The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-03-04

their sums for them, and they tried 10 |
I mitstte bim lie wrote beautiful hand.
md set copies for US He was fine !
reader, and read a verse about with the |
;iass. The big boys We'd with each other |
following his tobacco chewing. Wen.
quite different character stepped on the
stage when he had stepped off The boys
allied him Trip. / do not know
| whether il was because he was so little or
because his name resembled IN sound the
common name of C;lnis faBf iaris- He mad
crooked nose. and had been cross eyed,
| but the surgeons had improved on the
part of his physiognomy. As a teacher
| a. was an Innovation, decidedly, on es-
ablished customs Many new ideas did
lie introduce, but ike all other men,
who Tor the advancement of their kind
are wiser than their time, he received
no credit for them. Like some other men
| ne was troubled with that disease, which
! .or want of a better name | shall denomi-
nate mania for riding wooden horses,
The grand scienc of ortl ;raphy he COL
sidered the most important of all
branches So we spelled for life and
/ leaih The whole. school were, indeed,
wrapped in spell. He did not believe
school children ought to chew tobacco, so
he spent much time talking about the
| ilfhiiiess and unhealthiuness OF the
habit But he used tobacco. lie was an
bid bird and could not quit lie believed
in teaching by precept and not by exam
pIe He used TO ask US questions in the
| -yening and tell US to ask our parents or
.nnsuif our books to find out the answers
and report to him the next day We
would lrt up quite a little enthusiasm IN
lur Investigations. An eccentric man
ne was too. lie had q. .pupil-a young
.ady who could not speak loud enough
and he determined to cure her OF the
auit. lie brought one day-several eggs
with him, and while she was in the spell
ng class and would not spell loud enough
he broke one of the eggs and approach
ns her remarked that raw eggs were eX-
;eIIent Tor the voice The pupils had "a
Joke on him however, over this. The
relnaing Eggs he k-ft in his desk and for
getting them they lay there until chemical
tcIion had converted the vital tissues OF
the embryo chicken into su!phuretted
hydrogen. One day To- the bottom fell
out OF the desk and there WAS tae deveI-
opment OF a chemical experiment not
contemplated by the pedasogue
Now came another regular college
chap-iresh from the sophomore class,
out into the country for change OF air
! ana 10 get a HItlS PADSfieHCc lhG
.-ustics, ior he had been bred in the city.
Money was no object with him for he was
the only son of his mother who was pos
-essed of her thousands lie only taught
or the fun OF it. He soon became ac-
quainted with n charming young lady
who lived in a village six miles from the
school house. His Saturdays and Sun
days were spent in the village. This is
not love story but I-will state that he
| ;oI In LII Ptrt ha
the best teacher that school had ever
seen The people were filed with Won
.ler when they saw how well he governed
and never used the rod. 1t was the first
term that bad ever been taught without
-the use OF that piece of tyranny. He led
I US outside of books, told US many things
IN such an interesting way that we
learned in spite Of ourselves. There were
| some bad boys but he conquered them
: by moral suasion. One thing, happened
Il Ifowever to mar the harmony of his term.
n one day he took sick and was OBLIGED to
n feaye Instead of dismissing the school
he appointed one of the large boys to
teach in his stead. 4 mischevous boy
to amuse himself tried the point OF a pin
on the back of q very high tempered
youth who sat just in front of him. Stun g
with sudden puroxysm of anger he
.lrew his iackknife apd struck at MS
: ,choomate. The boy received the blow
with his loot. The knife penetrated al
: most through the foot, boot and all. 1t
; was difficult 20 tell who was scared the
=. worst, the aggressor, the wounded, or all
the rest of US.
l must not neglect to mention that
these were the days in which barring
OUT the teachers had not altogether gone
ont of fashion. The boys liked him it
seemed, yet they wanted some fun. They
. di d not have much OF it for the teacher
quietly walked over to the directors and
, they very consistly allowed the boys to
remain in the house until the next day.
: when one of them with a rail battered
,lown the door The besieged were then
obliged to surrender and that ended the
matter.
The next winter, we had an unique
! character, but he was no improvements on
: his predecessor The boys barred him
4 out" He was brave man. and seizin" q
club he knocked out the transom and
!earlessly climbed in over the door. The
!, BOYS surrendered and ne went about his
: business as though nothing had hap
pened.
a Next we had a school marm." We had
? begun to be sufficiently civilized so that a
woman could teach in the winter. But
? she was little too much OF a moral
B. ,uasionist The boys mutfied the bell
e one day and then ran off. They did not
r hear it ring. and to crown all came back
,fter awhile, with their faces blackened
\ with charcoal Moral sursion succeeded
+ in Washing the carbon from their faces
Il and finally in getting them into their
books, but not until they had all the fun
t they wanted. She wanted us boys to
o write compositions That was a very
: reasonable demand. considering the fact
u that she never told Us how. never worried
Us by drilling US in the use OF languag
e never made even the slightest hints N
:, the way of developing the hidden talel t
:. for welding the quill that certainly eX-
!, isted in the heads of some OF US. Moral
$ suaSian did prevail with all but one. lie
1 held out resolutely notwithstanding she
/ patronizingly sat down hy his side and
t with all the art of q woman coaXed and
t argued with him for full fifteen minutes.
e Those who wrote, however, determined
B to make her regret ever having asked
y them to write. Fortunately tor them it
. was war times, and the political feeling
, ran high, and still more fortunate they
o were of opposite political opinion so they
:. wrote political harangues that might have
J. done credit to older heads. in substant e
u if not in expression. She taught US TO
t sing and perhaps that aided in subduing
t the wild spirits of the farmer boys. There
: was one boy, the pest of her life, for no
e monkey could manufacture more fun
:. than he, whenever her back was turned
e One day she threw his books out of the
t window and told him to 20 home lie
: ! rOO1 notnredlV n piekel them m and