Rock Island Argus., 1896-02-08
TOLDABoUT Town. ,

dreamt of standing for the peace and
dignity Of the state of Illinois he pre-
sided over a district school on the
wild prairies of Kansas. There's
where he commenced his career, and
he occasionally delights in relating
some experiences encountered while
dealing with that delegation of Kan
sas youngsters.
Before applying for the situation
of schoolmaster Mr.. Searle had heard
many reports Of the ugly actions
OF the scholars, who were mostly
big husky boys who thought it
nothing unusual to give the teacher
thrashing in case he attempted to
discipline them. Among MIR. Searle's
predecessors there had been men
and women alike, but the school had
become so difficult to handle that
even men acquainted with the situa-
| ton were not anxious to undertake
the job. There was one scholar espe-
cially hard to handle. He was cred
tied with thrashing every person
holding the schoolmastership for sew
eral years. But this did not dis
lSooA"So youhS OcaAiC, WIN WAS
somewhat OF husky fellow himself
SO he applied for the position and
secured it.
In glancing over the countenances
of his scholars the first morning
he located whom he supposed was
the district terror. He was not mis-
| taken. The bov measured about six
feet. had no coat, wore but a red flan-
mel shirt and appeared about as tough
as they made them in that section.
Affairs passed along peaceably for
awhile, when the tough fellow finally
threw out some defiant insinuations.
MIR. Searle was prepared for him aud
it was but day or so until he
and the bulldozing scholar came to-
gether in the school room, land"
| says the states attorney, Il gave
that fellow the worst beating he ever
got in his life. l expected to be ex-
PEELED by the directors. but to my
surprise they congratulated me, and
| | had no trouble afterward."
On his way to and from the school
house MIR. Searle used to pass a
large crib filled with corn. He set
to figuring out how many bushels
| the crib contained. One day some
time afterward he met one of the
school directors-an old farmer-and
he asked the young school teacher
how many bushels were in the crib,
apparently for the purpose of testing
his mathematical powers. That was
Easy for the school teacher, who had
t all figured out beforehand, and he
answered the old gentleman's ques-
tion after thinking moment.
"Wall. my son, you're a right
smart boy"
And everything that Charles said
! was law afterward.
THERE'S a vacancy in one of our
cinch clubs which is composed of a
select party of young people. The
young man who is considered quite
bicyclist joined the organization to
satisfy the wishes of his lady COM
panion, but only on condition that
the matter be kept as mum as possi-
| BILE in order that his spiritual adviser
might not become aware that one of
his model parishioners was partici-
pating in form of amusement to
which he was particularly opposed.
Several meetings of the club were
held at the residence of different
members and the young man in
question was always present and en-
Joyed the game as enthusiastically
as any of the others. He always
guarded against winning the conso-
lation prize-he knew it was out of
the question for him to capture the
first prize because he was only a be-
ginner-as much as possible, fearing
his name would appear in the news
| papers, which usually report such
affairs, for then it would be ali up
with him.
Sure enough at the next meeting
he came out at the small end of the
game and was accordingly awarded
the BOBBY prize. He warned his
gentlemen friends in the club to keep
it still and had his lady friend make
a similar request of the young
ladies. Then he felt all right again.
But when picking up a newspaper
the following evening he saw his
/ Haiuc III lIOut Vi tuc WuruS, ''UOODN
prize" he nearly tainted. The
preacher saw it, too.
! There was q consultation between
pastor and parishioncr the following
Sunday and now the cinch club is
minus one of its members. OF course
the young lady quit. too.
The barber was talking CT the per-
plexities that beset the pursuit of
his art. 1--WE chin serapers earn all
We get," he said, .'in dealing with
every day subjects. but there comes
a time when one of US is called out on
an unusual mission for which he re-
ceives the least pay-and that is
when he is summoned to shave a
corpse. 1t is an understanding that
a fee for tonsorial attention to dead
man is S or nothing, yet out of the
20 that have performed the final
service for have received pay for
just one.
mo sir, do not like either the
practice of shaving corpses or the