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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10
Commercial Travellers.

''Do you know" said one of the craft
to g. Mail and Express reporter the
other day, "that there are about 3d.
600 commercial travellers in the United
StatesP Surprised to hear it? Yes,
most people are when they are told of
it; but it's a fact, nevertheless. You
may also be surprised to learn that
each one of them spends on an average
$4,000 a year, making total of $240,-
100000. If you add to this their sal
aries, averaging at the least $1,000,
you have total expenditure by COM
mercial travellers of $500, coo, 900 a year.
This is naturally spent in all parts of
the country, but the hotels and rail
roads get the lions share of it. Dur
ing the last ten years there has been a.
great change in the character of the
hemian type has almost disappeared
from the road, and drinking men are
much more rarely met with than for
merly. A short time ago it was al
most impossible to get a merchant
over to your hotel to take look at
your samples without &rst getting
him to leave his store on the pretext
of getting a smile. That is all
changed now; the customers don't look
for it, and the drummer seldom gives
it a thought. IN Y. Mail and Err
91TeSS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10
Insanity from Drink.

An English magistrate has been set
ting himself up as an authority on the
question of the causation of insanity
by the habitual or excessive use of al
coholic liquor. During a recent in
quiry into the sanity of a person alleged
to be of unsound mind and addicted to
theuse of ardent spirits, he demurred TO
the answer of the expert who, asked
whether drink would of itself cause
lunacy," unhesitatingly affirmed that il
would. To this Justice Dogberry re-
torted with the query whether the wit
ness did not know that Ga man in a
state of intoxication would do stupid
things and then completely recover
himself after being locked up for forty
eight hours" and would he ''call that
insanity?h
The matter is of quite enough i'm
portance to merit attention on this side
the Atlantic, where questions of I'M
sound mind are adjudicated by men
having fully as vague notions as this
English judge on the subject of mental
diseases. 1t should be understood, not
only by such men but by the public
generally, that alcohol is an entirely
sufficient cause of insanity.
Delirium tremens is a common re-
suit of excessive indulgence; hardening
of the brain tissues with impairment of
mental function Cerebral sclerosis) is
frequently caused by the long-con-
tinued use of spirituous liquors; while
not seldom acute alcoholic delirium
may pass directly into absolute and
confirmed insanity-often with suicidal
or homicidal tendency.
There is absolutely no safety for the
man addicted to drinking who allows
his reason ever to become clouded by
an overindulgence. For him there is
no middle way. He must either ''touch
not, taste not, handle not" or run the
risk of the most deplorable termina-
ton of his habit - Chicago Nee0S.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10
Ventilation of Wasps' Nests.

An English gentleman lately took a
small wasps' nest, about the size of an
apple, and, after Supplying its in
mates, placed it in large case inside
of his house, leaving an opening for
egress through the wall. Here the
nest was enlarged to a foot in diameter,
holding thousands of wasps, and he
was able to watch their movements,
and noted one new fact-namely, their
systematic attention to ventilation.
In hot weather, from four to SIX wasps
were continually stationed at the hole
of egress, and, while leaving space for
entrance or exit, created steady cur
rent of fresh air by the exceedingly
rapid motion of their wings. After a
long course of this vigorous exercise,
the ventilators were relieved by other
wasps. During cool weather only two
wasps at time we're usually thus en-
gagged. Golden Days.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10
AN ARCH EIENQ.
His Caldron of Temptations-What He
Has Accomplished in the World.

