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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24
The Liquor Traffic An Interesting
Comparison.

The extent and expense of the liquor
traffic in Great Britain, the United
States and Canada is truly enormous.
1t has been estimated that 100, 900, 900
bushels of grain are annually destroyed
IN the Anglo-Saxon world to make beer,
an amount that would give two barrels
Oh nour during the year to every fam
ny IN the three countries mentioned.
during the last seven years Great Brit
ain has spent 1887. 900, 900 for liouor.
or t2O0, 900, 900 more than the national
debt OF Great Britain. But this was not
all, for 1T cost at least f10O, 600. 900 TO
pay for the mischief caused. So that
the liquor traffic of Great Britain an
nually costs f241, 100000, or s.as much
as would support 100000 missionaries
at 81, 200 a year, 5000 school-masters
at $500, build 5000 churches at
$4,000, 5000 school-houses at S4. 900:
would give to the world 200,OO0 600
Bibles at twenty-five cents each and
5,0OO,00 of tracts at one dollar per 100;
would give 100000 widows 800 wear
and 100000 poor families fifty dollars
per year In short, would provide
machinery that would evangelize the
world in short time, or pay
OFF the National debt in four years. %
In the United States the LIQUOR
traffic causes a direct aud indirect
outlay of over 81, 400, 900, 900; while in
| the Dominion, the present cost of the
traffic is about $52, 100000 or over 81,
per head of population. An interest:
ing comparison is made to show that a
decrease in the consumption of liquor
would more than compensate for the
temporary loss of revenue, by the re-
straining of crime and consequent
diminution of expenditure. In Vine
land, n. j., there is total prohibition.
Yonkers, N. Y, licenses AS saloons,
and has in addition Is places where
liquor is sold in violation of the law.
Vineland has about $4,000 inhabitants,
and Yonkers less than $4,000. Yonkers
spends on its police $4,000, and the
police duties of Vineland are per-
formed by one Constable at the annual
expense of $75. Yonkers has a Police
Judge at salary of $4,000, and a
clerk that is paid $500. Vineland has
no police court and needs none. The
paupers of Yonkers cost the town
$4,000; Vineland only has six; pays
$500 for the same. Altogether these
articles of expense cost Yonkers
$43, 800; in Vineland $475. Making
| proportionate allowance for the differ
ence in population, the government, SO
far as the expenses are concerned, costs
more than ninety times as much as
that of Vineland.--C Christian Guardian.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24
Personal AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Dolly White, of Newbury, Vt,
has twin daughters seventy-two years
old.
Mrs. Lippincott. "Grace Green.
wood, = is in London, and is said to be
engaged upon biography Of Queen
Victoria.
IS. Fl. Howard, colored man, who
died in Brooklyn the other day at the
age OF eighty-four years, left a fortune
OF nearly $500, OO0.-N + San.
james Marian Roche, a wealthy
and eccentric young Southerner, has
assumed the care of Frederick n. w.
Crouch, the author of Kathleen
Mayourneen."
Miss Charlotte Stark, of Dunbarton,
N. H., granddaughter of General John
Stark, of Revolutionary fame, has been
elected an honorary member of the New
Hampshire Antiquarian Society.
Boyle O'Reilly, the poet-editor of the
Boston Pilot, who started from the head
of the Connecticut River to paddle ca
noe to Long Island Sound, capsized,
lost his paddles and took the cars.
Ned Roach, of Florence, Oneida
County, N. Y, in his eighty-ffth year,
was married recently for the sixth time.
The bride was Mary Quinn, of Roches-
ter, aged seventy. Rochester Express.
In "reminiscences of a London
Drawing-Room'' Thackeray is made to
tell the story OF the birth of ''Vanity
Fair in this wise: 81 was ransacking
my head for title to my novel when
it came upon me unawares in the mid
die of the night as if voice had whis-
pered, Vanity Fairr I jumped out of
bed and ran three times round the
room shouting out, Vanity FART Van
ity Fair!' y
Mrs. Webb, wife of Captain Webb,
the lost swimmer, is small in stature
and of refined appearance. They had
been married for three years, and came
to America last May. She says she has
not been left so much money as re-
ported-only about $4,000. She says
she had great confidence in his powers
as swimmer, and did not attempt to
dissuade him from swimming the Mag
ara. Boston Herald.
| The now famous Clemenceau, so
Labouchere says, made the acquaint-
ance of W. H. Huntington, an Ameri-
can journalist, and conceived for him
such liking that he took it into his
head to seek fortune in his native
State of Connecticut. There he OBJ
tanned the chair of French literature in
college. All the girls who attended
his lectures, save one, were engaged to
be married. That one is now Nine.
Clemenceau, and "the sweetest, most
unaffected, refined and least vain speci-
nen of American ladyhood in Paris. y
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24
--s-oNs- -----
Avoid All Needless Danger:

