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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-19
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

The profit derived from farming
or ssOek-raising does not depend upon
how pauch is produced, but upon its
cost.
ink stains may be removed from
wood by washing with a solution of
chloride of lime in vinegar. Cleveland
Leader
The object Of pl6wing is not mere
II to invert the soil but to pi1Iverize it,
Old ground is like mortar when plowed
wet, and will.not break up and become
-Wafies: Three eggs beat well to-
gether. then add little milk, and then
beat in fiour-half flour and half grits
that has been boiled and cold; Just
before baking add a teaspoonfuI of soda.
Boston Bad gel.
mellow; hence it might as well be
planted without blowing at all: Sward
ground will be partially pulverized By
The elements evolved by the decomposi-
ton of the grass roots in the SOIL
Prairie Farmer.
Fried tomatoes Take ripe toma-
toes. cut them in halves and fry them
on both sides in hot lard and butter.
Place them upon hot dish and serve.
This dish makes an excellent breakfast
relish. Caterer.
Unlike most other fruits, autumn
and winter pears should be gathered
from the tree before they are fully ripe
and kept in the house until they are
soft and mellow. They must however,
be kept warm as cold DESTROYS all their
best qualities and renders them hard
and tough: Iatdioa5apot6s Journal.
Care is a good economist in q
wardrobe; it will save nine stitches by
putting in the one that is needed, and
by folding, and brushing, and putting
away, will make clothes last and look
respectable twice as long as they other
wise would. A careful person will find
it worth while 20 change the clothing
according to the present employment.
Few farmers value the common
soap water as they should; or really APP
preciate that it TO ms one of the most
valuable applications to all garden
crops. Applied to vegetables-e spec-
tally celery-it materially aids in their
growth, besides making miserable the
mulJlGlue Vi WORMS anu DugS tnaG 90
so much damage. In addition to this
it is a good fertilizer. = Utica Herald.
Boiled custard: To every quart of
milk, eight eggs-leaving ou the whites
of four. Sweeten the milk to your taste.
Beat the eggs well before mixing with
the milk; then put onsthe fire and le5
come to q boil stirring it all the time;
then take it off and strain and flavor;
beat the whites OF four eggs to stiff
froth. and when the custard is ready to.
serve float them on top.-The House
hold.
Rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, peas,
beans. Indian corn, wheat, bran, shorts
or middlings, oil meal these are all
good food, says the National Lice
Stock Journal. for fattening sheep. But
it is a good plan to give a variety. The
writer says the best ration he ever
knew was composed OF equal parts, by
weight, of corn, oats, peas and millet,
and to fifteen bushels OF the mixture
was added one bushel of faxseed, and
all ground together. Two pounds OF
this with hay gave excellent results.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-19
Drunkenness Among Women in London.

During two months in London think
| have seen more drunken women than
drunken men in the streets. Statistics
OF this kind are apt to be misleading, OF
course. happened to see more public
drunkenness in Paris than in London,
and yet in hard drinking Landon no
doubt takes a long lead. But the
drunken women and the drinking
women that are among the sights OF the
poorer quarters in London are not
pleasing to the eye of, the American
who is not accustomed to see women on
either side of the bar. Here they are
to be found on both sides. Bar-maids
serve t g liquor in every 'fpublic-house
or gin palace" and in every one We
pass you can see women drinking.
Sometimes there may be only few,
and sometimes they form large share
of the. crowd. You will often see re-
specially dressed women, apparently
well-to-do, walking openly into these
places and evidently thinking nothing
of it. They may be going in merely for
a glass of beer, but their less prosper
Gus sisters are more likely to be taking
gin. Walking through Drury Lane or
some other squalid street at midnight
of Saturday night you see a spectacle
Of wretchedness and vice that is fairly
dishcartening. The street swarms with
dirty, half-naked children and gossip
ing, gtipsy women, some of whom not
even gray hairs viii keep from cursing,
quarreling and fighting. L01dos Coi.
n y. Tribune. gst r.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-19
Filters.

