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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28
Cause for Rejoicing.

CINCINNAT.-The Times-Star says:
"a remarkable discovery made last
winter, is attracting wide spread in
terest. AS it involves the most i'm
portant question-that of public
health, it is being discussed by emf
nent physicians and public men. 1t is
shown conclusively that throat and
lung troubles can be cured without
resorting to the use of morphia or
opium-especially dangerous in the
case OF children as arresting develop
ment, and poisoning the system. The
governor of Maryland and all the Of
ticials ofthat state endorse the remedy;
the state chemist of Delaware pro-
nounces it the purest and most effect
I've, and hospitals and charitable in
situations in Philadelphia and other
cities use it with remarkable results.
The remedy which is only twenty-five
ents a bottle, is Red Star Cough Cure.
t is purely vegetable; it contains no
poison or narcotics; and is a positive
cure.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28
Sheep Dogs Abroad.

In various parts of South America
dogs are relied upon to protect sheep
not only from the attacks OF wild
beasts, but from the worthless dogs
that rarge over the country. Darwin
states that the shepherd dogs kept
there are as much attached to the
sheep as most dogs are to their mas
tiers. They are brought up with the
focks and have no other companion
ship. The puppies are taught to suckle
ewes, and are adopted by them. A
California sheep raiser states that a
similar course is adopted in Germany,
with the best results. In communl-
cation, he says: "There in general,
the shepherd stays with his sheep all
the time, day and night, and has, &C
cording to the number of his flock,
one or more dogs-a kind I never saw
before nor have seen anywhere else
It resembles in size the Newfoundland,
but its hair is bushy, long and partly
curled. This breed Of dogs is never
allowed, even while puppies, to see
anything but members of the herd.
1t is astonishing to see how these dogs
and sheep fraternize with each other.
The sheep look, in real or imaginary
danger, more for the dogs than for
the shepherd, and always run to and
not from the dogs"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28
The increase OF insanity.

Boston supports 800 insane, says Mr. L.
B. Sanborn, not rs of whom will recover
This is frightful! Insanity has increased
40 per cent. in a decade and most OF the
cases are incurable. Whatever the indi
vidual cause may be, the fact remains that
Uric Acid blood sets the brain ON fire, de
stroys it's tissues, and then comes some
form of fatal lunacy.
Nothing is SO pitiable as a mind diseased
Most brain troubles begin in the stomach;
then if the blood is filled with uric acid,
caused by failure OF kidney action, and the
consequent destruction OF the blood life
albumen-you have the fuel and the flame
and brain in full blaze as when one raves,
or in slow com bustion, as in mider forms
of insanity. Rev. e. D. Hopkins, OF st.
Johnsbury, VT, few years ago was con-
fined in an asylum. Hetook terrible cold
while aiding in putting out a fire in a neigh
boris burning house, and for twenty five
years that cold was slowly filling his blood
with uric acid and finally the deadly work
was done. The case looked hopeless but he
happily used Warmers safe cure and recov-
cred. That was three years ago and having
ridden his blood OF all surplus uric acid, he
has remained well until this day.
1t is indeed terrible thing to lose ones
mind, but it is more terrible thing to suffer
such condition when it can be so easily
prevented,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28
Storing Potatoes.

Potatoes are best stored in a dry,
cool cellar, where the temperature can
be kept by ventilation, at about 40
degrees. Thefoor should beofplanks,
raised three inches from the ground,
and laid with one-inch spaces between
them for ventilatian. The bins should
be about S feet long, 4 feet wide and
deep, made of loose barred partitions,
wired together at the corners. A bin
of this size will hold 100 bushels, and
with such a one, it is very easy to
know precisely how much the crop
amounts to. A box to hold a bushel
will be found q great convenience in
gathering and storing potatoes. 1t is
made Is inches long, Is inches deep in
the clear at the sides, and 10 inches
wide. all inside measurements; thus
holding 2,700 cubic inches, or 13 Gu
bic inches (about two goodsized po-
tatoes) over heaped bushel, which
is 2,687 inches. These boxes can be
set one upon another, and then have
a space left between the potatoes, and
are thus we'll adapted for use in stor-
ing part Of the crop, or a small
quantity for domestic use. The
barred sides and bottom secure abund-
ant ventilation. The bins in the Gel
lar should have a space OF four inches
between the end and the wall, and be-
tween the sides; this is easily made by
placing a short rail between them
american Agriculturist.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28

