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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17
VOICES OF CHILDREN AT PLAY.
Ry THOMAS ]. MACMuRRY.

BY THOMAS J. MACMURRY.
How sweet are the voices of children at play!
They echo from childhood's fair shore,
Where the winds are hushed and L1fe's golden
day
Throws open its radiant door.
o innocent voices your music / hear;
Your rapturous tones bring delight;
eagerly fist to the laug liter SO clear
That bursts forth like songs in the night.
long to be free from lifes burdens again
And to roam through forests and flowers,
With never a feeling of loss or OF pain
To make less delightful the hours.
But how idle the wish The stern winds of
Time
Have driven my bark very far
From the ower-haunted shore of that wonder
full cline
The land where the dear children are.
Far out on L1fes ocean, where danger aDoundS,
My frail boat is riding the wave;
But cen through the storm L can near the
sweetest sounds
That make me both hopeful and brave.
Ills the sounds that are waited over the sea
And through the mists grewsOre and gray;
From the loved land of childhood they float to
me
The voices of children at play.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17
Settling a Score.
From the Savannah News.


A blue grass idyl has been circulating
through the southern society for several
days 1t is tale of two Kentuckians-
one major, the other a colonel-who,
after night of luck at poker, deter
mined to CRAFTY an oft expressed de-
sire to visit New York, says the Times
of that city. They came, and after two
days of 81 ghtseeing the colonel suggest
ed to the major that trip to New York
would not be complete without dinner
at Delmonico's. The major agreed.
1t was deemed that it would hardly be
considerate to take Mr.. Delmonico I'M
awares. and in order to prepare him for
so unusual an event as swell dinner
for two, the Kentucky gentleman went
to the restaurant early in the day, called
for the head waiter and told him what
they wanted. "Spare no expense, F"
they said.
They dined at 6. 1t was splendid
that they had never heard of before.
They ate great deal and drank a great
deal, and told each other stories that
both knew by heart The banquet last
ed three hours.
They called for their bill. The waiter
placed check, face down, on the
menu. The gentlemen were toasting
each other as the waiter did this, and
when they placed their glasses on the
table he was gone. They saw what APP
peared to be a scrap of paper on the
menu and brushed it off. The old fell
lows were ignorant of the customs OF
French restaurants, and they concluded
that the menu must be the bill. The
colonel began to fgue up the prices. 1t
seemed that they had eaten great
deal, but the names of dishes were in a
language unknown. to them, and, any
way, they were not in mood to bother
about trihes.
But the colonel gasped when he
figured up the total. 1t was $3.50.
'Great heavens, sab !" he exclaimed
to the major. "1t is $3.50. If we pay
this we can't get home"
eve might" suggested the major,
finally, eve might jump out of this win
dow and rum"
''No, sah," said the colonel, bringing
his fist down on the table. eve are
Kentucky gentlemen, sab. We will
pay this bill, sab, and then, sab, we will
shoot the landlord. sah."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

a departure
from ordinary methods has long
been adopted by the makers of DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
They know what it can do-and
they guarantee it. Your money
is promptly returned, if it fails to
benefit or cure in all diseases arising
from torpid liver or impure blood.
No better terms could be asked for.
No better remedy can be had.
Nothing else that claims to be
blood-purifier is sold in this way
because nothing else is like the
&C. M. D."
So positively certain is it in its
curative effects as to qoarraaw it's
makers in selling it, as they are do
ing, through druggists, on trial!
It's especially potent in curing
letter, Salt-rheum, Eczema, Fry.
sipelas, Boils, Carbuncles, Sore
Eyes, Goitre, or Thick Neck, and
Enlarged Glands, Tumors and
Swellings. Great Eating Ulcers
rapidly heal under its benign in,
fuence. Worlds Dispensary Med
ical Association, 663 Main Street,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17
A Druggists Generosity
From the Boston Advertiser.

