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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28

You N eed 1t Now

10 1mpart strength and TO give feeling of
health and vigor throughout the system there is
nothing equal to Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t seems
peculiarly adapted to overcome that tired feeling
caused by change of season, climate or life, and
while it tones and sustains the system it purifies
and renovates the blood. We earnestly urge the
large army of clerks, book keepers school
teachers, housewives, operatives and all others
who have been closely confined during the win
ter, and who need good spring medicine 10 try
Hoods Sarsaparilla noU. 1t will do you good.
Every spring for years have made it prac-
tiee to take Hoods Sarsaparilla, because know
it purifes the blood and thoroughly ceanses
thesystem of all impurities" w. H. LAWRENCE,
Indianapolis Ind.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28
In Case You Snuinf

A cure for squirting, which is not so
as the method at present gen
orally adopted-black goggles with a
hole IN the center-is highly recon-
mended. Let the person afflicted take
any pair Of spectacles that suit his sight,
or even plain glass, and in the center of
one lens let him gum small blue or
black wafer, about the size OF a 10-cent
piece. The result is that the double
image vanishes, and the eye, without ia
hgue or heat, is forced to look straight,
and with time and patience is cured.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28
A Lesson from French Schools.
From the Popular Science Monthly.

From the Popular Science Monthly.
In business life, in professional life, in
industrial pursuits, our nation has shown
itself peculiarly clever IN its concentra-
ton of labor in systematic, well-defned
channels, havingspecial reference to the
results to be obtained. Yet, when we
come to compare our school programmes
with those Of other nations, we not only
find that we do not do as much school
work, nor as satisfactory work, but that
what we 90 is done in an antiquated
and unscientifc manner. IN France,
for example, we find school system
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28

A New York druggist, who spent the
winter in a Texas town for his health,
was asked by the genial clerk of the ho-
tel: Stranger, what might your bust
ness be-" 81 am a pharmacist" ga
what did you say?" ga pharmacist"
ooh, yes, a pharmacist. Well, you can
buy as good farming lands in this neigh
borhood as you can find in Texas. You
have struck the right locality, stranger,
this afternoon in my buggy and show
you one I've got to sell. "-I'eras SJti1ags
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28

THE man who has secured a lease of
islands in the great Salt Lake and an APP
preparation of $50, 900 to cross the butfa-
10 with common cattle, can only work in
the interest ofthe clearinghouse keep
er who wishes to improve upon the
toughness Of the long-horned Western
steer and thus secure an indestructible
STEAK. son Francisco Chronicle
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28
NATURE Is WISE.

lis said that thirty inches span
The average woman's waist
And just SO long the arm of man.
So, when It's snugly placed
Around the damsel whom one treasures,
There is conformity of measures
How admirable are thy works,
Nature kind and dear
For, spite of a IL the quips and quirks,
And various lodges queer,
Thou mouldest waists of proper bias,
With arms to fit thou dostsupply us.
Scrap Book.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28

''WHAT is the difference between
Queen Victoria and the Mississippi Riv-
err" asked Squildig. "About 1900
miles, | should say" replied McSwilli-
gen. That answer won't go this time ;"
what is it, then ?" Queen Victoria
holds leyees, but the Mississippi River
makes them let Pittsbosrg Chroet-
Gle IeIeQrG9h.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28
Syrup of Figs,

Produced from the laxative and nutritious
juice of California figs, combined with the
medicinal virtues of plants known to be
most beneficial to the human system, acts
gently on the kidneys, liver and bowels,
effectuaily cleansing the system, dispell-
ing colds and headaches, and curing habit
ual constipation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28

CRY VIsIToR-''What makes little
Tommy cry so, Mr.. Leeks? ' Farmer
Leeks-''W Wall, the fact is, he went out
this morning to find hornets nest for
his natural history collection, and
City Visitor-"And the poor boy
couldn't find one?' Farmer Leeks-
piftc0tt's Mdqdzine
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28
Buying a Little Home.
From the Detroit Free Press.

