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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-12
THE poppy.
The Best Plant Yet Discovered for Console
dating Loose Soil.

The Best Plant Yet Discovered for Consoli-
dating Loose Soil.
The chief roadmaster of the French
Government railways has made the in
teresting discovery THAT the best plant
yet discovered for consolidating the
loose soil of newly made embankment
by the interlacing of its roots is the
double poppy. The ordinary grasses
or clovers employed for the purpose
require, he says, several months for
the development Of their comparatively
feeble roots, when the double poppy
terminates in a few days, and at the
end of three or four months IL roots
are foot long and tightly enteriaced.
The plant is an annual, but it sows
itself the first year. In France it is
among the hardest of the common
plants and if it is so with us also we
hope that the authorities will not neg
lect this discovery, as the brilliant hue
of the poppy in great masses would be
delightful as one few by it for miles
and miles. Perhaps, too, it would i'm.
pregnate the air with odors bringing
sleep to the restless traveller. And
next, some one viii discover IA equally
scientific use for the daisy and the
canaelia, and even for the orchid. IN
7. Herald
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SPRING MANAGEMENT.
A Problem for Bee-Keepers Which Needs
a Correct Solution.

Correct Solution.
The question of Importance, for
those who will be fortunate enough to
have any bees left in the spring, is
how shall we most successfully get
them in proper condition to be ready
for the incoming honey season. But
little, if anything, can be done now un-
til the advent of warm weather, one
thing should, however, be assured,
viz: that the bees have ample stores to
carry them through. This is easily
ascertained, for we always have few
warm days in March when the exact
condition of each colony as regards
stores can be found out by an examina-
ton, and, if any are found wanting.
their wants can easily be supplied.
When the balmy zephyrs of spring are
felt, and all nature begins to put on.
her robe of green, the joyous hum of
the bee is heard, and they are found
disporting in front of their hives, and
bringing in nectar and pollen from the
maple, birch and other early towering
trees and shrubs. Then a careful ex-
animation should be made, and the ex-
act condition of each colony ascer-
tanned
Experience has taught us that it is of
little use to unite small colonies at this
season; it is far better to build them up
by giving the,u frame of brood occa-
sionally from those colonies that can
well spare them. AS it is fact that
bees are not wanted save in numbers
sufficient for self-preservation, of each
colony until the honey crop is ready to
be gathered, it follows, that large colo
MES, save when the honey is to be
found, are an expense rather than
benefit.
The rule then should be|-to equalize
as nearly as possible all the colonies in
the apiary, at the same time getting
them in condition to bring in the nee
tar from the field in large quantities as
soon as it is 'sripe for the harvest It
is quite easy to fill this bill, for we
know that it takes twenty-one DAYS
from the egg to the worker, and about
twelve to sixteen days for the lust
emerged bee to become sufficiently
matured to begin work as forager.
Now as localities differ. it only re-
mains Tor each apiarist to find out
when the yield of honey in his locality
is due, and to prepare his colonies to
gather it; bearing in mind one thing,
viz: that the rule of keep your colony
strong" is to be taken cum qrano sails
and that it is useless to raise up horde
s of consumers at time when they can
gather nothing.
am not now writing for the novice,
SO will assume that the above is all suf-
fcient for experts. The novice will
perhaps read this article, and if so l
think he can readily understand it; but
whatever may be the case, it remains
still fact that we want at any time
only that number of bees in a colony
that Will give best results; and the in
dividual application of the above hints
will most certainly tend to bring about
good results. Home Farm.
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