A woman entered drug store not far
from Beacon Street, the, other evening,
toothbrush. The proprietor laid out a
ter for her inspection, and turned away
to attend to the wants of another custo-
mer. In short time the female ap-
preached him and said in the sweetest
of tones, II have tried them all, and
think that | like this one the best, SO
will take it." The astonished proprie-
tor took one look at her, gave one short
moment to silent reflection and medita-
ton, and then said: Madam, you may
have them all for the price of this one ;
| will make you present OF them. ,;
The woman, no doubt, is yet wondering
at the cause of his unexpected generos-
ity
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17
A Queer Story.

On the evening OF August IL, four
years ago, while Mrs. Peter Kohl, livlng
in Minneapolis, was engaged in prepar-
ing supper her daughter Laura, then Is
years of age, and just graduated from
the convent school of Holy Rosary par
ish, left the house on the excuse of 60
ing to see one of the sisters of the par
ish, and from that day to this has never
been seen by her relatives. They know
where she went, and received letters
from her after she reached the sisters of
Grant County. Wis, but none of the
family are able to tell whether she is
alive or dead, for the last letter her
mother received from her, written in
her own hand writing, came over year
ago. A letter purporting to be from
her was received April II. 1890, but WAS
neither written nor dictated by her.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

A business woman, quoted in the New
York Times, finds something to add IN
the matter of what men shall do with
their hats in an elevator. 81 wish, she
says, "there could be defined and ac-
copied rule upon the subject. My oc-
cupation takes me daily into an eleva-
tor in one of the large business buildings
down town, and my experience in this
regard is varied and sometimes I'M
pleasant. Frequently nobody removes
his hat, and that is what [ like best.
Sometimes / get on at the ground floor
with half dozen men whose heads all
remain covered; we go up two or three
stories and a seventh enters the car,
and, seeing me, whips off his hat. Of
course this is intended for a courtesy,
but it seems rebuke as we'll to the six
who have not removed theirs, and often
they will look uncomfortable, as if they
wished they had. So far as / am con-
cerned | can neither recognize the civil
lty nor temper the hint, and | hail my
floor with relief. / do mind when a
man keeps his cigar in his mouth when
| am in the elevator, but | don't mind
the whistling of the messenger boys nor
the hats of everybody
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17
Presentations of Japan.
From the New York Star.

The empire of japan seems to exer-
else an irresistible fascination upon its
visitors. Many Americans as well as
Englishmen who have stopped at Toxic,
Yokohama and sundry other cities OF
the Japanese land have been SO delight
ed with the natural beauties of the coun-
try, the charm of it's life, the rare cour-
tesy and gentleness of its people, that
they have chosen to remain there the
greater part if not the whole of the re-
mainder of their natural existence.
1t is we'll known that Sir Edwin Ar
mold, since his arrival in the dominion
of the Japs, has been SO pleased with bis
experience among them that he is 10th
to return to the rush and crush of Lon
don living, the wear and tear of his edi-
torial duties on the London Telegraph,
where he once was SO fond of writing
articles yard long in eulogy of Lord
Salisbury, or in scholarly denunciation
Mr. Gladstone. He finds the luXuriant
ease of Japanese living, the quiet habits
of the people and their simple amuse-
ments, too delightful to be enjoyed only
for few weeks. Consequently, instead
of DESERVING the hospitable shades of
Toxic after short sojourn, as he had
planned before he had arrived within its
pleasant territories, he has continued
to abide there for several months; and
it is said that in moments of lethean en-
ioyment he has been known to forswear
thinking of his friends in the English
Isle, and threaten to linger in the per-
fume-laden atmosphere of the East for
ever. When we consider the effect of
life in Japan upon such man as Sir
Edwin, says the Boston Traveller, it is
natural that we should grieye to hear of
the departure of one of our own
litterateurs, in taste and feeling
somewhat similar TO his broth
er author, and who is about
to retire from his pastoral re-
treat in New England to the more Sc
ductive shores of the tea-drinkers in
the far east. We urge upon Prof A. s.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

Hardy the necessity of steeling himself
of the willy Japs. We cannot afford to
lose so excellent a scholar and so good
writer as he is, and we trust that he
will be properly impressed with the
duty incumbent upon him as New
Englander Of returning ere many
months are past to his friends at home,
and not to be tempted, as Sir Edwin
has already been tempted, to live for
ever in the soft delights of tea slipping
and the manipulation of dainty chop
sticks
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

