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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-04
CITY ELECTION.

The result of the election in this
city on Tuesday last was one of the
greatest triumphs for law and order of
any election during many years past.
Every lot holder in the city may safely
calculate that the vote on Tuesday
last gives an increased value to his
real estate; the name of Kenosha
will everywhere be held in higher
estimation. 1t viii invite a class of
residents who do not come to get a
living here on the profits of retailing
whisky by the drink, but who have
employments better calculated to add
to the prosperity of the city.
The large majority vote given Hon.
u. G.. Simmons Tor the Office of Mayor
was highly complimentary to that
gentleman, and deservedly so. Those
who voted for him, it is believed, will
have no occasion to say their conf
dence in him was misplaced. He can
not work miracles, but whatever can
consistently be done for the interests
of the city will be done. 1t is hoped
the aldermen who are associated with
him may be ready to second his recon-
mendations and cooperate with him.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-04
DAKOTA.

Unless something happens to SUBJ
due the stubbOrness of the Democrats
in Congress, Dakota will not be adj
mitted into the family of states at this
session. The Democrats in the Senate
voted solidly against the bill for the
admission of Dakota, without giving
a valid reason for their action. The
excuse that Dakota has not sufficient
population to entitle it to admission
is simply absurd; that Territory has
now larger number of inhabitants
than several of the states which were
admitted into the Union years ago.
That portion of Dakota asking to be
admitted contains population of over
$4,000. 1t cannot be for lack of in
telligence of the people that Dakota is
kept out. The records of the Post
Office Department show that Dakota
has already a greater number of post
Offices than the State of Massachusetts.
The fact cannot be disguised that the
true and only reason why Dakota is
denied admission, is because the voters
Of the Territory are known to be
largely Republican. Will any honor
able Democrat say that is reason en-
ough? In order to Obyiate the ohiec.
ton that the coming of Dakota into
the Union would give additional
strength 10 the Republican candidate
in the next Presidential election, the
friends of the bill consented to fix the
date of admission after the election,
but that does not satisfy. The Demo-
cratic members of Congress want no
mere pronounced Republican states if
it can be avoided.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-04

ough. Here was grand opportunity
for great denomination to formulate
a creed, Invested of all non-essentials
and retaining only the essentials which
are held in common by the evangelical
churches of every name. The diyis-
ions and subdivisions of churches
weaken Professionalism; causes an i'm
mense expenditure of money and effort
to sustain organizations often so small
half dozen of them would hardly
make a respectable sized congregation.
There are villages in all parts of the
country containing less than twenty
| FIVE hundred inhabitants, which have
six or seven Protestant churches,
each struggling to maintain separate
existence, while they are all at unity
| in what they claim to be the great es-
sentials in christian faith.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-04
DEFEAT OF THE WHISKY
BILL.

The bonded whisky bill, which has
consumed the time Of Congress many
weeks, was defeated on Thursday, last
week, by a decisive vote of 1876 to SO.
This signal defeat of a great whisky
speculation will be applauded by good
citizens the country over. The mar
vel is how such an absurd measure
should have been permitted to occupy
the attention of Congress SO long.
The character of the bill has before
been stated in this paper, but will be
re-stated again. It is probably UNDER
stood that when whisky comes from
the distlllery it is gagged by govern
ment official, and the number of gall
Ions determined. 1t cannot be put in
to the market until the government
tax thereon has been paid it is re-
quired to be stored in warehouse,
and bonds given that the tax thereon
shall be paid in given period. The
bill which has just been defeated pro-
vided for the release of the holders of
whisky in bond from the payment of
the tax now falling due. The distillers
had been running their distilleries to
their utmost capacity in the hope of
a profitable demand until 100000
gallons Of bonded whisky had accumu-
lated in the warehouses, the tax on
which now amounts to $63,O0O,00O.
Speculation in bonded whisky had
been running high. Tt was believed
that fortunes would be realized by an
Increased demand of the article.
Merchants, bankers and others invest
ed heavily in bonded whisky, in the ex-
pectation that when the rise in the
whisky market came, the tax could
be easily paid and large profits re-
allied. But the expected great boom
in the price did not come. and the
SPECTATORS were feeling bad; they
have been besieging Congress with a
great lobby force for two months to
remit the tax, urging that vast num-
bers interested in the whisky trade
would be financially ruined, unless
Congress granted relief. 1t is re.
markable event in Congressional legis-
lation that months should have been
spent in considering a measure of re-
lief to whisky spectators. Had any
other interest sought relief from Con-
gress on account Of losses in bad
speculation it would not have been
deemed entitled to consideration.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-04
LIQUOR LICENSES.

