This organization has done much to promote the business interests of Indiana's metropolis, and they pride themselves on being an organization that "do things."

Realizing that the natural tendency of the people living in the smaller cities and rural districts is to go to the larger centers to do the better class of their trading, the Indianapolis merchants have encouraged this tendency by offering to pay the fare (within certain limits) of out-of-town customers through the Merchants' Association. The city at large as well as the out-of-town trade has benefited for eight years by this liberal offer of these progressive merchants who have spent thousands of dollars in thus attracting many outsiders to their city and

stores.

The proposition of the Merchants' Association to the public is to pay seventy-five miles of the customer's interurban car fare both ways, or forty miles of his steam car fare both ways, provided such customer buys a minimum total of $25 worth from any one or more of the members. One per cent. additional cash rebate besides the fare is paid to customers on all purchases in excess of $25.

Thirty-two of the city's leading merchants are members of the Association and every line of merchandise is represented. This organization is widely copied throughout the United States as its fame has gone out as one of the most thoroughly organized and successful commercial bodies of this kind in the country.

now he comes before the people of Indiana with an equipment second to none in the country. Such surroundings will appeal strongly to parents, who know of the evil consequences of bad associations, and whose ambition is to have their sons or daughters to associate with none but the best and to grow up to be moral men and women.

The schoolroom equipment is new throughout, of the latest model, made of light antique oak, with individual book apartment for each student-all specially designed for their particular school, Mr. Vories having visited the best business schools in the United States in order to inspect their equipment before designing his own. The writer does not know of a build

ing in the country where so many students as Mr. Vories has continually in attendance at his school, can be so pleasantly accomodated and have so many comforts. The

COLLEGE

Castle Hall Bldg., 230 E. Ohio St., Indianapolis

A special representative of the EducatorJournal visited the Vories Business College recently and found the school established in a new six-story, fireproof, pressed brick and stone building, built on the latest and most approved style of modern architecture. In the past Mr. Vories has been hampered by the crowded and unsanitary condition in which his splendid school was located, but

Business College is perfect.

The cost of attendance at this school may be a little greater than at some others, but when the nature of the instruction and the prospects of a good position are taken into consideration it is poor economy to pass it by. The writer has known Mr. Vories for many years and has been in close touch with all his plans and purposes. He has succeeded in everything which he has tried to do. He recommends to business men

along the street only such students as can do the work efficiently and the result is that business men in the city of Indianapolis, and over the State generally, depend upon Mr. Vories to furnish them with competent clerks and stenographers.

THE ANGOLA COLLEGES
Angola, Ind.

For twenty-one years we have conducted what has become widely known as the TriState Normal College. This institution now gives way to three colleges, incorporated under the laws of Indiana, with authority to grant College Degrees. This change will be welcome to all our friends.

During the year now closing we shall have enrolled about 1,200 students. This patronage has come from many States. We have all grades of pupils, from those who have never studied grammar to University graduates. We now have

THREE COLLEGES.

I. Tri-State College, (incorporated), a Literary Institution, with three college courses, one professional course for High School teachers, one special course for Common School teachers and departments as follows: Commercial, Music, Oratory, Law and Art.

II. Tri-State College of Engineering (incorporated), a technical school with three courses: (1) Civil Engineering. (2) Mechanical Engineering. (3) Electrical Engineering. Each covers 100 weeks. Total expense, $2.95 per week.

III. Tri-State College of Pharmacy, (incorporated), a technical school with two courses one of 40 weeks and one of 72 weeks. There is a persistent demand for more registered pharmacists, and there is no college where the required technical education can be acquired so economically and quickly as here. All our graduates have good paying positions and we could find places for more.

L. M. SNIFF, A. M.
President of the Three Colleges,
ANGOLA, INDIANA.

BOOK NOTICES

Dr. Wilhelm Bernhardt, Washington, D. C., who has already prepared so many excellent German texts for use in school and college, has in press with D. C. Heath & Company, Publishers, Boston and Chicago, for immediate issue, a selection from Seidel entitled Aus goldemen Tagen, a book which will prove an interesting piece of reading, particularly for boys. It is provided with notes and vocabulary.

"The City That Was," (B. W. Hueebsch, New York), by Will Irwin. This little volume is a vivid pen picture of San Francisco as it was before the earthquake and fire. Its author is now the managing editor of McClure's Magazine, and he tells in an interesting manner, of the men and women who peopled this famous western City. He reports faithfully the habits and surroundings of the alien races which made San Francisco their home. 47 pp. Price, 50 cents.

"The School and Its Life," (Silver, Burdett & Co., New York, Boston and Chicago), by Charles B. Gilbert, Lecturer in Education, Western Reserve University. The work contains a brief discussion of some of the most vital questions that arise in the system of the school and in the administration of the system. These questions include situations developed in the single school with its one teacher and one class or in the great system of a city or State, including many schools and governed by many officials. The various elements of school life, its ideals, its morals, its conventions and its occupations, are dealt with in turn.

