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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-11
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

"A good grass run for pigs win do
more in the matter of keeping them well
up in growth than anything else Troy
Times.
Beef Cakes: Chop rare done roast
beef very fine; season with salt. pepper
and little chopped onion; mix, make
into small cakes and fry in beef drip
pings. IN. 7. Times.
Horses at work will be gratified if
they are allowed little green grass
once day. Ii not convenient to turn
on the grass cut it and feed, with a little
salt, in the rack. Detroit Post.
The Cleveland Leader says: There
isa rapidly growing interest in the pro-
posal to form National Association of
Stockmen, and it is believed that before
the end of the present year definite
steps will have been taken for the form
alton of a permanent and powerful as
ISOLATION of the kind
"A shying horse can not be consid-
cred a safe horse, yet the habit is gem
srally considered of so small cense-
quence that it does not materially affect
the value Of a horse, There are but
few faults that driving horse can have
that are more liable to do mischief than
that of soaring. and shying. Although
it may take some time time and trouble,
such habits should be broken up as
soon as possible. z. Tribune.
The idea that sorrel denotes a sour
condition of the soil, because the sorrel
leaf is itself acid, is an old notion ltag
since exploded. Lime and ashes hare
been recommended to correct this sup
posed acidity. They will often prevent
the sorrel, but they do it by encourag-
ing the growth of clover, which. with
good catch, will usually keep dS~n all
annual weeds. Albany JoaaYaaJ
"A farmer of Cass Township, Hunt
ington County, Pa, wanted to borrow a
gun from neighbor for the purpose Of
killing some crews in his field of corn
which were eating the grain. His
neighbor declined to loan the gun, for
he thought the crows useful. In order
to satisfy his curiosity he shot one of
them, opened its craw and found in it
twenty -one cut worms and four grains
of corn
The farmer can better afford 10
raise potatoes for twenty-five cents per
bushel than to grow wheat for one dol
lar, Two hundred bushels per acre is
not large average yield. This would
give fifty dollars per acre. Fifteen
bushels is an average yield of an acre Of
wheat. The potato crop will require a
little more labor, but with the late i'm
proved machinery the cost of culti-
waiting and harvesting an acre of pota-
toes has been very much reduced. =
Chicago Tribune.
"A common fruit and spice cake is
made of one cupful Of butter, two cup
fuls of sugar; beat these to cream
shen add two well-beaten eggs, the
whites and yelks beaten together, a
large handful of currants, quarter of
q pound Of citron cut in small bits, ono
tea-spoonful each of grated nutmeg, GIN
namon and cloves, half cupful of sour
milk with a quarter of a tea-spoonful of
soda dissolved in it and three cupfuls of
-four. This cake requires nearly an
hour for baking in moderate oyen.-
EGchG72Qe.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-11
Chewing Gum.
"Let me dispel an illusion" said q

Let me dispel an illusion" said q
dealer in gum.
"All right; dispel away
1T is not boarding schools and semi
naries that consume all the gum made.
1t is not alone fair girlhood to which its
seductive nature appeals. Men chew
good deal. / can't say how much gum
is sold in Chicago, but no doubt the fig
ures, if they could be got at, are appall-
ing. Only think of the vast waste of
muscular power in chewing it. have
had fantastic dreams over it. If il
could only be utilized, the power of
these thousands and thousands of laws
munching away hours and hours-why,
whatresults it would effect in mechan-
icsi
''Oh, yes, men chew gum-lots of
them do. It's habit that grows on
one. It's fearful fascination is betrayed
Immediately its insidious enticements
are yielded to. There is a young fellow
that buys Of me steadily who is VIC
tim of the habit. He complains and
often says he wishes he could overcome
it. But he's the only man customer
that complains. The rest like it. You
see, there are good many who find tha
habit beneficial, speakers for instance.
Quite number of Board of Trade men
chew it. 1t helps keep their Toices in
shape for the wear and tear they are
subjected to in their business. - Chi
cngO Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-11
Rabbits as VINEYARD Pests.


