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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-11
Working Day in other Countries

Turkish working day lasts from sun
rise to sunset, with certain intervals for
refreshment and repose. In Montene-
gro the day laborer begins work be-
tween and 6 in the morning, knocks off
at s for half an hour, works on till noon,
rests until 2, and then labors on until
sunset This is in summer. In winter,
says Chambers Journal, he commences
work at 7:30 or 8, rests from II to l, and
works uninterruptedly from that time to
sunset. The rules respecting skilled la
Dor are theoretically the same, but con-
siderable laXity prevails in practice. In
Servia the principle of individual con-
venience rules in every case.
In Portugal, from sunrise to sunset is
the usual length of the working day.
With field laborers and workmen in the
building trade, the summer working
day begins at 4:30 or in the morning,
and ends at in the evening, two or
three hours rest being taken in the
middle of the day. In winter the hours
are from $50 to 5, with a shorter inter
val of repose. In manufactures the
rule is Il hours in summer and 10 in
winter, with an hour and a half allowed
for meals
Eleven hours is the average DAYS
labor in Belgium but brewery men work
lOlAl ~ " IL lOtIS, 10,
the cabinetmakers of Brussels and
Client are often at work II hours a day
tramway drivers are on duty from Is to
II hours, with an hour and half off
at noon; railway guards sometimes
know what it is to work 49, hours a
stretch, and in the mining districts
women are often kept at trucking and
similar heavy labor - or IA hours.
The normal workday throughout Sax
ony is thirteen hours, with two hours
allowance for meal-taking. In Baden
the medium duration of labor is from
ten to twelve hours; but in some cases
it far exceeds this, often rising to fifteen
hours in stoneware and china works,
and cotton mills; in sawmills to seven
teen hours; while the workers in the sug-
ar retineries, where the shaft system is in
vogue, work for twentyfour, and then
have twentyfour hours free; and in too
many of the Baden factories Sunday
work is the rule. In Russian industrial
establishments the difference in the
working hours is something extraordi-
nary. VARYING from six to twenty 1t is
remarkable that these great diyergen-
cies occur in the same branches of in
dustry, within the same inspectors dis
trict, and among establishments whose
produce realizes the same market price.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-11
He is Used to 1t.
From the New York Sun.

The WOrst-abused man in New York
is the big, good-looking guard who ev-
cry evening stands on the New York
platform and closes the rear gate of the
rear car of bridge trains. In the never
ceasing stream of humanity that flows
over the big bridge this guard never
closes gate but he shuts out from one
to a dozen persons who think they could
have easily made that particular train.
When the gong sounds this big guard
places one foot on the moving train,
steadies himself by grasping the railing
around the platform Of the car with his
left hand, reaches over with his right
and quickly draws the gate shut This
attitude completely blocks the way of
all persons who are rushing to board the
train.
Here the food-gates of wrath are let
loose on the big guard.
''See here, you overgrown loafer, !"
said an excitable little man, last even
ing, as he bumped up agasnst this hui
man bulwark, IF your big carcass hadn' t
been in the way [ could have got on
that train easily enough. Why do yon
stand around here like bump on a log,
and keep people from getting on their
train? Get big salary for always being
in the way | suppose -
The guard is used to it. He turns and
walks away as if there was no convul-
sion taking place in nature, and this al
ways adds to the evaporation of his vic
tim.
'sFor two cents I would climb onto
your collar BUTTON" continues the ex-
citable little man, as he fumes and frets
in terrible way.
The big guard makes no sign.
By this time another train has pulled
up to the platform, and the little man is
swept along with the tide. The gong
sounds, the big guard again does the
gate closing act, other big and little peo-
brawny arms, and once more is he the
victim of some mans awful wrath.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-11
Poison in Water.

