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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-05-04

The general character of life is
that of monotoDy. Whether we re-
gard the life of man or the life OF
beasts, we are struck By the same re.
markable fact; that life to all out.
ward appearance, is monotonous
succession of scenes and movements
all but identical. We wonder how
the interest is kept up. But we
never tire of going to bed at night;
and we are very sorry when we tire
of getting up in the morning. We
are never weary, except with regret,
of breakfasting, dining and supping;
and yet these actions are repeated
necessarily three hundred and sixty
FIVE times in the year, with renewed
excitement on every succeeding occa-
sion. We take off our clothes once
every day. We do this, at nearly
the same hour in daily succession !;
and, when health is good, the pleas
ure derived from SO doing is not
marred By the repetition of the act;
for the ebbing and the flowing of our
bodily sensations prepare us, without
any efforts on our part, for all the
vicissitudes of our existence. When
hungry, food is relishable; when
weary, sleep OF rest is a treat; when
warm, the cool air is agreeable; when
cold, the pleasure derived from
cheerful Preside and comfortable
supper is delicious. The excitement
is kept up by contrasts; and VIC pur-
chase the enjoyment of one feeling by
encouraging the reverse. With health
and youth and prosperity We should
never be weary or discontinued. It
is age and weakness and poverty
that prepare us for death; and even
that comes easy upon most men at
last, like sleep, and the heaviness of
the heart gives even the last long
sleep a welcome.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-05-04

OHIO PoLITICs.-The Cincinnati
Commercial takes gloomy view of
Republican prospects in that State.
1t declares that there ssneed be no
doubt of one thing, and that is that
in October nexta Republican victory
will have to be gained without the
assistance of the German vote.r 1t
adds that the enforcement of the
Pond law and the Smith Sunday
law will be a source of constant ir-
ritation and thoroughly ALLEVIATE that
vote.D A Cincinnati correspondent
OF the New York Times predicts that
Ohio win 60 Democratic next fall
by at least $4,000 majority.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-05-04

There is food for editorial diges-
ton In the following paragraph from
the Claiborne Guardian. Mr.. Hulse
writes to the point, and our brethren
of the State press would do wen to
follow his advice:
"There are a class Of politicians
who seek to use the press as they
would horse-make of it mere in
strument to ride into power on, and,
If the editor is fool enough, as he
often is, the demagogue politician
will ride him mercilessly. After all
this is done, if the paper man should
be presumptious enough to ask the
least return for what he has done, he
will receive only blows and kicks
The editor who has no better sense
than to do this kind of work is en-
tirely too simple to have any connec-
ton with newspaper. Besides
working for an unworthy person, he
is doing an injustice to his readers.
He is recommending to their favor q
person totally unworthy of their favor
or confidence. We announce once
and for all that we do not intend to
carry, or attempt to carry, any politi-
cal dead-beats or sore-heads. II they
are to go into power they must do it
without our assistance"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-05-04

1t is easier to find fault than it is
to find perfection.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
SELR-rOYTROL.

If there is one habit which, above
all others, is deserving of cultivation,
it is that of self-control. In fact, it in
cludes so much that is of value and
Importance in life, that it may almost
be said that in proportion to its power
does the man obtain his manhood and
the woman her womanhood. The
ability to identify self with the highest
parts of our nature, and to bring all
the lower parts into subsection, or
rather to draw them all upward in
harmony with the best that we know
is the one central power which sup
plies vitality to all the rest. How to
develop this in the child may well alb
sorb the wisdom and enthusiasm of
every teacher. Yetit is no mysterious
or complicated path that leads to this
goal. The habit of self-control is but
the accumulation Of cor Sinued acts of
self-denial for a WORTH object it is
but the repeated authority of the rea-
son over the impulses of the judg-
ment over the inclinations, of the
sense of duty over the desires. lie
who has acquired this habit, who can
govern himself intelligently, without
painful effort. and without any fear of
revolt from his appetites and passions,
has within him the source of all real
power and of all true happiness. The
force and energy which he has put
forth day by day, and hour by hour, is
not exhausted, nor even diminished
on the contrary, it has increased by
use, and has become stronger and keen.
er by exercise; and although it has al,
ready completed its work in the past
it is still his well-tried, true, and pow.
erful weapon for future conflicts in
higher regions. Phild. Ledger.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12

