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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-09
Red.Bucs. Flies.

Flies, reaches, ants, bed bugs, water-bugs,
moths, rats, mice, sparrows, iackrabbite,
gophers chipmunks, cleared out by Rough
on Rats" l5c
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-09

Ex-SECRETARY WINDOW is in Mexico
on g. combined business and pleasure
trip.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-09

ASK your shoe and hardware dealers fo1
Lyons Heel Stiffeners; they keep boots and
shoes straight.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-09

AYERS Ague Cure is warranted sure
cure for all malarial disorders.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-09

ROBERT B. MANTELL, the actor, will
pass the summer in Scotland.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-09
Rough on Rats"

clears out rats, mice, reaches, flies, ants,
bugs, yerniin, water-bugs, skunks. 15c.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-09
Life Preservcr.

ADAM and Eve were tried in the ap
ple-ate court.-Newman In dependent
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-09

The Frazer Axle Grease is better and
cheaper than any other atdouble the price.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-09

PERFECTION is attained in DR.. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-09

"RoUGH on Toothache." Instant relief.
1Ec
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-09

RELIEF is Immediate, and cure sure.
Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. so cents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-09

''RoUGH on Corns" hard or soft corns
bunions. 15c.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-09

PLAIN colored bodices are worn with
summer plaids and checks by young
11arGOnG
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-09
BITuEERS.

II you wish certain cure for all Blood
diseases. Nothing was ever invented that will
to Hops aud MALI Bitters. 1t tones
up the system, puts new Blood 10 your
veins, restores your lost appetite and
sleep, and brings you perfect health. 1t
never fails to give relief in all cases Of Kidney
or Liver Troubles. Biliousness, 1ndf-
gestfOn, Constipation, Sick Headaches Dys-
pepsfa, Nervous disorders, and all Female
Complaints when properly taken it is sure
cure. Thousands have been benefited by it
in this and other Western States 1t is the best
Combination of Vegetable remedies as yet
discovered for the restoration to health of the
Weak and Debilftated. Do not get Hops
and MALT Bftters COMPOUNDED with infe-
rior preparations of similar name prescribe
Hops & Malt Bitters regularly in my practice.
Robert Turner, III. D., Flat Rock, Mich. For sale
hv all dry1ppistg
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-20
How Spawn is Taken From Fish

After the fish are captured from the
spawning races, into which the have run
in anticipation of casting their spawn in
the natural way, they are placed in a
tub of water and the ripe females Sc
elected. Experience is about the only
thing which will tell you with certainty
when the female is in perfect condition
for operating upon. The eggs must be
perfectly mature and ready to come from
the fish just as nature intended they
should. If they are pressed from the
fish prematurely, your efforts will be
wasted, as they cannot be fertiliZed. The
ripe female can be told by the touch, to
the expert. When in perfect condition
the belly of the fish feels soft and flabbY,
and if she were held up by the head
her spawn would settle downward,
while with the unripe female the spawn
remains stationery IN place, and feels to
the touch hard and bunchy like shot.
When all is IN readiness the fish is taken
by the head with the right and by the
lower part of the body by the left hand,
and held over the pan with the belly as
near the bottom as possible. The fish
will struggle quite violently at first; it
is many times necessary to place it back
in the tub for moment and commence
again. When the fish gets quiet, the
right hand is gently slipped down from
the upper part of the body, and the fore
finger used to press the belly, the hold
on the tail or lower part of the fish being
retained. If the fish is a large one it is
often necessary for the operator to have
an assistant to hold its head as it would
be very difficult for one person both to
hold and take the eggs without injuring
the fish.-SETH GREEN in AmericaR
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-20
A Dog that Could Count.

Old Fetch was shepherd dog and
lived in the Highlands of the Hudson.
His master kept nearly a dozen COWS,
and they ranged at will among the hills
during the day. When the sun was low
in the west, his master would say to his
dog, "'Bring the cows home;" and it
was because the dog did his task so
well, that he was called Fetch.
One sultry day he departed as usual
upon his evening task. From scattered,
shady, and grassy hooks, he at last
gathered all the cattle into the mountain
road leading to the distant barnyard.
A part of the road ran through low,
moist spot bordered by a thicket of
black alder, and into this one of the
cows pushed her way, and stood quietly.
The Others passed on, followed some
distance in the rear by Fetch.
As the cows approached the barnyard
gate, he quickened his pace and hurried
forward, as if to say, "I'm here, attend
ing to business" But his complacenecy
was disturbed as the COWS filed through
the gate. He whined little, and
growled little, attracting his masters
attention. Then he went to the high
fence surrounding the yard, and stand
ing on his hindfeet peere1 between two
of the rails. After looking at the herd
for time, he started off down
the road again on full run. His mas.
ter now observed that one of tie cows
was missing, and he sat down on rock
to see what Fetch was going to do about
it. Before long he heard the furious
of bell, and soon Fetch APP
peared bringing in the perverse COW at
rapid pace, fastening her on by fire.
quently leaping up and catching her ear
in his teeth. The gate was again thrown
open, and the cow, shaking her head
from the pain of the dogs rough re-
was led through it In way
that she did not soon forget. Fetch
then lay down quietly to cool off in
time for supper. st Nicholas
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-20
Defects of the OIfactory Sense.

