Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-04-09

. response. tbs secretary
|oined with his collcagueS in advance
ing the work Of construction which
was going on at the Forks There
was not little speculation as to what
sort of q person the new teacher would
be, and we concluded that he was
likely to be of the sickly, earnest, un-
practical missionary type.
One afternoon, about three weeks
after the first directors meeting, / was
At Hawley's store waiting for the after
noon mail, and discussing with him
the ACCESSIBILITY Of writing again to the
bureau While we were talls-
ing q blackboard ratified up to the
door, and presently a-well, was go
ing to say an angel, but there was
rather too much of an atmosphere of
perfectly human health about the |
vision at the door to describe her that
way-presently some one asked, In the
sweetest Of feminine voices: els this
the post Officer"
An electric shock couldn't have
started us to our feet more suddenly.
Itwas an hour to mail time, and HasN-
ley and 1 were alone in the store. Our
hats were off in quarter OF
second, and would have given
great deal if I hadn't taken
off my coat and braces up at
the cabin. Hawley rose and went
towards the vision, acknowledging
with shocking matter -of-fact Bene-
dictine bow the next question: us
this Mr.. Hawley?" Then she-thc
vision-continned: 81 am Miss Fiske.
| OF Denver. I came to sec about tho
| school here. 1 understand . teacher
| was wanted"
i hal va1a h NM a
| weak gesture, and came forward.
.Miss Fiske-ah-ah-Mr Lawrence,
! the secretary" and Hawley retreated,
| leaving mo to explain to the vision that
| we wanted a man teacher.
But Miss Fiske had come to get that
school She was bound to have it, and
| we couldn't do any thing but lot her try
| it. What else could few helpless
men do?
SO when, a few days later, a letter
was received from young man at
| Omaha who wanted the position, OF
| which he had heard through the teach
| ers' bureau, the writer was duly in
formed that the placs had been filled;
| and Miss Bertha Fisl1e was installed rs
principal and corps Of instructors ut
the Kingbolt Forks ''academy,' rs
most of its patrons were pleased to
cali it.
About . week after the opening of
the school the board of directors made
| q call of state upon the teacher and her
flock, and Miss Fiske reported prog
| ress as we'll as three or four cases OF
! well-deservcd trouncings she had adj
ministered just where they would do
the most good. She pointed out the
trouncees and intimated that they had
suddenly developed heretofore unsus-
pected goodness.
1t was evident that Miss Bertha
Fisl,e was not only an excellent
teacher, but had practical ideas of dis
cipline We took a vote before we sep
arated and unanimously decided that
the new teacher was success.
She also made a great hit socially,
ind in less than a fortnight after her
arrival was star boarder at the home
of Maj. Densler, manager of the Star
Of the West, and she and Mrs. Denslcr
were bosom friends
There were a number of other peo-
pie in camp who would have given all
they possessed to occupy the position
of bosom friend to Miss Fiskc. These
were. It must be stated, mostly men. o.
whom there were at least twenty O
the eligible variety. ! am quite conf
dent that a frank confession on the
part Of the seven or eight bachelor:
who became regular callers at Maj
Densler's would develop the fact tina
. round half dozen availed themselves
during that fall, of opportunities more
, or less favorable for proposing to thu
: pretty schoolma am. But she couldn'
accept all Of them, and wouldn't &C
. cept one. I am inclined to think tina
she gave each and every one of them
. big sisterly lecture, winding up with
. | serious dissertation on the mission o
a womankind and an argument in favo
= of universal celibacy, for I overheard
. belong and Parry, two of the rejeSe'
3 ones, comparing notes, and their cN
!. periences were strangely similar.
+ wondered why Stansbury was s
l. | indifferent / was, for reasons unnec
a essary to explain, merely locker. OF
q and could, therefore, give the matte
( DISTINGUISHED study. I had only know,
= Stansbury few months, he havin
j. come to the camp a stranger the wir
Y ter previous but we had been thrown t.
Q gether a good deal, and l had often hear
" his opinion on the subject Of women an
Z matrimony-and they were not yer
complimentary or acknowledgements
r opinions Still, l have heard othe
h men talk as he did, and have observe
l. that when the enemy appears, at som
period, they capitulate even more easil
1han do some other men. l had rattle
expected that Stansbury, under the ci
cumstauces. would succumb to tt
charms of the pretty schoolma' am
but he didn't He called upon her ;
often as any of the other boys did, b'
his spirits remained the same. and
didn't grow pensive or lose his app
tite. tried to draw him out once
awhile by mentioning Miss Fislse, b
he treated the subject in his usual O
hand way. Not that he made discou
teous remarks about Miss Fiske-l
was enough of a gentleman not to n
ply any Of his coarser remarks to al
individual mem Der of the sex. But