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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04
leans Circus, Museum, HippOdrome
Menagerie and Congress of Living
Wonders. atertOwn June Is.

Wonders. w atertOWn June g.
Amusement seekers will be glad to learn
that the proprietors of this famous estab-
lisbment have announced their intention of
exhibiting here. 1t is hardly necessary to
say much about an entertainment which
for variety and magnifcence has no equal
on the continent. On this occasion, how
ever. the attraction will be enhanced by q
very important addition. Mr.. Cole, with
accustomed enterprise, has secured for ex-
hibition two of the greatest curiosities of
the day-the largest man and woman in the
world. Mr.. Bates, the male giant, is eight
feet high, lacking J inch, and his better
half, who appears along with him, boasts
exactly the same number of feet of woman
hood. The couple have appeared before her
Majesty, who was so much impressed by
their appearance that she presented his
giantship with magnificent gold watch,
valued at $1,000. This gift, it need hardly
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04

The closing exercises ofthe school con-
nected with the State Institution for the
Deaf and Dumb at Delevan, will take place
on the afternoon of Jane 10th.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04
SDiieo.

In Palmyra on Saturday morning May
Oath, Mrs. AMANDA REEVES, wife of
J. Thomas Reeves, aged 46 years
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04
The "NeW Home
THE NEW HOWE"

(Just QUIT and far outstripping some of
the older companies.
Imported Singers and s'Singers' manu-
featured by The Singer Manufacturing Co.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-04
IN STOCK 2

For Tailors, Shoemakers. and general
manufacturing in Cloth and Leather, have
the best manufactured! Also some good
Second Hand Family Machines. Quality,
Style and prices to suit everybody, on the
most reasonable terms.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21
SOUTHERN FACTORY OF
and SHOES,
By John Hansen,

80 and 35 Canal street, cor Peters, oPpS
site Customhouse, NEW pRLbhNo
A fine assortment of boots apa S" ,he
constantly on hand. Orders iro.
country solicited. Exact measures ,an, nd
A good fit guaranteed. QUICK saie'
Small Profits" is our motto nc "a,
Nov. ~. -.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21
A Short Sermon.

My friend was walking up State
street late one windy afternoon,
when he encountered II short ser
mon on temperance. The air was
keen and cold, with symptoms of
snow. He had pulled his capdown
over his ears as far a $ possible, and
buttoned his overcoat close, to keep
out the stinging lake wind, and war
hurrying along at "A pace that might
rival Westou's, when he nearly ran
over IL little child not more than
four years old who had fallen on
the sidewalk near him.
'.Heigho. siSp he exclaimed, lift
ing her safely to her feet again.
The little ragmutfin put up "a very
grieved lip, aud was going to cry,
but stopped when he spoke pleas
antly to her.
"Whew barefoot, and such a
day as this with II low whistle.
"Why don't you run home, sis, and
put on your shoes and stockings
yOu freeze your toes "
"Don't dot amy shoes and stot-
Don't got any, ell! How does
hat happen I Don't your tahter
'uy any shoes and stockings ~
80, no !" she answered, with a
one that meant "of course Ot."and
manner indicating that she con.
matter amply sufficient
my pa diets drunk"
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21
kEM ORLEANS.
New Inventions !

Boz t,.lff. vs8,t..
- .n.----
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21

BORED WELI.S--A great improvement
on the drove wells. Any one can sink
them. Guaranteed to get pure aud fresh
water. CHEAP and INExHAusTIBLE.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21
The Happiest Period of Life.

What, then, is the happiest
period of human lite | am sure
there is only one answer. 1t is
now. 1T am doing my duty, today
is the best day | ever had. Yester.
day had IA happiness of its own,
aud mp TO this morning 1t was the
best day of all. | would not, how.
ever, live it over again. Istriug it
as II new bead, on the chaplet of
praise, and turn to the better work
and the higher thoughts of the
present time. OF all the many
days of life, give me to-day. This
should be "a fleeing always, from
the cradle to the grave when we
are called 10 come up higher.
Clildhood's best for children, man.
hood is best tor men, and old age
for the silver. haired. We will all
join IN q chorus of thanksgiving
to God, and when asked, (Which
is the happiest period I" will say
childhood. manhood and old age
sob, father il is now~
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21
Somebody Else,

