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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-01
An Absurd Statement.

" 1t Is reported that the Postmaster-Ge General
Is about to make decision in regard to that
class of newspapers known as patent out.
sides, 'insides,' or cooperative that
will necessarily cause large number Of local
papers. of the smallest circulation and least
influence, to suspend publicarioA. His rea-
son for so doing is that the papers being
printed on one side in the cities, and then
Scld by the quire to thousands of country
publishers, who print the other half
at home. is sufficient evidence that
such papers are not elf-gustaining and in 40
cordance has about decided to exclude all
such from the mails as second-class matter.
There are about 1900 such publications issued
IN TINS country, and # the ruling goes into eff
fcot about 200 would suspend, while the re-
naming LOCO of the better class of 'co-opera-
tfves would be greatly strengthened, and
could tnen afford to publish the whole of their
papers; SO, IN the end, the press, advertisers
and the public would be greatly benefited"
lie foregoing item. which has APP
peared in a country paper published at
Sidney, o., is another evidence of the
vindictiyeness of some publishers where
the cooperative papers affect their re-
ceipts for advertising and subscription.
Sec. z of the Postal Law, approved June
%, 1874, says: THAT newspapers, one
copy TO each actual subscriber, residing
within the county where the same are
printed, in whole or in part, and pub
iished shall go free through the mails; but
the same shall not be delivered at letter.
carrier offices or distributed by carriers
unless postage is paid thereon as by law
provided. From TINS it will be seen
that the Postmaster-General's rulings
have been anticipated by the National
Congress, and the proposed decision
would be illegal and Of no effect. -
Chicago Banner.
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HUMOROUS.

-Bootblacks are friendly little fell
lows. They take shine to anybody.
A man in England has been fined
for biting off the tails of two dogs. He
must be something of a wag.-Roches-
ter Post Express.
When woman wants to get rid of
her husband for an hour, she sends him
up stairs to get something from the
pocket of her dress.
-"Mr. Isaacs, can you tale me ware
vas the first diamond?n mo, Mr..
Yawcobs; we're vas itP" ''Vy, Noah's
son on de ark; he vas Shem of der fust
water. - Chicago Tribune.
MARIA, said Mrs. Parvenu to her
daughter, 'swho is that Mr.. Dude that
the papers have so much to say about?
/ must ask your father to bring him to
dinner, forI guess we ought to know
him. IN Y. Mail.
Lady (to dry-goods clerk): eff you
will cut me small sample of this Twill
find out from by dressmaker how many
yards / need, and can send for the
goods by the maid.' Enfant Terri
BILE; ''Why, mamma, that's just what
you said in all the other stores.
"a horse at Craigyille took fright
at colored man playing fiddle, and
ran away and smashed a lamp-post.
The animal evidently had good ear
for music, but why he didn't run away
and smash the fiddler is the strangest
part of the incident. The lamp-post
was innocent. --NorristoU Herald.
Mrs. Malaprop was heard to re-
mark apropos Of the weather: Il can't
see into this Virgins idee. Of course,
Juniper and Satan bein' in pedigree
would be rather like ter git up some
sorter storm, but it don't seem ter me
that the sun and moons being in effigy
would raise any rumpus. Rome On.
~ Sentinel.
An Irishman who had a pig in his
possession was observed to adopt the
constant practice of filing it to reple-
ton one day and starving it the next.
On being asked his reason for doing so,
he replied: .Och, sure, and isn't it that
like to have bacon with strake O. fat
and strake of lean aqually, one after
t'other.-C Chicago Herald.
An Arkansas boy, writing from col
lege in reply to his fathers letter, said:
80 you think that I am wasting my
time in writing little stories for the
local papers, and cite Johnson's saying
that the man who writes except for
money is fool. / shall act upon DIR.
Johnson's suggestion and write for
money. Send me fifty dollars. "-Arkap-
Saa0 Traveller.
1t was not q doctor he needed:
LAWYER Pullman is an Austin Lawyer
who has great reputation for collect
ING bad debts. If the money can be
got out of man he will get it. 1t was
to this lawyer that little Bob Buckley
referred when he was requested to run
quick for a doctor, as neighbor schild
had swallowed coin. doctor be
bowed, I'll run for Lawyer Pullman;
he'll get the money out of the kid
quicker n dozen doctors. ~ Texas
S!ttisgs.
Committee of Solicitation-.Ts
Mrs. Smith at home?n Mary Ann
Qately landed )-"No, ma'a ? Sec
ond Lady of Committee How I'M
fortunate! We wanted to see her on
business. Please tell her so when you
hand her these cards. Third Lady
Have you any idea when she will be
in?" Mary Ann (who has been drilled
for formalities) Eyes, ma am; she
said when she ran out on the piazza as
how she'd come right in again as soon
IS she heard the door shut. - Chicago
Times.
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Personal AND LITERARY.

