Cities? Buenos Ayres, the capital, largest city in South America. Population one-fourth that of New York City.

People? Many immigrants from Europe. Larger proportion of full-blooded whites than anywhere else in South America. Government, republican.

UNITED STATES HISTORY

Revolutionary War.-The Boston Massacre, 1770-New taxes laid on colonies, on tea, paints, paper, glass, and red and white lead. Soldiers sent to Boston from England to help collect taxes. The soldiers insulted by Boston boys and men. One night a guard of soldiers fired into a crowd, killing three persons and wounding several others. The soldiers were arrested, tried, and two were punished.

Oral.

ARITHMETIC

1. Ten minutes is what per cent of an hour? 2. What per cent of 3 yards is 1 foot? 3. What is the cost of 4 bushels, 1 peck of apples at 10 cents a peck?

4. What is the cost of 150 tons of coal at $5 a ton?

Written.

1. What per cent of a week is 6 hours?

2. I sold an automobile for $650 and lost 10 per cent. What should I have had to sell it for to gain 15 per cent?

3. Washington was inaugurated April 30, 1789. How long was this before his death? 4. How many days between Christmas and the Fourth of July?

5. How many days between last Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, this year?

Friday

MORNING EXERCISES

Topic for Discussion.-Calculating weight by lifting. (For this discussion, the teacher should have at hand some scales.) How heavy do you judge your geography to be? Your arithmetic? Your writing pad? Your hat? A blackboard eraser? Your jacknife? Have pupils make a list of the objects whose weight they guess, and then test the accuracy of their guesses by weighing the articles.

ENGLISH

Rewrite in prose form "The First Snowfall."

GEOGRAPHY

Brazil.-Latitude? Longitude? Area, about the same as that of the United States. On what countries of South America does Brazil border? What is the only country on which it does not border?

Surface? Eastern part a low highland; northern part a vast level plain covered with dense forests, the Selvas. Climate? Warm and moist. Large part of the country in the Torrid zone. Rainfall so heavy at times that the land is an immense swamp.

An Ode to the Printing Press

In a recent advertisement, written by Robert H. Davis, of Munsey's Magazine, there appears a beautiful prose poem on the printing-press. It can be used most appropriately as a recitation for a grammar-school boy.

I am the printing-press, born of the mother earth. My heart is of steel, my limbs are of iron, and my fingers are of brass.

I sing the songs the world, the oratorios of history, the symphonies of all time.

I am the voice of to-day, the herald of to-morrow. I weave into the warp of the past the woof of the future. I tell the stories of peace and war alike.

I make the human heart beat with passion or tenderness. I stir the pulse of nations, and make brave men do braver deeds, and soldiers die.

I inspire the midnight toiler, weary at his loom, to lift his head again and gaze, with fearlessness, into the vast beyond, seeking the consolation of a hope eternal.

When I speak a myriad people listen to my voice. The Anglo-Saxon, the Celt, the Hun, the Slav, the Hindu, all comprehend me.

I am the tireless clarion of the news. I cry your joys and sorrows every hour. I fill the dullard's mind with thoughts uplifting. I am light, knowledge and power. I epitomize the conquests of mind over matter.

I am the record of all things mankind has achieved. My offspring comes to you in the candle's glow, amid the dim lamps of poverty, the splendor of riches; at sunrise, at high noon, and in the waning evening.

I am the laughter and tears of the world, and I shall never die until all things return to the immutable dust. I am the printing-press.

(3) Rods in 1⁄2 mile?

mile?

(4) At $% per box, how many boxes of candy will $1 buy? $16?

(5) What is 33% of a yard?

(6) Interest on $40 at 2% for 3 years? (7) Interest on $75 at 1% for 1⁄2 year? Written.-Solve by 6% method:

(1) Interest on $220 at 6% for 2 years 2 months?

(2) Interest on $960 at 6% months?

(3) Interest on $880 at 6% months?

(4) Interest on $900 at 6% months?

TUESDAY

for 2 years 4

for 3 years 3

for 1 year 3

Continue 6% method-years and months. Review linear table.

Oral.-(1) Interest on $100 at 3% for 1 year 6 months?

(2) Interest on $300 at 2% for 14 years? (3) Interest on $9 at 1% for 1 year? (4) 80 rods is what part of a mile? What per cent of a mile? What decimal part of a mile?

(5) Spent $60; had $180. What part of money spent? What per cent and decimal part spent?

Written-By 6% method:

(1) Interest on $385 at 6% for 3 years 8 months?

(2) Interest on $3,000 at 6% for 2 years 7 months?

(3) Interest on $364.75 at 6% for 2 years 5 months?

(4) Had 450 yards of muslin; sold 150 yards. What per cent sold?

WEDNESDAY

Oral.-(1) Interest on $40 for 3 months at

6%?

(2) Interest on $125 at 4% for 6 months? (3) Interest on $80 at 6% for 8 months? (4) is what per cent of %? (5) % of a number is 20. Number? Written.-(1) Interest on $364.75 at 6% for 3 years 2 months?

