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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-06-12
MAKING EACH OTHER
MISERABLE.

AS if there were not troubles
enough In this world that come upon
men without human design, people
set themselves to diminish happiness
and increase misery. Z Phrenologists
tell us that there is in man an organ
and faculty of destructiveness- that,
when unregulated,it inspires cruelty ;
that it is the root of that horrible
pleasure which the old Romans had,
and their modern descendants still
have,in murderous gladiatorial shows
bull-fghts, contests of wild beasts,
etc.
But there runs through modern civ
lilized society a vein of the same
quality. People that would faint to
see gush of blood, and who think
themselves Christians, have a lively
enjoyment in witnessing pain, and
cultivate the art of inficting it. The
mention of a few of the methods
employed will make good my re-
marks.
The delight with which many re-
port bad news; the eagerness with
which they report to people evil say
Iings, which cannot but lacerate the
feelings, show morbid love of suff-
ering. This is not the trait of villain
Gus natures. 1t is not anomalous, be-
cause it is so widely extended as to
seem natural.
Some people scatter pain-producing
elements thoughtlessly, and are sur
prised and sorry when they witness
the suffering produced. Others do
it for momentary pleasure, without
meaning any serious results. But
now and then we find persons who
love to torment victim. They en-
Joy others suferings. 1t is their hap
piness to see some one made misera-
BILE by their lancet-like tongue. They
will, smile, and talk IN low, sweet
tones, and shoot out quivering senten-
|ces, poison-tiped, land cast look side
ways to see if they strike, and at
every sign of pain their face grows
bright.
In part, this is a latent ambition.
People thus assert their power over
Others. 1t raises one in his own esti-
nation to perceive that he can con-
troll the moods of another. But there
is still more common exhibition of
the love of suffering. 1t is seen IN
the ignoble, but universal art of "teas-
ing"
We see it in its most unregulated
form, among children, who nip and
pinch each other, make faces, twitch
each others clothes, run off with toys,
point with insulting fingers, and in a
hundred ingenious ways, strive to
make each other miserable. AS they
grow up, it often happens that young
people carry on campaign Of teasing,
each one vleing with another which
shall be the sharpest.
1t does not cease with youth.
Grown folks, good natured, kind
hearted, well-meaning, and full of be,
neyolence, often show this perverse
spirit in the midst Of all their kind.
ness. BY sharp speech, by yelled
sarcasm, by exciting curiosity which
they will not CRAFTY, by narrating pre-
tended facts, by sinister compliments,
by rallying one when rcumstances
forbid reply, by equivocal praise, by
blunt telling Of some truth that had
better been left unsaid, and by hun
dreds of ingenious ways which time
would fail to tell, people infict pain
upon each other.
Those who in the main are striving
to make friends happy, will have one
black thread in the web Of white.
Those who really love each other have
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-06-12
MILK OF DIFFERENT BREEDS.

The following are the results of ex-
periments that were very carefully tried
in England, and they are SO striking and
interesting that they will bear repeti-
t,on. They show remarkable uniform.
ity in quality of milk IN the different
br eds through all the trials, each breCd
holding it's relative position in each to
such an extent as TO be surprising eyi.
dence of the adoption of different breeds
- snaoif;c Durt1oseS
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-07

him with bad whisky. Exterminate him,
if you must, but don't put "A stove pipe
hat on him.
In the late religious discussions held
in New York on the doctrine, of vital
interest in that city, of the eternal pun
ishment of the wicked, when the per-
sonality of the devil was called in ques-
ton, "A certain conservative clergyman,
terrified by the rising flood of infdelity,
which threatened to sweep away all old
time institutions and beliefs, exclaimed
with fervor, :" / won't have religion
without devil - Should atheism, radi-
calism, positiveness, materialism, and
spiritualism, all combined, destroy our
faith in the Satan of Moses and Milton,
the Beelzebub of the Eyangelists, and
the Apollyon of Bunyan, and leave MS
desolate-if, in short, we should get ont
of devil, l know of no better place to
go, to have the old mythic monster OF
cruelty and treachery recreated and re-
habilitated, than the lodge of n Cheyenne,
or the mountain cave of an Apache; but
if we would have him reappear III his
favolite character of the father of lies,
we might have to go no further than the
first Indian agency.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-07
Heat of Rooms.

