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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-15
Utilizing Straw and Stubble.

In California the waste from the har-
vesting of grain is allowed to reseed the
land, and second, or ''volunteer''
crop, is often raised without any plow-
ing or additional seeding. The cold
winters on the Atlantic slope, in most
of the States, would render this sort of
seeding imperative, except in the case
of wheat and rye, which are winter
proof 1t would, doubtless, surprise
IS1any farmers to know that, by plow-
ing their wheat and rye stubble in the
Satumn, the land would be reseeded
with those grains from the waste of the
harvest Straw can be turned to such
good account for fodder in winter, that
e should be in the best form. There
will be more and better grain by cutting
st as soon as it begins to turn white,
and the straw will be in a much more
valuable condition. Farmers should
sake pains to secure their grain crops
1t this period of growth. Straw is
worth much more to feed than simply
10 throw into the barnyard to rot for
manure. Fed with little grain, it will
Keep stock in as good condition as, if
Aot better than, hay alone, and the
nanure will be more valuable than
from hay alone.
It is evident, then. that by harvesting
she straw when in the best possible con-
Elton, large amount of stock may be
kept on the farm, and the farmer can
thus add to the value of the manure
pile; or he may, if he choose, utilize his
improved straw for fodder and sell a
portion of the hay, letting the straw
and some grain take its pace The day
for burning straw, or letting it go to
waste, for the man who has any wis
dom, is gone by. This fact is more en-
phatic, because meats of all kinds are
80 high and the experience of some
farmers has shown that by good man
sgement as l have indicated, the straw
may be turned to valuable account in
the rearing of animals and in enriching
The farm. This stubble from straw, cut
when full of juices, is worth more for
fert;lizing the soil, to pillow under, and
it will pay to turn it under as soon as
can be done, while it retains its moist
ure and the juices stored IN it. Such
stubble is quite an important factor for
the next crop, whereas an old and
dried-up one is comparatively worth,
less. --RurGL NetO Yorker. XII
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Demolition of an Old Structure.

The ancient adobe structure that for
two hundred years has served as the
principal house of worship in Santa Fe
is being RACED to the ground by large
force OF workmen. Orders have been
issued to push the new stone ediice to
completion this fall, and to this end the
contractors are working with all their
might. The walls of the old cathedral
constitute an interesting architectural
study. They are six feet in thickness,
and the timbers used as keys in the wall
are as firm to-day as when first placed
two centuries ago Many relic hunters
are preserving sections of the adobes
that form this aged edifice. The debris
is being removed to the Rio Santa Fe,
and will be scattered along the bank in
order to give the street better eleva-
ton. The stained glass windows repre-
senting the twelve apostles, which are
to be placed in the new Cathedral, will
be shipped from France this summer.
Santa Fe (N. NJ RecieW.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-15
Killing Crops.
1m

Nine farmers out of every ten if asked
to state why they hill crops would be at
a loss to give a satisfactory answer, and
yet they 90 on, year after year, putting
great amount of labor upon the crops
tlSaS can Sas be traced to any superior
result. If potatoes are planted shallow
they need more, extra soil in which to
develop the tubers, but as potatoes are
now almost uniformly planted in
trenches made by plow, or a marker,
they do not need this extra dirt, That
this killing is q necessary requirement
to.cover the roots is not fact, for on
good soil corn or potato roots occupy
the whole soil, and rain to benefit the
crop is best attributed through the soil,
and if no hills are present all the roots
will be benefited. The practice of hill
ing is against the roots occupying the
whole ground as the soil for the hills
taken from the center of the rows soon
takes all the fine dirt from between the
rows down to the hard subsoil, and be-
tween hoeing and the shovel-plow the
center roots are all destroyed. The
usual cultivator can be largely improved
by wireing on stoutly standing board
to the rear of the back shovels so that
the cultivator, as it is drawn along, first
meIIows the soil, and the board being
crossways Of the row, levels down the
ridged soil, and if cut the right length
it places about as much fresh soil abe ut
the roots of the stalks as the rain washes
down, that SO by the end of the cnltivating
season the ground is left comparatively
level and there is an abundance of fine
sol between the hills, and the slight
gain of fine soil about the stalks will
afford abundant place for the tubers to
develop or the brace roots of the corn to
obtain . secure hold Cleveland H.T-
aid
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-15
Scientific Pig Feeding.