1t is understood the vOt e in this city
at the late election was declaration
in favor of high liquor license. The
maximum license fee authorized by
law in this state is low compared with
other western states. Had the people
understood they were voting in favor
of prohibition, it would be perfectly
proper for the licensing board to refuse
the granting of liquor licenses. The
laws of this state do not compel the
board under any circumstances to
grant licenses for selling alcoholic
liquors; it is optional to grant or not
to grant. That question has been
settled by the highest judicial authori.
ty in the state.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-04
cHILDREH OF THE DESERT
LOVE, COURTsHIP AND MARRIAG
AMONG THE ROWING ARABS

LOVE, COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE
AMONG THE ROWING ARABS.
The girls have little to do in selecting
their husbands. The men nearly al.
ways fix that up among themselves
A bold warrior sees a girl whom he
loves in another tribe. He rides I'D at
night, finds where she is sleeping, dash
es up to her tent, snatches herup in his
arms, puts her before him on the horse,
and dashes away like the wind. If he
happens to be caught he is shot.
If he is not, the tribe from which he
has stolen the girl pays him a visit in a
few days. The derYish, priest of the
tribe, joins the hands of the young man
and the girl, and both tribes join in the
merriment. All the bravest men steal
their wives, but there are some who do
not. Their method is little different.
On calm, moonlight highland a
moonlight night in the tropics is far
more beautiful than here-you may see
an Arab sitting before the tent of his
inam0rita, picking a stringed instru-
ment something like our banjo. and
singing song of his own composition.
This is his courtship. They talk in
poetry, and eXtemporization is as easy
with them as it was with the Scalds OF
old. The c0urtship only lasts week
or two. If the girl is obstinate he goes
elsewhere and seeks to win another girl
by his songs and music. Sometimes
the fathers make up the match, but al.
ways the girl is the obedient slave
Her religion, her people, her national
instincts, the traditions of her ances.
tors, all teach her to be the slave of hel
husband. The power of life and death
is in his hands, and she bows before his
opinions with the most implicit obedi
ence. 1t is only when the fair-face6
Frank comes, with his glib talk of wo
mems hi CHER duties and grander sphere
with his winning manner, with his
marked respect, so fattering to wo
mans soul, that she leaves her husband
forsakes the teachings of her childhood
gives up home and friends and risks
death itself to repose in his arms
They are as fine riders as the men, ani
as fearless. They ride straddle, ant
can 60 almost any distance without
fatigue. They are fine shots, and dom
know what personal fear is.
The women of these people are mod
est and far more faithful than the wo
men of civilized life. Indeed, it is the
rarest thing in the world to hear of con
jugal inidelity. The women mature al
II or II, and are old at 50. Wher
young they are very beautiful. They
have soft, dark skin, black, flowing
hair, and soft, languishing eyes. They
are passionate in their loves, but after
marriage all their affection is centere6
in their husbands. If a women il
found to be untrue to her husband she
is instantly killed, together with hel
lover. But this seldom happens. 1t is
only when Europeans visit them they
are seduced. Several of the expedi
ton of which was a member got in
to trouble with native girls and had to
be sent back home to save them from
the fury of outraged husbands. They
are not given to jealousy, and though
one man may be the husband of half a
dozen wives they seem to live together
in perfect unity.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-04
THE NEW GREED.

