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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-12-27
JANUARY FORECAST.
What Kind OF Weather nay be Ex-
peoled Judging Prem Twenty
Years. Observation,

The chief OF the weather bureau
directs tho publication OF the following
data, compiled from tho record OF OBJ.
servations for tho month Of January,
taken Mt this station for period Of
twenty.ons yeArs.
II Ia believed that the facts thus soi
forth will prove OF interest to the pu b.
lilo, as we'll rs the special student,
showing N they do the average and
extreme conditions OF the more impor.
tant meteorological elements and the
range within which such variations
may be expected to keep during any
corresponding month.
TEMPERATURE.
Mean or normal tenn psrature, 28 deg,
The wsrmest January was that OF
1857, with an average OF SS deg.
The coolest January was that OF
1859, with an average OF 81 deg.
The highest temperature during any
January was 81 deg. on 2ith and 25tb,
1879.
The lowest temperature during any
January was 20 deg. below zero on
Goth, 1883.
Average date on which frat "kill-
Ing" frost occurred lin RutumRS, Oct.
1871.
Average date on which last "kill-
ing" frost occurred (in sprlng), April
Oh,
PRECIPITATION (rAln and melted
snow).
Average for the month, Las inches.
Average numbor Of days with .0l Of
an inoh or more, IL,
The groAtest monthly precipitation
was 8.07 inches IN 1890.
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MADRID, Dec. 27--An earthquake
has besu exusrionosd ia the districts
OF orensa, Vienna, Pueblo lie Tribes,
Lugudipi and Valdorreae, the province
OF Galioln. Several houses collapsed,
but no deaths are reported.
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Ieat, yet Captain General MARITIME de
NhGpos ia still here, aud the Work o.
loftiiylng Havana Cont.nuss without
an hours interruption.
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Tho weeks ai,lins News.

MISEEAPOLIs, MIMI, Dsc. 27.-rhs
wssIe n MI lSr gives the follow
Ing summary Of the weeks news:
Tho aour output At three points last week
with comparisons Wa
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SAN FRANoRCo, Dec. ~. - Two
hignwaymsn who held up mission
,tteet car Wednesday, night anu robbed
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rHE ouuAN SITUATION.

excitement Prevailing In Hnvana-
Preparations for its DefsnSe.
HAVANA, Dec. 27.-Pho excitement
when nas prevailed sir GO the lnsur-
gent army under Gomez ana Maoeo
sntelel tue province OF MRtangas 10
heightened by the meagernsss Of news
rom the iConl. The Spanish authori-
Hss insist that tho insurgents are In res
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BOND BILL AMENDMENTS

TINS ways ana means committee has
adopted toe amendment, 20 this rOnd
bill suggested by Hopkins OF Illinois,
10 prevent the accumulation Ia tho
treasury OF gtoonbReks and their prao-
teal retirement without cancellation.
Tho amendment provides that nothing
ia the act shall be construed to repeal
OF modify the act oilS7S Tor the roissue
Of ptutnbaUk8 when redeemed.
Another amendment was adopted
making the bonds issued under the
set payable within fifteen years. A
second amendment had been suggeet-
ed by Lacey, OF lows. The amend.
menis were adopted by slrlct party
vote and tho bill reported 10 the House
~ amended. Tarsnoy, ID lm. Mo-,
offered N amendment TO fopaal tho
act oiilo7S for the reistuing OF green
backs, but failod to got any support.
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THE HuLE ADOPTED.

wAsnINGroS, Dec. 27.-rhe rule
brought tn Tor confederation Of the
bono bill iu the House has boon
adopted; yeas 1876, nays lOl. 10 was
aota sitiot party vote, somo Republic
cans voting against the adoption.
This PopulIsis voted with the Demo-
oraIs agains the rule. Crisp, Bailey,
Tex, and Mcmillan, Tenn, consumed
tue twenty minutes allowed the DEM
ocTAis for spovohss on the rule and the
Republicans made no reply ~ their
Arguments.
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The Eleventh Ward Amusement
company Of homo people gave this
Woodman's Hut and Done On Both
Sides to a fair audience last might and
did very well, though little more
Atage reheaIslng would have improved
their playing considerably, The same
pieces 10 again tonight.
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FROM THE CAPITAL.
l.rs,ntnt 10 Vote on tho Bond Bill
Tomorrow,
c,RLlsLps LETTER TO DISGLrY.
MN, Rssolution for Bonds Payable In
Geld or silver at the Option
Of the Holder

