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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23
PRESIDENT HAYES WATERBURYs
why He Always Wore Cheap watch at
Last Explained.

President Hayes was always noted TOT
his thrifty habits, but some things when
impressed the multitude as signs OF
meanness were really nothing but ordln,
ary prudence For example, we all used
to wonder why he would persist, Whlle
drawing a salary of $4,000 year. IN
wearing a silver-plated Waterbury watch,
worth possibly So He was aware that
his practice was known, and any as
constituent manifested amused him IN
stead of making him angry. In answer
to a look Of surprise he would say: i
think that is a pretty plain watch for
Presiden of the United States to carry !;
but it is good American make"-as II
assuming that this fact would counter
act the effect of the cheapness of the
article. The truth was that almost week
ly q deputation of Western Indians called
upon him, always bringing presents OF
some kind to the Great Father. Of
course. he was expected to give something
in return, and the object was to find
something cheap and at the same time
acceptable Watches were a novelty to
the Indians. and to present a chief with
a watch which the Great Father himself
had been carrying always impressed him
greatly. Having discovered this, and
not caring to distribute gold watches or
even silver ones. Mr.. Hayes hit upon the
expedient of buying nickel watches at
S3G q dozen, and always made it con-
venient to have one with him against an
emergency-Kate Fields Paper
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23
Before a Full Head Of Steam

Is gathered by that tremendously destruct-
i've engine, malaria, put on the brakes with
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which will
check It's progress and avert disaster. Chills
and fever, bilious remittent, dumb ague and
ague cake are promptly relieved and ulti-
mately cured by this genial specific, which
is also comprehensive family medicine,
speedily useful in cases of dyspepsia, bilious
ness, constipation, sick headache, nervous
ness, rheumat ism and neuralgia. Against
the hurtful effects OF sudden changes OF tenn
perature, exposure in wet weather, close ap-
plication to laborious mental pursuits. and
other influences prejudicial to health, 1t IS q
most trustworthy safeguard. 1t fortifies the
system against disease, promotes appetite
and sleep, and hastens convalcscence after
facilitating and fesh-wasting diseases.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23

Rubbing tough meat with cut lemon.
Bacon fat for frying chicken and game.
Steaming stale loaf Of bread to fresh
en- it.
Warming crackers slightly in the oven
before using.
Dipping sliced onions in milk before
frying.
Fried sweet apples whenever you have
liver or kidney.
Heating dry coffee before pouring on
the water.
Pouring vinegar over fresh fish to make
the scales come off easily.
Adding lemon juice to the water IN
which rice is boiled to keep the grains
separate.
Beating the whites of eggs at an open
window if the kitchen be hot and steamy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23
Another Child Prodigy.

Four years is no great age, yet the
very latest prodigy is no older than that,
and really astonishes New Workers by
dexterity in Terpsichorean performances
The little things name is Josephine Kres-
ner, and she appears to be a born con-
tortionist and to possess a wonderful
conception of time. The child is very
beautiful, and apparently quite strong
and healthy. She does all the most diff
cult steps and twirls and gyrates in the
most eccentric style. The baby has per-
formed before theatrical managers and
aroused their wonder Never before in
the history of the stage, however, has
q 4-year-old undertaken to capture an
audience in the way Baby Josephine pro
poses.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23
UNDER SNOW TWO MONTHS.
Winter Experience of Four Men in Hut
in Montana.

in Montana.
81 lived under the snow for two
months" said Tom Allen at the Burnett
Talk about the present snow being a
deep one! 1t is nothing to what l en-
countered in 1868 in what were then the
wiids of Minnesota. near Albert Lea
-Four of us had built a hut in order to
hold a homestead claim. and fortunately
had had laid in a supply of provisions
sufficient to last two or three months dur
ing the winter. One night it commenced
to snow, and large flakes fell constantly
for two days and nights. Then the wind
began to blow, the snow continuing, and
the next morning we could not open the
door. The windows were completely
blockaded and we could not tell that it
was daytime except by our watches. We
built a big fire and stayed in the house.
supposing that it would pass off in few
hours, but the weather turned intensely
cold. On the third day we tunnelled out
through the window but found it impossi-
BILE to remove the drift, which completely
covered the hut. The cold weather CON
tinued without q break for two months
The top of the snow became hard enough
to bear our weight and we could go out
by the window, returning at night, but
it was two months before the snow
thawed sufficiently to uncover the hut
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23
THE MEDICINE WHEEL.

