davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16

not half die (guess you wouldn't think SO
if you could look inside the home at bed
time, } and their husbands don't break
unless they have invested the last drop
with some merchant who has been dab
bling in stocks, to help some New York
lady's husband out of fix. "New York
ladies " and Western women y are two
different species Of the human.
We could find Western ladies that are
not the lineal decendents of farmers, and
could claim nativity in some of the brown
stone fronts, and their parentage from the
snoboracy-they are plenty in prairiedom
But we don't set any store by 'em and
could spare New York or any other city a
'dreadful site" if they want 'em it takes
monstrous little of the like to do us out
here and no mistake. But, dear LIFE,
we've not a aconldn to spare-no not one,
Every whole-souled, loving, true woman
wife, mother or sister, is treasure in the
land.
The level prairies and beautiful swelling
hills and valleys, with their luxuriant
groves and lofty forests, have homes for
them all. And if Mr.. Tracy, Or any other
philanthropist, can gather up colony of
these ."poodle-dog nurses, or money
spending shoppers, send them out to
Egypt to help US gather the immense crop
of blackberries and raspberries that are
just tempting us into the fields and woods,
we will promise to take the pale out of
their cheeks, Cat least twenty-four hours, }
and give them exercise without the aid of
gymnasium. We can promise, with
without any fear of failure. to set every
nerve and bone and muscle in motion be-
fore October-if only with the shakes.
But, bless, US. what's the use of talk
ing? New York ladies are no more like
Western aC0naen than music box is like
sewing machine, or th eatre like rail.
road. or an opera like an agricultural fair.
"Them's no count" said old Charlotte
as balf dozen of the former faunted by
=" them's trash. Hang 'em with silk
and ribbons from the top of their heads to
the soles of their feet, and 'twont help
'em. The lady never strikes in ; it always
works from the inside out"
Don't waste your sympatbies, dear Mrs.
WHY'S on Western gentlemen they don't
need it. Western women support the
men while New York men support the Ia
dies
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16
Jefferson County Bank.
WATERFOWL, WIS.
Snerin's Sale.

BY virtue of an execution issued out of the Circuit
Court for County of Jefferson and State of Wis
consin, in favo of Benjamin B. Morris and to di
rected and delivered against the goods and chattels
lands and tenements of Lyman Boomer have levi
ed upon all the right title ard interest which tho said
LYMAN f. Boomer had the 18th day of September
a D. 1850 any time thereafter in and tc the fol-
lowing described real estate situate in the City of
Watertown County of Jefferson and State of WscOn-
su to vii: The South west quarter of Section nine in
Town ship Eight North of Range fifteen east, also the
North half of the South East quarter of the
tion and muc ch of the South East fractional quar-
ter section eight. and range aforesaid lies
on the East side of Rock River and north of a line
commencing the South East corner of said Section
eight and running North 35 degrees West to Rock
River the North East quarter of Section eight
aforesaid which shall expose for sale and sell at
public auction much thereof as is to
make the amount of said Judgment with interest and
cost to the highest bidder at the Planters Hotel
the city of Watertown in said county on Monday the
18th day pril the hour of O'Clock in the
afternoon of that day satisfy said Judgment inter
est and costs. HEBER SMITH,
Dated Feb a, 1862. Sheriff Jefferson County
Gill, Barber & Fribert, PITS Att'ys. SS:6w
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16
w estern Women,
BY MRS. FRANCES D. GAGE.

