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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-18
When t5 Dig Potatoes.

Usually potatoes are the best off if
dug as soon as ripe; this is especially
the case in "muggy' weather or hot
weather between showers. They should
be stored in cool cellar, without too
much light, or they will turn green and
perhaps rot. To guard against rotting
be careful about bruising, it being bet
ter to carry them down in baskets than
to allow them to fall through cellar
window, as is often practised later in
the season. It is much cheaper to dig
before grass. and weeds grow between
the rows Potatoes are ready for dig
ging as soon as the tops lie down. It
is best to dig them early in the day and
allow them to remain on the ground a
few hours, when they should be taken
to the barn and stored in cool, dark,
dry place; but it is. not advisable to
place too many in single heap All
diseased or injured potatoes should be
removed from the lot Concord Patriot.
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saw on the side of the bowl FIVE little black
marks and on the window-sill were five
more, and then five more yet.
Then | began to guess. ] went out into
Mr.. Ratchett's room, and on the window
from the black piazza there were five more
black marks, and on the bureau was COB
let of water, and on that five black marks
more.
/ knew. all now. My grandson. Tommy,
was fine child, but he had one popularity.
The more / washed his hands, the blacker
they got And whatever he touched he
printed off his hands on.
He was capable of climbing that wisteria
vine, and he liked to tease. He had lively
disposition, poor, dear Tommy, and he had
taken the teeth-both double sets-iust as
he had my spectacles before cnurch-time,
and once put his poor Uncle Primers
wooden leg up the chimney, when he was
telegraphed for in hurry somewhere.
like lively disposition, but boarders
have their rights, and weddings aren't to be
trifed with; and says I:
Mrs. Pouncer, be calm" I'd gone
back to her room, you know. Don't cry
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-18
YELLED SPIRITS.

''Where do the angels dwell?' you ask. Why,
here and all around
Are ministering spirits, clothed in strange dis
guiseS found;
Know them in rough and hOmely forms, in
rudest garments clad,
Restraining men from evil ways, encouraging
the sad
Look keenly under human shells in every
And see behind the thin disguise an angels
patient face.
Look for them in our humblest homes; in
mansions, too, they dwell
The household angels which our eyes have
never seen too well,
While looking off afar to see some spirit
clothed in pride,
And never recognizing once the angels at our
side;
Yet there the Heavenly tenant lived in some
familiar form,
And there the sacred angel fire kept homes
affections warm.
in field and highway, house and street, they
daily gather round;
They tread with weary hearts and feet the cold
and stony ground;
They shiyer in the wintry winds; they suffer
grief and pain;
They work with never-ceaslng toll IN garments
poor ana pam;
And yet, withal, they do their work OF kind
ness and of trust,
And cultivate the flowers of Heaven in uncon-
BGuldl uuSt
The mother who is daily yexed by thoughtless
words you say; t6s
The poorer brother, whom you grieve with
scornng by the way;
The little ones, in tattered garb, so carelessly
passed by;
The weeping ones, whom you regard with
hearts and eyelids dry;
All these who suffer in their sphere who be&l
some others cares
May be the angels that for you are shining I'M
awares.
All, look not far away, my friend, into the
distant skies,
For those who thickly gather round in home
lest disguise,
Whose spirits minister to yours in kind and
simple ways,
Whose presence sanctifes your ills and blesses
all your days.
Go forth with Weakened eyes and soul, and in
each homely face
The true sign manual of Heaven, the angel
patience trace;
And crushing out thy binding pride, thy
eagerness for peIf,
Go JOIN the kindly spirits, and an angel be thy
SELF
--IndtdndpOIts Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-18
The Oracle in the Art Gallery.