If there is pest in the whole cats
bgue which vineyard men dread, and
5hus far have been unable to combat it
Is the iack-rabbit. Their deFastations
are usually confined to young vines, bat
when green grass grows up they even
attack older vines. They are Just now
promenading, on moon-lit night and
early morn, through the outlying vine
yards to find out where the most succu-
4 lent canes grow, and the way they will
sweep a field OF cuttings, and even two
and three-year old vines, would make
stranger think flock of sheep had been
through the vineyards. What vines are
not killed outright, are so stunted that
the roots are barely able to keep alive.
We, in this section, who have exposed
vineyards, have tried many remedies
and failed. Il is almost impossible to
entice them with poison, for they have
most delicate sense of taste and
SMELL To shoot them is irnpracticable.
Last year my men and killed fifty ON
a forty-aore tract, and yet there APP
peared to be no decrease in the number,
and can safely estimate my damages
at several hundred dollars. A great
many last year applied blood to the
vines. bat it is expensive and only lasts
until the first heavy fog destroys the
smell. Some tried scare-crows, and
others, more fortunate than their poor
neighbors. have been able to build rab-
bit-tight fences. This is not to be
thought of by man who is putting his
scanty earnings into new piece of land.
and is therefore anxious to get the cut
tings to growing. This year various
experiments have been made in the hills
here, and one OF them at least has
proved SO cheap and efficient that feel
| it a duty TO give it to the vine
growers in Other portions of the
state. satisfied that I could give
them no more valuable information,
| About the middle Of May noticed
that MIR. Rabbit had begun to nibble the
tendel, leaves on a piece of two acres
that had been replanted this year. hav-
ing last year been bodily destroyed by
rabbits. / procnred pound of aloes
for fifty cents, and dissolved it in five
gallons of water. Then taking a whisk-
broom and bucket, had a Chinaman
sprinkle little on each vine over the
whole piece, and then awaited the re-
suits. At the end of q week / went
over and examined the cuttings, ana
while the ground was full of rabbit
tracks, there was no sign of the vines
having been nibbled; but on piece adj
joining there were several vines eaten,
and Immediately applied the solution
to the entire vineyard, young and old,
at q cost of about thirty and one
half cents an acre for aloes and labor.
At this date not vine has been touched
since the treatment, although q large
new growth has been made, while right
across fourteen-footA turn row be-
tween me and my neighbor, they are
vigorously at work. / shall make an
other application soon, and this time
shall add little aIr8 h
So important has this matter become
that the Board of Supervisors of Napa
County are now paving a bounty on
rabbit scalps.-Cor. San francisco Bal
/ La
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-11
Quarter Crack.


The presence of a quarter crack Is
usually an indication of some diseased
condition of the foot In other words,
the wall of q perfectly healthy foot sell
dom cracks. In this case the crack
may not have been present when the
animal was purchased, but the abnor
NAL condition of the foot certainly was.
The treatment is. to pare the wall about
the crack awayin the shape of the let
ter Y, with its base resting upon the
coronet and its apex extending down
ward to the lowest extremity of the
crack; also pare that part of the wall
that rests upon the shoe about the vi
entity of the crack, SO that it can not
possibly have any bearing. Require
him to have bar shoe; apply mild
blister to the quarter, and, with fire.
quent changing of the shoe, the trouble
will gradually grow out. If, however,
the foot is so badly diseased as to cause
him to become lame without the assist
anee Of the crack, you should blister
the entire coronet and turn him to past
ure for a couple Of months. ~. 7. Her.
aid
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-11
Bouncer Struck by Lightning.

