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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-16
TEMPERANCE.
THE CRIMSON STAIN.

"Oh! curse this awful appetite for drink
feel that am standing on the brink
OF precipice. with not friend around
To draw me back to firmer, safer ground.
Oh. the thirsting Oh, the craving! Oh, the
burning,
Oh, the loathlng, Oh, the lovingi Oh, the
spurning!
Every nerve, every VEN
Threbs with pain
But I've sworn to never touch the stuff again.
There's bar-roorn DER the way. Hear the
clink
or the glasses as the boys step up to drink
There is something now a-pulling me that
way.
Hear the laughter Hear the singingl All
are gay.
For moment shall step across the street,
How hilariousIy would old companions greet |
Shall go? How my brain
Throbs with pain!
But I've sworn to never touch the stuff again
All who is that reckoning to mes
tbs my little sweetheart-none so fair as
she.
She is waiting now to take the promised
walk.
Howl love to watch her smile, and hear her
talk.
SuS IL Was VINO pluChcu ulo lTOu the ragged
edge;'
She it was who made her lover sign the
pledge.
No more throbbing of the brain,
Van sh pain
Iswear TIL never touch the stuff again"
Hear the bell-hear the changing marriage
bell.
What tale of hopes and fears doth it tell?
See the bride-see the blushing fearful
bride
See the proud and happy bridegroom by her
side.
lis he who cursed his appetite for drink
IT'S he who stood upon distractions brink
Every nerve, every vein
Racked with pain
'Tis he who swore to never drink again.
See the tears-see the bitter, scalding tears
See the wife-see the wife of two short wears.
See the child-see the puny, starving child
See the man-see the man, unkempt and wild.
See him raise his hand and strike with saw
age blow
Her whom he swore to love two years ago.
Hear her beg for life in VAIN. A.
See the stain-the crimson stain,
She meier will weep DER broken vows again.
-BYuke Mott, in 4ArkaaSaW Ifagelef.
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DAKOTA.

Miss Folks, Yankton County school
teacher who passed the night of the great
January storm with her pupils in the school
room is showing signs Of mental derange-
ment Her friends think that the terrors OF
that fearful night have something to do
with her malady.
The Norwegian Normal School has been
located at Sioux Falls A bonus of $40, 900,
including the building site, will be given
A SIS, 900 college building will be put up in
the spring.
About seventy five travelling men who
were blockaded at Watertown by the recent
storm gave an original musical entertain
ment for the benefit of the city's charity
fund The street parade was a novel and
mirth provoking affair Headed by the
city band, with banners and streamers fly
ing in the stiff breeze, the procession
marched through the principal streets of
the town The much-abused mule, loaded
with sample-case and a colored boy, man.
utactured for the occasion, occupied a
prominent and Important position, while
an improvised orchestra w tn toy instru-
mens brought up the rear in most elegant
style.
Brakeman S'earns, at Huron, recently got
a verdict OF 81, 900 against the Chicago &
Northwestern railway for injuries,
A surveying party of the Manitoba Rail-
way Company is working through the west
end of L ncoln County, making headquar-
ters at Lennox. This extension will pass
through a portion of the best pro iucing
country in d akota now tributary to the Mil
waukee and the Northwestern
A man and his son, living at Poplar
Grove, twenty-four miles southwest of Fort
Totten We're eaten alive by a pack of
wolves few days ago. The father and
son left their house with shovels to clear
the snow from hay stack not more than
fifteen or twenty rods distant, when they
were at once tiercely attacked by pack
of S xteen wolves, which literally ate them
Though tue window at the horrible sight
An unfortunate circumstance attending
the death of II G. Sinclair. of MenoAen,
who was killed recently at Royalton, Mimi,
while returning from Ashland, Ill, with his
family, was the fact that his insurance
policy expired five minutes before the ac-
cident and ne was intending to have it re.
newed at Brainerd
The Northwestern Baseball League this
year will include Fargo, Grand Forks, st
Cloud, Winnipeg and BrainerS
Pullman Car Conductor Towne was sand
bagged the other night by couple OF
masked men while the train was en- route
between Wheatland and Buffalo, and robbed
OF one hundred dollars
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HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

