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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29
Reef Tea.

One pound of lean beef cut into small
bits, with every particle of fat removed.
Put in a wide-mouthed bottle, cork
tightly, and set in kettle of cold water.
Boil three hours. There will be small
cupful of the juice; season with salt
spoonful of salt, and give few spoon
fulS at time
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29
ROly-POly Puddfng

Make a rich suet crust, roll rather
thin, spread jam Tor any kind of fruit,
leaving margin of paste where the pud-
ding joins, roll it round, tie in a cloth
that has been sprinkled with -four, drop
in boiling water, keep cooking two hours,
take off the cloth. lay on a fiat dish, and
serve while hot with lemon sauce.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29
Preaching to q Small Congregation.

ITeacHing 10 SmalI Congregation
The country congregations of that
day were largely made up of the best
people in Georgia, and compared favor
ably with the congregations of the
present Gay. Some, of course, were
uncouth in manner, but hearty in hos
pitality. The smallest congregation 7
addressed during the first years of my
ministry consisted of six persons. three
men and three women. One March
day afterward rode ten miles through
a drenching rain to Flatrosk Chapel,
in Putnam County, only TO find two
persons there-a man and boy. T
was wet to the SKIN, ssnd benumbed.
After waiting few r.in,stes, and no
additions coming, / said:
'We might as we'll leave here as
there will be no congregation"
The man quietly responded:
Through five miles of pelting rain 7
have come to hear preaching"
saw at once my duty AMI replied,
"You are right; you are entitled to it.. :"
For one hour I addressed my little con-
gregation and was never listened to
with more attention Reductions OF
Bishop Pierce. of Georgia
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29
REAL RURAL READING
WILL BE FOUND IN THIS DE-
PARTMENT.

Agriculture Prosperity-Good Use for a
Useless ArticIe-How Not to Have ssCho1-
arar-DfIutinc Fresh MiIixfor Cream Rails
$ng-Poultry in France-Bones and Bone
Aaeal-A Bamboo Stand-The Kitchen.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29
TapiOca PUDDING q.

Dissolve a teacupful of tapioca in a
quart of water over night In the morn
ing, pour off the water, and boil it in a
quart of milk with two teacupfuls of
sugar. Pare and core eight apples,
filling the opening with lump of sugar
and a bit of cinnamon; put in a baking
dish, and pour the tapioca over them.
Bake TWO hours: serve cold
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29
Cross Bred Fowls.

There are many who agree with the
Germantown TeleQrdph in its statement
that cross bred fowls are far better and
more hardy from the shell than the pure
xred. Following are some of the benefits
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29
PE ACTICAL RECIPES,
Family Plum Pudding.

One-half pound beef suet, one-half
pound currants, one-half pound raisins,
three eggs, half a nutmeg, bread and
flour to mix. Boil for the usual time,
and serve hot.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29
A Good Use for a Useless Article.

What is more provoking than wooden
button that gets tight on the screw and
pulls out, because you forget to turn it
always the ole way? What is more
abundant and more useless than broken
hinge? Did you ever substitute the latter
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29

The golden moments in the stream OF
life rush past us and we see nothing
but sand; the angels come to visit us
and we only know them when they are
gone.-Georae Eliot.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29

Tor the former? Just try it and see how
nice it is to have a button that is 'salways
there, = works easily, is strong, ''never
gets tight" although it may not look
very neat.-PrdcticaI Farmer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29
A SERMON IN WISCONSIN
THE AWFUL NECESSITY FOR
CHRISTIAN EARNESTNESS

DR.. Talmage illustrates the Opportuni-
ties of the Hour by the Example of
Esther in Saving der People-The Great
Need of Aggressive Faith.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29
Spanish Buns.

One cup brown sugar, one-half cup
molasses, one-haf cup sour milk four
tablespoons melted butter, one egg and
yo'ks of two (save the whites of two for
frosting,) one teaspoon soda, one and
one-half cups of -four, one tablespoon
cinnamon, the same of cloves if desired.
Use brown sugar for the frosting, STIR
ring until quite white.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29


Department O t
Agriculture, was
in Cincinnati the
other day, and
had q long talk
with an attache of
the Times news
paper, of t h a t
city d u r i n g
which he said
many interesting
things and gave
much valuable in
formation relat-
ing to agricultur-
al interests and
prospects. L h G
number of acres
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29
THE HOUSEHOLD
A Bamboo Stand.

