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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
Relative Size of States,

The figures commonly employed to
indicate the area of the several states of
the Union have been found to be incor-
rect, and the census bureau has issued
an extra bulletin correcting the preva-
lent errors so far as it is possible to do
so from the data at hand. According to
the old estimate the area of the United
States, exclusive of Alaska, is 1926, 494
square miles; according to the new esti-
mate it is 3, ops, 600, Of which II, 200 are
coast water of bays, CULTS, sounds, etc.
IA, 500 are made up of the areas of rivers
and smaller streams, and $4,000 of the
areas of lakes and ponds. There re-
mains total land surface of about
1910, 900 square miles. Virginia In the
old estimate has a total area of SO, 348
square miles, in the new 42 $50, includ-
ing total water surface of 2, 1876 square
miles It is of interest to observe the
wide contrast in area between, for ex-
ample, California, with her 1853, 1860
square miles, and Rhode Island with
1880; or between Massachusetts, with
8,315 square miles, and Texas with
265, $50. Arizona has $1,000 square
miles of surface, Colorado 103, 1925, Da-
kota 159, 100, Montana 146, $50, Nevada
ITO, 700, New Mexico, 122, $50. Della
ware has 2,15O and the District of Col
umbia 70. New York, which has 40, ITO,
is not as large as North Carolina, which
has 81, $50, and lacks nearly 10000
square miles of the area of Georgia.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
FASHIONABLE FANCIES.

A NEW plush is called "staircase
plush, and another "plowed plush. !"
RIBBONS striped in MORE and plush,
or MORE and satin, are in high favor for
| bonnet and hat trimmings.
BAYADEREs are again to the front. and
are shown IN dark colors, shot with gold,
silver. ruby-blue and iridescent hues.
BRIGHTER colOrs and stronger con-
trasts are worn this winter than have an
peared for many decades of fashion,
SHoULDER-oAPEs, with long, mantle
like ends in front, will be much worn IN
til the weather becomes colder.
The new colors are old conner
cachou and chartreuse-the first dark
terra Gotta, the second reddish brown
and the last dull green.
CHENILLE scarfs lined with quilted
colored silk, which is doubled and wad-
ded with very thin layer of cotton
batting, are among the autumn novel
ties.
BLACK satin dresses are made for daily
wear in one piece, with plush of a sub
dued shade let in, both on the waist and
skirt, and old gold still continues to be
worn with all dark colors.
LADIES who are not young are married
IN travelling dress costume, with hat to
match. Satin merveilleux and camel's
hair or cashmere, plush and lady's cloth
are the favorite combinations used.
A STYLISH dress is made of seal-brown
cloth, with a Newmarket coat of seal
brown plush, fastened with buttons iii
the shape of Brazilian beetles. The
Rubens hat is made of brown satin and
plush combined, with home bird.
GLOVES that button up the arm are no
longer considered in best style. Two or
three buttons at the wrist only are al
lowable. The remainder of the glove is
in solid piece, fitting loosely over the
arms.
INSTEAD of the balayeuse of silk plait-
ings which has prevailed for the last few
years as a protection to the bottom of
skirts, fashion now inclines to a she'll
shaped trimming made of the same ma
terial as the dress, but lined with
lighter color.
BLACK velvet Gainsborough hats,
! faced underneath the wide brims with
pale gold satin, and trimmed with
| Spanish lace scarfs, run with gold
| threads, are both handsome and stylish.
! Sometimes the scarfs are brought down
and wound about the throat, giving an
exceedingly picturesque look.
A NEW combination garment called
the tVictoria," combines in one the
corset, petticoat and hustle, and is ad-
mirably adapted to the wants of actress
es and all ladies whose occupations re-
quire quick changes of garments, as well
as for those whose weakness of spine
will not admit of the weight of many
skirts around the hips
New fur bonnets are of chinchilla and
also of coney-skins, or mixed white and
black that produce gray effects. The
coney bonnets are not smooth on the
frame, but are in folds like the plush
turbans, and have crowns shaped like
great huted bow. Plush and MORE
strings and some breast feathers are the
trimmings of them.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
A Close Shave.
From the Detroit Free Press


