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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. SU5FDAY. NOIHEMBER 23. 1902. H.

STANLEY TODD'S ART DISPLAYED IN A STUDIO. I give hearty and continuea thanks. CARRIE B. And now since, as the. Governor says, the beneficent influences of our institutions have been exerted the advancement of civilization, let' us offer to Almighty God.

supplications for a continuance. of. Divine. favor and pray for power to keep our hearts full of thanksgiving for, the opportunities we have to be thankful for. Amen.

MILO. Controller Grout, who did It. The expressman, who brings the checks. The better work we do because we are no longer held up, thratencd, cut down, worried or harassed. JENNIE J.

Short and Sweet. For bright boys I love, and that love me, I hope. For citizens, patents and friends who 'do not bother me. Fpr a principal who does not worry, For he wonderful opportunities of literary, artistic and musical culture in this city. millinery 9 1 puckers.

If "Miss R. C. P. S. Teacher" will kindly save her letter until after the repeal of the Davis law It can be used to good effect before some legislative committee to show tho depressed condition ot everything on earth and some other's.

Glad the Local Committee System Is Dead. I am thankful that since the 3d of February a young woman who has earned by hard work and faithful application the right to promotion has not been obliged to call at the homes of forty men to beg consideration. I am thankful that the local committee system is dead forever. R. S.

H. Purely Personal. 1 am thankful for John Walsh. ONE BROOKLYN PTE. "Goodhy" Waxes Sarcastic.

Four things for which the public school teachers of Greater New York should offer up thanks on Thanksgiving Day, 1002: First, that the careless, selfish principal no longer exists, and that in his stead Is a man whose sole ambition is to dally labor for the welfare of the scholars and teachers under the shadow of his protecting wing. Educational MYRTLE AVENUE AND BRIDGE STREET. Buy Your Goods Here and Have Your Hat Lined and Trimmed Free of Charge. Jk Regular thanksgiving Spread Of Qood Jhings in millinery, A little early to mark goods down, but we are bound to have a share of Holiday's trade and prices are cut for that purpose. Visit our store and you will be convinced of the truth of our statements, and we feel sure of making a regular customer of you.

Compare our prices with anv others advertised and see if ours are not the lowest. News Contributions on educational subjects will be welcome. Questions will be submitted to teachers, principals and superintendents if desired. A Teacher Complains of Pressure. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: In your Issue of November 9 occurs the following: "One of the high officials of the educational department said: 'We want the public schools administered for the children.

The changes In administration give Brooklyn principals control of the health of their pupils In so far as endangered by requirements for promotion and graduation. The old argument of the gradgrind teacher that she must prepare a high per cent, of her children for the promotion or graduating examination or be rated low by the examining superintendent Is annihilated by the present plan. Neltner does a teacher's rating depend upon the per cent, of pupils she promotes, nor are tho district superintendents encouraged to rate teachers by examining the classes." Regarding the above let me say: The teacher Is in total ignorance of these facts as yet. She feels the same pressure and necessity. No information of this kind Has been officially presented.

It is with surprise that 1 read these lines. A BROOKLYN TEACHER. As the extract above quoted by the teacher is from my discussion of "The Health and Beauty of Brooklyn Boys and Girls," the editor has handed me the letter for reply. If the correspondent will consult 'the files of the Eagle of January 22, March 22, May 2S and June 5, of this year, she will find reported the speeches of the city superintendent of schools. Dr.

"William Henry Maxwell, on "Duties of Principals," "Brooklyn Children Examined to Death," "Attainments for Graduation from Grammar Schools" and "How to Rate a Teacher's Value." By turning a few pages farther after each of these articles she will find extended comment upon them by the editor of the Eagle. In letter and spirit they attack gradgrind teaching, which seeks defense on the ground of prepar Great Values in Trimmed Hats. 50 Nap Beaver Flats, trimmed with 7 yds. satin taffeta ribbon and steel ornaments, worth A $4.48 $2.98 40 Nap Beaver Flats, trimmed with 6 yds. satin taffeta ribbon, long ostrich plume and steel buckle, vith side band, very stylish, worth $6.48, special, Monday SjS5yo 100 black Velvet Hats, trimmed With Amazon plume, satin rr ribbon and ornament, $2i9o Draped Camel's Hair Hat, riTTimprl wit, wino nnrl nfl iniiillllCUL.T.

