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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05
Military Berlin.


One certainly sees more soldiers in
the streets of Berlin than in those of
London and Par.s, but one does not
see many of them, and they form al
together but a small minority of the
people one meets when walking about
Berlin. Aud that IS. easy to explain;
soldiers do not play at soldering here as
French schoolboys have done lattefiy.
Fighting is considered by the Germans
q business, or q trade, or an art-as
you may like to cali (which is to be
learned very seriously, and which keeps
thesyoung men, who are noens volens de
voted toit. during almost the whole day IN
their quarters or on the parade ground.
As to the officers, they are nearly as
much taken up by their work as the most
Woodworking official, mercantile clerk,
or artisan. The Lieutenant of the guards,
who has nothing to do but to show his
fine uniform in the streets, exists only
in the imagination Of people who have
never seen him. That aristocratic
young gentleman generally begins his
work at six o'clock in the morning in
summer and eight O'clock in winter
and is tired out when at five or six
O'Clock in the evening he has at last
got through it. 1t is not he, certainly,
who crowds the streets of Berlin. He
has other things to do than to walk
about even when he happens to be on
leave. There is, however, something
military to be seen in the sheets of
Berlin at nearly every hour of the day,
which may have struck the Partisan
newspaper writer, though it does not
belong exclusively to Berlin, but to all the
larger German towns where soldiers are
garrisoned. Every now and then, es-
peciaIly about noon, you will meet
small detachments of soldiers-four,
six, perhaps ten or twenty men march
ing from the guard-house to relieve
the sentries on duty at the palaces of
members of the Imperial family, the
residences of commanding officers and
certain public buildings such as the
Ministry of War, the staff's office, the
arsenal, etc. These soldiers, proceeded
by sergeant, walk in the middle of the
street with long. regular, quiet steps,
almost leisurly. Suddenly sharp
word of command is heard. An officer
or an Imperial carriage is in sight. The
men all at once seem to have been
struck by a galyanic battery, and from
thatinstant to move under some strange
and irresistible influence. With q kind
Of spasmodic jerk straighten them
selves up to their full height, their heads
and shoulders are thrown back, their eyes
are fixed on one and the same point
the passing officer; the rife is held in
firm grasp by the powerful hand, and
the feet violently thrown forward as by
machinery, produce, as they tread the
hard pavement at short, regular in-
tervals loud and yet muffied sound,
familiar to the native of Berlin, and
which causes him to look round toward
those from whom it proceeds. Black
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05
London /" Uncles."

There are in London close upon three
thousand pawn shops, and the fact that
all of these do thriving trade from
nine clock in the morning until seven
in the evening tells the tale of the ex-
IRENE poverty of a large section of the
population of this great city with no
uncertain voice. have recently visited
a number of pawn-shops of all kinds,
from the palatial establishment of the
Messrs. Attenborough, at the corner of
Fleet street and Chancery lane, to a
grimy, dark, little hutch of place in
the purlieus of Shoreditch. From the
result of my Enquiries of the London
pawnbrokers it is safe to assume that
on an average at least one hundred
pledges are taken in daily at every one
of these establishments. This estimate
is, no doubt, below the actual facts, as
at several large establishments I was
informed that on q busy day from one
thousand to fifteen hundred customers
are often accommodated. However,
basing my calculations on the above es-
innate. it seemed startling to find that
six hundred thousand people are COM
PEELED to obtain small or large advances
every day on dress, jewelry and house
hold goods. The amount Of capital en-
barked in this bushes in London is
enormous. The Messrs. Attenboroueh.
who have half dozen shops in different
parts of the city, have at least $500, 600
embarked in their business. They are
immensely wealthy, and the present
generation are all men of large wealth.
landed estates, and two of them are
also members of the liberal professions.
These gentlemen, with the exception OF
two members of the family, do not take
any active part in the business. The
Attenboroughs will lend money on any
thing The family diamonds of half
the peerage have been at one time or
another in their keeping. They will
not refuse to advance money on car
riage and pair of horses, but the bor-
rover will have to pay for the keep OF
the animals and the storage of the We
hicle until he redeems the pledge. The
firm speak of, however. do nine-tenths
OF their business in iewelry, and If they
know the parties seeking the advance
to be respectable and trustworthy they
VIII leDu within very little OF the
actual value of the articles offered. The
interest the pawnbrokers here are al
lowed by law TO charge is twenty per
cent, and they always take care not to
lend more than the article will fetch if
it comes to be sold by auction. More
ever. large proportion of the articles
paWned are redeemed within q few
days, and as no matter how short a
time the loan is made for, months in
terest is charged, it is evident that the
business of a pawnbroker is an uncom-
monty profitable ona--Con SGa Fra,ss
cssc0 Chroaasate-
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HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

