The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1885-02-05
Some Measures
OF Importance i'm the
Ohio Legislature.
0ch0ol Book stillS Until you
Can't Rest from Count.
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Can't Rest from Count.
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Special Correspondence Of the Sentinel,
COLUMBUS, Feb 3-The member
of the Legislature who can't intro
duce at least one bill in relation to
school books, is looked upon as a
man of small calibcr. tried to keep
track of the school book bills for
awhile, but they became so numer-
Gus that | gave it up
They are Of all kinds, classes and
conditions and vary in length. from
100 to 1000 lines, according to the
lncliuotion and habits of the author.
Some of them provide that all the
school books shall be printed in the
Ohio Penitentiary, from which l
infer that a drag net is to be cast
and ali the printers IN the State arc
to be scooped into the Pen.
If that is to be done then | am in
favor of the bill. The wron.s and
outrages that l have suffered at the
hands of the printers, have soure6
me on them. In one OF my finest
periods l once referred to "a battle
Scared veteran" and won his eter-
nal and undying enmlty because the
printer set it up so as TO make me
call him "a bottle scared veter .n."
Again, l dropped into poetry in a
friendly way and wrote for the SEN
TINEL:
"Lcve is the union of two hearts
That beat in softest melody
Time with his ravages imparts
Confusion to its ecstacy."
Now behold the mrnner in which
Parson Gould "sot it up" and made
me responsible for the following dog
gerel:
"Love is an onion OF two heads
That beat to softness mellowly,
Time with his cabbages in carts,
Confcses even an extra dray."
When l see Parson Gould wearing
stripes in the Pen setting up school
books, ] will come to the conclusion
that Justice is not only blind but
deaf, dumb and knock-kneed also
1 want to see DR.. Fierce's bill passed
if it is as comprehensive as think
it is.
Senator Levering has a good
school book bill also. 1t provides
that a commission composed of one
member from every county in the
State, and one member from every
city of the first and second grades,
shall meet in Columbus and write.
compose and publish complete sys
tenn of text books for the schools
which shall become the property of
the State. The passage of that bill
would be of incalculable benefit to
the statesmen of Ohio. 1t would
quickly demonstrate that all the in
competents and impracticables Of
the State were members of the Leg
stature. Get that school book Com
mission in full blast over verbs end
pronouns and coniugations and the
differentiation of the differentiation
of the co efficient of K, and "sich, y
and the Legislature could carry on
deviltry at its own sweet will and
nobody would ever suspect or hear
of it.
MIR. Baker has a splendid bill al
so. which among other things pro
! vides for towns ships and district Su-
perintendents, at good salaries-say
about 81. 800 a year. The bill was
so long and SO profound that I had
a good deal of trouble to ascer tain
it's origin. However, l discovered
on his desk Orpheus C. Kerr's his
tory of the Mackeral Brigade. As
all the members ofthis Brigade were
Brigadier Generals, the idea of max
ing all the school teachers Superin-
.endents, readily suggests itself.
Joe Poe had bill under which
a Commission of five were to invent
and print for frecfdistribution all the
books required in schools, but as it
was very certain that Mr.. Poe him
self wo uld have been appointed
President of the Commission, by the
Gov. and as it is desirable that all
the children of the State should not
be swept off in one year, the bill
was killed.
The other school book bills are
equally meritorioas, but / havn't
the space to mention them in de-
tail.
The question of convict labor will
probably be disposed of this wcel,
or next. 1t ought to be looked af-
ter without delay. The Mooney
bill providing for the piece price
plan is fkely to be amended consid
, erably IN the Senate, but will be
substantially enacted.
The partial appropriation bill in
dicates that the Democratic Legis-
lature this var will be able to save
$500, 900 or 100000 as compared
with the Repub ican management Of
1888. w. A. 7.
I Through an accident occurring
whilst building a foundation under
the large safe in the AUDITORS office,
the combination to the lock was dis
arranged, and for Sc 'eral days the
safe WIS closed against all efforts