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Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-12-27
Adopted Child of the Author of John
Halifax, Gentleman"

Every woman in the land has bowed down be-.
fore "John Halifax, Gentlemen" but how MANY
know much OF the life of the woman whose brain
chd ne wasf There is in it q lt6le romance that T
am sure many will like to hear. Married to a gen.
tleman who was cripple, Mrs. Muloch Craik lived
an ldylllc life at a beautiful country home. few
miles from county town. She heard one dav
quite accidentally, that a baby had been found on
stone at The cross roads, that it had been taken
10 Che Town Hall and that all The gentry about
were going 10 look at 1t because it was such a
sweet little child. So, following the example Of
her nelghbors, she went too Looking up into the
sweet, sympathetic face of the famed autboress
the little baby smiled and put out its wee hands
oman MULCH Craik could not resist this. and
so she determined to take the child for her verv
own. Quickly it was wrapped up and 1t became
her Daby. Devoted to it, she was vet determined
as it grew older it should never have its heart bnrt
by being told the story of its birth and adoption
so as soon as the little girl was able to understand
IL was lovingly whispered to her that she had been
louno on large stone which stood in the center
OF the nall, and which always was decorated with
mowers, and that God had put her there that her
mother might find her. AS soon as she GREW old
enough it became her daily duty to cut the Aowors
and arrange them to make beautiful this oroot
rock that had been dug up from the cross roads
and brought there. To her it represented ths
place where the hands of the angels had rested
when they laid her down.
Curiousy enough the child became very nrord
OF the way in which she haG reached the daar
mother who cared for her as lovingly and as tend.
erly as if she were really her own flesh and blood
Her birthday was the day on which she was fonnd
and when the tenth one came around and cbild,s
party was given her, she was heard asking ono
little girl Glow old are your" The other o one
answered, 81 was born nine years ago. "Oh ~,
answered the baby, ''you were born like other
cnlldreI' but am better than that; was fonnd
just where God had placed me-" The cbiIdioh
pride was amusing as it was pathetic
Inc Jears have gone by, the eyes of the oood
motner are closed forever to the sights of this
world; but the child she cared for lives in tho
great town of London, and remembers and vhen
the mother of ''John Halifax. Gentleman ), and
t Uni girl stands before Almighty Cod don't Won
thlnk tie will say-"As We have done it INTO tho
least OF these, so will uato you. Ladies' Homo
Journal iAonie
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-12-27

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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-02
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.

The Democrats came up smiling In
a large majority of the municipal con-
tests throughout the state, yesterday.
The greatest interest was conferred on
Milwaukee, where the Bennett law
was the issue. The result is the cleo
ton of George w. Peck for mayor and
heentire Democratic ticket by 5000
majority. AS to the reason for this
victory, we give it in Mr.. Peck's own
words, spoken last evening: "The
cause is plain. The Lutherans and
Catholics have evidently come to the
conclusion that their interests are
with the Democratic party. There
may have been some other minor
causes, for even in wards without any
Lutheran voters gains are shown.
The people must have known me or
my associates on the ticket"
We believe the Republican party o.
Wisconsin will becompensated in No
vember for this defeat. The issue on
the Bennett law is now made fair ard
square between the two parties,
the Democratic party pronounclng
against the law and the Republican
party firm in it's purpose to sustain
the measure.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-02

THE agitation of the Bennett law is
sue in this state has stirred up the
German Lutherans in Illinois. where
there is a similar law in operation.
This sect has issued pamphlet in
which the authors demand modifi-
cation of the law. The pamphlet as
serts that there are about 100, 900
children who are educated in paro
chial schools in place of the public
schools. The Illinois statute is al
most Identical with chat of WiscOn-
sin, and there as here the law is held
to be inimical to the parochial
schools. This idea arises from mis-
representation or misrepresentation OF
the terms and spirit of the act. The
whole essence of the requirement is in
the provision relating to instruction
In the common branches of the En-
glish language. When these sectar-
ians can show that it is not necessary
nor expedient for the children of their
denomination, who are to take part
In our government, to understand the
language of the country--that Ian
guage in which all it's laws and it's
literature are expressed they will
have some excuse for their opposi-
tion.-M0disOn Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-02
A Scoundrel Out Of Office.

