Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-01-28

teachers. Now, in point of education
al ability and useful knowledge of Gal
liza County male and female Peda-
gogues, q take our own county. be-
cause l am better acquainted with the
class of teachers, though l think the
same viii hold good with other coun-
ties, you will find, upon general and
impartial examination, not only in
Arithmetic, Grammar, and Geography,
but of common sense intelligence and
wit, that Peggotty is about equal to
Barkis. The most consummate ig-
norance that l have ever known dis
played by persons of pretention has
been publicly exhibited by Gallia Coun-
ty School Teachers of the masculine
gender. During the last Gallia Coun
ty Teachers Institute, young disci-
pie, who professed to have experience
as school master, was accosted by
brother teacher as to what text books
he had been in the habit of using in
his schools? He very soberly and la
conieally replied that he had never
used any, that he only taught Arith-
mehc, Grammar and Geography
Now this young man, however Won
derful it may seem, taught two schools,
and received, according to his own
statement, between forty and fifty dol
lars per month.
Where is young lady school teach
er In all the land half so ignorant, or
who receives forty dollars per month?
| remember another display of amazing
ignorance on the part of two young
men at teachers examination in Gal
lipolis. One of the examiners asked
young man who discovered America?
The young man dropped his head in
deep mental absorption, no doubt en-
deavoring to recall to memory the
name of some. famous man that lived
in the Antideluvian age. Being unable
to settle upon any one likely to be the
distinguished parsonage, he stammered
out that he guessed he didn't know, in
fact he didn't think that he had ever
heard. This same pedant in parsing
the word that in the sentence: "With
earliest morn of that first day." DC,
called it first a conjunctNe adverb, but
receiving hunch from his neighbor,
changed his mind and commenced
parsing it as relative pronoun; but
not knowing how to dispose of it as
such, again changed it to conjunc
ton, and the devil only knows what
he would have called it next, had not
his friendly prompter whispered, "ad-
jective," )" in his ear This young man
received a certificate for one year
and presume forty dollars per month
for teaching school
An other young man of the same
class, who had long been in the service
of school teaching, and ought to have
been more wise than he was, on az
count of age and experience, if moth
ing more, was asked what form of gov
ernment he lived under. The question
extended beyond his information, con-
sequently he answered in the negative.
No doubt he had never heard, either.
Where can we find female teacher
inside of Gallia County, or out of it,
who has so little information, but is
able to readily answer either of the
preceding questions, and also parse
'that," when used as an adjective :
Yet, those young men, and men like
them, will invariably receive higher
wages for teaching, than many of the
best female teachers of our common
schools. | have known some young
ladies of this county, whom l know to
be good teachers, receive but fourteen
dollars a month for teaching. Indeed,
it has become such popular custom
of paying female teachers fifteen, twen
ty and twenty-five dollars month, for
doing the work that male teachers re-
ceive forty and fifty for, that it has be-
gun TO be considered law of proprie
ty and young ladies tolerate it as nat
ural consequence, and shape their ends
to adapt them to their means. "Where
liberty is unknown oppression is free
DOM" So it is with female teachers.
They have become so reconciled to re-
duced wages that they consider five
dollars over half pay, distinguished
mark of generosity. But notwithstand-
ing, it is wrong and unjust, and con
sideration of self interest should in
fluence young lady teachers to join
themselves together, with solemn prom
ise to disband school teaching until the
people are willingto give them respect
able wages 1t is due them, and their
right is to claim it, and the peoples
sense of duty should give it them
They labor as long and zealously, ac-
complish as much, their board is high
er, their expenses for dress greater,
their education more costly than that
of young men, and respectable re-
muneration for their labors and sacri-
fees is due them. 1 do not claim that
all young lady teachers are entitled to
high wages. Some, and no doubt
many, would be fully compensated for
their labors at ten dollars month
Some then, are
'In teaching children how to read, teach so well,
That they themselves, by teaching, learn to
spell"
But, at the same time, how many male
teachers can we find that are no better,
and no more deserving.
l demand only, for the sake of right,
that female teachers receive equal pay
for equal labor. Not that love "school
marms's more, but that l love justice
better. w. S. NJ.
VINToN, 'GALL1A Co., Jan. Is, '69,
Eg- Aightning cross-cut saw was
tried, the other day, in the navy yard
at Philadelphia. A nine-by- four-inch
nlank was first sawed off in five Sec