The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-27

I some Pointed Questions.
 h now dark Billie is admon-
 lshed to study his lessons for the. mor- row. But as. he halts on his way he Ez What is mossI .suassIsin. gfsndpa.- Es Why--n1Qr--tvhaty makes you ask 4 such q strange question ?s
 Because our teacher said today that
 if the new school board did not restore
 corporal punishment that 1t would re-
 quire deal of moral 'suasion' to save
 some of the boys from the feforma-
 tory. Now what is moral 'suasion. l anyhow?',
 + Moral 'suasion' is a process of req
 soning by which the conscience of rea-
 soning is reached through the avenues ! of the. intellect--L should, have said I supposed to be reached. But my idea
 is that the shortest and most expedi- i tious route Is through the epidermis. .'' ] Did you ever receive corporal pun. 1 ishment at school. grandpaT' I'm both glad and sorry to say
 "Did she hurt much when she licked you?"
 l My. teacher was not a she. I never saw or heard of a female teacher in
 my school days, but you should not l use the term iicked---there is . more | elegant word-chastise.
 Did all of your teachers Iic--chas- fise you, krandpa." q -Yes.. all. and one teacher that was
 not my teacher s7
 .'How funny 1t Is to hear that your teachers Iicked--I mean chastised- you. Tell me all about it. and I will
 earn a good report for month.
 | s Of the old School.
 l Well, there were in ante-belium | days three teachers in the South whose names were held in terrorem over all
 obstinate and vicious youth. Bingham I of North Carolina, Beeman of Georgia
 named taught school in Salem and oth-
 CT places in East Alabama. Wher- I ever he located, Issfollowed. and con- | tinued under the tutelage of this ad- | mirable teacher until IN,had mastered i a suf1ciency of Latin and Greek to be admitted to the freshman class at col- lege. It was In the sos of the last
 boarding school to enjoy short va l cation before my departure for col- lege, I was passing through that crit | icai period when puberty Is changed
 to manhood and which was then face- tiously called "the gosiing age" That
 age when the down begins to appear
 on the upper lip. and silly. conceited I ideas In the brain.
 l I found on my return that young | graduate from Emory College had
 been engaged to teach the village I school. His name was John Westfey Rush, and while teaching he was also preparing himself for admission to the Alabama Conference. As a bigoted, I eonceited youth. I began to incite in. subordination in his pupils. would entice the boys to finger on their way to school, and in many ways began to interfere with his authority and dis. cipIIne. While his school was in sess sion, would saunter. within fifty yards of the academy and fire on both
 barrels of my mugzle loader. One morning I was playing marbles before the law of1ce of nay uncle. Judge Ale fred Reed, when Mir. Rush passed by on his way to the academy. ] detain- cd the boys -purposely and my uncle l who carried an immenes quantity of humor concealed under q sober. judi 1 cial countenanee. overheard our conver-
 satiou. Coming out. of his offsce he, ad.
 Inonished the boys So go on to scnooL
 If they would stop at his oEfice on their I retarn from school that he would un- fold ,a plan whereby they might se- cure q vacation for the approaching | Christmas holidays. was also re. I quested to be present.
 l Au Were Presenf.
 At the appointed hour we were at his
 
 | fellow conspifator awaiting us. Clos l inR the door. he began in a mystsrious way to tell us that it was wrong for ] Rush 1to continue his school when all other Institutions were closed for the
 holidays; that he intended to help us ali he could. MT. Rush boarded at his home, and 1t would appear wrong for him to take sides against his boarder. "Now." he said. going to one of bis hook cases. and bringing out pack age, T have here means to obtain for you your much desired vacation, but tf I am to asst. you are to follow im- plicitiy my directions.
 This we all solemnly promised to
 He then unrolled the package and we saw displayed before us a claw Hammer, several nails of various slses. some of them being headless. and 6
 box of percussion caps.
 ''Now, boys. you are to assemble at the rschoolroom4 tomorrow at sunrise With these nails you aresto fastens the
 doors and windows securely. Yon being on the Inside. win be safe from any
 attack the teacher may make. But
 should be manifest may disposition to enter without your consent you are to strike one of these hsadless nails. which you have previously driven in l the door facing, and upon which you l have put one of the percussion caps. Rush, hearing the explosion, VIII | think you have firearms and will | speedily come to terms. Should he | enter the room. two of you are to leg I him. while the other two are to seize | his arms. He is to be carried to the | plump and water pun [ ed on his head l until he comes to terms You are under no circumstances to do him
 bodily. harm. will arrange to be in l the neighborhood. and # everything
 is not prosperous l will command the | peace and you can escape. | < Informed the Teacher.
 | We repeated our instructions in de- | fail and Judge Reed dispersed u& 1 learned afterward that he went
 striaghtway to Rush and told him that | his scare-gracel hephew had stirred | up rebelmof. and that three boys | Aionzo O.Neal, George and Charley | Hooper, headed by him. would at-
 tempt to turn him lRush) out the | next day That 1t would be an act of benevolenee to take the conceit out of | me before I became victim for col | lege hazinE. 1 Of course we knew nothing of this l treachery and before sunrise the next l day we four boys and securely im- | prisoned ourselves in the school-house | As the time passed slowly on many | conjectures about Rushe's actions were | discussed. Would he be so frightened I as to run before a treaty could be
 effecte3Ttt O'Neal eontribted the un- l unWelcome news that Rush was said | to be an athlete, and that he was the | champion of hoxers and wrestlers while I a.. aaIia.ea fsaorpa -IJnnnar aaid ha aa Sny