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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-12-01

This department of the Republican will be devoted
TO thu interests of General Literature in the North
west and to Religious Scientific, Social AID Aesthetic
discussion All students, aud all sincere seekers az
Ter truth ia any Of its FORMS cordially invited to
contribute to its columns and to aid in extending its
circulation. 1t pledges absolute freedom to every
earnest and dignifed inquiry, and aims to furnish
agreeable rendezvous for the authors and pat
rons of Western literature.
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for its sentiments and the recipient Of all honor
corded to it's merit No anonymous communication
will receive attention. as no thought which the
thinker is unwilling to acknowledge can possibly
Be Of public benefit.
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Drawer 16, .Watertown, Wis.,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-12-01

THE UNrTARIANS hold confer
ence in Milwaukee next week, at
which time the pastor, Rev. Mr..
Gordon will be installed. We
heartily wish them success, for we
have observed that the subjects upon
which Mr.. Gordon discourses from
week to week, are sensible and such
asthe people need information upon.
The gentleman evidently does not
believe that 'sreligion is thing be-
longing to Palestine, born eighteen
hundred years ago, and having moth
ing to do with anything save the
one man, who was its. founder"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-12-01

New AGE is the name Of a paper
recently started in the east on basis
similar in almost every respect to
that of the SPEcTRoscopE. Its
prospectus claims for it utter free.
dom to discuss any and every topic
that may be suggested. We be-
lieve this to be the platform which all
true journalism will eventually come
to adopt. The organ of any party,
sect or school, is necessarily pledged
to advocate the tenets of it's leaders.
Thus of course letters it, and often
cempels it to sacrifice its own con-
science and truth to party interests.
This fact has come to be very gen
orally understood by the people.
The reader of the sectarian paper,
even though the sect be his own,
knows very we'll that the shortcom-
ings of all other sects are made to
appear as conspicuous as possible,
by the editor, while he CLOSES and
conceals those of his own side, and
parades its virtues. This is also true
of political partizan papers, as every
compaign testifes. 1t has become
well understood that rival candidates
for official position will be 'slied"
about by opposing papers; and the
grief is that society accepts this state
of things as matter of course, and
jests over the sin of SANDER. It
would seem subject for grave sor-
row, for humiliation and deep
thought, rather than for levity, that
honorable men shrink from political
office, because of the slongh of filth
they must wade through in order to
obtain it.
The time must come, when a pa
per wall scorn to falsely represent
evena political or religious oppo-
nent; when position will be won or
lost through honorable comparison
of ideas and principles, and such
journals as the Nezv Age claims to
be, will hasten this millenial day. It
is worthy of hearty welcome, and
such, we are sure, it will receive
from humanity.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-12-01

Nothing is more fatal to happi-
ness in this world, than a scorn OF
little things. Of little acts, little
words, and little thoughts, life is
made.-MitchcN.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-12-01
MARION V. DUDLEY,
CONTRIBUTORS:
EDITOR

HATTIE TYING GRIswoLD, HELEN NJ.
BINGHAM, CHARLES B. MILLS, CHARLES
CAvERNo, JOHN BAscoM, ]. L. DUDLEY,
AMELIA w. BATE, JULIA FORD, SARAH d.
HOBART, ELLEN P. ALLERTON, CARLOTTA
PERRY, JAMES MAC ALIsTER, J. L. JONES,
ELLA. WHEELER, c. E. JONES, THOMAS
KERR, CHARLES H. HASKINS.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-01
The Chinese Inn.

