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ADVICE no 4 BOv.
Kew an Ambitious Lad May Succeed
In Making Himself Fameus.
TPefk's SIN.


You wish to become famous and to
be known as Billy the Terror Of Kenos-
ha. or the Boy Avenger. Now this Is
not practicable outside of books. You
read Of boys becoming blood thirsty
Williams IN velvet pants and top boots,
in a marvelously short time, but as a
rule the boys who start out to duplicate
those yellow covered fellows bring up
in some isolated Jail, and instead of
yellow pants they are adorned with
ragged overails with the vitals worn out,
sitting around in lonely places, waiting
for the maiden to come and fall in love
with them, as they do in books.
But have found way for you to
crafty your long cherished desire. I
want you to arm yourself with double
edged grammar and selt-cocking
arithmetic and skulk down to the school
house Monday morning bright and
early. When school calls conceal your
self behind your book, and whenever
you see an opportunity jump INTO a
difficult problem and probe it through
and through. After you have to all
appearnace mastered it, turn 1t upside
down and make it prove itself. BY the
time you have followed this up con-
pie OF months you will begin to re-
ceive some notoriety you crave, and
will be looked upon as the STARTER, or
the boy Mathematician. By the end
of the tenn you will be pointed out 10
the admiring spectators as the double
entry wonder of the Seventh ward
school
You think now that this will satisfy
you, but it will not. On the contrary
1t will spur you on to still more diff.
cult achievements. An uncomfortable
desire to graduate will then take pos
session of you, and before you realize
ityou will be standing before hall full
of people, valedictory in one hand anc
a cold sweat in the other, irving tc
carry off the honors of commencement
day.
Thus you go step by..step until you
friends would hardly recognize the lit
tie Willie Brown, of to-day, in red head
ed professor of Pouehkeepsie, who vii
be teaching dead language with ont
hand, while he pulls an Astronomical
constellation to pieces with the other
twenty years from now. OF cours,
you will live longer than you would i
you had become famous highway o
Oconomowoc, but will die IN good tint
full of years and govt, and the grea
dailies will devote half a column unde
some glt eoge tonic advertisement te
your obituary notice, and some enter
prising cigar manufacturer will name
brand of cigars after you, and you vii
be mourned as the bald headed philos
opher OF the nineteenth century Thei,
that is all this time.
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A young authoress asked her hus
band to suggest heroine for new
novel, a combination of traits never
even dreamed of, one calculated to
make man love her 10 distraction.
He replied, have her look carefully
over her husbands wardrobe, sew on
missing buttons, make or direct making
good cup of coffee, and cooking the
steak well.
Definitions by little girls: Define the
word nothing. Answer, by a COOPER
daughter: It's bung hole without a
barrel round il. What is SANDER?
Answer: When nobody did nothing,
and somebody went and told ont.
What is chaos? Answer: A great pile
OF nothin'. and nowheres to put it.
How do they make cannon2 An
swer by Patrick: They take long
round hole and cast a lot Of iron
around it.
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Short Talk With The Boys.
By NJ. QUAD.
docs it hurt to read novels?"

"Does il hurt to read novels2"
Take clean sponge and dip it into
running gutter, and what is the resu t!
The sponge can be cleaned and puri-
fed again, but only after much labor
The human mind, my lad, is a sponge,
and it soaks up the good, bad and in
different with the same relish.
The great trouble with novels is the
false ideas and vicious theroies, 1t is
the same with all serial stories in the
so-called boys papers, and II is so to
certain extent In many of the boy
books. In the first place the boy. no
matter what his age, is always made to
perform ieats OF valor which common
sense teaches you is impossible. He
never acts nor talks like a boy. His
adventures as hunter, detective or
runaway are too improbable.
Nevertheless, as you read you find
yourself half believing, at least, and TIT,
next thing Is to wonder why you can't
be hero. The story makes you dis.
satisfied with school and home and
family government, and the first thought
is to run away or plan some adven-
ture. Even if you say to yourself that
you won't believe word of the story,
the mind will still soak up many of the
false theories and absurd ideas, and
later on in years it may costyou some
thing to get rid Of them.
If "a stranger should tell you that, as
he was passing over certain bridge
spanning creek, he saw gold watch
lying IN the water, but was in too big a
hurry to stop. you would proba ly be-
ieve the story. If you mad positive
proof that the man was a brazen liar
you would still find yourself wonder
ing how deep the water was, who lost
the watch and whether any one had
secured it Your common sense tells
you there are no such beings as ghosts,
but you have read and heard of them.
and have probably expected to feel
them clutchlng at your throat.
A story which is put forth for boy
to read should, although it may be
purely fiction, contain nothing exag-
gerated or improbably The hero
may be brave without OVERRIDING the
thing. You may find in the papers
almost any day instances where boys
have displayed great herolsm at fires.
or have raisked their lives 20 save
others. These things are possible and
probable, but this making a boy drive
off band of Indians, or break up a
gang of robbers. or capture ship-load
of pirates, is against common sense.
Let me instance some other evils.
In book recently published by very
respectable Eastern house, and having
for its author a person with a "Rev."
before his name he tells about sailor
falling down the middle companion
way He meant batchway, but some
day some one of his boy readers will
say something about the middle com.
panionway' and find himself the butt OF
ridicule. The same author speaks of
sailor In his hammock. Hammocks
are never used aboard of merchan,
vessels, but the men have berths.
He has the crew gather around the
man at the wheel to sing and smoke
and yarn it, when every boy who ever
head of discipline aboard ship knows
that TO sailor is permitted aft unless
called there by strict duty.
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Disappointment in matters of pleas
ure Is hard to be borne, in matters af-
fecting health it becomes cruel. DIR.
Bulls Cough Syrup never disappoints
those who use it for obstinate coughs,
colds, irritation of throat and lungs,
etc.
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THE FARMER

