Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 14, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 December 1895 — Page 7

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HOW THEY USED TO CATCH IT FOR PLAYING HOOKEY. T!o Old-Time Pctlasojruc Was as Full of Ingenious Tortures us an I.irc I ,i .Meat A Few Sampled of Iiis Cruelty. Moral Suasion by l'liysical Force. Tai altolition of corpora 1 punishment from the schools in many States is one of the most notoMorthy advancements made in the cause of education during recent years. In various count ry schoois in Now England and in a great part of the West ami South seven; methods of compelling obedience still are used, ami it is the controlling powers ei these schools that the writer deMies To reach by this set of drawings. The records s!iov that chiMren have been much more tractable since the substitution of moral for corporal punishments. The oM adage, "Spare the rod and spoil the child." seems no longer to be the established principle of school government anions progressive teachers. A punishment which is said to have been very severe, was seating the culprit en the end of an upright log of Mood. The log by reason of its small diameter formed a most uncomfortable seat, and although not particularly annoying for the lirst few minutes, at the end of half an hour or more beeaine nothing loss than torture. A most fatiguing performance Mas holding a book out at arm's length. This wns nothing less than cruel, but whenever VERY rXCOMFOr.TAm.E. the boy's arm dropped from its horizontal position he received a gentle reminder of a switch across the legs which made him raise his hand. The wight of the hand and arm itself is enough to bring the arm down to the side in a very few minutes; but with a book hoys have often succumbed to the fatigue. The modes of punishment a posteriori are numlorless, and the most finished masters in this style of corporal punishment were found among the English sehoolmasters in the earlier part of this century. Dr. liutler, of ShrewskW Vv:: v W WW A CniT.L TOKTI KE. bury school, was one of the noted iloggers of his day; but Keate, of Eton, whoso dominion lasted from 1800 to 3S."M. seems to have established a. record for all time. An old book in the possession of the bureau of education describes the old fellow in a very entertaining way. On one occasion when a confirmation service Mas to be held in the school, each master was requested to make out and send In a list of the candidates in his form. One of them wrote down the names on the lirst piece of paper which came to hand, and m hi' h happened unluckily to be on of A fOSTERIOUI METItOn. ;the slips, of well-known style and hape. used as Hogging bills, and sent up regularly with th names of delinquents for execution. The list was put Into Keate's hands without explanation. He sent for the loys In the regular course, and. In spite of all protestations on their part, pointed to the master's signature In the fatal bill and 'flogged thent all then and there. Anthjr day a culprit who was due for

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punishment rotdd nowhen? be found, and the doctor Mas kept waiting on tin s.-ene of action for some twee in a state oi considerable exasperation. In nr evil moment for himself a namesake ol the defaulter passed the door. He was seized at once by Keaie's order ami brought to the block as a vicarious sacrifice a second Sir M -go Ma la grow. mm S'-J i-rA J I Si 1 . li TLX I i im Titr. m merixu r.ixn k. tln-r. Etonians Mho Mere Mugged by Ir. Keate narrated their experiences or the Hogging block Mith a pride which savored of the heroic. They boasted of their master's prowess with admiration and spoke of the number of boys Keate could finish off in Morkmanlike style in tweniy minutes. I'apid as the performance was. there Mas as much ceremony observed in the operation as possible. The doctor Mas always most courteous both before and al ter his ex eivise. in which he was assisted by twe collegians. Mho held their companion on the block. In the Country School. The problem here is: (liven a school of, say. forty pupils, from live to eighteen years of age, in one room, and with one teacher; to find the best method of instruction. The pupils posses very unequal attainments. These pupils need instruction adapted to their needs each term. The health of teacher and pupil limits each session to about six hours. Further, god instruction must be given in all the common b r.i aches. It is not. of course, possible for us teachers to instruct each pupil separately in each branch. Hence the nonclassification system must be abandoned. This plan of individual instruction is feasible only in a very small scho 1. 1 do not think there ever Mas the unclassified school of which teachers are now hearing so much. No attempt Mas made in the lirst schools of Mhieh I know in arithmetic. This lack of classification was of undoubted advantage to the few smart pupils, but not to ninety-live per cent. The graded school solution; I. e., on the plan of the city schools. This separates the pupils into at least sixteen grades, which gives at least forty-eight daily class exercises. Such a classification of the one-teacher school is evidently impossible. The course of instruction must be flexible; smoothness ami order must often be sacrificed to the health of teacher and pupil. A third solution of the problem Is the three-grade se'-""oiv ""js based upon the, nb--" ' ievelopment - ; mi.1 ,k " ... me v . The pupils from it,. . re classified. The essential n .here is that the work of each grade be completed lefore the pupil is advanced into the next grade. What the public schools need is such an organization as will allow its omu teachers and diversely advanced pupils to make the most progress with the best preservation of time and health. The Public School Journal. Morality in Colleges. From this dhtaneo it appears that Mrs. Pot eat, of New Haven. Mas both right and wrong in her criticisms upon student life at Yale. It is not altogether unnecessary for college authorities to be reminded occasionally that they may not have exerted Jill the influence in their power to guard students against wayward propensities and against scductive surroundings. At the same tim it is unfortunate to publish criticism Mhieh make evil appear a more predominant factor than it really is. There are probably few colleges in the country in which no students contract vicious habits of any sort, either temiorarily or permanently. No supervision Mithin the jtower of college authorities can make young men utterly unassailable. Whether colleges are professedly under religious control or not, their ought to maintain conditions more conducive to the development of strong character than those which prevail elsewhere. Colleges are likely to satisfj this requirement most successfully, net by creating arbitrary conditions In the college community, sharply contrasted with the conditions of the larger community of which they are part, but hy developing the ambition and power cf students to cond'iet themselves in manly way when within reach of temptations of which the world is full. Baptist Standard. lust Missed It. Abraham Hayward, the famous Quarterly reviewer, once thought that h-j would like to have some ancestors, f he walked straight to n picture dealer's. Selecting a portrait of a cavalier In half armor, with features not quite unlike his own, Mr. Hayward made a bid for it, but deeming the price asked too high, he went his May. A few days later Mr. Hayward went to dine wifn Lord Houghton, and Mas astonished to find the picture in the dining-room. Seeing that it attracted his guest's attention Lord Houghton said: "Very good picture that! Came Into my hand in a curious May. Portrait of Mllnes of the Commonwealth period nn ancestor of mine." "Ah, Indeed!" Bald Mr. Hayward; "he was very near being an ancestor of mine." - -

