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ABISE 18'EBRY .C,FIA,AR 0 18 T WI E EW SCHOOL RULES ME VERY IMPORTANT Es ADOP' t6 310ardt-Regulatione Which ,meted to Increaso the Facilities 4.KrUs*fulness of the Public school System-Of Interest to Patrons and Teachers. The State Board of Education Co. W ted its work yesterday .and djourned. 'The Board adopted some rules for the conduct of the public schools in the State which are very important and, in some respects, de partures from previous regulations. Those were adopted after much dis cussion, it being the desire of the Board to make the schools up-to-date as far as possible. Among some of the more impor tant regulations arc the following: Requiring examinations to be held in every County three times E in February, June andSop bo. Cortificates for firs$f nd second grades only will bo if'sued, but this dos not an third grade certifi cates nowin mexistence. No to shall be kin by consan gumity~ or aflinity within tho second dogf~ to a member of the Board or rL 0c pal of a school shall be em ployed. Certificates in one County shall be good in another if it is properly rg istored. Only school supplies aithorized by the State Board shall be purchased for use in public schools. Tho complete text of the now rules follow and must provo of interest to patrons and teachers alike: The Stato Board of Education shall be governed by the following rules, except when a rule is suspend ed by a two-third vote of the Board: Soection 1. The Governor shall be chairman and tho State suporintend ont of Education socrotary of the Board. Soc. 2. The Board shall meet in January, May and Septonbor of each year and at such other times as the chairman may dosignate. Sec. 3. The secretary shall keep a record of the actions of the Board in a book provided for that purpose. Soc. 4. Tho order of-'business shall be. as follows: Calling to order, rmading of minutes of the previous meeting, uafinishod business, reports of committoos, report of the chair man, r6p rt of tne secrotary and new., btusiness.. Sec. . Il1 resolutions shall be "-WRp L thyriting by the mover, and likewise all amendments. Sec. 0. A motion must receive a second before it shall be entitled to considleration by the Board. Sec. 7. The chairman and secre tary are authorized to fill all vacan cies that may occur in the County Boards of Education and to report their action to the Board at its next meeting for its consideration. Soc. 8. Should a vacancy occur in the oflice of County Superinten dont of Education the other two mnemrbers of the County Board shall perform the duties of the office until tihe vacancy is filled by this Board and the chairman and secretary shall so instruct them.. Soc. 9. All vacancies in the of ficoo f County Superintendent of Ed -ucuition shall be filleil by ballot, and a ty'o third voto of the members pres ent didlof, necessary to fill the va cani . 10. A n applicant for a teach ~r~ato crtificato shall stand a sat ispotory examination before this Board at a regular meeting of the Board, or, upon special order of the. chairman' of the Board, the State Superintendent of Education shall held such examination and report the samne to the Board at its next meeting, for its consideration, or pre sent a full diploma from some col lege or university of standing satis factory to tho*lonrd. in all cases applicants shall fu nish satisfactory , ey'idonce of good 'character. Tno certificate shall be signed b)y the chairman and secre tary of the Board, under the seal 'of 010 flice of the State Supor,inten dent of E k1cation, continue of force -.for two years, entitle the holder to -each jin Vlie public Schools of any t 9 in in the State upon the regis- I tration of the certificate in the oflice of the County Superintendent of Ed-i ucation of the County, and may be t renewed at the discretion of this ( Board. A state certificate shall not be issued to any person under ,20 1 years of age. Sec. 11. All scholarships in State institutions shall be awarded a com petitive examination held by or un dor the discretion of the Stato Sup erintendent of Education. Note: The manner of awarding thos( schol'ir;hips, together with rules to govern them, was not decid ed on, further consideration being postponed pntil the next moo ing in May. CoeTY