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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24
BRUSH,
BY BESSIE CHANDLER.

1 have learned beautiful lesson,
Taught by the sweet-pease standing there,
Those little clouds of sunset glory
Caught out or time in morning air.
You see their fragrant blossms nodding,
Purple. crimson and pale rose blush,
On slender stems too slight to bear them
Without the helping, hidden brush.
To it's brown arms, so strong and trusty,
The little tendrils cleave and cling.
The vine unheld. in dust were lying,
A fallen, bruised, and fowerless thing.
And vet the brush itself was barren.
Unquickened by the summers kiss,
1t bore no scent or sign of blossom,
But now it blooms again like this.
/ think it must forget the sadness
Of it's own broken life, and glow
With love for all the warmth and sunshine
That makes the Sweet-pease bud and blow.
1t may seem but dreary failure,
Deadened and stOrm-tosSed, dulled with strife
But it has helped to bear the blossoms
That crown another fairer life.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

We've heard Of a woman
who said she'd walk five miles
to get a bottle Of DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription if she
couldn't get it without. That
woman had tried it. And it's
a medicine which makes itself
felt in toning up the system
and correcting irregularities as
soon as its use is begun.
Go to your drug store, pay
a dollar, get bottle and try
try a second, a third if
necessary. Before the third
ones been taken you'll know
that there's a remedy to help
you. Then you'll keep on
and a cure IL come.
But if you shouldn't feel the
help, should be disappointed
in the results -you'll find a
guarantee printed on the bot
tle-wrapper that'll get your
money back for you.
How many women are there
who'd rather have the money
than health? And "Favorite
Prescription produces health.
Wonder is that there's a
woman willing to suffer when
there's a guaranteed remedy
in the nearest drug store
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

summer, and whenever slight breeze
arises the wave that is ripe issues and
comes sweeping down ON defenseless
community. In winter it is a "cold
wave," SO called by signal scientists.
and in summer it is ''hot wave," of
course. What we need is an exploring
party to discover and capture the reser-
voir, and put it away in our national
weather bureau drawer, where we can
use its contents as we desire, after they
have been cut to suit the season.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24
He Doesn't Like Fish.

Dublin boasts of dog, the member
of a family where fish is always eaten on
Fridays, that for some time past dis
appeared on Thursday evening and was
not seen again until Saturday morning.
Investigation showed that the intel
ligent but heretical brute spent Friday
with family where beef was eaten on
that day.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24
A Deep Hole.

A hole ten feet in circumference APP
peared in Oconee county, Georgia, dur
ing the great earthquake in 1886. 1t is
full of water, and there has long been
talk about it's depth, but no soundings
were taken until a Jews days ago. Then
a rope 200 feet long was put down, but
it failed to touch bottom, and now there
are people who declare that "the hole
extends into the bowels of the earth"
1t is proposed to take second sounding
in the near future.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24
The Weather Wave Reservoir.
From the Washington Star

teoroligic and well-known fact that
somewhere in the Northwest there is a
great weather wave reservoir, where the
waves are stored ready for use. This
reservoir is undoubtedly open at both
ends, with the lid off and the bottom
out, so that its contents are exposed to
the rigors of winter and the feryor OF
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24
HERE AND THERE.
BY V, C. M

A bell tolled out in the church tower,
soul had gone home to God
There was singing and preaching and praying
A body laid under the sod.
On earth there were tears and repining,
In Heaven glad jubilee,
The world spoke her name in whisper,
The angels sang out: 'She is free ~
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24
A Reprleve for the Condemned.

Wretched men and women long condemned
to suffer the fortunes of dyspepsia, are filled
with new hope after few doses of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters. This budding hope blossoms
into the fruition Of certainty, if the Bitters is
persisted in. 1t brings reprieye to all dys-
peptics who seek its aid Flatulence, heart
burn, sinking at the pit of the stomach between
meals, the nervous tremors and insomnia
of which chronic indigestion is the parent dis
appear with their hateful progenitor. Most
benefcent of stomachics! who can wonder that
in so many instances it awakens grateful elo-
quence in those who, benefited by it, speak
voluntarily il its behalf. 1t requires graphic
pen to describe the torments o. dyspepsia, but
in many of the testimonials received by the
proprietors of the Biters, these are protrayed
with vivid truthfulness. Constipation, bilious
ness, muscular debility, malarial feyers and
rheumatism are relieved by it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

elbow many sexes are there, Willie ?"
''Three. Male, female and gents.
"How do you distinguish gents from
males p
''By their pants. ''-NeaO York Herald.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

THE house that the Clevelands have
bought on Monument River is greatly
out of repair and has deserted appear
9npn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

DR.. Pierce's Pellets regulate
the Stomach, Liver and Bow
els. Mild and effective.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

A SOAP that is soft is full of aodter, half
or two-thirds it's weight, probably, thus
you pay seven or eight cents per pound for
water. Dobbins' Electric Soap is oil
soap and no adulteratioD. therefore the
cheapest and best. Try D0bEi1lS'.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

edo good with that thou hast, or it will
do thee no good. If you know all about
SAPOLIO put your knowledge to use.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

LITTLE GALLON (who fancies himself a
man)-.'I say. governor, ! guess I'm old
enough to carry a stick. His Governor
with fine sarcasm -"Wen, oh, yes, |
see. I'll order one up from the confec-
toners as 60 down town. american
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24
ACT ON The BILE,
bile BEANS.

BILE BEANS are doing remarkably we'll in
my section they have given satisfaction to
every person to whom / have sold them.
l have strong faith III the medicine myself
and shall recommend it in every ease OF
liver complaint that comes under my notice
M 81. PRATT, Montelle, Wis.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

WIFE during quarrel eff I was n
man [ would blow the top of my head
off before L" Husband interrupt
ing)--"I don't doubt it, my dear; espec-
tally if you had to live with the same
sort of wife | do'-Epoch.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

Not much" replied the little man
promptly, "but should be if [ thought
had got to pay the undertaker's bills. :"
-,SOmfrJiUe TO7irnOL
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

DIR. JOHN BULL of Louisville. KY. show
ed his love for little children when he in
vented those dainty little candies he named
DR.. Bulls Worm Destroyer's. It's fun for
the children but it's death to the worms.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

IF afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr.
Isaac Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists
sell it. 25 cents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

ST. PETER 'Well, Gabriel, are they
all here?o Gabriel-r'sY es, all except a
few messenger boys" st. Peter
"Where are they?' Gabriel-"I don't
know. | footed for them three hours
ago. "-Ne.o York Herald.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

The HomeIies5 Man in This Town,
AS we'll as the handsomest and others, are
invited to call on any druggist and get free
a trial bottle of Kemps Balsam for the
Throat and Lungs, remedy that is selling
entirely upon its merits, and is guaranteed
to relieve and cure all Chronic and Acute
Coughs, Asthma Bronchitis and Consump-
ton Large bottles so cents and ST.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

MERcHANT-'I wish to insert an adj
vertisement in the Morning Bugle."
Clerk es, SIR" Commence in this
way: Pay Cash, and put those words
in large letters" eyes, SIR" "And I
wish you'd trust me for the amount for
a month or SO. y Yankee Blade.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

The practice of a certain hotelkeeper
in this city, whose name we will not
mention, cannot be too promptly. and
thoroughly discouraged. We allude to
his habit of entering the dining-room
during meal hours and yelling "fre"
or "dog fight" or, what is worse calling
us out on pretense of business. Twice
we have lost our third piece of pie in
this manner.-Saa angelo Iea.) Enter
7oriSe
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

M. L. THOMPSON & CO.. Druggists Couders-
port, Pa. say Halls Catarrh Cure Is the best
and only sure cure for catarrh they ever sold.
Druggists sell it, 75c =.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24

BEST, easiest to use and cheapest, Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists, Soc
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24
. II. M c NJ A M A r Asa
HEnI4kf PnnnQ

Established 1860 for the cursof
Nervous Debility, ExhaUstfonsf
Brain Ene, 3y. Physical Prostra-
Don. Sexual ne lhnsss, Kidney
Affections 0sd Blood Diseases.
The 6enerctide system. Bar
renness. leucorrhs0. Month
iy period, Mental liberation,
etc $50 Broad tVaH opposfts
8fatz Brewery. HiiUduhes. Wis.
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drifts over the beautiful bay and city

drifts over the beautiful bay and city
landmark visible from great distance.
People go from all parts of the world to
see it. The volcanoes within sight of
Mexico are more numerous and more re-
markable. If they were to go into erup-
ton at one time they would encircle the
city with mountains of fire.
On the great plaza of Mexico, between
the great cathedral and the national
palace, is n monument to Enrico Mar
tinez, the illustrious Mexican cosmo-
grapher. On this monument is inscribed
the latitude and longitude of the spot
and various other measurements, includ.
ing the very important one which shows
Tie night or Water In Lake Iexcoco,
nearest the city. Standing beside this
monument I at once saw that should the
lake submerge the city, of which there
is danger, the water would be two or
three inches above my head.
The lake is smooth and salty. Bull
rushes border its banks and the mount
aims are reflected on its surface. The
train left Mexico early in the morning,
the intention being to run down to the
tropical region, pass the best portion of
the day there and return at night. The
railroad people had provided lunch, din
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the mountain there is lofty rock OF
hill, sacred by ancient tradition, on
whose top is church. Many people
make pilgrimages to this church at Ame-
cameca.
We do not stop there except to take
more coffee and look at the mountains
from new and nearer point of view.
In the fields, rich with dark, volcanic
soil, the bare legged poems are plowing.
The plow il stick set into heavy
beam. Horses and oxen pull it. 1t is
an antiquated sort of plow, such as Abra-
ham might have used in the days when
he was the most advanced farmer Of the
world. Those who have seen Egypt say
the scene reminds them of that ancient
land. 1t has strange look. The fields
are full of poems cultivating the ground,
and the vegetation might very well be
Egyptian. The poems are good work.
men. They lose no time in soldiering;
their motions are quick, and their indus
try keeps them in ceaseless activity.
The sunshine burns US, and yet little
way above US is the land which touches
the shivering region. About one-third
of Popocatapetl, measuring from the top,
is covered with snow. That is to say,
there is a band of snow about the giants
cone that is fully mile wide. A Mexi-
can gentlemen tells me that it is 500 feet
deep in the barrancas and hardly less
than IUU feet deep anywhere except on
the southern side.
White summer clouds come drifting up
toward the peak. Where the sun strikes
upon the clouds they show whittier than
the snow. The lowest of these clouds is
more than two miles below its crest; oc-
casionally light one ascends near to the
top. The snow is more permanently
white than the clouds with tinge of in
digo to its whiteness. As noon comes on
the clouds disappear, and the glare of
the sun on the mountain top becomes
stronger.-Detroit Free Press.
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arry the burden of her lost love for

carry the burden of her lost love for
ever.
As she stood by the window, looking
out over the broad sheet Of sparkling
whiteness, conscious of something
found and something lost, there came
a gentle tap at the door.
"Come."
The door was open, and Jeanette,
with light step and bright smile on
her face, entered.
"Good-m orning, Miss Lima; I hardly
expected to find you up 30 early.
When you tainted, you frightened me
terribly last night, and [ was most sure
that you would be sick this morning.;
but, upon my word, believe you are
only looking the better"
"Thank you, Jeanette, for your
kind consideration for my health; but
am not feeling much the worse be-
cause of my dissipation of last night;
it is nothing uncommon for me to faint
and T soon get over it. But have 9
chair. Here comes my chocolate. II
you have not had yours yet, stay and
lunch with me-"
"Thank you; that will be delightful.
No; never lunch until ten, and 1t ls
always 50 delightful when one has COM
pany."
This was just the opportunity that
Jeanette wanted. and she was indeed
delighted at having succeeded so nice.
ly, thus far.
The only difficulty that now remained
was as to how she could get tho poison
in the cup without being seen.
The opportunity soon arrived. =
Some Of the guests were leaving and
Lenora went to the window to see who
it was.
As quick as flash she drew the bot
tie from her pocket and dropped its
contents into Lenora's cup, just how
much she did not know, but she hoped
it was enough to send the breath Of life
quickly from her hated rival.
Lenora soon returned to her choco-
late.
"How many we're going?"
"Only two gentlemen"
"Ah, yes, remember now. They
bade me good-by last night; two friends
of Rays from Boston,"
"How strangely this chocolate tastes
this morning. Did you enjoy it, jean
nette?"
"Oh, yes; only I thought it little
strong, and I do not feel very well
since I drank it."
II generally enjoy my cup very much,
but perhaps T have not yet quite re-
covered from the effects of the ball."
Still Lenora drank of that awful
steaming cup of poison, and Jeanette
looked at her with an inward feeling OF
victory.
"Oh, dearl I feel very uncomforta-
blel If you will excuse me I will re-
turn to my ROOM"
This wicked, deceitful woman rose
and went to the door, and just as she
passed out she saw Lenora set the
empty cup on the table.
[To BE CONTINUED
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TIE CHURCH OF AMEcAMEcA.


sary to start the day before and stop over
night at the sulphur miners cabin, just
below the snow line. The discomforts
of a night here are something that lew
care to endure, and the climb through
the snow up the icy crater next morning
is rery trying. The atmosphere is thin
on account of the enormous elevation,
and only strong men can stand it. The
sulphur odors have also to be endured,
and as a few incline to such hardships,
not more than a score of men have stood
on the top of Popocatapetl since the day
that Diego de Ordaz, under the command
of Cortez, made the first ascent IN the
wear 1919. The Emperor, Charles ",
allowed Ordaz to use flaming volcano
on his escutcheon. As Cortez says no
one could reach the top of the mountain
on account of the vast accumulation OF
snow at that time, it IS probable that
Order boosted of something he did not
narform. In that case the brothers Fred
erick and Willium Glennie, who climbed
It in 1927. are the first who should be
credited with haTlng reacheu the sum-
NIT.
All who undertake to go up the
mountain first get permit from the
owner and I'm order to his sulphur
miners to render assistance. Then they
90 by railroad to Amecameca, twenty-five
miles or so from Mexico, and there equip
themselves with extra clothing, ponies,
etc., and begin the wearisome ascent:
At this beautiful village at the foot OF
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A Brave General.

Among the stories they tell of bluff
old Gilman N1arston, OF New Hampshire,
who died recently, are these: He was
badly wounded in the arm at Bull Run,
but refused to have the member ampu-
tated, though the surgeons told him his
life depended upon that operation. He
insisted upon being placed upon his
horse, and was led to the front amid
cheers from the "boys" of his regiment.
He once refused to allow his troops to
board an overloaded transport, because
he chad brought those men from New
Hampshire to fight, not to be drowned. "
The orders of tyrannical superior to
build guardhousc "without so much as
a crack in it," he obeyed literally, solid
logs being so used that there was not
even q door to enter by. On one occa-
sion he coolly walked along q parapet
under q terrible fire of shot and shell
that he might inspire wavering bri-
gade.-Boston TraoeLler.
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STREET SCENE IN MEXICO.

ing cars being as yet not introduced into
Mexico. Everything was at hand except
coffee, and this was to be served at
Ayotla, station fifteen miles out. A
band of music was on board, consisting
of six violins,. four guitars, four claIi-
onets, two bass viols and six brass hcrHs.
The company disembarked for their cof-
fee and the band played outside the sta
ton. The sun was just rising, lighting
up the snowy peak of Popocatapetl in
the immediate background, the shadows
being quite deep upon its western side.
The other volcano, Iztaccibuatl, is con-
nected with the greater one, the ridge
which unites them being two or three
miles long.
Iztaccibuatl is an Indian word, mean
ing "the white lady" At sunrise in the
morning the long ridge Of the mountain,
covered with snow, bears a resemblance
to the form of a woman, shrouded in
white. The feet are nearest to Popo-
catapetl, the head farthest away. The
resemblance is not so apparent as the sun
mounts higher and the shadows fall in
other directions, but the figure of a
woman is much more plainly to be made
out at all times than is Antony's Nose on
the Hudson, or the mans head on Mt.
Washington.
While drinking the coffee and looking
at the wonderful mountain scenery, the
band begins its concert. A peon acts as
music stand. He holds a sheet in his
hands for the clarionet, and has pinned
to his back, or to the red serape on his
back, two other sheets for the brass
horns. He guards his face from the air
of the clarionet by holding the music as
o shield, but he cannot protect himself
from the brass horns which assail him
from the rear. Nevertheless he stands
perfectly still in the centre of this wind
blast. The music has either charmed or
paralyzed him.
Popocatapetl-an Aztec word meaning
the mountain that smokes-has an eleva-
ton of 17,72O feet, or 1945 feet higher
than Mt. Blanc, which Byron "crowned
monarch of mountains" It has not been
in eruption since 154o, twenty years after
the conquest by Cortez. A variable
column of smoke ascends from it. The
entire mountain is owned by gentle
man who resides in the City of Mexico.
He derives revenue from the sulphur
mined from the crater, and ALSO from the
charcoal which is burned from the wood
that grows upon the mountain side, be-
low the snow line.
The ascent is not often made. 1t Is
not dangerous, but very cold and disa-
greeable. To get to the top it is neees-
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MOUNT PoPoCATAPETL.

chandise. Neither is the disintegratins
element OF frost known in the climate !;
consequently the pavements of Mexico
wear well, are smooth and clean.
Mexico is 1850 feet above the level Of
the sea. The descend-"bajada"-
the city, as the railroad timetables put
it, that is, to 60 down toward the coast,
either toward the Atlantic on the east, or
the Pacific on the west, the circle of VOL
canic mountains which surround the Val
lev of Mexico must first be climbed. 1t
is the most remarkable range Of roll
canoes in the world, forming rampant
on q parallel sixteen miles south OF the
city.
They are not all in sight from the
capital, because Popocatapetl, the high
est mountain in Mexico, and Iztaccihnatl,
its companion and neighbor, shut out the
view. The traveller need not journey far
to the eastward before Orizaba. the most
symmetrical -shrouded cone in the
list of mountains, with its crater shin
ing like star in the night, will be seen
towering up in the sky. If he goes
westward soon the peak of the volcano
of Toluca will present itself, which is
united by chain of smaller volcanoes
with Iztaccihuatl and completes the in
closure. It is the strangest sight, this
circle of volcanoes, and one that has ar
rested the attention of physicists and
geographers, both before and since the
time of Humboldt. Old Vesuvius domi-
mates the horizon of Naples; bis smoke
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Good habits are better than wings.
Love gives what money can not buy.
There is a good deal of preaching in
smile.
To be patient is better than to be
famous.
The man who lives fast will be apt to
die quick.
The more people know the less they
brag about it.
Self-conceit is one of the first gods
that men worship.
If oil flowers were alike the bouquet
market would be dull.
We can not choose our duties, but we
can resolve to do them.
No man can look at the stars without
wanting to live forever.
1t would be calamity to have flowers
and grass change places.
There is hope for the man who is con-
scious of his own faults.
Three-fourths of total depravity crops
out in out-and-out laziness.
Men care least for honor when most
in need of bread and butter.
If men had made the world, how the
maa in the moon would grin.
If you can't do what you like to do,
try to like ths work you have to do.
1t is q good deal easier to be contented
without riches than it is with them.
There is more power in soft answer
than there is in ton of guupowder.
One of the tests of fine nature is the
effect joys and sorrows have upon it.
If the earth was covered with flowers
all the year round the bees would get
lazy.
Love and hope always live together.
Kill hope and love will bring it to life
again.
One of the sweetest things in the
family is to see children helping one an
other.
Indulgence is like the self-devouring
rocket; byt eheeFfulness is like the
Starry heavens"
If you want to have power to mould
other men, learn to control the man who
wears your hat.
Some peoples lives are like warm
water on q hot day; nice to look at, but
one taste is enough. "