Mineral Point Tribune (Newspaper) - December 27, 1854, Mineral Point, Wisconsin MIN E TRIBUNE POINT WIS 17 1834 -1 naif i 1 1 1 fill ll 3 fm than 5 i 1 1 nl 4 1 f column yesr 1 mil in of t Fi r i c NT BY i c M t t f How I leva tbe school room I The very mention of its namo sends a thrill through my soul and I never the of ono of those ted to science without feeling that I aland ou ground Evory district is a station ami every i is or ought to be a missionary but itlas too arc they and ble they cutur thoughtlessly tho work ting that tlic teacher's will not it ibis school but will live on mid on forever Whenever little one shall bo abroad over tbe face of tbo there will tho teacher's follow us ft alar or an tending lo good or evil just ihu weed sown in thu genuine ur corrupt mi ill r oi I l p not hare hi led any muter to make del tot him hard M be would Moral WM not in than we bad fcw in our schools though there were plenty of There WM BO appealing to tlw boarts consciences of children BO going forth of tbe soul to tbt son I of Ibe pupil the ferule wero only through they with our and let yon they far passed in the spiritual of the day He had became to the old school method of governing never having boon blest with than lers and when the committee the young lawyer now Judge to leach our winter we thought wn could read the whole course of for the term from beginning to end which judging the pott ran and writing and ditto spoiling with tbo and every item stereotyped Tbe first committee that year wai ono of thoso pests to community a moat and we U root Winter MI mill hail rji course of tbo faithful teacher as it tends on ward upward through toil trial nml to Ibe goal of the who not the pleasant task of giving to the youthful I and bring whole soul into lliu not to tamper with tho culling Let them in j a business with their i mill net lave fur Ihc sake of or I with a of one of us he entered upon his official duties yet how truly wo never know We alt took our seats in our ao places and with timid anil in our midst at nine o'clock There wen toari of tU We all in a speaking J bright sparkling in Ibt eyee of seph Merrill M he returned to his seat and I an not to HJ were in our the little eyed girl's and wise and one in the room melted for first time moral had crossed tbe threshold of our school room and gnw warmth WM rapidly thawing away the stubborn ine work around our hearts waa subdued and from that Jay it wai necessary to rented him of hit duty A new life spread out before him ud tie to at- tain it That winter rapidly antly away and it WM with Yery sad we bade our teacher coed buy on tbo iMt of tbe torm turned to bw native town to and WM very after admitted to tie bar Success seemed to fellow atl Ilia undertakings he ban ever a bright example of moral integrity an oasis in vast desert of Soon after our winter school closed Joe Merrill left and went to a neighboring State to live with an and learn tho trade aid we heard but little of him after that for many years Ho was very by his schoolmates yet I cannot say thuro wan title that over wished him bark Tho I replied tlie Judge Oh I Idle i the of my lib replied K re kego n M I Minis 1.11 jt tin at to-nitflit a llt witl one cy the school old people did not he would over r mako anything but a wild at Joe they thought his conduct at tho nml taught I of Hill il on I i in low mxl on ll lo tin peril of both Inn great re i limn a t acl 1 lion Mnl tcr is n a turn t a that will chain the to chilli a j the morning cent the new j y to the suspicion of 1 of back to law books the term wan bait Without speaking a word upon the rude fronting thu place his book hat upon the isross-legjjod table and then slowly turned his clear haicl eyes Tho of tno up from every corner of Hint log ura tt was a moment extremely awful tn IK all ami bow breathlessly wa will ll 111 1 -t llw IMI M cl J i j iir tho re I I sal my v.r.um: this with of H 1 ono vt rv inj in lifu in try a full lliu but n-t I u lit lo an iUK-u I in iny of ti n fnt ln if wore half i of us with n flopping it scorned t a with THE tlu villa will in if he in at arm md lill il w their oi mice inure in but i-e I M of my If How I tu that chair up hi chair HIM tit -t preferable to that silence was i I by tho deep of his eye At spuke was clear musical and Ibe fell hU lips full rich anil stealing down into tho of uur With tt short on importance of improving every of nur time he the business of tho The tirst dny away and not one not even Joe got R Hugging how to wo not tell for wo often the eye in regard to terrible of ho was about to and I really think they breathed when they felt euro bo was pone There one person in the valley who tonk him by tho hand and bade him not forget her when ho waa away and that IMH old grand his only at vale for loo was itn flian His mother loved him with nil the fondness her deimlato to his bo it he always broeiing a earth to bo in en The following ia from s work soon to appear