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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-23
ROBBED BY MASKED MEN.
A Chicago Physician Overpowered and
Bound in His Home.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. 16,-Dr. D.
F. Cohrs, of 75S Englewood Ave
nue., was bound ana gagged last
money and valuables appropriated and
carried off before his eyes. The crime
was committed by three masked men
while the doctor and his daughters
were alone. Only small sum was
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-23
PORT WASHINGTON BANK RESUMES.


Cashier Clark Makes Satisfactory Ar
rangement with Depoitors.
PORT WASHINGTON, Wis, Aug. 21.-
The German-American Bank, of this
city, which suspended payment on July
26 and has been closed since, will re-
open for banking business tomorrow
r. II. Clark, the cashier, has promised
to pay all depositors their money in in
stallments. 1t is not supposed that any
creditors will withdraw their money
after the bank opens.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-23
YELLOW JACK IN THE NORTH.
Two Men at Philadelphia Probably
Have the Fever.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 16.-The
schooner Bette NJ. Lsley, from
Charleston, S. c., was detained at the
local quarantine station last evening
with three reported cases of yellow
fever on board. The sick men were
taken to the hospital at the Lazaretto.
Two show symptoms of early stages of
the fever. The schooner sailed from
Charleston, S. c., week ago.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-23
INDIANS LOSE THEIR MONEY.
The ChOctaw Treasurer Fails and Leaves
the Nation Bankrunt.

CADDo, l. T., Aug. 21-News from re-
liable source has just reached here that
Treasurer McCurtin has failed and the
payment Of the lease district money to
the Choctaw Indians will have to stop.
No reason is given for his failure Nc
Curtin had over 100000 of money
due the ChoctaWs in his possession and
his bond is only $4,000 The Choctaws
who have not received their money are
feeling very hlnA over IL
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-23
SUICIDE AT ST. LOUIS.
. LnIleman. Prominent Business

Mai LuI1eman, Prominent Business
Man, Shoots Himself.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. 21.-Maj. John
C. Lulleman, prominent here in bust
ness as a real estate dealer, director of
the German-American Savings Bank
and member of the Mullanphy Board
controlling $500, 900 charity bequest,
committed suicide here this forenoon,
shooting himself through the head.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-23
CHOLERA IN BERLIN.
Three Polish Laborers Die of the Plague
in the German Capital.

Berlin, Aug. l5.-Three Polish Ia
porers died of cholera in the eastern
quarter OF this city to-day. The Reichs-
anzeiger says that the cholera in the
eastern part of the city was introduced
probably from Russian Poland
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-23
GUESTS LOSE THEIR EFFECTS.
Fire Destroys a Large Hotel at Oakland
Cal.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Aug. 15.-Tubbs
Hotel, in Oakland, the principal hotel
of that city, burned last night. 1t was
insured for $4,000. The guests re-
ceived no injuries as they had not re-
them lost all effects. The hotel was
built over twenty years ago at cost of
$4,000 and was furnished at an ex-
pense of 100000. Seventy-five thou
sand dollars was offered for the prop
erty recently and refused.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-23
RACE WAR IN DENVER.
Desperate Fight Between Swedes 81
Irish Laborers.

Irish Laborers.
DENVER, Col, Aug. 21.-The feud
which has existed for years between
the Swedish smeItersmen and Irish
railroaders at the extreme east end of
town has ended in bloodshed. Oscar
Olsen is now lying dead in the morgue
while two others are at the hospital ex-
pecting death. The two factions held
dances last night, the halls being but
two blocks apart. The fight occurred
early this morning
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-23
CHOLERA NEAR VIENNA.
Case of the Plague in the Military Camp
al RpncIx

VIENNA, Aug 16.-A case of cholera
has occurred in the military camp at
Bruck, twenty-three miles from this
city. The patient has been isolated and
every precaution taken to prevent the
spread of the disease.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-23

