Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-26
FAVORED A HIGHER FINE.
Hy Kill Nyc.

VIII Taylor, the son of the present
American Consul at Marseilles, was a
good deal like other boys, while at school
in his old home, of Hudson, Wis. Ono
day he called his father into the library
and said:
"Pa, l don't like to tell you, but the
teacher and l have had trouble"
Whats the matter nowl"
"Well, / cut one of the desks q little
with my knife, and the teacher says I've
got to pay a dollar or take q lickin'.'
well, why don't you take the licking
and say nothing more about it, l can
stand considerable physical pain, so long
as 1t visits our family in that form. OF
course, it is not pleasant to be logged,
but you have broken a rule Of the school,
and | guess you'll have to stand it. l
presume that the teacher will in wrath
remember mercy, and avoid disabling you
so that you can't get your coat On any
more"
''But, Pa, 1 feel mighty bad about it
already, and if you would pay my fine I'd
never do it again. / know o good deal
more about it now and l will never do it
again. A dollar amt much to you, pa,
but it's a heap to a boy that hasn't got a
cent. If | could make a dollar as easy as
you can, pa, I'd never lot my little boy
get flogged that way just to save a dollar.
If / had a little Teller that got licked be-
kuz l didn't put up fer him, I'd hate tho
sight of money always. I'd feel rs of
every dollar / had in my pocket had been
taken out of my little kids back"
"Well, now, I'll tell you what I'll do.
I'll give you a dollar to save you from
punishment this time, but if anything of
this kind aver occurs again I'll hold you
while the teacher ticks you, and then I'll
get the teacher to hold you while l lick
you. That's the way l feel about that.
If you want to go around whiting up
our educational institutions you can do
30; but you'll have to purchase them after
wards yourself. i don't propose to buy
any more damaged school furniture. You
probably grasp my meaning, do you notl
l send you to school to acquire an educa-
ton, not to acquire liabilities so that you
can come around and make an assessment
on me. l feel a great interest in you,
Willie, but | do not feel as though it
should be an assessable interest. / want
to go on, of course, and improve the
property, but when / pay my dues on it
l want to know that it goes toward deve-
lopment work. / don't want my assess
ment togo toward thepurohase of a school
desk with American hireoglyphies carved
ON it.
81 hope you will bear this in your
mind, my son, and beware. 1t will be
greatly to your interest to beware. II
| were in your place 1 would put in q
large portion of my time in the beware
business"
The boy took the dollar, and went
thoughtfully away to school, and no more
was ever said about the matter until Mr.
Taylor learned casually several month.
later that the Spartan youth had received
the walloping and filed away the dollar
for future reference. The boy was after
ward heard to say that he favored mucl
heavier fine in cases of that kind. Ont
whipping was sufficient, he said, but HI
favored a fine of S.. 1t ought to be 30
we're enough to make it an object.
Ex-Governor Oden Bowie, of Mary
1onl ~ro,snJ c. VoooL, oil 60, ~n.~.