Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1849-05-21
MISCELLANEOUS.
EARTH,s WORST TRAGEDY.
BY SILyERPEN.

fall thp I,a1,y oh tor ctf Jlfry
,aoe ras rndd;ar or had braver baari
than I'LL, Ioa Baecb tho cbild If , noor clod hon.
NM, ,,loaan In fact al ,yera 1od bonners
r. s : district which vas a enn;ne Enplish
alrr;a,,1trr1 ono r,.da ~, of fa,, laroa farms
&C. (rs+ es.ot 70 -, ahsen3 country
o a,d abo,e f,e ldred ocros Of tho r;cb
lt ,,lla I,nd in tho cn,,ntrv called The scbool
off j, y;yep Years before hv some old yeoman
f bat +be cb;Idren Of tbis h;s n,rieb sbonld he
ta,obt or, cs towards cd and man and the
res;da9 if tbere were.any to becoma The WONT of
certain great college, as reward for ather
clerl.lu cara and 1nsteesb;n Of this land Rut
NV some odd ID sort Of mana cement sl or other
tIese five hundred broad acres thouoh thev now
WILDWOOD ton fo1d What tbe1 dd in he davs If
tbe test.tor pera onI1 met nrofitabla enonoh to
nron nm and tbotch eyerv dngen Years or "a the
pld fschooI. bonse allow few Inns every faster
to to-, The breecbed and nnbreeched nrcb;11s Owe
twentv nonnds q vcar to the school master Who
for The last centnry had been nsnalv some ONT
worn servant or denendant Of the so11;re and al
low the eb,1rcbwardens once wear. what was
aled tbe t:scboo1 dinner }, to oct roa,ino dunk
at the village ale house. But POSSIBLY this was
r;oht for the certain COLLEGE above mentioned had
thronoh this century sent forth editions Of the
most learned Of the Creek fathers. correct in aex-
ion and voice: whilst the clod- hoppers scant in
ARC. nroore ssed nevertheless in the arts of
noachrg Drunkenness and other profanity that
met With due record in the rural magistrates
hooks The Greek Fathers aloried in yellum
and GOLD the neonle of This district perished to
God and man
Well, with all the drunkenness and irnmorali-
ty peculiar to this district. Joe Beech's father was
a decent man. thouoh nohinu more than Door
nlouohnan on the .!school off'u receiving. as the
case mioht be- his nine or fen shillinos every Sat-
I
His Garden was the most thriyino in the VILLAGE
for he duo. and cropped, and worked. whilst
many of his neiohbors roared round the smithv
fire or brawled in the ale house and he had =
COW. and kent few ducks and reese in the vii
lace nool Rut then there were seven yo1mp
cbildien and these made the loaf a scanty one
So as soon as little .Joe for he was the eldest.
conld take care of himself he was off ali summer
time With the COW in the lanes. LETTING # pas
tme under the hedoero,vs whilst he cuf for fod
der the Grass above its reacb and filed an old
hag wb;eh his father fetched At noht
Nav !. summer mornino ,yhisf The nlonoh.
man rod the school acres : tbinl,;no If the LARGE
harvests thew welded for that oreaf anlace of
learning, far AWAY there would he sure to come
IN some thouoht about little Joe as Well So as
soon az the nev little lad was as able to herd the
cow and fill the hao 1oe was mt down in the
churchwarden's books, and sent to school. For
the first week he did not like chool a bit all was
So dull and irksome there but by chance hearing
travelling pedlar read some SCRAPS of news out
Of an old newspaper to his father. he took to the
old thnmbed schoo]book. and in = week was at
the ton Of the NC class. # was observable
that most of the VILLAGE lads oot ON pretty sharp
w. tin thew reached the Testament class. In
that they all stuck fast for the truth was. the
Testsn,snt was the fullest exent of the master,s
lear,;no and over This he So hesitated droned
and often fell asleen that as sure as a bow beoan
tn smell ont the Gospel ofSt Matthew or St Iohn
he took to nlayino he truant ont of school or the
tvrant in t ''''-''
However Toe oot on 50 sharn]v. that bv harvest
he culd smell words Of two svllabjes. and MIGHT
soon have reached the st;clino- fast Mace of The
Testament but that his father met with a severe
accident. vas confined to his bed. and little Joe.
after six weeks schooling. had to help the
common finds nv herdino tor a farmer. If was
a sad sorrow to the little lad he had hoped by