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In the Whole History of Medicine

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Anril %. 1850
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-28
Brigands Of Sicily.

The beautiful city of Palermo has a
way more striking than creditable of re-
calling herself to the memory of the
world. If ever year has passed away
Without our hearing any mention OF Slcl-
~, we may be fairly sure that the time
is ripe for the news Of one of those acts
of brigandage which here never seem to
pass quite out of fashion. Of late we
fancied there had been some improve
ment in this respect. The last remark
able case was in October, 1876 when a
banker of Palermo was captured at dis
lance Of some twenty miles from the city,
and, after detention of month, more
or less, was returned to his family in con-
sideration of a sum of 10000 lire, or about
$4,000. Since that time the world has
been allowed to forget Sicilian brigands,
until within the last few days, when the
telegraph has had to repeat to Eu-
rope the headings of the old familiar
tale. Each repetition, however, has its
own peculiar feature. The present ver-
sion was briefly as follows: Alessandro
Parisi, a young man of rich Palermitan
family, was out late one night about two
weeks ago. On his way home, Just as
the clock struck twelve, he was arrested
by four strangers armed with carbines.
For several minutes he struggled against
force and cried aloud, but his resistance
brought him nothing, only blow under
the chin with a carbine, which was
promptly reproved by another agressor
with the words, Vozete an,mdzzario 2" (do
you want to kill him?) This showed the
victim that it was question, not of MUIR
der but of plumber, and he permitted
himself to be dragged about thirty PAGES
to carriage, a landau with one horse,
where he was blindfolded and then driv-
EN- off. In about an hour and half the
carriage stopped and Parish was taken
into cave, where he was detained for
twelve days while negotiations for his
ransom were being carried on. During
all this time the brigands did not belle
their reputation for certain rough kind
illness III their treatment of victims. He
was fed with macarOni, meat and soup,
and when he showed lack of appetite,
gentle force was used to make him eat,
on the plea that they must return him to
his home in as good condition as they
found him. They even kept him in
cigars, and recounted to him the news
of each day, including the death of the
King and an attempt at brigandage which
had, unfortunately, from their point of
view, mlscarried. Best of ALL they con-
descended to explain their conduct to-
ward him. There was no lack of the
most delicate regard for him, but times
were hard, and they said they were
obliged, from the necessity Of living, to
have recourse to people who were known
to have money enough and to spare. If
their manner of raising the wind left
their benefactors no choice between Civ
ing and refusing, the fault, they said, lies
with the rich, who show tenacity any
thing but high-minded in holding on to
their wealth. Finally, after twelve days
had elapsed, Parisi was returned to his
family, who proved the value they set
upon him by the price paid for his ran
som-67 900 lire-or, at the present rate
of Italian paper, $4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-28
The Slanfcrer.

There is no one in the community
who holds more despicable position
than the common slanderer, and strange
to say, there is no offender who receives
a smaller measure of Well-deserved pun
ishment. This social assassin seems to
enjoy a species of immunity in the pros
ecution of his nefarious designs, and by
implication claims an unqueStioned
right to play the villain. In rare cases a
jury is obtained which has the good
sense to impose marked punitive
damages but the majority of these
scoundrels either escape entirely unpun-
ished, or have merely nominal damages,
with costs, decreed against them. And
yet, properly considered, the crime of
SANDER is one Of the most offensive of
which men or women can be guilty it is
social murder, for it's object is the
slaughter of individual character, or the
destruction of domestic happiness. In
fact it is an offence that "stinks to
heaven" as going directly, with persis-
tent malignity, to impair the best in
terests of society. To greater or less
extent, it tends to poison the fountains
of the public health and the harmony
of the domestic circle. 1t assails every
class in the community-youth and man.
1OOu dlIko, anu even )dISlou Olu age Is
unprotected from the venom of it's pois-
oned shafts It's malicious, vindictive
attacks spare none. But in no instance
is SANDER more abhorent than in it's con-
ducing as it does, to domestic unhappi-
ness and the disruption of family
elations-setting husband against wife,
child against parent, and friend against
friend. We view it as pre-eminently
crime 6ptoSto hlo in tho cioht of man
and notably condemned of Heaven.
1t is an offence that stands arrayed
against the eternal canon promulgated
amid the thunders of Sinai-"Thou shalt
not bear false witness against thy neigh
bor;;" and if it be not in this world pun
ished as it deserves, inevitably it will be
in the next. But for the conservation
of the best interests of society, the
operations of this insidious fend-this
social assassin-should be visited with
condign punishment, of such a character
as in the future may decisively arrest
the spread of it's pestiferous influence.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-28
a Liberal Translation.
Galveston News

