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The "Hushing-Up" Policy.

THE prevalence of this evil is almost
universal. When politician is de-
tected in wrong-doing his associates
cry: "Hush it up; it will hurt the party
to punish him." When an official of a
corporation is discovered to have stolen
large amounts, the stockholders cry
"Hush it up. it will send the stock
down to make it known" When a
member of Christian church commits
some fragrant wrong, there are always
many who are ready to cry: "Oh, hush
it up; it will hurt the reputation of the
church to have this thing generally
known" And the wrongs are hushed
up, and the wrong-doers go unwhipped
of justice.
Little good comes of this &C hushing-
up'' policy. The truth nearly always
leaks out, and then it does more hurt to
the party or to the corporation or to
the church than a fearless probing of
the evil to the bottom could possibly
have done. A crime concealed in this
way is like a badly-healed wound,
ready to break out afresh at any mo-
ment. And when it breaks out again
healing may be out of the question.
The church is particularly blameworthy
when it consents to this hushing up of
things. If the church be not the con-
servator of whatever things are true,
just and pure, lovely and of good re-
port, she is false to her divine mission.
If she do not exhibit stalwart and in
flexible morality, what hope is there for
the world?-Erdni1aer and Chronicle
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0ur poung falhs.
THE SHEPHERD-BOY

Little Roy led his sheep down to pasture,
And his COWS, by the side of the brook;
But his cows never drank any water
And his sheep never needed crook. .....
For the pasture was gay as garden
And it glowed with fowery red;
But the meadows had never grass blade,
And the brooklet--it slept in its bed;
And it lay without sparkle or murmur,
Nor reflected the blue of the skies
But the music was made by the shepherd,
Ana the sparkle was all In his eyes.
Oh, he sang like bird in the summer!
And, II sometimes you fancied a bleat,
That, too, was the voice of the shepherd
And not of the lambs at his feet.
And the glossy brown cows were so gentle
That they moved at the touch of his hand
Ger the wonderful rosy-red meadow,
And they stood at his word of command
So he led all his sheep to the pasture
And his cows, by the side of the brook;
Though it rained. yet the rain never patter'd
ger the beautiful way that they took.
And it wasn't in Fairy-land either,
But house in commonplace town
Where Roy as he looked from the window
Saw the silvery drops trickle down.
For his pasture was only a table.
With its cover so flowery fair.
And his broOklet was Just a green ribbon
That his sister had lost from her hair,
And his cows they were glossy horse-chestnuts,
That had grown on his grandfathers tree;
Ana his sheep they were snowy-white pebbles
He had brought from the shore by the sea.
And at length, when the shepherd was weary,
And had taken his milk and his bread
And his mother had kissed him and tucked hin
And had bid him goodnight" in his bed
Then there enter'd his big brother Walter.
While the shepherd was soundly asleep,
And he cut up the cows into baskets,
And to jack-stones turned all of the sheep.
Emily s. Odkey, in 81 Nicholas for February.
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Rev. G. W. MansfieId's Testimonial.

HYDE PARK. MASS. Feb. Is, 1873.
MA H R. STEVENS: ...' t'O
Dear Sir-AbOut ten years ago my health failed
through the depicting effects of dyspepsia nearly
year later was attacked by typhOidever In its worst
form. 1t settled in my back and took the form Of
large, deepseaed abscess which was fifteen months in
gathering had two surgical operations by the best
akill In the State but received permanent cure
suffered great pain at times, and constantly weak
ened by profuse discharge also lost small pieces of
bone at different times. ~ -
Matters ran on thus about seven years. till MAY 1874
when friend recommended to go TO your Office and
talk with You Of the virtue of VEGETINE L did 30
and by your Kindness passed through your manfactory
noting the ingredients ETC., by which your remedy Is
produced. D
by what saw and heard gained some confidence in
VEGErINE. 50
commenced taking it soon after but felt worse from
It's effects still persevered, and felt IL was bene
tng me in other respects Yet did not see the results
desired till had taken 1t faithfully for little mora
than year. when the difficulty in the back was cured
and Tor nine months have enjoyed the best OF health
nave In that time gained twenty five pounds of flesh
being heavier than ever before In my life and I was
never more able % perform labor than now
During the past few weeks had a scrofulous swelling
as large as my INST gather on another part my body
took VEdETINE faithfully, and II removed il level
with the surface In month. think should have been
cured OF my main trouble sooner II had taken larger
doses after having become accustomed 10 It's effects
Let your patrons troubled with scrofua or kidney dis
eases and, II they will patiently take vEGETINE il
WILL In my judgment, cure them.
Win great obligations am
Yours very truly,
g. w. MANSFIELD
.t Pastor of the Methodist L. Church.
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Who walk behind th

