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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-23
CONTINUED CROPPING.
How to Counterbalance the Effects o
This System of Agriculture.

How to CounterbaIance the Effects OF
This System of Agriculture.
If the soil is continually cropped, no
matter how rich it may be, time will
arrive when it will become barren,
whether that period be near or distant.
Nor is it wise to wait until there are
evidences of loss of Srtility, as it
then requires time for recuperation,
but the work of restoration should be-
gin at once. In fact, a farm should
always be improvingin fertility. There
is no time but that it is either losing or
gaining, and the ratio of loss or gain de-
ponds upon the kind of crops and the
manner in which the farm is cultivated.
Alarm can not be Immediately restored
to fertility, for even when an unlimited
amount of fertilizer is applied, humus
must be formed, which requires time
Manure is the best material for worn
out farms, assisted by green crops
plowed under, but this mode of i'm
provement requires labor that many
will not bestow, yet there are simple
and easy methods that cost but very
little if practiced. Every farmer can
afford to sow rye on his corn field after
the corn has been removed. If the
temptation to cut the rye is resisted,
and a good coating of lime applied in
the spring, with the rye turned under,
there will be ample material for the
formation of humus in the soil Then
fertilizers may be used freely with
advantage and the soil be assisted to
retain its fertility and produce larger
crops.
But practice of old usages prevents
the farmers from taking advantage of
the short growing period between the
harvesting of corn and the beginning
of frost. The difficulty is that they do
not remove the corn and fodder as soon
as they should. We do not understand
why farmers allow the shocks to re-
main in the field to be husked during
the damp season of late fall or the cold
of winter, when they might more con-
veniently haul the corn to the barn to
be husked under shelrer, and thereby
leave the field cleas. and ready for the
pillow. They should remove the corn
as soon as it is cut, put the pillow at
work, harrow and sow to rye, and
leave the field till spring, when the rye
should be turned under as soon as it
is about two feet high. This work
done regularly every year will greatly
increase the fertility of the soil and do
much to counterbalance the effects of
continual cropping, but it will be best,
as we stated, to use manure or artif-
cial fertilizer on the land every season.
Farm, Field and Stockmon.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-23
CATS In EGYPT.
The Privileges Enjoyed by the Felines i'll
the Khedive's Dominions.

The Privileges Enjoyed by the Felines in
the Khedive's Dominions.
The Egyptians, though they may no.
worship the little animal nowadays,
have an inerdinate liking for cat, a
relic, perhaps, of an old-world sancti-
ty. They are to be seen everywhere,
not one at lime, but in half dozens,
and in the less frequented parts of the
town as many as twenty may be seen
in waste corner holding an afternoon
Conversations. When, therefore, the
British shells knocked down the houses
of Alexandria and the inmates fled,
the cats found themselves homeless
and friendless, and they gathered to-
gether in pathetic assemblies upon the
debris of the shattered walls. How
gaunt and dreadful they were! Chair
table folks used to collect scraps for
them, but the suferings of the Great
ures must have been very great, and
doubtless, if the truth were known,
very few of the Alexandrian cats lived
through the momentous crisis of Brit
ish occupation without sharp apprehen-
sions of cannibalism. All day long
they prowled among the rubbish heaps
OF fallen masonry or sat about in
groups pathetically mute and most I'M
naturally regardless of passers-by. In
| Suakim also they are utterly callous to
their surroundings, but there the SINH.
larity ceases. For in their case indif-
ference is begotten of preposterous
prosperity. So consequential are they
that they do not move out of the road,
and the Arab when he stumbles over
them, swears at them, but never
molests them. The bazars are full OF
them, and they fight and make love in
the thoroughfares in broad daylight as
II it were the most natural thing in the
| world for cats to do so. Till then
had thought Grimalkin was a noctur-
nal beast. For in Europe we are &C.
| customed to see them sleepy and lazy
all day, and to hear them noisy and
active at night. But this is only, ap.
parently, geographical accident. In
the Soudan, at any rate, cats are dur.
nal and go to bed at sunrise, while in
Suakim in particular, where the PEG.
pie live so largely upon fish, and the
refuse of their meals lies in heaps al
every corner, the feline tribe have as
sumed much of the Importance and
something of the demeanor of dogs.
They lie under the stalls or sit upon
| the bedsteads-which, after Oriental
fashion, stand in the open air-as if in
charge of the premises and property.
For one thing there are very few dogs.
1t is true they are unclean beasts to the
Moslem, but perhaps the cats have
made it impossible for any dog to exist.
Indeed, such an endless multitude OF
them is enough to break the heart OF
even an English terrier. But physical
~ they have deteriorated into the mer.
est travesty of their race. They are
absurdly small and proportionately
meager, with sharp noses, fiat. thin
heads and very short fur, while the
shoulder blades stick up above the
level of their backs in the queerest fash
| ion. So when came back to England
| was at first surprised at the very
large size of all the cats | saw, their
extraordinary plumpness and the thick
ness of their fur. Phil Robiaspn. in
Contemporary RegieW.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-23
ABOUT ABSORBENTS.
A Matter of Utmost Importance to the
Farmers of the West.


