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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08
A Mothers I Influence.

In railroad car man about sixty
years old came to sit beside me. He
had heard me lecturing the evening
before on Temperance. Il am master Of
Ship" said he Sailing out of New
York, and have just returned from my
tiftieth voyage across the Atlantic.
About thirty years ago 1 was a sot,
shipped while dead drunk, and was car
ried on board like log. When [ came
to the Captain asked me: DO you re-
member your mother?" told him she
died before l could remember. Well
said he, i am Vermont man. When
[ was young l was crazy to go to sea.
At last my mother consented [ should
seek my fortune. My boy she said,
4 don't know anything about towns,
and | never saw the sea, but they tell
me they make thousands of drunkards.
Now, promise me you'll never drink a
drop of liquor He said, 4 laid my
hand in hers and promised, as / looked
into her eyes for the last time. She died
soon after. I've been on every sea,
seen the worst kind of life and men.
They laughed at me as milkshop. and
wanted to know if | was coward. But
when they offered me liquor 1 saw my
mothers pleading face, and l never
drank drop. 1t has teen my sheet
anchor, owe all to that. Would YOU
like to take that pledge? said he. My
companion took it, and he added, 1T
has saved me. l have fine ship, wife
and children at home, and l have help
ed others. That earnest mother saved
two men to virtue and usefulness how
many more He who sees all alone can
tell Wendell Phillips.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Mrs. Southworth is now at work o.
her sixty-Sixth novel.-N. 7. Herald.

Mrs. Southworth is now at work on
her sixty-Sixth noveL-N. 7. Herald.
Amos Perkins, at the age of ninety
four, is Treasurer of the town of Unity,
n. H.-RuttaHd Herald.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes has
been asked to write poem to be read
at the dedication of the Washington
Monument. February %, 1885.
Mrs. Robert G. Ingersoll is said to
resemble Martha Washington, and
dresses her hair and arranges her neck
wear in the same STYLE Chicago Inter
Ocean.
1t is said that of Stephen G. Eos
ter's song, 'sOld Folks at Home" fully
100000 copies have been sold; OF
Payne's ''Sweet Home" over2, 900, 900
copies; OF Tom Moore's Last Rose of
Summer" 1,500,0 900 copies.
1t has been contended by those who
knew him best that Allan Pinkerton
possessed the faculty which has been
termed +'mind reading" to remarka-
BILE degree, and that this was the basis
for much of his success. Chicago Trio
aE7ae.
Miss Ph@be Couzins, the lie turer,
was sworn in as Deputy United States
Marshal at st. Louis recently, and will
assist her father, the Marshal, as pri-
vate Secretary. Miss Couzins is the
first lady ever made a deputy in the
United StateS.-St. Louis Post.
M. Renan announces a new work
on religion, and says that his highest
ambition would be satisfied if he could
enter the church after death ''in the
form of little volume bound in black
morocco, to be held between the long
tapering fingers of a finely gloved
hand.
The London World says that Nine.
Patti has signed her engagement for
America for the coming operate
season, and will sail for New York on
Saturday, November l. PATHS prop
erty in Wales is worth about $500, 1000,
her diamonds about 100000, and in
addition she has about million of dol
lars.
The late Paul Morphy played sew.
eral games of chess with the great mon-
archs of Europe. He gallantly allowed
Queen Victoria to beat him, but treated
Napoleon III. and King William of
Prussia very differently, giving them at
first an advantage over him and then
sweeping them from the board unmer-
cifully. He was, before his health gave
way, a brilliant conversationalist and d
favorite member of society.
!.
can do to keep up with the times. The
progress of exploration, the changes in
frontiers, and the building of new cities
and towns make an old atlas as in
adequate for to-day's use as last year g
newspaper. The map of Africa is
changing more rapidly than that of any
other part of the world. Many explor-
ers and pioneers there, supported by
governments, geographical societies or
missionary agencies, are all the while
adding new facts to geographical knowl-
edge. Chicago Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08

