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Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-23

planned that it meant scratching with the
ten finger nails it was thought to be east
end slang. The reporters afterward pointed
out, however, that the duchess uses 1t in
shakespsare's "Henry W." and now It is
seen that an expression which the rich
and educated have not used for centuries
has survived among the London poor.
The following interesting advertisement
appears in Philadelphia paper: "a gen.
tleman with phenomenal conception of
strategy, profound knowledge of human
nature, wide experience, strictly RESPONSE
BILE, unparalleled success, with other quail
ifcations necessary to accomplish any law
full undertaking possible for human genius
to achieve, designs, plots, formulates and
carries into successful operation legitimate
schemes of business, political, matrimonial
or social nature; pulls the rockiest cases
out of the fire; straightens out difficulties,
troubles, etc.; secrecy and dispatch guar
anteed; correspondence solicited"
What constitutes a "traveller" within
the meaning of the Sunday excise law has
slwayssbeen more or less of 5 puzzle for
British magistrates, and case Of more
than ordinary difficulty has just come up
in Northamptonshire, where publican at
Little Houghton was fined $25 for selling
drink during prohibited hours on a Sun
day. He urged in his defence that he had
asked his customers the questions pre-
scribed by law and had every reason to be-
lieve that they were travellers" within
the meaning of the act. It was admitted
by the prosecution that the men had walked
the three miles required by law, but it was
urged that they had journeyed from North
ampton for the sole purpose of getting
drink, and that this was an offence. On the
other side it was maintained that publican
could not by any humap possibility fathom
a mans motives; that if the man made the
statement that he had come the distance
which constituted him traveller within
the meaning of the act, it could not be
proved that he had made the journey
with the object of buying pint of beer. or
disproved that he WAS a traveller who
needed reasonable refreshment. The divi-
sional justices, however, convicted the
publican, and the justices at the Quarter
Sessions upheld the decision. The case
will now be taken before the High Court,
which will have to decide whether man
can be said to be travelling when his goal
is a public house.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-23
AN EASY TAKIFF LESSON.

An interesting aud impressive tariff OBJ
ject lesson is in plain sight in Springfield,
1t is one of about fifty
euch in various parts of the country. The
Newell Brothers of Springfield mako pearl
buttons. For ten years they carried on
their business at a loss. Up till within a
year they were not able to see prosperity
ahead, either for themselves or for their
workingmen. Under the new tariff, how
ever, they have increased the number of
their employees from 40 to 145. aud each
employe receives higher wages than was
paid before. The payroll, which in the old
days was 5000 q month, is now "a, 500 a
month. The workingmen are very much
pleased with the Mckinley tariff OF pearl
buttons, for it gives more of them work,
and it is steady work ut very satisfactory
pay.
Previous to the enactment of the McKin-
Icy bill there was several million dollars
worth of pearl buttons sold in this country
annually, nearly all of which were import
ed, chiefly from Austria. The manufac
turers in that country, with theil
pauper and convict labor, were
forced to export their wares, al
Austria prohibited the product of pau
per and convict labor from coming int
competition with the labor of its own work
ingmen. America, with its then low tar
iff, was selected as the market for tn
goods, and American workingmen wer
forced out of employment and many of tn
American manufacturers were forced ou
| of business for the benefit of Austria. ]
| is estimated that the annual product Q
pearl buttons in this country to- day
about $4,000, 900 worth, for the manufae
ture of which Americans, instead of Aus
trians, are paid, and the possibilities al
that in the near future the product wi
have more than doubled.
One such fact as this is worth cart-loa
| of fine theories.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-23
ESSAYS.

