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Educational Department.
CONDUCTED BY PBON. J. D. HAWES.
All matter intended for this department
should be handed or sent to Prof. J. D. Hawes,
Monmouth, Oregon.
Teachers’ Meeting.
There was to be a teachers’ meet­
ing here on Saturday, the 19th, but
owing to the officials failing to con­
nect the enterprise turned out to
total failure-
Short discussions on the subjects of
writing and reading were held, and
an adjournment made at noon.
Prof. Jarvis and Miss Tatom, of
Independence, were present, and
the faeulty- of the Normal minus
Prof. S. were all present, with a
host of the Normal students. No
suicidal policy was adopted.
Music in School.
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One of the most delightful exer­
cises of a school, and one in which
all can take a part, is singing. All
children delight in music, and are
happy when their voices are joined
in song. A song or two at the
opening of school in the morning
will insure promptness at roll call
and lightens the labors of both
teacher and pupil. Teach the
school to sing by note; spend
fifteen minutes daily in teaching
them to sing songs, ifuartets, duets
and chorused; get them to see and
feel that where there is union and
harmony there is strength and
beauty. In this way you cultivate
in them a love for the delicate and
beautiful. ThuB you not only con­
fer a lasting benefit on the pupil,
but also on the community in which
you teach ; it brings neighborhoods
nearer in a social relation. A com­
munity without music is like a
home without paint, it is always
rusty and unattractive, and a man
without music in his soul is not a
fit companion for the young and
flexible mind. I believe that all
children can be taught to sing if
taken at the proper time, say from
five to twelve years of age. The
reason we see so many adults that
cannot sing is, they had not an
opportunity of learning when
young.
“When griping grief the heart doth
wound,
And doleful damps, the mind oppress,
Then musio, with her silver sound,
With speedy help doth lend redress.”
P.
It Must Be Done.
Civilization must be paid for.
Education is the insurance upon
civilization. It must be kept up
everywhere, for the risk is every-
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where. To leave the child of the
pauper uneducated is to incur as
great risk of destruction by the
fires or floods of ignorance and
crime as if he were the scion of
wealth and place. So, too, in the
nicely balanced forces and relations
of localities, the neglect of a county
or a township may in some vital
emergency destroy the institutions
of the whole country by remote or
Several additions lately at Wat­
<7E? BfTsföw,Mönffiöuth-;-Leror
Brown, Starbuck. To 2nd, A. Mc­ sonville, under the labors of Bro. R.
N. Davis.
Kern and R. E. Bristow.
A housewife sold a coat to a
peddler for a vase worth nine cents,
a pair of boots for a china dog worth
six cents, and a vest tor a glass
bottle worth four cents ; how much
did she receive for all, and how
much oyer $9 clear profit did the
everr by immediate results.“--—— padrllpr make I—Detroit FreePrsss.
Hence there must be no ad­
California Department.
mission of the doctrine that the
general power can yield the right
CONDUCTED BY PROF. J. DURHAM.
to educate when necessary to the
All matter intended for thia department
general good. This power is in-
should be addressed^ to Prof. J. Durham,
-d i epens a bU t o pr ese r ve t h e {»arts as Washingt o n Co r ner s , C a liforn ia.— ----- .
well as the whole.— Ex.
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J. Durham’s Report to the
Mathematical Column.
Prof. W. D. Pollard, of Washing­
ion College, preaches for the church
at Saratoga, distant twenty miles,
every Lord’s day.
The writer, for the present, will
jreach each forenoon in the college
chapel at Washingtoh, and Pres.
M cf f oHowgh 4 n th e e ve nin g, a ft e r,
his return from. Santa Clara.
Bro. Eli Fisher, of Eureka, III.,
wishes to come to California. He
is a good. preacher and church
worker. Hope he will conclude to
come and do his level best.
Prof. A. G. Burnett, who has been
Church at College City for
the year 1883.
teaching at Healdsburg for a series
1. I paid 30 per eent. duty on a
watch, and sold it at loss of 5 per To the Cku/rch of Christ in College
City:
cent.; but had I sold it for $21.06
D ear B rethren ,—According to
more there would have been a gain
of 8 j per cent. Find the cost price. a resolution passed by the officers
2. A one cent piece, diameter one of your congregation several years
inch, is placed on a map of Polk ago, that each preacher of your con­
county and exactly covers an area gregation shall on the first of Jan.
of 502 acres. 104.96 sq. rods. Req’d. of each year, present to the church
the scale on which the map is a report of his labors for the passed
year, in accordance with which I
drawn.
Solutions two weeks after ap . ­ I hereby present you with a report
of my labors for the year .1883, in­
pearance.
cluding the first Sunday in Jan.,
Solutions to problems of the,11 th 1884: Discourses in College City,
40; Sycamore, 20; Williams, 16;
ult.:
1. At 8 oz. per day for 40 days Meridian, 3 ; Napa, 1; Chico, 1;
1 man would eat 320 oz., and 200 Butte City, 1; Elk Creek, 20;
men 64,000 oz.; 200 men for 5 days Cherokee School-house, 1 ; Funeral
at 8 oz. per day would eat 8,000 discourses, 2; Present at Sunday-
oz.; which would leave 56,000 oz. school, 48; Prayer meeting, 38;
more to be divided among the re­ Made temperance addresses, 2;
mainder for 35 days, extra 4 oz. Educational, 2; Sunday-school ad­
per day, or 140 extra oz. 56,000 dresses, 8 ; Prayer-meeting talks,
oz. divided by 140 oz. gives 400 or 35 ; Heard other sermons and ad­
No. of men left and 200 and 400— dresses, 9; Solemnized marriages,
9; Baptized, 42; Received into
600 men total crew. Answer.
church otherwise, 19; Traveler
C has . R owland ,
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Brownsville.
over 1,200 miles; was never absent
2. If his rate of rowing in still a whole day at a time from my
water is twice the rate of the classes in the college; half of the
stream, he would go down at three time heard 8 and half of the time
times the rate of the stream and 9 classes each day ; wrote about 125
back up at once the rate of the columns for publication in the
stream ; or both ways at four times papers; total discourses and ad-
the rate ; therefore he will go down dresses, 152; total additions re-
the stream in one-fourth of 2 ceived into church, 61.
hours 40 minutes, or 40 minuteB
All of which is submitted in
and 2 hours in coming back: faith, hope and Christian love.
and his rate going down is 6
Your brother,
miles in 40 min, or 9 miles in an
J. D urham .
College City, Jan. 6,1884.
hour, and the current helps him
one-third, therefore he would row
Brief Notes.
in still water 6 miles per hour.
Bro. McHatton is in the work at
Six miles answer.
R. E. B ristow , Monmouth. Hanford.
Correct solutions to first from
Bro. H. D. Connell paid College
W. Waterhouse, Asa McKern and City a flying visit a fev\weeks ago.
of years, also preaching for the
church at that point, has accepted
the position of principal of the
Petaluma public school, and began
his work with the new year.
The indications are that Cali­
fornia will suffer more from drouth
this year than it has before for a
great many years, unless it rains
soon, some locations will ■ raise
nothing.
There will be some
difference in* the quality of the
fruit. But there will be a great
deal of fruit raised, and in the val­
leys adjacent to the Bay some grain
will be raised, and business will go
on about as usual.
Our co laborer in college and
church in California, Bro. J. M.
Monroe, but now of Indiana, gives
an excellent article in the Church
News on the Prohibition campaign
in Ohio. He says the prohibition
gained the day by actual vote, but
the politicians tricked the prohibi­
tionists in the count. Temperance
people must remember that a real
tricky politician does not care how
you vote so he can get to make the
count. Temperance people should
vote solid and count honestly, and
all will be right.
During our holiday trip in Santa
Clara county, we made the ac­
quaintance of old grandmother
Rice, mother of Bro. William Rice.
This aged sister is in her 94 year,
yet moves about the house quite
easily and converses freely. Being
a little hard of hearing she finds an
inconvenience in conversation. She
showed us a quilt she had pieced
during her 92nd year without the
aid of glasses. The work is well
done and shows the handy work .of