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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-06

THE real estate of the late Count de
Morny, the chief of the coup d'ea con-
spirators, and without whose aid it is
probable that Louis Napoleon would
never have become Emperor, was sold
at public auction recently, and brought
$40, 900, 600. Before the Empire De
Morny was embarrassed by debts, and
during his public career afteryard he
was noted for his extravaganza.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-06
Government Losses and Democratic
Honesty and EFFICIENCY.
From the Evening wisconsin, Milwaukee.

From the Evening Wisconsin, Milwaukee,.
The following tables present the total
OF receipts, of disbursements exclusive
OF those for postal service, and of postal
disbursements for each administration
since and including the second term Of
Gen. jackson, and also the average of
loss through official defalcations on
each ISL, OOO of the sums SO given:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-06

A BIRMlNGHAM, CT, man IS set up
for whistling instructor, and has two
lasses formed. Hsa Sc
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-06


will be the number of the letter sought.
By taking one letter at time in this
way the whole number can be ascer-
tanned. For example, take the name
Jane. J is found in the two columns
commencing with B and II, which are
the second and eighth letters down the
alphabet; their SUM is ten, and the
tenth letter down the alphabet is J, the
letter sought. The next letter, A, ap-
pears in but one column, where It
stands at the top. N is seen in the col
umns headed B, D, and H, the sec
ond fourth, and eighth letters Of the al
phabet, which, added, give the four
teenth, OF n, and so on. The use OF
this table will excite no little curiosity
among those unacquainted with the
foregoing explanation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-06
1852, 269
2,e61,776
68,072,088
$50. 100000
100000, 900
$472, 316,133

Here is sum amounting to more
than one-fifth the entire national debt.
But, say the Democrats, "they would
never be paid" Why, then, are they
at once presented the moment the
Democratic party obtains control of the
Houses Their presentation shows that
the Southerners who present them hope,
if they do not expect, their Northern
allies will vote for them, and when
did Northern Democrats ever disap-
point the hopes or expectations of the
South? The Northern Democrats in
the House of Representatives during
the last session showed al! the subservi-
ence to their Southern partisans thai
they did before the war. The Demo
cratic party can only obtain control of
the government through the votes of
the Southern States, and should it
gain that control does any sane person
suppose that it would deny the
South the payment of these claims,
or any thing else which it may ask and
that can be accomplished The South
would be the head and front of the
party, and would control it, and any at
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-06
How to Find a Persons Name.
From the Agriculturist.

Let the person whose A B D III
name you know tell you G G E /
in which of the upright E F F J
columns the first letter G G G K
of his name is found. If ] L L
it be found in but one K K M M
column, it is the top let M n n N
ter; if it occurs in more O o 90
than one scolumn, it is @ E T K
found by adding the al S S v q
phabetical numbers Of U V V Y
the top letters of the w w w
ooJ H. ,,,,,o " n
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-06
Southern Claims.

AS an illustration of what is in store
for the tax payers of the country when
Democrats get control of the govern
ment, it may be stated that during the
last session of Congress there were in
PRODUCED bills for the payment OF
Southern claims amounting to $472,-
BIG, 1873. The following table indicates
], al, oE khano lo;.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-06

Cu6 aIdCU0I VI UQG66 C1H1IIS.
Bills for 140 claims amounting to. !
Bills to refund direct taxes uncol-
lected. ...x.
Bills to refund cotton tax.
Bills to pay for property used and
destroyed.
Bills to pay for supplies. .........
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-22
GEN. SANTA ANNA IN HIS OLD AGE

correspondent of the Cincinnati En-
q~irer, writing from Mexico, gives the toll
lowing pen-portrait of the notorious Santa
Anna and his quiet home in his declining
years. The writer says:
HE lives in the City ofMexico, in a third
rate house Of two stories, with courts not
more than twenty feet square, the pavement
out of repair, the whole telling the story of
poverty. He was seated upon a much worn
sofa attended by a smart appearing Mexican
ofmiddle age, and rose with some difficulty in
receiving us. He complained considerably
of his wooden leg, and of blindness.
He is on old man of eighty years, very
decrepit, yet in full command .sof his facul-
ties (; has a good head and face, not unlike
the pictures Of Humboldt in old age, with
broad temples and an abrupt, square nose,
and, at the same time, good eyes.
He had little to say, but appeared pleased
at our visit and, as we told him of the four
or five general officers of the Mexican war
still living, he listened with interest, but
showed no special recognition until the
name of Pillow was mentioned, whom he
remembered perfectly.
Over the sofa where Santa Anna sat was
the picture Of a beautiful women in hel
~fullness of youth and lovliness. This was
his wife when both led the fortunes
of Mexico. As we passed out OF the court
our attention was called to a figure OF a
women Of fifty in the window opposite, il
plain dress and devoid 0 fany interesting at
tribute. This was she whose picture so in.
terested MS, Mrs. Gen. Santa Anna.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-22

