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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26
TRLBULA1I0Ns or RICH MEN.

POPULATIONS OF RICH MEN.
The general commotion in the stock
market the past Two months has been
unprecedented immense fortunes
have been lost. Prices of railroad
stocks, especially, have fuctuated from
day to day, but in general, the tendency
has been downward since July last.
There are not as many millionaires in
this country as there was one year ago,
and those that are left, though not
stock spectators, are much poorer
than they were, because they had
largely put their money in stocks for
safe holding. The decline in the value
of stocks represents many millions of
dollars. But for once these immense
losses fall on the rich. Had they fall
en- on the mercantile and manufacture
ing interests of the country, general
panic would have followed. 1t is per-
haps doubtful morality that rejoices
over the monetary misfortunes of the
rich, but when it is remembered the
Vanderbilts, the Jay Goulds, and other
great millionaires, made their immense
fortunes by speculations, classed with
gambling, it requires more than ordi-
nary virtue to sympathize with them
in their losses. From tables showing
the values of railroad stocks in the
New York market one year ago, COM
pared with present values, the enor-
nous shrinkage in these stocks is
shown. The rich men of the country,
more than any other class, own the
railroad stocks !; they are as sensiti We
to loss as the less wealthy, and it now
so happens they must take their turn.
Last Monday, it is said. was one of the
most exciting days in the New York
stock market known for many years !;
millions were lost and won in an hour
The scene is graphically described in
the Tribune. The galleries were filled
with anxious spectators witnessing the
adventures make their throws, inyolv-
ing millions. Women present partook
OF the speculative excitement. and
ventured heavy bids. Some of them,
it is stated, realized large gains. 1t is,
however, reasonable to guess that those
who lost heavily kept quiet. Stock
gambling has become mania in all
large cities, and the number who now
make it regular business is greater
than IS generally supposed.
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lieve is not claimed; but the failure Of
entire enforcement is no doubt in part
wrongfully charged to the city au-l
thorities. The remark is as old as the
government: that no law, however
wise and good, can be made effective
if it have not the support of the peo-
pie. Take the case OF this city. Last
spring a board was elected who fixed
the maximum price Of license at the
highest rate allo wed by law; the peo-
pie expressed approval, but left the au-
thorities alone to execute tho law.
Two or three official members were
obliged to assume the business of
detectives, informers, prosecutors,
finding of witnesses, all of which
duties were attended with difficulties.
Witnesses hesitated to testify, and
those who were in possession of infor-
nation of violations of the law were
averse to imparting it, for fear OF
giving offence to somebody. In the
meantime good temperance people
stood by. cautiously encouraging the
authorities to push prosecutions, but
carefully avoiding to be seen taking
any active part in the matter them
selves. 1t is useless to talk of low Ii
cense, high license or prohibition when
the people are not in earnest for sus'
tanning the laws. Prohibition would
fbe dead letter in the constitution Oh
on the statute book if it were not
taken in hand by the people as well as
by the authorities Temperance peo'
pie may as well understand that nc
law which human ingenuity is capa-
BILE of framing for the suppression of
the liquor traffic can execute itself.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26
RANDALL.

