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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-09-21

sprang to meet the man, and called
" Father Those wrinkles had been
made in daily toll that these nice, bright
boys might be kept nice, and bright,
and good.
Each wrinkle in your fathers face
means day of anxiety or toll for you.
For whom does he workP For you For
whom does your mother plan, and mend,
and economize? For you.
Do you think that because people
grow old they do not like Pleasant
things? Do you think that it is no sac
rifice to toll and mol day after dayp
That parents are bound to work, work,
work, so that the young may have all
the sweet things of life, and accept them
thanklessly, like little princes?
Grandmother likes new ribbon for
her cap occasionally, as well as any of
You girls. She doesn't ask for it, but
then she likes you to think of it all the
same. And | think / caught her crunch
ing those caramels Kate gave her as if
she were seven instead of seventy.
I" For shame, grandfather, only sixty
eightf') N Gaporte, as the French say,
two years do not make much difference,
but | am sure she seems Younger to me
every day.-Ch1tstian at Work.
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Our Young Readers.
NOWHERE.


4 soN0 ron BOYS AND GIRLS WHO ARE Al
WAYS DISCONTINUED
Do you know where the summer blooms all
the year round,
Where there never is rain on picnic day
Where the thornless rose in its beauty grows
And Little boys never are called from plav?
OH hey it is far away
In the wonderful land of Nowhere.
Would you like to live where nobody scolds.
Where you never are told: 1T is time for
bed
Where you learn without trying, and laugh
without crying,
Where snarls never pull when they comb
your head?
Then OH heyi you must HE away
TO the wonderful land of Nowhere.
If you long to dwell where you never need
wait,
Where no one is punished or made to cry.
Where supper OF cakes is not followed by
aches, &
And little folks thrive on diet of pie;
Then no! hey! you must go, say,
To the wonderful land of Nowhere.
You must drift down the river of Idle
Dreams,
Close to the border of No-man's land;
For year and Gay you must sail away,
And then you viii come to an unknown
strand.
And no! hey! if you get there-stay
In the wonderful land Of Nowhere.
Ella Wheeler. IN HdrpeT's Young People.
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Raiding the Suffer.


! A famous and fayorite kind of sport,
especially when we had been lying in
camp for some time in summer, or
were established in winter quarters,
was what was known as trading the
sutler.''
The suffers establishment was a large
wall tent, which was usually pitched
on the side of the camp farthest away
from the Coloners quarters. It was,
therefore, in a somewhat exposed and
tempting position. Whenever it was
thought well to raid him, the men of
his own regiment. would make to the
men of some neighboring regiment a
proposition in some such terms as this:
You fellows come over here some
night and raid our sutler, and we'll
come over to your camp some night and
raid yours. VIII you do it?''
This courteous offer Of friendly offices
was usually agreed to, and great was
the sport which often resulted. For,
when all was duly arranged and made
ready, on a dark night when thesutler
was sleeping soundly in his tent. a
skirmish line from the neighboring regi
ment would cautiously pick its way
down the hill and through the BRUSH.
and silently surround the tent. . One
party, creeping close IN by the wall of
the tent, would loosen the ropes and
remove them from the stakes on one
side, while another party on the other
side, at a given signal, would pun the
whole concern over the suffers head.
And then would arise yells and cheers
for a few moments, followed by imme-
date silence, as the raiding party would
steal quietly away.
Did they steal his goods? Very sci.
dom. For soldiers were not thieves.
and plumber was not the object, only
fun. Why did not the officers punish
the men for doing this? Well, some
times they did. But sometimes the off
GERS believed the sutler to be exorbitant
in his charges and oppressive to the
men, and cared little how soon be was
cleared out and sent a-packing; and
therefore they enjoyed the sport quite
as well as the men, and often initiated
Nelson's example When he put his blind
eye to the telescope and declared he
did not see the signal to cease firing.
They winked at the frolic, and came on
the scene usually in ample time to con-
dole with the sutler, but quite too late
to do him any service, --HQYg AZ.
Riefer, IN 81, NlcAoEas,
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Kitchen Progress.