Ulltj Ul Llie 1 U2C 30 Dozen Nap Beavers, All Colors, Special, Monday, $1.49. Same as Sold on Fulton Street at $2.48. 50 dozen bell crown shapes, scratch felt, 3 rows stitched bind ing, special, Monday S7C 100 dozen scratched felt, 9 good shapes, special, iVlond'y 2SC 75 dozen fur felt and scratch felt, to close out Monday. 50 dozen Pompons, black and colors 5JC 100 dozen Wings, black, navy and white, pair OC 1 4 inch black Amazon Plumes 1 A lnh klT. Amnnn Plumes 18 inch black Amazon Plumes 91.

School Book Talk By school Teachers Seasonable Exchange of Com 'r p'iments Between Many Eagle Contributors. PRAISE TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS Only Three Complaining Notes in the Songs of General Thanksgiving. This Sunday, when the pulpits Brooklyn nhnll hp nreoarlnc the hearts of the people for the season of Thanksgiving, a poor weaver of educational rag carpets irom thn remnants of other men's thoughts, shall i try to spread out some home made tapestry suitable for the day. Like all good taoncs, it has two sides. I have attempted to prc sent the thanks of the community to the pub lie school teachers, and the gratitude of the school teachers to Brooklyn.

I asked those 'i whom I thought able to express these things and will permit all to reply in their own words. My first response is from a well known i Brooklyn citizen. He Never Thanked His Teachers Until Now. I have just counted tip the school teachers i have had. They number forty one In all.

Includini; high school and university Instructors. Of all that company only three come disagreeably to my mind, and even two of them I am Inclined to think had Just cause in me to bo unpleasant. For ail the resc I find, thirty five years after my schooling began and twenty years since the close, 1 have, when I call up their memories, very kindly feel "lngs. I waded two miles through deep snow to be the first to take a pointer to Cornelia Shaw. I was then eight years old.

but I know now that sne wap very sweet in her way of kissing: slow and thoughtful. Fanny Towner taught me how to read music and to love her at the same time. She was 20, I was 10. Carrie Fletcher showed us the beautv of Shaks peare and of a rich womanly voice at once. I one years of bookish delight to this fine woman.

Chester Lano lent me books on Charlemagne and started me into fascinating Journeys through the tales of chivalry. Thanks, Chester. Professor Daniel Brinton awoke within me a real pleasure In pictures and paintings. Across the barriers of the after life I send my thanks sorrowfully and reverently. "Old Pop" en couraged me to begin the work whereby 1 now corn a good living Here's to you.

old man. al most a thousand boys have breathed some in npjration from your sparkling, kindly manner In the college lecture hall. If I had space and the ability to avoid tiring a reader 1 could show cause why I should give abundant thanks to the whole forty men and women who were over me I in school. It is no idle verbiage to say they worked upon my life structure. It has just oc I curred to me that I do not know of ever having said one word of thanks to one of them.

ITntll I was requested to compose this letter for the Eagle it had never occurred to me. Now Into the irdlstlnct and misty past I wave my hand and cry "Thanks to you. teachers of my boyhood whom I annoyed, distressed and wearied, whom I dfseussed and ridiculed with my school fellows. that you did for me was thrown away. TwlSlf I had thought sooner to express my obll gStii ti you.

hut I'll give them to your young brother and sister teachers who are even now at work with my own children. Thank and God bless you, teachers of Brooklyn. V. B. A Fond Parent Thinks Our Schools Fine.

1 do feel thankful to the public school teachers of town for the work that they are doing. ly little girl began work In the public scnool last September. To me It is marvelous the progress she is making in reading, singing and arithmetic Wfiat. Impresses me most is the fact that she enjovs it so. She'll road to me from her primer as long as I'll listen.

She'll cover all the waste paper she can find with "6 and 5 are 11" and 'she prefers school to any other attraction within our power. It seems to me the teacher Is responsible for this. The little girls adore her. The head 'of our household Is getting Jealous, for It is Miss 'tills and Miss that whenever our daughter opens her mouth. My neighbors who have children seem equally pleased.

