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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-25
THE TRUE GENTLEMAN.
Some of the CommendabIe Qualities
Which Distinguish Him.

some OF the commemorate QUALITIES
Which Distinguish Him.
1t would be difficult to point out word
in the English language that is more fire.
quently misapplied than the appellation,
gentleman. In common parlance, it is used
to designate any man whose coat, hat,
boots and linen are in good condition, and
who is neither charitably cared for in an
almshouse nor forcibly detained in a jail.
To tell the truth, there are some who hare
been in jail, and still greater number who
ought to be, who are daily spoken of by that
title.
A cunning sharper, without education,
principle or sense of gratitude, whose life
plan, formed in early youth, has been to
hoodwink, oven reach and swindle all with
whom he has come in business contact, and
who lives in splendor on the proceeds Of
moral felonies SO dexterously managed as
to have escaped the penalties of the law,
is, nevertheless, by, modern conventional
ism, styled a gentleman. We need not go
far to lay our fingers upon such gentlemen.
We rub shoulders with them on the side
walks, and see hats touched to them as
they pass. They dash in elegant carriages
through our thoroughfares, driven by hon
ester men than themselves. Such indiyid-
uals, when they die full of years, and rich
in compound interest of iniquity, are tire
GREETED as eminent citizens and the
most fulsome obituary puffs are offered to
their names.
But, after all, there is class of society
that recognizes gentlemen in the abstract,
and despises the bogus ware that passes
current for the genuine article. Probity,
independence, unselfshness, tender regard
for the feelings of others, and a hearty
hatred for whatever is mean, tricky, yul-
gar or profane-these are among the quail
ties that distinguish the true gentleman
NJ !. L3dger.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-25
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

GREAT BRITAIN has $4,000 Temper
ance organizations
A BREWER in Mishima, Japan, has
turned his brewery into a church and
school-room for girls
IT is estimated that not fewer than
three thousand alcohol-made lunatics
are turned loose from the saloons upon
the homes of the people once in every
twenty-four hours.
CHOLERA is terrible plague, but in
its worst it never finds half as many
victims as that other plague, alcohol,
in its numerous forms, more enticing
and more fatal than any other form of
vice.
A GEORGIA man figures out that a
man who regularly takes ten ordinary
drinks of whisky day and keeps it up
for twenty years will in that time con-
sumo AZ least thirty-six barrels of the
stuff
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-25

ance is one which excludes mere SEN
timent. 1t is conducted upon rules
ascertained from experience. and as
the profits of the company depend
upon the reasonable expectation of
life of the persons insured, we may
be certain that if they make any dis
elimination against the applicants
upon the ground of their drinking
habits, that discrimination must be
based upon ascertained facts 1t is a
fact that the best and safest life insur-
ance companies will not insure the
life OF confirmed beer-drinker. A
man not addicted to drinking, at the
age OF forty, is considered a good risk;
a beer-drinker aged forty can get
no Observation-Disclosures his life is held
by too precarious tenure. The risk
is too great These companies are
even more careful against beer-drink-
ers than against whisky guzzlers, be-
cause beer sews the seed of disease
and death in the system and renders
the victim liable to death from an ILL
ness that would be but trifiing in its
effects upon aman of good constitution.
Beer is form of rum which sodde ms
the brain and vitiates the moral nat
ure. 1t predisposes to melancholy.
and it is beginning to be noted in our
cities that a large percentage of sui
| cides are among persons who use beer
freely. 1t was long ago noted that
this was the case in certain European
capitals As for its, being food,
there is not as much nutriment in a
| barrel OF it IS in one loaf of honest
bread. 1t is nauseous to the taste of
one unaccustomed to it, and nothing
but the alcohol in it could ever induce
any one to swill 1t down. Deprived of
its alcohol, it is vile, ill-smelling.
Misunderstanding stuff, not more invit-
ing than draught from swill- barrel.
The Legislature sof Ohio recognized
that beer guiding is just as much of
an evil as the drinking of any other
form of rum when, few weeks ago,
| it removed the distinction in the tax
ing law of the State and made the
lliquor tax the same for all varieties of
rum-spirituous, malt or vinous.
1t is time that the terrible error that
| beer-drinking is comparatively harm
less by the side of the consumption of
spirits should be corrected. That lie
has been one of the most potent means
through which the rum power has ex.
tended its empire over the people of
this country. In its effects upon the
confirmed drunkard it is certainly as
bad as whisky, and to the majority it
is but the Introduction to the use of
"hard" drinks. Beer should have no
quarter from the friends of Temper
ance. No matter in what form, rum
appears, it is drank because of the
alcohol in it, and for the sake of the
exhilaration which that poison gives
the system in the first stages of drunk
enness. There is no safety for any one
who INDUCES in any form of rum
| Toledo Blade.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-25
TEMPERANCE READING.
DON'T FORGET THE BOYS.

