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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-01
Would Go Barefoot.

An Irishman once went into a shop and
asked the price of a pair of gloves.
-Four was the reply
"Och, by my sowl, thin" said he, I'D
sooner me hands go barefoot than pay
that price for 'em ''-ROseleaf
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-01
Wanted the Fee.

Customer--''Is it customary to fee the
waiter here?"
Waiter-"Yes. SIR
Customer-"Then hand over your fee
I've waited for you nearly an hour
Texas SiftjnoS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-01

Consumption Kills
more people than rife
balls. 1t is more dead
" than any of the
1nucll dreaded cpl
denies. It is a steal
thy, gradual, slow
disease. 1t penctrateS
the whole body. It
is in every drop of
blood. 1t seems to
work only at the
lungs. but the ter
riDle drain and waste
80 on all over the
body. TO cure CON
sumption, work CT
the blood, make it
pure, rich and whole
some, build up the
wasting tissues, put
the body into condi-
ton for a fight with
the dread disease.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-01
Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your
Life AWAY

Is the truthful, startling title Of a book
about No-To-Bac, the harmless, guaranteed
tobacco habit cure that braces up nicotiniZed
nerves, eliminates the nicotine poison. makes
weak men gaia strength, yigor and man
hood. You run no physical or financial risk,
as No-Fo-Bac is seld by Druggists every
where. under q guarantee TO cure or money
refunded. Book free. Address Sterling
Remedy Co. New York or Chicago.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-01

-He-"Do you know that I am over
ears in love with you?' She-"That's
just what your brother said" He-''Ah!
but my ears are larger than his.
Mall Budget
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-01

Piso's Cure for Consumption cured a
case of Pneumonia after the family doe
tor gave up all hope.-M. Z. McDowes,
ConOWingO, Md
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-01
A NEW SOFT HAMMER.

A Device that Every Nachin:st will be
Sure to Appreciate.
It is said that what is known as
soft hammer is 4 very useful and i'm
portant tool in machine shop and the
only drawback to their extended use is
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-01

the difficulty in replacing old and worn
faces with new ones.
Here is a device, however, in which
that difficulty has been removed, for the
hammerhead is made in two parts and is
easily separated by loosening a nut New
faces may then be put in, the nut tight
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-01
Not Saved.

been paying great attention to the speak,
er)-"Are you savedT
Young Man-'No. I'm reporter
Salvation Lass-"Oh, | beg your par,
con. Pail Mall Budget.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-01

Commercial Gazette reporters and de-
tectiyes broke up a spiritual seance. The
mediums were arrested
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-01
The Sheriff'll Git Hi

A man l know, John Smith by name,
Is the greatest Of a: guys.
he thinks that he's in business,
Yet declines to advertise.
Detroit Free Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-01
SLIGHTLY PERHAPS.

The snowbank looked at the crocus
In manner rather devious,
And said. in tones quite chilly:
Say, amt you slightly previous?
Detroit Free Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-01
BEST IN THE WORLD.

Beecham's pills are for bill
iousness, sick headache, diz-
illness. dyspepsia, bad taste
in the mouth, heartburn, tor
pid liver, foul breath, sallow
skin, coated tongue, pimples,
loss Of appetite, etc., when
caused by constipation; and
constipation is the most fire.
quent cause of all of them.
One of the most important things for
everybody to learn is that constipation
causes more than half the sickness in the
world, especially of women; and it can all
be prevented. Go by the book free at your
druggist S, or write B. F. AllenCo. ,3o5Canai
ST., New York. Pills, IoG and 25f box.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-01

Editor (abstractedly)-"Tel him I'll
settle hereafter. ,'-Atlanta Constitution.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19

