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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30
THE SWEET TOOTH.

Facts About Sugar, It's Introduction
Abroad and Its Uses.
Up TO the Christian era, sugar, as SUCH
was wholly unknown in Europe. Indeed
it has only been common in the western
world since the seventeenth century. Till
the Introduction of cane sugar, honey was
the chief source relied upon for the graft
tlcation of this prime want in humanity
"A land flowing with milk and honey
was the ideal Of luxury. And honey is
Just the nectar of flowers, collected by
bees for their personal use, and perverted
by man to his own selfish purposes. The
sugar-cane is by descent an Oriental
plant In its wild state it is now I'M
known: and as it rarely or never produces
seed in cultivation, it has probably been
titled from an extremely early period. for
plants long pagated by means of suck
ers seem to lose at least the very habit
of seed-bearing.
This is the case with the banana and
the plantain both Of which, like the sugar
cane, can only be reproduced by means
of cuttings; and all three are there
fore, like the potato, tending by slow de-
grees to inevitable extinction. Thirty
years ago. If one was writing of sugar,
one would have closed the chapter with
the sugar-cane and the West Indies But
of late years an immense change has
come over the commerce of the world in
this respect. The sugar trade has shifted
from the tropics to the temperate zone;
and it is that seemingly passive plant
the beet root, that has headed this indus
trial revolution. Many roots are tolerably
rich in sugar; everybody must have no.
ticed its presence in carrots, from which,
indeed, it has even at times been CONNER
cially extracted.
But sugar is still more abundant in the
beet, whose juice contains about 10 per
cent of crystallizable sucrose. The pro-
duction of beet sugar has curious his
tory. 1t originated in France under Ma
poleon l., when the English blockade
prevented communication with Marti-
nique and Hayti. 1t grew rapidly after
the emancipation of the slaves in the Brit
ish dominions, and being fostered by pro-
tectiOnist governments on the continent, it
is now beginning to drive the poor, anti
quated and superannuated cane entirely
out of the market. Of recent years by
far the larger part of the sugar employed
in England is of French origin, or made
in Germany" That is one of the reasons
why brown sugar has gone out and white
sugar come SO largely into fashion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30
NOT AFRAID OF DOGS,
They Knew Just What to Do When a
Big One Came After Them.

They Knew Just What to Do When a
Big One Came After Them.
| was standing on the railroad plat
form of a small country town a few
evenings ago There were four men
grouped apart from where | was stand
ing conversing among themselves. Just
beside the edge of the platform were the
grounds OF some private residence,
fenced in by an iron fence only three
feet high. Inside the fence, held by a
heavy chain, was a dog of the deer-hound
breed. He was impatiently chatting
against the restraint imposed upon him
and pulled and tugged at his chain at q
great rate. The four men were standing
looking at him and making comments
that | never have the least sensation
of fear of dogs. Why, if that dog was
to break loose and jump the fence it
might be dangerous, but I'd be just as
cool as | am now.
I've had several narrow escapes with
ferocious dogs" said another, land I've
trained myself to instantly crush them
by looking them in the eye steadily. No
tice my eye?" The other three peered
into it. well, gentlemen, that eye has
cowed dogs that would take a leg off
you at a bite"
The third man, who had been for some
time trying to interrupt No. in order
nifty and struck in. SIMPLY kick EN- .
he said I've had dogs come at me at
lightning speed, gentlemen, jaws wide
open and their eyes red with rage. All
I've done is to calmly step aside and
plant one tremendous kick in their ribs
us they went by. 1t took courage, but
l was always there. / never had one
to come back at me yet"
The fourth man was just opening his
mouth to tell his little lie when the deer
hound over the fence got loose, and prob
ably not thinking of the four men at all
bounded over the fence to make good his
liberty. / watched to see the man with
the wonderful eye get in his work, and
the kicker do his great kicking act, and
the man with the iron nerve stand coolly
with his arms folded, but none of them
was doing his speciality that day.
Instead the whole one-hOrse quartette
turned and jostled and bumped and trod
on each others toes in a wild endeavor
to get out of the way of that deerhound.
The head of the iron-nerved man bumped
into the man with the meSmeric eye and
damned his nat down so that the luster
of the eye was dimmed, and l suppose
that's why it didn't work The man
who always kicked vicious dogs did get
in his kick, but it was on my right shin
accidentally, as he rushed by me to save
his life But the deerhound rushed over
the fields without looking at any of the
herOes.-Mount Holly Dispatch.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30
WHO CAN EXPLAIN IT =?
What was it that Outran the Message
that was Waiting to be Sent.