"New York ladies are fearfully and
wonderfully made. They have a great
many unaccountable crotchets in their pref
ty little heads. It's the height of the
mode to carry fat, putting poodle dog
about in their arms, or lead him by a gid
ed chain. But if a lady carries her baby
herself, she loses cast Immediately"
So says Mrs. George Washington WHY'S
who never takes up her pen when she has
not good thing to say, and when she
writes her chapter on the genus homo call
ed the New York ladies, because some cor
respondent of Western paper has written
from New York that" New York ladies are
no more like our Western women than a
dissolying plate of ice-cream is like plump
apple dumpling." Of course they are not
Mrs. WHY'S. Our Western women are
unlike New York women-sensible wear
thick shoes in winter and paint roses on
their checks over the cooking stove, or
with five mile race over the prairies on a
breezy day to see an old friend, or take
the butter and eggs to market;
Nursing poodle dogs - forsooth There
is no chance for dogsnursing out here,
can tell YOU Such things are not to be
thought of; women out West do their
own work, and hired servants are so out of
all repute that one can't get more than a
dollar week, though they are as scarce
as hens teeth The woman here that don't
do her own work, sew or wash for sis, take
care of two babies, one two years and the
other three months old, isn't considered
much of woman, "no how" Women
work, women are healthy, strong, long
lived; they don't love to be pale and
headachy; they have duties and cares :;
and can eat pork and beans, and 20 to
meeting without gloves, take care of sick
friends and watch through long weary
nights by the pillow of sick neighbor.
| have known them turn out and sew
fer unfortunate families, get up circles
to help the widowed and fatherless.-
They 60 out to take tea in good calico
dresses, and is it net the fashion to keep
folks waiting at the door three quarters of
an hour before even servant girl opens it
to say not at home.
Western women go shopping, but they
take the beets and turnips, chickens,
geese, blackberries, and exchange them
for blue checks and stogies, that their
strong g-banded boys may not fear the bite
of rattle snakes, or mad dogs in August.
Trading done, they speed bomeward and
refresh themselves by getting dinner, and
eat eorndodgers or ham and eggs, without
dream Of indigestion. Their children do
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16
Interesting Letter from Parson Brown
low.

ED. PHlL. ENQUIRER-Dear Sir Il
consider that the Petersburg Express, in
announcing the arrival in that city of my
wife, and children of the Hon. Horace
Maynard, has mendaciously aSsailed the
reputation and patriotism of these ladies,
in stating g that though the husbands have
cvinced an unaccountable hostility to the
South and it's cause, they (the ladies) are
firmly attached to the Confederacy +"
There is not one word of truth in this
statement, unless it is alleged that the
homes and fresides of these ladies in
Knoxville, from which they have been I'M
tremendously expelled by an insolent or
der of the Commanding General, eonsti,
tute the Confederacy. :;
Every member of my family old enough
to appreciate the horrors of this internal
rebellion, despise the so-called Confederacy
and the unprincipled villains who inaugu-
rated it. The only difference between
me and them is, that claim to be capa-
bic of despising the wicked concern and
all connected with ana originating it with
more intense hatred than they can. But
then | have trained them up 60 in the nur-
ture and admonition of the Lord,' which
implies obedience to law and order and an
undying hatred Of secession and its guilty
authors
The work Of murder. arrest and impris-
onment, goes bravely on in East Tennes-
see, as my family inform me, who left
Knoxville the latter part of last week.
They were shooting down Union men in
the streets, arresting hundreds, and shoot
ing down fifty or sixty in one instance, af-
ter they had surrendered aud were under
arrest. They marched between three and
four hundred through the street, with
some of them barefooted and their feet
bleeding, taking them to the depot and
shipping them to Atlanta, Ga, to work
upon their Notifications. Those men, de-
MED water, would lift out of the mudpua-
dies in the street with their hands, after a
rain, what they could to quench their
thirst,
In Gods name, I call upon President
Lincoln, and upon his Cabinet and army
officers, to say how long they will suffer a
loyal people, true to the Union, and to the
Government of their fathers, to suffer in
this way! The Union men of Fast Ten
nessee are largely in the majority-say
three to one, but they have no arms--they
are working on rebel Notifications like
slaves under the lash, and no Federal force
has ever yet been marched into that op-
pressed and down-trodden country. Let
the Government, if it has any regard for
its obligations, redeem that country at
once, and liberate these people, no matter
at what cost of blood and treasure I am,
&C., W. G. BROWNLON.
Crosswicks, n j., May 8, 1862
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16
COyetOusneSs.

In the original the word is very ex-
pressive one. 1t means the desire of hav-
ing more; not Of having more because
there is not enough, but simply craving
after more. More when a man has not
enough; more when he has more. more,
ever more. Give, give, divide. divide
This craving is not universal. Individuals
and whole nations are without it. There
are some nations, the conditions of whose
further civilization is that the desire of ac-
cumulation be increased They are indo-
lent or too unanimous to be cevetous =
Energy is awakened when wants are i'm
mediate, pressing, present; but ceases
with their qualification. There are other
nations in which the craving is excessive,
even to disease. Pre-eminent among these
is England. The desire of accumulation is
the source of all cur greatness and all our
baseness. 1t is at once our glory and our
shame. 1t is the cause of our commerce,
of our navy. Of our military triumphs, of
our enormous wealth and our nar7elous
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16

shocks are usually bewildering. In this
case it was so. The mother did not shrek
or faint but with low, shivering &c God
help us I" she sank back and the cars
plunged on, with those two white, stony
faces.
Only once either spoke A CLEAN Of
hope shot up suddenly into the mother
eyes she seized hold of Mary's hand and
whispered, Perhaps it was somebody
else. Mary" And Mary looked up mo-
ment, as the drowning look up when eager
hands are reached out to their rescue ;
then the blank despair darkened her face
again, her head dropped, but it may be
that for those two long hours this thought
warmed away down in her heart, as it did
in the mothers, and kept them both from
breaking.
At last the train glided into the depot Z;
the passengers hustled about hunting for
their travelling bags and bundles, but
the two sat there still and motionless,
as though death had suddenly stricken
them,
A moment later young man sprang
hastily into the cars, and gazed with an
intense, breathless sort of eagerness on his
fine, honest face, up and down the cars.
Then he bounded forward, with his
whole heart in his face. "Mother Ma
ry " He couldn't have said another
word just then. But those two those
two! If you could have seen them 'sMy
boy !! my boy are you really alive ?" ejac-
ulated the cid woman, clinging to him with
her shaking hands, while Mary, forgetting
all her maiden shyness in her woman's low
ing, murmured up, amid the happiest sobs
and the sweetest tears" Oh Charlie |!
| thought you were dead-I did ?"
No, I'm alive and kicking, you'd bet
ter believe y responded the hearty tones
of the young carpenter " and oh, so glad
to see you! The letter was miscarried
and I didn't get it until last night; and as
you said you should start the third day if
didn't come on, thought maybe I'd find
you here with the morning train. I've
got the incest kind Of house for you, four
of the snuggest little rooms, and new
silk dress for Mary, which I'll engage she'll
wear to the Parsons next Saturday. y
And there was significant laugh in his
eyes that set Mary's pretty face all aglow.
But eome We won't stay here any
longer. I've whole years talking on
hand for you. Mary, you've certai My
grown handsomer than ever I'll get a
carriage directly" And proudly, very
pr oudly, be offered them each an arm, and
escorted his mother and his betrothcd from
tie cars
Well, I must say it did me good to
hear him, said gentleman passenger who
had witnessed the whole scene but I
couldn't help thinking, with pang of pity,
after all, somebody's poor Charlie Davis is
dead"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16
stIett poetrp.
The Coquette-A Portrait.
BY JOHN C. SAKE.

q You're clever at drawing, own,o
Said my beautiful cou sin Lizette,
Aswe sat by the window alone,
9 But say, can you paint Coquette ~
She's painted already" quoth I
Nay-nayr' said the laughing Lizette,
Now none of your joking-but try
And paint me thorough Coquette.'
"Well COUSIN" at once began
In the ear of the eager Lizette,
I'll paint you as well as l can
That wonderful thing, Cequette.
She wears most beautiful face,
Of course said the pretty Lizette
And she isn't deficient in grace,
Or else she were not Coquette.
And then she is daintily made
A smile from the dainty Lizette
By people expert in the trade
Of forming proper Coquette,
She's the winningest ways with the beaux,
Go on said the winning Lizette
But there isn't man of them knows
The mind Of the tickle Coquette
She knows how to weep and to sigh,
A sigh from the tender Lizette
But hersweeping is all in my eye
Not that of the cunning Coquette.
In short she's a creature Of art,
0 hush said the frowning Lizette
With merely the ghost of heart
Enough for a thorough Coquette.
And yet could easily prove
{ Now don't said the angry Lizette
The lady is always in love
In love with hersef-the Coquette
There-do not be angry you know,
My dear little cousin Lizette,
You told me a moment ago
To paint yoas-a thorough u Coquette!n
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16
A Young Mans First Lessen.

