Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-05-15

ton of the benefits of popular education,
constitute the best means to the end
sought"
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT"
ga superintendent to be thoroughly
equipped for his work ought to have schol-
arship, professional skill, energy, tact, ex-
ecutive ability, business capacity, and an
enthusiastic love of bis work. How can q
mau properly prepare examinations for
teachers and grade their papers when he 10
not familiar with the subjects involveds
How can he in inspecting schools ofsr
valuable suggestions as to the course Of
study, methods of teaching, school man
agement, &C., when he has had no expert
ence in school-room work. How can he
reuder most valuable service In teachers
meetings or institutes without at least re-
spectacle knowledge of such subjects ~
can be discussed most prohtably to teachersP
But important to the superintendent as are
educational attlinments, both academic
aud professional, yet they are not more so
than the other qualities above mentioned.
Good Judgment, executive ability, earnest
devotion to the work, will make up in some
measure for partial deficiencies in other re.
spects, but without these qualities but
meagre success need be expected. It is
needless to add that superintendent OF
schools should be blameless in character,
for it is worse than absurd that an officer
so prominently connected with the educa-
ton of youth should himself be an example
of bad morals. In discussing the Office and
qualifications of school superintendents, no
reflection whatever is meant to be cast on
those now filling that Office. can and do
bear cheerful testimony to the faithful and
efficient discharge of duty on the part Of
great majority of them. But the idea is to
be strongly emphasized that educational
work ought to be committed to the bands
of competent educators"
COUNTRY SCHOOLS.
ssCountry Schools" and "The Grading Of
Country Schools" are next discussed, q
valuable treatise on the latter subject by
Miss Celestia Parrish, of the State Female
Normal School, being published in full in
the report.
Several pointed paragraphs on 'sExamin.
alton and Certiication of Teachers" en-
phasize the necessity for thorough investi-
CATION of the qualifications Of applicants for
license to teach, etc.
"PEABoDY FUNDS FOR 1SS7-'SS."
From the report of the Superintendent of
Public instruction to the General Agent of
the Peabody Board, it appears that Virgin
ia received during the year $4,000 for In
stitutes, $4,000 for the State Female Nor
nal Schools, and $500 for the Hampton
Normal and Agricultural Institute. In ad-
dition to these appropriations, fourteen
Peabody scholarships, valued at $500 each,
in the Nashville Normal College were allo-
ted 10 Virginia. The attendance at the in
stltute for white teachers reached 1,OlO,
thatat the institute for colored teachers 43O,
making total of 1, 40 teachers in atten-
dance a. institutes held in different sec
tions of the State. The detailed reports of
the institute work, prepared by the conduc-
tors of the respective institutes and publish
ed in full in the reports, indicate that the
funds at command for the prosecution of
this important branch of educational work
were wisely expended.
REPORTS.
The written reports of county and city
superintendents (digested) furnish interest.
;nS details concerning the condition of
school affairs in tbs respective counties and
cities, while the tabular statistics given in
ten elaborate tables furnish simple statisti-
cal Information.
Part II. of the report is devoted to reports
of the University of Virginia, Virginia Mill
tary Institute, Virginia Agricultural and
Mechanical College, State Female Normal
School, Institution for the Education OF
the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, Medical
College OF Virginia, Hampton Normal and
Agricultural Institute, and the Virginia
Normal and Collegiate Institute, with
sketch of the work of the Miller Manual
Labor School of Albemarle.
These reports represent the several insti-
tutions as III healthy condition, with en-
couraging prospects for the current session.
The friends of public education will find
the Virginia School Report for 1888 valu-
able public doeumeut, exhibiting gratifying
evidences of substantial growth and pros
perity on the part of Virginia educational
enterprises the surs outcome of that en-
lightened public sentiment which created
the system and which is ever ready to yield
vigorous and chserful support to all meas
ures calculated to develop the resources or
increase the efficiency Of this most impors
taut department of the public service.
THE NEGRO IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH.
"A coi0red clergyman. Rev. Hutehens G.
Bishop, rector of st. Philips Protestant
Episcopal Church, New York city, who has
been insecyiewed By Times reporter, COM
plains of the race prejudices in Northern
cities, which practically exclude colored
people from mechanical occupation and de-
| cant modes Of life. Mr.. Bishops personal
experience and observation go very far to
prove that the lot of the colored psople in
the South is much better in many ways
than in the North, where the attitude of
the whites is one of extreme prejudice and
hostility He shows that they are denied
access TO mechanical occupations and are
paid lover wages in serViie positions than
white people receive for equivalent service.
.sThs forms," he says, shat prejudice
takes in the North are often more humilia-
ting than the political antagonixm the
colored people encounter from their former
masters in the South. These colored men
work side by side with their white col
| leagues in all the mechanical trades and no
effort is made to prevent them from learn
| ing any branch of industrial employment
they NAV choose. The material and moral
and intellectual aspirations Of the colored
man are not interfsreG with in the South,
but on the contrary, are encouraged in
many WAYS by the white people, who learn
| ed before the war to look to him for al the
mechanical work that was wanted. When
the oolored artisan comss North and tries to
And work at his trade, and is met by a re-
| fusal of white men to work alongside OF
him, he encounters kind of antipathy and
preiudice that are unknown in the South"
Negroes going North will find that the
Northern color line is drawn very sharply
by people who don't want them as neigh
bors. fellow workmen or associates, yet
who would put them in political control Of
the South.-Belt. Sun.
Weary, worn and discouraged,
| Heartsick and hopeless and cad
| Longing for help and comfort