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The morning times., 1896-08-16
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tolookupon ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TIKI
environment.
There Is u baby you have seen. You may
see him any evening score u times on
Seventh street. His name is Tony. He Is
y tat, chubby baby and has short slips, Though
he is scarcely ten months old.
Tony lives in the second story OF q block
OF red fronted three-story business houses.
These summer days are very hot Tor him,
but Barbara, his sister, is very good to him,
and mother never takeshis eyes offhim. He
neveropenshislipsto crythaton one or theother
isn't by his side,
Though Tony is little gourmet, he is
never begrudgcd "a mouthful of food. A
dozen times day mother or Barbara drop
their work in response to an appeal from
two big, china-b,ue eyes, looking up from
among broken toys, and catch Tony up for
lullaby. Mother sings it In German and
Barbara in English, but It's all one to him
When the sun has gone down behind the
buildings, and father and Joe and Nike have
helped mother and Barbara finish supper.
every one takes a chair to the pavement in
front of the store-except Joe, and he takes
two, one for mother, who is carrying Tony.
There they sit through the evening. Some
times they promenade up and down the
pavement and many complimentary things
are said OF Tony's red cheeks and the
golden knot of hair rolled like a gilded
biscuit on the top OF his head
Tony never knows when the store is
finally shut up and the pitcher sent two
doors below for cool draught of beer
and he is carried back TO his cradle in
mothers room.
The morning times., 1896-08-16

In vogue for ages. Notwithstanding the
fact that the late shah years ago iasued
a firman prohibiting the torture OF crimi-
malls.
For ordinary crimes 10 Persia the pun
ishment IL personal disngurement. The
evii-doer who is caught In his evil-doiug
Is marked for life. For a first offense
at highway robbery the prisoner may lose
some OF his fingers For second offense
he Is likely TO lose q hand. The traveller
passing through Persia for the first time
is astonished at the number of MANNED
and halr-blind men whom he meets on the
caravan trails. The writer has seen one
man In Persia who, as a result OF per-
sistent wroug-doing, had lost hand, a
foot, an ear, aud an eye. With all that
he was pointed out as q person to be-
avoided.
EXPOSING SEVERED MEMBERS.
Apart from the inniction of pain as
means of extorting confessions, there Is
another well-defined reason for the torture
(. OF criminals. IL is intended that corporal
punishment shall be warning and an ex-
ample to other evildoers. 1t is for this
reason that the severed hands, fingers and
ears OF convicted men are thrown into one
OF the principal streets to horrify men going
about the ordinary affairs of business. In
Ufumia last December any one could SEE
hands and ears lying in the streets OF the
bazaars. At the time the governor was sur
fering the pains OF a rheuIpaticleg and the
mills OF justice were grinding double time.
But decapitatiOn in Persia has lost some
of its old-time picturesqueness In thinking
of decapitatiOn one naturally pictures a
scene in which the executioner, posed in a
theatrical attitude, swings aloft a glitter.
scimitar, and, with lone weILdirected
blow" strikes Off the victims head. In
Persia today one finds that sort OF thing
POnly in picture BOOKS imported from the
Christian West. AS q matter of prosaic
fact, the victims head is hacked off with
short knife. To be even more exact, the
head is very rarel y hacked off. Uusually the
executioner is satisfied with hacking open
two or three large veins of the throat and
letting his man bleed to death. The trav-
eler loses a great many illusions in a jour
lie V through Persia. and this is one OF them.
Though telling the truth is lost art in
Persia, once in while a liar gets sudden
The morning times., 1896-08-16
Money Layished on Iri,,es,

Expensive triflcs have ceased to be a
luxury to the rich. One of the fans which
Mrs. Almeric Paget inherited from her
mother, Mrs. Whitney, has gold and ivory
sticks, a lace mount, and is valued at the
trifling sum OF 81 900, and one of the
treasures in Mrs. W. H. vandcrhilt's library
is whip which belonged to her husband.
gift from friends. The stock is Of ivory,
finely carved The whip is made Of solid
whalebone. The cost OF this little gift is
said to have been SO ,O0O.-Chica go
Chronicle
The morning times., 1896-08-16
SPICES AS BAD AS DRINK.
Physicians Warn Drinking Men
Against Their Use.


