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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05
Twenty ImpOlite Things,

l. Loud and boisterous laughing.
2. Reading when others are talking.
3. Reading aloud in company with
out being asked.
4. Talking when others are reading.
5. Splitting about the house, smok-
ing or chewing. -:
6. Cutting finger nails in company.
Z, Leaving church before Worship is
closed.
8. Whispering or laughing in the
house of God.
8: Gazing rudely at strangers.
lO. Leaving a stranger without
seat.
IL. A want Of respect and reverence
for seniors.
II. Correcting older persons than
yourself, especially parents.
IL. Receiving present without an
expression of gratitude.
d Ia. Making yourself hero of your
own story.
Is. Laughing at the mistakes of
Is. Joking others in company.
II. Commencing talking before
others have finished speaking.
Is. Answering questions that have
peen put others.
10. Commencing to eat as soon as
you get to the table; and
20. Not listening to what one is say
ing in company.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05
Obeying Orders.

Literal obedience was most beauti-
fully illustrated by young son OF one
Of the patient Office examiners, told by
the Washington Star. He is spending
his vacation with some gay cousins on
the banks of the Ohio River and had
but one restriction placed upon his
pleasures he was desired to shun the
boat his cousins used in their aquatic
sports. Recently his father received
boy were having, and, among others, an
excursion to the Kentucky shore with
his cousins. "They went over in the
boat" writes the young man, "but I
remembered your wishes in that re-
spect, and so swan the river p It is
understood that the next mail announc-
ed to the youngster that the injunction
upon the boat had been dissolved pro
forma!
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05
Theatrical Economy.

Mile Vestvali, who once figured so much
this country, both as an opera singer
and an actress, is now playing Hamlet
in Germany, and a person with whom
she had professional dealings publishes
the following statement: "She want
ed to have boquets and wreaths thrown
to her. I demanded 800 for it which
she said was too much for one night.
But | explained the whole thing to her,
Madam I said, 500 are sufficient for
two nights. To-day I and my men will
throw the bouquets to you from the
first tier. After the performance is
over I shall take the flowers home in
basketput them in water, and leave them
their all night and the following day.
Tomorrow night no one in the audience
will find out that the bouquets have
been used before. Thereupon she paid
me the sum had demanded"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Orchard Grass.

Farmers in the east are speaking
very highly of the merits of orchard
grass. A writer in the Philadelphia
Press says that he has had field in
orchard grass over thirty years that
still gives bounteous crops, "breast-
high at maturity" The soil is a strong,
sandy loan. It was originally seeded
in connection with red clover and tim
othy, which were long ago run out, and
there is now annually some white clover
and bluegrass, which aids to make a
thick and nutritious bottom growth !;
but the orchard grass maintains the
supremacy: and he knows of nothing,
alfalfa excepted, which will yield an
nually SO much cattle food. But it is
even superior to alfalfa, or lucerne, as
it is called sometimes, because better
adapted to the more rigorous climate
Of the eastern states.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05

churning there was nearly the same
increase in butter. But after T had
used off the clover hay in this space
and began again at the top to feed the
mixed hay, the COWS shrank both in the
quantity of milk and butter, and con-
tinued at the former stand, till the
clover was again reached when they in
creased again in their milk as in the
first instance. This hay was cut again
the 21st of June, just as it was in full
bloom, received two days sun, and
was housed without being wet, in fact,
it was cut and housed during the dry
est week of the season, and there is
now very rich aroma arising from it
as it is taken in fakes and fed to my
stock, for feed not only my COWS with
it, but my horses and calves, and from
the way they eat it, I am perfectly sat
isfed it is exceedingly palatable, for
they do not stand about the order of
their eating, but eat.
Now, if clover has such milk-pro-
ducing qualities, it must be equally
good for beef; for the same elements
that go to make an increase Of butter,
If they were not appropriated to this
use, would be employed in laying on
fat, If not building up the flesh.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05
The Old American AriStOcracy,