BOAnDS OF EDUCATION. SpJ. 12. The County Board of INication of each county shall meet on the third Saturday in February, June and September of each year for the purpose of examining applicants 1 for a teachers' County certificato of qualification, and the transaction of all other businoss that may como bo- I fore it; ample public notice shall be given'of the time and place of all such meetings. COUNTY EXAMINATIONs. Sec. 13. Every applicant for a County cortificate shall stand a satis factory written examination before a County Board of Education, on uni form questions prepared and furnish ed by the State Board, the oxamina tion to bo.hold in all the Counties on the samo day, or ho or she shall pro sent to the County Board a full di ploma from some reputable charter ed colle.-e or university of this State, known to be of good standing. No certificate shall be issued on a diplo ma showing that the holdor has com 'pleted the course of only somo par ticular department of a school; the diploma must show that the full col gj,gourse has been completed. -Sec. 14. Only one grade of exam-I ination questions shall be prepared and furnished for the County exam inations. Sec. 15. Thore shall be but two grades of teachers' County cortifi cates-first grado and second grade -this not to affect third grado cor tiicates niow outstanding. Sec. 10. To obtain a first grade certificate an applicant must make a general average of not loss than 75 per cent. on the questions submitted, and not less than 60 por cent. on any branch; and to win a second grade certificate the applicant must make a general average of not less than 70 per cent., and niob less than 50 per cent, on any one branch, algebra be. ing excluded in marking for a second grade. Sec. 17. No person shall be per mitted to take an examination who is not at least 18 years of ago, and be fore taking an examination each ap plicant shall satisfactorily pass such oral tests in reading and language as the B3oard may impose. Sec. 18. A certificate shall not be renewed by the board issuing it. Provided, That if .a teachers' insti tute is held in the County, a first grade certificate shall not be renewed unless the holder attends the insti tute, and provided, further, That if the holder of a second grade certifi cate attends the institute a second grade certificate may be renewed. Scc. 19. The Counity Board shall issue to each applicant making the required e ocetg a certificate, signed by each member of the board and under the seal of the office of theo County Superintendent of Educ'ation of the County and showing on its face the percentage made on each b)ranch and the general average. The certificate shall run for two years from its date and the holder shall be doeemed comp6tent to te'ach in t.he public schools .of the County. See. 20. No certificate of qualifi cation shall be granted by any Coun ty Board undfor any circumstances to any person who is under 18 years of age.* Sec. 21. The ('ounty B3oard of one County may recognizo a certifi cate issued by a County Board of another County, but in such case hoy shall register the name of the ioldor, County from whici issued, lato and number of the certificato, ind when so registered it shall have he same force as if issued in that Jounty. Sec. 22. Each County Board shall coop a registor in which shall bo ro orded the namo, age, sox, color and )ostoflice of each person to whom a ortificato is granted, and also the late and gi lo of the certificato. TRUSTEES. Soo. 23. Every claim or warrant ssued by a board of trustees shall be igned by at least two momiers of he Board and should not bb approv id by the County Superintendent of Pducation until the clerk of the )oard of trustoos has entered it upon book kept for that purposo. Sec. 24. No teacher shall be om )loyed by a board of trustees who is Vlated by consanguinity or affinity vithin the second degroo to a mem >or of the board or to a principal of school, nor shall they employ a eachor holding a certificato issued >y a board of another County until he certificate has boon duly regis ered in the oflico of the County Sti >eriutendent of their own County. Sec. 25. That no school supplies ball be purchased by school officors or use in the public schools of any Jounty in the State except such as iro authorized