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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-20
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

The best remedy for the pest known
as the strawberry leaf rollers is said
to be hellebore and water sprinkled
over the plants with an atomizer.
Seedlings are apt to succeed best
where they originate. hence the many
Disappointment when varieties are
transferred to other sections. Troy
Times.
The American farmers garden
should be long, free from trees or bush
es, and laid out so that much of the
work can be done by horse labor. IN
Z. Herald.
The cherry grows best in a rich,
warm. sandy loan. If mulch Of leaves,
straw, or brush is put around them
they well be very much benefited by it.
Boston Globe.
-PuHiVe drops Of chloroform on
little cotton or wool in the bowl of a
clay pipe, then blow the vapor through
the stem into an aching ear and instant
relief viii be afforded. 50 Chicago Times.
Mr.. A. NJ. Purdy says: .'It is often
recommended to do all the pruning in
autumn We fail, however, to find
a reason based on scientific principles
for preferring this season to winter or
or early spring. IN Y. Examiner.
If the store-room is dry, and the
sugar dries and becomes lumpy, sub
stitute jar for the wooden box, and
note the result. If ants find their way
inside, tie cloth around the cover
not the jar and the contents are safe.
Ants can be driven away by appli-
cations Of gas tar, but it is doubtful
whether it is profitable to get rid of
them in the neighborhood of apple
trees. as ants prey upon plant-lice,
which do much damage to foliage at a
time when it is needed for starting the
young fruit. Chicago Journal.
White Pound Cake: Two coffee
cups of white sugar, three-fourths of
coffee cup of butter, one coffee cup of
milk, three coffee cups of -four, whites
of nine eggs, two teaspoonfuls of .bak-
ing powder, grated rind of one lemon,
stir the butter and sugar to cream,
add the milk and -four, and last the
whites of eggs whipped to a stiff roth.
~ The Household.
The docility and thorough unner-
standing Of their duties shown by horses
belonging to city fire departments sug-
gests to the National Live Stock jour
nal that the coercive system too COM
monty practiced on farms by hired help,
| if not by the owner, is not the one to
secure the best results. Education is
better tha9 the whip in securing intelii-
gent and thorough service from farm
as well as fire horses.
The more crowns strawberry
plant has, the more berries one can ex-
pect. Pull off all the leaves after
fruiting except two or three, and it
causes more crowns to grow, besides
bright, fresh and very green Leaves.
But before one goes into strawberry
culture he should take account of the
manure be can get, and also find out
whether he can get pickers enough
when the season opens. 1t is of little
use to think of raising STRAWBERRIES for
market without manure and pickers in
abundance. Cleveland Leader.
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wAsHINGToN.s CHERRY TREE.

