tor, quick!" The father walked the floor in terror, the children cried, the neighbors flocked in, the mother went into hysterics, and little Jack was fainting from loss of blood. The "blood spurts" showed that an artery had been severed. The father was trying to plaster up the wound in his arm, when a young girl of sixteen, from the high school, came rushing in. She snatched the pillow case off the bed, cut it into strips, and bound them tightly above and below the wound. The doctor came soon, and simply said: "My dear, you have saved the boy's life. Your knowledge of physiology was as good as mine in this case!"

Cover the tray with a paper or a piece of cloth, and explain to the class that you will uncover the articles for a moment, after which you will cover them and allow the class to write the names of all the articles that they may see and can remember. Be careful that no one writes until the signal is given, also that the children do not copy from one another's lists. Expose the articles for about half a minute, and allow them about three minutes to write. When time is up, have the papers passed and marked for misspelling, etc. This lesson makes a fine diversion from the regular routine and has several other good values.

The superintendent who can most fully perform his duties towards his teachers is undoubtedly the best superintendent. The man who can most effectively inspire teachers has the power to perform his duty most completely, not to teachers alone, but to the school board, the public,

and the pupils. The teacher's work stamps the entire system, and he who stimulates the teacher to higher effort and improves the quality of her work uses his energy and his wisdom where they are most certain to be multiplied and reproduced as elements in the lives of all who come within the sphere of his influence.

Such a man is beyond price.

To know the name of a bird is of comparatively little value; to know to what class he belongs is of no great moment. In short, to know him from the scientific standpoint amounts to little, so far as the average child is concerned. If he becomes a specialist, he will learn all this quickly in later life. But to love birds and to form habits of observation sufficiently to

watch carefully every bird, is worth as much as any branch of study. No training of the ear is better than that which comes from listening to the song of birds; no training in color knowledge is better than discrimination of their hues and tints; no better form study than appreciation of their shape; no better discipline in the study of motion than in their hopping, pecking, and flying.

The cent consists of 95 per cent. of copper and 5 per cent. tin and zinc. There are 1,000,000,000 pennies in circulation throughout the country, and the Philadelphia mint is turning them out at the rate of 4,000,000 a month to keep up the supply for the country at large.

Why are fruits green at first? Why are they of brilliant colors later? How many seeds has a peach, a plum? Apples and pears are called "fleshy fruits." Why? Peaches and plums are called "stone fruits." Why? What would you call grapes? What is the use of the tassel on corn, of the husk? Why is there more dew in the fall than in the summer? Have you ever seen a cocoon? Can you bring one to school? Why does the milkweed pod keep closed until its seeds are ripe? What happens then? The wind, brooks, birds, sheep, and even children help to scatter the milkweed's seeds. Why is that useful to the plant? Can you find plan elsewhere in nature?

MIGHT OF GENTLENESS.

pupils were received who needed special training on account of some personal peculiarities, there was a teacher from one of the best families, of remarkably prepossessing appearance. She had received a thorough education, and was fully competent, as far as scholarship and culture could make her, to fill a professorship in almost any institution of learning in the country. But with a Christian devotion she had given herself up to the most benevolent work of training a class of girls in this school, whose early education and culture had been sadly neglected. She had one peculiarity prominent above all her other good qualities-it was perfect self-control and self-possession. Kindness was the law of her being, and love the ruling principle of her life.

N a school in New York City, in which

In her class was one girl who by some means was as nearly ungoverned and ungovernable.as any human being could be, outside the penitentiary or insane asylum. She was, in every characteristic, the opposite of her teacher. During one week she seemed especially bad. Nothing pleased her, and by every means in her power she tried to vex, annoy and discourage those nearest to her. No severe punishment was inflicted, but seclusion,

her influence was great, and to-day, whenever she tells the story of her schoolday life to a confidential friend, she says in tones full of deepest feeling and earnestness, "The love and forbearance of Miss S saved me."

SCHOOL CHILDREN'S EYES.

means, only served to intensify the badness of her nature. The worse she acted the kinder her teacher seemed to be. One day she seemed bent on her worst. At the close of her lesson she was requested to remain after the rest had retired. For some minutes nothing was said. At last the question was asked, "Why do you persist in acting so badly? Are you ill-treated? Who is your enemy? Tell me the whole truth. What is the matter with you? Are you happier in being bad than in trying to grow better?" She was silent. For ten minutes nothing was said, but it was evident that her feelings were deeply aroused. At last she broke out with a passionate exclamation, "I am bad! I always have been bad, and I have made up my mind to be bad. I came into the class to-day with a determination to vex you, to make you angry, and to get you to punish me, but the more I tried, the kinder you seemed to be. I couldn't vex you, and I was mad because I couldn't. If you would only get mad at me and whip me, I should be happy. Why have you been so good to me? I don't understand it."