The next thing after sweet-girl gradu-
ating essay is usually very successful es-
say on nman.-Washington Star.
She-I thought you told me Mr.. Nixon
was q man of regular habitsl He-Well,
he has been drinking steadily ever since 1
knew him.-Life.
"But, my dear Harold-I cannot marry
you. Yo ucan't support wife on your
salary" eyes, Maude. 1t will suffice for
you, and I-well, dearest, l will shift for
myself. Puck.
ct have such an indulgent husband"
said little Mrs. Doll. "Yes, 80 George
says" responded Mrs. Spiteful. "Some-
times indulges little too much, doesn't
heg"-Tit-Bits.
"You can't claim" said the man who
doesn't care for the rod and line, "that
fishing affords exercise" "Oh, yes, 1t
does, was the reply; "for the imagina-
ton. ."-Washington Star.
Philadelphian-I think 1t strange you
New Workers never turn to look after q
pretty woman on the street, as most men
do. New Yorker-We do not need to.
There is always another pretty woman
just coming up.-New York Herald.
Teasing friend--Whst makes that new
baby at your house cry 30 much, Tommy
Tommy Gndignantly)-It don't cry SO very
much; and anyway If all your teeth was
| out, and your hair off, and your legs 80
weak you couldn't even stand on them, I
guess you'd feel like crying yourself
Life.
Housekeeper-Hasa any way been discov-
cred to kill the pests that destroy carpetsi
Great scientist-Yes, madame. Take up
the carpets, hang them on line and beat
them with q heavy stick
| Housekeeper-Will that kill the insectsi
| Great scientist-Yes, madame, if you hit
them.-New York Weekly.
"Do you know that there are bacteria in
that beeri" asked the temperance worker
as Taddles raised the amber liquid to his
lips. "Well, what of itl'' asked Taddles
as he set the empty glass down. "Do yor
expect me to fish 'em out2 Pm no mem
Der of the Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals. ."-Brooklyn Life.
"Nonsensep remarked Synnek, sit ism
love that makes people marry. It's fiat
terry, rank hattery. The man ia pleased
because the woman took a fancy to SO in
ferior q being as he knows himself to be
and the woman's vanity is tickled for pre-
cisely similar reasons. In q word, eacl
loves the other for showing poor taste IL
choosing a mate. Boston Transcript.
sPapa," inquired a Detroit small boy
"what sort of stone is wooden stonel"
'T never heard of any stone like that,
replied the father, land don't think yo,
ever did"
eyes, did, too" persisted the boy; q
!, heard the preacher cay in his sermon tha
the heather in their blindness bowed dow
to wooden stone. You'd better SO
. church, guess."-Detroit Free Press.
s'Tommy, how did you get the back {
| uorr nook all sunburntfp
? "Pullin' weeds in the garden"
!. "But your hair is all wet, my son."
d "That persp'ration."
: "Your vest is on wrong side out, too"
Q "Put it on that way a-purpose."
+ "And how does 1t happen, Tommy dea
o that you have got Jakey Du Bois' trou
l. ers ONT"
o (Af.er long pause) ''Mother, I cann
r tell lie. I've been . swimmin'. Chic
o 60 Tribune.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-23


wished to visit the old imminent room;
whereupon the storms of descriptive elo-
auence would break forth anew. Some
thing in the hushed quiet of the place, the
hopelessness of ever coming to see what
| longed for most, aud the sustained notes
| of his chant about the worthless whose
dust was beneath US and their wondrous
deeds and gifts to st. Mary's, furnished an
uncomfortable somnolence. / finally sank
into pew in an attitude of deferential in
terest, bulged my eyes to the limit of hu-
man endurance, and with this wonderful
human talking machiue in regular pulsa-
tions growing to giants size and diminish
| ing to the stature of a pigmy declaiming
| before me, refreshing slumber came.
| I awoke with start as the verger shook
| me and upbraided me with the charge that
he could not inter est me in this prince of
English churches." pressed half crown
upon him and again timorously limited
something about ''the Chatterton NUM-
ment room" As If in frenzy of despair
| at the perversity of all humankind, he
flung me a key, motIoned tragically to-
| wards the inner stairway leading to above
the north porch, covered his heated face
with his hands and actually burst into
tears.
Poor old mani thought !, as / groped
my way over brassss, beneath effgies, and
in and through cleaning chantries to the
winding stone stairway, on his weak and
burdened shoulders also rests the same old
mountain pretense and lie of century't
belittlement of that one little lad who
alone has given them all something of the
rsdiated effulgence of his deathless name
But at last I stood alone within wha
seems to me to be the most tenderly inter
esting relic in Bristol. 1t is enteret
through two massive narrow doors from
the stairway. The room is hexagonal 1,
form, low, perhaps twenty-fiv teet in di
ameter, and lighted by forty narrow, IN
glazed windows. The stone floor rests ol
the groined arches of the exquisite pore
below; and huge beams of we'll preserve
oak form and support the ceiling.
1t did notseem a dismal spot to me. o
:, the contrary, one could imagine no NOR
= reposeful and retired place for his ow
day-dreams or those of such genius 9
t Chatterton. Pleasantly came the sound
y of the street through the open window
sweetsr still were now and then waited u
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-23

