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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-29
Forest Planting In Spert.

You may think, boys, perhaps, that
we have trees and woods enough. But
men who have studied the subject win
tell you that in many parts of our land
we have already cut down too many.
When all the grand old trees have been
removed from hillside the rains be-
gin to wash away the soil, and the
mountain slope that was once so green
and shady soon becomes barren and
stony tract. This is the case near Boston.
at place called Middlesex Falls. The
land here was formerly covered with
white pine; now, whole tracts are bare
and useless, The people are therefore
trying to replant trees and restore the
old forest.
I lately read a pretty story how
forest was replanted in q part of Swift
zerland. The people in an old town
there determined. like the people of
Middlesex Falls, to transform a piece of
waste land into forest. They thought
it would be a good plan to give the
job to the school-boys and school
girls in the village. So they
gave the schools a holiday one day, and
then arranged all the boys and girls in
ranks, with a drummer and fifer at the
head, and away they marched merrily.
A wagon followed with some light
spades, and bags of acorns and nuts
and other seeds, and a good many bas-
kets of things good to eat. The plant
ing, you see, was to be kind of picnic.
When the children-who, you may be
sure, were pleased at this frolic. in the
country, were wondering what they
would have to do next!-came to the
spot, the boys were called forward and
put in line. Then spades and pickaxes
were given them, and they were told to
dig some holes several yards apart.
While the boys were digging the first
line of holes, the girls were placed in
line, one girl behind each boy, and
bag of acorns given to each. When the
row of holes was finished, the boys
shouldered their spades and marched
few yards forward to make another
row. The girls then advanced and
dropped two or three acorns in each
hole.
So the work went gayly on until
they all took a recess. The picnic
pasKets were opened, and, as every
body had a good appetite, were soon
emptied. Then after another hour'f
work the drum and fife sounded, spades
were thrown into the cart, and all
marched homeward. The children
were all in good spirits, because they
had enjoyed their holiday, and were
proud of having spent it usefully.
There were no truants for the next few
weeks, in each of which holiday for
planting was given, and the work was
soon finished. "It is fifty years ago."
said the old school-master who told the
tale, ''and avery fine wood is the one
my school made. Hugh Craig, IN
Harper's Young People.
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ELOQUENT Words.


from the Annual Address of 7. v. Powder
ly. Grand Master Workman of the Knights OF
Labor.l
The Temperance question is most
important one, and sometimes think
it is the main issue. The number OF
applications fromlocals during thepast
year to grant dispensations to allow the
initiation of rum-Sellers was alarming.
have persistently refused. and will enc
join my successor, if he values the fut-
ure welfare of the order, to shut its
doors with triple bars against the adj
mission of the liquor dealer. His path
and that of the honest, industrious
workingman lie in opposite directions.
The rum-seller who seeks admission TO
a labor society, does so that he may en-
tee Its members into his saloon after
the meetings close. & No question of in
terest to labor has ever been satisfac-
torily settled over a bar in rum-hole.
No labor society ever admitted rum
seller that did not die drunkard's
death. No workingman ever drank
glass of rum who did not rob his wife
and children of the price of il, and in
doing so committed q double crime
murder and theft. He murders the in
tellect with which the Maker has en-
dowed him. He steals from his fam
lily the means of suStenance he has
earned for them Turn to the annals
OF every dead labor, society, and you
will see whole pages blurred and de-
stroyed by the accursed footprints of
rum. Scan the records of a meeting at
which disturbance took place, and you
will hear echoing through the hall the
maudlin, fiendish gfunt of the drunken
brute who disturbed the harmony of the
meeting In the whole English Ian
guage can find no word that strikes
more terror to my soul than that one
word-rum! 1t was born in hell. ere
the fiat of ''no redemption" had gone
forth. Its life on earth has been one of
ruin to the bright hopes of youth and
the peace of old age. 1t has robbed
childhood of its delights. 1t has stolen
the laugh from the lips of innocence,
the bloom from the cheek of manhood.
1t has touched the heart of old age like
the tip of a poisoned arrow. Its sound
as it gurgles from the neck of a bottle
echoes through many desolate house
hold as the Kissing of a thousand SER
penis. You may deem me too radical
on this point. Yet never interfere
with the right of a man to drink if he SO
elects. l hold that have right to,
and do shun rum as would an enraged
tiger, neither meddling with it or al
lowing it to NEEDLE with me. So long
as it Keeps its distance, am content to
leave it alone; but the moment it seeks
to interfere with my rights by coming
into the Knights of Tabor, then my
soul arises in arms against it, and 1 can
find no words too bitter, no denuncia-
ton too scathing, to hurl against it.
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Touched the Chord.

