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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-12-14
THE GOOD LITTLE SISTER.

THE GOOD LITTLE SISTER.
That was bitter winter,
When Jenny was four years old
And lived in alonely farmhouse
Bitter, AID long, and cold!
The crops had been q failure
In the barn there was room to spare,
And Jenny's hard-worked father
Was tub Of anxious care.
Neither his wife nor children
Knew Lack of fire or bread;
They had whatever was nee01ui,
We're sheltered and clothed and ted,
But the mother, alas! was ailing-
,Tvas a struggle Just to live;
And they scarce had even hopeful words
Or cheerful smiles to give.
A GOOD. kind man was the father,
He loved his girls and boys,
But he whose hands are his riches
Has little for gifts and toys.
SO when it drew near the season
That makes the world SO glad
When Jenny knew twas time for gifts
Her childish heart was sad,
For the thought, &C. shall get no present
An ! the poor mans child learns early
Just what it means to be poor.
Yet still on the holy even,
AS she sat by the hearthstone bright,
And her sister told good stories,
Fer heart grew almost Light
For the hopeful skies of childhood
Are never quite o'ercast,
And she said, "Wbo knows but somehow
Something will come at last 2"
SO before she went TO her pillow
Her pretty stockings were tied
Safely together and silly hung
Close to the chimney-side.
There was little room for hoping,
One would say who had lived more years:
Yet the faith of the child is wiser
Sometimes than our doubts and fears.
Jenny mad good little sister,
Very big to her childish eyes,
Who was womanly, sweet and patient,
And kind as she was wise.
And she had thought of this Christmas
And the little it could bring,
Ever since the crops were half destroyed,
BY the freshet in the spring.
80 the sweetest nuts of the autumn
She had safely hidden away,
And the ripest and reddest apples
RoaFded for many day.
And at Last she mixed some seed-cakes
denny was sleeping then|,
And nodded them grotesquely,
Like birds, and beasts, and men.
Then she slipped them into the stockings,
And smiled to think about
The joyful wonder of her pet
When she found and poured them out!
And you couldn't have seen next morning
A gladder child in the land
Than that humble farmers daughter,
Wtth her simple gifts in her hand.
And the loving sister? All, you know
How blessed tits to give;
And they that think of others most
Are the happiest folks that live!
She had done what she could, my children,
To brighten the Christmas day,
And whether her heart or Jenny's
Was hghtest, it's hard to say.
And this, if you have but little,
Is what would say to you
Make all you can of that little,
DO all the good you can do.
And though your gifts may be humble,
Les no Little child, I pray,
Find only an empty stocking
On the morn of the Christmas day!
TITS yeaes and years since that sister
Went to dwell with the just;
And over her body the roses
Blossom and turn to dust.
And Jenny's happy woman,
With wealth enough and to spare,
And every year her lap is filled t.
With presents rich and rare.
But whenever she thanks the givers
For favoTs great and small,
She thinks of the dear little sister
VINO gave her more than they all.
bOebe CGgy. .4
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-12-14

THE rage for ostrich feathers is said
to be just as great among the savages
of Africa and Australia as it is among
women of civilized countries.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-12-14
The Greenback Vote.

The returns of the vote for the Cooper
and Cary electoral ticket in the late
election are incomplete. Our record is
TINS far as follows
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-12-14

christmas morning, and the snow was
falling and the wind whirling it around
like mad. A thousand COLLINS seemed
laughing and turning somersaults and
haillng each other as they sported round
the gables and whistled through the key
holes and chimneys, wild with mirth at
the coming of Christmas, and old Joe
-Darilngs small house, in a remote street
OF the great city, seemed especially hon
ored by the hobgoblins, who shook the
windows until they ratified again.
A great fire was burning and the
breaktast-table was set, and old Joe was
rubbing his hands in front OF the blaze
and looking out of the window, when a
voice behind him, with rush of laugh
ter III 1t and sounding like silver bell,
exclaimed:
Christmas gift, father, dear. I have
caught you"
Old joe turned around. AS he did so
pair OF rosy lips pressed his cheek and
two arms chung about his neck, belong
ing to a little fairy of II.
Why, you look like a sunbeam,
Daisy" he said.
And indeed the face resembled one so
brilliant was the light of her eyes.
Daisy was small, with a neat, COSY fig
ure, IN plain, but pretty dress; and
you saw at glance that this was one of
those httle-fngered fairies, who are the
blessings Of the homes in which they
rule.
The father smiled, and fondly passed
his hand over her hair. AS he looked
at her ne thought Of his well-nigh peani-
less condition and heaved sigh.
"Poor Little lady-birdi I have moth
ing for youl" he said, signing again.
But Daisy did not seem to regard the
circumstances as at all depressing. On
the contrary her face glowed, and, turn
ing her bright face toward one side, she
whispered:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-12-14

