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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-02-07

IL Il dra"n and engray~i srn, IA Imported
costume. 1'!re h,Sque and ti:4u ilapery sTp
of blue crepe. The edges ef, ~:slG~sl AMI
trimmed with Xix lrr.~i gimp, the clasps
which bold the fronts t'fs,ttse, are M Old sil
YER This ts4sque aud hchu may bs worn
over u silk skirt and j-aIr.ry N thr samo
shac.e or little darker with hus etYa,,.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-02-07
E. Y. GRIGGS.

Agent ut Ottawa. Il!ii.oi-.
The Ia Beile1a Cigar = the best cent cilsr ever
offered smokers Of Ottawa. sold only by T. \. hrisIs
Pure Lead and on The bet Mixed Paint sold, which
weighs To the gallon than any otlter Fut" pluss
and Chcmicals all ~ bottom prices.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-02-07

Tho Line selected by tire US. Cows
to carry the Fast Mall.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

Therefore he had an eagle for his coat of
arms
Adriennette loved before all things in the
world her pug.
The pug Juno dined on all delicacies of
the season.
He sat in an armchair blazoned with
gold.
He was allowed to run over the table
was being said.
A place had been reserved in the family
cemetery for him, next to Adriennette's
great grandfather, against the time when
he should turn up his paws.
If Adriennettes lovers felt like kissing
her, they had to kiss Juno first as an evil
dence of good faith.
1t was into this family that Alphonse's
fate led him.
He felt wild passion for his bella ina
naordtG (see back part of Webster's die
tionary).
But she would not even give him q
glance.
From gay, dashing, eight-dollar-a-
week humorist Alphonse became a pale,
wan shadow He acted both as Adrien-
nette's shadow and his own.
He followed her everywhere.
He could do nothing but write sad
poems and elegies. When he tried to
make a joke about the size of the block of
ice that the ice-man leaves nowadays the
words died in his throat, and he wrote a
poem about the dark willows that wave
DER the dark, deep pool"
When he tried to write an account of a
goat lunching off tin can, he turned to
describe, with tears in his eyes, ''the chest
nut hair on my true loves brow" He at
tempted to run these in on the managing
editor, instead of the jokes. He was
kicked down stairs. He, so full of ethe-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
Advice to a Teacher.

Johnny Fizzletop is one of the boys that
attends the University of Texas. He plays
hockey, breaks his slate and makes the
life of his professor miserable by shooting
spit-balls at him. Some weeks ago John
ny showed signs of reformation, but 1t did
not last for yesterday the professor caught
him in the act of putting bent pin on his
throne
Johnny, know you seem to be a bad
boy" said the professor. sadly, "but
hoped there had been change for the bet
ter in your conduct. I even told your IA
Their that you were changed boy. l hoped
that you had become better boy, but see
l am mistaken. l am grieved and disap-
pointed. see that my hopes were pre-
mature"
eyes, that is all your fault. You
shouldn't go off at half-coek that way.
Remember what David Crockett said: Be
sure you are right, and then go ahead but
you'll learn after awhile. "-Heras S(ft-
GY.gs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
THE DRINK CURSE.

A Broken Hearted Wife Whose Husband
Has Become Like an Untamed Beast.
Not many years ago young man
of the highest promise and bearing an
honored name, his profession being
that of lawyer, united in marriage
with one of the loYeliest Of her sex.
Every one present at the wedding feast
remarked: "What brilliant future"
Nothing seemed wanting to complete
his worldly bliss. But, alas! intern
!perance came Ike thief in the night
time Qor he was a secret drinker at
!frst) and robbed him of his honor, his
ieloquence, and gradually transformed
him into a fiend, and his beautiful
wife, with ill-disguised fear, watched
and waited for the coming of her lost
loved one, striving by every skillful de-
vice Imaginable to shield him from the
unfeeling world. Only few days ago,
/ received a letter Eve were school
:mates) written by her own hand, and
her words of intense suffering and
despair haunt me:
''My friend, my heart is broken. My
once kind husband is no longer a man
of feeling. His actions remind me of
AN untamed beast in our little poverty
stricken home What shall I do; oh!
what shall | do?"
All! Men in their daily walks of life
know but very little in regard to the
worst features of intemperance 1t is
the poor wife who must witness its hor-
irors and endure its curse.
+. Look at the young men of to-day,
wearing the flushed cheek. Notice,
too, their nervous, unsteady hand and
observe their watery eyes-a sufficient
proof of the use of intoxicating liquors,
which is slowly but surely doing its
deadly work.
Statistics show that the amount of
mortality among persons of intemper-
iate habits is ten times greater than that
of the temperate community. But the
persuasive voice of temptation has only
to be heard: "Come, boys, let us take
drink" All young men, pause in
your downward course. -Eantce But
Ter, IN Louisville Courter-JouTnaL.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
A DUSKY JOKE.
Took Her Mistress at Her Word-Made II
Go as Far as Possible.

