The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-07-06
The EIks, the Editors and the BIZ
cyclists Arrange Carni"
walls for July.
TEACHERS FOR COMING YEAR.
Not a Happy Lot in Cosby Town
Life Story of Wall, the Democratic
Leader-A Waukesha Hermit.

is Americans are such a Woodworking
people that these safety-valve outings
are Indispensable.
The editors will have their great
time beginning July II, when some
300, including wives, children, sisters
and other relatives will meet at Nil
bourne Falls. The next ten days will
be spent in visiting the cities OF the
Wisconsin river, NekOOsa, Grand Rap
ids, Waupaca, Stevens Point, Wausau,
TOmahawk and Rn1nelander, and
winding up with five days in camp. 1t
will be & jolly time and cost but $50
a head. Who would not be an editor
at outing time!
EIks in Cool Superior.
The Elks hold their carnival in Su-
perior from July to 10. Superior
is, as everybody knows, Il cool place,
even in the hottest weather. There
it is you can see ships as large as
ocean steamers take wheat and flour
from the largest elevators in the world
on their long journey to the east.
Gigantic coal, ore and merchandise
docks will reveal to you. the CONNER
cial supremacy Of our country, better
than the bic figures in the newspapers
The famous Morley Midway attrac-
lions will be one of the principal fea-
lures. They embrace fourteen sepa-
rate shows, carry a train load OF para
phernalia and 200 people from every
cline There will be streets of Cairo
and India, the flying lady, the snake
eater, the opium den, old plantation,
diving horses, acrObats lions and ORR
entail dancers Other attractions are
balloon ascensons, naval displays, art
and commercial exhibits, public speak
ers and nOtables from all surrounding
states; also the governors of other
states.
The twenty-first national L. A. w.
meet at Milwaukee July 10 to Is will
attract thousands. Visitors will store
their wheels in the city hall. There
will be a 81 round trip boat rate from
Chicago, which i'll itself means
crowd. The clubs will throw open
their doors. Three of the eighteen
events which will make up the four
days programme ere championships,
and eleven of the fore mentioned
eighteen races are for professionals.
The prizes aggregate $1,000. Guides
will take visitors to the places of in
tcrest in the city, such as the brewer
les, AlliS works, harvester works,
West Milwaukee shops and a hundred
others. And there will be smoker"
at Schlitzs park
Many viii Ride Long Distances.
Fifty wheelmen from Merrill will
make the trip to Milwaukee. There
will be an exhibition Of wheels by all
the big makers. On Wednesday after
noon, July II, there will be a one
mile invitation multicycle race over
one of the asphalted bOulevards of
Milwaukee. Mr.. Charles A. Jackson,
the travelling subscription solicitor of
the Cycling Gazette, has started from
New York for a trip awheel to the
Milwaukee meet The Chicago di-
vision of hundreds of riders will have
three speed divisions, II, 10 and 8
hours, and these will start two hours
apart so as to arrive in Milwaukee at
the same time
The racing track in the exposition
building will be a nine-lap track,
banked fourteen feet at each end, and
will be duplicate of the track of '92
on which Sanger won his laurels. With
q view to prevent the annoying glare
so often complained of by racing men.
the surface of the track will be paint
ed an olive green color, expert medical
testimony having demonstrated that
that shade is peculiarly restful to the
eyes, whereas the yellow color Of the
natural pine is extremely trying to the
optics of the flyers.
Shadows ON the Teaching Craft.
This is the season when the school
districts are selecting their teachers
for next year; indeed, most of them
have been engaged. The manning of
schools by competent teachers is fully
as important as equipping towns with
good officials but the former function
is not SO regarded by the citizens. In
the towns one can often meet teachers
applying to the members of the school
board and bringing ito bear their rec
concentrations, for they shift positions
more often than do preachers. 1t is
mot an easy life; apart from the an
>noyances of the school there is the
whole town to please. The preacher
and the teacher and the editor are the
legitimate objects of criticism by citi-
zens generally, and the two former
are at a disadvantage, in that their
tenure hinges on the approval of the
community. Citizens not liking a
newspaper may stop their subscrip-
-tions until their curiosity to see the
news leads them to renew; but the
teacher whom the people do not like
must 60. When man or woman has
sufficient ability and force, he or she
can often hold onto the position though
in point of personality they may not
tbe altogether acceptable. But the
great number of teachers are of or
binary ability. They need the money
to support their families, for most of
these teachers Of the better class of
schools in the villages and towns are
married men. The salary is not large.
1t is easy to give dissatisfaction to a
few parents and persons in the town,
and by gossip and censure a few dis
contents may make considerable trou-
ble. The result is often to crush the
Independent spirit of the teacher. He
becomes cautious in the expression of
his views. He is not too aggressive
in his school work. He is tempted
to favor the children of influential
townsmen Some of these teachers
show in their very manner the sup
preston to which they are subjected
Some of them feel within them the ca.
pacity for a higher class of work but