Referring to the prevalence of colcr
blindness, physician asks in the London
Lancet: 'Is the sense of smell exception
ally free from like defects? think not.
In his evidence relating to the case of
alleged poisoning by chloroform at PIN
leo, DR.. Stevenson ikens the smell o.
choral hydrate to that of lemon. Hav-
ing always felt that the odor of the fort
mer was accurately represented by that
of the watermelon, and having vainly en-
deavored to trace the faintest resem-
blance in it to that of lemon, l have
asked myself whether l am suffering
from a defect of the olfactory sense,
which, in the absence of name for it, I
venture to call anosphresis Perhaps
some of your readers, including the emf
nent analyst referred to, will kindly
put me right in this matter, the subject
being, rs it seems TO me, one of great i'm
portance in medico-legal investiga
tons"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-20
An An cdOte with a Moral.

Sir Spencer Wells, at a recent medical
banquet in England, told The following
story of Braithwaite, founder of the IA
nous Retrospect that bears his name:
81 made his acquaintance in q curious
way, and he taught me lesson which I
have never forgotten. AS it may he
useful to some of you, you will perhaps
excuse me if l indulge in what may be
called gossip. One evening farmer
rode up to Mr.. Marsden's, who was the
nearest medical man, to beg him to go
at once and see a girl who was very i'll.
Marsden was not at home, so | offered
TO go. The farmer hcsitated; but he
was very anxious, so he said: well,
lad, get on my horse, and I'll go on for
our doctor, Mr.. Braithwaite' So l
rode to a small farmhouse near Chapel
town, and found room full of people
and girl insensible on the bed. l re-
member having her clothes loosened,
and opening window, and, when she
began to SILVER, trying to make her
swallow little brandy and water. Then
Braithwaite arrived, and very soon took
me into another room, after saving to
her mother, Give her two teaspoonsfuls
more of that brandy and water But
as soon as we were alone, he said: 1T is
very wrong to give her brandy and wa
ter; it is the first stage of some eruptive
fever. But teaspoonful won't make
any difference, and it will show that
did not differ from you. If l had, he
said, with kind smile, perhaps they
would not believe either of US There
was something in this way of treating a
junior-so much good feeling mixed up
with so much knowledge of human ma
ture-that 1 have many times since,
when consulting with Juniors, followed,
or tried to follow, Braithwaite's ex-
ample"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-20
A City's Shipping.

I was talking with Captain Elwell, of
the firm of Darrah & Elwell, large own
ers in shipping and shipping interests,
in reference to shipping interests, says a
newspaper correspondent. Captain Ell.
we'll was in years gone by master Of a
vessel, and for more than a quarter of
century he has been identified with the
shipping of the Quaker City port,
80 you want me to tell you some
Ting about PhiladelRhia,s- shipping?"
SAID he 'Well, the truth is she hasn't
any worth talking about. Twenty or
twenty-five years ago Philadelphia was
something of commercial port, but Ter
glory has left her. There are a number
of smaller places in this country now
where the commerce exceeds that of our
city.
''Do you ask why such a condition
iexists2 It's very clear to anv one who
follows shipping affairs closely. The
main cause is that sailing vessels cannot
Compete with the foreign tramp steam
iers which seem to be doing the greater
part of our carrying just now. These
.'tram?s are to the shipping of this
county just what the Italian padrone
and other cheap foreign labor are to our
worAingmen. American ships cannot
compete with them.
-. he men who work on the 'tramps'
- paid extremely low wages The
ca .,tains do not receive more than $40 or
SO a month and the mates average from
$25 to $50, while the ordinary sailor is
paid from $15 to $50. They do not only
;underpay their men, but they take car
goes at such low rates of freightage
that Americans cannot begin to touch
them.
=: They have driven sailing vessels
from nearly every trade but the molasses
traffic. This alone has not yet been at
tempted by these nOrmads of the sea.
The sugar trade has been completely
by them. They have mono
poly on the iron ore, brought to this port,
and have put their talons upon every
other branch of trade.
They wander into every port which
trades with the United States, and every
cargo taken by tramp means that
four barks or schooners have each lost a
cargo. Indeed, we have reached point
in our shipping where large sailing YES
sel, are compelled to make long voyages
or remain idle. The majority of the
ships which come here load oil from
China, Japan or San Francisco. There
is nothing else left for them.
Chow are we to remedy this evil?'
az confess / do not know The thing |
exists, and suppose it will continue |
until all our sailing craft will have only |
the coasting trade left them. -
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-20
In the Jury.RoOm.

