The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1905-10-28
STANDING OF our COUNTRY SCHOOLS
Other Counties Declared be Worse Of Than 0O and Our
Country Schools Improved Each Year.
GOUNTM SCHOOL HOUSES BUGI OF Loss MTH 10 sETy
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verify. This good day Of civil
ization and progress demands
better things of us. Our best
interests demand il and our
posterity demands it of rs.
If the task is great, the great
er the need that it be accom-
plished, and the greater will be
the glory in its consumnation.
/ have faith and reliance in the
brain and Drawn of the people Of
this county and territory. II
have implicit faith in q majority
of the teachers Of this county,
and it is my constant desire and
prayer that ] may be able to
help, encourage, and enthuse
them and march in the van from
victory to victory and on to final
conquest.
Much has been done already. /
New school houses are going up
every year. Ten new ones have
gone up in the last five years
two of these by the hand Of your
humble servant and three more
are in contemplation for next
year.
Thus are the people advancing
with their part of the procession.
Are we doing as much. We
must keep ahead or fall out of
the ranks entirely. We have
only afew second grade tsaehefs
left now Ia the county and they
are good ones. The rest are all
first grade.
Now with sunshine that out
does California and rivals Italy I;
a health resort acknowledges the
world over to be the best, forests
of evergreens that would charm
the eyes Of the Green Noun
tain Boys" bubling springs that
would put those of Hampshire's
Hills to shame; rocks bursting to
tell their story that they have
kept secret million years; birds
with inimicable feather and
warble; flowers enough unnamed
to make a new botany, We have
a right to anticipate . bright
future for the rural schools of
Otero county.
Did | tell you that the picture
has a brighter side? Yea, Ill
tell you more than that. You
do not know what real luxury
in teaching is if You have not
taught in some Of our mountain
districts in summer luxury Of
the purest, freshest, sweetest
air that ever bathed your tired
lungs, 4 luxury of the sweetest,
purest, coldest water that evel
mOistened your weary lips, .
choir trained BY nature to chant
ianthems to natures God, and "a
these must be added restful
land refreshing slumber, ! good
appetite a bountiful table, !
Ihospitable people. and children
as bright, strong. and aprecioui
as those that come from marble
palaces.
| II is no utopia that ! expect Il
see. But / do expect to see
good school within reach Of every
boy and girl-a good, comfort
liable, neat house with black
board all around the room, Will
comfortable desks, plenty d
good books and apparatus, ans
what is more an intereste,
/ patronage, and what is best d
all d well-qualiiied, welI-trained
well-read teacher who loves anl
enjoys her work, whose ambi
ti0ns is above pecuniaFy reward
iwhO laboreth for bread tia
llperisheth not. who can and vii
! teach
, From every bird that filttcth ~,
FFom every leaf that rustlos nlgh,
From every lower from each gree
splFe
A tFath thatpolnts 10 something bFIrhI
EEom every rock, from every hIIl,
EEom apssy work from rIpplIng III.
From every cloud that lloassth or
Can eafch ana tAash fkas. s.,ssts4 -.