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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-10
He Believed in Immortality.
Harper'S Weekly.

In Mr.. Bryant's poem, "The Flood
of Years." which was first published two
or three years since, are these lines:
4' j - So they pass G--
From stage to stage along the shining course
Ot that fair river, broaden ed like sea. .i-
AS its smooth eddies curl along their way.
They, bring old friends together, hands are
clasped go" , -.E
. In joy unspeakable; the mothers arms :,
Again are folded round the child she loved
And lost. Old sorrows are forgotten now, @
Or but remembered to make sweet the hour
That oyerpays them; wounded hearts that bled
Or broke are healed forever. - ~
A gentleman who had been sorely
bereaved was so struck by the unques-
tioning faith in immortality here ex-
pressed that he wrote to Mr.. Bryant.
asking if the lines we're to be under
stood as statement of his own belief.
Mr.. Bryant instantly replied in the fol
lowing note, which has not been pub
lished before, and which has a peculiar
inserest at this time: .. .5n.-t ,.-.
CUMMINGToN, Mass, Aug. 10, 1876.
r DEAR SIR: Certainly believe all that
is said in the lines you have quoted. II
l had not could not have written them.
[ believe in the everlasting life of the
soul; and it seems to me that lmmor-
tality would be but an imperfect gift
without the recognition in the life to
come of those who are dear to us here,
Yours truly, w. G. BRYANT.
F. N. BARRETT. ESQ -tl t $3.50
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-10
Trade of the Northwest.

A gentleman well known. in st. Louis
business circles, and one who has inter
ested himself in the st. Louis plan of
diverting from the lakes portion of
the grain traffic, has Just returned from
a trip through Iowa and Wisconsin.
During his journey he made the opin-
ions of the grain men on trade with st.
Louis subject Of special inquiry, and
was more than pleased with what he
learned. He represents the grain crop
of the sections visited as good, and says,
furthermore, that the grain operators
have their eyes turned southwark. AL
m ost without exception, they look upon
the Mississippi as the ultimate outlet of
the grain product of the northwest, but
they differ much in their estimates as
to when the good time coming will
come. Much, they think, depends up
On the railroads, particularly those
reaching the Mississippi, and much up
on the energy shown by st. Louis and
New. Orlenns. st. Louis they, have
faith in, but appear to think that New
Orleans is too sluggish. Meanwhile,
Chicago and Milwaukee are wide awake,
and will make a fight to the bitter end
to maintain their prestige. 1t needs,
they say, active men and the co-opera-
ton of railroads and steamboats, to
make the grain trade with Europe, via
New Orleans, matter of course. The
northwest is only waiting.-S Louis
ReD1tbHenn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-10
Diplomacy of Dogs.

Compared to cat, a dog is very
simple and transparent creature. Some
times, indeed, he is guilty ofacts of de-
ception and hypocris y, but they are
crude and ingenious compared to the
unfathomable wiles of cat. It '
Mr.. North's dog, for instance, who
ate the pigeon out of the pie and stuffed
up the hole with Mr.. North's ink
sponge, was not an adept in the art OF
theft; and a fox-terrier with whom the
present writer enjoys the intimacy Of a
common household, has disgraced her
self very recently by what was, to all in
tents and purposes, lie. when a little
more astuteness would have shown her
the futility of falsehood in the face OF
an abb.
She had been tearing up paper and
strewing it about the floor with fine
literary freedom, when the servant,
whose duty it was to clean the carpet,
asked her, with magisterial severity,
"Who tore those letters ?" The culprit
looked, at first, terribly ashamed, and
hung her head and tail, in expeetion OF
chastisement, till her mistress. as trial,
observed, wonder did Gyp do it?
(Gyp being the offenders usual COM
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-10
Good AdAice to Graduates.

