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Clinton New Era, 1895-02-01, Page 3ingto the oattally ortlerly playt-I00!11, -awetecl, theughttully; then 1,n4ighte 1,4 frota bia Italperi anti vie:114)4g at .Taek„, .9ruy's list Wait it long' QUO that moriet,' lag,, of auppo4e he never eared to coo lt,,, stho, equally ready Wait striving to, • pg. Xlies Allett was vexed. 4, tt Ill biutaalf. If be hs41,,e.o. bray .a break from. Speetiain'e reatoluing ‘ ., • . "Hclys, this iii too had!, 4aglesetti -eaaly--tpf vetteao he could leave dee it band, . $neshatu threw hiPlq01111.0t,WPeut 1/Vilsoh, , itelltnontl,Sesrelb gight— 04s6,' nape's for 4itiorder. What doe it i "litul he tried, and kept on trying, .1 44Shut up, , both .if you,' he said. Meltnr' t ' 1 he might. otrelY; „I, thiok, thought, It "Jack, you trot- along with we, and . Two or Or oevolunteered the intop• would have been difficult,„ 041170u.,Stevens, y64%1 better be footing it. k ;nation, ., ' Here cotee the general . 404 some MUSICA‘ Egoilit4140 'ARTISTIC li.gOVAN lOtrE.ALELE OONSTEITuTtON ONiAL00008 SIONT FILEE APFLIOATA00. Morris-Feild -Rogers-Co LISTOWEL. 'REDMOND OF THE MERU (ReProduced from thYoutk's Companion, Boston, by conselit'of the author.) JACK MASTERED BY HIS TEMPER. CHAPTER H. (00NTINuET3) The gratified look teacher and pupils had been wearing since Mr Neltis's ap- proval left their faces very suddenly. Mr Haverill began again, less angrily, and with more of his usual manner. "Boys of the Seventh, I am proud of You. Your drill is excellent and class discipline among the best in the de- partment. Take your books and slates." Wondering much, but .reassured, the boys obeyed. Mr Haverill turned to their teacher. "Miss Allen, your class, since they can behave like gentlemen, are to ex- change rooms with the Sixth, who have repeatedly shown that they can- not. The lady in charge of the room beneath them informs me that she frequently finds it impossible to hear recitations, because of the noise they make." How the faces before him brighten- ed! Number Six was a much pleasant- er room—and then the honor of it. "r/rward, Seventh!" and as the line hal ed till the other class room should be emptied, Miss Allen glanced proud- ly at them. What a fine looking row of lads they were, standing motion- less and erect, as the Sixth, sullen, alouching, kept. in order only by the stern eye of their principal, filed out of their pleasant room, of which the Seventh at once took possession. Yes, the Seventh were orderly and well -disciplined then; anything but orderly and well -disciplined when Miss Allen first took charge of them. Back into their ranks came twenty of Mrs May's tormentors, returned for per- sistent misconduct; demoralized by bad management, angry at. their dis- grace. The conflict was a severe one. Night after night, Miss Allen went home smarty discouraged; morning after morning, silo faced them resolutely as ever. Mr Haverill stood stanchly by her, and presently the conflict ceased. The lads found they must respect their teacher, and soon grew fond of her. They also began to have a pride in their class. It became worth some- thing to be 0, member of Ninety's Sev- enth. Redmond WINS one cf the member s sent back. At first hemrpuzzled Miss Allen; he puzzled her yet at times, but not in the same way. In his country home, the complaints of teachers had been so numerous and continued, that his father, almost discouraged, was boarding him in the city, in order to place him under the stricter discipline ef its public schools. In the Sixth grade there had been no improvement. Mrs May declared him the worst of all; he was not im- pertinaent in speech or manner, but would calmly set her authority at de - /lance in the most matter-of-fact way imaginable. When he entered the Seventh Mise Allen noticed that he watched her with a strange intent- ness—she had an odd feeling of being weighed in the balance. One day he was detained, with oth- ers, to dosome extra work after echool, because of disorder; and when it was finished, said to her briefly, as he left the room, ',You'll have no more trouble from me, Miss Allen." He kept his word; from that time, the class honor had no more stanch .defender than John Redmond. She learned that his temper was a fierce one when roused. "Redmond never swears nor says much," Eagleson told her confidential- ly; "but when his eyes grow black and his cheeks red, myl you just want to stand frern under." Eagleson knew whereof he spoke by sad experience; several others had • had a snnilar one. She noticed that the boys stood rather in awe of him. "Your handsome file -leader is quite a pugilist," Mr Haverill observed to her one day. "Here's Stearns of the Sixth with two black eyes. and Wheel- er of the Eighth with a lame arm, at home, from prowess. They will pro- bably not call him 'Country Jake, or spring on him