The continuous. undiminiShed re
sponsibility of every man for his owr
actions must be insisted on at every
stage.of his career. He may destroy
himself, but he can never destroy OF
impair his responsibility for his &C.
lions. He may bring himself, by his
unbridled indulgence. into bondage
never so calling and pitiless; he is re-
sponsible not only for getting into it,
but for staying in it single day.
would never dare abate one lot or title
from the full measure of this respon-
sibility. Pity the slaves of appetite we
may and should; encourage, and incite
and entreat them TO break-nOt stretch
their letters, it is our duty and should
be our untiring effort to do. Extended
hands and cries of help, yes; but ex-
cuse them and say they can't help it?
No; never, never! VIII you say that
by long SHINING a man may annihilate
his responsibility and come at last to
the point where he may do evil, and
that continually, without blame? Such
a doctrine only needs to be stated IN
order to show how monstrous it is. In
truth, the deeper mans bondage to
his appetite the greater the guilt,
which accumulates every hour he con-
tinues in it, and the more tremendously
urgent his duty of Immediately
breaking off his sins by righteous
ness" l would encourage all who are
in bondage to the appetite for strong
drink to hope and strive for full and
speedy deliverance. | would encour-
age none to expect mercy on the plea
that they can not help yielding to
temptation. 1t is a false plea. Old
Zeno slave, crying out in excuse and
justification of his crime: alt was
fated for me to steal," is the typical
wrong-doer of every age and cline.
But there is always some avenging
Nemesis to say with Zeno himself to
every such self-justifying sinner: at
is fated for you to be punished, too. -
Req. G. G. Noyes, D. D.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08
HUMOROUS.

-Lady-Have you given the gold
FISH fresh water as told you, Marionf
Marion-No, ma am, and why would
/? Sure they haven't drunk what they
have yet!-The Judge.
-"Oh!" exclaimed Miss Gushington n,
looking at the portrait. Elbow natural
those eyes are! They look as though
they were aliven' eyes," replied
Charles. lit is life's eyes picture, you
know. "-PbiJGdelphiG call.
-Bigsby was telling Blobson about
friend who was injured in railroad
accident. ''He ought to have got
heavy damages from the road,' said
Blobson. HE did," replied Bigsby;
''he got both legs and one arm broken. g
-MlIacGatEee Sentinel.
-''You look as if you had been
kissed by a breeze from Northland, -
said poetic young lady to pretty
friend, whose cheeks were glowing
with color. ''Oh, no." was the laugh.
ing reply, cit was only soft heir from
Baltimore. "-BurJtngton (W) Free
Press.
Professor: ''Mr. Jackson, do YOU
know the monastic theory of the uni.
verse?' Mr.. j.: eyes" pause. }
Professor: "Why don't you tell me,
them" Mr.. j.: ''Well, you see, there
is no telling what I know" professor
dismisses the class, )-H0rUdrd LAM
pooh.
--"Uncle," said Ralph, "what gen.
der is 'misery?'" ''The neuter gender,
my boy" 'Are you sure, 1ncle?"
"Quite sure" ''Well, I'm sure it's the
feminine gender 'And how do YOU
make that out?" "Cause it says here
in this paper that misery loves COM
pany,' and don't all women love COM
pany?" Golden Days.
-"What are you going to do with
the dog?" asked a gentleman on the
street of friend who was carrying a
small poodle under his arm; stake him
down to the river and drown him?" II
wish l might was the sad response,
''but ne belongs to my wife. l am
taking him over to the barber's to have
his hair cut. IN Y Sun.
"A lady living in Chelsea employs a
girl named Bridget to take care of her
youngest child, two-year-old boy
named Freddy. Bridget took the little
one up to bed the other evening, and
when she again appeared was asked by
her mistress if Freddy had gone to
sleep. "Yis, num- she replied, II
waited till heard him sthill. "-Bostoas
Globe.
The other day visitor surprised 8
distinguished professor, who was say
ing to his baby: "On-ny, no-ny, 9
mussy tick his little footsy tocties, !"
just then he caught sight Of the visitor,
blushed, and muttered: "No, no, you
must not expose your pedal extremities
by extending them beyond the protect
ing covering Of the blanket, or you will
lay your system open to attacks of ca
tarrhal affections. : Chicago Tribune.
At a meeting of the Austin Literary
Club, not long since, during the discus
sion the President spoke of printing
having been invented during the fiji
teenth century, whereupon one of the
graduating class of the University OF
Texas, who happened to be present,
laughed derisively and said: That's
all bosh. I've got Life of Christ in
my room, and he lived more than three
thousand years ago" -IsTos SitasgS.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
Prom Washington.

