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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-30
Dry Go DIS Salaries.

cit is not generally known" said Mr..
G. B. Worth, of III. B. Clafiin q Co.,
q few days ago, shat some of the high
est salaries are paid in our business.
We are often accused of paying starva-
ton wages to our clerks by people who
never look at the expenses entailed in
running an establishment. Take the
buyers, for instance. There are firms
in this city who pay men from $40, 900
to $4,000 year for simply being able
to tell three-quarters of year in adj
vance what the fashion is going to be.
One gentleman, who buys for a whole
sale house on Broadway, is said to earn
$50, 900 year.
"Dry goods houses are noted for pay
ing low wages to their clerks, because
the supply of clerks is so abundant. In
some of the smaller stores the pay runs
as low as So q week. But the buyer
on whose judgment the sale of next
years fabrics depends gets half as
much as the President Of the United
States The smallest, and some of the
largest, salaries are paid in the dry
goods business"
"How does the buyer for the house
distinguish in advance what the fash
ion for next yea. is to be 2"
"Ah, that is where it requires widt
awake man. He must watch the grow.
ing tendencies among the firms richest
and most fashionable customers at
home and abroad. Whatever has be-
come popular among them will make
it's way among the masses, and this
tide the house must catch and swim
along with it.
"In Europe textile manufacturers
make few goods except on orders. The
buyer for firm must decide what his
house can sell next season, and order
his supplies Of cloth made in advance
A serious mistake might be sufficient
to bankrupt the firm, by leaving them
with a stock on hand of unstable
goods, the patterns not being to the
liking Of the firms customers. So you
can easily see why skillful buyer can
command his own price.
How do you select man for such a
position? ?"
Nothing less than kind of intui-
ton is demanded for such a place. In
addition. the buyer must estimate what
amount his employer can sell of q
given style of goods. If he overstocks
the firm, then they are left with old
fashioned articles on hand which they
must resort to the bargain-counter'
devices to get rid of at severe loss.
-NelU York Star
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Mem. Con.

A member of the House Of Commons
had been paying attention to young
lady for long time, and had taken her
to the House until she was we'll posted
in the rules. On the last day of that
session. as they came out, he bought
her a bouquet of flowers and said
to her:
MAY I offer you my handful OF
fowers?"
She replied promptly: II move to
amend by emitting all after the word
hand"
He blushingly accepted the amend
ment, and they adopted it unanimously
Pick Ne Ub.
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cord that the savages were solely re-
sponsiblc for that bloOd-curdlng trag-
cdy But what use to write, unless to
tell tho truth? Seldom has the white
man-neycr, perhaps, except in isolated
caseS-treated the red man in fair and
equitable manner.
Minnesota was organized as a territory
in 1849, and the emigration rapidly set
Ting upon the eastern side of the MisSiS-
Sippi River began to cncrOach upon the
the Indians were induced to sign treat
les by which they transferred to the
United States over 100000 900 of acres,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-30
A BOY MURDERER.

Tho Youngest Convict in the United States
Wonderfully innocent-looking is pris-
oner No. 1900 in the Iowa State Pris-
on, slim boy eleven years old. He is
rather handsome boy, with a broad
forehead and thoughtful face, as the
photograph shows. He is the youngest
prisoner ever received at the prison or,
it is believed, at any other State
prison.
Prisoner 1900 is sentenced to the
Iowa State Penitentiary for life. His
crime was the brutal and premeditated
murder of his father and stepmother
near Edgewood, Clayton County, in
July, 1889.
Early one morning Wesley drove the
old farm team furiously up to a neigh
boris house. He had the baby in the
wagon with him. He had an awful
story to tell When he arose that
morning and went to his parents room
q terrible sight met his eyes.
Lying stretched out on the bed was
the body of his father with bullet
hole through his head. Half on the
bed and half on the floor was the body
of his stepmother. Her head was
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heavy club, smeared with blood, and
his fathers old muzzle-loading rife,
with which the CHASTITY work had been
done.
The community was excited and
many people were thrown under sus-
picion. The eldest son proved an
a1ibi.
Wesley, the ten-year-old boy, main
tanned his story. He showed no sign
of grief. No tear came to his eve.
Coolly and in a matter of fact way he
related again and again the details of
his horrid discovery. It was always
the same.
He was finally arrested, however,
and locked up in jail at Elkader. One
day this 1O-year old child called the Off
Gals into his cell and confessed that the
work was his. There was no breaking
down, no tears. Coolly and calmly
again he detailed the story.
His father and his stepmother
whipped him and he would not stand
it. He waited until his brother was
gone away and he was alone in the
house with his parents. At 3 o'clock
in the morning he got up, stole down
stairs and loaded his fathers old muz-
zle-loading rifle, which hung on the
wall'in the bedroom. He put the muz'
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-30
How to Arouse a Drunken Man.

