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Decorah-posten., 1895-10-25

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fine Irniter.
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ouertaset NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. i lltab
meoens IaIt. eiabo refer omtrine
for at icmle Sauer % patte Snteresis
Tor Misiionen.
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Waaneo.
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Decorah-posten., 1895-10-25

Serubauetrut. Senator GbunO'
Ter fro q 10 Sampibirs bar ieuot en-
nh Stripelie til TrefiOeutsH for "Snter'
ftote Commerce Commission, ibotltsit
ban ppiurOrsr SOmmis IiOueu I'll at
itrioe iuo for at binors, at ben npe
Serubanetarii trRoer / &rait Sau
paaitaur. at Der i Often er oannet en-
aiGmpstrut Of Ssrubaustompanier, %
at bette 6UrstassuOe er / birette StrIo
meb 9Ousu. Suus 8reu ilutter meO,
at, buis &reiiOeut GIepeluno fun piloe
iise ct Orb til gterpOnt @Orsan, iaa
pilbe benue GammsnrOttelie itrag bltpe
oplglt.
Decorah-posten., 1895-10-25

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b%ritnnien / auleouius al @rGnsisn
meaem britiF @uiua ps @cssSuela er
IN 3assHs branpenOe SpSr8smaal
@aibiustOu, bois man fan fro be LANCE
8srstuineer | 8laoeue ON oenne Gag.
Den brittle RegicriuS bar ienot Seue'
suela fit llltimatum, % buis bens Sor'
oriuasr life inoremmes itrar, pil Stors
b~ritauien meo Must iere fin Gag frem
til Seier. Dor &m6asinbpr 2onoon,
bar ~sjcntdseuoe fUrebClot etOrbrita'
MEMS lloenriesmiuiiter WonrossGot
trinen, men 9Oro Salisbury bar iuarst
Omtrent iaaleces, at ban sipsr Nonroe'
9Uftriner. s ben fioite Samtale,
8apnrO baoSe meo Salisbury, ufbrGc
Osuue BAN iaa tuGrt, at ban life iii
fulofgre S9tuiuseu, % id9oe, at
Ruuroes3 ottrinsn life funbe aupeuoes
/ bette Tilf9lbe.
Decorah-posten., 1895-10-25

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uOsurssmtuifer clHsp tenisr rda at
irabt al. forOi ban itte er snis mso.
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ga baaos 9rsfOeuten Os &abInsttsi'
ioriioeu or borte fra pp%ueoitoSeu, iaa
ian man life iua puulirsliS 8siteO ON
benne Saa. .
Decorah-posten., 1895-10-25
garmt Ganb ionn 2Ggrmiboel.

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S~oueopine, naar ben life er allfor inos
greet, bprer mart Up. naar man iams
tiois balosr uarmt Sauo paa Ratfen
o. SDOocrue. Gn Seru,et, iom or ble'
zen rebppppet | irsenoe Sano, berpaa
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ier naiten OIeblIttelIs imoo Solit. Der
er iutet iom ~iuarere er iltano til at bel
brebe e 2nnsefonseiiiun, en- Glnsina
eler en- Gbeumatlsme, emo Sarmts
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lust / fosenpe Sanb neotuttet % bur'
tig uOiOloet Seruiet last paa bet liners
teiulpe Steo, meoisrer mart 2inoring
iur 5anopine ps Neuralsi.
Decorah-posten., 1895-10-25

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unoer % 9iiaiuucr Dollars, 90 ben
uiuter irsmeeles llot hUer Dag.
Decorah-posten., 1895-10-25
Sra @aibinatcn.