She went on this way for ten minutes, during which time the teacher said nothing.

After another silence of some time, the teacher asked her, in a mild but decided tone of voice, one simple question, "Will you be a better girl?" Another silence of more than five minutes, broken only by the passionate sobbing of the poor girl. At last she said, looking straight up into the face of her teacher through her tears, yet with calm determination that showed the resoluteness of an honest heart, "I will be a better girl."

From that day on she was a changed person. Although her passionate nature. showed itself frequently, yet the strength of her will overmastered the lower impulses of her nature, and she became one of the strongest and best girls in the school. It is not necessary to say that

its knowledge in its early years through the eyes. How important then it is to have good eyesight. Hundreds and thousands of children go through school life at great disadvantage because of defective vision. Often a boy or a girl is deemed dull simply because of this defect. The Colorado School Journal makes the following sensible suggestion in regard to the matter:

"Many near-sighted children, unable to see the blackboards, charts, etc., and debarred from comprehensively observing the world and learning its lessons, have, by the aid of properly-adjusted glasses, been placed upon an equality with their comrades. Many children unable to study without pain and fatigue, consequent upon hypermetropia or astigmatism, have by a similar remedy been relieved of their infirmity and enabled to assume high rank as scholars. Other children have been emancipated from the mortification incident to the possession of cross-eyes by an operation; while others have been placed on the road to good vision by operative interference upon congenital cataracts. Other channels of relief might be mentioned if space permitted, but enough has been said to demonstrate that while statistical figures of an absolutely accurate character are unavailable, and dependence must be placed on the 'general results,' yet one may feel well assured that the plan, wherever made operative, will yield large and signally beneficial results."

Few people are aware how large a proportion of children are born with defective eyesight. It is claimed that fully half of the children in our schools have imperfect eyes. Of course many defects are slight and may be easily remedied, but in all such cases the scientific oculist should be consulted. The modern study of psychology has emphasized the great importance of the eye in study. The ear is less important than the eye, but hundreds of children labor under serious disadvan

tages because their ears are not right. | Teachers ought to awaken to a sense of their responsibility to their children. If any have defective hearing or vision, the trouble cannot be treated too early for the good of the child. In thousands of instances failure in business or in professional life is due solely to the neglect of the eyes. Not only successin study but in life may depend upon a clear, steady eye.

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EFFECTS OF ANGER.

NGER is the intoxication of the passions; and like inebriety, by indulgence it grows into a disease. "I cannot help it," says the drunkard; and with equal vehemence the passionate man declares he cannot help being angry, when the occasion pushes him into it. At first strong provocations are necessary to overcome him, but gradually he is more and more easily provoked till mere trifles unbalance him, and results ensue utterly disproportionate to the cause.

We cannot afford to be easily made angry. It costs us too much of energy and nerve and self control; and it costs us too much in reputation, character and social standing. It unfits us for every pleasure, unmans us for skillful labor, and embarrasses us in every kind of business. It becomes a weakness that disgusts our best friends, pleases our worst enemies, and lowers us in our own estimation. It is unreasonable, impolitic and demoralizing. It confuses the judgment, entangles the spirits, and leaves us prostrate before the meanest antagonist. It really unfits us for life's duties, debauches every manly instinct, shortens life. Every time a man becomes "white" or red with anger, he is in danger of his life. The heart and brains are the organs mostly affected when fits of passion are indulged in. Not only does anger cause partial paralysis of the small blood-vessels, but the heart's action becomes intermittent; that is, every now and then it drops a beat-much the same thing as is experienced by excessive smokers.

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I believe many a man and woman have unfitted themselves for a tranquil, peaceful, enjoyable old age, if indeed they have been permitted to attain old ageby weakening and warping their physical and moral powers through petulance of spirits and irritation of nervous strain

caused by indulgence in the passion of anger. Harmony and restfulness of spirit, strength and equanimity of disposition, and kindly and lovable affection, are unknown to these unreasonable, irascible, touch-me-not, thin-skinned people. It can be avoided. I used to be easily angered. But about forty years ago I was so completely overcome by this passion that I was almost delirious, and came near becoming a criminal. Then I was determined I would not again be angry; and I gradually found that by thoroughly training my emotions and making reason supreme I could control myself under the most provoking circumstances, till it is now perhaps twenty years since I have been conscious of being angry.-Popular Science News.

