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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-29
SOUTH BRISTOL.

Only Is cents the round trip to Lake
Geneva Thursday, Sept. 5.
The much needed rain which fell last
Friday afternoon and evening, will
save the pastures and revive things in
general.
Quite a number from this vicinity
took advantage of the excursion to
Devils Lake on Thursday. All report
good time Notwithstanding their late
return home.
Miss Cora Gates has returned from
her visit at Waukegan.
The Felan boys, who have been
spending the last few weeks with their
uncle, James Karnes, have returned to
their home in Chicago.
Mr.. Hollister, of Waukegan, came
up on his wheel Sunday and spent a
few hours with Geo. Gates and family.
Mr.. Pierce, of Salem, spent couple
of days with his uncle, d. E. Pierce.
August Winke has bought bis
daughter Laura fine organ.
Miss Aisle Sacket and brother Rob
bic have returned to their home in APP
pleton.
Miss Gertrude Hollenbeck is spend
ing this week with friends in the village
of Bristol.
There will be musical and literary
entertainment at Wesley chapel Thurs
day, Sept. 5. After the entertainment
ice cream and cake will be served. All
are cordially invited; it will be the last
one of the seoson.
Lake Geneva excursion Thursday,
Sept. 5. Leave Kenosha a. M,
Pleasant Prairie SIS a. M, Wood
worth 8:25 a. M, Bristol $50 a. M,
Salem $40 a. M, Fox River $50 a. N.
Returning, reach Kenosha before s
p. m. Tickets for sale by station
agents.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-29
VIOLINS AT AUCTION.
Under the Hammer Fancy Prices for In
struments Are Rarely Given.

Under the Hammer Fancy Prices for In
struments Are Rarely Given.
7 have more than once remarked that
the extravagant prices so frequently
mentioned in print as the value of old
italian violins are never reached under
the purifying fire of the auction-roOm.
We hear Of this or that fiddle being
worth it's e., 900 or 5000, and OF another
violin being bought for presentation
for the ridiculously low sum of f1,5OO.
But it is, believe, the truth, and, if so,
it is a remarkable fact that, even under
the most favorable circumstances no
violin has ever at auction realized any
thing like FL 900. Last week there was
an auction at Puttick & Simpsons of
undoubtedly genuine instruments from
the collections of Davis Cooper, Stanis-
treet, Finzi, and others. The highest
price reached was for a Strad. of 1928,
which went for f300-a serious drop on
the $4,000 or $4,000 of the newspaper
paragraphist. A fine Amati went for
f145, an F. Ruggeri of 1898 for ESQ, an
A. and H. Amati of 1913 for f75, and so
forth Some excellent old italian vio-
Inns were sold for under ESQ, and this, /
believe, was quite up to their real value.
The moral, suppose, is that if I want
to buy a violin I shall be wise and buy
it at auction. On the other hand, if I
want to sell one the highest price I can
obtain is-by newspaper paragraph
London Exchange.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-29
RUSSELL.

S. B. Howe is again in our midst
having finished his labors at HebrOn.l
Fl. Silver and W. L. Dexter visited
Washington park, Chicago, on Aug.
22d to witness the race between Patch
en- and Gentry.
Our genial operator P. E. Farr, at
tended to the levers and lightning rods
of the G. nc. g. st. P. at Somers on
Aug. 22d, during the absence of the
agent.
L. G. Nellis and B. Melville took adj
vantage of the excursion to Baraboo on
Thursday last and report very pleas
ant time, and trip long to be remem-
bered for its scenery.
The ordination of our pastor, j. F.
Hunter, was postponed owing to the
delegation being too small to carry out
the work. The postponement is until
Sept IL, when we hope a larger dele
cation will be present.
The ball game between the Russell
and Gray's Lake teams on Sunday re-
suited in favor of the Russell team by a
score of Ii to Is. 1t was a close con-
test throughout the entire game. At
the end of the sixth inning the score
stood even, but our boys managed to
shut their opponents out in the finish
and forge ahead themselves.
Lumber is on the ground to erect a
barn in the place of the one recently
burned on Edward Murray's farm.
The new barn will not be quite as large
as the old one but will be built on a
more approved plan and have silo in
connection.
The date of the dance to be given by
the r. B. c., which you have already
read so much about, will be Sept. 9th.
AS this is the first dance of the season
it promises to be very pleasant one,
and one long to be remembered among
the social circles. Good music and
obliging floor managers in attendance,
also stabling for horses free.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-29
COSTUMES FOR TRAVEL.
Novel, but Are Planned on Common Sense
Lines.