ALBANY, NY, March THE resig-
nation of Sheriff Flac,y, of New York.
has been received by the governor.
This is due to the scandal growing out
of Flack's villainy in procuring di-
vorce from his wife without her
knowledge. The office is worth about
$4,000 a year. Flack is a Tam
many leader.
In spite of all Flack protests that
he has committed no crime, but ad-
mits that a person under conviction
of criminal offense, no matter how
innocent he may be, ought not to
continue to hold public office. He be-
lieves that he will be indicated in
the courts, and that his fellow-citi-
zens will find that whatever mistake
he may have made he has been guilty
of no crime. The governor will ap-
point successor to Sheriff Flack.
New YORK, March 31.-Judge Bar
rett this afternoon sentenced Sheriff
Flack to two months in the county
jail and to pay fine of $500. Judge
Barrett denied all the premises set up
in the motion for new trial. VIM.
l.. Flack was sentenced to the state
penitentiary for four months and to
pay a fine of $500; Joseph Meeks re-
ceived a sentence of one month IN jail
and to pay $500 fine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-02
RObbing the Farmers.

LARIMoRE, n. D., March 27.-A
large majority of the farmers of North
Dakota are indignant over the alleged
charity of the business men of ST..
Paul and Minneapolis, and it is the
intention of most of them to refuse
the seed wheat purchased with the
100000 guarantee fund raised in
the twin cities. They look on the ar
rangement as a scheme concocted by
the elevator companies, the millers
ard the bankers to sell wheat at 25
cents a. bushel more than it is worth
in the market and get IL per cent. IN
terest on their money. Under the
agreement needy farmer must pay
ST for every bushel he secures for seed
out of the first money he secures on
his crops, because the seed wheat loan
becomes first lien, and is ample Sc
curity to those who furnish the wheat
If the yield is even five bushels an acre.
The whole affair is doubly an outrage
because North Oak ota's farmers were
last fall forced to have this same
wheat graded No. 2 and received 80
cents a bushel for it. Now they are
asked to receive it from the elevator
companies as No. hard and pay 81
cents per bushel for it, with interest
at the rate of IL per cent. In many
communities the more thrifty farm
ers will aid those who are needy, while
in others there is q disposition to SOW
no grain at all, rather than submit
to this new species OF robbery.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-02

WATERFOWL MARKET.

Corrected weekly by VIM. Buchheit,
Commission Merchant, Third Street,
WATERFOWL
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-02
Buried Twenty Years.

Fort ATKINSON, Wis, March Is
The body of Thurlow Weed Brown,
the temperance editor and abolition
list, who died twenty-five years ago,
has been exhumed. The remains were
inferred on the family homestead. 1t
being desired to dispose of the proper
ty, it was found necessary to remove
the body, together with the bodies OF
his three children, to cemetery. Al
ter twenty-five years OF burial the
face of Brown was in nearly it's natur-
al condition. The hair showed it's
parting, the clothes were intact, but,
more curious than all, the little ever
green's he loved so well had pushed
through the lid OF his coffin and for
years had laden the air with sweet
ness transformed from his inert clay.
The body of the famous agitator had
become largely mass of rootlets.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-02
A Bad Platform.

The above is the term which The
Chicago Herald, an out and out DEM
ocratic paper, applies to heplatform
adopted by the Democrats of this
city.
1t says of the platform adopted by
the Democratic convention last Mon
day, that ''these resolutions, while
they contain a half-hearted and enig-
NAUTICAL approval of compulsory edu-
cation, demand in the most unequiv-
ocal terms the repeal of the Bennett
law, and are, therefore, arrayed against
the best interests of education and Of
american liberty" The Herald fur
ther reminds the Milwaukee Demo
Gratis that ga party which prostitutes
itself to every transient wave of pop
ular passion or opinion, without re-
gard to the paramount principles of
public virtue, public liberty and pub
icsafety, is sure to get some very hard
falls, and it deserves them;' and it
adds: eff the Milwaukee Democrats
do not get left in the approaching
municipal election, we shall be sur
prised.'
Thus, the Democrats of this city
have adopted platform which COM
pels every man who votes for their
candidates to array himself against
the best interests Of education and of
American liberty" by so doing. This
is not the assertion of d Republican
partisan, but of one of the leading
Democratic papers of the country.
-MiLraukee Sentinel.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-02
WHAT BACTERIA ARE.
They Multiply Very Rapidly, and They Do
This in a Strange Way,

