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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-02
CULTIVATION IN DROUGHT.

Interesting Facts Reported by the Agri-
cultural Ststion at Geneva, N. Y.
With the aid of scientific knowledge,
every farmer has noticed that we'll
cultivated land stands drought better
than that which is neglected. The
reason Of the fact is not so generally
understood. 1t will, therefore, be
source of satisfaction to all to be pos
sessed of additional evidence and more
exact data on the subject, and may be
of value by stimulating tillets of the
soil to additional effort at critical peri
DDS A bulletin from the agricultural
station at Geneva, N. Y, contains these
interesting facts bearing on the subject
of drought: THAT cultivation, by form
ing loose soil upon the surface, which
acts as mulch, conseryes the water to
the soil, is a fact which is well estab-
lished and should be more commonly
appreciated. For the purpose of offer
ing numerical values which shall ex-
press the influence of cultivation, we
have tried the following experiment:
Oak boxes of one cubic foot capacity
were made of half-inch stuff and thor
oughly soaked with oil The bottoms
being removed, the frame was forced
down into the earth in the corn-feld
and the bottoms afterward put in posi-
ton. We thus had foot cube of soil
in its natural position. The surface of
the earth in one box was left undis-
turbed, while the surfaces of two boxes
were kept cultivated. By weighing
these boxes the gain or loss in weight
is assumed to measure the. evaporation
which has taken place from each.
From July 26 to August /, six
days, the cultivated soil evaporated
at the rate of 906 gallons per acre
less than the undisturbed soil, or less
Isl gallons daily per acre. From
August to August 10, nine days, the
cultivated soil eyaporated 2, 367 gallons
per acre less than did the undisturbed
soil, or less 263 gallons daily per acre.
During the whole period from July 26
to August 10, fifteen days, the saving
of water effected through cultivation
figured up 2l2 gallons daily per acre,
or, expressing these facts in another
form, the undisturbed land lost per
acre, from July 26 to August 10, 4,243
gallons, the cultivated soil 1,06O
gallons. In calculating our results to
the acre bymultiplying the evaporation
which has taken place from a square
foot of surface by 1850, the unayoid-
able errors are correspondingly multi
piled, and while duplicate series can
never be expected to give precisely the
some numerical results, yet the one
fact became unquestionable that
through cultivation we are enabled to
conserve to the soil large amount of
water during drought. Indeed, OBJ
servation through extending periods
of drought also plainly shows the su-
periority of fields that have been well
cultivated over those where cultivation
has been neglected" The advantages
of tile drainage in wet seasons have
been shown. Thus are science and ex-
pertinent contributing to the relief of
agriculture against the extremes Of
both wet seasons and dry ones The
fruits of these developments and dem
onstrations will be more fully realized
as population increases and lands APP
preciate in value. ~ T. Observer.
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through the thronged streets, are waved
aloft amid the vast waves OF song-har-
mony That sweep up the vast audience
in its power with the soul-stirring nationa
hymn America"
Glory and honor. then, to the boy George
Washington and his little hatchet. In
how many thousands OF thousands OF par
lors in this country<4rom the Atlantic to
the Pacific, from the forty-ninth parallel
to the Gull, have the pictures come to
mind OF the hero OF the cherry tree
the creator of the glorious Fourth
OF July" and of the sweet. admirable
woman who was then little girl
and became the first of the first ladies
of the land in the newborn empire OF
the West! And not only in parlors,
but i'll the cabins, huts and little
rooms where old couples and the
poor veterans are passing their lives
away, are found these portraits, and
twigs of evergreen trees are trimmed every
Fourth of July about the fac-similes OF the
man and woman testifying the general,
never-dying gratitude OF a patriotic people
for the patriotism and will-power celebrated
on this Nations natal day, and which, but
for them and their co-patriots, might
never have been known; and the noisy
musketry of the fire-cracker, the glow OF
the patriotic orator, the loves and laugh
ter of the picnic, and the genial hail-fea-
low and hullabaloo might not have moved
a nation to such universal enthusiasm
on every recurring glorious Fourth OF
July.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-02
The DIVORCE.

