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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-12
THE MODERATE DRINKER.
The Argument for Total Abstinence in a
New and Peculiarly Terrible Light.

The Argument for Total Abstinence in
New and Peculiarly Terrible Light.
On the question of moderate drinking
that eminent authority on physiology,
DR.. Alfred Carpenter, writes to the
London Times note which puts the
argument for total abstinence in new
and peculiarly forcible way. After say
ing that this is the age of precise
methods and precise instruments, and
that recent practice has made great adj
vance in using medicine with precision
and certainty, he goes on thus:
1.-The most poisonous articles are
thus rendered useful and safe. The
most valuable medicines sre among the
most terrible poisons. Motphia is one
of these. 1t is sheet anchor in some
of the most severe and dangerous NAL
aides; yet if the patient has been ac-
eustomed to use it daily the physician
fails to find it answer in the manner in
which he is accustomed to see it act
upon those who are not, as it were, ac-
climated to its use. | am of opinion
that alcohol is most virulent poison,
and under certain circumstances, is
most valuable medicine. The abstainer
has the full benefit of its effects when it
becomes necessary to use it in cases of
illness; but the moderate drinker throws
Always the benefit which it might be as
medicine. No physician is able to
use it as an instrument of precision in
one who is accustomed to take it as u
diet. The moderate drinker submits to
the toxic effect of the dose every day,
and his nervous system is already some
what deadened to its direct influence,
so that the dose which produces a de-
cided result on the abstainer has scarce
ly any effect upon the moderate drinker.
A larger and more poisonous dose has
to be given, with the certainty of some
evil resulting from its use, which will
have to be removed before the system re-
turns to its normal and healthy standard.
1T is an instrument of precision in
the hands of physician when he is an
abstainer. 1t is no longer so TO the
moderate drinker; and, as a conse-
quence, the latter suffers by having one
precise remedy the less which may be
used in his treatment when he requires
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-12
HE WAS DRUNK.
A Man Cuts Himself to Shreds While
Crazed by Rum.

A Man Cuts Himself to Shreds While
Crazed by Rum.
The pedestrians in Hoboken were
startled Sunday night by q man who
dashed through the streets wildly
waving bottle in the air and uttering
the most unearthly yells. In Garden
street the man attacked two young men
who barely escaped his fury. He next
assaulted man who happened to come
in his way. Finally he turned his at
tention towards himself. Breaking the
bottle against a curbstone, he ga5hed
his wrists and arms in terrible maa-
ner, the flesh literally hanging from the
bone in shreds. In this butchered con-
dition he rang the bell of Rev. Peter
Erich, pastor of the Lutheran Church.
at Eighth and Hudson streets. On see
ing the clergyman be descended tho
stOop and again started on his wild ca
reer. By this time, however, the town
was thoroughly aroused. Four officers
found the crazy fellow, who proved to
be Frederick Wissenmeyer, a shoe
maker, living at No. 154 Garden street
He was seated on the sidewalk watch
ing the blood drop from his wounds
His fury had been spent and he quietly
submitted to arrest. County Physician
Heller dressed the wounds and exam
ined Wissenmeyer' mental condition
He had been drinking for several days
and was on the verge of delirium ire
mems. A copious dose of chloral and
other sedatives brought him back to his
senses. He will be arraigned for trial.
Irish World.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-12
Must Have Been Cold Night.


The moon beat silently upon the
waves, and the waves beat noisily upon
the sand. and they strolled quietly
along the beach, and as he looked down
into her eyes, lovingly, he asked plead
ingly:
Mildred, will you return my loYep"
. Yes, George she answered, hest
tstingly. ON one condition.
!" Only tell me that condition. he
pleaded breathlessly.
at is. = she replied, solemnly, "that
you do not again ask me to accept it, !"
and the moon and the waves and his
heart continued to beat as they walked
home solSaHfnlly and silently.--Rps-
ton Post.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-12
BACON.
How 1t Should Be Selected, and How to
Cure 1t Properly.

