Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1883 — A School on the Pacific Slope. [ARTICLE]

A School on the Pacific Slope.

The schdtJl was in • rongh boarded room which had been originally built for a store. Tbebata, bonnets, books and slate! were piled on jpe shelves, and the thirty children sat oh high benches, their feet swinging clear bf the floor, ‘there was Hot * robust or healthy-faced Child in the roohij and their thin, pale cheeks were a sad com-slow-trickling streams of filthy water* pale, bat that they were alive. The li:slorjp ojhssjraswedlmi a tnesaorised list <#*#ocW TA £d urn ar Auls/l suggested to the teacher to ask them What the Word “epoch” meant. Blank dismay spr^^^^^^riheir definition of the Word epoch* given with a twinkle in her eye of evidentdawiseinent that tharfost did not know wmt it meant, she first class in reading then read Mian t the fourth Header, in stenjtgjKian .Ya«**r TrOw* bridge’s poeinbf.l'Tha WomHffful Sack. *The effect of id%h|T3hanges qf widngle letter here and there Jg£Hp6st Indicronaly illustrateaCby one. stmpdj Bttle chap’s delivery of the linear- ? -rv*> >r 1 Hl* limbs were strong, With loud andenthtißiastic emphasis he kead theitl: ~*E# fats lambs were strong, Kbt a Countenance or gave any sign Hunting a Wolf on Snow ** k, in the highest part of Norway: A WMahaade* is nnj m ber maker’s " deer By The” aftacka of a big wolf, which onedajrcatjghtorie belonging to himself. The deer , taken by the wolf was, the beet one to this come back for another meal, he kepi on tiie watch with a>n accompanied by another deer-herder, both,m then: usurn skin dresses and on sadw-skates; -, V ■ -m-M- j V • • ,-«r' y * AtmiiiL ' A* up kffl » »t' b«a r itdi commenped bomfortunately, was not long enough for the? sheplierd to get near enough to shoot, and a long plain lay before them, so he threw his skin cloak away, arid Was thus able to increase his speed; but, as he still felt that the wolf had a chance of he also dropped his rifle, krioying that his companion would pick it up. * rni ■ , * 4 , . . , V . .r: ' , . , ■ground he overtook the wolf, and, while passing it, lifted Ms staff and gave it "such a heavy stroke on the pack that the animal at exhausted, and was dispatched with his dagger. The story is quite, .true, and shows wh t skill in snow-skate, running is possessed by the Finns, and how little they fear a single wolf - — Mi% i —tm a.-*-'’' A big-handed sawyer named Shaw, Put hip flnger too near the buzz-saw, He saw his mistake, But each pain and ache, St. Jacobs -Oil cured in his paw. A rheumatic old man named Meeker, W*s sicka whole yearfh Topeeker, He there would have died, But St. Jacobs Oil tried, It sent him back routed to Osweeger.