The Newtown bee., 1895-10-04

While Connecticut has suffered to some
extent In the past few weeks from the
effect Of the drouth, we may be thankful
that we have not had to experience the
calamity which has been the hard lot of
the people of Colorado, Wyoming, Mon
tana, and other far Western states. Our
friend and esteemed correspondent,
Henry Clay Judd of Bethel, has placed
in our hands copy of the Rocky Noun
tain News, published at Denver, Col,
which is filled with the details of the
havoc wrought by the storm of Septem-
Der 81. In regard to the extent of the
storm the News says:
In the fall of 1866 there was a tall OF four or
iVe inches of snow in the last week of Septem.
Dor, and the first territorial fair had to be
postponed on account of it. Never since, so
far as can be remembered, has there been so
early and so furious n snow storm In the
mountain region. 1t has extended over q
wide area OF territory, reaching down from
Montana into Wyoming, Utah and Colorado.
In and about Denver, the storm
wrought it's worst. This is what the
News says:
The sight that greeted the eyes of the early
risers yesterday morning was one never be
fore seen in Denver. Not q tree in the city
stood upright, and some were seen that were
bent double with the weight OF snow. STREE
cars were compelled to take out corps o
axmon to clear the tracks OF debris and brok
on limbs, while whole trees lay with their topi
stretched across the street.
Unfortunately the storm was not con
fined to Denver. In Greeley the News
gives this picture of the situation.
Greeley now presents scene OF desolation
the trees being broken and branches scatter
cd over the ground. The sidewalks along thu
main streets were rendered impossible b!
broken branches. Much damage was done Il
telephone and electric light wires. 1t is hare
TO estimate the damage in dollars and cent
caused by the snow, as money could not re
place the handsome shade trees, so long TIN
pride of Greeley, which have been destroyed
In the November Forum, under tn,
head of higher pay and better training
for teachers of the public schools, j
Gilmer Speed writes with force on thi
and other school topics. Among othe
things he says: "The great cause which
binders public education in this countr.
is the fact that the people, the citizens
the voters, have no genuine love for edu
cation and no real appreciation of wha
learning Is. II their interest and thei
appreciation amounted to anything, the.
would see to It that the school trustee
and school commissioners were them
selves persons of education and cultiva
ton. And any school that is conductet
by teachers who are uneducated and un
trained In the art of teaching is likely t.
do as much harm as good. BY laws W
protect litigants from falling into tn
hands of pettifoggers who have not bee
admitted and licensed to practice at tn
bar after regular course of instruction
So, too, we protect sick people from tn
ignorance of physicians not regularl
graduated from school of medicine
But our teachers, though after a pre-
functory examination they acquire
certificate to teach, in six cases out Q
ten are young women with no heart !
their work, and but an Intention to TO
low the trade until they are invited {
marry intwo other cases they are youn
men who wish to support themselve
while studying what they consider
real profession in another the teacher
an incompetent; while In the remainin
case OF the stated 10 the teacher Is likel
to be a serious person seriously pursuin
lifework because he or she Is interes
ed In the work and conscious of its hig
nobility. Here we have four classes {
teachers where there should only be on,
And until there is only one the publ
schools In the United States will continu
to be what they are to-day,-a reproac
to our boasted civilization, refutatio
OF our much-vaunted pride in free edu
cation.n