At noon yesterday there were half q
dozen idlers at the foot of Woodward
avenue, some asleep, some looking de-
spondent, and two who had just assured
pedestrian that they must have work
at some price or starye. A gentleman
suddenly stepped out of an office and
approachedone of these men and said:
You look like an honest man.
"Yes, sir, / do
'sAnd you are a hard workers.
am that
81 presume you could be trusted in
any capacity"
"Oh, Iknow I COULD
Well, / have job for you. Our
porter at the Sixth National Bank has
left US and we must fill his place. The
only thing-that is-you see
9 Do you want arecommendpn asked
the man, as the other hesitated.
sob, no, no, no! You see, we have
been paying the other man $4,000 per
year, and-and-"
g And what, sir?''
"Well, the board has decided to cut
it down to S3,500.'
s Then don't you take itr' said the
mans partner.
''Then | won't! If l amt worth as
much as the other man was, the board
can do its own sweeping!''
The gentleman walked back into the
Office, the winner of a box of cigars. He
had wagered that he would offer the
man . place at $4,000 per year, and
that it would be refused. Detroit Free
Press.
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A Daughters Lovely Influence.

A gentleman of great erudition,
prominent in National politics, residing
in one of the Eastern States. approach
ing three-score years, whose friendship
we highly prize, has long been yielding
more and more to the temptations of
the cup. We had observed it with
great regret, but being man of great
independence of character, his friends
generally felt that no words of warning
would avail anything. Among his
household is a beautiful daughter of
eighteen summers, who was alarmed at
the danger her beloved father was in,
and who determined to rescue him if
possible. Last September, just after
his departure from home, she wrote
him this affectionate letter:
''MY DARLING PAPA: have thought of you
almost every moment since you left home,
and If you love me as love you, you will sign
this pledge and keep it. If your stomach feels
bad, get the doctor to give you something.
. with all my love, CORA"
solemnly promise my daughter, Cora, that
will not drink one drop of anything intOxi-
eating for one year, except as medicine when
ordered by physician.
Please sign this as soon as read.
No sooner did the father receive this
touching appeal than he signed it and
returned it to his daughter. We re-
ceived call from him a few DAYS since
at the Tribune Office. His face fairly
shone, and tears of joy came to all eyes
as he narrated his wonderful delivery
from the rum demon. He showed with
unspeakable pride the letter of his
daughter, who loved much and accom-
plished so much by her loye.-IoooG
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-29
The UbiquitOus Bonnet.

