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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-24
"MALARIA.W

found the lovelieet spot on EARTH
Where sweet and odorous blooms had barkhs
eiApped my hands for very gl2dness:
Good-by," l said, ito Ills and sadness"
When 10, there sprung from out the green
A hideous lmp upon the scene!
cried, Dread form, what is your nameT
In noesi1g tones, the answer came
"MalaTiain
ded unto the nearest town.
Here / resolved TO settle down,
Mid dirt and CRIME, mid dust and mortar
Myself my wife, my son and daughter.
The people cTept about like snails,
Or tagging ships bereft Of sails
y " hat is the matter hefe?" cried
Aad many trembling voice replied
Malaria"
From o1s the fated town we sped;
We cbgnbed the mountains; overhead,
WORE the proud eagle builds her nest,
We pitched our tent to take our rest.
One lnsrning, bright with eastern gold,
! woke, and cried, " I'm hot" I'm coldl"
Il burn; 81 freezen "What can 1t BET"
" Malaria"
The doctors, now, who lack the skin
To diagnose each pain and i'll,
To this one thing they all agree,
No matter what their school may be:
With Hem!" and Hawl" and look profound,
Your tongue they scan, your lungs they sound.
And then exclaim, "My friends, tuti tuti
Your case, find, is nothing but
Malarial"
I've chartered now a big balloon
hope to occupy it soon.
If at" comes there to ache my homes
And waste my flesh, when meath the stones,
hope my better part may soar
To some fair land, some golden shore,
Where may never hear the cry,
That haunts me like ghostly sigh
"Malaria!n
Mrs NJ A. Ridder, IN Baldt0ins HoNtAtv,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-24
Keeping His Place.

''You know Jones, said Rogers; icon.
found him, I don't believe he cares for
nothn'. Once he went yachting with us !.
and while we wos all admirin' the sea and
the scenery, there he sot and sot on the
edge of the boat with his legs danglin'
over, readin' book, and didn't seem to
care for nothin', and the gals went up to
him and talked to him, and all they could
get out was yes or no, till they give
it up as bad job. All of sudden there
came on squall and the boat she gave
o lurch, and before we knowed what had
happened he'd been pitched overheard
into the water, and when we fshed him
out, would you believe it, he mad his
thumb on the place where he'd stopped
reading when he went down"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-24
The First Lihrettn.

The first libretto for an italian opera
was written in 1884 by Giulio Rossigliosi,
who afterward became Pope Clement
X. First he introduced saints, demonE,
angels, virtues, Pope's nuncios, etc.,
who all sang and danced together to
music composed by Stefano Landi. The
opera was performed during the carni-
val, before Prince Alexander Charles of
Poland in theater built by Cardinal
Barberini, Pope Urban VIII 8 brother.
Who would have thought that it was a
Pope who wrote the first opera ibretto ?
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-24
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
MARCHES TRIAD.

Ny beautiful Eyelina,
Come listen to me, my dear;
want to tell you secret
That nobody else must hear;
We're going away to the country
Mamma and baby and /,
And grandmamma doesn't like dnlliea,
Now please, my darling. don't cry.
Oh, don't you remember last winter
She called you an image, my pet
Just think, like those ugly old idols:
I'm sure / shall never forget.
She's the loSehest grandma, my precious
But some things are not TO be borne;
I'm sure that my heart would be broken
If she should treat you with scorn.
III put on your very best bonnet,
Your pretty pink shoes on your Ieet;
And you shall sit up by the window,
And look at the folks In the street.
Oh, dear! but never can leave you
A whole summer long on the shelf;
II you are an image" my baby,
I'll just be a heather myself.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-24
Progress of Christianiff.