His Caldron of Temptations-what He
Has Accomplished in the World.
An arch fiend arrived in our world,
and he built an invisible caldron of
temptation. He built that caldroni
strong and stout for all ages and all
nations. First he squeezed into that
caldron the forbidden fruit of para
disc. Then he gathered for it distilla-
ton from the harvest fields and the
orchards of the hemispheres. Then
he poured into this caldron capsicum
and copperas, and logwood and deadly
nightshade, and assault and battery,
and vitriol, and opium, and rum and
murder, and sulphuric acid, and theft,
and potash, and cochineal. and red
carrots, and poverty and death and
hops. But it was dry compound, and
it must be moistened and liquifed, and
SO the arch fend poured into that cal
dron the tears of centuries, of orphan
age and widowhood, and he poured in
the blood of 10000 asassinations. And
then the arch fend took shovel that
he had brought up from the furnaces
beneath, and he put that shovel into
the great caldron and began to stir, and
the caldron began to heave and rock,
and boil and sputter, and hiss and
smoke, and the nation gathered around
it with cups and tankards and demi-
johns and kegs, and there was enough
for all, and the arch fend cried:
"Aha! champion fiend am /. Who has
done more for collins and graveyards
and prisons and insane asylums, and
the populating of the lost world? And
when this caldron is emptied I'll fill it
again, and I'll stir it again, and it will
smoke again, and that smoke will join
another-the smoke of torment that
ascendeth forever and ever.
- drove fifty ships on the rocks of
Newfoundland and the Skerries and
the Goodwins. | defeated the North
ern army at Fredericksburg. / have
ruined more Senators than will gather
next winter in the National councils. l
have ruined more Lords than will be
gathered in the House of Peers. The
cup out of which I ordinarily drink is
a bleached human skull, and the up
holstery of my palace is so rich a
crimson, because it is dyed in human
gore, and the mosaic of my flowers is
SO made up OF the bones of children
dashed to death by drunken parents,
and my favorise music-sweeter than
TIE Deum or bsiumphal march-my
favorite music il the cry of daughters
turned out at midnight on the streets,
because father mas come home from
carousal, and the seven-hundred-voiced
shrek of sinking steamer, because the
captain was not himself when he put
the ship on the wrong course. Cham
pion ffend am II ] have kindled more
fires, have wrung out more agonies,
I have stretched out more midnight
shadows, have opened more Golgo-
thas, have rolled more Juggernauts,
! have damned more souls than any
other emissary of diabolism. Cham
pion fiend am TT De Witt Ialnoge.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10

are lowering our own manhood when
we do it and are STOPPING to mean and
unbusinesslike methods to secure a
customer. Besides a customer that
can be induced to buy frorc "a by few
glasses ofliquor or couple Of schooners
OF beer will not prove much of an &C
QUESTION to the house, and ninety-nines
chances out OF hundred will prove a
'tblack eye" to them financially. A
leading commercial traveller in the city
Of Philadelphia, some years ago made
this remark, after a long experience
in mercantile life: 81 have never
known single customer that was Sc
cured and held by the practice of treat
ing that did not in the end become a
scourge to the house obtaining him."
So don't do it. Every man that is real
ly worth securing for customer, and
a paying one, will be insulted by
the proposition and the insinuation
contained therein, be the invitation
clothed in language however cordial.
vi course offering customer, already
secured by honorable means, a friend
ly cigar in good-fellowship does not
come under this head, and is all right.
But when liquor, or beer, or cigars
even, are held out as bride, to induce
man to buy, the act is an insult to
manhood, and all of the trade that are
really men will resent it. The day for
that sort of thing is past The CON-
mercial traveller who depends on the
"bar " for his inspiration is fast disap-
pearing into the great unknown. Peo-
pie are being rapidly educated up to a
higher idea of life, in the commercial
world as in the social. The time was
when young man about going on the
road said: Goodbye, honesty; good
bye, decency; goodbye, sobriety; ] ann
going to be a commercial traveller"
But the time is fast approaching when
he will say: Goodbye, dishonesty;
goodbye, dissipation; goodbye, decep-
ton; | am going on the road" 1t may
be some time, but it is bound to come.
Let the "boys" begin right here by
dropping the treating "act," and by
so doing lift the profession at least one
notch higher in the estimation of the
public Trdceler.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10
QUIET WAYS ARE BEST.

