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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-06-13
BRISTOL.

Mrs. Burdick made trip to Keno
Sha last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Detmour, of New
York, returned home this week from
visit to Mrs. A. Gulick.
Mr.. w. Conrad and wife, from
Minnesota, have been down to visit
his father and brother
Last Sunday witnessed very large
congregation at the Plank Road
church, where the minister endeayor-
ed TO draw a contrast between the
character of Samuel, the prophet, and
Eli, the priest.
Mr.. A. Guile is preparing for new
barn. The stone work is under wav.
DR.. Shearer has took leave of Bris-
toll. He has sold his practice. and with
his lares and penates has started for
the great west. Many will be sorry he
has gone for while, but DR.. Stevens
will fill his place.
Mr.. A. Moe, of Beaver Dam, is
visiting his cousin, Miss Gulick.
I understand that Mr.. J. D. FOwler's
barn is about finished. It's good
sign to see farmer have plenty of
barn room.
/ have been told that Mr.. IL. D.
Burt lost a horse by death last week !;
also that the German living on the J..
Fellows place had one die.
/ had purposed to attend the service
for .Children's Day. at Wesley, but
circumstances came along and hitched
up horse and took me to Pleasant
Prairie. They gave us some good
singing, and all together it was a
pleasant service and the children
seemed to enjoy it.
The Bristol band will have picnic
at Paddock's lake on the Fourth of
July Rev. J. B. HoWes will make,the
speech, and the usual FILINGS will all
be on hand. So there will be a good
/ time. Remember there is room for
you all on the grounds, and the rest
can go on the water in boats.
/ Mrs. F. HOllistef is very sick, but
DR.. Stevens will attend 20 her case, so
we hope before this comes out she will
be round again.
The Farmers CLUB met on Wednes-
day at Mr. Torrey's. Several important
Questions were discussed, especially
the dinner.
| The next meeting of the Wo)dworth
| Lyceum will discuss the question.
Resol0ed, "That every man serving il
the Union army during the late un
pleasantness in any capacity ought t.
| have a pension Affirmative, Col.
lSpilkins; negative, Farmer Welkins
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OF INTEREST TO PUBLISHERS.

The following extract from an address
delivered by E. w. Stephens before the
Missouri Press Association at Springfield,
Mo-, May 21st, is worthy Of the con-
sideration of publishers:
Why should not newspapers preserve
the same sef-respect and follow the
same rules recognized as legitimate in
other branches of business? With the
highest power in its hands, the recogniz-
ed guide of intelligence and influence
in every department. the source no less
of news than of thought, why is it that
SO rarely we see really money-making
newspaper? While millions are made an
nually in branches of business demand
ing not one-tenth the thought and effort,
why is it that a business requiring such
multiform characteristics of culture,
thought, energy, business sagacity and
enterprise, is not only, especially in coun-
try localities, filled with toilers making
out hard and thriftless living, but is
strewed with commercial wrecks from
one end of the land to the other? Why
is it that reference is so lightly made to
the " little country newspaper" accom-
panied by smile or shrug of the
shoulders? 1t is perhaps needless tosay
that for all this the newspapers are them
selves chiefly to blame.
Take two newspapers in the same
town Do they, like other branches of
business, have uniformity of prices, or
if they have them are the prices ade-
quate to the service rendered and do
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at the next election. not of course with
the expectation of achieving 2 victory,
but, as it is SAID, to show their adher-
ence to a principle. This they express
their determination to do by diyorcing
themselves from the Republican
party-the only party which, to any
degree, has within it the temperance
element. That element is continually
gaining strength, and whenever public
sentiment is prepared co sustain pro-
hibitory enactments, they will be sure
to come; until then, prohibitory law
will be OF no avail. Prof. Cornwall, of
Albion Academy, expressed the fear
that voting the prohibitory party tick
ct would have the effect of turning the
government over to the democracy
and the devil" That was a hOmely
expression, but nevertheless conveys
much meaning. The Democrats, for a
political investment, could we'll afford
to subscribe to a prohibition party
campaign fund. Among those present
at the Madison Convention was our
former esteemed townsman, E. G..
Durand, now of Racine. He was
chosen a delegate to the National Pro-
hibition Convention to meet in Pitts.
burgh. That body will go through the
form of nominating a candidate fol
President of the United States.
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THE WOOL INTERESTS.

