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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-07
W antG<t

Sherman d Co., Marshall, Mich, want OIL
agent in this county at once, at salary of $10(
per month and expenses paid. For full par.
ticulars address as above.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-07

YOUNG men go West. Learn telegrapy
Address r. Valentine, manager, GAINESVILLE, Wis
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-07
A word TO W0rkers.

LIS Hindoo's tan the same color IS
other peOple's2-P Puck
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-07
No Good Preaching.

CHEW Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
ALL Grocers keep g. Gilbert's Starches.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-18
Among the cursed blessings that arc co

Among the cursed blessings that arc con-
ferred on preachers, is that popularity
which makes them for the time the centre
of attraction and the topic of general con-
verSation. Out o. a thousand or ten thous-
and ministers not more than two or three
at any time are likely to be famous. and
come to be infamous.
Most famous men are over-estimated
and their popularity causes unpleasant
comparisons, breeds envy and distrust,
leads to criticism, slander and fault find
ing; causes every error to be magniied,
and every fault to be proclaimed and if in
some unexpected hour the praised and
| flattered pet of society shows himself to be
man of like passions, inirmities. and
sins, with others, how soon every foul
bird of prey will peck at his gay plumage,
and turn his glory into shame. Many a
popular preacher has finished his course in
shame, in sorrow, or in crime.
Young man, do not fret because your
kite does not fly quite so high as your
neighbors. Hold on to the string, and you
may keep it out of the ditch. 1t may be
very pleasant to 500 ynnr name in print
but that depends largely upon what i:
printed under it,
| Keep low. Before honor is humility.
Be true to God and man, and if You miss
fame you may also escape shame; if you
do not hear hosannas shouted to-day, you
may not hear the cry, Cruelty him! to
morrow; and if you can serve your gene.
ration in this life, and get quietly into your
grave without bringing reproach upor
yourself, your friends and your Lord, you
will have fine opportunity for fame and
appreciation in tho day when the riShteou:
shall shine forth like the sun in the
kingdom of their Father" Wait and sec
if it is not so.-Armory.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-18

The EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHEs.-An
old farmer living near Petrolia, Penn,
having made hundred thousand dollars
in oil. refused to put faith in banks or to
invest his money. He kept the rolls of
greenbacks in his farmhouse locked up in
boxes and trunks. The money became
damp, mildewed and moldy. When he
discovered the condition of his money he
took the notes from their hiding places
and spread them in the sun about his
orchard to dry. The spectacle of a for
tune lying loose on the ground among the
apple trees was witnessed by hundreds
who were attracted to the farm by the
singular proceeding. The money was thus
exposed for two days, guarded by the
farmer, his wife, daughter and hired man.
Then it was returned to the boxes. Three
nights after the greenbacks were housed
the farmer woke up to find three masked
men il his bedroom. They bound the old
man and his family, and had discovered
and secured one thousand dollars of the
hidden treasure when they were frighten-
ed away by the return of the hired man
from Petrolia. Subsequently his house
was broken into by three men wearing
masks. The old man and his wife fought
them until they were unconscious. In the
struggle the masks were torn from the
faces of two of the men, and they were
recognized The neighbors went TO the
rescue, and the robbers we're followed, but
escaped to the woods. Three days after
wards the two men were captured. Thew
have recently been sentenced 10 FIVE years
each in the penitentiary. The farmer still
refuses to select any safer place of deposit
for his wealth than bis own house,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-18
dier-like fellow. who had once been little
Pierre, the drummer Western Catholic.

