enter into the composition of the soil most grateful to such a crop. But I shall never weary if I continue to direct your attention to the glorious field of inquiry which lies all about you.

"Procure a practical work on etiquette; study it carefully. Do not have the simplicity to believe that the more boorish you can appear, the better you will be suited to your business: never did man make a greater mistake. What if the rules of politeness are arbitrary? Which is better? to shun, by an observance of them, sneers which would have pierced the heart of your sensibility, or by disregarding them, to be denied the refined society and improving conversation which, with the science you will master, you might be privileged to enjoy. Because your fathers thought 'twas useless, is not reason enough for you; you must advance-go higher than they have done.

"A small amount of money will suffice to procure the necessary books for a commencement. Begin to-night, and finish-never. But let your enthusiasm be tempered by judgment, for excesses never can be successes.

"After pursuing this course until your mind has become sufficiently disciplined and expanded, leave home for a winter, if your means will admit, and go to some town where there is an institution of learning. You can obtain permission to attend the lectures delivered before the students for a miscellaneous character as you have an opportunity to. Study such sciences as you could not conveniently pursue at home, as natural philosophy and chemistry, which require experiments to be fully understood. Study, intermingling with it outdoor work, till spring. Then return to the farm, not forgetting that your struggle for an education is but begun. In the mean time, do not neglect the gentle graces of home life. Be kind to all; that is a part of your development as a gentleman.

Your training as a farmer must be progressing as rapidly as any other department, for none is more important; if you fail in one you fail in all. Having put your hand to the plow educational, dare not a retrograde glance, but go onward ever.

"And, my young friend, though I ask all this of you, as the price of success, I demand no impossibility. Clouds of despondency will come over your bright sky at times, but as surely they will vanish before the sunshine of an unflinching determination. One thing you must possess, and I believe you do-a great desire for knowledge. It must be to you as food to the hungry, life to the dying. It must be the great, absorbing object of your life: but then success is sure. The discipline will be akin to that enforced by Lycurgus, of Lacedæmon, but it will make a Spartan intellect as truly as did the great lawgiver make Spartan heroes. The struggle will be long, but the victory certain, for 'there is no obstacle to him who wills.

"Remember that ignorance is not 'bliss,' neither is it 'folly to be wise,

"Oh! if our farmers, one and all, with their strong frames, power of endurance and of intellect, would only see this as it is, they would commence with a will, and end with a conquest! They will yet see it. It needs only that the object be presented in a tangible manner, and they will awake, they will act, and far down coming ages shall be felt the influence of the farmers of our land-the hope of our nation."

Reader! you should have seen my brother then; upon his lofty brow, and in his flashing eye, you might have read the magic words, "Eureka Eureka."-Emery's Journal of Agriculture. F. E. W.

GREATNESS.

I WOULD be great! This is the exclamation of the aspiring youth, as he struggles on in the paths of life. Now rising on the wave of popular opinion and success; now descending into the trough of the great sea, carried down by despondency or disappointment, still his anxious expression is, "I would be great!" He looks about him for the elements of greatness; wealth dazzles his eyes with its lustre, and he fancies that with its possession he has attained the acme of happiness and power. He contrasts the life of supposed ease and affluence with one of toil and care, and again he sighs “I would be great!”

In every mind is born this wish for human greatness, and unless broken by too many con licting influences, will cause the human breast to heave at every age of life. But it is not wealth, it is not romance, it is not fancy, which can satisfy a truly aspiring mind. There are yet other elements of greatness more potent in their influence, more easy to be gained.

Mind is so constituted that it must be fed, either with fancies or with facts; fed with the former it becomes a skeleton, but with the latter

strong.

The strong mind grasps not after illusions; and what is wealth but this! The history of our world shows us too many instances of one day in a palace, and the next day in a cave; one day reveling in pomp and pride, and the morrow delving with the serf, for us to place much confidence in the stability of wealth. Yet still the student sighs "I would be great!" "I would win honor to wield it o'er the destinies of man. To such a student let me say, there is no royal road to honor; the way is now open for you as well as for others. The world around you is demonstrating a truth

than which none is more truthful. "Knowledge is power," "knowledge is the promoter of virtue;" "knowledge is the attribute of God;" "knowledge is the path to true greatness."

Student would you still be great? GENEVA, June, 1858.

H. M.

School Intelligence.

WE often receive letters from teachers inquiring for situations, and from school officers inquiring for teachers, and in order to aid both parties in securing what they need, we have concluded to open an Intelligence Department in the columns of the Journal. Short notices, stating qualifications and experience of teachers, will be inserted twice, on the receipt of the sum of fifty cents from a subscriber, or one dollar from a person not a subscriber to the Journal. No charge will be made for the insertion of applications from school officers for teachers.

