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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06
PAINTING MATERIAL
BUSINESS NOTES.
Maple syrup at Stallman's.
Slime will teIl.''

WANTED.-A good boy about Is
years of age as an apprentice. Apply
to j. b. MAY.
For nuts and candies, call at Bau-
manR's. 5w2
Come and see my line of fancy
birch wall pockets, slipper holders, etc.
Something new. VIM. c.. RAUE.
This is the time to give Christmas
orders for some of the fine free-hand
crayons made by Straw & Murphy.
4w2
You will find the best line of
wooden shirts at SCHIFFLER & QUENT-
MEYERS, corner of Main and Third
streets.
Shaved shingles for sale at J.
Weber & Sons lumber yard.
-Ruckwheat flour AFT Stallman'S
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06
American Fat Stock Show.

For the American Fat Stock show, to
be held at Chicago, No y y to p, in;
excursion tickets on the following dates
at one fare and a third for the round
trip, with so cents added for admission
ticket: Nov. II, Is, Is, Is, 10 and 20.
Tickets good to return within five days
from date of sale.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06
FOR SALE.

The three Lamar farms in the towns
of Milford and WATERFOWL, and about
five miles from the city of WATERFOWL,
one of 80 acres, including 35 acres Of
timber, lone of 90 acres and one farm Of
90 acres. Inquire of
JOSEPH Brooks,
Or of JOHN G. CONWAY.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06
PERSONAL.

III. A. Block, of Rockford, Ill, was in
the city several days last week on bust
ness.
DR.. Valerius is taking western trip,
and will visit Minnesota, Dakota and
Montana before he returns.
Rev. A. A. Wood, of the NJ Z. church,
officiated at Columbus Sunday, Rev. E..
D. Farnham filling his pulpit here.
Mrs. D. T. Evans, and infant son, of
Milwaukee, is visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Jones, in the Fourth
ward
Albert Baumann, of Grand Forks,
Oak, absent from Watertown for the
past eight years, is here to pass the
winter.
Edward O. Eaton and wife, of Chica-
90, were visitors with Mrs. Eaton's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. r. Jones, from Satur-
day until yesterday morning.
Mrs. J. Howard Nixon, of Webster
Grove, Mo-, and Mrs. Stella F. jewell,
of Duluth, Mimi, are visitors of their
brother, Rev. Fred S. Jewell, of St.
Paul's church.
C. r. Field cut aloof from the consid-
Grafton of hygiene and kindred subjects
in Rush Medical College, Chicago, to
spend from Saturday until yesterday
morning at his home here.
Mrs. M. E. Parker, of Chicago, is in
the city on a brief visit to old friends
and acquaintance, her first visit here
in three years. Within that time Mrs.
Parker sees many marked improve
ments to Watertown.
Next week our townsman John w.
Davies, a former old resident of En-
met, removes with his family to Wales,
Iowa, where he has purchased farm
of 100 acres. A large number of friends
wish him prosperity II his new home.
w. E. Jones returned Saturday from
an observation trip to Richmond, Vir-
ginia, and the country adjacent. Mr..
Jones is well pleased with the outlook
at Richmond for business and cites as
an evidence of its prosperity the fact
that one company alone is building SOC
houses this season.
Death of an Old Pioneer.
A dispatch dated Waterloo, Ia, Nov.
1, mentions the death of Samuel B.
Vinton, who came to Johnson's Rapids,
now the site of the present city Of Wa
tertown, in 1887, and was one of the
founders of this place. He was in Mil
waukee during the panic caused by the
threat of the Winnebago Indians to
burn the town in 1887, and was friend
of the noted Solomon Juneau. Mr..
Vinton spent some time at the Falls OF
St. Anthony, where Minneapolis is now
located. For the past twenty-five years
he lived at Waterloo. His age was
about 20 years.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-06
FOR SALE.