Here's a note OF warning from we'll
known Walnut street physician against the
habit OF eating spices of one kind and an
other which drinking men acquire. lit is
almost as bad" lie said yesterday, las the
drink habit itself. No wellregulated bar
room is considered equipped nowadays I'M
lessit has on the bar a ira filled with cloves.
ailspice, cinnamon, lem on peel, calamus and
other puneent condiments The original
idea OF suppl wing thesethings was todeaden
the liquor breath, but nowadays nine men
out OF ten who eat the spices do so because
they go with the drink, and 1t has become
quite a second habit with them. These
spices are powerful irritants. and produce
evils OF various sorts. Peppcrcorns have q
facilitating effect on the system. cinnamon
depresses the action OF the heart, and Gala
mus has a bad effect on the liver"
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From London 10 Paris.

trip between London and Paris has
Just been made in six hours and thirty
two minutes. From London to Dover
1884 milesl took one hour aud twenty
two minutes; the passage OF the channel
twenty-five miles, took one hour and
fifteen minutes. and the run from Calais
to Paris 1s5 1.2 miles was mnde In
three hours and thirty-four minutes. an
average Of 66.b miles. including stops--
Chicago Chronicle. .
The morning times., 1896-08-16

any other, for each one to some pair of
eyes is the perfection of ali the beauties
in the world. One pair OF eyes sees 1t
blindly, with blindness OF love Even
as each like cooing and screaming voice
is music to at least one pair OF ears.
The morning times., 1896-08-16

the infant imagination hasn't begun 70
trouble about. The splash OF the fountain
attracts their ready ear, and with stolid
wonderment they mediate upon the mys-
terry OF so beautiful toy set up for them.
Splendid philosophers are the children.
The fire-bail far up on the other side Of the
trees catches their eye. They know better
than to argue with its impudence and turn
to the milk bottle, or il nurses are not
looking. seize the opportunity TO make the
fall from the cab, which is threatened every
day.
Then breeze steals In among the lcafy
avenues and Tom Noddy unseen lays his
finger on two little eyes and the wonders
of nature are forgotten while soft voice
sings Little Boy Hue,r the ideal bugler
OF babyhood. OF the wonderful feats OF the
cat and the fiddle,the hish-Jumping COW.
the risible dog and the clipping spoon and
dish.
sQUALoR AND NEGLECT.
But the parks are the gardens OF the
aristocrats. All the babies are not born to
trees and fountains. To a back street south
east which luxuriates In the grand title Of
place. when 1t is in reality little more
eudu an aley, tnere came IasL AutuiHu Il
year ago a little girl. Her fathers pro-
fession was being good fellow at the
corner groggery and cursing the world
that would not accept his itleness as ccin
current for comfortable living. Her
mother was white slave to this man and
to a tub, which stood behind the kitchen
door.
For several weeks the little whining, red
stranger that lay wrapped in shawl in
a rag carpet lined clothes basket, was
alluded to promiscuously es ''it'or her"
One day the woman said the kid ought to
have a name; "other kids had EN-" This
opened the way for an argument on the
ethics of nomenclature. 1t ended as argu-
nents between this couple usually did.
The woman went TO the pile OF rags in
the corner. called bed, to muse bruised
head. The man went to the pursuit of his
polite profession and came home two days
after. The innocent cause of the trouble
cried pteously and knew nothing.
An Irishwoman across the alley and two
doors down happened by next day and
learned from the woman the cause OF the
The morning times., 1896-08-16
Reduction in Rate to Bay Ridge.

Reduction In Rate 70 Bay Ridge.
The rate to Bay Ridge. the beautiful
excursion resort on the Chesapeake Bay
has been reduced this season to 30 cents
for adults, except for evening train n
rate OF rs cents will be charged, with
rebate of 20 cents after coupon IL stamped
by ticket agent at Bay Ridge. Half rate
for children between the ages OF and 2
years. Trains leave B. & o. depot, week
days, 9:16 q. M and 4:2s p. M Sundays,
9:35 q. M, lao and 3:15 p. m.
jel6-W.f0-0
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New Woman Is Not Pushing Enough.
No, sir, have no objection to anything
which takes on the nature of progress and
enlightenment" said Bob Miller. 1T have
no objection to the new woman without she
pushes ahead little too East"
"What'sthat you say" said the man WHO
came into the hotel, dressed in new suit
OF bicycle clothes. '.You try to ride up
llill with the new woman on bicycle tan.
dem and you win then find you are mis-
taken."-Paris journal.
The morning times., 1896-08-16