The case seemed clear enough to a
boy 10 years old.
The plaintiff sued the defendant for
debt. The defendant admitted that he
contracted the debt, and that he had
never paid it. He tried to show, as an
offset, that he once lent plaintiff some
money, but he failed to even establish
the date of the transaction. The
amount sued for was $500, and the
Judge charged us to return a verdict IN
favor of the plaintiff.
When we got settled in the jury-room
and elected foreman he said:
"Well, I suppose we must return
verdict for the full amount2"
"Well, I don't!" replied one OF the
jurors-a man whom had selected as
an honest, conscientious juror.
"But isn't it a plain case?"
''No, sir The plaintiff had two law
yers, while the defendant had but one.
There was nothing fair about that"
''But the Judge charged us to return
a verdict for the amount" observed
another juror.
Opposing he did!' exclaimed an old
man on his left; eff the Judge knows
more about the case that we do then
what are we here fora"
(Which of 'em was the plaintiff, any
howe" solemnly inquired a solemn juror,
whom 1 had seen sleeping through most
of the trial.
''The red headed man, of course" re-
piled a young man who wore very tight
pantaloons and chewed plug tobacco
with great ambition.
''Was it why thought 1t was the fat
mani exclaimed juror No. 6.
The foreman suggested that we mark
on slips of paper the amount each juror
thought the plaintiff entitled to. His
suggestion was followed, and the
amounts run from fifteen cents to the
$500.
at seems to me-" he reflected, 'that
the defendant either owes him $500
or nothing"
81 don't believe he owes him nuthin,"
replied one of the twelve.
''But you heard the evidence"
Hang the evidencew
Some one suggested that we add up
the sums marked and strike an average.
Another suggested that we return a
verdict for the defendant.
A third offered to flip a cent and head
or tail for the $500 or nothing.
A fourth wanted some one to tell him
if the debt hadn't been outlawed.
1t was finally discovered that we
stood five for the plaintiff and seven for
the defendant and the foreman wanted
to know what he should do.
"Well, " said one of the seven, elf we
agree with you in this case will you
agree with us in the next p
He couldn't promise, and the leader
of the dissenters declared that he would
remain in that room life time before
he would agree with the five.
At the end of an hour there were
eight men willing to return verdict
for $75.
At the end of two hours there were
seven men who didn't care a cent and
five who were in favor of the defendant.
At the end of three hours six men
were in favor of $400, and the other six
were playing poker.
In another hour two of us favored
$500 and the other ten had made up
their minds that at least two out of the
three lawyers ought to go to Jail. We
finally marched in with the announce
ment that we couldn't agree, when the
juror who didn't know plaintiff from
defendant arose and protested:
"Judge, we could have agreed all
right if any body told US what the case
was about! I think we orter be fur
nished with diagramsr' NJ. QUAD.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-20
Black the Heels of Your Boots.

A book has just been issued by Mr..
William A. Mowry, that contains the
following story:
Zone day, when was in college,
heard a young lady say, 4 don't think
much of college fellows
ITO my query as to the grounds of SC
singular an opinion, she replied:
" They do not black the heels OF
their boots
"When I protested that that charge
could not be true of them all, she re
sponded:
"'Oh, no, Isuppose not; but the ex-
ception proves the rule. l have noticed
that most of them only black. the front
part of their boots; and they like re-
verslble collars and cuffs !"
What does it indicate when the heels
of boots are not BACKED The boy is
not thorough. He only does what he is
forced to do. If he thought he would
pass muster among people if he did not
black his boots at all, they would never
be blackened.
Boys laugh at girls, and say they pay
too much attention to clothes How do
the boys-like to see their sisters with
soiled collars, buttons off their boots, a
rutfle hanging on their dress 1t is the
evidence of a true gentleman or q true
lady when the clothing worn is in order
and suitable to the occasion.
Dress and the way it is worn is an in
dlcation of character If the heels of
the boots are BACKED, you may be
pretty sure that the boy or man is thor
ough in whatever he undertakes. He
learns his lessons, not because he must,
but because he desires to learn. When
he is sent to clean up the garden, he
rakes the dead roots and vines in a pile
for burning; there are no stray piles
hiding in the bushes near the fence. He
blacks the heels of his boots
A boy who wears reversible collars
and cuffs will be willing TO do q mean
act if he thinks he will not be found
out. He reverses the collar, not be-
cause he likes clean collar, but be
cause he likes to look as though he did.
A collar with the soiIed side hidden is
not clean collar. If you want to be a
thorough worker, if you want to be
truthful, honest, fearless man, black
the heels of your boots. and do not
make believe that your collar is clean by
reversing it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-20
HindOO MarriageLaw