The wool industry of the country and
its needs are well shown in the letters
of I. f. Mead & Co., of New York, who
say:
Public attention has been called re-
Gently to the wool trade of the United
States by the opposition to a further re-
duction in the duties imposed on inn
ported woods manifested by some of
the leading wool-growers and others
in interest. Some idea of the develop
ment of the wool trade in this country
since 1862, when the years production
was only 106,00O,000 pounds, as well as
of the magnitude of the annual clip, at
present, may be obtained from the
following table, showing by calendar
years the approximate number of
pounds produced in the United States,
the imports and exports for the fiscal
years ending June 80, and the remand
er which was left each year for home
consumption. If it were possible the
years of production and of imports and
exports should end at the same time,
either June 80 or Dee. 81, but, unfortu-
nately, the statistics have not been pre-
pared and kept in that way. For the
estimated annual production, and for
other valuable statistical information,
we are indebted to Mr.. John Lynch, of
this city, who has been known for the
last quarter of a century as one of the
most trustworthy authorities on ques-
tons concerning the wool trade, and
whose figures are preferred by the New
York Chamber Of Commerce to those
from Washington
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For the Telegraph.
THOUGHTS UPON EDUCATION

When we consider that our educo-
ton to each of US means all that we
have accomplished for ourselves. all
that others have done for us in any
way. and in any degree, by their
thoughts, their lives, their personal
efforts for us; when we consider, too.
that education means more than
knowledge of intellect: that it means
skill of hand, establishment of princi-
pie, regulation of heart, discipline of
character, we feel how narrowly the
word is often applied. A child is said
to have good education for one of
his years when he IS able to answer
accurately a list of questions concern
ing things of which he never had cog
nizance-a better education, perhaps.
than another who has solved in his
own consciousness a hundred problems
of which the other never thought. So
men are compared with men and wo-
men with women. ut is too bad that
a man with such splendid education
is such moral wreck The poor
girl has to teach school il she is sick.
for it is all she knows how to do are
each with a contradiction in
it. Education means the strengthen
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KINDERGARTEN COTTAGE.

The building of Rskindergarten cot
tage, which has for some time been in
contemplation, was commenced last
week. 1t is located in the corner
directly north of the residence of Mrs.
Dunning. The school will be under
the5direction of Mrs. Dunning. who
has been engaged in kindergarten in
struction for some years past. AS
soon as the cottage, with suitable ac-
commodations, is completed, an i'm
proved system of instruction will be in
PRODUCED. This contemplates a revolu-
ton of primary importance in kinder
garten education, and is being extend
ed to public schools as well. The
kindergarten will begin with the edu-
cation of the hand as well az the head.
The fact is becoming apparent that
the education of the head alone is a
great mistake in our present school
system. Boys and girls grow up to
manhood and womanhood but half
educated; they have laid in stock Of
book learning, which will neither buy
food, clothing nor lodging. Now and
then book knowledge will find the
pOssessor employment as teacher or
clerk, but only a fraction of young
men and women can rely on these
avocations for a livelihood; the mar
ket for such services has long since
been over-supplied.
According to the E0eniaaq Wiscosa-
SIM, of Milwaukee, the public schools
of that city are complained of as having
tendency to make the pupils despise
manual labor. Very few boys" it
says, center the mechanical trades
when their school course is competed.
Many of them, moved by the false idea
that labor with the hands is not re-
spectacle. go into the already crowded
professions. Others take up cierk-
ships which lead to nothing better.
Both these classes can hope to receive
for their services as a rule no more
than scanty pittance. Meantime the
more lucrative and equally honorable
places IN the workshops, it is COM
planned, are being filled by foreign
w0rkmen. To remedy this alleged
evil the introduction of system of
industrial training in the schools is de-
1t may be an Overdrawn statement
that any of the public schools have a
tendency to make the pupils despise
labor, but the fact neyerthe-
less remains true that the pupils have
gained no practical knowledge Of labor
by their school studies. If any per-
sons suppose children have no aptitude
for industrial trades, it is a great mis-
take. Experience has proven that the
youngest in the kindergarten readily
take to industrial occupations; that
they acquire fondness for them which
increases as they grow in years. It is
also true that dividing the time of
children, by devoting part to the
education of the hand, does not retard
their progress in book studies. The
change from one to the other during
school hours has salutary influence on
Goth the physical and mental powers.
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SHEEP NOTES.

Mr.. A. J. Benedict proposes to shear
part of his sheep unWashed and part
washed. Mr.. Fiddler will shear unwash-
ed his flock of over hundred sheep
and ship the wool to w. A. Allen & Co.,
Chicago.
Sheep washing, if at all worth doing,
should be done only with clean water,
and under circumstances which will al
low the sheep to keep clean after leaving
the water. It is a bald farce to souse
the animals in muddy pond, and drive
them long distance over dusty road.
National St0cEnadn.
Messrs. w. A. Allen & Co., wool COM
mission merchants, Chicago, says: If
a farmer allows his sheep to run so long
after washing that the fleece becomes
as heavy with grease and dirt as it was
before, he had better sell his wool to a
green buyer at home. No manufactures
will pay the price of washed wool for it..
When prices are low for any product
the buyer is always more particular and
examines more closely what he buys.
For this reason it pays to put up your
heeces in the neatest manner and leave
nothing in the wool that ought not to be
in it.
Not long since, according to an cold
Flock Master" in the Weekly Tribune,
an importation of Merino sheep was
made into California from the celebrated
French flock Of Rambouillet. A four
teen months fleece sheared from ram
weighed, nnwashed, 62R lbs. After
cleansing and drying to be made into
cloth it weighed IA lbs. - OF. This was
a loss in weight by cleansing of a frac-
ton over rs per cent.
The following testimony is given by a
breeder Of sheep in Missouri Twelve
years ago I started with 600 full-blooded
Merinos. / have now over 5000 and
have sold several thousand during that
time. I have made money every year
since I started, raising a large increase
and shearing heavy feeces each year.
The entire flock sheared last May over
eight pounds per head of class of
wool that brings the highest price in the
market"
One of the advantages of shearing I'M
washed is that the sheep can be shorn
early. If shorn in May they have five
months growth of wool on when the
cold weather comes. IF shorn the lat
ter part of June and fore part of July
they carry their feeces during month
of hot weather, which makes them so
uncomfortable that they lose flesh and
have a months less growth of wool when
winter comes.
J. NJ. Robertson, Michigan farmer,
at a farmers meeting in that state, said
4" The great mass Of farmers are igno-
rant and slow to see what is for their
own interest" That cannot be said Of
Kenosha county wool growers. They
have been quick to see that the practice
of washing wool on live sheep. can
not add one ounce of wool to the fleece.
Many have abolished the practice, and
all will as soon as they can feel assured
that they can market unwashed wool to
as good advantage as washed. Washed
fleece as well as unwashed are both put
through the securing process before they
can be used by the manufacturer. The
washed fleece being freep from dirt sells
for more per pound, hut the unwashed
fleece will bring price equivalent to the
wool it contains. The secured pound is
the only basis ofvalue.
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WEALTH AND POLITICAL pow
ZIP