How 1t Should Be Selected, and How to
Cure 1t Properly.
The best bacon is made from pigs
which will not weigh more than one
hundred and twenty-five pounds when
dressed. The rashers or strips for the
bacon are cut lengthwise off the pig,
and about half of the sides are used.
The portion next to the backbone is
fatter and lacks in muscle, and is not SO
good on that account. When bacon is
made from small pigs-those weighing
less than one hundred Eounds-the
whole of the sides are used. Red and
black Berkshire hogs make the best
bacon, because they have the largest
proportion of lean meat. Six pounds
of salt and two ounces of saltpeter
should be used for one hundred pounds
OF meat-too much saltpeter renders
meat dry and hard. Five pounds of
brown sugar may also be used. If the
bacon is cured in barrel the salt, salt
peter and sweetening should be mixed,
and a portion sprinkled on the bottom
of the barrel, and some also between
the layers of the meat and the top, and
enough water after the meat is packed
closely put on to cover it. In a month
the meat will be ready to smoke. Too
much smoke will color it and give it a
rank taste. Another way to cure bacon
is to rub the above mixture on the flesh
side of the strips, and then pile one
piece above another and let the mixture
penetrate. After three days rub again
and pile up as before A week after
rub again and pile it up, putting the
flesh side up every time. The mixture
should be divided into three equal parts,
to provide for the several rubbings. At
the end of month the meat will be
ready for smoking, or before if the salt
has all penetrated and the surface has
become perfectly dry, which is an indi-
cation. After smoking, the rashers
should be sewed up in bags made Of
cotton cloth, and hung up in dry, dark
place. If the bags are white washed
on the outside all the better, as this
will keep the worms out.-Ihe Farmer
(En0.1.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-12
A ooNouERoR.


On the shining heights he had sought 50 long,
he stood alone at the break of days
The wind about him blew fierce and strong,
And the wide, waste land beneath him lay;
He could see the arch of the purple sky,
And the distant sea-line, thin and white;
And hear, as the swift gale hurried by,
The low, weird voice of the fleeing night.
He could see the way that his feet had trod,
The wreck and ruin his hand had made,
The clothed blood on the witllered sod,
The cold, white faces amid the shade;
The land was his by the victor right,
ne had swept the people before his wrath,
And conquered all by his keen swords might,
And marked his course by a lurid path.
His word was law in the PROSTATE world,
Wnere Kings lay prone in their calling
chains;
He laughed when the bolts of Jove were
hurled
Along the silence of fruitless plains;
The boastfu trumpets for him were loud,
And serVile miniOns bent to his feet;
But ne passed alone through the bringing
crowd,
And no red lips for his kiss grew sweet.
And what did this give for the weary years?
Lo, nothing at all but a sounding name,
And harvest of woe and bitter tears,
For the loss of love is the gift of fame:
All, lew are the good things life can hold;
And the one that shines all others above
Is neither fame nor wealth of gold,
But the sweetness and joy of perfect love.
--17lOs. S. Collier, in Current
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-12
The Piano Nuisance,

] recommend the following passage
in ''Carlyle's Life' to those young pests
who, without a real notion of music,
make the air around them hideous by
their everlasting strumming on piano:
"The miserable young woman in the
next house to me spends all her young
bright days, not in learning to darn
stockings, sew shirts, bake pastry, or
any art, mystery or business that will
profit herself or others; not even in
amusing herself or skipping on the grass
plots with laughter of her mates, but
simply and solely in raging from dawn
to dark, to night and midnight, on .
hapless piano, which it is evident she
will never in this world render more
musical than pair Of barn clappers!
The miserable young female!' -London
Truth.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-12
The Extraordinary Young Lady.

