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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-11-10
WOMEN AS PHYSICIANS.

Of all the liberal professions that
are adapted to the physical, mental
and social competency of women,
the adoption of medicine both as an
art and profession, begins to show
her abundantly fitted. The quail
fications necessary to successful
practitioner, it is claimed, are not
exclusively confined to the sterner
sex, nor is it wholly essential that
he should be the only guardian over
the ills that suffering humanity is
heir to. Men have always been
the recog z1ized candidates for the
medical profession, it is true, but
this has been the result of custom
and long established precedence
more than anything else; SO it does
not necessarily follow that man is
the one required being for the full
fillment of duties devolving upon a
practical physician. This subject
has occupied the attention of the
various medical colleges and socie-
ties in this country as well as in Eu-
rope for some considerable time,
and their discussion and deliberation
thus far have been extremely favor
able to the cause and rights of wo-
men to this particular distinction.
The arguments used by the learned
and intelligent members of these
medical bodies, not only commend
the skill and ingenuity of woman
to meet the requirement ofthe po-
sition, but that her relative strength
and endurance of mind and body
are equally as requisite as that of
mans and that her amiability of
temperament, agreeableness ofman-
ners and social aptitude of person,
affords her superior advantages as a
rival. 1t is fallacy to assume that
woman, from her extreme sensitive
ness and delicacy of nature, cannot
witness the scenes of death in all its
horrid and multifarious forms; that
she also fails is possess he hardi-
hood to confront the agonies of a de-
lrious patient in the last despairing
throes OF his existence, when it is
familiarly known that she is con-
slant attendent upon such scenes,
and that her attentive offices are al
ways indispensable. Evidences of
her for,itude and power. can be seen
in the trying and underwriting la
bors Of matrons, nurses, Sisters of
Mercy, where the final restitution
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-11-10

cannot be heresy, for it was the
doctrine of an eminent author Of
those doctrines which it is heresy
to deny. Hence beyond doubt,
they are the heretics who deny the
authority of Reason.
If this were taught what would
be gained? First and foremost,
truth would be gained. 1t is true
beyond doubt, that this is the funda-
mental doctrine of Christianity
Secondly, gentleness and patience
one with another would be gained.
When men and women reverence
the Reason implanted IN. leach hui
man breast, as the friend which is to
guide them to the Detachable Noun
tains, they will more tenderly re-
gard each other; more carefully con-
slider the motives that actuate con
duct and more gently deal with
those of differing faith. When all
feel that Reason may indeed be
trusted to the last, none will decline
to investigate the ideas Of his neigh
Dor. Justice will then hold the
sceptre and Charity will smile upon
upon all.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-11-10
WHAT is DIVINITYy

"Come let us reason together"
said one having authority in the old
time Come let us reason together
say we all in the new time, having
the same authority, in kind if not in
degree, as that which, incarnate
then, has never ceased to ssclothe it.
self with flesh" All the ideas, all
the beauty, love, blessedness, and
alas! all the hate, sorrow and evil of
the world have been, are, or will be
incarnate = embodied IN flesh
Every soul daily incarnates some
thing of evil or something Of good
in its own person. Perhaps it would
be well if in this perpetual incarna-
ton each included more of "sweet
reasonableness."
sDivinity" is word around which
cluster SO many ideas; SO many
vague, uniformed opinions,yet withal
opinions SO tenaciously adhered to,
SO tenderly associated with all that
is loveliest and truest, that one needs
to put off his shoes when he treads
upon its hallowcd ground. Human
nature In its sincere reverence for
the Ssdiyine," will suffer no rude
oracle to translate its worship.
Only the tenderest may approach
the true affairs upon which humani-
ty, as unit, lays its homage; and
yet perhaps few could instantly de-
fine their conception of divinity,
either in its pathological or theologi-
cal significance.
Tracing backward as far as his
tory will permit, the idea of the
divine, we find its parentage far back
of Christianity, in the early dawn
of thought. When man began to
think, he began to invent words to
fit his thought, and render it intelli-
gibIe to his fellow. Language,
ike everything else, is a product of
development, whose perfection is
not yet attained. Ancient manhood
away in old India, having arrived
un,o that stage of progress where
thought began to torment and sane
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-11-10

