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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-08-13
Is There an Average Young Man ?

Indeed, the classes of men are so i'm
mensely varied that livery much doubt if
there is an average young manic be found.
Why, man he is everything. He comes
In as many different patterns as summer
silks do. He is delicate aesthetic who.
through his very cultivation, may have
acquired deeper capabilities for commit
ting certain social crimes he is an ordi-
nary man of business, faithful to his
wife and accounting himself responsible
for the future Of his sons and daughters:
the undisguised blackleg, hbertine and
gambler, or he who hides those vices
under cloak of extremely moral and
dignified cut a social vampire seeking
what women he may destroy with his
breath frequenter of clubs, an ire
sponsible retailer of ISLANDERS; thieving
politician whose life is spent in climbing
through acres Of mire and filth IN search
of the Office that he will contaminate; a
religious fanatic or free-tlinking one !;
manly, good-hearted fellow enough
without any particular end or aim In
view; Christian gentleman who be-
ieves that as his life is on earth, so will
his future be when eternity sets in
and oh, dear, do you think you could
count up half as many different kinds of
woman as that? Well, 1 tell You, /
couldn't. As far as / can see women are
divided into two kinds, the civilized
and the uncivilized. And that word,
civilization. is capable Of dozen mean
ings, and it takes in dozen differ
ent conditions, too, from Christianity
down. - Catherine Cole an Nea0 orleans
Times.
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SPEECH OF GEN. GARFIELD
At the Dedication of the Soldiers
Monument, Geneva, Ohio.

Monument. Geneva. Ohio
FELLOW CITIZENS These gentlemen
had no right to print in paper here
that / was to make speech, for the
types ought always to tell the truth, and
they have not done it in this case. But
I,cannot look out upon a great audience
in Ashtabula county, recognizing so
many oldfaces and old friends, without
at least making my bow to them and
saying good-by before | go. I cannot,
either. hear such speech as that to
which I have just listened without
thanking the man who made it, and the
people who enabled him to make it; for,
after all, no man can make speech
alone. It is the great power that strikes
UP from thousand minds that acts on
him and makes the speech. It origin
ates with those outside Of him, if he
makes one at all, and every man that
has stood on this platform to- day has
had a speech made out of him, by you,
and by what is yonder on your square.
That is the way speeches are made,
and if / had time to stay here long
enough these forces with you might
make one out of me. Ideas are the only
things in this universe that are immortal.
Some people think that soldiers are
chiefly renowned for courage. That is
one of the cheapest and commonest
qualities. We share it with the brutes.
/ can find you dogs, and bears, and lions
that will fight, and fight to the death,
and will tear each other. Do you call
that warfare2 They are as courageous
as any of these soldiers, If mere brute
courage is what we are after. The
difference between them and US is this:
tigers never hold reunions to celebrate
their victories. When they have eaten
the creature they have killed, that IS the
only reunion they ever hold. Wild
beasts never build monuments over
their slain comrades. Why? Because
they have no ideas behind their war
fares. Our race has ideas, and because
IDEAS are immortal, if they are true, we
build monuments to them. We hold re-
unions not for the dead, for there is
nothing in all the earth that you and I
can do for the dead. They are past
our help and past our praise. We
can give to them no glory, and we can
give TO them no Immortality. They do
not need us, but forever and forever
more; we need them. The glory that
trailed in the clouds behind them after
their sun had set falls with benediction
on us who are living and it is to COM
memorate the immortality of the ideas
for which they fought that you assemble
to-day and dedicate your monument that
points up toward the God who leads
them in the glory Of the great world be-
yond. And around those ideas, under
the leadership Of the Immortality of
those ideas, we assemble to-day rever-
emily to follow, reverently to acknowl-
edge the glory they achieved and the
benediction they left behind them. That
is the meaning Of an assembly like this
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-08-13
Bachelor Housekeeping.