Queer Indian Relic Near Bald Mountain
City.
There is an interesting Indian relic
about four miles northwest of Bald
Mountain City which but, few Of our
people have ever seen. 1t is what is
called Medicine Wheel 1t is made of
rock imbedded in the ground in the shape
of wheel with thirty-seyen spokes The
circumference of the wheel is about 17o
feet, and it is supposed the savages came
to this place in the early days to make
medicine, and from this custom the
wheel derived its name One old Indian
on the Crow reservation, over 50 years of
age, says the wheel was there when he
was a young brave, and no one can rec
ollect when it was made.-Sherldan
Wyo) Enterprise.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23
THE SCARLET TANAGER.

Witch of the wood, to your sylvan dell
have followed and found you not,
Where brookletS glisten and hilltopS swell
And the air seems a tinkling silver bell
Have / followed and found you not.
I've traced your steps where the delicate
grass
IN homage bows as you daintily pass,
And the rich rose bushes a ,eper red
AS it treasures the kisses you softly she'd
Coy in your secret, well-bowered nest,
You are resting secure, / know;
With your velvety wings in graceful rest,
oh, wildwood bird that l love the best,
and your singing is soft and low.
My ears are deaf to the feathered throng
That yainly seek to rival your song;
And the forest to me seems only bright
With the rays you flash in your rapid fight.
New York Sun
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23

Rock candy, which is only sugar in
large, hard crystals, is now produced
wholesale in tin buckets, enclosed in wood
en- firkins Strings are stretched across
the buckets, and upon these the crystals
form. 1t happens often that the rock
candy of today is not the white. semi
transparent product of twenty-five years
ago, but cloudy, reddish-brown crystal,
as if made from cheap sugar. 1t is not
easily adulterated, and crystaEzation is an
essentially honest process.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23
Wisconsin Patents.

Patents for the following Wisconsin
inventions are reported this week by Er-
win Wheeler q Wheeler, So and 90
Loan and Trust building, Milwaukee,
Wis. These attorneys will furnish the
Inventors Handbook" free Oh request
Robert Cairns, WATERFOWL, diferenfiaa
pattern machines; William F. Ellsworth,
Madison, fruit box cover Frederick 81
Garrison Green County, corn harvesfers
William D. Hall, Beloit, scallop turner: ID.
B. Hanson, Miwauk ee, band sawrnill; Peter
Poertner and w. Romunder, Milwaukee,.
storm window Or analogous device; Andrew
J. Vollrath, Sheboygan, handle for coffee
or tea pots, etc; trademark: Milwankee
Wood Preserving company, Milwaukee, WOOD
preserving compounds.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23
The T,onoest Outstanding.

The longest time during which a note
has remained outside the Bank of Eng
land is Ill years. 1t was for G25, and it
is computed that the compound interest
during that long period amounted to no
less than 10000
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23
"a Fresh English Complexion"

That healthy pink and white might
just as we'll be the typical American
if people would take reason
able care of their health. Ripans Tab
ules go to the root of the trouble, be-
cause q stomach in good order produces
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23

Romano has the credit of completing
a great number of Raphael's works. lefs
unfinished at the death of that master
He was selected for that purpose by Ra-
Dhael himself
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23

/ believe Piso's Cure for Consumption
saved my boys life last summer.--Mrs.
Allie Douglass, Leroy, Mich. Oct 20,
"a
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23

Weak Lungs are Strengthened. Plen-
risy Pains relieved, and Asthmatie symp-
toms subdued by DR.. D. Jayne's Elk
pectorant, a sovereign remedy for AL
Coughs and Colds
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23
The Nicaragua Canal.