THE favorite mantle for autumn is
the cloth jacket, open with revers,
fastened with one double button or
fancy clasp just under these, then
slanted straight off on each side to the
back; it is tight-ftting at the ack, and
has rather deep basque. 1t may be
worn either over an ordinary dress
bodice or over a plated chemisette OF
printed foulard; the sleeve is the usual
plain coat-sleeve. This model, made
with shorter basque, is also worn as a
dress bodice over some fancy plastron
or chemisette.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28

The winding of the Skein.


held the skein for her one night,
When the shadowy CLINT of the fire-lieht x
Danced fitfully on the opposite wall.
Polly and l, and that was all,
Were there to see the ghostly ball
Tongs and scuttle, hearth-dogs andcat
Venus de Milo and mandarin fat
Table and lamp, and chairs where we sat,
In rhythmic measure went round and round,
In rhythmic measure with never q sound,
While POllys arms as she wound and wound,
Looked like a fiddler drawing his bow
Across his fiddle to and fro;
The strings were those of the skeln, you KNOW
held the skein.
/ held the sken I'd known her long,
And my heart had learned the same old song
That hearts have sung since hearts were mdde
Trillsd in the sunlight or sobbed in the shade,
But my lips were mute, for was AFRAID
To speak my thoughts. SO held my peace
And borrowed hope, and took new lease
Of friendship hated yet dreaded mlgnI cease
For Polly was oddiSh and queer III her ways,
Her yeas were NAYS and her nays were yeas
And it often took me days and days
To find out if she was veXed or pleased
Or ii I'd been wounded or only leased;
But her ladyship was this night appeaSeu;
l held the skein.
/ held the sken the last few strands;
And as they escaped my outstretched han9s
Were stretched out further and turtner SUN ,
(You see the yarn might have dropped), until
Somehow-well, Polly wasn't i'll,
Only little bit tired, she said,
And, perhaps a suspicion of ache IN the heau
That nestled close under a beard that was reu'
But is auburn now. And she calls me Ned,
And says it was really very i'll bred
To kiss her and hold her waist instead
OF the skein, and she'll never trust me again,
But she has, for years have flown since When
/ held the Skein.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28
Keep the Calves Growing.

We presume, at least we hope, that
our advice to keep the heller calves has
been taken by many, and that the
butcher will never again have such an
excellent opportunity to find the ma
terial for veal. But let it now be I'M
derstood that if it is intended to make 81
good cow-or for that matter, a good
steer-the calf must be kept growing.
That rule ought to be observed with
reference to all young stock. And, per-
haps, this is as good a place as any to
tell what a correspondent in one of
our most valued exchanges says in re-
gard to raising calves without milk.
He says that he raises just as fine
calves as can be raised by the method
to be described. It is this: For three
DAYS he let's the calf suck the COW.
Then he takes it entirely away from
the COW, and feeds upon hay tea and
milk, beginning with one quarter of tea
and three quarters of milk, feeding it
blood warm. Gradually he diminishes
the milk, until the food is exclusively
hay tea. He says that hay tea-the
hay must be the best-ls much better
than grass, and that the calf likes 1T
much better. Millstuffs may be added
to the tea as the calf seems to need it,
but in small quantities. A little first
rate hay is placed where the calf can
get at it, and he will soon nlbble at 1t.
The writer is enthusiastic over his plan,
and certainly it is cheap. 1t will pay
a great deal better TO try on q heller
calf than it usually will do to sell it 20
the butcher. -Wester Rural
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28
Young Girls

Are at critical period when they are about
maturing and developing into women. The
lack of watchful care at this time may re-
suit in fixing irregularities upon delicate or
gans and entailing long list Of female
weaknesses" All this may beavoided, and
the young woman come through this period
clothed in all the beauty and strength of a
OF DR.. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription, "
prepared especially for female troubles by
one OF the most successful physicians OF
the dav
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28
A ForethOught of Winter Eggs.

