davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
Anxious to Rise.
From the La Fayette Daily Journal.

From the La Fayette Daily JournalJ
There's plenty of room up stairs, as
Daniel Webster said to the young law
yer anxious to rise, but respondent of
his chance to do so; but no one need in
lure himself either in climbing the stairs
of fame or those of his own house OF
business place. The following is to the
point: Mr., John A Hutchinson, Supt.
DOwner's Kerosene Oil works. Boston,
Mass, writes: MI. Patton, one of our
foremen, in walking up stairs last week
sprained his leg badly. I gave him a
bottle of st. Jacobs Oil to try He used
it and ON almost instantaneous cure was
effected.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
A WINTER NOCTU2NE.
BY THOMAS S. COLLIER


Leaden and gray the clouds bend down,
The storm is wild and high,
And III the streets of the ancient town
The sombre shadows lie.
The river sweeps foaming ring,
Where dark the fortress stands,
Out past the wharfs, where the great ships bring
Rich stores from orient lands.
The night hangs cold, and drear, and black,
Above the moaning sea,
But waves bright with shining track
Where ships drive fast alec.
The hills loom high above the bay
And down the southwark land,
Where rising squalls drive the flying spray,
Low-lies the wreck-strewn sand.
Far through the rush of wind and rain
Clear bell-notes rise and fall.
And where the ships at their cables strain
Rings out sea-birds call.
The Ieafess oaks that crown the hill
Their huge boughs roughly toss,
And send brown leaves where the winds blow shrill
The gloomy bay across.
The forests roar, as wave on wave
The fierce winds throu III them roll,
Cold the unceasng tides that lave
The ice-foes of the Pole.
And where the dark rocks grimly loom
Beyond the foaming bar,
The beacon light, in the heavy gloom,
Shines like u sanguine star.
God keep the ships that in the night
Roll down the stormy seas,
Beyond the glow of beacon's light,
Der tempest-swept degrees.
-YoutE,'s Companion
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
New Inventions,

We are furnished the following list OF
new inventions for which patents have
recently been granted to Wisconsin in
ventors, by Jas. B. Erwin, Attorney at
Law and Solicitor of Patents, Iron Block,
Milwaukee.
Harry S. Sutter-Automatic vignetting APP
paratus, Milwaukee.
Blind-John J. Angus, Cascade.
Wagon Coupling James Fl. Gressom, Erin.
Tea Kettle Top-E. G. Schultz, Green Bay.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09

The Buckeye Blacksmith is dead.
His name was John W. Baer, and in
every presidential campaign from Har-
rison to Grant he was a stump orator
and singer in the west. He was an at
tractive speaker, and his songs always
aroused great enthusiasm. Between the
campaigns he was usually provided with
a berth in the Baltimore or Philadelphia
custom house.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09

Mr.. HERzoG is suing the Lorillard
tobacco concern for $50, 900 for informa-
ton in relation to desirable tobacco
favoring. The Lorillards' reply is that
the information deemed so valuable was
known to them a dozen years before they
ever saw Mr.. Herzog. t.r
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
Two Organs.

liver; especially the first, SO as to perform their
functions perfectly and you viii remove at
least nineteen twentieths of all the ills that
mankind is heir to, in this or any other climate
Hop Bitters is the only thing that will give
perfectly healthy natural action to these two
Organs.-Md61e Farmer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09

INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, nervous prostra-
ton and all forms of general debility relieved by
the only preparation of beef containing it's en-
tire nutritious properties. 1t contains blood
making, force-generating and DEMONSTRATING
properties; is invaluable in all enfeebled condi-
tions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous
prostration, overwork, or acute disease, par
ticularly if resulting from pulmonary COM
plants, Caswell, Hazard q Co., proprietors, New
York.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
Mrs. PartingtOn Saws

Don't take any OF the quack rostrums, as they
are regimental to the human cistern; but put
your trust in Hop Bitters, which will cure
comic diseases. They saved Isaac from a
severe extract of tripod fever. They are the
ne plus ,tn,tn of medicines. Boston Globe
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09