A Piece of the Identical Tree which
Washington Hacked with the Historical
Ratchet.
Yes, sir. walk this way" said
pretty young lady to Post reporter
last night in the temperance fair room
on street. The reporter was in search
OF piece of wood advertised as por-
ton of George Washington's cherry
tree, and when it was pointed out to
him several p erson were gazing in
curious awe upon it. The relic is about
half an inch square, cut in the form d
diamond, and surrounded with gold
setting formed from the first two dol
lars which the Rev. P. FL. Burghardt
received in the army. He wears It as
watch-charm.
8 came into possession of this piece
Of wood in 1862, said Mr.. Burghardt
to the Post reporter. AT that time I
was Chaplain of a Pennsylvania regi-
ment stationed near Fredericksburg.
Here it was that / heard of the tree.
which was in that vicinity, on the Fitz-
hugh estate. 1t was guarded night and
day by Federal troops in order to pre-
vent its being entirely cut to pieces by
souvenir seekers, and in order to get a
piece of it had to get permission from
headquarters. This succeeded in do
ing and visited the tree. found it
was mostly dead, though apparently Of
considerable age. It was surrounded
with stone wall. overgrown with moss
and bearing the same appearance as
the tomb Of Mary Washington, which
is located at Fredericksburg / pro-
cured small chip from it, which have
since preserved.
Notwithstanding the fact that tradi-
ton says Washington cut the tree
down, while Mr. Burghardts tree was
still erect when he secured his relic, he
believes implicitly that he has a piece
of the cherry tree on which the Father
Of his Country exercised his little
Ratchet. He is, however, unable to
give any reason for this faith that is in
him, except that the people in the local
ity named possess the same belief and
many years ago erected the wall 10
preserve the zee Washington Posi-.
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from him; and, Just as we reached the
crest, be opened his greas red mouth,
and let out one of the most diabolic
yowls ever heard, By way Of d parting
salute.
1.-THE next minute was over the
ridge, out Of his sight, had snatched
Nellie out of the sled, turned around,
let myself 90, and was of down that
mountain like a shot out Of a gun. I
thought I'd rather risk broken neck
than have any more OF such company as
we had had for the 1ast half-hour
live done a good deal of snow
shoeing, and have made pretty fast
time, but that trip down Grassy Hill
beat the record. 'Twould have made $
streak Of ella lightning hump itself to
have caught US.
@You know that double mule shoe,
where the trail bends twice on itself, to
get up from Friar's Greek to Grassy
Hill? It's not over two hundred yards
straight, but it's more than mile
around the trail. I'd noticed, coming
up, that the snow had drifted there so
that it made it tolerably smooth, and /
thought I d risk a cutoff. wanted to
get out Of that neighborhood as quick
as / could So / told Nellie to hug
tight, took good grip of her, bent my
knees, steadied myself, and went
straight for it. We shot out over the
first drop Ike a bird, sailed down,
struck the second bench just right,
glanced off like skipping stone On the
water, shot over the second drop, struck
all right again, and went flying down
the tran, ike an express train. Saved
that mile of distance. and wasn't over
half minute doing it
.sFrom there to Eureka was easy
enough, and NelIis and I came In on
time all right. III. p Uford, IN
Youths Companion.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-20

AsCefo%AAo
Be Preferred.
Putting other considerations aside,
there is one reason, and that very
strong one, why all humane people
should wish to see the importation of
live cattle from distant countries re-
placed by the dead meat trade This is,
the horrible sufferings too often en-.
dured by the miserable animals during
heavy weather. A gentleman who has
just landed at Liverpool from New
York gives his experience of what hap
pened en- route ''in a well-ordexed
steamship" She had on deck when
leaving port one hundred and thirty
two fine beasts; only sixty-seven OF
these were landed alive. All the rest
persisted in a succession of gales, being
rolled about the deck with every lurch
of the ship. The fIimsy sheds which
had been constructed for their protec-
ton were soon washed away, and then
ensued most horrible scene. Their
horns were broken off at the root, and
you could see them hanging from the
head with the blood pouring out. Their
knees were raw, their legs broken and
their sides gored as they tumbled
against the iron winches and bulwarks
of the ship. For a whole week this
went on, and, to make matters worse,
sometimes an entire day elapsed with,
out food or water being given to the
poor creatures. The Captain and crew
did all in their power to mitigate their
sutferings,. but the raging sea was
more merciful still when it swept away
the wounded and put them out Of pain.
Owing, too, to the great weight Of the
animals, they gradually battered wide
gaps Ia the ships bulwarks as they
dashed from side to side, and through
one of these openings the boatswain
was washed overheard and drowned.
Whether cattle should be allowed to be
carried on deck in transatlantic steam
ers during winter seems open to grave
question, but there can be no question
at all about the imperativeness of so Sc
curing them as to prevent their hecom.
ing shuttlecoeks whenever stormy
weather sets in. London Glfbe.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-20
HUMOROUS.