They say the world is growing worse
With every changing year,
That we lave nothing at all to hope,
And every thing to fear;
That reckless love OF power and gain
All love of good alloys;
That Alcohol is bound to reign
So don forget the boys
The boys who are learning to know his wiles,
And to hate his very name,
To see behind his tempting smiles
That the end is woe and shame;
To turn away from the offered cup
That body and soul destroys,
Such noble boys we must me- r give up
No, don't forget the boys.
They form In line and proudly stand
Cadets of Temperance true,
Pledged to defend their native land,
And fight for Its freedom, too;
Freedom from foes that harm the home
And ruin its sweetest joys.
An army OF soldiers, brave and strong
Oh. don't forget the boysi
IT'S true. they are only in training now,
But the boys Will soon be men,
And out Of our homes. and out OF our schools
VIII come our statesmen then
trumpet note Of victory blends
With all their fun and noise; s-
You need never despair of the future friends
If you don't forget the boys. ~
Mary ". Lyon, IN Union Sigsal
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-25
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

in making waff1es never put sugar
in the batter, IS it causes them to bs
heavy and tough.
Coal ashes are helpful mulch for
shrubs. but plants will not readily
grow through the ashes.
"A smeared goblet, a soiled napkin,
asticky plate. will spoil the most lux
urious feast. A table well set is half
spread. Household
For home use the white onions ara
preferred. as they are mild in flavor
For market use the red and yellow
kinds are the most desirable.
The best way when hot grease has
been spilled ON a floor Is to dash cold
water over it. so as to harden ID
quickly and prevent 1t striking into
the boards.
Young man, carefully consider
what your prospects are and what you
have the ability and liking for;
before you pull up stakes and leave the
old home.
Sweet corn, (dried) is improved by
adding twice as much sugar as salt
used in cooking it. Turnips cooked in
the same way are better than. when
boiled with meat.
70 make a, corn-crib rat and
mouse proof, line it thoroughly, over
head and all, with wire cloth having.
meshes so small that these rodents
can not enter. This does not impede
the air circulation.
Dry caustic lime scattere d over
asparagus plants in the morning
when wet with dew is a remedy in ex-
tensive use for the asparagus beetle.
which sometimes occasion great loss
to growers.
-Dumplings for chicken or stewed
meats can be made without eggs if
they are made with flour, little
water and salt and rolled very thin.
cut in long strips and broken, not cut,
when put into the kettle.
Watermelon hills may be prepared
in this way: Lay off the rows ten feet
apart each way, and at each intersec-
ton dig hole two feet deep. At the
bottom place a few chips, then manure.
Next make a hill three feet square.
and work in plenty of manure into the
soil. 2 ~
Ham Relish-There is often q
quantity of yellow fat left from a ham;
cut it up into thin slices. with any
other slices of cold meat, aud fry u
nice brown. Mash all the cold pota-
toes, cabbage, etc., you have, and fry
in the fat of the pan when the slices
are removed; warm dish, put the
vegetables at the bottom, and lay the
slices on top; serve hot.
1t is always better to plant small
trees than large ones. They are moro
easily and cheaply moved. recover,
sooner and grow more rapidly. A
transplanted tree, two or three feet
high will soon overtake and surpass a
much larger. one. and will grow into a
more vigorous and beautiful specimen.
A vast amount of money and a great
deal of time is wasted every year in
trying to transplant large trees.
An advocate of corn-fed pork adj
mits that the hog. fed miscellaneously
has the sweetest and tenderest meat,
and if taste be a criterion in pork, as
it is reckoned to be in every thing else
that is eatable, the fruit-fed and milk
fed pork is certainly best But he
adds that if greater firmness be de-
sired it may be had by finishing off
the last few weeks of fattening by
feeding corn meal, not corn in the ear.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-25
MODERATE USE OF ALCOHOL,
1t Injuries the Health, Shortens Life and
Transmits to Children Physical and
Moral Degradation. ~,

