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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-07
Milking i'm Silence.

The London Milk Journal thus COM
ments upon discussion at Farmers
Club at West Cornwall, Conn, where a
member said be discharged one of his
mixers who persisted in talking during
milking time, and that, in three days,
the increase of milk was equal to the
mans weekly wages:
We fear an increase to such an ex-
tent must have been due to other causes
besides the one assigned If the en-
larged yield followed solely from the
dismissal of the man, we suspect his
presence affected the supply of milk in
some way apart from his loquacity.
We have frequently found change Of
servants to prove beneficial.
1t may be that talking prevents hens
from laying, also. We know we have
often experienced a vast increase in
the number of eggs brought into the
the house after the removal Of q too Of
ticious individual from our employ.
Besides, our COWS have sometimes i'm
proved in produce by the same means,
but we generally attributed it to clean
er milking by fresh and more lndustri-
Gus hands. It is, however, well known
that COWS are particularly sensitive to
sights and sounds during the time they
are MIXED, Unless they are at perfect
ease they do not give their milk freely.
They should be daily MIXED under the
same conditions.
Cows that are fed at milking time
require their usual meal, or they may
become restless or dissatisfied, and put
a stop to their bounty, Many of them
will only allow some special favorite to
milk them. In those parts of the
country where women are solely en-
ployed to milk, we frequently find one
or two tuneful lassies singing at their
work, and many COWS become SO pleased
with the rustic harmony as to show evil
dent signs of their approval of the loud,
sweet voice, by giving the milk only by
being sung to. Everything that dis
tracts the attention of the COW and
ruffies her placidity should be avoided
when called upon to yield her milk.
Her nervous system should not be ex-
cited by strange noises, unwelcome
objects, or rough treatment, or the effect
will be apparent in diminished supply
in the milk pail. It would no doubt
be good advice, on the whole, to tell
those who milk that they should hold
their tongues and keep their tempers.
The Connecticut farmer appears to have
sufficient reasons, indeed, to say that
"speech is silver, but silence is golden.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-07
Stanley'S Cedar Craft.

Yesterday afternoon, says a London
paper on the 9th inst, new boat, built
from Mr.. Fl. M. Stanley's own designs,
and intended to accompany his expedi-
ton to Central Africa, was launched
from the building yard of Mr.. Messen-
ger, of Teddington, where she was con-
structed. She is forty feet from stem to
stern, and has beam of six feet The
depth amidships is two feet six inches.
She is provided with double bank of
fourteen oars, seven on each side. She
is built of cedar wood, with mahogany
bulk-heads, and is SO constructed that
she can be divided into five sections,
weighing 100 pounds each. The sec
lions are each furnished with poles, and
can be carried after the fashion of an
Indian palanquin.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-07
Terra del FuegO.

An exploration of Terra del Fuego
has recently been prosecuted by Mr..
Pertuiset in behalf of the Gillian gov
eminent. He and his party started
from the vicinity of Arenas, in the
Straits of Magellan, and proceeded to
the western end of the channel of Grand
Bay. They then traversed the island
in northwesterly direction, and went
southwark to Useless Bay, embarking
at the latter place on the 18th of January
on the Chilian frigate Abato for Val
paraiso. According to Pertuiset, the
island, geologically speaking, is of but
little interest. He found it, however,
well adapted to the cultivation of cattle,
on account of rich grassy vegetation,
there being room for the rearing of
hundreds of thousands of these ami
mails
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-07
Useful Recipes.