At the present time the new Congre-
gational creed is made the subject of
much commentary in the religious
press. also receiving considerable atten-
ton in the secular papers. The new
creed has been the topic of discussion
in the regular weekly meetings of the
Congregational clergy of Chicago, and
the ministers of that denomination
from the surrounding country are
drawn to these meetings to listen or
participate in the expression of views.
The history Of this new statement OF
religious doctrines is briefly this.
Some three years ago a committee of
twenty-five of the most distinguished
ministers was appointed at general
association of the churches to formu-
late statement of religious belief in
a more concise form, and in phrase
ology less complex than the old stan
dards of faith. This duty, after much
labor, was performed by the committee
and the result of its labors has very re-
Gently been given to the churches
The adoption of the new creed is not
to be compulsory on any of the
churches; it is only intended to out
line what is believed to be the current
doctrines Of the Congregational
churches in this country. The creed
of the church as expressed in the old
Westminster Confession has long
since ceased to be preached from the
pulpit.
The rough and sharp points in the
old Confession of faith are much
modified in the new creed; the stern
Calyinistic doctrines are put in milder
language. So far as learned, the new
creed receives the approval, with few
exceptions, of the churches of the
Congregational order, and is fayorably
regarded outside of that denomination.
Some Methodists have declared the
new creed has Americanism enough to
satisfy them. The new statement of
doctrines is without doubt more ac-
ceptable than the old, yet if one not
learned in theological matters may ex-
press opinions, it does not go far en-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-04

Attention is called to the Salem
Market Fair, to be held at Salem next
week. ON Wednesday, April o. This is
recent organization by the enter
prisng citizens of the town of Salem,
and one worthy Of the cooperation and
support OF the people Salem station
is a place centrally located in the
county, and convenient of access
Fairs of this kind, whenever properly
managed, have proved of mutual adj
vantage to buyers and sellers of all
kinds of live stock, farming nipple
ments, machinery, etc. 1t is hoped
that not only the people of Salem, but
also of the neighboring towns, will at
tend this first meeting Of the Fair; lei
it have a good start in the beginning
and it will greatly aid its becoming q
fixed institution in the future. Salem
is much better place than cities fol
holding fairs for the interest of farm.
ers, for it is not likely to be infested
with liquor stands and gambling de
vices.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-04
SHEEP HUSBANDRY.
soME FAcrs FOR Wool GRowERs

SOME FACTS FOR Wool GROWERS
To THE EDITOR OF THE UNION.
The belief appears to be quite general
among wool growers that, while it does not
pay to wash sheep having heavy, oily wool,
it will pay to wash light-wooled sheep. The
idea is that light wool, sheared uuwashed
will not shrink as much in proportion as
heavy wool. and will not shrink as much as
the price of unwashed fleece is less than
washed fleece. | want to call the attention
of wool growers to some facts in regard to
this. In washing alight-wooled sheep much
more dirt in proportion can be washed out
than cut of a heavy, oily sheep. The light
wool will be nearly clean, and when secured
by the manufacturer there will be the small
est per cent of shrinkage. We can accept it
as positive fact that in washing sheep the
light wool can be washed very much cleaner
than heavy, oily wool; and in fact the
heavy oily wool will lose but small per cent
of weight in washing ON the sheep before
shearing. In confederation Of this look at
the fact that if the buyer finds among your
washed feeces few very heavy ones he will
throw them out and discount you one.third,
notwithstanding you took extra pains to wash
can be washed out of the compact. oily fleece
while on the sheep. Can any wool grower
| fail to appreciate the disinterested advice Of
eur local wool buyers? " II you have light.
wooded sheep, wash them; if you have fine
wooded sheep, | say don't wash them. =
Why wash the light-wooled sheep? Because
the wool will be so clean that there will be
but small shrinkage in securing by the
manufacturer Why not wash the fine. oily.
wooded sheep? Because you can wash but
| little dirt out. anyway!
You will find another proof of this in the
market quotations.
There is more difference in the prices
between coarse light woods washed and un.
washed than between heavy woods washed
and unWashed. Why? Because the coarse
light wool washes cleaner. The manufactrr.
er thoroughly understands the shrinkage
Of WOOL and he pays according to the per
cent ofshrinksge.
There is just as wide difference between
the shrinkage Of washed woods as there is
between washed and unwaahed Mr.. D. G.
Stewart is considered good authority on
sheep and wool. When he says wash your
light wool sheep he knows what he is about.
You wash out all the dirt, and leave him the
light, clean wool. which he always likes to
buy, and always buys first, and passes by
the heavy wool till later. He says, TOO, it
pays to shear early, and not wait for warm
weather and water to wash, and then let
the sheep carry its fleece into hot weather,
shear it and expose its bare skin TO the hot
sun. He says many hoeks lose months
grewth Of wool and lose in condition besides
in consequence of this treatment.
1t does not seem as though it could be
necessary TO experiment to decide the profit
and loss of washing sheep the facts and
figures demonstrate the loss. 1t costs time
and labor and cash to pay the water priv.
lege, which is an every-yesr tax. It is
positively injurious to the sheep, diseases
afterwards resulting by which the flock is
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-04
MONEY INCREASING IN Value

