EMMA SHAW. Written at the foot of the Glacier, Glacier Hous. Britisti Columbia rapid river racing down From yonder glacier's snowy crown, Entranced, I watch the hurry by With spray and foam-wreaths tossing high! listening, try to catch some word Or message, and my heart is stirred. What old-time secrets thou could'st tell Yon icy heights have guarded well, As, year on year, the frozen tide Has crowded down the mountain side, Held by a strong, relentless will A wondrous ice-field white and still Now, now, from its stern thraldom free, Resistlessly thou seek'st the sea, A glacial torrent wildly glad To leave the peaks all snowy clad.

Naught save the whisper of the trees Touched gently by the summer breeze, And the glad music of thy tide Comes to me through the forest wide Each passing wave in spray laughs out, Each tiny wavelet seems to shout A paean of joy, "We're free! We're free! We're hasting on to join the ea!" And see! afar a silver gleam Points out a hurrying sister stream That, from yon adamantine wall, Has heard chy gleeful waters call, And, downward through a dark ravine, Where sunny gleams are rarely een, With Titan force it cleaves the way, Nor rock, nor trees iU force can stay And, where its waves thy volume swell I waft to thee a fond "Farewell -Prof. J. N. Wilkinson, who has so successfully conducted the training in our State Normal, for nine or ten years, has asked for a leave of absence for two years, for trie purpose of studying edusational systems and methods in Germany. Prof.

Wilkinson will take his family with him. ON A INDEX. 3 ALIENS. Only white and negro aliens can be naturalized in the United States. From 1787 to 1870 the law limited the naturalization of foreigners to "aliens bo-iug free white persons." By the act of 1870 the following, wis added "and to aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent:" The United States District Court of Oregon refused naturalization to an.

Indian unless he could prove negro blood Judge Sawyer of the United State Circuit Courtin the case Ah Yup ruled that a native of China, of the Mongolian race, is not a white person within the meaning of the act of congress regulating naturalization, hence it would exclude the Chinese from the privilege of American citizenship. "The Chinese, the Japanese, the Malay and others of a similar ethnological group, a.e debarred from our citizenship, and our courts are bound to deny them naturalization on the ground of color of Political, Science. The public schools of Kansas should not fail to celebrate the birthday of our state on the 29th of this month and thus inspire within the hearts of our pupils a love for our people, our institutions, and our good name. A knowledge of our early history and the struggles through which we have passed and over which we have triumphed will tend to make a people who in every emergency will "stand up for Kansas." Bit? of Kansas history, suitable songs and declamations will make a very entertaining programme for the pupils and the patrons as well. The schoolroom should be decorated with flags, mottoes, maps, pictures, etc.

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