The project of the Nicaragua Canal has
been debated in the q. s; Senate very
vigorously One thing should be re
membered about that climate, it IS
death TO almost every foreigner who
goes there, and laborers especially sue
cumb. 1t is said that the Panama Rail
road cost a life for every tie. What an
idea Of pains and aches is in this SEN
tence It is mostly due TO carelessness.
Every laborer provided with st. Jacobs
Oil 1ould be armed against these
troubles. Mems muscles there are
cramped with rheumatic pain and they
ache all over That's just the condition
where this sovereign remedy can do its
best work The fearful malady is very
much like the break-bone fever in GER
tain parts of America.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23

Egyptian lamps, dating, it is believed,
from 5000 B. c., have been discovered
in the catacombs along the Nile.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23

Send your full name and address to
Dobbins' Soap Mfg. Co.. Philada.. Pa,
by return mail, and get, Free of all Cost, q
coupon worth several dollars. if nsesg by
you to its full advantage. Don's delay.
This is worthy attention
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23

The first gas lamps in Dublin were put
in position in 1918, and before 1928 the
entire Irish capital was thus lighted.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23
ADAMS CHARACTER.

The grand old gardener may have been
A quiet, peaceful SWAIN
And yet it's plainly to be seen
That he and Eve raised Cain.
New York Herald.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23

The father of gas-lighting was Eyils-
lam Murdoch, who, in 1892, used coal gas
for lighting his works in Cornwall
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23

Cornelius Herz's real estate in Paris
was sold recently for 1.34S. 600 francs,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23

-Memling is remembered chiefly by an
anachronism. In a picture of the Israel
ties Gathering Mamma in the Desert ne
armed the men with guns
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23

In 1893 10000 tons of German iron
were imported into England and 100000
tons went into British colonies.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-01-23

The Gas institute of London. for the
purpose of improving the methods in gas
engineering, was founded in 1868.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-25
TOTALLY DEPRAvED.

In the days before her sweet cider
turned into vinegar Gail Hamilton
had observed the tendency of things
inanimate to be impish in their ma
ture. and, under the influence Oh
her puritanical heredity, she natur-
ally attributed it to the total de-
pravity which they had probably
contracted from their contact with
depraved humanity. Everybody
who has run howsoever short span
of life has experienced this cussed-
ness of things inanimate, even IL
they have not attempted, like the
sprightly Gail, to ascertain the phil
osophy Of it. Believing the theory
of total depravity, and that the &C
lions of these inanimate things are
consciously done, we can imagine
their hilarity at the dilemmas they
occasionally produce.
The impishness of these things
without life occasionally adds a
touch of the ludicrous at which ami
mate beings cannot restrain their
laughter, however discOmforting 1t
may be to the victim. Two such in
stances were deemed of sufficient I'M
portance to be noted in their local
press. One man had purchased and
set I'D in his bed room one of those
patented portable bath tubs. Being
certified by it's patent to be the
product of genius but added to It's
natural malignity something Of the
intelligence of its creator. Selling
the opportune moment when the
posture of the bather was at the
proper critical point, the impish tub
took to itself "a lofty ground tumble,
and landed the unfortunate bather
to a seat on top of the red-hot stove.
Mr.. Lambert was recently called
to sit on a jury in the city of New
York in one of it's multifarious
courts. He presented himself to his
honor with a request to be excused
from duty, as he was not able to
sit on q jury or on anything else. He,
too, was victim of the total de-
praVity of things inanimate. He had
trusted too implicitly to the non-ex-
plosive quality of parlor matches
unless brought in contact with the
preparation upon the box which con-
tanned them. He entrusted the
matches consequently to that pocket
where gentlemen out in the mining
districts carry their revolver. Get
ting indignant, probably at being
SO often sat upon, the matches one
day went off, leaving behind them,
however, besides pair of ruined
trousers, a physical condition which
deprived Mr.. Lambert for some time
Of assuming a sitting posture wheth-
er on a jury or a chair. 1t is need
less to say that the presiding judge
recognized the suff1ciency Of his ex-
cuse, and permitted Mr.. Lambert to
retire and mediate on the total de-
pravity of inanimate things.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-25
A Fair Exchange.

