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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21
AKING TAKEN FOR A GAMBLER
An Incident of Louis Philippe's VOy-
age TO America in 1876.

age to America in 1796.
In an exceedingly interesting article in
the Ladies' Home Journal William Per-
rine describes the suspicion that in
creased in the mind of the captain of the
vessel which was bringing to America, IN
the fall of 1896, a mysterious passenger
who had come aboard at Hamburg, and
goes on to tell what happened one day
when this passenger said: Sir, tins is
not the first occasion upon which L have
observed the attentive scrutiny you be-
stow upon me. May | inquire the rea-
son?'
Sir responded the candid captain,
you took passage on my ship as a Dane;
l don't believe you're anything of the
kind
"The passenger smiled; the smile was
full of perspicacity and confidence, and
was followed with: Pray tell me, then,
what you believe me to be-
"At this question Capt. Ewing fdgeted,
hesitated, and finally blurted out:
"'Nell, to be honest, | think you are q
gambler. You've well-nigh ruined your
self at home, and are now coming to
fleece the fools you'll find on shore
THE young mans smile ~broadened; the
next minute he turned grave again, low
cred his voice and replied:
Capt. Ewing, as you have studied me
during this voyage, so l have studied
you. [ have come to the conclusion that
you are q man to be trusted. | am Louis
Philippe, Due d'Orieans, eldest son of
that Louis Philippe d'Orleans who was
slain by the guillOtine on the seventh of
November, almost three years ago."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21
Big and Little BOam.

A boy just 4 years old numbers among
his many friends a Mr.. and Mrs. Bowen,
whom he ~designates as big BOam" and
Little Boam," the husband being very
tall and the wife unusually short. The
other day his nurse took the boy TO
church, and upon his return. when ques-
toned as to what the preacher had said,
his answer was: HE preached bout big
Boam and little Boam." In spite Of all
laughter and in inquiry, he stuck to his
assertion, repeating again and again,
with much emphasis. And when the
nurse was called upon to give her testl-
mony. she said that the minister had sure
enough read about Jeroboam and Reho-
bOam!-New York Evening Sun.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21
Animals and Music.

Tarantulas do not dance to the sound
Of the violin, but let the people they bite
do the dancing. Scorpions, however, en-
ioy fddling, according TO the Quarterly
Review, and lizards go crazy for music
Of any kind. As for serpents, the boa
constructor and python are senseless tc
melody, but the cobra is fascinated by
the flute and still more by the fiddle.
Poiar bears enjoy the violin; so do os-
triches. Wolves will stop in the chase
to listen to a cornet. Elephants are fond
of the flute, especially the upper notes.
Tigers, while approaching violin and
flute, cannot stand the harmonium, while
the musical seal shows no emotion on
hearing any instrument, not even the
bass drum.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21
Business was Good.

The Kansas City Journal says that &
-four merchant at Edgar let the story get
out that while he was STOPPING over his
flour bin a $50 diamond ring had slipped
off his finger into the flour. He appeared
to be greatly exercised over the loss, got
a notice in the local paper, but finally an
bounced with a sigh that he would have
to give it up; that the ring was in the
flour somewhere; that he supposed il
would turn up in a sack of -four, but he
had no idea what one. Well, you ought
to have seen the boom that guileless man
had in the four trade. For The next week
he had to hire extra help to fiji sacks out
of that bin. One man who never bought
a sack from him before came in and laid
in a winters supply. And the smooth
merchant whistled softly as he filled the
sacks and winked the other eye.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21
YOUR HOMES.
Beautiful Representations of Wild
Ducks, Pheasants, Quail and Snipe.