Agood filter has come to be anecessity
at least in our cities and large towns,
and wherever the drinking water il
drawn from rivers, lakes, ponds, etc.
Into these every sort of imphlrity may
find free entrance from sewers, the
drainage of farms, dead fish and other
etables. Boiling the water may kill
the microscopic parasites (hacteria)
that cause infectious diseases, but it
does not free it from its visible. disgust
ing matter.
"A good filter accOmplishestwo things.
it strains out the grosser Impurities, and
it also destloys-so many eminent
chemists now beleye-much of the
finer impurity by oxydizing itr-really
burning it up.
This fact, that filters actually destroy
impurity, is among the late discoveries
of science. 1t was found, when the
Thames received all the sewage of Lon
don and the other towns on its banks,
that the flter-beds contained but little
impurity compared with the great
quantity of filth they must have inter
cepted.
The chemists were at first puzzled,
but they were at length satisfied that
the great bulk of it was burnt by the
oxygen of the air, it being known that
a film of air clings tenaciously to all
surfaces, and hence to every particle of
sand OF which the filter consisted.
Hence a filter is strainer and a great
deal more.
The power of the filtering material,
charcoal or pure white and neither
sponge nor any other substance capable
Of decay should be used--is lost within
from three to six months, and hence it
should be renewed as often.
But much of the impurity is retained
at the top of the strainer, and hence.
unless it is frequently removed. it
works down into the filtering substance
and all the water must work its way
through mass of filth.
A filter whose straining.pot eau b
turned bottom upwards without taking
it from the faucet is the only safe one.
OF course, when turned the impurities
are at the bottom, and are washed of
,bg .he gawIRg water = Ysse:A'z (ansgasst
sg
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-19
TEMPERANCE Items.

No LIQUOR has been sold for the LAST
six years in one of the wealthiest and
most prosperoas counties of Texas, and
consequently the jail is empty.
The man who keeps himself full of
whisky is not likely to be attacked
with contagious disease. The whisky
fetches him before the contagion gets =
chance at his vitals. E15hange.
OxE glass of beer or one cigar daily
costs the consumer for the year S18.25;
two glasses of beer or two cigars daily.
$3.50; three glasses of beer or three
cigars daily, S54.75. Abstinence is
economy. fa
The cholera scare and the attendant
admonitions to Temperance are having
effect in Paris. A diminution of fifty
per cent. in the arrests for drunkenness
on a recent National holiday is given in
proof; also the fact that on the 18th of
July the arrests were reduced to q
smaller number than has been known
since the police regulations concerning
drunkenness have been in force tf
THE liquor men are not slow to see
and use all National means for building
up their business. 1t is said that at this
very time they are laying plans to Sc
cure an actfof Congress to be capped
by Supreme Court decision, which
will sweep away all State and local
constitutional and statutory prohibition
aga INST the liquor traffic, and viii give
to the liquor crime. the full license of
the National Constitution. onion Sig
me-. sz
Miss WESTON, an English missionary
among the sailors. in her last report,
speaks OF a large amount of labor
among the British "blue-jackets, and
of most encouraging results. The Tenn
perance work in the navy, she says, has
taken long step forward. She reports
about 2,00J abstainers. among the sail
ors, some belonging to the "Royal
Naval temperance Society,"" and to
other societies, and some to no society
at all. THE presence of such large
body OF abstainers in che service" she
adds. '.has its good In m0deratipg non.
ahsfalaeFs aga helping then. e sng
l' 9I e sssp lFaFe ssessssa assa - es5
81 % aaisool inc aosaisea eeii
ssafssa.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-19
Putting Stubblc Land to Use.

