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BORROWED OFFICERS.
Army Commanders in Russia and Turkey.
From the New Yorl- u;,.,o.a

Army Commanders in Russia and Turkey
From the New York Times.l
Since the present war began many
small pleasantrles have been leveled at
the fact that both combatants are wag-
ing it upon borrowed money but less
notice has been taken of a vet more sig
niieant fact that most of the best Of
ficers on either side are borrowed like
wise. It is singular enough to remark
how invariably every commander who
has distinguished himself in Turkey for
years past proves to be a foreigner.
Omar Pasha was Hungarian Behram
Pasha Scotchman; Iskoder Bey, one
OF the best Turkish cavalry officers of
the Crlmean war, a Polish refugee. his
true name being Mikhail Tchaikovski !:
Nasmyth and Butler, the defenders of
Slllstria in 1853, were English officers !;
lbrahim Aga was originally an Edinburg
gunsmith, Thomas Keith by name; Ho-
bart Pasha, who has just signalized him
self by running the gauntlet of the Rus
sian batteries on the Danube. is an En-
gllshman, and it is well known that
many high commands, both in Turkey
and Egypt, are held at this moment by
officers from the United States.
Nor is Russia whit behind her rival
In this curious species of importation.
From the very opening of the century
till now the victories of Russia have been
the triumphs of foreigners. Benning-
sen, who fought the battles of Eylau and
Friedland in 1907, and defeated Ma
poleon himself at Heilsberg on the Aller,
was q German. His colleague, Oster-
man Tolstoi, was from the Baltic prov
inces. Barclay de folly, commander
in-chief in 1912 till superseded by the
Russian Kutuzoff, was a Hanoverian.
Langeron and Wittgenstein, the heroes
Of 1813-14, were Of foreign blood, as was
also Count Diebitsch, the victor of Adri-
anople in 1929. Prince Paskievitch, the
conqueror Of Erivan, sprung from a
Hungarian family Gems. Auref, Schil-
ders and Luders, who figured in the
Danubian campaign Of 1853, were all
foreigners. Gen. Todleben (by far the
best engineer whom Russia possesses) is
a Courlander; Gen. Nepokoytschitski, a
Pole. In fact, it is difficult to run over
the prominent names on either side
without recalling the old mess-room
story of the English interpreter, who,
while watching with delight the meeting
of a fierce-looking Russian General with
a shawled and bearded Pasha, was sud-
denly petrifed by hearing Turk and
Russian break forth simultaneously,
"Eh, Donald Campbell! are ye here? %
Lord keep us, Sandy Robertson, can
this be You?"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-05-31

AntOcracy in Russia.

Russia is the only country Of Europe
in which an autocratic form Of Govern
ment exists. Even Turkey possesses at
present constitution, with the ordinary
mise en- scene Of two chambers, a
responsible Ministry, liberty Of the
press, and all the rest Of it. Russia has
nothing of the kind All the power of
it's Government is supposed to be con-
edntrated in the person of the Gear, who
appoints all the higher officials, legis-
lative, Judicial and administrative. No
class or corporation of the people pos
sesses any political rights except that Of
petitioning Government for some special
purpose, and it is expressly under
stood that such petitions must never re-
fer to the existing form of Government,
which, being established '-by the grace
of God, is considered an unquestion-
able dogma.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-05-31
Fashionable Life in st. Petersburg.

Gautler has presented a captivating
picture of fashionable interior in the
city of st. Petersburg. It's chief charm
consists In the prodigal display of flowers
which adorn every nook, even in mid
winter. In a temperature steadily main
tanned at summer heat, the choicest ex-
otlcs bloom from September until June,
and gladden. the beholder with vision
Of tropical luxuriance. In climate
where snow wells the face of the earth
through six months of the year, the sight
of growing vegetation within doors be-
comes almost necessity to relieve the
eye oppressed with the contemplation of
inanimate nature lying still and white in
the dress of the dead. Double windows
exclude the cold of the outer atmosphere,
and the space between the two sashes,
being filled with sand covered with fresh
moss, cheers the sight with a strip of
living greenery. By every ingenious
device the Russian endeavors to
evade in his dwelling suggestion of the
rigorous climate that environs him.
In the open air in winter the sons and
daughters of luxury are inwrapped in
furs which leave the face alone visible.
The climate imposes upon them ma
tional costume at this season, but by the
grades in it's cost it is made to reveal the
wealth of it's wearer. Women of the
upper classes never walk in the streets,
and men avoid doing SO whenever posi-
BILE. The droschky in summer and the
sledge in winter are the national We
hicles, and these are borne over the
rough pavements with the swiftness of
the wind. A favorite winter amusement
with young and old of both sexes is
coasting. Artificial mountains of ice are
constructed for the purpose, and down
their glitter1ng incline sleds covered with
merry passengers dash with exhilarating
impetuosity.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-05-31
Cheerfnlness the Offspring of Health.

