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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17

are the rage at Harvard. 1t is the cor
rect thing to smoke these poisonous
little rolls of tobacco and paper. What
ever is fashionable in a great school
like Harvard is sure in a very short
time to be fashionable among Young
men and boys all over the country.
Another great cause of the mischief is
that boys are very fond of initiating
their elders. Smoking in public places
ought to be discouraged. There ought
to be sentiment created against it,
and the press is the power to create
such sentiment. Every man when
he smokes in public ought to think
that he is encouraging some boy to
smoke. The boy will smoke cigarette
imagining that he will get less tobacco
in that way, and ignorant of the fact
that cigarette smoking is the most per-
niciOuS form in which tobacco is used.
Tobacco in any form is a great injury
to a growing boy, and the fashion Of
inhaling the smoke and then forcing it
out through the nose is deadly in its
effects. 1t causes catarrah in the air
passages, throat and nose, and makes
the smoker disgusting, as well as puny
and stunted. You will find that these
cigarette smoking youths have impair
ed digestions, small and poor muscles,
irritable tempers, and a lack of capac-
ity for sustained effort of any kind,
and / believe you will find that they
do not succeed in life. The men who
win are the men of strong physique.
A cigarette smoking boy will not make
a strong man. These are some of the
evils which the individual brings upon
himself. But the mischief does not
stop with the individual, but is trans
mitted to his offspring. Nervous pc
culiarities are just as readily transmit
ted as physical peculiarities. The ac-
quired irritability, imperfect develop
ment, and loss of nervous force of the
father is inherited by the child, who
in turn further impairs his health by
the same process, so that in the course
of three or four generations there must
be a great deterioration in the race.
The sale of cigarettes to boys should
be prohibited by law Chicdgo E0en-
ing Journal.
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cannot secure the execution of. 0cca-
slonally make demand with which it
IS impossible to comply.
3. BE frivolous and joke pupils to
such an extent that they will be forced
to talk back" This will break the
ice" and they will soon learn to be i'm
pertinent in earnest. Or be so cold
and formal as to repel them.
4. Allow pupils to find out that they
can annoy you.
8. Promise more IN your pleasant
moods than you can perform, and
threaten more in your "blue SPELLS
than you intend to perform.
6. Be so variable in your moods that
what was allowable yesterday is Grim
inal to-day, or oice eeTsa.
Z. Be Oyerbearing to one class of
pupils and obsequious to another class
s. Utterly ignore the little forma-
lities and courtesies of life in the treat
ment OF your pupils in school and else.
where.
9. Consider the body. mind. and soul
Of child utterly unworthy of study
and care. Let it be matter of indif
ference to you whether child is com
Portable. Consider that it is unimport
ant aohy child enjoys one thing and
dislikes another, and that it is not your
business to aid him in forming a worthy
character.
10. Let your department towards
parents and officers be such as vii
cause you to lose their respect and con
| fdence.
One or more Of these rules faithfully
executed will secure the end in view
J. T. MCCLEARY.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17

There is an alleged case of bribery
In the New York assembly. The po-
litical fight is at such stage and feel
ing is up so high that it is impossible
to form any judgment as to the truth.
1t looks very possible that it is true.
Mr.. Bradley's mode of putting the case
does not have the appearance of a deep
laid plot on the part of the stalwarts,
though there are many even in the as
sembly that take this view. 1t is
thought that if a clear case of bribery
can be worked up in the half-breed
camp that it will be an advantage TO
the stalwarts, and the motive for them
to work up perfectly fictitious case
for carrying through their political
aims is thought by some to be at the
bottom of this case of Mr.. Bradley. If
it is so it does not have that appear
ance now. It would have elaborated
more fully plot of this kind, as this
is far from clear, the only proof being
Mr.. Bradley's sworn testimony, and
this is met by sworn testimony to the
contrary by the party alleged to have
given the money. 1t is impossible to
say what the investigation will bring
out, but on it's face it looks as though
there had been case of bribery.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17

