The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-05-22
LINN COUNTY TEACHERS IN,
STTTUTE.

on the 4th instant.
Teachers Institutes, when properly
conducted, are very beneficial to the
Teachers, and by reflex action, to the
community among whom they may
labor. We know whereof we affirm
by experience. But when they go
beyond their legitimate sphere they
are nuisance; they arc even worse
than the sore eyes or the seven years
itch.
The Linn County Institute did
some things which were very well;-
but they did others notvery we'll, and
which we do not approve. 1t was all
right to talk about orthography, its
importance, &c, for there isn't one
scholar in fifty that spells correctly.
he who has edited public journal
half as long as we have well knows
this is true. He knows that some
men who stand high, and are actually
making fuss in the world of letters,
owes much of his correct orthography
to his proofreader or to some obscure
typo who puts his literary efforts in
to type. We say it was well for the
Institute to talk about photography,
and even syntax and prosody. 1t was
we'll for them to listen to able address
es. It was we'll to discuss algebra
and all other mathematical branches !;
and it was well to appoint officers for
the Institute. 1t was well to endorse
the Bible, and recommend that it be
read in our schools. But when they
appointed Mr.. Wiggle, and bro. Shaw
with his impracticable and crochety
whims, and Mr. Guess a committee
on Resolutions, We guess they over
shot the mark at least we are very
sure that said Committee reported
and the Institute adopted some reso-
!lutions of very perniciOus character.
we will particularize little.
The Institute adopted q resolution
endorsing the phonetic system" and
recommending that it be brought into
general use" as early as practicable.
Some of our readers may not know
much about ''phonetics." Here is a
sample from our old favorite, Josh.
Billings:
IA chronic old baehler L invaryably oT the nu-
ter gender. / don't kare how mutch he ofer tu
bet that it amt
Tha ar Ike dried apels on string, want gud
dele ov sokeing before tha vii dE tu use.
Isupoze thare IL sum oT them who haT . gud
excuse for thare nutcrnegs; neny them tn
-stingy tu marry; this IL or the best excuseE
kno oT, for stingy man AMT ft u heY nice
woman.
Sum old bachlers git after firt, and kant
travel az fast az she duz, and then kOnklude aWl
the female grupe az hard tn ketch, and gUd for
nothing when tha ar keehed.
A hirt is q tuf thing tu oTeThol, unless the rite
dog gifts after her, and then tha are the eZyest
al tn kech, and often make the best oV wives.
When firt really falls in luv, she IL power
les none day.
Her impudsnee then changes into modesty, her
cunning into fear. her spurs into halter, her
pruning hook into cradle.
The best va tn kech = fiEt IL tn travel the other
way from which they going, or set down on
the grass and Whsssl sum lively tune till tho firt
comes round
Old bachlers make the hirts, and then the firts
git more than even. By making tho old bachleTs.
A majority oE the firts git married finally, for
tha hav crate quantity oy the most dainty tit
bits Homan's natur. and aIWus hay srudeness
to back up their sweetness.
Flirts don't dele in poetry and water grewel -
tha haV got tu haF bTanes, else Eumbody Uud
trade them out oV their capital at the fust sHop.
Thare IL sieh thing Ii have been told bi those
who kno sum more these things than do0 az
old bachelors being manufactured out Of disap-
pointed luE.
This IL q gud dele sensible az mans STANG
out In the kold all nite on the wrong side oy a
river, bekause he has made up his mind tew ford
IT, jist sich place WHARF he knos the voter Is
over hiz head, when if he would go little further
up OF down the creek, he would find the crossing
esy, and swebe little erittsr, with outstretched
hands to beckon him ACROSS
The above is very fair specimen
of phonetics-We mean the spelling.
As for the thoughts they contain, they
are such as only Josh can conceive
This is the system our Linn county
;saVants would have supercede our
good, old vigorous vernacular tongue;
"a language hallowed by ten thou
sand associations. Who, for example,
desires to see the writings of such
men as Milton, Cowper, Shakespear,
Pope, Dryden, and McCau1ey clothed
In the phonetic system? Who would
have the family bible thus nutilated ?
But no one need fear that the phonet.
ic system Will be very extensively
adopted. Teachers Institutes fifteen
or ortwenty years ago enthusiastically en-
'dorsed the phonetic system and re-
solved that it take the place of the
present mode of spelling; but it is
not yet adopted, nor will it be till a
large majority of the community be-
come crazy.
But again: The Institute. not con-
tent with an attempt to upset our
language, take after the Roman Cath
olics-charging that they oppose free
government, and civil and RELIGIOUS
liberty, &c. In this the Institute ex-
hibit an intolerant and proscriptive
spirit, and they slightly misrepresent
the facts in the case SO far at least as
the Catholics of this country are con-
eerned. All such charges are mere
stuh-gammon-and we have but lit
tie patience with any man or body of