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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
The AirIeSS Moon.

Among the illusions swept away by
modern science was the pleasant fancy
that the moon was a habitable globe,
like the earth, its surface diversified
with seas, lakes, continents, and
islands, and varied forms of vegetation.
Iheologlans and S0U07ats gravelv dis
cussed the probabilities of its being
inhabited by race Of sentient beings,
with forms and faculties like our own,
and even propounded schemes for
opening communication with them, in
case they existed. One Of these was to
construct, on the broad highlands of
Asia, series of geometricaI figures
on scale so gigantic as to be
visible from our planetary neighbor, on
the supposition that the moon people
would recognize the object, and imme.
dlateIy construct similar figures in re-
ply Extravagant and absurd as it
may appear in the light of modern
knowledge, the establishment of this
Terrestrial and Luna Signal Service
Bureau was treated as feasible
scheme, although practical difficulties,
which so often keep men from making
fools Of themselves, stood in the way
of actual experiment; but the discus
sion was kept up at intervals, until it
was discovered that if there were peo-
pie in the moon they must be able to
live without breathing, or eating, or
drinking. Then it ceased. There can
be no life without air. Beautiful to the
eye of the distant observer, the moon
is sepulchral orb-a world of death
and silence. No vegetation clothes it's
vast plains Of stony desolation, ira
versed by monstrous crevasses, broken
by enormous peaks that rise like
gigantic tombstones into space no
lively forms of cloud float in the black
ness of its sky. There daytime is only
night, lighted by rayless sun. There
is no rosy dawn in the morning. no
twilight IL the evening. The nights
are pitchdark. In daytime the solar
beams are lost against the Jagged
ridges, the sharp points of the rocks,
or the steep sides of profound abysses :;
and the eye sees only grotesque shapes
relieved against fantastic shadows
black as ink, with none of that pleasant
graduation and diffusion of light, none
of the subtle blending of light
and shadow, which make the charm of
a terrestrial landscape A faint con
ception of the horrors of a lunar day
may be formed from an illustration
representing a landscape taken in the
moon IN the centre of the mountainous
region Of Aristarchus. There is no
color, nothing but dead white and
black. The rocks reflect passively the
light of the sun; the craters and
abysses remain wrapped in shade; fan
tastic peaks rise like phantoms in their
glacial cemetery; the stars appear like
spots in the blackness Of space. The
moon is a dead world she has no at
mosphere. =hnrDer'S lfna0zinae.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
Smoking Plants,

Some one having recommended the
smoking of plants with sulphurous
smoke, a correspondent theoretically
says:
am surprised that any one claim,
ing TO be practical can recommend sui
phur to be burned under or in close
proximity to plants, as more destruc-
i've and deadly agent. does not, in nv
experience, exist, and on no account
should be SO recommended. In burn
ing sulphur sulphuric acid gas is evolv-
ed, an agent at once so terrible that
nothing else can be found to illustrate
SO horribly the pains and fortunes of
the doomed IN hell as a lake of burn
ing birthstone.
The safest and best fumigator is to-
bacco smoke.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
Maple Sugar Making

A Vermont contributor to the RuraI
New Yorker has an article on the sub
Iect, from which we make the follow
ing extract:
There should be a sugar house of
boiling, large enough for the evapora
tor and for boiling all the buckets and
hXtureS, with wide door, that will
ADMIT the entrance of the gathering
t9nS at the end of the season, and
winch should not be used as a HOG pen.
o. on Tor any other base purpose. (Sap.
IKE milk, IS very sensitive, and imp1lrI-
tles III the atmosphere or the suqarino
utensils are quickly impaired to it.
destroying the delicious maple favor
Whlch Is It's peculiar CHARM The
he hung Gah put up a suita-
pto pulIdlng at a cost of $50. It
SHOULD stand on side hill, OF have an
artinclal elevation at one side of three
feet, to give head for the flow of san
irom the gathering tub to the eyanoral
Tor. a wood shed, or at least a roof
over the Wood-pile, should be ada
cent, out SO placed that the steam viii
not escape through it. The evanora-
Tor or pans should be set on bricks
on IRON CRATE and door, and damne2I
IN the chimney to regulate the drd r.
Ii the bars of the CRATE are concava ,'l ON
the upper surface, they will filI WITH Al
ashes, and not warp or burn ont i %
solld bars will do in the intense ID q"
Fuel should be provided in tba foiI
well worked up and thoroughly l soa
soned- No good sugar make ke S9e
fire. 'P'''Oetlilg
All the utensils should be scrppu-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
lannon's Remains.