Took Her Mistress at Her word-Made II
Go as Far as Possible.
''Now, Margaret" said Mrs. jackson, rad.
dressing the colored cook, 1--WE have Just got
in supply of flour and want you to make
it go as far as possible"
"Yessum."
"The times are very hard now, you I'm.
derstand, and it is about as much as we car
do to meet expenses"
s'Yessum."
II do hope that you will pay attention tc
what l say"
"Yessunl."
About two weeks later Margaret went ia
Mrs. Jackson and said:
''De flour is out"
"What?"
II say de flour is out.1
'0That can't be possibler'
''Wall, it's out all de same,'
'You good-for-nothing thing, you took
the most of that flour home YOU know you
didp'
"Who, me?"
"Yes you"
'Wall, now, sense yer gittin' so pussonal,
I'll jeS' tell yer dat yer oughter mine how
yer talks ter me. Yer said dat yer wanted
dat flour ter go ez fur ez possible, an
made it go fur-way out on de yudder side
O town. Eff dat amt fur ernuff fur yer, ]
reokons dat I'd better mube it out inter de
country"
Il am great mind to have you az
rested"
"Whut fur? Case yesse'f KANT take er
joke. l wuz jokin' wild dat flour, but eff
yer wants ter get mad erbout it. wy, !
KANT hep it. Reckon I'd better quit yer
an wuck fur er pusson OATS got more tel
ligence. "-ATkGnsG IrapeLer
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
Shad in the Columbia River.

There has been some doubt expressed
in several quarters as to whether the
shad caught in the Columbia River
were true shad, and desce ndants of
those planted in California waters some
years since. One reason for the doubt
was that while the shad in California
have attained their full growth, weigh
ing six pounds or more, the shad
caught in the Columbia this season
were, with few exceptions, no longer
than those caught last year, and very
few of them weighed over two pounds.
1t has, however, been established be-
yond doubt that the shad caught in the
Columbia River are real shad. The
Oregon1an is in receipt of commune
cation from Hon. Spencer F. Baird,
United States Commissioner of Fish
cries, stating that several samples of
the fish in question have been received
by him, from examination of which he
has been enabled to determine the facts
in the case, and that there is no doubs
whatever as to the occurrence of shad
in the Columbia River. This settles the
matter, and we shall hereafter be Ten
abled to wrestle with the bones in these
fish with more complacency. Portland
OTegoniGn.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
DISEASED COWS.
MILK From Them Not Proper to Be Used
In any Form.


Milk From Them Not Proper to Be Used
In any Form.
A correspondent asks us if it is safe
to use the milk from COW that has a
cough and appears to be in consump-
ton. If she has consumption of the
lungs, her milk is disagreeable il flavor
and odor. That answers our correspond
ent's question. But it suggests the
question how for is it safe to use the
milk of cow that is sickp To say the
least such use would be dangerous. 1t
is possible that milk of this character
may not make person using it sick;
and yet it may do an injury that may
lead to serious results though they may
not be traceable to their cause. Moth
ing that is impure should go into the
stomach. Milk from sick cow is i'm
pure In fact the milk is the first thing
to feel the effects of the sickness. The
sickness may be Of very mild charac-
ter, just little fever perhaps. But the
milk is affected. It is possible that
adults may use such milk and not suf-
fer perceptibly from doing so. But if
an infant be fed upon it, it may die.
Thousands of children die every year
whose deaths may be traced to Just
such cause as this. Sometimes it APP
pears to be the notion of some people
that cows milk is wholly independent
OF the COW herself. The idea appears to
be that the milk is some kind of for
eign formation. When we all get the
practical idea that the milk is made by
the COW, in her system, and is part
OF herself, we will be able to see that
what affects the COW will affect the
milk. AS matter of fact the cow can
not be out of health even in small de-
grees without the milk being unhealthy,
and that fact ought to be recognized
more fully than it is. There is no tell
ing what damage disease germs in milk
may produce in the human system.
So far rs consumption is concerned,
it has been affirmed that it may be con-
veyed to a human being through milk
that has come from a consumptve cow.
We are not prepared to say how true
that may be, but whether true or not
we can not take disease germs into our
systems with impunity. Avarice may
lead the milk seller to sell diseased
milk, and he should be heavily punished
for so doing. But we who keep
cows to furnish milk for home consump-
ton have not the excuse even of av-
arice to offer for running the risk of
using such milk; at least avarice does
not play such a conspicuous part as it
does with the milk dealer. Farmers
ought to have the best food in the world,
and certainly ought not to consume any
article of food that is raised upon the
farm, about which the least suspicion
of impurity may cling We ought to
treat ourselves well anyhow, remember
ing that good health is the best posses
sion that we can have, and that we can
retain it only by eating good food and
otherwise living properly. - Western
Rural
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
The Science of Feeding.