l suppose everybody knows
grass widow" means "a woman LIVING
temporarily absent from her husband. /
can think Of no corresponding term to ap-
ply to man in like condition, unless it
is "grass-widower." Iknow of one who
is just setting up his cabin on north
western prairie, prepared for summer
campaign of breaking" prairie sod. A
cook and hottle-washer feel deep
interest in their work, particularly in the
housekeeping. The boys success or fail
ure in cooking, washing, etc., will bring
credit or discredit to his mother and
that's me. have lately heard the father
inquire anxiously concerning his capa-
bilities: EDO you know how to cook
out meals?" "Can you make such gra-
ham bread as this?' "Does he under
stand the knack of making dried apples
eatable?" "You know how mamma seas
ons the macaroni, don't you?" etc. Both
are very fond of milk, and if they get
COW, or find good milk for sale close at
hand, the cooking and eating business
will be simplifed Milk goes well with
almost everything that our folks eat, as
we never use pickles, and vinegar very
seldom. To make sure of cooking the
oatmeal, cracked wheat, rice and hominy,
properly, they have taken along steamer
made after the farina-kettle plan. They
are directed to use one part oat meal,
rice or hominy, or cracked wheat, to four
paris of cold water In the inner kettle
with plenty of water to keep up boiling
in the outer one.
To secure good graham bread, they
have provided the best of graham flour
and the dried National Yeast Cake. :"
The cook will set thin sponge at night,
with half yeast cake, and -four and
warm water enough to make a large drip
ping-pan loaf (all they can bake at one
time in their oven), and in the morning
he will add sugar and graham -four until
he has stiff batter well beaten. This
will be turned into the buttered bread
pan without kneading, allowed to rise
quite light and then baked. It is pretty
sure to be good every time, for the same
cook has gone through the same move
ments many time, simply helping his
mother, but unconsciously educating him.
self to be great help to his father in
this emergency, and possibly to himself
later in life.-F'dith Rochester IN Amer
lean AQriculttwGliSt.
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1850 AND 1880.



From the New York Tribune.l
Is the country sick of prosperity ?
Docs It long to go back to the rule of
that party under which the public cred
it sank to zero, and secession and civil
war crowned q long career Of sectional
naisrule; greed and aggression? Would
it not be well to look about and to look
back, to see what the condition of the
country is, and what it was when Dem
ocracv ceased to govern it, before decid-
ing upon such changer
Within the past year the country has
produced more wheat than ever before,
more corn tflan ever before, more cotton
than ever before, more iron than ever
before, more petroleum than ever be-
fore, and has taken in from abroad more
specie than ever before. It's manufact-
ures have increased in value, and in
number of workmen employed and sup
ported, beyond all precedent. It's e1-
ports and imports have far surpassed
those Of any previous year in its history.
AS result, the tide Of immigration
the great barometer which shows the
relative condition Of labor in different
countries-has risen higher than ever
before for twenty-five years. These are,
In many respects, the direct and in 9TH
ers the indirect effect of twenty years of
Republican rule. Let us see what the
country is, and what 1t was during the
last year of Democratic rule. In 1860
there was general prosperity, as there is
now. The census and crop reports of the
year 1880 afford lis some means of
cortinariSon- as follows.
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REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE.

