Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-03-27
AUNT SALLY" AGAIN HEARD FROM
How the Lectures Delivered Before
The Teachers' Institute Were
Criticised at Her House.

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The Teachers Institute Were
Criticised at Her House.
7 Mr.. Editor:
: 1t is nearly a year since l hav
sent anything CoURlER-ward. although
promised in my last contribution to inform
you occasionally of the doings and saving
of our neighborhood. But the old sayin.
that imam proposes but God disposes'' ha
been verified in my case, for the old maj
. took to ailing and complaining and :h'
Coolest has been having bad spells 0
colds and cronpy coughs, and has beer
just as cross and as peevish as size coult
well be; and between her and the old man
had my hands full tell you-and tina
is my excuse for not writing to you soon
er. But OF late the sunshine has returned
to our home, with its smiles of health anC
pleasantnesA, giving ME an opportunity to
take up my pen again.
The old man and his two friends were
very much interested in the course OF lee.
lures delivered during the teachers Insti.
tllte and it has been pretty much the only
topic Of conversation between them ever
since. They were able to attend the first
three lectures and hear them delivered, but
at the fourth lecture the road had become
so bad they were obliged to give it up. and
the old man lamented it very much, es-
pecially after meeting friend from town
who said that Mr.. Bogert's lecture was
splendid and the best of the entire course.
When they came home from the first lee
ture. never saw men more pleased than
they were. My old man said that he would
not have missed it for anything. lie COM
pared it to Il splendid editicc, grand and
| beautiful! from foundation to dome. ,n;-
| form and instructive, with but one litti.
| flaw.
And what in the world is that. Mr..
Blunt:' asked Mr.. O'Dox.
We'll" said my old man, II wish he
had not told us that he had prepared and
delivered it to an Iowa audience the year
before. for would have been better pleas
ed it had not been made acquainted with
that fact
"P'shaw.' said Mr.. O'Dox." sit only
made me admire him the more for his an
dor and honesty, for dishonest man
would have pretended that he had prepared
it for the occasion and our particular bene-
fit
Mr.. Greed, who had remained silent I'D
to this time, said: IL did not care so much |
about tl.:t as did for his neglect of the
Biblical account OF the creation. He should |
also have shown us how well the scientific
and Biblical accounts accord with each
other.''
began to fear they would run the con-
versatiOn into a religious discussion, and
went to bed. but the men sat up tor several
hours. talking of the nebulous theory,
new worlds, the laws of condans;,-
ton and grayiiation and the tcrrors of
Observation-Disclosures kind of helion that
is. goodness knows.
The next evening when they came home
from the second lecture they all seemed
very well pleased, and Mr.. O'Dox said Mr.
Richards had done well in his researches
or facts concerning Asia.
A1S. Saih MI. Sfceu. anu what was
better still he gave God credit and showed
hat in the adventures OF Marco Polo and
he early history OF that country God was
.iorified and TO him should be accorded
praise even for the light that first led Col
INDUS to start on his great voyage of dis .
overy. This is what liked the most. for {
showed us plainly that there is a God c
hot gn:llns and unyerf.o llic affair, of this I
World" 7
When my Old man came home from the |
bird lecture it was very stormy and his il
lends did not stop. but asked him how Il
e liked the lecture and he said:
''l'll tell you. Sally, that young man is Il
DING TO make his mark in the lecture field 4
ct. He spoke very sensibly upon educa- 6
on. and he gave some hints that would Il
lake mankind much better if they paid G
lore attention to them. All that i. lacked. u
my opinion. was a little more fire and
'icc in the delivery o
But. MIR. Editor. have my doubts about IL
y Old man being a competent judge of n
lat lecture. because think he is little t;
irtal in that quarter. In 4 few days we Il
card that Mr.. Bogert had been requested IN
have his lecture published. and my old a:
an was in great glee over it, promising
inselt a great intellectual feast. On 3
thursday evening we received the CouR- 10
r containing the lecture, and my old til
an rushed around very lively doing up er
e chores. as he expected his friends over, eN
/. O'Dox having promised to read tile by
;ture. Finally, everything was done up ne
apple pie order. the Coolest was asleep Or
her crib, when Mr.. O'DoX who had been eX
'king over the paper tor some time. TO
reading. ca
When Mr.. O'DoX read to where it saws W.
sneaking idea that the higher education he
lot necessary struggle for disgrace OF
existence in tie min, many men," ces
old man interrupted him by saying II ed
nder. what Mr.. Bogert means by the as
her education, anyway" wa
Well. Mr.. Blunt. as understand it," ant
l Mr.. O'DoX. sit means the study yO
the higher mathematics, the class tea
and the ancient languages in which be,
y were originally written, and think it the
very necessary, too, in order that we last
Y properly understand great many wo
IDS in our language that have been de- sal,
ID from these languages arc
Yes,'' said Mr.. Greed, ''and with the -
nges that have taken place in the Eng me.
language since our Bibles were trans b
1, how could we properly understand con
n without being familiar with the Ian our
yes in which they We're written?''
id Mr.. O'DOx. ''And like tie iiea =
need by Max Adeler in lecture some -
ago. in New York City, OH Socialism.
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