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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14

find a girl good enough Or pretty enough
for the splendid creature who one day is
going to make " Rome howl" with his
phenomenal cleverness and wonderful
abilities? Be she ever so pretty or ever
so sweet-she is not too sweet nor too
pretty to insure his mothers aversion.
The first battle ground fit looks like tat
tie ground as written-ED. is tho house
keeping of this double househOld-and
although all the drudgery of the house
keeper may be relegated to the young
wife--be sure the reius of government
are still in the hands of his mother.
This gives her an opportunity to criticise
and admonish that is not to be gained
by any other arrangement. Who has
not seen in their own circle of acquaint-
ance some sweet young girl, married
and taken to live with her mother-in-
law? Did no one notice how, little by
little, the happy light faded from her
eyes, the youthful elasticity from her
step, until people began to say: Chow
Mary Jane is fading |" "She used to
be SO pretty p "Those delicate bright
looking girls fade so soon p Her
mother has seen If no one else has, and
perhaps this is the beginning Of the
trouble between him and her mother-in-
law, of which he writes SO fervently.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14
Two Wicked Boys.
[Fren Texas ISiftings.l


The Great Inter Oshun Syclopian Sir
Gus was in town and they had minag-
cry and the tiger got loos and the peo-
pie all over town got scarf and there was
dead coolies of fun and climbing out of
the way. Old man McEvans he herd of
it but he wasn't scarf because he lives in
the other end of town and he didn't
think no tiger would go out there. He
was sleeping on his galry and Mira was
reading book up stairs when Jim Hin
kle & Sam Richie saw them and they put
up a. Job on the old man. They coaxt
his big yel1er dog round to the back of
the nous with peece of pie-and they
had black paint in bucket and they
painted stripes on the dog and Sam want
ed to call it Zebra but i'm said they'd
pretend it was tiger. When they'd got
1t all ready they throo the peece of pie
on the old mans nee when he was Sleep
ing on the galry and the pie woke him
up and he saw the yeller dog that he
thOt was tiger coming for him and he
yelled poleece and he thot his end was
come and Mira she skreemed fire and
Jim went to run away and he was shout
ing Mad Tiger and he fell down and
Sam tripd over him and spild the paint
over his head and the naybors come out
with shotguns and blazed away at the
tiger and shot street car the first blaze
and q man kid the tiger, not the sure
enough tiger you no, but the yeller dog
with fence rale on the he'd; and when
they found that it was no tiger but Nc
Evanses dog you shood have seen poor
old man McEvans pranze around and he
just made the air bloc. It beet the sir
Gus but it was a shame for the dog is
dead and Mira SEE her harts broke and
the old man split his close and hes now
laying for them boys and he says when
he catcaes them he'll put enuff stripes
on them to make tiger ashamed of his
self,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14
A BAD EGG.
History Of Mrs. Samuel j. Hudson, Alias
Frank Dubois, the Female
Husband.

CHICAGO, November 6.-Charles n.
Derthick and his mother, the stepbrOther
and stepmother of Mrs. S. j. Hudson,
who, as Frank Dubois, has been Great
ing such stir in Wisconsin, are resi-
dents of Hyde Park. Discovering their
relationship with that now noted person,
reporter interviewed mother and son
yesterday. Their information on the
subject was as follows: The woman who
is now figuring as Frank Dubois and Mrs.
Samuel j. Hudson was by birth Cordelia
Derthick. She came into the care of
her stepmother about eighteen years
ago at the age of Is, being consequently
about 81 years of age at this time. Her
stepmother lived at that time at FL
bridge, small llage near Paris III.
She lived with her three years and then
went away "to work, as she said. Sew
eral months afterward they heard of her
In service at boarding house about
twenty miles away. They sent after her,
and she told the messenger that she was
sick and wanted to come home. A few
days afterward they went to bring hel
home, but she had departedto parts un-
known, subsequently turning up IL Bel
videre, Ill. In 1871 she married Samuel
J. Hudson at Belvidere, by whom she
had two children. She and her
husband seldom staid long in one place,
living at different times in Illinois, Iowa,
and Wisconsin. While they were living
in Belvidere, in 1880, Mrs. Hudson ran
away with one William Rowell while her
husband was in Rockport. Hudson hunt
ed her up on his return and found her
with Rowell at Freeport, Ill. Rowell
"skipped out" and the Hudsons in
1882 went to Iowa. Last March Hud-
son appeared in Belvidere with their two
children, and stated that his wife would
join them in few days. Time passed
by and she did not appear. Rumors
that she was dead were current and gen
orally believed by her relatives. Now
she turns up as Frank Dubois, husband
and, as the wife states, the father
of an unborn child Mrs. Frank Du-
bois Samuel j. Hudson is pretty, with
shapely, fnely-developed figure and
small hands and feet. When costumed
as woman she had handsome, dark,
curly hair. When young she acted
more like a boy than a girl, and her
stepmother says she "never could keep
track of her." "Oh, by the way" said
the reporter, as he put his hand on the
door-knob, 81 suppose there is no doubt
that Frank Duboisis woman, is there?"
None whatever" was the stepmother's
renlv
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14