The following words are often mis-
pronounced. 1t will be we'll for the
young reader to look them out in the
dictionary, and fix the right sound and
accent: Usually, zoology, yolk, yira-
go, turbine, tour, trow, tiara, thyme,
telegraphy, tassel, suit, strata, SCOT,
sonnet, soiree, salmon, romance, ro-
bust, repartee, raspberry, pristine,
radish, rapine, prairie, polonaise, pla-
teau. pianist. piano-forte, orang-out-
ang, Orion, orchestra, nausea, naivete,
mogul, libertine, leisure, jaguar, helm
Gus, homeopathy, height, giraffe,
ghoul, finesse, European, equipage, en-
core, ducat, dlshabille, Egean Sea,
Marmora, Mount Gents, Moscow, Po-
tosi, Port Said, Pompeii, Odessa,
Nueces, Edinburgh, Ecuador, Ivry,
Messina, Bonn bay.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12

There is no doubt now that Glad
stone has completely reversed his mode
of procedure in Irish affair. The coer-
cion plan did not work. The Land
League is in extacies over what seems
a complete surrender. The change of
policy is hailed with joy by all inter-
ested in irish liberty. Ii mode of
dealing with the problem that has
bothered England so long is adopted
that the people most interested will
approve and support, then the troubles
ought to come to an end. But there
will not be anything of the kind. The
only thing that win satisfy Ireland is
liberty and independence. They have
gone through with an experience of
intermittent liberality and oppression
too long to be deluded with fair APP
pearance of a more liberal policy now.
England will not consent to grant
liberty and independence to them, and
few years of quiet will be succeeded
by a renewal of the worst features of
suppression and oppression. A new
Cabinet will see a dissatisfaction with
some high-handed proceeding, and
then trouble will come again, as it
seems, in regular cycles, to have come
in the past, and to be doomed ever to
come to the unhappy people of the
Emerald Isle.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
EXHIBIT AT THE FAIR.

The Agricultural Society will offer
premiums at the next fair for the fol-
lowing specimens of school work:
State map of the United States 19x
2S inches, or larger.
County map of Wisconsin 18x20
inches.
Sectional map of Kenosha County
x16 inches.
Best specimens of penmanship.
Upper forms will write the preamble
to the Constitution of the United
States; lower form write the following
1t is better to be right than to be Presi-
dent.
Best specimens of drawing, either
free hand or by guide points.
Best collection of business forms,
consisting of notes, drafts. bills, sc.
Best collection of pressed flowers,
analysed.
First and second premiums will be
paid for each of the above. The pre-
NUNS will come in the shape of pic
lures for the school room. An individ-
ual premium will be paid to the pupil
making the best pencil drawing of the
school house and yard. The maps
must be drawn on Bristol or Manila
board, which can be procured at any
book store or printing Office.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
TNDUSTRTAL ORA WING.

Given q hundred carpenters who
have been taught in the elements of
drawing (for which the free public
schools are unquestionably equaD, and
another hundred who have no knoWl-
edge of drawing, and the earnings of
the first hundred will exceed the earn
ings of the second hundred by at least
fifty dollars day, or more than fifteen
thousand dollars year. Now, what
is true of the carpenter is true of the
stone-mason, the machinist, the timer,
the locomotive builder, the carriage
maker, the cabinet maker, and, indeed.
of every one who constructs objects
having length, breadth, and thickness.
Of the pupils in our public schools, a
large majority of the boys at least will
enter into some of these pursuits. In
the face of these facts, can it be said
that drawing is study of no particu-
lar application? What other study
has so direct practical bearing on in
duStry?
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
EDUCATIONAL.
D. A. MAHONEY. EDITOR.
DO TEACHERS FIR THE
WAGES.