A physician expresses the opinion
that in many cases of nervous debility,
which have been ascribed to overwork,
insufficient nourishment, etc, the real
cause may have been lead in the drink
ing water. Among the symptoms of
lead poisoning are anemia, deficiency
of blood, dull hue of skin, digestive
arrangements, a coated tongue, fetid
breath, nausea, collie and partial paraly-
sis. Water should never he drunk in
the morning without first having been
allowed to run freely.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-11
HAIL COLUM BlAI
She is dignified and stately,

She is dignified and stately,
In Partisan style attired.
We must needs admire her greatly:
She expects to be admired.
The attractions she possesses
Our poetic fancies rouse,
Though she calculates" and "guesses,'
Though she "reekons' and "allows,'
Men of culture does she deem us?
With the air of one who knows,
Shakespeare Kant and Uncle Remus
She discusses with her beauX,
Suitors WOO her, duke and dandy,
And the cry is still they comet
Though she's mostly nibbling candy,
When she isn't chewing gum.
Unaffected by the bushes
That beset our English girls,
She can hold her own at brushes,
She is affable with earls.
Past description Everlasting
Power of metaphor or trope
Though husbands all she's asking
From the land she calls Europe.
st. James Gazette
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-11

pounds. The evidence in favor of fast
milking is. pretty conclusive-providin
that the time in milking was all the diff
ference that affected the flow The fast
mixer may have been more agreeable
TO the COW, and his manner of milking
may have been more agreeable The
bunggllng OF the boy may have been
positively annoying to the COW. This
would affect her giving down. as it is
called. 1t may have had as much to do
with the variation of the yield as the
time of drawing had.
You must please the COW if you want
her to do her best. More or less milk
is secreted during milking-as saliva is
secreted during eating; if the COW is an
noyed it checks secretion of the milk !;
1t pleased it stimulates it. For these
reasons it is important to have good
mixers, who are good-natured and
agreeable to the COWS.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-11
Flowers for the Farm Garden.

For most farmers wives it is best to
depend largely on hardy plants for the
ornamentation of the home. Fortu-
nately, there are many that are very
beautiful. With a liberal and well-se-
lected assortment of shrubs, herbaceous
perennials and bulbs, at Towering ages,
the ANNALS may almost be considered
luXuries, instead Of necessities. Yet we
should hardly be willing to do without
some of them, and if one can command
well-fertilized strip of ground of prop
er quality, a few feet wide, at the side of
the vegetable garden-a strip which has
been well plowed with the rest-a dozen
or SO kinds of flowers may, with no great
amount of labor, be raised from seed,
and furnish wonderful wealth Of bios
som for vase and corsage, from June or
July till frost.
For these purposes the following will
be sure to give satisfaction: Sweet peas,
phloX Drummondi, pansy, dwarf nastur-
tium, aster, China and Japan pinks, YER
bena, salpiglossis, annual chrysanthe
mum, sweet mignonette, scabiosas, and
petunlas in variety. If any tender
climbers are wanted SOW morning-glory,
cypress-yine, tall nasturtium, and thun-
bergia. OF course there are other good
things, but one cannot have everything,
and busy housewife would better have
a short list of good flowers, easy to
raise and take care of, than long list,
whose needs she may not know, to be
sown and neglected. Most of the above
may be sown in the open ground, and /,
under favorable circumstances should
do we'll.
| have found the method of starting
plants like tomatoes or cabbages, and
then transplanting them, excellent for
some varieties A cigar box in the win
dow serves nicely for starting seeds.
and so does an oyster can with one side
out and perforated in the bottom. Set
the plants out just before q rain, if
practicable, in well-prepared ground,
a foot or more apart, so they may be
hoed like cabbages. The sweet peas,
alyssum, candy-tuft, mignonette and
phloX Drummondi are best soWn where
they are to grow. If sweet peas are
wanted in abundance and great variety
buy a fourth or half pound of mixed
seed of a reliable scotsman, SOW them
about April l, if the season is favorable,
as garden peas are Sown, rather deeply,
in drill at the edge of border next the
vegetables (the seed having previously
been nicely sprouted in warm, damp
sandy and let the cultivator pay its re-
spects to the row. Furnish them with
trellis or brush to climb on. The salpi-
glossis-in mixed yarieties-is beautiful
enough to repay extra care if it need it,
as is also the verbena Do not leave
these out of the list.-American 1gri-
cltltluad
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-11