What's the use of worrying,
OF hurrying,
And scurrying,
Every body fiurrying
And breaking up their rest:
When every thing is teaching US,
Preaching, and beseeehing US,
To settle down and end the fuss
For quiet ways are best
The rain that trickles down in showers
A blessing brings to thirsty flowers,
And gentle zephyrs gather up
Sweet fragrance from each trimming cup.
There's ruin in the tempest's path;
There's ruin in voice of wrath;
And they alone are blest
Who early learn to dominate
Themselves, their violence abate,
And prove by their serene estate
That quiet ways are best.
Nothing's gained by worrying,
By hurrying,
And scurrying;
With fretting and with f1urrying
The temper's often lost.
And in pursuit of some small prize
We rush ahead, and are not wise,
And find the unwonted exercise
A fearful price has cost.
IT'S better far 10 JOIN tne tnrong
That do their duty right along;
Reluctant they to raise fuss
Or make themselves ridiculous.
Calm and serene in heart and nerve,
Their strength is always in reserve,
And nobly stands each test;
And every day, and all about,
BY scenes within, and scenes without,
We can discern, with ne'er doubt,
That quiet ways are best.
--JOsephi1le Pollard, IN NJ Y. Ledqer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

do not leave any tomatoes in the
bottom of tin can, but pour them
into an earthen bowl till they will
be wanted This applies to nearly all
canned vegetables.
Good authority recommends as the
safest and best way to grow black
raspberries for fruit, to plant thick
and cut back thoroughly, making a
perfect hedge of canes that are strong
and stocky.
Ducks and geese should never have
access to lawn. They pull the grass
up by the roots. As they are voracious
feeders, and not fastidious, they can be
made to do good service, however, on
fields that are covered with young
weeds.
Farmers, or at least a majority OF
them, have yet to learn the value of
thorough cultivation. Much of the in
jury to crops by drought can be pre-
vented by continually stirring the soil,
not simply enough to keep down weeds,
but to keep the soil loose so the air can
get down to the roots of plants, and to
keep the soil moist. As soon as the
sun has thoroughly dried out the soil
on the surface, turn it over and YOU
will save your crop in very dry weather.
Rural Neao Yorker.
Corrosive sublimate is virulent
poison when taken inwardly, but with
care it is one of. housekeeper's great
est blessings. While it is an absolute
remedy for bed-bugs, it does no harm
to furniture, nor does it cause beds to
screech, as some bug applications do.
A wash OF this mixture, applied to ex-
posed places, cracks, corners, beds,
ETC., at housekeeping time, will act as
a powerful preventive. No house need
harbor bed-bugs long if vigorous use
of corrosive sublimate is made. Good
Housekeeping.
Squash Biscuit.-One cup of sifted
boiled squash, three cups of sifted
flour, one tablespoon of sugar, two
teaspoons of tartar, one teaspoon of
soda, one teaspoon of butter; mix the
flour and squash well together, dis
solve the soda in a little hot water, and
I'LL the cup with milk, stirring the soda
well into it; pour the milk over the
flour and stir it well, adding more
milk if needed, to form a stiff batter.
Have the gem pans hot, put in the bat
ter, nearly filling the pans, and bake in
quick oven. Eat warm with butter
and maple strip.
Bees never injure sound fruit.
Wasps will puncture grapes, etc., but
with bees it is physical impossibility.
Their mandibles are not so constructed,
nor are they strong enough to be used
in puncturing fruit. Numerous expert
ments have been tried; among the rest,
one OF putting the hives in an apart
ment and taking the bees food away
and making them fast for few days at
time, and all the time exposing
grapes, etc. but the bees would not do
any injury, even under these circum-
stances. If fruit burst, or is injured by
the birds or wasps or something else,
the bees will soon suck all the Juice;
but that is an advantage rather than
an injury to the grower, as the sound
fruit is apt to rot by coming in contact
with such, or by the juice flowing over
the sound fruit
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10
st. Louis Has Plan to Unite the Millers
and Raise the Price of Bread.

st. LOUIS, Aug. 4-Circulars have been
issued BY Alexander FL. Smith, secretary
of the ST.. Louis Millers' Association, call
ing meeting of the millers of Missouri,
Illinois, Kansas, Indiana, Tennessee,
and of all winter-wheat States for
the purpose of forming -four trust.
The meeting is to be held In st. Louis
August 81. An agreement has already
been signed by all the prominent millers of
st. Louis in the st. Louis Association hav-
ing capacity of II 800 barrels day. The
trust proposes to control absolutely the
output, price and sale of -four in the ter
ritory it will govern.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10
Immigration Statistics.

