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VOLUME. 5.
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IRECTOttY.
LIST OF POST OFFICES.
t.. n?Rr. Tnf Masters. Districts,
fiethel Station
Enoch Keese,
Joseph Behe,
Henry Nutter,
A. G. Crooks,
J. Houston,
John Thompson,
Asa H. Fisko
J. M. Christy,
Wm Tiley, Jr.,
I. E. Chandler,
31. Adlesberger,
E. "Wissinger,
A. Durbin,
Andrew J Ferral
G. "W. Bowman,
Stan. Wharton,
George Berker,
B. M Colgan,
B. F. Slick,
Blacklick.
Carroll.
Chest.
Taylor.
Washinfu.
Ebensburg.
White.
GV.itzin.
"Washt'n.
Johnst'wn.
Loretto.
Conem'gh.
Munster.
, Sasq'han.
White.
Clearfield.
Richland.
Washt'n.
Carolltown,
C'aes3 Springs,
onemaugh,
Cresson,
r'oensburg.
alien Timber,
Giliitzm,
Hemlock,
Johnstown,
Loretto,
Hineral Point,
jjinster.
Plattsville,
Soseland, .
St. Augustine,
Scalp Level,
Sow11111?
Sainmerhill,
Summit,
Croyle.
William M'Connell Washt'n.
Morris Keil, S'merhill
CIirRCIiES, MINISTERS, &.C.
Presbyterian Rev. D. Harbison, Pastor.
"reaching every Sabbath morning at 10$
o'clock, and in the evening at 6 o'clock. Sab
oath School at 1 o'clock, A. II. Prayer nieet
2' every Thursday evening at 6 o'clock.
' thodtst Episcopal Church Rev. J. S. Lem
hos. Preacher in charge. Rev. W. II. M'Bbide,
Aitant. Preaching every alternate-Sabbath
strain", at 10J o'clock.. Sabbath School at 9
c'clockf A. M. Prayer meeting every Thursday
trenrajr, at 7 o'clock.
Velc Independent Rev Li-. R- Powell,
pi?tor. Preaching every Sabbath morning at
1-iVciock. and in the evening at 6 o'clock.
Sabbath School at 1 o'clock, P. M. Prayer
citing oil the first Monday evening of each
couth and on every Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday evening, excepting the first week in
taca mouth. "
Cdh-inistic Methodist Rev. John Williams,
Pditor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
2 and 6 o'clock. Sabbath School st K o'clock,
A.M. Piayer meeting every Friday evening,
at 7 o'clock. Society every Tuesday evening
at 7 o'clock. -
Disciples Rev. W. Lloyd, Pastor. rreach
everv Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock.
Particular 'Baptists Kev . David Jkskixs,
Pastor. Preaching every fc-'abbath evening at
2 o clock. Sabbath School at at 1 o'clock, P. II.
dthoUr Rev. M.. J. Mitchell, Pastor.
Services every Sabbath mormng at 10$ o'clock
tad Vespers at 4. o'clock in the evening.
EBESBinG MAILS.
MAILS ARRIVE.
Siftern, daily, at 11$ o'clock, X M.
V.tiUrn, at 11 4 o'clock, A. M.
MAILS CLOSE.
?.a;ern, daily, at 8 o'clock, P. M.
Wt'tern, " at ' .8 o'clock, P. M.
fc2The mails from Butler,Indiana,Strongs
tjsn. tc, arrive on Thursday of each week,
at 5 o'clock, V. M.
Le-ive Ebensburg on Friday of each week,
i-.S A. M.
l-The mail? from Newman's Mills, Car-t.'.t.ov:n-.
ic, arrive on Monday, Wednesday
;vi PiiJay of each week, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
Ltave Ebc-usburg o; Tuesdays, Thursdays
i-i Saturdays, at 7 o'clock, -A. M.
RAILROAD SCIIEDU3LE.
"CRESSON STATION.
Test Eilt. Finrdsa leaves at 6.18
A. M.
P. M.
A. M.
P. M.
P. M.
P. M.
A. M.
A. M.
A. M.
" Fast Line
M PLila. Express
Mail Train
" Emigrant Train
9.11
9.02
7.03
3.15
8.38
12.3G
7.03
10.39
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i ast Line
Fast Mail
Through Accom. "
ctouxty orncERS.
-'vises of the Courts President, Hon. Geo
f&Tlor, Huntingdon; Associates, George W
ksicy, nenry C. Devine.