1t is getting to be the practice of soma
farmers to SOW their stubble fields, after
the crop is removed, with some strong.
growing plant for protecting and other.
wise benefting the land; and the prac..
tice, where properly carried out, never
fails Of success. Besides loOseniug up
the ground and keeping it shaded dur
ing the hot dry weather which usually
follows, and which is hurtful to land
exposed, it is check upon weeds and
furnishes the soil with humus and plant
food. 1t is, in fact, form of green
manuring that does not interfere with
regular cropping. Not only is no crop
lost but the land is improved; it is
richer and more mellow, with less
chance for weeds if the seed sown is
dean, the improvement considerably
surprising the expense of the outlay;
less manure needs now TO be used and
less work employed on the land.
Where the soil is not too hard the
harrow, weighted, will be sufficient to
fit the ground for sowing. A rain, pene-
trating several inches, will greatly favor
this. Where the ground is too hard for
the harrow, the cultivator will do the
work, which, however, should be fin
ished by the harrow 1t is only where
the land is quite hard or overrun with
weeds that the pfow is to be used. The
sooner this work can be done after the
land is cleared of its crop the better, az
it gives a longer time for growth.
Among the plants best adapted for
this purpose are buckwheat and the
pea, both fast-growing and rich in fer
tilizing material. They soon occupy
the ground, and if sown after wheat or
rye, which is harvested earliest, will
make full growth that may be turned
down either in the fall or spring. The
sowing of either of these crops has
proved to be of great benefit, both in
mellowing and enriching the ground.
Where a good growth has been made,
no other manuring in general is neces-
5ary. Peas are best put in where the
land has been worked by the cultivator,
the lines made by the implement allow
ing of deeper covering which this plant
requires for its best development. Fol-
low the sowing with the smoothing
harrow, which covers it well. The re-
verse is the case with buckwheat, which
will do equally well, if not better,
when lightly covered.
For crops harvested later in the sea-
son, rye is the grain to DO sown, but
continues its growth till winter to the
disadvantage of the weeds. If an early
spring crop is to follow, the rye should
be turned down in the fall; for later
crop, like corn, it may be allowed to
grow in the spring, when heavy crop
may be plowed under and with great
benefit to the land, and rye is plant
rich in fertilizing matter. The growth
of these plants may be materially in
creased by the use of commercial fertil-
izers where required by the land, which
experiment will determine, and their
benefit besides will extend to the crop
that fellows. There is but little labor
or time required in applying them.-N.
Y. San.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-19
HOW A hnEn m.6 STOPPED
LEAK.
..UncIe Timothy!''

s'UncIe Timothy!"
Uncle Timothy looked up from the
shoe whose sole he was vigorously ham
mering.
.'Why, bless you, John, eft I'm not
glad to see YOU, man alive!" exclaimed
Uncle Timothy, jumping up so suddenly
shoe with it, his hammer went. another,
while his spectacleS fell into the water
pail close By.
There stood Uncle Timothy, grasping
the arm of his favorlte nephew, John,
as if he were a pump-handle, and the
day being hot, and Uncle Timothy
being dry. the pump-handle was
worked with emphasis. sF
''Set down, John, and tell us how the
folks are" said Uncle Timothy. .''You
have come to makeme a visit, and have
time enough to tell me all l want to
know Esd 8se SID as h
john was telling about ''the folks.
when Uncle Timothy said: @
"What's that? Thunder, / do believe,
roilin' down old Bear Mountain! We
shall catch rain now. There it is
comm down the mountain"
Come it did, furiously. Soon the
water began to drip down from the
ceiling. sa istagsA adi
''Uncle Timothy, your roof is leak
ing" ;. -. , ;. -,
inst mt this ,,s,ail under that ere"
'.Why don't Sou have the roof
mended?'f owls ~. s* H"
"Well. John, carpenter, you know,
do charge so! La! John, theS d. make
a forenoon's work of it stopAn up
that ere hole, and don't seem to have
the extra chink. Fact is, .roSsn, it costs
suthin' to live in this world, and It
keeps Teller poundin' all the TINS.
Here Uncle Timothy took up bis
work and began to ring out d series o.
responses TO the Thunder rolling at
nine-pins overhead. In the course OF
visit John noticed that every forenoon
Uncle Timothy would leave his shop,
step across the yard to his house, bring
out an immense yellow mug, and pass
ing to saloon in the neighborhood,
bring home mug full of beer.
"Ah!'' thought John, 'Isee how it is
that the roof is not mended. ss-i
The next day surly, growing wind
brought rain that began to pour early
in the morning. .,.d ..s. -,,4e rit
''Uncle Timothy" said John, after
breakfast, could / borrow that mug |
see in the closetP" 4.sy sa s7..l
Oh! sartin, sartin."
Uncle Timothy was not going to his
shop very early that day, and John
knew it, business at another part of
the town calling him away When he
returned it was about eleven o'clock,
and his beer-gnawing visited him.
Where is my mugH said Unale
Timothy, going to the closet. sob!
John has it. Well, guess Flllsleta my
beer go this forenoon" ..
The rain was still dripping when he
passed from his house to the shop.
John was standing in the door,
"a wet day, nephew said Uncle
Timothy, land there is not much
hope given by the clouds. -
Here he looked up, and there on the
shop-roof, covering the leak, he saw his
old yellow beer-mug! For minute
Unsle Timothy gazed in silence. Then
| he broke out: t.t
Thank We, John; I'll take the
hint" H-f sfs
1t was the last day Uncle Timothy
owned beer-mug. 1t was the last day
that roof leaked, for it was soon
rended with the beer-monev he saved.
| ReU. EdUdrd a. Rand, In Watch
| NAV.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-19
Why Women Write.

