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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-01-20

These rates will enable parties to visit
orange groves of California, at so small an
expenditure that all may be able to visit
the State to it's extreme southern limit.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-28
FOOD FOR STOCK.
Why Stockholders Should Pay More At
tention to Their Pastures

Why Stockholders Should Pay More At
tention to Their Pastures.
AS a rule, the tastes or preferences
of animals are the best guides as to
what kinds of food are best suited to
their development, and most profitable
to feed. We mean, of course, the
tastes of animals that have not been
starved and have had variety of food,
if not chance to select. An English
writer on this subject says: eff you OBJ
serve a permanent pasture when it is
moderately stocked you will not have
much difficulty in picking out the
worthless grasses. Sheep and cattle
do not eat at random; on the contrary,
they carefully select their food, reject
ing one blade of grass which they dis
like, and selecting the next one which
they like; the consequence of this
selection is, worthless grasses run to
seed, except on meadow lands. This
illustrates our meaning, when we say
the taste or instinct of the animal is a
good guide to US in our selection of
food for it to eat. It also contains
valuable hint as to why the best
grasses sometimes run out aud the
poorest take possession of the soil. 1t
indicates that an early and repeated
moving of pastures would keep down
the Objectionable grasses rejected by
the stock, and that an annual sprink-
ling of the right kind of seed over the
pastures would help keep up the pres
ence of the more desirable grasses. OF
course, it is not every pasture that can
be moved, but this does not initiate
against the fact that moving would be
an advantage. Many pastures can be
moved; and cutting down the rank.
rejected groWths gives a chance for
the tender and sweet grasses to spring
up, as aftermath does in the meadow
after moving. On all pastures it is
possible to SOW seed. We believe it
would pay to devote more attention to
pastures, keeping out weeds, diseour
aging the development Of the inferior
grasses and promoting the presence
and growth of the better, more palata-
bic and more nutritious ones. National
Lite Stock Journal,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-28
THE WORK-RORSE.
A Frequently Underfed and Most Away.
Overworked Animal.

A Frequently Underfed and Most Always
Overworked Animal.
There are some men who ought to be
ashamed to look an honest horse in the
face. None OF our domestic animals.
however much they may suffer from
neglect, receive so much abuse as the
horse. We refer more especially to
the work-horse, on the farm and be-
fore the cart and truck. Carriage
horses generally fare well enough-or
at least as well as those having care of
them know how to keep them-since
they are owned by well-to-do men, who
take pride in their fine appearance
and spirited action. But, as rule,
the poor worker receives no such adj
vantage from the pride of his owner.
There are many exceptions, but the
number of horses that fall under the
head of the abused is sufficient
to establish the rule. Underfed, over
worked, poorly groomed and often
badly sheltered, every point in the
poor creature is an expression of
patient suffering. 1t is painful
sight to behold a horse with the sharp
angles of it's bones sticking out in all
directions and the ribs painfully easy
to count, Juggling along before q too
heavy load, and the driver, with his
feet hanging over the end-board of the
wagon, constantly applying the irritat-
ing lash to keep the poor creature from
dropping into listless, droning gait;
and sometimes a team is so far run
down and exhausted that even the lash
appears to make no impression. At
least, it fails to quicken the pace or to
awaken even the faintest apparent
recognition from the poor jaded beast.
But the lash keeps flying through the
air, all the same, and the sting of it
must add to the sufferings of the stolid
rack-o'-bones. This picture is not
overdrawn. 1t may be seen in the
streets OF any city or large village
every working day of the year. The
owner may be in part excusable on the
score OF poverty, but his best excuse is
his ignorance. For, if he did but
know it, he could get much more
value in service than the extra cost of
feed out of his horses if he kept them in
good condition, while he would save
himself the extra work and lame
shoulder resulting from the incessant
swing of the arm in applying the lash.
There can be no possible economy in
starving a horse, or any other work
animal; for the available force in the
horse is what is put into it through its
food, and as true as the truism, 'ssome-
thing can not come of nothing" is
true, the owner can get no more out
of his horses than he puts into them.
The Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals can do the a. imal
world no better service than to ADOPT
some means of educating the ignorant
owners of livestock as to the best
methods Of feed and care in order to
secure the bestpaying results. -Natio,s-
al Lice Stock Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-28
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.


