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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-31
HOt-Beds.

How to build fire heated hot beds for
profit should be regulated by the nature
of the crop to be grown in them,
whether lettuce, radishes, spinach, early
carrots and the like, or decorative
plants, as geraniums, roses and bedding
plants; also on their nature brick or
woodland the extent desired by their
owner. The kind of heating apparatus
hot water pipes or smoke fiue-must
also be considered. We prefer hot
water.
Let the situation be sunny one,
open to the south, and sheltered from
the north, northeast and northwest; if
there is no natural shelter, hedge or
board fence would be of great benefit;
it would promote the growth of the
plants, save fire-heat and some time in
covering up. For early vegetables,
beds covered by three or six feet sashes
are as good as any; one man can handle
these sashes, whereas were they larger
two men would be needed
Board or plank pits three to three
and half feet deep at the back and
two and one-half to three feet at the
front and sunk under the ground level
about two feet would be quite servicea-
BILE. Let this frame be floored nine
inches under the surface level. In the
chamber under the floor, which is lit
tie over foot deep, two three-inch hot
water pipes should be placed; these
will give what bottom heat would be
required. If the bottom of the pipe
| chamber were ffoored with old boards,
good deal of heat would be econo-
mixed. Then fill the pit to the ground
level (nine inches deep with soil, and
plant your crop.
Top heat may be given by row of
one inch hot water pipes running along
inside, at TOP and bottom of the frame.
Straw mats and shutters should also be
used as an outer covering in the case of
cold nights, as only mild heat should
ever be kept in the pipes.
OF such a bed as this you may have
as many rows as you please, letting
them run parallel with each other
and at intervals of two or more
feet. A series of small greenhouses,
heated from above ground, may, after
all, be the most desirable, as they GER
tainly are in the case of pot plants
N. x. Herald
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-31
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

Turnips, parsnips and satisfy are
not injured by frosts.
"A gardener recommends sowing
onion seeds in the fall. Over the beds
place some mulch for protection. Early
onions may be thus secured.
"A little soda as well as salt is rec
commended to boil with cabbage, and
affects the flavor agreeably. For one
head OF cabbage take a pinch OF soda
equal in bulk to good-sized pea.
DO you know that it is no easy
matter to find perfect tomato? It
must not only be Seamless but firm,
smooth, without a crack or blemish,
and ripened evenly in every part. Gin
cinnati Times.
Lovely tides are made of white
muslin; they are hemmed, and in the
center is worked in silk a suitable pict-
ure in outline stitch. If the silk is used
which is intended for this kind of en-
broidery, it Will not fade or ''rdn''
when washed, and the tides are thus
rendered serViceable.
-Blackberries and raspberries start
vel CdI ~ 1oI1 pLdnCIuS IL pf6loEdole.
To propagate from root cuttings, cut
the roots into pieces two or three inches
long, and place In g box with alternate
layers of roots and soil. Keep the box
in the cellar, or other dry place out of
reach of frost. --Erchdnge.
Gingerbread may be varied and
wonderfully improved by the addition
of a cup of grated cocoanut; this
quantity is sufficient for a loaf OF
medium size. Almonds are also used
in ginger cake, but unless you add
fayoring of bitter almonds there will
not be q distinctive almond flavor. IN.
Y Post.
e. S. Rogers, who originated SO
many valuable hybrid grapes, said: lin
crossing grapes, all the blossom-b buds
on the cluster were removed except
those to be operated on, and when these
were nearly ready to open the caps
were removed before the anthers burst,
and the stigmas touched with the for
sign pollen. - Troy Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-31
Barn-Cellar and Swamp-Muck.

