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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-27
FARM AND HOME.
Jewels in the Window.

My jewels in the window are looking out for me-
They clap their childish, chubby hands when
tPapa dear" they see.
And just as evening twilight has deepened into
gloom,
I hear their CHEEKY voices ringing 'roun,l the
room.
The rain and snow of Winter blow fiercely in my
face,
And many pangs of sorrow I've suffered in LIES
race;
But those jewels in the window inspire my soul
with Joy,
My charming little daughter and my darling lit
tie boy.
God help the poor and patient, who wander
weak and lone,
Bereft of home and children with naught to call
their own;
No cheering light to guide them in all the gather
ing gloom;
No jewels in the window, no welcome in the
room.
Yet hearts like those may ponder and hope to
reach at last
blissful home beyond the skies when earthly
ills are past;
And in some heavenly mansion, amid celestial
bloom,
Bright jewels in the window may greet them in
the room.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-27
Recipes for the Sick.

[Christine Herrick in Good Housekeeping
MILK AND LIME WATER.-To four
teaspoonfuls of milk put one of lime
water and give to the patient ice cold.
This is especially valuable in cases
Of prolonged nausea, as the stomach
rarely fails to retain this, even when
it rejects everything else.
PERFORMED MILK.-Dissolve twenty
grains of bicarbonate Of soda and five
grains Of the extract of pancreas (the
latter prepared by Fairchilds Brother
& Foster) in a half cup of warm water,
poured into a large, wide mouthed
bottle Add to this two cups of fresh
milk, cork the bottle tightly, shake
well and set in a. warm place for an
hour. The temperatures should not go
above 100. At the end of the hour
set on the ice until needed. Milk pre-
pared in this manner can be taken by
those with whom the beverage disa-
grees when drunk in it's natural state.
MILK Pronunciation pint Of milk,
two tablespoonful of flour. Heat
half the milk to boiling, and stir into
it the -four, mixed smoothly into the
remaining cold milk. Boil steadily
half an hour, and salt TO taste five
minutes before removing from the fire.
INDIAN MEAL GRUEL.-One quart
boiling water. Half cup Of sifted In
dian meal. Wet up the meal with a
little cold water and stir it gradually
into the boiling water. Boil slowly for
two hours, stirring often. The secret
of making palatable Cruel lies in cook
ing it thoroughly. Before removing
from the fire oeat well with a Dover
egg-beater, thus breakingup all Jumps.
Strain, salt and pepper to taste. The
latter condiment must not be given to
fever patients. Oatmeal Cruel may be
prepared IN the same manner.
PANADA.-Two half slices nice stale
bread, one tablespoonful white sugar,
salt to taste and a little cinnamon or
nutmeg, one small teacupful boiling
water. Lay the bread in china
bowl, sprinkle with the salt, sugar and
spice. Pour over all the boiling water,
cover with plate and set in an open
oven for ten minutes. II preferred,
split Boston crackers can be used In
stead of bread, but these must lie in
the hot water half an hour. Panada
is soothing in case of painful sore
throat.
DRY ToAsT.-Cut q slice of moder-
ately stale bread about half an inch
thick. Trim off the crust and toast
quickly over clear fire, taking great
care not to scorch the bread. Butter
very lightly or not at all and serve
Immediately after it Is made.
MERINGUED ToAsT.-Dip q freshly
toasted slice of bread into boiling
water, slightly sailed, and lay in
bowl or deep saucer. Pour over it q
sauce made ofhalf a cup OF boiling milk,
a teaspoonful of butter and the stiff1y
whipped white of an egg, the latter
stirred in just before the milk is taken
from the fire. Set in the oven for five
minutes until the meringue is delicate
" Drowned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-27
Rich Widows of New York.
New York Letter in Troy Times.

