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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11
The Woman He Married.
From the London Queen.


The pivot on which mans destiny
turns, either for good or evil, for hap
piness or for misery is marriage. Ii
you live to see the end OF his life, he
will perhaps confess to you-or per-
haps he will not, but he will know it
all the same-he will tell you that
the magnet which first attracted him,
and then guided him with g. master
hand either to the one or to the other,
was the woman ne married.
remember many years ago hearing
Of the deathbed of q very distin-
guished man, e, general whose military
career had been SO brilliant and so
invariably fortunate that the world
looked upon him as perfectly hap
by man. He had earned mis- honors,
he had served his country well, and
he knew on his death-bed that he had
done his duty. His Queen had re-
warded him, and his honors had fall
en- thick and fast upon him, yet what
were his last words
AS he gave the friend who was with
him the last clasp Of his hand, and
the last look o. his dying eyes, to
that friends intense astonishment he
said: 81 thank God that my miser-
able life is ended" There was
one IN his regiment who had
known him from boyhood, had
been educated with him, had
served under him, and was supposed
TO know everything about his past
life; TO this man the friend who had
heard the dying words appealed.
Show could he have been miserable?
Did you ever suspect that his life
was not one series of triumph and
perfect contentment FIattered,
praised and envied, how could he
have been miserable ?'' 'sTo the out
ward world" was the answer, she
appeared all you say, but there was
an inner lie that no one saw, and few
knew Of. That life was blighted and
its happiness wrecked, his affections
chilled, and his temper soured by the
woman he married. She was cold,
unsympathetic, and selfish. Two
years after she had accompanied him
TO India she declared the climate
didn't agree with her, and she came
home. She protested openly that she
should go her own way, end he might
60 his. She spent his money, she
kept him @ poor man all his life, and
she broke his heart. That is his
story, but he never told it, and if the
near approach of death had not
wrenched it from him, you would
never have known the state of mind
in which he went to his well-earned
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11

which had ripened quickly in the pc
culiar circumstances of their meeting;
but little by little, as time passed,
and she had been at Priarton nearly
three months, it dawned upon the
girl that the feeling that she enter.
tanned for Hugh Lambert was some
thing more than mere friendship. She
fought against herself with all the
strength of her nature; she could not
bear to prove false to Der own the
cries and traitor to her favorite
cause; but finally she felt the struggle
was hopeless, and made up her mind
to keep her secret securely locked in
her own bosom.
While gathering primroses one sweet
sp ing afternoon, Dorothy heard a
step crushint the dead leaves, and
saw Hugh coming toward hr.
81 want to eak to you," he said.
"Will you walk with M little ~
Presently he turned sharply and
took both her hands, looking more in
earnest than she had ever seen him
look.
ST can't stand this any longer =: he
cried out. 81 must know my fate one
way or the other. 1t is true that |
am years older. bu5 no one will ever
care for you better tina do. Ifyou
can not love me in return, will go
away and never worry you any more,
give you my word. Am I to go,
Dorothy ?"
$50 Oh, no '' she gasped out,
| hardly able to realize what he was
saying, only feeling az if she could not
breathe, her heart beat so wildly.
Not long afterward there was g.
happy wedding at the dear old home;
and then Dorothy came back to
brighten up the old house at Legion.
Hugh Lambert would have been less
or more than man if he could have re-
sisted triumphing over her a little;
and, as they went into the library,
where he and she had often argued
| together, and she had bravely de-
Tended her theories, he turned and
said:
blythe by, Dorothy, who was
right, after all, about Platonic friend
ships ?"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11
MY CREED.
ny MRS. I. c. KENwoRrHY.