WARRINGTON, ID. e., Dec. ETA
..n,,renee was held between SPEAKER
p.sa and the House managers today
and the result was an agreement Ter
,o,s on the bond bill at O'Clock to.
ro,row instead Of Mt o'clock lodAy.
Meanwhile IL is to be open to debate.
A further arrangement was made by
which the ways and means commlt,ec,
bs,ote reporting the bill, will Insert n
clause showing that II IL not the pur-
p5,s 10 retire Ihe greenbaoks. II was
sl,o arranged that there should he
,sp.ra.s votes-one on The proposition
for q finy million bond issue ard
another on unlimited issues Of concsi-
sion, made to overcome the protests
against the haste which led last night
10 the appointment OF committee Of
Republican members TO walt on
Speaker Reed.
IRON CARLIsIE TO DfEGLEY.
WAsHiSGros, Dec. g7.-Chaitmau
Dlngley, VI tho ways anu means COM
m,tlce, nas received n letter from Sec.
frtafy Carlisle, whion is private but
iuruthea sons information concerning
tbe oooditlon Of the treasury. Dlngley
,ays the secretary otiers TO furnish the
bouse all the data that may he needed.
The condition VI the treasury IL repre-.
eentsd ns very aerlous auu Carlisle
urges legislation for gold bonds. Ding
lev has Informed the secretary that
pold bonds are out Of the question ana
could not be considered. Secretary
CARLISLE did not say to Dingley that 3
rer cent bongs cannot be iloated ana
did not discuss this feature. This do.
NAL IL maze because u report 10 this
eject concerning tho scctetafy's letter
was In circulation.
President Cleveland and his advis-
tfs, Il u learned, are strongly opposed
10 the Hguso bill, aud thig feeling
caused Secretary Carlisle to write To
Chairman Dlngley. Asidc frrm the
very important objection that tho bonds
are 10 DO redeemed In coin instead u
gold, rs recommended by the President,
II 10 Understood thB requirement that
the bonds are TO be sold by subscription
meets with disapproyal. Toe experience
OF the government, II 10 said, with sals
by advertisement SHOWS tins ineiit ctua
character ui thin means OF protection 10
the gold reserve
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The advance sale for tho engagement
OF Thomas Ksene ON Monday and
Tuesday next opened this morning at
the Thsatof. On Monday MIR. keeno
will play Louis XII And on Tuesday
Richard Ill.
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At tho Grand Helene and at the
Lyceum Forgiven hrs played tonight
The Washington times., 1895-06-23
Ideas Of a Substitute.

OF all the experience of a public school
life none can be more varied than that Of
the substitute teacher none can be harder,
and certainly none more amusing. 1t is
varied, for seldom is teacher absent from
her accustomed place for more than two or
three consecutive days. The substitute,
who has by this time become acquainted
with the pupils and with the work of the
school, and is able to obtain work nearly as
satisfactory as does the teacher is than
transferred to another "sphere of useful
ness" This time she may experience many
of the same difficulties with which she has
already contended, but she may rest as
sured that there will also appear at least
half dozen others OF which she has never
dreamed before.
This is probably one of the schools for
even the best disciplined are among the
number hich halls with delight the ar
rival of the substitute, who has come de-
termined TO conquer, while they are deter
mined that this absence of the teacher
shall mark gala day in the years record.
Then will come the struggle, for the
pupils have decided that no scheme, by which
they may obtain their desires, shall remain
untried If for any reason the substitute
is not able TO overcome the first attempt
toward disorder. or oyerlooks the first Of
fense, the school will be master OF the stu
ation and by no future attempt can she
gain the lost ground. II, however, she has
The Washington times., 1895-06-23

