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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-09

Mails close at the Postofice daily as follows:
Going North $3.50 P NJ, 5000 P. NJ.
South. *l015 A. NJ, 1910 P. NJ.
East. *7:45 A. M, *l2:55 P. M, <4:3o P. NJ.
900 P. M.
West. 7:0j A. NJ, *12:55 P. M. 600 P. M.
watertown 6 Madison r r *9-Oc M, 6:3OP N.
Pennington, Concord and PlpersVlHe, tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays 100 A. M
Lebanon, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
500 P. NJ.
Sundays excepted. Saturdays excepted.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-01
%southey's Earnings.

No man ever lived more plainly or
worked harder than Southey; yet he
never had a years income in advance,
we are told. till in 1885, when he was
81 years old, Sir Robert Peel settled a
pension of 93OO on him, and offered
him a baronetcy, which he had the good
sense to decline. Eight-and-twenty
years earlier. in 1907, a pension of EGO
ayear had been..conferred on him through
the good offices of his staunch friend
Wynn, who had hitherto allowed him a
similar sum annually. When he was
forty-four the unexpected payment of
a bad debt enabled him to buy 9300 in
the 8 per cents. II have G1O0 already
there" he wrote with a m%ournful touch
of irony, "and shall then be worth ELI
per annum." Three years later the
e1OO had grown to 9625, the gather
ings of half the most studious and
blameless lifetime of which the annals
of our literature hold record. And this
man was Poet Laureate of England
{not quite one of her best, perhaps),
and had enriched our literature with
some of its finest prose. He had a wife
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-01
Deceptive False Curls.

Every one must have noticed the
numbers of ladies who wear short,
curly hair at present. 1t may astonish
you to learn that most of these charm
ing curls are false. Typhoid other
fevers have played havoc with hair this
winter. After such an illness the hair
is almost invariably seriously injured,
and sven if it does not fell out it be-
comes so dry and harsh that there is
nothing to be done but to shave it close,
and wait for o new growth. Unless the
hair grows very rapidly it will be two
or three months before it is long enough
to look we'll, and in the mean time a
wig is a necessity. The short, curly
hair looks more natural than a dressed
wig, and is easier to keep in order. so
most ladies prefer them. Elderly
ladies, however, often use French twists
and pompadours. Few people know
how common wigs are. I have some
times sold five or six in one day, and a
great many ladies say they are sorry
their WI hair grows out, as the wig
has saved them so much time and
tronble.-Enterview wiM a st. Louis.
Wgmaker.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-01
Senator Jones' Silver Dollar story.

SoAotOA Vic 4 DOlktt SlOIys
Senator Jones, of Nevada, was twitted
by Senator Mcpherson, of New Jersey,
in the course OF his silver speech the
other day, with the fact that the silver
dollars were only worth " cents. OF
course it reminded him of q little
story"
II recollect," said he, talking on
this subject once with some Senators in
the cloak-room. During the CONVERSE
ton n of the Senate pages brought
me a telegram, on which he said the
telegraph messenger had told him there
were SO cents due. l gave the page a
silver dollar and said to him:
at have been informed by some very
respectable and intellectual gentlemen
in here, some Of them candidates for
the Presidency even, that this dollar is
worth only rs cents. L do not want to
cheat a little boy. Take this out, and
if the boy thinks it worth only rs cents
he can seAd me back 25 cents, and ii
he thinks it is worth a dollar. he'can
send me back SO cents. / will leave it
to him.
"The page brought back SO cents and
said the telegraph boy told him he did
not know what those old buffers in
there might say, but it was as good a
dollar as he wanted and was very hard
to get" daughter = Washington
Cor. N. Y. Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-01
A Marriage,

"A missionary describes a marriage
ceremony which he Witnessed in the
palace of the Governor of Cambodia. "a
follows:
II was ushered, amid a tremendous
ON OF gongs, into a large Don beyond
the reception hall, where We're seated
The Governor and about 100 noblemen
and invited guests. The bridegroom, a
young man about 20 years of age,
elegantly attired in silk garments, was
also there. By the time we foreigners
were seated, a procession-headed by
the bride, supported on either side by
demure : looking matrons, composed
principally Of aged or married women,
all elegantly attired entered and
slowly marched toward the Governor.
The bride was not particularly in
teresting as regards personal charms;
she was young, however, and dressed
richly and in good taste. Besides her
silk dress she wore a gold embroidered
scarf upon her shoulders; also gold
rings upon her fingers, bracelets upon
her wrists and armlets above the
elbows. The b,ide took up her posi-
ton near the bridegroom, both sitting
upon the floor, but not looking toward
each other; in fact, throughout the en-
tire ceremony they both were perfectly
impassive and nonchalant.
THE marriage ceremony proper now
began. A number of wax candles were
brought in a salver, and then lighted by
one of the mobiles. The silver waiter
was then passed round before the COM
pany eight times, each one in turn
saluting the couple and wishing them
good fortune by waving or blowing the
smoke toward them, thus expressing
something like the old English custom
of throwing the slipper after a newly
married couple-the bend of string
instruments playing the meanwhile.
1.-Two large velvet cushions having
been previously placed before the bride
and bridegroom. and upon them a
large sword, the leader of the theatric-
ais now came forward and went
through, for a few moments, a most
fantastical sword exercise.
dishes had been placed before the
couple upon the floor, with covers upon
them. Nothing, however, was eaten.
Next the hands of the expectant couple
were bound together, and to each other,
with silken threads, by the women
attendants, probably some near rela-
tives. Thus were they truly joined in
Buddhist wedlock. And this com
pleted the simple, yet effective cere.
mony."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-01
A Goat spo11s a weddinp.