"The best way to arouse drunken
man is to pinch him under the arms, :"
says police officer. Il found drunken
fellow lying across the track at Tenth
and Morgan streets late one night and
it seemed impossible to arouse him.
I dubbed him over the soles of his feet
and rolled and shook him, but he lay
as limp as rag. Just then an old
gentleman suggested that [ pinch him
under the arms.
"The effect was electrical. I had
him awake and fighting mad at once.
On another occasion Sergeant Pierce
tried the same experiment on a sot at
the Fourth District station, who was
delaying the Black Maria. The man
stood it for awhile, and then suddenly
opened his eyes, and dealt the sergeant
a blow that would have felled an OK.
The treatment is a dead sure thing
fetches them every time. Globe
Democrat.
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reaches its acme In the realm Of hats,
bonnets, and toques. AS to design,
everything that belongs either to earth
or air is represented. There are also
numerous ornaments which could not
be classed under the head of craven
images, as they certainly are not in
the likeness of anything that is in
heaven above, or the earth beneath, or
the waters under the earth" There
are also ieweled cloths for crowns;
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-30
FOUR SCORE AND TEN.
George Bancroft Celebrates His Ninetiet
Birthday.

Birthday.
At his coy cottage in Newport, R.
l., George Bancroft recently celebrated
his ninetieth anniversary. The occa-
sion was not forgotten by Mr.. Ban
croft's friends, the mails and telegraph
conveying to him hosts of remembances
and congratulations from all parts OF
country although, owing to his en-
feebled health, the usual reception
was omitted.
Mr.. Bancroft, though somewhat
weakened by the heavy burden OF his
years, continues to enjoy his walks and
drives. He has entirely given up
horseback riding. which used to be one
of his greatest pleasures. His mind
seems to be perfectly clear on all sub
iects historical, and he will discuss the
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-30

N the month of Au-
gust, 1862, the In
Of Minnesota
initiated a massacre
which will live in
the pages of history
as one of the bloodi-
est scenes in all the
mighty conflicts that
the advance
of the white race
across our continent,
Occurring, as it did,
in the midst of the
great civil war, at a
time when vast ar
mics were contend
ing on Sanguinary
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-30

ASTONISHING success has attended
the effort of DR.. Lannelongue, an emf
nent specialist of Paris, to give intelli-
gence to a little idiot girl Though
four years old, the child could neither
walk nor stand, and never smiled no:
took notice of anything. The Doctoi
concluded that the abnormal narrow
ness of the head INSTRUCTED the growth
of the brain, and in May last he made
all incision in the center of the skull
and cut a piece of bone from the left
side Of it. The result was marvellous
Within less than a month the child
could walk, and she is now quite bright
playing, smiling, and taking notice
of everything around her.
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The subject is not
u pleasing one, nor
has it lost much of
its hidcOusEesS by
the lapse of nearly
three decades, yet
It S consideration
cannot fail to in
terest all readers,
and cause them to
rejoice that the
long discussed In
dian OupStiOn" is AT,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-30

z1e to his fathers forehead and fired.
AS he had expected, his step-nother
was awakened by the report and
leaped out of bed to strike light.
Wesley knocked her down with club
which he had ready. Then, to make
the matter sure, he beat her head to
q io11v
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companion

the illustration, is a particularly be-
coming style. The wrinkled brim soft
ems the effect about the hair and the
six black tips in the back, with a
broad-cut jet buckle at the side, gives
it a stylish finish.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-30
AN AWFUL SLAUGHTER.
ONE OF THE BLOODIEST PICT-
URES IN THE BOOK OF TIME.

