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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-03-04
Dairy NJ aXinS.

The Southern Cultivator offers the
following advice on the management of
the dairy:
1t is the price of good butter that ad-
vances. But the price of bad butter
does not get any lower. Because it is
as low as it can get. 1t only pays to
make good dairy products. The low
iuriously affects the price of good ones.
If there were no bad butter or cheese
made there would be more OF the good
consumed. And the demand would in
crease.
In building COW stable, plan to
make it as comfortable TOR the COWS as
possible, and as convenient for yourself
as you can make it. When a stable is
wisely arranged the COWS will be less
liable to suffer from neglect.
A convenient place to store bedding
will save much loss of manure and keep
the COWS clean and comfortable. Don't
let the manure gutter get full of liquid
manure so that the cows tails will
get into it when they lie down.
When you milk them they
tails in your face or wrap them around
your neck. Then you will use abusive
| language not fit for a cow to hear.
When it is convenient to do so, throw
the manure from the horse stable into
| the gutter of the cow stable. This will
absorb the liquid manure and make it a
pleasanter job cleaning out the COW
! stable, and the mixing of two kinds of
manure will be benefit.
| If the cream stands too long before it
is churned the butter will be bitter.
| You cannot go beyond certain limit In
time in keeping cream. The limit
varies with the weather. Not merely
the temperature of the air but its con-
| dition The condition of the air also
affects the time it takes to churn. II
the cream has been tempered right and
the butter is too long in coming, put
J in some water little warmer than the
cream.
When the butter comes be careful no.
to let the grains get too large. Don
gather the butter unless it is sufficiently
firm. Well or spring water is better
than ice water to harden the grains.
It takes little longer but does it bet
ter. Ice is not good thing to come in
contact with butter at any time.
In dry-salting butter, if the salt is
powdered fine it will dissolve quicker
If the salt is fine, the butter grains
small and the salt evenly sprinkled on
the butter, it can be worked at once and
show no streaks nor require second
working. Brine washed and brine
sailed butter cannot show any streaks Il
the washing has been thoroughly done
Use good salt, and if you roll it fine you
can the better pick out any black
specks that may be in it.
Don't use any personalities in your
milk, cream and butter except pure
salt and good care. Don't put sugar in
the butter; we wash it to get out al
impurities and sugar is one Of them.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-03-04

were stirred into it half cupful OF
sugar, one tablespoonful of lemon juice,
and heaping quart of pared, quartered
and cored tart apples.
JOHNNY CAKES.
Mix cups Of Indian meal with II
plntss of boiling water poured on to the
meal boiling, little by little, stirring all
the time. Every now and then stop
pouring the water and let it stand a
minute to swell, and SO on until your
water is all in; one-quarter teaspoonful
OF salt; beat hard two or three minutes,
drop on to a hot griddle creased with
pork or drippings, and let them bake
on the top OF the stove, turning when
one side is brown, and then pull them
back little and cook until you are
ready. These are very good split and
eaten hot. If any are left cold-tor tea
or lunch they are most good-split, toast
and then your over milk prepared as
you do for good milk toast.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-03-04
Eggs for HAtchinp

In selecting eggs for Matching purposes,
see that they ere Uniform Very large
eggs, that bulge" out at the larger
part, and which are disproportionat in
width to length, seldom hatch, as hens
that lay such eggs are usually in an over
fat condition, and we may here men
ton that eggs from very fat hens are
nearly always large or exceedingly
small. The eggs for incubation should
be of normal size, smooth, free from
excrescences or inequalities of shell
and well-proportioned But we must go
beyond the eggs and know from what
kind of hens they came. All breeding
stock should be in perfect health and in
full vigor, the male to be active, and
the females industrious in their search
for food.
The breed used should be one that
possesses some meritorious character
istic, such as good laying. marked
quality, size, hardness or adaptability
to the climate.
No eggs should be used for Matching
except those that have been selected
for the purpose. To take number
from the basket, without selecting them,
is to incur the risk of securing no chicks,
while extra care may result in a good
hatch.-Fdrno and Fireside
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-03-04
Tea and Coffee.