called tbr Universe no Dwort the ao Monopoly U tbe aspect of clear nal to the unaided vision Imposing SB It is and of serious con tern and as if is the may bo indefinitely plication of that magic instrument the displays n magnificent bewildering its wide extent and brighter Sparklets of now become deuce and numerous clusters cloudy am fields of glory sprinkled with sparkling or art a continued sheet of lam bant widely into spiral into double and multiple components bjr a of color atwi a depth af lint Home are neon revolving in and others in triplicate around each other and still farther carried to such a degree of com- as almost to baffle the of new and more of the light observed by the naked in all directions we now reckon our axy alone lo contain at least visible through optical aid In- stead of ono solitary Milky Way we number some four thousand un unseen by the rye and many of them to our own HI There a variety in In- pome even seeming to be filling a orbital area Wo variable n i ni imm runted a few lavs ago by a man by the name uf a who that he ia in search nl a son whom he supposed hi lire ere near Alton He on 5th of May from the Pint Head near the of tbe Klat Hand River ii He mated that hat been with this tribe of eighteen years We listened for some length of time lo his many portions of which are trul He taken prisoner in on the Hiver while ia tlie of a fur company He in a nf and speaks but p< orly but we give what he I to Ty as possible He was ivi with a man by the aame of Jolm Robertson both of whom wore captured The tempted to defend Ihenisclres and I two Indians but wero overpowered being Indians to lend with They were hand and and on and started to the eti up I hem nml capture They were killed and VOL 4 r He lU hM M esl be crer IM hw UM Mid if bw U esn tell than mom y il tion its it Ins lU r and in proof uf UM of the superiority Is vf this the injured nf of b Hut of eal deterioration ewe M have bat do to a liua ef UM Uwe of M in t in thua Ute laid bi uf toe bat au Per we when to the Link it rsn be that ut the tribe wer fir j w to Die chief who bands with UM of much joy at their i the or in ami short weak and fined in a fed but now alir nut allowed lo Tl chief re be and ibur them bin two if they marry nml remain wilh Iribe ing for the lime the were ace ami nk Tin fruits of thi were twoohil.lrci nf which their uf their il would br we that left lite vision was ur Inn f the eye by or i are Mill living a an a j he m fun bulb nf be with the tribe Two The win tn bnt cil ami burned alive with the tribe Seven ef of injured lb c in an i- of a day is list liy Hut not tnu brilliant from plains nr I rape but nun and r put 1 bm from Uis also their lustre ami pHt i periods I of bio who in a Irw while when re- lined the of tho i of chief her with and often liu bo willing to dio for her sake if liia for mother appeared to bo the only in j nl wnn wsi me lined nf tho of tbe llif the in almost every be of w under tho j in hers of our i die Feel ami one wilh a r I rait not to after In- went in hia character bo with her atul so soon tiis uame anil the old lady to and wilh her went all anxious thoughts concerning Joe All ihc nest Iho birds oil to sing sweeter in tho tree tops anil the frogs lo with more ence iii the pools by the wayside than in Sublimity h rough tho anil us are found to Ihrmigh all llif ur to our vision as we n In tbe alt moon gibbons 11 rise the nil occur t them in regular his gibbous Jupiter his little of a form by bells nil leaden in a ll W friir j him when it mndo me thoy had done for many long tremble to think but ho net seem to I Time on e that there wu uoli a boy us in our log lie on fur tiat 1 II III U 11 u i I hi the Thus went from its cool retreat among sycamores the eved girl grow taller and more lovely 1 more uf licr a new school was buill by the audit new dwelling hero in thr beneath those tall and thither that maiden bright tho never ling conscious of Joe's presence only his wilh the rost anil over the mistake on ami slips and feel met with n leal ing to and from tbo they wuro Hi will lake 1 tell Ihc young in nlil bank of that viu it ll century ago i il r Iii h iti lor th 1 h iA tn have been iii that iii my r very It who went t there long but t ftw I I ick t vit Hill We did mil know then thai be was witling that wayward soul to ils very ill his own noble was lie df tbat noble him every lime morning from thu obi parsonage by tbo of her hire know bow j as pronounced us no more twain but within lone ami wo have been only one ever since Hut if I gel lu talking about half all ami i Ami il ami IT in earl the of the morning ii I il tn t mi re- I Mr IT- tbe ou tho hail offered bov of tbo Ii even then in bis M e not know as cared for onu but we ho was in from any of craft known before On nf tin fourth as the on Iho platform tl was mailing a Jack from ami is stion as be nml fixing in ll Kino failed bim Mile i- Joseph Merrill he I want to talk with you Without tt