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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14
JOHN WINTHROP CHANLER.
The Will of New York Millionaire
Lately Deceased.
New York Evening Post, I'd.

The will of the late John Winthrop
Chanler, who left seven sons and three
daughters, all under age, was admitted
to probate yesterday The value of his
estate is about 81, 100000. The will
leaves to his sisters, nephews and nieces
and friends, $1,000; to St. Luke's hos
pital, $500; to St. Marks Episcopal
church, $500, and to Columbia college,
81 900, to establish an annual prize for
the best English prose essay by an I'M
der-graduate on some historical subject
to be determined by the faculty. He
gives to his eldest s6h, Or if he dies be-
fore attaining twenty-one, to his second
son, the property known as ST. Marga-
ret's Home, and $4,000, given by VIM.
B. Aston to his granddaughter, Margaret
A. Chanler, wife of Mr.. Chanler, to found
a memorial of her grandmother, Mar
garet R. Astor, in home for orphans
He gives his eldest son, John Armstrong
Chanler, his country seat in Duchess
county, and 100000, with the hope that
he will invest the money, and keep up
the country seat. To Winthrop Aston
Chanler he leaves the furniture, etc., of
No. 1872 Madison avenue, and his farm
in Delaware county, and his jewelry to
his three daughters. To each of his
children he gives lot or lots at New
port He directs his executors to set
apart and invest $50, 900 for each of his
daughters, the interest to be paid to
them after they marry or come of age,
and the principal to go to their children.
The remainder of the estate is to be di-
vided into as many shares as he leaves
sons and invested for them He names
as executors Lewis Morris, Rutherford
Stuyvesant Franklin III. Delano and
Tompkins Westervelt, but they are to
be superseded by his five eldest sons rs
they come of age
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14
No Place for "Land-Lubbers. I"

The Washington correspondent Of the
New York Commercial Advertiser says
that if you want to feel that you are
back in the days Of Paul Jones or Per-
rvs victory on Lake Erie, just call in
at the Navy Department. Its quaint
old building and full of quaint old peo-
pie, with a smack Of the retired, shiver-
my-timbers seafarer about them You
can, as you thread the narrow Railways,
easily imagine yourself treading the
cabin gangways of some old Dutch gal
leon, or pacing the poop deck Of frig-
ate Of the last century, and are almost
tempted to feel the floors swinging un-
der you with the. unsteady motion OF
the seas, or to believe that you hear the
boatswain's whistle piping all hands to
the quarter for grog.' Thoroughly ma
rine is the appearance Of the Navy De
partment, tell you, and | am not sorry
that | dropped in there twice, though
in vain, to present letter of introduce
ton which friend had given me to the
Secretary, the genial mariner from In
DIANA
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14
Your House..

We allude to the house you intended
to hire. Examine it thoroughly before
committing yourself Take look, not
only at the exterior thereof, but at the
neighborhood around it. Do not, how
ever, be too much struck with a snowy
outside; the place may be but whited
sepulchre after ALA very living grave.
The house, too, may be in itself, both
outside and in, everything which heart
can desire but after all it may be stu
ated in the vicinity of other houses,
either at the back or front, the conduct
of the inmates of which may render
your life wretched. Your rooms may
be furnished with taste and comfort but
if you are awakened every other night
by the sounds of drunken revery, or
mayhap fighting and squabbling, your
life Will not be a very romantic one, to
say the least. Finally, take a compre-
hensive peep inside, and find out
whether or not the house be damp or
dry. Nothing can be more injurious to
the health than residence in house
which is damp; caughs, colds, aches,
and pains and rheumatism-ay, and
maybe fever itself-must be your por-
ton if you are unwise enough to live in
a damp house, and granting even that
you have the strongest constitutions,
dampness will sap it, your nerves will
be weakened, you shall find yourself i'll
any fretful without being able to ASST On
a cause therefor Avoid damp house,
therefore; you can hardly fail to know
if it is damp. Suspicious spots of mil
dew about the paper, beading on I'M
papered walls, and a generally moist
smell must guide you in your diagnosis.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14
A Word in Defense of Women.