The appeals of Chicago real estate
agents to workingmen to buy them "a
little home" have resulted, during the
last five years, in Z 900 men paying more
or less on a contract and then being OBJ
liged to surrender it. Over $3.50, 900 has
been thus paid out and gone to enrich
spectators.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28
Interested People.

Advertising a patent medicine in the pc
culiar way in which the proprietor OF
Kemp's Balsam for Coughs and Colds does,
it is indeed wonderful. He authorizes all
druggists to give those who call for it a
sample bottle Free, that they may try it be-
lore purchasing. The large bottles are SOC
and 81. We certainly would advise a trial.
1t may save you from consumption.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28

Sl@ NoUels Free. will be sent by Cragin &
Co., Philada., Pa, to any one in the U. s. or
Canada. postage paid, upon receipt of Is
Dobbins' Electric Soap wrappers. See list
OF novels on circulars around each bar.
Soap for sale by all g~ocers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28

HALLS CATARRH CURE is liquid and is
taken internally, and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. Write for
testimonials free. Manufactured by
T. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28

''DID you have any luck when you
went fishing last Tuesdav?' ''Well, [
should smile; eight men with bills called
at the house and three at the Office -
EaeIPr
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28

INDIGNANT Drummer" told you five
or six times to wake me this morning at
Z. Here it is 10 o'clock. Why didn't
you wake me up sooner?" Hotel porter
q did wake you up sooner, boss, but
You didn't hear me. "-Ierns lSiftinns.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28

THEY have stood the test of time-S'Tan-
silFS Punch" Americas finest tc cigar
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28

THE best cough cure is Piso's Cure 70
CONSUMPTION. Sold everywhere. 25c.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28

THE mosquitoes never asked to ''call
again" when he presents his bill.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28

Az UNPRECEDENTED FEAT-Snifkins-
"Ye gods! Look at Briggs Isn't he
stuck up? What's the matter with him
that he's grown SO proud all of sud-
den? Has he made fortune, or?"-
Blimley-"No, his wife sent him
downtown the other day to match some
cloth for her, and he came within two
shades of getting the right color. >
Laurence 4mericdn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28
Protect the System from Malaria.

1t is possible to do this even in regions of
country where miasma is most rife, and where
the periodic fevers which it causes assume their
most fo rmidable types. The immense popular
ty of Hostetrer's Stomach Bitters is very largely
attributable to the fact of its efficacy as a rem
edy for chills and fever bilious remittents, and
as a preventive of the various forms of malarial
disease In those portions of the West and
South where complaints of this nature prevail,
and in the Tropics, it is particularly esteemed
aud it has been very widely adopted as a subsi-
tute for the dangerous and comparatively inef-
fectiye alkaloid, sulphate of quinine. Physi-
clans have not been among the last to concede
its merits, and the emphatic professional in
dorsements which it has received have added to
the reputation it has obtained at home and
abroad
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28

DON'T hawk, hawk. blow, spit, and dis
gust everybody with your offensive breath
but use DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and
end il.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28
GRATEFULCOMFORTING.
EPPS'S COCOA
BREAKFAST.


SPY thorough knowledge Of the natural laws
which govern the operations of digestion and nutr
tion and by careful application of the fine proper
ties of wel[-selected Cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided
our breakfast tables with delicately favoured bev
1t is by the judicious Of such articles of dict
that constitution may be gradually built up until
strong enough to resist every tendency to disease
Hundreds of subtle maladies floating around u
ready to attack wherever there IS a weak point
We may escape many fatal shaft by keeping cur
selves well fortified with pure blood and properly
nourisbed frame. "-"Ciuu Service Gazette.
Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sol1
only in halfpound tins, by Grocers, labelled thus
JAMES EPPS 81 CO.. Homeopathic Chemists
LONDON. ENGLAND
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-28
On, how can a fair maiden smile and be
gay,
Be lovely and loving and dear,
As sweet as 4 rose, and as bright as the
zen her liver is all ont of gear .

