straight forward story, that no one        tions he meets with in the
cities to   down. The first part of my life was
      could question, told how he and the        distract and occupy his
mind. Certain if spent in  a country  entirely  new,
 any laccused, only three nights before, at   rc it was that quite young
students in  without customs fixed, or laws enact-
      went in a sleigh to the Waterman           the country school from
the system     ed. In common with others similarly
      farm and purchased the very hog            of  teaching  mathematics
the    i
      they were dressing in the bushes that                             
      n in   , situated, we began anew and worked
0    1 night. That they set the dog upon      4practice, became masters of
arithme. C  from the ground up, and if we did
      the animal to, catch him, causing the    "tic, while too many
now that grad-,    not enact laws best adapted to our
      teeth marks                                uate from the high school
have only    wants and tastes, it was our own
                  tglainly visible upon the kes a po an indefinite or surface
knowledge  f ault, and our own loss, if loss we
      hog's ears,  at they stuck the hog         of mathematics.        
               have sustained. Before I settled up.:
      in the side of the neck, as could be          NOT AS THOROUGHLY EDUCATED
         on the prof ession of law for a call-
      seen the one in court had been, and          My   judgment is, that
the stu-      ing and a means of earning a liveli-
COPY then put him in the sleigh and drew I exact.) dents of the common  
 school are    hood I pondered much, and consid-
      him to the thicket, built a fire, heated   not  now   as thoroughly
  educated  (ered well. At times I thought it best
      some water, scalded and dressed the        as they   were in the days
gone       to be a farmer for my kindred had
      animal cut the head off in a zig-zag'      by. In those days, the plan
of indi-  'been so far as I was able to trace
      way, and there the head which I had        vidual work was adopted
for several    them. I confess it was quite to my
      brought from the defendant's cellar        studies, as well as for
the arithme-  liking,. and I felt my adaptation to
      was produced and fitted to the hog in
                                                  tic. It furnished more
work for the   that high and most honorable calling.
      court, leaving no question whatever        teacher, but better and
more thor-     My home was on a farm until I was
      but the hog that had been so com-                                 
                                    e, and I trust
                                                  ough work for the scholar.
 It put   twenty-five years of ag
       pletely identified as the Standish pig,                          
                                          work the
                                                  more responsibility  upon
the indi-   I did my part in learning to
       was no other than the Waterman an-         vidual pupil, than as a
member of a   farm which I helped to clear up, and
       imal. Mr. Waterman was also placed         class. In fact he was a
class by him-  put in a most excellent condition. - I
       upon the stand, who identified the         self.                 
               felt that I was quite a success at
       hog present as the one he sold to the              NO CHANCE TO SHIRK
           farming. I could plow and sow, reap
       accused but three evenings ago. Af-          There   was  no  opportunity
 to    and mow, as well and as f ast as the
       ter hearing this testimony, there was      shirk or cover his poor
progress. He  best of them. Many of the days in the'
       but one verdict that a jury could find,    thereby began in life the
work of self  harvest fields I could rake and bind!,
       and that was one of not guilty.            reliance, which is a most
important   and with ease keep up to the best
       THE SURPRISED DISTRICT ATTORNEY           asset for success. In those
days, we  cradler of wheat and oats that the
         The able, but much surprised Dis-                              
                e
                                                  were not limited to or
required to    ountry round could produce. I couldl
       trict  Attorney, was  so  suddenly         study any particular book
or science  mow alongside of the best, and in no:
       hurled from his perch of victory thatl     provided the teacher employed
could   instance nor in any part of the work
       it seemed difficult for him to deter- 1    teach it, but every one
selected his  did I fail to complete with the most
       mine whether he was in or out of i         study and went at it with
all the vig-  experienced. I say this not because
       court. On the f aces of the great!         or he could rally. I even
taught Latin  I would boast of what I could do but
       crowd of people standing about, ih                               
               to show what I did do.   Still I be-
       and outside of the house, came a           at one of my terms. Think
of it, in   licved I could be equally successful.
                                                  a country school house.