A New York tea dealer says that in
few years coffee will not be in the race
with tea, and that the number of tea
drinkers is increasing greatly. Now
in England the people drink tea as
much, if not more than coffee-while
here we have a nation of coffee drinkers.
Look at the big tea houses now
prospecting in this country. The
demand for the seductive weed is be-
coming greater, especially in large
cities. Fashionable afternoon teas, and
the habit of handing tea around at
receptions, show just how it is being
drunk. The fine Ceylon tea now
in vogue is healthy drink and has a
splendid flavor. All through the West
coffee is becoming less popular and tea
is the popular drink.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-03-04
KITCHEN LITERATURE.
FOR LUNCHEON.


Dip pork chops first in milk and then
in flour Fry them in their own fat for
twenty minutes to half an hour Drain
on brown paper in a hot colander.
Have six potatoes peeled and parboiled,
| roll them In flour, and let them brown
in the fat from the chops Serve with
hot baked apples.
ONION SOUP.
Six large onions, two ounces of butter,
salt and pepper to taste, quarter of a
pint OF cream, one quart of soup stock
Chop the onions, and fry in butter, Just
lightly, all tender. but not brown; add
the soup stock and let them boil, then
season, and just before serving add the
boiling cream. Excellent for persons
troubled with sleeplessness.
MASHED POTATOES WITH EGG.
Before removing mashed potatoes
from the stove, beat the white of an
egg with pinch Of salt until very light
After the potatoes are taken up into the
dish smooth them over and spread the
beaten egg on them, just as you would
frosting on cake, and hold a very hot
inverted stove lid over them a few sec
onds, or until the egg turns just the
least bit yellow.
Triple should be we'll washed and
rubbed with lemon juice or vinegar,
then simmered gently in one part of milk
to two of water till tender. Cut it into neat
pieces, sprinkle it with fnely-chopped
parsley, and some onion juice, pepper
and salt, egg and breadcrumb it, fry
delicate vwn, drain it we'll, dust it
with coraline pepper or paprika, gar
nlsh with parsley and serve.
AMERICAN CREAM.
One quart of milk, in it dissolve one
half of box of gelatine, putting over
greater heat after dissolved. When
boiling, stir in the yeIks of four eggs,
with four tablespoons Of white sugar,
let it boil, then take off and stir in
whites OF four eggs beaten stiff with four
tablespoons sugar. Flavor with one and
one-half teaspoons of vanilla, or few
drops Of oil of almond. Use one day
after made.
APPLE TAPIOCA PUDDING.
Apple tapioca pudding is always better
for being baked several hours before it
is used. The previous night half a cup
full of tapioca was soaked in three cup
fuls of cold water. In the morning the
tapioca and the water in which it was
soaked were put in the double boiler on
the fire, the tapioca to be cooked for one
hour. At the end of this time there
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-03-04
The Railroad Man Don't Like Him.

There is one class of men that is
both hated and dreaded by Pullman
car conductors and porters, and that
is the professional spotter. There are
about forty OF these in the employ of
the company, and they are the terror of
our lives. IT is not that they discover
pecuniary dishonesty, for very few
instances of this occur, and no one
could object to the company endeavor-
ing TO protect its interests. The thing
that we complain OF is that these
spoilers are continually endeavoring to
lnveigle us into violations of petty rules,
instance, there is rule forbidding us
to smoke on duty. Often in the even
ing we would like a cigar, but we are
not allowed to enjoy it. The spotter
will sit up until all the rest have gone
to bed, and then produce a fine cigar,
say that no one will know ii we smoke,
and press it upon US. Sometimes a
conductor will yield, and then his
name is sure to go in to the main Office
The same rules prevail in regard to
drinking, and the spotter uses his
whisky bottle to trick us into a
violation of regulations. The porter is
also subject to his surveillance. There
is rule Of the company torbidding the
upper berth to be raised at night unless
the entire section is paid for. The
spotter will offer the porter to raise the
berth, and if he consents will report
him. If these detectives would
confine themselves to watching for
violations of the rules and regulations
no one would complain, but it seems
very hard for great company to hire a
lot of men to throw temptation in the
wav of its employees. and then dis
charge them for yielding.-T. Louis
DenAL.rnf
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-03-04
Scratches and Grease,