PraKonoiary Joseph M'DonaH.
F'jisier and Recorder James Griffin.
S,l.erijf John Buck.
Muriel Attorney. Philip S. Noon.
County Commissioners Tetcr J. Little, Jno
Campbell, Edward Glas3.
Treasurer Isaac Wike.
Poor House Directors George M'Cullough,
er r(Te Delanv. Irwin Kutledee.
Poor House Treasurer Georere C. K. Zahm.
-Aaiitors William J. Williams, Georgo C.
4- Zahni, Francis Tierney.
County Surveyor. Henry Scanlan.
Coroner. William Flatter'.
Mercantile Appraiser Patrick Donahoe.
Sup'L of Common Schools 3. F. Condon.
tBCVSniTRC JIOR. OFFICERS.
AT LARGE.
Justices of the Peace David H. Robert3
2rrison Kinkead.
Burgess A. A. Barker.
, School Directors Ael Lloyd, Phil S. Noon,
oshna D. Parrish, Hugh Jones, E. J. Mills,
cvid J. Jones.
EAST WABD.
Constable Thomas J. Davis.
Tvtcn C6dncil J. Alexander Moore, Daniel
" Evans, Richard R. Tibbott, Evan E. Evans,
William Clement.
fapectors Alexander Jones. D. O. Evans.
Judge of Election Richard Jones, Jr.
4caor-Thoma8 M. Jones.
Ateistant Assessors David E. Evans, Wm.
Davis.
WEST WARD.
ConttaLI TrnJiam fiUa .TV
2Wi Council John Dougherty, George
Zahni, Isaac Crawford, Francis A. She
Shoe-
-, James S. Todd.
pector G. W. Oatman. Roberts Evans.
Jdge of Election Michael Hasson. -
Attusor James Murray.
i.?'nttant Astessort William Barnes, Dan
' C. Zafcm.
Select poctfii.
"Vet."
"V e t. Vet." What docs it mean
Upon yon soldier's faded coat ?
His hand is hard and rough and brown,
I see a scar along his throat.
His eye3 seem looking far off still,
His close-shut mouth 13 grim.
"Mother, what means that little word.
Upon a sleeve so worn and dim V
It means, my child, that rugged hand,
Ha3 wielded musket long and well ;
Has sent the iron thunder home,
And tuned the song of screeching shell,
It mean3 that steady, staunch and true
He fairly won that ragged scar,
While you and I sat safe at home,
And read the news about the war.
What wonder if the mouth-is grim,
That said so many swift "good-by's
Life's common words are idle breath,
Beside those earnest battle crie3.
What wonder if the gaze i3 dim,
And jonder strangely lingers yet:
The eye that has looked straight at Death,
His image may not soon forget.
And this is what it means, to earn
The title "veteran," on a coat ;
To march through flood and field, or lia .
Where rebel rifles sweep the moat ;
To serve the guns in rifle pit3 ;
To sleep beneath the silent sky;
To dream of home and wake to war ; -
To see a comrade drop and die.
To hear and heed the fearful eonp,
Which whistling Minnie bullet3 sing;
To faint and fall, and longing he
For one cool draught from rocky spring.
And this, my child, 13 what it says,
Thatlittle word of letters three ;
Go clasp his hand, and give him thunks,
For battles fought for you and nv?.
Eth6 Ltns.
Tiie Xow SJlSitia. Uill.
The following is tLo till passed by the
Legislature in reference to the organiza
tion of the milkia -of the State :
A Supplement to the Act for the Organiza
tion. Discipline, and Regulation of the Mi
litia of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
approved May 4th,
biicxiON 1. Be it enacted Ly the Senate
and House of HipresenOitlvs of the CVw
muuiccalih of lunsylcania in General As
sembly met, and it is hereby enacted ly the
authority of the same, That the Govcruor
and State Treasure be and they are hereby
authorized and uiiipovr ered to bprrow, on
the faith of the Curnmonwcalth, a such
time, iu such amounts and with -such no
tice as they may deem iiiot expedient for
the ioteret of the State, any sum not ex
ceeding three millions of dollars, atid isue
certificates of Joan or coupon bonds of the
I Commonwealth for the same, bearing eix
per centum interest per annum, payable
t-emi-annnally m the city or .rhildeipma,
which certificates of loan, cr bonds shall
not be subject to State or local taxation
for any purpose whatever, and shall be re-
( ot tea years from their date ; and the sum
j so borrowed, or so much thereof as may be
. necessarj', shall be and the same is hereDy
j appropriated to ueiray the expenses
which may be incurred under tne provis
ions of this act: Provided, That no certifi
cates f loan or bond shall be issued for a
les3 sum than one hundred dollars : Pro
vided further, That no certificate shall be
negotiated for less than its par value ; and
there shall be inscribed on the face of said
ceitificates of loan or bonds that the debt
thereby secured was contracted to repel
invasion and defend the State in war, and
to. bo transferable on the bocks pt the
Commonwealth at the Farmers' and Me
chanics' 13a nk iu tne city of Philadelphia :
Provided further, That the Governor and
State Treasurer are hereby authorized to
use for the purpose of this act, temporally,
any funds in the Stato Treasury not im
mediately required, or, if necessary, to
make a temporary loan, to be repaid from
the proceeds of the permanent loan here
by authorized.
