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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Buying a Corner Lot.
From the New. York Sun.


Pittsburg is enjoying boom in real
estate just now, and the competition for
choice lots runs high.
Mr.. Bllgus owned lot on the corner
of Fifth Avenue and Madison week or
two ago, but he does not own it now.
This is how be happened to part with
it:
"Mr. Bilgus, I believe ?"
''Yes, SIR"
81 understand you want to sell that
lot on the corner of Fifth and Madison.
What will you take for it ?"
Il don't know that I am anxious to
sell that lot said Bilgus; ''still might,
If | could get what it is WORTH
Well, what is your price pr
That property Is worth every cent
of $50, 900, and | don't know but what I
ought to ask 900. Do you want to
buy ?"
"Oh, no." replied Bilgus' visitor.
taking memorandum book out of his
pocket and putting down some figures.
MY name is Gerrish; Pm the new as
SCISSOR for that district, and I merely
wanted to get at the value of your prop
erty."
Bilgus smiled sickly sort of smile.
u was only in iun,'' he said, pres
entity. Il don't suppose [ could get
AlOiC eudA U1OsUOO IOT CuO IOC II laQ TO
sell 1t, and the man who would offer me
$4,000 would be snapped up so quickly
it would make his head SWIM
The assessor smiled just little. but
went on making memoranda.
Say" exclaimed Bilgus, jumping I'D.
"don't put that lot down at more than
$4,000. I'll take that for it, pom NV
honor, [ will"
Every well" said the assessor, ..Tll
take 1t for that. Here's a certified
check for $500 to bind the bargain.''
Bllgus was speecnless now.
Il thought you were the assessor"
be gasped presently.
ty ?" p0
Bilgus kicked like dozen mules, but
1T was NO &C. Mr.. Gerrish had his wit
ness to prove that Bilgus had offered
the lot for $l8, 900, and rather than de-
fend against threatened law suit the
unhappy man made out the deed.
:. The real estate was worth $25 900 cas-
lily; but am sorry to say that Mr.. Ger
IRISH told an untruth when he said he
was the new assessor.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Soil for Nursery Stock.

A dry, loamy soil not excessively rich
is best for growing young trees tor sale.
There must be potash in the soil, but
until fruit trees get into bearing, they
need less of other plant-food than do
most farm crops. In moderately heavy
soils, potash is seldom lacking, and on
these good drainage and cultivation are
more important than manure. The
bulk of growth of leaves and wood is
carbon. and is drawn from the air
through the leaves. If heterogeneous
manures are largely used they make q
soft, sappy growth, that is easily killed
by severe cold. And besides this young
trees thus grown are apt to be too much
checked when transplanted into soil
less stimulated by manures.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
The Paris Beggar.
Corr. New York Tribune.

Corr. New York Tribune
The list of articles for sale or hire
which form the tools in trade of the
Paris beggar, is quite extensive. The
military is the most profitable line on
which to work the sensibilities ola con-
quered and betrayed people. Soldiers
medals can be hired for 100 francs. or
$50 Ter year. Clutches and other aids
to enlisting sympathy are also to let.
Poems and begging letters couched in
academic French can be obtained for
those who work the proper intellectual
game. In fact, any and every imple-
ment, means and way of soliciting aims
are for sale at the headquarters of the
Trust When it is added that the board
of directors is elective, and elections
are held each year, the executive Of
fees carrying salaries with them, and
dividends are paid from the general
fund, it can clearly be seen that the
beggars of Paris are well organized
There must be profits in the BUSH
ness. because demands for beats, not
withstanding the heavy tithes, are very
brisk. and routes are eagerly sought af-
ter.
The old woman with wooden legs,
whom everybody who has ever passed
the corner of the Avenue de L Opera
and the Boulevard has not failed to OBJ
serve, is said to be heavy stakeholder
In the Trust. She is not. however, SO
deserving OF charity as one might be
led to believe. Besides selling fortune
cards, which is done as a cover to beg
ging, she has an extremely unsavory
reputation, and many a poor young
girl is said to have been sold into the
slavery of sin by this wretched old har-
ridan. She bears in her face traces of
great beauty, and the story runs that in
the first days of the empire she was
famous demimondaine. To save her
life in a fire, she jumped from the
thirdstory window, breaking both her
legs in the fall. She is extremely vain
and her pair of false legs have been
made to look, though wooden, plump
and well rounded. The tips, where the
toes should be, are gilded, and the
counterfeit ankles are vanished each
morning, and on fete days tied coquet-
tishly with carriers of bright red ribbon.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Potatoes on Sandy Soil.