The young men now leaving college
who think that it would be beneath
their dignity to engage in mechanical
pursuits, and that the education which
they have received is only intended to
fit them for some one of the learned
professions, ought to study the bacca-
laureate discourse delivered by DR.
Peabody recently before the graduates
of Harvard "We need" SAID he,
liable and educated men in agricul-
ture and manufacture, and there is not
a department under those titles that
may not be elevated, not alone in
name, but in its permanent value as a
factor in its well being, by such re-
cruits as our college might furnish. +"
Students fresh from the university
are too apt to forget that there is some
thing practical in life to which their
education is only an introduction, and
that if it helps them in law, in medl
cine, and in theology, it Will also be an
aid to them in those other pursuits
which are equally associated with ma
tional progress and prosperity. A few
matter of fact sermons like DR. Peabody g
delivered just at the time when young
mems minds anC. feelings are the most
receptive, might lead them to indulge
less in thoughts of being carried throug h
life on " t1owery beds of ease" and more
of following avocations which will in
the end yield not only pleasure but
profit.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-10
A Big Salt Mine.
Syracuse (N. " Standard

The workmen engaged in boring an
oil we'll at Wyoming, Wyoming county,
last Friday, ran. the drill through sew
enty-fve feet of pure white salt. The
excitement is intense, and stock COM
pany is forming to utilize the find.
President Evarts, of the Rochester
Vacuum Oil Company, is at the head
of the new company. The prospect is
that all the land in the valley will be
Immediately leased. The salt was
struck at the depth of 1912 feet At a
depth of $50 feet the drill passed through
salt vein of three feet in thickness,
the water of which being subjected to
analysis showed the presence of f1uorine,
chlorine, bromine, iodine, aluminium,
and sixty per cent. of chloride of sodi-
UNI. The boring of this we'll has
knocked the bottom out Of the old
state biologists who have made reports
of the lay of the land, as their predic-
tons in every instance have proved
erroneous. ..e 4!3gtR rfat ff
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-10
The Great Chinese Famine.

Sir Rutherford Alcock writes to Mon
days Times that though rain has now
fallen in some oft the famine-struck dis
tricts Of China, and that by the month
of October it may produce good results,
till then none Of the poor creatures de-
pendent on the relief fund, which is
all but exhausted, will have chance
of any means of support. A hundred
thousand families are thus dependent,
and the Relief Committee in China ur-
gently telegraphs for $4,000 at once, of
which the collectors here can now only
forward about $500. Let us offer Sir
Ruth erford Alcock a practical sugges-
ton. We have received from China a
grotesque, but pathetic little picture
book, painting the horrors undergone in
the famine district, the stripping of the
trees of bark, as we'll as leaves, the eat
ing of the thatch off the houses, the feed
ing on the dead, the selling of boys and
girls into slavery, each rough print 40
companied by an explanation of its
drift in Chinese, which, we need hardly
say, would have been quite lost upon
the present writer had not the friend
who sent it kindly given short transla-
ton Of the meaning Of each. A great
multiplication of this little book, with
the Chinese explanations and English
interpretations, and the appeal of the
committee for help on the cover, would,
we are persuaded, touch more minds
and hearts than any mere circular. 1t
brings home what famine means at
once wildly and with that pathos which
is all the deeper for its quaint and gro
tesque character.-London Spectator
June Is. ..sHE.t.# .ff g7ggy ..
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-10
AUGUST BELMONT.-What Belmont is

AUGUST BELMONT.-What Belmont is
worth nobody knows, but he is credited
with the possession of millions, some
putting it AS high as ten millions. He
probably lives at the rate of $4,000 to
100000 per annum, and is pretty GER
tain not to spend more than he can very
easily afford. While he takes a good
deal of recreation and vacation at New
port, in Europe and elsewhere, he al
ways looks sharply after his business,
whether he is at home or abroad. He
is short in figure mot in money! rather
heavy-set, has dark complexion, keen
eyes, broad, pugnacious, puggish
nose, is partly bald, with good deal
of gray in the hair that remains. and
an expression of face not progressing.
He looks like a man with chronic dys-
pepsia, but be has, on the contrary,
perfect digestion and knows the broad
distinction between first rate and Sec
ond rate dinner as well as any dweller
on the North American continent. He
dresses plainly though richly, is over
sixty, and, though not at all distin-
guished in appearance, one cannot talk
to him any time without perceiving that
he is in character and intellect superb
or man.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-10
LOVE IN MEXICO.
Lovers Not at all Disturbed by Crowds
of LOOkerS-On. ytV