Yes, Squire, I've called to stop that suit
It's caused enough of pain
An John has just been taken sick
With fever on the brain.
There's no one else in all the world
Can nurse him same as L;
All. many q night I've cared for him,
In years that have gone by.
An he has Just as often watched
Der me-Excuse that tear
] Just was thinkin' Of the time
When death came awful near;
For nights and nights he never slept
To him | owe my life
tell ye. Squire. tbs worth the world
10 know I'm still his wife.
The dreadful thought clings to my 1lnd.
Perhaps the Lord of might
Will come, In wrath, to grant divorce
He only has the right;
For long ago when John an
United hand an heart,
We made the VOW in His great namc
That death alone should part.
All little It's we know of death
Until we feel it nigh;
An little do we realize
How soon we all may die.
For, Il we did, we who have Joined
Two lives as one il heart
Would feel that soon enough would come
The time when we must part.
So, lawyer, haste an do away
Whatever you have done,
want to know that all is right
Before the set OF sun.
An when the evening shadows fall,
Beside Johns bed OF pain
I'll pray the Lord to spare his life
An let us Try again.
Western Pl01cmdn.
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town has joined in the uproar, and there
is more concerted noise to the cubic inch
than was ever known before on this auspi-
cious day.
The ebullition OF patriotic sentiment
that finds it's outlet in exploding torpe-
does. fre-crackers and toy pistol-shooting.
| as associated with the incoming. continu-
ance and departure OF Independence Day,
was born long ago. for there has always
been something exhilirating in proclaim
ing oneself an American patriot by resbrt-
ing to either fiery oratory or burning gum
powder.
The day is one OF boisterous, noisy mer-
riment and OF much gaseous emanations. It
is the day OF the year for the young raga-
mullins, the Fourth OF July orators and
the actors, either with ball or buskin. It
is no-man's-land in this country from the
dawn that announces the approach OF tho
greater light ntil in the earth's reyolu-
ton, the gray light OF the dawning shall
be seen again. It is the Nations birth
day. and therefore the birthday OF every
body within the Union, SO that an occa-
sion arises for mutual pledging OF
every body's good health. Some OF
the thee thou" good old leather breeched
citizens who celebrated the first anniycr-
sary OF this glorious day are probably
still joining in the recurring celebration OF
their triumph each aud every year, for
patriotic sentiment love OF country and
desire to celebrate it's natal day never die
a mere physical death, nor reach state
ofinnocuous desuetude, whatever becomes
OF the body. Standing and silently the
entire Nation drinks to the ever-cherished,
honored memory Of the patriots who, in
the agony and travail Of their souls, and
with their blood, gave birth to our great
Independence Day, whether it be from out
a skull or the drinking horn of the ancient
warrior, or from the silver, gold-lined
tankarel Oh to-day. For we should all re-
member the men that gave us the chance
the excuse for-and set us the example OF
firing off kicking jumping, rafting crack
ers and indulgihg in fireworks and gen
eral hullabaloo!
The Fourth OF July is red-letter day
for the lads and assies. Look at them as
they ere on the way and at picnics, and
about the green swards OF the commons
or parks. The young man sports a clean
collar and colored neckt tie, shaver face,
waxed mustache. and in his Sunday-go-
connecting Clothes he walks erect and
looks with smiling face and open, candid
eyes at the fair. young lassie who, dressed
in modest white calico, which sets off a
pretty figure not yet warped and disfgured
by hard labor, and wearing a natty hat
made and remadc by her own nimble fin
gers, smiles and laughs in return. And as
they walk on and on, gay and festive on
this great holiday they are full OF fun and
elastic spirits, for the oxygen Of the air is
inspiring, and they laugh and chat and
joke and romp, and have good time
generally.
But all the racing, tearing shouting
haloaing swinging and walking is not
confined to young couples. sweeter as be-.
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tween themselves than mofasses on bread
buttered on both sides, but is being joined
in by all the pleasure men, women,
boys and girls that long for the excite
ment OF music and dance, and roundabouts
and swings and mineral waters SO pro-
fusely provided at picnics and parks
especially on such heated and extraord-
nary days as the great national holiday
which sets free all the working people and
their cousins.
OF course the day has its great distrac-
tions, but after breakfast and the discus
sion of coffee, and while the children, ard
the neighboring children, and the neighbor..
ing neighboring children, are firing off tor
pedoes or fire-crackers or toy-pistols, and
making all the noise and distraction pos
sible, the "old man. lights his cigar goes
to his Office or store, reads his mails and
hands them over to be attended to by hui
man moles, while his wife dresses up in her
bestsilks. and wears alovely imported bon
net upon which is mounted beautiful bird
that evidently was stuffed before it died,
and after criticising the dress of the minis
ter's wife listens to her favorite preacher,
who delivers a discourse upon the signifi-
canoe of the day.
A separation of the family follows in the
afternoon in the celebration of the Fourth
OF July, in good many cases, for as usual
: there is great excitement over a running
race or that celebrated baseball match, to
take place on the village common or in a
picketed field, between the Invincibles and
the Insurmountables, and it is ALWAYS a
toss-up how the struggle between the two
teams can end except in a draw, al
though the record shows that on different
occasion the Invincibles had defeated the
Insurmountabies. and vice versa. But no
one but an expert can understand base
ball record and probably in each case the
decision was the fault of the referee The
ladies are glad to be rid OF their lords in
the terrific heat OF the afternoon of the
Fourth OF July, with the mercury in the
shade hugging one hundred degrees OF
Fahrenheit, ioc in their elegant looss
wrappers and the demi-dsshabille per.
mittad in the privacy Of the home, they
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-02