Zig feeding experiments of more than
usual value are being made by Prof.
j. w. Sanborn, of the Missouri Agri-
cultural College. Those described in
report issued under date of July l are
of special interest, since they show
plainly that spring pigs, marketed in
the autumn or the early part of the
winter next following their birth. are
much more profitable than are those
kept through the winter. In the course
of these experiments it was found that
two pounds of food per day per Genital
of live pig was required to keep up the
weight of the animal, and that about
two pounds moro were used for each
pound of growth. The average weight
of the pigs fed on corn meal in this ex-
pertinent was 113 pounds each for the
period of 2l6 days. As they required
2.24 pounds per day for maintenance
ration without growth, then 1,0S9
pounds were used in the 116 days,
merely to support four pigs, leaving
Tor growth only 573 pounds out of a
1,612 pounds of corn meal fed. The
pigs actually gained $50 pounds, show
ing that the food was we'll utilized.
When whole corn was fed the gain in
weight was much less than when meal
was used; yet careful review of the fig-
ures resulting shows only IL pounds
saved by grinding to every 6.8 pounds
fed. AS lnillers charge one-eighth toll,
this gives 176 pounds to every eight
pounds saved, or A pounds per ton to
pay for carrying to MILL The conclu-
sion from this is that this high toll is
about equivalent to a prohibition of the
use of meal for feeding pigs in the
West. The nutritive effects of whole
corn were apparently greatest, although,
from the little eaten, seemingly practi-
cally yalueless. When whole corn and
corn-meal are eaten in similar amounts
the meal is more effective than the whole
corn.
In this experiment 9S.S lbs of ''ship.
STUFF gave the same gain that 100 lbs.
of corn-meal gave. This has been the
constant result for the last ten years.
The first three years of the trials were
conducted in the dry, cool basement Of
barn, and with pigs. A gain of 2S.l
lbs. was made witch 100 lbs. of ship.
stuff, while 100 lbs. of corn-meal pro-
duced but 1854 growth. At the rates
paid for nitrogen, phosphoric acid and
potash in chemical manures, in every
State east of Missouri, these materials
in the manure made from the consump-
ton of a ton of ship-stuff are worth
S12.63, and those from a ton of corn
meal 1868. Prof. Sanborn says: 81
do not expect that these are practical
values for Missouri, but relative, and
such as to warn us against the sac to
smart people beyond ovr borders OF all
our ship-stuff. Indeed, every bushel of
our wheat should be ground at home.
thus building up our own markets with
all their blessings, and retaining as
much as possible of our own soil fertil-
ity at home. Prairie Farmer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-15

He was busy man and she was a
society woman, One evening he sud-
denly looked up from his paper and
said,
''By the way, didn't we have a baby
in this house about the time Midland
Broad Gauge went up to ninety-eight?' !
''Yes. She said, Oscar was born
the night of the Everingham recep-
ton. I
..Boy, was itp'' he said, with show
Of interest. Il had forgotten; must be
about seven months old by this time.
Where is hep"
She touched bell, a servant APP
peared, and she ordered Oscar to
be brought into the presence Of his
sire. Instead OF whom the weeping
nurse appeared alone, and with many
tears confessed that the infant Oscar
had been kidnapped in the park six
weeks before, and that the most care
full search, aided by advertisements in
the daily napers, had thus far failed to
reveal his whereabouts. Thus we see
that wealth is no barrier to sorrow, and
even into. the homes of the rich and the
great trouble creeps with its steaIthy
tread, and sometimes breaks up whole
evening of enjoyment, ~ Bssrdette, IL
Darlington Hawkege,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-15
Cooking with Oil Stoves.

When one tells you that there is mo
trouble in using an oil stove you may
be morally certain that she does not
know what she is talking about To
be sure, you are saved additional heat
and dust in the summer when you have
so much of both from nature herself;
but unless you are careful you will have
smoky atmosphere and a disagree
able odor. You needn't have either if
you choose to manage properly; the
mo trouble" people will have it all
the time. The way to avoid it is to
keep the burner perfectly clean, and
entirely free from the gummy burner
deposit which even the best oil will
have on the polished brass burner.
Every day the burner should be washed
in hot, clean suds, thoroughly dried
and the wick replaced; the little brass
network about the case Of the burner
should be carefully wiped and kept
free from every particle of dust. The
wick should be cut squarely and even
IL with sharp scissors, and not even q
thread should be left thai is higher than
the rest. When the blaze is extin-
guished, the wick should be turned
down at least half an inch below the
edge of the burner. IF it is left above.
or even with the top, it will absorb oil,
and the oil will run over the top, max
ing it greasy and soiled, and emit an
unpleasant odor. The best quality of
oil should be used, as, after all, it is full
" as economical; there is less sediment
in it, it will burn to the last drop, will
not smoke so badly and does not leave
rank odor The stove should be
filled after using. and when it is first
lighted the blaze should be watched,
because it increases in intensity and
very soon begins TO smoke. Itcan then
be regulated and left for some time,
especially il youare baking;kif you have
water on boiling, as soon as the water
reaches the boiling point the fame will
increase again and must be turned
down. The reason for this nobody pre-
lends to explain. but the fact remains.
.-NTS, Lincoln.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-15
Personal AND LITERARY.

ReY. Samuel Longfellow expects to
fnish the biography of his brother, the
poet, next spring.
-Pere Hyacinthe and Mrs. Lovson win
each publish volume giving their i'm
pressions of the United States.-Boston
Budget.
The widow of the great novelist,
w. III. Thackeray, is hopelesslv de-
ranged, and has been cared for by one
of her husbands friends for years.
The father of Charlie Ross has
spent sec, 200 in the search for his son,
and examined over seven hundred cases
of boys supposed to be his. P2aladeE-
pliG Times.
Joel T. Harris remains are to be
brought home to Kentucky from Italy.
Mr.. Hart was called by the late Hiram
Powers ''the greatest sculptor of the
world. 49, Louisville Courier-JournGl.
Jane Grey Swisshelm said before
she died: ''Oh, but it is good to have
lived and suffered and worked, to know
that nothing can 90 wrong with us if
only we are right.
Widow Marie Durand, according to
her baptismal certificate, was born one
hundred and tWenty-three years ago,
March 16, 1861. She has been true to
her dead husbands memory for ninety
years. She lives in the department. of
Iseri, France.
"A company has been formed with a
capital of $50, 900 to publish an Amer
lean edition of the London illustrated
Meas, at ten cents a copy. The paper
will be revised and edited. and q large
amount of new matter, relating par
ticularly to American affairs, will be
added.
AT recent literary party in Lon
don Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Wilde made
their first formal appearance in London
society, the bride of the esthete being
attired in an utterly utter gown of white
satin, with huge sleeves, medieval
collar, a girdle of golden filigree. and
a chaplet of real white lilies round the
head.
Tyson, who owns or controls most
of the hotel news stands in New York,
began his career as q barefooted news
boy in the streets of New York, and to
LID ClCOlUt OO ~ pc1iQ uG Is IttbuGE Dl0uU
than otherwise of his small beginnings.
To-day he is worth about 100000, and
he has one of the handsomest country
seats on the Sound. M Y San.
The editor of London juvenile
publication, especially devoted to little
girls, offered a prize Tor the best .selec-
ton of "a hundred famous women."
He received no fewer than 1856 re-
plies. These weighed close upon ton.
The total number of sheets of paper
used was about $4,000. These, we are
told, if laid fat on the top OF one
another would form pile seventy
seven feet high. - Chicago Inter Ocean.
Mr.. Gladstone's career as Prime
Minister of England has covered
period IF over nine years Lord
Palmerston was not as long in office as
Mr.. Gladstone. Two statesmen only
during the last hundred years have
governed the English people for
longei period than Mr.. Gladstone One
of these was William Pitt, who held the
Office for eighteen years and ten
months; the other was Lord Liverpool,
whose period was fourteen years and
ten months.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-15

