Not that we have anything against Ingersoll.
HOW TO INVEST A THOUSAND DOLLARS.
A young man advertises in a Milwaukee paper for a partnership. He wants to
invest one thousand dollars in some established business. Go to La Crosse
and go to betting on election. It pays, and is an established business.
There's millions in it.
BOYS AND CIRCUSES.
There is one thing the American people have got to learn, and that is to
give scholars in schools a half holiday when there is a circus in town. We
know that we are in advance of many of the prominent educators of the
country when we advocate such a policy, but sooner or later the people
whose duty it is to superintend schools will learn that we are right, and
they will have to catch up with us or resign.
In the first place, a boy is going to attend a circus if there is one in
town, and the question before teachers and superintendents should be, not
how to prevent him from going to the circus, but how to keep his mind on
his books the day before the circus and the day after. There have been
several million boys made into liars by school officials attempting to
prevent their going to circusses, and we contend that it is the duty of
teachers to place as few temptations to lie as possible in the way of
boys.
If a boy knows that there will be no school on the afternoon of circus
day, he will study like a whitehead all the forenoon, and learn twice as
much as he will in all day if he can't go.
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