EILERT's EXTRACT OF TAR AND WILD CHERRY
has been used for twenty years, and during that
time has saved many very valuable lives. Do
not neglect cough or cold until it is too ate,
try this excellent remedy, and we are sure you
Coughs and even Consumptives are cured by
following the directions; every bottle is war
ranted to give satisfaction. Prepared by the
Emmert Proprietary Co., Chicago. Sold by all
good Druggists.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09

AN exchange says the national debt, in
silver dollars, could be removed by rail
by loading five thousand five hundred
and fifty cars with ten tons each. We
can't believe it. Ii it was so, why ISM
it done ?-Dan6N1Y NeaOs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09

A RESIDENT of Gloucester, Mass, has
bought half peck of peanuts every Sat
urday night for eight years past for his
grandchildren. A few Saturdays ago
he started for this city, forgetting the
peanuts, and telegraphed back from
Boston to a dealer in Gloucester to de-
liver the customary half peck.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09

SOUND repose is so essential to good health
that we feel surprised to know any one would
risk loss of rest from Cough or Cold when a
bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup would give
refreshing slumber
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09

UNCLE SANS CONDITION POWDERS are recon-
mended by stock owners who have used them
as the best Horse and Cattle Medicine to be
had. If the animal is Scraggy, Spiritless or has
no appetite these Powders are an excellent rem
edy and every owner of stock will do well to
try them; they are prepared by the Emmert Pro-
prietary Co., Chicago, ILL.,, very reliable firm.
and sold by all good druggists.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
(Chicago Tribune. 1

THOMAS O. THOMPSON, ESQ, the may.
or's secretary, who. some few days ago,
slipped on banana peel and sprained
his knee, writes that st. Jacobs Oil
" acted like charm"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
seThe DocfOrs SAID

would never leave my bed. That was three
months ago, and now I weigh 100 pounds. /
cannot write half of what I want to say. but
Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure did it
ALL. III. o. RoURK, Railway, N. j.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09

A WOLF attacked a number of hogs
one night recently in Montgomery coun-
ty, Arkansas, but was killed by the
Dl11cky swine
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09

ANOTHER large shipment of beautiful
Embroideries newly opened at James
Morgan's Popular and Progressive Dry
Goods House, 1856 and 3S8 East Water
ST., Milwaukee, and marked at his usual
low prices. His Great Sale of Cloaks,
DOlmans, Shawls, ETC., continues.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
Lay the Axe
to the Root

liz you would destroy the cam
kering worm. For any exter-
nal pain, sore, wound or lame
ness Of man or beast, use only
MEXICAN MUSTANG LINZ
MENT. 1t penetrates all mus
Gle and flesh to the very bone,
expelling all inflammation,
soreness and pain, and healing
the diseased part as no other
Linilnent ever did or can. So
saith the experience of two
generations of sufferers, and
so will you say when you have
tried the :" Mustang"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-11-03
Low in the Human. Scale.

A singular race of Africans are called
Mncassequeres. They are perfect
s~vages, born under the shadow of the
forest trees, building NO huis for shell
ter, and seeking no cover from tho
weather. They despise alike the rain,
the heat and the sun, and bear the rigor
of the seasons with the same indiffer-
ence as the wild beasts. As they never
cultivate the ground, agricultural i'm
plements are entirely unknown. Roots,
wild honey, and animals caught in the
chase, constitute their food. They
place. The arrow is their weapon, and
so dextrous are they in its use that the
animal once sighted is as good as
caught. They use no cooking appli-
ances, but roast meat upon wooden
spits. Salt is quite unknown to them.
Both men and women barely cover
their nakedness with small monkey
skins They are excessively ugly and
repulsive looking. The eyes are small.
and out Of the right line; the cheek
bones very far apart, and high; the
nose flat to the face, and nostrils dis
proportionately wide. The hair is crisp
and woolly. growing in separate patch
es, and thickest on the top of the head.
A few strips of the skin of some ami
NAL. encircling their wrists and ankles,
constitute their sole ornament, and
these are perhaps Worn rather as anu
lets than for the purpose of adornment.
They quarrel very violently among
themselves, and the offenders against
the peace are sold by their brethren
into slavery
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-11-03
Cider.
In ENGLAND the cider annie