REMEDY FOR POLL EVIL AND FIsTULA.
Take one peck of May apple roots,
wash them clean; then put them into
one gallon of water boil it down to one
pint ; then strain and add one pint of
the oldest hogs lard you can get; then
boil it down to one pint, and it is fit for
use. Grease once day, every other
day, for three days then stop. I hard
ly ever rub 10 on more than two times.
[ have mare here now with the fistrlla,
which [ rubbed the second time about
ten days ago, and it is about gone
Cor. Cincinnati Gazette.
PRESERVING GRAPES WITH HONEY
Take seven pounds of sound grapes on
the stems have the branches as perfect
as possible and pack them snugly with
out breaking, in stone jar. Make
sirup of four pounds of honey and one
pint of vinegar, with cloves and CHINA
mon to suit, or about three ounces of
each is the rule. Boil them well to-
gether for twenty minutes and skim
well |; then turn while boiling hot over
them, and seal Immediately. They will
keep for years if you wish, and are ex-
ceedingly nice. Apples, peaches and
plums may be done in the same way.
PEACH MARMALADE.-Take small and
imperfect clings they will not admit
of being removed from the stone in
pieces of uniform size and shape, but
you can pare them, and after cutting
from the stone, place them in porce-
lain kettle with one pint of water to two
quarts of fruit !; boil them until soft;
take off, and put through seive with a
wooden potato masher Then return to
the kettle, adding one pint of sugar to
every quart of prepared fruit bring to
a boil and seal while hot. It can be
sealed without the addition Of the sugar.
and when eaten let it be sweetened with
white sugar to the taste. It then greatly
resembles fresh peaches.
BAKED TOMATOES CANNED.-Select
tomatoes of a nearly uniform size, or
place the largest where the heat is the
strongest, so that all will cook uniform
ly. Two inches or two and half in
diameter is the best size. Bake them
in earthenware-in large pie dishes if
at hand. Let the heat be strongest on
the top, so that the juice will not cook
away too fast. An hours time ought to
cook them sufficiently When tender
throughout. they make delightful
dish, served hot. If they are to bo can
ned, the cans should be hot and avery
thing ready before they are taken out
of the oven. Then they should be lift
ed quickly into the cans, and some of
the juice turned in TO fill up every lay
er. IF the juice is done away, fill up
with boiling water, though it will not
be SO good. Have the juice or water
fill the cans even full and seal at once.
If there has been any delay in filing
the cans, or, perhaps any way at first
trial, it might be best to set the cans in
hot water, and boil few minutes to
make sure that the air is quite expelled
before sealing. These Will keep, like
other canned tomatoes, an indefinite
length of time. When wanted they
should be taken out on pie dish with
the juice, heated through in the oven
and sent to the table hot.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-07
Singular Trait of the Bison.

A singular and affecting trait is re-
corded of the bison when young. When
ever cow bison falls by the hand of
the hunter, and happens to have calf,
the helpless creature, instead of at
tempting to escape, stays by it's fallen
dam, with many expressions of strong
affection. The mother being secured.
the hunter makes no attempt on the
calf because that is unnecessary, but
proceeds to cut up the carcass and then,
laying it on his horse, he returns home,
followed by the young one, which thus
instinctlvely follows the remains of it's
parent. A hunter once rode into the
town OF Cincinnati, between the Miames,
followed In this manner by three calves,
all OF which had just lost their dams.
10,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-07
Shaking Bees from Combs.

Mr. J. M. Marven, in the American
Bee Journal, gives the following way to
prevent irritating bees in brushing from
combs, in subdividing:
"Use more care in subduing bees, in
long, deep or large hives. It is gener-
ally best to manage hives, extracting
honey, making swarms, etc., during
yield of honey, and before it is sealed
with wax, that all the bees may fill their.
sacs with honey; which they will do if
there is enough uncapped, and they are
distributed properly. If the honey is
not in fit condition, or of sufficient
quantity, food may be given to subdue
the most vicious stock. The brush is
one or more plantain leaves rolled
loosely, sometimes the end trimmed.
Weeds, grass, broom, feathers or brush
es may be used and if the articles are
scarce, or only one at hand, dip occa-
sionally in water to wash off the odor,
which enrages badly managed bees.
Use the old-fashioned native or black
bees with your deep frames, that drop
off the comb like shot off a single, at
the least handling
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-07
A FARMER took his wife to q gran,

A FARMER took his wife to grand
concert, and, after listening with appa-
rent enjoyment, the pair become sudden
ly interested in one of the grand cho-
ruses, "All we, like sheep, have gone
astray." First, sharp soprano voice
exclaimed, "All we, like sheep.
Next, deep voice uttered, in the most
earnest tone "All we, like sheep.
Then all the singers at once asserted:
"All we, like sheep" "Wen, I
DON'T" exclaimed old Rusticus to his
oartner. ct like beef and bacon, but /
can't bear sheep meat.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-07
The Greeting.
ny F. A. HIIIARD.