We have a good school. We have an able principal. I fancy this la quite common througnout i.rooKiyn, iucieiui a am glad to say that the thanks of our citizens to the teachers in our schools are certainly due and, I hope, frequently expressed. FOND PARENT. A Chronic Carper.

next one is from one of those chronic fault finders who always see more freckles "complexion. It is so foreign to the this happy season that I will give 1 only 'such parts as arc not censorious. The asterisks mark omissions: Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: truly. TAXPAYER. Thanks for High Schools.

U'Xi am proud and thankful because of our fine High School. By singling it out 1 cast no reflections on the other Institutions. I hi dr everywhere that they arc excellent. I came in contact with the college authorities when my son Tieht 'frorn the Boys' HU School. They told mo there was no high school in the United States superior to It.

I should like to have you serve this 'thanksgiving dish to the teachers referred to. OLD ItESIDENT. A Father Praises, thank you teachers of Brooklyn for your patience and your Industry. You take our noisy, troublesome children and by some mysterious power transmute them into quiet, orderly, reasonable 'beings. Forty parents and twice forty heads of der paxtrhents, principals, supervisors, district superintendents, division superintendents, associate superintendents and other superintendents tell you how to do each different thing In forty different ways, but yet you bring our children safely through somehow or other.

Be brave, be blithe, be buxom, be Brooklynesque. A FATHER OF SIX. Now comes the other side of the cloth. Here are thanksgivings from the teachers themselves. Gives Thanks for Living in Brooklyn.

1 like your proposition to make prominent the things In a teacher's life to be thankful for. 1 OPEN EVERY EVENING 8688 Myrtle Av, Portrait' Painter's New Quarters in the Bryant Park Building Described. THE CURIOUS OLD FURNITURE. Architecturally the Arrangement Is Novel Studio Proper a Two Story Apartment. That well known portrait painter of Brooklynltes, H.

Stanley Todd, is now the possessor of what, when its decorations are completed, will certainly be among the half dozen finest studios of Manhattan. This studio is one of the capacious artist suites in the new Bryant Park Studio Building, at 80 West "Fortieth, street, at the corner of Sixth avenue, and for it Mr. Todd gave up his rooms in the Sherwood, on Fifty seventh street, last spring. On Wednesday he entertained there with a large reception, first throwing open his rooms formally to his friends, though as yet his large tapestries that have just come over from Europe specially for those walls are not in place and will not be for several days. Otherwise, however, the studio i in order and Mr.

Todd's highly interesting furniture treasures in place. In size, in completeness and general adequacy scarcely another studio 4n New York can compete with it. tall Bryant Park Building is shallow and the s.uite of rooms runs from front to back, with windows on the sides, thus giving unbounded light. At the front, overlooking the park and getting a brilliant north light is the studio proper, two stories high, a great square room, with a superb fireplace in carved wood at one side. Over this fireplace, in a panel, one of the finest of the tapestries will be set.

Back of the studio the suite of rooms divides itself into two floors. Visitors enter through a small hallway, on the further side of which are the kitchen and serving room. The hall leads Into a daintily furnished reception room of small size, separated by curtains of green from the studio itself. At one side of the reception room is a stairway leading up to a balcony above. Off of this balcony are the sleeping rooms.

The balcony itself is fitted up as a little room in miniature, and it overlooks the gallery or studio, a balustrade running across it. From the studio this overhead balcony, prettily equipped, is one of the most architectural of features. Back of the reception room is the daintiest of small diningrooms, lighted by wide windows on two sides. All in all, a more novel set of rooms, of more compact and effective arrangement, it would be difficult to find. The studio itself is in a warm green with black woodwork, all in a very rich effect and the same green dominates the other rooms.

But the feature of these rooms, after all, is not only their architectural and decorative effect, but the furniture that Mr. Todd has chosen for them. In the studio there is a wonderful old high, desk of Spain of the seventeenth century, and a treasure chest of the same period across the room. These are famous specimens of furniture art, the chest carved elaborately and beautifully, dark and rich, the desk of a lighter, picturesquely grained wood, curiously rounded in form and with a thousand little drawers and cubby holes. In the dining room there is in oak scarcely less interesting, a china closet that every woman would want to possess, very tall and graceful, and a dining table to match it.