Never before in the history of the Re
publican party, save at National Con-
vention, have SO many leading men In
the party been collected together, out of
Congress, as were gathered at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, New York, on the 9Th inst.
Most of them were drawn to that city by
the notice that conference on political
matters would be held, and others came
topay theirrespectst Gen. ]. A. Garfield
and Gen. Chester A. Arthur, the candidates
of the party. Among them were John
Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury !;
United States Senators Logan, of lii
nois Allison, of Iowa Plumb, of Kan
sas Blaine, of Maine; Dawes, of Mas
sachusetts Bruce, of Mississippi; Rol.
Inns and Blair, of New Hampshire and
Cameron, of Pennsylvania Thurlow
Weed and ex-Gov. Morgan, of New York.
Ex-Gov. Jewell, Chairman of the Re
publican National Committee, called the
conference to order and presided. He
made brief address, explaining the OBJ
jeet of the gathering, and was followed
by several speakers, including United
States Senator John A. Logan, of Illi-
nois and the Hon. John Cessna, Chair
man of the Pennsylvania State Conven-
ton.
The following resolution was adopted:
RESOLVED, That it is the sense of this meeting
that Southern districts should be assisted
whenever such assistance was demanded, and
that the campaign should not be abandoned in
any Southern State.
Secretary Sherman, being called on,
said his heart beat for all those men who
had carried their banner through the
Southern States, be they white or black.
When Republicans sent money and aid
to Indiana they also did good to the
Southern States. He would give to
those Southern districts they expected
to carry, men, aid and money. He
would not waste money where he knew
it would do no good.
Addresses were also delivered by Hon.
George B. Loring, of Massachusetts ;
Ex-senator Conover, of Florida; John
Cessna, of Pennsylvania; Senators
Blaine and Logan; A. NJ. Jones, of Hi
nois; Ex-Governor Pinchback, of Louis
lana, and Thurlow Weed, of New York
Gen. Garfield did not participate in
the conference. During the day he re-
ceived many distinguished visitors, and
in the evening he was rendered an ova-
ton by the Republican Central Cam
paign Club, headed by Gen. Often
hoefer and Gen. John G. Fremont. Over
1000 members of the club were intro
d,1oad ~ Gan CART old He rafor1,ad 70
Gen. Fremont as the first Republican
Presidential candidate he voted for,
whereat Gen. Fremont responded by
saying that the first Republican candi-
date greets the last.
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ffgiat-Rrainef TOmen.

NJ. LIE Bon, in rendering an account
of the progress of his observations on
the comparative mean weights of male
and female skulls, has explained the
precautions which he had taken to avoid
errors arising from considerations Of the
differences, bodily stature, age; face,
and social or civilized .tatus. After tax
ing ali these conditions into account, he
finds difference of 172 grammes in IA
vor of the skulls of men over those Of
women. He asserts that while q newly
born girl has heavier brain than a
newly-horH hoy--an advantage which
she rapidly loses the women of inferior
races are relatively superior to those Of
high-civilized races, IN other words, vow
an does not advance, and consequently,
the differences between her and man are
constantly augmenting. If NJ. lie Bon's
assertions are to be accepted as facts,
they would undoubtedly seem to point
to the necessity Of bringing the oppor-
tunities Of intellectual culture more
closely within reach of women, but the
learned doctor predicts that the abom-
nation of desolation will fall on society
if women he removed from the happy
ignorance of their domestic hearths.-
Nature
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KukIuxism in Georgia.

The story of the outrage on the
Thompson family, colored, by night
riders in Georgia, shows how the bar
barism that inspiredkukluxisrn survives.
Nowhere, except in one of the ex-siave
States, is such an atrecity possible. II
is such as nowhere, even in the South,
would the worst outlaws dare attempt to
perpetrate upon anybody except negroes.
To the nigflt-riders who disgrace the
South. disgrace our civilization. and dis
grace humanity, the id Niger =
seems created to be hunted down and
horsewhipped and shot In cold blood as
the members of this colored family were.
And while the Governor of Georgia, to
his credit, has maintained the law against
mob violence in the case, it is none the
less significant of the barbarous senti-
ment pervading the State, that the mill
tary had to be called out to prevent the
rescue bya mob of the perpetrators of
the atrocity.-IllterO Ocean.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-08-13
TALKING AND SAYING NOTHING.
A Sharp Criticism of HancOcIx's Let
ter of Acceptance,

