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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04
MAYOR GoRMAN has stepped into

MAYOR German has stepped into
the breach and announced his cand1-
dacy for the Democratic nomination
for mayor at the primaries. There
was nothing else for him to do. Cir
cumstances over which he had no
control practically forced him to it.
The element in the local democracy,
that has been making itself so unduly
prominent of late IN party affairs,
threatened to seize control of the or
ganization, which would mean a de-
feat for the Democrats, or victory
even more disgracefu1 to the party
than a defeat. This the mayor was
called upon by the better element OF
his party to prevent, if possible, by
making the race himself, which &C
counts for the early announcement OF
his candidacy. Under the circun-
stances it looks as if the Republicans
had good chance in the spring, if
they nominate strong man and get
their factions to unite on him. The
fight for the nomination is going to
leave some sore spots in the Demo-
cratic party, but the bitter factiona1
fight in the Republican ranks will
probably prevent their taking advan-
tage of the opportunity presented to
them by their opponents. If saner
counse1s prevail and the Republicans
get together on the party nominee
and support him loyalty, they can win
out next spring, no matter who the
Democrats nominate.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04
Kenosha Man Charged With Send.
ing Obscene Matter Through
the Mails is Captured
PLEADS GUILTY TO CHARGE
Former kenosha Man Arrested by
United States Inspector Bird at
Ottawa, Ill, and Will Take His
Medicine in Court

Frank Bosler, Kenosha man, oc-
cupies cell in the Cook county jail
awaiting to be arraigned in the
United States courts of Chicago where
he will plead guilty to a charge of
sending obscene matter through the
mails. The arrest of Bos1er was made
| by the United States Postofice In
spector Bird. Bosler was found at
/ Ottawa, Ill, where he had fed when
he left Kenosha.
The story of the crime of Bos1er is
a most unusual one. The man had
been formerly employed at the Sim
mons Manufacturing company and
during the time he lived in Kenosha
he became engaged to young lady
of the city who is now employed at
the Schlitz hotel as waitress. The
couple had planned to be married and
and the young woman had even plan
ned Tor the purchase Of her wedding
hnery when Bosler suddenly left Ke-
nosaa.
However, before he left, he went
| to the young woman and declared his
undylng love and various other sorts
OF rot. The girl remained true after
the departure of Bosler, and sent long
letters to him at Ottawa, but IN a
short time she found that his;1ove was
growing decidedly cold and she sent
him pertinent letter asking that he
make known his intentions in regard
| fO tho u0nS6S%or
answer to the letter early in October
and it is claimed that the letter was
one of the most fragrant violations of
the postal laws ever brought to the
notice Of the inspector. It was so
obscene that the young woman con-
sidered it an insult that she could not
endure and she at once turned it over
to the police, who in turn sent it to
the postmaster.
Inspector Bird at once took up the
case, but is seems that Bos1er got
notice that the matter was in the
hands Of the government and the
officials had some trouble locating
him. He left Ottawa, but when he
believed that the trouble had all
j
blown over he returned to his work
there and was at once arrested. He
was taken to Chicago and landed In
jail and after short time made full
confession of his guilt. The young
woman who is almost Frustrated on
account of the case was notified this
morning that the plea of guilty
entered by Boslert would make it un-
necessary for her to appear against
him when the matter is taken up in
the United States court.
It is probable that Bosler will be
arraigned in the United States court
early in the new year. His violation
of the law was such a serious one
that it is thought he will receive a
very heavy penalty.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04
WINTER BIRD NEIGHBORs.