THE Bank of Albany, Mo-, has sus-
pended. Assets, $4,000; liabilities,
$780, 900.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-19

must be churned; good vegetable gar
den sedulously cultivated; the fruit trees
and berry vines persuaded to bear fruit
after their kind; to overlook the weaving
room, where the cotton cloths as well as
the woolens used to be made, was also
her duty, and in all these things our
grandmothers and mothers were as prof.
cient as the chatelaines OF the middle
ages. Much of these arts the southern
child absorbed without special instruc
ton. Also a part OF her education was
the cutting and sewing OF all kinds of
garments, the cooking and serving Of all
sorts of dainties aud the intelligent care
of the sick.
wELL-READ PLANTATION WOMEN.
This practical education went hand in
hand with the elementary and theoretical
one under governesses, or IN the little
schools composed of the children of the
neighboring places.
Whether this method of mixing the
actual with the ideal was peculiarly bene-
fetal to their minds, or that the loneliness
of their lives drove them into more serious
studies, it is remarkable how many we'll
read women there were on these river
places whose familiarity with the classics
was close enough to be loving, and whose
skill in the linking music of their day
was OF no mean profciencEa
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-19
NOVELTIES IN THE SHOPS.

Egg Baskets, China Menu Cards, Christ
enlng Baskets and Glass Fire Screens.
Wonderfully dainty and attractive egg
dishes for individual use are among the
very newest objects shown in the popular
Dresden china. They are shaped like
miniature trays with handle that ex-
tend from side to side and have two re-
ceptacles for the fresh boiled eggs which
take the form of hard shells cut length
wise of the oval. The lovely coloring OF
the china is in itself enough to Tempt the
appetite of the most capricious gourmet
that could be found, and the whole de-
sign deserves the hearty recognition it is
sure to get. These charming little dishes
can be had and that too at moderate
price, for they cost only SIPS each.
ANOTHER CHINA NOVELTY.
China menu cards too are shown by the
leading dealers and are so eminently ser
viceable as well as decorative that they
find a ready sale. They are not unlike a
photograph frame in general shape and
are constructed with rest also of china,
that they may stand before each cover.
Round three sides runs vine OF some ap-
propriate tiny blossom. and in the centre
is a space sufficient for the writing of the
names of every dish. The design is ex-
cellent, and as the stands can be purchased
for 81. 10 each, full set might easily be
obtained without greater outlay than is
entailed in the possession of painted or
ribbon cards that must perish with the
dinner. The porcelain or china is dainty
In color and the shape make them real
addition 70 the taste decoration; while
the menu can, of course, be easily remoY-
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benefcent influence of her character.
Had the women Of the plantations been
the lazy drones of the popular fancy,
dreaming away their aimless lives in an
atmosphere heavy with the odors of yell
low jasmine, magnolias and roses, she
would have been vanquished by the con-
ditions over which she has been Yicto-
rious.
When war, pestilence and famine set
tied on her country the southern woman,
armed cap-a-pie with her heredity of good
housewifery, self-control and patience,
sprung uDcomDlaining and cheerful to her
place. and Yanquisned her difficulties with
a manly vigor and womanly grace, the
memory of which is -ery precious and
sweet savored to those with whom she
Gwelt.
OLD FASHIONED VIRTUES AND TASTES.
She probably did not understand the
higher mathematics; but her arithmetic
sufficied for household accounts and to
gauge her expenses.
Her family practice in the hospitals of
her plantation made her the besto nurses.
Although her ideas of modern philos-
ophy may have been of the vaguest, gen
tie and sincere piety breathed through all
her arduous life and made of her the best
model for the hall civilized souls en-
trusted to her care, and also the refining
influence over the men of her family.
If among the Hebrews each man was
priest to bis own family, among our peo-
Die every woman officiated as priestess III
the isolated corner where she dwelt with
the man toward whom duty was pleas
ure and love was law,' to whom ''for
better or worse" she was married until
death should them part. With her whole
heart she gave her best energies to his
service. It was her mission to counsel
and comfort the weak-hearted and succor
an those who were desolate and dis
fressed. were they of her own or of the
subject race. She was the medIatrix, the
neople: and to her, if to any one, the
negro owes his present civilization and
.moral culture.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-19

