Show t SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS the timoor tho year is rapidly approaching when our boys and girls will have to bid farewell to the green commons and lie shady bowers where they have been pass ing the sweet weeks of their ble vacation tho bells from the tops of the schoolhouses call teem to sterner duty and book and alato tho arm which ert whirled alic qudel or swung the jumping the litlo scholar trudges off t hi biall of learning where ft teacher a kind look and tho schoolmates friendly smile awaits him and lier or another un exuberant lad who likes better to sit by tho gurgling braak and catch the sportive fish or to run through alio whirling dust after the rolling jog along s whining schoolboy chool boy liis d morning tiro alho to still they must although we havo not yet the compulsory school law our leave long sines real iced the transcendent value of scholastic education and they take pride and delight in seeing their boys and girls getting along well with their readers and spellers abates and copybook among the children themselves thema elves an esprit been developed they are commencing to appreciate tho fact th it they properly belong into the school boom at a certain period of their life then they take greater delight in going to school since they have a more encouraging cou raging and inviting lie fore them alian thoy had when they frequented the place where in W noly kallil to A severe lie w am attern to lew of our present teachers we can justly say that they know more than goldsmiths schoolmaster wite and cipher too tho old log cabin has long since given way to substantial brick and frame buildings some ol 01 them provided with tho most modern improvements in seats charts maps etc aur teachers have gone through courses of normal training fitting them for the arduous tasks of the schoolroom of most of them it i true what swift said of an auto crat of the cerulo fe rulo the innocent delight lie took to see the virgin mind her book was bat the masters secret joy in school to hear the finest boy if we consider the small wages doled out to our school teach ersa yot wo may be justified in asserting that it is a genuine affection for the profession a true enthusiasm for he sacred work of education that induces our young men and women to devote the best years of their vigorous lives the freshest of their talents to alie wearing out existence in the dust of a schoolroom they de A ilo fiill ott abid and of the country for the energy and disinterestedness with which they lay upon their shoulders the heavy cross of a teachers life Tru ethey have their pay in view they intend and try to secure their livelihood hereby but still wo aro safe in saying that there u not one of our young men and women who devote their days and weeks to training the young idea how to shoot who could not secure a more lucrative situation or an ex lees leas annoys in on any other field of life leuco th people to consider tho teacher ft familiar briend the next to themselves ha greatest art in shaping the minds and morals of their little ones from this aliey alo derive a right and a doty a right to fre that none are put in charge of their offspring who aro not fitted forit for it icalla intellectually and morally it i of th highest tanco for all parents to be euro of the abilities and character of those who have the charge of the impressible minds of their children they should falgo be particularly careful as to the social status of the tutor of their children and guard against any whom they know not to be identified with their principles and faith any other course ia foolish reprehensible and suicidal but if parents have found teachers whose intellectual and moral ties are irreproachable whose fellowship is undoubted they are under the obligation ef supporting them with their influence and patronage A bad school teacher can become a curse to a community a good on is sure to prove the greatest blessing wherever he boea and ataya hence let all parents be vigilant in their choice of tho trainers trai nera of the minds of their progeny and let them also LA solicitous to sustain and retain the good teachers by substantial encouragement coura gement |