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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
Plain Talk.


At the Central Church of Christ. at
the corner of Indiana avenue and Tween
ty-ffth street, last evening, George C.
Christian gave lecture on Alcoholism
as Related to Crime of which the fol-
lowing is q summary: BY the word al
cOholism we denote the whole system
OF drinking. buying, selling, and all that
is connected with and all that grows out
of alcohol in its various shapes. And
now for opinions and experiences given
IN this matter by well-known men.
Cardinal McCabe says that drink is the
cause of nearly all the crimes commit
ted. The Archbishop of Canterbury
adds his testimony, and says that rum
is the chief source of nearly all the
crimes committed in England. Lord
Chief-Justice Coleridge lately said: eff
we could make England sober we might
shut up nine-tenths of our iails." Mr..
Justice Denman, in charging a Grand
Jury, said: 81 don't know how a
Judge can better discharge his duty
than by calling the attention of all
classes to the fact that nearly all crime
IS caused by drink" Another English
CuuS6 IdOely Sdlu: Nearly every case
of violence and outrage that comes be-
fore me originates in the public-house.
Alcoholism, besides affecting the
drinker himself, affects indirectly men,
women and children who never drink
at all. There is much blamable senti-
mentalism among Temperance people,
They say to the drunkard: Poor fell
low! I'm very sorry for you. But it
seems you can't help it.. All bosh!
He wants to drink. He will let wife
and children suffer to crafty his own
selfish appetite. Instead of poor fell
low, he is selfish, mean, contemplate
wretch.
Alcoholism includes the saloon, the
company there assembled, and the evil
attendants No heightened man enters
saloon without injuring his self-re-
speet. He listens to the burly, double
listed, snake-eyed scoundrel who pre-
sides there, telling some scheme where
by the heightened office-seeker, often a
Judge, may secure his election. Listen
ing to such schemes, in such place,
from such a scoundrel, puts poison into
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

Putting potatoes in pits to preserve
through the winter was formerly more
practiced than at the present day. Some
may be tempted to keep their potatoes
over in hopes of obtaining better prices
in the spring, and some will resort to
pitting. There is usually more or less
risk attendant on this mode of preserv-
ing potatoes, but where successful the
potatoes come out fresher and better
than when kept, as ordinarily, in dry,
warmish cellar. Select dry, well
drained location for the pit, and ex-
cavate according to the quantity to be
kept, on ground where tie water will
run from it. Line this pit with straight,
long straw, on bottom and sides, one or
two inches thick, then put in the pota
toes, not to exceed three feet in depth.
cover them with two or three inches of
straw, laid on in cources, and over this
throw earth, placing wisp of stra
in the apex for a ventilator. Be care
full not to cover the potatoes too deep,
or leave the pit unventilated, or there
may be pit of rotten potatoes next
spring. Potatoes keep best when kept
at as low temperature as possible with
out freezing. If kept dry they will
stand quite low temperature before
freezing. Moisture condensing on them
will tend to their freezing or rotting.
If the pit be well ventilated the moisture
passes off and they will stand a lower
temperature and yet be preserved. R
q. White, IN Country Gentleman.
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Temperance Items.

THE Peoples advertiser, Mississippi,
says: 1.-The Temperance army in this
State is increasing, and ere long viii
sweep everything before it.
The ALUMNI of the Philadelphia
College of Pharmacy have condemned
''the sale of intoxicating liquors as a
beverage in drug stores as a growing
evil, tending to degrade the profession
of pharmacy, and damaging the morals
OF the community"
AMONG WOMEN in the highest walks
of life in Chicago iquor-drinking and
drunkenness are fearfully common. DIR.
Duncan says that he could count twenty
such cases, first and last, in his practice,
He says that women living in fashion
able hotels and clearinghouse are in a
shocking number inebriates. In many
cases they have completely broken up
their homes and gone headlong to ruin.
DIR. Singley says that drunkenness in
its very worst forms will be found IN
some OF the very best families OF the
CITY, Union Signal.
THE WoMAN's CHRISTIAN TEMPER
ANCE Union of the State of New York,
which recently held its annual conven-
ton in Poughkeepsie, resolved to petit
ton the next Legislature to require in
every school supported by public
money instruction in physiology and
hygiene, with special reference to the
effects Of alcoholic stimulants and mar
cotics upon the human system. This is
part of so-called national plan which
the Union will make the special feature
of its work during the coming year,
and in accordance with which the pas
sage of similar law has already been
securedin Vermont, Michigan and New
Hampshire.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
A Remarkable Shirt.

