Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1879 — A Successful Specialist. [ARTICLE]

A Successful Specialist.

Any on# who has soWthe rivalry of the* contestants In a Vv'estetn spelling-school will appreciate this incident from Edward Eggleston’s reminisences of his school-days, published in the March Scribner. He sayst It was in Hie same oTd Bethel schoot-tdlise, about the same time, that t!te master, one Benefieh called out the spelling class of which mv mother, then n little girl, was usually at tho head. The word given out was “onion.’’ 1 support fjte' scholars at tho head of tho class had nor recognized tho word by its spelling'in studying their lessons..'They all missed it widely, spelling jit in tho most ingeniously incorrect fashions. Near the foot of tho clhss stood a boy who Had never been able to climb up toward the head. But of the few words ho dirt know bow to spoil, one , was “onion,'’ When the word wdsjid&sed at the head ho became greatly excited, twisting himself into the most iudichotts contortions as it came nearer nhd nearer to him. At length* the ouo just above tho eager boy niis»#d, the master said “nett/’ whereupon he exultingly swnug his hand above hi* head nud come oi(t 1 willt': “tk-n, uUV lA-#/ yon, fjtjp-tm.-l’m ahead by gosh!” and he marched to the head while the master Rim a blow across the shoulders fbr stWss* i*>g , The Delphi .Vt#?* gives currency to the report that one of the sffleers of tbs Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago rithrood niflMug 1 ib t eefliyc the script of the roatl/.and gives as his excuse thht ho does tiol ulWsys take the same kind ot mrfiii Site that itj ptfeseribefe: Possibly ho is .not afflicted with, nil lire diseases of his patients, j • V C ,‘ C J. D. Conklin, of N’cwtctt cortnty, was recently bofjueathSrt between en^