What was it that Outran the Message
that was Waiting to be Sent.
An extraordinary incident occurred
few nights since in the course of tele
graphic business between this city and
little out-of-the-way Office, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch. The facts are unques-
tionabie, and can be vouched for by two
operators, who have had no communica-
ton since the strange event occurred
There was filed i'll the Pittsburg gen
eral office of the Western Union Tcle-
graph Company. shortly before midnight
between last Thursday and Friday, Il
message which read:
William Murray, ElwOod Junction.
Pa.-Your mother died tonight. Come
home"
This message was marked Rush 1t
was shot upstairs in the pneumatic tube
and laid on the desk of one of the best
operators. This operator did not know
the name of the operator at Elwood
Junction. That is a small station on the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad, where
there is rarely any commercial business:
At night there is scarcely any railroad
business, as only an occasional freight
passes the place, and that is slow bust
ness.
The Pittsburg operator began calling
ElWOod Junction. sounding the two let
ters which indicate that Geographic sta
ton. There was no response, and the
call was continued for some time. Then,
as still no answer came, another piece OF
work was taken up and dispatched. The
calling of Elwood junction was resumed.
The PlrtSburg operator was very busy
and began to be annoyed. After several
minutes of sounding the answer came.
What's the matter. old man.: in
Quired the PittsbuPg sender over the line.
The operator at ElwoOd junction re-
piled: Il fell asleep in my chair.
Don't de it. answered Pittsburg; 1T S
IA bad habit"
Il wish | had not" responded Elwood,
for l had a bad dream. l dreamed my
mother was dead"
Don't mind dreams,'' said Pittsburg.
There's nothing in them. l have Il mes
sage for somebody out your way.
The message for William Murray was
then licked over the wire. There was Il
brief pause when the telegram was ended.
Then there came back these words from
the night operator at Elwood Junction:
My God: Trouble never ceases! 1t is
my MOTHER
The operator at the junction was Will
lam Murray. and he had received the
message announcing the death of his
own mother within an hour of the time
when he had dreamed OF her death. The
Pittsburg operator was affected by the
answer. and he wired Il message of SYM
pathy, asking pardon for his testing SEN
fences.
William Murray's mother was Mrs
HOnOra Maloney. Of Mckee's Rocks. She
had been married a second time to Nicho-
las Maloney.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30
AUSTRALIAN ROUGH RIDERS.
Yeats of Horsemanship Performed B.
Antipodean Cowboys.

yeats of HOrSemanshlp performed by
Antipodean Cowboys.
.'Onen the gater roars the manager
Look out, you boysr and, with mad
rush out flies the colt through the open
gate, like shell from Il howitzer. For
twenty yatdS he races at full speed, then
''propping' as if galvanized shoots up
ward with the true deer's leap, all four
feet iii the air at once from which the
vice takes its name), and comes down with
his head between his fore legs and his
nose this / watched narrowly, touching
the girths But the rider has swayed
back in his saddle with instructive ease,
and is quite prepared for q succession of
lightning-like bounds sideways, upward
downward, backward-as the agile and
frantic animal appears to turn in the air,
and to come down with his head in the
place where his tail was when he rose.
For an instant he stops; then perhaps
the spurs are sent in so as to accentuate
the next performance. The crowd, mean
while, of six or seven hundred people,
mostly in the prime of life, follow,
cheering and clapping with every fresh
attempt OH the part of the frenzied steed
to dispose of his rider. A few minutes
of this exercise suffice to exhaust and
steady the widest colt.
1t is a species of "monkeying," a de-
vice of the buck-breaker, who ties a bag
on to the back of a timid colt, and he
frightened out Of his life, as if by a mon
key perched there, eXhausts himself and
permits the rider to mount and ride away
with but little resistance. Sometimes, in
deed, the colt turns in his tracks, and be-
ing unmanageable in his paroxysms
charges the crowd, whom he scatters
with great screaming and laughter as
they fall over each other or climb the
boundary fence. But, very shortly, with
lowered head and trembling frame, he
allows himself to be ridden to the gate
of egress.
There he is halted, and his rider, tax
ing hold of his left ear with his bride
hand, swings lightly to the ground. close
ly alongside Of the shoulder. Did he not
SO alight, the agile mustang is capable of
q lightning wheel and a dangerous kick.
Indeed, one rider dismounting carelessly
discovered this to his cost after riding a
most unconscionable ormer.-Macmil-
lan'S Magazine
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30
A STRANGE TROTTER.
j. w. Palmer Drives a Moose at "
Superior.