9ommcr 2Onss 4,euEOnSias FaI1
tascs op til 8sbnnOlIHs ! SSieferet
ben 3oie Iauoos | Sanuor.
Decorah-posten., 1895-10-25

All schools that have as instructors in,
penmanship really fryt class writers are
glad to mail spec mems OF their writing
10 all who apply for them.
Decorah-posten., 1895-10-25
Sait & Co.'s tore @tnfticn

ouer Spln. Der bar auerteret at ituIoe
aibuloes ! Sumbulot, Sctua. er uoiat
lnotil pioere. G%aftionens gIboIbelic
oil nermere blipe bsfienotsiort sienuem
"Secorabs8 oiten."
Decorah-posten., 1895-10-25

Prof. Breckenrdge's students should
try to be In DEBORAH Saturday. Nov. 9.
Decorah-posten., 1895-10-25

Plain, earnest workers come to Prof.
BreckenIidge's school.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-24

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup Of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in It's
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FsG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE, KY NEW YORK. N.Y.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-24

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK, NY.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-24
Castoria.

'CaStoria is so we'll adapted to children that
1 recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me-"
H. A. ARCHER NJ. D.,
Ill So. Oxford ST., Brooklyn, N. Y.
''Our physicians in the children's depart
ment have spoken highly of their expert
ence in their outside practice with Castoria,
and although we only have among our
medical supplies what is known as regular
products, yet we are free to confess that the
merits of Castoria has won us to look with
favor upon it,
UNITED HOSPITAL AND DIsPENsARY,
Boston, Mass.
ALLEN G. SMITH, Pres,
1rray Street, New York City.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-24
Chicago. Milwaukee 8 St. Paul Ry.

CHICAGO, Milwaukee & st. Paul Ry.
TRURSDRLL. STATI IN.
Daily except Sunday.
sorru NORTH.
s.aoam e:2s an.
SOB p. m. 3 AZ p "a
SUNDAY.
SOUTH. MONTH";
900 M a. m.
TI:5% 3. a. $50 Pc An'
asa p m: -. =.
Train at 10 g. m. daily except Sunday stops to
let of passengers from Milwaukee.
]. II. BELAND, Agent.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-24
1864 SO

REPORT OF COMMITTEE.
We, the committee, have examined
the County Clerk books and find
this report correct.
M. L. HOFFMAN,
f. III. HALL, Committee
HERMAN SWANTZ,
On motion, the report of commit
tee was accepted and ordered spread
on the minutes.
REPORT OF JOS. E. DALTON, COUNTY
CLERK. WITH REPORT OF COMMIT
TEE ON SANE.
To the County Board Of Supervisors
of Ke,aosh0 County, Wisconsin,.
GENTLEMEN herewith present
YOU with detailed account of re
ceipts and expenditures as County
Clerk of Kenosha County, Wiscon-
sin. from Nov. Is, 1898, to Nov.
13, 1894, inclusive, to wit:
JOS. E. DALTON,
County Clerk
KENosHA COUNTY, IN ACCOUNT
WITH Jos. E. DALTON, COUNTY
CLERK
1893.
Nov. Id. To balance cash on
hand ....... .SI83 90
Dec. Is. r. Goldworthy,
care and main
tenance ofThos.
Goldworthy, in
sane, year end
ing Sept. 50,
1898 ..... 90 10
70. / N. Felch, care
and mainten-
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-24
Castoria.

"Castoria is an excellent medicine for chill
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of it's
good effect upon their children"
Dr.. G. G. OsGooD,
Lowell, Mass.
'sCastoria is the best remedy for children of
which am acquainted. hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest of their children, and use Castoria in
stead of the various quack nostrums which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their throats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
DIR. j. F. KINCHELoE,
Conway, Ark.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-24
What is

Samuel Pitchers prescription for Infants
Children. contains neither Opium, Morphine
Narcotic substance 1t is harmless substitute
Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor OIL
1t is guarantee is thirty years by
Millions Mothers. CastOria destroys Worms and aays
feverishness. prevents vomiting Sour Curd
cures Darrhoea and Wind Collie. CastOria relieves
teething troubles, constipation and hatuencyo
CastOra assmilates the food regulates the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep Cas-
toria is the Chdrens Panacea-the Mothers Friend
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-24
Continued From Page 6. J