LII the soil of the garden IS clavey. :
coat OF sand mixed in will help it; If it
be sandy, clay or sediment from bitches
and water-courses viii be found bene-
fetal. Chicago Times.
"A gardener recommends tying news
papers about celery to bleach It. He
finds that in this manner he can bleach
celery better. easier and cheaper than
by earthing up.-N. I. Times.
The little Breton sheep takes its
name from the part of France in which
it is most raised. 1t is not much. if
any, larger than pug dog; is affec-
tomato, and as great a pet as MarY's
little lamb in its tenderest days.
-Beeswax and salt will make YOUR
rusty fatirons as clean and smooth as
glass. lie lump of wax in rag and
keep it for that purpose. When the
irons are hot rub them first with wax
rag, then scour with paper or cloth
sprinkled with salt. = Cincinnati Times.
Eight hundred and ninety-one
kernels of wheat, weighing about two
ounces, were recently abstracted from
the mouth of a squirrel killed near
Santa Cruz, Cal. Eight of such mouth
fuls make pound. This fact will
probably interest the farmer who has q
thousand or more of these gornandiz-
ers on his farm.-SGD Francisco Cal.
Wheat bran increases the flow of
milk; but, unless unusually rich in
flour, seems to have little effect on the
yield of butter. One sample of bran
may have five times as much nutri-
| ment in it as another. That made at
the large merchant mills by the new
process is usually about the dearest
feed a butter dairyman can buy, SO
thoroughly is it stripped of all valu-
able elements. Cleveland Leader.
Almost any kind of material left
on the ground under fruit-trees, says a
horticulturist, will act as q fertilizer.
1t will, at least, prevent the growth of
grass and weeds, and thus check loss
of moisture and fertility that the tree
needs to perfect its crop. 1t is as a
mulch that the advantage of straw
in orchards consists. It's fertilizinc
value is very small, and none of this
available until the straw is rotted.-
| Chicago Journal.
The F'd7acie1' S Gazette says: Here
is an infallible specific against all man
ner of poultry vermin, which will do
10 violence to incubating eggs nor soil
a feather of the fowl: Flour of sulphur,
five pounds; fluid commercial carbolic
acid, one dram; mix thoroughly in a
pan or box with a stick, and then with
naked hand take the fowl by both legs,
and, resting it on the breast, put hand
full OF the carbolized sulphur on the fluff
and gently work it through the feath-
'ers. In five days you can not find an
insect with microscope.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05
Training a Shepherd Dog.

If you should visit Central Park some
fine morning you might see Young Shep,
the collie that is being trained to take
the place of old Shep, the eighteen
year-old veteran, at his lessons. He is
never whipped, not even when he does
wrong or makes mistakes, because that
breaks the spirit OF collie, as, indeed,
of any other kind of dog, and shep-
herd dog must of all things be brave
When he doesn't carry out an order
correctly, or in such way that the
sheep can understand him, old Shep is
sent with the same order and Shep
Junior is made to keep still and watch
him until it is executed. His first les
son is simply to guard a hat or coat
or stick thrown upon the grass by the
shepherd. and he is left out with it
sometimes until late in the evening to
show him the Importance of fidelity,
the very first essential in a shepherd
dog. Next he is taught to gather the
sheep, to take them to the right, then
to the left After this he is sent on the
trail of a lost sheep, with Instructions
to bring it back slowly. The most inn
portant lesson, and one young Shep
has not yet learned, is that of go
ing among the flock, and finding out
if any of them are missing. This, as
may be imagined, is by no means an
easy task with a flock of eighty-two
ewes and sixty-nine lambs. But old
Shep can do it, for he knows every
member of the flock, though to the
ordinary observer they all look almost
exactly alike. Indeed, old Shep can,
il his master, the shepherd, is not mis-
taken. perform feat more wonderful
than this. The shepherd says that
Shep, when uncertain whether some of
the flock have not strayed up the
bridle-path on their way home, while
he was busy in keeping troublesome
boys away, Will take his stand at the
gate of the fold and touch each sheep
with his fore-paw as it passes in. At
such times he has the air of a fnrlner
counting his cattle as they come home
at night, and he wears an expression
as if his mind were occupied with an
intricate sum in addition. Whether he
is really counting the sheep or not can
not be said positively; but he has been
known, after noting each sheep as it
passed. to rush off up the bridlc-path
and return with a straggier. This does
much to prove that the shepherds as
sertion that old Shep can count the
sheep is possibly not far from the
truth. Franklin II. North, IN 81. Nich-
oLdS. 4 3s44 Ef3 n.rt
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05
A Samaritan.