All letters of inquiry, containing a stamp to pay return postage, will be promptly answered,

A Lady, who has received an academic education, is a graduate of the Connecticut State Normal School, and had several terms experience in teaching, wishes to come West, and desires a situation in a union graded school, as principal of one of the departments, or assistant in the higher department. Address this offi ce; or, Miss ELLEN SPRAGUE, Andover, Connecticut.

A Gentleman who has had several years experience in teaching district and graded schools, wishes a situation as principal. Satisfactory reference given if required. Address this office; or, J. M. FRY, Metomen, Wisconsin.

MATHEMATICAL.-We had intended to open a mathematical department in this Number of the Journal, but are obliged to postpone it another month for want of room; in the meantime, if teachers will bear the matter in mind, and send us such problems as they wish published, they will be thankfully received.

Editorial Miscellany.

VOLUME Three of the Journal commences with the present Number. In presenting it for the consideration of our patrons, we have few pledges to make, and will only promise that it shall be as interesting and as valuable as the means placed at our disposal will enable us to make it. It depends upon the teachers of the State themselves how many improvements shall be made in this volume, and we appeal to them to lose no time in forwarding their subscriptions for another year.

There are many teachers in the receipt of salaries varying from five hundred to a thousand dollars, who do not take an ducational journal, never attend the State Teachers' Association, and seem to have no interest in the cause of education outside of their own school-rooms, and yet they wonder that teaching is not considered as a distinct profession, and its members regarded as public benefactors. Such short sightedness punishes its victims by consigning them to the obscurity which they deserve, leaving their places to be filled by energetic, far-seeing edu. cators, who realize the nobleness of their calling, and the responsibilities under which they labor.

We trust that our subscription list, the ensuing year, will embrace all the live teachers of Wisconsin.

MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE NORMAL SCHOOLS.-We learn from the report of the Secretary, published in the papers, that the Board met at Milwaukee, on the 15th ult., "for the purpose of organizing and perfecting, as far as possible, a system or basis upon which such colleges, academies, and other institutions of learning in the State, as desire to do so, might connect normal instruction with the other departments of learning already taught in such institutions."

They have "provided for a course of studies of two years in a Normal Department, entirely separate and distinct from the College, Academy, or University, with the idea that the instruction should be rather of a demonstrative and analytical or philosophical character, than simply teaching the branches prescribed. In other words, training the minds of the pupils in the best and clearest methods of receiving and imparting the knowledge embraced in the formula of studies prescribed.

"Further provision is made for the employment of a thoroughly competent and efficient agent of the Board to visit the different institutions desiring a participation in the funds at the disposal of the Board, for the purpose of rendering them

such assistance, and giving them such suggestions as may be necessary in the task (which is not altogether without difficulty) of arranging and organizing the Normal Department. Another, and, in the view of the Board, a very important duty of this agent will be to hold and conduct Teachers' Institutes wherever and whenever it may seem advisable, thus giving an impetus to, and keeping up an interest in the great cause of popular education."

At this meeting of the Board there were distributed to the following institutions the amounts designated as their pro rata portion of the Income Fund for the past year, for the pupils instructed by them agreeably to the former regulations of the Board, viz.:

SHEBOYGAN PUBLIC SCHOOL.-We learn from the Sheboygan Journal that the public school of that city is now under the charge of D. G. Fraser, A.M., late of Livingston Co., N.Y., as Principal, assisted by Mrs. L. M. Fraser in the Higher Department; Miss S. M. Warner, as Principal of the Intermediate Department, assisted by Miss Rosetta Pendleton; and Miss Lucy Breed, Teacher in the Second Primary Department.

The Journal states that "The Principal and his immediate assistant come to us with excellent references, and have had many years' experience as teachers in the public schools of Rochester, and the academies and seminaries of Western New York. The former is a graduate of Geneva College, and the latter of the New York State Normal School.

"Miss Warner is a graduate of the Milwaukee Female College, and has had considerable experience as a teacher.

"Miss Breed and Miss Pendleton have heretofore taught in this school, and are known to our citizens."

MEETING OF THE STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.-Our readers will notice the programme of proceedings on the cover of this Number of the Journal. It is not complete as yet, but will be perfected by our next issue, which will be sent out in time to reach subscribers some days before the meeting of the Association, We urge all who can possibly leave home to attend the meeting. Important business, in which every teacher and friend of education in the State ought to feel interested, will be brought before the Association, and an opportunity given to all present to co-operate in the great work of elevating the teacher's profession, and establishing it upon a better and broader basis.