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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
GRAM MAR.

Point out the chief differences be.
tween the personal pronoun and the
relative pronoun.
In what cases may the appositive
be used? Illustrate each with a short
sentence.
Define active voice and passive
voice. What takes place in sentence
when a verb in the active voice is
changed to the passive?
Give three ways by which the mas.
culine and feminine genders are dis.
tinguished. Illustrate.
Define personal pronouns, indirect
object, indirect quotation, indirect
question. Illustrate each with a SEN
tence.
What do you understand by the
predicate adjective? How do you dis
pose Of it in parsing?
Parse the words in black in the fol
lowing:
BY the flow of the inland river,
Whence the fleets of iron have fled,
Where the blades of the grave-grass
quiver,
Asleep are the ranks of the dead.
How are sentences divided as to
use? AS to form?
How are verbs divided as to form
As to use?
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02

from the very weeds Of which he had
worked so hard to keep his garden
clear for 10, these many years.
81 will go home, and l will not tend
the garden any more" he told himself,
"for could never be satisfied now un
less gain for it the perfume which
The Artist says is the sweetest and
rarest in the world"
Heart-weary and discouraged, The
Man returned. He arrived in the
night. Before the sun rose he went
out into the garden to take last look
at all the beautiful things he had
planted there and tended through
many years. He stood in their midst
and told them that he had come to say
good-by to them. He told them that
they were good to look upon; that
they had satisfied him for many a
year. but that he had now come to the
crossroads where he needed a flower
that did not grow in his garden, and
without which the garden was of no
avail. And even while he talked the
rare and beautiful flowers about him
began to lift their wonderful heads,
for the east had confessed a flush,
and one by one (quite ignoring The
Mani they raised their radiant faces
for the first kiss of the morning sun
The Man watched them In amaze
ment. He had come forth to tell
them good-by forever, and one and all
they had been clothed upon" with a
new loveliness, new radiance, inhal-
ing, as it were, the spirit of the new.
born day.
AS The Man stood thus in the midst
Of his garden he was suddenly con.
scious of a new perfume. Over and
above all the others it rose, clinging
like fine, sweet mist over the garden
The Man had made. 1t penetrated his
entire being, suffusing him with great
joy.
When he lifted his eyes, The Man
saw that the small vine which he had
often noticed clinging to the outside
wall of his Garden of Life had borne
a flower-a single blossom, whose pet
ais radiated the myriad lights OF
mother-of-pearl as 1t glistened in the
morning sun-and he did not need to
be told that the name of the flower
was Love, nor that it was the same
that he had sought over the length
and breadth Of the land, although he
has never ceased to marvel that it
blossomed there, within the reach of
his very hands, upon a vine which he
had frankly despised and often been
tempted to cut down.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
GEOGRAPHY.

What bodies of water partly sur
round the peninsula of Alaska?
Where is the widest part Of the
Rocky mountain highland? Name the
states through which the main crest of
the Rockies passes.
Why was the isthmus of Panama
chosen as the site of canal, and why
was it needed?
What heat belts cross Asia?
Name three rivers flowing across
the plain of Siberia? What can you
say of the value and civilization of
Siberia?
Which coast OF Asia is bordered by
the greatest number of islands? OF
what importance are these islands?
Which is the highest mountain peak
on the earth? How high does it rise
above sea level? Name four other
very high mountains.
Into what gulf does the Colorado
flow? What is there remarkable about
the bed of the Colorado?
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
LITERATURE.

What place does Abraham Lincoln
take as creator of literature? AS an
Inspirer of literature?
Where has Lowell reached his high.
est poetic height? How does he here
compare with Longfellow?
The Scarlet Letter has been pro.
nouneed Americas greatest novel;
give reasons for agreement or dis
agreement with this opinion.
Who wrote "Huckleberry Finn, y
"The Sugar-Plum Tree" "The Man
Without a Country" The Star-Span-
gled Banner" "The Culprit Fay?
The Dial, which was the organ of
Transcendentalism, and Brook Farm,
which was its experiment in com.
munal life, both failed; does this
prove the philosophy impractical?
Name an important poem written by
each of the following: Bayard Taylor.
Edward Rowland Sill, Edmund Clar-
ence Stedman.
Name a well-known story written by
each of the following: Bret Harte.
Thomas Nelson Page.
Name three leading American essay
ists Give the substance of some one
Of their essays, With personal com.
ment
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
HISTORY.