A lady was walking quietly
along the city street. not long ago.
when the door of a house flew oprn,
and a boy shot out with a whoou
like Il wild Indian. Once on the
pavement, he danced a sort of
double shuttle all around a curb.
stone, and then raced down the
street in great haste, for it was evil
dent by the books under his arm
he was going to school. The lady
was thinking what thoughtless,
noisy creatures healthy boys always
are, when just IA few yards before
her she SOW something yellow lying
on the pavement. Coming nearer,
she fancied it was ii pine shaving,
and looked after the boy again.
She SAW him suddenly stop short
In a crowd OF people at a crossing,
aud come back as fast as he had
gone, so that before she had reach.
ed the shaving, he did, and picked
up, not Il shaving at all, but a long,
Shiny banana-skin. Flinglng it
into a refuse-barrel, he only waited
loDg enough to say:
Somebody might have slipped
on it," and was off again.
1t was "A little thing to do, but
that one glance of the boys clear,
grey eyes, and this simple, earnest
sentence, made the lady's heart
very warm toward the noisy fellow.
He had not slipped himself; he
was far past the danger; and when
one is in a hurry it is a great both
er to go twice over the very same
ground, but the "sOmebody elser
might slip; and 40 tor the sake of
this unknown somebody the hurry
ing boy came back, and, it may be,
saved the lite Or limbs of a feeble
old man, or a tender young child.
He might have said
81 can't wait to go back ; it is
none of my business !" but he
made it his business.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21
For Husbands.

Don't think when you have VOL
"a wife that you have also won
slave.
Don't thiuk that your wife has
less feeling than your sweetheart
Her relation to you is changed, not
her nature.
Don't think that you can dispense
with all the little civilities of life
toward her on marrying. She ap.
preciates those things quite as
much as other women.
Dou't be grutf and rude at home.
Had you been that sort of a fellow
before marriage, the probabilities
are that YOU would be sowing on
yonr own buttons still.
Don't make your wife feel that
she is an encumbrance on You by
giving her grudgingly. What she
needs give as chPerfully as if it
were pleasure so to do. She will
feel better, and SO will you.
Don't meddle in the affairs of the
house under her charge. You have
no more right to be poking your
NOSE into the kitchen than She has
to walk into your place of business
and give directions to your employ
eeS.
Don't find fault with her extrava.
gance in ribbon, etc, until you
have shut down oil cigars, tobacco,
beer, etc. s-E ..
Don't leave your wife at home to
nurse the children on the score of
while you bolt downtown
at nights, to e the show, OF spend
a dollar on billiards.
Don't bolt your supper, and hur.
ry off to spend evenings, louneing
around away from your wife. Be.
tore marriage you couldn't spend
your evenings enough with her.
Don't prowl in the loafng resorts
Ill midnight, wasting your time in
culpable ldleness, leaving your wife
at home to brood over your
neglect and her disappointment.
Don't think that board and clothes
are sufficient for all Il wife does for
you. F'.yst 10
Don't caress your wife in public
md snari and glowl at her in pri.
iate.
Don't wonder that your wife is
lot as cheerful as she used to be,
she labors from early morn
Ill late at night to pander to the
and caprice of IA selfish
nan, who has not soul enough to
appreciate her.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21

CLAYTON'S METALLIC HEAT RE.
FLECTOR-More heat. No snake. No
dust. Less fuel. Acts as IA v-ntilator in
summer To fit all size CRATES. A sure
cure tor smoky fire places. % per cent.
more heat thrown into the room, that
would otherwise go up the chimney with
out one of the valuable Rcilectors. Price
only 81 each.
REYNOLDS & ARMSTRONG,
80 Baronne street.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21
Eamik Girrlr.
THE SAFEG U4RD.
BY ELIZAbETH ". DENIsoy.

A baby crept to his fathers knee,
And was lifted up and lulled to rest,
Till the blue eyes closed, so tired was he
And his little head fell peacefully
At ease on the ready shoulder there,
While the baby hand so soft and fair,
Lay like a shield on his fathers breast.
Df old twas said that when men drew near
To fierce temptation or deadly strife,
And lost their way in a maze of fear,
Or pcrilled their souls for worldly gear.
BY a way unknown an angel hand
Would lead them out of the dangerous land
Into the light of a noble life.
The story is true for the world to-day;
We see no white robed angels mild;
Bnt out of the dark and perilous way
Where men and women forget to pray,
Into the peace Of a purer land
They are led by a gentle, shielding hand
The hand OF II little, helpless child.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21

A man of thirty, dressed in
~sheepskins trimmed with red tiau.
mel and bearing an enormous black.
board inscribed, 81 am theprophet
Elias" recently appeared in the
s reefs of Rye, England, declaring
that he was one of the tribe of
Levi, and must journey from town
to town fulfilling his mission aud
saving the human race.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21
Sweet Words.