A barn-cellar has many valuable uses.
Not the least is that the rats and other
vermin have no harbors as they have
under ground floors. Then the manure
is handled easier, it is all scraped out
of the cutters through the trap doors
and goes down into the cellar upon a
good bed of dry swamp-muck, which
absorbs and deodoriZes it, and keeps
the stable above sweet and clean. The
manure is saved from Washing by rains
and its full value preserved. The best
use is thus made of the manure, and its
bulk and value is doubled if one will
only provide plenty of dry swamp
muck; or forest leaves, ii he has these,
and not the other, to receive the urine
and to mix with the solid matter. A
very bad use of q manure-cellar is to
turn the swine into it under the ex cuse
that they will work up the manure. To
me nothing else is so horrible as to see
pigs wallowing in such place and
picking food out of the dreadful mess.
No wonder pork SO made should have a
bad repute.
Swamp-muck is of exceedingly great
value. The fertilizer manufacturer has
no monopoly OF the use OF figures, and
if we use them as he does, a farmer
can just as easily and truthfully figure
out good bed OF peat to be worth
$4,000 an acre. A cubic yard of it. air.
dried, will weigh 1000 pounds. If OF
ordinary good quality. it will contain 1
per cent. of nitrogen, which the fertil-
izer man values at, let US say, the very
moderate estimate for him-15 cents
the pound. This makes the 900 pounds
of muck worth S1.50. In the acre Of
bog three feet deep there are 1910
cubic yards. This figures up to So, 260
for the acre. What fault can the fertil-
izer man, or chemist, who analyses
leather scrap, dried flesh and wool
waste for its nitrogen, and sells it for
Is to 20 cents a pound, find with these
figures. Dig it; pile it on the bank; let
it drain and dry, and put it everywhere
that it may soak up every drop of val
aatle liquid about. the stables and yards
n. I. lsibssae,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-31
Temperance Items.

1.-THE secret of his downfall is
whisky" says the New York CORE
spondent of the Boston HeraJd, speak
ing of journalist who has degenerated
into tramp. Catching his breath he
exclairns: "Come to think of it the Sc
cret of almost everybody's downfall is
whisky"
THIRTY-Two deadly poisons are used
in the manufacture of wine. Of all
poisonous liquors in the world Bourbon
whisky is the deadliest. Strychnine is
only one of the poisons in it. A certain
oil is used in its manufacture. eight
drops of which viii kill cat in eight
minutes and dog in nine minutes.
Wholesale dealers dare not drink the
stuff they sell.-W c. Z. U. National
Bulletin.
Rev. DR.. PHILLIPS Brooks said re-
Gently at a great Temperance meeting:
mo word of mine shall ever be lifted
up against fanaticism of any kind in the
Temperance cause. If there is any
cause that justifes what appears to be
fanaticism it is this cause. There is
nothing more disgusting and disheart-
ening than to hear ease-loVing men,
living selfish, luxurious lives. railing
against Temperance fanatic:sm. !"
ssSwEET cider will never hurt me or
any of my boys" said Christian man.
the father of seven sons, when warned
of the folly of having cider made on his
farm and drank in his family. One by
one the boys as they went out into the
world were easily led into the habit of
taking strong drinks, to crafty the ap-
petite the cider had created. Every
one died drunkard. When the young
est of the family, and the last remaining
one, crawled home to his mother to
die, he said piteously: eff it had not
been for fathers cider-press we should
never have learned to drink. ~ etQ's-
Si01lqL
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-31

