The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-10-10

tain measure of intelligence"
"a certain measure shouted Ches-
ter IF you weren't a natural-born
saphead. I'd! Come up to Aunt
| Judith's!"
l went with him, firm in that solid
self-control which gives fixity of char
acter to my nature. l saw in its true
! light the amiable weakness Of my rela-
tives which made them slaves to this
girl. felt as stern and austere as a
public officer should, and looked 1t,
believe, for mother was quite in a
| flutter as she asked me to read clip
ping from an eastern Tennessee paper
describing the departure from that re-
gion Of the Frayns. sMa..s nr
From this learned that Miss Frayn
and the colonel had been the last of
the Frayns, the family having been
exterminated in the Frayn-Harrod
feud. The colonel had been an engi-
neer in Lees army. He had given
public notice on leaving that at noon
courthouse. with the revolver of
Boone Harrod, the last enemy shot
| by the colonel, his version of the
origin of the feud. He had carried out
| this parting piece of bravado with no
disturbance except an exchange Of
shots as the train moved away from
the station. I was Mortified. Was a
person in this barbarous state of cul-
| ture asking me, Oscar Boggs, member
Of the National Subcommittee on
Tone-Deafness-!
"Okky," said my mother, from be-
hind, this is Miss Frayn!" ..
l looked at her, and was suddenly
| impressed with the non-existence' of
the material universe, except as Gen.
tered in and consisting of eyes of a
rudy brown like those of tne horses,
rufOus hair surrounding the Small head
like nimbus, and fuses mass Of
impressions made up of tks. abstract
concepts of trimness, fire, elegance, and
unconquerability. I have reported the
matter to the society for p!Ychical re-
search, but have received no answer
as yet. 1t was clearly abngsmal.
one pluCSu uCl dI
er's waist and looked moss respectful
ly at me.
You ah the great man." said she,
''of the family All have so much cause
to love-" Here she stopped as If to re-
gain self-control. "Ah wish nah po'
papahs," she went on, had"
There, there!" said my mother, pat
ting her arm. It'll be all right any
way, dear!"
l was considering what to say. Her
skin was clear, white, daintily trans
parent, and of delicacy our western
girls seldom display lowing, surmise,
to climatic infuences); she stood
there on Aunt Judith's Persian rug,
her petite figure with it's rounded
curves, half-levitated, like Atalanta
upon the oat-heads-and there return
ed upon me the mental vertigo, the
lack of cerebral coordination, and the
obliteration of the material universe.
Am All so igno'ant, really?" said
she. "Ah'm fond of children; and All
must find wohk!"
Why did hate Dustin? Why could
not command my speech? l always
rally at the crisis, however, and did so
in this instance.
CAS- for ignorance" said I, "Sir John
Lubbock says: Studies are a means,
not an end And Lord Bacon hath
1t: TO spend too much time in stud
les is sloth.' I see that you have acted
on these maxims. Professor Dustin's
astigmatism and myopia rendered 1t
impossible for him to see you"
1 stopped in some returning confu-
sion.
"Those dreadful cube roots and
quadratics-" said she.
''The personality of the teacher"
said 1, controls the matter"
1t was not the occult influence, but
a desire to benefit educational condi-
lions, that led me to visit Miss Frayn's
school the week Chesters insurgency
placed her in 1t. My memory is hazy
as to the matter, but my notes show
that her weakness was in the matter
of organization.
oh" said she, when I mentioned
this, do you all prefer things so
regular and poky? It's SO much mo-
pleasant fob the little things to be
freei" She called most of the little
ones Honey" and allowed much lati-
tude in whispering and moving about.
1 They crowded around her like ants
to a lump of sugar. Some of them
were beginning to evince a laxity of
pronunciation, sounding the personal
pronoun 81" like the intersection "Ah."
In few days l went back-Chester
sneered at me as I went by-to tell
Miss Frayn of the necessity of teach
cotics according to the Iowa law. She
was greatly surprised when l told of
this requirement.
what, daily, Mr.. Superintendent"
she exclaimed.
/ DAILY teaching" said l. "Our law
requires it."
1T seems so unnecessary" she said in
perplexity. "The young gentlemen
will find out all about it in due time:
and is it raght to experiment with the
littlest ones? And wheiah shall l OBJ
tain the liquoh fob the demonstra.
tions?"
felt strangely overcome at this
astounding speech, by an indescribable
mixture of tender solicitude for her
welfare, and horror at her fearful mis-
take; but l reproved her for testing
at the vice of drinking.
"Vice!" said she, with bubbling
] laugh. why, down home we-all re
i gyahd it as an accomplishment But