5o8 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



non-partisan and largely professional, were in control throngliout 

 our first year. But the rebels were enfranchised, and reaction at 

 once set in. The State Board was abolished, and a local board 

 created, by its very constitution hostile to ideas. 



Naturally, personal and sectarian interests would find expres- 

 sion. Members of the local board could see no reason for holding 

 the office, when their functions were restricted to paying over 

 money into the hands of Yankees, to be largely spent in the East 

 during vacation. 



Of the special infl.uences that finally brought our experiments 

 to a close it is unnecessary to speak in detail. Suffice it to say 

 that our chief opponent stood before the people as a representative 

 of wealth, and as the most prominent supporter of all religious 

 enterprises. But below the sanctimonious exterior were the preda- 

 tory instincts of the barbarian. His betrayal of trusts, his flight 

 from outraged justice, his disappearance in the wilds of the Far 

 West, his discovery at a lonely wayside inn, on a road leading to 

 a mining-camp, prostrated by illness, without help, and hunted to 

 the grave by detectives, afford a spectacle so gloomy that even 

 retributive justice is shocked at the recital. 



Recent experiments, introducing as we did the constructive arts 

 as a means of expression, have again demonstrated their educa- 

 tional value ; and I am persuaded that some time in the future the 

 scientific method, with its freedom from arbitrary restraints, its 

 ethical aims and accomplishment, will in its completeness take 

 control of our leading educational institutions. 



UNDERGROUND WATERS IN ROCK TRANSFOR- 

 MATIONS. 



By Peof. G. a. DAUBEEE. 



EVIDENTLY different actions from those which engendered 

 the metalliferous deposits have propagated themselves 

 through considerable masses, and have impressed a peculiar stamp 

 upon them. The rocks that have been marked by such actions 

 exhibit at once the characteristics of the sedimentary rocks and 

 some of those of the eruptive rocks. While retaining the strati- 

 fied disposition which they owe to their sedimentary origin, they 

 are often studded with crystalline and anhydrous silicates, which 

 they would not have contained if they had continued in their nor- 

 mal state. These rocks, of a somewhat mixed nature, are called 

 metamorphic, a term given in allusion to the changes which they 

 have undergone since they were deposited, and to which they owe 

 their present appearance. 