he retired early to rest. but about midnight
was aroused by the sound of great commo-,
ton beneath his window, and the loud ring-l
ing of his door-bell. He fastened down.
saw crowd of men, bearing on a shutter the
body OF his eldest son, which was covered
with blood.
There's been row down at the saloon"
SAID some one. "Arthur's pretty badly cut
up"
"ArthurI Ny son." cried Lambert in a
tone of horror; for he had known nothing of
Arthur's prediction for liquor, and his vie
its to Buffers parl0r.
"Oh, il can not be.
Arthur died the following day, and the
wretched father went almost mad with grief
and despair. But he did not blame himself
or the sasoon for the accident He spent all
his rage upon the man who had assaulted his
son, and used every endeavo,> to have him
properly punished. Only when lac had been
committed to prison for term of years was
the fathers desire for revenge appeased.
But the saloon went on, and greater blow
was to fall upon its proprietor. One morning
VeStigation of her absence the parents dis
covered that she had eloped the previous
night with e young man whose disSipated
course had caused Mr. Lambert to forbid him
the house. This blow almost broke the faith
er S heart In a few weeks he became like an
old man, and his friends feared for his rea
son SO deeply did he brood over his sorrows.
1t soon became apparent that Joe, the only
remaining son, was drinking TO excess. He
was employed as book-keeper in the paper
mill; but neglected his duties TO such an ex-
tent that he was finally discharged in the
most peremptory manner, by the superin-
tendent. Angered at the abrupt dismissal
and the singing rebuke which accompanied
it, Joe lost all control over himself and
drawing pistol, shot the Superintendent
through the heart. HIS was arrested, tried
and sentenced to be hung. His wretched
father spent almost every dollar he possessed
in trying to save him; but i. availed nothing.
Yet the shame of seeing his son on the gal-
lows was spared him, for Joe died in prison
only few DAYS before the one appointed for
his execution.
The day after his death, Mr.. Lambert went
in person to the saloon, and closed it. Butler
Immediately got out a license in his own
name and opened another near the paper
mill, but the liquors with which he filled his
bar did not come from Iamberts. With his
own hands Lambert emptied every bottle
into a sink-hole back of the saloon and sold
the saloon itself for a fiour-and-feed store.
He was convinced at last that Heckles had
been right in assuring him that Whatso-
ever man soweth, that shall he also reap
Florence B. HdttOl0e3. IN Chicago Standard.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-31
Celery in Winter.

Many people grow celery for family
use, who find it very difficult to keep it
for winer, the chief difficulty being to
prevent its rusting. Now, if kept out
of doors, there is not much trouble, but
laid by, in almost any form in the root
cellar, celery will rarely last very long
in good condition. Usually, amateurs
make the mistake of having it all
earthed up together at once; whereas,
to keep well late in winter, the earth
ing up must be deferred as late as pos
sibe, and only enough to keep the
stalks from spreading and getting out
of shape. For market purposes, the
earliest mere is usually dug in July, and
it is generally somewhat smaller and
inferior in other respects to what may
be called the main crop, which comes in
late in September, and on through the
months of October and November. after
which the winter crop may be said to
begin.
1u this neighborhood, where large
quantity is grown, it is not safe to have
much OF it unprepared in winter quar-
tiers later than the middle of November.
The opposite practice will sometimes
cost the grower great loss by single
frost. 1t is not because celery fails to
stand several degrees of cold, say ten or
fifteen but it is unsafe to risk much
more than this. This is particularly
true of that in the best condition for
late keeping, having the green much
exposed.
The place selected for keeping Gel
ery must be free from standing water.
If not certain as to this for depth
equal to the habits of the celery,
it is necessary to raise the plants above
surrounding level. Choose a dry day,
take up al the celery, with what roots
and soil will cling. Make trench the
depth the celery is high, and wide
enough to form a bed that will hold
say dozen stalks. Set them in this
trench as nearly perpendicular as pos
sible, and as close together as they will
stand; pack soil just enough to these
to keep the next row apart, which pro-
coed to place in the same way as the
first, and so on until all are in position
When completed, one has bank Of
celery and earth, with the tops of
celery lust peeping out. Here it may
remain until signs of very sharp frost
appear, when some litter must be placed
over every part of the bank, sufficient
to keep the frost from penetrating
more than few inches into the soil.
Yet there must not be so heavy a cover
ing as to cause any danger of heating.
Choose warm spells to get as many
stalks as are likely to be wanted Tor a
week S use, and you may have celery
the greatest part of the winter
For small family beds, instead of a
dozen stalks wide, the trench may be
made only three, or quantity to suit
the demand. BY this means, very
small and late celery is often put away
and sold, or used in the family late in
the winter or in early spring. -Pratrie
Farmer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-31
The RumSeller.