The subject of using absorbents
around stables and barn-yards and
earth-closets, for the saving of fertiliz-
ing material, is one that is destined to
attract a great deal more attention in
the future than it ever has FertilIzine
material OF almost inestimable value,
as will one day be discovered, is now
permitted to go TO waste because of our
thoughtlessness and the generosity of
nature in giving US soil of virgin pro-
ductiveness. But we are rapidly
squandering our patrimony, and will
some day come down to the husks of
the prodigal, if we do not look more
sharply to the economical side of life.
In England they are discussing the
question of the use of peat moss, which
IS so abundant there, as an absorbent.
II We have not so much peat, we have
plenty of dry earth, which is probably
no less valuable as an absorbent Saw
dust, dry muck and common land
plaster are excellent absorbents. There
Is nothing better than land plaster for
retaining the ammonia, and used in
conjunction with dry earth, there is
nothing better. while of itself it is good
for al dry soils and helps wonderfully
in the production of crop of clover.
The time is coming -indeed, is now at
hand-when no farmer can afford to
allow the liquid droppings of his ami
mails to run to waste. They are equal
in value to the solids, and we believe
their retention with the solids, by
means Of absorbents, is preferable to
running them off into tank and APP
plying them in liquid form. IN atioaa!
Lice stock Jouraak
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-23

oxysmal interruptions which admit OF
some recuperation; second, because
beer-drinking is practiced by both
sexes more generally than spirit drink
ing. and third, because the animalizing
tendency of the habit is more Uniform
ly developed, thus authorizing the pre-
sumption that the vicious results are
more generally transmitted. Pacific
Medical Journal, Endorsed by the Home
Life ms. Co.
We unite in the declaration that we
believe alcohol should be classed with
other powerful drugs; that when pre-
scribed incidentally it should be with,
conscientious caution and a sense of
grave responsibility. We are of the.
opinion that the use of alcoholic liquor
as beverage Is productive of large
amount of physical disease; that it en-
tails diseased appetites upon offspring,
and that it is the cause of a large per-
ccntage of the crime of our cities and
country. We would welcome any jul
diciouS and elective legislation
| and National-which should seek TO
confine the traffic in alcohol to the le-
ultimate purposes Of medical and other
| sciences, art and mechanism. POO
physicians of New York and ProoStyn.
OF all the intoxicating drinks it
| fbeerl is the most animaliZing. 1t
dulls the intellectual and moral, and
feeds the sensual and beastly nataSe:
Beyond all other drinks, it qualities foe
deliberate and unprovoked crimes. In
this respect it is much worse than dis.
| titled liquors. A whisky-drinker will
commit murder only under the direct,
excitement of liGuor,-a beer-drinker'
is capable OF doing 1t in cold blood,
Long observation has assured us that
large proportion of murders, deliber-'
ately planned and executed without
passion or malice, with no more mo-
tive than the acquisition OF property
or money, often of trifling vaiue, are
perpetrated by beer-drinkers. = Pa
cifc Medical Journal, Endorsed by 44pelle
Life ms. Co.
The use of beer is found to produce
a species of degeneration of all thes
organs. Intellectually, a.
stupor amounting almost to paralysis:
arrests the reason, changing all the
higher faculties into mere animalism,
sensual, selfish, sluggish. varied only
with paroxysms ofanger that are sense
less and brutal. In appearance the
beeT-drinker may be the picture of
health, but in reality he is most incap-
able of resisting disease. Compared
with inebriates who use different kinds
of alcohol, he is more incurable. and
more generally diseased. 1t is our OBJ
servation that beer-drinking in this
country produces the very lowest kind
of ixebriety, closely allied to criminal
insanity. The most dangerous class
of ruffians in our large cities are beer
drinkers. Recourse to beer rs sub
stitute for other forms of alcohol mere
ly increases the danger and fatality
| SciantlGc AallPricnal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-23
TI4E ROADSIDE SPRING.

