The Washington herald., 1913-03-02

Is complain good after forty years of
peace, and reconstruction?
All members Of the committee said
| that every boy in the district Of more
than sixteen years Of age was irresist-
IDLY attracted to her '(exact language.
| 'bedaddled over her." o. b. Hence. her
character must be wrong somehow.
Two boys. each claiming an exclusive
franchise to sweep out for her. had met
in Aliens feed-lot to fight a duel and
been discovered in the act of firing and
tied to the feed rack by Aliens hired
man. and spanked with the end-gate Of
his wagon. Clarence Skeen was poorly.
and had been found kneeling before a
bench calling IT his darling Roberta and
| begging 1t to be his. Columbus Smith
had turned somnambulist. and his IA
ther had lost ten tons OF timothy which
"Clum'' had failed to put up in cock.
When sleep-walking Cium had been
| heard by Vespucci. his brother known
as "Spootch'D. to protest with sghs and
groans that his heart was broken and to
ask Roberta" to shed one tear over his
grave. Twitted OF this by his young sis
ter. Semiramis. Clumb had slapped her
and, cursing profanely. had assaulted
Spootch, who reproved him. and had Ned
| to the wiggly Creek woods with no sub
astence but a loaf OF salt-rising bread,
box OF paper collars, and book Of
poems. Letter from Mrs. Smith asking
that this Jezebels certificate be revoked
before all should be lost.
Whipple Cavanaugh had been idle and
"lawless" since attending school. Re-
fused nourishment. Pillow wet with
tears Kissed Cavanaugh's mare. "Old
Flora" on nose after Miss Frayn had
patted her on said spot. Had written a
poem to Roberta. and rather than have
It read publicly by the hired girl, who
had found it under his pillow. had eaten
1t. paper. ink. and all. DIR. Dilworthy
called in: pronounced him In danger Of
gastritis and love-sickness with grave
prognosis.
Names OF fifteen boys given. known as
"F'rayn Mooners," who haunted the
shrubbery about the home OF Mrs. Jane
D. Boggs. where the teacher boarded
Six fights were known to have occurred
among them. Tension in the neighbor-
hood was unbearable because of the
loosing by Chester Boggs, ''in violation
Of his official OATH OF a bulldog which
had bitten Albert Boyer. and thrown his
mother into nervous prostration.
This epidemic of "worthlessness and
sentimentality' was spreading outside the
district. as evidenced by an excerpt
found in the dogs possession from the
upper rear elevation Of the Sunday trou-
sers OF Boliver Fromme. living in Dis
trtct No. l. Progress In the studies OF
the boys confined to amatory poetry
! and pugilism. both unrelated TO their life
work Iowa, My Iowa. Maj. Byers' stir
ring lyric, had been supplanted by Mary
land. My Maryland. in school singing.
Chester Boggs. the director, refused to
nlat MT nd rOpdenned
as equally affected with the disease. and
most probably he was a "Mooner' him.
self There was a certificate of DR.. Dill
worthy Of Teal Lake as TO the existence
of many cases OF extreme mental eN-
altation accompanied by explosive and
fulminant cerebral disturbances traceable
TO mediate or immediate association with
one Roberta Lee Frayn. an individual
seemingly possessed of an abnormal
power in the way Of causing obsessions,
fixed ideas. aberrant cranio-spinal func-
tionings, and cranial tempests. in those
of her associates resembling her in the
mater OF age, and differing from her
in social habits, hereditary constitution.
and SEX"
I sank back In my chair horrifed.
with a sinking in the region of the cpl
gastric plexus.
We kind o. thought, Oc.' said Mr..
MlQuItkdui. liIdt tilel "ouiu ho.t sSi
fr while"
saw the muddled political relations
with which this imbroglio teemed. and
clung to delay as my sole hope.
Il am inexpressibly shocked said l..
and as soon as We can meet with the
defendant and the director"
What shrieked Mr.. Middlekauff.
Her present, After what them papers
says? And everybody follerin' her, IL
she jest smiles. like a caff arter salt!
Why. dad ding me. If I'd trust myself
rr more'n a smile or two. She'll bam-
boozle the hull thing il she's there
b'lieve you've got 1t. you conceited young
sprout No, sir: decide this thing now"
Il regret the necessity said ]. ''of
asking time to get the opinion OF the
county attorney. and Toto
Not by a dunn sight roared Mr.. Mid
dlekauff. "We'n see what the court has
to say on this. An when you're up fr
election agin. come round, an we'll con-
slider II f'r a while-an' then you won't
know you're runnin'"
l was torn by conflicting emotions when
they went away. I knew that Middlekaun
was a man of influence. I was not averse
to seeing Chester rebuked for his fatuous
behavior. and for tempting me to a devia-
ton from strict duty. 7 felt that In TAX
ing my stand with the 'Mooners" 1 might
be siding with the heaviest body OF voters
after all. BY these whffiing winds of the
minds was I baffied. finding no rest In
my works on ddactics and pedagogics.
wondering what Middlekauff would do
until all doubts were settled by the filing
Of the case of The School Board of Teal
Lake versus Frayn; and in few days
II came on for trial before Judge Worth
ington.
Chester telephoned. asking to see mo.
He came in looking thinner than I had
ever seen him.
DO you know" said he. that this case
off this morning."
Having been summoned by writ Of
subpoena" said I severely. II am aware
that your wilfulness in placing an un-
tried importation in charge of our school.
regardless of her unfitness. or Of my
political well-being, is this morning bear
ing its legitimate fruit in the hearing
which comes on-not off. And / hope
your lack of consideration for the school
system, so largely wrapped up in my ca
reer. will"
That Chester was temporarily insane
Is clear He flew at me, seized my
trachea in his iron hands, compressed
Il SO as greatly to impede respiration.
and knocked my head against the wall.
using incoherently certain technical
terms he had learned at Ames.
shut up,' he cried. You duplex
-polyphase-automatic back-action -
compound nd-wound-multipolar Ass! Shut
up
An anatomical chart on the wall pre-
served my head, and l retained my self
possession. When he let me down took