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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-10-25
fever AND ACUE

Prevail, there is remedy held in greater estoem
Every house keeper should keep it at hand, appl,
on tho first attack of any Pain. 1t will give satisac
tory relief and save hours of suffering
Do not trio with yourselves by testing untried
edies, BE sure call for nd get tho genuine PAIN
KILLER as many worthless rsstFuras are attempted
to be seld tho great reputation of this valuable
medicine, -
fE Directions accompany zach bottle
Price 35 cts, so cts, and 81 per Bottle
j. NJ. HARRIS g. CO..
Deti
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-10-25
Ten Prizes S1GO oS,1HA'DaVAA'

Whole Number of Cash Gifts, 900.
l Horse and Buggy. with Siiver-mounted Harness
worth $500 One Fine-toned Rosewood Piano. worth
$500! Ten Family Sewing Machines, worth 500 ca CHI!
Five Heavy Ca.ed Gold Hunting Watches and Heavy
Gold Chains worth $500 each! Fivo Gold American
Hunting Watches worth S125 each! Ten Ladies' Gold
Hunting Watches worth 800 each! 800 Gold and Sill
Lever Hunting Watches dn alb worth from $40 to
$500 each! Ladies' Gold Leontine Chains Cents Gold
Vest Chains Silver plated Castors, soid Silver and
Doubleplated Table and Teaspoons, Ivory-Ha ndlcd
Dinner Knives, Sverplrted Dinner orfs Silver Vest
Chains Photograph Albums. Ladies' Gold Brea stpins
and Earrings, Gents Gold Breastpins Shirt st ids
and Sleeve Buttons, Fingerrings Gold Pens, silver
extension;) etc.
Whole number of Gifts, 5000 Tickets limited to
50 eco. $3.50 III ERE
AGENTS WANTED TO SELL TICK ETs.
TO .yior Lib r al Premiums will be paid.
Single Tickle, 81 ; Six Tickets ss5; Twelve
Tickets $40; Invent y -fiy e Tickets $40.
Circulars containing full list of prizes, descrip-
ton OF the of drawing and other information
in reference to the Distribution will be sent to an,
ordering them. All letters be addressed to
OFFICE, L.. ID. SINE, Box SO,
1O1 W. 9th ST. Cincinnati. o.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-10-25
Ayers Cathartic Pills,

For the relief and
cure of all derange-
ments in the stofn.
ach, liver, and bow
els. They are a mild
aperient, and an
excellent purgative.
Being purely vege-
table, they contain
no mercury or mine
raj whatever. Much
serious sickness and
suffering is prevent
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-10-25

ever issued in the Northwest 2..
Present Office, 10116 West Randolph street.
Chicago B.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-10-25

The Chicago Daily Evening and Weekly
Post, since the fire, has received a fast press
of equal capacity to the one burned, and has
another of twice it's capacity in process of con-
struction which will give it treble it's old.
power.
On Monday, October 10th, it furnishes it's
daily to all subscribers, city and country, and
during the week ending October 21st, and reg
ularly thereafter, it will mail its weekly to all
subscribers. In very short time the Post
will furnish the best a-
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-31
Who IL Fail!
BY " Girls"


"Come without Fail" Such is often
the final remark as two persons separate
the closing paragraph to letter, and the
emphatic substance Of dispatch. Who
is this Fail whom every one is SO anxious
to have left behind? What has lie done
that he should be perpetually snubbed?
We are inclined to think Fail is dealt
uniustly by sometimes. Some business ar
rangement in progress, for instance in
which Fail has vital interest A meeting
to be held to consider important points.
All are summoned to attend except Fail,
and each one summoned is strictly enjoin
ed to "come without Fail" Clearly there
is chicanery there. 1t wouldn't be strange
if it should prove a dark and diabolical
scheme to defraud Fail in some way, or at
least to take undeIhanded advantage of
him. If Fail, hearing OF the way in which
he had been treated, should manage to get
in and burst the whole thing up, it
would be serving them no less than they
deserve.
A rich old covey dies, leaving an i'm
the heirs, for Fail and rich mems heirs are
often quite closely related. All are sum
moned in great haste, yet all are enjoined
to "come without Fail"
We can imagine the perplexity Of lover
on receiving message like this from his
mistress:
"Come to night, dearest and come NTH
out Fail JULIA"
Without Fail," says Augustus, in Sc
we're and perplexed reflection; Fail, Fail,
now Uho the dickens is FailY l don't
know Fail. | never heard of Fail before
What have | to do with Fail? And
(clenching his fist and glazing wildly
about) what has Fail to do with my Juliag
Am in the habit of bringing other fell
lows along when go to spend an evening
with her, hat this warning in COMPOUNDED
italics should be considered necessary,
even allowing that l know Failg Not
much. III hunt up this Fail. I'll know
who he is that Julia calls Fail so familiarity,
without adding Mr.. Without Fail, indeed |!
This terrestrial hemisphere will be with
out Fail, if catch him"
And so it goes Poor Fail the most
innocent soul alive, we'll be bound, is
snubbed, insulted and threatened in every
way. But who is Fail p Cincinnati Times.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-31
Home Talk to Girls.

