A Teacher's Ups and Downs from 1858 to 1879 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: ... the Apostolic time: "And, fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." Thus God has spoken and this is His will; and I believe when parents appreciate the Lord's will on this subject, and carry out His provisions, ' Then shall our sons be as plants grown up in their youth, and our daughters be as corner-stones polished after the similitude of a palace." Short is our time here below; let us do good as much as we can for our fellow men. In the spring of 1871 I moved with my family to Jasper county, Missouri, and settled near Alba, a small village. During this summer I worked at my trade, plastering and stone work. This fall, Thomas H. Hill, Erasmus Folger, Samuel Weeks, and several others, wanted me to teach their school. The name of the school was "Garden Dell." Now I had come to another State, I had to be examined here also. J. W. Jacobs was elected this fall for County Examiner. I went to Carthage and was examined, with several other teachers. This examination was a little different from that of Kansas. I got along very well, got a certificate, and commenced my school about the first of 11th month. The school house was a frame building, with three windows on each side, a blackboard across one end of the room, and was seated with patent desks. The house was not more than fifteen feet wide by eighteen or twenty feet long. The pupils kept crowding in until we had sixty-five or seventy enrolled; some of the desks had as many as four to a desk. My school was a four months term, and we got along very well. The district paid me forty dollars and the employers five dollars per month. In Missouri, teachers can receive their pay at the end of each month; it was not Bo in other States where I had taught....