Educational Department.

THE SWARTHMORE PRESIDENCY. THE regular meeting of the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College was held at the College on the afternoon of the 8th instant. The resignation of President De Garmo was received and accepted, (he having been appointed, as stated last week, to a position in Cornell University). A committee was appointed to take action as to his successor.

PROFESSOR ALLEN OF NEW YORK SCHOOL.

The death of the Principal of Friends' Seminary in New York City (16th Street and Rutherford Place), Prof. Edward A. H. Allen, occurred Second month 18, after a brief illness. The Board of School Trustees, in a report to New York Monthly Meeting, on the 5th instant, referred to the subject, and we quote as below:

Edward A. H. Allen, to whom the trustees feel is due to a large extent the present prosperity of the Seminary, died Second month 18. A descendant through both parents (Allen and Ware) of teachers well known in educational and literary circles, he was peculiarly adapted for the position he held in the Seminary. His extended acquaintance with highly educated people gave him the ability to attach pupils to the Seminary that otherwise would not have been there enrolled. His finely cultured mind, his genial temperament, his perfect poise, and always gentlemanly bearing exerted an influence upon the boys and girls under his care that was especially valuable in character building. His methods of discipline were such as to cultivate habits of self-control, and thus has been fostered an unusually fine disposition of the students to be orderly and studious.

"In the emergency occasioned by the death of Prof. Allen, Edward B. Rawson was appointed acting Principal of the Seminary, and the aid of Henry R. Russell was secured for carrying on the work of the Academic Department.

In

In conclusion we deem it proper to quote, for the information of the monthly meeting, an estimate of the character of the work done, and of the teachers employed in the Brooklyn school, reported by the Principal of that school to a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees. What she says of the Brooklyn School we believe to be equally applicable to the New York Seminary. She says: 'Such is the work of the teachers in quality and quantity, that I count each day a blessed gain that sees no change in their personnel. The record of our teachers for energetic, unstinted, conscientious effort remains unimpaired; their enthusiasm for their profession, and for what they can do for each individual scholar, beyond all that could be called professional duty, is as fresh and as genuine as when they were many years younger. professional ability, judgment, and skill our teachers have gone steadily upward, as must be the case with those who surely would not allow themselves to go downward,-standing still, in the exercise of such qualities, being an impossibility. The influence of such lives must necessarily be strong, and the evidences are plain that it is not wasted upon our pupils. The dangerous tendencies which their young natures may seem to hold are lovingly and firmly and persistently watched and treated; the possibilities for good are constantly studied and encouraged. For the most part the influence is silently exerted, leaving the children, as far as possible, to feel that they are responsible for themselves, though having the care and help of devoted guides.'

Signed by direction of and on behalf of the Board of Trustees. Wм. M. JACKSON, Clerk.”

SWARTHMORE COLLEGE NOTES.

The principal event of the past week has been the fifth annual Lantern Slide Exhibition of the Swarthmore Camera Club. This club is composed of students of the College, who, under the leadership of Professors Hoadley, Gummere, and Adey, are engaged in the study of the art of Photography. The taking of the pictures and the manufacture of the slides was done entirely by the students themselves, and the exhibition was considered highly creditable. In this exhibition the new projecting lantern, recently presented to the College, was called into use. Besides many amusing and artistic views of

familiar Swarthmore scenes, there were presented pictures of New England scenery and views from Baltimore, Md., and Gettysburg. Altogether, the Camera Club is one of the institutions of which Swarthmore may justly feel proud.

As the time of the Inter-Collegiate Oratorical Contest approaches,—it is to take place at Lafayette College, on March II,-speculations are being made as to our probable success, astir with enthusiasm. Our representative, and the College is astir with enthusiasm. Arthur C. Smedley, will carry with him to Easton the best wishes of the College, and the interest of its many alumni and friends. It will be remembered that Swarthmore won third place in '94, second in '95, and first in '96, in competition with six other colleges of the State.

The last issue of the Prænix, an alumni number, contains several articles by prominent alumni, discussing the various topics of the life of our Alma Mater. Throughout the articles there is exhibited devotion and gratitude to the College,—that spirit which has proved such a binding tie in our Alumni Association. Some of the principal articles are The College and its Alumni," by Dr. Magill, "Swarthmore's Representation in the Press," by William C. Sproul, '91, and "Character Among Undergraduates," by Howard C. Johnson, '96.

