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Honesty And Trust

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Day
30
Month
September
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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Thft folio wiug pleasant anecdote is from "Glances and Glimpses," a book by Dr. Harriet iï. Hunt, who was ouce a teacher in Boston: - "A cousin of mine in Charlestown having passed away, it became proper that Í should attend her funeral. It was school afternoon ; I did not dismiss the scholara ; as they disliked a monitor, I hit upon the following plan of leavin!; thetn : I placed in the ehair the large old-fashioned slate, (it had been my fa'her's) wrote upon it the names of the scholars in the order in whieh they sat ; and arranged the ncedle-work and rcading - or I always had soine interestiug work read aloud by sotne eider pupil overy afternoon - and then said : "Now, children, when the clock strikes fivo, leave your seats qrderly, go to my chair, and place by eaeh of your names a unit for good behavior, and a cross for b;id. When I return I ehall anxiously look at the slate, and in the morning when you are assembier), I will read the list aloud, that everythiiig may be confirmed. But I trust in you ! Ou tuy ruturn I visited the school room and found but one cross upon the slate ; and that where I least expeeted it, appended to the name of a beautiful, open, bi'ight faced child, who then promised much to the world - the fuct of her having rich parents benig her greatest drawback SIil' was the last child in ihe school that I should have thought cap'jble of anv mis conduct. The morning came ; the list was then read ; it proved it. but when I came to this name I said : " 'My dear child, you must explain. Why is this? Wbat did you do ?' Looking up to me with those sorrowful eyes, and speaking with a sorrowful tone, which ever made her an object of sacred interest, she repli d : " 'I aughed aloud ; I laughed more than once - I couldu't help it - because a slate was keeping school .'" &2L The Springöeld liepublican, under the capiiou of '-The Ti ue Issue and No Lying," says : "Lot us havo a fair contest. Let us see and stand to the rea! issue. The Uuion cause is not so poor aa to iiecd lit;s for it support, and lies 11 not help it. Gen. MeClellan nover offered bis services to the rebels ; Mr. Petidleton did not voto against hupplies fol the war, or thank God that he so voted, and the republican presses that are reitorating thoee and other falsehoods and forgeries, are on!y damaging their own cause, and giving substantial aid to the enemy. Sharre on them that they have so littlo appreciation of the atrength and dignity of their cause, and so smail confidence in the sensü and patriotisui of the people."

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Old News
Michigan Argus