Now and then man finds himself
called to struggle with the rushing
rapids of a sweeping torrent, that he.
must breast successfully-or perish. 1t
is fearful conflict at the best. If he is
there at the call of duty, or under the
pressure of circumstances beyond his
own control, he can look for help above
all human power. Then it is that his
Fathers promise sounds assuringly in
his ear: "When thou passest through
the waters l will be with thee; and
through the rivers they shall not over
flow thee" But if one can keep away
from such torrent without neglect of
duty, he should be glad to do it. Even to
the most favored One the warning
comes: "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord
thy God" There is no promise of de-
liverance to one who rushes. into dan
ger needleSsly and with presumption.
The power of Niagara does not equal
the power of intemperance. The rapids
above Niagara are less deceitful and
less dangerous than the on-fowing cur
rent of moderate drinking. He who
leaves the firm shore of total abstin-
ence is in the rapids above the fall. He
may continue to breast the stream:
"With God all things are possible"
But after all, what business has he
there? "Lord, lead as not into tempt
alton. IS. s.. Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24
his wild delirfnm two thol

his wild delirium two thousand miles
away, the plying angels pushed the
golden gates ajar, and the mother of the
drunkard entered into rest. And thus
stand, clergyman without church,
a barrlster without brief or business, a
father without wife, son without a
parent, a man with scarcely friend. a
soul without hope-all swallowed up in
the maelstrom of drink"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24
Hints About Studying Languages.


Suppose the language to be acquired
is German. A faithful translation in
German of some English or American
novel should be selected. With this and
the original open before him, with a
dictionary and grammar for reference,
the student is prepared for work. A
vivid story, in which there is much ac-
ton and conversation, is best suited to
the purpose. One should then proceed,
as best he can, to read the German
OF course, at the start he will have to
refer to the English original for the
meaning of every word; and he will
have much difficulty. Until he be-
comes familiar with the commonest
words and the construction of SEN
fences he will have to use the diction-
airy great deal, as he will at first not
be able to tell which word in the original
corresponds to any particular word in
the translation. But after very short
time this difficulty will cease to be con-
siderable, and with the English open
before him he will proceed rapidly, and
many of the words he meets on one
page he will meet again on the next,
duu Tue CuduCGS are GudG dlG0T r0dQl10
attentively page or two he will have
learned the meanings of a
number of words; and this
merely by repeated contact without
special effort; for he need not dwell on
each sentence till he has committed all
the words to memory, but only know,
for the time, their meaning and read far
ther. In this way he will be able to go
over SO much ground that, without the
fatiguing effort to memorize abstractly
certain number of words, he will in
the course of his hours or evenings
work make a considerable addition to
his foreign vocabulary. Having chosen
for reading the translation in German
of an English book he will see how the
thoughts as he would think them are
rendered into the foreign language.
This will be more conducive to progress
in learning to speak the language than
would be the reading of an original
German book. Reading a novel, he
will soon become interested in the story;
and as he pictures in his mind the Incl
dents about which he is reading, the
words will be connected with the OBJ
jects or actions they signify, and in this
is a great advantage over the common
method Of committing isolated words to
memory, and of translating disconnect-
ed sentences The Continent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24
Il BASEBALL BALLAD.

J.smith is dead. That fine young man
We ne'er shall see him more.
He was member of our club
Since 1854.
His private virtues were immense,
bis manner free and bluff,
he wore paper collar, and
Was never known to muff.
He rarely took drink more strong
Than lemonade or pop;
He hated drunkards, and was O
Magnificent short-stOp.
His nose was Roman, and his eyes
Continually were peeled;
He made splendid umpire, and
A beautiful left-held.
His hair was red, and shingled close;
Much sunburned was his face,
He never showed with more effect
Than on the second base.
Being a man, he had his faults,
AS likewise have we all;
He felt a preference for the New
York regulation ball.
Though not matrimonial man,
He dearly loved match,
And, like his sisters, had but few
Superiors on the catch.
He had a noble mind, as exc
A very supple wrist
And when he pitched he gave the ball
NNHis own peculiar twist.
OF politics and church affairs
He held restricted views;
His feet were usually encased
In canvas, hob-nailed shoes.
But he is gone. With ms and outs
Forever he is done;
He broke his heart and hurt his spleen
In making ahome-run.
His body we have planted now,
His soul is in the sky;
The angels reached from Heaven down
And took him on the fly.
Burlington HdlUkepe.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24
We Noble SaEages.