New York Letter in Troy Times.I
Two of the richest widows in the city
have died during the past year, Mrs.
Commodore Vanderbilt and Mrs.
Edwin D. Morgan. The former was
the most remarkable instance of con-
jugal influence on record. She mar
ried covetous old man who held his
immense wealth with a grip which had
always been proof against every ap-
peal, but she triumphed over this con-
firmed parsimony in two notable in
stances. One was the purchase OF a
church for her pastor, G. F. Deems,
who has it's free use during life, and
the other was the gift OF a million to
the Nashville university. The beauty
of this work is it's disinterestedness
She never attempted to get control
of her husbands wealth, but only
sought to move him to deeds OF benef-
icence. This was a noble record and
deserves grateful remembrance. Mrs.
E. D. Morgan was g. kind-hearted and
useful woman, who rose with her hus-
band to wealth and social rank, but
always preserved the simplicity Of
early life and was deeply beloved by
all who knew her.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-27
japanese Burglary.
from the North China Mail. !


1t Is a custom among the Chinese to
give several dollars to the man
who is first to report to a family
that their son has received the degree
Ku Yam. Anumber of men determined
to avail themselves of the opportuni-
uy of making money which such Gus
tom presented. These men armed
themselves with knives and pistols.
which they concealed under their cloth
ing. Others of them held leaflets,
which are regularly sold in the streets
during an examination. These leaflets
contain the names of successful candi-
dates. Thus prepared they proceeded
to the house OF man named HO. The
foremost man went to the door to
congratulate the family on it's good
fortune. The second report was close
at his heels, and then followed the men
with the leaflets. The men marched
inside, and then revealed their true
mission. They then robbed the house
of some thousand dollars in money
and clothing. On coming out their
congratulations were long and loud.
Al the door they fired off their crack
ers, thus thoroughly deluding the
neighbors, and amidst the noise and
uproar of pretended family rejoicing
got away The hard part of the luck
is the fact that no member of the Ho
family had got q degree.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-27

When pigs are left to themselves they
always have clean bed. To get it
they will hunt all over and gather
straws and weeds and any kind of lit
ter and carry it in their mouths to
make up their bed. Their owners are
not SO wise or considerable. They
leave poor piggy very often to wallow
in filth or to sleep on the bare floor.
They think this is economy, but it is O.,
wasteful economy, and that is no
economy at all. 1t will pay to buy
straw at $40 a ton to bed hogs and
to mix with their droppings. Dry
muck is good, so are leaves, or any
thing which will absorb the urine and
prevent the excrement from going to
waste. When fed on grain their ex-
crement is almost pure nitrogen.
There is potash also, and when water
is added to the nitrogen ammonia is
formed. Here is small lesson in
chemistry, and it teaches us that we
must save all of the pig manure and
make as much as we can.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-27
Tobacco Growing.

| desire to suggest, says a correspond
ent Of the American Cultivator, q few
points in tobacco growing, for the ben
eft of those farmers who seem to
know zoo little about the worth of
this crop. A man may go through a
section of country while the tobacco
crop is standing in the fields nearly
ready for the harvest, and may be
heard to remark, and perhaps make
final Judgment as he goes along, that
this or that is nice crop and the 9th
er is an unpromising lookingone. The
same party, on returning home, may
tell his neighbors that the crop as a
rule is g. very nice one; that he saw on
neighbor Jones' lot the best crop of
tobacco he ever saw, giving a glowing
description of the tobacco as it stood
in the field, also perhaps making note
of Mr.. Smiths crop, condemnlng 1T as
worthless or as very poor material.
These same farmers will &c TO their
own fields and look them over, finally
concluding that their tobacco is as
good as Mr.. Jones' far better than Mr.
Smiths, and make like comparisons.
Now am satisfied that a MAN cannot
determine the relative value Of tobac-
co in this manner. Allow Mr.. Smith
to be a thorough-going tobacco grower,
understanding how to harvest his crop
and care for 1T until it is in the case,
putting It up in equally as good shape
as Mr.. Jones, even then Mr.. Smith
may have far the best tobacco, which
may bring from two to five cents per
pound more than that grown by Mr..
Jones or the critic himself, perhaps of
a larger growth and far better-lo oking
leaf.
While Mr.. Smiths tobacco cannot
even compare in outward appearance
with that of Mr.. Jones or the critic,
yet Mr.. Smith will sell his readily at
fifteen cents per pound, while the same
buyer, looking at Mr.. Jones leaf, will
not offer more that ten cents. The
latter has heard that his next-door
neighbor, Mr.. Smith, has sold his to-
'bacco at fifteen cents, and says to him
self: "My tobacco is worth more than
Smiths" and finally bases his price
on Smiths sale, and asks perhaps
eighteen cents per pound for his, with
the thought that he will get fifteen
cents anyway. Jones holds on to his
crop ana leGS OUhers examine IL ana
remark upon it's looks. The buyers
will not pay more than first offers, and
Jones keeps it a while longer, finally
selling it at ten cents or perhaps less,
making the remark that he has given
it away, talking discouragingly about
the raising of tobacco and vowing that
he will not grow it another year, that
there is no money in it, though per-
haps when the next season comes
around he will try the crop again,
treating it as usual.
The point wish to urge, and it is
an essential one, is that it is the burn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-27

OF the leaf, not entirely the looks,
either In the field or in the case before
or after the sweat, which determines
It's market value. | would say to the
farmer who wishes to secure a. remun-
eratlve price for his tobacco to see
that his land has plenty of lime or
such other ingredients as will insure
him good white ash In the burn of
his tobacco. Then let the grower
thoroughly examine the burn of his
crop before putting the price upon it,
The grower must never expect to get
more than binder prices for tobacco
which will not burn or hold fire. I
mean by testing it, not those leaves
which the grower Is certain will burn.
but the darker ones as we'll as the
light, and those leaves which grow
nearest the top of the plant and
about which there may be some
doubt. II these latter give good re-
suits the grower may depend upon the
good burning qualities of all his leaf,
but do not stop by trying one leaf; a
good number must be tested until the
grower is convinced that it is all right,
and then he can put his price at g.
fair market value and his expecta-
tions will be realized. If the tobacco
will not burn well take the first fair
offer for your crop, since there is no
cigar manufacturer who wants poor
burning wrappers at any price, unless
to use for binders. Farmers growing
tobacco must strive for the produc-
ton of wrappers of the first quality,
otherwise they cannot expect to pros
per In growing tobacco.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-27
REMEMBER, BOYS MAKE MEN.

When you see a ragged urchin
Standing wistful in the street,
With torn hat and kneeless trousers,
Dirty face and bare red feet.
Pass not by the child unheedlng;
Smile upon him. Mark me, when
He's grown he'll not forget it;
For, remember, boys make men.
When the buoyant, youthful spirits
Overflow in boyish freak,
Glide your child in gentle accents;
Do not in your anger speak.
You must SOW in youthful bOsoms
Seeds of tender mercieS; then
Plants will grow and bear good frultage,
When the erring boys are men.
Have you never seen grandslre,
With his eyes aglow with joy,
Bring to mind some act of kindness
Something said to him boy?
Or relate some slight or coldness,
With brow all clouded, when
He said they were too thoughtless
To remember boys make men?
Let us try to add some pleasures
To the lie of every boy;
For each child needs tender interest
In it's sorrows and its joys:
Call your boys home by its brightness;
They'll avoid q gloomy den,
And seek for comfort elsewhere
And remsnber, boys make men.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-27
Ee gs In Winter.