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HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS. Plranant Inrlilent Occurrlüj the World 0rr Sayinsr That Are Cheerful ti the Old or Yt uns: Funny s-lM-tlona Tlmt Everybody Will I'.njoy Kt ading. A Itij-acr T:iret. "Dear ine!" said Mrs. Wick wire, looking up from her paper, "but Momen an' getting brave nowadays." T.raveV" i choed Mr. Wiekv. -re. "Yes. Here is a story about a Moman who shot a mouse. She pshaw! I read it wrong. It Mas only a moose." Indianapolis Journal. Kven with Hi iti. Old Meanfusser Me give you anything? No. I won't. You're a fraud. You're not blind at all. The Indicnaut n; If I wasn't blind d'yer think I'd ask such a miserable, mean l.iokin eove ;;s you for anything?- akland Times. Ilraio Trmihte. She Chnllic h:'.s brain trouble, lb- Is that so? Wh:;t kind? She Ir troubles him to think. Detroit Flee Press. A Diminished Fish Story, UM :'5o long: "How long?'' Always Pays. Jinks To-day I pleased a pretty woman by telling her thai a certain redfaced, snub-nosed, baldhcaded mortal looked like her. Winks (Jet out! Jinks The red-faced, snub-nosed, bald-headed mortal was her lirst baby. New York Week I v. Cumulative Kvidencc. "You ought to be very proud of your wife. She is a brilliant talker." "You're right there." "Why, I could listen to her all night." "I often do"." Texas Sittings. Too Hiuh. "Y'ou should live near heaven," said the preacher to ihe editor. "I know it." replied the editor, "but these mountain lots come so high." Atlanta Constitution. A Ureal Head. Sapsmith (triumphantly P.aw jaM ve, deah boy, I've got a great head for business! Noona'h I M-ondah! Sapsmith Yahs! Owed me tilah nealdy foali hand wed dollahs, daMn't he knaw. and he put the account up at auction, and baw jawvo, I bought it fob 17 cents: Harper's P.azar. In the Opera-Box. Marie I don't think people ought to judge- M'omen by their clothes. Kstelle Nor I. 1 M-ouldn't like any man to judge nie by my opera gown. Marie He Mould have a mighty low opinion of you, Mouldn't he? (Ami now they don't speak.) New York World. Malicious. "Emilie, is my wife nearly ready?" "No, baron. You will have to wait a little while. Her maid has mislaid part of the baroness." Fliegende Blatter. Needn't Bother. Mistress We Mill have breakfast an hour earlier to-morrow morning. Mr. Maun is to take an earlier train. Donustlc AH right, ma'am; you needn't mind calling me until the usual time. Boston Transcript. Con vi need. "Do you love me?" he whispered. "Can you doubt It V" she reproachfully demanded. He followed her meaning glance until it rested upon her sleeves, all crushed and shapeless, and Mas convinced. Detxoit Tribune.