They Multiply Very Rapidly, and They Do
This in a Strange Way.
The great majority of these microscopy
ic plants are what botanists call bacteria,
the smallest form of vegetable life. So
small are they that it would take, in
cases, as many as fifteen thousand OF
them arranged in row to extend an inch.
They have different forms, some being,
round, some oval, some rod-shaped, and
others much the shape of corkscrew or
spiral. In all cases they are SO small
that one needs powerful microscope to
study them, and in no case can we per-
ceive them singly with the naked eye.
When countless millions of them are
grouped together in a mass, or colony,
we can see them about as we are able to
see at a great distance an approaching
army, of which we are totally unable to
distinguish single soldier.
We have said that these bacteria move
about; and this is true of most of them,
although there are some which do not
appear to move at ALL but remain fixed
where they find good feeding place.
Those that have motion behave in a very
peculiar manner: some wobble about in
AOA 49,
the least; others dart hither and thither,
back and forth, at an apparently furious
rate, rocking and twirling about, and
turning hundred sonersaults as they
move along.
Bacteria multiply very rapidly, and
they do this in a strange way. A single
one breaks itself in two; then each half
grows to be as large as the first. Then
these in turn, divide up again, and so
on, until from single one we have
many thousands in short time. To
give you the figures, such as they are, a
| single one can multiply at so enormous
rate that in forty-eight hours it can
produce something like $4,000, OOo,0 900
of bacteria. Great consequences follow
this enormous increase of bacteria; for,
while one which so small in itself can do
little, the vast army resulting from the
| multiplication of one is able to accom-
plish much.-Prof. Frederick d. Chester,
in ST. Nicholas.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-02

-Einancier - s. You literary men
haven't the least idea about business.
Here you have about ten thousand man
uscripts piled up in this dark cupboard,
and you say they are all paid for?"
Editor Great Magazine Years ago.
''Just think of it! Hasn't it ever oc-
CURED to you, sir, that you are losing
the interest on all money you paid out
for those useless bundles?" "Huh! You
fnanciers haven't the least idea about
literature. Every one of those manu-
scripts is from different author, and
the whole tea thousand of them will go
on buying our magazines at shilling a
copy until the articles are printed
Exchange.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-02
Hibbard's Strengthening and Rheu-

n1atic PIasters
ARE A REVELATION TO THE WORLD, AND ARE
THE ONLY GENUINE RHEUMATIC PLASTERS.
Nine-tenths of all troubles which re-
quire the aid of plasters are rheumatic in
their nature A change of weather or
sudden draft causes cold, which devel-
ops into muscular and that into int1amma-
tory rheumatism And yet there has ne
yer been such thing as distinctly rheu-
matte and strengthening plaster, and hun
dreds have died suddenly where rheuma-
tism has attacked the heart, whose lives
might have been saved had this plaster
been applied in season. They are con-
structed on purely scientific principles
and are purely vegetable.
Prepared by Rheumatic Syrup Co.,
Jackson, Mich.
For sale by all druggists.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-02
Wedding at Fort Atkinson.

FORT ATKINSON, March 31.-The we'd
ding of an elderly couple occurred here
yesterday, the date of which was kept
secret until the time Of the ceremony.
Mrs. O. NJ Spaulding, widow of Lyman
Spaulding, one of the early settlers of
Koshkonong, was married at her home
on Whitewater avenue to Carlos Curtis,
also an old settler, engaged in the meat
business here. The Rev. Rose, of the
Congregational church officiated.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-02

During the ice-cutting season S,S12
carloads of ice were shipped from
Madison over the St. Paul, Northwest
ern and Illinois Central railroads.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-09
Given Away by a Parrot.