FoR the first twenty nine weeks of 1884
the balance Of trade against this country
amounted to $74, 14447.
THE business failures throughout the
United States aud Canada during the
seven days ended on the 1st numbered 259,
against $40 the previous week. The dis
tribution was as follows: New England
States, So; Middle, So; Western, 67;
Southern, 81; Pacific States and Terrific
ries, 50; Canada and the Provinces, IS.
The public-debb statement for July is
as follows: Total debt Cncluding inter-
est 81 1851 1856, $50; cash in Treasury, $780,
910,O03; debt, less amount in Treasury,
81 LAG, 0JG,947. Decrease during July,
S3,993, 2SS. Decrease since June 30, 1888,
$105,O34, 259.
On the evening of the 3D. the rear por-
ton of the United States Hotel, in Wash
ington, gave way, burying seven persons
in the ruins, five Of them being colored
servants. The structure had long been
deemed unsafe.
On the I'd the proposed National Confer
ence of Health Boards to be held in Wash
ington on the 7th was, on account of the
more favorable accounts from the cholera
districts, indefinitely postponed.
The exchanges at twenty-seven leading
clearinghouse in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the I'd aggregated
S744,OS2, 494, against 1864, 7O2, $3.50 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the cor
responding period of 1888, the clearings
showed a decrease of 6. per cent.
DURING July the fire losses in the United
States and Canada aggregated $500, 900,
being the largest since the Portland (Me. J
fire of July, 1866 Since July 1 the loss by
fire has been So, 1850, 600.
The imports OF merchandise to the
United States since January l have ex.
ceeded the exports in value $75, 739, 0O2.
In the same time the exports of specie ex.
ceeded the imports $50, 124,1S7.
1T is estimated that the expenses of the
Post-ofiice Department for the last fiscal
year will exceed the receipts by $4,000, 900.
On the 4th General Gresham
returned to Washington from Indiana.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08
Temperance Reading
THE HEAVEN BREWED BEEER-
AGE,

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging,
and whatsoever is deceived thereby is not
wise.-PrOU., 20, i.
At the last it biteth like a serpent and sting
eth like an adder.-PrOu., %, 81.
Oh, that men should put an enemy into their
mouths to steal away their brains-ShdkeS-
psure.
There is life in the drink of the father of old,
First sparkling in Edens fair vale
Drink fit for the Gods,' crystal water so
cold;
No nectar like Adams pure ale"
1t cheereth the heart of the laddie and lass,
Nerves age with the tottering knee;
Inspiration we quaT from the dew-beaded
The glass that from poison is free.
CHORUS:
Then drink but the beverage brewed upon
high,
thine eye;
The rum and the bumper of wine ever
shun;
Too long they have neighbor and brother
undone.
Meier found is this nectar-the health-giving
kind
In the coils of the venomous still;
In grove and in glen life elixir we find;
1t spouts from the foot of the hill;
There 'wayfarer weary and steed Stake their
thirst,
anu anu 1OTu QIlilkGiu QGtpf
And their copious Quafing is never aecurst
But their thanks ever Heavenward
sweep.
In the "old oa1en bucket" entioing and
cool,
In the rivulet murmuring by.
In the river swift-lowing in "SilCam's pool"
In summer-clOudS yelling the sky
All, there is the drink of the blessing-fraught
brew,
For mortal brute, flower and sod,
In diamond-like beauty and prismatic hue
Pure water, a blessing from God.
Break the tempting wine-goblet and drink
neVermOre
The poison that filleth with woe,
That lureth 1.-The wolf of despair to the door,
That inciteth the murderous blow;
The wife-beater's goblet, the fratricides cup,
Oh, Danish from side-board and stand;
Take the hand of the erring, and bid him look
up,
No longer q rum-burning brand.
-R0liOuul American
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08

