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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
TEMPERANCE VICTORIOUS.

The Good Cause Sustained by the SUI
preme Court of the United States-TilI
the Laws De Upheld by the Late Con-
vention of Liquor Dealers?
The Temperance people of Iowa are
very jubilant over the late decision of
the Supreme Court of the United States.
The liquor men have tried to have all
the injunction cases against the saloons
transferred from the State courts to
the Federal courts on the ground that
the injunction proceeding was in con-
fiict with the Federal constitution. The
Supreme Court of the United States de-
cldes that there is no conflict and has
remanded all the cases back to the
State courts. The Temperance people
should go to work now with a will and
shut up every saloon in the State of
Iowa. Already large number of the
saloons in Sioux City have been
closed for violation of the in
junction, and all the costs of tie
trial charged to the saloonkeepers.
And since the National convention of
liquor dealers have adopted the follow
ING resolutions, it seems as if the cause
of Temperance ought to take mighty
stride forward:
- GcsolUed, That it is the duty of all good
citizens 70 obey the laws of our country and
We condemn every violation of the laws, re-
gardieSS of the damage inflicted in its OBJ
serYauce upon any industry, or upon any
general business interests.
. RtSotucd, That we are in favor of both
public and private morality and good order
and popular education"
This action taken in Chicago seems
to have stirred up the city government
there, for a resolution was unanimous
ly adopted by that body to suppress all
the low dives and disreputable places
in the city upon information given by
the police or other reliable parties.
1t seems from the above that public
opinion is bracing itself up, and is ex-.
erting an influence for good even upon
the liquor men, awakening in them a
semblance of moral sense, at least,
which it has been long supposed they
did not possess.
If they are honest in their demand
Tor tho enforcement of the laws re-
CARELESS of the damage inflicted upon
any business, then the saloon is
doomed and must go.-ChristiaD
| HO2ET,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
HUMOROUS.

"A watch and clock company hav-
ing failed, one of the creditors re-
marked that '.they would have an aw-
full time winding up their business.
-''Why is small boy like a
woman?" said New Hartford man to
his troublesome wife. No response.
because he will make man grown"
said the conundrumist.- Hartford Post.
-TIdbits tells the story of con-
ductor on slow railroad who told one
passenger that he had been on the
road for nine years. Them" said
the passenger, ''this must be your sec
ond trip"
Husband (going fshing)-Good-
bye, wiley; | won't come until late, I'M
less | catch something. Wife-If you
don't come until late, hubby, you will
be sure to catch some thing, you hear
mel Chicago TYibuaae.
-Fogg-I heard a pretty con1pli-
ment for you the other day. Mrs.
Passay-Indeed! May 1 ask what it
WASP Fogg-I heard some one say how
pretty you used to be. Mrs. Passay-
Used to be! Do you call that a COM
pliment? call it an obituary notice.
N Y. Herald.
Treated with Scorn.-
There was young lady named Vaughan,
Who treated her lover with scaughan,
And he gave up his suit
When her fathers big butt
Shot him hastily forth on the laugan.
Life.
Mr.. isaacstein-" All, sir, you
rentered mine poy good service, sir
in pulling him out of de water, und l
shall meier forget, sir, nefer.' Life
Saver-"Oh, we'll, that S nothing" Mr.
Isaacstein-''N Nothing, mine trent? Did
you know my poy had on yum of
mine twenty-five dollar suits?"-M
Y Mall
Law PROFESSIONALISM constitutes
burglary?" Student-''There must be
a breaking" Professor 'Then if a
man enters door and takes five
dollar gold piece from your vest peck
ct in the hall, would that be burglary?'
Student-"Yes, sir; because that would
break me-.
-Simpkins "Why, Tompkins, old
fellow, what is the matter with your"
Tompkins- "Ah! breaking up, I'm
afraid, Simp. Too much brain work.
Doctor says that l must stop reading,
and writing, and avoid intellectual
conversation, and q =" Simpkins-
every good advice. Come and spend
yor1 evenings with Us. '-Harper's
BGzGr.
Edison says that no experiment
which he has tried at night ever failed.
Now what we want to know is, did
Mr. Edison ever try at night to find
the matches in his bare feet without
disturbing any of the furniture or stub
bing his big toe against seventeen diff
ferent distractions? = Ne30 Hdre1,
NeaDs. .
-"Oh, my friends, there are some
spectacles that a person never for
getsr' said an orator recently, after
giving graphic description of a terri
BILE accident he had witnessed. 'I'd
like to know whar dey sells EN-" re-
marked an old colored man on the out
skirts of the crowd. = It'd Bits.
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Owed Every Thing to Abstinence.