DR.. Holland says: 81 take it that the
first great lesson young man has to learn
is, that he is an ass. The earlier this les
son is learned the better it will be for his
peace of mind and the success of life. Some
never learn it, and descend into the eve
ming Of their existence their ears lengthen
with the shadows as they go. Some learn
it early, get their ears cropped, and say
nothing of it, while others sensibly retire
into modest employments, where they will
not be noticed A young man bred at
home and growing up under the light of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16
state OF Wisconsin, Circuit Court, jefferson


A gainst Sherid'S sale in Foreclosure.
Edison Langley.
DY VIRTUE of and in pursuance to aJudgmenti in
ID Foreclosure and Sale rendered in said. Court in
she above entitled action the Eleventh day of Feb
xuary A. D. 1862 shall expose for sale and sell at
publican elton to the highest bidder at the Court
House in said county on Wednesday the 21St day Of
My next the hour of one o'clock in the afternoon
on that day the following described mortgaged prem
ies or much thereof shall be necessary TO raise
~ amount of said Judgment with interest and costs
besides the expense Of said sale to wit The West
half OF the South West quarter of section number
thirteen IS and the north west quarter of the north
quarter of section number twenty three (3l all
in towU number six [6) north of Range number six
C6) in the county Jefferson in the State
of Wisconsin containing hundred and twenty
acres OF land more or less. HEBER SMITH.
Sheriff JEFF. CO. Wis.
Dated Shifts Offce Feb. 18th, 1862
J. IL. Paine & Son,
no.3T:ISw PI'fS ATTORNEYS. Milwaukee
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16
ctrcui; court--county OF JEFFERSON.
les PrentiSs Plaintiff
n-ai .,


against
Horny Macs, LUcie Macs, Harriet B Nichols
o1arles II, Fargo, Austin W. Kellogg and Joseph
Barton Defendants.
summoas.-For relief. Complaint not served.
The State Of Wisconsin, To the above named De-
fendants; 1oa are hereby summoned and required
to answer the complaint in this action which is led
il sas I'll e Of the CLERK Of the Circuit Court at the
village ofJeferson IN said County, and to serve 4
copy of your answer to the said complaint on the
subscriber at his office in the city of Watertown JEFF
fsrsoa County Wisconsin within ninety days after the
service OF this summons you, exclusive of the day
o. suel service; aud if you fail 70 answer the said
complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in
this action viii apply to the Court for the relief
minded in the complain
Dased February 10th A. D. 1862
HARLOW PEASE.
5:oW o. Plaintiffs Attorney.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16

parental admiration and fraternal pride,
cannot readily understand how any ole
can be as smart as he is. He goes into
town puts on airs and gets snubbed Won
ders what it means. Goes into society,
and finds himself tongue-tied, undertakes
to speak in debating club, breaks down
and gets laughed at pays attentions to a
young woman and finds a very large mitten
on his hands, and, III a state of mind
" bordering on Distraction, sits down to
reason about it. This is a critical period
in his history, The result of his reason
ing decides his fate. IF be thoroughly
comprehends the fact that he does not
know anything, and accepts that the world
around him knows great deal more than
he does, that he is but cipher, and that
whatever he gets must be won by hard
work, there is hope for him. He will 90 to
work and learn how to live On the coa-
trary, if huge, self-cOnceit holds posses
sion OF him, If he gets cross and sour, if he
turns up his nose, or sneaks, he will be cut.
The world has no use for him. A young
man who is not tractable and placablr, and
who refuses to admit to himself that he
does not know anything to speak of, and
to own it good naturedly, might as well re-
tire to private life first as last.
After young man has thoroughly CON-
pretended that he is an ass. the next thing
for him to learn is, that the world does not
care anything about him, that he is suject
of nobody's admiration or overwhelming
esteem, and that he has got to look out for
himself.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16

inventions And is the cause Of cur fac
tions. animosities, of our squalid pauper-
ism, and the worse than heather degreda-
tion of the masses Of our population. - Rc0.
T. IT, Robertson.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16