Tall houses crowd the rising ground, where
stood the woods before,
But still unchanged the crystal spring and as
1t was of yore-
The yellow log through which it wells, its bot
tom strewn with sand,
The g0urd hung on the alder bough, so ready
TO the hand,
The lush-g sgrowing or the edge the bushes
droop,ng low
1t is the same old roadside spring of ATTY
years ago.
Here one time was the grazing farm where
was born and bred;
There stood the farm-house-they have built
mansion there instead;
This street was once the turnpike road, Ger
which in drought or rain
There used to pass. on ereaking wheels the
Conestoga waiBi
And here however given was he stronger
draught TO take,
The driver always stopped awhile his cease
Tess thirst to Stake.
How frequent on my way to school, Itarried
at the brink,
And looked within its crystal depth before 1
bent to drink.
There is no change-the water still the purest
and the best;
That gourd-it seems the very same my lips
so often pressed,
The grass around is quite as green; the log as
mOSSy seems;
How wildly the past comes back, like figures
seen in dreams!
Out yonder stands a church, whose spire is
piercing through the air,
Where stood the school-house in q field of
grass and bushes bare;
A little wooden house it was, one storied, mar
row, low
Old Griffin was the teacher then; he died
here long ago;
Hard-featured, stern-the neighbOrS said he
was learned man;
One thing he knew beyond all doubt-the use
of his rattan.
Down that side street, so thickly built, the
path lay to the glen
The short road to the village mill; they We
arched the stream since then.
That dusty, dun, three-storied mill, with ever
open door;
That champng brutes that bore the grist
ranged in a row before;
The black wheel turning slowly round, the
water falling free;
The clatter and the whirr wthin-how plain
they are to me.
Mill, woodland, school-house, field and farm
they all have passed away;
This is a strange and alien land wherein !
stand to-day;
The scenes of youth I longcd to see at my
approach have fled;
Here is the burial place of dreams, and here
the past lies dead;
And yet one verdant spot remains within the
desert drear,
One oasis within the waste - the road side
spring is here.
Thomas Dunn English, in ". Y. Independent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-23
THE SALOON "BusINEss. :"
Not Only a Useless Occupation, but q
Curse to Humanity.

Not Only Useless Occupation, put
Curse to Humanity.
The rum traffic stands alone. 1t
ministers to vice, to crime, to misery
and suffering. 1t is monster vampire
sucking the life-blood out of the body
polite. 1t is not only'useless; it is %
| curse to humanity. There is not an
other human occupation of which this,
can truthfully be said.
That the rum traffic is pursued for
gain is the only thing it has in COM
mon with the other pursuits among
which it seeks to enroll itself. But its
profits are not legitimate ones. They
are not proper percentage paid by
the community for the conveniences
which it may afford, as are the profits
received by the grocer, or butcher, or
baker, or dry-goods merchant. 1t IS
money wrongfully taken. 1t belongs
to wives, to children. 1t should be-
spent for food, for clothing, for fuel,
| for furniture, for books, instead of 60
| ing into the pockets of saloon-keeper-
But the great evil of the saloon is,
that it is constantly educating the ris-
ing generation in the drink habit
Wherever a young man may go
during his hours of leisure, the sa-
loon stands with open doors, inviting
him within. He can there find COM
panionship, if he be a stranger in
the city; he can find resort from the
loneliness of his surroundings when
not engaged in his daily avocation-
He may not care about drinking, but
his pride will not allow him to be a
visitor in the saloon without paying his
footing; he drinks because some one
asks him to, and he drinks again in
order that he may invite that person,
and not remain under obligation
"The descent to Avernus is casy,"
wrote the Roman poet and The truth
of the adage is proved tens of thou
sands of times every year in the United
States alone, in just such cases as the
| typical one we are considering. There
is no appetite SO easily acquired as that
for rum; there is none more deadly,
and more difficult to conquer, even in
| its earlier stages. Three months of in
diligence will fix it on the vast ma
jority of men; and the number of those
who shake themselves free from its en-
| thrallment is mOurnfully small. With
some the downward road is very steep,
and very quickly traversed; with others
the path is much longer, but it is in
evitably downward, like the other,
and the end of the journey is the same
in ev ry case.-TOLedO Blade.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-23
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.


If you scorch clothes in ironing,
place them in the sun to draw the marks
out.
Public water-trorghs, it is claimed,
are places at which infectious diseases
are spread; hence the water should
always be flowing In them, instead of
turning it on only when wanted.-N
\. Times.
To economic space III the garden:
When you sow your dwarf peas for
succession drop sweet corn in the drills
four to six inches apart The corn
does not grow much until the peas are
out Of the way, and both crops are
cultivated simultaneously. = Toledo
Blade.
Apple Sauce: Soak good dried APP
pies few hours then stew carefully
until soft, with handful of raisins or
a few slices of lemon; keep it covered
closely, and do not stir. Turn careful
iy out into q dish, keeping the slices
unbroken, and serve when cool with
powdered sugar, or sweeten while
cooking. Good Housekeeping.
Potato Balls: Three cups of
mashed potatoes with two spoonfuls of
butter, then add one-half cup of grated
Holland cheese and mash well togeth-
er, then add two well-beaten eggs and
mix well, now roll into small, round
cakes, roll in grated bread crumbs, and
| fry in hot lard, or sweet oil is better if
liked. Field and Farm.
"A New Hampshire farmer has
marked success with blueberries by
transplanting them from their native To-
| calities by cutting sods and setting in
sod ground. They do not succeed in cul-
tivated ground, but in an old wornout
| pasture the transplanted sods will
! spread, and when established give from
| twenty-five to fifty barrels of berries
per acre. -Boston Post.
"A writer in Gardening illustrated
says that one of the simplest and best
methods for destroying moss on lawns,
is an occasional dressing of freshly
, SACKED lime. Mixed with small
quantity of SCOT, its whiteness will not
become conspicuous and offensive.
| Both should be sifted through a fine
sieve. 1t is applied just before rainfalls
In autumn, winter or spring.
-Stewed steak: Put one pound of
tender, thick steak, having q little fat,
in saucepan. Pour over it two cups
of boiling water and finely minced
onion. seasoning with salt and pepper.
Spread thick layer of mushrooms on
the top of the steak; cover the sauce
pan tight and set it where it will SIM
| mer, about two inches above the level
of the fire. The saucepan should not
be uncovered until the steak is to be
removed to the dish. Forty minutes is
enough to cook it to a turn.-B0ston
| Globe
Many seem to think that they have
made toast when they brown the out
side of a slice of bread. Have they?
The object in making toast is to evap-
crate all moisture from the bread, and
holding q slice over the fire to SINCE
does not accomplish this; it only
warns the moisture, making the inside
of the bread doughty and indigestible.
The true way of preparing it is to cut
the bread into slices quarter of an
inch thick, trim off all crust, put the
slices in a pan or plate, place them in
the oven-which must not be too hot
take them out when delicate brown
and butter at Exchange.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-23
WATERING ANIMALS S.
A Method Which Is Considered Perfect b.
It's Originator.

"A MebnOu nnicn Is considered Perfect by
Its Originator.
l have heavy spring on little rise
of land thirty-five roods from my lane,
that kept nearly an acre like a bog. 1
dug ditch and laid in gas piping
(half inchl and run it into a large
trough that has waste pipe that run
into tile drain, it runs winter and
summer. | placed the trough beside a
straight rail fence in the lane conyen-
lent to the pasture field. 1 find the
cattle do much better than when they
had to come to the harnyard or drink
out OF mud hole. Ny watering place.
cost me. about fifty dollars, and would
not take one thousand dollars for it if
| could not replace it. A number of
my neighbors came to see it, and went
home and did likewise There are very
few farmers who could not have one
like it in some convenient place on the
farm. | have q windmill that pumps
water at my barns, and it is much
easier than by hand. I use the mill to
grind the grain feed, and to cut wood
with circular saw, turn grindstone, a
turning lathe, apple grinder and &
small rip saw for general repairing. |
find / save money and time by doing it
myself. Tor. Country Gentleman.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-23
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


