The Mineral argus., 1884-01-03
Favored a Higher Fine.

Will. Taylor. the son of the present
American Consul at Marseilles, was a
good deal like other boys, while at
school at his old home, at Hudson. Wis.
One day he called his father into the
library and said:
"Pa, 1 don't like to tell yon, but the
teacher and l have had trouble"
whats the matter now?"
''Well, 1 cut one of the desks q little
with my knife, and the teacher says I've
got to pay q dollar or take a lickin'."
"Well, why don't you take the licking
and say nothing more about it? l can
stand considerable physical pain, SO
long as it 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 hRye to stand it. /
presume that the teacher will in wrath
remember mercy and avoid disabling
you SO that you can't get your coat on
"But pa, / feel mighty bad about it al
ready, and If you would pay my fine I'd
never do it again. j know a 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 l could make a dollars as
easy as yon can, pa, I'D Y let my lit
tie boy get logged that way just to save
a dollar. If / had a little teller that got
licked bekuz / didn't put up fer him, I'd
bate the sight of money always. I'd feel
as il every dollar ! had in my pocket had
been taken out OF my little kids back"
"Weli, now Tn 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 ever occurs
again I'll hold you while the teacher
licks you, and then I'll get the teacher
10 hold you while I'll lick you. That's
the way I feel about that. IT you want
to 20 around whiting up our education
al institutions you can do so; but you
will have to purchase them afterwards
yourself. | don't propose to buy any
more damaged school furniture. You
probably grasp my meaning, do you
not? ] send yon to school to acquire an
education, and not TO acquire liabilities
so that you can come around and make
an assessment on me. l feel q great in
terest in you, Willie. but do not feel
as though it should be an assess
able interest. | want to 90 on, of course,
and improve the property, bat when i
pay my dues on it | want to know that it
goes toward development work. l don't
want my assessments to go toward the
purchase of a school-desk with Ameri-
can hireoglyphics carved on it.
81 hope you will bear this in your
mind, my son, and beware. 1t will 60
greatly to your interest to beware. If [
we're in your place / would put ina large
portion of my time in the beware bust
ness"
The boy took the dollar and went
-.-- l.. -~awv - ~nlaN1 a- -
more was eve sal1 about the matter un-
til Mr.. Taylor learned causally several
months later that the Spartan youth had
received the ~walloping and filed away
the dollar for future reference. The boy
was afterwRTd heard to say that be
favored a much heavier fine in cases oil
that kind. One whipping WA sufficient
he said, but he favored a fine OF SIS. 1
ought TO be severe enough to make it an
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