"Our Language," Book II (B. F. Johnson Publishing Co., Richmond, Va.) by C. Alphonso Smith, Dean of the Graduate Department in the University of North Carolina. The second book of this series has been written from the conviction that carefully graded lessons in language and well selected specimens of literature ought

to make the most interesting study in the entire curriculum of childhood. Every line has been dictated by experience in the schoolroom. Price, 45 cents.

"The History of the English Language." The Macmillan Co., New York) by Oliver Farrar Emerson, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and English Philology in Cornell University. This work has grown out of Professor Emerson's lecture work in the University and serves as a splendid introduction to the history of the English lan

guage. The book is designed for college. classes and for teachers of English. Price, 80 cents.

"A Country Reader," (The Macmillan Co.) by H. B. M. Buchanan, B. A. This little book is not meant for the very young children, but for the older children of our village schools. It is not a text-book. Its purpose is to arouse the observation of chil dren, and so excite an interest in, and fondness for, the varied life and work that lies around them. 248 pp. Price, 40 cents.

ARITHMETIC.

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Simplify the complex fraction (see examination list.)

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What is the interest at 6 per cent. on $386.75 for 3 years, 7 months and 25 days?

A man bought a carriage for $165. After paying
$15 for repairs he sold for a profit of $30.
what was the per cent. of profit?

A bin 32 feet long, 5 feet wide and 12 feet deep
will hold how many bushels of wheat?
What are your views relative to teaching per-
centage by cases?

If a 50-foot tape has stretched until it is one and
one-half inches too long, what is the correct
length of a distance which measures 846 feet 41⁄2
inches?

If a ladder, placed 8 feet from the base of a building 40 feet high, just reaches the top, how far must it be placed from the base of the building that it may reach a point 10 feet from the top? 8. A, B, C and D own a tract of land two miles square. A owns two-thirds that of B; B owns one-third that of C; C owns three-fourths that of D. How many acres has each? (Solves by algebra.)

The square root of the quantity (1600 plus 64 minus 100) equals 39.54 ft.-Ans.

8. Let x equal D's share.

Then 3x-4 will equal C's.

X-4 will equal B's.

x-6 will equal A's.

x plus 3x-4 plus x-4 plus x-6 equals 2560 acres. Clearing equation of fractions 12x plus 9x plus 3x plus 2x equals 30720.

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26x equals 30720.

x equals 1181 7-13 acres, D's share. 3x-4 equals 886 2-13 acres, C's share. X-4 equals 295 5-13 acres, B's share. x-6 equals 196 12-13 acres, A's share.

HISTORY.

What were the impelling motives of Columbus in his voyages of discovery?

Give a brief account of the founding of Maryland. What physical causes operated in New England to promote the growth of towns and cities? Webster said of the Colonists. "They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven years against a declaration." What did he mean? What were the greatest defects of the Articles of Confederation? What were the immediate causes of the war of 1812? Were the questions in dispute settled by the Treaty of Peace that terminated the war? What policy in regard to the preservation of the Union did Lincoln announce in his first inaugural?

Name the presidents of the United States since the close of the civil war.

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where the Catholics migh live in their religious freedom. However the government was to be strictly nonsectarian. The name given was that of the wife of the English sovereign and the boundaries were much more extensive than that of the present state. first settlers who came over were in charge of Leonard Calvert, and were made up of both Protestants and Catholics. The expedition landed in Virginia in February, 1634. A site was purchased from the Indians and St. Mary's was founded.

3. New England by nature is suitable for manufacturing and small gardening. Her rivers are small and rapid furnishing good water power for factories.

4. He meant that the colonists were fighting for a principle expressed in their declartion of independ

ence.

5. (a) There was no executive.
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There was no federal judiciary.

(c) The powers of the government were not separated and made independent of each other as now in the institution.

war.

6. England had claimed the right to stop and search American vessels on the high seas for persons said to be English subjects. This practice caused the Impressment or none of the subjects in controversy were mentioned in the treaty that closed the war. 7. He did not unduly threaten the rebellious states but he warned them of the consequences to themselves if they persisted in trying to destroy the Union. He said: "To the extent of my ability I shall take care that the laws of the Union shall be faithfully observed in all the states."

8. Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley and Roosevelt.

I. In beginning classes, it is better not to insist upon the use of scientific terms to the extent of making the subject difficult or distasteful to the pupil. Advanced students should be able to master them with little difficulty. Correct spelling and pronunciation should be required from the start

2. The bones of the lower limbs are: Femur, patella, tibia, fibula, tarsal bones, metatarsal bones, phalanges.

3. Ligaments are the strong, fibrous, slightly elastic bands by which bones are bound together in the joints. Tendons are the strong white cords or bands which attach the muscles to the periosteum of the bones.

4. Narcotics are those agents whose immediate effect upon the system when used in small quantities is stimulating but which, continued, result in paralysis or depression of the forces of the system.

Alcohol, opium, tobacco, are narcotics.

5. The flow of the blood from the right ventricle of the heart thru the pulmonary artery to the lungs, and its return thru the pulmonary vein to the right auricle constitutes the pulmonary circulation. Its function is the elimination of some of the impurities gathered up by the systemic circulation and the oxygenation of the impure blood.

