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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-04-28

Home Rule.


The farmer sat in his old armchair,
Rosy and fair.
kate, declare"
lie said to his wife, who was knitting near.
'sWeneed not fear
The hard times here,
Though the leaf of life is yellow and sere.
Il am the king, thou art the queen
OF this fair scene;
Our love is green
AS when thou vert a village maid,
And [, a blade,
in lOve-afraid
My fondest hopes would be delayed.
Snow, whether the days be dim or fine,
In rain and shine
Here, thine and mine,
Are cattle, grazing upon the hill,
Taking their fill,
And sheep so still,
Like many ruled by a single will.
"These barnyard fowls, our subjects all.
They heed the call,
Both great and small,
When we scatter for them the grain.
Ills not in vain
We live and reign
In this our happy, fair domain.
"Unvexed with shifting stocks and shares,
And bulls and bears,
And the affairs
OF speculation in mart and street,
In this retreat
Sweet Peace can meet
Plenty that's crowned with braided wheat
-Vick's Magazine
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-04-28
Farm Notes

AkMER loafers frequently say, GAS
there is nothing / can do at home T
Will &C, and see what is going on in
AM satisfied there ia moro r,ora,,
as well as more work, if you milk vol1y
cows and feed your calves skimnood
milk.-MoniDger. --'0"
FARMERS raising colts from mares
intended to do work on the farm.
should either have the colts come in
the fall, or very early in the spring. SO
as not to interfere with the rontine
work on the farm in the busy season,
DON'T hurry your stock to pasture.
Wait until the ground is settled and
the grass well started. Ii the stock get
little taste of grass, they have no
appetite for dry food, and with scanty
supply of grass they are sure to suffer
in flesh, and in milk.
ORANGE JUDD, of the Prairie Farmer.
who has just visited that region. pre-
diets that the "stalked plains" of
Texas, are destined to become in the
not remote future rich and highly
developed region. By digging or Dor
ing water is found plentifully at from
twenty-five to It's feet deep.
A HANDSOME per cent. of those who
daily crown the boxes and barrels of
the stores and sidewalks have a. stop
ping place IN the country which they
are proud to call their farm. They
may be proud of the farm, but if the
farm was possessed of the power of
speech it could not truthfully return
the compliment in speaking of it's own.
er.-ITanscript.
JAMES VICK's plan of catching slugs
Is as follows: '"Take some pieces of
slate, or flat stones, or fiat pieces of
tin, and lay them about IN the garden
among the plants, distributing them
very literally; just at sun down 60 out
and place teaspoonful of bran on
each piece of slate or tin, and the slugs
will soon become aware of it, and be-
gin to gather and feed on It. In about
two hours, when it is dark, go out
again with q lantern and a pail con-
tanning salt and water, and pick up
each piece on which theslugs are found
feeding, and throw slugs and bran into
the brine, where they instantly die. It
is well, also, to go around in the morn
ing, and many slugs will be found hid
ing under the pieces of slate, and can
be destroyed in the brine. swallowing
up this method persistently for a few
weeks the garden may be efectually
rid of the nuisance.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-04-28
He Found the Train First.

From the Atlanta (Ga.) constitutional
There used TO be, and possibly still
is, q canvasser on aleading paper who
was more widely known in South Geor-
gla than any other man connected
with the business. He had become SO
infatuated with his paper that he
talked it necessarily; it was the News
every half dozen words. One day the
colonel was caught out at Mud
vile, fifteen miles from the nearest
railroad station. He had come there
with friend, but the latter had gone
off and left him. But he was full of re-
sources, so he sided up to q lawyer
whom he knew and said: "Col. Smith,
have you any one with you going
homer" "No; 7 am by myself"
"Well, would like very much to GO;
have only this little grip" Cali right,
sir; will be glad to have your compa-
n.y." "Thank you, sir. Come around
and let's have q toddy." Around
they went; had their toddy, and then
the newspaper man called for dinner
for two, and the lawyer did full Justice
to his share. They then had cigar at
the News mans expense and another
toddy thrown in. After they finished
their smoke the lawyer said, "Well,
colonel, it's just about as cool as it is
going to get, suppose we CO." "I'm
ready, sir; where's your team?"
''Team? have no team. am going
to walk. 1t isn't far; just g. nice little
stroll" To have seen the News mans
face at that startling announcement
would have been worth q months
wages. But he walked it all the same,
and afterward he always found the
team first and then hunted up the
man.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-04-28
DEAD LEAVES WHISPER.
BY PHILIP BoURKE MARsroN.

