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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-01
How To Keep Cider Sweet.

Pure sweet cider that is arrested in
the process of fermentation before it
becomes acetic acid or alcohol, and
with carbonic acid gas worked out,
is one of the most delightful beverages.
The following scientific method of
treating cider preserves its sweetness:
When the saccharine matters by fer
mentation are being converted into.
alcohol, if a bent tube be inserted air.
tight into the bung, with the other
end into pail of water, to allow the
carbonic acid gas evolved to pass off
without admitting any air into the bar
rel, beverage will be obtained that is
fit nectar for the gods. A handy
way is to fill your cask nearly up to the
faucet when the cask is rolled so that the
bung is down. Get common rubber
tube and slip it over the end of the
plug ia the faucet, with the other end
in the pail. Then turn the plug so
the cider can have communication with
the pail. After the water ceases to
bubble, bottle or store away. -F'Qrap,
Field AID Firesiae,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-01
MINCED MANURE,
Why Fertilizers Should Be Applied in
Pulverized Condition.

Why Fertilizers should Be Applied in a
Pulverized Condition.
Fineness as a quality of manure has a
considerable commercial value, es-
pecially for garden crops. Plant-food
is available only when it in a state of
solution, possibly when it is so finely
divided chat it is on the point of solu-
ton. In the growing of garden crops
this is an important point; for there we
use manure almost, OF quite, as much
to hasten the crop as to increase it.
Early vegetables bring the highest ilg-
ures, and many sorts are of much bet
ter quality if grown rapidly. The
quicker asparagus is grown the ten
derer it is, and the way to grow it rap
idly is to use fine manure literally.
The secret of profit In growing cucilm-
bers is plenty of manure, both broad
cast and in the hill, and that used in
the hill should by all means be thor
oughly fined. Ii well manfred the
crop is not only larger, but of
much better quality, and the plant is
better prepared to withstand the attacks
of insects. The reader knows how
much fine manure adds not only to the
earliness but to the quality of lettuce.
70 have it juicy and crisp it must be
grown rapidly, and therefore plenty Of
readily-available manure is required. |
would not undertake to grow musk
melons without an abundance of fine
manure, and if other than superphos-
phate or chicken manure, [ would nut
a handful in the hill along with the
seed. In the growing of musk-melons,
manure plays its most important part
in hurrying up the growth Of the plants,
to get them out of the way of the bugs;
for as soon as they reach the rough leaf
they are out of danger For market
gardener to attempt to grow early peas
without liberal amount of fine ma
nure is to court disaster. Fine manure
on radishes makes them earlier, the
yield larger, and the betterment
of the quality of the vegetable alone
would be a good return for the manure
Fine manure makes radishes sweeter
and tenderer; rhubarb is benefited as
much and in the same way. And so on
through the list of vegetables. 1t is
this quality of availability or solubility
which makes liquid manure so quick
in action. The addition of liquid to
solid manure is benefit oftentimes;
not because there is any virtue in the
liquid itself, but by reason of its action
On the solid matter, which it divides
and makes finer. Many know of the
marvellous effects oftentime produced
by decomposed poultry manure; and
this is in great part due to the fine
ness of the manure.
But | advocate more. l say we
should use minced manure. That is,
manure not only fine, but mixed; a
variety closely intermingled. I have
but little use for special msnures. [
would rather apply complete manure
than special one at any time. 1t
may be correct to feed the plant, but I
prefer to feed the soil, and let the soil
feed the plant; and for this reason l
use complete manure when [ can
get enough of it for my purposes
John N. StG]tI, IN AmericGp Garden.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-01
HOT-BEpS OF CRIME

Although Disagreeing on the Proper
Methods of Suppressing Intemperance,
All Good Citizens Can Unite Against the
Saloons.
No matter what mans opinion may
be about the feasibility of prohibition
or the physical or moral effects of alco-
hole drinks, he can not deny that ''sa-
looms" are the curse of American poll
tics and society; that none of them,
whether Democratic or Republican,
are entitled to any protection what
ever; that if they could be all shut up,
it would be great thing for the coun-
try, and that even if they can not be all
shut up, they can be at least diminished
in number and made less mlschievous.
For passing Judgment on them no par
ticular views on the liquor question are
necessary. The teetotaler. the moder-
ate drinker, the high-license man and
the prohibitionist can all unite in a
crusade against them.
To say that the saloons are all over
the country nurseries of vice and crime
is to repeat commonplace. In this
respect they receive plenty Of denun-
citation from reformers and philanthro-
pists of all shades of opinion. But
their effect on politics does not receive
half enough attention. 1t is they,
more than any other single agency,
which make the problem of municipal
government in America so formidable.
They give political power and import
ance in all cities to probably the worst
class of men in America. All party
managers are almost compelled to ac-
cept the services of liquor-dealers as
captains Of fifties and captains of hun
dreds, and having accepted them, the
party becomes dependent on the liquor
interest and bound to conciliate it.
The saloon is not simply place to
which men resort for society and
exhiIaration. 1t is almost invariably
political club, Of which
the liquor-dealer is the head,
and he goes into politics for precisely
the same reason for which he sells
liquor. All his political influence is
corrupting. Every thing that he tells
his customers of what is going on in
politics confirms them in the belief
that it is simply means of robbing
the taxpayer. When they put him in
Office. it is for the ayowed purpose of
plundering and sharing with them.
Whatever he may be in politics, too,
whether alderman or school trustee,
his voice is always raised on the side
of corruption and disorder. We have
had innumerable liquor-dealers i'm of
flee in this city during the past forty
years, but we doubt if anybody can re-
call single case in which one of them
raised a finger or said word on the |
side of good government, and did not |
stand as far as he could in the way of |
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-01
The RuTTERlNE BILL
Salient Points OF the Recently Adopte
Oleomargarine Law


