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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

who have flown from US across the At
lantic are, like Miss Kilmansegg, cap
tiYated by the airy nothings breathed
into their ears upon the moonlit bal
cony by some bewhiskered foreign
Marquis, whose estates consist merely of
those Incorporated hereditaments
known to the posts as tClatedur en-
Espagne" We are sorry to lose them.
but the girl who would despise her own
countryman and give her money in the
purchase of a foreign husband with .
questionable title, does not deserve the
plaudits or warm wishes of the true
sons and daughters of Columbia.
We want no lazy. glittering idlers
here. The toilers, who work unceas-
ingly day after day, and sometimes far
into the silent watches of the night, =
know well who are Americas noble
men. The pilgrim father. the persecut-
ed Irish peasant, the German, forced by
stern necessity from the Fatherland, all
who have subscribed to our laws. built
themselves herein a home, and have
striven either by word or deed to make
this country better than when they
landed on its shores--these, and these
only, are Americas noblemen.
1t may horrify some of our "shoddy'
aristocracy to hear that the great fort
unes which many of them to-day inherit
were built up in the low gin-mill in
some wild mining district of the far
West. The elegantly ttired grandson
of the original gin-mill proprietor has
long since forgotten the doughty deeds
performed by his ancestor when ''he got
the Drop on some wild rowdy who had
sworn to rob the bar. To-day the money
made in the old liquor traffic
is spent in renting some sumptuously
decorated flat in the Avenue del Opera
at Paris or some charming .'yillegratu-
RAJ by the blue waters Of the Mediter-
ranaaO
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SEEDLINGS.
What Is Necessary If New Varieties of
Fruits BE Originated.

What Is Necessary If New Varieties of
Fruits Be Originated.
G. 1t is only by raising seedlings that we
can expect to produce or originate new
and improved varieties of fruits. BY
this method of propagation man has
been enabled to produce nearly all of
the choicest fruits in cultivation, and
especially those most esteemed by the
inhabitants of temperate climates. Our
most valuable varieties of the apples
are descendants of the wild crab ap-
pies of European forests, and our most
delicious pears had an equally humble
origin; and although it has taken cent
uries to bring about these great changes
in the character of some of the cult
waited fruits, the work has been so we'll
done that no one at the present day
would care to exchange the improved
varieties for the wildings of the forests.
The cultiyators of fruits must have
made very little progress during any
one generation for a thousand years
after some of the earlier writers ON
horticultural operations boosted of their
dozens of varieties of apples and pears;
it is doubtful if there were one-half that
number in cultivation that we would
now consider worthy of propagation.
During all this time and in the cent
uries following the people OF Europe
were constantly raising Seeding fruit
trees, preserving and propagating the
best, and either destroying or allowing
the others to die out.
Although budding and grating fruit
and other trees for the purpose of null
tiplying and perpetuating choice varie-
ties was practiced by the old Roman
gardeners, and the;art has been handed
down through successive generations to
the present day, farmers and landown-
ers have depended largely until quite
recently upon seeding trees for their
orchards. The first settlers of this
country brought fruit-tree seeds with
them. and all the earlier orchards were
planted principally with seeding trees
raised in private nurseries. This prac-
tice was continued for several genera
lions in all the Eastern States. and
many of the earlier settlers in the West
ern States started their orchards with
seed, thinking no doubt that this was
the most certain as well as the cheapest
way of securing supply of fruit. 1t
may have been a cheap way, if a man
does not count the years lost in waiting
for the trees to grow, for as arule seed
ling pear and apple trees do not come
into bearing until they are fifteen to
twenty years old, and when thew do
produce fruit there is no certainty of it's
being what is wanted or even worth
gathering 1t is true, however, that
seed taken from very choice fruit is
more likely to produce valuable varie-
ties than that from inferior sorts. but
the chances are largely in favor of a
retrograde movement, the tendency be-
ing to breed back, as it is termed, to-
ward the wildings or original types.
This inherent tendency to revert to
originate or types accounts, in part
at least, for the slow progress made by
man in his endeayors to improve the
plants and animals with which he has
been most intimately associated
through unnumbered generations.-M
T. Sun.
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the infant in her arms her only scepter, the
motherhood on her brow her only crown,
and cries to them for the protection OF
her kingdom, the home carries in her cry an
argument And | dare afirn-fOr. thank
God! it is spectacle which all may witness
that stalwart warriors, pulling from their
scahbards trusty swords, admit that cry to be
an argument by their answering shout: I'VE
will fight Tor our King" For we all have a
King, even doctors. There is a majesty of
right, royalty of truth, which in manifold
forms claims our allegiance ana argues its
claim. God sees in the fearful Nry of the
bruised and baff1ed mother, sister, wife, His
own argument for the utter extinction of in
tOxicating beverageS-5he suppression, root
and branch, of the liquor traffic. And in that
cry He makes His argument to men.
A Chancellor's philosophy, grasping in its
mighty sapience cults and sciences which we
poor women can not even name, has as yet
failed to apprehend that chemistry of Heaven
which distills from q Christian mothers tear
the first drop of that mighty gathering storm
whose full and final outbreak shall sweep
away for ever all re.sdges of lies which, sim
cere or insincere, bulwark the liquor traffic.
And the children of Israel sighed by reason
of bondage. and theS cry came up unto God:
and God heard theS. groaning, and God re-
membered His covenant; and God looked
upon the children of Israel and had respect
unto them" EaIZABErH CLEVELAND.
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LITERARY CELEBRITIES.

