THE AMERICAN TEACHER. water." Then the little boy said, "It seems to me that I ought to thank the rain and dew," but they said “Oh, do not thank us so much as the sun, for the sun draws us up from the ocean; "but when he thanked the ocean, the ocean told him "It was God that he must thank, for it was God who made the ocean and every thing." You did not know, children, that the sun is like a great big pump which draws the water up and sends it down as rain or dew on the ground, and this is what makes the springs. What do you think happens when there is no well dug? The spring forms a little stream (Song, "Give, said the little stream,") and runs down the hill and makes the grass grow and the flowers bloom, and it 345 keeps growing larger and wider and wider as other it gets to be? A river hurrying on to the sea. streams join it until it gets to be-who can tell me what out blocks.) Now all make me a river, just as you think a river looks. What do we call the ground on either side (Give of your river, Ella? The Potomac River? (ask each in of the river? Yes, banks of a river. turn). What is the name bank. Here he is. Now what do you think he is doing? Let us all play that there is a boy sitting on the Yes, he might be fishing; but now let us play that he is going to throw a stone into the water. Watch closely, now, will come, and then one a little larger; then one a little and see what will happen. First, one little circle VACANCIES THIS FALL. We have been asked by the authorities to recommend teachers for the following positions, to begin in September: Superintendency and Principalship-$1600; man, must be able to introduce the subject of Temperance and Hygiene into all the schools; high grade of scholarship and character required. Superintendencies: Three in Kansas, $1200; one in Minnesota, $1200; three in Iowa, $1000 to $1200; two in Wisconsin, $1000. Principalships: one in Minnesota, $1000; one in Indiana, $700; one in Illinois, $900; this position requires a young married man with one or two years' successful experience. High School Assistants - We have about twenty positions, in various Western States, to teach German, Literature, Mathematics, Languages, and Sciences. Grammar Positions-Two in Colo.. $650; two in Texas. $500; five in Mich., 550; three in Iowa, $500; two in Kansas, $400; two in Wis., $450. Intermediate Positions-Two in Colo.. $600; two in Texas, $500; four in Mich., $500; two in Ia.. $500; one in Kans, $400; two in Wis., $400. Primary Positions-Two in Texas, $600; two in Colo., $650; four in Wis.. $450; five in Mich., $550; four in Iowa, $500: one in Dakota, $450. College Positions-Latin, French, and German. Native German lady wanted, female college; Greek and Latin in Methodist College: Latin and Greek, small college and low salary; German and French. small Western college, lady wanted; French and German in a Southern College, Methodist preferred; Mathematics, college in Missouri; Sciences and Book-keeping, salary $1200, church member preferred (college of good standing). Primary and Kindergarten Training Teacher for a Western City; Assistant in an Academy in the East, $600, gentleman; Drawing and Mathematics, High School in Illinois, $450; Director of Vocal Music and Concerts, $1200, in the West; Tonic Sol-Fa, Public School, $70; Elocution and Penmanship, College in Texas; Book-keeping in a College in Missouri; Shorthand, Academy in Illinois; Partners in four Normals and Colleges, the amount required about $1000 in each. Partner in an Educational Journal, clearing $200 a month. Yale graduate for firstclass Western Academy, $ 000. We have been asked to recommend teachers for each of the above positions. This list will be rapidly increased during the next four weeks. We shall be glad to hear from any teacher qualified for either of the above positions. Address ORVILLE BREWER, Manager. TEACHERS' CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION 170 STATE STREET, CHICAGO. ECLECTIC EDUCATIONAL SERIES. FROM THE UNION SIGNAL (Dec. 22, 1887). ANNOUNCEMÉNTS. Official Organ of the W. C. T. U. Published for the Society by the Revised and Improved Edition of Andrews's Woman's Temperance Publication Association. Some time ago THE ECLECTIC GUIDE TO HEALTH was sent us to examine. We liked the book, but remembering previous scorings received for expressing our honest opinion in a similar case, we determined to submit this book to those whose judgment and fairness cannot be questioned. We therefore placed it in the hands of a lady physician of the strongest possible temperance principles. and who is further fitted for the task by years of successful teaching before she studied her profession. being thus prepared to judge of its adaptability to the school room. She says: "The Eclectic Guide to Health' is well suited to meet the highest aims and hopes of the W. C. T. U. in introducing into our public schools a textbook teaching the pathological effect of alcohol upon all the living tissues of the body. It is simple. clear, and decisive in its statements; extreme, yet not to incite antagonism; well adapted to the child mind. through the use of stimulants and narcotics, but in its sections on hy It teaches not only what is detrimental to health, giene, and in the Notes, we can learn what is conducive to making a strong body and mind-literally a guide to health,' so much needed everywhere. Its health laws, if carried out in actual life, will not only give us a childhood free from nervous diseases, but a maturity of good vitality; which means a new generation of sounder bodies, stronger minds, unbroken wills, earnest endeavors; in short, just the manhood and womanhood our faithful W. C. T. U. efforts are aiming to secure.” A trained nurse in a leading hospital, formerly a teacher, to whom it was submitted, examined it thoroughly, and concurs in the doctor's opinion, saving among other things; "The Temperance part is decisive, clear, and practical. I detect no uncertain sound,' while at the same time there are no useless tirades which would be quite out of place in educational works. Upon the whole, it is a book I should like to have for my scholars, if I had any book for beginners." Published by VAN ANTWERP, BRAGG, & Co., Cincinnati. Manual of the Constitution. A Manual of the Constitution of the United States, for instruction of American Youth in the Duties. Obligations, and Rights of Citizenship, By L. W. Andrews. LL.D., Marietta College. New Edition, Revised to date by the Author, thoroughly adapted to grammar,high school, and college grades; re-set entire and printed from new type. 12mo, 408 pp., $1.00. By mail, $1.17. MCGUFFEY'S NATURAL HISTORY SERIES. For THIRD READER GRADE; Familiar Animals and their Wild Kindred. 208 pp., full cloth. Introduction and sample copy price, 50c. For FOURTH READER GRADE: Living Creatures of Water, Land, and Air. 208 pp, full cloth, Introduction and sample copy, price, 50c. (Nearly Ready.) ECLECTIC TEMPERANCE PHYSIOLOGIES: price, 36 cents: THE HOUSE I LIVE IN. Introduction price, 30 cents; Ex MCGUFFEY'S ALTERNATE SPELLER. By W. B. 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