Undergoing general circulation is a
story that Edison, the inventor, has pro-
duced an electrical toy baby that can
arrange the letters of any name from
among spelling blocks; that can say:
Come in" Mamma, Pse sleepy"
and two or three other sentences, and
that can cry, laugh, sing and play the
piano.
rs that fact2 / hadn't heard of
that story yet said Mr.. Edison S
private secretary; ''that must be the
latest out about Mr.. Edison. Is that a
European or an American tale?f
That's of Waterbury Conn. man
ufacture-that is if it is manufactured. y
swell. it certainly has no truth in it.
Most of the clever stories about Mr..
Edison, however, are European. The
latest was published in the Vienna
TGgeblatt That was about the three
hundred and sixty-tive shirt-a garment
that Mr. Edison was said to have sue
ceeded in manufacturing out of three
hundred and sixty-five delicately thin
sheets Of paper in layers, one layer for
every day in the year. You tore off the
outer sheet every morning, and started
each day with spick and span clean
shirt. For leap years you bought a
three hundred and sixty-six shirt. A
man in Paris went to an exchange
Office, bought a fve-dollar bill, and
mailed it to Mr.. Edison for sample Of
the garment, and chap in Berlin tried
to buy the agency for It in Prussia. =
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

Mashed Turnips Pare, quarter and
cook tender in boiling salt water, mash
in colander, pressing hard; stir in
butter. pepper and salt, and turn into q
deep dish. -Erchdnoe.
Sunfiower seed is now extensively
employed in Russia, Italy and some
other European countries for producing
oil. The coke, after the oil has been
expressed, is fed to animals.
1t is asserted that powdered zinc, !"
the granulated metal, it is presumed,
can be applied as a paint with oil and q
drier, and protect iron surfaces against
rust. A good mixture is eight zinc,
seventy-one oil and two drier.
The A,ne7Ican Farmer mentions
that a peach tree grown in sod has
borne fruit for five years, while other
trees situated in truck patches have sue
cumbed to yellows and borers. 1t
recommends cultivation for the trees
when they are young, but it should
cease when they begin to bear.
Few have just idea of the amount
of grain ofttimes wasted in thrashing.
Where machine is fed by inexperienced
feeders, or when there is undue haste
to finish the job, and amid the rush and
hustle which always accompanies
thrashing-time, much of the grain is
left in the Chicago Tribune.
-Sickly plants in pots may be re-
stored to health and vigor by the use of
hot water 1t should be heated to a.
temperature of 145 degrees Fahrenheit;
stir the soil in the pots, taking care not
to disturb the roots, then pour on the
water until it runs freely from the pots.
After this treatment keep the plants
warm. -B0St07s Post.
"A delicious way to prepare baked
apples for tea is to cut out the core be-
fore baking. When ready to send to
the table fill the space left in the apple
with sweet cream, with little powdered
sugar in it. Ounces are also excellent
prepared in the same way. In these
butter may take the place of cream if
more conveniently Y. Post.
An Ohio farmer, who lately took
pains to carefully watch the movements
of large flock of blackbirds at work in
his cornfields, discovered that instead of
eating the corn the birds were industri-
ously hunting for the corn-worm. In
every case where he examined an ear
on which blackbird had worked he
found marks of the worm, but no worm.
This he concluded was strong circum.
stantial evidence that the birds were
doing him almost Invaluable service in
stead of an injury.
Picked Grapes; Take ripe grapes;
remove imperfect and broken ones.
Line an earthen jar with grape leaves;
then fill with grapes. To two quarts of
vinegar allow one pint of white sugar,
half an ounce of ground cinnamon, and
a quarter of an ounce of cloves. Let the
vinegar and spices boil for five min
utes; then add the sugar Let it come to
boil and when cold pour over the
grapes. If poured on while hot it
shriYels them, even if it does not break
the skin and spoil the appearance of the
pickles. IN z Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
APPLE GATHERING