presented an excellent opportu nifty TO
teach proper methods OF working with
problems. Pupils must be trained 10 read
problems intelligently, that they may dis
cover readily tue conditions OF the case
presented and know what item is re-
quired as a result. They should be able
TO give the proper analysis and approximate
results before beginning 10 use paper and
pencil. Certain conditions being given,
they should be able to supply question.
The making of original problems by pupils
is an excellent practice. Such problems
are often more interesting than those
usually furnished in text books. Much
mental work must be done in percentage
The written work should be so arranged
that the processes followed may be appa-
rent al sight,
Involution and evolution are subjects
entirely new to the eighth grade. As they
have the corresponding work in algebra,
and as they also solve many problems
algebraically, they here begin TO see the
relation Of these two branches of mathe-
matics.
Elementary geometry is discussed as an
Introduction TO the study of mensuration.
The work is made as objective as pos
sible, and absolute accuracy of defini-
tion is required. Mensuration is one of the
best subjects for testing the mental strength
of a class
The Washington times., 1895-06-23
Moral Points in Teaching.

The glory of the created world is man.
The glory of man lies not in his intelligence,
power, or wealth, but in the highest
development Of his spiritual nature.
When the shuttle OF time has woven the
warp and woof of grand principles into
an inseparable fabric of character, then
and then only has he fulfilled the grand
destiny for Which he was created.
Nothing is more dreadful to view than a
med ical museum, Where all physica
blem ishes, abnormalties, and diseased
portions OF the human body are system
atically arranged for inspection. Yet,
daily, we come in contact with warped
characters, moral leprosy, and aimless,
hopeless souls, whose presence we scarcely
notice; yet, more dreadful than the full
category of physical ailments.
What can and does the public schools do to
remedy these evils in the vast seething mass
of humanity?
Are hundreds of dollars spent by our
government? Do teachers spend time
and strength year after year in order to
teach the youth merely the branches OF the
curriculum?
Nay, verify, the aim is higher. 1t is to
SO train the flowers that there may be per-
The Washington times., 1895-06-23

succeeded in quieting the first storm she
must be veIy alert in order to retain her
hold.
Should shebe furnished ed with programme
for the day, her trials viii be greatly
lesSened. She will have definite work
before her, and the time for mischief
cannot come while she is trying TO decide
what to do next Just so surely as that
teacher obtains the best results who
prepares herselffor her work before coming
to school, so that substitute is most sue
cessful in both work and discipline who
is prepared TO keep the school most busy.
No idle hands will find time for mischief
if she assigns, aud insists upon receiving,
a certain amount of work. But if, on
the other hand, no work is prepared. and she
is not familiar with the work, she must
be prepared for disorder.
In order to hold a school to which she may
be sent, a substitut e must have knowledge
of the methods OF work in all the grades.
To do this, greater part of her time not
spent in teaching must bein the schOOlrOOm,
taking notes for future reference.
Despite the trials and perpleXities with
which a substitute meets, her life is not
over-burdene ed, aud she is not always dis
couraged. There are always many things
of such an amusing nature, that the wise
substitute will enjoy heartily, and allow
the school to do the same, thus ma king the
atmosphere of the room as pleasant aud
friendly as when the regular teacher is
present
The Washington times., 1895-06-23

In all the grades above tie third it is
enjoined that the time of the recitation be
given chiefly to the development of prin-
ciples and to oasoertaining their applications,
Class practice is restricted TO the use Of
small numbers that the learner may give
his whole attention to mastering principles
aTd their practical applications. The prob
lens are varied that the minds of the children
may be kept active. They are made more
and more complicated that the pupil may
learn TO see relations of quantities and num-
bers that are very much involved.
Practice with large numbers is required as
seat-work in which pupils are held account
able for correct results. The ability OF the
pupil 10 solve the problems OF the book with
out help is held TO be the measure OF the
efficiency OF the recitation work. The pupil
is TO receive no help in his efforts to under
stand the problems assigned for seat-work.
Regular and frequent reviews are a
cardinal feature of the course OF study.
In no other way can the pupil acquire a
clear conception OF a subject nor of its
relations To all that has preceded it.
The ability OF the teacher to involve in the
current work the application OF the pupils
previous requirements is To large degree
the measure of her efficiency. The pupil
who, in learning percentage has lost his
knowledge of fractions and denominate
numbers, has largely wasted his efforts.
In his case the tablets of the mind are like
an ancient palimpsest, whereon only the
latest impression is legible.
The course of study thus briefly summar-
lied is designed TO secure both reasonable
skill in numerical computations and an
intelligent understanding of the prin-
ciples which are the successive steps in the
solution of problems.
N P GAGE,
Supervising Principal.
The Washington times., 1895-06-23
He Came Nearh
81 proposed to Miss Gladys Beautigfr
last night