PRACTICAL Dame-"How much are
these fish," Marketman-t Sixteen
cents pound, ma am" Practical Dame
-'That seems very high, but then I
know fishing is very hard on the con-
stitution. Every time my husband
goes he has an awful headache the next
morning Good Nelrs
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

SOME market gardeners say that it
does not pay to stake tomato plants, but
if fine, clean fruit pays then stalking
should be adopted. Some of the finest
fruit In these parts is to be seen from
plants SO treated. A gardener near
here has stakes seven feet long, one to
each plant, and what he gets in quantity
and quality is marvellous.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

GIVEN AwAY.-ChoIly Fashun Ito
Custom House officer Now that you
have discovered those English clothes
in my trunk ard examined them, l
should like to know how in time you
found that l was trying to smuggle
them. How did you know they were
in my trunk"
Custom House Officer-"They are SO
very loud that heard them throbbing
inside the trunk. ~ 0mrerace dmeric0n
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

Mrs. STRICT know your mother
brought you up to respect old age"
Miss Chpper-'Ye indeed she
didn't even allow us TO laugh at an old
Joke '-Toled0 Blaze.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17
THEY'RE COMING HOME.

What awful sound disturbs the night,
And starts us from our sleep,
While timid people in alright.
Up from their couches leap?
Hark! Nearer no !-ha ha it's plain
What makes the wild uproar;
The picnic's singing Home again,
Home from foreign shore"
Boston COltrif
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

For $3.50 we will sell you an ele-
CANT gents watch, gold-filled case, with
fine American make movement. Call
and examine. Lord Bros. Jewelry Co..
131 Grand Ave., Milwaukee.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17
Its Excellent Qualities

Commend to public approval the California
liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of figs. 1t is
pleasing to the eye and to the taste, and by
gently acting on the kidneys, liver, and
bowels, it cleanses the system effectually,
thereby promoting the health and comfort
of all who use it,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

CLEAN cookery is a good appetizer. .
Good cooks clean their utensils with SA-
POLIO. 1t is solid cake of Securing
Soap. Try it IN cleaning your pots and
pans.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17
The Effects of Mental Exhaustion.

Many diseases especially those of the nervous
ystem are the products of daily renewed men
tai exhaustion Business avocations often in
volve an amount of mental wear and tear very
prejudicial to physical health, and the profess
sions if arduously pursued, are no less destruc-
tive to brain and nerve tissues. 1t is one of the
most important attributes of Hostetters Stom-
ach B1tters, that it compensates for this undue
loss of tissue, and that it impaTts new energy to
the brain and nerves. The fapidity with
which it renews weakened mental energy and
physical vitality is remarkable, and shows that
its invigorating properties are of the highest or
der. Besides increasing vital stamina, and
counteracting the effects of mental exhaustion,
this potential medicine cures and prevents fever
and ague, rheumatism, chronic dyspepsia and
constipation, kidney and uterine weakness and
other complaints. Physicians also commend it
as medicated stimulant remedy.
LATEST news from Africa: Emin Bey
has arrived at Untrain vembe, and will
immediately proceed to Ugivemeachill-
"a pa,AsO Tn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

No SOAP in the world has eUer been
initiated rs much as Dobbins' Electric
Soap. The market is full of limitations
Be careful that you are not deceiUed. 81
B. Dobblns, Philadelphia and New York, !"
is stamped on every bar
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

JOHNNY, you shouldn't run out in the
rain without your hat on" Mamma,
my head can't get wet I've had ii
shingled. "-NeW York Herald.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

TEACHER-'I In what battle was Stone
wall Jackson MORALLY wounded ~
Pupil-''Dunno-I guess it was the las
one he fought in '-EnOch.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

DR.. L. L. GORSUCH, Toledo O., says: Il
have rracticed medicine for forty years have
never seen prep aration that could prescribe
Halls Catarrh Cure" Sold by Druggists, Use.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

ALAS 1 must go, there's ring round tn,
mOOn
No more with fair Maude may linger;
For Maude is the kind of sweet summer girl
To liken the moon to her finger.
Hdrpers BdSGr
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

Love is blind, but lovers often make a
pair of spectacles of themselves.-Gr Great
B0rrin1tOn Mems
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

ELEVEN children out of twelve need DR.
Bulls Worm DeStrOYefS occasionally
These dainty little candies are always safe
and sure.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17
News About Town.

