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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-18
Personal AND LITERARY.

Patti wore $500. 900 worth Of dia-
monds in sTrayiata' when she appeared
In London recently.
London supports an eight-page
penny monthly, the sole contents Of
selected poems.
Governor Adams, of Nevada, is s.a
natural faster sometimes going q
week without food. Chicago Herald.
An Icelandic illustrated monthly il
to be published at Copenhagen, under
the editorial direction of Bjornstierne
Bjornson.
Mime. Adam is the name of the ed
itress of the Paris NoUeIte Rccase, but
she claims that she is only grand
daughter and not the original. Phil
Gdelphia Call.
The Journalists of Boston united re.
Gently in sending a congratulatory adj
dress to Colonel Charles 6. Greene, on
his eightieth birthday. He edited the
Post for nearly half century.
james E. Stewart popular song
writer, and author of "Jennie, the
Flower Of Kildare" died the other day
IL the Workhouse at Cincinnati after
prolonged spree. Cincinnati Times.
John B. Cough says, although he
has addressed thousands of audiences
and has grown gray in the field of ora
tory, yet his knees still tremble when
he has to face large audience. Chi
cdqO Journal.
Airy Fairy Lillian is the name Of
Bayard Taylor's daughter, who, accord.
ing to her friends. has developed such
extraordinary artistic abilities that
American painters generally will need
to take up kalsomining to get a living.
N 7. Herald.
Mrs. Paul Ferrin, of Boston, ce1e-
brated her ninety fifth birthday recently,
in the same house she entered as bride
seventy-three years ago. She has not
been absent from the house in all these
years for more than week at time.
Boston Journal
An old man named Sampler, who
was ffer in General Jackson's army
at the battle of New Orleans, is still
living near that city, aged ninety-four
years. He still possesses the instrn-
ment he played on during the battle,
and plays the same pieces he played
then. Philadelphia Press.
Miss Nellie Arthur, the Presidents
daughter, went to the top of the Wash
ington monument the other day, and
set one of the stones in position with
her little hands. She is the second child
who has assisted the work, President
Hayes little daughter having added her
mite to the enormous labor. - WASHING
ton Post naN M
Rev. DR.. Walker, Bishop of Dakota,
is man wherever he goes. Recently
he preached at Wahpeton, d. T., and as
be left the church saw crowd of men
form ring in front of saloon for two
men to fight. He crossed the street,
broke through the ring, Separated the
pugilists, and dispersed the crowd. -
CHICAGO Inter Ocean.
Rev. DR.. Eliphalet Potter, who has
been unanimously elected Bishop of
Nebraska by the Episcopal Council, is
President of Union College, Schenec-
tady, N. r., and brother of Ri Rev.
Alonzo Potter, former Bishop Of
Pennsylvania; also of the late Hon.
Clarkson N. Potter, of New York, and
General Robert M. Potter, of the United
States army.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-18
Nostrums and Imagination.

A patient, suffering from some in
tractable complaint, in which a hope
lessness OF cure forms no inconsiderable
obstacle to the physicians efforts, pro-
cures some new nostrum. The very
sight of the invariable string of testi-
monials inspires confidence. There are
certain to be included in the list of cures
similar cases to his own. He reads and
believes and the nostrum, possibly
harmless as the bread pills prescribed
by the physician for the hypochondriac,
receives another tribute of grateful
praise The analogous case of Liebig,
who when a young man, had neglected
to prepare for his masters visitors the
nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas'' of the
modern dentist. but filed the inhalers
with atmospheric air instead, illustrates
once again the power of faith. The
common air produced all the symptoms
of mild gaseous intoxication which the
laughing gas was expected to induce.
Venturing within the region of house
hold medicine and popular surgery,
perhaps the charming away of warts
presents us with another instance of the
literally remarkable influence of the
mind in modifying not merely physi-
cal states but bodily structures.
Every s'wise woman in the remote
districts of the country, to which
the spread of educational sweetness
and light has mostly confined such
homely oracles, possesses charm
for driving away the excrescences in
question. Even in the time of Lucian
such female practitioners of mild spe-
cies of occult art were celebrated for
their successful treatment of warts.
DR.. luke gives q case in point, in
which, through the effects of the imagi-
nation, even in a cultured person, the
growths in question were made to dis
appear. A surgeons daughter had
about dozen warts on her hands, the
usual modes of treatmenthaving availed
nothing IN their removal. For eighteen
months the warts remained intractable.
until gentleman, noticing the disig-
urement, asked her to count them.
Carefully and solemnly noting down
their number, he then said: '.You will
not begtroubled with your warts after
next Sunday" At the time named the
warts had disappeared, and did not re-
turn. Here The connection between the
imaginative impression Of some occult
or mysterious power and the cure was
too close to leave doubt that, as in
other cases of bodily ailment, the mind,
which SO frequently affects the body to
It's hurtt, had in turn fayorably infu-
enced the physical organization. Gen
NenG1s's Magazine.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-18