1.-TWO friends, artist and poet, found chalk
on a wall in busy London these words: "Des
Leaves Whisper
Dead leaves whisper so they show it,
Chalked upon a London wall
Was it writ by unknown poet?
If we could but know it all
Know from what fair tree they showered,
On what garden path beneath,
o. its beauty all disfowered.
In these days of mist and death.
Dead leaves whisper in strange places
Whisper III this city square
Whisper where no faintest trace is
Of the summer once so fair.
And we listen and we ponder
On the days before they fell,
When he.world. with summer s wonder
Was more glad than tongue could tell.
Dead leaves in the twilight glistening
Dead leaves shivering IN the breeze
What pale ghost-souls may be listening
Meath the desolated trees2
Dead leaves whisper, ah, my brother,
Whisper down LIES tragic ways
Will they whisper in some other
Life OF unconiectured days2
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-04-28

''MAMMA," said the small boy, in the
words, but not precisely in the spirit
OF Flanagan, of Texas, "What are we
here for?" "Here for?" she rejoined
vaguely. eyes. Why did GOD give us
arms and legs and fingers and eyes and
noses, and put us here? ?" "Why, my
dear, you know, ITO serve God and
glorify him forever" ''What's for
ever?" "Here and hereafter"
"Where's hereafter?" The small boy
went to Ded.--Boston Transcript.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-04-28

THE scientific tramp who is well in
formed upon the influence of questions
of the day upon his profession now in
forms the timid ''lady of the house"
upon whom he calls that he can't find
work because he is not one of the
Knights of Labor. When offered work
he saws he prefers 81. so.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-04-28

oughbred stallion in the land, and the
chances are that the foal will inherit
the temperament and weakness of the
dam. Let the dam be sound, of good
size, good disposition and color, and
you have an animal that may bear
you valuable colts. You will need
COW, too. Do not buy an inferior one
because she is cheap. She will eat as
much as a good one. What a COW
eats is her chief cost. If she eats little
and only gives milk enough to pay for
that little, she is not so profitable as
the cow which can eat twice as much
and pay for double as much as she
eats. This COW is to be the founda-
ton on which you are to build up g.
herd. You will raise the heifer calves
and perhaps the bull calves. If they
are good stock, they will pay you well
for care and feed. II poor scrubs,
your care and feed will be lost. The
more OF such animals you raise the
poorer you will be, and the greater
nuisance you and your stock will be in
the neighborhood. It will not paw
you to buy an inferior COW at any
price. If your father-in-law sends such
a cow as gift for your wife, we pity
you, poor fellow. You have burden
for the rest of your natural life, g.
double burden-poor kline and miser-
able kin.
Now we come to the next necessity
pigs. Take the advice of one who
has tried it, and buy a strictly first
class brood SOW and breed her to none
other than strictly frst-class stock,
and give her and her offsprings good
care, and you will have in your pigs
the most profitable stock on hefarm.
Ii, however, you buy anything that is
cheap, and give them little or no care,
you will have another public nuisance
and a private loss. Handle strictly
tirst-class pigs or none, and give them
the best of care.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-04-28
Some Good Advice.