We enjoyed ' .
       broad grin. Everyone surprised, but        more freedom then than
now.           in other occupations, and perhaps en-1
       overjoyed when they realized the sta-            NOT TIED HAND AND
FOOT          able myself to lead a more usefu
       tus of the case, and that their friend       We were not tied hand
and foot by  life. Not because farming was notl
       and neighbor whom they esteemed so         various schemes of progressive
gov-  useful and profitable and not so con-
       highly was not guilty after all.           ernment but everyone was
permitted    spicuous in the workshop of mankind
         The verdict of "not guilty" was ac-      to pursue the
course of life he best  but because there were many and
       cepted as true, and from that time         enjoyed, provided he was
within the   more who were obliged to work at
       no ref erence to the lost hog was ever     laws of his country. This
method cul-  manual labor, or at least adapted to
       made by the Standish -people. Queer!       tivated and increased individuality.
 that class of labor, than otherwise.
       Was he not guilty after all? Did he                NOT AS HONEST NOW
            Taking all things into consideration,
       not take this way to avert suspicion,        Are we any- better now
than we were  the law practice seemed best suited
       and out wit his accuser. Some people       then? I do not believe
we &re as hon.  to my tastes and exactly in accord
       believed he took the hoz, but not for      est now and work in the
open as then.  with my ambition. It may seem some-
       gain but to perpetrate a huge joke         Speculation  and  accumulation
 of, what presumptions for a country lad
       upon the bachelor and his old maid         money then without earning
it was    to seek a profession of any kind, and
       sister. That he never made use of the      almost unheard of. We trusted
each   especially the profession of law. But
       hog or sold it for gain, but carried it    other, left our' doors
open and win-  it is not. In looking up the history of
       away if he did take it, so far from        dows up at night, and slept
undis-   the successful men of this country,
       home that it never found the way           turbed and as roundly as
now. I be-  and it may be so in other countries,
       back.                                      lieve in the freedom of
education and, the greatest per cent of the really
          My academic education fitted me          the " selection 'of
such studies as the  successful, and we may add of the
        somewhat to teach    school and  I         pupil desires and is best
adapted to,4i most useful men, have been reared,
        taught four terms of country school,       and not the classified
course some of  upon the farm. There is where the:
        except one of these terms was at Mil-      which is highly obnoxious
and in no  most useful Iessons of life are ob-
        ton.  The average teacher in those         wise adapted to his tastes.
 To re-  tained.  There  experience  teaches
        days received only about twelve dol-       quire a student to pursue
a particular -them the real value of labor, some-
        lars per month. The last term, how.        line of studies which
is contrary to,, th g nothing else will; and they are
        ever, I taught, yielded me fifteen. But                         
         is a. not very likely to throw away one-
        this was after I had had training at       misappropriation of his
time and     half of their life as many do, if not
        college and after I was admitted to        ene ies which may result
in the ut-  all.
        the Bar but before I began to prac-        terrfailure of his whole
life. I have  I believed the profession of law
        tise. In those days it was customary       been on the board of education
where  was based upon and involved the ad-
        for the teacher of country schools to      I live, now continuously
more than   justment of differences and the term.
        board around among the patrons;            sixty years and take a
dee  interest  ination of troubles, and that these ad-
        staying two or three weeks with each       in the schools, and it
can gardly be  judications and  settlements  were
        family that was within reasonable         said I have contracted
these views, brought about by enforcing the laws
        distance of the school house. It was      without some experience
at least. But  and the rules of equity and justice.
        not compulsory for anyone to have          I believe, however, that
as a whole. That these were based upon the eter-
        the teacher, no, not that, but entirely    our schools are doing
a great work  nal principles of right between men.
        voluntary, and each family rejoiced        for the generation in
which we live,, If these rules and principles were ob-
        for theAime to come when they could       and I intend to 've them
my hearty   served and adopted as a profession,
    i _,adored with the teacher's preys-           Rnnort as londras Ilive.