A witty Frenchman has observed that
"When q woman writes q book there is
a book the more and woman the less
in the sum total of the worldn =
George Sand proudly boasts that the
fear of losing any of her womanly
charms by the addition of gray hair
to her raven locks, or the blowing of
single wrinkle on her brow, never de-
TERED her from hours of midnight study
or days of unintermittent intellectual
production. The opinion of the world
on the subject Of the entrance of the
weaker sex into literary pursuits has
curiously fuctuated from time to time.
We know the position cultured women
occupied and the influence they pos
sessed during the age of the greatest
splendor in Greece, and the object of
Setestation they subsequently became
when the asceticism of early Christianity
swept over the world. In the fifteenth
century we have many instances of
learned ladies, Vittoria' Colonna is an
illustrious example of erudition and vir-
tue; Alessandra Scala and Cassandra
Fedele carried on correspondence in
Latin with Politian; Dometta Triv-
ulzia delivered long orations be-
fore thronged assemblies; while
Isotta, of Verona, lectured at the
University of Bologna on the degree
of culpability of Adam and Eve, and we
read that when she stood forward to de-
fend the cause of her sex the verdict of
the assembly was invariably given in
favor of Eve We wonder, were Isotta
to appear at Oxford nowadays, whether
the undergraduates would be equally
courteous. This respect for feminine
culture passed away with the splendor
of the fifteenth century. The corrupt
age of Louis XIV. undermined all
chivalrous feeling men entertained for
women, and they relapsed into an in
ferior position from which they have
not yet emerged. The views of English
men have, however, become modified
since DIR. Day, a hundred years ago, ex-
pressed his horror of female authorship,
and was shocked at Maria Edgeworth's
having been permitted even to translate
Nine. de Genlis's adele ct Theodore
addressing congratulations letter to her
father when the publication was pre-
vented, or since Southey wrote to Char
lOtte Bronte Literature cannot be the
business of woman's life. and it ought
not to be. y Il trust | shall never more
feel ambitious to see my name in print
it the wish should rise I'll look at
Southey's letter and suppress - she
answers naiyely. Modified, also, are
our views since Mary Lamb declared
writing to be most painful occupa-
tion," and advised women to '.beeuile
their time with knitting, knotting, net
ting, carpet work and the like ingenious
pursuits. '-NatiopaI ReUieU.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-19
A Talk to Bows.

1 saw sad boy this morning.
don't like sad boys. They generally
die young. This hoy had red eyes. lie
looked like a little old fellow. He
seemed to think itwas smart to have
red eyes for he was continually irving
to make them redder. He was smok-
ing a cigarette; this is what made him
look so old, and this was the way he
was trying to make himself have red
eyes and look like an old man. He
went down the street and into saloon.
He stepped up to the bar like an old
topper aud simply said. Zone beer. "
He drank it all at one breath, just like
an old drunkard, and said. I'm bra1ed
up" .@ sas.ss
ThIpks ! 10 mygeif, "Yeg, YOU eg9
hraegd W Ter becoming 40 eseeilFps
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-19
The Legend Of Star Island.