He viii, I am afraid, never be sane
man again. This is your work. T" That
seemed to cow him. your repentance
comes too late. I hate you SO that
God forgive me-had you as much as
lifted your finger against me. I should
not have hesitated in killing you like a
dog, and no jury in the land would have
touched hair of my head. Go out of
this city by the early morning train, or
i will make YOU That wretch left
the Office like a whipped cur. What
was the sequelp A sad one. The bank
teller lapsed into a melancholic condi-
ton, which rendered all mental labor
impossible. He had some little money.
but many friends. and such few COM
fofts as he required were ungrudgingly
given him. He died ten years ago. He
never did completely recover his senses.
AS to the canting rascal, his fate was a
dire one. Somehow the whole story
came out, though ] did not diyulge it.
In that section of country where he
lived he was discredited. He took to
drink, and became confirmed inc
briate. He neglected his business, and
his plantation was sold. His wife
sought and obtained divorce. Two
years ago / read that in a brawl in the
most degraded quarter Of town in Ala
bama this man met his death in a negro
dance-house. IN. \. Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-18
How to Live CheapIy.

One of the subjects talked and writ
ten about good deal at the present
time is how to live cheaply. Prices of
all the great staples of life are high.
Rents are enormous. Fashions are ex-
acting. Wants multiply, while resour-
ces diminish. How to make strap and
buckle meet is the problem which press-
es on hundreds of housekeepers of the
middle class. The difficulty in the prob
lem is to reconcile the irreconcilables.
The middle class generally wants all
the fine things, all the style and display
of wealthy neighbors. The problem
would simplify itself at once should the
middle-class family cease trying to APP
pear what it is not, and be content to
appear and be thought just what it is.
It Is what is done to keep up appear
ances that destroys the equilibrium be-
tween outgo and income, and makes
life drudgery and vexation. How to
live cheap1y is a question easy enough
to answer if one win be content with
cheap living. Substitute comfort for
show. Put convenience in the place of
fashion. Study simplicity. Refuse to
be beguiled into style of living above
what is required by your position in so
ciety and is justified by your resources.
Set fashion of simplicity, neatness, pru-
dence and expensiveness, which others
will be glad to follow and thank you for
introducing. Teach yourself to do with
out thousand and one pretty and
snowy things which wealthy people pur-
chase. and pride yourself on being just
as happy without them as your rich
neighbors are with hem. Put SO much
dignity. sincerity. kindness, virtue and
love into your simple and inexpensive
home that its members will never miss
the costly fripperies and snowy adorn-
ment OF fashion, and be happier in the
coy and comfortable apartments than
most of their wealthy neighbors are in
their splendid establishments. 1t does
not follow that in order to live cheaply
one must live me My. The great sta
pies of life are "ot costly. Taste, re-
finement, good cheer, wit and even ele-
gance are not expensive. There is no
trouble about Young people marrying
with no outfit but health and love and
an honest purpose, provided they will
practice the thrift and prudence to
which their grandparents Dwell all their
success. and make their thought and
love supply what thev lack in the means
OF display Those who begin life ut ths
top If the ladder generally tumble of.
white those who begin at Lbe foot ac>
sis.e steadincss, courage and str, Myth
& :irln aud viii As they rise.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-18
Boys, Think of 1t.


