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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08
TEACHERS SALARIES.

1t is one Of the curious facts appearing
in the history Of mankind, that the
remuneration of those WAC are the real
uplifting forces in tribe. nation, or
people, is excessively small.
Ii teacher or preacher nas money it is a
suspicious circumstance, and demands an
explanation
Said sharp-eyed business man to a
nephew who had decided upon teaching
as a vocation, you'll be poor nam
| never heard of but one man who made
any money i'll teaching, and he kept a
boarding school"
Occasionally, it is true, man lives on
nothing, saves his salary, buys something
that rises in value and tecomes rich; but
the number of these is small. No man
indeed, will encourage his son or daught,
er to be either minister or instructor
because there is no money in it.
OK all wearing occupations there is
none, probably, equal to that Of teaching
1t wears out mind, nerves, and body
For want of good air, destined to breath
the atmosthere air, destined to bresth tn,
atmosphere already devitalized by his
pupils, his body wastes-ne cannot have
good blood; continually thinking of the
relations of words, of fractions, drivers
and of proper pronunciation, he wear.
away the substance of his brain; anC
anxious to animate, influence, control
and inspire, he finds his nerves wrought
up into state of high tension, if no
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

A USEFUL DoG.--A dog story
which comes from Tamaqua, Pa.
illustrates the deceptivenessot oppear-
ances. A truck-man in that burg
owns a canine, which, so far as looks
so, is about as valueless as an ordin.
airy ''yaller dog can be. During a
recent thaw, however, he showed a
willingness to be useful worthy even
of a human being. Everybody was
engaged in cutting Ice from sidewalks
and cutters, the "chunks" floating
along and threatening to choke up the
cesspool openings. The dog, with
out an order from his master or any
other person, stationed himself by
the gutter, and, Selling the Jumps as
they foated along, drew them out
and deposited them all together in a
heap, thus keeping the passage
clear. Such dog ought to be
esteemed in that locality.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08
STARVATION ON NUTRITIOUS
FOOD"

The Makers of many kinds of edible
compounds are much in the habit OF
extolling, on the label, the remarkably
nutritive qualities" of the preparation
A recent investigation in England will
tend somewhat to shake purchasers faith
in these recommendations. A journal
says:
Evidence lately given before the
Adulteratlon Committee cf the British
Parliament has almost scared that body
out Of its propriety Among the articles
analysed end reported upon by the
professional analysts employed by the
committee. were samples Of ''Maizena'
and "Oswego," well-known and popular
preparations of India corn, oneof which
from its supposed superiority, has already
taken hrsc-class medals at various exhlbl
tions. Its great merit is said to be that
it IS nutritious diet for children and
invalids, and the entire medical fraterni-
ty have been in the habit of ordering ii
for their patients.
The analyst, Mr.. Bartlett, states tina,
the best OF these foods contain only
thirty three grains out of 1000 OF
nutritious matter, the remainder being
pare starch, differing only from the
substance used to stiffen our shirt collars
in respect of having no "blue" in it.
That considerable number of infants
and invalids are stlffened by its use, we
may fairly suspect from the fact that
these Ingenious preparations contain,
according to the analyst, nothing what
ever capable of sustaining life. III
children or invalids are ted on them, y
says Mr.. Bartlett, "They will die of
starvation" as dog thaf was fed liber-
ally with them actually did. In fact,
all the heterogeneous part is carefully
extracted from the "food," and given to
the pigs as waste.
The best part of this highly entertain
ing joke is, that the manufacturer of the
particular samples analysed In this
instance was one of the members of the
committee itself. He appears to have
been innocently under the delusion that
he was really making an article which
would render his name household
word as the savior of hundreds of delicate
lives.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

