The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-11-12
AN EXODUS
OF TEACHERS.
They Flock to POttSville to Attend
the Institute.
A DELAY IN DEPARTURE
The PedagOgues VIII Spend the Week
in Listening to Lectures by a Num-
Der of Brilliant Instructors.

School teachers by the score were at the
Lehigh Valley depot early this morning
attired in attractive winter garments,
cheeks ruddy with the glow of health and
faces beaming with smiles in anticipation
of the good time which awaited them at
vile this morning.
All the eyes of the incoming and outgo.
ing passengers fell upon the throng OF
pretty teachers impatiently waiting for
the Pottsville train and they were filled
with admiration. The teachers showed
clearly that they felt the shafts of atten-
tion. In the throng were the pedagogues
of the town, township and farming dis.
tricts, and a blind man could pick
out teacher from the respective dis
tricts. The train was about an hour late.
The Shenandoah teacher vented her i'm
patience with this expression, "What can
the matter be. Where is p. J. 2" The
township teacher said, "This is tough l
nearly broke my neck when I left the
patch this morning to make this train"
The modest farmers daughter who
teaches the young idea to shoot gazed in
tently at her hayseed admirer and NUT
tered, Zach, if Pd known that train
would have been so long l could have
done the milking this morning."
The travelling equipments were also in
great contrast. The Shenandoah girl car.
ried telescope satchel, the patch girl car
ried the regulation style, and the hay
maker carried her change for the week in
paper. One young girl had forgotten to
turn the paper so as to hide the advertise
ment of the storekeeper and as she stood
on the platform the spectators read IRE.
geants' Best. Give it Trial" on her
grip"
Owing to an accident at No by which
a car was thrown off the rails the train
bound for Pottsville did not arrive here
until ten o'clock. 1t was made up of five
cars and the teachers filled almost every
seat. The delay prevented the teachers
from reaching the institute until nearly
Ii o'clock this morning The session
opened at nine.
This is the thirty. second annual session
of the teachers institute of Schuylkill
county, and it will bring into reunion
over six hundred teachers. They will be
in daily attendance until and including
next Friday. 1t will undoubtedly be a
season of much social and intellectual
profit to the teachers, as County Superin-
tendent q. w. Weiss Las succeeded in
bringing together most excellent faculty
of instructors and the talent engaged for
the course Of entertainments includes
some of he most brilliant minds of the
Eastern, Mid lie and Western states
Among the instructors are DR.. A. r..
Winship, Boston, Mass. Dr. John b.
DeMotte, Cambridge, Mass; Miss Sarah
l.. Arnold, Minneapolis, Minn.; DR., S. c..
Schmucker, Indiana; DIR. E. o. Lyte
Millersville; DR.. w. w. Deatrick, KutZ
town; DR.. George NJ. Phillips, Wes
Chester and Dr. George w. Hull, Millers
vile. All the day sessions are open to the
public, free of charge. They are devoted
to lectures and discussions on school work.
The course of entertainments will b.
opened this evening by debate on Tariff
VS.. Free Trade, Hon. R G. Horr, of Nichi
sahg bdhlliS bAV oAAE VI pAObCNbAO4 dhN
H IN. M. d. Harter, of Ohio, advocating
free trade Tomorrow evening there will
be vocal and instrumental concert in
which the Ariel Ladies' Quartette of Bos-
ton, and William A. Mccormick, of Chi
cago, will take part. On Wednesday even
ing Prof, John r. De Motto Will give an
! illustrated lecture and the season will be
closed on Thursday evening by the Franz
Wilczek grand concert company.
On Friday the teachers will devote part
of the day to voting for place at which
to hold the next institute, pass resolutions,
listen to farewell addresses and early in
the afternoon start for their respective
homes.
One of the adjuncts of the institute will
be the School Directors county conven
tion, which will be held ou Wednesday.
Among the questions to be discussed will
be should the state furnish free text
books for all public schools g' and "Should
the state superintendent ofpublic instruc
tion have supervision of the methods Of
teaching in pu blic schools in order TO in
sure greater uniformity ~
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