The most marked feature of colonial
society was it's aristocratic character.
Our ancestors brought with them the
notions of rank and precedence which
prevailed at home, aud even in those
colonies which, like the New England,
were established on democratic basis,
the aristocratic feeling of the superiors
was almost as strong us in the
feudal South and New York. Custom
gave privileges which the law did not
recognize, and comparatively few fam
lilies monopolized official dignities.
John Adams, for instance, mentions
that the Chandler family engrossed
almost all the public offices and employ
ment in the town and country" of Wor-
cester Massachusetts,. It is well known
how the Hutchinson kin filed the chief
places of public trust III that province.
In New York the Delanceys and Living
stons were said to be the two great
families upon whose motions all their
politics turn" The aristocratic spirit
of the Virginian magnates is proverbial
to this day. In South Carolina the
gentry, we are told, were more numer-
Gus than in any other colony in North
America.
It was common to see several offices
in the hands of single person, who
perhaps was colonel ofmilitia, judge of
probate, justice Of the peace, member
of the Legislative body, etc. The colo
NAL families, however were compelled
to share such distinctions with the
favorites of courtiers. A dignitary of
New York, writing In 1854 of the low
rate of judicial salaries, which were
not enough to tempt an able lawyer to
leave his practice, fears that if they
should be raised "some scurvy fellow
would be crammed upon the colony be-
cause his patrons did not know what
to do with him. 1.-THE GALAXY for
august.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05
A Lively Corpse.

& Quite an amusing incident occurred
at the residence Of we'll known ply
stefan Of West Baltimore. In order to
pursue his anatomical studies intelli-
gently, the doctor secured the services
of a couple of professional" to pro-
vide him with a ''subject," and the last
named individuals started on their as
signed duty. Upon reaching the west
ern suburbs, the PROSTATE form of an
individual was found lying near fence
road-drunk. The men being some
what OF wags, at once placed the I'M
conscious form of the inebriate in a
bag, and shouldering their prize, soon
arrived at the doctors residence and
rang the bell. The doctor appeared,
and as there were q number of doctors
in the parlor, quickly ordered the men
to the rear, where they soon arrived
and deposited the "corpse" in the car
riage house, by the doctors directions.
They then received their fee, ten dol
lar bill, and took their departure
Hardly had the gate closed before a
ghostly groan was heard in the carriage
house. The doctor was at first horror
stricken, but subsequent sounds and
movements soon convinced him that
the "body" in the bag was yet in the
flesh. Without waiting to examine the
"subject," he rapidly pursued the
worthy pair, remarking when he came
up with them, that "that man in the
bag is not dead" eve know that, "
retorted one of the men, "but you can
kill him whenever you please" The
doctor has concluded to examine all
"subjects" hereafter before paying for
them. Gazette.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05
Servants in the Last Century.

At the beginning Of that century
wages IN Philadelphia were said to be
three times What they were in England.
Slaves, convicts, and apprentices from
the mother country supplied in a great
measure the marketfo unskilled labor
ers, and graded it. In 1851 there were
seventy thousand slaves in South Caro-
Ina, OF an average value of G4O each.
The annual value ola working slave was
thought to be about e1O. Thirty slaves
superlntended by an overseer, were a
suitable number for a rice plantation,
raising four and a half barrels apiece,
besides their own provisions, consisting
chiefly of Indian corn. Rice, which
was introduced about 100, was exported
in l748 to the amount of fifty five thou
sand barrels, and in 1850 to the amount
OF hundred thousand barrels. If in
d1go was raised, slave could produce
one hundred and sixty pounds, worth
two and three shillings pound, from
two acres, in addition to his own food.
His winters were available for saving
lumber. It was regarded at the time
- very lucky circumstance that an
anhpathy existed between Indians and
negroes, as slaves were every danger
Gus domestics." In 1854 Massachusetts,
had twenty hundred slaves over
fifteen years of age, about a thousand
OF them living in Boston. When
emancipation took place there at the
close OF the Revolution, the number of
slaves was 4,377. AS early as 1859 a
decision of the court declared that a
person born in Massachusetts, could
not be kept in slavery. Crimes COM
mitted by bondsmen were severely pun
ished. About the middle of the CEN
fury negress was burned for murder
and arson near Boston, and negro at
Philadelphia for similar crime. The
whipping post and the stock were COM
mon instruments of punishment for the
freeman as well as the slave.-7he GAL
ary for august.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05
Summer Occupation of a Missouri
Farmer

What can be pleasanter than the life
of Missouri farmer? At daylight he
gets up and examines the holes around
his corn-hills for cut-worms then he
smashes coddling~moth Larvae with ahoe-
handle until breakfast. The forenoon
is devoted to watering the potato-bugs
with a solution of Paris green, and after
dinner all hands turn out to pour boil
ing water on the chintz bugs in the corn
and wheat fields. In the evening a IA
vorite occupation is smudging peach
trees to discourage the curculio, and
after brief season of family devotion
at the shrine of the night-fying coleap-
terra, all the folks retire and sleep soundly
till Aurora reddens the east, and the
grasshoppers tinkle against the panes
and summon them to the labors of
another day.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05
Dry Off Cows.