BY f. A. HILLARD.
Go. rose! and give my love good-day;
Bid her arise and come away;
Bid her with haste appear
Unto her lover here,
Ere the hot armament Ef#
Rifle the dews Of tender morn
And ali its freshness, newly born.
In fiery day be blent.
Tell her day broadens at her gates
That Earth in balmy silence waits, ,o
Tiptoe with listening ear,
To catch her footballs dear;
In all their silent pulses beat
The Pushes that adorn
The roseate face of morn,
Her loyelier face to meet
Tell her each bird that to the day
Marbles it's futtering notes Away,
Now sits the leaves among:
And holds its matin-song.
Awaiting her fair face. ....-...-
All Nature breathless is; 1855
So bid her, with this kiss.
Come stir the world with grace
Then shalt thou nestle in her breast
And for reward there take thy rest,
Until, when thou art dead,
Thy native perfume fled.
Thou shalt a subtler fragrance know,
Distilled from Loves sweet palm,
Than earth can e'er attain.
Or chemic skill bestow.
[ hear the lifting of LATCH
And as / bend the sound [ CATCH
| hear her rusthng dress
Move with soft caress:
And 10! she comes: move, clouds pipe,
birds!
Awake, Q Earth in beauty clad,
Sing, all We voices and be glad
With eloquence more sweet than words.
What love, what JOY, what kisses sweet
When day begins and lovers meet
For now my days in truth begun
With this uprising of my sun;
glow and gladden. meath her reign;
[ cry, Fair day fly not SO FAST
And when the morrow comes at last.
bid my love good-day again.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-07

the more likely it will be to produce
fruit buds.
The leaves serve to prepare the sap
absorbed by the shoots for the nourish-
ment of the tree, and aid the formation
of buds on the shoots. All trees de-
prived, therefore, of their leaves are
liable to perish.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-07

A COMPANY has been formed to work
the sulphur deposits at White Island, a
marine volcano 140 miles from Auck-
land, in New Zealand. It is estimated
that 100000 tons of sulphur in an
almost pure state are lying on the island
ready for shipment. Chemical works
are likely to be established soon, and
the island leased.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-07
Principles of Pruning Fruit Trees.

In an essay read before the Napa
Grange, Cal, by Mr.. w. Fl. Nash, he
gives the principles by which he is gov
erned in pruning fruit trees
The vigor of tree subjected to
pruning depends in great measure on
tbs equal distribution of sap In all
of it's branches. Prune the branches
of the most vigorous parts very short.
and those of the weak parts long.
Leave large quantity of fruit on the
strong part. and remove the whole or q
greater part from the feeble. Bend the
strong parts and keep the weak erect.
Remove from the vigorous the superhu-
Gus shoots as early in the season as pos
sible. Pinch early the softextremities of
the shoots on the strong parts, and as
late as possible on the feeble parts, ex-
cepting any shoots which may be too
vigorous for their position.
The sap acts with greater force and
produces more vigorous growth on
branch or shoot pruned short than on
one pruned long. The sap tending al
most to the extremities Of shoots
causes the terminals to push with great
er yigor than the laterals. The more
the sap is INSTRUCTED in its circulation
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-07

HERR THUNDER is the appropriate
name of Philadelphia organist.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-07
Driven to Death by a Curse.