by the State Board to >e sold. The vendors of all such upplies authorized to be sold by his Board shall enter into a written ontract with this Board, in which he prices of the supplies shall be tated and copies of the supplies hall be placed in the office of the )tate Superintendent of Education And the supplies sold to the schools hall at all times conform to the sam >los, and the pricos shall not exceed he pricos agreed on. Tho County Boards may allow or lisallow such supplies, or any of hem, to bo sold in their Counties. ,n case they permit the samo to be old they shall give the vendor a vritton permission to offor the 3ame o the trustees of their Counties, the )ricos of the supplies to be named in he written permission, leaving the )urcha,io, or not, of such supplies to he good judgment of the boards of rusteods. In case the trusstees pur haso any of such supplies they may ,ive a warrant against the school und of their district in payment herefor, but in no case shall the ,ounty Superintendent of Education ~ountersign or endorse any such war 'ant until the supp)lies have been de ivored; the County Superintendent ihall hold all such warrants in his ossession until the delivery of the mnpplies is made. All persons pur shasing any such wvarrant before the ame has been countersigned by the Jou nty Supermntendent of Education lo so at their own risk. Longest in tihe iovenment Employ. [Chicago Record.] The oldest official in the employ of he government is William Plume gioran, who has spent the Biblical dlotmoent of life's span, three score rears and ton, in the service of the foverniment. Mr. Moran wvas born n Norfolk on Janua~ry 20, 1811. He a therefore 80 years old. When not ret 10 years old, on January 1, 1827, 10 was apploin ted clerk to the captain >f the port of Norfolk, and from that late to thuis he has served under the mny department, a period of more hat seventy years. lie has occu ied a desk in the bureau of naviga ion since October 28, 1834, and has ind a personal acqluaintance with ov ry officer in the United States navy mince that time. Cuire's to) stay Ouremd. Thousands of voluntary certifloates r'eceived (during thme past fIfteen years, ,!erl ify with no uncertimin sound, that Botanic blood Balm, (11. B. B ) wvill mure to stay 'cured, Rhetmatisnm, Ca arrh, Ulcers, SoreF, Blotches, and the nest malignant blood and akin dis ~ases, Botanic Blood Balm Is the re uiut of forty years' ex perience of an end enut scientific andI conscientom a phy mician. Sendl stamp for book of won lerful dures, andl learn which Ia the >esl, remedy. Beware of substitutes iaid to be "Just as geood," and buy th ong-testedi and old reliable, Botanic B~loo~d Balm, (B. B. B.) Price only d (0 per large bottle. For sale by Irnggtata. Address mleed Balm Co. Accept congratulations upon your magnificont victory. Tho elections n Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit and ther cities indicato a decided change in public sentimont since Novembor. "W. J. Bryan." Mr. Bryan will probably loavo the dity for the South to-morrow. To iight he received a telogram invit ing him to speak before the Florida Legislaturo next Friday. At mid :ight he said he could not say posi ively if he could accept it, but would may by to-miorrow. DEMROCRATIC 01110. I-naoranous Gains In That, Stato Canton Doemocrativ. Chicago, April 6.--A special to ,he Record from Cincinnati says: 'ho rosult, of the municipal elections n Ohio yostorday shows Democratio yains. The large cities which gave IrcKinuley such onormous pluralities 1Ast November have gone Democrat ic. UcKinley had only 50,000 in the stato and all of this plurality camo rom the cities which to-day went Democratic. Ontsidoof thoso citios, he Stato was carried by Bryan last Zovembor on the silver issue and he friends of John 11. McLean, who s the Domocratic candidato for Son itor, have made much comment on his fact. They claim that Mclon. vill carry the Logislaturo and possi )ly the State ticket next November )n the free silvor issue. In Cinci[nati, the home of Sona or Foraker, a Ropublican plurality ast year of 20,000 is displaced by a Domocratic plurality of over 7,000. [n Clevoland, the home of Sonator Imanna, tho Democrats made large ,ains, and oven the home of Presi lont McKinley at Canton, went