The Penalties They Are Forced to Pay
for Their Greatness.
He is supposed to be millionaire,
in virtue of the immense sales of his
books, all the money from which, it is
taken for granted, goes into his pocket.
Consequently, all. subscription papers
are handed to him for his signature, and
every needy stranger who has heard his
name comes to him for assistance.
He is expected to subscribe for all
periodicals, and is gos dsd by receiving
blank formulc. which. with their prom
ises to pay, he is expected to fill up.
He receives two or three books daily,
with requests to read and give his opin-
ion about each of them, which opinion,
if it has a word which can be used as
an advertisement, he viii find quoted in
all the newspapers.
He is expected to sign petitions, to
contribute to journals, to write for fairs,
to attend celebrations, to make after
dinner speeches, TO send money for OBJ
jects he does not believe n TO places he
never heard of.
tie is called on to keep up CORE
spondenee with unknown admirers, who
begin by saying they have no claim
upon his time. and then appropriate it
by writing page after page, if OF the
male sex; and sheet after sheet, if of
the other.
If poet, it is taken for granted that
he can sit down at any moment and
spin off any number of verses on any
subject which may be suggested to him;
such as congratulations to the writer's
great-grandmother on her reaching her
hundredth year, an elegy on an infant
aged six weeks, an ode for the Fourth of
July in a Western township not to be
found in ippincotts last edition, per-
haps valentine for some bucolic lover
who believes that wooiag in rhyme is
the way to win the object of his affec-
tons. O1icer Wendell Holmes, IN At-
gG7stic Monthly.
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Competing Land For Corn.

On the question of the rationale of
corn-growing correspondent of the Ma
tsonal StocbmGn has the following:
Corn wants dry lands even more
than wheat or other small grains. This
is in part because only as the soil is dry
can it be got to high temperature
early in the season. One of the impor-
tant advantages from planting corn on
sod, or over a mass of coarse manure,
is that these under the furrow keep the
soil porous, and thus admit the warmer
air to the roots. On any heavy soil the
blowing for corn should be shallow,
and after plowing, itshould not be rolled
or otherwise packed, except as it is
necessary in cultiyating to make a mel
low seed-bed. [ have often seen the
line where stone-boat was drawn
across field for corn after blowing dis
tinetly visible by the smaller plants
where the soil was too much compressed.
This was when rains had already suf-
fciently compacted the soil; bat this is
the condition of most common lands
containing some clay. In a very dry
time. after planting corn, this result
might be reversed, but even then the
improvement would be more due to bet
ter tilth than to compacting of The sur
face. / think much of the roller for
other crops, but it is not adapted to
corn on Land ~ heavy as most of mine. !"
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 2, S6(aS61c. Corn
No. ., 46G461c. Oats-No. ., 32G32 &c.
Rye-No. /, 721a7S1c. Barley-No. 2
Spring, SIC.
Henry Nelson Forsy the, who has been
serving several months term in the coun-
ty jail at Green Bay for assault, was dis
charged the other morning. A Deputy
United States Marshal met him at the
jail door with warrant, and took him be-
fore the United States Commissioner on
charge of furnishing liquor to Indians on
the 18th of December last. At the time he
furnished the liquor as charged, a number
OF Indians got drunk, and one was badly
frozen in consequence. Forsythe was held
for trial, ard taken to Milwaukee in de-
fault OF bond.
Mrs. Margaret NJ. Cooley and Mrs. Re-
beeca Maroat, sisters, young and hand
some, and both appearing with babes in
their arms, were sentenced at Madison the
other day to two years each in The peni-
5entiary for perjury.
Reports recently sent to Edgerton, Rock
County, from the tobacco growing Sec
lions of Wis consin indicated that in 1884
there were packed in the State 69,6Sl
cases, against 1885 in 1888. The number
of cases packed at each of theprincipal to-
bacco- shipping centerS is as follows:
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HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

