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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02
81 Done Dat EnOurh.N

A writer in the Brooklyn Argus,
speaking among other things of the
work OF actors and actresses, says:
In regard to an actors work Its
precise difficulty lies not in the prepa-
ration OF part, the mere committing
to memory, which may be called a
mechanical operation, the deciding upon
certain positions or arriving at the most
desirable Evolutionary infections, but
in the s'stringing up" SO to speak, to
the task of repeating performance with
nerve and spirit night after night,
withouta chance of escape. There was
baby girl, four years old, who was
under al engagement to enact the part
OF "Spring' in fairy piece All went
well up to the last rehearsal, when baby,
being called upon to go through her part,
refused in these terms: 81 don dat
enough. [ done dat every day. {
want to do home" No arguments,
threats or persuasions could move that
correct infant mind. She had "done
dat enough" and when the time came
for the evening performance she was of
the same opinion, and less acute but
more tractable child was hurriedly pre-
pared for the work.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02
Well Frozen.

A certain deacon, who was jealous
advocate for the cause Of temperance,
employed carpenter to make some al
teratlons IN his parlor. In repairing 8
corner near the fire place it was found
necessary to remove the wainscott
when 10! "mare's nest" was brought tc
light, which astonished the workmer
most marvelously. A brace of ocean
tiers, sundry junk bottles all contain
ing something to take "a pitcher
and tu1nblers, were costly reposing
there In snug quarters. The joiner
with wonders stricken countenance, rar
to the proprietor with the intelligence
"Well l declare exclaimed the dea.
con, that is curious, sure enough. II
must be that old Captain B. left those
things there's when he occupied the
premises thirty years since y g Perhaps
he did, returned the discoverer; "but
deacon, that ice in the pitcher must
have been well frozen to have remained
solid"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02
WOman'S Power.

Parson Brownlow tells a good story
OF an old Presbyterian bachelor preach
er, known almost as i. woman-hater I'M
til he was nearly fifty years old, when
he married, and settled somewhere
among the mountains of North Caro-
Ina. The parson says Our bachelor
friend was preaching CD the sinners
excuses. 60 have bought piece of
ground, and wish to go and see 1t, said
one. Here is want Of inclination to at
tend to divine things said the
preacher. Another said, 4 have
bought five yoke of oxen, and must
needs go and prove Them This seems
case OF necessity. A third said, 4
have married wife, and therefore can
not come. Here is case of natural
impossibility, from which we may in
Ter, continued our bachelor preacher,
THAT one woman will pull a man fur
Their from the Lord than ten steers
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Corn VS.. Pork.

The Journal of Agriculture gives
some valuable figures to all farmers,
and the world generally. 1t says that
one bushel of corn makes ten pounds
and half of pork; and deduces the
fact that when corn sells for 153 cents
ger bushel, pork costs Il cents; when
I cents, pork 2 cents-or, when pork
sells for cents per pound, it brings As
cents per bushel on corn; when it sells
for cents it brings 80 cents on corn.
Let farmers remember that there is no
getting around those figures. Let them
remember that hogs are always very
particular that every kernel of every
bushel of corn shall go ''where it will
do the most good" Every bushel of
corn will make SO many pounds of pork;
hence there is an unvarying relation be-
tween the two articles. Any farmer has
but to see how many bushels of corn
he's got, TO determine just how many
pounds Of pork he can get, and whether
he will gain or lose by the transaction.
Verify, what could the world do with
out figures?
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02
Snuti, arn Sweet Pnfata.

A correspondent of the Prairie Farm
er pays the following tribute to this
sweet potato q We have cultivated this
excellent sort three seasons past with
very satisfactory results. It yields bet
ter, is earlier, and sweeter, than any
other kind We have grown, and the po-
tatoes are kept during the winter in an
ordinary dry cellar, without, artificial
heat, merit possessed by no other
.,ariety that we are acquainted with.
We kept an abundant supply last spring
and summer for family use until the
new crop was ready to dig, and found
them as crisp and good as could be de
sired until the last. The sweet potato
has not been fully at home in our more
Northern States, heretofore, and, as it
is an important article of food, wher-
ever grown, we regard this early, hardy
variety as great improvement, and as
a beginning from which we shall expect
great improvements. The plants of
this variety are more stocky and tena-
cious of life than ordinary kinds In
planting some 10000 plants last season,
we found j smaller per centage of this
variety to fail than any other. Plants
sent per mail to points in Massachu-
sets, Kansas, Nebraska, and Utah, car
rled safely, and grew we'll.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02
An Engaging Manner.