At this season of the year, when a
good many young men are starting
out to farm on their own or rented
land, little advice to them may not
be amiss. I am sure I should have
been glad to have received such advice
forty years since, and I hope these
suggestions (which were made by a
practical farmer) will be kindly re-
ceived.
First, you will need a good team,
and more than probable a horse team,
rather than yoke of oxen. So, buy
pair Of horses able to do good full
days work six days each week. Such
team will eat no more than pair of
old, spawned, wind broken things,
that never again will be able to do a
days work, and with moderate usage
will not be able to do half the work
done by a good team. Then, too,
they may fail you just when your
work needs urging. The lost time,
and doctoring, and incidental losses
with such team willpay heavy inter-
est on q good, strong team.
Your own strength and time are i'm
portant factors in your success. You
cannot afford to putter along with a
team that is not able to do full days
work. Your patience will be tried, if
you have any energy or get up, and
you will, too, either worry unnecessa-
rily, or give up and go the gait OF the
old, WORKOUT horses. A young, ener-
getic man is lily mated with an old
plug team, Young man, buy 6, good
team, or none, and then take pride
in keeping it always in good condition.
This pride will lead you to see that
they are not over-worked, that they
are well groomed, that the harness is
complete, snug and clean and always
in good repair. The young farmer
that has the taste and order to keep
his team well, will keep his wagon,
plows and other implements we'll. By
having a good team he will have a
higher idea of what a good horse is.
Ii he has to buy or sell he will be bet
ter Judge for having given better care
to his team.
Above all things, young man, do not
start with diseased old mare, and
hope to raise sound, profitable colts.
Yon may breed her to the best thor
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-04-28

In Wheatland, CAL, the Chinese have
five guards on duty every night.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-04-28

IDEAS OF the present or future inteIli-
gence OF farmers, than the great
purlesque on editors at St. Louis
Iowa State Register.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-04-28
To Helm D Horse.

Almost any horse will do better
when fed cut feed. This term means
to cut the hay or straw about q fourth
Of an inch long, and then to soak it in
water for six hours, and then to mix
it with the grain ration in the form Of
meal. When prepared in this way q
horse will require less hay and less
grain in proportion, and really do more
work.
This mode of preparing their food is
specially beneficial to old horses and
those which have the heaves or are at
all affected with their breathing. An
old horse actually running down on
hay and whole grain will begin to
thrive when it's food isprepared in this
way. The benefits are actually be-
yond the explanations of science, SO
far as the composition of the food is
concerned. The benefits 60 beyond
the real virtue or nutriment
furnished by the food, and are found
in part in that which the food does
do. 1t is in g. condensed form, but not
SO condensed that the condition is I'M
favorable for digestion; but on the
contrary, most favorable, as there is
medium and proper combination of
coarse and fine material, with q judi
ciOus balance OF constituents all taken
into the stomach at the same time.
Not so when hay and grain are fed
singly. There is then no combination
of food, and generally so much of the
first is given that the action OF the res
piratory organs is impeded, and the
dust arising from the hay is drawn
int
tion and often is the beginning of the
disorder called heaves. All working
animals, including oxen, will do better
on cut food.
The saving In the amount of hay
will always pay tor the extra labor.
We had an old horse, years ago, which
could hardly stand up when fed dry
hay, on account Of the heaves. When
fed nothing but oats soaked twelve
hours, he performed we'll and got fat,
although worked in team every day.
We are satisfied that farmers, as a
rule, feed their horses too much hay,
and often, too much grain. They
usually feed all the horses alike.
This is a mistake, as no two horses
are really alike in their ability to di-
gest food. Horses may be kept poor
by overlooking as well as by giving
them too little.
Cornmeal is good for O. walking
horse, but not suited to one required
to 60 on trot. 1t is never good food
for horses which have to exert them
selves so as to get heated, nor is it
good food for horses when it is ex-
pected that they will move quickly.
II
makes fabby muscles and sluggish
action.
Oats, on the contrary, strengthen
the muscles and cool the blood. In
winter it will do to mix g. portion of
corn with the oats to help keep up
the animal heat.-Our Country Home
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-20
-THE-
CHEAP Boot and Shoe Store
c, kRUMMHEUER.

Offers the following Big Bargains,
but for Cash only:
125 pair mems fine Shoes at $500
pair, worth $500 and $500.
60 pair boys fine Shoes at $3.50 a
pair, worth 2. so.
200 pair ladies' fine Kid and Don
COLA button turned shoes for only
$500 pair, worth 400 and 5.
12O pair misses fine Kid and Don
COLA but. turned shoes, only $50
a pair, worth $50 and 4.50.
200 pairs children's kid and goat
button shoes at reduced prices.
go pair mems velvet slippers at Is
cents, worth 1,25.
120 pair mems carpet slippers at
40 cents, worth SO cents.
100 pair women's carpet slippers
at 80 cents, worth 40 cents.
go pair mems kip and grain boots
at 800 a pair, worth 400.
90 pair boys kip and grain boots
at 200 a pair, worth 800.
Also an enormous stock of ladies', misses and
childrens button and lace oil-gran Shoes at
Strengthening prices. Come one, come all.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-20
THE ENCAMPMENT,