A CHINESE inn is peculiar institution.
They have no furnished rooms with fires
or lights. You drive up to an inn, which,
by the way, is through the wall into a
courtyard, where donkeys, mules and
carts are congregated. Perhaps some
one will come out and inquire what is
wanted; if to stay all night, you will be
shown into barren room, frequently
without furniture, never any bedding,
and on one side . place called kang,
which is simply raised platform, under
which fire can be built to warm the
stones which cover the top, and also
secures the room from accident by fire,
and is the only heat you can get. When
you retire your bedding (which you take
with you) is placed on top the kang, and
with the warmth of the stones will allow
you to sleep quite comfortably. Old
temples, in fact many good temples, re-
ceive travellers. The charges are moder-
ate-at such places in the country one
tao to cart. Our party Of nine carts
in going to the great wall, paid at one
temple, with our servants, 81. Prices
vary, as the Chinese are in the habit of
asking four times the value Of a thing.
especially of foreigners. A fair charge
for accommodations at first-class Chi
nese inn is about two and . half tao per
day; this for one room. To the natives
one tao less per day. The foreigner is
expected to give more than the natives.
and generally finds it more to his interest
TO submit to slight squeeze than to
fight the question.-W. p. Ranger, IN
Syracuse Journal.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-01
How Chickens Get Out of Shells.

TAKE an egg out of a nest on which
the hen has set her full time, carefully
holding it to the ear; turning it around
you will find the exact spot on which the
little fellow is picking on the inside Of
the shell; this he will do until the in
side skin is perforated, and then the
shell is forced outward as a small scale,
leaving hole. Now, if you will take
one OF the eggs in this condition from
under the hen, remove it to the house
or other suitable place, put it in box or
nest, keeping it warm and moist, as near
the temperature of the hen as possible
(Which may be done by laying it be-
tween two bottles of warm water upon
some cotton or wooD, and lay glass
over the box or nest, then you can sit or
stand, as is most convenient, and witness
the true naodus operGndi. Now watch the
little fellow work its way into the world,
and you will be amused and instructed
as l have been. After it has got its
opening, it commences nibbling mo-
ton with the point of the upper bill on
the outside of the shell, always working
to the right (if you have the large end of
the egg from you and the hole upward),
until it has worked its way almost
around, say within one-half an inch, in
perfect circle; it then forces the cap or
butt end of the shell off, and then has
chance to straighten its neck, thereby
loosening its legs somewhat, and 80, by
their help, forcing the body from the
shell.-American Farm Journal
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-01

his whole body from shoulders to knees,
his pantaloons stuffed warmly in his
great boots that needed only the fairy
attribute Of swiftness to make them
seven-league boots" and his home
made mittens of yarn pulled over his
brown, horny hands. he disappeared
over the hill. Perhaps half an hour
elapsed, and he was seen hurriedly re-
turning on foot.
And then, ere long, it was whispered
through the village-whispered in very
horror-that some nameless fate had
overtaken Old Peter Tickleby, and moved
the old man down in his cabin.
The path before long was plainly d.
verged from the road, and led to the
door of the cabin. Curious men, women
and children thronged the way, and the
old cabin was crowded.
The farmer stood near the bed, and
after the discussion upon the manner of
his death had been settled he gently
drew down the covering, and 10! in the
dead mans hand was paper clutched
tightly.
Friends" said he, "here's q letter or
epistle of some kind that may shed
some light on this occurrence"
The combined grocer and Postmaster
approached and peered closely, and re-
Piled:
II delivered that there Letter to him
yesterday evenin'."
A man in the crowd proposed reading
it.
So the Postmaster disengaged the let
ter from the grasp of the dead hand, and
read:
PETER TIcKLEBY, Esq:
We, the counselors for the deceased, give
you due notice that the will of George Tickle
by, deceased, will be proven in the County
Court of j County at its next March term.
You are supposed to be legatee.
WILCOX Il GUBBINs, Attorneys.
"Ah." said the old farmer, 1.-The old
man don't need no wills now. He won't
have no more trouble. No more freez-
ing. No more agony of thought. No
more lonesomeness. No more despair"
y. Il. Allison. Jr
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-01
A Bath in the Dead Sea.