Supervisor Hoffman moved that
this Board fix the amount of money
to be retained or held by the county
treasurer in the treasury at 81, 800
Seconded by Supervisor Swantz
and carried.
Report OF SOLDIERS COMMISSION,
WITH REPORT OF COMMITTEES ON
SANE.
To the Honorable Board OF Super
1sors Of Keeosha County, WIS
cOnsin.
.GENTLEMEN-The Soldiers Relief
Commission of Kenosha county
herewith present their annual re
port for the year ending November
u, 1894
The Commission met Dec. IL,
1898, for organization, when G. f.
Stemm was elected president and
James Wallis secretary. The term
of office as member of the commits
sion for which Fl. f. Jordan was
appointed having expired in Deem
Der, 1898, the Hon. A. Van Wyck,
County Judge, appointed James
Wallis, of Pleasant Prairie, to fill
the vacancy.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
To balance of fund on hand
at last report. .......$ 1913 Of
To tax levy Nov %, 1893,
by County Board. =. 1000 "a
Total ........... 81, oo8 OF
DISBURSEMENTS
By amount OF orders issued
by Commission. .+.$ 964 SO
By balance on hand. 800. 1893 IS
Total ........ 81, 9o8 OF
All of which is respectfully sub
mitted.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-24

Children Cry for
Pitchers CastoFia.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-24

The Centaur Company Murray York City.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17

were turbulent and stormy, and true liter
ature is shy growth. 1t rarely gains free
expression in such periods.
There were plenty of books, ponderous
tones of scholastic philosophy and divin-
ity, full of subtle discussions on points be-
yond human comprehension there were
pious lives of impossible saints; there was
finical wire drawing of fine spun senti-
ment by the Troubadours; but all this is
not literature. The literature, that which
has the eternal element in it, must be
something that appeals to the heart of the
people, something that touches their inner
self and brings to light their hopes and
fears, their joys and sorrows, their ideals
and failures.
For such literature we must go to the
Trouveres and romancers of the north.
They alone have felt the heartbeat of the
period. because they wrote for the popular
ear. The Barons and ladies of that day
longed for amusement and diversion as
much as the novel-reader of to-day-nay,
more. for, isolated as they were in their
lonely castles, they gave a double welcome
to the lay of the minstrel, the song of the
trouveres or the prose romance, which
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17

we have been neglectful of our duty
toward our Godmother Literature. So to-
night we propose 10 return to her and to
give ourselves over to the en- ioyment of an
evening wholly hers. Never reproachful,
always comforting, she repays even slight
attention with rest and calm, and for devo-
ton leads US to companionship with the
elect of the earth and gives US the best
that man has felt or has thought.
To share this evening with US and to
make this anniversary perfect have come
few choice friends, whose practiced hands
will help Us renew pleasures we have almost
forgotten. Once again shall we know the
Grecian's power, the Latin's matchless
charm. To US will be revealed that where
in mind found its solace during the darkest
period of the whole worlds history. In
modern fiction shall we see life retold with
all its pathos, all its helpfulness. Inspired
verse will lay her glories bare, and through
all and over all shall be felt the influence
of wit and humor that lift the world of
letters above the world of earth and turn
man away from his griefs and from his
failures. All these are literature's own.
With full sense of what is in store for
US let US turn back the leaves of history,
breathe once more the charmed air of
Athens ana of Rome, and follow Professor
Edward B. Clapp of Berkeley, who will
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17
GENERAL LU~IUS H. FOOTE.
From a photograph

across my vision; the Troubadours, lutte in
hand, chanting their gay songs, the ladies
holding their courts of love" to decide
fine points of amorous courtesy, splitting
hairs to determine the exact duty of the
knight to his lady love.
And over all this unreal scene broods the
grand majestic universal church, claiming
supreme power in earth ana heaven, hold
ing in her right hand the keys of heaven
and hell, exalting always the ascetic un-
worldly virtues, poverty, chastity, self
abnegation, these were the spells that
would open the gates of the kingdom and
the monk and the hermit would be sum-
moned to the highest seats in paradise.
How strange and unreal all this seems to
US, yet these were the ideals of human life
in Western Europe for many generations.
Underneath all this fantastic surface were
saints and heroes as noble and devoted as
the world ever saw.
What expression did this strange form
of society find in literature? The times
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17