Thirty or forty years ago potatoes
grown on sandy soil were reckoned the
best and it was thought that heavier
lands were unsuited to them. But po-
tatoes on sand soon run out, probably
from deficiency Of potash, and the bulk
of the crop for market is now grown on
heavier land and well MANFRED. The
Early Rose, and in fact most very early
potatoes need to have the land as rich
as it can be made. Thus grown we
think they are better in quality as well
as in yield. The old Mercer potato was
sort that did best on sand, and ii much
manure was used it always rotted bad
ly. The Peachblow potato was the first
one to be cultivated on all kinds of
soils and this, as much as its good quail
ity, made it popular both with growers
and consumers
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Storing Roots in Pits.

Roots of all kinds are better kept in
pits than in cellars, where they are ex-
posed to currents of air. Some earth
should be mixed with them to fill up
the spaces, and TINS prevent the evap-
Grafton that usually makes them dry
and tasteless before spring. Beets and
potatoes are more easily injured by
freezing than other roots, and require q
double or triple covering to exclude
cold. Turnips, rutabagas, carrots and
parsnips will all bear a temperature
nearly or quite down to the freezing
point, provided they are in contact
with the soil. Parsnips with slight
covering OF the part of the roots above
the surface may be left in the ground
until spring without injury, and even
with benefit. The freezing makes them
better favored than they will be if dug
in the TALL.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
UNKNOWN HEROES.
BY ELLA DARE.

There are martyrs, there are heroes,
Whose names are unknown,
Who are fighting, who are conquering,
Great battles alone
Though in number they are legions,
No comrades they count,
All the warfare, all the conflict,
Each soul must surmount.
In the shadow. in the darkness,
OF self and of sin,
They are soldiers, they are victors,
Who let the light in.
On the evils, and the falseness,
That flee in alright
At the power, and the glory,
Of truth, in its might.
Meet thy foibles and thy frailties
With courage and force!
They are traitors, they are tempters,
Through all of hfe's counsel
They will blind thee, they will haunt thee,
Those foes in thy breast,
Thou must conquer, thou must stay them,
They torture all rest!
Shall we count them? shall we name them?
Self-love is in lead
And she marshals all the passions,
She sows all the seed!
Strike her down then, from her vantage,
And 10 in her place,
All the virtues, all the glOrieS,
shall greet thee with race!
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Educated as Naval Experts.

Since 1882 there have graduated from
the Royal Naval College at Greenwich,
England, six bright young Americans
who have returned to this country to
undertake the great problems in naval
architecture that may come up in con-
nection with the designing, building,
and remodeling of government and
merchant vessels. Five of these young
men were educated abroad at the ex-
in it's service working out problems
pertaining to the navy. The sixth went
to Green wich on his own account. He
is now in business on his own hook, and
bids fair to be as successful as the 9TH
ers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
spring-sown Timothy Seed.

The surest catch of timothy is secured
by fall seeding. but it is worth while to
SOW some of this grass seed with clover
in the spring. Timothy seed sown in
spring is generally overshadowed by
the clover, and does not make much
show the first year. But the plants,
though small, are not killed, and as the
clover dies out they come in and fill its
place. Where alsike clover is sown
there should be full timothy seeding,
rs the alsike dies after it's first crop is
cut. The decay of alsike clover roots in
the soil give an extraordinary stimulus
to the timothy, which for year or two
thereafter will produce very heavy
crops, and sometimes, when cut early,
producing large second growth the
same season.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Ensilage summered Over.

Advocates as we have ever been for
the ensilage system. we think its adj
vantages are overrated when it is
claimed as likely to supersede summer
soiling. There is some extra labor put
ting up the ensilage and taking it out
over that required to merely cut and
feed fresh soIling crops. Ensilage may
be useful to piece out times when green
soiling crops are not ready for use but
there is at the best some waste of ria
terial in the fermentation which it un-
dergoes in the silo that the feeder of
green fodder need not be subjected to.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Cocoanut Butter,

The United States consul at Mann
helm, Germany, reports that German
chemists have learned how to make
butter from the oil of the cocoanut. One
factory already proc uces 100000 pounds
daily, which is sold at Is cents pound.
The nuts are procured from Africa,
South America and other tropical coun-
tries. Cocoanut butter contains 70 per
cent. of fat, and Of the remainder. one
third is composed of albumen, which
gives II greater nutritive value than
cow butter possesses. The new butter
is used largely in hospitals, and is find
ing it's way, on account of its cheapness,
to the tables of the poor, especially as a
substitute for oleomargarine, to which
it is certainly superior as usually made.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Disappointm emit With Hen Manure.

Many farmers over-estimate the value
of hen manure. AS it comes from birds,
they are misled into regarding it as
equal to guano, which is the rotted ex-
crement of birds fec on fishes. one Of
the foods richest in phosphoric acid.
If common fowls were fed fish or lean
meat, with plenty of pounded bones,
their manure would be much more val
liable than it is. The most common
food of fowls in this country is corn, and
from this the hen gets hardly enough
albumen and phosphorus to make egg
and shell. In summer fowls are often
obliged to live largely on grass, and this
makes very poor manure.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
WINTER ON THE FARM.
The Unfinished Stacking.

Lay it aside-her work-no more she sits
By open window in the western sum-
Thinking of this and that beloved one
In silence as she knits.
Lay it aside; the needles in their places;
No more she welcomes at the cottage door
The coming of her children home once NOR
With sweet and fearful face.
Lay 1t aside, her work is done and WE'LL
A generous, sympathetic, Christian life;
A faithful mother and a noble wife;
Her influence who can tell?
Lay it aside-say not her work is done;
No deed of love or goodness ever dies,
But in the lives of others multiplies;
Say it is just begun!
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Pumpkins a Paying Crop.

Pumpkins are usually a stolen crop.
That is, they are planted in hills of corn
or potatoes with the notion that thus
they can be grown without expense
and without interfering with anything
else. This may be better than not
growing them at all, but they pay better
to plant in patch by themselves.
Keep them clean until they cover the
ground, by which time few weeds will
start under their broad leaves. The
number of pumpkins that can be grown
on small patch of rich ground is as
tonishing, and there is always a good
market lor them in any city or large
village.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
After the HOLIDAYS.
From the New York Sun.

Papa" said little Rollo as ne laid
down the copy of Little Lord Fauntle-
roy' which he had found in his Christ
mas stocking-"Papa, why don't you
call mamma dearest ?"
Because. my son." replied the faith.
er, as he looked at the holiday bills,
"no gentleman will twit on facts"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15

RUSSIAN officials have decided that the
telephone is dangerous to the state.''
In Warsaw orders have been given that
telephones be removed from ali restaur-
ants, coffee houses and liquor saloons.
similar orders have been issued in ali
other large Polish towns.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15

he chooses, and be entitled to its pro-
duce as long as this does not Interfere
with the public use. Besides, a public
road running through farm makes it
much easier to sell off part and divide
tup, should 1t be deemed best to do
SO. This is an advantage likely to be
more thought Of as the necessity for
sub-dlviding large farms becomes more
apparent
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
BNet Sugar.

In regard to the beet-sugar industry,
experiments have been made in various
parts Of the United States in the growth
of beets and in the analyses thereof.
Many OF these analyses have been made
in the chemical division of the depart
nant at Washington, and show that
there are many localities, especially in
the northern portion Of the United
States and on the Pacific coast. suitable
to the production of sugar beet rich in
saccharine matter. The successful ex-
periments in beet sugar manu- sacture in
California have created great deal of
interest in various parts of the United
ment has received many inquiries for
information on this point. The chem
ical division is now collecting material
for full report on the beet-sngar in
dustry IN the United States, which it is
hoped may be published early the
coming winter Extracts from Report of
Secretary of agriculture.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15

DURING the recent floods in Japan
2,4l9 persons were killed and 155
were wounded 10000 were deprived of
the necessaries of life; $4,000 houses
were swept away Or rendered unin-
habitable; 10000 acres of agricultural
land with their crops were laid in waste
5000 bridges were carried away, and
hundreds of miles of road were des-
troyed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Boarding City Horses.

Farmers who live reasonably near
cities can often do a paying business in
taking for board the horses of their city
friends. The price charged for this SER
vice in the city livery and boarding
stables is always high, much above the
cost Of material, as the livery man does
not wish to encourage encroachments
on his own line OF business. If the
horse is not to be used except for exer-
else, a small amount of grain daily will
keep him in good condition. In all
cases the farmer should be exempt from
losses by accidents. only obligating him
self to take reasonable care to prevent
them. A cheaper way of keeping horses
is to let them run loose In yard, with
access at straw during the day, and a
little hay and grain at night. This is
the regimen given to canal horses and
mules in. New York state, and in many
cases the grain is omitted until just be-
fore time to put the team at work again,
when the canal opens in the spring.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
To Get Rid of Rats.

Sprinkle copperas freely on cellar
floors and wash the walls with carbolic
acid. This will cause rats to leave the
premises, and is better around the
house than poisoning them, which can
not be done without danger of killing
from their dead bodies after the rats
crawl into their holes and die.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15

Not nearly so much is said as former
ly about the necessity of cooked food
for stock. 1t is undoubtedly the fact
that warming food to near the animal
heat is a good thing i'll cold weather.
and in most cases the cooked food is led
while warm, which may account for its
supposed advantages. There is certain
ly harm in giving wet food at temper
ature near the freezing point in winter,
SIS it is apt to be, even in moderate
weather. The constant evaporation
from the surface rapidly cools anything
that is wet, and the introduction of food
with temperature of 40 degrees into a
stomach where the natural warmth is 9S
degrees, produces chill that requires
a good deal of the food consumed to
overcome. The cooked food that has
become entirely cold is no better than
that not cooked for most kinds OF stock.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15

A WINE company in California last
week received an order from England
for $4,000 gallons of sweet wine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
The Russet Annie

There are two or three varieties of
Russet, varying considerably in quality.
The kind most commonly grown is the
English Russell, of not very high quality,
but valuable for productiveness and as
a late keeper. The Golden Russell, of
Western New York is a better apple,
equally productive, and is of better
quality laterin the season than any other
apple. All the Russets have rich flesh,
and are not very juicy. Cider made
from item commands higher price
than from other apples, though only
those too small for market or otherwise
unusable are used. The Russell tree comes
early into bearing, rs it never makes an
immoderate growth of wood. Its
spreading habit of growth checks the
leading shoots and induces fruitfulness.
After 1t gets to bearing, it needs very
high manuring. 1t would often be
better if the fruit were thinned, as the
fruit sets abundantly, and in its early
stages its thicker skin and sournees
make it less likely than some varieties
to be thinned 10y the codling moth.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Roads Running Through Farms.