NV house and lot situated on Eighth
street, Seventh ward, are for sale at a
bargain. Inquire at Carl Nenow's, one
door south. F. w. ZocHERT.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04
See lis Swim,

IT is said that Major J. o. CRAvENs the new
L. 5. revenue collector. has, up TO the present
time, appointed twenty-nine men to positions
under him, and of the entire number but one
Major MCCLURE of Madison, Ind, was an old
soldier We may find that we are slightly mis-
taken in the number, but that is the report at
the present time. We shall know more later
on, and if il proves TO be true, what is now re-
ported we shall give the gentleman our COM
pliments. The american Tribune is not POI
htical paper, but we propose to look little
after the men who are elected or appointed TO
office on the strength of their soldier record
and who Immediately forget that they are
expected TO recognize the interest that made
their official advancement possible to them.
Any man who will thus turn his back on his
comrades is a political charlatan that will
peddle any sort of principles for the profit there
report, and did not think it possible that the
major could make such a break, and hope we
will yet find that we have been misinformed.
The appointments made by the administration
so far, in Indiana, not such as the soldier
enthusiast is in any danger OF breaking his
neck through his joyful demonstrations. And
while we are on this last thought we will re-
mark that the railroad element appears to be
Gin the soup" also.-ABlericGR Tribune. In
diaDapOlis G. A. K. paDer.)
1T tn, Brute! If you will lift your eyes
above the level of the swim" you will
find other company. The protected work
ingman is in the soup. Likewise the
civil service reformer. Also the green
hacker who wanted the U. S. funds with
drawn from the national banks. Ditto
the fnanciers who wanted the surplus
used to buy bonds. Same place the col
ored man in the North Like condition
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04
Mr.. PORTER'S PLEA.
A Miner Dissects 1t by Showing It's Con-
sistencies.


sistencies.
To THE EDIToR-Sir: Mr.. Porter of Chi
cago seems TO wish to draw the attention of the
public to the fact that he still lives and still
tries to deceive. 1t is not at all necessary to
notice him, but the miners of Clay county will
never forget his generosity. Look at his glori-
Gus magnanimity. He says that the carrying
of ton OF block coal is equal to the digging
and loading of a ton and a half of coal, while
he only estimates that the same weight of coal,
if il should chance to be bituminOus, would be
carried for the price OF digging one ton. Thus
for the same results he asks the block coal
miner to do more than half as much more
work.
Mr.. Porter also says that the Brazil block
coal company has not declared any dividends
for three years. Thanks for the information
Will he also state how much it has increased its
stock in that time? He SAYS that the stock is
only worth 90 per cent. in the market. Will he
state how much IL was watered? He, | suppose,
is too bashful to state that it has been watered
to the extent of over 80 per cent. and that it is
yet over 10 per cent above cost
] suppose that he has forgotten that the Bra
I'll block coal company admitted that it had 5
per cent. play capital stock that it made
8 Clio cents per ton profit on block coal after
charging royalty and all other expenses, and
that it charges for royalty 20 cents, whilst it
only pays ~ to 1917 cents per ton to those
of the returns from the system of
pluck-me stores, and in these accounts
there is allowance made for the
slack, for which the miner receives nothing,
and which Mr.. Zimmerman admits is 20 per
cent. of what the minner digs and loads, and is
not included in any calculations, as it is not
worth noticing in the amount, as the operator
only gets from 81 to s. per fiat.
But this is on a par with the operators whole
tactics during the present struggle, as instance
this point: Mr.. Zimmerman said they asked no
more for their coal in Minneapolis than at any
other point. In fact the price has been less,
for they wanted to hold that market hence
they put the price at St. Paal and Minneapolis
lower than at other points. Now the black
diamond quotations in those cities were: In
diana bitumnous coal, 1925, while the Indiana
block coal was S5.25 at the date in Chi
cagO.
Why in the name of common sense do not
Mr.. Porter and his friends say straight out that
black is white and white is no color at all? The
miners offered to Grbitrate the whole question.
They offered TO accept the same proportionate
reduction as other miners in Indiana, Ohio or
Pennsylvania yet Mr.. Porter wants TO gull the
public and hoodwink the miners.
Mr.. Porter has, through his agents, told the
miner not to bother him; not to come near
him. Now when he is willing to reason and
make an honest settlement he must send for
them like gentlemen. JOHN HoRSFIELD.
Knightsville Aug. 2S, 1850.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04
An Enerretic omcial.

