OCR Text |
Show PUT DOWN "EDDICATIOM" IDEA- Farmers's Plea Had Weight Among Brother Agriculturists. In the early forties, on a certain, "town mectln' day" in one of the small farming communftles of the Granite stn'e, thero was more than thn usual Interest and excitement. Some audacious auda-cious Philistine had secured the tnser tlon lu the warrant of an artlclo "To sco If the town will appropriate IfiOO for a now schoolhouse." The sturdy yeomnnry were out la-force la-force to tight down this proposition. The sympathetic moderator dldri "moderate" them worth a cent. The so-called "toney" advocates, conscious from tho start ot their numerical weakness, were concillatoiy and per suaslve, lu the hope of thus winning to their standard suluclciit of the opposition op-position to carry the day. Theso lionet were dashed, however, when u v erau farmer, the Nestor of the guild got the floor, and shouted In foghorn tones: "What do you want of skiilehouses anywny? This cddlcatluu talk Is raisin' rais-in' the old Harry with the boys-on th farm! There's that Danny Webster Web-ster 's likely a young man 's evoi ' raised In these 'ere parts! Got this cddlcatlon Idee into his head left tin farm novcr's heard of afterward!" I This was a Bottler. The "toneys I fled the scene, and the "noes" had. It I |