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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-27
MistOOk her Man.

A rather unusual occurrence took
place on street of Macon Sunday
night. A young gentleman was quietly
walking along homeward, smoking a
cigar, and wholly unapprehensive of
any impending danger. He saw not
Far ahead lady coming toward him,
and, with customary politeness he gave
her the sidewalk to pass. Instead of
passing, however, she stopped in front
of him and rudely slapped him in the
face, and then began to claw him at a
lively rate. My dear madam" began
the unhappy young man, but without
giving him time to proceed, the lady
commenced, don't dear madam me.
Here you've been out to this time of the
night, and all the, children sick at
home" About this time the lady dis
covered that she had have a mistake.
thinking our young friend-who is a
bachelor-was her husband, and bolted
for the nearest house. The affair has
banlshed all thoughts of matrimony
from the head of the assailed party
Macon (G0.) Telegraph.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-27
A Turkish Town-

Describing Trebigne or Trebinie, for
1t is known by both names, the Ragusa
correspondent of the London News saws:
:" The town is very small, and exceed
lngly dirty, and, as to size, is about in
the same proportion to Ragusa as
Ragusa is to Paris, and an old-fashion.
ed stone wall and wet ditch form its
only defense. It could not resist art1l-
lery, but is strong against irregulars.
The whole scene is most picturesque
and Asiatic There were crowds of
Turkish soldiers thronging the narrow
streets, and there were tiny shops to be
seen, arranged in the Eastern style, with
turbaned mere hants sitting cross-legged
behind their goods. In the camps out
side the town the troops are comforta-
bly, CHARTERED in bell tents, about which
are wallis of stone raised under the flaps
a foot or SO above the ground They
had planted flowers besides the doors
Of some OF the tents, as though expect
ing long stay. A battery Of field guns
was posted near the infantry camp.
The total force of the Turks of Trebigne
is about 1000 1aen. The town could
easily be held by 400. It is said that
during the late blockade the insurgents
never seriously tried to take the place.
They could not even enter the suburb
where most of the shops are. Their
only chance was to cut OFF the supplies,
and that they might do again if the for
tunes Of war should change. The Turks
now get bread from Ragusa, heavily es-
corted all the way ~ ~
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-27
Too Much Instinct.
From the London Granhic


The instinct of Newfoundland dogs to
save drowning person has been some
what painfully tested.by an unlucky
Frenchman. He was walking in the
country with a friend who possessed a
magnificent Newfoundland, and incau-
tiously questioned the truth of the ami
mails sagacity. The dogs master, vexed
at the slur cast on his favorite, gave his
friend push and knocked him into a
shallow river. s'Turk Immediately sprang
in, and Selling one of the tails of the i'm
mers e. mans coat, commenced to swim
for land. Unfortunately another New
foun dland, trotting along the other side
OF the river, saw the affair, and also
came to the rescue. Dog number two
seized the other tail Of the coat and
wished to swim to his master: ssTurk''
held fast and struggled for his side, and
the owner Of the coat cried in vain for
help. At last the coat gave way, and
each Newfoundland swan proudly
home with piece of cloth in his mouth,
SO that 'sTurk's master was obliged TO
plunge in himself to save his friend.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-27
Amber.
From Cope's Tobacco Plant.