This is a pretty bric-a-brac stand, made
from bamboo fishing rods and palmleaf
fans. The upright sticks should be thick
enough to allow Of the bracing sticks be-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29
Buckwheat Cakes.

Nice buckwheat cakes are made of
four cups of buckwheat flour, one scant
cup of yellow Indian meal, a tablespoon
full of salt mixed up with three cups of
hot water and one cup of cold milk,
making the mixture about blood warm.
Beat this batter vigorously, and add q
cup of liquid yeast or yeast cake dis
solved in cup of luke-warm water.
Buckwheat cakes, after the first rising,
should be raised with some of the batter.
For this purpose there should always be
made at least pint more than is used
each time, and this should be set away
in cool place to servo as yeast for the
| next batch of cakes. These cakes raised
with buckwheat batter will be better
| than the first raised with yeast.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29
Celery on Toast.

If not used in soup celery may be
creaned and served on toast. The fol-
lowing recipe is we'll worth trying: Cut
the stalks of celery into inch pieces,
cover them with milk and let them boil
until tender. Season to taste with salt
and pepper, and literally with butter,
pour over squares of hot toast and serve
at once. The milk may be omitted and
the vegetable stewed in water till ten
der, seasoned to taste with salt, pepper
and butter. In this recipe it is not to be
served on toast. A pinch of soda should
be added while it is cooking,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29
Sweet Potato Croquettes.

Boil six large sweet potatoes until they
are just tender, then remove the skins
and mash the potatoes through a colan-
der or vegetable press, add table,
spoonful of butter, tablespoonful of
salt, a dash of pepper and tablespoon
full of sugar. Mix thoroughly, form into
croquettes, dip first in egg and then in
bread crumbs and fry in smoking-h hot fat.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29
DiIuting Fresh Milk for Cream Raising

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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-29

q great fortress. How shall 1t be taken?
An army comes and sits around about it,
cuts off the supplies, and says, ssNow we
will just wait until from exhaustion and
starvation they will have to give up
Weeks and months, and perhaps year
pass along, and finally the fortress sur
renders through that starvation and ex-
haustion. But my friends, the fOrtreSSeS
of sin are never to be taken in that way.
If they are taken for God it will be by
storm. You will have to bring up the
great siege guns of the gospel to the
very wall and wheel the flying artillery
into line, and when the armed infantry
of Heaven shall confront the battlements
you will have to give the quick COM
mand, Forward! Charger
Ah my friends, there is work for you
to do and for me to do in order to achieve
this grand accomplishment! Here is d
pulpit, and clergyman breaches in it.
Your pulpit is the bank. Your pulpit is
the store. Your pulpit is the editorial
chair. Your pulpit is the anvil. Your
pulpit is the house scaffolding. Your
pulpit is the mechanics shop. I may
stand in this place, and through coward
ice or through self-seeking may keep
back the word / ought to utter; while
you, with sleeve rolled up and brow be-
sweated with toll, may utter the word
that will jar the foundation of Heaven
with the shout of a great victory. Oh,
that to-day this whole audience might
feel that the Lord Almighty is putting
| upon them the hands of ordination.
Every one, go forth and preach this Cos
pei. You have as much right to preach
as have, or as any man has. Only find
out the pulpit whore God will have you
preach, and there preach.
Hedley Wears was a wicked man in
the English army. The grace of God
came to him. Ee became an earnest
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1891-09-24
The Bad CompIlfSsnt.

1t is curious to note that the bad com
pliment proper, in its elementary form
constitutes the lowest and most rudimen
tary development of humor. 1t has beer
said that this faculty, the sense or percep
tion OF humor, is the only real mental O,
moral attribute which distinguishes the
rich from the poor, and is the only pleas
ure which the lowly born are incapable O,
sharing in some degree or other with those
above them In the social scale; but they
undoubtedly have consciousness Of the
ridiculous, apt to be tickled by the appro
priately msl,apropos. That this should
take the coarser and more direct form oi
epithet-not by any means necessarily i'll
natured-with the uneducated, is but what
one would have expected.
Nor is it to be wondered at that these un
complimentary comparisons should bs
chiefly drawn from the animal world, see
ing how constantly we are brought into
contact with the lower orders of creation
and how much stronger are the impres
sions which we derive from them thar
from any association of inanimate objects
Here, possibly, may be some relic of totem
ism handed down from a savage ancestry,
for in every human breast there exists 8
yearning toward symbolism in some shape
or form, from the cultured appreciation OF
the tropes and SMILES of poetry, down tc
the rough conceits heard at the Zoo on q
bank holiday.-All the Year Round.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1891-09-24
A Cruel Process.