j. w. Palmer Drives a Moose at West
Superior.
To the residents Of the steel plant it
is an everyday sight, but the appear
ance in the other parts of the city of
John w. Palmer and his domesticated
moose is sufficient to attract as large
crowds as a circus procession. Every
evening, if it is pleasant, Mr.. Palmer
and his strange quadruped may be seen
chasing up and down Ohio Avenue.
The moose is years old and has been
as successfully broken to harness as
any horse and is as docile as kitten
He is sixteen and one-half hands high
and very rangey and when NOV
ing at full speed fairly flies
over the ground. Horsemen declare
that he will become the swiftest trotting
animal alive by the time he is years
old, if he is not hurt meantime. The
moose is surely the rarest of the many
wild animals of the continent, and as
strange as it may seem not one person
in 10000 has ever seen one alive. This
particular animal trots as cleyerlv as
any horse, but at a much faster speed.
Mr.. Palmer has been solicited to ex-
hibit his "hoss" at several county fairs
Of the state this fall and speed him as
an attraction. He thinks he may do so,
as it would be hard to say which enjoys
the sport the more-Mr. Palmer or the
mOOse.-SuperiOr T'eIegr0n1
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30
The yellow Glow of the Horizon

Painted on the sky by the setting sun, is
beautiful Not so the sallow saffron of a
face tinged with bile. And oh! the unspeak-
able discomfort that bile in the wrong place
produces. Twinges in the right side and
under the right shoulder blade, nausea, YER
tgo sick headache, constipation, faulty di-
gestion. Not in an instant can the symp-
toms of biliousness be dispelled. but per-
Stence i, tne use 9b H the stoacn
ton and regularity of the bowels, and cOun-
teract tendencies to more aggravated COM
plants, which an interruption of these func-
lions begets. rheumatism inactivity of the
kidneys and bladder, neuralgia, and inabil-
ity to sleep, are also remedied by this genial
and tranquility. AS an antidote to the poi
son of malaria, it is unfailing and prompt.
A WineglaSsful three times a day.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30
Preferred the Stuffed Dog.

A dog, an ancient brindled dog, a spec
linen Of the taxidermist's art, stood for
a long time as the sign of a little shop.
by the fastidious. One day rosy
maiden, very dirty and even more ragged,
just able to play about, came, with two
little dogs frisking about her, to the poor
moclcery of the brindled dog. Instantly
the two little dogs lost all charm for the
youngster. She caught the other dogs
head and patted it, pulled its ears, won
dered at it, admired it, and finally when
she left it, was still puzzled and admir-
ing, not quite satisfied as to what kind
Of dog he was but certain he was much
nicer than ordinary dogs, which are hard
to catch and harder to hold, when one is
only few years old, uncertain. of foot
and miserably unfirm of hand.-Kansas
City Star
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30
A Trick of Nature.

That strong facial resemblance which
married couples often acquire after living
together a long period of years, harmo-
NOUS in thought and feeling and sub
jeect to the same conditions in life, has
often been commented upon. The Pho
tographic Society of Geneva recently took
the pictures of seventy-eight couples for
an investigation of this subject The re-
silt was that in tWenty-four cases the re-
semblance in the personal appearance of
the husband and wife was greater than
that of brother and sister; in thirty cases
it was equally great, and in only twenty
four was there a total absence of re-
Semhlance
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30
GOLDEN HOURS MAKE G GOLDEN DAYS.