Twenty-eight wild men, six wild
women and four unclad children, none
of whom had ever been out of the
mountains, were led by Major Level
lyn down to station on the Santa Fe
Railroad a few days ago. When train
doomed in the band were awed, and
whispered EXPLANATIONS of "de-sa-ra-
ta'' (wonderful) were many times re-
peated The brawny fellows, who emp
ty-handed would face grizzly, were
afraid to step into the cars, and the
squaws and their children crouched
behind their trembling lords. But they
were to board the train, and fiat on
their faces between the seats this re-
markable band of Apaches was borne
into Santa Fe to take part in the tertio-
millennial parade. No part of the pro-
cession was so striking. Leonine heads
set on shapely, robust frames, with
massive shoulders and chests full and
rounded, splendidly displayed by tight
fitting buckskin costumes; sinewy
trunks and TANKS of shifting muscles,
constituted the physical material for an
exhibition both graceful and unique.
The keen, strong black eyes glIstened
in setting of red, brown and yellow,
drawA across their dusky faces in lines
and bands of original and striking de-
signs. San Juan wore around his neck
medal of Garfield During the sec
ond day of their visit a maiden of the
band fell in love with white exhibitor
AS he was arranging his wares his wrist
was grasped from behind and he turned
to see the figure of the Apache woman
vanishing in the crowd, leaving with
him silver circlet from her own arm
That MEANS" he explained in the
evening, as he pulled back his cuff to
show the ornament, ''that I must see
her before either of us leave here 1t
would be as good as my life is worth to
take off this bracelet for an hour while
stay in Santa Fe. Cor. Chicago
Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24

UNANswERABLE ARGUMENTS. - The
two unanswerable arguments against
the drinking usages are these: An alco-
holic beverage endangers me if I tamper
with it; it endangers my fellow man if
I offer it to him. My Bible teaches me
to let it alone for the sake of the ''weak'
and those who stumble. An, those
stumblers! How many wrecks the word
reveals! How many tombs it opens,
whose charitable turf hides out of sight
what surviving kindred would love to
hide from memory! For Jesus sake,
and for the sake of the easily tempted,
who will hide behind our example, let
us who call ourselves Christians put
away this bottled devil, which conceals
damnation under its ruby glow.-M Z.
Examiner.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24

A Sacramento (Cal.) Judge SEN
fenced prisoner, who committed some
trivial offense some time ago, to ninety
days Imprisonment and fine Of one
hundred dollars, and he was not to be re-
leased until the fine was paid. The
prisoner served the ninety days sem
tence, but failing to pay the fine he was
not released, when he began 10 think it
was an imprisonment for life and sent
for an attorney, wis, Oh hearing the
facts, Immediately swore out a writ of
habeas corpus, and the prisoner was re-
leased. 1t is now a question whether
he was sentened for life, or could he be
kept in for life if he did not pay the
sinep- Chicago Tim
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24

SUGGEsTIvE.-That was suggestive
fact which was brought out recently by
the New York newspapers. Two of the
wealthiest of New York's iquor-sellers
never drank glass of liquor in theif
lives; of one this was true literally, the
other had once taken milk punch in ac'
cordance with a physicians order.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24

A COOP ExAMPLE.-Some OF the
Women Temperance workers in limos V2
are making arrangements to nave Inc
penitentiaries of the State supplied with
Temperance literature. That seems an
example worth following BY others.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24

]. Smith is dead. That fine young man
We ne'er shall see him more.
He was member of our club
Since 1854.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-25
Central and south America.