BEAUTY.-This is very simple
word, yet expresses great deal Of
meaning, Many young ladies have
misconstruted the meaning of the
word, and think it constitutes out
ward appearance consequently they
spend their time before the glass,
decorating the face and head and
paying but little attention to other
points, IT'S we'll enough to use
care with the face and head and have
the expression bright and the looks
fair, bat remember this does not con-
stitute beauty, in my acceptation of
the term. A lingering smile Of
Innocence and modesty on the face of
woman Is as becoming to her as
the sunbeam is to the landscape, as
it embellishes an inferior face and
redeems an ugly one. The expression
Of thought coming from the heart Of
purity, is to the mind what beauty
Is to the eye, and smile from the
countenance of virtue is an express
ion Of beauty. Still a smile should
not become habitual, as it distorts the
lines of beauty and imparts an air
Of deceit and grotesqueness to the
face.
Gazing and painting and powder
ing tefore a mirror in our estimation
cannot add beauty half so surely as
to turn the gaze inward, to watch
that the heart keeps unsullied andis
beautifed by sweet thoughts.
A fixed smile is much more
repulsive than a frown. There are
mony kinds Of smiles, each having a
distinctive character. Some show
goodness and sweetness, others
betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride,
by which the features are deeply
disfgured, and beauty has no place.
There are smiles that soften the
countenance by their languisEing
tenderness, while others brighten it
by brilliant and spiritual vitality,
and beauty smiles from the eyes and
lips and fingers on the countenance
like the sound Of the night bird on a
still, clear night, and seems to echo
and re echo far away. A heart Of
purity, soul of love, and eyes Of
gladness, an ear open to the cries of
distress, a mouth from which flow
words of Truth, character for virtue
a complexion made brilliant by
exercise, goodness and sweetness, all
these are the manifestations of beauty
and communicate impressions as
pure as the shining dewdrops which
glisten in the morning sun.
Pure beauty, based on humanity,
is, in our estimation, registered in
the courts of high Heaven.
A COUNTRY Boy.
PerrytOa0n, III.
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PARIS, March 81, 1875.

SUPT. BRIGGS, Kenosha, Wis.,,
Dear Sir:-The following named pupils have
been neither absent nor tardy during the last
month Of schools
Albert Middlecamp, Annie Middleccamp, Jacob
Biehn. Carrie Biehn, Johnnie Biehn, Henry Biehn,
Andrew Middlecamp,. Henry Kreuscher The
first two named pupils have been neither absent
nor tardey this term
Yours respectfully. VIM. MIDDLEoAMP, Teacher.
Dist. No 5. Paris.
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wHEATLAND. Mar. 9th 1s

WHEATLAND, Mar. 27th 1875.
MR.. BRIGGs.-I send you with the last month .
report, the names .of the pupils who deserve
honor in the true sense of the word.
Misses Amelia Runkel, Emma Runkel, Louisa
Yoelle, Messrs G. Biemer, j. Fadan, and Miss
Ella Reoberts.-The latter only attended the last
six weeks, Their department, good attendance
hare mental labor, and ernest cooperation In
secending every effort for good entities them to
my highest commentator.
Yours respectfully. MARY PATTERSON.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08
LITTLE CHILDREN.

Blessings, blessings ON the beds
Whose white pillows softly bear
Rows Of little shining heads,
That have never known care.
Pity for the heart that bleeds
In the homestead desolate,
Where 40 little trouble needs
Make the weary wait.
Safely, safely to the fold
Bring them, wheresoe'er they be,
Thou who saidst to them of old,
"Suffer them to come to mel"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. - The Su-
preme Court Of the United States
has decided unanimously that women
suffrage is a matter wholly within
the control of the several states, and
not effected by the constitutional
alnendm ents.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

entirely unstrung. So that after q
successful day in the schooI,room he
begins to feel more of such victories, and
he is undope.
Now persons who thus expanding
themselves deserve to be well paid. AS
there is a surfeit Of those who will fill
the teachers post while they are prepar-
! ing for more lucrative business or
waiting for the luck % man who will
marry them, prices necessarily rule low
in market phrase, teachers dull and
heavy" To remedy these evils,
there should be Sitting process to root
out those who are simply filing the
places that should be occupied by skillful
men and women, and then really gen.
erous salary given to capable and efficient
teachers, increasing it at the beginning
of every new year of work.
Were it rot so serious a matter, it
would be laughable to contrast the prices
paid for other labor and that paid to
teachers. We find the prices paid to
beginners range, in the State of New
York, from $3.50 up to $4,000 This last,
be it noticed, is paid to scarcely over one
hundred persons. While a cook, with
g waist of a barrel, whose brogue is still
on her tongue, can command her thirty
dollars per month and board-equal in
amovnt to at least six hundred dollars;
and man in the same profession can get
$4,000, $4,000, and even $4,000.
But the real state of the case is Just
this: The school is the place where the
best things of this generation are to be
carried over to enrich, strengthen, and
benefit the next. Should these brein
builders he well-paid or not? If they
are well paid we shall get good and
true men and women who will work
permantly and skillfully in their call
ing. If we pay them poorly we shall
invite into the ranks of teachers those
destitute of ability aud conscience.
General Taylor after reprimanding a
soldier for swearing, was nonplussed by
the question, "You don't expect man to
have all the virtues, and get but ten
dollars, do you, General?" And our
School Trustees every where way remem-
Der this short maxim, "Peor pay, poor
work"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

