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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23
HE WAS THE MAN.
How Mr.. West Became Thoroughly Az
quainted with His Reputation.

How Mr.. West Became Thoroughly Ac-
quainted with His Reputation.
Probably every one has his detract-
ors, but it is not always that man is
innocently informed of the opinion
which the world entertains concerning
him. A stranger in Maine desired to
enter into negotiations with farmer
in a town in that State for the pur-
chase of some livestock. Meeting a
man driving an ox-wagon, the stranger
inquired:
"Can you inform me where Mr.. West
livesp"
''There are number of Vests living
about here. Which one do you meanP"
'sThis one owns some fine O. en-. y
"They all own pretty fine oxen. y
Il don't know this mans Christian
name, but he has oxen for sale
II guess any of 'em would sell if
they could get their price,
Eyes, but this Mr.. West is wealthy. !"
They're all fore-handed. .
"But this West is said to be close
fisted-man, and hard at bargain
They air all of them kind of close
listed"
'Well, | don't know as | can give
any other quality by which you will
know which West am after. Oh yes,
| did hear that there was story afoat
that this West once robbed his own
brothers hen-roost,'' said the traveller,
laughing. 'Of course it was only a
story
The ox-driver smiled grimlv. swell,
stranger he said, slowly, n reckon
I'm the man. Youths COMPANION.
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YOUNG HORSES.
Discretion to Be Exercised When Putting
Them to Work.

luem TO WOrKs
A good many young horses are usual
II drawn upon to help out with the
spring work, very good practice to
adopt, provided the labor required of
them be selected with discretion and
dealt out in moderation 1t is par
ticularly unfortunate when a farmer
considers himself compelled to depend
upon young horses for his necessities,
and the natural anxieties that come of
the usual delays, if much land should
be under tillage, is quite likely to re-
suit in putting more work upon the
young animal than he can safely per-
form. Particularly is he liable to be
injured if hitched beside horse having
age and firmness of joints and muscles,
unless he be given quite an advantage
on the evener; and even then, where is
the hired man, or any other, not pos
sessed of much more than the average
of intelligence and judgment in the
matter of horsefesh, who is capable of
estimating the amount of a strain a.
young. untried horse will stand? If
spirited and ambitious, he will, to the
novice or the careless hired man, ap-
pear to be doing with ease what will
show up later as having the rudiments
of injury embodied in it. The muscles
are easily made sore, for the same rea-
son that boys muscles get sore each
time, until he gets injured to it, he
plays game at ball. One of the least
damaging results is the early appear
ance of wind puffs, more easily brought
out on some young horses than on
others, because the tendency to these
like the tendency to any thing ese--is
inherited. 1t is quite possible for q
young horse to get an atrophy lsweeny)
of one or of both shoulders. This is a
damaging result that can be SEEN
There are others deeper seated that
can not be seen, and important, partly
because of being hidden. Therefore,
if the young horse be putearly to work.
the work should be Of that kind that
gives relief, now and then, and, as a
rule, should not be of that sort that oc-
ours before the plow.-NationaI Lice
Stock .IoHTnGL
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HUMOROUS.

