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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-04-29
New Use for Marsh Grass.

Through the efforts of an inventor of
Iowa, articles which can be manu-
featured from common slough grass are
attracting considerable attention. The
farmers of the Northwest have been
paying large prices for binding Irvine,
and it is this fact probably which started
George Lowry to investigating the uses
to which common marsh grass could be
put. He has made several inventions
which are an assured success. The
binding Irvine made by his method is
strong durable, and, above all, cheap.
While the material from which ordinary
binding Irvine is made costs from $40 to
$3.50 per ton, slough grass costs from IS
to S. ton, and the cost of making the
twine from either material is about the
same. A company has been organized
for the manufacture Of this Irvine. The
company will also make cordage of all
kinds, bagging and mating from marsh
grass. Marsh grass makes good rope in
any size, and, formed into small Irvine;
it can readily be woven into coarse
cloth of great strength, which can be
put to a variety of uses. The cotton
planters of the United States annually
raise about 100000 bales of cotton,
which require about 10000, 900 yards OF
bagging. The jute bagging costs about
cents yard. The grass Irvine baggine
can be made at about l cent a yard less
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-04-29
Cure for Lame Cholera.

AS the time of year approaches for
the ewes to drop their lambs the
dreaded disease of lamb cholera begins
to appear before the hockmaster as an
ugly plague that is to rob MIN of his
profits. AS the name indicates the dis
ease is sudden and the end certain, as
it is then too late for remedies. The best
lambs Of the flock are the ones attacked
which makes the loss the more eXasper-
ating.
The disease is caused by the milk curd-
ling or turning to cheese in the stomach
of the lamb, much as the rennet sepa-
rates the milk in the process of cheese
making. The stomach is unable to ex-
pei this curd and death soon ensues.
This hints at the reason for the best
lambs being most liable to attack. The
best lambs have the mothers giving the
greatest flow of milk.
Remedy: Change ewes to less milk
producing diet or confine to dry feed.
Salt freely and as soon as the disease
appears in the fiocks catch all the re-
naming lambs of the flock and give
them lump of tar the size of the end
of your little finger. With the tar the
same quantity of salt may be given.
This treatment, in connection with the
dry feed, is specific. Those who feed
ensilage say they have never had lamb
cholera while feeding it. This accords
with my own experience so far.-W. N.
COacde,1 IN National SOcknldn.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-04-29
How to Grow Beans.

In answer to a correspondent the
Cultivator and Country Gentleman says
that the successful field culture of beans
requires Judgment, and it does not ad-
wise it's correspondent to go into 1T eX-
tensively without successful trial on a
moderate scale. The soil should have
drainage, medium loan, best If en-
riched by previous crop. Heavy soils
are apt to produce unequal rlpenlng; If
mucky, or with much vegetable matter,
or much fresh manuring, it will tend to
make to rank growth of stalks and
leaves at the expense of the seed.
The soil should be we'll prepared by
previous thorough pulverizing, and
made clean and mellow; the surface
made smooth or level by narrowing,
finishing with light roller, SO that the
drill may place the seed at uniform
depth. :,
be twice or three times as thick as
corn; they may be in drills two and
will require about half bushel of seed
to the acre; the larger a bushel; and
the medium, three pecks. A few days
after the time OF corn planting, the soil
will he sufficiently warm. The early
varieties may be planted as late as the
middle of June, the latter the first OF
the month The cultivation should be
clean and continuous, preserving fiat
surface.
For harvesting, the old way was to
pull the plants by hand; for large,
smooth fields, a moving machine, cut
ting close to the surface of the ground,
has been tried with perfect success, and
better mode is to cut the plants an
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-04-29
SHILOH'S
CONSU NJ PTION
CURE.

The success of this Great Cough Cure b
without parallel in the history of medicine.
All druggists are authorized to sell it on pos
tive guarantee, test that no other cure can sue
cessfully stand. That it may become known,
the Proprietors, at an enormous expense, are
placing Sample Bottle Free into every home
in the United States and Canada. If you have
. Cough, Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use it, for
It will cure yer. If your child has the Group,
or Whooping Cough, use II promptly, and relief
is sure. IF you dread that insidious disease
Consumption, use it. Ask your Druggist for
SHnOH'S CURE, Price 10 cts, SO cts. and
$I.oo. If your Lungs are sore or Back lames
use Shiloh's Porous Plaster. Price IS cts.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-04-29
A HindoO Religious Service.