Panama, 24.-Montrose offer to Cede
tacnA and africa to Bolivia for which he
was appointed 9 Bolivian general, has
ehectually closed the door for the present.
TO peace negotiations, and caused Chilli
ans 10 impose another war contribution
Of 81 600 900 on hfty prominent citizens
OF Lima. IRlesiss is the only man who
speaks cut, and in his opening address
to the Congress he has formed in the
north, he beseeches membe to do every
thing in their power to promote peace
snd save the country from ruin.
The photographic Office has issued the
following: The maritime governor of
Punta Arenas, Straits of Magellan, re-.
ports on the authority Of Commander
Thompson, of the Pacific Steam Navigs-
ton Company, that the pyramid a. Point
Bsja, has fallen.
The Panama Star, referring TO the
visit of Gen. Butterfeld and Crocker to
Guatemala, denies that the purchase of
the Guatemala Central Railroad was al
most entirely in the interest of the
Crockers. It says the principal member
OF the syndicate represented by Buster
field in Central Americs recently, was
@. P. Huntington. We are not advised
as to what changes may have taken place,
since the organization of the new COM
psny in New York. 1t is probable
Butter6eld and Crocker's visit to Gaute-
mala at the present time is to inspect
railroad properties there, snd probably
also to hasten forward work on the ex-
tension Of the road from Ese1intla to the
capitol, of which much has been said,
but SO far comparatively little is done.
The amount of work on this upper sec
ton appears to have been confined within
the somewhat narrow limits of what is
rendered obligatory by the act of Con-
grees or from the government, and we
hear little of any boom. in construction,
such as We We're given TO understand
would follow the advent Of the new COM
psny to power.
The government Of Guatemala evinces
considerable anxiety to see the work
completed, and has shown greater iiber.
atty in supporting the enterprise than
WAS ever expected; indeed, it may be
said, tina! the portion of the road already
completed has been built by government
funds which q favorable concession ena-
bles other parties than the original to
control and manipulate to their own profit,
The Star says: The prosecution of
suspects arrested in the $5U,0L0 robbery
case develops conspiracy having been
formed in BarrauquiIla, last year, to
purchase small steamer in New York
and capture the first remittance Of bull
lion coming down the MsgdaIene River
from the interior Of Columbia. The
American consul at Barranquilla heard
of the scheme and informed the home
authorities, which frustrated the plot.
Ihe parties arrested in the $4,000 case
are not supposed to be the principals in
the present robbery, put are furnishing
clues. One Of the railroad employees is
incriminated.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-25
LIST OF AGENTS.

The following gentlemen are author
led to canvass for the SALT LAKE
DAILY SENu.W8EKLV RBd WEEKLY
HERAI.Di also to receive payment and
eceipt for the same;
W, w. Bsrnets............spring Lake and
SantaquIn
0. W. Huntsman... Hebron Washington
q. A. Lewis. Georgetown, Bear Lake Co.
". h. Pratt.... Virgin City Washington
a. Leslie...... Moroni and Fountain Green
VIM. Enlms..... Bloomington, Bear Lake
": a: Stewart. Inverury, Sewer County
John Hortin-.... Rockport snd Wsnsnip
a. j. AllTed......Fremont Piute County
Jos. LRpish. ...-...Salins, Sewer County
Jos lrwin...............L aketown, Rich 90.
D. =. LYons'........ .-.......Summit County
<. Henriod ,......... ......... American Fork
n. a. Rolph ...---..e Mount Pleasant
8. w. briggs, Jr.-......... Pleasant Grove
e. e. Oowdeli ......... ..... Beaver County
VIM. Monteith...... ....>,... .ToOele County
Coop Store...... ...... ............Spanish Fork
W. L. WatkIns...............Bri Brigham City
1homaE OraWIey ...... .......a nab County
J. s. Moffat.... 49,. ...... MeadoWville
Jos: 7, Ellis. =. ......... ....,.."Spring City
J. F. Wskeheld...... ...... Huntington
j. r. Jewkes.. ...........- Castle Dale
John Bslty...... ..... ...... .......T oquervil!e
j z. Clark...... ......... GrsDSsville
James Bullock. 80. ......... Providence
VIM. Mendenhsll...... ........... SDringville
John Pymm. .....-..... -...St. George
JohnDuncan Heber City
Y. L. Mllls............ ..... Hoytsvllle
K. w. Hay borne.."............,C Cedar City
John Morgan Mill Greek
Jos. 81. McOracken. ...Smithffeld
Jos. NJ organ .....................W ellsVille
John g. M. BsrRes...... ......-... Ksysville
VIM. McGregor Geese. ...... 100000. Parowan
A. L. Robinson...,.. ...........- Fillmore
john Boyden .............. '''''' ...-. Coslyille
<. Felrce, Jt...... araQlce
q. P. Miller .,.....................R ichfeld
T. Yates Millville
Jasper Lennon. ...... ...... ..".. Mendon
8. Morgan
John Swain..................... Fayette
L. Greener hanosh
3 Marsh PaysoI
VIM. Probert, Senpete..............H Holden
Charles O. Shaw. -. -. ...... ...... Hyrum
John s. Black. ......... Deseret
VIM Probert.......,...................- .ScipIo
Charles Foote...... Nephi
John W. Shepherd. --.>...s. ...... Levsn
William Ber6eek....-............. Provo
J. T. Hammond. ......... l nSen
George Sceot............-,........ .. liant
John w Nehouse... -. ...-...-, leu
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-25
A LOBBYISTS Exposures.