without warning for some time to come. It has all happen- ed out of school limits, and I am glad of it. I am not called 'upon to inter- fere. I don't blame the boy for de- fendin$ himself, but he has a temper that will bring him trouble yet. - For some time, however, all had gone well. There were no complaints; Jack's grades were high. Mr Haverill watched him closely, meaning to be just; but so far he had been unable to overcome his prejudice and suspicious. Snesham's friendship was -a great help to jack. Though he belonged to the First class, and Redmond to the Seventh, they were ( hums. "We need each other," Snesham said. "Jack's fire, I'm ice; he warms me up, I cool him down; be is young, I'm old; I like to give advice, he never takes any. We agree perfectly." The change of rooms created cnnsid- able feeling. between the two grades. Next Morning, Mr Nellis's,presence in the play -room subdued its expression; but at recess, with only the monitors present, trouble began. A good deal of quarreling, which resulted several -times in blows, took place—ti rare ware7t, totvhateful, they—the 80.4enthe,--ebultItett.etatud "Suppose they Wete %rope, lied you boye,heea tutted.. colt of your room, for a lower gtade,you wouldprelaably have been Ihatefel too, Becauee yen have the beet of the inatter, youlaight act voqoasly, andnot mind their grow- The e bays looked rather . ashamed. Redmond muttered something about "h000r of the Seventh" and "brouget It on tiaemselves." "How much better didyou act, John when 'you were in the Sixth? And the Seventh's honor will be best sustained by the good order and manly behavior of its members. Outsiders cannot af- fect it in any way," Mr Haverill, fortunately for the Sev- enth, being absent on school business that morning', Mr Nellie came to their room to see about the disturbance. There was no question about the school's feeling for Mr Nellie. Ile was a favorite from the first assistant to the youngest boy. As a good disci- plinarian as his superior, he had a much warmer heart than Mr Haverill. His investigation proved that, in most cases, the other class, had been the aggressors. But the Seventh were reproved in much the same terms Miss Allen had used. "You have an exsellent reputation as a class,boys; dont gratify these oth- ers by losing it insdisagreeable squab- bles with them. You must expect they'll be unhappy over the loss of their room to a younger grade. By the way, file -leader," turning to Red- mond, 'you were fighting with Jim- mie Strong. Forshame, sir! he's much smaller than you." Redmond's whole face glowed, and his eyes grew almost black. "No, sill I did not fight Strong— he's altogether too little.' "But you had some trouble with him. The monitor reports you both engaged in a fnss." did not fight, Mr Nellie. Strong got too provoking to hear, so I just laid him down and. sat on him." Mr Nellis's mouth twitched. "Be man enough to let him alone, Red- mond," he said gravely, and he left the room with "see that it does not hap-, pen again, boys. There was some smiling when writ- ing hour came,- and Miss Allen read more than his share of good looks, his • s own teacher and the rest of you are likely to spoil him." "Fifth needed a little setting down. And Redmond has something in him beside good looks," saii:13Mr Nellis posi- tively. "He is bound to make his mark some day." "It will be a crooked one, I fear," still sharply. "I never knew one of these very handsome lads to be worth his salt. in my experience." Downstairs a group of boys were standing near the gate, waiting for friends and exchanging parting chaff. readtly keep from getting, angry? "I dont think I try at all, he swereti laughiog; but it certainly_ eeine to me a person can make him- self do anything he chooses without much effort, "0 Jack! Tell me which was easier, when Eagleson called you names last month, to walk away quietly, or give him the thrashing you did?" Redmond gave laer a conscious look without replying, and sliding from, his seat, went to the window, where he stood, igith elbows upon the sill, gaz. Lng down into the street. Mise Allen paused. "lionestly now, Jack, would it not have been harder to let Eagleson alone and take no notice of him?" "Five hundred per cent. harder" said Jack with emphasis, and fell to whistling vigorously; but remember- ing where he was, begged pardon and stopped. During the drill before dismissal that afternoon, the Fifth grade, more careless than usual, and more strag- gling in their march, were sent back several times to their class -room. Finally, Mr Nellie, losing patience, called to Jack, standing at the head of his own line: "Here, Redmond, come and show the Fifth how to march." The boy obeyed, andled them with his customary erect carriage and firm step, while Ftfth, surprised and morti- fled, fell into their usual order, and performed the evolution that