Coon LUcK.-Somc young men talk
about luck. Good luck is to get up at
six o'clock in the morning; good luck, if
you had only shilling week, is to live
upon elevenpence and save a penny good
luck is to trouble your heads with your
own business. aud to let your neighbors
alone good luck is to fulfill the command
ments, and do unto others as We wish them
to do unto US. They must not only plod
but persevere. Pence must be taken care
of, because they are the seeds of guineas.
To get on in the world, they must take
care Of home, sweep their own doorways
clean. try and help other people, avoid
temptations, and have faith in truth and
God.
BD The physically bind thanks you
for your guidance /; the mentally blind usu-
ally rejects II with indionaricn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16

WELL PUT--When ex-senator Truman
Smith, of Connecticut, returned to Wash
ingten with his youthful, accomplished, and
handsome Alabama vile, some one asked
how many slaves she had, {" only one"
said Truman, bowing low, and placing his
hand upon his heart - one who is prowd
to be her slave" That was very coed.
A correspondent of the New York Herald
gives supplemental anecdote a month Ia
ter. On the night the platform gave way
at the Washington circus Mr.. Smith was
present witE Lis young wife, and it is said.
when the crash came, he ran for the door,
leaving the lady to shift for herself An
other lady observing it remarked, pointing
to the honorable Senator from Connecticut,
" Look-look There goes a fugitive
slave"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16

o. TO KELLoGG'S and get that au5rotvpo o,
u dasuerreotype OF the lost friend co-fea int !
larse, beautiful and >pcakin: po-trait
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16

DEAFNESS OF THE Acknowledging is
morecommon than to hear old people utter
querulous complaints with regard to their
increasing deafness; but those who do so
are not perhaps aware that this inirmity
is the result of an express and wise ar
rangcment Of Providence in constructing
the human body. The gradual loss of
hearing is effected for the best purpose, it
being intended to give casa and quietude
to the decline of life, when any noise or
sounds from without would but dccompose
the enfebled mind and prevent peaceful
meditation. Indeed. the gradual withdraw
al of all the senses and the decay of the
frame, in old age, have been wisely ordain-
ed, in order to wcan the human mind
from the concerns and pleasures of the
world, and to induce longing for a per-
feet state of existence
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16

STOPPED WORRYING AND BEGAN TO
LAUGH,-A clerical friend of a celebrated
watering place met lady who seemed how
ering on the brink of the grave. Her checks
were hollow ard wan, her manner listless,
her step languid, and her brow wore the
severe contraction so indicative of both
mental and physical suffering, so that she
was to all observers an object of sincerest
pity.
Some years afterward he encountered
this same lady, but SO bright, and fresh,
and youthful, so full and hcalthful buoyan-
ey, and 50 joyous in expression, that he
questioned himself if be had not deceived
himself with regard to her identity.
''Is it possible" said he, g that I SEQ
before me Mrs. B, who presented such u
doleful appearance at the Springs several
years ago?"
The very same
And pray tell me, madam, the secret
Of your cure? What means did you use
70 attain such yigor of mind and body, to
gain such cheer.uln and rejuvenation 2"
CA very simple remedy ;" returned she
with beaming face, g stopped worry
ing and began to laugh that was all"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-16
From the Richmond Examiner, April oath.
A Rebel view Of the capture Of Richmond

The Northern mind has settled down
upon the purpose of overrunning Virginia,
and capturing Richmond, the Confederate
capital, at every cost. In this enterprise
all hearts are enlisted, and upon it all the
energies of their Government are bent
For this purpose they have assembled an
army of one hundred and eighty thousand
men, including that of Burnside, which
they regard as one of the most formidable
in machinery. discipline and equipment that
ever took the field. Whatever be the gist
and stamina of the men. there is probably
no doubt of the fact that it possesses all
the advantages which wealth and pains
can give to troops.
1t is certain that the North regards the
demonstration against Richmond as the
grand coup of the war, and we need not
conceal from ourselves that the danger is
serious and formidable.
1t is believed that, while heavy bodies
of troops will attempt to cross the country
from different points on the Potomac, in
conjunction with an army marching up the
valley from Winchester, the heaviest col
umns of their forces will be landed from
our river estuaries and march attempted
along our Eastern peninsulas. No doubt
remains that we are approaching decisive
and momentous events, and that some of
tho most important battles that will have
place in history are soon to be joined.
1t is not for us to speak of the heavy
movements Of our own troops that are con-
stantly going on. 1t is sufficient to say
that our generals are cheerful and ready
for the conflict