THE CONGRESS: The Old School

Some 40 years ago down in Boone County, Indiana, there was a little schoolhouse where assembled day by day a group of pupils regarded as rather thoroughly roughneck. A young teacher appointed to the school was regarded as eminently fitted for the post because ha was six feet tall and molded well.

As was to be expected, trouble developed, and the young teacher lived up to expectations by soundly thrashing one of his pupils. Bub the pupil, resenting thus having been beaten at his own game, started suit against the teach ar....

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