Pollteness is to man what beauty is
to woman. In creates an instanta-
neous impression in his behalf, while the
opposite quality exercises quick pre-
judice against him. The politician who
has this advantage easily distances all
the rival candidates, for every voter he
speaks with becomes instantly his
friend. The very tone III which he asks
for pinch of snuff is often more potent
than the logic of Webster or Clay.
Polished manners have often made
scoundrels successful, while the best of
men, by their hardness and GOODNESS,
have done themselves incalcuIable in
jury-the shell being SO rough that the
world could not believe there, was a
precious kernel within it. Had Raleigh
never flung down his cloak in the mud
for the proud Elizabeth to walk on, his
career in life would scarcely have been
worth recording. Scores of men have
been successful in life by pleasing man
ners alone. A trait of character IS we'll
worth cultivating, lads. Never forget
the value Of true civility.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02
An Old Organist.

The present organist of Westminster
Abbey has seen more than fifty Years of
active service. During his official career
of more than half a century he has been
present at the coronation of three of
England's sovereigns: George the
Fourth, William the Fourth. and Vic
toria. The earliest service of historic
at which he officiated as organist and
ehoir-master il the Abbey was at the
burial Of the Marquis of Londonderry
in 1922. Though well along in years
the venerable organist, with true English
fortitude and endurance, refuses ! all
profers Oh assistance, and still takes his
seat daily and twice day at the Abbey
organ.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02
NIOuIting.

During the moulting season plenty of
| food must be given. Not only has the
ordinary waste of the system to be pro-
be secreted and grown. In their natu-
raj state moulting takes place in fowls
at a season of the year when food is
abundant. Besides this the females al
most invariably cease the production of
eggs at this time, so that the whole vi
tai energy can be directed to the bust
| ness of producing new covering in
addition to daily sustenance. In the
artificial state in which our fowls are
usually kept, food enough must be pro-
vided for the increased production of
eggs, and this extra supply should be
kept up during the season of moulting,
or the birds lose flesh, at the expense of
future production.
In reference to giving medicine to
fowls when moulting, authorities differ
widely. Probably when they are closely
confined, with no facilities for natural
exercise or selection of natural food,
some medical care may be necessary at
such seasons. But in most cases all
animals, as we'll as mankind, thrive in
versely to the amount of medicine add
ministered, and the less given the bet
ter.
The Canada Farmer, speaking of this
subject, seems to deprecate giving much
medicine at this time, although recon-
mending some tonic treatment. The
Farmer says:
Moulting is generally treated as a
disease and certain sDacificS pivan to
fowls while undergoing this process. At
this time, as we'll as in cold and wet
weather, it is we'll to add some iron to
the drinking water. Sulphate of iron
alone becomes rusty and disliked by the
fowls, but a drop or two of sulphuric
acid added will prevent this. A lump
of sulphate of iron the size of filbert,
and three drops of acid, will be enough
for each gallon Of water, or teaspoon
full Of tincture of iron will answer as
we'll. This mixture in their drinking
water has a wonderful effect in helping
them through the critical period Of
moulting. The particular kind of food
given the fowls must now be specially
seen to. A little hemp seed given two
or three times a week will be very bene-
fetal, and even ale may sometimes be
given to delicate fowls, although it
should always be used sparingly, as it
usually causes purging, and some
breeds do not require it at all. A little
extra meat should now be given; be-
sides being beneficial at this season, it
has the effect of making them COM
mence laying earlier.-Country Gentle
man.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02
Remarkable Indian Burial Ground.
From the Boston Globe.