suit costs S75 if it is well made, and can
easily cost SI25, if there are any fancy
touches to it. Many men have no use
for such rig except may be once year,
and while it is true that when they want
it it's like a pistol in Texas, wanted
mighty bad; an investment of S75 that
only comes into use once year is too
much for the majority. That's where
we come In, and before the winter sea-
son last year had fairly opened the
young men found it out. This fall there
has not been wedding or full dress re-
ception in the city that our coats have
not attended. Lawyers, doctors, bank
ers, business men, clerks, sales
men, everybody but preachers hire them
from us, and the demand is increasing.
We charge So. 80 for the first night, and
make reduction If they are kept out
longer than that. It's money for us and
money for the man who hires the spike
tail, so [ guess that's the reason every
body comes to us"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14
Heroism and It's RECOGNITION.
[From the Monte emery Advertiser


In the quiet cemetery at Marion, in
this state, is a monument that few peo-
pie, now living, have any knowledge of,
though it commentaries an act of
heroic devotion in humble life more
worthy of commemoration than many
that are heralded to the world by the
trump of fame. It is plain marble
shaft, perhaps eighteen feet high, sur
mounting a granite pedestal, all in sim
pie and transformations style and taste.
The inscriptions on the four sides of the
shaf5 tell the story, and are as follows;
On the west:
Harry, servant of III. Talbird, D.
d., president of Howard College, who
lost his life from injuries received while
warning the students at the burning of
the college building on the night of Oc-
tober l, 1854, aged % years. ~
On the south: u.
ga consistent member of the Baptist
Church, he illustrated the character
of a Christian servant, faithful unto
DEATH" " ssaUE Re
On the east: Es#sEE
GAS a grateful tribute to his fidelity,
and to commemorate noble act, this
monument has been erected by the stu,
dents of Howard College and the Alabama
Baptist convention" $3.50.
On the north: ~
So He was employed as waiter in the
college, and when alarmed by the flames
at midnight and warned to escape, re-
piled: I must wake the boys first,
and thus saved their lives at the cost OF
his own" e
This is all; but " storied urn nor ami
mated bust!" would tell no more or bet
ter illustrate unselfsh devotion to trust
and bravery in the discharge of duty
than was displayed by this humble
negro. The heroes of this life are not
all found among the great mea of the
oor fl1. 80 ~ @
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14
f" Her" Mother-in-LaW.