ANOTHER victory for scientific Tenn
perance! Through the efforts of the
Hawaiian w. c. L. q. the Health
Primer IS to be translated and placed
in all the native saloons on that island.
This we learn from letter Just re-
ceived from Mrs. Whitney. i Union
Signal.
THE alms-houses are full of women
who thought they could reform their
husbands. No man twenty-five years
of age, if he is addicted to intoxicantS.
can be reformed by wife, for in the
present day his system is full of strych-
nine, nux vomica, logwood and other
poisons. Exchange.
SENATOR SPooNER has never had
much to say one way or the other
about Temperance, but it is fact that
he never touches drop of liquor Of
any kind. Whenever he is questioned
about it and about the general subject
of Temperance he replies, Indifferent
ly: II have three boys that ] love.
They have never smelled liquor in my
breath and they never shall" That's
the only Temperance argument that he
has ever made. Cleveland Leader.
"Do YOU know who are the heaviest
real estate owners in the city?" "WhO
are they?n ''The brewers" elbow
do YOU know?' ''The records show it.
They're the most independent, too. A
few days ago certain gentleman went
to John Hauek and proposed to sell
him a piece of property. He said:
Put fair price on the property and
I'll buy il. I've more money than [
know what to do with. Tell me any
other class of men that could talk the
same way Cincinnati Enquirer.
IT is welcome news as indicating inn
provement in drinking habits in Great
Britain that, according to an official
statement just made in PARLIAMENT, the
receipts of the Government the last
year have been 4971 900 less than was
expected, and the diminution was most
marked in case of the tax on alcohol.
A7ithin ten years there has been a de-
crease of four and half million
pounds in revenue from this source.
1t is significant that there has been
concurrent increase in revenue derived
from the comforts of life.--CongregG-
kopdtiSt
IDoN'T believe man on the face of
the earth can afford to sell liquor.
Whyp Because if / sell to your son
and make him drunkard some one
will soon turn round and sell TO my
boy and make him drunkard. That
is the horrible retribution; the law of
earth and Heaven, and nothing is more
solemn in this universe of God. will
challenge any man who has been in
the hellfsh business if he has not got
skeleton in his own family, either a
son, brother, a near relative who has
been drunkard. / wish all the whisky
was down in the Gulf of Mexico and
every rum-seller converted. am no
enemy of the rum sellers; am rather
their friend, because / wish them out
of their hellish business, which brings
down nothing but curses on them
selves. -Dwight L. Moody.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-28
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

When there is time and space, ex-
pertinent on a small, scale with the new
varieties that promise well, but never
plant exclusively Of untried varieties
AZ. r Post.
We viii not encourage Candle
Lectures" but if there is any suitable
subject for one, it is the farmer who
neglects to provide his wife a first class
garden. Our Country.
To Make Candle Wicks: Ii candle
wicks are stepped in lime water and
saltpeter and dried before using. the
flame will be clearer and the tallow
will not run. Farm Journal.
Prof. Brown says that the expert
ence of thirty years convinces him that
of all animals on the farm the pig is
the most free from dental irregulari-
ties; and the evidence of age, which
skilled inspector may obtain from a
careful examination of the teeth, may
be accepted as free from any suspicion
of error.-C Chicago Journal.
Since the organization of the AM
erican Pathological Society, nearly
thirty-eight years ago, more than six
hundred named varieties Of fruits have,
by common consent, been discarded,
and their places in the catalogue filled
by better sorts. The NeaO Enqlafad
Farmer thinks good many more
ought to go the way of the six hum
bred.
"A correspondent Of the Canadian
Horticulturist says he had tried several
well-known remedies for mildew of
gooseberries, vainly, and only succeed
ed in getting fine fruit after he had
dumped a bushcl of ashes from the
coal stove round bush, when, finding
the result eminently satisfactory, Civ
ing full crop of fine berries, he treated
other bushes the same way with equal
success.
Muster Gingerbread: One quart of
molasses, one-quarter pound of butter
or lard, one-half pint of thick milk,
one ounce of saleratus dissolved in the
milk, one tablespoonful of ginger, one
tablespoonful of cinnamon, one tea
spoonful of cloves, three and one-half
pounds of -four. Roll one-half inch
thick, cut in squares, wash with milk
and molasses, bake on tins. The
Household.
Many farmers neglect their gar
dens, and say, in excuse, that they are
''more bother than they are worth. y
This is not true of a garden properly
cared for. A good one-and poor ones
are not worth the name of gardens
will produce enough to keep an ordin-
airy family in vegetables the greater
part of the year. Nowhere else does a
farmer realize as much for the labor
expended. Montreal Witness.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-28
HUMOROUS.