A most remarkable Indian burial
ground was examined at Marblehead,
Mass, yesterday, by party of Gentle
men from the Essex Institute. Salem.
and the remains found, both of human
beings, and of utensils, ETC., were with
| out doubt, the best ever discovered in
this section. The locality where the
| examinations were made is on that part
of the peninsula of Marblehead lying
opposite Salem across the inner harbor
of that city. It was on the side of
! high hill where the excavations were
made, and not far from the town bury
ing grounds. On all the old maps and
charts all Indian burial place has been
indicated at this spot, but no examina-
tlOns have before been made by scien-
tifc gentlemen.
The party who made the investiga-
lions set out from Salem yesterday
morning, armed with implements for a
thorough search. The first digging
revealed nothing of special interest,
only few bits of charcoal being found;
but this gave encouragement, and fur
Their examination of the ground to light
skeleton, evidently of child, and
cc>1AJ oOCobJ CAUTIOUSLY,
four more skeletons and alot of trinkets
were discovered. One of the skeletons
was very large, and each of the four
last was found in very wonderful
state of preservation. The bodies had
all been buried in atsitting posture, but
the pressure of the earth for such
length of time had bent them down con-
siderable. Each body was laid on two
stones, one under the head and the
other under the feet. The articles
buried with the bodies were of a fine
description and in good preservation
An earthen cup was first found, and
after that the fragments of a pot, lit
tie brass bell, such as the first settlers
used to give to the natives, two shells
and lot of beads
The entire day was spent in exhum-
Ing, the whole work being done with
the greatest caution, SO as not to dis
turb or break any of the bones or arti-
Giles IN the graves It is supposed from
the evidence presented, that the graves
are about two hundred years old, and
We're made about the time of the first
settlement of Salem. A guard was sta
toned over the place last night to pre-
vent any disturbing of the remains, and
to-day other Swans will view the place.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02

DIR. James A. Hopkins, of Milton.
Del, in the Physician and Pharmacist
says:
Many have been the remedies used in
the local treatment of dipthelia. Some
have vaunted argent nttos, in solid
form. Others advise the preparations
OF potassa and it's combinations. Car
bolic acid has its votaries as well as
muriatic acid and the muriated tincture
of iron; externally the oakum poultice
AS some reputation, and no doubt is OF
more importance than we are ready to
admit. Terebinthine liniment, as well
as kerosene oil, stands prominent in the
list Of external remedies. 86aagA
But above and before all is the acid
tannate of iron. This is a remedy not
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02
Household Hints.

VEGETABLES should never be cooked
in iron pots unless the latter are enam-
eled Or otherwise coated internally.
BLEEDING from the nose may be
stopped by putting bits of lint into the
nostrils, and by raising the arms over
the mead
II making frosting for cakes or pud-
dings, a little lemon juice, tartaric acid
or cream of tartar is a very pleasant adj
dition to the taste, besides making the
frosting much lighter.
In roasting poultry, one thickness of
writing or nice brown wrapping paper
tied round the wings and drumsticks
will keep them from being baked to a
crisp and spoiled.
To any quantity of glue use common
whisky instead of water. Put both to-
gether in a bottle; cork tight, and set
it away for three or four days. 1t will
then be fit for use, without the applica-
ton of heat It will be found useful
and handy article in every household.
In cooking oatmeal, hominy, wheaton
grlts. cracked wheat, OF any of those
nice breakfast dishes, cook it in a COW
cred tin dish set in kettle of boiling
water. In this manner there is no dan
ger OF scorching. Cornstarch pudding,
| seamoss, farina and all other articles
mixed with milk can be cooked in the
same way.
AT this time of the year it is of great
importance to arrange plants in houses
SO that they shall have supply of light
somewhat equal to the climate from
which they came. All retarded autumn
flowers should have as light situation
as possible-near weI-cleaned glass and
not far from quiet ventilation. A strong
draft of air is injurious to them.
THERE is rarely, if ever, any need of
using soap on the face, except for dirty
people, OF where there is much oil Sc
creted by the skin. Pure soft water is
generally quite sufficient AS rule,
avoid the free use of soap on the skin,
except the mildest kinds. Face pow
ders injure the skin just as dirt do s,
by obstructing the pores. If there is
any poison in the face powder, as there
often is, it only adds poison to dirt, and
makes the matter SO much the worse.
A CORRESPONDENT writes to the Scien-
tific American that the worst toothache
or neuralgia coming from the teeth, may
be speedily and delightfully."- ended by
the application of small bit of clean
cotton, saturated In strong solution Of
ammonia, to the defective tooth. Some
| times the late sufferer is prompted to
momentary nervous laughter by the
application, but the pain has disap-
peared.
| .. asf9t4 Thao7
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02
Resignation.
BY PAUL FLEMING.

'' BY PAUL FLEMING.
Let nothing make thee sad or fretfuI,
Or too regretful;
'E' 18 rs Be still "",9
what God hath ordered must be right, .,
Then find in it thine own delight,
My will.
why shouldst thou fill to-day with sorrow,
. About tomorrow,
My heart?
one watches all with case most true.
Doubt not that he will give the, too
Thy part.
Only, be steadfast, never waver,
Nor seek earth's favor.
But rest;
Ihou knowest what God wills must be
For all his creatures, so for thee,
The best. a
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02
4 Few Needed Small Things

There are great many farms that are
supplied with the best of all kinds of
large field implements, such as reapers
and mowers, horse rakes, horse pitch
forks, hay leaders, gang and single
lows, cllltivators, planters, harrows,
markers, and so on through the list, but
yet you cannot find about them many
little conveniences trifing SO far as cost
IS concerned, that save time and labor,
and do away with many of the vexations
that beset the craft How many farms
are well supplied with ladders for fruit
picking, mounting the house or barn, or
with step ladders for inside use The
garden, or even the ordinary
canal wheelbarrow is not found
with any great frequency, yet
they are exceedingly conve-
nlent at most all seasons of the year.
The wagon-jack is another little thing
that finds a welcome place in the con-
siderate farmers hands. The farm
scale should not be forgotten, neither
should small kit of carpenters tools,
including plane OF two, saws, chisels,
&c. We only enumerate few of the
many little articles of tools not often
found, but always needed, and call up
on readers to fill out the list with all
he smaller contrivances that they have
Invented, or whose usefulness has been
proven by others. Another thing,
when purchasing these things always
get the best; they may cost little more
at the, start, but their durability more
than repays. When got beware of the
borrower. Choose your customers In
this respect.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02
Late DAYS.
BY LOUISA BUSHNELL.

s. 4
rs By LOUISA BUSHNELL.
dow keetly dies the year,
serenelv lapsing to its last repose
It famed with JOY when first the end drew
near:
Now husled it sinks into its golden close.
AS hearth-fires burning low
Lie still and glow.
[ hear our little maid
Sing through the rustling leaves her CHEEKY
song.
Her spring-time voice rings out so unafraid,
So like to one that has been silent long,
shut my eyes to see
If it can be-
The past looks all dream:
doubt my joys, and oh /! doubt my grief !!
The shadow. mingles strangely with the CLEAN,
And all drops from me like withered leaf
Blown by celestial wind
Far, TAR behind
Now there remains a rest
And, warmly wrapped within its filmy haze,
That spreads its yellow net across the West,
y Upon the sweet, receding year gaze
And feel the tender peace
Of days that cease.
Slower the colors burn:
Their glowing hearts must fail to ashen
brown.
And flicker out, and into shadows turn;
But then the gentle snow will hutter down,
A soft, white sleep will fall,
And cover all
That long, long, quiet sleep
That falls upon all death from out the sky.
Heaven tenderly our fallen leaves will keep;
They do not die. they only seem to die.
So pray it may be
With me, with me. ---
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02
Expense of an Opera Troupe.

Albani is paid 81, 900 night in gold
Hebron receives 90, 600 francs month,
Carpi $1,000, Del Puente 5000, Poten.
TIM and Gary each 5000, Donadio, Ma
resi- De Bassini, Benfratelli. Tagliapie-
ira, and F'lorini each 1000, Scolara 3,
900. Signor Muzio receives 6, 900 francs
per month, and Mr.. Behrens and Fret
leigh $500.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02

ELI PERKINS positively refuses to go
up in balloon, but he has, agreed to
keep his mouth shut Tor six months.
and that's the next best thing.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02
Useful Recipes.

Brown BREAD.-One pint Of Indian
meal, half pint of rye meal, one pint
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-12-02
MASSACRE ON THE HIGH SEAS.

Bloody Conflict OF Il Pacific Whaling Bark
"A savage in the FOrecastIe--TyvO Sea.
men stabbed to Death-The Murderer
Killed After II Desperate Resistance
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-14

The story that the Grand Duke Alexis rec
ommends Russians to adopt the American
ish OF pork and beaus, is said to have origi-
mated with Cincinnati hog-merchant.@
Brooklyn argus.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-14
Valentines.