Travelling dresses are usually simply
planned and novelties in them are con-
sequently rare. Usually toe, the in
novations are not favorably received,
but one thoroughly unconT entional
travelling costume had much % recon-
mend it. It was made from mixed tan
tweed Of a lightweight texture. The
skirt cleared the ground, set out pref
tily at the back, and was almost close
front and sides. With this was trim
waist of checked wash silk, so crisp
that the enormous sleeves stood stift1y
out and so light that these same sleeves
folded away without injury in the ca
pacious sleeves of the tweed coat to
be worn over them. This coat reached
to the knees, was double-h c"asted, and
had a high collar. A pretty golf cape,
lined with the check silk, swung from
the golf straps that secured it over the
chest of the natty traveller. A Tam-o'-
Shanter of the tweed, with folded
band of the silk and single notified
brown cocks feather,I~ completed
thoroughly practicable travelling rig
suitable for all seasons and climates
Under the skirt, but, Of course, not
showing, were a pair Of leggings that
extended to the knees, and were there
met by zouave knee breeches of tweed
lined with silk. Neither the purchaser
nor the designer of this rig would say
whether it was intended to become a
dress-reform get-up on occasion, but
the combination of Tam-o' Shanter cap,
silk waist, trousers, leggings, and rus
set shoes suggests the thought that
the wearer will be thus logged out when
she is far enough from civilization and
the climbing is rough.-Ex.
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THE CARE OF SHOES.
Valuable Hint on an Important Adj
junct of the Toilette.


junct of the Toilette.
| have before me a, pair of shoes; one
| save for the shape of the foot hav-
| ing destroyed the stiff outlines of new
ness, looking as if it might have just
| left the store; the other shoe looks as
| if even tramp might pass it by with
contempt. Yet they are mates.
One has been cleaned, the other has
not is all the difference; yet neither
have ever been "blacked;" the shoes
have never been worn with rubbers, yet
when cleaned the leather is soft and
| pliable as one could wish; yet with all
the spick and spanness they are half
worn out. How is it done?
Have three small clean cloths, basin
of water, a bottle of cosmoline, vase
line, petroleum jelly, or whatever name
you like to call it, it is all the same,
and a clean shoe polishing or cloth
brush.
The shoes should we wiped as free of
mud as possible before drying and
should be hung in warm current of
air, say two or three feet above regis
ter or stovepipe, not underneath the
kitchen range, where they will be
scorched on top and wet underneath.
When they are perfectly dry wipe
the mudstains off with a damp cloth;
be sure to get them all off; then rub
hard with a dry cloth, then polish with
the brush, being careful about the
stitching around the sole. It is best
to do only part at time, say first
the vamp, one side, then the other, not
forgetting the heel.
Unless your shoes have been badly
scuffed and rotted by bad shoe dressing
they will look almost like new. Now
rub cosmoline over them with a clean
cloth, and rub it we'll in; use it literally,
| for too little will only destroy the polish,
| while plenty of cosmoline improves it.
The whole shoe should be carefully done
even among the buttons and button
holes, and presto, your shoes are soft,
| p1iable, black, and just polished enough
| to look we'll; will not stain your under
clothes or fingers when putting them
on, and a little water will do them no
| harm.
Try it once and you will never want to
do it any other way.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-29
SOMERS