Name three Indian tribes that lived
in Ohio when it was a part of the
Northwest Territory
When was Ohio admitted as state
(b) Who was the first governor of
Ohio? (c) What was the first capital
For what do you remember John
Eliot, Peter Stuyvesant, Robert Full
ton, s. F. B. Morse, Cyrus Mccormick,
Thomas Edison?
Give the boundaries of the United
States as fixed by the treaty at the
close of the Revolution.
State briefly the causes of the war
with Spain in 1898. What were the
results of this war?
What reasons can you give for the
low market value of "greenbacks"
from 1861 to 1866?
Who makes treaties with foreign
governments? What body approves
them and by what vote?
Beginning with the extent Of the
United States at the end of the Revo-
lutionary war, trace the territorial
growth of the United States to the
present time, indicating when, how
and from whom we obtained added
territory.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
BUSY DAYS COMING
Period of Stress Ahead of the
American Worker.
Labor Day an Excellent Time to
Think Of the Future That Must
Be the Result of the War
in Europe.

Every American, whether he works
with his hands or with his head, will
take full advantage of Labor day, the
last of the summer holidays; every
one will appreciate the fact that there
is long period of work ahead of him.
This fall and winter is sure to be
time Of readjustment in many lines
OF American commerce and labor, due
to the European war, which not only
shuts off some of the things we buy,
but is filling our warehouses with
many of the things we SELL How to
manage without the particular things
we have always imported and how to
get market for the things Europe
cannot buy must engage our serious
attention for months, perhaps for
years. There may be some failures in
the effort to readjust, but there will
be more successes, and great ones.
The best thing about the whole sit
uation is the stout heart of the busi-
ness world and the people in general.
They enter upon a combat with un-
certainties with the old Yankee con-
fidence, backed by the knowledge that
in the fundamental items of physical
life we are safe. We can feed our
selves, clothe ourselves, warm our
selve. The rest is only a matter of
time and adjustment. There will be
no hard times If the hard work is
we'll tackled.
Business must not wait until the
war is over" for nobody knows when
that blessed day will be. If we are
prepared for a long war, so much the
more prosperity If the war is brief.
1t is splendid time for every
American, from the housewife to the
capitalist, to study American econo-
mics and get better knowledge Of
values.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
Sept. 2, 1914.

Government Of France trans
ferred to Bordeaux.
Germans reached CrIel, near
ChantIIIy, and then turned away
from Paris.
German and French aeroplanes
fought above Paris.
Russians captured Lemberg, CAPT.
tai of GaIiela.
Lodz, Poland, taken by Germans
and Austrians.
Montenegrins defeated AustrTans
near Bilek.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
Sept. 4, 1914.

Germans crossed the Marine and
attacked the French center.
Severe fighting between AIost
and Termonde, Belgium.
British cruiser sank Austrian
steamer Bathori In bay Of 6lscay.
British gunboat Speedy sunk by
mine In North sea.
U. S. s. Tennessee took American
refugees across channel and U. S.
S. North Carolina sailed for
Smyrna.
General Bobrinsky appointed
Russian governor Of GaIIcia.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
TRANSPORTATION MANGER
FACES MANSLAUGHTER

Chicago, Ill. = Walter X. Greene
baum, manager of the Indiana Trans
portation Co., was indicted by the
county grand jury, charged with man
slaughter in connection with the East
land disaster. His company leased the
steamer for the excursion which was
blocked by the capsizing of the East
land in the Chicago river with the loss
of nearly a thousand lives. The in
dictment charges the boat was unsea-
worthy and overloaded.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
BiIIie's Occupation

Margaret had two boy playmates
harnessed up and was driving them
for horses. Margaret's mother called
out and asked her why she didn't let
Billie play with them. He was run
ming beside them shouting at the top
of his voice. Margaret called back:
Mother, don't you know Billie's play
ing he's the dog?"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02

"You seem interested in that Egyp-
tian obel1sk"
81 am" said the man with the faint
grin. There's no doubt that the pic.
lures are funny. But the artist ought
to have put in some reading to shoW
what they're about"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
Sept. I, 1914.