Once in Large City there dwelt
Maiden whose Mother, being in Moder-
ate Circumstances was put to great
straits to SO educate her Daughter that
she might occupy a Higher Walk in
Life. She worked hard, and deprived
herself of every Comfort. And how
was she rewarded? Strange to say,
this Young Lady appreciated her
Mothers Sacrifices, and did all she
could to tighten her Labors. Upon re-
turning from School she would devote
her time to the Kitchen until the hour
for her Music Lesson arrived, and then
she would make the Piano Howl. She
arose early and assisted with the Wash
ing and Ironing, and when her Young
Man took her to the Ice Cream Parlor
at night she always slipped some Choice
Cake into her Pocket for Ma. Finally
She and the Young Man were married,
and the Best Room in their House was
devoted to the Old Lady, who never
afterwards did Lick of Work.
MORAL.
This is not a True Story. 1t is a
Fable. - Cincinnati Times Star.
Ii you would have sound, active.
vigorous, handsome horses, have clean,
We.l-yentilated stables, sound food and
pure water. Prairie Former,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-12
RELIGIOUS ANe EDUCATIONAL.

The Disciples of Kansas win dedi-
cate fifty new church houses in that
State this year.
The Toronto Ministerial Associa-
ton has decided to petition the Minister
Of Militia to prohibit military parades
Sundays.
Ali the towns and cities ST the State
Of. Massachusetts, are. now obliged to give
school-books and all other supplies to
tie pupils free Boston Post.
The total expense Of the Moody and
Sankey meetings in London was f16,-
600. the Whole having been contributed
without any application for subscrip-
ton.
Mrs. J. Lawrence Smith, of Louis
vile, has donated 5000 to the National
Academy of Sciences; The ihconie 81
which Is I'd be.used for the. encourage
ment Of scientific investigation.
Woman suffrage. in educational
matters is now established in twelve
States and several Territories, and in
two Or three others women may hold
Office on public educational boards
NJ 7. Independent.
From the obiect-lessons of nature it
is safe to say that the boy now cooped
up in school, so as to shut him out from
them, learns more-very much more
than he could in books in the Same
space of me.-Ifsdidasdpoiis Jottrpat.
While the politicians are dallying
over the Mormon question the school
teachers are attacking the evil in great
earnest. Eighty-ive schools are now
maintained in the territory by outside
help. These employ 1876 teachers, who
are paid $4,000 a year, and who give
instruction to $500 children. The
buildings have been erected at cost of
$500, 000.-Ihe Current
The statement is made that of the
profits Of his lectures here in 1882
Prof. Tyndal left $4,000 in the hands
OF trustees for the benefit of American
students who might wish to go abroad
to prepare themselves for original re-
search in physics, and that, IS but few
satisfactory candidates have appeared,
the fund has now more than doubled
N r independent.
New Zealand, with 532, 0O0 pOpuIa-
ion, exclusive of aborieines. re-
ports about $4,000 pupils enrolled,
and $4,000 in average attendance, un-
der about 1900 teachers, and about
1000 children in industrial schools.
Provision is made for normal instruction
in four schools, with LAT students; for
secondary instruction, in twenty schools;
and for superior instruction, in four
colleges, the last established in 1882.
The proportion Of men employed
as teachers in the public schools de-
creases every year. In New York State
during the last year for which full re-
ports have been rendered 1882 there
was decrease of male teachers amount
ing to 537, and an increase of women to
the number of 953. The change is sig-
nifcant of several things, and points to
the time when few of the schools viii
have any male teachers besides the
Principal, if indeed most of them do
not have female Principal.-M Y
Herald,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-12

