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Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-02

An official inquiry into the liquor traffic which has been made in Switzerland has had 8 rather unexpected and surprising result. The report openly defends social drinking. It declares that the practice of social drink ing brings cheerful temper into society, eff faces the traces of daily labor, opens the heart to other impressions and is intimately associ- ated with the development of public life. The public house, it says, fosters intellectual activity and is a remedy against misanthropy, egotism, vanity, narrowness Of ideas and ex- travagance of imagination. The man who wrote this report evidently did not take a very narrow view of things. If he were in this country he would probably shine as Democratic politician.
 New York elevators carried hundred mil lion people last year, or more than the ele- vated railroads. Passenger elevators came into general use about eighteen years ago, and the American invention has since become naturalized in all the civilized countries of Europe. and is in large demand in Australia and Mexico The largest elevators are those of the Manhattan Storage company, measur-
 ing ten feet in width and twenty in length, while the Produce Exchange system is the most expensive, the nine cars costing $69,- 800. The elevators in the great Mills build
 ing have carried 25, 900 persons in single day, the daily average being 12,000 The el- evator used for building the Washington monument is nine feet square, runs to the
 height of 525 feet, and has lifting capacity of ten tons. Bureaus of inspection in many
 cities help to insure the safety of passenger
 elevators but constant care is necessary to prevent accidents.
 In Consul Seymour's report upon the credit system in Canton, China, the following in teresting incident is given: On the occasion of Chinese firm failing, with large indebt- edness to foreign merchants, under eircum- I stances that were deemed dishonorable, Han qua Ca merchant) called upon half dozen
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-02
BurdOck BLOOD BittGrs.

Oxford ChaIybeate Water. Orders for Oxford Spring Water may be left at found efcacious in diseases of the skin kidneys and liver and tonic in cases of general debility. ma 4mo
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-02
Education.

The school OfMOdern Languages TWILL reopen Wednesday, October 1 a. m. Please w apply to TH. HENESS,
 aI,19 9tautonov1 New Haven Conn.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-02
Miss NOtt's

Miss NOtES English and French Family and Day School for Young Ladies' B Wall street, New Haven, Conn. The 18th year De gins Tuesday, Sept. g. Circulars sent upon ap-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-18
Didn't Want Any Mistake Made.

At noon a girl about nineteen years
old, and wearing somewhat faded cos
tune, came up to the delivery window
of the post-office, threw down letter
and said to the clerk:
''Is that air stamp all squee-gee?"
Eyes, it seems to be all right.
can is the address writ SOS thar kin
be no show of its gittin' off N the trail
an monkeyin' all round the country
afore it gifts to whar it's Addressed"
''Oh, l guess so. The mail boys can
manage to"
81 don't want no guess work about
it, for that's matter o. life an death.
Ii that letter'll go straight, say so, an
if it won't, just unlimber your tongue
an give me square music
IN guarantee that it will find the
person to whom it is addressed said
the clerk, who had deciphered the hero
glyphics on the envelope.
Then that's all right; but if it don't
git thar on time I II have you took up
fur murder That letters fur my teller
back in Illinoy, an he writ that if |
wouldn't marry him right off he'd kill
hisself, an I've writ back that he kin
come on I'M double up jest as soon as
wants ter. If that letter don't git thar
straight, Jim's jest fool enough to
swaller dose of pizen or somethin'
an mind, young man, that you are LA
bic to be pulled any minute for murder
if he does. My names Roda Lumly,
an anybody that knows the Lumlys Il
tell you that we're not to be fooled with
when human life at stake"
And she shook a warning finger at
the clerk and walked -LeddUilIt
(Col.) Democrat.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-18
A Dramatic Incident at SOntay.

The SGigonnGiS narrates q rather
dramatic incident which occurred at
the capture of Sontay. and brought the
resistance of the besieged to an end
The French Admiral, we are told, had
taken his stand on some breast works
which had been thrown up near the
Notifications, and was personally direct
ing the operations of the attacking
forces. In the very heat of the engage
ment the fire from the town suddenly
slackened and soon ceased altogether.
The Viceroy of Yun-Nan, it appears,
had always believed Sontay to be an i'm
pregnable fortress, and when be heard
that the French were marching upon it
he set out for the place himself, as he
wished to be present to witness their
defeat, which he regarded as inevita-
bic. Accompanied by the First Lieu
tenant, or aid-de-camp, of the Chief of
the Black Flags, he went from rank to
rank encouraging the soldiers, and at
length he found himself facing the
French Admiral, who in his exposed
position, not quite two hundred yards
off, presented an inviting target to the
enemy. "You have them before you,"
said the Viceroy, turning to the young
officer, "the chief of these bands of bar
barians who have sworn to destroy us.
You pass for being skilled marksman;
here is an opportunity of proving your
self deserving of your reputation.
The officer put his rifle to his shoulder
and took steady aim at the Admiral;
but before he could pull the trigger he
fell mortally wounded on the body of
the Viceroy, who was shot through the
heart almost at the same moment. The
news of their death spread Immediately
through the ranks; the Black Flags lied
for refuge to the citadel; and in less
than an hour afterward the French flag
was floating over Sontay.-9t. James
Gazette
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The Schools and the Saloon.