Amber is formed by the pith (naeduz-
la or m1drroa) which flows from trees
OF the pine species, as gum flows from
the cherry trees and resin from pines
1t is, first of all, liquid which bursts
forth IN abundance; thenit is CONCEALED
by the cold, or by the heat, Or by the
sea, when the great tidesrise and sweep
it from the islands. At all events, it is
thrown on the coasts, and seems to swim
with the waves, and not go to the
bottom. Our ancestors, thinking it was
the sap (smccess) of a tree, called it, on
that account, sMcciaagl771. What proves
that amber is the product Of
a species of pine, that when rubbed
it exhales an odor like that of pine, and
that whenset on fire it burns after the
fashion, and with the scent, of a resin
Gus torch. It was conveyed by the Ger
mans into Pannonia (Hungary) chiefly;
thence the Veneti (Venetians), whom
the Greeks called Hoaeti, who are in
| the Immediate proximity to Pannonia,
and who I've round the Adaiatic Sea,
have brought it into vogue. The
fable which has connected the
Pados with amber has an evident cause.
In our own day the Transpada-
MAN peasant woman wear an amber
necklace for the sake of ornament. no
doubt, but also as remedy, forasmuch
as amber is deemed good for aft ection
of the tonsils and the fauces, these and
the neighboring parts of the body being
subject to maladies produced by the
different kinds of waters in the neigh
borhood of the Alps. From Carnuntum,
in Pannonia, the coast of Germany,
whence amber is brought, there are six
hundred miles, fact cot known till re-
Gently. Still lives the Roman knight who
was sent to procure amber by Julianus,
superintendent of the gladiatorial
games given by the Emperor Nero.
This knight travelled over the markets
and the shores of the country, and
brought back such an immense quanti-
ty of amber that the nets intended to
protect the podium frcr the wild
beast were fastened with buttons of
amber, adorned, likewise with amber,
were the arms, the biers, and the whole
apparatus fo1 day. The largest piece
OF the knight brought weighed thirteen
DOunlS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-27

A FARMER on the road between Charl-
ton and Worcester, Mass having been
terribly annoyed by drummers, put up
a sign: ''No sewing machines wanted
here. Got one It was no use; the
next drnmmer wanted to see the ma
chine, s'and perhaps he'd fix up a
trade" So the farmer next put up:
T" Got the small pox here. That
worked well for q while, but one day
there same along drummer frightfully
pitted with the small pox, who smiling
II said: "Sesin' you We got it bad here,
they've put me on this route"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-27
Song.

A word said in thu dark
And hands pressed, for token
Now, little maiden, mark
The word that you have spoken /,
be not your promise brokenl"
My lips upon her cheek
Felt tears amid their kisses.
Oh, pardon 1 bespeak-
If for my doubling this is:
Now all my doubling ceases ~
r. r., IN Scribmer for October.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-27
Sharkey the Murderer.

The Spanish officials in New York
have received official information that
the murderer Sharkey's departure from
Cuba, for Santander Spain, was the re-
suit OF proposition made by the Span
lsh Government and accepted by him,
the terms of which were that in consid
GRAFTON Of his becoming Spanish sub
lect and taking service in the army, par
don should be granted him for his
crimes against the laws of Cuba.
The public school expenses of Boston
have increased from 1855, 500, in 1876
to So, OBJ, O43 in 1874-75.
The Republican journal., 1875-03-18
Extension Of PIant-roots.

A clover root upon the alluvial banks OF
the Connecticut was carefully worked out
and found to have penetrated perpendicu-
larly eight feet. There are records of a
parsnip root penetrating the earth thirteen
and half feet. A squash vine at the
Amherst Agricultural College was marked
out with its roots by the continued use of
a garden hoe for twenty-four hours, and
the whole root system was spread on a
floor and carefully measured. The main
branches were each twelve or fifteen feet
long and aggregated some 1000 feet. One
OF the seventy modal roots four feet long,
had 4S0 branches, and~a most careful es-
innate of the ramifcations of the rootlets
based upon the actual measurement. of one
division showed that the squash vine had
between fifteen and nineteen miles of
roots! Reckoning the number OF days it
had been growing (25) it was found that
it must have made on an average 1000 feet
of roots per day.
The Republican journal., 1875-03-18
'ure don't see why-and she is retiring

sure ! don't see why-and she is retiring"
"Retiring-the very word"
''What word? You vex me; you puz-
zle me; take me down"
''Forgive me, dear Arabella I'm too
delighted to explain. | thought it was
you on whom Franks affections were
fixed"
Dear, no Frank is sensible; he knows
better; he has udgment !" and she laughed
a quiet little Laugh, and made as if she
would jump down
AS she descended, two heads caromed
together with q click 1t was the irre-
plressible influence of billiard atmos-
phere, l suppose No one contemplated
it,
That eveningtiwhen Frank Lillivan ar
rived, met him at the door.
God bless YOU, Frank,n said | ; II for
give you everything. Say no more"
Halo! what's up?" cried Frank.
"Well, certaiplY it was a little impru-
dent for you to Neglect writing the whole
address Of the letter you sent to Anna
Iarlingford, l thought it was Arabella.'' -
Dear me"' said Frank, twinkling,
what then2"
That is enough
The Republican journal., 1875-03-18
VOLUME 45.
Feeding for Milk.