A certain man journeyed from the
cradle to the grave; he fell among sa-
loon keepers, who took his money,
ruined his name, destroyed his reason
and then turned HIM into the street. A
moderate drinker passed by, looked on
him and said: f'Served him right he is
a fool to get drunk. A politician
voter also passing, looking on him, said;
s.The brute! He is not fit to live; he is
a disgrace 10 his family" But a fanatic,
so-eaIled, seeing MIN, had compassion,
raised him up, assisted him to his home,
administered to the wants of himself
and family. got him to sign the pledge,
pointed him to the Lamb of God that
taketh away the sin of the world !" and
left him in comfort and happiness.
Who, think you, was the greater friend
of humanify--the saloon-kceper, the
moderate drinker the politician or the
fanatic?-B r00ddIe.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05
Our Young Readers.
WIT BESSIE IS GOOD FoR.

Yesi Bridget has gone to the city
And papa is sick, as you see,
And mamma has no one to help her
But two-years- old Laurence and me.
You'd ike to know what am good for,
'Cept to make work and tumble things down:
guess there aren't no little girlies
At your house at home, Doctor Brown
Hl've brushed al the crumbs from the table,
And busted the sofa and chairs;
I've polished the hearth stone and fender,
And swept OF the area stairs.
/" I've wiped all the silver and china,
And Just dropped one piece on the floor;
Yes, Doctor, it broke in the middle,
But spect it was cracked before.
" And the steps that save precious mammal
You'd be 'sprised, Doctor Brown, if you
knew;
She says if 1T wasn't for Bessie
She couldn't exist the day through
" It's Bessie, bring papa some waterF
And Bessie dear, run to the door,
And Bessie love, pick up the play things
The baby has drOppe on the floor
% Yes. Doctor, I'm 'siderably tired,
I've been on my feet all the day,
Goodbye! well. perhaps / Uil help you
When your old Bridget goes of TO stayr -
Good Chesr.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05
THE GARDEN ROSE.

The garden path runs east,
And the garden path runs west;
There's a tree by the garden gate,
And little bird in a nest.
1t sings anu sings and sings!
Does the bird, | wonder. know
How, over the garden wall,
The bright days come and go?
The garden path runs north,
/ And the garden path runs south;
The brown bee huns in the sun,
And kisses the ily's mouth;
But it tiles away ere long
10 the birch tree, dark and tall.
What do you find, o brown bee,
Over the garden wall9
With ruff and farthingale,
Under the gardeners eye,
In trimmest guise | stand
Oh, who SO fine as If
But even the light wind knows
That 1t may not play with me,
Nor touch my beautiful lips
With wild caresS and free.
Oh, straight is the garden path,
And smooth Is the garden bed,
Where never an idle weed
Dares lift its careless head.
But know outside the wall
IHey gamer, " merry CnrOngs
They dance and flutter and sing,
And / listen all day long.
The Brier Rose swings outside;
Sometimes she climbs so high
can see her sweet pink face
Against the blue of the sky.
What wonder that she is fair,
WHOM no strait bonds enthrall?
oh, rare is life 10 the Brier Rose,
Outside of the garden wall?
Julia q. II. DOrr. in HGrper'S Magazine
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05