The Rev. DR.. Dorchester delivered an
address In Wesleyan Hall, Boston, on
the progress of Christianity, Papalsand
Protestant, in the whole world, since
1900. Until the present century, said
the lecturer, there were no trustworthy
data of the worlds population. Prior
to 1880 it was variously estimated from
642, 600, 600 to 737,0O0,0O0. In 1850 it
was reckoned at 1000, 100000. Prof.
Schema estimate makes the present
population ]; 437; 0O0,e0a. The progress
of Christianity from the fourth OF fifth
century up to 1900 was confined almost
entirely to Europe. The nominal Chris
tians In the world in the third century
numbered 5000, 600; up to the eighth
century they had increased 10000, 900;
IN the tenth century 0,00G, 600; in the
fifteenth century 100,0O0,000; in the
last 800 years the increase has been
200, 900, 900, or as much as in the pre-
vious fifteen centuries. In 1880 there
were 410, 100000 nominal Christians.
In 1900 there were $4,000, 900 Catholics,
100000 Greek Christians, and no
Protestants; il. 1880, 116, 900, 900 Roman
Catholics, 70, 900, 900 Greek Christians,
and AZ, 900, 600 Protestants in 1880, the
respective numbers were 209, 200, 900,
So, 900, 900 and 113,700,0 900, showing an
increase OF 80 per cent. among the Pa
pists, rs per cent. in the Greek Church.
and176per cent. among Professionals. The
probable number OF nominal Christians
in the world in the year 1000 was esti-
mated by DIR. Dorchester at from /, 200,-
600, 900 to 1850, 100000. The popula.
tions living under Christian govern
ments in 1900 numbered 100, 600, 600
in 100, 155, 900, 900; 1880, 386, 600, 900;
1876, 685,000,0 900; divided as follows
Papal, so, 100000 i'll 1900, 10000, 600 in
100, 134, 000,0 in 1880, 181, 900, 00Oin
1876; Greek, 100000 in 1900, 3d.
10000 in 100, 60,00O,0 900 in 1880, &c.
000,0 in 1875; Professionals, none 1900,
$4,000, 900 in 100, 1914, 900, 900 in 1880,
408, 900, 900 in 1876. OF the $4,000
square miles of the earth's surface 3d.
100000 are under control of Christian
governments, and 100000 under Pa
gan and Mohammedan. Of the area I'M
der Christian domination, IA 100000
square miles are ruled by Protestant
governments, $500, 000by Roman Cath
olic, and s, 800, 600 by the Greek Church.
But France, Italy and Mexico are in
transition state, and the next thirty
years will settle the question as to which
side 5000, 900 people are to be counted
upon. In 1890 the Bible was printed il.
one-fifth the languages Of the world il
is now printed in nine tenths. Three
million Bibles had been printed in 1900,
100, 900, 900 in from 200 to $50 languages
and dialects have since been circulated.
In the Sunday schools in 1880 there
were 100000 officers, teachers and
scholars there are now over a, 900, O00
In the Protestant foreign missions il.
1880 there were 1929 communicates !;
in 1850, 1887; in 1880, 857, 1892. Add
ing those at missions not reporting, thu
aggregate would probably be 1,05O,0OO
COMMITMENTS and 2, 500, 0OO hearers ant
adherents. OF the S57,332 communi-
Giants, 663, 813 were formerly Pagan, an,
!93, $40 Papal, Jewish, or Rationalistjc
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-24
IT Ia remarkable what little bites ,

IT Is remarkable what little bites a
woman takes when eating in the pres
ence of her sweetheart What little
mouth she has then She nibbles with
her little white teeth like some dainty
squirrel eating hickory nut. But wait
until wash day comes. Watch her when
she goes to hang up clothes and gets in a
hurry. BY the time that she gets the
big ends of fifteen clothes pins hid in
that mouth you will begin to think that
it is pretty good sized hearty mouth
after all. Bloomington Eye,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-24
DON'T Constrain the children.

Why force them to do what they dis
like? It is seldom that any good is
gained by such course. Why should
your little boy be made to eat the fat of
his meat if he loathes it, or anything,
no matter what, that is repulsive to him?
Or why make child miserable by fore
ing it to wear articles of clothing which
its taste does not approve, or at which
other children laugh ? L think that little
girls suffer more from this than from
any one thing. Almost all of us have
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-24
Cheek.

No, my son, cheek is not better than
wisdom; it is not better than modesty:
it is not better than anything. Don't
listen to the siren who tells you to blow
your own horn or it will never be footed
upon. The world is not to be deceived
by cheek, and it does search for merit,
and when it finds it. merit is rewarded.
Cheek never deceives the world, my son.
It appears to do so to the cheeky man,
but he is the one who is deceived. Do
you know one cheeky man in all your
acquaintance who is not reviled for his
cheek the moment his back is turned?
Is the world not continually drawing
distinctions between cheek and merit?
Almost everybody hates cheeky man,
my son. Society tires of the brassy glare
of his face, the hollow tinkling of his
cymbaline tongue, the noisy assumption
of his forwardness. The triumphs of
cheek are only apparent. He bores his
way along through the world, and fire.
quently better people give way for him.
But SO they give way, my boy, for man
with paint pot in each hand. Not be-
cause they respect the man with the
paint pot particularly, but because they
want to take care of their clothes. You
sell goods without it, and your customers
won't run and hide in the cellar when
they see you coming.
H0aDke7ye
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-24
The ShingIe Product.

