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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-14
Bees and Cranes.

A writer in the Fruit Growers Journ-
al says: "Dr. James Mcbride and [
have just turned away from the study
of the bees tongue through the micro
scope, perfectly satisfied that the bee
cannot penetrate the outer skin, or even
the second skin, of the grape. This is
also the decision of the leading ento-
mologists, and the scientists of the gov
eminent have so decided. It would be
precisely as If painter should try to
bore hole through an inch plank with
an ordinary paint brush, tor the point
of bees tongue is microscopic brush,
which, if pressed on the outer skin,
would spread out like the brush of the
painter and refuse the desired en-
trance. But when the grapes here and
there are pierced by other insects Or
birds, and most of the juice is left to
rot in juxtaposition to the sound and
unbroken grapes, the contagious rot
would 60 on from grape to grape until
the whole bunch would be ruined, were
it not for tbs useful bee, which immedi
ately plunges its bushy tongue into each
orifce and extracts the yeasty must
from the broken hull, and dries up in q
short part of a day all the offending
matter, and as a scavenger saves the
fruit from inevitable destruction. The
bee is too smart 70 plunge its sting into a
grape, and it is only to prolong lie that
it stings a mortal"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-14
Successful Poultry Raising.

A successful raiser of poultry writes
as follows: ''In raising poultry or stock
of any kind, it should be the aim Of ev-
cry one 10 keep it healthy and improve
it. You can 1T very easily by adopt
ing some systematic rules" These
may be summed up in brief, as follows:
L. Construct your house good and
warm so as to avoid damp floors and at
ford flood Of sunlight. Sunshine is
better than medicine.
2. Provide a busting and scratching
place where you can bury wheat and
corn and thus induce the fowls to take
the needful exercise.
3. Provide yourself with some good
healthy chickens, none to be over
to 2 years old, giving one cock to every
twelve hens in the Asiatics and one to
every thirty or forty in the smaller
kinds
f. Give plenty of fresh air at all times,
especially in summer.
5. Give plenty of fresh water daily,
and never allow the fowls to GO thirsty.
6. Feed them Systematically two or
three times a day; scatter the food so
that they can't eat too fast, or without
proper exercise. Do not feed them
more than they will eat up clean, or they
will get tired of that kind of feed.
y
and cooked iced; a mixture of cooked
meat and vegetables is an excellent
thing Tor their morning meal.
s. Give soft feed in the morning, and
the whole grain at night, except little
wheat or cracked corn placed in the
scratching places TO give them exercise
during the day.
8. Above all things keep the henhouse
clean and we'll ventilated.
10. Do not crowd too many in one
house, if you do look out for disease.
IL. Use carbolic powder occasionally
in the busting bins to destroy lice.
II. Wash your roosts and bottom Of
laying nests, and whitewash once q
week in summer, and once month in
winter.
Is. Let the old and young have as
large range as posi- ble--the larger the
better.
IA. Don't breed too many kinds offowls
at the same time, unless you are going
into business. Three or four will give
you your hands full.
Is. Introduce new blood into your
stock every year or so, by either buying
a cockerel or setting Of eggs from some
reliable breeder.
Is. In buying birds or eggs, go to some
reliable breeder who has his reputation
at stake. You may have to pay little
more for birds, but you can depend on
what you get. Culls are not cheap at
any price.
II. Save the best birds for next years
breeding and send the others to market.
In shipping fancy poultry to market
send it dressed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-14
SWEET DAYS OF OLD.
BY JAMES ALDRICI

BY JAMES ALDRICH.
An hour before she spake of things
That memory to the dying brings.
And kissed me all the while
Then, after some sweet parting words.
She seemed among her flowers and birds,
Until she fell asleep.
Twas summer then, tbs autumn now;
The crimson leaves fall off the Dough,
And strew the gravel sweep.
/ wander down the garden walk,
And muse on all the happy talk 49, =
We had beneath the lines;
And, resting on the garden seat
Her old Newfoundland at my feet,
1 think OF other times.
OF golden days, when she and
sat watching here the flushing sky,
The sunset and the sea;
Or heard the children In the lanes,
Following home the harvest wains,
And shouting in their glee.
But when the daylight dies away,
And ships grow dusky in the bay,
These recoliections cease;
And in the stiffness of the night,
Bright thoughts that end in dreams as bright
Communicate their peace.
I wake and see the morning star. .
And hear the breakers on the bar,
The voices on the Shore
And then with tears, long to be
Across q dim, unsounded sea,
With her forever more
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-14
FOR THE FARM.
The Song of the Spinning Wheel.