J. P. B.

PRINCIPAL AT WILMINGTON.-Enos L. Doan has been chosen principal of the Friends' School at Wilmington, Del., to succeed Isaac T. Johnson, whose resignation will take effect at the end of the present school year. E. L. Doan is a graduate of Haverford College, where he took the degree of B. A. He became an instructor at the Wilmington Friends' School in 1885, and in 1890 was appointed assistant principal. His connection with the school has been broken only twice, once when he went abroad for study, and a year spent traveling in Mexico and the West.

PHYSICAL TRAINING IN WOMEN'S COLLEGE.-While it may seem surprising, says F. E. Leonard in Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, it is probably true that at the present time the most painstaking and satisfactory work in physical training is being done in the colleges for women. The college officers are as a rule more alive to the importance of the department, the teachers are with few if any exceptions graduates of normal schools of gymnastics which require two years of study, and the disturbing element of athletics does not enter so largely into competition with efforts at systematic physical training.

At the Woman's College of Baltimore the system employed is purely Swedish, and the instruction is given by two graduates of the Royal Normal School of Gymnastics in Stockholm. The same system is employed, though less inflexibly, at Smith College. Bryn Mawr and Vassar have a combination of individual work and class instruction with light apparatus, making most of the former. The work at Mount Holyoke is somewhat the same, but more varied. At Wellesley athletics receive a relatively larger share of attention.

DORMITORIES AT CORNELL. Dormitories for universities and colleges seem to be a necessary thing. Some have tried to get along without, but have come to see their need. At their last meeting, the Cornell University Trustees unanimously adopted the recommendation of the Committees on Halls of Residence, which was "the establishment of halls of residence at the University as soon as gifts are received for the purpose." This means, of course, that Cornell will soon have dormitories.

PAY OF SCHOOL TEACHERS.—In the public schools of elementary and second grade in the United States, there are over three hundred and eighty-eight thousand teachers who receive an average of fifty dollars per month. Among these are included many who have been trained in seminaries, colleges, and universities, and a large number who are graduates of normal and high schools.

Upon this statement of fact, M. V. O'Shea, in the North American Review, insists that teachers are poorly paid. The case is fairly open to argument. The five days' service per week, and ten months per year, makes quite an important feature in the teacher's case.

LITERARY NOTES.

OUR most important local publication in relation to the subjects it treats of is the Magazine of History and Biography, issued quarterly by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Twentyone volumes, covering that number of years, have now been issued, and a General Index for twenty volumes has been begun. This will be a great help to those who wish to consult the work, and not to consult it, we may add, is out of the question for any one who wishes to be well informed concerning Pennsylvania history and biography. The Index cannot be completed and printed for some time.

The Historical Society, by the lamented death of Frederick D. Stone, in the summer of 1897, was deprived of the services of a most capable Librarian and executive officer. To succeed him, Prof. Gregory B. Keen, who has been for some years librarian of the University of Pennsylvania, has been appointed, and has entered on his duties. Dr. Keen has been an intelligent student, and is a high authority upon Pennsylvania history, especially in the early Colonial times; his acquaintance with the Swedish settlement period, upon which he has written considerably, is very minute. He is a descendant of Joran Kyn, who came to the Delaware forty years before the arrival of William Penn.

“There is a college girl in the house," says a friend in a private letter from a city of the Farther West, "who has to review 'Hugh Wynne,' in her school work, and I wish I had a copy for her of the INTELLIGENCER'S review. The women here were discussing the story. I asked if the picture of Hugh's unlovely father gave them a prejudice against the Friends. One said it did not in her case, that any one who knew the Friends would know he was not a typical one. Unfortunately, so many who read the book do not know anything about Friends, and will judge them by John Wynne.

"The

The Century, this month, opens with a paper on Mammoth Cave of Kentucky," by John R. Proctor, formerly State Geologist of Kentucky, and accompanied by many striking illustrations by Castaigne. Two articles on Alaska, accompanied by numerous illustrations, and a good map, give the most satisfactory account of the Gold Region, commonly known as the Klondike," and the approaches to it, that we have yet seen. John Sidney Webb describes the river approach, the trip up the Yukon. Last summer, he made a tour of investigation along the entire coast of Alaska, and up the Yukon as far as the mines, on behalf of the Alaska Commercial Company. His investigations, therefore, included not only the Klondike, but the other creeks and streams tributary to the Yukon. Edward S. Curtis tells of "The Rush to the Klondike over the Mountain Passes.' His article is illustrated from photographs, and gives a vivid idea of the difficulty of surmounting the several passes from the coast over the mountains.