Mrs. John G. Fremont is writing q
life of Thomas Jefferson.
--Adelina Patti kindly takes in az
MANY as five. Of Nicoliniss children. be-
coming to them willing stepmotheF
| C. r. M. Talbot, 1.-THE father Of the
| House, in The British Parliament; has
come to the end of his eighty-thiri
year.
"A California editor gratefully ac-
knowledges the receipt Of an invitation
| from subscriber to visit his house and
/, take bath.
The friends of Miss Yadwiga
Przbylinski are reioiced over her mar
rage with Mr.. Wellnitz. as they no
longer have to tangle their tongues to
pronounce her nane.-Sdtt francisco
Chronicle:
1t is said Of Judge Davis that
nothing pleased him better than to
chat with stokers and engine men on
railways when he travelled, and no man
could tell a better story. Chicago
Inter Ocean
Rev. George F. Pentecost has gone
to England for a bicycling tour. Rev.
DIR. Wayland Hoyt, lately of Brooklyn
and now of Philadelphia, is also an
enthusiastic rider of the wheel. N Y.
Tribune.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins, the million
aire, has for her factotum and secreta-
ry young colored man, who manages
much of her business and conducts a
considerable part of her correspond
ence.-C Chicago Journal.
Miss Joe Anderson, a graduate OF
Michigan University in 1875, and au-
thor Of San American Girl, recently
met an untimely death by drowning in
Sacramento river, California, while out
yachting with the Art League, of San
Francisco.
The following is said to be COM
plete list of the ''war Governors" now
living: Curtin, of Pennsylvania; Kirk
wood, of Iowa; Ramsey, of Minnesota;
Sprague of Rhode Island; Berry, OF
New Hampshire; Blair, of Michigan,
and Solomon, of Wisconsin.
The Providence Or. - Woman's
| Club numbers about one hundred and
| forty members; it was organized by the
late Elizabeth x. Churchill, in whose
memory it has voted to establish schol-
arshipfor girls in some college to which
girls are admitted on an equal footing
with boys.
Mrs. Catherine Wagner, aged
one hundred and eleven, and her Sis
ter-in-law, Mrs. Rebecca Wagner,
aged one hundred and nine years, live
within sight of each other, near Bar
tersville, Ky. They have never seen a
railroad, and each has had for fifty
years silk dress laid away in which
to be buried.
The Pocahontas Headlight, week
ly journal of Virginia, has new ed
itor, and he says in his salutatory that
he does not ''re-enter che theater OF
journalism as the trembling debutant,
dazzled by the tinsel glitter of pictured
scenes, nor assume it's more sacred
functions as the neophyte, whose swing
ing censor but deepens the awful mys-
teries of the sanctuary
There were fourteen daily papers
published in New York City in 1915, OF
which eight are still in existence.
There are now thirty dailies in that
city, ten of them printed in foreign
languages. There are ten daily papers
in Boston, three of which print morn
ing and evening editions. In Chicago
there are fifteen dailies, six of them in
foreign languages, one German paper
printing two editions each day, and
one English sending out four editions,
N Y. Mail.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-23
TEMPERANCE READING.
HOW THEY GROW.

A Temperance Song.
How do pinks and roses grow?
Is It whisky, do you know,
Sprinkled over them each day,
Makes them bloom so fresh and gay?
No. no; let me tell you. no;
Water makes the flowers grow;
Rain-drops patter. dew-drops scatter;
SO the fresh and cooling water
Vets the leaves and roots, and 10!
This is how the flowers grow.
Row do the grapes and apples grow7
Do they all nice juices owe
To champagne and beer and ale.
ShOwering down on hill and vale2
no, no; let me tell you. no;
Water makes the sweet fruits grow;
Rain-drops patter, ew-drops scatter;
so the fresh and cooling water
Vets the vines and trees, aud loi
This is bow the sweet fruits grow.
How do little brides GROW,
Flying, singing. chirping s0y
Are they fed with wine and rum
In their dainty Westinghouse?
No, no; letme tell you. nos
Water makes the bird es grow:
Rain-drups patter, dew-drOps scatter;
so the fresh and cooling wafer
Vets their tiny beakS, and loi
This is how the brides grow.
How do little children grow
Not by drinking rum, / know:
Erandy, cider, wine and beer
Never make them strong and fair.
No. no; let me tell you, no;
Water makes the children grow:
Rain-drops patter. dew-drops scatter;
Fountains fill and flow with water;
See, they battle ana drink and 10!
This is how the children grow.
Baptist Feeklu