PRANK FRIsBIE, exchange teller at the
Portland (Ore.) First National Bank. was
on the 4th reported to be defaulter in the
sum Of 100000. He had fad.
On the 4th Harrison Mickey, for shoot
ing Thomas Sophy, was taken from the
jail at Glasgow, Mo-, by mob, and
hanged.
Two FATAL ARRAYS occurred during a
local election at Lexington, KY, on the
4th, the victims being George Stewart and
Jack Cleary. The alleged murderers are
j. G. Geers and Dick Murphy. Both muir
ders resulted Indirectly from too free in
diligence in whisky.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08

by LADDERS to the street Nearly all re-
celyed slight burns.
THE death is announced of Lewis Peter
son, ST., leading business man of Pitts
burgh, Pa, aged ninety-three. He had
been member Of the Masonic order since
1912.
TEE steamer City of Rome was on the
4sh visited by an Inspector of immigration
on its arrival in New York, who found
twelve paupers among the immigrants.
They were not allowed to land.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08
A Rapid Traveller.

my son, said an economical father,
San express train attains great speed.
Lightning is proverbial for its rapidity,
comets are supposed to hurl themselves
through space at the rate of millions Of
miles day, but, comparatively speak
ing, all these things are snails, my boy,
all snails.'
"Why, father" replied the young
man. lazily putting twenty-five cent
cigar, what can POSSIBLY 60 faster
than lightning
"A tve-dollar bill alter it is once
broken, my son. ~. Y. sara.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08

The descendants of Rebekah
Nurse, who was hanged as a witch in
Salem in 1892, still nurse the grievance
of the family, and hold their annual
protesting convention at TapleyVille,
Mass. Boston Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08

The Irish peasantry are noted for
their beautiful hands. Whether pota.
toes, poor living, bog trotting and damp
climate improve the hand we know not,
but the Irish lass has well-formed and
pretty hand. They are small handed
people, no matter how much they wash,
iron, cooks or dig; the English on the
contrary are people of big knuckles;
so are the Scotch. albany Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08

The fashionable name for sunburn
is " Raphael tint, " and the young ladies
out summering are cultiyating this by
outdoor exposure and exercise They
should be encouraged. The Raphael
tint is healthy as well as fashionable
Chicago Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08

There are over a thousand hotels
and boarding-hou in the CatskiIl
Mountains. Last year it is estimated
shat the visitors to this famous summer
resort numbered 100000 Troy Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08

"A ten-year-old Brooklyn boy has
been sent to the House of Refuge
charged with setting fire to number
of stables in that city. He acknowl-
edged his guilt. and said his object was
to assist in rescuing the horses, AMI then
claim reward from the owners.
Brooliga Eagte.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08

On some imported bonnets dozen
humming-b.rds are grouped.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08

There is child in Vermont that is
rather queer. Every effort to have it
use its legs was made by its parents,
but it had no inclination that way. 1t
VIII raise itself upon its hands and
move rapidly across the foor, and when
it has picked up the article it seeks,
places it between its feet and moves
away on its hands Boston Globe.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-08

An English Judge has decided that
kiss is not legal consideration. "
A surgeon in Lambeth kissed a work
ingman' S wife; the husband valued the
kiss at 70. and the surgeon gave him
an O q for that amount. A month
after date an action was brought on this
document, but the Judge promptly
ruled there was no consideration and
gave verdict for the defendant.
The Arizona sentinel., 1884-10-18
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
Yuma, Yuma County. A. T.

Yuma, Yuma County, A. T. ITO SAMUEL PURDY AND A. CAR Il gill-You are hereby notified that I nave expended one hundred dollars worth of assessment work and labor dur ing the year A. D. 1882, and one hundred collars worth of assessment work and labor during the year 1883, on the Min erva mine, located in Silver mining dis trlct, Yuma county, A. T., in order to hold said premises under the provisions of section 2324, Revised Statutes of the United States, being the amount required for holding the same for the year ending Dec. 3l, A. D. 1882 and Dec. 31, A, D. 1883; and if within 90 days from the ser vice of this notice you fail to contribute your proportion of such expenditures to wit: Sixty six and two thidds ($66.9O dollars each, as co-owners, your interest m said claim will become the property of the subscriber under said section 2324,
 JULIUS SEIBECK.
 July 18th A. D. 1884.
The Arizona sentinel., 1884-10-18
Big HaiIStOneS.