Girls who wish to have small,
prettily shaped mouths should repeat
at frequent intervals during the day,
Fanny Finch fried five laundering
fish Of Francis Fowler father. y
Edith; They sat in the cleaning
means that they occupied one chair.
A cleaning may be obtained at any
fashionable furniture store. No parlor
is complete without it.-N. 7. Mail
81 say, Jim did your sister know
you at the masked ball last night?"
We'll, / think she must have done
SO, for when patted her on the shout
der she turned round and said ssYou
donkey!'' Chicago JoxTzsal.
There is no blank so blank as the
blank that appears before man when
he gets up in public assembly and for
gets what he is going to say unless it
IS the blank which appears before an
amateur in skating rink when his
legs begin to spread and he don't know
which one to follow. Darlington Free
Press.
When Mrs. Oleo, the boarding.
house mistress, was told that the in
spector of provisions had seized 468
pounds Of veal, 90 pounds of poultry,
So pounds of bear meat, 81 lambs, six
barrels of peas and 200 boxes of herring,
she remarked; Pretty good appetite;
but nothing to some of my boarders.
You'd ought to see them when they
are good and hungry.-N 7. Indepeaad-
ent.
Heroic Remedy: q suppose l
shall be an old maid all my life, sighed
a young woman oftwenty-five. "That'
a grievous complaint responded an
old bachelor Very" again sighed
the maiden. do you want to cure
it?'' .sOf course / do. = ssTake me for
a husband DO you mean itP' Ger
tainly'' 'sWell, desperate diseases re-
quire desperate remedies, and | guess
IN try you" they fell upon each
Others neck.-M Merchant Traveller.
There are some people who talk
without thinking. Mrs. Beasly is that
sort of woman. Her husband one
night recently dropped quarter. Il
can't find that piece Of money I've
lost" he said, cropping around on the
hall floor, when Mrs. Beasly opened
the door. ssOf course you can t, if you
look for it out there in the dark. VIM
don't you hunt for it here in the
light where you can see. Nobody can
find anything out there in the dark. p
Exchange.
One of the crack military companies
of Houston was out one day last week
practicing target-shooting. One of the
members was told to shoot at the door
of a deserted barn. He did so, but
missed the entire barn. The Captain
was very angry and told the young man
how bad it would be, in case the enemy
were shooting from behind the door,
that none Of them would be hit. Eyes,
but wouldn't the hostile enemies that
were coming around the corner of the
barn catch ftsp'' replied this Texas
Bogardus. Texas Sy5ings.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-20
TEMPERANCE.
The cosT OF Rum.

The Enormous Amount OF Money Spent 10
the Destruction, by Drunkenness, Of Men
and Women.
The cost of rum to the Nation in mon
ey is the least of its evil qualities. Doll
lars spent foolishly may be earned over
again. property destroyed may be re-
placed, and the money-cost of the fool
ishness of man to-day can be made,
good by wisdom tomorrow.
The real cost of rum to the country
is the destruction of its men and wom-
en-, a loss which can not be made good.
The son torn from his mother, the hus-
band from his wife, the father from his
family and lost in the yawning chasm
of appetite, these losses can never be
made good They are complete losses,
they are wrecks without hope OF sal
wage. There is no return for 4 soul in
hell, and rum means souls in hell
But the money cost is something so
absolutely enormous that it is worth
considering. 1t is worth something to
know how much we are paving for the
destruction of our best men and boys,
in hard cash. 1t is we'll to compare the
cost of death with the cost of life. Very
many of the problems that now vex
those who are investigating can be-
solved by these statements and compar-
isons.
We take 1888 as an example, and we
find that during that year the people of
the United States spent their money as
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-20
EsQuIMAu RABY-LIFE.

How the Little Fellow Enjoys Himself in
Temperature Little Below the Freez-
ing Point.
When baby Esquimau's mother
makes thehood for her reindeer suit, she
stretches it into long sack or bag. that
hangs down behind and is supported By
her shoulders, andthis bag Of reindeer's
skin is bis cradle and home. where he
lives Until he knows how to walk.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-20
HE HAD 1T BAD.