Our little town, says a Christians
burg (Va.) correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Times, had quite q sensation in
its best circles ut the marriage yester-
day of one OF its most prominent young
men to a young lady whose beauty and
wit made her a belle, but whose nup-
tials were nearly prevented by a billy
goat belonging to q family
living in the suburbs. The
bridal party was followed into the
church by the goat, which proceeded to
quietly and peacefully inspect the
ediice, and probably would have re
tired in like manner had it not been fol
the injudicious efforts of ono of the
groom's attendants to induce it to leave
by an impertinent shoe.
This was more than his goatship
meant to tamely endure, and to sooth
his wounded honor he made a break at
the bridegroom, who happened to be
nearest him, and without that gentle
man having suspected his proximity
made him painfully aware of it by a
well-directed blow that caused the cans
didate for matrimony to alight several
feet distant, though hardly with the
grace OF posture he could have desired.
Tie animal then turned his attention to
the bride, but the lady escaped by
climbing the pulpit stairs.
The clergyman, wedding party, and
guests dared not stir, for every move
ment caused the goat to make for them
with lowered head, SO for awhile the
animal was monarch of all he surveyed,
but the arrival on the scene of one of the
i%nfantile masters speedily reduced him
to submission and he followed the boy
from the church as meek and humble a
goat as ever dined on a tomato-can. The
bridegroom, though much bruised and
one arm broken, insisted on having the
interrupted ceremony completed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-01
Beneath the Grooming.

Tom Marshall, the brilliant Kentucky
lawyer, in an after-dinner speech, once
told a story which has u significance for
the readers of the Companion.
MY father, like all Kentuckians," he
said, loved a good horse. When Twas
a little shaver of 8 he babe me choose q
pony for myself. I took a fat, shiny
fellow, short-winded and vicious. 'Ha,
Tom,' he said, never choose a horse by
his coat. His groom gives him that.
Look beneath it for the real ANIMAL
I have since learned never to choose a
friend, either nan or horse, by his coat
or his manners. I go beneath the
grooming"
Boys and girls are apt to Judge of
each other and OF adults by some facti-
tious accident which does not at all af-
feet the character.
A teacher with a nose too small for
her face sometimes loses, for that reason
much of her influence over her more
frivolous pupils; and a flaming head of
hair has made the first year of school
lonely and friendless for many q sensi-
tive boy.
Carlyle wrote a whole book to prove
that rank, birth, aver education, were
but so many outer skins or old clothes"
beneath which we must look to find the
real man.
If we do not Judge of the staying
power or temper Of a horse by the
satiny skin which is the result of careful
grooming, why should we like this man
or dislike that because of their clothes
or the house in which they live or the
social rank into which they were born ?
In q family, too, we often find a girl
censured and ridiculed because she is
excitable and fighty, Or a boy perpetu-
ally nagged and sighted because Of his
slowness and stupidity. A diseased
nervous system o slow-moving brain
are qualities for the possession of which
no man or woman is responsible.
ut is not, says Madam de Preyere,
for the things which God has given me
that I should be loved or hated. but for
my own use or abuse of Them
Youths Companion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-01
soul to God, for in five minutes moro

soul to God, for in five minutes more
you will diei"
The face of the doomed man
assumed an ashen hue. and there was q
perceptlble trembling Of his lips rs he
spoke:
II have q sister living in --,"
mentioning a town in Missouri; II wish
you would send her this" and he pro-
duced O golden locket and gave it to the
leader.
Then sinking upon his knees, he
tremblingly uttered IN almost unin-
telligible prayer. Upon rising to his
feet he looked more calmly upon those
around him us he said:
Gentlemen, afore 1 die, I want ter
right n wrong I've done to this ERE
gentleman" pointing to me, "and
that is that he is innocent. What
he's told you air the truth. 1 am
ashamed that I tried to bring him in as
my pardner, and l hope God will for.
give mel"
At this I sprang forward and, Selling
him by the hand, I profusely thanked
him again and again. A moment more
and the leader called out:
"Time up! One! two! three!" As
the last word fell from the lips of the
leader, the rope suddenly became tant,
and the next instant the body of the
thief was dangling IN mid-air. Then
turning to me, the leader observed:
Young man, you've had a mighty
narrow escape! Be more careful in the
future and choose better company!"
After waiting some twenty minutes,
until the swinging body had become
nearly motionless, the party mounted
their horses-the leader driving the
stolen outft-and in o few minutes
they had disappeared in a bend of the
road.
L now proceeded on my way with a
fervent feeling of thankfulness to God
TOR my miraculous preservation from an
ignominious death.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-01
Reckless [Cyclins.

