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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-22
The OId-FashiOned Mother.

THAT old-fashioned mother lone in all
the world, the law of whose life was love !;
one who was the divinity of our infancy,
and the sacred presence in the shrine of
our first earthly idolatry; one whose
heart is far below the frosts that gather so
.thickly on her brow; one to whom we
never grow old, but, in the plulned troop,
or the grave council, are children still one
who welcomed us coming, blest us going,
and never forgets us-never And when,
in some closet, some drawer, some corner,
she finds garment, or toy that once
was ours, how does she weep, as she
thinks we may be suffering or sad. x
Does the battle of life drive the wan
derer to the old homestead at last? Her
hand is upon his shoulder; her dim and
fading eyes are kindled with something of
the light of other days." as she gazes
upon his brow. "Be of stout heart, my
son No harm can reach you here"
But sometimes that arm chair is set back
against the wall, the corner is vacant, or
another's, and they seek the dear old occu-
pant in the graveyard. God grant you
never have! Pray God, I never may =
January and June"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-22
Preparing the Ground for Flower Seed.

THE soil for flowers should be a mellow
loan, if possible, made deep--a foot or
eighteen inches at least-and then the
plants will not suffer so much in dry
weather. / should also be well pulver-
ized--completely broken up-and made
as line and mellow as possible 1t is use-
less to try to grow good flowers on poor
soil SO, if not naturally rich, make it so
with liberal supply of well-rotted
manure. Every one, even those who do
not keep horse or cow-can have good
pile of manure for flowers without cost.
Obtain lot of turf from the sides of the
roads and the corners of the fences, place
it in pile, and threw all the soapsuds and
slops upon it, In the autumn collect the
fallen leaves and put them upon this COM
post heap. Keep adding to it. as you have
time and convenience; and when we'll
rotted you will have excellent manure for
flowers Always drain the aower garden,
so that water will not lie on or near the
surface - V3ck'S Cnt6IO17le
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-22


9th, red rosebuds again; and It'll, white
heath in spikes
The French six quartered bouquets,
which were fashionable some years since,
were made in two colors, and were very
formal Fern leaves, parsley and carrot
leaves are used largely in France; they
are elegant and graceful looking, and that
is the chief point, not the costliness of the
thing; but parsley has one Objectionable
quality; it has strong and, to some PEG
pie, disagreeable smell COZ
sSome bouquets are made by enclosing the
large flowers in o circle of small ones.
Take, for instance, a white rose and secure,
with rush and string, circle of blue
Gent5a1sG Gcdadis, round it; then take
another white flower and encircle it with
pink blossoms, third with red, a fourth
with yellow; and SO on, taking care when
you put all the centers together in your
bouquet, that you do not disarrange the diff
ferent circles. do not like this style any
more than I do the six-Quartered-they
are both formal. tt8f i.es s,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-22
BreyIties and Leyities.

"A noted politician was once asserting
his entire indifference to the opinions of his oppo
nents, and their personal abuse. Why said
he, "a man lkened me the other day to Judas
Iscariot, but don't care" YES said by
stander, "but how does Judas feel about itS"
"A citizen of Erie, Pa, who recently
advertised for lost umbrella, received three that
answered the description, but neither of which
was the one. ID ID
49," Union is not always strength" as
the sailor said when he saw his purser mixing his
rum with water.
If the good die early, why are the
bad like the pupil of the eye because they
diICte.
=" My inkstand is stationary" as the
schoolmaster said when he found it nailed to his
desk aA -
Cheap Generosity Giving man a
piece of your mind.
Behind time-The back of the clock.
"A bad ONE ITO owe men money.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-22

machinery and an abundance of raw ma
terial, and had the labor at hand, would
be considered as very absurd, if he hest
tated to supply the material, and keep the
machinery at work, at least so long as he
could run it with profit.
The mangold wurzel should not be
fed after the first of March, after the other
roots are gone. t -,
6 AS regards time of coming in, it should
be about the last of April or the first of
May, so that the cow will reach her fullest
flow about the time she gets to pasture.
"Soiling is a very excellent practice,
where the amount of pasturing is small.
The crops generally used are corn, rye and
millet."
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-22
A Letter from General Washington.