The drought came to an end on
Thursday, the I'd inst, on which day
we had thunderStOrmS and hail storm
which was especially severe at the sta
ton, also to the southwest, and a short
distance northeast. It's course was
from one to two, or a little over, miles
wide, and it's length nearly through the
town from southwest to north, little
east. The damage to fruit and grain
and also corn that was up was confined
to a short distance from the station.
The day after the storm hail by the
basketful was gathered by L. Cook to
make ice cream, and had not entirely
disappeared for fOrty-eight hours, the
stones being unusually large. The
rains have continued at intervals up to
the present writing, and have been of
great benefit to all the crops. Late
corn and flax did not terminate until
after the rain in many instances. Grass
suffered the most, and old meadows es-
pecially will produce less than the
promise earlier in the season. On the
whole, farmers have no reason to COM
plain Of the prospect at present.
A, to many, sad event took place last
week, our Oldest townsman, William
Smith, ULcle Billy, as he is familiarly
called, who has resided here since 1886
or 81, having, by the infirmlties Of age
become unable to care for himself or
his property, friends thought it advisa-
BILE to have guardian appointed, which
was done in the person of Chas. Smith,
Jr,. of Racine. In addition, it is said
though perfectly harmless and child
ish, it was thought best to send him
away from his home to an asylum.
Whilst many think it the best course to
pursue, some of his oldest and best ac-
quainted friends and fellow citizens
think it cruel to have him removed
from his home and sent among strang-
ers, and fear an aggravation of his
malady. AS to property, he had an
abundance to secure him necessary care
and attendance required at his home.
Rev. E. M. Eaton and wife, of Madi-
son, arrived at the depot ON Tuesday.
Some of their old parishioners were
there glad to greet them. The object,
it seems, was business and pleasure.
After spending the night at Jacob
Bishops, on Wednesday afternoon they
repaired to the residence of MIR. Samuel
Barnes, where, to some, the looked for
event, the marriage of the only daugh-
ter, Carrie j., to J. T. Ozanne, M. d.
took place, the Rev. Eaton officiating.
The company present consisted of the
family relatives and few friends. AS
customary, the presents were numer-
Gus, valuable and useful. 1t is said the
bride and groom took the evening train
for Chicago on visit to relatives and
friends.
Sunday was " children's day" at the
M. e. church. The pastor preached to
the children.
Chas. Lafayette Cook and sister ex-
pect to leave this week on a visit to
their sister Della in Nebraska.
Jas. Spence had the misfortune to
lose horse by sudden death last week.
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BRISTOL Items. /

Please correct the item about Mr.. III.
Shuart's funeral in your issue of the
Sd inst. 1t was held at the house of
Mr.. Shuart, and the text was "PreciOus
in the sight Of the Lord" etc.
Mrs. Peirce, of Fort Atk inson, came
to attend Mr.. Shuart's funeral and
visited old friends on the Prairie.
Mrs. Lounsbury also came to the
funeral and stayed several days round
her old home.
VIM. Waller is preparing for large
crops by putting up a new barn.
Mr.. Bush, after a long visit with his
sisters, has returned to his home in the
West.
THE above items were sent in last
week, but did not reach us. We cannot
say why.-ED
Miss f. Took, of Union Grove, is
visiting at Mrs. c. Shepard's.
Mrs. Holbro ok, after a long and
painful illness, has passed to the rest
that knows no pa in. Funeral last Sun
day at Wesley chapel.
Mr.. J. G. Roberts and Mrs. r. F. Rob-
erts and her son Frank, took a trip to
Morrison, ILL.,, last Saturday.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17
CIGARETTE POISON.

Physicians are generally agreed that
cigarette e'0oking is the worst form in
which tobacco can be used, since the
paper is often poisonous, the tobacco
artificially favored, and the smoke is
inhaled into the lungs. The Philadel-
phia Times publishes the opinions of
several leading medical men to the
above effect. DR.. Pepper Provost, of
the University of Pennsylvania, de-
clares that cigarettes bring on indiges-
ton and impaired vision; DR.. Risley,
an oculist, says that he has had two
patients within a week who have been
made blind by smoking, and other doc
tors are equally emphatic. AS he is
known in this vicinity, we quote in full
the utterances of DIR. Roberts Bar
tholow:
1t is high time that something were
done to put stop to this frightful evil,
which is stunning the growth and ruin
ing the health of thousands of boys.
1t is just horrible to see these boys
little fellows, many of them not more
than s or 10 years old, not street boys,
but well-dressed, carefully nurtured
boys-gathered in knots in some corner,
where they think they win not be OBJ
served learning to smoke. Parents
see their sons getting thin and yellow
and irritable, the family doctor is called
in, and without getting at the root of
the evil prescribes tonicS which do no
perceptible good.
"The prodigious increase of cigarette
smoking among boys in the last few
years." continued DR.. Bartholow, get
ting up from his chair and walking up
and down his handsome parlor in the
energy of his indignation, is an evil
which will tend to the deterioration of
the race if it is not checked. But it is
not hard to account for. Boys are very
initiative. They follow the fashion
with promptness and zeal. Cigarettes
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17