time without mistake. While passing down the outer aisle, Mr Haverill came from a class -room directly rn front of them. The gray and the brown eyes met with a light- ning flash, but Jack stopped short at Mr Haverill s stern, "Halt!" "What are you doing here, Red- mond, of the Seventh?" "Mr Nellis directed me to lead the class," answered the boy shortly, "Fifth seemed to have forgotten how to march," explained the drill -master. "Pass on, Fifth!" after a pause from Mr Haverill; but when the room was emptied, he spoke rather sharply to his assistant: "Don't call upon that file -leader of the Seventh to do anything of this sort again. The boy's manner is in- sufferable already with its boldness and conceit. Because he has rather the copy aloud, with emphasis, that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." She saw Red- mond shake his head slightly as he studied it over. Yet if anyone ever needed to take that lesson to heart, it was Master Jack. Returninm her lunch, an hour later, Miss Alen.Alfound Savage lying in the easiest position he could get across a seat, holding forth to half -a - dozen others on the need of self-con- trol. "If it's as. easy to govern ourselves as Jack says, some of you fellows had Out of the main entrance came a half - better get at it right away. Here's wittted lad, carrying a little basket Wilson—he uts of starting mornings— filled with nencila. pins and small always thinks he has plenty of time— what's that long word Mr Haverill called it?" 'Procrastination," suggested some one. "Oh, yes. He'll have to overcome his pro-cras-ti-nu-tion; Eagleson, his greediness; Hunt, his chattering; Jack Redmond, his temper"— "And Fred Savage, bis laziness," in- terrupted Redmond, whereat there was a general laugh. "Well, I can just tell you boys." said Sayage, straightening up dolefully, "if it is as hard for the rest of you to get over your bad habits as it is for me to qnit being lhzy, you'll find taking a city is nowhere. Oh, you just don't know what an awful pull it is to crawl out of bed these cold mornings at sev- en—and do it eight days in the week, three hundred and sixty-five days in the year?"— Here a derisive chorus checked him, with demands to recite the time -table, and queries as to whether he wasn't weak on the weeks. "Guess you'd think there were eight days, and enery day had two morn- ings, if getting up came as hard to you as it does to me!" groaned Savage, drawing on his mittens with great ef- fort, and being gaily helped out of the room by an officious friend on either side. "And so, Redmond," Miss Allen asked her file -leader, who, mounted on a. desk, sat idly swinging one foot, "you find the proverb hard to be- lieve?" "Rather," rousing himself to a more respectful position. "Taking a city is serious business,' you know; there is your great army to manage, and all your enemies to look after. In the other case, there is only yourself to control; you can do that easily." "Can yoo, indeed? Then why doesn't old Tom Norris quit drinking whiskey? He says he has tried often.' "He? He's too weak a specimen to do anything!' scornfully. Jack had a strong boy's impatience with weak- ness. 'Alexander the Great—one of your heroes, John—killed his best friend in a fit of drunken temper, and died from dissipation when only thirty-three. Was he a weak specimen, according to your idea?" "I don't understand that," he an - ladies. "YoliC! no right to bold we! Let Ine,goi He began itl" tittered Jack, in it voice hoar-wit*rage, as Stevens, sullen and threatening, turned away; but Snesnam, a man grown in size, held him till Jack pooled down a little under his friend's steady gaze. Then the Senior walked on with bis silent and still wrathful companion Ain they reached Itechnond's beat ding -place, when Sneshista stopped and pia both hands on the boy's shoulders "Jonathan, my son," he said very soberly, "you'll have to bottle your- self up a little, or you'll do more dam- age than you think some day. That was a wicked blow you struck Stev- ens at first. I took your part in the affair, of course, but I hated to see you go at him like that." "He struck me first, for what was no fault of mine," retorted Redmond, breathing hard, "and insulted me," with eyes blazing again. "Look here, my boy," replied his friend. "Trying to pay back such in- sults usually only makes a had matter worse. Remember, bad words break no bones, though they never help matters much; but you can do some- thing io five minutes that may take your whole life to be sorry for. Good- night, John! You'd better do consid- erable thinking, and maybe something else, before you go to bed." After his anger and excitement were quieted, there came rushing back to Jack's mind a remembrance of the proverb. He had thought of it a good deal during the afternoon, resolving, after his conversation with Miss Allen, that he would