In search of new home, where he can sc.
cure better returns for his labor, should re-
member that the Wabash is the most direct
route to Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska,
and all points South, West and Northwest,
and that round-trip land-explorers' tickets
at very low rates are always on sale at the
ter of Arkansas and Texas sent free to all
applicants by addressing the General Pas
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MARCH BLIZZARD

TIE United States Government Census lust rub.
lished, speaks Of the Remarkable Success at
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l.. B. McKenna, Business College,
Quincy. Ill, says: Il find Burks'
White Pine Balsam an excellent rem
edv Tor all affections of the throat and
lungs"
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In another book, put forth by an
equally respectable house the length
of the Mississippi River is wrongly
gwen. Arkansas is put on the wrong
side OF that river, and the distance from
vicksburg to Baton Rouge is not cor
rect by thirty miles.
Such instances as I have related be-
fog a boys mind and lead him into
error, and he had better have spent
his time in playing marbles.
Let me ask you how much better off
you would be to sit down in a grocery
for three hours each evening and listen
to some man telling lies, knowing all
the time they were liess Would that
improve your mindi Many Of the nov
els are no more improving than such
grocery tales.
A man SO low with a fever thai his
physician pronounced his case hope
less, Unexpectedly recovered. Asked
by his friends how he felt when told he
must die, his reply was: II never felt
SO nearly mortified in my life."
A Brooklyn shop-keeper adyertises
'iGenuine COW. butter and other novel;
ties in the grocery line" HIS neigh
Dor, dealer in milk. not to be out
done, has painted pump on his
sign.
An American, hearing, an English
man and Frenchman Boosting of their
painters, broke in: A young art st in
our village painted piece of chalk SO
like cork that it fioated on water.
A little girl whose frolicsome noisi
ness had often been suppressed, one
day by number OF questions drew out
from her mother that when good girls
die they 60 to heaven, have crowns,
wings, white robes and harps, then she
wanted to know further if they let them
play the harps there.
The naturalists tell us that the
sponge is a living creature endowed
with nerves, etc. We always noticed
that sponging people, have plenty o.
nerve; it is most largely developed III
the cheek.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-THE mercury
here registered 1So below zero at 8
O'Clock this morning. but reports from
ill points throughout the Northwest in
dictate that the weather is modera,ing
rapidly, St Paul Is reported 80 be-
low; Winnipeg 1eo below; Des
MONIES reports from points in Iowa
states that trains both passenger and
freight are beginning to move again
this morning. In Illinois, however. the
blockade still continues two trains only
left for the East this morning. Roads
to the southeast are still blockaded and
a large number of passenger and freight
trains are snow.bound. The state.
ments made that thousands of heads of
cattle and hogs were frozen to death in
abandoned freight trans. There were
no arrivals at the Union Stock Yards
up to II O'Clock this forenoon.
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THE INVALID

Will ind the Wabash the most convenient
route to all the noted health resorts OF
Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, and
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GEN. B. M. PRENTIss, formerly Of
this city, has been lecturing In Chicago
on the battle of Shiloh, which has been
subject of recent discussion among a
number OF military learders. General
Prentiss, according to Chicago news
papers, beginning with the fight in ad-
vance and tracing the struggle from
that point back until his division took
position on the old road that became
what the rebels described as "the
hornets nest" establishes and en-
phasizes these facts; 1, His men were
not surprised in their tents or at break
fast, but when the attack came were in
line of battle and had advanced to
meet the enemy; 2, There would have
been no fianking or breaking of the
Union lines and no falling back had
not there been a gap between his di-
vision and that of Stewart through
which the enemy poured; 3 Gen. Grant
came to his line at 1.-THE Hornets nest"
and after receiving Gen. Prentss' report
said that the position was strong one,
and he hoped Gen. Prentiss would hold
it at all hazards. Gen. Prentiss then
gave the assurance that he would hold
it until sunset: When the men would
put their hankercheifs on their bay.
onets 1t was later than $50, and when
the rebels ceased firing no musketry
was heard in any part OF the field; the
sun was setting. and the first day of the
battle of Shiloh had ended; S, When
Gen. Prentiss was taken to Gen. Polk.
the latter said. "Form your men in
line and go with them to the rear as
your army may attack US, and do no:
want to endanger the lives of priso-
ners." This would indicate that the
rebels did not believe Grant was crush
ed. Finally Gen. Prentiss contends
that Nelson, of Buell's army. was on
the field before Prentiss surrendered,
because the last messages calling for
reinforcements was answered by Nell
son. This goes to show that the sur
render could not have taken place
earlier than $50 P. NJ. Gen. Printiss
contribution to the history of Shiloh
clears up several of the so-called mys-
teries and it is an interesting supple
ment to the paper of Gen. Grant.
l-Onnfy Wffe.
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THE CAPITALIST

Can get the information necessary to secure
safe and profitable investments in agricul-
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any Of the many inviting fields throughout
the South and West, by addressing the un.
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F. CHANDLER,
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THE TOURIsT

Has long since chosen the Wabash as the
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the East, North and West, and winter re-
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Shall we have a fair next Falle
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OHlO-INDIANA-MlCHlGAN
WABASH
R0u IA!
THE BUsINESs MAN

When he travels wants to go quick, wants to
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ton on time, in fact, wants a strictly bust
ness trip, and consequently takes the
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AZ proanar and he hannv
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A performing Indian at the museum
Gala his name Ryan. Does he live on
Ryan Indian bread?