BY MRS. j. C. KENwoRTHY.
believe in God Creator, Father of all human
souls
Not monarch watching nature while her won
drous plan unrolls,
But the Father of our spirit and the moulder OF
our frames
AeEvzGg each as one begotten calling all by sepa-
rate names.
1n the Creator of our spirits believe.
4 seheved the hallowed Jesus loved divinely, sui
feTed much.
KkHaS God might teach His children with a
close and human touch;
Drawing us with love so tender up the pathway
wnere He trod
Efis we fall like weeping children IN the yearn-
ing arms of God.
En- car King and Priest and Prophet believe.
selfeve the Holy Spirit fills the earth from shore
Eound about. above, within us, bearing witness
evermore;
where the Holy Ghost abideth, if he tarry but
night
love and light.
Ln the Paraclete of promise believe.
believe the holy angels hover round US all the
way,
Each commissioned by the Father; clouds of
witnesses are they;
T9 the throne they bear our SORROWS, then return
on tireless wing,
Bringing to each heart dispatches from the pal
ace of our King.
EF tE1e ministering of angels believe.
L believe in life eternal; trees and flowers, and
drops of rain,
Rive and die, and decomposing live and die, and
live again;
V0gbting still what wondrous changes shall
complete the perfect sphere,
L5se know is greater, grander, than the segment
painted here.
In eS1e coming Lite Eternal believe.
believe the holy message is infallible and true
&C hat therein the Lord commanded He will
strengthen us to do;
Not in churches. saints, or prophets, nor in
wise men do trust;
{F they teach me words of wisdom, where they
learned them there must.
LIZ the word of Inspiration believe.
believe in sweet communion with the saints in
praise and prayer
believe that in forgiving we rise upward stair
by-Stair
EBelieye in gody strivings; believe in cotntrite
tears;
believe that in believing we shall live through
endless years
Eor the Key of Life is only believe.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11
Trees and Railroads.

No better use for trees has been de-
vised OF late years than planting them
at railroad stations. making little
parks, and along the line of theroads.
Any one alightiDg in these little groups
OF trees and clearly station houses
recognizes in a moment by his own
feelings the contrast with q barn-like
depot set out in an open and dirty
common. 1t is to the European roads
that we owe the idea, but our own
roads are adopting and extending the
plan quite to the credit of America.
The sooner all lines of road get rid of
their rookeries and shanties the bet
ter for their stock and bonds. You
will observe also that with the i'm
provements In grounds the vile little
saloons creep out of sight. Trees
along the line Of the roads have been
found useful in breaking the wind. as
well as delighting the traveller. Chest
nuts and pines have been used for this
purpose, IN some cases without due
consideration Of the adaDability of
the tree to the soil. The rivalry be-
tween station agents to have the finest
garden and park is healthy sign.
WHICH Cuc uSpOC y dru ~ Oufn0u luUO
garden it is possible for the road to
employ 81 head gardener for the whole
line of road, whose business it shall be
to study the situation and make the
most of it. This plan is adopted on
some of the European lines, while in
large towns skilled gardener has
sole control. hese men are educated
in the forestry or agricultural schools,
and are able to give the Latin names
of all plants and trees when they can.
not reply to you in English.
AS a matter of sanitation the plant
ing may be of little value to the road
directly, out OF vast value Indirectly.
A reputation gained for health is the
very first essential to the rapid devel-
opment of any section.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11
An Anarchist in Chains.

An arrest has been made by the po-
lice of London in the neighborhood of
Trafalgar Square-that of q man 27
years OF sge, who gave the name OF
Robert Harding, and who described
himself as peaceful anarchist and
humanitarian, and g. clerk living at
Poplar. He carried heavy chain
with him made of one and one-half
inch links; and with this he chained
himself to the railing of the passage
between the Vestry Hall and ST.
Martins Church, and locked the
chain to the railing with q paddock.
A crowd of q hundred people collected
round him and caused an obstruction
in the passage. Some constables
came up and desired him to go away,
and, finding he was chained to the
railing, they attempted to detach
him. While they were thus engaged
he took the opportunity to address
the crowd, asserting the right of pub
lie meeting and proclaiming the doc
trines of peaceful anarcbism. The
police having discovered that Harding
had chained himself accidentally to
the spike OF the railing instead OF the
bar, slipped the chain over the spi e
and marched their prisoner off to
Bow Street. He was subsequently
admitted to bail.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11

cost in grain. Your sheep will be much
larger than under different treatment.
Your straw will be mixed into a good
bed OF manure to draw out to enrich
your fields. Some pasture one field
and NOW another to obtain hay to
winter their stock on. By this way of
doing business you can pasture both
fields, keeping more stock, which will,
to a certain extent, enable us to com.
pete with other countries in the rails.
Ing OF wool. Then when you are hand
ling your grain crops you are gather
ing in your fodder crop for the winter,
and it lessons the WORK OF cutting the
one field of hay.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11
WINTER ON THE FARM.