broken asunder the silken cords of fiend-
ship. None are near me tonight to talk of
Old times ; to o with me back to TIL ,TEsulpie
of Childhood, and lifting Its veil, to stand in
its sunny portal and recall the many dear
scenes Of our childhood, to watch the sun
beams as they play hide and SEEK and
light up all the inches ard corners If by
gone years, filling the soul with happy mem
cries. Oh! sunny days were they.
remember a happy childhood
Of bright and joyous hours, n
When life seemed all one summer day,
Each path streyTed thick with flowers.
And now | stand in the portal of themys-
tic Temple of Womanhood, upon whose
fair shrine must be offered a heart, other
blackened and charred by the baleful lares
of this world, or saved and purified BY the
holy spirit of God; and may He helpme,
that my life may be adorned with every
grace, fragrant with every virtue, and fifth
ful in all good works that I may be a rue
woman, and my life, apart from this wofsd's
noise and strife, may pursue its modest,
even way, gaining new strength from day
to day giving new joy to many a heart
binding its wounds, healing its smarts, and
thus, by blessing, being blessed.
In the hurry and hustle of the day we
very often forget u good resolutions but
when the hour of twilight comes with its
softening influences, then we promise our
selves ever to be true to all good impulses.
The day has flown away; another page il
written in the Book of Fate. They come il
with laughter and lamps; SO good-nigh
and goodbye to all. PANDORA.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-22
GOLDEN ~SHEAvES.

Relieve not those who mach possess.
The only lords OF happiness:
But rather he who rightly knows
TO use the gifts that God bestows:.
Who, cheerful, poverty can bear, sss' y
And more than death ,dishonor fear;
Who life's last drops would freely spend,
esave his country, or his friend.-Horace.
Purposes are better than regrets.
christianity softens the edge of life.
The world can never sour on a heart of
love.
The pen of the tongue shortM be dipped
in the ink of the heart.
They that value not praise will never
do anything worthy oft.
There are strings in the harp of every
life, though covered with dust, that give
out music when the wings Of Truth stir the
air.
Pain, like a trusty sentinel, guards ev-
cry avenue leading to the citadel. of life and
we are admonished whenever danger ap-
proaches.
Diligence is a tair fortune and industry
a good estate.
The idea OF perfect happiness is the con-
seriousness Of having done our duty, and the
certainty OF getting our reward
BE not ashamed to- confess that YOU
have been in the wrong. Il is but owning
what you need not be ashamed Of, that you
now have more sense than you had before
to- see yonr error and more humility to ac-
knowledge it..
Education does not commence with the.
alphabet. 1t begins with a mothers look,
with a fathers nod of appreciation, or his
sign OF reproofI with q sisters gentle pres
sure OF the hand, or a brothers. noble act Of
forbeavance; with a handful of flowers I'M
green and daisy meadows; with a bird's
nest admire1 but not touched ; with pleas
ant walks in sllady lanes /; and with tAuuehts.
directed, i'll sweet and kindly tones. andl
words, to. nature, to beauty, To- acts of be-
nevolence, to- deedscf virtue, and to the.
source of all good-te' God himself.-RlacN-
Uood..
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-22

tration of Mr.. Archer's ponderous style OF
speaking zt y. s.
What sort of tellowis this Virgins Sem
ator?' asked Daniel Webster, OF Senator
Preston, ofSouth Carolina. "Do yow know
him PSI
YES" replied Mr.. Preston, " very well ;
and a very clever fellow he is What do yoas
think of him p
Why" said Mr. Webster, " dined with
him to-day, and think him d preposterous
aggregation of heterogeneous ~paradoxes and
perdurable peremptoTeaces.
The imitation of Mr.. Archerss peculiar use
of words was so excellent that Mr.. Preston
laughed till he could hartley stand.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-22
THE LIBERTY CAP.