A Vermont farmer says that at the
period of drying off COWS he has found,
particularly with such COWS as are in
the highest condition, that clotted milk
is very apt to collect in all quarters of
the bag after milking has been discon-
tinued, and sometimes even much later
after have supposed the milk to be ar
rested, and the bag quite dry. AS this
secretion goes on, unless the clothed
matter is withdrawn, teat and udder
become more and more distended, in
fammation ensues and putrefaction of
the contents sets In. I make no cues
ton but that neglect of this matter is
the cause OF permanent mischief to the
udder, and particularly of that con
tracted condition Of the muscles which
regulates the passage of the milk from
the bag into the teat, a condition dis
covered not unfrequently, and with sur
prise as well as regret when COWS come
into milk in the spring, and which ever
after renders the milking of such COWS
very irksome. "-Rural Nev Yorker.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05
Trained Birds.

The following is told of an exhibition
given near Pail Mall, London, in 100 !:
GA number of little birds, to the
amount, think, of twelve or fourteen,
being taken from different cages were
placed upon a table in the presence
of the spectators, and there they formed
themselves into ranks Like a company
of soldiers small cones of paper
having resemblance to granadier's caps
were put on their heads, and diminutive
limitations Of muskets made from wood,
secured under their left wings. Thus
equipped they marched to and fro
several times, when a single bird was
brought forward, supposed to be a
deserter, and set between six of the
musketeers, three In row, who con-
Quoted him from the top to the bottom
Of the table, on the middle of which a
small brass cannon charged with
little gunpowder had been previously
planted. The deserter was placed in
front of the cannon and his guards
then divided, three retiring on the
right side and three on the other, while
he was left standing by himself. An
other bird then Immediately came for
ward, and lighted match being put
into one of his claws, he hoped boldly
on the tail of the cannon and, applying
the match to the printing, discharged
the piece without the least appearance
of fear or agitation. The moment the
explosion took place, the deserter fell
down and lay motionless like dead
bird. But at the command of his tutor
he rose again, and the cages being
brought, the feathered soldiers were
stripped of their ornaments aud return
ed into them in perfect order"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05
Clover Hay for Stock.

Many stock feeders seem to have a
poor opinion of clover hay, but we have
long believed that for milk or fattening
purposes, good, bright clover hay was
superior to timothy. A correspondent
of the New England Farmer furnishes
the following evidence of it's value:
After having finished feeding fodder
corn in connection with good hay TO my
COWS, [ commenced feeding from the
top of a NOW, which consisted of a
good quality of mixed hay. With
hay knife [ cut space about three feet
wide, from the end of the NOW next to
the barn floor, and fed the hay to my
cwos, and there was no perceptible in
crease in the flow of milk, from what it
was when they were fed one-half fod-
der corn. But when the lump Of mixed
hay was consumed, and | came to the
clover, which was beneath it, L found
there was an increased flow of milk at
least one-third, and at next weeks
5AE t4s
@ pms
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05
The Ecclesiastical War in Germany

The Ecclesiastical War in Germany.
The following is from the London
Times:
THE German government is still
proceeding with some rigor against it's
ecclesiastical and political adversaries.
A priest named Leyendecker, of Deud-
osheld. near Treves, has been sentenced
to months Imprisonment for stating
from the pulpit that Protestants were
rogues, and that Jews were liars and
cheats who would rob Christians of the
sion OF the passage was that among
Professionals and Jews, as among all
other bodies, their were rogues and
cheats. At Saarbrucken a lay member
OF the Catholic Verein has been fined
100 thalers, with three weeks imprison-
ment III case of default, for a speech
delivered at meeting of that society
at Urback. Herr Most, a member of
the Reichstag, has been condemned to
- months imprisonment by the Berlin
Court for using language calculated
to excite violence, and for aspers-
ing the army. The same tribunal has
confirmed the sentence of II months
Imprisonment on Herr Maiunke, the
editor Of the Germania. for his Ian
guage respecting the Emperor and
Prince Bismarck. Four articles of a
similar character having appeared since
the original trial, the Court increased
the fine from 200 to 400 thalers and
added months imprisonment. The
fine Of 400 thalers imposed on the
Bishop Of Paderborn, who, when the
prosecution was first instituted, made
over all his property to his brother, has
just been paid by one of his flock. The
Court decided to accept the money in
spite of the protest of the Bishop, who
wished to undergo the alternative of i'm
prisonment Archbishop Ledochowski
has now passed five monthsin captivity.
His health is stated by his friends to
be all that could be desired. The Ba-
varian government has intimated to
the Old Catholics that though unable
to give Bishop Reinkens express au-
thority to exercise episcopal functions,
they will offer no hindrances to his hold
ing aconfrmation at Kempfen, and has
declined the Bishop Of Augsburg's re-
quest that they should interpose to pre-
vent him. After visiting Silesia and
East Prussia, Bishop Reinkens will &C
cordingly visit Kempfen.' %
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05
Some Choice Receipts.

CURRANT CATsUP. Three lbs. of cur
rents, 2 lbs. sugar, l pint vinegar, l Ia
blespoonful cloves, l tablespoonful
cinnamon cook slowly several hours.
It is splendid relish with cold meat
warm either.
WHITE CAKE.-One cup sugar, ] cup
butter, cup sweet milk, whites of 3
eggs, beaten to a froth, Il cups -four,
with 2 even teaspoons baking powder
stirred in the -four, 2 teaspoonsful of
lemon extract; bake in a rather slow
oven.
RECIPE FOR COOKIES cookies I
take teacups of sugar, egg, one-half
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05
Apples Packed in Plaster.

Rev. Mr.. Pettingill, of Holland
Patent, brings us specimens of apples
which he has preserved in plaster since
last fall. A layer Of apples is put into
the barrel, and layer of plaster over
them, then another layer of apples, and
SO on. Mr.. Pettingill claims for the
method keeping quality, and the pre-
serving of peculiar fresh flavor in the
fruit, and these are apparent in the
specimens we have examined. The
plaster method insulates the fruit, so
that the decay Of one, if that should
occur, can not be communicated to
others in the barrel Utica Herald.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05
Treatment Of Consumption in Horses.

F. III. B. writes as follows from Jas
per county, III.
"Some three months ago [ wrote de-
scribing a sick horse, and received
remedy which cured the animal. I have
another sick horse. He eats well. The
Joints crack when he moves. He gets
his breath very short, like that Of a
horse that has run long way; is thin
III flesh and don't gain in good pasture.
[ have lost one horse this spring with
apparently the same disease, and so
have several Of my neighbors. What
ais my horse?"
REPLY.-Erom your description your
horse is laboring under phthisis (wast-
ing of the france, Or phthisis pulmon-
ais Consumption of the lungs, the tu-
berculous Variety. I am not, from
your meager description, able to make
anything like even an approximate
diagnosis, but am of the opinion that
the above disease is, in some of it's
forms, upon your horse.
Palliative-Plt few pieces Of quick
limein ali the water given to the ami
NAL from six to ten hours before drink
ing, say piece as large as lemon to
Tile pall1u1. lamp, OF wei dill Glle ALL
mails food, give quart of slippery elm
two Or three times week, and oc-
casionally give half an ounce pulverized
lobelia in half pint Of rain water, in
which put forty drops of the fluid ex-
tract gelsemium. Rub the joints with
cod liver oil, twelve ounces; oil cedar,
four ounces. Mix; rub with much fric-
ton by the hand. Keep the horse from
all exposure, and don't overwork the
poor creature Grass ought to be his
feed, and be good; but don't turn him
out in the seorching sun, but he may
and will be much better for being out
IN the night. 4 warm shower would
not do much harm, but fresh air and
cleanliness he must have or very soon
die.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05

JULES JAN1N is reported to have said,
a few days before his death, as he lay
on sofa in his dining room. CT sup
pose / am celebrated I am great
writer / am member of the academy !;
I would renounce all that glory to walk
Ito walk around this room without as
sistance."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05
Two Wells.
BY SALLIE M. B. PIATT.