A writer in the Albany Cultivator
remarks that If any profit is expected
from poultry in the winter, means
must be had to produce the necessary
warmth. Without this there is only
existence, and bare existence costs too
much and is too long drawn out.
Working half the year to maintain the
life of our animals the other half is a
kind of farming which never pays.
The writer states that he has fed his
hens for years all they could eat,
sometimes keeping grain before them
all the time, and at other times feed
ing them regularly twice d day. His
henhouse is very free from vermin, has
windows on the south side, is a COM
paratively warm place, and is really
an Improvement on many OF those IN
which hens lay, except the one neces-
sary thing-warmth.
Some OF his neighbors, with no bet
ter hens, not as good breeds, got lots
of eggs, and he made up his mind that
there must be more warmth in the
henhouse if eggs were TO be produced.
Artificial heat does not seem to be the
thing, as this would cause the fowls to
sicken. The cold must be kept out
and the inside air warmed by the heat
thrown off by the fowls.
A dry basement seems to be the
most natural place for poultry to do
we'll. A successful poultry man has
such a basement under his barn, and
here, with g. thick wall on all sides,
except the front to the south, his hens
are almost as prolific in eggs as in
summer. The morning feed consists
of boiled potatoes in which corn meal
and wheat middlings are mixed, the
meal being cooked by the hot pota-
toes. In the afternoon the hens are
fed corn. In the morning they get
warm water and water is kept by
them all the time. They are supplied
with ground bone and pounded oys-
ter shells.
With this simple care eggs are plen-
ty. The hennery does not freeze ex-
cept in exceptionally cold weather.
Another evidence that warmth is
most essential is the fact that at the
writer's home a. few pullets which
had been left in new slaughter house,
the extension of the pig house, have
already begun to lay. These fowls
have had nothing but corn given
to them. They may have picked at
the foundation of the walls, but no
extra food of any kind has been sup
piled. They had the bits of meat left
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-27
The Apple Orchard.

The Apple Orchard
A writer of considerable experience
has the following in an Eastern ex-
change: There is scarcely anything
more aggravating than to find, after
waiting ten years or more, that the
varieties of fruit which the trees are
bearing are nothing like those which
were purchased. On three separate
lots have planted this has been my
experience. A Van Wyck sweet crab
proves to be the sourest and knurliest
Of natural fruit; Bartlett pear was
unlike any other specimen I ever saw;
blackberries at So dozen were black
raspberries o. an inferior sort, and so
on to the end of the list. I bought Of
agents that I knew were honest, that
dealt with nurserymen of good repute,
yet these errors or frauds were una
voidable. | studied long how to pre-
vent these disappointment and losses,
and concluded that the only way was
to adopt another method.
I prepared and planted seed bed of
apple, plums and others, obtaining
some thrifty stock that I grated with
scions from trees that bore the best of
their kind. The result was good trees
with no mistake about their fruits.
There are often plenty OF young
trees, scattered over the farm that can
be transplanted, then in a few years
grated to the kind desired. These, if
carefully tended, make the hardest of
trees, and may be set by the roadside
or in fence corners where cattle will
not browse them. 1t is worse than
useless to plant fruit trees unless they
can be protected and caredfor in after
years. A small orchard needs but lit
tie work on it each year, but more or
less is necessary, and unless it receives
all that may be required, more trees
might be classed as weeds, for they will
really be hindrances to success.
Fifty trees well cared for will produce
more good fruit than 500 overcrowded,
untrimmed and rootbound specimens.
Use the pruning knife ruthlessly
rather than not at all. Destroy all
worms and signs of nests, as they are
the smallpox of the orchard, against
which their is no vaccination. Hoe
the sods away from the roots and
pick up the windfalls for the hogs and
sheep.
In enlafglng tne OfcharQlng1C is IOlly
for the average farmer to experiment
with new varieties. Potatoes appear
to deteriorate and old kinds give way
to new, but with apples the Belleheur,
Greening or Baldwinis as good as ever
they were and will always find q ready
sale. Nor is it best to depend on one
variety alone. Climatic action on the
trees will prevent some from bearing
and allow others to give good crop.
A half dozen or more of winter varie-
ties, such as succeed best in the locality
where set, may be used. Thefall kinds
should be set sparlngly, except for
home use, as the market is liable to
be glutted with early apples.
The common error OF thick setting
should be avoided. 1t has one ad-
vantage, causing the trees to grow
taller, but this is offset by the incon-
venience of cultivation, even if the
trees are thinned out at the proper
time This thinning out is, however,
seldom done, and if attempted the tree
that ought to be cut out is the one the
owner thinks is the best, and he sell
dom has the moral courage to remove
it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-27
WHY the Baby Cries.