show his classmates and her how readily he could exercise self- control, if he chose to make the effort, and already a severe lesson, as to his ability, had been taught him. It startled him too, to remember the feelilag that surged up within him at Stevens'first blow. Blind as his rage *as, he felt there had been mur- der in it. "Alexander the Great killed his friend in a fit of drunken tempet," he repeated slowly, trying to realize what that statement meant. Jack was honest enough to face the truth, and /or the first time in his life grew little afraid of himself. TO DE CONTINUED. wares, whict teachers and scholars oftenlbought from him out of pity. Brady, with the thoughtless cruelty so common in boys, threw a snowball at him, and hit him on the' cheek. The poor fellow lifted his hand to his face with a dazed look, and turned to hast- en away. Brady caught up another handful, gleefully crying, "See me hit his basket!" when a well -aimed ball struck his own hands, and dashed the snow from them. "Who did that?" he demanded an- grily, wheeling around. "I," said Redmond, returning his hands to his pockets, and leaning back against. the railing. "That was pretty small business." "It wasn't any et yours, and nobody asked your opinion, Seventh!" stormed the other. "You can have it without asking," returned Jack coolly. "It takes the smallest kind of a coward to strike anybody who can't strike back." Brady walked toward him threat- eningly; but though Jack did not move or even take his hands out of his pocTsets, the other seemed suddenly to change his mind, and strolled off, whistling, to join some classmates. He probably remembered the rules against snowballing near the school. Savage now joined Redmond, and they went on down street, the former doing most of the talking- Its own- er's laziness did not affect Savage's 'tongue, which wagged merrily on ev- ery occasion. "You are bound to make the Fifth at the examination, Jack," he was saying. "Wish I had worked up, and tried for it too; but, then, you tall, quick fellows don't know how hard it is for us short, slow chaps to hustle round." "Presently they reached a corner where severalof the Fifth class were standing, evidently in consultation. Their flle-leader, Stevens, left the group, and came toward Jack. "Here you, Seventh, I've got some- thing to say to you." Redmond faced, him shortly. "Gb ahead, I'm listening." "Feel smar t, don't you?" sneeringly. "Good hoy! Put in front of your bet- ters to show off." A dangerous glitter came into Red- naond's eyes. "Did as I wth; ordered," he said brief- ly. "I wasn't particularly proud to head such a looking line as that, any - a Mr John McHugh, a well -know far- mer of Maidstone township, Essex county, aged 50 was killed by a train of the M.O.R. last evening, while driv- ing over a crossing. He was a brothei of Judge McHugh, of Windsor. ALL MEN Yonng, old or middle-aged, who find them- selves nervous, weak and exhausted, who are broken down from °moose or over -work, resulting in many of the following symp- toms :—Mental depression, premature old age, loss of vitality, loss of memory, bad dreams, dimness of sight, palpitation of the heart, emissions, lack of energy, pain in the kidneys, headache, pimples on the face and body, itching or peculiar sensation about the scrotum, wasting of the organs, dizzi- ness, specks before the eyes, twitching of the I/insoles, eyelids and elsewhere, bash- fulness, deposits th the urine, lose of will power, tendernese of the soalp and spine, weak and flabby muscles, desire to sleep, failure to be rested by sleep, constipation, dullness of hearing, loss voice, desire for solitude, exoitability of temper, sunken eyes, eurrounded with LEADEN CIRCLER, oily looking skin, etc., are all eymptonis of ner- vous debility, that lead to insanity, unless cured. The spring or vital force having lost its tension, every funobion wanes in cense name. Those who throngh abuse wa"T'sio'w I tell you, young man," said Stevens, growing angry, "no scalawag from Seven or Twenty -Seven heads my line on drill without getting two boxed ears from me. There's one, and"— A pair of boys got so mixed up that you could scarcely have told one from the other, fell to the sidewalk, fight- ing furiously. Stevens was nearly two years the older, and considerably larger; but he was not prepared for the fury he had roused. His comrades of the Fifth were rushing to his assist- ance, when Snesham and others arriv- ing on the spot, interfered, shouting "fair play." In a moment Redmond rose, breath- less and still raging. His antagonist had gone down underneath, and was at first either unable or unwilling to rise. "Hurrah for Jack the Giant -Killer!" cried Snesham, gi1ng the victor a committed in ignorance, may bo perma- friendly slap, w Ile others ass s ted peaty cured. 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