Monti tncntat. "Nerve?" said the mau from Newport. "Nerve? Why. that feller would go into a livery stable and ask them to let him leave his bicycle Mith them' Cineimiati Enquirer.

One liedeciuinx Feature. "This is a terrible world." said the misanthrope. "A dreadful M'orld." "Y-a-a-s." replied ('holly, -it does seem so at times. Still, the pMinee of Wales lives on it. you know." Wash ington Times. Starting Fair. 'L.&sr?' - Lin s, The New Servant (who has never seen a -uileuder-lfore I um this, mum. these holes ain't none of my doiif ! New Budget. A Middleweight. Fisticuff That fellow seems very big in t!ie stomach for a prize tighter. Wittimulf-Well. he's a middlem eight, you kimw-Nrw York World. All Irish Now. Tourist Everybody Irish her? Native Yes. We used to have one Chinaman. Tourist What became of him? Native He moved to make it unanimous. Detroit Tribune. Just as Well. Tommy Say. ma. don't it make your hands Mann when you smack me? His Mother Why, yes, Tommy, it does. Tommy Then, wouldn't it do just as Moll if you held them over the gas stove? Pathimder. Willis or Mccvcs? Henpeck I dreamed of heaven last night. Mrs. Henpeck What Mas it like? Henpeck I couldn't toll. You were in front of inc. Svracuso Post. Small Bell. Master (to uom- servant) Why do you always ring that small bell immediately after ringing the regular dinner bell? Neu- Servant That's to call the children, sir. Pearson's Weekly. A I'recnriona Time. "I Mould like a short interview," said the political reporter to the great presidential possibility, "on your can(1 " Great Possibility I decline, sir: "Sol I thought you Mere a candidate "Oh. no, no. no. jou fool I decline the Interview:" Cleveland Plaindeab er. Exact. mswm Ii m "Now. I want the room painted a very delicate color; a sort of pah? grayish-pinky rose tint in fact, a maiden's blush color." "Yes, miss. About what age, miss?" Judge. An Outrage. Old Soak It's an outrage (.hie), so It is (weeps)." Bounder What is? Old Soak Becei vers (hie) have been appointed for the whisky trust and I am not one of them. Truth. A Gentle Hint. Tom I feel just like having a good time; can't Me celebrate something? Kitty Why, yes; to-day would have been the anniversary of our wedding if m o had been married just a year ago. Eet's celebrate that. Tomii Topics. A Fellow Feel Inc. "If dere is any invention dat I have a profound rcspeck fur," said Meandering Mike, "it's de founting pe,n." "Whut's de reason?" inquired Plod-, ding Pete. "Dey never work." Washington Star. Prejudiced. "Why is it you have so violent nn nmtlpathy to Bighter's works. Y'ou never read any of them." "Nope; but I smoked one of the cigars named after him once." Indianapolis Journal. tin ilenuiit. Sandstone Weren't you dancing with Miss Calloway last night? Fiddleback Yes. How did you know? "I saM- her going into a chiropodist's this morning." Life. The Awful Child. Awful Child Mamma said you wera pretty old. Msitor Well! Awful Child You're old but not pret ty. Detroit Free Prega.