so lar as discovered, Corporal TANNER is
the only member of the administration
who has shown any disposition to redeem
pledges made during the campaign. His
patriotic sentiment: THE surplus-God
help it." has been his moving thought
since be went into Office, and what he
could do to dispose OF that white elephant
has been done. The re-rating scheme has
been the most successful one. Eleven of
the re-rated pensioners have drawn prizes
as follows: GEORGE w. CLARKE, S5,623.99;
Henry A. KTRcHER, S6,34l.72; CHARLES
LOVELY, S6,042.12; Henry YUNKLiNG,
s5,231.05; PHILo BIERcE, SC, 341.72; Cor
DINO BRUCE, S6,341.72; FRANK ROSE,
s6,035.72; HIRAM SMITH, S6,035.72; LEWIS
MALIS, S6.O35.72; JOHN S. FAY, S6,341.s5;
LEWIS WHITING, s12,25l.59. The aggre-
gate Of these is S72,622.92. The total
paid out on re-ratings is estimated
20 be in the neighborhood of a
million dollars. This includes Sem
ator MANDERsoS's $1,000, which may be
returned in case Atty. Gen. MLLER's nom
partisan board of examiners should fail
TO find him sufficiently disabled. OF the
amounts allowed thus far, S27, 900 has been
paid to employees of the pension office,
whose positions enabled them to re-rate
each other. At the rate he is going. the
corporal will not be enabled to dispose of
the entire surplus in forty-eight months,
but with his Endorsement at Milwaukee
10 NAV accelerate his 1loYements. and
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04
He is Displaced without Any Cause OF
WARNING.
Is. Y. Erening POST

W aruiuE.
n. Y. Evening Post1
Another instance of the insincerity of the
protestations that the present administration
would abide by the principles OF civil service
reform is found in the summary removal, with
out alleged cause and without notice, of James
A. Mchenna postmaster of Long Island City.
Mr. McKenna was appointed for a term of
four years by President Cleveland, and has
served just twenty-eight months Since his
incumbency of the Office the free delivery sys-
TEN has been introduced with great success,
and the Office built up from q thIrd-class 10 a
second-ciass one. 1t had been a third-class
ONCE for many years Mr.. Mchenna's
administration OF the Office has been
a singularly successful one and has
given complete satisfaction TO the business men
or the community. That this Is so is shown by
the fact that they sent petition to Washing
ton for his retention in office by the present
administration. That petition was signed by
22i republicans, 80 democrats, 10 independents,
50 whose politics were not stated and pro-
hibitionists.
In addition to this, another petition was
ready to be sent, which was signed by 40
republicans, SO persons who did not describe
themselves politically. % democrats and pro.
hlbitionists. No effort was made, OF course,
under the circumstances, TO get the signature
OF active democrats The petition was signed
by all the clergy of the city. The board of
aldermen passed resolutions asking for Mr..
Mckenna's retention, and the officers of the
city banks and business men generally re-
quested it.
That Mr.. McKenna's administration of the
Long Island City postofhce has been successful
is also shown by the returns of the business
done. For the wear ended March 81, 1855 the
total receipts of the Office were s, 59419; for
the year ended March 81, 1855. they were Sl6.-
55S.22, the net increase being therefore So
9640S. For the year ended March 81, -1SS9 the
office Melted profit to the government of
s., 1S1.O6. When Mr.. McKenna took charge
of the office, there was no free delivery,
and only twelve mails received and dis.
patched altogether Now, with the
free delivery system in operation, there
are thirty-nine mails received and dispatched
each day. When the free-delivery system was
first introduced, Eve carriers were employed;
now fourteen can scarcely do the work. Mr..
McKenna has also introduced many other i'm.
provements for the benefit of the service and
the public. His summary removal now, with
ont warning or cause. and the placing of the
charge of the Office in the hands of politician
inexperienced in the mail service, is regarded
on every hand as not only a most unwise step,
but a total disregard OF the wishes of the peo-
pie, TO say nothing OF the violations of repub-
hcan pledges on behalf OF civil service reform.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04
VERMoNT's BAD MAIL SERVICE.
wanamakers New Postal Clerks Have
Played Smash With IT.
tSt. JOhnsbury Special. ]