CFrom the New York Graphic.l
Tt is always his mother-in-law upon
whom sarcasm spends if random in
effectual shots. Her mother-in-law es-
capes. With manly egotism editors and
writes who are, invariably and needless
ly masculine, remorselessly put the stale
ISLANDERS in cold type and assume that
their mothers are perfect mothers in-law.
care we not their sons?" ''Could SO
perfect a specimen of manhood spring
from any but a perfect source ?" AS
suredly not. But wives are proverbial-
ly known to be imperfect; hence their
mothers are more so. Who ever knew
aWife that could cook like 'Fmy mother. +"
or make shirt that set like mothers, %
or darn socks so they wouldn't hurt. the
tender feet I? "Mother used to do it;
don't see why you can't" The wife be-
ing SO faulty, what can her mother be ?
It is never disaRreeable to hear his
mother say that Mary Jane dresses too
much, % +" that Mary Jane entertains too
much;" that she is extravagant in her
housekeeping, careless in the manage
ment of the children;" too demonstra-
tive" or the reverse Oh! no, it is
his mother, and she must know. But
let her mother but hint in the kindest
manner that George stays out too
late, y or that the 'club is 100 expensive
for young man just starting in life
with his own way to make" that his
cigar bill would suffice to bring many a
little luxury into his home," and then
will flow the VOWS (made to his wife
with profane prefxes unfit for Z" ears
polite y that he ''won't stand that old
woman's tyranny any longer" s. that he
has put up with it long enough (although
it may be the first hint that she does not
think him perfect)," "that if she keeps
on in that strain she will drive him
straight to the devil" etc.
But these are nothing beside the
trials of a young wife taken to live with
her mother-in-law. Who ever saw
mother with darling son that could
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14
GETTING in Winter sunnIies-

1t IS now the choice season of the year
when the man of the house proceeds to
get barrel of apples down the cellar
alone. Always says he will never do it
again, but when the year rolls around,
he forgets his promise and rashly shows
off his muscle, just the same as he did
before, ...........
The man who gets barrel of apples
down cellar is either a professional bar
rel shower, with sinews like hotel ten
derloin, or else he is a natural profess
eional fool.
Having divided humanity into two
classes, we will now proceed to discuss
the professional fool.
He gets around behind the barrel on
the cellar stairs, so that if anything
breaks in he will get the benefit. Then
he asks his wife to stand at the head of
the stairs with light, ostensibly so that
he can see, but in reality so that he can
show her what young Hercules he is.
The young Hercules and professional
fool then carefully sets the chine of the
barrel on his largest and most mellow
toe. He swears softly to himself, and
then gives the barrel vicious jerk that
Jams his nose into the head of the bar
rel and skins the entire front of his legs.
This maddens him so that he under
takes to throw the whole barrel over his
head into the potato bin. This move is
only partially successful, and when his
wife and two of his neighbors roll the
barrel from his remains at the foot of the
stairs an awful sight meets their gaze.
The young Hercules has his head in the
plum jam and his feet mixed up with
the picked peaches. In his fall he has
knocked off the faucet of the five-gallon
oil can, and the oil is running into his
ear. Most of the apples have rolled
out of the barrel and are bathed in
kerosene. Kerosene gives a rich aro-
matte favor to fruit, that cannot be sue
cessfully initiated. Sometimes in let
ting barrel of apples down stairs the
stair breaks and lets the man down also.
But that makes no difference. The man
always falls under the barrel, and when
it strikes him across the stomach, the
low, sad sigh that ne pours out on the
silent air sounds like the remarks of the
baby elephant when the trick mule
kicked him just below the thorax, and
about due south of the liver pad. sa.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14
Oriain of the RecIininaChalr
rFrom the st. James Gazette

lFrom the 81. James Gazette.
Mr.. Henry Harvard, in his recently
published work, "L'Art dams lie Salon, %
attributes the invention Of the reclining
chair to a curious piece of etiquette
scrupulously observed in France during
the period of the old French monarchy.
Whenever the king honored with visit
an invalid whose illness was Of such a
character as to force him to keep his
bed, q second bed was invariably placed
in the room close to the sufferers
couch. His majesty reclined on the
spare bed, and lay in recumbent pos
ture during the entire time occupied by
the visit. When Louis XIII. visited
Cardinal Riehelieu during his illness
this cumbrous etiquette was rigidly ad-
hered to, as it was likewise when Louis
XIV. went to see Marshal Villars after
he received his wound. The second
bed, by successive notifications, be-
came eventually the modern reclining
chair -r
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14
Good Suggestion.

