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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-04-21
t publication April Z, 1904.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

RENOSHA COUNTY COURT:-In Probate.
N In the matter of the will of A1pheus T.
Parks, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the claims and de-
mands of all persons against A1Dheus I. Parks,
deceased, late of the City of Kenosha,in said
County of Kenosl1a, will be examined and adj
justed by the County court of Kenosha county
at the regular terms of said court to be holden
at the County court room, in the City of Keno
sha, in aud for said county, on the first Tues
day Of Se e a. z ae a. on 1ne hrIf
A. M. of those days; also that the time until
and including the first Tuesday of November,
A. D. 1904, is the time allowed and limited for
creditors Of said A1pheus T. Parks, deceased, to
present their claims for examination and allow
1nce.
Dated at Kenosha. the 9th day of April, A. D.
1905. BY the Court,
RUSSELL H. SLOSSON,
VS. County Judge.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-04-21
A Susceptible Patient.

"Your rich brother is in the hospital,
isn't he?"
Eyes"
sand how is he progressingT
"Oh, I'm dreadfully worried about
himr'
$50 sorry. Are you afraid he VIII
not reeover?"
"Oh, no; it isn't that I'm worrying
about It's his pretty nurse. . CIere
land Plain ns or.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-04-21
An Excellent Idea.

'GfrlS who want to go in for litera-
ture," he said, should take up the
realistic school Of fiction
You think so?''
"Oh, yes, indeed. And then they
should write domestic stories that deal
with the home"
s'But why?''
Because it would do them a lot of
good to get the necessary experience. .
Chicago. Post.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-04-21

The making Of brussels lace, which
was thirty years ago the occupation
Of 10000 Eelgiars. now employs less
than one-fourth that number.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-04-21
Not Real Money,

Teacher-Now, Johnnie. if give you
2 pennies and Willie pennies
Johnnie-Aw, say, make it dimes!
Don't be so stingy. TRtn't real mon
or
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-04-21

J
Notice is hereby given that much of each
parcel of land, city or village lot described in
the following list, as may be necessary for that
purpose, will on the third Tuesday, being the
18th day of May, "A. D. 1907, and next succeed
ing days thereafter, be sold by the undersigned
at public auction at the Office of the County
Clerk, Court House, in the city of Kerosha, said
county and State at 10 o'clock a. fof the de-
1inquent taxes of 1908, as returned to me by the
treasurers of the several towns and the treasur-
er of the city of Kenosha according to law.
Given under my hand at my Office in the city
of Kenosha, this 4th day of April, 1901.
G. L. VILLNOW,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-02-19
HOW RADIUM IS
EXTRACTED.

In spite of the fact that radium has
been so widely discussed, probably few
people are acquainted with the method
by which it is secured in the minute
quantities that are as yet available.
That the element is obtain ed from
pitchblend is generally known, but
some details of the exect progress will
be d interest. According to the Lam
Get operations for the extraction are
commenced by crushing the pitch
blend and then roasting the powder
with carbonic of soda. After washing the
residue is treated with dilute sulphuric
acid; then the sulphates are convert
ed into carbonates by boiling with
strong carbonic of soda. The residue
contains radium sulphate, which is an
exceedingly insoluble salt. The solu-
BILE sulphates are washed out, and the
residue or insoluble portion is easily
acted upon by hydrochloric acid, which
takes out, among other things, polei-
um and astinium. Radium sulphate
remains attacked, associated with some
barium sulphate. The sulphates are
then converted into carbonates by
treatment with a boiling strong solu-
ton OF carbonate OF soda. The car
Donates Of barium and radium are
next dissolved in hydrochloric acid
and precipitated again as sulphates by
means of sulphuric acid. The sui
pilates are further purified and un-
timately converted into chloride, until
about fifteen pounds of barium and ra-
dium chlorid are obtained by acting
upon one ton of crushed plitchblend.
Only small fraction of this mixed
Chord is pure radium chlorid, which
is finally separated from barium chlo-
id by capitalization, the crystals from
the most radioactive of the solutions
being selected. In this way the crys-
tails ultimately obtained are relatively
pure radium chlorid of very high de-
gree OF radioaictivity.-We:te Elec-
tricion.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-02-19

