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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13

Some people may think / speak little
hard of those faithful, obedient animals, as
they are sometimes called, but speak from
experience. Oh, how hate them! But
will now try to explain to you how | ever
attempted to work yoke of oxen.
YOU see Uncle Bill Loyeheart that is
who l live with, alers wants me to be at
work at something, he says idol hands finds
mischief. So the other morning he gave me
my choice to cut out fence corners, or haul
logs for the old man white of corse chose
the latter as it would be much easyer work
handling logs with yoke of slow, lazy cat.
tie than cutting out fence corners with
big old dull heavy brush cythe while the
mercury was one hundred degrees above
zero. Old Bob White gave me a Big yoke
of red cattle to work, and don't believe
they was ever yoked up Before, or at any
rate they didn't act like it, The timber
rom which | was to haul the logs was
ituated about half a mile from the saw
mill and it took me good three hours to
drive from the mill to the timber. I got
their at last though, and finding nice open
spot L left my wagon and proceeded
to snake the logs out of the
braish with the cattle. l found small
cotton wood log and after some lively
whipping l managed to get close enough to
tie one end of large rope around the little
end OF the log. / had 10 chain and / was
compelled to tie the rope in running moose.
By this time the cattle was getting their
Blood up and so was L The Mercury
stood at hundred and 1 stood at one hun
dred and fifty. | started them up and
they went of the opposite direction from
where | had left my wagon. In trying
to turn them the rope slipped off, and
forgetting myself, grabbed at the rope,
and in SO doing STEPPED my foot right in
the running moose. had on pair of stiff,
stogy Boots and the rope drew so tight
around my ANGLE that it almost stopped the
Blood from circulating. / was thrown fiat
ON my Back quicker than one could count
three, and away they went over logs, Brush,
stumps and some of the wourst Briers that
ever disgraced civilized country. made
several attempts to grab the rope, but with
out success. The great goodness thought /,
how will | ever get loose, will the tarnell
old fools take me back to the mill, or will
they just ramble around over the woods all
day. 1 looked up to see what direction
they were travelling in, and / saw to my
horror and dsmay that they were travelling
in a westerly direction, while the saw milf
was south. Yes, they were going West,
how far West they were going to go / didn't
know nor but little did care if I could
only get loose. From the direction that
they were now going if not molested they
would certingly in the corse of five or six
weeks reach Utah. but who wanted to be
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
A Change Warn.

6 Talk about your KanSas corn" said a
short-necked bull-dozer ON Change the
other day; it's nothing to some my father
raised one time when was a little boy.
That was corn, and no mistake about it,"
.'Tell us about it, said man with a
sandy goatee, to whom the remark had APP
parently been addressed,
6 Where the old man got the seed,
don't just know, but remember he only
had few grains of it; enough for hill or
two. He planted it in the garden. and
drove stake in the ground alongside of the
hill, so he would know where to look for it.
Well, sir, | never saw corn grow like that
did. It seemed to fairly jump along, and 1
never knew anything to yield like it before
or since. Every stalk had five big ears on
it, and there was three good-sized nubbins
on the stake, and it wasn't very good
season for corn either. "-C Chicago Ledger.
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Implements. or to build house without
sufficient material. But words can never
describe my feelings. All this time was
screaming for help and cursing the cattle. !;
/ raised my head and looked to see where
We were going. The cattle was just reach
ing an opening in the woods, the opening
proved to be clearing made by some one,
and I now began to think how much easyer !,
it would be dragging over cleared ground
than through the thick Brush. But / soon
found out different The ground had been
lately cleared by some scamp, who had cut
every stub about three inches high. I had
not went more than half way across the
clearing when some one yelled out: ssHear,
what is the matter over their?' and the
next instant an old man came running
across the woods making the brush crack.
After releazing my foot the old man tied
my bleeding remains up in an old table
cloth and carried me to his house where
medical aid was summoned. l relate this
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
a BOSTON LYRIC.