1t Injuries the Health, Shortens Life and
Transmits to Children Physical and
Moral Degradation. at
| The disastrous effects of habitual in.
toxication on the health are univer.
| sally admitted-not only the imme-
diate injury to the drunkard, but the
remoter effects on his posterity. AL.
cohol has thus beenproved q river OF
| death, deeper, broader and more ire.
sistible than flows from any other
source.
But all good men, in not very re-
mote past, and not a few in our day,
have accepted, and do accept, moder-
ate drinking as in itself safe and help
full. The argument used is that we
are born into conditions which every
where impose the necessity of moder.
ated indulgence in all our gratifca-
tions and all our aspirations; that God
is training us to self-control as one Of
the ends of our probational life. a
But, in the first place, moderate
drinking tends so strongly and. in
most cases, so irresistibly to excess
that it never could have entered into
the providential arrangements of a
wise and benevolent being.
In the second place-and this is
whatswe wish mainly toinsist on now
moderate drinking, in itself and wholly
apart from its dangerous tendencies,
Injuries the health, shortens life, and
transmits to children physical and
moral degeneration. ..s.., ..s.t Z
This is not mere theory. 1t is as.
serted as fact by the highest medical
experts. Said William B. Carpenter,
M. d., F. Rs: of the University Of
London, imh1s celebrated prize essay:
1.-The habitual use of smaller quanti-
ties of these liquors. '-thatis, the mod.
crate use eff sufficiently prolonged,
will ultimately be attended, in large
proportion of cases, with consequences
prejudicial to the system" His posi-.
ton was supported by over two thou.
sand of his professional brethren.
But hardly any testimony could be
more conclusive than the facts devel-
oped by a London Life Assurance
Company. This association, having
originally insured only total abstain
ers, in 1850 accepted moderate drink
ers, who never drank to intoxication,
but kept the accounts of each class dis
tinct in separate books.
During the period 1S66-1SS1, of ev-
cry one hundred in the section of total
abstainers, thirty survived beyond the
line of calculated 9expectation, ="
while only one survived in the other
section. ~.
Colonel j. L. Greene, president OF
the Connecticut Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company, whose duty it is to
make inquiry into theIast illness and
death of many thousands of all classes,
says: @
{" The degree to which many dis
eases, commonly referred to as mala-
ria, overwork and other vague causes,
are actually groundedin what would
almost invariably be called temper
ate use of drink by persons of feputed
temperate habits, would be incredible
to the mass of people" The diseases
specially mentioned by him are con-
gested brains, insanity, paralysis, dis
eases of the kidneys, liver and stomach,
pneumonia and rheumatism. - Youths
o7ppGasiOn.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-25
ACROSS THE GRAVE.
Kate Wilton's Loyal Love-A Me-
mortal Day Story.
Written for This Paper.l

JOu udu CilditCcu 10
see Kate Wilton's
face, among a crowd
of others, your gaze
might have fingered
a nom e n tt o n G
enough, perhaps, for
you to ask why it
fingered and to fail
to find satisfactory
answe r. Be h i nj d
that quiet face was
the magnetism of a
greatly 10y al a nd
loving nature. Men
looked and felt the
spell, and thought
themselves deceived
hooo-ca ~ tho fopa
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Overlooking Himself.

Customer (to art dealer)-If that is
genuine Corot, Isaacstein. / don't
understand how you can sell it so
cheap.
Art Dealer Gin a confidential whis-
pe)-My trent, vas new in dot piz-
ness, ind | bought an overstock of
dot make M Y. Sun.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-25

"A young man in Covington, Ga,
claims to have killed thirty-six flying
cartridges in eighteen shots. Nobody
believes him.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-25

THIS span of life was lent for lofty duties,
not for selfshness; not to be whiled away
in aimless dreams, but to improve our
selves and serve mankind-Sir Aubrey De
Tere.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-25

KNOWLEDGE is dearly bought if we sac
rifice to it moral Qualities. Chanting.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-25
Written for This Paper.l