A case of secret society initiation occur
red at Harvard only ten years ago which
passes for cruelty, if not for ghastlness.
An applicant for admission to a secret 80
oiety was taken to the gymnasium by
night, and first pulled up by tackles fast,
ened to his wrists and after that by the
thumbs. His treatment was more than
the student could stand, and he nearly died
from The effects OF it.
Another case was of more pleasan,
nature. The neophyte was led blindfolded
through great number of Boston,
crooked streets until he was thoroughly
mystitied. Then he was taken to the high.
est gallery of brilliantly lighted theatre
and made to lean over the rail, when the
blindfold was suddenly whisked off, The
sensation of that moment. the student af
terward said, Unexpectedly linding himself
in the glare of the lights and looking fal
down into the abyss of human beings, car
better be imagined than described. New
York Star.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1891-09-24
Satur. a, Our Kind uelper.

Nature is always on the side of the right
aud the good, whether in morals or in
5hysics. Moral health and physical health
are, in the higher and the lower sphere re-
spectively, perfect well being, and where
there is an absence of moral or physical
health nature provides for its restoration.
a bad man, not utterly lost, may become
good. a diseased man, not too far gone
may become sound again.
The simplest form of physica! recupera-
ton is the healing of Il wound. Bring the
parts together and keep them so, and soon
the discovered muscles and nerves and
blooc vessels come again each to his fel
low. anh all til. life processes go on as DO
fore. it IL Ia Impossible To unite the parts
nature, taking more time for it. fills up he
gap with new flesh aud leaves nothing but
a scar.
Even parts of internal organs, brain,
stomach. liver, intestines, etc, may be cut
away nnc perfect healing take place. In
the case of wounds ulcers too large to be
otherwise healed, bits of skin may be
transferred to them from other parts Of the
body or from the body of some other per-
son, or even from some young animal, and
each bit will become the center of new
growth, and the wound thus he healed com.
pletelyand with little or no Disagreement.
And this power of rccuperation is not
confined to the flesh Not only do broken
homes readily grow together, but even II
large portions are removed. new bone may
oil up the space between the severed parts
and thoroughly reunite the,n.-Youta's
Companion.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1891-09-24
How 1t Feel. to he . M,ll,op.,r..

have yet to find the man who doesn't
wish to be rich, but I have always fell.
curious to know how it feels to be mill
tonaire. The opportunity of getting 40
answer to this question presented itself *
me one day, and the man to whom | al
dressed the question was none other than
George NJ. Pullman, who is worth $50 600.
1O at least, who has made fortunes fo.
others, and who has no one to thank fox
his success but himself Mr.. Pullman
looked at me very curiously as asked the
question, and then replied in slow way:
II have never thought of that. But now
that you mention it, believe that am no
better off-certainly no happier-than 1
was when l didn't have dollar to NV
name and bad to work from daylight until
dark.
II wore good suit of clothing then, and
can only wear one now. relished three
meals day then y good deal more than ]
do three meals day now Ihad fewe,
cares; slept better, and I may add gen
orally that l believe vas far happier in
those days than have seen many times
since became millionaire. And yet it
is a comfortable feeling to be rich" And
with that he buttoned up his frock coat
around his snug form, slowly walked down
the hotel steps, painfully crowded his way
Into coupe, and was driven off. In his
younger days he would have walked, and
would have been better for it.-Broollyp
Times
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1891-09-24
The Buttons ON the Back of Coat.