She was not musician nor an artist. !
She could not write anything but let.
tiers, and she was very anxious about
the grammar and spelling of them.
She knew nothing about fancy work or
art embroidery. But she was an admi-
rable seamstress. She took in some
plain sewing that winter, and worked
at night, and so paid the bills.
One evening In May Mr.. Waring
came home late. He was pale and his
eyes shown with depressed excitement.
But Cathy did not observe it. She kept
herself in the shadow of the coffee urn,
and spoke but little. Cousin George,
who had that very day returned from
California, saw that herlittle round face
was red with crying, but said nothing.
"Why, what is the matter, my child?''
exclaimed her father, as they rose from
the table and came into the light.
.'Oh, nothing, father. Only letter
from Jane. She and Maria are doing
so much, filling a place in life,' she
says; and she asked ME if there was no
work for me in the world, no talent
which could cultivate. There don't
seem to be any, really looking up at
her father with quivering chin. ut
seems as if I never could learn any
thing, no matter how hard / tried.
Jane says I spelled psalm in my last
letter sam must have been in q
great hurry, for / do know that word. !"
sLet Jane find her own work, said
her father. Book learning is a good
thing, Cathy, but there is wisdom and
work, too, outside of books and the
schools. AS for your work his voice
grew hoarse. He stopped, came up 80
her, as she stood before the fire, and
held out his arms '.yotlr work has
been--O Cathy. yon have saved me!
I was going down into hell, and you
have brought me back. sIshave drunk
my last drop, with Cod help.''
Cathy held his, head close to her
breast, patted and stroked the gray hair
and worn face with unutterable tender
ness, kissed and cried quietly over him,
but said not word ~
s 'sTell her your plan, George" said
Mr.. Waring, in broken voice. ''Such
good news, Cathyn'' 7s.~ mHr
'.Your fatheris not in. any business
here, Catherine, as you know. 1 pro-
posed to him to 90 with me to San
Francisco and begin, Life over again, as
my partner. He was very kind to me
when l was boy, and feel sure we
can work well and happily together."
Cousin George watched Catherine
keenly as she nodded and smiled and
bent over her father with glad. shining
eyes, the tears still stealing down her
cheeks. He felt that the time had
come to speak. ~ Sfg Esas
f II prophesied once, he said, that The
little Ounce would be good for some
thing. We all have found that she is
worth 50 much she is so true, so good,
SO necessary to everybody who comes
near her, .thatI amasure she will be as
highly(appreciated in California as she
is here, and SO must keep house for me,
as well as for uncle. What do you say,
Cathy?" .
.sYielL if it's necessary, 4 she said.
smiling through her tears, II will keep
house for both Of you.'' Andwith her
arms still about her fathers neck, she
held out her hand to Cousin George
Rebecca Harding Davis, IN Yout5s's Com
91n31lO7l faaszssssf-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-15
Let Us Sneeze.


On the subject Of srleeziug regarded
as an omen there is much to be said.
Speaking generally, it may be regarded
as of favorable augury. 1.-TWO OF three
sneezes be wholesome saws an old
author, and '.He that hath sneezed
thrice turn him out of the hospital, .
says the proverb. OF sneezing. how
ever, as of other good things, it is pos
sible to have too much. Famianus
Strada, the author ola grave historical
work, has a learned depression on tile
subject Of sneezing, and mentions one
Piston Suburranus, who died in fit OF
it, expiring at the twenty-fourth sneeze.
In Aristotle's time the men generally
sneezed twice. but since then the art Of
sneezing, like other arts, appears to
have advanced, and astriple sneeze is
now, we believe, considered the correct
thing. An old legend says:
Sneeze on Monday, you sneeze for danger;
Sneeze on Tuesday. you kiss stranger;
Sneeze on Wednesday, you sneeze for let
ter;
Sneeze on a Thursday for something better.
Sneeze on a Friday, you Il sneeze for sorrow;
Sneeze on Saturday, you're sweetheart to-
morrow;
Sneeze on a Sunday. your safety seek,
The devil will have you the resi- of the week.
~ 88 s48* -7EIcn0fsgess
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The ChristadelphianS.


