Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-11-19
A Scientific Teacher.
How He Rather More Than Filled
the Bill.

the Bill.
"Two years ago this fall " said Uncle
Josiah Mindless ''there come long a
young Teller with pale yeller face an
head, an slick lookin', but slim tiger,
and wanted the position o. the school
Board. 1 have sense lost the Office, ow-
in partly to a slight change, politically.
in the surroundin' kentry, and partly to
the dereliction o. some o. MY friends.
swell, this was nice appearin', po-
lite young feller, an / soon foun' by
thrown him some questions cal'ated
TO briskly sound his education, ef he
he'd any, thet he knowed a-plenty to
teach in our deestric', an p'r'aps some
over. then tole i'm plainly thet al
though his mentalequilibrium like, was,
in my mind, fully established. his phys
ical mold of form har'Iy denoted the
necessary amount of muscle or wind fer
the place.
"We'd been considerably bothered,
told i'm, by hevin' he'd sich slender,
unwholesome chaps, who he'd rashly
undertook to run the school, git worst
ed in every encounter of Importance
they'd he'd with some o. the more ad-
vanced scholars. Durin' the last term,
on two or three 'casions, the onesided-
ness o. these contests he'd resulted in
the entire disruption, sorter, o. the
school,, an the retirin' to the neighbor-
in woods o. the schooi-teacher.
Nothing, said, seemed to tend
to the disorganization an gineral dis
quietin' o. the educational system of
our community as TO hev a teacher take
holt o. it thet he'd only mediocre attain
ments in back-heelin', collar an elbow
an plum out-an'-out knockin' down an
fallin' onto. candidly tole i'm that
rs afeered he ID be winded in few
roun IS even by some o. the Younger an
less ambitious pupils. What could we,
the School Board, hev to expect, then,
when he's tackled, an tackled he would
be, by one or more o. The head scholars.
weighin', after harvest. one hundred
and ninety pound in their bare feet.
There was pupils on the roll o. thet lit
tie country school, thet with one solid
jolt under the hat rim. could show him
more stars than all the colleges an OBJ
servatories In the hull Western Re-
serve.
HE looked leedle excited an more
earnest, like, at this, but said right OFF
he'd undertake it anyway eff he could
hey chance, as he was hard up an
wanted money bad to complete his the
illogical studies. / smiled some ct the
idee o. how them big six-foot students
nd help pave his way to the ministery.
well, we concluded to give i'm a
chance, as he knew somethin' already,
an was quiet an willin' to learn mores
an we hoped this experience would, on
the whole, at least not haYe tendency
to upset, but strengthen, rather, his
purpose in life. The day-school open
ed !; 1 made it pint to go roun' to tie
school-house, long bout the middle o.
the forenoon, determined rather IN to
hev, the clever young feller hurt I'D
take ham myself. On enterin' the
scbool-room rs surprised to at fust see
nobody but the slim young teacher, an
him very detected am anxious lookin'.
Goin' ways up the aisle, i seed two o.
the ole time ringleaders o. school-h0use
rackets settin' quietly in corner pale
an streaked an with heads.tied up, but
very intent on their lessons.
I" Ny friend,' said the teacher, Pm
altered your no doubt well intended
description o. these pupils, was, un-
wisely, very much oYerdrawn. B'liev-
in implicitly. every word We uttered, I
come yere determined to win or 't ID be
the fault o. the referee. An when
these two fellers showed 'et they's spill
in fer fight, I give it to 'em without
single stipulation, an the best he'd
in the shop, never thinkin' but what
they knew sonaethin' o. sparrin'. Yere
We see the result sweeping his arms
languidly over the empty benches an
towards the two damaged but studious
youths in the corner. o. course he
continued, Il knocked out the greenies
too quick for common exercise, an SO
doin' innocentiy got in on 'em so hard
that they'll be no good to study, though
now ever 50 keen, fer two weeks. The
rest o. the school tuck to the woods be-
fore the close O the fust an only
roun'."
'Sinkin' back into dispirited heap,
he wound up with: I'm feered I've
busted the school up.
An would ye believe itP We could
MT no more git single scholar to go to
school agin to thet feller than nothin'
So we finally he'd to fire i'm with two
hull months unearned pay in his pock-
cts.