An American missionary was once labor
Ing with much learned argument to con
vert Chinaman, but found himself non
plussed when the listener retorted: "Yop
are a profound scholar; you know every.
thing. Tell me, then, why you wear those
two superfluous buttons on the back OF
your coat" Whether the Chinaman Ne
ceived u satisfactory answer to his query OF
not will probably never he known; but ont
thing is certain, it set Investigators t
work, and it has since been ascertained
that the two buttons are the survival of a
semi-barbaric custom, and that they were
originally sewed on to hold up q belt at .
time when every gentleman wore sword
st. Louis Republic.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1891-09-24
A TIME SAVER
Just Gave Thorn What They wantea
and Made Them Happy.

Just Gave Thorn What They Wanted
and Made Them Happy.
Twas In the Office OF Chicago real es-
tate and loan agent the other day, and had
scarcely got seated when n woman was ad.
mitted and asked him for subscription
to some charity.
with the greatest OF pleasure, ma am !"
he replied, aud producing check book he
filled ont a check for SO. She thanked
him VERY sweetly as she withdrew, and it
was Only five minutes later when q man
entered and ked for contribution to
some poor children's fund.
"Certshly-only too glad" replied the
agent, and he wrote another check for 80
After we had been interrupted four
times, and he had cheerfully written four
checks, said to him:
You certainly deserve tho title of phi.
lanthropist."
"Well, perhaps"
"But notice that you ask no questions
and take everything for granted Have
you no fear of being swndleds"
None whatever"
'Well, the people of Chicago must be an
honest crowd"
"Oh, it isn't that, my dear sir. Let
me"-
Here lady entered and asked for a con.
tribution to assist in giving free excur
sion to Sunday school, and he wrote her
. check for sl5 and waved her out, and
eontinued:
LET me explain. All those checks are
worthless, us they are drawn on bank
where have no funds. do it to save
time. All these callers come prepared to
argue and explain and contend, and each
one of them would sit for half an hour.
BY giving these checks secure a great
reputation around the block as philan.
thropist and well hceed man, and il
costs me nothing. When'-
Here he paused to fill out check for SO
for the establishment OF a sailors bethel,
and then finished:
when the checks are presented they are
found to be worthless, and those holding
them either get mad or see the joke. In
either case they never return, nor do they
give ME away Try it. my boy. Saves
time, money and CAB, and it won't be a
month before you'll be satisfied that you
are doing charity better service than il
you were handing out the cold cash."--
New York Sun.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1891-09-24
Hanna.


Allus the way with the wimmin foxes
Proudcr'n Lucifcr:
Twas that way with my secont wife,
An it was tln death of her.
She never gimme q minnit's peace
She tuck it inter 'cr head
She wanted to live in Tompkinsville-
An "be somebody" she said.
An SO swappcd th' OIL farm OFF
An went an moved to teown;
But we hadn't got rccly Strengthened up
Before the house burnt deown-
fis-Iis-sir-ee, the house burnt up
Fore we'd got settled down.
Twas drcdful sudden: fust knowed 1,
In the middle OF the night =
The ncighbo,s was hollcrin' "Firc!"
An everything wus a-light;
An there before the lookin' glass
Wus Hammer. a-standin' still
Her mouth chuck full o. hnirpins--
a primpin tit tcw kill.
ScZ |. "rhe house is all atirc-
They hain'i no time tcw spare
Gosh darn all tishhooks, Hammer,
What air you doin' thcrcl"
"llold o1.." seq She. ~ CANT 60 out
"lill I've did up my hair"
Scz |, "Oh. Helen Rlazes!
I'm gcttin to;sted brcown!
Come! Git right eoutcn this winder
Before sling ye dcown"
Sez she, How kin without my hoops
Bfore all the folks In teown!''
WAL. there she stuck like q pup to roo
Or n coon in Il hollcr tree.
Dancin' an ycllin', II CANT go deown
A-lookin' the way bc!"
All jumped cout, an tho ruff fell In,
An that wus the last SEQ
of Hammer.
Texas Snting7.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1891-09-24