The state of Vermont is suffering just now
from an epidemic form of too much Wanna
maker. Nobody can remember when the mail
service bad il Is now. The trained
postal clerks have been taken out of the mail
cars and replaced by lot of numbskulls, whose
lack of intelligence has produced a general
Generalization.
Their faults are especially felt along the lines
of railroad centering out of here, running to
Canada, Lake Champlain, and through New
Hampshire to Maine. An old subscriber to the
Sun residing at West Concord, eight miles east
of St. Johnsbury, on the Portland & Ogdens-
buTgh road commonly gets his paper thirty-six
to forty-eight hours late. Yet it is possible for
him to leave his home at $50 m. and land
in the Grand Central. depot at 10 p. m, or to
reverse the process.
The mails are not heavy but the ignorance Of
the clerks is so intense that their minds make
their fingers 90 slow. As a result newspapers
and letters are allowed to lie in the cars and be
carried by stations until the next day or the
next, as may suit the convenience OF these
persons.
To make il more comfortable for the green
hands, closed mails are carried on trains that
formerly made up mails as they went along. A
letter mailed in st. Johnsbury in the morning
for any point on the p & o. has to go 125
miles to Portland and come back the next day
if the clerk feels like putting IL ia the local bag
These things are producing tears among the
maple water boilers and sheep ranchers.
The clerks are appointed at the instance OF
Vermont's republican congressman. Ii is some
thing of cheering fact to note how wretchedly
they compare i'm caliber with the able democrats
supplied to p. NJ. Gen. Villas and Dickinson by
the Hon. Bradley b. Smalley.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04

the Long Island City and other clergymen
who thought they would have influence
with prayerful administration. You
don't see the New England wooden manu-
facturer because he has gone under for
the third time and may not come up
again. Soup! Soup! Soup Is the man
In the soup? That's what! One, two,
three-yes, great many men. What
sort of soup is it? 1t was consomme at
first, but it is noodle soup now. vide
first reader, p. 2, Indiana educational
cariaq
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04
Book Law WIN BE Ponular.
Bloomfield Democrat. !

The school book law is evidently going to be
a very popular one or the republicans would
not be so jealous in trying to prevent its en-.
forcement this winter. Next year is campaign
year and if the law was as odious as they try 70
make il, the more rigidly it is enforced the
better it will be for the republicans. 1t is a
democratic law, passed and champIoned by
democrats, and II il is so very Objectionable,
and is rgidly enforced it will be very obnoxious
to the people and will result in great injury TO
the democratic party. Are the republican
trustees so afraid to enforce the law? Notmuch,
we think. Ii they thought It would be npopu-
lar the more rigidly II could be enforced the
better they would be pleased. The fact is when
the people once understand it it will be one of
the most popular laws ever passed in the state
They know this and hence their zeal in trying
to keep it off until the elections are over next
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04

" were stoned and burned at the stern
command of Joshua Joshua viz. The
exact location of ancient Gilgal is much
disputed, but before we reached the hotel
our guides pointed out to US what they
declared was the veritable spot where
Joshua erected 'those twelve stones which
they took out of Jordan" in remembrance
of the great day of the passover when
''the waters of Jordan were cut or
Joshua iv, y.
This place played a prominent part in
the early history of Gods chosen people,
as did all the country round about the then
rich and productive plains of Jericho and
the Jordan valley, but all has long since
been abandoned to infidel Bedouins and
their wandering fiocks, and now
''On Jordan's banks the Arabs camels stray,
On lions hills the false ones votares pray
WILL +. ENGLISH.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04