People past middle life will recall
the fact that when they were young
money seemed to be worth more, that
is, it would buy more of given ar,
ticle than it does to-day. In 1910 800.
600 was regarded as quite a competence
and an income of 81, 900 a year made
the recipient comparatively wealthy
person. Since then money has cheap
ened. More of it is required to pur-
chase the same amount Of goods. In
deed, this cheapening Of money has
been going on since the middle ages.
Two English pence would buy sheep
in the reign of Henry VII. This was
because there was so little gold and
silver in circulation through the then
civilized world but all the discoveries
and improvements in banking have, to
the great advantage of mankind, tend
ed to make money cheaper. The Span
ish conquest of Central and South
America poured vast quantities of
silver into the channels of trade
Then, more recently, gold was dis
covered in large quantities in Califor-
MIA, Australia and elsewhere. Then
the bill of exchange and the insitut-
ion of national banks have added
greatly to the sum total of the currency
of the commercial world, the general
effect of which has added to the pros
perity of nations fcT debtors slave
been relieved by the decrease in the
actual value of money, business of all
kinds is stimulated when prices are
advancing, and then the leisure class
is forced to go to work to keep up their
standard of living. But the recent
particular adoption by the commercial
nations of the gold unit of value is
tending to make money more instead
Of less valuable. All over the civilized
world there has been steady fall in
prices for ten years past. Every lead
ing commodity can be purchased to-
day for less money, that is less gold,
than it could in 1878. The fall in
prices is merely apparent; the real
phenomenon is the increase in theyalue
of gold, which has been made the yard
stick to measure prices at a time when
the yellow metal was getting scarce,
that is to say, the gold mines of the
world are giving out. The coinage
for the last seven years has been
double the amount actually produced
by the mines. Cotton and wooden
goods in the country are cheaper than
they have been known in our history,
and every body in trade is beginning
to realize that steady contraction in
prices is going on. People should be
careful how they go into debt, for as
money grows dearer, that is, more
valuable, the debt practically becomes
heavier Demorest's Monthly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-04
MACHINE WORK AND HAND
LABOR.