As has been said, the tapestries are as yet to be put up on the walls. Nor is there much of artistic paraphernalia about the place. The modern portrait painter sees his canvases slip away as fast as he paints them, and has little in stock at any time. But one canvas is now upon Mr. Todd's easel.

This, however, is of a decidedly interesting and novel nature. As yet laid out but roughly in color it represents a well known New' York man, a prominent automobilist, whose name must not bo at the moment disclosed, seated in his machine. The vehicle is shown in detail, and the canvas is a large one, man and automobile being shown full size. No other portrait painter has yet thought to paint such a portrait, to bring the automobile into a canvas purely as an accessory. Such are'the new quarters of the man who painted the.

Lows and has portrayed many another Brooklynite, Mrs. Josiah T. Marean, Colonel William Hester, James McKeen and Miss Josephine 'Barr, notably. Mr. Todd is to give a number of additional receptions this winter, and his new studio will be one of the chief Meccas for Brooklyn people and one of their most important show places.

BOARDERS IN A FIRE PANIC. Gasoline Stove Esplodes in Manhattan. Viola. Allen's Maid Severely Burned. Narrow Escapes.

The explosion of a gasoline on the first floor of the boarding house at 237 West Thirty eighth street, Manhattan, yesterday, threw tho occupants of the house into a panic, some of them having a narrow escape from' being suffocated in the dense smoke. Half a dozen of the boarders were slightly burned on the hands and feet, few of them having had time to put their shoes on, and Miss Jeanne Malliard, maid to Viola Allen, the actress, who was visiting her sister! Matilde, was overcome by the smoke and removed to Roosevelt Hospital. The young woman, who is 24 years old. was also severely burned on her lower limbs and hands. She had taken refuge in a cloBet on the second floor in the rear, having run there in her fright when she found her escape cut off in the hail by the smoke.

With great risk to himself, Fireman Charles Masterson of Engine Company No. 26 fought his way through the flames and smoke and dragged the young woman to the street. Another heroic rescue was made by Policemen Lane and Ewell of the West Thirty seventh street station, who went to the roof of thp hnni fMm wi, UCAl UUUi and dragged ex Alderman Vincent Golding iui ui Lieu, in oroer to get at tne room thf policemen had to smash in the skylight. Mr. Gollllnp wntz vnrv ftlnnnv i.

ulu UUL want to get tip, and policemen were iuivvu iu uae Luiuiui meitioas to make him get out of bed. The house is rented by Dr. Walter Wllkins and his wife, Susahne, who is the mother of Odette Tyler, the actress. The physician lm n'n rtfflr in tho ffnnt ef j. floor living rooms in the rear.

The aocior ut a gasoline stove in his office to warm it and went back in the bedroom to v.uu,j 1.11. oiuve ex ploded, and in a few seconds the room was a iuui ui unuicD. Mrs. Wilkins went into the room and tried to put the fire out with a blanket. Her hands were slightly burned by the blanket catching fire, and the hair on the back of her husband's hend was severely singed by the he having tried to drag his wife out of the room.

John J. Raffuel, the baritone, who is known as 'Jack" Raffuel on the stage, had to leave all his music and $50 in cash behind in order to save liimself. The damage to the contents of the house will be about $7,000. The loss to the tenants 'Is unknown, but no one saved anything of any value. Mrs.

Wilkins said the house was only partially insured, and that she had lost considerable jewelry in the flames. The Thanksgiving Time and Views Ing for examination; they refute the claim that a teacher's rating depends upon the per cent, of pupils she prepared for examination; they discourage the rating of teachers by examination of the classes. As this is direct quotation from the executive head of the schools and is repeated in almost every address that he makes, and as control and Instruction through interest Is held up as the type of teaching now required, I should think it would be well for "A Brooklyn Teacher" to report at once to the city superintendent any specific case in which she has been subjected to requirements contrary to these expressions of policy. MILO. Mr.