Beautiful Representations of Wild
Ducks, Pheasants, Quail and Snipe.
Probably at no time in the worlds his
tory has as much attention been paid to
the interior decoration Of homes as at
present. No home, no matter how hum
bic, is without its handiwork that helps
to ~beautify the apartments and make the
surroundings more cheerful. The taste
Of the American people has kept pace
with the age, and almost every day brings
forth something new in the way of a pic
ture, a draping. a piece Of furniture or
other form of mural decoration. One Of
the latest of these has been given to the
world by the celebrated artist, Muvllle,
in q series Of four handsome porcelain
game plaques. Not for years has any
thing as handsome in this line been seen.
The subjects represented by these plaques
are American wild ducks, American
pheasants, American quail and English
snipe. They are handsome paintings n
are especially designed for hanging on dim
ing room walls, though their richness and
beauty entities them to a place in the
parIor Of any home. These original
plaques have been purchased at a cost of
10000 by j. Q. Hubinger Bros. Co., man
ufacturerS Of the celebrated Elastic
Starch, and in order to enable their num-
erOUs customers to become possessors of
these handsome works of art they have
had them reproduced by a special process,
in all the rich coIors and beauty of the
original. They are finished on heavy
cardboard, pressed and embossed in the
shape of a plaque and trimmed with a
heavy band of gold. They measure forty
inches in circumference and contain no
reading matter or advertisement what
ever.
Until Oct. 1 Messrs. j. G. Hubinger
Bros. Co.. propose to distribute these
plaques free to their customers. Every
purchaser of three ten-cent packages Of
Elastic Starch, fatiron brand, manufac-
tured by j. G.. Hubinger Bros. Co., is en-
titled to receive one of these handsome
plaques free from their grocer. Old and
new customers alike are entitled to the
benefits of this offer. These plaques will
not be sent through the mail, the only
way to obtain them being from your gro
Ger. Every grocery store in the country
has Elastic Starch for sale. 1t is the old
est and best laundry starch on the market
and is the most perfect cold process starch
ever invented. 1t is the only starch made
by men who thoroughly understand the
laundry business, and the only starch that
will not injure the finest fabric. 1t has
been the standard for a quarter of a CEN
tury and as an evidence of how good it is
twenty-five million packages were sold
last year. Ask your dealer to show you
the plaques and tell you about Elastic
Starch. Accept no substitute. Bear in
mind that this offer holds good a short
time only and should be taken advantage
of without delay.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21
The Paris Exhibition Theater.

The theater at the Paris exhibition Of
1900 will accommodate from $4,000 to
$4,000 persons. "The auditorium will
consist of five circular tiers rising one
above the other and sloping backwards
till the topmost reaches the very roof,
while these circles at the rear will pre-
sent the appearance Of enormous arcades
supported by colossal columns. Each of
the five balconies will be approached by
six gigantic doors, all having double stair
cases leading to and from them, and spa
cious enough to empty in five minutes the
section with which they are connected.
The stage, which is TO be circular and
capable in parts of being moved round on
Il turntable, will measure 300 feet in di-
ameter."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21
A Memorial on q Mountain TOP,

There was a touch Of romance as well
as originality in the way in which the
Tyrolese marked the occasion of the death
OF Prince Bismarck. The news made a
deep impression on the sturdy mountain
GERS, in whose veins flows German blood.
At Lienz the inhabitants conveyed the
sad message to the rest of their kin from
the summit of the nearest and highest
mountain, the S~pitzkofel. At nighttime
a band of the villagers made the ascent
of the Spitzkofel bearing a large black
flag. In seven hours they reached the
mountain peak, 2740 meters above the
sea, and they there planted the flag, SO
that it was visible to all the villages dot
ting the valleys below.-London Morning
Post,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21
Identified Himself.

r. NJ. Munkittrick, the humorist, and
at one time associate editor of Puck, pre-
scented a check one morning at an up
town bank, in New York, where he was
personally unknown. Il know the name
very well,'' said the cashier. but you
will have to be identified as the man."
SWELL, now" said Munkittrick- that's
TOO bad. Everybody l know is down
town, and the only pair of socks I have
with my strawberry birthmark on them
are in the wash this week!' That's all
trick. Here's your money!
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21
The Girl.

There is a little 5-year-old girl in Chi
cage who evidently appreciates hel
mother partly because she is her mother
and partly because of self-appreciation
Mamma she said the other morning
"guess what MabePs mamma said about
you at the party last night" 81 ION
know, I'm sure. What was it dear?'
asked the mother. why" was the re-
ply, "she said you were the sweetest little
girls mother in Chicago."-Oswego Pal,
ladium,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21
He Knew He'd Get 1t.

A precocious little chap on Cass ave
nue., having implicit faith in the efficacy
of prayer, petitioned night after night
for a drum. 1t did not come, and re,
Gently his mother, watching him before
he retired, found that he was on his
knees for nearly an hour. The next
morning the coveted drum was by his
bedside. 81 thought I'd fetch it that
time" was the only comment of the de-
lighted %youngster, as he began to fill
the house with noise. Detroit Free
Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21
Hope was Enough.

When Alexander the Great set out fol-
Asia he called his friends together and
divided among them his possessions. To
one he gave an estate, to another a town.
to a third the toll of a harbor, etc. MY
lord" said Perdiccas. what nave you
left for yourself?' Hope" replied Alex
ander, whereupon Perdiccas rejoined:
eff hope is enough for Alexander, it is
enough for Perdiccas Also and declined
10 accept the bounty from the King.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21
SPINNING WHEEL.

HIS WORRIES.