They cer-| whv should it not be a most noblel
        ence.  Certainly this custom had a                              
              c ali   c 9
    I   good side to it. It made all the fami-     tainly ought to make goo
  prges                   - n
                   lies so fvored wel acquaited withwith the support and
advantages they!  Fully in the faith of these princi-|
        the teacher and he had opportunity         have now.            
              pe      dpe    h    rfsino       a
                     to explain lttle differeces that mayNOT WHOLLY ENDORSED
           and began its practice for a means of'.
        tric an friendsi      betee the            been on thse boad solng
   [ believe were to live my   life over again,'
        myteachine    wrei and pui.dheetrjofnn     most cordially in   our
Free High   though I think I could better it some,
        mysteacing woteroe in whihn adjining       School system for we give
the gradu- I would adopt the same profession.
        diestrcthool thouewa on ly in whchIlivead.  ate by them a fairly
good business If honestly followed it can not be bet-'
        aTqarersho frous was honly ao  thiean      education, and aid the
common mass- tered. If dishonestly practiced, al-
        raso qure di not avai hmyelf For thi       es f rom a common f und.
Should not f
        privleg aof bxooaorndindgi arofund; with   words should not all the
money drawn |lIiving had better be chose.n for it. It|
        fonl twomexeptovrnis didIuta walk ay        from the common treasury
for school' is1 a great mistake to believe a rogued
          fo hoevenih;btwled to |                  purposes be confined to
the support I is better adapted to this profession
       Imy homle. This gave me exercise in         of the common and high
school? Is than any other person. Certainly hel
       Ithe open air morning and eveningntti                sfra     i  
eesra         is the most ill-fitted for it than for
       and ga ve me vigor and    strength,        no tshis just tothfar pash
is necsay an  al  te  rfessions or trades.  A|
       which Ibelieve I would not have en.        able to share in the higher
education islawyer must have the confidence of
   .   joyed if I had not taken these walks. |     as we ought to go?   
Leaving this| his neighbors. He is charged with
        fered widely from the present. The    g    oselection and determines
the coue tnthir dstnheirlvean
   Ientire   studentry  now, is classified I      of  life  he  intends 
to   pursue. their fortunes, and how can he makeI
   ,  |and, of course, much time is saved, |       If  he  determines  to
 become  an- peace if they do not put confidence
   l      and the conveniences we have give|       engineer, a teacher, a
doctor, Breach.V*dtutiwhte anvss
lI      both the teacher and scholar every |        er or lawyer, he should
fAi back      M    bevto       astuh       e   f
    Wietegachintge hnat tMnilton I had sev-                             
          pnh rvt rsucs.th that honesty is the most valuable as-
       ienty-one scholars. It can readily be                            
            n uulcad      hr   8n     es     set financially, that a lawyer
or other
       |seen I was of necessity kept quite I       why the public should
pay the ex- 'esncnpses.Ihv                    ee
   -  Ibusy.  My other schools had a less !        penses of acquiring a
profession than 3, known many whweentoesad
e      lnumber. But the benches were most l         a trade. No reason for
the strongz true to the profession to accumulate
f      btwl ild         I classifiedl some of|      higher education to draw
the publi lthnie membersofthte  ba ar    hoet
        I let each work alone. The result of        to fit themsewhlves fost
housae Obu n  floodas ttheeirr bwonrd, ias i etil
teo     dustry, ntonly durig school hours |         millions to build u 
an  support a  huch, ito wil behcarrie ote sandad-
adn     fro the  beginirhang bto the donelvdof the        intttos       
eatduhtt ec     evr   dollar invoulvd in the transeac-
Ss      mahematican i thue suchol     Well,         and! tatelawyer tpa"for
it.          n     n    ecaue I hae ben        n
er     find stime enought the ustudy dutrinactta             ulc    oessol
       ee-      ,Iwn      osy htti        sas
Squires and his friend loaded the
dead pig -into his sleigh an d went
home. It was in the edge of -the eve-
ning, and they went down about fif-
ty rods f rom Squire's house into a
small piece of bushes, built a fire, ob-
tained a large kettle and heated some
water with which to scald and dress
it. They cut the head from the body,
in a zig-zag way, and carried it to
the house, down into the cellar, and
covered it up, giving to it the ap-
pearance of concealment. The body
was left where they had dressed it.