The science of feeding is one of the
most important studies for every per-
son who is engaged in rearing live
stock, from poultry up to horses and
cattle. No other branch of agricultural
industry is more neglected than this,
and in no other is there more loss re-
sulting from mistakes. 1t is not for
want OF abundant means for learning
all about it. We have several good
manuals upon the subject. Prof Orms-
by and Prof 4. w. Stewart in their ex-
cellent works have gathered great
fund of all the most valuable scientific
and practical knowledge Extant upon
this part of the farmers and breeders
business. Agricultural writers who
have a practical experience are con-
stantly referring to this matter. and do
SO knowing from their own daily work
how highly important it is to know how
to feed, both to avoid waste of food
aid injury to the stock. We can moi
refrain from urging farmers to give
their best attention to this most inter-
esting part of their business. N z.
Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
Where She Found the Needle.

"Some twenty years ago." said the mild
faced stranger, my wife, while sewing,
suddenly missed her needle. She saw moth
ing more of it, and seon forgot all about
her loss until last week, when" "When
she suddenly felt pricking sensation in
her right foot" suggested Doodle. ''When
the point of the needle showed itself be-
tween her shoulder-blad " guessed Coodle.
when the needle was seen protruding
from her youngest daughters left fore
finger" intimated Doodle. No" said the
mild-faced stranger; ''you are eli wrong.
She found it in crack in the floor. It had
been there all those years. Singular,
wasn't it?" There was common desire to
welter in the blood of the mild-faced
stranger; but with difficulty Doodle, CoodIe
and Doodle restrained themselves. boston
Transcript.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
DISENCHANTMENT.

She stood on the cool piazza
As the shades of evening fell,
AND gazed on the lovely maiden,
Entranced by her beauty's spell.
The balmy evening zephyrs
Played with each golden IFess:
And her azure eyes were swimming
In sea of tenderness.
Her lips, just slightly parted,
Were tinged with the coral's flame,
And / thought that her cheeks bright
bushes
The hue of the rose would shame.
While gazing in admiration
! On the rare and radiant lass,
] thought sweetest music only
Through those coral lips could pass
But sudden change came Ger her,
Gone was the smile so bland:
fAnd she smote in sudden anger
The back of her lily hand.
And she cried: "Ha! hal I've got you,
You'll trouble my peace no more;
You re the same blamed old mosquito
That tried to mash beforel"
Boston Courier.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
YOU CAN NOT RUB 1T OUT.

In the old Scottish inn we met
A motley group from every land,
Scholar and artist, peer and priest,
And many traveller brown and tanned
All pilgrims waiting for an -Four,
Chatting in idle courtesy,
And yet amid the drifting talk
A little message came to me-
1t happened thus: A restless boy
Unto the dripping window went,
Whose glass, SCARED with a thousand names
His mind TO the same fancy bent.
He sought and found vacant spot,
And took the diamond from his hand,
But ere a letter had been formed
A voice accustomed to command
Cried: Phillip, stop: before you write,
Consider well what you re about
"Father, why should / hesitate?"
because you can not rub it OUT
The words fell on my idle ear,
l said them o er and DER again,
And asked myself: Oh, who would choose
All they have written to remain?
Unto loving mother oft
We all have sent, without doubt,
Full many hard and careless word
That now we never can rub out;
For cruel words cut deeper far
Than diamond on the window-pane
And oft-recalled in after years
They wound her DER and DER again.
So in our daily work and life
We write and do and cay the thing
We never can undo nor stay
With any future sorroWfng.
We carve ourselves on beating hearts.
All then, how Wise to pause and doubt,
To blend with love and thought our words,
Because we can not rub them outl
-HdTper's Weekly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
Life in a Flat.