Democratic. The homo of (over or Bushnell at ,pringfiold is strong y Republican, and that city elected i Democratic mayor by over 400. While the result in Ohio is duo argely to the opposition to Goo. 13. Jox, who had becomo offonsivo as a )oss the result in the State gonorally a accredited to dissatisfactions. Thoro are many wbo are sufforing n business and many more who are )Ut of work, who expected rolief irst month 'under the now adminis ,ration and some express the opinion hat the free silver sentiment, is rowing among thoso people. The Domocratic gains were gencral. L'horo was no special legislation of ,he last Republican logislativo on ivhich any issues were mado. Tho nan who headed the Doemocratic ,icket, Gustav Tafel, was formerly a llopublican, but become a free silver Democrat three or four years ago. lie secured the vote of both gold Doemocrats a nd gold Republicans, eocause he represented the anti-Cox tentiment in this city. It is statedl ay the Republicans that they have dlways lost the mnuncipal election ifter the inauguration of ,t Republi man presidlent. At IIamilton, the mntiro Democratic ticket is elected while CIhas. S. Bosch for ma yor seures a majority of 1 ,400. At Zanesville the D)emocrats timp)ly swept the city electing their mntiro city ticket. At Springfield, the Deomocrats marriedl the home of'Governor, Buch - nell, electing Johnm M. Good ma yor. At Akron, the contest for mayor ndicates the election of Young Dem.) At F'ostoria for the first time in 20 years the Democrats elected a mnayor. One of the hottest piolitical battles that has ever been fought in (Clove land ended yesterday wvith the election of all the candidatos on the Roplublicon city ticket. A Sinall (Oyic. [Indianapolis Journaal.] "'FaithI,"' saidl the little boy a fter r week's study, "faith is boelieving somuething that you know can't be true." Why will yth huly bitterI nlauscatingI tonilcs when (iROIVF:s'S'jT:LIss(ellig, i'ONIC is as pleasant as5 ~(LI1Ot Nyrh)) YiourP druggIst is authorIized to refund5( Lliheloey in every case where it falls to euroe. Prilco 501 cents. f. 1 y,. THE TIDE TURNING DEMOORATS VICTOIOUS IN MUNICI PA-L ELECTIONS. Carter Ilarrisoet Wis Elected Mayor of Chinago by a vote of Nearly Two to One-Vanton (ioes Dieocratle. Chicago, April 9.-With the ma gic of his famous fathor's name, aidod by the independent split in the regular Republican ranks and the flocking of the diicontented laboring class to the standard of silver Demo cracy, Carter Henry Harrison was elected mayor of Chicago today and a great Democratic triumph was re corded. The 50,000 plurality of McKinley over Bryan was turned into a Democratic plurality of about 75,000 ovor Judge Nathaniel C. Sears, the machine Republican con didato for mayor. The almost com ploto mayoralty returns show that Harrison polled a plurality of about 75,000 over the next best man, Al dorman John M. Harlan, a Republi can who ran on the citizens ticket by himself. The figures also indicate that the next mayor polled a small majority over thti three ether prin cipal candidatos, Sears, Harlan and Hosing, the ex-postmastcr and (Or man editor, whose ticket was callcd business administration of mun cipal affairs. He is a gold Democrat, but his boasted strength among the independent mon of both parties dwindled to about 10,000 total vote. Harrison's total vote is about 140,000, which is loss than 5,000 under the vote polled by Win. J. Bryan. The total Republican vote is about 57,000 whilo McKinley polled 200,747 votes in November. The rest of the city ticket, attorney, treasurer and clerk, all the town tickets and a lirgo majority of the common council have gone Demo cratic on the tidal wave with the possible exception of the Hyde town ticket. Harrison or Harlan carried every ward in the city and the Re publican machine was repudiated everywhero. There is really nothing left for the Republican party to con solo itself with, except a few alder men whose records were good and who happened to live in wards that are usually Republican. The argu mont of the Republicans that if Hos ing and Harlan, the two Indopon dents, had withdrawn, Judge Sears would have won, does not hold good when it is shown that Harrison has a clear majority over all three. The other city tickets in the field cut no figure