81 proposed TO Miss Gladys Beautigir,
last night
"Ah! and she accepted your
We'll, no-o-O, not exactly, but she
came so near doing so that a great deal
OF the sting was taken out OF her refusal
She said she would have accepted me If I
had had plenty OF money and perfect
disposition, and my eyes were brown in-
stead OF blue, and my hair curly, and
was two inches taller, and was winning
fame in my profession, and possessed per
sOnal magnetism, and came OF an old and
blue-blOOded family, and would always
let her have her own way, and never
smoked nor wanted to stay out late at
night, and did not belong 10 any lodge,
and would keep a stylish turnout and
plenty OF servants, and really wanted her
mamma 10 live with US, and a few other
things which l have forgotten. But if q
fellow must fail in an undertaking it u
encouraging to him to think that he
came very near winning. g."-Harper' BaZaE-
The Washington times., 1895-06-23

An aim of the new education is to have
more teachers walk handin-hand with
nature, and study not only books, but ma
ture and the mind. Through nature child
life is seen to need only the proper conditions
of development to attain q strong and
vigorous growth, just as plants need heat,
| light and moisture. The teacher must be
the influence which gives these condi-
tions; the heat OF enthusiasm, the light Of
intellectual truth and the moisture of
moral teaching by precept and example.
The last is most important, for as plant
life becomes stunted, parched, and finally
dried without moisture, so child-life be-
comes narrow and stunted, and finally
reaches moral death without the moisture
OF moral teaching added to intellectual.
The weeds of bad habits aud bad impulses
are best choked out by the increasing
cultivation of good habits and good i'm
pulses. The better nature is trained at
the eXpeuSe OF the bad.
This simple, practical and attractive
way of trying to inculcate the moral truths
and virtues in the youth of our land is a
feature of the new education. This is
character building. 1t conflicts with no
| religious creed but aims at the formation
of right habits: right habits of truthful
ness, temperance, self-control, sef-sacri-
flee, forbearance, patience, love, obe-
other.
Character building would add to these
habits OF promptness, attention, observa-
| tion, correct Judgment, industry, and
| sustained application.
If these things are not learned at school
they must be learned in the competitive
school of the world before success can be
| attained. 1t was formerly thought that
| these things should be learned at home
or in Sabbath school and tbp violation n
school of the more important ones, as
! lying and stealing, punished with birch
rods.''
Another fundamental aim Of the new
| education is Industrial training, which is
| too full a theme to even touch upon here.
I have briefly sketched some of the
| aims of the new education, yet all of its
| aims might be summed up in one: To give
| a practical education for life and its work.
| l have endeavored TO show that the new
education reaches this final aim through
| many minor ones, among the most i'm
| portant Of which are the cultivation of
thought in the natural order by new and
scientific methods; moral training, which
| involves the formation of right habits;
and a carefully directed system of man.
uai training.
The new education is yet in its infancy.
| There are many problems yet unsolved,
many extremes and eXaggerations to be
corrected.
When this new education is better de-
| veloped and spread abroad among the
masses, we shall be nearing that utopian
civilization toward which the world is
marching. There will be more reason and
less riot between employer and employee;
the seemingly practicable plans. of Henry
George and Edward Benamy will be
rendered more practicable.
Perhaps we are now seeing only the
golden dawn from the rising sun of prac-
tical education among the masses; and
perhaps it will be years before we shall
be looking backward upon the effects
| of our ideal education.
The Washington times., 1895-06-23

railroad maps and guides They furnish
US with pictures; a buzz OF a threadless
sewing machine makes the maps into fine
stencils, which are very useful for board
maps Of product belts. A MercatUr's map
OF the hemispheres, painted on the black
board, is almost indispensable.
ESTELLA CONSTANCE DRANE.
The Washington times., 1895-06-23
Quiet Tastes.