and awful punishment. One OF the late
shah's body-guard was kareem, formerly a
noted robber and outlaw. Kareem took
from the rich and gave lavishly to the poor
He carried on his operations for long time
upand down the Perso- Turkish border One
day merchant of Gilman senta servant TO
kboi with sum OF money. On the pass
above the Salinas plain the servant met an
armed robber.
Il am kareem," said the robber .Give
me your money"
and pleaded and wept,
but the robber took the money and made
off. Presently several horsemen came along
the trail.
why weep your asked the leader of the
horsemen. ut is not seemly that strong
man should shed tears like a Child
..Kareem, the robber, has just taken from
me the nvDey which my master gave
me to carry oKhol." The weeping servant
then described the robber and pointed out
the direction which he had gone.
Remain here" said the leader of the
horsemen; I'VE will return"
In half an hour the horsemen returned
The leader bore on his saddle bow the head
OF man.
rs this the man who robbed your he
asked.
Truly, master, it is the man," said the
servant
Here, them" said the leader, handing
out bag of silver, lis your masters
money" Then he thre W the head Contempt
uously to the ground.
s.That man was liar said he. II am
Kareem."
TRIALS OF THE sHAHs.
Teheran. the capital of Persia, is SUR
rounded bysa high wall and moat, and the
Persians say this wall early suggested it.
self as q most convenient place for dis
posing of superfluous and inconvenient per-
sons. The moat is usually dry, and a fall
from the top to the grolni is almost sure to
prove fatal.
Probably the shahs OF Persia have had no
trials In all their history which can COM
pare In seriousness to the difficulties which
q harem full OF Jealous and unruly wives
will create. Even the most merciful king
has at times been forced to resort to
severe measures, and the city wall at such
Iunctures has been the regular means Of
disposing Of the ladies' who caused the
trouble.
Several bodies of beautiful women once
were found 10 the ditch BY peasants wan
The morning times., 1896-08-16
ENGRAVING on DIAMONDS.
Portraits of People Adjoining Rare
Gems Common as Presents.

PORTRAITS OF I'eOpie AdOfning Rure
Gems Common as Presents.
Aaslrers
Diamonds can now be engraved in Il very
artistic manner.
The development of the diamond cutting
art brings into existence a new class oil
jewelry, for which considerable dema nd
is expected. 1t was long believed that the
diamond could not be engraved with safety
or satisfactory results: but few stones
roughly engraved We're found in India
and a diamond was exhibited at the Paris
exhibition of 1878 on which q portrait Of
the King OF Holland was scratched
But the work was very imperfect, and the
stones were rather demolished than On.
graved.
Some of the finest examples of engrav.
Ing on diamonds are the work of a Paris
Jeweler. One is a scarfpin representing a
yatag CHAN, OF which the blade is a slender
diamond and the handle is ruby Another
Is u large circular stone, on which pansy
with its foliage is engraved.
An elaborate piece of work is a bicycle, of
which thewheels are two circular diamonds
The spokes are represented by lines en-
graved on the diamonds. A small hole is
pierced at each angle.
Another diamond is carved like a fish.
A handsome brooch is a scarabaeus, sir
rounded by sapphires and briniants.
Other examples are brooches represent
ing flies, of which the wings are thin, en-
Sraved diamonds; two diamonds engraved
With arnloral bearings, theimperial arms OF
Russia being used in one instance on shirt
and cuff buttons.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-02-13
SOUTH BRISTOL

The Ladies Aid society will give a
ten cent social at Frank Gethens
Thursday evening of this week.
Miss Price, the teacher in Dist. No.
spent Saturday and Sunday at home
Henry Pickens, of Iowa, is visiting
his brother Barker Pickens, Of this
place.
The Ladies Aid society met at Mrs.
Powelps Thursday night, all report a
good time.
Day Shuart will return to Madison,
after spending few days with his sis
ter in South Milwaukee.
Frank Winka has larger ideas in his
mind this spring, he has rented Ashley
Turner's form.
MOwney seems to be very accommo-
dating Monday mornings.
Several Of our young men are getting
tired of shaving clean SO they let the
upper lip take care of itself
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SOMERS

The following pupils of Dist. No. 5,
Somers, were punctual in attendance
for the month ending Feb. z, 1896:
Mollie Heddle, Ray Mitchell, Mabel
Yule, Lottie Haigh, Blanche Yule,
Frank Rhodes, Jake Schaefer, Jep
Jensen, Erma Bowers, Mary Larson,
Lizzie Gitzlatf.
Minnie A. Grimshaw, Teacher.
Report of Dist. No. 2, Somers, for
the school month ending Feb. {, 1896;
Merle Jordan, Kate Dorey, Lena Ortiz,
Eta Pedley, Ida Runals, Grace Wells,
Ralph Pedley, John Northway, Frank
Runals, Harry Rogers, John Jordan,
Guy Pedley, Milton Northway, John
Rogers, Harry Jordan, Philip Fonk,
Willie Henschen and Theddy Fonk.
VIM. Rogers and Charles Barth have
been present but tardy. Grace Wells
has been perfect in attendance since
school opened. Membership, 80; at
tendance, 90 per cent.
Conrad Shearer, Teacher.
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WOODWORTH.