Men too often malign women in ac-
cuslng them of extravaganza in dress.
Generallzlng is always dangerous, and
particularly SO where women are con-
cerned.
The masses of women are not spend
thrills ; any sane man will admit that
as rule women are not even extrava-
CANT. They have certain pet theories
regarding dress which if not admirable
are nevertheless not of sufficient i'm
pOrtance to warrant libel to be written
against them.
The truth is that women are not, nor
ever have been, as a sex, extravaganza !;
on the contrary, they are economical,
many times to penuriousness. They
have no income Of their own, and the
money given them by their husbands is
always for family expenses, and goes
to the purchase Of wearing apparel
and household goods, and the little that
is left is often less than many men
imagine
The trouble is that women buy for
show when they do buy, and they do
their shopping in such an elaborate and
deliberate way that lookers-on are de-
ceived.
Then again women buy only costly
articles, those that will be seen to adj
vantage. Hats and gloves they spend
money on so also on trimmings or
ornaments, but very seldom do women
wear as costly or as valuable clothing
as men.
Their costumes are more snowy and
varied, more perishable and cost less
than the suits or garments Of men.
Women have many weaknesses which
can be used against them. but they are
not more numerous than those Of men,
nor are their habits half so expen-
sive. They wear more fancy trihes
pay more for ribbons and laces, and
"gew-gaws, than men do for their arti-
Giles Of adornment, but they have no
expensive tastes as men have land
which are more than an offset to any
foolish vanities that women possess, J
and they contrive and make much for
themselves which men never think OF
doing.
This year women were never more
careful of expenditure, never more
thoughtful of the demands they make.
They have worn cotton goods in place
of silk, have adhered to what they felt
was the most economical plan Of living,
and instead of being commented upon
for their extravaganza they ought to be
praised.
And the cynical single men, and the
disappointed married ones who cast
the slur on the sex that is done when
they are assaulted as extravaganza. are
guilty of wrong which is perpetra-
ted in ignorance or with malicious in
tent.
Perhaps a trife of justice in this mat
ter would exhibit in more prominent
way the common sense of such carping
libelers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14
Married TO Order.

Generally the settlement at Winni-
peg, Manitoba, is selected as place of
residence by servants Of the Hudson
Bay Company who have passed their
lives in the service. Many Of the off
GERS, whose dosire to return to their ma
tive country has withered through lapse
Of time and the influence of family
ties formed in the country, have bought
land and settled down on it for life,
forming among themselves the aristoc-
racy of the Wilderness Owning the
handsomest residences in the province,
social by nature, and supplied with
abundant means: they are given to a
generous hospitality. The latch-string
is always out to the stranger, and they
delight IN meeting upon each others
hearthstones and rec6unting the wild
life of the past.
The great maj ority Of them marry
natives Of the country-frst having to
obtain consent Of the governor of the
company, as rations, quarters, etc., are
furnished the family equally with them
selves-but it occasionally occurs that
some gentleman of independent taste
prefers a wife from the old country.
For such emergencies provision is made
in the paternal character of the COM
pany. The general lover sends an Or
der for one wife to the house in London,
with the special characteristics he de-
sires in a life partner. The company
select such one as they may deem
suitable from the list of candidates al
ways ready, and forward her duly in
voiced; upon her arrival she is married
out of hand. Two Bonnie, rosy-cheeked
Scotch lassies passed through here not
long since on their way to the North to
be married in this summary fashion.
And from an intimate acquaintance
with the happy lives of a number of
such mated couples, am not sure that
the plan might not be pursued else
where with generally beneficial results
-Ne,o York Evening Post
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14
CONNUBiAE.
Marriage OF President Elliot, Of Har-
ward College, to Miss Hopkins, of
Cambridge Massachusetts.
Boston Special. Both.