Your every day toilet is part Of your
character. A girl that looks like fury"
or 'sloven" in the morning is not to be
trusted, however finely she may look in
the evening No matter how humble
your room may be, there are eight things
il should contain, namely: A mirror, wash
stand soup, towel, comb, hair, nail and
tooth brushes, Those are just as essential
as your breakfast, before which you should
make good use of them. Parents who
fail to provide their children with such ap-
planes not only make great mistake
but commit sin Of omission. Look tidy
in the morning, and after the dinner work
is over improve your toilette. Make ii a
rule Of your daily life to dress up" for
the afternoon. Your dress may or need
not be anything better than calico; but
with a ribbon or flower or some bit of or
nament, you can have an air of sclf-respect
and satisfaction that invariably comes with
b ing we'll dressed. A girl with fine scnsi.
bilitles cannot help feeling embarrassed
and awkward in ragged and dirty dress,
with her hair unkempt, should neighbor
come in. Moreover, your self-respect
should demand the decent appareling of
your body. You should make it point
to look as well as you can, even if you
know nobody will see you but yourself
Errb1Ong
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-31
Sterling Advice.

A lady makes some suggestions, in
London journal, on the subject Of marriage
or cclibacy, few of which we annex:
when girl marries she ought, to a
certain extent, give up her acquaintance,
and consider the company Of her husband
the best company she can have. The
young wife must learn cooking carefully,
if she does not already have good know
ledge Of it. There are many excellent
cookery books, but she must not follow
them implicitly. My own plan, for some
time after was married, was to take some
recipe given, and note carefully what in
gradients could be dispensed with The
second time generally managed it at halt
the expense. A useful plan is to keep
blank book in the kitchen table drawer,
and whenever deviation from the orthO-
dox cookery book is made, to jot it down
Do not wait till you have washed your
hands; let the book be finger marked
rather than lose al idea. You will thus
learn more of household economy than if
you trust to memory alone; and when
your daughters grow up what fund OF
practical information it will be for them!
"To a great extent the celibacy OF our
young men is owing TO the way in which
girls are brought up Through mistaken
Kindness mothers often themselves do
what they ought to make their daughters
do. Let them teach housekeeping on
fixed, methodical plan, and they will then
learn their history, French and music all
the better. 1t Is natural and right that a
mother should wish TO see her daughters
well educated and even highly accomplish
ed and it is mistake that good and care
full education should unfit girl for the
homely duties of cooking, busting, etc.
On the contrary, those duties would Inc
better performed if mothers would, at the
same time that they seek talented instruc-
tors for their daughters, impart TO them
some Of their own culinary talent; there
would be more good wives and marriages
Little girls should be taught, as early as
possible, to perform simple household
duties neatly and as they grow older, let
them become gradually acquainted with
the theory of housekeeping in such man
ner that, when they are married, they
will be able to adapt themselves to their
circumstances, and be useful as well as
pleasing companions to their husbands"
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-31
Having Things Handy.

The other day we went into a model
kitchen. Between it and the dining. room
a small passage served as closet and also
to keep all odors Of the kitchen from
reaching the dining table. On one side Of
the kitchen was q large range, beyond that
a sink, with hot and cold water leading
into it and waste pipe from it. At the
end of the room, between two windows,
screened to prevent the ingress of flies
stood long work table with series of
drawers. On the other side of the room
were two stationary tubs, each with fau-
Gets for hot and cold water and discharge
pipe. Hinged covers made an ironing
table firm and ample. Just beyond the
sink door opened into the pantry, aroom
four by ten, with window, a shell run
ming round three sides of it, wide and
high enough TO cover barrels Of flour,
sugar and meal. At one end Of tie space
beneath this shelf was filed with deep
drawers for towels, table cloths the iron
ing blanket, starch, blueing, each in APP
propriate places The housewife needed
but to step in there aud find everything at
hand necessary to prepare food for the
table. No running up stairs for meal and
-four, no labor for getting ready To make
bread or pies or cake; pans were close by,
spices in neat boxes at her elbow coffee
mill, with little shelf under 1T 10 hold
the cup, was screwed over the window
casing. What hardshps are there in do
ing work in such kitchen?
Contrast it with another we toiled in
once. China closet in one corner of a
room, twenty four by fourteen dry sink
and sick closet at the opposite end of the
diagonal, stove midway, pump in an out
house three steps down and twenty five
feet distant, cistern pump ditto, flour and
meal in the kitchen chamber. BY the
time everything required to make bread,
pies, or cake was gotten together our
strength was quite gone, but the food must
be made, and the w6arisome task of put
ting everything in place gone through
with. The kitchen could have been made
tolerable by cutting off section including
the sink and contiguous window, for pan
try with shelves and drawers sufficient to
contain everything needed in the kitchen.
The waste-pipe should have been put into
the sink, the pumps from both cistern and
well set in shelves near ii, and then one
could have worked there with comfort.
An expenditure Of little industry, in
genuty, and money would convert many
an ill-planned dismal kitchen into cheer
full commodious room.
Soon the harvest will be past, and our
good wives have little change in pocket.
We suggest that they look after all these
odds and ends, nay, these prime requisites
for leisure, cheerfulness and thrift-the
labor saving economies. BY 50 doing they
may secure many an hour, even in the
short days of winter, for furnishing their
minds with valuable knowledge, and the
walls of their homes with tasteful devices.
-Neao York Tribune.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-31
Dangerous Burning Fluid.

We desire to call attention to the noun
tebanks who travel around the country TO
exhibit their non-eyplosiye oils. They
show that it is impossible to explode their
particular brand, and they give as a reason
that 1t has been treated with certain
chemicals in way to remove all danger
Nobody pretepds that naptha, alcohol,
ether, and the like, are explosive They
can be lighted and burned quietly and in
the most inotfensive manner 1t is only
when mixed with the oxygen of the air
that an explosive compound is produced,
and this part of the ex experiment. is natural
ly unlimited by the exhibitor. II requires
considerable skill to prepare just the right
mixture of light oils and air TO insure sue
cess, and it is under cover of this difficulty
that the dealers in adulterated oils escape
detection. Unfortunately, just the proper
mixture is sometimes formed in lamps as
the oil isexhausted, and the fatsl ex Ilosion
takes place.
The number Of accidents from the burst
ing oflamps is very small, and it is not the
question of explosion that should aJtrac.
the most attention. BY far the greater
number of deaths and losses by fire have
arisen from the ignition OF the lamps or
SohoJ CithSt bItdhlDS VI a lamp
or some careless handling of the petrol auu
the ignited fluid spreading over the
clothing of the person, or on the floor, is
what does the damage. 1t ought to be
understo ID that there is no chemical that
will make an oil safe; the patents and
claims on this subject are sheer imposi-
tions. The only way to make an oil safe
is by distillation, that is, removing from it
all oil or naptha that will take fire below
10 deg. Fair.
Any oil that can be lighted on its sur
face by match, and will continue to burn
without wick, is unsafe. Sperm oil, rape
seed oil, and the refined petroleum can be
poured upon the floor and match applied,
but they will not burn; it is necessary to
heat them to high point before any vapor
VII come off that will take fire from ia
per and continue to burn
Any oil that, when poured into saucer,
will take fire and continue to burn rs al
cohol does, is unsafe, and ought to be dis
cardet at once Such an oil contains vola-
tile compounds which can give rise to ext
ulJsive vapors, and if the lamp breaks
may occasion the most dangerous burns.
We must, therefore, warn all persons from
using such oil about the premises. -J0Rr-
nal Of applied CItemjstTy
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-31
In April of last yesr, while working on