Dear Mrs. Jones, I'm glad you called
hoped you'd come to-day.
Now have you heard what awful things
They tell of Elder Gray?
That some one heard in town,
He went to see the Black Crook show
Along with Deacon Brown,
But don't you tell-Im sure you WON'T
Perhaps it isn't SO;
But, really, that is what they say
don't pretend to know.
Now, Mrs. Jones, do you suppose
That Mr.. Smith would cheat?
I'm told by those who ought to know,
He swindles on his meat,
Two ounces short q pound, they say
And just the same on tea;
And he member in the church,
Along with you and me
But don't you tell-Fm sure you won't
Perhaps it isn't so;
But really, that is what they say
don't pretend to know.
They say that Thompson and his wife
Just quarrel night and day;
He's jealous. we'll perhaps there's cause
That's not for me to say.
The way that woman puts on airs
New hat and diamond ring,
And CAD, CAD, gadding all the time,
With beaux upon her string.
But don't you tell-Pm sure you won't
Pclhaps it isn't SO;
But really. that is what they say
don't pretend to know.
They say that Mrs. Johnson's got
new silk dress, and she
Don't pay her washing bill, I'm told
1t came quite straight to me.
It's limited that her husband drinks
And CANDLES on the sly;
But thee folks gossip go, you know.
But thank my stars, not 1!
Now don't you tell-Tm sure you won't
These things may not be so;
But, really, that is what they say
1 don't pretend to know.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11
Ate a Live Mousse.

Rooney Slade, North Adams shoe
cutter, ate live mouse Wednesday,.
A nest OF mice whose eyes had not yet
seen the light of day was discovered.
The cutters in sport began putting
them down each others backs. One
OF the party expressed his horror of
the proceeding by saying that he
wouldn't have one put down his back
for O. dollar. "Pshaw," said Slade,.
Cpd eat one for dollar" The mon
ey was quickly put up, and to The as
constituent of everyone Slade
grabbed a mouse, his jaws opened,
and the wriggling vermin quickly dis
appeared down his throat. SHADES
feat has created sensation among
the shoe cutters.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11
Bound to Whistle,

The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has been experimenting torso
time with an automatic whistle, the
object OF which is to give the signal at
grade crossings, whether the engineer
is on the alert or not. The device is
a very simple one, consisting of bar
or lever connecting with the whistle
and extending down to within an inch
of the track. At point 600 yards
in front OF the crossing q projection is
placed which, striking against the
lever, starts the whistle. Even if the
engineer is asleep the warning is thus
fully given.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11
How to Get Rid of Weeds.