Who walk behind this bier?
Behold the solemn phantoms who are they,
The stern precursors that arise, to-day,
Breathing of many fiery year
And clad In drapery of darker time?
These are the dead who saw
Too soon the worlds diviner law
Too early dreamed their peoples dream sublime
He follows them, who lived to make that dream
A principle supreme;
Dome-browed MaZzini-he, who planted sure
Its cornerstone. Cavour!
Then, hrst among the living, that gray chief
Who wears at last, his Roman laures leaf
To conquer which he rent and shattered down
His rich Sicilian crown.
All, bend thee, Garibaldil-be not 10th
To trust the son of him thou gav'st a land,
Or kiss the stainless hand
OF her whose name is pearl and daisy BOTH
Such love, to-day, thy people give
10 him who died, such trust to them who live.
Cunning nor force shall overthrow
The State whose fabric has been builded So
Under the Pantheon's dome,
The undylng Victor still shall reign
Der one free land that dare not feel a chain
49,, Whose mighty heart is Rome!
Still, from the ramparts of the Rhatian snow
Far from the realms of corn and wine,
Back-boned by Apennine
To capes that breast the warm Calabrian Sea-
A single race shall know
One love, one right one loyalty:
Still from his ashes Italy shall grow,
Who made her Italy!
-Bayard Taylor, In " Y. Tribune.
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Safe and Sure.

Mr. II. r. STEVENS:
In 1872 your VEGETINE was recommended to me-
and yielding TO the perSuasOns of friend consented
70 try AT the time was suffering from general de-
blty and nervous prOstratOn superinduced by over.
work and irregular habits Its wonderful strengthening
and curative properties seemed to affect my debtaed
system from the first dose and under its persistent use
rapidly recovered gaining than usual health and
good feeling. Since then have not hesitated to give
VEGETINE my most unqualified Endorsements as being
SAFE sure and powerful agent in promoting health and
restoring the wasted system to life and energy
vEGETlNE is the only medicine use and as long as
live l never expect to find better.
Yours truly, W. H. CLARK
120 Monterey Street, Allegheny Pa.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-09

MANY woman is mourning to-day
over blighted affections, hopes not
realized, love grown cold, and the wall
that is ever going up from her tender,
loving heart is only the old one that has
gone up from thousand hearts before
=" 1t might have been" Sad, sad cry!
but thus it has been and ever it will be
till the dawning of a better day. But
the woman that is up at early dawn,
cooking buckwheat cakes forfour grown
boys and growing girl, is not bothered
with any such thoughts as these. Her
agony of soul consists only in the reali-
cation of the fact that the buckwheat in
that pot is disappearing like the dew
before the morning sun, and her hus-
band lies dreaming above wholly uncon-
scious of what is going on. When he
gets up and looks on the empty bucket
and distressed wife the humiliation
theory is no more mystery to him,
and, looking out of the window, he
VOWS within himself that he will go
down town and buy a ticket to hear
Joseph Cooks lecture, "Does death end
all?''- YOnEerS Gazette.
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WHEN NJ. Theirs was a young man
he wrote complete work on spherical
trigonometry How many young men
are there in Danbury who have written
a complete work on spherical trigonom-
etryP We venture not twenty. For
shame!-Danbu9y NeOS.
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VEGETINE.

vEGETINE thoroughly eradcates every kind of hu.
NOR and restores the entire system to healthy cond
ton.
The following letter from Rev. G. W. Mansfield, for.
mery pastor Of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Hyde
PARK, and at present settled in Lowell must convince
every one who reads his letter of the wonderful curative
qualities of vegetne thorough cleanser and purifier
OF the blood:
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VECE. lME,

Thousands will bear testimony (and do it Voluntarily
that VEGEIINE is the best medical compound yet
placed before the public for renOvating and purifying
the blood Graduating all humors impurities or poison
Gus secretions from the inygorating strength
ening the system debitated by dlsease in fact Is as
many have called it. THE Great Health Resterer"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-09