1t is the current report about town that
Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs
is making some remarkable cures with
people who are troubled with Coughs, Sore
Throat, Asthma, BRONCHITIS and Consump-
ton. Any druggist will give you trial
bottle free Of cost. 1t is guaranteed to re-
lieve and cure. The large bottles are SOC
and 81
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

THE best cough cure is Pisos Cure for
Consumption. Sold everywhere. Csc.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

BEEcHAM's PILLS act like magic on Veal
Stomach.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17

Gov Mckinney, of Virginia, says that
it is not at all necessary for a public
man to drink, as is often asserted. 1t
has been his invariable practice to de-
cline all treats in his political cam
paigns, and he believes that instead of
losing, he has gained votes by his alb
Stinencn
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-02-08

excitement and with elatlon over her
victory, for it was evident that she
put to rout some midnight marauder.
A window of the room leading to
small piazza was open wide, and
there were bloody fnger-marks on the
white paint of the window-sill.
The three chairs in the room were
overturned, Biddy's cage was on the
floor, and there was an old SLOUGH hat
in the center of the room; and, most
convincing of all, there was a tuft of
reddish Thrown hair, and in corner,
the wig from which it had come as
she pulled it from the invaders head.
There was no doubt that the room
had been entered by burglar and
Biddy had CALAMITY shown fight. In
his efforts to seize and silence her, in
the darkness, the invader had evil
IDENTIFY been severely punished, and
had finally fled the field as her screams
continued and danger of detection
became greater.
Jane came down stairs and we went
back to mothers room, taking Biddy
with us, and sat up the remainder of
the night listening to Biddy's ram
blings, for she talked and laughed
alternately until daybreak, and, hav-
ing heard me say them, her pet words
for many days were:
"Biddy whipped the burglar Bid
dy whipped the burglar Hurrah for
Blddy!"
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-02-08
Electric Bitters.

This remedy is becoming so well
known and so popular as to need no
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bitters sing the same song of
praise.-A purer medicine does not
exist and it is guaranteed to do all
that is claimed. Electric Bitters will
cure all diseases of the liver and kid
neys, will remove pimples, boils, salt
"heum and other affections caused by
lnpure blood.-Will drive malaria
from The system and prevent as we'll
as cure malaria fevers.-For cure of
headache, constipation and indiges-
ton try Electric Bitters. Entire sat-
isfaction guaranteed, or money re-
funded.-Price soc. and 81 per bottle
at W. H. Halliburton's drugstore.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-02-08
Biddy's Burglar.

Zenas Danes, in Golden Days.l
My father is commercial traveller,
and he is sometimes away from home
for five or six weeks. He always
brings me something when returning
from one of these long trips, and
about year ago he brought me
Biddy.
have never seen parrot quite as
clever as Biddy. She could say more
things, and say them more distinctly
than any other parrotI have ever seen.
Her ability in this direction was
really remarkable. But aside from
such stock expressions as "Biddy
wants cracker" and "Biddy wants
her dinner" or "Poor Biddy," she
rarely said the same thing twice, and
would lift her wings and shrek out
III won't" if asked to repeat one of
her long sentences.
Sometimes she would repeat SEN
fences of ten or twelve words with
perfect accuracy, and in the exact
tone of the person speaking them,
and again she would mimic everything
that was said when conversation
was being carried on in the same
room with her. | remember once
when good old Deacon Pratt-who
was goodlold man if he did talk
"through his nose" and always in a
detected little whine-when he called,
and, during his stay, remarked,
gloomily, that 1--WE are all miserable
worms of the earth" Biddy who
up to this time had been decently 81
lent, took up the expression, and, in
the deacon's exact tones, drawled
out:
"We are all miserable worms of
the earth. Yes, yesl"
Then she suddenly burst into such
shrieks of laughter that mother, with
a crimson face, carried Biddy's cage
out of the room and hung it up at
the end of the porch, where she could
still be heard going on with her en-
livening discourse on "worms."
Her cage hung out of doors in the
summer time, where she was the de-
light of children and the terror of
dogs, and where she mimicked every
huckster and peddler who came near,
crying out his wares.
"Shears to grind Shears to grind"
would cry the untidy and desolate
man going by with his tinkling hand
bell and his grindstone on his bent
back, and "Shears to grind! Shears
to grindl' Biddy would scream,
while the scissprs-grinder would stop
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-02-08
Children S Corner.
A HOUSE IN TOWN. .

