Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-05-16

lightful play ground, and supplies
fuel for winter use at the slight ex-
pense of cutting. Our reporter
visited this school yesterday, and
was cOurteously received by Prof.
Lane, who has been seven years
principal of the school. He has an
average attendance of 40 scholars,
which are classified as follows:
Grade l, B class----------------l5 l5 scholars
2, A class-------------7 -
2, B class--------------6 -
q, "A claSS-----------------2l
When the newspaper man had
been invited to a seat, the two
classes first named were called up to
recite a lesson in physiology. The
heart was the subject of study, and
its mode of action in the circulation
of blood. The lesson was of the ma
ture ola review, and the questions
were answered promptly and intelli-
gently.
Mr.. Lane called the attention of
his visitor to valuable physiologi-
citl chart furnished by the school
board. COlored plates show the
human figure, its muscles, its
nerves, its viscera, its venous and
arterial system and its skeleton.
The internal functions in their
condition and in disease are exhib-
tied, the stomach, liver and kidneys
in their natural state, and the APP
pearance they present after a life of
intemperance. Said the professor:
"ThOse schools where this lesson is
taught may be trusted to turn out
their contingent of temperance
voters. To be fore-warned is to be
fore-armed, and this knowledge of
the deleterious effects of strong
drink communicated to the mind
through the eye, will abide with
these young people through all their
after lives"
Glass B, grade l, was next put
through grammar lesson. Several
sentences were written on the black
board and analyzed by the modern
school process of diagraming. This
sentence was given the class:
Oft in the stilly night
When slumbeTs chain has bound me.
"Analyze that sentence" said the
professor to his young grammarians.
They looked at their teacher with
significance in their regards, but
made no motion.
"Why don't you go on with your
work? he inquired.
'It hasn't got a subject" was the
reply of several scholars.
"These young people," said the
professor, (sotto voce to the journal
ist,) "when called on to exercise
their judgment in the affairs of life,
will at least have clear perceptions
to guide them. They will not be
dinned with mere sound"
A class in mental arithmetic
worked out a number of fractional
problems with commendable celer-
ity. Here is a specimen:
A fishing rod is 10 feet long; % of its
length lacks 2 feet of being the length of
the line. Require the length of the line.
This and similar numerical COM
plicatiOns were worked out by the
rather complicated formula fur
nished by the text book and the
answer arrived at with unfailing ac-
MISS LIZZIE DEARBORN
is the only assistant teacher in this
school, and she has three classes as
follows: B class 3rd grade, and the !
Ith and 5th grades, which are not |
into classes. The aver
age attendance in this room is about |
30 scholars.
The fourth grade was called up
for a lesson in arithmetic, the exam
Piles being i'm short division. They
were written on the blackboard, the
process by which the sums were
worked being given at full length.
The third grade was next heard
m geography, "A map of Oregon
Drawn from memory, ON the black
BOARD, being part of the lesson. The
mountain chains and
liver courses were marked and the
names of the larger cities given.
While this was being done the less
advanced scholars sat at their desks
md wrote few definitions in civil
government. The collection of
axes and the uses to which the
money thus collected can be prop
,rly applied, were distinctly stated.
DO You teach your scholars any
hing about the tarifi?n the newspa-
Der man inquired of the teacher.
And that lady good humOredly re-
lied. "This Is one of the places
where the tariff discussion is not al
owed to enter"
The order i'm the South Salem
chOOl is perfect, and the rapport ex-