Salient Points OF the Recently Adopted
Oleomargarine Law.
As the new Oleomargarine law goes
into effect at the close of October the
following salient points in the law will
be of interest to every butter dealer
and consumer:
Section 2 of the law reads as follows:
For the purposes of this act, certain
manufactured substances, certain ex-
tracts and certain mixtures and COM
pounds, including such mixtures and
compounds with butter. shall be known
and designated as 'oleomargarine e, ;
namely: All substances heretofore
known as oleomargarine, oleo, oleo-
margarine-oil, butterine, lardine, suine
and neutral; all mixtures and COM
pounds OF oleomargarine, oleo. oleo-
margarine-oil, butterine, lardlne, suine
and neutral; all lard extracts and tai
low extracts; and all mixtures and
compounds of tallow, beef-fat, suet.
lard, lard-oil, vegetable-oil, annotto
and other coloring matter, intestinal
fat, and offal fat made in imitation or
semblance of butter, or when so made,
calculated or intended to be sold as
butter or for butter"
The tax required by law is two cents
per pound, and must be paid by the
manufacturer by placing on each pack
age revenue stamp of the amount of
the tax.
Manufacturers of oleomargarine shall
pay a tax Of six hundred dollars (S600)
per year.
Wholesale dealers shall pay tax of
four hundred and eighty dollars ($4S0)
per year.
Retail dealers shall pay tax of for
ty-cight dollars ($48) per year.
these special taxes are to be paid to
the collector of the district, the same
as the special taxes for selling cigars
and tobacco, and every dealer in oleo-
margarine is liable to tux as above after
October 81, 1886, and all oleomargarine
on the premises of any dealer at that
time is subject to the tax
Before being removed from any fac
tory, every package of oleomargarine
shall be branded or stenciled with the
serial number of the package, the word
'oleomargarine," and the factory num-
Der, and the district where made. The
letters in the word 'oleomargarine"
shall be not less than three-quarters of
an inch in length, and all other letters
and figures shall be not less than one
half of an inch in length. The above
brands shall be both on the top and
again on the side of each package. The
gross weight, the tare and the taxable
weight must be branded or stenciled
on the top of the package, in figures
not less than three-quarters, of an inch
in length.
All oleomargarine shall be packed
by the manufacturer thereof in firkins,
tubs or other wooden packages not be-
fore used for the purpose, each contain
ing not less than ten pounds.
Retail dealers must sell only from
original stamped packages, in quanti-
ties not exceeding ten pounds, and
they are required to pack what they
sell in suitable wooden or paper pack
ages, and such packages shall be
marked and branded with the name
and address of the dealer, with letters
not less than one-quarter of an inch
square, and the word ''oleomarga-
rine, !" and the quantity in pounds con-
tanned therein, as follows:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-01
PERSONAL. AND LITERARY.

