ool funds has been discouraged,
and directors encouraged to expend the money for things
which will permanently benefit the schools. So much for
finance.

II. _Legal Duties._--Rightly to discharge the duties imposed
by specification 7, the county superintendent needs to be a
very good lawyer, for school law in its ramifications
reaches many other departments of law. Especially is it
inextricably mixed up with election laws, and all know that
cases arising under election laws are among the most complex
and difficult to handle. Probably a school election never
occurrs in which some such cases are not referred to the
county superintendent. In the settlement of these and other
cases arising under school law, these women have been
peculiarly successful, and some of them have earned the
blessing bestowed upon the peacemakers. We know of one
county where, after last spring's election, five contested
cases were referred to the superintendent for settlement;
these were all satisfactorily adjusted by her. During her
four years' administration, scores of controversies were
referred to her, and there has never been a single appeal
from her decisions. Another most complicated case involving
a defaulting treasurer, was conducted entirely by the county
superintendent until it became necessary to employ a lawyer
to argue the case in court. What she had done was then
submitted to one of the leading lawyers of the State, and he
sanctioned and approved each step. Numerous other instances
might be cited to show that woman has not failed in the
legal part of her work as superintendent of schools.

III. _Her Work with Teachers and Schools._--Here our
superintendents were perfectly at home. Each of the ten had
taught successfully for years, and so knew the wants of the
school-room. This knowledge was invaluable, both in the
examination of teachers and in the supervision of schools.
Fears were expressed lest in the examination of candidates,
womanly sympathy would lead them to grant certificates to
needy applicants who were not altogether qualified. But the
motherliness which is