The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-16

US continually. "crowding the sea
SON. I'm the strange attire they have
been forced to put on why. II ~ enough
10 make 1.-THE swallows homeward ny.
to make Bonnie Annie Laurie lie down
and die" N she is not already dead, ana
10 mako "Robin Adalr" turn over IN ms
grave and ask. why OH why
Give MS the music room, II for nothlnB
else. 10 preserve through the Ilsihs ~"
Grafton those grand. old neiooieS' ." S"0
ksoin Mr chairman. when IN the prose-
cution OF my duties. / have crossed thc
rushing torrents 81 my native county tnc
Laurel Fork mmblng ana bIu'iil.S
Forks. and Birthstone ana Btimstohe,
Creeks aud have noticed their wondeilui
opuisnec OF mechanical energy, going 10
waste and ever going 10 waste the rear
xatiou has come 20 me that Only q ie"
of our favored sChOols-the OhlNcIsity 81
virginia the Military Institute ana inc
Nirelnia POLYTECHNIC Institute Of our sec
ton OF The state. are prepared TO teacn
their nupiis 20 have much 10 90 Win
materials and the actual dong OF thlhss'
and then the conviction comes. u'VPldil
tho IL may be- that after a while All our
public schools will attain 10 the measure
on success designed for them, by eoucat-
Ing the rising generation on the lines OF
nfe they are scvCraly 10 pursue. iheh
Will all this mecndlicdi fl'lhN h' ii't
messed and directed by intellectual Skin 10
the furthcrance OF human comfort ana
happiness Therefore give us apparatus
laboratories electrical lines OF commuhl-
cation between the schools ana an he0eS-
sary appliances.
A VISION BLURRED.
Rut MI Chairman. just here n mote
dashes across the sunbeams, blur comes
upon my prophetic vision. / may When
ali these things have come to pass be
sitting peacefully IN my central once al
Abingdon the central office OF the lines OF
communication between the schools, when
/ will hear the ringing or the telephone
bell .,,,.,,o,
quickly responding, ask: Hello,
Who s. NJ The answer comes back
Miss Masse' II do not catch on. who
did YOU say ." A little petul-
antlv this time. Miss Massachusetts
Pedagogi who desires TO ask the superin-
tendcnt OF schools TO publicly reprOve 1T
tie Polly Smith, her brightest ana most
intelligent pupil. who has Just returned
from the reading room where she mas
been communing with the most gigantic
and scientific minds Of the twentieth CEN
fury. and refuses TO .narrate 10 the school
that which she has read.
Becoming much interested. / ask: what
have YOU heard hey>reading?' How that
the prehistoric Ohio man ten thousand
years ago followed the monster. pachyder-
matOus mammifferOus hcrbiVcrOus mas
todon from the glaciers of ohio TO the al.
luvial plains of James river, and had
despatched him there with his little stone
axe and that the mammoth bones ana
the little axe had been recently eXhumed
and placed on exhibition in the Museum
OF Richn ond College
1 Immediately connect my cineographic-
prOiectOscOpe, or neutrality-suspicious.
graph Il don't know which II VIII be eau
ed) and take look at the interior OF the
school-roOm. | see little Polly Smith
standing demurely. but somewhat defiant
~ upon the stage. and hear her saying
that her mother did not allow her 10 teii
chose things" and fully imbucd Win
the Richmond idea. the Jasperian theory
OF "strict construction protesting mat
these things occurred. If AT all. before the
time Of blessed revelation. in fact. before
the time of creation,-and Mr.. Cnali man
before I can have reproved httle ioiiy
Smith / am taken with violent cough
ing. and the interview terminates
TO HOLD ON FOR A WHILE.
When this era Of progression shan hSVe
arrived and our little heroine shall have
finished her education in the pubic
schools and shall have been graduated at
the University of Virginia. then, and not
till then. shall ] voluntarily decline re-
appointment as school superintendent: ana
then only i'm favor OF little Polly Smith.
Now Mr. Chairman. let me conclude
with a pathetic poetic appeal respectfully
inscribed or dedicated to the District
school Boards Of Trustees throughout
Virginia:
Give us the gravel walks
FrinCed with flowers.
The shining turrets
And glistoning towers
From which 10 float "Old Glory.
The music-rCom,
The reading-rOCm;
For current event and story;
The terraces graded.
Grounds nicely shaded.
And ever well be your debtors;
But oh. If you can!
DO save from that man
The prehistoric OhiOan,
His aiderS and abettOrs.