Who can tell the extent to which fancy sta
tionery now inclndes these emblems of fun
and admiration, these formidable additions to
the delivery work of the postman? The
manufacture is enormous, giving employment
to large bodies of persons in the latter months
of the year, and in January. Long before the
Christian era, there was a festival held at
Rome in the middle of February, especially
interesting to the young men and maidens !;
the written names of young women were put
into box, aud drawn out by the young men
present, as a preliminary to love-making.
When the Papal Chuach was established in
the same city, the priesthood sought to give a
new tone to the custom by substituting the
names of saints for those of young women,
but the people, not relishing this change, re-
fused to adopt it. r
The practice crystallized into usuage of
young persons selecting their loves by sort
of lot, on or about the natal day of ST. Val
entine; this gradually led to the transmission
of love verses ON the auspicious day, and I'm
ally developed into the present custom, which
mixes up the sentimental, elegant and the
vulgar in Heterogeneous manner. They are
NOT mode in large factories; small masters un-
dertake the work, portion OF which is done
at tine humble homes OF the WOrkerS, through
the medium of middlemen and sub
m;ddiemen. The better kinds are we'll
printed, inscribed with love verses written in
q neat, small hand by women, and adorned
with lace paper, satin, colored sheet gelatine,
and other elegalces. Much neatness and
cleverness are shown in putting together the
various pieces which compose the more
costly specimens. Besides the lace paper and
the colored gelatine, there ara color-printed
sheets of dainty devices, TO be cut out with
scissors; small pieces of silk, satin, velvet
and cambric, often painted by hand; en-
bossed paper and card; gilt and silvered
paper: and many other delicate materials.
The mead artist or manager must have some
taste, or at least inventive faculty, to lay the
plan for building up the valentine out of its
numerous pieces.
Some of these novelties happening to hit
the taste OF the buyers, the sale is large and
the profits ample; while others, fully equal
or perhaps superog in artistic merritt, fall dead
upon the market, and are source OF consid-
cradle loss. Considerable success, during the
last few years, has attended style of valen-
tine comprising little mechanism, such as a
de or door revealing second picture be-
sides the principal one, and involving bit OF
fun or sarcasm. Some of the most costly val
entines sell for ten or twenty guineas each.
The truth is, that many of these have become
a mere pretext for making costly present,
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-14
RA0ks RAeni0od.

The Dead Alive. By Wilkie Collins. Cloth. II
Illustrated. 157 PIP. Boston: Shepard & GIL.
Portland: Loring, Short and Harmon.
Central Asia. Travels in Cashmere, Little Tibet
and Central Asia. By Bayard Taylor. Cloth. ss5
PIP. Illustrtled, s1.50. New York. Scrbuer,
Armstrong g. Co. Portland: Loring. Short and
Harmon.
Bessie Wilmertons or money and what came of
it. Novel. BY Margaret westestt Cloth. sss
PIP. Cream-laid, red-lined paper. $500 New
York: g. W. Carleton & Co. Portland: Bailey
& Noyes.
Genesis Disclosed, being the discovery Of stu
pendous error which changes the nature Of the ac-
count of mankind. Cloth s22 pp. s1oo New
York: CIV. Carleton s. LCo. Portland: Bailey
& Moves.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-14
TERMS $500 PER ANNUMIN ADVANCE.

quite apart from the sentimentalism Of young
soeia sneh ana maidens. At the other end of the
each tthaaeutInes -thn at half-penny and penny
order; staring bright coIors are laid on nv
children, covering designs too often gross and
repreaensible. raIa.'s The sixpenny and shilling
saent'nes are, all things considered. the most
g ntIing and reasonable specimens Of this ne
cuilar KIND OF missive.-Pdper TroSe .Tn,,r,oI
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-14
Sanford's Improved Refrigerator

Inc three points of excellence which claim. are,
1ss constant and thorough circulation of pure air
Lnu, ryness. no dampness monld nor faint; 3Id; no
ntei Cling of odors; purity and active air, the
elements of its Call, for circulars.
Manufactured and for sale by j. F. MERRILL, be-
tween Cross and Cotton sts., near Leavitt Burnham
q Co.'S Ice House. Portland. Me. je5dt