Every once in while we hear it
asserted that the teachers hold secret
meeting during the session of the An
nual Institute, and fix wages for the
following year. The assertion is bold
ly made that scale of wages, gradu
ed according to the size of the school
is fixed at this meeting, and that teach
ers are bound to, and do, adhere to the
wages so established. These state.
ments generally come from men who
are not noted for their intelligence, and
who are opposed to the whole system
of education, because it costs them
something in the way of school taxes.
Sometimes, however, the same idea has
got into the mind of man of intelli-
gence-one who is an earnest sup
porter of the public school system, who
favors good teachers and good wages,
but who objects to a fixed price.
Now let us see about the facts in the
case. We have been connected with
the schools of the county, either as
teacher or Supt., since the spring of
1869. and know what we are talking
about. We have attended every Insti-
tute held in the county since the fall
of 1870, and know that during all those
years the teachers of the county have
never held a secret meeting. The
County Teachers Association holds its
annual meeting during the Institute,
but these meetings are always attend
ed by from one to two dozen outsiders.
The subject of wages has never been
discussed in those meetings. The sub
ject of aOages has ne0er been discussed
IN any manner, shape or form. at any
meeting of the teachers held IN this
county during the past ta0ez0e gears.
Again, during the past winter wages
ran from $40 to $50 per month. This
looks as though teachers fixed the
wages with a vengeance! Again,
teachers often cut under each other on
wages. How is that for a scale of
prices which all must adhere to?
Now we have this proposition to
make: We will give 500 to any per-
son who will prove that the teachers
of Kenosha county have within the
past twelve years fixed, or attempted
to fix, the wages to be asked during the
following, or any part of the following
year. We will give the same amount
to any ore who will prove that the
teachers have, within the time men,
toned, held any meeting from which
any one was excluded.
The truth of the matter is this
whole idea of teachers fixing wages is
sheer nonsense, and some of the men
who blow about it know that it is non-
sense. Teachers, like every one else,
strive to get the best wages they can,
but they never yet have shut them
selves up In secret conclave to fix
wages
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
ROLL OF HONOR.

WILMOT PRIMARY--LOTTIE A. REY-
NOLDs, Teacher. For the month end
ing April /. Herbert Swenson, Rich
ard Swenson, Guy Ford, B. l.. Bene
dict, Louisa Ganzaline, Mile Button,
Jennie Mcclellan, Roy Button
Lottie Wheeler, Frank Ford, Pau
Ganzaline, Chauncey Swenson, Lizzie
Button, Josie Kruckman.
For the term-Guy Ford, B. Il Bene
dict, Louisa Ganzline, Roy Button
Chauncey Swenson, Josie Kruckman.
PARIS No. 6-LUELLA DODGE
Teacher.-For month ending March II
Maggie Williams, Nellie Williams
Matt Flannery, Evan Meredith, Walter
Meredith, Wentworth Dunning, Willie
Bowers, Cora Bowers.
For the term-Maggle Williams
Cora Bowers, Evan Meredith, Walter
Meredith.
PARIS No. S-ROsE DUNCAN, Teacher.
Neither absent nor tardy-Alice
Crosby, Lizzie Horning, Mary Horn
ing, May Rice. Not absent-Henry
Toner, Charlie Toner, Ward White,
Clarence White, during one month.
DISTRICT No. 5, SoMERs MARY A.
JOHNSON, Teacher Second month
Lizzie Herman, Charles Herman, Dora
Prange, George Flett. Third month";
Mary Herman, Lizzie Herman, Louie
Prange, Dora Prange, Minnie Prange.
Charles Seitz. For the fourth month
John Kersten, Dora Prange, Louie
Prange, George Flett, Charley Flett,
Eddie Craney. Lizzie Herman Charley
Herman. For fifth month--Mary
Herman Lizzie Herman.
SOMERs No. &c. CRoNK, Teacher.
Albert Bishop. Willard Bishop, Abe
Bishop, Hattie Cook, Katie Wander
burger, Cora Vanderburgen, Joseph
Gascoigne.
DISTRICT. No. 5, PLEASANT PRAI-
RIE-AUGUsTUs HALEY, Teacher
Month ending May 5. Willie Cropley
Freddie Cropley, Abbie Dowse, Ida
Dowse, Giles Robinson. BERTHE Robin
son, Ernest Dowse, Louie Cropley
George Cropley, Ada Hannahs, Amelia
Hannahs, Matte Hannahs, James
Riley, Charley Riley, Herman Feckner
Lizzie Ellis, Lille Schaufel, Mamie
Schaufel, Flora Dexter, Lizzie Patten,
John Patten, James DOVE. Total 25
The above is large number to have
on the Roll of Honor in the spring
term. This is the Dexter school. MI
Haley writes us that he has SO en-
rolled, and had an average attendance
of 80 last week. An attendance of 90
per cent and a Roll of Honor within a
fraction of 20 per cent means some
thing. new school house and a good
teacher do make a difference, don't
they? Any one who doubts it may
ask Sam Cropley.
We hope that every teacher will take
an interest in the exhibition to be made
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12