High-post bedsteads with white
muslin curtain, all of the Olden time,
are being revived in all their imposing
stateliness.- Chicago Times.
Collect eggs frequently in winter,
or they viii be injured for Matching
purposes. Its vitality is destroyed
when an egg is subjected to tempera-
ture below freezing - Troy Times.
The Nel0 England Farmer recon-
mends the use of apples as an addition
to the feed Of stock, but suggests the
caution that in cold winter weather
they should be brought from the cellar
and fed Immediately before they take
on the temperature of zero atmos-
phere.
Coffee cake: Take one cupful
coffee as prepared for the table,, one
cupfd brown sugar, one cup molasses,
one-half cupful butter. one egg and
one teaspoonful saleratus; put soda in
coffee, add spice and raisins to suit,
and flour enough to make reasonably
thick batter; bake slowly. The Ca
teyer.
I'm order to procure substitute
for lard, which is often much adulter-
ated, and to which some persons OBJ
ject when it is pure, put all kinds of
fat drippings, skimmings and trim
mings together and melt. Slice into
this a large, raw potatoe. When this
is brown the fat will be as clear as
water, but skim it if any impurities
arise.-N r. Examiner.
Sponge cake: Three cupfuls sugar,
three cupfuls -four, six eggs, one cup
full cold water, little salt, and two
heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder,
sifted in the flower Beat the eggs,
(not separating the whites from the
yelks); add the sugar, mixing it well
with the eggs; add half the water,
then the sifted flour, the rest of the
water, and favoring to suit the taste
The Cook.
For chicken salad: Boil one
chicken until very tender; when cold
chop it fine. Chop one head of cab
bage and one large handful of cucum-
Der pickles very fine. Boil one dozen
eggs hard. Mash the yelks only with
the chicken, one tablespoonful of celery
seed, one Of black pepper, one tea
spoonful Of ground mustard, one table,
spoonful of salt and two of butter, one
half teacup of strong vinegar. Cleve-
land Herald.
Nut jumbles: They may owe their
name to walnuts or Brazil nuts; the
chopped kernels of either are very nice.
Cocoanut, too, is excellent. Almond
jumbles are as good as any. Beat to-
gether half pound each of sugar and
butter and three eggs; and quarter
pound of chopped almonds, and little
lemon juice. Stir the flour lightly in,
from half to three-quarters of a pound.
Rose water or orange flower water is
often used as a flayoring to these little
cakes, and a very superior kind are
favored with teaspoonful of vanilla
essence. 49, PHILADELPHIA Call,
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MANLlN ESS.
Mistaken Ideas-.How Thousands of Boys
Are Ruined.

Mistaken Ideas-HOw Thousands OF Boys
Are Ruined.
Early in life the thought occurs that
to throw off the guidance and direction
of parents and friends, to be self-di-
rected, is manly; that to adopt the hab-
it's, the manners, the course of life of
companions, however Objectionable
that course may be, is manly. Thou
sands, tens of thousands, have been
ruined by what are wrongly termed
'manly habits No well brought-up
boy but would feel blush of shame on
ordering and drinking spirits for the
first time in public place, but pres
entity, in imitation of those who do not
blush. the ''manly habit would be
contracted, and life commenced
which might end in confirmed drunk
enness. The conscience, before it is
scared and dulled, is ever true in its
pointing to the right path, its faintest
doubts should lead away from tempta-
ton with the strength of unyielding de-
termination. There should be no par
leying or reasoning when conscience
says No. Conscience is the manifest
instinct, and to obey its teaching, and
to follow its leading, is in the highest
and best sense to be manly.
That which degrades and lowers
mans self-respect, which causes him in
his better moments, when true to HIM
self, to think meanly of his conduct,
and to blush at the thought of the
course he has pursued can not be man
Iy in any sense. Manliness is the parent
of fearlessness. Only he that has done
wrong shuns the light and breads ex-
posture. There is no more glorious
sight in creation than fearless, hon.
est and upright man. What has he to
fear or dread ?-Self-Efo
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OCCUPATIONS AND DEATHS.
The Agency of Alcoholic Drinks in Pro
ducing High Rates of Mortality-Sug
gestiye Facts and Figures.

The Agency of Alcoholic Drinks in Pro-
ducing High Rates of Mortality-Sug-
gestive Facts and Figures.
The death-rate of different occupa-
tons yields some curious results. TAX
ing as q basis of comparison the NOR
tality of all males of similar ages in
England and Wales as 1000, the
death-rate of the class mentioned is
compared NTH this as a standard.
When the rate of the examined class
exceeds this mum Der that class forms
an example of unhealthy occupations;
when it falls short, it belongs to the
healthy occupations. Thus, the first
place among healthy occupations is
held by ministers of religion, the death
rate of this class being $50. Next, we
have gardeners and nurserymen, who
stand at 500; farmers and graziers, 631;
agricultural laborers, 701; school
masters, ZIG: the other trades which
follow closely on these being grocers,
coal merchants, paper manufacturers,
wheelwrights, ship-builders and ship
wrights and coal miners. The figure of
mortality for all these trades is under
775. On the other side, that of the I'M
healthy occupations. the first place is
held by the trades which are concerned
in the manufacture and distribution of
Intoxicating drink, and which, as is
well known, entail many temptations
to drink it to excess. The list of I'M
healthy occupations is headed by the
class of inn and hotel servants, whose
figure mounts up to 2,205, being nearly
double that of the medical profession.
The highest places next to them are
held by general laborers in London
and by costermongers, hawkers and
street sellers, the former class with
1920, the latter with 1879. 1t is prob
able that both are largely made up of
broken men, the wrecks of other call
ings. Innkeepers, publicans, spirit,
wine and beer dealers follow. with
figure of ,521, and brewers with 1861.
In support of the belief that these high
rates of mortality ere chiefly due to al
coholic excess, DIR. Ogle has compared
with them the mortality assigned to
diseases of the liver, the organ through
which such excess chiefly declares
itself, and has obtained results
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HYDRopHoslA AND LIQUOR.
OF These Two Evils which Is the Greater
and the Mnra tn Re Eeareas