The Northwestern LatDabern101a has
given elaborate statistics of the shingle
product of the Northwest, the amount of
which is something stupendous, as will
be seen in the following reorganization of
the output for eight years, allowing
5000 shingles to each 1000 feet of logs:
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-05

the apprentice apologetically," makes
Jack plane a dull boy"
But" spoke the journeyman, "Jack
plane is always a playin'."
mot when its aye dull, persisted the
apprentice, saving halfway through an
old hinge.
81 advise you to brace up bit, said
the carpenter, land when say that, re-
member that wink is as good as kick
to blind horse"
''Somethin nails me to-day" the ap-
prentice said, as he pounded his thumb
with lathing hatchet, and be turned
aside to utter malletdictions on the
natchet and the man who made it.
"Td hold you So" said the journey
man, consolingly, as he showed the APP
prentice how to grasp the Ratchet, land
I'd hammer this way" and he showed
him how to strike.
But the apprentice said the last part
of the lesson was entirely unnecessary.
Thus do our laboring classes improve
the current political events to their in
tellectual ediication and mutual i'm
provement.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-05
Politics NJ the Bench.

1.-The greatest charm of inauguration
should be its pointed simplicity,
said the carpenter, as he started NOR
tice.
"True." said the apprentice, saving
into nail. $50 gimlet us have piece.
"You rip saw the dangers of Repub bill
can simplicity on the minds OF the
people," remarked the iourneyman,
land so the effete monarchies framed
their coronations with imposing cere-
monies"
"A good deal of it," assented the boss
carpenter, "and opine it is knot plane,
or at least il is knot at first clear why the
the same formalities should be dried in
our Government.
'Sea, son?' the journeyman asked the
apprentice. =, .o,
And the apprentice said, "Oh yes, he
saw"
"You must wat chisel Illustrations very
sharply" said the journeyman, "or you
can't at hatchets proper meaning to each
one.t
TT axes my screwtiny very kesnly in
Decd" said the apprentice, Ito follow
the thread Of his keel marks.
Your mind wanders," said the boss
'the rolling grindstone catches NO
worms"
IAN workbench and no play" saia
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-05

To keep insects out of bird cages, tie
up little sulphur in silk bag and sus-
pend it in the cage. For hooking BIRDS
this is essential to their health and the sui
phur will keep the red aunts and other
insects from the cages Of all kinds OF
birds. Red ants will never be found In
a closet or drawer il a small bag OF sui
phur be kept constantly in these places.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-05

Little Johnny was visiting at a neigh.
boris house. He was offered piece OF
bread and butter, which he accepted,
but not with any degree of enthusiasm.
"What do you say, Johnny 2" said the
lady, expecting him to say: "Thak you.
81 say, It amt cake, was the response
Galveston News.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-05

To know how to keep tidy house and
well-aired apartments; to know how to
select the best kinds OF food; to know
how to prepare them in the best manner
these are the first things, and every
daughter SHOULD learn them before mar
riage. --(W W. W. Hall.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-05

josh Billings says THAT good doctor
il man 10 whom We may pay three dol.
lars visit for advising MS to eat Ices and
exercise more"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-05

We carry our neighbors' crimes in
siRht. and throw our OWE over our shout
ders.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-05

81 thought you were engaged to Mar
guerite."
"You thought wrong. Marguerite is
a fine woman, and marries a title this
summer"
How the March sunshine glittered!
The whole universe seemed to have
undergone sudden transformation, and
my heartache became thing of the past
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-05