THE PARTY FOR Young MEN.-In a
speech at Cleveland, Col. John Hay, who
was the private secretary of Mr.. Lincoln,
made republican campaign speech, and
in closing, addressing the young men
of Ohio, he contrasted the two great polit-
ical parties, and said:-
On the one side is Il record of glory and
good repute, which sheds something of
lustre on the declining days of every man
who fought that desperate battle against
slavery and treason. On the other it is
shameful story of half-hearted loyalty or
open rebellion, of ignorant or malicious
opposition to light and knowledge. of blind
and futile defiance to the stars in their
courses fighting for freedom and progress.
Why should young mentor youth is
generous and strong; it looks hopefully to
the future; it holds its honest brow proud
ly to the broadening dawn-why should
young men choose to cast their lot with a
discredited and soied record; with party
which only asks of the present the plumber
Of office, and of history only oblivion?
With what noble thought, with what high
enterprises has the party been associated
in the last quarter of century, What
purpose but that of blind obstruction has
it served? | firmly believe that it has no
space left it for repentance. Its place is
fixed in history. 1t forms the dark back
ground upon which the deeds of valor and
of wisdom of republican worthless stand
out in burning lines of light. 1t is writ
ten and can never be forgotten. that in
the long contest by which the country was
saved, a race enfranchised, the nations
honor sustained and hightened this demo-
cratic party, as party, despite the hero
ism and loyalty of individuals, stood by
in sullen obstruction, refusing alike the
labor and the glory.
This is not fit fellowship for brave and
magnanimous youth. If you wish to cast
vote you will be proud of when you are
old, if you wish to take part in the sympa-
thes and the memories of great era on
the side of light and liberty and progress
you will never have better chance than
now. The national glory and the national
welfare have been in republican keeping
for twenty years, with the results you see.
In the ranks of that party are enlisted the
greater portion of the virtue and inteli-
gence of the land, while its counsels are
hallowed by the traditions of the patriots
and martyrs of the great war. Its past is
luminous with the story of beneficent
achievements; its future is as bright with
promise as the radiance of the morning
stars.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-18

A GREAT WoRK.-Somewhere about
three thousand workmen, six or seven
hundred wagons, seventeen or eighteen
locomotive engines, three steam navies"
and great quantity of minor machinery
of various kinds have been engaged since
1875 at the south east end of London in II
work compared with which the building
of the pyramids-with modern appliances
would have been no very signal feat
Hitherto the one entrance to the Victoria
docks from the Thames has been at Black
well point, but now there is dock capable
of receiving all vessels, no matter what
they might be. Three and half miles OF
walls have been built, nclosing ninety
acres of water. These walls are forty ieet
high, five feet thick at the top. and eight
cen or nineteen feet thick at the bottom,
the whole of this enormous mass being
composed of solid concrete, for which
eighty thousand tons of Portland cement
have been used. Some four million cubic
feet of earth have teen dug out. 1t may
assist the imagination somewhat to state
that if it were filled into ordinary carts the
vehicles would form an unbroken line
seven thousand miles long The excava
ton, have gone through submerged
forest, and among other curiosities due
out have been II relndeers horn, II Roman
vase and what is supposed to have beer
an ancient British canoe carved out OF sole
OAK The latter now is in the British
museum. Ihe new entrances below
Wuuwich will save three and Il half mile
OF river navigation, which. in the case o
vessels with neavy draft, is of course I
matter of very great Importance. Th'
London and ST. Katharine and Victorl;
Docks company are now prepared Tor yes
sells of all kinds. not excluding the larges
ironclads of the British navy. The COS
has been estimated at five million dollars
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-18

side' where Joe painting but jnbilant,
opened the packages.
Yer, Joe, said Mrs. Packer, reading the
unspoken request in the boys eyes, you
give Granny the Psalms.
Joes face was fairly radiant as, after
rubbing his hands on his coarse trousers
till they must have ached, carefully took
the precious book and laid it before the old
lady. Eagerly, hungrily. she opened it,
and fastened her eyes on the loving,
gracious word, forgetting the giver in the
gift. But Mrs. Packer needed no thaaks,
us she went from cot to chair, giving each
occupaut one of the sacred books, The
look ofwrapt delight that dawned on each
wlthered face went like ray of divine
sunlight to her softened heart; and in the
moment of feeling how precious her Bible
was to her, with a new tenderness she re-
signed It to those whose quick fading lives
it would so brighten.
That night. sitting on low hassock
beside her husband, her head resting on
his knee, her bright eyes looking thought
fully into the fire, she told him what she
had done.
couldn't help it, John dear, she said
Wnen l hau what those poor souls SO
longed fW-what had not prized-l felt
that ought to give it up: wasn't wor-
thy of it. Do you mindp
Bless your dear heart, said John, stoop-
ing to lift up tile sweet. troubled face, and
giving it "A great, earnest, proud kiss, YOU
did exactly right; you always do. I'll just
hurry up that blessed agent to morrow.
The poor creatures shall have all the Bible
its only giving the Lord His own again
And you shall choose one for yourself
dear
No, John; not yet yet, interrupted Mrs
Packer. I've got over the longing for a
show Bible and I've my own precious
little one. But there's something-Joe-
OH yes, said Mr.. Packer, briskly. |
have made up my mind to that. I'll take
Joe into my Office and make man of him
see if don't t!-EhrichS' Fashion Quarterly
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-18