DooCOH oPFCioi, ootL'
The marriage Of President Eliot, Of
Harvard College, to Miss Grace Hop
kins, daughter of the late Judge Hop
l1ins, of New Hampshire, took place
last evening, at the house Of the brides
mother, in Cambridge. 1t was the de-
sign of all to avoid display and publ
city, and therefore announcement was
made that the marriage would be
strictly private, only the immediate
families OF the contracting parties being
invited. But a number of persons
prominent in the literary world received
invitations nevertheless, and it was
quite a distinguished company, num-
bering about one hundred, which filled
the modest little mansion of Mrs. Hop
kins when the ceremony took place.
Almost all of the Harvard professors
were present, as were also Henry W.
Longfellow, the poet; Arthur Lyman
and P. S. Sears, of Waltham; Robert
Treat Paine, Lyman Hollingsworth, G.
II. Show, and Judge Peterson and
family. The house was brilliantly
lighted and elegantly decked with flow
ers. The officiating clergyman was
Rev. Francis G. Peabody, of the First
Baptist church, Cambridge, a brother
of President Eliot's first wife. The
ceremony was extremely simple, and
the bride was dressed with but little re-
gard to conventionalities. Following
the ceremony reception took place,
and the heartiest congratulations were
extended to the newly-wedded pair.
There was nothing romantic in the en-
gagement of the couple, and the course
OF true love seems to have run smooth
ly enough. Mrs Hopkins, with her
daughter, who is now lady of some
thirty years. has lived on Phillips place,
Cambridge, for more than ten years;
and although this locality is not the
most fashionable Of the city, it still has
a sort of indirect connection with the
college, and boasts among it's few resi-
dents Mr.. Silsby, the old librarian.
Miss Hopkins brother graduated from
Harvard in 1861, and his principal of a
school devoted to fitting young men for
college have brought him more in con-
tact with President Eliot, and thus the
way for intimacy with the family has
been made easy The president has
been a widower for a dozen years OF
more, and has two boys, now well into
their teens Miss Hopkins is neither
blonde nor brunette, but between the
two, of medium size, intelligent, cul!
tured, and Independent. She rather
inclines to domestic life, and the friends
Of the president are unanimous in the
conclusion that his choice is an admir-
able one. Her family are in easy Cir.
cumstances. The engagement was kept
secret for a long time, but the propriety
of the union, as well as the known in
| timacy between the two, at length led
shrewd guessers to hit upon the truth
which was finally acknowledged by
those most directly concerned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14

roost;'' when they eat, they "tuck
away grub" that they surprise their
backs with clean Shirts" and when
they marry they hitch on" In all
this we recognize more Of truth than
poetry. Perhaps it is true the world is
what we make it; but the sad part of
the truth is, that some Of us cannot
make it what it ought to be, or what
we wish it to be. No matter how hard
we try to lift ourselves above the dead
level, we can never attain the higher
standard we might have reached if low
ing and considerate parents had helped
to prepare the way for us.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14

abandoned the undertaking, and leav-
ing the ruins behind, started on up the
Miguel in his search for gold He
found good placer indications in the bed
OF the stream at almost every point, and
fully convinced at last of the mineral
wealth of the country, he retraced his
footsteps, reaching Silverton the latter
part of August Early in the spring of
1877 several expeditions were organized
to thoroughly explore and prospect the
new country, and the result of their
observations only confirmed former re-
ports, and stamp the Miguel as one of
the most wonderful mining districts in
the United States. The bed of the
stream, as we'll as the banks on either
side are one vast placer. = r.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14

HAY FEvER--The disease known as
hay fever has been Investigated by DIR.
G. III. Blackley, and he finds that it
cannot be produced by heat, light or
ozone. He believes it arises from the
contact Of pollen with the respiratory
organs. A mild form of the fever can
be induced by breathing SO small a
quantity as 0,00O0245 of a grain of pol
len every twenty-four hours, and the
severe form can be maintained by in
haling every twenty-four hours 0,OOO29
of grain. Of course the constitution
Of the person affected must be predis-
posed to the attack.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14
Scientific Love Letters.