Even in the kitchen inventive genius
has gained q strong foothold, entirely
usurping the primitive methods prac-
ticed by our grandmothers in the per-
Torrance of their domestic duties. Me-
chanical contrivances of all kinds sup
ply what in former years required deft-
ness. Griddles themselves do the cake
turning. Eggs are beaten by crank;
the coffee bean is not only roasted and
ground by machinery, but the drink
made by clever contrivance that con-
siderately whistles when the beverage
is done. A child, nowadays, may sue
cessfully fry Saratoga potatoes. An
open work basket is set in a pan of fat,
with the article to be fried in it. The
pan is furnished with a high handle
with hook in the m ddle. The instant
the thing to be cooked has assumed the
delicate golden brown appropriate to
viands cooked in this way, the basket is
lifted and hung upon the hook to drip
and dry. There is no marring of the
symmetry of outline of the fragile
delicacies, no scattering of grease in
the endeavor to fish them out, and there
are no last ones to burn while waiting
their turn to be taken out. Then the
new broiler, which permits the article to
be tightly shut in, ohviating all danger
of depositing it upon the floor or in the
fire, but catches every drop Of juice
that may exude. When the broiler has
tured over the juices are turned back
upon the meat, which thus bastes itself.
10 those unsuccessful ones who have
not yet arrived at the solution of the
problem of how to cook a chop over. a
quick fire, without burning the fat,
these broilers will bring success and re-
lief from their perplexities. Those fond
of nicely-shaped griddle-cakes will re-
ioice over a griddle m sde with a hinge
in the middle. One side has number
of circular depressions into which the
batter is dropped. When the cakes are
done on the under side, the griddle is
simply folded over on itself, which de-
posts them on their other side on the
opposite half of the griddle, leaving the
empty places ready for more. Then
there are ironing boards covered and
ready for use, and the various articles,
light and serviceable and unbreakable.
ike buckets and basins and foot-tubs,
made of paper mache. Chicago I'stsT
Ocean,
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Cloth Jackets.


The first lmportations of jackets for
early autumn days show tailor-made
garments of medium length-that is.
from twenty-four to twenty-six inches
of ottoman cloths very deliberately
braided. The fronts are single breasted,
with an officers standing collar, or they
may be double-breasted, with a HIGH
notched reyers collar. In some cases
there is braiding in rows or in a pattern
that covers the entire front of the jacket.
Astrakhan cloths and the curled As
trakhan furs are very much used for
trimming winter jackets; these are put
on as the merest edging, or else in wide
bands that nearly cover the skirt of the
garment Brown, gray, green, navy
blue, and black are the colors most
largely imported. Gilt braids, silver
and bronze soutache are also mixed
with black or dark-colored braid in
their trimmings, and great deal Of
Hercules braid an nch or more in width
is used for trimming cloth garments of
all kinds. The long pelisses which the
French call paletots are again imported
as cloth over-dresses to be worn with
skirts of silk or of velvet; these will
also be sufficiently heavy for winter
wraps when worn over the house dresses
with single skirt, no drapery, and a
round waist that are to be used next
winter. These pelisses may be quite
plain, or with plaits in front and back,
are fastened to the waist only, and are
provided with velvet or satin ribbons
that are sewed in the side seams at the
smallest taper of the waist, and tied in
front or on one side, as is found to be-
most becoming to the wearer. A velvet
collar, or else deepen shoulder cape of
either velvet Or fur, trims the neck, and
there are cuffs OF the same There are
also elaborate corded ornaments for the
shou' ders and back of these coats, with
a rope-like cord and tassels around the
waist. Brown, black and gray cloths
are most usel for long pelisses, but
there are many striped ones, also block
checks and large dull plaids. Astrakhan
fur and braid trim those to be used in
midwinter. The comfortable Russian
circular is again imported in heavy
cloths, with a fur border and rows of
fur and braid down the back. This
garment has fitted back forms, and a
closed piece in front, with holes for the
arms to pass out, and is ample enough
to cover the wearer from throat to foot.
Black, gray and brown cloths are most
used for these.--HaTper' BGz0T.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-09-21
Plant Good Seed.