A new ruling of the Postoffice depart
ment decides that postmaster cannot
properly serve as member of the legis-
lature of his State.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-23

TUE BLACK DIAMONDS.
When the coal barons got together few
months ago they were very smooth. They
hastened to announce that their combina-
ton was not for the purpose of raising the
price of coal. and they held out the glitter
ing hope that by reason of Economies"
dispensing with middlemen, etc.. they
might even make coal cheaper to the con-
sulner than 1t had been. This was what they
said. What they have done is, as Rudyard
Kipling would say, another story. In the
early part of this year the schedule price
of stove coal, free on board at tidewater
near New York city, was s3.45 per ton;
it is now $3.50. The price of chestnut
coal was So. 10; it is now 81 40.. The ad-
vance with respect to stove coal in less than
six months has been at least 81. .05 per ton,
and the price of chestnut is higher by at
least 81. 80 than it was in the first part of
January-an addition of 80 per cent. in
the first case and of Al per cent. in the
second.
So much for what has been done. There
ls, IL opptuIe, MoEo VI Iuo sduuo hluu 10
come. Vice President Holden, of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail
road company, in his testimony before the
Investigating committee Thursday gave
the cheering opinion that coal would con-
tinue to advance "until September or
October" and when asked if he hoped to
get still more than he is now getting
frankly replied: 81 certainly hope 80. I
shall certainly do my best to bring about
such state Of affairs :"
The prospect is pleasing one. It
looks as if "black diamond" would in
time be more than humorous name for
what the English call Goals. The Coal
trust has made rapid progress, and if it is
allowed to continue only little while at
the present rate it will be quite we'll off,
and its members will not have to go to the
poorhouse even if their grab is not al
lowed to continue.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-23
,fsce1Ianeums.
B. A BEE.

Behold the Busy Bee, how he (HE, la
dies and gentlemen, the Queen Bee ruletb)
buildeth his home in the Summer-yes,
within its neatly fashioned walls he bring
eth the sweets.
What an example for you, fellow citi-
zens, is the busy business beel
We have all the furnishings of home
the finest, the fine, the modest
What we haven't got you don't want.
Come to us like the bee cometh! Gath
or what you want in Furniture, Carpets,
Stoves, Ranges, Oilcloths, Beds and Bed
ding-and Baby Carriages, etc., and etc.
If you have Cold Cash, bring it If you
want Credit, come just the same-carry
away what you want and be happy.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-23

Ohio men are not noted for giving any
thing back, but William A. Strickland of
Athlia returned his pension money the
other day with note stating that he had
been told to do SO in a revelation in which
the Lord warned him it was blood money,
1t appears to be really true this time
Railroad officers in Delaware and Mary
land estimate the peach crop of the
peninsula at 400, 900 baskets, or about one
sixth of an average crop. Orchards in
middle and northern Delaware that were
laden with luscious fruit last summer are
nearly bare of fruit this year, and are mark
ed in every part with 'the yellows." The
failure of the crop this year is likely to be
| followed by the uprooting of many thou
sand trees. Experts in peach lore are
convinced that peach growing is doomed
in northern Delaware.
A woman of low life complained to ths
judge of the Whiteohapel police court il
London the other day that another woman
had threatened to give her cher ten com
msndments." The expression mystifet
he court, and whom the, complainant ex
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-23
EDI S'sbIk l. AL MOI ES.

Jewellers say that gold dollars are very
ecarce. People don't find silver or paper
dollars very plenty.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-08-31
ClyIllan.

Mr. and Mrs. Capt. J. J. Hennessy,
of Chicago, were the guests of VIM
Robinson few days last week.
John Shields, of Baraboo, one of the
most popular engineers on the Chicago
& Northwestern railway, visited rela-
tives and friends in this vicinity Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. O'Byrne, of Mari
nette, are visiting with the latter's
mother, Mrs. Geo. Coler.
John Henry. of the Sacred Heart col
lege at Watertown, is the guest of M.
Hierlihy.
Miss Hannah Foley, a very success
full teacher in the High school at Nit
chell, S. D., is visiting relatives and
friends in this vicinity.
Miss Mary Hierlihy departed for the
Cream City Monday.
Thos. McCabe, of Milwaukee, and
VIM. Dryer, Of Watertown, shook
hands with their many friends here
Monday.
NJ. Laffey spent few hours with his
parents Saturday. j.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-08-31
MERIT ACKNOWLEDGED.
Royal Baking Powder Established as tn
standard for Purity and Strength.