lGrOm the Boston AQV6ruSer.l
The illustrated papers and magazines
contain each year many hundred por-
traits of the distinguished men and wo-
men OF the time. A death, an election,
the comforting of some honor or the re-
currence of an anniversary brings out
an engraving or heliotype, which gives
the world more intimate knowledge of
the character of the celebrity than any
description can convey. Some people
preserve their magazines, few save the
illustrated weeklies, but for the most
part periodicals are given away or des-
troyed. To those who enjoy scrap
books, and there are certain people who
find point to their lives IN making them,
and looking at men and events through
them, much pleasure may be given by
making portrait scrap-books Twenty
years from now such book will be in
valuable, with its truthful hkenesses of
Carlyle. Longfellow, Gladstone, Carl
baldi, Gambetta, Bismarck, Dean Stan
ley, Patti, Wagner, and the host of 9TH
ers whose faces are the index of their
lives, and lives the index of the worlds
activity. 1t is not the family alone that
will treasure such book, hallowed. per-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14
A HIGH-TONED THIEF.
One of the Most Prominent Ladies of
New York Guilty of Theft.

New YORK, November Cone of the
most prominent aud highly-esteemed
society ladies in New York has been
discovered to be a confirmed klepto-
maniac, and her appropriations form
the theme Of conversation now in social
gatherings. It seems that for some
time articles have been missed from
houses where she visited. Toilet
articles, souvenirs of travel on the Ia
bles in mo parlors, books from the
library, and even jewelry would mystic
rlously disappear and never be recov-
cred. After many articles had disap-
peared from various residences where
she had visited, it was arranged by sew
eral ladies that watch should be put
on during her approaching visit to @
residence on Long Island. Here she was
detected appropriating very beauti-
ful enameled China scent bottle for the
toilet table. She was seen to take it and
secrete it in her trunk the day before her
departure, when it was arranged that
one of her nearest friends should visit
the lady herself at her residence in this
city, and ascertain, if she could, what
she did with the stolen articles. She
being wealthy there was no suspicion
that she sold the things to a pawn
broker, as another fashionable though
not so well-off lady was once discovered
to be doing. The friend, while stopping
with her, discovered that she had the
stolen articles secreted in the lumber or
trunk room in the garnet of her resi-
dence. The friends all agreed that the
best way to recover the things was for
each of them to drop her note requesting
the return of the article which they re-
spectively claimed to have cleaned"
her. The lady has been written to by
nearly all of her friends, and has in
each case promptly returned the article
called for. The question which is agi-
tating the circle now is, shall any of
them again invite her to their housesP
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14
A Penniiess Tramp's POCket-Book.
rErOm the New York Timea ]

For some time past a tramp represent
ing himself to be penniless and III a
starving condition, has been sleeping in
barns and begging at lslip, Long Island.
On Thursday evening he called at the
house Of Thomas Duryea, and asked
permission to sleep in the barn, which
was given him. On Friday morning as
Mr.. Duryea was throwing some hay
from the NOW on which the tramp had
slept, he found a pocket book containing
$50 Next evening the tramp again ap-
piled for lodging in the barn, and spent
the night raking over the hay in vain
search for his money. Yesterday morn
ing he reluctantly made his loss known
to Mr.. Duryea, and his property was
returned to him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14
A BIG BABY.
A Girl of Sixteen with the Brain of
Nursing Babe.

ERIE, Pa, Nov. 6.-The physicians
of this county are greatly interested IN q
remarkable case of arrested mental de-
velopnent. In the Erie County aims
house there is girl Is years old with
the mind of child two months old, and
who nurses the same as babe. She
was admitted to the institution about two
years ago, but to spare the feelings of the
family no one has been permitted to see
her. A few weeks ago the mother died,
and the restriction being removed
Superintendent Brown permitted your
correspondent to see the babe woman.
Her name is Eliza Kerner, and she was
born in Venango township, her parents
being very poor deserving people.
When two months old the child had an
attack of brain fever. It recovered its
physical health, but all mental progress
was arrested. Eliza grew and developed
into splendid girl, but had to be
treated as baby. Her mother had to
carry her in arms until she became
too heavy, and since then she has
been in bed. She has never been
weaneG, and has never tasted food. She
has splendid set of teeth, beautiful
clear cut IeaGureSs auu luAufldAb CROWN
Of hair. DIR. Lovett, the surgeon in
charge, says she may live to be an old
woman of eighty. All the organs are
healthy. The skin is beautiful and al
most transparent. The superficial veins
can be traced through the skin. The
reporter jingled bunch of keys before
the young woman's eyes and she evinced
the delight of an infant, ending by cry
ing and biting her fingers. The case
will be brought before the Erie County
Medical Association at its next meeting,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14
Rented Dress Suits

From the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.l
Who hire dress coats?" a CONNER
cial Gazette reporter asked a clothier
yesterday. 1t has been but one year
that dress suits could be rented In Pitts
burg. To be sure, the customers have
had spike tails In stock for many years,
but they were battered and beer stained
FROM frequent use at masquerade balls
and not able TO stand a very close in
spection. Last winter one of the cloth
ing houses of the city added 'To Let
Department to it's establishment, and
il was TO the superintendent of this cor
ner of the store that the question was
addressed.
who hires them ?" repeating the
question, "most everybody, guess.
When we started this thing the people
laughed at us. They had read of it be-
ing done in the east, but didn't believe
that it would work here. Well, we
waited and our reward came. A dress
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14
German and Austrian Soldiers.

From the London World
Those who have been travelling on the
continent lately can not but notice the
difference between the German and Aus
trian soldiers. The former, whether on
or off duty, turn out credit TO the SER
vice and to themselves. Thep are clean,
smart-looking fellows, look every inch
what they are, and seem to take pride in
their profession. The Austrians, on the
contrary, have sadly degenerated; a
dirtier or more stumbling lot it would
be difficult to meet. One would imagine
that on sentry duty at least they might
stretch point and present tidy ex-
terror, but so far from this being the
case, the filthy condition of their clothes,
accoutrements and boots proves the re-
verse. While the German officers are
the smartest of the smart, the Austrians
show the other side of the medal.
Though certainly clean in their habits,
they seem to care but little for their
personal appearance or the fit of their
uniforms. Time was when, in the good
old days of the congress of Baden or
Wiesbaden,- the Austrian officers were
admired by enthusiastic young ladies,
who as promptly lost their hearts for the
elegance of their figure and the thinness
of their waists. Such beautiful walters
were they that it was currently reported
that they could go round the room
with a glass of water on their heads
without spilling any. All this is now
changed, and their present appearance
particularly if they wear sEurs-is
more suggestive of damage and disaster
to dresses than any elegant movement
in the ball, room. The only good thing
about them is a great coat, which has
the advantage of covering many imper-
fections.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14

The pores of the soles of the feet are
much larger than those on any other
part of the body, and emit proportion
ately large amount of impurities from
the system. Hence the Importance and
necessity of keeping the feet IN state
of perfect cleanliness. A square inch of
the sole of the foot demands it more
than any square foot of the surface of the
body, if perfect health is to be pre-
served
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14

haps, cy the interest and labor of those
who do not live to reap it's full enjoy
ment. The town or academic library
will be made richer by the growth of
such collection, or by the careful prep
aratlon of a catalogue to portraits con-
tanned in the bound volumes of the
library.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14
How to Train a Boy.

The modern prejudice against corpor-
al punishment does not seem to have
penetrated to India. A magistrate of
the cantonment of Secundea bad recent
~ received the following petition from
parent: 81 most humbiy and respect
fully beg to bring to your honor's kind
notice, that my son, aged about Is, in
stead of going to school, Joins bad COM
pany, goes to the tank to catch fish, and
loses his time vainly wandering here
and there. The schoolmaster warned
him and logged him several times; he
never comes to. I request your honor
to permit me to have chain for one of
his legs, with log of wood attached to
the same, in order that he may feel
ashamed, and leave his bad actions, for
which act of grace he shall ever pray. /"
Our of ten children, the Mikado OF
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14

Mis- BERTHA CROWLEY, of Deposit,
n. Y. dreamed three nights in success
sion o her uncle's death in Texas. I'm
pressd with her dreams, she addressed
lette to him. The letter fell into the
handsof his lawyers, who notified her
last week that she had fallen heir to $780,
600 By her uncle's death.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14

ALASKA enjoys temperature in win
ter of So degrees below zero.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14

Our of ten children, the Mikado of
Japan has only one surviving.