A young lady, moving in the most ex
alted society circles of Galveston, alter
much toll and practice at the piano
learned TO play with considerable dexter.
ity piece entitled "Picnic Polka" II
is something after the style of the cele-
brated Battle OF Prague in which the
listener can readily distinguish the roar
of artillery, the rattle of musketry, the
shouts of the soldiers, and the groans OF
the dying. In the "Picnic Polka" the
noise of the winds among the trees and
the joyous carols of birds are reproduced,
the finale being a thunder. shower which
disturbs the sylvan jewellers. 1t happens
that a country cousin is in town just now,
and the young lady thought she would
play the piece to him, and hear his CON-
ment. He is a plain, simple minded
youth, and, although not very bright, is
very appreciative. She told him what
the piece was, and then proceeded to give
him the 'Picnic Polka" The first notes
are rather slow and hesitating, the idea
sought to be conveyed being the solemn
solitude of the forest through which the
gentle zephyr mot heifer) sighs. After
she got through the preface, she asked
him if he did not almost imagine him self
IN lodge in some vast wilderness. He
replied that he thought all that slowness
meant the delay in getting off. Said he:
"Fhere is always some darned fellow
who oversleeps himself and keeps every
body else waiting"
She did not care to discuss the point
with the ignorant fellow, 50, to conceal
her emotions, she once more let herself
out on the piano The woods were filed
with music. The mocking- bird whistled
as if his throat would split, the cuckoo
filed the sylvan bower with his repeated
cry, while ever and anon the mournful
cooling of the dove interrupted the matin
song of the lark.
There, now, guess you know what
that sounds like" she said, as she paused.
"You mean that 'tootle, toetle, chug,
chug, chug?' You just bet understand
that. Many is the time at picnic I've
heard it from the mouth of demijohn or
the bunghole of beer key"
Her first impulse was TO hurl the piano
stool at him, but it passed off, and once
more she went at the piano as if it was
the young mans head and was insured
for double its value. The thunder
growled, the lightning flashed (irom her
eyes), and the first heavy drops are heard
upon the leaves She banged and mauled
the keys at fearful rate; peal after peal
of deafening thunder perturbed the at
mosphere and reechoed in still louder
reverberations until it wound up in one
appalling clap as grand finale. Then,
turning TO the awestruck youth, she said
Z" l suppose you have heard something
like that before ?''
eyes, that's what the fellow with linen
pants said when he sat down on the GUS
tard pie"
The audience found himself alone, but
he picked up his hat and sauntured out
into the street, densely unconscious that
he had said anything out of the way.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-28
The knights Templar.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR GRAND ENCAMPMENT.
| Chic Inl.,

FUN GRAND ENCAMPMENT.
CHICAGO, July 10.
Far from "building better than thew
thought" or of forming expectations
which they were unable to fulfil, the Ex.
ecutive Committee of the Trlennial Con.
clave of knights Templar have, on the
contrary, been compelled from time to
time to enlarge their views and increase
their facilities for the entertainment of
their guests. The proposed outcome will
exceed the most sanguine expectations
weeks after the last of the regular forms
Tor securing quarters from the Hotel Com
mlttee have been sent in there continue to
arrive numerous applications for accom-
modatlon. The hotels, first, second, third
and fourth class, that is to say, every re-
spectacle hostelry in town, will be full
from turret to foundation stone" Hun
dreds Of private families will have Sir
knights and ladies billeted upon them,
while hundreds more will entertain Temp
lar friends at their city homes. In addl-
ton, the "Clty of Tents" on the Lake
Front" is credited with 1000 fraters and
ladies', enough to constitute an army alone.
historians OF the era which closes the
medieval period, tell US wonderful things
OF that magnificent meeting between King
Henry the Eighth of England, and Fran
CTS the First of France on that open space
near Calais The scene, says Froissart,
the chronlcler, was so grand and bewilder
ing IN its splendor that Harry of England
styled it the field of the cloth of gold
The Sir Knights and grand officials OF the
chlvalrlc orders carried the value of
whole estates on their backs, and the af-
TAR stood out as the greatest pageant of
three centuries.
The nrOeocciop Of tho Crar1 Eooor,r
nent OF Knights Templar of the United
States, with the various features attend
ing the conclave, will undoubtedly be the
approximate of that remarkable specta-
Gle, and will be noted for a generation at
least as modern Field of the Cloth of
Gold" The wealthlest men in their own
communities, princes, as it were, in the
Republic, probably twenty times more
wealth will be represented here than
there was on the historic camp Of Calais
Thus history is repeated.
The committee have refused the offers
made by several responsible parties de-
sirous of supplying "liquors" to the
sojourners of the Lake Park encamp.
ment, and it is well understood thst there
will be no intoxicating beverages sold
there
With its night turned into day by the
brilliance of its electric illumination,
which leaves the interior of tents quite in
visible to outsiders, with its display of
elegantly dressed ladies from all parts Of
the country, its myriad flags and banners.
the coming and going OF hundred COM
manderies, Its Central Temple for the ses.
sion of the Grert Encampment, the camp
will be the focus of attr2 ction during the
week.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-28

UsEs OF SUNFLowERs-We have lately
met with paragraph In several of our
exchanges recommending the planting of
sunhoWer seed in the middle of each
hill OF pole beans, so that the stalk of the
sunf1ower, growing faster. than the beans
and always keeping little ahead, would
serve instead of pole, saving TO the
grower considerable labor and expense.
How this would work in practice we can.
not say, but we do know that for many
uses the sunfower is valuable plant to
raise. 1t grows very rapidly, and when
thickly planted around sink drains.
privies, and other unsightly and offensive
places, not only serves as screen, but it
also is said TO have the property of alb
sorbing malarious exhalations and purify.
ing the atmosphere. The seeds are much
relished by poultry, and, if not fed too
literally, are very wholesome. & CORE.
spcndent of the Country Gentlemen rec.
ommends the seeds as cure Tor the
heaves in horses, and says: A gentleman
told me that there is nothing equal to SUM-
flower seeds for that purpose. He had
one bushel of the seeds ground with two
bushels of oats, and gave a horse two
quarts of the mixed meal, wet In water,
three times day. He took the time
when the horse was not used at hard
work. In two weeks not sign Of the
heaves coold be observed, and the horse
looked as sleek and bright as if his hair
had been oiled. He had cured two horses
Of his own of this distressing complaint,
and recommended 1t to others, who had
experienced like result. In cases of
horse disternper and coughs it is an ex-
cellent remedy.-Nea0 England Farmer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-28
Paving Ones WAY.

Pay your way. Wherever you go, pay
it in kindness, in courtesies, in pleasant
chat, and by contributing of your store
to the enjoyment of others. Do not be
churlish Do not hug yourself for some
pitiful bit of affectation which you nave
christened diffidence or modesty. This
sort of paying ones way may come in
and be balm and soothing to some stur-
Oily independent natures, which in Gods
providence are placed where they must
temporarily depend. Is Is worth while,
under such circumstances, to grow NOR
bid, despairing, and unthankful, making
every one wretched because, of your
grievance? There are times in life when
it is quite as clearly your duty to depend
as to be independent. When God puts
you where you cannot help yourself, take
the help he sends and do not fret. 1t is
right to help yourself with both hands
as you can, and with one hand when you
cannot use both; but if God bids both
lie folded and still, accept his decision
and remember, ''They also serve who
only stand and watt"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-28
Reaching the North Pole IN a Balloon

Commander Cheyne, of the British
navy, Is still endeavorlng to carry out his
plan of reaching the North Pole by means
of balloons. A London committee, con-
ssting of the Dean OF Westminster, the
Master of the Temple, DR.. Vaughan, the
Minister of Finance tor Canada and
seventy members of Parliament and
scientific men, has been formed, and over
$1,000 collected towards the purpose of
carrying out the new venture, the ulti-
mate cost of which is estimated at $3.50.
900. The proposition is TO send out a
ship to the furthest point then to form
outside stations by the guidance of which
the wind currents could be utilized at
various heights as curves of sailing, by
which the balloon might reach within
more or less practicable distance of
the pole, and the completion of
the journey made by such sledging ar
rangements as could be conveyed bV the
three or four balloons that would consti.
tute the aerial fleet steering by trailing
ropes BY abandoning some of the bal
looms and the stores, and using their re-
naming gas to fill completely the one or
two balloons by which the return journey
to the ship could be accomplished, the
party, it is claimed would be brought
back in safety. Commander Cheyne re.
Gently laid his plans before the Aeronauti-
cal Society of London, and in the discus
sion which followed the project was sup
ported by such practical aeronauts as Mr.,
Coxwell and Mr.. Simmons.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-28

Eaton Rapids, Mich, claims to be the
banner town in the temperance business.
Out of total population of twenty-five
hundred fully one thousand persons are
enrolled as members of the temperance
organization.
A Newton county, Georgia, negro
carried three two hundred pound sacks
distance of six hundred yards He
took a sack in each hand, and took the
third sack between his teeth. The same
negro can hold any mule in the county
by the hind legs.
A tramp has been practicing new
dodge at Council Bluffs, Iowa. He takes
an envelope, and placing in it piece of
folded paper, enters the business houses
asking for stamp to put on it. He sue.
ceeded in getting quite number before
lie was arrested.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-28