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Cool Self-Possessiou. of a Man About to lie Handed. The "Three Sevens" outfit M as camped in the cottomvoods district up on Paladuro Creek close to the line of No Man's Iandf and everyone Mas busy, for it Mas the season of the spring round-up. No Man's Land is that long, narrow strip of the Indian Territory that prevents Nort Invest Texas and Southwest Kansas from coming into contact. Of course, it is out of the jurisdiction of either State, ami for years I ncle Sam's otlicials zealously avoided it for many reasons. I.at one afternoon the Sheriff of Broncho County came riding into camp, inquiring for Denny Murphy. The .Sheriffs suddu appearance occasioned no surprise, for a warning of the same had preceded him fully three hours ami. as a direct result. Mr. Murphy, one of the bst cowmen in the Miiole outfit, rude calmly over the bonier and into the land Mhere subpoenas came nt and Marrants lost, all their vitality. A few days before the fugitive had been on one of his periodical tears down in The little settlement of (nirtville, and had been far more turbulent and violative of the peace and dignity of Bronchi Comity than usual. He had clubbed the piano player in French Pete's dance hall nearly to death with The butt of his six-shooter, had shot out all the lights and m indte.v panes in the resort; also three lingers from Pete's good right hand, and had then ridden away, deliant, vociferous and unscathed. The after-clap was now present in the "Three Sevens" camp in tne shape of the sheriff and those documents that begin so sarcastically Mith the Mord "greeting." But, to use a slang phrase, the outlit gave the sheriff the laugh, informing him that Denny had "moseyed;" that, as a cowman, there Ma.s too much doiug for him to spend any time attending to such minor affairs; that the sheriff would have to wait tititil the round-up Mas over and he had better get down stake his horse and spend the night, for it was getting late and Quirtville M as a long ride back. He Mas an officer of experience and not given to chasing rainbows. During the winter just passed some of the cowboys had been visiting civilization doM ii in Fort Worth, and had attended the theater. Their minds being still tilled with the glories of the experience, they diverted the camp lire talk, after supper, to things theatrical. This brought out the sheriff strong, for he had in his day been all over the country and nevei lost an opportunity of attending the playhouse. - "Boys," said he, "I've seen a feller called Booth play the part of a devil, named la go. so that my lingers itched to get holt of my gun. I've seen a dago n lined Sal vini play a play named 'The Outlaw,' all in dago talk, but I didn't have to know that lingo to find out he Mas a Morse used man than any that ever set foot in these Mhole Fnited States. There's a woman, too. Clara Morris; she gave me a chill that lasted a week. But I've seen a man, a common, plain man. Mho could lay over tjiein all. I saw him do just one piece of acting and right after 1 had to hang him. It Mas a good while ago, jrfl: after they first got to electing me sheriff. I had a man in the jail and two deputies were staying right with him all the time, 'cause we couldn't take no chance of his getting away, him being convicted of murder and Mailing for Iiis day to come to be hanged in. It M as a mighty mean, low-down murder, too. Jury wasn't out more'n live minutes over it. His lawyer had tackled all the courts he could get into, but it was no go, and the fellow's time was sure coming; only a couple of days off it Mas. I think even right then old man Dunn and his carpenters Mere out In the jjil yard working away on the gallows. "Well, on this day m lien you could hear them carpenters knocking and sawing liack in theyrd. Min comes into my otliee room Mhere I Mas sorting out some papers, but this feller's lawyer and a little old lady dressed in black clothes. She Mas a mighty nice-looking old lady, leaning considerably against the hnvyer, like she Mas nervout and tired. The lawyer tells me she has an idea that the feller wo Mere going to hang Mas her boy. He'd been loose from her a good lot of years and she wasn't certain it Mas him, but she'd took up the notion somehow and wanted to see to make sure. Boys. I was broke up. I sorter felt her notion Mas right. These here M-men folks is what makes hangings mighty tough for sheriffs. When a man thinks of a feller's jnother, it gets right next to him sure. Course I couldn't do nothing but agree, and I went Mith them, unlocking the doors and feeling bail. When we got to the cell, there Mas the feller sitting on a stool, reading a lvook in the light ithat tdfted through the bars of his little i window hole. The two deputies Mere right there, too, one n each side, looking glum and sour, for this guarding business Is a tough, mean job. The fidler was a big. stout man. over six foot high. He had thick Miilskers over his jaw and chin. They were black a.s a crow and his face had the prison bleach on. He hadn't lHen taking any care of himself no he had a shaggy, animal 'sort of look about him. ! "it wasn't much light In there, and there wasn't much room. The guard tHHl a little to one side and the man stood up as we came in, looking mighty curious at the little old lady. She was all In a tremble and staggered toward him, her poor old shaking hands stretched out. She Mas saying: "'(Jeorge, Ceorge! My jvoor, poor loy ! It's your ol J liothcr come to you.' "I'll never forgit to my dying day how pitiful her vV.ee sounded. There .come a bltf lump In my throat right there. But the man kinder drew back and looked at her sorrowful-like for a sacond or two. His face never give him avay nor his voice neither. He says: ! "Madame, there Is one happiness still

