The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-04-23

heart and as is my wont, In order OmaKe
my teaching as demOnstratlonal and
practical as possible. l procured for the
lads inspection the most approximate
exemplification of the subject in hand.
In this particular case had sent round
to the butchers for a sleeps heart; and
| permitted the members of the class to
see. touch and handle it for themselves.
| In the course of the lesson, l asked
the question:
what is the difference, then, be-
twixt sleeps heart and the heart OF a
| man or woman?" As matter OF fact IL
may be permitted to remind the reader),
the two have a most remarkable SINH
larity.
Among others. one poor, pale-looking
lad put out his hand.
"Well, B." said, ''what difference
is suggested to you?'
"Why, SIR" answered the boy, glow
of feeling rising to his cheek. "a sleeps
heart is the softcst; for you can bite a
Sleeps heart, but a woman's heart you
break"
| And then ! remembered that poor lit
tie BIS mother had died of broken
heart. the result of husbands brutali-
ty and desertiOn.
The next essay from which / take an
extract was written by a lad in the
Fourth Standard of the school. The
subject for the composition was Flow
erS.
After describing the flowers to be
| IN nr1in nd NIL
young essayist continues:
Now. in the country the flowers
grow wild in the fields. though not SO
close together, and not in skwares and
rounds. And nobody believes it till
they go in the train; but certainly boys
and girls can run amongst them, and
pull Up as many as they like, and fill
their arms and baskets and bring them
home to there fathers and mothers.
And the teacher said that if we could
only 60 the next day, there would be
just as many flowers again. Some boys
would not believe what the teacher said,
but l believe that it is true, for believe
that God can easy do miracles, because
l believe that the flowers are not stuck
in by men or policemen after it is dark.
else what about taking SO much pulling
out? When l am man l shall 60 the
next dag. l should so like to live in a
house in the middle Of the fields, so that
l could always see them flowers all
round me, and the trains going by on
them green banks. Perhaps when /
am man l shall try to find house
there, and kind woman in the inside
of it,
The following effort is a selection
from Third Standard lad composition
exercise upon ''The Donkey" Only the
first two paragraphs of the essay are
omitted:
THE Donkey is one Of that tribe OF
beasts on which the cane has no effekt
for the harder you hit it the slower it
goes. Your fathers never use whip
for there donkeys, becase they no it
would not hurt them. For the Donkey
rather likes to feel whip, as it only
tikles him and makes him feel joyful
and hungry. The best thing to punish
a Donkey with is, firstly, short thick
cane for ears and belly; and secondly, a
broomstick cut in two for backbone and
back legs. He will then go betwixt
four and five miles an hour.
The donSeys which you see painted
yellow and blue on the school
pictures are what are called jews asses.
These tribes of donkeys 60 many miles
an hour, and will follow their masters
like dogs and lambs becose of kindness.
The young one are sometimes called
kOltS and foals of asses. Therefore, if
you have a niced young donkey show
mercy unto it. and it might grow into a
kolt or the foal of an ass. There is also
the tribe of wild asses which prowl upon
! the top of rocks. and never slip over,
even in winter. They are larger than
our modern donkeys, and surer footed.
In the night time they climb down. and
feed like rabbits upon the poor farmers
hard-earned vegitebles:''
The branch of secular work which
children abhor more than any other is
beyond doubt Grammar and Analy-
sis" l have frequently noticed that
during this session the lads grew rest
less and even irritable. and the disci-
pline becomes, in consequence, more
difficult to maintain.
Hence l can very we'll understand that
irritableness, quite as much as ignor-
ance. was the cause of the startling an
swer given by north-country lad to his
inspector during an examination in
grammar.
The inspector was dealing with the
genders of nouns and pronouns, and,
among other questions, he asked:
What is the gender of the noun egg?
''Sir." answered tall, shrewd lad be-
hind. who probably surmised that it was
kind of ''catch" question. and was de-
termined to prove himself equal to the
occasion, you Gamma tell till it's hatch
edr'
During a Scripture lesson from the
Book of Kings teacher. after having
gone through the life of the third mon
arch of the united Jewish kingdom.
Solomon. had a further intention of pro-
ceeding to the reign of Solomon's sue
cessor. Jeroboam, King Of Israel.
Accordingly he put the question:
Now bows who was it came after