Olou TWO Sauc0rS-n1S NOUN opened TO
it's utmost width-and, in the excess of
his attention, he very nearly swallowed
his baby-spoon. No one looked at Daisy.
With one hand shading her eyes from
the light, and the other placed upon her
breast, she looked at Uncle John, or
furtively toward her father.
Uncle John continued:
< "Having told you, my dear children,
how the story came to be known, I will
next proceed to relate it for your enter
tainmeDt.
"There once lived in the city OF Bag
dad an old merchant whose name was
Barilzac, which, being interpreted is
Worthy Man. Misunderstanding -not
unlike thenane of our own family served
the good merchant Barilzac, whose car
avans brought to Bagdad all the treas
ures of the East. But misfortune came.
The caravans were overwhelmed in the
sands of the desert. The moment was
near when Barilzac would probably be
compelled to strew dust upon his head
and wander through the streets Of Bag
dad, crying, Barilzac, the merchant, is
ruined Z
"This happened" continued Uncle
John, "iust before the great festivity
which comes on the twenty fifth day OF
the month of Shows. Abou-ben. darling
came home that day, thinking of the
misfortunes of his patron, and also OF
the great suffering Of his own-for all
of us must suffer, my children. His
only son had been lost at sea, and the
heart of Accommodating was sad. He
returned to hold the festivity OF the
cedar-tree, but his heart felt heavy.
Notwithstanding is miserable!' he
said; there is no man more miser-
able =
GAS he thus spoke, his daughter Par
ibanou approached him. Dhe name of
Paribanou, my children, signifies the
Flower Of the Daisy. She came now to
Abou- -darling,l and, kissing him in
the Eastern fashion, said: 90, father
dear! O Abou-b en-darling do not
despair Behold the feast is set, and
the holy cedar tree blazes; the tapers
therein shine like stars, and many gifts
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-19

glimpse of a tall, stately girl, with ardent
eyes, that the last time he had seen were
smiling in his own; glory Of golden
hair, that had so lately been plllowed on
his breats; fair, ivory cheeks, just tinted
with the pink hue of sunrise-3Iadge
Ernest, all unconscious of his nearness,
leaning on Theobald Garland's arm, her
pale, pink kidded hand clasped lightly
over his sleeve, her trailing skirts of
creamy white and dainty blush sweeping
regally over the velvet floor.
They passed between the blue silken
curtains that separated the smaller sa-
loon from the conservatory long twi-
lighted apartment, just the very place
where Ronald had fancied he would
come upon her unawares; and with his
grave, splendid eyes glowing, his heart
painting, and all the love for his be-
trothed almost at his fingers end, he
went on after them, to pause sharply,
suddenly, as if pistol had been fired
behind his ear-petrifed into the mo-
tionlessness and silence of a statue by
tle sound of Madge Ernest's voice
Madge Ernest's sweet, intense voice
coming from within a rose-bower not a
yard distant.
But don't love him, Theobald! I
have been false to every feeling of my
heart when l told him loved him, for
love you. Oh, Theo, Theo don't look
at me so-dcn't. Give me just one word,
Just one look as you used to do, and I
will tn be content when I go to Mr.. Win
field. For Gods sake, TheObald, don't
repulse me
And Garland's low, steady tones came
like the clang of steely bell
''NIiss Ernest, if I had a word or look
for you, for my friend Ronald's sake,
| would rot let itpass my lipso my eyes,
He loves you; he has perfect trust il
you as had once"
And Ronald Winfield parted the sprays
of dropping, fragrant roses, and stepped
into their presence.
cas- he never well have again Theo
bald, friend, thank you! Miss Ernest
goodnight, good-bye!"
That has been a long time ago, anC
8Iadge Ernest is Madge Ernest still; anc
while the days have brought healing tt
Ronald Winfeld's bruised heart, 50 i
did to Theobald Garland-for here there
remains nothing but vain regretsand un
availing self-reproaches.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-19
WOlAN,s NATURE.