On Tuesday, October 10th, Miss
Kittie Wing, daughter of Seneca Wing,
was married to Mr.. w. Harrison, of
Genoa J1ction.
On the 18th was held the first mar
ket fair at Richmond. We and hun
dreds of others went out of pure curios-
ity, and were surprised by the SPLEEN
did exhibition of stock, vegetables and
farm machinery, which was better
than many county fairs. It is the in
tention to hold these fairs monthly, and
we can't see why they cannot be made
successful. The Prime movers, of
whom our esteemed citizen, John Vos-
burgh, is one, certainly deserve great
credit for the success Of their venture.
Mrs. Betsey Cowan, of Chicago, a
sister of Mrs. Winchell, is visiting
friends about here.
Bryant Benson, one of the largest
dairymen in this section, has sold out
his cows and is going to breeding
horses.
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Many improvements are being made
on quite number of residences. Ed.
Briggs has reshingled and resided his
house, giving it the appearance of an
entirely new building. w. r. Stetson
is fixing up his house in the same man
ner; Mic. Shultz foreman.
While Peter eraser was recently
raising his dwelling with jack-srcews.
for the purpose of putting stone wall
under it. the whole thing tumbled into
the cellar, and the decentralization was
so complete that itlwas uninhabitable,
SO that at present the family live
among the neighbors.
Ben. j. Newman is also residing his
house. Eli J. Runals is making ex-
tensiye additions to the red stone
house, with view to occupy the same
in the near future.
Week before last, while AIRS. James
Buckler, who resides in The extreme
northern part of the town, was shop
ping in Racine, she was suddenly
stricken with paralysis, rendering her
unconscious, and at last account had
not recovered sensibility. Very faint
hopes are entertained of her recovery.
Miss Julia Stetson is in Chicago,
where she has been for the past three
or four weeks with friends.
Mrs. Burr Simmons went to Chicago
yesterday for brief stay.
Mr.. ]. w. Rhodes took in a quantity
of wool at the station on Tuesday last
Very little wool is now in the hands
of the farmers in our town.
The Guernsey bull, Sir Champion 13
owned by |. j. Clapp and N. X. Fair
banks, of Chicago, and which was kept
on the Clapp farm during the past
summer. died recently at Lake Geneva.
The animal was valued at about three
thousand dollars.
Rev. N. L. Norris, former pastor Of
this place, recently made a flying visit
to friends here.
Judging by the late arrivals at the
M. e. Church last Sunday, the change
in the time of commencing the services
could not have been generally known
Service now begins at two o'cloci
when held in the afternoon.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26
A GOOD TINE FOR MENTAL
IMPROVEMENT.

The long winter evenings will soon
be here, and the favorable time for
gathering harvest of knowledge is at
hand. The winter season is an appro-
pirate period in the country towns for
the organization of lyceums and liter
airy societies. There is material
enough in each town for respectable
literary organization which would at
tract the support of all favorably dis
posed to intellectual improvement.
The arrangement should include both
young men and women. If rightly
conducted such organizations may af-
ford profitable instruction and pleas
ant entertainment. If the early life
were given by those who
have risen to distinction as statesmen
and orators, it would be seen that
many of these received their first in
citives in country or village lyceums.
President Garfield, on more than one
occasion referred, to his lyceum ex-
perience when young man, and his
to these simple and mex
pensive institutions. Some towns in
this county, it is said, sustained credit
able lyceum and literary entertain
ments during last winter. 1t is hoped
the enterprising young men will re-
sumo these literary meetings this COM
ing winter, and that still others will
be organized where none have hereto
fore existed. AS it regards lyceums or
other purely literary enterprises in
this city, it is declared that prospects
are not fiattering. The young men, it
IS said, are so pressed with other en-
yagements they have no time to spare
ior organizing literary associations.
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ENLARGED FIELDS FOR THE
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN.

1t is only a few years ago when pub
lie gatherings of women, state and
national, were confined in their de-
alterations to suffrage, temperance
and religious enterprises. Many of
the large conventions of women more
recently have had under consideration
a number of industrial interests and
social problems, all of them of practi-
cal Importance. The talent eyinced in
handling the vital questions of the day
does not suffer in comparison with
that exhibited in public conventions
of men. Those men who assume
Superior intelligence, and who affect to
look upon the public gatherings
of women as an inferior class.
would in many instances be set back,
were they called upon to show their
superiority. The late Woman's Con-
gress in Chicago, for good order, direct
ness to business, and avoidance of ir-
relevant discussion, was in striking
contrast with the average proceedings
of our National Congress at Washing
ton, where SO much time is squandered
in noisy, proftless debate.
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GOVERNMENT FOR UTAH.