-Mrg. Langtry says sf1e saw more
beautiful women in Baltimore than In
any other American city.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, who. has
obtained judgment for nearly 50, O00,-
600 from the city of New Orleans, is
seyenty-eight years old.
The oldest banker in the United
States is Mrs. Deborah Powers, aged
ninety-three, of the banking house of D.
Powers & Sons. at Lansingburg, N. 7.
ga Tallahassee Girl was written
by Mr.. Barton D. Jones, ga Northern
gentleman and the vivacious heroine
is no other than Miss Norie Long, the
daughter of late Governor of Florida.
M T. Times.
Edward Manet, the French painter,
whose death at Paris has been an
nounced, was well known to Americans
as the illustrator of Poe's poem of THE
Raven He was one of the leaders of
the ''impressionist' school of art.
General John w. Phelps, the sew
enty-three-year old Vermonter, having
failed of election to the Presidency on
the anti-Mason ticket of 1880, has mar
ried Anna Davis, handsome thirty.
year-old woman of Brattleboro. Boston
Herald
Samuel B. Rindge, who died in
Cambridge, Mass, a few days ago, leftan
estate estimated to be worth So, 900, 900.
He began life as an Office boy in a Bos-
ton store and the same store was owned
by him at the time of his death. Boston
Journal.
Hayward Hutchinson, who died the
other day in Washington, was the most
genteel acquisition that place has had
since the war. He used the wealth de-
rived from the Alaska seal monopoly to
make everybody happy and himself only
half So Washington Star.
Mrs. Martha Dodge, of Oswego, N.
Y.,who is ninety-one years of age. visit
ed her birthplace recently in Middle
field, Conn, for the first time since 1906.
She found only one person living there
whom she knew in her childhood. He
was then little boy of eight, and is
now an old man of eighty-four.
John L. Stoddard S lecture on 1.-THE
Alps at Philadelphia, was so graphic
that one of the gentlemen in the au-
dience assured him afterwards that,
with his imagination thus stirred, he
had followed the speaker up Mont
Blanc, until the atmosphere became so
rarifed as to make his nose bleed
Philadelphia Press.
Mr.. Lyman, who has received the
appointment of Chief Examiner in the
Civil Service, has been in the service of
the Treasury Department since Decem-
Der II, 1864. In 1870 he was appointed
Assistant Chief of the stationery divi-
sion, and July l, 1873, he was pro-
NOTED to the chief clerkship of the Treas
urer's office.
-Chepeta, the widow of Chief Ouray,
whose lamentations while on the Col
orado reservation over her loss excited.
the pity of the West, and who, with her
tribe, was sent by the Government out
to Utah, has broken her vows and mar
ried again. Her second choice is Ute
named Toomuchagut, who has always
been peace-loying and friendly to the
whites. He has been frugal, and of
sheep and ponies he has more than any
other half dozen Of his fellows. Chicago
Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-01
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Eggs placed with the large end
downward viii keep much longer, it is
said, than in any other position.
1T is stated that Northern farmers
will have to compete with very heavy
crop of early Southern potatoes this
year. the high prices of last season hay-
ing induced unusually large planting.
A good guide for feeding grain to
cattle is one pound to each hundred of
their weight. Most animals eat in pro-
portion to their weight, and an animal
weighing one thousand pounds may re-
ceive ten pounds of grain per day
Western Agriculturist.
Stuffed Potatoes: After the potatoes
are well washed bake them until soft.
Cut a piece from the top of each pota-
to, and scoop out the soft pulp with a
spoon, taking care not to break the
skins. Mash the pulp well through a
colander, season with salt, and mash
with it plenty of butter. Return the
mixture to the cases, and brown the
| tips with a salmander or red-hot shovel
Boston Traascrtpt.
DIR. Hanamann warns farmers
against the practice of removing straw
| from land, as it tends to render the soil
poor. Not only are potash, lime, phos-
| phoric acid, ETC., taken away, but also
considerable amount of organic
matter, whereby the moisture is too
much reduced. Care must be observed
in restoring to the soil what it has been
! deprived of, or sterility will be the ulti-
mate result.-N Y Herald.
An exchange suggests that good
plan in sowing small seeds like begonia,
ferns and orchids, is to use a very soft
brick dug out enough to hold say one
| quarter of an inch of soil. Place the
biick in pan of water. The brick
draws moisture enough to keep the soil
in a nice condition. Such fine seeds
may also be sown on top of a shallow
brick set in a pan of water. They will
be almost sure to grow, the only care
required being to see that the water is
always kept in the pan.
Mr.. David Smith makes his bulls do
the work of a team; gives them plenty
| to do hauling manure and other heavy
drawing. To enable them to stand the
heat better, when working before the
pillow and harrow, he has had them
clipped, horse-fashion. This novel idea
is good one, as it will prevent them
from getting SO hot on warm days,
which is the greatest objection to work
ing oxen. They will move about quick
er, and thus accomplish more, when
shorn of their old coats.-M Y Gr6bune.
| If flowers have been growing in the
| ground many years, new soil works
wonders. Rich manure makes flowers
| grow, but they do not always flower
well with vigorous growth. If new soil
can not be had, a wheelbarrow of ma
nure to about every fifty square feet will
be sufficient If the garden earth looks
| gray or yellow, rotten leaves, we'll de-
composed, will improve it. Ii heavy,
add sand. livery sandy, add salt, say
about half pint to fifty square feet.
If very black or rich from previous
/ years manurings, use a little Stacked
lime, about a pint to fifty square feet
Prairie Farmer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-01
Bogus ''Old Masters"

The artist raked around among pile
of lumber in a corner and drew forth q
small picture that looked old and dirty
enough to have been the work of the
court painter of one of the Pharaohs.
"There it ia Madonna and child.
Doesn't it thrill you to think you stand
face to face with masterpiece of the
famous old world artist? Look closely
and tell me what you think Of it.
1t was unframed, with the varnish
and brush marks showing up plainly ON
its surface, while the sweet faces of the
two figures looked out of the surround
ing darkness with the heavenly express
sion peculiar to the great painter.
The reporter expressed his delight
and asked the value of the gem.
"You would hardly think that pict-
ures like that, with all the signs of age
upon them could be turned out by the
hundred every week, would your
asked the artist. ''But they can and
they would impose upon good judges,
too. Look at the back. 1t has that
peculiar old look that only belongs to
| Cdnf do uDOn WhOoClIO Ps1inb 1ltto hCSA-
deposited. But look at the sides. ]"
The gentleman showed that the bent
down edges ON the sides of the stretcher
were of white painted canvas thatwould
have been covered up in frame, and
the fraud was apparent. The painted
canvas was covered on the front
of the picture and the operation evil
IDENTITY was to get canvas painted and
seasoned on one side with some neutral
gray tint, and then to print upon it,
chromo-fashion, the painting intended
to be forged. Then fifth-rate artist
had been employed, as soon as the
chromo-painting was dry, to go over it
with brush, pick out the high lights
and emphasize the shadows with his
brush. A thick coat of varnish was the
next thing, and the genuine Raphael
was ready for the market.-Pittsbargh
| DiSDntch.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-01
Counting.

The Buffalo On. Y.) Courier, in talking
up this matter says the woman does as
much in starting a courtship as the
man, as in nearly every case the woman
offers herself, in some way, to her hus-
band, before he offers himself to her.
This offer is made in many ways; the
wearing of a particular color; the adj
miration for a particular poet; some
delicate touch Of flattery; the exhibi-
ton of a favorite accomplishment, or
one of innumerable other graceful and
captivating ways that fit SO well to
woman. If this is so, why then, fell
loW-felloWs, let us be on our guard,
and not foolishly throw ourselves away
upon these beautiful and diabolic s1hem-
iers. We are altogether too scsy,e T. b
wasted,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-01