A traveller in Mexico writes as fol-
lows: In their love-making Mexicans
are equally innacent Of any suspicion of
any improperly in public demonstra-
tons. You see couples walking through
the crowded plazas with their arms
about each others neck's, totally obi
vious of their surroundings. Except
among foreigners such exhibitions ex-
cite no comment. Driving along the
Gaudaloupe road one afternoon we
came upon strapping fellow seated by
the roadside, with a young girl lying be-
side him, her head resting in his lap.
AS we passed she turned her face up
to his, reached upward, and with q
shapely hand patted the passive brute
on his lanterr-j aw-he all the time gaz-
ing stolidly at the passing carriage.
"You Dog" roared the exasparated
colonel. But the dog maintained his
equanimity all the same. At another
time while riding out to the iron baths
on street car we encountered a young
couple bedecked IN gay, holiday rib
bons and clean clothes, walking down
the broad roadway with their arms
lovingly clasped about each others
necks. She was young and quite hand
some, and he was young and carried in
his unoccupied hand pitcher of pulque,
stray drops of which were sprinkled
along the road. Evidently couple of
lovers returning from pilgrimage to
the shrine of Our Lady Of Gaudaloupe,
slightly the worse for their rotations.
Their arms were twined about each
others necks for mutual support, as
we'll as to demonstrate their affection.
They walked pretty steadily, however,
though with that obliviousness of de-
meanor which we see in more civilized
drunkards when they try to play it on
the people and think they are succeed
ing. We watched our two lovers from
the foot Of the car, and saw their steps
grow gradually unsteady until they be-
gan to totter and wave. After drink
ing a half a dozen glasses Of the efferves-
cent water fresh from the bubbling
spring, we took another street car for
the city. We had forgotten all about
our two lovers until we came upon them
again. lying prone upon the ground by
the roadside, their arms still lovingly
intertwined and their cheeks together
the pitcher broke at the fountain, and
a tOrtuous streak of the moist earth
showing where the pulque had mean
dered away
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-10
A Malay Superstition.

When Malays are dangerously sick,
they imagine that, if they can remove
the evil spirits, they are all right; so
they construct a miniature prahu, or
war-boat, of wood, complete in every
way, with mast, rigging, black flag,
paddles, and rudder. The boat is
filled with various articles, a bag of rice
at the stern. and lamp made out of
a cockle-snell at the prov; the body
of the boat is stuffed with cups made of
leaves, containing liquors of various
sorts, entrails Of fowls, sweetmeats of
all kinds, tobacco, flowers, and copper
coins, the boat is supported by slender
square bamboo platform, surrounded
with pendant grass. to the ends of which
are tied all sorts of eatables, and at the
corners the legs and wings of a chicken.
About eighteen inches below the boat
are figures of turtles crocodlies, and
lizards, made of rice, resting on a
plantain leaf, the whole being support
ed by four straight branches about
seven feet high (the top leaves forming
canopy stuck into raft made Of
plantain trees. Slips of bamboo are
stuck around the raft with partially
burned rags tied to them. The raft is set
ahoat, and it is supposed that the evil
spirits, enticed away, by the food in
the boat, leave the patient and attach
themselves to the boat. Should any
Malay touch the raft after it has been
Set afoat, he or she becomes afflicted
with the disease from which the person
for whose benefit the raft was set adrift
suffered. ..s. .....,..
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-10
The Communists.
New York Tribune.

1t is no longer safe to treat these
enemies of civilized society with in
difference. President Grant is prob
ably right in saying that they can nev er
prevail in this county; but if SO, it is
only because popular intelligence will
arrest the schemes Of communists at a
very early stage, whether they mediate
employment of bullets or ballots. 1t
has become peculiarly necessary to
teach those who lean toward cOmmun-
istic notions that their ideas are essen
TALLY revolutionary, and tend to blood
shed and anarchy-that, in fact, they
are not a whit better citizens than the
runaway assassins from Paris whom
they seek to disown. Let them compare
their most guarded political platforms
with the formal declarations Of the
communists of Paris. Let them listen
to the speeches Of the men who cele-
brated the French revolution of 1915
on Monday night. Exactly what they
want, these assassins tried to get, and
by the only possible method. Let the
ideas of the socialists, or greenback-
labor" advocates in this country, be
fairly compared with those of the
French communists, and it will be seen
that the distinction between them is
not one of purpose, but one of courage
and candor. .3 .it
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-10
STEWARDS ESTATE.
The Estimated Shrinkage from Real Es-
----. tate DEPRECATED.