The idea which some people have
entertained that machinery is antago-
nistic to hand labor is entirely falla-
cious. The condition of the laboring
classes, instead of being rendered
worse by the introduction of machin-
cry, has been benefited by each new
discovery and improvement. The sub
stitution of machinery for hand labor
has been going on until almost every
branch of human industry has been
revolutionized. The steam engine
does the work of an army of men.
The improved printing press prints
more copies Of the newspapers in an
hour than the old hand press could
print in week. One modern wooden
mill will turn out more clothing in
day than thirty wooden mills in use
little over a half century ago in the
same time. The sewing machine does
the work of twenty women and does
it better. In the business of agricul-
ture the introduction of labor-saying
machinery has wrought wonderful
changes. Steam power ploughs the
ground, machinery sows the seed and
reaps the grain. The grain crops,
which were once cut with the sickle at
the rate of half an acre per man day,
are now cut by the reaper at the rate
of ten to twenty acres per day, besides
binding into bundles. The moving
machine abridges hand labor to a like
extent in the hay field. The steam
threshing machine performs as much
work in a day as fifty men with the
old primitive fail.
The question may be asked if labor
saving machinery continues to be i'm.
proved in coming years as in the past,
what will become of the hundreds of
thousands of people who still find en-
Payments which machinery has not
yet monopolized? That question was
asked years ago, and still the demand
for hand labor has not diminished,
while machinery has every year been
saperseding hand labor. New avenues
for laboring men and women have been
opening, keeping pace with the en-
croachments of machinery. 1t is an
interesting fact that every kind OF la
Dor, skilled and unskilled, commands
better prices to-day than before the
now vast array Of machinery came in
to use. The sewing woman gets more
for days work than her mother did
before the invention of the sewing
machine, and enables her to clothe her
self and children more genteelly and
comfortably. The farm hand and the
mechanic receive larger wages to-day
than half century ago. A dollar
will buy more family necessaries and
conveniences than five dollars in the
early days of our country; ten dollars
will go further in clothing family
decently than thirty dollars within the
memory Of persons now living. The
prejudices of the lower orders of Ia
borers against machinery have about
passed away. They are learning that
labor-saving machine is their
friend and not their enemy. They
should hail every new invention in
agricultural and mechanical industries
as helps in the bettering of their con-
dition.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-04

unless they can pass an examination in
music. There are now some respect
able Juvenile choirs in Kenosha, but
probably only few of them have made
vocal music study. 1t is seldom any
become good singers unless they have
given attention to the rudiments Of
music. 1t is understood the price of
instruction is only ten cents per lesson
for each pupil. Mr.. Dye brings testi-
monials of about fly prominent teach
ers and well-knoWn citizens of Chicago,
who speak highly of his services in
that city.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-04

Whether Mr.. Blaine is nominated fol
the Presidency or not, the present year
will be very profitable To him from the
money standpoint. He gets ROYALTY
of so cents per copy on his new book,
and, as sale of 100000 volumes has
already been ordered, this insures the
writer $4,000 for his years work.
The publisher expects to sell at least
100000 copies of the book. If they
should succeed in this, Mr.. Blaine's
nimble pen will have earned for him
this last year past nearly $3.50, COO.
This is probably as satisfactory years
result as any of the statesmen in ac-
tive public life could have accomplish
ed. Henry Clay once said that he
would rather be right than be Presi-
dent" and Mr.. Blaine no doubt be-
lieves that if man cannot be Presi-
dent he had better make fortune out
of book.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-04

About $4,000 have been subscribed
in Racine for the building of Young
Mems Christian Association. AS soon
as $4,000 more are subscribed the work
of building will commence. The Adco'
cate says: 1.-THE Association is prosper
ing this year as never before. A
greater interest is being taken by bust
ness men, who appreciate the benefit
derived from the Association in the
character of their employees
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-04

Prof. Nathan Dye, known to all the
early inhabitants of this place as a
teacher of vocal music, was in this city
last week. He left this city to reside
in Chicago many years ago. During
his residence here he was engaged
in teaching juvenile classes in the ru-
dimeuts Of music. He has followed
the same occupation in Chicago with
much success since his residence there.
Mr.. Dye proposes teaching class of
boys and girls in this city three days in
q week after public school hours.
Vocal music, by order of the Board of
Education, is made part Of school ex-
ercise in Chicago. also in other cities.
Teachers are not granted a certificate
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-04

The following is Artemus Wards
description of why he courted Betsey
Jane: There were many affectin'
ties which made me banker after
Betsey Jane. Her fathers farm jined
ourn; their cows and ourn squenched
their thirst at the same spring; our
mares both had stars in their forreds;
the measels broke out In both families
at nearly the same time; our parents
(Betsey James and mine, slept regu--
larry every Sunday in the same meet
in honse and the neighbors used to OBJ
sarye, How thick the Wards and Pea