left me.. T c.m C"iiv!nre you of yourf mistake. Some likeness there might be,; but 1 am not your son. I never saw" you before in my life. My mother died, years ago. She has been spared tin pain of seeing me here as you also caiv go away relieved of the thought that your son is as I a.n.' "He talked so steady, so sure, so naturally sorry for the little old lad. too, and yet so like the gospel truth that you, bet I felt relieved and gl .id for her sake. She drew back and caught the lav.-yerVl arm. saying: " 'It has he,- so long ago. I am very feeble and don't see Meil. The vieo seems like, ye: unlike. I must be mistaken. Poor fellow. I am indeed sorry for you and v. iM pray for j on.' "liven at this the feller never turned a hair. Then wo all turned and MetiC our, leaving him and his guards just as they were before. "It Mas ail a lie. It Mas his mother, lie begged as I never hoard a hu:n:iii beg for mo and the deputies not. to tell; to save his mother from siuh a. truth and her heart from breaking. Wo never told her nor anybody el . She' dead herself now. so it's no difference.' Centlemen. that Mas acting. Think of a man pulling himself together, meeting her s sudden, and then fo .ling his own mother without any preparing or noThin. That feller's nerve m;i iron. 1 tell you. Thon imtt have been, some sort of a good streak in him, any1iom lie died plum game, too. I vas a heap shakier at tin hanging then ho mms. I hated to d ir, but I had to." Philadelphia Press. i

A Wife's Tyranny. She contradicts him at the head ofj his own table, interrupts his anecdote to set him right on an utterly! unimportant little detail-say the dafoj of a transaction, Mhieli he makes thu 7th of September and she asserts wai the Sth; she interferes in all his arrangemeiits. and questions his authority in the .tables, the field, rho church, the consulting room; she apportions h: food and regulates the amount of Mino! he may take; should she dislike tho smell of tobatvo she M ill not allow him the most transient M'hiff of the most relined cigarette and, like her brother M'ith his victim, she teaches the children to despise their father by the frank contempt Mith Mhieh stie treats him tind the May in Milien she l'oiits his piiiion and denies his authority. IC she is more affectionate than aggressive she renders him ridiculous by her effusiveness. lake the "Sammy, love," Mifich roused Dean Alford's reprobation, she loads him Mith silly epithet of endearment before folk, oppresses him with personal attention and treaty him generally as a sick child next door to an idiot. ' All out of love and its unreasoning tyranny she takes him into custody, in public as in private life an. 1 allow him no kind of freedom. Kobtist and vigorous as he is, she worries over hi health as though he were a confirmed invalid; in the hey-day of his maturity coddling him as if he were an octogena rian bordering t.n the second childhood, Site continually uses the expression, "I shall not allow my husband to do so and so," or. "I Mill make my husband do this or that." Never by any chancd does she confess Ids right to free action, bound as he is in the chains f her tyrannous affection. In the end s!m makes him v.hat she has long fancied him to be, a hackhoneloss valetudinarian, whom the sun scorches to fever ami the east Mind chills to pneumonia on. Mho lias lost the fruit by "fading' about the flower. Tricks of Animal Humbugs. In military stables horses an known to have pretended to be lame in order to aod going to a military exercise. A ch.impanzee had been fed o:i cako when sick; after his recover he often feigned coughing in order to procure dainties. The cuckoo, as is well known, lays its eggs in another bird's nest, and to make the deception surer it take a u ay one of the other bird's eggs. Animals are conscious of their deivit, as is shoM'ii by the fact that they try to act secretly and noiselessly; they show a seiis. of gu'ilt if detected; they take precautions in advance to avoid discovery; In some cases they manifest regret and repentance. Thus, bees Mil ich steal hesitate often before and after their exploits, as if they feared punishment. A naturalist descrihes how his monkey committed theft; while he pretended fo sleep the animal regarded him with hesitation, and stopped every time his master moved or sivnied on the point of awakening. London Telegraph. Figures About People. Ihiropean boys at birth are from onehalf to one centimetre longer than girls. Professor Waldeyer. of Berlin, told the anthropological congress that met recently at Cassel, but when grown up man is ten centimetres taller than woman. The average weight at birth for lHys is ..:U.' grammes; for girls, ."i,Juo grammes. The Ihiropean man is superior to Moman in strength and height, but the muscles of the tongue are more highly developed in woman. Male blood contains .",hn.,0o rod corpuscles to a cubic millimetre, femalo blood only 4.r0tU))0, while the average man's brain weighs 1'172 grammes to l.Hol grammes for that of woman. Nicknames of King. I'dgar, the Saxon king of England, Mas The Peaceable, fnun his dislike of Mar. John of England Mas called Lackland, from losing a large share of his possessions. Frederick II. and Otto III., f (Jormany, Mere each styled the Wonder of the World. Bicycles Bulned Ills Business. A Portsmouth lX. II.) liveryman failed for $11!,X0 the other day. He says bicycles ruined the business. Thrv years ago he was worth $10,000. i

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