A local oracle was walking through gall
lery with one of those large-eyed, artless,
simple, modest girls the other day. He
was charging on the different schools of
painting. He appreciated everything; he
knew everything. They came to picture.
He saw without looking name in the cor
ner.
"Now, there, he said, II can tell the
Dutch school at a glance. That is by Ed
boxer. Edboker is favorite of mine.
There is something so genuine in his paint
ing, something SO natural and strong in his
handling of subject think nothing is
more marked or csrious than the distinc-
tions between painters in the way they treat
the same theme. The strong Dutch midi
viduality of Edboker-" - "a rl.sss4a
II beg your pardon, but it appears to
me this picture is painted by E. A. Baker"
Baker! All, dear me, so it is. How
very Dutch he is. San Francisco Ctron-
inIP
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married in lavender with white lace flounees'
and fichu; and he gave her another dia-
mond ring, though there wasn't any room,
to speak of, for it on her fat finger she had
so many already: and they were to be mar
ried quietly III my parlors of a Tuesday
morning: and Monday night all was right;
and Tuesday morning the dreadful things
began to happen. Sally, the chambermaid,
comes to me, and says she: "Oh, Mrs
Kimberly, there is something the matter
with Mrs. Pouncer. She's moaning
dreadful in her own room, and wants to see
YOU"
So / ran upstairs as fast, as I could.
though the store-closet was unlocked: and
if the cook helped herself to lump she
took a pound of sugar-as I knew she
would. And there | found the poor dear a.
crying in bed, and she says: Lock the
door, Mrs. Kimberly" in queer kind of
. voice, and then she showed me what had
happened She always took her teeth out
OF nights and put EN- a bowl of water.
and some one had come inflow, she
couldn't think, for though the window was
open, who could climb up the wisteria vine
but monkey? and they were gone. ssAnd
under my door this cruel letter, Mrs. Kim
berry," said sho, and she pointed to one
~ lIS Ul ttlc DGl. sIttdl III, SIZE. GO
opened the letter and read:
DEAREST CAROLINE: Circumstances that
can not possibly explain force me to fly from
this roof. How long | shall be gone / do not
know. 1t depends on another. Believe me
true, and trust me if you can. have no hope
but in your complete faith in me. Yours,
EDWARD. s
1.-TWO such blows in one morning p says
she. ''and the clergymen coming, and all
Of course, under any circumstances. l
conldn't be bride until had a new set:
but could have said was i'll. But what
is its Isit first wife? Can it be?"
HE doesn't look it, says |.
There's no judging by looks said she.
''NIay be he's found out about my teeth,
and gone.
s'ghat amt likely, says L. he'd have
mnre sympathy" But | didn't think to
say why.
He's a man, says the widow. THAT'S
enough. But it's all awful mystery?'
Perhaps your teeth were never put III
the water S id |. May BE- they're on The
floor"
And | peoped around and pretty soon
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-18
Egotism Better Than Drunkenness.

''My greatest weakness has proved a
tower of strength to me-" said Prohi-
bitionist yesterday.
Explain"
ut was in this way: fused to drink
like fish. People began to say that
couldn't quit-that was ruined. That
made me mad. had good deal of
vanity, and | cultivated it-gave it a
regular dollhouse forcing. l worked
myself up to point where L imagined
myself the greatest man in Atlanta,
struggling with crowd of malignant
rivals who were hoping and praying
for my downfall through the whisky
habit. l began to feel an exquisite
pleasure in disappointing my imaginary
enemies. The voluntary delusion of
mine grew into an apparent reality. 1t
dominates me yet. 1t has made me an
offensive egotist, but it saved me from
whisky, and that is something. "-At-
lG1ata Constitution.
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Without an Introduction.

