River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-02-20

me Edltor al Esualle. WIS.,
Keep yourself innocent if you would be
happy.
Every time you tell the truth you add
to your strength of character.
We should not retain the remembrance
of faults we have once forgiven.
Your character cannot be essentially
injured except by your own acts.
Every time you speak kind word you
are adding brick to your temple of man
hood.
Every time you refrain from speaking
in defense of friend you prove that you
are not a friend.
Every time you refuse to do favor
when you can as well as not, you prove
that you are growing mean.
To find friends when we have 10 need
of them, and to want them when we
have them, are alike easy and common.
When we deplore the absence of some
single excellence in another that we pride
ourselves upon possessing, 1t is well to
look at the opposite side and see if there
is not present another class of virtues in
which we are probably lamentably de-
ficient.
The man is most successful who best
and most fully puts to useful service all
his powers and faculties, who finds and
utilizes the opportunity for their employ
ment; or, in other words, gets into the
place which he is best fitted to fill.
So far from duty and happiness being
antagonists, they are necessary each to
each for their perfect development.
There can never be a just and true and
righteous life where the element of hap
piness is ignored or condemned, and
there can never be true happiness where
a life of duty is scorned or avoided.
Practice and theory must 60 together.
Theory without practice to test it, to YER
ify it, to correct it, is idle speculation;
but practice without theory to animate it
is mere mechanism. In every art and
business, theory is the soul and practice
the body. The soul without the body in
which to dwell, is, indeed, only ghost,
but the body without soul is only a
corpse.
There is no such thing as failure to one
who has done his best. Were this truth
more often emphasized, there would be
more courage and energy infused into sad
and Responding hearts. The compensa
ton may seem shadowy and afar off, but
it is not so. 1t attends every one who is
conscientious, painstaking and resolute,
and will never desert him, whatever may
be the fate of his exertions in other re-
spects.
Miss May Brooks finished the winter
term of school Feb. z, in Dist. No. 5,
Rock Elm.
Miss Edna Guest closed her winter
term of school in the Stogdill Dist, town
of Hartland, Feb. IA.
The association held at 0livet Feb. s
was well attended and great interest in
the work was shown by those present.
They had a picnic dinner in the school
house.
There is an increasing demand for
teachers of progressive ideas; those who
have moss growing upon them are going
to be left.
"The man whose bosom neither riches
nor luxury nor grandeur can render
happy may. with a book il his hand,
forget all his torrents under the friendly
shade of every tree, and experience
pleasures as infinite as they are varied,
as pure as they are lasting, as lively as
they are unfading. "-Zimmern,an.
Teachers examinations for Pierce Co.
will be held as follows:
Maiden Rock, March 10, 20, 81.
River Falls, "a, 25, 26.
Rock Elm, %, %, 20.
Prescott, April l, p 8.
Ellsworth, sometime between the Goth
and 90th of april.
Candidates will be allowed TO attend
the place of examination most conven-
lent for them.
Oral graduation exercises for pupils
who pass on the diploma examination
scheme for Pierce Co., will be held at the
following places:
Ellsworth, Feb. 90.
Esdaile, %.
Rock Elm, March 1.
Maiden Rock, March s.
Teachers having pupils whom they ex-
pect to pass will please notice the dates
and attend with their pupils the place
most conyenient for them.
The following is the program arranged
for the oral graduation exercises to be
held at Esdaile, Feb. 2S, 1890;
900 Music.
$40 Reading, Graduating Class.
$40 Recitation.
$40 Arithmstic :. /"
1890 Rest.
10:40 History,
11:15 REGULATIONS.
11:25 Physiology and Hygiene, Grad. c.
1900 Intermission.
1870 Geography, Graduating Class.
PIG Music.
2:l5 Civil Govt, 6
255 Rest,
---nnar.
$40 UIa..--
345 Comforting diplomas.
Ais Singing.
400 Adjourn.
Teachers and friends Of education are
cordially invited to be present.
Books.