Allied left wing fell back In north
ern France.
Germans reached compleane, 40
miles from Paris.
Germans took many Russian pris-
oners in East Prussia.
Turkish army mobIIIzed.
More bombs dropped on Paris
from aeropIanes and on Antwerp
from zeppelins.
Name Of St. Petersburg changed
to Petrograd.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
Sept. 8, 1914.

Martial law proclaimed In Paris.
Serbians defeated Austrlans at
Jadar.
Germans approached the valley
of the Marne, and took La Fere.
Prince of Wied left Albania.
Russians took Czernowitz, capital
of BukoWina.
China protested violation Of her
neutrality by Japan.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
READING.

The examination in reading is oral.
The examiner will conduct the exami.
nation following any plan desired.
Spell: Artillery, docile, crevasse,
expel, fortieth, Arctic, bivouac, fac
simile, sachem, nausea, llama, protege,
macadam, mischievous, wainscot, Chill
licothe, merino, Reichstag, anxious,
consignor, trissyllable, pageant, buoy.
busily, reciprocity.
Spell and define: Eclectic, elite,
allegory, lyric, insalivation, labyrinth,
lullaby, isosceles, financier, anaes-
thetic.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
HELPED Themselves.

why did you cut out your hot
soda department, with all those nice
bouillons and waters and olives?"
TOO many people" explained the
druggist, seemed to think the stun
was free lunch. h."-Louisville Courier
Journal.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
Curb on Swiss LEGISLATORS.

In Switzerland, on the demand of
$4,000 Eoters, or of eight cantons, any
law passed by the federal parliament
must be submitted to the general body
of the people fol- acceptance or re-
lection.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
THE EUr9PEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Aug. 80, 1914.

Aug. 30, 1914.
Germans captured Amiens,
France.
Germans advanced In line from
Amlens to Laon, forcing back the
French left.
Bombs dropped on Paris from
German aeropIane.
Japanese troops landed near
klaochow.
Preparations made to defend
Paris against siege.
Russians bombarded Thorn and
Graudenz.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02

Before peeling oranges, set them
in the even to heat for few minutes
and you will find that the tough white
skin can be easily removed with the
yellow riud. This makes the oranges
much safer to give to children.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
Aug. 81, 1914.

General Won Hlndenburg, after
three days combat, VanquIshed
the Russian invaders In the Ma
surian lakes region.
Belgium made official reply to
AustrIa's declaration Of war.
Japanese occupied two islands.
Attempt made to wreck troop
train near Montreal.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02

The earliest work on shorthand
writing was compiled by DR.. Timothy
Bright Of Cambridge in 1898.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02

The easier a man takes things the
easier it is for him to let them slide.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02

When a man starts on the down.
ward path he seldom buys q return
ticket.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
THE GARDEN AND THE FLOWER