Mr.. Jones-"That was a shocking TRACE
dy last night" @> t'i5 6'esk
Miss De Silva (of Boston, "What was
it?" h
Mr.. Jones-''A man went down in the
Bowery last night and killed woman he
never saw before without the slightest PROV
ocation.'' 3l0e fa@ fHgr atsuh
Miss De Silva-"He had never been in
troduced to her?1 RI III sF
Mr.. Jones Never. Now what would
you say of an occurrence of that kind in
Boston?'s s s896 @
Miss De Silva (very much shoeked)---sT
should certainly say that he was very rude"
IN. Y. Graphic. agtr., aste.
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was so very thoughtful of me in his will;
but should you be able to promise me the
comforts Of home?" 2t t5f
And her dress was the richest of silk,
and all covered with English Grape, and her
veil with a hem yard deep; and, really,
/ was so touched that / promised her my
best front room with the alcove whether
any one else wanted it or not. And she
lived in retirement, and had her meals in.
her own room for two weeks, for reason
that she confded to me. She was going to
the dentists, and they were full set and
of tue beautifulest whiteness, like snow;
but at first you know, you can't talk in
'em, much Jesse at, and that makes it in
convenient. 9F .6 8
AT the self-same moment, so to speak,
Mr.. Ratchet he came to the house; and it
was the most remarkable coincidence, he
confded in me- too. He was going to the
dentist, likewise, and his was a full set;
and he said he'd like to be spoke of, and
charged as aninvalid for month, which
was done. And all would have been pri-
vate and unknown but for my grandson,
Tommy, that have the bringing UP of;
and how he found it ont l don't know, but
he did, and told it to all the boarders in the
parlor one evening, and was corrected with
my slipper and sent to bed in consequence.
But Mr.. Ratchet he never knew, and Mrs.
Pouncer she never guessed--and we must
all come to it some time; and some of US
had, I've no doubt. And it didn't matter
much, after all. And what do you believe
those two did-widoW and widoWer--but
fall in love with each other, at feast as
much as at their age and their size could be
expected! He waited on her to church.
and she knitted him worsted muffiers, and
he used to read something that he called
poetry, and that was sOlemner than the
prayer-book, of mornings in the parlor--
keeping it from being busted, and making
her cape dreadful poor thing But men
are inconsiderate, whether married or sin
gle, and women will put up with great
deal before the weddng-ring is on. Like
wise, he took her to lectures, where am
told she went to sleep, poor dear!
She Liked fun, and good eating, and
dancing even at her size; and he liked her.
rid, solemn things, and had way of talk
ing as if you didn't have ideas nobody else
could understand you hadn't any at ALL
But widows mostly will get married, if they
can, poor dears, though you can't help won
dering sometimes that they haven't had suf-
ficient warning. Well, he proposed, of
course, and she accepted; and she was to be
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-18
THE LANDLADY'S STORY.
How a Matrimonial Event Came
Near Being Postponed.
A Mysterious Disappearance-Gran
F0mmy's Little Practical Joke, and
the Misery 1t Caused-Happy
at Last. 8 I

believe in fun. Oh, yes, I do believe
in fun. But practical jokes may go too far
indeed they may. Now, there was the
case of Mrs. and Mr.. Ratchet. AT least,
then they weren't Mr.. and Mrs. Ratchet,
but Mrs. Pouncer and Mr.. Ratchet; and
she was widow; and when she came to
me in carriage hired, but still with a
man in livery driving it-and said to me:
"Oh, Mrs Kimberly, ma'am, it's not the
expense I'm thinking of, for terms don't
affect me muci--poor, dear Mr.. Pouneer
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-18
DRUNKEN BABIES.
How Incorporate Habits Are Formed in
acknowledgements and Pernlci0uS
Practices of Parents and Nurses

How Incorporate Habits Are Formed i'm
acknowledgements and Pernicious
Practices of Parents and Nurses.
1t often happens that when child is
normal and wholesome at its birth hab-
its of intemperance are induced in it by
its nurse. We all know that in adult
people of most healthful constitutions
the alcoholic habit, the opium habit.
the quinine habit, the tea and coffee
habit, the tobacco habit, may be in
duced, and easily induced. How much
more in the susceptible 6ody of an i'll
FAINT 1t is so much easier to give 3
boy few drops of paregoric or socth.-
ing syrup or gin sling than to quiet
it by a warm bath, by friction, by q
cup of catnip or smellage tea. The
paregoric, the gin, the whisky, needs
no preparation and is always effective.
The baby goes off to sleep-a drunken
sleep-and the nurse can rest in peace.
External applications of alcohol are ale
most as dangerous in the habits they
beget as internal The pores of the
skin absorb the stimulus, and what diff
ference does it make in the end whether
the child depends for quiet on alcohol
imbibed through the skin or by the
mouth. A baby accustomed to be
rubbed with brandy or whisky will not
be quiet without it. 1t may be thought
necessary in cases of extreme debility
resulting from sickness to give alcohol
lie stimulus or some form of opium 10
baby, but even then it should be done
4 -
food, judicious and skillful nursing will
in innumerable cases do the work alco-
hol and opium are made to do without
inducing vicious habits.
A great many mothers are made to
believe that in order to nourish their in
fants sufficiently they must drink ale,
beer. gin or some other form of malt or
spirituous liquor. We all know what
wretched milk cows give that are fed
on grains that have been first used in
making beer. We call it ''swill milk"
| What other name is suitable for the
nourishment beer-drinking mothers
give their infants? How is it possible
| for baby reared on such food to have
normal stomach? Why should not
craving for something more and other
than wholesome food be induced and
cultivated in it by such a courseP The
baby that partakes of alcoholized milk
is made drunk and has its cOnstitu-
tional vigor so impaired that sit has
not over three or four chances out of
ten for its life. There is an enormous
percentage of mortality among infants
nursed by persons who use alcoholic or
malt liquors. IN Y Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-18
DASHED HOPES.
How Wife's Benevolent Intentions Were
Completely Crushed.

