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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-09
A COOL BURGLAR.
He Is Aware That Conscience Doth Nal
EDWARDS of Cashiers.

He Is Aware That Conscience Doth Make
towards of Cashiers.
A New York bank cashier, who was
making preparations to go to Canada,
having occasion to return to the bank
after night found that a burglar had
opened the safe, and was extracting the
contents.
Now I've got you. Throw up your
hands, exclaimed the cashier, drawing
his pistol
''Bah!a replied the burglar, con-
temptuously, you keep quiet, or III
tell the directors how much money
didn find in this safe
The cashier recoiled with horror and
disnay at the suggestion.
You had 4 mighty narrow escape
from catching burglar. continued the
knight Of the jimmy. Next time
come if there amt more cash in the
sale Il land You in Sing Sing, and
after obtaining a contribution from the
cashier, the burglar withdrew, smiling,
a le1as siftfng&
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ATTRACTIVE ROOMS.
Display of Taste in the Arrangement of
Furniture and Pictures.

DAoPA0J ~ AsAoOC AZ bA0 <AIIdASeMSnC OF
Furniture and Pictures.
In furnishing our rooms, we, as a
general thing, go at it in a haphazard
way, and the result is not always as
satisfactory as we would like. We go
to store and look over the carpets,
and select one that looks pretty. We
go to the dealer in wallpaper, and,
without thought of the carpet it is to
go with, we select a pleasing pattern.
When the paper is on, and the carpet
down, they may harmonic, and they
may not. You will see a great many
rooms in the houses of your neighbors
that leave an unpleasant impression on
you, and if you seek the cause of this,
you will generally find it is on account
ing conflicting colors never appears
well-dressed, though her attire may
have cost great deal of money, while
another woman, wearing far less ex-
pensive, but tastefully-chosen material.
will have an air of elegance. It is the
same with rooms. The room is not
made attractive because of expensive
furniture, but because taste has been
brought into exercise.
We do not sufficiently study effects.
Before furnishing room we ought to
know precisely the effects we desire to
produce, and then study how to
produce them. II we have no definite
plan, we can not work intelligently.
In buying carpets and paper, and other
things to go into one room, never Sc
lect each independently of the other,
but always consider how they will har-
monte. Let one general idea of color
and design run through all. This
gives 8 unity of effect, and the result
will be highly pleasing. Remember
that carpet is not bought to be adj
mired for the beauty of its pattern
merely, but because it is a sort of back
ground for the room, and select it be-
cause of its appropriateness for that
purpose. A wallpaper may be very
pretty. in the place, but upon the
wall the effect may be intensely disa-
greeable. Always bear in mind that it
is for background to the pictures
tluSA 1IldAAOhto you upOn YOUR
walls, and let it be of such color as
not to destroy this idea. If the color
and the pattern are very decided, the
walls will always assert a greater claim
to attention than the pictures. There
should always be beauty in carpets and
paper, but it should be of that quiet,
subdued sort that does not make them
Of primary Importance when the room
is occupied. They should always be
secondary. The pictures, the flowers
and the various other things of orna-
ment should stand out in relief against
them, and this they can not do unless
the color and design of the coverings
for the floor and walls are less bright
and self-assertive than themselves. A
room tastefully furnished, always pro-
duces much the same impression as
picture in harmonious colors, and we
should study more than we do to make
pictures of our rooms.-Ange9'lcaa Ag-
ricatltaTiSt
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-09
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