The Second Regiment will hold its
annual encampment at this place August
9th to 14th inclusive. About II COM
panies will be in attendance and some of
the state officials, including Governor
Kusk, will be present at the review. 1t
is expected that the encampment will be
at the Fair grounds; it is good location,
quite convenient to the city and first
class in all respects. On this occasion
the grounds will be lighted by electric
lights.
The two militia companies of this
place are hard at work making such ar
rapgement and preparations as falls to
them to make the matter creditable to
the city. They will need some assist
ance and it should be readily forth
coming. 1t is estimated that the en-
campment will leave about $4,000 in the
city for necessary expenses.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-20
THE COUNTY BOARD.

The board met in special session on
Wednesday noon and was called to order
by John Carey, the retiring chairman.
The board adjourned until PIP. NJ. After
reassembling the first thing in order was
the election of presiding officer.
Thomas Mohr of Kossuth was chosen,
the informal ballot being declared formal.
The board then adjourned until A. NJ,
Thursday to give the chairman an oppor-
tunity to prepare his standing committees.
The board met at 9 A. M. and the
chairman announced tn following COM
mittees:
On Observation-Disclosures Werneke. Cooney.
DIcke, johnson.
On Finance-Zander, Ostenfeldt. Conway, Gus
tayescn, Boecher.
On General Claims-Wagner Murphy. Bruss
On Sher. and Justices Claims-Jonas Gagnon
Goerblng, Torrison, Tracy, Rauch.
On Poor-Ostenfeldt Roemer, Breunig.
On lmprovements-Jas Nolan, Joseph Gagnon
Boecher.
On Roads and Bridges-Werneke, lander and
Murphy.
On Election Boecher Conway, Wagner.
On ENTHUSIASTICALLY, Torrison, Cahill.
On Illegal Taxes-Breunig Goerbing Nolan.
On Insane-Cahill, Roemer, Kestly.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-20

THE Industrial Association of Mantle
voc county will hold its third annual
fair on the 9th, 2Sth, Doth and Both of
September next, at the city of Manitowoc,
Wisconsin. The success of the exhib-
itions heretofore held by this association
warrants the statement that its coming
meeting will be second to none in this
section of the state. The soldiers re-
union of the veterans of northeastern
portion of the state, will be held during
the fair. Correspondence is now being
had with Gen. Logan and other promin-
ent men, with view of securing their
attendance at the reunion, and the.pros-
poets are that Gen. Logan, as we'll as
other soldiers of national reputation,
will participate in the gathering. 1t is
certain, large number of old soldiers
will be present. Full particulars, relat-
ing to the entertainment of visiting veter.
ans and other matters of national inter-
est, will be given at later date.
W. A. WALKER, Secretary.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-20

A TRAMP through the country on one
of these beautiful May days is living
again the olden time when the heart
was young and troubles fitted with
change of mood, There is something in
the vigorous march of this years spring
time, sweeping over the meadows in
luxuriant depths of living green, fiinging
out the delicate banner OF fragrant BIOS
SONS from fruit tress for the gentle
winds to kiss, which recalls the spring
time of life when the spirit was buoyant
and the hope strong and the future
covered with the sheen of bright prom
Use. ''The tender grace of a day that is
gone" may be brought back by the aim
less ramble through the country one of
these bright days. Nature was never
more amiable. She woos you by pro
fusion of flowers and a melody rich and
sweet as it is varied; the air is sweet with
the fragrance of bud and blossom, and
the woods, in the fragile beauty of the
tender leaf, are as lovely as -inted trans
parency. For years the birds have not
been so numerous, nor have their notes
been SO gladstone or their songs so fire.
quent. The bobolink, al this season
trill of joyous song in flight, is every
where. The robins note is never still;
the catbirds voice is heard at intervals
and the blackbird's whistle sounds sweet
In this symposium of song. Go out for
ramble and come back happy with hay
ing tasted some of the sweets of life,
more worthy of search than the things of
ambition.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-20
The Largest Assortment of the Best and Most Dura-
able Machinery in the Northwest,