Mr. IANGIE-"Whv Johnny, what's
tie matter with you9" Johnny (who
had Just dropped some macaroni off his
fork has crawled off, Youth s
Companion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-11
The Berkshire Hog.

Bells Messenger, London, appears to
have a great liking for the Berkshire
pig. 1t says this pig produces tender,
lean, juicy hams, averaging 20 to %
pounds, with covering of fat not more
than an inch or three quarters of an inch
thick, the lean being streaked with fine
lines of fat that make the ham sweet
and tender. Other breeds, it says, may
produce more or less Of such meat, but
it thinks they cannot be depended on to
produce it so uniformly. From it's sug-
gestions as to growing pigs, we judge the
English idea is not very different from
the teachings of the best Ameri-
can writer's on the subject. It sug-
gests that a grass lot is the best place
in which to grow pigs, preferringa clover,
and giving the pigs, as soon as Weaned,
all the milk, wheat, bran, or middlings
that they will eat. This should be
mixed half and half with oatmeal and
rye and barley, or buckwheat meal.
These are thought good substitute for
oats. Ground wheat is not thought bv
this English authority too good for
growing pigs. Unless there is running
water in the lot, give the pigs all the
pure water they will drink three times
d day. If the grass gets short, supple
ment it with vegetables-such as
squashes and pumpkins. A month be-
fore Strengthening mix one fourth of corn
meal with the bran or middlings, and
gradually increase it three-fourths.
They may continue to run into the grass
lot, but they must have shelter and a
dry place to lie down
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-11

A HEART that has been often rendered
is tough.-Boston Transcript
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-11
Fast Milking.

1t is generally understood that fast
milking has the advantage of securing
more milk than slow milking. Ralph
Allen, of Delayan, ILL.,, gives to the Jer-
sew Bulletin q little experience that
well illustrates the difference. His boy
was learning to milk, and took two and a
half times more time than fast mixer
who got from the COW at each milking
nine to twelve pounds of milk. The
boy could only get from seven to nine
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-11
The Currant.


of all the small fruits. Palatable and
wholesome for use in its natural state
when ripe, the housewife makes from it's
abundant juices the most delicious of all
jellies. It's fine color also is delight to
the eye, inviting to the enjoyment of it's
sprightly flavor. Even while green and
immature, like It's cousin, the gooseber-
ry, it furnishes grateful sub-acid for
tarts and sauces. 1t is, however, alas
the most subject to loss, from insect dep
relations, of all small fruits, and if a crop
is expected the bushes must be carefully
watched. The currant worm invariably
sets in about this time to forestall our
expectations of fruit, and unless
promptly checked strips the bushes of
foliage in few days. The eff
forts of the many to extirpate this pest
are always frustrated by few careless
people who neglect the matter, and
thus allow enough of the vermin to live
to amply perpetuate the race. This is
the more to be regretted, as the manner
of checking them is at once Sc simple
and so effective. A little powdered
white helleboro, ard a few moments
attention to the case, is all that is re-
Quired; the foe succumbs at once, and
the fruit is saved. The easiest manner
of application is to sprinkle the bushes
from watering-pot, on bright, sunny
morning, with liquid concoction, the
proportions necessary being a heaping
tablespoonful Of the powder well stirred
into gallon and d half Of water. A
second and even third attack some
times occurs during the summer. Don't
neglect the treatment at the first symp-
d.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-02
Grady on Advertising.