Mr.. C. A. KINesBURY writes as fol-
lows in Forest and Stream of bath in
the Dead Sea: Reaching at length this
most remarkable of all the seas and lakes
on the globe, we prepared to take a
bath, and such a bath l can hardly ex-
pect ever to take again. had previous
ly bathed in numerous seas, lakes and
rivers, but never did enjoy such bath
as this. The specific gravity of the
water is such, from it's holding in solu
ton so large proportion of salts 1854
per cent. }, that one floats upon its surface
like cork. At the time there was only
gentle ripple upon the sea, and being
good swimmer l at once struck out
into deep water. soon found that l
could not only swim and float with won
derful case, but that l could actually
walk IN the water, sinking only to the
arm-pits. Discovering this fact, made
for the shore, and taking DR.. c., one
of our party, who could not swim, by
the hand, led him into the sea where the
water was many fathoms deep. At first
he was quite reluctant to follow me, but
he soon gained confidence on finding
there was no danger of sinking, and he
enjoyed the novel bath as much as if he
had been an expert swimmer Should
the bather allow the water to get into
his eyes or mouth he would suffer con-
siderable abatement to his enjoyment,
on account Of its extremely salt, bitter
and irritating nature. No fish can live
in this sea; but various kinds of ducks
abound here at certain seasons of the
year. The water was as clear as
ordinary sea water, its temperature was
agreeable, and it had an oily feeling, and
altogether it's action on the surface of
the body was such as to develop those
pleasurable sensations pertaining to the
sense Of touch, accompanied by the most
delightful exhilaration. Of all the baths
in the world, give me bath in the Dead
Sea-"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-01
Iron and Hardware.


Iron and hardware il the endless divisions
ard subdivisions of merchandise included in
the terms constitute a great feature of COM
merce in every manufacturing or mercantile
district and in Chicago the business of this
department has come to reach high figures.
4 visit to almost any one OF the several large
houses reveals general condition OF active
preparation for busy season. 5. ID. kimbark,
successor to the firm of Kimbark Bros. Il Co.,
who is perhaps most widely and generally re-
lated to the iron and heavy hardware trade,
and who is regarded as general Western
authority in matters and statistics pertaining
to that interest, when interviewed by Tribune
representative yesterday, candidly referred to
the depression in the outside manufacturing
industry as the most conspicuous feature in the
records of the year, but reasoned in a way to
apply affects on national rather than local
scale. The business of the great house on
Michigan avenue of which Mr.. Kimbark is
the head, dating back a quarter of century,
entering somewhat largely into the history of
the commerce of the city, has attained sta
bility and uniformity by simple magnitude
which would naturally prevent its being af-
fected to any noticeable degree by the ordi-
nary vicissitudes of the markets. 1t is claimed
that to the operations of this house is due the
acquisition of considerable of the original ter
ritory OF trade now constituting the common
ground of the commerce of Chicago, includ-
to the West and South which were traversed
by its agents, and made accessory to the
business of the city, long before any buffalo,
or Indian, or other native of those fertile
but unchristian lands had ever been scared
by the whistle of locomotive. And when
it is remembered that for twenty years the
house has constituted sort OF steady GEN.
ter of distribution of iron and hardware sup
plies for manufacturers, wagon makers,
blacksmiths and merchants throughout the
entire dominion of Western commerce, with
5000 permanent names on the books of the
firm, and sales aggregating as high as
s2,oOO.0OO year, it is reasonable to sup
pose that it would require something more
than the temporary depression in the manu-
featuring industry to perceptibly affect the
uniform volume and course of business. The
establishment itself is one of the mercantile
curiosities and solid attractions of the city
| a center of very great interest to intelligent
visitors generally as well as to a special com
mu1ity OF mechanics, manufacturers and
dealers-and may be properly designated as
a perpetual industrial exposition of iron,
steel, nails, carriage and heavy hardware,
blacksmiths' outfits and wagon wood mate.
| rial, each classified department and every
broad floor of the lofty building affording a
display in enormous bulk more calculated to
surprise and interest the Imagination of a
wagon maker, iron mechanic or dealer than IA
worlds fair
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-01
Tied to His Mothers Apron-Strings.

