The hydraulic press. (North San Juan, Nev. Co., Cal.) 1858-18??, 1858-11-13
CHEROKEE SCHooL.-In an article

CHEROKEE ScHooL.-In an article
headed +" School Statistics which
was published in our last issue, we in
advertently committed the blunder of
saying that Bridgeport Township con-
stitutes School District No. 2, forget
ting in the hurry of writing that the
township is divided into t,0o school
districts, No. 1 being called Cherokee
District, and having had an excellent
school for several years past.
An obliging correspondent, who
signs himself "Paul Purl,' sends us
the following interesting particulars:
"This district is called Cherokee
District, mo. 1. Total number Of
children in the district, 80. OF this
number 63 are between 4 and IS
years, and 20 under 4 years f; 35 boys
and % girls-33 born in California.
Number attending school during past
year, So; daily average attendance.
20. 97z
''Total amount of expenditures du-
ring past year-including present
quarter-$758; of which 1913 was
paid the teacher, and $40 expended
for repairs and wood.
"Our little School House is situa.
ted in the most pleasant and agreea-
BILE location of the entire neighbor-
hood-on gentle eminence on the
northeast side Of the town, just suf-
ficiently high and clear to invite each
pleasant summer breeze as it floats
along to stop for a moment to toy
with the curly locks of the little ur-
chins who there do congregate. With.
in doors all is cheerful and happy,
neat and trim emblematic Of the
amiable Preceptress who there sways
(not with "Iron Rule or "Blasted
Switch, y but by love and kindness.
l have often thought, when looking
at that little School House sitting in
quiet dignity with its surroundings of
noble oaks, that it might be compared
to Light House, its beacon warning
the little wanderers to beware of the
shoals of ignorance and vice, and in.
viting them to step within its portals
to partake of that living stream of
intelligence which lifts the clouds of
error and darkness from the mind
and opens new and lasting pleasures
from which We may freely sip while
gliding Ger 'Life's troubled ocean,
"ConsidsrabIe interest is manifest
ed in the school by the citizens gem
orally, and during the long evenings
in the winter the Spelling SCHOOL,
hold one evening in each week-be-
comes ono of tho most popular and
interesting Institutions Of the place.
Everybody goes-everybody is pleas
ed; and it is truly pleasant to drop
in Of an evening and see the hardy
sons of TOLL tho stately matron,' the
maiden and the scholars, all mingled
together and forming lines on either
side OF the room preparatory to enter
ing on the contest. Then to see, as
word has been mis-spelled on the
North side, how quick it is taken up
on the South, and if properly spelled
and mark given against the North,
the triumph is as apparent in the eye
of the strong miner as in that of the
little school-boy who sits by his side.
All enter into the spirit Of the occa~
sion, and in spirit, at least, become
children again. On such occasions
as this, while memory, freighted with
recoiiections Of the past, comes float.
ing Ger our minds, however bright
the future may dawn upon us the
heart instinctively turns to the past
and We fully realize How dear to our
hearts are the scenes Of our child~
hood Long live the Spelling
School !!