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The Republican journal., 1886-02-11
Purifies the Blood

81 tried dozen articles to cleanse my
blood, but never found anything that did
me any good till l began using Hoods
Sarsaparilla" w. II. PEER. Rochester, n. Y.
MY wife was troubled with dizziness
and constipation, ard her blood has been
in a bad order-in fact she has been all
run down. Hoods Sarsaparilla is doing her
a wonderful amount of good" F. NJ. BALD
WIN, druggist, Manchester, Ohio.
Hoods Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. ST. six for SIS. Made
only by c. I. HOOD s. CO., Lowell, Mass
100 Doses One Dollar.
The Republican journal., 1886-02-11
G. BURKEIT
ANOTHER RAID ON PRICES!
FUN FOR THE MULTITUDE.
Bargains Simply Astonishing

Look at the following List Of Prices and examine
each Department Of this Great Stock
The Republican journal., 1886-02-11

These the damaged Blankets that have had such ire
mendous sale for the past weeks, and positively will
have this season..
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06

The average number of eggs laid by
an ordinary flock of hens is eight and
one-half dozen to a fowl, yet instances
have been recorded where hen has
laid two hundred and fifty eggs in one
year, and from sixteen to seventeen
dozen is considered by poultry men
remarkable yield.
House scraps, that is the waste from
the family table, will half keep small
brood of fowls, who will supply the
household with fresh eggs all the year.
The profits OF poultry keeping, though
not large, are satisfactory.
Don't forget that all fowls between
the ages of two days and twenty one
years are without teeth, and must be
supplied with sand and gravel in order
to carry on the work Of grinding. the
food. To relieve them of this work by
feeding them exclusively on cooked
food is to defeat one of their natural
faculties, and to give them the grain
without the means of grinding it IS
sure to result in disease.-NatiOnal
StOckman.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06

caused by inhaling these impurities
can never be positively known. Atten-
ton to the sanitary condition of the
cellar, which includes cleanliness, will
cost less than g. doctors bill, and the
demand upon our time will scarcely be
felt in the pleasure of preserving health
and property.
That delicate machine, the human
system, is kept in motion by the con,
sumption of food and air. Hence, il
those supports, or either of them. con-
tain the germs of disease, these may
find expression in some virulent dis.
temper or fatal malady; and instead
of tracing it back in the line OF cause
and effect to inattention to sanitary
conditions, it is regarded as one OF the
unaccountable incidents OF human life,
or an inscrutable dispensaoion OF
Providence. A profounder search after
causes, and a more rigid application
of the knowledge possessed, are the
duty and need of mankind at the pres,
emit day.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
How an Injured Man Got Even.
from the Hartford Courant. ]

From the Hartford Courantl
An interesting story Is said to be
connected with the recent closing of q
country hotel not far from here. A
well-known man hired from the hotel
stable horse and wagon to drive to
A. In violation of the agreement he
drove to B., mile further. On his re-
turn the proprietor, having learned
the fact, threatened him with prosecu-
ton and compelled him to pay con-
siderably more than the price agreed
upon as settlement. The sufferer
was very angry, but bided his time.
Finally one Sunday afternoon hewent
into the hotel bar and complained OF
terrible pain in the stomach which
only brandy would relieve. He sue
ceeded in getting from an employee a
pint bottle ofliouor. Then he suddenly
in recovered his health, and, going out
front of the hotel, exhibited his pur-
chase to the proprietor, pointed out the
violation of the Sunday law, and in
quired of the gentleman if he did not
think it would have been better policy
to behave right about the horse bust
ness. The case was a complete one,
and the officere of the law closed the
establishment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
One Way of Getting Tea and Coffee
IRON the New York Sum-

IRON Une New I OrK sum-
81 fancy we lose five pounds of tea
and as much of coffee every day by
people who are passing by dipping
their hands into the open boxes at
the doors and taking out what they
call samples" said a Vesey Street
grocer. "Of course, the boxes are put
there for that purpose, and we can
not very well complain, and most OF
the persons who take the goods, no
doubt, merely want to test their quail
ity, but you would be surprised to
learn how many mothers of families
keep their households supplied with
tea, coffee and sugar, too, in that
economical way. They take little
out of every box they pass, pretend
to taste it, and slip it it into their
pockets. Now, watch this old woman
I know her face well. She lays in her
stores about twice a week."
The old woman in question tasted
the grocer's tea, and acted afterward
exactly as he had described. Then
she went to another grocery store q
little further down the street and re-
peated the performance.
cit is not so easy to take sugar, as
only a little can be grasped at once
and more stores have to be visited
but they manage to do it, said the
grocer
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
Relics of the Late War.
From the Atlanta Constitution.


