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Teacher-A Great Summer Some
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Dunnsyile. Va. Sept, 18th, 1904
The public scho0ls Of Bsppahanuoch
district will open On Monday, Oet. I'd
There IL "A disposition throughout thlt
section 10 lengthen the school term and
TO increase the salaries OF the teachers
These things, however, must come ABOUT
by degrees, we are told, The term hAi
outgrown the salary anyway, tOr that
has Jumped from i've months ~ eight IN
year or two, while the salaries have
moved very few pegs in the right dlrec,
ton rs the teachers ses II. The truth Ol
the matter IL, unless the salaries are very
materially increased the male teachers
will be lvfced 10 give up the profession
Why, $40 week, $40 a month, ID a
smAll salary Tor the average city sales
man, " nile many OF them receive 81 SUI
IA year. A physician VINO does not make
; 900 a year is doing a poor business
even ia the county. Even the negroes
who work in our Iish factories frequent
ly make $40 month. The average sal
ary of our country minister ip about
5000 a year, with parsonage, marriage
fees, and several poundings thrown IN
for good measure We think he ought
10 have $1,000, a better parsonage,
more fees, and pounding every month
but the poor teacher, with a mission as
important "a any on this broad earth
whose preparation costs az much and
frequently more. whose experience g Ine
years of faithful toll, must wear out his
patience at $50 a month for six months
and suck his thumbs the rest OF the year
unless, perchance. he sells books or tries
To work crop. And yet there ATE peO
Die who, themselves supposed to be edu.
Gated. will say that the teachers selsry
IL large enough as il IL, and who suggest
that he could not make more than $50 a
month in a store, and not the hall of II
if he worked on a farm. This IL not
fancy but fact. and such people should
hang their heads in shame Tor comparing
profession which stands side by SIDE
With the ministry 20 the day labOrer on
farm. We said "themselyes supposed
to be educated, Indeed with us tht
suppOsitiOn is very thin. n TACT We
scarcely suppose in that diFegti0n az all
On the other hand, We verify believe thai
people who so demean the value oil d
true trainer OF the youth OF our lsud are
of that number who have but a very
small taste of Pope's "Pierian Spring;
in fact, we would venture to 20 further
and SOY that some OF them would spend
the rest of their natural lives in prison 1
PAIRING Peter went to town" correctly
were necessary 20 their getting out. Per
sonalIy we have no complaint. Our sal
ary has been raised, our term lenK thened
and our patrons will pound US with
about 5000 or more, In appreciation OI
our WORK. This Is not, altogether, hal
Of Whss we have received elsewhere and
are offered now, but who wants 70 leave
land of milk and honey like this, and
| lust at the very time when sweet p0ta
toes are ready to roast and chinquapint
are bursting out OF their bursl
This hos been a great summer, presi
Dental st. LonisfAir, camp
meetings, war In the East, good pric.
for wheat. and-well a supeFsbuldsnet
Of heas. Big Aeas, little fieas and mean
propOrtionals Of Heas. All hungry and
ready for immediate business The why
and the wherefore OF this insects exist
ence is unknown TO us. II here to annoy
the very life out OF those whose blood
they love, then surely they do their duty
most faithfully. Was Job ever attacked
by them2 Our Bible history memory
and lots OF other divisions OF our recall
ing power have forsaken us. for we are
of that unfortunate number whom the
miserable creatures torment day and
night Some people they never touch
And there are some who can handle
noiaon oak at any season with impuhity.
strange about this. But that mortal
whom Aeas trouble not may be counted
among the blessed of this earth. Did
Won ever observe how far one OF these
little athletes can Jump? 1t has bfen cal
cuIated that if q flea were rs large the
average man and had the hopping pow
er which it now has, in proportion to its
size. it could easily hopttom Washington
city to Hong Kong st one bound
Whence they came and whittier they go
Ia mystery, but II they should happen
to Ioas the reckoning which fetches them
to this landing, there would be great re-
joicing.
Rev. Ritchie Ware preached at Kappa.
hammock church Sunday morning, and
Rev. Mr. Kertord filled his regular ap-
pointment at Ephesus,
The protrAeted drought has affected
the late corn seriously. We hardly think
hai crop will be made.
The farmers are cutting their pea hay
early this year,
The Essex mill is not at WORK on az
count of low water in the pond, A tur'
hine wheel does excellent work, but 1t re-
qHires full head of water.
Or. Alfred Bagby, OF Baltimore, has re,
turned TO that city. The Doctor has had
line sport hunting in our marshes
The summer girls, like the sumner birds
are leaving one by one, and the 'me
BOYS are as sad az lost child.
The third annual eolored | AIR VIII be
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