4 public dinner had been given him
on one occasion. At the close of the
dinner one of the gentlemen drank his
health. The General pledged his toast,
by drinking water. Another gen.
tleman offered a toast and said:
General, viii you not favor me
me by drinking a glass of wine?" The
General, in very gentlemanly way,
begged to be excused, He was again
urged to join in a glass of wine. This
was too much. He rose from his seat
and said in a most dignIied manner:
Gentlemen, have twice refused to
parfake of the vince cup. | hope that
will be sufficient. Though YOU press
the matter ever so much, not a drop
shall pass my lips. / made a resolve
when | started in life that would avoid
strong drink. That VOW l have never
broken. | am one of class Of seven
teen young men who graduated at col
lege together. The other sixteen NEIL
bers of ny class now fill drunkard's
graves, and all from the pernicious
habit of wine drinking. | owe all my
health. my happiness and my prosper
ity to that resolution. Would you
urge me to break it now?" Kouth's
World.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
SOWING OF WHEAT.
Experiments Proving That Light Seeding
Is by Far the Best.

IEOSIHS5 4HtsG Light SeeuIn2
Is by Far the Best.
Almost every farmer who has made
any sort of study of the question has
his own theory of the amount of wheat
which it is advisable to SOW to the acre
in order to secure the best results. The
difference in opinion is remarkable,
some farmer sowing two or three
times as much as others, but without
apparent benefit from so doing. 1t is
an important point to determine the
exact amount which will yield the best
results and beyond which it is an un-
necessary expense to 90. With low
prices for wheat it is of the utmost i'm
portance that every item in the cost of
production should be kept at the low
est possible point consistent with good
farming. In the cultivation of many
acres the cost OF the seed is no incon-
siderable item, and any thing that will
assist in reducing that outlay ought to
be welcomed by all.
At the Ohio Experimental Station
during the past season some expert
ments have been made in this direc-
ton, the results of which are Of great
value. Plots of land were carefully
prepared and sown with wheat at the
rate Of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and S pecks to
the acre. At 60 pounds to the bushel
this is the proportion OF 80, 45, 60, Is,
so, 105 and 120 pounds to the acre.
The result was somewhat remarkable
and shows that within certain limits
one quantity of seed produces no
more than when half as much is used.
The plot upon which so pounds to
the acre was planted yielded A. bush
els per acre, 90 pounds of seed gave
43 bushels, 60 pounds OF seed gave 49,
bushels, Is pounds of seed gave 1922
bushels, so pounds of seed gave 49,
bushels, 105 pounds of seed gave 81
bushels, 120 pounds of seed gave 28.6
bushels.
The largest WELD was from a sowing
of 10 pounds per acre, but the quality
OF the grain was poor, being but SO
pounds per bushel, whereas the grain
from the plot seeded at the rate OF 30
pounds weighed COS pounds per
bushe]. The best result by all odds
was obtained from the lightest seeding.
This is furthermore suhstantiated by
the fact that on the light-seeded plot
the straw was but 6.37g pounds to the
acre, while on the 75-pound plot it
was 7.943 pounds, these being the
highest and lowest yields. On the 80
pound plot it only required 249.6
pounds of straw to each 100 pounds of
grain, while on the 120-pound plot Ala
pounds of straw yielded the same
amount of wheat.
The irresistible conclusion then is
that light seeding Is by far the best, al
though this must of course be largely
determined by the peculiar character
istics of the soil of various localities
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
WHY SHE REFUSED.