last he had risen to his full height, and
he was seen to be of much more than
average stature. but slightly stopped.
After = deliberate survey of the audi
ence for minute or two he began to
speak, and tell you it was not long
before the litter / spoke of gave place
to murmurs of applause and admira-
ton, and he wasn't restricted to the
five-minute rule either. l can only give
a mere outline of the address. He dwelt,
of course, upon the evil effects of liquor
drinking, and Illustrated his speech
with fflanY amusing anecdotes, but
one feature | recall very distinctly, and
that was a tribute he paid to his mother,
in which he said that whatever success
he had attained and whatever force he
had br0tgbt to bear to resist temptation
he felt was due to the principle of self
reliance inculcated by his mother; that
she always taught him that he was re-
sponsible for his acts, and could do
either right or wrong as he Should
chose. He said furthermore: In the
far West, whence come, rum has not yet
made the ravages that mark its dread
path in the crowded cities Of the East,
and trust there shall never be found
wanting earnest men to warn the pion-
eer that his labor will be useless unless
he excludes from his presence the dread
destroyer, rumr These were the words
of the speaker, as near as 1 recollect;
but l recall distinctly the concluding
sentence of the speech, which was as
follows: lam from the far West on my
way to Washington, and my name is
Abraham Lincoln. None of his hear
eYs had ever heard the name before, but
all realized that the owner was an able
man. When the meeting broke up Mr..
Lincoln passed out with the crowd, and
never saw him again until Twas intro
duced to him at the Astor House in
1861, When, as he said, perhaps pro-
phetically, he was on his way to Wash
ington, to the Presidency and to his
death. IN Y Telegram.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-12

The knitting craze has succeeded
that of the crazy quilt, and the result is
every day pleasing window visions of
pretty misses engaged in knitting,
some of whom attire themselves to suit
their work in genuine grandmother
fashion of chintz dresses and white
handkerchiefs folded neatly across tbeiy
bosoms. The poor of the city are the
grateful recipients of the greater por-
don of the mittens, stockings, neck
scarfs and other useful articles made by
these fair manipulators of the knitting
peedles.-N z 4eSEey, IN Trey Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-12
Intemperance and Crime in France.

DR.. Baron, q French writer, in a re-
cent work, "Pauperism and Poverty" "
shows that the most potent cause of in
digence in France is drink, and that, in
fact, it produces more pauperism than
all other causes put together. To those
who have regarded France as
temperate country this statement may
be surprising, but DR.. Baron further
furnishes statistical proof of its truth.
Taking the Republic at large there is
one cabaret, or public house, for every
LOG people: while there is one savings
bank for every 28,500, and one benefit
society for every 81, 000 1t is estimated
that the average expenditure of
superior French workman in drink and
gambling (and mainly in drink an
nually is $40, though DR.. Baron thinks
this an exaggeration. 1t is interesting
to note that he combats the notion that
want leads to drunkenness. He holds
that improvidence and selfshness are
the principal causes of the drinking
habit. Crime follows closely on the
heels of drunkenness, as shown by the
statistics, and both are directly related
to the number of public houses.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-12

ONE town in Illinois, with a popula-
ton containing 5000 young men, on
recent Sunday had by actual count one
hundred and forty young men in attend
anee at the Protestant churches in the
morning, and one hundred and sixty
onein the evening. On the previous
evening one hundred and JfUe young
men entered single saloon in this city
in only one hour, and there were thirty
sir more saloons open at the same
time.-Y H. C.. A. WatchmG7a.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-12

A SIGNIFICANT statement was lately
made by a citizen of Denver. who
CHANGED to have beer at one time its
Mayor. Whenever we extend the sa-
loon limit little, he said, "we have
to add to the police force. And every
body doesn't seem to realize that the
extra policeman costs more in month
than the saloon nets in 3 year"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-07
RAILROAD NEWS.