The purchase of a thermometer will
make paying returns III health. The
great tendency in winter is to keep rooms
too warm. The foundation of pneumo-
mia, plcurisy and pulmonary consump-
ton is frequently laid i'll over-heated,
apartments. The inmates
become accustomed TO breathing hot,
close air the system is toned down and
relaxed, and slight exposure to cold
and wet results in serious illness. "Some
years since, says medical writer, eve
called, one winter evening, on friend,
whom we found i'll coy sitting-room
with a large fire, n low ceiling and the
heat ranging about the eighties. She
was suffering from severe cold, but
could give no account of how she took
it. A month later she was Frustrated
with pneumonia, and she and her sister
died within n week of each other and
were buried in the same grave. The in
telligent use of thermometer would
doubtless have saved both of those val
liable lives.
The mercury in the Tube should never
he permitted to stand above seventy. If
that temperature is not sufficient to give
warmth, it is an indication that the per-
son does not take sufficient exercise, and
the cure for it il more miles and more
flannel. In the coolest weather, when
there is no drip from the caves, and
when snow lies on the roof, rooms should
he ventilated. Pure air should be adj
mitted through open doors and windows,
so that the oxygen consumed by flame
and by respiration may be replaced, and
the effete and poisonous matters thrown
off by the body thoroughly driven away.
As one of our best writer's on household
science remarks "Ventilation is q
question of money"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-07
4 Chanter on the Noble Red Man.

Grace Greenwood writes from Wash
ington to the New York Tribune /: The
late discussion of the Indian Appro-
priation bill III the Senate revealed
some opposition to the present policy,
and showed that the philanthrOpists
have some ugly antagonists III that body.
Mr.. Thurman and Mr.. Wright, in their
short, strong speeches, made some points
hard to get over. Mr.. Thurman always
carries the war into Africa. He strikes
straight ont from the shoulder, and
every blow tells. | cannot help admiring
the grim common sense with which he
treats the whole Cancellation, treaty
MISUNDERSTANDING policy the
bulldog grip with which he seizes it,
and shakes it. The remarks of Mr..
Wright and Nye also betrayed that
coolly practical, unpoetical, perhaps I'M
believing spirit that would shock the
sensibilities of Mrs. Cora V. Hatch
Tappan, and grieve the gentle spirit of
Father Beeson. Mr.. Wright denounced
the folly, and worse than folly, of sell
ing arms and ammunition to the Indians,
putting all the conveniences of massacre
in their hands, and Mr.. Nye urged the
abandonment of the whole system of
make-believe treaties, and, | must say,
that both talked like men of sense, if not
of sentiment of candor, if not of cant.
They talked like men who had been
there. Though | want the peace policy
thoroughly tried, 20 the satisfaction of
the Administration and the Quakers, |
must confess that | am sad iniidel,
with regard TO the regeneration of the
average red man. am only orthodox
enough TO believe in aboriginal sin. /
have never grieved much for the lost
tribes of Israel. So, perhaps, conse-
quently, l have no stirring family affec-
ton for my kinsman, the unhappy Arap-
pahoe. don't believe he is my " long
lost brother" Any number of wild
strawberries on his right arm couldn't
convince me. But don't want him de-
luded and abused, and toted back and
forth in delegations any longer. | think
the President should step between him
and the traders and treaty-makers, and
powder and whisky peddlers, and agents
and commissioners, and say =" Hands
off, gentlemen !" Leave me my savage
in puris naturaiibrs, morally mt least
Don't imperil his wild virtues in Wash
ington. Leave him TO his primitive bow
and arrows. Drive him ont to his res
ervations, if need be, but don't befou
him with worthless treaties, or beso
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-07
n;siuCccti,r stables,