She Saw the Skeleton in Her House, Which
Her Pastor Tells About-Cause for Saying
Sharp Things About Moderate Drinkers.
You say you went to the party last
night, and YOU saw Mrs. Smith, an old
friend, whom you had not seen since
she and your sister were at school to-
gether. You had very pleasant talk
until supper, when you gave her your
arm and took her to supper. When
some one came along with a few
glasses of wine on waiter, and offered
her a glass, you saw her shudder as
she said "No!' and you wonder why
Mrs. Smith, who didn't use to be so
particular about such things, not only
refused, but shuddered when she said
"No!' You can not tell whyP
[ can tell why. You went on with
your talk and q little Irritation, did
you? I won't say you didn't. She was
very gay, and she seemed very glad to
forget herself. did she? Very well;
am very glad that you gave her that
hour of the evening. l can tell you
where she went after the party was
over. She went home-the latest per-
son from the party. She was glad it
was late, for her husband had not come
home. She sat and read for an hour,
and her husband did not come. She
wrote for an hour, and her husband
did not come. She sat at the piano for
an hour, but he did not come.
At length, between three and four
o'clock, there was a noise at the door,
and two policemen held him in their
arms. She knows them both well by
this time. 1t happens so often that
she knows every policeman on the beat.
They babe her good night. She had
locked her child's room, that he might
not abuse him. She took the abuse as
he flung himself on the bed. She
dragged off his neck-cloth and coat,
and sat there until he should fall into
a stupid sleep.
She is the woman who refused the
glass of wine with a shudder You
thought she was gay and bright I
know her story because | am her min
lister. They have a sort of skeleton in
the closet which we are permitted to
see, and you are not. And when we
see that skeleton, do you wonder that
we sometimes say pretty sharp things
about moderate drinking and the temp
tatiOns offered at parties?-ReG: E. q.
Hale, ia Public Good.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
Storing Winter Vegetables.


Root pits and out-of-door cellars are
the only fit places for vegetables stored
for the winter. A house, in the cellar
of which cabbages, potatoes, beets,
carrots and apples, besides cider bar
rels and vinegar barrels, full and
empty, wash tubs, soap barrels and
such ike things are kept is tainted
from cellar to garrett. There is no
sweet, pure air in it. People get ac-
customed to it and don't notice it
much, except on damp, warmish days,
but it is poison for all that. Milk,
cream and butter can not be kept in
such a house, or hardly in & dairy
house connected with it - Amer5cGD
DqsrgilaR.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
CORRuPTING THE eOYS.

The Temptations Placed Before School
Children by Petty Shop-Keepers-On
Wicked Brute Arrested.
A case which Is before United States
Commissioner Hoyne, Chicago, for
second investigation, demonstrates in
forcible manner the temptations
which are placed before the children of
the public schools by many of the petty
store-keepers whose places are to be
found within a stones throw of the
schools in almost every ward.
For some time pastit has been noticed
II a many of the children attending
the Haven school, and whose ages
range from twelve to sixteen, have been
frequently under the influence of liquor
to a greater or lesser degree. When
questioned, however, the children de-
MED the fact, and although one or two
were finally forced to admit that they
drank beer nearly every day, they OBJ
stinately refused to state wncre tho
liquor was procured. Detectives were
accordingly employed, and III III in
vestigatiOns led to the arrest of one
Dodge, Nh) keeps sm;l stationery
store near the school.
After the Arrest had been affected fif-
teen of the boys were ready 10 turn in
form 3rs, and their statements developed
the fact that Dodge had made reg
ular practice of selling them bottled
beer as often as called for, store room
in the rear of his shop being substi-
tute for a lar. Dodge claimed that he
merely kept small supply of beer for
the use of his wife, but when his books
were examined the ''small supply" be-
came magntied into several cases q
week. He is already under bonds to
answer the charge of selling liquor to
minors, and Commissioner Hoyne will
commit him to the United States Court
on the same charge.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
SOME "NATiVE" WINE.