LII ApIil vi ldSt year, WUE6 WORKING on
! his boom of logs on one of the streams of
the Kennebec, having on shirt, the stud.
hole worn large by service, he sew his
sparkling brilliant fall from his bosom,
strike the log, and glide quietly into the
swift current below.
Determination TO regain it overpower-
ed the regret of his mind. He kept his
loss where his stud should have benin
his bosom. Sounding the depth of water,
he found it to be about seven feet: he
then decided to wait till the summer
drouth should bring the stream to its low
est ebb, and taking accurate measurement
of the place, by the bearings of the rocks
and trees on shore, allowing eighteen
inches for the change Of direction by the
current, he left his treasure to compete
with the dace and sinner, IN fascinating
the river mermaid and returned to his NJ as
sachusctts bone.
The September following, six months
after the loss, the river being then at its
lowest point for the season, the undaunted
lumberman started for his diamond. The
riverful of logs, covering the place, had
been sawed and shipped, and now only a
few inches of water trickled over the spot
where the stud fell. He took with him a
large tin colander, the holes of which
were Of size 10 hold The prize if found.
He had determined to work fortnight, be-
fore giving up the gem as lost, and to
have all the river bottom to go through
his handy kitchen strainer. He made his
first dip of gravel and water as nearly as
he could calculate, eighteen inches down
the current from where it struck the sur
face Of the stream, seven feet above. And
lucky dip it was for at the bottom of
the pan lay the lost gem, bright and spark
ling as when it came from the jeweler.
The above incident is good illustra-
ton Of Yankee patience and tact, as well
as warning to those who wear diamond
shirt studs-Boston Transcript.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-31
Farmers Wives.

THE reading of essays by the ladies is
one of the exercises which give life and
interest to the meetings of the Springfield
(Vt) Farmers Club. From one of the
essays by Mrs. Daniel Rice, published in
the Vermont Fdrmr, we copy the follow
ing paragraph:
did you ever think of the amount Of
thought req lisite to plan three meals day
for three hundred and sixty.five days in
succession? To prepare enough and not
too much, and for those living at dis
lance from the village, to remember that
the stock of flour, sugar, tea, etc, is rci
plenished in due time? Do you ever
think of the multitude of her cares and
dutiess She must rise early to prepare
breakfast or oversee it. Perhaps there
are children to wash, dress and feed, or to
get ready for school with their dinners.
There is baking sweeping, busting, max
ing beds, lunch for the men, maybe-din-
ner, supper to be made ready at the proper
time-the washing, starching, folding and
ironing of clothes-take care of the milk,
including the making of butter and cheese
and the inevitable washing Of dishesl
In autumn there is an additional work of
picking, preserving, canning of fruit, dry
ing apples, boiling cider, making apple
sauce, with the still more unpleasant task
which falls to her lot in butchering time.
Then there is haying, harvesting, sheep
shearing, etc, when more help is needed,
bringing an increase of her labors. Twice
a year comes house cleaning. By the
way, Of all the foes housekeeper has to
contend with, dirt is the greatest. She
may gain complete victory, and think TO
repose upon her laurels after her SEMI
annual engagements-but it is only tenn
porary. The enemy soon returns, and
even daily skirmishing does not keep it at
bay. There is the mending, too Sewing
machines are great blessings, but they
can't set patch or darn the stockings.
| don't mention these things by way of
complaining of woman's lot in general or
asking for her any rights which she does
not possess / don't know as there Is any
remedy in the present state of the world.
II seems to he one of the evils of life
which must be borne as we bear other ills
but what do ask is due appreciation
of the important part that woman acts,
and a concession that her labors, mental
and physical, are as great, all things con-
sidered, as those of the other sex. Wo-
man are not so childish that a little SYM
pathy now and then, or acknowledgement
of their efforts and sacrifices make them
imagine their case worse than it is. / tell
you, men and husbands, it doeth good
like a medicine and many poor, crush
ed, broken.down wife and mother is dying
for want of it,
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-31

the constantly repeated katy -did-she-did''
may be heard for the distance Of quarter
of mile. The katydid produces its note
by means Of its wings, which are pecu
liarly fitted for the purpose. In each wing
cover there is little tambourine formed
of thin, transparent membrane, or skin,
stretched in a strong, half oval frame. As
the wing-covers are open and shut, these
little tamboutines rub against one another
and produce the sounds which give the in
sect its name. These notes are supposed
TO be useful to the insects in enabling them
10 find their mates. From the constancy
with which some of them keep up the
sounds, we think that they must be pleased
with their own music. Boys just learning
to whistle make noise that, whatever il
may be to others, seems very pleasing to
themselves, and they keep it up for their
own qualification. 1t may be that insects
do the same.-American Ag,iculturist.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-31
How to Save a Drowning Woman.