here am. Is he very sick? Poor fell
low, and didn't know it? Why didn't
you write me sooner
Mr.. Olson explained and went with
the woman to see her husband, thinking
that the features of the case did not inn
prove. After meeting her husband the
woman was so much distressed and agi-
tated that it seemed as though the farni-
" were to have two inValids on their
hands instead of one.
A week of anxiety passed, and the
man was pronounced out of danger.
Something had caused him to take a
more cheerful view of life, and he was
already considering plans for the future
and talking necessarily about them. He
was coming up from his sick bed a
changed man. he had been suspicious,
defiant, reserved through all the pre-
vious years of his life from boyhood.
He had been uniformly unfortunate,
even in his married life. The great
trouble had been that he had convinced
himself that his wife did not love him.
His jealousy once aroused, he attached
great weight to every triding circum-
simply because he had no great desire
to succeed. His wife's complaints were
reproaches that maddened him. And
finally he left home with the intention
to never return. He sent what little
money he earned home, but his wife's
complaints followed him in her letters.
He forgot that she did not understand
his intentions and took a mournful sat
isfaction in denying himself that he
might send her money Finally there
came time when he could earn no
money, and the frenzy incident thereto
made him one of the widest of the
working men, appealing for aid, and
the excitement and exposure incident
to. his restitution ended in sickness and
despair. He had gone down with a
heart full of bitterness and suspicion.
He came up with heart tender from
its over-fullness of thankfulness. The
fact that his wife had overcome so
many difficulties in coming to him and
had exhibited such anxiety as to his re-
covery, and such untiring devotion, had
cleared his vision wonderfully. A
woman who could so care for man
must love him, and, casting all sus-
picions aside, he had resolved to COM
mence life anew in more ways than one.
This confession was made to his
friend, John Olson, when the latter told
him the story of receiving the wrong
letter.
There were several happy people in
that little house when John Olson, in
valid, took his first step, supported by
John Olson, his friend. That there was
nearer relationship they did not know
until toe grandmother of the latter,
weeks afterwards, traced it out, and
then were all the mysterious, shadowy
suggestions of the sick-bed scene ex-
planned. And this good old grand
mother says, very reverently, that Gods
hand was in the letter that went wrong,
and that both men had to recognize it.
And while the young men take slight
~ different view, they thank God all the
same. CHICAGO Inter Ocean.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-01
MY LITTLE NAN.

had bright and happy boy,
His step was light, his heart was CAV:
With whistles, marbles gun and toy,
He played each heeting, hvelong day.
He'd play he was train of cars,
And, swiftly gliding down the street,
Would stop for neither fence nor bars,
Or any one he'd chance to meet.
He whistled for the crossings loud,
Nor would he look to left or right;
His thoughts SCARED higher than the clouds,
Or swallows in their homeward fight.
He brought me comfort every day,
For he was such little man;
And in the future, far away,
He'd picture many treasured plan.
Sometimes my heart grew strangely sad,
While gazing on his little form,
And yearned to shield him from all bad,
From every tempest, cloud and storm.
prayed for help each passing day,
To guide his little, busyfeet,
And lead him in the Heavenly waE,
At last to walk the golden street.
One day, when all the flowers had gone,
There came, as only angels can,
A messenger, and carried home
My noble-hearted little man.
Toledo Blade,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-01

"A few nights ago the editors at
work on the top floors of the tallest
newspaper Office in New York heard
the fire engines gathering at its base
about midnight. Stepping to the tele-
phone one of the editors called to the
police headquarters mile away: "Is
our office on fre?" mo- came the
prompt reply. "It's little building
round the corner" 1t took less time
to ask the question of man mile off,
who knew all about it from routine re-
ports than to go down stairs and see fox
tbemselyes.-N. T. Sun.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-01

IT IS EASIER to suppress the desire
for drink in its infant stages than to
break it up after the appetite has been
formed. The sin of drunkenness once
admitted into the citadel of the heart,
brings thousand contending evils in
its train. 1t is easier to say NO while
you are free, than it is to say no after
the devilish demon has you fully in his
power.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-01

BRITISH GOVERNMENT FIGURES esti-
mate that one-ffth of the ESQ, 900, 900
earned by the British workingmen and
women yearly, goes for beer and liquor.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1883-10-20