81 call my wife DEAR said Bagley,
reflectively, .'because she is. "-Phila-
delpbia CaU.
---"Can you sell me love philterp"
she asked of the handsome drug clerk.
.'No, ma'am," said he. Don't keep
filters here; have to go to a tin-shop. y
Chicago Tribune.
What She Wanted
Tho moon shone softly down on them
And life seemed more than words could
He SAID: .;well live on love, my gem"
She said she wanted bread and butter.
Merchant Traveller.
An old sea captain says he gets
sick every time he crosses the ocean.
1t is inferred that although he may
never have written any thing for the
Century, he contributes to the atlantic
monthly.-Puck.
.-"What produces feeling of pros
tration in the spring." asks a CORES
pondcnt. Two things will do it
doubling the veracity Of pugilist and
trying to coax a bicycle over stone. -
Darlington Free Press.
You have to call for sakerheit-
standsticker in Sweden when you want
match. Usually it is daylight before
you get through and you don't need
one. The Swedes are very economical
people. SomerUike Journal
1t is very easy matter for per-
son to be in two places at the same
time, even though those two places be
thousands of miles apart. One fire.
quently hears of man being in a
strange country and home, sick. ~
Teas SJtings.
80 mamma, you'd be surprised to
know how dumb Bessie Barton is. She
took me into what she said was the
apiary. What do you think I saw
there?' 81 don't know, dear. y
"Why, nothing but lot of beehives.
There were no apes there: not even a
monkey. philadelphia Call.
There's good deal in the papers
now about sending dressed beef from
Texas to England observed Mrs.
Snaggs. Eyes, ! noticed it, answered
her husband, listlessly. "Well, now
think that real merciful to the animals
in cold weather. But what kind of
clothes do they put on them? "-
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
-''It looks like vain, old fellaw.
guess we'd bettaw have a hanson. y
"H hat do you want hansom forp
It's only half dozen blocks and YOU We
got your umbrella. ..Yaas, deah boy.
But it's my walking umbwellaw. /
cawn't use it faw a vain umbwellaw. |
could nevaw wap it up again, don t
you know. n-ToaOas Topics.
Bass is not only very polite man,
but he is man who never loses his
presence of mind The other day he
was standing in horse-car. 1t sud-
denly struck coal cart and Bass was
sent to grass; in short, he was knocked
down. As he rose, he saw a lady stand
ing. His spirit of gallantry was
touched. Bowling politely, he said:
Take my seat, madame" 1t is pre-
sumed that she preferred to stand. IN.
Y. Sun.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-28
a FRANK MAN.
Why He Became an Inmate of the State
Penitentiary.

Why He Became an Inmate of the State
Penitentiary.
The superintendent of the peniten-
tary, while conducting party of Ia
dies and gentlemen through the estab-
lishment, remarked:
cit is proverbial. you know, how
many innocent men you find in the
penitentiary. Even after being con-
yicted, men do not like to acknowledge
their guilt Say he called, address
ing a convict, '.what were you put in
here for?'
Il was accused of stealin' hoss.n
"But you didn't do it, did your
mo, sir.
There arc a few of them, added
the superintendent, .swho will tell the
truth. Now yonder comes a fellow
who can't tell the truth. Now note
his replies to my questions. Pillgree,
you were innocent, were you not?n
innocent o some things, yes, sir. y
will you answer me truly if / ask
you question:
"Yes, sir. =
why were you put in this placer
Tell the truth, now. -
Because | couldn't help myself
'.Ah, exclaimed the superintendent,
'.you shall be rewarded for such frank
ness.
That day at dinner the frank m m re-
ceived two extra teaspoonfuls of bean
soap. .41ikassGU IrGreler,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-28
Sunflower Seed for Fowls.

