Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-09-10
THE PUBLIC sGHooLs-No. N.
BY ]. N. BOYD.

any other profession, would defeat the object of
the plan and be needless expenditure of mon.
/ ey. 1t Would5be just as reasonable to employ
a lawyer to administer to the spiritual or physl-
cal wants OF dying man, as to engage the SER
vices of one, belonging to any other profession,
than that of teaching. The mere graduate of
College, who has no chosen profession, is no
more qualified to ill the station, than he is to
make pills, preach or practice law The Office
must be filled by a practical teacher. 1t is not
sufficient that he may have read the Teachers
Library" and.is able to speculate and =theorize
upon systems of Education with the wisdom Of
Horace Mann or Lord Brougham, but he must
be able to reduce to actual school-roonl practice
the whole science Of teaching. lazy, sickly
or careless teacher selected for this station,
would be heavy tax to the city at fifty dollars
per annum; whilst one who would bring to the
discharge of its duties soul filled with a desire
to elevate the profession of teaching, and burn
ing to promote the great objects of his appoint
nent, would be cheap, economical tax ut any
amount. In making choice of City Superin-
tendent, strict regard should be had to qualiti-
cations, habits of morality, and previous zeal
Gus support of education by public schools. In
Pennsylvania, this system obtains in every
county of the State. The law, there, requires
the person elected to be of LITERARY and scien
! ti1fe requirements. and Of skill and experience
in the art Of teachinQ."
| The system has been in operation about five
| years, and has been foundato work admlrablyin
every county in which practical teacher was
selected to fill the Office, but in few counties
broken down and dilapidated lawyers, doctors
or politicians were chosen, and, as might be
expected, no good was done, either to the
teachers or the schools. We are satisfied that
if the future existence of the office was to come
before the people at their coming election, it
would be sustained and cherished by an over
whelming majority. The special results of
City Superintendency would be:
/. Organized, well attended and efficient in>
stitutes and associations by teachers for mutual
2. Largely increased interest by Trustees in
the duties of their Office.
8. Improvements in school houses and furni-
ture.
4. Great increase in uniformity of text books,
and improvement in classification.
8. More frequent visits to the schools by the
parents
9. Numerous public examinations and exhi.
billions of the schools we'll attended by parents.
and showing noble conviction on the part of
teachers that their duty has been so discharged
as not to fear the public eye.
z. Manifest improvement in the schools and
the Introduction of more liberal course of
study. These are some of the results that have
sprung from the system wherever it has been
fairly tested. Besides the duties of the Office
specified in our first article, should be that of
making an annual report of the condition of the
schools, number of pupils, cost of instruction,
condition OF houses, furniture, apparatus, and
whatever might be important for the public to
know in regard to the public schools. This re.
port should be published in pamphlet form and
furnished to every resident Of the city, free of
cost In this way the people need no longer
go 1t blind" with the Trustees, but they will
De informed of the manner in which their mon.
ey has been expended, and greater interest will
De awakened in education among the masses.
On the forks of Wood River, in Illinois, there
has lived for years past an honest German named
Webber, husband, and father of six children.
Last week, says the Alton Courier of the 25th.
going home to dinner, he was surprised to find
his team hitched to his wagon, the household
furniture loaded, in which was also the wife and
six children. His hired man, also German.
presenting six shooter, deliberately drove off,
since which Weber has had no tldings Of
them. Weber married after strictly bust
ness fashion. Twelve years ago, too much
occupied in business TO court wife, he wrote
to a female friend in ST. Louis whom ne had
known in Germany, to select wife for him.
In n few days his st. Louis friend requested him
to come down on given day and marry the
woman selected. He went to st. Louis, mar
ried her, and returned the same evening. Her
departure was us business like as her marriage.
DENT, of the Morgantown Star, who comes
up here every once and awhile and says all
sorts of complimentary and slanderous things
of the press gang and other we'll meaning peo.
pie, is occasionally the funniest man alive. He
is peculiarly so on a marriage notice. Videzicit.
1 MaAFS1IE .P II wheeling Thursday September
1SueFsOnVlueI Ind, Miss MARY
the former place. "a
Well, Newt, you have gone and went and
took in partner at last, have you? We shall
attend the next State Fair at Louisville, and
will go stauc-ing about to see a sample of your
aonre, well hoopea, ctimetl and heuded We al.
ways did believe that it ddze to mans appear
ance to have good honest and kind partner,
and we know it makes a man feel proud to have
his best samples Of workmanship appreciated
Here, Sam, bring out that cid machine, and
see if it will give US few lines of poetry for
the benefit of our Eve thousand readers.-
Ready go ahead
Newt Is = workman, and thnts very clear,
To surpass all his 7fps. ais he Is ample:
he tries very hard to at up the best scare,
"nten ne mas now done with great deal care,
Ano OF eourse-not ashamed Of his sdNlsLe.
Take that machine away and grease it'll