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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-03-07

something more than the mere filing
out of good cloth in the minister Dig
nifed bearing; and in the scholarly face
which appeared above it something
which stirred up feeling in many
members OF the congregation that this
servant of the Lord had not hitherto
been clothed in fashion worthy of his
high Office.
''That's a shabby old Rat to .sear
with it, = said one of the village store
keepers. s1'll see about that before an
other Sunday comes round
As Mr.. Bingle felt the grasp of his
pastors hand. he began almost to be
glad he had given the coat. And then,
as the fact OF his having given it was
whispered about, to feel ashamed of
receiving so much credit for an act
which he never would have thought of
performing. For an honest and really
warm nature lay under the crust of par
simonious selishness which had hard
ened over his heart as it has, alas! over
so many which might overflow in deeds
of kindness to bless those who have
given not grudgingly, but their whole
selves, to the Masters service.
81 feel like liar, yes | dop' said Mr..
Bingle to his wife, with an energy which
startled her, as they rode home 'sTo
have that man shakin' me by the hand,
and talkin' about my generosity, and his
wife's eyes beamin' up at me and me
not able to right out and tell 'em I'm a
grudgin', tight-fisted old tell you
what"-he gave his horses such a Wig
orous cut with the whip that jim and
Sam, on a back backless seat OF the
Bob-sleigh, nearly went over backwards
into the snow, ''Pve got to get even
with myself somehow, but don know
just how, yet"
1t was astonishing what connection
Farmer Bingle's gift created in the par
ish. Not one eye had failed to mark
the justice done by Mr.. Graves goodly
figure to the goodly garment, and with
an awakening pride at the possession
OF such a fine-looking pastor came de-
sire to see him thoroughly well-equipped.
Which desire found expression in such
visitation at the parsonage as had new
er before been dreamed of Cheap
goods and cast-offs were ignored in the
generous supply of winter comforts
which each giver made sure should be
in keeping with the new overcoat, and
the wives and mothers had seen to it
that Mrs. Graves and the children should
look fit to walk beside that tailor-made-
up piece of cloth.
Mr.. Bingle had smiled with light in
his eyes which came up from some
where under that broken crust at the set
of furs which his wife carried to Mrs
Graves that night. But in the early
gray of the winter morning after, he,
with Sans help. quietly unloaded in
the back yard of the parsonage frkin
of butter, the same of lard, and six bar
rels of his best apples, packed for
market.
"A good forty-fve dollars worth il
I'd carted it half q mile further,'' he
said to his wife, with face which shone,
as he sat down to breakfast.
"And not a soul heard u.s." said
Sam, rubbing his hands in great glee.
"Wish't Icould see 'em when they find
odt'
CHOW, I'm event. said the farmer.
"And Pm blamed if it wasn't the best
day S VIC k ever did when I give away
that coat by mistake. "-Ssd0ey Dagre,
IN Chicago Standard.
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"Science in Agriculture"

It is not necessary that a man be
highly educated to profit by the teach
ings of science. If farmer has a rea-
sonable amount of intelligence and
reads the agricultural papers and the
State Agricultural Reports, he may gain
knowledge of the results of scientific
investigation, if he does not understand
the processes by which they are OBJ
tanned.
One of the most important lessons
which science has taught the farmer re-
lates to the value of manures and the
best methods of preserving them. Sci
ence showed the farmer that when he
threw out the droppings from his stock
into the yard under the caves of his
barn, and let the rains wash out what
was soluble into the nearest brook, he
was losing the most valuable part of his
fertilizers, and the only part which
roots of plants can absorb. Accordingly
science set the farmer to work building
barn cellars for the preservation of
manures, practice which has done
more for the restoration of the worn out
farms of New England than anything
VAoO OI1bO S61A NJ hcoALCeA3 cbhS q ~
which the great States of the West will
soon be compelled to follow.
When the farmer has used all his
nome made fertilizer and wishes to OBJ
tain a further supply, science tells him
what elements are required for the
growth of plants and from what ma
terials they may be obtained, and there
is not complete commercial fertilizer
made of any value which has not been
compounded in accordance with formu-
las furnished by chemistry.
There is not man who sows field of
wheat with lime, or a potato field with
potash, who is not indebted to the chem
list whether he knows it or not.
Silence has put thermometer in the
farmers churn, and lightningrod on
his barn, and sends him a daily bulletin
of the weather.
But it is not merely material benefits
which Silence has bestowed upon the far
mer. She has thrown down some of the
walls of ignorance which limited his Wis
ion to the little patch of earth he Guilt
waited. She has enlarged his stock of
knowledge, stimulated his mental activi-
ty, and taught him to respect a calling
which will always engage the interest
of the student in botany, chemistry, and
geology Massachusetts PIougl1711Gn.
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TOpnOOdy.