eyes, I have had some pretty close
shaves in my lifetime, answered the cap
tain as he sat down his glass and took a
seat by the stove.
$50 ahead" called three or four at
once.
''Just seventeen years ago this fall,
when was sailing the Martin from -. +"
Here six of the men took out pencils
and scraps of paper and began to jot
down names and dates, and, as the cap
tain observed it, he continued: "But I
think the closest miss I ever had was
about ten years ago, when I commanded
the Daylight. One night, along towards
the last of November, we were trying to
make Buffalo. That was to be our last
trip. Well, that was the darkest night 7
ever saw, and the wind blew great guns.
The schooner climbed mountain high
and then slid down as If she meant to
strike bottom, and l thought every
plunge would be her last.
''And she finally went on her beam
ends?" asked one.
"Oh, Do-she rode as level as a duck. !"
'sAnd didn't she lose her masts?"
"Not one. She went into Buffalo with
everything as taut as you please. "
"Then where was the miss?" asked a
petulant voice.
Why, / came within four seconds of
missing the midnight train for Detroit I"
was the calm reply, as he turned over his
oI1id
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
The COMPOUNDED Lecturer.
[From the Youths Companion. ]


A shrewd magician sometimes drills
beforehand the man or boy who is
selected from the audience to assist him
in some of his tricks. 1t may SAVIOR of
deception to thus educate his assistant,
but it prevents such accidents as the
following, which happened in western
town:
A physiognomist came to town the
other day, and gave an exhibition. He
advertised to tell the occupation and
general characteristics of any man In
the audience by simply studying the
hneaments of his face and feeling
bump or two.
The first man to mount the platform
had a sort of rolling gait, and the lee
turer set him down at once as sailor.
"You plough the main, said he.
"Never ploughed in Maine In my life, !"
'sDone little cultivating in Iniianny,
though. J"
The audience Uttered little. but the
lecturer persisted: " It's no use telling
me that you haven't spent some of your
life on the water. Answer me frankly,
have you not %
eyes" answered the man, 'sto tell the
truth, I have" (The lecturer glows
triumphantly.) 81 used to tend saw
mills
The child of the sea and the storm
slipped down and out amid thunders of
applause.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
CHAPTER III.

Aunt Agatha pronounced Mr.. Jor-
dams first sermon every sensible, F" and
wondered what such man could see in
that mincing, affected little bit of
goods, Miss Iipple.'
But, as the weeks rolled on, she did
not hear of him quite in the way she
liked in the cottages where she visited,
and she heard of him good more than
she liked In parson at the parish, at
municipalities, archery-meetings and So
cial meetings of all kinds. Not that he
failed to visit among the humber in
habitants of Hilderstock, but while she
heard of him as smoking his pipe with
them, talking about their gardens, or
their pigs and their poultry, and other
wise rendering himself very popular, he
never seemed to speak to them of re-
dgion, or about purely professional
topics.
This was very different from the prac-
tlce OF the late rector, jealous evangel-
ical, whose dutiful disciple Aunt Agatha
had been, though in her sturdy indie
pendence she had sometimes ventured to
express her doubt as to the wisdom OF
prolonged exhortations in houses where
the struggle for existence was hard and
exacting, for, as she would say, "you
can't make windmill go with a pair of
bellows
Something between the prolixity of
his predecessor and the too purely mum
dane converse of Mr.. Jordan would have
been her idea of the happy mean.
81 have just been telling Mrs. Gimp
son. said he one day when he encoun-
hor r. Of eg
if she wants her hens to lay she must
vary their food little
"Don't you think there are some
things more important than hens eggs
you might speak to Nanny Gimpson
about ?" asked my aunt, looking him full
in the face. ''I'm afraid she's dread
fully ignorant, and they say parsons are
souls waggoners.
"Do you know, Miss Gayfer," he an
swered, sc that when I see that cheerful,
active old lady, stricken with pain and
with years, making the thinnest of liveli-
hoods by unremitting care, yet always
contented, [ feel that it is for me to learn
and be silent; she is the teacher"
Ny aunt was silent for g second or two
and then answered.: "Where is a great
deal in what you say, but it is way of
looking at things that is new to me. If
it is the right way, I think I have wasted
good deal of time
''Assuredly not, said he; you have
carried brightness and order into many
homes, and wherever go I find you have
been an influence for good. Sympathy
is the true 'open sesame to human
heart, and in power of sympathy we men
lag far behind women"
From that time e gradual change was
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
An Arab Child's Hopes.