A little whole grain scattered
among straw viii make poultry scratch
for what they get and conduce to their
healthfnlness. american Cultsuator.
The great secret of getting along
| pleasantly, both in the family and in
society, is to remember that 1T takes
two to make q quarrel. ~. 7. Eranl-
sner.
Soused Pigs Feet: To two pounds
| of feet add one tablespoonful of cloves,
one OF allspice, use pepper and salt to
taste. Boil them in vinegar and wa
ter, half and half; reduce almost to a
jelly and eat hot or cold. Exchange.
Clean cane chairs by saturating
the cane well with a sponge and hot
water, using soap it necessary; then
put it in the open air or in a good cur
rent of air, and as it dries it will tight
en- and become as firm as when new
Toledo Blade.
German Biscuits: Mix the yelks of
five eggs thoroughly with eight ounces
OF sugar and five ounces of flour into
the mixture. Add the whites of five
eggs beaten to a stiff froth, put into a
buttered pan and bake slowly. Gin
ciaaasatt Times.
Try this remedy for ear-ache: Take
a bit of cotton batting, put upon it a
pinch OF black pepper, gather it up
and tie it; dip it in sweet oil and insert
it in the ear. Put flannel bandage
over the head to keep it warm. 1t gives
immediate relief. Pittsburgh Post
"A writer in the Rural NeU Yorker
says: Horseshoes may be made to do
duty in a number Of ways after they
have outlived their usefulness on the
animals hoofs. For instance, when
discover q fence-post which has split,
draw it up with a chain and stout
stick, and nail an old shoe on to hold
it together.
The cleanest and most polished
floors have no water used on them at
all. They are simply rubbed off every
morning with large flannel cloth
which is stepped in kerosene oil once
in two or three weeks. Shake clean
of dust, and with a rubbing brush or
stubby broom 60 rapidly up and down
the planks (not across). In few rub
bings the floor assumes q polished APP
pearance that is not easily defaced by
dirt or footprints. - Scientific Anaeri-
can.
Plum Pudding: Take one pound
boiled carrots, passed through a sieve;
one pound of beef suet, finely chopped;
one pound Of flour; one pound of dried
raisins rubbed in some of the flour; one
teaspoonful of ground cloves; one tea
spoonful of ground cinnamon; one tea
spoonful of ground allspice; one tea
spoonful of grated nutmeg, and one
teaspoonful of salt. Mix with enough
molasses to moisten all and boil in a
well-buttered and Toured pudding
cloth. or in a mold, for three hours and
a alf.-BoSto7a Globe.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-09
SMALL FRUITS.
Why They Should Be Found ON Every
Farm in America.


Farm in America.
That the mere setting out and occa-
sional hoeing of few strawberry
plants where formerly corn, potatoes
or other staple crops have grown
would insure for the following year
enough of this luxury for family use is
true, but acceptance Of the fact re-
quires faith possessed by comparatively
few of the farming public. II only one
variety is wanted the Cumberland, all
things considered, viii be found a most
desirable kind, though to extend tbs
season it is well to plant one of the
favorite later sorts. That choice black
cap raspberries can be planted and
cared for the first season with about
the same labor and skill necessary for
an equal number of hills of corn or po-
tatoes is yet to be learned by vast
number; and that to insure successive
years of fruitfulness ordinary care and
culture is all that seems TO be required;
of course, condition of soii as regards
fertility and drainage having much to
do with quality and quantity.
Grapes also should be found on every
farm. To economic space the vines
may be planted and trained alongside
Of outbuildings, thus affording con-
stmt source Of enjoyment during the
fruihng season. A large Brighton on
my grounds, trained to the side of the
carriage house, is regularly yielding
delicious fruit, and by being allowed
to reach off into the branches of near
by sugar maple still greater results are
looked for In view of these facts,
should we as farmers continue to de-
prive our families of these luxuries so
healthful; SO easily prepared for the
table; and always so highly appreci-
ated by the ladies of the household,
whose duty il is to prepare palatable,
inviting and healthful food each day
the year round? Let us avail ourselves
of al means so easily at hand to alleyi-
ate their manifold cares and anxieties
often more numerous than the stern
or sex are aware Of rvin0 D. Cook.
tas n. I. tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-09
SCHUMACHER.