Three lectures were delivered yester-
day--morning, afternoon and evening
at hall in the third story of the
building on the northwest corner OF
Main and Eagle streets. The lecturer
was Thomas Williams, one of small
and almost wholly unknown sect called
Christadelphians. His discourses tended
TO show the beliefs of the denomination
which he represents. His hearers were
few in number, only a small portion OF
them differing in religious creed from
the speaker.
In talk with Williams last evening,
he stated to a reporter of the EapreSa
that the Christadelphians were the re-
suit of a revival brought about some
forty or fifty years ago by a DR..
Thomas, of London. Mr.. Thomas had
come to this country. settling in Vir-
ginia, where he was for some time
among the Carpbellites He disagreed
in belief with Alexander Campbell, and
started new sect by featuring through
out the country and editing a paper
called the Herald Of the Kingdom as a
religious organ. The Bible is made the
foundation of all beliefs of the sect. 1t
holds that there is one God inhabltino
light, unapproachable, set everywhere
present by universal spirit; that Jesus
of Nazareth was mortal man born of
Mary by the Holy Spirit, and thus c1u-
stituting the son of God; that He was
put to death as q sin Offering and after
ward resurrected and taken into Heaven,
where He is to remain until His second
coming.
1t is claimed'that man when created
was a living soul with the possibility of
being mortal or Immortality sin he
became mortal subject to death; that
in death he is absolutely unconscious,
and, therefore, depends upon a resur
rection for future life; that Immortality
does not exist in man, but will be inn
parted to him as a reward after resur-
rection and Judgment. The wicked, in
stead of suffering everlasting to:ments,
are to be put out of existence.
Christ, at His second coming, which is
to. be an appearance in the flesh, will
rule for one thousand years, during
which time men will be born and die as
in the present dispensation. The resur-
rectlon and Judgment Of the whole
world will take place, the wicked being
destroyed and the righteous receiving
Immortality. Thereafter, throughout
all times, the righteous shall inherit the
world in material bodies with Jesus
Christ as a King in the flesh over all.
The denomination have no clergy, the
meetings being conducted by competent
lay brethren.
The Christadelphians have existed as
sect in Buffalo for about eighteen
years, during which time weekly SER
vices have been held among members
until recently at their various houses.
For the past three years the hall in
which yesterdays meetings were held
has been used. The members at pres
ent number less than dozen. --Bufalo
EGpresS.
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TIE OUNCE OF THE FAMILY.

VI
1t was commencement day at X.
Female College. The sun shone warm
ly into the hall, which was filled with a
brilliant ass m0lage Of visitors. The
girl graduates were ranged on the dajs.
The Other students, numbering three
hundred, We're grouped around them.
AS the Principal took his, place to read
the standing of the students for the
past year, there was an eager stir in
the audience. Ns8@B5l 8t55.
81 have little fear of my GIRLS" said
Mrs. Warning, complacent smile on
her thin lips. Mrs. Waring was
sharp-featured woman in shabby silk
dress. She had published one or two
long poems, which no one read. But
on the strength of them she gave her
self to literature and lumbago for the
rest of her life. She was talking now
to stout, jolly-looking, bearded man,
whom she called Cousin George.
! intend each Of my elder daughters
to study u profession. They must be
independent. Their father can, make
no provision for them--as you see.n
nodding significantly towards a dark.
moody man wno sat near, his fine face
flushed from drinking They must find
their own careers, as men do. And
they can do it!'' ia ks54&tA SS
Maria.
- have. But Catherine, the
youngest, isl will be candid about it
she is Ounce. She does not inherit
even her fathers intellect He had n
certain ability once. He is altered since
you went to California"
Eyes greatly. He was a noble fell
low when l knew him."
while you were amassing fortune,
he was going downtown. He began
by hating his home, and then came
drink
Il am afraid he hears you," warn
ingly.
Serve him right if he did, There.
listen! That's my Mariag' e.
'MisS Maria Waring, one hundred
being the highest mark attainablc, has
received ninety -nine.'
A round of applause followed.
What does she studyp" whispered
Cousin George.
Greek, Latin and the higher math-
ematies, said tie proud mother.
Jane has three studies, also. But her
speciality is science. = f
Miss Jane Warning. One hundred,
Miss Waring is also gold medallist for
the year
Another outbreak Of applause.
The list Of other pupils followed, the
rank going lower and lower, Coas II
George Justus listening, with tginklinQ
ayes, tor ths pame Of the poor Ounce Of