When the winter morn is breaking over land
scapes white with snow
And the cold has sent the mercury down TO
ten or twelve below;
When the boarders shivering. rise from bed
aud quickly don their clothes
And hurry to the parlor stove to thaw their
freezing toes:
When people who must be at work by seven
o'clock or so
With gloved hands shield their ears as through
the icy streets they go;
When the cans of milk are frozen that are
standing at the door,
And everybody says it never was so cold be-
fore
Then the fair and gentle maiden from her
slumber sound awakes,
Be. no attempt to leave the c0uch-so snug
and warIp-she makes
She feels she's not quite rested. All day yes
terday she shopped,
And skated at the rink last night until she
nearly dropped.
81 II take another nap, she says, the beauti-
full young lady.
" And meantime ma viii light the fire and get
the breakfast ready"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13

dragged for six weeks by one leg? A large
treetop was soon reached and The cattle was
comepelled to change their course. They
now chose northern direction, and went
off just as fast as their old stiff
legs would carry them. As / have
heretofore stated that the weather
was encomnly warm and perhaps the
cattle had taken a fool notion to visit
Northern Minnesota or the Dominion of Can
ada and spend few weeks of the hot
weather just as people sometimes do, but
whatever induced them to want to take me
along? By this time my clothes was about
all gone, and my hide and flesh was begin
ming to disappear with them. Every bush
would pass it would throw its twigS around
me and hold on just as if was one of its
dearest friends, and it wanted to save me
from some awful fate which awaited me.
The rose brire and thorny red haw would
strike me in the face, catch me by the back
of the head and bold ON as if trying to tear
me loose at all hazards. and when COM
PEELED to let go it would take out a lock of
my hair to remember NE by. only wish ]
could describe to you the agony of those
dreadful moments, which seemed to me
like long hours. Bryant says to en-
deavor to speak or write without good
supply of words is as absurd as to endeavOr
to till the earth without tbs necessary
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WHAT TO BREATHE.

Pure Air More Essential to the Prescrva-
ton of Health than Good Food,
Almost the first act after birth and
the last one, is breathing, which must
be continued during mortal life, what
ever else may be omitted. This does
not depend on our volitions, but con-
tinues during our sleeping hours, con-
stantly, though at a reduced rate of
speed. Pure air is as needful for the
lungs and the skin as bread is for the
stomach Probably there are ten times
as many die, or suffer from the want of
pure air, as from deficient amount of
food, and yet there is no occasion for
any deficient supply, since vast ocean
of pure air surrounds the earth; by
some scientists claimed to be two hun
dred miles deep! This affords an am
pie supply for all, and, probably, for
many times the present number of liv-
ing creatures on the earth. Aside from
exceptional cases this ain is pure, rem
ovated by the vegetable creation, by
being waited on the wings of the
wind to the utmost limits of the earth,
the waters absorbing vast quantities in
the passage.
In consequence of the great law of
diffusion, the air and foul gases are ever
intrusive, ever encroaching each upon
the other, each tending toward a gen.
eral sameness and equilibrium. We
may attempt to isolate ourselves, al
most barricading our sitting-rooms, our
sleeping apartments, yet the breezes are
constantly about us, demanding an en-
trance, bowling as if disappointed when
ruthlessly shut out. When we attempt
to tighten our apartment, put double
windows, to exclude the pure air of
heaven, stop every possible creyice,
surround our beds with curtains, close
all of the windows and doors of our
sleeping rooms, we are ignorantly fight
ing one of our very best friends
The man who deliberately deprives
himself and his family of Gods pure
air, thus inducing many forms of dis
ease, is as certainly a guilty man,
though he may do it ionorantly, as the
one with the same intelligence who de-
prives his family of their daily food.
indeed, if we may credit good author
ity, man may live from forty to eighty
days without solid food Captain Tay-
lor, an insane man, starved on the
eighty-first day, intending to die in this
way, while one would die in less time.
if deprived of water, but in a few min
utes, if deprived of air. Pure air is the
essential of human life, and it can be had
simply by the taking. DR.. Hamaford,
IN Golden Rule
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13