Sec. That the bonds or certificates
of loan issued under the provision oc. this
act, shall be signed by the Governor and
countersigned by the State Treasurer and
Auditor General, and a correct and accu
rate, ree-istrv of the same shall be kept in
n book to be provided ior that purpose in
the office of the auditor General, who shall
make, annual report thereof to the Legis-
Iature : and tho Governor is hercDy au
thorized to draw warrants on the State
Treasurer for such sums 33 may be ncces-
sary to pay the proper expenses incident
the, negotiation of such loan : the prep
aration of the bonds or certificates of loan
authorized to be issued by this act, and
said warrants, shall be paid out of any
moneys m the treasury.
EBENSBURGV PA.,. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER,, 1864.
Src. S. That the Governor be and he is
hereby authorized, by and : with the con
sent cf the Senate, to appoint a competent
person of military education, experience
and skill, to have command of all the mi
litia forces of Pennsylvania to be raised
under the provisions of this act, with the
rank of major genera!, who, while in actu
al service, shall be entitled to pay and
emoluments of a major general in the
United States; and he shall also have au
thority, in manner as aforesaid, to appoint
two persons of like military education, ex
perience aDd skill, to be brigadier gener
als, who, while in actual service, shall be
entitled to the pay and emoluments of orfi1
cers of the same rank in the army of the
United States : Provided, Itoicever, That
such general ofScers shall uot be appoint
ed cr assigned to duty by the Commander-in-Chief,
except when the force herein
provided for shall have- been called iri'tb
actual service in sufiicicut streugth to re
quire such 0 facers. 1
Sec. 4. That . whenever tho military
force provided for in this act shall ;te
called into service by the Governor of tl.c
Commonwealth, it shall be the dutyTof
the Adjutant General to notify, iu wiitiiig
the Quartermaster General and Commis
sary General of the poiut or' points' where
the men are to rendezvous, with the num
ber, as near as may be, and said ofeer
shall forthwith adveitise fur proposals for
supplying to the Commonwealth, sdteh
supplies,-ordinance, and ordinance stores
as may bo necessary for furnishing the
troops aforesaid, as are provided by the
laws of the regulations cf ' the United
States, said proposals to be directed to the
said Commissary General and Quarter
master General respectively, and to 'be
opened after five days' notice, and the
contracts to be , awarded to the lowest
bidder by the proper oCiccr inviting said
proposals, and adequate security to be ta
ken for the faithtuL performance of the
contract before the same is "awarded, and
said officers shall' publish' and' keep -,ou
file in their several. departments' furpuMic
inspection, a list of all the proposals offer
ed, including those rejected as well as
those awarded, and before the acceptance
of any supplies, ordnance, ordnance stores,
or other military stores of any kind what
soever, purchased upon contract as herein
before provided. It shall be the duty of
the Quartermaster General cr Commissary
Genera!, a3 the case may be, tn connection
with the Auditor General and State Trea
surer, to appoint from time to time as re
quired, one or more disinterested and com
petent inspectors familiar with the value
and quality of the supplies, ordnance, ord
nance stores, or other military stores so
contracted for, whose duty it shall be to
examine and accept or reject the same, and
if accepted to give a certificate thereof to
the contractor or vendor ; and no bill ren
dered for any such supplies, ordnance,
ordnance stores, or other military stores
shall be paid until so certified and approv
ed j the inspectors so appointed siali each
receive five dollars per day, for every day
necessarily employed in the discharge of
their duties, and shall severally bo sworn
or. affirmed to discharge their duties with
fidelity: Provided, That the Quartermas
ter General and Commissary General shall
respectively have authority, if practicable,
to obtain the supplies, ordnance and ord
nance stores, or other military stores, or
any part thereof mentioned in this section,
from the United States Government paj--iug
them, if required, the cost prices
thereof : Provided further, That the Com
missary General iihall have power to pur
chase direct, when actually necessary, and
when there is not time to advertise .for
contracts, all commissary stores actually
needed for the troops: Provided, also,
That no more than the actual cash price
shall be paid for any article purchased.