Everything has beauty in it
In the world that round us lies,
Lifting up each waking minute,
Giving JOY to longing eyes,
That shall fill the hours with praise
Golden hours make golden days.
By us joys are ever flying,
Let us make our hearts their snare!
Let us share the sweetness lying
All about us everywhere!
Let US walk in happy ways
Golden hours make golden days.
Troubles come but they are fleeting;
Soon their shadows will go by,
AS the clouds the sunlight meeting,
Pass and show the azure sky.
Life is full of sunny rays
Golden hours make golden days.
By George Birdseye.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30

When you see the hills afar off
I.ookin green an gold an blue,
1t is time to take a day off,
With the daisies on the dew.
Don't yOu wish
For 4 fish
When the trees are goin' ''swish"?
When you hear the birds a-Singin'
An the cattle-bells a-ringin'.
: An the honeysuckleS sWingin'-
Don't you wish?
When March is headin' May off,
With a rumple in his curls,
1t is time to take day off,
HVntin' violetS with the girls.
Don't you pine
For the shine
OF the meadows fair an fine?
For the lilied rills a-iowin',
For the woods with blossoms BLOWN,
For the world. with beauty CLOWN
Don't you pine?
Atlanta Constitution.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30
CorruDtion of Names.

Creek are the names of streams and of
churches in Northern Delaware, and
both names have undergone changes
characteristic of words much in the
mouths Of English speaking country
folk. One is usually called Redlycrics,
the other Whitelycrick, while Head of
Christians, the name of a neighboring
church, has been corrupted into 'Heddy-
christeen." Appoquinmink, the name of
a township or hundred" a stream and
a church has remained interrupted I'M
less the Indians may have called it
otherwise
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30
The UnluckY Quarter.

A local druggist mentions the follow
ing incident that occurred in his store. A
travelling man came in and asked me to
give him change for quarter of a dol
lar. He explained his request by saying:
Il don't like to carry a quarter around in
my pocket if l can get hold of any other
kind of coin. The quarter has thirteen
stars, thirteen letters IL the scroll held
in the eagles beak, thirteen marginal
shield, thirteen horizontal bars and thir-
teen wheads.-Owensboro Inquirer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30
Accident at Brooklyn Bridge.

The full-rigged ship Harry Williams
met with peculiar accident while pass
ing under the Brooklyn bridge recently.
A sailor was at work near the top of the
mainmast as the ship approached the
structure. The mainmast was unusually
high, and as the ship swept down the river
a carpenter at work on the bridge yelled
to the sailor who slid down just in time
to save himself. The foremost passed I'M
der safely, but the top of the mainmast
struck the bridge, and about six feet of
the stick was snapped off. 1t was said at
tire bridge entrance that this was the first
accident of the kind recorded since the
bridge was erected
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30

after a three days passage, while the
Trinidad, recently enlarged, makes it in
two. One pays dearly for a glimpse of
Bermuda. The man who tells you smil-
ingly that he does not know what sea-
sickness is in all probability will add that
item to his catalogue of experiences, es-
pecially on crossing the Gulf Stream
when the steamer, not so large or steady
as the great ocean liners, rocks and
plunges in the turbulent current But
once the Sunny Islands are reached, who
thinks of the discomforts Of the voyage?
-Godav'c
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30
Not Necessary.

Teacher-"Now, Willie, suppose you
pie to take a portion of-wouldn't you
tell him to take the larger piece?'
Willie-"No, momr'
You wouldn't? Why?"
Cos 'twouldn't be necessary. '-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30

''Shall not call on you for the 500 reward,
for believe Halls Catarrh Cure will cure
any case of catarrh. Was very bad"
Write him for particulars. Sold by drug
OiStS Inc
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30
Coffee REGIME.

A woman of Hamden. O.. answered an
advertisement recently which promised to
give satisfactory recipe for making cof-
fee The reply was: Practice till
you get it exactly right; then keep on
making it that way
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30

SHILoH's CONSUMPTION CURE Is sold on
guarantee. It cures incipient Consumption.
1t is the best Cough Cure. 25 cents so cents
and 81 90
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30

Prof Stone-"To the geologist a
thousand years or so are not counted as
as any time at ALL Man in the audi
ence-"Great Scott! And to think 1
made a temporary loan of $40 to a man
who holds such ews!'-Indianapol
JOurnal
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30

To THE SAILOR yacht is superb but how
more lovely to the landsman are the rosy
cheeks of young ladies who use GLENN's
SULPHUR SOAP
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30

A German philanthropist has been
conducting a series of experiments recent
~ by which he finds that both tea and cof-
fee impairs digestion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30