Poor mann' exclaimed the impulsive.
warm hearted lady, "you look us if you
had known some great sorrow"
You are right, num-" answered the
battered tramp, gratefully accepting the
d0ughnuts and bowl Of fresh milk II
have"
May | ask what it is'"
"Yes, num-" he said, with his mouth
full. II lost both my parents when was
nothin' but small boy"
Had you no friends2"
Yes, mum. | had an uncle lived
with him till was a good sized chunk OF a
boy, and then he died.
And you had no other friends?"
only an aunt. mum; went to live with
her next was very happy at my aunt's,
till-tili"-
Don't speak Of it, my poor man. If it
awakens painful memories"
ut breaks me all up, mum; but there's
worse to come. My aunt-she"-
"Diedf"
mo. She WAS a widow, my aunt was,
you know, and she up aud married again.
Married a mean, stingy. ornery cuss Of =
man. He drove me out Of the house b.
fore he had been There three weeks!'
"And then!"
"And then, num-" said the detected
traveller, a frightful spasm of pain distort-
ing his face at the recollection, 81 had to
60 to workp'-Chicago Tribune
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1891-09-24
Tricks Of tho sw.llower.

The meanest trick that the epiglottis ha.
done Of late is to an Auburn storekeeper,
who was about to open store the other day,
and held key, very small one, in hia
mouth for moment, when he unfortu.
nately slipped on the door and swallowed
It (the key, not the door, He waited for
his partner to open up. A pretty girl who
was about to pay the conductor in thu
street. car Pine street route) Thursday sud
dsnly blushed and than turned pals. Shs
bad swallowed ten cent pieca-
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1891-09-24
Both Side. Of the Question

"You know what my daughters voice
is, said Third street two lsted woman
to the leader of choir up town. who was
looking for a singer.
Yes, madam" he said submissively.
II should say So"
"Yes, madam, he continued, bracing up.
"and ! may say that ! also know what It
isn't. ."-Detroit Free Press
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1891-09-24

The custom of coloring eggs at Easter
dates back to the Fourth century, and they
are very easily decorated by one skilled in
the use of.the brush OF pencil. In many in
stances children are able to earn quite .
sum of money by filling egg orders for
their friends.
The morning call., 1891-03-16
SONG WRITING.
The Motif Which Started Any Song Should
Run Down to the Last Line.

The Motif Which Started Any Song Should
Run Down to the Last Line.
In speaking of the songs of Heine, of
Beranger and of Burns, we have remarked
that the motif-sentimental, patriotic or
passonate-whieh started any song should
run simply down to the last line. Other
wise, indeed the composition almost ceases
to be a song in the modern sense of the
word and becomes an ode-an ode not only
as the word was understood by the Greeks,
but as II was understood by Horace, and IN
still later times by Coleridge, Shelley and
Keats. This oneness of motif, which is the
fundamental characteristic of the song, go es
far, perhaps, to explain the fact that In
most songs the really vital portion consists
of but one stanza-often the frSt-from
which the remainder of the lyric h angs as
a mere fringe. Among the exquisite song
writers of the seventeenth century Shake
speare was one of those who knew when to
stop after the motif had been expressed;
for it must be remembered that the stanZa
which mars the divine song in Measure
for Measure" Take. Oh, Take Those Lips
AWAY" is not ShakeSpeare'S at all, but
Fetcher's. After Shakespeare's time, how
ever, some of the best English songs writ
ten until Tennyson rose have been the
work of those who were called minor
poets"-that is to say, poets who have made
no attempt to build the lofty rhyme"
while often those who have INDUCED in that
risky kind OF architecture have only par
TALLY succeeded in the humber efforts of
the song-writer. When large body of the
poetic stream is at the command of the
writer the very magnitude of the forces at
work, perhaps, make it difficult for him to
restrain them for the single expression of
single motif. But even unity of motive is
not enough to lend full vitality to song.
Even brevty of structure is a primary re-
quisite even where the motif has not been
departed from. To all forms of literary art
Voltaire's maxim applies, that the most eff
fective way to weary the listener is to say
all that can be said upon a subject; but this
volubiity is destructive of the very exist
ence of the song. In word, it is here that
is seen more clearly than in any other de-
partment Of poetic art the imperious truth
Hesiods saying that the half is better than
the whole; it is here that literary self-in
dulgence-always more or less injurious to
literary art-it seems to be fatal. This
could be easily made manifest. if 1t were
worth while to instance, any one of those
fine. but Kindergarten lyrics of our time,
while nothing would have prevented from
passing into universal acceptance had not
the poets embarrassment of wealth tempted
him into saying everything that could be
said upon the subject in hand."-London
AtheD8um.