''Barnum is great advertiser, my
DEAR" said Topnoody to his wife, look
ing up from his newspaper.
''He's great humbugger' was her
amiable reply.
''But he makes lots of money, my
dear"
$50 does anybody else who sells wind
and printers ink for hard cash"
eff the people want to buy, my dear,
whose fault is it?'
''The Lords, 1 reckon, for making
such fools of them"
That's sacrilege, my dear"
'It's common among the men, all the
same, to go back to the great first cause
with censure, since they are all so
weak that they are afraid it might stop
with them"
"What's thatgo to do with Barnum's
white elephant, my dear?" said Mr..
Topnoody, striking out like swimmer
who was getting over his head.
What's the white elephant got to do
with me?"
Nothing much, presume, my dear,
but | suppose you Il want to go and see
it when it comes?"
"Well, 1 just won't. I have better
use for my money. The skin of a seal
is more to me than the entire anatomy,
physiology and hygiene, of the biggest
white elephant that ever roamed the
forests of Siam, or any other town. Be-
sides. I've got one white elephant
already, and ones enough, goodness
knows"
''You must be crazy, my dear, 1 never
saw an elephant around here any
where"
''Didn't you?'
"Of course not, my DEAR
"Would you like toP''
'Yes, my dear"
care you sure?"
Certainly am. wouldn't say so
if didn't mean il"
''Oh, no, men never say one thing
and mean another"
That's neither here nor there.
want to see that elephant"
"All right, Topnoody, Just step over
there to my dressing case and look in
the glass"
Topnoody didn't step. = Merchant
Traveller.
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Soil Analysis.

There are plenty Of methods for an
alyzing soil to be found in the chemis-
tries, but none of them sufficiently con-
venient for the average farmer, even if
he had the necessary appliances. In
fact, there is no cheap and easy way of
Analysing the soil. To have it
done from five to twenty-five
dollars for each operation, and
requires a skilled chemist to do it. I'm
fortunately, too, soil analysis when per-
formed, is practically useless, for it
shows not what there is of plant food
available, but what there is altogether,
and this is only in the identical particle
analylized, And if the food be not
available, it might as well be elsewhere.
The real and practical method of tell
ing what soil needs, is to try different
strips. On one strip put bone dust or
superphosphate, at the rate of 400
pounds to the acre. If an unusual Wig
orous growth results, the land wants
phosphorci acid On another strip put
wood ashes, at the rate Of 20 bushels of
unleached ashes to the acre. If good re-
suits follow, the land wanted potash. On
another spot put nitrate of soda, 800 Tbs.
to the acre, or sulphat of ammonia, 200
pounds to the acre; or good dressing
of barn yard manure. If the result is
satisfactory, the land wanted nitrogen.
These three-nitrogen, phosphoric
acid, potash-are all the chemi-
cal ingredients of the soil that
the farmer need care about, and
in this simple and profitable way
he may obtain what is, in effect, the
best analysis of his soil that can be pro-
cured. Of course the needs of the diff
ferent plants for different quantities of
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash,
should be taken into account.
The experiment should be
carried on in their divisions
after this manner: With a nlaut re-
curing potash, such as the potatoe,
strip of land under all three kinds of
fertilizers; with a phosphate plant,
such as wheat, three strips; and with
nitrogen plant, such as clover and peas,
three strips. This being done. you have
secured an accurate knowledge of the
need of the field experimental upon
Texas State Farmer.
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ga LITTLE NONSENSE. -