When milk is set in open pans, the
surface should be protected from the
pollution of foul air.
There is nothing superior to cotton
flannel for busting pianos say the deal
ers in these instruments.
The small seedless raisins save
trouble if needed for cake, but the flavor
is not as good as that of the other
raisins. It is too mild, something
between currants and raisins.
An excellent cold cream may be
made by melting together four ounces
of almond oil. two ounces of mutton
suet and half an ounce of spermaceti.
Strain and add few drops of perfume.
Stir it until it is cold.
"A layer of pulverized charcoal an
inch thick placed upon the surface of
the soil in flower pots is said to render
roses more gorgeous, to variegate pc
tunias with red or purple, and to spot
violets with a darker blue. 1t is easily
tried.
Any kind Of bath, or any other
process that will produce general
perspiration, and thus bring about a
reaction, will cure cold Simply in
haling fresh air largely. by deep inspir-
alton is sufficient to nip nm incipient
cold in the bud.
Photographs can be put into al
buns easily if thin paper-knife be first
passed through the opening. and the
card then slid upon it. If picture is
to be taken out, run the knife up back
of it, and, if there be another, in the
same space, between the two.
Trees must have good soil to
grow in, as rule. Certain varieties
of trees seem well adapted to grow in
the poorest soil, many others will oc-
casionally become established in poor
soil and do well; but for success in or.
namental tree planting good soil is
necessary, and it should never be less
than a foot deep.
Spanish Fritters Trim the crust
from some stale bread, bakers, or if
home made should be made very light
Cut in any pretty, fanciful shape and
soak in mixture of one beaten egg,
one cup of cream or milk, two table
spoonfuls of sugar, and little nut
meg and cinnamon. Fry light brown
and eat with stewed fruit or a sweet
sauce.
Fruit to progressive farmers is not
luxury, but Il necessity. 1t should
constitute considerable part of the
summer diet. For the women and
children plenty of fruit has always
been necessity. Now that the health
of hus Stands and fathers depends upon
an abundance of fruit, it is to be hoped
that setting out plantations will not
be neglected.
Potato Scallop. This is an easy
and delicious way to cook a potato
scallop: Slice potatoes as to fry, put
ting layer in pan, then season with
SALT pepper, a little butter, and
small quantity of flour. Continue this
until the dish is filled. or you have the
required amount. Turn sweet milk
over, not sufficient to cover. Bake in
quick oven.
1t has been demonstrated that nut
bearing trees can be made to pay
more than the interest on the value of
the land occupied during growth, as
well as to return larger profit at the
end of twenty-five years in timber
than could have been made on such
land in regular crops. Where farm
er has more land than he can cultivate
he would find it to his advantage to
plant grove of walnuts, chestnuts,
or some other valuable wood or nut
bearing trees.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-16

expense book, with the various items
of expense printed, and blank space
to put in the amount. When they
'streat :" the expense is put down to
that account.
At certain times of the year the coun-
try merchant comes to New York to
make purchases and see the STYLES.
The drummer meets him at the store
and treats him while he is in the city
to dinners and plenty of liquid refresh
ment. In former times some houses
were in the habit of employing a spe-
cial man, whose duty it was to meet
the merchants, to take them ont and
show them the city.
Some years ago there was country
peddler who, in his travels, had made
the acquaintance of large number of
business men. He came to New York
and was employed by a big mercantile
house, though ne knew nothing about
the business carried on in the estab-,
lishment His duty was to induce his
friends to patronize the establishment.
Whenever they came to the city he
would meet them and entertain"
them royalty at the expense of his en-
ployers.
With such methods prevailing in GER
tain portions of the mercantile world
1t Is not surprising that many business
men contract the drinking habit and.
sooner or later, become excessive
drinkers. OF the six hundred inc
briates in Kings County Asylum above
spoken about. nearly two hundred
were merchants, clerks and salesman.
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WISCONSIN.