Of all papers partisan sheet is the
most unreliable from which to gather
ones opinions. 1t not unfrequently
happens, however, that paper accused
of being intensely partisan is anything
but that. We heard the remark made
not long since that the New York ITi-
bU11e was an unreliable paper-that it
was partisan-it supported Mr.. Blaine
through thick and thin, whether right
or wrong. The case of Mr.. Blaine is
peculiar. If one waited till the proofs
were brought out before he declared
his opinion in regard to the multifari-
Gus charges brought from time to time
against the ex-Secretary of State, the
time for doing any good would have
passed before he accomplished any
thing. When a mans character and
public acts are continually assailed and
the accusation as often disproved, it is
perfectly right to defend him on gen.
eral principles before anything is
known. AS long as one set of men
will accuse without having anything
to back their statements with so long
will it be perfectly legitimate to deny
and ridicule or defend and explain the
particular transactions in question. 1t
would, indeed, be peculiar to keep
ones mouth shut and see the cnarac-
ter of man torn down by parties
known to be interested in his downfall.
1t seems to have become the peculiar
province of the press to arraign, de-
fend, and either discharge or sentence
the prisoner before the evidence is sub
mitted. The Inter Ocean is considered
by many to be paper of the partisan
stamp. 1t takes no very observant
eye to note its willingness to make the
most of doubtful case against Mr.
Blaine or its softness for General Grant
and his great coadjutor of New York
One of the cardinal doctrines of the
Inter Ocean is that of caucus rule
Toward this its compass always points
In France the Inter Ocean would
have been an ardent advocate of Gam
betta's Screttin de liSte. The Inter
Ocean is always ready to denounce
boilers and uphold faithfulness to
party instructions. Whether its affili-
alton with the great ex-senator of
New York is due to a coincidence of
opinion on this point nobody knows.
The Times is more liberal. Nobody
accuses it of being partisan or pig
headed. 1t views its object from all
sides, and is ready to commend or to
denounce-which ever appears to be
the proper thing. 1t never undertakes
to doctor up a sick idea, and is free
and unreserved in its opinions, who
ever it hits or on which ever side il
may be arrayed as q consequence.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12

"A statement lately made by Mr..
Window in the Senate, that he believes
that the most gigantic ring of Ameri-
can annals is now in existence, per-
yerting and cOrrupting legislation on
the subject Of distilled spirits, has
caused considerable excitement in Con
gress and the country, and an investi-
cation is probable. This discovery on
the part of Mr.. Window, if it amounts
to a discovery, will be great boon to
local politicians all over the country
1t will rejuvenate the public faith in
what was fast coming to be considered
a mere speculation, hair-brained
theory, device Of politicians for en-
comprising selfish ends-namely, that
there is or ever has been such a thing
rs ring" 1t is true that the pub
lie is familiar with the term. There
can scarcely be point in politics dis
cussed, much less can the least import
ant of elections be held without the
airs growing thick with "ring," "a
ring" the ring" We had come to
consider the term as kind of polit-
ical wire-puller and pin-settef. 1t is
for this reason that Mr.. WINDOWS dis
cOyery is so 0pportme. The public
faith in rings being restored, the old
war cry will ring out with new vigor.
Every man Will be ring by himself,
and with everybody else, and all of
them together, with such favor is the
word received. The term is by no
means modern. Whenever there has
been an opportunity for enterprise to
win by union, a defeated opposition
has always been ready to apply the
popular title and howl over the fraud
the corruption, the demoralizing infu.
ence of rings.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12

The history of the ill-starred jean
cite is fast drawing to a close. A
magnifcently equipped ship and its
crew of brave men at the beginning,
and the stark, frozen bodies of DE
Long and his men the end. What
hardship, privation and suffering lies
between these two extremes only
those who have experienced the vigor
of an Arctic winter can tell. The
CHASTITY relies of once bright and hope
ful beings, the barren trail over which
they pursued their hopeless way, these
alone tell the story of the suffering.
1t will be blessing to the world when
governments cease to hold out induce
ments to voyagers in the frozen re-
gions Of the North. The mysteries
that lie hidden in the ice-bound zone
are impenetrable. Years of experience
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
TIE KENOSHA TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY. NAY u. 1882.