  The vigilant eyes of the Standish
family watched every movement of
the Squires people. They, of course,
saw the fire kindled in the bush, and
lost no time in repairing to, or as
near to as they thought wise, the
place where the dressing was going
I on. They could easily see and identi-
ing. The secret was out, the guilty
Squires was discovered.  There he
was with his friend and accomplice
actually dressing the lost hog. This
was sufficient proof to hang any man.
They knew he was guilty all the time,
murder will out, but before this they
did not have actual proof. They had
it now; so the alarm was given.
There was an old Justice of the
Peace named Kelley living in a log
house on the bank of Rock river,
about half a mile up the river from
where the St. Paul R. R. crosses
near Edgerton.   Straightway went
Standish the same night to this jus-
tice, and made a complaint against
Squires, obtained a warrant and be-
fore morning Squires was under ar-
rest. The prisoner said nothing.
neither confessed or denied, but hung
his head low in guilty fashion. The
whole neighborhood was arounsed;
was it possible that Squires would do
such a thing. Everybody felt deeply
sorry for the fallen man for almost
everybody was his friend. There was
la genuine mourning on all sides, but
the proof seemed conclusive; there
was no escape from hi's guilt.
  The district attorney, lawyer Keep,
afterwards Judge of that Circuit, then
residing at Beloit, was sent for; the
day of trial was fixed almost immedi-
ately. I attended the trial, so did al.
most everv one for miles around. It
was like a large funeral. Everybody
seemed to be there with his head
dropped in sorrow. A jury was imp
panneled; the district attorney was
prepared with an arm full of papers
and documents which were to be used
in giving this guilty man a quick
journey to jail disgracing him for-
ever. There was no help for him. He
had no lawyer, poor fellow, but an old
acquaintance, who   had     managed,
things sometimes in Justice Court,
appeared for him. He too, as well as
hits client, wore a countenance of dis-
pair.
  Squires came to me, and with a
downcast look wanted I should mount
my horse and go to his house two
miles away, go down into the cellar,
and under an old harness which he
described, find a hog's head, and
bring it to court, well covered up, so
no one could see what it was until
called for. I did not know what ob-
ject he -had in bringing into court
that stolen hog's head which, of
course, would tend to prove his guilt
but as the hog's body was already
there I thought likely he felt like re-
storing to the owner every part of
the carcass and make good the loss
so far as he could; so, being willing
to do everything I could for the poor
man, as every other one seemed to
feel like doing, I went, found the head
as he'said, wrapped a paper around
it, and brought it to the Justice's
house where it was carefully received
by the guilty man, and laid away for
use at the proper time. The trial be-
gan; the district attorney, a very able
man, went through with the wvitness-
es, one by one, both of the Standishes
giving their testimony with much
precision, in describing the lost hog
as identical in all respects with, the
dead animal in court, just found in
the possession 'of the prisoner, in a
,thicket of brush where it was being
.;dressed in the night time. This was
isufficient to convict anybody. The ill
feeling existing between the two fam-
ilies was detailed and dwelt upon at
length as furnishing sufficient mo-
tive for committing such an attro-
cious offense.  No theory was con-
sistent except that pointing to thE
guilt of the prisoner.  The district
attorney was sure of conviction af.
ter producing this unbroken array ol
facts in evidence. He rested the case
  HOW THE DEFENDANT PROVED HIS
              INNOCENCE
   The defendant's time had come, t
 prove his innocence if he could. Sur(
 ly the burden of doing so was upo
 him for as the case stood a verdict (
 guilty was assured.  In those da5
 the defendant could not be a witne.,
 f or himself and the proof of his hs
 nocence must come from other
 sources, and in this case such pro(
 could not be had. It would be impo
 sible. Captain Vreland, as the pri
 onerps, helper was sometimes calle,
 brought to the witness stand the mB
 who went with the prisoner to pu
 achwse the (lead hog,, in court, bi
 which hadl b~eul so surely id(-.tltifi(
 all l;nd  al^i lll   tiwR'Tj!stiM   Vsiz   t]
 Sit~aldish hoe,- 'the wittles;; ill a elt.