The habitual consumption of beer in
excessive quantities tends to hyper
trophy by the direct action Of
alcohol upon the heart, by the
enormous amount of fluid intro
duced into the body, and by the easily
asSimilated nutritive constituents of the
beer itself Furthermore such habits
are often asso lated with great bodily
activity and at least relatively luxurious
manner OF life. The average weight of
the normal heart in men is relatively
greater in Munich than elsewhere, a
fact, without doubt, dependent upon
the excessive consumption OF beer in
that city. The characteristic changes
in the form OF hypertrophy under con-
sideration consist in the part cipatlon
of both sides of the heart and in an en-
ormous increase in the Volume OF the
primitive muscular elements, with en-
largement of the nuclei. Whether or
not a tual numerical increase in the
muscular fibres takes pla can not be
known Many individuals addicted to
such excesses attain an advanced age,
notwithstanding cardiac hyperlrophy,
by reason of constitutional peculiarlt.ess
an active open air life, or an enforced
mo leration, but the greater number
perish after brief illness with symptoms
of cardiac failure. At the pGst-mortem
examination are discovered moderate
dropsy, pulmonary Gdema, brown in
duration of the lungs, bronchitis, con-
gestion of the lungs, liver, spleen. kid
neys and other organs. Fatty degener-
alton of the muscular wall of the heart
is absent in most of these cases, and
death must, in the absence of adequate
anatomical LESSONS, be looked upon as
due to paralysis of the cardiac nerves
and ganglia. The condition of such
subjects not rarely amounts to true
plethora of the most typical kind, such
as is seen among the drivers of beer
wagons and workers in brewer es In
this country. The excuses in beer COM
mon in some parts of Germany are rare
in the New World, but that such ex-
cesses are attended by direct and grave
danger, hitherto little suspected, should
be generally understood. Philadelphia
Medical Ne10s. mafi fi
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05

and what we call presence Of mind,
which is simply having ones wits about
one, and knowing what to do in a diff
cult situation. This, after all, is the
great thing to learn: andsif the boys
and girls who are better circumstanced
than these two young Bohemian-Amer-
leans can only learn it half as web as
they, they win have gained one of the
most important lessons in life. Eliot
McCornaick, in Rarper's Foatng People.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05
Temperance Reading.
THE DANGERS OF VINE.


Never touch the trimming wine
Howsoevcr bright it shine;
Snnn the dangef-never sup
From the tempting purple cup;
Ne or forget the countless number
In dlShonored graves who slumber-
Brought to shame and to destruction
BY the sparkling cups seduction.
Think of all the scenes of woe
That from wines red goblet flow;
Think of all the bitter dole
That doth pierce the drunkard's soul
When he feels the degradation
Caused by his wild dissipation;
When he thinks of peace and gladness
Blighted by his drunken madness.
Never give the tempting wine
Unto any friend of thine;
When for him thy goblet flows
Thou art one of his worst foes;
For the wine-eup's red lib9tion
Bringeth grief and degradation;
And its victims claim our pity
In each hamlet and each city.
Rudy youth and hoary age
Drink the poisoned beverage,
With light lest and ring ng laugh,
And with eager thirst they Quaif
From that cup whose fascination
Morketh woe and desolaton-
From that cup whose baleful mission
is TO lead men to perdition.
st Johns NstOS.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05
The Atrpsha TeIegraph.
KENosHA. WISCONSIN.
Discomfort.

THE BRIER ROSE.

i
THE BRIER ROSE.
/ cling to the garden wall
Outside, where the grasses grow;
Whore the tall weeds haunt in the SUI
And the yellow mulleins blow.
The dock and the thistle crowd
Close to my shrinking feet,
And the gypsy yarrow shares
Ny cup ana the food l eat.
The rude winds toss my hair,
The wild rains beat me down,
The wayside dust lies white
And thick on my leaty Crown.
can not keep my robes
From wanton fingers free,
And the Veriest beggar dareS
TO stop and gaze at me.
Sometimes climb and climb
To the top of the garden wall,
And ! see her where she stands,
Stately and fair and tall
My sister, the red, red Rose,
My. sister, the royal one,
The faifest flower that blows
Under the summer sun!
What wonder that she is fair?
What wonder that she is sweetS
The treasures of earth and air
Lie at her dainty feet;
The choicest fare is hers,
Her cup is brimmed with wine;
Rich are her emerald robes,
And her bed is sort ana fine.
She need not lift her head
Even TO sip the dew;
No rude touch makes her shrink
The whole long summer through.
Her servants do her will;
They come at her beck and call.
Oh, rare is life in my lady's bowers
Inside of the garden wall!
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05
heath in the Pot.