Judge Kennebunker, cynical old BACH
elor, lives with his dog in the hall room Of
New York fat AS he was looking out
of his window Miss Vanpelt, who lives ON
the fat below, stuck her head out of her
window, and called up:
''Your nasty dog barks all night"
''But he doesn't play on the piano all
day."
The lower window came down with a
bang that sounded like safe being blown
open.-Terds Sifttngs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

When the excitement had been raging
three days, Alphonse rang Adriennette's
door bell.
go awayr said she, in heightened
voice.
81 bring news of him." said the young
man, solemnly.
The girl threw her arms around his neck
and kissed him in the ecstasy of the mo-
ment
II will restore him for one reward only"
said Alphonse.
"Name it." said the frantic maiden, 81
will grant anything you ask"
II want your hand in marriage" said
Alphonse, at the same time removing the
cover of large hat box which he carried
with him, and taking out Juno.
PPM with you," said Adriennette.
What happy scene! The gods laughed
to see it.
Three souls with but single thought,
Three hearts that beat as One."
Robert d. Brain, in Terds Sifttngs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
GREEK BRIGANDS.
The System Which Is Carried on in
Greco-Turlxish Countries.

The System Which Is Carried on In
Greeo-Turkish Countries.
A pamphlet written by Greek, a
cavalry Lieutenant, gives some very
curious accounts of the system of brig
andage as it is now carried on in the
Graco- Turkish boundaries. The brig
and's code of laws, as at present exist
ing, is strange mixture of barbarity
and chivalry. 1t contains several
clauses, some of which run as follows:
"All traitors to be killed and exposed.
The rich to be captured, and not allowed
to depart until they have paid ransom,
and sworn not to injure the brigands by
a relation of their adventures to the
authorities. All soldiers to be killed.
The bearers of the ransom to be re-
speeted and small money to be given
them on their departure. All robbers
plotting with Government to be killed
Should captive escape, his keeper is to
be held responsible and expelled from
the band. Never to steal the goats
and sheep from the shepherd, but
to- pay for all taken. 70 offer
gifts at any monastery or hermit
age, by way of expiatiou for sin" 1t
is the shepherds who supply the brig
ands, and by whose means they are so
well hid from the authorities. They
supply them with bread, meat and
wine, and serve them as guides in
times of danger, and it is their children
that are educated to be brigands and
who reinforce their ranks. Immense
precautions are taken by the robbers
against surprises. They always travel
by night, proceeding in file through the
open country. never through the mar
row passes, for fear of ambushes. The
smallest object, the taintest sound
startles them, and down they drop flat
on their stomachs till their confidence is
renewed. Before starting on any OF
those journeys they always appoint a
rendezvous in case of separation. Their
scouts go on in front, driving horses OF
oxen, and habited as drovers. Under
their shelter follows the main body,
peeping cautiously beneath the cattle to
see if an enemy is approaching, and be-
hind comes the vanguard, who, if any
thing is amiss, whistles like night
bird, and the band disperses. -En-
| change.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
=LonesEAh. l see by the paper thf

-Jones-Ah, see by the paper that
the serpent has been seen again off
Long Branch. Browns that sol?
Jones-Yes; and the paper says, too.
that the party that saw the monster was
composed of truthful and sober citizens.
Now, what do you think of that? Brown
Well, don't know. [ don't see that
you can account for it excepting in one
way: that some of the party were truth
hl and all the rest were sober.-S0nl-
erSghe Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
Hints for Temperance Teachers.

