Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1875 — A Resolute Schoolma’am. [ARTICLE]

A Resolute Schoolma’am.

At Dun Glen, Nev., is a sclioolma’am entitled to that reputation among those who teach the young idea marksmanship which is occupied in another sphere by the boy who “ stood on the burning deck.” She is a resolute personage, this schoolma’am, and sticks to her post under depressing circumstances with a persistency much to be commended. No rugged daughter of the Territories is she, either, but a pretty girl from tHfiyipereivilized East, with nice manners and elegant ways, and her nerve and firmness are thus made all the more remarkable. Sh,e went out West not long ago to assume the duties of teacher at Duh Glen and for a time after her installation all went swimmingly. The school was well attended and interest among the pupils marked. Then came a change; what Is known as the “rodio season” arrived and the children left their studies to pursue a more immediately lucrative «if not so permanent a benefit. One by one they dropped off until there remains but a single scholar in the school, but that one scholar and the teacher still remain as fixed apparently as the eternal hills upon which the humble school-house stands. The much-taught pupil and the Eastern teacher are doing well, and the latter still retains all the hopefulness which should characterize one in the missionary field. Such devotion to the cause of education has not failed to arouse enthusiasm, and now it is reported that more than one young man from neighboring towns have resolved to attend school and learn, if not something from books, at least something of the light in woman’s eyes. There can be but one termination to the story, of coufse. It’s always the same out West. That faithful teacher will be called upon to take one pupil perpetually, and it will not.be the pupil she is now instructing. They appreciate pluca in Nevada, ana ladies are not so numerous that 6ager cavaliers are wanting.