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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
COLONEL BROWNS PENSION.
BY IsADoRE

sHome from your work again, John
You look so weary, too;
Come rest yourself in the old arm chair
/ placed it here for you.
Here by the cheerful, blazing fire,
Whose glow will surely chase
All sorrows from your anxious heart,
And shadows from your face.
eyes mother" the boy made quick reply,
1.-THE fire is warm and bright
One surely should find contentment here
This cold and stormy night.
But have you heard the news to-day?
No ! Why, it's the talk of town
That Uncle Sam has pension given
TO rich old Colonel Brown.
'tJust twenty hundreds sum that we
Would hail as a fortune great;
But why should IL come to Colonel Brown,
With his gold and grand estate?
Bank stock and government bonds are his,
And acres of fertile land;
And all the cattle on yonder hill
Bear the rich old Coloners brand.
esI passed his home as 1 came from town.
The curtains were drawn aside,
And saw the family gathered round
The hearthStone warm and wide.
The light of beautiful chandelier
Fell over the rich things there,
The Turkish carpet and cushioned seats,
The pictures and flowers rare.
"NoW, mother can't believe it right
That we who daily toll
From morn till night in our dingy shops,
Or faithfully till the soil,
Should pay our taxes year by year,
While debts are pressing us down,
When Congress is sending money out
To wealthy men like Brown"
"Well, john" she said in all earnest tone,
"YOu haven't thought, I'm sure,
What all these soldiers brave and true
Have done to make secure
Our tiresides, humble though they be,
Our laws both wise and just
And they saved our countrys dear old flag
From trampling in the dust.
al knew this man of whom you speak
Just thirty years ago,
Before the pitiless hand of time
Had made his hair like snow.
Strong and active and brave was he,
Like chivalrous knight of old:
And in every home for miles around
We're his deeds ofdaring told.
"A soldier born the neighbors said,
So when that dark day came
When men were asked their land to save
From fierce rebellion'S fame,
With sword unsheathed he took his place
Un6inchingly in the van;
In the tent or field or on the march
He show ed himself man.
Wounded, sick, and parched with thirst
Starved and imprisoned, too,
Pursued through swamps by blood hounds fierce
He yet stood firm and true.
Of all who fought beneath our flag
None bore nobler part,
Nor among the blue or among the gray
Was there ever a drawer heart.
land when the carnage all was DER,
And the rebel flag went down,
All crowned with laurels he returned,
But his manly strength was gone.
He knows that health and happiness
Can neer be his again;
Yet with heroic fortitude
He bears that hopeless pain.
''Then let him have pension, John,
And the other soldiers, too,
For they have nobly earned it all
By the hardships they passed through
And we who never had to share
Their sufferings intense,
Should all rejoice that Congress tries
To gives them recompense."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
THE MAN FROM NOD.

The shock-headed boy threw another
stone st the butchers dog and then
falling back on his base of supplies by
the old well curb, found himself close
upon the man in the hammock under
Miss Denny's apple-tree.
See here" said the man, as the
urchin came to a strategic halt, 81
wonder if your mother would sell you
to me, and would she haggle over the
price. How does it strike your"
~That depends. Wot would you do
with me?"
Really, I don't know. You admit
you are fat, and / might want to ship
you to the Cannibal Islands as a specu-
lation. Or I might want to make a
choir boy of you, if little of that
hoarseness conld be taken out of your
voice, and your hair persuaded to stay
anywhere. There are lots of ways of
using boys in the place I came FROM"
Say" said the the boy, with new
show Of interest, "do you know wot my
mother says?"
Il must confess that do not. The
versatile female tongue"
"She says that she guesses you don't
live nowhere. She says that you may
be pirate and you may be preacher
for all any one knows. She says that
you do nothin' but eat and sleep, and
that fore you come here they must have
Kept you awake all night with nothin'
to eat. Say, mister" the wheedling
tone of the mother was unconsciousIy
adopted by the boy, where did you
come from, anyway"
The man in the hammock dropped
back with a smile, and, shading his
eyes from spray of sunshine that fell
down among the apple blossoms, said
lazily: Il have been told that your in
teresting mother is sort of missionary
of personal intelligence for this neigh
borhood. like to encourage home in
dustries; and just to help her along,
you may tell her that Miss Denny's lazy
boarder, who certainly does eat and
sleep great deal, is just out of the
Land of Nod"
The boy was true to his mothers ex-
ample. Compromising the one phrase
that could be of service to her, he shot
homeward like an arrow, that it might
be safely delivered before being iostled
out of his needless little head. And be-
fore the COWS were well asleep in their
beds of dew-besprinkled grass that
night, the people of Farmdale, from the
red schoolhouse on the hill to the tan
merry In the hollow, we're in full posses
sion of the first admission as to him
self yet made by the mysterious stran-
ger who had fed the fires of curiosity
through four long weeks of the bud
ding spring.
The moon, that looked into the eyes
of the peaceful kline that night, found
time also to touch the white shawl that
hung about little Miss Denny as she sat
on the steps OF the old farm house,
around which the village had grown.
The hammock hung empty near by,
while back under the honeysuckle vines
sat the man from Nod, not asleep and
not eating, but as INDECENT in attitude
and speech as when negotiating for the
purchase of sixty-odd pounds of shock
headed boy.
The woman was pulling a spray of
green to pieces with vehemence that
showed her protest against the thought
TO which his lips were given form.
Believe me, Miss Denny, that you
are giving yourself a courage and faith
you do not possess one woman in
10000 cannot possess. You see that
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
What We Are Coming To.
From the Port Hope Fonetic Herald. !