One of the best known OF our Cir
cult Court judges had an enemy, a
lawyer, who had once been his unsuc-
cessful opponent in politics in one of
the towns of his round, and was gen.
orally subjected to some affront when
he reached there. The lawyer took so
little pains to conceal his contempt,
that one of the judges friends was
moved to ask:
"Why don't you squelch B.? He
needs it,
The judge laid knife and fork across
his plate, folded his hands and SEEM
ingly apropos of nothing at all,
said ::
Cup in our home town there's q
widow with an ugly yallar dog that,
whenever there is moonlight, sits on
her stoop and howls till the town can't
sleep, and generally keeps it up till
daylight"
He then resumed his dinner. The
friend looked at him in amazement for
a moment and then inquired:
"Well, what of it?"
"Well," said the judge, slowly, "the
moon keeps right on"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-02-19

had been betrayed into the hands of
Cromwell's soldiery. But these cur
ious old methods OF fsummoning guests
to the table-drum and rolling pin
and thrice-repeated knock-are now
probably altogether extinct
THE DINNER GONG.
There remains only one rival to the
bell-the gong. If Sir Walter Scott
may be trusted, the dinner gong came
first into vogue about the end of the
eighteenth century. In the chapter
Of the "Antiquary" the action of which
is supposed to take place about the
time named, which describes the fa-
nous dinner party given by Monk
barns, we are told that Mr.. Oldbuck's s
ungallant abuse of "womankind" was
interrupted by the ringing of the bell
for dinner. Thereupon the antiquary
began to discourse about the doubt he
had been in with regard to the dinner
call. "Gongs," he said, "now in pres
ent use seemed a newfangled and heath
enish invention, and the voice of the
female womankind l rejected as equal
ly shrill and dissonant"-and 80 be de-
termined to resume the bell. The
gong, however, Notwithstanding its
heathenish' origin, has held its own
and is still largely used. A story of
Tennyso son, told some time ago in the
Century Magazine by Mr.. McCabe,
shows that a gong was the method
employed in the poets beautiful home
at Aldworth, on Black Down. Mr.,
McCabe, was strolling with his host on
the terrace at Aldworth, when the first
gong sounded for dinner. II am off,
he said, to get into my clothes" Ten
nyson stopped him for moment, say
ing, kindly, "You must excuse my
not dressing for dinner; never dress
for anybody. Ny old friend Argyll
vas here last week, and I said to him,
Argyll, l can't dress for you. Inever
dress for any one, and If made an ex-
ception and dressed for a duke my
butler would set me down as snob.
We must keep we'll with our buffers,
you know."-London Globe.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-02-19
Eelftt @iscellany.
In Penitential Mood.

The last echoes from the organ died
in the ghostly outer darkness Of the
church. For the first time Paul
Scharf's glance lifted from the key
board. He started, for the chancel
lights made an aureole around Betty
Carew's blonde head. But her gay
voice-petulant, charming, wholly
human-dispelled..t the odor of sanctity.
II have come to join the choir as a
Lenten sacrifice" she said demurely.
Her laughing eyes were veiled by
modest lashes, but her red mouth still
pouted irresistibly, and the saucy dim
pie lurking near it betrayed the fact
That much of earth and its allurements
yet clung to the fair penitent.
Despite himself Paul Scharf's glance
fingered on the lovely face. The girls
lip curled in half smile of conscious
power. at that a sudden bitter
thought sent an angry flush to his
cheek. She had come to haunt him
with her beauty.
"Your voice will be very acceptable
Miss Carew,' he said, low and steady.
But she had caught the break before
her name. All, he remembered when
it had been not Miss Carew, but Betty!
Three weeks was short for forgetting.
She flashed her glorious smile full
upon him. "Perhaps Lent's peni-
tences will blot out the sins of other
days." she ventured boldly.
He looked down at her searchingly.
Was there not a note of earnestness
underlying her flippancy?
But, as he hesitated, Betty, piqued
by his unresponsive mood, turned her
back upon him. Her slight figure
was drawn up to its fullest height as
she walked into the choir room. Pas
sion had swept away penitence.
The others had already gathered.
Their reception was in f1attering con-
trast to the one just accorded her.
Jack Dudley was assuring her Of his
delight when the young organist took
his seat at the piano.
"To your places, please he said
courteously. But Betty chose to con-
slider it in the light of reprimand.
and her blue eyes flashed defiance.
During the intcrmission, when the
others walked and talked up and
down the long aisles of the church,
Betty and Jack Dudley preferred to
sit in a shadowy corner. The girl
hlrted, flirted deliberately. But deep
down in her heart there was an ache
Lenten sa'rifces were hard in the
making.
The rehearsals came and went, Betty
Carew's sweet, high soprano led all
the rest. And in its varying cadences
the quick ear of the choir master could
read the mood of the girl, whether it
be frivolous or p"nitent. But there
were other signs When she was peni-
tent she would have naught Of badin-
age. Paul Scharf would play then as
if in answer to her need. And she sat
in the remotest corner of the chancel
and listened with rapt face. But
when she was frivolous she firted,
flirted outrageously, to the scandal of
the choir and the undoing Of its mas
culine members.
1t was one of these nights that
Scharf decided on a chancel rehearsal.
But when, after intermission, he called
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-02-19
THE MINISTER'S BUSY DAY.

A clergyman, whose life above that
of men of all other professions seem
dedicated to special work, must real
ly be jack of all trades.
He must be something OF a literary
man, in order to avoid unfavorable
criticism Of his style, says city clergy
man, writing of his experience in the
"Independent.'
He mus: know something of music,
in order to defend his choir from abuse;
he must have politicians ability to
remember names and faces, lawyers
skill in judging human nature, and
the executive ability Of the head Of
department store in organizing the
work of his parish.
If the minister hears that one Of bis
flock is i'll and hurries through his
luncheon to make the invalid q call,
he is not always rewarded with the
bit of cheerful gratitude that would
really help him to digest his hastily
swallowed food.
Instead, he may find the man dis
gruntled and hurt because his minister
has not called before.
If the patient is not too i'll, the
clergyman perhaps defends himself in
some such manner as this:
"Has the doctor been heae!" he ask
ed.
"Oh, yes
"How , did he know you were
ill?"
II sent for him."
"Well, did you seed for me?"
After the call the clergyman hurries
back to his house and finds some one
soliciting help which be would give If
he could; advice on subject of which
he knows nothing, money for medical
dispensary in Turkey or India.
He may have to straighten out the
moral difficulty of some youth, or
solve a great ethical problem for him
in twenty minutes.
Morality is his trade, so to speak,
and people come to him as they would
90 to barber, to be served "while
you wait"
Often a clergyman with sympathy
and humor can do much in the twenty
minutes. A young man comes in,
esger to talk over his troubles with a
fellow man. He begins an inoo-
hercnt story, and rambles farther and
farther from the point.
Finally the pastor draws him up
with, eyes, yes. but who's the girl?"
Then the story comes out-the
simple story of "a wooing and single
refusal.
"Well," says the pastor, reminiscent
ly. II once knew fellow in just the
same predicament'"
..And did he commit suicide?"
"No. She has been his wife for
twenty years."
With this piece Of common sense he
dismisses his caller, and gets in nearly
an hour of uninterrupted work on his
sermon.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-02-19
II shau't call again."

II shau't call again"
"Why not?"
"Oh, she ISM accustomed to good
society"
care you sure?"
:Positive. l told her only few o1
our minor scandals, and anybody
could see she was Mortified. Indeed
she scarcely tried to cencealit."
"Why don't you marry that girl!
She is a real pearl"
"Ah, yes; but l don't like the moth.
er of pearl"
The Inquisitive Party-"What is
your favorite health food, Colonel?'
Colonel Corkright-"Rye, sub"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-02-19

Joy lasts for seven days, but sadness
for lifetime.
To the dog who has money men
say, "My Lord dog"
He who has gold is beloved, though
he be dog and the son of dog.
It is better to commit ten sins in
the sight of God than one in the sight
of men.
The beauty of man lies in his in
telligence; the intelligence of woman
is to be found in her beauty.
Shnn him who can be of no use to
thee. In this world he cannot serve
thee and in that which is to come he
cannot intercede in thy behalf.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-02-19
]Ioetry,
THE CRAZY QUILT.