When a slave was manumitted by the Ro-
mans, a small red cap called pileus, was
placed on his head. s osoon as this was done
he was proclaimed a freedman and his
name duly registered When Saturnius took
the capital, in the year 263, he hoisted a cap
o. tho top Of his spear to indicate that all
slaves who joined him should be free.
Marius employed the same symbol when in
citing the slaves to take up arms against
Sylla and when Caesar was murdered the
conspirators marched forth in a body with Il
cap elevated on a spear as a token Of liberty.
The Goddess Of Liberty in the Aventine
Mount was represented as holding in her hanb
a cap, the symbol of freedom. In France,
the Jacobins wore a red cap (6onnss rouge but
in ENGLAND the cap Of blue, with a white bor-
der, is the symbol OF liberty, and Britannia
is sometimes represented as holding such a
cap on the point of her spear. The American
sscap of liberty" is also of blue, with a white
band OF border on the bottom, upon which
thirteen stars are placed, and has been adap-
ted from the British. There is no absolute Or
positive regulation beyond its shape and col
or, SO tar as America is concerned. IL Is in
shape of an old-fashioned night-cap or trun-
Gated cone.
A funny story is told Of two farmers
who are not Changers. They induced their
wives to join and report before they would
submit themselves. Now, when they will
they cannot. Two black balls greet every
application. Meanwhile the wives go reg
ularly and triumphantly to every meeting
Of the Grange and the men stay at home and
mind the babies.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-22
SHOPPING IN LONDON.

1t is said that you can buy anything in
London that the world produces. But
Americans find shopping in London very
disagreeable, became the ~obsequious clerks
are ceaseless in importuning customers to
buy. A writer, evidently an American lady
thus describes this annoyance:
You go into one of the large stores to buy
a dress. Let us suppose it to be a black silk.
You distinctly state your errand+-a black
silk dress-and show no interest in any
other rticao.-Inrpi vi rnls, the smnlng
and obliging 'clerk will keep up a run
ming fire of such remarks and questions as
the following:
"CanI show you any evening silks, mad
am? We've a You don't care for
a mauve? Have you seen the new greens ?
Nothing but the black? I'm sure, madam,
you'd admire the greens. Would you mind
looking at them a bit? Pause A stony
composure or a chilling smile is your only
safeguard. There is probably a lot of fancy
articles on the counter. The salesman sees
a new opportunity there.} .Have you re-
marked these hanlSerchiefs, madam? They
are extremely low-priced-quite a bargain,
in fact. Don't you think 1t is worth while to
take home a few?"j
You finally escape this clerk and make
your way down the store. where you are
likely to be assailed half a dozen times with
requests to buy all M of articles, from
hosiery to bonnets.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-22

How TO READ-rhe Earl Of STAFFORD
he who served Charles I. SO well, that the
king, as his custom was, abandoned him and
suffered Parliament to behead him-was in
the habit of regulatSng his reading by a prac-
tice which is worthy of imitation. 1t is told
OF HIM that before reading any book for the
first time, he would write down a sketch of
the ideas he already had upon the subject
OF the book, and Of the questions in it that
he expected to find answered.
Those who have tried the plan, pronounce
Strafford's practice exceedingly useful. It
informs one as to abe extent of his acqui-
sitions from books, puts his knowledge into
the right place and into such a shape as to
be really for immediate use, and what is
most important of all, eompeis him to think.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-22
A

