Sharp County record., 1888-11-08
ASH FLAT NEWS

will open Monday, the l2th INST, or
term of five months. Is it neees-
sary to remind the people that Its
success or failure will not deptnd
alone upon the teachers ? 1t has been
remarked before in the columns of
the RECORD that it requires an entire
community to teach school, and we
believe that remark is self-evident at
all times and in all places. Parents
are assuredly teachers in the truast
sense of the word, and the respoDsl>
ibilty resting upon them is every
whit as grave as the duty imposed
upon the teacher. Granted that
teachers do their whole duty, the
work is incomplete without your s.
sistance. Are you and each of you
willing and ready to bear your part
of the BURDEN? While the teachers
are endeavoring to direct the steps
of your children in the paths of
knowledge, and to prepare them for
the active duties of life, will you
lend a helping hand at your own
freside by scounselling them to rs-
spect their instructors, to strict obe-
dience and to close, earnest, pains
taking appreciation to their studies |?
You can do this, and this you must
do if you discharge your full duty
toward them. Do not let it escape
your consideration that the teacher
is fallible beng, just as likely to
err as any other human being; and
in view of the fact that in assuming
control of the school he places him
self in the stead of every patron of
the school, with the contending tenn
peraments, methods and theories of
each to be reconclled, is it strange
that he should need your heartiest
cooperation to enable him to sur
mount the innumerable obstacles
incident to pedagogical careerP Do
you have any difficulty in enforcing
obedience among your children If
so, is it not well to recall the fact
that he has to secure obedience from
every child in the neighborhoodf "a, :
you have trouble yourself in instrucs-
ing them, or in curbing their idle
and sometimes evil propenslties 7
Then recollect that the teacher is
dealing with much larger number
and his labors as a consequence pro-
portionately increased. Say nothing
in the presence of the child to the
detriment of the teacLer. If you
have complaints go to the teachers
in person or to the directors, who are
the legally constituted authority to
correct abuses, and make your charg-
es. Two or three objectors who
delight in giving publicity to their
views can dampen the ardor of host
of jealous supporters of any project
Do not be an obstructlonlst but work
in harmony with teachers and dis
trict officers, and you will assuredly
be amply rewarded by the r1pid ad-
vancement of your children to a
higher educational plane. The matter
is committed to your hands. What
course do you intend to persue?
A miniature cyclone, following the
track of the memorable storm of
1888, which demolished Lacrosse,
visited the vicinity of this place at
an uncomfortable proximity, last
Friday afternoon. A heavy wind,
accompanied by binding torrents of
rain began to blow a little after two
o'clock continuing for nearly thirty
minutes when it entirely subsidized
but the rain continued for perhaps
an hour. While no damage resulted
in town, considerable loss was sus>
tanned by parties residing in the
vicinity. A large barn at Mrs. Watts
was lifted from its pillars and depos-
tied on terra frma without other
injury, and some fencing and a great
deal of timber was blown down on
her farm and others adjoining. The
wind seems to have gathered force
from this point and vented its fury
at j. E. Vanzant's, where 1t unroofed
the somkehouse, destroyed a frame
side-room, driving some of the tins
bers into the house with violence,
blew down about 200 panels of fence
and literally ruined his corn and
cotton then standing in the field.
Fortunately none of the family were
at home or sadder casualty might
have been recorded Reports from
the country west and southwest in
dicate considerable damage to fencs
ing and timber, but nothing of a
more serious nature.
A falling tree killed COW belong
ing to w. G. King during the cy,
clone last Friday.
We are glad to note that Uncle
Bob Orr's health is improving with
the approach of winter.
rbo oo+to, ,r;p ot tbic D1ona now