She can't. 1t is impossible. ! But if she
will only take DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery it will cleanse and stimulate her
disordered liver, purify her blood, make
wholesome her spirits cheerful, and her
temper sweet All druggists
, 1890-03-15

Sevres is the most costly of modern
wares. When a hostess Of the Four Hundred
s.rves tea in it she has reached the summit Of
elegant hospitality.
81 paid 1910 for the Dozen" proclaimed a
portly lady whose wealth has not lost its fine
edge of novelty, as she poured the fragrant
souchong for her favorite nephew one after
noon.
Then let me tell you, aunt, they're not
genuine; you can't buy Sevres at that fig
urs."
Pray, Mr.. Impertinence, why can't II"
while | was in Paris | thought | would
surprise you, SO l ran out to the factory at
Sevres, meaning to buy some after dinner
cups from first hands.n
Good boy"
What were the prices, do you supposef"
Eighty or 500 a dozen, probably
Six hundred dollars a dozen for quite
plain ones, and 60 per cent. import duty TO
bring them home. No, aunt, l did not invest
my savings"
Next morning the portly lady's brougham
stopped before a large establishment and the
portly lady alighted, in an irascible temper.
Are those cups you sold me genuine SeyresT'
Really, madam
Are they SevresT'
"lf you press me, they go by that name,
and they are a very beautiful ware, decorated
in Sevres patterns, but they were made in
Paris. There's practically no real Sevres in
the market"
Smash! package in the lady's hands was
hurled violently to the floor, shiveriug its
contents and making, with the picturesque
language which attended the demolition, an
interesting little incident which will be re-
membered long in the annals Of china shop
ping.-New York Letter.
, 1890-03-15

Carl and Ruth, brother and sister, aged G
and 4, are known TO their immediate rela-
tives and to a good many besides as '~terrors. "
The other afternoon they were engaged in
a very promising sparring contest, when their
mother interviewed with some violence, took
both contestants by the collar and set them
down sharply on the floor, one on one side of
the fireplace and the other on the other side.
Then she seated herself between them.
'Therel'' she exclaimed; "now stay there,
exactly where you are, and l forbid you to
make a soundl'
There was something unusually peremptory,
perhaps, in this treatment, and for a few
moments tho 'terrors" were cowed. Carl sat
silent, blinking and looking puzzled. His
mother would have sworn that he was study
ing up some means Of getting around her COM
mands. And presently she was astonished to
see him extend his hand solemnly toward
Ruth, with the remark:
Let us prayl'
And the two children fell on their knees,
while the boy repeated the Lords Prayer. He
Knew his mother couldn't spank him for that.
Listener in Boston Transcript.
, 1890-03-15
Rushing for the Strip.

ARKANSAS CITY, Kas., March IA
The reception of the news of the passage
through the house of representatives of
the bill extending the territorial govern
ment over the Cherokee strip, together
with the Oklahoma territorial bill, was
received here by the Cherokee boomers
with great joy. This morning a rush
for the strip was made by the thousand
or more families congregated between
here and the Indian territory lines. In
tense excitement prevails among the
boomers, and they are determined to
stake claims regardless of opposition by
the military.
CALDWELL, Kas., March Eight
hundred families of Cherokee boomers
have decided to move into the strip next
Sunday. Capt. Burbank, of the United
States army, tried to dissuade them, but
they told him they would go in it they
had to fight. Burbank has telegraphed
for reinforcements.
, 1890-03-15
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