When Indians paint their faces it
means war. When women paint their
faces it means war, too-against bach
elors- Somerville Journal.
A paper has been started called
the Indian 1t is safe to remark that
the editor will soon be Lo in finances.
Probably without "red. ~ German
toa0n Independents
-Son-''Oh, nominee, here great
big knot-hole in de floor. Come an
lookee." Mother (abstractly) ooh,
honey doan bodder NOMINEE when
she's busy. Bring it heah, an look
at it,
=" Mother, how did it come that
they fixed on foot bein' twelve
inches?' II don't know, Johnny y
"I'll bet you / do'' "Well, howp''
"Cause it was a Chicago girls foot
they measured. "-Kentucky Stute Jour-
nal.
Father" said Rollo, sswhat is
meant by the intoxication of wealthpn
means that money is light" replied
Rollo's father, who has been shining
around all the afternoon with a piece
of paper, looking for all autograph. -
Ba1rdette.
Physicians may inveigh against
violent exercise till the crack of doom.
but so long as gardens will raise Gu
cumbers, fences will have holes and
neighbors will raise hens, woman ism t
going through this life without an occa-
sional yearning to transform herself
into blizzard. It'd BITS.
A clerk, who is dismissed by his
employer, says to him when he is TAX
ing his final leave: "Well, sir, this
dismissal will cost a good many people
their lives. "Do you mean to threat
en- me?n demanded his employer.
:" Not at all. 1t simply means that /
am going to become a doctor. Parts
Figaro.
Justice Madam, what have you
against this manp" Complainant
well, sir, he tore my dress off. .
''How did he do it, madam '.Stepped
on my trail, sir, and Madam.
that is impossible. This man is a city
detective. He never got on ANYBODY S
trail in his life. The prisoner is dis
missed. - Chicago Meas.
First Dude-sYas, Chawley is a
good enough fellow, but he is SO feah-
fully defawmed, you know Second
Dude efawmed? No, didn't know
it. In what way is Chawley de-
fawmed?" "Why, Gawge, you see he
has hawid great cowlick wight on
his forehead, SO he can part his hair
in the middle. It's too duced bad,
you knaw, for aside from his defawmity
Chawley is a DANCED good fellah, you
knaw. '-DanUiite Breeze.
"A shiny new hat is not an infallible
indication that the wearer is the lucky
winner of bet. A young man bought
a hat, and upon exhibiting it to his
wife said that he had won it. He did
this to prevent her asking for bonnet,
as she always does when he buys hat
1t didn't have the effect desired, for she
at once said: That's good; you won
have to buy one now. and / can have
the money for a bonnet. ~ Pittsburgh
Post
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HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

Cover house plants with news
papers before sweeping; also give them
little ammonia once a week in the
water you put on them. Cincinnati
Times.
Queens toast makes a good SUBJ
stitute for hot breakfast bread. Beat
an egg and stir it into cup of milk.
Dip the slices of stale bread in this
mixture and fry quickly WesterD'
.Rural.
Tin vessels rust and are often
worthless in few -Teeks, because alter
washing they are not set on the stove
for a moment, or in the sun, to orv
thoroughly before they are put away.
Exchange.
Good Soft Gingerbread: One egg,
one teacup of brown sugar, one-half
cup of molasses, one-half tablespoonful
of butter, one-half cup of sour cream,
one-half teaspoonful of soda, one tea
spoonful Of ginger, -four till stiff
enough. Bake in moderate oven.-
The Household.
A farmers garden, planted in rows
clear across the patch, and cultivated
as far as possible by horse power and
given as good cultivation as the best
farmers give their corn fields, will re-
quire only half an acre to supply half
of the living of the average family and
add largely to the health of the MEM
bers. Albany Journal.
The Orchard and Garden SAYS:
Keep all stable manure out of the
awberry patch, unless you know it
to be tolerably free from weed seeds.
1t is cheaper to buy and apply commer-
cial fertilizers than to be pulling weeds
all summer. Before going heavily into
the small fruit business, YOU must have
full supply of manure or the money
to huY it.
lin al crops lhar come up thick
and require to be thinned, every day s
neglect, after the plants are large
enough to be Timed, reduces the yield
of the crop. Beets, carrots, radishes,
lettuce, parsnips, and all such crops,
should be thinned as soon as you can
get hold of them with thumb and
finger. ~. Z. Times.
1t is not generally known that cut
straw makes most excellent stuffing
for beds used for children and infants.
Make case of soft tick, obtain some
new, well-bried straw, have it cut in a
chat cuttoG and fill the case moderate
ly full. 1t makes an astonishinglyc COM
Portable bed, is very warm, and is much
more healthy for infants than feather
bed. The idea is really good one, and
the straw beds are well worth the at
tention Of. mothers. = Cleveland Leader.
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PLANTING CORN.
Adapting Denseness of Planting to Il
Different Varieties of the Cereal.

