The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-12-03
j The National Capital.
Especial Correspondence to the HERALD
WAsHINGToN. ID. c.. Nov. 90

Especial Correspondence to the HERALD
WASHINGTON; D. G. Nov. 90.
Representative McCleary had a
long experience as school teacher
and college professor. He regards
the work as about the finest self
discipline any man can have. 1t
was once his duty to teach class
of students in psychology and in
the district schools of Wisconsin he
used to instruct classes in the prim-
ary rudiments, so often called the
three Rs. ''Have you ever tried to
stir pool of water with a stick"
is one of Mr.. Cleary's inquiries
when he converses about the nee
essary qualifications for a teacher.
If the water is deep it does not be-
come muddy from stirring. I ap-
ply that to teaching this way. A
teacher never should get angry. If
he does the scholar knows, just as
quickly as other persons, that what
he has done has struck bottom, and
he has gagged the depth of the
teachers mind. always tried to
keep that observation before me
when conducting the education of
boys and girls.
Halvor Stevenson, the big blond
Scandinavian Representative from
Minnesota, was unfortunate in not
drawing a good seat, and is located
in the Cherokee strip" as that
section of the house to the extreme
right of the Speaker is called, and
where Republican members who
are not fortunate enough to get
seats on the Republican side are
located. Stevenson has been a
a power in Minnesota politics off
and on, and once in a while he has
found a resting place outside of the
Republican party. He belongs to
large family, and a score of years
ago they were engaged in various
business affairs in the Red River
Valley. On one occasion several
of the brothers were entangled in
lawsuit at Grand Forks, N. D., and
it seemed for a while that they
were getting the worst of the case.
But one day Halvor Stevenson ap-
peared on the scene and with his
good legal training and knowledge
of the case was soon able to turn
the tide and introduce evidence and
cross-examine opposing witnesses
with effect, This nettled the
counsel on the other side, and in his
vexation he made personal attack
on Stevenson. ..
THE Stevenson family he said,
care scattered all over this region.
They populate both sides of the
Red River Of the North. A COM
munity in which a Steenersnn is not
known and where he has not been
engaged in some questionable pur-
suits is not mentioned on the map
Of this fertile valley. They cannot
pursue their peculiar methods with
out getting into difficulties, and
when they are brought into court
they send the greatest of all the
Steenersons. The great legal lum-
mary of the Stevenson family, his
head shining like the summer sun
or the headlight of locomotive,
bursts upon the scene, and with a
voice like the Bull of Bashan, he
attempts to extricate his clan from
the tolls of the law" ill.,.
All the time Stevenson sat and.
grinned. His hair was fair or yell
low and was certainly CONSPICUOUS,
but he was not in the least dis
turbed. GAS the counsel has given
up the case in his argument, he
said, 81 will not take the time of
the court, but allow the jury to
take it now" And he got YER
dict in half an hour, =. ..~