As the horse infiuenZais spreading over
this country, everything that will pre-
vent or mitigate the severity of its attack
becomes of great interest To the public.
The PU6iic Lcdgcr' gives the following
method of disinfecting stables
The following receipt for disinfecting
stables comes from an accomplished
practical chemist, who fully understands
the business from experience Take
two parts by weight OF sulphate of iron
(copperas) and one part by weight of
Stacked lime mix them thoroughly and
allow them to lie in "a heap for five
hours then add and mix by weight two
parts of dried and powdered clay. This
very strong distinctive powder contains
the agents chemically speaking for the
absorption of the ammoniacal compounds
and gases which are generated by the
decomposition of the offal The irritat-
ing properties of the ammonia or harris
horn are well known and as the present,
horse disease takes the form of an in
fammation of the mucous membrane, or
coating of the inferior passages of the
head and of the throat, 1t is undoubted-
" important TO avoid in stables the pres
ence of ammonia. This powder will be
found preferable to carbolic acid or tar,
and was largely used in the army stables
during the war. The best time for APP
plying this disinfectant is to use it before
making the bed in the evening, when the
stall has been thoroughly swept; a dust
inc or thin coat will be sufficient to last
over night. In the morning, after clean
ing the stable again, another application
should be made.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-07
How In 'Ernu Rats.

Seeing piece under the above title in
a late number OF the CCntfut, L thought
the following on that subject might III
tercst some of your readers
The best and cheapest way to catch
rats that have ever known is to select
the place most frequented by them, and
take II common post-auger and bore Il
hole III the ground from six to eight
inches in diameter and three feet deep.
Remove all earth that has been eXca-
waited and all straw or sticks entirely
away, leaving the other surroundings, as
near as possible, the way you found
them. If the weather is dry and 1t is
hard for the rats TO get water, pour n
little around the trap; If there is plenty
of water put very little wheat flour
around it. YOu now have one OF the
best rat traps ever known. In their
wanderings at night for food and water
many of the rats, seeing the trap, will
fall into il and raise Il cry, others coming
To their assistance will fall III also. |
have seen as high as sixteen caught in
one night, among which were all sizes,
from the common mouse to the full
grown rat. When they are once in, 1t Is
impossible for them to escape; as they
can neither dig, climb, nor leap out. To
get them ont of the trap take small
stick and place on the end OF it large
wire with n sharp point, made i'll the
shape of an arrowhead. This, when
stuck into them, will hold them until
YOU can carry them away some distance
from the trap to kill them. Try the
above plan and if you do not succeed III
catching rats, | shall never say "rat
trap" to you again.-F0rmer'S Boy.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-07
Location of Houses.

The Science Of Hcalh has some sensi-
BILE suggestions on this topic, which are
q appropriate here
Houses should be built on upland
ground, with exposure to sunlight on
every side, During epidemics, it has
been noted by physicians that deaths
occur more frequently on the shaded
side of the street than on the sunny
side and in hospitals physicians have
testified to the readiness with which dis
eases have yielded to treatment in sunny
rooms, while in shaded rooms they have
proved intractable.
Let there be no boys, no marshes, no
s,aonant water in the neighborhood.
Then let the cellars be thoroughly
drained. Inattention to this subject has
coused the death of many "A person. Nc
father or mother should rest one moment
in peace while their innocent babes are
sleeping in rooms over damp and moldy
cellars. Cellars should not only be
trained. but thoroughly ventilated
Otherwise the house must be unwhole
some
Let the drains also be constructed fol
,be conduction of slops and sewage %
III kinds to common reservoir, mt {
distance from the dwelling, to be use,
for fertilizing purposes.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-07
Foreign Items.
KING CHOLERA is travelling westward.