Sec. 5. That the Governor of the Com
monwealth is hereby authorized and em
powered to organize a military corps, to
be called the Pennsylvania Slate Guard,
to bo composed of fifteen regiments, iu
due proportion of cavalry, itifantry and
artillery, or such portion thereof as may
ba deemed necessary. The said regi
ments shall severally be composed of com
panies of like number, and to be armed
and equipped, clothed, disciplined, gov
erned and paid while in actual service, as
j similar troops in tho service of the United
States, and shall oe enlisted in the service
of the State for a period not fxceeamg
three years, unless sooner discharged, and
shall be liable to be called into the ser
vice of this State, at such-limes as the
Governor of the Commonwealth may deem
their services necessary, for the purpose
of suppressing insurrections, or repelling
invasions; and the Governor shall appoint
all the regimental officers and the'eompa
nies shall have the right to elect the com
pany officers, and said Major General and
Brigadier Generals, and all regimental
and company officers shall be citizens of
this Common walth: Provided 'f That6uch
portions of the said corps as shall be called
into actual service, shall be supplied and
provided with ordnance stores, as provi
ded for in 'this act, but when not called
into actual service, such supplies, ordnance
and ordnance stores shaii be withheld
until required,
Sec. 6. The Governor of the Common
wealth is hereby authorized to provide the
necessary hospital arrangements, camps of
instruction, arms and accoutrements, gar
rison aud camp equipage, transportation,
and all things nccessajy for the arming
and equipping and puttirg into service,
subsistence when iu service, quartermas
ter's, commissary and ordnance stores of
the said Pennsylvania State Guard, and
to make and adopt all needful rules and
regulations, to take and use horses, for
cavalry and artillery service, for which
full compensation shall be made within
six months after the taking ot the same,
and. the person by whom the same shall
be taken shall exhibit to the owner thereof
his authority for sueh seizure, and shall
at "the time givd to the owner a certificate
stating the number of horses taken, and
the the time when and by whom, and the
service for which tho same are required,
and such " supplies as in his judgment
may be necessary, and to seize such rail
roads and other means of transportation as
the exigencies of the case may demand.
Sec. 7. The Governor of the Common
wealth is also hereby authorized and em
powered to cause to be made an immediate
enrollment and classification of the militia
of the Commonwealth; audit shall be his
duty to call and keep iu service, as long
as he may deem necessary, lrom the body
of the said militia, or from such portions
of the Commonwealth as he may deem
necessary, the said Pennsylvania State
Guard, by volunteering or draft: Provi
ded, That any persons who raay be deem
ed by the board of examination able to do
military duty, may be received as volun
teers -in the regiments provided to be
raised by this act, without, reference to
age.: ' : . .
Sec. 8. That if practicable, until the
time fixed by Jaw for making the enroll
ment of the militia of the Commonwealth,
the Governor is authorized and empowered
to organize the military force authorized
by this act, on the basis of the enrollment
made in the several districts of the State
by the enrolling officers of tho General
Government, but if impracticable, the
Governor. is hereby directed to cause an
immediate enroilmcnt of the militia of the
Commonwealth, to be made as provided
for in the act to which this is a supplement.
That when the as?essors refuse or neg
lect to enter upon the performance of the
duties of enrolling the citizens of their
respective districts, for a period of fi"c
days after being notified of their duty, the
Governor shall appoint a competent per
son or persons to make the enrollment.
It shall be the duty of the Governor to
appoint one competent citizen in each
county, who shall be a-physician, who, in
connection with the county commissioners,
or city commissioners, Ehall constitute a
board, three of whom, the physician bing
one, shall make a quorum, with power to
determine who are exempt from enroll
ment under this act, and the act to which
it-is a supplement; and it shall be-the
duty of the enrolling officer to give notice,
by publication iu a newspaper of the
county, cf the times at which such appli
cation shall be heard, and to notify said
board when they will be required to hear
such applications.