at all. There wazs a joyful demonstration of Democrats on the streets when the result became assured and thous ands gathedc in front of newvspaper otlices to cheer as the news was dis played. There were impromptu pa rades, fireworks and much cannonmad ing of the atmosphere. Carter Harrison said1 of the result: "It has been a victory of a uniLide and not a divided Democracy. Gold as wvell as silver men cast their bal lots for me and registered n. proteat against Republican misrule. T1hme workingmen were with me." The late returns indicate that the Democrats will have 30 aldermen out of 08 in the council. Twenty eight of the Doemocratic candidates are probably elected out of 34 and with the 11 )Democratic hold-over aldermen will give that party a ma jority in the legislative b)ody. BRYAN ELATICD. Coingratua,tes Mr. Ilarrison, on illa sowvep Ing victory. Washington, Apr-il (.--Great in terest was manifested here to-night in the Chicago election, and crowds congregated aboumt thle newspaper offices to recoivo thme news. Demo crat8 were all vely much elated. Mr. Bryan wans one of the most clated. Mr. Bryan wa-s one of the miost interested in the returns, and spent an hour in the Southern Asso ciated Pross ofico readling the Chii cago returns. Expressive of his viewvs, his telegram to Mr. Harrison to-night puts them succinctly. It reads: "Hon. Carter Harrison, Chicago: THE PENSION BOARDS IUlLES FOl TI111IR (UII)ANCE ISSUE. The Orgainivato itd All Work for the Variolm 11011r4114 IPolotod1 Out-TI1o State Hotird lute'rprtets tho Larw Im I v''llly 1111 ell. The following rules for the guid ance of towhship and county boards of ponsioni havo just boon issued by tho Stato Board: The pension boards organized in 1896 will at onco call together tho soldior3 and sailors rosident in each township in their respective coun tios, fixing the timo and place for such moting in each township. Thoso soldiers and sailors, when assomb1d , elect onoof their numbers chairmanii and another socrotary. Ton days after this township organi zation the chairman of these town ship boards moot at tho county sont, and elect four of their number and one physician as a county oxamining board of ponsions. Ponsionors now applicants for ponsion.s cannot bo olected i ionmbor of township ponsion boards. Whon old sohliers cannot bo found in the townships, reputablo residont, citizons may be olectod. If any township Shall fail or refuse to organizo as re (uired by this Act, then the county boards 1hould rocommend th roe good mon, not ponsioners, to the Stato Pension, Board, who will ap point such townfihi) boards. All pensioners resident in the townsihips must appotir in porson be foro the township boards. Thoso already oil the ponsion roll nlood not proparo and file now applications. All now applicants niust be prosented to and havo the approval or disap proval of the township hoards and county boards beforo the Sttto Board can approvo. Township boards can d(10ro) from the roll of )Olsioners, atS no%w constituted, the naio or namos of any party or parties which in their judgmont aro not 0entitl0d to a pension.1 under the laws, and add to the roll only such nam111les of nlow applicants 11 may filo such applications, with proof of sorvico thoroon, as indicatod by the blank forms proparod by the State Board. Applications dofectivo or not filled up correctly in each particular, al though approved by township and county boards, will bo disapproved by the Stato Board. Applications approvod or disap provod by the Stato Board cannot be returned to tihe county or township boards after money has beon prorated and(1 paid out. Towvnship and1( county boards w~ill niotico that the law pro vides throe classos, "A,'' "B" and C0," (with five sub-divisions, of Class "0,") as5 follows: Class A.--Thoso wvho have lost bo0th aIrmns, or b,oth hands1,' or both legs, or bo0th eyes, or whose absolute disab)ility arising from wounds are elquivallent to the loss of either. This (100s not include soldiers whose disabilities arise from discases or caunses arisinig sinco t ho war. Class B.- 11h080 who have lost one0 arm or one log, or whloso dis abilities fro.u wvoiunds are eq1uivalIoIt to thle loss. of an arm or leg. diors anld sailors disabled b)y wounds, but not suflicient to he p)laced in (lass B, wh'loso inicomes do not oxceed $250. Class C.