The following, told by an Arab child,
is not only very good, but is it not a
pretty fair description of many a mans
real Life? An author relates the follow
ing:
Gone little fellow said that he was
going to save up his money and buy a
few goats, and after that he would keep
on saving his money, and buy two or
three COWS.
"'What will you do then?' I said.
".WeD, I would sell the goats and the
COWS, and buy two or three camels.
cat that his face frightened, as if to
own some camels would make man of
him.
g. And after you get your camels what
will you do?
"' Why, then,' said he thoughtfully,
/ shall get married.
's' And after that what will you do p
"Well, [ suppose. said he, after a
little pause, after that Unjust get ready
to die"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30


The Platz without is white with snow,
And, glistening white, this porcelain stove
Sheds on you oriel's fairy grove
OF flowers and ferns summer glow;
And here, though Saxon winter whirl
Round hoary lindens flakes of storm,
The legendary sylphids swarm,
And charm us sack to boy and girl.
So, chiId-like, hand-in-hand we list
TO Gagged linnet carrollng.
In pauses, bark what echoes ring
Or is he ventriloquist?
For oft, IN hush of shrobbing throat,
We hear, or fancy that we hear,
From mellow distance, low yet clear,
A sympathetic softer note.
And hath the lonely bird beguiled
His own heart, thus to initiate
The voice of an imagined mate,
Conserving from tie greenwood wild
All, hand-in hand and heart to heart
Mine own there have been weary times,
When I, in visionary rhymes,
Have played the linnet's mimic part;
Gagged not in bower, but barren ship,
Have feigned fond courtship and replies
In some all-perfumed paradise
Yea, even the kiss from answering lip;
And to dream-rhythm the lofty sails
High-bosomed sistergoddesses
Became, and paced the purple seas
To stars more lustrous, blander gales.
Illusions, love, the mightier truth
Hath dwarfed. Yetin our Dresden home
The snowflake flying like the foam,
But in our souls ambros1al youth
In sweet for sweet of thought and tongue,
In bliss the bird but feigns to win,
One touch of far-off tears makes kin
The pathos of the linnet's soug.
HaTper's Magazine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
NOVEM Der.
BY REBFCCA p. REED.

Ills thine to sit between the glow
Of ripened harvests bending fair,
With purpling vineyards dropping low
Their clusters through the fragrant air,
And snow-clad hills that dazzling white
Stretch awful through the winter night.
Above the icy streams below
The twilight of the year is thine,
November, in thy veil Of grayl
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30

THERE is one thing about the goat that
is pleasant to contemplated they relish
everything they eat, and they don't have
to spend two-thirds of an income on
"sure cures for dyspepsia. "-Mc Oregon
Meas.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 80, 1881.
rHE LuNNET,s ECHO SONG.

BY COMMANDER WILLIAM GIBSON, U. s. N.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-18
Mrs. Lucretia Garfield.

From the Galveston (TeX.) News.
The great heart of the American people
b ais in unison with that of the bereaved
wife Of our honored dead. The fullest meas
ure of sympathy is n'eted out to her That
could be accorded to one sustaining the clos
est aud most endearing personal friendship.
PRAYERS have been offered at every shrine, by
every hearthstone, by every mothers knee,
throughout tile length and breadth of the
great commonwealth. But while tears OF
pity and sympathy flow fer Mrs. Garfield, it
would be- we'll to remember that hers has
been IL brilliant and prosperous caleer.
Mated early in life TO the hushand of her
choice, she has been blessed among women.
Step 10y step, hand in hand, heart to heart,
thew have climbed to the loftiest SUNNI, III
earthly power 10 attain. She has been a true
and loyal wife and friend. Wise and strong
ip counsel aud devotion, she has cheered his
aspirations, solaced his sorrows, rej6iced in
his successes, and glrried in his triuniphs.
And to-day, Mile clothed in funeral weeds,
while bowed with a grief 10 which no tongue
or pen can give exp. ssion, Lucretia Garfield
would rather recall Que tone of that loved
voice, one look of that eye, one caress of that
loving hand, than to have been the wife OF
the proudest living pctentale on earth. Her
life has been crowned with more of earthly
| felicity than falls to tie lot Of one of thou
sands of her sisters. AS much OF Happiness
has been crowded into the years of her wife
hood as la. been measured into scores OF
years tor others. Her children are ali honor
and "A blessing; she must live for them,
They ale the best gifts of Gods p evidence
to her and even in this hour IF all uish
when her heart is weighed down with its IN
utterable load of woe, another life is bount
up in her owI--an infinite soul is coming e
claim a mothers guidance. The palsins
heart beneath her wv reminds her %tenderly
but i,nperatively that she has no Inc for lie
pining, no room to question the goodness ant
mercy of One who has made her one of the
most blessed anong women.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-18
The Good Time Coming.