What can / feed my COWS in addition to
early cut hay that will increase the milk
sufficiently to cover the cost? MIX four
and half cents per quart.
Having selected good new mich COWS,
the next thing will be to see that they
have warm and comfortable quarters.
| Comfort for the head is sine qua non for
paving returns from feeding for milk. 1t
will matter little how good or how cheap
his food may be. if any considerable part
of it must be used to warm the celestial
spaces, or even that portion of the atmos-
phere floating over his premises, he will
not get milk enough out of it to pay cost.
But with herd of good new mich COWS
kindly cared for almost any Of the extra
foods in common use will, with milk at
tour and halt cents, not only pay cost at
current rates, but a profit. All foods,
however, Will not pay alike. From the
explanations before given, it will be un-
derstood that those which abound iii flesh
| forming matter, and are at the same time
easiest Of digestion. will give the largest
returns There is but little difference in
the milk producing capacity and digesti-
| bilitY of oatmeal, wheat brans, shorts, and
canaiIle; the meal and canaille of buck
wheat, and rye bran. Eastern and Western
corn meal and barley meal come next
Oil meal will produce more milk from a
given weight than any other feed have
ever used, but it is costly, ard only a small
quantity can be used without affecting the
flavor Of milk. Brewers grains, for their
cost, produce more and poorer milk than
any other food Of the grain kind have
| ever used
In producing milk at any time, there is
nothing which will tell upon the yield
more than the circumstances of rapid and
slow digestion. AS already explained. a
poorer food which will digest rapidly will
make more milk than richer one that can
only be digested slowly. Young and sue
culent food digests more easily than those
which are old and dry cooked food easier
than raw, especially where ripeness is ap
preached. In cold weather warm food will
digest sooner than cold Tepid water and
warm food in winter will add ten per cent
to the yield above the same given cold.
Soaking, and even little souring. will
increase the digestibility Of food which is
ripe and dry. Where there is NO difference
IN rapidity of digestion, that food should
be preferred which contains the most
albuminoids, remembering that while a
! full supply Of albuminoids IS absolutely
necessary to the largest quantity, a full
supply OF fat forming elements is necessary
to perfect quality. With these general
principles before him, the dairyman c4n
regulate the TODD of his herd better than
any outsider can do it for him. Prof. l..
| II Arnold
The Republican journal., 1875-03-18

1t appears to me that some men exhibit
less sense in their attempts to feed hogs
than in almost anything they undertake
| have neighbor, and he is no green
hand at the bellows but farmer of many
wears standng-one of those experienced
fellows who should know all about it, and
who doubtless thinks he does-that for
the past eight or ten years has fed his
hogs in a little pen three or four rods
square. without ANYTHING in the way of
Moor or shelter, beyond what nature has
pr0vided-mother earth below and the
skies above l was looking over his hogs
to-day. As | passed, for the pen is imme-
dlately alongside the road The hogs
nave no place to go into out of the mud,
which is five or six inches deep, perhaps
deeper-they must hunt out the corn,
from the quagmire into which it is thrown
ana make their beds in the same precious
mortar His hogs are from sixteen to
eighteen months old, and do not weigh
over 23C pounds on the average Another
nelghbor, who was with me, remarked
that he did not believe these hogs had
gained pound a month
The practice OF turning hogs into the
corn field is, perhaps. little better than
tins, but still not much better. It's about
liobson's choice between them.
Now, such ways of feeding hogs do not
pay at any time, and especially when corn
IN nitY cents to sixty cents per bushel 1t
beho0YeS us farmers to look into this mat.
ter OF feeding and see if we cannot hit nm.
on more improved and economic methods
II behooves us to give the matter onr
most serious thought, and to discover how
we can make the last ounce of pork from
a bushel OF corn II we do not do this.
we certainly deserve little sympathy when
we complain of hard times and high taxes
The practice ! pursue is to grind my
corn or whatever grain | am going to
iced, and cook it with steam into a sort of
mush, which | feed in troughs so con-
structed as to prevent the hogs from get
tlng their feet into the feed The best
Pian Is to have plank pen to feed in,
WIN good high sheds for them to 90 into
olt oi lhe storms. and not let them out
uhtli Iat ! hat will not be very long If
you have good breed of hoes and feed
them regularly and exercise GOOD ;ndr'
ment 1hey can be made to gain from a
pound and a halt to two pounds dav and
at this rate will soon be ready for market
/ should be pleased to hear from Others
OF my brother farmers on this subject of
feeding hogs, for | am satisfied it is one
III winch we all have very deep interest,
ana l am not sure that any of us under
stand all there is in it, TJ. L., in National
Live Stock Journal.
The Republican journal., 1875-03-18
Mother.