The London Garden says that ..the,
sooner the notion is dispelled that roses,
in order to make them grow vigorously.
must be cut back to mere stumps, show
ing two or three buds, the better.n
Lime, says an exchange, is often Of
great value in garden which has been
heavily MANFRED for years, as it will
liberate the insoluble plant food which
has been deposited year after rear in
the manure.
1t is too often the case that the
garden is neglected on the farm. The
luxuries of the garden should be enjoyed
by the farmer, and the fruits should
also be given their proper place on the
farm. 49, Toledo Blade.
Cream pie is made with a bottom
crust only, and that not thick, but light
and faky. Take one coffee-cupful of
thick, sweet cream, half cup Of pull
verified sugar, tablespoonful of flour,
one egg, flavor with lemon extract;
bake until you are sure the crust is
brown and hard, so that it will not abb
sorb the custard. The Household.
The aphis, or green fly. is some
times very abundant on the young
shoots of roses during the early part of
summer. They are not always dam
aging, and sometimes disappear as
mysteriously as they came. A water
decoction of tobacco leaves or stems
sprinkled over the bushes will destroy
them. Detroit Post.
The folly Of storing farm products
when the price is already high enough
is shown in the fact that lot of two hun
bred bales of hops of the year 1882 were
lately sold at Sheriff's sale at Schen-
evus, n. Y, at five to seven cents per
pound. The year they were harvested
they would have sold for upwards of
one dollar pound.-Troy Times.
"A plain wire fence will contract and
expand so much as to become useless in
the course of time, because when it ex-
pands it stretches permanently. The
best time to make wire fence is when
the temperature is forty-fve or fifty de-
grees. The twisted and ribbon wires
do not suffer by contraction, as the
twist takes and gives sufficiently ID
bang Journal.
Fruit snaps: One and half cup
fuls or sugar, one cupful of butter, one
half cupful of molasses, three eggs, one
teaspoonful of soda, one cupful of raj
sins, two cupfuls of currants, one table
spoonful of ginger, one tablespoonful of
cloves, one tablespoonful of cinnamon,
and one tablespoonful of allspice; mix
soft as can be rolled. These will keep
several months. Exchange.
"A correspondent of the Nea0 En-
| gland Farmer says that New York
farmer observed that some of his apple
trees, that had been dressed with I'M
leached wood ashes, bore apples which
kept all winter without rotting, while
the rest of the fruit rotted badly. His
trees were infested with apple-tree
blight. He finally applied wood ashes,
at the rate of two hundred bushels to
the acre, to his orchard, and washed
the bodies of the trees with I've. The
orchard recovered from the blight and
the apples would then keep well in an
ordinary cellar all winter.
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OvER-FAT FOWLS.
A Condition Which Is Not Favorable to
Egg-Production.