Every individual in society is expect
ed to contribute to its advancement and
interest. We remember to have read,
many years ago, of a company of
tradesmen who united themselves into
mutual benefit society, and each one
had to relate what he could contribute
to its support
First the blacksmith came forward
and said:
Gentlemen, wish to become a
member of your organization.
"Well, what can you dop"
"Oh, can iron your carriages, shoe
your horses, and make all kinds of inn
piements.'
Very well, come in, Mr.. Black
smith. ."
The mason applied for admission into
the society.
"Whst can you do, sir?"
81 can build your barns, bridges,
houses and stables"
Every well, come in. we can not do
without YOU"
Along comes the shoemaker and says:
81 wish to become member of your
society,""
"Well, what can you do?''
81 can make boots and shoes for
you
Come in, Mr.. Shoemaker, we must
have you"
In turn all the trades and professions
applied, till at last an individual came
who wanted to become member
''And what are vou?"
II am rumseller."
ga rumseller? and what can you do?'
81 can build jaIls, prisons and poor
houses"
sis that ALP"
''No; l can fill them. | can fill your
jails with criminals, your prisons with
oonvicts, and your poor-houses with
paupers.
''And what else can you do?''
81 can bring the gray hairs of the
aged TO the grave with sorrow; can
break the heart of the wife, and blast
the prospects of the friends of talent,
and fill the land with more than the
plaques of Egypt"
''Is that all you can do?"
"Good heaYensr' cried the rumsell-
er, sis not that enough?"--Ihe Cineter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-31
Drunkenness and Crime.

1t is notable fact how large q place
Intoxicating drinks have always had in
the history of crime. In the old SNUG
Cling days on English coasts, it was the
wines, and brandies, and other inebriat-
ing drinks of continental manufacture,
which nearly monopolized the list of
contraband. And now that the practice
of smuggling has again made its APP
pearance on the northeastern coast of
England, the same thing holds true.
The ''illicit landing of brandies and
tobacco" is the great object of the
trade. There is something in commodi-
ties OF this sort that seems to associate
them naturally with the violation of
law. Their very existence is viola
ton of law-natural law-siuce they
are the turning to purposes of indul-
gence what nature forbids to any such
use, furnishing the violation of her statute
in that regard by the infiction of some
of the worst miseries men are ever
called to suffer. Neither can a man
use or sell the poisonous beverages
against which nature thus warns all
men without a certain decentralization
which makes him just so much less
man than he was before. In some of
the worlds oldest literature, and not
simply that of the Bible. intoxication is
condemned and warned against as what
always imbrutes a man and degrades
him among intelligent beings. For
thousands of years the warning has
been sounded-yet how vainly! Mean
while, does any other such instigatiOn
to crime exist? The whisky-glass and
the pistol-how almost lnseparable?
Where is the haunt of murder save in
the haunt of drunkenness? And how
essential a part of a criminal education
is the poison of the cup? How strange
that modern civilization should cling
as it does TO that of which even ancient
barbarism was ashamed and afraid
Chicago Standard.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-31

The New York Mail remarks: lit is
a true story that in Geneva, last August,
Frenchman with title offered himself
to young lady of this city whose fam
lily has ancestry and wealth. He was
accepted, and then asked the father how
much he intended giving his daughter
as marriage portion. When told the
gift would not exceed trousseau, he
sought release from his engagement on
the ground that he had no money and
was bound to marry wealth. He was
released, and to-day is engaged to di-
vorced American actress Of great
celebrity
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-31
"A delicate dish for dessert is mad

"A delicate dish for dessert is made
by pairing six ripe, tart apples, cut them
il halves, put half poundof sugar into
3 sauce pan, with half pint of water,
add the juice of one lemon and let this
boil until it is thick. then lay in the ap-
PIES When they have simmered until
they are tender. take them out, drain
them on sieve and let the syrup boil a
ew minutes longer. When the apples
and syrup are both cool, put the apples
carefully into a glass dish AMI pour the
s5r p over them. NJ T. Fost.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-31

