delight all the young readers and the older ones, also, for that matter. They are both beautifully illustrated. The price of each is 40 cents. Miss Nellie Horn of Westerville has accepted a position in the Jersey schools, and is making a good start. - A merchant in Chestnut street has become very fond of an office boy he engaged last June. The boy entered very early in the morning when the merchant was reading the paper. The latter glanced up, and went on reading without speaking. After three minutes, the boy said: "Excuse me, but I'm in a hurry." "What do you want?" he was asked. "A job." "You do? Well," snorted the man of business, "why are you in such a hurry?" "Got to hurry," replied the boy. "Left school yesterday to go to work, and haven't struck anything yet. I can't waste time. If you've got nothing for me, say so, and I'll look elsewhere. The only place I can stop long enough is where they pay me for it." "When can you come?" asked the surprised merchant. "Don't have to come," he was told. "I'm here now, and would have been to work before this if you'd said so." -Ex. "Life is a leaf of paper white, Wherein each one of us may write His word or two, and then comes night. Greatly begin; Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime- -The Wooster High School enTolls 291 pupils, 43.449 per cent. of whom are boys. Supt. Charles Hau pert has always carried out the policy of teaching his senior class in some subject with the idea of keeping himself in sympathy with the classroom work of teachers, knowing personally each graduate, and developing correct. views on education. The latest number of the High School Circle, published by the pupils of the Circleville High School, is one of unusual interest, containing a series of articles by pupils on historical phases of the city. We congratulate all concerned upon the excellence of this number. Supt. J. B. Mohler of Berea has been re-elected for a term of three years at an annual salary of $1,500. The highest salary ever paid before. this was $1,100. E. W. Avery, agent for D. C. Heath & Co., has been promoted to a position in the Chicago office, and F. E. Pierpont of Logan has been elected to a permanent agency in Ohio. -Supt. J. E. Ockerman of Woodville finds his new position altogether to his liking. At the holiday vacation he was offered another position, but the right sort of assurance from his board of education caused him to decline the offer. The Stark County Schoolmasters' Club held their second meeting for the year at Canton March 22, at the McKinley House. The menu card was prepared by the boys of the Manual training school in the eighth grade, under the direction of W. C. Faust and F. A. Snell. It is of wood in the form of an artist's palette, ornamented with pyrography, and is altogether unique. The boys who did the work deserve the thanks of all the schoolmasters for giving them such a beautiful and interesting souvenir of the pleasant event. spent one year at the University of Michigan as a special student of history and economics, then entered the literary department at the Ohio State University, where he received the degree of Ph. B. in 1897, having completed the full four years' course in three years. During his university course he represented Ohio State in the first annual debate of the Ohio Debating League, took second place on the fourteenth annual oratorical contest, and was class orator at the commencement banquet. Mr. Guitteau next entered the college of law. where he spent one year, completing the first two years of the course. 1898 he was elected Emerson McMillen fellow in economics at Ohio State against numerous competitors, but resigned in order to accept the position of instructor in English in the Toledo High School, to which work he devoted himself for two years. In In June, 1900, he passed the state bar examination; the same month he was awarded the President White fellowship at Cornell University, Cornell University, where he spent the following year in advanced study in politics and economics under Prof. Jenks, the industrial commission's expert on trusts. After receiving the degree of master of arts from Cornell, he was appointed special clerk to the United States industrial commission at Washington, where he spent the summer of 1901. In the fall of that year, and again in 1902, the University of Pennsylvania awarded him fellowships in economics and in political science, and after two years' study there he was granted the degree of doctor of philosophy in June, 1904. his thesis being in the field of municipal politics. During his residence in Philadelphia, Mr. Guitteau contributed many articles on social science to the New International Encyclopedia, and more recently he has collaborated with Prof. P. A. Roi in editing an edition of Moliere's plays. -The North Carolina Journal of Education, copies the poem by Supt. H. S. Piatt, entitled, "The Rubaiyat of Ethylle McFadden, School Teacher," which appeared in the MONTHLY but fails to give credit. That's an easy way if people are willing to do it. -A little girl in a city school, the other day, gave the following definition, "A substitute is one of them there teachers what don't know how to teach." -The American Book Co. has just issued "Cranford" as the latest volume of the Gateway series. This statement ought to be sufficient to induce a few thousand more teachers in Ohio to read this charming story. The price is 40 cents. -The editor had the pleasure of addressing the Akron city teachers, numbering 240. March 18, and was impressed with impressed with the evidences of friendly co-operation existing between teachers and superintendent. In the seven years that Supt. Hotchkiss has had charge of the schools there has been a large increase in the attendance and the change from the chaotic condition in which he found the organization to the perfect harmony which exists at present, marks him as a superintendent of unusual capacity and merit. The high school faculty of nearly 30 teachers is most ably directed by Principal D. C. Rybolt. The high school enrollment is rapidly approaching 1.000, and the large addition to the high school building will be ready for occupancy the coming year, when a strong course in manual training will for the Reading Circle. Here he has been working all these years, yearning for the interest and co-operation of all the teachers in Ohio. Thousands have read after his brilliant pen and they are all the better for it. Hat's off to the "book-shed!" -"Hints and Helps for Mothers Rainy Day Amusements for the Nursery" is the title of an interesting and helpful series of articles now running in St. Nicholas. -Canton is quiet, educationally, fidence which go far to insure success. A day in the schools of that city recently made this all plain, and we congratulate Supt. Baxter upon his merited recognition. -Hon. F. B. Willis, of Ada, and Prof. A. B. Graham, of Ohio State University, were the speakers at the Licking Co. meeting, at Newark, March 23, and everybody was enthusiastic in praise of their addresses. -Supt. W. L. Davis, of Tarlton, will have a graduating class this year of ten, five boys and five girls. |