l.. Bauerle & Co.'S woodenwaIe factory
burned yesterday. Loss, 100000; in
surance, $50. 000.
The election at Stoke upon Trent, Eng
land, yesterday, resulted in the return of
Cover, G~ladstonian candidate.
Yesterdays temperature-New York
%cinnati 420, Chicago 200, Winnipeg 420 be-
low.
Viscount Dunlo. who was married a
short time ago to Belle Billion, u London
music hall singer, has brought action for
divorce.
The width of the Mississippi river at
the mouth of the Ohio is now about
fifteen miles, but this vast body of water
is slowing receding.
The French gunboat Emerade has bonn
barded Abomey, the capital of Dahomey,
and Kalavy. The Dahcnians were panic
stricken by the attack.
A cabin, six miles east of Johnstown,
Pa. on the Pennsylvania road, used by
laborers, burned during last night and two
men we're burned to death and several
injured.
Andrew A. Holt. alias Anderson, a
noted smugger and pirate of Puget sound
for many years, was fatally shot on his
sloop near Seattle last uight, while resist
ing arrest by United States officers.
In consequence of the masters avoiding
a direct reply to the demands for an ad
vance in miners wages, the Miners Fed
Grafton has resolved to Immediately in
augurate a strike throughout the country.
The Paris Steele denies that France
will establish a blockade on the coast of
D%ahoney. Rlsings in the interior we're
the cause of the retreat from Godony of
the king of Dahomey and his female
warriors.
Judge Mcconnell of Chicago last night
signed the bill of exceptions in the
Cronin case. The document will be taken
to the supreme court at Ottawa, where
Lawyer Forest will apply for a supersedas
for Coughlin, Burke aud O'Sullivan.
A number of Liverpool Unionists,
armed with Delaying pins, made a savage
attack yesterday upon the non unionists
employed By the steamer Bostonian, load
ing for Boston. The police quelled the
disturbance and made a number of ar
rests.
The posse that left Tombstone, Ariz.,
for the scene of the killing of two men
by Apachos returned Yesterday. They
found the skeletons of the men. All the
flesh had been eaten by coyotes and moth.
ing remained by which Identification was
possible.
Secretary Window yesterday executed
a lease with the North American Com
mercial company OF New York and San
francisco for taking fur seals on the
islands of st. Paul and St. George, Alas
ka, for a period of twenty years from the
lst OF Nav next.
The fast vestibule train ON the Balti-
more & Ohio ran into a landslide yester-
day. The engine was thrown into the
river: Thos. Holland. engineer, John
NJ. Mccoy, and Engineer John Hart
were seriously injured. The passengers
were severely shaken up.
, 1890-03-15
In the Senate.

WASHINGTON, March l4.-After the
consideration of a number Of public build
ing bills and other measures, Hale, from
the committee oil appropriations, reported
the urgency deficiency bill and said he
would call it up for action next Monday.
The Blair educational bill was then
taken up as unfinished business and
Teller addressed the senate in support of
1t. Speaking Of the race problem, he
said it might not be solved. If the
Southern people and negro could not live
together In a state of political equality
and political harmony there was an end to
the republic and government in one third,
at least, of the area of the United States.
He had no key to the solution, but he be-
lleved that education might. in some re-
spects, help to solve it. II the colored
people we're educated the chances would
be better that the races would live to-
gether on better terms. Ignorance and
vice went hand in hand. If the South
alone were able and willing to try and ed
ucate the cOlored race the people of the
North would not complain, but if the
South lacked either the desire or the
ability it was right aad proper that the
North should come to its aid.
George said if the senators on both
sides OF the chamber were to bring to the
solution of the question Of a solution was
possiblel the charity and Kindness and
good feeling exhibited by the senator from
Colorado, a good deal of trouble would be
removed. The bill then went over with
out action.
Call gave written notice that he would
on Monday move to modify certain rules
as to executive sessions. the object of the
motion being to allow the consideration of
the nominations of Swaine and Stripping
as judge and district attorney for the
northern district of Florida. to be consid
cred in open executive session.
Cullom presented resolutions relative to
the death of Representative Townshend
of Illinois, declaring hat the senate
shared with the house in its expression of
sorrow and directing that copies of the
resolutions be forwarded to the family of
the deceased. He then pronounced an
eulogy on the dead member. After APP.
propriate remarks by Vest, Hall and
Jones of Arkansas the senate as a further
mark of respect adjourned till Monday.
, 1890-03-15
The Mississippi Flood,