In England the cider apple is princi-
pally grown in HerefordShire and
Devonshire, and in portions of Glou-
ceStershire, Monmouthshire, Worcester
shire, Dorsetslire, Somersetshire, and
Cornwall: and, on the other side of the
British Channel, must be mentioned
Jersey. Normandy, and Brittany.
Many II farmer counts. in a good year,
upon paying his rent by his cider har-
vest. Although its value in relation 10
other beverages is not great, it is aston
ishing how important factor it is in
successful farming in those districts,
and what a respectable piece de resis-
tance is good cellarful of this drink.
Throughout the Summer, but especial
ly in hay and harvest-Iime. the quanti-
ty consumed by the farm-laborer would
astonish the ELECTROMAGNETIC or town
operative, it being considered nothing
unusual for him to dispose of his two
to three gallons in day; and the farm
er, his sons and his servants. and in
many cases his whole household, make
use of hardly any other drink through
out the year. If the farmers stock
runs dry in consequence of meager
harvest, he is obliged to procure the
cider at any price, for the laborers viii
insist upon a regular allowance of their
favorite refreshment. In some districts
tho use of beer is gradually being sub
stituted in certain establishment for
that of cider; but this is not SO much
to be regretted as the more baneful
consumption of cheap sprirituous
liquors. Notwithstanding so great a
consumption of what is sometimes not
much better than vinegar, cider-elrink-
ing does not appear to be fraught with
any very serious results. At most of
the tables d. hote in Normandy and
Brittany decanters of cider are supplied
gratis; and the thirsty wayfarer need
only visit a restaurateur to procure 4
quart of that liquor for about 3 half
pence. He may sometimes chance to
have the produce of the first pressure
applied TO the apples. and which the
grower calls gros cidre; but he is more
likely to have to content himself with
the second extract. or petit cidre. a
watery, though still not quite innocu-
GUS liquid. Chambers Journal
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-11-03
Advice to The Girls

When man chooses the profession
of law he does not expect to be mu-
sician and a journalist also; he knows
that if he would succeed he must de-
vote himself to the one chosen calling.
When a woman marries she realizes
that in order to reach lefty heights in
wife and motherhood she must sacrifice
lesser aims. She must be willing to
lay aside the delightful occupations
which have made her girlhood pleas
ant; she must know that from the hour
when her baby is laid in the cradle,
dressed with loving forethought, to
that darker hour when the mature man
lies down in his last sleep, that she will
give full meaning to the words, "Con-
stant care" That her mind once un-
fettered will be at liberty no more, but
is bound by ties stronger than life or
death to those who have come to her
from out of the great unknown. Wait
a while, girls; think it all over before
you promise to become wives-to take
these duties and burdens upon you.
Sweet and satisfying as are the obliga-
tions of wife and mother. they are not
to be taken lightly. A husband must
not be looked upon as sort of perpet-
ual beau, and children as extremely un-
certain and improbable adiuncts. Un-
less, like Wilhelm Meister, your ap-
premiership ended. you reach out of
yourself and ask for larger duties, for
a wider field of labor, you had better
stay at home with father and mother,
dignifying the relation of daughter,
filling the old-established home with a
mild radiance which would seem but a
dim light in a new one.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-11-03
Have Yon Started the Twp

