The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-04-12

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tion to your school teachers. There
is only one office / ever aspired to
hold and that is member OF the school
board, and the first thing I would do
would be to raise the salary of the
school teacher. Don't you know that
the poorest paid people In this coun-
try today are the ministers and the
public school teachers, and there are
no two classes of people more indis-
pensible to American morals and re-
ligion than the ministers and the pub
lie school teachers, and it is a shame.
the salaries we pay them. It is an
insult to American wealth. Why, did
you ever hear of a school board say
ing to the teachers when they quit
in June, Come back in September
and we will pay you just the same as
If you were here" No. They ought
to be paid right through the sum-
mer just the same as any other time,
1t is an insult when a barkeeper can
make more none than the principal
of your high school. It's a disgrace.
You're a lot of mean, old stingy lob
sters. If they happened to run up the
rate of taxation 2 or 8 mills on the
dollar you would have nervous pros
t~ration, appendicitis, pe~ritonitis and
every other old thing in two hours.
I'll tell you that there isn't a town
in this country that doesn't need to
have twenty five first class funerals
and get some old fellows under the
sod, then the town could do some
thing.
/ said to a bootblack. a colored fell
low at the Nelson house at Rockford,
Ill, How much do you get a month";
Forty dollars and a rake-off."
What Ices the rake-off amount
tor" a
why, boss. last month 1 made
$4,000"
He got more one shining shoes
than the principal of the high school
got for shining brains.
Look at our public school teachers!
In the fall they go into the schools
with their cheeks looking like roses.
and they come out in the spring look
ing like lilies, from trying to pack
something into the heads OF nonenti-
ties that bear your name.
Children are imitators. A fellow
gave a friend OF mine a dog, a water
spaniel. Another friend gave him a
rat terrier. After awhile some one
said: well, how are the dogs getting
along?"
Great; but the funny thing is that
the water spaniel has become q better
ratter than the rat terrier. I turned
both Of them loose, they've been rum
ming around together, and the water
spaniel is a better ratter than the
FRAT terrier"
That's the power Of association.
We are all imitators.
Themistocles said: my children
rule Greece" He was asked how that
was. why" said he, "My children
rule their mother, their mother rules
me, I rule Athens, Athens rules
Greece"
1 was up in a town i'm Minnesota at
the home of a fellow who was cash
Ter in a bank. He had two children.
a little red-headed girl and a boy
named Donald, a big Clydesdale sort
of a fellow about 9 years old. One
day the father sat in the room read
ing and the door blew open. 1t was
in the dead of winter and the wind
was blowing. The father sat by the
fireplace reading and said to his son,
Donald, shut the door"
He said. tT won't do it,"
shut the door, honey
II don't want to shut the door,"
shut the door quick now, honey,
or papa will have to do it"
II won't do it, I'm playing"
please, now, honey, shut the door,"
81 amt going to do it."
And then the big fool of a father
got UP and shut that door, walked
back, picked up his book and started
to read. / wanted to borrow that kid
for just fifteen minutes. 1 tell you, If
he'd have let me have that kid he
would have been like Buster Brown,
Il prefer to stand"
A noble woman was the mother of
seven sons, and she was asked how
she had brought up such noble boys.
She answered: 81 did it with prayer
and a good hickory l don't think
there are two better instruments on
the face of the earth than prayer and
a good hickory. Many a boy and
girl who have been sent to prison
would have been ten times better off
IL they had been spanked and sent
home and taught something.
l read the other day of where Judge
Alton B. Parker, the former demo-
cratic candidate for president, took
his little grandson and went out for
a swim in the Hudson. He put the
little fellow on his back and swan
out, then threw him on his breast and
let him stay there until he got a rest.
and in changing the little one to his
back again, he became strangled, and
grasping his grandfather about the
neck he almost ~strangled him. They
went down, then up, then down again.
then up. A man on shore saw them
and got a boat and rowed a fast as
he could, and as they were going
down for the third time he got them.
The trouble was ne swan put too far.
and that's the trouble with a lot of
people. You are swimming in pleas
ure, society, unbelief and worldliness.
A friend of mine told me that one
day he sat in his home when sud-
denly he heard the greatest shouts OF
laughter, and some one said: Come
here, come here; and he ran, and
there coming down the stairs was his
little 5~-year-old boy and he had ON
his fathers coat and the sleeves of
1t were hanging down and the tail
of it dragged on the floor. He had
on his fathers hat and it dropped
down on his shoulders. He had on
his fathers collar and it looked like
a horse collar around a mosquito.
The father said: That's the most
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