The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-03-25
NUMBER 33.

ing much like 1.-The dear one of mT heart
was wont to write many years ago. He
hurriedly breaks the seal; and. q smile
brightens his serene countenance. We
glance over his shoulder and get a fac
sin,ile of the missipe
'BoB's CRICK SCHULZ DISTRICT. Y
March the second 18
hundred and 691
Married on yesterday week Miss Su-
san Jane DINGHY for many years schule
Teacher in this district To BENJAMIN
franklin swope Who just finished the
shumaker trade, By reverend jeremiah
Lowdenflicker
''Oh Susan Jane wen miss you rnutch
At Institute next yeer
You used TO talk sich bully Dutch
Yurs married o aint it qaeerP
"Pleas correct and publish
"Yures,
"AMANDA ANN Brown,
"Schule teacher"
And this is school teacher in the
nineteenth century. Return, oh happy
day. when such men as r. A Mccoy, r.
l.. Johnston, John Thomas, Ed Evans
and such women as Mrs Lands, the
Misses Nesbit, and many others, graced
the profession With the few good
teachers in the profession, public educa-
tion may be said to be looking upward
But if the present state Of affair contin-
ues, In few years we might as well turn
our school-houses into bathrooms, or better
yet, dispose of them to the highest bidder
and apply the proceeds toward the liaui-
dation of the National debt.
Many imagine that teachers institutes
are destined to work wonders in the az
vancement of our schools. Not so. I re-
gard them as a frst-class humbug. A
majority of the teachers attend them mere
ly for pleasure, business, or recreation, and
to indulge in little Irritation. An ora
tion or lecture delivered by such men as
Singleton, Burtt, Kerr, and Dick would
be equivalent to casting pearls before
swine" simply because many of the teach
ers could not comprehend the beauties of
an exordium or the sublimity of perora-
ton. Teachers institutes are about as
advantageous TO the ''knights of the birch"
as the ice in the vicinity of Alaska is to
the citizens of New York, or a prayer
meeting in the dance-house of the wick
edest Man" to the "Wickedest Man" him
self
Before close this imperfect yet truth
full account, would urge upon the author
ities-that-be the necessity of remodeling
our common school system. Look, for
instance, at despotic Prussia Of all the
nations of Europe, she was reduced to the
greatest extremity by the wars of Napole-
on. The system of confscation went SO
far that even the revenue from the endow-
ment of schools and poor-houses, and she
fund for widows and orphans, were diver
ted into the treasury of France. Foreign
loans were made to meet the exorbitant
claims of the conqueror. An army must
be created, ruined fortifcations in every
quarter repaired, and so great was the
public extremity that the Prussian ladies.
| with noble generosity, sent their ornaments
and jewels to supply the royal treasury
Kings crosses and other ornaments, of
cast iron, were given in return to all who
made this sacrifice. They bore the inscrip-
tion-''Ich CAB geLt uns etScn" & gave gold
for iron) Such Jewels are much treasured
at this day by their possessors and fami-
lies. This state of things lasted till after
the War of Liberation, in 1913. But it
is the pride of Prussia that IN the days of
her greatest humiliation and distress she
never for a moment lost sight of the great
work she had begun in the Improvement
of her schools If under such eircumstan-
ces the people of monarehieal govern
ment sustained their schools and sent forth
learned and experienced teachers, how
much more should WEI the citizens of a
free and enlightened republic, accomplish
Something must be done, OF the system
will go down and become relic of the
past.
In conclusion, I would say that this ar
ticle is not aimed at the teachers in gener-
al, but at certain class who infest the
country schools, whose forte, as the lamen-
ted Ward would say, is not ''teaching
schulz" MACBETH.