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Show SCHOOL TEACHERS IN IDAHO. When he had finished with the climate, soil and productions of Idaho, one of the group asked: "How about education facilities?" "That's the only thing we lack," replied the old man with a mournful sigh. "We've got schools enough, but we can't keep no teachers." "What's the trouble?" "Well, take my school, for instance-only two miles from the nearest house, eminently situated on the top of a hill and paying the highest salary. We can't keep a teacher over two weeks." "Do they die?" "Some do, though it's no place for dying. We had a young fellow from Ohio, and he met a grizzly and whistled for him. The grizzly cum. We had another, and a widder run him down inside of a month. The third one was lame and the Injuns overtook him. Then we tried women folks. The first one got married the night she let down there; I took the second about the middle of the third week and the next one was abducted by a stage robber." "Why don't you get the ugliest, homeliest woman you can find-some ?? old terror, like that lantern jawed, razor faced female over by the ticket window?" "Why don't we? Stranger, you Eastern folks will never understand us pioneers in the world-never. That's my wife-the ?? school teacher I married and she was the handsomest one in the drove!"-Detroit Free Press. |