Washington, %. - The Testimony OF q
Washington LOBBYIST before the special in
vestigstIng committee Of the House, to-
day, caused considerable sensation, The
msjority of the stock of the Washington
Gasiight Company Is owned il Fhila-
delphls, but Mr.. John Bailey, chief
clerk in the office Of Mr.. Mcpherson,
clerk of the House, is q stakeholder in
the company, and brother of the secre-
tsry, MT. klObs, Of Pennsylvania, and
Mr. Mureh, Of Maine, Charged in the
debate a few days ago that MIR. Bailey
was IN agent Of the gsslight comp ny,
placed in the House 10 prevent any legis-
latiUn hostile to its Interests, and he was
in the pay of the corporation at the same
time that he drew a salary from the e. "
eminent. An investigation eff the
charges was requested and when the
committee met Mr.. Murch admitted that
he could. not su bstsntisie the asserl lions
be had made and Mr.. Klohs aid he Was
doubtful Of the accuracy of hi. informa-
ton. Il seemed as though be- inquiry
would prove a farce, till Jona Harmon,
Of 4; icnig4i who hsd ben = Ma hing
ton irhyi.t Tor The past forty Ypar., was
put on ire stand. Harmon was not a
willing witoess, nut duslly sdnitled thai
he mad been in tue employ Of the com
pRny, that ne met in The winl Ut 1875,
the president of the company IT BAlley's
house and talked over some plan to de-
feat the bill pending in the House giving
the right OF way TO new gas company,
Bailey masking suggestions as how it was
TO be done. / he defeat of the bill was
left TO witness, and was defeated. He
could not say bow much lit cost, but his
share was s. co.. Harmon was at differ
ent times postmaster, collector of GUS
toms aud msyur Of Detroit, and has thu
reputation of being one of ih shrewdest
| lJbyists in The city. What his Object In
making the statement that he did can
be is unknown. People are puzzl c to
know whether be has further disclosures
to MAKE, or for purposes of revenge has
decided to damage the company BY false
statements. Harmon's friends have Con-
fdence in his ability to substantial his
assertion.
Washington, 81 The Ba ley invest
!g-ting commit has no! decided
VII, ther to summons the late clerk o.
tho House, Adams Of Kentucky. A
his mornrrg'- me ing Bailey said hc
ieque,ted the tally v4srk of the HoGse
asst sessiun, to Say good word for tht
gse company TO mem oera with whom h.
Ans well Guainted.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-25
a Chinese Funeral.

New York, 24.-The funeral Of Tom
Lees cniId occurred yesterday. Tom
Lee received the mHle guests with the
gift { a tine cigar "a long as his supply
lasted. 8. badge ef white Grape and gilt
ribbon was nailed to the door. and pic
lures in the par or where the body lsy
vera covered with wh 10 ciolh. Service
was held acc Jtding To the rites of the
Protestant Episcopal church, by Rev
Kimbey rector Of St. AuRustlne's chapel
in East Houston street. Many OF Ro:le'1
little play mates wers present, and we're
affected 10 tesrs. Mrs. LIE, in deel
morning, stood with her husband neal
the coffin, and controlled her feelings til
the body was being moved when sht
broke down, crying "Oh my Rosie, my
Rosie" Twenty three csrrisges fol.
lowed the hearse to the grave 1T Ever
green Cemetery. Among those presen
were ex.Assem lyman Welsh and his
wife, who was Rosie'a godmother.