One time met crazy quilt.
But | was Lot aware
That it was crazy until 1t
Gave me dreadful sc are.
Its great e.usion was that
Was it, and it was j.;
1t tucked me In the mattress, and
Said, ''Sing lullaby"
This worried me extremely, so
thought l would retreat,
When suddenly the quilt essayed
To kick me of its feet.
1t then arose and said some things
In accents full Of gloom,
Aud then It called a bellboy. and
Said: IL don't like this room.''
With gentle hand the bellboy took
The quilt, and softly said:
"The poor old quilt is crazy, sir,
And it mu 60 to bed
A as he went away, l asked
What caused its lunacy
sAlas!" he answered. ''Sir. it WAS
Stung by quilting bee.
Since then its pattern is SO loud
II cannot 60 to sleep,
And so it always seeks excuse
TO sco!d or swear or weep"
Now, when I see crazy quilt.
1t much appeals to me;
| always try to comfort it
With friendly sympathy.
Chicago Tyitan
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-02-19

Friend-(over the wine after din.
ner) "Your wife is certainly a bril-
liantly handsome woman. l should
think you would be jealous of her,
II 5 Host Confidently "To tell
you the truth, Seymour, am. l
never invite anybody here that sane
woman could possibly take the least
fancy to-"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-02-19
ANNOUNCING A MEAL.


Among the curious byways of So
cial history and household custom is
that which is concerned with the mode
of announcing that dinner Or any 9th
er meal is or shortly will be ready.
The dinner bell is, OF course, the old
est of these modes. In medieval
times the monastery or convent bell
rang out on the quiet country air
many times in the course of the day
and night: and not the least welcome
to the inmates of the many summon
ses was that which drew them to the
refectory- And in later ages, linking
the middle ages to the present time,
there are frequent illusions in litera.
ture which show that the bell method
was still in constant favor, notwith-
standing the customary use OF other
modes of summons to be mentioned
presently. One or two examples of
such illusions may suffice. In the
anonymous old play called the "Re-
trru From Parnassus,' which was
written and represented about Janu-
ary, 1902, page poy quotes cour.
tiers definition of scholar as "crea-
ture that can strike fire in the morn
ing at his tinderbox, put on paire OF
lined slippers. sit rewming till dinner,
and then goc to his IN ate wh4h the
bell rings"
SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY.
A century later we know that th e
same method prevailed IN Sir Roger
de Coverley's household, for while the
silent gentleman and Will Wimble
were talking together the bell, We are
told, rang to dinner, and Will had the
"pleasure OF seeing the huge jack he
had caught served up for the first
dish in a most sumptuous mannert.
And later still Edmund Burke gained
the sobriquet of the ':dinner bell," on
account of his success in emptying
the house of commons when be rose
to speak on certain topics.
There is, indeed, plenty Of evidence
that the bell has always been, as it
still is, widely used as summons to
meals. But there have been other
modes of announcing the event of the
day, and these are not little curious.
One seventeenth century method, for
instance, was after the fashion Of the
three knocks on the stage which her.
aided the rise OF the curtain to French
theaters. Sucking in his famous
"Ballad Udon Wedding says:
Just in the nick the cook knocked thrice
And all the walters in trice
His summons did obey;
Each serving-man with dish in hand.
March d boldly up. like our traird band
Presented. and away.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-02-19
KNOCKING.

The knocking seems to have become
oldfashioned not long after Suckling'a
time. Steele, in his play of the "Con-
scious Lovers" produced in 1922
makes Tom, smart young man ser.
want rallying an old servitor, say, "You
talk as if the world was now just as it
was when my old master and you
we're in your youth; when you went
to dinner because it was 80 much
o'clock, when the great blow was Civ.
en- in the hall at the pantry door, and
all the family came out of their holes
in such strange dresses and forma.
faces as you see in the pictures in our
long gallery in the country" The
great blow at the pantry door, or the
cooks thrice repeated simmons, was
evidently quite out of fashion among
smart, up to date folk. Washington
Irving, in bis eff ,ctively and carefully
drawn picture of old time ways and
observances at that delightful mansion
Bracebridge Hall, revives the old Gus.
tom, and the merry party are sum-
moned TO the Christmas dinner in the
great hall by the sound of the rolling
pin banged upon the dresser by the
cook.
Another odd day of announcing the
advent of dinner, which prevailed in
one family, at least, was by beat OF
of drum. In Mrs. Charles Bagot's
most interesting volume Of reminis-
cences, called Links With the Past, y
published year or two ago, there are
given some notes by the Rev. F. f
Paget, on life in days gone by at
Blithfield the Statfordshlre seat of the
Bagot family. He mentions that in
his time, the middle of the nineteenth
century, the custom was still main.
tanned ofannouncing meals by sound
of drum, and says that it is related
that on QUE occasion during the civil
was, when party Of royalist officers
were invited to dinner at Blithfeld, the
guests were thrown into q state of
great CONSERVATION by bearing the
drum beat, and until they we're told
of the old family custom of thus an
nouncing meals imagined that they
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-04-29