Between the public schools and the
saloon there is a conflict as irrepressible
as that which made the first three
quarters of this century historical in
politics. The saloon does all in its
power to unteach what the schools en-
deavor to teach. The school teaches
the children tc be prompt, punctusl, eff
ficient; the saloon teaches them to
dawdle and loaf, and takes all the snap
out of them The school urges them to
be industrious; the saloon trains them
to be shiftless and thriftless. The
school would inspire them with rever-
ence for law; the saloon trains them to
trample upon ali law, human and di-
vine. The school inculcates the prin-
ciples of true citizenship; the saloon in
culcates the lowest demagogism. The
school teaches them love to man and
love to God; the saloon teaches them to
despise the one and hate the other.
Mara ALIen West.
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Temperance Items.

THREE-FoURTHs of the DRINKS
in our police courts get drunk on beer"
- Cincinnati Commercial.
If it is but small sacrifice for you to
give up sparkling wine, do it for the
sake OF others; if it is a great sacrifice,
do it for your own.-ReU. j. Mag.
PHILLIPS BROOKS, of Boston, saws:
IF we could sweep intemperance out
OF the country there would hardly be
poverty enough left to give healthy
exercise to charitable impulses. y
In the window of Cincinnati saloon
is stuffed rattlesnake coiled upon a
whisky-jug and wreathed in flowers.
The proprietor evidently has correct
view Of the Fitness of things. - Union
Signal.
A RESOLUTION proposing the enact
ment of prohibition in the Dominion
Government was recently so amended
as to declare that when public senti-
ment was in favor of the execution of
Prohibition laws they would be enacted,
and as so amended was adopted.
INEBRIETY among American women
is undoubtedly booming more pro-
nounced every year, It's increase is
apparent in the great demand for mar
cotlcs, and the sale Of beer and wine by
grocers; also in the divisions of saloons
into general and family entrances, with
separate rooms for each. Exchange.
We need nothing now in this country,
to obtain entire emancipation from the
horrors of the liquor curse, but little
fidelity on the part of the church to
Christian duty. The liquor traffic is
the one great obstacle in the way of the
progress of the Gospel, and it seems to
me the church should help with all its
might to remove it.-NeaI DoaC.
a NEW YORK. woman has made a
practice of bring suits for damages
against saloon-keepers of whom her hus-
band Obtained his drink, alleging that
his capabilities for earning wages had
been reduced by his drunkenness from
$50 per week to 50 or 81. and stating
the damages at $1,000. In recent
case the jury gave her a verdict for
$500.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-18

found himself able to poop over the
caves; and when the bear turned the
corner. he with lucky aim, and pluckyi
euickness put moose-charge into the
back of the creatures head.
viii turned and Was putting his gun
out to fire, just as Dick dropped down
through tie roof But the bear lay
still. Dicks shot had finished him.
There was, of course, great rejoicing
between the two young hunters. They
started q fire, then took off bruin s
skin; and soon some delicate bear
steaks were broiling on the Goals.
AT don't Eiss that doughnut at all,
somehow" said viii as they sat at din
ner.-Geerge j. Earney, in Vide
Aegdke.
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How They Fooled Themselves