The brethren of the press at the
home of Senator Nelson are eXchang-
ing compliments. Below are late spec
linens:
Curse you, crawl in the dust, miser-
able creature that you are. You have
bartered your manhood for a chance
at the political soup pot; at our backs
you have slandered us, while to our
faces you have professed friendship.
Away with you, hide yourself from the
ignominy of your own disgrace and
learn that there is virtue in being
manly.-AleXandria Republican.
o, you little withered pup of Belize
bub, what ails you anyway? How
could you deviate so far from your
vocabulary as to pen the above? Tell
us, brother Shaver, tell us how you
could have mastered the language so
as to write so many sentences of
American without referring to the
verse of a penny valentine!-Alexan-
dria Post-NeWs.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-25
winona,s Scandal.

The Winona Herald, in demanding
an investigation of alleged municipal
crookedness, stacks up the following
pyramid of pointed insinuations:
If the poor fund has not been misap-
piled, it could be shown.
If the city books and accounts are
all right, it could be shown.
If rebates have not been pocketed on
city contracts, it could be shown.
If city coal has not been appropri-
ated to private use, it could be shown.
If aldermen have also not acted in
the capacity of contractors, it could be
shown.
If certain saloonkeeprs were not al
lowed to lapse in their licenses, it could
be shown.
If an account of the fines paid into
the municipal court has been properly
kept, it could be shown
If aldermen haven't been taking the
poor mems job this winter on the
levee, it could be shown.
If the city engineer has not been talk
ing contracts for outside work while
receiving pay for his time from the
city, it could be shown.
If the electric company, controlled by
city officers, did not receive pay for
1000 candle-power lights and supply
100 candle-power, it could be shown.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-25
FALSE EXPECTATIONS.

Maynooth college being founded, and
to some extent directed by the British
government, many expected that it
would produce pro-British priests
Undoubtedly the English govern
ment expected such result
Maynooth students had to take an
oath of allegiance TO the English SOW
ereign, and no matter how that oath
might be explained away by theoIogi-
cal casuistry, the taking of it left
disagreeable impression upon the
minds of the people of Ireland. DR..
Hussey, its first president, wrote of
Maynooth that it is the punctum sa-
liens of the salvation of Ireland from
Jacobinism and anarchy; and his sue
cessor, DR.. Flood, expelled, in 1893,
some students who had joined the
United Irishmen before entering the
college. For a long time its profess
sor5 and superiors were supposed to be
Whiggish in politics. Not until the ma
tional movement inaugurated by the
late Mr.. Parnell did the torrent of DO
litical enthusiasm completely purify
the politics of Maynooth, and the last
remnant CT the West Britons disap-
peared when that learned Tory, DR..
Healy, was promoted from his profess
serial char to an episcopal see in the
West of Ireland. Since 1869 no oath of
allegiance is administered to the stu
dents, and today the faculty of May
nooth are as sound politically as any
body of men in Ireland. Never was a
government more disappointed than
when it hoped the Maynooth- trained
priests would be it's tools. Too true
few too obsequlous clerics might be
found, and alas too often some time
serving pro-English prela ties: but the
great prelates of the country, like Arch
bishop McHale and DIR. Doyle, and
the rank and file of the clergy stood
by the people through veal or woe. If
at times the Irish clergy seemed to hold
back from the advancement OF their
country's cause, they merely bided their
time and exercised the calm judgment
of cultured intelligence. The late John
Boyle O'Reilly well explains this in
his poem THE Priests of Ireland" He
sums up the outcome of their teachings
in the following words:
ASK not class or creed; let ireland sc
the taliSmanic word;
Let the blessed sound of unity from
North to South be heard;
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-25
DOUGLASS WAS PATHETIC.
Letter Which He Wrote Nearly
Forty Years Ago.