KING CHOLERA is travelling westward.
THOUSANDS of English agricultural
laborers are out of employment, and
many are preparing to emigrate to
Brazil.
STANLEY's photographs sell in London
for shilling at the book stores, while
that of the long lost Livingstone only
brings half that amount.
NJ LrrTRE has at last completed his
great dictionary of the French language.
1t is i'll four huge quarto volumes, en-
bracing 4,776 pages of small type.
PROF. ALBoS1, of Naples, resuscitated
a dying woman by the blood of a lamb,
the revivifying blood being forced
through tube into the arteries by the
pulsations of the animals heart.
CARDINAL CULLEN calls upon the clergy
i'll Ireland to use their influence in pre-
venting wakes" and speaks of them "a
dangerous in times of contagious dis
eases, and the source of great scandals,
great designations, and innumerable
sins"
NOTWITHSTANDING the loss of her two
Provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, France
still has population of over 80, O0O, 900
people--a diminution of only 366, 900
since the last census. Her population
is equal to that of all the United States,
although her territory is only the area of
the State of Texas.
THERE are about 200 more pigs than
men in New Zealand. The census re-
Gently taken gives the population Mt
256,393 150,356 males and LOG, OBJ fe-
males, exclusive of aborigines. Live
stock returns give Isl 400 pigs, 9, zoe, 500
sheep, 436, 500 head of cattle, 81, 028
horses, and S72, ia head of poultry.
IT is very hard to get ahead of the
ladies. In Strasbourg, wearing the
French tri-color having been forbidden
by the Germans, the French ladies walk
the streets by threes, one dressed in red,
the next in white, and the third in blue.
Engravings of these groups of fair prom
enaders, passing puzzled and angry
Prussians are conspicuous in the win
dows of French print shops.
The President Of the Statistical Board
Mt Berlin, DR.. Schwabe, according to the
London Echo correspondent, lately made
speech at public meeting in order to
prove the deficiency of Juvenile educa-
ton in the center of Germany. Chill
tlren are much improved by public in
struction, but they are strangely deficient
in the knowledge of nature and natural
phenomena. It was stated that from
about 1000 children examined before
being admitted into school, III never
saw any rainbow, 633 field of potatoes
and butterfly, 5S3 the sunset, 462 the
rising of the sun, AGO a meadow, 406 a
corn-field, 3S7 flock of sheep, GA
forest, 264 an oak tree, and, lastly, 167
had never heard the song of the lark.
This statement created great sensation,
and everybody is convinced that, not
J withstanding the generally good educa-
) ton of youth in Germany, something is
} still to be done to fill up those voids in
the primary education of children.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-07
Rural ISreyitics.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS is now sending
horses and mules TO the Southern
markets.
The Davenport Brothers are blowing
up spirits near Springfield III.
Is Brooklyn. Iowa, corn is burned in
every store and office i'll the place.
DICKINSON COUNTY Kan. farmers are
disgusted with corn, and are going to
try sheep-raising.
A LARGE company has just been formed
in San Francisco to cultivate and manu-
facture native tobacco.
THE best sugar factory ut Freeport,
Ill.,, is running night and day, consum-
ing 50 tons of beets daily.
4 FARMER in Yates county, n. Y, inn
bibed too much ardent and fell into his
swill barrel, where he would have died
had not his wife pulled him out by the
heels.
OFFICIAL estimates place the corn crop
of the State of Indiana last year at ~,
600, 600 bushels.
One of the secret notices of the Hi
nois Patrons of Husbandry is said to be,
"None but farmers for legislators.
Mr.. II. l.. HART, of Pilatka, on the
st. Johns river, Fla, has a grove COW
ering eight or nine acres, and containing
scarcely 800 trees, which, it is said,
yielded him 500, 900 oranges last winter,
which he sold for three cents, thus real.
izing $24, 900 for the product of nine
acres of land
A MAN in Chittenden county, VT, has
made an experiment designed to ascer'
tain how far soil is protected from colo
by snow. For four successive winter
days, there being four inches of snow OF
level, he found the average tempera
ture Immediately above the snow II de
grees below zero under drift two feet
deep, u above zero.
JAMES Brown, writing from Oskaloosa
Ind, to the Fruit RccOrder, gives III
experience going to show that i'll his pea
orchard for the past three years it ha
proved a perfect preventive of blight t.
shelter the entire body of the tree from
therays of the sun during the hottest par
OF the day by means of "boards driver
i'll the ground on the south and south
west sides close up TO the trees.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-07

