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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-10-26
INSCRIPTION ON MONUMENT.
Mr.. Simmons Has Made Known the Simple
Words Which WillsDedicate 1t.

A great deal of speculation has been
heard in regard to the inscription
which will be placed on the large die
of the soldiers monument to be erected
in Central park, in honor of the soldiers
of the county.
The inscription, which has been in
the hands of the scu1ptors for many
weeks, has been carefully guarded but
it has been made public today. The
selection of a proper inscription to be
placed on the monument has been con-
sidered by Mr.. Simmons for some time,
and many inscriptions have been pre-
scented to the donor of the monument.
The one that has been selected is
very short and simple and is as follows:
In honor of the
BRAVE MEN OF KENOSHA COUNTY
Who VIGOROUSLY Defended the
Union on Land and Sea
During the War of
the Great Rebellion,
1861-1865.
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A HERO OF SAN JUAN.
Sergeant switzer of the 10th Infantry, U.
S. A., Visits Friends in This City.

Just at present Kenosha is busy
welcoming home the heroes of the
Spanish-American war, and among
them is Sergeant John A. Switzer, of
Company l, 10Th Infantry, U. S. A.,
who came last evening for a visit with
his brother, E. O. Switzer, on South
street. Sergeant Switzer was one of
the men who bore the brunt of the
battle in the Cuban struggle. With
his company he took part in the battles
of Santiago and San Juan and he was
among the long list of heroes who
fought for Cuban freedom at the hill at
San Juan. The soldier is away from
the army on fur1ough and will spend
most of the time at his home in this
city. Switzer has been a soldier for
many years yet he says that the battle
of San Juan hill was the most terrific
engagement in which the American
arms have been employed since the
battles of the civil war. In this battle
Switzer was badly wounded. He was
in the foremost ranks of the regulars
when the charge was ordered and re-
ceived a bullet wound through the
body. Later in the war he was a sec
ond time wounded while doing provost
duty.
After a long term of suffering in
the hospital he has been relieved of
duty for awhile to recuperate his
health.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-10-26
CHANGE IN MAIL CONTRACTS
Parker Brothers Will Handle the Mails
for the Present in This City.

A chan .se was made this morning in
the matter of handling the mails in
the city, and an order was received
from the general department at Wash
ington ordering that the Parker Bros.
Transfer company be allowed to at
tend to this branch of the post office
department in this city. The new
carriers began their work this morn
ing, and will receive the same compen-
sation which was paid to the former
holders of the contract.
This contract, which was in this
manner transferred to the new com
pany, will be held by them until it is
taken away on account of their failure
to handle the business properly, or on
account of new bids being asked for
by the government.
No reason is given by the local office
for the change, but the people can feel
assured lat the mails will be properly
handled by Charles and Fred Parker,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-10-26
Koehler- Williams.

A pretty wedding ceremony was
celebrated at the parsonage of the M.
E, church last evening at o'clock.
The contracting parties were Miss May
Williams, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William r. Williams, and Louis Koch
Ter, one Of the best known young men
of the village. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. E. w. Mayer,
pastor of the M. E. church, in the
presence of few friends and re1at-
tives. After the wedding the bridal
part were driven to Kenosha and left
for short wedding trip. They will
make their home at Wilton, ILL.,, and
will be at home to their friends after
Nov. 1.
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Are Happily Wed.

One of the prettiest home weddings
ever celebrated in this city was ce1e-
brated on last Saturday evening at the
home OF August Nelson on Lyman
avenue. The contracting parties were
Axte1 Nelson, brother of Aid. Frank
Nelson, and Miss Sigfrid Nelson, a
sister of August Nelson. The house
was deliberately decorated for the
occasion and large company of
friends and and relatives were present
when the ceremony was performed by
the Rev. G. K. Stark, of the Swedish
Lutheran church. Following the
wedding a supper was served. Mr..
and Mrs. Nelson will be at home to
their friends at their new home on
Lyman avenue after Nov. l.
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AUTUMN WEDDINGS,
Two Young Couples Are United in
the Holy Bonds of WedIOck at
st. Georges Church.
wILLEMs- BoREscH NUPTIALs

Charles Mullen. the Well Known Express
man, and Miss Mary Peters, of YORK.
Vile, Take the Marriage vows-Miss
May Williams, of Pleasant Prairie, is
Married TO Louis Koehler by the Rev.
A. W. Mayer.
October seems to be favo1ite month
for weddings, and in these waning
days of autumn the wedding bells are
ringing in all parts of the city. The
month promises to be the busiest one
of the year in matrimonial circles.
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The Commercial High School.

The tanning, Harvesting and uti1izs
ing of the forces of nature appears to
be the main business of the modern
world. Commerce is one Of the great
kings of the present time. For many
years plain, practical people have
known that the High school and cole
1ege courses of study placed most stress
upon those topics which were supposed
to fit the student for the law, incidence
teaching or the ministry. He must
learn a certain amount of druggists
| Latin, or musty Greek. He must
waste the morning of life in solving
conundrums in algebra or memorizing
ancient theorisms of Euclid. Such
thing as fitting him to master the
modern conditions of industry and
commerce caused a chill to come over
the be-spectac1ed professors. 30 noy
we mustn't do such things''. "Educa@
tionis for life Education must stun
materia1ism and commercia1is1n"
''The shop is early at war with the
schooP'. Less of such stuff is now
heard. The modern world is beginning
to think with John Ruskin that ''that
which is most profitable to know is also
most profitable to learn and the science,
which it is the highest power to possess
is also the best exercise to aCquire".
The nation needs men and women
trained in finance and commerce-in
short business, much more than in let
tiers and politics. After all the fine
talk about ''cu1ture,'' and so on, the
main thing in life is to know how to
put bread in the buttery ar clothes in
the wardrobe, and how to have always
a few spare dollars on hand.
The business college has come with d
rush and has come to stay. In France,
Germany and in Great Britain there
are great commercial schools sup<
ported by the state. Then effects are
seen in the wonderful increase Of
trade. Our great commercial centers
are finding out that the high schools
are not giving any business training.
Few of the graduates can write an orr
binary note, solve the simplest problem
in bookkeeping and are helpless before
the most common business trans
actions.
In the high school of the future
there will be no Greek, no Latin, no
zoology, no chemistry, no permutations
and determinats, no theorism passed
upon students who have neither time
nor taste for such things. We read
that Mrs. Squeers forced each boy, big
and little, to swallow the same sized
spoonful of sulphur and mo1asses.
We are doing much the same in the
schools. A pupil can't graduate"
until he has absorbed a certain
quantity of dog-Latin, doubtful
Greek or has guessed at few mathe-
NAUTICAL conundrums. It seems that
the high school of the future will pay
much, attention to industrial geogra-
ply, study of the product of COM
merce, commercial law, history of
transportation, banking and trade,
shorthand and typewriting, political
economy learned by study of indus
trial conditions, American literature,
general history and manual training
At present boys leave the high school
as soon as they can run away because
little is there taught which is of any
earthly use. WILLIAM GRIFFITH.
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|DR, HAzELTON DEAD.
Well Known Kenosha Dentist Passed
Away at His Home on Chicago
Street Sunday Afternoon.
WAS INTERESTED IN KENosHA

The Deceased Was Pioneer Dentist of
the City and Had Lived in Kenosha for
More Than Thirtv-two Years-Acquaint-
ances and Friendships Were Universal
and All Will Grieve to Hear of His I'm
timely Death.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-10-26

The police Of the city have received
notice that horse and buggy was
stolen from Mi1wauAe5 last evening.
The thief is supposed to have come
toward Kenosha and the officials are
on the lookout for him.
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Mullen-Peters.

The marriage of Charles Mullen, the
well known expressman, and Miss
Mary Peters, a daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gerhart Peters, of Yorkvi11e, Ra-
cine county, was celebrated this morn
ing at st. Georges church. The we'd
ding was a quiet one and was attended
by only few of the particular friends
of the contracting parties. The cere-
mony was performed by the Rev.
Father E1skamp in very impressive
manner.
The bride was gowned in a pretty
travelling dress Of queens gray silk
ornamented with ribbons and Jewels.
She was yelled in white silk tu11e and
carried bouquet of Marshal Mel roses.
She was attended by her sister, Miss
Josephine Peters, who wore a pretty
costume of white organdie trimmed in
duchess lace and carried carnations.
The groom was attended by John
Magi11. Following the wedding the
bridal party were driven to Hotel Ke-
nosha, where a wedding breakfast was
served in the private dining room of
the hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mullen left at noon for
an extended wedding trip in the South.
They will return about Nov. 18th and
will be at home to their friends at their
new home on Park street.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-07-13
A NEW SUMMER DRINK.

A bartender at the Fifth Avenue
hotel has concocted a new drink. He
calls the solution an egg-lime-min
ade, and it tastes as good as its name
1t is made in this way: A little crack
ed ice into which the juice of two
carefully selected lines Is squeezed
powdered sugar in a judicious guam
tity; one egg broken and dropped in
and all shaken together; the product
strained into large goblet and filled
up with settler or carbonic water; the
top covered with cracked ice into
which three stalks of mint with the
stems crushed are stuck temptingly;
suspicion Of nutmeg, and possibly a
strawberry or two resting firtatiously
on the icebergs. The mixture is
Dale-yellow. tint that just harmon
ICES with the straws through which it
is conveyed to the system. The con-
sumption of this decoction causes rap
ture.-New York Letter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-07-13
EXPERIENCE.

The world was made when a man was
born.
He must taste for himself the forbid
den springs,
He can never take warning from old
fashioned things.
He must fight as boy; he must drink
as a youth.
He must kiss, he must love; he must
swear 10 the truth
Of the friend of his soul. He must
laugh to scorn
The hint of deceit in a woman's eyes
That are clear as the wells of Paradise
And so he goes on till the world grows
old;
Till his tongue has grown cautious,
his heart has grown cold;
Till the smile leaves his mouth and the
ring leaves his laugh,
And he shirks the bright headache you
ask him to quaff.
He grows formal with men, and with
women polite,
And distrustful with both when they're
out OF his sight,
Then he eats for his palate and drinks
for his head,
And loves for his pleasure-and it is
time he we're dead.
John Boyle O'Reilly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-07-13
CHAPTER XIX.

In some parts of his story Count
Rinaldo had adhered strictly to the
truth. The Montaltis were an hon
orable and noble old Venetian family,
and time had been when their name
was of note in Italy. But Rinaldo's
father had been guilty of what was
called rebellion and treason. His es-
tates were confiscated, and given by
the government into the hands of his
enemy, the man who had betrayed
him.
At his mothers death the count
came into possession of her small for
tune, and on that he managed to
gain the reputation of gay and gal
liant man Of the world. He had talents
of certain kind. He had no in
clination whatever for work of any
kind. He played we'll at cards, and
managed every year to make a pleas
ing addition to his narrow income.
To sum up the count in one word he
was fortune-hunter. He did not in
tend to make money either by the
labor of his hands or by that of his
brain. He had a handsome face,
gay and gallant manner, a dignified
bearing, and a musical voice. Of
these advantages he intended to make
the most. There were wealthy heir
esses in the world, and he intended TO
WOO and win one
Yet the count had not been very
successful in his love adventures so
far. At Naples he had met with
celebrated American heiress. He had
felt secure of her, and had already
borrowed money on the strength of his
prospects, when the lady suddenly
gave the preference to a poor English
captain, and they were married at
Rome. In sheer disgust the count
fed to Italy. He next heard that the
Dome Maria Fadez, the only child of a
rich merchant in Seville. would be
heiresses in Spain. He went imme-
diately to Seville; he found the lady
in question, no longer young, but
amiable and accomplished, and, as a
matter Of course, surrounded by
adorers. Donna Maria showed no
signs Of preference for the handsome
count who devoted himself to her; and
while endeavoring to awaken an in
terest in the heart OF the Spanish
heiress, he saw and loved Inez Lynne.
Count Montalti was essentially
selfish man. No matter what the cost,
he never refused himself the gratifca-
ton Of any wish. Now that for the
first time he loved and loved DaS-
sionately, he determined that at all
risk the beautiful young girl should
be wooed and won. He knew that a
marriage with her would ruin all his
prospects, for she had no money; but
he cared nothing for that. All that
Count Rinaldo cared for then, or at
any future time, was the qualification
of his own selfish wishes
To Be Continued.
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lively poor for a parsonage of roval
blood, and many economies were
necessarily practiced of which the
outside world knew next to nothing.
She has lived in an English lodging
house, and, what is more, she sent the
owner of that house a magnificent
gift shortly after her marriage. The
change from comparative poverty to
empress of the most splendid court in
the world was indeed change. To
picture the magnifcence of the Rus
sian court would be a work Of years
The wealth of centuries of mobiles. the
treasures of unnumbered rulers of
Aslatlc kingdoms, the riches torn from
hundreds Of millions Of servile sub
Jects for generation after generation,
and all accumulated and accommodating
form an aggregation OF wealth that is
immeasureabIe.
Much Of the oriental love of splendor
formed a dominating trait in all the
cars of Russia up to the present en-
peror and his father. The result is
a colossal Superf1uity of magnificence
which must have chilled the blood
of the young woman who had, per-
haps, felt the pinch of poverty. At
any rate she contrasted the tremend-
Gus waste of wealth with the terrible
poverty of the moujik, the forlorn
creature whose number is legion in
the Russian empire; the man who
lives in matched hut and tills
tiny scrap of barren land, his wife
and children working at his side for
the meanest living and for the ever
present tax gatherer. 1t is this con-
trast which drove the czarina to form
ulate changes in the internal govern
ment of the empire, and while it may
be many years before these are realized
some good is bound to be accom-
plished
The palaces of the czarina are
numbered by the score, each teeming
with its burden of glazing wealth
In and around this city the royal
couple have dozen palaces, the most
prominent being the famous winter
palace of st. Petersburg. In this
palace is the grandest picture gallery
ire world over, and the finest collec-
ton Of Greek art and Greek vases in
Europe.
The palace swarms with a func-
tlonary called the footman usher,
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iesplendant parsonage in a dress coat
edged with thick gold braid from tails
to collar, knee breeches, fox cloth
CATERS and silver buckled shoes.
lhere must be hundreds of these in
the palace; they are to be seen at
every turn. 1t would be idle to at
tempt to describe the magnifcence of
the immense state rooms, manv of
them as large as a great cathedral
and the walls almost covered with
shields of gold and silver.
The lofty gilded chapel is of pecu-
lar interest, because of it's relics. One
is pictured image of immense age
representing the face of Jesus Christ
ana attributed to the hands of the
painter, st. Luke the Apostle. It is so
dark that the face is barely discern
ible. The gold metal surface about tho
mead is 1nlaid with a necklace of dia
mands and single sapphire of vast
size. Beneath the ancient picture
and IN the same glass case, are two
embalmed but crumbling human
hands. One. in massive box set with
twelve diamonds, is the hand of st.
John the Baptist; the other is the
hand of woman, the slender bones of
finger encircled with an old ieweled
ring. This latter is the hand of
Mary Magdalene
Near the private apartments of the
empress are suite of rooms which
Ill that section Of the palace with
awe. They are the rooms of the as
sassinated Alexander II. Here he
died March 1, 1881, an hour after the
dynamite bomb had shattered his
body. The first room was his library.
P2ssing into the inner room from this
library and Intimate council chamber,
where the old car used to talk to his
generals in confidence, one enters an
other bare study, which was also his
bed room
Here all is left as at the moment of
death. There is the shabby old
leather arm chair and worn gray
dressing gown lying over it's back. On
each table lies a loosely folded pocket
handkerchief-for it was the fancy of
the owner to find one ready on every
table to which he might turn. On his
writing table lay an old brass box of
matches, and half smoked cigarette,
lad down when the car went out for
MS last drive. Two or three little
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peep into the home life of the
empress of Russia, who has just been
blessed with her second girl baby.
throws a pleasing side light on the
somewhat austere young woman whom
fate has elevated to a position more
powerful than that occupied by any of
her sex in the world, not excepting her
grandmother, the queen of England.
Victoria is the creature of her Min
listers. The czarina dominates her
empire and dominates it for good.
The young car has been criticised
for acting independently of his min
listers. Some have limited that he
would develop into a second edition of
Emperor William, of Germany. But
1t is not egotism that impels Nicholas
to throw off the yoke of precedence; it
is the wisdom of his wife She has
fixed upon a practical ideal for the
government of Russia, and it includes
many features offensive to the cars
advisers. On many questions he has
had to choose between the wishes of his
wife and of his ministers. The lat
ter were based upon the iron bound
system of Russian policy; the former
upon the simple rules of kindly Chris
tianity, and these have been followed
almost without exception.
To the outside world the empress is
a cold, naughty woman, with state
ly repOSe as calm as statue She
has made few real friends in the
court circle because of the many
changes she has enforced in customs of
long standing. But in private life she
is another woman; GOODNESS and state
illness vanish, giving way to good
humor and genial pleasantries
The czarina is very tall woman,
perhaps feet or inches in height,
and her erect carriage makes her
seem even taller. Her husband is a
good two or three inches shorter. Her
complexion is Of unusual fairness, her
features regular and her large eyes
are Of dark grayish blue. She has
one tiny imperfection, a small mole at
the corner Of the mouth. Her voice is
low and deep, almost like that of
tragedy queen, but when she laughs it
breaks into a musical falsetto
When she was Princess Alix of
Hesse her surroundings were compare
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had intended to decide this evening.
Better do it," he thought, while
the tale I have told is fresh and vivid
it is my only chance
$50 you will understand, my be-
loved" he said, why I beg your ST
lence, at least for the present. l
should be both proud and happy to
proclaim to all the world that l had
won the great treasure Of your love
But if it were known just now. it
would ruin my cause forever. Those
friends who have espoused it would
cease o feel any interest in the mat
ter. n another year or two it will
not signify. l wish our love to remain
a secret; and yet, Inez-my love, my
darling-I want you to save me from
Veronica di Giotto.'
How can I do that?" she asked,
with a smile.
Bind me fast to yourself" he re-
piled. When my friends renew the
subject, let me have it in my power to
say that l am married"
But that would ruin your pros
pects," she said, quickly.
mot in that case,'' he said. you
must understand, they suppose me to
be stranger to their intentions; if
they hear of my approaching mar
riage, they will interfere to prevent it.
If they know nothing of it until they
open these negotiations with me, they
cannot feel either surprise or offence
if l tell them l am married; they will
think Of some other way to serve me-
He saw no smile on that beautiful
young face; it wore a bewildered, puz-
zled expression.
Il cannot quite understand you,
Count Rinaldo,' she said. "You wish
our love to be secret, yet you wish to
be married. How can you manage
both? ?"
His answer, Whispered in a low ten
der voice, brought bright crimson
flush into the proud face, and for
some moments she made no reply.