The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-10-11
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 School teachers m country districts who a board around. as the swing IS. have always had the sympathy oi the editor oi the .>Es, ever since his hsst experience ia being auArtefed on total strangers. which occurred over twenty years ago When the Wisconsin Editorial a.socia',oa was young. Il used 10 meet ani usliy at small ities and villages. where hotel accom- modatIons were limited, and n ~as GUS somaTy ,o quarter the visiting edi,ofs on families that were 70 hsed that thcy could accommodate a guest Fc~ editors m those days could have stood II to pa, tso or three days board ai a hotel, even st reduced rates. and the custom oi boarding around was pirassnt to the editors. A r ,asalsed no expense. an editor. furnished ~i,h passes, and ptn weed ~ith A fAuily to board with. could put ln A week away from home and no, carry mose than twelve shilIings ~tth h,m, and he would often go back home ~i,h + II hls money left, ard peihap, with moe than he had when he lei, home, 'i he happened ,o s'Iike A sub sofibef inatanoe4 have been knoNn Nhtit At toitofs ateE upatbtuk NlfH 4 fam ly fot a week. would induce his hosi 10 subs 'be ioi his paper and pay year m advance, heioie he ieH the hospstabie root Those weIe sfea, days. but |, was often no pic nis fer the family that enter ,ained some ot the boys. for many ot them would come n al all ho9rs of the night. in several stages of in,osicsison. for editon did drnk in the old tunes. Many of the present edriofs oi thr >taie, wh. do not nox touch drop. were as "~ild colts as Josh Whtioorb b evet was when he run with a threshing ma chine, and people ~ko have entertained them n the long ago have ~onderfnl stories 10 tell to this day ot the way the boys carried on" No, long ago one of the most digni6ed editors ol the state vas introduced to a citizen of Waiertosn. and the editor. who IS strong temper pessnee man, sad, oeems to me your lace ,s familiar. Where have l met you befosey r The citizen said, after thinking A moment, Twenty three years ago met you al t~o o'clock m the morniny, uy.ng 10 get up my siaifs fees hrs.. and you were singing We won't 70 home til m thic) orn,ng.' l, was when you attended the editorial convention al our plaoe' The dignii.ed old safdine sA,d " That settles II, Wha, 4 memory you have gos." and then they ~ent To talking abou, the crops.
 but this is not what we started ,o write Al that ed,toriai convention 2t Wsisr- town, the writer was quAstered upon respectable and pious family. who, he learned to his sorrow, had a habit of reading the bible every morning before bfeakfAsi, and praying. The hfs, morn ing the guest ~zs handed b.ble sad the host gave out the book and chapter where the reading would be, and pso. ceeded to read verse. The family, all Of whom were accustomed to bibles turned inssinetisely to the nght place. and the second ose began to read her verse Ii seems that each one vas ex- ! pecied so read a yeF,e toiiosing the ose that had been read previously. Tse edi- tor began to psfspsse. He cesld no' have told within seven so~s Of apple trees where to md the subject before the house, in the bible, and he set his thumb and began 10 tura over leayes al double quick. 10 knd the place, as it was going fo be hss o~p turn to read q verse pretty soon. He 2siloped over the good book with his thumb and eJes from Genesis to Revelations, trying to md somsfhinR that wzs lamilisr. He would lsten so whoever was reading. catch the dsih of the argument. and dive into the bsb!e like duck dog into q rice maSsh afer wounded duck, trying to re- frieve the lesson, bat ieIiov might 2s veil try 10 gel ou, of the D.smsi SsAmr by lining himself by the boot sfsps, ss 10 try to fad texi in the bible with 10 pointers or easmasks b guide him. is vas the editos's tusn to read ssxs, asd he had not foosd the plscs, e vhes the lan girl had 6nished the edifss vas @ scased and humilissed that he could mol ,ee the big print in the bible, Q he re- pezsed someshing he re@embsssd h : piece he used to speak ia school. called ksng David's Lament oyer AbszIom," 1" and in . voics qsivesisg with emotion he said, 70, Absaism, my s1o, ny sos {.