Royal Baking Powder Established as the
Standard for Purity and Strength.
Since the United States official report
of the investigation of food products
was published, showing the Royal Bak-
ing Powder at the head of the list for
purity and strength, while nearl y every
other brand on the market was shown
not only to be deficient in Ieavening
power but to contain some form Of OBJ
noxious impurity, many of the official
state and city chemists have adopted
this powder as the standard for strength
and quality in their general tests and
comparative analysis of other powders.
The Royal powder has been before
the public more than a quarter of a
century, during which time it has been
the subject of test by the food authori-
ties, both State and national, to such
an extent that its superlative purity
and superb qualities in all respects as
a leavening agent are confirmed be-
yond shadow of doubt, and hence any
action by the authorities toward max
ing the cheap, low test powders con-
form to the high standard found in the
Royal brand will be in the interest of
the consumers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-08-31
HuStiSfOrd.

Miss Nella Bird returned to Beaver
Dam Saturday after a few weeks visit
with friends here.
Miss Lizzie Baker and brother, Hen
ry, returned to Chicago last Wednes-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Jones spent Sat-
urday and Sunday with friends in Ju-
neau.
Hugh Bird, of Beaver Dam, is spend
ing few days with his grandmother,
Mrs. P. Jones.
Frank Green and ernest Randall
started for Lake Crystal, Mimi, Tues
day, where they will spend few days
with friends.
Miss Annie FLETCHER is visiting her
aunt, Mrs. E. Boeing.
Mrs. Penelope Jones spent the ami
versary of her 81st birthday with her
children at the home Of S. a. Jones,
Monday, August goth, it being the
birthday of S. A. also.
Quite a number from here with essed
the game of base ball played at Juneau
Sunday.
Mrs. Gregit entertained friends from
near Iron Ridge Sunday.
Messrs. David & Brown, of San An
tonia Tex, bought eighty stock sheep
of the different farmers here. They go
from here to Whitewater, expecting to
add more to their flock there.
Geo. Baker, of Oakfeld, called on
friends here the first of the week.
Mrs. w. J. Slight and daughter spent
the first Of the week with friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs Julius Hanneman, of
Beaver Dam, called on old friends here
Sunday. SAY 50.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-08-31

matters in the convention Saturday by
defeating the candidate of the kids.
Honors are now easy.
xx
Watch The Gazette this week for a
glowing account of the architectural
beauties of the Democratic county
ticket without any candidate from
WatertOwn.
x*x
Three candidates from Pennington
and not one from the city of Water
town is the Democratic idea as to how
a county ticket should be made up.
x*x
Any one who says 1 was candidate,
to use the words of the late lamented
Horace Greeley, sis liar, horse-t thief
and villain. "-August Tdnck,
Watertown beats Jefferson at base
ball, but when it comes to get offices
Jefferson scoops Watertown out OF
sight.
Democratic harmony with a great big
"H' is so thick in Watertown now that
it can be cut off in large chunks.
xx
General Decentralization is in COM
mand of the Democratic forces in this
city at the present time.
x*x
I didn't want the nomination fol-
register of deeds, anyhow.-Dick Fuer-
mann.
x*x
No Irish need apply.-N. B. Moran
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-08-31
The following is the score of the JEFF