The best Government for Utah
would be one modelled after the pres
ent government of the District of
Columbia. 1t would deprive Utah of
all law-making, and all excuse for
managing affairs under laws of its own
enactment. 1t would do away with
all enforcement of laws by its own
elected officers. In short, it would
place that Territory under the COM
plete control of the United States,
where it should be. There is not a
single elective officer in the District of
Columbia Every officer, from the
highest to the lowest, is appointed by
United States authority. This is not
because the District of Columbia has
an ungovernable and law-breaking
population, but for other reasons. Utah
has shown itself unfit to be trusted
with self-government; the sooner it is
deprived Of the ballot the better.
Congress, by the constitution. has ex-
elusive jurisdiction over all the Terri
tories.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26
MISTAKES IN THE EDUCATION
Of ATRTN


EDITOR OF THE TELEGRAPH. Much
is said of late in the newspapers about
the industrial education of boys and
girls. This is progress in the right
direction, and too much Importance
can hardly be given it. But it is sur
prising what passion there is to give
young girls mere ornamental educa-
ton instead of a practical one. The
popular rage now is to have girls take
lessons on the piano, as necessary to
finish their school education. How
common it is to hear mothers express
the wish that they were able to have
their daughters take music lessons,
just as if that were essential
to fit them for the realities
and active duties of life. Parents
in poor circumstances are often known
to put forth every effort to save lit
tie money to pay for a course of piano
lessons fot daughter. 1t has so hap
pened that orphan girls being cared
for at the expense of friends instead
of being taught trade by which they
might become self-supporting, and in
dependent of the aid of others. have
been encouraged and helped to take
music lessons, which, although an ac-
complishment, does not ensure living
expenses. If it be said those young Wo-
men who learn music can in turn be-
come teachers of music, it may be an
swered where are the multitudes who
are now learning to play the piano to
find employment? Besides, perhaps,
not one IN twenty will have the
adaptation to teach music. How
much more sensible it would be if that
class of girls to which / refer should
be taught some trade or useful en-
ployment. A young woman who
possesses no skill or requirements
more than playing on the piano is but
poorly equipped to meet the stern
realities of life in this changeful and
eventful world. Perhaps it is the
expectation of parents, if their daugh-
tiers acquire the accomplishment of
music, it increases their chances for
advantageous marriages. That is a
precarious chance; it depends whether
the young man who desires to marry |
5akes a practical rather than super
icial view of marriage. The best
security for future safety, whether for
'ich or poor young women, is self
occupation. PoRTIA. |
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advise Mr.. Tarbell 10 send his wool 10 Chi.
cago. He sent il on his own option. and be-
cause the home market was not satisfactory.
The venture resulted as satisfactorily in Mr..
Tarbells case as it did in mine. In making
the transaction public Mr. Tarbell was in
iuenced by the same motives which moved
me, namely. desire to benefit others. Mr..
Tarbelrs wool netted him at his house
$24.S2 more than it would have done. sold
at the best offer he had at home, and he was
saved the trouble Of delivering the wool by
wagon at point six miles distant
There are some points in regard TO the
Chicago wool market that our wool growers
are not posted ON. Several Of these points
were brought out interestingly in the discus
sions at The Wool Growers meeting in Som
ers. But the subject is not exhausted, and
further discussion will undoubtedly be had
at the next meeting.
was exceedingly pressed by other cares
when | made my report of the Somers
meeting, and neglected to give the Somers
people credit for their generous hospitality
on that occasion. The Salem wool growers
could not reach the meeting in time by
starting after dinner, and would have to
start too early TO make an early dinner
practicable or comfortable Mr.. Geo. F.
Leet took the initiative, and. suggesting the
matter to the farmers in his neighborhood,
invitations we're sent to many Salem wool
growers whose names and post-offices could
be learned TO take dinner with Somers farm
ers. and be on hand for the meeting.
/ While have my pen in my hand, will
mention that the annual meeting of the
Wool Growers Association will be held in
Bristol some time in the month of January
The officers of the ensuing year will then be
elected. Papers of interest to wool growers
will be read and discussions had thereon
The meetings of the association are growing
in interest.
/ Yours truly,
| r z RnRERra
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26
TIE KINDERGARTEN SYSTEM.