Many gowns now have the waist and
skirt sewed together, in one place. like a
child's frock. If the waist is not fastened
up in the back then one side is left loose
Tor putting on. Skirt bands that used to
be in layers about the waist have disap-
peared from both gown-skirt and petit
coats, and all clumsiness with them.
When the waist is separate it extends be-
meath the skirt not more Than two inches.
WHEN YOU TRAVEL.
Long half-ftted cloaks that reach the
feet are worn by elegant women for prom
enade, carriage and especially for travel.
In a party of Parisians setting out for
Nice the other day was cloak after this
manner, of terra Gotta cloth. The wide
velvet collar OF a darker shade hung full
like rutfie and narrowing in front, de-
scended to the feet. 1t was bordered with
sable. The sides were slashed and turned
back with velvet reyers bordered also with
fur The hat worn with this cloak-both
are shown in our picture-is the latest
development OF the sailor. It has fur
tails laid around the crown, two deep in
front, and on the front very long curved
buckle that reaches nearly halfway round
the hat. This last is the special feature
and it gives wide, fiat look to the front.
Wings fall back horizontally. Nothing
could exceed this hat for simple elegance.
RED CLOTH GOWNS.
Dark red cloth is very much liked for
visiting gowns. 1t is trimmed with black
astrakan, or with black velvet, or with
jet. Nothing is more chic for an after
noon call than one of these red gowns
with a shoulder cape of black velvet.
These velvet capes are delicious; so rich.
SO becoming, scsconveniept to throw off
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servants as She would like to have about

servants as she would like to have about
her.
To sell one of the negroes sborn on the
place. was an evidence of the direst pow
erty of the master, or of the most heinous
conduct on the part OF the slaves.
a MISTRESS COULD NOT DISCHARGE HER
SLAVES.
Such piccadilloes as insubordination.
untidiness or stupidity, formed no reason
to the mind of either mistress or maid in
the ''old south'' for dissolution of their
mutual relation; nor could a tor
mented mistress find relief by Civ
ing a useless servant her freedom.
There is an authentic story of one who
tried during visit to the north to thus
rid herself of drunken maid whose
taste for Madeira had tempted her to run
up score on her mistress account at
neighboring drinking shop. When the
mistress demonstrated the negro answered
her that being equality darky'' she
could hardly be expected to get drunk on
whisky s'like poor white trash, - and
that as far as her free papers, We're con-
cerned, she would have none ofthem. There
was no use talking, she was masters
nigger'' and he would have to support her
as long as she lived. There was no re-
course but to submit, and the maid con-
tinued to follow her own sweet will until
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enough to hold the tiny body is covered
within and without with soft white silk.
Silken cushions tufted and doWn-filled
line the bottom and the sides and frill OF
the finest lace hangs upon the outer edge.
A tiny pillow fills one end and around the
entire oval full soft ruche of silk makes
heading to the lace. Complete and
ready for its precious load the basket in
its simplest form costs SIS, but it can be
elaborated to any price. As, however,
the best and truest taste demands sim
plicity for the little folk, the one described
is as luxurious as could be desired. Laid
within its snowy whiteness, pillowed on
its soft pure silk, the heir of a King would
be borne to the rite of baptism in suffici-
emily lovely couch, and even our own
extravagant millionaires might be content
with its perfect fitness.
NEW GLASS FIRE SCREENS.
Screens, familiar as they are and popu-
lar as they ever deserve to be, are shown
in at least one entirely useful form. They
are three fold and about three feet six
inches in height and are especially de-
signed to place before the open fires that
give us cheer as well as warmth. The top
OF each panel is curved and for space of
at least eighteen inches each is filled with
heavy bevelled glass, while below may be
used any material that is suitable in tex
ture and good in color. The frames. to-
gether with the glass, cost $zS each and
the panels may be made to add as much
or as little more as the individual taste
shall decide. Completed the screens are
sufficiently handsome to warrant the out
lay they entail and can be trusted to en-
nance the effect of any room. By this
screen the excessive heat is shut off, and
yet through the glass the burning Goals
are distinctly visible, so that the occu-
pants of the apartment may shield them
selves at will and still lose none of the
charm OF the glowing embers burning IN
the CRATE. CLARA BRUCE.
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the :sorphans, the shiftless bachelors
and motherless boys and girls who would
not sew if they could. Then the seam
stresses who were to do this work were to
be trained from the manner of holding a
needle and scissors through all the vari-
Gus kinds of stitches TO be taken up to
dressmaking.
There were walters, mattresses and
dairy maids to instruct and cooks to SUI
perintend Also there must be many OF
these skilled servants because, without
exception, they all had families, and if
one OF these should be taken i'll another
servant must be taken out of the field to
supply the PARENTS place in the house, so
that the child might be properly attended
and the mothers heart at ease.
The fallacy that those darby servants
grew, ike blackberries on the briars, be-
long to that land of Cockaigne where
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-19
The Silken, Languid Southern
Woman Had No Existence,
A POPULAR TRADITION.
The Real Mistress of the Old
South.
''The Daughter of the Confederacy'' De.
scribes the 1Iistresses of the South
ern Plantations and Their
Life Before the War.
Copyright, 1899, by varina A. Davis. ]
(FIRsT PAPER.


