Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-03-07
New Advertisements,

FALsrAFF-"I do begin to perceive that | am
made an ass"
FoRD-"Ay, and as OK, too-both the proofs are
eXtant."
The South River School Board is in trouble
Drought 10 erIrf'-aBd their com1,atriots who
have gone into exile, Watson and ranger, are by
40 means the Innocent lads they fancy them
elves to be. These ex members charged
with being naughty fello VS. and must atone foi
III tEeir little peccadiloes pe:petrated against IN
tred Innocence The press, that potent engine
II wealth, is invoked to do the work Of death
A rows have been long soaking in detdliest poi-
5pn-th wounds inflicted are beyond cure
"ound 10 Mill. But to abandon The igu e. The
advertisement in the VINDICAToR Of the 2Sth ul-
nmo: is unique 10 its structure and design the
instrument has been so disguised by various
unkers aS to have lost all the eAr-marks of the
'riglnal, and what was designed by the docu-
nent originally, as an array of arguments Tor
upsettlng the present school arrangement in IL
certain quarter, fzzled out in Goa rse inveclive
against the School Board in general and certain
members thereof in particular This paper, call
u what you may, his long been struggling to
see dayIght-its maternal anguish has been
fearful, that bantng thus deformed should
nave so ndlf-renlly compensated public eXpec-
'ation +! The pubic has been restless for months
under promise Of s,n,.hing, and they've got
1t. The Free School system implies great deal.
It's all free. Free labor on the ;art of Trustees
free for every body to find fault; and Trustees
have faults-iree to costume that pleases
them best-ears as long as they have a mind to
or horns-as did the mirth provoking Sir
John, at the instance of that witch of fun and
rolic, Mrs. Anne Page. single statement in
the Notwithstanding schools might have been
sustained in the 5. Il. District in 1872, each
teacher at S36 per month MtraLile dactu! le
schools acere mught at $50 per month per teacher,
aud the result Was that the Board found itself in
tebt to teachers at the end Of the term, and had
TO borrow from surplus to its credit on Dis
rict account, to relieve he teachers who, other
wise, would have held their warrants unpaid till
the year following, that loan to be refunded this
year. This being so, what becomes of your 80
teachers and of $31? All bosh. Go to Treas
urer Tams-thsre's the thing to show tor itself
ANYBODY wanting to know, can know -anyb body
relying on such figures as 4 gives you, never
Will know IT den1nclation was u cure for Cor
ruption and seifshness, the Board Of Trustees of
). r. District have beer thoroug hly paid. Tried
IS silver is trisd and R. sitting us u refner, finds
his faultIess image reflected in The molten mass
Want of Courtesy to Petitioners want of
courtesy to the board might have been meant
any verbal errors of that sort we will compromise
on fair terms-will not hel1 r. to strict account
for slips of the tongue, or pen; things done by
proxy are always more liable to blunders. Now,
r., the Board has not been Ggh ting against your
scho i house that's a kiak you We got in your
uoddle; the chairman and Others of the board
Won call nauehls names, because your house was
not taken into the family of free schools. If that
school house had never been buiit, is there not
accommodation provided for every scholar with.
in your school bounds, at distances equally con-
venient with the average Of the district or
county If that sch Of is established, does it not
10 .ardis- the existence of two or three schools
surrounding? and to disnterested parties the
m .nisnauce of the schools already gives prom
Use of furnishing larger scope Of country edu-
cational facilities than could otherwise be hoped
for, and hence, for the present, the action of the
board Many call it wise. R. calls it otherwise
and bv very ugly names. Don't do so--don't.
mar7-ltS 2. "