The Washington herald., 1910-04-10

We go into that bedroom and hold a
conference.
When Heller and his two meek as
sociates returned, he said they had de
cided to put me on trial for a month.
Understand, he ordered me. YOU are
TO walk into the school house the first
day with half a dozen gads under your
arm. And you are 10 write out your
rules and nail them on the door Tell
the scholars that the first one who dis
obeys the rules will be whipped within
an inch of his life. Then make your
threat good. Whip and whip hard. and no
matter how you whip We shall stand at
your back
Il didn't carry any gads under my
arm the first day Judge Norris went
on 10 say. NO rules were nailed against
the door. But a minute after the bell
rang, the school was i'm an uproar Big
girls were walking all over the room,
loudly talking and laughing. l got my
eye on the ring-leader and ordered her
10 sit down. She smiled at me and talked
louder and walked faster than ever She
was tall as myself. Then / did something
over which ] have always felt ashamed
l sent for a CAD and whipped her In
five minutes, I whipped her again. I
whipped her the third time a little later.
She was o. P. Hellers daughter.
Next. eXpeiled the prettiest and most
popular girl in the district because she
wouldn't answer when her name was
called. She had caused the school to be
broken up the year before. The second
Gay | heard of a conspiracy of two
youths as big and strong as myself To
give me beating / called one of them
TO my desk and wore out a thick CAD
on his legs and shoulders. The beating I
was to suffer was indefinitely postponed.
On Friday he directors came and sat
down in front of the blackboard. Ny
heart was in my mouth / had flogged
o. p. Hellers fayOrite daughter
Keep Up the Whipping.
We We're afraid Heller said, standing
up to make a speech. that MIR. Norris.
only a boy. like some of yourselves.
couldn't teach this school We have
changed our minds. He is satisfactory
and the directors are behind him. BY
our order, he will whip you until there
isn't an inch of whole skin on your
bodies when you deserve II. If ne kills
any Of you, it will be all right He ex-
PEELED a girl because she wouldn't answer
at roll call, and we approve his action
Still, she is known to us all and liked
by us all, and we now think she should
come back
She can return | said. arising and
facing the directors-it was a risky
thing TO do, but 1 accepted the chance
If she will take her seat in an orderly
mannec and answer present in the
hearing of all the pupils If she is UNI
willing publicly TO conform to the rules,
having broken them in that manner. she
cannot come back so long as l am the
teacher of this school, Heller hung his
head in deep thought for a moment and
then said: Mr. Norris Is right. Nor did
the girl return that winter.
Inside of two weeks l was going to
dances with my older pupils While my
mother was not a church member, she
wouldn't let me dance. play cards. fiddle.
or do anything else that was equally as
sinful and foolish So my big girls
taught me to dance, and the big boys
and / became comrades-before O'Clock
in the morning and after school was dis
missed for the evening. drew $3.50 at
the end of the term-I hadn't spent a
cent all winter. While waiting for the
grain to ripen. l split rails. chopped
down trees. and grubbed brush in a