In Cheyenne, when anything happens,
e people consider that religious duty
wolves upon them to hold meeting,
ID to pass resolutions upon it, and go
fong has this habit become that some
fizens of that place, whenever break
bt bell rings, call meeting Of the fam
!, elect officers, and resolve to go down
Mrs and eat the meal. The other day q
oman fell into Crow Creek and sank. A
fge crowd of men were standing upon
e bank at the time, and they instantly
foceeded to organize meeting for the
pIpose of devising means for rescuing
e woman. After spirited debate, NJ. A.
rnold was elected Chairmen and on
king his seat, Mr. Arnold not only
banked the meeting very warmly for the
Pmpliment offered him, but he made a
lng speech, in which he discussed the
riff, the coal product for 1871, and the
labama claims A series of resolutions
Zere then offered and after a prolonged
(scussion, and the acceptance of several
nendments, they were passed. They
nbraced protest against the depth OF
row Greek regrets that all women were
pit taught to swim, and resolve to rescue
De particular woman who had fallen
Perboard. A committee of one was APP
pinted to dive for her. He diyed, and
Fought the womsn to the surface by the
eir Just then it occurred to him that
had not been ordered to bring her to
le shore; so he let her sink again, and
Fam to the bank to report progress, and
x for further instructions. Action was
zen on the report, ard after an exciting
lscussion, he was directed to land the
Eoman Immediately.
He dived again and dragged her out.
Zone of the women in Cheyenne can
pld their breath more than an hour at a
me, so when this one was r. covered she
R.s dead. The meeting said it was sorry,
nt it was vastly more important that
Rings should be done decently and in
der and according to rule, than that the
e ola woman should be saved.-Laranae
kltineL
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-31
Insects as MusicIanS.

We frequently hear people speak Of the
singing Of crickets and grasshoppers'
These insects are very noisy, 1t is true,
mental performers. Each one is furnished
with sort of violin, upon which it plays
without any instruction. In the crickets,
a portion or rib of each wing is furnished
with teeth, which serves az the bow, and
a hard, smooth rib answers for the strings
of the fiddle. The insect rubs one wing
over the other, and then reyerses the
movement and by the scraping Of these
two parts together the s1und is produced.
The grasshoppers manage somewhat diff.
ferently. The long hind legs are the I'D.
dIe-bows. The inner surface Of the bread
upper part of these legs is furnished with
over eighty small, lancet shaped, elastic
the sharp ribs upon the wing cover--oI
outer wing-Hrst one and then the other
The loudest instrumental performer amOn(
our insects il the KaVdid. In still nigh
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-31
A Story from One OF "Jo's Boys"

On one occasion the children were all
gathered in room, when they made a
decree that every one that entered should
tell story. Mrs. 10 had just been trap
ped, and made TO pay forfeit, when little
tivc-year. old Robby came in, having got
out of bed to see what was the matter,
and dragged his bed-cover with him. He
was about TO be turned ANONYMOUSLY
out, as one who could not pay the forfeit,
when he protested vigorously against this
sentence without trial, and declared
that he could tell lots Of ones when he
had "fnked." Having deeply cogitated
for moment, "perched on his mother
knee, and wrapped In the gray coverlet,
he told the following brief but tragic
tale, with an earnestAess that made II
funny:
"Once lady had million children
and nice little boy. She went up stairs
and said, You mustn't go in the yard.
But he vented, and fell into the pump,
and was drowned dead"
"Is that all,' asked Franz, as Bob
paused out of breath with his startling be
ginning.
"No, there is another piece of it," and
Bob knit his downy eyebrows in the ef-
fort to involve another inspiration.
what did the lady do when he fell into
the pump" asked his mother, to help him
on.
40, she pumped him up and wrapped
him in q newspaper, and put him on
the shelf to dry for seed FROM Ltt<
Men.