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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-24

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-24
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FGST AM NORTH 70 FITTST0EdH AND CIRYILIS1.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-30
BODYBUILDING,
A Profession Which Offers Many Ad,an-

"A Profession Which Offers Many Adsan-
tages to American Boys.
bodybuilding is by no means one of
the ''lost arts, = although in this age of
steam and iron, the .'good old days"
OF the ship-builders are thing of the
past Of late years, however, there
has been marked increase in the
trade, and although the work is con-
fined principally to yachts and smaller
craft, the steady growth of this branch
OF bodybuilding offers excellent in
ducements to any young man whose
tastes lie in that direction.
| know of one boy at least, now six
teen years of age, who intends to fit
himself during the next five or six
years for the occupation and his
father, prominent and highly success
full naval architect, believes that there
is very promising future for Ameri-
can bodybuilding.
take it for granted that the future
boat-builder has, as boy, been fond
OF boats. He has not only taken adj
vantage ofthe rivers and ponds near his
house, has navigated them in scow, in
row-boat or in sail-boat, but I will sup
pose that, from the time he has been
the owner of a jack-knife, he has been
a constructor of toy boats. And, as he
has grown older and become the pos
SCISSOR of a tool-chest, or, at least. of
gauge, mallet, a saw, plane
and good knife, he has
wrought out miniature cutters
and schooners, possibly square
rugged ship, all OF which have been
much admired by his young compan-
ions. If it has been his object in life to
become a boat-builder, he could not
have been better employed during the
hours that have not been taken up
with school duties.
In every business and profession
there is some one object above all
others sought after, upon which sue
cess may be said to depend. The orator
endeavors to arouse our enthusiasm,
the poet appeals to our sentiments, the
lawyer to our reason, the clergyman to
our conscience. The genius of the
boat-builder lies in the one word
form. +" The one thing more than all
others for which he aims to have a
reputation is the ability to give good
shape to the mass of wood or iron con-
ing from his hands, whether it be a
man-ofwar or a sail-boat. Aud SO it
was good for the boy that he made
boats and models of boats He was
getting, as the naval architect would
say, form impressed upon his BRAIN"
1t may have been, it probably was, a
bad form, an incorrect form, but it was
something from which to start. At all
events, the boy has formed speaking
acquaintance with the occupation he is
about to enter George j. Manson, ia
81 NschoI0s
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-30
w. Nj. THAckERAY.
The Author Of Vanity Fair Ranked az the
First OF English Noveiists.

1ne Aulnor OF Vanity Fair Ranked az the
First OF English Novelists.
Ihackeray, in the fullest, noblest
sense of the word, was humorist; and.
therefore, his pathos is as true as his
wit is bright. His humor is so fine
that he never descends to low comedy
or violates nature for the sake of comic
or any other effect. He is wholly too
great for popularity, especially for that
immediate reverberation CT reputation
which is won by some writers whose
claim to lasting fame is questionable.
Ihackerays fame will be the slow,
quiet result of recognition beginning
with the cultured and strengthened by
criticism. Das Gleiche kahn nur yom
Gleichen erkannt werden. Such title
should only be awarded after careful
consideration, but Thackeray may, I
think, be ranked as the first of English
novelists. All his powers found full
expression within the form of art
which he. wisely selected and sedulously
followed. If George Eliot have some
higher thought qualities, those qualities
especially in her later works lie out
side the range of the novel. Thackeray
was true social Regeneration. and his
keen satire, if sometimes bitter. is the
result OF honest Indignation against all
that is unworthy and is base. He
teaches nobler morality than
that found in the actually exist
ing social world. He paints great
ness and meanness, and he shows.
too, how, in the growth of character
acted upon by external circumstance,
Worldliness may be elevated to noble
ness, and nobleness may, under temp
tation, sink to conduct beneath its own
IDEAL. bis characters are as real as if
they were actually living and speaking
among us. We see their figures, we
watch the play of their features, and
hear the tones of their voices. He
paints from the inside outwards and to
our ken his men and women are such
crystal clocks that we see the inner
works through the transparent faces.
The fullness of his sympathy with hui
mainly, the profundity of his knowl-
edge of many-sided life, is extraordi-
nary. Ii he stand by the porter's lodge
OF shepherd s Inn, he looks at the out
side OF the houses and sees all the life
that is within. If he take you with the
Colonel and with Give to Sir Brian
Newcomers respectable mansion in the
early morning, when the shutters are
just opening to let in another respect
able day, he notes all the characteristic
furniture, pictures, plate-trays, Jour-
mails: he knows all about tho dopoac
tics and the household. His style
comprises exquisite playfulness, beau
tlful banter, incisiye description, preg-
nant narrative and manly eloquence.
His We're the clear intellect, the shap-
ing spirit of imagination, the great
human heart, the tenderness which
was as deep as the sarcasm was keen.
- e1tLe1l1n1'e Mnnn z1nao
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-30
A GOOD FERTILIZER.
MARI in the Western States, and How to
Test Its Presence,

