Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-08-03

upon these Christian workers. We also |
feel justified in appendlng a statement
from a representative man of Charleston,
the father of Mrs. Kimbsll, man known |
in the business circles OF this and many
other adjoining towns, and honored for
of statement. He was a witness
to the chastisement wherein his daughter
used the strap upon Ethel.
Mr.. AND MRS. JOHN KIRBY.
DANIEL CHAPLIN.
Mr.. EDITOR: 1t was in my house and
under my observation that Mrs. Kimball
used the strap upon Ethel, as has been re-
ported. She was at the time teaching.
We had students here from the south part
OF the state. Three of the girls, beside
Ethel, were under Mrs. Kimball's con-
tinual supervision. MIR. Kimball was at
that time in South Carolina. Ethel was in
the school the balkiest of all, and set an
example which tended to the utter SUBJ
version of the school. At the time of
which we are speaking, Mrs. Kimball
appointed one girl to mop one floor,
another was to mop the dining room, and
Ethel was to mop the pantry. This she
utterly refused to do. She was probably
no more weary than the other girls, GER
tainly not more so than her mother. Her
mother told her that unless she could give
some reason for such conduct she would
have to be punished, and finally took her
upstairs and administered the strap, while
/ stood upon the stairs. The strap, by the
way, was one from a small telescope
valise. Ethel fought desperately and
snatched the strap, and In the fracas re-
ceived one blow from the buckle end of
the strap, which Mrs. Kimball had previ-
ously held in her hand. She Immediately
stopped and told Ethel she was sorry the
buckle hit her, but that her own deter
mined resistance had caused it. I believe
such positive disobedience at such time
merited punishment and that it was none
too severely given. This was the only
time Mrs. Kimball ever whipped Ethel,
but she felt that it was an absolute necess-
ity at this time. In regard to Mr.. Kimball,
1 have been personally acquainted with
him for twenty-four years and know him
to be always more tn oughtful of the COM
fort and happiness of others than himself.
He went to South Carolina with the hope
of improving his first wife's health, but
with the duty of teaching the poor coIored
people that he gave up the work and
salary which ne formerly had, and has
since supported himself for the sake of the
work he felt called Of God to do. My
daughter has been in full sympathy with
this course, but Ethel has never felt willing
to bear the tgnominy and occasional real
hardships of such life; and this finally
led to her going to her uncle's home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kimball have done much to
relieve the terrible sufferings among the
very poor in several of our large northern
cities. They have distributed food and
clothing to hundreds, mostly of sick and
barrels of food and clothing have been
sent them from Vermont, Massac husetts
and New York. They have sacrificed in
many ways to be able to help educate the
colored people, and now have severa
colored men and women with them in my
home, where they are studying and pre-.
pairing to do mission work in the South
know that il the real facts are under
stood, the people of our county will wisi
to still help and encourage their work
rather than sanction any effort to mis-
represent it. Yours for truth and justice
G. F. WORTHEN.
We publish the foregoing letters in repl.
to an item which appeared in the West
field news of this paper some weeks ago
The correspondent, who is man of tn
highest integrity, must have been misin
formed In the matter, as he would no
have sent the item had he not believed i
to be true. We are glad to make the abov
correction. Ed.