pean and Oriental Powers, the
golden opportunity for pledging
America to England's fortunes, is
past beyond return.
The golden hours are the road
forks in life. After the right turn is
missed, seldom is there latent force
enough to overcome the wrong
m omentum, reverse the movement,
and advance in the true direction to
fortune. A squandered youth is apt
to be bankrupt in the next decade.
Manhood honors no draft in the
name of early prohigacy. Novem-
Der can issue no new deal to the lost
game Of May. 1t is bad when the
promised land is behind, when all
hopes are in yesterday.
The poor body of course walks
on crutches all the days of its life,
if it miss or neglect that morning
meal wherein Hygiea gives the
pledge Of immortal youth and vigor.
[ have seen mind at the id-day of
its career but deranged, stunted
thing. Brain moves in cycles and
comes to its golden hours. They
open the gateway to gardens or
golgothas. Seized upon, they enter
the path that leads to fields Of poesy
garnered boards of wisdom, the
haunts and temples where the priests
of Light and Beauty, Soul and God
Divine, keep the eternal fires burn
ing. Lost intellect browses in blasted
pastures, wanders or bleak hills as
the night comes, and lies down at
last unfolded by any shepherds care.
Religion, Divinest child of God,
is not born outside of Nature; she
has her golden hours to be grasped
or missed. have seen her, beauti
full as the morning, thrifty as the
fields beyond the floods, brave and
beautiful as shining Gabriels mar
shaled for the mission of Love.
And then have I seen her again
beggarly presence, haggard and
cowed with no commissioned scep-
ire in her hand, but accepting the
crumbs of charity from whatever
hand of chance might happen to of
fer them, stunted and undivine, be-
cause golden opportunities came
and went. while she sat listless by
the wayside.
So empires rise and fall, crowns
brighten and fade, fields are won
and lost, and the tides offortune ebb
and flow, on the great ocean of life.
If man had foresight equal to back
sight, requiems aud laments would
have been beaus and Ze Deums.
The life-song is born of the key we
touch when at the vestibule in
the tuning, We strike the primal
chord. But sharp or flat, Halle
lujah or Miserere, that we must
sing.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-11-10

OF any patient under their char
depends as largely upon their care
and treatment as upon the practice
OF an attending physician. Medical
colleges are being established in all
the principal cities in the country
for their education, and there IS
every assurance to believe that
some day, and that not very remote
either, they will have as much to
do with the art of administering
medicine to the sick as they now
have of administering the rod to
the children of our public schools
WaterfozOn Democrat.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-11-10

This depattm IF the Republican will be devoted
to the interests of General Literature in the Nor tn
west and to Religious, Scientific. Social AID Aesthetic
discussion All students, aid all sincere seekers af-
ter truth in any of its FORMS cordially invited
contribute to its columns and to aid in extending it's
circulation. 1t pledges absolute freedom to every
earnest and dgnifed inquiry, and aims to furnish
an agreeable rendezvous for the authors and pat
rons of Western literature.
Every article not editorial, will be published under
the name ofthe author who alone will be responsible
FOR its sentiments, and the recipient of all honor
corded to its merit. No anonymous communication
will receive attention, no Thought which the
thinker is unwilling to acknowledge possibly
be of public benefit.
All exchanges and commun icatnns pertaining to
THs SPECTRoScoPE should be addressed to its Editor
Drawer TO- WATERFOWL Wis.
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slams before them, bowed to mater
ial radiance. First the crude man
recognizes brightness of matter; by
and by he catches dim glirnpses of a
superior brightness which is OF
spirit. If ever in coming years, he
rise to power adequate to knowl-
edge of its full glory, the millennium
will have come.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-11-10
GOLDEN HOU RS.
BY J. L. DUDLEY.


