The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-01

lIS Iurn, derived some moral support
from the fact that Ellie Onderdonk had
taken place in the Babylon envelope
factory, and, having such affinities,
could not, of course, be suitable per-
son for teacher in Upper Nineveh.
As time went by the fame of Kate's
new departure reached beyond Upper
Nineveh. As Lawyer jenkins had pre-
dicted, the people of Babylon Center
became interested; from which thrifty
village, and from Babylon Bridge and
Babylon Lower Falls as well, came
curious school committees to see Miss
Revere and investigate her methods.
More than this, the Secretary of the
State Board of Education appeared one
day about Christmas, heard recitation
from the Greek class, made good
many inquiries, and afterward gave
Kate three complimentary lines in his
annual report. Naturally enough, all
this attention was flattering to the
Ninevites, who felt their own wisdom
in the choice of Miss Revere thereby
justified.
Tell you whatw the lawyer would
say gleefully to his clients got a
prize when we got Miss Revere, didn' t
we?"
And everyone but DIR. Barrows would
promptly acquiesce.
At length, when Christmas had gone
by, and Washington's Birthday was
only a recollection, and Fast Day APP
preached, it occurred to the members
of the committee that public examina-
ton might be a suitable opportunity for
magnifying the school and its teacher
and eXalting themselves. This idea
being suggested to Miss Revere was
readily accepted, and the proposed
event set down for the Wednesday pre-
ceding Fast Day.
Well, the day came; and all Nineveh
and its vicinity turned out to celebrate
the occasion. The Orthodox Church
had been offered for the exercises, as
furnishing larger accommodation than
| the school-hOuse; and as carriages and
people toiled up the steep hill on top of
which the church was conspicuous
landmark, its capacious pews promised
to be well filled. Inside, a platform
built up around the pulpit was banked
up to the rear wall with the scholars;
the girls mostly in white, with pink,
blue or magenta ribbons; the boys in
nankeen, with smoothly-slicked hair,
freckled faces, and amazing blue or
red neckties. The side seats to the left
were occupied by the committee; a
chair upon the platform was appropri-
ated to Miss Revere's use; while the
amiable visage of Lawyer jenkins, as
Chairman of the committee, beamed
complacently from the pulpit. All the
arrangements seemed to promise a
gratifying success, especially as every
body was in most self-satisfed frame
OF mind; the people, because their boys
and girls were on exhibition; the COM
mittee, because It's members were dis
played in the light of public educators;
and Miss Revere, in that her opportu-
nifty had come and she was about to i'm
prove it. Then, too, Kate could not
help being tlattered by the lawyers
opening speech, wherein he drew del
icate comparison between Hypatia of
old and a young lady mot 100 miles
from Upper Nineveh," somewhat to the
disparagement of the former; so that
the flush of gratified pride on Kate
ment in her musical voice, as she stood
up before the Latin class and asked the
head boy to decline g n1enSa--a table"
were not at all without their justification.
| cannot stop to tell how admirably
the Latin class acquitted itself; and
how, if anything, it was excelled by
the students in Greek; and how, too,
the five girls who made up the class in
Buffers g Analogy fairly wearied the
audience with their proficiency. In adj
dition to all which there were songs
and recitations and various other per
formances, lending variety to the pro-
gramme and keeping the people, on
the whole, sufficiently entertained. At
certain stage in the proceedings the
committee was expected to examine
the scholars on its own account. And
to this Miss Revere looked forward
with no little apprehension. What if
old Dr. Trumbull, who was the ortho-
doX minister and famous scholar,
should want to know something con-
corning the Digamma or the Greek
particles, about which neither Miss Re-
we're nor the good doctor himself, nor
anyone else, knew anything at all; or
Lawyer Jenkins, good deal of casuist
in his way, should perplex the girls
over some obscure demonstration in
Butler? So Kate fairly shivered until
DR.. Trumbull had contented himself
with the synopsis of Greek verb and
murmured appreciately: every good"
and the lawyer nodded complacently
over very short paragraph from the
Analogy" And then, when the dam
ger seemed past, and she began to
breathe freely, and the members of the
committee, with one exception, were
expressing their enthusiasm, and Law
yer jenkins was on the point of lean
ing over the pulpit and saying mechan-
ically to the people below: "Drew
prize, didn't e?h-the storm suddenly
broke from an unsuspected quarter. 1t
was the voice of DR.. Barrows that dis
PEELED the temporary silence.
"We have heard, Miss Revere" he
began, courteously, " an admirable per-
Torrance on the part of the young peo-
pie. The pains which you have taken
with them, in branches not usually
taught in district schools, must have
been very great, and your success is all
the more gratifying. And without
questioning at all, at this time, the
utility of these branches, or the pro-
Driety of giving to them so much atten-