How A PRINCE DIED.-Brigadier Cen
cral Evelyn Wood, who accompanied the
Ex-Empress Eugenie TO Zulus, who partic.
ipated in the attack on the princes party,
and showing that the attacking party
numbered forty, twelve of whom followed
the prince, and eight being Immediately
concerned in his death. The Zulus havin 9
nearly surrounded the party, fired and
rushed on them as they were mounting.
The prince not having succeeded in mount
ing ran alongside his horse until it broke
away. The prince followed the horses
into the donga until, being closely pressed
by his pursuers, he turned upon them, in
the words of the Zulus, like lion at
bay" Being struck by an assegai inside
the left shoulder, he rushed at the nearest
opponent, who fled. Another Zulu then
fired at the prince when only ten yards
from him. The prince fired his pistol and
faced his rapidly increasing foes, until
menaced from his right and rear, and
struck by another assegai, he regained the
level on which he had first stood in the
donga, where he was speedily surrounded.
He seized an assegai which had been
thrown at him. In struggling with his
terrified horse, his sword had fallen from
its scabbard, and thus he defended himself
against seven or eight Zulus, who state
that they did not dare to close on him un-
til he sank exhausted on his hip. The
above facts were ELECTED from the Zuus
who were examined separately upon the
scene of the attack. This is the first cor
rect description of the affair yet published
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-18

RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTS. The home
is the fountain of civilization. Americans
are home making people. Our laws
are made in the home There are trained
| voters who shape the course of our couu-
try. The things said here give bias to
character, far more than do sermons and
lectures, newspapers and books. No 9TH
er audiences are so susceptible and recep-
tive as those gathered about the table and
the firesde. No other teachers have the
acknowledged divine right to instruct
that is granted without challenge to par
ents. The fountain of our national life is
under their hands. They can make it
send forth waters bitter or sweet, for the
the death or the healing of the people.
Intemperance strikes first and most
fatally at home. The evils most danger
GUS to social order depend upon dram
drinking for their existence This too is
the scene of its most cruel and beastly
devilisms. Here 1t smites, and stabs, and
| kills. The home must be guarded against
its outrages, or the country will be ruined.
The best work against intemperance
must be done in this center and seat Of
power. Parents have ii in their power
to train their children to abhor that which
| is evil and cleave to that which is good
and they owe them this duty. They bring
their children into existence. They hold
them under their hand till the young life
has taken bias that will last through
eternity Usually the tiny, fitting craft
has it's PROV turned toward heaven or hell
before the parents hand lets 90 the helm
This ought to startle careless people out
of their difference. 1t ought to drive
them to lives of piety; for how can they
teaoh that which they have not leatl nod
How can they impart what they do not
possess?
| Parents must teach by example. Pre-.
cept has small authority unless backed by
example. For children's sake all liquors
ought to be banished from the home
The story is most pitiful, and quite toe
common to need repetition: II learned
TO drink at my fathers table. My moth
ers hand first passed me the cup that i.
working my damnation."
In every home there ought to be righ
reading on this as on every subject. We
are what we read-or we are what We
areas you will. One thing is certain
if we really care much about this horr
BILE traffic, we will see to it that our chill
dren have books and papers that keel
them in sympathy with the efforts made
for its prohibition.
BY personal example, by look, by read
ing, and by prayer, we may make an at
mosphere that shall set and keep our house
hodsright on this great question. Only thu
can we hope to save ourselves. and thos,
whom God has given to be with us, from
the tide that sweeps to destruction s.
many of the noblest and best.-F +. W
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-18