No doubt, says the Horse Breeder,
some horses, because of grOsSnesS OF
constitution, are more subject to it than
others; but it may be depended upon
that dirt is the cause of it, first, last and
all the time"
In the worst case of grease | ever en-
countered, the disease began in the
hind legs in the shape of an ordinary
attack of scratches. | treated it with
the use of carboic acid and some patent
remedies that were then advertised,
but in spite of all it made Roadway and
spread up the legs, above the hooks and
to the quarters, in the form OF running
sores, in TACT, real case of grease.
decided to use heroic treatment.
took name brush, made of wire with
ruber backing, and tore away every
scab, until the limbs were a mass of
running sores. l then applied a strong
ointment of nitrate of mercury, and
the disease succumbed almost Instantly
This satisfied me that the main thing to
do was to get beneath the scab with
the antiseptic application, whatever it
may be.
If | were treating a case of dry scratch
es, which, as rybody knows, is the
most obstinate FORM | would take pair
of fine scissors and cut off the edges of
the crack, for / have observed that
when suffering from the same thing in
winter on my fingers and thumbs, that
if | cut off the edges of the cracks the
pain disappeared at once. Now, the
form of dry scratches is precisely the
same complaint as that | have alluded
to III my own case. The explanation of
this IS that the edges Of the wound are
the main feeding ground of the germ.
OF all the ointments that | have used,
the common zinc ointment of the shops
seems to be the most efficient. 1t has
the advantage over most others In be-
ing insoluble and fairly stiff, and cannot
be easily washed off, so that it has a
tendency to smother the germ. Here,
again, | am reminded that in cases of
eczema in the human subject great relief
is found by the application of rlbber
bandages, which produce the smother
ing effect above alluded to. So that if I
were to fight a difficult case, | would
apply the zine ointment, or if possible,
some sitter and more insolu BILE anti
septic ointment than that is, and apply
over the pace loosely piece Of rubber
film.
In the case Of noted turf performer,
subject to dry scratches to such an eX-
tent that the cracks would open nearly
to the bone, relief was found by the
application of tann1n, which practically
tanned the germs that were the cause
of the disease, as we'll as the hide in
which they found Judgment. In OBJ
stinate cases it will be we'll to fight the
complaint by applying a number of
ointments known to be specifics for
these complaints, in the hope that soon
er or later cure may be effected. AS
an ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure, horse owners should see
to it that their grooms brush thorough
ly beneath the fetlocks, and not simply
slide the brush down the sides of the
limbs Care in this respect will meet
with a reward.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-03-04
Don't Wait Till She is Dead.

Rev. Robert Mcintyre says: ''To re-
frain from showing affection makes the
wife miserable. She does not care for
presents or lavish attention; she wants
those lite tokens such as may be given
even in a look, which will prove her
husbands love. / wish some Of the
good things that some men are saving
up to say concerning their wives after
they are dead could be said now. A
man will spend $25 to buy cut flowers for
his dead wife's coffin, when if he had
spent 25 cents for bunch of flowers for
her when she was alive she would have
tainted. You wait until she is dead,
and then get some fool of a preacher to
tell how good she was"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-03-04

ground early for late crop. summer fall
lowing as for wheat. Early crop is set
about the 10th of April, second crop the
LIST of May and third crop Goth of June.
In setting we use a peg to make the
hole and insert the plant to the first
leaves, pressing the dirt firmly to the
bottom Of the roots with the peg.
When the plants have Strengthened up
commence cultivating the soil deeply
and the more frequently the better, for
the first four weeks; never cultivate
less than once week until beginning to
head. The early cabbages which can
not be disposed of in our home market
are shipped in crates; the late shipped
in carload lots.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-03-04
Asparagus Beds,

