Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-22

Slouth" and Ned Buntline." One lone
person had attained $50" and he, 1t
is ~, stated, has been swelled up like
a poisoned pup or dead horse ever
since posing among his erstwhile
schoolmates as a second Thomas Bah
ington Macaulay. who it will be recalled
could read Greek at 5 years old And
so a neighborhood was brought to
open shame and family ascendency de-
stroyed and the disgrace Of fathers
made clear before the eyes Of their
children.
1t was undertaking, no less. There
are things that having been buried be-
meath the debris of time should not be
disturbed. And the examination papers
of our school days belong with these
over which the veil Of oblivion should
hang undisturbed and thru which none
should cut peepholes for the popu-
lace.
The office of newspaper Is 10
recall the glories of the past and keep
it's antitheses out of sight in the
morgue. OF course Aunt Mary and
Uncle JOHN will of times fall into
scardalous "reminiscences especially
when Uncle John has been beaten icr
school director or Aunt mary has oeen
snubbed whoa Mrs Montmorenci. she
that was old Whiskey Perkins daugh-
ter, holds hurrah with an imported
SINGER and three kinds of cake and pie
bald ice cream But that's enough.
That's as far as it should go. SIMPLY
as a matter OF self protection If moth
ing else Take it from William snake
speare that the evil that men do !lVes
after them and take it from obserVa-
ton that the reason OF its Longevity
lies in the scandal monSering ancient
inhabitant who doesn't stop with eS-
animation papers but refers to cour'
records and jus tees dockets and gem
erallv tries TO keep crooked history
straight.
OF course Webster City and the
school children had lot of fun over
he old examination papers. So would
IVY town and the outraged feelings or
'ather who spelled dog "doge" in those
Id DAYS doesn't call for genuine sym
,o,hy. but suppose that the ieii""s
,,,ra,lv started N TO hew to the line
md lei the chips fall where they may
,,npose that in the "Twenty-hve ana
-orry Years AGO" instead OF reprintins
embarrassing birth dates the news
"a ers running such interesting lea
,,ras were to print ii all? Hun
Nould there be wailing and gnaShins
: ,ea-h and increased assault and bat
err
There Is the old incident related IN
he files of Mrs Hyfigher's father VINO
vas in iail three months awaiting
rial for forgery and the arrest OF the
eading temperance worker for intoSi-
alton, and the divorce case that at
-arted universal attention and, o.
we'll. almost anything you care TO THINK
= from murder to vasrancy that nap
oened and took place when the pre-
-yol,s generation was taking schooi
exams and getting its start in the Vari-
z;y ~ directions wherein the channeis
~ human strength and weakness run
Wha- interest such reproductions
would arouse and what unqualiheo
aades they would raise.
old man Longfellow was a well o.
wisdom and he took out of the coolest
corner Of the we'll that line which ao-
,ises US 10 let the dead past bury its
lead Parapnrased into the vernacu-
ar !, is expressed largely in ''let every
man kill MS own snakes. Ii Is Well
enough TO dig up the school exams ana
expose the fraud and assumption OF
parents who let on to helpless child
hood that they were educational won
ders and narvels of department but
Quit right there. Don't gaiyanize too
MANY corpses. Next thing you know
from out the mausoleums of the past
some sheeted figure that belongs TO you
Will come stalking. smelling horribly
and bearing trouble for yourself. John
G. SAKE. who claimed to be poet but
was really hard headed philosopher
made the statement that when we go
too far up the family tree we are likely
to run across the ropes that hanged
some Of our relations. And Old Dr.
Johnson put il clearly when the widow
whom ne had asked in marriage con-
fesged TO him that she had an uncle
who was hanged. Said he: Never
mind that. / have several who should
have been hanged"
And there we all are.
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