Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-07-01

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\ new house Just finished in outer
Greek township is opened for school
this week. So the worS goes stca lily
pn, and the people 10 not spare thrir
money.
Sick. We regret 10 learn that Miss.
Kate Knight The efficient teacher oi
the Helena school, has been obliged to
give up tesekmg on account OF i'll
health, apd ~ the flonrish,ng school
at thaf IN has been vacant for som.
tiln6 ID gnencc.
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TlIc Yankee Afa6df1t.
Aladdin began by swapping jack
knives and getting the best, and bar
tcring halves of marbles stuck togeh-
er for whole ones. When he grew
older, and sold berries which he picked
on the hill pastures, he creased the
quart pot, so that a little capital
was carried forward to the next mea-
sure. He haycd hard all summer, AMI
went to evening schools all winter.
and learned the golden rule of arlth-
metic, addition for himself, substrac-
ton for his neighbors; and in all the
games, he held strictly to the rules of
Turnabout: "You tickle me, and l Il
tickle you, if can; but at all cve2ts
you tickle me-"
At an carly age, Aladdin was con
sidercd to be good at a bargain, which
meant that he always succeeded in cX
changing the worst for the better; al
ways keeping the blind eye of the
horse to the wall when he wanted to
sell him and always looking straight
at it when he wanted to buy him; and
the approving village shook its head,
and said, Let Aladdin alone to sue
ceea"
lie grew up, and left the village for
the worll ''Uell be rich!' sad the
village, with more enthusiasm and
envy than any village says of a depart
ing boy: Hell be honest, faithful,
generous To Aladdin the whole
world was but market in which to
buy cheap and sell dear. For him
there was no beauty, no heroism, no
piety, no history. TO him all lands
and waters are alike, for each is un-
halo eed by association. No Homer
sings for him along the Egean; he
only curses the wind that will not
blow him to Odessa. No sirens call
to him from the sunny shore; he loves
the sharp oath OF brutal boatswain.
With a Bible in his hand ard luid
in his mouth, he squirts about the
holy places Of Jerusalem, and calcu-
lates the cost of the sepulchcr. lie
scratches his name with Jack knife
upon Egyptian obclisks by the side of
the hieroGlyphed names of Ramises
and Thothmes, names that shook early
history with their grandeur; and the
reverened echoes of the Libyan desert,
that have slept since they heard The
shout of Alexander's army marching
| to find the oracle Ammon are awaken
ed by the shrill whistling of Yankee
Doodle and Dan Tucker.
! He insults the Grand Lama, hobnobs
with the Great Mogul, he turns his
back upon Empcrors, and takes pinch
of snuff out OF the Pope's snuff box.
He eats flesh cut raw iron the animal
with Dinkis and Abyssinians, chcws
beng with the Arabs, smokes opium
with the Turks, ard rides for bride
with the Calmuck Tartar.
Then Aladdin comes home. He has
turned his goods and his opportunities
over and over again, and they are all
turned into piles of money. The wise
village welcomes him, and proudly
points him out to the Aladdins OF
younger generation as the shining cX-
ample OF the successful man. For,
my dear son, just think OF it! lie be-
gan with nothing, and now look,'
My dear son does look, and he sees
Aladdin owning millions OF dollars,
and of all the Doing good societies he
is chief director. His name is as good
as gold. He has bought pictures and
statues. lie is housed in luxury, and
he pricks his mouth with silver fork.
He has home for poet, but he
boasts that he never reads anything
but the newspapers. lie goes to
church twice on Sundays and only
wakes up when the preacher rcviles
and dcnounces the sinners OF Sodom
and those tough old Jews of Jeru-
salem. His head is bald and shiny
with all the sermons that have hit it
and glanced Off He clasps his hands
in prayer, but forgcts to open them
when the poor box is passed around;
and he goes home like 4 similarly sue
ccssful man, thanking God that he is
not as other men are; and after din
ner lights a cigar, sits before the fire in
an easy chair, and tells the children to
remember that honesty is the best
policy, and looks sleepily at Mrs.
Aladdin through the thick smoke.
By-and-by old Aladdin dies. The
conventional virtues are called over
by the editors as the mourning car
riagcs are called out by the under
takers. The papers regret that they
are summoned to deplare the loss OF
the resered parent, generous friend,
public spirited citizen, and pious man.
Then the precious snapper OF jack
knives and model for the rising gen.
Grafton is LETT under the sod. The
stars that he never saw now burn over
him with soft lustrc that no lamps
above 4 kings tomb emulate; and the
south wind, tor whose breath upon his
horbrow he was never grateful, now
strews his last bed with anemones and
violets, which his heel crushed while
living And the men who are to be
formed upon that model and pursue Il
similar success, carelcssly ask, as they
stir their toddics, $50 old Aladdin is