Adapting Denseness of Planting to the
Different Varieties of the Cereal.
In most of the trials made at expert.
ment stations and elsewhere, to deter
mine the productiveness of different
varieties of corn, sufficient allowance
is not made for the unlike degrees of
density of planting which the different
sorts will bear, small variety for its
best return, bearing a much closer
planting than large, leafy sort, with
heavy ears. Some OF the large South
ern corn gives three times as much
grain on the ear as the smaller North
ern sort; and if both are planted at
equal distances, or with the same num-
Der of stalks to the acre, the product
of the small corn will be either too
small to do the kind justice, or else the
large sort will be too thick to produce
well-developed ears.
These remarks are suggested on
looking over a bulletin of the Ohio
Agricultural Experiment Station, Civ
ing the results of trials made on sixty
varieties. The land on which the corn
grew was rich, and small portion of
an acre was allotted to each sort. The
same degree of denseness in planting
was allowed to each kind; they were
planted in rows three and half feet
apart each way, with three stalks in
the hill. The experiments were I'M
questionably performed with great ac
curacy. The larger and later sorts, If
not too much crowded, would possess
great advantage over the small
varieties. Accordingly, in glancing
down the list, which gives the date of
ripening in one column and the product
in another, the heaviest returns are
uniformly among the late or large
growing sorts. Those who matured
in August yielded at the rate of
from Sc to so bushels an acre; those
which gave over a hundred bushels
an acre, nearly all ripened Their
grain late in September. The variety
known as ''Horse-Tooth," maturing
September 25, yielded 115 bushels an
acre; .Robinson's Mixed" September
"a, yielded 102 bushels; "Hiawassee,
September %, gave 1913 bushels, and so
with few other varieties. Only one
sort, ripening before the middle of Sep
TENDER, yielded over hundred bush
els. There were, of course, some par
tial exceptions to the above general
rules. But the results show the i'm
portance of adapting the denseness of
planting to the different varieties.
There is no doubt that small corn may
be planted as much thicker than large
as to compensate for the smallness of
the ears, Judging from the heavy crops
which have been occasionally afforded.
In measuring, the number of bushels
were determined by weighing seventy
pounds to the bushel at husking. The
quantity would of course be much re-
duced after drying few MONTHS
Country Gentleman.
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TEMPERANCE READING.
THREE BIRDS AT A TIME.

Twas a bird from the woodland so bonny
and bright
That had rested to sing in the clear morning
light.
And never did robin sing out in the June
A wilder or sweeter or merrier tune.
For love was the theme that thrilled through
each note
That 50 joyously welled from the gay
warbler's throat
And she sang of a secret you'd never have
guessed,
Twas the sweetest, the tiniest, Coolest nest
Leafy-hld on long, dropping branch that
was swayed
To and fro by the wind IN the sunshine and
shade.
And she sang of her nestlings, the wee cum
Of their soft, Silky feathers and down-covered
wings;
Of their bright little eyes and their breasts
fair to see,
While her heart was as proud as a mothers
could be.
She sang loud and clear her sweet anthem
For all the bright blessings that gladdened
her days.
When. 10, on its mcrciless mission there sped
swift fieeting arrow-and robin WAS dead.
Her song of glad praise and thanksgiving was
Ter;
Her carol would echo in woodland no more
The hours sped onward, the sun sought the
west:
And the two little baby birds, hid in the nest,
Grew weary with watching and waiting in
vain
And calling the mother who came not again.
Till at last. faint with famine and by night
shadows chilled,
Two bright heads lay dropping, two voices
were stilled.
The arrow that entered the mother birds
breast
Had slain just as surely the birds in the nest
Oh you. from whose hands speeds the death
dealing dart,
The Imprisoned arrows that enter the
heart,
Know you not that for each manly form you
have slain,
There are those who have watched for his
coming in vain?
Know you not that your pitiless arrows of
doom,
Through the heart of your victims, have en-
Know you not of the many your hand has
laid low
Through the misery of want and of hunger
and woe?
Know you not that your sin-laden soul is
thrice dyed
With the blood you have shed; not alone with
the tide
Ofcrimson that flowed from brave manhood's
fair breast,
But with life blood of babes that have died in
the nest?
Mrs. ". B. austin, in onion Signal.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


Alfred Russell Wallace, the English
naturalist, will lecture in America next
autumn.
Allan Arthur, the son Of the ex.
President, is SAID to be the most skilled
amateur banjo player in the United
States.
Madame Greville defines a rood
book to be one which in color, detail
word and action will not redden the
cheek of modest girl.
-Lieutenant-Goyer Ames, of Mas
sachusetts. gives $4,000 a year to the
town of Easton, in that State, to be
used in setting out shade trees.
Counties Elise de Edla, widow of
King Ferdinand, of Portugal, who was
formerly Miss Lizzie Hensler, of Bos-
ton, will return to that city and make
it her permanent residence. Boston
society is naturally excited.
Peter Melanson, eighty-six years old.
died suddenly in Clare, n. S., recently,
and his wife. two years younger, who had
always said that she hoped she should
die with her husband, lived only four
w :
aWhen / was last in England =
says Elizabeth Cady Stanton, II wanted
very much to pay my respects to the
Queen, but on learning that court
dress involved bare neck and arms. /
abandoned the idea of shivering in a
cold ante-room for one hour and losing
my self-respect to enjoy that honor"
Fred Kenzle, who has been a host
Ter for twenty-five years at hotel at
Litiz, Pa, has received from his moth
er in Germany draft for 800 and a
letter advising him to prepare at once
to leave America for Germany, where
a fortune of 100000 waits him by the
death of an uncle Philadelphia Press
Rev. DR.. L. Dewitt Talmage does
most of his work on railroad trains,
and the entire series of his recent SER
mons on 1.-THE Marriage Ring was
composed on the cars on weeks trip
last September. When he loses sleep
he keeps an account of it and balances
the account in summer time by Sleep
ing right straight ahead. -Brooklyls
Eagle.
The book of memoirs of the late
General George B. Mcclellan will be
published next fall 1t will be vol
ume of six hundred pages. The
greater part of the book was written
by the General himself, and it has been
edited by his literary executor, Hon.
William G. Prime. Its general charac-
ter is that of nalrecollections and
memoirs, chiefly regarding his military
life.-N. 7 san.
It'll recently" says the London
Literary World, I'VE in England have
had but a poor opinion of American
newspapers, but now that our papers
have sunk to their level, and fill their
coAdmns with sensational news and the
results of wholesale interviewing, it is
to be questioned whether we are in a
position to pride ourselves on our in
tellectual superiority, Americans are
great readers of newspapers, and
there, more than here, do they inform
and guide the general public"
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IN DESPERATE STRAITS.
The Liquor Dealers Organizing for Their
Last Struggle.

The Liquor Dealers Organizing for Their
Last Struggle.
The liquor interest of Massachusetts
is organizing for its last ditch. The
Massachusetts Liquor Dealers Associa-
ton was organized last week, with a
capital stock of $350,000, its member
ship being made of brewers, dIstillers,
bar-tenders and every body connected
with the business. Dealers are to pay
twenty-five dollars a month, manu-
facturers fifty dollars, and the smallest
employer of gin mill or beer shop
pays ten cents month. They propose
to organize the entire country in this
way, and to protect liquor dealers,
licensed or unlicensed, legal or illegal,
in every way possible. The plans of
the organization are thus stated by one
of the leaders in the movement:
''We make no party lines; we look only 70
men who will give Us protection, and save US
from the righteousness of spoilers, black
mailers and crazy Temperance men, who
drink at home and keep their cellars stocked.
but before the public are demagogues and
preachers of Temperance. Our aim and OBJ
ject are to make the liquor business such as ii
is in Europe, as III nations of that continent
the liquor men are at the head aud front of
society, having the full confidence of their
fellow men. and the respect of all classes of
the community"
Nothing pleases US better than this
movement. 1t is confession that the
efforts of the Temperance men have
had some effect upon the villainous
traffic, and that the enemies of man
kind are in doubt as to their future.
But the great good it will do will be to
arouse the real friends of law and
order. and force them into organiza-
ion and direct, persistent work. There
$ no question as to the ability of the
liquor interest to organize and to raise
money easily. All the central body
las TO do is to levy an assessment, and
t viii be paid without question. The
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23

liquor dealcrs can raise any amount of
money, and with money they can pur-
chase votes. The interest is tremen-
dous power, and it is well that it has
got into shape to show just how much
OF a power it is.
1t viii fail, however, to perpetGate
itself. The people are stronger than
any one business. Those interested In
liquor can by use of money and poll
teal manipulation control localities,
but there is not State in the Union
which can not be carried against it by
Overwhelming maiorities.
We most earnestly hope that the
Ohio branch of this Unholy Alliance
will be organized at once,-TOledo
BIa1e
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Preparing for Dramatic Triumphs.

"How'd'y' find business?n asked one
tramp of another.
Putty tough"
Same here. Haint had Ell good,
SOUR whack at er plate O. grub fer er
week"
"Ner me nuther.''
''Gins ter look sif we might have ter
work, don't it?'
Not much. Let's you and me or
ganize dramatic company, and work
Che Territories. knows two er three
Nv Their gang as is maxim big money
out there.
II don't know nothin' bout the
biz"
Don't make no dif'rnce-all yer'Ys
got ter do is ter stan 'roun an hollerer
little and dodge ther eggs ash be
throwed by admirin' public. n--Estel-
lane Cd. Z. Bell
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Say I" No."

"Alice, what will you say when they
offer you wine at dinner?" asked Dick
81 shall say: No, thank you' "
"Suppose, for politeness' sake, We
take a sip."
80 Dick, you don't mean it! Think
how we promised mamma we wouldn't
Think of the trouble intemperance
bringsr'
I'm not talking intemperance, said
Dick, impatiently; "just about a sip. ="
but one sip might lead to more,
don't take even sip, dear brother"
''Cousin Mary will look, and Louis will
think How curious!' and Albert will
put up his eye-glass. hate to be-
looked at as a curiosity"
$50 do l., said Alice. perhaps it
won't be as bad as we think. mean
to say No. all the same. 1t will not
be rude she added, eagerly. Gen
eral Washington said it was not. One
day near the end of our Revolutionary
War, a young officer came to Philadel-
phia to see Washington on business.
He was invited to dinner party. A
little before they were to leave the
table, Washington, calling him by
name, asked him to take glass of
wine. No, thank you, SIR said he, L
have made it rule never to touch
wine Every one looked surprised
that the young man should refuse such
an invitation from the General He is
rude, they thought. What! say NO
to Washington! Washington saw in a
moment how they felt He said: 4
do not want any one at my table to
partake Of any thing against his incli-
nation. honor you, sir, for refusing
what you consider wrong"
''Good lor the Generalr' exclaimed
Dick.
Good for the young man, said
Alice. He was not sure what the
General would think of him, and yet
he was not afraid to do what he
thought was right. "-bateltigenccr.
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EASTER LILIES.

EASTER LILIES.
A little maid walked smiling on herway,
Bearing white lilies on an Easter Day:
Herself lily, pure and fair as they.
{ But as she passed they bore along the mart
A little child whom death had set apart,
His small hands lying empty on his heart.
Close TO the bier the little maiden pressed,
And laid her Slles on the pulseless breast,
Saying: Take these to light thee to thy rest.
''If to my Lord bring no lily bell
He is go near my heart He knows full well
love Him more than any tongue can tell"
-
Altar and chancel shone with radiant bloom,
Breathing sweet doors through the minister
gloom,
Type Of the life that triumphed Ger the
tomb.
She in heard the organs solemn voice that
scared,
AS If Heaven to seek the risen Cord
Crowned by His angels, by His SAINTS adored.
While, out Of sight, woman sang alone,
w tn such wondrOus rapture in her tone,
She seemed seraph singing by the throne.
The little maid knelt down with reverent
grace,
And great light fell on her upturned face,
Bringing vision Of the Heavenly place;
" herein she saw her Lord, with smiling eyes,
Amid the countless hosts of Paradise,
Bearing the little child, by death made wise.
Her very heart ran DER with Joy to see
Her lilies blooming by the Masters knee,
Grown fair as any deafness flowers might be.
While from the blessed child this message
fell:
''Dear Lord, Thy little maid who loves Thee
well,
Sends these, by me, her faithful love to tell"
Blessed are they whose prayers in deeds
find wing,
Whose hands the gifts of humble service
bring
And in His lowly children serve their King.
Blessed are they who hear the Master plead
In every cry Of human woe or need,
LoI In their hearts the Lord is r sen indeed.
Emily Huntington Miller.
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on UNITED STATES.
Toledo Blade

Last fall Frank Rottger, a well-to-
do farmer of Otoe County. Neb., sent
his photograph, with details as to age,
color of hair, and amount of wealth to
several young women in the old coun-
try. The result was that Miss Anna
Mexner reached Nebraska City few
days ago, and within two hours was
married to Mr.. Rottger. - Chicago Her
aid.
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Portraits on Bank Notes.

The heads on the National bank
notes Of different denominations are
not very generally known, and very
few persons can tell what portraits are
on the different notes. They are as
follows: