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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-08-03
Knew what Poverty Meant.

''You have never known the pangs of
povertyl" he exclaimed bitterly
The heiress' eyes softened. though
liquid to begin with.
Indeed have, +" said she warmly
II went to bargain sale where no one
knew me and found | had left my purse
ut home. indianapolis Journal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-08-03
A Little Matter Among Friends.

Two boys Were in fighting attitude
like bantams; another and smaller
one stood watching them. wiping his
eyes, sobbing the while
"What did yer hit him for?" said
one
'Tain't none of your business.
eyes, it is; he's my friend. !"
"Well, he's my friend too New
York Commercial Advertiser
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-08-03
Their Linitntions.

'Some of those postoffice people are
very clever. They can read illegible
writing and deliver letters when the
address is worse than Chinese puzzle.
Eyes, but they can't help out the
man who forgets to mail his wife's let
,ers. Brooklyn Life
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-08-03
Holding His job.

II think the man who works at that
place across the street is the most faith
full ard conscientious workman I ever
saw. He never takes holiday and al
ways labors away till it's too dark to
see any longer.
''Faithful workman? Great Scottl
He's the proprietor of the shopl'-Chi-
cago Tribune
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-08-03
INeliEihle.

Pilson-.Are you going to take part
in that guessing contest?
Dilson-Oh, no; they'd rule me out
as professional
Pilson-Professiona
Dilson-Ies; you know | am con-
nected with the weather bureau. -Co-
lumbus Co.. State Journal
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-08-03
The r1ost Fatal Disease.

More adults die of Kidney trouble
than any other disease. When the first
symptoms of this disease appears no
time should be lost in taking Foley's
Kidney Cure, which is guaranteed or
money refunded; soc, S1.00. Will A.
Hamler, Extra.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-08-03

The title of majesty" was first CIV
en- to Louis XI of France. Before that
time sovereigns were usually styled
''highness.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-08-03

A beggar is usually touching OBJ
iect. Berlin md Herald.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-08-03
Sick Headaches.

The curse of overworked womankind are
quickly and surely cured by Karl's Glover
Root Tea, the great blood purifier and tissue
builder. Money refunded If not. satisfactory
Price pc and SOC. @. W. Houston.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-08-03
The Hone of the Entire.

There is no other educational insti-
tuition equal to we'll regulated home.
Dallas News.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-08-03

ing DR.. Miles Nervine and Nerve and
Liver Pills, and at the end of the
seventh bottle was about the house
in full control and complete manage
ment. Sleepless nights are thing of
the past and I have been fully restored
to health. I cannot say too much for
DR.. Miles Nervine and Nerve and
Liver Pills, nor recommend them too
highly for they have put me where I
am today; in good health and spirits"
DR.. Miles Restorative Nervine re-
stores health to the invalid by build
ing up the strength of the exhausted
nerves, gives new hope and confidence,
drives away melancholy and the blues,
leaving the mind in it's normal reas-
oning state that prevents all worry
and precludes all idea of nervousness,
permitting peaceful sleep, perfect rest
and sends people about their duties,
bright, cheerful with buoyant spirits,
renewed energy and old time vigor.
Mrs. Kathrine Puerner Of Jefferson,
Wis, writes of nervous dyspepsia. 81
was troubled with nervous dyspepsia
for over twenty years. I would have
weak, hungry, faint spells, yet no APP
petite and could not retain the food I
forced myself to eat. These attacks
always brought on nervous prostration
and I had no rest night or day. tried
many physicians and remedies without
relief until I used DR.. Miles Nervine.
1t is the only thing that helped me-"
DR.. Miles Remedies are sold by all
druggists under positive guarantee
first bottle benefits or money refunded.
Book on the heart and nerves sent
free to all applicants by the
DIR. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
n
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1899-08-03
1YERVOUS PROSTRATION af-
IN fects mind and body. 1t causes

