davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

more than three of the original one
hundred, who began at the bottom of
the ladder, ever reach the top and
enter the high school. Careful inquiry
probably proves the correctness of
these statements. 1t may be an under
estimate of the advancement of schol-
ars in this and some other states, but,
taking the average. where public
schools are established, it is doubtless
reliable. 1t shows the vast import
ance which attaches to the primary
schools. If not more than one
half of the children who attend the
public schools, ever 60 beyond the
primary grade, and enter upon the ac-
tive duties of life with no higher
school studies, the primary schools de.
mand the greatest attention. It will
probably be found at no distant day
that it is bad economy to employ low
priced and unskilled teachers for the
primary schools; teachers of superior
tact and judgment are required to
deal with the primary classes. 1t is
not alone learning what is in the
school books that gives an education
it is in the oral, practical instruction
of the teacher that deyelopes the young
mind
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
NOTES.

The first thing for teachers to look
after these damp, rainy mornings is
the matter of dry shoes and stockings
on the little ones. Don't allow child
to sit all the forenoon with wet feet.
Better spend a little while looking
after this matter than to have sickness
and death before the close of the
term.
The Superintendent started visiting
school last week, but if the roads keep
as they are now it will be the Fourth
of July before he can get around.
Mr.. Hosea Barns advises the Super
intendent to stir up the school boards
ON the subject of ventilation. Mr..
Barns knows enough about country
school houses to know that not one in
twenty is properly ventilated, and it is
hard work to get any changes made.
We hope that each and every teacher
in the county will take up the matter
of grading the schools and give it a
fair trial. Any teacher who has no
circular on grading should send to
the Superintendent at once for a
copy.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
THE SUPPLY OF PINE LUMBER
SOON TO BE EXHAUSTED.

The Milwaukee Sentinel makes the
following important statement: ct
is estimated that we will be at the end
of our supply of white pine and spruce
within seven years; that the entire
pine forests in the northW est will be
denuded by that time" If this state
ment be based on intelligent calcula-
ton, it is just cause for alarm. The
question is presented, what shall be
done to supply the deficiency? Among
all the discoveries in this inventive
age, nothing has been found to take
the place of more than small fraction
of the pine annually used. It had
been reported there were large pine
forests in Canada, which could be re-
lied upon to supply the demand for
many years to come, ibut this resource,
on investigation, proves to be limited.
To bring supplies from Northern Eu-
rope seems impracticable. It is within
the memory of many when the great
state of Pennsylvania and many por-
lions of the state of New York fur
nished pine lumber for the markets in
the Middle States, but for years past
large districts of country in these
states have been Obliged to procure
lumber from Maine and Michigan, the
home supply being entirely exhausted.
The amount of pine that is annually
used in the new prairie states of the
west for building and fencing, as well
as in thesolder states, is almost beyond
computation. Thousands of acres in
Northern Wisconsin and Michigan are
yearly despoiled of their stately pines,
and the work seems destined to 90 on
until the last forest will
disappear. Iron may be a substitute
for fencing and other purposes, but
this will be but a small fraction in
supplying the uses to which pine lum-
Der is now applied.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
TEACHERS EXAMINATION IN
PENNSYLVANIA.