The young bachelor who volunteered
an opinion as to the reason for q ba-
by's smile, and the summary Justice
which he received at the hands of the
baby's nurse, are well-known, but
why the baby cries is matter as to
which few men have any curiosity,
provided it is not too late to have an
engagement down town when the con-
cert begins. The Mothers Manual
of Children's Diseases" explains the
matter thus:
'Cries are the only language which q
young baby has to express it's dis
tress, as smiles and laughter and
merry antics tell without a.
word it's gladness. The baby
by must be i'll, is all that it's cries tell
one person; another, who has seen
much of sick children, will gather from
them more, and will be able to judge
whether it's suffering is in the head, or
chest or stomach. The cries Of baby
with stomach ache are long and loud
and passionate; it's sheds a profusion of
tears; now stops for moment, and
then begins again, drawing up it's legs
to its stomach; and, as the pain
passes OH, SUreCCneS Inem OuG again,
and with many little sobs passes off
into quiet sleep. fit has inhamma-
ton of the chest it does not cry aloud,
it sheds no tears, but every few MN
utes, especially after drawing a deeper
breath than before, or after each
short, hacking cough, it gives a little
cry, which it checks, apparently, be-
fore it is half finished, and this, either
because it has no breath to waste in
cries, or because the effort makes it's
breathing more painful. If disease is
going on in the head, the child utters
sharp, piercing shrieks, and then be-
tween whites a low moan or wall,
or perhaps no sound at all, but
lies quiet, apparently doing, till pain
wakes it up again"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-27

on the ground after butchering day,
but this was extra food only for a day
or two. The lesson taught is that the
slaughter house is good place to put
the hens to lay eggs, also that warm
hennery is one Of the necessary feat
ures to make poultry profitable.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-27
Dog killing in London.

Dogs doomed to die in London do
not suffer half SO much as men who
pay the extreme penalty. The un-
claimed ours trot into the lethal
chamber at Battersea, lie down, fall
to sleep, and thus go to the good
dogs paradise. The room is filled
with narcotic vapor, produced by
passing carbonic oxide over surface
OF an@sthetic mixture, composed of
chloroform and bisulphide of carbon.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-27

DURING practice trial at Santa
Rosa, CAL, a catfish astonished the
fire brigade by getting into the nozzle
and stopping stream.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-27

THERE are 1 1923 persons IL the SER
vice of the New York fire department..
Skaffaren. (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1885-1895, 1886-10-06
MINI ESOTA.

Fjrsta frostnattsn intr;fade den 80
september.
Trillingar framfodde haromdagen
Mrs. Nick Sansen Rush City.
Red Wing fair har varit Iyckad ALT.
igenom och talrikt besokt.
En- snEskOkIubb har organiserats
af de unge affarsmannen Crookston.
st. Peter Tribune redigeras under
kampanjen af j. X. Moore.
Thor ThOrsOn har af republ- sen.
konyentet Glenwood nominerats till
statssenator for fyratioforsta distriktet.
DemOkraterna / tredje distriktet
ha nominerat domaren J. L. Mac Donald
for kongressen sasom Herberts mo.kandi-
dat.
John A. Lovely h0ll haromdagen
tai court -h,set Preston infor en- talrik
&h0rareskara, som med intrese ahorde
hans diskutering 6fver dagens fragor.
Nedrfgt. Nagon kastade haromdagen
en- stor stem genom en- storre fonsterruta uti
Domare. Wilson's Winona boningshus,
fororsakande en- forlust af $50.
Sara Larson Cannon Falls, som
0fvergifvits af sina vanner, har blifvit van
slnnig och sandts till EFT DARIUS. Hon
saeer sig hafva en- syster Kenyon och en-
Duluth.
Guverntr Hubbard besokte har-
omdagen Argyle och. sedan han pjordt en-
kort resa genom det af haael forst6rda d.
striktet. sade att folket voro berattigade
till det bistand de begSrt.
0fverkJrd. G. Book. en- murare.
blef hiromdagen 0fverk0rd II ett passage