Cornelius Vanderbilt scorns crests
and notices. &c. W simply is
painted on his carriage.-N 7. Mail
| An estate near Lake Geneva.
Switzerland, has been purchased by
James Gordon Bennett, who intends to
build castle on its banks.
Andrew Carnegie, the wealthy
iron man of Pittsburgh, has offered to
donate S250,000 toward the establish
! ment of a free library in his native city
of Edinburg. Pittsburgh Post.
Joseph Cilley, OF Nottingham, n.
H., who is still living, at the age of
ninety-six, enjoys the distinction of
having been the first anti-slavery man
sent to the United States Senate.
Mrs. General w. S. Hancock has
been engaged during the summer in
writing volume of "reminiscences of
her late husband. It is now about
completed, and viii be published this
winter.
Nine Patti recently entertained
| Henry Abbey at her Welsh castle, and
kept the American flag flying all day
Sunday in honor of her guest, who
says she lives in royal style, and has
over sixty servants to wait upon her.
Mamie Woo Sing, wife of Pueblo's
famous Chinese doctor, Chung Sing,
died recently after a five weeks sick
ness of malarial fever. The doctor
married her in Pueblo last winter, pay
ing two thousand dollars for her. She
was sixteen years old, and he was sixty.
San francisco Call.
Christine Nilsson, the singer, is to
be known as the Countess Angel de Mi
randa. Her future husband belonged
to the gilded Bohemia of Paris when
he went there in the train of the exiled
Queen Isabella of Spain in 1863 He
was appointed when Alphonso returned
to Spain to a post at the Spanish En-
bassy created for him.
Emperor William has ordered the
publication of the complete edition OF
the musical works of Frederick the
Great. The collection will include sew
eral compositions which have hitherto
remained embalmed in the library at
the Sans-Souci Palace at Potsdam,
which have been selected and arranged
for publication by the Crown Princess.
Rev. George 0. Barnes, the mount
ain evangelist Of Kentucky, says that
he. journeyed around the world with
his wife and three children entirely on
faith. He had no plan when ne set
out but to preach, had no invitations
from abroad, no promises of support,
no acquaintance even in the countries
he visited. Yet he made the journey
and wanted for nothing.
EVERY day at one o'clock $780,
100000 sit around little mahogany
table in an upper room in the Western
Union building and eat.a plain but
substantial lunch,'' says the New York
SM5. "The millions belong to Jay
Gould, Sidney Dillon, Russell Sage
and Ex-Governor Alonzo B. Cornell.
All were country boys and wore shoes
only on Sundays. Mr.. Gould and Mr..
Sage got their first ideas of finance in
village stores, and Mr. Dillon and Gov
ernor Cornell were day laborers, and
thanked Heaven when they trudged
home with six dollars in their trousers
pocket on Saturday night"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-01
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

"A capital method of administering
castor oil to children is to pour the oil
into pan over moderate fire, break
an egg into it and stir up. Then flavor
with a little SALT sugar orcurrant jelly.
Exchange.
Wick says a spot for pansies
should be selected where it is a little
shady, at least in the middle of the
day. A place entirely shady is not de-
sirable. A light soil, made rich with
well-rotted stable manure, is the place
for them. Gardner Monthly.
Poultry farming doesn't take a
great deal of land, but with good
management the harvest comes every
day, and, though it is small, its null
DUPLICATION by all the days of the year
makes a sum that compares favorably
with more pretentious ventures.-M
Y. Telegram.
Keep dairy salt and all other that
is to be used for human food in clean
packages and away from all foul odors,
for salt will absorb Impurities from
bad air, and afterward impart in to
food. with which it comes in contact.
Serious losses have occurred from ignor-
ance of this fact. N Y. Examiner.
Gather up all the machinery on the
farm and see that it is cleaned, the
iron parts oiled and the wood work
well painted. Much of the machinery,
like cultivators, corn piows. reapers
and mowers will not be needed until
next spring. The sooner they are
under proper shelter the better There
is always more or less cleaning up on
every farm that can be profitably done.
and that will add very materially to
the appearance as well as the value of
the place. -MontreaE Witness.
If farmers will grow field of fod-
der corn, they will find that it requires
less labor in proportion to yield of prod
uce than any other crop tina. can be
grown. 1t may be sown very thick1y
~ the rows, and should be harvested
Just when in the milky state. so as to
arrest the nutritiye matter in the stalk
as it passes on its way to the eals
Such crop is quickly grown. needs no
hoeing, can be cultivated one way and
can be carried as soon as cut directly to
the barn for storage. Troy Times.
"A writer In the Garden SAYS one
good use of stones in the garden is in
layering, for We find that shoots and
branches of all shrubs and trees root
much more quickly if placed in the soil
and covered with large stone than if
pegged down in the usual way Even
for many hardy plants we find this
plan of stone layering very successful.
a few good powders, half sunk in the
turf. make fine position for clumps
of yucca tlaccide, or of acanthus. II
carefully grouped and fringed with
any smal[leaved, creeping forms of
ivy, stones make very beautiful groups
and add variety to flat surfaces.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-01
MELON CULTURE.
Fall Preparation and Fertiliza ton of the
Soil Necessary to Success.