Before dying of q bullet and other
wounds in his head at his home near Pal
myra the other day Martin Steinhauser said
that his wife shot him TO get him out of her
way The woman, who was arrested, al
legged that burglars had assaulted her hus-
band man living in the neighborhood
was said to be involved in the tragedy.
The West Bend Democrat says there is a
resident of Washington County who has
been married seven years who doesn't
know his wifes given name. The woman
recently became insane and his ignorance
was. discovered when application was made
for acommitment
There are living at Clinton one hundred
and twenty persons between seventy and
eighty years of age, twenty-seven over
eighty and two over ninety. One
venerable citizen has passed the one
hundred mark, and is likely to see the
SHOWS of several winters. For town of
two thousand inhabitants this is considered
a good showing,
Edward Strauss, commission merchant, of
Berlin, committed suicide at the Plankin-
ton House the other night by taking NOR
phine Financial troubles We're the cause
Adam Frey, OF Hartford, is about to build
an elevator and warehouse at that city with
storage capacity OF thirty thousand bush
els
The County Board of Brown County has
purchased three-acre tract of land, and
will enlarge the poor farm in order to sepa-
rate paupers from the insane
Lieutenant Richard Rhode, of the Prus-
sian army, guest of Mr. Guido j. Hansen,
of Milwaukee, to whose daughter he was
engaged, hanged himself in his room at the
Hansen residence the other night The
cause leading 10 his suicide was unknown.
BY the falling of an iron crane recently at
j. z. Alls Il Co. S IRON works at NJ lwaukee.
Frank Schneider, crane operator was fatal
ly hurt, Foreman John Eagan badly injured
and 81 600 damages ensued.
At the annual meeting in Watertown re-
Gently of the CenTal Visions Agrcultur-
al and Mechanical Association the following
officers were e ecsed: President. S G.
Roper; Vice-President, G. May; Secret nv,
5 s Wood I'd; Treasurer Joseph Salick:
ID rectors, ]. z. Slight, NJ j Woodland, ]. H.
Sleeper, s M. Eaton and s E. Randall
Pax G. C>mpbell, the young son of a ST
Cloud Clinn) minister, who was arrested
in Milwaukee recently for stealing a case
OF drawing Instruments which he pawned
for two dollars, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to eighteen months in the House
of Correction.
A bridge nearly five hundred feet long is
to be built across the Wisconsin river at
Tomahawl
Adolf Dursey, a young Polish laborer liv-
ing WITH his parents in Milwaukee, recent.
~ drank tive glasses OF whisky in FIVE sec-
onds on Q wager. AS the fifth was going
Down he dropped dead.
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A Family Poisoned.

MASON CITY, Ia, March 13.-Saturday
evening, as the family of II L Brown, con-
sisting of himself. his wife, six children
and hired man, were seated around the
supper table, they were all taken vie
lently sick and in less than an hour
Mr. Brown and one of his children
were dead. The seven remaining
are now very low, and it is thought
they can not recover. No cause is assigned
The news reached here last evening, and
the matter will be Investigated at once
Mr. Brown stood high in the estimation Of
his neighbors, and while the general belief
is that the family partook Of poisoned food,
many think that the poison was admins
tered BIZ some designing hand
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Arbor Day in Illinois.

SPRINGFIELD, H.. March 1.-THE last
General Assembly passed an act providing
that the Governor annually, i'll the spring,
designate by official proclamation an ''Ar-
Dor Day" to be observed throughout the
State as day for planting trees. shrubs and
vines about the houses and along highways
and about public grounds within the State
In accord: nee with the above law Governor
Oglesby has issued proclamation desig-
mating Friday. April Ii. as Arbor Day. The
Executive suggests in the proclamation
that, should local committees agree to CO.
operate in the movement, great deal
would be accomplished, and states that if
the day shall be properly inaugurated and
habitually observed great public and pri-
Yate good will result from its ohserYancea
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-16
WHAT WHISKY is MADE OF.

