Year: 1872




ventative, more or less, OF the evil which after
all is better than cure. The pedagogic pro-
fession in the aggregate is not one, though to be
| sure person is very apt to think SO, that is
sought for by the fair sex to hunt up matrimo-
nial alliances. Why should it? Who would like
to lean on him for support who has perma-
nency to residence, but is as fitul as an gnis
.fattaS? Here to-day and away on the morrow.
The gentlemen above alluded to may, in
tain district ply his calling for term, say con-
s;sting of few months and then as everybody
knows, or may know if he takes the trouble, are
discharged for some alleged reason, whether just
or not is but Of little consequence to know. Then
they off to another district where they are
again hired for o short term, as before. And ESQ
they 60 the interninable round. till utter disgust
at their calling drives them somewhere else to
seek employment of more fixed and steady
character or till death finally closes their career.
That this abnormal condition of affairs in
school system should be tolerated for moment,
or tamely submitted to ty teachers, and espe-
cially by lady teachers, or that its sutferance
there at all should be allowed, is indeed more
than l can we'll understand; and can look for its
explication in no other manner except in the
perversty of intellect that stamps that action
good and perfect to-day which but few short
months ago it damned as as heterodox and vi
cous, and rice rersa. How long then will teach
ers suffer themselves to be subjected to the ig-
nominy of being ruled in this manner by those
WHIMSICAL spirits? II they so suffer it, let them;
not /. The following incidents, which received
from vertabe authority, and which, with many
more of the kind--if get them-I intend to lay
before the public in the department column of
future issues, will convince you by visible illus
tration, which is at all times preferable to math
ematcal proof, of the himsiness and futility O.
the pretexts under which teachers are often dis
charged, and refused to be ra-employed:


Several years ago at the time when the Teach
ers' Institute was held at Dutch Flat under the
auspices of Mr.. Goodrich, he being the County
Superintendent. the ladies were carried there ii
is said by his order or suggestion, in carriages,
Iiveried in goodly style, and chaperoned, as
natter of course, by knights of the ferue. One
gallant knight. with his fair concomitant,
driving down to Gold Run, a steep decline.
at the rate of 2:40, when suddenly the road made
short turn to the left s9y at an angle Of 800 at
least. The gent, not being a disciple of the
famous Rarey ana being likewise untutored in
either horse-management or horse driving, Sec
ing preciptous descent ahead, and realizing
his fearful situation, hallowed Gee! gee!' un-
fortunately for himself and his fair companion
instead of Whoa whoa!' and pulling at the
same time the right instead of the left check.
The docile animals, obedient to their driver,
were irresstably and in an instant carried over
the precipice into pond some twenty feet be-
low, carriage and freight following in wild and
terrible confusion. Fortunately, however, for
the hero and heroine of this adventure, the con-
tents of the pool into which they fell were in
part made up of salmon colored water and
Georgia slickns "a nice mixture, you beD, to
which happy circumstance no doubt is due the
safety of their lives, or at any rate their necks.
Assistance being promptly at hand they were
soon rescued from their perilous situation AMI
placed once more on terra frma. The sable
knight for SO he was then, proceeded to the In
stitute. the lvdy sought refuge in the ad-


joining hotel (where I now pen these lincs).
Whether her not accompanying her lord to his
destination was owing to the discomfort she lay
under from the ponderosity of her neither gar
ments (for those were the days of crinoline)
which she could not disencumber herself Of
OWING to tie adhesive quality OF the nice mix
ture aforesaid, or whether it was that horse-fesh
failed to haul the cumbroul load, or the carriage
to bear up the tonnage thus enormously increased
by the unhappy circumstance narrated. haven't
heard, neither have l inquired. John China
mans detefsives were pat into requistion and
everything soon wore cleanly, though faded,
aspect. But did that maiden ever love the 'un-
lucky lout, " as she called that teacher? No, in
deed. After that he n ct with no sympathetic
response in the bosom of her whom once he
worship ped never more. He even became the
butt OF the punster; was for his non-profciency
as charioteer, deemed by the trustees of his
distaict incompetent teacher, and ae-
cordingly dismissed; and 'ts even said that his
certificate was revoked for the same reason by
the vrtuous Chase. Now, it will be asked what
is the drift of all this have been so glibly talk
ing about? Why it is this: If Mr., Kinkade (by-
the-way, himself may be on the look ont) take will
the trouble Of making each teacher a fixture in
the district in which he teaches there will be less
old maids and fewer baches in this country very
shortly And if he discountenances the silly
pretexts set up for the change of teachers this
happy consumation will be the more speedily
brought about That's so. Reader, hope this
will satisfy you. KATIE.


IT is feared here that Miss Minnie Carter was