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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09
Crape-Weaving in Japan.

A Japanese correspondent writing
to the ST. Louis Globe Democrat says:
Crape-weaving is carried on by scores
of men and women working in long,
open buildings, and from the Keeling of
the silk to the finish the whole process
can be seen. When the Grape is on the
loom it is only a thin silk tissue, a
himsy-looking sort of material, such
as they use for painting the panels for
screens and kakemonos. 1t has a per-
fectly smooth, glossy surface, and the
threads each way. are drawn tight and
even. From the loom the piece of
Grape, which is generally made in
lengths OF fifty and sixty feet. is plunged
into vat of boiling water and stirred
about in the steam for a few minutes,
and this process shrinks the threads
and gives the Grape it's wrinkfed, crink-
~ look. When dried the Grape is
tossed in heaps, each length of mussed,
yellow stuff twisted and tied like a
skein, and but for the silky luster it
looks like so many ragged and badly
handled pieces of unbleached muslin.
After this the crapeis bleached or dyed
and stretched on bamboo frames to
dry, when it becomes the smooth, soft
Grape with ga wrinkled skin like scald-
ed milk that every woman raves
over. The twenty-yard lengths of
wide Grape are sold at prices ranging
from $13 SO $25, depending on the
weight of the silk and fneness of weav-
ing.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09
Inaction Fraught with Danger.

Inaction of the kidneys and bladder is fraught
with danger. Renal diseases of the most stub
born and fatal character have this I'M tial symr
tom. To disregard it is to invite them. Hos
letters Stomach Bitters has the special quality
Of stimulating urinary secretion and discharge
further. 1t is not an excitant of the organs
like the unmedicated stimuli Of commerce. II
simply arouses them when their activity and
vitality are impaired. This stimulating and
tonic action the Bitters likewise exerts upon the
bowels the liver and the stomach. 1t averts
renal disease, cures dyspepsia, prevents and
remedies fever and ague, and removes bilious
ness and constipation. No finer tonic exists
and to persons with tendency to govt ii
strongly recommends ITSELF it is a fine de-
purent of the blood.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09
Washing Sheep.

There are many reasons, says the
Wool Journal, why the few growers
who still persist should abandon the
habit of washing their sheep before
shearing, and we know of not single
argument in it's favor. The practice
was inaugurated at an early day, and
it is a relic of old times, when the
wool shorn from the small hocks in
the Eastern States was largely used
up at home. Then it was necessary
to wash it either before or after shear
ing, to prepare it for carding and spin
ming. Those days are past, and both
the sheep and their owners ought to
be glad of it. The yolk in a healthy
fleece is natures preventative OF the
fiber. 1t is a soapy matter, with a
strong potash base. resembling no
other animal secretion; it is, In fact, a
soap, with more or less free oil. 1t
preserves the elasticity of the fiber,
and should be left in the wool until 1t
is wanted for manufacturing use.
Manufacturers well know that secured
wool, In time, becomes brittle and
loses its elasticity, while unwashed
retains al its good qualities indefinite
ly. 1t is doubtful if anyone ever saw
a. moth in unwashed wool. 1t is, as a
a rule, free from ali vermin. The per-
centage of yolks in healthy fiocks of
even grade is quite uniform, but vary
ing in different breeds from rs per
cent. in the Leicester and other coarse
breeds to so to rs per cent. in the
very finest Saxon, the buck always
carrying more than the ewes. The
system of washing in cold water on
the sleeps back never results in a
washed fleece fit for the manufacturer,
but Only the eradication of an un-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09
Wooden Underclothing.

