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which ought to have taken a rank nearly equal to that of a college. She was puzzled and perplexed by various circumstances when she first entered the School, one of which was, that the two men who had the management of the institution, the principal and the manager of the boarding department, had no confidence in each other; that the students had none in either of them, that there was not the right kind of subordination among the students, or, what she had been accustomed to consider, a right spirit of improvement.

She was not long in discovering that the principal was a man whose education was, comparatively, very poor for the station he occupied. This, however, only partially cleared up the mystery; the greater portion of the students would not discover this, being, as before intimated, influenced by nothing more than what might be denominated a mercenary spirit of improvement. Upon this man came the whole government of the school, aside from the authority maintained by the lady principal for the teacher of languages, whose name was in catelogue as president, neither desired, or was permitted to know anything about, or take any part in the government of the institution. Gradually, however, the mystery unfolded itself. One day Ada was reasoning with one of the young ladies upon the wrong spirit she manifested towards one of her schoolmates. These two, with some others, occupied a suite of rooms, at a distance from those occupied by the Principal, and other young ladies; conseqently, out of her supervision, unless she went to them for that purpose. While talking to this young lady, she suddenly broke out with, "Why, Miss B., the reason we don't like her, is because we think you have hired her as a spy upon us, to tell you every thing we do." Astonished and indignant, Ada repelled the charge with an earnestness which left no room for doubt in the mind of the listener. She told the young lady that she thought it would be a very good plan to have Miss L. appointed monitor of that set of rooms; but when she did that, she would let them all knew it, she never in her life employed a spy.

She sought the principal and laid the matter before him, when, to her unbounded astonishment, he told her he "had already agreed to give Miss L. her tuition, to keep watch of the young ladies in that room, and let him know their proceedings; of course, not letting them know anything about it." A blush of shame mounted to his cheek, as he met her astonished, indignant look, and she turned from him, sick at heart, that she had thus come in contact with the very principles she had always fought against. But the clue was reached. She found

that this little piece of deceit against the students, was but a specimen of the way the whole thing was managed. The principal governed by spies. The spies turned traitor to the principal. The students had no confidence in the teachers, nor the teachers in the students, and the lesson learned by the whole was deceit, and nothing but deceit. Dis gusted and weary, Ada sought another field of labor, with a new resolve in her heart, that, come what might, she would never manage her pupils so as to implant in their young hearts a lesson of distrust and fraud, to be learned soon enough, when they go forth to struggle with a busy world.

It is perhaps necessary to delegate the authority of a teacher to some of the pupils, sometimes,-always a necessary evil-but I hold that it is not only unnecessary, but wrong, to make those pupils spies.

SODUS, N. Y., Nov., 1856.

LOUISA A BLAKELY.

SELECTIONS.

YOUR DAUGHTERS' HEALTH.

A word on this point with you, fathers or mothers, who read the Ohio Farmer. Have you fully settled the matter in your mind that your daughter can be healthy only on the same conditions as your son? If you have not thought over this subject, please do so, and if you discover that your daughter can be well and strong while pursuing a course that would enervate and ruin your son, make no delay in publishing it to the whole world. For, in spite of all appearances to the contrary, there are many people that are killing their daughters now, to make them pretty, who would be glad to have them pretty without killing them. But it may be some time before you make this discovery. Meanwhile, it will be safest to proceed on the principle, that if boys must have exercise to be healthy, girls need it too. If boys need pure air to inflate their lungs, girls need the same. If boys need to be trained to vigorous toil in order to be worth anything, girls need something similar to this, to bring out what good there is in them, too. Now if these principles be sound, let us ask whether you have carried them out in your family arrangement. Does Mary work as John does, at some good solid work, or does she bend over her sewing? Does she

go out of doors and walk, work or ride two or three hours a day, or does she breathe almost wholly the heated and poisoned air of a close room? Does her dress allow her lungs free play, or are corsets and cords crushing her vitals into premature putrefaction? These are plain questions; we mean them to be so; for the principles and practices to which they refer, are of incalculable consequence. It will not blunt the arrow of grief, as you follow that daughter to the grave, to remember that your folly sowed the seeds of fatal disease in her system. Nor will it make your old age happy, to see in her puny and sickly offspring, the proof and result of your sad mistakes in her physical education. Beware now, for now is the time to beware of consequences. A blunder here may imperil many lives.-Ohio Farmer.

A NEW GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF OHIO.-We believe that under the present state of affairs, no step in state legislation would contribute more to the material prosperity of Ohio, than a thorough geological and agricultural re-survey of the State. It would be a grand step towards opening the undiscovered treasures of mineral wealth, that now lię buried and useless in our midst of giving a new impulse to art, science, and manufactures, without which any country must necessarily languish, under the sway of a poor, rude, and illiterate agricultural population. Again, it would increase the agricultural value of lands in the State. It is a well known fact, that in tertiary formations, such as compose surface of Ohio, strata often occur, lying within a few feet of each other, separately sterile, but which by being mixed, constitute a soil of the highest fertility. Many beds of gypsum, marl, and other fertilizers, have been developed by Agricultural and Geographical surveys in other States, which have greatly increased their agricultural prosperity.-Normal School Advocate.