A ROME correspondent Of the Utica
Herdtd furnishes that paper with copy
OF letter from George Washington, in
1888, to DR.: Robert Cochran, Director, at
the time, of the Military Hospital at New
burg, in New York. The correspondent
says:
The signature to- the letter is in the own
proper hand of the Father of his Country.
The letter is written on a sheet of ordi-
nary foolScap, IN common usei in those DAYS.
and was folded in an oblong shape, as was
customary before envelopes were in vogue,
and was fastened with sealing wax. On
the upper right hand outside corner were
the words, con public service;" after the
superscription, and at the lower left-hand
corner, was written again, "Go. Wash
ington," in the own handwriting of Wash
ington. 1t was presented many years ago
by DR.. G. to Judge Wardwell. of this
place, in whose possession it now is, and
by whom it is carefully preserved. A
copy is appended:
Rocky HILL, 4th March, 1883.
SIR The troops in Pennsylvania and
to the southwark of it Except the garri-
son at Fort Pitt), being all discharged by
q proclamation of this day, it appears to
me no longer necessary to keep in service
so many officers of the Hospital Depart
ment as are included in the written copy
of the subsistence roll for this month, late
ly transmitted to me.
/ am now to desire you to transmit to
me, as soon as possible a list of such of
the officers of your department as it will
be absolutely necessary to retain for the
troops which remain in the service, and
to acquaint the rest that their services are
no longer necessary.
am, sir, your obedient servant,
Co.. WASHINGTON.
George Cochran, Director Military Hospital,
Newburg, N, Y.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-22
Arranging Bouquets.

AN English paper hast following sug-
gestions in regard to the arrangement Of
flowers in bouquet: Er
Every person who attempts to fix a
bouquet ought to have an eye for color.
1t is now an established fact that those
colors called complimentary look bet
ter than the ones said to HARMONIC with
each other in nosegay; SO place blues
with the orange, and yellow with the vio-
lets; let white divide disafected hues, and
above all things give to whites and reds
lots of foliage.
The following is good rule for finding
the contrast of anyscoior "Cut out the
circular piece of the petal of any flower
and put it on white paper and you will see
a bright ring of another color; that ring
or circle is the right complimentary color
in the petal"
Red will harmonic with orange, but
green is the contrast to REDS rose sur
rounded with moss or leaves looks better
than it would placed next to yellow col
ceolaria. Follow mature" as closely as
possible in your arrangement Of colors
and you cannot fail to produce good
affect. Study natures blending, and copy
1t when you make your bouquets Did
80 oA ooo q lair glii "Ao ~. =.
color in an orange dress, or dark one in
blue feel quite vexed at times to wit.
ness the entire disregard of color shown
by some women, and more especially to
see how they carry the most unsuita Die
bouquets,-the bouquets ought to match
the dress.
A camellia alba is nice center flower
for bouquet encircled with heliotropes,
rr-hS I. I, md ufr
lets. The following is the arrangement
for winter" Paris nosegay: Center
Camellia; list circle, heliotropes; I'd, red
rosebuds, half open 3D., white heath, in
spikes eth, red pinksi 9Th; blue yiQlets
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-22
How to Catch the Mink,

This little animal, which is much like
the weasel, has, of late years, become SO
valuable, that no pains is spared to OBJ
tain it's hide. 1t is but few years since
that mink skin would not bring above
thirty cents. The value of the fur was
not known. At this time, although he is
so small creature, prime northern skin
is worth from ten to twelve dollars. The
mink is shaped much like the otter, and
although he appears no more fitted for
swimming than the weasel, yet the water
is is home. He eats fishes and frogs, and
craw-fish, and now and then gets into the
barn and steals chickens, and goslings.
and ducks, and crawls into the cellar and
eats up the sausage meat, and whatever he
can lay his jaws to. He is a pilfering
little rascal, and yet so simple and foolish
that he will run into naked trap. For
the sake of something to eat, he runs up
streams of water and crosses the land
from one lake to another regular rene
gade. He burrows in steep banks, or un-
der old roots, or on the rocks. The young
are brought forth in May or June, in lit
tiers of five or six-black looking little
things.
To catch this animal, you have only to
be acquainted with his habits. He follows
streams of water, hunting every nook
and corner for something to eat. Place
your trap near the edge of the water, $50
that it will be covered about an inch
deep,) directly in front of steep bank
or rock, or something on which you can
hang bait, about eighteen inches above
the level of the trap, which must be so
close to the shore that the mink cannot
get to the bait without stepping on It,.
The bait should be fresh fish CT frogs, or
the head of some bird or fowl. He is very
fond of brains.
Another plan is to set your trap on the
land about two feet from the shore, cover
ing it with a few leaves, moss, grass or
loose dirt, or anything that will not pre-
vent the jaws from closing. Hang the
bait about eighteen inches above 1t, and
scent 1t with peppermint. About tea
spoonful of this on the bait will cause
them to come from loag distance. Some
use wooden traps, with which they are
very successful.
The following is good plan. Set
your traps about two feet back from the
water, and from forty to eighty rods
apart, up or down the stream. Then
walk over the line, drawing with you the
carcass of muskrat, or roasted crow,
or almost any fresh meat and any mink
that crosses this line or trail will follow
it to the trap. 1t is algo good plan to
set your trap where the mink must walk
pref + to get Of tas bsit Hsiss great
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-22

fellow to catch muskrats, which he loves
to eat, and you may bait the. trap with
muskrat carcass and set it in rat house,
where you will often find handfuls of little
fish that the mink has brought there. In
the winter time he travels along springy
brooks, pulling out frogs, and here he
may be easily caught. You may also
catch them in winter at the sides OF big
springs, or along the springy sides OF
ponds and swanps, where they like to
roam.-Hunter and Irdpper.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-22

Mr.. SKINNER, of Little Falls, n. Y, re-
Gently stated that he always cut timber
when it was frozen, in order that it might
last long time without decay He was
aware that other seasons Of the year were
recommended. He had tried all seasons
and with a number of varieties of wood,
and no timber lasted so well as that cut
in the winter when frozen. He said a
hemlock stick used as a stringer for
bridges would last longer when the bark
was left on. Had observed it often, and
gave as reason that the bark kept the
wood moist. He thought the best timber
for sills, or for building purposes, was red
elm; next in order was oak, white elm
and red beach. For pins, the raves of
wood sleds, and holsters to wagons, there
was no timber he preferred to red elm
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-22
BE on Your Guard Against Counterfeits.

We cordially respond to the request of Dr. s.
B. Hartman & Co., PrOprietors of MIS- HERS
HERB BITTERS, to warn the public that this
celebrated Tonic and Stimulous is not sold by the
quart, gallon or barrel. It is put up solely in
square glass bottles, with prigde stamp 0DeT The
cork bearing likeness of DR.. Mishler. All others
are cOunterfeits.i
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-22

,oI LIE Ia 9sr il, Canal, of thirty miles
!ongLh,, van INCLUDES seven miles tunnel.
and viii cost about 485,eQ0,000' '''''
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-22

The annual sales of merchandise in
Boston amount to nearly $1,000 900, 000
This is second to the sales of New York
Other American cities report aggregate
sales as follows: Philadelphia, $685., 00O,-
600; New Orleans, $526, 600, 900; Chicago,
S342, 100000; Baltimore, $324,O0O 900 ;
Cincinnati, S21S,000000; st. Louis,
$213, 100000; San Francisco, $751;
100000; Louisville, 126.0O0,0o0; Mil
waukee, $110,000000. None of the
remaining cities reach $100,000,000 of
sales annually.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-22