MARI in the Western States, and How to
Test Its Presence.
Mari, unlike clay, on being placed in
water will crumble down, often into
powder. Clay remains intact. Clay
is composed of alumina and silica, and
is formed by the breaking down of
granite and other rocks of a like for
nation. II may contain lime, magne-
STA and oxide of iron, often in notable
quantities. Marls, on the other hand,
are valuable in proportion to the car
Donate of lime they contain. When
they are strong in lime they are
termed calcareous; when deficient in
lime argillaceous.
A good test for mari. besides its
property of naturally breaking down
in water. is its eflervesence under the
action of muriatic acid, or even When
treated with strong vinegar. Marls
composed of shells are the best, since
in addition to lime they contain also
bone earth, and are sometimes so rich
in carbonate of lime that they may be
burned into quicklime. DR.. Kedzie of
the Michigan Agricultural College has
found samples in Michigan beds con-
tanning fifty to ninety per cent. of car
Donate of lime and two to six per cent.
of magnesia. He thinks the best re-
suits are obtained with marls on light,
sandy soils, with fair proportion of
humus decayed vegetable matter. On
such soils they may. indeed, favor nit
rifcation, or the gradual conversion
of insoluble nitrogen compound into
soluble nitrates. Mari on sandy
soils accomplishes the condition namei
above. It also tends to bind and rem
der sandy soils more fertile through
consolidation. From fifteen to thirty
loads may be applied to an acre,
though as much as one hundred loads
have been applied with benefit
There are marl-pits scattered extern
siyely over the prairie and timbered
region Of the West waiting develop
ment. Simple means for determining
will aid any farmer in his search for
this material. If it crumbles down to
a fine powder in water, or foams when
the dried mari is pounded fine upon
having muriatic acid poured over it, it
is mari, and the stronger the eferyes-
cence the richer the mari. = Chicago
tribune,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-30
UTILIZING REFUSE.
Why and How 1t Should Be Converted
Into Fertilizers.