The maxim, wealth is power is as
old as the hills, but it has not been so
generally understood until these later
years that wealth monopolizes the best
public positions. Wealth has grown
bold in asserting supremacy; million
aires ride into power, overcoming OBJ
stacles which would be insurmOunt-
able to men of small means, however
honest and capable they may be. 1t
not infrequently happens in nominat-
ing conventions that the question is
asked, how much money can the candi-
date bring to aid in securing his cleo
ton? 1t is understood that in order
| to be elected to an important Office
money is required. Many of the best
Iqualified men for Office cannot risk the
necessary money investment to become
a candidate, especially when the contest
promises to be close. A considerable
number of United States Senators who
have not long since been elected are
milliOnaires; some of them from five
to ten million dollars. Many Of the
Senator'S count their wealth by hun
dreds of thousands. Merit alone with
out money is, in too many cases. re-
garded not sufficient endorsement
1t was not always so. More than once
in Rome, when the government was
rent by factions, and the liberties of
the country In great peril, the people
looked about for leader. Cincinatus,
an unpretentious farmer, comparative
ly poor, but rich in honesty and lnteg-
rity, was waited upon while plowing
in the field, and persuaded to take
lcharge of the affairs of government
| By his cool and deliberate judgment
Rome was saved from anarchy and
misrule. So there are in this country
thousands of farmers more capabl,
and trustworthy than the many pOliti
| cal adventures who have worked
| their way into Office by manipulating
caucuses, or buying their situations
| with money. Political nfodesty and
moral worth in these times are not the
elements for the attainment of Office.
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TOta4 Isl, 4IO e92 775

There has been steady growth in the
yield for more than twenty years past
and it has now reached the figures of
$40, 100000 pounds per annum. An
analysis ofthe table reveals the fact that
since 1862 the production has increased
a little more than 200 per cent since
1872 over 100 per cent and since 1877
so per cent. Nevertheless we still fail
to produce enough to supply the home
market, and we are, therefore, con,peLed
to import largely, the gross imports for
the last twenty-One years being over 81
per cent as large as the production in
this country. It is well worthy Of note,
however, that while there has been such
satisfactory increase in the Weld of
homegrown wool, there has been no
material change in the amount Of the
imports. There is decrease of 1884
642 pounds in the amount imported
during the last three years, as compared
with the first three years mentioned in
the table, while there is an increase of
6O,2ll, $40 pounds in the last five as COM
pared with the first five years, but this
increase is just about equal to the in
crease in the imports in 1880 over the
average of the other four years. Of the
65,782,917 pounds exported during the
period under review, 6O,594, 187 pounds
consisted of foreign wool that hadlbeen
brought to this country and only ), 1885,
$50 pounds were domestic wool. The
total exports, nearly all of which were to
Canada, were only 6.12 per cent of the
imports, and the net imports, after de-
Quoting exports, were 1852 per cent of
the imports, and the net imports, after
deducting exports, were 3d. per cent
of the production in this country. A
large percentage Of our imports comes
from Russia, Australia, etc.
But our imports are not confined to
the manufactured wool. Since the
beginning of 1874 the imports of this
country of manufactured wooden goods
have amounted in specie values to a
little more than $346, 100000 The fol-
lowing table indicates the value of our
imports ofraw wool and of manufactures
of the same, as well as the total value Of
all the items, for the last ten years.
The value of imports of wool and wool
EN- goods is shown by the following table
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HOMFOPATH

The twentieth annual session of the
Homeopathic Society of the state was
held in Milwaukee last week. DIR. N.
A. Pennoyer, of Kenosha, the Presi-
dent Of the Society, delivered the an
nua address. Among the wholesome
reforms advocated in the address was
the teaching of anatomy and physiol
ogy in public schools, and prohibiting
10y legislation the sale of tobacco to
boys under sixteen years of age. He
thought it impossible to make any
great progress in correcting the evils of
intemperance while boys are allowed
to smoke and chew.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-06-13

Lake Bluff Assembly, located on the
lake shore few miles south Of Wau-
kegan, is preparing for season of
great attraction. Lectures, concerts,
sermons by clergymen of distinguished
talent, together with other interesting
exercises, will make mp the programme
for days. Lake Bluff is conveniently
reached in less than an hours ride
from this city by railway.
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they stick to them On the other hand.
are they not engaged chiefly in pulling
each other down, quarreling through
their columns-to use a Western business
phrase, cutting one another's throat 49,
and generally placing themselves at the
mercy and making themselves the laugh
ing stock of the community? If they
want to fight over politics and the town
pump need they carry it into their bust
ness? Is there any other branch of
trade of which such folly is so generally
and emphatically true?
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The plan of raising strawberries
around barrels is said to give good re-
suits, says the Philadelphia Record ::
/" The directions are to bore large holes
in the slaves of the barrels at regular in
tervals all around, fill the barrel with rich
soil and well-rotted manure, and plant
the vines in the auger holes. An ordin-
airy -four barrel, it is said, will contain
room around it for 100 plants"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-06-13