THE Terre Haute Express, one ofthe lead
ing republican newspapers in Indiana,
stands by the new school-book law. In
recent issue it says:
The Express is fully aware that the board was
given a standard by the law on which bids were
to be accepted. The question is raised that this
is not a standard the members of the board
would fix If they we're to determine the quality
in size, make the contents of the books but as
the members of the board cannot be expected,
in their official capacity, TO denounce or praise
the law, being obligated to perform an ex-
ecutiye duty only, it is safe to challenge them
for their individual opinions. If expressed,
they would merely subject them to con-
troversy with the hired advocates of the old
trust, whose finger marks are plainly seen IN
such displays as that of the bookseller in the
northern part OF the state.
The Express might have added that the
standard fixed by the law is that OF the
books published by the school book trust
firms, and now in general use throughout
the state. II this standard is not high
enough. the trust aud its creatures should
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04

be the last to take exceptions to it. The
state board of education, composed of
the leading educators of the state, de-
clared with only one dissenting voice GA
TOILETTE, of VAN ANTWERP, BRAGG *
Co., that the new books were equal in
every respect to those named in the law.
If these latter are inferior, the new ones
may be. But if so it is to be remembered
that they cost only about one-half OF
what the old ones have been sold for.
And their quality cannot be impeached
without condemning the old books, or at
lacking the integrity or intelligence of the
state board of education, which pro-
nounced them, after careful examination,
equal, IN ererN respect to the trust books.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04
At the End of Their Rope.
[Logansport Pharos.

The new school-book law is in force, Gov.
Hovey having issued his proclamation to that
effect. The attorney general says that the law
is sound, and as il is the law must be enforced.
Certain republican newspapers have done all
in their power to cast disfavor on the law, but
they are about at the end of their rope. They
must now either stand by the statute or set
themselves up as law defers.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04
Unfit and TrescherOus Officials.
L

The people are in favor Of the new school,
book law and it looks as if there was something
wrong, when the peoples public servants
county superintendents, teachers and trustees
use their positions to defeat the law. The
officers or teachers who throw obstacles in the
way of the law should not hold their places for
moment They are unfit and treacherous TO
their trusts.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04
Sol Running a junk shop.

Several republican editors in these paru
seem to be terribly exercised because, in ex.
changing the new school books for the old ones,
the Indiana school book company says it ia
able to allow but from l to cents each
for old books Suppose 1t is not what of it
The company is not running a junk shop foi
the purchase of waste paper and even if il
were, there is no principle of barter or traffic
that singles out this company as one that
should pay more for an article than it is worth
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04
The Law Must Be obeyed.
Anderson Democrat


We print in this impression the questions
of the state superinIen dent and the answers
OF the encouragement relating to the new
school-book law. 1t is now in force. The Law
is compulsory. tt must be obeyed by the peo-
pie. It is entitled TO a fair trial The new
books will be used the coming year. County
Superintendent Ellis will soon have the matter
in first-ciass shape in this county. The new
books will he on hand for the coming term Of
school. This is an important matter for the
people. Study the law carefully.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04
The Law CnmnuIsorx.

The school book ring has received blow il
the house of its friends. The encouragement
says that the new school book law is com pulsory
on trustees. Ii they do not voluntarily ODE,
the law they may be compelled to by mandate
There is no penalty. but trustees can enforce
the law by suspension or other punishment
where parents refuse 10 purchase books pro
vided by law. The Indiana book company nat
filed a bond of S215, 600 and the governor has
proclaimed the law in force.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04

Democrat school teachers should go littla
slow in selling out to Van Antwerp, Bragg &
Co. We would think just as much of them il
they sold to republicans in any other kind of
campaign. There will be no other issue in the
election OF trustees next spring and il will be the
main issue in the state election next year. he
who is not for Us is against us. How can you
work for Van Antwerp. Bragg & Co. now and
against them next April? Go little slow be.
fore you get 'tyour foot IN il"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04
Think of It.
New Albany Ledger. ]

If BY the new law one-half or even one
fourth OF the cost of school books is saved 10
the people, the aggregate viii in a few years
amount to very large sum. Its friends claim
this result as certain, and it is certainly
worthy of trial. At all events, the new law is
in force until it is repealed and it is the duty
of every law-abiding school officer to give IL
earnest and intelligent support
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04

democratic contemporaries that one OF
the most sensible actions of the demo-
cratic editorial association was its request
that the democratic press refrain from
discussing the election of L. S. senator
until after the next general election.
Nothing is gained for any candidate by
such discussion and jealousy and want OF
harmony are always promoted. The
party is enlisted in a fight for principle
and not for any man. We have an album
dance of men who would fill the position
creditably-possibly an over-abundance.
When We have won the election there will
be ample time to wrangle over the candi-
dates