Wherever woman is, there the bonnet
is, also.
There may be exceptions to this gem
eral rule; but they exist in spite of,
rather than agreeably to, the wishes Of
the mountaineering sex. If woman
had her way in all things, as she has in
most, the bonnet and the woman, the
woman and the bonnet, would never be
separated for an instant, under any cir
cumstances, during the changeful jour.
ney from the cradle to the grave; and
that she does occasionally wear it into
the grave there can be no particle of
doubt.
Excepting when her hair isn't fixed,
a woman never objects to trying on o
bonnet; and, when bonnet that be-
comes her is once adjusted, no ordinary
emergency will induce her to take it
off.
On rough estimate it will probably
be found that forty-fye per cent. of the
male sex is wholly or approximately
bald. Therefore, one might suppose
that nude-headed man rather than
woman, with her well-thatched brain,
should insist upon keeping his cover
on. A Aa
But such is not the case. Go into
any public assembly and look down
upon the mass of humanity beneath
you, and you will see landscape made
up of flower gardens. and cobble-stone
pavements. Flower gardens are not
unpleasant to the eye, but neither are
the shapely hirsute heads which they
hide from view; cobble-stones, on the
contrary, are uninteresting and I'M
picturesque, not to say hateful, to cult
ured vision.
Why, then, when beauty in general
effect and personal comfort are both
sacrificed BY dof1ing his head-piece,
should the man uncover? and why
should the woman forever cling to her
bonnet or rather, why should the bon
net forever cling to woman-when ma
ture has been SO lavish in her capillary
adornment?
Why, look at it! What is there SO
aristocratic as the bonnet? On the
street the hat must be lowered before
the bonnet; but the bonnet floats airiIy
aloft, though ten thousand times ten
thousand hats crowd the landscape.
At the lecture and at church the bon
net asserts its right and keeps its place;
into the briny Atlantic it goes with its
fair owner; at the funeral, even, while
the male uncovers his head respectfully
to the sacred dust and courts catarrh,
the female head appears, as elsewhere,
clad in all the pomp and circumstance
of the milliner's art.
And at the theater, where the hat
upon male head would be received
with shouts of indignation, the bonnet,
magnified for the occasion, keeps its Pc
lion-upon-Ossa place, unhurt amidst the
war of passions, the wrecks of vision
and the curse of men, Boston Trans
c1-541t
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Youths Department.
4 NAN.

Wen, WE'LL am really as taI as papat
m almost mani 10 you seer
don't have to tiptoe to look in his eyes,
Would you have believed it of me?
! lis time for mamma to be cutting my hair.
& don't Ike to have it in curls
= don't want feather to wear in my hat:
1t makes me look just like the girls.
want her to cut all my ruf1es of, too;
For mea do not wear them at ALL
want stiff collar TO wear on my neck,
And hat that is shiny and tall.
/" And then, on my trousers want her to sew
Some pieces of some kind of stuff
To make them reach farther than just to my
knees,
They never are half long enough.
: And then they must give me a cane and a
watch.
Dear me, but I'm going to be grand!
And then shall walk all alone in the street,
With nobody holding my hand.
Yes, yes; am tired of having such clothes
Just fit for baby to wear;
For see, I'm exactly as tall as papa
When climb up and stand in chair"
7 Sydney D6yre, IN N. Y. Independent.
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Wanted to Marry a Big Man.

A dilapidated specimen of the genus
"poor white trash arrived in Washing
ton few days ago from Virginia, called
at the White House, and staggered Ser
geant Densmore with the inquiry:
'sWhen will Chester git back?" When
informed that the President would be
absent some time she went away, but
returned the next morning to repeather
inquiry. Disappointed a second time,
she asked for member of the Cabinet,
and was maliciously directed to the
Navy Department. At the entrance
she encountered the Secretary just
alighting from his carriage, and the fol-
lowing dialogue ensued: 'Be you Will
liam E. Chandler?" Eyes, ma am"
Secretary Of the Navy?" 'sOf course. !"
William, am yours. Take me. /
have KUN up from Virginny to marry a
big man, and I reckon you are big
enough for me-" Mr.. Chandler gazed
at her moment in horror and then fed
to his private Office, with the woman in
close pursuit. But the police intercept
ed her, ascertained that she was HARM
less lunatic, escorted her to the Long
Bridge, and saw her depart in a cloud Of
yellow dust for Old Virginia. - Washing
ton Gazette.
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HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