During the last fortnight there have
been quite a number of serious &C.
cidents-some attended by fatal con-
sequences = through people being
ridden over by cyclists. In
to indicate excessive speed as the prime
cause. There is a pace, especially when
going down hill, which practically de-
prives the rider of all control over his
machine. He can guide it, but that is
all. As for pulling. up quickly, as we'll
might the engine driver Of an express
train attempt to do so. Nor even ia the
matter of guiding has the cyclist a free
hand. Any large deviation from the
straight line of his course would, if he
were pelting along at the rate OF eight
cen or twenty miles an hour, inevitably
cause an upset. He has nothing for it,
therefore, but to trust to luck and the
chapter of accidents, which he does
with q sang-froid that would be truly
admirable were it not so largely tinct-
ured with recklessness. When he
mounts to the stretching out before
him, he knows perfectly we'll that if he
once allows his steel steed to "take
charge" there can be no attempt to pull
up until the bottom is reached. Equally
aware is he tina, by timely application
of the brake. and by black 'pedaIling,"
the machine can he kept at a moderate
pace, admitting Of guidance and OF stop
ping. But because it is a pleasant rush
down hill at the speed of a racer, with
out auy exertion, he takes his feet off
the pedals, sets his teeth tight, and, to
use his W expression, "lets her slide"
The result is that if any pedestrian
chances to block his way-being per-
haps, too deaf to hear the warning bell
= fearful collision takes place. and II
or the other is killed. Cyclists have
yet to learn, apparently that the respon-
sibility of keeping clear of people on
foot rests on the drivers of vehicles
London Graphic
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-01
A Cats Contempt of Court.

The antics of a large black cat furn-
ished no end of amusement to the FREE
q%uenters of Judge Murray's civil court
on Eighth Avenue recently. This par
ticular cat is not different from any
other feline, except that he is looked
upon as one of the attaches of the
court. Thomas-that is his name-is
allowed the freedom of the courtroom
ut all times. One of his favorite posi-
tions is on top of the rail which sep
arates the counselors' inclosure from
the rest of the courtroom. Thomas got
into trouble one day recently by de-
signing to jump owe the desk inn
mediately in front of Justice Murray.
He was kept out Of the courtroom for Q
while as punishment, but is now back
again.-New York World.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-01
TO MY LOVE.
ny A s. SMITH.

,rrent leaves the mountain
TIE iains the crystal tide
u,' Al:I lows along in beauty
lH T;I,i III meets the ocean vide.
IN! love, when thou art absent,
ALL ,o thought occurs to me
rb ll' nv hearts love is n torrent,
1p ,nd thy bosom is its sea-
,oohyr stirs the light leaves
NV yv;, h n sweetly soothing sound,
M' me red rose. in its blooming.
AN sheis it's perfume all around.
.na as muse enrnptured
an" his my calm retreat.
~ ennth wind seems thy whisper.
ne ,rI inv breath the perfume sweet
,socthc ivy clinging
lF ,rouud the wildwood tree,
,rd MS view its tendrils,
AN, This thought occurs to me:
INV. white arms are the ivy.
~ SSursed by thy hearts deep spring.
.,,S NY neck the wildwood monarch
Az, Wound which they closely cling.
... J,,rh Weekly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-01
Spreading Disease in Books.

We have on several occasions dis
cussed the possibility of conveying in
lection by means of books lent out by
circulating libraries. That disease may
be thus conveyed there can be no doubt,
though this affords no real ground of
objection to the loan system if ordinary
p%recaution is observed. tits, therefore,
the more satisfactory to note that IL
brarians on their part are not inclined
to neglect any due care in this particu-
lar. AS an instance, we may now refer
to the method pursued at one public es-
tablishment of this kind where lists of
all the infected houses in the surround
ing streets are received weekly. The
occupants of such houses. if in receipt
of books, are warned not to return them
until effectually disinfected. No doubt
the Act for the Notification o%fInfectious
Diseases would afford q useful assist
ance to all such endeavors on the part
of librarians to avoid any possible trans
fer of contagion. and they would do
we'll to avail themselves Of its aid. It
should be remembered, however, that it
does not cover every communicable dis
ease, measles being a noteworthy ex-
ception. In order to secure still further
the desired immunity, it is advisable
that each borrower be required, under
suitable penalties, to guarantee the
freedom of his household from infection
at the time being, to report Immediately
the appearance of infectious diseases,
and to arrange for d%isinfection of books
on loan to him. We would further sug-
gest that the work of disinfection be
carried out if possible at the library
building itself. Its efficiency could
then be assured.-LGncet.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-01

and family, and for the greater part of
nus life he had to provide for them ont
OF his brain the roof that sheltered
Them, the food they ate. aud the clothes
they woro
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-01