The Independence Beige very pleas
antly gossips about the fate of the re-
mains of some famous dead. Mira
beau's lie in ali obscure corner of Paris,
near the Scipion bakery. Pichegru's
have only recently been exhumed and
taken home Murat's had not been
flung, as asserted, into the sewers,
though his bust was dragged through
the cutters. His remains are buried
near the, Pantheon. Some years ago
the remains of st. Vincent de Paul were
kept in a wooden chest in the ante
chamber of sherig. During the
Reign of Terror they had been removed
from small Paris church by some per-
sons unknown. One morning M.
Leves, the distinguished physician and
professor of the Natural Historical
Museum, was requested to examine
the remains. No little amazed, Leves
did so, and discovered that they were
really those OF man who died at the
Saints age.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
Glenn Wa1er for Cattle.

As long as there is water on the
premises some farmers think it is good
enough for the stock, no matter
how long it may have stood or how
stagnant it is. We have seen cattle
driven into ponds where a green scum
foated on the surface. That such
could be any more healthy for an
animal than to human being physio-
logists have not aaverred. That pure
water should be put into the troughs
of the stock yard is apparent to any
thinking mind. On this subject the
Journal of the Royal Agricultural So
ciety, of England, has the following:
" Professor Law, of Cornell Univer-
sity, gets his supply of milk from a
'milkman.' One day, during the hot
weather, he observed peculiar ropy
appearance in the cream which had
risen on the milk. He examined it
under a powerful microscope. and
found it filed with living organisms of
a character quite foreign to good milk.
He Immediately called upon his milk
man, to inquire concerning his man
agement of stock and general treatment
OF milk, with a Tiew of accounting for
the trouble There was no fault dis
covered at the dairy house, in the milk
ing, or III the treatment,o of the milk /;
but on looking through the pastures
he found that the COWS, for lack of
clean, running water, were compelled
to Stake their thirst for the most
part from a stagEant pool. This
water he examined under the micro
scape, and discovered the same class of
organism as those in the cream. He
then took some of the blood from the
COWS and examined it under the glass.
when the same organisms made their
appearance. He next obtained a speci-
men OF good milk-milk which on ex-
animation proved to be free from i'm
purlties-and into this he put a drop
OF water from the stagnant pool. In a
short space of time the milk DEVELOPED
an infinite number of these living or
ganlsms, and became similar in char
acter to the milk obtained from his
m1lkman. He examined the COWS. and
made the usual thermometer tests for
determining health and disease in ami
mails. The cows were found to be hot
and feverish, thus evidently showing
that these organisms, entering the
circulation, had affected the health of
the animals" Sex
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
Lands TO Soldiers.

Accompanying the recent adverse re-
port of the Senate Committee on
Public Lands on Mr.. Holman's
Soldiers Bounty Land Bill, and which
effectually killed the m 3asure, is an
important letter from Commissioner
Drummond, Of the Land Office, in
which he reviews the history and
effects of all legislation granting lands
to soldiers from the resolution of the
Continental Congress of 1776 to the
present time. He says that since the act
of 1852 the proportion of location war
rants by benefciaries thereof or by
their heirs has not been one to one
hundred, and he is fully convinced that
as general proposition the soldiers
have never appreciated the national
benefactions in the form of public
lands, and that the bounty land sys-
tenn has failed to answer the design of
its projectors, either as means of set
Element of land or compensation of
soldiers. Mr.. Drummond says that at
the present rate it would require half a
century to survey the land called for
by the bill, and that they would take
all the accessible lands not already
given away or promised.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26