The Committee on the Course of
Study of the St. Louis School Board
has recommended that the principle
which underlies the kindergarten
system be extended to the primary
schools, with a view of eventually
modifying the whole plan of public
instruction. The st. Louis Globe
Democrat commends the suggestion.
The obstacles, it says, (which
stand in the way of the adoption of
the new method of imparting instruc-
tion are the difficulties of overcoming
the conservative notions of parents
and school wards, and of securing the
right kind of teachers. 1t would seem
as if real science of teaching were at
last striving for a foothold against
educational dogmas. 1t requires a
higher order of instructor to appre.
ciate what the juvenile mind is capa-
BILE of receiving and digesting, and
to give it that and no more, than it
does to follow in the traditional ruts.
The one is scientific and carefully
studies results, and preparation and
more than ordinary intelligence are
requisite, not to speak of an earnest
interest in the work, to fit an indivi-
dual for this species of teaching; the
other almost any one can hack away
at. The one makes teaching legiti-
mate profession; the other Classics
it as makeshift for people who do
not know what else to do. When the
immense amount of unscientific, and,
to speak plainly, brutal handling
which the minds Of children are made
to undergo in the common schools,
particularly in the rural districts, is
considered, it makes one feel as if we
were in the midst of perpetual
slaughter of the innocents. chicago
Journal.
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TRUESDELL.

It is rumored that Fred Hoskins is
to start store here some time in the
future. We hope he will, and that the
people will patronize him literally.
Elisha Pratt and Chas. Davis have
returned from Reno, Nevada. After
spending few days with friends they
will return to Maine, accompanied by
the parents of Mr.. Pratt.
The Rev. Mr.. Lacey, formerly of
Somers, has come here to occupy the
Methodist pulpit.
A few much-needed repairs are be-
ing made at the parsonage.
Mr.. Fred Zeine has purchased the
house owned by Henry Finland, at the
station.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26

The Democrats are clamorous for a
change of power, but fail to give any
reason for it, unless it be to possess
the offices. When the Democrats were
in power prior to the incoming of
Republican rule, the government was
obliged to borrow money at as high a
rate of interest as twelve per cent.
Under Republican rule, United States
bonds now find Already market at three
per cent. Large individual loans have
recently been made in New York CITY
at "a per cent interest. To which ex-
treme of interest do our Democratic
friends incline? Do they propose to
make money still cheaper and more
abundant or do they prefer the old
Democratic twelve per cent? The
credit of the United States under
Republican administration stands high
throughout the civilized world. The
securities of no country in Europe are
sought for in the market more readily
than those of this country. Are the
Democrats dissatisfied to have it so?
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26

Titled foreigners who come over to
marry American heireSses are not the
best husbands in the world. Besides
the fact that that class of the nobility
are generally adventures, the foreign
treatment of wives does not accord
with American ideas. and the vain
young lady of means and spirit who
has been caught in the nobility trap
learns too late that she is to be at best a
mere cipher in the calculation of mi
lord, even if she be not brutally treat
ed. A United States consul has gather
ed the facts concerning tbirty-One
marriages between American girls and
titled Germans, and finds that in each
case there has been separation, or dis
aster of some other kind. It is claimed
that similar investigation into mar
riages with noble adIenturers of other
nations would show almost as sad a
record. Mrs. Bonanza Mackey was
right in fighting off the titled sprigs
who focked around her millionaire
daughter in Europe.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 1888.
THREE MONTHS FOR TWENTY
FIVE CENTS.

Every family in the county should
subscribe for a county paper, and, in
order to give those who are not sub
scribers an opportunity Of judging OF
the merits of the TELEGRAPH, we will
send it to any address for three
months for twenty-five cents; cash
must accompany the order. At the
end of three months the paper will
stop coming unless it is ordered con-
tinued. This offer will be withdrawn
after the first of November, so SUBJ
scribe at once.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26
ENFORCEMENT FOR VIOLA
. TTONS OF LIQUOR LAWS

Citizens Leagues, which have been
organized in several cities for the en-.
forcement of laws for the SUPPRESSION
Of the liquor traffic, have proved of
great service in enabling the proper
authorities in the performance of their
duties. Such combination of citiz-
ems in this place would be an essen
tiaI aid, and without some such help
violations of the laws cannot be fully
suppressed. That the license laws in
this city are strictly enforced we be-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26

Lake Michigan made a number of
severe attacks during the past fort
night on the shore bank; jewellers on
lots who have not already been OBJ
liged to beat a retreat before the tenn
pestous conqueror, are preparing to do
so, unless the city authorities send
speedy re, endorsements, enabling them
to make successful resistance to the
encroaching waves.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26

The new invented civil service has
another hitch. The Secretary of State
has addressed letter to the Civil Ser
vice Commission, saying that the pecu-
liar qualifications Cor clerks in his de-
partment cannot be determined by ex-
amining boards Of the commission.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26
FARM LANDS.

Kenosha and Lake county, ILL.,, farms
are about equal in quality of soils, i'm
provements, and advantages OF mar
ket. The Waukegan Gazette says that
farms in that county which were Of
fered two years ago from forty to fifty
dollars per acre, have sold this year
from fifty to sixty dollars per acre.
Quite recently lands in the central
parts of the county have sold at sixty
to sixty five dollars per acre.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26

The prohibitionists in Ohio seemed to
labor under the impression that if the
state voted prohibition, that would
close all the liquor saloons in Ohio.
Nothing of the kind would have been
done. Prohibition does not enforce
itself; it requires legislative action to
carry it into effect, The legislature
just elected in Ohio is decidedly Demo
cratic in both Houses and opposed to
prohibition. The Cincinnati Gazette
says if the Ohio prohibitionists can
carry the next legislature, that body
can prohibit the traffic in all intoxi-
eating drinks without constitutional
amendment.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26
AN IMPORTANT BOY.

The boy that wears watch is an
important character. At school he is
envied and on the street he is respect
ed. None of the boys grab him and
throw him down, for they might break
his time-keeper. He has a way of
twisting his chain when he talks, and
of looking at his watch when he
hears a railroad train. and saying
twelYe-ten or six-fiye or eight-sixteen
the other boys stand around and re-
gard him with admiration. He grows
up and probably goes to college with a
distinguished air. but in a few years he
pawns his watch with a man who, as a
boy, often stood around and admired
it, Boston Globe.
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The Woman's Board of Foreign
Missions for the Northwestern States
was held in the Grand Avenue Congre-
gational Church, Milwaukee, commenc-
ing on Wednesday evening. About
400 delegates and members were in at
tendance. Among the delegates and
friends who attended from this city
were Mrs. Flusky, Mrs. Baldwin,
Mrs. 0. S. Newell and Mrs. Lee.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26

Jay.Eye-See, Racine's famous horse,
seems to be losing reputation for fleet
ness. The trotting of the animal on
the Chicago Driving Park on Tuesday
was a disappointment to the 1000
spectators who were there to see. 1t
looks now as if there would be no
more bon-iires on the public square of
our neighboring city to celebrate the
feats of Jay-Eye-See.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26

1t is stated the city of Milwaukee
expects soon to have a first-class hotel,
for the building of which Alexander
Mitchell, the millionaire of that city,
is calculated upon for 100000. Mr..
Mitchell has been for some time past
in Europe and is expected home. The
citizens contemplate giving him a
grand reception on his return.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26

The Protestant Episcopal Conyen-
ton of the United States, which has
been in session in Philadelphia a mum.
Der of weeks, will probably adjourn
this week. A large amount Of BUSH
ness has been transacted; alterations
in the Book of Prayer proposed, few
adopted, but no radical changes mad e.
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THE LUTHER COMMEMORA-
TT0V.

Christian bodies of different denom-
nations are taking action Cor the COM
memoration Of Martin Luther's birth
day, November 10th, which falls on
Saturday. 1t is said the observance
of the day in this country, in many
cases, will be deferred until Sunday,
the 18th. 1t appears probable this
4OOth anniversary of the Reformer
will be observed by the great body Of
Protestants throughout the world.