ST. LOUIS, March Traditional ad-
vices from the lower Mississippi regarding
the flood are that the country between
the Arkansas line and Vlcksburg on both
sides of the river are in imminent danger
Of inundation. The Arkansas leyees have
been abandoned. The water is running
over the Arkansas levee in several places.
This means that the Kansas basin in
Louisiana will be inundated. All efforts
are being concentrated to save the levees
in Louisiana between Vicksburg and the
Arkansas line and those on the Missis-
sippi shore between Vicksburg and
Greenville. If Louisiana goes under
Mississippi may be safe, and on each side
of the river the most heroic exertions
have been made, and are still being re-
doubled. Rain has fallen in torrents
everywhere. At all the endangered points
the work IS kept up day and night. Live
stock and movables are being taken to
places of safety. The protection levees
at Mayersvllle, Miss. gave way Yesterday
afternoon, aud the river came against the
new levee, which is considered unsafe. A
panic seized the population and many
ladies and children were sent to Vicks-
burg by steamers.
New ORLEANS, March l4.-The con-
dition of affairs on the river front this
evening is much more satisfactory than at
the same time yesterday. The city au-
thorities, aided by the railroads strength
ened the weak places in the levee and are
constructing temporary levees with bags
filled with earth IRON st. Louis to Hospital
street and other points, but from St. Louis
to Canal, where SO much water am in
yesterday, nothing has yet been done.
The levees in this section were injured
more by wind and weather than by the
food. Today the wind is blowing from
the north at the rate of thirty miles an
hour. Governor Nichols to-day issued a
proclamation requesting all steamers to
keep near mid-srream and run slow dur
ing the present freshet in the lower Mis-
sippi. The waves from passing vessels
have done good deal of damage to tenn
porary work on the levees.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March l4.-Tonight
the river is 1874, the highest point eyer
recorded, and still rising. The opinion
here is that the levee on the Mississippi
side will be able to withstand the pressure
Of the great flood, but the situation on
the Arkansas side, below Arkansas City,
is far from r%eassuring, although the dam
age, should the levee give away, would
be slight compared with the destruction
which would ensue should the east back
break. Passengers on the Louisville,
New Orleans 4 Texas railroad arriving
here today report novel scenes along the
road. The low lands and lagoons in the
Mississippi delta are flooded until the
only dry land visible is a ridge on which
the track runs and a few promitories
p~rotruding above the water. These places
offer shelter for hundreds of squirrels and
otter small game. Huts and cabins in
the lower lands are submerged several
feet in the water. Tied to the doors are
skiffs and dugouts which afford the &C.
cupants their only means of transit from
one place to another.
, 1890-03-15

WASHINGTON, March l4.-In response
to the senate resolution calling upon the
secretary of the interior for a report as to
the cause OF Withholding patents
for lands within the limits of the Union
Pacific grant which are free from all
claims and not reserved at the date of the
definite location of company's road,
Secretary Noble says he is still consider,
ing questions as to these lands as to
whether they are free from all claims and
not reserved. and other questions of law
and fact in connection with the grant.
These questions, the secretary says, are of
more than ordinary importance and he
has not yet been able to complete the in
curry.
The Republican members of the house
of the Illinois delegation held a confer
ence today. there being bI. two absentees,
to consider the tariff question so far as it
relates to the duty on sugar. The confer.
ence was an earnest and harmonious one,
and upon motion of Payson the follow
ing was unanimously adopted.
ResolUed, AS the Judgment of the
Republican members OF the Illinois dele
cation in congress, that in any bill reported
by the committee on ways and means re-
vising the present tariff, sugar below six
teen should he admitted free of charge.
: Secretary Wirdom today transmitted
to the senate a letter from Secretary
Blaine asking for an additional appropria-
ton of S35, 1000 to meet the expenses of
the international marine conference. The
original appropriation was $4,000.