The Vile and Dangerous stun, Seized by
Health Officer, Which Figures in Tie
Market as the Pure Article.
1t is well-known fact that nothing
is so easy of adulteration and imitation
as wine, and that apart from the evil
effects of wine-drinking in other WAYS,
the imbibers are very likely to get
poisoned by the forcig substances that
some dealers introduce into their goods.
An illustration Of this is furnished
by the case which DR.. Edison, of the
Health Board, reported lately. At No.
81 Front street, Brooklyn, he found
one w. j. Booraem making "wine"
after this fashion: Dried fruits. as
raisins, currants and peaches of low
grade. are macerated with water, to
which a certain amount of sugar is
added. The mixture is then fermentcd.
and when fermentation is considered
sufficiently advanced it is checked by
the addition of salicyiic acid, sufficient
acid being added to act as a preserva-
tive and prevent further fermentation.
The so-called wine is then clarified,
favored and colored to cause it to re-
semble port, claret or any desired kind
of wine.
Of course the object in view is to i'm
itate and undersell genuine native
wines. Aside from any injurious prop
critics there may be in The fiavoring
and coloring matter, enough salicylio
acid is used to produce very serious
effect. Its use as a preventative is for
hidden in France by law In very mi
mute quantities it may be innocuous,
hut in this case DR.. Edison found about
nine grains to the quart-plenty to
poison any one who drinks much of it.
Five thousand two hundred and eighty
gallons of this stuff were seized at this
one establishment by Dr. Edison.
1t is hardly to be presumed that this
is the only 'wine factory in Brook
lyn; and such establishments exist not
only in Brooklyn and New York, but
in other cities of the State, and even
in villages. So long as people will
drink wine, and so long as such stuff
can be made and sold at a profit, these
establishments will exist. The risk of
an occasional seizure by an officer of
the Board of Health is worth running
for the sake OF the large profits made
in ordinary times.-M Y. Nail and Er
press.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26

half hour than ever did in the same
length of time before or since-for at
its expiration | returned with the min.
ister-his pretty daughter for brides
maid, Hal Manvers, for groomsman,
and the marriage license in my pocket,
| was all ready at the time appointed,
although can not tell for the life of
me whether | washed my face and
brushed my hair, or not. Hal Man
yers swears to this day that my face
was begrimed with dirt and my hair
looked as if the mice had made nests in
it. But do not care, know / gained
just the prettiest, best little wife in all
New England, and what is better still,
] think so now, though she did say not
ten minutes after the CEREMONY
never told you | loved you after all, DR..
Will!n-but actions speak louder than
words Jennie Porter Aa9aold, in dr.
kdRS01O IraUeIer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
CITY OF BEGGARS.
The Sham eless Methods Employed by
N5apolitan Mendicants.

The Sham eless Methods Employed by
N9apolitan Mendicants.
Charles Dickens, hastily compiling
italian Notes." has given the palm
for beggars to the town Of Pisa. Had
he written more leisurely, he would
have done more justice indeed, mere
justice-to Naples. The Pisan beg
gars are tribe in themselves, curious
ly importunate and impairment, but
the Neapolitans are nearly all beggars
No city in the kingdom is more popu-
lous or more poor. The mixture of the
Moorish blood with the Italian has
produced race, among Europeans, at
all events, uneXampled for beauty,
cruelty, easy morality and intolcrable
laziness. AS you wander along the
streets you hear snatches of Moorish
music mixed with the true Neapolitan
refrains, and you see faces, especially
among the children of eight or nine
years, of quite incredible beauty. They
are the familiar characteristics of the
beautifully set brow, the facile smile
and the eyes-sometime brown, some
times blue, always expressive and
every thing set off by yich varnish OF
dirt. One is reminded of the old
fashioned nursery hymn;
Ny little bodys full of sin,
And all over is placed Il skin.
But, with all this, there is cowardly
skulking and brutality that is not
Italian but oriental No sight is more
common along that hill road leading
from the lannon's Santa Lucia to the
height of Polos pi than to see miserable
little horses, bleeding and lame, totter-
ing under the shafts OF cart weighed
down with eight or ten corpulent Nea-
politans, who fog it and kick it till it
swerves and falls. At the corner of
one well-knoWn street there is a bird
shop where you may buy nightingales,
goldfnches and robins. Sometimes a
crowd of gamins is collected to witness
a little surgical operation. Some
charcoal burns in q brasierO, and
with y wooden handle. He then takes
from q cage a recently caught black
bird, and with the red-hot needle puts
out his eye. 1t needs much skill-skill
that only comes from practice-to do
this successfully. An unsteady hand
would prematurely kill the bird. In
most instances, where the operation is
successful, the birds dc die, but that is
only after a couple of days of agony.
You will see the patients in cages
hanging round the shop, with the sight
less eyes swollen to the size of pea,
but in the rare case of recovery the
bird sings briskly through the twenty
four hours, day and night being the
same to it. If stranger approaches
the children leave the bird torturer to
beg for soldi. The fat, round, cherub
faces. are thrust up into your own. the
little hands point to the mouth, and
you hear the familiar cry that is trans
lated: Il am dying of hunger; give me
a half-penny' The truth is, the chill
dren live on the strangers. N o.
RcayaRe.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
LOGAN'S GRANDSON.
A Smart Little Man with Great Discrim
NATIVE Powers.