TORONTO, Ont, Aug. S-Returns just
made up by the Ontario immigration De-
partment shows that the total number of
immigrants arriving in or passing through
Ontario for the six months ending
June 30 last was 54,319, of whom
l5,036 arrived via the st. Lawrence
and 1928 via the United States; 40, 4s5
passed through to the United States; 81
went to Quebec Province: 1,031 to Mani
toba, and Is, 746 remained in Ontario. Dur
ing the same period 10, 1874 arrived at
Toronto via the st. Lawrence and United
States, of whom 4, 537 went through to the
United States, 159 to Manitoba, and ,098
remained in Ontario
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10

All kinds of vegetables can be
canned in glass fruit jars and stored
away in cool place for winter use.
Pease, corn, beans, tomatoes, etc., are
very easily prepared and canned.
Pumpkins, squash and apples may be
cooked to q sauce and canned for
ready use In winter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10
He next takes up the question Of tariff:
Larry Donovan Loses His Life in Jumping
from London Bridge.

NEW YORK, Aug. S.--A cable message
was received from George W. Atkinson
announcing that Larry Donovan jumped
from the Hungerford bridge over the
Thames, London, and was drowned.
Lawrence M. Donovan, who has made a
number OF daring jumps, first leaped into no.
toriety from the Brooklyn bridge August %,
1856. He was then a pressman in the Police
Gazette office and a member of Typographical
Union No. 6. The distance was about 16J
feet and it was the first successful standing
jump that was ever made from the Brooklyn
bridge. After this he jumped from the Sus-
pension bridge, Niagara Falls, and subse-
quenty went to England, where he jumped
from London bridge. He was 26 years old.l
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10
Carnegie to Build a New Railroad.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug At is authori-
tatively stated that Andrew Carnegie and
his partners are competing arrangements
to construct their own railroad from the
great Edgar Thompson steel plant, at
Braddock, to the lakes. This will neces-
state the building of about sixty miles of
new road from Braddock to Minerva, O..
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10

THE various computations Of the
amount spent yearly in this country on
liquor are very curious. One speaker
at a Temperance meeting the other
night asserted that from the sums spent
every year on liquor a thousand one
dollar gold pieces might be put on each
word in the Bible, and that even then
there would be $50, 900 to spare.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10
GREAT STRIKE AT DULUTH.
Laborers to the Number of 1000 Quit
Work--A Disturbance Caused.

DULUTH, Mimi, Aug. About 1000 la
borers employed on the streets and on
rock work here struck for an increase
in wages from S1.50 to 50 day.
They had mass meeting in the after
noon and started out for recruits. Sew.
eral parties Of laborers were compelled to
joined them and they endeavored to stop
work at planning mill, ordering the en-
gineer to shut down. The engineer re-
fused and repealed several attacks on him
with hot water. One of the leaders
was arrested Labor organizations are
holding secret meetings, and it is feared
the strike will spread.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10
THE TREATING HABIT.
Some ExcsDent Advice to Young Coz
mercial Travellers.

mercial Travellers.
We want to say a few words about
the habit of treating customers to
drinks, and to caution the younger
members of the fraternity especially
against this practice. 1t has been our
experience, and no doubt is that of
every old commercial traveller on the
road, that it don't pay; view it from
whatever standpoint you may. We
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10
nisastrops Floods in silesia.

BERLIN, Aug. 4.-Silesia is being devas-
sated by terrible foods, the worst known
in the city for years Along the rivers
Rober and Zacken the damage is especially
great Several mills at Greifenberg have
been destroyed and the crops have been
ruined.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10
Communication to BE Cut OFF.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. S.-Direct steam
communication between San Francisco and
Australian ports will be cut off in Novem-
Der, on the expiration of the present mail
contract of the Oceanic Steamship Company
with the Colonial Governments, by the
withdrawal of the company's line of steam
ers. The intention of the New Zealand
and New South Wales Government to dis
continue their annual subsidy of 93O, 900
and the fact that the only aid granted by
the United States Government is $4,000
annual sea postage, are together response
BILE
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10

"THE most shocking scandals that
we have to deplore spring from intern
peranee. Pastoral letter of the Plenayy
Council Of Baltimore.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10