A correspondent, writing from New
York, says:
"Stewart provided in his will that all
his business and real estate directly
connected with it should be inherited
by Judge Hilton, who had been his con-
fidential adviser for several years. All
other real estate he bequeathed to his
wife. The actual value of the business
and of the real property connected with
1t was not known then, nor mas it been
made known since. The whole was es-
timated at $30,OOO,OOO, and l am in
clined to think that figure was not
much out of the way. 1t included the
wholesale house at Chambers street, the
retail house at Tenth street, and some
twenty mills engaged in manufacturing
for the firm. All the hotel property
was outside of the business, and, to-
gether with number Of houses in diff
ferent parts of the city, went to Mrs.
Stewart. Those who speak of the de-
cline say that the business part of the
estate is worth $5,OOO,OOO less to-day
than at Stewards death, and some of
them predict that five years more will
produce bankruptcy. Such predictions,
however, are sometimes mere folly, and
this may be one of that sort. The esti-
mated value of the entire real estate in
this city in 1875 was $1O,OOO,OOO This
included the two stores, which were
supposed to be worth $3,0OO,OOO. The
uptown store is built on leased ground,
and the fee is therefore not so valuable
as might be supposed. Deducting the
value of the stores, which became the
property Of Hilton, the real estate be-
queathed to Mrs. Stewart was worth
S7,OOO,OOO year before her husbands
death. AS much of this property is sit
uated in parts of the city which are
steadily going backward, such as Beck
er street, Amity street, Ninth street,
Prince street, and SO on, it's value has
undergone serious decline since that
time. Good judges say that at least
100000 must be taken off for depre-
citation. They speak in this way of the
property at Hampstead, and with proba-
bly, as much reason. There is no doubt
that the whole estate has shrunk several
millions since Stewards death, but then
1t Is not by any means certain that the
same thing would not have happened
if Mr.. Stewart was still alive. Some
very shrewd business men have become
bankrupt within the past three years.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-10
Continuation of the Peruvian Railroad.

A correspondent of the RGal,Uay Age,
writing from Cerro de Pasco, under
date of May 21st says: You may be in
terested to know that the final location
of the continuation Of the Oroya rail
road has been made from Oroya, about
ninety miles northward to this place,
and work is to be speedily resumed on
the OrOya, and commenced on the ex-
tension. .... .I7.sv4n
The construction of these lines, with
the drainage and working of the Gel
ebrated silver mines at Cerro de Pasco,
was one of the contracts of the late
Henry Meiggs.7 This contract has been
undertaken by a company with a cap
ital of s3,0OO,OO0. The drainage of the
mines is to be effected by tunnel
1880 meters in length (same cross Sec
ton as the "Sutro Tunnel y, on which
active work has been progressing since
October last. The tunnel is to tap the
mines about four hundred feet below
the surface. These mines are a kind
of geological curiosity, for in the heart
of. the g diggings' y no lodes or veins
have been struck, the whole earth and
rock is a mass of silver ore. g, Even the
adobes'' Of which the houses are
built, assay from 81 to $40 per ton. The
amount of ore is almost inexhaustible,
and so far as experience goes seems ex-
Eceedingly rich within the inundated
zone. Fortunes Of 100000 have on
several occasions been taken out in
twelve hours by hand pumping and bal
ing. The government turned over to
the company two pairs ofheavy Cornish
pumping engines, one ofwhich is nearly
ready to work, also the Mineral rail
way.
| This railway was completed in 1878
It was built partly by English and partly
government capital at a cost of $780,
LOCO, is seven miles in length, and with
out doubt is the highest railway in the
world. Cerro de Pasco being a. OC
feet above7sea level, the other terminus
| (Sacra Familla), 1890 feet. The OBJ
ject Of the road is to carry ores from
the mines to water power. Guage 3 it.
6 in. Equipment. 2 six wheeled % tor
tank engines. % iron freight cars and 2
passenger cars. There are 20 more
freight cars, 2 baggage cars and 2 pas
senger cars ready to setup; all of which
will probably be required as soon as the
company's. mills are erected which are
now beng built in the United States. :
I Z 1t will be observed that stheroa cost
about $175, 900 per mile. The reason
for. this is, the road and every thing il
conn cotton with il A is built in the mos
aA8
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-10
Population OF the District Of Columbia.