When man wants to call puppy he
whistles; but girl just walks along with
her handkerchief floating across her
shoulder.
A disappointed young man says the
sewerage" shoemaker can frame more
excuses in fifteen minutes than a picture
dealer could supply frames for in two
weeks.
An Iowa schoolmistress has been dis
charged because, for the amusement of
the children during recess, she stood on
her head. One of the trustees CHANGED
to see the feat.
''That's our family tree" said an Ar
kansas youth, as he pointed to vigorous
hemlock. "a good many of our folks
have been hung on that tree for borrerin'
horses after dark"
Kentucky beats them all. She now
furnishes a case where a man eloped
with whole family except the old man,
who had lame back, and couldn't get
30 the depot in time."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-28
FAcTs ABOUT s1R1us.-Tbe astrononar

FACTS ABOUT SIRIUs.-The astronomer
OF the Chicago Tribune, in his weekly
article upon the astronomical phenomena.
gives the following facts and calculations
In relation to Sirius and its companion
star, which will be of interest to the stu.
dent in natural science:
The motion of the companion TO Sirius.
discovered in January, 1862, with the OBJ.
Ject glass OF the Dearborn equatorial. has
been perplexing thing. Several "orbitsn
have been calculated, none of which have
satisfied the observations made subse-
quently. An investigation of the prob
lem has just been completed by the rece1
chief OF the Dearborn Observatory, and
ne hnds the following as the leading facts
of position:
The real orbit forms an angle of ST.
degrees with the plane of the apparent or.
DIT; the position of the line of intersec.
tlon being 424 degrees from the north
point, reckoned towards The eaat. The
companion will be on this line in June.
1907. The companion was at its greatest
Instance (apastron) from Sirius In Janua.
ry' 1907, and will be at its least actual dig
lance Ia August or September, 1891, the
perloo 6elng ~ g years. The greatest ap.
parent distance was ia seconds, In 1874;
the least apparent distance, % seconds
WILL be in the year 1890. The semi.gxis
major OF the real orbit is S41 seconds,
and OF the apparent do. 6S seconds, The
eccentricity of the real orbit is O5S.
With the most recently accepted distance
OF Sirius from the sum ,O69 900 earth
d1stances,-the semi-axis major of the or
bit is 43 Sc OF those distances, or about
400, 900 90 miles. From this it results
that the quantity of matter In Sirius and
his companion is 1856 times that contained
in the sun.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-28
THE BABES IN THE WOOD.

Now, grandma! why don't you look jolly,
Instead of that sorrowful way?
Don't you know Hal and have been married
Just a fortnight ago yesterday?
And we're perfectly happy and will be-
Folks needn't be dolefnl, know,
II they don't look for troubles and worries,
And heart-aches. My Hal thinks just so
Now you're signing, I know what you're saying
1.-The Babes in the Wood" But you see
That Halls twenty-one in November,
And L shall soon seventeen be.
And we've seen great deal of the world, too,
We know how to battle with life;
And Hal says, There can be no sorrow
When a man has a true little WIFE"
You've hadlots of troubles and trials,
But maybe we won't, seems to me
You old folks bring sorrow by looking.
There! you want to say, swat, and you'll see'
But you only look over your glasses,
And clasp hands, as though you would pray,
And whisper, GOD bless you, my children,
And keep you in sunshine Away"
FIVE YEARS AFTER.
Grandma, won't you come out and help us?
I'm worn out with watching and work.
For the children are sick, baby teething.
And the cook Chat old Biddy MaeQuirk)
Went away in huff, without warning,
And cannot manage the range;
SO Hal takes his meals in the city
You know man must have change,
All night was up with the children,
For Hal says, Its hard on a man.
To be Weakened all night with the baby"
Oh, grandma, dear, come if you can.
TEN YEARS AFTER.
Tell me grandmother dear, the old story
Ofthe heavenly home and its rest,
And hold me close up, as you used to,
And lay my head down on your breast;
I'll try to look yonder to meet them,
My two little saints gone before,
And forget the sharp pain of the arrow
That shattered the ring once wore.
All I seeit all now why you whispered,
''The Babes in the Wood" long ago,
When trusted the reed that has broken,
The sand-chain, the knot made of snow:
And though neither gray hair nor wrinkle
Has come to me. now can see
Other babes in the wood, and am silent,
Foreboding, as you looked ut me-