or the TACT, visited the school on Friday,
and found it much as above described,
on which, after the school was dismissed,
they kindly talked with her privately
relative to the school, told her how it
seemed to them, and advised her, as she
appeared pale and nearly sick, quietly
to go to the agent and resign her posi-
ton; or If she felt strong enough to go
on with the schooland thought she could
improve in the particulars they men
toned, she could do SO. She said she
would determine what was best between
that time and the hour of school next
morning. They left for their homes.
She did not return to her boarding house
that night, and her friends became
alarmed. The school house was locked.
On looking in at the window the key was
seen on the floor. On entering they dis
covered on her desk some little articles
of value she had taken from her person
and the following note, addressed to her
sister:
DEAR MARY All I have to say is that the curse
is fulfilled. The daughters shall die in sorrow,
if not in shame, before they are twenty Ask
| Albert Thompson and Thomas Pike why.
Goodbye all. LAURAINA.
Search was made for her body. The
school house was situated on the bank
of the river, where the water ws.s deep
and still, and the body was found near
by. Before coroner's jury her sister
explained the note py relating that they
were the children of Amos K. Cross, OF
Waterford, Me-, and that in conse-
quence of some difficulty between
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-12-12
FLORIDA FOR iNVALIDS.

If perfectly eIuable climate, where a
soothing warmth and moisture combined
prevail be desirable for consumptives, it can
he found no where in the Southern States
save in Southeastern Florida. The num-
Der of persons whom | saw during my jour
ney, who had migrated to the eastern or
southern sections of the State many years
before, "more than half dead with con-
SUMPTION and who are now robust and
vigorous, was sufficient to convince me of
the great benefits derived from residence
there. Physicians all agree that the con-
ditionS necessary to insure life to the con-
sumptive are admirably provided in the
climatic resources of the peninsula. That
great numbers Of iuvalids find the localities
along the ST. Johns river, and even on the
coast, distressing to them, is said by some
physicians to be due to the fact that those
iuvalidS go there after disease has become
too deeply seated. The European medical
men are beginning to send many patients
to Florida, cautioning them where to go.
1t would seem impossible for the most deli
catet invalid to he Injured by Il residence
any where on the eastern Or southeastern
coas from St. Augustine down. For those
who from various causes find that each suc-
ccssive Northern winter, with its constantly
shifting temperature and its trying winds,
which even the healthy characterize as
deadly saps their vitality more and
more, Florida may be safely recommended
as home. winter and summer. For the
healthy, and those seeking pleasure, it will
become winter paradise; for the aiing it
is refuge and strength; for those severely
invalided its results depend entirely upon
choice of location and the progress which
the disease has already made. The perfec,
ton of the Florida winter climate is said to
be obtained at Miami, near Key Biscayne
bay, on the Miami river. There, among
the cocoanuts and the mangroveS, invalids
may certainly count Oh laying a new hold
III on life. Edrard King, in .Srribner's for
N0reMber
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-12-12

slavery question and the cry " Keep it out
of politics ~ This is a political question
and has been subject ella inning special leg
islation ever since the formation of our
State, and yet we now hear the cry Keep
it out Of politics ~
Have we not right to ask of our law
making power that they remove the polHi-
cal props that have been placed about the
old hulk to study her on her "ways while
political carpenters are patching her up and
political whitewashers are at work making
her look respectable by coating her over
with License Lac?
Let every tub stand on its own bottom !.
We want no special legislation in this coun-
try, unless you call the laws for the protec-
ton of the Christian Sabbath against lot
teries, gambling, prize fighting and houses
of i'll fame special, and there is large
class of our citizens working hard to repeal
these, and you have only to see Herman
Raster resolution in recent political plat.
form to see the proof of it, or witness the
effort in our own Legislature to repeal our
Sunday Law as it is called. l think there
is very little real difference of opinion be-
tween "Reality" and the most sanguine
friends of a Local Option Law which is
only step in the right direction and is the
best educator of the people that has yet
been devised, and will do more towards
promoting an universal education on the
temperance question than any other meas
ure that has yet been thought Of
We have no particular desire to discuss
the temperance question in the columns Of
the Wing, or any where else, merely for the
sake of an argument, but if any good pur
pose can be subserved by fair discussion,
we are ready to answer any fair or reasona-
BILE objections, and hope to be always ready
with an answer for him that asks a reason
for the faith that is in us. G.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-12-12