A census OF the District of Columbia.
just completed, shows the population to
be 10000, an increase of nearly 80 per
cent. since 1870. A considerable portion
of the increase is of colored persons,
who are constantly finding their way to
Washington from Virginia and the re-
gions south. but a large portion consists
of persons Of wealth from all parts Of
the country who have selected Wash
ington as place of residence on &C
count of its attractions Of climate
and society. 1t is not stated what
proportion Of the above Enumeration
belongs to the city and what to the
country.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-10


substantial English" manner. The
equipment, rails, etc. were brought
from the coast, nearly 200 miles on the
backs Of mules, over roads that a
stranger would wonder how anything
without wings could pass. Nothing
weighing over 300 lbs. could be trans
ported; even the cylinders Of the loco
motives were brought in sections. Two
80 and one 50 feet span iron bridges
were brought in the same manner.
Rails are six feet long, weight, As lbs.
per yard. In connection with the road
are all necessary shops and machinery
for making repairs. A foundry is be-
ing erected for making heavy castings.
Nothing short of English tenacity or
American energy would ever have built
the Mineral Railway of Pasco.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-10
Standing Treat.

No An erlcan custom causes more
genuine surprise and amusement among
travelling foreigners than that which is
known In our saloons as treating
consisting in the entertainment of two
or more with refreshments for which
one volunteers to pay. 1t is pure
ericanism; all over the republic it
Is as common as in Europe it is un-
known. There is probably no minute
of any day in the year when two or
three hundred citizens of Chicago are
not guzzhng something stronger than
water at somebody else's expense.
The casual meeting of two men who
have never exchanged word together
is a signal for both instantly to ex-
claim, Come, let's have something y
and for both to dive down into the
nearest subterranean cavity below the
Sidewalk. The one who spoke first
usually insists upon ''paying the shot"
the word g shot being m etaphori-
cal reference to the deadly character of
9 the contents usually taken into the
stomach. If the two old friends meet,
the regular thing to say first is, Let's
drink to old tines and the resident
must invariably Z" treat" the stranger.
If a man be we'll acquainted, it is con-
sidered the princely thing to seize upon
all his acquaintances as often as
possible; take them to "a saloon, and
give them a complicated stand up drink
at the bar. 1926 @- 8ff ~.
If there is anything sabsurder than
this habit, we are unable to put our
finger on it. Mens,do not always
treat one another to car tickets be-
cause they happen to meet on the same
seat. We never saw man take out
his pocket book on encounter
ing an acquaintance, and say. s. All,
Georgels Delighted to see you'll Do take
a few postage. stamps It's my treat p
Do men have mania for paying each
others board bill? And is drinking to-
gether more "social" than eating to-
gether or sleeping together %
A traveller may 60 all over the conti-
nent OF Europe, of Asia and Africa,
without seeing any man except a Yam
kee, otter to treat" and the French
man are quite social enough, but when
they turn into cafe to sip their wine
or branded coffee together, each man
pays for his own. When two Germans
long separated, meet, they will be very
likely to embrace, and then to turn into
an adjacent beer cellar, sit down and
drink lager and eat pretzels and chat,
but when they part again, each man set
ties his score independently. So in
Italy The Italians are proverbially
merry and generous, but each man pays
for his own wine, maccarOni and cigars
They never go into each others pocket
book in the sacred name of friendship.
They would as soon think of trans
ferring to each other their washerwo-
mans bills. r...
The preposterous fashion of " treat
ing" is responsible for the terrible
drunkenness in America. There would
be as little need of temperance sOcie-
ties and as little work for the Good Tenn
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g /. -...
A FEW days ago a woman's garments
were found by some young men on the
bank of a secluded stream near Day
ton, O.: neatly arranged in a pile. The
owner not being visible the idea of sui
eide at once suggested itself, and this
theory was strengthened by the discov-
cry in pocket Of the dress of a tender
and touching love-letter addressed to
MY darling" The clothes were taken
and delivered to the police. The next
day young lady of Dayton, accom-
panied by some friends, appeared at
the police headquarters and claimed
the garments, explaining that she was
bathing in the stream at little distance
from that point where they were dis
covered, and that she could not cenven-
iently appear to prevent their removal.
The clothes were returned.