The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-08
MUST MARRY TO TEACH.
Condition Which RI. O'Hanlon Imposed
in Making Appointments in
the Philippines. (

None but married men. or those will
ing to marry, need apply for positions
as teachers in the schools in the Philip
ceived in Milwaukee, Wis.,, from Prof.
Richard J. O'Hanlon, written short
~ before he rendered his resigna-
nation as superintendent Of schools
in the island of Bobol, P. I. The ma
tives want none but married teachers,
Prof. O'Hanlon writes, the men to teach
the boys and their wives to teach the
girls in the native schools.
1T is almost a necessary quaiica-
tion,' Prof. O'Hanlon writes, "for teach
ers to be married. especially in the small
er cities and towns. The demand is two
and the demand is beyond the supply.
This is true throughout the islands. I
have hired and certified eighty-five ma
tive teachers, which is about one-half
the number to be employed next year
besides the few American teachers who
are willing to come here.
lit is my duty to assign the teachers
and to fix their salaries. Have just ap-
pointed a principal of the provincial high
Tagbilaran. His salary is $500 in gold
or it's equivalent in local currency. Be-
cause of the desire of the natives to have
only married American teachers; that
is, to have both husband and wife to-
gether in one school, the man as teacher
of boys and the wife as teacher Of girls,
this man whom 1 have just appointed
has promised to marry before July 1,
when school begins. I nave assigned his
future wife, a lady from Missouri, now
en- route, as his assistant at a salary of
$1,000 a year, which o see means a
family income of $780,"
The six Americans in Tagbilaran are
still cautioned not to go outside of the
city limits and all of the work outside,
Prof. O'Hanlon writes, has been done
by correspondence with the officials, all
natives, of the other cities. All the
Ame1ic leans are cautioned to remain in
doors after dark. Because of these pre-
cautions the fact that stray monkeys are
continually running over the roof tops at
night or screaming in the cocoanut and
banana trees, making sounds sometimes
not easy to distinguish from human
voices, the situation is not one conducive
to undisturbed slumber and repose.
Speaking Of the natives, Prof. O'Han-
lon writes that "they have almost full
control of the island, aside from control
much their W way. The native priests
who have been the worst insurrectos
from the start, have apparently let go
of the idea that to be patriotic they must
oppose American control. If these ma
tives are let alone and not stirred up by
discontents from other islands, 1 do
not believe there will be any trouble
here.
Though this island is one of the most
healthful of the group, it is one of the
worst as far as the nerves are concerned.
It is free from malaria, cholera and con-
sumption, but it harbors hundreds of
lepers and it is most trying for persons
of a nervous temperament. The Asiatic
cholera has been raging in and about
Manila and there have been more than
5000 cases., according to the reports re-
ceived here, with fully so per cent. fatal,
but this island has had no visitation
thus far.
1--WE have no drinking water on the
island save what we catch to drink when
it rains. Thus far 1 have had a good
supply of Shasta water which we get in
bottles from San Francisco. Drinking
water costs me more per day than all
the other expenses Of board combined.
Shasta water and the delicious liquid
contents Of fresh cocoanuts, which grow
in our yard, constitute my only bever-
age.'