81 won't be fooled once today
said Robin, with a positive shake of the
head.
II don't mean to be-" said Lau~
RE. He was Robins cousin, who had
come over to spend the day. "But may
be we can't help it,
Yes we can" said Robin, ''if we
look out sharp" Aunt Nav looked up
from her book and laughed a little at
that.
But they dad look out sharp-Robin
and Laurie. Not one of Aunt MAYS
little Jokes succeeded, though she tried
a good many 1t was nearly noon when
she came in with small square pack
age.
Here's something boy left at the
door for you, Robin" said she.
''Did boyP" asked Robin. lifting his
eyebrows in funny way. You see he
felt quite sure that it was Jimmy Dent
who left the package "Well, [ don't
want it, Aunt May. I'll give it to Lau-
rie.''
But Laurie said: "No, thank you,"
very politely; then they looked at each
other and laughed.
Let's fool Teddy O'Brine with it,
cried Robin. His mothers washing
for mamma, and he's down in the
kitchen"
So away they raced to the kitchen,
where little Ted sat by the window.
He was lame. That was the reason he
kept so still.
"We've got something for you,
Teddy" cried they.
Teddy's cheeks Redeemed as he took
the box, shyly. He worked patiently
at the knotty string for long time.
But he got it united at last, and took
off the wrappings. Then he lifted the
box-cover and gave shrill cry of JOY.
| For the box was full of candies of
every shape and sort-caramels and
lozenges and kisses and chocolate
creams.
Robin knew then that Cousin Jack,
who worked in a candy store. had
kept his promise and sent him some of
every kind.
"O-oh!" said Robin.
"O-oh dear!' cried Laurie.
Teddy understood. 81 s'pose you
uIun mean TO give EN- TO me, Salu
ne. "You may have 'em back
" No, we WON'T said Robin, man
fully, though he did choke little.
1--WE said we'd fool you because it's the
first day of April. But I'm real glad
it's candy, and you're going to keep ev-
ery-single-bit. Come, Laurie
Aunt May, who had been standing in
the door, though Robin and Laurie
didn't see her, heard it all.
She sent note right away to Jack at
the candv-store. And an hour after
wards, when that very boy left another
square package st the door, Robin and
Laurie opened it in hurry.
"We'H eat this ourselves, said they.
"But we did get fooled"
You did it yourselves, said Aunt
May, laughing. y Youths Companion.
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Temperance Reading .
HORRIBLE RUN.



A PARODY ON sBEAUHFUL SNOW"
OH the rum. the horrible rum,
Filling saloons and every sum-
In city and town and humber place.
With suffering and woe and deep disgrace;
Rippling,
Flowing along,
melting the rude Bacchanalian song,
As it wends thro' its devious, winding course,
Filling its victims with pain andGemorse,
Whose yirulent poisons must surely flow
From the demon of darkness dwelling below.
OH the ruml the terrible rum,
What babel of woe its homes becomei
Now stirring its thoughtlesS drinkers up
To notice the snakes that lie in the cup,
Kissing,
Writing about
And wriggling around, as if to get out,
With wild, glaring eyes, and terrible fangs
Al gathering IN great Internal gangs,
From every creyice, rock and cleft.
Once runs dupes were pure, but they fell
Fell like Lucifer, from Heav'n to hell
Fell to be likened to filth in the street.
Fell to be scoffd at, spit on and beat;
shuddring,
Dreading to die;
But thirsting still for a little more rye;
Trudging about like weary tramps,
Knowing the people look on them as scamps:
Dub unQlilg. no rest IOr their SlrlV led souls,
Shrivl led by emptying too many bowls.
Once they rivard the beautiful snow,
With eyes like its crystal, and hearts like its
glow
Once they were loved, before the rude trace
Ofrum was beheld in their red, swollen face
Fathers,
Mothers,
Sisters, all,
God and themselves have they lost by their
fall;
The veriest wretch that goes shivering by
VIII take wide sweep lest they come too
nigh
Lest the rum tainted breath should on them
blow
OF those who were once like the vestaI snow.
Strange that a character so like snow
Should become furnished and lose all its glow;
But not so strange that a sense of such stain
Should add desperation to heart and to brain,
Ending
In sending
To early graves
The wretched, blOtched, rum burned slaves,
Who failed to raise a heartfelt prayer,
That God would free them from runs snare,
And not let them live and die and go
To the regions of dread despair and woe,
II. McIfOncb1ie. i4l Toledo Blade.
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A Musical Riddle.