Some wives are not happy who
have good husbands. They have married
men who are sober, industrious, econ
omical, good providers, and who are
respected and esteemed by their neighbors
as good citizens. Where, then, is the
trouble2 These men do not understand
woman's nature. She is emphatically
emotional. Her affections are very
strong. thas been said that love is only
a part of mans nature, but it is a
woman's life. She is not willing to take
any thing for granted. Do not, then, be
chary of affections language. Tell her
you love her, and show her by your
every act that you mean what you say.
If there comes a bright, pleasant after
noon go to the house and take her with
you on a buggy-ride;n no matter if you
are busy planting corn you can get a
man to work all the afternoon for fifty
cents. Talk to her of old times, let her
see that you live to make her happy
that she holds the first place in your af-
fections. Praise her attempts to please
you. Let her see that her efforts are aP-
preciated; and when the ride is over,
and you note the sparkling eye, the
elastic step, and the bright, happy smile,
you will feel more than repaid. And one
thing more let me tell you: Such rides
and such treatment are wonderfully
potent to keep the doctor, aye more, the
undertaken, from yourdoOr. Remember,
then, always, that happiness is a pre-
ventive of disease. Does your wife love
flowers? Then give her what ground
she wants; give it freely, as her right.
Assist her when you can. Try to sym
pathize with her tastes. Consult her on
all important subjects. Does she love
music? Then get her an organ or piano,
even if it be at the expense Of great
denial. Dees she love literature? Then
get her books and papers. Crafty her
tastes. Let her cultivate her mind-'tis
immortal. Let men and women both
cultivate their finer qualities. There is
something in this life better worth living
for than mere dollars and cents. In the
world beyond there is eternal progress
toward perfection, and the more we
develop and cultivate the immortal mind
here the higher will be our rank and
position in the world to come.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-19

his earliest manhood, he was as a father
and moral guide to his army and in
l776, the chosen, trusted and successful
leader in the most perilous and impOr-
tant political revolution ever under
taken; and again in 1895, the wisest and
most disinterested counsellor to the then
youthful republic; 50 also in this CEN
tennial year, 1875, may his counsels and
examples have influence with the people
of that same republic in its precocious
maturity.
The proposition recently made in the
United States senate and elsewhere, to
complete the Washington monument
at the seat Of government, may be
as jddicious as it is patriotic. But a
more immediate necessity to perpetuate
the memory and the influence of the
" Father of his Country" is to put his
" Farewell Address," in a form at once
attractive and easy to be read and
preserved, intn every family in this great
nation
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-19
FROM Il LETTER.

looked in the paper and, looking, did see
l i TottaT entitled, q From Over the Sea"
Ale SgIt Of mountains and valleys and hills
~ bI,,e' sleeping lakes and of silvery rills,
~ u aid Of o village 50 tiny and small,
Of bits Of e9tage sweet R2os sDd and ALL
80 ~ ~ nature so kindly lent to the place.
! 1 n taar in her casket, wonderful dream
~ a GbIoWn, cear-eyed women. Of cows and cream,
And dazzling white peaks rising high in the air
q BEAUTIFUL picture, a landscape most fair;
~ from the world with its hustle and strife,
a a oy from the fashion and vain things of life;
q @ %neaceful and restful, and green and retired
Fl H. fscene for painter or poet inspired.
+ ~ 1Tonld l could fly there and dwell eVermsTe
a. Az the water which tenderly kisses its shore;
D. the snOwy-capped mountains so free and 50 grand,
There the Sunshine of purity rests Ger the land:
sweet spot, still smile on through the fast coming
And iii with thy fragrance this valley Of tears.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-19
W4SHLNGTOT As 1 MORAL REFOR-
1FER.
BY THE REV. CHARLES J. WARREN.

BY THE REV. CHARLES J. WARREN.
The father of his country as Wash
ington has been so justly called, will be
often remembered in this centennial
year, by many as a successful military
leader, by others as a wise statesman
and by some as an unwavering patriot.
When mentioned in popular addresses,
those are the principal traits of charac-
ter that have been given him. Yet he
had other characteristics that should not
be forgotten. He was pre-eminetly
christian, who believed that the first
duty of every human being was to fear,
love and obey God. Another cardinal
principle of his was, that both religion
and patriotism demand from one and all
strictly virtuous and sober life. And
he was, after the best method, a moral
reformer, who taught that the well-being
and safely of every nation depended
greatly on the virtuous principles and
good conduct of the individuals who
composed that nation. He also believed,
if we may credit his words or his life,
that Just in proportion as men are, by
official position, elevated to extended
influence, they are bound to exert that
influence, so as to inculcate and enforce
the prime duty of morality, virtue and
piety upon all in every subordinate posi-
ton. He evidently possessed the prin-
ciples that should regulate his official
conduct on such lessons of political wis
dom and duty as are found in the END
and 1Olst Psalms; and upon such models
as those of Joshua and Nehemiah.
All these characteristics Washington
began to exhibit on his earliest entrance
upon public life. In his first campaign,
when only twenty-tour years OF age, he
was not only a gallant, sagacious and
cautious military leader, but to his army
he was a moral and religious teacher,
example and guide. Whether engaged
in sanguinary battles with the French
and Indians, or in the almost equally
perilous marchings in the wilderness, he
would have a religious service dialy per
formed in camp. Through his whole
military career, in the French war and
in that of the revolution, his general
orders against profane swearing, gam,
ing, drunkenness and other vices, and
exhorting to a reverential fear of God
and a serious attendance upon the dutie:
of divine worship, display the tender
heart of a father and friend, as fully
as they do the stern authority he was
Obliged to assume as a military com
mander.
FROM THE ORDERLY BOOK, 1886.
FRENCH WAR.
| Col. Washington has observed that the
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-19
SUNNY ROOMS AND SUNNY LIVES.

Light, says Scribner's, is one of the
most active agencies in enlivening and
identifying a home. We all know the
value of sunlight as a health-giving
agent to the physical constitution; and
it is not less 50 to our moral and spiritual
natures. We are more active under its
infuence-can think better and act more
vigorously.
Let us take the ARREST, choicest and
sunuiest room in the house for eur living
room-the workshop where brain and
body are built up and renewed: And let
US there have bay window, no matter
how plain in structure, through which
the good twin-angels of nature-sunlight
and pure air-can freely enter.
Dark rooms bring depression of spirits,
imparting a sense of confinement, of iso-
lation, of Powerlessness, which is chill
ing to energy and vigor; but in light
rooms is good cheer.
Even in a gloomy house, where walls
and furniture are dingy ard brown, you
have but to take down the heavy cur
tains, open wide the window, hang brack-
cts on either side, set flower-pots OH the
brackets and let the warm sun stream
freely in, to bring health to our bodies
and Joy to our souls.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-19

Mrs. Smith" says Mrs. Jones, at
Long Branch, ''your boy Johnny hit my
boy Jimmy over the head with a crOquet
mallet, and I am surprised you allow
him to act so outrageously." "My boy"
says MIS-. Smith, drawing herself up to
her full Smithsonian Institute height,
sis perfectly we'll behaved; he was prob
ably provoked to nit your VIGOROUSLY
bad Jimmy, and l consider it rude and
impertinent for yOu to address me in
this excited manner"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-19

Two handsomer men seldom sat down
to a tete-a-tete dinner than Ronald Win
field and Theobald Garland, and sun
nier sky never shone over London street
than shone that lovely April day, and
that smiled into the dining room of the
hotel where these two gentlemen ate
through their menu leisurely, and
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-26

Many have read of the story OF the TWO
travellers who, after scaling the Alpine
heights, returned to their valley home, Beng
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-26
HISTORY OF MASONRY.