One OF the most interesting relics of
these times is q wretched-looking dis
mantled and fragmentary steam en-
glne that was once the motive power
OF Joe Browns "pike factory" which
lies hors du combat near the platform
in front of the old wood-shop. And
this Is the fate of the engine that was
to furnish the power to turn out a
bountltul supply of those formidable
weapons that were destined to carry
terror and confusion into the ranks of
the invaders, who, according to fa
vorlte expression OF stump oratory,
"Mought do very well to stand afur
off yander an shoot Their guns, but
they can't stand cold steel, boys" A
few years ago there were piled up
around an old building in Milledgeville
a rust-eaten pile of those same old
pixies. Such is the fortune of war.
BY the way, another blood-thirsty
individual invented dangerous weap-
on called the "barbed pike" 1t had a
broad: fiat blade, the edges Of which
were deeply indented, barb fashion,
80 that when thrust through and
drawn back, as the inventor said,
"They jest nat'ly fetch the gizzards
QUIT them big Dutch fellers." And
the most remarkable of all is, the in
ventor of this terrible weapon was q
preacher, who Grid the circuit" all
through the war. I guess he failed to
obtain patent on his neat little in
vention, so his name shall be nameless
now. If you were to ask Judge John
T. Clark of Cuthbert, he could tell you
all about the "barbed pike" and who
invented it, and he would enjoy g.
hearty laugh at the expense of this
warlike minister of grace.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
Two Poets and a Novelist.
rFrom the Providence Journal I

[From the Providence Journal
Two of the minor poets, Mr.. A. and
Mr.. B., CHANGED to meet at reception
last week at Boston to Nine Durand-
Greville. "Ah," remarked A, sit is
an age since saw you. Why do you
never publish anything nowadays?"
ooh" retorted B., who has put out a
volume of poems since last summer,
cit is hardly worth while. The critics
damned your last book so hard that
nobody reads poetry any more
More pointed, and perhaps more de-
served, was aretort made two or three
seasons ago by man whose reputa-
ton has perhaps increased as much
during the last five years as that OF
any man in America. After his first
success he was one evening led up to
be introduced to a certain great lady
who had chosen during his somewhat
long struggle toward fame to forget
him half a dozen times over. 81 am
very glad to meet you," the great
lady observed graciously, sit is always
q pleasure TO meet one of whom one
hears so often" "Thank you," the
young man answered with calm and
superlative insolence which took away
the breath OF all who heard it. 81
know the feeling very well. I expe-
rienced it myself the first two or three
times l had the honor of being pre-
sented to you, Madame" Few rising
young men would have the nerve to
settle old scores in this high-handed
fashion, and the incident cannot be
said to be q fair sample of even the
contests of literary Boston.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
Poultry Notes.

1t is claimed that eggs at Is cents
per dozen are as economical for food
as beef steak at o cents pound.
Meal fed to poultry should always
be mixed with boiling water, which
partially cooks the food. A common
error is to make the food too wet and
soft, in which state it becomes in
furious to the fowls. compelling them
to take more water than their nature
requires.
A correspondent of the California
Rural Press says he cleared his poultry
house of mites, with which it was over
run, by sprinkling the inside with the
water in which the potatoes for the
household dinner had been boiled.
Two applications cleared them all
out.
When any contagious disease is act
ually present among the fowls, and it
becomes necessary to thoroughly
cleanse and disinfect the poultry
house, instead of mixing the whitewash
in the usual way, dissolve half apound
of copperas (sulphate of iron) IN a
pailful of hot water, and use that to
mix the wash with.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
The PARENT of insomnia.

The parent OF insomnia or wakefulness is In
nine cases out of ten a dyspeptic stomach. Good
digestion gives sound sleep, Indigestion interteres
with it. The brain and stomach sympathize
One OF the prominent symptoms OF a weak state
of the gastric organs is a disturbance Of the
great nerve entrepot, the brain. Invigorate the
stomach, and you restore equilibrium to the
great centre. most reliable medicine for the
purpose is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters which
Is far preferable to mineral sedatives and power
full narcotics, which, though they may for a time
exert q soporifc influence upon the brain, soon
cease to act, and invariably iniure the tone OF
the stomach. The Bitters on the contrary, re-
store activity to the operations Of that all i'm
portant organ, and their beneicent influence is
reflected in sound sleep and a tranquil state OF
likewise given to the action of the liver and
bowels by it's uSe
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
Economy In Grain Feeding.

If a. farmer lives several miles from
mills the expense of carrying away
grain to be ground for feed is no incon.
siderable item. It will take so much
time to grind a large grist that it is
scarcely possible to go and return the
same day with a full load, and there
are few who can afford time of them
selves or team to carry less. Hence
there is good reason for buying farm
grist mills, and when they work effect
lively the saving inlabor soon pays the
expense. In fact, less labor required
from man or team to grind a. grist OF
corn at home than to 60 and come
with it eight or ten miles With the
mill and horse power under cover the
work can be done in rainy Or stormy
weather, when the team ought not to
be on the road.
The saving of toll is a large item.
1t is disheartening to farmers to be
obliged to give one-tenth of their grain,
and often more, to have it ground.
Yet this cost undoubtedly pays bet
ter than to feed whole grain. In fact,
the waste from giving animals so much
unground grain is one of the strongest
arguments in favor of the farm grist
mill The cost and difficulty involved
in removing grain several miles are SO
great that the work is left undone.
1t is sometimes supposed that cook
ing whole grain serves as q substitute
for grinding. It does this, however,
very imperfectly, and at greater ex-
pense than grinding need to be where
the farmer has facilities for doing the
work himself. There are a. number OF
farm grist mills made, and each is
warmly commended by farmers who
have tried them. Excepting the first
cost OF mill and horsepower the ex-
pense of grinding all the grain fed to
stock need not be heavy. A good
horsepower is a great convenience for
many purposes on farm, and no one
who farms extensively should be with
out one. Not only grinding grain, but
cutting wood, cutting hay or stalks
and Smelling corn can be done by
horsepower, thus saving great deal
of heavy manual la5or.-America1
| CulGvat0r.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
The Care of Horses.

J. E. Russell, secretary OF the Massa-
chusetts Board of Agriculture, has been
lecturing in Worcester on the horse.
Here are some of the points he makes:
The fact that the horse has no power
to store bile indicates the great rapid
ity of his digestion and power of as
similation. For such reasons he
should be fed as frequently as conven-
applied, that a. horse should be al
lowed not more than two per cent. of
his weight a day in food-that IS, q
horse weighing 1000 pounds should
have 20 pounds of food a day, half Of
which, when at hard work, may be
grain. Thisis an abundant allowance,
and in idle time should be reduced at
least one-fourth. He should have
what salt he requires, himself to be
the Judge. While |, never turn him to
pasture, he should have some green
food in summer and carrots in winter.
Indian corn, whole or in meal. is unfit
food for horses; it is heating and
fattening. No horseman wishes
to see fat horse. Fatten
steers, sheep or hogs, but no1 horses
horses, and the cheapest in the end; if
we had some means of bruising them
they would be worth twenty-five per
cent. more to us. If I were a miller [
would put in q set of rolls and crush
oats, end in six months would have
all the business in my region. No man
who has ever used crushed oats will
have any other. The best time to
water a horse is an hour before or an
hour and half after eating. II his
master takes him to the watering
trough Immediately after eating and
his stomach is full of food and he
drinks pail or two pals of water,
the consequence is a portion of the
food is forced out of the stomach and
swept along into larger intestines
without assimilation. In France /
saw horses fed coarse beans, immedi-
ately after allowed to drink all the
water they would and then killed and
dissected, and some of the beans were
found twenty-six feet distant from the
stomach, in the intestines.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
v iNEGAR BiirrERs

is the great Blood Purifier and Life giving
Principle; Gentle Purgative and Tonic; perfect
Renovator and lnvigorator of the system
Nm Vinegar Ritters there is vitality but
no alcoholic or mineral poison.
Diseases of the Skin. of whatever name
or nature, are literally dug up and carried out Of
the system in short time by the of the Bitters
Vinegar Bftters allays feverishness 1t re-
Eeves, and in time cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
Gout, and similar painful diseases
Vinegar Ritters cures Constipation and
prevents Diarrhoea.
Never before has medicine been COM
pounded possessing the power of VINEGAR BIT
TIERS to heal the sick.
Send for either of our valuable reference
books for ladies, for farmers, for merchants, our
Medical Treatise on Diseases, or our Catechism
on Intemperance and Tobacco, which last should
be read by every child and youth in the land
Any two of the above books mailed free ON
receipt Of four cents for registration fees.
R. Fl. Mcdonald Drug Co., 532 Westinghouse, NY.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06

A Kansas farmer-editor tells about
q, good arrangement for plenty of clean
water in hog lot, on an upland farm,
where water is usually scarce, thus:
Stand a barrel of water in square
box or pan, three inches deep. Asmall
hole bored in the barrel near the bot
tom hoop will let the water into the
box only as fast as the hogs drink out
of the four corners of the box. When
hogs stop the drinking, the water
stops running. The hogs can't make
he water unclean, and can't waste it.
IF course, it is understood that both
.arrel and box must be water-tight.
he application of the principle can be
nlarged for cattle or reduced for the
oultry yard. A simple and very
retty experiment showing the princi-
e involved in the above, is to fill a
Imbler with water, turn a saucer over
and then turn both upside down. 1t
i'll be seen that the water will remain
the glass.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
Ventilation of the Cellar.

A writer in the American Cultivator
US: "Not every farmer and other
erson VINO owns a house knows that
the exercise of little forethought
he timbers underneath may be pre-
rived through several generations, or
moving it make such knowledge OF
tactical value. There is no good
ason why the stills and sleepers of
.lr dwellings should rot in less than
90 years if placed high above the
.ound. and if fresh air be admitted
henever there is no danger from frost.
ct / have in mind houses that nave
)tted underneath In twenty -fve years
I'D required repairs.
From the cellar bottom there is a
onstant evaporation; this moisture,
no egress is found, will find Judgment
non the timbers and floor, and In a
Nv wears, and before the occupant is
lily aware of it, the work OF decay is
yell advanced My house has been
,uilt thirty-two years, yet the under
rork is as sound as it was twenty-five
ears ago, and | see no reason why 1T
aav not resist rot a hundred years
onger. In the north corner, and some
distance from the fire, there was no
window when the house was built. In
5his cool corner the ascending vapor
lodged, condensed and remained the
greater part of the year. After my
purchase thirty-one years ago, WIN
dow was put in which keeps this cor
ner dry when the weather is not too
cool to have it open. The windows
are removed quite early in spring, and
are replaced in the fall no sooner than
necessary to keep the cellar from freez-
ing. When a warm spell occurs in
winter, my attention is at once di-
rected to the cellar; the windows are
removed and fresh air admitted. Veg
etables and fruit will keep better in a
cool, well-ventilated cellar than in a
warm one crowded with foul gases.
Thehygienic Importance of ventila-
ton is greater than the pecuniary, and
is in little danger of being overestimat-
ed. The noxious gases arising from
she cellar bottom, decaying vegeta.
bIes, old boards, boxes and barrels
covered with mould which abound II
the average cellar, are very disagree
able to say the least; and the sickness
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
Shelter In the Barnyard.

1t is we'll known that all classes OF
animals have a preference for the open
air to that of the stables, and will re-
main in the barnyards and sheds ex-
posed to cold often for hours unless
compelled to return to the stables
from necessity. An open shed in the
barnyard, facing the south, will often
be found serviceable for them, and will
add greatly to their thrift, comfort
and happiness. True, the stable is
usually warmer than shed, but pure
air is essential to health, and instinct
leads the stock to seek it whenever
they can. The most important thing
in open sheds is dryness. In winter
dampness does more injury than cold.
Hence shed should be tight as to the
roof and deep inside, so as to turn
beating rains and draughts. This will
give animals an opportunity for exer-
else, while the cost will be but little
compared with the advantages gained.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
The Fayorite Prescription. !"

DR.. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y, whose
name has become known over the world
through his success as physician, and es-
pecially through the reputation OF his
"Golden Medical Discovery" has done a
good work in preparing an especial remedy
for the many distressing troubles classed
as female weaknesses" 1t is known as
the "Favorite Prescription" Under it's ad-
ministrAtion all the pelvic organs are
strengthened, and the woman becomes that
embodiment OF health and beauty which
God intended her to be.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
Miss Franklin's Presence Of Mind.
from the Bismarck Tribune


Miss Belle Franklin, young schoole
mistress of McHenry County, is tn
heroine of the Missouri slope. Miss
Franklin was sleeping in a. shack which
she had built upon her claim, when she
was awakened by the cracking noise
OF the prairie fire. Looking out across
the plain, she saw the dancing flames
skimming across the prairie. The
brave girl knew that her neighbors
living half O mile distant were away
from home, and the fire would soon
envelop the house, barn, hay, and
grain. Jumping from her bed she hur-
ried away to the low log barn in which
the farmers extra team was tied.
Harvesting the animals, she rushed
them out to the pillow, and before the
fire had reached the premises she had
turned several burrows and formed a
ire-break which saved the property.
What subject for an artist
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06

MENsMAN's Peptonized Beef Tonic, the
only preparation of beef containing it's
entire nutritious properties. 1t contains
blood-making force-generating and life sus-
tanning properties; invaluable for indi-
gestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration
and all forms of general debility; also, in
all enfeebled conditions, whether the work
work or acute disease, particularly if re-
sulting from pulmonary complaints. Cas-
well, Hazard & Co., proprietors New York.
Sold by druggists
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06

BRANDY and soup composed the
fare of the Widow Giraud, who died re-
Gently in France. Upon that nourish-
ment she lived for more than quar-
ter of century, dying at last in her one
hundred and twenty fifth year.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
FARM AND HOME.
Regarding Cider.


When you come to cider Iwould wish to rise and
speak
For Amt modest TELLER and never was called
meek;
It was lust two years ago come fall, says to
Bill, says J.,
"Let us make a little cider" and "kerrect'' was
his reply.
And though Lizzie has her notions, and is set on
temperance,
And is powerful down on fiddlin, and thinks
it's sin to dance),
l set down on her objections, and went off and
bought a press,
And we went to SmaShin' apples for a month or
more or less.
would work and lug the apples all the ivelong
day, and then
In my dreams at night I'd hear the cider drippin'
out again!
But I tell you I was happy when the whole
blamed thing was through,
And Bill and went visitin' with nothin' else
to do.
And the way we used that cider was astonishin'
to see.
For my Lizzie wouldn't touch it, leavin' all to
Bill and mel
But there was one bari that stood there tnau
we never touched at all,
And it got so strong that one day it strolled up
to make call.
And one mornin' in pertickler that old cider got
so strong
That it waitzed out of the cellar hummin' of a
little song,
And it sauntered down the medder and has
never been back since.
Do YOU think that | was dreamin'2 Well, IL
might have been that mince!
Will Meredith Nicholson in New York World.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
Greatest Discoyery since 1862,

For coughs, colds, sore throat, bron-
chitis, laryngitis and consumption in it's
early stages, nothing equals DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery" 1t is also a
great blood-purifier and strength restorer,
or tonic, and for liver complaint and
costive condition OF the bowels it has no
equal. Sold by druggists.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-06
A Quick Recovery.

It gives US great pleasure to state that
the merchant who was reported to be at the
point ofdeath from an attack of Pneum onia,
has entirely recovered by the use of DR..
VIM. HALL s BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS.
Naturally he feels grateful for the benefits
derived from using this remedy for the lungs
and throat and in giving publicity to this
statement we are actuated by motives of
public benefaction, trusting that others
may be benefited in similar manner.