OF These Two Evils Which Is the Greater
and the More to Be Feareds
If the mad dog epidemic continues long in
this aud the adjoining cit es, the dogs will
have to go. Better that all the dogs in this
city be killed than that one human beng
should die from the bite of mad dog.-N. Y.
Mail and Cypress.
What signifies one man, woman or
child, now and then bitten by mad
dog, when compared with the vast
multitude of men and women that are
beng constantly bitten by a poison
that biteth like serpent, and stingeth
like an adder; and this poison, so diff
fusive, SO virulent, that it surpasses
any or every other scourge, on account
of the magnitude of the evils that fol-
low in Its train; a poison so terrible,
that, in its effects, it makes smallpox,
cholera and other epidemics, including
war, pestilence, fire and famine, to- be
as nothing compared to its dreadful
devastation.
Men, women and children are our first care:
and whatever sacrifice of animals is neces-
sary to the welfare of the human race should
be made without second thougnt-N. 7,
Herald.
If it be better that all dogs should
be killed rather than one child should
be bitten by one mad dog-and we
know all good mothers and fathers
will heartily indorse this-what shall
we say, what ought we to say, about
the more awful madness of some
human demons who make it their bust
ness to tempt men and women, and
even children, into their dens, to deal
out to them slow, fiery poison, that
exhilarates the brain with a frenzy,
and then stupefies the victims into
helpless idiocy, leaving them subject
to an irresistible craving that nothing
but repeated doses of the same villain
Gus poison will satiate. And yet
these mercenary monsters of iniquity,
in their greed for money, will see these
wretched, poisoned victims of theirs
bloat, writhe and die with curses on
their lips and all their surroundings
enveloped in poverty, wretchedness
and crime, and then gloat over the
prospect of new victims that are be-
ing constantly enticed into their
meshes, to satisfy their greedy selfish
ness.-DeDaoreSt' Monthly.
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which are entirely in harmony With
those of the trade returns. Next to
the trades concerned with alcohol the
highest rates are furnished by occupa-
tons which involve the breathing Of
dust = other than coal dust =
and especially of dust of a sharp
and gritty character or largely COM
posed of mineral matter; next, those
in which there is exposure to lead
poisoning, as with plumbers. painters
and filemakers. The earthenware
manufacturers, who are much exposed
to mineral dust. have figure of LAP;
filemakers, who work upon leaden
cushion, reach 1867, and the plumbers
and painters, who are also exposed to
lead, reach 1902. It will furnish re-
markable contradiction to prevailing
impression that butchers have high
death rate, their figure of mortality
amounting to Ito, the causes Of
death among them being partly due TO
the diseases Of intemperanee, and
partly to phthisis aQd other maladies
from which they have long been sup
posed to enjoy special immunity.-
Chambers Journal.
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Valuable Sweepings.