Samuel McFadden was n Waterman IN
II bank. He was poor, but honest, and
his life was without reproach. The
trouble with him was that he felt that he
was not appreciated. His salary was
only four dollars week, and when he
asked to have it raised, the president,
cashier, and the board of directors glared
mt him through their spctacles, and
frowned OH him, and told him to go out
and stop his insolence, when he knew
business was dull, and the bank could
not meet its expenses now, let alone law
ishing one dollar on such miserable
worm as Samuel McFadden. And then
and the naughty scorn OF the president
and cashier cut him to the soul. He
would often go into the side-yard, and
bow his venerable twenty-four-inch head,
and weep gallons and gallons of tears
over his insigniticance, and pray that he
might he made worthy of the cashiers
and presidents polite attention.
One night happy thought struck him !;
a CLEAN OF light burst upon him, and
gazing down the dim vista of years with
his eyes al blinded with Joyous tears, he
saw himself rich and respected So
Samel McFadden fooled around and got
Il Jenny, Il monkey-wrench, Il crOsscut-
saw, a coal chisel, drill, and about a
ton of gunpowder and nitro-glycerine,
and those things. Then, in the dead of
night, he went TO the fire proof safe, and
after working at it for while. burst the
door and brick into an immortal smash,
with such perfect success that there
3 Af lat % l.f4 70 l..
Il carpet tack Mr. McFadden then pro-
ceadod to load up with coupons, green
backs, currency and specie, and to nail
! all the odd change that was lying any
where, SO that he pranced out of the bank
with over million dollars on him. lie
then retired to an rnassummg residence
out of town, and then sent word to the
detectives where he was.
A detective called on him the next day,
with a soothing note from the cashier
McFadden treated it with lofty scorn.
Detectives called on him every day Will
humble notes from the pesident, cashier
and board of directors. At last the bank
officers got up magnificent private sup
per, to which Mr.. McFadden was invited
He came. and as the bank officers bowed
down in the dust before him, he pom
dered well over the bitter past, and his
soul was filled with exllltation.
Before he drove away in his carriag,
that night, it was all fixed that that Mr.
McFadden was to keep half million o
that money, and to be unmolested if h,
returned the other half. He fulfilled hi
contract like an honest man, but refused
with naughty distain the offer of the cash
Ter to marry his daughter.
Mac is now honored and respected
He moves in the best society, he browse
around in purple and fine linen and othe
good clothes, and enjoys himself frs
rate. And often now he takes his infan
son on his knee, and tells him OF hi
early life, and instills holy principles int
the child's mind, and shows him how
by industry and perseverance, and fru
gality, and nitro-glycerine, and monkey
wrenches, and crosscut-saws, and famil
iarity with the detective system, even tn
poor may rise 10 afiluencc and response
bility.-Mark TRAIN.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-07

ports, and finds the market price for
New York to be Ia cents, that of West
crn Reserve l2l cents, and Illinois l2a
cents. His cheese is weighed, and he is
paid for Illinois cheese, 124 cents per
pound, for that is the market price Tor
Illinois cheese, and he knows that his
cheese is simply Illinois cheese though
he knows that it is rs good quality OF
cheese as he used 10 make IN Oneida
county, n. Y, and which he finds selling
at II cents, or cents above his, sim
ply, rs he thinks, for the reason that 1T
was made in New York State. OF late
these names have been slightly modified.
Ohio Factory il written for Western Re-
serve. and Western for Illinois
We now come back to Mr.. A. s cheese,
and find one of the clerks busy with a
stencil and brush putting on boxes of
this Illinois dairy the letters " New York
Factory \ few days later, he steps
into grocery at his own shipping depot,
and observes cheese in the snfe, nearly
half sold, marked New York Factory. p"
He looks at it again, and n grim smile
comes over his features, and he ejacu-
lates "By thunder y did you speak
to me" inquired the matter-of-fact
grocer. Eyes, sir; Id like to know
where you got that cheese. "Got it of
Mr.. b., No. - South Water street,
Chicago" $50 / thought but amt it
funny? When | sold that cheese to b.
it WAS Illinois Factory, but now you sell
it as New York Factory. ] knew 1t was
good, but somehow | could not make
+bot stuni1 II think So GupsS he found
it out after | left. " "Well, Mr.. Grocer,
he continues, lyon need not go to Chi
cago for cheese, and you may continue
to sell New York Factory as long rs you
please. You will save one freight and
one profit to the dealer, and | will save
one freight and one visit to the city, and
hereafter I will endeavor to look up the
retail dealer and sell to him direct, and
let these wholesale men take care OF
themselves and do their own grading.