- -(No. 2.)- Those who hlav( reached the age of sixty years anid wvhoso inIcomes (1o not exceed $100. (lass C.-(No. 3.) --Widows of thlose who11 lost their lives in the sor vico of thie State or Confodloratos, States and whose incomles (10 not ox ceedl $250. (lass C.--(No. 4.) Widows abhovo the age of sixty yours, whose income does nlot exceed $100. Class (1. - (No. 5.) -Widows of pensioners. This class is not mfonl tioned inl thle prinitod Act sent out, but by3 the act approved D Iecoma be - 18014. Blanks for the reports of town 81hi1 and1( county boards in accord with~ thoe classes0 and1( sub-divisions have beon prepahredl and mailed to Auditorr. to distribute among these boards. Class A gets $0 per month or $72, and will be paid in full this amount; Class B, $4 per month or $48; and Class C, with each of its sub-divisions, $3 por month or $80. After class A is paid, the balance will be pro rated between B and 0 on the basis of $4 to $3. This money will be sent to the clerks of Courts as horetoforo provided in the appro priation Acts each year, and will be sent just as soon as the roll for the State can be correcttd and com pleted. Township boards cannot be too careful in these matters of "income" and physical condition." It is a very poor man whose gross income from labor and other sourcen, does not exceed $100, or poor lands, if any, which does not produce this amount. Proporty in applicant's or his wifo's name debar3 them. Where sol(lors or widows dispose of their property by giving or solling to their childron, they are debarred from receiving a pension The question of service to the State in connection with the various classos of reserve carried into the sorvico of the State just at the close of the war, will depend much upon the evidence submitted to the Stato Board. When real service was ronderod, the pension should be allowed. Any citizen of the State over sixty years of age, and other wiso qualified, is as much entitled to a pension as that class of her good citizens who merely met and organized on call, without real ser vice. Lot township and county boards act promptly and fairly, giving the Stato Board fuill information with complote reports by township for each county writing names full and clear, with particulars for approving or disapproving each case. Town ship boards must first approve or disapprovo, in writing, each new application, and then county boards and afterwards the State Board. When old boards (1890) have acted under laws then of force and approved or disapproved applications for pensions, lot such applications be sont to township boards, then to county boards to be approved or dis approved under the Act of 1897 amending former Acts. Respectfully, D. H. Tompkins, Secretary of State. V. A. Barber, Attorney General. James Norton, Oom ptroller General. State Board of Pensioners. TH E OFFICERs DIVIDBD. Res~ult of the EIectionz at IrIgeport, Conn. Bridgeport, Conn., April O-In the municipal election here yester day the offices were dlivided between the Republicans and the silver Denm ocrats. The gold men had a ticket in the field, but their candidate for mayor polled only 883 votes and their fight for town clerk only split the Democratic strength and enabled Itohert Webstor, the silver candid. ate, to walk into the position. Thos. P. Taylor, the Republican candidate for mayor, was elected ov er Frank WV. Boeers, silver Democrat, by a majority of 1,107; Frederick C. Mullins, silver Democrat, defeated Edward Challenger (Rep.) for city clerk by 300. Jno. S. Griffith (Rep.) was elected city treasurer; James HI. MsElroy (Rep.) was electd tax col lector, Mt. Louiu RepAublican,. St. Louis, April 6.-After a cam paign of three weeks, during which every trick known to municipal poli tics was worked., the city election took p)laco here today with little ex citomont. The (culiro Republican ticket, headed by Zeigenhein for mayor, was elected by. majorities ranging from 3,800) to 18,000 in a to tal vote of about 80,000. 'The mlunricipal assembly will be about evenly divided. Opposed to Reigenhomii for mayor wp~re Harrison, regular Denmocr at, and Meriweather, bolting D)emocrat. The campaign was purely personal and settles noth ing as to the strength of the two nar ties in St. Louis.