There are two things to be done:
First, prevent further seeding and the
further introduction of seeds; second,
destroy the seeds and plants now in
the soil.
Farmers cannot be too careful
about the source OF grass seed. Weeds
of some of the worst types are thus
distributed. Where it is possible, it
is better and safer to grow ones own
seed, or procure it of some thorough,
careful farmer near home. The older
the country, as a rule. the more likely
it is to furnish oxeye daisy, varrow,
rib-grass and other tenacious and
troublesome weeds.
Foul seed is dear even as q gift. It
is cheaper to pay triple price for clean
seed than to be perplexed with the
trouble OF getting rid of the weeds in
PRODUCED. Some of the seed should
be spread out on table in a very thin
Layer to aid in the discovery of the
seeds Of weeds, which are liable other
wise to escape notice. Sleeves and
fans may remove some kinds entirely.
Many sorts of seeds, especially the
small ones, will pass undigested and
unframed through the digestive or
gans Of horses and cattle. An ordi-
nary compost heap does not kill all
unless every portion is carefully
turned In and heated.
In certain cases one or more hoed
crops may be raised on the land thor
oughly summer fallowed. Pastures
and meade VS. should always be looked
oyer carefully, and the weeds dug or
pulled before the seeds are ripe, or
taken off the ground if the seeds are
ripe. Sheep must be kept from pas
lures until sticks, seed, hounds
tongue, burdock and the like have
been removed.
The large weeds, like yarrow and
bitter dock, parsnip and carrot, Inay
be left until the growing stalk has &C.
quired some strenth. Then on some
days when the soil is soft, and before
the seeds have dropped, go over the
field with a spade or stout spud,
thrusting it down perpendicularly
within couple of inches of the plant.
Take the stalk with one hand near
the root, and with the other pry it
loose. In this way no roots are lett
below the surface to sprout and send
up q new crop. Never cut off the tops
OF such weeds leaving the roots in the
ground.
By the following process the writer
has found no trouble in killing quack
grass, whether the season be wet or
dry, the soil sand OR clay, drained or
uLdrained. Plow it late in autumn,
and as soon as team can be put on
the ground in the spring run over it
with a cultivation, every three or four
days. Never allow g. leaf to show
itself, for then it begins to recuperate.
By the middle Of June every vestige
has disappeared, Further south
than Central Michigan, no doubt it
wonld disappear earlier. To harrow
and rake up the roots IS waste Of
labor. Ii during it's growing season
the green tops are kept out of sight
the plants will die. Thorough work,
eternal vigilance, is the only way of
keeping the upper hand Of Weeds
Prof. w. j. Beale, in "Grasses of
North America"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11
A New School for Babies.
From the Boston Herald.


A resident Of Cambridge missed the
customary Monday morning visit of
her laundress last week and inquired OF
the cook what had become of Mrs. Raft
erty. "Well, ma'am she's ter home
with a new baby" ''Dear me-" re-
sponded the head of the house, ''then
she won't be able to come here for q
long WHILE "Oh, yes, she will
ma'am ! She's agoing 30 leave the
child up to the kidney garden !" said
this Mrs. Gilfory of the cuisine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11

"Now, Willie," said the Sunday
school teacher, "what is the lesson
to-day about 2" "Daniel in the lions
den." ''That's right; and how did
Daniel come to be in the lions den 2"
II reckon he wanted to get away from
the fellows that makes Jokes about
him and the president Merchant
Traveller.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11
WINTER.
WRITTEN BY AN ACTOR.

WNIIAEN bI AN ACIUH.
The snow flakes filling all the air
Fall slowly all the day,
Like programmes dropped by gallery kids
Down on TO the parquet:
The leaf1ess branches cracking loud
Above the tempest's roar
Sound like the beat of countless hands
That call for an encore.
The Storm King down the wintry blast
In mighty PAGES glides,
In tragic, histrionic steps
Like Henry Irving's strides;
The snow upon the frozen ground
Is lying deep and thick,
White as an actors palIid face
Who eateth arsenic.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11
Care of Sheep in, Winter.

Since winter has come, my sheep are
in sheds, where they will rem ain till
spring. They have tanks of water
constantly before them, with salt.
Gould have the temperature of the
shed arranged so that thewater would
never freeze, but keep as close to the
freezing point as possible, it would
best suit me-. II it becomes much
colder than this suddenly, sheep will
cease to drink freely, when they will
fall off in the amount OF fodder that
they eat, and in q few weeks of extreme
cold weather they will go run down in
condition that they will be but a
shadow of their former selves-a bad
condition in which to get them to con-
sumo our strawstscks. When I first
put them up give them plenty of hav
with what wheat, bran and oats
mixed 1.-TWO parts bran and one oats),
they will eat up clean. The object of
the bran at this time is to keep their
bowels loose Or to allay the fever that
8, change from green to dry feed often
produces. When the sheep get to eat
ing we'll, begin to drop off the hay feed
and substitute IN its place straw, which
is the only fodder that give my sheep
from two to three months. This /
feed in racks, giving them no more
than they will eat up clean, the same
as though it was hay. When | COM
mence feeding straw, | add a portion
ofcorn, making the mixture one-fourth
each corn and oats and one halt bran
give three fourths to one pound of this
mixture per head per day. 1t is bet
ter given at two feeds, and if you have
the right kind of sheep they will winter
well on straw for fodder. But some say
that it takes more grain. True, but
you will lind that You have got
enough more wool to pay the extra
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11
Laying Underdrains in Winter.