The Song of the Spinning Wheel.
Up III the attic slowed away,
Out of the light of the golden day,
All in cob web mantle drest,
Grandma's spinning wheel stands at rest
Turn it round with motion strong,
And loud it singeth all Ole time song.
Round and round,
ROund and round,
Drowsy drOn1ng with dreary sound,
Steady motion the spindle keeps;
Thread runs smooth while the baby sleeps
Baby sleeps
Turn again and the wheel will tell
How happy days to the old home iell.
And children played all the cottage DER,
While back aud forth on the sanded floor,
Grandma stepped in her golden spring,
And this is the song that the wheel will sing:
Round and round,
Round and round,
Loudly laughing with liths ONE sound;
Thread like gold Ill the sunlight ray;
Spindle whirls and the children play;
Children play!
Turn again and the song fowc on;
But some of its merriment is gone;
1t singeth now in a sadder key;
1t tells of the children, one. two, three,
Boys fast growing from day to day,
Soon to wander from home away;
Round and round,
Round and round,
Lazily tagging with lonesome sound;
Thread runs slow to Wh1rl1ng pool,
Happy children have gone to school;
Gone to SCHOOL,
Give the old wheel few quick turns
The kettle sings and the back log burns,
The old log cabin looms up to view;
Grandma and grandpa, loving, true,
Wait for the boys 10 come back again,
And this is the old wheels sad refrain:
Round and round,
Round and round.
Softly singing with solemn sound;
Gone alas all the children gay
Grown to manhood ana gone away,
Gone away!
One more turn at the droning wheel,
One more glimpse at the past to steal
Boys grown aged, all far away;
CABIN falls to sad decay;
Two old graves on the neighboring hill
That will do, let the wheel be still;
Round and round,
Round and ronnd.
Sadly signing with soothing sound;
Baby, childhood, youth, gray head;
Dea n comes softly aud snaps the thread
Snaps the thread
-Mdr6lehedd Messenger.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-14

Quoted by small farmers as here in
Kentucky, but by great companies on
immense plantations, working a thou
sand or more coolies and Malays.
The most prosperous Of the companies
are located in Batavia and Sumatra, and
their tobacco is frequently shipped to
American markets. The last issue of
the London Financial News quotes the
stock of five of these corporations as
follows: $50, 45l, 1856, 428, and 6lO.
They have advanced about ninety
points each in the last three months,
and are among the most highly priced
shares Of the London Exchange
Louisville Courier Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-14
California ORANGES.

Owners of bearing orange groves in
Southern California have reaped
bonanza this season, as "the price of
the fruit has been high and ready
market secured, both on the Pacific
Coast and in the East. One widow in
Riverside, who has twenty-acre grove
in flu bearing, sold her crop for &c.,
900, and several others have done as
we'll, although a fair net average yield
is $500 an acre"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-14
IL Happened in Boston,
From the Boston Commercial Bulletin.

From the Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Mrs Prim.-Good morning, Tommy,
did your mother send you in?
Tommy. = Gagged eight.) = Nom. I
thought [ would like to make call
Mrs. Prim.-That is very nice, am
sure. But you mustn't be bashful on
your fist call Can't you raise your
eyes from the carpet?
Tommy.-Oh. I'm not bashful but
mother says your carpet is 80 ugly it
makes her sick to look at it, and I
thought would come in and try it my
self.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-14
Tired Of the Old Man.

Jones, who is in bad health, but i'm
proving, returned home, whereupon his
wife, says
"Weli, and how are you now 2"
Jones: "Better. In fact, feel quite
another man."
Wife: ''I'm glad to hear it. I was
getting tired of the old one." Jones
continues to improve.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-02-13

