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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-03-19

have ways of making things unpleas-
ant for lady bookkeepers. Tact, gen
tleness, politeness, remembering that
God created office boys of the same
flesh and blood as herself would have
made the youth her friend instead of
her enemy.
She resigned and tried something
else, with the like result; then another
trade, then another. In every one
"luclG," as she called it, was against
her. She was a wilmer and kicker.
Meantime, year by year, she grew more
self conceited and ''sot'' in her ways.
There was nothing in her mental hori-
ION but herself; consequently she as
stunned to herself the proportions of the
universe, and whatever difficulty came.
in her path was exaggerated in pro-
portion. Molehills others stepped over
cheerfully and went on their way re-
joicing that they were alive became to
her distorted imagination mountains
which dad luck had purposely placed
in her way. She coddled herself and
drugged herself night and day with
the poison Of self pity, because, you
see, she night and day thought of
nothing but herself, her clothes, her
prospects, her own superior ideas and
actions. She seemed at length to have
no human feeling toward any creature
but herself
She had not many real friends, al
though she was brilliant intellectually.
Because she thought her ideas SO SUI
perior to other peoples she meddled
with other persons business. She tried
to impose her ways on them. It be-
came finally her habit to criticise, an
tagoniZe, claw and kick her way
through the world. From one occupa-
ton to another she went, dabbling in
half a dozen, succeeding in none.
The grumbling, fault finding habit
grew constantly. The habit of whin
ing always over her bad luck intensi-
fed till at length she began to have
now and then a stroke of what really
might be called i'll fortune. What Won
der it overlook her. She had been say
ing all her life that failure was her
fate, so what wonder destiny took her
at her word, She got what she de
tlared for herself, did she not? Inva-
riably, sooner or later, we really get
what we persist in declaring we have.
whether it is good or evil.
The only way to obtain permanent
good luck is to earn it. The only way to
earn it is through thick and thin to be
brave, sweet tempered and persevering,
to persistently put out good will to-
everything that lives, to be always
ready to learn, to do our best in every
situation in life without grumbling,
kicking or fault finding.
KATHERINE BLADES.
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Senator Nelson had been struggling
along with his speech in opposition to
the omnibus statehood bill for a week.
Monday at o'clock Senator Quay,
who was in charge Of the bill, called
for the regular order
'"The chair has already recognized
the senator from Minnesota" said
President Frye. 'He is the regular
ORDER
Nelson began, and one by one the
senators left the chamber until there
were but six present. One of these
was Senator McCumber Of North Da-
kota, who moved over and sat in the
chair next to Senator Nelson's desk.
and then calmly went to sleep.
Senator Nelson talked along and at
one point grew emphatic. McCumber
woke with start
Excuse me-" said Senator Nelson.
"for disturbing your rest. New York
World.
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"a of ASgill somewhere speaks of
n the lack of steadfast will DOW
er in the human race. He goes
so far as to say that with sufficient will
power man might even overcome the
'cowardly habit of dying" I believe
he himself, however, at last succumbed
to that cowardly habit in spite of his
dictum. But the dictum contained truth
to this extent: Undoubtedly steadfast,
trained will power will help us to pro-
long life and also to overcome many Of
the evils now held to, be inseparably
joined to life
1t is not luck or even heredity that
has enabled Mrs. Julia Goodman, an
English artist, to be beloved and use
full member of the working world up.
to near the age Of ninety-one, which
she will reach next November. Luck
she never had. In 1886 she was mar
ried to Mr.. Louis Goodman, who years,
afterward became a helpless invalid
and remained on her hands to be sup
ported till his death in 1870. He did.
dren had been born to the couple, how
ever-worse auckland, in addition to-
the maintenance of her husband. Mrs.
Goodman had these to rear and edu--
cate all alone.
Heredity was indeed in her favor.
She had in her veins the vital, te--
nacious Hebrew blood whose possessor
seldom gives down and wines. But
heredity alone would have availed lit
tie except to enable Julia Salaman.
Goodman to linger long in poorhouse.
She had noble artistic gifts also and a.
wise common sense; best of all the in
domitable will that thus far has kept.
her from yielding to the "cowardly
habit of dying"
Julia Salaman was one of a family
of twelve children, all of them uncom-
monty gifted. Their parents educated
them in practical manner Julia ran
naturally to painting. She had the
best teacher of the time and adopted
portraiture as her speciality. When
she was thrown on the world with
husband and children to support, she
naturally and easily took up again the
beloved art which had been her enter
tainment in her fortune favored years.
From that day to this her life has
been one of incessant labor-not grudg-
ing, slavish toll, but cheerful, happy
tasks, so happy that you can fairly
hear the joy bells ringing their accom-
paniment down along the years all the
way. Mrs. Goodman has naturally
strong power of concentration and she
has cultivated it till it is enormous.
These are the things that have made
her and kept her-noble intellectual
gifts, a strong love nature and a.
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Written by the Dead.

1t does not often happen that dead
man writes the resolutions Of respect
adopted by his admiring friends. But
this actually occurred in the case Of
General Sigel. In 1879, when General
Hooker died, his war comrades met
and committee on resolutions, of
which General Sigel was chairman.
was appointed to express their senti-
ments of respect and their feelings on
the death of their former commander.
The resolutions were written by Gen
eral Sigel and adopted by the meeting.
When General Sigel's friends met a
few days ago to take action on his
death these same resolutions, with the
name General Sigel substituted in
their body for that of General Hook
er, were adopted verbatim Louisville
Courier-Journal.
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splendid will power. Now at ninety
out glasses, only occasionally using a
magnifying glass for a few of the
more delicate strokes of her brush
Who, man or woman, can equal such a
record?
Mrs. Goodman has painted more than
thousand portraits. Nearly or quite
fifty years ago she began exhibiting
her work in the Royal academy, and
she has kept it up ever since. She has
painted scores of the notable persons
of Great Britain She has also met So
ciaily most of those who have helped
make English history in the past two
generations. She has lived with her
working and enjoying faculties unim-
paired while five British sovereigns
ruled and four of them passed away.
George III. was king when she was
born: she witnessed the coronation of
George W.; lived and wrought while
William ~, then Victoria, reigned
and died-Victoria was seven years
younger than Mrs Goodman-and now,
in full possession Of her artistic DOW
ers, the marvellous woman yields allie
glance to King Edward VII.
1t is not for the old girls tha4 l have
been at pains to trace out this life
story, not for those ancient females
who have let active life slide from
their grasp and now sit in a corner and
take things easy" These are past
praying for. 1t is for the young girls
| write, those of fourteen and upward.
There is no woman in England more
honored than ninety-year-old Julia
Goodman.
Girls, most Of you will live to be old.
Will now that you are going to, any
how, for it is a priceless privilege to
stay here and keep learning something
all the time and giving loving service
to others. Stay here so long as you
can, be as beautiful as you can all the
time, love, serve and learn all you can,
Above all, train your will to be strong
and steadfast toward any worthy aim
you desire. And that is the moral.
AMY Y. LYON.
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saasa Che sThG Kind You Have Always Bought
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The Mems League of the Congre-
gationa1 church is making extensive
arrangements for a mock trial to be
held publicly soon, probably in the
opera house.
A girls complexion may be
stamped on her lovers heart, but most
OF the complexion" comes off unless
put there with Rocky Mountain Tea.
Powders a bad thing 35c. C. H.
Hurd. dwm14
The celebration of the twenty. fifth
anniversary of the founding of St.
Michaels society of St. Georges
church will be celebrated soon after
the close of the Lenten season. APP
propriate services will be held to com
memorate the event.
The people Of this city who held
stock in the Nicaragua Company, of
Chicago, are beginning to discover
that they were pretty we'll hoaxed by
the genial agents of the company. 1t
has developed that the company has
been paying the dividends from the
capital stock and the loss to stock
holders will be about fifty per cent of
the amount subscribed.
The Wisconsin Brewers association
has been aroused by the recent decision
of the Supreme Court which interprets
the brewers license law in such a way
that every branch, warehouse and even
agency can be taxed $500 by a munich
patty, and at it's annual meeting
Wednesday in Milwaukee discussed
Legislative measures to do away with
this The sentiment was in favor of a
moderate license.
A new law to govern the pratice of
medicine in the state has been intro
duced in the state legislature by the
State Medical Board. The law is in
the interest of all the different schools
recognized in the state and its passage
will greatly aid in bringing a new
unity to the profession and to provide
for better protection to the public
generally against the practice of
quacks and unlicensed doctors.
Leading coal shippers are experience
ing considerable trouble in securing a
sufficiency of cars to handle the coal
which they had expected to send for
ward from the Ohio ports during the
present month. Coal for the purpose
of lake shipment was ordered in con.
siderable quantities, but the local de.
mand for coal in Ohio, is so great that
it keeps the coal carrying roads
hustling to take care of the business
and as consequence the lake shippers
are unable to get cars.
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~ He was, an intellectual girl, IN
- commonly So She expected
great things of herself She
easily surpassed her classmates
in school studies. looking with con-
tempt ON those who were duller than
herself. She had, in childhood even, a
sheer and criticism for those who
were different from herself.
She left school and went out to con-
quer the world She began with book
keeping. She learned it quickly. She
obtained place after place. None was
equal to her merits, she thought.
Other girls rose at 6, took their places
at their desks at 8 sharp, worked till
6 and did not consider themselves
abused. She rose at Z, went to work at
$50, wrought with account book and
ledger till 5 80 or and considered her.
self the most abused martyr in a city
of million people. She, mind you,
girls do daily in the business world and
are thankful they have the work to do;
she walled and grumbled all the time.
She came home at night whining thus
81 don't know why,I have everything
so much harder than other people
just because am not strong and we'll
Today they put enough work on me to
kill a horse and the office boy was so
impudent l had to report him. l made
just little mistake in my work and
had to do six pages over again, and no
body felt sorry for me in the least.
1t made me so tired I couldn't eat any
dinner and what I did eat just lies on
my stomach, and I know Ell be sick in
the night and not sleep a wink My
nerves are all of a FRAGILE and I'm
wearing out with this dreadful life as
fast as can. I'm so discouraged
She had antagonized the office boy
by walking roughshod over him and
speaking harshly and authoritatively
to him in the beginning. Thus she got
his confirmed i'll will, and office boys
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Fixing the Date.

A curious old marriage custom,
called locally the settling" still sur
wives in County Donegal. Ireland, and
in the Scottish districts of Kintyre and
Cowal After the marriage has been
publicly announced, the friends of the
couple meet st the house of the brides
parents to fix a suitable date for the
ceremony. A bottle of whisky is
opened, and as each guest drinks to
their happiness, he names a date
When each guest has named date,
an average is struck, and settling
is complete. Neither the bride nor the
bridegroom ever thinks of protesting
against the date SO curiously chosen
1t would be considered bad luck even
to speak of alteration.-C Chicago Jour
nal.
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TRUEsDELL BOOM.

I wish to announce to my friends
and patrons that | have opened up a
barber shop at the village of Truesdell,
next to the hillside Hotel Park, and
am ready to accommodate all corners
at any sime. Best of work done.
Yours truly,
FRANK ARNOLD, Propr.
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saars +ba a The Kind You Have Always BOaqA
Signature at N1HZAlZu

There was freak calf born on the
south Balm farm last week. Fred
G1eichmann says it is only half calf
but better than none. 1t seems the
head and nose contains the deformity,
it having only one nostril and only
half mouth It can not take nourish-
ment itself and has to be fed with a
bottle. The animal has created quite
a sensation among the farmers of the
neighborhood.
Insurance Commissioner Host has
prepared his preliminary report on the
business done by the fire insurance
companies of the State during the year
1902. The report shows that the total
amount of risks written during the
year was 1912, 63O,718; the premiums
paid the companies, $500, 227.13;
losses incurred, 81 ,6O0,555 20 and losses
paid ST., 639, 61375. This shows that so
far as Wisconsin was concerned the
insurance business was profitable bus
mess during the year.
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Bears the 'lId NlHu tOu f1dY6 Always GU

John c. Wagner, of Racine, has re-
ceived telegram from Senator Quarles
notifying him of his appointment as
Government inspector of immigrants.
He will probably be located at one of
the Eastern ports.
Ollie Dies, the boy whoi..was found
out in the town of Salem, was sent to
the home for dependent children by
Judge Brace in Milwaukee Friday.
An effort will be made shave the boy
returned to Salem.
William Horn, who formerly played
third base with the Kenosha Athletics,
has been signed with the Montgomery,
Alabama team of the Southern league.
Horn was with the Milwaukee team
last season and made good record.
The members of the Equitable Fra
terna1 union held very enjoyable
smoker and social at the Burr Bros.
hall Thursday evening. A large num-
Der of the members and friends of the
order attended and a pleasant time is
reported.
Past Department Commander L.
Lloyd Jones. who served at the head of
the Wisconsin Department. G. A. r. in
1896, has presented largesportrait in
black and white, taken while he was
commander, to the department, to be
hung in Memorial hall in the State
Capitol.
A new fish hatchery in Walworth
or Waukesha county, withathe object
of stocking the SUMMER resort lakes in
the southern part of the state with
black bass, is the latest plan of the
State Fish Commission. It is hoped
to have the hatchery in operation in
the near future.
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cures made by Dr..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root,
the great kidney, liver
and bladder remedy.
Il is the great medi-
caltriumph of the nine
teenth century; dis
covered after years of
scientific research by
Or. Kilmer, the emf
nent kidney and blad-
Ger S0aoialie4 -
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KENosHA & ROCKFORD LINZ

EAST.
No. 4l0-Milk Passenger, arrive. 49,. 8:25 N
No. 412-Way Freight g ....I2:40p N
No SS2-Through Freight, g ...... 1:S5 m
No 423-Freight, depart.............. 9 40 n
No 411-Milk Pass I" .......... 4:lO p N
F. SEYMOUR, Agent 2
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w. c. Hamilton, of Chicago, spent
Thursday evening in Kenosha.