A RURAL COLoNY-The Providence
Journal says: six young ladies, nearly
all of them members OF Boston university
and accustomed to similarity of studies,
have taken furnished cottage at Bear
crofts, two miles from Attleboro village,
where they intend to devote themselves lo
rustic amusements and country life, with
some interspersed studies of field geology
and botany. Qlartz boulders and quarts
of blackberries, feld-spar and field sports
will divide their attention. Equal regard
will be given TO stratified rocks and strait
fed sandwiches, veins of segregation and
veins of fun, the geological hammer and
the croauet mallet. Botanical studies will
consist IN picking huckeberries and she'll
ING peas. it being one of the chief condl'
tions of the expedition that the young
ladies shall apply themselves to the previ'
ously neglected matters of domestic edu.
cation. The Great Eta is to be COOK, ant
the classic party famlier with the Greer
etymology of economy, are to learn lts
practical side. Gneiss beds or uneasy
nights, conglomerate hash or alternate
hunger are now in order, and knowledge
of botany will be tested on the part OF thu
students by their ability to avoid dogwoot
and ivy in their rural expeditions. Un
happy classmates of the other sex ar
excluded. The young ladies may stud.
mica schist, but no Michaels; trap rock
if YOU please, but no masculine trappings
The study of geology will be discontinued
at the quarterly period, when traces q
men appear in the strata. ..-
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-18

The full grown mahogany Tree is one ol
the monarchs of tropical America. Its
vast trunk and massive arms, rising to
lofty height and spreading with graceful
sweep over immense spaces, covered with
beautiful foliage, bright, glossy, light and
airy, clinging so long to the spray as to
make il almost an evergreen, present a
rare combination Of lovelness and grand
eur. The leaves are very small, delicate
and polished like those OF the laurel. Inc
flowers are small and white or greehlsh
yellow. Lumbermen IN telling Tree
build platform twelve feet high, and cut
it above the platform, thus relinqulshlng
Twelve to fifteen feet of the larges' part OF
the tree. Yet some trees have yielded
twelve thousand superficial feet OF lumber
and have sold for fifteen thousand dollars
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-18

MORALITY OF COOP LIYING.-A man
of the kindlest impulses has only to feed
upon indigestible food for few days, and
forthwith his liver is affected, and then his
brain. His sensiblities are blunted; his
uneasiness makes him waspish and fretful
He is like hedgehog with the quills
rolled in, and will do and say things from
which in health he would have recoied.
Sidney Smith did not exaggerate when he
affirmed that old friendships are often
destroyed by toasted cheese, and hard
salted meat has often led to suicide" "
Even so Intellectual man rs William
Hazlitt, writing to his lady love, could
say never love you so we'll as when
think of sitting down with you to dinner
on a boiled scrag end of mutton and hot
potatoes" Justly did Tallyrand invegh
against the English, that they had one
hundred and fifty forms of religion and
but one kind of sauce-melted butter
The celebrated scholar, DR.. Parr, con-
fessed a love for hot lobsters," with a
profusion of "shrimp sauce" Pope
would lie in bed for days at Bolingbroke's
unless told that there were stewed LAM
preys for dinner, when he would rise
instantly, and hurry down to the table
Handel ate enormously, and when he
dined at Il tavern, always ordered dinner
at 3 O'Clock. On being told that all wout
be ready as soon as the company should
arrive, he would exclaim: 81 Den bring ut
de dinner, prestissimo! | am de company
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-18

A very interesting archaeological dis
covery WAS lately made in Norway. From
burial mound nearly 150 feet in diameter
was dug well preserved viking ship, In
which some chieflain had been entomed
centuries ago. The craft is the largest
ancient vessel now known to exist, it being
"a feet long and sixteen feet wide. with
twenty ribs. Along its sides row of cir.
cular shields extend completely around it
rhe mound is now nearly mile from the
sea, but 1t is evident in olden times the
waves washed its base, and that the vesse
was drawn out Of the water and buried a
its edge.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-18

The tables of the state board of agri-
culture of Illinois show that the harvest
products will be larger in that state this
year than ever before. The total acreage
of wheat is twenty per cent greater than
last year, and the condition of the crops,
with but few exceptions, on July l were
as good as last year. The amount of
corn will equal the crop of last year.
Oats have increased fifteen per cent, and
the hay crop nearly doubled. The Irish
potato crop is immense, and the sweet
potato crop larger than ever before.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-18

A very simple model enables us to real
ise in some degree the vast size of the sun
as compared with the earth. When the
sun is represented by ball of three inches
in diameter, minute ball of 8 100 of an
inch in diameter must be placed at dis
lance of 80 feet from it to represent the
earth and its distance from the sun.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-18
TERMS FOR ADVERTISING

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Unless the number of insertions marked the ad
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Literal discount made 10 merchants and Otho adyer
ttsing BY the year.
Probateand Commissioners n Offices, ,s2 OIesch.
For Notices of Liberation, Estrav- Formation
and Dissolution of Co partnerships sc &l25each for
three insertions. If sent bv mail the money must
company thel etter.
Notices in news columns, 10 cents per line each in
sertiOn but no charges made Of less than 80 cents
Noticeso of Deaths and Marriages serted gratis bu
extended Obituary Notices Of Poetry will be charged
az the rate of hve centsper line.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-03-12
Household HELPS,

will say to my housekeeping sis
tiers, who know the labor of beating
eggs for pound cake, that the cake will
be just as nice if they arc not beaten nj
all. you will cream the butter and
sugar together until smooth, then stir
in first handful of flour, next two
eggs, another handful of flour, two
more eggs and so on until you have il
all mixed; add the flavoring, stir a few
minutes and ii is ready for the oven.
/ could not be induced to try the
above recipe for some time after /
heard oft, but since have tried il /
do not mako cake any other way. |
think if my sisters will try It thew will
like 1t as well as / do.
Lawns and calicoes should be washed
in cold water, if you wish to preserve
their colors. Warm or hot water
either will fade them. Never use any
kind of soap that is put up in bars or
papers, by certain dealers 10 whiten or
make clothes clean without boiling.
To wash calicoes, etc., with common
turpentine, or country made soap will
brighten the colors. All such goods
should be ironed on tho wrong side. 7
wish some Of my sisters would give me
recipe for doing up mourning cali
Goes, 10 prevent the starch from show
ing white on them.
A plaster made of soft soap and gum
camphor will scatter swellings, boils.
etc, inst as well, if not better, than
iodine, and is sometimes easier TO OBJ
tain, especially in the country.-TRural
New Yorker.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-03-12

A CHASTITY story of house burglary
comes nom the English town ofAbing-
TOP. A farmer discovered, a fortnight
ago mat quantity of uncooked meat
had been stolen from cupboard in his
house; a search was made, and a
farm laborer was found lying on his
back in the yard, quite dead, holding a
clasp,,knife in his hand. A piece of
raw beef resembling that which had
been stolen, lay on his chest, and the
Of the body left no doubt
whatever that the unfortunate man had
been choked while eating the meat he
had taken.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-03-12

Waterford, Wis, one-half interest in
ram bred by @ G Rich; to A nj Al
drich, Spring Prairie, Wis, one ram
bred by l. Wolcott; to o Van Valin,
Caldwolls Prairie, Wis, one-half inter
est in a ram bred by @ g Rich; to SAM
uel Toombs, Burlington, Wis, one
ram bred by ii S Brookins; to L
Dodge, Springfield, Wis, one ram
bred by &C Rich; to Y II Burk, Ly-
ons, Wis, one ram bred by l. G REM
Gle, Richvile; to r Weanod, Lyons,
Wis, one ram bred by i A Orchard,
and one bred by l. Wolcott.
Messrs. Orchard u Farnham, to An
drow Kull, Geneva Lake, Wis, one
ram bred by Il G Farnham, West
Cornwall.
EFF Ncodham, Whiting, to g X Will
liams, nine ewes.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-03-12

March Windsl The sudden changes
and high winds which prevail in March
makes a bottle of Downs Elixir al
ways necessary to have at hand. 1t is
sure cure for sudden colds and all lung
diseases.
Bakers Mandrake Bitters will cure
all bilious diseases. Sold everywhere
at 20 cts. per bottle. Try 1T.
The best remedy for strains and gals
on horses is Henry & Johnson's Arnica
and Oil Liniment. Good for man and
Deast' Avis