Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-11-27
Com m uni c a t e d.
Reply to Luther and the School Boy
TAFToS, Nov. 22d, 1853.


the Editor of the Teachers Column. |
awaited with great anxiety theEditors re-
ply but failing to see anything of the kind
was seized with the scribbling Juror and
resolved to say something if not very good
First we will commence with some Of
Mother Goose's melodies.
There was in our town,
And he wondrous wise,
He jumped into a briar bush,
And scratched out both his eyes.
Now, presume, you very naturally en-
quire. to what is that applicable? let us
see if it cannot be arranged, in some shape.
Be it remembered that on or about the
18th day of Nov. (inst.,) there did appear
Ill the Columns Of the Grant County HER
AID, a certain | communication entitled
..Al's not Gold that Shines" and claimed
as the production OF one Luther Brown;
now | conceive the aforesaid toise man
TO be the said Lucif-(beg pardon, Lucif
GERS, J Luther, and the briar bushes, the
subject of his comments, and the more bel
handles il the more he will get scratched.
1t seems that Luther must have been ln1
as great strait, as was Tell, in his rage|
at the tyranny of Gesler, when he vocifer-
Grated so loudly for something to tear, toI
rend, something that acre a0orM 1t; butt
unlike Tell, he has found the subject, butt
it seems to be too much for him, and III
stead Of rending be is likely to be rent
Let us pow examine into the case Of the
Shocks, it is a very bad case and will re-
quire considerable nursing. Now Us the
head Of the Shocks family has gone some
distance from home, for the purpose Of
earning By the sweat of his brow,the bread
whereby the Snookses do llvcsand if during
his absence the lump Of a Shocks is taken
suddenly with the Group should the mat
ron Shocks. keep the medium Shocks
from school, the matron c'Hooks, having no
one to see to, except tie lump Of Shocks
during the absence of the medium Snoo.s
at school: or should the medium Snooks
be allowed TO attend school thereby bring
ING up the Snookses, in the way .heSnooks-
cs ought to go, and when tie Snookses get
Old they will not depart from the way Of
theSnookses,an if. you can see any sense III
it, your percepli"e faculties have superior
training to mine, and vet, it has the merit
of being originated in the prolific brain of
Luther Or partly so. The said Luther
boasts of having taught school sometime
during his eventual life, and from the ten
or Of his paragraph, one would infer that
it was during the days of darkness and su-
perstition; when mems intellects we're O.
! Elaborated, only to that extent of blindness
and ignorance, which allowed of their see
ling nothing meritous or progressive, out
side their particular sphere, wit bout excit
ing jealousy. Did il ever occur to LnI,-
er, that the object OF the absent card, was
not, to t,ke the control Of children from
their parents. and invest it in teachers, or
any other class of in...vi lua|s; but to sc
cure the cooperation Of PARENTS aAj guar.
dians, IN maintaining a general ATTENDANCE
Of scholars at school; il preventing lruan
cv and 'atdines~, by that means, keeping
The scholars attention ON his stutlies, pro
moling his intelligence, and hat Of his
class mates! I will warrant me not, for,
IN the time Of Luther, teachers did not, =,
now take that interest and pride of seeing
scholars go forth flom their schools, intel
lectually and morally filled TO combat with
the wilcs and ways Of the wo:l,l; their"
ileas being too limited, to see the inpor-
tance OF such a course Of training. Lurh-
er is disposed to become factions in regard
to the petrifying Of the immortal mind;
wonder is he was ever il "a Printing Office
if so he must have become conversan. with
the fact that type cut up curious an
tics, and such thing as typographical err
rors sometimes occur, and it would be very
easy for the word purifying, to be by some
hocus pocus transmogrified into pet,ltying;
bat Luther need not lament over the idea
of his mind becoming petrifed, as there is
not material enough, for the petrifyins pro-
cess to make an incipient commencement,
unless BY aggregation. If Luther would
be content to receive light, instead of HUI
minaiing, he would appear to much bet
ter advantage in the eyes of his friends,
and the world. But stop! bark. what
buzziug now? Echo, answers, "school
boys" and he too seems DESTROYS of enter
rs ohN iiotS3 am III against
The absent card system, and elucidation Of
its benefits. 0, thou system! with what
mighty deluge Of into llect, have you to
contend. | wonder you do not bow your
head in tacit submission, letting the del
uge carry everything in. its course, and
leaving nothing but relic Of the once
proud name, whereby people in after gener-
ations, shall know OF thy once existancc
From under the lions skin, we hear the
bray Of the Ass; School Bows grandma,
who no doubt has received her instructions
from School Boys teacher, thinks it bet
ter to systematic a course of'regular hab
sts,' than regular course Of habus," es-
pecially if the habits are bad; very sage
conclusion. 1t is generally understood, that
the habits Of a school are intended TO be
good; (for which purpose see absent cards
and IN order to carry out the plan in all its
mlnntlie, it is necessary to resolve the diff |
terent regulations, into regular course;
If tsSphnnf Raw t,,,Il otto,1 IL