The Caldwell News-Chronicle (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1899 Page: 6 of 10
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atíonal ^Department.
Se prof. 3. C. WUrtt .
ta Mm
•re hundred of young
in thin nation who are juat
sting1 their common school
and. who are asking
lives the question: «What
we do now? Many have
ivilege of stepping into the
school, academy or college
: chances to be located near
while the rest keenly feel
truly can
l penury «upprew the noble rage
I chill the genial current of the
•out.
.A determination to prevent this
lition leads many an earnest,
rhtful being to the «Land of
Pedagogue, whose inhabit-
are usually respected and
>red by a large proportion of
lumbia's children and who re*
f some compensation for their
r.
¡This state has many gaps and
puses into other desirable realms
—in fact, many worthy travelers
pssa through it for the sole pur*
of finding an easy route
their cherishcd destination,
ley say: «We use teaching as
stepping-stone to something
ler. Many persons differ
them in that sentiment,
iking there can be nothing
ler than good, conscientious
:hing. They simply step to
lething else—usuallv to some-
iking lower.
The first thought of the \oung
aspirant is: Can 1 secure a teach-
r*scertificate? When that doubt
been agreeably settled, he
cssts around to see if be can find
mitable school. Such a school
| is usually found in the poorer dis-
tricts of the country, and herej
lie puts forth bis maiden effort.
Tith the exception of the hard
>blems his larger pupils may
give him to «get him stuck. he
thinks his troubles are over, and
there is where he makes a big
mistake. When he thinks the
gaining of a teacher's license,
s contract with a district and
the power to master the hard
«samples solves th<* common-
school probfem he is as badly
" itaken as the learned profess-
ors are when they attempt to
aolvejt by rigid grading. Here
«re some of the difficulties he may
expect:
Poor equipments for self.
Poorly equipped pupils.
Poorlv equipped school prop-
erty.
Lethargic trustees.
Indifferent patrons.
"When the teacher comes home
with h is first license in his pocket
lie feels himself weighed in the
balance and found all right, par-
ticularly so if he chances to get a
first-grade. This conviction re-!
mains with him until the first day
of school threatens to arrive very
«Son; then he begins to search
Iris memory for the way his teach-
er did. How did he open school?
How did he keep the small people
iMisy? He now wishes that he
Icaew by heart scores of things
lich he has forgotten. He re-
lembers things pertaining to his
rn class, but classes to which
lie belonged in the dim and ever
limming past come up as blanks,
was in them, but how did his
:her conduct them? He feels
ire that he knows enough, but
is he going to do?
You meet a good many patrons
youriichool. They persist in
Iking about how everything was
n they went to school. They
I! give instruction to whip, to,
i hard, and not to whip at all;
but the apelling-
use the
spelling-book st all. You must
teach arithmetic, and must be
careful about teaching arithme-
tic — only numbers, you know;
you must teach grammar and not
teach it, and so on through the
entire curriculum; and after you
have heard all that can be said to
aid you, you will find out in some
way that the reason for much of
your peculiar instruction is that
the parent is more concerned
about the money expended on
text-books and the time lost from
work than about the progress of
the pupils. Finally it will appear
to you that many of your most
vociferous advisers really care
but little whether they have a
good or a worthless school.
At your first interview with the
trustees you may find one or more
who will inform vou that they
wish someone else had their of-
fice; that they do not receive any-
thing for their labor, and they do
not care to devote much time to
the service of the school, and even
inform you that they always get
all the cursing and no reward.
This is one bright gleam through
a dark cloud, for you were labor-
ing under the impression that the
teacher usually received the curs-
ing.
and find the yard fence wrecked,
outhouses destroyed, no shutters
to the windows, window lights
broken, doors bsttered and split,
blackboards few, and the floor so
open thst pieces of the stove may
fall through; no maps, charts or
globe; the only ornaments may
be immenae hieroglyphics drawn
by the amateur, juvenile artists;
and oh, the seata!
The first day arrives, and also
your pupils — one-half without
slates, pencils or tablets; big
books for little pupils and little
books for big pupils, the wrong
kind of books, no books at alt;
bashful pupils, arrogant pupils,
funny pupils, lovesick pupils and
pupils that would rather fight
than cat. All this and much
more is found in the great com-
mon-school question when its
work in the rural districts is con-
sidered.
