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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-10-15

There are some people always looking out
for sights. They cannot pay visit, they can
not even receive friend they cannot carry
on the daily intercourse of the family, with
out suspecting some otfense is designed. They
are as touchy as hair-triggers. If they meet
an acquaintance in the street who happens to
be pre-occupied with business, they attribute
his abstraction to some motive personal to
themselves, and take umbrage accordingly.
They lay on others the fault Of their own ir-
ritability. A fit of indigestion makes them
see impertinence in everybody they come in
contact with Innocent persons, who never
dreamed of giving otfense, are astonished to
find some unfortunate word OF some momen-
tary tactiturnity mistaken for an insult. To
say the least, the habit is unfortunate, 1t is
far wiser to take the more charitable view of
our fellow-beings, and not suppose Sigh is
intended, unless the neglect is open and di-
rect. After all, too, life takes its hue in a
great degree, from the color of our own minds
If we are frank and generous, the world treats
us kindly. If, on the contrary, we are sus-
picious men learn to be cold and cautious to
u.s.
Let person get the reputation of being
touchy and everybody is under more Or less
restraint and in this way the chances of an
imaginary offense are vastly increased. Your
people who fire up easily, miss deal of hap
piness. Their jaundiced tempers destroy their
own comfort as well as that Of their friends.
They have forever some fancied slight to brood
over. The sunny, serene contentment OF less
selfish dispositions never visits them.
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Novel FEtusicnI Enstru,neu5.

A physician of SpringGcld, Ohio, has hit up
on an instrument, which, as singular as it
may seem at first sight, is not the most un
promising one for general diffusion of taste
for music and of an economical enjoyment of
a skilled musical telegraph for the purpose of
extending music from competent performers
into every family, as cheapl almost as our
grass and water. His mode of applying it is
to locate, in some central part of the city, a
musical depot, presided over by some highly
skllltul performer on the piano or melodeon
10 this instrument an electrical attachment
may be made to communicate with thous-
and other pianos i'll the city-these again
having their own peculiar magnetic attach
ments.
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$3.50 PER ANNUM In ADVANCE.
NUMBER 10.

angel with face like our own, we should know
who she was and should love her for her moth
er's sake.
But through the tenderest care of loving
friends and the skill of the kindest and best
of Physicians, but more than all through the
love and mercy of a heavenly Father, life with
its joys and burdens, is now ours.
But life, to day, is not what it was two
years ago yet we thank God for ii, and though
many that we loved, dearly loved, and among
them the little curly-headed girl, have gone
away from earth forever, we know that the
loved ones parted here shall clasp hands by
and-by, in a beautiful home where there are
no cross faces, where sorrow cannot enter, and
where all are free from sin, even as little child
rem.
We hear the whistle and rumbling OF the
cars so dear Editor good-by until another
time
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KENOsHA WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 49, 1863