Laying UnuerufaInS III Winter.
1t is not generally thought that this
work can be done in the winter to ad-
vantage, but nevertheless it can. If
proper preparation is made in au-
tumn, it Can be more economically
carried on in the mllder weather of
winter than at almost any other sea-
son. Men can be had for less than
half the wages Of summer season in
many sections of the country where
agriculture is almost the sole occu-
patton. Many of the common labor
ers that have worked on the farm
through the summer would be glad
to stay through the winter for their
board and common work clothes.
The days are short and but few hours,
even in pleasant weather, would be
spent in the field each day, and of
course IN stormy or severe cold wealth
er nothing at all would be done in the
field, SO that the farmer hiring by the
month could not really beexpected to
pay very high wages.
The preparation spoken OF in au-
tumn should be something as follows:
Before the ground freezes the drains
should be located and burrows thrown
out with the pillow along the proposed
lines. These should be run straight
and true, throwing g. furrow both
ways, afterward going through with
the piow set to its lowest depth to
deepen the trench as much as possible.
[ have carried it down to depth Of 16
inches IN this way, and it can be cas-
lily put down to a. foot. After this IS
done haul coarse, strawy manure and
fill the trenches so made, so that they
will not freeze.
When the digging commences this
filing may be removed as fast as the
digging progresses. Underneath the
manure it will not be frozen at all,
and but little along the sides. This
may easily be cut through with an old
axe and is really q benefit to the dig
ger, as it holds the sides from caving
IN on him while lowering the trenches
and laying the tile. This manure used
in the trenches willcone into play the
next spring to mix with the raw earth
that comes from the trench. In dig
ging ali these trenches care should be
taken 80 have the top or. good earth
thrown to one side, and the raw sub
SOl1 w UllC OUAC1s vi COULSC luCSO COu"
not be completely separated with the
most careful management, but so tar
as possible it should be done.
I have often noticed tha5 more dig
ging Is done than is actually neces-
sary. The trenches are dug wider
than need be, and more pains are
taken to make the sides straight and
smooth than the nature of the work
requires. II long-handled spades and
scoops to clean out and form the bot
tom of the trench are used, the trench
may be made very narrow indeed. It
will pay to have these tools, as they
expedite the work wonderfully.
Dou't put off draining from one year
to another, waiting until time can be
gained for the work during the sum-
mer season, but carry it on in winter,
while the crops will not be at all in
terfered with, the weather is colo, and
labor is cheap.-[W D. Boynton in
Practical Farmer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11

TABLE RoARDER-Wait there's q
hair in this stew. Waiter (cheerfully)
Yes, sir; it's a abhit Stew Bur-
lington Free Press.
, 1888-11-08
Largest Republican ma.
jOrity Ever Cast in
Wash. Terry.
Jefferson County Republican
Ticket Elected Throughout,
Weir Elected Joint Councilman by a
Large Majority.

Returns have been coming in slow
ly, but enough is known to insure
the triumphant election of Harrison
and Morton to the presidency and
vice presidency of tho United States,
with electoral votes to spare.
Hon. Jno. B. Allen, the republican
nominee for Delegate to Congress,
has been elected by the grandest
vote ever polled in the Territory.
Voorhees, has met his Waterloo.
In Jefferson county enough is
known to make it sure that there is q
sweeping republican victory. In the
districts there are republican vic
tories throughout, unless It be posi-
BILE that Payne has been elected joint
representative over Mr.. Hinckley-
which is by no means certain yet.
MIR. Calhoun received a splendid vote
for prosecuting attorney. MIR. Weir's
majority over Donovan for joint
councilman is sweeping. The dis
trict is the lar gest in the Territory,
and has never elected a republican
before since it was organized as at
present.
If Jefferson county, the republican
victory was even more sweeping than
was the democratic victory two years
ago.
There has been republican hsr-
mony, republican enthusiasm and
republican confidence of victory from
the start.