undermined. One OF the most elective
ways in which the evils of alcoholic
stimulants, as a beverage, can be por-
trayed, is not by astounding assertions
of figures and statistics appropriate
and forcible as such delineations may
be-but by having children and youth
perceive from daily textbooks and
physiological charts the insidious bus
fearful inroads which such beverages
make upon the citadel of life.
Pestaiozzi, the great Swiss educator,
remarked once: "Whatever you would
nave appear in the people, you must
first pat in the common school" The
recent law is in line with this philos-
ophy. 1t creates and fosters in youth
an enlightened moral sentiment. which
constitutes the strongest pledge for the
execution of law. in no other way
can the commonwealth be more effect
lively assured, as the generations come
and go. of a sober and industrious
people.-M z Independent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
NOBLE COURAGE.
The Heroic Deed Performed by an Ems
glish Coast-Guardsman.


glish Coast-Guardsman.
The other evening gallant rescue of
six children from q perilous position
was affected by a coast-guardsms.n
named Thomas White. stationed at Rg-
hope. near Sunderland, Eng.
lond. White had just left the
house on his beat when his
attention was called to group of PEG.
pie near the road leading from the toll
bar in Ryhope Colliery to the beach.
He proceeded to the spot, when. he
learned that six children were missing,
and that it was thought that they We're
on the beach in hole of the cliff. No
one dared to venture down owing to
the incoming tide. but White got some
lines, and having taken off his coat, fas-
tened the rope round his waist, and was
lowered over the cliff, which is about
seventy feet high to the beach below.
When he got a safe footing, he heard
the cries of the little ones, but was una,
bic to get near them until he had di-
vested himself of the whole of his cloth
ing and waded through the water. On
enterirgst the cave he found those he
was in search of crouched in the cor.
ner, benumbed and almost senseless
about waist-deep in the water, every
dash of the tide into the cave splashing
their heads. White took them one by
one, fastened rope to them and the
people at the top hauled them up. Thus
all were sent safely up, except the
youngest, a boy about two years old,
who was so exhausted that White
thought it advisable to carry him along
the beach. M Z. Post
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THE NEXT THING TO 1T.

1t Wasn't Fire or Murder, but Catas-
trophe Equally as Great.
A woman ran out Of house on Beau
bien street the other day crying fire .
as loud as she could yell. A pedestrian
who was passing BY sprang up the steps
and into the hall, and, being unable to see
or smell smoke, he turned to the gasping
and excited woman and asked:
Where is the fire? | can't see any
signs of one"
I'll didn't mean fire! II meant
murder!' she replied.
ia there man in the house~
No, sir" s.
"Who tried to murder you?"
"0h, I didn't mean murder, l guess;
but the avfulest biggest rat you ever sot
eyes on chased our cat across the kitchen
and then stood and g-lared at me like a
tiger thirsting for blood Oh! sir, you'd
better turn in fire alarm and let 'em
kick in all the doors and break in all the
windows and flood the house. The ras
must be killed before he commits some ter
rible deed w-Detroit Free Press.
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BEER DRINKERS.
The Position of Life-Insurance Companies
An Appeal for Total Abstinence.


An Appeal for Total Abstinence.
At recent meeting of the National
Temperance Centennial Conference
at Philadelphia, an eloquent and
earnest address was made by Rev.
Father Cleary, of Wisconsin, Presi-
dent of the Catholic Total Alb
stinence Union of America. In
the course of it he made the effective
rejoinder to the assertion of the brew
ers that lager-beer is especially good
for health and conduces to longevity
that the Northwestern Life Insurance
Company of Milwaukee, whose direct
ors have lived neighbors to the great
lager beer business of that city, and
have watched its growth and influence
on its consumers, refuses now to grant
a life-insurance policy to any one en-
ployed in brewery. They have done
this. not as the outgrowth of fanaticism
or sentimental pity for widows and
orphans, but because their statistics
show that their business has been in
jured by the shortened lives of the men
who drink lager-beer He also made
this sensible and practical point: ''Let
us be Prohibitionists if VIC will, high
license men if we will, men addicted
only to moral suasion, but let us all be
total abstainers Then the Legislature
need never refer to the LIQUOR traffic. If
the people of this country will only be-
come total abstainers, if the consumers
will cease to be consumer, we will
very soon settle the whole question:
The correctness of the decision by the
Milwaukee Company is confirmed by
Colonel Greene, President of the
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Company, who, in an address
at Hartford, said that from data
which he had gathered the. drink
ing of beer was as injurious as
that of whisky, that its influence on the
system might be slower but was never
theless sure, and that habitual beer
drinkers generally died of acute dis
eases. Nothing is surer than thai the
brewer and distiller are foes to bust
ness, as well as to domestic comfort
and religion.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
TOO MUCH EVEN FOR A CAT