The old promise is, seed time and
harvest shall never cease. May
shall come to the planter and take
his seed corn, and give her pledge
on time for thirty, sixty, an hum
dred fold. Autumn comes with
russell and gold, waving into the lap
of faith ard fidelity, the redemption
of early pledges. So the right hand
and the left of the year, clasp in
divine unity at last, and the hidden
secret of the one is born in the open
household Of the other.
On the dial of every ones life,
comes the golden hour of oppor-
tunity. Shakespeare meant it when
he spoke of the tides in human at
fairs, which taken at the food, bear
men on to fortune. And though he
acknowledged Divinity that
shapes our snds-rough hew them
as we will-yet the Divinity he en-
shrines uses the broard axe, and can
always hew finer as the tool itself is
of superior grade. These pivotal
moments are always sacred and can
never be trihed with safely. They
are the places on the track Of life
where God puts the switch of des-
tiny into our own hands. They are
the times in which God comes to
see us, and to give us his confidence,
and to show his desire to honor us
by committing to our responsibility
and care some great important trust,
some noble, divine work he would
have us accomplish. Accepting
this with all the cost its execution in
wolves, crowns await us of nobility
and honor whose lustre gold and
rubies cannot even symbolic; while
a false and timeserving selfshness,
Sinking treachery which would
give the golden hour the go by,
rather than manfully bear the
trouble and endeavor essential to
seize it, and win the prize it offers
this betrayal of the Divine conid-
ence is the Judas part in the play
Of life, and is sure to be followed by
the slow wasting curse judicially set
down for all ease-loving deserters of
duty, and dull-eyed slumberers at
the morning gates.
It is said Of a distinguished Gen
cral in our late war, that as an en-
gineer, he would build a bridge
with unsurpassed still, and then
wait six months before he would
dare to run a locomotive over it.
AS leader of the Federal forces,
many golden hour in the early
weeks of the struggle shone out up
on him, but he was slow to see it;
many golden gate of opportunity
opened for bringing the war to an
early close, but he lacked the
promptness and the nerve of mas
terly leadership to advance. SO the
opportunity passed, and patriotism
mourned, and thousands of the noble
sons of Liberty rotted in the swamps
and by the rivers-a sacrifice to
ignoble betrayal of high sacred
trusts. MacClellan's never win.
England might have had the ris-
ing Empire of the west her fast
ally forever. But she was proud,
and not above jealousy towards her
ambitious offspring, and SO when
the hour Of need came, and the cry
of the child turned to the mother
for help, the mother proved false,
and deserted her child and played
with the destroyer for its life. That
treachery will eve be forgotten,
the injury will live. ANON the
rivalries and competition Of Euro
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-11-10
MARIONsV. DUDLEY.
CONTRIBUTORS:
EDITOR

HATTIE TYING GRISwoLD, HELEN NJ.
BINGHAM, CHARLES B. MILLS, CHARLES
CAvERNo, JOHN BAsCoM, J. L. DUDLEY,
AMELIA W. BATE, JULIA FORD, SARAH d.
HOBART, ELLEN P. ALLERTON, CARLoTTA
PERRY, JAMES MAC ALIsTER, J. L. JONES,
ELLA WHEELER, GEO. w. COOKE, THOMAS
KERR, CHARLES H. HASKINS.
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1.-THE Early Aces of Mankind
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The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-08-13
THE MAYOR Ann MAusaA..