Hailstones vary greatly in size. II
 ordinary storms they vary from forty
 six to 12O grains. It may be interesting
 to notice some of the largest on record
 Jfolinshed (who is, however, persist ellt wondermonger) says that hailstones as large as eggs fell in England Tn the year 1902, during the reign of John
 and that in the twentieth year of that bJ good King Alexander III. of Scotland (209 there arose "great winds, with forms of such immeasurable hailstones that many towns were thrown down" by their violence, and fires spread througE- out the kingdom, "burning up steeples with such force of fire that the bell, were in divers places melted" Those of the Abbey of Aberbrothock (Arbroath) were thus destroyed. In 1889, while Edward III. was marching near Char tres, in France, his army was so much injured by storm of immense haGstones that he concluded peace. Count de ldezeray relates that when Louis XII. ot France made war against the Pope and carried his army into Italy (1510) bluish hailstones descended during thunder stor1 which weighed about 100 pounds! On Jure 21, 1545, there fell in Lanca- shire "hailstones as big as mems fists, which had diverse prints in them, some like gunholes." On the 7th of June, 1572, in Northamptonshire, some were found which measured six inches in cir conference; and on the 2Sth of April, 1897, storm passed over Cheshire and Lancashire, during which hailstones weighing eight ounces and measuring nine inches in circumference fell. Hert- fordshre, May 4, same year, was visited by hailstorm which killed several per- sons. The stones were fourteen inches in circumference. M. Parent relates that hailstones as big as a mans fist and weighing from nine and one-half to twelve and three-fourths ounces fell in Le Perche on May 15, 1703. Passing over many recorded and perhaps doubt ful instances such as the above, we learn that during a hsilstorm at Constanti- nople on Oct. 5, 1881, there fell stones weighing more than one pound. Simi- lar stones are said to have been picked up in May, 1921, at Palestrina, Italy. Blocks of ice fell at Cazorta, in Spain, on June 5, which weighed four and one- half pounds; and in the South of France, curing the latter part of October, 1844, some fell which weighed eleven pounds. After a hailstorm on May 8, 1902, in Hungary, piece of ice was found which measured more than three feet, both in length and in width, with thickness of two and quarter feet. To conclude this list, hailstone is said to have fallen in the reign of Tippoo Saib which was the size of an elephant. It is possible that many of those so-called gigantic hail. stones were simply masses of ice com posed of @ collection of hailstones ag- glomerated together in some hollow space into which they had fallen, and where they may have remained for some time after the general fall of hailstones had melted and disappeared.-Cha LesY' Journal.
The Arizona sentinel., 1884-10-18
Profitable POiitenesS.

The Boston TraUeEIer, in commenting on the prevalence of rudeness, tells tho Following incident that happened some years ago: There was 8 very plainly dressed, elderly lady who was frequent customer at the then leading dry-goods store in Boston. No one in the store knew her even by name. All the clerks but One avoided her and gave their atten- tion to those who were better dressed and naosa pretentious. The exception was @ ysung man who had conscientious re- S&rd iJr duty and system. He never left another customer to wait on the lady, but when as liberty he waited on her with as nuch aJtcnaon as If she had been ir;ncesa.
 This continued year of two, till the young man became of age. One morn. Ing the lady approached the young man, when the following conversation took place: Lady" Young man, do you WlSa to go into business for yourself ?" " Yes, ma'am," he replied, "but I have reither money, credit nor friends. nor ~lll any one trust me-" "Weu." con- Glnued the lady, "you go and select good situation, ask what the rent is, and report to me-" handing the young man her address. The young man went. found capital location and good store but the landlord required security. which he coald not give. Mindful of the ladv's rvquest, he forthwith went to her and reported. "Well," she replied. "von go and tell Mir. = that I will be re sponsible. He went, and the landlord or agent was surprised, but the bargain was closed.
 The next day the lady called again to ascertain the result. The young man told her, but added, 'TWhat am I to do for goods? No one will trust me-" ':You may go and see Mir. -. and MT. -, and MT. -, and tell them to call on me-" He did, and h1s store was soon stocked with the best goods in market. There are many in this city who remem- Der the circumstance and the man. He died many years ago, and left fortune ot $3OO,000. So much for politeness, so much for treating ones elders with the difference due to age, in whatever garb they are clothed ]
The Arizona sentinel., 1884-10-18

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