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YUS AND ABUS OV ETIMOLOJI.

dariz, hsever, a fels etimoloji hwię iz mug prevalent, and ns mug tet in skolz. Az de Ipglif iz a langwaj derivd from meni sorsez, and in modern tjmz haz resevd meni aksefonz from de Latin and Grek direkt, hwil previusli it resevd dem indirektli tro de Frenç, tegerz hav bin mug in de habit ov foiŋ de Latin and Grek rats tu hwię wurdz not Sakson má be trast, and konsiderin dez az de etimolojiz ov de langwaj. de grosest erorz qr in dɛ aktyчal histori ov wurdz, and in de derivafon ov dar menin from de histori. Mor akyurát nolej, fønded upon fonoloji and tɛ lojikal histori ov wurdz, wil korekt dez, but in de men tim it iz nesesári fat pepl fud be disabyzd ov de tot dat if da no de ultimat Latin er Grek orijin ov a wurd đa no its menin. Argbifop Hwatli givz de tre wurdz understandig, substans, hipostasis, el identikal in dar radikal menin, and widli diferent in dar aktyчal aplikafonz az egzamplz ov de danjerus mistaks hwię ma be mad bị đoz ho go direkt tụ đe etimoloji ov wurdz. It iz a most instruktiv and yчsful eksersiz tu obzęrv de meniŋ ov wurdz, or tu tras de derivafon ov de most varid ideaz from đe sam radikal nofonz, but eni wun ho konsevz dat he kud predikt de ganj bį noiŋ de orijinal, wud bɛ lik a man prognostikatiŋ de kors ov a river from a nolej ov de lokaliti ov its sors widst eni konsepfon ov de natyчr ov de kuntri tro hwię it had tu flo.

Etimoloji iz not onli inseparabl from fonoloji, but from histori elso; and de soner dat suç bastard lernig az komonli goz bị đɛ nam ov etimoloji iz got rid ov, de beter for de lojikal edyukafon ov Inglifmen. Tu doz ho no Latin and Grek, de çanjez mad bi fonetik spelig wil not okazon de slitest difikulti in trasiŋ a wurd tu its orijin; tu doz ho do not, de gánjez qr ov no konsekwens hwotever.

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ON THE SCHOOL LAW.

BY THE STATE COMMISSIONER OF COMMON SCHOOLS.

QUESTION. When the qualified voters of a city or incorporated village, organized as to Schools, under any special act, shall have determined by vote, as provided in Sec. 66 of the general School law, that the Common Schools of such city or incorporated village shall be conducted and managed in accordance with the provisions of said general School law; and when such city or incorporated village shall have provided by ordinance for the election or appointment of a Board of Education, prescribing their number and terms of office, would it be legal or competent for the Council of such city or incorporated village, subse. quently to change by another ordinance, the number of members constituting said Board of Education, or to direct that they should be elected instead of appointed, or vice versa ?

ANSWER. Several questions similar to the above, have been at different times, submitted to this department for an opinion upon the proper interpretation of the last clause of See. 66 of the School law.

At first, the opinion was entertained that when the qualified voters of a city or incorporated village, had determined to relinquish their organization as to schools under any special School act, and to be governed by the provisions of the general School law, and when the Council of such city or incorporated village, had once provided by ordinance for the election or appointment of a Board of Education, describing the number of its members and the terms of their office, the power of said Council was functus officio, and that, thereafter, it would have no power in the premises to change the numbers composing the Board of Education, or the manner of creating them, than if such city or incorporated village had never been organized, as to Schools, under a special act, but had, at the time of the enactment of the general School law, come at once under the provisions contained in its 324, 33d, 34th and 35th Sections.

But on further investigation, and after taking the advice of several legal gentlemen, the undersigned has come to the conclusion, that the Connell of any city or incorporated village, which has determined as above stated, that its common Schools shall be conducted and managed in accordance with the general School act, may change any ordinance which may have been made for the election or appointment of a Board of Education, so as to increase or diminish the number of its members, provided the number be not reduced below three members, aecording as the growth of such city or incorporated village, or the best interests of education, may seem to demand. It is also competent for said Council to change the mode of creating the Board of Education, by a provision in the ordinance, that they shall be elected instead of appointed, or the reverse. It is beHeved that the power in question is a continuing power, and is not exhausted by having been once exerted.

QUESTION. In & cortain sub district, in the township of& new School House has been erected, but so situated, that by resson of swamps and the want of passable roads, it can not be reached by a large number of scholars resident in said sub-district. The local directors refuse to establish two Schools therein, and hence several of the inhabitants are obliged to maintain a private School, or let their children go witont education, and this, too, notwithstanding they pay taxes for the support of Schools. What is the remedy for such evident in

Justice to a portion of the people of this sub-district ?

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