An interesting correspondence is at
present being carried on between a
young woman in Warsaw, Ind, and
her atfianced lover, a promising young
physician and surgeon. In his last
letter he told her that he hoped to be
favored with healthy season Of sick
ness this Winter q removed pa
TENTS leg last night" he said, "F. T.,
aged 81 years, married male; compound
fracture Of the knee-pa and amaurasis
of the tibia, and as the limb fell upon
the table in the bowls of the subject
(who had stubbornly refused to be
placed under the influence of anes-
thetics) [ heard the soft and mellow
Ginning Of the bells announcing the
marriage at Warsaw Ind, on the I'd: at
the residence Of the brides parents, etc.
0, my love, dear girl, as [ conduct a
delicate operation for cataract, | see in
my dreams dreams SO realistic that the
scalpel trembles in my hand, and l
come within an ace Of digging out
the subjects eye) your own happy eyes
beaming upon me, soft with their love
light. All, my darling, a few more legs
and arms removed, few more pre-
scriptions and consultations, and |
shall be at least in a position to clasp
you to my breast and call you my wife,
my own
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14

IT is intimated that ex-Gov. Hendricks
of Indiana declined to be candidate
for the Senate in Morton's place because
he thinks that it would injure his
chances in 1880 for the presidential
nomination of his party.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14

LATEST advices from Washington say
that there is little doubt but that the
president will veto BANDS silver bill if
it reaches him in its present shape.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14

WHY WOMEN DON'T DRESS BECOMING
LY.-How difficult it is for woman to
be really we'll dressed, under the exist
ing prejudice that everybody must be
dressed like everybody else! This no
ton Of requisite livery is paralyzing
to anything like development Of indi-
vidual taste, and simply springs from
the incapacity of the many to originate,
wherefore they are glad to copy others;
but this majority have succeeded in suf-
locating the aesthetic minority, many of
whom are now forced to suppress really
good taste for fear Of being called " af-
fected." We shall never have any
school of art in England, either in dress
or decoration of any kind, until the fun
damental principle of good art is recog-
nized, that people may do as they like
in the matter, and until women cease to
be afraid of being laughed at for doing
what they feel to be wise and right
There can be no originality of scheme
until individual taste is admitted to be
free, and how can there be individuality
while all are completely subservient to
law, that law usually determined by folk
who have neither natural feeling for
beauty nor education-M III. R.
HAwEIs, in her Art of Beauty.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-14

tain in the distance. Our explorer found
the ground covered for acres with cut
stones and broken crockery ware, and
houses and walls of solid masonry
showing marks of skillful workmanship,
having withstood the ravages of time
for unnumbered centuries. A wall fifty
feet thick, apparently several miles in
circumference, was visible in many
places, making it probable that this pre-
historic city, like Babylon of old, had Il
population skilled in the arts Of ancient
warfare, and who built it in such man
ner as to be invulnerable by any such
appliance as a Roman battering ram.
In places houses were found completely
covered IN the earth, having become so
by the long process of time. In one of
these houses Remine found an opening
but little more than large enough to adj
nit mans body, and by means of a
rope which he brought along with him.
he let himself down into what he con-
sidered the upper story of a building of
enormous size. There were at least a
dozen different apartments, some of
them very large. The floor was of sol
id cedar logs. hewed and fitted close
together. While cropping his way from
chamber to chamber, over huge piles
of rubbish and debris, Remine came to
an aperture opening down into the dark
and dismal depths below His curiosity
to examine this subterranean cavern
was very great, but fearful that he might
stumble over the ghosts of some of the
Old Aztec or Ioltec builders, he finally
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-02-16

The Turkish infantry soldier is simp-
ly incompatible as regards bravery,
persistence, sobriety and skill in hand
ling his weapons. When under fire he
shows GOODNESS which only comes of
tue courage. If we'll organized and
commanded the Turkish infantry would
be invincible. Their arms and other
war material are good. Their officers,
ern military science. They are totally
ignorant of the practice of throwing
out skirmishers, and they do not know
how to take the slightest advantage of
Inequalities of ground, as was proved
by their immense losses in the Servian
campaign. As to the cavalry I have
never seen them in battle, but I have
observed that the generals in command
are always escorted by a strong force of
cavalry, which seems the more objec-
tional as this arm of the service is not
very numerous in Turkey. A Turkish
cavalry soldier never trots; he has only
two PAGES. the walk and the treble galop
triple galop). On the whole the Turks
are bad riders, and they are not
we'll trained as patrols or scouts. In
this respect the Circassians have done
excellent service; they are good and bold
riders, and will make excellent cavalry
troops when they are organized. The
Turkish artillery maneuvers we'll, is
steady under fire, selects its ground
with skill, and aims admirably; it is far
superior to the Servian artillery. Twas
much astonished to find, however, that
it is not sufficiently numerous. There
is also great want of ammunition,
which is the more severely felt as there
are no arrangements for military trans
port. This is one of the greatest defects
of the Turkish army, and is one of the
reasons which prevent it from gaining
decisive victories. The sanitary ar
rangements, too, are of the most pri-
native kind. There are no military
hospitals, except those at Nissa and So
phia; no ambulances, hospital corps or
itters. The wounded are dragged for
hours on the backs of mules or in carts
to the nearest hospital; and it is heart
rending to witness their sufferings. As
to the strategy of the Turkish comman-
ders, it is below criticism. Only such
an enemy as the Servians could have al
lowed the Turkish army to escape the
total ruin which would otherwise have
been the consequence of its enormous
strategical blunders.-Ffom Var Cor
respondent.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-02-16

The sagacity of dogs seems, in some
instances, to amount almost to kind of
clairoOyance. Another example of the
value of the keener canine senses to man
is furnished in the following story from
New York paper:
A gentleman resides uptown in New
York city, in whose family there is owned
a black-and-tan terrier dog. 1t happens
that the household consists of father,
mother, and three daughters, the. dog
being pet of the ladies, but always
heretofore an object of dislike to the one
solitary gentleman, which dislike, it is
hardly necessary to state, was mutual
To such a degree had the animosity
been carried, that the gentleman would
have destroyed the animal long ago had
he not been deferred by fear of feminine
reprisal, while the dog never failed to
show his teeth and growl, whenever his
masculine antipathy presented himself.
A few evenings since, the family were
at dinner in the basement, the dog ap-
parently asleep on chair. Suddenly
he reused himself, assumed an attitude
of listening, then jumped down and ran
towards the door, shutting at the bottom
Of it then standing upright and placing
his paw on the knob, he turned his head
with an expressive look, which said plain
er than words, " Please open this"
One of the ladies opened the door; then
the animal ran to the foot of the stairs,
shifted suspiciously, looked up the stair
way, looked round again, paused. seemed
to consider, then darting by the lady,
ran to the gentleman of the house, put
his paw on that persons knee, and
glanced from his face towards the stairs
with sharp, anxious bend of the head
as much as to say, "You are man; fol-
low me-"
The gentleman took the hint, and the
dog rushed off up the stairs barking vo-
ciferously. Instantly dash of heavy
footsteps, though with muff1ed sound,
was heard on the stairs above, leading
from the parlor floor to the second story,
as if some one was descending in haste,
then hurried fumbling with the chain
bolt, and just as the master appeared at
the head of the basement staircase, he
saw q man emerge through the front
doorway, with the black-and-tan cling
ing to the calf of one leg.
Ayelp told Immediately afterward that
the dog had been hurt, the thief striking
him heavy blow to lose his hold. For
tunately the canine was not seriously in
jured, but his display of equal to human
intelligence had won him the everlasting
regard of the gentleman who was for
merly so inimical.
Itwas ascertained that the thief, know.
ing the family to be at dinner in the
basement, had entered the lower door by
means of false pass-key. hoping to slip
up stairs undetected. The keen sense oil
the dog discovered the intruder, and
equally shrewd observation told him thai
= man was needed.