Love reposes In the bosom OF q pure
soul as drop of dew in the cup Of q
flower.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

Mr.. BR1GGs.-The following are the names OF
those Of nay pupils, whom I deem W orthy of men
ton, for the progress they have made in their
studies during the term.
Frank Hartnell, William Gull Charley Gull,
Frances Hartnell, Anuie Lentz.
Very respectfully. VICTORIA NJ. TosTEsoN.
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educational.

j. r. BRIGGS, Editor.
D. H. FLETT, KENosHA, REFEREE IN GRAMMAR.
D. A. MAHoNHY, WooDwoRrH M hETEEEE IN
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ERRATA.-The errors, which occur
ed in the solution ef that problem
last week, are perhaps attributable
to myself, as the reading Of the proc:
devolved upon me-. J. P. B.
It should have read:
Changing the signs and dividing,
we have.
S-44.5t= 1852.
Completing the square, t. - 44,5t
: + 495.O625 = 33.O625.
Mr.. Typo. You have three errors
in the article.
lst, you had 964 instead of =
462.
end, you omitted the sign : before
44.5t.
3rd, you used the sign x instead
of +.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02
StOck.Raising i'm Chicago.

Chicago appears to be doing quite a
business in the way of stock-raising by
feeding cattle on swill. 1t appears that
nearly every distillery in the town
engages in this industry during the cool
months, and the Chicago Tribune gives
the following approximate figures of the
number of cattle so fattened: "At the
Chicago Alcohol Works the number of
cattle being fattened this year is 312; ut
the South Branch Distilling Company's
Works, about 500; at Shufeldt Il Co. S
distillery, about 800 at Dickson, Leach
Il Co. s. about 100; at the Northwest
ern distillery, about 800; and at the
Blackhawk distillery, about 600, making
a total of 5,612 cattle. The average
price of these cattle in October last,
when the feeding commenced, was about
81 cents per pound in May, when they
will be ready for market, it will be prob
ably Z cents per pound. Allowing the
increase in weight of the animals as an
offset for the cost of care and feeding
there is profit of 100 per cent. on the
original outlay, or a total of S196, 400 rs
profit for the years transactions. Be
side this, the distilleries sell enough
still-slops in and about the city to in
crease these figures to $500, 900 as the
amount which is brought into the city
annually."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02
History Repeating Itself.

The following curious passage of early
New England history is taken from the
memoirs of Deacon Jedediah Bigelow, of
Wraynham, Mass, vol. i, page %
Now amonge We godlie men on borde
of We shippe May there was one
Jno. ADixe, the which had beene tax
gatherer in Englande, and on We shippe
he bare ye bagge, and his soule delighted
in We jingle-jangle of ye pence there
within. And when they were come to
the Harboure called Plymouth, he
mounted straightway on yc Rookie qui
stood there, and spake, saying AS my
soule hveth, except we make NEE We
Postmastere, l will get NEE hence, and
join We other partie, to wit, we heather
salvages. And thev were sore afraid.
And they made him Postmastere.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02
A Needle In the Heart.