Gen. Hancock shows plainly either
that he has no opinions at all on the
public affairs of the country, or that he
is afraid or ashamed to express them.
His letter is compounded Of glittering
generalities and nothing else. We knew
nothing of his views before reading it.
We know just as little now. We are
prepared to believe that he wrote it HIM
self. Certainly Mr.. Tilden didn't.
There is more pith in the little finger of
that dried-up old man than in the loins
of this military aspirant to civil digni-
ties. Why should Gen. Hancock quote
to the country land quote wrong) the
clause of the constitution which sa1s
that the rights not delegated to the Uni
ted States nor prohibited to the States
are reserved to the States respectively
or to the people?" 1t may be novel to
him, but it is not so to ordinarily-intelli-
gent civilians, and quoting it throws no
light on anything. Nobody has doubt
ed its existence. The question IN
dispute is as to its Interpretation, and on
this Gen. Hancock has not word to
say. What rights are delegated to
the United States, and what prohibited
to the States? To what 'speople are
the inspected rights reserved? What
is the "lawful Jurisdiction Of the
United States, and of the several States
Are members of Congress State officers
or United States officers May their
election be regulated by national laws,
or only by State laws? We know Gen.
Gartield's opinions on these questions,
but Gen. Hancock has apparently never
SO much as heard of them. He would.
he says, resist any attempt to impair on
evade the constitution. Why, of course
he would. Before he could take his
seat he would have to swear to maintain
the constitution. But why doesn't e
let us know what he would consider an
impairment or evasion? Opinions differ
so widely on these subjects that his gen
eral declaration really amounts to moth
ing at all. So with his statement that
fraud, violence, and incompetence are
bad for a Government. OF course they
are, But why doesn't he give us his
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-08-13
Emerson at Home.

A correspondents the Hartford Times,
who has been paying visit TO the Sage
of Concord, writes: A short drive brought
us to the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Approaching the house from the dis
lance, we saw only here and there little
white specks glinting through the trees,
it is so enshrined with pines and horse
chestnuts. The farm buildings adjoining
all wear the same clean, wholesome APP
pearance that characterizes the plain,
square white house in which for the past
thirty years this great poet and philoso-
pher has lived in his quiet, unostenta-
tious way. We were told in answer to
our summons that Mr.. Emerson was at
home. We took our seats in the parlor,
which is directly back Of the study on
the first floor, and in few moments he
entered the room, still holding my card
in his hand, and extended to us very
cordial welcome, conversing freely in his
mild, deliberate way so familiar to all
who have listened to him on the rost1lm
The conversation was very interesting
during our short call, and we felt the
magnitude of the moment to be allowed
ILLS VlSlG WIFI 50 STeaJ allu Learned u
man, and we felt, too, that it would be
our only opportunity. Mr.. Emerson is
past the meridian of life, having reached
the ripe age of seventy seven years. He
shows, to the visitor, no particular evil
dence Of the failing force we hear of; his
manner was cheerful, though anything
but self-asserting, and his eye twinkled
as merrily as in boyhood, while his thin
gray locks outlined plainly his intellect
ual and rather sharp-featured face. His
mind seems as clear and fresh as of old.
When we arose to go, he followed us out
and down the long stone walk to the
gate, bidding us good day with friendly
shake of the hand. Emerson's evening
of life comes as gently and beautiful as a
summer sunset
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new patent cure for them il he has one !?
It does no good to tell people to be wise
and do the. right thing, and they viii
prosper. They must BE told what
the right thing is the path Of
wisdom must be pointed out-by
one who aspires to be ruler Of
the people. Civil-fervice reform may
be secured, he says, by electing we'll
qualified linen to Office But how are
the people to choose out the well-quali-
fed men from the mass? BY the eau
Gus system? Is it that, the most cor
rupt of our political elements, that is to
give US reform II. it is; why does not
the Geiiefal exemplify its value by re-
citing his own qualifications for office if
he can think of any? We must manage
affairs wisely, he says. But how is wise
ly? Is. it to have honest money or dis
honest9 Is it to encourage Chinese i'm
migration or to discourage it? Is it to
continue to coin silver or to discontinue
it We must extend commerce and
manufactures, both at once, he says.
But how? VIII high tariff or low
one work both ways at once. Should
we have free ships or should those of
foreign build be excluded To these
and all the other questions of the day it
can only be answered that Gen. Han
cock doesn't know or he wont tell.
What an attitude for man who wants
to be President! The San was right.
The committee should have denied Han
cock pens, ink, or paper. They should
have put as close a watch over him as
there is over Tanner. He should not
have been allowed to cut his throat with
a steel-pen. If he had kept as still as
an owl he might have been thought as
wise as one, but when he began to sing
his voice betrayed him. He is Of the
genus popihjay, and Of the family ig-
noramus.
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What Justice Swarne SAYS.