lousy clean and sweet. Old barrels
with the pores of the wood impregnat-
ed with West India moIasses, or any
thing else, are not fit for gathering or
storing sap. Gathering tubs should
be made of clean, sound timber, and
should be kept sweet. The buckets
| should be of tin and the spouts OF
metal.
1t is important that the tapping
should be done by skillful hand, that
the tree be not injured by two deep
boring. or otherwise. The sap flows
close to the bark and hole an inch
deep is sufficient A half inch hole an
inch deep, soon heals over, and causes
but slight injury to the tree.
The sap should be gathered fire.
quently, and boiled Immediately. Fer
mentation begins very soon, if not in
stantly on the sap leaving the tree, al
though 1t may not be at once percepti-
bic to the casual observer. 1t is GER
tain that the delicious maple favor, SO
agreeable to the palate, is best pre-
| served by speedy removal of the wa
ter by evaporation.
There are several devices for evapor-
ating. The best in use is the Cory
Evap orator. 1t is of galvanized iron,
with Lodges or grooves in the bottom,
which give double the heating surface,
and cause a current from side to side
as the sap flows from end to end. A
monitor guage regulates the flow and
depth Of sap, and faucet draws off
| the syrup as fast as it is thick enough.
The injury to the flavor, which is caus-
ed by keeping it over the fire hour
after hour, is all avoided, as it is re-
| duced to syrup and drawn off in half
an hour. The evaporation is so rapid
that holders, for storing are unnecessary.
have no difficult in evaporatirq a
barrel of 80 gallons an hour in a seven
foot evaporation. One of twelve feet
Will take care of it as fast as produced
by very large sugar lot.
A gutta percha pipe from the gather
ing tub to the evapcrator saves all lift
ing and storing. Felt strainers are used
for removing lime and notes from the
slrup. By the use of such apparatus
as above described, make syrup which
finds ready market in our village at
81 gallon equivalent to % cents a
pound for sugar.) Every thing should
be IN readiness to tap the trees at a
moments notice. The {" first run" is
the best. In the spring of 1871, the
sugar season was nearly over before
many farmers were ready.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
HaiII and Farewell !!

Hail and farewell Such is the trail condition
of earthly intercourse. We meet TO part.
Joy perishes in rapture of fruition:
AIas my heart!
The flowers we gather wither IN the grasplDg
On Beauty's check no fadeless Niles dwell
The hand we clasp grows throbless IN the
clasping
HALL and farewell
HAIL and farewell! The smile OF welcome
heameth --r-
Brief as effulgent upon lovers lips.
In hope exultant youth but little ereameth
Of hopes eclipse;
Nor cares to think that Time, who looks SO
radiant,
Is Disseminating Fancy's magic spell,
To dust dissolving all her fairy pageant;
Hail! and FAREWELL
HALL and FAREWELL 'Tis thus each short
lived pleasure
Fades from our vision like phantom wan ;
Ne turn to gaze upon our new-found treasure,
And To- It's gone!
Mid the delights that We must keenly coyet,
Still we are startled by fond Memory's knell,
Aue ? ct uaJe ! Oh, my hearts beloved,
Hail and FAREWELL
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
Hing of the Blood.

For SwEILED NECK AND EN1AReED
GLANDS. Case.,-For several years past have
been badly afflicted with Goitre, or Swelled
Neck, and it had become so bad that an effort
to raise my arms above my head produced a
choking sensation, which was almost unendu-
rable. After trying several remedies with no
benefit, was advised to try KING OF THE
BLOOD, which [ did, and the effect has been
almost miraculous. [ took nearly seven bot
ties, and it has not only cured my neck, but
greatly benefited my general health 1 have
not felt SO well for years. I have been
troubled from childhood with fatty tu1nors on
my arms, and l can see the wonderful effects
OF your medicine upon those, for they have
already begun to diminish, and think that if
| continue on with the medicine, they will en-
tirely disappear.
CHARLOTTE S. SMITH, Columbus, Pa.
Write for circulars to D. Ransom, Son & Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y.-Com.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
KING oE THE BLoon.
The MOST THOROUGH PURIFIER OF THE

Anh1 MUST THOROUGH PURIFIER ON rr,r
BLOOD YET DISCOVERED.
CURES ALL HUMORS. FROM A co,,,,o,-
GnofIloN TO THE WORST SCROFTrInTl' 0S
coz1:y dss use Cancers are cured ona
Cahcerous tumors are dispersed w;tbo,t ~. anu
geon's knife-Scrofua cononeroa "I.lo1I tne sur
ton prevented and cured. A"eteo' ana Consump.
~ poiSo1,s ID 4Sa es, Mercural and Miner
oI,s bo14 @ tiie enects eradicated and yjoor
Gus health ana sound constitution estahHsIso55
Female Weakness ana In1sSaonsned.
Dropsy, general or partial; Swellinps ar,ernaI
internal; and Tumorseare reduced and snarse os
ia very short time. o'perseu
EErysipelas, Salt Rheum. Sca,d uooa
Fever Sores are soon removed by this novvsr rh1
detergent medicine FO"0'iui
Scorbutic Diseases, Dandruff. sca,v
or Rough Skin, and Pimples quickly give w ay
leaving the skin smooth and fair ""''
Chronic Diseases. Fever and Acme Dis
ordered Liver, Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Nervous
Affections, General Debility, in short, all the
numerous diseases caused by bad blood are con-
quered, and give way before this most powerful
corrector, the King of the Blood.
Each bottle contains between forty and
fifty ordinary doses, costing only one dollar
From one TO four or five bottles will
pies on the Face, Bies, ordinary Eruptions, etc.
From two to eight bottles will cure
Scaly Eruptions of the Skin, Ulcers, Sores and
Canker inthe Mouth and Stomach, Erysipelas, etc.
From TWO to ten bottles will restore
healthy action to the Liver and Spleen will reg.
u1ate the Bowels and Kidneys
From two to six bottles viii be found
efectual in curing Neuralgia, Sick-Headache, st.
Yitus' Dance and Epilepsy
From five to twelve bottles viii cure
the worst cases of Scrofula.
From three to twelve bottles wiz
cure severe and obstinate cases of Catarrh.
From two to four bottles will cure this
worst cases of Piles, and regulate Costiye Bowels
From two to ten bottles will cure
bad cases of Dropsy.
Price 81 per bottle, or 6 bottles for S..
Sold by all Druggists
D. RANSOM, SON & co., Propr's,
See testimonials in local column. Buffalo, N. Y.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
CAN a medium be said to write with
invisible ink when he writes with spirit


With every change of season we have change in
the hygienic character of the air. In the spring it
is impregnated, especially in low-lying, wet dis
tricts with mephitc vapors, which generate chills
and fever, rheumatism, indigestion. biiousness and
diseases of the organs of respiration. 1t is there
fore particularly necessary at this time of the year to
nvigorate and regulate the system so as to enable
it to repel the morbid influences to which it is
more or less subjected. The stomach should be
toned the bowels freed from distractions the
blood purified, and the nerves braced and strength
ened. This can be easily done. Hostetter's Ston-
ach Bitters are everywhere procurable and in the
whole range of remedies and preventiYes prescribed
by the faculty or recommended through the press
there is not one that combines IN such an eminent
degree great efficiency and perfect harmlessness
It is positive antidote to malaria. Whoever takes
it habitually may breathe the atmosphere of the
worst fever and ague locality without dagger Damp
the organization reinforced with this powerful
vegetable invigorant, and consequently is a good
safeguard against asthma, coughs, colds and other
pulmonary complaints. 1t is not recommended as
remedy for this latter class Of malldes but simply
means of STRENGTHENING the system against the
aerial conditions and changes which so often pro-
duee them. As spring invigorant and Alternative
it VIII be found extremely beneficial to persons
who are peculiarly sensitive to unhealthy atmos-
pheric influences.
Best and Oldest Family Medicine anforcps
L1er InoigorGtor-a purely Vegetable CtthGrt'c and
Tonic-for Dyspepsia, Constipation, DEBILITY, Sick
headache, Bilious Attacks and all derang of
Liver, Stomach and Bowels Ask your Druggist for
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Getting plenty of Fresh Eggs.

In long communication to the Ger
mantown Telegraph upon the subject
of poultry. Mr.. Il. Dwight, of Hudson:
Mich, considers the question, CHOW
to get plenty of good favored fresh
eggs with little trouble" and thinks if
there is any secret in it he has not dis
covered it, and makes the same public
for the benefit of all interested. He
says Z" Once, thirty years ago, [ was
troubled Just as my neighbor now is.
I fed my hens plenty of corn, and got
but few eggs. [ reasoned upon the
matter, and happened to think that the
constituent parts Of milk and the whites
of eggs were much alike Now, it has
long been known to milkmen that wheat
middlines and bran are about the best
of any food to make a COW give milk :;
why not then the best to make the
hens lay eggs2 [ tried it, and since
then have had no trouble. My mode
of preparing the feed is to mix about
five parts of bran to one of middlings
In the morning / wet up with water
about four quarts of the mixture in a
large pan, taking pains to have it rather
dry, though all damp. This [ set in a
warm, sunny spot, south of their shed,
and they walk up, take a few dips,
don't seem to fancy it like corn, and
sta1t off on a hunt for something bet
ter, but always coming round in short
time for few more dips from the dish
Of the bran. There is little time dur
ing the whole day but what one or
more are standing by the pan, and
helping themselves. [ am careful to
mix for them just as much as they will
consume during the day. At night,
just before they repair to the roost, I
usually throw them about a pint of
shelled corn, well scattered, so that
each one can get few kernels. If your
hens decline to eat this feed at first,
sprinkle a little Indian meal on it. I
would like all who complain of not get
ting eggs to try my plan, and I think
they will never be sorry.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
- e.. vi. D.S

