The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-19
AristOcracY Defined.


1t is curious how ignorant the public
is of the essential qualifications of It's
representatives. They ask if a man is a
Republican, Democrat. Yes. Is he a
man of talent? Yes. Is he honest? He
is honest. Then they choose him by ae-
clamation, go home and tell their wives
great satisfaction about a good thing
they have done. But they forgot the
fourth question, no less important, with
out which the others do not avail-Has
he a will? Can he carry his points
against opposition? Probably not-more
than taste and talent go to the. will.
That must also be gift of nature. 1
should say if it is not in you You had
better not put yourself in places where
not to have it is to be a public enemy.
l do not pity the misery of any man
under place; but I pity the man over
place.
Real aristocracy is the class eminent
by personal qualities, and it goes without
assertion, according to the proverb, that
q certain quantity of power belongs to a
certain quantity of faculty Whoever
wants more power than the legitimate at
traction of his faculty is politician, and
must truckle for it. 1t is the whole
game of society in the politics of the
world He will always contrive to seem,
without the trouble of being. The man
of character has no taste for attention,
none for a contest of talents. He IS
wholly real; he cannot be fattered, he
cannot be insulted. Only himself can
measure to please him. His words are
things. He does not add to his denial
the sanction of an oath. He says to the
juror, "You add your oath; put my
oath into my affirmation.
With the abolition of kingship and
aristocracy, equality and humanity begin.
Thus there is no tyranny Of poverty ex-
cept in the fears it brings. Still distinc-
tions continue. In the will of the lnajori-
ties the young adventurer finds the domi-
nation of society, The distinctions of
classes irk and annoy him, and he allies
himself to each malignant party that as
sails what is eminent. He will one day
know that this has not removed them.
They are in the nature of things No
Congress, nor mob, nor guillotine, nor
fire, nor altogether, can avail to cut ont,
in persons. The superiority i'll him IS
inferiority in me. I never feel that any
man occupies my place. The reason
why do not have what want is that i
want the faculty which entities superior
power. Some men dare much, but it is
because they are in their place. As long
as / am in my place [ am safe. The
best lightning-rod for your own protec-
ton is your own spine.-Ratph Waldo
Emerson.
insufficient Air.
No matter how perfect are all other
hygienic conditions, good health can
not be maintained if the air supply is
insufficient. The purest air viii become
vitiated, resulting in disease, especially
in consumption, unless there is a con-
slant means of supply.
When the mortality from all causes
among the metropolitan police of Lon
don was only 80 in 1000, that of the
Foot Guards was 141 from consumption
alone. The barracks furnished the lat
ter only about one-fOurth as much air
per man as is allowed in prison cells.
The armies of Europe generally are,
from similar cause, characterized by q
large mortality. During the Crimean
war, the rate in the English army was
23.2 per cent. of the total strength
that of the French 30; while in our
civil war, with its open-air life, it was
less than 6. Camp-feYer may be almost
banished by cleanliness and fresh air.
In 1760 Dr. Brocklesby, having built
large shed as hospital for wounded
soldiers, and the mortality proving won
derfully slight, though the treatment
was otherwise the same as elsewhere,
said, 81 candidly aScTibe their fortunate
escape more to the benefit of q pure,
keen air, which they breathed therein
every moment, than to all the medicine
they took" Thus, over century ago,
he stumbled on a law of hygiene now
universally accepted by experts.
No expense was spared In the erection
of a new house Tor monkeys in the Lon
don Geological Garden, to make it as
much as possible like an English gentle
mans drawing-room. These animals
had been wintered in England several
years, and were healthy ON entering
their new house. But in one month fifty
of the sixty were dead, and the rest
were dying, of consumption. The whole
trouble was that the room was not prop
erly ventilated.
Before 1886 the loss of horses in France
by death was from $50 to 1877 per 1000.
Enlarged stables reduced the loss to 68
nearly two-thirds. In England the
loss is reduced to 20 in Germany to 10.
Let it not be forgotten that, where the
lack is not such as 70 produce fatal re-
suits, it may variously impair the health.
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