just such another blowy day,
With grand capricious sky,
And IN the orchard, glad and gay
We're Cousin Joan and /;
Both mounted on ladder long, the apples all
among H
My seat the top, her dainty feet upon a lower
rung.
And oh, how sweet the hazel eyes
That there look up at mel
The truest, softest, deepest eyes
That ever l shall see.
Then what a perfect mouth I thought it
would be simple bliss
If from those rosy lips might but steal one
little kiss.
For was not her cousin, too?
And half bent my head;
But not the dreadful thing to do--
No, mol I've ever said
But she, perchancc had fancied 80, and,
sudden sidewalks bent
And, from the movement, to the ground the
ladder staggering went
My graceful, darling lovely Joan
Fell lightly, without harm;
And ]. as she arose alone,
Scarce feltmy broken arm.
But when, without q glance, and looking
scornful. cold and proud, a
She turned away, them with the twofold pain,
grOaned aloud.
She started, and her face grew white;
BuJ bOen Jel 10 my snare
Such gentle ministries that light
Seemed all tire pain to bear
o fingers deft and tender, once in mine held
you fast
And, humby craving, got the kiss longed so
for at last EM# f
And with 1t, too, my sweetheart Joan,
Whose pity grew to love:
Still who had never been my own
But for that day above
Then, at the apple-gatherlng in the dear old
apple tree,
When not a single fruit was plucked by my
fair wife or me.
London SocietM
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
A Battle with Whales.

About week ago Mr.. Peter Warner,
the well-known contractor, and
veteran fisherman, started out on a fish
ing excursion in a small boat They
carried with them a Winchester rifle
and shotgun, in order possibly to bag
some of the game that abounds in the
laguna, which extends some three miles
inland from the shore They had
rowed out but few miles, when two
whales, Of the bottle-nose species, were
espied short distance from the boat.
Mr.. Warner Immediately grasped his
rifle, fired, and apparently wounded
dashed the water into foam, and made
desperate efforts to reach them. After
a second and third shot, vital spot in
one of them was reached, and only one
was left to combat with. They then
began firing at the remaining one, but,
though wounding it several times, it
seemed utterly impossible to seriously
disable it. 1t made the most furious at
tacks upon them, and with distended
jaws it seemed at times as if about to
ingulf boat and all Twelve shots were
uICll l4UO III, d1ll Sllll IL COutlIlutu lbs Ull-
slaught. 1t splashed and foamed,
spreading heavy spray in all directions,
and nothing but the most skillful man
agement kept the boat at safe dis
tanse from its fury. Now and then it
would plunge under the water, en-
deavoring to get under the boat and
send it skyward, but the steady ''old
SALT managed each time to whirl the
boat beyond its reach. The situation
was growing serious, as the cartridges
in the rifle were exhausted, and it
seemed well-nigh impossible to reload
while the monster was making such
furious attacks. While attempting it a
sudden onslaught of the whale made it
necessary to use the shotgun, and Mr..
Warner fired hastily, discharging both
loads right into its face. 1t was most
fortunate shot, as it took effect in the
eyes of the whale, and must have totally
blinded it. The pain served to increase
its ferocity, but its efforts were now
futile, and it was an easy matter to row
a safe distance, when the rifle was re-
loaded and the monster killed at leisure
The two whales were then towed in
shore, and quite a large quantity of oil
has been since tried out. Los angeles
(Cat.) Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
An Amateur Lawyer.

A Yankee, named Mather, who had
been for twelve years in an Insurance
office, was in Cincinnati, out of work,
and living on ten cents a day. He had
a room with certain Mrs. Sterne, and
as his bill there was assuming respectable
proportions, and he had no immediate
prospects of being able to liquidate. he
decided to "skip by the light of the
moon.' That very day his landlady
inquired: "Aren't you a lawyer, Mr..
MatherPn Quick as thought he re-
responded: "Yes." "Well. said Mrs.
Sterne, II want to get your advice My
husband has left me and wants to get
hold of the policy of insurance on his
life, which have. Can he do so and
sell it back to the company?n Mr.
Mather examined the policy, and feeling
doubtful on one point, told her he would
advise her the following morning. He
repaired at once to the law office of a
friend, and in an off-hand way gained
the information he desired, and the fol-
lowing day gave his final decision to
Mrs. Sterne. He had then accumulated
a few dollars and asked his landlady the
amount of his bill. ''Why, you are not
going are youP I hoped you would
board out your bill against me for your
advice" THAT 50, we lawyers cant
advise for nothing. But 1 must go to-
day. How much IS your billP" Twelve
dollars said she. "Well, you're a
Woodworking little woman, and, if
you'll give me eight dollars I'll call our
accounts square, though would charge
anybody else fifty dollars" Mrs. SterneI
handed over the money with many ex-
pressions of appreciation, and the guest
departed penniless and owing for
his lodgings, but free 'of debt, and hay
ing eight dollars in his pocket. The
best part of the story is that the money
thus obtained gave him start, from
which he quickly rose to a position of
aff1uence, and almost his first act after
becoming established in a business
yielding an income of $4,000 year
was to hunt up Mrs. Sterne and send
her check for $4,000, with the story
that / have told here. OF course the names
given are not the real ones, but this
sharp Yankee is now prominent bust
ness man in large New England city;
and the story | have related | heard
from his own lips. Boston Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

any mans moral nature, and from such
associations originates the course of life
that brings many of our prominent men
to disgrace. Mr.. Rutledge, Chaplain
Of Joliet Penitentiary, writes me: II
don't know which is the worst in its eff
fects in causing crime-the drinking
itself or the saloon associations. Mr.
Fred L. Thompson, Superintendent of
the Southern Penitentiary at Chester,
ILL.,, writes: "The saloons are the
springs from which flow the streams
which fill our penitentiaries. OF five
hundred prisoners here, four hundred
and SIX frequented the saloons" Crimes
originate in the saloons, and it is to the
saloons that detectives go TO find the
men that are wanted by the jails. The
committee appointed by the Dominion
OF Canada in 1875 to investigate the mat.
ter reported that more than seventy
hye per cent. of the arrests made in the
two Provinces of Canada were for
drunkenness itself or for crimes CON-
mltted under the influence OF drink.
Judge Noah Davis says: ''Of all causes
OF crime, intemperance stands first
Judge Tuley, of this city, in letter of
August, 1888, says: ''0f the criminals
appearing before me, the evidence shows
that a majority of them were under the
influence of drink at the time of the
commission of the crimes. / have come
to the conclusion that the stimulant
thus imbibed was for the purpose of
nerving them for the crime" Judge
Thomas A. Moran, of this county, in a
letter of July q, 1888, says: ''Of adult
criminals Is per cent. are made so di-
rectly by drink; 80 per cent. of crimes
committed by children come Indirectly
from the same source, from the low
tone of morality and general degrade
ton resulting in the homes of the drunk
ard. Mr.. Rutledge, Chaplain at
Joliet, writes: During the past two
years l find in the case of prisoners
here, nearly all crimes against persons
to have come directly from drink; most
OF those against property from saloon
associations. Statistics show that of
the 5000 criminals in Illinois last wear.
5000 came up from the saloons. the
manufactures of criminals. Neal Dow
says the people of the United States
spend 81, 800, 100000 year for drink.
To prove this here are the facts There
are in the United States 100000 saloon
keepers. Each on an average sells not
less than $4,000 worth of liquor each
year. The amount thus spent, 81, $780,
100000, would pay for all the household
! furniture now in use in the United
States and leave $500, 100000 over
Chicago Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02

But" said Joe at length, "she may
have gone out with the intention of GO
ing there, and then, seeing Jack O
Lantern which some Of the Joys had
stuck up on the gate-post, may have
been frightened and gone back again,
and in her bewilderment, instead of go
ing up the hill toward home have turned
in the other direction and gone toward
the village
But Bessie had kept on into the
woods instead of going to the village
where Joe was seeking her at that mo
ment, and if it had not been for Carlo
she would have frozen to death before
any aid would have reached her.
Bessie wasn't able to tell them how
it was that night, she was too weak,
she could not remember, but the next
morning everything came back to her,
and she shuddered when she told of the
horrible face that looked over the gate
at her. a
II knew that it was naughty to run
away SO, and | thought he was an aW-
full giant, or something, that was going
to eat me up" she said, sobbing.
But no one even suggested that it
was naughty to run away, for grandma
felt little conscience-stlicken herself
on the subject. 1t had been dreadfully
dull at the farmhouse in the evening.
and after that she took care that she
always had something to amuse her.
AS for Carlo, he became the hero of
the town. Bessie's papa brought him
a beautiful silver collar when he re-
turned from Europe, and he wears it
proudly to this day, learning to under
stand thatit is badge of honor. He is
very old dog now, and Bessie is grow
ing to be a young lady, but the strongest
friendship exists between them. Louise
Dupee, IN Ballou's Monthly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-02
personal AND LITERARY.

Ina d. Coolbrith, the poetess, is
public librarian at Oakland, Cal.
Miss Fletcher, the charming Amer
lean Girl who wrote "Kismet, has fin
ished another novel.
p. r. Barnum is getting well along
In wears, but he says he never felt bet
fer in his life.-Nei0 Hdveas Register.
Miss ITira Compton, OF Hancock
County, O., engaged to be married to
three different lovers, eloped with q
fourth and married him. Detroit Post.
Miss Emily McTavish, aged twen-
ty, very rich belle of Baltimore, has
given up her worldly possessions and
taken the vows of the Sisters of Charity.
Mr.. Bowker, the agent in London
for Harper's. says that more copies of
the magazine are sold there than of any
of the English magazines, except Good
Words
Mr.. Blaine has refused an offer Of
$780, for his history Prom Lincoln
to Garfield, Z and will collects royalty
Of fifty cents on each volume sold. N
Y Times.
IS. S. Montague, who died recently
in Southern Oregon, selected the routes,
ran the lines and made the grades of
the Central Pacific Railroad over the
Sierra Nevadas. The task had been
previously pronounced impossible by
English civil engineers.
Rev. Charles Edwin Burdette, who
sailed from New York recently for India,
4 H.
Assam. is a brother of Bob'' Burdette,
of Hdwkeye fame He was graduated in
1880 at Brown University, and in 1888
at Newton Theological Institution.
OF making books there is no end.
The American publishing houses an
nounce the forthcoming appearance of
no less than 966 books. In the distri-
button Of these books among publishing
houses, New York, Boston and Philade1-
phia are the great centers. Chicago has
two or three enterprising houses, and
Cincinnati, Baltimore, Buffalo and one
or two other points are represented. =
CHICAGO Journal.
Fifty years ago Rev. DR.. S. Ire
n@us Prime, editor of the New York
Observer, delivered at Bedford, West
chester County, N. Y, his first sermon.
DR.. Prime preached again in the same
village recently, occupying the pulpit
Of the Presbyterian Church. In con-
clusion DR.. Prime referred to the fact
that he is the oldest editor in service in
New York, having occupied that posi-
ton on the Observer forty-three years.
Every minister of the Presbytery of
New York at the time he joined it is
now dead.-N. Y. Times.
Jules Verne, the French story
teller, whose " Kerahan lie Tetu' is
now in full. swing in Paris, is about
fifty years old; his hair and beard are
turning white, and his once supple and
elegant figure is beginning to give way
to a comfortable embonpoint; but his
face is full of intellectual vigor. He
was originally destined for the bar, but
soon found that his true field was liter
allure, and, after several attempts to
succeed on the exchange, at the age of
thirty, he published his Journey
Round the World in Eighty Days, =
which has attained worldwide fame.