VIC bGaIs
Our offerings round we strew.
Upon your country's altar dear,
Your lives were freely paid
In sacrifice to Freedoms cause,
The ransom price was paidl
The blessings which your ardor bought
Breathe in the balmy May,
And hallow with chastened glow
The grandeur OF the day.
The halo which around you shines
Shall, as the years go by,
Add luster to the deeds, which In
Our memories fondly lie.
We deck your graves with flowers, to-day
0 comrades brave and true
In token of the love we bear,
Our offerings round we strew.
HENRY A. LATELY.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-25

A Drinking Habit That Produces IncaI-
cuiable Harm-Opinions Of Physicians
Life-Insurance Evidence.
Smyrna times., 1888-03-28
Kate Fields "CO-OperativeY Plan.


Kate Field is known to be a woman Of
versatile talent, but is hardly suspected
by those not intimately acquainted with
her, to have the qualities that 90 to make
good housekeeper. She showed great
tact for that feminine bEanch Of art when
she had house of her own in Devonshlre
street, London, q few years ago. She had
been living for some time in hotels, board
ing houses and lodgings, was tired of all
and determined to set up for herself
Having no desire to live alone, she made
plan by which she would have company
and all the comforts of home, and still
have the bills shared by others. Size
called the plan 'co-operation, +" the same
name she gave to another and more ex-
tensive undertaking on this side OF the
water.
1t worked well as far as the co-oper-
atves were cOncerned-they were all per-
fectly satisfied. She furnished rooms at
low prices and the kind of food that is
longed for if you live at a restaurant and
dreamed about if you have to live at
home After dinner every one found the
drawing room pleGsanter than any other
room in that or any other house. and
there the friends cOngregated, for, Of
course, they were all friends of the host
ess. They chatted and played cards until
the might cap' hour came round, and
after mild libation retired to bed tx
f." as she was familiarly called, made a
success Of what she undertook except as
far as she was concerned. Cooperation"
turned out to be only name, for it was
she who did all the work, battled with
drunken cooks, fought the troublesome
trades people, and received only in return
unshared if welcome praise. 1t is not to
be wondered at if at the end of three
months the project was given up.-New
York Press every Day Talk"
Smyrna times., 1888-03-28
The Instinct of Leadership.

While, to make a great captain. all the
mental and physical qualities must exist
ID the greatest possible strength, varieties
OF these in combination, to greater or
less degree, have been possessed by gen
erals Of less or greater repute in the
worlds history, and the number and in
tenslty OF these qualifications in the com
blnatlon give the general his relative
place IN the list of great soldiers. Some
generals are only brilliant upon the battle
held, and some even only in particular
phases of battle, though they NAV Dos-
sess certain qualities of great leader TO
an extent which amounts, in its wav. to
an exhibition of genius as great as anv
great captain has ever shown.
Ihe particular quality which made Ma
poleon seize the colors and incite his trooDs
to follow him at the bridge of Arcola is
well worthy OF attention as being at
times, most important factor in battle
Alexander and Henry of Navarro. were
leaders whose personal power on the
battle field may be said to have directly
influenced many of their victories. MANY
OF Napoleon lieutenants had this instinct
ot leadership; Lannes and Massena to nm
eminent degree, Washington showed it
IN the power OF his personal presence to
change retreat into an attack. and Scott
made brilliant display of it at the battle
OF Lundy's Lane The civil war shows
bur little of this divine gift. Gen. c. +
smith may be said to have had the renius
OF battle highly developed in him. as was
conspicuously shown at the battle of Fort
DoneisOn 1t Is not always given to
genius to succeed in these efforts Ma
poleon failed at the battle of Arcola
though 1t IS possible that the desperate
fighting around his person on the cause-
way kept the enemy closely emnIoved
until another force had taken the town in
rear, and that therefore, his act secured
his great victory.-Gen. ''Baldv'' smith
in North American Review.
Smyrna times., 1888-03-28
No More peasn.t r.n4hA...