In Erie, Pa, some branches of manu-
features, such as soap making, are carried
on By the burning gas from wells, at the
depth of few hundred feet, the constant
stream of fame being made available for
heating the kettles,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-22

flf1 "a n November 2, 1883. {
Dear Stys II received your second Red Jacket Axe
per express and now acknowledgethes same. Fer the
benef of ali whose desires necessities make 1t their
business to chop with an axe, would say Try the
Red Jacket; and the Supreme Court have held that
q Doctors opinion without his reasons is of little
value, will give my reasons: Fus-The Red Jacket
cuts deeper than the common biz. SecNld-It being
round on the cut, 1t does not stick in the wood
IhtTd-Every chopper with the common axe musrdis-
cover that there uch labor and strength expend-
ed in taking the out of the cut as In making the
blow. Fb1nthThis with the.Red Jacket is all avoid
ed and from onethird TO oeha the labor is saved IN
cutting the same quantity. FifthBy putting in the
same labor that Is necessary with common axe you
can easily Eke at least thirtytree per cent more
wood in tne same time. You safe in letting any
honest m m try your Red Jacket these tests and
1t feils, F5fuDd him his money.
Respectfully, your9,
HARRY BALDWIN.
Bo, ses By 81 responsible dealers and the rnanufgc
tufeza LEPPI&CUrT u 9AREEEIaIAf N5I3
RsEEssgHaa. e.. s9ls ggesgs 81 CqlhuEas nd BEG
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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-23
Stopped His Paper.

THE following anecdote of the late Mr..
Swain, from the Philadelphia Press, is not
without its moral in other ATTITUDES than
Pennsylvania
Many years ago, Mr.. Swain, then editor
of the Public Ledger, was hailed at the
corner of Eighteenth and Chestnut
streets by very excited individual, who
informed him in the most emphatic terms,
Il have stopped your paper, sir" and
proceeded to explain the why and where
fore, all the time gesticulating wildly. envy
gracious, sir, you don't say so. Come with
me to the office, and let US see if we can
not remedy the matter. It grieves me
that any one should stop my paper"
Down Chestnut street to Third the two
proceeded. Arriving at the Office, Mr..
Swain said, Why, my dear sir, every
thing seems to be going on here as usual !;
/ thought you had stopped my paper"
Then and there the excited gentleman,
whom the long walk, by the way, had
partly cooled, said that he had stopped
taking his one copy of the Ledger. Mr..
Swain was profuse in his apologies for
having misunderstood the meaning of his
late subscribers words, and regretted that
he had given him the tramp from
Eighteenth street to Third, down Chest
nut. The gentlemen went on his way
nome, wiser if not a better man, mar
Yelling at the stupidity of editors in gen.
eral, and of Mr.. Swain in particular. Be
lore ne left, however, he ordered that the
Lsd91 be still sent to his address.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-23
and defeat what otherwise might have

and defeat what otherwise might have
been a good crop. 4ag nj aa.tsgasy
Remember that grass lands need
moisture. They need it more than grain
or almost any other plant. Irrigation is
put first to secure this; thorough drain
age, and mellowing the soil next; and a
good close stand of q variety of grasses,
is another help. AS much as may besput
to grass select the moistest lots. he 'ieg
In changing moist soil by drainage,
you change its weeds. Drainage is death
to many weeds. $40 seaa 2zta.tasi
If your land is worn out, many chances
to one it will improve it by deep plow-
ing-I mean till up to the beam. This
may not benefit it for year or two. But it
will not be much worse than it was before,
being worn out and non paying. A little
manure thrown over it-and If it is much
it will not hurt twill prepare the
ground, raw as it is, for grass. The sun
and the manure, in connection with the
rains, and the frost previously-for the
land should be plowed in the fall--will so
ameliorate the top soil as to insure good
seeding and q, fair crop. In a few years
more, whether kept to grass or plowed,
there will be an Improvement for the bet.
ter, and that decidedly, and it will be last
ing, that is, it will have another run as it
had before,-and if underdrained and
subsoiled, and thoroughly cultivated, will
be better than ever before This is expe-
rience with us. We tried it on hill OF
some eight acres. The soil was drift with
considerable clay in it, not rich naturally,
but producing something beyond ex-
penses, &c. For the first few years, after
the soil was inverted, there was no growth,
the crops were failure. After that they
surpassed the original productiveness and
were more remunerative than before
IF. g." IN Prairie Farmer.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-23
The True Medical Doctrine.

