The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-09-06
BARRING OUT A SCHOOLMAsTER.

My early life was made miserable by
one Mulberry Bangs, gentleman of the
old school, who devoted himself to read
ing, writing and arithmetic, and the gen.
erM use of stick. Upon my head and
other parts Of my person he imprinted
himself SO positively that / can see him
now as plainly as if we had parted but
yesterday. He was stout man, who
made in his figure, when seen in profile,
H6gaTth's line OF beauty, being round
shOllldered and crooked in the legs. He
was a blonde. The hair of his head had
= that sunny tinge so much admired to-
day, and when rubbed down with tai
low candle, as was his wont to dress it,
was SO smooth and straight that the boys
believed that the flies slipped down it
and broke their legs. His eyes were dark
and fierce, and hid under the cavernous
necesses made by his bushy red eye
broWs, seemed to watch like evil spirits
over his precious nose. The nose was a
ruby nose, bottle in shape, and when
Bangs was angry, which appeared to be
ala the time, it glowed like the headlight
OF q locomotive. His mouth was finished
without lips, and resembled slit in a
:. piece of sole leather.
My early experience gave me distaste
for the whips in schools. But I am far
from siding with the sentimentalists of
the present day, who advocate kindness
and moral suasion. The easier teach
iugs-not the best, but, in fact, the only
ones--are those of the rod, that gave us
q realizing sense of pain to the body,
and drilled us into patience and SELF
denial.
Boys are of two sorts good little boys,
who die young, and bully boys, who can
not be killed.
As the last-named only live to be men,
instead of being transplanted into angels.
it is well to discipline them through the
only process known to animals, and that
is the discipline of fear. The old adage
is not far wrong that said, "When you
meet boy whale him-for, if he has
not been in mischief, he is going in. -
What may have been my feelings when
suffering under the stick of old Bangs,
my, objection to him now rests not so
much on his use of that instrument as
the beastly appearance and character OF
thesman. Later In life was the scholar
of a man who was as severe with the rod,
almost, as my enemy Bangs but to my
dying day shall remember him as one
OF the noblest of men and the truest
friend I ever encountered. Alexander
Kinmont lived and died in the obscurity
of select school, with the generous I'M.
pulses and large, hearty brain that
ought to have secured him high posi-
tion among the teachers and leaders of
rnen. From that school came boys SO
disciplined to study, and so filed with
the love of learning, that they, in MAX
ing their mark in the world, lived to IL
1ustrate the beauty of the system.
l did not, however, sit down to write
OF this, but to give in brief some of nv
earlier experiences. It was understood
throughout the country that the bows
were JustiiaDle In barring out the mas
ter, and, If successful, were not only en-.
titled to weeks recess, but the admira
ton and praise OF their parents. Ola
Bangs was famous for his power of re-
ISSUANCE, aud boosted that no school o.
ms had ever succeeded In conquering In
such attempts. On the occasion to which
L refer we had two big boys III school.
named Bill Henning and Bob Strong
They were knotty -headed, broad-shoul-
dered and Manifested fellows, who