Notice is hereby given that on Tues.
dav the Sixth day OF November, 1883,
next, in the county Of Custer, and terri
tory of Dakota, an election will be held
for county and precinct officers, viz:
One county commissioners, dist number
one tl), one county commissioner, dist.
number two (2), to fill vacancy. One
justice Of peace and one constable for
Junction precinct one justice of peace
and one constable for Kidville precinct;
one justice of peace and one constable
for Four Mile precinct; one justice Of
peace and one constable for Cheyenne
River precinct; one Justice Of peace and
one constable for Minnekata precinct !;
one Justice Of peace and one constable
for Buffalo Gap precinct; one constable
for Custer precinct. and one constable
for Hayward precinct, which election
will be opened at o'clock in the morn
ing. and will continue open until 5
o'clock in the afternoon of the same
day.
Given under my hand at Custer, ID. T
the 9th day Of October, A. ID. 1888.
+. II. FLYNN,
County Clerk
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1883-10-20
N otlCe
Clerk

COUNTY CLERKs OFFICE, CUSTER, d. 7.
October l3, 1883.
The following judges are hereby ap-
pointed for the Annual Election to be
held in Custer County, ID. r., November
eth, 1888
Custer precinct-J. p. Thompson, ].
G. Sanders, George Kimble.
Junction precinct-John McCarty, NJ.
S. DAILY, John Wilhelm.
Kidville precinct-James Sutherland,
John Fortune, Thos. Mclean.
Four Mile precinct-Charles Holmes.
J. L. Rider David Rogers.
Cheyenne River precinct-A. J
Robertson, Ed. Martin, Hank Courtney.
Minnekata precinct-R. ID. Jennings.
A S. Stewart George Turner.
Buffalo Gap precinct-George Boland,
A. ID. Bond, l.. Il. Reno.
Battle River precinct--T II. Arnold,
w. n. Walker, Charles Dunton.
Hayward precinct-John Bobier, Isaac
Clark, John IL. Palmer.
4. II. FLYNN,
County Clerk.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1883-10-20
Unpaid Workmen.

Bozeman, Oct. ll.-Oyer $4,000 in
liens have been filed with the Gallatin
county recorder this week against the
Northern Pacific Railway company by
contractors and subcontractors of the
Rocky Mountain and Park divisions
Some Of the laborers, who have been
working getting out ties and delivering
them, have received no pay for year,
and are almost in want. The tiemen
seem to have Jared the worst, none Of
them having any money. The liens
mentioned are only the advance guard.
Now that the move has started the wave
will break clear along the division.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1883-10-20
Advice TO Mothers.

are you disturbed at night and brok-
en- Of your rest by sick child suffering
and crying with pain of cutting teeth
If SO, send at once and get bottle Of
Mrs. WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP FOR
CHILDREN TEETHING. Its value is incal-
culable. 1t will relieve the poor little
sufferer Immediately. Depend upon it,
mothers, there is no mistake about il. It
cures dysentery and diarrhoea, regulates
the stomach and bowels, cures wind
collie, sortens the gums, reduces infam-
nation. and gives tone and energy to
the whole system. Mrs. WINsLow's
SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEETHINa
is pleasant to the taste, and is the pre-
scription Of one of the oldest and best
female physicians and nurses in the
United States, and is for sale by all
druggists throughout the world. Price
25 cents bottle.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1883-10-20

ed in the iti0 pages Of this rccently.ls-
sued book. 1t is prepared by Henry n.
Copp, a lawyer Of Washington, ID. C..
All the government salaries are given
from President Arthur's $4,000 to post
masters with $500, officials Of the treas
ury, Interior. War and Navy depart
ments. Custom Houses, post Offices. and
fully 10000 federal offices arranged by
states and territories. Specimen exami-
nation questions for admittance to the
Civil Service throughout the country
are added. Politicians alone have here.
tofore held this knowledge. The people
now have a chance to learn into whose
pockets their money goes, and how the
nations income is expended. The price
Of tie book is only 35 cents.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1883-10-20
Bribery Case.

Albany, ~ Y, Oct l2.-The prosecu-
ton rested in the case Of Lorin Sessions,
an ex-senator, on trial for attempted
bribery Of AssemblymaI Bradley dur
ing the Conhling contest for return to
the United States senat. Counsel for
Sessions Immediately moved to quash
the indictment Of bribery, which he
argued had not been proven. He held
that there could be no such thing as at
tempted bribery in this case under the
existing law. as Bradley had accepted
the money and having no intention to
vote as it was alleged he was asked to.
Had he rejected the bribe then there
would have been an attempt at bribery.
The prosecuting attorneys in replying
secuted the proposition and argument
and claimed the attempted bribery was
an offense at common law.