A little six-yem-old daughter Of Col.
!. ID. Jeffress, whose residence rs at lOl6
Washington street, died last Sunday In
a very painful and curious manner. On
Friday the little one was playing at sew
ing. Some noise in the street ma de her
run 80 the window, and, in true house
wifery style, she stuck the needle III the
bosom of her dress for safe keeping. In
leaning over the sill her weight drove the
needle into her breast, Immediately over
the heart. The child screamed, and in her
efforts to draw the needle broke it off
short. DIR. Chas. McQuesten was called
as soon as possible. The messenger was
not sufficiently intelligent to explain the
trouble, and the doctor, thinking it some
ordinary childish complaint, took with
him no surgical instruments. This occa-
stoned delay of half an hour, rs the ply
stefan had to return to his Office. He put
the child under the influence of chloro-
form. Search was made for the fragment
of steel. The breast was laid open to the
bone Immediately over the wound. Part
of the needle was found in the bone, but
the struggle of the little one had broken
off the point, which had penetrated the
cavity of the chest, and was thus beyond
the reach of the surgeons knife. 1t was
hoped that the bit of steel would not
touch the heart but find its way into the
circulation and out, and has SO frequent
ly happened in similar cases. The child
did not appear to suffer greatly and the
fears of the parents were almost allayed.
On Sunday, when Mrs. Jeffress returned
from church, Viola ran to meet her quite
gaily and III apparent health. The next
moment, however, the child was seized
with vomiting tit, and in less than an
hour was dead. DR.. McQuesten, in
company with DIR. Bird, made post
norton examination and found that the
needle-point had penetrated the right
ventricle of the heart, thus causing
death. The poor child had frequently
complained of great pain as she breathed,
and her sufferings from the constant irri-
tation must have been intense. San
Francisco CHrOnicie.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02
Chinese kite.Day.

Kite-day in China writes traveler)
occurs on the ninth day of the ninth
moon, When the inhabitants of the cities
go out upon the hills and spend the day
III flying kites. Sometimes thirty or for
ty thousand people are assembled to-
gether on one hill, where they engage
all day III this amusement. All manner
OF birds, insects and fishes are represent
ed 10y these gay kites. On fine day,
when the air is full of them, the effect is
very pleasing. Some of them are adorned
with the heads of dragons and tigers.
The spectator sees III the air what APP
pears to be an immense bird, or group of
hawks. The Chinese show great skill in
keeping half dozen paper hawks going
on one string.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02
Iron and Hardware.

3. ID. kIMBARK, successor 10 kimbark
Bros. d Co., who is perhaps most wide
~ and generally related To the IRON and
heavy hardware trade, and who Is re-
gardcd as general western authority in
matters and statistics pertaining to shat in
tcrest, when interviewed by a Chicago Tri-
bune reporter recently, candidly referred TO
the depression i'm the outside manufacture
ing industry AS the most conspicuous fea-
ture in the records of the year, but reasoned
in way to apply effects on national
rather than local scale. The business OF
the great house on Michigan avenue Of
which Mr. Kimbark is the head, dating hsck
Il quarter of century, entering somewhat
largely into the history Of the commerce Of
the city, has attained stability and uni
formity by simple magnitude which would
naturally prevent its being affected TO any
noticeable degree by the ordinary vicissi-
tudes of the markets. 1t is claimed that 10
the operations of this house is due the ac-
QUESTION of considerable of the original
territory Of trade now constituting the COM
mon ground of the commerce of Chicago
including the Salt Lake district, and re.
moter fields to the West and South which
were travcrsed by its agents, and made ac-
cessory to the business of the city, long
before any buffalo or Indian, or other ma
tive of those fertile but unchristian lands
had ever been scared by the whistle of \
locomotive. And when it is remembered
that for twenty years the house has consti-
tuted Il sort of steady centre of distribution
of iron and hardware supplies for manu-
facturcrs, wagon-makers, blacksmiths, and
merchants throughout the entire dominion
of Western commerce, with 1900 perma-
nent names on the books of the firm, and
sales aggregating as high as 81 ,000, 600 a
year, it is reasonable to suppose that it
would require something more than the
temporary depression in the manufacturing
industry to perceptibly affect the uniform
volume and course of business. The es.
tablishmcnt itself is one of the mercantile
curiosities and solid attractions of the city,
a centre of very great interest to intelligent
visitors generally, as well as to IA special
community of mechanics, manufacturers
and dcalers,-and may be properly desig-
mated as II perpetual industrial exposition
of iron, steel, nails carriage and heavy
hardware, blacksmiths' outfits, and wagon
wood material, each classified department
and every broad floor of the lofty building
affording a display in enormous bulk more
calculated to surprise and interest the i'm
agination of Il wagon maker, iron mechanic
or dealer than worlds fair.
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Pinplcs. Eruptions, Rough skin.