Tho Most Tragic Chapter in the History
of the North west-The Mime sofa Indian
Massacre of 1862, ANA the Swift Pun
ishment of the Guilty Indians Causes
of the Uprising Awful Scenes Enacted
A Memorable Trial-COnvictiOn OF the
CuIprits-A Wholesale Execution Death
of Little Grow.
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Battlc-fields, and President Lincoln was
sailing for "siX hundred thousand more, 4"
what wonder that the uprising of the
sioux i'm the then far Northwest attract
I'd. outside the localities that suffered or
were mcnaced, but passing notice?
The events of those dreadful days
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-30

have not lacked careful historians, yet
few of the present generation know
much, if anything, of one of the "Blood-
lest pictures on the book of Time" as
the awful slaughter of the whites and
the subsequent defeat and punishment
of the ficnds may properly be termed.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-30

He millinery world
certainly seems to
be going ornament
mad. Within the
memory o f living
woman there h a s
not before prevailed
su C h elaboration
and showiness of
ornamentation. The
mock-jewel ia d 0 i
the present season
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-30

The length of the telpherage line
between Bueno Ayres and Montevideo
is 1856 miles, and it is designed to carry
electrically driven letter boxes. which
may be dispatched every two hours. The
two wires cross tho La Plata estuary
at point whore it is nineteen miles
vale,
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last wcll-nigh settled, and that similar
dreadful scenes are not likely to again
occur in our land.
1t would be pleasing to be able to re-
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-30

treaties of 1851 and 1852, $500, 900 were
paid the traders on old accounts. Be
sides, many of the stipulations as to es-
tabishing schools and furnishing farm
ing implements were never carried out.
Under the treaty of 1858 they were to be
paid S166, 900, but Of this amount they
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-30
A January Diary.

Old Gent Well, my little son, did
YOU try keeping diary, as I told you?
Little boy-Yessir; here it is.
Old gent looks over it and reads:
Jan. Went in swimming.
Jan.2--Went fishing.
Jan. 3-Too hot to go anywhere.
Jan. Went and got some ice
Jan. Guess I'll stop keeping a
diary Too hot to write Street Dc
Smiths Good NeloS.
A NEW black spot has been approach
ing the great red spot which has oeen
visible on the surface Of Jupiter tor q
dozen years, and according to Mr.. A.
s, Williams, geems likely to pass either
over or uadog the latter.
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JoHNN1E-My pop is richer'n your
pop. Freddy--Mebbe he is, but he'll
never get back the money he lent my
pep,
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sell, were largely instrumental in bring
ing about the transfer.
In this way a large amount of fraudu-
lent claims were established, and just
ones multiplied in amount. OF the
money due the Indians under the
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-30
ORNAMENTS ON HATS.

Elaborate and Snowy Millinery Is the
Rule for This Fall-Four fashionable
STYLES.
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ur hours longer the
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-02-11
TRIBUTES TO WOMEN.