How Old Clothes, Watches, Musical IN
struments, Etc, BE Said to Enter
Into Its Composition.
Do you know what whisky is made
OFF, There has been stir as to the
Government demand for returns of all
the ingredients of beer, and it seems
that the public is not, after all. to have
full information on the subject. But l
can tell you what l saw put into whis-
ky. l visited pawn-shop in Division
street. east of the Bowery. in a neigh
borhood of squalor and vice. 1t was
in an old-fashioned house, once occu-
pied by some well-to-do Knickerbocker
family. A high counter stood where
piano may once have ornamented the
parlor, and behind it was big safe for
holding small valuable articles left
as pledges. Shelves filled three sides
of the room from floor to ceiling, and
were packed full of articles wrapped
in cotton cloths. Each bundle had
ticket describing the contents and Civ
ing the name of the owner and the
amount of the loan. My COM
pauion in the visit was q Health
Board Inspector, and we were, there
fore, enabled to see more than would
otherwise have been opened to us.
Going to the rear of the shop we found
an apartment completely filled, except
fora passageway, with things that could
not easily be wrapped up. such
as banjos, accordions, exercising APP
paratus and all sorts of household
utensils. The whole house was de-
voted to pawnbrokerage One room
up stairs held solid masses of over
coats, which their owners may soon be
presumed to require; another was fully
stocked with undercoats and trousers,
and considerable space was occupied
10y women's apparel. In the attic was
an extraordinary collection of odds
and ends, from hats to prayer books,
on which money in sums as small as
ten cents had been loaned. | saw no
ticket in the house calling for more
than five dollars, and the average was
probably under one, even counting in
the watches and jewelry. The pro-
prietor told us that he had about sew
enty-five thousand articles in the build
ing. AS he charges thirty per cent.
interest on the loans, his yearly profit
can not be less than twenty thousand
dollars, and probably amounts to more
through the forfeiture and sale Of far
the greater portion of the goods. But
the reader asks: what has this to do
with the manufac ture of whiskyP The
pawnbroker was blunt old chap and
not disposed to conceal the wretched-
ness which afforded him q prosperous
business.
"What is all this money that you
advance to poor people spent for?" I
inquired.
Whisky" he answered, without
hesitation; "nine-tenths of it for
whisky"
So very large share of New York
whisky may be said to be made of old
clothes, Watches, musical instruments
and other portable objects. These
things. distilled with an abundance of
misery and crime, produce the popular
beverage as consumed in the metrop-
olis.-M y Cor. Albany Journal.
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DirefuI Effects of Rum.

The worlds history is but the re-
peated story of the fall of nations. Not
one of the mighty empires of the past
is in existence to-day, and rum was
the most potent factor in the decay of
each and every one of them. Drunken
ness is the fruitful parent of the whole
brood of debasing vices, and the great
nations of antiquity fell through the
destruction of the manhood of their
people through rum and vice. 1t is
the lessons of the annals of the world
that power and wealth give the means
to the people of nation to indulge
their appetites, and that through that
indulgence inevitably comes the de-
cay of the state. 1t was so with As
syria, with Egypt, with Greece, with
Rome, and it viii be so with every ma
ton whose flag proudly floats to-day,
including our own loved land, if the
curse of rum is not banished. Wher-
ever rum exists, men will drink it-for
a large fraction of humanity lacks
moral backbone, and is swayed by
passion and by appetite rather than
governed by reason and obedient
to the commands of religion
and the behests of common
sense; and so long as they
drink, intemperance and vice and
crime will abound. Men are subject,
by the eternal law, to the conse-
quences of their own acts; and this is
true of them as individuals and as
communities. individuals will be
brought down to pauperism, TO vice
and to crime, and the Nation will de-
cay in the same proportion Toledo
Blade.
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MINNESOTA.

