River Falls Journal

Educational.
S. M. IRVIN..........................EDITOR.
All communications should be addressed to
the Editor at Esdaile, Wis.
Miss Louise Foley will teach the spring
term at Beldenville.
Miss Nellie Foley will teach the spring
term in the Foley district, Salem.
Miss Kit Truman has been engaged
for the summer term at Bay City.
Miss Anna Horning has been engaged
for the summer term in Dist. No. 6, Hartland.
Miss Katie McMahon has been hired
for the summer term in the Weghorn
Dist., Hartland.
Miss Addie E. Stuart has been engaged
to teach the spring term in the Terpening
district, Ellsworth.
Miss Nellie Robbins has been hired for
the spring term in the Porter district of
Dist. No. 2, Trenton.
Miss Mary Casey has been hired for
the summer term in Dist. No. 1, Clifton;
known as the Pierce Valley school.
Half the ills we hoard in our hearts are
ills because we hoard them.-Cornwall.
Habit is likened to a cable. We weave
threads of it every day, and at last cannot
break it.
I think it best not to dispute where
there is no probability of convincing.-Whitefield.
Character is reserved force which acts
directly by presence and without means.-Emerson.
As daylight can be seen through very
small holes, so little things will illustrate
a person's character.
You may glean knowledge from reading,
but you must separate the wheat
from the chaff by thinking.
A thorough scholar carries a skeleton
key with which to unlock every door in
the mansion of knowledge.
The feelings, the gifts, that exist in
the poet, are those that exist, with more
or less development, in every human
soul.-Carlyle.
Time never works; it eats, and undermines,
and destroys. But it never works.
It only gives us an opportunity to work.-Lyman Abbott.
A firm faith is the best divinity; a good
life is the best philosophy; a clear conscience
is the best law; honesty is the
best policy; and temperance the best
physic.
The presence of the love of nature is an
invariable sign of goodness of heart and
justness of moral perception, though by
no means of moral practice. When it is
originally absent from any mind, that
mind is in many respects hard, worldly
and degraded.-Ruskin.
The power of character will be felt and
take voluntary form in the rules and organizations
of the school in the teacher's
endeavor to sway others by teaching, by
argument, by persuasion, by threatenings,
by offers and promises. Indeed, whatever
the teacher does will be the result of
his character, and will get its effectiveness
from it.
The following "Suggestions to Teachers"
we copy from the March number of
the Rock Elm Institute.
Seldom repeat a question.
Train the pupils to be alert.
See that every pupil is employed.
Study to improve your old methods.
Never laugh at the mistakes of a pupil.
Aim to cultivate the power of attention.
Teach the pupils how to use the dictionary.
Require prompt answers, but encourage
the slow.
Never allow a pupil to use an incorrect
expression.
Never do for a pupil what you can lead
him to do for himself.
A man can no more hold himself entirely
aloof from the thoughts of others
than from the sunlight and air around
him; both will influence and form him,
whether he desires it or not. Of course
he can shut himself away from a large
measure of either, and grow pale and
weak, bodily and mentally, in consequence;
but that will not make what little
power is left him more entirely his
own. The best thinker is he who gladly
welcomes every aid, who is hospitable to
every thought, who weighs every opinion,
respects every honest conviction, and
thankfully adopts such ideas as approve
themselves to his judgment, yet at the
same time so works over all he receives
in the crucible of his own mind that the
gold is purified and the dross expelled.
When he gives it to others by lip or pen,
it is not less, but more his very own than
if he had not enriched his mind from so
many sources.-Arthur's Home Magazine.
Tests of Good Work in Arithmetic.
Correctness, quickness, and neatness
are three essentials of good work in arithmetic.
Results must be accurate, or they are
worthless. Arithmetic is a practical study,
and our boys and girls must be so
trained that they shall be sure of their results,
when arithmetic has become a part
of their business life.
Rapidity ranks next to accuracy.
Promptness is a business virtue, and so
the boy who has ambition to become a
business man must be prompt in securing
correct results.
Successful business is always systematic,
and all business work must be neat.
Hence no careless, slovenly work should
ever be tolerated on slates or blackboard
or in note-books.
These three things are the tests of good
arithmetic; and they should be employed
as a sort of "straight edge" to every recitation
in this study.
When the business men of a town fail
to advertise, they diminish the importance
and trade of the place, and permit
more enterprising localities to take
the latter from them. Although done
for individual interests, advertisers
should be looked upon by the citizens
of a town where they reside as public
benefactors, and should be encouraged
accordingly. The merchant who advertises
very extensively is worth more
to a town than forty who never show
themselves in print and for that reason
should be given preference in local
patronage.-Darlington Republican.
If you spit up phlegm, and are
troubled with a hacking cough, use
Dr. J. H. McLean's Tar Wine Lung
Balm. For sale at the Phenix drug
store.