1t is estimated that the value Of the
sweepings Of the floor of a goldsmith's
workshop become worth about one hum
dred and nifty dollars per square foot
in ten years. A tub, used in one of
these workshops as a receptacle for the
dust from one polishing lathe, yielded
fifty dollars in year. OF course where
such valuable prizes are to be got from
-"dust, tricks are not wanting to Sc
cure them. It is said that the work.
men sometimes oil their hair, and then
run their dusty fingers through it, and
that the gold-dust which then adheres
TO the hair is afterwards washed out.
One man carried off in few weeks.
on the moistened tip of his finger.
thirty dollars worth of gold tillings,--
Ghglstia1 at WorE
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ssThere is no FIRE. ladies and gentle

ssThere is no FIRE, ladies and gentle
men; there is not the least danger
you can retire at once and, = as if a
happy thought had suddenly restored
his mental equipoise, ''if you want any
thing, just ring for it-you'l find the
list Of calls In every room.n
'.How about that frey, untamed luna
tic in No. As who has been working
those calls till the whole house is
bedlam?" sarcastically inquired gem
tleman who for some reason persisted
in shivering despite the reassnring
oyercoat that left only bis bare feet ex-~
posed.
..Oh, he's too full Of fre-water and
we've put him out said the clerk,
with faint twitching to the corners of
his mouth, which showed an inward
appreciation of q remark that he.
thought worthy of a professional para
grapher. He had the jim-iams and
we've sent him around to the station
house to sober up" he added as con-
cession to any order of intelligence not
equal to an appreciation of his delicate
brand of humor.
0OA Id ~ W LllC 1lQUOle YOuaz
man-aithough I've no doubt that's
villainous enough here in Maine, "
growled the gentleman in bare feet.
"Put the blame where it belongs, on
your COMPOUNDED system of double
entry electric calls''
ssBut," said Mr.. George Plymptom,
soto voce, in a glow of gratitude,
while rejecting that had it not been
for this same complex combination
which his enemy had worked to his
own discontinue Montreal and New
York would in twenty-four hours more
have divided himself and Miss Eggles-
ton. 81 find that these electric calls
have been rung to such purpose that
they have brought me the dearest and
sweetest and best valentine the blessed
old saint ever sent to heart-hungry
mortal!'
Then, in voice not confined to a
single auditor, more especially address
ing the bald-headed clerk, while
dozen of the female guests subor-
dinating natural impulse to scurry
back to their rooms to a still more
natural and wholly commendable Curl
osity that scents out and heartily en-
joys a genuine romance-he said:
Some hypercritical persons think
your nine calls an eccentric innova-
ton in electricity as applied to hotels
Instead of agreeing with this super
fetal and erroneous view of the adj
mirable utility of your system, you
may say to the proprietor in the morn
ing, with my compliments, if you
please, that / would suggest the in1me-
date addition of tenth CALI
For whatpn asked the bald-headed
clerk, suspiciously, never before hav-
ing heard mortal being say one good
word for their s'electric calls but,
with prompt, human and hearty
thawing out, as Mr. George Plympton
replied, still engaged in very earnestly
saving Miss Eggleston not only from
fire but from all other possible harm:
For the clergyman, of course. -
Edaoin Il. Iratton, IN N. r Graphic.
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THE DOCTOR TO HIS HORSE.

All, Billy, many a DAY and night,
Thro' the sun and stormy weather,
We've logged along as best we might,
With aching hearts together;
We've brayed the Wintry blasts that poured
Their doubling fury DER US,
And MANY 2 lonely league we've scored
With little cheer before us.
Footsore, we've plodded on and on,
Der roads that slow unraveled
Their murky miles from dusk to dawn,
And chilled us as we travelled;
We've threaded woods so dark and mute,
And glens with gloom so thick sir,
The Owls were half-afraid to boot,
And whippoorwills grew sick. sir.
Down country lanes, by ehurchyards dim,
At midnight we have Scurried,
And seen the eldritch moonlight swim
Above the dead we've buried;
For us the fire fly trimmed his lamp
In many a gloomy thicket;
We've heard = down where the beetles
CAMP
The rasping of the cricket
Te'yellstened to the snap and crack
or heartstrings when the portal
Vi LIES proud temple, swinging back,
Let free the soul immortal;
We We caught the sound of spirit wings
In novels or affiiction,
And heard amid such sufferngs,
Loves brayest benediction.
We've seen the hardened sinners eyes
Lock up their light forever,
With groans, and agonieS, and cries,
AS soul and sense d sever;
We We seen the good old mGn's eyelids close,
AS er them death aid settle,
as softly as a summer rose
Shuts up its snowy petal.
We've seen the father, stopped with years,
On many q death-bed langujsh,
/ We've heard the sob and seen the tears
Stream down the cheeks of anguish
y conlrade minel our days have been
never.endng trial.
We've starved our souls, and worn them
thin,
With steady self-denial.
Old fellow! you have ever stood
My FIR end IN tr bulation,
And would give you, if could,
A royal recreation;
Alas I'm racked with aches and pains,
And you are getting bony
And, Billy, little rest remains
For you and me, my pony.
Aha stranger pauSes here,
With cinkng gold beside us,
And he would take you, Billy dear,
If ducats could divide us;
The wretch he does not understand
Exactly where my heart is,
Not all the wealth at his command,
Ny Billy-boy, could part us.
-J1mcs NeICton Matthews, IN Current.
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LITERARY FREAKS.
The Modest Requests Received AM