The return from the bitter Root mountains
of the surveying party sent out by those who
have the will, tie means and the power to
place us in direct railroad communication
with the Atlantic aud Pacific has lent to the
outlook for Lewiston a more encouraging as
pect than it has eyer before worn.
But this outlook brings to orr citizens new
duties which demands their most earnest and
careful considerations. 1t is not enough that
we expend breath in dilating upon the adj
vantagss IF railroad connection Something
more than the philosophy of q Micawber
-al~ avs waiting for something 10 turn up
is needed to build cities. Let us not delude onr-
selves into the false belief that railroad or
other enterprises will be thu ust upon us wity-
nulu. The fact that Lewiston is now the me
hopol e Of a region rich in fertile fields 10 not
Of itself, sufficient 10 insure for this city a
commercial future. We must awake to the
altered condition OF things, prepare for the
new life that is dawning Oh us, a"d not let
slip All opportunity that may never occur
again OF securing for Lewiston direct railroad
communication with the East and West. ,a
If the railroad boom strikes us next spring
and We are asked to put our hands In Our
pockets for the w~here~ith to procure for the
railroad projectors flee right of way and de-
pot grounds, let us do so, v it'll the con-cious-
ness that the value Of every foot of real estate
in the city is at stake.-Nez Perces Ne'o'
Sept 20. a.a ..s.r reg -Jr.. ..- .....
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-18

prisons; members Of the lite commission tP
investigate the management OF the
California state prison, judg,s and ex-
indses of criminal courts BY What
ever courts such are or have been called,
Including police courts and similar tribunals
Of cities; judges and ~ex-judges of supreme
co,,uts, district and ex-distriet attorneys and
their assistants; . trustees and ex! trustees OF
the California Prison Commission; the presi-
dent and secret airy of each prisoners aid as
ISOLATION, by whatever name called; together
with persons specially invited to participate
in the proceedings. ny "t.@s
~ Re representatives of amy Of these classes will
lie admitted as delegates, without limit as to
number, from any Of the states and terri
tories west Of the Rocky Mountains, embrac-
ing California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, Utah and Arizona, also Montana Wy
omins, Colorado and New Mexico, as we'll as
British Columbia and Mexico. ..'
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-18
PRISON REFORM CONVENTIO F

The Association known az The California
Prison Commission has through its Board of
Trustees, determined to cali a convention for
The co rsideration of measures fer tie proven
ton of crime, to meet in San Francisco on
Tuesday, the eighth day of November of the
prese Mt year, and continue several days. The
Convention viii be similar in ciiaia cter to
those which have been held from time to
time in recent years, in Eastern State ard
in Europe, and from Which such encourage, 6
results have grown. Among lie most inn
por,art questions that will come before it
wit be That of caring for The neglected chill
,lrsn and youth, so as TO prevent them frem
falling il to triniinai habits. oE Ah #tH o.
The convention will be made up of such
persons as may choose to attend it. from the
{ blowing Classes, viz: governors ard ex-
Governors OF states and territories wardens
and ex-wardens OF state and territoli al pris.
ons, including lieutenant and e~S-iieutenah,
governors, who have served as wardens
chaplains ard , ornai irsi ructors of prisons
including ministers who have acted in thai
capacity, wlethsr officially recognized or nut
superipteudents and ex-superiutendents Of
houses of corre ion. work houses and simi
lar prisoss superintendent and exfsaPesin
tendeBts of industrial schools, houses o.
refuge, aud kindred institutions sllerifis ant
ex-sheritis chiefs anal ex-cllieis Of police
captains OF police directors and ex-directOrI
or commissioners of state and teIritoria
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-18
THE NEWS.

