River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20

Il Oii Tit -0tli.
Prescott High School opened the 10tl
with fair attendance
All the high and graded schools are
running in full blast this week.
If your success as a teacher seems only
for day, remember that there are ages
for the operation OF the good seed you
have sown in the minds of your pupils.
Send fifteen cents in one and two-cen
postage stamps TO ii. Lowater, Rock Elm
Wis, and receive his spicy educational
monthly for three months trial trip com
mencing Oct. LIST, 1883.
ALI the names for the different educa
tional periodicals, received during Tia,
month of August have been sent in
Amy one who fails to receive his paper
will please notify us at once.
Have you found anything in your ex.
perience which has succeeded splendid
ly or has disastrously failed? Put il
form of a short, pointed article and send
it to the column for the benefit of fellow
teachers.
The Manual of the Course of Study is
undergoing another revision and will
soon be ready for circulation. 1t will be
much improved in appearance and con-
tents. We have none at present Of the
old ones.
Editor Merwin. of the American Jour
nal of Education, pertinently remarks
that the surplus now in the U. S. treas
ury might be made to overflow into the
school fund and thus give us longer
terms and better schools.
Our teachers do not work alone. The
energy, enthusiasm, hope, love and am
bition of over four hundred thousand
young men and women should kindle
the whole land into flame of interest
abiding and growing more and more in
their work
The healing of world of its ignorance
Is in its nameless saints. Each separate star
seems nothing; but myriad scattered stars
Break up the night and make IL beautiful.
-American Journal Of Education.
We are reliably informed that NJ. ].
Baird has been prominently mentioned
as a Republican candidate for st. Croix
county superintendent of schools. Hav-
ing personally known Mr.. Baird for up
wards of twelve years and having been
his successor in several schools we I'M
hesitatingly pronounce him fitted in ey-
cry way for the position. His long ex-
perience in the common schools will
make him a valuable man for that place.
His certificate for this county, which is OF
the first grade, is one of the best in this
county. We take pleasure in thus call
ing the attention of st. Croix Republi-
cans 20 Mr. Baird.
We quote the following from Supt
Cummings of Trempealeau county:
There is misapprehension of the letter
and spirit of the law in school matters
regarding the purchase of necessary fix
lures and apparatus.
Too many school officers neglect to fur
nish their school with those conveniences
which are almost indispensable to its sue
cess, and excuse themselves on the
ground that the patrons of the school
have not instructed them as to their wish
es in the matter.
The school board is the executive body
whose duties are made plain by the law,
and which cannot wait for instructions
in the various matters which demand
their prompt attention.
Section 1876 authorizes District Officers
to purchase such apparatus as may be
necessary for school purposes, not to ex-
coed S75 in any one year. If the spirit
of this law be obeyed, our schools will
soon be supplied with such material as
will greatly facilitate the work and inn
prove the schools. / am not advising ex-
travagant expenditure, but such purchase
ofsupplies as will insure continual progress.
Several of our schools have no dictiona-
T'C5 no maps, a very poor blackboard
"a some instances worse than nOne-no
erasers-a very necessary thing for the
neatness of the room and pupils.
Many of our school-rooms are without
curtains, some are without a chair and a
teachers desk. Some buildings are very
poorly seated, and several are hardly fit
for occupancy in the winter season, ow-
ing to a dilapidated condition of the floor
and walls. Do any of these conditions
prevail i'll your school-room? Then your
duty is made very plain"
Every word in the above is applicable
to Pierce county. The state is very lib
eral in its annual apportionment of the
school fund and we think that a portion
of it ought to be expended for tools by
which the remainder could be ten-fold
more effective. Parents, who have chill
dren in the school, investigate this mat
ter and urge your board to perform its
proper duty. If they will not, put in
somebody who will.