From the Port Hope Fonetic Herald.
Their ar diferensez OF opinyun arnung
spelling reformrz, az ther ar in eyeri or,
GYMNASIUM ov men hu hav q comon
end in view; but theze diferensez ar
not vital and tina ar constanti groine
les. Upon the GENERAL prinsiplz ov the
reform and upon their practical aplica-
shun, oil reformrz, ecsept few irrecon-
silablz, such az hang around the Ell ov
eyeri graf movement, ar substanshai oy
wun mind.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25
SILENCE Is GOLDEN.

Victim of what lot soeyer.
Wait end think little. prav.
Ere me last frail link you sever.
Binding you to silence, stay
Inc simple world believes Won
=, Wiser, richer, better, say,
lH nan , you are although it grieves you,
DO not give yourself away.
". d. HoloelI8' Ne,U O;,eyn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

THERE are 671 convicts in the Ken
lucky penitentiary, and for three
months they have not done a DAVIS
work, except those in the cook house.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

JUDGE A. W. ToURaEE is reported to
be seriously i'll at Norwich, Conn.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

Rose cuttings of many kinds can be
easily rooted in pots of sand covered
with glass to retain moisture. Make
the cuttings each with leaf at the up
per end, and insert them around the
sides of small pot of sand. Cover
with bell glass or tumbler, and keep
it in warm, light place. Such cut
tings can also be rooted in saucer of
mud kept constantly moist.
A LARGE crop of potatoes cannot be
produced unless the soil has full sup
ply of nitrogen, phosphates and potash,
in an available condition. Available
nitrogen, however, is a costly article,
and it is good policy to use up all that
the soil annually affords. This we can
do by seeing that the growth of the
plants is never checked for want of a
supply of phosphates and potash. We
are now getting in this country super
phosphates at reasonable prices, and
farmers can use them with profit on
such crops as usually command good
prices.
WHAT the market gardener needs is
rich manure. The ordinary manure OBJ
tanned from city stables and elsewhere
is poor in nitrogen especially in solu-
BILE nitrogen. Five hundred pounds of
the nitrate of soda used in conjunction
with twenty tons of manure per acre
would often produce better crop than
forty tons of manure, as a good CONNER
cial article of nitrate of soda contains
fourteen and one-half per cent. of nitro
gen. It is very soluble, however. and
should be applied in small doses to he
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-25