Corn cobs rot very slowly. and but
few farmers have the patience to wait
until they are decomposed. They are
very rich in potash, over twenty-five
per cent of that substance existing in
them The cobs that accumulate an
nually on those farms where corn il
made special crop make quite large
amount of potash, but not in an avail
able form, and the farmer can not
utilize them as he should. It is sug-
gested that they be burned to ashes,
which is very sure way of deriving
the potash from them, but every one
thousand pounds of eobs contain two
pounds of nitrogen, and it, also, is an
item worth saving. The question is
whether the heat derived from the
cobs is sufficient to pay for burning
them and allowing of the loss of the
nitrogen. balancing this is the
fact that by reducing them to ashes
they are rendered soluble and avail
able. There is another form of utiliz-
ing the cobs, however, which is to
grind the grain and cob together. Al
though the nutritive matter in cobs
may be but small proportion, yet the
two pounds of nitrogen, some carbon
and portion of the phosphates and
lime will be appropriated as food, the
refuse being voided as manure The
use of the grain and cob ground to-
gether, therefore, gives a greater pro-
portion of potash to the manure, and
the practice should therefore be en-
couraged.
But there are other kinds of refuse
as wells as cobs which should be con-
verted into available fertilizers, such as
straw, cornstalks, scrapings and other
undesirable material 1t may be stated
in the beginning that it will be neces-
sary to render all such substances fine
before they can be properly used,
either for direct application upon the
land or as absorbents. To burn them
is to lose much that may be valuable,
and to attempt to decompose them by
placing them in the manure heap be-
fore subjecting them to some kind of
process for reducing them is to lose
time. In order not to entail expense
in reducing such material to fine
condition, it should be passed through
cutter and fed with ground grain,
and those portions which are unfit for
the purpose of feeding may be laid
aside and made fine for bedding pur-
poses. 1t may be stated here that any
kind of material that has been made
fine and then saturated with LIQUID
manure, or urine, will not only absorb
such, and become saturated, but will
also quickly become decomposed and
be ready for the plants without the
necessity of heating it in the manure
heap. If once an accumulation of such
material is commenced, all the refuse
liquids or other waste materials of the
farm may be added to it.-Farns, FEELS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-30
TRIAL BY JURY.
The Debasing, Corrupting and immoral
Effect of the Liquor Traffic.

Effect of the Liquor Traffic.
The liquor traffic is debasing, cor.
rupting and immoral Whatever il
touches it pollutes. 1t is the sum Of
all diabolisms, the parent of vice and
the promoter of sin.
In Essex County recently the panel
of jurors was madeup of such bad men
that the Judge said: We will have
to adjourn the court; we can not pro-
coed with trying any more cases.
Temperance Gazette.
This is no new feature. In Passaid
County few years ago, where the
number of the liquor dealers are about
one thirtieth of the male population.
there were eighteen rumsellers on
panel of fifty-two, and one of them was
on the verge of delirium tremens when
summoned, and during murder trial
he was given four glasses of whisky
daily to keep him up, which resulted
in him losing his mental faculty, and,
but for the accidental discovery of the
fact by one of the jurors, the accused
mans life would have been put in
jeopardy by this drunken saloon-keeper,
who with seventeen others had been put
into the jury box by an ex-saloon.
keeper for the benefit of his saloon.
keeping friends.
And now in Buffalo an attorney, Mn
Witcher, declares that the district at
torney's office is used to protect crimi.
nails, and that public officials are wont
to tamper with jurors to prevent indict
ments.
Under such circumstances there is no
denying the fact that the right Of trial
by Jury has become a farce, and thai
King Alcohol is as great an usurper in
this respect as George IIL-XVIM
Amendment
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-30
THINNING FRUIT.
An Important Matter Which Has Long
Beea Neglected by Horticuiturists.

An Important Matter which Has Long
az Been Neglected by Horticuiturists.
When planted in good soil, good
thrifty fruits will nearly always over
load themselves. and in order to secure
the best, smoothest and largest fruit
considerable thinning must be done;
this is especially the case with grapes
and tree fruits.
Choice apples, peaches. pears,
ounces; in fact, the best of all kinds of
fruit command the best prices and al
ways SELL Outlines the market be-
comes glutted with poor fruits, and
the prices realized are really below
what it costs to produce them and
sometimes they can not be sold at any
price, while at the same time the
choicest and best are selling alta profit
able price.
Too many fall into the error of think
ing that by thinning they lessen the
quantity so much that they prefer tc
let the fruit ali remain. This is a miss
take, as well as to think that by thin
ming they lessen the profit on the fruit.
When a tree is heavily loaded, the
fruit must necessarily be small and
this will lessen the quantity; then the
fruit being small will sell for a less
price, and really cost more to
sell, and you really lose rather
than make by not thinning.
Then in addition, when a tree
or vine is allowed to overload and ma
ture the fruit it is strain upon the vi
tality of the tree, so much that rest
must be had and the next year the tree
will fail to bear
Whenever tried judiciously, thin
ming fruit always pays; but it requires
considerable courage when the trees
are laden with young fruit to go over
and pull off and throw away consid-
cradle portion of the fruit To one
who has never tried it, at first iG would
seem like a waste; yet it has been test
ed sufficiently to prove its value.
The work of course should be done
early, as soon after the fruit has set as
possible. The longer the fruit grows
after setting the more waste of vitality
of the tree, that should go to the other
fruit that is left upon the tree to ma
ture. 1t should be done as evenly as
possible over the tree, thin so as to
give each specimen left as much room
as possible. Close crowding is what
often makes ill-shaped fruit. If you
have never been in the habit of thin
ming try few trees first to see the eff
feet, and in majority of cases YOU
will conclude that it is beneficial.
J. Shepherd, IN Observation-Disclosures
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-30

the wagon with thieves and other dis
reputable characters, to the Justices
court, and wait the turn, wasting
precious hours, of ten in foul atmos-
phere, and getting the scanty satisfac-
ton of small fine. But persistent eff
fort began to tell. After year of this
sort of thing, the man grew weary and
determined to move away. But his
crafty landlord, who had tried to black
mail the parson, had effected a lease OF
his property at high rate to the
liquor-seller, and held him to his
bargain. He tried in vain to lease the.
place to another man of the same BUSH
ness, for it was understood by this time
in the neighborhood that to have a.
Presbyterian minister living next door
was rather a hindrance to the liquor
traffic. So he worried along in the
second year, and the business did not.
thrive, and things became generallyl
"down-at-the-heel." THIN he pro-
posed to me to buy him OF. He would
go, if 1 would take his lease off his
hands, and I could choose my own
tenant! Failing in this, he skipped
into another State and left his re-
spectacle sureties to settle with the sly
landlord. They were sued for the
rent under the lease, and, strange to
say, was subpenaed by the COUNSEL
for the owner, more than twenty
times, at fifty cents a time, to go tot
court and give testimony that the
liquor-seller had actually occupied the
house and carried on his business
there.
For some time the place stood va
cant, then the sheds came down, the
bar was removed, the house was re-
paired and renewed, and has ever
since been occupied by excellent peo-l
pie and good neighborS.
Those who have read the story can.
understand what it means to shut up a.
dram-shop. Mine was comparative
ly easy case, for l had faithful ally
in the captain of police, [ had the
sympathy of the neighborhood, and {
had a weak man to deal with. In
many cases these things are all re-
verSed, and then the effort is WE'LL
nigh hopeless. But it Is worth whilei
to make the effort, and if every clergy
man in New York would secure the
closing of one liquor-shop every three
years, the number would be some
what reduced. 1t is a practical form
OF charity, for it limits the misery and
vice of the neighborhood. 1 found it
an effective mode of charity, and in
my case, certainly, ''charity began at
home. Cor. NJ Y. Observer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-30

name. Dennis was asleep, but the
voice awakened him. Caleb drew a
chair TO the bedside, and laying his
face upon the pillow by the poor
wasted one, took hand in his own.
You're too good to me, Gale; I
don't deserve il" said husky,
whispered voice.
Never mind about our deservings,
Den. You've as much right here as I
have. In the morning you shall go all
over the old house again; and you shall
see Regy, who was only little thing
when-when you left us.
'sYou are very kind, brother; but /
shall never leave this room till they
take me cut o Caleb it's terrible
| record of sin and crime that [ have
made for myself. Can you forgive me?
Perhaps, -
Eyes, Denny, gladly: and God will,
too, if you ask Him. But can you for
give me. Den?"
"You! for what?n
81 failed in my duty to you in those
old days when you began to be bad. /
have realized it since, and it has haunt
ed me. Voices in the night have
awakened me with the cry-where Is
thy brother? 1t seems to me now that
| could have won you back, Denny, if
| had tried. | was careless, Indifferent
about you. Mother asked me more
than once to look after you, and and
Il did not. Forgive me, Den.
The weak, wasted form raised up in
the bed; Caleb's hand was flung away,
and the husky voice poured forth a
torrent Of words.
"Cale, you don't know what it is I
ask you to forgive. You do not know
that after wandering about and seeing
the inside of many prisons, came
back here, ten years ago. / was reck-
less, wicked, savage. | heard you had
every thing. / broke in here in the
night, and rifled the drawer where faith
er used to keep money. You caught
me at it; fired at you, and escaped.
might have killed you; did not care
then. With this knowledge can you
forgive me?n
=" knew it was you, Den, all the
time"
:. You did, How?"
"Who else but you could know that
money was kept in that drawer l
knew your figure, too, Dennis; / never
doubted it was you. / am glad the
policemen didn't get you; | wouldn't
let them in; / sent them away. Poor
brother! indeed, / did know you all the
time. Why should not / forgive you?
I am much to blame for it all.'
rThniT haa1 IL low tOrotha,. aY, "a nil
low again; each had an arm thrown
over the other, Mrs. Wynn heard
their whispered voices for some min
utes, but not their words. When they
had been silent for some time, she APP
preached the bed. Caleb was fast
asleep; but Dennis had
awakened to another life.
[ began with Caleb; let me close
with him. We were together some
happy years after this; SO many, that
he held and played with each of my
children. Others said that he aged,
but | could not see it; to me he was
always the same handsome, noble
brother, and surely, more faithful,
more tender heart never beat in a
mans bosom. Only yesterday I came
across touching memorial of him. l
was turning over the pages of the
great family Bible, and date on one
of the margins in Caleb's handwriting
caught my eye. 1t was the date of
Dennis death.
On the same page these words were
underscored:
First be reconcited to thy brother"
Youths Companion.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-30
HoME, FARM AND GARDEN.


Cows ought to be MIXED with
great regularity for best results.
"A well ventilated bedroom will
prevent morning headaches and lassi-
tude.
Oxen can be trained to mind a
quiet and determined voice without
This shouting. N E. Homestead.
BE careful how you doctor sick
fowls. More poultry is lost by iniu-
dicious dosing of various nostrums,
than by lack of attention when sick
Cincinnati Times.
Prof. Cook, of the Michigan Agri-
cultural College, says that most of the
failure to destroy potato bugs by Paris
green comes from waiting until eggs
have been laid on the vines before APP
plying it. Make the first application
just as the plants come up.
The best varieties of lettuce for
summer use are the yellow butter and
the white summer cabbage. In deep,
well enriched soil they stand the heat
well and remain for long time in q
condition for use. These varieties form
large heads, and on this account are
Objectionable to some persons.-N Z.
Herald
"A gardener who has an early
piece of ground remarks that green
peas for0the early market are a safer
crop for moderate but sure profits than
any other. The home grown peas
have the preference over those shipped
from the South. They can only be
grown proftably where cheap labor
can be had in picking them.
-Crow's-nest: Fill deep pudding
tin or dish with apples cut in thin
slices; sugar and cinnamon, or lemon,
to sweeten and flavor to taste, and a
little water; cover with thick crust;
bake until apples are tender; serve
hot with hard sauce, or with cream
and sugar; be sure to cut air holes in
the crust to let the steam escape
Boston Budget.
"A noted medical authority recon-
mends the following in case of diph-
liberia: Pour from twenty to forty
drops of q mixture of equal parts of
turpentine and carbolic acid into ket-
tie of water, kept simmering over a
slow fire, SO that the air of the sick
room will be constantly impregnated
with the odor of these two substances.
- Chicago Times.
Fig Cake Filling: Three-fourths
pound of figs, and one cup of raisins.
Chop these very fine, then add ono cup
OF brown sugar, a lump Of butter the
size OF an egg, four tablespoonfuls of
currant jelly and one cup of water.
Boil till done. Bottle it. This will
keep some time, and is as nice 10 use
IN loaf cake as for filling in layer cake.
The Household.
"A mixture which is said to be a
cure for undue perspiration of the
hands is made of a quarter of an
ounce of powdered alum, the white OF
one egg, and enough bran to make q
thick paste. After washing the hands,
apply this; let it remain on the hands
two or three minutes, and then wipe
off with dry, soft towel Luke
warm water is better than hot or cold
if the skin is tender or inclined to
chap.-M Y. Times.