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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-03-14

THE Eastern war has ceased and the
Powers, under the direction of Bis
mark. are scrambling for the spoils,
while the Sultan is obliged to look on.
grin and bear it. Bulgaria, now ex-
tending to the Balkans, is to be en-
larged SO as to take in the country
south of those mountains to the
Aegean Sea and east to the Martha
river. This of course, gives Russia
control of the northern coast of the
4 egean Sea and thereby of the straits
leading into the Black Sea. West of
this new province lie Servia, Bosnia,
herzegovina, Albania, and Thessaly,
all of whom will probably be taken by
Austria under her protecting wing, as
a reward for keeping quiet while the
Muscoyite was pelting the Turk. Eng
land Will get her slice in Africa.
Egypt is to be occupied by her. Bea-
consneid. it is true. objects but then
Bismark considers it best and England
will soGn come to see that her honor
demands an early occupation Of Egypt.
And thu Turk-well, he will be graz
oiously allowed to retain, for a short
time, that little patch of country in
which coustantinople and Adrianople
are located. True. this plundering
scheme is to come before the confer
ence to be held at Berlin during this
month; but as Bismark Is to preside.
we expect to see the proposed pro-
gramme carried out. And what q
spectacle it will be To see Hohenzol-
lern aud Brunswick aud Hapshnrg and
Romanoff. all joining hands with the
Turk. cireling to the left and singing
Let dogs delight to bark and bites
There shall be peaee 1t home
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WHAT SHOULD BE THE PARA
MOUNT OBJECT OF THE PUB
LILO SCHOOL TEACHER
BY IMPERFECT.

There is no more accurately kept
ledger account known, than that kept,
unconsciously, by the pupils, between
himself and you his teacher. Every
item is instantly and truthfully enter
ed in its proper place. As each entry
is made the balance is struck. And,
you may depend upon it, these items
do not record the ponderous and won
derful things which you have done.
No; they are wholly overlooked by the
ook-keeper and are only told at home;
but the recorded items are far too del
icate to be handled by awkward words;
they are the fine standings of unuttera-
BILE thoughts which are suggested to
the child's mind by your every motion
and gesture; every expression of fea-
tnre every word and your tone of
voice; how you comb your hair; land
let me say here, that you cannot fool
child into the belief that you are q
oirl-if YOU are not one-by parting
your hair in the middle; nor that you
are roudyish, because you pat Your
hair down on your forehead after the
manner of roudies. They always make
allowance for such items.) how you
close door or open a window, or hold
book: your clothes and how you
wear them; your desires-0r COM
mands- with regard to cleanliness, de-
cency and order; whether you coun-
tenance feuds, or show Partially !;
whether You advocate the use OF to-
bacco, liquor, or OF profane and vul-
gar language; your ideas district JUS
tice and fair and honorable dealing !;
whether you are as swift to deal justly
and act fairly yourself as to require
others to do SO.
These items and thousand others
of like significance, are charged or
credited to your account. These are
| the things which make man mt or
unfit to live or to die. For the sake
Of Yourself and the world, be careful
OF these small things first; then II
You can sandwich III little of useful
reading, spelling, and writing, some OF
pleasurable science, a goodly quantity
| Of iread-producing mathematics with
dash of decorative grammar. vol
will have done much toward the con-
struction Of that noble intellectual
building which shall stand, though
sstried-so as by fire.
EIGHTEEN recitations are enough and
the number should never exceed
twenty-five. 'sBut'' says the teacher,
1--WE found these classes in school !;
how are we to get rid of them. : We
answer, consolidate. Consolidate your
arithmetic classes. The practice OF
having 5 or 6 classes in arithmetic IS
sheer nonsense. This in some in
stances, may seem unjust, but in the
end. it viii benefit the whole school. -
Ed. Dept Kenosha Telegraph.
Ella Lynch, Maggie Cook. Josie Va
nosse, deserve special mention for
studiousness. good department. aud
| progress in their several studies. E.
S. Akers, Teacher, joint district No. !
Spring Lake and Gilman.
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ORGANIZATION.

A caucus of Republican members Of
the Legislature, in conjunction with
other prominent members of the par
ty, was held at Madison on Thursday
evening of last week for the purpose
of effecting mere thorough organi-
cation with view of prosecuting a
vigorous campaign in 1878 for the
election of Congressman to the Forty
Sixth Congress and members of the
Legislature for 1879. A preamble was
adopted recognizing the truth of the
NAHUM that in union there is strength,
also the necessity for more perfect
organization, and regarding the cleo
tions of the current year as being OF
the gravest Importance, followed by
resolutions providing for the appoint
ment of Republican Legislative Com
mittee consisting of members from
each Congressional District. such COM
mittee with the same interest and a
common purpose to act in conjunction
with the State Central Committee in
the campaign of 1878. The work laid
out for the party, in the hope that it
may be accomplished, is the election
of six of the eight Congressman from
this State and gain of enough Senators
and Assemblymen to secure healthy
majority on joint ballot to the end
that the election of Republican
United States Senator, to succeed Hon.
T. O. Howe may be assured. The com
mittee as designated consists of three
members of the Legislature from each
Congressional district with ali Execu-
tive Committee. of four Senators and
Assemblymen. selected from among
those constituting the District Com
mittees. The gentlemen comprising
the committees for the Seventh and
Eighth Districts are as follows: Sew
enth-Senator Price, of Jackson; Sen
ator Andrews, of Pierce; Assembly
man Rusk, of Vernon. Eighth-As.
sembIyman Anderson, of Burnett: AS
semblyman Pierce, of Adams; Assem-
blylnan Funke, of 0conto. Anderson,
of Burnett, is one Of the three Assem-
blymen on the Executive Commit
tee. 1t is to be hoped that these Com
mittees will recognize the import
anee of the work before them and labor
assiduously for the promotion of the
interests of that great party which has
honored them with political prefer
ment, and that their labors may be
crowned with success.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SESSION.


The Assembly, on Saturday last,
adopted resolution providing that the
Legislature shall adjourn sine die when
its business, except the revision of the
statutes, shall have been finished.
The Committee on the revision of the
statutes is TO remain in session and in
corporate the work of the present ses-
sion in the statute revision besides
giving the entire volume a critical ex-
animation. Upon the completion of
its work it shall notify the Governor,
who shall convene the Legislature III
extra session, not earlier than the 2Sth
day of May, for the sole purpose of
transacting business pertaining to this
subject of revision and for the adop-
ton of the revision if acceptable to
that Honorable body. 1t is thought
that the Senate will concur in this ac-
ton on the part of the Assembly and
that an adjournment will be reached
the last of this week. A Democratic
cotemporary is 50 uncharitable as to
suggest that an adjournment without
day was taken in preference to re-
cess because an extra session means
mileage to members while an adjourn
ed session does not.
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For the Journal.
SCHOOL MEMORIES.
BY MRS. J. &. AKRRs.

I've been thinking, I've been thinking
OF the school-house long ago,
And the children stitfly seated
On the tenches in row;
Each one with an Intermediary
Coming spelling lessons DER,
With their little feet all dangling,
Just above the puncheon floor.
Thinking OF the roaring fire,
And the chimney deep and wide.
UL whose mouth the roguish youngsters
Used the masters switch to hide;
All, that rod, never loved it,
Though / never felt its pain;
Yet thought each cringing culprit,
Must feel less OF smart than shame.
I've been thinking OF the window,
Just before the writing class,
Where, subdued, THE light came streamins
Through creased paper window glass;
And the slanting shelf before it,
Writing desk, right plain to see,
Where with childish pride mounted
Up to spot hook'' dignity.
I've been thinking of the master
In his knitted wooden cap,
When some merriment would rouse him
From very pleasant nap;
And he'd call the house to order
In such strains as all might hear,
Making cen the goose quill tremble
Which he kept behind his ear.
I've been thinking of the spellings,
On the Fridays, long ago,
Pleasant thoughts among the memories
That forever come and go
Tell me not of wars fierce conflicts,
OF its triumphs and defeats,
All, you know not halt their meaning
If your side has never beat
am thinking of my schoolmates,
In the merry days long past,
Time has many temples frosted
Since | saw their faces last
Some have gone with glad Thanksgiving
Where eternal sunbeams shine,
Others wait, and oft | wonder
If their lives are blest as mine.
am thinking Of the structure
That in better days displaced
That old school-house, but from memory
1t will never be erased
Though the new seats gave some comfort
Which the benches ne'er could boast;
Yet we mourned that all the carvings
0fthe jack-knives must be lost.
Though the windows were more seemly,
And allowed a fairer light,
Never needing perforating
At the coming on OF night;
Though it was of fair proportions,
And gave all its share of cheer,
Yet that old log school-house ever
Will be to my memory dear.
Esdaile, Wis.
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We shall not be surprised to see a
triangular fight in this Congressional
District next fall. We presume that
Judge Humphrey will wish to be twin
dicated'' by a reelection, while our
Eau Claire friends will doubtless lay
siege to the position, besides which
our La Crosse friends with their well
known disposition to furnish liberal
share Of our public functionaries will
probably take hand in. If all who
constitute the Greenback element reso-
lutely cast aside all affections for
former parties, who knows but that
they will take up Judge Humphrey in
stead of Col. May as their candidate.
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EAU CLAIRE and Buffalo counties hav-
ing been annexed to this Judicial Cir
cult the former is DESTROYS of furnish
ing a Republican candidate for the Of
flee of Circuit Judge; from present
appearances, however, we should say
that the movement to bring out an
Eau Claire Republican will meet with
but little favor in Dunn, st. Croix and
Pierce. The Bar of this Circuit last
year took the Judgeship out of politics
and Judge Bundy, Democrat, was
elected, and having given such gener-
al satisfaction there seems to be no
opposition in the st. Croix Valley to
his reelection for the full term COM
mencing the first Monday in January,
1879.
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TARDY and behind time though the
movement may be, the business men
of Chicago, Milwaukee, and Racine
have taken steps to organize a Hard
Money League, for the purpose OF
fighting the greenback epidemic which
is at present sweeping over the West
and South. It is the intention to dis
seminate correct financial principles
throughout the Northwest, and already
large numbers Of persons interested
in the matter. have signified their
willingness to join the League. Such
work seems to be very much needed,
and the League, properly managed,
ought to become a great power for
good. with the spread of informa-
ton, the country will soon be rid OF
the her ssy which is now pervading it.
Let the good work go on.
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The resolution proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution providing for
biennial sessions of the Legislature
passed the Assembly after quite fight
by respectable majority, but the Sem
ate sat down upon it, to the intense
delight of Madisonians who look for
ward to a legislative session as farm
er does to a profitable harvest. The
failure of the legislature to meet each
winter would be to Madison folks what
a corresponding failure of crops would
be to the agriculturist.
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THE Milwaukee Sentinel is authority
for the information that had not SEN
ator Howe put in an oar, William Mel
son would not have been appointed u.
5. Marshall of Utah, and that Howe
was prompted in his action by the as
surance that Nelson's appointment
would place Charles Seymore IN charge
of the La Crosse Republican and Lead
er. which would, inferentially, make
that aper Howe organ. Now that
Nelson has resigned his position in
Utah hadn't Howe better get him a
better place lest he may again take
charge of the Leader
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HAYES AND THE SOUTH.