during the operation, he kept lifting his feet
ALTERNATELY, to prevent himself from sinking
My arrangements completed, with a feeling
of terrible anxiety l gave my horse the signal
to move forward Instead of going Oft with
a start, the intelligent creature stepped away
slowly, as though he understood my situation
felt my body moving, and the next moment
found myself dragged out of the sand |
sprang to my feet with a shout of joy, l
rushed up to my steed, and throwing my arms
around his neck, embraced him with delight.
He answed my caress with a low whmper,
which told me ! was understood. looked
for my rifle. Fortunately it had not sunk
deep, and soon found it. My boots were
left behind, but l stayed not to look for them
being smitten with dread of the place had
left them in, and grateful, ! trust to kind
Providence for my unlocked for preservation
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Only nine o'clock, but not too late for MIL
dred Moore to be watering her sweet peas
and geraniums in the cottage garden. Nay,
so busy was she with tiny pink blossom
which had broken from its fastening that she
never heard approaching footsteps until Cap
tain Verners shadow fell across the flower
border Then she started up, with large, oil
lated eyes, like those of frightened tawn,
and carmine burning in her usually colorless
cheeks
captain Verner!" g.,
I'D not be startled, Miss Mildred" he said
with gentle, re-assuring accents. 81 have
onlycalIed to thank you foryour kind dona-
ton to the sick soldiers"
She clasped her hands over her flushed face,
like child detected in some fault.
81 beg your pardon; Ibid not Think new
er intended"
'Nay," he interrupted, earnestly, 81 have
learned the history of the ring. Your sacrifice
is not unappreciated and"
He stopped, for she had burst into convul-
sive sobs and tears 1t was entirely new
phase of her being. Captain Werner stood com
pletely COMPOUNDED. Had he known her all
these months and yet remained Ignorant OF
the passionate depth and emotion OF her char
acter? She was there before him no longer
the fair, passionless statue, but a lovely wo-
man, made lovelier still by tears The eta
del of his heart-underinind long ago, uncon-
sciously to himself surrendered at this last at
tack And who could blame him?
"Dont, Mildred" he said caressingl y.--
''My dearest girl, if you knew how it grieved
me to see you weep"
Pardon me-" she faltered; 81 am asham-
ed Of being so foolish, but it was all had to
give"
Mildred" he whispered, opening the VIC
let-velvet casl1et, Il have brought back the
ring; will you accept it again."
She looked at him with startled eyes and
glowing cheeks, as if some deep meaning lay
hidden in his words
'Let me place it on your finger, love-
Wear it as an engagement ring" He went
on: ''Oh Mildred, | never knew till now
how dear you were to me! Will you trust
your future to me will you be my cherished
treasured wife?'
What Mildreds answer was is not at all to
the purpose-only Mrs. Grundy thinks it very
strange that Miss Moore should wear pearl
engagement ring when diamonds are all the
fashion !'-Hnrper'S Weehty.
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Labor lost-an organ-grinder playing at
the door Of a deaf and dumb asylum.
The man who '.fell into raptures" with
pretty girl, was got out with considerable diff
licuIty.
ITO Greece we give our shining blades,
as the man said when he put his carving knife
into fat leg Of mutton.
Gentlemen" said a farmer, writing to the
chairman of an agricultural society, put me
down on your list Of cattle for calf"
People neither acute or profound, often say
the thing without effort which we want and
have long been hunting for in vain
periodical was started not long ago, the
first number of which contained letter from
a correspondent who signed himself, "a Con-
slant Reader"
A Western editor says of hail storm on
the lakes in his vicinity that it came 50 sud-
denly that the pilot looked around to see which
one of the passengers was throwing stones at
him.
'Thats fine strain, said one gentleman
to another, abiding to the tones of singer
at a concert the other evening" eyes" said
a country-man who sat near, ''but if she
strains much more, she'll bust"
A French Bishop, in a sermon, recently adj
ministered philippe to crinoline wearers =
'Get woman beware" said he, "while put
ting on her profusive and expansive attire,
how narrow are the gates of Paradise"
Hope-A bright and beautiful word is hope.
| 1t will come to us amid the darkness, and sing
the sweetest song when our spirits are sad
dest and when the lone soul is weary, aud longs
to pass away, it MARBLES its sunniest notes,
and tightens again the slender fbres of our
hearts that grief has been tearing away.
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FACTS ABOUT APPLEs.-We have an old APP
pie tree which was revived by trimming and
grating it with Baldwin scions fourteen years
ago. 1t had been greatly neglected and was
fast running to ruin when the work Of renova-
ton commenced The trimming and graft
ing process was not done at once, but Judi
ciously continued through three years. Du-
ring this time the sward land was dug up
and pulverized, and the soil for a diamater Of
twenty feet about the tree was MANFRED and
dressed two or three times with wood ashes
The manure was slightly dug in when APP
piled. The new gratis began to bear mode
rately the third year, and gradually increas-
ed, until IN 1860 they gave us seventeen bar
rels of apples. In 1861 they yielded only a
peck or two, and the present year 1862, 81
barrels, most of which were medium sized.
marketable apples Another tree, which had
scarcely a sound limb upon it, was renovated
at the same time. This, however, produced
the Hunt Russet apple, and did not need graft
ing. The dead wood was cut away, the tor
thinned little and a mound of good sol
raised a foot in height above the trunk The
ground under the branches was dressed witt
ashes and old composts, about every year fol
six years. The tree commenced bearing The
summer succeeding the care bestowed upon it
and has averaged about two barrels per yea
since. These apples were especially valuable
as it was the only tree on the place that fur
nished any fit for family use. By considera
| bic pleasant care, and moderate expense
we have been enabled to gather this yea
about one hundred and thirty-five barrels o
very fine apples.-NeD England Farmer.
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PLANTING APPLE ORoHARDs.-We have
been long under the impression, brought tc
us merely by observation, that as rule the
trees in our apple orchards are planted toe
distantly apart. Many farmers look upon the
space usually occupied by orchards as almost
SO much waste. They say, we get SO little
fruit from the ground taken up by the trees,
and we cannot cultivate the orchards as we
should like, from injury to the ROOTS &c, so
that we are forced on the score of economy,
to abandon apple raising. Now, practically,
an orchard should bean orchard only Elk
cept for grass it should be left uncultivated,
after the trees have reached say about four
inches in diamater. We can see no good rea-
son why good crop of grasses should not be
continuously produced for quarter or third
of century without disturbance. A top
dressing OF manure once i'll two or three years,
we know have produced fine fields of grass
annually two crops. The trees have little
or no influence upon the crops of grass, indeed,
if they possess any, it is i'll atfording heav
ier swath under the trees
Hence, instead of setting young orchards
thirty and thirty-five feet apart, reduce the
distance to about twenty feet in the quincunx
form, and if at any time the trees should be-
come little crowded, prevent it by addition
al pruning. This is our theory.
The leading purpose Of an orchard should
be to produce fruit; next the crop that will
do the least damage to the trees This is
grass. Grass, however, will not only do nc
damage to the apple trees, but the contrary
1t keeps the soil moist and of uniform tenn
perature protecting the roots in summer
against heat and drought, and in winter
against the severe effects of thawing and freez-
ing.
1t should also be remembered, in setting
out young orchards, to get the trees as low
branched as possible. They will generally
not grow so high, while the low boughs will
protect the trunk against the intense rays
Of the sun in the summer months, which are
frequently very injurious to the health and
productiveness of the trees. Germantown
Telegraph.
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How Much Are You Worth 9