Wife-My dear, l need little more
of this stuff, and some trimming to
match. 1 wish you would drop into
Big, Sale & Co.'S and get it.
Husband Ia smart fellow)-Let me
see. Oh, l know. That's the store
isn't it.
yes"
eyes, 1 remember. That blonde girl
at the trimming counter knows your
tastes and will doubtless select just
the sort of trimming you want. / mean
the girl with the golden hair, alabaster
skin, blue eyes, and sweet little"
"There are a number of things l
want down town. Never mind, dear.
I'll go and get them myself. New
York Weekly.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19

tat1on through the narroW-mlnd-
edness of certain factorymen;
we have lost the trade of 100000 of
consumers across the water. Well,
what shall we do about it? Cry over
it? Not at all. Let us take a lesson
from our neighbors, then let us turn
right around and say, Where is the
market?" Granted that we have lost
the English market, in part, is there
any other place where we can put our
cheese? Why, bless your soul, there are
65,0OO,OOO of people right around us.
Which would you rather have, 65,OOO,-
900 American people to feed cheese to,
or 100000 Britishers? A gentleman
came to me this morning and said: Il
have got cheese in my store and /
want it analysed. l believe it is filled
cheese; it is no good" Another one
came to me last fall, and said: What
can be the matter with all the cheese?"
He went on and described it and it was
evidently filled cheese. 1 told him 1t
was, and that was afraid it came from
Illinois or Wisconsin. Every day, al
most, we hear of examples of this kind;
the country is flooded with them. How
long can business be run on those prin-
ciples and succeed? How long can peo-
pie who are catering to others keep
them from eating good cheese? We are
furnishing such poor stuff that nobody
IS going to eat it. 1t won't take long
to crowd the cheese off our tables en-
tirely with other kinds of foods. Now,
let us cater for the home trade. Why,
Wisconsin cannot begin to supply those
! 65,0OO00O of people with cheese. Wis
consin, itself, could eat quite a large
part of all the cheese she now makes, if
our people were properly educated and
/ hn rio oh
come to me every day and tell me they
do wish they could get a piece of good
cheese, Between feeding our people
culls and spurious food, we have pretty
| nearly killed off the demand
We now have things headed In the
right direction; we have a dairy school
at Madison, which, l hope, is doing
some good; we have better laws on our
statute books; we have our organiZa-
lions; before me are lots of young men
full of the desire to do something bet
ter; full of the desire to better them
selves by lettering the business in
which they are engaged. Now, / ap-
peal to those young men to stand to-
gether firmly for honesty. Begin by
doubling up your factories, so that
there are fewer of them with more milk
to work up.
We must begin to run our factories in
a more cleanly way. The truth is, we
are awfully dirty. A, gentleman told
me about buying factory up north,
where he had to tear up the floor and
scrape out over one foot of solid dirt,
which was filled with putrefying mat
ter, and carry it off and dump it into
fields and haul in clean earth, before
he could start his factory. You all
know that there is lots of filth in the
factories. We had a number of Ger
man and Russian professors brought
over here by the Worlds Fair, and
they were simply disguised with our
American methods. They had heard
about our American factories and ev-
pected to find something fine, but in
stead of that they found little dirty
sheds.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19

ducing products valued at SEC, 63o, 900,
of $3.7S of products for each dollar of
capital invested. The value of the
condensed milk was 1885, 1927, of
which amount Illinois produced S2,O12,-
500. New York $1,227, ia, Michigan,
1927 1913, and Rhode Island $21, $40.
The total product of butter amount
ed. in 1890, to 1,205, sos, 900 pounds, of
which amount "a per cent was made
in the north Atlantic division, per
cent in the south Atlantic states, 81 per
cent in the north central group, IL per
cent in the south central division, and
per cent in the western division. Only
Isl .000, 900 pounds of butter were made
in factories in the last census year, or
less than Is per cent, the rest being
made in farm dairies.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19