Don't stand aghast with awe and
fear, eyes wide open, hair on end, and fingers
tightly clinched with the idea that these mys-
ferrous symbols are cabalistic signs and rep
resent some secret organization of masked
demons who carry terror and dsmay with
their midnight proWlings and dispense on the
dawn Of morning. No! They are only the
initials of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discoy-
cry, that pleasant medicine which has acquir-
ed National reputation and proven so effica-
cious' for Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Con-
sumption and kindred diseases. For these
complaints it has no equal. Sold by all Drug
OriSt c3t
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26

A MAN whom DR.. Chalmers engaged
to manage a disorderly Sunday-school
kept his eyes open during prayer, and,
when one boy thrust pin into another,
he marched up the aisle, still praying,
and cuffed the boys ears, and went
back praying. After that he was mas
ter of the situation, for the boys
thought a man who could watch and
pray like that could not be put down.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
The Singer Manufacturing COMPANY in

Newark, N. j., employs quite large
number Of children a little over twelve
years old ten and a quarter hours each
day. A trunk lock factory in the same
place furnishes employment to nearly fifty
quite small children, some of whom have
thin peaked faces prematurely old and
with an unhealthy color. The work. is
monotonous without being really manual
labor. In this and various other factories
OF Newark there are altogether over $500
children employed, and earning from two
to seven dollars a week.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
JoHNsoN's ANoDYNE L1N1nENr is

/ JoHNsoN's ANoDYNE LINIMENT is,
without doubt, the safest, surest, and best
remedy that has ever been invented for inter-
nal and external use. 1t is applicable to a
great variety of complaints, and is equally
beneficial for man or beast.
WE have seen it stated in various papers
throughout the country, that Agents for the
sale of SheyTdaa'S CaU0b'y Condition Po1rders
were authorized to refund the money to any
person who should use them and not be salts
fed with the result. We doubted this at first,
but the proprietors authorize US to say that it
is true.-Com.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
&" One Divorce and One Death. -

By George Wainwright, in LooKE's
NATIONAL MONTHLY, is the best story
OF the year. The March, April and May
numbers, which contain it complete,
sent for 25 cents. $1OO per year
LOCKE & JONES, Toledo, Ohio. The
best and cheapest magazine published.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26

THE other Sunday morning stranger
entered Christ Church, indianapolis,
and there being no usher just at hand,
was permitted to occupy standing po-
sition for moment or two. At length
he was approached by one of the breth-
rem, when he inquired "What church
is this ?" Christ Church, SIR els he
in?' The stranger was led to conclude
that he was in, from the fact that he
was Immediately shown to seat.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26

CURING PHOSPHORUS BURNS q
preventive of evil consequences from
burns by phosphorus, it has been sug-
gested to place the part affected as
soon as possible III concentrated So
luton Of carbonate of soda, perfectly
harmless phosphate of soda being
thereby formed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26

SCENE, fremont street car in emu
steal and enlightened Boston," She:
"Are you going to the theatre this
evening He: I" [ am going to hear
Elijah" She: "Ah p! Where does she
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26
THROAT AFFECTIONS AND HoARsENEss

ALL suffering from Irritation of the Throat
and H0drSeness will be agreeably surprised at
the almost immediate relief afforded by the use
of g Broac7a's Bronchial Ifocbcs."-Com.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26

FEBRUARY is sometimes called the
German month, because of the many
German festiviti ties by which it is
marked. There are commentators,
however, who suppose it is dedicated
to the Germans on account OF there be-
ing a bruary Ill it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-03-26

OIL is Hazard & GaswelFs, made on the sea
shore, from fresh, selected livers. of the
Cod only, by CAswELL, HAZARD & Co., New
York. 1t is absolutely pure aud Saceet. Pa
tents who have once taken it prefer it to all
others. Physicians have decided it sup erior
to all other oils in maIket.-Com.