Day Shuart has returned to his
school at Madison.
Mrs. III. l.. Adams returned from her
visit in Waukegan Monday evening.
The Rev. Robertson was calling on
friends in South Bristol Tuesday.
The mite society at Mr.. Powells was
we'll attended and all report having
had a good time.
S. d. Gethen says Berlin is very
nice place, but when told there were
81 widows residing there be made
tracks for homeward. Now he says,
there is no place like home.
Any one having runaway team that
smashes things in general had better
go and take few lessons of James
Karnes; he does not believe in having
any damage done in runaway.
Report says that Geo. Gates, of Bris-
toll, is on the sick list.
If there comes any more skating
Rob, there are some other little boys
who would like to join your club.
G. Allen talks of renting his farm
and moving to Lake Villa.
James Schofeld, of Waukegan, at
tended church at Wesley chapel Sun
day.
James Ward has shaken off the grip
and is able to be out again.
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BRISTOL.

The musical at the M. E. church
last Friday night was all immense sue
cess. Nearly everything on the pro-
gram being capitally executed.
Miss Maggie Boundford entertained
a number of her friends at an evening
party last Wednesday night.
Mrs. Hattie Moore, of Milwaukee, is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Carter.
Miss Ada Johnson, of Salem was the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Will Turner.
Messrs. Powell and Stewart were
out from Salem the other night.
Mrs. John Fox, of Kenosha, and Mrs.
Yates, Of Pleasant Prairie. attended
the musical last Friday night.
Dennis Murphy, of Brighton, visited
in Kenosha Monday.
Miss RunyOn, of Chicago, is spend
ing q few days with her uncle, John
Lacey.
The news of the death of Charles
Vincent, of Wilmot, brought feeling
of sorrow to every heart in Bristol.
Charley assisted his brother, Elmer
Vincent, in the factory at this place for
a time last year, and won the good Will
of all by his gentlemanly conduct and
pleasant ways.
Mrs. F. E. Stevens is visiting friends
at ManitoWoc.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Collier of Union
Grove, have been the guests of Mr., and
Mrs. Geo. Gates.
Be sure and come to the institute
next week. We want big crowd.
Mr.. Moen, of Union Grove has rent
ed the store formerly occupied by F. R.
Lazy and will put in line of furniture
Bristol people are pleased to see
Watson Jackson back at his old stand
in the barber shop.
Haman Reber, of Chicago Heights
formerly resident of Bristol, is visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. George Shields.
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SILVER LAX


Mrs. w. O. Allen returned Thursday
from Ritestown after a several days
visit.
The small amount Of snow that has
fallen has created, among the young
folks, a desire for good sieighing on
the night of the masquerade ball at f.
FL. Screenings hall Feb. IA.
May we dare to ask what attraction
the vicinity Of Yorkville had for John
KerWin Sunday?
A play, entitled, Driven From
Home, :" will be given Feb. 10, by the
young folks of this vicinity, under the
direction of Mr.. Miner, of Chicago.
The Chicago Medicine show are CIV
ing exhibitions in Columbia hall this
week, being free except Friday night,
when the small sum of 10 cents will be
charged.
Miss Gertrude Booth paid a visit to
Kenosha Saturday.
Mrs Lawrence McNulty has been
quite sick the past week.
Measles are still raging in this place.
A Leap Year Party" will be given
in Columbia hall Monday evening,
Feb. IL.
John Moody has returned from his
trip to Schennington.
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CAMP LAKE.