CITY Marshal Williams Is Of the opin-
ion that Mayor Winter did wrong when
he removed Whitcamp and Schuster
from the police force, and that he is very
wrong now in refusing to sign orders
upon the treasury tor the salaries of those
gentlemen during the time they were not
officers.
| The Marshal'S mind does not seem TO
run in the same channel with the NAV.
or's. lie appears to have ideas of his
own, and to insist that they shall be re-
spccted. For his firmncss he is entitled
to public respect; and ii is but Just TO
say, that In every way, so far rs our
knowledge goes, excepting in his con-
duct about the circus, he has cndeayored
to do his duty: and, indeed, II is said.with
little truth we hope, that the difficulty
between the Mayor and Marshal grew
out of his determination to keep his word
with the pcople-hi. word given during
the canvass which resulted in Mayor
Winters election, and which he man
| aged, that gamblers should have no coun-
tenauce in Cairo under the new admins
| tration.
1t i said he, Whilcamp and Schuster
arrested n gambler by the name of Black
on the charge of gambling, and. before
| squire Comings, proved the charge.
Black was fined one hundred dollars, and
Mayor Winter, it j. said, cndcayorcd to
induce Marshal Williams and the police
men 10 consent to its reduction, the
Mayor claiming that he could remit il.
The Marshal, it is said, got M in the
headquarters and said in very aDpry
tone; "Black has been fined, as lc should
have been; and I'm damned IL don't r..
sign II the fine is reduced
cent. II he can't pay, let him 90
into the calaboosc. It is said. the Mayor
LETT the headquarters angry, and thu, the
battle was commenced. 1t is said, he
immediately began to gather evidence
against the officers, and finally removed
them, not because they had been guilty
OF neglect of duty but because they had
too faithfully performed their duty by
attacking the gamblers. We have heard
members Of the Council make this charge,
anu JUSTIFY themselves by il IN voting to
not sustain the Mayor in his action.
The Mayor on hi, part, insists that he
removed the officers because they arc
guilty Of what he charged against them.
and for no other reason; that he can
prove all lac charged, and more; that the
Marshal has not treated him with re-
spect, has been insurbordnatc and
has taught the members of
the police force, if not by
words at least by example, to be insub-
ordinate that Marshal Williams is re.
sponsible for the loss OF the circus license
money, he having conniycd at the non.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-08-13
THE OFFERED REWARDS

The State Journal finds something
practicable in the rewards offered by the
County Commissioners of Williamson
county for the apprehension of the muir
derers Of Bulliner, Henderson. Hinchclif
and Spence. We see In the offer but little
hope Of any good result. The publicity
Of the offer will put every one of the out
laws on his guard, and but few, for 50
small sum, will undertake the danger.
Gus and difficult task Of finding the trail
Of the assasslns, arrcsting them and
prosecuting them to conviction. How
can they be convicted. They have ter.
rorized the county, and jury cannot be
obtained in 1t that will convict.
The court Is timid, the officers of the
county have not the moral courage to do
their whole duty, and in short the county
is In the hands Of the murlcrers. How,
then, can they Ike punished, under present
circumstances. by due process of law !
They have no fear OF arrest because of
the rewards offered for their apprchcn-
sion. They are now laughing at the
Commissioners OF the county, and
will soon be at their bloody work again.
And Grandmother Beveridgc will sleep
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-08-13

payment Of the money, and that the Mar
shal entered into contract with the cir.
Gus to get 1t out Of the city untouched by
any legal process and unilnpeded by the
claim OF the city. lie says much more,
also: but always accompanies his COM
plants against the Marshal with decla-
ration of friendship tor him and Of his
unwillingness TO prccipitatc q difficulty
by his removal.
This Is the way the matter stands be-
tween the Mayor and the Marshal. The
Council. In our opinion, should not be-
come the partisan Of either, but should at
once enter into an investigation of the
charges that have been made in this con-
troversy. The investigation, we will adj
nit. could not result in the dis.
charge from his office of either
the Mayor or Marshal. but
1t /. due to their constituents to have the
charges either established.or disprovcd. II
the Mayor is prosecuting officers because
they are unwilling to close their eyes to
gambling, the people should know the
fact and they should not be kept in g-
norance if the Marshal has been guilty OF
what he has been charged by the Mayor.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-08-13

The moral record OF the Republican
State of Iowa is not crcditablc to the
Massachusetts of the West" Republic
can newspapers are fond OF setting down
ignorance and lawlessncss and crime to
the credit of localities in which election
returns show Democratic majoritics. But
the pride Of Iowa is that Democracy
does not flourish thcrc-thc soil of the
State has never been favorable to its
growth, and yet the Chicago Tribune of a
late date says: again comes the old, old
story from. Iowa, of violence. assault, rape,
murder, and other crimes, the most OF
them going unpublished. Fiity-sevcn
cases OF rape this summer, and only
three convictions Six murders during
the last month, and not one of the MUIR
dcrers will be punished. The chief cause
OF this fearful avalanche of crime In
Iowa. &c. All of which is bad show
ing for the Republican State OF Iowa, and
is pretty satisfactory evidence that the
morals of State or a locality find their
root in something deeper than its poll.
ties.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-08-13
JEFFERSON DAVIS IN ILLINOIS.