SAVED BYA ScRATcH-Your "Uncle's"
to this cb Mk.- Light
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ever the titles may run. All proposed wa
ter sources and all necessary reservoirs
should be held by the government for the
equal use at fair rates of the homestead set
tiers who will eventually take up these lands.
The United States should not. in my opin-
ion, undertake the construction of dams or
canals, but should limit all work
to such surveys and observations as Will
determine the water supply, both surface
and subterranean, the areas capable OF lrrl-
CATION. and the use of the storage capacity
Of reservoirs. This done, the use of tho
water and of the reservoir sites might be
granted to the respective states or terri
tories or to individuals or associations upon
the condition that the necessary works
should be constructed and the water fur
nished at fair rates without discrimination,
the rates to be subjected to provisions by
the legislature or by boards of water COM
missioners duly constituted. The essential
thing to be secured is the common and
equal use at fair rates of the accumulated
water supply. 1t were almost better that
these lands should remain arid that those
who occupy them should become the
slaves of unrestrained monopolists, con-
trolling the essential element OF land
values and crop results.
The use Of the telegraph by the postofiice
department az means tor the rapio trans.
mission of written communications -,
believe, upon proper terms, qna.e desirable
the railroads and it should not, think, own
or operate the telegraph lines. II does
however, seem to he quite practicable 10
the government TO contract with the teie
eraph companies, as it does with the rail
roads, to carry at specified rates such com
munications as the sender may desiRnat
for this method of transmission. l recon-
mend that such legislation be enacted q
will enable the postoffice department fairl
to test by experiment. the advantages Q
such a use of the telegraph.
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FEDERAL ELECTION LAW.
Its Passage Again Urged on Congress by
the President

Its Passage Again Urged on Congress by
the President.
If any intelligent and loyal company OF
American citizens we're required to cata-
lopue the essential human conditions OF ma
tional life, do not doubt that, with abso-
lutte unanimity they would begin with free
and honest elections and it 10 gratifying
to know that generally there is a growing
and non partisan demand for better cleo
tion laws. But against this sign OF hope
and progress must be set the depressing
and undeniable fact that election laws and
methods are sometimes cunningly contrived
to insure minority control. while violence
completes the shortcoming of fraud. In
nv last annual message I suggested that
mo y federal supervision of congressional
| aIactions offered an effective method of re-
FORMING these abuses. The need
Of such law has manifested
itself in man y parts of the country ana its
wholesome restraints and penalties will be
nsafnI The constitutionality of such leg
islation has been affirmed by the supreme
court. It's probable effectiveness II
evidenced by the character of the opposi
ton that is made of it. 1t has been De
nounced as if it were new eAercise ~, .
federal power. and an invasion OF tn
rights Of the states. Nothing could b
further from the truth. Congress has al
J ready fixed the time for the election o
, members of congress. 1t has declared ina
the vote for members of congress must b
by written or printed ballot. It has pro
Q vived for the appointment, by the citc a,;
courts in certain cases and upon the peti
) firm Of certain number of citizens, 9
3 election supervisors. and madeit their dut
to supervise the registration OF voters ns con
nersons Offering to register, to PERSONAL
d inspect and scrutinize the reRi!
+ try lists, and to afiK the the'
n fication and the prevention Of frauds; to a
le tend at elections and remain with Il
It boxes until the votes are all cast an an
# counted; to attach to the registry lists an
g election returns any statement touchiI
u the accuracy and fairness of the regist,
,e and elections; to take and transmit TO u
ls clerk of the house of representatives ar
,a evidencs of fraudulent practice which m,
D. b presented to them. The same law pr
= vidss for the appointment Of deputy Unite
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-02
IN CONCLUSION.

Congress is Reminded Of the Short Time
Left aud the Work to be Done.
The preparation of the general appropri-
alton bill should be conducted with the
greatest care and the closest scrutiny of
expenditures. Appropriations should be
adequate to the needs of the public service,
but they should be absolutely free from
prodiRality.
venture again 70 remind you that the
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brief time remaining for the consideration
of the important legislation now awaiting
your attention offers no margin for waste.
If the present duty is discharged with dill
gence, fidelity and courage, the work OF the
mitted to the considerable Judgment of the
people. BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Executive Mansion. Dec. l, 1890.