Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-03-09

retrograding in these respects, 1t is 'i'il'
for agitation and reform.
The school system of Wisconsin l con
slider very successful and thorough. 1t II
living, active agency, and its chief tea'
lures are, county instead of town super
intendents, high standards of qualification
for teachers, public written examinations
and salaries liberal enough to retain gooa
teachers in tie profession, and not starve
them into some other. In this county Of
Oconto, the average of male teachers wa
ges for this year is S73 per month; fe-
male teachers about $35. But this coun-
ty pays higher average salaries than any
other in Wisconsin. Teachers holding
first grade certificates are few, and are
sure of good situations in large graded
schools in thriving towns. People who
pay literally to support schools are not
apt to send in rabble Of evil-minded boys
to break them up. Is it not true, Mr..
Editor, that your schools are SO free, so
cheap, that the ignorant do not appreciate
them? Is not the .sordid calculation that
teachers shall be paid the same penurious
wages as farm hands, or trife worse, the
root of many evils? Another cause may
be found in the fact that many parent
who patronizes country school, arrogates
the right of "having his say" about the
discipline and obedience of scholars
They require the poor teacher to run the
school subject to their meddlng Interior
ence. Many man and woman who fail
most utterly in governing their own two or
three darlings, will endeavor to "turn out"
the teacher who has touse force to govern
fifty. You might as well demand that
your sheriff and officers shall prevent and
punish crime, but shall not lay hands on
the culprit, nor use the handouts or the
jail las to say to a teacher, 'there are
my children; teach them, and be kind to
them, no matter how they treat you; il
you can't get along with them we will turn
you out, and if you punish them we will
try you for an ASSAULT Wherever the
latter sentiments prevail, there schools are
broken up, good boys become rowdies,
leighbors become enemies, teachers of any
worth are driven from the field, some SER
vile incompent fellow perhaps usurps the
,altry situation, and education steadily
declines.
Marinette, though a rough numbering
'lace in the pineries, full of whiskey dens,
md peopled by all sorts of beings, yet it
s not the kind of a place to see eduation
uffer, for a private individuals whims. |
They make large appropriations for schools,
en- months in the year; hire principal
n whom they think they can trust, and
hen do not insult his experience and dis
iplne by telling him just how he must
manage it. The school board give me
written authority to conGno, punish, or
xpel any pupil in my discretion, and their
sord is law. Among the pupils of Mari
ctte there is diversity Of races, and
.ou would find my school an interesting
eld for the study Of ethnology, "Young
america prodominates in numbers; next
ONE the Irish, Germans, Norwegians,
'wedes, English, Holandcrs, Scotch, and
french, in decreasing numbers, besides
me Virginia negro, and seven Chippewa
indian papooses. All departments of the
chool are crowded. 1t is amusing to see
ne class of raw Norwegian from 16 to 26
ears old, intent on their primers among
he infant classes, thus qualifying them
elves with all zeal, for citizenship.
Their fine schoolhousc stands open and
Unlocked, term after term and not a book
5 stolen, not desk or wall marked. The
'oys and men have free access to the
ooms, night and day, but if they enter at
ii at improper hours, they come and 90
ike phantoms, leaving no trace behind
low many large villages can say the like?
t is because good schools have prevailed
ere, the school is popular with all, as the
Aviation of the young, temporarily con-
idered.
This place is at the mouth of Menomi-
zee river, on the other side of which lies
Northern Michigan. 1t cuts more pine
lumber per year than any other place that
can hear of, save Saginaw. The pro-
iuct of last season was 07,000,000 feet
'f lumber, from seven or eight mills.
Would further information on the pin
cries interest any one?
A. w. BARBER.
JUDGE LYNCH IN KENTUcKY.--A hand