"And the earth will become much too small
for the race
And he worried about it.
When Well pay thirty dollars an inch for
pure space
And he worried about it.
The earth will be crowded so much, without
doubt,
There won't be room for ones tongue to
stick out,
Nor room for ones thoughts to wander,
And he worried about it.
His wife took in washing-half a dollar a
day,
He didn't worry about it.
His daughter sewed shirts the rude grocer
to pay,
He didn't worry about it.
While his wife beat her tireless rub-a-dub-
dub
On the washboard drum Of her old wooden
tub,
He sat by the stove and he just let her
rub,
He didn't worry about it."
s w EOSS.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

There is no such thing as certainty in
this life exclaimed the melancholy man.
Amt there" responded Farmer Corn
tassel, contemptuously; L guess you
didn't never play games with any of these
men that goes around to country fairs
Washington Star.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

Down in Charlottesville the other night
l sought amusement in the theater. A
with the +. +. VS. and the schoolboys.
Act II. presented a wife and a villain.
Her family had been starving; her hus-
band was out of work; the villain had
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at
once. Go TO your druggist today and get
a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and So
cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dan
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

Among the Chinese a coffin is cor.
sidered a neat and appropriate present
for an aged person, especially if in bad
health.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

Wen. thank heaven, l haven't got no
skeletons in my cupDoards."
Second Landlady (sweetly)-"Nobody
thought for Il minute that you kept your
boarders ere."-Answers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21
Names Copper Deposits.

Maine is again to enter the list of cop
per mining states. The deposits, which
are numerous and valuable. were worked
more than twenty-five years ago, but a
sudden decline in the price of copper
made them improbable: improved and
cheapened method of production is the
cause of resumption of work.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

MRS. PINKHAMS STANDING INVITATION.
Women suferingf from any form of female weakness ae invited to promptly
communicate with Mrs. Pnkham, at Lynn, Mass. All letters are received.
private illness to a woman thus has been established the eternalc confidence Ne
tween Mrs. Pinkham and the women of America which hs never been broken.
Outof the stvolumeo of experience which she has todraw from, tits more than
possible thatsh has gained the very knowledge that wilhepyour case. She asks
nothing in eturn except your goodwill, and lei advice las relieved thousands
Surely any woman, rich or poor, isvery foolish if she does not take advantage Of
this generous offer of assistance-Lydia E. Pnkham Medicine Co, Lynn, Mass.
"The present Mrs Pnkhams experience Elm treating female unparalleled,
for year she worked side by side with Mrs Lydia E. Pnkham, and for sometime
past has had sole charge IF the correspondence department of her great bust
ness treatngb by letter as man as a hundred thousand aiing women a year."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

In the current number of the Criterion,
r. Il. Munkittrick discusses an interest
ing topic under the caption. Poetry and
Biz He deals with the monetary value
of verse. not its true value, but what
it will bring in the market. Incidental
ly, he points out a way by which the in
experienced writer can increase the value
of his output, without increasing its
Quantity-providing he can find a market.
Mr.. Munkittrick protests pleasantly
against the system Of paying for poetry
by the line, but, accepting the prevailing
basis, he proceeds to point out how the
green hand may get even with the pub
Usher. For instance, the green poet
writes:
l was walking at Nantucket in the breezes
of the sea,
When a penSiYe purple fancy like q lOVeSOng
haunted me.
Two lines-50 cents.
If this green poet had been in the bust
ness six months he would have Written:
I was walking at Nantucket
In the breezes of the sea,
When 4 pensive, purple fancy
Like a lOye-song haunted me.
-Four lines-S1.
An experience of one year in a union
shop would cause the poet to put it in
this way:
l was walking
At Nantucket
In the breeZes
OF the sea,
When a penSiYe,
Purple fancy
Like a loye-song
Haunted me.
Eight lines-$2.
AS an offset to this tendency to make
al idea occupy many lines, Mr. Munkit-
trick argues thus:
Perhaps the fairest way would be for
publishers to pay according TO the guam
fIfU thny- q ra U1lIjnu 70 n1Jr6h1SO 4AnQ
cannot expect to buy single drinks at bar
rel rates, and 8 poet cannot be expected
to do a retail business at wholesale 1ates-
Therefore, [ think it would be we'll for
the poet to issue tickets as a mil6man
does, and give the editor twelve tickets
representing twelve So poems for $50.
Then when the editor is in need of 4
poem, he could send a ticket to the singer
with the usual request. Then all would
be fair for both parties, and no self-re-
specting poet would be guilty Of any act
that would impair his professional status
or place his name within the pale Of criti-
cism. He would be true to himself and
would write of the autumn:
The apple is gold on the tree, the thistle
down floats on the zephyr,
The lily has flown from the rill. the pump
kin is ripe in the cornfeld,
The partridge, Knocked head over heels, now
plays on his drum in the potpie,
And high on the dream-haunted bough the
gobbler is pensively mapping.
But now he is less conscientious and
saves time and muscle. and makes much
more money by treating the same hack
neyed subject in this brief e~ighteen-lines-
Sor-S45QfashiOn:
Mellow
Cold
Sere
Drear
Yellow
Gold.
Blowing
Blaze
Ripe
Pipe
Glowing
Haze.
Griefet
Red
Gloom
Doom
Leafiet
Fled.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