1t is queer way the world has Of estima-
ting mans value by the number of dollars
he may chance to possess, or the amount of
real estate to which he holds title. 'Tbere
goes man," said an individual, pointing to a
certain wealthy citizen, who is worth a humid
red thousand dollars" eyes," replied a bv-
stander 'and that is all he is worth" That
was bitter commentary on the character of
the rich man. To be worth hundred thous-
and thousand dollars and nothing more argues
a character sadly lacking in all that is noble
true and good in humanity. Yet there are
numbers Of just such men in every commu-
nifty; men who, though possessed of vast
wealth and ample means of acquiring it. are
worth absolutely nothing to society The
thought of devoting even a modicum of their
wealth, their time or their influence, to the
work of beneftting mankind, seems never to
have entered the minds of such persons. They
estimate everything in the light of dollars and
cents, and prize their friends only so far and
so long as they can be made profitable They
live for self-gain, self-indulgence, self-aggrand-
izement not
'For the wrong that needs resistance
Nor the cause tnat needs assistance"
To them the bony hand of Want is stretched
forth in vain; from them go out no answer
ing returns to the earnest petition of strug-
Cling Poverty; IN them is awakened no feel
ing Of sympathy for bleeding humanity
These things move not their flinty hearts, for
they are encased in selfishness more impene-
trable than coat Of mail. BY shrewd fnan-
ciering they generally succeed in adding to
their worldly possessions; but this does not
enhance their value, as citizens On the con-
trary, the greater wealth they acquire the
more ororthleS8 do they become.
1t will not do then, to estimate every mans
value by the amount of his money or property.
he may have full Golfers, own large blocks,
and broad acres, and yet if he be worth ''only
these and nothing more" his intrinsic value
amounts to only cipher. He will never ben
etit society," and the world will lose nothing
when he finds it necessary to die. But on the
other hand there are those of whom it is of
ten said they are worth nothing" who are
really OF immense value to society. Though
poor in purse they each possess what is in
tinltely better than gold-an honest, sympa-
thetlc heart and an earnest purpose to do and
dare for the right. By the proper rules of
computation, such an individual is worth
more than hundred thousand dollars, for he
possesses the elements of usefulness in this
life and happiness in that which lies ''beyond
the river"
Reader, according to our standard of value,
how much are yOU worth e?
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machinery and EEnrd EnbOE.