The Centenary Of the first organiza-
ton of the Methodist Episcopal church
in America occurs this present year,
1884. This centenary will be OBJ
served by the Methodist people gener-
ally throughout the country. The
wonderful progress made by this de-
nomination will furnish grand theme
for pulpit discourse, as well as praise
and thanksgiving.
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ing the Bible and ridiculing the ex-
pectations of Immortality. Ten years
teachings of Ingersoll have been worse
than wasted; the world might be
challenged to show single man or
woman who has been elevated in the
scale of society, or improved in life by
adopting bis yagaries.
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A correspondent of the Kansas Farmer
says that the following sheep-dip receipt
has been used quite successfully: One
pound of sulphur to one-half pound OF
lime, and one gallon of water boil one
hour when ready to use, add three gal
Ions of water to one of the liquid, then
dip hot; the cost of this dip is 2 cents
per head.
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The concert at the Congregational
church on Saturday evening last was
one Of decided merit, and was attend
ed by a large and appreciative audience.
The concert was largely indebted to
Miss Jennie Blinn for its success She
was the originator of the musical en-
tertainment. The programme and the
selections of music were under her
direction. She was ut much pains in
preparing the chorus choir for the
excellent music given by it. The
names OF this choir are Mr.. Healey,
Mr.. Mailer, Mr.. Baldwin, Mr.. Hither-
say, Mrs. Arndt, Miss A. Hawley, Miss
=. Hawley, Miss Johnson. The names
of those on the programme, who took
the parts assigned them, were Mrs.
Hollister (organisH, Miss Blinn, Miss
Hinsdale, Miss Farr, Miss Hale, Mr..
Hithersay and the accomplished violin.
lists, Messrs. Kimball and Lewis. IF
henoSha had nothing else to be proud
or 1t might be SO of its musical talent.
Mr.. Hithersay and Miss Hale are resi-.
dents of Chicago; the others on the
programme are residents of Kenosha.
The gross proceeds from the sale of
tickets were $40.
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On the second and third ballotings
Blaine gained largely on Arthur. On
the fourth ballot the result was decis-
i've, as follows: Blaine 544; Arthur,
2o7; Edmunds, Al; Logan. 4; Hawley.
Is; Lincoln, 2.
For Vice-President the nomination
of John A. logan was made by ac-
clamation.
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If any one has a pear tree that bears
spotted or cracked fruit, let him sprinkle
wood ashes freely over the soil, beneath
the tree, as far in the diameter as the
branches extend--not a light sprinkle,
either, but liberal dressing. Then
wash the bark thoroughly with strong
soap suds (old-fashioned soft soap pre-
ferred) with the addition of lime water
and little flour of sulphur.-Ne,O York
Tribune.
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For the Tooth time the report has
just gone out, the veritable and long
lost Charley Ross has been found.
The Quincy, ILL.,, Herald says he is
now in that city, and will be restored
to his father soon.
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The, news Of the nomination of
Blaine and Logan was everywhere re-
ceiyed by the Republicans with en-
thusiasm. Impromptu ratification
meetings were held in many towns and
cities on Saturday evening last, which
were addressed by earnest speakers
and the interest heightened by bands
of music and the roar of cannon. Oul
neighbors in Racine gathered on Mar.
ket square to the number of 5000 and
were addressed by several speakers,
among them Joseph V. Quarles
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The value of the exports for the same
period 1.-THE raw material and the manu-
featured goods being combined and the
net value of the imports after deduct
ing exports, have been as follows
The value of exports of wool and wool
en- goods is shown by the following ta-
hln
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The ballOting for Presidential candi-
date, when fairly gotten under way,
was animated, but the final result was
reached much sooner than the average
time in former conventions. The
nomination of Gen. Garfield in the
convention of 1880 was not effected
uhtll on the ballot. In the
late Chicago convention there were
but two chief contestants, Arthur and
Blaine. The first ballot resulted as
follows: