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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16
Facts for American workingmen

From the New York Mail and Express.1
What the Californians found out
fifteen years ago the people of the At
lantic slope are only just beginning to
learn. There has been an inroad Of
Italian and Hungarian and Russian
and Austrian "cheap labor" here for
several years past, compared to which
the invasion. OF the Chinese in Califor-
MIA is nothing, A table recently com
piled, shows that the immigration
from tie countries named during the
five years ending 1880 was Ill, 500,
while during the succeeding five years
it was 241, 770-more than three
times as many. The immigrants
from Italy, Russia and Hungary are
nearly all of the tcheap labor" class.
Their increase IN the five years was
pa per cent.
The comparison of the statistics of
immigration as to skilled and un-
skilled labor makes the case still
worse. From 1876 to 1880, inclu-
sive, 283,153 skilled laborers, traders
and professional men came to this
country from abroad, and 152,467
unskilled laborers. From 1881 to
1884, inclusive, there were 541,112
Of the former classes and 628,788 IN
skilled laborers. So that while the in
crease in the former has been only g.
little over 80 per cent, in the latter it
has been over 300 per cent.
Another fact to be taken into &C.
count is that these unskilled labcrers
remain for the most part in the large
cities, while the thrifty immigrants 60
West or into the country.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16
Why Men Smoke.
From the St. James Gazette.l

From the ST. James GaZette.l
A number of literary men smoke
simply to make an income They
have learnad that with a pipe in Their
mouths thoughts not only come more
readily, but in better order, and that
while it is often difficult to get the
proper word if they are not smoking
it runs to the point of the pen the mo.
nent they eight up"
Smoking is great safeguard against
infections diseases.
With many men, smoking is merely
an excuse for staying at home. A
man looks foolish OF an evening doing
nothing. Yet he is too tired to do much.
A cigar supplies the amount of labor he
requires, and he does not mind the
trouble of smoking it so long as it en-
ables him to stay at home without
loss of dignity and look over it admir-
ingly, and yet undemonstratively, at
his wife. Should man with a small
income be an epicure, or naturally OF
an irascible temper, it will add greatly
to the happiness Of his home if he
compeIs himself to smoke. And at
present, when times are so hard as to
affect every one more or less, a cigar
is q cheap and excellent substitute for
more expensive amusements.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16
PERSONAL POINTERS.

COUNT HERBERT Won BISMARcK's
new salary is $4,000 marks-but A.
600 less than that drawn by Prince
Bismarck.
Ex-Gov. ELI MURRAY will remain in
Salt Lake and become one of an iron
foundry firm engaged in making min
ing machinery.
SAM JONES says he quit chewing to-
bacco in Chicago and hasn't chewed
any since, but that he never stopped
smoking and never pretended to do so.
Cincinnati Times Star.
The receptions of Mrs. Hearst, the
wife of the. new senator from Califor.
MIA, at Washington, are regarded as
among the most distinguished social
entertainments at the capital.
REV. AUGUSTUS FULTON is the only
colored student ever sent from the
United States to the Propaganda in
Rome. He has been ordained, and
will return to this county to take
charge of colored Catholic church in
New Orleans.
MARK TWAIN processes to be better
satisfied with his success as q publish
er than with his reputation as q writ
er. He says he is about to take an
old-fashioned loaf and will spend the
rest of the summer at his country
home in Elmira.
EX-PREsIDENT HAYES, it is said, has
| not changed materially since he entered
the White House nearly 10 years ago.
His sandy hair and whiskers have
turned to a deep gray, but his face
has the same clear, healthy color, and,
if anything, his step is more elastic.
A GENTLEMAN formerly in trade at
Springfield recently told q represent
alive of the Traveller that in looking
over an old account book used long
ago he found the following charge:
abraham Lincoln, Dr., to 8 doz.
eggs, 25 ."-BOston Traveller.
G. B. FARwELL, of Chicago,
Gen. Phil Sheridan, Bishop Beck
with, Gen. Schofeld, Judge Gres-
ham, ex-Secretary Robert T. Lincoln
and other congenial spirits recently
had few days of enjoyment together,
fishing, at Pelee Island, in Lake Erie.
J. B. HAGGIN, the California turf
man, is one of the richest men on the
Pacific coast, and is said to be the en-
bodimen5 of secretiveness. He is g.
cold, austere, unbending man-one
who rarely notices any one on the
street, and whose intercourse with
men is always curt and naughty.
When in San francisco, Haggin drives
habitually q dashing four-in-hand to
either an English coach or mail wagon.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16
Prospective Ages of a Million.

The average duration of human life
is thus illustrated by asportingpaper,
in the peculiar dialect of the fraternity
II one could see a million babies
start on race GALL scratch the mark,
of course), and could follow them
through life, this is about what he
would see: Nearly 10000 of them
would drop out of the ranks by the
end Of the first year, while twelve
months later the numbers would be
further thinned by the deduction Of
$4,000 more; 900 would follow at
the end of the third year. They would
throw up the sponge by twos and
threes until the end of the forty-ffth
year, when it would be found that in
the intervening period something like
100000 had left the track. Sixty
years would see 100000 gray-headed
men still cheerfully pegging away. At
the end of eighty years the competitors
IN this great 'go-as-you-please" would
number $4,000, but they would be
getting more shaky and "dotty" each
lap. At the end of ninety-fve seasons
223 would only be left in the final
''ties, y while the winner would be led
into his retiring-room, a solitary
wreck, at the age of 1O8. There is
something grimly humorous in the
quaint array of figures, but they are
founded upon statistics carefully COM
piled. One cannot help wondering
what would be the betting at thestart
about any one of those million babies
coming in alone at the one hundred
and eighth lap of the great and mys-
terious track upon which the race of
life is run.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16

From London It'd. Bits.l

If any man desires to know the
character of his chosen future wife, let
him take he. hand and hold it up be-
tween him and the light. If consid-
cradle interstices and chinks show
themselves between the fingers it is g.
sign of desperate inquisitiveness. Mrs.
Bluebeard doubtless possessed such
ill-ftting fingers. If, on the contrary,
the fingers fit closely together, they
denote avarice. Secret boards, cheese
pairing tendencies and a candle-end
style of housekeeping may be prophe-
sled by the light of cheirosophy in such
cases. This may be one of the in
stances in which the study is to be
found practically useful. In the same
way young women may be advised to
choose q husband whose hands are
naturally red. His disposition will
then be cheerful, sanguine, hopeful.
The man with dark-colored hands will
prove an Indifferent companion. He
inclines to biliousness and melancholy.
II the hands are white, they denote q
phlegmatic disposition, one scarcely
more agreeable to live with than the
bilious and melancholy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16

manufactured by our mechanics and
laborers. There is a field for: the idle,
and the only field in this wide domain
of industry. But unfortunately q
large number of theseidle laborers and
mechanics are free traders, and there
by robbing themselves of the only hope
there is for them in the future. Agri-
culture is already over-stocked, wages
low, and produce still lower, with me-
chanics and laborers idle, and wicked
ly frightening the only men who can
give them work-the capitalists. No,
Mr.. Swing, there are no better pros
poets for the idle in the fields of agri-
culture. Relief for the idle must come
from other sources.-Iowa State Reg
lister.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16

Farmers are generally of the opinion
that their business is more largely
overdone than any other. But as it is
the pursuit which men 60 into when
other avocations fail, then they are
liable to have additional competition
from most unexpected sources. The
labor strikes have mostly failed, and
with this failure employers are fire.
quently discriminating against those
most conspicuous in exciting discon-
tent and strikes. On the Gould
railroads in Missouri the management
have refused work to all knights of
Labor. Many of these will be obliged
to betake themselves to the farm, and
mighty poor work they will make of it
unless they are willing to labor on the
farm under far severer rules than those
from which they have revolted in the
city. But all the same they will be
nominally transferred to the list of
agricultural producers rather than
consumers, even though they grow lit
tie more than enough for their own
consumption.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16
Sweet Corn as a Farm Crop.

While corn is the most extensively
grown grain staple, yet it is a matter
of surprise that the sweet varieties
are not more generally cultivated.
The difficulty of curing is undoubtedly
one cause for this neglect OF sweet corn,
for in every other respect it is better
adapted to general cultivation than
common field varieties. It's stalks
make better and sweeter fodder.
Most varieties OF sweet corn will yield
two ears to a stalk, and though the
ears are smaller, it is not hard to get
larger crop of sweet corn than the
average Of other kinds grown by farm
ers. The price of sweet corn is gener-
ally dearer, besides which near a mar
ket such may be sold green in roasting
stage, and yield still more per acre.
Low as the price of sweet corn often
runs, it gives much more per acre than
field corn at usual rates per bushel.
It requires eighty or more large ears
of corn of the Flint varieties to make
g. bushel, and if it is up to the average
of two bushels of ears, will make one
of shelled corn. Thus we have proba-
bly $50 ears of corn to make a bush
ell, and this at fifty cents is only four
cents per dozen. Green corn in the
ear often brings twelve to fifteen cents
per dozen early, and as the season adj
vances, when the price declines to six
or eight cents per dozen it is largely
taken by canning factories. In fact,
some factories contract with farmers
to grow evergreen corn at rate which
averages six cents per dozen ears.
The contract price is SIS per ton, just
as plucked from the stalks, and at
this rate.farmers say it pays better
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16
FARM AND HOME.
At tho Ancestral Loom.

Just to the right, across the way,
My neighbor lives. who, day by day,
Betwixt the meals she thrice prepares
And 'customed round of household cares,
Betakes her to an ancient room
And plies there an ancestral loom.
With fingers def and nimble feet,
And up and down the treadles beat,
While flies the shuttle right and left
Between the warp that binds the welt.
Brisk housewife of these modern days,
You've not forgot the old time ways
That matronS practiced in the past,
And how the warp and welt is cast
Within the olden loom that hard,
Their day, they piled, nor do discard
The practice of their useful art,
And happy thus to do your part
In meeting pressing wants betimes,
Your duty with such usage chimes.
True housewife at ancestral loom
Weave on! We'll take the lesson home
That you, by wise example, teach
And as you do the moral preach:
We will do well these latter days
To not forget good old-time ways,
And how in loom Of life to weave
The thoughts and deeds that will not leave
Great blenishes on patterns we
In time set for eternity.
With busy feet on mission bent
OF love to dear ones heaven sent,
And tireless hands, that do their best
Day after day, with little rest,
Aud patient mind to duty wed,
Of destiny you weave the thread,
AS all must do, where'er their lou
Is cast, in palace or in cot;
Be sure and make the texture strong
That must be put to test ere long.
Weave to design your fabric fair.
AS erst true housewives did, with carel
And if some tangled strands you break,
With patience tie the ends, and make
The piece as perfect as you can,
That none great blemishes may scan
And as was handed down to you
pattern of example true,
Thus as an heirloom you will weave
A pattern ia shioned well to leave.
A T., in Prairie Farmer
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16

A GLASGOW physician tells of pa
tient who was troubled with foul
eructions, the odor of the gas coming
from his stomach being disagreeable
to himself and all about him. Once
his breath caught fire from q lighted
match coming near the mouth; doubt
less due to the development of carbu-
retted hydrogen in a very disorderei
stomach. Now that the country is
SO prolific in useful gas wells, mems
stomachs can be devoted to better
purposes than developing their own
illuminating gas.-Dr. Foote's Health
Monthly.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16

The true secret OF success is merit.
This is so with Red Star Cough Cure,
a purely vegetable compound, entirely
free from opiates, poisons and mar
cotics, and which has received thepub-
lie endorsement of physicians and
chemists everywhere. Twenty-Five
cents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16
APPLE BLOSSOMS.
BY DON JEWELL WEBB.

At early morn with dew all laden down,
Inc plnk-Wh1te petals glisten in the sun,
ana with their fragrance comes the busy hum
VI countess bees, their day work just begun.
Beneath the trees the snowy petals fall:
sweet perfume fills all the morning air
While bros among the branches carol songs of
love
Above the nests they guard with Jealous care.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16

THE vice-president of the City Brew
cry, Mr.. j. Helmus, of Louisville, KY,
was entirely cured in one week Of a Sc
we're attack of rheumatism by ST.
Jacobs Oil.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16

Col. FRED. D. MUssEY, of the Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette, fatty denies
the report that he wore Confederate
flag at Atlanta when jeff Davis was
there
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16

THE "Muscovite" bodice, with
sleeves rather large and drawn in
about the wrist by q band buttoning
on the outside, is seen in many of the
imported walking costumes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16

IRISH silk guipure, the finest of silk
crocheted lace in black, cream or ecru,
is used for trimming. Panels of the
ecru silk lace are employed for sum.
mer dresses.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16
Care of Trees.

Trees which were set out last spring
or fall should have g mulching before
the extreme hot weather comes. 1t
will serve to keep the ground where
their roots are moist enough for the
roots to grow. More trees die from a.
lack of proper care after they have
been transplanted than from any 9th
er cause. Fruit should be trimmed
out, and thinned thoroughly. One
half of the crop that has started will
be worth more when it comes to ma
turity than the whole Of it would be if
it could all remain and grow. Young
trees should be allowed to bear but
light crops for the first three years
after they come to bearing, that is,
apple and pear trees. Peaches may be
allowed to bear and die, as they are
almost sure to die any way before they
have got old enough to bear more
than one full crop. Whether we have
not the hardy varieties of trees that
used to grow in New England, or
whether our climate is not as favor
able, 1T is fact that they are but
shortEved trees now, in spite OF all
or cal american Cultvator.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16
A TALE WITH TWO MORALS.
BIZ MAHLoN M. DE LEWIS.

bog, Again l see,
!, Not far from me,
a frog; The same old frog
is note Upon his log,
throat, All in a heap,
5 float And fast asleep.
emote. Then | straightway
~ chap, Without delay,
a nap; With solemn look,
md line Bait my keen hook,
e you mine" And flingit out
might AS ii for trout.
sight The silly "kid"
keteh him, Tw itches the lid
and knees Ofhis LETT eye;
th ease, No word say |,
ak to "fetch But drop my fly
Above his nose,
nd To break his dose
ground. And cold repose.
my tackle: [ whistled once
Ounce To wake the Ounce;
or oneel And, reused from sleep
mes a cackle He makes leap
ken pen, Full two feet high,
ly, then, And takes my fly.
a dash, cha! hal VOW
fash have you nOwP'
e cool water; | take the saddle:
5 straight, With conscious pride,
3 wait And rapid stride,
[ bait. Home skedaddle.
no slaughter.
THE MORALS.
DIS, draw near, L GU must not bite
lis hear: At the first sight
lot wait, Of what you see;
o late, But stop and think,
hing, From danger shrink;
spring. Act cautiously:
W For many snare
he day Lies hidden where
lg you naught. All seems but fair;
prompt, If close you look,
from It; A balted hook
that's sought Will oft be found
be caught. To catch or wound.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-16
Bad Advisers.

Some pseudo philanthropists, with
little practical sense, are setting them
selves up as advisers, in this hour of
doubt, dread and restlessness. Prof.
Swing, who had better be anchoring
his theology, advises the idle laborers
OF the cities to go to farming. After
these laborers have, by their indiscre-
ton, frightened capital from improv-
ing and manufacturing, he advises the
idle to join the throng of producers,
which is already SO overstocked, that
it's productions are drugs in the mar
kets. 1t is true that the farmers can
get enough to eat, but the prospects
for any of the other comforts or lux
uries of life are dark indeed. They
may continue to go in debt for many
of these things, with the hope that
there may come better days in the
change Of administrations. But four
years of misrule, of doubt and dis
couragement, cannot berepaired in an
hour by the best government in the
world.
There is bowling, revolutions and vi
Citations of law among nearly all
branches of industry, except the agri-
culturist. And because they are quite
under the cloud which is resting upon
them, unwise and impractical men are
advising laborers and mechanics to 60
to raising wheat and corn, for which
there is no prospect of over fifty cents
per bushel for wheat in Dakota, or for
corn in Nebraska over fifteen to twen-
ty-five cents. Better advise them to
vote for tariff which will exclude one
half, at least, of the seven hundred
million dollars worth of goods now
imported" which can and should be
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-01-07
British Tariff Bill.

LONDON, December a9.--The Cabinet
have reached q decision on the tariff ques
tion bill is to be prepared for intro
duction into Parliament authorizing the
imposition OF duties on imports into Great
Britain from countries imposing duties on
imports from Great Britain. The measure.
will be founded on the report Of Lord
Iddesleigh's commission on trade, which
finds, first, that English depression Is due
primarily TO foreign competition,
and disposes of the previously accepted
doctrine Of exceptional causes such MS tenn
porary overstocking; second, that success
ful foreign competition results from fiscal
policy prohibitiye OF imports of English
products; third, that the rise OF rents and
necessaries is proportionatcly greater than
that Of wages. the standard wages being
kept low by effects ON British industries OF
foreign competitions; fourth, that wide dis
tress prevails in the manufacturing dis
tricts, resulting from dearth OF employ.
ment and inadequate wages for those
who are employed. The Government rec
oRnizes the fact that system of purely
protective duties will not be sanctioned by
public opinion A cautious rearrange.
inent Of the import tariff with the view OF
compelling producing countries TO con-
cede favorable treatment to British pro-
duets is demanded by powerful and erow-
ing commercial element, by. the middle
classes generally, and more largely than
is generally supposed by the masses.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-01-07
THE DEAD ALIVE.
Extraordinary Case Of suspended Anlma'
tIon aud Reconciliation.

Extraordinary Case Of suspended Anlina-
tIon aud Resuseitation.
GALESA, In, December 3l.-John y.
Munger well known citizen Of Platte
willie, Wis, has suffered greatly from rheu-
matism In tho feet. Two days ago, with
the hope OF relieving the pain, he bathed his
feet freely with tincture Of aoonite, and
then thrust them into pail OF hot water.
A tingling sensation followed, the pulse
weakened, the skin became moist and
rlammy, and violent vomiting, and reich
ing ensned A doctor was called, but on
his arrival found Mr.. Munger apparently
dead The heart seemed 10 have stopped
beating, and the doctor, with other medi-
cal men who we're summoned, decided that
Munger had died from aconite poisoning,
having absorbed tbs drug through his feet.
An undertaken set about preparing the body
Tor burial.when the doctor as an experiment
injected with q hypoderinlc syringe a
mixture OF brandy and digitalis near the
heart. III few minutes the supposed dead
man begun 70 gasp, and there wat inint
sound OF beutinK over the beart More
hypodermicis were given, the death pallor
was succeeded by a reddish glow. the mus
Giles relaxed, perspirAtion broke out, and
MI. Munger slowly returned TO life. He Is
now entirely out Of danger. The doctors
consider his resuscitntion most rcmarka-
bla
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-01-07
REVOLUTION
Lifting it's Threatening counte.
nance In Spain.
a significant speech at a banquet In
Honor OF sIgnor. Gorilla.

MADRID, January 1.-The Republicans
are becoming troublesome In the south Of
Spain. band Of royolutionists recently
tried 70 destroy the railroad bridge In the
cordenaa pass OF the Sierra Morena Mount
aims, whichseparatr La Mancha from Anda-
'nslai Fortunately, the wreckers were dis
noyered white they were az work, and five
NJ them were arrested They had cut
through the underpining OF the bridge aud
fhe next train which attempted 10 cross
would have keon wrecked IL the plot had not
oeen discovered. AS IL was, the damage
aas repaired Just In time 20 save heavily
ohded passenger train from the North.
Tho train contained number OF Southern
nembers OF the Cortes. who were returning
irom Madrid. II Is supposed that the out
rage was attempted with the object OF kill
ing those Senators and Deputies, most OF
whom are Royalists. Al Ciudad Real a
few miles north Of the scene Of this outrage,
number OF persons are said 70 be
Imprisoned on suspicion Of conspirinR. to-
make revolutionary rising. At ban
nnet given by Republicans In honor OF
Senior Io4illa the speakers representing the
majority OF those present urged revolu-
zion against the Government A minority,
beaded by Senor Salmeron, an eminent
Republican leader, protested against vio-
lence, which, they declared, would be harm.
fal 10 the party's interests. They strongly
urged that help be sought fron the Mod
crates.