MR.. demonstrating occasion to
attend a Teachers examination in
Susquehanna County, Penn, recently,
| thought it might be of interest to
the teachers of Kenosha County to
know how that bugbear of teachers
life is conducted here.
One of the pleasant thugs about ex-
animation here is that it lasts but one
day. The Superintendent holds an ex-
animation in each township of his
county, hence he has but comparative.
ly few to examine at each place, and is
able to mark all the papers and give
you your certificate Gf you pass) at the
close of the day.
AT nine A. M. we were in our places
with writing materials and Fourth
Readers, as requested.
The first paper we prepared was on
that branch called Phonics, or Pro-
nunciation. This is a new thing in
Pennsylvania. The teachers here are
just beginning to get hold of it. It
seems odd when consider how many
years Prof Graham has been drilling
Wisconsin teachers on that subject.
Next followed Orthography, which
comprised twenty words to spell.
Nearly all the teachers missed
inflammation" spelling it with one
"m."
Then came Arithmetic. The aues-
lions differ from those in Wisconsin
in that much larger proportion of
them here are devoted to Mensuration.
While we were writing the answers to
thequestions in Arithmetic the Super
intendent was examining the teachers
separately and orally in Reading. A
selection from the Fourth Reader is
given each teacher to read, and few
questions asked about Meditation,
Personation or class management.
Grammar, Geography and History
are similar to those Of Kenosha Coun-
ty, or easier, if anything. Penman-
ship consisted in writing quotation
in prose or verse, fro m memory, thus
showing a persons favo rite line of
reading and incidentally giving some
idea to character. This, with "Theo-
ry of Teaching" finished the exam
ination. As the Superintendent made
out my certificate (about sundoWn), I
felt that examination in Pennsylva-
MIA was comparatively easy task.
III. J. BRANDE.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

The Luther Festival referred to last
week, to occur at Wittenberg, Ger
many, on the 10th of November, is
exciting increased attention in Europe,
and will be a marked event in many
parts Of this country. A correspon-
dent of the New York Herald, writing
from Berlin, gives a description of the
great historical drama, illustrating
the most striking events in the life of
the great Reformer. 1t is divided in
to seven parts and represented by one
hundred and twelve performers, re-
quiring five and a half hours for its
exhibition. The scenery is all historic
and the work of master artists. The
representation will be given every day
until the close of the 10th of Novem-
Der. This exhibition reminds one of
the " Passion Play described in lee
ture given by Rev. T. 7. Lee in this
city some months ago, but it is essen.
TALLY different; the passion Play"
represents much that is mythical; the
Luther drama adheres to historic
facts.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
MUSIC TO BE TAUGHT IN
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

The Board of Education of the city
of Chicago have adopted an order for
the study of music in the public
schools, placing music on the list with
other studies, requiring examinations
in passing from one grade to another,
as in other branches. Teachers are
allowed to excuse such pupils as nat
urally have defective voices The or
der also requires that teachers shall
pass an examination in the science of
music as condition for being awarded
a certificate for teaching.
This is q wise regulation and destin-
ed to be popular in intelligent COM
munities. A school in which the
scholars are imbued with the refined
feeling of music is far easier controlled
and governable than a school without
musical culture, and in which scholars
sing only doggerel rhymes. It has
been saiGr no one can do deed of vio-
lence and sing at the same time. Who
ever saw a mother sing while chastis-
ing her childs
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
RACINE DAILY NEWS.

This is the title of new daily pa
per which has just been launched out
for public favor in Racine. It is a
well printed journal. and appears
creditably conducted. Racine for
some time past has had but one daily
paper; the city has population amply
sufficient to support two. If this new
enterprise shall merit public favor, as
we trust it may, it will no doubt be
literally patronlZed. Our readers will
naturally ask, what will be the politics
of the Times? This is not clearly in
dictated from the first number before
us; perhaps it is not necessary it
should be. The measures which the
Times announces it's intention to advo-
cate are all right; if we mistake not,
they are just the measures which
nearly, if not all. the newspapers in
this state, of all political parties, pro-
feSs to favor.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

Statistics of the grain crop of 1883
in the various states have been collect
ed by the Agricultural Bureau at
Washington, from which it appears
the average crop in the United States
Is highly satisfactory. There is abund-
ance and to spare. One of the great
evils for which no remedy has yet
been devised is the speculation in food.
Of all the kinds of speculation by the
moneyed power, which is nolbetter
than gambling, there is none so heart
less and morally criminal as that in
food, without which people cannot
survive. The rich are not embarrassed
Dy IL, but the oor-the laboring class
es-are the sufferers. OF all the crimes
against humanity, there are none more
fiagrant than gambling in bread. 1t is
not morally wrong for farmer to
withhold his farm products from the
market awaiting better prices, but if
he has the capital and should use it in
buying up all the food product in the
region around, keeping it until there
was pressing demand, and then deal
ing it out at extravagant rates, giving
the buyers the alternative to pay the
high prices or starve, it would be con-
summate wickedness. The desirability
of laws for the correction of these
evils has often been suggested, but
like stock gambling it is difficult of
being reached by legal enactments.
The harvest Of 1888 is enough for all
the people at fair prices, and still a
surplus for foreign market.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

had been adopted, would have been a
virtual nullity, since it would transpire
that Democratic Governor and legis-
latuTe would neglect to enact laws |
causing the amendment to be operative |
and effective. It may be remarked |
that amendments to state constitu- |
tIons form part of the organic laws, |
and are not subject to the ordinary
viciSsitudes of legislation. One Gov
ernor and one legislative body succeeds
another, but an amendment to a State
constitution, though it may for period
lie dormant, is not subject to over
throw. Most likely the people who
carried a prohibitory amendment
would elect, sooner or later, represen-
tatiyes who would give to the same its
needed coerciye power. w. M.
We give place to the foregoing ccm-
munication, knowing che writer to be
an intelligent advocate of temperance.
The vote of the late Ohio election is
yariously construed by different par
ties. We accept the construction put.
upon it by two most respectable Repub-
lican journals of Ohio. The chief con-
clusions are as follows: The prohibi-
tlonists of Ohio, the same as in WiscOn-
sin, come mainly from the ranks of
the Republican party; they nominated
ticket of their own, which they had
no hope of electing; they must have
known that running a ticket of their
own would help to defeat the Republi-
can State ticket, and aid in electing
the Democratic ticket, which the liquor
sellers had endorsed as their own.
Hoadly, the Democratic candidate for
Governor, had been the chosen lawyer
OF the liquor sellers when the Scott
temperancelaw was contested in the SUI
preme Court, and this same champion
Of the whisky dealers the prohibition
lists helped to elect by putting up
ticket of their own, which they admit
they had no expectation of electing,
but only to signify principle. What
the writer says about constitutional
amendments is in the main unobjec-
tionable.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

The profession of law, it is stated
has become discouraging in the South
ern States. In Georgia, particularly,
the law business affords an income en-
tirely inadequate for the support of
the profession. A prominent Judge in
one Of the Georgia courts, recently
having occasion to speak Of. the legal
profession, remarked the time was at
hand when lawyers on their travels
would be obliged to stop at the jails,
for the want of money to pay their
bills at the hotels. There is much
complaint here at the North that the
law profession is becoming profitless,
but still young men continue to rush
into it, as if it were the sure road to
wealth and fame.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
STATE AND COUNTY TAYES,
KENOSHA COUNTY.

The state tax apportioned to Kenosha
county for the year 1883 is 81, 99425; al
SO special charges $2,O48.72; total ST.
O42.97. The total tax in the state is
$37,819.O0 less than last year. The
Kenosha county tax this year will be
less than last year, principally for the
reason there will be no enormous
tramp bills to pay.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
IN WHAT YOUNG WOMEN
SHOULD BE EDUCATED

The line of thought pursued in this
article is not new: it has before been
presented in different forms in the
TELEGRAPH, as well as other public
journals. The Importance of the sub
ject will bear being frequently refer
red to. The duty of parents to pro.
vide some resource of self-support for
their daughters is almost criminal to
neglect. 1t is blindness to the
history of the country and the world
not to know that revolutions in the
business affairs of families are never
at a standstill. Families surrounded
with wealth and luxury, feeling secure
from the calamities of poverty, are
suddenly by some unexpected turn of
fortune made bankrupt. These are
not mythical occurrences; they by no
means happen to bad fnanciers, but
often to men distinguished for bust
ness shrewdness. When these un-
looked-for calamities come, what is
the daughter to do? If she have
friends to assist her in the hour of
need, it is well; if she have not, what
then? If her knowledge of hand la
Dor consists only of a little needle en-
broidery of but trifling value, if she
have no remunerative trade or occupa-
ton, her last resort is to throw herself
on the worlds charity.
Who has not heard Of some unfor-
tunate woman whose schoolgirl days
were passed in the abode of wealth
and ease, cared for by loving parents,
and surrounded by the refnements of
life. She was educated in the fashion
able studies of young women, but the
one requirement which is a safeguard
and support in poverty, when literary
accomplishments avail nothing, she
neglected, through the fault of her
parents. She did not learn self-sup-
porting trade because that would have
been thought vulgar. Her bridal day
came, lighted with the hope of happy
future; years rolled on, and her right
full protector, from reyerses of fortune
or dissolute habits, became impov-
erished, and she ultimately left a
widow, without the means of support.
Her father and mother were gone the
way of all the earth, and strangers oc-
cupied the old paternal home of her
younger days. If for such emergency
she had been taught trade, command
ing price in the market, she would
have been spared the pain of being
the recipient of charity. Such are not
isolated cases.. They have been al
most common, and are Becoming more
frequent. A distinguished writer in
treating of the education of young wo-
men, has we'll said:
cit is our creed that every education
is fatally defective which does not in
clude definite skill in some art or
handicraft or knowl edge with which
bread and shelter may be certainly
won in case of need. If the necessity
for putting such skill to use never
arises, no harm is done, but good
rather, in that case, because the con-
seriousness of ability to battle with
poverty frees it's possessor from appre-
hension, and adds to that confident
sense of security without which con-
tentment is impossible"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
To THE EDITOR OF THE TELEGRAPH.
A brief editorial in the last issue of
the TELEGRAPH reads as follows
/" OHIO ELECTION

-
"OHIo ELECTION.
"The majority for Hoadley, Demo-
crat, for Governor. is 1889. The
State Prohibition ticket received 8,543 ;
last year the straight Prohibition vote
was 1920"
This implied falling off of the Pro-
hibition vote in Ohio must be very
gratifying to those who make "both
ends meet by changing the condition
of our sons from manhood to brutality.
1t is due to the readers of the TELE-
GRAPH and to the public that fair
statement of the verdict, as it was
pronounced in Ohio, should be pre-
scented.
That the readers of the TELEGRAPH
may fully comprehend all the condi-
tions relating to the recent vote in
Ohio, it becomes necessary that the
same should be fully set forth.
At the present time there is no law
in Ohio authorizing municipalities, or
indeed any corporate body, to exercise
surveillance over those who traffic in
intoxicating drinks, and one of the
questions presented to the voters of
that state was an amendment to the
constitution authorizing the imposition
or levy of license fee upon those who
pursue that avocation. 1t Was called
the regulation amendment, because
the purpose of the amendment was to
regulate the sale Of strong drink. At
the same election the people of Ohio
were called upon to vote for or against
an amendment to the constitution,
which, if adopted, would prohibit the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
drinks within the borders of that state.
In addition to these questions there
was in the field the usual array of
party nominees for the various offices
of the state.
The official returns of the Ohio cleo
ton present the outcome to the public
as follows !; The regulation amend
ment received 98,O5O +; and, in total
of III, 1903 votes cast in the state, the
prohibition amendment received 321,-
189 votes. If the so-called regulation
amendment had been out of sight the
prohibition amendment would mani
testify have carried.
The regulation amendment was a
happy device to save machine politl-
clans from defeat. But the people of
Ohio wisely refrained from authorizing
official sanction to an avocation that
clearly antagonizes the DEGREES of the
Supreme Being
In another column of the same issue
the TELEGRAPH intimates that the
prohibitory amendment, if the same
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND
LITERARY PROGRESS.

The general reader will have oh.
served that the religious. moral and
literary conventions, associations and
conferences, the present year, have
been more fully attended, and greater
interest shown by increased contribu-
tons where money is required to carry
forward the voluntary enterprises of
the day, than in any former year. A
new interest has evidently been
awakened in humaAl progress. The
movement was never SO
before the people in all
the states as at the present time. The
Catholic church, which is a great
power in the land, was never so fully
aroused on the subject of total alb
stinence from intoxicating drinks as
now. Its bishops and priests are
among the most outspoken advocates
of temperance. The cause of home
and foreign missions, in the different
Protestant denominations has, upon
the whole, never received more liberal
money contributions than during this
year. The interest in general educa-
ton has taken a new start. The ma
tional educational convention held at
Louisville short time ago, with rep
from many states, re-
solved to remove the dark spots of
Ignorance in the South, which are an
incubus on the prosperity of the states.
Strong interest will be brought to bear
on Congress at the next session for an
appropriation to establish free schools
where there are now no schools, and
where the people are too poor to main :
tain them.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

The most famous woman lawyer per-
haps in the country-Mrs. Bolivia Lock
wood, of Washington-has been sus-
pended from practicing in the Interior
Department, for alleged dishonesty in
the matter of pension claims. We
have no disposition to defend the dis
honesties of women more than men,
but happen to know that Mrs. Lock
wood has before this last offence been
arrested for crookedness and estab-
lished her innocence. She has large
legal practice in Washington, and, for
obvious reasons, is watched by multi
tude of less successful lawyers of the
male kind; any technical irregularity
is seized upon and construed into an
alleged act.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

The Milwaukee Sentinel discourses
on the relations between whisky and
democracy. The power of whisky to
change men is both wonderful and
ludicrous. The last Of the list of
charges mentioned is the following
Whisky at all times seems to have
the power to change a Republican or
an Independent into a boisterous
Democrat"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
A gentleman who has spent several

A gentleman who has spent several
months in Georgia and Mississippi
states that there are eighty-seven coun-
ties in Georgia where a man cannot
buy, beg or steal drink of whisky, and
none can be purchased in the State ex-
cept in some of the larger towns.
People are thoroughly aroused on the
subject, and in Mississippi they have
gone to such an extreme that they tax
billiard tables 81 900 apiece, under the
opinion that they are device for the
encouragement of drinking. There
are only a few foreign born citizens in
the State, and the native American
voters enact laws satisfactory to them
selves.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

Mrs. Stone, who gained some notorie-
ty in this city and county as temper
ance lecturer, last fall went to Ohio be-
fore the late election in that state to
advocate prohibition. Although the
election has been over couple of
weeks Mrs. Stone, at last accounts, was
still talking.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
IMPORTANCE OF PRIMARY
SCHOOLS.

Several weeks ago an article APP
peared IN the North American ReCiea0,
calculated to show the Importance of
primary school education. The Reoieao
said: Out Of one hundred boys and
girls who go to the primary schools,
only about fifty 60 any further up the
educational grade; about thirty adj
vance to the grammar school, and not
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

There are bright spots in the South
the trial of Kuklux in Georgia before
Judge Mccoy resulted in the convic-
ton of the accused. The Judge in his
charge denounced the Kuklux organiza-
tions as vile wretches, who deserved
the severest punish ment. If South
Carolina Courts were brought to a like
sense Of decency, there would be hope
for that state.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

Now and then Democratic newspa-
per in this state expresses opposition
to the tariff policy, declaring there is
growing discomfort with it among the
farmers. If this be so, let there be no
concealment, and let the opposition
take shape and form. Our Democratic
friends have been balancing between
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
OCTOBER ELECTIONS.

On Tuesday next elections will be
held in ten states, namely, Connecticut,
New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Mississippi, Nebraska. New York.
Pennsylvania and Virginia. Both par
ties are confidently predicting the car
rying a majority of these states. The
result will indicate to some extent the
complexion Of the Presidential cleo
tion in 1884, but with allowances, as
local questions divide the voters in
some of the states.