The opening paper in St. Nicholas is by W. S. Harwood, The Great Lakes." He has gathered and is devoted to The Great Lakes. many interesting facts about these vast inland seas, their history, peculiarities, and scenic grandeur, and he also tells of the vast amount of commerce that passes through them. There are many illustrations, including a number of striking pictures of lake navigation.

A new and very interesting phase of Walter A. Wyckoff's experiences as a day laborer is begun in this month's issue of Scribner's Magazine, in his series of papers on "The Workers." He now describes what happened to him in Chicago, the time being before the World's Fair of 1893. He learns now what it is to look for work and fail to find it, though under the spur of hunger and cold. His narrative differs from previous accounts of the "slums," and "slumming," because he actually lived the life for months on the same conditions as the poorest. He raised himself from the

vagabond class by the only door that is open to them-the door of labor. He entered into their organizations—labor unions, socialist meetings, and anarchist societies. He does not believe that we are on the eve of a social revolution.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

ALASKA ITS NEGLECTED PAST, ITS BRILLIANT FUTURE.By Bushrod Washington James. Pp. 444. $ (Maps and Illustrations.) Philadelphia: Sunshine Publishing Company. BANANI; The Transition from Slavery to Freedom in Zanzibar and Pemba. By Henry Stanley Newman, Editor of "The Friend," London. Pp. vii. and 216. (With Map and Illustrations.) 5 shillings. London: Headley Brothers. RENASCENT CHRISTIANITY. A Forecast of the Twentieth Century, [etc.]. By a Clergyman, Author of "Ancient Sacred Scriptures of the World." Pp. xxiii. and 393. $2.50. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. "TELL THEM,'' OR THE LIFe Story of a MEDICAL MISSIONARY, By George D. Dowkonnt, M. D. Pp. 250. Illustrated. Paper, 30 cents. New York: 121 E. 45th St. A QUAKER EXperiment in GOVERNMENT. By Isaac Sharpless, President of Haverford College. Pp. 280. $1.50. Philadelphia: Alfred J. Ferris, 29 N. 7th Street.

ORTHODOX FRIENDS.

To fill the place of Joseph Walton, recently deceased, as editor of The Friend, Philadelphia, John H. Dillingham, of this city, has been appointed. The Friend is the oldest newspaper representing any branch of the Society, in this country, and has been conducted with much conservatism.

The Friend, Third month 5, says: "All the present series of the nine Quarterly Meetings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting have now been held except the last, which occurs at Haddonfield, at 10 a. m. on Fifth-day, the 17th of Third month. In Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting a memorial was read concerning our deceased Friend, William U. Ditzler; in Concord Quarterly Meeting memorials were read concerning Joseph Rhoads and Jane Gibbons; and in Bucks Quarterly Meeting, one concerning Rachel B. Price. The committee appointed by the yearly meeting to consider the condition of Bucks Quarter recommended in a written report the joining of that Quarterly Meeting with that of Burlington. The meeting approved of laying this recommendation before our next yearly meeting. Bucks Quarter has been reduced to but one monthly meeting, which was the chief ground of this action being taken."

PERSONAL NOTES.

AT a meeting of the Executive Committee of the American Purity Alliance, on the Ist inst., in New York, Aaron M. Powell, President, and Anna Rice Powell, Corresponding Secretary, were appointed to represent the Alliance at the International Congress, to be held in London in Seventh month,— from 12th to 18th inclusive. A private note from A. M. P. to the INTELLIGENCER says: "We both felt, when at Berne, Switzerland, two years ago, that we could never again cross the Atlantic on this mission, but we are strongly appealed to by Josephine Butler, (Honorary President of the International Federation), and others of our English Friends to come once more, and in view of the important and unexpected crisis in our Federation work, in India and in England, which affects our country also, feel that if all is well later, it will be best for us to go." Aaron has reserved passage, conditionally, in a steamer leaving New York Sixth month 4.

The death of Hugh J. Jewett is noted elsewhere as having occurred at Augusta, Ga., on the 6th inst. He was for many years a prominent public man, serving in the State Senate of Ohio, as United States District Attorney, and in Congress. In 1873 he was appointed Receiver of the Erie Railroad, and he gave ten years of labor to that road. He was the grandson of that eminent minister Hugh Judge, and his mother, Susanna Jewett, and aunt, Margaret Brown, were also much esteemed as ministers. Recently he was at the expense of

Laing School Monthly, Second month,

Editors FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER. ALEXANDER HAGOPIAN, the young Armenian who traveled with Prof. J. Rendel Harris as his servant in Asia Minor, has arrived in New York. He brings a letter of recommendation from Prof. Harris, who says: "I have never had a better servant."

