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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
How Some Men Work.

A very common idea Of ''literary
work" is revealed in this story, which
the Chicago Journal gets from a oman
whose husband is In the literary line
He works at home, putting in five hours
of his brain-Wearing labor every day.
An eccentric connection makes a call
upon them now and then, and these
are the sorts of remarks that she invari-
ably makes in the course of CONVEX
sation: "Where's George ?" "Oh, he's
hard at work" Gone out?" sob,
no; he works at home, you know
"Humph Man workin' at home?
That's a funny idea I never
could have stood that. That's a
woman's business. [ think men ought
to go out and work" "But he couldn't.
His desk is mere all his manuscripts and
books and writing materials are here,
and he has better IDEAS here" "Ideasl
Writing materials? Well, / don't call
writing work. [ mean good, hard, man
ual labor. Why, my husband was boss
carpenter. He'd work ten hours day
with his sleeves rolled up and sweatin'
like good one" "Indeed? And how
much did he earn? '' Earn? Why, he
could earn his S25 a week" Only hus-
band earns that in day" "What, in
writing? We'll, | guess they must pay
better than they used to. Why, my boy
Henry directed thousand envelopes
last month, and all he got for it was ST.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15

chances to call, the priest, thinking
to turn an honest penny and to get
rid of an circumference at one
stroke, sells the sportive kettle
without saying anything about it's I'M
canny accomplishment. That night the
tinker hears strange noises, and, getting
up of bed, sees the kettle walking
about the room on four legs, aud
covered with fine coat Of fur. Sud
denly it turns back from badger into
kettle and then from kettle into badger
again, with bewildering rapidity. The
next morning the tinker shows it to an
acquaintance who surely must have had
a drop Of shrewd Yankee blood in his
veins, for he suggests that here is
material for q splendid show. Take
the kettle about with song and music,
said the friend, and make it dance on
tight rope The tinker adopts the
id ca and acquires comfortable fortune.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the'needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
It's excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
ative; efectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
Rnd permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
news, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute # offered.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
Always Late at Meals.

A dinner giver has mustered courage
to write to the newspapers to complain
of the people who are always Late for
that hospitable meal. Whatever time
we fix it, and though we give them a
quarter of an hours law-putting 40
for s, for example, on our invitations
they do not make their appearance till
long afterward. The dinner is spoiled,
our other guests are naturally annoyed
and yet there seems no remedy" The
remedy, as James Payn points out, is of
the simplest and most efficacious kind.
Never wait. If the failure in the arrival
of these belated guests is due to accident
they will, of course, be pleased that you
did not put back the dinner for an in
definite period; SO far from being rude,
you are giving them credit for the
politest feelings. If they intend to be
Iate-which is the only way some peo-
pie have of impressing others with a
sense Of their mportance-they will,
on the other hand, be very possibly Of
Tended at having been deprived Of the
opportunity Of putting their fellow
creatures to inconvenience, and the re-
suit is still more satis1actory-fo they
will never come again.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
A Fact Worth Rememberi o.

There are many such of course, but here is one
which specially commends itself to invalids,
viz, that in order to acquire vigor, the basis of
health, that IMMIGRATION is only possible by re-
establishing the functions of digestion and as
similation upon permanent basis. Stomachics
in name are numberless They impart a slight
stimulus to ppetite--nothing beyond this.
Much more is required, and Hostetters Stomach
Bitters fills the bill" This time honored stand
ard invigorant builds up an enfeebled physique
and protects it against disease by insuring the
thorough conversion Of the alument received
into the stomach into blood and bodily tissue.
Clothed with increasing strength through this
unfailing agency, the system is defended against
influences preiudicial to health. Use the Bitters
in malaria rheumatism, kidney and liver trou-
BILE and consultation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
TROLLEY DRIVING is NOT FUN.

