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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1900)
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I'.mo, b Frank i. .irpciit.r MANILA, AUK. I, I'.IOO. -(Special Cone . pondenco of The ilee.j One of the moat Important things our government has to do in the Philippine islands is the cstab lishnicnt of u good ptihllc school system. At ptesent not more than 20 per cent ot tho people can lead and write. There nro districts in which very few of them can sptak Spanish and there are hundreds or ! thousands of school children who have had no school advantages. For the last four years, owing to the trouble with the Span lards and the Americans, many of the schools have been discontinued. In every Island I have visited I have found the school houses vacant, and nearly everywhere they are going to ruin. In home parts ot I Luzon they have been burned by the In ' surgents ami In others the teachers have j had to leave because they were connected I with the friars. With tho advance of our army every town which has been garrisoned has been Riven a school The otllcers who the people to open the si hoid houses and tell them that they must support their own schools ami that Kngllsh must be one of the studies In PRIMARY SCHOOL i-omu idaces the soldiers arc teaching, nnd everywhere attempts are made to organl.o a now system of education. Heretofore the Philippines have had nothing liko a publlo school system. They have had schools In most ot tho villages, but tho teachers have been appointed by tho priests nnd tho studies havo been controlled by them. Tho chief teaching has been In tho catechism ami nlong lines of religious Instruction, nnd today tho priests object decidedly to hav ing tho catechism taken out of tho schools. The schools woro opened with tho reading of Catholic prayers and until now every school had a cruclllx hung up over tho teacher's desk. The same prayerB aro used now by many of the American teachers, ono of them telling mo that sho thought It better to keep up tho prayers notwithstand ing she was n 1'iotestant herself. ScIiooIn In Moulin. At present there Is no systematic school organization of the islands. Kach military otllclal prescribes for his own district, nnd It is a sort of go-as-you-please. The only place where there Is anything like n bu reau of education Is In Manila. Here we have a superintendent of public instruction. This Is Mr. (ieorge I. Anderson, a Seattle man, the son of ono of the lending college educators of the northwest. I'rof. Ander son graduated In one of the Washington stnto universities, and about nine years ago finished a course of three years at Yalo. He has had no practical experience In public school work, nnd It Is a ques tion whether a man who has worked in the schools at home would not bo hotter equipped for the place. Mr. Anderson (lime out here as a soldier in tho Second Oregon volunteers, hut he has been placed at the head of this department. Ho tells me that there are now between forty anil llfly public schools in Manila, with an at tendance of I. ono or fi.000 pupils not more I halt one-tenth of what there should he In this cliy of :ino.ooo people. The schools, with one or two exceptions, are all of the primary grade. The lan guage used Is mainly Spanish, Kngllsh In ing taught for only a portion of the day. The Kngllsh teachers nro In most places mi-rlmn girls, tho dnughters of the of ficials here Some few havo been school teachers at home, but many are new, ex perimenting for the first time on the poor Filipinos. Many of them labor under the disadvantage of not knowing the Spanish language, but they are all learning rapidly, anil, considering tholr lack of normal si hoid training, are doing remarkably well. They aro very well paid, each teacher re ceiving a K.ilary of $1,110, or $720 in gold This is I think, for a year of ten months. It is considerably more than tho school wages in tho Tinted States What wo need here Is a bureau of edu cation olllcereil by practical American teachers, who will lake i lurgc of the cdu lalloiial system of the whole archipelago and dire, t it from here. There should In- a supply of American teachers so that then could be at least one Kngllsh teacher in every village and school district, with a corps of general superintendents, who could go from district to district mid see that the children are being properly taught. Tho best educated of the native teachers should be retained and the work for year.i will have to be continued in Spanish. The children should be compelled to go to schoul. They need new school buildings and new school boohs and in fad a thorough reorganization of their educa tional system. They are. 1 am told, in nearly all places anxious ro learn and per fectly willing to pay for the best school advantages, but in order to have these there must be Americans at the head of the school system and enough Atnerlcnn teachers scattered throughout the whole to leaven the lump I have visited a number of the puhlii si hools of Manila I am surprised at (he quickness ami Intelligence of the pupils They are very apt at learning anil art th HOYS WITH I OOKS. equals, I believe, of children of the same ago In the United States. Let me take you Into ono of the scIioiiIb and show you Just how It looks. It is a primary school, for as yet little more than tho primary grades have been established. The school house Is nothing like any you havo seen In tho I'nlted Stntos. it Is a ono story building, about thirty feet square, built upon posts ten feet In holght. It hafl sliding windows made up of a bill Ice work of hundreds of little squares, in each ot which n piece of oyster shell not thicker than your thumb nail has been lltted. These shells serve to keep out the hot sun and they are so transparent that they admit enough light for study nnd work. The windows aro always open, except where they keep out the sun, so that the air may sweep riirough. There is a little cocoaiiut tree In front of the building I am describ ing nnd we pass through a grove of banana trees on our way to the hack yard, where the entrance Is found, doing upstairs we Hud two or three rooms tilled with little children at work. lllMV FIIIllllO M-llOlllllll M Itl-I'MH, III this school all aro boys, for thero Is no co-education of the sexes In Manila, and the