The Greenfield Republican dedicates
the following to disappointed office
seekers:
I've letter from my dad.
Baby mine. baby mine.
He is feeling awful bad,
Baby mine. baby mine,
For the place he didn't get.
He IL coming back. my pet.
And he'll stay 81 home. you bet,
Baby mine.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-05

and the tell-tale blood rushed TO my
cheeks. How we'll remembered himl
Papa's best friend--the friend who stood
beside his dying pillow.
I remembered his parting words, too,
when he left me standing beside the new
made grave.
"No words of mine can give you any
comfort now, Bell, but time heals the
sorest wounds. Good-by. One day 1
hope to see you again.
But in all the dreary years that fol-
lowed had heard no word from HIM.
"Yon remember him OF course, con.
tinued my cousin. He used to be at
the Hall q great deal in your fathers
time. Well we met him last night. He's
been here week; and he's millionaire
Bell. You know old Carruthers, OF Car
ruthers Place? Well. he is dead, and the
Captain inherits the fortune, you see.
So don't forget the heliotrope. ! know
il is not becoming, but l remember
what fancy Csrruthers always had for
heliotrope, and he's worth pleasing you
know"
Aunt Edmonton laughed as she rose
and shook out her voluminous lace
dounces.
"Wesr the heliotrope by all means; but
won need not feel bit anxious. You
secured the Captain and his fortune last
nieht: that rosc silk and the diamonds
did the business. Well, he's good
match. All, there's his carriage below
now; III 60 down until you are ready.
Do make HASTE Bell. And wish you
would b obliging enough to do up hase's
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-12-31
Usefulness and Hurtfuruess of Coffee.

since coffee possesses the quality of stmu-
Iatlng the nervous system, il Is a matter of
course that in many cases ITS effect is rather IN.
furious. Phlegmatic people, especially, need
coffee, and they are fond OF drinking it: tor
similar reason 1t is a favOrIte beverage in
the Orient, where its consumption is immense.
But To persons of an eXcitable temperament
the enjoyment of the ceffee Is hurtful: they
ought only to take it very weak With lively
children 1t does not agree at all, and it Is very
wrong To force them to drink it, AS is often
done; while elderly people, who are in need
OF stlmulant for the decreasing activity of
their nerves are right IN taking as much of 1t
as they choose.
In households of limited means it is often ne.
cessary to use ChiccOry with coffee. we do not
pretend TO pronounce this, if taken in moder
ate quantity, hurtful; but we do say that il is
q poor substitute for coffee, and that there is
nothing in il to recommend its use. A far
better mixture is milk and sugar: and there is
good reason for it: both milk and sugar are
articles of food. Milk contains the same in.
gradients as blood; and sugar is changed in
the body INTO lat, which Is indispensable to
US, especially in the process of breathing.
Having taken no food through the night, the
loss our blood has suffered during elecp bv
perspiration and the fat which has been lost
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-12-31
MammOIh EarmInp

Secretary Renshaw, Of the Missouri lmmi
grafton Society, lately received letter from n
gentleman of Fall River, Mass. asking him to
name county in which from 10000 to 10000
acres OF land can be bought in a body at 81 an
acre, professedly for colony of artisans who
are preparing to leave Massachusetts for the
west. There Is some suspicion on the part of
the Immigration Society that the land is really
wanted for speculative purpose Suppose a
Massachusetts corporation buys 10000 acres
in one tract, turns it into single mammoth
farm and places upon it enough men, without
families TO cultivate and harvest the crops. Is
such mammoth farm likely to become IN
unmlXed blessing to the county in which il is
situated, or will ii not prove continual draw.
back to the progress of the surrounding com
munity:
School houses and churches are few and far
between where big farms IRE the rule and
small ones the exception
a man who owns cattle farm of five or six
square miles drives the school house away
from his boundary, toward the more densely
populated section; and the owner of "tortV'
alongside the land prince finds himself on the
outskirts of the educational belt HIS rich
nclghbor can school his children abroad: he,
himself, must send his own children trudglng
several miles across the prairie Mammoth
farms are not clvilizers: they greatly assist IN
money making, but mOncy.making is not CIV
IllZatlon. Mammoth farms furnish employ
ment to many workers, but do not give a home
to more than one family. The men who build
up new country, or an old one either, are the
homeowners; and the land monopoly that
bars out hOmeOwners from our western pral- |
RES must cease.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-12-31
OTTAWA FREE TRADEl; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 81 1881.