A Condition Which Is Not Favorable to
Reproduction.
There are some breeds that do not
fatten as readily as others, while again
there are those that become too fat on
a very small allowance of food. The
Brahmas, Cochins, Plymouth Rocks
and Wyandottes are subject to excess
of fat when fed exclusively on corn.
In the winter the feed goes to heat, bur
in summer the extra quality of the feed
is liable to cause them to cease laying
instead OF promoting it. AS the fowls
must have some grain, the best for the
purpose at this season is oats, cspe-
cially if they are ground. Wheat is
excellent, but wheat is also fattening.
though not SO much so as corn. A
method In use by some is to give wheat
at night, ground oats in the morning
and plenty of green stuff during The
day. Over-fat fowls are subject TO
apoplexy. If your fowls are very fat,
you need not be surprised if occa-
sionally there is found a dead hen I'M
der the roost in the morning. They
often fall off the roost, dropping deal
without previously giving any indica-
tons of disease in any shape. Over
fat cocks are also useless, being clumsy
and inactive. Chickens, however, may
be fed as much as you desire, for while
growing they convert all food into fat,
bone and tissue, thereby demanding
more for subsistence, In proportion to
age and size, than adult fowls. Keep
the fat hens on light diet, scanty ALLOW
ance, and give them plenty of exercise.
When hen becomes too heavy. she
will be good for nothing afterward, I'M
less taken in hand and put through a
system OF diet. The light breeds, such
as Leghorns and Hamburgs, seldom
become too fat, as their active habits
are in their favor, in that respect. The
practice of keeping corn always where
fowls can get it is very injurious one,
and has done more mischief than any
other method of feeding known. Feed
regularly. and endeavor to give enough
and no more. Leave nothing 10 be
trampled or wasted, and be as gener-
Gus with water as with food. Geee-
land Leader.
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ranean.

When once the young American who
inherits money and property begins to
study the British peerage, you may de-
pend upon it all veneration for good old
Uncle Sam is beginning to ooze out at
his finger ends. The ease and rapidity
with which we can travel nowadays,
suggests at once a grand tour of the
European continent, and it is here that
the young American becomes perverted
and learns to bow down to the false
gods of an effete monarchical system.
If you have ever noticed the Anglo
American dude in mid-ocean, it must
have caused you no small amount of
pleasure, albeit tinged with some meas
ure of disgust, chat man should low
er himself to copy the aristocratic man
ners of another nationality, and not
succeed in that attempt beyond MAX
ing himself a mark for ungraceful COM
ment.
A single eye-glass is the first article
mounted by the American dude when
he would wish to pose as an English
man. See him with it most excrucat-
ingly under his eyebrow, as he leans or
Tolls about the promenade to one of the
ocean liners, and lisps or mumbles out
some drawing sentences to any of the
ladies of his acquaintance whom he may
pass by.
Then, when England has been
reached and with an incredible amount
of labor and sycophancy he has sue
ceeded in worming himself into, what
he styles, high society, his methods and
manners are alike vile travesties on the
wonted grace of high-bred English gen-
tleman, and his great wealth alone
saves him from contempt and insult.
But it is when on his knees to some
bewhiskered Italian Prince or Poten-
tate, receiving from his hand the dear
ly-purchased patent of his new nobility,
that our c6-deUdnt American dude is
seen in his most appropriate attitude.
Bow down, degenerate son of
mighty Nation of intelligent tolers, you
are but the drone in the great hive of
this busy world, and have never worked
for the honey which you now sip and
feed on. America can easily afford to
forget you in her fifty millions of free
and independent citizens.
England is great Nation which, for
centuries, has developed all the arts
of peace and refinement, but this fact
alone should not make us slavishly
accept every English method. Our
country is q young one, yet its brief his
tory is not uneventful, and it has
before it a glorious future. Why, then,
should we have our young gentlemen
dudes copying English dress and man
ners, our rosebud debutaates forgetting
the old American custom of clothing the
body with becoming modesty and not
shocking us with the sight Of the for
eign imported custom of naked arms,
and gowns so extremely decoHete as to
be an offense against good taste and
manners.
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FIND YOUR LEVEL.


You can be q fishing shallop if you can not be
If you can not be lighthouse be at least
talow dip;
You can be valiant soldier tnouSo you may
You can watch single headland If you can
not guard const;
There is everything that's noble in the wisdom
Of fulfilling every duty, whatsoever be your
place.
If you spend the day in pining and in staring
You viii find that you are blinded long before
the day is done.
Better be the humble hmpet that is safe
Than attempt an eagles soarings when you
lack the eagles wings.
There are some as swift as swallows, there are
others who must creep.
And you never saw u turtle try TO take q
tigers leap.
If you can not be Palxhan with its thunder
GUS report,
Be content to carry powder In a corner of the
fort;
If you can not rule an army with great COM
mander's skill,
You can fire a common muslet in obedience
TO his will;
There is but single compass in the ship,
But each riYet and sail-fber holds portion of
its fate.
Never try to hold a bushel if designed to hold
a peck,
Or,outreach the cranes aud camels with your
half an inch of neck;
Never try to race with dolphins If you can
not even swim,
Or TO challenge hawks for vision If your eyes
be old and dim;
Never spread grain of butter over fifty yards
of bread
Or attempt with penny trumpets to awaken
UP the dead.
Not every stick of timber that Is flt to make
q mast
Not every structure builded is Pyramid to
last,
Not every piece of music is an anthem or a
psalm,
Not every growing sapling that is pine or
Yet every messy atom has its own peculiar
grace,
And each its perfect usefulness or beauty in
its place.
These truths are old ond hoary, yet we need
them every day,
TO reconcile our longlngs to the limits of our
The orly true philosopher is he who learns
content,
Though quartered in palace or but sheltered
Whose cheerful soul is ready to encompass
Nor vex itself in crltlcising Gods eternal
plan.
The secret of the journey is to know and bear
its length;
The key Of every effort is to rightly gauge
your strength;
Accepting what is given you with the patience
that but asks
The knowledge for its purpose and the cour
age for It's tasks;
Content to struggle bravely and with honor in
tho Strife,
Whether called to lead or follow on the battle
fields of life.
We ask no higher mission than successfully to
teach
The vanity Of grasping for the things beyond
our reach;
ca wasting modest talent in ambition's use
less fret
To reap but bitter failure and the ashes of re-
greet.
Go, study what is in thee, and to be q noble
man,
Know first; then do thy duty in the Great
Eternals plan.
So shalt thou know contentment and content
ments rich increase,
life endowed with blessings and q spirit
filled with peace;
dearth OF disappointmentS and of hours
with pride perpleXed,
Or Jealouses, heartburnings that so many
lives have veXed.
When dead, though Prince or peasant, tits
mo, enough that they should tell:
he knew his place and purpose, and per-
formed each duty we'll"
u. Edgar Jones, IN Current.
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President Cleveland and the Good
TempIars.

Several days ago delegation from
the Order of Good Templars of the
District of Columbia left with President
Cleveland written address urging him
, to make diligent inquiry into the per-
sonal habits and associations of the per-
sons he should appoint to offices in the
District, and to see that She statutes
enacted for the goEernment of the Dis
trict, especially those relating to the
suppression of intemperance, are prop
erly enforced. In reply to the address
the President writes: Il read your adj
dress late last night with great interest.
1t is something tangible, and if all men
would come to me as you have my la
Dor would be greatly lessened. The
Temperance people are good people and
friends of law and order Before / left
New York 1 determined to give the
Districta good government, but there
are SO many conflicting claims that l am
sometimes at loss to know what to do;
but you come with clear statements, Of
which will take further notice
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this year.'
low AMERICAN ''NoBILTTY'' BEGAN.

HOW AMERICAN MOBILITY" BEGAN.
saw, my dear boy, You think so, but
i assure you tbs raining in beastly
manner"
''Rainingi Where, might I ask you?
Look up at the sky and undeceive your
self, y
saw, know all that sort of thing,
but fact is, we've had cablegram at
the club few moments ago saying it
was raining in London, you know, and,
fact is, we fellows who are about TO
leave for Europe in few days have al
ready completely identified ourselves
with the mother country. Ia, ia,
No one who has ever been careful
observer of social life in Washington
but must have been struck with the fool
ish efforts INDUCED in by the gilded
youth at the capital, apeing the English
nobility Crests and coats of arms, En-
glish cut clothes, and every conceivable
imitation of this British aristocracy are
all the rage. If ono of the young
Anglo-maniacs can only succeed in get.
ting hold Of real English lord or
marquis, the genuine article can, If
willing, be tated. dined and wined al