From the Atlantic Monthly for August.
From the nuns wan life buried passion
Blossomed like grave-rose in her face;
sSweet, my child" she said, g in what fair
fashion ##
Do you mean TO wear this lovely lace %
sThus and, with feverish hand and
shaken
Round her head the precious veil she
wound
Faith in man, she said, s'I have forsaken;
Faith in God most surely have found.
YET with music in the dewy distance
And the whole land Towering at my feet,
Through this convent-garment's dark resist
ance a#
Backward can hear my fierce heart beat
Tropic eyes too full of light and langour,
Northern soul too gray with Northern frost :
Ashes ashes after fires of anger
Love and beauty-what world lost ~.
Sister" laughed the girl with girlish laugh
ter
Sister, do you envy me my veil ?"
s'You may come to ask for mine hereafter
Answered very piteous lips and pale.
No; for your black cross is heavy bearing;
Tedious counting these stone beads must be.
Oh, but there are jewels worth the wearing
Waiting in the sunny world for me!
Sister, have care-you are forgetting.
Do not broider thorns among by flowers,
Only buds and leaves your tears are wetting
All my bridal lace" They fell in showers.
After years and years, beside the grating,
ooh, that saddest sight, young hair grown
gray
With dry boughs and empty winds awaiting
At the cloister door, came one to pray.
s'Sister, see my bride-veil! there were never
Thorns so sharp those within its lace.
Sister, give me yours to wear forever:
Give me yours, and let me hide my face"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05

"DAD, if I were to see duck on
the wing, and were to shoot at it..
would you lick me ?" ooh no. nv
son it would show that you were good
marksman, and would feel proud of
you. !" "Wel, then, dad, I peppered
your old muscovy duck as he was flynn
over the fence to-day, and it would
have done you good to see him DROP
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-05

cup of butter, teaspoonsful of baking
powder, l teacup nearly full of cream !;
-four to roll out; mix as soft as posi-
BILE; add favoring to suit taste.
Mrs. E. B.
COOKIES. and a half of sugar,
cup Of butter, l egg, half cup sweet
milk, 2 teaspoonsful baking powder in
flour enough to make them stiff enough
to roll without sticking; have hot
oven, roll thin, and you will find your
cookies excellent.
MRS. G. II. SHELDON,
Hillsdale, Mich.
10 DRY CHERRIEs.-As cherries will
soon be here, those wishing to dry
them will doubtless be satisfied if they
follow this plan: Cherries intended to
be dried must first be stoned, then
spread on fiat dishes, and dried in the
sun or warm oven pour whatever juice
may run from Them over them, a little
at time; stir them about, that they
may dry evenly. When perfectly dry,
line boxes or jars with white paper, and
pack close in layers. Strew a little
brown sugar and fold the top of the
paper over them, and keep in dry,
sweet place.
Pop BEER.-Healthy, easily made,
and really valuable; will keep six or
eight months; three months after it is
made it is almost equal to ale. This
recipe is for fifteen gallons Twelve
ounces hops, six quarts molasses, ten
eggs; put the hops in a bag and boil
them As minutes in three pals of water;
put in the molasses while hot, and pour
immediately into a strong ale cask,
which can be made perfectly alright,
and put in the remainder Of the water
cold; let the mixtures stand until cool,
and then add the eggs, well beaten.
This beer will not ferment in cold
weather unless put in quite warm
place.
DELICIOUS CITRoN PUDDING. Beat
until very thick and light the yolks of
sixteen fresh eggs. Stir in gradually,
beating all the time, three-quarters of
pound of sugar Then mix in three
quarters of pound of melted butter,
from which all the salt has been pre-
viously washed. Now line two deep
pie plates with puff paste. Cut into
lay closely over the pastry, leaving a
margin, of course, around the edges.
Fill with the butter and bake in an
oven whose heat is regular, but not too
great. When drawn from the oven, sift
over them finely pulverized white
sugar. They are good whether eaten
hot or cold, and are considered the
most dainty and delicate Of all pud-
dimes