Three weeks ago great interest was
excited by suit for the restitution of
coniugal rights pending before the Bonn
bay High Court. the defendant in which
was Rakhmibai. a gifted Hindoo lady,
whose pathetic denunciation of infant
marriage and enforced widowhood at
tracted much attention last year. This
lady is a daughter of the late Mr..
Janardhan Pandurang.
About twelve years ago she was mar
ried to the plaintiff, Dadaji Bhibaji, she
being then II, and he 10 years old. She
never lived with him, but remained in
her stepfather's house. Last year her hus-
band demanded that she should go to
him. She refused, on the grounds that
she had had no voice IN the marriage,
that he was personally repugnant to her,
that his character was bad, that his
health was indifferent, and that he had
no means of supporting her.
At the first hearing before Mr.. Justice
Pinhey, the suit was dismissed without
calling on the defendant, the Judge ex-
pressing the opinion that it would be a
barbarous, cruel, and revolving thing to
compel her to cohabit in the circum
stances, and that neither law nor the
practice of the courts justified him in
making such an order.
The husband appealed, and the case
was argued at some length before Chief
Justice. Sir. G. Sargent, and Mr.. Justice
Bayley, who, after some three weeks
consideration, have now delivered judg-
ment. They held that the suit for resti-
tuition of conjugal rights does not stand
discredited in India, and that to decide
otherwise would be to disregard the
whole Hindoo law, which looks upon
the giving of daughters in marriage as a
religious duty imposed upon parents.
They therefore reversed, Mr.. Justice Pin
hey's decision and remanded the case to
the lower court for re-trial on the merits.
1t is understood that whatever be the
decision on the re trial, the case will be
carried to the Privy Council, and prob
ably that tribunal will uphold the judg-
ment of the Bombay Appellate Bench.
But 1t is at least equally probable that
the case Will deal deathblow to the
system of infant marriage, and mark an
i'm portant step in the progress of social
reform in India.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-20
V0udOu VICTIMS.
NEGROES EXCITED OVER A CHARM THAT
FAILED TO WORK.

Prince Albert, a notorious colored
voudou who came here from Egypt is IN
Jail in Atlanta, Ca He has had the
colored people there absolutely under his
power. Several days ago Harriet Miller
a negro woman, called upon Albert, and,
stating that her husband had deserted
her, asked if he could bring him back.
''Oh, yes" answered the doctor. Chow
doctorF' asked the credulous woman.
with this little charm" answered the
doctor as he drew bag from his pocket.
'tPut this around your neck and wear it
during the day. Then every night when
you go to bed place it in your stocking
and get it next to the sole of your foot
Do that for five nights, and on the sixth
cut the bag open and drop the contents
on red hot shovel, and as it burns and
the smoke begins to fill the room your
front door will open and your husband
will walk in. If he don't come I'll make
him come. Try it and see" The
woman paid the man the $40 demanded,
and receieing the charm went home.
She followed the directions, but her hus-
band did not come back. The doctor
declined to refund the money and the
woman had him arrested. The arrest
was made Saturday, and when 1t became
known among the colored people they
vowed no prison walls could hold the
doctor, and said that he would come out
of his cell and visit all kinds of bad
luck on the woman. But Sunday, Mon
day and Tuesday went by and the doc
tor did not get out.
Prince Albert says that his parents
went from Africa to Egypt; that they
were OF royal Llood, and there he was
born. When he was quite young they
moved to Jerusalem and there he lived
until few years ago, when he came to
America. Albert asserts that he is YER
sed in the mysteries of Eastern physi
clans, mind readers and spell makers, as
he calls them, and says that he can do
all he processes. He speaks English,
German, Hebrew and half dozen other
languages. He says he will make all
who have had hand in his trouble
rue it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-20
Shot the Bishop of Madrid.

At 104 O'Clock Sunday morning, while
the Bishop of Madrid was ascending tie
steps leading to the entrance of the
Cathedral, in Madrid, lie was shot with
a revolver by a lricst Standing at the
top OF the steps, the ball entering his
abdomen. This was followed by another
shot, which wounded the Bishop in the
side, whereupon he fell on the steps.
The priest then descended the steps,
and fired still another shot, which took
effect in the Bishops thigh The priest
was then seized, putting a stop to his
murderous work. His victim was borne
IN an unconscious condition to a private
chamber in the cathedral, where the
last sacramcnts for the dying were ad-
ministered to him.
Being Sunday the cathedral was more
that usually crowded by worshippers,
and wien the fearful work of the priest
was realized a furious mob followed the
carriage in which he was conveyed to
prison by gendarmes, whose presence
alone prevented lynching of the would
DC murderer. The motive for the crime
was revenge
The man WHO fred the shots was re-
Gently dismissed from the priesthood,
and had fruitlcssly appliedto the Bishop
to be reinstated.