One Driver Keeps at 1t in His Sleep,
and Dreams of Managing Ped estrians.
The motorman of a Greene Avenue
trolley car was leaning over the dash
board and straining his eyes to see into
the darkness, while one hand was on
the brake and the other held the han
die that turned the electric current on
and off, The car was bowling down hill
at something like fifteen miles an hour,
and the motorman, says the New York
Sun, kept the gong going to warn pedes-
TRANS on the cross walks and drivers of
teams on the cross streets. At last the
foot of the hill was reached, and the
worst Of the strain on the man was re-
lieved.
did you ever drive horse car ?"
passenger inquired.
Il did, sir; fourteen years in this
city"
(Which would you rather do-drive
horses or run trolley car ?"
Il would twenty times rather drive
horses. There is no use talking, this
business will make an old man of me in
a year The horses helped to take care
of themselves, and they helped take
care of the car and driver. They gave
the driver warning when there was
anybody in the way of the car They
turned aside and slowed little, and
let the car run up against them. Then
again, the car did not 90 so terribly fast,
and it was instantly comfortable. 1t
could be stopped at once"
"Well, what about the trolley cars
ooh, there's no comparing one sort
with the other. The trolley cars slip
along so quietly and SO swiftly when
they get clear run on a quiet street
that you are down on a man or a child
before you or they can help it. There's
no CHATTER of hoOfs to give signal and no
horses body to nudge person out Of
the way. It's the car itself that strikes
a person now The strain on q drivers
nerves is something fearful. [ am as
glad to get off a car with my days work
done as if | was an engineer that had
run flyer at sixty miles an hour and
got through without an accident. But
the trouble is that when ] think my
days work is done it amt done. At
night in my sleep | am on the front plat
form again, with my nerves all stiff and
strained and my hands and one foot all
busy. All of sudden I'll dream Pm 90
ing to hit a woman or little girl. Some
times that II happen half a dozen times
in night. Then | leap bold upright in
freeze my Wife'S blood with cold fright.
We don't either Of us sleep well any
more since the company changed to the
trolley, and the old woman and | are
aging right before each others eyes
It'll kill me unless | kill some citizen
and get into Jail, and that's what Pm
expecting every hour in the day. |
don't know but that will bring relief,
after all"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
Iced Water in a Tree.


Look at lady''s fan, spread wide
open, and it will give you a fair idea of
the foliage of the Travellers tree, of
Madagascar, as it springs from the top
of trunk which is often twenty-five
feet high. The leaves are each about
six feet long, and the stalk of each leaf
is about eight feet long. When a native
wants a pleasant temperance drink he
punctures one of these stalks, near the
place. where it joins the tree, and a
stream of delicious water runs out It
is almost ice cold and is perfectly clear
and sweet, no matter how hot and dry
the season may be.
These same stalks are used to par
tition houses, the bark makes admirable
flooring, and the leaves make roof
matches, table cloths, plates and water
proof covering for merchandise.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
HIS TONGUE WAS SPLICED.

Remarkable Operation on a Boy Whose
Tongue Was Almost Cut Of.
George Huron, the 12-year-Old son
of William Huron, coachman in the
New York Cab Company's stable, joined
his happy playmates on West Forty
third Street recently for the first time
in over a month. He interested them
much with the tale of his spliced tongue,
which he was continually requested to
exhibit.
George was kicked in the right cheek
by a vicious horse when going about the
stable with his father, and from the
time of the accident be was unable
to make himself understood. His
little tongue had been severed far
back, where it enters the throat, and
when DR.. A. w. Curtis, of West Forty
fourth Street, called in response to a
summons to the Huron apartments he
found the organ hanging from the boys
mouth.
The poor little fellow was suffering
agony. He would attempt to talk be-
tween groans, but his articulation
sounded like that Of one tongue-tied
from birth. The family were all in
tears, for they believed the doctor
would have to throw away the severed
be able to talk again.
DR.. Curtis experienced much difficulty
In examining the wound, his little pa
tent being in terribly nervous condi-
ton from pain and fear. The doctor
administered a small dose of laudanum
He then proceeded to examine the
child's mouth, placing a cork between
the large rear molars.
The first bicuspid tooth Of the right
jaw was broken off at the gum and the
tongue entirely severed at the function
of the tip with the base, or the posterior
portion of the fraenum linguae, with the
exception of few inches of the mucous
membrane on the right side. The sur
geon drew the base of the organ forward
with tenaculum. The base was then
drawn into position with the apex and
secured by fine silk igatures.
Knowing the tongue would not heal
well, or perhaps not at all, if left loose
in the mouth. a novel continuance was
employed to keep itin stationary posi-
ton, also stretching it to its normal
length. The balance of the treatment
consisted in washing the mouth twice
daily with a solution Of bOrdcic acid and
giving a liquid diet.
Yesterday when the doctor called he
found the spliced tongue had healed to
his satisfaction and removed the OBJ
struction. George began to articulate
as we'll as his brothers and sisters, and
is happy now that he is no longer COM
PEELED to lay on his back and with his
mouth prOpped open with cOrks.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
Refused One-Half Million

CHIcAGo-[Special] THE makers of
No-To-Bac, the guaranteed tobacco hab-
it cure, lately refused syndicate offer
of one-half million for their business.
No-To-Bac is an absolute guaranteed
cure for chewing, snuff-dipping and
cigarette smoking. 1t is sold by nearly
all the druggists in this country and
Canada. Made by the Sterling Remedy
Company, Box q, Indiana Mineral
Springs, Ind. Chicago office, 40 Ran
doiph Street. They print book called
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your
Life Away" Every tobacco user should
read it. Mailed for the asking.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
Big Under-Ocean Mine.