by respiration must be compensated for in the
morning. For this milk and sugar in coffee
are excellent.
1t is good for children to have taste for
sweetened milk or milk coffee in the morning.
We must not find fault with them If they like
it. Nature very wisely gave them liking for
sugar; they need it because their pulse must
be quicker, their respiration stronger, TO iacili.
tate the assimilation of food in their bodies,
and also to promote growth. Not that adults
need no sugar, but the sugar necessary for them
Is formed from the starch contained in their
food. For this purpose the digestive appara.
tus must be strongly developed. With chill.
drcn this Is not the case; therefore, they are
given sugar, instead OF the starch TO make 1t
from. Many diseases, particularly ricketts,,
prevailing mostly among the children OF the
poor, are the consequence of feeding the child
with bread and potatoes these contain starch
it is true, but the digestive apparatus of chill.
dren being yet too weak to change them into
fat, the result is that the flesh falls away and
the bones grow soft and crooked.
But he who, to promote digestion, takes cof.
fee Immediately after dinner, does best not to
use sugar or milk for both, so far from help.
ing digestion, are an additional burden to the
full stomach, and disturb Its labor more than
coffee can facilitate it.-Popuidr Science
UDutHlM
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-12-31
4 Hen that Sang.

A novel case was heard before Squire Will
son, of East Nottingham Township, Chester
county Pa, recently. Last spring farmer of
East Nottingham had thirty chlckeds stolen.
Summer wore away, but no traces of the lost
fowls, a few days ago the chicken-owner Wis,
tied farmer IN the same township, and while
looking at the fowls on the premises saw hen
which he thought resem bled one of the mum
Der stolen from him. He inquired how the
farmer obtained it, when a conversation fol
lowed, and concluded by the poultry.owncr
saying; "1f that chicken comes to me when
| call her by name she is mine" This was
agreed TO. Annie, Annie called the owner
and sure enough the hen came TO him. Jump
upon my hand" Up Jumped Annie. Now
sing for a grain of corn, ANNIE" called the
owner. The pretty little hen immediately be.
gan to sing IN her fowllsh style solo which
fully convinced the two men to whom she
rightfully belonged. The thief and pet chick
en- were brought before the Squire, who heard
the story and Annie's solo and sentenced the
thief-Readtag (Pa) Meas.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-12-31
Old Lovers.

Several years before the war young man
came to Little Rock and fell desperately in
love with young lady. The girls parents
were rich. The young man was poor. a un
ion was impossible. The girl prayed and the
young man implored, but the ruthless parents
The war came on. The parents of the girl
died. Her uncle squandered the estate. The
other day the lover came back and inquired
for the young lady. Age and poverty had Wis
tied her, but she had remained true They
met and embraced.
you were away so very long" she said,
leaning her tired head on his shoulder. "But
you won't leave me again. Those who kept
us apart are sleeping now"
81 will never leave my bavc darling. have
been trying for years to see you"
But they did not marry. The man got her
to wash SIX shirts for him, and ran away with
out paying the blll-LiHLc Rock Gazette.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-12-31

The novel and interesting question whether
a railway dining car is a liquor saloon and
should be required 10 take out a license for
selling liquors in every village and city
through which it passes is about to be tested
IN the courts. The village of Taylorville,
Christian county, ILL.,, is aro'license town, and
some OF It's temperance advocates, being trOu-
bled by the fact that the Wabash, st. Louis &
Pacific company was running through its linn
its dining cars upon which intoxicating Ii.
quorS were sold, sent an officer, who entered
the dining car while the train was at the depot
and purchased from the conductor "a bottle of
beer The conductor was thereupon arrested
without a warrant. taken from his train and
brought before magistrate who fined HIM
$40 Tor violating a village ordinance against
keeping an open dram shop. He paid the
fine, bat even then had not satisfied the tenn
perance people, who caused his immediate re-
arrest for violating the state law and he was
held before the grand jury, which subsequent
ly indicted him. The railway company pro-
poses To test the question thus involved and
has, through the conductor, brought suit IN
the United States Court at Springfield against
the village authorities, claiming damages to
the amount Of $4,000. The question Of allow
ing travelling dram shops" rs dining cars are
styled, has been discussed in England since
the introduction of the Pullman cars, but we
believe has not been practically raised in this
country heretofore. In England, however
the objection to the sale OF liquors en- route
was not on the score of temperance but was
raised by local Inn keepers who objected to
the competition of the railway companies in
the liquor business. II the prohbitonists
should join with the saloon keepers who are
also opposed to hQuor selling on hotel cars,
they could make the fight on both grounds
Ratl,cay Age.