We have two of the best Penmen and Teachers of Penmanship in the United States. It supplies a fund of practical We use the patented, Sadler Budget System of Bookkeeping. Does Your School Close? When Does The above cut is about two-thirds actual size of the Souvenirs. Our School Souvenirs Are NEAT, NOVEL, ATTRACTIVE and contain matter which render them so valuable that they will be highly prized and always kept, ye the cost is slight. These Souvenirs consist of two cords tied together with silk cord. On the face of the first is printed the name of school town,teachers, date, officers, etc., as desired, in the brightest gold letters and on the second the names of all the pupils in the school. Heavy im bossed cards are used and the Souvenirs are gotten out in a highly artistic manner. Graded Schools We have a special form for graded or other schools having over 60 pu pils. Full particulars on application. That Nothing Before Devised compares with these Souvenirs for th purposes intended, is a point conceded by all. Sabbath Schools, Societies, Lodges And other organizations are furnished with similar souvenirs at sam Number To Order: One for each pupil 'day they are received, but it is better to order a couple of weeks in advance Dec. 9, 1896. The Souvenirs came last night. I am much pleased with them and also with your promptness in filling my order. They are charining and "fill the bill" exactly. Margaret J. Laughton. They Are Elegant. Dec. 10, 1896. I received School Souvenirs today. They are elegant and I am delighted with them. The pupils will think so too I'm sure. Wishing you success in your new work, I am Very Resp'y Myrtle Vance. Address all orders exactly as follows: PRICE LIST. 15 or less $1.00 16: $1.05 | 21: $1 29 17: 1 10 22: 133 18: 1 15 Teachers Improvement Co., Box 2031, Dansville, N. Y When You Want a Book Of Any Kind Write Us LARGEST STOCK of Books in the State LOWMAN & HANFORD S. P. CO. 616 First Avenue, Seattle. FATFOLKS REDUCED REWARD & GIFT CARD from 15 to 25 lbs less treatment by prac- DR. SNYDER, Or 907 Broadway, NEW YORK CITY, a 10 CENTS(silver or stamps) pays for interesting matter. The regular price of the book is 25 cts. Our business is to secure SOUTHERN TEACHERS BUREAU, Thousands New Pretty Artistic Designs of Flora Flowers, Fruits, Scenes, Views, Crescents, Shield Scrolls, Easels, Panels, Vases, Ships, Birds, Anima Juveniles, Landscape, Marine and Water Scenes, e Prices for 12 cards; size 3x4 inches 8c: 3x5 1 4x6 20c; 5x74 30c; 7x9 50c; 9x11 75c. All Pretty Chromo Reward Cards no two designs ali Samples Sent Free to Teacher Price List of School Supplies, Embossed, Frost Mounted, Silk-Fringed Chromo Reward Gift Car Recitations, Dialogues, Drills, Marches, Enterta ments, Tableaux, Alphabet, Number, Drawing, Pri Cards, School Aids, Reports, Diplomas, Etc., Fr Reward, Gift, and Teachers' Books, Plays, Speake Reading, Merit, Credit, Perfect, On Time and Ho Buckeye Bell Foundr E.W.Vanduzen Co.Cincinnati, Ohi Best Pure Cop-Church Bells & Chime I.. eft ne VOL. IX. 7093 NOW. OLYMPIA, WASH., SEPTEMBER, 1897. Heave thou no sigh for all the vanished years Whose mark is on thy brow; Not one returns in answer to thy tears; Thy only time is now. And couldst thou grasp the shining gold which Seems to gild thy prime, "Twould turn to ashes in thy clutch, and thou Wouldst whisper "Hasten Time." Nor reach thou forth with eager hands, to seize The stream of life will bear thee on these "Tis but thy fancy sheds the glittering gleams That round the future play; No coming sun shall shine with brighter beams Be this thy only care: To give thy powers That soul is blest in dark or sunny hours, Whose seeds we'er sowing now. POINTS THE EDITOR. The way to do a thing is to do it. E. H. C. NO. 1. Join the State Reading Circle and go to work. If you delay your determining and acting the chances are that you won't do it and another year will be professionally wasted. There is a great psychological truth wrapped up in the old saw, "He who hesitates is lost." Delay, and 1898, like 1897, will see you still holding a second or third grade certificate, and grumbling about examinations. From the regularity with which many teachers line up year after year for examination for second and third grade certificates, one would be positive that an examination is the source of the greatest happiness of their lives: that when they are not living on the recolections of the last exam., their only solace is in the delightful anticipations of the one to come. If this is not so let not your actions longer belie your words. Think, do, act. "Act in the living present." Cultivate a habit of acting. The State Teachers' Reading Circle will help you act. It will help you professionally into broader vision and brighter light. It will help you to finer general culture. It will help you to that higher grade of certificate that will banish examinations. It will increase your powers, heighten your self-respect The power to think and do quickly is a wonder- and give you that confidence and standing which ful thing. There is an old saying with which we are all familliar; "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." But there is another saying which is, perhaps, not quite so well known. It reads, "You cannot bring up a child in the way he should go, unless you should happen to be going that way yourself." It is some. Of course you do. Then act and act at once. dawning perception of this truth that is plunging |