The Newtown bee., 1894-11-30
that will descend with their old clothe.

that will descend with their old clothe
 to those who come after them; for
 "There is old Tim Murphy. and young ri,
 Murphy,
 And young Tim Murphy's son;
 But young Tim Murphy will be old Tim Mn
 phy
 When old Tim Murphys gone."
 Early in this contest of the board 1
 carrying out the plain provisions of stat
 ute law against delinquent districts,
 was courteous to the obstructionists.
 was always charitable in speaking o
 their opinions. They were honest il them, but of course mistaken. Ignor ance is x ,ta crime. But I was met ol every hand by the most outrageous in situations, innuendoes and falsehood that I threw courtesy overheard ane wrote the power behind the throne il Shiloh substantially as follows:
 Sandy Hook. Conn, Oct, 1894. Mir George w. Bradley-Dear Sir: It comes to me from source entirely reliable that you recently in place of public resort made use of the following language: "If were to make known all of MT Corbett's admissions to me touching the Gray's Plain matter, it would place him in a very embarrassing position"
 Now the only object of this communication Is ito free your noble mind from the letters that gall." and release you from any restraint imaginary or otherwise, upon your tongue or pen, touching everything that has transpired between us relative to the above matter, with the proviso only that you give date, place, persons and nature of these admissions, as I will not be drawn into any discussion, news paper or otherwise, with the aberrations of dotage or senility. There is nothing of the Mrs Moriarity stamp about the undersigned. Very espectfully,-[Thomas J. Corbett.
 To this there was screed of non se- quiters in reply, that in parts bordered on incoherency, but the correspondence ceased. will take the public into my confidence enough to say that it ceased because he had no "admissions" to give away. That "side" of the board weren't at any time in the slop-over state. Then came the door-stone ''doggerel." Icould forgive everything else; but this deep in- suit to the chivalrous instincts of the race to which belong, which is voiced in the historic blessing of the mother to her daughter just entering womanhood: May your name never appear in print but twice, when you are married and when you are dead" can never be atoned for. Sentiment, hear the Shiloh cynics sheer. Yes, sentiment; but sentiment that is honest and true, whose roots go down deep into the human heart, and whose tendrils twine about the sanctum of home. I am too old to be a cynic, ,and too young to be Lothario, so this senti- ment has weight with me. Heroic meas- ures would be the only remedy for the moral ills of Shiloh.
 When read the part of the "Both Sides," which has to deal with the pro- pounding of the historical enigma to Miss Ryan, am forcibly reminded of the story told at Teachers Institutes to make us teachers laugh: A six-foot huiking Hoosier schoolmaster was examining his only scholar in history one day when the visitor was present. With fog horn profundo and nasal twang falsetto voice he put the question, "Who discovered No answer. The question was repeated with an increase of pitch. The little girl trembled, tried to speak but could not. s'Who discovered Ameri- ca?" came in thunder tones. In parox- ysm of fear the little one at last found voice to utter: 1T, did, teacher, but I won't do it again!" It don't require much mental effort to see the parallel. Both are companion pictures.
 But for that other scene enacted in that school room on that never-to be forgotten Wednesday afternoon when this hulking heap of man smote the cheek of this child and the other cadaver rushed in and both laid violent hands on her and rushed her away, can only find type in some old New England prints, where the fanatics of Massachusetts first spat upon the witches and rushed them off to the place of burning. 'sFanaticism," history ex- plains. What shall we call the other.
 Taxation, without representation" they howl. Yes, without representation. Gray'- Plai has $46, 900 of grand list. A three. mill tax for educational purposes realizes SIPS. The school cost $25O. De- fciency made up by the town SIP. Road orders paid in the district, $2l0, uses up the rest of the taxes raised in that dis rrict. Nearly every able-bodied man in the district who Is sskicker' is repre- -ented as pensioner in some way on the towns bounty. Fortunately so, or per- haps the pauper list would be enlarged. Come of!
 We Americans established this coun- try, built up it's institutions and main tained them; and we propose to continue doing so, "orates this pseudo-patriot who, less than generation ago, when the land was in the death grapple of giant rebellion, with the other skulkers oi Gray's Plain, was hiding behind the mil itary exemption laws, raising "Peact flags. and giving utterance to speeche. and poems CD save the mark, more ol