The murder of the new Lieutenant
of Ireland and his secretary is de
nounced as a most atrocious and I'M
provoked crime by Land Leagues and
everybody else. Just as it seemed
that success was within the GRASP
of the League and the Government
was about to make great concessions
this terrible murder comes to arouse
new bitterness and swing the policy OF
the Premier round into an entirely
different attitude it may be. Inc
League is so vigorous in its denuncla'
ton that it may be that the deed will
not be laid to thems The Conserya'
tiyes of England will, however, seize
the opportunity to overthrow the Lib
erals if they can, and will not hesitate
to pronounce that it IS the Legitimate
result of the backwater attitude lately
taken by the Government.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12

A few remarks about the weather
will be pardonable this spring. What
do you think of it? How do you en-
Joy our superb climate? How many
times have you glanced at March or
April on your calendar to note the
day of the month, forgetting it is the
sunny month of May? This is the
month of bloom and blossom, of birds
and grasses and young leaves. This
is the gardeners most enjoyable season,
the season of first growth, of watching
for the first rows Of delicate green in
the pea bed, and daily visits to the pO-
tato patch to see whether they have
yet peeped above ground. How the
plants have hung out and refused to
comet 1t would be a picture for an
artist to sketch the usually joyful
gardener in overcoat and muller
standing all disconsolate among his
bare beds. The advantages of the hot
beds become apparent in such seasons
us this. Nature is not always to be
depended upon. Nor is the gardener
the only one who waits impatiently
for the slow coming of spring. Per-
sonal experience leads us to sympa-
thise more with him than with the
numerous classes of tradesmen and
artisans who are waiting for more
suitable weather as anxiously as we.
The season for taking up CARPETS,
moving stores and rigging up the
mosquito nets (happy occupaticn) is
postponed for more suitable weather
How all our domestic arrangements
are deranged by this delay
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12

WASHINGTON, d. c., May 10, 1882.
Several weeks ago Attorney General
Brewster ordered the ballot box stuff
fers of South Carolina, who have been
unmolested since 1880, to be proceeded
against, whereupon the State Demo-
cratic Committee of South Carolina is
sued an address to the people, which
explains why the violators of election
laws have not been brought to trial.
The address is severe on the United
States authorities for attempting to
punish such violations of the law in
the state, and makes no denial that the
laws were violated, but proceeds to
give the reason why no action against
the offenders was taken. The Com
mittee argue that free exercise of the
right to vote would AJTicdnize the
state; therefore the suppression of the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12

at the Fair next fall. If it is rightly
managed, we can create a good-natured
rivalry between the schools which will
result in great good No matter how
small your school may be, you can fur
nish something for the exhibition; if
not all of the articles, at least part of
them. The work must be done dur
ing May and June, and the sooner we
get TO work the better. No excuses
will be taken in the fall.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12

in the disaster of such an undertaking
have been sufficient to reveal the i'm
possibility, with the present resources
of ever attaining the desired gcfl. 1t
is very doubtful if any benefit to man.
kind would accrue were the attempt
successful. Let the rewards and re-
nown be offered to the first visitor to
the moon, and let the energy hereto
fore expended in arctic expeditions be
given to exploring our satellite. The
prospects of success in one direction
are about as encouraging as in the
other, and then the fate Of missing
aronauts can be determined without
new loss of life and more Inflated ex-
petitions. Gravity will be sure to
bring their bodies where they may be
found. When electricity is sufficiently
understood it may help us in the search
for that interesting spot of earth-the
North Pole. Until then it deserves ia
be classed with perpetual motion, the
hobby of only madmen and fools.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
OUR WASHINGTON L FTTER.
From our O,oa Correspondent. !

Ballot-bO1 sts!ferS on trial Democratic
Committee ercltSe them.-C Com motion
tn the Senate Whisky lobby IN
force Wisconsin asking help to
guard ooegJ5oa0 Ti0ers.-Goo RstsI
gi0es a reception otuaada recep
ton.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12

Unless it had great merit Parker's Ginger
Tonic could not be so popular. Its sale has
rapidly spread all over this country, because
invalids find it gives them new life and
vigor when other medicines fail entirely
Salem Ar0us