The Man had a beautiful garden. In
1t we're flowers so many and so rare
that everybody talked about it until
its fame spread to the ends Of the
earth.
For many years The Man travelled
far and near in search Of unusual
plants and brought them to his gar
den. Indefatigably he worked to keep
out the weeds, although his friends
said he was a dreamer whose wagon
was hitched to an impossible star.
They told him that no garden in all
this world was without it's weeds, and
declared that they were natural and
wouldn't do any damage. The Man
only smiled, shook his head, and went
on working to rout every ugly and OBJ
stinate growth.
Sometimes he stood In the midst of
his garden in the cool of the evening
and looked about him to see that it
was fair, but each time there seemed
to him that something was lacking.
He knew that the fame of his work
had extended far; that men said his
garden was the most perfect in all the
world; but in his heart of hearts he
was not entirely satisfied.
Some shade of beauty was clearly
missing; some needed perfume lack
ing. So The Man determined that he
would find the flower needed, no mat
ter what the cost.
He went on long journey, search
ing in every nook and Granny, but he
did not find out even so much as the
name of the flower which his garden
needed, so he returned to work among
his plants in great detection.
One day The Artist came to visit
The Man. He was as renowned for
his painting as The Man for his gar
den, and, although he lived at great
distance, he had heard of the radi-
ance of the garden in which The Man
had cultivated rare and wonderful
plants, and determined to see the
place for himself.
in The Mans garden, it seemed to him
that he must have died and gone to
heaven. He simply reveled in the riot
Of color and stepped his senses in the
perfume of the flowers.
1T is a perfect place" he told The
Man.
81 wonder?" came the detected re-
ply.
After this The Artist said nothing;
but he, too, began to wonder, for
when the first impression of its radi-
ance wore away The Artist became
conscious of something wrong.
The garden was not perfect, and it
was clear enough that The Man, who
had given all the years of his youth
to making it so, was sad and disap-
pointed
There is a flower missing" said
The Artist.
81 know" answered The Man, but
l do not know its name, and therefore
I cannot find it."
The Artist looked into the sad, sad
eyes of The Man.
"Why, of course" he cried out, sud-
denly; 81 should have known in the
first place."
Whereupon he whispered the name
of the most beautiful flower in all the
world to The Man.
81 shall seek it at once" cried The
Man, "but how shall l know when l
find it,"
"By its perfume" answered The
Artist. 1T is like unto that of none
other"
The Man journeyed again over land
and sea. He went into crowded places
and again upon the mountain top, but
he did not find any flower whose per
fume was strange to him He hecamn
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02

The Man journeyed again over land
and sea. He went into crowded places
and again upon the mountain top, but
he did not find any flower whose per
fume was strange to him. He became
weary and footsore in his search, and
finally made up his mind that no such
plant as that which The Artist had
mentioned existed. Once or twice he
stumbled upon lurid blossoms which
we're unfamiliar, but when he exam
ined them he found that they sprang
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
Can You Answer
These Questions?
Uniform Examination oulzzes for
County Teachers Examination
for Elementary School Certificate
for August, 1918.

Columbus.-Following are the uni
form examination questions for county
teachers examination for elementary
school certificate for August, prepared
under the direction of the superintend'
ent of public instruction and sent out
from his office in accordance with Sec
tion 1919 of the general code:
ARITHMETIC.
Show your method Of presenting to
q class the solution of problems like
this: Require the cost of 9 pounds aud
and IL ounces of butter at 231sc per
poun.
Write the solution for: II "a is 6-S5
of a number, 81 is what part of that
number?
A principal sent an agent 1927 with
which to purchase wheat at 75c per
bushel. How many bushels of wheat
did the agent buy?
In an original surveyed township in
Ohio, show by diagram the location Of
a plot of ground, being the N. w. u
of S. E. u, Sec. II.
Required the least cost to carpet a
room 13x15 it. with Brussels carpet 27
in. wide at $1.2O per yard.
Mr.. Smith bought $50 shares Penn
Bylvania railroad stock at 1O3h and
sold it at 1O9as; brokerage B%. Find
his net gain.
How many four-inch tile will be re-
quired to carry as much water as
three 12-inch tile?
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
ORTHOGRAPHY.

Make and name at least eight dia-
critical marks.
Mark diacritically: Cafe, sacrifice,
Panama, Sahara, Colorado, psychol'
ogy, perfected.
What is the rule for abbreviating
the words of the compound tables?
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
Thought and inclination.

Mems thoughts are much according
to their inclination.-Bac
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
THEORY AND PRACTICE.