GnAkm 4n0 A<SE@-e&>
At7D o'clock last evening Chief
Mitchell and about all his officers were
gathered at the police station. There
were also Messrs. ]. NJ. Thompson. s.
B. Ruaaleft. Fl. F. Jones and other
citizens. Without word of warning
Chief Mitchell asked Police Officer
Nick Hanna to step to Ike front. Then
Justice Jones made speech extolling
the bravery and splendid SER
vice of Nick Hanna as . police
officer and many other COM
plimentary things uhicb made the
subject of them blush like school
girl. Then Mr.. Jones presented the
officer . splendid gold watch chain
and locket. Ire recipient OF the gift,
though completely taken by surprise,
made feeling response. Then all
hands INDUCED in lemonade and the
health OF Officer Henna was drank
more than once.
The watch is I4-karat gold one of
handsome make. Lit has the Appleton
Tracy movement and with the chain
and locket cost $l22 80. On the inside
of the case is the following inscription /:
Presented TO Nick Hanna by his Se-
attic friends in recognition of his faith
full services as a police officer. Febru-
airy, 1889.
This recognition of the talents of Of
ficer Hanna is due to his bravery on
the night OF the 22d of December last,
when he captured Burglar WEIGH.
though the latter tried his best to kill
him. 1t shows that there is no human
characteristic which men admire more
than true bravery
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VIII Bc Pushed.

sraSAsE FANS, Feb. Il. Subscrip-
lions ~ the Spokane Falls 4 Northern
raiiroad are not coming in as rapidly
as they should. About half Of the
slta.ss has been taken up. Mr.. Cor
bin Is waiting until the amount Is
taSstc ah 70 commence werk. He SAYS
be will begin grading at once, and that
when work il started be will ga East,
bring the material and tesarn in %
days. he proposes a. ship il ont at
once a. there II no time 10 he lost.
Sixteen tons OF ere from the chlo--
sie anlne, recently purchased by James
r Warmer and Montana capitalists
teF Sszss,osns assays - ounces 81 silver
&C. tae ton
The phenograrh has made It's au-
pesTanee in Spokane Falls. An agency
has been established here for Eastern
NaShiHetou
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-02-13
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Deeds Recorded at tho Auditors
Once YESTERDAY.


Real estate transactions from January 1,
1855, to date are 81 ,5ls,bIo a. There were filed
| for record yesterday 81 deeds, the consider
$iSli. Following Is the list as furnished by
Wood & Osborne. abstractors OF title:
| J. 5. Magys to A. c. Williams. lot 3. nix :.
| Lake Union add, lsup). $500
| q. W. Yancy to 4. A. Mckenzie. lot 9. blk
10: lot 10, blk Is; lot 7. blk 10; lot s. blk 22;
2, blk 81. Bigelow add, 81.
| w. +. Epler 10 $. +. Oates, lots and s,
blk 81, Mercer add, $2O00.
| j. Bogart to ii. White, esk OF nell OF sec
ID, Up "a, 4 Q. 50 acres. 5000.
+. Harrison 10 n. G. Walker. lots . and 10,
blk ?. ChaGtauqua beach. $500
| A II. Manning To q. Hedemark, lots Is
and 20. blk l0.white & Manning's add. West
Seattle, $225.
d. D. Denny to J. Yakish, lot IL, blk 100,
.. 7: Denny's ffth add. $50.
| Is. +. Day to g L. King, lots 6 and 4. blk
II, Eden add. 5000.
A. s. Jackson TO p. Benson. lots II aud s..
blk 3, Motor Line add. and lots 70 aud Ia,
| blk !. same add, 500.
J; Compton TO G. A. Mosier, lot IA, blk ID.
| Phinney add. t925.
r. f. Perry to g. A. Lavender. lots IA, Is
| and Is. blk z. cbautauqua beach, Si000
| A. W. cobock 10 NJ Cameron. lets and
., blk D, W. y. Bells third add, $500.
w. Y. Epler TO J. q Wallace. lots aud 2
| blk 81, MERGERS secsnd add. x2500
| J. :. Harlan to {. A. Mosier, lots u and
II, blk u. Phinney add, &c
! g. DDfisei 10 l.. Pauisou, lots and =, blk
g. II l. yegler's frst add 5000
| q. c. Phinney TO @. r. Blakenship. lot 4.
| blk Z. Mercer add, 500
| -. Fesiherst0De To j. O'Couneis, tots :
and $. blk Is. Laws add, $3.50.
| a. X. Manning TO W. sfinson, lot y, blk
| 8. White 4 Aanalng's add, sis5.
II. Il. Holmes 10 r. u. Tolsma. b. [. blk
II, II. T. Hoimes' add. s2zo.
". 4. Holmes 70 4. J. wsshburn. lots 8
and Z. Blk & III. Il. Holmes add, 5000.
r. Frederick 10 A. w. Craig. lots s. .. 10.
II, b'E 6, Jackson street add, $500.
A. .. Johnson 10 T.. benson, lots 81. q.
biz 5: aud lots u. IA. blk l, Motor Line add.
500
7. Nieo.ai TO ". p. Epler. blk 81, MERGERS
second add. $500
G. D. Hiii 70 &C. Phinney. lot 1. BLK :.
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WASHINGTON NEWS
Nayal ComInissioncrs En-
Route to Seattle.