How Wife's Benevolent Intentions Were
Completely Crushed.
$50 You were at Niagara FallS?" She
asked.
eyes"
"You saw the fallsqo aa9
"Oh, yes" a''.
every grand?"
"Very." 1G 1850. -.
''Did you feel awedH' saa3115
II did," st3 a4ft8 .ltt.afi4ts e.
"Much water?'
eyes, a great deal.' t-
Constant roar, suppose?" " = 9
''Yes" 1855
''Felt your nothingness all the time,
didn't you?' F9t,
"Yes'm." .s..ss. ..s., ,..s5..s 3,,fs
GLOW long did this feeling last?''
"What-the feeling that 1 was poor,
puny, miserable nobody?' ''1ss : Hf7t.s
Yes" tsEl
"Oh, not over ten minutes.' 80 .,.t.
"Humph! was going to send my hus-
band down. I supposed it might last tive
weeks. "-De5roit Free Press. tsh
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-18
Source Of the Trouble.

Mike-Oi say, Bridget, wot sames to be
the mather wild the young missus? She
goes about al day looking thot sorrowfuI
and droopin' her Dyes red wild tears Is she
disappointed in luve, dye thinke
Bridget Shure, Moike, oi'm az loss to
know entoirely. 1t was only tits mornin'
that she was tallzin' wild de ole nissus an
heard her say that her fate was more than
she could bear.
Mike-Poor sowle! Dim thinkin', Brid-
get it must be bunyuns she has on them -
N, Y. Times &
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-18
ADherisuos.

De cow-bell can't keep secret.
4 De bes' road to de yaller-jacket nes' amt
been diskivered yit
De wooden Injun' got some mighty strong
p'ints.
Ripe apples make de tree look taller.
De red rose don't brag in de dark J. A.
Macosl, IN Century.
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Too Near to Be Ne;ehbor,r.

Hostess (atan evening party -Mrs. Hem
bricks, will you step with me moment; I
want to make you acquainted with Mrs
Tomlinson? You VIII like her. Pm sure.
Mrs. Hendricks-Ex Excuse me, if you
please. Mrs. Jones, but l would rather not.
You. see, we-er- both live in the same
Gat-N T. Times.
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their secrets, though perhaps they ain't So
crets any more; and they've rewarded me
with their gratitude. But one thing dread
full did happen-beside the pie, Tommy
swallowed all the plun1-jam. 1 expected
that he'd die. but he 't-ISd-B Bits.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-18
A PERFECT WOMAN.

A sculptor to his friend did say.
''I'll lay a wager can make
From this huge mass of shapelcss eIav
A perfect woman, sdils mistake
sI'll take you," was his friends ranlv
And soon the sculptor's work was done.
His friend gazed on with earnest eye.
The worker smiled and said: Eve won /,
"Woman without a tongue, oh myl
think you II own that have won"
The sculptor, smiling made reply:
"A perfect woman should have nonen
-LOtisCiLLe Courier Ionr1l1I.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-18
MARRIAGE a LA MODE.