Steals in the treasury department
are coming to light every day. Evil
dence OF a ring of years standing to
swlndle the government on purchases
OF carpets, stationery and other articles
required in the department have been
brought to light by the investigating
committee. The Secretary of the Treas
nry and the P0stmaster.G General are
getting their coats off and rolling IN
their sleeves, and intend to have a
thorough house-cleaning in their re.
spectiYe departments. Dealers are
getting excited. Wednesday station
cry dealer appeared at the treasury
department and refunded 5000 which
the investigating committee found had
been paid for tile-holders which had
never been delivered. There was a
regular voucher made out for this
payment. A case of the same kind oc-
Cured few days ago. A carpet firm,
hearing that The committee were going
to overhaul their sales, sent $500, say
ing that they had received double pay
ment on bill of carpets two years be-
fore. There will be more vacancies to
I'LL before the investigation is over. If
Conkling were only there what har-
vest it would be for his friends.
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THE KENOSHA TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, JUNE II, 1881.

The statements made by the scissors-ma-
nipulator of the 7x9 ring organ last week
that the late Judge French sent all his pat
ronage to the UNION and that Judge Martin
did not refuse to send orders to this Office
when requested by parties interested, are
like most of his statements-false. II was
Judge French's custom to ask parties if they
had any preference where their notices
should be published, and when any one re-
quested to have them published in the TILE
GRAPH they were sent to that paper, as the
files for the past FIVE years will prove. Judge
French did not consider he would be carry
ing out the intent of the law requiring the
publication of probate notices by publishing
them in paper having very small circula-
ton, aud for this reason did not send his
notices to The 7x9. II cannot be said that
he refused 10 patronize that sheet because
its politics we're not in accord with his, for
every one will remember that when that
paper WAS blbFleu IL WAS W Dt - DcinOCTdtlC
at all times and under all circumstance"
Having got all the "pap" he could out of
the Democratic party, George, the man Of
lofty C) principles. who induced Mr.. D. A.
Mahoney to become candidate for the Office
Of county judge, promising to support him il
he got the nomination on the Democratic
ticket, and afterwards turned traitor, at the
beck of the ring Topped over and is now
riding a ring donkey. The ring must have
an organ, and they could not find more
seTvile creature TO do their bidding
As TO the statement made by us two weeks
ago that Mr. Martin had refused TO allow
parties to have their notices published in
either the UNION or TELEGRAPH being a ma
Iicious falsehood, we were informed by sew
eral that such was The case, and that he told
them he intended to publish all HE notices
in the 7x9. Since that time, as we stai ed
last week, Mr.. Martin has concluded Ia
allow parties to publish their notices in any
paper they want TO.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17

Rioting and bloodshed are occurring
in many parts of Ireland. The country
Will soon be in state of open insur-
rection. AtCork the other day mount
ed police were obliged to ride through
the crowd to the defense of their broth
er officers, who were being pelted with
stones by the mob. Clubs were used
freely and many an Irishman lay prone
in the dust when the affray was over,
and many policemen went home with
sore heads and bandaged eyes. Eng
land will enforce more rigidly than
ever the coercion act and there is
trouble ahead.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17