Mrs Yeast-Is your husband a man Oh
quiet tastes?
Mrs. CrimSOnbeak-YOu wouldn't think
so if you heard him smack his lips at the
tabIe.-Yonkers Statesman.
The Washington times., 1895-06-23
feet seed from which may spring a tree
OF life fadeless and imperishable.
Briefly we will glance at some ofth

Briefly we will glance at some ofthe work
done in the first three grades of our public
schools to further ethical teaching.
For good mental and moral development
we believe IN a good animal to start with
and so our health exercises and physiology
teach a reverence for our bodies and prac-
teal application for these theories. The
child is taught the evil results following the
use of alcohol and tobacco; he is shown how
soul and body are ruined by this nefarious
business; bis mind is taught to abhor men
whose livelihood is gained by running their
fellowm
Accuracy and truthfulness are essentials
of a noble character. These two things are
taught plainly in the language and the num-
ber work. TIE child is TO give you what he
has seen, as he has seen it, in concise
expression His paper must tell you the
truth, the statements must be a truthful
embodiment of previously developed scien-
tific or mathematical facts. Thus the
habit OF honest work is formed; habit Of
inestimable business value.
The word is filled with beauty, the half
of which we never see, because the scales
are still on our eyes.
In the study of plant life, the wonderful
processes of termination, growth and de-
velopment, open new beauties to the grow
ing child mind AS he investigates for him
self. the shape and use of calyX, corolla,
pistil, and stamen, be realizes, dimly it
may be, the power and love of the Great
Master hand back OF the visible effect
of beautiful colors and forms. In natural
and spiritual growth the principal of i'm
preston followed by expression is of para
mount Importance.
After the impression of beauty has been
made follows the expression in the draw
ing work. The hand is taught to execute
what the mind has conceived. The Gu
rious habits of many of our common ami
mails, together with q regard for their
welfare and mans duty toward them,
are taught in the animal work of the
prescribed course in science.
Through song and story the sweet in
fluences of refined life are thrown around
many whose home lives are devoid of
an active principle of true soul culture.
From beginning to end the school work
is most admirably planned to bring the
butterfly from the unattractive chrysalis.
What would become of the next genera
ton without the obedience necessary tC
a good school, l don't know. Children
come to us without the faintest suspicion
that there is any authority under the
broad heavens which they must recog-
nize. Where would our government be
were this lawless spirit allowed to grow
unchecked until Young America ruled at
the polls, a wiser head than mine would
need to prophesy.
To develop the best in each individual
child is the aim of the teachers OF Wash
ingtou.
Our schools stand in all their power
and strength for God, Home, and Native
Land. VIRGINIA TAYLOR,
Third Grade, Grant Building.
The Washington times., 1895-06-23
Numerical SGi0nG6
from Grade f0 Grade
IN TEACHING ARITHMETIC. TOO.
NEW METHODS ARE USED.
This Branch Is, as It Should
Be, Considered of the
Utmost Importance.

Arithmetic ranks second only TO language
In the amount OF time and attention given
1t in the public school grades from the
first to the eighth, inclusive. This eX-
presses the general esteem in which the sub
ject is held because OF its educational
value as a branch OF study. In the effort
to reform and enrich the course OF instruc-
tion several subjects, hitherto thought 10
be indispensable, have been eliminated,
so that the textbooks are no longer ineum-
bered with such subjects as circulating
decimals," ALLEGATION, +" position" and
Others wheTewith the worthy pedagogue
was wont TO sharpen the wits while he
added to the SORROWS or the rising gener-
alton AT the same time the improved
methods OF modern scientific teaching have
been applied TO the fundamental study;
as, for example, the objective method,
whereby is developed a clear conception OF
numbers and their combinations and rela-
tions; also the substitution OF the thought
awakening processes Of analysis for hum
drum memoriter rules.