The board of directors of the Wilneba-
90 County Industrial Association invited
Mr.. Jefferson Davis TO deliver the annual
address at the Winncbago county fair to
DC held next month. That the invitation
should have been extended is one sur
prise. Winncbago county is a Rcpubli-
can coun,y-it has five Republicans to
ono Democrat. That Mr.. Davis should
accept tic invitation is another surprise.
He has accepted II, and writes to the
Secretary Of the Association that "unless
prevented by some unforeseen cause, he
will be in Rockford on the nth of Sep.
TENDER, the day on which the fair com.
menccs. Mr.. Davis writes that he has
long desired to revisit Illinois and see the
wonderful development which has becl
made since he left it., as ii was then q
wilderness occupied by sayagc>, and that
for that reason the invitation j. doubly
welcome. Mr.. Davis will address the
| WinDcbago county farmers on agricul-
tural subjects, and granting him pos.
scssed of ordinary common senst
will make no Objectionable reference to
the late unpleasantness or indulge in any
regrets that the Lost Cause was a LOST
one. His coming North, by invitation
and OH such mission, will be genuine
sensation, and is one of the surest of the
late evidences that the era of good feel.
ing between the North and the South is
real and not superficial. The sturdy Re
publican farmers of WinncbagO county
will 10 doubt put their best feet fore
most in the work of Hospitality greeting
and entertaining the cX-Confederate
president; lie can do no less than to re-
ciprocatc by equal hcartiness and an
avoidance of all unpleasant subjects. In
this event, his address will be- of practi-
cal benefit to the farmers who will lis
ten to it, and the occasion of his visit will
exert an influence for good extending far
beyond the circumscribed limits of Win.
ncbaSo county.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-08-13
Pulaski CRoPs.-NAN KILLED

Our old correspondent. M. ID. Co.
writing from Newcli's Switch. near Pu-
laski station, on the Illinois Central. Au-
gust -, says:
ut has been so long since ! claimed a
place in your columns that do not know
whether will find it or not. Notwith-
standing the long continued rains, the
wheat will be full average crop, and the
corn never looked better than at present.
"But what set down to write about,
was the following accident:
This morning the Southern bound pas.
senger train ran over and killed Thoma.
Kennedy, a laborcr in the employ Of II
II. williams, ono and a quarter mile,
south of Ullin. The body was horribl,
manglcd. the legs, arms and head being
severed from the trunk, and the brains
scattered distance of fifty yards. pre-
sented spectacle extremely horrible,
and was warning to all to keep oil the
track when under the influence of liquor.
An inquest was held by Esquire Nickcns
and a verdict rendered in accordance Will
the foregoing facts
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-08-13
THE OCIATION

Those who have read the Article. of As
ISOLATION of the Cairo Citizens Associa-
ton must agree with us in the opinion,
that this society should be strengthened
by the membership Of every Taxpayer
OF Cairo. Our city needs society OF
this kind, and this one should be main.
tanned, and used with industry TO consuu!-
mate the objects it has in view. In the
Association may lac discussed every sub
Ject OF interest To the people Of Cairo,
and every independent tongue may WAC
on every subject it wishes TO air. Even
Mr.. Davis, who attacked the Association
before he knew what its objects were, de.
nouncing Its members as tax-dodges and
railroad stock thieves, may, if hc has the
courage TO do so, enter the Association
and prove his charges. The door
Is closed against no person
who pays taxes in Cairo. They may en-
ter by putting down with their names
and fifty cents, and they may remain in
by paying twenty-five cents month.
The howl Of the SIN about poor men,
draymen and laborers, being excluded is
not true, for every man who owns a dray,
or horse, or any property, no matter how
NUE. ON which he pays taxes, may be-
cUuae member Of the Association with
~ 'ne rights that the heaviest taxpayer
enjoys Why Mr.. Davis attacked the
society We cannot inaginc-in what in.
terest DC made the attack we cannot saw
but that he was pricked to itby somc ,er'
son. for an object, we have NO do,,h,
However, the tact that he was told ~ a,
tack the society, does not justify him in
calling IT. members, Of the best men q,
The city, tsx-dodgers and possible rail-.
roed stock thieves.