The South Florida Railroad passenger
trains now make the trip from Sanford to
Tampa in about four hours. running time.
A glance at the map shows a gap in a
through line of railway from New York
to New Orleans from Hamlent, IN North
Carolina, to Cheraw, in South Carolina.
The through lines in North Carolina are
by way of Greensboro and Charlotte and
by way of Weldon. GoldsborO and Will
mington. Raleigh, n. g., has always
been upon side track, and has never re-
ceived any of the benefits of the enormous
Florida travel during the winter months,
nor of the fast mail. The managers of
the seabOard system of railroads
have not attempted through
line by Raleigh, n. c., and on
to Charlotte over the Carolina Central
because they have no outlet at Charlotte,
both roads at that point being under the
Vile Company. The road from
Richmond to Weldon is run in
connection with the Atlantic Coast
line, SO that it has been impossible to have
a through line by way of Raleigh, n. c.,
without building new road from Rich
mOnd direct to Ridgeway on the Raleigh
and CASTOR Railroad, and then by filling
in the gap from Hamlet to CheraW. Mon
cure Robinson has a charter Of the Vir-
SIHld anu CdrOIlnd IhdIlrodu COMPANY, ,
authorizing the construction of road
from Richmond to Ridgeway, granted by
North Carolina and Virginia, and has
been rapidly building this line. He has
also a charter of the Palmetto Railroad
Company, granted by North and South
Carolina, and has been constructing a
road from Cheraw to Hamlet. The grad
ing is done from Richmond to RidgewaY
and the bridge across the Roanoke river
is far advanced. The grading from Che
raw is completed and the road is ready
for the iron. Both companies have ample
means and both connections will be madO
nv June
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-07

friend, McClave. with whom ne has natu-
rally had an open rupture. Later devel-
0pmentS may reveal the secret Of his
coming to political grief.
One of the most unhappy men in the
world is now trying to divert himself IN
this city-James G. Blaine. He was at
the Metropolitan Opera House last night,
and VIII see Irving tonight. To those
who visited his box at the opera, he ap-
peared to be in good spirits, which shows
that he is better actor than the one he is
going to see this evening.
70 hear home news you must go abroad.
st. Stephens ReUielr, of London, gives
the following as the opinion Of swell
known Americana"
There Is apparently a strange and astOund-
ing misrepresentation on the part OF the Brit
ISL public rs to the political standing of the
two great parties in America. 1t ought to be
clearly understood that the Republican sec
tion, as represented by Mr.. Blaine, is in re-
atty the aristocratic faction, whereas the De-
mocratic one, represented By Mr.. Cleveland,
IS the Irish; or, in other words, the ultra
Radical party. Those who are behind the
scenes believe that Mr.. Blaine has been really
elected had the votes been fairly counted out ;
but Mr.. Cleveland, having the supervision of
the latter, IN his capacity of head of the New
YORK state, has so managed as to make him.
self President of the United States, and the
result VIII be that great Irish difficulty VIII
arse between America and this country.
A friend of mine saw a band of hood
lums raid an Italians fruit stand ID the
BOwery on Tuesday evening, in a manner
that was as successful as it was bold and
methOdical. One of them grabbed a lot of
his wares, and, when he attempted 10 re-
gain his property, the thief calmly set a
dog which accompanied the party upon
him. Every advance of the Italian was
met by the dogs teeth, and, there being,
nnlIOQnn0n N SIGHT
forced to give over his attempt. The
thing was done in a way that shows it
was not the first time the trick had been
played. D.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-07
Board of Aldermen Joking

Editor Morning NeooS: The official pro-
ceedings published in the NEWS this
morning, show that the City Council has
actually gone through the form of sus-
pending for time an ordinance forbidding
the use of the sidewalks by merchants.
Why take this trouble? Why do these
merchants ask permission to use the side
walks? Do they see any city ordinance
enforced when it is unpleasant to do so
any police regulations for the sidewalks
and squares, made in the interests of de-
cency and comfort, insisted on, when to
do so would require the expenditure of
some labor or the loss of some popularity
IT'S indeed refreshing to see that we
have citizens who will ask that an
ordinance be suspended, rather than will
fully violate it for their convenience. But
as to the practical necessity for such ap-
plication to the constituted authorities,
let any one of these petitioners walk
along our thOroughfares and squares,
with his eyes open, and feel how painful
it is to witness not only neglect, but OBJ
struction and destruction in full blast; to
see sidewalks so used that two citizens
can hardly walk abreast, while the imme-
diate vicinity of the curbstOne is occupied
with horse feeding, dirty trough, cooking
utensil under full heat and deposits of
filth generally, this law-abiding citizen
has only to walk on BULL STREET,