Letter Which He Wrote Nearly
Forty Years Ago.
BALTIMORE. Feb. 24.-Police Cap
tain Aud has several letters written
by the late Frederick Douglass TO
Hugh Aud, Capt. Auld's father When
a boy Douglass lived in the family of
Hugh Aud. The captain says MY
mother taught him to read and write
and my father put him with the late
William Gardner to learn ship-caulk-
ing. He joined a debating society con-
nected with the old Dallas Street
colored church, and there gained
reputation as a debater. Capt. Aud
has the original bill of sale for Doug
lass given by Thomas Aud to Hugh
Aud. 1t is dated Oct. 2S, 1915, seven
years after Douglass ran away, IS
signed by Wrightson James, justice of
the peace, and the consideration was
$500. Capt. Aud says this bill of sale
was executed with the idea that Doug
lass could be recovered, although he
was III England at the time. A letter
written to Capt. Auld's father Oct. T..
1857. and dated Rochester, N. Y, is as
follows:
Ny heart tells me you are too noble
to treat with Indifference the request 1
am about to make. 1t is twenty
years since [ ran away from you-or
rather not from you, but from slavery,
and since then l have often felt a
strong desire to hold little CORE
spondence with you and to learn
something of the position and prospects
of your dear children. They were
dear to me, and are still so. Indeed,
1 feel nothing but kindness for you all.
[ love you, but hate slavery. Now,
my dear sir, will you favor me by drop
ping me a line telling me in what
year came to live with you on Alice
anna street, the year the frigate waS
built by Mr.. Beacham. The Informal
ton is not for publication and shall
not be published. We are all hasten
ing where all distinctions are ended.
Kindness to the humblest will not he
unrewarded. Perhaps you heard that
[ have seen Miss Amanda that was.
Mrs. Sears that is, and was treated
kindly. Such is the fact Gladly
would L see you and Mrs. Aud or
Miss Sophia, as I used to call her l
could have lived with you during life
in freedom, though L ran away from
you so unceremoniously. [ did not
know how soon L might be sold. But
/ hate talk about that. a line from
you will find me-"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-25
HOW sTRAs CAME TO GRIEF.

HOW S'TRAS CAME TO GRIEF.
If Mr.. Strasburger was a protec-
zionist we will wager anything not
too valuable that he is now a stiff
free trader. If he was-as he was
a free trader at heart while a pro-
tectionist in pretense, We will double
the bet that he is a free trader now
inside and out. And this is Why:
Mr.. Strasburger has been to Europe.
Mrs. Strasburger remained at home
Mr.. s., while abroad, discovered
that a sealskin sack could be bought
at figure way below the home
market price. Mindful of the needs
and the pride of Mrs. S. and the af-
lection he bore her, he bought it.
He. probably wrote Mrs. S. of the
purchase, fearing the effect of too
sudden an announcement of this
qualification of any woman's highest
wish in these days of chronic heart
failure. Anyway Mrs. S. was at the
dock when the greyhound steamed
into it's slip, bursting with expect
u.
But Strasburger knew something
about tariffs and the duty he would
have to pay on the cloak if he could
not evade it. Like true protection
list, he wanted everybody to be pro-
tected except his cloak. It was
wearing apparel, and entitled to
come in tax free if belonging to the
Wearer. But it was a lady's cloak,
and Strasburger was a male, and
couldn't wear it himself. What's the
use of having wits if one doesn't use
them? StraS-to abreviate-set his
wits at work. They soon evolved a
scheme. There was Frau Brandeis
aboard, coming home to her hubby.
innocent of sealskin cloaks. Stras
entered into negotiation with the
gnadigen frau. and she consented
to don the cloak and wear it ashore.
transferring it to the delighted Frau
Stras when out of sight of the GUS
toms officers.
But Stras reckoned without his
wife. The gang plank was hardly
made fast before she had mounted
it and rushed into the. cabin and
the arms Of Stras simultaneously.
AS soon as the osculatory process
was completed Frau Brandeis was
presented, and also the cloak, then
and there on the person of Mrs. B.
Mrs. Stras Aared up. Another Wonl-