Small on Voluntary Schools. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: The discussion over the question of education that is being carried on In the columns of your paper is very interesting and Is beginning to attract wide attention. It seems to me that the time is surely coming when our public school system must certainly stand or fall on Its own merits: In other words, there must be 'a separation from the slate. Just as when this government was established. tht' bond that connected the church and state was severed.

If it was left optional with the people to support the schools, then all that is worth saving would be retained, and the system would no more be destroyed than were the churches by ceasing to compel the people to labor for their support. If our schools can't be maintained by a voluntary system of taxation, then It is high time they were abolished. To those writers who are so euro that it is a crime, next door to treason, for any person to demand the abolition of a school system that is based on compulsion. I recommend a careful reading of Spencer's last book, "Facts and Comments." In the chapters, "Feeling Versus Intellect," "Stato Education," "Patriotism," "Imperial Ism and Slavery," "Re batbarization" and. "Reg Imentalism," they will find that the grand old philosopher has given them some pretty tough nuts to crack.

Yours for Hhe'rty all around the circle. JOSHUA T. SMALL, Provlncetown, November 8, 1902. Clifton Price of the University of California. It'wlll do for high schools or for college freshmen.

The very full notes are where they should be, at the bottom of each page. A critical essay In English on Cicero, on this Work and on general essays of friendship precedes the Latin text; a full index fol lows it. ERASMUS. A Novel Substitute for Examinations. The Educational Review for November has been received.

It is. a1 strong number. Truman A. De Weese of Chicago presents an account of. two in the schools of his city.

This article will be found especially interesting to New York readers, because the discussion from a Western standpoint of many problems that have linen taken up by local educators. The growth of petty pontics in the appointment of teachers leading up to the final abandonment of the local committee system Is described at length. Physical examination of teachers, the lengthening of the training school course to three years, the requirement of experience for all candidates for teaching positions; the renewal of temporary certificates, the adoption of improved salary schedules and the deficiency in school revenues as affecting Chicago schools are especially interesting to New Yorkers. Unification and centralization have been singularly In evidence in the Illinois city. The article is an extended eulogy of Superintendent Cooley.

D. 0. S. Lowell of New Dorchester, writes on "A New Method of Admission to College." It is a strong condemnation of the examination system and a suggestion to throw open the college to every applicant, require a large forfeit fee to be deposited as an evidence of good faith, to be returned to the student if he showed himself able to do the work, to be retained and the 'student dropped if he could not, keep C. J.

Keyser of Golumbia.University has an interesting article on "Mathematical Productivity in the United Staes;" Mary Taylor Blauvelt writes entertainingly of "Oxford, Past and Superintendent James M'; Greenwood of Kansas City, always timely strong and interesting, has a detailed argument fori a. seven course in the'rft'lnmar schools and a nlne months' term year. George A. Soper of New York'shows insufficient hygienic teaching in the schools. Walter R.

Bridgeman of Lake College attacks paternalism in college athletics and wants the responsibility for name of tho institution to rest on the students. Alida S. Williams of Public, School' No. 33, New York, discusses the curability of color bllndneBs. President Butler, the editor, criticises the English educational bill, home economics and Mayor Low's talk on school matters.

MARY J. INTERCESSION WITH GOD. Critic Analyzes Illogical Statements of Protestant Clergyman. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: I would like to know what is the difference between Father G. saying wo should avail ourselves of every opportunity to relieve the souls of our friends In purgatory by our prayers, almsgiving, good works and masses and Dr.

C. saying our friend in heaven is interested in us and interceding for us. Both take away Christ's mediator ship. Father G. places It on us.

Dr. C. transfers it to the souls of departed saints In heaven. Of the two evils choose the least. I think Father the most reasonable.

I would prefer Paul, I Timothy "There is one mediator between God and man. The man, Christ Jesu3." There is nothing said in the above quotation about God and spirits; it is mediation between God nd man. When God sent His Son to earth to arbitrate, it was between dying men and a life giving God, to bring about peace. There was nothing about mediating two never dying beings in Christ's mission to earth. He came to show by example how dying men might receive the never ending life of God.

He took our dying nature on Him and died and while dead krw nothing, otherwise He was not dead. WHO. Him there was no time in the grave, but rose with the endless life of God to die ho more. Never dying souls had nothing to do with the.messago of arbitration that God gave His Son when He commissioned Him and sent Him to earth to. bring about reconciliation between dying man and the.

eternal God. He came that. dying men might have life and that they might Have it more abundantly. Jesus arose from the grave with this life and He is the only one In possession of Tho rest of His brethren who fell in the conflict are asleep know nothing good or bad, and never will if tho sound of the trumpet does not awake them. Otherwise they have perished.

R. H. PYE. 469 Waverly avenue, November 11, 1902. Second That It is no longer necessary for the young woman who now seeks to obtain a position In the public schools to get her "political friends" to interview the many "members of the local committees" in her interests.

They have an "easier job" now. as they can unite their forces or. "one man" and the young woman "fits into her niche" In short order! ThlrdThat the. evening school teachers no longer consider the day school scholars and teachers mere creatures permitted to exist in order to put the class room In order for the convenience of evening school classes. The evening class quids of tobacco have given way to the lumps of chewing gum and sticky molasses candy evening donations.

Verily, the day school and day school teachers have reached lowest notch with the evening school promoters, who regard them as nonentities now'. Fourth That every school building is now kept spotlessly clean. Not a speck of dirt or dust to be found from cellar to roof, rendering it Impossible for disease germs to breed and cause illness among the pupils. Not a drinking fountain where the cups do not shine like burnished silver. Not a floor that Is scrubbed less frequently than once In two years! For these last named blessings the weekly inspections by the Board of Health inspectors (working after hours from sheer love of humanity), should receive the thanks! GOODBYE.

She Likes the New Eegime. A. few years ago George Munson wrote and the Putnams published a book called "Work for Women." In it he takes up in detail the various callings which women may fill. When he reaches "Teaching" he says: "In New York City no woman, unless she has great can hope to obtain a position In the public schools." Therefore he dismisses them from consideration as openings, for women and devotes all discussion of how success may be won in teachmsr to bthercltles and schools than the public ones, of New York. I for one am thankful that the above statement can not now be truthfully made of women and the local schools.

I am thankful that they are open to competitive tests of merit. JUST1TIA. Glad He Is Not a Chicago Teacher. I am thankful I do not teach in Chicago. Where I spent the vacation were two men from that belated city teaching In a sumer school.

The school board Is rotten from top to bottom, dominated by the large tax dodging corporations which owe the city millions of back taxes. Everyone in the educational department has been reduced in wages. They are worse off than we were ten years ago. Many teachers were discharged without warning, the board will not let them hold meetings In school houses; their every word been wiped out: their tenure kept Insecure; their spirit broken. Chicago teachers to day are the most wretchedly treated corps of any large city in nicagu rtiuiuue luwaiu uin schools Is a standing disgrace to the civilization of the W.est.

ERASMUS. Rejoices in the General Shakeup. I am thankful for the shakeup in educational affairs that began last February and is rumbling yet. A large per cent, of persons who intentionally or accidentally slip Into teachers' positions soon grow content with doing indifferent work over and over again until It reaches the lowest grade of efficiency. They stand still.

What energy they use is devoted to kicking against every suggestion that points toward improvement In the quality of the service. They cry so loudly: "Ours are the best schools on earth." that they seem to think noise equal to argument. Ever since the present Czar of the Educational System has been In power he has been demanding better work and more of It. He has led or driven hundreds of rusting minds to scour themselves by pursuing newer and higher lines of study. He has ignored the protests, the Imprecations and the law suits of honest and earnest men and women, and insisted on making the higher positions so hard to get Into that length of service cuts no figure at all unless one brushes up with special study.

This administration has stopped babying us and tried to rule us with a firm hand. I am glad of It. There has been too much shirking in the ranks. A little shakeup now and then keeps the blood In circulation. To be thoroughly honest, I have enjoyed it, chiefly because of some forced pacing it has developed in some of my friends who were crowing over me last year he cause of their pull.

r. 41141. Thankful for High Class Friendships. I am thankful for the steady rise of the school teacher in tile estimation of the people. I am thankful for the acquaintance with earnest and able men and women that my official position gives me.

In our public school corps I count many teachers of the best social training as well as of the best intellectual equipment. P. 16. Boasts of Brooklyn's. Blessings.

