Arizona citizen., 1879-12-06
THE CITIZEN.
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From Mondays Daily.
Soo1,sh fn fbe Schools.

! , German languages the world over; and secondly, its importance in this com
 munity on account of the large Span ish speaking population here and in the ncighboring Mexican states.
 We do not propose to examine into the theory of our common school sys- tem, nor shall we urge any patriotic reasons for confining all public in structiOn to our mother tongue. We believe in teaching everything in the public schools which can be taught there profitably and with reasonable expenditure of money. Ii would, no doubt, be beneficial to all the children of this community to know Spanish and English both and to that extent the argument Is good, but as to rights derived from the payment of taxes, we all know that the payment of taxes carries with it no rights whatever, gen. orally speaking We think the ques- ton here Is narrowed to one of expe- diency. Our teachers have a knowl- edge of Spanish, but could they ac- complish anything toward imparting knowledge of the language to the children under their care? Judging from the experience of schools where German has been tired and given up, it seems likely that they could not. The fact is, spoken languages are not learned in schools, especially by chil- dren. It takes too much time, which is one of the scarcesi articles about a school house. Both teachers and schol. ars usually have all they can get through with in attending to the three Ks. If American parents desire their boys and girls to know Spanish, they can accomplish it more easily out of the school than in it; while the chil- dren of Spanish speaking parents will know and speak Spanish anyhow. and we are sure none of them are so un. patriotic as not to wish their young people to know the language of the country they live in. The question, it seems to us, would come to this: that the school exercises, to be efficient, must be conducted in one language, whatever that may be, and that the at tempt to impart instruction to children in Spanish would only give them a slight and improbable knowledge of it, unsatisfactory to themselves and their teacher..
 BY yesterdays stage Registrar Paul ison returned 10 Florence. This gen tleman by his first visit to Tucson has made a great number of good friends His manner of doIng business is so agreeable and he takes such unusual pains to put everything right with which he has anything to do that ii is pleasure to transact business with him. During the week of his stay number of matters came before him, among which were the claims of Thos. Hughes and H. C. Hooker, desert land |; Tomas Elias, L. w. Wakefield, Jose Gallego, w. L. Vail, I. N. Harvey, Thomas Dunbar, Teclo Lujan, Fran cisco Murietts, AnIonio Sedillas, Alex. Levin, Philip NJ. Thurmond, James Buell., Antonio Grijalba, E. N. Fish and W. c. Gay, pre-emptors.
 THE sermon of Rev Mir. Mills, at the courthouse, last evening, on Re ligion and Common Sense, was of very high order and meets with com. mendation from all who heard it. IL seems not unlikely that a call may be made upon him for a repetition of the effort. Mir Mills is now work ing purely for the love he has for the cause, and having his living to make besides finds it impossible to do full justice to two sermons each Sunday :, he will, therefore, hereafter preach in the evening only.
 Two fellows, one drunk, the other sober, entered private residence this morning, and the sober one invited the drunk one to sit down as it was all right" They were quickly shown that it was not all right, however, and repetition of such an offense by them or any others of their kind, will meet with the proper reception. Such are the beautiful results of tolerating places in the heart of the city where such men can enter in such a way.
 DANIEL KELLY, the we'll known bar Der, who had shop just south of the Palace Hotel, came to his death yester- day. He was much given to drink, and whilesintoxicated became sick Us well, which caused him to take some thing to relieve himself. He was probably too drunk to know just what to do, however, and took too much of the drug. He only lived short time and died in great pain.
 TIE editor of this paper has been out for several days, during which time be has had many adventures and has had to face bowie-knives and six shooters and ride behind a runaway team. He has sat over keg of DOW der and fought a lunatic who tried to get lighted match into it, and yet he lives and may be induced to tell his adventures.
 BY to-day's stage left our city NIT. J.