w. G. Hamilton, Of Chicago, spent
Thursday evening in Kenosha.
Chief of Police Reinold spent Thurs
day evening with friends in Bristol.
The Davy Clay Ballast Company is
building new car at their factory on
Elizabeth street.
w. c. Elteson, of Wilmington, Ohio,
has accepted the position as judge of
the Kenosha Poultry Show for next
year.
C. E. Argo, the general agent for the
Horn Silver Mining Co., was in Ke-
nosha Thursday evening. No new
purchases of stock are reported.
The Racine City Council, finding it
impossible to sell bonds issued some
time ago and drawing interest at three
per cent, has raised the rate of interest
to four per cent.
Good for father. Good for mother.
Good for the whole family. Makes the
children eat, sleep and grow. Rocky
Mountain Tea is a family blessing.
Csc. G. FL. Hurd. dwm14
Kocian, the famous Bohemian vio-
linist, has consented to give concert
in Racine on the evening of March 20.
The concert will be benefit for the
Jonas monument fund.
The fishing tug Hoffnung will leave
Kenosha early next week and will go
to one of the Michigan ports for two
months fishing. 1t is claimed that the
fishing is very poor at this port.
The Colts Bowling team defeated the
Schends on the Schend's alleys Thurs
day night by total score of 2130 to
zoos. Fred Smith had high average
with AIS and Louis Grosvenor high
game with 1870.
Annie-Better doctor your health
before applying identifying remedies.
Rid yourself of constipation, indiges-
ton, with Rocky Mountain Tea, and
you'll have a beautiful complexion.
CSC. G. H. Hurd. dwm14
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Bear. the T'h' Kind 1I@ You Have Away: 0''ss
Signature ss I1HAZzzZM
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NEWS NOTES.
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New hard wood floors have been laid
at the depot.
DR.. e. j. Elton transacted business
iu Madison Wednesday.
Carl Starr has accepted position
with the Badger Brass works.
f. c. Fowler, of Milwaukee, spent
Friday evening in Kenosha.
Miss Lydia Milbrath attended polo
game in Racine Friday evening.
ID. c. Washburn, of Racine, called on
Keuosha friends Friday evening.
J. 3. Jones, of Chicago, transacted
business in Kenosha Wednesday.
Another sure sign of spring The
small boy has begun to play base ball.
Mrs. Capt. Lew Mont, of Chicago,
spent Friday evening with friends in
Kenosha.
tits reported that one of our popular
young doctors is to be married in the
near future.
John Kehlor has been suggested as
candidate for School Commissioner in
the Third ward.
Your chances to get portable lamp
free are as good as any ones at Chas.
III. Goodman's.
Edward Crawford has accepted po-
sition in the Office of the Chicago
Brass Company.
Prof. Wirth's lesson and st. Patrick
social next Monday at Simmons hall.
Dancing 9 till II.
Prof. Wirth's lesson and St. Patrick
social next Monday at Simmons hall.
Dancing 9 till II.
A marriage license has been issued
for the marriage of Rasmus Kramme
and Mrs. Euiz Johanson, both of Ke-
nosha.
III. A. King was called to Spencer,
Iowa, Wednesday on account of the
death of his sister-in-law, Mrs. David
King.
The Citizens Telephone and Tele-
graph company are rapidly getting in
position to begin work on the new tele-
phone exchange.
On April 10 the Typographical
Union, No. 116, of this city, holds its
seventh annual dance at Simmons
hall. All cordially invited.
The ''Social Circle" will open the
new Pabst hall with dance and gen.
era1 good time on Easter Monday.
Everybody invited to attend.
Miss L. G. Adamson has returned
from New York and will resume bust.
ness at her dressmaking parlors,
Meyers block, rooms IS and SO.
MFR. and Mrs. T. L. Moore, who have
resided at the Southern hotel on Dem
ing street, will remove to Ravenswood
in the near future to make their home.
Mrs. H. Lindess entertained the
mem bers of the Golden Rod Club Fri
day afternoon at her home on Park
street. All report very enjoyable
time.
Howard VanWyck,, son of the late
Judge A. VanWyck, of this city, has
decided to withdraw from the race for
the election of Circuit Judge in Mil
waukee.
CAST Ia Ia
sa.a a The Kind YOI H9VA Always RnUUhf
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wonderfully successful in promptly curing
lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou,
bles and Bright's Disease, which is the worst
form of kidney trouble.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-ROot is not rec
commended for everything but if you havekid
ney, liver or bladder trouble ii will be found
just the remedyyo need Hhas been tested
in so many ways, in hospital work, in private
practice, among hehelpless too poor to pur-
chase relief and has proved SO successful in
every case that special arrangement has
been made by which all readers of this paper
who have not already tried it, may have
sample bottle sent free by mail, also book
telling more about Swamp-Root and how to
lind out if you have kidney or bladder trouble
When writing mention reading this generous
offer i'll this paper and EF
send your address to ssss.Fseyysff Al :a5Fs.sa
DR.. Klmer & Co., Bing r. s.sss
hamton, N. Y. The @-sxssss Esl 81 sssEs.ls ~
regular fifty cent and Home of swamp-RoOt.
dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists.
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DO YOU GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK (?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.

Almost everybody who reads the news
papers is sure 10 know Of the wonderful
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DON'T make any mistake, but re-
member the name, Swamp-Root, DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address,
Binghampton, N. Y. on every bottle
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Wy She
Meier Succeeded
In Any1bing

~ HE was an intellectual girl, I'M
- commonly so. She expected
great things of herself. She
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It's Glorious
To Lice Long
find 6GeH

FRENCH writer of the name
of Asgill somewhere speaks of
the lack of steadfast will pow
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The Mems League of the Congre-
gational church is making extensive
arrangements for a mock trial to be
held publicly soon, probably in the
opera house.