culture of this splendid empire, should put
ourselves in closest touch with those gifted
men who once wrought such marvels
amid surroundings so much like oursP
Why should we not seize our opportunity
to Law the broadest foundations at the OUT
set? Must we initiate the errors OF some
of our sister States in the Mississippi Val
ley, which, in mistaken effort for the So
called practical, groped in blindness al
most for generations, with the reproach OF
Beotian dullness upon them, waiting till
some Rockefeller would come, and, by
sheer force of millions, set their ed
ucation on a solid basis2 No stranger
people of California can fail to be
impressed with a certain peculiar quality
of mind which he finds here. There is
quickness and keenness of perception In
these young people which is by no means
common in the East. If we can but bring
them into relations of reverent sym pathy
with their intellectual kinsmen in
ancient Greece, why may they not some
day give the world another Homer, or
second Plato? believe that it is within
our power to pave the way for liter
ary and artistic renaissance on these ro-
mantle shores which shall raise California
to the level, not of Wisconsin and Illinois,
not merely of Connecticut and Massa-
chusetts, but of the most brilliant COM
seen. Only we must not be misled by
narrow utilitarianism which would cut US
off from our choicest source of inspira-
ton. If we will let the classics do for US
what they did for Italy at her renaissance,
the name of San Francisco may some day
be more celebrated than that OF the Flor
-ence of Dante and the Medici.
The Chairman-Not all the greatness OF
mans INTELLECT. of which we have so inter-
estingly and forcibly heard, could keep the
governments of the earth from topping
into chaos. For ages the earth was
wrapped in a gloom through which no
brightness seemed to come. But it was
there, and it pierced that night like stars.
It was in the song and story and brought
solace to the mind of man. Medieval lit
eratnre-what it was, its legendary grace,
its wonders that still dellght-will be once
again revealed to you by Mr.. Horace Davis.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE.
BY HON. HORACE DAVIS.

The medieval period l conceive to be
that era of transition extending from
the time of Charlemagne to the dawn
of the Renaissance-say to about 1900
during which the Gothic tribes were
slowly becoming adjusted to their new
homes and their new religion.
It was time of strong motives, violent
passions and strange contrasts. War. love
and religion were the prime motives. II
was the era of knight errantry, chivalry
and the Crusades, and the stage of action
is filled with such men as Peter the Her
NIT, Godfrey, Tancred and Richard the
Lien-hearted.
AsI look at it from its softer side an.
other and q very different army troops
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17
T THE LAST MEETING OF
~ N the Chit-Chat Club, held on the
*.~~AN occasion of the club twenty-frst
x IN birthday: there was an unusually