his pretty little wife was sobbing hit
terly as she clung to his arm, and the
innocent face of his baby girl looked
up wonderingly into his. There was
fearful struggle in the man soul; how
could he yield when he had boosted
that he never would? But then, how
could he continue to sell the maddening
poison, which could make man crush
and mangle the delicate form of his own
little child? Then as the idea which
Mamie had suggested came back to
him. and he thought of the possibility
of poor Mary Burke requiring her hus-
bands blood at his hands, he hesitated
no longer.
"Tll give in, he said, huskily. "L
thought could hold out against an
angel from Heaven. but T couldn't
stand that poor, lame child. n-As1ry
b. Benson, In XYIth amendment.
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are able to real the latest novel or

are able to READ the latest novel or
d-o-z-e. Generally, sub rosa, the latter.
But the glorious Fourth OF July is
chiefly enjoyed to its fullest extent among
the rising generation, the boys and girls.
Unlucky and disgraced, indeed. is the boy
who. at the end OF the bombardment Of
the day, has got off without powder
burn, or a shot finger, or even his toggery
unsinged. Probably the greatest hero is
the boy who not only has, with his toy
pistol, carelessIy and adroitly winged
another boy, but who, in the melee, has
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-02

what nice summer resort that must
be. Let's go there, pa.
"WellI don't know dear; do not con-
slider this circular quite satisfactory"
why, pa, it is full Of all sorts of de-
ais
YES know; it tells all about the size
of the hotel, the size OF the grounds, and
the size of the rooms, but not a word
about the size OF the mosquitoes. Chi.
cago News.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-02
Extent of Bird-Destruction.

How enormous has been the slaughter
of innocent birds for the purpose of
identifying ugly and heartless women
is shown by these statistics: England
imports from India, Africa and Ameri-
ca ter million dollars worth Of feathers
and birds every year. One and half
million exotic birds, including 250, 900
humming birds. are annually imported
TO France and England. The ostrich
feathers alone do not imply slaughter
of the birds for the sake of fashion
which fortunately is now being frowned
on by tiie more sensible Women.---M.
X. Posk
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-02
Entirely Free from Pain.