con, he's good fellow enough, but
he's tied to his mothers apron-strings!'
We heard the remark the ether day
spoken in contemptuous tope by
young blood with cigar between his
lips, tiimsy cane in his kid-gloved
hand, fifty-dollar coat en- his back, in
the pocket of which, doubtless, there
were plenty Of "dunners" from his tail
or, boot-maker and washerwoman.
This same young man is in the habit
of calling his mother the "old woman"
and his father the governor and his
estimable unmarried sister the cold
gal" and the young man OF whom he
spoke was one who had just come into
town to reside, accompanied by his
mother, to whom he was devoted and
affectionate son.
"Tied to his mothers apron.strings, :"
ehs
Well, what does that expression gener-
ally mean when applied to young man?
Why, it means just about this-that the
young man of whom shallow Drained
fops and Anticipated sports speak thus
disparagingly is one who does not smoke,
chew, drink nor swear-one who has not
forgotten that God once gave for all
time command which reads: "Honor
thy father and thy mother, that thy days
may be long in the landr'-it means that
he is one whom virtuous men will re-
spect, whom refined society will welcome
to its ranks, whom good women and pure
girls will receive into their homes with
pleasure, and whom his wife, when he
gets one, will respect and love next to
her Creator.
tits quite too much the custom nowadays
to sheer at parental authority and to dis
| regard the advice and admonition Of cur
elders. Old age is no longer reverenced
it is ridiculed instead.
1t is quite the fashion for young men
to speak slightingly Of the mothers who
bore them and who nursed them through
the troublesome, tiresome season of
babyhood. 1t is the fashion to disregard
the advice of the mother, to cut loose
from her influence, to "go it Alone" after
the manner of other reckless young men,
and it is quite as much the fashion for
these same independent youth to bring
up in the prison or on the gallows as any
where else. And, young ladies, our word
for it, the man who ill-treats his mother
will never transform himself into an af
fectionate and agreeable husband-nev-
er!-it is impossible!
There is an old proverb to the effect
that the boy who is kind to the cat and
his mother will be good to his wife, and
we have observed that the saying is
founded in truth.
The young man who is disrespectful to
his mother and who does not seek to
make her declining years happy will ty.
rannize over his wife (unless, perchance
he should marry woman who has the
grit to teach him his place in the be.
ginning), and she had better be an old
maid to the end of life and bind shoes
for living. So, there!-Kate Thorn,
| in N. y. Weeklv.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-01
SOUAEDERING LIVES.
The fisherman wades in the surge,
~, The sailor sails over the seas,

The fisherman wades in the surge,
49, The sailor sails over the seas,
The soldier steps braveiy to battle;
The woodman lays AK to the trees.
They are each Of the breed OF heroes,
The manhood attempted in strife:
Strong hands that 60 lightly to labor,
True hearts that take comfort in life.
In each is the seed to replenish
The world with the vigor it needs
The center Of honest affections,
The impulse to generous deeds.
But the shark drinks the blood of the fishes
The sailor is dropped in the sea,
The soldier lays cold by his cannon,
The woodman is crushed by his tree.
Each prodigal life that is wasted
In many achievements unseen
But lengthens the days Of the coward,
And strengthens the crafty and mean.
The blood Of the noble is lavished
That the selfish profit may find;
God sees the lives that are squandered,
And we to His wisdom are blind.
-Bayard Taylor.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-01
A Bird and a Fish.