1t was night. Jerusalem slept as quietly
amid her hills as a child upon the breast of
its mother. The noiseless sentinel stood
like a statue at his post and the philoso-
per's lamp burned dimly in the recess OF his
chamber. But moral darkness involved the
nation in its unenlightened shadows. Rea-
son shed a faint glimmering over the minds of
men like the cold and insufficient shining
Of a distant star. The immortality of mans
spiritual nature was unknown, his relation
to Heaven undiscovered, and his future des-
tiny obscured in a cloud of ~rnystery. 1t
was at this period that two forms OF etle-
rial mold lowered about the land of Gods
chosen people. They come, sister angels,
sent to earth on some embassy o flove. The
one of majestic stature and well-formed
limb, which her drapery scarcely concealed,
and her erect bearing and steady eye exhib-
iting the highest degree OF strength and con-
idence. Her right arm was extended in an
expressive gesture upward, where night APP
pears to have planted her darkest pavilion
while on her left inclines her delicate COM
panion, i'll form and countence the con-
trast of the other. She was dropping like
a flower moistened by refreshing dew, and
her bright and troubled eyes scanned them
with ardent but varying glances. Suddenly
q light like the sun flashed out from
the heavens, and Faith and Hope hailed
with exciting song the ascending Star OF
Bethlehem. Years rolled away, and a stran-
ger was seen in Jerusalem. He was a
meek, unassuming man, whose happiness
seemed to consist in acts Of benevolence to
the human race. There were deep traces
of sorrow in his countenance, though no
one knew why he grieyed, for he lived in
the practice of every virtue, and was loved
by all the good and wise.
By-and-by it was rumored that the stran-
ger worked miracles, that the blind saw,
the dumb spake, the dead arose, the ocean
moderated its chatting tide, the very thunder
articulated, He was the Son of God. Envy
assaulted Him to death.
Thickley guarded, He slowly assembled the
Hill of Calvary. A heavy cross bent him
to the earth but Faith leaned on his arm,
and Hope, dipping her pinions in his
blood, mounted to the skies.-Asoss
HORACE GREELEY once said: There is
nothing easier i'll this wicked world
than to edit a ~blackguard newspaper,
nothing more difficult than to get up a news
paper free from foulness and blackguardism.
Fish-Momen and bar-room loaters are skilled
in the art of %bandying epithets and bespat-
tering each other with dirty words-it re-
quires mo brains to do this, but it does re-
quire both heart and brains to.print a news
paper that a deceat man or Wemen' can read
without a blush.n 2fhA tg} az
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-22

.Et. ~" ~ u IL HAIAISCll away. s
-Scribner for June.
Written for the Rocky Mountain Husbandman.
TWILIGHT MUSINGS.
81 sit in the deep'ning twilight,
Thinking of days gone by,
And thoughts of the past come crowding fast,
AS the sunbeams slowly die"
All the earth IS still ; the hurry and hustle
of business is slowly melting away into re-
pose and silence and the noise and confu-
sion of midday seems only a dream of the
fancy; and the silvery simmer of the moon
light makes II forget the glaring sun of
the midday sum AS | sit and muse comes
the thought of the innumerable faults and
tailings in our lives that would be so COM
pietely hid if only seen through and in the
moonlight. See how the rough, uncouth
houses are softened and harmonized by its
misty and indetinable light. Nothing is
ever ugly if seen by moonlight, and the
lovliest of faces gains new charms when
seen in its witching light. But, alas ! / fear
we all need the full light of the sun, else in
the shadoWy moonlight we might grow care
less.
AS 1 sit, idly rocking to and fro, listening
to the sweet chime of memory's bells, I fer
vently thank God for the gift of memory.
What does not the single word recall? What
bright pictures, intermingled with sad remi-
niscences of the past does it bring again to
oar view! Who of us could or would put
Our hands on our heart-strings and stop the
cords vibrating to the music of other years !?
None of US, I think, wish to banisIl the pic
lures Of the ~never-dying past; to forget the
castles we built, though they were founded
on air-yet very sweet aud pleasant were
the hours spent in building them. All we
afI love to think of what $ might have been,''
even though we know now that it never
can be.
1 think of the sweet past of the days and
months that have glided so swiftly into
years; of the many warm hearts that | have
met, and known, and loved and the happy
hours that can come again no more; yet,
not least that I remember is the thorn that
has lurked in so many Of the lovely roses !
have tried to pluck; the bitter dregs that
have risen to the surface when [ was drink
ing of the cup of pleasure.
We uO iOu pIlLC tllC u1uSiC I'LL IiC
voiced bird has flown,'' and often "slight
the violets till the lovely roses are gone
We are too prone to value our blessings
lightly till they are taken from us.
The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of night;
As q feather is waited downward
From an Eagle, in his flight"
The future looms up stern and %forbidding
the light is so dim I nDO see my path.
peer out into the darkness, hoping to- catcf
% glimpse of the years to come, that / may
but see the flutter of Happiness bright gar
ments as she fits about with smiles, or Oh,
sombre outlines OF Sorrow, as she sits veiled
waiting for nit to pass and take up my bur
den. But, alas, vain hope! the mist viii
ever be before me, and will only lift itsel
FOR a step at a time.
I think Of the loved and the lost-m,
childhood's playmates and my college friend
-hither and thither are we scattered /: som,
are dead, some are married, and a few hav,
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-22
THE HOM E CIRCLE.
HER0-WORSHIp.