Do not let this dark picture
frighten you. One school may
not have all of these defects-- and
they have not all been enumerat-
ed but may be deficient in one
or two particulars only. I can-
not believe there are many dis-
tricts that have them all —'tis a
pitv there are any. It may be
that you are the very person to
whom will be granted the honor
of eradicating every imperfec-
tion. Just bear in mind that the
great honor which underlies
teaching applies as firmly to the
one who instructs well the rural
I *
youths as to him who instructs
his more fortunate cousin in the
Isrger semiaaries of learning.
This fsct mtfy he nicely illustra-
ted by a story told of Admiral
Dewey by himaelf, in which he
gives credit to a rural teacher,
possessing much common sense,
who «made a man of me* by giv-
ing a good thrashing and then
good advice, which Dewey after-
ward kept. We are all proud
that that teacher made a man of
Dewey.
The Beat Reaedi fer Flat.
John Mathia*. a well-known ttock
dealer of Pulaaki, Ky., say : «After
auffering for over a week with Hut,
and my phyaician having failed to re•
Heve me, I wan advtaed to try Cham-
berlain' Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, and have the pleasure of «tat-
ing that the half of one bottle cured
me. For ale by Stone A Hitchcock.
Caldwell, and Dunn á Son. Lyon*.
Ike Kiialag Bug Fake.
Hob on in aid to be despondent
¡ since he hoard of the advent of the
ki iitK but; in the United States,
./rfiwa/i,
Kntomologists declare there is
no such thing as a kissing bug.
This insect was hatched out of
the mind of a man who wanted
his name to appear in the news-
papers. It has been the means
of getting thousands of notoriety
seekers mentioned. An experi-
enced newspaper man can tell
weeks in advance what particu-
lar man in his town will discover
the kissing hug. (>' nlvtslon
.Wtt'i,
Subacritn- for the Nkw , Oihonk I>
■
seas. It requires s man ef heroic •
mold to stsad like Gibraltar in
the storms, controversies snd
competitisasof trade. Noteverv
christian man does thus stand.
Some fight againat the adverse
environment for awhile, and then
auccumb,while others yield them-
selves without a atruggle to its
seductive influence; and still oth-
ers who, under the guise of the
saying, «Business is business,
so conduct themselves in their
commercial and financial rela-
tions as to lose their ¿elf-respect,
are a reproach to the church and
a disgrace to their families. Such
men deserve to be classified with
those who, for a few pieces of sil-
ver, betray their l^ord before the
world.—Advoca it.
M««««
Try «the expulsive power of
good affections. Kmptv by fill-
ing; emptv of what is mean and
impure by filling with what is
noble and lovely. When the Ar-
gonauts sailed past the treach-
erous rocks of the Sirens, they
sailed in perfect safety, because
Orpheus was one of them, and
the song of (irpheus was sweeter,
more delightful, more full of no-
ble witchery than the Sirens' vile,
voluptuous strains. Let your
souls be filled with the music of
him whom the early christians
delighted to represent as Or-
pheus charming the wild beasts
of bad passions by In* harp. Your
souls are a picture gallery. Let
their walls be hung with all things
sweet and perfect the thought
of CJod, the image of Christ, the
lives of saints, the aspirations of
good and great men. the mem-
ories of golden deeds. 1 anon
Fttrrar.
* THIS IS COBB'S, Caldwell's Greatest Store.
M'
THIS STORE
Es-
carries one of the largest stocks of Dry Goods,
Dress Goods, Shoes, Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Hats
and Hillinery in CentralTexas. No lower prices nor
better store service in the state than at this store, and
It goes without saying that
m • ?v;
'Á
X
nJT
OUR
ONE-PRICE
SYSTEM
Makes it as
safe for a child
t<> trade at this
store as the
most inveterate
shopper.
IT PAYS TO TRADE AT COBB'S.
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Rust & Joiner. The Caldwell News-Chronicle (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1899, newspaper, August 11, 1899; Caldwell, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth169251/m1/6/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.