The Modest Requests Received and
Answered by Mr.. Nye.
People who write for livelihood get
some queer propositions from those who
have crude ideas about the operation Of
the literary machine. There is a prevailing
idea among those who have never dabbled
in literature very much, that the divine
afflatus works a good deal like corn
shelter. This is erroneous.
To put a bushel 81 words into the hopper
and have them come out poem or ser
mon is a more complicated process than it
would seem to the casual observer
| can hardly be called literary, though
admit that my tastes lie in that direction,
and yet have had some singular ex-
periences in that line. For instance, last
year received fattering oyertures from
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TEMPERANCE READING.
LITTLE PEOPLE.


Inc world win be what you make II,
Little people;
1t viii be as you shape it,
L tile peope.
Then be stsldi ouS and brave,
And your country help to save,
Little people.
When we walk into the gray,
Little people,
And you into the daS,
Little people,
We will beckon YOU along
With very tender song,
Little people.
If war is in the air.
Lite people,
When we maize our final prayer,
Little people,
We viii pass along to you
All the work we tried to do,
Little people.
So be valiant Tor the right,
Little people,
For g battle you must fight,
little pc ople,
Twill be glory when you win,
But TO falter would be sin,
Little people.
Then be studious and brave,
Little people,
And your country help TO save,
Little people,
From whisky, rum and gin,
And the evils they bring in,
Little people.
Mrs. Mary T. Willard.
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Good for Man or Beast.

Excited Young Man ITO gista-iIave
yon got any medicine that is ''good for
man or beast?"
Druggist Yes.
Excited Young Maxwell, hurry up,
man. and giveme bottle OF it.
Druggist What's the matter2
Excited Young Man-Pa GOT runaway
with by the mule, and one of EN- was hurt,
but which we don't know. They're bring
ing him home now and thought I'd get
ready for al emergency. Tic, Bits
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''My dear" said Mrs. squildig, II want a
new bonnet"
"of course you do said squildig; 'but
isn't the one you have good YETI"
Its good enough OF its kind, but want
felt bonnet. They are coming into style
again.
"Oh, that's certainly a mistake.
@Why is it a mistake? What do you
know about the fashion in bonnets?n
Why, know that ladies object to hav-
ing their bonnets felt. They'd rather have
them SEEN"
little laugh and got the money for her BON
net.-Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
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A Dead Sure Thing.

"S'elp me gracious, Isaac, maze more
as sefen tollar yesterday
" How vas dot, Moses?n
II met sllendleman vot bought a cof-
fin. He vas goin' to COMMIT suicide, but
he shanged his mind, because his mudder-
in-law died suttenly, and he wanted to sell
de coffin sheap. / beat him town to tree
tollar and took it. Z
How did you make dot sefen?''
g / sold dot coffin for ten tollar to nv
son Shaky, vot's got de consumption -
Puck's annual
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A COLONIAL Temperance Alliance
has been formed in New Zealand, "for
the total and immediate suppression of
the traffic in intoxicating liquors"
One of the objects is to secure the cleo
ton on licensing committees of men
pledged not % grant licenses, and to
support only such candidates as are
favorable to and viii support in Par
lament and elsewhere the principles
of this alliance.
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"A milkman slipped and fell in New
London, Conn.,, the other day in such a
way that he went head foremost into a
can from which he had removed the
cover. and. as it was tight fit, tim
smiths services were required to extri-
cate him, Hartford Cosag'ss
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ELECTRIC CALLS.
How Valentine Was Brought by
Wildly Using Them.

It was the ghost of a smile that
lightened the rather tired face of Mr..
George Plympton, freshly-arrived occu-
pant of room No. AZ, parlor floor Of
the principal hotel in the metropolis of
Maine, as he glanced at this card CON
spicuously tackled up over the button
In the wall near the head of the bed: