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for inspection; its the illustrious exam
plus which history lias left, coming down
to us as they do, loaded with the praises
and adulations of all succeeding genera
lions, they seem to have stood so far above
us that wo may scarcely lift our eyes to
the lofty pinnacle of fame upon which
they stood. And yet we believe the world
means no injustice to be done to anyone.
It Is one of the vital principles implanted
in our breasts that all shall have their just
dues; we can sec none of our fellow
beings deprived' of their rights and privi
leges. Then let us bear in mind that
"Truth is mighty and must prevail." Let
us cncli in his own humble sphere, en
deavor to hasten that'longed-for time, the
"Grand Millenium,"
When lnimahnll love Ills follow man,
And justice rule throughout the laud,
and ever remember that " If strict justice
be not the rudder of all our other virtues,
the farther we sail, the farther we shall
find ourselves from 'That haven where
we would be.' "
SEARCHING FOll A SCHOOL.
I had been sufficiently fortunate to be
able to attend college for a year without
interruption, but, during the Summer va
cation, as I was staying at home, the stern
fact would constantly recur to mc that I
had not enough of the Almighty Dollar to
carry mc through the coming year; no,
not for more than one term, nor did it
seem probable that paterfamilias would
be able to assist mc. Now the truth is, I
had never made n practice of going away
from home to earn. my salt, but had been
content to see my expense at college liq
uidated from the paternal purse.
. My first year at college had caused my
hitherto humble aspirations to rise amaz
ingly and I looked eagerly forward
to the day when I should be able to join
the host of practitioners at the bar and
tread the exalted path of the average law
yer. I wished to return, aud boing sud
denly cast upon my own lcsourccs, was
somewhat at a loss as to how I should go
to work to fill my depleted purse. While
I was still pondering upon the dilemma.
Uncle Ilezekiah one day said to me:
"Now, Dick, the best thing that you
can do, if you want to go to college again,
ia to teach school this winter. You've
got education enough, plenty. Why, 1
never went to a college or an academy at
all; only to the district school every
winter for five or six terms, until I was
sixteen. I kept school many a term after
ward. You have been through your arith
metic;, grammar and all that. The com
mon English branches are all you want.
This fussing about these higher branches
is no good in my opinion. Now. just
get a school, and if any of your scholars
make trouble, just give 'em a good whal
ing with a hickory gad."
Much more in the same strain said he,
and the encouraging prospect held out
caused my eyes o protrude like those of
a cow, when she finds an unguarded gate
way leading into a cornfield. I would
have a sufficiency of the circulating medi.
urn to carry mo through the Fall term at
college and then I could teach through
the winter, keep up with my studies, and
be earning at the same time, ninety dol
lars, perhaps, or oven more. This would
enable mc to return to college in the
Spring, and by that time, comforting
thought, times might change.
The prospect was too tempting, and I
at once decided to look around for a win
ter school. I had made no special prep
uration for teaching, it was true, but was
not the logic of my uncle conclusive? As
to the possibility of finding any particu
lar difilculty in getting a school, the
thought scarcely entered my mind; was
not I a collegiate, possessed of a better
education than the majority of our indi
gent, semi-agricultural teachers? Was
not a good education the great need of the
teacher, and would not the school boards
see and appreciate my superior qualifica
tions?
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