when the argument began to take shape
between them some weeks ago, her posi-
tion had been assumed for that argu-
ment's sake. But by dint of much rep
etition, and the searching of all the
hooks and corners of her heart for
pleas in support of her theory, she had
unconsciously become her own first and
most steadfast convert, and burned
with all the zeal of the martyrs of old.
Had she known-had she dreamed
for moment-of the love that had
sprung up in the heart of the stranger
who had halted for rest at her gate, and
that he was only hiding it until such
time as confession should be the most
certain to win success, not all the elo-
quence and all the challenges that his
lips could utter would have led her to
promulgate or defend the faith to which
she had given her discipleship.
She knew it all week later. For the
first time in his life, he called her by the
name her mother had given her. And
as she looked up with flush, in which
there was not touch of anger, he took
her hand, and turning toward the western
sky, said gently: "Janet, there may be
glory and there may be storm behind that
bank of clouds. God sends his burdens
and his gifts as he chooses, and we must
take them as they come. have had
my share of each in the years behind
me. I had thought the way was plain
ahead-that was approaching the sum-
nit of the hill, and in few years would
begin to go down the other side, new,
sudden, blessed light has shone into
my heart, and I bless the road that led
mo here. love you, Janet. Will you
be my wife?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-19
Special Master Commissioner sSdo

In the Circuit Court of the United States for the
Northern District of Ohio Western Division.
George j. McGourkey complainant, vs. the Lake
Erie s. Western Railway Company defendant. No.
AL In equity.
Pursuant to the command of an order of sale issued
from said court in the above entitled cause directed
to special Master Commissioner, shall offer for
sale at public auction, i'll the United States court
room, in the Toledo Produce Exchange, on Madison
street, in the city of Toledo, Lucas county Ohio
Wednesday, the twenty ninth day of July, A ID.
1885, at twelve o'clock noon of said day. the follow
ing described property, to-wt:
The railway of the Lake Erie & Western Railway
Company. and being continuous line of railway ex-
tending from the city of Sandusky Erie county Ohio
to the city of Bloomington Mclean county, Illinois,
and branch road or track from st. Marys, on said
main line, to New Bremen and Minister, in Auglaizo
county, Ohio, and in all distance of about three
hundred and eightyseven miles, together with tho
appendages and appurtenances thereto belonging aud
now being used in and about the operation and man
agement of said line of railway, together with the
sidings turnouts, depos stations, warehouses. road
bed and right OF way, engines and rolling stock and
equipments iron and steel rails, ties and timber and
large amount OF supplies OF every kind for said rail-
way pertsining to line of railway.
The said property hereinbefore described is to be
sold for not less than the of two hundred thou
sand dollars, subject to all membranes valid and
prior to complainant Judgment lien, and which said
membranes stated in the petition applica
ton for order of sale filed in this and to which
reference hereby made and bid shall be received
from any bidder who shall not first place in my hands
or deposit with guaranty that the bidder win
make good his bid if it be accepted by the court the
of twenty thousand dollars That Of the purchase
money price bid not less than the sum Of ffteen
thousand dollars shall be paid in cash, and such fur
Their shall be paid in cash the court shall FROM
time to time direct in order to pay costs and meet
claims which said court may from time to time order
to be paid and the balance Of said bid not required TO
be paid in cash may be paid in cash. the purchaser
at said sale shall have the right to satisfy the re-
mainder of his bid by crediting or procuring to be-
credited upon the judgment of the complainant by
producing and fling with the clerk of this court conn
plainants receipt therefor.
WILBUR f. GOODSPEED,
Special Master Commissioner.
Jno. NJ. Lennon, Complainant's Solicitor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-19

CHICAGO, June 18.-Wm. Emmett, who Is the
lessee Of the Chicago Driving Park. and is the
principal in the Sunday horse racing projects,
regarding which there has recently been so much
agitation, has had, in relation to the latter, an
interview with Mayor Harrison. Emmett prom.
ised that hereafter he would do away with the
Sunday hippodrome, excepting perhaps, next
Sunday, and he would then, if he could obtain
release from contracts already entered into.
This decision was arrived at through represen
tations made by the mayor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-19
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Great Crash in JeWelry.

Commencing this evening at $780, we will
slaughter entire stock of jewelry and 81 LIVER
ware, gold and silver watches Everything re-
gardless Of cost or value. As North Pennsylvania
street j. G. FULLENWIDER.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-19
BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHTS

foundries, machine shops and mills. Parties having
their own power procure an Electric Generator
and obtain much light at much less cost than by
any other mode. The ncandescent and storage sys-
tenn has been perfected making small lights for houses
and stores hung wherever needed and lighted at will
day or night. Parties desiring Generators to form
companies for lighting cities and towns will please
write us for information BY permission refer to
J. Caven, Esq, Indianapolis.
THE BRUSH ELECTRIC CO. Cleveland O.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-19

the corners of the streets openly tempting the
weak, but is forced to hide in the dark. What
makes against prohibition is. that in the opinion
OF many OF the most earnest total abstinence
men, the original Maine law State, after thirty
years Of prohibition, is no more a temperance
State now than it was before prohibition was
introduced. In Kansas, where the most strn-
gent prohibition has been enacted, and has had
the inestimable advantage Of Governor ST.
Johns fostering care, DR. Gardner testifies that
the drug stores are little more than rum shops,
and that their number Is astonishing. In Pitts.
burg thrifty little town of 1000 people, he
counted fifteen drug stores and twenty doctors
signs on Main street They scarcely pretend to
keepmedc:nes, save of the simplest kind, 'but
they sell any quantity Of liquor. l
found this to be the principal business OF the
doctors and druggists in all the parts of Kansas
/ visited. and from my inquiries of
others / convinced that it is the
case throughout the State" Neither the
reason Of wise and honest Prohibitionists, nor
the rant Of wild and dishonest ones. can alter
the nature Of these facts or disprove their grave
significance. In the face of such facts the claim
of any GLASS of men to special divine revela-
ton on this subject cannot besuccessfully estab-
Ished. When the Temperance Reviewer quotes
the Ruler of the universe as saying Thou shalt
not he La forced to leave his quotation swinging
IN tho air. Thou shalt not"-whati Thou shalt
not muzzle the OK that treadeth out the corn
says the Bible. Three gallons of whisky are
maae from q bushei OF corn and the distiller
may afhrm that God says. Thou shalt not for
pa the manufacture Of whisky" This would
DO thoroughly unwarantasle Interpretation of
any Scripture into Thou shalt not Law tax of
800 on the sale Of whisky" God--the God of
The Bible. the God of conscience, the God OF
human saciety-says. 'aThou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neghbor" When the Pro
hibitionist charges the great divines who are
closing the doors of temptation with deliberate.
" contriving to let the devil open them. he Is VIC.
Griggs County courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1885, 1885-05-22

tB- Bowden & Buck are selling cloth
ing for less than the cost of manufac-
turing.
EGuard against being "busted." :" by
insuring your crops with Beecher
Cox, in the Fargo Insurance company.
A fresh stock of groceries just opened
at BoWden and Bucks.
~Do your Hail Insurance business
with Beecher Cox.
Just received, another lot of
the White sewing machines with all the
late improvements
John Syverson & Co.
TCash paid, flour or mndse exchag-
ed for Buffalo Bones at.
John Syvelson & Co.
Whidden Bros. s is the right place
load of milk pans, churns, butter Jars
and jugs.
80 barrels of pork, and car load of
general groceries, just received at
Whidden Bros.
%1 900 Tons Buffalo bones wanted
at John Syverson Il Cos.
eY" Beecher Cox represents the
Fargo Hail Insurance company, for
Griggs county.
B~Fuli line of spring goods, prints,
giughams. dress goods, ladies and gents
hats, opening this week at Whidden
Bros.
a. Whidden Bros. pay the highest
rates for butter and eggs.
"a The Gull kiver Lumber company
have an enormous stock OF dry lumber
ON hand.
WUse condell's ''Big Can Baking
POWDER the best in the market One
and one.haf pounds in every can: only
80 cents-no chromos. Whidden Bros.
School bonds and warrants taken
IN exchange for school furniture.
School houses built and bonds or war
rents taken in payment.
Knud Thompson
Griggs County courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1885, 1885-05-22

The miserable condition of the wheat
crop in all other states and territories
has led the people Of this section to scan
the heavens with a xatchfuI eye, A
dry Fall. and Winter, left the ground in
admirable condition for early seeding;
but continued dry weather threatened
to retard the growth Of the plant.
Thanks to benefcent Providence
the rain descended copiously all over our
magnificent county last Friday night,
and, to-day, you can see the wheat
grow as you watch it. At Red Willow
lake heavy rain occurred on the pre-
ceding Wednesday, as well as ON the
Friday referred 20, making the farmers
twice happy.
Griggs County courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1885, 1885-05-22
Hoppers in Nebraska.