Gems From the Standard Literature of All
| Nations.
Confucius-Woman is the master
piece.
Herder-Woman is the crown of
creation.
Voltaire-Women teach us repose,
civility and dignity.
John Quincy Adams-AIl that / am
my mother made me.
Observation-Disclosures has no heroes
he has only heroines.
Whittier-H women lost us Eden.
such as she alone restore it.
observation-disclosures is the most per-
feet when most womanly.
Bulwer-To gentleman every wom-
an is a lady in right of her sex.
Lamartine-There is a woman at the
beginning of all great things.
E. S. Barrett-Woman is last at the
cross and earliest at the grave.
Sandal handsome woman Is q
jewel; a good woman is a treasure.
Richter-No man can either live
piously or die righteously without q
wife.
N. P. WILTSHIRE sweetest thing in
life is the unclouded welcome of wife.
Heine-Handsome women without
religion are like flowers without per-
fume.
Voltaire-All the reasonings of meu
are not worth one sentiment of \
woman.
Beecher-Women are q new race,
recreated since the world received
Christianity.
Leopold Schefer-But one thing on
earth il better than a wife-that Is the
mother.
Michelet-Woman Is the repose Of Q
man; not his repose only. but his Joy,
the salt of his life.
Luther-Earth has nothing more
tender than a woman's heart when Il
Is the abode of pity.
Shakespeare-For where is any au-
thor in the world teaches such beauty
as woman's eyesP
Margaret Fuller Ossili-Woman il
born for love, and it is impossible to
turn her from seeking it.
Louis Desnoyers-A woman may be
ugly, ill-shaped, wicked, ignorant.
silly and stupid, but hardly ever ridio-
ulous.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-02-11
THE SILENT LAND,

The Silent Lands What underlined desire
Wakes It these words, like 10 the lambert frS
Seen over marshland wastes. at dead OF night
Flickering afar in weird, uncanny fight
The Silent Land, which poets love to nsmei
Mysterious region, where the present frame
OF all that is, beyond our fancy's range,
Doth yield itself to supersensual change.
The Silent Land, where, Tread as olden fates.
Vague, somber shadows guard the entrance
gates
And where glide through the vapor sudde.
gleams
As'twere, spectral days sunsetting beams.
The Silent Land. wherein that wan sun-glow
Spreads, as a red moon ray DER plains of snow
Upon which birch trees lean across the tracks
Where wolves are wont to race In famished
packs.
The Silent Land, broad domain, so still
That its deep quiet gives the heart q thrill
As when night fowls sail by on noiseless wing,
A thrill such as no sound hath power TO bring.
The Silent Land, which stretches on and on,
Dim outlined as the mist-vailed hills Of dawn;
Vistas where human vision feebly gropes
Midst the long cypress boughs that gloom the
slopes.
The Silent Land! No breeze; and yet what
watts
Chilling the whtelipped wanderers who wait
To pass the boundary Of the unknown State!
William Struthers, in Home Journal
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-02-11

SUFFERING from the effects Of youthful erroE2 sae1T
decay, wasting weakness. Lost manhood. etc. W.
oend = yaluable treasize (sealed) containing fuu
particulars for hone euro FREE Of chsrgs. -
1plerdid medical work shouid Be read BY every
man Who - nervous and debiitased. Addresat
Prot. y. @. FOWLER, Moodus, Cs1ns
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-02-11

flung down and hurled forward Had
none OF US seen the whale we should
have been certain that it was the
work OF one OF those monsters. but we
not only saw him, but captured him.
An hour after the calamity. and while
we we're still pulling back and forth
with our boats. hoping that some of
the bodies or barrels OF oil would rise
to the surface, a whale was reported
lying on the surface about a mile to
the westward. We pulled to the ship
for our harpoons and lances. and then
ran down to him. He moved about in
confused way. and as soon as we got
near him we saw that he was hurt.
When We put the irons into him he ran
OF short distance, and then submit
ted to fate with scarcely a show of re-
sistance.
We thought we had the king OF
whales alongside. but this fellow
measured nine feet more In length.
and yielded twenty-one barrels of oil
over our first capture. The collision
had been bad thing for him. There
were nine great slivers of oak from
the broken keel sticking in his head.
and in several cases the efforts of two
men could not pull them out While
bailing the case found an iron spike
ten inches long. driven into the head
full length. The right jaw was broken.
and there were two long gashes across
the head several inches deep, and
wide enough to place the hand in.
Whether the injuries received would
have caused the old fellows death L
can not say. as whale will carry of
three or four harpoons and still live
his time out. but it was evident that
he was badly broken up and had no
spirit for fight when We came up.
1t was bad loss for the Russians,
but they took it so much to heart that
We fell to ridicule them. 1t was two |
weeks before we could transfer them.
and then there were only four left. |
The others had jumped overheard in |
their dependency and committed sui !
cide.-N. Y. Sun.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-02-11

A particle Is sppliad into each nostxil snd d
agreeable Price 50 cents, at druggists by mai
registered, 90 cents. ELY BROTHERS H War,
rem Street, New York.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-02-11
a Husbands Contrariness.