FAIL Preparation and Fertilization of the
Soil Necessary to Success.
The proper time to begin watermelon
culture is the year before the crop is to
be raised. A sward is the best possible
land, since it is comparatively free
from insects and at the same time rich
in the natural constituents of growth.
1t should be plowed as early in the au-
tumn as possible. If this is done many
insects will be killed and the soil will
be so far rotten by the time the melons
are to be planted, whether they be
water or muskmelons, that the soil
may be brought into perfect condition
for the subsequent cultivation.
AS to this and the fertilization, the
soil for watermelons and cantaloupes
should be very light, and although the
crop does best when the showers are
frequent, yet nothing is so injurious as
to attempt to keep them too damp. A
wet soil is very unfavorable, and as the
roots grow as fast as the tops. too much
working around the plants will not an
swer. On heavy lands where the at
tempt is made to grow them, provided
the season is long enough, deep hole
is dug, stones or chips. put in, and well
rotted manure placed over them. The
manure is then covered with a few
inches of rich dirt and the seed planted.
This gives thorough undertaking,
provided the ground is also drained
otherwise and permits OF the air and
heat entering, the cold moisture being
either eFaporated or allowed to pass
below. The plants should be well
worked until they begin to run. Then
only the ground before the running
vines should be worked, but the grass
and weeds should be pulled out. 1t
has been claimed that by pinching back
the vines after the fruit has set the
melons viii be better and larger, but
such has not always proved true. The
best fertilizer is plenty of well rotted
manure, with handful of mixture
of ashes and saperphosphate around
the ground over which the plants run,
about the time of the ripening of the
fruit. Farm, Field and !Stocknaz.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-01

some of your household know more
about it than / do. | wish you vely
good-evening, Mr.. Shaw. Good-even-
ing, Miss Shaw
And the wrathful Mr. Pettiiohn turned
on his heel, and a moment later the
front door shut behind him with no
uncertain sound.
Miss Shawl" | whispered to
Fred. ''That's murderousl He's fear
full mad, or he never would say Miss
Shawl"
Roger did not whistle as he walked
briskly down the gravel path. We
could just see his form as he passed in
the darkness.
When we looked again into the par
lor Aunt Elizabeth, prim and straight,
in her morning wrapper, candle in
hand and her eyes swapping and
cleaning like a cats back in the dark,
stood between father and Flora, look
ing inquiringly from one to the other,
Mother had also come into the room,
her face the picture of bewilderment
and despair.
We thought it was time to draw the
curtain on our joke. We carefully
lowered the window, and, taking a
last look at the distressful tableau, hur-
ried into the kitchen, twitched off our
boots, and fastened upstairs. In 3
minute we were well abed. The clock
was still striking as we dropped off to
sleep.
Our experiences next morning do not
70 ho II Il
out, of course. Flora wore an injured
air for week. Father was stern, but
we half suspected that he inwardly APP
proved our course. Roger Pettiiohn $
ring did not disturb our door-bell for
months.
When it was certain that Flora had
vanquished all competitors for the head
other class, Fred and [ managed to let
him know how misfortune came
upon our clock. We put the works
back in the case, and with proper cere-
mony made him a present of it, and it
was given an honored place in his
room. When at the academy COM
mencement Flora bore off the valedic-
tory, her largest bouquet had Rogers
card neatly attached with blue rib
bon.
The funniest part of the affair was
that when the clock began to strike on
that memorable evening Aunt Eliza
beth began counting the strokes, &C
cording to her .invariable habit, and
although she went down into the par
Tor and returned to her room after half
an hour, she averred that she had
counted every stroke, and the clock
had struck exactly 996 times Nine
hundred and ninety-six o'clock became
family by-word. = Chicago Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-01
APPLES FOR CONS.
a Beneficial Food Provided It Is Fed in
Moderate Quantities.


Moderate Quantities.
Apples are not only not obiectiona-
BILE, but are beneficial to the health of
the COW, and improve the flavor of her
milk-with the qualification that they
are properly fed. The apple is very
poor in albuminoids, having in its fresh
state only .21 to .27 of one per
cent. The Baldwin has 1850 per cent.
of carbohydrates, including fat, and
the Russell has 1880. This gives the
extremely low nutritive ratio of 1 to
80. This is poorer than the straw of
any of our grains. The carbohydrates
contain little or no starch, but pectose
and pectin, and about per cent. of
sugar. Pectose contains digester for
other food, and this is what gives ex-
coptional value to turnips and other
roots.
There is no doubt that a moderate
quantity of apples, say six to eight
quarts to a cow per day, will assist in
the digestion of her other food, and
their fiayoring will improve the taste
of milk. But an excessive amount of
apples might be an injury from the
amount of seeds they contain. Apple
seeds in considerable quantity operate
on the urinary organs, and this is what
has led some to suppose that apples
dry cows up. The writer has often fed
the small quantity of apples mentioned
to cows with decided benefit. One
need have no fears in feeding apples
in this moderate way. tits better that
they should be fed with heterogeneous
food. as apples are very deficient in al
buminoids. Physicians often recon-
mend apples as an aid to human dyes
tion. CoIntry Gentleman.