'Isaw a paragraph il the SIM said
Farmer Silas Wagner, of Bayonne,
"ahout dog that was. killed by thun-
derbolt and a suggestion Of the dogs
owner that dogs attract lightning. |
don't know how. that may be, but
learned once that dog with steel
collar around his neck is a nasty animal
to have at your heels during a thunder
storm. Abouttw years ago Bouncer
taught me this. He. had on a brand new
steel collar, and was with me and two
menein the field when. a Thunderstorm
broke over us. Bouncer was greatly
greatly frightened, and headed us as
we ran toward the house. Suddenly I
noticed aringof blue flame around his
neck. He noticed it about the same
time himself, and, turning round, he ran
yelling toward us, as if for protection.
But we turned and ran too. Perhaps
we didn't yell SO loud, but I believe we
ran nearly as fast as he did. Iknow
we had covered three miles of rough
ground before he overlook one Of the
men who had stuck in hedge. He
appealed so pitifully for assistance that
we returned to help him, and found the
dog lying exhausted beside him. The
blue fire was out and the collar was
gone, but its imprint was on his scorched
neck, and looks exactly like a steel collar
to this day. The hair has never grown
over it, and while the dog seems proud
OF bis ornament, he always sinks into
the cellar three davs before thunder
storm, and can't be tempted outuntil the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-11
Georgia Yellow Pine.

The Southern Merchant, a trade Jour-
nal published in Baltimore, says: ssPeo-D
pie who are not directly identified with
the lumber trade have no idea Of the
enormous production of lumber in the
Southern States. But, large as it is, its
development is almost in infancy, and
with proper disposal of capital and en-
ergy there can be no limit placed to pro-.
,duction. At present the market is solne-
what oyerstocked because Of the diff
culties and exorbitant cost of tfanspor-
tation. But these, in time, will be
overcome; and the South will furnish
the world with full supply Of lumber
particularly of hard and fine woods.
Pine wood has not generally been con-
sidered in the latter category, but the
Georgia yellow pine is now in high favor
as the best ofyour native woods for fine
interior work. )" The Southern Merchant
proceeds to state that the lumber bust
ness of Atlanta is enormous, the claim
being made that this city will soon be
the largest market south of Baltimore.
Whether Atlanta becomes the great
market for this product, or not, it's
plain that eyery foot Of pine in the State
Will soon have arising value, and that
che business OF saving and shipping
lumber will increase year BY year, until
it becomes of immense proportions and
timber lands be in sharp request. The
days Of valueless timber are passing
away; andsour object jim writing this
article is to induce holders of pine lands
MOTTO permit Waste or to sell their lands
for a song. The country will soon take
all the yellowpine that we can prepare
for market, and each succeeding year
will then addto the value of the stand
ing PRODUCT There need be no haste in
the marketing Of pine timber, for every
year reduces the quantity of whits pine
and increases the value Of yellow pine.
--atL02atQ. (GQ.l Constitution.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-11

Railway cars drawn by camels, it
is said, will shortly constitute one of the
peculiar features of travel and Transport
tation in Central Asia. It is proposed
by the Russian Government to Law
line of rails from Khiva, which is south
of the Sea of Aral, in Turkistan, to
Tashkend, place of 40, 900 inhabitants,
nearly six hundred miles further east.
The road is to be built on the Belcher
system "a kind of raised railway rest
ing on peculiarly placed sleepers and
will follow the course now taken BY
caravans.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-11
Our Young Readers.
ONLY M<NNA.

Where is mamma? Where is mamma?
Doesn't anybody know?
wants TO tell her how tumbled
Down e steps and hurt me sol
Won't tell g anna all about it:
Won't let papa look and see
What awful bump nv head is.
HoHt let auntie shing to me.
where IS mammal Where is nlanmaf
Can't 'ou anybody tell?
On'y mamma knows e way to
Kiss it quick and make it well"
Youths ConpdntOl
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-11

Prince Bismarck, says: when
appear in the streets / am no longer. an
iniividual, but an event. Should he
appear on the streets in America he
would be neither an individual nor an
eyent-only one of the crowd, -PhiIa-
delphtG CtgU.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-11
"A plain pudding for children's din,

"A plain pudding for children's din,
ner is made of one cup of corn-meal,
one cup of flour; sift them together,
mix with one cup of sour milk, one Ia
blespoonful of lard, one egg, one small
teaspoonful of soda; if the batter seems
too thick add little sweet milk, or, II
you have not this, little cold water;
steam or boil in pudding-bag for two
.hoursi serve hot with sour sauce.-.k
y. Post.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-11

The largest bass ever caught in the
Hudson River between New York and
Albany was taken by Richard Ward, of
New Hamburg. a few days ago. It
weighed eighty-four pounds. Between
Milton and Low Point. in that region,
many fine bass have been taken this
season, weighing from twenty to TWEEN
ty-six pounds. dgbG,ay Journal
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-11
a medical paper warns young doc

"A medical paper warns young doc
tors against prescribing shotgun MKT.
ures' too freely during the summer
months. as certain combinations of
drugs are apt to decompose each other
in hot weather. A shotgun prescrip-
ton is made up Of many different drugs.
in the expectation that one of them may
hit the mark and cure the patient-N.
/. z Tribune. 81.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-11

Hardly anything in the l ne of flow
ers and green can be more beautiful
than two-yard coil of smilay, perfect
in leaf, and graeed with a thousand
sweet Whita blooms Of this erowsA
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-11

Carl Schufz is to deliver fifty
lectures in New England next winAaz-
BoSioB Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-11

Charles Ross, of Clyde, N. Y,
caught > two-headed mouse in tran
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-06

A correspondent Of the Nashville
World, writing from Franklin in this
State, has the subjoined to his commu-
nication
Last night Mr.. Cheves, the prohibi-
ton lecturer, addressed fair audience
on that subject at the Presbyterian
Church. He made some good points,
but fell into the common error Of that
class of reformcrs by making too broad
and indiscrimlnate charges and dcnun'
Citations against all men everywhere who
in the exercise Of personal right use
liquors Of any sort for any purpose
He has tho appearance of gentleman
aud he may be sincere in his radical
declarations, but il is hard for one who
hears hun not to class him with the
=" I-am.holer-than-thou-art" sect who
ever and anon provoke public notice by
decrying and attacking the existing or
der Of things, both religious and politi
cal, and proposing as n substitute some
Utopian dream, the ideal of sentimen.
tai women and impracticable men.
The writer Of this communication is for
temperance, has always been an alb.
stainer from the use of intoxicating
liquors, but he has no faith in efficacy
Of the plans proposed by Mr.. Cheves.
II the churches, all of which are anti
whisky in their daily teachings, the
Sunday schools, the day schools, the
Bible, the standard works on morality,
the press-aye, the multitude of agen-
cies everywhere employed in the cause,
fail to check the "whisky traffic." how
will few Of the same individuals thus
engaged, by joining n prohibition
club" and "agitating the subject" ac-
complish morel
But l shall have more, perhaps, to
say on the Organization" in the future,
and learn that every member joining
is required to pledge himself to vote at
all elections for prohibition candidates,
regardless Of party affiliations. 1t is
also said that the leading spirits in the
agitation" in Tennessee are defeated
candidates of the Russell stamp. We
Democrats will not admit that Trojan
horse into our Troy in the next can
vass, and we want the people to be
fully advised upon this question
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-06

The Winchester Home Journal says
that there are not two better managed
railroads in the world than the Louis
vile Il Nashville and the Nashville,
Chattanooga Il St. Louis. This may be
so. We are ready to affirm and do af-
firm that there are not two more law
defying corporations in the Union.
They are guilty every day they run Of
the worst sort of discrimination and ex-
tortion against and from the people
Annually they rob and plumber the
country through which they are opera
ted without any conscience whatever.
Nashville World.
1t is easy to make assertions. But
can the World prove that these rail
roads, as well as others, have not en-
HANGED the value of the lands adjacent
to them to such per cent. as to make
a fair compensation for State aid' And
do not the enormous taxes paid by
the roads tighten the tax upon the PEG
pie generally? And if the roads pay
their taxes, and pay for damages done
in the way of accidents and neglect, has
the World any more right. to want thei
financial management investigated thar
they have to want an investigation o
the Worlds financial management il
order to see if It discrim:nates in it
charges for advertising, or job work.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-06

Prohibition fanatics and Protective
Tariff fanatics may "split" the Demo.
cratic party and elect Republicans to of.
flee, but we shall not be party to the
split We are Democrat from priucl.
ple-belleve in the doctrines promul.
gated by Jefferson, jackson, Polk, and
men of like brain-and have no use for
heresies in politics any more than we
have for heresies in religion. " Fiat
justitia, rudt cGl,tm."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-06
Personal

In the Nashville World of the 9th
instant We find communication from
some one who signs himself Mountain.
eer." He writes from McMinnville,
aud, after paying deserved tribute tc
our Acknowledgement CA. b. Wood
ward, writes as follows of Judge j. j.
Williams, Of our town. You must
keep in mind that Circuit Court was in
session at McMinuvillc, and "Moun.
taineer" says:
The fellow who sits up in the "horse
rack" is no less a celebrity than the
Honorable j. j Williams, commonly
called Honest Jack" There is nc
other like him on the foot-stool And
in most respects this is to be regretted.
He is a pleblan every inch, and the
humblest respectable citizen in his judi.
cial circuit receives rs warm a shake OF
the hand and as cordial and brotherly a
greeting as the proudest nabob in the
realms. He "forms and expresses hi,
opinion" ut the first blush, and yor
might as well dispute with mile post as
to attempt to change that opinion, and
it would be as sensible to request
the Mississippi river to flow over
the Allegheny mountains rs to insist
upon his taking the course opposite to
the one in which he keeps the even
tenor Of his way. He is the only Judge
in Tennessee, so far MS your correspond
ent is advised, to whom the people
could 20 for relief when the money
gods had them bound hand and foot fol
one hundred years, and holding then
with the remorseless grip of Shylock t.
the ful6llment of their stra &c bone
even to the forfeiture of the vital cur
rent itself. But when Honest Jack pu
his warm hand upon their Threats their
was no use of bandying words-they
simply turned loose and were glad t,
get their dues. There will be many
cold days before the people will forge
this, their friend in time of need. L
is proper to say before dismissing thi'
prime Did patriot that he is general!
right in his conclusions, and that it il
the proper thing for him to be like ole
Aunt Gemina's plaster: "The more yo'
try to pull it of, the more it sticks thu
faster"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-06
Spring Creek.

To the Home Journal
Perhaps some one will think tina,
your correspondent has delayed writing
in order to gather up some news ; but,
instead thereof, | have been engaged
most of my time, of late, gathering up
wood to keep from freezing, for tell
you we have had some cold weather out
here on Spring Creek. How it was
elsewhere we are not prepared to say,
as it was too cold to get out to see. But
now all the cold weather that we have
any knowledge of is thing of the past
for we are thoroughly thawed. At this
time the weather is warm, and we are
having "drenching rain"
The wheat crop had the appearance
of being considerably damaged by the
freezes, but l think it is all right yet
l see that it is throwing off the "man'
tie" of brown which the freezes gave it,
and is now resuming the green.
Say, how about that blind tiger
Some of the boys out here say that they
have learned from the Ne'rs) that they
can get their drinks in Winchester
''all the same," if the charter has beer
abolished. They say that the Journa
advertised the sale of whisky so long a
it was sold in accordance with the law
but when it is sold in defiance of Law
the Franklin County News advertises
it. However, l think the boys ough
not to NEEDLE. Newspaper men gen
orally know their business /; they al
say that advertising pays.
We have a Literary Society here il
full blast. Time of meetings, every
Friday night. Your correspondent
hasn't lined" yet. When he does, hi
will give you few sketches
occasionally of the proceedings.
SUBSCRIBER.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-06
A Request.

desire to get supply of reading
matter for the convicts in Tracy City.
They need ii, and are eager for it. II
may be furnished without cost, and
with very little trouble. Old papers
and periodicals, school books, and 9th.
ers of no value to their owners, would
be benediction to these men. Here is
an opportunity for a noble christian
work. Save your periodicals, and col.
lect up such books as you can spare
without cost, and send them to Brother
Curry at Winchester, or leave them at
either of the drug stores for me, and
You Will confer a blessing OH these con.
victs and greatly oblige
w. w. Prison.
Tracy City, Tenn.