His Sacrifices for Temperance Principles
He Had No Grain to Sell to BE Made
into Whisky.
"Yes, l know Schumacher, the oat-
meal king who has just lost his big
mills by fire, " said the Ohio passenger,
sand an odder little man you never
saw. He's German, of course, about
sixty years old, about as big as grass
hopper and just as lively, talks Dutchy
and writes the most vigorous English,
hates whisky and beer as he does a
liar, and works sixteen hours day.
He came to this country as poor as a
church mouse, started little grocery
and beer saloon, ran that awhile and
then began making oatmeal by hand
mill IN his woodshed. Finally he sold
his saloon, peddled oatmeal and fari-
ma from hand-cart, which he wheeled
about town himself, and in thirty years
built up the largest factory of that
kind in the world. He won't hire a
man in any capacity who drinks whis-
ky or even beer, and has about him
several hundred employees who are
mostly German, and, strange to say
jealous prohibitionists like himself.
He once brought over from Germany
a workman who was master of a new
process. This man came under two
years contract at large salary, his
expenses being guaranteed. The sec
one day after he began work Schu-
macher learned that he was beer
drinker. In two hours the workman
left the mills, never to return, and with
check for nearly five thousand dollars
in his pocket. This was the price
Schumacher had paid for unfolding
his principles and enforcing his rules
down to the very letter. !"
"a few weeks ago" said drummer,
~ told you a little story about Schu-
macheI, the Ohio oatmeal King who
has just been ruined by fire, saerific-
ing several thousand dollars rather
than break his rule, of refusing to en-
ploy man who drinks liquor. Since
then have been in Akron and seen
the ruins of Schumacher's great mills.
A few days after the fire two men from
Cincinnati called on Schumacher.
They said that they had heard that in
the cellars of the mills was vast guam
tity of grain damaged by smoke and
water, and they had come with the in
tention of buying it. The matter was
talked over, and a bargain finally
struck. The men drew their check for
the purchase price, sum running
into the thousands, and were just about
to hand it to Schumacher when one of
them happened to remark that they
would be able to make good deal of
whisky out of that grain.
DO you want this grain to make
whisky of?' inquired Schumacher,
stepping back few feet.
. Yes; we are distillers in Cincin-
natl
"aThen, gentlemen, you can not buy
any grain of me. have no grain to
sell to be made into whisky Good
day, sirs.'
'.And as the damaged grain was only
good for djstillers' use, Schumacher
gave every bushel of it te teamsters,
expressmen, draymen and poor fami-
les keeping cows, to feed to their stock
on condition that they would haul it
away. - Chicago Herald.
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1T can be easily shown that The
man who trades least is the man who
drinks most, and merchants and man.
nfacturers, as they recognize this, are
coming to view the liquor shop as not
only the enemy OF their homes, but the
theft OF their legitimate earnings. Let
this practical argument gain fun pro-
mitigation and we shall hope to see
change IN the signs on our street
fronts. STANDARD.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-09

IF you wish to make a dog small,
give him, as a puppy, gin; this is, by
dog-fanciers, constantly praeticcd. If
you desire, in like manner, TO make a
Tom Thumb of a baby, give him the
milk of mother OF wet nurse who inn
bibes alcohol in the form Of wine,
brandy, gin or ale, and the deed is
done. Gin-drinking nursing mothers,
it is well known, have usually puny
children. Ghauasse.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-09

Interesting and Instructive Facts Cleaned
from the Report of the New Jersey Blu
reau of Statistics of Labor and Indus
frsn
The National tribune., 1886-03-18
The Battle of Shiloh.

To THE EDITOR: Allow me, through your
valuable paper, to correct few errors in Col.
WV. JacksOns account of the battle of Shiloh,
published in your paper of Dec. "a. While his
statement is correct in the main, there is some
things in it that is not as | saw them. / cor
rob0rate his statement i'll regard to the review
of Gen. PrentiSss Division on Saturday, the 5th
of April, and that there were rebs reviewing us
rs well as Gen. Prertiss, for | saw them. He
says that there was conference between Gems.
Hurlbut Sherman and Prentiss and others.
This does not agree with Col. Graves's report.
He (Jackson) says at this conference it was de-
termined to send out q party of infantry in the
early morning hours. This duty was intrusted
to Col. Peabody, of the 23d Mo, who with three
companies moved ou. OH the COrinth road at 4
o'clock a. m. Now, the correction l wish
to make is this: that Col. Peabody was not
Colonel OF the 23d Mo-, but was Colonel of the
18th No, and that there were four instead Of
three companies sent out that mGrning,-twO of
the 25th Mo. and two Of the 18th Mich and that
they were under command of Maj. Powell instead
of Col. Peabody, ne peabody being in com
mand OF the brigade The first attack was not
on Sherman's LETT, but on Prentiss's right.
SAW the first battery rs it was planted and saw
the smoke from the first cannon that was fred
that morning by the encmy.-RoBERTA A. WAL
TON, 18th Mich, Niles, Mich.
The National tribune., 1886-03-18
CONDENSED LETTERS.