If the paper which is put over iellv
nd jam is wet in the white of an EGG.
{ will when dry be tight and firm, and
feep the fruitfrom molding with much
more certainty than if it IS dipped in
alcohol or brandy. The paper which is
aid next the fruit is meant, not that
which is tied or pasted over the glass;
N. 7. Post.
If your lace bed-spread and pillow
covers are soiled, wash them, and. in
Jtead of blueing them, dip them in
.ome very weak cold coffee, and they
will receive from it a delicate shade of
scru, which is SO popular for laces just
aow. Curtains and other articles of the
lind may be areated in the same way
Exchange.
The best way to get rid of the
locks is to spade them out, and Law the
roots up to dry. IF that is considered
200 laborious a job, take sharp hoe
md cut them off just below the surface
Of the ground, and in a few weeks 90
over them again, cutting off all that
nave sent out. new leaves. Going over
hem a few times in this way will finish
Them all.-N. 7. Times.
Steamed corn-breadsis particularly
wholesome when made with buttermilk.
If this can not beprocured, use lobbered
milk. To two cups Of Indian meal al
low one cup Of white flour, two table,
;poonfuls of white sugar, two and half
cups of milk, one teaspoonful of soda,
one OF salt, one tablespoonful and ahalf
If melted butter; steam for two hours
n a well-buttered tin, and dry off in the
oven. The Household
1t is good plan to have few egg
plants in the kitchen garden. The fruit
9 much nicer freshly-cut than after
standing several hours in the market
The plants do best in moderately rich
and very mellow soil. Select warm,
sunny spot, set the plants about thirty
inches apart, keep the ground clean,
Ind look out for the Colorado beetle,
which is as partial to the eggplant as
70 the potato.-M z. Eran1tiaer. ii
Every farmer should take some
pains to interest his children in the
iowls on the farm, and there is nothing
hat SO quickens that interest as to give
Them the right to all the money they
can make off the fowls In return for
feed, ETC., the obligation can be put on
them that they place the money in
savings bank, or buy clothes with it, or
put it to some good use, in such way
IS may be mutually agreed upon.
Children can not be too early taught
thesknack OF making money, and, what
IS of still greater purpose, the art of
keeping TN B. Farmer.
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fifty of them to Cousin Prue johnson,
who tasted very gingerly at first.
'sWhy, they're delicious she erie d,
then. You never, never made them
yourself, Nanny Grover!''
..Yes'm, | did. said Nanny. "Any-
body can that's a. mind to, and it's
lovely fun
That's what Nanny said about it; and
you d never guess that she gave her
fifty cents to little Joe Spooner to buy
chicken for Joe and his mother and his
sister Dolly Toasth'S Compc1sioas.
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Temperance Reading.
SONG OF THE DECANTER.

SONG OF THE DECANTER.
There was an old decan-
ter, and its mouth was
gaping wide; the
rosy wine had
ebbed away
and left
its crys-
tai side:
And the wind
went humming
hum m ing;
up and
down the
sides it flew,
and through the
like
hollow neck
the widest notes it
blew. / placed it in the
window, where the blast was
blowing free, and fancied that its
pale mouth sang the queerest strains
70 me: They tell me--puny conquer
ors! the plague has slain its ten, and
Far It's hundred thousands of the very best
OF men; bit I''-'twas thus the bot
tie spoke" but / have conquered more
Imam al your famous conquerors, so
reared ana famed of yore. Then come,
ye youths and maidens, come drink
AIo1l OUT my cup, the beverage that
duuS the brain and burns the spir-
1tup; that puts to shame the con-
quefors that Stay their scores be-
low, IOr TINS has delugeI mill
ions with the lava tide of woe.
Though in the path of battle
darkest waves of blood NAV
roll; yet while killed the
body have damned the
very soul. The cholera,
the sword, such ruin
never wrought, as /,
in fun or malice, on
the innocent have
brought; and still
| breathe upon
them, and they shrink
before my breath; and year
by year my thousands tread
the dismal road to death.
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the pale realms of shade through
drunkenness and dissipation, many Of
whom perhaps might have been saved,
if the physicians in every community in
the civilized world had been sufficiently
aroused to the deadly influence Of alcO-
holic Stimulants.''
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The Medical Profession and Alcohol.