Farmers often remark when sowing
grain that small grain if plump is Just
as good Tor seed as the largest. This is
undoubtedly great mistake, not only
from the fact that it will not produce
crops of good quality under the great
general RUE that like produces like and
that the best seed must produce the best
crops, but that the individual plant can
not under the same circumstances OBJ
tain so good start when the seed is
small or inferior from any cause. That
small seed will grow or that shrunken
seed may produce plant is true, but it
viii not produce so strong and vigorous
plants as the large plump kernel.
The following on this point is from
remarks BY DR.. Sturteyant concerning
the corn plant, but which will apply as
well to other grains: There are two
physiological processes which are con-
cerned in the nutrition Of plants. The
first is assimilation, through which the
plant food is taken. through the root
and through the leaf, in the presence Of
sunlight and stored in the plant. Then
by a process called metastasis, this
stored material from the air is deoxy-
died and formed into soluble material
designed for the support Of growth or
for storage. It therefore follows that
in the darkness a plant can only grow
from the material which has hitherto
been elaborated, and when this elabo-
rated material has been utilized there
can be no more growth until. through
the action of the sun. new material is
supplied by assimilation.
The corn kernel is composed of a
germ or chit, surrounded by mass of
material placed there for the use of the
terminating plantlet. The distance to
which the plant can grow from the
light is determined by the amount of
this preserved food. Consequently the
large seed is enabled to force its plant
let through greater depth of soil on
It's way to the surface than is the small
seed. - -
The seed vegetables under one-half
inch Of soil more quickly than under the
six inches, and the growth, instead Of
being massed into extension Of stem.
passes into the formation of Leaf, and
the increasing Of the organs Of assimi.
Mti0n, Detroit PON,
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Temperance Reading
WHAT TEMPERANCE. has DONE
FOR JOHN AND NE.

My story, ma'ami Why, really now, haven't
If you had come a year ago. and then again
No need OF any word to tell, for your own
eyes could see
Just what the Temperance cause has done for
my dear John and me!
A year ago hadn't -four to make batch of
bread,
And many a night these little ones went hun.
CRY to their bed
Just peep into the pantry, ma am; there's
sugar, flour and tea
And that is what the Temperance cause has
done for John and me.
The pail that holds the butter he used to I'LL
with beer;
He hasn't. spent cent for drink for two
months and wear:
he pays MS debts, he's well and strong, and
.KSlna as man can be
And that is what the Temperance cause has
done for John and me.
He used to walk along the street looking so
mean and low,
As If he hardly dared to meet the friends he
used TO know,
But now he looks them in the face, and walks
off bold and free
And that is what the Temperance cause has
done for John and me.
Why, at the shop. the other day, when Job
of work was done,
The boss declared of all his men the steadest
one was John;
"I used to be the worst. my wife," John told
me, and says he:
"That's what the glorious Temperance cause
has done for you and me-"
Oh, yes! the sad, sad times are gone, the sor-
row and the pain;
The children have their father back, and Imy
John again.
Don't mind my crying, ma am; indeed it's just
for Joy, to see
HOW much the Temperance cause has done
Tor my dear John and me!
Each morning when he goes to work up
ward look and saw:
30, Heavenly Father help dear John to keep
his pledge today"
And every night, before sleep, thank Him
on Blended knee
For what the Temperance cause has done for
my dear John and me!
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About Wrinkles.

wonder, children, if when you look
at your grandmother who sits there
nodding in her chair = CT wasn't
asleep says grandmother, with q
start; "Of course not. returns grand
father, with a twinkle in his eye)-I
wonder if, when you look at those
wrinkles in the dear grandmother S
face, you think of the thought and the
care and the trials that helped time to
make them. She is sweeter TO me,
children, than she was in the old days
when she was like wild rose in June.
Grandmother made quaint, old-fash
Toned courtesy, and everybody went
over and kissed herr
But we won't talk of grandmother in
particular, we'll talk of wrinkles in gen.
eral. When / was a boy was taught
to look with respect on wrinkled face.
Each wrinkle means great deal. 1t
means suffering and care, and anxiety
for others; for that old person has been
very selfish, indeed, who has lived only
for himself. Few have been SO selfish.
Yesterday, as / was crossing South
Ferry, saw a wrinkled hand before me
on the rail of the boat. 1t was mans
hand. It was hard and brown. And,
though the man himself had his back
towards me, read him from that hand.
He had his Sunday coat on and a tall
hat. but the hand was the hand Of a la
borer. The wrinkles were made as
much by constant use as by time. 1t
was an honest hand, and grandfather
thought it would be more fitting to a
gentleman to kiss that toil-stained hand
than the hand of the Sovereign Lady
who rules the British Isles, and one Of
them at least, so badly. When the man
turned his face grandfather saw he was
not mistaken. The face was an honest
one, and when the boat touched the
wharf with an awful bang against the
woodwork, two boys, neatly dressed,
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Advertising Difficulties.