Several parties living in the neigh
borhood II the Washington hills have
discovered myriads Of grasshoppers al
ready hatched where the old grass is
still left unburned. They are so small
that they can scarcely be detected, yet
they are there. Commissioner McMur-
ter. who lives in that vicinity, advises
it would be we'll for everybody who has
old grass to burn it before these little
pests are large enough to tiy.-Miller
Press.
Griggs County courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1885, 1885-05-22
The following is the programme of
the Musical and Literary entertainment
to be Given NEXT NhurSlav avnninm.

The following is the programme of
the Musical and Literary entertainment
to be given next Thursday evening:
l. PIANO SoLo..................W WIN. Wildsrub
?. Solo. II Fear No Foe'..C. II. Whdden
.. PIANO DrEr........ ......Mra. Zimmerman
and Hilbert Jorsensen
!. READ1NG... Observation-Disclosures. w. E. BRYANT
5. QCARTErTE. Pro PnrNpo BAssc.
Mrs. Chas Cooper, Mrs. Chas. Husc .Messrs
Church and Whidden.
6. CoRNET DUET. .Messrs. Engsr and
Melgard.
Z. READING. INa..................W r, Whidden
.. SoLo.......... Miss Gimhett
.. VOCAL DIET. Mrs. Chas. Cooper
and C. T. Whidden.
~. 1iASo SoLo ........... Mrs. Bryant
II. Solo. Waltz Song, "Venita". &C. T. Whidden
IL. READING. .......................r. II. Adams
IL. DUET, Piano and Cornet. Mrs. Bryant
and Mr.. Enger.
ID. DUET, Gobble Song...... Mr.. and Mre Stork
10. PIANA SoLo...... VIM. Rockford
l6. DUET, Gypsy Countess. -. :. Mrs, Chss. Huee
and c. T. Whidden.
II. Auld Lang syne.
Admission, 25 cents; reserved seats.
IS cents. Tickets for sale at Whidden
Bros, and at the door.
Nat han Sifton's black colt, Dakota,
and NJ. j. Davis Michigan runner were
matched for a quarter race Tuesday
evening-best two in three. A large
crowd was in attendance. Sifton's colt
took the money. This shows the SUI
periority of Dakota-bred stock. Nj.
Sifton thinks the climate of Michigan is
not favorable to speed.
@rI have now in stock fresh sup
ply of feed and flour, which the public
Flour of all grades. Quick sales and
small profits. Geo. W. Greenleese.
Griggs County courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1885, 1885-05-22
Attention Settlers.

I wish to announce to the settlers of
Griggs county, that have recently been
appointed agent for the sale of Northern
Pacific Rail Road Lands in this county.
In order to assist purchasers have
procured a complete set of surveyors
plats, showing fractional lots, lakes,
rivers, ponds, swales, meadow land,
ridges, depth of soil, grade, surface, etc. :.
etc, together with field notes and price
list; III fact everything that is necessary.
to assist one in forming a correct idea
of the character and value of the land.
| also loan money on five years time to
buy the preferred stock of the company,
to be used in payment for the land,
which at the present very low price of
this stock, brings these lands much low
er than government lands.
Parties holding land under contract
will do we'll to pay up and get deed be-
fore rise in the price of stocks.
Parties who located on these lands be-
fore survey, and have made valuable
improvements, should lose no time in
making purchase, as the company is not
under any obligation to hold it for them;
and others are applying for it.
Plats and price lists of unsold lands
furnished free Of charge. Settlers will
find it to their advantage to give me
call before locating.
also loan money for final proofs.
VIM. GLASS, Agent.
Office in Postofllce Building Coopers-
tOWn,D Il.
Griggs County courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1885, 1885-05-22

4 very little attention to writing
in early youth would have saved the
mutilation, by remorseless printers, of
some very good spring poetry. When
we WritA-
''Bright buds on the rose trees epringing,
Their harvest Of fragrance finging"-
and it is set up
"Bcd bugs in the clothes are singing" etc.
1t makes US long for fine Italian-Spen-
ceriap series of fists. like John L. Sulll-
van.