''And how's your father now-a-days?'
asked an Eastern woman OF her friend
whose pater lived in Kansas. / trust the
old gentleman and the rest OF the family
do not suffer as much from rheumatism as
formerly
mo. they don't. Father writes that
since the last tornado out there. there
isn't a pane in the hou Sc. It'd Bits.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-02

In the club window.
pretty girl, that"
''Yaas
''she looked at you as If she knew you--
.'Yaas."
'Does she?"
well the fact is, my boy, she's my Sis
taw. But she mawied fellaw that wuns q
staw, aw something OF that sawt, and they
live in a bawding house, 80 cawnt affawd
to wecognize haw in public. But all
ways send haw my cawd at New Yeah's.
Paw girl She has been foolish wathaw
than cwiminal, don't chew know. Town
TODics
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-02
THE PocKET-BooK.
A Few Comparisons Showing the Enor-
nous sum of Money Spent for Rum.

A Few Comparisons Showing the Enor-
NOUS sum of Money Spent for Rum.
1t is trite saying that "a man is
most easily reached by touching tho
pocket nerve" People can appreci-
ate waste of money when they are
callous to higher or nobler motives. Tt
is an appalling fact that the outlay
each year by the people of this country
for rum in all its forms is nine hun
dYed million dollars. The sum is SO
large that the mind fails to grasp the
enormity of this annual outlay, except
by comparison. Let us institute few,
that the reader may realize what spend
thrifts we are through rum:
On May 1 of this year the total debt
of the United States, with actual inter-
est, was little over 81, 7S6, 100000.
The sum we pay for rum would pay
off that debt entirely inside of two
years, and save the country nearly
fifty millions a year in interest
We spend as much for rum each year
as the total wages of all the working
men of the country.
rum, and but $685., 900, 600 for all She
breadstuff that we consume in the
same time.
We spepd for rum nearly three times
what we spend for meat, the annual
total for the latter item being about
5000, 900, 600.
The total value of the entire product
of all our iron and steel industries per
year is about 1920, ,0e0-not one
third of our whisky bill.
We spend each year S237, 900, 900 for
all our wooden goods and clothing, and
S210, 200, 000for those of cotton-a total
of SAL, COO, 000-not half what we
waste on rum.
There are many people who groan
over the cost of our public schools, and
consider the tax burden; yet they
cost less than 0ne-te1ath Of what rum
costs us-in round numbers $50, 000,-
600 per year.
Ponder these figures, and determine
whether rum is worth what it costs us.
Toledo Blade.
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Schamburg Ito Jacobs You vas liaE
und schoslndrel. Do you hear dot?
Jacobs Ito schamburg)-I hear you al
ready. und drinks may be you vas talking
to ynarselui.--lexas Siftings,
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A Millionaire's Whim.


An order has just been given by a
New York millionaire for a Turkish
lounging-room to be built at the back
of his house. The walls are to be of
some rare wood, inlaid with silver
arabasques. Running around the entire
apartment will be low divan covered
with rich silk : shot with gold and
silver threads, and the floor is to be
one complete design in mosaic, made
up of thousands of pieces of stone.
Over this floor will be thrown expen-
sive Turkish rugs, a divan constructed
of great silk and satin covered pillows
being arranged in the center of the
apartment. Silver lattice work cover
ing the windows will admit the light,
the latter being softened at pleasure by
means of rich hangings. From niche
viii issue a jet of water, falling into q
marble basin. The roof of the extern
sion will be partially movable, so that
in summer tent-like arrangement of
drapery can be fashioned above the
heads of the loungers, admitting the cir
through its folds, and still keeping cut
warm rays of the SUM- Chicago Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-02

Thai dark and damnable traffic
turned the day of God almost into a
day OF Satan, and made it questions
bic whether, for the mass of the peo-
pie, it would not be better 20 have
no Sunday at all.-Rev. Canon Stow-
Ell,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-02

He was type of his class who. hav-
ing accumulated fortune of sixty
Thousand dollars by selling liquor, and
who had frequently bcasted that he
never drank a drop himself, on watch
ing the funeral of one of his victims
pass his door, said, in heartless way:
That's the first time he ever passed by
my place without coming In to take "a
drink. II Chicago Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-02
FOURTH OF JULY.
The Day OF Patriotic, Boisterous,
Noisy Merriment.
[Original.l

it aroused the slEmberers, and every old
citizen who rolled uneasily at this sudden
confederation ofnoises, and in his agony.
kicked his heels through the clothes had
strength enough left to exciaim: well, /
declare, forgot! why, it must be Fourth
Of Julyr' And in hall an hour the whole
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-02