An agitated foreign gentleman
climbed up stairs to the Journals edi-
torial rooms yesterday afternoon, and,
after getting his breath, said to the first
man he met: 81 wish to ask you kves-
tion." On being encouraged TO relieve
his burdened mind, he said: "Haf you
attended re zinfonie concerts zis vim
ter?' The editor confessed that he
had. ''Ven,'' said the foreign gentle
man. "vill you answer me ices? hat
study re music, sOr, re last tirty year,
an sink know zomesing apout him.
Yet / go and l hear re long zinfonie,
and re concerto on re piano, and re
fantasia upon re violin; and l viii con-
fess me Eat at re first hearing I oonder-
stand leedle or Messing of him. And,
as / seets and leestens to re music, I
hear re young LADIES' all around me,
who l can not but sink knows less of
re music zan / who hat 70 mooch study
him, and gay all say: How beautiful
How mooch soul zere is in re gompo-
sition! How grand re Development
ven, by gar! l contestants nossing-
|, myself, who haf so mooch play re
piano and re violin, and hear re best
music in Europe. Am L 20 mooch re
fool, and is re American mees 20 mooeh
re smarter Zan am /? Viii you answer
me Eat, my kind friend?" Unfortu-
nately, however, his nearer could not,
although he had often marveled at sim
liar circumstances, and the foreign
gentleman went away. shaking his head
mournfully Journal.
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USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


yellow corn contains more oil than
the white, but the latter is richer in
gluten. Troy Times.
Farmers wifes and daughters are
advised by the Germantown Teteqraph
to Ego slow in this matter of silk cult
ure.i'
There are 2O9 known varieties of
cherries, sixty of apricots, 239 of
peaches, 1887 of pears and 297 Of
plums.
If any person puts a fence on or
plows the land of another he is liable
/ for trespass, whether the owner has
sustained injury or not Exchange.
Farm implements, when occa-
sionally brushed over with crude Pc
troleum, will last longer and be pro-
tected from changes of weather when
exposed.
Hanging baskets are best watered
by plunging them into pail or tub OF
water until the ball of earth is well
soaked. Allow the excess to drip, and
when this ceases, return the basket to
its place. N Y. Post.
One, Two, Three, Four. Cake: Two
cups of granulated sugar, one cup of
butter, beat sugar and butter to cream,
four eggs beaten, one cup Of milk, four
cups of flour, small teaspoonful of So
da, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar,
one and one-half cups of raisins, and
flavor with lemon or nutmeg. The
Household.
The true idea of farm life is to build
up a comfortable home, not a temporary
stopping place for year or five years,
or until it can be sold. 1t is next to i'm
possible for man to put the same zeal
and thoughtful, painstaking work upon
such farm as on one that he intends to
be his and his family's SO long as they
need one Chicago journal.
-Triffle: Beat the white of six eggs
to a froth; add three tablespoonfuls of
any fiavoring you like; whip this until
the spoon will stand in it; beat the yelks
and a half cup of white sugar until
light; stir this into one quart of boiling
milk; as soon as it comes 20 boil pour It
into bowl, and set it aside to cool;
when cold pour into glass dish and
heap the whites on op.-Tbe Caterer.
"A copy of the proceedings of the
New York State Agricultural Society
contains condensed reports from fifty
three counties of that State, giving the
names of such varieties of the potato as
have succeeded the best in those differ
ent localities. The Burbank was placed
at the head of the list in thirty-four
counties, beauty of Hebron in nine
counties, early rose in six, Chill in two,
and conqueror and late rose in one each.
Among those which stood high, but not
first, were mammoth, pearl, snowflake,
white elephant, early Ohio, James Wick
and queen of the valley.-N. 7. San
Gath thus describes scenes at a
famous dairy farm in Pennsylvania: Il
was interested in two things in this
stable. In the first place, the cream
separator. which is run by steam en-
CINE, reYolves with enormous rapidity,
and the cream flows out of one spigot
and the skinned milk out of another.
Then I observed the apparatus for clean
ing cows, which are carefully washed
and brushed once or twice a day by
means of brushes operated by the en-
CINE. The cow or calf or bull is
brought forward and tied to the post,
and from above these brushes are
brought to her body and carefully raise
every hair.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-18
Our Young Readers.
LEARNING TO WALK.

