The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-11
Be Mighty Patient With children.

be mighty fatlenC WIN Ch1lOren
! Parents and teachers ought to be
mighty patient with children.ssomes
have more capacity and some more mem
Dry. Some are slow and some are quick.
1t is not the smartest child that makes
the smartest man or woman. 1t is B,
powerful strain on some Of 'em to keep
up, and the dull ones oughn't to be
crowded untilthey hate bosks, and dread
the time Of going to school. Some fol ks
send their children to school to get rid
Of 'em, but my opinion is tho parents
ought to help the teacher every night.
1t shows the children how much inter-
est.theyfeeli in their education. It is a
sign off good teacher when the children
get ambitious to- Keep upsand get head
marks, and bring their books home at
night, and want to go to school if it is
raining a little. Wrap 'em up and let
'em 90. = ea E-5 ~ fs
There is nothing that demolishes
a school-boy like staying at
home every few days and
getting behind the class. We used to
walk three miles to school, and we never
minded it at all. It was a frolic all the
way there. and all the way back, and we
did have this best dinner in the world.
Delnonico never has good things us our
mother used to tx up for us. It seems
to me 80 now. A child's life is full Of
romance and funT--the best sort of fun.
don't dream now, hardly ever. l used
to read Robinson Crusoe and dream it
all over again. How l did long to be
shipurecked on an island and raise
monkeys ana goats and parrots.
h Slow children are generally sure chill
dren, but they don't show of much.
Daniel Webster was most always foot in
his class but when he learned anything
he never forgot it. Some boys are wild
and restless and have no love for books.
but they oughn'tto be given up or hacked
or abdsed continually. If they have
good parents they will come to them
selves after awhile. re-
1T Is astonishing how humiliation
will follow a boy. One time a boy stole
"a quarter Of dollar from another boy
at school, and that followed him to his
grave. He got to be a great man and
was thirty years in congress and Was a
senator, and.%..one day when he made a
bitter speech against the corruption Of
the opposite party and denounced their
stealing and .plundering by Wholesale,
one OF his.opponents replied by saying
,he would remind the gentleman that
preachers OF. morality should. come into
the pulpit witht clsan handsAtfiat Ben.
rankin said, st..He that would steal a
pm would steal a bigger thing" and he
asked no quarter from the gentleman on
that seoresas fi&s4fE
SO, boys, remember and keep your
hands clean Folks wiHforgives mischief
n q heap of other things, but they
on forgive meanness.-Biu Arp.
H-
isecEding Waters on the Face OF the
IT, aiiobs
Much discussion has been had lately over
the prohal1es cdnse of tie, s1ialll;wflia Of
t4kes and Streams in different parts Of the
country. Ii is agreed On all hands that the
the rnintallsfnf ctfafinalocatiohs, vt least
changes the character of the sertaea of the
Watersheds. When forests cox.I these
sioping grounds, the. depth Of would and
moss holds back tile water like "a spohecs
~ ting IT Out, slowly and thus, keeping up
thc IoWot Streams more evenly through
The dry timss." Whan e it of,.s the water
passes soon from the surtaca OF III STAND in
to the flowing streams and rivers, and thus
carries OF early IN the season, by flood,
what would otherwise feed the summer
brooks for a long time. 1t is very doubt
iuI even IN such cases, whether fine an
loai ralnfailis not as greatas when the land
- covered with heavyti uberrnd anderorush
Some have arguedthat becstlse om lakes.
ana rivers seem = be drying uh or at least
snow not so much water as they once did,
me gsneral boay of water OF the facs of
me eafth Is diminishing. There is no
basis for this reasoning. If the water fall
should diminish or increase in certain To-
cations, the lakes and streams prove deeper
or more shallow, there is no evidence that
y IS caused by tie increase OF decrease OF
me general amount of water on the face OF
me globe2% How can the rainfall bs me2s-
urea at the same time on the various oceans
covering SO large a part of the gtobe? This
for . sfrles Of years could only proxe, the
laet, and then, even. there 10 no say of
proving exactly wh, the ev ,port.oa MY
DC on the surface of quo eea, wflle it ia
'a.llag on that Of another.