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Show X Little Primer Lesson w I Told in Plan EnglisbJ (With Apologies to Evoryiiy,) ' -frlf pL' BY P. W. SPRAGUE jMjp ONCE a Long Time Ago in a Far Away Land a Popular Educator Aspired to Become a Member of the School Eoard. Ho Was Otherwise a Wise Gisabo in His Day and Generation. He Had Poise and Character and Was Strong on Duty. Although He Lived Before the Vertical System Came into Vogue, He Was Fairly Intelligent and Was Well Up on the School Work of Hlo Time. He Knew a Good Deal About Sanitation and Ventilation as Well as the Arts and Sciences, and Was Something of a Financier. His Friends All Said He Would Make a Warm Member from Every Point of View, so He Was Elected by a Whooping Whoop-ing Majority. But the Educator Very Soon Discovered Dis-covered That Beyond the Alp3 Lies Italy and' That He Had a Rocky Road to Travel If He Expected to Mako Good. In That Far Off Land Were Two Powerful Sects, the Inroaders and the Hameriteo. and thc Special Mission of Each of Them Seemed to Be to Prevent the Other From Running the Schools. The Membership of Both Was Composed Com-posed of Extremely Good People Who Believed that Anyone Who Did Not Conform to Their Mode of Worship Wno on the Road to Ruin and Likely to Take Everything With Him That Was Not Nailed Down. Thev Accordingly Attempted to Nail Everything in Sight, Including thc Opposition. Op-position. Whom They Desired to Nail to the Cross. At the First Meeting of the Board at Which the Popular Educator Was Entitled to Vote, a Resolution Was Presented Pre-sented by an Inroader Providing for the Repainting of tho Belfry of No. C. The Hanteg Oppoied ItBtJE s an Toader Measure , n?T w Member V.'as a HiH but Heid not Work at It AhhJrfeh0WCt!,Hlf' Hand Biff ' wiftl SupporUns the PropSlfc1 Which account the ilameritSi H m alitor and th InraadeniB? Him o the Back and Said HtBi,t Broadrjnded Gentlemao. Tfc But. the Very Next MeetlwUiK1 roader wanted the New vZ&mW . Help Tem Remove a Janitor Wumm Darn mi the New Member SB Whereon Both Pactions EttjSt H m. iguratlvely Speaking, makx His Jputatlon to Tatter?. 3mt Tht Said He Waa a Triirr ' ,X. I Also, piker, and That Th.-Vfr KnoiHow He Held a Job In thtEp ; Th Women Took It ud and Itfciil' Repted That His Vfttea UuKi Motr-in-Law Had Bepn KorijXdl Hii"Her Washing Donfe. -gift Yen the Rumor Became Tlu He Had Been Heard to S-itm a od Moral Man. "Might SS Ti-ugh the Bis Gate "Without ESta in to Any Church It was Gimmm A'eed to Bo the Limit. JL,. ie Popular Educator Tried toajKj tl' Popular Indignation for a QBj b. it Was- a Losing Game csC I Have Only Done the Right Hi & It," He Said, and His Late Wgfc Abused Him of Being Color BlltiijI wfter Being Whlpsawed LlUylpi 'ckens for a Year Without H mpliBhlng Anything, the Pc;Ai ilucator Admitted That He YTa jj ne. With His Ideals Shattwrim fcured a PoNtlon on a NewspjrH et With Great Success Moral Don't Spring Any HmK .hemes Except on Regular Llta.jHj |