only to accommodate 20 fowls. The
materials for this, with the exception
of the sash, cost less than 81 The
structure is nine feet wide. twelve feet
long, and five feet high. The short side
of the roof is two feet long, and the
long side, which fronts south and comes
to within eighteen inches of the ground.
is seven feet. At the further end the
roof boards extend over an opening
made for the fowls to pass in and out.
The perches are one foot above tde
floor and extend along the north side
of the interior. The bottom board on
that side is hung with hinges so il
can be raised, and the droppings under
the perches scraped out. The nest
boxes are ranged along the low s. =,
the dust box is placed in the sunniest
spot, and the feed and water troughs
near the door. One pane of glass in
the sash is loose, SO it may be moved
down for ventilation. The floor should
be covered by sand when obtainabls, il
not, with straw, chaff, or other like
material that can be raked out when
soiled. The whole interior should be
given a coat of fresh lime whitcwa 81
at least four times a year, and the
perches swabbed with kerosene. This
poultry house is easily cleaned, and
answers the purpose nearly as well as
one costing twenty times as much.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19

Do fowls read the weather? An
old Pennsylvania farmer says they
do. Have any of our readers 10
ticed such facts as he states in the fol-
lowing:
Il always know when there is to be
windstorm by watching the turkeys
and chickens go to roost each night. In
calm weather the fowls always roost
on their poles with their heads alter
mating each way; that is, one faces east,
the next west, and so on. But when
there is going to be high wind they
always roost with their heads towards
the direction from which it is coming
There are reasons for these different
ways of roosting, l take it. When there
is no wind to guard against they can
see other danger more readily if they
are headed in both directions, but when
wind is to arise they face it because
they can hold their positions better
But the part l can't understand" he
concluded, lis how the critters know
that the wind is going to rise when we
mortals lack all intimation of tx.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19
WAS A wIFE.s RusE.
Tired Of Country Life She Adopted 4

Tired Of Country Life She Adopted Ex-
traOrdinsry Expedionts to Get Away.
Tired of q uonotonous existence In a
small country town Nine. Auolert, wife
Of q medical practitioner at Brezolles.
in the Beauce, adopted strange meas
ures for the purpose Of freeing herself
from marital control, writes Paris
correspondent Of the London Telegram.
She wrote anonymous letters to her
husband, and In these epistles accused
herself of breaking her marriage VOW.
The doctor disbelieved the charges
formulated in the letters, which he tore
up and burned with many shrug Of
his shoulders. Nine. Auclert then
turned her hand to incendiarism and
set fire to a barn near her abode. After
the place had been burned down she
told her husband that she wanted to
leave a district peopled By savages,
who intended next, no doubt, to burn
her dwelling. Laleu, man OF no con-
sequence in the town, was reported to
the gendarmes as the criminal who had
burned the barn, and, filled with fright
at the prospect Of impending arrest, the
poor wretch hanged himself. The anon
ymous letters continued to rain on
the doctor, who at last discovered that
his wifes handwriting was wonderfully
like that in which the missives were
written.
Nine. Auclert confessed everything
and has been tried at Chartres on a
charge of incendiarism. The Jurors
found this new Nine. Bovary fully re-
sponsible for her actions in spite of the
defense set up by the able lawyer from
Paris who had charge of her interests,
and she was condemned to five years
Imprisonment.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19
ABOUT CANADA.s FORESTS.

Her Great Resources in Timber Are
Rapidly Being Depleted.
Canada is killing the goose that lays
the golden egg so far as her pine for
ests are concerned, writes a Quebec cor
respondent. Rapidly as this depletion
of her once apparently almost mex
haustible forest wealth has proceeded
for the last century, some millions of
dollars worth of it still remain. But
the lessons taught by the experience
of older lands are being thrown away,
and at the present rate of consumption
Canadian pine will in a quarter of
century be thing of the past, SO far at
least as it's availability for commercial
purposes is concerned. An official state
ment has just been prepared upon the
subject, which shows that in Ontario
the standing area of pine is about 49,
404,000,000 feet and In Quebec Is, 1884,
900 feet The Ontario forests will be
exhausted in twenty-six years at the
present rate Of consumption, and the
Quebec forests in little less. AS an
instance of the national impoverish-
ment that must follow this condition
OF affairs, it may be mentioned that
Canada's raw forest productions now
amount to sSO,O71, AS per annum, and
adding to this the $12O,3 900 which
represents the value of the output Of
wood industries. there is shown a total
of some $500, 100000 as the value of the
material taken from the forests and
converted one way or another into ar
ticles Of home consumption or export.
The numbering and cognate industries
employ nearly $1O0,0OOOO0 as capital,
and distribute wages to the amount Of
over $50 500 900 yearly. Sawmills alone
employ 81 ,575 persons.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19
A Cheap Poultry House.

In these days of advancement every
farmer neatIy is paying more atten-
ton to poultry than formerly. The
necessity for good serviceable chicken
house becomes more apparent to the
farmer the more he investigates the
subject. Those that can afford to build
quite expensive houses should do so,
and will find that it will be a pay
ing investment. By quite expensive"
we mean having all the adjuncts that
tend to make the fowls comfortable,
and with the very best of modern ar
rangements for the floors, roosts, doors,
windows, runs and fences.
Many farmers, however, will not at
ford such houses, and some cannot. For
such we give an illustration showing
one that may be built at very small
cost. 1t is supposed to be large enough
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19
Feeding the Hen.

To keep a hen in good condition for
laying she should never have a full
crop during the day. 1t is not wrong
to give a light meal of mixed food,
warm in the morning, in the trough,
but such meal should be only one
fourth the quantity the hens require.
They should go away from the trough
unsatisfied and should then seek their
food, deriving it grain by grain, en-
gaging in healthy exercise in order to
obtain it, and in such circumstances
the food will be passed into the giz-
card slowly, and the better digested.
Gradually the hen will accumulate
sufficient food to provide for the night,
going on the roost with a full crop,
where she can leisurely forward it
from the crop to the gizzard. Feed
ing soft food leads to many errors on
the part of the beginner, causing him
to overfeed and pamper his hens, and
by it they will reach a condition
that is entirely antagonistic to laying.
1t is much better to feed hard grains
only than to feed from trough, I'M
less the soft food is carefully measured.
A quart of mixed, ground grain, moist
ened and in a crumbly condition,
should be sufficient for forty hens as a
starter" for the morning, but two
quarts of whole grain should then be
scattered in litter for them to seek and
secure for themselves.-Ex.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19
Guineaa.

These should not be kept for market,
as they rarely sell at price that will
pay for shipping them, although they
are good table fowl and especially for
any one that is fond of wild game
They are most profitable for eggs, as
after they begin to lay in the spring
will lay regularly, at time when it is
usually desirable to use a considerable
number of hen eggs for Matching.
The eggs are smaller, but the shells
are thicker and harder to break and the
egg itself is richer in nutriment, in pro-
portion to it's size, SO that in market
they sell at the same price.
Guineas are very tender when small
and require the very best of treatment
until they get well started to growing,
After they get well feathered they will
take care of themselves better than
any other poultry on the farm, and for
this reason they will in majority of
cases be found Observation-Disclosures
Grange Bulletin.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19
BOTH WANT THE CHILD.
Religion Causes San jose Wife &C
Leave Her Husband.

Religion Causes San jose Wife to
Leave Her Husband.
Mrs. James Clearwater, who came to
this city from Los Angeles recently,
took her 9-year-old daughter, Perley,
this afternoon from the possession OF
Mrs. l.. Vincent. who was given charge
of the child by the father, says a San
Jose. Ca, special. The police were ap-
pealed to to secure the return of the
child, but they refused to interfere in
the matter. The parties were not d.
vorced. but separated last May. For
three years there had been trouble in
the family over religion. Clearwater
claims that his wife, after becoming a
Seventh-Day Adventist, left him. An
elder and preacher in the church named
Saunders. it is claimed, told her it was
a sin to live with her husband because
he was not a believer. Last May after
a camp meeting excitement at Oakland.
Mrs. Clearwater left her husband and
went to Los Angeles
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19

Wellesley girls show no diminution
in their fondness for aquatic sports
There has just been shipped from the
works Of Connecticut boat builder a
fine eight-oared barge, intended for the
use of the class of 81, The barge is
described as 45 feet long, 3 feet beam,
and is constructed throughout of Span
ish cedar. lap-streaked. with copper
fastenings. The fittings are made up
of patent roller slides, swivel rowlocks,
and adjustable foot braces. 1t sounds
like a racing boat, but il has not been
built for that purpose, as the students
are not permitted to race on the lake
near the college, but it is safe to say
there will be some pleasant and not too
slow spins taken in the new barge.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19
He Was n Mind Reader.