At a recent Hindoo service in the
Kalighat shrine at Calcutta, 200, 900 per-
sons took part. Rajahs, zemindars,
merchants, shopkeepers, pleaders, pro-
fessors, graduates and doctors We're
present, and the Hindoo ladies tasted.
Three hundred Brahmins conducted
the services, chanting the Vedas. Ten
thousand homas were performed for
the protection of religion, thousands
sang the hymns, and shouts and horri-
seeming mad. Many of them swooned,
and one devotee offered his neck, but
WAS nreVented.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-04-29

inch below the surface with somewhat
expensive machine for this purpose
flat and sharp blade running forward
obliquely and drawn by horse, which
walks between the rows, cuts the row
at the side. A cheaper machine is
made by screwing flat cutting blade in
front of the point Of a one-horse pillow.
+ One of the difficulties is in the drying
or curing; the mode adopted by our
correspondent is good one, but re-
quires much labor. The beans may be
threshed by the tread of horses. Of
the different varieties the selection
must be made Of such as sell best in the
market.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-04-29
HER IDOL.

BY HANNAH MORE KOHAUS.
She found her god was false;
Her idol was but clay;
And yet she sorely wept,
Hoping that tears would wash away
Regret, as she beheld
l. fragments lying low,
The god she worshiped well,
Fallen without u single blow.
She thought its heart was gold
O self-deceived and blind!
Because it glittered so,
She sought there preciousness to find;
But it was only dust
Dust that though we'll concealed
Beneath shining garb,
Some day to her must stand revealed.
She thought its eyes were kind,
And that its words were true;
Q faithful worshiperi
How easy It's TO miSconstrue,
When dazzled by the light.
That shines in thine own eyes,
Or reasoning by the glow,
Thy loving heart cannot disguise.
She knows her god is clay,
And yet she WeepS ana WeepS;
Not for her idol-no,
lis for herself the fast she keeps;
She built so lOftily,
So true to soulful art;
From model nobly grand;
It's pedestal her own true heart.
Now there is cTumbled dust,
1t lies beneath her feet
Thank heay'n tbs there it lies
The victory She IL soon complete.
Peace to her heart will come;
Her sobS Will die away;
For no true heart can mourn
For long DER idol gods of clay.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-04-29
Window Gardening.

A New England lady writes to Mas
sachusetts paper:
"a pretty hanging basket is something
always desirable, both winter and sum-
mer, and the more rustic in appearance
it is the better will the effect be.
Probably the neatest thing in this line
is made from the common grapevine
and woodbine, or five-leaved ivy. Sc
cure pieces of grapevine ten inches
long and about as thick as the small fin
ger. Soak them in hot water to- give
them pliability, and then put holes
through them about an inch from each
end. Take an ordinary wooden bowl
and cover the outside with odd pieces
of roots, nailed on firmly. These will
give the basket a rustic appearance,
: Varnish the outside, and then attac b
the sides to the wires in the grape
vines The grape-yines should be
about two inches apart in order to give
strength to the basket. Plant good
woodbine in the basket, and wind the,
long vines around the casket and
the grape-vines until they are partly
concealed from view. The effect is de-
lightful-
Gin the Northern states it is always
good policy to be o little skeptical about
the hardness of sbe lilies and roses adj
VertSeO IN the catalogues, 1Or In0 germs
are not always SO hardy as one might
suppose from these publications. 1t al
ways pays to take the trouble to pro-
tect them from frost, and even the
hardy varieties will always respond
genially to such care. Where the win
tiers are mild this care is unnecessary,
and they may grow the lilies and roses
in abundance without thinking Of pro-
tecting them. A good protection
should always be given them in the
cold Northern states, but not so much
as to- smother the plants. Everyone
should have garden full of roses if
possible, for they are more attractive
than almost any other flower; but if the
climate is so severe that it is all a mat
ter of experiment in keeping the hardy
varieties through the winter, number
of the best house varieties should at
least be grown in the window garden.
With the introduction of the window
garden in modern Horticulture one can
have all kinds of plants, no matter how
cold the climate may be. This method
OF pro pagating flowers has given more
incentive to the general cultivation of
plants than many imagine, and one
who does not take advantage of the OPP
portunities thus presented must fall far
in the rear of the advancing interests of
the day"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-04-29

A pigs age may be known by its teeth,
as we'll as the age Of other animals. It's
mode of dentition is as follows: 1t is
born with four front teeth; one month
afterward it gets four more, one on each
side of the first pair in each Jaw. At
three months it has four more, which
are all the front temporary teeth it has.
At nine months the four outside teeth
drop out and are replaced by permanent
incisors. and the others are replaced
during the next year. At three years
the boar's tusks appear; at four they
begin to lift the lips; at five they are
seen outside the lips; at six they pro-
ject from the mouth, and after that they
grow longer. After two years the sow's
front teeth have a black ring around
the base of them, and as the age in
creases the color OF the teeth deepens,
and they become worn. AS pigs, how
ever, are rarely kept over two years
this test gauge is not often required. OF
recent years, since pigs have been bred
SO as to mature more rapidly, the teeth
may indicate, as with sheep and cattle,
more age than the animals really have.
A we'll bred pig may have all it's per-
manent front teeth at eighteen months,
and this more rapid dentition has some
times led to disputes as to the pigs age.
-R1Cr0t World.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-04-29
Big Feat in Ouarrying.

At Baalbac, in Syria, the traveller sees
at the quarry, nearly ready to be moved
from the pillars that support it, a
dressed stone 71x14x13 feet in size,
containing 1922 cubic feet And this
stone has waited more than 1000 years.
There are four stones, nearly as large,
which have been transported mile or
more and put into the foundations OF
the Temple of the Sun.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-04-29

THE dam porpoises are said to help
their young in their efforts to breathe
by bearing them up to the surface of
the water on their f1ippers. The spir-
acle, or blowhole appears to be sensl,,
tive part of the head, for when touched
with the hand the porpoise invariably
shows signs of great discomfort by lash
ing the tail violently.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-04-29
What is lacking is truth

What is lacking is truth
and confidence.
If there were absolute truth
on the one hand and absolute
confidence on the other, it
wouldn't be necessary for the
makers of DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy to back up a plain
statement Of fact by $500
guarantee.
They say" If we can't
cure y0u make it personal,
please,) Of catarrh in the head,
in any form or stage, we'll pay
you $500 for your trouble in
making the trial"
can advertising fake" you
say.
Funny, isn't it, how some
people prefer sickness to
health when the remedy is
positive and the guarantee
absolute.
Wise men don't put money
back of fakes"
And " taking F." doesn't pay.
Magical little granules-
those tiny, sugar-coated Pei
lets of DR.. Pierce scarcely
larger than mustard seeds,
yet powerful to cure active
yet mild in operation. The
best Liver Pill ever invented.
Cure sick headache, dizziness,
constipation. One a dose.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
1t Is Hard to Waste 1t.

Some advertisers have an idea that
only copies going to paid up subscribers
are useful to them. This is not quite 80.
For example, suppose a journal has 25,-
900 actual subscribers to whom the
paper goes regularly. Suppose it prints
5000 extra copies week, which are sent
as specimens to good parties, whose ad-
dresses are supplied by its agents and
readers, and mails 5000 one week to one
set of persons, the next week to another
set of 5000 and 80 on. In this way 260,-
600 extra persons are reached during the
year, while if the extra 5000 were sent
every week to 5000 paying subscribers
only that number could be reached. In
the former case 2S5,000 persons are
reached In the latter case only 80, 900
all told. A person receiving copy of
journal which he has not seen before,
with request to examine it, will usually
look all through it, advertisements and
all. Such course is as useful to tho
yearly advertiser as if his card were sent
to the whole 5000 persons, or even
more so, for his single loose card receives
far less attention than would be found
in the columns of reputable journal.
Orange Judd Farmer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
Advertising Necessary to Success.