j. y. Abel, OF Richmond, had seventeen
chickens killed. He trapped twenty
five pound wild cat the other day and the
chicken raid had ended.
Hon. William Smith, register Of the
United States Land Office in St Paul, died
the other morning
Mrs Bertha Hegenger was acquitted at
St Paul the other day of the charge of kill
ing Jack Murphy on the score of temporary
insanity.
W. N. Foote was to have married we'll
known young lady of Duluth. The day be-
fore the day set for the wedding she sud
denly changed her mind and wrote to MI
Foote that she would not marry him.
The treasurer of the Bricklayers' Union al
Minneapolis absconded the other day will
5000
A bucket loaded with sand and rock be-
gan TO descend rapidly in WELL through
an accident, near Owatonna, a few days
ago. The man below was in danger of in
slant death, when Charles Stoughton caugh
the flying handle of the windlass just in
time. He stopped the bucket within three
feet of the mans head, but in doing so re-
ceived severe cut and a fractured skull
Mr.. Vinson, aged eighty-seven years, and
John Dibblee, aged sixty-se years, early
settlers in Princeton, died few days ago
Peter Barrett the second of the convicted
murderers of Car driver Tollafson, at Min
neapolis, was sentenced to be hanged re-
Gently Henry the third brother, and the
one who turned States evidence was under
guard.
John Kinney, who is wanted at Mime
apolis for stealing $15 900 worth of post
age stamps, was arrested in Chicago few
days ago.
A fire at CIoquet the other morning de-
stroyed the McKennon block and two other
buildings, causing a loss of $4,000; in
sured for So ZOO.
Local architects already have work
amounting to one million dollars in build
ings to be erected in Duluth this summer.
A Mr. Martin, of Ut ca, after having
quarrel at a masquerade ball a few nights
ago went home and committed suicide, be-
ing found frozen leaning against his wood
shed.
Pierre Bottineau, an old Government
scout of Red Like Fails, hereafter will re-
ceive 500 per month pension.
Henry Bailey, wanted at Wabasha for
demonstrating, was recently captured in
the woods of Northern Wisconsin
Methodist State convention will be-
held at ST Paul M lrch 81 to 20. Lay men,
bers from all conferences, including the
German, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, as
we'll as the Eugl sh, are expected to be in
attendance The object of the conven ton
is to promote the interest of Methodism in
the Northwest
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Increasing the Fa.t Mai, sarvice.

CHICAGO, March IA. Superintendent
Nash, of the silway Mail Service at Wash
ington who is now here. says that il is in
tended to es tablish fast mail from Chi
cago East, to leave Oh cago on the arrival
of the Pacific coast train, and to make New
York in twenty five hours from Chicago
and 112 hours from San Francisco.
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A Telephone Peril,

DAYTON. O., March IA Gilbert Burrows.
treasurer of the Grand Opera-H House, last
evening while talking through telephone
was perhaps fatally shocked The tel
ephone became blaze of fire. Burrows
was knocked senseless 1t is supposed the
telephone wire was touched By the wire Of
en- incandescent light
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Sullivan aud Mitchell.

LONDON. March ID Sullivan, the pugi-
list, reached London Monday and immedi-
ately left for Liverpool He is reported to
have said that hereafter he would contine
himself to sparring exhibitions and glove
contests, as he considered himself too old
to enter the ring. Mitchel's friends are
jubilant over the result of the fight.
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Three Lives Lost.

HUNTINGTON, Pa. March ia pass en-.
ger and a freight train collfded near here
early Monday morning on the Pennsylvania
road, and Engineer Robert Gardner and
Fireman Mowry, of the passenger. and
Brakeman Ernest v Mercer were killed,
and one passenger severely injured The
loss to the road Is placed at $40 600
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TRACED AROUND THE WORLD.
A Man Sw;ndles Dakota Banks and Is
Caught After u Long Pursuit.

A Man Swindles Dakota Banks and Is
Caught After Long Pursuit.
DETROIT, Mich, March 1.-two years
ago Medad 0. Miller was farmer in Huron,
d. I. He was supposed to be wealthy and
had no difficulty.in securing So 900 from the
Union and other banks in his town on chatteI
mortgages on cattle lie claimed to own,
but which were not his He fed to Cali
forna. He was traced through Australia,
the Mediterranean countries, the Holy
Land, France, England and finally to this
city, where he has b9en living for some
time under the name of N. NJ Vinton. II
was arrested yesterday and is wiling to re-
turn to Dakota to answer the charge o
swim ding.