TAeoHa. Feb. s2-The naval eon-
rnisxsoness arrived here from Portland
tonight and were ~ once taken on
board the government steamer Man
xausfa. bound for Seattle.
Samuel Collyer and :. A. Wheel
wright. the committee appointed by
the Chamber OF Commences 70 frame
au answer 20 the letter Of inteysagat0-
riex advanced Big Capt A. 4. Manan,
serIor naval Officer OK the United
states naval commission. In regard o.
the characteristics and advantages OF
Tacoma ard Quarterm2ster's hart,9r
A. site for the new naval yard have
prepared 4 most yolaminoas and Iav-
orafsse document, which has been for
warded for the commissioners conssd-
Grafton Il Olympia
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RELIGIOUS NOTES.

The largest college in the world i
said to be a Mohammedan institution
q Cairo, having so teachers and 10
o0o students.
Two Bagdad Jews have bought
the entire site OF Babylon, with the
ruins 81 Nebuchadnezzar' and other
palaces upon il.
a Catholic colonization society with
a capital of 800 COO has been formed in
Pittshnrg 10 establish Catholic colo
HieS in the South.
Two Kansas clergymen have been
asked 20 resign their pasloraies-one
because his sermons are too long, III g
other because bis are too broad
The pope has decided regarding the
Canadian Jesuit grant of 500 600 that
II shall be divided between the Jesuits
and tae University of Montreal.
Can a man with a family work for
80 = month ard be a Christian 7'' Is a
text 70 which Rev. W. 4. Pratt. Of &c.
dar Rapids, Iowa. Is preaching with
spirit and power.
Iu an interview Bishop A. Cleveland
Coke declares that infaeIity in France
= 50 prevalent that very little else is 70
be found. OF the g. co. 90 people the
number Of those who make their
Easter communion does not reach
100000
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THE OREGON LEGISLATURES.
Pilot Rates Cut Down Half-A Good
LlouaP HfIl.

SALEM. Or, Feb. 12.-The house to-
day passed Representative Sorthup's
pilotage bill by large majority, and
Il was at once transmitted to the sen
ete and made special order of bust
ness for 10 a. m. Thursday. 1t reduces
piiotage rates one-half and makes
them lower than the rates on Puget
Sound. There Is no doubt that the
bill will pass the senate.
The house also passed Speaker
smiths bill to levy special tax of six
tenfhs OF mill, to raise 10000 TO
build q portage railway around the
Cascades and between The palles and
Cello.
The senate tonight passed Repre-
sentative Layman's high license bill,
which is the best ever passed by an
Oregon legislature. 1t makes the an
nuai license for the sale of spirituous
and yinons liquors 800, and for matt
liquors 500. 1t passed the house after
much opposition several days ago, and
has had stormy time of il in the SEN
ate. This afternoon eight amendments
were offered to il, but all were voted
down. Ii was clearly to be seen that
II il was amended and returned to the
house that would he the last that
would be heard of il.
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The Navy Yard Question
TACOMA, Feb. l2.-The Londsmen af
Hugh n. Matheson, contractor. are
on the anxiocs seat, fearing he has
skipped the country. William Pollock
Is on bonds for the coraplction OF the
Greer House. corner of Eleventh
street and Tacoma avenue, on which
Matheson Is said to be loser Co the
amount OF 5000, and Steele q Grattan
ON the w. Il. Kelly house. on which
he ran behind considerable sum.
Nothing criminal Is charged against
Mr.. Matheson, he being financially in
capable Of finishing the work at the
contract price.
Editor parkhurst of the Ledger is
still on the rampage. thirsting for
gore. To-day he approached Col.
Visscher, the genial editor of the
Giobs. with the statement that he was
going TO wipe up the floor in the Ne
yada saloon With his carcass then and
there. but ON the poet complaining
that Judge Wampler had monopolixed
nil the space on his tparkhurst'sl face
the night previous. and the interven-
ton Of friends. the threatened conflict
was avoided.
In the probate court this morning
MARY A. Myers applied for letters OF
administration on the estate OF Oscar
A. Lowell, deceased. The hearing will
take place on Monday. the s5th. at IL
a. IN.
Bank elearings to-day were st5.-
i25 o..
This morning articles were filed in
the auditors office incorporating the
orting Light & Water Company,
with 4 capital stock OF SEA ,0oo. divided
into 30 shares OF 800 each. r. C..
Eidridge and +. A. Beatman are in.
eorporators.
Health Officer Dr. F.. q. Miller is In
Portland, and DIR. Brown viii oiiiciate
during hls absence.
Tene knuiSon. of Norway, Moses
Il. Smith, Geo. w Swalwell and Peter
Shea. OF Prince Edward Island.
Canada, aud Julius K. oelgaarti. of
Denmark, received naturalization
papers to-day.
A petition tiied in probate court this
morning ay the administrators of Her
man kieSenwetter. deceased, prayed
for the sale of the partnership interest
in the Arion saloon.
A tstal OF ~ transfers of real estate
was put on record to-day.
Licenses 90 we'd were obtained to-
day by John Carlson aud Jennie Dial.
strum. and William T.. Daniel and
Linda Meektr.
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s AN ANCIENT BOOK.
1t Was Printed During the Reign Of
James L.