1t was tiny little bird
That sat upon tree
And warbled from her throbbiug throat
Her trilling minstrelsy.
A crouching, creeping Thomas cat
GaZed at her from below,
But she sang on and paid no heed
Unto her cruel foe.
And nearer crept the Thomas cat,
And then he made spring
The hapless bird was in his mouth
But ceased not yet 10 sing.
OF then chaste music's holy charm
Itself made felt ere long:
The cat released the singer, which
Still chanted its clear song.
All. baffied catl ah, happy birdi
All, music'S wondrouS powerl
The bird, though, was pretty toy,
Which, wound up, sang an hour!
Boston Gazette.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
RELlC-HUNTERS.
Cranky individuals Who Deface Furniture
ind Burial Vaults.


ind Burial Vaults.
Oh, those relic-hunters!
They seized on everything that they
could pull apart. At General Grants
flrst Inauguration. the President had
scarcely retired from the grand stand
when crowd of citizens clambered u5
the sides from the ground below, and,
within minute, the chair which the
Chief Magistrate had occupied was split
into score of fragments-one man
capturing leg of it, another an arm,
another part of rung, and all march
ing away with them as trophies of the
event! After the funeral ceremonies
over Senator Sumner the relic-hunters
sought to obtain pieces of the mourning
emblems around bis vacant chair The
Grape was cut into bits by score of
knives. Indeed, the jack-knives even
attacked the mahogany of the desk it
self, and policeman had to be sta
toned at the chair
The relic-hunters 90 to Mount Vernon
to visit the tomb of Washington and
break the mortar and rocks from the
walls of tie old vault, cut twigs from
the shrubbery and trees, and carry
away any little thing that will serve as
memento of the place. Edmund
Alton, IN st. Nicholas.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
HE FIXED HIM:


How Shrewd Husband Removed Tramp
from His Premises.
''Who's that at the kitchen door?" asked
Mr.. Jollikin of his young wife, last Sunday,
just after breakfast.
'Its tramp and I'm bothered to death
with them," she replied, as she got UP to go
after the visitor.
''Wait minute, my DEAR" said her hus-
band, cpl fix him SO he won't trouble
you any more"
THAT'S darling husband" she said,
lovingly ''You are always ready to help
me and to say pleasant things to nsa"
lie kissed her and went out and in five
minutes he returned.
WELL" queried his wife, ibid you fiz
him?"
Eyes; / gave him something to eat"
"Why, you shouldn't have done that
He'll be sure to come right back and worry
me more than ever" she said, petulantIy.
''Oh, no he won't, love. L gave him
pocketful OF those biscuits you made for
breakfast" -MerchG7,t Traveller.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
a Hopeful View of Things.

Friend Ito young author How are you
succeeding in your literary work?
Young Author (hopefully)-Well, com
Iaratively speaking, am doing well
Friend What Is comparatively speak
ing?
Young Author-One of the greatest of
modern writer's wrote for twenty years be-
fore he had single MS. accepted have
only been writing five years. Compared
with him, fiatter myself that am doing
welI.--NY Sun,
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Al GOOD SAMARITAN.

story as one tie narrowest risks Oh my
life. But the most singular thing about
this story is that the cattle has never been
seen since, and now old Bob white wants
me to work for him one year to pay for the
stears. You see when that old man re-
leased my foot from the hantle he just left
the cattle go where they pleased. l told
the old man white where thought they
were going. Sammy Tucker" in Pecl's
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
THE LAND OF THus-AND-so