We have all heard about the British
coal and iron mines, the galleries of
which extend far out under the Allan
tic ocean, but there are perhaps, very
few Americans that know that the most
extensive under-ocean mining opera
tons in the world are carried on along
the Pacific coast of this continent. At
Nanaimo, British Columbia, there is
coal mine, the shaft of which extends
several hundred feet below the ocean
bed at that point. All the galleries of
the mine, aggregating something like
twelve miles in length, are entirely
under the ocean.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
AUTUMNAL.

Q, the sentimental autumn
With its banks of drifting haze,
And its mystic, dreamy silence,
And its foliage a-blaze
With its orcl ards red with apples
In the tuneful aftergloW,
And the squirrel on the stone wall
Eating chestnuts, don't you know!
O, the beauty of the woodland
In the swiftly fading light!
@, the Shrill and plaintlve whistle
OF the Robert Henry White!
Like an etching Is the roadway
To the old, red cider mill,
Where a sad and pensive music
Haunts the meadow gray and still.
@, the base ball bat is hanging
On the weeping willow tree.
o, the orioles departed,
Like bank official! See
O, the frost is on the sponge cake,
And the straw hats waxing Serei
There's chill upon the landscape,
And the buckWheat cake is near!
O, the tennis courts deserted
Where the leaflets dance and curl
But my heart is full of summer,
For I've won my summer girl
Puck.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
1.-The Lucky TeakettIe. I"

The Californian tells an ingenious
story current among Japanese children,
called the LUCKY Teakettle," as fol-
lows:
ga priest who finds an old kettle in
the temple fills it with water and hangs
it over the fire, when, to his astonish-
ment, it turns into a badger and begins
jumping around the room. A teazette
with such a curious disposition does not
commend itself to the man of religion.
Accordingly, the next day when tinker
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
PISO' S CURE
The Best Ever Known.
l think "Piso's Cure for Consumption
is the best medicine for bronchitis ever
known. w. d. SOLOMON
New Brunswick, n. j., July II, 1898.

You may put my testimonial in your
almanac and say that 1 think "Piso's Cure
Tor Consumption" is the best medicine on
this earth for bronchitis and lung trouble.
am now in the drug business, and [ will
tell my customers II they want cough
cure to use "Piso's" | will recommend it
to other people if they send 70 me for adj
vice, and / VIII tell them what it has done
Tor me- WILLIAM ID. SOLOMON,
New Brunswick, n j., Sept. 26, 1898.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
A Shakespeare Garden.

Lady Brooke has laid out a Shake
speare Garden at Easton Lodge. The
garden is to consist of all the plants and
flowers Of which Shakespeare has made
allusion. 1t is a pretty idea, but not
easy Of realization, as some Of the flow
ers and plants are not up to date-per-
haps have altogether gone out of growth
in ENGLAND
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
THE TROTTING OK.
It is Very Serviceab1e Animal il
India.

It is a Very Serviceable Animal in
India.
Next to the elephant in general use
fulness in India we should be inclined
to place the 'trotting OK" of India.
'All Indian oxen can be trained to
trot," says Mr.. Lockwood Kipling.
THE sloping quarter and straight hook
may possibly account for something in
their more horselike gait"
All through the Mahratta country the
OK is the common drought animal, diff
fering in speed and size according to
the work for which he is required
Cattle of the Nagore breed, used by
rich men to draw their state carriages,
used to be kept near Delhi for carrying
dispatches. Mr.. Youatt was informed
that they would travel with a soldier on
their back fifteen or sixteen miles in
the day, at the rate of six miles an
hour.
The Nagore cattle have none Of the
awkward swinging motion Of the legs Of
the English COW. They bring their hind
legs under them in as straight q line as
the horse. ''They are very active"
continues Mr.. YOuatt, land can clear q
tive-barred gate with the greatest ease"
One owner possessed a calf which would
leap the same railing to go to water, and,
having drunk, leap back again.
Napoleon borrowed his idea of bull
lock transport for the first stages of his
Russian campaign from the Indian
armies, but the Indian bullOcks are
shod. NapoleOn's were not, and the
bullock transport was ruined before the
frontiers of Poland were reached.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
Child-marriage in England.