James 1.
While one of the PosT-INTELLIGENcEB
staff was looking over the library oil
the Y. NJ. c. A., he encountered some
thing which aroused his enthusiasm.
1t was entitled IAN Harmonic Upon
the First Book of joshua" by Rev.
Andrew Willett, ID. D.. minister of the
Parish of Bailey. This book was printed
by Cantreli Legee for Leonard Greene
i'm the year l6l4. Just think of the
time that has elapsed since that book
was turned out fresh and crisp from
the press. 1t was just 275 years ago,
and yet the ink is as black, and the
letter-press as legible as it was the day
it was turned out. To be sure the
binding is a little worn. aud the leaves
are a little yellow, but not half as
much as one would expect after 275
years of use. Those old book-makers
made their wares 10 last.
This book was printed during the
reign of James /. son of Mary Queen
of Scots and Darnley. He succeeded
Elizabeth on March "a, 1908, and
reigned till March %, 1925, reign
of 81 years
Rev. J. c. Lasen, of the Norwegian
Lutheran church. who was present
said he was the owner OF Il book which
was 800 years old. 1t was Lutheran
Testament, printed in the Norwegian
language. 1t was an heirloom which
was given 20 him by his father, and
which had been in the family fol
many generations.
Mr.. d. w. Craig, of Salem, Ore. is
the owner of a copy of Virgil that was
printed nearly 800 years perhaps
the oldest volume extant in the North
west
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A RoorBLAcK VOYAGES.
a I4-year-Old Boy who is Quite a
Traveller

A day or two since a bright-lookine
l4-year-old bootblack arrived in Seat
tie from the East, sailing under the
name OF William Ford. The lad said
be ran away from his home in San
Francisco in April last and was pres
ent at thu national Republican CON
vention when il met in Chicago
After visiting various points of inter
est in the East he returned to the
coast. During all this time he sup
ported himself and had a good time
on money made from shining boots.
Though he travelled across the CONT
nent and back, he never paid cent
of fare nor did he ride brake beams.
II rode in the cars. but it cost me
nothing" said young Ford. II always
bid under the seat, and I'm so small
that the conductor could not see me. y
The only accident that befeIl the
lad was during the journey West, when
he fell off a bridge near Yakima and
struck on his head. This laid him up
for two weeks. Ford intends TO work
his way back to San Francisco via the
Northern Pacific and o. & c..
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ENLIGHTENED JAPAN.
The New Constitution Puts Earopeam
Nations to shame.

TesEa, Feb. ia.-The new eonsiite
ton was promulgated from the throne
by the mikaao on Monday. The con
sitution established Il house OF peers.
the members OF which are 10 be partly
hereditary. partly elective and partly
nominated by the mikado and house 81
commons of 800 members.
The right OF suffrage Is given Go all
men Of the age Of = years and over
VINO psy taxes 20 the amount OF 81
yearly. Liberty of religion. freedom
of speech and righ, of pubic meet
ingS are established. Parliament shall
possess legislative functions ana con
troll % the finances. under limitation
Judges cannot be removed except by
special legislation.