Rev. F. D. Greene writes of him in a private letter: He is not only a treasure as a house servant, but a man of very pleasant disposition and large capacity. I am anxious that some good disposition be made of him before he goes through the disheartening and demoralizing process of waiting in New York for something to turn up. Don't you know some rich Friend who would like him as a servant? He has had some experience, both in England and Paris as a butler or house servant, and can get along with either French or English." Address Rev. F. D. Greene, American Bible Society, Box B, Station D., New York City. Dorchester, Mass.

ALICE STONE BLACKWELL.

ADDRESSES WANTED.

Editors FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER :

The address of Benjamin Ellwood Sleeper, a member of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia is desired, also that of Helen Metz, daughter of the late Mary Ann Metz, of Philadelphia. The former was supposed to be in Brooklyn, N. Y., the latter placed with some Friend in New Jersey. Address J. M. Truman, Jr., 1500 Race Street, Philadelphia.

AN OLD MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE.

Editors FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER :

In looking over the Marriage Record Book, belonging to Wilmington Monthly Meeting of Friends, held at Fourth and West streets, I found the original marriage certificate of Job Sinkler and Elizabeth Musgrave, who were married at Darby Meeting, Eleventh month 7, 1771. I have tried to find some rightful owner for it, but so far have failed, and a Friend has suggested that it might be best to insert a notice in the INTELLIGENCER. I can not tell how it came to be in our book. MARGARET R. BRINGHURST, Recorder. 905 Washington St., Wilmington, Del.

THE attempt to raise the opium poppy in California, after several years of experimenting, has been given up as a failure on account of the absence of cheap labor, and because the cold nights were unfavorable.

MARRIAGE, according to Dr. Schwartz, of Berlin, is the most important factor in longevity. Of every 200 persons who reach the age of 40 years 125 are married and 75 unmarried. At 60 years the proportions are 48 to 22; at 70 years, 27 to II, and at 90 years, 9 to 3. Fifty centenarians had all been married. The doctor asserts that the rate of mortality for husbands and wives between the ages of 30 and 45 is 18 per cent., while that for unmarried persons is 28 per cent.

THE weather has been unusually dry this month. No rain since Christmas. Almost a water famine.

So little children's clothing has come to us this winter, we have been obliged to purchase new, something we have never done before.

Peas are up two or three inches.

Asparagus cutting begins next month.

The pupils, generally, are trying to put the best foot forward, but many of them can't tell which foot that is-both are so poorly covered.

The appearance of small pox in the upper part of the State has caused a general "scare," and vaccination has been the order of the day. Teachers and pupils here have fallen into line, and the result has been a one armed corps, for a week or so. With one exception the report has been, “de vaccinate dun took." It was the work of Dr. Lucy Brown, of Charleston, a recent graduate of Philadelphia Medical College, and the first colored woman physician in the State.

Of the ten workers in the Laing School, all are colored except the two Superintendents.

All the girls in the Orphanage are taught to wash and iron, cook, and do chamber work. They take to the first named as naturally as ducks take to water. The three oldest boys are in the cobbling shop.

Maximum temperature of wet bulb thermometer at 8 a.m., 49 on 12th.
Minimum temperature of wet bulb thermometer at 8 a. m., 7 on 2d.
Mean temperature of wet bulb thermometer at 8 a m., 29
Maximum temperature of wet bulb thermometer at 8 p.m., 46 on 11th.
Minimum temperature of wet bulb thermometer at 8 p. m., 13 on 3d.
Me n temperature of wet bulb thermometer at 8 p. m., 32.3.
Mean temperature of wet bulb thermometer for this month, 30.6.

Note. The total snowfall during the month was but one inch ; nine-tenths of which fell on the Ist instant. Very light flurries of snow fell at other times. No snow on the ground on the 15th, nor at the end of the month.

The mean temperature, 36 degrees, was 2 degrees above the normal for the Second month.

The amount of precipitation was less than the average. JOHN COMLY, Observer. Centennial Avenue, Philadelphia, Second month 28.

EDUCATION is needed,” said a local preacher in the west of England, "to enable our rough diamonds to reach their full foliage!''

C. F. HOLDER, in the Scientific American, estimates that in the past ten years 600,000 pounds of opium have been received at the port of San Francisco.

COURAGE.