The following letter was written by
a father to a son of dissipated habits:
''My Dear Son: What would you
think of yourself if you should come to
our bedside every night and waking us,
tell us you would not allow us to sleep
any more? That is what you are doing,
and that is why | am up. Your mother
is nearly worn out in turning from side
to side because you wont let her sleep.
That mother, who nursed you in your
infancy, toiled for you in your child
hood and looked with pride and JOY
upon you rs you were growing up to
manhood, as she counted on the COM
fort and support you would give her in
her declining years.
eve read of most barbarous man
ner in which one of the Oriental Ma
tons Furnishes some of its criminals. 1t
is by cutting the flesh from the body in
small pieces Slowly cutting the limbs,
beginning with the fingers and toes, one
joint at time until the wretched VIC
tim dies. That is just what you are do
ing you are killing your mother by
inches. You have planted many of the
white hairs that are appearing so thick
in her head before their time. Your
cruel hand is drawing the lines of sor4
row on her dear face, making her look
prcmaturely old. You might as we'll
stick your knife in her body every time
you come near her for your conduct is
stabbing her to the heart. You might
as well bring her coffin and force her
into it, for you arc pressing her toward
it with very rapid steps os
''h ould you tread on her body if
Frustrated on the floor? And yet with
ungrateful foot you are treading on her
heart and crushing out life and Joy
no, need not say joy. for that is word
we have long ceased to sec, because YOU
have taken it away from us. OF course,
we have to meet our friends with
smiles, but they little know the bitter
ness within. You have taken the roses
out of your sisters pathway, and scat
tered thoIns instead and from the pain
they intlict scalding tears arc often
seen coursiEg down her checks. Thus
you are blighting her life as well as
ours.
'.And what can you promise yourself
for the future? Look at the miserable,
lloated, ragged wrctches whom you
meet every day, and see in them the ex-
act picture of what you arc coming 70,
and will be in few years. Then, in
the end, a drunkard's grave and
drunkard's DOOM for the Bible says:
''No drunkard shall inherit the King
dom" Where then viii you be? Ifnot
in the Kingdom of God you must be
somewhere else.
''Will not these considerations induce
you to quit at once and for all the
time? And may Col help you, for
He can and will ii YOU earnestly ask it
'Your affcctionalc but sorrow-strick-
en- father"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-18
tits Garse. ]"

There has been 50 much stealing done
of late years by persons of undoubted
responsibility, and high social stand
ing, that in order to cover up their
offences, new words, the meaning of
which it is difficu t to discover, are in
vented. Shortage and shrinkage are
polite substitutes for theft. When an
educated Bosto young lady entered a
public hall, she exclaimed: .Oh, dear,
what a dreadful odor OF carburetted
hyd ogea?'
'.Mum?'' said the janitor with .
puzzled 'countenance.
1.-The smellof carburetted hydrogen. =
she explained.
Eth is Q kind Of cir, num-" re-
piled the janitor; that's garse; the
pipe is leaky, mum.
There IRE great many public
Institutions about which there is a verv
suspicious odor, suggestive of s.some-
thi 9 rotten in lie mark. = There is a
leak rmewhere, bit it Is more retinea
to call it carburie ted hydrogen than
plain ''garse, le2as Ssf.inQS.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-18
, To Those Going West.

You go to improve your own condi-
ton, but you need not be rude or self
ish, or Indifferent to the rights of others.
Gentleness is power the world over,
and nowhere will it bring quicker
returns than at the West. Your social
conditions will be new. Your neigh
bors will not be disposed to hunt up
your record whether good or bad.
You will be taken for what yot. are.
and you will be measured very accu-
rately.
The West is young, and is proud of
its progress and jealous of criticism,
especially by Eastern standards; hence
it is not well to say much about the
way OF doing things ''back East" Love
the old home, and bring all its gracious
ways with you. 1t costs nothing to
bring these household gods, and they
keep themselves. But be chary of
comparisons between those you bring
an5 those you find.
Identify yourself with the town, the
neighborhood, the State; not patroniz-
ingly, but modestly, Show that you
have come to stay. Be in ssno hurry to
invest your money. No matter how
shrewd you are at home, you are in
danger of investing wildly if you listen
to the men who are so ready to show
the newcomer all the good openings.
Wait. The good corner lots and the
choice farms win not all be gone year
hence. You are going to open farm?
Then by all means wait, if possible a
whole year. Even if you are farmer,
the conditions of soil, climate, vegeta-
ton, and the methods of using tools
and animals differ enough from what
you have known to make it the best
economy to wait. You need not lie
idle. It is often possible for whole
family to find employment on farm
for year, and strong, intelligent
man, with q conscience, can always
find work at good wages. Dom
go to to the extreme frontier
to take up Government land.
There are hundreds of good farms in
Soathern Minnesota, Dakota, Iowa. and
Nebraska that can be bought for less
money than it would cost to bring Gov
eminent land to the same condition,
even if the land was given you. By
little inquiry you can find such farm.
where roads are at least partly made,
and bridges, schoolhouses and churches
are built: You are nearer markets,
and can get more for what you sell, and
pay less for what you buy. Why are
these farms for sale? Because so many
restless, 'sshiftless'' men think they can
better themselves by ''going West. 2
If you are reasonably well off where
you are, and can find work for your
boys and girls, stay there.
Finally, don't expect to get rich rap
Idly. Be willing to work hard and
wait for the result. Hard work and
honest living will, as q rule, bring =
competence sooner at the West, than
at the East, while unthrift and laziness
win bring wretchedness sooner and
more bitter at the West than anywhere
in our land. Christian UaSon.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-18
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