Take two of the groups below entirs.)
Group A. BASED on Pearson's The
Evolution Of the Teacher).
What are some of the things from
which visitor chiefly judges q
teacher?
Is it best for a teacher to try to at
tain all ends by direct procedure, by
infexible rule? Give reasons for your
answer.
Give two illustrations of the prac-
tical teaching of moral lesson in the
school,
What are some of the chief things
in which the right or wrong sort of
school spirit manifests itself?
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

The wise man has doubts, but tho
fool is always positive.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02

Group c. BASED on no particular
text.
What should a teacher do in the
way of learning and using the ambi-
tions of the pupils?
What, in general, is proper pun
ishment? What relation is there be-
tween the number Of cases of disci-
pIine and the successfulness Of
school?
What attention should the teacher
give to the seating of the pupils?
make directions Definitely
What preparation must a teacher
have made for a lesson in order to
make it as interesting as possible?
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02

Most of us have loose purse strings
when the purse is empty.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-02
Group B. BASED on Belts and Halls
Better Rural SchooIs).

Group B. (Based on Belts and HaIFs
Better Rural schooIs).
What are the comparative opportu-
mites of consolidated schools and
one-room rural schools for doing 80
cial center work?
Why should rural schools under.
take to set a high standard for hygi
enc and health?
Explain what is meant by teaching
a subject as contrasted with teaching
a textbook.
Make a general statement Of the
things that should at present enter
into the education of boys and girls.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-11-05
Natural Aqe of Man,

The question as to what Is the nat.
ural age of man is by no means set.
tied, of course, but many are Of the
opinion that the Frenchman Flourens
was not far out of the way in his est.
mate of the time a man should live.
Taking his observations from the
group mammalia, of the class vertebra-
ia, as having the closest resemblance
to man and such species as are per-
mitted to live the full term of their
natural life under circumstances not
admitting of error or doubt, F~lourens
found that their natural life extended
to about five times the period Of their
lives from birth up to maturity. APP
plying the rule thus obtained to hui
man life and taking the age at which
the body is fully matured to be TWEEN
ty years, he concluded the natural
duration Of the life of man to be 100
Years.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-11-05
President Wilson and The War

President Wilson would be happy,
as all the world knows, to win for
the United States the glory of medi-
ating a peace settlement that would
be acceptable to the warning nations.
1t would be an achievement for civil
lization, a conquest for suffering hu-
manity.
But the President realizes that
peace for Europe cannot come from
outside. The b%elligerents themselves
must assent to it or the war cannot
be stopped. A world conflict which
originated in seIfishness can be
stayed only when the powers involved
consent to invoke reason and to re-
strain their selfish designs. Peace
at the cost of either side is at this
stage of the struggle out of the ques-
ton; there must be mutual conces-
sions and compromises and both
sides must be willing to offer fair
terms to the enemy.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-11-05
Hog Cholera Spreading

-Four outbreaks of hog cholera have
been reported during the past week, in
Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean and PasSaic
Counties, respectively. In sections of
Gloucester County the disease has been
raging for three months, and from
SWedesboro to ~Pennsgrove very few
animals survive. Unfortunately in this
vicinity the proper disposal of the car
casses was not made, and consequently
streams have become contaminated and
buzzards have been acting as dis
%tributing agencies. Nothing short of a
heavy frost or severe cold weather will
check the disease here. In Mercer
County, through the efforts of the
county demonstration, all well animals
surrounding the farm where the initial
outbreak occurred were immunized with
serum. While it is to be regretted that
the farmers did not cooperate with a
more liberal spirit, the outbreak is ap-
parently well in hand. At Atco, in
Camden County, the disease has gained
a foothOld, but by the use of serum it
is gradually being controlled.
The Live Stock Commission at New
Brunswick, N. j., as arranged to dis
tribute hog cholera serum to the
farmers of the state at a cost of pa
cents a cubic centimeter, and to give
instructions for its use. The authori-
ties OF the New Jersey Agricultural
Experiment Station advise that in case
OF an outbreak, serum should be inject
ed into the we'll animals Immediately.
Hence owners of swine in any com
munlty are urged to watch their ami
mails very closely, and at the first in
stance OF any symptom to get in touch
with he'll veterinarian, or to communi-
cate with the Live Stock Commission
and obtain sufficient serum to protect
the well animals. Unless there is this
prompt action and cooperation be-
tween farmers and officials, it is feared
that cholera will threaten the swine
industry of the state.