That equable state Of the mind which is un-
rufied by triding incidents, and looks on the
sunny side Of things in general, is the result of
a healthful state of the brain and stomach.
The dyspeptic and nervous invalid may-al-
though this is rare indeed-feign cheerfulness,
and may bear the harassing symptoms which
persecute him with an assumption Of heroic
Indifference, but in reality he is the victim of
dependency. To experience genuine cheer
fulness of mind the stomach must recover it's
lost tone, the thinking organ it's normal quiet
ude. Hostetters Stomach Bitters are the best
remedy for mental depression, since they over
come the nervous debility and indigestion
which originate and foster it. Persons suffer-
ing from infirmities peculiarly incident to the
decline of life, ladies in delicate health, and
convalescents, derive solace and vigor from it's
use. Drive away the blues and revive the
dropping energies with this grand stimulatiye
tonic
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: 7 don't want nv thimhla. =

L QOn WanJ my UnllnDle.
"Patty-Miss Farquhar- what do you
mean 2"
Il mean to have those etters back"
announced Patty.
s.Do you want to roast me alive in
this Black Hole of Calcutta of place 90
gasped Mr.. Walker.
Z. I don't think I care much whether
you roast or not, answered Patty, de-
hberately.
81 shall shout for help"
"Shout away said Patty, with
laugh. "Dorcas is hanging out clothes
by the river, and mother has gone to the
village. DO shout =
"Patty r inploringly.
No reply.
Miss Farquhar p more imploringly
still.
Wen?"
cam I to be prisoner here for
life ?"
"Until you give me those letters"
IT can'tl" groaned Walker. "I
haven't got them with me"
g But you can tell me where they are,
I suppose" rejoined Patty.
The oven was hot and dark-a sensa-
ton akin to suffocation stole over Mr..
Stuart Walker.
sLet me out, said he grinding his
teeth, {" and I'll give 'em to you.
"l'hat won't do p retorted Miss Patty.
II must have them before you come
out, or not at all p
+" Impossible =
Nothing is impossible" mimicked
Patty, "where lady's behest spurs one
on p
Mr.. Walker uttered an ejaculation.
which was certainly not prayer.
II can't stand this broiling hole |"
shouted he. Sin the little summer
house under the loose board of the table
Quick, or 7 shall be stifed to death /"
And Patty flew off as if her tiny feet
were garnished with wings
In the little summer-house, under the
loose board Of the table, lay the two let
ters, as Mr. Waller had said, wrapped in
oiled silk, and tied with a yellow cigar
ribbon. Catching them up, she tore
them hurriedly open
CT kaseav it wasn't Dear Stuart 2" she
exclaimed, nockingly and then, tearing
them into a shower of infinitesimal pie.
ces, she flung them to the summer wind.
Half minute later, Mr. Waller, crum-
pied as to linen, frowsy as to hair, and
streaming with perspiration, crept out of
his sultry cell. Patty courtesied low to
greet his egress.
"Walk out, said she; coward and
liar p
Mr.. Waller made no reply. What
could he have said?
He left the Farquhar cottage that even
ing. He said he had received a telegram
Perhaps he had; but Patty had her
doubts on that subject. At all evenCs he
disappeared, and Patty Farquhar breathed
free again.
Morris Newton came back in October
and Patty married him. But she never
told any one, even her husband of the
episode of the old brick oven and the
two love-letters.
She had had her lesson and she had
profted by it, she told herself let all
else sink into oblivion.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-05-31
An Old Claim Settled.