Five OF the sweetest words in
the English language begin with
IL, which is only "A breath: Heart.
Hope, Home, Happiness and Heav-
en-. Heart is IA home-place, and
home is a heart-place; aud that
man sadly mistaketh who would
exchange the happiness of home
for anything less than heaven.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21

or a truth a house without a girl
is only half blessed; tits an orchard
without blossoms and "A spring
without song. A house full of sons
Is like Lebanon with its ccdars,
but daughters by the fireside are
like roses in Sharon.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21

HUNTERS PERFECTION ROTARY
FLOUR AND MEAL SIFTER-The great
est combination known. Eleven combina-
tons in one. Over 300 1000 now in use.
Every family should have one. Each ar
ticle purchased separately would cost
81 so where these only cost IS cents.
Only sitter in the world that can be taken
apart. Agents wanted.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21

The man who believes that there
is no God, no Immortality, and that
when he dies he will melt into tile
earth to he seen no more, like the
snowflake sinking in the ocean.
certainly wants u of the most
powerful stimuiants to intellectual
and moral advancement
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21

TOKCH-A blessing to Steamboat mel
and Planters. Wind or rain cannot ex-
tinguish them. Cannot explode. Can be
placed on a freight pile or moved at will,
without danger of sparks. A great thing
for Planters to destroy Insects.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21

COOKING STOVE-Robert +. Lee, of
Southern manufacture, made of best char
eonl iron, good even baker, light on fuel,
double bottom and back, hollow covers,
warranted not to crack or warp; guaran-
teed to give satisfaction. Thirty days
trial or money refunded. Cheapest Stove
in the market.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21

DIS & ARMSTRONG,
80 Baronne street.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-30
THE SORCERIES OF SCIENCE,

SONG By AN oLD-sCHooL MAN.
DAY by day. in this wonderful age,
~, is announced some amazing invention,
flt to puzzle the brains Of sage
a, ana tir past my poor comprehension.
lou can talk, by the telephOne-wire.
~ seas or with electric CELEBRITY;
1o the monograph they that aspire
May their voices transmit to pOsterity.
In my youth twas once thought vain dream
That the streets could be lighUed with gas;
To expect lOCpmOtlon from steam
Was accounted the hope of an ass.
A OUTLAW rs yesterday, rings
In mine ears from the days long ago
When. at what seemed ridiculous things
Our grandfathers laughed, Ho! no! no!
And still have some fear in my mind
That this science will end in confusion;
That its marvels ut last we shall find
To have been but Old Harry 3 illusion.
We shall suddenly wake up some day,
-, In astonishmeut round US to stare,
10 hnd VISIONS have vanished away
And the good old times still rs they were.
Oh, for days on which memory dwells,
When the hedgerows were sweet with musk
roses.
What if cesspools were sunk close to wells
:, And our pigsties right under our noses?
From your sewers what good have you got,
brSonu tever-gerns and bacteria?
Ilil they made US drain typhoid was not,
And wed no such disease as diphtheria.
Now. if nights to be turned into day,
,, The electric light next will give rise.
I've no doubt. with its dazzling display,
10 some novel disease of the eyes.
tiairst the new lights stand by the old,
Though their sheen by comparison suffers!
Oh for your good old days, dip and mold,
With your Undertook, matches and snuffers!
London Punch.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-30
Retaining Farms.

In building up an improbable farm,
the first aim should be to stop the proc
ess of running down; to make it pay
first, expenses, and then a slight, yet
increasing profit, and to this end both
thought and labor must be directed.
No matter how cheaply the family has
been living, if it is possible to reduce
expenses do SO. Cut off everything
exceptplain food, coarse, warm clothes,
a single newspaper. Raise your own
vegetables, and save on the meat bill.
Pay cash as you 90. Everything has
to be paid for in the end, and the whole
credit system is delusion and snare.
Enlist the energies and whole nature of
each and every member of the family
in the one great effort to save the farm,
the home. Be proud of your utmost
economy; even study the economies of
other men. Keep q strict and honest
account with everything about the
farm, 80 that you know exactly how
you stand. This is the most important
of all. Every successful farmer keeps
strict accounts. The value of account
books on a farm is not so much Gas
many suppose) to merely show what is
received and what is spent, but to show
exactly which field or which crop paid
best, and where losses were incurred,
or too small profits received. The d.
rect bearing of such knowledge on the
successful conduct of a farm may be
easily understood.
On every farm, but especially on one
which is doing poorly, there must be a
scrupulous saving of all manurial sub
stances. Barnyard manure, decayed
animal or vegetable matter, refuse of
every description, bones gathered up
IN waste places, leaf-mold hauled from
the deep ravines, all these must be util-
lied, and their effects will soon be evil
dent.-San francisco Bulletin. .i'ei.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-30
How Gen. jackson Broke Up o Fraud.
ulent Race, FM

