Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1866-09-11

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Shetucket Isn't it STRIP
Yes, you are right, but who teach
es You geography ? does your prin,
cipal ?
"No sir my teacher in geogra-
ply is lady
q should. think you would like
your teacher"
+" i do, sir,
" But don't you have to stay after
school sometimes
" No sir my father hears me say
my lessons at home-but some Of
the scholars have to stay and get
their lessons
" W hat does your father do
Gle has a tarm sir. We just NOV
ed on this spring, and the honse is
an old one but father is going to fix
i IT as soon rs he can. That is nice
field Of wheat over theref isn't it !?
my fathers farm joins this one, and
we shall ge5 there pretty soon"
Thus talking we approached the
house. The other little girl babe us
good night some time before and
took cross road to her home. She
was diifidcnt and hardly spoke at all.
| got accommodation at my little
guides home and passed II pleasant
evening III conversation with her
father, who himself had been a teach
en- but was compelled to resign his
position on account of failing health.
At the time he left it his friends ex
pected he would die ID short time Of
consumption. But he went to work
in machine shop and in six months
he had no idea OF dying. lie was
Jealous man, and the teachers profes-
sion suffered great loss when he
was compelled to leave it. i is
pity that such men cannot be retain
ed as teachers. His little daughters
knowledge Of geography illustrates
what almost any child would attain
to under such man. lie told me
the two reasons which decided him
and which doubtless have decided
many mcn"o leave the teachers pro
teSslon. One was, it outtaXcd his
bodily endurance; the other, he gould
not lock forward to u competence
for his family when he became too
old to work Wednesday morning
| took south~casterly direction
across the country to lIilIsdale The
land is glavelly with large pebbles
on tcp, some Of which were dumped
in heaps along tdc roadside and 9TH
cts laid in wasIa, with the aid of thin
pieces Of wood arranged IN lines near
the bottom aEd top. The country is
Hat amt was Originality covered with /
oak, but it has been lorg settled and
most of the land is cleared up. Ilo-
mer Liichtiell, and Jonesville, the
only villages on the route, each have
limited trade with the country and /
contain the usual number of hotels,
blacksmith shops, wagon factories,
and stores. TO me the most praise
worthy feature Of these villages was
the High School building-a large
commodi0us structure within a spa
cious yard.
At IiIl8dafo | stopped for the
night Thursday morning was fros-
ty and | improved it in perambula-
ting the town. That it is located on
slope Of the river ST. Joseph that
it contains fourisning Academy
under the control OF the Methodists
that it has one business street with
the dash Of a city thoroughl;lre, is
all know Of it.
! found subject of fresher inter
est in negro barber who was sweep
ing of the side walk in front of his
shop. He was an Old man and but
for his complexion and wooley head
might have passed for a gentleman
OF the old school so far removed
was he from vinegar look or express
sion. His clothes were genteel and
his boots riyaIled his face in lustcr.
inquired the way to Adrian and
finding him man of uncommon
thoughtfulness for bis circumstances
made far her acquaintance by going
into his shop. There, said he
pointing to bible which lay on q
shelf under the looking glass" is
the only consolation I've had these
forty years. II it hadn't been for
that | don't know what should have
done" I've got dreadful low spiri-
ted sometimes; thinking about the
wickcdncs7 81 men and all kinds Of
operations going on in this world.
All "A man wants is money-no mat
ter how he get it, when he gets rich
every body will take off their hats to
him. liza maa s strong he tramplcs
on the rights Of the weak man, now
that aint according to Scripture,
Which says, Brethren, We that are
strong ought to bear the infirmtics
of The weak Then see the incou
sistcncv of men. Some years ago
here in Michigan, I4juns could vote
now is an lniun any bettei'n a black
man ? don't they Kill white folks
when they get 4 chance and amt
the colorcd folks been working for
EN- this two hundred years, tell
YOU that aims con istent, and moron
that a negro could vote if he was
part Iuiun, but ii lie had white blood
IN his veins he couldn't !" now J al
ways heard white blood called the
best blood there is. Bat men IS jist
SO inconsistent.
asked him what he thought about
/ the war, said lie, I've been specting
/ this war q great many years. Men
I Ia.