Since the day Of exploded ideals has ar
rived, when William Tell and George
Washington's little Ratchet, yea, even
the all-prevading Puritan who donin-
ated our school histories-one and all have
been dethroned from their sure seats-it
seems as if the traditional southern
woman of the old plantation life might
descend from the cross where she has
been nailed for generations.
This graceful but lackadaisical effigy of
the imaginary southern princess who
alternately lolled in hammock in sloth-
full self-indulgence, or arose in her wrath
to scourge her helpless dependents. is the
creation which our neighbors have been
pleased to cali the typical souther n
Woman.''
THE REAL NATIONS OF THE SOUTH.
How different was the real housemis-
tress yho, on the great river properties.
before the war, ruled the destinies of her
family with gentle and wise sway, To
us who know her in her old age it seems
1nexplicable that her place has been SO
long usurped by the figure fashioned by
hostile sculptor.
What blessing this woman is to the
new south, ~ the south of STRUGGLES end
poverty-even the bitterest of her detrac-
sors must acknowledge now that the
clouds and smoke of battle begin TO clear
away and under the sun of peace reveal
her true self.
What she was in the larger and more
complicated sphere of her old life IT,
known only to those who took part in il.
OF 10 the younger generation VINO feel the
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dence of their power in its fullest slgnifi-
canoe.
The men and women of our country
had, during the slave holding period, full
filled so many varying and homogeneous
duties to their slaves that they were in
measure fitted for any labor. The first
lesson that little southern girl learned
in preparation for her duties as mistress
of plantation was her association, usu-
ally developing into q warm friendship,
with the maid of her own age, who was
generally given by the mother OF the
negro to ''be of some sarvice to little
missile a sort of counterpart to the
"body servant whom the recent dia-
lect stories have made so familiar to
QUE non-slaveholding neighbors. AL
though the peculiar relations of things
made this intimacy less close than that
between master and man, the love which
began IN their early youth ripened gener-
ally into hearty affection which usually
was lifelong, beginning, as it did, with
their childish games in the negro quarter
UNCONSCIOUS TRAINING OF THE NEGRO
QUARTER.
1t is doubtful if there was ever a terre
defendus so attractive to child as this
same "quarter,' a collection of small
dwellings built on each side of a street,
and inhabited by children OF a larger
growth who were prodigSl of stories flaw
ored by the faith of the raconteur. There
were friendly yellow dogs; chickens ruff
fed, muffied and duck-legged, which an
swered to names, with callow broods rae
ing after them and wonderful hens nests
full OF eggs in unfrequented corners;
fires in the open air with fat sweet pota-
toes roasting in their ashes; doll-baby
gardens planted and torn up at once by a
multitude OF little coffee colored play
mates who scampered about s'little
in frenzy OF delight.
to each other, and their mutual affection /
stood the mistress in good stead in her
after life and enabled her often to pene-
trate the interesting but beWildering
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ulated in them and they were cheaper
than other meat. She invited him to
island on the gallery and gobbIe a lit
tie " This ludicrous performance de-
tered him from repetition of his offense
when more serious remonstranoe had
proved fruitless.
HOW SHE ABSORBED HoUsEw1FERY.
The little girls were present at all the
milkings, Cummings, sausage fittings,
corn-shuckings, and even the grinding of
meal on the place, and so became familiar
with the minute of these industries.
When the young mistress was married
the perintendence OF these duties de-
yolved upon her-the curing OF the meat,
which was to form the staple food of the
white and black family throughout the
year, the recipes Tor which were handed
down from mother to daughter for gener-
atoms. AS thsre were no markets,
chickens and turkeys, and ducks and
geese must be reared in plenty; butter
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tainiy these ps I -nroducing prodigies did
not exist for our mothers. 1t will be only
after a long and careful course of training,
with mutual forbearance and patience,
that the free negro Will make as accom-
plished servant as our slaves were.
INGs.
The extreme penalty of whipping was
reserved for such offences as stealing and
other crimes. AS the negroes could not
be discharged without character, -
the mistress was not armed with the ter
ror always in the hands of the modern
housewife, but she had to make the best
OF her husbands negroes as she found
them trusting to her own powers as edu-
Gator to form, of the young ones such
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tangle of ''tergiversations,' which the
plantation negro calls his thoughts. Ex-
perience taught her the habit of their
minds, and opened to her the genuine
dialect OF a thousand idioms which she
would afterward have to use in instruct
ing her slaves. 1t also initiated her into
the African standards of right and wrong,
by which she gauged the depth of the Of
tenders culpability.
There, too, she learned the potentiality
of sarcasm in dealing with race so alive
to a sense of the ludicrous that an appeal
to its risibles will often answer the pur-
pose better than punishment.
An instance of this kind is given of a
southern woman who cured her negro
marketman of bringing the family tur-
key daily for dinner because he had spec
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very small expenditure of money, if she