I am thankful for the privilege of teaching in this Brooklyn. the best school locality In1 the world, whose people are more Interested in good schools for' their children than are those in any. place' I know; whose newspapers give the maximum attention to educational progress, whose facilities for culture Brooklyn Institute, Pratt Institute, Adelphi, Polytechnic. Packer and Brooklyn Teachers' Association arc so active aiid whose Came as a "paradise for pedagogues" is known, all over America. TEACHER.

It Is a Great Privilege, to Be a Teacher. I' am thankful for the recomnense of my work. is enilrely apart from my salary, my social position and every outside circumstance. There Is no other occupation in the world that gives such opportunity for service, devotion, and duty. Wherever I teach I shall not starve.

I shall not freeze. then, from material dangers. I have at my command a fietti of recompense and satisfaction as big as I wish to make k. limited only by my own perverseness. To those who understand what satisfying one's own inner signifies, my meaning is clear; to those who rate teaching as a trade or a business, with services or commodities to sell, an all day exposition of whnt I mean would bring no understanding or belief.

1 am thankful to be a teacher because of the sweet recompense of gratitude that comes my way. It is dltllcult to make this plain without enumerating specific cases, but they are my personal treasures and not for street wear. No calling. offers such constant occasion to help the needy as mine does, and those whose eyes and ears are open xvlll find thanks abundantly. I am thankful to.be In work that gives one such chances to be loved so cleanly and so honestly by set many.

I am thankful to be in a profession that has so high a stundard of ideals as the best writers place In the life of a teacher. A lawyer may lie, a merchant may cheat, a statesman may steal, the membersof mostof the professions may do so, their work and the public apathy makes It easy, but the. sentiment and wish of the people make It hard for the priest and the pedagogue to be other than pure and clean and honorable and above the moral average. If one would choose a path In which the chances are greatest for personal satisfaction, for a lofty life and for a sure reward there Is none more nearly perfect than the one In which I am thankful to be treading the wav of a public school teacher. SYLVANUS.

A Certified List of Thanks. These things I thank the good Lord for: The Davis bill which makes good wages possible. Floyd Davis who defended it. William Slater, who made part of it. Nicholas Murray Butler, who made more.

William H. Maxwell, who went to Albany for it. Theodore Roosevelt, who signed It. Sidney Wamsley, who told nlm to. Harry Towle, Oliver Clark and Walter Gunnison.

They stood by and encouraged him. Ruth Granger and Mrs. Pettlngill. Tliey argued It hefore committees. Bird S.

Color, who created the need of It. Johnnie Ahearn, who showed It possible. John Haaren. who helped him. Ira Leo Bamberger, who defended it In court.

Johnnie tVhak n. who wont at our distress. Arthur Hrishane. who defended usf Thirty three thousand Brooklynltes who petitioned for tis. The School Journal, which glorified us.

II. R. M. Cook, who showed how to pay on first of month. Dining Room Appointments will be carefully studied and arranged to befit the occasion.

We been doing some little planning ourselves, and will more than meet you half way. Whether it be Dining Chairs, Dining Table, Sideboard or China Closet, we will do our part to make the day memorable. Dining Room Furniture has always been our forte, and to day the most critical eye will find nothing lacking here. Solid Oak Dining Table, $4.98. 50JXraS value, will be on the 1 nflA .1 Black Silk Velvet Hat, Exact copy of one of the Hats for fliic cola Tin lnnn A ii zon plume, 6 tips, satin taffeta ribbon and steel buckles UNTIL CHRISTHAS.

Cor. Lawrence St. This solid oak, 6 ft. Dining Table, strongly constructed, heavy carved legs and highly finished, with extra leaves; usually sold for 7. Jo, special, finished in golden oak: I 4.

75 smith the latter would give him a pawn ticket for the same. The professor visited the silversmith as he was bid, and was told upon arrival that he could secure a pawn ticket for his pin by paying $280. The professor carried only twenty five dollars with him; this he gave to the silversmith as a guarantee of good faith, and took the ticket, promising to bring tho remainder of the money the next day. The professor took the pin to his home and reported the matter to the detective bureau, looked into the case and arrested Jose del Rosario. It turned out that Rosario had stolen thP pin and had pawned it for gold.