MHHKTAGE y IA WOUE,
A hat A camel
q nohby beau!
A narrow lauel
A whisper low!
smilel A bowl
A little fiIrtl ~
An aren't vow
That's cheap as dirti
A hand to squeeze,
A girl TO kiss,
Quite at ones ease,
Must needs be blisSi
A ringl A date!
a honeymoon
To find too late ,a8
1t was too soon!
-Etlery Berg, In Puck.
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For every man killed In war ten
have been sent over the gulf by the aid
of the corkscrew.-C Chicago Ledger.
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-
No. man ever became suddenly drank
ard 1t is by gradually accustoming the taste
and stomach % ardent spirits in the forms of
grog and toddy, that men have been led to
love them in their more destructive mixtures
and IN their simple state. Under the impress
sion of this truth, were it possible for me to
speak, With voice so loud as to be heard
from the River st. Croix to the remotest
shores of the Mississippi, would say: Friends
ana feiloW-citiZensl avoid the hab1tuaI use OF
those two seducing liquors, whether they be
made with brandy, rum, gin, Jamaica spirits,
whisky, or what is called cherry bounce. 1t
is true some men, by limiting the strength o.
those drinks by measuring the spirit and wa
ter. have drunken them for many years, and
even during long life, without acquiring
habits of intemperance or tntoxication; but
many more have been insensibly led, by drink
ing weak toddy and grog, first at their meals
to take them for their constant drink in the
intervals o. their meals; at erwardS to take
them, OF ali increased strength, before break.
fast in the morning, and finally to destroy
themselves by drinking undiluted spirits dur
ing every hour of the day and night I am
not singular in this remark. The conse-
quences OF drinking rum and water. or proQ
as it is called says DIR. Mosely), is that habit
increases the desire of more spirit and de-
creases its effects; and there are few grOg-
drinkers who long survive the practice of de-
bauching with it without acquiring the odius
nuisance of draln-drinker's breath and down
right stupidity and impotence
ministers OF the Gospel, of every denomina-
Don ~ tnc y niIcu Ctdtee, tsSa me WIN Ill the
weight you possess in society, from the dig
nifty and usefulness of your sacred Office, to
save our fellow-men from being destroyed by
Ine great destroyer of their lives and souls.
In order more successfully to effect this puT-
pose permit me t2 suggest to you to employ
the same wise modes of instruction which you
use in your attempts to prevent their destruc-
ton by other vices. You expose the evils of
c0yetousness in order to prevent theft; you
point out the sinfulness of impure desires in
order to prevent adultery; and you dissuade
murder In like manner denounce, by your
preaching, conversation and examples the
seducing influence Of toddg and grog, when
you aim to prevent ali the crimes and miseries
which are the offspring of strong drink
For every man killed In war ten
have been sent over the gulf by the aid
of the corkscrew.-Ch Chicago Ledger.
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HANDS UP !"
Days Of Lively RscolIections
Revived near the Cody
City Of Waco.
Four Farmer Held Up ON the
Highway and Robbed OF
saIs.O0

When highwaymen appear " thin a
few miles of Waco, and hold up farm
ers on the highway, II begins 10
look like the good old times of long
ago are being revived. IL Is a real
healthy sign of prosperity in the
land. Bcsid 3 this, itputs men on the
qui yivc; itmakes the highways more
romantic aud gives q big name to our
county Just think OF IL. Within
three miles of the city of Waco four
farmers were stopped in the road and
made TO give up their hard earned
cash. The road leading from Waco
to Bosqueyille has alwa"s had ro-
mantle appearance; for several miles
on either side Is heavy growth OF
cedar and oak, and In many place
the foliage Is so dense that
one can not sec but a
few rods through 1t. Near one OF
these lonely spots the robbery.of Tues
day evening was committed. MIR. w
Il. Gregory, Mr.. Ed. Kellum and an.
other farmer were driving along the
road, when three armed and masked
men stepped In front of their wagons
and commanded them TO halt and
throw up their hands. The command
was obeyed without much hesitancy
and soon the four were standing in q
row, and were covered with two pis.
tolls and one Winchester rifle. One
of the robbers. who seemed to be
boss of the outfit, laid his pist Of
down In front OF one of his pals and
proceeded to go through the four
From Mr.. Gregory he took $ll5, and
SIS from his son, aud $9S from Mr..
Ed.,kellum. They then told the men
to get In their wagons and drive on,
The robbers then went off q short
distance and got their horses, and de-
parted for parts unknown to the
gentlemen who had to give up
their money. The gentlemen who
had been robbed made the fact known
as soon as they reached Mr.. Tom
Lillard residence, aud word was sent
TO the officers In the city. A posse of
four or five men was also made up In
the neighborhood of where tho rob.
berry was committed, and they secured
the country, but no sign of the rob-
bers could be found, On yesterday
officers Lee jenkins and Dan Ford
went out there, and also made search
through the hills and down the
jungles, but no robbers could be found
The men who did the robbing wore
black masks, and all of their faces
were covered but the eyes. Two OF
them rode large bay horses and the
other rode small black pony. There
may be clue to the robbers but Il
is rather doubtful, as IL is believed
that they are strangers in this part of
the state.