To set an asparagus bed, says the
Michigan Farmer, get plants one or two
years-one is about as good az the other
set in trenches about a foot deep with
plenty Of manure in them mixed with
soil Set the plants about twenty inch
es apart dlagonally in the trench, and it
would be better, perhaps, to make it
two feet. Cover first with soil and then
with manure each autumn and in the
spring spade it in, not torking the
ground too deep. During the summer
fork the ground over enough to keep
the weeds down. For a family of six
persons 100 plants will be ample. Every
farmer should have bed of
asparagus. The plants will not cost
more than so or IS cents. When once
started and cared for, an asparagus bed
will last for generations, and it will at
ford large amount of healthful food.
The bed may be cut for use little the
second year after planting, and the
fourth year it may be fully cut.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-03-04
Adaptation of a Theory.

A fine example of the Henry George
theory of 'unearned increment was
given yesterday in the sale of Benjamin
Franklin's watch, says the Philadelphia
Bulletin. It's original cost was possibly
$50. 1t gained nothing in actual value
by years of service and more years of
silent inaction; yet it sold for s., 100
siml ly because it once belonged to Ben
jamin Franklin.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-03-04
Young Cows Best.

Henry Stewart, in the course OF an
article in the Practical Farmer, says:
81 doubt if it pays to keep any COW
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-03-04

THE perfumer is always known as a
scents-able fellow.-Binghamto Repu6-
hcdn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-03-04
A WINTER SURPRISE PARTY.

A WINTER SURPRISE PARTY.
NE found hornets nest this lad,
And brought it to the fire,
Considering only what he had
Not what he might acquire.
But when they tempered with his bliss.
And hummed rejoicing low.
He sat and sobbed. and murmured "List-
En- to those tails of woe
= Washington Post.
The record-union., 1891-09-25
with a full attendance of dele

morning with full attendance of dele
gates.
Henry Drum and George Hazard of
Tacoma were elected respectively Presi
dent and Secretary; G. H. Warner of Col
fax and Francis Henry of Olympia, re-
spectively, were chosen Vice-President
and Chairman.
The selection of place for next years
convention was contest between New
Whatcom and Vancouver, the former
winning.
The following dispatch from ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland was read:
NEW YORK. Sept. "a, 1891.
Henry Drum, President: Please pre-
sent my congratulations and best wishes
who meet to-day in your State. l hope
their faith in the intelligence Of their
countrymen will induce them to rest their
hopes of success upon the advocacy of
the wholesome principles and measures
which are truly Democratic, as well as
upon thorough party organization, which
their association of Democratic clubs is
so well calculated to subserye. The vim
dication Of our principles can be safely
left to the plain people Of the land when
they are aroused to thoughtfulness and
patriotic action.
"GRovER CLEVELAND"
Senator Faulzer spoke this afternoon
ana congressman Bynum tonight, CLOS
ing the convention.
BIDDING FOR THE NATIONAL CoNYEN-
TION.
NEW York, Sept. 24.-Franklin K.
Lane, editor of the Daily NeaCS Of Ia
coma, WASH, is in this city. His mission
here, he announces, is to secure the hold
ing Of the Democratic National Conven-
ton in 1892 in Tacoma. The proposition
is to have the delegates to the convention
start simultaneously from Portland, Me-,
New York, Washington and some point
in Florida. These will stop at the most
important cities to take up delegates from
the several States. While the delegates
are en- route and while at Tacoma they
viii be entertained by the Democrats OF
Washington. The new exposition build
ing will easily accommodate the conven-
ton, and there will be plenty accommoda-
ton in the hotels at Tacoma.
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TO TALK WITH LONDON.