Years ago when Henry ". Grady
was struggling to bring the Rome
Commercial into the front rank, he
called one day and asked the Roun-
saville Brothers for an advertisement.
Mr.. J. W. Rounsavillereplied: ''Why,
Grady nobody reads your paper, it is
of 10 use to advertise in it." A hap
py thought suggested itself to Mr..
Grady. lie went to his Office and wrote
the following advertisement, which
appeared next morning in the Com
mercial: Wanted fifty cats, liberal
price for the same. Apply to Roun-
saville Brothers"
Well, the picture that presented
itself at Roumsaville's corner next
morning beggars description. Boys
of all ages and sizes, boys Of all tints
from the fair-harred youth to the So
BILE Ethiopian, barefoot boys and
ragged boys, redheaded boys, freck-
led faced boys, town boys and coun-
try boys, boys from all parts of
Floyd county, blocked up the side
walk, doorways and street with bags
full,of cats-cats of every description
name and order-house cats, yard
cats, barn cats, church cats, fat cats,
lean cats, honest cats and thievish
cats. Well, to make a long story
short, the Rounsavilles' told Mr..
Grady to reserve column for their
advertisement as long as his paper
continued. and that was just what
Grady wanted.-Rome Tribune.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-02
Where tie Rain Never Ceases.

Mr.. D. r. Parlman tells of curl
Gus phenomenon in Chattahoochee
county, Ga, place where rain falls
perpetualy. The spot is located on
a little knoll in a thin wood on the
Shipp place, two miles from Thad.
Nh. Parkman says the discovery was
first made last Thursday, and that
rain has been falling steadily on the
knoll since that time. The downfall
covers a space Of fifty feet square.
The space is perfectly yet and the
leaves on the ground are full of wa.
ter. Mr. Parkman says he visited
the place with Mr. G.. a. McBryde at
noon Tuesday. There was not q
cloud to be seen in the sky, and the
leaves everywhere, except on the
square, were as dry as tinder. Il
stood with the space between me and
the sum-" said Nh. Parkman, "and
saw the raindrops coming steadily
down from the sky. I held out my
handkerchief and it was soon satura-
ted with water" Nh. Parkman says
that everybody who hears about the
phenomenon is skeptical, but that
the many who have visited the place
in the last few days have gone away
convinced. No one has offered an
explanation of the mysterious rain
fall. Nh. Parkman suggests that
some powerful unknown substance
attracts the moisture from the atmos-
phere.-Macon Telegraph.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-02
Making Democrats of Negroes.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June26.-Charles
Fl. j. Taylor, negro lawyer of At
lanta, who was minister to Liberia
during the Cleveland administration,
proposes to take the colored voters
over to the Democratic party in a
body. Taylor has perfected a plan
for a convention to be heldin Atlanta
next month, to be composed Of one
colored delegate from each State in
the Union. The purpose Of the con-
vention, as announced by Taylor, is
to decide upon the best plan OF pre-
pairing figures to prove to the negroes
that they have never received any
favors from the Republican''party and
never Will receive any. In on inter
view with the Sun correspondent to-
day Taylor said that he has visited q
number of States, North and South,
in the interest Of his plan, and every
where finds most of the educated
and intelligent negroes in full SYM
pathy with the movement. They be-
gin to realize, he says, that they can
never hope to be more than mere vot-
ing machines while they remain in
the Republican party, and that then,
real friends are the Democrats. Tay-
lor thinks fully 100000 negro voters
Will vote the Democratic ticket at the
next national election.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-02
Gen. RosSer's Suggestion.