"Oh, il was so funny" smiled the
jolly passenger as he left Tenth street
car at Chestnut street and launched q
derisive smile at the bewildered con-
ductor. "Two women boarded the car
at Wallace street. They weighed an
even 200 each, and besides carried two
big valises and parrot. They were
evidently uneasy at something, and
gazed at the bird as if afraid that his
tongue would break loose. II did after
while, but it served the woman right.
When the. conductor made his way
through the standing crowd and pre-
sented his hand for fare the largest of
the sisters handed him a silver dollar.
The knight of the punch extracted five
cents from the Bland and returned
ninety-five cents in change to the pas
senger.
"Then he applied to the other one
for fare, and his Galway whiskers turned
brighter hue when she coolly said !;
MY sister paid for me- In vain he
argued and protested against two peo-
pie occupying three seats for one fare.
AS he turned despairingly away his
parrotship, who had been fidgeting in
his cage, electrified the car by shouting,
Mary, you're dead beat It was too
much. The women retreated, parrot
and all, and as the smiles of the con-
ductor and passengers followed them an
acquaintance said: 'One of the sisters
taught the bird that sentence because
they're always swapping at each other. !"
philadelphia Inquirer.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-09

ONE of the most remarkable monu-
ments in America is at San Luis, Obispo
County. Southern California A great
rock rises $50 feet above the plain of
Carissa, and in the distance looks rug
ged and forbiding. On near approach
it seems to have on its eastern side an
opening twenty-five feet broard, which
leads into an inner temple or court,
with level floor 225 feet long and 125
feet broad at it widest part. The cell
ing is sixty to one hundred feet high.
This great natural cathedral is a won
der to geologists, but it is more wonder
full to archeologists. 1t was evidently
used by prehistoric men as temple Of
worship or capitol Of government. On
the walls are paintings in red, white, and
black, doubtless having meaning.
There are figures representing fields,
suns, forts, spears, men and animals.
The colors are apparently as bright as
when laid on. The wonder was dis
covered by Franciscan missionaries 100
years ago, and there has been no change
in its appearance since. When or by
whom the walls were decorated no one
knows. The Indian tribes had no ira
dition concerning the work, and regard
it with superstitious reverence.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-09

THE sequel to a rather peculiar incl
dent has just been brought to light in
which fish and an engagement ring
were the principal actors. Some months
ago man living near Wellsville
caught a large catfish in the Ohio
River. On cutting it open gold ring
with an opal setting was found in its
stomach with the initials NJ. ST. d.
on the inner face of the band. By an ac-
cident this came to the notice of Fred
erick Dunham, of Springfield, ILL.,, and
on examination he pronounced it the
engagement ring which he had given
to his wife twelve years before and
which she had lost on a Missouri
River steamer few years after their
marriage.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-09

PROF. AUSTIN PHELPS, of Andoyer
Seminary, is careful student of cur
rents and forces within and without the
church. He has recently written to
the President Of the United Society of
Christian Endeavor, thus: II have been
SO deeply interested in the new move
ment creating societies of Christian
Endeavor,' that I am moved to express
to you, unsought, my cordial sympathy
with it. It is the only movement which
has met adequately peril to which our
churches for many years have been ex-
posed. I mean the absorption of
churchly forces in methods of useful
ness outside of the church, and some of
them ignoring its existence. This
movement of Christian Endeavor'
seems admirably fitted to counteract
that danger. I am grateful for it. The
rapidity of its success is proof that it
was needed. Earnest believers were
waiting for it."
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-09
Never Refused Charity.