The heavy rain Of Friday, which did
much good to late potatoes and fall
feed, had a very dampening effect up
on the picnic, which was just beginning
to bloom when the rain came down in
torrents. Neighbor Cavanagh, whose
speech was very favorably received by
those privileged to hear it, was the on
" one of the orators of the day who
was present. Congressman Cooper
was detained through illness and his
substitute was caught in the storm.
The base ball game was played in five
innings, to 5 in favor of SOmers.
Same clubs play at Franksville Sept.
4.
Biehn q Heidersdorf will give party
on their platform Monday evening,
Sept 2 Refreshments will be served
and in this way they hope to make up
in part at least for Fridays loss. 1t is
thought the Woodmen came out about
even.
VIM. Rhodes and family, of Chicago,
were the guests Of his cousin, W. j.
Rhodes, last week.
". E. Burgess, of Chicago, and
Chas. Burgess, of Salem, were seen at
the picnic.
Geo. Paddock, Miss Maggie, and Oh
lie II. Miller departed Monday for
Whitewater normal.
D. S. Gibbon and family returned to
their Oshkosh home Tuesday morning.
Geo. Spence, of Rolfe, Ia, was called
home Tuesday in response to a tele-
gram telling of his mothers, Mrs.
Alex. Spence's, serious sickness.
Isaac I. Bishop had business in
FranKsville Monday.
Attorney VIM. Flett, of Merrill,
Wis. was in town Wednesday morning.
The annual harvest excursions of the
Ct. paul road will be run this year on
august %, Sept. 10 and "A, for all
1ints in the west and northwest at
out one fare for round trip.
tie to FranksviIle and return Sept.
cunt Woodmen picnic, 35c.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-29
COUNTY NEWS.
Leaves From the Lives of Those Who
Dwell About Us.
PLEASANT PRAIRIE.

Yes, we have been told the rain we
had was perfectly lovely"
A large number of our young people
and some older ones attended Devils
Lake last Thursday. All reported a
good time, including lots of ride for
little money.
DR.. Eastman is doing a rushing bus
mess these days. People will be sick
all times of the year.
Geo. Fay, of Kenosha, has been put
ting in some new blackbOards at the
school house on the hill.
Did you know that Pleasant Prairie
has night operator? We are not 60
ing to take the " back seat" as hus-
Ting little town yet awhile.
The sidewalk that Fl. A. King has
put down between his store and the
depot is decided improvement to the
town. Would that we had more of
them.
Roy Turner is again on the road in
the oil business.
H. Crow is filling his silo with his en-
CINE these days. 1t would pay you to
see him hustle corn now that he has a
Mccormick binder. They keep a
stream of corn running up the elevator
all day long.
The fencing crew are improving the
looks of property along the railroad.
Some of our people around here got
wet at the Somers picnic, we should
judge, by their looks when returning
home. A Woodman picnic generally
brings rain
The summer boarders, better known
as "The Fresh Air Girls" returned to
Milwaukee Friday and their smiles
will be missed till next summer.
Fl. D. Hollenbeck is regaining his
health very rapidly.
Bert Ward, of West Superior, is Wis
iting relatives near this vicinity.
Miss Annie Evans, of Chicago, is Wis
iting friends at this place.
H. G.. Blackman says his celery crop
is a success and that the last rain
helped it wonderfully.
Several from this town attended the
camp meeting at Bristol Sunday.
viii Maloney has completed his silo
and is now ready to fill it.
John Schmutz is still on the road
threshing grain.
Miss Dora Turner is visiting friends
in WilmOt.
A. B. Pierce has been improving his
place of late.
Why don't some of you cyclists or
ganize a. club here in the town? Sure
" the number of =" Wheelers" is suffi-
cient to make a respectable sized club
The failure of Dan Head & Co.'s
bank has caused quite little excite
ment in our town. Suppose some one
is f" in the soup" but we can't help it.
Only 70 cents the round trip to Lake
Geneva, Thursday, Sept. 5.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-29
How He Worked a Bailey Horse.

The subject under discussion was
balky horses. John Miller, cashier of
the Citizens Bank of Big Run, had the
floor He said:
when / was a chunk of a boy my ia
Their had a balky horse which it occa-
sionally fell to my lot to drive. 1t was
a heartrending experience and 1 often
exhausted my patience and ingenuity
in attempts to make him go. He would
jog along all right on the level or down
hill, but he would not go up hill. He
would just stand. If you would lick him
he would proceed to back. Finally hit
on a scheme. When came to a hill I'd
Just turn the brute around and whip
him and ne would back up the hill.
When he reached the top I just turned
him around and he would go down all
right"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-29
Dates of Auction Sales.

We have arranged with the auction
eer, E. R. Wilson, whereby we keep on
file the dates for which he is engaged
for the crying of sales. Bring your sale
bills to the TELEGRAPH-C COURIER office
for prompt and careful service If
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-29
Does This Mean You?

Many of our readers are owing from
one to five years for their TELEGRAPH
COURIER. The date opposite your
name on the margin indicates the time
to which your subscription is paid
Now we need the money and it is due
us. Please figure out the amount at
the rate of 121 cents month and re-
nit. Respectfully,
If THE PUBLIS HER
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-29
An Unfair Deal.