bo what IIP her I shall nover tell yon what nf and I suppose you are to hear that tin left u- there was n Sabbath convention held in this eve about hero attended it Our ohl teacher wus nml n fuw on the from careful the His remarks were well ro- nml coming as they did from tha a lint Ibe sermon preached on Iho bow shall I a faint what it was or look lie stood up tbat vast with glossy chestnut curls his finely ami placed lUc teacher who took him by tho hand nml drew him to bis Me powerfully built nml then In appeared to and i us to wilh awful majesty wo trembling with terror fallow and a did Inch we wore totally i ami for- bingo bead and waving about hia full bnm forehead his lark eyo up will the enthusiasm that tilled soul as in lour musical voice be unfolded to our minds heavenly our grout Law Hook Oh to have hoard il t to know wmi it was anJ ihc speaker too II tonk llw j o you migh little to Falbor beside his mother s the name of d one uf which be Hlack mete killed The most of lime he lived ou the t tin cr al at fur n Flat I lead imt know T from or folds i brown earth il is not hurtful HI all Ihu experience of tn xiy nothing the superior of by clothing with l lure us a as to how we T his art in If light of the days in l-w the head nf it with green If wn the contrary U ie this lull we bj the he saw neither of proper colors the or anything f kind worst day is near y better n skunk Iliad light lamp or prairie hens Al j All light is too and IB lie lime Jic his was near time will injure Ibe I Who Lake iMy miles from a rrad or write much at must nf the Knr Cum j lo have for the bis full er will st to Ira pany a dortor and on tbe nf May while he gone in making sll Indians drunk with rays lamp or candle Thf worn ing s lube of silver only y ilH belts ami jy several ringM ns well ss an of revolving nnd r thirty aster for each stale m the an been dragged from bad just and the hair obscure biding places anil and a half Indian i tbe ibe night as member of our he bis bow When or U arc tar beyond j pipe and a half Me al night the light should fall acroM former terminus of visibility SK flint and and two j tin and thu To read n n ijiti t M t r i i 111 trim lime to use the cyon ibu light is thru tbe liey fly lo aphelion nd are up on return the natural eye a lucid ihn upon the Our radiant is chui from a ami into an object with inequality nnd n with nf light while a plate of circular form oiled will dim a nis by lofty mil Thu sun is found marked with puts of meat being all in with a lamp in front lint Ho ami all the eyrs 1 bonk bavim bis along tbu next morning he dog lo give a clue tn his truck About when miles be was by bis father log he with bis and curri cil nml then in to tbe nr down to the paper to in as men I library anil and do short an list of their progeny im- is a fertil was v V thus the in UM U un nml passing Ut i bis will pan r f t 1 1 f various and sixes tlt toot uf it 1 will taku lli limes very u Overbearing this iin a put moreover ae the celestial become I to diagonal in he found ire directions thud their regular r h f I ll proper nnd the real the nf Ins lie our own i- j until a mure imagination murs ii knows no The he i if change ia universally hungry after daylight he eight feet ii dies in he am ale lor bis fact Me kept on tha direction when about r he have no lord bavins sharked it all the j ami be bettor pleased to uble kept awake than to by n sermon that might the of a all I he week bis might A i by bis i be and on On ilay he by belonging br in Ibe an the after which be III In a fire in tbe lime lie was travelling bit v In ti iha ed tribu it- They like to or lu hurtful I print iu or Him a Hr intr f ihr sight n 1 s UlP period of Hilt by tint only their nwn but tola I We it Uot fault if we I Lull savage A me n In i stunt Wilt witl I ami groat lark nf brown genim you pos j nf mind which if through lite loan iers to throw to great O y or merchant who on tlic taNe invoice through go I to a on faith on a lliu v They have within 1 in the lioM if I u merchant to pay let him the by a of In- tribe he tl e I m lie was kindly by of beina taking that He tn the in iwu win had in the he departed and after nine mile be ro the river He of and I over Traveling tine Iw bus ie New Vurk Tribune in paper i I ibe il IN i it f item nf try ll if I the only of I en- by the 1 nf the 1 Uitti him the inly split the In many week a in India iba bw but mir si I in I Unit freely of In- Hi v bark far nut an tbat i i tn ii to lo commercial I His snort lat not wero always stained the room until mr ill win he o wants Juilio tha lie laught me tbo Men wish secuUr tbe with tbo ms story with him und be at that IM de list them wall ami to built They wish do what six long Jays Then slapping o man of considerable and to bare n tUrti of all that parsed during lie familiar with Indian gives of UK Ir for de cures for and furnish a for a shrewd iur aru show that a can and ire triU tU i to last ef taler ly Hlill Ibat Uie