very small expenditure of money, if she
only has time for little needle work.
A friend OF mine at very tri1ing ex-
pense, has made and embroidered for her
dining-room, which is papered in old
blue, some very pretty portieres and
a table cover, ofthe common blue denim or
"overall cloth. She bought the ''double-
width material, and at top and bottom
of the portiers embroidered in chain stitch
with white linen floss a simple conven-
tional design of leaves and scroll work.
She then lined the portieres with plain
material. copy the pattern, which of
course is to be enlarged. Heavier and
shower patterns can be found in
the art magazines that make a speciality
Of decorative needleworl-. This, however,
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suitable for mourning and half-long jack
cts OF it, hall fitted or loose, are considered
an almost essential part OF mourning
wardrobe. A boa and muff of the long
haired lambs wool is also exquisitely in
harmony with mourning dresses.
The anniversary funeral mass for Dom
Pedro the other day brought out all the
royalties and high notabilities resident or
in Paris, and many of them are
in mourning. Not the least interesting
among French widows is the Duchesse de
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la Rochefoucaut-Doud one of
whose costumes is reproduced here. This
lady lives in magnificent chateau out
side of Paris, where she plays the Lady
Bountiful to all the country round; and
where she has founded an asylum for old
men, in the chapel of which she has built
the tomb of her husband will be buried
herself. The costume is so accurately
drawn that it needs no description.
ADA CONE.