A Smart Little Man with Great Discrim-
NATIVE Powers.
Senator Logan has smart little
grandson, whose name is Logan Tuck
er. The Washington Post tells the
following of him: He is being care
fully trained, and one of the teachings
most earnestly inculcated has been that
he must not accept money gifts from
visitors. One day not long since friend
of the family called and presented a
stranger. to whom the little man was
introduced. The gentleman took him
on his knee, asked him his name, age,
etc., the usual formula with children,
and then, taking bright silver dollar
from his pocket, offered it to him. 1t
was a big piece of money and big
temptation. The boy had successfully
resisted nickels, Tut was plainly
tempted now. He glanced appealing
ly at his mother. to be met by shake
of disapproval; then at grandma, an
other shake; then at grandpa, more
decided shake still. Then turning his
wistful eyes toward the gentleman, he
viewed him all over from head to foot
till apparently satisfied. when, turning
towards the General, he said: why
not, grandpaP He don't want any
office,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
A YOUNG WEES VIEWS.

] think my husband ought to do
Exactly as ] want him to,
Especially where it concerns
The money that for me he earns.
If he and are one, why do
AS if we were, and must be, two2
For if our interests combine,
Whate'er is his is also mine.
hate to ask him every day
For little sums, and have him say:
my, dear, where has that dollar gone
/ gave you only yestermoruY
TITS strange, indeed, how in his eyes
A sum will swell and swell in size
When once persuaded to resign
1t from his pocket-boolI to mine.
He lets me run up heavy bills
At two big stores, and thus fulfills,
lie thinks, his duties unto me;
But / with aim do not agree.
like to go from store to store
CAS- bees the fragrant buds explOrel,
And take from each whatever suits
In bonnet, mantle, gloves or boots.
/ think "a common drawer" would prove
a means to strengthen faith and love;
Or better st II %twould be were he
To bring his money all to mel
And safer. Then, too, he might learn
To ask little in his turn,
And have chance as well to see
How UeI'D generous ] would bel
C II. Thduer, in HdTpeT's Bdzdr.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
CULINARY TEMPERANCE.

Word of Caution TO Wives and Mothers
in Regard to Planting the Seeds of In
temperance in Their Food.
This is emphatically a time when
woman should let her influence be felt,
in the strongest possible manner, and
in every direction, against the curse of
the drinking habit. Concerning the
Danger of using alcohol for culinary
purposes, Julia Colman writes as fol-
lows:
The kitchen is very often the stronghold of
the drink habit in this country from the fact
that a great many Of our inherited and i'm.
ported recipes give favorings of wine or
brandy, to say nothing of gin, rum and WhiS.
Ky. These are often carelessly copied even
by our rel g,OuS papers, anG as carelessly
pracficed by religious people If they have
their attention called to the matter. they NAV
say that the heat drives away the alcohol, and
nothing but the taste remains. never seem.
ing to think o. the absurd ty of suppOsing wa
could taste the stuff if it we're not there. But
this taste itself is the very thing to be feared
whether it creates in ch ldren a familiarity
with the liquors used, and thus makes them
in after years an easy prey to the drink
habit: or whether it reawakens in the
reformed man the appetite which has
done him so much mischief, and which
has been with so much difficulty subdued.
A pleasing instance where this was happily
avoided was lately related by Mrs DIR.
Stephen Smith at meeting in the Broadway
Tabernacle, New York, as follows ~
guest, in whose welfare we were deeply in
terestcd, one day expressed TO me a liyeIy.sat-
| isfact on because the mince pie served at din
ner had contained no trace of alcohol. lie
had feared the ordeal, for, if it had tasted Of
brandy, he woald not have been able TO con.
troll the awakening appetite. / had no sus
pcon that he had ever been add cited to
drank, but he Informed me that few years
! prev Gus be had been its bond slave. and
that he was obliged to watch continually
against any thing containing the poison. j
was SO thankful that my Temperance princi-
plies had saved me from putting stone of
stumbling in a brothers way, that i de.
term ned 10 be more earnest than ever In
calling attention to this matter, and should
be glad to get recipes recommended by any
really good COOK for the preparation, on
| Temperance basis, of various dishes which
nsmaIlY contnin some kind of alcOhOlics.o