The investigation goes on at Albany
on the bribery case, alleged. Testi-
mony is being received and printed in
full in the daily newspapers. One who
reads may have ample opportunity to
form judgment in the matter. If it
is not a case of bribery, it looks very
much like one. Sessions transactions
in the past have been of character,
to judge from his own testimony, to
give one the impression that he is
capable of just that kind of work.
Bradley's testimony seems plain, home
ly, true. 1t is barely possible that
without his being aware of the design
of the stalwarts he has been used as an
unintelligent instrument to bring
disgrace and confusion into the half
breed camp. He is the last man to be
considered as a tool or selected as one.
1t is either this or a clear case Of
bribery. Still the Depew vote grows,
which shows that those who have voted
for him in the past and are coming
into his ranks don't take stock in the
bribery case.
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this ponderous shaft now strikes the
beholder with amazement, what will
it not do when, with three years of
steady work, laying the stone at the
rate of two and one-half courses per
week, the work is actually completed.
This shaft of marble and granite, top
ped with pyramidal roof of iron COW
cred with beaten glass, will then reach
the enormous height of $50 feet, MAX
ing it the highest structure erected by
man. Some faint idea of the meaning
of this term $50 feet high is gained by
citing the heights Of the celebrated
structures of the world. The Pyramid
of Cheops is 4S0 feet; st. Peters, Rome,
457 feet; Strausburg Cathedral, France,
463 feet; the new Cathedral at Cologne,
524 feet st. Stevens, Germany, All feet;
Salisbury Spire, England, 404 feet;
st. Paul's, London, 365 feet; Capitol at
Washington, 500 feet; Bunker Hill
Monument, Boston, 221 feet; Washing
ton Monument, Baltimore, 1913 feet.
Its erection is the carrying out of a
work of engineering greater in magni-
tude than anything ever before at
tempted. When the monument reach
es $50 feet will it not fall? is ques-
ton that most every one asks. The
only thing that will affect the stability
of the structure is the wind, and this
is the only factor that enters into the
calculations of the engineer after the
foundations have been secured. The
movements caused by the diurnal cir
cult of the earth and the detection
from the perpendicular caused by the
heat of the sun are regarded as having
little, if any, effect upon such struc-
lures. Very careful calculations have
been made by engineers in Europe and
America as to the pressure such a
structure will undergo. There is no
record of a wind Of greater velocity
than one hundred and ten miles per
hour, and the pressure would be fifty
five pounds per square foot. So it is es-
timated that with wind at the high
est velocity ever known it would re-
quire an additional pressure nine times
as great to topple the monument over.
The new foundation to the monument
is believed to be sufficient to sustain
the tremendous weight of $4,000 tons,
so that if the monument does not blow
over or sink down into its boots, and
if Congress continues to appropriate
money, it will finally be completed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17

To THE EDITOR OF THE TELEGRAPH
Presuming you are in favor of free
discussion concerning the political
complications that are threatening the
existence of the Republican party, I
desire, like one of old, to show my
opinion. No person who is interested
in the welfare of this republic can be
a careless observer of the contest of
Albany.
On the one side we see a man who
has always been loyal to justice and
right, and has never faltered in bis de-
votion tOthe political organization that
seems to think there will be no peace
without his political decapitation.
And what is his crime. He has seen
fit to oppose the discharge of a faithful
officer from the custom house in New
York. And also the appointment of
one to the same position as the reward
for disregarding his instructions, there
by making the election of Garfield pos
sible.
If this is the manner of rewardiDg
men who have given their lives for the
establishment of freedom and Justice
throughout the land, very few will
care in future to engage in a business
so fraught with such ingratitude.
Suppose it is admitted that Mr..
COnkling has made mistake, and that
he is domineering and dictatorial. So
were Sumner and Webster. Is man
entitled to no consideration for the
good done in a whole lifetime? Have
no others made mistakes? Has Mr..
Garfield made no mistakes? Very
many would be happy if they could
honestly believe nothing worse. All
indications point in one direction, and
that is. that nothing short of the COM
lplete overthrow Of Mr.. Conkling will
appease the hungry crowd of political
vultures and hyenas, who are endeav-
oring, with dirty tooth and nail, to tear
out his vitals. Last June the cry was,
Anything to beat Grant," and now,
Anything to beat Conkling." Well,
as the preachers say, I" let the good
work go on" When parties are so I'M
grateful as to throw overheard those
who have contributed most of time and
talent to their success, and not only
this, but to pour slime and filth on
their heads because they have made
mistakes, such parties deserve moth
ing better than political damnation.
Grant may say word for his friend,
Conkling, and the cry is, "Down with
Grant! cruelty Conklingw Mr.. Hayes
may call him "a monomaniac," and
there is a universal howl of concur
renee from the unwashed and the
thieves, and the disappointed Adulla-
mites of both parties.
"Let the CALLED jades VINCE" In
the corrupted of this world "offense's
gilded hand may shove by justice" and
the gift of custom houses curse admin
istrations, but when a President vio-
lates his own published statements
concerning civil service reform to re-
ward another for doing that which
ought to consign him to infamy, people
will be likely to form their own conclu-
sions as to whether his truthfulness
is above suspicion. FAIR PLAY.
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In the contest in the New York leg
islature over the election of senators
the stalwarts fail to concentrate and
the ant-COnkling men fail to concen-
trate; the Democrats are the only ele-
ment that do concentrate, but, concen-
trated, they are still too far behind to
accomplish anything. Concentration
Is good thing, but not the only requi-
site to party success. No choice is vet
made Of senator's to fill the places of
the resigned senators. Union of the
antl-Conkling element would carry the
day for Depew.
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STRAY NOTES BYAWAYFARER.