The plant of all plants for the house
is the ivy. Ii one man has piece, q
bit only six inches long, with time and
patience all the rest will follow. This
piece may be had of friend, or any
nurseryman or florist will send a small
rooted plant or some cuttings by mail
for small sum. If the plant has roots,
plant it in pot in good soil. If it has
not roots, do the same, and it will soon
make roots. for it is one of the earliest
of all things to grow from cuttings.
Slow of growth at first, if given large
pots as the roots require. it will in time
run TO be trained over the window
frame; up the corner of the room, and
along the cornices, over picture frames,
and everywhere, and make drapery
SO beautiful that no one will ever think
OF the pattern OF the wall paper. One
OF the finest displays of ivy we ever saw
built in the early days of New York
State. The parlor had all the beams
exposed. and these beams and the
heavy window frames were all draped
with profusion of ivy. Anyone, with
very small outlay and time, can pro-
duce equally fine effects. Ivy out of
doors will bear quite a severe freezing,
but in the house, if in state of growth,
it must not be allowed to freeze. If the
soil is kept moist, and to remove the
dust. the foliage is gone over OCCASION
ally with a damp sponge or cloth, a
plant a foot high will be thing of
beauty, one twenty feet high OF long
will be a wonder of grace and cheerful
Ag11cultusist.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-11-03

A Georgia paper tells an amusing
story of how an untamed steer troubled
several negroes who attempted to drive
the animal home to his purchaser. The
OK was driven from the pasture, and
started on the road to Crawford. For
the first half mile he gave but little
trouble but while going down a Jane
he suddenly realized the fact that he
wanted to go back home," and made
q bolt for the drivers. They held their
ground till they saw that the OK was
dangerous, when an ignominious stam-
pcde commenced. One of the drivers
escaped by scaling fence. while others
scattered to the right and left, but an
old negro named John Deadwyler was
not so fortunate. He was pressed so
close that he had to escape behind
tree, when commenced a tilt between
man and steer. The OK chased him
around until his head began to swim,
but during a temporary lull, while his
steership was fighting a fly, John
started up that tree. But he was not
quick enough. The animal sprang at
the man, and caught his horn in his
clothing. For several minutes there
was an exciting contest; the negro
trying to escape, while the steer did
his best to pull him down. At last. the
hold of the horn broke. and tine old
darkey went up that sapling like sky
rocket He was kept there for over an
hour before the animal decided to give
up the siege and depart for home.
As the beast vanished in the distance
John yelled after him. ''Is'e member
ob de church, but eff you links you can
skeer me, you's one big foolr'
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-11-03
Filial Pietv of Rats.

81 was this morning in bed," writes a
German officer, ''and was reading,
when was interrupted suddenly by a
noise like that which rats mako when
they climb up the wainscot or party
wall. watched very attentivelv, and
saw a rat make its appearance under
the side of hole. 1t looked about on
every side, and then retired. Soon af-
ter, it appeared second time. con-
Quoting by the ear q rat larger than
himself, and which appeared to be an
old one. Having left it ut the side of
the hole, another young rat joined the
former one, and both together traversed
my chamber, picking up small pieces
of biscuit which had fallen from the
table at supper-time the previous even
ing. They then carried these crumbs
to the old one at the side of the hole,
This attention of the animals aston
ished me. observed them with great
er care, and came to the conclusion
that the old rat to which the other two
rats brought something to eat was
blind, because it did not find but by
touch the biscuit held out to it. I no
longer doubted that the two young ones
were its children, and the assiduous
providers for . blind parent. l ad-
mired in my mind the wisdom of ma
ture, which has planted in all animals
an intui.ive tenderness and a gratitude,
might almost say virtue, proper
toned to their faculties. While was
making these reflections, and feared
that these little animals might be in
terrupted, our senior surgeon opened
the door of my room. The two rats
uttered cry. as if they wanted to give
warning of the danger to the blind one;
and notwithstanding their fright. they
were unwilling to save themselves un-
til the old one was in safety. They
both returned into the hole after their
parent. serving. SO to say, as a real
guard"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-11-03
Inf1nance of Lima on Soils