HERO WORSHIP.
"A little maiden read her books,
And only loved the more
Sir Philip Sidney every day,
Than wen the day before. 5t
And when her suffers came to WOO,
She matched them in her mind M
With Philip Sidney, one and all,
But far they fell behind.
Fol- this one lacked the courtllness,
And this, the perfect grace,
And this, the learning rare and wide,
And this, the handsome face.
And SO she sent them all away,
But only loved the more
Sir Philip Sidney every day,
Than she did the day before.
Oh, maiden of the fancy bright,
If it could only be,
Sir Philip should himself o'erleap
For you the centuries three,
And come upon his doughty stccd
A-riding to your gate,
And for your favor crave and sue,
And for your answer wait,
Tween you'dlook HIM through and through,
But never bid him stay;
In favor of his fancied self
You'd send himself away.
-Scribney for June.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-22

DICTIONARY WoRDs."-The Hon. Will
liam S. Archer, formerly a Senator from
Virginia. was a refined gentleman, who, in
his efforts to De exceedingly choice in his
language, appeared somewhat pedantic. His
habitual use Of " dictionary words y was the
cause CT nmsch amusement to his friends.
His ideas were not clearly defined to- his own
mind and as thsy are clothed in words OF
awful length ana laundering sosnAr''it wa,
not always easy 10 comprehend his meaa4
ing. The following anecdste gives an Illus
Pokrok. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-1878, 1876-05-23

yehnalo do dSti mississippskeho, ably 81 ma
nj pochutnali aligatofi. Libovolne zaty :
kani politickfch protivnikd, pfepadavani
jednotlivych mist vojskein spolkovym,
podplaceni ano politicka vrazda: to ne
kter6 z onech prostfedkd, ichz repubii
kansti carpetbagfi uzivaIi ably Louisiana v
sparech svych udrzeli. Okradani a pod
yad6ni vlady obGanstva ma postach, v
celnici, u soud6 We vsech ufadech spoil
kovych d6lo Sc rozm6rech TAX veikych
tax nestoudn6 zfejm6, ze neni mozno,
ably o tom We Washingtont niceho nebyIi
yGd6H.
Vysetfovani generala Schencka skon
ceno. Vy5or nenalezne jej sice vinnym
Podvodd ale pokara iej pfisn6, ze co wy
slanec americky pustil sc do obchodu,
kteryz Sc s ddstojenstvim vyslance ne
srovnava.
Pokrok. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-1878, 1876-05-23
Utery dne 23. kyGtma 1876.

X zay6rlu pax pravi podepsani, ze isou
hotovi podporovati dobr6 kandidaty bu =
douli cd t6 nebo one strany navrzeni, il
max ale ze budou jednati samostatnG
vyzJvaji stejne smyslejici, ably SO mi .
stecb distriktech svych organizovali a S
vYkonnym vyborem konference spojeni
vesli. A konc:
YNase pokoleni m6lo by druhG stoleti
naseho narodniho zivota TIME spGsobem
zahajiti, jake otcov6 nasi zahaiili prvni.
Jejich dilo bylo dilo nezavislosti j,
nase budiz dilo opravy. Toto jest
zrovna tax ddlozite, iako bylo prvnf Ja-
ko tenkrate mu5i dnes kazdy amercky
vlastenec miti tolik srdnatosti, ably fadn9
vykonati mohl povinnost svon."
Podepsani isou: Karol Sure Missou-
ri, Martin Bremmer Massachusetts, L
+. S. Foster Connecticut, Park Goodwin
New Yorku John W. Hoyt Wiscon
sinu.
Kandidatem nezavislych jest patrnG
Bristow.