6. The acid of the gastric juice separates milk into casein, fat globules, sugar, and water, and at the same time dissolves the cell-walls of the fatty globules, setting free the oil. After passing the pylorus, the action of the saliva upon the sugar is completed and the bile, pancreatic, and intestinal juices reduce the several constituents to chyle.

7. The spinal cord gives rise to the thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves and originates reflex stimuli.

8. "Light drinking," if indulged in to any considerable extent, becomes habitual and soon ceases to be "light." The nature of a stimulant is such that it constantly tends to the immoderate use of the stimulant.

To what extent should the use of the dictionary be carried in upper grammar grades?

Discuss the comparative value of oral and silent reading.

Answers.

I. In the preparatory:

Let the teacher assist the class by announcing the purpose of the lesson and by introductory discussion (question and answer) designed to awaken the expectation of the pupil, and to prepare his mind for the new lesson by showing "connecting" points with his experience and present knowledge.

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2. As the pupils progress through the grades more attention should be given to phonetic spelling. a. The correct utterance of the word. b. The correct sounding of the letter. The proper devising of the syllable. When the three are properly combined the formal side of reading has been well nigh mastered. 5. Selections should be given the reader that will bring out the many "moods" of expression. If the child is not a sluggard he can soon be brought out of monotony. First requisite-a good teacher. 6. THE SKELETON IN ARMOUR. a. Read the poem entire.

b. Find out about the Vikings and their manner of life. Tell of the climatic conditions of the North country.

8. Silent reading can be used effectively only in the study of the lesson, but when it becomes necessary to impart this information needed to others the oral expression is needed. Pupils do too little oral reading, and when they are called upon to read or talk in public they stammer and give wrong impressions of what they are really capable of doing.

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GEOGRAPHY.

The St. Gothard Tunnel and the Erie Canal are
useful modifications of the earth. Name five
other important works of man.

What is meant by the center of population?
Where is the present center of population of the
United States?

What and where are Marseilles, Baikal, Vancou-
ver, Aleutian, Lowell?

Name the waters on which you would sail in going over the most direct all-water route from St. Louis to Cairo in Egypt.

What are the necessary conditions for sucessful irrigation?

6. Explain Webster's statement, "A power whose morning drum-beat....circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England."

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A few years ago there was a shortage in the flax crop of Ireland. In what way) did this affect the people of Indiana?

8. To what race do the Japanese and the Chinese belong? Contrast these people as to their progressive natures. Give reasons for your state

ment.

Answers.

I. Many ways of modifying the earth may be mentioned and a great number of instances cited. The dikes of Holland; the Assouam dam, reservoir and irrigation canal in Egypt; the levees of Mississippi river. Croton reservoir and aqueduct for supplying New York City with water. The Eads jetties for deepening the channel at the mouth (south pass) of the Mississippi river. The Suez canal, an artificial strait, are a few of many examples.

2. The center of population is a point on which population balances in all directions. This does not mean as many suppose that it is the point in all directions from which there are equal numbers of people but a point where smaller numbers scattered over greater areas would balance greater numbers in smaller areas on opposite sides of the point. The see-saw or teeter board may be used as an illustration: Suppose the board is so placed that one boy will balance two on the opposite end, or two will balance three, the point on which the board rests or balances in the center of gravity and for the purpose of our illustration the center or population for the United States is about six miles southeast of Columbus, Bartholomew county, Indiana.

3. Marseilles, the chief seaport of France situated in the southern part; Baikal, a lake in southern Siberia; Vancouver, an island at the southwest extremity of Canada; Alientian, a chain of islands lying. between the north Pacific ocean and Behring sea; Lowell, an important manufacturing city in northeastern Massachusetts.

4. In going from St. Louis to Cairo, Egypt, the Mississippi river, Gulf of Mexico, Florida strait, Atlantic ocean, Gibraltar strait, Mediterranean sea and Nile river would be traversed.

6. Webster here probably refers to the extent and influence of the British empire which stretches around the earth.

7. The shortage of the flax crop in Ireland would affect Indiana but slightly and that by an advance in the price of linen.

8. The Japanese and Chinese both belong to the Mongolian race. The Japs are called the Yankees of the east. Within the last fifty years they have to a remarkable extent taken up the ways of western civilization and have made great progress in commerce, railway building, education and governmental and military affairs. China has not entered extensively upon this policy of progress but predictions of an early awakening is predicted by many in position to speak with authority. The Chinese are conservative, wedded to ancient customs and settled ideas but are not lacking in those qualities which have enabled the Japanese to make such progress recently. The reasons for the difference lie largely in their surroundings. The insular situation and limited area of Japan make the problem of national existence and success one of extreme importance while the large continental area of China, the fact that the people depend largely upon agricultural pursuit and lack of national spirit do not inspire a desire for change.

5. a. The italicized words form an absolute participial phrase.

b. "Why" is an expletive or introductory word without grammatical connection with the rest of the

sentence.