MANY are the interesting scenes of
Jackson's life which his biographer,
Parton, has omitted and not brought to
light. When a boy, saw him scare
and put to flight 10000 men. The &C.
casion was this: Greyhound, q Ken
lucky horse, had beaten Double-Head,
a Tennessee horse, and they were after
ward matched for s., 900 side, to be run
on the Clover Bottom Course. Mvuncle,
Josephus H. Conn, carried me on horse
back, behind him, to see the race. He
set me on the cedar fence and told me
to remain till he returned. In those
days not only counties but States, in
full feather, attended the race-cOurse
as great National amusement, and the
same is still kept up in France and En-
gland under the fostering care of each
Government. .tta~#rtii.
There must have been 20, 1000 persons
present. never witnessed such fierce
betting between the States. Horses
and negroes were put up. A large
pound was filed with horses and ne
groes bet on the result of this race.
The time had now arrived for the COM
petitors to appear on the track.
heard some loud talking, and, looking
down the track, saw, for the first time,
Gen. jackson, riding slowly on a gray
horse, with long pistols held in each
hand. I think they were as long as
my arm, and had q mouth that q
ground-squirrel could enter. In his
wake followed my Uncle Conn, Stoke
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-30

house ard leave it as he did in the days
OF his wooing. Let the wife practice
the easy charms that won the lover.
Neither has forgotten. and there is
more than "millions in it." It won't
be q costly experiment; and if the trial
of a year does not make every room Of
your home, humble though it may be-,
ring with happiness, then you may set
it down that the devil has q mortgage
and will likely foreclose, and the SOON
er the better. But do not give up too
easily, for of all desirable and beautiful
things of this life, happy home stands
first. It is kind of foretasts of the
home beyond, whose "gates are never
shut" and "whose glory no man can
estimate" As our sons and daughters
grow up and 60 out from their homes,
although they may scatter to remote
regions of earth, yet forever arises be-
fore their minds the loved spot that
sheltered them, and the sweet influences
of the home of childhood will protect
them from many an evil, and draw
them with the sweet voices of the past
to noble and heroic achievements.
Chicago Inter- Ocean. .-...
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-30
Pruning Apple Trees.

In the agitation of almost all subjects
upon which men differ, there will be
some who advocate extreme views, and
it pretty generally turns out that the
truth lies between the extremes, and
often about midway between. Ex-
tremists seem to have their use in
arousing public attention, but they who
follow either extreme are very likely to
led into error.
Taking the subject at the head of
this article, writer's for the horticul-
tural press might write and publish
reams, giving sensible, judicious direc-
tions for pruning, they would attract
but little attention, although supported
by irrefragable arguments, but let an
ultraist declare that pruning is contrary
to Natures methods, and that the tops
of fruit trees should be left alone to
take care of themselves, and his articles
will attract attention and awaken, a
great deal of interest. t,s, =,
Or let one take the opposite extreme
and say, "Cut and slash, and thin out
the top of fruit tree until tho, sums
rays can penetrate every part and fall
upon every fruit, even though it may be
necessary to saw off large limbs" and
he will catch the public eye and his
teachings meet with appreciation and
condemnation. But after the theories
of both extremes have been fully con-
sidered and tested, large majority Of
fruit-growers win conclude that there
is q happy mean where the highest sue
cess is attained. 1850. '.Ai.'Hs 2
Young trees, growing in the nursery.
will throw out branches quite low, so
low that if not pruned of, it would be
almost impossible to cultivate them
properly. Nurserymen, accordingly,
prune off the laterals up to the height
Of four or five feet, and when trans
planted, the orchardist should cut of
all laterals below six or seven feet.
One of our most successful orchardists,
Mr.. T.. G.. sYeomens, of Walworth,
Wayne County, made It rule to leave
no branches below seven feet, as they
will then leave none too much room
under them for 4 horse : to- walk.
Branches growing SO low that = horse
will knock off the bark with the top OF
his names, is too low for free cultiva'
ton. In most varieties of apples the
branches will droOp . little and hang
nearer the ground eight or twelve fee
from the trunk, than at their bases. d
Then, in forming the foundation O
the top of tree, it is great point tx
start 1t right. If too many branches
are permitted to start and grow, q
they come to throw out laterals, the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-30
At THE LAST.

Now, POOR tired hands, DO still,
Toil-stained through Deaths white hue
No need now for your skill,
No further task to do.
Folded across the breast,
Take calmest rest:
Dead hands no work shall soil
lis living hands that toll.
Now, weary eyes, 60 sleep;
Nou shall see no more wrong,
Nor anxious watches keep
For love that tarries long;
Shall shed no more sad tears
Through all the years.
Fold down your lids and sleep
lis living eyes that weep.
Poor beating heart. now rest;
Sorrow or pain no more
Shall make thee sore distrest;
Thy restless care is DER.
Go still sweet session keep
Of blissful sleep,
And no more throb and ache
lis living hearts that break.
-Harper's Weekly.