Show A PENSIONED schoolmaster diio kinrd iut of nu aarel german pen aloner A schoolmaster named II andorf sixty ight years old was pensioned from a mecklenburg estate twelve years ago after having taught tv enty saven ears his pension consisted of a cow A shaky little cottage a small parcel of around on which to raise a few bushels af potatoes and a few small measures of rye the old man received nothing however toward the defraying of his daily expenditure for food heat and light hudso it came about that he was obliged to go out on alie highway as a laborer for twelve and one half cents a day in the heat of summer and the raw kcf days of fall he has for many years worked patiently and uncomplainingly among rough men who were formerly his scholars without a word the taunts and reproaches of an unfriendly inspector on the second and fourth saturday of every month he has stood in line with the ers his wage book in his hand and waited his turn to receive the paltry sum due him twelve years of the old mans life have passed thus lie jeaa passed his eightieth year and is without a prospect of a better fortune |