/ grow sunfower seed for chickens,
and find it excellent, in fact the best
thing we have tried. mix two quarts
of the seed with six quarts of oats,
sheiled corn, or any small grain. If
the fowls are housed, spread litter on
the floor, and scatter the seed among
it to give them exercise in picking i
out, and that each may get a prope-
share. This amounts given to seventy
five fowls twice a week We gather tbs
sunfower heads in wash tub, spread
them in the sun to dry, and she'll them
on dry day by beating with stick. If
some of the heads are a little green,
scratch the seeds out with a curry
comb. Once planted, suntiowers re-
stock themselves by what seed will nat
urally scatter upon the ground. If it is
desired to rid plat of them, let the
fowls run on the patch, and they will
put in their time scratching for the
seed. Cor. Prairie Farmer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-28
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The only ordained clergyman in
Congress is Representative Anderson,
of Kansas.
&C. K. Lord, the general passenger
agent, is said to be the best-paid officer
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany. His salary is $4,000.
Hugh Conway's story Living or
Dead was, it has been discovered.
written by one Joseph Williams, a Lon
don scribbler. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Mrs. Lew, aged eighteen years, of
Columbus, o., is the heroine Of two
marriages. She was first married when
but fourteen years old. Cleveland
Leader.
The Baltimore american has in its
career of 113 years been defendant in
fifty-five libel suits. and in only one has
it ever suffered verdict for damages,
and in that one case the damages were
trifing.
The new secretary OF the Chinese
legation at Washington IS named Mr..
Lang. He is civilized enough to know
how to make a pun in English. At a
reception the other evening he told a
lady that .sAuld Lang Syne" was one
of his ancestors.
John Ruskin confesses that he
would rather please the girls than do
any other one thing. s.My primary
thought he avows, lis how to serve
them and make them happy; and if
they could use me for plank bridge
over stream or set me up for post
to tie swing to, or any thing of the
sort not requiring me to talk. | should
be quite happy in such a promotion. :
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr, has been
out in Colorado attending to the de-
tails of settling up the estate of his IA
ther-in-law, the late Jerome B. Chat
fee,h says the Washington Hatchet.
1.-The value of the property which is
left to Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant can not
be determined, as the bulk of it IS in
mining interests. Carefully nursed,
however, it will probably aggregate
about 100000. All this will remain
in Mrs. Grants name. -
Charles A. Dana is sixty-six years
old, but looks fully ten years younger
He goes to the San office at eleven in
the morning and leaves at four in the
afternoon. All his editorials are die
tated to a stenographer. When dlcta-
ting he allows no one to interrupt him,
though usually accessible to all per-
sons, thus preserving his line of
thought unbroken. His office is plain
ly furnished, the walls being covered
with photographs of dead friends. His
health is almost perfect. IN. Y. Mail.
One of the most striking figures
seen in Washington is the son of ex-
President John Tyler. He is now an
old man bent with the weight of years.
His long, white, patriarchal beard
sweeps down from his venerable face,
nearly covering his broad breast. He
wears soft hat slouched well down
over his deeply set eyes, and is dressed
generally in careless suit of badly cut
black. He is rarely noticed, and walks
the street to most people unknown.
Yet in his day he was considered one
of the handsomest men who ever graced
the society of Washington.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-28
NAMING TROTTERS.
Origin of the Names of Some of the Best
Known Race Horses