Who killed the greatest number of
chickensp Hamlet uncle did murder
most FOUL
-'When you see counterfeit coin
On the sidewalk always pick it up. You
are liable to arrest if you try to pass it.
N z. Independent.
The man who purchased a porous
plaster in order to draw an influence,
died of a cold contracted by coming in
contact with a side draft. Troy Times.
At the kindergarten: ''Now, chill
dren, what is the name of the meal you
eat in the morningP" Goat meal, . re-
plies a precocious member of the class.
Boston Courier.
Yes, " said the schoolgirl who had
position in her class, 81 shall have a
horseshoe for my symbol, as it denotes
having come from the foot
Some of the New York papers are
advising the wearing of silk robes by
the Judges when sitting on the bench
evidently forgetting that silk can not be
satin. Chicago Herald
-IndG SWEEP DOuQu
At hotel table sat
Bridget bride and bridegroom Pat
While a city dweller, he
Helped himself to celery.
Bridget's eyes with wonder grew;
Paddy" whispered she, LUX you
AT that haste across tho way
Attn up that swate bookay."
Papa said little boy at break
fast, yesterday, at school, the teacher
read something from book called Tho
Autocrat at the Breakfast Table. What
does that meanp" 'sYou are rather too
young yet, my son." replied the old
man, as he helped himself to the top
buckwheat cake and smothered it with
the cream intended for his wife's coffee,
s'to understand such matters. IN. Y.
Examiner.
els your sister in, Johnny?" '.She
is. She's in the parlor waitin' for you.
Say, what'll yer give me if tell what
she said last night when you went
awayP" "I'll give you ten cents" Gail
right Thank yer. Well, / guess she's
a-goin to be awful kind to you, and feed
you well when you git married, cause
she said you had mighty high notions
about yourself and your folks, but she
would make you eat humble pie for it
when she's your wife. -SonaerUille
Journal.
-''Sister," cried little boy running
into the room, ''your little pug dog has
bit me on the leg" "What," ex-
claimed the frightened young lady.
Beauty has bitten you on the leg? Let
me see." She hastily pulled his stock
ing, and, sure enough, there was the
impression of his teeth. ''You naughty
boy" said his sister, shaking him vio-
lently. Don't you know better thar
to tease Beauty? Some day he will bite
big lump out of your leg, and it might
make him deathly sick. - Philadelphia
Call.
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Our Young Readers.
NOTHING NEW.


You come to me, my little lad and lassie,
With eager, questioning looks,
story,
You can not find in books.
And you are eight and eleven, nowise
troubled
With wrinkles or gray hair;
And you have balls and dolls and games 8
dozen,
Plenty to eat and wear.
And you have books with gsyly painted pict-
ureS
Of kings and queens and slaves,
With stories of good people, wise and tender,
And tales of wicked knaVes.
And you can read of-ohl so many countries
Of unknown people and their curious Gus
toms,
OF foreign fruits and trees;
OF famous battles fought by land and water,
OF ladies and brave knights,
Gay palace festivals with all the splendor
OF tossing plumeS and lights;
And still you ask, my little boy and maiden,
For something new and strange,
All your young thoughts and eager fanciei
reaching
About the world for change.
Something you think keep
Hidden away, to talk of and dream over,
When you are well asleep,
Hunting for fairies in some moon-touched
forest,
With these same troubled eyes
That lift to me, by day, their eager pleading
For some new, sweet surprise.
And so you find in all your nursery legends
The things of every day
Changed just a little?-all the worlds new
people
Are going the old way.
And, too you find that man to man is brotheri
That heart to heart is bound?
That all things answer, each unto another?
And that the earth is round?
To all the centuries, little boy and maiden,
You hold the thread and clew,
Beat lower, little hearts, and cease your queS
tons,
know of nothing new.
juliet G. Marsh, IN Wide AtUdHc.
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