It is nothing against the value of
good farm that public highway runs
through it, provided the road is kept in
good condition. It does away with the
necessity for lanes, and makes it posi-
BILE to draw larger loads to and from the
barn with less injury to teams, horses and
land than it could be through cultivated
fields. Besides, except for the road
bed, the owner of land taken for public
use is as much entitled to it's produce as
he was before. He may keep seeded
and either NOW or pasture the road
sides, or he may plant any kind of fruit
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
Preparing Cuttings for Plants.

Cuttings OF grape vines may be pre-
pared SO that much larger proportion
will grow if little extra care be taken.
Before the cutting can send forth roots
a callous must form on its lower side.
This is helped by keeping it Immersed in
moderately moist sand, at a tempera-
ture Of forty or fifty degrees. Cover the
entire cutting, as it is not desired that
the bud should start. In greenhouses
the cutting is inserted in sand under
meath which pipes run TO furnish bot
tom heat. The bud is left exposed to
the air, which is most Of the time cooler
than the soil. In this way the root is
ready to start as soon as the expanding
bud makes call for more sap. Where
the cuttings are to be planted in open
air in the spring, keep them in the sand
without watering all the winter. When
ready to put out the rallous will be
plainly formed, while the bud will be
scarcely swelled. Exposed to warmth
and lignt the bud will quickly start into
leaf, but the roots starting at the same
time, there will be no check to it's
growth.
Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-01-24
COMMISSIONERS SALE OF
REAL ESTATE
IN THE CITY OF ROANOKE.

AS special commissioner OF the Hust
ings court of the city of Roanoke. Vir
ginia. in the chancery cause of j. w
Webb's administrator VS.. J B. Pollard
shall sell on the premises, to the
highest bidder, by public auction, at II
O'Clock a. M. on
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1890
all that certain lot or parcel Of land in
said proceedings mentioned, consistioe
of about ! acre lying on The north east
corner of Salem avenue and Twenty
fifth street of the CITY ofRoanoke. Va.
TERMS.-One-thlrd of the purchase
money cash. and the balance in two
equal credit installments at six and
Twelve months from the Jay of sale. and
the purchaser giving his negotiable
botes for the credit installments. the
title to the property to be retained un-
til the full purchase money is paid, and
a conveyance directed by the court.
% j. Al LEN WATTS,
Commissioner.
Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-01-24
TRUSTEES SALE.

By virtue Of deed of trust executed
to me as trustee by Join Morgan. dated
July Goth. 1883. and recorded 10 the
clerk. Office of. the Musings court OF
the city of Roanoke. Virginia. deed
hook is page.99, to secure to the
Home Building aud Conveyance COM
nany the payment OF the Gum of s605,
and whereas default has been made in
the payment of the same, at the re-
quest Of the beneficiary | will offer at
public sale on the premises on MON
DAY. FEBRUARY 10Th. 1899. that
valuable piece of real estnte known as
lot No. 2. section S of Fairvlew add
ton 10 the city of Roanoke, Va. Terms
made known on day of sale.
S. W. JAMESON
ang-1aw4w th TRUSTEE.
Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-01-24
TmE NEeRo IN KANSAS.

Expectation in Washington runs
high as to the number of mean
and bitter things which Sena-
tor Ingalls, will say about the South
and the Democratic party in his
speech on Senator Buffers negro de-
portatiop bill. He Will, Of course,
oppose any reasonable scheme for set
ting the everlasting negro question.
and will advocate keeping them in the
South to worry and harass her people.
Some years ago the negroes passed.
through Missouri in large num-
bers to Kansas from the Southern
states. but the great majority ofthose
who did not perish from hunger and ex-
posture have long since left the inhospita-
Bile state and returned to their old homes
Last week negro walked all the way
from Kansas TO North Carolina, prefer
ing the "white intimidaters of the
latter state to tho sympathetic friends
in the West who were willing to help
them with advice, but not with work
or money. z4.3 So ,a,-,i,., : :