Few folk have any idea that in Eliza
bethan times the custom of child-mar-
riages prevailed in England, yet the
delapidated volumes of dispositions in
the Ecclesiastical Court of Chester, A.
d. 1561-6," proves that these marriages
must have been frequent in Cheshire
and Lancashire, and no doubt other
like records in the rest of our dioceses
will, when looked up, establish the fact
that such marriages were common all
over England. The birth of child in
the Berkeley family, when the father
and mother were each 49, years old,
shows what was going on elsewhere a
century earlier
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15

J. NJ WATERHOUsE has one of the
finest young orchards in the country,
and has gathered his crop and disposed
of it, says the Nampa, Ida, Leader
His pear trees Immediately blossomed
again after the first crop was taken off,
and now the trees are loaded down
with a second crop, the pears being
about the size Of hens eggs. This may
sound little ''fshy" for Southern
Idaho, but it is fact, and the trees are
only two and a half years Old.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15

odd I hear you say that you have
found in your mother-in-law your
ideal?" eyes, indeed; all the COM
ments ever made on mothers in-law
apply to her W-ENeger1de BIdtter.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15

THERE is no writer who puts in so
many hours making character sketches
as the court Observation-Disclosures
Patriot
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15

Gilowsky q Co., corner Third and State
streets, Milwaukee, will send you for So an
extremely handsome ladies' or gents gold
filed hunting case Elgin watch. Send for
circular.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15

TILE baker who mixes his dough prop
erly has a soft thing Of it.-B1fato
Courier.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15

FITS: All fits stopped free by DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve RestOrer. No fits after first
days use. Marvellous cures Treatise and
$500 trial bottle free to Fit cases. Send to
Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St., Phila, Pa.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
SDcCiai Bargain.

We will sell you parlor suit in fine Blush
or Silk Tapestry for $38, which is a little
description. G. ARNOLD & Co., Mfrs, Sec
ond Ward Bank Building, Milwaukee.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15

THE greatest drawback to prohibition
is that most Of it's enthusiasts talk as if
they had been drinking.-EZnair0 Ga
zette.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15

A Sore Throat or Cough. if suffered to
progress, often results in an incurable throat
or lung trouble "Br0Wn'S bronchial Tr0ch-
eS' give instant relief.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15

wreck the constitution and sometimes pro-
duce softening OF the brain, epilepsy, pa
ralysis, and even dread insanity.
To reach, reclaim and restore such I'M
fortunates to health and happiness, is the
aim of the publishers of book written in
plain but chaste language, on the nature,
sent sealed, j. plain envelope, on receipt of
ten cents in ,5amps, for postage. Address,
Worlds Di ensary Medical Association,
663 Main St. Buffalo, n, Y.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15

THE philosopher is wise man who
absolutely refuses to have any enemies.
-GdtreStOr NeUS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15

ONG dose Of Beecham's Pills relieves sick
headache in 20 minutes, For sale by all
druggists. % cents box.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15

WHILE the convictis seldom consulted
as to the cut his uniform, the cloth is
always striped to suit him.-Befolo
COlriPr
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, 60

STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, 60
LUCAS COUNTY. 90
FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of F. ]. CHENEY & Co.,
doing business in the City of Toledo County
and State aforesaid. and that said firm viii pay
the sum OZONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my pres
ence, this 9th day of Decem ber A. D. 1886.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15

THERE have not been SO many revolu-
tons on the seas since the close of the
bathing seasOn.-PJdin Dealer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15

CAN hungry man make square
meal off round steak ?-LOlGeU Courier
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
A. w. GLEASON,
Notary Public.

Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces Of
the system Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo o.
Hs~Sold by Druggists 75c.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15

SEE Colchester Spading Boot ad. in an
other column.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
OF you don't chase this man." said
one COW to another, "I'll get after him
on nv own hook. "-Rochester Democrat.
IT'S "a STONE

mans neck TO be q
sufferer from ner-
youS exhaustion, Ter
vous debility, impair
ed mem DRY, low
spirits, irritable tenn
per, and the thousand
and one arrangements
of mind and body
that result from,
unnatural, pernicious
habits, con tr a ted
through ignorance.
Such habits result in
loss of manly mower.