During the troublesome tim es before
and subsequent to the revolution the
Isles of Shoals, off the coast of New
Hampshire, were the resort and hiding
places of the freebooters who haunted
the northern coast, and these silent
rocks, if they could speak, would tell
many tale of bloody cruelty and
gloomy wrong. The pirates used to
come here to divide and hide their booty,
and melt up the silverplate they cap
tured from the colonists along the coast.
For long time it was supposed that
bushels of doubloons were buried in the
gaping crevices of the rocks, or the
little caves that have been eaten out of the
lodges by the restless tide; but the place
was thoroughly searched by several
generations of fishermen, and nothing
more valuable than rusty cutlass or
bust blunderbus was ever found.
The grandames tell how Captain Kydd
came here often las he sailed as he
sailed" and there are legends Of otherp i-
rates quite as fierce and free as he. The
Star Island used to be haunted by q
beautiful specter with long white robes
and golden tresses reaching to her heels,
who used to come out of some undiscov-
cred cavern at dawn and shadowing her
eyes with hand that was as white and
beautiful as a lily's bosom, gaze off
upon the sea in hopeless expectancy
OF the return of a clipper that sailed
away and never came back again.
The story goes that bloody hearted
old pirate. being pursued by cruiser,
I, u
LETT her while he went out to battle,
telling her that by dawn he would be
back again, but be came not. not even
till now She died of starvation, but
her faithful spirit still comes to the sum-
NIT of the island as the sun rises each
morning, to meet the corsair, who never
returned.
There are eight of the islands, the
smallest being as large, or rather as
small, as q city building lot, and the
largest containing only couple OF hum
dred acres nothing but bare, hfeIess
rocks, carved by the incessant waves
into strange grotesqueness, and covered
by no vegetation except low clinging
vines and the New England blueberry.
Four of the islands are inhabited. the
largest, the Appledore. bears a hotel
and few cottages. Star Island has
another hotel and small settlement
of fishermen. q third has a few
tishermen's huts, and the fourth has q
bold, white lighthouse springing out OF
its crest. They were discovered by
Captain John Smith, the friend of Poca-
hontas, who in 1914 explored the New
England coast in an open boat, and
spent some time here making repairs
and resting.
On Start sland stands the only monu
ment erected in America to Captain John
Smith it is a rude asfair-a prismatic-
shaped shaft of marble, upon a pedestal
of sandstone, inscribed at length with
the record of his valorous deeds, and
some cyclopedias say he is buried here,
but that is mistake. Detroit Free
Press.
-H--~
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Nv TIE CORNFTELD.

They 60 in tAe April morning,
The father and son. afieid,
Aud, blowing the green9ward under,
Z Prepare for the harvests yield.
The father is thoughtful sober.
The son is blithe and gay.
I And thus the hours liy swiftly
On THIS gladstone, hopeful day.
z They go again IN the May-time
And tickle the earth with hoe":
They drop the tiny kernels
Of corn in the ground below.
3he father tells his stories
4 OF the primitive lden time.
Aud the son. maybaps, is dreaming
( Of odors OF roses and thyme.
Anon corn-blades are springing
EOut from the earth dark mold:
Unto the air and sunshine
Their leaves they now unfold.
SIhe slender bla les grow stronger
3 Under the dew and sun,
and the hue grows clearer, deeper.
OF the green stalks every one
There's a rustic of leaves IN the cornfeld,
AS the August breeze goes by,
! Md the stalks are the children playing,
And they look TO the bending sky;
They ask whence come the voices
Of the winds in their mild, sweet mood,
And wonderful it's from Heaven,
If it is the whisper of God.
The field becomes forest
OF stalks, and tassels, and grain,
When skies are grown more sober
and falls September rain;
Then the reapers with their siclIles
8rncr the ripened ears,
Symbols OF life ripe harvest
For the graDary of the years.
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Temperance Reading.
"YoU cAN,P CONE IN SIR"

"YOU CAN'T COME IN, SIR"
If you would not be drunkard
You must not dlink drop:
For If you never should begin,
You'll never have to stop.
The taste of drink, good people say,
Is hard in driving out:
Then, friends, in letting in that taste,
Why, what are you about?
Out of your house to keep a thief
You shut your door and lock it,
And hang the key upon a nail.
Or put it in your pocket.
So. lest King Rum within you should
HIS borrid rule begin. sir,
Inst shut ySsr bps and lock them tight,
And saw: " Yoti can't come in, sir!p
eTlnr,d &c RCcO3r5
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-19

The French Governmentpay asum
of forty dollars for every wolf which has
attacked human being, and nine were
killed last year in three of the central
departments of France. A reward of
thirty dollars is given for every she wolf
with young, and thirty-two of them were
killed last year. A sum of twenty dol
lars is given for every other wolf killed,
and seven hundred and seventy-four
were killed, this being exclusive Of four
hundred and ninety-three cubs, for each
of which reward of eight dollars is
given. Altogether one thousand three
hundred and eight head were DESTROYED
last year at a cost to the Government of
twenty thousand seven hundred and
fifty dollars in fees alone. The greatest
number Of wolves were killed in the
Northern and Eastern Departments,
bordering upon Belgium and Germany.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-19

Gar wheels are row made of paper.
These are what the boarding house,
keeper thinks Of whan she says Iep
0onk : piia fsl.'asf i liist ike pager. i.
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~.Thers Is not 3 menea1 without
sassa dusg, ~ l2sse4G''