How would Willie like to go
To the land of Thus-and-So?
Everything is proper there
All the children comb their hair
Smoother than the fur of cats,
Or the nap of high silk hats;
Every face is clean and white
As lily washed in light;
Never vaguest soil or speck
Found on forehead, throat or neck;
Every little crinpied ear,
In and out, as pure and clear
- As the cherry blossoms blow
In the land of Thus-and-So.
Little boys that never fall
Down the stairs, or cry at all
Doing nothing to repent
Watchful and obedient;
Never hungry, nor in haste
Tidy shoestrinQs always laced;
Never button rudely torn
From its fellows all unworn;
Knickerbockers always new
Ribbon-tie, and collar, too:
Little watches, worn like men,
only always half-past ten
Just precisely right, you know,
For the land of 1hus-and-So!
And the little babies there
Give no one the slightest care
Nurse has not thing to do
But be b 4ppy and say Boo!
= While mamma just mods, and knows
NOCnlng out TO d0Ze ana OoZe;
Never litter around the CRATE;
Never lunch or dinner late;
Never any household din
Peals without or rings within
Baby-coos nor laughing calls,
On the stairs, or through the halls
/. Just great Hushes to and fro
Pace The land of Thus-and-So!
80 the land of Thus and-Sol
Isn't it delightful, thought"
Yes" lisped Willie, answering me
Somewhat slow and doubtfully-
Must be awful nice-but
Ruther wait till by and by
Fore go there-may be when
/ be dead I'll go there then
But" the troubled little face
Closer pressed in my embrace
Les don't never ever go
To the land of Thus and-So!"
-Jdfmes WhttcOaab Riley, in Indianapolis J0lt
nal.
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The Difference.

''How these cases of defalcation by bank
officials are increasing! It would seem that
a mans procliyities
.Oh. nonsense, Darringer. His procliy;
it's have nothing to do with ii.
what then pray?"
His propensties, - Philadelphia CsIIL
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Free of Charge.

'l'd like to consult you on private mat
ter" he said to a Griswold street lawyer
the other day. "How much for your adj
vice?"
''That's according to the case. What is
it?"
II want to ask if I'd better get divorce
from my wife?"
''Oh, well, Pll give you some advice for
nothing. If you'll only wait few days
you'll probably be free man. filed bill
for her yesterday p-Detrob Free Press.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13

A GEORGIA paper predicts that5in
three years at the longest there viii not
be single retail liquor store in that
State. In less than generation the
people will LOOK back into the past ard
talk about bar-rooms, and the children
will ask: sWhat is a bar-room?" We
fear these predictions will not be full
filed in so brief a time, and yet we
trust the happy day of deliyerance from
the rum-power is not far away.-M Y.
Observer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13

Ten convicted criminals were on one
day recently sentenced at Cleveland to
the Ohio Penitentiary, the terms vary
ing from one to four years. The Judge.
IL sentencing them, said the cause of
the trouble in every case was whisky.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-05-20

Planter and !SOCklaan.
1t is now pretty we'll settled among the
best breeders that sheep put up 10 fat
ten does not require exercise, any more
than a sheep or hog. tis my practice to
yard them closely for about six weeks,
supplying everything, even water, within
the Enclosure. But the stables and yards
must be well Uttered. The heated condi-
ton Of the blood resulting from high feed.
ing, and the constant accumulation OF
filth between the segments OF the hoois-
unless prevented by abundant litter
tend 10 create scald- foot, and the buyers
will be almost certain to mistake this for
ioot-rot, and demand a reduction in price.
A long season Of examining on grain
is Improbable; 1t is better to limit
tho close yanling and high feed.
ing to tho last six weeks OF the iatten.
ing period. Ihave found 1t a good plan IN
reserve q piece Of rich brown or June
grass pasture, say from September turn
them on II about the time other grass
fails, and when they would otherwise be
put into winter quarters, feeding about q
hushel OF shellsd corn, or It's equivalent,
per one hundred head, to keep them gain.
ing little oil the time. 0fcourse, itsnow
covers The ground for few days, they
must be housed and given dry feed until
able to reach the ground again. This
course Of pasture will keep their systems
in excellent condition, preparing them for
the six weeks examining on grain. This
period otgraztng can be curtailed or ex.
tended, according to the outlook OF tho
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