Arizona republican., 1894-09-30
TALES OUT OF SCHOOL.
The Trouble in District IA Un-
 dergoes Ventilation.
The Revival of an Old School Pas
 Down by Modern Science.

SYLLABUS. The respondent, R. A. Winsiow. was accused by divers and sundry, that is to say, about twenty patrons of q school in wh oh he had been employed as teacher Of unpro- fessional conduct, to wit:
 L In having encouraged fondling and os culatory performances indiscriminately among his male and female pupils.
 ?. In having permitted profane and vulgar language Dy rude boys within the hearing of little girls.
 8 In having addressed pupils in an i'm pIoper manner ano in unprofessiOna1 and un- kind language. The accusers petition the board of examiners for revocation of the re- spondents certificate to teach.
 Testimony was adduced from children 1n at- tendance at the school and from parents to whom said children had related what is al leged to have occurred. Evidence was con ficting and tended to establish only that an able bodied row was gaining headWay ln dls- trict No. 14 from which the case was appealed Jordan, U. J., held that the matter should be continued to another date pending the arrival Of a witness whom the petitioners sald was material Dalton, J., concurred unwillingly.
 Merry and well dressed children romped and laughed and shouted up and down the corridors and stairway of the court house yesterday all day long.
 They were witnesses in the famous case of half the patrons of District No. 14 vs R. A. Winslow on the accusations above recited, and they were expected to tell what they had been telling with more or less volubility during the past month or two.
 The matter was not taken up in any particular order, but usually began with an investigation of the charge that the defendant had encouraged, aided and abetted the violent kissing of Susie Cash by Tommy Henderson. Susie said so indignantly, Susie's mother averred it with shame and the naughty Tommy admitted it reluctantly. It was pretty generally established that the kissing had taken place, but the children were divided as to the teachers presence at the time. The preponder ance of evidence, however, showed that he WAS somewhere else al the time. There was conflict of testimony as to the venue. Some sad it happened be- hind the school house and some said 1t occurred in front of the seat of learning in District No. 14.
 The court and expectators were con- sequently confused, but there seemed to be prevalence of opinion that the ancient pastime of firing around rosy" with it's osculatory accompani- ment, without which the game was ever tame and uninteresting, had been re- vived in District No. A. The renais- sance of this all but forgotten means of willing away the dismal hours of noon and recess, those penitential periods in the life of every school boy, is to be regretted, but cannot be described as criminal.
 Advancement in physical and moral science has shown that the kiss is fraught with possible poison and moral injury, except in the cases of persons properly disinfected and legally author ized. Some people cling tenaciously though to old time ideas, and germ dis eases continue to spread and divorce courts to flourish. The children of dis trict IA knew nothing of up-to-date sciences
 Concerning the charges of want of discipline and the employment of un. professional language there was as great conflict of testimony, and the mind of the court was clad in a dress suit of doubt.
 An interesting episode was brought out in the course of an attempt to show that some of the boy witnesses were not wholly disinteressed. The teacher and one boy, Johnnie Goodman, had become involved in a dispute concerning variou! orthographical systems The teacher ruled arbitrarily and the boy went below in the spelling class after pugilistic effort to retain hi place. He continued to dispute ve hemently and expressed doubt concern ing the preceptor's views by telling hin he was liar. As he subsequently, went out of the dqor, with boyish impulse and cordiality he invited the teacher to go to hell.
 Another witness for the prosecution was Johnnie Stelreide, Is year olC boy, in whose testimony it was brough out that he had had conflict with th teacher and was interested in the pros ecution to such an extent that he hac constituted himself an officer Of the law in the serving of summons upon unwil ling boy witnesses to attend under th penalty of ''getting licked"
 It was shown by this and other wit nesses that the teacher threatened Ct put a head on" another boy, by whicl he may have meant either to do hin bodily injury or else to imply that h stood in need of capitular amendment
 It was developed that the attendanc was depleted. Some of the scholars lei because they didn't like the teache and others were withdrawn by thei parents pending an adjustment of tn dissension.
 One bright eyed little girl, Lilli Miller, said, My mother sent me another school because there was TO going on I didn't want to go back till