When the professor offered $500 for the return of the diamond, he saw a chance to make some more money, and took the ticket to his friend, the silversmith with Instructions not to tell where he had gotten it, and to. deliver it to the professor upon payment of Alexican. He reasoned that the remaining $120 the professor would give to liim, and he would be that much ahead. Alas for his schemes. He not only loses his position in the school, but will spend some time In Bllibid for his avarice.

S4c98 1 $4,98 1 9 a A Unique Music Book for Beginners. Frederic Ripley and Thomas Tapper offer at 40 cents, through the American Book Company, a new music book called the "Rote Song Book." The authors are' after the artistic sense and have selected words representing good literature suited to juveniles. Both these men are practical music teachers and have tried the work in manuscript in their own classes before printing it. Its division into ten parts, one for each month, with suitable songs for the different seasons, will recommend it to many. BUDLEY DUCK.

A History Compendium Up to Date. Robert H. Laberton's historical maps, charts and compendiums have been famous for over thirty years. In the pines, iu Orange County, New York, this indefatigable compiler keeps pace with the progress of events, bringing his works up to the date of present occurrences and up to the completeness of new discoveries regarding past history. The edition of the "Universal History" for 1902, Just issued by Silver, Bur dette Company, is a beautiful piece of work.

The chief feature of it is its fine compendium of the leading events of the world, not a bundle of particular histories. There is a carefully chosen list of standard authorities and a remarkably complete series maps, finely colored, to show the' successive changes in the political geography of the world from the earliest times to the present. The manual is a necessity to" the teacher to the student and to general icauer. CONATUS. A Guide to Appreciation of Literature.

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The editor is Professor POUCH MANSION DANCE. Well Known Patronesses and Many Subscribers Secured. The December dance under the management of A. Campbell Weston, organist of the First Reformed and Paul Rowley will be given on December 4 at the Pouch Mansion, Clinton avenue. It 1b expected that the dance will be largely patronized and the management have secured as patronesses of the affair the following well known women residents: Mrs.

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I am one of those who believe that we ought to show our gratitude by our good works. We have been so remarkably well treated that I think we should take especial pains to bo courteous toward citizens, no matter how unreasonable, persistent, and annoying they may be. I think that Is the least we can do toward those who furnish the money with which we are paid. I think we should be thankful for the great liberty the people give us. In the town where I first taught our every action watched and criticised.

We had to teach school and to sing In the church choir. "We had to abstain from political belief or, in fact, from having any opinion on any subject whatever. We were kept in the inferior position of children. Here we are accorded by society the widest freedom and Euch respect as we can win by personal worth and effort, scarcely affected in th public view by the fact that we are teachers. For this condition of life I am truly thankful.

SCHOOLMASTER. Three Thoughtful Thanks. For three things I am thankful. First, for health and strength. Secondly, because I'm forlu nate In having for a principal a man a manly ends, ail verv hishlv Dolished and regularly $20.00, special THE WILY FILIPINO.

A Native Teacher Who Was Cleverly Detected. (From the Manila Freedom.) On AugUBt 9 Professor Pablo Trinidad, rector of the Colegio Filipino, which is situated on Calle Concepcion, missed from his safe a large diamond pin valued at one thousand pesos. After searching all through his apartments and finding no trace of it, he took the native teachers into his confidence, and told them that he would give five hundred pesos to any man who would cause the return of the pin, and ask no questions. A young native teacher named Pose del Rosario took him off to one side when an opportunity presented itself and told the learned old man that his father was a fortune teller, and that he would implore him to reveal the whereabouts of the missing jewel through the medium of the occult jrt, of which he was a master. The next day Rosario Informed the professor that his father had found the diamond, and that if he would visit a certain silver 1 man.

Thirdly, our teachers willingly co operate In whatever seems best for the laddies. Won't that do for this time? A TKACHER. Withering Scorn. There was one teacher (I'd like to marry her to "Taxpayer," whoso letter I gave in the first half of my collection) who mistook this column for the complaint box. Under guise of giving thanks, she has con tributed such a spread of withering sarcasm the manuscript is full of wrinkles and A.