The cabbage needs more hoeing
and stirring of the soil than almost any
other crop Cleveland Leader.
Grass lawns require moving often,
but not cut down close to the ground.
It is best to rake off the mowings.
1t is good plan to keep the soil
Well-stirred In dry season. A good
narrowing is about equal to shower of
rain.-M 7. Examiner
The wise gardener never allows any
soapsuds to be wasted. II is valuable
fertilizer for all forms of vegetation, and
is especially serViceable for small fruits.
NJ Z. Herald.
To make a circular fiower-bed,
drive a stake in the center, tie cord to
it equal in length to the radius of the
bed, securing at the other end large,
long knife by which the sod may be
cut.
Ice boxes and refrigerators in gen.
eral are not half cared for. They
should be washed in every part with
hot soda water, rinsed with clear water,
dried and aired each time before put
ting in fresh ice. Between times. wipe
up any milk, gravy or vegetables that
may be split. Exchange.
Market gardeners find the growing
of small cucumbers for pickles one Of
their most profitable crops In most
farm neighborhoods a patch of cucum-
bers for pickles will find a market
among farmers at better prices than the
market gardeners obtain at wholesale
for their crops. ~ Prairie FGa'matT.
The oven for the baking of small
cakes should be quick for a slow
oven will prevent the cakes from rising
properly. Nor should the heat be in
creased after the baking has COM
menced. When the cake is large a
moderate oven will be required, other
wise it will be burnt or oyerdone on the
outside before it is baked in the middle.
Boston Post
"A writer in, the British Medical
journal says: The best remedy for
cramp--the simplest and most effica-
cious that l know offs a band of
cork. It is easily made by cutting
small new wine cork into thin slices,
which must be sewn close together up
on ribbon or tape an inch wide. 1t can
be tied around any part affected and
worn during the night
Not too great or too immediate effects
should be expected from drainage. In
loose, porous soils, draining easily and
quickly, the effect is marked within
month after drainage. but in tenacious
clays, and soils which have been for 8
large part of the wear under water. the
change is slow and often requires a
year to convert the drained field into
friable and productive soil.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-18
Our Young Readers.
HOW THE SECRET WAS KEPT

/.
In violet my mamma says,
A secret should be kept:
heard her say so to papa
Last night before / slept.
heard her talking in my room
With papa, soft and low
Secrets are kept in violet
And I'm so glad know;
For I've the loveliest secret
want to talk about.
Or course can't tell any one,
Lest it should be let out.
But can tell the violets"-
She darted down the walk.
You see, they,re just the very ones,
For yiolets don't talk"
The violets heard awhisper.
A murmur soft and low,
Then warningly she ended with:
You mustn tell, you know"
knew her small first finger-tip
Was scared with needle pricks.
And that something was often brought
For dear mamma to fix.
And on my birthday by my plate
A handkerchief found,
All snowy white, and neatly hemmed
With tiny stitches round.
lis yours, she cried; l was so 'fraid
| could not get it done.
See all the stitches round the edge;
! hemmed them, every one.
1t was secret. Did you guess?
kept it; no one knew
'Cept mamma and the violets,
Twas being done for YOU"
'1Tis beautiful" l said, and kissed
Her shining curls of gold:
And it was kept inUt0ldte,
For not a violet told.
f ednor a. Hunter, IN HarDer's Young Peopl,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-18

EVERYTHING has its use," said Is
philosophical professor to- his class. "Of
what use is tho drunkarPs fiery red
nose asked one OF The pupils. " It's
n lighthouse, answered the professor,
- to wan us of The little water that
passes underneath it, and remind US of
the shcals of appetite on which We
might otherwise b. wrecked.
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TAe Seupsha telegraph
KENOcHA. wTSCONSIN.
BLANCHE.