WHAT are the facts in reference 70
the constituency of the liquor traffic?
Look at the statistics for the city of
New York. Out of the ten thousand
in the liquor trade in New York, one
quarter Of this number have been in tho
States prison; another quarter in the
county prisons; and another quarter
have been in the police. stations, and
so, how many are there left? One
quarter only have escaped the clutch-
es of the law.-DemoreSt' Monthly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-02

Frequent acts of incendiarism in
Schenectady, n. T., have led to the
arrest of three prominent young men
rs professionals in that line of crime
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to Andre, land would like to see YOU,
perhaps for the last time. Try to get
leave of absence and spend couple of
months with me.
The son had obeyed the fat her s
wishes. And this night, the 18th OF
May, he had arrived at Dubrovka-this
was the name of The Savelieff estate.
The same position who had brought
him from the nearest railway station
was also the bearer of letter for the
General. The latter. however, more
touched and agitated by the meeting
with .'his child'' Gas he still called the
bearded ColoneD than he cared to
show, put the letter mechanically into
his pocket without looking at it, and
then forgot all about it. Long after
midnight, father and son having emp
tied couple of bottles of champagne,
of which the old General had always a
small supply in his cellar, both retired
10 rest. On entering his bedroom.
where his old orderly Matveitch await
ed him, the General remembered the
letter, and, drawing the lamp nearer
to where he stood, broke the seal. He
ltIsb Ieau the signature: ''Anton rod
bielsky.s His brQws contracted as if a
painful recollection had cast a shadow
over them.
What business has that man to
write to me?n he muttered. Podbiel-
sky was Polish nobleman, who had
formerly been the Generals school
mate. AS very young man he had
been implicated in the great Polish in
surrection Of 1880, and had purchased
his pardon from the Russian Govern
ment by betraying some of his asso-
ciates. Since that time General Save
lief, who hated all traitors, even if
they had rendered service to the good
cause, had broken off all relations with
Podbielsky, while the latter, rising rap
idly, soon reached a prominent and in
fluential position in the newly-formed
'sThird Section, = or secret police. Now
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-08-12
rE1RrY Hrs LAsr mr..
uh,cs Kelly saves MANS hifo ~
| Atlantic city


Atlantic CRY, Aug. 6.-There has
been no lack Of excitement here ior
visitors to-day or yesterday. That OF
Yesterday was due 10 the storm, and tnAt
Of 10 day was Whit almost proved 70 be
drowning case. Early in the afternoon
those who were patrolling the beach
only A short distance from the bathing.
houses wero startled by the cries OF
uhelp,n the words being repeated until IL
sounded more like the bark OF a dog than
the cry of man.
Only short distance out they could
see the object OF distress, q man, rising
and falling on the breakers, floating with
apparent ease on his back. A great crowd
assembled at tho spot, and several mem-
bers Of the life-saving crew were on the
spot in twinkling. BY this time, now
ever, the cries had ceased. Tho man was
soon brought ashore. Ho was unconscious
when dragged out upon the beach, but
after few manipulations tho body began
10 develop signs Of life. II was then as
covered that tho drowning man was Y. A.
Roberts from Philadelphia. Chief OF Do
tectiyes Francis Il. Kelly OF that city,
saved his life. Chief Kelly was out bath
ing and swimming near the pier Wheh no
heard the cries for "helpl" lilo swan to
the spot and found Roberts nearly ex-
hausted. lie put his head under his arm
and gave the man few directions TO be
prepared TO go in ON the next breaker.
When it came they made a good start for
shore, but Roberts then became nncon.
scious, and Mr.. Kelly found himself
unable TO touch bottom. II then
became hard struggle, and before the
assistance of the life-saving crews was
obtained and shore was reached, Roberts
rescuer was himself almost exhausted
Two other men who were out with
Roberts were also in danger of exhaustion,
although oil were comparatively good
swimmers. The incident drove q great
many timid bathers, particularly the
ladies, out of the water entirely.