The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-03
THE LONGER.

Ills 10 tIlC lCbOU 'UlIlIC UIidU Ollttil
be called on to write The Lounger
for some months, and it may be ex-
pected that I am going to spread
myself, but [ will fool you. We are
more often fooled than otherwise.
Things don hang together as they
ought. Here is a case. A few
years ago, when | was kid, | was
connected with struggling institu
ton. At the head of it was man
who had worked faithfully and ear
nestly in the interests of the place
for five years. At the end Of that
time he went to Europe during a
vacation, and paid his own expenses.
The trustees of the place thought
that he ought not to have gone.
Presto, change. Another man
came into the position who labored
there one year, principally on out
side work, and the trustees decided
that he needed rest and ought to go
to Europe Furthermore one of the
men offered to provide the shekels
for the expenses of the trip. [ am
pulling my brain to find out why
things in that case were thusly. 1
am convinced that it must be either
the general meanness of trustees, o.
that it is the ''cussed irony of cir
cumstances | may be kicker
and expect too much. Let er went.
X <
[ have been to tha circus. [ am
a strong supporter of that kind of
show, and have maintained fire.
quently that it is very moral per
formance and that it exercises q
more wholesome influence over the
minds of our people than any other
exhibition to which we inhabitants
of the globe have access. For
weeks I had been awaiting the adj
vent of the troupe, and when it
made its procession on our streets L
was right there to watch it's grand
eur and pomp. l stood in the door
way of a bank and longed for it's
wealth to buy circus tickets for the
toiling, swelter;ng humanity of this
city, and the banker he stood beside
me, but never offered to open his
vaults to crafty my longings. All!
wealth, thou are cruel Everyone
went to the circus, and those who
could not go, had lots of fun all by
themselves. The editors of YE
HUMBUGGE played ball and drank
soda water. The editor Of the TEL
EGRAPH- COURIER borrowed him a
Safety and went webbing along
''o.er hill and dale | met him
once, or rather [ did not meet him
[ saw him coming and went around
another block. For good honest
fun give me a circus.
X x
The remarks about the school
horse have forced some fellow who
Signs himself S. NJ. J. to write no
tice in the Blade to eye HUMBUGGE
HOrseman- He scores several
points for himself [ wrote q letter
to that h,m1bug hOrscm011, and took
it to the Blade, but I was late. [
shall tell my story here. S. M. j.
stated that ''people will get badly
left who expect an Englishman to
take a broken bellows bag in the
foil o,J ,,o+,7y,, a cO,,,1 bOrco IN +bo
spring" [ agree with him and go
even further in saying that people
will get badly left who expect Eng
lishmen to do anything except ac-
quire territory and property, They
can help it. Tis their biz to do
so. and S. NJ. J. is getting right
along with the nation He is now
engaged in forming a syndicate to
take E'broken windcd bellows bags, "
use them in winter, plough with
them in spring, and return them
with the heaves and bill of charges
for keep. 7 shall give him my vote
for president, and borrow the
schOol-horse for him, that he may
be able to exhibit him as a sample
of his work. He then writes pref
tily-"Bob don't know much about
horses, does he p The fellow is
fooling. Who told him? / was
Judge at a horse show once, and an
ignoramus of a country jake made
that same remark to me. [ treated
him with silent scorn, and he died
the week after do not wish to be
responsible for the death of a sec
ond fellow of that type, and there
fore l have noticed him.
How free some of us are with our
advice. We give it away like used
postage stamps Our friend S. NJ.
J. in addition to his horsey Ian
guage said that he would give Bob
a piece of advice free. = Now, I do