The merchant or manufacturer who
does not advertise his goods cannot sue
ceed. Of late newspaper advertising has
become distinct trade in itself, and all
over the country leading concerns pay
fabulous prices for men who are skillful
in writing catchy advertisements. In
many large cities there are men earning
from $1,000 to $4,000 year to write ad-
vertisements. This fact in itself shows
advertising pays.
If people interested in this subject
will investigate it for themselves they
will find that the leading advertisers in
The Plain Dealer are the merchants who
have the best stores, the best assort-
ments of goods and who sell at the most
reasonable prices. Such merchants do a
much larger business than merchants
who do not advertise; consequently they
turn their goods over more quickly and
can afford to give better prices. Close
buyers appreciate this. What is the
moral? He who advertises the most
judiciously succeeds the best, and the
buyers who seek the best bargains
patronize such merchants Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02

Horace kissed his beautiful bride,
goodnight, and with old Joe leading
the way, he and Sidney started home
ward-wherc they arrived safely and
deposited the, TO them, mysterious
trunk and box.
Grandfather told Hannah TO retire.
Joe and Judy could ;dozc by the fire,
and attend to his wants. AS she
was removing the satin dress it struck
against i chair and gave forth Il clear,
metallic ring Hannah passed her
hand along the hem, and there secure
ly sewed in, was coin after coin. She
ripped small place and peeped IN
there it was--goli-pure gold twenty
dollar pieces. Happiness and graft
tude filled her heart, and she feel
asleep planning how dear grandfather
should live with her-he was not go
ing to dic-he could talk so well and
give orders so clearly. But when
morning came the white peaceful face
told Il different tale. Death had come
silently in The night, done his work
silently-and the naughty, hard, yet
goodhcartcd, old man was no more.
After the funeral, John said, mock
ingly, "Everything here ismine. That
beggarly box of newspapers is all you
two will get for your trouble. Think
you both ought to 60 on the stage
you seem to have turn for theatre
calls"
Hannah smiled sweelly, and said,
"Thank you, uncle John, there is nc
call for us to adopt Il profession. Such
as that"
When the folds of the newspapers
yielded up their treasure from the
humble pine box, ten thousand dol
lars smiled up ut the happy young
faces of Halinah aid Horace. Five
hundred and thirty-five dollars in
gold was sewcd in the satin dress and
a large black mantila. / might as
we'll tell what else was in that trunk
if l don't, all the pretty daughters OF
inqusitive Mother Eve will be asking
me questions about it. Solid silver
tea and table spoons, knives and forks
and two lovely engraved platters
with four funny little feet sticking
out. These had been great grandfa-
ther Caig's possessions, and grand
mother Dalrymple had written in hel
cramped hands $40 my namesakt
and grand daughter, Hannah Craig
Dalrymple these are bequealhed." ."
Table and house linen constituted the
balance of the trunks treasurers.
Now Hannah lives in one Of the
most elegant houses in Jonesboro-
jealous and shallow people who used
to try to snub the "prlnter girl al
most die to De intimate with Mrs
Horace Hilton. Since Col. IarbOugll
has become United States Senator
Horace has fallen heir to his extensive
practice and position Of leading law
yer at the Jonesboro Bar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
A Place for Talent.

In nearly all regulated lines of indus
try at present the advertising man is one
of the most important adjuncts of a
business. And on the the other hand
the advertising department of a, first
class newspaper is not what it used to
be, but is instead fast becoming an in
teresting feature of all enterprising jour
nails. Formerly the prevailing idea
among the uninitiated was that the
talented, the best, most versatile and
most ingenious writers and artists were
all employed in the news department.
How nearly correct this idea may have
been need not be stated, but that such is
not the case now may be seen by a
perusal of the lads" Of any fourishing
paper. The competitions between the
merchants and between the papers
agents have become so great that the
great wholesale and retail houses Of the
large cities employ talented men at big
salaries to attend to their advertising
alone, and the men who want the best
positions in the counting rooms Of news
papers must combine fine business quail
fcations with the talent that wins sue
cess in the editorial chair.-Yenowine's
News,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
The Art Of Advertising.