English and French wheelmen will take
part in the cycling Tournament at Buffalo
In September.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-10

cOnnlcJ OF ner thoughts.
Adkins ate the egg with something
like relish. 81 kind O. enjoyed nv
dinner to-day" he admitted, in rather
a surprised tone. 'Mebby eff yeh'd try
to git me up somethin' sorter tasty a
little oftener it wouldn' t do me no hurt.
l reckon it's better fer all hands,
though, fer me to jest fade away 18th
the winter, kind o. like snowflake
meltin' in the sun; it's best I shud go. =
Ellen did not reply, but there was a
curious sternness on her purplish lips.
I'm GLAD stole it" she thought,
with distinct notion that her soul
was now irrevocably signed over to
perdition. ''Ef he enjoyed it one
smitch, Tn glad I'm thief; AMI
ami
The next day she stole out to look
under the tree; the egg she saw shin
ing whitley in the understanding
shadow looked to her as mamma must
have looked to the starving Israelites.
She took it with less trepidation this
time, so easy are descents.
1.-The gates to the Bad Place hev
mighty smoof hinges she thought,
grimly. ..Ole Hoof- n Horns keeps
en- lied slick"
Adkins never asked where his wife
got the fresh eggs he ate daily. II
there was any remote idea of their I'M
holy procurement in his mind, it did
not trouble his digestion at all. In
fact he seemed to gain health in slow
kind of way, his returning bodily
strength marked by growing mental
caprices, in trucking to which Ellen
began to lose her own wiry vigor.
Long lines commenced creasing the
wax-like texture of her face, and dull
brownish creseents hung themselves
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-04-14
CITY COUNCIL.
The Bridge Matter Again Postponed
The sheridan Judgment.

An adjourned meeting Of the city
council held last night to consider
tine matter of building the Com
rcrcial street bridge and other busi-
ness.
Councimcn Bush, Minto, Hutton,
Muir and Williams were present.
Mimic moved TO take the bridge
matter out Of the hands of the com
mittcc
William, and other members
prc-ent wanted the matter post
poncd until there was full council
present. 20 that no one could dodge
the vote.
The committee on printing re-
portcd two bids for the city printing
for the ensuing year, as follows:
statesman, 81 per inch for the legal
number of insertions; CAPITAL
IorRXAL - cents for the same
service. The committee lecom-
mended the adoption Of the States
mans bid; adopted.
Referring to the Sheridan judg-
nlent against the city, Mimic moved
that il be paid, provided the recorder
and Am attorney find it regular.
4 squabble ensued over the mat
ter, which ended in the chair de-
Gliding that the motion was un-
necessary, and it was withdrawn by
Mimic.
Mr.. Williams offered to accept the
amount of the Judgment, and one
wears interest. Williams Il Eng
land hold the judgment.
Concerning the old ditch begin
ming near VIM. Millcr's, on Court
street, and running to North Mill
creek, Mimic, from the committee on
health and police, recommended
that the ditch be- uncovered, and
that it be- cleaned out.
Bush wanted the property owners
to pay the expenses.
\ general discussion followed, .
which was ended 10y adjournment
nt 500.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-04-14
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JrrrERsOs NOTES

The remains Of George Scham-
brook. of Arlington, were to-day
brought down from Denver, Col,
where he died Of consumption few
davs ago. Immediately after the
arrival Of the train the remains were
taken to the residence OF r. y
Thomas. father-in-law of the de-
ceased, where Rev. w. r. Van Scol
held brief and appropriate funeral
service. The funeral and burial
services were held under the aus
uirc- of the Masonic fraternity.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Schambrook,
Gather and mother of the deceased
were i'm attendance from Oakland
also two brothers and other friends
were present at the funeral. Inc
deceased leaves a young wife win a
child but few weeks old to mourn
their loss.
The drama and farce tnIoIl"lH-
ment held at the Stinson hall this
evening by the /. q. G., r. was well
attended. About S25 was netted,
which will be applied toward pay
ment of the new organ lately pur-
chased by the lodge.
There seems to be considerable
sickness in this neighborhood at
present, as our doctor, J. j. Leavitt,
in quite busy.
Mr.. r. II. Bellinger is talking OF
shipping car load of potatoes to
Chicago in a few days.
Y. Y. u.