Not such a great while ago our thread was
spun between the finger and the thumb. and
all our cloth woven in the clumsiest of hand
looms Now, by means OF spinning. jenny
and weaving machinery, one person will make
us two hundred yards of cloth in day Be
fore the invention Of the cotton gin, one per-
son could not prepare one pound OF cotton SO
easily as he can now prepare one hundred
pounds. Our grandmothers could barely knit
one pair of stockings in day-noW, by means
of machine, one little girl can turn out a
hundred dollars worth Of knitting materials
in a day. A few years ago we were told it
took seventeen men to make q complete pin /;
now the machine is fed with the raw material,
which is not touched again until rolled up i'll
papers of pins. In Providence, r. l., there is
to-day a machine that takes a strip of metal
from a coil, and makes two hundred and thir-
ty inches of delicate chain out of it in day.
The metals are no longer worked by hand-a
slow, wearing process; they are shaved, saw
ed, bored, and hammered, with the greatest
ease and accuracy, as if they were of the soft
est pine
An instrument has been contrived and per-
fected of exceedingly delicate powers, which
measures the operations of the mind itself
tells the exact time it takes for a sensation
from the finger to reach the brain-two tenths
of second! Go into a certain Indiarubber
store in New York, and you will find a humid
red different articles made of that one staple
only few years ago, good for nothing but to
rub out marks and furnish active jawed peo-
pie something to chew. AS wood gives out,
coal pits are found everywhere. We begin to
fear for lights With which to illuminate our
homes and make all things cheerful; when
10! oil is distilled from coal, and we even have
streams of it spouting out of the ground for
us to fill our lamps with! Coal tar, once re-
garded as useless, is now manufactured into
many different merchantable articles some of
them Of great value.-Scientt6c Americ0m.
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CoNJUGATIoN AND AGREEMENT. In a les
son in parsing the sentence, ''Man counting
capacity of bliss, etc, the word ''courting3
came to a pert young miss of fourteen to
parse. She commenced hesitatirgly but eot
along well enough until she was to tell what
it agreed with. Here she stopped short. The
teacher said, very well, what does counting
agree with ?" Ellen bIushed and hung down
her head. 'I1llen, don't you know what that
agrees with p ''Ye-ye-yes sir" "Well,
Ellen, why don't you parse that wordP What
does it agree with ?' Blushing still more and
stamnering, Ellen says, st agrees with all
the girls, SIR
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For The TELEGRAPH.

ASH Ell.
Thoughts suggested by reading notice of the
death of young child
The baby is asleep. and oh we cannot wake
She does not smile now at our loving kiss:
We had not dreamed that soon, so soon, our
G ID would take her
* Up from the home she made 80 brigh Ito His
We had not dreamed that our hearts tendrils
round her twinrg,
Could be so soon. so rudely torn away;
Our eyes. love- blinded only saw the blessed
shining,
And so we thought that it would long be day.
We did not dream that when the light was
glowing brightest,
Twas shining then through Heavens open
door;
We did not dream that, while our hearts were
beating lightest,
An angel beckoEed from the other shsre.
Our darling, on her breast, her little hands
was folding,
And from her eyes shone forth a wondrous
light;
We gazed toward heaven, and while with awe
we stood beholdng,
The door was closed we felt that it was
night,
The babys eyes closed too; We knew that she
was sleeping,
All night she has been sleeping just the
same;
She does not waken when we kneel beside her.
weeping,
She does not hear S when we call her name
0 God, our Father of the lowlest prayer, the
Hearer,
Our bleeding hearts most earnest cry shall be
That al life's broken links mag only bring US
nearer
Nearer our darling, nearer heaven, and Thee
FRANCES A. BAKER.
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EsR NEcnBOriaras.