J.W. Horn, Captain, 18th n. Y. Cav, st. Louis,
Mo-, writes of hard Winter spent i'll the
swamps of North Carolina His company was
50 strong in October, 1864, and i'll June, 1865,
| there were but two men left to muster out.
S. Lampman Co. q, 30th Ind, Baldwin. Kan,
tells how the Johunies tried to destroy the
bridge over Green River, at Muntordvile, Ky,
by placing kegs of powder under the abut-
ments Buell's advance, however, prevented
the destruction of more than one pier. The
damage was soon repaired and the Union army
crossed.
q. c. Both, Co A, s5th N. Y, Postville, N
Y, relates how he saved the steamer Pilot Boy
from drifting past the wharf at Roanoke IsA nd
and strandiug there. A heavy sea was running
and the line which was thrown to the shore by
| the mate fell short. The steamer was rapidly
| being driven towards the beach beyond the
| landing place, when Comrade Both, who was
ashore, and had the wind in his favor, threw a
| line which was seized by those on board, and
| the boat pulled in and saved.
S. J. Linn, Sergeant, Co. +, 18th Pa. Cav, Mon
| DAMN, Iowa, thinks some mention ought to be
made of the little division OF Gen. K. III. Milroy,
| "than whom Drawer man never lived"
Geo. Philpot, Co. *, Sd Iowa, Cedar Falls,
| Iowa, wishes 10 say, in regard. to the makeup
of the First Brigade at Jackson, Miss. that it
was composed of the Sd Iowa, 4Ist and SD H.,
| and the 33d Wis.
| Nelson NJ Newell, Co Fl, 5th N. Y. Cav
Moses Kill, n. Y, says Serg't Toms, of Co. X,
is little mistaken, for Mosby pounced on the
! 9TH n. Y. Cav. while the men were on foot
| feeding their horses and cooking supper, and
| before the boys could saddle-up and form
| Mosby's command had taken q good many of
| them prisoners. The ist Va. came up to the
regcue, attacked Mosby in his Ienr, and COM
| PEELED him to abandon his prisoners aud booty
! and make hasty retreat towards Warrenton,
| Va.
Chas. Keen, Co. I, 9th N. j., Woodbury.. N.
j. contradicts L. E. Dickinson in regard to the
troops the latter claimed were the first to enter
the rebel redoubt at Roanoke Island. He
| (Keen) says the 9th N. j. were the first to
get in.
Isaiah Matteson, Co. G, l23d N. Y, Hannibal,
Mo-, docs net agree with Martin Kelley in re-
gard to the Goth N. Y. being the first to enter
| Atlanta, but claims that honor for his own
| regiment
| VIM. b. Smith, Lorain, o., contradicts the
statement of Col. Jackson that Ross Brigade
The National tribune., 1886-03-18
The Regiment that Supported the Ist r. /. Art. at
Anfiptam.

To THE EDITOR: In reply, to Comrade S. W.
Aldrich's question in a recent issue of THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE as to what regiment
supported Battery A, 1st Z. l. Art, at Antictam,
Sep. 18th, 1862, | think he has reference to the
25th Pa. l did not know at that time the let
ter of the battery we supported in the afternoon
of that day, but understood that it was of the
1st r. l. The battery we supported was of
brass pieces either "a or 81 Founders, and was
opposed, afterwards heard, to the Washington
Battery-the rebels brag battery. If my
memory serves me right, it was about p. IN.
when the charge of Stark (rebe) Brigade was
made upon the battery we were supporting,
and the line was within short distance of the
battery when we were ordered to fire. We
gave them volley and then charged them,
sending them across the small valley between
the two hills, thereby saving the battery from
capture. If these facts agree with Comrade
Aldrich's memory, then the reg iment he in
guires about was the 29th Pa. | may still
further call upon bis memory by stating that
the 2Sth Pa. was armed with the short Enfield
rife. with saber bayonet, and the only regi-
ment in the Twelfth Corps with saber bayonets.
Comrade Aldrich may be correct in stating that
the l1lth Pa. was there, for the 1l1th was also
in our corps, and may have been sent there as
supports; but | claim it was the 2Sth Pa. that
met the charge of Starl's Brigade By n vclley
an countercharge that BLUM
DIN, Co. G, 2Sth Pa, Hulmeyille, Pa
The National tribune., 1886-03-18
Inscription In an Old Cemetery Near Cheraw, S. C