LAST summer, when l was spending
some weeks at delightful resting place
in the mountains of Pennsylvania, the
hotel-kceper, a very intelligent and OBJ
serving man, pointing to a large cherry
tree in front of his house, said: ain
that tree, in the early part of the season,
was robins nest in which three young
birds were in due time Matched out, to
the manifest joy of the old ones, by
whom they were regularly fed for sew
eral days. The male bird was then shot
by young man who was cunning in the
neighborhood, and they were left to the
sole but faithful care of the mother
bird; but, in a day or two, she was also
killed, and the little ones were left as help
less orphans. The very next day wren,
seeming to understand, and taking COM
passion on their forlorn state, installed
herself as mother, and regularly fed the
young robins by day and brooded over
them at night, till they were strong
enough to leave the nest; when, encour-
aging or teaching them to fly, she still
cared for them till they could take care
of themselves, and then left them"
The other story, the truth Of which is
vouched for by minister well known in
Boston, is about a trout which was kept
In large basin at the San Francisco
water works. 1t was the custom of visit
ors to feed the fish with bits of bread and
meat, which it would readily take from
their fingers. One of the clerks of the
establishment, with less humanity than
love OF fun, one day attached hook to a
piece of meat, with which he caught the
trout and pulled it out of the water, but
at once threw it back again. But from
that day forward the trout would never
take anything from the hand of that
clerk, though it would readily feed from
the hands OF any other person while the
clerk stood by. Whether it recognized
the offender by sight, or in some way, by
hearing or smell, knew its tormentor, it
is impossible to tell; but, though it
would come to the surface when anything
was held out to it for food, the moment
it perceived that it was offered by the
clerk it would decline touching it and
turn away. Was this instinct, or reason,
or what?-Cor. N. Y. Observer.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-01

TIE importance Of applying some Ger
tain test to the body Of every person before
interment occurs, 50 aastp decide beyond
the cavil Of doubt that death has real
ly taken place, should be impressed upon
every one. The late historian, Prescott,
left directions to have the main artery
of his arm severed before he was buried,
solely from q dread of possible revival
in his tomb. We are reminded of this
subject by the case which has just oc-
CURED in Paris, where q young and very
lovely girl was supposed to have died Of
fever, and, after the customary delay and
ceremonies, was buried at Pere Ia Chaise,
in q tomb owned in common with an
other family. A second death soon
after caused the tomb to be opened,
when it was discovered that the girl
must have revived and come to life, as
she had turned over in her coffin, and
gave other evidences Of struggle to free
herself from her imprisonment.
The feelings of surviving friends can
better be imagined than described under
such circumstances, while the general
public receive warning which should
not 60 UNDECIDED. 1t is less than year
since a very similar case occurred in the
city of New Orleans, where chance dis
covered that beautiful child of twelve
years, girl of remarkable loneliness
and promise, the idol of her parents, was
undoubtedly buried before the vital
spark had fed. Indeed the recurrence
of these cases is far more frequent than
is generally known, besides which the
very nature of the case is such that it
can only be brought to light by chance
discovery. We therefore impress the
necessity of such precautions against
premature burial as shall render it posi-
lively impossible to occur.
Such events are no new experience.
Pliny mentions the case of young man
of high rank, who, having been dead some
time, as it was thought, was placed upon
the funeral pile in order to reduce the
body to ashes. The heat of the flames
revived him, but it was too late. He per-
ished before his friends could rescue him
from his awful situation. This time he
was indeed dead! We are also informed
by history that the great anatomist, Vesa-
Illus, once had the unspeakable misfor-
tune to commence the dissection of a
living body, apparently dead, but which
revived under the stroke of the knife.
Fatal situation! Here again it was too
late to save life. It is said that Vesalius
was so affected by this experience that
he was untitled for professional duty for
long period following.
Equally unhappy was the fate of Able
Provost, who fell in an apoplectic fit
but he also recovered his consciousness
too late) under the process of anatomical
dissection. So, also, in the case of Car
dinal Sonaglia, to embalm whose body
preparations had been made. At last the
surgeons, friends and operator were
gathered about the body, but the knife
had hardly penetrated into the chest
when the heart was perceived to beat
1t was scene never to be forgotten by
those present, whose faces blanched with
excitement The Cardinal returned par.
TALLY to his senses and had sufficient
strength to put away the fatal knife, but
the lung was MORALLY wounded!-N. Y
| Weekly.