The Paris Police Magistrates evident
ly believe, like all sensible people, that
the only proper place to advertise is in
the newspapers. For some years past
one of the most conspicuous features of
the Paris thoroughfares has been the
staring red carts of an enterprising En-
glish tradesman. The driver was inva-
riably attired in gorgeous POSITIONS
costume, and the horse, by curious ar
rangement, is almost concealed from
view inside what was really huge per-
ambulating square box. These ingen-
ivus advertising mediums have now
disappeared pursuant to decree of
the Project of Police, to whom COM
plants had been made that they inn
peded the traffic in the streets, besides
frightening the horses of other vehicles.
The decree was at first disregarded, but
this led to three of the offending struct-
ures being confscated by the authori-
ties. Paris Paper.
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HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

Telegraph Cookies: Two eggs, two
cups sugar, one cup butter, one half
teaspoonful soda, flour enough to mix
soft; roll thin and bake quick1y.--N r
Times.
"A gardener In Baltimore who has a
number of large lighthouses for growing
early cucumbers, keeps a hive of bees
in each house for the purpose of dis
tributing the pollen.
For tile last ten years mammoth
apple tree belonging to Abel Schofield,
of Adair County, Mo-, has presented its
owner with twenty barrels of fruit each
season. It measures seven feet in cir
conference near the ground. - Chicago
Inter Ocean.
"A delicate and inexpensive dish for
dessert is made by boiling some rice
until it is perfectly tender, cook some
tart apples at the same time; when they
are soft, beat them with a spoon until
they are light; season with sugar and a
little cinnamon, and put layer of rice
in a pudding dish; then layer of the
apple sauce, until the dish is full, hay
ing the apple on top. Serve warm or
cold with cream. IN. r Post.
An English gardener says he does
not agree with those who say that one
good wedding is worth two hoeings.
He says: Never weed a crop in which
a hoe can be used, not SO much for the
sake of destroying weeds. which must
be the case if the hoeing be well done,
as for increasing the porosity of the
soil, to allow the air and water to pene-
trate freely through it. Oftentimes there
is more benefit derived by crops from
keeping them well hoed than there is
from the manure applied
. "A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman deprecates the practice Of
burning weeds. stubble and vegetable
refuse on the farm, saying that the soil
is being deprived of the very material
absolutely necessary to its permanent
fertility-both plant food and the ca
pacity for holding moisture, without
which the former is comparatively use
less. To this destruction of vegetable
matter is due the impoverishment of the
soil far more than to exhaustion by the
crops. and not until the destructive GUS
tom is stopped can anything like former
fertility be restored.
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SUNLIGHT ALL THE WAX

