The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-11-23

| MRS. u. A. Stanton and her father,
G. N. Jaqua, visited in the grades last
week.
Examinations are keeping pupils and
teachers busy this week.
The high school girls will give an
entertainment at the Grand opera
house on Wednesday evening. The
proceeds will go towards purchasing
piano for the high school.
The student teachers of the normal
class who have been practicing 10 the
grades for the past two weeks are do
ing excellent work.
The senior and sophomore classes
have organized literary society.
They will hold their first meeting on
Friday afternoon following Thanks
giving. The junior and freshman
classes will organize and meet on the
Friday following. By alternating
there will be literary meeting every
Friday afternoon.
Minor Herbert, who has been serious
| ly i'll with pneumonia, is reported bet
ter. He will soon be able to join his
class.
The sixth grade have improved their
room very much. The girls bought
; sash curtains for the windows, the
boys have bought spread for the
table, and the boys and girls have
brought plants. Mr.. Stanton has
: vanished the desks and the legs OF the
, table. When our lessons are finished
Miss Wilkins lets us go to the table to
/ read. Now the room looks more like
| a sitting room. HELMER NELSON.
OUR PICTURE.
Our picture hangs on the front wall
SO we can all see it. 1t is a very pretty
one.
i We earned it by having concert
| and the money that was taken in was
t spent for pictures for the rooms. The
subject OF our picture is 'Haying Time.
: There is ahay-rack out in the meadow
and five horses are hitched to it
e The women are out helping. Thu
r men are loading and the women are
4 racking the hay. There are blacl
/, clouds approaching and they want t.
/. get the hay in so that it will not ge
o wet. They will soon get the hay al
S stacked and it will not get wet.
: FOSTER WOODBURY..
VI Fourth grade, B class.
PoRTIA.
Portia was highly educated young
3 lady living in Belmont. She was noted
for her generosity and unselfishness
as was shown when Bassanio wa.
choosing the casket. Although SHIT
loved him the most of all she would
;. not give him any hint which would LEAD
!. him into choosing the right one
y When she found he had gotten the one
with her picture she said she wished
;. she was thousand times more wealth.
. for his sake. When she made up hel
mind to help Antonio to escape from
: the clutches of the Jew, she told hel
servants that she was going to mon
: estary to wait for her husband.
: don't think she showed her honesty
. very we'll then, but believe she was
: right in saying so because she was
? about to accomplish a great good.
Again she showed her honesty by not
changing the law to suit the case for,
as she said, SIT will be recorded for a
precedent and many an error by the
same example will rush into state
All through the trial she made the
Jew think she was keeping his part,
and at the end it all came upon him
suddenly and he was broken-hearted,
but suppose she knew that she would
bring the case around in Antonio g
favor so it wouldn't be necessary for
him to know at once. Portia showed
her brilliance by the way she conduct
ed the case throughout and by the way
she told Shylock that the bond named
expressly "a pound of fesh," but not
one iot of blood. At the end of the
trial Portia begged Bassanio for his
ring so that he would believe her story
when he got home. She showed her
wit then, as Bassanio refused her his
ring, on the plea twas from his wife,
by saying THAT excuse serves many
men to save their gifts think one
reason she thought 'twould be a good
| joke on Bassanio.
j ALICE HARTLEY.
| Eighth grade.