Advertising seems to be an art yet to
be discovered by some people. That
is, the practical part Of it. A con-
slant stream of water from one or more
fire engines will soon extinguish or get
under control very large fire, while
few buckets Of water, dashed on here
and there, have little or no effect. The
modern fire department is practical, and
has outgrown the old bucket system;
and so with modern advertising-plenty
of it, used in practical, common sense
and judicious manner, pays. ...
If you want to catch certain kind Of
fish you use certain kind of bait; not
all fish bite at all kinds of bait. Not all
people respond to every advertisement.
The newspaper is medium indispen-
sable to the majority of advertisers, be-
cause of its wide and repeating circula-
ton. AS promoter of trade and profit
newspaper advertising is no longer an
open question:; that is. when done in q
practical and intelligent manner, and
pays because of its effectiveness and
cheapness.-Beatrice Neb.) Democrat.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
marble group; but of all her work she
regards this, her gift to her beloved
Alma Mater, her labor of love, her
masterpiece.
"Lives of great men all rem ind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing leave behind us
Footprints on the sands OF time"
No Medium Like the Newspaper.

The advertising man of well known
New York clothing house says: I'VE
were the first to use the sails of ves-
sells as an advertising medium. Then
we got up the alphabet puzzle and
gave away 100000 puzzles while the
craze lasted. Afterward we invented
the Waterbury watch idea. We had to
do something, because three of our prin-
cipal competitors had failed, and their
stocks were being sold for next to
nothing by assignees; 80 we decided to
give a Waterbury watch with every
twelve dollars worth of goods pur-
chased. We advertised the watches
wound and set To wind them fast
enough we had to rig up little machine
worked like a sewing machine that
would do the winding, and we kept
several boys at work winding and setting
them. Before we quit we had given
away 10000 of the watches.
"But nothing ever pays us like the or
dinary newspaper advertising. The fact
is thera has come to be in this city a
class Of advertisement readers just as
there is of news readers. They read the
advertisements every day, and of course
the man who wants to attract them has
to get up an advertisement that will do
it. The day of standing advertisements
in the paper, Go to So-and-So's for cloth
ing or Go to This-and- That's for shoes,
has passed, just as the day for painting
signs on rocks and fences or on the sails
of boats has passed. You must have
something interesting and fresh in every
advertisement, and it will be read
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
! CHAPTER VIII.

=
FALLS WE'LL, THAT ENDS wELL.'
Ese,,I yorbrouol returncd IN thc can.
EtssI and ,vos dmIv rlcc;cI United Sinie.
amator which f,ct was immrdiotrly
4 Esia,,ya,,b oil in nI.iin Enuiisb. TO thnt
Essar bundle Of nerves at home ): X !: :
|{slie News came out in flaming head.
ines ttOur Senator, 1t is" "fIur-
kah for Yarbrourh :" "Jonesbrongh's
tfnitad States SENATOR" The old
awn, Simply went wild. They fired
6onnons. tile factory and oil mill and
(seamoiiye whistles shrieked and
E,'s;akod haJls were ruur. the .Jones-
|.,rnnSh GnnrIs narn,lcJ. the band
sagaS ond T'ill;s Ynrbrollrb. was ham,
,rlnr;ouslv hnunv. After the storm
Esns s,,,s tbe s,,nshine 10 this proud am.
Eit;n,,S devoted wife and the four cy-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
Spasmodic Advertising.

We all recognize that as between the
fellow who works 'by fits and starts"
and the chap who plods along and keeps
at it steadily, the plodder gets there
every time. The spasmodic fellow may
create an occasional impression, but the
results of his fitful labors are dissipated
in the intervals.
The occasional display Of fireworks
only serves the purpose of preventing his
being forgotten altogether; while the
man who works, and keeps working, con-
stantly improves his position and pros
poets.
So it is with advertising. It is the re-
peated "ad" and the sustained effort that
tell. We don't mean the "ad" that is
never changed, but the one that is ever
changing, but never omittedl The wise
advertiser keeps always before the peo-,
pie to whom he desires to sell his wares.
When you want to quit doing business
stop advertising, or advertise only "once
in q while"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
REGULAR Publications Best.

No one takes up regular publication
without the expectation of finding some
thing of interest. The simple act of
turning the pages is as positive an ex-
ample Of expectation as is the opening
of closet if one is in search Of coat.
Hence an announcement in regular
publication has an advantage over any
other form of business solicitation-that
of meeting the sought for eye at time
that it is in q mood for such greeting.-
A. G., Ladd