The system being put under the influence of
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for a few
weeks. the skin becomes smooth, clear. soft.
and yelvety. and being illuminated with the
glow of perfect health from within, true beauty
stands forth in all its glory. The effects Of all
medicines which operate upon the system
through the medium of the blood are necessa-
rily somewhat slow no matter how good the
remedy employed. While one TO three bottles
clear the skin of pimplcs, blotches, eruptions,
yellow spots, comedones or "grubs, dozen
may possibly be required to cure some cases
where the system is rotten with scrofulous or
virulent blood poisons. The cure of all these
diseases, however from the common pimple to
the worst scrofula, is with the use of this potent
agent. only matter OF time. Sold by dealers
in medicines.
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Six MILLIONS two years ago.
DIR. j. WALKER, an old and prominent
physician of California, discovered, by
actual experience upon his own system.
amedicine which may honestly be termed
+" a boon to suffering humanity" Being
combination of herbalistic extracts.
pungent and sour to the taste, and yet
possessed of gentle stimulative character
istics-although entirely free from alco-
hol-he named it VINEGAR BIrrERs, and
despite the prejudice existing among his
profession, against all patented medi-
cines, he determined to brave the ieers
of his brother practitioners, and give to
suffering humanity the benefit of his ac-
cidental discovery. He did SO, and the
benefits from its use became known. The
demand increased, and immense quaint
ties were sold, at a merely nominal price.
It's merit is told in the fact that in two
years over SIX MILLIONS of bottles have
been sold - and still the demand in
creases. Surely such a man should he
ranked among the benefactors of the hui
man race. 20
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02

THE conspicuous triumph of Messrs.
George Steck g. Co., of New York, at
the Vienna Worlds Fair in 1873, at
which their pianos obtained the highest
award-the only gold medal-has begun
to yield them substantial fruits. The
increased popularity of the Steck instru-
ments is noticeable not only in New
York, where their excellence has long
been acknowledged, but throughout the
country, and more especially in those
communities that lay special claim to a
cultivated musical taste.-Ne,o York IN
dependent.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02

THERE is no risk in buying a Mason &
Hamlin Cabinet Organ. These instru-
ments are known to be the best of their
class in the world. But if the opinion
of dealer be asked he will frequently
recommend some other, for the simple
reason that he can get larger commits
sions for selling inferior instruments. =
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02
BRONCHITIS. OR Chronic
SORE

BRONCHITIS, OR CHKONIC SORE
THROAT 1t is attended with irritation of the
bronchial tubes, which convey the air we breathe
into the lungs. This irritation produces sore
throat hoarseness, coughing. and sometimes
splitting of matter streaked with blood. II it is
neglected it will extend down to the lungs and
settle into confirmed Consumption. Aliens
Lung Balsam will be found most valuable
remedy for curing this disease, and prevent It's
running into Consumption. For sale by all
medicine dealers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02

ELECTRICITY is LrFE.-All nervous dis
orders. chronic diseases of the chest head liver,
stomach, kidneys and blood. aches and pains.
nervous and general debility, etc, quickly cured
after drugs fail 10y wearing volta's Electro Belts
and Bands. Valuable book free, by Volta Belt
Co., Cincinnati Ohio.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02

DIR. A. JOHNSON, one of the most suc-
cessful practitioners of his time, invented what
is now called JOhnsOn's An0dye LiHjmed.
The great success of this article in the cure OF
Bronchitis. and all diseases of throat and lungs
will make the name of Johnson not less favor
ably. if less widely, known than that OF Louis
Napolaon
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02

THE public are hereby assured, through
the columns of this paper. that Parsons P,r-
gdtice Pills contain no injurious principle, but
that they may be administered to children and
the most weak and shattered constitutions, in
small doses, with great certainty of success.