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THE laws of Tennesse require each county superintendent of public schools to set apart one day in the year as "Arbor Day," which schools may devote planting trees and otherwise beautifying their school grounds. We have heard of but one Superintendent setting apart such day-although many may havǝ dono so. Superintendent Huffaker, of Hamliton county, always abreast of the times, has named November 12. HERE is another good thing from that energetic and sensible organizer, H. D. Huffakar, editor of the Southern Teacher: A teacher (school-keeper) who would attempt to occupy the golden moments without reading one or more good educational journals regularly, so as to be well posted on the best methods of discipline and instruction, is not worthy of the name. Post up or drop out of the profession, and let a more progressive teacher take your place. as to THE article on "Southern Dialect" is taken from the Jour nal of Education, not because it is altogether correct statement, but because it may be of value to some reader on account of suggestions. The northern writer about the peculiarities of Southern dialect usually forgets that Northern dialect sounds as "peculiar" to Southern ears as Southern dialect does to Northern ears. This writer remembers hearing a well educated Illinoian ridicule the Southerner for saying a "right smart piece," and within ten minutes tell an inquiring stranger that "it is quite away" to a certain village. The fact is, that for reckless extravagance in the use of mixed dialects there is no people in this country equal to the inhabitants of the north western part of the United States. "A Little Rebel" puts these pointed questions to the New York School Journal: "What do you think of teachers' meetings? Are they profitable? Who should conduct them? Ought teachers to be obliged to attend?" And the replies are no less pointed and sensible: "Teachers' meetings are sometimes the cause of no little friction. They are quite apt to degenerate into mere routine. A mechanical meeting is the source of little else than irritation. If it is not profitable, it has no excuse for existing, and should be abandoned. There is no law regulating the conduct of them. The condutor should always be the man or woman who can get the most out of them, who can make them most interesting and profitable. As to whether teachers should be obliged to attend depends upon circumstances. If the good teachers do not wish to attend, I should say that none should be obliged to attend, but if the best four-fifths attend because it pays them, and the indifferent fourth wish to "cut" for |