Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-05-18
Hadn't Jined 9em Yet.

We heard a good thing recently that
every member of Free and Accepted
Masons will be apt to have good laugh
over, and for that we send it out on its
travels:
A rather verdant young man, whose
features exhibiting every symptom of hav-
ing been slightly tinged with the emerald,
quite recently entered jewelry store in
New York, and gazing earnestly into the
show case, remarked:
you've got heap of mighty pretty
breast pins thar, mister; what mought ye
tax for EN- ?" ....s
what sort of a pin would you like to
look at? inquired the merchant.
"Well, dunno y said the visitor, point
ing to a plain Masonic pin, (the compass
and square), chow much is that yere?"' g
Give dollars only, sir, was the reply.
Its very fine pin, eighteen carat gold,
and"
"You haven't got ary one with q little
gold hand saw laid across it, hev you p in
terrupted the would be purchaser.
81 believe not, sir, said the merchant.
"Wish yer had; it would suit me exactly.
I'm just out of my time, and gwine to set
up as carpenter and finer, and I thought
I'd like some sort of a sign to wear about
me, SO folks would have an idea who was.
! What do you tax for that ar pin you We got
| yer hand on p
'sSeven dollars" said the merchant, pro.
ducing q compass and square surrounding
the letter G.
.seven dollars, chi" said the youth,
'trll take it--sorry yer didn't have the
hand saw, though. But reckon every.
| body will understand it. The compass tc
measure out the work, and the squa1 to
see its all right after its done measur 3D.
and every darned fool orter know vnat
G otlus stands for GinaIet I"
ADVERTISING. There is no doubt that tht
great lever in the extension Of a business, il
| these go-ahead times, is advertising; but the
immense popularity Of that celebrated rem
| edy for dyspepsia, liver complaint, nervous
! debility &C., Hollands German Bitters, il
not so much owing to the fact that it has beer
extensively advertised, as it is to the grea
1 merit o. the article.
A worthless medicine may, through public
ity, acquire short-lived notoriety, but it re-
quire the basis of true merit, in order tt
sustain itself for any considerable length Of
| time Hoodand's German Bitters has beer
| known to the American public for more thai
twenty years; each day adding some new
proof of it's virtues and great curative pro
perties. THIS bittezs is entirely free from a
| dLcobot5c dd7niTtuTe.
Hoofand's German Tonic is combination
of all the ingredients of the Bitters, will
pure Santa Cruz Rum, orange, arise, &c.
making preparation of rare medical value
The Tonic is used for the same diseases 81
| the Bitters; in cases where some alcoholl
| stimulus is necessary.
A SINGULAR ard tragic circumstance oc
Cured recently in Kentucky. A white NAL
living near Hopkinville, who, it appears
was anything but neat in his habits, un
derwent an attack of smallpox, which wa
prevalent at that place, and when he be
came convaIescent gave the shirt he ha,
worn during his illness to a negro woman
with strict injunctions to bury it deep il
the ground to prevent its communicating
the contagion The colored lady's idea
took too prudent a turn to admit of he
wasting a good shirt in that manner, S
she washed the article and gave it to he
husband, who appeared at church the nez
Sunday in all the rare glories of clean III
dergarment. But the next day he wa
down with the loathsome disease, and die
soon after. The widow did not profit b
her sad experience, for the veracious chroI
icler to whom we are indebted for the fact
) of this story, remarks in conclusion, ths
J '.ive others successfully came into posses
sion of the garment of death"