Ninety-seven years ago one Of the old
Continentals presented a bill against the
Government for supplies furnished to
the. Revolutionary army. It's original
sum was $4,000. Stage after stage of
red-tape was passed through, and hope
deferred while Congress and the courts
made football Of the claim, and played
an extended game of Chow Not To Pay
It." Finally, on May IA, the United
States Treasury Department paid the
grandsons of the old Continental nearly
$50, 900, the amount Of the original claim
with interest added for the years that
made 1t venerable.
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COMPANIONS.
By R. H. sToDDARD.


French writer (whom I love welD speaks of
lree kinds Of companions: men, women, and
ooks.-S7r John DaUys.
We have companions comrade mine
Jolly coed fellows, tried and true,
Are filling their cups with the Rhenish wine,
And pledging each other, as do YOU
Never man in all the land
But has, in his hour of need friend
Who stretches to him helping hand
And stands by him to the bitter end.
If not before, there is comfort then,
In the strong companionship of men,
But better than that, old friend of mine.
Is the love of woman, the life of life,
Whether in maiden's eyes it shine.
Or melts in the tender kiss of wife;
A heart contented to feel, not know
That finds in the other it's sole delight:
White hands that are loath to let us go,
The tenderness that is more than might!
On earth below, in heaven above,
Is there anything better than woman's love?
| do not say so, companion mine,
For what without it, would be here?
1t hghtens my troubles, like this good wine.
And, if [ must weep, sheds tear for tear!
But books, old friends that are always new,
OF all good things that we know are best
They never forsake us, as others do,
And never disturb our inward rest.
Here is truth in a world of lies.
And all that in man is great and wise
Better than men and women, friend.
That are dust, though dear in our Joy and pain
Are the books their cunning hands have penned
For they depart, but the books remain:
Through these they speak to us what was best
In the loving heart and noble mind;
All their royal souls possessed
Belongs forever to all mankind
When others fail him. the wise man looks
TO the sure cOmpanionship of books
-At5a23tic Monthly for June.
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1--WE don't take boarders," said Mrs.
Farquhar, looking in an owlish fashion
through her spectacle-glasses at Mr.
Stuart Waller "We've got plenty and
to spare without the trouble of 'em.
You'll find the tavern three-quarters of
a mile below. You must have come
right past its door,"
$50 I did," said Mr.. Waller, who
possessed the insinuating, semi-chivalric
manner that made every lady whom he
addressed feel herself, for the time
being, the only feminine creature in all
the universe !; shut no amount of money
would hire me to make my home in a
place like that. Here it is a, glimpse of
paradise" looking admiringly around at
the shady lawns, the clematis- bordered
porch, and the rose-hedges all sprinkled
over with pink buds. 81 am sure,
madam, you will reconsider your de-
cision, and take me in for few DAYS.
and will promise to be no more trouble
around the house than a kitten. :"
Mrs. Farquhar was but human, and
the upshot of affairs was that Mr.. Wal
ler's trunk arrived the next day.
ION, mother y said Patty Farquhar,
knitting her pretty black eyebrows,
why did you let him in? And we sc
so peaceful and comfortable here p
"Child, why shouldn't ~" said the
widow. Hes to pay $40 week board,
and I have no use for the little three
cornered room over the parlor. .
81 don't know" said Patty, slowly,
"but it seems to me I feel exactly as
Eve must have felt when she saw the
serpent writhing his way into paradise. !
Nonsense r said Widow Farquhar,
almost angrily.
But Patty only laughed, and ran away
under the shadow Of pink buds, to
meet Morris Newton, her atfianced lover.
"Little one, said Morris, imprisoninq
both her soft white hands in his, GIVE
got bad news for you'll"
"Bad news, Morris ?"
GIVE got to go to Omaha next week
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-05-31
THEinyentors of BURNErT's COCAINE