-Mexico's council has approved
proposition for the construction Of a bull
ing by st. Louis and Mexican capital
ste
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30

1t is a well-known, if rather para
doxical, fact that cut diamond rates are
higher than the original price.-Texas
Siftings.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30

"A colored man shocked Bar Harbor,
Me-, society recently by attending a mas
querade ball in the costume of Othello.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-05-30

rGp EflI FCp with Map, OF climate. advantages
&lM YUIULW gold. and other resources o
4 Wash address Z. s. GRAHAM CO.. Spokane, Wash
The morning call., 1894-11-08
THE STOCK 1ARKET.

ine market opened quite strong and active yes.
S anuer favorable reports from the Com
e'oeA' ana the north-end stocks showed an adj
N"uoe' report was freely circulated on the
street That an important strike had been made in
tne central tunnel workings and in consequence
ophtr sold up to So 25. 1t is also reported that
VI dividend will be declared the Con. Cal. Il Va.
~ rev days. This stock was in demand at 81 So
figures.
NOTES.
Sllver was steady at 6513c in New York yester-
gay and 291sd in London
ne assessment on Lady Washington and Scor-
plUh are delinquent in otlce tomorrow.
the delinquent assessment sale or the Belcher
taKes place to-day.
al the delinquent assessment sale OF the Alta
sale.
In the West Con. Virginia d California. 100
IeFel, the west crosScut run from point 800 feet
north OF the shaft station has been extended 10
rect during the past week. aud is now in n total
Instance OF 1871 feet. We have struck more
favorable formation, which is composed of vein
matter. porphyry and quartz. The trend of this
formation Is northwest and the dip is southwest at
an angie of 10 degrees. The flow of water has in
creased inches and the heat has increased to
LOG degrees,
The morning call., 1894-11-08
New York Markets..

NEW YORK, Nov. THE alton on the
stock Exchange this morning was married by a
strong tone aud there good buying tbroueh-
out the entire list. II was very evident that yam
street was satisfied By the elections and believed
that the Republican success VIII be followed nv a
revival of trade and general business improve
ment throughout the country. Significance of the
result from speculative point OF view is what
makes 1t certain as the stree reads the situation
that for the present no tarin tinkering Will be in
duced with its disturbing influence on the commun-
ity, and the downfall Of the Populists in the West
checks the growth of an agitation which had al
ready become powerful enough to become hurtful
10 business interests by reason OF attacking the
stability of our monetary system Is tending
With these views firmly fixed majority of the
traders on the Exchange went over as buyers, and
their purchases sent prices up with rush In the
first fifteen minutes Sugar rose 2hs, burlington
l1s, Delaware Hudson and New Jersey Central
IA; Cotton Oil l. Denver and Rio Grande Us. do
preferred /. Lake Erie and Western preierred
"a, Minneapolis and ST. Louis L. do preferred
and Lead preferred 1873; Delaware and Lacka-
wanna. 2: Consolidated Gas. rs, and other active
Central and Louisville and Nashville. At tn high
est figures some operators who had acquired lines
OF stock at the lowest figures OF last week under
took to realize profits at the result first OF che k
ing the advance aud then OF breaking prices $50 .s
Burlington; 11a Western Union. Lakawana and
Delaware and Hudson: IA Northwestern;
Chicago Gas and baltimore and Ohio; 7s Con-
Gas and Lake Shore; "a st. Paul. Rock Island, L.
Il n. and lead. and a smaller fraction otherwise
Nheellng ana Lake Erie preferred, which haQ
risen rs, receded 2 an the common, which had
advanced rs, lost 1s. 1t was not until ABOUT
O'Clock the market recovered from this depres-
sion, but since 80 there a steadyng In the
speculation which grew into heavy purchasing
movement around delivery hour. Speculation
became active and buoyant and there WAS sharp
appreciation in values. which continued TO the
close, the market finishing up strong.
Com pared with the closing figures OF Monday
the last prices made to-day are 14D2M higher.
the latter in Lake Erie preferred; Lackawanna
and Con. Gas zig, Rock Island rs. ST. Paul and
Denver and Rio Grande re. Colorado Fuel / per
cent Pacific Mail and Lead preferred 1875, Bur
linrton Southern Pacific, Union Pacinc and
Denver and Rio Grande preferred "a. few