Michigan farmers use collars in
stead of yokes on their oxen, and they
find that the animsls pull better, DE
troll Post.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-28

and the committee have things in their
own hands. They sre controlled in a
great measure by man known here as
Charles Watson, but whose real name is
Charles Faux, and who is under indlct-
ment at Carlisle, Pa. for murder, arson
and burglary. Faulk furnishes the
names to the committee of objectiona-
bic persons, who invariably consist of
men who are witnesses against DoTan
and his accomplices. 1t is rumored this
afternoon that NJ. G. Harris, editor of the
Horse Shoe, who has denounced the muir
ders and the action of the committee,
would be notified to leave the city in the
morning. Harris expresses his contempt
for the whole party and continues to pub
lish the true facts in regard to the assas-
sination. About twenty additional men
were made to leave the city to. day
by order OF the committee at the
point of the bayonet. Every one
forced to leave was material
witness against Doran and his accomplices
in the bloody work on the 9th. The
assertion is openly made here, and not de-
MED, that the members of the committee
themselves will be implicated in the
butchery and are thus endeavoring to
hide all evidences by driving off all wit
nesses. Drunken rowdies parade the
streets and frequent the saloons armed to
the teeth, and openly make threats that
they will run the town.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-28
THE OUTRAGE INVESTIGATIONS.
Both Committees to Rest frOn Their
Labors-PeOr Results.

WAsHINGToN, February 27-Justice Tai
iaferro ,colored, testified before the Dan.
vile Committee to-day. He heard the
shooting the day of the riot and hastened
home, where he staid until the Monday
morning following. White men came tc
the house and said they had a telegraph
dispatch for him, but he did not want any
news bad enough to open the door. White
Democrats threatened to carry the election
by the use Of firearms, if necessary. Wit.
ness boasted of his great fright the day oi
the riot, saying, "Mattahs was gitten very
bilious for the squire, and he took wat
tab"
Senator Vance developed the fact that
witness was once convicted OF frauds in
selling whisky and imprisoned.
Senator Vance-I want to ask one ques-
ton: Are you really proud of your
cowardice?
Witness with swagger)-Yes, sir; am
proud, and l am ashamed, too, in anoder
sense. I'm shame dat I'm 'bliged to play
de coward for men who is seekin' to take
my life.
In answer to Senator Sherman, witness
said notice was put uDder his door, some
time after the riot, addressed: "This is to
Justice Taliafero" Its contents were
Justice Taliafero, your are considered as
one of the instigators of the late riot at
Danville, and as such, you are responsible
for the blood spilled therein. We have
determined that your stay in Danville
is injurious to the public peace; therefore
you must go. You are given three days
If you are found in Danville you must
take the consequences.
The committee adjourned, subject to
the call of the chairman, with the under
standing that no further proceedings will
take place until the House has acted upon
the Senate joint resolution appropriating
money for further expenses.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-28
HELENA, Ark.

The Drowning of simon SiIverman, of
a.etiery NOiOriefy-Azeavy Rise i'm the
River.
Special to the Appeal.
HELENA, February 27.-The news reach
ed here to-day that Simon r. Silverman,
younger brother of II. and L. Silverman,
OF Indian Bay, Ark, had been drowned.
Tie sad occurrence was at the mouth OF
White river Mr.. SIlverman was with a
man named Girls, experimenting the saw
| ing Of raft of logs. A steamboat passing
caused the skiff to capsize, with the above
result Mr. Silverman never rose. The
other man was saved. Mr.. Silverman is the
gentleman who made himself we'll known
by his connection with q lottery ticket
eighteen months ago that drew tie capi-
tai prize in the Louisiana Lottery. He
and lady named Mrs. Clark purchased
some tickets together. She received hers
and he his. A few days after the drawing
he called at her house and requested Mrs.
Clark to let him have her ticket, that he
was going to Memphis and would collect
for her any amount that 1t might draw.
She gave him the ticket, and that evening
learned the number of the ticket that drew
the capital prize, and she sent a posse
of men after him, who came up with
him at the Midland railroad. The ticket
was taken away from him and carried
back to Indian Bay. There was then
proceedings instituted in the courts by
both parties. The contestants, after spend
ing an immense amount OF money, sue
ceeded in compromising the affair by Mrs.
Clark receiving $4,000 and Silverman the
remainder.
There has been Il terrible blizzard raging
this evening, mixed with rain and snow.
The river rose in the last twenty-four
hours five inches, and is still rising.