The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-09-18


When the present war shall be over, what n
glorious history may DO written. Not that the
world will TEEN with histories of it. But +
speak not of great Generals and Commanders
who, under the inspiration of leadership, and
with the magnetic eyes of the world upon them
shall have achieved their several triumpbs.
but of those who have laid aside the pillow and
stepping from behind the anvil and the prints
ing press, and the counter, and from out the
shop, and with leaping pulses, and without hope
of reward laid an honest heart and strong
right arm on the altar of their country some
to languish in prison, with undressed wounds,
defying taunts and insults, hunger and thirst,
their places of sepulture even unknown, and
their names remembered only at some desolate
hearthsstone, by weeping widow and or
phans, and whose last pulse-beat was ''for
their country" .- 10. .#E. iHf. II.
BY many cottage Preside shall old men tell
tales to wondering childhood that shall bring
forth their own precious harvest sometimes
Of those who, incosed in meshes too cunningly
woven TO sunder, wore hated bandages over
loyal hearts, and with crashing teeth aud lis
tening ear, and straining eye-balls, bided their
time to strike Men who planted, that the
tyrant might reap; whose wives and children
went hungry and shelterless, that he might be
housed and fed. Nor shall woman be forgot
ten, who, with quivering heart and smiling lip,
babe God speed to him than whom only her
country was dearer, and turned bravely back
to her lonely home, to fight the battle Of life
with no other weapon than faith in Him who
feedeth the ravens. All these are the true he
rocs of this war; not alone they who have me-
MORALS presented, aud if they die pompous
monuments erected, but the thousands of brave
fellows who know, if they fall, they will have
mention only among the 'slist of the killed and
wounded" who, untrammelled by precedents,
shall write us such history
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Abstinence from low pleasures is the only
means Of meriting, or of obtaining the higher.
Bullets can sing and whistle, but they are
not pleasant musicians.
When horses age is in question, he is gen
orally Judged out of his own mouth.
If you have scolding wife, trusl to time;
old age may bring you the blessing OF deafness.
IF YOU want to be suited go to good tall
or: If Won want to be non-sulted, go to law.
No matter how many kinds of lovely flowers
Young woman may have in the garden of her
ooyI,l If She hasn't dne1n0neyI -.
II Is easier to dispense with riches when they
are not needed, than TO detach ourselves from
them when we possess them.
A, dandy, smoking cigar, having entered
menagerie, the proprietor requested him to take
| the weed from his mouth rlest he should teach
| the other monkeys bad habits"
The past is disclosed, the future concealed in
| doubt. And yet human nature is Needless of
! the past, and fearful oftke future-regarding
not the science and experience that past ages
heve unveiled. ,a.aEig1 s5 esV 10 la
/ It has often been remarked that we are all a
| little better than our enemies think us; to
which might safely be added that we are all
i much worse than we think ourselves.