The new Banana muskmelon Is said
to grew from eighteen inches to two feet
in length and to be very prolific. When
ripe it is said to resemble gigantic
banana in its rich flavor. It is exter-
nally of straw color without netting.
-C9ereIG1ad Leader.
The cake par excellence now. is
layer cake with chocolate and cocoanut
mixed together and put between the
layers. Prepare the chocolate after any
of the well-known methods, and add
the grated cocoanut to it. No one can
think who has not tasted it what de-
lectable morsel it is.-N z. Post.
Experiments with poultry in orch
ards prove that they efectually protect
plumb trees from the curculio. A few
of the largest farms devoted to poultry
are set partly in plumbs, among them
being that of Mr.. Hawkins, of Lancas-
ter Mass. The peach trees always
bear best when poultry range among
them.-M T. Herald.
To canvas hams: When the hams
are smoked ready for canvasing roll
them in stiff paper. Cut your brown
muslin to fit them, and sew it on with a
large needle and Irvine. Then make a
starch of flour and yellow ocher, and
with a small whitewash brush cover
them well with it. Hang them up to
dry.-PrGtrie Farmer.
An experienced cultivator says that
the old notion that any soil is good
enough to raise beans is mistaken one.
In planning for next seasons cropit will
pay you to select one of your best pieces
of ground for beans, and see that tits put
in prime condition. While they will
exist in poor soil, they will only do their
best in a rich one. Given a good, rich
soil and good cultivation, beans will
usually prove one of the most profitable
crops on the FARM Chicago Times.
"A dish which is liked by the hungry
and the hearty is made in this way:
Take some thin slices of cold roast beef,
brown them in butter, warm some cold
boiled potatoes which you have chopped
fine and seasoned well. Heat also cold
boiled cabbage chopped fine. When
these are all hot place layer of meat in
warm vegetable dish, then layer of
the potatoe, then of the beef, then of the
cabbage, and so on until the dish is full.
Do this as speedily as possible SO as to
send it hot to the table, Exchange.
"A great many horses, the North
eastern Farmer states, are sadly abused
from the fears, whims and caprices of
their drivers. Some men are ever
ready for some excuse for putting
horse to his utmost endurance. But of
all the bad treatment to which our
faithful horses are subjected there is
nothing comparable to that received at
the hands of drunken owner and dri-
yer, whose character, for the time be-
ing, at least, if weighed by any just
measure of intelligence or conduct,
would be vastly below that of the noble
and faithful animal that is suffering
through his drivers abuse.
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Temperance Items.

His MAJESTY King Oscar the Second
of Sweden, is said to be an earnest
Temperance reformer.
CINCINNATI has six miles of rum
holes. New York has seventeen and
London seventy-three- almost hum
dred miles in but three cities. And
what a road to travel! Flooded by
scalding tears, lined with broken hearts,!
-Egcbdnge.
SAINT AUGUSTINE called wine drink
ing ''the whirlwind of the brain, the
overthrow of the sense, the tempest OF
the tongue y and Seneca declared that
to imagine that man can take much
wine and retain right frame of mind
is as bad as to argue that he may take
poison and not die
If you should catch your wife loafng
around a saloon, you would apply for a
divorce inside of twenty-four hours; you
would think, if she were guilty of such
an infamous thing, she would be I'M
worthy such specimen of manhood as
yourself; and yet for all this, you can
linger about these places week after
week. San Francisco Rescue.
RECENTLY the ten Temperance I'm
ions of Eastern Canada were united I'M.
der the name of the ''Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union of the Maritime
Provinces" which will hold conven-
ton during September, 1884. The Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union
of st. Johns, n. b., has one hundred
and eighty members, and club oil
one'hundred and thirty boys and girls.
1t also operates apopular co9ee-house.
SENATOR WILLIAM P. FRYE, in let
ter to the Maine Temperance Alliance,
written a few weeks ago. says: g In this
matter OF Temperance. the Washington
of to-day hardly resembles that of TWEEN
ty years ago. Then on New Years
Day the open house without the hos
FATALITIES of the side-board was almost
unknown. Now its tempting display
of wine that mocks is almost forgotten.
Then the Government official who was
not lavish in his offer of liquor to every
caller was looked upon as a fanatic
unworthy of his high position. Now
nothing would be more discreditab;e.
Then the public man who refused
was regarded as eccentric impolite-
ly odd. Now the majority decline. II
this reform Maine took the lead
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Not Appreciated.