"THE MAN WHO CAN CARRY A MESSAGE TO GARCIA."

THE editor of that bristling little magat

zinelet called The Philistine, Elbert Hubbard, wrote for the March number an essay which had the effect of not only selling the entire edition within three days after its appearance, but of inspiring Mr. George Daniels, General Passenger Agent of the New York Central, to order a new edition of half a million copies for free distribution. Mr. Hubbard took as his text "A fellow by the name of Rowan," who, at the outbreak of the late war, undertook to deliver a message from President McKinley to General Garcia, who was somewhere in the mountain fastnesses of Cuba-no one knew where. And Mr. Hubbard thus philosophizes:

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"The point I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, 'Where is he at?' the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebræ which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies; do the thing-'Carry a message to Garcia!'

"General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcias.

"No man who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were

needed, but has been well nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man-the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it.

"Slip-shod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference and half-hearted work seem the rule; and no man succeeds unless, by hook or crook or threat, he forces or bribes other men to assist him; or, mayhap, God in His goodness performs a miracle, and sends him an angel of light for an assistant. You, reader, put this matter to a test: You are sitting now in your office-six clerks are within call. Summon any one and make this request: 'Please look in the encyclopædia and make a brief memorandum for me concerning the life of Correggio.' "Will the clerk quietly say,

sir,' and go and do the task?

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On your life he will not.

'Yes'

He will

look at you out of a fishy eye and ask one or more of the following questions: "Who was he?'

"Which enclyclopædia?' "Where is the encyclopedia ?' "Was I hired for that?' "Don't you mean Bismarck?' "What's the matter with Charlie doing it?'

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Is he dead?'

"Is there any hurry?

''Shan't I bring you the book and let you look it up yourself?'

''What do you want to know for?' "And I will lay you ten to one that after you have answered the questions, and explained how to find the information, and why you want it, the clerk will go off and get one of the other clerks to help him try to find Garcia--and then come back and tell you there is no such man. Of course, I may lose my bet, but, according to the law of average, I will not.

'Now, if you are wise you will not bother to explain to your 'assistant' that Correggio is indexed under the C's, not in the K's, but you will smile sweetly and say, 'Never mind,' and go look it up yourself.

"And this incapacity for independent action, this moral stupidity, this infirmity of the will, this unwillingness to cheerfully catch hold and lift, are the things that put pure Socialism so far into the future. If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

"My heart goes out to the man who does his work when the 'boss' is away,

as well as when he is at home. And the man who, when given a letter for Garcia, quietly takes the missive, without asking any idiotic questions, and with no lurking intention of chucking it into the nearest sewer, or of doing aught else but delivering it, never gets laid off,' nor has to go on a strike for higher wages. Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted; his kind is so rare that no employer can afford to let him go. He is wanted in every city, town and village-in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such; he is needed, and needed badly-the man who can carry a message to Garcia."-Literary Digest.

ROYAL COOKS.

EUROPEAN PRINCESSES ALL GOOD HOUSE

WIVES.

T would be hard to find in all Germany

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a princess who is not a good cook and housekeeper. For more than a hundred years the daughters of rulers in Germany have been carefully trained in these arts. Empress Augusta Victoria took lessons in cooking when she was a young girl, and she was so skilled as a dressmaker that even after she became empress she had her attire made under her own personal supervision. Grand Duchess Louise of Baden told her only daughter, Princess Victoria, wife of the crown prince of Sweden, never to forget that "every woman, whether she lives in a palace or a cottage, should be a careful housekeeper and a perfect cook." Princess Victoria did not forget this lesson, and there are few better housekeepers or cooks than she is. Some of the princesses of England are trained nurses, and the Princess of Wales is a skilled bookbinder. The queen mother of Holland took care that her only daughter, Wilhelmina, should be carefully instructed in the domestic arts, and as a result it is said. that the young lady is not only a good cook but also an excellent laundress. When she was a child her greatest delight was to wash and iron her own clothes. She also learned how to knit, but was not patient enough for such work. "When I become queen I'll see that the poor people, who work so hard and get so little, are well treated," she said one day