(2) Interest on $265.80 at 6% for 2 years 7 months?

(3) A man paid $15 for borrowing $275. What per cent does the lender realize on his money?

(4) What is 3/4 of an acre of land worth, if % of the same acre is worth $140?

(5) What is the difference between 4 dozen dozen and half a dozen dozen?

(6) Divide 11.3261⁄2 by 9.
(7) Divide 86.43 by .96.

THURSDAY

Interest continued. Tables reviewed as above. Drill on multiplying by decimal fractions. Oral. (1) 12 of 60 is what?

(2) 50% of 60 is what?

(3) %2% of 60 is what?

(4) .33% of a number is 99. Number? (5) If $60 can buy 224 articles, how many articles at the same rate can be bought for $180?

(6) If a train travels 200 miles in 5 hours, at the same rate how far will it travel in 15 hours?

(7) Interest on $85 at 2% for 1⁄2 year? Written. (1) Interest on $496.75 at 6% for 2 years 9 months?

(2) Interest on $86.55 at 6% for 6 years 1 month?

(3) Interest on $623.12 at 6% for 4 years 9 months?

(4) Which is more and by how much, %% of $183, or 50% of the same amount?

(5) 4 of a square field is 4,800 square rods. What is the length of each side?

(6) Express as decimals: 254%, 18% %, 210%.

(7) .33% of a number is 260.

FRIDAY-TEST

Number?

(7) $300 is what decimal of $600? Written. (1) Interest on $600 at 6% for 2 years 8 months?

(2) Interest on $96.85 at 6% for 4 years 7 months?

(3) Divide 896.7 by .63.

(4) Multiply 486 by .0634.

(5) Cost of a triangular piece of ground whose base is 246 rods and whose altitude is 320 rods, at $70 per acre?

(6) A man traveled 450 miles, which was % of the distance he had to cover. How many miles more did he have to walk to reach his destination?

Improved Heating of Rooms

(Letter in London Times from Dr. Percy Wilde.) It is a fallacy to compare methods of heating rooms by the simple application of the thermometer. Thus, given a room to be heated for 10 or 12 hours a day, the various methods of heating, in order of cheapness, will run as follows: (1) Hot water or steam radiators; (2) anthracite or closed coal stoves; (3) open coal fires; (4) gas stoves; (5) electric stoves.

Both the first two methods depend upon heating the air of the room by 'convected heat from metal at a high temperature. This decomposes the air of the room and renders it prejudicial to health. The coal and gas fires give radiant heat, which warms the objects in the room, and only warm the air by the convected heat derived from them. This means that the air of the room is warmed by convected heat at a low temperature, which is alone sanitary. The fifth method, electric heating, is simply futile and has nothing to recommend it either on the score of efficiency, economy, or hygiene.

The gas and the coal fires are not economical because a current of cold air is passing thru the fire to the chimney or flue pipe, which not only carries away the heat, but prevents its proper radiation. The whole problem of heating resolves itself into this: (1) Get rid of the flue pipe or chimney; (2) condense all the fumes; (3) allow none to escape into the room.

This is regarded as a scientific impossibilty. Yet I write in a room where this process has been working for many months. It is a large room, and the cost of heating by gas is 3d. ( cent) per hour.

A CONDENSING GAS STOVE

A week later the London Times published the following description of the new room-heating device:

"In the condensing gas stove referred to by Dr. Percy Wilde in his letter last week the fumes from the burnt gas rise into a flat, oblong tank, about 3 feet long, which forms the top of the stove. Thence they are conducted by four tubes, also about 3 feet long, down to a similar tank, which constitutes the base. This tank contains water and slaked lime, and the fumes, cooled by their circulation thru the apparatus

Motor Sled of Grand Duke Cyril of Russia

and by contact with the water, pass round to meet the hot fumes in the flue behind the burners. The result is rapid condensation, with production of a vacuum, which causes the draft necessary to draw air into the fire. The water of condensation absorbs the carbonic acid, and, trickling down into the bottom tank, combines with the lime, forming carbonate of lime, which, being insoluble, is precipitated. As the slaked lime is used up, the carbonic acid combines with the carbonate of lime to form bicarbonate, which is soluble, and the solution, when its amount becomes excessive thru the constant additions of condensed water, is drawn off by a small tap. It is stated that 8 pounds of slaked lime will last five or six months before being dissolved with a fire consuming 8 or 10 cubic feet of gas an hour, and burning, say, 12 hours a day. Radiant heat is emitted from the burners, which are of the Bunsen type, heating asbestos strings, thru a talc front, while the metal surfaces of the top tank and the pipes that lead to the bottom tank, the temperatures of which it is said do not exceed 100 deg. C., gently warm the air of the room by convection."

Commerce and Industry

The United States Government owns and is operating a coal mine at Williston, N. D. It is said that in this mine all modern safety appliances are in use. Good wages are paid, and fuel is produced at a cost of $1.50 a ton. The fuel is used exclusively for the Government irrigation service.