While many of the most prominent
Republicans of the North as well as
of the South denounce in unmeasured
terms the course of President Hayes
toward the South, known as his
southern policy, popular public SEN
timent demanded a change from what
was termed 'bayonet rule" which
characterized the Grant regime, and
majority of the Republican party ac-
ouiesced in the s'new departure" in
augurated by President Hayes, fer
vently hoping that it would prove sue
cessful, though a goodly number of
those who were willing that the South
ern policy of the President should
have fair trial-knowing full well
the intolerant spirit which pervaded
the Southland little confidence in an
ultimate favorable result. Though
feeling that the South had inflicted
upon the North grievous wrongs we
were among those who sustained the
President in his laudable efforts to
eradicate sectional animosities and
re-unite in fact, as had been done III
name, our reunited (!) country, in the
light of facts as they exist and in view
of the strue inwardness" of Southern
reciprocity we have been forced to
| the conclusion that the conciliatory
policy of our Chief Executive has not
been attended with that degree of
success for which we had hoped and
| of which at one time we confess we
| expected. While perhaps half dozen
| Southern members of Congress may
have expressed their profound appre-
citation of those acts of the President
which have tended to place his own
party at disadvantage, their feelings
of appreciation are shared by neither
the press or people of the South who
are to-day in spirit as much as ever
estranged from the North and they
are nearly or quite as intolerant. AT
the UllQp Oh fIbSlutub IIdg % AhhuS u
ration there was an unquestioned pop
| ular demand for change in the South
ern policy of the administration ];
| Hayes acceded to that demand, but we
fear that the policy adopted will not
prove a wise one--not through any
fault of the originator, but because
4
his advances have not been met in tlae
proper spirit. The policy of ''concili
alton" has thus far been carried on
exclusively by Hayes--there has been
no Cancellation on the part of the
South. the people there not having
been engaged in that conmendable
pursuit. The Presidents Cabinet is
getting considerably exercised over
the Southern question aud we conf
IDENTIFY expect some important devel-
opment In administration circles ere
long relative to the Southern policy.
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The Legislature, after much delay,
has voted to accept Governor Wash
burns "Edgewood'' home on certain
conditions. Since the Governor
proposition has been subjected to so
many adverse criticisms and an adj
verse report of a prominent committee,
and finally accepted on conditions at
variance with the terms proposed by
the donor, Mr.. Washburn would be
wholly justified in withdrawing his
DrOnOSitiOn,
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The Legislature has refused to pro-
vide for some dead-beat by tabling a
resolution to send commissioner 80
the Paris exposition whose duty would
have been arraying for displayIa cheese
and crock of butter. The Paris Ex-
position does not seem to meet with
much encouragement by our law-giv-
ers at Madison.
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The legislative mills of Minnesota
have ground out a grist of 400 laws
during the session, just closed. a
textbook fight and a bribery case were
among the entertainments furnished
to the people, free of charge: an i'm
parchment case, and Tgnatius Donnelly
are still on hand to be disposed of.
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III. y. BAKER, a. H., Editor.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
MARTEL TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.


