The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-07-19
THE WHISPERING aALLEaY.

Just about this season Of the year many
think the proper thing to do, Is TO go out
into the woods and camp out for a week or
ten days. Many who cannot take or send
their families TO some fashionable seaside
resort camp out, and they claim TO have
lots OF fun, Probably they Go, but deal
of what is eaid and written about the bene
fits Of camping out is the sheeres! non
sense. To the average every day, com.
monplace person camping out Will be Of
little benefit, unleks catarlh, chills and pos
sibly consumption arc 10 bs regarded as
benefits. PrnonB who have been used to
cIoee indoor life should not risk the expert
ment without taking every precautlon
against the cold and damp. By all means
thew should keep away from river banks
and provide themselves with plenty Of cote,
1anpels, blankets and rubber over clothing.
I stood in Capitol Square on recent
Sunday afternoon and watched the lsrge
crowds that filled the Elm Grove trains on
their WY to, Wheeling Park. A well
known Divine said to me that this Sunday
excursion business 10 the Park and other
places was all wrong. Now, you my readers
who are Presbyterians OF Methodis,s or
any thing else, probably agree with this
Divine, bat nev ertheless many good men
who have the best Of opportunities for
Judging Justly Re 10 the good or evil result
ing thersirom do not agree with you.
Lat Us look closely at the people that d|l
these trains. They are filled largely by the
poorer glasses. There are entire families,
the fathers and mothers Of which, and in
many cases the children, have toiled from
early Monday morning ill late Saturday
evening. All now wea- bright happy
look in anticipation Of a pleasant afternoon
in the cool breezy park, listening 10 the
good music, Thepoorfy compensated clerk,
the hard working neamstrsss, represents
tiyes of all classes and conditions Of work.
ers, some yet strong and hearty, othera
that have been broken down, all are there.
MANY lock on the trees and fields and of
over the distant horizon in way that you
at once preceive, that to. them it is all rare
sipht. A holiday is q rarity and they are
not to be blamed for looking forward to a
Sunday in the country. Are they better or
worse for it?
The question Of an increase OF teachers
salaries which came up in the Board Of
Education Thunday night, was once DO.
fore argued in similar body, not in this
CITY, but not thousand miles away.
happened to be present and I heard q
prominent gentleman there argue in this
manner: ,"pay man 500 for teaching
school for twenty daysl Why, I can hire
an able bodied man TO chop wood all day
for a dollar and a qusrts1!" This remark
ahocks every person Of sense, yet it is jus!
In line with the usual arguments against
increasing tho pay Of tezchers. 1t was
mnre blun,ly expressed, that 10 all. l
never heard an argument against paying
school teachers as literally as the fluids
accessible will justify, which was not as
dincredi,able to its author as this. narrow
and brutal one.
There is consideration which should
weigh in this matter which is too often lest
SIGHT Of. l can count at least score OF
gentlemen Of scholarly minds, progressive
ideas and good hesrts, who have been
teacherp, but left the profession and enter.
ed other walks oilife because teaching was
nj IA remunerative as other callings for
,I';aL tha;r qualifications fitted them,
Hail teachers are paid in keeping with the
character Of their work, well done, the in.
ev;t"blo tendency will be TO keep in the
r usJn Of the profession only those who are
not, not ', we'll armed for the battle OF life. do
not say that this is always the effect 81 but
rot ,o"t of HE difficulty is the carelessness Of
t the people, who entrust the welfare Of
their c Schools to men who arc no more fitted
to toe control them than COW is to oIdsin
Laws for the universe. There are notabl.e
exceptions, and Wheeling can point with
. f.. 0 H.r4r- 4If p