Plan Under Consideration for a Tele-
phone Cable Across the Atlantic.
Boston, Sept. pa series of success
fuI experiments with long-distance tele-
phones in this vicinity has led to the dis
cussion of the feasibility of transoceanic
telephones. German Gray, inventor of
the wire on which these experiments
have been made, said: "It is practicable
to telephone across and through the At
lantic at cost far less than the present
cables and of tenth of the weight, and
consequently breaking the strain on the
cables. The use of copper, it has been
found, is not necessary, for iron wire,
properly shaped, has been proved to be
as reliable a conductor, and its tensile
strength is greater. The plan is under
don, and the subject is now being figured
on by capitalists
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asnnt1l zsalsiatn a1n.nnrr.
ID we can trust her to make it go as far

and we can trust her to make it go as far
as possible"
In this way he went through some
twenty odd letters, treating each case
as, he thought, upon its merits, but every
one of them contrary to nay advice.
was not employed to manage his charity
business.
In the fall of 1890 Mr.. Huntington re-
turned to New York over the Santa Fe
road from Los Angeles to Chicago. he
Travelled in special train, consisting OF
an engine and his private car. He was
accompanied by Mrs. Huntington and
the staff officers whom he always carries
with him. While the train was running
at high rate of speed in Missouri, 1t
came upon a young woman who was
walking over trestle. The woman was
thrown from the track with her rlght leg
broken between the knee and ankle. The
train was stopped, and the victim taken
into the car, and in a few minutes she was
carried to the nearest station, where she
had acquaintanceS. Upon arrival there,
the special train was sent back several
miles for a well-known surgeon.
During this delay Mr.. Huntington and
his wife were busy arranging for the
future care Of the girl. 1t was learned
that she was the breadwinner for several
younger children and an invalid mother.
Mrs. Huntington took charge OF the mat
ter OF caring for the helpless, while her
husband devoted himselfto the wounded
girl. All bills of every kind were TO be
sent him, and no expense was TO be
spared in any direction. The girl died
from the effects of her injuries and the
bills were all paid by Mr.. Huntington.
He then arranged plan by which the
younger children were to be educated IN
q reasonable way, but which in the end
would have cost him about $4,000.
On the day that his agent reached the
little Missouri town to settle the matter,
the mother tat the instance of a local law
YER instituted suit against the Santa I'e
Railroad for damages. The fact was wired
to MIR. Huntington, who at once directed
that the funds sent out be turned over to
President Marvel and used, if necessary,
in defending the suit, but if legal pro-
ceedings were stopped, the original plan
should be carried out.
OF this whole affair, beyond the acci-
dent, no mention was ever made in the
papers, because Mr.. Huntington did not
wish it.
l could give hundred instances which
would illustrate the better side of the
character of Mr.. Huntington, and all of
which would be to his credit. He once
said to me: ''The rich man should invest
his money in productive enterprises
which Will employ labor. If l give q
man 81 900 he becomes an object of
charity. If / give him work by which he
can earn 81 coo, he retains his manhood
and self-respect, and my principal re-
mains undiminished.'
The future will no doubt be more gen.
erous with the name and character of
Huntington than is the age contempor
aneouS with him. jAYHAWKER.
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Life Made Comfortable.
Borem-Still living in JERSEY. eh?

Borem-Still living in Jersey. eh?
Hustler-Yes; / have no thought of
coming back to the city.
Borem-But it must be very inconve-
nient, forty minutes by train and fifteen
by boat every day, and you've got to
catch both right on the minute.
Hustler-That's what l like about it.
You see when people buttonhoie me and
get to talking, all I have to do is to jerk
out my watch, mutter something about
train time, and 1 get away without giving
offense. See?
Borem-Ha, ha! That's good. That re-
minds me of little thing Saphead was
telling last
Hustler-By the way, it's train time
now. Ta-ta!-New York Weekly.
The record-union., 1891-09-25
THE UNION PACIFIC.
Annual Report of the Government
Directors.


WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-George F.
Leighton, John f. Plummer, Jesse
SpaIding, Rufus B. Bullock and Joseph
w. Haddock, Government Directors OF
the Union Pacific Railway, filed with
the Secretary of the Interior their annual
report as follows:
For the year 1890. as compared with
1889, the gross earnings of the railway
have increased S652. .643, while the net
earnings have decreased 81, oil, ,32n 90 for
the same period. The gross earnings OF
all roads composing the system increased
S3, ,379, ,64S, while the net earnings de-
creased 81, ,457, ,462. The cause of this
diminution in the net earnings is mostly
of general character to all railways in
the West, and arose chiefly from the ex-
greater part of the territory covered by
the SVStem