HYERVOUS PROSTRATION az
fects mind and body. 1t causes
sleepless nights to be passed in
agony. The sufferer becomes almost
distracted" enduring feeling of I'M
rest that is always seeking something
to do, yet accomplishes nothing. DR..
Miles Restorative Nervine soothes
the nerves to quietness by giving
strength and new yigor to the inflamed
diseased and weakened nerve centers
Of the brain, supplies the nerves with
the healthy tissue so necessary to their
normal condition and creates in the
blood the healthy red corpuscles filed
with pure oxygen that send life, ener-
gy and vigor throughout the body;
stimulating the brain to its old time
action of youth and health.
Mrs. VIM. A. Thompson of Column
bus, Wis, says of DR.. Miles Nervine:
''For many years I suffered from ner-
vousness that frequently eliminated
in prostration. l could not concen-
trate my thoughts and was unable to
conf1ne my mind to one line of thought
or my efforts to one occupation. For
years conld not direct my household
affairs, could not assume any care or
responsibility whatever. During these
years there was not one night that I
slept more than one hour at time, I
was that nervous. My stomach was
very weak and I had frequent severe
headaches. We spent hundreds and
hundreds of dollars with doctors and
medicines. Was taken to Chicago and
treated by two prominent physicians
without benefit; / became discouraged
weak and almost distracted. AS a last
resort, as it seemed, I commenced u.s.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-04

W. E. CURTIS, in the Chicago Rec
ord, quotes F. D. Coburn, Secretary of
the Kansas State Board of Agriculture,
as making the following statement: I
think it is safe to say thai not less
than $2OO,OOO,OOO of farm and home
mortgages have been paid off in Kansas
in the last few years" This affords
very good subject for thought for those
deluded westerners who supported
Bryan and free silver in 1896,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-04
THERE it goes again. Speaker ReeC

THERE it goes again. Speaker Reed,
Sir Julian Pauncefote and Richard
Croker, are all aboard the same
steamer bound for Southampton. The
Lord only knows what conspiracies
that combination will hatch up against
John Bull and Uncle Sam before they
again set foot on terra frma. What
will be the result can only be vaguely
conjectured, but it is evident that it
was all prearranged and that some
thing startling will happen before 1900
is a dead certainty.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-04

vastly greater. The dash of Col.
Funston and his eight men upon the
trenches of the enemy, in the face of
the rifles of three thousand picked
Filipinos, was equal to anything in
history. Still the people scarcely read
of these things and give them only a
passing comment. But after all, the
real heroes of our war are these gallant
fellows, who, after the first spasm OF
war excitement and hero worship is
passed, with quiet, logged determine
ton and splendid courage pursue to the
end the work began at Manila Bay,
and make sure the good rendered
possible by that great victory.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-04
Wisconsin Anti-Pass Law.

The Wisconsin Legislature has
agreed at last on the anti pass law
The two Houses were of different
opinions for some time as to the pun
ishment to be impoS ed on violaters of
the law. Finally, the Lower House,
which favored milder penalties, yielded.
The acceptance of a pass or any other
favor from corporation, railroad or
otherwise, by any public officer, from
Governor down to constable, is made a
felony, punishable by imprisonment in
the penitentiary. The evils of the free
pass system are notorious. Although
the persons who accept those favors
from the railroads assert unanimously
that their action never is influenced by
them, yet there is no doubt that their
action is influenced in manv cases.
When matter comes up in which a
corporation which has treated them
kindly is interested they are more than
likely to lean little to the side of that
corporation. IF the roads did not think
these passes we're a good investment
they would not give them. There is
danger that this law may be too severe
to accomplish the desired result. The
first effect undoubtedly will be to scare
the more timid holders of passes, but
the charms of free transportation are
almost irresistible. Whoever has had
passes on railroads or to theaters
loathes the idea of paying his way.
Human ingenuity can devise 50 many
methods of evading laws that it will
be necessary to wait little time be-
fore deciding whether this rigorous
Wisconsin anti-pass measure will be
effective. Chicago Tribune.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-04
Real Heroes.

THERE is brilliancy attaching to
battles on the high seas and to all
deeds of daring associated with naval
warfare which does not belong to the
fighting Of armed men on land. The
reports of the splendid feat at Manila
on May l, '98, so thrilled the American
people that now the mere mention Of
Dewey will stir the heart and send
color to the cheeks of every true
American. Over the exploit of Hobson
the nation went wild.
There is an awful grandeur about
the meeting of two great contending
hosts in the open field of battle, which
arOuses the worlds admiration and
ELECTS plaudits from the remotest cor
ners of the globe. The magic word OF
Waterloo excites the phlegmatic Eng
lishman to nearly as high degree oil
enthusiasm as that of Trafalgar Aus
trilitz drives the Frenchman Temporal
rily insane.
In the arduous, embarrassing, day by
day style Of warfare 90 long Waged by
the EngGshman in India, and now car
ried on by the United States troops il
the Philippines, there is little that at
tracts the worlds attention. 1t viii al
be recorded in history, accounted tire
some and read only by the ploddine
student. But there in the Philippines
in the deep jungles of strange land
under a burning tropical sun, almos
out ofsight of civilization, and beyont
the reach of any encouragement o
sympathy our soldiers, volunteer ant
regular, are struggling against sayag
enemy, cunning, DESPERATE AM
thoroughly armed. Each sue
ceeding day brings reports Q
deeds fraught witty danger and gal
lantry equal to any eVinced at Waterlo
or Manila Bay. The deed of Trembl
and White was as magnificent as tina
OF Hobson, and charged with benefit
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-04

WHILE Gov. Lee, of South Dakota,
is demanding the withdrawal of the
South Dakota troops from the Philip
pines these troops are racing with one
another to get to the thickest of the
fight. In this case deeds certainly
speak louder than words, and with the
result that the patriotism>of our South
Dakota volunteers and citizens remains
unchallenged by the rest of the
country.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-04
Wisconsin's Anti-Pass Legislation

Wisconsin's Anti-Pass Legislation.
After prolonged discussion the Wis
c0nsin legislature has approved the
bill intended to prevent the giving of
passes to public officials. No doubt is
expressed that Gov. Scofeld will sign
the bill The measure, as passed, is
rigid in its provisions. 1t makes it a
felony for any public officer to accept
any free pass or other favor from any
corporation. The working of this law
will be watched with interest by neigh
boring states to see to what extent it
accomplishes thelpurpose in view.
Pass giving has become serious
evil from the public's point of view,
and nuisance to the railroad COM
panies. Where passes are given with
the expectation of influencing the
action of public officials their use is
corrupt; where passes are in reality
mere matters of courtesy" which
the railroads must continue because of
custom, the railroads are giving away
something for nothing, for which losses
they can only recoup themselves by
higher charges to the travelling public.
If all passes were abolished and all
passengers made to pay alike it is pos
sible the rates to the public might be
reduced in consequence. The pass
system is not in harmony with the
theory of democratic institutions,
under which every citizen is supposed
to be entitled to the same privileges
and treatment as every other citizen.
1t is recognition of privileged class,
whose members are made the recipient
of faYors not accorded to the ordinary
citizen.
With cordial railroad CO. operation a
law like that enacted by the Wisconsin
should be entirely success
full. If the railroads refuse such CO.
operation when the opportunity is
offered them they will have no cause to
complain if the demands upon them
for free passes assume the proportions
of Matchmaking persecution Chi
cago Record,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-04
GREAT CHANGES.
Changes in Running of the Street Railway
System to Take Effect May1.

Changes in Running of the Street Railway
System to Take Effect May 1.
On May l a number of important
changes will take place in the Office Of
the Belle City Street Railway company,
and also in the M. r. & Z. offices. 1t
is understood that a man will come
from Milwaukee to take entire charge
of the electric lighting end of the
business, and do nothing else but work
up business. If possible the company
will monopolize the lighting and run
the other company out of existence, A
day circuit is to be run. Another man
will take charge of the street railway
part of the business, and the Office
force will be split up so that a man will
be on from II at night to II at noon,
and then another man comes on. In
addition to all this there will be more
red tape than is attached to the whole
Jay Gould system of railways. If a
dog is killed on the line, the name of
the dog, the owner, everybody who
saw it or heard the dog yelp must be
It is to be modern system,
and no mistake. Racine Journal.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-04
CONTRACTS ARE LET.
Work on st. Georges Society Hall VIII
Begin at once.

Work on st. Georges Society Hall Will
Begin at once.
The special committee of the trustees
| of st. Georges church met Thursday
night and completed all the arrange
ments for the erection of the new hall
for the use of the various societies of
the church. The contracts for the
construction of the building we're let
and the committee will see that the
work starts at once and is hurried to its
completion.
The contracts for the mason and
carpenter work were both let to Mil
waukee firms, the figures of these con-
tractors being over thousand dollars
lower than the Kenosha contractors
prices. Many of the members of the
committee were in favor of letting the
work to home labor. but the difference
in the two bids were so large that the
committee decided that the out of town
bidders should be awarded the con-
tracts.
The contract for the mason work
was sI0G dG PO,lIl ana GQ0 carpenter
work will cost $4,000. All the other
contracts were let to home bidders
The plumbing will be done by Charles
Fl. Goodman, the contract price being
$8l950. The contract for the painting
and glazing was let to John B. Cook at
$525. The plastering contract was let
to Shields q Sullivan for $500, and the
electrical work in the building will be
done by John Etges, the contract price
being $l32.
The house occupied by the Sisters of
Notre Dame, which stood on the site of
the new building, has been removed to
another part of the church property
and there is nothing now to delay the
immediate erection of the hall.
While several of the contracts for the |
construction of the building have been |
let to out of town contractors, this has
been done with the expressed condition
that the work on the building shall be
done as far as possible by home labor.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-04
A NEW STORE.
Howard Robinson Will Take New Room
and Enlarge His Business,

Howard Robinson Will Take New Room
and Enlarge, His Business,
The latter part of next week Keno
sha will have another new store.
Howard Robinson, who has kept a
news stand in Ernst's store for the past
few years, has rented the room former
~ occupied by George Melville, and
will increase his business in all branch
es. In another part of the room G. S.
Lockhart, an expert matchmaker and
optician from Chicago, will open first
class jewelry store. The two young
men expect to be leaders in their lines
of business in the city.
Mr.. Robinson will not only continue
his business as a neWsdealer, but will
put in new and complete line OF
sporting goods, paying especial atten-
ton to golf clubs and golf sundries. He
will also add line of books and sta
tionery and selection of first class
cigars and tobacco. Howard is so
we'll known to- Kenosha people as a
business man that his success is as
sured.
Mr.. Lockhart, who will occupy part
of the room, comes with the best d
references and will undoubtedly make
many friends in Kenosha in a short
| time
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-04
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1899.
Keeping Pledges.

THE Legislature has finally passed
the anti-pass bill and sent it to tht
Governor for his signature. Though
has evidently cost no small effort, the
Republican party, through its repre-
sentatives in the Legislature, has in sc
much kept it's promises to the people
of the Badger State. The pass NUS
ance, which the people have con
demned for years, is as nearly done
away with by the passage of the anti
pass bill as could be by means of legis-
lation, Despite the struggle through
which it has passed, the guarrilla OPP
0sition with which it has met
throughout it's lole career, the bill is
thorough one. 1t covers the ground, to
all appearances, satisfactorily.
The passage of the anti-pass bill,
while it required considerable line for
its accomplishment, nevertheless re-
fleets great credit upon the Republican
party. 1t is a reform of an important
nature, and one which no other Legis
lature or party has ever had the cour-
age to attempt. The pass has provided
a means whereby the railroads could
exercise a far reaching influence over
the State Legislature. By its removal
at least one of the strongest bonds be-
tween Legislature and railroad corpO-
rations and companies has been sew
cred. It will make further legislation
along the lines of reform laid down by
the Republican platform much easier.
The potency of the pass would have
operated to defeat all efforts to Justly
tax railway companies, but with the
great corporations disarmed to that
extent, one of the greatest obstacles to
a full and complete fulfllment of all
the pledges of the Republican party, at
least whore railroads are concerned,
has been overcome.
No doubt the party would have re-
fiected more credit upon itself if it had
been more prompt in meeting its
obligations, but old customs are not
easily changed and reforms are effected
only by severe effort. From the first
session the Legislature has struggled
with the questions of reform presented
by its platform. A strong opposition
was early developed, but reform has
been steadily gaining ground. The
attempt at tax reform manifested by
the Orion bill showed the trend events
were taking. The successful issue of
the much knocked about pass bill is
very good evidence that the reform
spirit will eventually predominant.
With it the Legislature may be said to
have cut themselves loose. With the
favorable conditions which now exist
there is every reason to believe that all
of the pledges made by the Republican
party in '98 are on the sure road to
redemption.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-04

UNLESS what may be reasonably
considered expert opinion is greatly in
error, the back of the Filipino insur-
rection is finally broken. The negotia-
tions recently opened by AguinaldO for
the purpose of securing an armistice
until the so called Filipino Congress
shall convene and declare on the
wishes of the insurgents in regard to a
termination of hostilities and the terms
Of peace, is regarded by such men as
Gen. Otis and Adjt. Gen Corbin as in
dication that the officers of the Fill
pino army are convinced that further
resistance to United States authority is
futile and are preparing to surrender.
Moreover, there is good evidence that
the insurgents themselves are discOur-
aged and are on the point Of muUiny.
These conditions are encouraging to
Americans who are anxious for an end
of war. They seem to augur a much
speedier quietus to the Philippine
trouble than had been anticipated,
The action of Gen. Otis in refusing
the terms suggested by the emisaries of
Aguinaldo was wise. In the first place
it would have been yielding very i'm
portant point if be had awaited the
action of the Filipino Congress and
thus acknowledged government
which the United States declares does
not exist. Moreover, the rainy season
is approaching, and if Aguinaldo could
effect sufficient delay of hostilities to
usher in that unfavorable season, it
might initiate strongly against the
success of the American cause. A re-
newal of hostilities at once, if uncondi-
tional surrender is not forthcoming,
and most vigorous prosecution of the
war is the only way to insure quick
and desirable conclusion of affairs.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-04

Dewey says that all differences be-
tween himself and Won Diedrichs were
of newspaper manufacture. When the
Admiral returns it may develop that
the yellow fellows have 8 great deal
to be responsible for.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-04
To The Owners and Holders of Kemper
Hall Bonds.

Whereas, on the LIST DAY of July, A.
D. 1891, Kemper Hail. corporation
organized under the laws of the State
of Wisconsin, issued and negotiated
one hundred and fifty (l5O) certain
semi annual six (6) per cent coupon
bonds of the face value of one hundred
(100) dollars each, numbered from one
~ to one hundred and fifty (l5O), in
elusive, to the aggregate amount of
fifteen thousand Q5,000) dollars, pay
able July 1st, A. D. 1901, at the First
National Bank, Kenosha, Wisconsin,
and
Whereas, the said bonds contained
the following reservation, towit:
" But with the reservation, neverthe
less, and anything herein contained to
the contrary Notwithstanding, of the
full and complete right of the said
Kemper Hall to redeem this bond by
payment of the principal and accrued
interest, at the place of payment here
inbefore provided, and at it's own op
ton at any time after the first day of
July, A. D. 1896, upon giving notice of
it's intention so to do, and of the time
and place of said intended payment
and redemption, by publication once in
each week for sixty days Immediately
preceding the date so fixed for pay
ment, in weekly newspaper of general
circulation, published in the city OF
Kenosha. Wisconsin, and interest shall
cease to accrue upon this bond from
and after the date of payment and
redemption so fixed by such published
notice, and all warrants hereto annexed
for the payment of any interest accrued
after said date shall be and become
absolutely null and void" and
Whereas, the said Kemper Hall is
DESTROYS of redeeming and paying said
bonds on the 1st day of July. A. D.
1899;
Now, therefore, notice is hereby
given that all of said Bonds will be
redeemed and payment of the principal
and accrued interest of each and all of
the said Bonds will be made at the
First National Bank in the City of
Kenosha, in the County of Kenosha
and State of Wisconsin, on the lst day
of July, A. ID, 1899.
Dated April 18th, 1899
KEMPER HALL,
By NATHAN ALLEN, Secretary.
|
CAST01TA.
/ . Tim Kind VIM uoun kIunvc pnlInh
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-04

IF it should ever be the fortune of
the United States forces to capture.
Aguinaldo the best thing they could do.
with him would be to turn him over to-
a Georgia mob.