Until within a few years only a small
number of even the wealthiest persons.
especially in America, felt that they could
abort TO include peacOcks among their
pets. The feathers were costly, and every
woman prided herself upon the possession
OF few in her bonnet. If she were for
Junate enough to have a fan made of these
feathers she felt proud indeed Gradu-
ally, as the hunters secured larger uuan-
Titles, wealthy people began to use them
Ior decorative purposes. Elegant screens.
some with the feathers spread thinlv on a
cloth surface, and others, which were
more costly, with the feathers closely
sewed together; fans with silver handles
sofa cushions and chair seats were made
OF The brilliant plumage. The feathers
were even used in the decoration of walls
and Tor friezes and dadoes.
But suddenly, and apparently without
cause, the demand ceased. The feathers
that had previously been the JOY of the
owner, were looked upon with distaste
ana pronounced out of fashion. They
were ruthlessly torn from the hats thev
hau adorned, from walls and screens, and
thrown into the rubbish heaps.
Whence came this sudden and unev-
planned dislike? The reporter was told
V Gil 'ACIoHO superstition 10 the effect
that peacocks and peacocks' feathers were
sure TO bring bad luck to their owner had
been revived and had brought about the
downfall of the fashion He made in
qulrles at the stores where peacock feath-
ers were formerly supplied, and found
that the demand for them had ceased en-
tlrely At Titfanys it was said that tbev
had not sold fan or screen of peacock
feathers for several years. Customers
never ask for them. The reporter was in
formed at other houses that feathers that
formerly sold at high prices can now he
ootalned for twenty-five, fifty and seventy
hNe cents a bunch. A number of impor-
ters said that they were used very little
New York Sun.
Smyrna times., 1888-03-28
4 Fire Wnrshiner,s Child.

On the birth of a Parsee child, amagian
and fire priest, who is always an as
trolOger, are called in to predict the fu-
ture life Of the babe. The magian
dressed in strange robe of many colors.
pointed cap with jingling bells, and
armed with long broom made of be-
resma twigs (which is thought to have
the power of putting evil spirits to fight,
enters the chamber of the Parsee mother
and babe and, setting the end Of his broom
ON lire, dances around, exercising the evil
spirits; finally he flOurishes his firebrand
over the mother and child and in all the
corners of the room. This done, the fire
priest draws a number Of squares on n
blackboard; in one corner of each square
he draws curious figure of bird, beast.
fish or insect, each of which stands for
some mental, physical or spiritual char
acteristic, together with its appropriate
star or planet. The magian then proceeds
by means of spells and incantations to ex-
orcise any evil spirit that may be lurking
unseen in the blackboard Next the fire
priest begins to count and recount the
stars under whose influence the child is
supposed to be born, and then with closed
eyes and solemn voice he predicts the fu-
ture life of the babe. Next he prepares
horoscope or birth paper and hands it to
the father Then, placing the babe on his
knees, he waves over it the sacred fame,
sprinkles it with holy water, fills its ears
and nOstrils with sea salt to keep out the
evil spirits, and finally returns the
screaming infant to its mothers arms
Mrs. Leonowens in Wide Awake.
Smyrna times., 1888-03-28
The original old salt: Lots wife.
All Sorts OF Poison.

Mr.. W. F. Daley, Advertising agent Of
the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad, writes: :
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legs and arms to twice their natural size.
l suffered excruciating pain Your won-
dertul ,. >. s., made complete cure.
Major Sidney Herbert, editor of the
southern CuitiDdtOF and Dipie RrrHer.
Atlanta, Ca, writes: I" have fully tested
the virtues Of Swift's Specific, both as a
rheumatism cure and tonic. It has done
even more than its propriotors claim for Il.
Mr. Michael Long, Jr., with the Stro-
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terrible itching and painful sores ON INV
neck, arms, hands and fingers. No phy-
siclan could help me. g. s. s. relieved
tae perfectly and feel like new man.
Mrs. Amanda Ingle, Of Gastonia, N. O..
writes my baby, when four months
old, developed scrofula. He had two se-
we're risings and sores on the neck. sent
ior our family physician, who pronounced
II scroiula, and prescribed S. IS. s. for 4.
gave the baby s. S S and It soon rot
the disease under control. Tho sores are
neaiedi and the baby is well and healthy.
] know s. S. s. saved ita life. and / toid
eqr doctor so He is regular physician,
ana prescribtg ). s. $. for the baby as soon
As he saw il had scrofnla.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
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