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Show conduct. lie was a thorough teacher, and a veiy agreeable and magnetic man; and before the winter was over he ; not only had a very (food diatnatie :lub in lunnii'S i rdei. but ''ad ii.stuulcd a Vouiii; men's 1 cvtini, and had tlie cuiitl deuce, respect .and good will of tlie boys Mr. Hallow uuht the fust schuol 111 Utah, pei haps, wheie the "biich per suadet," never enteied into tlie system of government. The secret of it was that he never required impossible things of them, or drgraJed tneir strlt-les-pect, by undeseived letuike orridcule hut tie. ted them like Iriends and gentle men, took an active 'interest in their amusements as well as tu 11 stud.es. Ol course the trustee made many gr-jai.s and Limaniatioiis wlien they weie called call-ed upon lor the stipulated salaiv.hnt they lit unly paid t, but they came sruind to his buatding house and engaged lnm at tlie same figures f ir another season. Thus he became closely associaied with the youth i-f the place, and was warmly entrenched in their allcctions, and was largely responsible for then couise in alter life The gentleman, who occupies an honorable hon-orable position, said in lelating the story, and there weie traces of deep feeling in face and voice, "1 owe all I am. neaily, to that little one eyed crippled crip-pled school master, and to his good natuie depth ol understanding and selfcontrc l. He understood that we had mole energy and intelligence than we had opportunity to use, and he had the tact to diiect it into agreeable and profitable profi-table channels," Ellen Jakeman A Hchool Teacher in Early iay. The school had been broken up three successive wiuteis, and the trustees were m despair, 1 am sorrv to say that the school was in Utah, it was the days of "liickory"euUcation,and one ol the young beats who assisted m harassing, annoy-I annoy-I ing, hunnlatiiig, and tonally driving out, ! three successive teachers, put me up to writing this. It was in vain that the father's of these incorrigible lads had compelled them to haul wood dining the entire time that the school snould have lasted, and in all kinds ol weather; it was all in vain that the bishop, kind, indulgent lather of the people.tlut he was, frowned uncompromisingly uncomprom-isingly upon it, and threatened to suspend sus-pend ah dances; the boys seemed just like a herd cf wild young Colts, that had got started break-neck speed in the wrung direction and was ashamed to s.op. My informant says, by way of excusing excus-ing the bovs, that they were driven into that couise at first, by au unwise, sellUh, tyrannical, and biulal le.iciier.wlioiu tlm trustees had upheld iu all cases right or wiung;bui of course hi was one ol them, and we ate not obliged to take his evidence. evi-dence. The time was diawing near when sciiool should open, and mere hud been no applicant lot the position, and the trusues were anxiously craning then necks in all directions to liud Someone who would accept their sciiuol, on any terms, with 110 great likelihood of liucl-10 liucl-10 such a peisoti; lor the fame of tlie schools held there had gone torth, and the broken winded, spavued teachers, witu tendencies 10 suic.de, weie living evidences ot what kind ol liea.nieiit a tcddici might expect to receive. but on Saturday night, before the school should have opened on Monday, a ihin.suiall mm limped up to the house of the leadiug'tiustee.and applied fur the achool. The trustee gave him a chair, ordered suppei.ai.d Uispatcncd a boy lot tlie utile:! two tiustccs. the ttuee also loiin-liig loiin-liig the exaiiiuiug boaid. 1 lie trustee, looked the applicant over surcptictously and pilyinglv.aud thougtil tile boys would hardly leave a lag ol him ma week, but resolved.wiuiSpauau liei. uin.to upeii the school oil Monday il tin. applicant Could pass any kind ol an ex animation. 1'ue other two trustees came and weu duely presented to the applicant tor tin school, and were likewise, individual. , and collectively allocked mat a niai. blind of one eye, sadly lame in oiic leg, and small and slight by nature should deliberately thrust himscll in.. BUC.ia mcnageiy ot lerrois, as tin, schoul. Alter supper had been disposed ul they proceeded to examine tile new ap licant wuoiit we will call Mi. bailow, a iu Ins uual hcaiions, winch ttsul.eii i Mi. Ujiioh cx.tuiiiiiiiu ihviil to tn in Salisla:iiuii. Tney oid iu. ctv.l inucn tilioui v t s altuouli iic niiucU atiiu in letui,. gTt Ins sew,ce K J.C.ll.JJSly I .1 11, n inn s, lui tuc tiiis ecs wcic niuiully tditi lie would ili i-y & net-K, and ulated thai il lid leu bcfuio tlie leu. was out, hi diil lut He: anyiliui. Tliuy encii a. in: lnm a goltleti set 1 1 idens (.it bniuii.i; the umuly eleinei, uitu stujeciu 11, Mild ultcied lo attei.O him eiiinass to Ins place ul toiturc next iiioriinik;. Mr. aUilow listened to the sdyise in silence, si-lence, declimnj; llieir escoit in a niai.ne to avoid giving ori'eiise, and stiaig i way betouk limisell to his boarain house, and was seen no moie until "m next A onday morning when nine o' : found him at tlie school desk. As was the custom, his arrival and employment, em-ployment, and mure especial the fact that schoul would open on Monday illuming, was announced at the close ul the sabbath meeting, and that particulai bad let of buys, some t enty in number, were there on time. They shuffled into the house, lookiiii; qnisically at the teacher, fell over the ends uf benches, and did many olhei things which they were in the habit ol doing "just to open the ball," as they expressed it. The new teacher was writing end seemed perfectly oblivious of then piesence. Instead of making them bolder, thev gradually subsided nit a state uf expect ant .observant silence. YVhea things were comparitavely still the little crippled teacher arose sudden ly from his chair aud picking up his hat from the desk iu Iront of him, said: ' Gentleman, we will have but one lesson to-day; that will be on the proper manner man-ner ol entering a room." and he limped over to the door opened it, went out and c osed it oehind him. In a moment, however, he opened it again, made them a most profound bow, and with hat in his hand, walked nois-lissly nois-lissly to his desk, while the boys looked on iu silent astonishment. - The teacher next oroceeded to ar- range his classes, assign studies for the following day, and then dismissed the school until the next morning. Of course the boys got together and discussed the situation, "sized up" their man, and had their programe "cut and dried" for the following day. Mr. Barlow was promptly at his desk next morning, and the boys were as promptly on hand. . They came in in single file with several sev-eral yards of space between them, so to give the teacher the full benefit I the panorama gotten up for his especial edification. There were in that procession, tall boys and short bovs, fat boys and lean boys, bright boys and dull b ys; but each and every one, in perfect imitation of the teacher took tiff hia hat, shut one eye, bowed, and went ofi limping and squinting squint-ing to his seat. The teacher observed them critticallv, and with smiling good nature, until the last boy was fairly seated; then instead of being very indignant as they expected, expect-ed, he sitid, with every outward semblance semb-lance of being highly entertained: "That was very well done gentlemen, for the (list cfTort.and if ynu follow my example as closely in future, we will no doubt spend a very pleasant and profitable winter. win-ter. I see that many of you possess a'great deal of dramatic talent, and that leads nie to believe that we might with the assistance of some of the young ladies, organize a dramatic club as a means of pleasantly spending the winter evenings. AU who think they would like to take part may remain after school and we will talk it over." That was the only allusion he made ot their heartless and ungenilemanly |