That all other duties in reference to
the enrollment shal be performed as di
rected in the act to which this is a supple
ment, and that the physician so appointed
to hear and decide on applications for
exemptions shall receive for each and
every day so employed the sum of five
dollars, and the county commissioners or
city commissioners the sum of three dol
lars per dien?, to be paid out of the State
Treasury.
That the Governor shall have authority
to make and enforce ail orders which may
in his judgment be necessary to carry out
the provisions of this act, and to effect a
speedy enrollment and organization of the
militia of this Commonwealth.
' Sec. 9. That the Quartermaster Gen
eral be and he is hereby authorized to sell
any unsuitable or unserviceable ordnance
belonging to the State, the proceeds of
which shall be paid into the State Treas
ury, and applied, if deemed necessary by
the Commander-in-chief, iu addition to
the appropriation above named, towards
the purchase of ordnance and ordnauce
stores.
Sec. 10. That where the brigade, fund
of the county is, not sufficient to pay the
assessors, as provided by the third section
of tho act to Vvhich this h a supplement,
the said assessors shall be paid by" the
several cities and counties in which such
assessment is made.
JDfJ. II. AVoodward, a young man,
resident in this State, and at one time
Adjutant of an Indiaua regiment, was
called out at a recent 4peace" meeting
somewhere, aud responded as follows :
" Gentlemen : The great cry that I have
heard to-day has been peace, peace. I
tell you thers is no man iu the nation who
desires peace more than I do a perma
nent, lasting peace. And, gentlemen, I
will toll you how we will get it. Fight
this war out! Take every negro in the
rebel States, and exterminate every d d
rebel, no matter where you find him.
llisses Gentlemen, you need not try
to hiss me down, for I am au old soldier,
and I have faced almost as mean looking
a crowd as is now before me. I mean the
thieves aud bushwhackers cf Tennessee.
I know that I was called upon to make a
speech here out of derision, but I intend
to tell you what I think of you.
"When God said hewould save Sodom
if ten righteous men could bo found there,
I have no doubt lie would have done it ;
and, to-day, if you all stood upon the brink
of hell, and He were to say that He would
save you if one loyal, patriotic mau could
be found among you, 1 have not the least
doubt there would be a great many strange
faces in hell for supper.
"Gentlemen, when you wish to hear
from me again, you have only to call upon
me. I am always at houie."
A Petersburg correspandentof the
Philadelphia Press says a few days since
Gen. Grant was walking around the docks
at City Point, when he stopped to see
some negroes roll a barrel of bacon on
board a boat. The negroes were unable
to move it, when a crusty lieutenant, who
stood near, dressed in his fine blue clothes,
shouted, "You d d uigcrers, push harder,
or go get another nun to hdp you," with
out saying a word, Gen. Grant pulled up
his sleeves and helped the negroes roll
the barrel on the boat; then he drew his
silk handkerchief from his pocket and
wiping his hands, moved quickly away.
You may imagine how this second Lieu
tenant felt when he was told that the
stevedore was no less than the Commander-in-Chief
of the United States armies.
The General was dressed in coarse home
spun, with his hat drawn over his eyes,
and one of the most unpretending looking
personages one could imagine.
ES?A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman, seasonably reminds us that
many fiuits may be preserved with little
or no sugar, lie says : "Currants, goose
berries, peaches and pears require no su
gar to preserve them, llaspberries and
blackberries do not require more than
four ounces of sugar to a pound of fruit,
and strawberries but little more. We
have now the different kinds, nearly as
fresh and g?od as when first gathered.
Put them up the same as if you used the
usual quantity of sugar; that is, expel the
cold air by heating the fruit after it is
placed in the jars, by setting the jars in
cold water, which heat to boilling. The
jars that we use are self-sealing, with zinc
covers, which can be screwed on before the
jar is removed from the hot water. "Ye
have never lost a jar of fruit put up in
them.
& m
It appears that several citizens of
bhambersburg have become insane on
account of the loss of their entire effects
by the late rebel fire in that town. The
llurriaburg Telegraph says : "One of the
number, a gentleman who had ben en
gaged in business or years, was taken
through their city a day or two ago, en
route for an eastern asylum." A terrible
day of reckoning is in store for the fiends
who destroyed Chambersbnrg and blight
ed the prospects of so many cf lia citi
zens. EST" A private letter says : Hooker is
a fine looking man. Press him in a citi
zen's suit and you would pick him out for
a general. Sherman (great as he is,) you
would uot select for a good second lieu
tenaut. General Thomas you would thiuk
well to do farmer, were he not in uniform.
