Twelve thousand young people enter the New York City high schools annually, and half of these never pass to the second year.

Dr. R. S. Copeland, of Ann Arbor, Mich., member of the board of education of that city, makes a plea for increased salaries for lady teachers, on the ground that housemaids are better paid. The average yearly income of the Ann Arbor grade teacher is $450, and her expense for board, room and laundry is $300 per year, leaving a balance of $150 for clothes, recreation and incidental expenses. The average housemaid in the city draws $4 per week in addition to her room and board. At the end of the year she is thus $58 better off than the woman who has been teaching school.

Fassett A. Cotton, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, has completed the semi-anual apportionment of the State school fund to the various counties of the State. It shows that there are in Indiana 774,662 school children, and the total amount apportioned for them out of the State school fund is $1,254,952.44. This is $1.62 per capita, thus making the annual cost to the state of maintaining the schools something over $3 for each pupil.

This sum is raised by the state by means of the tax levy of 11 cents and 6 mills, as fixed by the Legislature.

The total

amount produced by this tax levy for the six months was $1,304,372.57. From other sources there was received $6,849.70, making a total of $1,311,222.27 available for school purposes for the half year.

Out of this there is set aside for the use of school corporations which cannot maintain school for 120 days, the minimum term provided by law, the sum of $53,832.98. 832.98. After all the apportionment has been made, including the latter item, there remains in the treasury the sum of $2,436.85 belonging to the school fund. This is the first time that the poor school item has appeared on the apportionment sheet.

Massachusetts has invested $25,000,000 in new school buildings in the last ten years.

The New York City schools have given about $10,000 for the San Francisco fund,

Mr. E. J. Macy, of the Westfield high school, has been re-elected at an increase of salary. He is a graduate of Earlham.

I would have my children able at each moment from morning to evening to read on my face and to divine on my lips that my heart is devoted to them; that their happiness and their joys are my happiness and my joys.-Pestalozzi.

Prof. S. L. Heeter, assistant superintendent of the Minneapolis schools, has been elected superintendent of the St. Paul schools at a salary of $4,000.00. He deserves the promotion as he is a young man with honorable aspirations and decided ability. He has had much practical experience in the various grades of school work. He received his first education in the rural schools of Indiana where he taught two years. He next graduated from the high school and normal school. He was an efficient instructor in the Marion Normal College for three years and principal of commissioned high schools in Indiana for four years. He then became superintendent of the Converse schools where he remained seven years. He resigned to do post graduate work at the University of Chicago. We are proud of his rapid progress.

Superintendent E. G. Cooley's advice to the charter committee for Chicago made the following points:

The school board should be appointive, as

now.

It should be a small board-nine or eleven members.

If elective, women should be allowed to vote for candidates.

The superintendent should be endowed by statute with certain well-defined executive powers.

No arbitrary age limit for teachers.

Permanent appointment for teachers after a satisfactory probationary period. A sound and comprehensive pension system for teachers.

No hard and fast rule against married women being employed as teachers. Free text-books for all.

Night schools, as one of the most important parts of the service should be developed on a larger scale.

The John Worthy school should be separated from the board of education and also from the Bridewell and run under separate management.

Commercial high schools a necessity.

Schools should be open to public lectures and meetings of neighborhood organizations.

Ginn & Company take pleasure in announcing that Mr. Thomas Bonaventure Lawler was admitted to membership in the firm on June 19, 1906.

The State Normal School at Terre Haute, will establish in one of the townships of Vigo county a completely equipped township consolidated school, which will be conducted in connection with the State Normal. A meeting of the board of trustees of the Normal was recently held, and the proposition was referred to a committee composed of W. W. Parsons, Howard San

dison and Fasset A. Cotton. The committee made the following report:

"There is a decided movement in the State toward the consolidation of district schools and the establishment of completely equipped schools, centrally located. In our opinion there is no one thing that the State Normal School could do that would contribute more to educational progress in the State, and at the same time directly further the interests of the normal school itself,

than to organize a complete township consolidated school.

"Our rural school is recognized as one of the strongest features of the institution, and we believe that a well organized and well conducted consolidated school would prove even more helpful and attractive. To this end we recommend the establishment of such a school and suggest that a committee be appointed to confer with the county superintendent of Vigo county and such trustee or trustees as he shall suggest."

When the model township consolidated school is established by the State Normal it will be within easy reach of the normal, so that students at that institution who are training to become teachers in the common schools can see just how such a school is conducted. The best available teachers will be employed and the model school placed upon as high a plane as possible.

More than five hundred public school teachers of San Francisco were burned out, losing clothes, books and everything collected in years. The relief committee have done nothing for the teachers. Their future is uncertain, they know not whether they will be retained or discharged. Salaries will inevitably be reduced.

In Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, California, and Colorado there is a State university expert making an annual tour of the high schools.

Prof. Paul P. Boyd, who is a graduate of Oberlin College and a post-graduate of Cornell University, has accepted the chair of mathematics at Hanover College, to take the place of Prof. Lawrence, who has removed to Wichita, Kansas.

Principal Gilbert B. Morrison, St. Louis High School: Secret fraternities should be condemned in public schools, which are essentially democratic, and should not be breeding places for social differentiation.

INDIANA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY Thorough mastery of subject matter based on psychologic processes characterizes the work of the Teachers' College of Indiana Central University.

Close inspection by teachers and those preparing to teach is invited. For catalog or circulars address J. T. ROBERTS,

President.

or W. C. BRANDENBURG, Principal, Southport, Ind.