So far as I am concerned, there is an
entire misstatement | never wrote a
word of what is attributed to me. /
never knew anything of the facts of the
matter charged against Gen. Garfield,
and it was certainly never in any shape
before the Supreme Court. + bad,
therefore, neither occasion nor oppor-
tunity to express any judicial opinion
upon the subject. It is not stated where
any case in which Gen. Garfield was
concerned is reported My confident
impression is that never heard of such
a case before. Gen. Garfield isaa per-
sonal friend of mine, and / have the
highest confidence in his integrity. ihK
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-08-13
GOSSIP FOR WOMEN.


A Reading Lesson.
They sat in a dusky corner,
Turning the leaves Of book,
Ger each picture fair,
Or legend there,
iifli Bending with eager leok.
She was q modest maiden.
And he was a timid youth,
And the volume they view
Togethcr--thosetw two
Is abit Of fiction, forsooth.
And ihore wasn't as pretty picture
In all the book, I'll engage,
hHe As the ono that leaned
by the twilight screened
Well evor the printed page;
His tresses with hers 80 blending
They turned to a brighter shade,
S5i While the cheek Of the youth
Was in very truth
AS red as tho check of the maid.
The shadows began to deepen,
The printed prge was a blur,
Vet he did not close
The book nor propose
change Of employment to her.
But, as IL their eager reading
Their hands together had met,
In the same warm clasp,
More than friendly grasp,
They fingered aud fingered yet,
Nor needed they for a moment
IN eacb others face to look, IS
For the secret guessed
lFtt Was at once confessed,
And each heart was an open book.
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continued war against his advances.
He was religiotisly excluded from all
meetings, and a special clause Of the
bylaws said that any member who
should marry should, be fined 100 big
copper cents, and be branded In tar on
the soles Of her feet. y q. b. i. Z mean
ing sup end done it. The beautiful
consistency of woman's nature will be
appreciated when it is knowa that every
one of the charter members. and nearly
all Of eligible age since, are married.
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Detecting a Witch.

A singular instance of belief In witch
craft, superstition supposed to be ex-
tinct. is reported from Norristown, Pa.
Some days ago a young married woman
was taken i'll, and her sickness was at
tributed by her husband to the fact that
she is bewitched. Anxious to discover
the guilty party, he procured a new
horseshoe from blacksmith shop, pre-
pared it in some way to actlike charm,
and then threw it into the fire. Not
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-08-13

The solid South is making a last des-
perate effort to retain its hold on. the
Government. If successful. new it
hopes so to use its influence as to gain
a long lease of power. But if defeated
this year it knows that the scepter viii
pass from it never to return. The new
census will leave it in hopeless minor
ity unless it can get control of the new
apportionment of members of the lower
house of Congress. That is why the
South is fighting so desperately and
was willing to accept any candidate at
Cincinnati that would aid it in the
North. -NeaU York Tribune. So /. al D
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long afterward he heard one of his
neighbors complain of a burning pain in
her chest, and believed that he had
found the witch. TO make sure he placed
SOME salt under the carpet at the
doorway Of his house and awaited the
result. Several neighbors came to see
the sick woman and crossed the thresh-
old without diasutilty, but the suspected
ere Stumbled In passing over it. He m
tends to try further experiments re-
ported to be effective in discovering
witches
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and to join in it, TO meet you, my old
neighbors and constituents; to share
with you the memories that we have
heard rehearsed, and the inspiration
that this duty points to, that this monu-
ments celebrates, is to me joy, and for
it am grateful.
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The Republican vote IN these districts in
1872, when each was largely 1iepabGean, was
0,915. and in 1878 it was 2, TO, loss of above
$4,000, and the Democratic vote fell oil about
$4,000. These and the other equally startling
figures referred to in speech in Congress in
April 1879, and challenged the members from
these districts for an explanation of the causes
which prevented the people from voting. Meme
was given; none exists, save that by violence
and crime a free ballot was Suppressed ~