The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-11-14
THE CHILDREN's CORNER.
SKIPPING THE HARD POINTS.

through country he was trying to sub
due, and whenever he found fort hard
to take, left it alone. Don't you think
the enemy would buzz wild there, like
bees ia q hiye,, and when he was well IN
TO the heartof the country, don't you
fancv they would swarm out and harass
him tsrribys A A
Just So, I want you to remember, will
it be with you if you skip over the
hard PLACES in your lessons, and leave
them unlearned, you have left an enemy
in the rear that " i'll not fail to harass
you, and mortify you times without num-
Der.
"There was just little bit of my Latin
I hadn't read = said a vexed student to
me, land it was just there, the professor
had to call upon me at examination.
There were just two or three examples
had passed over, and one of those | was
asked to do on the black board"
The student who is not thorough is new
er well at his ease he cannot forget the
skipped problems and the consciousness
of his deficiencies makes him nervous and
anxious.
Never laugh at the slow, plodding stu
dent; the time will surely come when
the laugh will be TUNED. It takes time
to be thorough, but it more than pays
Resolve, when you takeup new study
that you will go through with it like a
successful conqueror, taking every strong
point.
If the inaccurate scholars difficultie
closed with his school life, it might not
be, so great matter for his future career
But he has chained to himself habit
that will be like an iron ball at his heel
all the rest of his life. Whatever he does
will be lacking somewhere. He ha~ learn
ed to shirk what is hard, and the habit
will grow with years Now nothing W.
get in this life is to be had for nothing.
Success is not thrust upon man IF you
want any good you must work for it. Tne
eye that never fater~ and the nerve thai
never quails, are the true elements Of vic
tory in the mental and moral, as we'll a;
the physical world. Don't skip the haro
enthusiastically Vlsitor.
THE TULIP TREE LEAF.-There is q
large tree that grows In the woods, viii eli
bears brownish flower shaped like a
tulip, from which it has been named the
tulip-trep. When the leaves are all out
in the spring, ask somebody to show you
tulip~tree, and get leaf of it for you
to look at; then you will remember the
story am gong to tell you.
Once upon time, a little wren built
her nest in an ivy. vine hat was growing
on the side of house. The place chosen
by Madam Wren for her home was Just
under the window of kind old lady's
chamber
The lady watched the birds day by day
and, after while, saw four little birds
peeping out of the nest. Then she saw
the mother-bird feeding the young ones,
every day, until they began to grow large
and strong; when the M ther seemed to
say to them that it was tine for them to
get God for themselves.
While the mother was talking thus
to her children, and was about to give
them their first lesson in flying, there
dame up heavy thunder storm. The
sky grew black, the wind roared, the
lightning flashed, and the rain came down
in torrents. "Oh !" cried the old lady,
"the poor little wren and her children
will be drowned. / must take them all
into the house gao
So she threw up the window to take
them in; and what do you think she saw?
There was Madam Wren sitting quietly in
her nest, and holding in her mouth the
stem of tulip-tree leaf. The leaf was
large enough to cover her and her whole
family; and, when she heard the window
open, she looked up with her head on one
side, as birds do, and seemed to say
"Don't be troubled about me: am very
comfortable. No rain comes through my
umbrella" THE Nursery .t'3}tl ~ p FL
a BRAVE ScLDIER.-"The English Gen
eral Elliott, when Governor of Gibraltar
and during the siege Of that fortress, was
himself making tour of inspection, tc
see that all under his control was in order
when he suddenly came upon German
soldier, standing at his post silent and
still, but he neither held his musket MOI
presented arms when the General ap.
preached. MANM
STRUCK with the neglect, and unable
to account for it, the General exclaimed
"Do you not know me, sentinel, or why
do you neglect your duty?"
"rhe soldier answered, respectfully: 4
know you we'll, General, snd my duty
also; but within the last few minutes two
of the fingers of my right hand have been