Professor E. w. Hilgar,l, in discuss
| ing the '.Objects and Interpretation of
Soil Analysis" gives among other
things the following advantages re-
snlting from an adequate supply of
lime in soils:
1. A more rapid Transformation of
vegetable matter into active humus
which manifests itself by dark or
deep-black tint of tine soil.
z. The retention of such humus,
against the OxidiZing influences of hot
climates witness the high humus per
ccntages of such soils, us against all
others, in the southern states
8. Whether through the medibm of
this humus. or in a more direct man.
ncr, it renders adequate for profitable
culture percentages of phosphoric acid
and potash SO small that. in the case
of deficiency or absence of lime, the
soil is practically sterile.
4. 1t tends to secure the proper MAIN
tenance of the conditions of nitriiica-
ton, whereby the inert nitrogen of the
soil is rendered available.
8. 1t exerts a most important physi-
cal action on the flocculation, and
therefore on the tillability of the soil,
as heretofore shown by Schesing and
by myself.
Professor Hilgard adds that in the
majority of soils excepting those that
are extremely sandy the lime percent
age is greater in the subsoil than in the
surface soil. This is, doubtless, he ex-
plains, the result of the easy solubility
of calcic carbonate in the soil water,
which carries it downward and thus
tends to deplete the surface soil. This
fact is strikingly shown in the results
of Loughbridge's Investigation on the
composition of the several sediments.
The efficacy of lime in preventing
running 10 weed' in fresh soils, and
in favoring the production of fruit, is
shown in a number of
cases.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-11-03
UuIuckY Peonle,

A genuinely unlucky man will entail
as much misery upon those who are de-
pendent upon or associated with him,
as a genuinely wicked one. They can
never be relied upon. Their specula-
tions turn out ill, when those of stu
pider men succeed. Their inventions
are just little anticipated by those
they never heard of. Their books or
PLAYS do not become popular. Their
crops are sure to be injured by the
floods or tornadoes, their vessels to be
shipwrecked or burned, and their
houses are sure to be consumed within
twcnty-four hours after the insurance
policy had expired, or the day before
they had resolved to take out one.
Judges are sure TO rule adversely to
their interests, and juries always bring
in verdicts against them. Their letters
are certain to 60 astray, and their bag
gage or express packages are sure to
always looking for their missing knives,
and who are constantly wondering
where their hats or their umbrellas
have gone to. The money they put
into their pocketbooks, or the pocket
books they put into their pockets. mys-
teriOusly disappear. Even when they
desire to be prudent, and, with consid-
cradle sacrifice and pains, buy their
potatoes. their coal, and other stores,
in advance, at reduced rates. the prices
of the succeeding winter invariably
fall below what they have paid. They
are to be dreaded as Jonah was dread
ed. The boughs of the trees they climb
always break. and the boats they row
OF sail always capsize. The train they
take is by no means to be expected at
its terminus on time-and even if late
should cause gratitude that it got there
at all. Or, if they are not the victims,
they are the authors of all sorts of in
voluntary mischief. Altogether. shrewd
old Rothschild was wise when he coun-
seled his sons to ''avoid unlucky men.''
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-11-03

firm step, and mounted the kegs with
apparent Indifference. While the sher-
i'll was arranging the rope. he re-
marked to tho crowd, ..that the game
was pretty nearly played out," and that
he would eventually get even with ev-
cry man that had taken any part what
ever in it. The rope by this time was
adjusted. Il short but impressive prayer
was said by the parson, and the sheriff
stepped forward as if 10 take the kegs
from under him. but before he could
accomplish his design the prisoner
Strengthened himself up. glanced
around the crowd, and showed himself
off. AS he jumped tho kegs fell. and
rs lie swung back they were beyond the
reach If his feet. A few struggles and
the soul of Alfred L. took its flight to
''that bourne from whence no traveller
returns"
We buried him beside the road. and
placed board ut his heal, giving
name, age, where. when. ana how he
died; and rs we left him to his lonely
rest, we felt that we had done an act of
Era.