boys and girls each have schools of their own. Tho hoys are as brown as uiii lattoca and their hair Is cut short, so that It stands up like black bristles over their little bullet-llko heads. Notice their eyes. They aie black, ami the most of theiu snap with the Interest they show In iho tench liig. How queerly they dress. If our boys woro their clothes in thiB wny their teach ers would send them straight home. Ihicii boy has his shirt tails outside of his trous ms, and each is In his bare feel, or in slippers, without stockings. Fully half or the number cannot help studying out loud, according to the custom which was taught In tho past, hut which our American teach eis aro trying to abolish. As we stand and look at tho school the native teacher comes out. It sceim queer lo us that ho keeps his hat on while he Is teaching, and stranger still when he pulls cigarettes from his pockets then and there and nsks us to Join him In a smoke. I In shows olf tho scholars, hut the language Is Spanish, and we can hardly say whether they do well or III. Lnt or on I visited ono of the primary schools for girls. The teachers were women and among them was an Ameilcnn girl who told mo that she found the children quite as bright ns our school children at homo. With her assistance I photographed tome of the pupils, inking three little girl as n sample, and later on made a picture of a chihs She had some of tho llttlo ones reclto their Kngllsh lesson and they did remarkably well The tenehora aro doing all thoy can to (Continued on Tenth l'ago.) Rupture and Associated Pelvic Ncrvo-Vital Diseases, to Stay Cured. n n niciiAn There Is not in the world another iiihIi tiltlon devoted exclusively to the cure of Varicocele, Rupture, Slrliliire and assoc la ted I'elvlc nnd Nervo-Vital diseases, as large as "The Klehardson Home" which 1 maintain for the care of my patients. The institution was built upon the founda tion of my successful professional oxper-lenecw-an experience covering years of un tiring research and original investigation, nnd which has afforded me unlimited op portunities for acquaint lug myself with ovory phnse and form of the diseases to which I limit my practice The ItichardHoii Method which I originated and brought to Its present state of perfection, gives mo a mastery over Pelvic and Nervo-Vilal dls i uses such as no other physician possessos. 'I'll row A Miiy SiiNi-iiHiir.v. The Inadequacy of the measures usually employed lu tho treatment of Rupture, Var icocele and associate diseases was early forced upon my attention, and subsequent observation of a vast number of cases con- Untied my belief that trusses, suspensories and other arilllclal supports, and the nu merous "home I rent incuts" so extensively advertised, not only failed to cure, but In some instances actually served to aggra vate the very conditions they were sup posed to remove. The wide prevalence of these diseases, and their disastrous oll'ects upon the ner vous orgaulallon, also Impressed me, and Impelled me to give my whole time and thought to their study and the formula tion of a iiystoin of cure that would (MJItH TO STAY UUHUI). In Its various modillcatloiis, nnd when administered by myself, The Richardson Mel hod cures not only Varicocele, Rupture. Stricture and enlarged prostate, but Par alysis of all forms. Including Locomotor Alaxl i and similar disorders or the nervous system resulting from I'elvlc diseases. In 'nearly all cases of Paralytic uffectlons that have come under my observation, I have I found Varicocele to exist, and Investigation has shown inc that Btngnated blood In neg llecled Varlx Is responsible for such dis eases. I discovered that In these stagnated blood currents, toxlnes aro generated and Aj) SUSPEHSORY k IT AWAY7 lTiW D. D. RICHARDSON, M. D. 1266-74 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, and pson. m d minute blood dots are formed whiih cause poisonous deposits in nerve matter, oh struct nerve force, and ultimately lead to Hie gravest forms of Paralysis. NcrvuiiN S) Mti-m Injiiri-il. The Injury that the nervous system sus tains as a result of absorption of this ma terial Is of the gravest character, and al though partial or complete physical col lapse, Paralysis, Locomotor Ataxia, or Nervous Prostration, limy be long delayed, Its coming in some tone is only it (pies- Ulnn of time. Vital Power and the magnetism that cur irlos with It the qualities of mastery over , clrctimstauces na well na persons do not exist ami cannot exist where the forces of ' the nervous system must be drawn from a circulation that has become contaminated by the unhealthy productu of Varicocele The pains and Inconveniences of this ills ease are In theinselveH Biilllclent reasons for the sufferer seeking prompt and complete cure, hut when coupled with these aro tho further considerations that Its continuance invites n long train of nervous and mental dlneases, tho Importance ot early cure Is apparent. Vurlx Cured in Ti IIhjk. Ily menus of the delicate and sensitive uiei h.inlsiiis fur thu administration of my Method, I painlessly and permanently re move tho Varicocele, and Introduce Into the system nctlvo curative ngontB of known chemical alllnltleH, which by direct contact nntngoiilzo nnd destroy tho poisons and ob structions In norvo matter, restoring all of the powors and attributes characteristic of manhood In Its fullest development. I cure Vurleoielo In live days, and my uniform fee for Us cure, whero tho disease Is not com plicated wllh other troubles, is $100. If you are a sulferor, you cannot afford to neglect a matter ro vital to you as Is the restoration of your health, which 1 promise If you place yourself under my professional care. Ilt-xerl In- Viiiii- ('line, I have written and recently published, books on Rupture, Vurlcocolo, Stricture, Nervo-Vltal Diseases ami Vital Power, nny one of which will be mailed you If you wrlto a full history of your ease, enclosing ten cents to prepay postage on sealed book. All correspondence Is answered by mo per sonally, and In strictest coulldonco. You will make no mistake by coming to Chicago without delay, prepared to take my troat- , inent and he cured. "The Richardson I Homo" has two hundred rooms, Is nilinlra- bly located on America's llnest boulevard. I and will all'ord you every comfort anil eon ! venlence while under my care.