To THE EDITOR: While marching through
the Carolinas with Sherman in 1864 we hal;ed
near Cheraw. Having nothing else to do |
went into an old cemetery, in one corner of
which was brick church. / remember some
one said that the church stood there during the
Revolutionary War. 1t looked ancient enough.
Near the church was nameess grave, bearing
on slab the following inscription:
Ny name, my nation, what is that to thee?
What whether high or low my pedigree?
Perhaps far surpassed all other men,
Perhaps fell below them all. What then?
Suffice il, stranger, thou see ct tomb
Thou know ST its use; il covers-no matter whom.
In another part of the cemetery, on a marble
shaft erected TO the memory OF one of the
Lynchs, was penciled by one of our men an
Rpostrophe TO the heroes of the Revolution,
many of whom were buried there. Ofthe many
l can remember but the following verses:
Shades of the patriots slumbering meath the sod,
Know ye the woes of your unhappy State?
Know ye the turf has drank your children's blood
And left your loved homes spoiled and desolate
How can We sleep how your ashes rest in peace
While wars dread clarion rolls above your head?
Do not your bones with holy horror creep
As falls the blood your perjured sons have shed? !?
Rise slumbering patriots view the ruin made
And bid the traitorous crew in shame dsperse;
Bid them restore the Union they destroyed,
Or doubly damn them with a fathers curse.
i should like TO know who was buried in
that nameless grave, and who was the author
of the lines last guoted.-T. SPRAGUE, Co. G,
Goth Ill, Sheffield III.
The National tribune., 1886-03-18
Mobile.

To THE EDITOR: As there seems to be some
dispute as TO whether or not the whole Of the
Sixteenth Corps was at Mobile wish to add
my mite. Gen. A. J. Smiths command was
only part of the Sixteenth Corps, the First,
Second and Third Divisions constituting the
right wing, Sixteenth Corps, the left wing
being with Sherman on the Atlanta campaign,
under command of Gen. Dodge.
Comrade Fry is right in his statement that
only part of the Sixteenth Corps was present
at Mobile. that part being the right wing, the
whole of A. J. Smiths command, but not the
entire corps. Comraie Fry is in error, how
ever, when he states that Steele's and Grapger's
men did all the fighting, as the Sixteenth Corps
played lively hand at all of it, the First Di-
vision (under Gen. McArthur) and the Third
Division lunder Gen. Carr capturing Spanish
Fort and the Second Division (under Gen
Kennard Garrardj playing prominent part in
the capture Of Fort Blakely.-P. G.. SMITH,
Major 119th ILL.,, Hickmans Mills, Mo.
The National tribune., 1886-03-18
They Did Not Succeed.

To THE EDITOR: | wish to give you brief
account of the attempt to take Kentucky ont
OF the Union during the Winter OF '62-'63, and
how it came 10 be failure. The 103d Ohio, of
which ] was member, was during that Win
ter quartered ia and about Frankfort, two
companies Of US being placed to guard bridges
on the Louisville q Lexington Railroad.
convention OF rebel delegates had been called
to meet at Frankfort On the 18th OF February
for the aVOwed purpose of taking Kentucky
out of the Union. 1t was their desire to occupy
the State House, but this was refused by the
Legislature then in session, and so the assem-
bly, was TO take place in Merriweather's Hall.
1t was the good fortune of your correspondent
to be on board the morning train going into
Frankfort from Louisville having boarded it
at Benson Station, nine miles from the Capital.
The train was loaded down with rebel dele
gates-at least 150. They were full of mirth
and jollity, no doubt full of bright anticipa-
tions of rebel millennium. Just before the
time appointed for the meeting, Col Gilbert
posted detachments of our brigade in front and
rear of the building, with bayonets fixed. and
a strong guard at the entrance. Whenever
delegate desired to go up to the hall he was
politely informed that the way was open, but
In order to come out again he must furnish
vouchers for his lsyalty. Many backed out,
having the fear of Uncle Sam before
their eyes, while visions of Camp Chase,
no doubt, fitted before their butternut
understandings. EE-Goy. Merrlweather was
appointed Chairman. Col. Gilbert also ap-
peared upon the scene of action with his Adju-
tant, and as fast the delegates arrived and
their names were called they were taken down
by the Adjutant Col. Gilbert then arose aud
ordered them to disperse, saying that no such
convention could be held within the limits of
his command. He also told them that heknew
they were rebels of the deepest dye, whose OBJ
ject was to dcluge the soil of Kentucky with
the blood Of civil strife. 1t may well be sur
missed that their curses were not loud, but deep;
neither did they stand upon the order of their
going, but beat hasty retreat. Your corre-
spondent had the privilege of going piece
with them on the evening train as they were
bomeward bound, and had the opportunity Of
hearing the curses heaped upon the Lincoln
Hirelings." Truly did Gilberts Brigade prove
the hope and defense Of loyalty at the Capital
that Winter. These were comparatively quiet
days for the 103d Ohio, hut in the East Ten
nessee campaign and at Resaca it suffered ter
ribly, in common with other regiments.-W. T.
CHAPMAN, Lieutenant, Co. II, 103d Ohio, Pet
tisville, Fulton Co., o.