Show A mt OX SCHOOLS in the illustrated family magat mt we find tb following under the heading true and shameful there is no profession o exacting none that breaks arn down EO eyrly as that of faithfully teaching there i economy o penurious ad xo policy eo intolerably mean M that by which the custodian of public asir screw down to tion point the small wags of men and women who are willing to de tote their timo and strength to beeching leeching lee ching the youn in political movements thousands can be squandered but for the teaching of the children of the people the cheapest teachers must be had and their pay must be reduced nevera reduction of expenses i necessary if salaries ever should be ample it i in the profess sion of school teaching if there is one where we ought to induce make their prof eMion a ife busing it is in the teaching of school oh those who are to be taught are bathing but children your children my children god s children the sweetest and deare t and most sacred ones in life atthe very age then angels would be hon ord to that w the time ahn we put them into the band of persons who are not prepared by dispo bobu teachers and who are for teaching and who are continually bribed as it were by the miserable lagese that are civen them to leay their teaching as they acquire a little experience 11 is a shame a disgrace to the american christianity but says the reader of the icso our teachers are well paid are they lt us look at a few fact some of our school districts are with out teacher today to day or young men and women who have received a normal training tia ining at the university tie supposed oed to tench at least one bear in the county from which they were sent they ef course so at low after the year has eap exp red hey leive the to bollow other and more lucrative pursuits th next vears occupy lapir placa and so on ad why thi wages and part of this abot dmd until a year or more has ex tired alter services rendered again many of air districts cannot afford lo 10 hire teachers by the beir unless hey can obtain cheap teachers who w ll 11 teach or twenty five or thirty dollars without board not M much as a by or girl fourteen years of see n obtain by hir ing out as halim in other districts are on the rub plan at three dollars per scholar the maximum price say the school numbers bilty pupils this rill to or three dollar day for wh dy d y taught this looks ivela but itera tta i is never apal in of daya by bad fit nd eiph precess for eUes fol ow thin along for one year non tl tir terms n arc deduct loi gt nd whitt enormous do ur atac tT ac leichert lei chers fici it it any won jer ra ar in want of each cn we r ison ably ny will choho abis karts K arts safi ht tl ahing th young idea how to shoot become and look for kotlier cm we liann but few br in our who liaf ocer fiat jears in succession and still I s who have taught in ahr sina school half i bat time i laib are 1101 our leac hero DO LOTE TO their stock in trade frodi town to own or is tha change of an actual necessity for the benefit oi our are but mortals not angels as many would lavt tham b thy aad and thinking tint disa ends to the view be conr iwic year then con campt backers and finally retire in degust to waste their time in pundits or which they have no aste there are of course a few may be found who havo struggled manfully through and laday la day ae respected as teachers but are they rich no they ar linns from day to day on any thing but large ta laries and should sickness tako its cruel grasp ny of time they in om cases becom objects charity your correspondent of knows having served as a teacher for bamo bomo time and today to day is doing as well perhaps as any teacher in the territory being well paid by the trustees and he hopes is giving satisfaction this may appear egotistical but it is not written n that spirit the above is written nebout our district school teachers tta chers and not embrace th few who may ba schools our have done much to better tho condition things and ur trustees can d something to mako ll 11 condition the better let them as the agents of tatt people teachers and pay hem they are batter acquainted with the people than the new teacher is the law says they may t their option collect the fees lot the engagement be by the year they should tho teacher by making frequent ata to the schoola maps charts globes pictures and mottoes thus making tho a thing of beaty and a joy forever A place upon which the child when he or she haa arrived at the age ol 01 maturity may look back with plow wf by the proper assisted by the parent will dauee u d amply fiad ty and the IOTO of the proffit slon to atay willi school for years they will awk no change but will atay to lov and be loved in return by old and youn to build up strengthen and not only a carnu for tapin ayt the honicki and their in hahl tanta of ahe to those in ut ne ay be not if you lovo your calling follow it closely and earnestly you have who bif working for you and though you may noa receive the remuneration in colw and which you think richly desera tody to dy ber there is a good timo coining and that your rac ward ia sure I article i true of towns and cities in the united stater we may tell fay it is a thame and disgrace to auch but no such thine can be ra d of thi territory all things considered for until lately the people have biad no assistance in school matters from taxation school districts leaie been small and the people have to with many obstacles which our frienda are unacquainted and notwithstanding all this our schoola to aty will compare favorably with many your correspondent visited while in illinois and missouri a few years back |