TAKE TINE TO REsT.-Most men and
women must keep in the traces and keep
pulling, the year round All the more,
therefore, is it their duty to take things
easier as the hot weather comes on. Take
longer rests at noon. Pat on less steam
when you are at work. Snatch a Sunday
now and then from the middle of the week.
You can. People find time to be sick and
die. They can just as easily find time to
rest and keep well. Every thing does not
depend finishing that dress or fencing
that field; or putting up" so much fruit
or catching so many customers. Better
that the children should wear old clothes
than that their mother should be laid aside
by a fever. Better that the corn crop be a
little lighter than that there be no one to
harvest it. Let us have shorter sermons
and fewer of them on Sunday; longer re-
cesses for the children at school on week
days. Put up the store shutters earlier at
night; prepare palmer meals in the kitchen.
Take a MONDAY nap yourself, and give
your employees chance to go a fishing of
an afternoon now and then. That only is
duty which the Lord lays upon us and he
is not so hard Il master as we suppose.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-12-12

The racy correspondent of the CONNER
cial Adoer:iser, Eli Perkins, writes as fol-
lows apropos of the gas famine in New
York:
Last night | went home from DR.. Ewers
with Julia. felt great confidence in my
self. The darkness gave me confidence
There were thirty-six dark gas burners,
and one tallow candle-one Eighth Avenue
talow candle in her fathers palatial man.
sion. | took her hand, l did, and | was
about to say something confidential in the
feeble candle light, when we heard Julia's
cousin Mary in the back parlor with Char
ley Brown. Charley was taking advantage
of the darkness too. We saw their shad-
ows on the glass door. l heard him whis-
per:
Mary, dear. have something confden-
tial to tell you"
"What is it, Charley" she lisped in
sweet voice.
Then we saw one arm of his shadow en-
circle her shadow, and somebody whispered:
g. think, Mary-I think that love
you"
Then we heard a suppressed sigh.
Mary continued the voice, edo you
love me ~
Yes, Charley, do love you," she Sob
bed.
I" How much 90
"Mofe than words can express
g am very glad, Mary" continued the
voice, " for thought you were flirting"
"Well, Charley"
But Charley never said another word
Young fellows seldom get farther than this
nova days. This is as much as any rea-
sonable young lady ought to expect. Now
Charley is an honorable High Church fell
low, and he has gotten just So far with
three hundred and eighty-six different
young ladies on Fifth Avenue. 1t is called
by fellows the Sticking Point. One day
said, Charley, aid you never get any
farther than the sticking point 81
"Pshaw, Eli, yes" he replied, "there
are two other points still. We call them
the awful oath dodge, and the poverty
dodge. Why, I've come these lodges over
the Fifth Avenue girls more than twenty
times"
"What is the awrul-oat dodge?" in
quired anxiously.
"The awful-oath dodge is where we get
sweet on girl, tell her that we love her,
get her to say that she loves us, then an
nounce with tremendous solemnity that we
were compelled to take an awful oath at
the bedside of our dying grandfather not
to marry until the age of thirty. OF course
the young lady can't wait so long as that,
and we are out of the scrape"
"Well, what is the poverty dodge, and
how do you do it Pr asked, still opening
my eyes at Charley's revelations.
." Never tell, my boy9"
"Never"'
"Well, l always tell the girls that love
them,''
Eyes
Ask them if they love me-
Eyes"
"Then they say Yes. ~
"And you"
"Why, then, l sigh, and say, Alas
darling, | do love you, but love you too
much to ask you to marry me. You, Mary,
are used to life of luxury. lam poor and
proud. | would not ask you to leave
home of comfort for such as could give
YOU"
"Well, Charley, how does things gener-
ally work."
"Splendidly, old fellow That's what
we Fifth Avenue fellows call the poverty
dodge-the very last jumping off place,
you know"