Mrs. Mamie Burman spent a short
time with her sister here last week.
Miss Edna McVey, who has been i'll
is reported better.
Ed. Lamb spent last week in Chi
cage.
Evelyn Orvis and Francis Gallagher
have the measles.
Frank Yaw was a Chicago visitor
last week.
L. E. Lamb spent couple of days
in Kenosha the past week.
Merssrs Geo. Breul, Chas. Smith,
Frank Yaw and Chas. 10th have gone
to Madison to harvest ice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Burroughs, nee
Bessie Wilber) are the happy parents
of baby boy.
Misses Maggie Gallagher and Hetta
Yaw were Burlington visitors Monday
A number from here attended the
funeral of Chas. Vincent, at Wilmot
Saturday.
Geo. Barhyte, of Trevor, is very sick
with typhoid fever.
Miss Flora Orvis is at home on a
visit.
Miss Lulu Jordon Of this place and
Herman Louis, of Munster, were mar
ried at Munster Wednesday morning
The bride is we'll known here and has
the best wishes of her many friends.
Mike Cafferty, of Silver Lake is stay
ing with relatives here.
The horses belonging to the Lincoln
Ice company were taken to Burlington
Friday, from whence they were ship
ped to Mcfarland.
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Correspondents Wanted.

It is the desire of the publisher to
make the county news an important
feature of the TELEGRAPH COURIER,
and to this end we need the co-opera-
ton of our friends. We wish to hear
regularly from our correspondents, and
we wish to secure a regular CORES
pondent at Bassetts, Randall,
Trevor, and We will furnish
stamps and stationery and q copy
Of the paper gratis, and we sim
cerely hope that some one will volun-
teer at each of the points mentioned.
Let us hear from you. 81
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PARIS.

Ed Meredith is quite sick with the
measles.
Mrs. Will Williams, Mrs. Ben Wat
kins and Messrs Ed Williams and Chas.
Watkins were guests of Kenosha friends
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Miss Grace Gunter is visiting her
aunts, Mrs. c. Witcher and Mrs. G.
Murdoch, of Bristol for few days.
Several of the young folks from east
Paris attended the surprise party at
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Feckner's of Keno
sha Saturday evening.
Quite number of Parasites attended
the Musical" at Bristol Friday eve.
The social at Mr.. Stevens last We'd
nesday evening was we'll attended and
all report a good time.
L. r. Price drives a fine new horse
and carriage.
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COUNTY NEWS.
Leaves From the Lives of Those Who
Dwell About US.
WOODWORTH.

WOODWORTH.
A. j. Benedict had business in Chi
cago last week.
J. B. Edwards resumed his school
work Monday after weeks tussle with
the grippe.
j. A. LOOMS is somewhat indisposed
and is in DR.. Bacon's care.
Quite a number from this vicinity at
tended the funeral of Charles Vincent
at Wilmot Saturday.
The pulpit of the Plank road church
was decorated with a beautiful bunch
of ferns from the farm of L. M. Thayer,
of Person county, N. c., Sunday.
Scarlet fever has made its appear
ance in the family Of L. Epson.
The entertainment given at the M
Z. church, Bristol, under the auspices
of Mesdames Foulke and Williams was
a success in every way and was the
best of its kind ever gotten up in the
village.
The farmers institute will be held at
Bristol February Is and 10. Every
farmer should make it point to at
tend this institute one or both days.
Come prepared to ask questions and
compare experiences, it will be source
of pleasure and profit to you. Farm
ing in it's different branches, owing to
competition, is reduced to a science,
and only those who make careful
study of the business can hope to sue
coed.
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County Teachers Meeting

The school teachers of Kenosha
county appear to be we'll pleased with
the monthly meetings held in the east
ern and western sections of the county.
The programs are carried out in an in
teresting manner, and the attendance
is on the average, very good. The
outline of work prepared by Superin-
tendent Maloney is found to be of great
aid in preparation, as it is always at
hand ami may be quickly referred to.
While attendance at these meetings is
certain TO greatly benefit those who see
fit to attend, there should be some
means by which faithful attendants
may be given advantages above those
of absentees, i. e., in the application for
positions. As the thing now stands the
chances for securing employment are
about as good for one as the other, and
consequently, since the purse is not
affected by absence, many who should
attend are not present.
If this matter might only be better
considered by boards of education, and
preference shown to teachers who
are striving to improve themselves and
benefit those committed to their charge,
we would see even greater enthusiasm
manifested III the work. In order that
district boards may have an oppor-
tunity of keeping posted on the matter,
the report of each meeting is published
in our local papers. This embraces a
list of the teachers present and a sketch
of the work done, both of which should
be of interest to those who have in
their power the filling of positions.
Many teachers, realizing the benefit,
do not fail to attend, and those who do
not should be made to feel the loss and
suffer the consequence. Let all school
authorities consult those reports, and
thus be informed from time to time of
the work done by superintendent and
teacher. H.
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