The editor of aleadingpoultry paper
has said that a hen-house sunk into
the ground is Objectionable because,
being inclosed on two or three sides,
it cannot be ventilated. Now, there is
no more difficulty about ventilating a
cellar or a well than a garnet, if there
are live animals in it to generate heat
enough to make q changeof air desira-
bic. Another poultry writer says hens
must be let out into open sheds to
the air every winter day kept last
year twenty-five shut up three months
in q, house as near air tight as [ could
make it, except the ventilators. The
hens were happy, healthy and laid
every day; and, what was more re-
narkable, almost every egg set
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28
Russell SAGE

Is well-known operator in Wall Street,
who is generally considered as "up to
snuff. Hence, it may have been quite
natural that countryman who reads the
papers recently called at his office and ask
ed for a package OF DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy. He discovered his mistake, but
he made no mistake in the article called for.
This Remedy, when applied with DR..
Pierce's Nasal Douche,' will surely and
rapidly eradicate the most aggravated case
of catarrh, with all it's unpleasant and
dangerous Accomplishments.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28

The magistrates of Jacksonville,
Ind, says the Louisville Courier
Journal, reap a rich harvest from
eloping Kentucky couples. There
is Considerable competition in the
business. Each magistrate has his
runner or agent, who waits at
the ferry boat, and who, by long ex-
perience and close observation, can
tell an clipping couple at a. glance.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28

JOHN HOWARD, son of Gen. o. O.
Howard, who shot himself in the Vel
lowstone National Park about a
month since, will recover.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28

For dyspepsia, Indigestion, depression Of
spirits and general debility, in their various
forms, also as a preventative against fever
and ague and other intermittent fevers, the
Zero Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya,"
made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York,
and sold by all druggists, is the best tonic;
and for patients recovering from fever or
other sickness. it has 10 equal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28

DURING oNE-THIRD OF our time the proc
esses of digestion must go on in our bodies,
and if the stomach and bowels are not well,
nothing is well. To be dyspeptic is to be
miserable; dyspepsia is the foundation OF
levers and diseases OF the blood, liver, skin
and kidneys. Dyspepsia invariably yields
TO the virtues of DIR. WALKERS CALIFORNIA
VINEGAR BITTERS.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28

THE inhabitants of Burmah worship
idols of brass. Book agents would
probably meet with very different
reception in Burmah from what they
do here.-BurlingtO Free Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28

GET Lyons Patent Heel Stiffeners APP
piled to new boots and shoes before you
wear them out.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28
Vinegar Bitters as

Stimulates the food regulates the stomach and
bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
Vinegar Bitters is the great disease pre-
venter, and stands at the head of all family
remedies. No house should ever be withoutit.
Vinegar Bitte1-S cures Malarial, Bilious
and other fe7ers diseases of the Heart, Liver and
Kidneys, and hundred other painful disorders.
Send for either of our valuable reference
books for ladies' for farmers, for merchants,
our Medical Treatise on Diseases. or our Cat
echism Intemperance and Tobacco, which
last should be in the hands of every child and
youth in the country.
Any two of the above books mailed free
On receipt of four cents for registration fees.
RH.McDonald Drug Co, 532 Washington ST., NY
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28

HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY will cele
brate the 5O0th anniversary of it's ex.
istence next August. A festival hal
capable of holding 5000 persons will
be erected for the occasion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28
BARBED WIRE.

If you have barbed wire fences, keep Vet
Urinary Carboiisalve in your stables. 1t
cures without scar and renews the hair its
original color. so cents and $1.00 at Druggists
Or by mail Cole & Co. Black River Falls, Wis
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28

GERMAN children are employed at
sewing on shirt buttons, at the munif-
icent wages Of Z cent for a gross (144)
of buttons, and this is not paid in
cash but in groceries,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28

MALE weakness and loss of powe
promptly cured. Book, 10 cents in stamps
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association
663 Main Street. Buffalo. n, Y.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28

EP-PREsIDENT ARTHUR has not
missed an attendance at church since
he left the White House.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28

PIso's Remedy for Catarrhi is agreeable to
use. 1t is not liquid or snuff SOC.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28

Ny daughter was cured by your valuable
medicine, Athlophoros, after trying many
other remedies with no relief. We have rec
commended it in several cases where it has
made remarkable cures. William j. Mosher,
1873 Park Street, Detroit, Mich.
THE Frazer Axle Grease is the very best.
A trial will prove that we are right.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-28
Vinegar Rittersa q

pugative and tonic, purifies
the blood, strengthens the
liver and kidneys,: and will
restore health, however lost.
Vinegar BitserS is the
best remedy discovered for
promoting digestion, curing
headache and increasing the
vital powers.
MIN nnor RjffarG aC-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-09
The State Library.

Some of the state papers continue TO
r,russ quite vigorously the annex to
The state house at Montpelier to be
used II state library. The Brattlo-
oorO PIenix is one that insists that 1t
VIII not oily be much bette, every way
TO nave thenew library q separate and
distinct builling from the capitol, but
that such was the understanding by
the last Legislature when it voted the
appropriation of S36. 900. In order to
lor"fy its position the Phnnix sent en-
q"'ries to all the members of the last
legiSiatul> asking them what their un-
Outstanding It the case was. and al
thouSh 1t had received only one hun
dTed replies ut tn. date of it's last is
sue, tlIree-fOurths of tnu--. sav with
emphasis that ga separate 6.-ldino
was intended, and that an apprOpria,
ton for an annex could not have been
carried
The objections to having the library
made an annex to the capitol building
are two: 1t will interfere with the
lighting and mar the architectural
beauty of the capitol. The main OBJ
lection in the minds of the locating
commission to making it a separate
building was the insufficient appropri-
alton, it being estimated that $5O,OOO
was necessary for separate structure.
Work on the excavation for the annex
has already begun, and this is estimat-
ed to cost $500; but it is hoped by
some to tack this sum on the ''repairs"
account of the state house, con-
venient crack having been found in
one wing OF the building which it is
to expand enough to cover
this amount.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-09
Which is Republicanism ?

There seem tn be two kinds of re-
publican newspapers this summer, al
AN entirely different tone. For in
stance, the New York Tribune in "A re.
cent issue says:
"The men who elected Mr.. CIeve-
and by assassinating their political
opponents are even now Cr0wding the
White House and the departments.
their hands yet red with blood. de
handing that they shall he hOnored and
rewarded well for that service to the
party
Referring to the above statement the
Philadelphia Telegraph, quite as good
republican authority as the Tribune,
replies as follows:
ali this Ice true, President Cleveland
should be dragged in ignOnIiuy from
his place ii it is not true, what credit
can the people place in the anthor of So
infamous libel, OF what punishment
would be too severe for himf The
charge that the President of the United
States was elected by assassins, whom
be has rewarded with high trnst aud
honor for THEN crimes, Is deliberately
made by a leading journal months after
the election, and is sent abroad TO all
the world, with what consequences of
contempt and horror of republican
government can well be imagined by
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-09

Frank II. Rice of West Fairlee, who
had his leg crushed under a train mt
White River Junction Monday even
ing, died Tuesday.
The town grand list of Fair Haven
this year represented valuation of
81 ,O69, 1876; an ipcrease of 1852 ,923
over that of last year.
Cyrenus HOughtoD, an old and prom
inent farmer of Woodstock, was in
stantly killed this week Tuesday by "A
kick from horse which he was at
tempting to catch in his pasture.
Upon inspection of the post Office at
Vergennes. the accounts of the post
master revealed a shortage, and IL gem
eral nnismauagementw was found to eX-
list. Thereupon Postmaster johnson
resi- gned.
A barn belonging tn +. L. Andrews
near Berlin Pond was recently struck
by lightning and consumed, together
t with ten tons of hay aud yoke of
oxen just driven in for shelter Loss
$1,000; insured for $1,000.
The Vermont Christian Messenger
has commenced the issue of four
page edition-haif the size of its reg
ular edition-devOted to temperance,
and general secular news aud topics of
an undenOminational character.
a stock company has been formed
in Montpelier under the name of the
"Pioneer Granite company" to manu-
facture granite, marble, slate and
wood. The capital stock is $4,000,
divided into IS0 shares of 500 each.
F. w. Baldwin, Esq. of Barton is
preparing IA biography of the members
of the Orleans county bar from 1900 to
the present time. The list comprises
about 100 different names. The book
will contain emgravings of the promi-
nent members.
X. X. Wilson's fine residence in
Bradford was struck by lightning last
Sunday evening. The bolt entered
the pantry window and penetrated
every room in the lower part of the
hOuse. The inmates were knocked
senseless 10y the shock. Damages es-
timated at about $500.
Rev. S. II. Lee and family of the
Brattleboro Congregational church re-
Gently had a surprise from their people
and were given 800, while their two
children, Grace and Theodore, were
each remembered with ten dollars in
gold. Mr.. Lee has already concluded
his passionate with the church.
Goddard seminary of Barre closed a
remarkably prosperous year June "a
by graduating class having three
more members than any previous one
in the history of the school. OF the
weuty members thereof one half con
template II college course, and most oi
them will enter Tufts in the fall.
The grasshoppers have appeared AT
Chelsea in myriads, and threaten more
serious ravages than heretofore, es-
pecially in localities not affected by
them very seriously in previous years.
The farmers are becoming alarmed in
view of the prospect of "a very short
crop of hay. 1t will be much less on
the hills, they say, than it was last
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-09
LyndOnville.

The mass temperance meeting on
the Fourth was called to order by the
chairman of the executive committee,
Rev f. Owen. at 1920 a. m. Prayer
was offered by Rev. p. n. Granger,
! after which music was listened to, by
| LyndOnville band, which was with us
the entire day and did much by their
music to enIiven the occasion. Rev.
F. l.. Piper of st. Johnsbury spoke ad-
mirably for few minutes of personal
work, after which Rev. DR.. Bolton took
| the stand and spoke for nearly an hour
in an able and earnest manner, urging
the education of the children. After a
collection, the benediction was pro-
nounced by Rev. A. Scribner of New
port. At 1.25 Rev. DR.. Bolton took
the stand and spoke until he was Oblig-
| ed to leave, when songs 10y Miss Da-
mon of Boston and Myrtle Aldrich of
West Burke, both inmates of the blind
school at South Boston, were listened
to. Mrs. Hidden then spoke in the in
terest of the w. G.. +. u, when all of
the clergy were called to the stand.
The following clergymen were present (:
p. n. Granger, A. Scribner, S. Donald
son, III. Il. Gushing, ! p. Chase, F. L.
Piper, j. HI. Smith, Rev. DR.. Hnrlburt,
Rev. DIR. Bolton, Rev. Dr. Hastings, j.
II. Winslow, NJ. Atwood, A. Howard
and n. Grover. Mrs. Hastings was in
troduced and spoke especially to the
children, after which DR.. Hastings
spoke in his earnest manner; music
was then furnished by the band. The
meeting was the best of the kind ever
held here.
1t is estimated that 1000 people at
tended the meeting at the grove and
the entertainment at the park on the
Fourth. At the park the great at
traction was the wrestling match be-
tween Dufer and Decker. The watch
was won by Decker, who won every
fall, to the delight of the crowd The
races were called good. the track was
in good condition and fair time was
made. The people were orderly aud
no arrests were made by the police. To
the evening Music hall was completely
packed, and it is thought that 200 who
wished to enter were unable To. The
weather was. pleasant aud, on the
whole, verybOdy seemed to be pleas
ed with the days entertainments.
seven years old son of Peter Gau-
dette was severely if not fatally iniur-
ed last Sunday. He was playing with
other boys, with a push car, on the
railroad track, and in some manner
was caught between this car aud
another and had his chest crushed in.
David Tnte lost a good horse last
Saturday. He was taking load of
passengers from the village to- the |
park, and when near the park the !
horse fell dead in the harness. Over |
driving was the supposed cause.
Stephen Hoyt has finished off ten
ement from the store formerly occu-
pied by o. III. Hale aud has rented it /
to Charles Peck, who lie in possession. '