It is not they that never knew

Weakness or fear who are the brave: Those are the proud, the knightly few Whose joy is still to serve and save. But they who, in the weary night,

Amid the darkness and the stress, Have struggled with disease and blight, With pitiful world-weariness :

They who have yearned to stand among The free and mighty of the earth, Whose sad, aspiring souls are wrung,

With starless hope and hollow mirth—

Who die with every day, yet live

Through merciless, unbrightened years, Whose sweetest right is to forgive

And smile divinely through their tears : They are the noble, they the strong, They are the tried, the trusted ones, And though their way is hard and long— Straight to the pitying God it runs.

-Harper's Weekly.

HAVING COMPANY.

THE letter read: "My dearest Sue,
Next Thursday I will spend with you ;
I won't enjoy my visit, though,
If any trouble I bestow."

"Oh, I'm so glad," cried Mrs. White,
"For company is such delight!''

But looking round her in dismay, "I must get ready right away.

Armed with a dustpan and a broom,
She went to work in every room,

She oiled and polished, cleaned and rubbed,
And mended, scoured, washed and scrubbed.

Then in the kitchen she began,
While perspiration down her ran,
At pies and puddings, cakes, and bread,
Asif an army must be fed.

She toiled and fretted, cooked and baked,
She hurried, worried, stewed, and ached,
When Thursday came, she, nearly dead,
Just managed to crawl out of bed.

And Mrs. Company came, too;
They kissed and hugged like women do,
And then began tired Mrs. White
To make excuses, never right.
"Oh, dear! my house (then waxen clean)
Is 'most too dirty to be seen-

So shut your eyes—you're looking stout—
Take off your things-I'm just worn out.
"You must excuse my cooking, too,
It isn't fit to offer you.

('Twas fit for kings.) Too bad you come
Just when I'm upside down at home.'

And thus she welcomed and distressed
And spoiled the visit of her guest,
Who wished she hadn't come to be
A tired woman's "company."

-Farm and Fireside.

ALL real improvement of missionary methods must be in the direction of less preaching of depravity and more instruction in righteousness. The heathen know a good man when they see him, and judge him with wonderful acuteness.Christian Register.

THE ARMENIAN SUFFERERS.

Letter from Oroomiah, Persia, First month 1, to the English Friends' Relief Committee.

THE condition of these people is, if anything, more pitiable than it was last winter. One great reason is that the people of the country are not as able to help them as they were last winter. The Christian people here have had a hard year, with a very small vintage and unusual expenses for living products. Grain is now up to a high figure, and if it rises much higher very many even of the Moslems, who are now suffering greatly, will be reduced to starvation. But the Christian people are doing more for these poor refugees than they are really able to do. From morning to noon during the baking hours there is a constant stream of beggars at the door, and seldom is a person turned away without receiving a small piece of bread, so that the amount given out in a day is often more than the family itself will eat. Those refugees who are settled in villages by themselves, as have been a large number of families, are cut off from this begging, as it is very hard to get from one village to another. Another distressing circumstance of these people is that very many of them are, or have been, sick, either with chills and fever, or with typhoid fever.

Those we have helped to settle with oxen and seed-wheat have done well and planted conscientiously even when they were in need of food. But they will reap no harvest until next July. A large part of the funds sent since the last report have been used for seed-wheat, and in buying provender for the oxen, so as to bring them through the winter in a condition for spring work. But even yet a large number of these cases remain without having been helped. Through the summer the people were able to support themselves with work and gleaning in the fields, but with their large families they were not able to lay up for the winter. In one village the cruel master seized and put into his own storehouse all that the women had gleaned, and is demanding a tax from them on the plea of their living in his village and drinking his water. But I am glad to say that not many masters are so cruel.

CURRENT EVENTS.

THE prospect of war with Spain has been the one engrossing theme of the week. It is well known to all that the Government, for at least three weeks past, has been "putting the country in a state of defense." Work has been pushed forward on forts and other defenses, war-ships have been prepared for service, and ordered to duty, ammunition has been distributed, and other steps taken. The American fleet in Atlantic waters is practically assembled at Key West, within a few hours of Havana, and part of that in the Pacific is at Hong Kong, from which point it could readily reach the Philippine Islands. The Government, meantime, has not given out any word that would have been an admission that war was expected, but privately officials at Washington have said it was the purpose "not to be caught unprepared."

It has been feared that Spain, knowing her own inability to compete with the United States in long-maintained preparations for war, might strike suddenly, in the hope of doing us great damage in the first collision. There is, however, little doubt that the Spanish Government has wished to avoid a conflict, if possible. On the whole, the present Premier,