Nature, when struggling with disease, indicates
enthusiastically the kind of assistance she requires
In cases of nervous weakness and general debili-
N the feeble pulse, the lacklustre eye, the atten-
uated frame, the faccid muscles, the melancholy
visage inform us as plainly as If each organ had
tongue, that nsedicatsd sttnlulant Is needsd. 1t
does not require the aid of medical education to
understand this dumb appeal for new vigor, from
an exhausted system. Every reader of these lines
can comprehend 1t just as well as the graduate of
physicians college. Let not this demand OF en-
feebled nature be neglected. Respond TO It
promptly by commencing a course of HOSTEL.
TIERS STOMACH BITTERS, a preparation unit
ing, in their highest excellence, the properties of
a sTIMULAET, an INvIGoRANT and an ALTERA-
TIVE. Before three days have elapsed, from the
taking OF the first dose, a marked beneficial
change VIII 20 manifest IN the bodily and mental
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-23
The Poor Farmer.

A WRITER who has no sort of respect
for shiftless farmers says: "The poor
farmer, whose hens roosts in trees during
the storms of winter, complains that they
lay no eggs. His COWS shiver by the
side of the fence, and he complains that
the children eat too much butter. he
goes to the grocery with a jug in one end
Of the sack and stone in the other, and
he wipes his nose with his coat sleeve.
He thinks those farmers who take agri-
cultural papers, and who read works on
farming, are stuck-up farmers He is
down on all book learning. He never has
paper in his house that is of value.
Those that are found there belong to the
trashy school. In the spring his sheep
flock is seen in pelts hanging on the fence.
Reader, have you any farmers of this
character in your vicinity? If so, try
and buy them out, and send them away,
as they are drawback and disgrace to
any neighbOrhoOd," .f
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-23
Gentle Treatment the Best.

A GENTLEMAN of New York is the pos
SCISSOR OF a-thousand-dollar horse, whose
organ OF approbativ is SO prominent
ly active he can be coaxed but rarely
driven against his will. When the con-
| slderate owner enters the stable the horse
greets him with hearty whinny, his only
language, which is equivalent to a cheer
full expression of delight. He is at once
treated to a lump of loaf sugar, which the
beautiful and sagacious creature knows is
usually carried in vest pocket-for he
rubs his nose directly in there. On re-
turning from a drive he expects two
Jumps. AS two are invariably forthcom-
ing when Embarrassed it is unmistakable
evidence to the horse that his conduct and
efforts were satisfactory. The sight of a
whip to that animal would be an insult and
an outrage to his affectionate regard for
one who looks carefully to his health, Sc
curity and comfort. Such an instrument
of barbarity does not belong to that good
mans carriage, and may God speed the in
coming day when they will only be seen
in museums to illustrate the conditions of
countries that ultimately became Chris
TANNED. We put blinders over his spark
ling eyes, and then beat him numerically
if he hesitates to leap blindly over ditch.
Our horses snap at a bride and run with
carriage because they dread the ap-
prOach of the driver as often as otherwise.
Bewildered and distracted with apprehen-
sions of danger, they fly for safety where
dangers multiply with increasing horror.
Their speed is increased when unlaw-
fully at liberty, they so dread the scourge
of the lash, which they know will ineVita-
bly, follow their capture. Fear makes
towards of men, but worse towards of
horses. The only true and successful
method of controlling the animal king
dom is by the exercise of kind measures.
That monster of gigantic strength, the
elephant, may be led by an infant with a
string, if tenderly solicited. Even the
lion likes to be petted-and that is the
time to handle his paws. Horse tanners
of the modern school subdue the most fu-
rious animals by quiet intercourse with
them in stable where there are no audit
ors. They neither 1agellate them or over
come their wildness by seventies. On
the contrary, they have the art of con-
vincing their dumb pupil he is his particu-
lar friend. When that has been accom-
plished, the changed quadruped requires
no repetition of promise made while he
was in duress. Ever after the horse keeps
his pledge to behave well, remaining gen.
tie to the end of life, even when misfor-
tune places him under the ownership of
a reckless, unprincipled savage of a mas
fer - merriam Stock ,TO2LT9lnL