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Show School in a Cave. Many queer places for holding school have been selected in this country. One district on the Atlantic coast is said to ! utilize an old boat that lies far up on the sands. Log-cabin and sod school-houses school-houses are not unusual,- and serve their purpose well. But a district out in central Kansas has a unique school- house, indestructible by cyclones, safe from fire and flood, and seldom, in need of repairs. This school-house is a '.rocky cliff, sixty feet high and many rods long, with a sheer wall on the side toward the river. In the limestone rock of the base of the wall are large caves, and one of them is the- district (school room. It is not a large school- room, but sufficient, as pupils are few ithere. It has a wooden door, the walls ,are smoothly cut and made as preventable pre-ventable as possible, the maps and (Charts are fastened to the rock, and :the seats are set on the earthen floor. ,'Of course the light can come from the front only, but with the assistance of ia lamp on cloudy days, it is enough. On one side or the school-room is a 'large brick fireplace, and the blazing logs make the cave-room cheerful, evea on the gloomiest days. There are other caves in the c!12, and -if a pupil 'desires a firink of water he has only to ,go to a neighboring one where a pure cold spring of splendid water bubbles 'cut of the rocky i'.cor. . Another apart- n.eA:t, which af;cir tha school-room . ana is r..i.;. . : .i with it by an arched ' pmage ifc: ov.g'd the parti vion wall of rode V:ly tinea feet iaiek, is used as a pit ;- f a cn :acr;.:y days. This play-roc-3, V..'aiT8 by iauricen feet in si-3, is net so large as tee srhool-rcora. Cil the face of the di;i which contains thc-'e cvcs scores of Indian signs are cut dee:) ia -.he rue!:, End have been there far Jwneratlcas presumably records rec-ords of the tribe that once made these ,r horae or frequent camping-place. camping-place. - Altogether, the cave sckool-vuc-m is co to-u'xt-He end interesting that it ia well liked by 'the ch.iuren who are taught there. |