MRa. JENNIE E. LEONARD, died Sept. 70, 1863
Gone in her seintly beauty,
Over the starry waY
Out from the dreary nighttime,
Into the perfect day.
Gone with her soul unburdened
With the weary weight of sin,
Where the faint of earthly pleasures
Never can enter in.
Gone where the white boat softly
Gides DER the foamy waves;
Where the flowers of life CLEAN Whitley
On the shores which the dark stream
laves.
Gone where the harpschord waited
The tou oh of her angel hand;
Away on her whte>plumed pinions.
Home to lie beautiful land,
Gone where the angels gather
The fade less flowers that bloom.
In that hush of heavenly twilight,
Around the great white throne.
Gone where the pure robes waited,
And the glittering crown of light
Oh closely the faithful Shepherd
EniOlds our darling Tonight
l., L. b.
OTTAWA MINI 1863
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Particulars of the Attack On sSiuhps
EOrces by skcbeIs

~ GOOL', CCL' ~.
The st. Louis Democrats Leavenworth
special gives the particulars of the attack
upon Gen Blunt and escort, below Ft. Scott
lie was attacked by 300 rebels in Federal
uniform, near the encampment of Lieut.
Pond. Ills escort broke, and, out of one
hundred men, seventy-eight were killed-all
shot through the head evidently after they
were captured. Major Curtis, son of Gen
Curtis, was thrown from his horse and found
with bullet-hole through his head, un
doubleday murdered after being taken prison
er Lieut.. Ponds camp was attacked about
the same time and four of his men killed and
three wounded. Blunt esca led, and, meeting
rcinforcements below Fort Scott took COM
mand, and then started in pursuit of Guam
trell.
Lieut. Farr, of the Sd Wisconsin, was
killed.
Captain Todd, QuantrelFs Adjutant came
to Ponds Camp, and asked for an exchange
Of prisoners, and said there were a number
Of rebels wounded, among whom was Col.
Shelby.
QuantrelIs force came from Cawskin Prai-
rie McD Jnald county, Mo.
A letter from TT. Scott, October 9Th, says
a rebel force burned Carthage, Mo-, that
morning.
Gen. Schofeld has telegraphed to Leaven-
worth that from 1000 to 5000 rebels, under
QuantreII, Coffee, Gordon and Hunter, are
marching on Fort Scott, aud that he had or
dered Col. Weer to move all the force he
could raise to Fort Scott.
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Facing the Foe.

Snakes are some Of the most dangerous foes
that Europeans have to cope with in the trop-
les. 4 traveller by the name of Bailie one
morning startled his companions by the dread
full cry of "a snake!-a snake look !" They
all stared at him, as he was lying in his ham
mock, and, to their establishment, beheld a
monstrous serpent twisted around the rope
which supported his hammock, with its head
at some distance darting out its forked tongue,
and examining him as he lay below Gle
still, cried the fiscal; she won't hurt you !"
and calling in two or three of the natives, he
pointed it out to them. One of these men ad-
vanced toward it, caught its eye with his own;
the animal now appeared to move its whole
body with fear or pleasure. The native step
ped backward, without turning the sight of
his eye from the fierce orbit Of his enemy !;
and, as he kept backing the snake, with its
head steadily advancing, gradually uncoiled
his body from the rope round which it was
twined At length its whole body trailed on
the ground, moved slowly along after this
colored man-eye fixed upon eye-untll a
youth, making a dash from behind bush, III
an instant fattened the dangerous monster
with one blow of his club and although the
body still uudulated like the waves Of the sea,
it was now perfectly harmless.
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The amount of coinage at the Philadelphia
mint in September of this year was as follows :;
674: copper coinage $4,000. The whole
number of pieces coined was 5, 1915 That
looks as though somebody ought to be able
to make Jingle in his pockets.
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Biscuits from wheat that was standing in
the field four hours before, have been accom-
plished in England. We could do it in three
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Do all in your power to teach your children
self-government. If child is passionate,
teach him by patient and gentle means to
curb his temper. If he is greedy, cultivate
liberality in him. Ifhe is selfish, promote gen
crosby.