!" Goodbye, Jennie; the road is long,
And the moor is hard to cross:
But well you know there is danger
In the Dogs and the marshy moss.
Sc keep in the foot-path, Jennie;
Let nothing tempt you to stray;
Then you'll get safely over it,
toi there sunlight all the way
Sunlight all the way;
80 never you fear,
Keep a good heart, dear,
F,r there's sunlight all the way"
TIE child went off with a blessing
And a kiss of mother-love;
She daisies we're down at her feet,
And the lark was singing above.
On, on in the narrow fo0t-path--
Nothing could tempt her to stray;
SO the moor was passed at night-fall,
And she'd sunlight all the way
Sunlight all the way;
And she, smiling, said,
AS her bed was spread:
had sunlight all the way"
And ], who followed the maiden,
Kept thinking, as / went,
Over the perilous moor Of life
What unwary feet are bent
IL they only could keep the foot~path,
And not in the marshes stray,
Then they would reach the end of life
Ere the night could shroud the day.
They'd have sunlight all the way.
But the marsh is wide,
And they turn aside.
And the night falls on the day.
far better to keep the narrow path,
Nor turn to the left or right;
For If we loiter at morning,
What shall we do when the night
Falls back on our lonely journey,
And we mourn our vain delay?
Then steadily onward, friends, and We
Shall have sunlight all the way
Sunlight all the way,
Till the journeys DER,
And we reach the shore
Oh neyer-ending day.
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"A black and tan dog belonging to
the daughter ofrich Chicago parents was
accidentally killed in New York the 9TH
er day. The body. was placed in a satin
lined walnut coffin and sent to Chicago
for burial. For heavens sake don't
say anything about it, = said the under
taker who had the Job in hand to re-
porter, ''or we shall be swamped with
that sort of business. 1t is growing all
the time. No such thing as a dog fu-
neral was heard of few years ago, but
now we have about two dozen Of them
a year. - Chicago Herald.
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"A rash man: YES said Fogg,
j" DR.. Pillroller is a brave man, no
doubt, but he carries his bravery too
far. He is foolhardy, sir; never saw so
rash man. Called him to see Mrs. F.
to-day, and he actually asked her to let
him see her tongue! Fact, sir.
wouldn't have believed any living man
would have had the courage TO meet
that tongue Of hers Boston Tran
script
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The central figure of cartoon in a
recent number of Harper's Weekly is
a sheaf of wheat, rising from which
are two figures --Ceres and Death. The
former is passing loaf of bread to the
family table, about which are gathered
the happy father, mother and children;
the latter is pouring alcohol upon the
PROSTATE form of a drunken father,
while the mother sits heart-broken,
surrounded by her ragged, starving
babes. 1t represents the work of the
mill and the still, and the picture is
most truthful in its terrible reality.
The mill feeds and nourishes and
strengthens, while the other degrades,
weakens and destroys Western Ware.
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COLLECTIONS netting in MI over one
thousand dollars were taken up at Ihe
Temperance meetings which MISS
Frances E. Willard has recently been
holding in California. She was strong
" urged to take this for Der own neees- 6
sites and use, but she preferred ta Leave
II to help carry on the work
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He is no pauper. He begs or bor-
rows from no one The shock that laid
his mind in ruins left unframed the
skill and cunning of his hands, So he
labors at engraving or some other skilled
mechanical work, and is chargeable to
no man. ,saf7 fHa6
Mr.. Heintzlemann is not the only one
of his kind to whom the Halls of JUS
tice present irresistible attractions.
Other eccentric characters from time to
time sgravitate toward the same center.
For instance, there is, or rather was.
Mrs. Mayteld, owner in fee simple Of
the courthouse, with all the appur-
tenances thereto belong no. She was
u spare old lady, neatly dressed in
black, carrying always an Iold-fashioned
reticule. She used at intervals to visit
the courthouse for the purpose of col
Letting her rents, Marching with slow
and stately steps into one Of the rooms
she would approach the raj ing in front
OF the bench. If her advent passed I'M
noticed, she dived into the depths OF her
reticule, and, producing therefrom an
enormous brass key, presumably the in
sigma of ownership, raped with great
solemnity upon the railing ulltil the at
tention of some official was attracted
This accomplished, she would say:
"Good morning. | have called for
my rent, if it is quite convenient. !"
e Certainly, Mrs. Mayfield, the officer
would reply; 8 | quite forgot to send it.
I'm very sorry You had the fro11bla of
coming for it. =
Mrs. Maytield had no stated periods
at which she collected her rent. some
times calling twice in q fortnight. AT
others lettingit accumulate for months.
Nor had she any fixed rental valua-
tion--a quarter, a dime, or even d
nickel would suffice. Indeed, the
old lady must have regarded the
sum paid more as an acknowledgment
of ownership than anything, so little re-
laton did it bear to the value of her
property. She ignored altogether the
formality of receipts, justly deeming,
no doubt, that the city might safely rely
on her sense Of honor not to demand the
same rent over again.
Before leaving she would go round the
room on tour of inspection to satisfy
herself that the premises were being
kept in tenantable repsir, and would
graVely suggest any little alteration in az
engagements that would occur to her as
being likely to impair the value of the
realty. These WISE precautions taken
against the necessity OF . suit for dilapi.
r