Show TilE f The report ot of Superintendent Cooper n the atten lance lit ut the pu llo schools of f thIs city for the tho month ending February 2nd shows to some extent the tato ot of feeling In re regard regard gard to It vIll bo be remembered l that the tho schools were re against All at children for Clr 1 a time so that the corn com attempt of the board ot of health authority or of In law might Ilish its lis purpose The Th majority or of the hoard of to carry Into effect the tho ukAse ot of the tho health board arid no child however healthy or x from exposure to c as permitted to enter school without cl ence of If recent successful S tion As AI a 11 cOlIs consequence accordIng to the report of at the superintendent the total during the tho days the tho I schools were ere thOs open to children only This was tar be below low of the number ot of child chilli Ten rn of school age tn In the city ot of otI I whom attended school chool the pro pre preceding ceding month S SAmong Among those who attended were a large number vf of ol II parents S were opposed to 0 compulsory i I lion and It a proportion ot of theta to on IIII Hut But theIr anxiety to have hair hairS I S St children t and tile the fear that 11 tile the woUld be excluded unless p the they tl to the arbitrary Et of the board Induced them to submit against personal the ere closed altogether for a brief roell but were ere subsequent I ly Iy without the obnoxious re tf t i then iJen have been conducted ll I i with ual and ti the at t j hits III r d the nor floa I I Eld oll are beIng audit aids I to make up for tor lost time is fir lar IS as asI I I and the children are being th en I to pursue their studies with r mure usual Our are In x order and theIr 1 management to be thoroughly V and n ably h conducted 4 13 the WI the episode referred to 1 suggests n a concerning the latest i re Ort from General Otis Otle ot of casualties amog our In tho PhilippIne It ft n a number ot of i from i 0 or smallpox Thi Is common all as appears In evry that kind fInd which Is r made to the govern government government ment The flUnt men th that t arill arises when these reports In print till is if f vac ac is 11 1 tt of smAllpox liS as or even cn n a palliative how I is It that SOldIers who hl have been vaccinated 1 anti some tile die of the That I Is a anut nut for some Mme to crack creck but we toot tho kursel kornel will not be b to much or It Is gratifying to know that the dIS dISorder order tins has been quite prevalent In several seral ports f this hAS not proved fetal talAl In any instance so ro fir far as proof has haa been afforded It Is true that thata A report ot Of a I death of n a sheep hird r nt at a far distant camp here his hll body anti his dS clothIng were but the evidence ot of the tho caute caulle ot his e eIs Is not nol nt to o the tho con elusIon arrIved at aS alJ beIng correct however oven en admitting that thatto thatto to be nn an ot of death from small smallPOX POX the Immunity from fatal n the State frOm the tho disorder which Il C contagious Is III certaInly remarkable viewed In the light ot of In Manila It Is III to be hoped that nil as the tho warm arm weather uhl sIgns of the tho complained ot of whatever It may maybe bt be will soon disappear arni that hint there iIi bo nothing to hinder the progress l lot ot of education In the tho pUblic schoolS or ot of of any n kind whether r relIgIous social political or for e ement meat ment |