When she undid her hair at night,
About the time for lying down,
She came and knelt. l was so small
There in my bed her curls did fall
All oyer me, light gold and brown.
l fell asleep amid her prayers,
Her fair young face (far off it seems),
Her girlish voice, her kisses sweet,
The patter of her busy feet,
Passed with me into charming dreams.
And when I woke at merry morn,
Through her gold hair saw the sun
Flame strong, shine glad, and glorify
The great, good world. Oh. never can
Forget the words: "My darling one!!'
All! sheckered years since then have crept
Past her and me, and we have known
Some sorrow and much tempered joy,
Far into manhood stands her boy,
And her gold hair snow-white is blown.
The world has changed by slow degrees,
And as old days recede, alas!
So much of troubles have the new.
| Those rare far JOYS grow dim, seen through
| Sad times as through darkened glass.
But Just this morning when woke.
How loving my lips were kissed.
| How chaste and clear the sunlight shone
On mothers hair, like gold-dust sown
Athwart thin clouds of silver mist!
[Harper's Bazaar.
The Republican journal., 1875-03-18
Equal to the Emergency

A license to marry is often wanted when
| it can't be had, but poor one is better
than none when man is in Il hurry-viz
namely, to wit, the following:
In the early days of Texan independence
and youth an eccentric genius, still living
and reigning, was clerk Of one OF the west
ern counties The village was quite Sc
cluded in the prairies, and the squire pas
tured his COWS on the broad acres around
bringing them home at night and letting
them 90 to grass in the morning. He
| kept a bell on one of them to help him in
| finding them but one morning as he was
| letting them loose, he perceived that the
| clapper of the bell was lost out, and being
unable to find it, he made substitute by
making fast his own office key Not till
he had reached his office did it occur to
him that he should want the key; but
now, finding himself locked out, he betook
himself to other matters, proposing to re-
cover the key at night. About noon a
rough-and-ready young Texan, in buck
skin dress, came riding into town, inquir-
ed for the clerk scared him up, and asked
for a marriage license.
"Sorry can't accommodate you to-day,
but it's no go"
"Why not? I'm going to be spliced to-
night, and must have it whether or no."
'But the fact is," said the clerk my
office is locked up, and my COW has gone
away with the keyn'
1.-The cow-what does the cow want of
the key ?"
So the old fellow told the whole story,
and the two set off for the Prairie, to find
the cattle and get the key. But the more
they looked the less they found, and tnal-
ly had to give it up. A bright thought
struck the clerk of the county
''I'll fix you out" said he, and Young
Texas jumped a rod. SO tickled was he to
know that he was to be fixed out of the fix
he was in. They proceeded to store
close by the office, and there the county
scribe lndited the following autograph:
Republic of Texas: To all who shall
see this present greeting: Whereas |,
the undersigned clerk of this county, hav-
ing this morning unthoughtedly tied my
office key as clapper into my cows bell
and whereas the cow has gone astray to
parts unknown, bearing with her the said
key, and therefore the said key is non in
Centats est-that is, can't be had: And
whereas one Abner Barnes has made ap-
pl1cation to me for marriage license, and
the said Abner persists that he cannot
wait until the COW comes back with the
key, but is compelled by the violence of
his feelings and the arrangements already
made to get married. Therefore these
presents are to command any persons le-
gally authorized to celebrate the rites of
matrimony, to join the said Abner Barnes
to Rebecca Downs; and for doing so this
shall be your sufficient authority
Given under my hand and private seal,
on the doorstep of my ot1ice-the seal of
the office being locked up, and my COW
having gone away with the key-this
fourth day of October, A. d. 1888
HENRY OSBORN, Clerk"
The Republican journal., 1875-03-18
/ BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT,

A BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT. The re-
markable breach of promise suit of Chamber
layne VS.. Holmes will be begun in New York
to-day. The damages are laid at the modest
amount of $4,000. The fair complainant,
Miss May Chamberlayne, was sixteen years
old on Sunday last, while the defendant John
Butte Holmes, is on the shady side of sixty.
She is Il niece of Hon. j. s. II. Stranahan, presi-
dent of the Brooklyn Park Commission.
Mr.. John Butte Holmes is we'll known civ
il engineer, and reputed to be worth $500 900
in real and personal property. He is a widow
er, and the father of several children. The
prosecution will attempt to prove that Mr..
Holmes fell in love with the girl when she was
only eleven years Of age; also that Holmes plac-
ed plain gold ring on the Young girls finger,
saving to a third person who was present, II
call YOU to witness that make May my wife,
so that in the event of my death she shall be
entitled to claim one-third of my, property"
Subsequently he contrived to get the ring back
from her, and wanted the letters, but they
were refused him.
The Republican journal., 1875-03-18
Preserving Shingles.

The house in which the writer was born
was covered with shaved pine shingles in
the year 1905, at which time the roof re-
ceived generous coat OF oil paint made
Of linseed oil and Venetian red After 20
years had elapsed another coat Of paint,
nearly black, was applied. Since that
period no paint has been applied and it is
now good root for an old one. 1t does
not leak, and the only repairs on it have
consisted of a Shingle added here and there
where a portion of a poor shinglc was
worn out. If the roof had not been
painted the butts of most of the courses
would have been worn entirely away and
if such long periods had not been allowed
to intervene between the times of painting
the roof would have been Il good one,
even after the lapse of 100 years The
true way to paint a roof is to apply paint
of some kind to both sides of the shingles.
1t is quite as important +hat thu nn1er sid.
| of every Shngle be covered with paint as
| the surface, to prevent the water from be-
| ing drawn up between the courses by
capillary attraction. Ii good shingles are
! painted on both sides, and good paint be
| applied to the root once III 10 years, it will
continue leak-tight for more than a hun
dred years. When it is not desirable to
save the water for drinking, coal-tar is an
excellent and cheap paint for preserving
shingles, and it will pay well to smear a
roof with this material once in four OF five
years. When the roofs are not painted,
moss is liable to collect at the butts of
every course of shingles, which promotes
their decay more rapidly than alternate
rain and sunshine, When oil paint is used
for painting shingles, it is always better to
employ some light color rather than black,
as the apartments of the attic story, be-
meath black roof, are liable to be un-
comfortably hot in the summer; and, more
than this, as black paint absorbs more
heat than any other color, neither the
paint nor the shingles will endure as long
as if the roof had been covered with light
colored paint. A metallic roof covered
with Gghtcolored paint will last much
longer than if it had been painted with
a black paint. The most economical paint
for a roof is a generous coat of coal-tar
once in ten years but coal-tar will
color the water for five years after a
coat is applied to the roof industrial
| Monthly
The Republican journal., 1875-03-18
SIMPLE DYSPEPSIA REMEDIES. DysDe

SIMPLE DYSPEPSIA REMEDIES. Dyspep-
sia arises from a great variety of causes,
and different persons are relieved by diff.
ferent remedies, according to the nature OF
the disease and condition OF the stomach
We know of lady who has derived great
benefit from drinking a tumbler of sweet
milk-the richer and tresher the better
whenever burning sensation is expe-
rienced in the stomach. An elderly gen
tleman of our acquaintance, who was af-
ilcted ior many years with great distress
alter eating, has effected cure by mixing
tablespoonful Of wheat bran in half a
tumbler OF water, and drinking it half
ali hour after his meals. 1t is necessary to
stir quickly and drink immediately. or the
bran viii adhere to the glass and become
pasty. Coffee and tobacco are probably
the worst substances persons troubled with
dyspepsia are in the habit of using. and
should be avoided Regular eating of
nourishing, plain food, and use Of some
simple remedies like the above, will effect
in most cases quicker cures than medicine.