MAINE has fifty farmers, seventeen
shop-keepers and only twelve lawyers
in her new House of Representatives.
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VEGETINE.
VEGETINE has never failed to effect cure giving
tone and strength to the system debltated by disease

SHE RESTS WELL.
SOUTH POLAND Me-, Oct. H. 1873.
Mr.. II. r. STEVENS: 0
Dear Sii--I have been sick two years with the liver
complaint and during that time have taken a great
many different medicines but them did me any
good. was restless nights and had appetite Since
taking the vegetne rest well and relish my food Can
recommend the Negetne for what it has done for me-
Yours respectfully,
MRS. ALBERT KICKER
Witness Of the above:
MIR. GEO NJ. VAUGHAN,
AedfOrd, Mass.
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THE OBSEQUIES IN ROME.
Ian. II, 1881

VICTOR EMMANUELLOf prophetic name,
Who, crowned in sore retreat,
Caught out of blood disaster and defeat,
With wounded hands, a soldiers simple fame
Content, had that been all,
And most content, VIGOROUSLY to fall
Life saved thee for peoples hottest aim,
And leaves thee, Victor, in thy pail!
God with u.s. may that people say,
Who walk behind thy conquering dust to-day;
Yea, all thine Italy
Made one, at last, and proudly free,
Resses thy sire's baptismal prophesy.
Since, over-coarse to be the Empires lord,
Herulian Odoaker fell
Among spilled goblets, by the Gothic sword
In old Ravennas palace-citadel;
And, after him, Theodore strove
To own the land he could not choose but love;
And both, from no deficiency of power,
But failing heart and brain
That might revlvlfy the beauty slain,
Builded barbaric thrones for one brief hour;
Since, In a glorious vision cast
BY some narcotic opiate of the past,
Rlenzi sought to be
Brutus in deed, Caesar in victory
The Italy, that once was Rome,
Dlsmembered, sighed for her deliverance,
Saw her Republics die,
Leaned yainly on the broken reed of France,
I'LL, when despair seemed nigh,
She saw herself, and, starting from her trance,
Summoned the Victor, who hath led her home!
He knew his people, and his soul was strong
To wait till they knew him:
The hand that holds scepter dare not shake
From the quick blood that burns at every wrong
With Europe watchful, cold and grim
Behind him, and the triple-hooded snake
Coiled in his path, he went
Through changing gusts ofdoubt and discomfort
Till all he could have dreamed of came to him
But now his people know him!-now,
Since death S pure coronet is on his brow,
Italian eyes are DIM
Now to her ancient glories sovereign Rome
Adds one more glory; sorrow falls
Der all the circuit of the Aureian walls,
Even from Montorio on st, Peters dome
And where warm Pamtili-Dorin meads
Fresh dew the daisy feeds;
And breathes in every tall Borghese pine,
And means on Aventine;
And-could the voice of all desire awake
That once was loud for ltaly's dear sake
A hymn would burst from each dumb burial
stone
Beside the Cestian pyramid
Where Keats, Shelley's dust is hid
In dlthyrambic triumph DER his own!
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AM tOO sleepy W Tedu.
"Why don't you take a nap? 1t
would do you good" exclaims the hus-
band. Let me arrange a place for
YOU
And in few minutes the shawls and
bags are arranged into very tempting
resting-place for the tired mother. She,
who rose at five o clock to get ready, will
ingly lays her head back on the shawl
and closes her eyes. Just as the "chug-
chug" of the cars begins to be a contin-
uous hum-m-m," she is startled by a
scream from the baby, who has a sus-
picious-looking red spot over his eye.
Papa looks little confused, and ex-
plains:
"Why, you see, he sat so still that
thought | could read the President S
message, and the first thing knew, he
had tumbled off the seat
But from the "big bag mamma pro-
duces arnica and an old handkerchief,
while papa wonders how she could have
known he was going to get bumped,
and thinks it not such a bad thing to
"get ready" after all. ..
Never mind, he is all right now.
You go to sleep again, and I'll devote
myself to him.''
So once more the weary eyes close,
and this time everything fairly fades
out of sight, and she is in that delight
full state when one is asleep just enough
to be conscious of the comfort of 1t,
when her husband says:
Maria, am sorry to disturb you,
but really | think this child is hungry,
and can't find his bottle of milk"
So she raises herself and feeds him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16
Another Sensation Spoiled.