A farmer who recently homesteaded
on the Cheyenne river, near Smithyille,
S. D., has just applied to the United
States land Office at Rapid City for per-
mission to make entry on another forty
acres of land because, he says, the re-
cent heavy rains have washed forty
acres of his original entry into the river
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-29
THE PIGTAILS UPSET.
fractional Fight Among Them Disrupts
the Six Companies

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. %, II M
The factional fight that has been going
on for sometime in Chinatown between
the Gee Yup and Sam Yup families has
eliminated in the disruption of the ia
nous Six Companies of the most
powerful factions ever instituted in
this country. The Six Companies were
looked up to by the Chinese all over
this country as a sort of government.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-29

The shrewd advertiser will place
his announcement in the EVENING
News and the Telegraph Courier. By
SO doing he will reach the reading
classes of Kenosha county from Wilmot
to the lake s.ore, and from Racine
county to the 4...lois line. We make a
special low rate where both papers are
used, and we guarantee a service which
no other papers in the county can ap-
proach If
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-29
INTER OCEAN AND TELEGRAPH-couR1ER
The Two Papers one Year for S1.6O Paid
in Advance.

We have again arranged with the
publishers Of the Chicago Inter Ocean
whereby we'can furnish the Inter Ocean
and TELEGRAPH COURIER at SLIGO a
year, payable strictly in advance. dw*
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PLEASANT PRAIRIE.

A literary entertainment will be given
at Wesley Chapel Thursday, Sept 5,
after which ice cream and cake will be
served. All are invited.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-30
SILVER KING SALOON

Cor Flores and Commerce SITS. East side Mill
tary Plaza II you want drink of the cele-
brsteH g. & r. 1892, Per ty.vania Rl e Wniskey
of Gallagher, 81 d Bourbon Philadelphia, ard
receive polite attention, drop in and see III.
z. FUTILE, the Genial Proprietor Silver
King Saloon. who always keeps the finest
brands of imported and Domestic Wines.
Liquors snd Cigars.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-30

csua,sly need r. ave NeuraIgia, Jet Dr. nllIes
Sais Pills fro. dr---~'-Ns. On cent a dooe
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-10-02
Gossip.


u from some Fource could draw inspiration
To quicken thought and guide this pen OF
mine;
II barren soil would yield TO cultivation
And for moment give me power divine,
would not sing OF love, romance or war,
But seek renown in higher realms than those
I'd soar among the gossips far above
And laud them in both poetry and prose.
I'd give a serious thought to those dear crea
lures
Who, leaving home and duties for awhile,
60 forth with pious, holy O. features
God save the MARKHAM hour to beguile. 9
In some back room or shop they come together.
Like Dante's friends Internal, there they sit
And for time speak sweetly Of the weather
would TO God that they could stick to II.
But, no; that's but little starter,
Like consomme before dinner rare.
They've other, better things brought here t
barter
A mans or womans reputation fair.
With bated breath they listen to each other
These are all loving, Christian % women, too
And eager, hungry eyes plead for another
To strip of honor, and of virtue too.
What odds is it, though some poor soul de.
spairing,
Finds Gossip's tongue too mighty to with.
stand2
Still they must talk and wag their heads thus
airing
Some bit of scandal always kept on hand,
And when at last they see their victim SLOWLY
Crushed down into a life Of sin and shame
Draw back their skirts, for they are far too hol,
To come In contact with furnished name.
| Had the power to paint picture
To personate the meanest vice today
| I'd dip my brush In blood, and with this mix
| ture
I'd call up Gossip, watching for her prey;
| I'd paint a man or woman, crushed and dying
| And In the darkest back ground would plac
A human vulture, greedily still eying
The misery IL wrought upon that face.
G. g. Hollister
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-10-02