Over in the shadow
OF an old oak tree,
Sat little acorn,
Cross as cross could be.
IT don't see why old Mother Oak
Shook me down so hard
1t has giv'n me qnlte headache
Indeed I feel quite Jared.
"And l don't see why / have to live
In this little house of brown;
] Just believe III sell it,
And get q house in town."
Tripping, came little maiden,
Took the acorn from its place;
"Oh," she said, "why, what beauty,
I'll give 1t to my dear friend Grace"
Pretty Oracle took the acorn
That her little friend had brought,
Broke the shell in which 1t nestled,
And put it in fower-pot,
And the foolish acorn signing
For its little house of brown,
Sadly wished it had been wiser,
Than to want house in town.
20. G. j., In School aud Home,
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-02-08
Salt Rheunn

With its intense itching, dry, hot skin, often
broken into painful cracks, and the little wa.
terry pimpcs, often causes indescribable suf-
fering. Hoods Sarsaparilla has wonderful
power over this disease. 1t purfies the blood
without scar. Send fol book containing
many statements of cures, to G. l. Hood & Co.
Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-02-08

When money is tight it has more
sense than man in the same condi-
ton, for it makes itself scarce.-Bal-
timore American.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-02-08

claws to James skirt and screaming
almost as loudly as Jane herself.
On the night of which [ write,
Biddy was in her cage in my room.
When father had gone mother came
to my room to ask me to come and
sleep on the lounge, as usual, and |
opened the door of Biddy's cage be-
fore I left the room, that she might
enjoy her promenade when daylight
came.
Although mother had said she was
sure she "should not sleep wink, F"
I heard her breathing in that heavy,
measured way common to sound
sleepers, when | awakened few min
utes before the clock struck one. |
was not a very timid boy, but as l
lay there in the darkness, trying to
go to sleep again, l could think of
nothing but the large sum of money
locked in the upper drawer of the
dressing-ease at my feet.
thought of all the robberies and
burglares I had ever heard of and
while my nerves were becoming keen
ly sensitive under the influence of
these pleasing reflections, | heard a
sound as of some one moving at the
end of the hall.
| sat up excited and trembling, and
the next instant Biddy broke out in
shrill, sharp screams and cries:
81 won't! | won't! l won't!"
I heard the sound of smothered
imprecations, and then my mother
awoke with an alarmed cry, and l
could feel her trembling in every limb
and her breath coming in quick gasps
as she came and knelt by my bed,
with her arms around me.
With the first sound of Biddy's
voice my eowardice gave place to a
boyish pride in her valor, and to salts
faction in the reflection that she would
be able to hold her own against the
invader.
"He'll get it, whoever he is" l
whispered to mother. "Biddy'll give
it to him !"
Then there came the sound of a
chair or table being overturned, and
again Biddy shrieked:
81 won't! | won't! Ha, ha! ha!
Get outl Get out! Out, out, out!
Ha, hal"
Then followed such wild, mad
shrieks as we had never heard even
Biddy utter before.
She would laugh, and then scream,
and again cry:
81 won't. Ha, ha, ha! Get out!"
Pulling myself away from mother,
| ran to the door, unlocked it, and
cried out boldly: "Take him, Biddy!
Sic him, Biddy! Catch him!" un-
mindful of the fact that Biddy was
bird and not a dog.
The scufling sound had ceased, and
I lighted lamp; but it was some
time before mother would allow me to
60 to Biddy, although | had not the
least fear of doing so.
"Biddy has settled him." 1 said
confidently, and when mother did
finally permit me to go to my pet l
found her as nearly hysterical as it is
possible for bird to become.
Some of her LONG. green feathers