The other night policeman who was
patrolling Grand River avenue and try
ing the doors of business houses came
to a grocery and found the door I'M
locked and the key in the lock. He
sprung the 6olt, put the key
in his pocke' and = sauntered on,
and in the course of an hour found OPP
portunity to send word and the key to
the house of the proprietor. He didn't
expect any particular praise for his
action, but he was hardly prepared for
the storm which soon swooped do u
upon him. The grocer himself, with
battered hat, torn coat and two fingers
bleeding, suddenly appeared before him
and said:
eff I've any influence in this town
I'll have you off the force inside of two
days!'
"Why, what's the matter?'
"Matter? Ask me what's the matterP
Oh! I'll fix your
'For what? For finding your store
unlocked and sending the key to your
house?"
Eyes, sir was down there hunting
up mustard for sick child at home.
and what do you do but lock me in ais
promenade off?''
SIS it possible?"
''And there I've been for an hour or
more, and would be yet if l hadn't
crawled through cellar window! Oh!
I'll lay for you, old guardian of the
peace" -DetroI Free Press.
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Personal AND IMPERSONAL.

JEFF. Davis is losing the sight of his
one remaining eye Chicago Times.
The Catholic clergymen of the Do
cese of Albany have made up a purse of
$4,000 for Bishop McNierney. albany
Journal.
Thomas Garrett, of Staten Island,
who lived on stimulents for ten years,
died the other day at the age of 3d.
~ Z. San.
DIR. W. NJ. Taylor's life is insured
for $4,000, the Broadway Tabernacle
paying the annual premium of 81. 23S,
in addition to the pastors SIG, 900 sal
ary.-M Y Times.
John Dubois, Pennsylvania lum-
Der king, is said to be the richest man in
that State. He is worth $4,000, 900,
and employs 600 men in his lumber
mills. philadelphia Press.
Secretary-of-State Carr, of New
York, has been presented with Che bed
stead Aaron Burr occupied while Vice
President of the United States, from
1901 to 1906 Troy Times.
-''What is dude, anyhow" asked
countryman of a citizen. "a dude?
Well, dude is an American idiot who
tries to pass himself off as an English
cockney." A good definition. Boston
Globe.
David r. Atchison, after whom the
city of Atchison, Kan, was named,
lives, at the age of eighty years, on his
farm near Plattsburgh, Mo. He is re-
garded as the most interesting character
in that neighborhood. Chicago Herald.
In 1885, of the five Rawson boys in
Vermont, two went to Iowa, two to
Georgia and one stayed at home on the
farm. William A. and E. E. were the
Georgia immigrants. The former made
100000, but that fortune was swept
away during the war. Then William
made $500, 900 more and died. E. E. is
now worth $250000. The Iowa broth-
ers are barely scraping along, and the
Vermont brother is poor Chicago 1rS-
6at1ae.
Mrs. Orphia Thompson, a pretty
blonde Quakeress of %, asked for a sep
aration from Alexander Thompson, who
is in the leather trade in New York.
Mr.. Thompson and herself had married
themselves without the aid of clerical or
legal officials, and Alexander was not do
ing well by her. The court decided
that, though he had written to her as his
dear wife and signed himself as her af-
fectionate husband, there was no mar
riage.-N 7. Tribune.
Catherine Kile, who recently died
in Richmond I township, Pa, at the adj
vanced age of ninety-eight years, had
twelve children, eighty-two grand
children, and one hundred and twenty
eight great-grandchildren and two
Observation-Disclosures. Three of
her children were born at one time, and
these triplets are still living at the age
Of seventy-two years. They bear the
good old Scriptural names of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob.-PiHsgmgb Post.
Edward E. Rice, the theatrical
manager, is pronounced by the Chicago
NeaOs to be ''the most remarkable spend
thrift in the country HE is still
young man." continues the Neo0s, ''and
his public career has covered COM
paratively short period. Yet it is esti-
mated that not less than $1,000,O00
have passed through his fingers during
that time. He recently made this re-
mark to friend of his, and the friend
asked: How much have you now?'
Rice laughed carelessly and said: Just
Sl3-not penny more
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Thrifty.

81 am going to be married." said a
young lady to her father. II tell you
this so you will not be surprised when
Wilkins asks for me-
II shall not be surprised"
''You will not objectp''
''Oh no, but who is Wilkins? Don't
believe I ever saw him. y
"Why, don't you know himp He
used to clerk for YOU
''Let's see. Wilkins, Wilkins. Oh
yes, | remember him. Hadn't been
with us two weeks until he showed a
disposition to turn cash his way.
Tapped the drawer once. I believe.
Marry him by all means, for he is a
thrifty young fellow. '-Arkaaasaso IraU-
eLLer.