ADO you know" asked a woman a
the Woodbridge street station the
other day, whether a small man with
a lop shoulder and q cataract in his
eye has been fished out of the river
within the last two days?"
"No such case. ma'am."
elias such q man been sent up?"
Eyes, we had him in here for drunk
enness," answered the sergeant, after
consulting the records.
Just as I thought. He told me
he was going to suicide, but he's the
contrariest man in the world, and /
figured that he would be in the work
house instead of at the bottom OF the
river. / never make no mistakes on
Jim-"-Detroit Free Press.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-02-11

"A circus man filled thousands Of
people with wonder by catching in his
teeth a cannon ball, fired from a
cannon, without injury to his molars.
Their wonder increased a few days
later when they learned that the same
man. in a heated discussion with his
wife, had caught a fiat-iron in his
teeth with disastrous results. Five
molars were knocked down his throat,
and he was laid up for 8 week.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-02-11

The different forms to which pride
besets its victims afford an amusing
study. Girls who work In shops carry
school books or q music roll to and
from their place of business so that
they may be mistaken for school girls.
though their hours are certainly not
those of the average pupil. Perhaps
they hope to be taken for special stu
dents. The librarian of the Mercan-
tile library tells me that it is COM
mon thing for "ladies" to tear the pa
per covers of the books they take
from the library the moment they are
outside the door. These silly Great
ures think 1t looks finer to carry an
uncovered book than one that is COW
cred, and they would rather seem to
own a volume than to have taken it
from library.--The Critic
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-02-11
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Druggist. sl2 East Third St ssdalia No.
1.97a&Wly
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-24
Frederfcksen State Lands.

e. A. Filkins, as Receiver for Niels
G. Fredericksen, has filed for record
at the Registers Office document set
ting forth that as the state certificates
and land contracts issued to Frederik
sen, and specified in a list comprising
$50 forties in this county-or 22,4OO
acres-have been delivered by Fred
erickson as security for money Dor
rowed, the receiver formally notifies
the holders of such certificates that
they have no lawful authority to sell
or give legal title to such lands. That
no proceedings have been taken to
foreclose the title of Fredericksen; that
the receiver, having qualified accord
ing to law, is solely authorized by de-
cree of court to sell and convey the
same.
The notice is in the nature of a lis
pendens, and is taken to be the ser
vice of notice on the part of Frederick
sens receiver to carry out the terms
of the contracts made by his principal,
as far as possible. Those in position
to know, think that if the receiver is
granted sufficient time, it will be pos
sible for him to carry out Frederick
sens contracts with little or no loss to
purchasers under these contracts. AT
least it may be said that the situation
appears to be hopeful since this action
has been taken.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-24

Normal. He endeavored to bring the
teaching of music and history before
the teachers in every light. TWAS de-
cided to begin the work OF history with
primary scholars, with short history
stories and that the work should be
connected also with reading and &C.
ogrsphy lessons. =.
The work in geography was intro
duced by Mr.. Knepper and was con-
tinued in the afternoon by Mr.. Niles,
of Minneapolis. Mr.. Niles gave a les
son in geography, thereby clearly il
Illustrating the fact that the pupil must
see the picture of the object portrayed
by the reading, instead of the reading
itself.
Grammar was ably handled by Mr..
Crabb, of Rochester. He proved a
few points in technical grammar to be
incorrect. He also discussed black
board exercises, in writing, to the gen.
eral satisfaction of the teachers.
In the reading period continued
from Monday, Mr.. Knepper said that
the pupil, by the help of the teacher,
should strive to give the emotion, or
thought, as represented by the SEN
tence and intended by the author, and
that the cause of poor reading in the
higher grades, was the incorrect idea
of reading given to the child in the
first reader grade by the teacher.