Minneapolis flour is to go East by lake. A new line of boats to carry it to Buffalo is known as the Flour City Line. The Western railroads withdrew the low flour rate which Eastern roads complained of, and now $292,000 in freight earnings will be lost by the roads.

Russia is most poorly provided with roads of any European country. It has been called "a roadless land." She has subsisted long in spite of it, because for five or six months of the year the sleighing is good. The Government will build 165,000 miles of good roads within ten years, by requiring local labor. It is estimated that half a week a year for every man and horse in Russia will provide the labor for the undertaking.

The steamship Olympic, the largest ocean steamer afloat, was struck by a British cruiser on Sept. 20. The boat was damaged severely, but her more than 2,000 passengers were all removed in safety and landed on the English shore.

The cost of sailing the Olympic from Southampton and back is $75,000. The passenger fares amounted to $325,000 on the first trip.

At the recent convention of the American Manufacturers' Export Association, in New York, one of the speakers said: "In all the countries I visited the greatest trade growth is to come from those bordering on the Pacific Ocean. We are in the best position to go after this business, and it is there for the asking."

Wireless messages were sent across the Pacific Ocean, from San Francisco to Japan, for the first time, on October 5.

The Republic of Portugal has been recognized by all the great powers except Russia. The United States recognized the Republic last June.

Obadiah Gardner, of Maine, has been appointed United States Senator, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Frye.

King George V, of England, and Queen Mary are expected to leave England for India, to take part in the Durbar, about the middle of this month. They will travel on the new liner Medina, and will be escorted by four first-class cruisers.

At the election held on September 22, the defeat of the Liberals and reciprocity in Canada was overwhelming. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who has been at the head of the government for fifteen years, will retire to private life. Mr. Robert Laird Borden, of Nova Scotia, is the new Premier.

Arthur, Duke of Connaught, the only surviving brother of the late King Edward of England, is the new Governor-General of Canada. He succeeds Earl Grey, who has occupied the position since 1904.

San Francisco has a new million-dollar playhouse, the Cort theater. It has the most modern systems of lighting and ventilation, and it seats nearly two thousand people.

Dr. W. H. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry in the U. S. Department of Agriculture, was exonerated by President Taft of charges preferred by Secretary Wilson and approved by Attorney-General Wickersham.

Dr. H. W. Wiley is now in control of the Bureau of Chemistry in the Department of Agriculture. A new solicitor is appointed to act under Dr. Wiley. It is believed the country now will have no fear of favoritism toward unlawful products sold for food or medicine.

Employees of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and of what are known as the Harriman lines, stopped work on September 30th. It was their object to force their employers to recognize their organization and treat with the union leaders.

Dr. Robert S. MacArthur, for forty-one years pastor of Calvary Baptist Church of New York City, resigned recently to become President of the World Alliance of the Baptist Church. During his pastorate two million dollars was collected for charity and missions.

A statue of Charles Stewart Parnell, paid for by Irishmen in America, was unveiled in Dublin on October 1st in the presence of 50,000 persons. John Redmond, leader of the Irish Nationalists, made an address. The statue was designed by the late Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

The French battleship Liberté was torn to pieces and totally destroyed by an explosion of her magazines, on September 25. Nearly two hundred officers and ma

rines lost their lives. The Liberté represented the French government at the Hudson-Fulton celebration in New York City.

The governors of nineteen States met in their third annual conference, Sept. 12, at Spring Lake, N. J. They consulted on the duties of their office and what Insurlegislation they should ask for in their States. ance of workmen was the great subject.

A huge reservoir containing a million gallons of crude molasses recently burst and inundated a part of the city of New Orleans. A third of a mile from the reservoir the molasses was ten inches deep in the streets.

The first woman to enter the diplomatic service of any country is Miss Clotilde Luisi, who has been appointed by the President of Uruguay as an attaché of the Uruguayan legation at Brussels, Belgium. Miss Luisi recently received a university degree of Doctor of Laws.

On October 1st, Francisco I. Madero, Jr., was elected president of Mexico. He was the only candidate for the office, his opponent, Gen. Bernardo Reyes, having left the country three days before the election.

On September 15 President Taft began his second national speaking tour. Hs first was made two years ago.

Failure of the rice crop in the Philippines makes famine in the islands imminent.

The concrete dam of the Bayless Pulp and Paper Company at Austin, Pa., gave way on September 30th. The released waters flooded the valley below, destroyed the village and killed between fifty and one hundred persons. The property loss is estimated at $5,000,000.

The Krupp Works, at Essen, Germany, are making a steel alloy for vaults, safes, etc., which will be absolutely burglar-proof. The steel is so hard that ordinary tools will not touch it.

The Pennsylvania Railroad has found that high heels and hobble skirts are responsible for many accidents to women while getting on and off trains, and going up and down stairways in stations.

A new river four hundred miles long has been discovered near the Alaskan boundary of Canada. It is called the Black Crow River.

The first general congress of American Indians met last month at Columbus, Ohio, opening on October 12. The purpose of the congress was to consider ways and means for opening fields of opportunity for the development and employment of all Indians, with the intention of giving to that race all advantages for self-support now enjoyed by the white race.