husnl the baby stands alone
hOlo your breath and watch her;
NOW she takes q step-juSt one
waivers, Stops-Quick- catch her
Couragel Lfe's FIRST step will cost:
Now again she's trying
One, two-threel she walks. almost
Trembling, stumbling, crying.
Precious babyl up once more
Tiny feet advancing,
Little arms stretched out before,
Bright eyes upward giancing,,
Where mamma, with cheering smile,
To her darling beckons,
Softly coaxing baby, while
Her first steps she reckons:
One, two, three-Ohl she will walk
Now, before we know it;
Hear her sweet-voiced Daby-talk,
Little bird, or poetl
Prattling, toddling, there she goes
Stepping of so proudly
Turning in her untaught toes,
Pleased-then laughing loudly.
First exploit of self-content;
Now she's growing holder,
Strength and courage yet unspent,
One can hardly hold her
She so presses 20 advance
In her baby-learning-
Pulls sO-Ah! by what mischance
Is this overturning?
There lies baby on the floor,
Sprawling, rolling, screamingi
Are life's first attempts so poor?
Baby was but dreaming
When she felt so bold and strong:
Gladly now she's clinging
To the one whose soothing song
Back her smile is bringing.
Hurts are cured by mammals kiss
Brave again as ever,
See, the plucky little miss
Makes her best endeavor;
Walks right off--the darling pet
Rush now to caress herl
Come what will of first steps yet,
An good angels bless her!
Elizabeth C. Kinney, in st, Nicholas
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-18
ALPS PUNISHMENT

An Ben Achmet, from his tent,
Looked out upon the armament
He saw the wonder of the skies
And watched the palld moon arise;
And unused upon the promise made
BY Allah's angel fire arrayed,
Who, in a dream long years ago,
Had sroken to him soft and low:
= Thy deeds of good have won this grace
That some day thou shalt see my face.
" Ask not when this reward shall be,
But some day win come to thee;
" Be ready TO receive, therefore,
Great Allah's angel at thy door"
Long years had passed DER Ais head,
Since those first words Of hope were said;
But every night before his door
ALI had placed from out his store
Half bis supply Of dates and bread,
And milk, and rich pomegranates red,
AND watched, to guard them from the clutch
OF hungry hands profaning touch.
"Touch not" he said, "these things are stored
To wait the angel Of the Lord"
And as he sat and prayed, that night,
The angel came in glory bright.
ALI fell low upon his face:
Allah thank thee for this grace"
Then rising, to his door he went;
Enter, pray, thy servants tent"
" Nay" said his guest, " go not in;
The tent is one defiled by SNIP
Poor Ali stood In sore SURPRISE:
+" Ismy life sinful In thine eyes?
Have not given all my days
To Allah's love and Allah's praise?
4" See here, where lies the wasted sum
OF food, laid by lest thou should come"
There" saiG che angel, g lies thy Pin,
Forbidding me to enter in.
" For how shall take JOY in food
That did no human being good?
" The sick and poor whom thou'st denied,
The hungry, who still hungry died,
These hadst thou fed with what see,
The gift VOL Id have been made to me-"
Ali Ben Achmet bent his head;
Allah hath punished pride' he said.
--R. *. NDflIcittrich, IN Good Cheer.
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While handsome but net partic-
ularly shrewd young man of Portland,
Me-, was sitting with a charming but
cunning young woman of the same
town, she said: ''Who are you going to
marry?n ''You," he said, iokingly.
s'Really?" eyes" "Shake hands on
it, the business-like maiden demand
ed. The young man did SO, thinking it
the most amusing incident he had ever
borne part in. The young lady, how
ever, told her father that Mr.. Blank
and she were engaged. The young man
was Immediately waited upon by the
interested parent, and has decided to
marry the girl rather than stand q
threatened suit for breach of promise.
Boston Herald.
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The Black Watch, mentioned so

The Black Watch, mentioned so
frequently in the dispatches from Sua-
kim, as having borne the brunt of Gen
eral Graham 5 last engagement. is the
name given to the Forty-second R0gi.
ment, Highlanders. Into this regiment
were enrolled. in 1887, the companies,
dressed in black or dark tartans, that
had watched the Highlands during the
wal. for the restoration of the StuartS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-18

DIR. BjOrnstrom, superintendent of
a lunatic asylum at Stockholm, intro
duced printing press and some type
into the establishment for the benefit of
an insane compositor. The other pa
tients became interested in printing,
and the doctor soon gave them more
extensive apparatus The result IS the
recent publication of the doctors book
on Diseases of the Mind" which was
set up, printed and bound by the pa
tients, and is pronounced very good
piece of work In every respect. 1t con-
tains two hundred and two pages
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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I'm China swell dinner begins
with hot wine made from rice and
sweet biscuits. 1t ends with a visit to
the druggists -BHfGIO Express.
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The New York Commercial -AdUeg-
tiser remarks that it is again fashion
able for ladies to comb their hair back
from their foreheads and show they
have brains.'
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- ~ I'll cNoMs
OH the rum. the horrible rum
Filling saloons and every STUN.
In city and town and humber place,
With suffering and woe and deep disgrace;
Gurgling,