The superlntendents who have
charge Of the Interstate Normal
school al Simpson Park met
with Supt. keefe last Wednesday
and arranged the course Of study
for this season S session.
The school will open June Goth
and continue four weeks. Two
courses of study will be offered
to teachers, an elemen tary course
leading to a second grade certiti-
cate and including the following
branches: Reading, writing,
spelling, gram mar, arithmetic,
geography, history, physiology
and hygiene, pedagogy and pri
mary methods, and an advanced
course, leading to a first grade
certificate, including the follow
ing branches in addition to thos e
named above: Algebra, plane
geometry, civics, physical geog
raphy, physics, American litera-
ture, drawing and music.
The following instructors and
superintendents will have charge
Of the work of the school: II. S.
Hllleboa, conductor for MIME
sofa; NJ. NJ Ramer, conductor
for South Dakota; p. G. Tonning,
Willmar; Miss Ella Hawk, Fari-
bault; Miss Edna L. Smith, Min
neapolis; Miss Sadie Il. Geer,
Minneapolis; NJ H. Manuel
Huron. S. D.; J. w. Golf, Vermil-
lion, S. D.; O. H. Jones, Sisseton,
S. D.; Miss Myra Watson, Chica-
go; Mrs. T. B. Wheelock, st.
Paul; Geo. G. Borchardt, super
intendent, Lac qui Parle county;
Martin l.. Pratt, superintendent,
Yellow Medicine county; c. B.
Otterson, superintendent, Chip
pewa county; w T. Williams,
superintendent, Traverse coun-
ty; F. A. Randolph, superinten-
dent, Roberts county, S. D.; A.
S. Raberge, superintendent,
Grant county, S. D.; J. E. Keefe,
superintendent, Bis Stone
county.
instruction will be given in
domestic science, kindergarten
methods, photography and gen
eral culture during the Chautau-
qua season. Tuition is free to
teachers of Minnesota and South
Dakota.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-04-29

state on record in the forthcomino
convention and to make a herculean
aetempt to have Mr.. Crawford nomi.
lateo 1or governor. Failing in that
ne Will become an Independent candi.
gate and will have the support Of a
large number of old line populists in
the state. 1t is also asserted that q
certain element in the democratic
party 1aVors the idea of indorsino
crawford for governor and that +
tnls can be accomplished compensa-
ton to the democrats will come in
the way OF appointment to certain
state offices of democrats who have
espoused the Crawford cause.
Should the republicans show too
strong front at the convention the
idea OF having Crawford nominated
by petition will possibly material
lze and the democrats at their state
convention will endorse his candi-
dacy and not make a nomination for
governor. By following out this
program it will be possible for ex.
Senator Pettigrew to endorse the
Crawford movement and become once
more identified with the republican
party.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-04-29
STR 4 N DRURG

April q, 1904.
Weather has changed for the better
although jack frost has quite an in
fuence yet.
Half of Strandburg's citizens are
unloading brick for the new bank.
Gullek Olson came over from Sum-
nit yesterday. He reports conditions
worse up there than they are here.
Henry Nelson is busy hauling stone
nowadays for the foundation to the
addition of the hotel.
Our banker has bought new bicy-
Gle and has commenced practicing,
taking northerly direction when
roads are in shape. We think he will
soon exhibit in Milbank.
J. E. Nelson will leave for Orton-
vile tomorrow to work at the carpen-
ter trade for John Carlson & Co.
Aug. Lindberg is reported to be in
the last stage of consumption.
Gust Johnson, son of J. p. Johnson,
leaves tomorrow for TempletOn, Cal. /.
on account Of being afflicted with con-
sumption. This is the third case re-
poIleu III bilIS HtlSuDOTnOOQ.
We saw spectacle on the baseball
ground Sunday when a certain person
acted like a clown.
Seeding is now in full progress. and
we expect half of the small grain will
be seeded this week.
Political slander seems to be nro-
crossing in the county papers. Won
der how long it will continue?