which sell its merits all Machines warranted 70
the latest and best consists of
nothing Machines
former and represented be the latest We
full line of Repairs for all Machines represented by
complete and felt confident
ability to please and satisfy the farmers than
benefit of farmer buy his Machines of reliable
can be of getting Repairs hereafter.
The following is list of our stock:
Champion Light Binder 5 and 6 foot cut.
Champion Light Reaper Champion Single Reaper No. /.
Champion New Mower. Champion Light Mower.
Osborne (Steel Frame) Light Binder, 6 foot cut
Osborne Reaper No. s. Osborne Mowers No 4 and
Minnesota Chief Separators and Horse Powers.
Minnesota Saltwater Engines, Traction and Portable.
Minnesota Giant Engines, Traction and Portable.
Scott & Co. Peerless Horse
Gaar, Scott & Co. Engines, Portable Traction.
Gaar, Scott q Co. Glover Hulers. g. S. & Co. Saw Mills
Prick & Co. Vibrator Separator and Horse Powers
Prick Co. Engines, Portable and Traction. F. Co. Saw Mills
NJ q j. Rumey Separator and Horse Power
F. u j. Rumey Engines, Portable and Traction
Monitor Force Feed Seeders Brdsal Glover Hulers
Veteran SelfDump Hay Rake. Corn Planters
Chetain SelfDump Hay Rake. Advance Hay Tedders.
CLieftain Hay Tedders. Riding and WALKING Cultvators
Land Rollers Plaster Sewers Harrows. Feed Cutters
French Burr Stone Feed Mills Cahoon Cast Seeders
Red Jacket Flows, Steel and Combined.
Hay Forks, Double and Single Harpoon
Hay Carriers all kinds Puey all sizes Binding Irvine the best
and last but not least the celebrated Chambern Stump Pue
We also keep the very best Lubricating Oil.
We would advise farmer his Machine
before he has been here and examined our stock.
Our office and sample where the mentioned Machines
kept exhibition Franklin Street. Side east of the
Williams House. NAV q
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-20

MANIrowoo RAPIDS desires peace with
the county and its chairman, Captain
Gnstaveson, is empowered to treat with
the county with view to a settlement
of all difficulties. The county board
should meet him halfway. No one
acquainted with the facts will deny that
the commission on equalizing taxes
wronged the town. 1t is best for all
parties concerned that the contention be
dropped. Let each party to the difficulty
concede something and the accom-
mediation will be easy.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-20

SAEEP-sHEARING is quite an event in
Waukesha and adjoining counties. The
pastoral glades of these places re-echo
the plaintive bleating of lambs. The
careful husbandman looks around at this
season for some suitable person to clip
the woolly crop from sweltering ewes.
Linas Lawrence of this city generally
makes trip through that neighborhood
at this season to harvest the rich fieeces.
He has just returned from there having
had a good season and ready to thump
Sandford if he dares but to mention his
name in his paper.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-20

On Tuesday the town board of Manito-
voc Rapids, A. Kugler late town treas
urer and his town bondsmen, o. Torrison,
VIM. Rahr, and J. E. Plat, met at the
office of j. d. Markham to settle with
the town. The treasurer was found to
be short in his accounts abont $4,000,
which quite effectually explodes the
theory of robbery. The county bonds
men were held for a deficit of about
Sl7OO. They are John Schuette and
Ernst Wagner They paid the $1700 and
seized 800 county school money, paid
over to Kugler by the county treasurer.
This is the only amount in dispute now,
the bondsmen for the town having in
stltuted suit to have this sum turned into
the town treasury. On Tuesday the
town bondsmen paid ever about S11OO:
the town by vote assumes $500 of the
loss and Kugler on certain securities
a real estate and chattel mortgage and
a life insurance policy agreed to pay
500. On his securities he raised but
$500, but the present town treasurer
agreed to take the securities for the
balance. The town bondsmen are dis
charged except as to the sum of S7OO in
litigation. The town has secnred the
full amount to which it is entitled, losing
only the $500 which it was agreed by vote
to release the bonds from. Take it all in
all it is one of the most equitable settle
ments ever made on disputed matter.
Some litigation may come from the $70G
seized by the bondsmen for the county
taxes.