'Old Safety' is his nickname. The men
and officers have unbounded confidence in
him.
Sidney Smith, one day observing
Lord Prougham's one-horse carriage, on
the panel of which appeared a "Ji" sur
mounted by a coronet, said to a friend,
"There goes a carriage with a bee outside
and a wasp within I" '
23-By a recent law of Congress, par
ties purchasing one hundred dollars worth
of postage stamps or five hundred stamped
envelopes, will be allowed a discount of
five per cent from the usual price.
t&m The regiment of rebel deserters and
prisoners just mustered into the United
States service, have been sent West, to
fight the Indiana. - .!
NUMBER 49.
Educational Department,
Prepared expressly, ly a professional teacher,
for The Alleghanian.
A Pew Word's to Directors. As
during the two months next succeeding,
the schools of. Cambria county will open
for tho winter session, we deem this a fit
opportunity to fay a few words to all con
nected with schooi affairs, in regard to
some of the causes that work injury ta
our educational system, and certain other"
things requisite for the success of that
system. It is comm6n in many districts
to change teachers each year, and cf!en
without pretending to assign any reason
therefor. The practice should be, to re
tain the same teachers as long as possible
And we would say to the Directors of
every district in the county, not to change
teachers unless such a course is impera
tively necesssry. But what makes such a
course necessary ? There are only tLrco
things which can justify guch action.
These are, first, lack of qualification ; nest,
incompetency to govern a school; anl
lastly, a want of sufficient moral character.
But says one, "Our teacher is only a mid
dling teacher; what vfill we do with him;"'
Well, if you are quite sure you can get a
better, then make a chaDge; but bear in,
mind that a moderately pretty bird iu
hand is much better than a very pretty
one in the bush. It takes a goodly piirt
of a common session for teacher and schol
ars to become conversant with one another,
and for the scholars to acquire confidence
in the teacher. Every new teacher must
grope in the dark until he finds the qual
ifications of the different scholars, and
thus time is lost to a very great extent.
We sometimes incline to the opinion
that too little regard is paid to the certif
icate held by applicants. Schools ars
sometimes granted with little or no regard",
to the different grade3 of certificates. Is
this practice a right one ? Is it not ia.
violation, or at least in disregard, of tho
law ? Is not the certificate the criterion.,
adopted by law ? Is not the Superinten
dent more fit to judge of capability in cv-
ery respect than' those who are Lot adepis;
in the business? And is it not very UDjusi.
to the teacher who has qualified himself
that he might be in every way fit to di3
chargc a teacher's duties to select another
over his head though of poorer qualifier'
tions?
Xcxt, as to text-books. No more thatc1
you can expect a man to wort without
tools or with bad ones, can you look for a
teacher to succeed unless you supply hurt'
with proper books of instruction. By
this, we mean that you should adopt and
adhere to a uniform scries of books in cacl 1
branch taught. By having a multiplicity ;
of books on the Earns branch, the teache:.
is prevented from properly arranging hu
school into classes, often being compelled
to have two classes instead of one, and
hence is forced to occupy double time io
hearing the recitation,
Have you plenty of black-board room ?
If not, then black the walls, the door, or
any place almost, in pieferenca to a stin
giness of room iu this respect. We havo
not time nor space to argue in relation to
this matter, but we ask you to take the
w'ord of an experienced teacher and bo
sure to have plenty of black-board room.
We hesitate not to say .that a teacher who
is contented with little or no black-board
room understands his business but poorly.
Are you expecting to employ a female
teacher? If so, listen a moment. We
Americans boast . of our gallantry, and
talk much of the high regard wo nay to
woman. This boasting and talk have not
an inconsiderable portion of truth for a
basis. But had we not better be just be
fore we shall be gallant ? Is it just to
pay a woman one-fourth or one-third less
wages than a man merely because she is
a woman? Why should a Board of Di
rectors reduce the remuneration as soon
as they determine that "a woman is to
teach ?" Is it a crime to be a woman 1
The only tendency of such a course is to
discourage female teachers from having
.any worthy ambition in their profession.
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