In view of the fact that this especial
editorial "we" has spent her life in
public school work, it may not be con-
sidered out of place for her to suggest
here some general principles which
should govern in Temperance teaching.
l. Commence with simple, we'll
known effects of alcohol, like the stag
gering gait and uncertain movements,
explain these physiologically.
2. Proceed from undisputed effects,
gradually, TO those not so generally ac-
knowledged.
3. State no fact for which you can
not give unquestionable authority.
4. Avoid personal and political allu-
sions.
5. Remember your work is not to
teach the evils resulting from dram
selling, but the physiological effects Of
dram drinking, and the use of narcotics.
g. 1t is entirely within your province
to study the effects of the drink habit
upon the industries of the State, upon
crime, pauperism, insanity, idiocy, etc.
z. Adapt your teaching to the age
and intelligence of your pupils.
s. Proceed Systematically and review
thoroughly.
9. Fix the fundamental facts in the
minds of even little children. You do
not know how long they may be with
you Union Signal
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
A Instrumentation.

"Just one" said the lover, as he stood
upon the stoop with his girl; '.just onen
"Just one" said the mother, putting her
head out of the bedroom window above,
'well, guess it amt SO late as that, bat
it's pretty near twelve, and you'd better be
going OF her father will be down."
And the lover took his leave with pain In
his heaTt-B0st01l Courier.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
LES HUMORISTES.
A Long Distance After the Late
Victor Hugo.
The Love Story of an Alleged Funny Man..
A Daring Scheme, and How 1t Was
Consummated-Happy Con-
clusiOn.
CHAPTER I.
WHO IS HE?

WHO IS HE?
Alphonse Berth was humorist
The poets Tyre has thousand strings,
that of the humorist has ten.
The ten are the Mule, Mother-in-law,
Church Fair Oyster, Book Canvasser, Sery4
ant-girl with coal oil can, Vassar Girl, Chi
cago female foot. Poverty of Editors, Size
of modern ice-cream plates and "Didn't
know the gun was loaded"
Striking these strings singly and In
chords produces humor.
Alphonse struck the strings.
The multitude laughed rudely.
When he heard of skillful artifcer of
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
A PICNIC PHANTASY.
CHAPTER L

Come let us jump aboard the train!
Oh. hear the whistle blow!
AL nature seems to smile on US
Let's to the picnic go.
Wen drink the sparkling lemonade,
The sandwiches we'll MUNICH.
Baseball we IL play, likewise croQuet
And daily with the lunch.
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CHAPTER III.
DAY BREAKS.

One day when Alphonse watched Adrien-
nette riding in her sumptuous coach with
her pug Juno clasped to her throbbing
breast; She loves Juno better than her
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

Crack race-horses have their meat
and drink more carefully attended to
while travelling than royal personages.
The English runner ''Paraday," on his
late trip to Paris, had his own particu-
lar brand of water carried over with
him in cases like a monarch's private
champagne.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

Florence who made five hundred little
dishes so small that they would lie in the
bottom of a thimble, and could only be seen
with microscope, he said: "This is what
our modern ice-cream dishes are modelled
after"
For this wild burst of humor he received
five centmes.
He wrote:
Ibid you hear about the washout?"
asked the baggage-master of the reporter
"No," said the latter with great show of
interest. ''What line was it on?" "Out
here ON Mrs. Mulligan's clothes line," said
the baggage-man. The reporter collapsed
with a loud report.
For such joke he received ten centimes.
"Ten confines and five confines make
fifteen centimes," said he. ''For this
amount of money one can purchase Wiener
wurst."
No one need starYe when he can purchase
Wiener-wurst
My fortunes are at the wurst point" re-
marked AlphonSe.
For this joke he received nothing.
CHAPTER II.
THE PLOT THICKENs.
One day while out walking Alphonse saw
pug.
The pug was tied to dude. At the
dudes side was beautiful girl The girl
was named Adriennette and the pug was
named Juno.
Alphonse fell in love with the girl Adri-
ennette.
She was proud and aristocratic maid,
whose fathers carriage bore an eagle of the
sun for a crest.
The old man had got his start in life ped
ding ham sandwiches in the Bowery.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
CHAPTER ".

The next day society was shaken to Its
foundations.
Adriennette's pug had been stolen.
Liyeried couriers were dispatched hither
and thither.
Pinkerton's entire detective agency was
called out.
The millionaire's purse was thrown ope.
for rewards.
Excitement on Fifth avenue ran high.
Alphonse held his peace.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
CHAPTER II.

Oh, what jolly time I've hadl
dance and laugh with glee.
A beetle has crawled down my back,
feel him round my knee.
A bumble-bee has toyed with me,
And in my shoes are ants.
/ sat upon lemon pie,
And spoiled my Sunday papts.
Chicago R1fnbL6].