EXPERIENCE OF A BLIND TEACHER
Young l ady Teacher Who Lost
Her Sight Proves Her Useful
ness to the World
To The Newark Journal
If you will kindly allow mo
space in your paper, and the
readers of The Journal will par
don the intrusion of this little
sketch, I shall take pleasure in
placing beloie the ('.yes of the!
public, an account of the work in j
which I was engaged the past
year. Five .a ears ago last March,
I closed my last term of public
school at old New Hope, about
three miles northwest of Sulphur
Rock, and just two weeks "from
that time, I could not see to read
one word.
Teaching was the delight of my
life, and to realize that 1 must
give up that work, forever, as I
thought, was indeed hard to do.
The greatest desire of my life was,
and is vet. to live a useful life and
not one of idleness.
It is with gratitude that I say
that, through courage, bravery
and determination, I am enabled
to resume my duties as teacher
once more, although under rtiuite
different circumstances. One year
ago about this time, I received a
letter from Mrs.Laura A.Lowre.y,
a blind lady, who was superinten
dent of the school for the blind
and the deaf, of the Indian Terri j
tory, asking me to take charge of
the literary work, as teacher, for
the blind. I was perfectly de
lighted to know that 1 had an op
portunity to do something, so I
very gladly accepted her offer.
On the fifth of last October, I
started for for Fort Gibson, I. T.,
where the school is located. We
occupied one of the old fort build
ings situated on what is well
known as old Garrison Hill,about a
mile fromthe business part of town.
Since 1 had to lay over in Little
Rock for at least one night, I went!
out to the dear old school for the j
blind, which is a grand institution, j
Rut 1 must not take time and space !
to dwell upon this. After a two!
days visit, I went on to my future'
work. As 1 walked into the school ;
room, on the morning of October
the tenth, I could not help think
ing how far different everything
was when 1 last entered the school
room as teacher, only a few years j
before. All my pupils were blind
but one, and her eyes were very
weak, caused from measles.
1 bravely took up my work with
a determination to make it a sue- '
cess if it were in my power to do
so. I have realized that it is al- J
most impossible if not entirely so,
to get seeing people to believe that
a blind person can teach success- j
fully in literary schools. It is not
so difficult, to make them realize
that the blind can teach music, !
since the.\ have had an opportuni
ty to prove vheir ability in hand
ling that accomplishment. But
I can truthfully make the asser
tion that 1 never was more suc
cessful and never had as little
trouble in all my eight years’
teaching as I did at Fort Gibson.
It is with extreme gratitude that
I say this and not with pride.
A Choctaw Indian girl, about j
16 years of age, who could not \
speak one word of English, enter-:
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’d school there a few years ago
ind last June she made, on exami
nation in history, grararaer, arith
metic, geography, spelling, read
ing and writing, an average of
37 per cent. A little Cherokee
joy, only about nine years of age,
uautf ail avei ytvi rent un
the same examination, except his
irithmetic, which extended to
multiplications, he being futher
idvanced in this branch than she.
Another Cherokee boy eighteen
years of age. who has been in
school only about hveyears, tinish
?d physics, general history, geol
ogy, arithmetic and put in six
months work on algebra last year.
Next year he will take plain geo
metry, second part of algebra,
rhetoric, English literature and
psychology and probably logic.
A thirteen year old white boy
from Oklahoma, entered school
the tirst of last February. He
had gone to school some with his
brother who would read to him
md by this means he had learned
die muitiptication table, the capi
tals of states, etc., but had never
leen a raised-print brook and of
1‘ourse had to learn the alphabet
jy touch, which he did in only a
few days. The last of June, he
lad completed the fifth grade ex
cept language. This boy is an
’xeelient speaker. He has been
alind nine years.
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NEWARKER WRITES OF OKLAHOMA
Will Calaway Writes of His Trip
West and Tells Something
About the Country
To The Newark Journal:
Texola, Okla., Aug. 2S—Keep
ing my promise, I will write you
a few lines, telling the good peo
ple who read your paper what 1
think of this western county.
We left Newark at seven o’clock
Monday evening, August 5th, to
make our future home either in
Texas or Oklahoma. We bought
our tickets to Texarkana; our train
made bad connections there, miss
ing the west bound train about
ten minutes. (The Texas law is
now that a mail train is not allow
ed to wait over thirty minutes for
another train to make connection.
If the regular train it makes
through runs with is over thirty
minutes late, they have to start
out a sub to take the mail on.
While this law helps some ways it
| is a big disadvantage in other
| ways.) We arrived at Texarkana
about seven o’clock Tuesday morn
ing and had to wait there untill
four o’clock in the evening to get
a train west over T. & P., out to
| Sherman. We got to Sherman at
10 o’clock p. m., and left at 10:35
over the H. & T. C., for Denison.
It only took us about thirty
minutes to run over to Denison,
where we spent the remainder of
the night. Leaving there at 4:20
Wednesday morning we arrived
at Pottsboro at 5 o’clock. This
is where we get to oar jouneys end
for awhile and where my father
land mother live, and we had a re
| gular old time reunion.
I found better crops in this sec
tion of the country (Grayson coun
ty, Texas) than any I have seen
this year. Corn will make from
thirty to seventy-five bushells to
the acre, and is already made,
rain or no rain. The cotton looks
fine. If we had the prospect for
cotton back there that they have,
we could count on making a bale
to the acre, but with them they
can’t tell what they are going to
make untill they get it gathered.
The boll worm and weevil just
want a little wet weather to clean
it up in a few days.
We stayed with papa and mam
ma for a week and started on our
journey to this place. We arrived
here August 15th, and have rented
a little four room house are again
: to ourselves.
I am well pleased with this
country. They have plenty of
I good hogs and cattle, and plenty
of corn and hay to feed them on.
Alfalfa seems to do well here, but
I the country has not been settled
up long enough to tell much
about it yet. It may not do so
well when it comes to a test.
There is plenty of good land here
1 that has never been broke yet, but
: it is being settled up faster and
fiistpr pvp.rv vMr This vpnr will
{give Oklahome a big boom for
they have better crops than nearly
any state in the union. It wont
be long untill the land here will be
worth from fifty to seventy dollars
! per acre, and it can be bought now
from six to twenty-five dollars per
acre. Crops are here like they
are back there—they are late.
They will be ready to go gather
ing here by the 20th, of Septem
ber.
Toxola is a new town, near the
line between Oklahoma and Texas
with about six hundred inhabitants.
With best wishes for the
people of Newark and Big Bottom
1 am, yours respectfully,
Will Calaway.
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