Among the many means by which
we seek to guard ourselves from the ef-
fects of chill there is one which hardly,
even now, receives sufficient attention,
the use o wooden underclothing, ex-
cept in the hottest weather. The ma
iority of the male sex do, indeed, show
their appreciation of it's wholesome
qualities: but there remains consld-
cradle moiety of these, and far great
er number of women and children, who
prefer an undersuit Of smooth but rel
atively meager linen. Yet the superb
or advantages of wearing wool next
theskin are easily apparent, They do
not depend merely on it's greater
warmth and closeness of application.
1t is further capable, according to It's
texture and in virtue of it's compost
ton, of better adaptation, In respect
OF temperature, to the needs Of various
climates and the changes of seasons
than any other dress material. More
over, it exhibits a special faculty for
absorbing and distributing moisture.
1t is this property especially which
renders it the natural next covering of
the constantly perspiring skin. If one
w CISdSC0, III RACpAIIPiO, IA CUOOlNO VA
ercise of limb, a linen fabric will absorb
what products of transudation it can
till it is wet, but will leave much mois-
ture upon the clammy surface; where
as a flannel. from it's more spongy ma
ture, will rest upon skin which it has
nearly dried and be but damp itself.
1t is obvious, then, that in the event
Of an after chill, and this occurs in
summer as in winter, the body is, In
the latter case, most favorably dis
posed to resist it. Flannel is not less
clearly than linen, though it may APP
pear less white; and if the wearer
battle daily, it is surprising how long
it will retain it's purity. The skin ir-
ritation to which it sometimes gives
rise is usually associated with coarse
ness of quality or freshness of manu-
facture, and is, with nearly all who
have experienced it, a merely transient
condition. Women, as we'll as men,
we repeat, but above all children and
the aged, who are alike particularly
apt to take cold, should certainly
adopt a wooden material for their Gus
tomary undergarment. 1t is easily
possible to adjust the texture to the
season, so that it shall be warm
enough in winter and not too warm in
summer.-Herald ofHealth.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09
Winter Employments.

Winter is the time to have levels
taken in the low fields that it is pro-
posed to drain next summer. Then
the work can be done advisedly and
for the least possible expense. The
Importance and advantages OF drain
ing consist not only in letting the
water out of, but in letting the air in
to the SOIL If the spaces or inter-
stices between the particles of the soil
are filled up with water, of course the
air will be excluded; but if the water is
drained off, the air will occupy its
place and will act on the particles of
matter in the soil, making the same
soluble, and causing the earth to be-
come yellow and porous. The union
and chemical action of the air with
the different ingredients of the
soil produce heat, and the result is g.
rapid decomposition of all substances
contained in the soil. The air, pene-
trating the loose earth, keeps the land
moderately moist, that is to say, i'm
parts to the soil just enough moisture
to be sufficient to favor and accelerate
decomposition and putrefaction The
greater and quicker the change and de-
struction OF the particles of matter
contained in the soil, and which serve
as food for plants, the greater will be
the amount of food manufactured, as
it were, for the plants in given time.
The vigor and development of plants
always depend upon the quick and
abundant amount of food furnished
to them during their growth. Every
farmer must have observed that wood
and other substances decay much
faster when kept moderately moist, or
in alternate wet and dry state, than
when kept in either a very wet or very
dry state; so it is with the constit-
uent elements of the soil, in which
there is little change, unless when they
are in moderately moist state, and
when exposed to the influence of the
atmosphere.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09
Cause of the POTATO Rot.

At a recent meeting of the Central
New York Farmers Club, at Utica,
the cause of the potato rot lii that
section of the country was under dis
cussion. Mr.. Gridley thought there
had been too much rain. A neighbor
dug his potatoes before rain began, and
had no rot among them. DR.. Wight
doubted if rain would have brought
about rot Il there had not been g. de-
velopment of fungus. There seems to
have been fields lying alongside Of
each other, where one had rot and an
other not.
Giles Smith said that the use of
green manures affected the crop.
Those potatoes that ripened before
the rains did not rot. Mr.. Edic had
no rot in early varieties, but the late
ones suffered, especially late Hebrons
The disease first showed itself among
the vines. The soil seemed to make
no difference. The early Stars did
well. Mr.. Savage said that while his
potatoes we're in splendid condition
early In the season, half of them rot
ted further on. Mr.. Smith said there
was not much disease until after the
rains came on. Those nearest the
surface rotted first.
DIR. Wight said there was a blight
floating In the air in the shape of fun
gus germs, which was the predisposing
cause OF the rot. Mr.. Butler said an
old meadow near him was turned over
and potatoes planted on it. They
did well early, but in two or three
nights the vines turned brown and the
disease went into the ground. Final
ly the owners got only two acres out
Of an acre and half. DR.. Wight said
a serious question arose as to what
we might expect another year. If the
germs of disease are left in the ground
there is likely to be disease again an
other year.
Mr.. Edic claimed that the earlier
oats are got in the better they will
turn out, and he believed it to be the
same with potatoes. AS for potato
scab, be believed it produced by in
sects. A small white grub gets on the
potatoes IN numbers and produces
the scab. Early Ohios and early Sun
rise potatoes did not rot with him at
all. Mr.. Butler said that Burbanks
had made a good, healthy crop, and
Mr.. Lewis stated that Ohios did not
rot with him. Mr.. Savage's experience
was that the Triumphant and Plush
potatoes were least affected, while Mr..
Smith thought heavy yields like the
Bell and Mayhower were more liable
TO rot. Mr.. Gridley thought the club
should not send out statements that
certain potatoes did not rot, since
several varieties lust mentioned had
rotted in his vicinity. In his place,
the Victor had not rotted heretofore,
but this year it did. Mr.. Smith would
not discard any variety of potato be-
cause it had rotted this season. DR..
Wight stated that Burbanks and late
Hebrons were among his crop, but the
Rurbanks did not rot, although in
other cases they have rotted. He
| picked up potatoes in different fields
that had begun to rot, and not one OF
them weighed less than two pounds,
yet he did not get half a crop. Mr.
Hatfield did not dig his Burbanks,
they were so badly affected.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09

MENsMAN's Peptonized Beef Tonic, the
only preparation of beef containing it's
entire nutritious properties. 1t contains
blood-making, force-generating and life sus-
tanning properties; invaluable for indi-
gestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration
and all forms of general debility; also, in
all enfeebled conditions, whether the work
OF exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
work or acute disease, particularly if re-
sulting from pulmonary complaints. Cas-
well, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York.
Sold by druggists.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09

known and uncertain part of the yolk
contained in the fleece, which is thus
changed into an understandable COM
modify to be sold on it's uncertain
merits as to shrinkage.' The name or
designation of washed wool has ceased
to have any charm, and the sooner
the practice of washing Is entirely
abandoned the better it will be for the
sheep, their owners, and the trade
generally.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09
FARM AND HOME.
The Cricket on the Hearth.

The Cricket on the Hearth.
No sweet song bird
That e'er | heard
In fiowery gale or thicket,
Can match your voice,
Bird of my choice,
Ny tuneful, cheerful cricket.
For some birds may
Obtrude their lay,
Not knowing how to nick it
In point of time,
Or sweetly chime
With mood, like you, my cricket.
No flute e'er blown,
No organ tone.
No anlo. could pick it,
Would soothe my heart
With music'S art
Like you, my precious cricket.
To lands far back
On LIES dull track
I seem to take ticket
And whlrl away,
When blithe and gay
Your whistle blows, my cricket.
Like sweet perfumes
Of faded blooms
IN clover when we rick it,
Your happy lay
From far away
Holds echoes, darling cricket.
In life's game tost,
Now won, now lost,
I've almost reached the wicket;
By our hearthstone
I'd be alone
Without you, comrade cricket.
My freside sprite,
Ny brownie bright,
Let sportive fancy trick it
With any name,
Ills still the same,
Ny faithful, tuneful cricket.
New Orleans TineS-D Democrat
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09
3 90 \ 5
The Weekly Wisconsin
Book List.

We invite particular attention to the follow
ing lists of books, which we send to our sub
scribers and agents, in connection with THE
WEEKLY WISCONSIN, for merely nominal price
These lists embrace many OF the most valuable
books in the English language, and they are all
printed and bound in style that renders them
ornaments to any library and makes them well,
adapted for Holiday Presents. Please remem--
Der that they are not cheap, papercoveredy
editions, but are all handsomely bound in cloth
sheep, or morocco.
For $I.35 any subscriber may select any
book from Lis. No. 1.
FOR $I.65 any book from List No. z, or
any two books from List No. L.
" FOR $I.95 any book from List No. 3, or any
three books from List No. L, and THE WEEKLY
WISCONSIN for one year, will be sent.
FOR S2.TO any book on List No. 4, or any
four books from List No. 1, and The WEEKLY
WISCONSIN for one year, will be sent.
FOR S2.35 any book on List No. 5, or any
two books on List no. 2, and THE WEEKLY WIS
CoNs1N for one year, will be sent.
FOR 1878 any book on List No. 6, or any
two books on List No. 3, and one year Of THE
WEEKLY WISCONSIN, will be sent.
FOR S3.45 any book on List No. z, or seven,
books of List No. 1, or four books of List No. 2,
or three books of List No. 8, or two books of
List No. 4, and THE WEEKLY WISCONSIN for one.
year will be sent.
Sample copies of the WISCONSIN sent to any
address, together with the book lists Address
CRATNER, AIKENS & cRAMER,
Milwaukee, Wis
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09
Lost Faith in Physicians.

There are innumerable instances where
cures have been effected by SCovILL's SAR-
sAPARILLA, or BLOOD & LIVER SYRUP, for
all diseases of the blood, when the patient
had been given up by physicians. It is one
of the best remedies ever offered to the pub
lie, and as it is prepared with. the greatest
care, as specific for certain diseases, it is
no wonder that it should be more effectual
than hastily written and carelessly pre-
pared prescriptions. Take SCovILL' g
BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP for all disorders
arising from impure blood. It is endorsed
by all leading professional men.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09

TRY DR.. WALKERS CALIFORNIA VINEGAR
Bitters for liver and kidney complaint,
scrofula. rheumatism, worms, fever, skin
eruptions, headaches, and all disorders
arising from bad blood. That remarkable
vegetable preparation has never failed to
effect speedy cure in any instance. Many
thousands OF persons testify to It's wonder
full effects.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09
"The light that lies,
In O. woman's eyes,

III WOIIdH =,
is ray OF heavens own brightness; but it
is, alas often dimmed Or quenched by some
taking all comfort and enjoyment out OF
life. That light of the household can be re,
kindled and made to glow with natural
brightness. DR.. r. V. Pierce's "Favorite
Prescription" is potent specific for most
of the chronic weaknesses and diseases Pc
culiar to women.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09
A Noted Ladies, Seminary.

In no institution of learning in the
country is a more complete educatie n
given than in the celebrated Notre
Dame, near Baltimore, Maryland.
The Sisters in charge say they find
that Red Star Cough Cure successfully
removes sill colds and throat troub es
among their pupils. 1t is absolute y
free from poison, and costs but twenty
Eve cents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09

DID you say or did you not say
what l said you saidf Because Walt
said you said you never said what I
said you said. Now if you did say
that you did not say what said you
said, then what did you say ?-Evans-
vile Argus.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09

WAS unable to walk and my right arm
had to be carried in sling because OF
rheumatism. The first dose of Athlophoros
relieved me, and before the bottle was
empty [ went to work and have had no re-
turn of rheumatism. Fulton Watt Elk
Rapids Michigan
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09

A WEALTHY New Yorker has given to
the college at Dahlonega, two gold
mines. The boys can work these dur
ing the winter and not miss their base
ball and rowing practice.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09

TYPHOID fever is alarmingly preva-
lent in South Brooklyn, N. Y. Physi-
clans are unable to assign cause, as
the disease is principally in houses
that were closed during the summer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09

y Young or middle-aged men euf-
fering from nervous debility or other deli
cate diseases, however induced, speedily
and permanently cured. Address World g
Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09

ITCHING and irritations of the skin and
scalp, burns scalds, piles, ulcers, poisons, bites
of insects and all skin diseases, quickly cured
by Coles Carbolisalve, the great skin rene
dy. rs and 80 cents, at Druggists.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09

NOTWITHSTANDING the boycotting OF
New Hampshire by the insurance COM
panies, one-the Massachusetts Mltu-
al-now has an agent III that state.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09

THE huge, drastic, gripping, sickening pills
aress fast being superseded by DR.. Pierce's
'.Purgative Pellets" Sold by druggists.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09

PEARLIE GLEASON, a little girl only
9 years old, took the first prize for oil
painting at the Los Angeles fair. Her
subject was "Christmas Roses"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09

GET Lyons Patent Heel Stiffeners applied
to new boots, and they will never run over.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-09

No OPIUM in Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton. Cures where other remedies fail. 25c
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-09-18
Deaths

Mrs. Rosetta E. N elson, one of the old
est of the American Missionaries to Chi
ma, and the wife of Rev. Robt. Nelson,
rector of the Episcopal church in Wood
berry, Ct, died there on Sunday, the 18th
inst, in her sixtieth year. She was a
daughter Of the late James Points OF
Stanton, who was appointed U. S. Mar
shall for this district by President Jackson
and held the office until 1852. She was
married to Mr.. Nelson in 1S4S and went
with him TO China in 1851. When the
civil war broke out, they returned to Anne
RIGA, but after it ended returned again to
CHINA where they remained until 1881 :,
when Mr.. b resigned and came to this
country. Her remains arrived here yes
terday afternoon, and her funeral will take
place from Trinity church this morning
at IL o'clock.
kenton Harper, a son OF Geo. K. Har-
per, Esq :. and G grandson Of the late Gen.
Kenton Harper, died at the home of his
father on Sunday last Of typhoid fever.
He had been clerking at Millboro and had
returned home sick about two weeks be-
fore. Ee was just eiga teen years old and
starting upon a life which, from his ex-
ceIent character and business habits,
promised to be a useful one.
Mr. Edwin a. Merritt, the eldest son Of
the late John Merritt Of Augusta, died in
New Orleans on the IL th inst, in his sew
enty second year. Mr.. kiarritt left Staun-
ton, where he was clerking for his father.
about the year 1895, and went to the
Southwest. After some experience in
steamboating On the Mississippi, he loca-
ted ia Eey Orleans where he had COM
mission house ran jointly with similar
enterprise By his brother. Chas. Merritt,
in San Antonio. Texas It is but few
days ago that he sent for his brother, Mr..
John ~. Merritt Of this county, to join
him in New Orleans. Mr.. NJ. started, but.
it is probable, found his brother dead
The deceased was good and charitable
citizen and the New Orleans press speak
with regret 81 bis death.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-09-18
W eddings.

In their buggy in front of the U. B.
parsonage, in Spring Hill at 2:15 p. NJ, on
Wednesday, Aug. %, by the Rev. G. P,
Dyche, Prof. j. Hartman Slower, was
united 10 marriage to Miss l.. Jennie
Macincup, daughter of Mr.. Harrison Ma
cineup, near Churchville.
The Woodstock "Herald' says that
William Ewing, Of Augusta county. and
Miss Blanche A. Ferguson, of Washing
ton, were married in Baltimore last Feb
ruary without the knowledge of their
friends. They parted after marriage, and
the lady returned to the residence of her
father in Washington, and her husband
to his home in Augusta. On Saturday,
he went to Washington. announced his
marriage and claimed his wife, who, With
her parents consent, left the city with her
husband in the evening.