Many OF These Much Travelled Little
Fellows Are Surprisingly Tame.
It is surprising that there arc birds
which come to us only to spend the
winter, leaving us again at the begin
ming of spring for northern lands and
snow banked hillsides, where the long
day and pale twilight nights of the
arctic reign. Birds that raise their
broods in the far, treeless northland,
where heather, grasses and stunted
alders grow on a shallow, soaking soil
undertake by a great depth of eternal
ice, at the approach of winter gather
into great rowing focks to surge south
ward to the gentler climate of our biz
zardy temperate winters!
Many Of these much Travelled little
fellows are wonderfully tame and seem
not to experience fear of man so uni
versal with animals that rear their
young in his neighborhood. Pine gros-
beaks and crossbills, whose real homes
are in the silent, moss filed spruce for
ests Of the great north, will almost al
low themselves to be caught in your
hand. With the field rowing birds,
like the snow buntings, horned larks
and longspurs, this fearlessness is not
found, probably from the constant look
out they are forced to keep against the
cunning and hungry white foxes and
the daring, trap jawed little ermine
that persistently hunt them in their
northland home. But the rosy little
red polls, the creepers, kinglets, 'little
friend chickadee," as the northern In
dams call him, and all the other deep
forest jewellers are as unafraid of us
as they are of the gentle porcupines
and deer of their home woods.-St.
Nicholas.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04
ssHonest Abe.o

1t is a significant fact that in CON-
munity where crime was virtually IN
known, where plain, straightforward
dealing was assumed as a matter Of
course, and credit was fearlessIy asked
and given, Lincoln won an enviable
reputation for integrity and honor. In
a moral atmosphere of this sort ordi-
nary veracity and fairness attracted
no particular attention. Honesty was
not merely the best policy; it was the
rule Of life, and people were expected
to be upright and just with one an
other, but when a clerk in a country
store walked miles to deliver a few
ounces of tea innocently withheld from
a customer by an error in the scales,
and when he made long, hard trip in
order to return a few cents accidental
~ overpaid him, he was talked about,
and the fact is that Honest Abe" was
a tribute, not a Observation-Disclosures
Trevor Hill in Century.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04
WCman,s Greatest Book.

That Emily Bronte's .Wuthering
Heights" is 'tthe greatest book ever
written by woman is the opinion
advanced by Clemence K Shorter, the
English biographer and critic, in a re-
cent sketch Of the authors sister, Char
lotte. Mr.. Shorter supports his esti-
mate by citing and quoting the iauda-
tory comments of Matthew Arnold.
Swinburne, Mrs. Humphrey Ward and
others. To quote:
All speculation as to sources OF inspira-
ton is far beside the mark in appraising
Emily Bronte's genius. '.Wuthering
Heights" Is a book by itself. with less in
debtedness to earlier literature than most
great novels. In my Judgment, it is the
greatest book ever written by woman.
Those who have read 1t again and again
and have found that 1t gripped them
more forcefully at each succeeding reading
have put 1t 70 a test indeed. : know
of no move that may be read repeatedly
with more satisfaction The whole group
Of tragic figures pass before US, and we
are moved as III the presence Of great
tragedy. Emily Bronte was quite
young woman when she wrote this book.
One almost feels that it was necessary
that she should die. Any further work
from her pen must have been In the ma
ture of an anticlimax. 1t were better that
"Wuthering Heights should stand, as
does it's author, in splendid isolation
The writer declares that Emily
Bronte is as '1impersonal as Shake
speare," and, lacking any key to the
mystery covering the source where
sprung this work of the authors genius,
we are thrown back upon nature as the
only possible external influence, those
wild and silent moors she loved so well
and where from earliest childhood she
kept solitary communion with all the
weird phantasies of her brain" The
mystery surrounding the personality
of Emily Bronte Is unrelieyed by any
personal letters left behind to furnish
glimpses Of her character. There is not
even portrait bearing the faintest
resemblance to her. The great book
Is never self revealing, and It's author
in life stood aloof among her people
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04
OFFERS NEW COURSE

Not content with instructing each
year some 900 young men and women
from Wisconsin farms in the latest
Developments in practical and scien-
tifc agriculture, Dean w. A. Henry,
of the University of Wisconsin col
1ege of agriculture, has completed
plans for another ten days farmers
and housekeepers' course in Feb
ruary in order to extend the work of
the college, if possible, to every busy
farmer and farmers wife or daughter
in the whole state.
The course will open February s
and continue to February 10, most of
the lectures and demonstrations be-
ing given in the main building of the
agricultural college and in room 80 of
South Hall, which is headquarters of
the home economics department of
the university. Most of the time will
be devoted to instruction and discus
sion of questionsspertaining to horse
raising and land.drainage in the far
mers' course, and to questions of
household economy and sanitation in
the housekeepers' course.
The program for the farmers
course includes an attractive and in
structive series of evening lectures by
President G. r. Van Hise and other
members of the university faculty on
| the structure of the soil, forces of ma
ture, the planning and planting of
nature, the planning and planting of
home grounds, creamery dividends
and draft horses. The regular daily
conferences will include discussion
and demonstration of soil fertility,
manures, drainage, feeding of farm
animals, tuberculosis IN cattle, the
proper care of milk, tests of dairy
cows, inspection of feeding stuffs, al
fa1fa growing, corn judging the breed
ing, judging and handling of cattle.
sheep and swine with study of the
carcasses, and special demonstrations
on the breeds, types, points and
soundness of horses, with Judging
and examination of horses by DR.. A. 5.
Alexander. There will be a special
conference Of farmers and breeders
on matters pertaining to the horse
breeding industry of the state, and a
profitable course in dairy methods
and dividends.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04

THE following address to insurance
policy holders, issued by Senator
Armstrong, the chairman of the leg
islative investigating committee
which has laid bare the business
methods of the companies, contains
much sound advice, which should be
taken to heart by every man who
holds policy. Nothing has been
brought out in the Investigations to
indicate that the assets of any of the
big companies have been impaired,
and the principle of life insurance
has not been attacked in any way. If
you have policies in force hang on to
them. The face value is secure, and
after these Investigations are con-
Guided and drastic reforms made in
the business methods of the compan-
les, there is every reason to believe
that the returns on the money in
vested will be larger than they ever
have been before. Senator Armstrong
says:
Il am asked for brief message to
policyho1ders on the eve of our adj
journment for the month, and am glad
to make this suggestion: Do not al
low your policies to lapse on account
of anything revealed by this investi-
CATION. Policyholders are in better
position now than before the investi-
cation began, and their position
ought to improve steadily as our in
quiry proceeds.
"The legislation we shall recon-
mend will undoubtedly safeguard and
strengthen the rights of policyhold-
ers; but those who suffer their poll
cies to lapse will lose the benefit Of
what has been done already, as well
as what we hope to accomplish. Nc
such sacrifice ought to be made by
policyholders, and patience and cour-
age for a short time yet will not only
prevent loss, but will enable this
committee to render the best service
to the greatest number"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04
New National Forest Rules.

One of the most fruitful of the newa.,
regulations governing the use Of the
products OF the national forest reserves
is the provision which enables the small
user Of timber to procure what he
needs promptly. Before this provision
was made every would be purchaser
Of timber, regardless of the amount he
desired, was forced to wait for refer
ence Of his application to Washington
The formalities which attended this
arrangement under the law often work
ed a real hardship and tended to dis
courage legitimate use of reserve tim
Der by small applicants and sometimes
to encourage It's illegitfmate use by
timber users Of all classes. It fire.
quently happened, for instance that
applications were made for the use Of
timber under the free use privilege by
those who were not entitled to free use
and small users generally were in
clined to avoid dealing with the govern
ment on account of unavoidable for
malities.
There are very large number Of
persons who purchase timber irt small
quantities, either for uses not included
in the free use privilege or for manu-
featuring at local mills to supply the
demands Of small agricultural commu-
mites. The prompt, businesslike con
sideratiOn which is assured them has
been welcomed by them as boon.
There are fifty applicants for small
quantities Of timber to one applicant
who requires 100000 board feet or
over. This sort Of small business is
constantly on the Increase, both. abso-
lutely and relatively to larger business
and there can be but little doubt that
the regulations on which it is based
may be counted among the CHIEF causes
which have SO much strengthened the
sentiment in favor of forest reserves
and their administration In the last
few months. Rather a striking fact
which has developed is that simulta-
neously with the increase of small tim
Der sales there has come decrease in
the relative number of applications for
free use.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04

II is a hea1thfu1 sign that the tax
payers are beginning to take an inter-
est in the doings of the school board.
Far be it for us to suggest that the
same interest could be more effective
ly manifested along about election
time, but, with all due respect, it may
be permissible to remark that for a
body that spends as much of the pub
lies money as the board, mighty little
attention is paid to it by the voters.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04
Vidocq's Memory.

Vidocq, the great French detective,
had SO excellent memory for names
and faces that after having seen a
criminal once and learned his name he
never forgot him, but would, often iden-
tify him under the most subtle dis
guises. A French forger once escaped
from custody, went abroad and remain
ed for eleven years. In the meantime
he became quite bald and lost an eye
and part of his nose in a drunken
brawI. Fancying that no one could
detect him, he returned to Paris and
went boldly about the streets; but, be-
ing arrested on suspicion, he was
brought before Vidocq, who at once
recognized him and sent him back to
work out his term.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04
Free Delivery Defends Itself.

There may be some truth behind the
General Rush G. Hawkins in the North
American Review, but in any event
there seems no good reason for discred-
iting the system because of its origin
or the methods by which it has been
built up. General Hawkins scores it
as political raid on the treasury and
movement not called for by the pub
lie. 1t seems ridiculous to assert that
the people to be benefited did not want
more rapid delivery Of the mails into
their hands. That the government
would undertake to solve the problem
by carrying the mail to the very doors
Of the isolated inhabitants was too
good to believe.
Even though the rural free delivery
costs more than it earns, the same was
true of the whole postal system for
years, and yet the government kept on
improving it. Free rural delivery is
an aid to the general development of the
land 1t surely was one sided progress
to establish mail communications be
tween the inhabitants of cities over a
thousand miles apart every twenty
four hours or oftener and put off the
farmers living within twenty or thirty
miles of those same cities with tri-
weekly mail or compel them to do their
own carrying. The rural delivery
scheme is vast one and may be i'm
perfect, but the country believes it to
be worth the money it costs as a gen
eral proposition.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04
A REMARKABLE ESCAPE.
Odd Incident of the Reign of Terror
In Paris.

During the reign of terror in Paris
one Of the most remarkable escapes
was that Of NJ. de Chateaubrun. He
was sent to execution with twenty 9th
er prisoners, but, after the fifteenth
head had fallen, the guillotine got out
Of order and a workman was sent for
to repair it. The six remaining victims
were left standing in front Of the ma
chimes with their hands tied behind
them. A French crowd is very curious,
and the people kept pressing forward
to see the man arranging the guillotine.
By degrees NJ de Chateaubrun, who
was to the rear Of his companions,
found himself in the front line of the
spectators, then in the second, and
finally we'll behind those who had come
to see his head cut off. Before the men
could get the guillotine in working or
der night began to fall, and NJ. de
Chateaubrun slipped away. When in
the Champs Elysees he told a man
that a wag had tied his hands and
robbed him of his hat, and this simple
individual set him free. A few days
later NJ. de Chateaubrun escaped from
France.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04
The New Red Cross.

The recent annual meeting Of the
reorganized American National Red
Cross calls attention anew to this i'm
portant and worthy association for
the relief of suffering caused by ca
lamity. By an act Of congress APP
proved Jan. 5, 1905, the old society
built up by Clara Barton was newly
organized and incorporated and brought
under government supervision The
special purposes Of the organization
are:
To furnish volunteer aid to the sick
and wounded Of armies in time Of war in
accordance with the spirit and condi-
tions of the Geneva convention
To continue and carry on a system OF
national and international relief in time
of peace and apply the same In mitigat-
ing the sufferings caused by pestilence,
famine fire, floods and other great ma
tional calamities
The term Red Cross societies applies
to all societies for assisting the wound
ed in time of war, many nations hav-
international convention held at Gene
va in 1868. At present the United
States appears to be very near the bot
tom of the list in point Of equipment,
activity and interest, and other ma
tons, like Austro-Hungary, Germany,
Japan and even Russia, count their
enrolled nurses by thousands where
ours may be reckoned in hundreds if
not in scores. In most countries mem
bership in Red Cross society is deem
ed an honor. In this country it costs
but ST. year, and a life membership
may be had for $25, The accounts Of
the society under the new charter are
audited by an officer of the war de-
partment.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04
WesIex,s Mother.

The mother Of John and Charles IVES
ley, the founders of Methodism, was
one of the most remarkable characters
of her own or any other age. From
tender years the principles of religion
and practical piety were instilled by
her in the minds Of her children. She
daily took them into a private room
and prayed with each, and SO imbued
their minds with the spirit of religion
that the Methodist movement was real
~ born in her home
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04

France proposes to have an interna-
tional exposition IN which there will be
as full and perfect a display as possible
of a laborer's life. The object is to pre-
sent comparisons between the condi-
lions of the life Of the laborer in all
countries Of the world today and in
past centuries. The idea Is a novel
one, and an exposition of the kind can
not fail to appeal to all who strive to
elevate the condition of the laborer
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04

Another side to the peril in store for
the western world when the yellow
races get too busy and forward is the
tendency Of the Japs, notably the half
million who sidestepped into the army,
to put on leather shoes in place Of
straw sandals, thereby sending up the
price Of leather. Unless the yellow
men turn in and raise cattle to shoe
themselves with white men will have
to pay more for shoe leather.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04

The manuscript Of daily journal
kept during the reign Of terror in
France by the red reyolutionist, DAN
ton, is still jealously guarded by a de-
scendant Of the family, into whose
hands it has come as an heirloom. It's
publication would certainly produce a
great sensation and would perhaps
make life unpleasant to some present
day celebrities who boast of ancestors.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04

The Campbell-Bannerman British
cabinet is made up of young men, COM
paratively speaking. Only five in all
are over sixty, ten are between fifty
and sixty, and six are less than fifty.
The average age is but fifty-fve. The
nine members Of Roosevelt's cabinet
have an average age Of sixty-one.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04

Now that the anniversary Of the
Iroquois fire is approaching, the usual
warnings against unsafe theatres are
roing the rounds of the press, but as
time goes by, they are beginning to
have less and less weight, and it will
not be many years before the lessons
taught by the disaster will be forgot
ten
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04

In the fact that the northwest pas
sage between the Atlantic and the Pa
cifc has been discovered no doubt the
transcontlnental roads will see a new
reason for thinking that the digging of
canal to link the oceans would be a
shocking waste Of money.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04

THE decision of the government to
keep it's hands off Of the Santo Do
mingo affair and let the revolutionists
settle things in their own way, will
meet with general public approval.
The United States has enough
troubles with its own "insular pos
sessions" without borrowing any
more.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04
Real Pleasure.

Jack-I suppose there is nothing that
pleases a woman more than the devot-
ed attention Of the man of her choice?
Bess-Except, perhaps, the devoted at
tention Of the man Of some other girls
choice.-EXchange
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04
Nails and Mailing.

When buyer declared that he 'spaid
cash right on the nail and thereby nail
ed a great bargain" what kind of a
nail did he refer to? What is meant by
a doornail and the expression, s'Dead
as a doornail?'
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04

A woman recently die who was
born in 1897 and therefore lived one
complete century and clipped couple
of years off the one preceding and the
one following.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-01-04

Another historic landmark has been
saved from spoliation By the purchase
of the house in Philadelphia where
Betsy Ross designed the American flag.
1t is fitting that the places hallowed
by patriotic associations should be pre-
served.