!: - -. DFllllanI programme. j he papers
were carefully prepared by gentlemen of
ability, and.were well received by the un-
usually large assem- blage of visitors.
~ The Chit-Ghat Club was organized in
November, 1874 and has met monthly for
" dinner, followed by an essay and discus
sion. The only officer of the club is the
secretary asurer. The essayist of one
meeting presides at the following. The
MEM bers write in turn, announcing the
subject at the meeting preceding the
reading.
=. The. list of membership is restricted to
twenty-five, the list for 1895 being
Thomas F. Barry, James S. Bunnell, Don.
aid Y. Campbell, Horace Davis, Frank P.
Deering, Professor O. L. Elliott, DIR. Henry
Gibbons Jr., Albert Gerberding, George W.
Haight, Willard B.. Harrington, William
. Greer Harrison, Joseph HasBrouck, Alfred
20 Holman, Joseph Hutchinson, Sheldon G.
Kellogg; Gerrit L. Lansing, William H.
=: Mills; a. F. Morrison, Charles A. Murdoch,
James D. Phefan, Arthur Rodgers, Eli T.
Sheppard, William Spronle, Rev. Horatio
.Stebbins, Professor John M. Stillman.
= Essays during 1S94-95 have been read as
follows: Harrison, Samuel Pepys and
: His 'Times''; Gerberding. ".The Currency
of the United States; Murdock, kidd s
Social Evolution; Sproule, "The Decline
of Poetry; Kellogg, 1.-THE Hawaiian Re-
public and Its Future; Deering, 1.-THE
New Charter and Municipal Reform; !;
Gibbons, :"Reeent Improvements in
Medicine''; Hutchinson, Dangers of
Codifcation"; Harrington, 1.-THE Gold
Standard in, California; Haight, "The
Legal and Political Status of Woman; ;
! Rodgers, The Hawaiian Republic"
AT the last meeting Frank P. Deering
was the presiding officer. In opening the
proceedings he said:
IT is my happy privilege to announce that
this is the twenty-frst birthday of the
Chit Chat Club. 1t gives me very great
pleasure: to welcome all, especially our
guests, upon this anniversary. Twenty
one years ago, when the club came into
existence and received its name, the SIS
ters* Literature and Political Economy
STOOD as its sponsors. To them was fealty
declared, and they with never-varying
falthfuluess have guided our feet as we
-. have. gone out into the world of thought
1t was the hope and the design of the
founders of the club that we should meet
each month and bring tributes alternately
to our guardian spirits, in proof of our
constancy and for our own improvement.
We have so met. But questions of the
day. the practical problems of life
have rather led us away from the un-
troubled paths of fancy, the quiet retreats
of Literature to pass more time than we
should perhaps in the excitement of vex-
ing. and not altogether satisfying con-
troversies.
A glance at the list of our last years
work found upon the menu will show that
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17
THE CLASSICS In ANCIENT
and MODERN TIMES.
BYPRoFESSOR EDWARD 3. cLAPP

l should hardly venture to ask your at
tention to the time-worn subject of the
classics if I had not the warrant of your
express invitation; for no question has
been more thoroughly discussed than this,
and little that is new remains to be said.
But in spite of the persistent assaults of
that distinguished graduate of Harvard,
whose ancestors were Presidents of the
United States, the classics will not down,
and l should be unworthy to be student
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17

tell US of the classics in ancient and in
modern times,
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17

tlOu OF homer 8 greater spleuOOT. OQdKeS-
peare and Goethe may compete on equal
terms with Sophocles, but we look in vain
for another. No philosopher can dispute
the absolute pre-eminence of Plato. In
sculpture, even Michael Angelo himself
serves only as foil for the absolute perfec-
ton of Phidias and Praxiteles. In fact it
is doubtful whether the combined efforts
of the whole civilized world, from the
Christian era till to-day, have produced so
literature as was created by that handful
of Athenians in three or four generations
If this statement is true, or even ap-
proximately true, do we realize the infer
ence which we must draw as to the Gre
ative genius of the Greeks? With every
advantage of education, with the best
models before our eyes from infancy, with
the secrets of each art unfolded to thou
sands every year by accomplished teach
ers, we yet produce almost nothing which
can stand comparison with the nntaught
and unaided work of q few Greeks, who
ate with their nngers and worshiped the
sun and moon. Throwing aside all the
enthusiasm of the professed Hellenist, and
planting ourselves upon the universal
opinion of mankind, this fact is the great
est marvel of history and would be pro-
nounced incredible if it were not true.
1t does not. therefore. seem to me to be
a mere accident perpetuated by tradition
that the general consent Of the most en-
lightened nations has decided that there
is no more valuable subject for the gen.
eral student, none which more powerfully
stimulates the creative faculty in art and
literature, than the Greek classics. In
dealing with these ancient writers we are
not reading the works of brilliant imita-
tors or Iaborious compilers, but we are
going back to the very source of the
worlds intellectual life. These men
wrought with that freshness of energy
and freedom of movement which Be-
long to the explorer OF new paths, and
yet with severe artistic beauty which