teaching, one of the best means for ultimately pursuing a college course at one's own expense. SCHOLARSHIPS.-Nearly all American colleges are to a greater or less extent endowed with funds for the free education of poor students. These endowments are commonly known as scholarships. Let the student go in person to one of the officers of the college he wishes to attend, and frankly state his case. He will be cordially received, and the best. possible advantages that the college offers to those who need help, will be afforded him. BOARD.-" Board?"-After the questions of literary preparation and of tuition, comes the very practical inquiry: "How may a student live most economically?" The price of board in most schools is very low. In some it is not more than four or five dollars a week. A good teacher or canvasser will be able to meet this moderate expense. Self-boarding has its evils, but it is one of the expedients to which many eminent students have resorted; and it is better for a student to board himself than to incur debt or abandon his studies. Several students may hire a room, dividing the expense between them, and may provide their own meals at a very small weekly cost. Such economy, however, should never be carried to the extent of rapidly acquiring an education at the expense of wholesome living and proper care for health. ADVANTAGES OF SELF-RELIANCE.-The necessity of working to pay for courses of study may prove a decided advantage to the student. It tends to give him determination and character, to school him early in human experience, and to make him self-reliant. Dr. Livingston studied Latin at the factory loom; Sir Humphrey Davy acquired his early knowledge of analytical chemistry while an apprentice, and Agassiz obtained his early education in science by dint of hard labor and self-sacrifice.-N. Y. Bulletin. WHEN WATCHING ONE'S SELF. HEN I was a boy, said an old man, way of catching the idle boys. have closer attention to your books. 66 we had a teacher who had an odd One day he called out to us, 'Boys I must The first one that sees another idle, I want you to inform me, and I will attend to the case.' "Ah!' thought I to myself, there is Joe Simmons that I don't like. I'll watch him, and if I see him off his book I'll tell.' It was not long before I saw Joe look off his book, and immediately I informed the master. 666 "Indeed!' said he, how did you know he was idle?" 666 You did? And were your eyes on your book when you saw him?' “I was caught, and I never watched for idle boys again.'” If we are sufficiently watchful over our own conduct, we shall have no time to find fault with the conduct of others. Time is short, and if your cross be heavy, remember you have not far to carry it. "A TEACHER'S EVENING PRAYER." Father! let me come to Thee With the closing day; Mind and body both are weary, Give me rest, I pray That sweet rest Thy loved ones know, Who walk with Thee here below. All day long I've been surrounded, In the pleasant way, Where fair flowers of Virtue blow, But, alas! I'm weak and wayworn— Oft aside I turn; Many are the bitter lessons I'm compelled to learn, When meek Patience hides her face, Sorrow oftimes clasps my hands With the morning light; Father, pardon my shortcomings, Be my staff and stay, Give me of the Heavenly manna, Let Thy presence with me bide, Throw the mantle of Thy love Round my cherished band Teacher, scholars, one and all, Take us by the hand; While I lead them, lead Thou me, Father, Guide, and Teacher be!-[The Teacher. -This, the first number of the ECLECTIC TEACHER, is worth ten times the price of subscription to any teacher whatever. Succeeding issues will be superior in many respects. Since back numbers cannot be furnished, it is desirable that you subscribe at once. One dollar a year, postage prepaid. SALUTATORY. FELLOW ELLOW TEACHER, it is not without reluctance, and several months' patient consideration, that THE ECLECTIC TEACHER is submitted to an army two hundred thousand strong. Although a departure from the beaten path of educational journalism, is claimed for it, THE ECLECTIC TEACHER is sent forth for critical examination as a professional journal for teachers. As its name implies, it is "not original, nor following any one model or leader, but choosing at will" from every available source. Thousands of choice articles, pertaining to Pedagogics, Education, School Systems, Art, Science and Literature, from the pens of the ablest writers of the nineteenth century, are buried and beyond the reach of nine tenths of our number. It is the special work of THE ECLECIC TEACHER to make diligent search aong the rubbish and to collect and exhibit, monthly, the result of its labors. Being eclectic it enters the field without a competitor. It will be a source of delight for all those who have neither time nor opportunity for the examination of the accumulated volumes of the past. The price of subscription, one dollar a year, is within the reach of every one. The journal is stitched and covered, and each number contains from twenty-four to thirty-two pages, exclusive of advertising. In order that THE ECLECTIC TEACHER may be read