Origin of the Names of Some of the Best
Known Race Horses.
II is rather curious to trace out the
origin of the names of many fast
horses as entered in the trotting and
pacing record. We all know how
Maud S and Jay-Eye-See came by their
cognomens, but the origin of some of
the others are only know.l to the older
horsemen. Goldsmith Maid, for in
stance, was originally Goldsmith's
mare, SO called from her owner Mr..
Alden Goldsmith, of Orange County,
N. Y. Goldsmith, by the way, has a
very happy faculty of bestowing
euphonious or appropriate names on
his horses. For example, Bodine,
Alley, Driver, Huntress, Sister, Trio,
the last three being sisters, and very
fast. Rarus, who was the first to
lower Goldsmith Maid'a record, be-
longed to Long Island farmer named
Conkling, whose son returned from
college, and was asked to bestow a
name on the likely colt. With a re-
miniscence of his classical studies and
a prophetic intuition of the horses
future, he chose the Latin adjective
signifying ''rare.n st. Julien received
his name from a brand of wine
baptized in claret, as it were.
Clingstone belonged to ex-Lieu-
tenant-Govcrnor Pond, of Con-
necticut, who owned large
orchard of clngstone peaches, and
desired as much success with the horse
as he had with the fruit. Butterscotch
belonged to an old candy peddler at
Grand Haven, Mich, who made it one
of the conditions of sale that the horse
should bear the name of that sweet
and sticky article of confectionery.
Some horses have risen to distinction
under names bestowed upon them by
mistake. Among these is Kibono. The
owner wished to call him Cui Bono,
but through the ignorance of the
trainer and the entry clerk the horse s
name appeared as Kibono. Having
made a success under the latter APP
pellation, it was thought best not to
change it. Another horse was baptized
King Pharaoh, but his trainer knew
more about games of chance than he
did about the Egyptian monarch; and
the animal has gone as King Faro ever
since. One horse, on account of mfr
mites, was to be called Deaf and Dumb,
which the erratic spelling of his trainer
shortened to Defendum. As it costs
fifty dollars to change the name of a
horse after it has once been entered,
Defendum fourishes to this day.
Changes frequently take place. how
ever. All of which is more ingenious
than rate.-Dunton S SPIRIT of the
Turf
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-28
The ROSE OVER The DOOR.

A cottage, all fitted and furnished.
Stands daintily over the way,
And here young pair to housekeeping
Came promptly the first day OF May
The place seemed 50 home-like and coy,
The sun shOne bright on the floor,
Yet one dewy eve saw them planting
a Rose to bloom over the door.
All, how they watched over its growing,
And trained it with tenderest arts,
And swift rs its bright buds unfolded,
The love of home grew in their hearts.
The husband came home in the evening,
All weary and worn from the store,
To find the wife's welcome the sweeter
For Roses that bloomed DER the door.
But 'love," they say. "fies out of the window
When poverty enters before;"
But against ali trials and troubles
These two young hearts garnered full store.
For, when fell the hush of the twilight,
They whispered anew loves sweet lore,
Woye closely the bonds of affection
Meath Roses that bloomed DER the door.
And when the dark days. closed around
them,
And poverty's waves overbore,
TO keep the dear home how they struggled,
Where Roses doomed over the door.
And now, all their 'triaEtme" ended.
/ They dwell in the sunlight once more,
And love brightly gleams on the hearth-stone
Where Roses bloom over the door.
We new-mated pairs, who are building
Your honenests, now heed implOre,
This lesson-that love fingers longest
Where Roses bloom over the door.
So, We, who count home more than shelter,
E,,Plant, ere the bright Spring-time is Ger
TO make home the brighter and dearer--
A Rose to bloom over the door.
VtcIt'S Magazine.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-28
D -
ABOVE PAR.
Why Texas Student Showed Some At
tention to an Old Tramp.

Why Texas Student Showed Some At
tention to an Old Tramp.
When a boy from the country goes
to Austin and becomes student at the
university. he Immediately shucks his
country clothes and blossoms out as q
dude. If he doesn't pile on great
deal of style the other students boycott
him. He is also expected to associate
only with high class people that is,
such as wear good clothes.
tom, said Bill Yard,y to Tom An
jerry, 'the boys are very much dis
gusted with your conduct.
What have been doing now?"
''You have not quit going around
with that old tramp
II can't well get out of showing him
some little attention while he is in
town. =
"Why can't you shake ilim?"
Il don't mind cling you in strict
confidence that he is my father. Don't
give me away now, Bill. =
Il won't. It shan't go any farther, =
-Ie1aS Sytinys.