St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-04
The OLD MANS KICK.
Daniel and He Could Not
Agree as to Educa-
ton.
The Boy Had a Crazy De-
sire to Go High
er.
Which His Sira Took
to Be Most Fool
iSh.
M. Quad Gives Advice to
Both on the Sub
jeet.

up into half a dozen farms, neard
loud voices on the road ahead, and
presently saw two persons seated on
rock. While yet ten rods away heard
the voice of one of them saying:
Now. Dan'l, can't and l WON'T
stand it no mo'!''
The other made no reply, and when |
advanced found the pair to be father
and son-the latter boy of eighteen.
The usual salutdtions were passed, and
as l sat down beside them L soon found
the boy to be unusually intelligent and
keen. We talked about general matters
for few minutes, and then Dan'l
turned to his father and said:
might ask him, pop, l reckon he
knows"
Il war; calkerlatin' to, Dan'l-yes, I
was; Pm glad him cum along, am.
Will you abide by what him says??"
Il will. Go ahead, pop"
STRANGER" SAID the old man as he
put finger on my knee, "Pve bin
fussin' with Dan'l fur two years back.
He's bin wuss on me nor the itch, and
he's nigh Killed his nam. l brung him
out yere to have talk and settle it, and
it seems as if the Lord had sent you this
way jist in time. Be you what is called
an eddecated MANI"
"YeS, more or less
you've bin around right smart?"
eyes"
"You know about arithme tic, geo.
graphy, grammar, writin' and spellin'?"
Yes
"Thank the Lord that you hev cum!
Now, Dan'l, he 'un will down you in
two minits, and you hev agreed to
abide"
$50 1 will, pop. Just ask he 'un to
talk"
"Well, stranger, it's this: Dan'l
hum and go for hisself. He wants to
know mo-, and hev better clothes and
mo- money than his father"
"Well?''
"Wall, say he shouldn't adoo it. It's
TOO Eighty. 1t can't be did. He's bin
foolin' hisself."
"What do you want to leave home
for?" l asked of the boy.
''That may go to school and get an
education" he replied. "We've had a
school here, and L can read and write
and spell and figure, but l want to go
higher"
"Look at the cheek of it," shouted
the father. ''He knows mo- now than
do. and yit he wants to go higher.'
"What plans have you got for the
future?" l queried of Dan'l.
II want to go to some good school for
two OF three years, and then l want to
study for profession"
"A perfeshun!n howled the father as
he sprang up. "Whoop! A son of ole
Jim Nevins cryin' for a perfushen! If
anybody had toled me I'd live to see
this day I'd have Token his scalpr
II want to go into law or medicine if
can," said Dan'l.
"Whoop! That's the last hair what
breaks the camel's backn' roared the
old man. "I'm powerfully minded to
take the ongrateful cub and wiring his
neck! Why don't you go fur him,
stranger? Why don't you turn to and
use him up?"
''Are you opposed to education?"
81 be and / been't! When man kin
read and write and figger he's got huff.
That's all [ ever had, and Eve got along
right smart. If Dan'l does as we'll he
may be thankful"
Elbow well have you done? How old
are you?"
Fifty"
"HoW much are you worth?"
''More'n $1,000, Sir"
''That is, you've worked thirty years
Or more to accumulate $1,000 or $1,000
worth of land and mule OF tWo?"
"Yes."
CATER DanI has been educated he
can earn as much in six months"
"W-what."
Ibid you ever have lawsuit"
"Onct."
chow much did you pay your law
yer?"
"Cost me S25."
''How much time did he put in?''
mot more'n two hours, dog gone
him!''
Then why shouldn't Dan'l earn $a5
I'm two hours?"
Hes got you stuck, papw laughed
the son.
GLOW much was your doctor bill last
year?'
Thirty dollars
''And the doctor was not in your
house over half day, all told. Why
shouldn't Dan'l earn $50 the same way?
70 That doctor earned $40 where you
earn ST.
"Whoop! The stranger is also agin
mel" shouted the old man as he cracked
his heels together.
and he can buy and sell you inside of a
year. Do you know what income a
good lawyer in Knoxville or Chatta-
nO0ga can count On?'
81 never thought"
''Well, it's enough in one year to buy
the whole Of this cove and every calf
and hog and mule within ten miles of
it. It's the same with the doctors.'
He actually turned pale as he looked
from Dan'l to me and back again and
up and down the road. Bye and bye he
asked:
Stranger, hev you a pur = per-
feshun?'
Il have.''
''And will you allow that you have
made as high as-as So day?''
''Yes, five times that"
He stared at me with open mouth, I'M
able to say word.
"You don't know much about the
world outside" said, as l pulled him
down and offered him a cigar. you
work hard on your farm and you get
ahead slowly. You can ilire negro to
do farm work for So week. Carpen-
tiers, blacksmiths, painters and such
men get from 50 to $3.50 per day. If
Dan'l was good bookkeeper he could
get 1000 or 81 200 year,"
"C-cOuld he?'
Certainly, but he must have educa-
ton"
stranger. did you ever make S3 a
day?" sternly asked the old man.
Yes"
"Fourl''
YES"
"Five%'
eyes,"
"Dcg-gone me. but / can't believe it!
And it's all dun be eddicashun!"
''That's the capital you start with.
AS a clerk, Dan'l could be dressed up,
work eight or nine hours a day and