Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-09-10
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struck him a smart rap over the knuck-
les with the ruler. This so enraged him
that he threw down his slate, jumped into
the aisle, and with an oath flung OFT his
coat. I retreated back to the desk and he
followed. With all his bravado he was
afraid to hit me square blow which would
have settled the matter there and then.
He was not afraid Of me personally, but L
represented, in way, the authority of the
district-was the embodiment, as it were,
of law and order, and that indefnable some
thing he was just enough afraid of to hesi-
tate about striking, so he clnched me in
stead. Of course 1 quite agree with you
that there could not be more demoralizing
sight for school to see than fight between
teacher and pupil, but there it was, and l
had not time to see my way cleverly out OF
it. Events had followed each other too rap
idly.
The moment Bill clinched, as they called
it, I felt he had made mistake. Old men,
cries of bygone fights rose up, and as they
rose 1 elevated William on my hip and
dropped him chattering on the floor, much
to his own astonishment and that OF the
school.
"Rise up William" I said, land hold out
your hand"
He sprang to his feet and cried: "4ou
Just try that again."
Once more we clinched, once more he
lost his feet and once more he lay on the
floor.
"There, have accommodatedyou Now
oblige me by getting up and holding out
your hand"
This time he tried to strike me but I
lodged that, clasped him lovingly again,
and flung him at full length. He evident
ly regretted that he had taken Oft his coat,
for the floor was hard. He made for the
door but lost time by going around for his
discarded coat. 1 reached the door first,
locked it and put the key in my pocket.
Some of the girls had begun to cry, and all
the bows sat breathless. Bill looked fur
ried and somewhat the worse for wear.
"Hold out your hand, William" said,
as he approached. TO my astonishment he
held out his hand, and he instantly thrust
it further and took me around the body,
completely to my surprise. He raised me
from the floor and only grapevine, twist
around his leg saved me. We surged back
and forth moment. till l got my feet on
the floor and instantly I had him on the
hip once more. I felt my strength rapidly
leaving me, so with final supreme effort l
flung him without mercy on the hard floor,
and there he lay while leaned painting
against the wall. AS he showed no signs of
getting up, took dipper from the pail
which always stands near the door in "a
country school-house and threw the cold
water in his face.
He raised himself and leaned with one
hand on the floor, dying Gladiator fashion,
and seemed to be at a loss to know just
where the discussion had left off. 1 helped
him collect his ideas by saying:
"William, get up and hold OUT your
hand"
He rose somewhat painfully, as Rip Van
Wrinkle did after he oversight himself, and,
busting off his clothes, he held out his hand
rather ersheepishly. adn'tstrength enough
left to thrash him if l wanted to. said:
You know what you ought to do as well as
1 can tell you. If you 60 to your seat I'll
say no more about it. I'll let you off easy
this time."
He felt obviously of the back of his head
to see if it was in place, said "thank you" i"
with grim grin and went to his seat.
When I got back to my desk the whole
school seemed to whirl round and round and
I felt the ringing in my ears that person
feels when sinking in the water. However,
1 came to the surface all right, and when
the school-house became stable once more L
noticed that the pupils were more indus
triously attending to their lessons.
Such was the intellectual status OF that
neighborhood that received more congrat-
ulations for my little debate with Bill Trim
Minis than for all the brilliant educating l
did for two years after.-DetrOH Free Press.
GEORGE WAsHINGTON.-The following
is a summary of the character ascribed to
WASHINGTON in McMaster's History of the
| People Of the United States:
He died in his sixty-eighth year, and in
the heyday of his glory and his fame. Time
has since dealt gently with his memory,
and he had come down to us as the greatest
of all leaders and the most immaculate OF
all men. No other face is so familiar to us:
our country. We have made Of his birth
day a national feast. The outlines of his
biography are known to every school-boy
in the land. Yet his true biography is still
to be prepared. General Washington is
known to us, and President Washington.
But George Washington is an unknown
man. When at last he is set before US in
the habit as he lived, we shall read less of
cherry-tree and more of the man. Naught
surely that is heroic will be omitted, but
side by side with what is heroic will appear
much that is commonplace. We shall be-
hold the great commander repairing defeat
with marvellous celerity, healing the dissen-
sions of his officers, and calming the pas
sions of mutinous troops. But we shall also
hear his oaths; and see him in those out
bursts of passion to which Mr.. Jefferson has
alluded, and of which Mr.. Lear has de-
scribed. We shall see him refusing to be
paid for his services by congress, yet ex-
acting from the family of the poor mason
the shilling that was his due. We shall
know him as the cold and forbidding char
acter with whom no felloWman ever ven
tured to live on close and familiar terms.
We shall respect and honor him for being,
not the greatest of generals, not the Wlsest
of statesmen, not the most sanity OF his
race, but man with many human fralltles
and much common sense, who rose in the
fulness of time to be the political deliverer
Of our Countrywide american.
INCREASE OF NEGROEs.-At the session
of the Presbyterian General Assembly,
Rev. DR.. Allen, secretary OF the Freed
mans Aid Society, made strong speech
following the presentation Of the report of
the society. TO illustrate his remarks he
had hung on the wall, back of the platform,
a map twenty feet long by twelve feet wide,
showing the ratio of black to white popula-
ton in the Southern States. 1t was very
startling map, and when explained by the
earnest speaker, made strong and lasting
impression. Here are few of his signifi-
can't facts: Twenty years ago, at the close
of the war, there were in the Southern
States 3,947 900 colored people, and now
there are more than 100000. Then there
were in Mississippi 22O negroes, now
G5O,O00. Then there was in South Carollna
100000, now more than 6OO,OOO. FIVE nun,
dred colored babies are born in the United
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