Say, what Is life2 IT'S to be born
A hapless babe, to greet the light
With a sharp wall. as IL the morn
Foretold cloudy noon and night;
To weep, 10 sleep and weep again,
With sunny smiles between, and them
And then apace the infant grows
To be a laughing, sprightly boy,
Happy despite his little woes,
Were he but conscious of his Joy;
To be, In short, from two TO ten,
A merry, moody child, and then?
And then, in coat and trousers clad,
To learn to say the decalogue
And break 1t, and, unthinking lad,
With mirth and mischief all agog,
A truant oft by field and fen
To capture butterflies, and them
And then, increased In strength and size
To be, anon, a youth full grown,
A hero In his mothers eyes,
A young Apollo in his own;
To initiate the ways OF men
In fashionable sins, and then?
And then, at last, TO be a man;
To fall in love, TO WOO and wed,
With soothing brain TO scheme and plan
To gather gold or toll for bread:
To sue for fame with tongue or pen
And gain or lose the prize. and then?
And then in gray and wrinkled cid
To mourn the speed OF life's decline;
To praise the scenes his youth beheld
And dwell In memory Of lang syne;
To dream awhile, with darkened ken,
Then drop into his grave, and them
John q. SAKE.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-10-02

Medical authorities have in some
cases had reason to regret too active
and energetic surgery in diseases of the
nose and throat 1t has in number of
instances appeared that partial or en-
tire deafness has followed operations,
and complete loss of the sense of smell
Is not uncommon. Conservatism is gain
ing ground among the best surgeons.
and palliative treatment is recommend
cd whenever there seems to be chance
that 1t might have the desired effect.
The best doctors know that the knife is
a good servant, but an exceedingly bad
master, and only those whose skill and
judgment are likely to be faulty are
willing to cut and slash ON the slight
est pretext. New York Ledger.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-10-02

A passenger on an up town electric
car had reached her street and wanted
to get out. The car was full Of people
standing in the aisle, and as she thread
ed her way they moved closer together
to let her pass. She had nearly reached
the door when she stumbled and fell
Another passenger who got out at the
same street had just left her seat, and
into this the woman who stumbled fell
heavily ON her face. She at once rose
and looked for the obstruction and saw
that it was large sample case
"A nice idea, she said angrily, ito
put great thing like that in the mid
die of the car for people to fall over.
I've sprained my wrist striking ON the
car when l fell over it, "
Perhaps you think / should stand up
and hold it," sneered man who was
comfortably seated, while a dozen wo.
men stood.
mo, sir; l think you should ride in
a cattle car, i" said the angry woman as
she escaped with her life and looked
daggers after the retreating car.-De-
troit Free Press
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-10-02

Wilt some wise man who has journeyed
Over land and over sea
To the countries where the rainbow
And the glorious sunsets be
Kindly tell little stranger,
Who has oddly lost her way,
Where's the road that she must travel
To return TO Yesterday
For, you see, she's unfamiliar
With Today and cannot read
What its strange, mysterious signposts
Tell OF ways and where they lead,
And her heart upbraids her sorely,
Though she did not mean TO stay
When she fell asleep last evening
And abandoned Yesterday.
For she left deal neglected
That she really should have done,
And she fears she's lost some favors
That she fairly might have won,
So she'd like to turn her backward
To retrieve them II she may
VIII not some one kindly tell her
Where's the road to Yesterday
st. Nicholas.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-10-02

The birth Of Dreamer.
A mother on midsummer morn
Slept mid the humming Of the bees.
When for her son, ~ yet unborn,
A gem offered gifts like these:
wealth shall bring him, power. a name,r
The gent asked Of her. but owned
All were but dross, that even fame
Was but oblivion postponed.
"And happinessf" the mother cried,
"Ah, hRppnessl | have it not,
For Joy and sorrow still allied
Are portions Of each human lot.
zone other gift have to give,
Blest or unbest, which have Drought,
And choose you, mother, ERE he live,
Whether he have this gift or not.
mot his to tread the pau, Of gain,
Each worshiper of Manmon runs,
For deep within him shall remain
Star drifts Of fairer worlds and suns
And should he stoop with eyesight dim
To pick the shining dross of earth
He shall hear voices calling him
Like voices of celestial birth.
Not earthly gifts which men most prize
Shall ever by his toll he gained,
For he shall follow with strange eyes
A phantom always unattained.
"No pleasure shall he have in these,
Nor human love that lives and dies,
For still beyond each face he sees
Still faireT faces shall arise.
And while the busy, madding crowd
But view earth's present passing show
He shall see far beyond each cloud
The blooming flowers of Eden blow.
And he shall hear, as from strange spheres
Songs swecter than are ever known
Grander than heard by human ears,
Save In the dreamer's soul alone"
For this the gift that at his birth
The gent gave for woe or veal,
That ever while he lived on earth
To him the ideal should be real.
bennett Bellman.