James L. Perryman, A. NJ, M. D.,
in suggestive article upon "The De-
structive Effects of Alcohol" writes:
My own observation in reference to
the influence that the physician has for
veal or woe upon human society leads
me to conclude that everyone of them
who can be won over to the side of
Temperance is as great an auxiliary to
this cause as he is useful and powerful
in staying the ravages of disease. The
writer has known number of melan-
choly instances where drunkenness and
premature death were brought about by
the prescription, example and advice of
the physician. These cases that re-
fer to were young gentlemen of a
high order of ability, endowed with
every manly attribute, with bright
prospects for the future, also of honor
able parentsge, but step by step they
were ailured to their doom by this fell
destroyer, dissipation, and at last filed
drunkard's graves. One case that was
of peculiar interest was that of Young
man who had never drank in his life
until he was stricken down with ty-
phoid pneumonia and his physician pre-
scribed for him whisky and wine. He
slowly recovered, but when fully con-
valescent it was seen by his friends that
the liquor which had been pre-
scribed for him had aroused that
demon of drunkenness that had
slumbered in his system for quarter of
a century. He then became the most
confirmed sot that | ever knew, and
died in fit of delirium tremens. And
/ will venture this assertion, without
the fear of successful contradiction:
that there is not practicing physician
of any responsibility who has not seen
many such cases. When we reflect,
then, upon the grave responsibility
that rests upon the good physician, it is
enough to startle him when he thinks
of the almost innumerable caravan of
fellow-beings that moves every year 'to
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JUDGE WOODRUFF, of New Jersey,
in sentencing young man for theft,
said: 1T is in evidence that when you
are sober you are peaceable, law-abid-
ing citizen; you have repeatedly tried
to overcome that appetite for strong
drink, which is your greatest enemy.
The sentence of the court is that you be
confined in the State Prison at Trenton
two years. In fixing this term we have
been guided by the belief that in that
time, under the prohibition of prison
discipline, you can master your appe--
tite and come out a reformed man.
Think of the State licensing rum-shops
and then having to send her ruined cltl-
zens to State Prison, that being the only
place where prohibition prevails
Union Signal.
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The ground on which the Assump-
tion College at Sandwich, Canada, stands
has been in possession of the Catholic
Church one hundred and thirty-six
years, having been obtained from the
Huron Indians in 1747.
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The RumseIler,s Demand.


License me to sow the seeds of pow
erty and shame all over the community!
License me to coin money out of wild
ows' signs and orphans tears, and the
blood of souls! License me to weave
cords of habit about your strong mea
and lead them captive-bound to the
chariot wheels of the Demon Rum!
License me to make widows and Or
phans! License me to write the word
" DisgrGce' upon the fair foreheads of
innocent children! License me to break
the hearts of fond fathers and mothers,
whose daughters will make drunkards'
wivesi License me to take bread from
hungry children, and rob them of little
shoes for their feet and comfortable
clothes for their shivering forms! Lii
cense me to befog the mind, paralyze
the reason, and benumb the conscience
of your Legislators, and thus corrupt
the very fountains of your political life
and prosperity. License me to incite
red-handed murder to his work of de-
struction, and turn loose upon society
whole brood of evils that will fill your
jails and penitentiaries, poor-houses and
asylums! License me to aid in the work
of sending the hundred thousand of our
American citizens down to drunkard's
graves every year. Throw around me
the protection of law while poison the
bodies, enfeeble the minds and ruin the
souls of my fellowmen.- Temperance
Shield.
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CARE YOU INTERESTED IN TEMPER
ANCE ?'' asked one friend of another.
If you looked from your window and
saw your neighbor' house on fire, would
you not be Interested? Would you not
drop your pen or your pencil, leave
Kensington stitch, flower painting or
broom, and run with at least dipper of
water and weak voice crying: " Fire!
fret" No engine there to save that
lovely home, with choice furniture, rare
books and nice pictures. The fire is
raging; you can not be calm and quiet
and deliberate; it is not in nature. But
that other fire, kindled by alcohol, RACES
on, and we are cool, peaceful, undis-
turbed, perhaps amused. How much
better is a house than human soul?
Bric-a-brac, than reputation? You have
money, houses and paintings and librar-
les. Would you sell the love of your
husband, the intellect of your son, the
peace of your daughter? Can you say:
Il am not interested in Temperance ~
= Union Signal.