Superintendent C. N. Kendall, of the Indianapolis schools, attended the New England Institute of Instruction held in New Haven, Connecticut, and discussed "The Expense of Education Which Public Schools Ought to Give." He said in part:

"This expense must be considerable more than at present for the following reasons:

"First, the demands upon schools are constantly increasing. As an example, the farmers in some sections of the country are demanding that the elements of agriculture shall be taught. Manual training in its various phases is another example.

"Second. More and more people live in the cities, and schools in cities cost more per capita than schools in the country.

"Third. The cost of living has greatly increased in the last ten years. This seriously affects the net salaries of teachers.

"Fourth. There are numerous well-paid and attractive employments other than teaching for both women and men.

"Fifth. The public can afford to pay more for schools than at present because the country is prosperous, is growing richer, and good schools contribute as no other force does to the various kinds of productive citizenship."

"In this working-day world, where the bravest have need of all their buoyancy and strength, it is sinful to add our sorrows to the common load."

The following article appeared in the Indianapolis Star on the 10th ult., from the pen of George C. Irwin, our competent foreman. The article was accompanied by pictures of The Constitution Elm, The First House Built in Corydon, The Home of State Auditor and Indiana's First Capitol.

CORYDON, IND., June 9.-Ninety years ago tomorrow delegates elected to draw up a State constitution assembled in convention at Corydon, which was then the capital of Indiana Territory. A few months ago a movement was inaugurated to celebrate at Corydon, the ninetieth aniversary of the adoption of the State constitution but the plans were abandoned recently on account of certain obstacles which the committee in charge decided could not be overcome. Another reason assigned for not holding this celebration is the fact that it is now being planned to celebrate in the most fitting manner the centennial anniversary of the

founding of the town of Corydon, which will occur in 1908.

It was from Corydon that a petition was sent to Congress, asking that Indiana Territory be admitted as a member of the Union. It was here that the constitution was formed and adopted and the first laws for the government of the people of Indiana were made.

MET ON JUNE 10, 1816.

In May, 1816, delegates were elected to meet in convention at Corydon the following June 10, to draw up a State constitution. During a session of nineteen days the constitution was framed, and on June 29, 1816, was signed by Jonathan Jennings, president, and by William Hendricks, secretary, of the convention.

The convention convened in the old State capitol which is now owned by Harrison county, and used as a court house, but most of its work on account of the great heat was performed beneath the cool shelter of

the wide spreading boughs of a giant elm tree which is still in existence and is today known as the "Constitution Elm." This tree is sixteen feet in circumference, fifty feet high, measures one hundred and twenty-four feet across its boughs and a few feet away a spring of cool water, at which the delegates nearly a century ago quenched their thirst, still bubbles forth.

FIRST HOUSE STILL STANDS.

Near the "Constitution Elm" stands the first house erected in Corydon. It was the home of Daniel C. Lane, the first treasurer of State. Later this property came into the possession of Col. Lewis Jordan, one of the prominent men of Corydon in his day. Col. Jordan's descendants have since continuously occupied this house and it is today the residence of C. C. Jordan.

Indiana's first State capitol, which is now used as a court house, is built of limestone and is fifty feet square. The walls of the first story are two and one-half feet thick and those of the second story are only two feet in thickness. The lower story was at first heated by two great fireplaces and the floor was of stone flagging.

The Indiana Legislature met in this building until 1825. The lower room was occupied by the members of the House, and the Senate chamber was in the second story. Dennis Pennington, who was at one time a Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Territorial Legislature, constructed the building.

HISTORICAL RESIDENCE.

The State offices were located in a low

building which is today occupied by A. W. Brewster as a residence. When Indianapolis was selected as the capital city in 1825 this house was occupied by Samuel Merrill, who was then treasurer of State. The descendants of Mr. Merrill are very prominent in Indianapolis.

The "Governor's Mansion" was a twostory brick structure, which was town down several years ago. It was tenanted by only one governor, Jonathan Jennings. Gover

nors Posey and Hendricks did not live in Corydon during their terms of office, but made frequent trips to the capital in the discharge of their official duties.

Corydon was named by General William Henry Harrison, who owned the land upon which Indiana's first capital city was built. General Harrison entered this land in 1801 and Corydon was laid out seven years later.

"Do something worth living for, worth dying for; do something to show you have a mind, and a heart, and a soul within you."

WANTED To exchange School and College Text-books for legitimate mining and oil stocks. Dr. H. A. Mumaw, Elkhart, Ind.

Seattle has made a great stride in improving the condition of teachers. It makes allowance of half-pay, in case of personal sickness or of death in the immediate family, not to exceed a total of twenty school days in the school year, and full pay for two days' absence caused by death in the immediate family. The pay roll has been placed on a twelve-months' basis, which is what the educational leaders of the State of Washington have been vigorously working for. The grade teachers have been increased as a maximum to $864, or an increase of $64; the principals from $30 to $200 a year increase, according to the size of the building; high school teachers from $40 to $80 a year increase. The maximum for high school teachers is $1,350; of principals, $1,800; of supervisors, $1,620.

The Merchants' Association of Indianapolis is one of the city's progressive, up-todate commercial bodies. The primary objects of this organization are to foster trade and commerce, to protect it from unjust or unlawful exactions, to reform abuses in trade and to form a more enlarged and friendly intercouse between competing merchants in the retail trade.