In letter to the Richmond (Va)
Dispatch. Gen. Thomas L. Rosser
writes: "Gen. R. E. Lee, Yirginia's
greatest son, has been honored by
the people of the South without re-
serve, and majestic and beautiful
monument has been erected by lov-
ing hands to his glorious memory.
At the base of that grand structure
are four reservations-one for Al
bert Sydney Johnston, onefor Stone
wall Jackson, one for A. P. Hill, and
one for ]. E. B. Stuart. These great,
good and heroic men should be pla-
ced at their post around General Lee
at once. Three of them were his
lieutenants, and are inseparably
bound up with him in his military
life, andhe looks lonely without them.
Now, I wish to appeal through the
columns of your paper (whichreaches
all Virginians) to the cavalry CORPS
of the Army of Northern Virginia,
asking that supefb commando place
our great general, J. E. B. Stuart,
upon his post with General Lee. 1
want the cavalry to do this rmaided
by others, and 7 want every trooper
to give at least q mite. I will start
the subscription with $500" The
Dispatch suggests that the proper
way to carry out this scheme would
be to form an organization and elect
officers, including treasurer toreceive
contributions.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-02
Caught O Mermaid.

". W. Stanton, mate Of the schoon-
er Addie Spaefer while fishing for
bass three miles Of st. Augustine
drew his line and found entangled
therein the strangest creature ever
caught in the waters of this coast 1t
is about six feet long, pure white and
scaleless. The head and face are
wonderfully human in shape and
feature. The shoulders are well cut
lined, and much resemble those of a
woman, and the breasts are esswel de-
fined and show considerable develop
ment, while the hips and abdomen
continue the human resemblance. 1t
has four flippers, two Of which are
placed at the lower termination of the
body, and give one the impression
that nature made all effort to supply
the strange creature with lower limbs.
When it was drawn on board the
schooner it gave utterance to q low,
moaning cry like the sobbing ofa
child. Nr. Stanton will present his
mermaid to the Smithsonian Institu
ton Chicago Tribune.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-02
IEaYinr ny inff0n

When should cotton receive it's
last piowing! No absolute rule can
be laid down-ui;ch depends on the
character OF the season, much On the
nature of the land, and something on
the degree Of maturity of the crop.
We may say broadly that plowing
promotes growth Ii cotton has at
tanned size enough (two to three feet
in height and frequent rains encour-
age farther growth, it does not need
TIE plow on that score. It may need
It on account Of weeds and grass, but
at this late day it ought not The
crop ought by this time be so clean
that it may safely be let alone, but if
il is not, it is better to sweep it over
lightly again But let it be bone in
mind that plowing in the later stages
Of the crop may do harm as well as
good. Cotton will not bear the cut
ting Of its roots. In the latitude OF
middle Geolg gia, it is rarely necessary
to plow cotton after the last of July.
The crop is then fruiting rapidly, and
nothing should be done to promote
growth; for fruiting and rapid growth
are, to . great extent, inconsistent
with each other.
The character of the land is another
factor in the matter. Damp bottom
lands. where the conditions for
growth are ever present, must be
laid by sooner than uplands if planted
as early. The objective point on
such land IS to moderate, not pro-
mote, growth, and finally to reduce
it to a minimum, so that fruiting may
be substituted for it. Such lands
should be laid by as early as possible
consistent with the crop being clean.
Instead Of loosening up the soil. let it
alone that it may get compact and
absorb less rain water and dry OF
more rapidly after rain. This Will
promote the ripening and opening OF
the bols. There is no trouble ID
making bols on bottom land-the
trouble is getting them to open: In
very rank cotton on such land 1t is
not only good policy to lay by early,
so as to promote maturity, but it may
be advisable sometimes to break the
stalks half way down, and thus forci-
bly, check tEeir growth.
Of course late planted cotton vii
have to be laid by earlier than that
planted in advance of it. But in this
case it is often still more important
to arrest growth promptly because
such cotton is more liable to be cut
off by frost. No cotton will bear
plowing with profit later than the
10th of August, except IN regions fa1
south, were warn growing weather
runs into November. Upon the
whole it is better to lay by too early
than too late, but to do this the cror
must be well cultivated and entirely
clean. Now is the time to get it II
such condition that it may be laid by
early with safety and rroft.-W. L.
Jones in Atlanta Constitution.