by thousands in all parts of the country, each number will contain selections, extracts, contributions and editorials interesting alike to teachers, students, parents and school officers. Although the scope and research of THE ECLECTIC TEACHER, Will make it more especially a public school journal, it will be no foe of private or denominational institutions. It will be an earnest advocate of popular education, and a zealous worker for the common school; a friend of higher education through the inseparable links-the common school, academy, college and university. It will ever be in favor of public free schools; in favor of local as well as general taxation; in a word, in favor of educational culture and refinement, and opposed to ignorance, vice and superstition. To these ends it will labor faithfully. Will it be a success? Teachers, friends, it is your earnest co-operation that is absolutely demanded; without it we shall be nothing; but with it THE ECLECTIC TEACHER Will increase in usefulness from year to year, and finally crown our united efforts with glorious results. In conclusion we would say, that should this number commend itself to you, consider it your paper and do every thing in your power to increase its circulation. -The Mason County Teachers' Institute will be held early in August. -We ask the County Commissioners who may receive this number of the TEACHER to send to us, at Maysville, the times, places and lecturers of their institutes. COLUMBUS was a weaver. Franklin was a journeyman printer. Ferguson and Burns were plowmen. Sextus V. was employed in herding swine. Hogarth was an engraver in pewter pots. Ben. Johnson was a bricklayer. Porson was the son of a parish clerk. Akenside was the son of a butcher-so was Wolsey. Cervantes was a common soldier. Halley was the son of a soap boiler-so was Franklin. Arkwright was a banker. Belzoni was the son of a barber. Blackstone and Southey were the sons of linen drapers; Crabbe, a fisherman's son; Keats the son of a livery-stable keeper. Buchanan was a farmer. Capt. Cook began his career a cabin boy. Hayden was the son of a wheelwright. Hogg was a shepherd. Young reader, set your mark high and then strive to reach it. THE TOOLS.-"To read the English language well, to write with dispatch a neat, legible hand, and be master of the first four rules of arithmetic, so as to dispose of at once, with accuracy, every question of figures which comes up in practice-I call this a good education. And if you add the ability to write pure grammatical English, I regard it an excellent education. These are the tools. You can do much with them, but you are helpless without them. They are the foundation; and unless you begin with these, all your flashy attainments a little geology, and all other ologies and osophies-are ostentatious rubbish."-Edward Everett. BOOK TABLE. First Book of Zoology. By Edward S. Morse, Ph. D. D. Appleton & Co., N. Y. A Class Book of Chemistry. By Edward L. Youmans, M. D. D. Appleton & Co. New York. D. B. Veasey, Agent, Indianapolis, Ind. Extracts from French Literature. By F. D. Duffett. Wilson, Hinkle & Co., Cincinnati and New York. Elements of Geometry. By A. Schuyler, L. L. D. Price $1 50. Wilson, Hinkle & Co., Cincinnati and New York. INSTITUTE INSTRUCTOR.-S. Puckett, Supt. of Public Schools, of Paris, Ky., can be engaged to do institute work during July and August. TEACHER. The undersigned, a graduate of a Normal School, desires a position as superintendant and teacher in a graded school. Address O. H., care of THE ECLECTIC TEACHER.. Maysville and Lexington R. R., N. D.--TIME TABLE. THE ECLECTIC TEACHER AND KENTUCKY SCHOOL JOURNAL: FOR TEACHERS AND FRIENDS OF EDUCATION. AUGUST, 1876. THE DUTY OF THE STATE TO EDUCATE ITS CITIZENS. BY DR. F. G. JOHNSON. MAN Whatever be the divine AN should be educated because he is a man. purpose of his creation, it is best accomplished by developing, not a part, but all of his capabilities. His power to subdue the earth is exactly commensurate with the cultivation of his faculties. The education of masses can no longer be classed with Utopian schemes. Experiment has demonstrated its possibility and utility. Hence all citizens-men and women-should be provided with as good an education as the State is able to give and they are capable of receiving. The work of popular education is Herculean. It cannot be effectively performed by individual effort. No organization of less power than the State is competent. It is properly the work of the nation, for it lies at the foundation of national prosperity. Above all, republican governments cannot long survive, founded upon anything less than the intelligence and virtue of the people. By education we do not mean a narrowly circumscribed course of rudiments, as taught in common schools. We do not, however, attach to these a minor importance; for the common school system is the foundation upon which a more complete superstructure is to be erected. To have a perfect people, said Pagan Plato, we must have perfect institutions. That is, something more than the mere tools of education; as a little reading, writing and arithmetic. Neither |