Blanche was our baby, sweet and fair:
used to wonder, in days gone by,
If ever came to q mothers care
A lovelier child than ours; and
Grew fond and proud of her pretty ways:
/ learned her prattle TO understand.
Ali those we're beautiful, hopeful days,
When she lisped the language of Babyland.
Here, at our cheerful home Preside,
She budded and bloomed like a pretty flow
err;
Her mothers pet and her fathers pride,
She grew to girlhood; and, hour by hour,
planned and hoped-while she laughed and
played
While made her garments, with tuck and
fold
Or mended her aprons torn and frayed-
How she would help me when / was old.
a schoolgirl gay, with winsome face,
Careless, thoughtless and strong of will,
Dancing, romping, yet full of grace
And loving-kindness, see her still,
Talking OF lessons so dull and drear,
Telling of something the girls had said:
AOw little We think of our joys when here
How much we miss them when they have
fled?
Herr in our watchful care secure,
Beloved by all of the friends she knew,
She grew to womanhood, sweet and pure,
With soul that was trustful and always
true,
She loved, and her joyous heart was won;
We gave her away, q happy bride,
To one who was worthy TO be our son,
And worthy to walk by our darling's side.
And thus. in the morn of her hopeful years,
To the pleasant tasks of her welded life
She passed with our blessing and our tears,
A faithful. fond and loving wife,
She walked where the fields were fair and
green,
Where. the blossoms bloomed and the sun
light shone;
She dropped, she died, and her soul unseen
Has peacefully passed to the dread un-
knownl
Ali the hours seem long, and the nights seem
drear-
Our hearts are heavy with grief and care;
But often we fancy that she is near
Her beautiful presence seems everywherel
Here is the room that she neatly kept
Here are her treasures still side by side,
Here is the bed where she sweetly slept,
Just as she left them, before she died.
mss the touch of her tender hands
That oft on my forehead used to feel;
The love that mother understands
AS strong, as true, as a bond of steel;
The sound Of her voice in the sweet surprise
Ofsome newfound pleasure; her features
fair;
The splendor that flashed from her brilliant
eyes.
Her faultless form, and hor ebon hair.
Over the dark and the soundless sea
Where the pillows break on the Heavenly
strand,
She hath 'fathomed the mighty mystery
That only angels can understand;
She walks in light in her robe of white,
With starry crown on her forehead fair;
She watches and waits by the golden gates,
TO gladly greet US when we go therel
Eugene j. Hal, IN american Monthly.
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MIR. MOODY is reported, by London
Paper. to have said that. upon returning
to England after an absence of eight
years, he found thar Dineteen-twentieths
of the backslidcrs from the ranks of his
former converts had been led away by
the public house.
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Always Forgetting.

Susy's strong point was always for
getting But she insisted that she
could not help it. She chad no mem
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-18

IL 1882 the British people spent over
$3.50. 900. 0 o IA drink. or an average of
SIS Iser capita. This is about equal to
what was spent on bread, potatoes and
vegetables alone, while on meat and
fish SG0.00O,090 less was expended than
ON drink.
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"A remarkably singular incident oc-
Cured near Oil City, Pa, during thun-
der-storm a few days ago. The work
men who were stTinging telegraph
line had a coil of wire partly up on the
insulators. while the main coil was still
on the reel in the wagon. There was a
vivid flash of lightning, and the man
who was attending to uncoiling the roll
of wire was seen to spring from the
wagon, drop upon his knees in the
muddy road, and, amid the descending
torrents of rain, was heard to pour
forth fervid prayer and at the same
time confess his past sins. 1t took the
rest of the gang some minutes to con-
vince the man that he was not struck
with lightning, but had been merely
shocked by an overcharge of electricity.
(liI (lif2f Derrick