Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-04-27
Educational Column.
ICONDUCTED BY sUPT. j. O. HAHN.

| lCONDUCTED BY SUPT. j. O. HAHN
Students, above all other people,
should not be partisans, but impartial
investigators. In college or universe
ty, or common school, political and So
cial questions should be studied from a
non-partisan standpoint, /. e., all sides
should be investigated with equal care.
No other standpoint is BETTING a
young disciple of free and liberal in
stitutiOn of learning. Selected.
Secretary Mohler, of the State Board
of Agriculture, addressed circular to
| the farmers, urging them to set aside a
piece of ground this year, prepare it
carefully, fertilize it in the best possi-
bic manner, and raise some crop or crops
upon it to be exhibited at the Worlds
Fair. 1t is very proper request, and,
If this be done, it VIII do an immense
amount of good. The smallest part of
the good, perhaps, will be the advertise.
ment of the State. The farmers, them
selves, will learn what can be done with
Kansas soil with proper cultivation, and
many Of them will, perhaps, do better
| work in the future.-The Washington
Register.
Twenty-Five of the one hundred Coun-
ty Superintendent of the state are
women.
The census of the school population
makes wonderful showing for Kan
sas. According to the figures of the
federal census of 1890, this state leads
the country in percentage of public
school pupils. Some of the leading
states are Iowa, 26 per cent; Nebraska,
% per cent; Missouri, "a per cent;
Ohio, % per cent; Illinois, 20 per cent;
South Dakota, 20 per cent. Kansas tops
them all, her public schools pupils be-
ing % per cent. of the entire popula.
tion.-Hartford News.
Teachers should be careful to remove
as many of the temptations to disobe-
dlence as possible. They should never
make rule when the probabilities are
than be obeyed. Consider carefully the
whole of the circumstances and sur
roundlngs and shape all orders with the
expectation that they will be obeyed,
and that, too, without a feeling of re-
straint or that the order is unjust. Be
careful to have pupils see the necessity,
the justice of an order and but few. if
any, will disobey. If they then disobey
they are placing themselves not only in
opposition to the teacher but to the
school.
Here is a boys composition on
breathing" Breath is made of air.
We breathe with our lungs, our lights,
our liver. and our kidneys. If it wasn't
for our breath we would die when we
slept. Our breath keeps the life agoing
through the nose when we are asleep.
Boys that stay in room all day should
not breathe. They should wait till they
get out doors. Boys in a room make
bad, unwholesome air. They make car
boniclde. Carbonicide is poisoner than
mad dogs. A heap of soldiers was in
black hole in India and carbonicide
got in that there hole and nearly killed
every one afore morning. Girls kill the
breath with corsets that squeeze the di-
agram. Girls can't hoIIer or run like
boys because their diagram is squeezed
too much. If was girl l had rather
be boy, so 1 can run. boiler, and row,
and have great big diagram.
Some wise and good person has said !:
Don't make your minds sponges, sat
urated with the putrid waters of the
goose pond of gossip. Hear as little as
you possibly can to the prejudice of 9th
ers; believe nothing of the kind, unless
you are forced to believe it ; never cir
cuIate or approve of those who eircu-
late loose reports; moderate, as far as
you can. the censure of others; always
believe that, if the other side were
heard, a very different account would
be given Of the matter"