The Antiquity and Universality OF the Order.
Masonry is one of the Oldest If not the very
Oldest organized body of men existing IN the
world. Its history is found in the earliest
records. II dates away back to the cradle of
the race and the morning of recorded time
Its legends extend beyond the historic age.
1t has raked up In It's ashes the essence of all
sciences and Of all human history. 1t is
common to all nations and all religions. Its
affairs now extend around the world. Its
light shines in all lands. Its brotherhood is
the most complete of any in the world. Ii
unItes in one body men Of all countries, sects
and opinion. Ii contains in its archives the
condensed wisdom of all time. The intelli-
gent Mason stands upon the highest emf
nence OF human observation. He finds
finds IN his cosmos the histories OF all ma.
tons, ages AMI religions. He finds the teach.
ings OF the order in the Vedas of Elindoostan,
in the sacred books of Confucas and Budah,
in the Avesta of ZOroaster, in the ancient
scrolls and hieroglyphics of Egypt, in the
writings OF the prophets and sages Judea, in
the beautiful and enduring philosophy of So
crates, Plato, and Aristotle; IN the teaching
of Jesus and MOhammed: IN the laws and
religion of the Scandinavian and TeutoniC
races He traces the foo!steps'ot our ancient
brethren from the cradle Of the seven great
races in Bactriana IN Central Asia, among
the Judcan hills. about Jerusalem, among the
fallen columns and broken arches of ruined
cities and desolate empires, around the pyra-
mids and the Sphinx, throughout the marble
wilderness of Greece, and among the moul-
dering temples of Roman power. Wherever
man has wandered suffered and died, there
he finds the footprints OF Masonry, and the
grave of brother. From all these sources he
culs lessons of wisdom. While Masonry
embraces in its tenctS the fundamental teach
iugs of the Christian religion as we'll as of
other great religions 1t does not profess to be
II religious institution. 1t regards the whole
human species as one family, the children Of
one Great Parent, and strives to do good to
all men without distinction. 1t visits the
sick and afflicted, it burics the dead with the
honors Of the order. ItproteCts and provides
for the widows and the orphans, and spreads
the broad mantle of its charity over the weak.
ness, frailties and errors of mankind It's
mission is love and good works. 1t seeks
to do good to all and harm to none. Many
of the greatest and best of whose names
brightens the pages OF history, and whose
good deeds have render them Immortal, were
members Of the order. 1t numbers more
than q million men in the United States.
Many of the best men in every town or city
in this state are proud to say that they are
members Of this ancient and honorable order
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-26
From Garfield.

Garfield, La Sale Co., H., is situated on
the &. & A. r. K, western division, md on
the highest point OF land between Blackstone
! in Livingstone county, and Lacou, Marshall
county, in the midst OF fertile prairie that
is surpassed by none in the state Of Hi.
nois. Has two grain elevators one mill, one
store, one shoe.sEop, one saloon, one black.
smith shop one lumber yard and post of
flee, abundance of brick clay, but no brick
yard; an unlimited supply of pure water at a
depth OF "a feet Coal in unlimited quaint.
ties within six miles. Corn IS the principal
product Of the land, though considerable oats
and some rye are cultivated, Town lots are
lain out 80 $50 f., streets GG fl. in width
and 20 II. alleys; value of lots $50 to $500 !;
value of farm lands $40 to $6J per acre, Of
which quite "a number are changing hands
this winter The latest trade was made by
our energetic and well to do citizens, J. J
Finn and Joseph Boyd-Finn being the pur-
chased and Boyd the seller.
Abner Iiogc was in our town recently with
his compass and Guntcrs claim, hunting the
corners of q number Of lots, the object being
to point out the place for some new build.
ings to to be erected ins,anter.
Some man wanting TO engage IN the brick
business in a locality where much brick is
wanted and where there Is no yard would do
we'll TO examine the site at Garfield.
GREAT SCorT.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-26

Three freight cars containing $6,0000 600
worth Of silkworm eggs arrived al St. Johns
Park Depot on Tuesday. They had come
from Hong Kong to San Francisco in twenty
three days, and thence TO New York in less
than seven days, the speed being faster than
the mails are carried by the same route
This uncommon cargo is going to Italy and
the south of France, and could have reached
its destination quicker and at less cost by
way of the Suez Canal, bu, il has been found
useless to ship them that way, because the
southern climate halcheS the eggs.
The silk.worms are put upon long sheets of
card board in China, and are left until each
board is covered with eggs, which are about
the size of mustard seed. The eggs stick to
the card, which, interlaid with sheets of pa
per, are packed in wooden boxes, tightly
closed, and wrapped in canvass and mating.
In this shipment there were 847 cases, con.
tanning over 10000 cards The cases were
transferred yesterday 10 the Hamburg steam.
or Fr'sia which will sail for Europe today.
When he eggs reach their destination, they
will be stored in vaults, secure against
warmth, until the mulberry trees on which
they feed have grown the foliage.-Ne, Yorh
Sun.