The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-08-16

schooling. The boy said: II have
NJ got any clothes that are ftien.
II will get you s0me clothes anC
buy you some books, "said Peoples
\ But daddy can't spare me- sait
= the boy. ''He cuts The wood and
haul it," "WelI, will hire anoth
err boy to drive the steerS,u said
: Peoples; aud he did it, and thai
boy Is now a notable man. What
) The country people want is good
common schools within easy reach
OF their children. A CONNIE.
tent teacher ought 10 be provided
Tor about thirty children. and -
woman is better than a man for
tins business. They are more zen.
tie and KIND and have a higher
grade of morality. heard a 200
mother from a neighb0ring town
say Il am sending my children IN
aChrisIian lady, and | can see The
good effects of her moral training
every day. Ny children love her
and respect her. She has a moth.
erly care owe their morals and
their manners. She teaches truth
and virtue and honesty and kind.
ness as well as books" The teach.
ers III the public schools have M
lime TO do this. That system is all
machinery, and the teachers have
all they can do 10 keep up with it
Under the old system II was mn
important consideration whether
the teacher had a gilt for teaching
ana a Liking for The calling. But ;
now The sole question is one of
scholarship. The examining board
write out so many questions. and
the candidates write out The an
'Wers, and that settles il. If an \
applicant fails to tell that it was 9
Andrew Jackson who first promuI. =
gated The doctrine of 10 the vie. 5
ors belong the spoiIs," she is mark.
"a down a point Or two, although :
may be the best teacher in the 4
Then, again, the time and
lie place OF writing out the an.
wers is 100 severe Il trial to those
are nervous and not ALWAYS
a~lf'possesscd. A sensitive young 4
might De we so good a scLoi. -
T, and she could not do b~erselr Is
lsllcey under such surroundings. 8
ana then the bOoks-the beou,i. =
i Do0ks-WaS there ever an aoe c
which the children had so MAN. q
iractlve school books. Ii makes
wish that we were children
am What would we have given e
such readers and biographies ID
q histories How we Womb have
'sted upon the beautiful pictnraJ
verify believe that the AVERAGE
y or girl could, with these books
u a mile help from father or !
'ther, get a good education nj Put
me; and there is really no ms. Cor
a school or a teacher eycent &c A
crusader, that is all. | believr -
II Two or three young gIrls could ~
together by night out doors. +
Ter The starry heavens, and learn
themselves everything that is in
5. Bowen's astronomy, H. is a
endld work and we are nrouJ or
as a Georgia woman, and proud
LIol. Derry and Prot. Sanford I
MISS Fields, all from Georgia.
whose books are growing in
'ularlty. OF course we preCer
,hern books 10 Northern, espe- III
y me histories. 1t is Just I'm.
'i0le for a Northern man 10
e a fair, impartial history of
lale war, or Of the causes that ]
to II. The ignorance of these Gas
orlans is amazing. Here is VA
book before Inc which has ~
page the six greatest FEEDER. wit
'aderS and on another the six ling
lest Confederate leaders of the rs = /,
war Among the latter are me
lanan and Mitchell as our chief o
officers. Where he COT hoI6 prol
llicheH nobody knows. He sna
not mention them nor MorelI anil II
S book, and mentions Admiral NJ
mes only once, and hat very r.
in a f~Oot-note. lie -
S 10 have been entirely ignO. d,
OF The fact that Semmes de. Nl'
ed over fifteen millions of O
property, and that it took j
e Sam about twenty years 10 N E
oze The damages ont of Eng PA
ior selling The Alabama 10 MA,