On summer morn, as / walked out
10 take a breath of air,
a met man who seemed TO me
Bowed down with grief and care.
His face was pale and sickly.
And he seemed devoid OF run;
Yet every word he muttered was
Unconsciously pun.
He said his girl had used him In
A manner mighty bad;
listened then to what he called
His denomination sad:
"Ohl Anna dear, why did yew go
And turn my temper souri,
You've left me here to pine aloe-n
A mel0n--caulifiower.
We might have lived upon our farm
And shared LIES joys and cares,
And passed through life so 'appie-y,
Not singly, but in pears.
You know twas very wrong indeed
TO use me in that manner;
Now life to me is but curse,
I'm under q ban, Anna.
] felt each morn as / arose,
A careless happy soul,
p I'd 90 into my cotton field
And take a flowing boil.
But since this trouble came about,
I've promised TO abstain;
Pump water don't even drink,
No pumpkin ease my pain.
Oak come back soon, deceitful girl,
For you alone pine,
And all shall be forgiven when
Your tulips touches mine.
Ny appetite q almost gone,
But that may come back later;
used to love the cooking pot,
But now I'm potrhater.
used to dress so spruce and smart,
My clothes were nicely washed,
But now quite careless have grown,
Since you my heart have squashed.
The happy times have passed away
When all seemed bright and merry;
Quite fruttless now, try to smile,
And try my grief TO berry.
That you would run away with me
Ionce did fondly hope,
But when asked you, you replied:
You know l can t-elope.'
OH dear, unlucky was the day
When first saw you, Anna;
You've bean a bitter pill to me
In a pea-culiar manner;
And If in poverty you fear'd
That you might pass your days
You surely could not know that
Each year my celery raise;
And even had still been poor,
No SANDER US could reach,
For I've been honest all my life,
None can my word im-peach.
Oh, would ! could oblivion bury,
Or seek some foreign cline,
And find some pleasant. easy way
To pass away my thyme.
Though some folks thought you very pla
To me you we're most fair;
] loved your little turnip nose,
Also your reddish hair.
Oh, Anna, you've deceitful been,
And badly treated me,
Yet forgive you, root and branch,
And bough to fates decree
-Pcck's Sun
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-20
A PuRL1cAN once sled an ahstains

A PUBLICAN once asked an abstainer:
- Why do you wear that ribbon?" II
viii put question to you, said the abb
stainer Why do you put sign
board above your door," ..Oh, said
the publican, to sell my beer. -
" Then. said tire abstainer, 81 wear
this ribbon to show that l don't want
your beer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-20

AN old negro at Weldon. N. c., at a
recent lecture said: When I sees a
man going home with a gallon Of
whisky and half pound of meat, dat's
Temperance lecture enough for me. and
! sees it every day! knows dat cherry
ting in his home is on dc same scale
gallon 9. misery to cherry half pound u
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-20

TEMPERANCE puts coal on the fire,
meal in the barrel, flour in the tub,
money ia the purse, credit in the coun-
try, contentment in the house, clothes on
the children, vigor in the body. intelli-
gence in the brain, and spirit in the whole
constitution. Benjamin Franklin.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-20

"A strip Of tarred paper such as
roofers use, placed under the edge Of
carpet IS = sure preventive for moths.
AZ r Mdil.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-20
FOE QUE YOUNG READERS
/" NINE. TEN. a GOOD FAT HEM

Wake, baby wakek
The bright morning is breaking,
And down in the garden TIL e-0ld mother-hen,
With a cuck and cackle of Iuidc, is awaking
Her downy wee darliDgs hi n little ones ten.
She is pretty and plump. and SIS white as new
milk.
And her chicks yellow featf ters are softer
than silk:
A wonderful clamor the tiny things makel-
Baby wakei
Coo. baby, cool
To the open door creeping.
Your bread and milk stands on the sun
shiny sill;
Right after its mother each chicken runs
peeping,
A round, ffufy ball. with wide yellow bill;
No pretty blue bowl for their breakfast have
For babies and chickens have each their own
way.
They like their nice crumbs, and your bread
and milk. you
Baby, cool
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-20
Laugh. baby, laughl

Laugh. baby, taught
From your fair little fingers
The yellow corn falls in a scattering rain;
And never d chick in the eager brood fingers
They hurry and scramble to pick up the
grain,
A fiutter Of feathers that shine in the sun,
chirping and scolding, rush and run.
Too greedy. the feathery babies, by half
Baby taught
Sleep baby, sleepl
The long shadows are falling,
And down in the garden the pretty white
hen,
With a cluck and a cackle. is sleepily calling
Her darlings together. her little ones ten.
She brOOds soft above them, the dr0Wsy wee.
things
That hide in the shade of her motberly wings,
And babies and chickens to Sunderland
creep
Baby, sleepi
-Mdrgaret johnson, ~ Our Little Ones.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-20

