The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12
SCHOOL MATTERS.

Supt. Christensen holds an examina
ton for certificates of the higher grades
on Saturday of this week and of Satur-
day OF next week.
The number Of tea chers required to
teach the scholars in Manitowoc county
is now ia This is an increase of 20
within the last years.
Supt Christensen has procured IA suf-
ficient number of institute circulars to
supply those teachers of country schools
who had not previously been supplied.
The incorporated villages have not
been complying with the law. They
We're recently notified of the require
ments of the law and Reedsville prompt
y accepted the situation.
Sheboygan is in the same difficulty
Manitowoc is with reference to school
room and the people are renting build
ings to accommodate pupils. The Sheboy-
gan News say the peoplemust keep right
on building school houses or stop raising
children
No. 80 of Riverside edition will be us
ed this year for pupils in the upper form
in the country sch OILS. 1t is a splendid
little work, convenient in form with se~
lections from the best American authors.
1t is well calculated to create taste for
good literature.
The school districts tn the city of Mani
towoc may have bit of trouble with the
State department in the matter OF Ii
brary books, The library law requires
that 10 cents per pupil be reserved by
school districts for purchase of library
books. Cities of the fourth class are not
exempt from this requirement and Mani
towoc is yet city of the fourth class its
population in 1895 being only ABS. To
get ont of the fourth class it must have
a population exceeding 10000, which it
has not officially.
The product car of the Northern Pa
cific is billed for Manitowoc in the near
future. 1t is in charge of G. W. Mott
who is we'll known to the business com"
munity. This car contains exhibits of
fruit, grains. grasses, minerals, timber,
etc, from the several states through
which the road runs. 1t is travelling
museum The Car will visit several
points in the county SO as to give pupils
in the schools an opportunity to learn
something of the products OF the western
country. Communication will be had
with teachers in country schools relative
to these exhibits
In the little work which is to he used
by pupils III country schools, is an ex-
tract from Franklin's Autobiography
which will prove very suggestive to
teachers and others interested in libra
ries Franklin tells in his inimitable
style how he started library in Phila-
delphia among apprentices. They We're
all poor and found it extremely difficult
to pay their annual dues But they con-
trived to do so. The desire for reading
was created first.
1t is not through multiplicity of
books that this desire can be inculcated,
but through the intelligent use of few.
E1While on this subject it may not be
amiss to mention to teachers, that there
is no book which they will find more
valuable than Franklin's Autobiography.
The growth upward was not struggle
with him because he enjoyed the effort,
although he had to surmount many OBJ
stacles. 1t is a tale simply told and so
naturally that you fancy the words are
coming from the philosophers lips.
The editor of this paper read this little
work at an age when he was incapable
Of appreciating the beauties OF literature,
and has not read it since. But it has
LETT an impression of having been in
companionship with Franklin.
Another circumstance connected with
this reading may not be out of place as
showing the captivating style of Frank
lin to "a boy. The autobl agraphy was
not completed by franklin The work
was carried to its conclusion by some
other person whose style was not pre-
tentious except when CON pared with
Franklins simple diction. 1t was found
next to impossible to keep up interest in
the biography when it was no longer
the work of Franklins pen. Franklin's
he knew how to speak to boys.
Are you working for salary or com
mission i'll Your present place of employ
ment?"
Salary
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