What has become of the temperance
folks? Has DR.. Crosby convinced
them that total abstinence is unscrip-
tural? Wake up again. All the wine
drinking doctors of divinity CD in
Christendom cannot hide from us the
misery and crime that grows out of
moderate drinking.
It was a degrading of his Office for
Blaine to go to New York, but it is
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17
ROLL OF HONOR.

RANDALL No. 2-FLo. M. WILDER,
Teacher.-Satie Bassett, Edgar Bassett,
Martle Hoffman, Annie Kerkh0ff, Will
lie Schlax, Mollie Schlax.
PARIS No. S--WM. MIDDLECAMP,
Teacher Upper Form--Fred Black
man, Henry Toner. MGddEeFoTn1-W Ward
White, Clarence White. Allie Toner.
Primary FoTm-Joe Toner, Stella
Blackman, Willie Myrick, BERTHE Cros-
by.
SoMERs No. IA -EsTELLA SHEPARD,
Teacher-Addie Heidersdorf, Hattie
Heidersdorf, Minnie Heidersdorf, Hen
ry Heidersdorf, Celia Davis, Mimi e
Grimshaw, Belle DeLong, Mary Collier,
Jennie Collier.
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J. A. K1LLgEN.

The eclipse of the moon which oc-
CURED Saturday night and Sunday
morning proved to be fairly observa-
bic from this locality, Notwithstanding
the threatened cloudy weather. The
storm came up, however, in the midst
Of it, and eclipsed the eclipse, and the
young people who were taking observa-
tons were obliged to say good night
and go home.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17

quite eleyating for the Vice-President
to take off his coat and work like a
beaver to get Conkling. indicated.
Selah?
Would it not be well if little time
was given in our schools to teaching
the laws of health. A sound mind in
a sound body is desirable thing. 1t
would be better to know how to avoid
being sick than to know how many
counties Wisconsin contained. IF both
cannot be learned, let the last go.
Where are the Kenosha temperance
folks gone? Are they all dead or
Joined the enemy? Surely the evil of
intemperance is still large enough TO
arouse Christian sympathy.
Some persons say that Christians
have tried to mendthe Bible. Strange,
is it not? If a German was to trans
late the laws of Wisconsin into Ger
man, and some years later a German
who was better scholar than the
first one was to 60 through the trans
latiOn and correct its errors, would they
say he was trying to mend the laws of
Wisconsin or the translation? These
men must know better than they talk.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17

Good manners are the blossoms of
good sense, and, it may be added, of
good feeling, too, for if the law of kind
ness be written in the heart it will lead
to that disinterestedness in little
things as we'll as in great things
the desire to oblige, the attention
to the qualification of others which
is the foundation of goOdss manners.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17

An old lady writes US: 4" am SIS years old
and was feeble and nervous all the time,
when | bought bottle of Parker's Ginger
Tonic. have used little more than one
bottle and feel as well as at 80, and am sure
that hundreds need the same medicine See
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