A rumor came from Washington a
few days since that an attempt would
be made in Congress to investigate the
Louisiana and South Carolina cases.
with view of getting at the true in
wardness of the alleged bargain which
Is said to have been made between GER
tain Democratic and Republican Con-
gressmen, and Senator Conkling and
Ben Butler were named as the parties
who were to take the initiative in the
matter. The Chicago Tribune and
Milwaukee Sentinel were accordingly
happy, aud proceeded to abuse Conk-
ling, Butler and all others who are
supposed to be III sympathy with them.
Those papers are wonderfully afra d
that some one will not get up quarrel
with the President. They proceed day
after day to erect man of straw and
then knock him down, as if it had
veritable existence in the flesh. They
are now shown to have been making
fools of themselves by the denial of
Conklng and Butler that they enter
tanned any idea of doing what it was
charged they intended. If the 7ri-
6une and Sentinel are sincerely anxious
to build up the Republican party, and
promote its interests, they have a Pc
culiar method of making it manifest,
which is not appreciated by the aver.
age reader. They seem "spoiling for
a fight" all the while, and abuse with
out stint or reason every Republican of
prominence in the country who does not
happen to coincide with their erratic
notions. This may be judicious 10
leading Republican papers, such as the
Tribune and Sentinel aspire to be, but
we doubt it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16
Democrats Eating Crow.

On Wednesday of last week, after
the Greenbackers had nominated their
candidate for speaker, and before the
Democrats had all been whipped into
his support by the coalitionists, leaving g
the final outcome in doubt the Mad
ison Democrat freed its mind as follows:
The counting OF noses revealed the fact
that twelve greenbackers had beer elected
to the assembly Mr. Parker, of Belot
withdrew from candidacy for speaker and
put forward Mr.. Barrows, q green back dem
ocrat. Mr.. Barrows is a gentleman for
whom we entertain high respect, but his
politics, now that this matter has drifted
fairly into politics, are pot acceptable TO
hard money democrats. We had hoped to
see the party fight it out on straight old
democracy and win if possible, but if lost to
lose with clean hands and clear con.
science.
Butthe Greenback pill, bitter though
it was, was finally swallowed. Where
now are the Democrats "clean hands
and clear conscience ?"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16

1T will now be in order for the Wa
tertown Democrat, By way of reciproc-
ity, to address a few remarks to its
Madison namesake, on political consis-
tsncy and honesty. When our neigh
Dor straddled the fence on the finance
question, or rather got on both sides
Of it, the Madison Democrat proceeded
to lecture it on lis double dealing.
Now the Watertown Democrats turn
has come to ''stir up the animals"
The Madison Democrat is hard mon
sy organ, and has been opposed to any
fusion with the Greenbackers. No
sooner, however, was trade perfected
BY the two parties at Madison, by
which the organization of the Assem-
bly, was to be effected on division of
the spoiis between them, than the
Democrat threw up its hat with de-
light, chuckling over it as if it were a
brilliant stroke of policy. 1t cannot
be that the WATERFOWL Democrat will
miss such fine opportunity for scoring
it2namesake as is here presented.
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New Advertisements.
For Sale.

My FARM OF 1T ACRES, ONE AND
Nla half miles from city limits, north.
east ION the Marshall road). This farm is
pronounced, by the best ofjudges, to be one
OF the very best and most desirable of its
size to be found in the state. About one
hundred acres are ready for the pillow, and
the balance ION the back part Of the farm),
excellent timber land, mainly black oak
and hickory, and will cut thirty cords to
the acre. 1t has large and commodions,
two-story, white brick dwelling house
,brick from Watertown), with a rat proof
cellar under the whole, and none better in
the county, if in the state. Two excellent
barEs, large hog house and numerous other
outbuildings. Two excellent wells of water
with windmill, tank, &C., for stock, and the
farm abuts on never. failing stream of wa.
ter, besides also, one of the best apple or
chards of three hundred trees, about half of
which are in full bearing; cherry. plum &C.,
with garden full of small fruits, and a
door yard filled with an extensive variety
of shade, ornamental and nut. bearing trees.
This farm, having its timbered "a t
stretching across the whole, can be con- eni-
emily cut up into four small farms, and each
have nice wood-lot and right OF way to
the running stream.
/ will sell the whole or part. Will sell
1T with the timber or reserve the timber;
will take in part pay a city residence; will
sell mainly on credit.
l have also for sale large lot of stock,
including sheep, horses, cows and hogs the
usual farm implements, with carriages, wa
CONS, cutters etc., and about hundred tons
of hay, and thousand bushels of corn in
crib.
CHAS. r. GILL,
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The Wisconsin Legislature.

Luis pouy lueb a0 Uuduisou last
Wednesday. Both branches were
promptly organized; the Senate by the
election of Republicans as chief clerk
and for the other offices, and the AS
sembly making choice of candidates
agreed upon by a coalition of the
Democrats with the Greenbackers
To the Democratic caucus, held on
Tuesday evening, proposition was
made for fusion with the Greenback-
ers, the latter having made overtures
during The day looking to division Of
the spols. A strong opposition was
made to the proposed trade by several
members, Mr.. Finn, of this city,
among the number. He made a
lengthy speech in favor of fair and
square hard money fight, saying that
he preferred to join hands with Repub-
licans of that faith, rather than with
soft money advocates. But they
knew Films weak point, and played
upon his vanity by making him chair.
man of a committee Of conference to
wait upon the Greenback members,
then in session in another part of the
city. He caught at the bait thus
thrown to him, and swallowed it as
easily as be was afterwards swallowed
himself by tie Greenbackers-both
operations having been performed with
great dexterity and skill. The rest
can readily be guessed at. From a
brave and gallant defender of hard
money principles and virtue in the
Democratic caucns, he became sudden
~ transformed into blatant coalition.
list, and presently returned to the body
from which he had been sent, recon-
mending fusion upon the terms pro-
posed, which was to give the Green
hackers the candidate for speaker, and
the Democrats the Offices Of clerk and
sergeant at arms. Upon putting tn
question to a vote, FIVE members signi
fed their dissent. but suitable applianc
es were used and finally all succumbed,
but one-E. G. Wall, of Milwaukee
who fought the coalition to the last
and is the only surviving relic of the
Democratic party in the House. The
other members of that faith have been
swallowed up. They sold out to the
Greenbackers for few paltry Offices.
The future will show whether they
have not played losing game. The
Republicans, to their credit be it said,
neither entered into nor sought any al
lance with the opposition. They made
no compromises, whatever, but main
tanned firmly, from first to last, true
Republican ground. The organization
of the Assembly was not of sufficient
i'm portance to render desirable any
such sacrifice of principle as that made
by the Democrats in order to gain their
point. And this We believe is the ver-
dict not alone of Republicans but of
many Democrats also.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16

ALL that any one cares to know OF
Barrows, the Democratic Greenback
Coalition speaker of the Assembly is
that he voted for himself. What
makes it utterly indefensible and mex
eusable is that without his own vote.
he would have had So votes, or two
more than were required for an elect
ion The modest, not to say the de-
cent, thing for him to have done was to
have voted for some one else, or not to
have voted at all. He would have
been elected all the same, aud would
have shown, what people will now be
slow to believe, that be has some little
sense,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16

The Chicago Tribune did not always
entertain the views it now advocates
upon the silver question. In its issue
sfJuly 18th, 1876, it declared that
the ''old weight in silver is not equiv
alent to the standard dollar, and it
would be dishonest to require credit.
or to take it for a dollar" Everyone
Whe now maintains this doctrine is de-
pounced by the Tribune as Shylock,
and given other pet names such as the
Tribune only knows how to apply to
those who do not think as it does upon
this subject.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16
Dissolution.

THE co-partnership heretofore existing
l. under the firm name of Nixon & Reyes,
is this day dissolved by mutual consent.
All accounts due and against the late firm
will be settled by E. G. Nixon, who will
continue the business Of the late firm at the
old stand. All those Indebted to the above
named firm, will please call and settle their
accounts, as the books must he Strengthened
up Immediately. E. c. NIXON.
w. P. KEYES.
Dated, Dec. 2sth, 1877.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16

In reading of the present disturbed
site of things existing in Texas, one
is impressed with the force of the re-
mark made by Gen. Phil. Sheridan,
after visit there, that eff he owned
both He'll and Texas, he would rent
out Texas, and live in the other place. ="