Mister" said the man with defect
ed clothing but a blythesome air.
you're the proprietor Of this hotel
aren't your
YES"
We'll. 1 want to put you on to a.
good thing"
What is it?''
Me I'll give you chance ter let me
work fer We. I'll take a position as
clerk er cashier or anything; / don't
care. I'm a prize. 1 am, an / amt
hard ter please"
but don't need you. The places are
all filled and you wouldn't suit any
how"
Wouldn't suit, Dat shows yer don't
know me specially"
What's that?"
I'm a mind reader. All do is ter
wave me hands in front of a guest an
lUok in his eyes, an kim tell just how
much money he has on him. An de
man dat makes out de bill does de rest"
Washington Star.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19
Our Dairy Interests.


The dairying interest of the United
States has grown to be one of great
magnitude. The home value of the but
ter and cheese product, exclusive of the
value of buttermilk, skinned milk.
whey and other residuum, amounted in
the census year of 1890 to about s237.-
O00, 900, of which amount about s216.-
600, 900 were for butter. Of the total
number of pounds of butter produced
but 247 per cent was exported. while
of the total quantity of cheese made 81
per cent was exported. The oonsump-
ton of cheese per capita of the popula-
ton in the United States was 2.74
pounds in 1870, 2.30 pounds in 1880. and
Est pounds in 1890. The consump-
ton of butter per capita increased from
1928 pounds in 1870 and 1873 pounds in
1880 to 1877 pounds in 1890. 1t will as
tonish the average dairyman to know
that while over 80 per cent of the
cheese is made in factories, only Is
per cent of the butter product of 1889
was made in factories, and in spite of
the development of the creamery bust
ness, since it is probable that not over
one-fourth, or at most one-third, of the
butter product of the past year was
made on farms.
In 1880 there were 1892 butter and
cheese factories in the United States,
employing a capital of $9.605 900, and
the total value of their product
was $25,743,000, or $2.6S for each
dollar of capital employed. In
1890 there were 1852 factories,
including condensed milk factor
les. with capital of s16.o17. 900. pro-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19
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 ia
the needs Of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure LIQUID
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its 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.
alive: effectually cleansing the system,
1ispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
ueys, 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
sists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man,
ufactured by the California Fig Syruy
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 if offered.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19
Death Rate from smaII-Pox.

In the smallpox epidemic of 1881, in
England. the returns showed I,47S
deaths per million inhabitants-98 vac
cinated to 1880 unvaccinated. or in the
proportion of A to 1. In the epidemic
at Leipsic in 1871. the death rate was
1900 per million. 20 per cent of whom
were unvaccinated. These figures are
~ DR. Mulhall. In Boston the proper
ton was 10 to 80. and in Philadelphia,
IL TO Ga
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19
Signs of SprInRtime.

When fleecy clouds bedeck the blue,
The dude trots out the yellow shoe,
The higher sun begins to peel
The nose of Maud upon the wheel,
And boomers SO her looks enhance
The dog trots out his summer pants.
Minneapolis Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19
Nico,inized Ner,,as

Men old ut thirty. Chew and smoke eat iittio
drink, or want to, all the time. Nerves Jingle
never satisfied, nothing's beautiful happiness
gone, tot0cco-saturoted system tells tue
story. There's an easy way out. No-'ro Bac
will kill the nerVc-craving effects for tobacco
and make you strong vigorous. and manly.
Sold and guaranteed to cure by Druggists ev-
erywhere. Book, titled Don't Tobacco Spit or
Smoke Your Life Away" free Address Stcr-
ling Remody Co. Now York City or Chicago.