One thing remains in sight to satisfy
the official wants of the Democrats of
the city of Watertown, and that is the
Office of assemblyman. Without this
she must 60 begging in the line of re-
cognition. This nomination will be
made with the end in view of giving
hope that it may fill the ambition and
desires Of the vast Democratic army of
this city. The scheme may work of
leaving Watertown out in the cold for
county offices and then throwing her
the assem- blyman bone to make up for
the outrageous treatment she received
at Jefferson. But be this as it may, Wa
tertown up TO this time IS out of meat
and if she does not get member of as
sembly, there is nothing left for her
but to feed upon the dry husks of des-
pair.
1t is told that had it not been for the
wrangling and quarreling among the
WatertOWn Democrats, justice would
have been done the Irish, by giving
them the nomination of coroner last
Saturday in the Democratic County
convention. The outcome was eXas-
perating in the extreme and highly
deplorable to the Irishmen, who flock
ed to Jefferson as delegates asking for
some rewards and the fulfllment of
promises mo Irish need apply" is
emblazoned in large letters upon the
banner of the Jefferson county Demo-
cracy this year.
Senator Solliday, Assemblyman ia
cobb, Chairman ROhr and Editor Moore
with all their combined eloquence and
influence could not obtain recognition
for Waterfowl in the late Democratic
county convention. Perhaps they did
not want to, remembering that a con-
vention to nominate a member of as
sembly is yet to be held.
WatertoWn after all finds recognition
on the Democratic ticket, the nominee
for register being one of our former
residents, but it is understood that on
this score he is not expected to run
ahead Of his ticket here to any great
extent.
The Democratic ring politicians suf-
fered defeat in the caucuses in this city
last Friday evening, but evened up
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-08-31
WatertOVn Republican
WATERFOWL, Wis, AUG. 81, 1892.
WATERFOWL SHUT OUT!
EVERY WATERFOWL HEAD FALLS
INTO The BASKET!
JSFF ERSON THE WATERTOWN
POLITICAL SLAUGH-
TER HOUSE,
WATERFOWL SCOOPED. SCOOPED !
SCOOPED
But this City will be Allowed to Furnish
the Votes TO Carry the Boys on the
County Ticket through Safely.

But this City will be Allowed to Furnish
the Votes TO Carry the Boys on the
County Ticket through Safely.
at Jefferson Saturday nominated the
following county ticket: Sheriff, Geo.
Krebs, Fort Atkinson; county clerk,
John Morgan, Sullivan; treasurer,
Chas. Schumacher, Pennington; regis
ter, Otto f. Stoppenbach, Jefferson;
clerk of court, M. L. Piper, Farming
ton; district attorney, J. G. Ryder,
Waterloo; superintendent, j. 0. Per-
kins, Jefferson; surveyor, J. D. Water
bury, Aztalan; coroner, W. w. Wood
man, Pennington. From looking over
this ticket it might be inferred that
there was no such place in Jefferson
county as Watertown, and the fact is
that she was mot in it" last Saturday,
but evidently located in the wilds of
Alaska, or somewhere else. Her po-
tency as a cats paw to pull chestnuts
out of the fire on election day is reCog-
nized, and the Democrats in the other
parts of the county exercise no modes
ty, nor do they hesitate to call upon
WATERFOWL for her ever reliable Demo-
cratic vote, and her pay is summed up
in the treatment she received from the
ring Saturday.
w
"No county office" is the penalty
Watertown has to endure for having
secured the senatorship and the cleo
ton of DR.. Solliday is charged up
against the city Democrats in double
entry. But how does it come that
Watertown must stand back, because
she holds the senatorship, while Fort
Atkinson, when she had the senator
ship in the person of the late w. S.
Greene always had county office
beside. The same is true of Jefferson.
When w. w. Reed was senator, Jeffer-
son always had one Office and part of
the time two offices beside senator.
This ruling against Watertown is rich
Joke on the Democrats here. The JEFF
ferson county wards of this city polled
in 1888, $50 Democratic votes and Fort
Atkinson, 448. Jefferson did something
better, polling 725 Democratic votes.
To give Watertown her proper due
compared with other places, she should
have one, if not two positions, besides
the senatorship. But Watertown has
a way of standing this brow-beating and
insult, and when election day comes
around our Democratic friends walk up
smiling to the polls and kiss the hand
thatsmote them, presenting picture Of
cringing, fawning and abiect servitude.
Seventeen delegates lived in shoe,
But they had SO many candidates they
didn't know what to do,
The delegates went to JeferSOn;
Not one staid at home;
Pennington got three offices,
But WATERFOWL got none.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-08-31
MILWAUKEE EXPOSITION.

On frequent dates during September
and October the Chicago & Northwest
ern railway company will sell excursion
tickets to Milwaukee and return, on
account of the Exposition, at very low
rates. For rates, dates of sale, limits of
tickets. etc, apply to agent Chicago &
North western railway. 4St4eOw
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-08-31
Please Your Husband.

If you are going to make biscuits for
supper tonight, send Minnie down to the
store for a bottle Of HOrsfOrd's Baking
Powder, and you can rely upon it you
will have the best biscuits you ever ate,
and your husband or the boys Will make
some remark about their excellence, with
out your telling them you have changed
to HorsfOrd'S.