Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-03-04
Interesting Letter from Traveller.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. end, 1873.

PHILADELPHIA, rep. Zznd, 1910.
Editor Spectator:
After a travel Of over 1000
miles, [ reached this place last evening. L
reached this place last evening. l have spent
much time in looking into the system OF teach
ing. I have visited some Of the best schools in
New York and Pennsylvania. | find much in
the system OF teaching upon which we may i'm
prove with great profit, especially in the prIma-
~ departments Of our instruction. The educa-
ton Of the two sexes in the same school is fast
becoming universal e works well here. Why
not with US? The more | see Of it, the more
am convinced that it is the idea. The trou-
bic with US, is that we have not vel learned the
secret of controlling such schools learned
much in this department.
One trouble IN our primary schools is the
want OF proper textbooks. Upon the subject
Of grammar, [ would call attention OF all teach
ers, and county superintendents, to Hart First
| Lessons in Composition, published by Edredge
| & Bro, Philadel phia. Ii meets long felt
want. No teacher should be without il.
Their advertisement viii be found in the
| Spectator.
We have used it this session in our school
and are mQre than pleased with the result:
shall Sc here q lev days and leave for VIII
mingtoD, DalaWare-thence for Baltimore,
whore our Conference meets 9Th of March.
NoutA Say III COuClUSlO0, 5uaO tite prospects
| OF Oakland, in whose interest | an travel
iug-is bright, have completed arrangements
| BY which the heavy burden Of debt will be re-
leved by lst Of May-s0rry it will be SO long,
| but better then than not at all. Its friends may
| quiet their fears. Irs enemies will have to do
their best bsfore that time or they will have to
experience terrible discontinue.
On this side Of the Potomac, where they
have had the advantages Of good schools, they
regard education as the means Of national life
and an educated man as the property of the
whole country. Here you find schools Of high
grade as numerous as our primary schools, and
all we'll attended.
| In Binghamptop. n. Y, I visited schools,
| High schoois.) The attendance was from
200 to 500 in each did not learn how many
primary schools The town has Ii, 600 inhabi-
itepts-l. 500 Of these in High schools, which is
10 per cent Of the whole population How
does this compare with Virginia No wonder
| they are prosperous. ! ehould Ike for the
| friends Of education to examine these figures
and enlarge upon them. More anon,
". r MCNDER
we have here dog story which beats any
| thing Of the hind recently at least related. In
| Cllaton, Mass., dog was in the habit Of help
| ing himself from pail Of ''odds and ends be-
longing to neighbor. Oae day he unset the
pail aud It Tell 30 pieces, upon which the sagao-
icus creature went home and brought back g
sound pail which he substituted foT the broken
| one, transferring tie copse1ts from the old tC
new, after which be lid the slaves of the bro
| ken vessel w have heard Of ''sly dogs be-
fore, b1t Was there eyer dog so sly IS this?
4 political crater, speaking Of q certain gen
eral whom ho admired, said be Was always on
| tbs faid Of battle, where the bullets were the
| thlckest. ~ hsr9 was that? ~ asked an audi
tor. In the amapiti0n wagon, :" responded
another.
The Poland Committee on Credit Mobilier
recommends the ezpuIsioa Of Brooks and Anne,
and whiteHaBaes the others accused.
OURSELVES as OrEHss SEE Us"-Col Lig
gait. OF Harrisonb burg Old Commonwealth, has
pleasant word to say about our city and its poo
| PIE, and we can assure him VIC cordially return
his good wishes, towards the "Old Free Town
Ee says
''Ye5 earnestly speaking, there is that in the
energy Of her own citizens. their cooperation il
all schene5 that tend to improvement, that vii
make Stsunton in g few years second alone t.
Richmond in the State
We, as Valley man. rejoice in The prosperity
Of our neighbor, and we perceive, too, in the at
tachment which the people Of Augusta have fol-
their oaunty-se&t, and their willingness always
to contribute to IFS advancement g spirit which
we commend TO our county Of Rockingham fol
emulation in It's relation 80 Harrisonburg"