Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-07-19
Why Boys Quit School.

combat the theories advanced by
this mother, nor to question the
justness of women having equal
rights with men, which is incident
ally argued for in the communica.
tion. The remedies suggested for
the non-education of our boys, are
in the main good, but are not cal.
culated to be Immediately effective.
1t is not presumed that our cores
pondent wishes to be understood as
condemning inquiry into the qualifi.
cations, or fair criticism as TO the
methods of instructors, when she
says "to expose the imperfections of
the indefatigabe leaders of instruc.
ton will not help our children to
grasp the glorious privilege OF ed.
ucation." To interdict inquiry into
how our school officers and instruc.
tors perform their duties would be
to lessen public interest in the
schools, and enable unworthy, in
competent or selfish influences to
rule without let.
Something nearer and more reach
able than the causes assigned by our
correspondent we still believe re-
sponsible for the deplorable fact
that so few of our boys get the bene-
fit of high school education. The
fact that lately the disparity between
the number of girls and boys grad
uating from the Mineral Poiut
schools has alarmingly increased,
and is apparently greater than in
other high schools of the state, is
not explainable on any of the hy-
potheses presented. In the classes
graduated from our high school in
1891, '92, 1913 and '94 were 40 girls
and only 5 boys, difference of eight
to one. In the classes of all the
years preceding 81 were A girls and
28 boys, difference of less than
tqco to one. The defects in social
and political government existing
for centuries, could hardly have de-
veloped so markedly within the last
four years, with results especially
noticeable only in the Mineral Point
schools.
The La Fayette county jail has a
romance. Among the prisoners in
carcerated there now are James
Dormer, sent up at the May term
for four months for receiving stolen
property, and Kate Jackson, on
more serious charge. In the three
weeks that have elapsed since first
they gazed upon each other through
the cruel iron bars they have learn
ed to love with love which, they
declare, will never die. Dormer
made application in the usual form
to County Clerk Rippen for mar
riage license. But Mr.. Rippen de-
clines to issue the license without
better evidence that both parties
were free from previous matrimo.
nial entanglements. II is the i'm
preston Of the authorities that
Katie has husband living in Penn
sylyania, and Dormer has been
married.
A. II. POTTER is making a sue
cess Of his tub and barrel factory
on Commerce street. He has pnt
in new machinery, keeps a man and
boy besides himself busy, and is
turning out about 40 tubs per day,
which is none too fast for the or
ders received. Mr.. Potter is a good
workman and deserves the patronage
of all who need anything in his line.
EXPERIMENTS in manufacturing
asbestos paper are being tried at the
Mineral Point pulp and paper mill
this week. Asbestos, or mineral
wool, is an absolutely fire proof
mineral pulp, found in paying qaun-
titles in New Mexico. If our valu-
able mill machinery can be thus
employed its construction will be
justified.
BEN ToNKIN returned last Friday
from visit to Denver. He admires
the city, but the country as whole
he thinks far inferior to Wisconsin.