The inventors of BURNErT's COCAINE
knowing that when the loss of hair occurs, it
is generally from that part of the head where
the greatest heat is necessarily generated and
that animal fats by their nature induce heat
rather than alleviate it-turned their attention
and pharmaceutical science toward vegetable
oils, as the basis of medicament to promote
the growth and preserve the beauty of the hair.
The ote,tno cOcos, or CoCoANUT OIL, presented
itself most strongly, as possessing many prop
critics peculiarly adapted for the purpose; but it's
odor was Objectionable, and its density Except
when exposed to heat) seemed for long time
to defy all efforts to render it available for pop
ular use in cooler climates. BY a scientific Sc
lection of other ingredients, those which will
chemically combine with the oil have been dis
covered, and they together have produced a
compound which is Tnqualitiedly pronounced to
be the best that has yet appeared.
In the form presented this oil is permanently
deodorized, and held in a combination which
peculiarly adapts it for the toilet BURNETT's
CocoA1NE is unrivaled in delicacy and agreeable
ness-cooling in it's nature-and possesses such
penetrating affinity for the secretions Of the
skin that it is rapidly absorbed.
It's greatest efficacy is best secured by a per-
feet cleansing, before its application, of the
hair and scalp. under which circumstances this
oil alloys i7'tation renaoues all tendency to
dand,qtf, and i1auigorotes the action of the cap
illaries in the highest degree. It's effect upon
the glossiness and richness of the hair is such
as cannot be surpassed and it is offered to the
public in the firm belief that it only requires to
be known to supersede all other preparations.
We are confident that no one who will make
trial of it's efficacy will be willing to return to
o.
JOSEPH BURNETT q Co., Boston, manufact-
urers and proprietors.
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Red Noses.

According to an English authority,
redness of the nose in both sexes is pro
duced by inattention to the common
rules for preserving health With men
the bottle is the predisposing cause
with women, and especially the young,
tight lacing. An unnatural pressure on
the waist and chest obstructs the circu-
lation, and causes stagnation of the blood
in that prominent and important feature,
the nose.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-05-31

The essentials for wide popularity are
fully met in Colgate & Co.'S Cashmere Bouquet
Soap. It is universally esteemed by the tasteful
and refined as the most delicate and recherche
of perfumes, and the name and trademark of
Colgate & Co. on each package are guarantee
of superior and uniform quality. With such
nice adaptation the success of this article is
not surprising.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-05-31

WE have sold Hatchs Universal Cough
Syrup for about three years. No medicine of
the kind sells as rapidly, or gives such uniform
satisfaction. 1t has grown in favor from the
first of its use in this section. It takes the lead
of all those preparations that have been con-
sidered standard. ROBINSON & WENDELL.
Fairhaven. Cayuga Co., N. Y.
Sold by Fl. A. Hurlbut & Co., Chicago. I'll.
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W11HoFT's Tonic "A SAFE, SURE, AND
SCIENTIFIC CURE THE unprecedented sale of
this world-renowned medicine proves incon-
testibly that no remedy has superseded the use
of this reliable Tonic. No spleen has been
found so hard as not to yield to It's softening
influence, and no liver SO hypertrophied as not
to give up its long-retained bilious secretions,
and No Chill or Fever has yet refused to fall
into line. G. R. FINLAY & Co., Proprietors,
New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS
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Doo1eY,s Yeast Powder

Is prepared on scientific principles, and from
ingredients that are the most effective and
wholesome. 1t has received the highest en-
comiums for these merits from eminent chem
lists, scores of our best physicians and thous-
ands of intelligent cooks and housewives. The
genuine can be had only in tin cans.
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AFTER an experience OF over twenty
five years, many leading physicians acknowI-
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for diseases to which women are subject. The
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-15
WAR NEWS.