Another caldron of iniquity is the
dram-shop. Surely there is death in the
pot. Anacharsis said that the vine had
three grapes pleasure, drunkenness.
misery. Richard LII. drowned his own
brother Clarence in a butt of vine
these two incidents quite typical. Every
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05

A CORRESPONDENT CT the New Or
leans Southwestern Pre-, bgteriaf1 glee-
fully writes that in one of the wealth.
lest, most intelligent, moral and pros
porous counties in Texas not a drop
of ardent spirits has been sold for six
years, and the Jail is " itaont an enforced
tenant.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05

A PARENT once remarked that he had
eight arguments in favor of a Prohib-
tory amendment. and when asked what
they were, replied; '.My eight chill
dren,'
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05
Hints to Manageable Girls.

(.
Some of our contemporaries have be-
come indignant by learning to how great
an extent the practice prevailed at our
principal ports of filling orders for wives
sent by Western men with newly arrived
Immigrant girls. They look upon this
as discrimination by Americans them
selves against the American product.
and insist that it ought to be stopped.
There are places in many parts of oul
broad Western lands where women are
scarcer than hens teeth. The men have
ample possessions to support wives, and
are anxious for mistresses of their hearts
and homes. Indeed. their great eager
ness for better halves is shown by their
willingness to waive the great marital
privilege of men-the right to make
their own selection. There is law OF
political economy that goods will seek
the best market. The American girl
seems to be an exception, for the census
shows the East to possess a super6uity.
There does not seem to be any indis.
position on their part to 90 West. The
trouble seems to lie in a lack of system
by which they may be distributed where
needed. If those who are crying out
against the Castle Garden scheme viii
devise some means whereby a Western
man in need of a wife may secure q
healthy American girl, they will prob
ably be gratifying the Westerner by Sc
curing him a helpmeet more congeniai
to his taste, and be rendering a CRATE
full service to the so called superTiuou'
American girl. --Bdlttoso7e american.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05

The French railroad companies are
about to adopt an electric gate opener.
A catch connected with an electro
magnet keeps the gate closed. When
train approaches it closes the circuit,
releases the catch and the gates fly
open. The last car on the train as II
passes through opens the circuit ana
the gates are again closed. The same
apparatus rings a bell violently on the
approach of each train.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05

No. he said, If it's q claim any
body can prove; but l guess if every
one was to he as particular as to The
way their estate, real and personal, wa.
come by, from generation to generation
few would keep what they've got yer,
long. ! honor your principles, Abby
but, don't you see, carried out as yol
would have them, they are utterly alb
surd?'
81 don't see it, replied. On tn,
contrary, believe there is a rule o
absolute right, and we ought to liv'
by it
$50 we argued until he grew yer,
much irritated and got up to 90.
81 don't see the thing as you do, h,
said, and can't
9 / am sorry, said, for it is yer,
plain to me. If youcan take and en- O.
property that you know belongs t,
others, you can do what | never can
never, Aaron Deems!'
HE stood before me. looking pal
and troubled. Can't you look at j
as | do-not even for my saKe?' b,
asked.
mot even for your sake, Aaronl'
said, though my heart was ready t,
break. But don't let us talk of it an,
more tonight; | am sure you vii, thinI
as do when you have had time to re
feet
~ hope--I am sure-we shall come
to think alike in so important a mat
ter,' he said; .for couldn't bear to be
separated from you, Abbyl'
7" oh, we can't be separated, Aaron,
| said, and clung to him with all m,
heart, But there was a GOODNESS in hi
goodbye, and felt that awful shadow
between us after he was gone.
couldn't endure that the man | loyeC
should take such views of right anc
wrong, even for moment.
''Well, we had many talks on the sub,
ject after that; and the more we talked
tbe colder and heavier the shadow