The Association met at the Lauder
school-house on Saturday last. Meet
ing was called to order at 10, A. NJ. by
the President. The Secretary being
absent, Jno. Lauder was appointed for
the day. NJ. j. Baird was appointed
Critic. The subjects ofMultiplication
and Division, were then taken up by
Mr.. Baird and half hour spent very
p1otitably.
g. G. Mcintyre then introduced the
subject of Physiology, conducting q
class exercise. Thought the subject
second to none, and that pupils of the
age OF 10 years are old enough to be-
gin the study of the subject.
The meeting then went into com
mittee of the whole on the dinner
question and one half hour was occu-
pied thus, when the committee arose.
The next subject was that of spelling,
introduced by Gavin Lauder who was
followed by Miss Mary Lauder with
an exercise generally termed the
"question box" which afforded con-
siderable interest.
Miss Pearl Baird recited poem
'Liberty and Independence. G.
W. Mcintyre then recited a declama-
ton and was followed by the critic,
after which the committee on resolu-
tions reported the following which
was adopted:
RESOLVED, That it is the duty of parents
who send children to school to visit that
school and watch carefully the progress of
the pupils.
Adjourned to meet at the call of the
Committee.
ATTENDANCE.
Ladies-Anna Soil, Sarah Swenson, Caro-
line Swenson, Belle Isaacson, Lizzie Heyer-
DAHL Margret Heyerdahl, Jennie Lauder, An
ma G. Halverson, Caroline Halyorson, Annie
Halvorson, Caroline Johnson, Anna Johnson,
Carrie NJ Johnson, Jennie Anderson, Julia
Anderson, Pearl Baird, Otelia Halvorson, Au-
gusta Giles.
Gents-Theo. Halvorsen, Oscar Olsen. nj.
j. Baird, Jno Johnson, Chris Swenson, An
drew Soil, Ed. Evenson, H. VAIL, J. Olsen,
Ole 7. Bergeseng, 7. Olsen, Ellefsen, Seyert
Tonnesen, A. Tonnesen, J. A. Johnson, G.
C. Mcintyre, M. G. Johnson, G. A. Gunder
son, Markus Gunderson, G. Lander, G.. +.
Helgesen, L. Nelson, Jno. Johnson, l. Isaac
son, S. Swenson, Hans Nelson, Ole Johnson,
Herman VAIL, Halvor Halvorseu, G. w.
Mcintyre, Ed. Anderson, Thee. Tumblesen,
Jno. Anderson
G. w. McINTyRE, President.
JNo. LAUDER, Sec. pro TEN.
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The coinage Of the trade dollar was
suspended in December last. They
we're intended for the China trade and
nearly all that have been coined have
gone to China, Japan and India. They
are not legal tender and can be pur-
chased of the brokers at discount.
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Hail. OF the st. Paul Globe. prophe-
sizes that Hendricks, of Indiana, will
lie the next President of the United
States. Hall might possibly be right
and then again he mightn't. Let's
wait and see.
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The bin providing for constitutions
al amendment having in view biennial
legislative sessions, has been killed.
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IL EEP a Bookstore embracing School and Miiscel-
IN lane0gs Books. Periodicals and Magazines. A
full supply Of Stationary. Main St. River Falls
Wis. 21-35
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THE Racine County people, by the
grace Of the present session of the Leg
islature. will Hereafter be accommo-
dated by continuous session Of their
Circuit Ccurt.
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II. L. wADsWORTH.

MANUFACTURER and dealer in Boots, Shoes
1fl and Hosiery, and everything in chat line at
the lowest possible prices for ready pay. Custom
work made to order. Repairing done with neat
mes and aispateh. 2l-39
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MISSES LEVINGs.

PLACKsAIITH, Shop on Main St, south of Brack-
~ EFT House. Particular attention given TO shoe
Ing horses.
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NTADCFACrUREa Of and Dealer in Harnesses
Nl9ils. Whips. and all other articles pertaining
enteed SHOP over Wells < BradfOrds livery stable
River Ealls, Wis. El-3o
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PHYSICIAN Eas SURGEON.
-DOCTOI

Office over c. f. Davis drug store,
Can be found at Office nights. 46
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BUSINESS CARDS.
p. d. PIERCE.
b. II. PILLAR.

4 TTCRNEY & COUNSELLOR AT Law, Ellsworth,
"A Wis. Office iu stone building Court House
square
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VOL. 81


For Associate Justices Of the Supreme Court,
DAVID TAYLOR, of Fon du Lac,
HARLOW S. ORION, of Dane.
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GEoRaE PECk's Sun will hereafterrise
In Milwaukee.
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!. -E.AgEs az A9vERvIsINa.

bUSlnl.N ENrus, IttUI fIIIt u IIs91 -
square will De eruuted the space Of one inch.
Local notices will be charged according TO their
character Nothing less than ID cents line for
the first assertion AMI 10 cents for The second
ABB work inustbe paid for on delivery.
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]. H. & N. B. WILKINSON,

ATTORNEYS ATLAW.
COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
Office ID JqUaSAL building, River Falls, Wisconsin.
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ATTENDANCE.

JNo. LAUDER, Sec. pre- tenn.
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.uED

MRS. s. NEWELL Professional Midwife
and Nurse. Resideres on Main street, first
door South 81 the Irais lfj7ge, River Falls,
Wis. 9l-S5
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