Frank Lane, the actor, tells a story
Of the late Harry Richmond, who was a
remarkably bright comedian in his line.
One day in an Eastetn city Richmond
went to the bank to cash draft. It
was for $94.04, money due. and Harry
was paid 800 in bills, $4 in silver and
four pennies. The pennies he jingled
in his palm after he salted the bills and
silver away in his pocket, and, as he
left the bank, he met the President Of
the institution on the steps. It was a
warm day and the banker had removed
his high white hat and was mopping
his brow with white silk handkerchief.
Richmond saw him and in an absent
minded way he dropped the odd four
pennies into the plug hat, saying: Il
never refuse an appeal for aims, my
man." The pennies dropped with an
awful racket, and when he realized
what had happened the banker was
mad. He had Richmond arrested for
insulting him, but in court the comedian
gave such a plausible explanation and
made such witty speech that the
justice let him off with reprimand.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-09

An intelligent physician has discov-
cred that color blindness is very rare
among girls, though it is common
among boys. From this fact, he draws
the conclusion that, in most cases, color
blindness is due to want of early educa-
tion in discriminating colors. Girls
are taught to become familiar with
every shade of colors, while boys re-
eeiye no instruction whatever on the
subject. Hence, boys frequently ex-
hibit an ignorance in colors which is
confounded with true color blindness,
which girls rarely show.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-09

ODD things sometimes happen on the
Alsace-Lorraine frontier. The other
day family in Lorraine, near the Dor-
der, expected party of relatives from
over the line to lunch with them. The
French family didn't think it necessary
to get passport for such short visit,
but the German officials refused to let
them cross without it. They therefore
turned back for few yards into France
and alighted. In the meanwhile their
Lorraine relatives, who had seen their
retreat, had gone home, and returned
with knives, forks, plates, glasses and a
hot dinner. The cloth was laid across
the frontier, upon patch of smooth
grass, and merry picnic was held,
each party sitting on its own soil. The
German officials stood by the whole
time, ready to arrest the strangers in
case they overstepped the imaginary
line, but they were careful not to do SO.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-09

AN eccentric character who had ac-
quired fortune in Australia recently
died in England. He spent his money
very freely. He purchased valuable
articles and invariably destroyed them.
A gold watch was smashed up the mo-
ment it was bought; the back of a sill
yer watch was wrenched off so as to be
more convenient for winding up; the
straw was taken out of a new mattress
for pig bedding; springs taken out of a
new easy chair; shelves taken out of
the house for frewood; clocks broken
up and thrown away; bread burned
daily in the oven; legs of mutton and
sides of bacon were buried in the gar
den; valuable trees and plants were
bought and chopped up. He built a
greenhouse and knocked it to pieces.
He died poor and was buried by the
parish.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-09

to Emperor Frederick of Hapsburg,
who reigned in the early part Of the
fourteenth century. It is a cross
handled sword with handle and sheath
Of solid silver, superbly chased The
Damascus blade is engraved with Ger
man inscriptions and the imperial eagle
is carved upon the handle. In the six
teenth century the saber, which was an
heirloom in the Hapsburg family, was
given by Emperor Matthias to Count
Hunyadi of that day, who was killed in
battle fighting against the Turks, who
captured the weapon. For more than
thee hundred years it has been promi-
nent object in the imperial armory of
Constantinople.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-09

AT Henderson, KY, the other day a
countryman entered the drug store OF
Charles f. Kleiderer and called for
some article, giving in exchange piece
of money which the proprietor of the
store at the time supposed to be 25-
cent piece. On taking his cash out Of
the drawer he was struck with the
oddity of the coin.. An application OF
soap and water revealed beautiful
Roman gold coin bearing the date OF
l058.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-09

ATHENS has modern Aristophanes,
who is one Of the best known characters
in the Greek capital. His name is
Suris, and he is proprietor and editor Of
the comic paper, Romios, every line OF
which, including the advertisements,
he writes himself in verse. The issues
are irregular. Some times two copies
appear in one week, at other times,
when news is scarce OR his inspiration
tagging, week or two may pass with
out new number. Consequently he
has no regular subscribers, but when.
ever new number appears the news
agents buy all the copies by special ar
ranpement.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-09

TT is so wise as to seem almost prov1-
Dental that the great American Fourth
of July comes ats time remote from
the fall elections, Tt would be embar-
RAISING for an Independence Day ora
tor to elbow his way through the
crowds of citizens yelling fraud and cor.
ruption at each other and take the plat
form to declare this the grandest, the
noblest, the most glorious nation of all
time.