| Show NEWS COMPETITION JESSIE O MILLER OF THE SUMNER SCHOOL TAKES FIRST MONEY Frank Smith of the Bryant School Second Prize The Yews Contents I Discontinued lint Shortly the Herald Will Announce Another Kind of Competition With the week closes The Heralds prize scKbol news competition The first prize for the best item contributed this week is awarded to Jessie 0 Nil len of the Sumner school and the second sec-ond to Frank Smith of the Bryant school Both pieces are given in full I be1ow The Herald will shortly announce a I contest of another nature which will I be of even more interest than the one just closed Interview With Joseph Smiths Cook A certain colored man residing on Second East street has had the honor of once being cook to the prophet Joseph Smith Having all the distinc tive traits of his race he answered my questions in a rich African dialect I jest stayed one year wid Joseph Smith in Nauvoo he said on being asked his term of office When questioned as to Joseph Smith being a good master he gave a most characteristic reply Tis de bressed truf dat he de best man ever lived Then he proceeded as follows No he wasnt particular in regard to his vittles he would take jest what he could git do he was powerful fond o roast beef and things of dat sort Was he good looking Waal if an old noaccount niggah can gib his obpinlon Joseph was not scrumptious to be sure yet he was a fairly good lookin fellow Joseph was a teasin fun lubin person an manys de time dat he would come into de kitchen and say Isaac yous suahly got some possum cooking No massa as sure as I lib I hasnt says I Dont fool me Isaac I smells it1 No sah I hasnt seen possum for a yeah I would say Den he would go on and make me so terribly hungry for a bite ob possum pos-sum dat I told him to go away and i r netoer come back again Dis he took bery good humoredly Waal honey does yer want ter know how I came to de prophet Well I embraced the gospel in Connecticut Con-necticut yer know an den eleben oders an I trabled on foot a thousand miles to Nauvoo Dar we stayed at de prophets house until we found anuder place I went to work in his kitchen me an anuder man an dar we stayed until Joseph was killed Den when he was dead I dug his grabe a bery sad sanctemonial honey a bery sad sanctemonial Though still an adherent of the Mormon Mor-mon faith the old darkey thinks an5 rightly that he has not received his just dues from the Mormon church JESSIE O MILLER Age 15 years eighth grade Sumner School I Stunned the Fun Laugh and the world laughs with you I Weep and you weep alone That is the way I have always understood un-derstood it but evidently a transposition transposi-tion has taken place At least it did Tuesday evening for whilst a merry throng of revelers sleigh riding on the First street car track which commences com-mences at the intersection of T and First streets and proceeds thence west for about eight blocks came to a sudden sud-den realization of the fact that the world did not laugh with them Right in the midst of their happy pastime the blue coats appeared upon up-on the scene and unceremoniously informed in-formed them that they must cease operations instanter or be thrown in the bug house for disturbing the peace and quietude of several of the citizens of that neighborhood The summons came like a thunderbolt thunder-bolt out of a clear sky to < the three or four hundred boys and girls who had hied themselves thither for a few hours of innocent amusement Protestations were of no availit was either quit or be locked up Prefering the former the crowd speedily dispersed muttering their disapproval of such proceedings What harm have we done Who could be annoyed by the happy and wholesome whole-some laughter of girlhood and boyhood boy-hood pursuing that most exilerating sport of coasting I most fervently hope that when I may grow to manhood man-hood my mind will not become so diseased dis-eased that I Will forget the joys of my early youth to such an extent that I will perpetrate so mean and contemptible contempt-ible a trick upon the rising generation i as the one recorded above FRANK SMITH Bryant school grade 6 class A age 14 |