Turkish advices of the 4th were to the
effect that Russian attack on Kamarli had
been repulsed with great loss to the assail-
ants. The Turks also claimed to have Sc
cured decided advantages in fight near
Tirnova, in which the Russian loss was est-
mated at 5000. Their own losses were not
stated. This news came from Constantine
pie direct
Turkish official dispatches of the 9Th
state that Suleiman Pasha has captured
Ugana, with II guns, 20 ammunition wagons,
and 800 prisoners.
A ConstantinOple dispatch of the 9th
says: One Turkish division has crossed the
Lom, taken PopkOi, and is marching in the
direction of Verboca. Another Turkish di-
vision is only three hours march from Tir-
nova. The Russians admit the capture of
Ilgana, and acknowledge heavy losses, after
a stubborn resistance.
Dispatches of the 9th state that Sulei-
man Pasha is making strenuous efforts to
relieve Flevna, and hopes to force the with
drawal of enough Russian troops to enable
Osman Pasha to get out. In Asia the Turks
have evacuated Batoum, and the fall of
Erzeroum is daily looked for, as reinforce
ments can not now reach Mukhtar Pasha.
English Intervention in behalf of Turkey is
again the current rumor in London.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-15

wife occupied an adjoining room
and upon their opening the door OF
their apartment they were confronted by the
desperate, who also knocked them both
senseless. The robber then fed. The
weapon used with such terrible effect by the
robber was gun. A negro named Webb,
who was formerly employed by Mr.. Finney,
is under arrest, his guilt being attested by
strong circumstantial evidence.
In Fountain Bluff Township, Jackson
County, ILL.,, on the 7th, Charles Maulrich,
in a fit of insane jealousy, shot and killed
his wife with rifle, and then deliberately
reloaded the same and shot himself. The
parties had been married ibut. four years,
but had separated on account ofYariOus dis
agreements.
At Norfolk, Va, a few days ago, Ben
janin Godfrey, aged 10, shot and instantly
killed Mollie E: Winingder, aged IT, and
then shot himself, infiicting a fatal wound.
The two were lovers and engaged to be mar
ried, but as the result of a quarrel, God
frey went and got intoxicated, and while i'll
half frenzied condition went to the lady's
house and, calling her into the hallway,
committed the tragic deed. Miss Winning
der, a very beautiful and sweet-tempered
girl, was the daughter of stephen Wining-
der, a prominent butcher of Norfolk.
Wash. Atkinson, colOred, who COM
mitted fatal assault upon a prominent cit
izen of Arkadelphia, Ark, named Ridge
way, was taken from the Jail at that place by
a party of armed men on the 9Th and hang
ed to a cross beam of a bridge
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-15
How Much Can a Man Read?

The longest single poem, believe,
extant, is an Italian poem, the
"Adone'' of Marini, who lived in the
time of our James 1. 1t contains 49,
600 lines. AS for Spain, one single au-
thor of the seventeenth century, Lope
de Vega, wrote 1900 plays; his works
altogether fill forty-seven quarto vol
umes. Alfonso TOstado, a Spanish Bish-
op of the fifteenth century, wrote nearly
forty folios, having covered with print
three times as many leaves as he had
lived days. To come to England. Our
William Prynne wrote 200 different
works. Chalmers collected edition of
the English poets only comes down to
Cowper, who died in 1900, and it fills
twenty-one volumes, royal 8vo, double
columns, small type. The volumes av-
erage 70G pages. This gives a total of
IA, 700 pages, or 29, 400 columns. Now
it ttakes-I have made the experiment.
four minutes to read column with fair
attention. Here is good years work
in reading over, only once, selection
from the English poets. The amount of
reading which student can get though
in a given time hardly admits of being
measured by the ell. The rate of read
ing varies with the subject,
he rapid glance with which we skim the
columns of a newspaper being at one
end of the scale, and the slow sap which
is required for a page of, say, Kant's
''Critique of Pure Reason being at the
other. Still, just to get something to
go upon, make calculation in this way
Suppose man to be able to read eight
hours a day. No one can really sustain
receptive or critical attention to written
matter for eight hours. But take eight
hours as the outside possibility. Thirty
pages 8vo is an average hours read,
taking one book with another. This
would make 240 pages per day, 1850
per week, and 81, 1850 pages in the year.
Taking the average thickness of an 8vo
volume as 400 pages only, the quantity
of reading which diligent student can
get over in year is no more than an
amount equal to about 220 volumes Svo.
Of course this is merely mechanical
by which we can not pre-
-end to gauge mental processes. But it
may be worth while knowing that the
merely mechanical limit of study is some
220 volumes 6vo per annum.-Fort-
Nightly ReUiea0.