In Germany the great majority of the
Chamber of Commerce condemn Bismarck's
new protective tariff. .. 81
In Ireland an agricultural laborer's con-
vention will meet shortly to form a labor de-
partment of the Land League. Agrarian
outrages are still rife. The minor officials
of the Land Commission have been appointed
and the machinery of the tribunal is 10
comolete. .".- .- .-'. I'D.
In Switzerland the Socialist Congress
opened on the 9th inst. DELEGATES from the
United States were present. The Russian
government is vigilantIy guarding its frontiers
against Nihilist emissaries and Internal ma
chir rs. Vessels from England, rance and
the United States arriving at Russian ports
are strictly examined. r' I.t""i~'f 1878 T5
In England Sir Stafford Northcote, address
ing a meeting at Hull, said the Conservatives
were willing to give the Irish Land act a fair
trial, but he thought the League should be
compelled to keep within the law. He is not
wholly in favor of '.fair trade" nor does he
think that the condition Of the English far
mer can be improved by radical amendments
to the land laws. h.
II is said the friends Of Nj. CODkling have
known and he begins to feel that the death
OF President Garfield was to him a great po-
litical misfortune. He uses this Language IN
regard TO the situation: II cannot dispute
| with a dead man. I eannot go into q ne W.
made grave and make war. They iaunt me
TO do it, but I will not do it. Some things
must go unanswered noW. Perhaps | shall
have something to say in the coming years
bit not yet. | shall not go into the Consen'
fsson, and have not intended to do so. The
fight my friends are making is lot Tor me-
Tnpss are the utterat ces of a truly good man.
That Mr.. Conkling is a great man in many
respects no two opinions can exist.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-18
stock Notes.

SAN Francisco, Oct. 10.-The "Union''
Lewis an assessment Of one dollar, and the
Northeru Belle declares a regular dividend
OF fit y C n IN all extra dividend Of TWEEN
tY.i Ie GEMS.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-10-18

tionary paper.
In the recent New York Republican Con-
~vention, a stalwart from Livingstone county,
Mr.. j. b. Marcy, created the first breeze of
the day by offering IN additional civil service
plank 20 the platform. 1t went on to say that
whereas, the Republican party was irrevoca-
bly, committed TO the doctrine of civil service
reform; and, whereas, ''that reform would be
a~ntagonized 10y removing Trustworthy offii-
eials from office before their term had ex-
pired, solely for the purpose Of rewarding the
partisan services OF Others; and, whereas, Col
lector Merritt was removed from the Col
iectorship of the port Of New York without
cause and before his term of office had ex-
pired; t. ~erefore resolved, that General Mer-
rift should be restored to office for the re-
malnder cfshis term or removed for cause.a
shout went up from the stalwart faction over
This thrust 1T the civil service reform profes-
sions Of She piatform-makers, mingled with
Kisses from the half-breed side of the house
This was too bitter a pill for the half breeds
TO swallow, and they rejected it by laying the
offensive article upon the table. Bnt it left
its sting behind which will burn The Iomi-
nant wing Of the party al the SossAahef cleo
tien. Harmony does not prevail along tile
line Of the New York Republicans.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-22
The Liverpool TImber Market.

James Smith & Co.'S Wool Circular and
Prices Current, Of April 5th, reports a dull
market for the past month. Pitch pine has been
imported to a large extent during the past
month. and the stock is now heavy; the con-
sumption for the month however. has been 344.-
600 feet. By auction the hewn timber, ex A
thea, from Savannah, was sold at from 15Ad.
to i9d., averaging 16Ad. per foot: and the sawn
timber, ex 'Sesti Dubrovachi." from Pensa-
cola, realized from 15d. to 1713d, and averaged
led. per foot, and the plauks were sold at 1215d.
10 15d. There has been several cargoes sold by
private. Pitch pine flooring is in fair request,
but there have been no fresh arrivals. 4 par
eel OF pitch pine boards, unplaned. has just ar
rived on timber merchants account. OF oak
there have been no sales, and the demand is
dull. Locust treenails have been sold at from
81 IS. to 81 los. per mile, but the demand has
fallen of. Oak slaves have been sold by auc-
ton at f55 los. to f5S per mile for extra heavy
pipe. and at e36 los. for single pipe. Extra
heavy barrel realized e23 los. per mile, and
extra heavy keg el6 los. per mile.