IN them. Just as there is good deal OF
brute HI us. But the trouble is, you
car never calculate on what they are
going to do
II had little interview with one OF
them once that turned out all right, but
was rather unpleasant while it lasted
1t was in the winter Of ~, when Eureka
hadn't but dozen cabins in it, and
there was nothing but trail over the
range, and very poor one at that. Of
course, those Of US that wintered there
had to getin all of our provisions before
the snow fell; and then from November
to June we were cut off from the out
side world.
There were no women in the camp,
and we had to amuse ourselves a. best
we could. One Harry Lee had been
my mining partner that summer, and
had meant to go out to Antelope Park,
where his wife and baby were, for the
winter; but he'd stayed along, helping
me fix my cabin, but about the middle
of October he fell off the roof and broke
his leg, and had to send word to his
wife, by some of the boys who were go
ing out, not TO look for him till about
Christmas, when he thought his leg
would be well enough for him to come
out on snoW-shoes-
"Well-you know what women are
what did that wife of his do but pick
up little Nellie, carry her as far as
Cars cabin, just the other side of the
range, leaving the child there with the
women folks-Mrs. Carr was sister OIL
hers-walk it over the range to Eureka,
and drop in on us one night about eight
o'clock!
cit began showing just about the
time she got there, and by morning il
was foot deep; and before it stopped
it was even with the top of our cabir
windows! Then the sun came out an6
melted it a little. then it froze hard
and there was the best 'shoeing snow
yon ever saw. By this time Mrs. Lei
had gone about half crazy over no
having her baby; and she felt so BAG
about, it that offered to take my shoes
and slip over to Carr's and bring thu
! child over to her.
TO tell the truth, wanted hab,
around the house 10 make things peas
ant through the winter.
:" A baby! To make things pleas
ant! , Is the man crazyP" murmureC
the engineer. But Uncle John wen
on without noticing that remark.
Nellie was about three years old
not very large for her age, but strons
and hearty, and | thought I coult
knock up some kind of rough sled a
Cars, bundle her up well, haul her Vi
to the top of the divide, then slim,
her on my back, and the rest of tn
way was all down hill
! Well, / got to Carr's all right
made my sled, stayed all night, ant
started off bright and early the mex
morning.
Gentlemen, were YOU ever in, tn
mountains about sunrise in the winte
time, with the snow covering every
thing, and an icy crust all over it? No
Well, then, you've missed one of TIL
most dazzling sights that man ever saw
All the colors of the rainbow, all TIL
hues of all precious stones-ruby, sap
phire, pearl, emerald, diamond fiasl
from every twig of every tree; the tree
are pillars of frosted silver, and under
foot "a sea of crystal mixed with fire.
It reminded me, that morning, of tn
hymn | had recently been hearing Mrs
Lee sing:
"s Jerusalem, the golden,
The National tribune., 1885-11-19
REUNIONS.
d. f. Lcutz, Minerva, o.: The 10Th Ohio will
hold Reunion at Minerva, o. on Friday, Jan.

d. F. Lcutz, Minerva, o.: The 10Th Ohio will
hold a Reunion at Minerva, O., on Friday, Jan.
s, 1886.
Theodore A. Earhart Salisbury, Pa says
we called up the wrong regiment in recent
issue of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE. He wanted
a Reunion of the seth Pa. and not the 18th n. :,
as enormously stated
Chas. f. Hardin, Homer, H., is writing a
history of the 26th H., and will be greatly
obliged to any comradc sending him an account
of any adventure, joke, or anything that is
likely to prove interesting to comrades.
VIM. Simmons, 1920 Wharton street, Phila-
delphia, Pa: We propose to hold a Reunion of
the eX marines who served in the Marine Corps
during the war in Philadelphia the latter part
of December All who feel favorable towards
this project will please address me as above.
Members of the 1S3th Pa. who desire a Re-
union should address postal card to +. A. Reen,
Watsontown, Pa, giving rank, company and
present p. o. address. They should also send
the address of any of their comrades of the regi-
ment they may be cognZant of.
A large Reunion was held at greensboro,
KY, in the latter part of last month.
The annual Reunion of the surviving veter-
ans of the 143d Pa, was held in Luzerne Bor-
ough. Pa, Nov. 7. Capt. DeLacy, of Scranton
the President of the Veteran Association, pre-
sided. Letters from Gen. Doubleday, of Mend
ham, n. j., and prominent soldiers of this
State, expressing regret at their inability to be
present, were read. Addresses were delivered
by Gems. f. l.. Dana and e. S. Osborne, Of
Wilkes Barre, both of whom made feeling al
lusiOns to the death of Gen. Mcclellan.