Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-08-18
Mtsttlloneous
From he n. Y. Independent,
OLD.TIME

'Nhto Nueu NuliuTcu were CnifOTGN, when MOmun
were taught to work and al good and useful things
were done. l have a few words to say to the cen.
va side Of this matter which you may read "a
your grandnothcrs, children, and see If they ever
heard anything like it. l hal q talk with my
grandma the other night about schools in the DAYS
when soc WAS young, and she told the following
stories Of a village school.
when l was one Of the little girls, Uncle Rog,
OR Redwood taught the seminary. lie used to take
n nap in school every afternoon. He was very
fat, and a great strong man. lie would not have
been thought ft TOR a teacher if he had not been
strong enough to govern well that is, to whip
well. l guess he know a liulo moro than we did,
but it was precious little.
One day when he was snoaring soundly. two
boys got some cotton wool Of the girls and dipped
it in the WATERFALL. and stuffed it in his ears. By,
and'by Uncle Roger THAT was what we called him)
woke up. He was always as cross as a bear when
ne woke, and would commence threatening around
and whipping for nothing, angry at himself be-
cause he had been asleep, and angry at us because
he knew we had been having a good time. For
we did, and that was a fact; and recess and when
he was asleep was all the time we ever had any
fun oil peace. We did everything bu. make noise
enough to wake him upAwent in and out, played
ball, made pictures, ate apples. and carried on
all we had a mind to. I'd like to see the school
that wouldn't play when the masters asleep. But
1t was his fault, want it? What do you think,
Nell, how wonld your school &C. p
Nell, who sat at G~randmother's feet on tho lit
tie stool, listening to every word, was usually
known as a little rogue and this question was
a kind of home thrust. She colored and said she
guessed there would be enough up to mischief, il
they had such O chance.
When he woke he was cross Of course contin.
ued Grandma but when he felt the cotton he
raved around in a great style. We looked on 80
Der enough while be pulled it out ; it was all in
little pieces, and not soon pulled out. Then he
tfourished his hickory, and ordered up the one
who did it. No one stirred. Then he threatened
to whip every scholar in school, if some one did
not confess or tell. But we all knew the weight of
Uncle Rogers hickory too we'll to do either. 1t
was winter time, and the big boys were in school
SO he cooled off. and promised to settle with us
another time. 1t was no On common thing for the
big boys to whip the master in those times.
u reckon Joshua remembers one chase old Mr..
Smith had after him and Dick Ryder Joshua
was Grandma's eldest son, and my uncle. lie
brought both the boys up for making pictures Cd
their states. Even this deserved q whipping, if the
teacher felt cross, So he made Dick put his fin.
ger to the mark and just as he was going to strike,
Dick caught both his legs and threw him, and
then both of the boys ran. Mr.. Smith picked him
self up and ran after them. The boys were young
est, and so kept ahead. Away they ran, past the
meeting house lane. past the corner store, and so
up the road till they came to the river In plung.
ed the boye, and in the teacher. But here the
boys had the best of the race ; they swan off and
he soon gave out and turned back. The school bad
a grand time while he was gone, and q sorrowful
one when he came back. As to the two ruua ways,
they had to 60 to school again, and SO they only
put off the whipping till another time
why, Grandma said |, how could you keep
teachcrs that behaved so p
1T seemed about the best thing we could do.
Our children must have some farming and We bad
to take what we could get. | hope my grandchil-
dron are grateful for their privileges, and will
make good use Of them.'
Nol hung her head a little at this, for she
knew it was said for her.
Mother said Uncle Joshua, do you remember
the teacher that used to throw his open knife at
us? lie would aim it at a boys desk, and there
it would stand vibrating, the blade buried deer
in the wood. The boy was then told to bring it
up, when he most likely took a whipping. Once
three Of us had our heads together Whispering
when the penkuife came whizziug betw cen US, just
grazing my ear.
what a brutal sot!' said I: your teachers
might have been sued for such conduct
Yes, but parents gave very little attention to
such things besides that, is was the fashion tc
be very severe with children. People tho't it was
their duty. It was a sort Of game, however be
tween teachers and scholars to sec which would
get ahead. The older boys had to 60 and cut the
whips. If they stayed too long, as they mos,
likely did, they were the fret to feel them. Al
length. they got a trick of slit ting them through
the middle, with their knives. The elastic wood
came together tight again. but at the ve.y first
stroke they would break. knew a boy who had
a piece of leather fitted to his back which he wore
under his jacket another used to wear his atlas
when it looked stormy. The most we learned al
school was to dodge the teacher
All these things happened less than fifty years
age, and not fifty miles from New York city, whert
to-day hundreds of children enjoy teachers who
have spent half their lives in learning to be cult
waited, refined. and good enough to be their teach
ers. What good men and women this generation
ought to make
But listen again, children, while l tell you that
learning, refinement, accomplishment, never will
answer in the place of q renewed nature. They
are worth much, but they often exist in COMPANY
with the most cruel, mean, unholy lives. Bot
they greatly adorn a christian life. They help us
TO be better and far more useful. We may be
very glad. then. that our lives were not in the
former tines but do not forget unto whomsoever
much Ia given, Of him shall much be required.'--
N. !. Independent.
Wife, (complainingly}-T havn't more than n
third of the bed
Husband, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 10 all the law