The Clifton clarion., 1889-04-19
Leaves from Pima.

.; OuT schools have closed for the term
 Thus many teachers are left withou
 employment and many children tt
 drift upon the tide of thoughtlssselif1
 and inactivity till the daWning O
 another scholastic year. We opine thi'
 is the same ill other districts, so we car
 review the many-tinted drama of the teachers experience.
 No doubt some of the fraternity feel encouraged, because they have had 8 pleasant and profitable time, enjoying the sympathy and faithful co-opera- ton of the trustees; while, on the other hand, it may be not few have be- come discouraged. But to them we would say; Yours is the usual expe- rience amid the common allotment of a professional life. It may be best that your sea has been rough and that adverse winds have drifted you out upon the pillows of strife and commo- ton. It may be that you are better sailor because of what you have expe- ricnced. An uninterrupted peace may not have been best for your future life. It often begets lethargy and stim. ulates but few of the nobler principles of our nature. As an occasional light ming flash is needed to purify the at mosphere so an occasional warfare seems necessary to arouse the latent energies of our being. To meet with opposition in any cOmmcndablc un- dertaking is conclusive evidence that the enterprise is something and that those engaged in it are somebody.
 The true teachers may be lesser lights in the bright Armament of let ters, yet they deserve to be watched and regarded for what they betoken to the hopeful gaze of our country. If their influence refers to less obvious things it leads to higher interests, to enduring principles-brlnging trans port to the mind, and dropping seed that shall bloom and ripen into fruit for perpetuity.
 On last Sabbath we received visit from Judges Heney and Lowell, ac- companied by pr. Lacy of Clifton, who were the guests of Hyrum Welch. His honor, Judge Barnes, was also with us, having accepted the in- vitation of Wilfred Webb for "a social visit. We are proud of our Wilfred, now a young man ofsplendid physique md the promise of aglorious a man. hood almost realized. Raised on a farm, he early had instilled into his nature spirit of economy, prudence md thrift. In his maturing manhood | these sensible habits clung to him. We Ire constrained to remark that if Mir. | Webb had more imitators life on the | whole would be far more pleasant with no probable sting ofpoverty ex- racted for our declining years. Some eighteen months ago he was united in marriage with Miss Burns and the with them still persists, md very likely will, like Tennyson's Brook, Ego on forever
 We think our guests were favor lbly impressed with the efforts of our people to make for themselves some hing worthy of being called by that glorious, impassioned, and heaven word, "home,' and of which We think they can say, "Everything II this house is mine, every timber. very brick, every door-sill." Homes which resound with all styles of inno- ent mirth, which will pather up in our hildrcn's nature reservoir of ex- lberance that will pour down re- reshing streams when life gets pareh- d and the days come, and the lights 70 out and the laughter is cmothcred nto sob.'
 NEPHI.
 Pima, April IS, 1889.