The largest lunatic asylum in Eng
land is at Prestwick, where the Lanca-
shire county asylum has over 23OO pa
tents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

WANTED.-Case OF bad health that R.I'P.A.N.S will
not benefit. Send 5 cents 20 Ripans Chemical Co.
New York, for 10 samples and LOCO testimonials.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

come to rob her of a dollar some kind
friend had sent. She hid the coin be-
hind q mirror on the mantlepiece before
the villain grabbed her and disappeared.
Enter husband, weak, i'll, hopeless. Be
gins to look for money, feeling here and
there, crawling on knees. The audience
is touched VI. Just as the poor devil is
about to fall in a fit a tall young man
rises in the middle Of the auditorium and
eXclaims: "Why don't you look behind
the glass on the mantelpiece, you old
fool? That's where she left it." l never
saw a more gripping sensation. The
young man suddenly disappeared. and
part of the show. But it was not. The
youth lives in New York, where his faith
err is we'll known.-"On the Tip of the
Tongue" in the New York Press.
During the Crimean war Lord Raglan
was most conciliat0ry in his conduct Ii
language to the French, but, unluckily,
from old p~eninsular associations, he was
now and then betrayed into speaking Of
Dispatch. IF we are placed here and
the enemy are posted there Good
heavens, my lord" Lord De Ros would
cry, what are you saying!' He was
also particularly DESTROYS of establishing
cordial relations between the English and
Turkish armies, ana was mucn disturbed
st a quarrel which took place between
some of the soldiers.
When the combatants were dispersed,
one or two Turkish soldiers were left
lying dead. Lord De Ros was sent to
the grand vizier to express Lord Rag
lan's concern and to promise that every
effort should be made to find out and
punish the guilty persons. On his begin
ming to lament an unfortunate occurrence
the Turk looked anxious. but on the mat
ter being broken to him, he exclaimed
with great relief: "Is that all? What
can it matter if they were killed or not?"
Lord De Ros returned to Lord Raglan,
and in answer to his anxious inquiries,
1T is all right" he replied, "our fellows
are welcome to kill as many of them as
they please"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

Java has just gone into the manufac-
ture of %quinine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

Hicks-"Bowers has been telling me
some Of his war experiences"
Wicks-"And | suppose you believed all
his yarns"
Hicks-"Oh, yes; they were so uninter-
esting I'm sure they must be true."-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

'eWas it hot over there?' asked the old
resident of the man who had just re-
turned with his family from Arizona.
Hot? l raised watermelons out there,
and do you know what happened When
it began to warm upT"
did YOU have to sit in the middle OF
the patch with a shotgun and have 4
bulldog patrolling the fence line!"
"Naw. Guess again"
did the vines grow so fast that they
dragged the melons and did you have to
smooth the ground SO that the rlnd
wouldn't be worn off and the fruit de-
strcyed::"
ON. somebody has been telling you
one of those big Western fairy yarns.
You ought to have sense enough to know
that the melons couldn't be dragged by
the vines. But | did have to bore &
hole in every watermelon l wanted to
save"
NO? What was that for"'
Because the heat was so awful 1t gen
Grated steam in the melons and we had
to give it vent or they'd explode. And
when the holes were bored the burned
things blew off just like steam whistles.
When dozens of them of all sizes got
to going at once it sounded about like all
the boats on the river footing when the
boys come back from the war. l have
ears like an artilleryman now and have
to listen mighty careful to hear it thun-
der."-Detroit Free Press.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

Inere is a means OF eradicating local disease OF the
skin that can be relied on. viz. Glenn's Sulphur soap.
Hill S Hair and Whisker bye, black or brown, soc.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

The lightest tubing ever made is of
nickel aluminium.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21
Vienna has a burglar who has been
convicted of breaking into 800 houses.

Mrs. WfnslOw's SOOTHING SYRUP for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation,
allays pain, cures wind collie. Csc a bottle.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

The Japanese language is made up of
10000 words.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

1t was in 1868 that an eminent Amerl-
can clergyman dining in London with a
distinguished company, received from a
member of Parliament a perfect Hood OF
illumination as to the naturalness and
propriety of a ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the
American Union. The English states
man argued thus: "Why, there are you
Northerners, placed in America all by
yourselves. Then, there m the 18TH
mus-see. Panama, or whatever 1t Is.
Then, separated from you by this narrow
bit of land. are the SOutherners down
there in South America. Now, my dear
sir, l think you must admit, it is perfect
ly obvious that nature never meant you
to be q union!'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-21

Piper-"Say,. Muggsy, watts a statu
quo. anyhow
Muggsy-"Why, OATS when you've got
de lay down an are sittin' on him
Philadelphia North American.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1898-10-07

IN commenting on AT article recent
ly published in the LIBERAL, In which
IL was c0nLended that the educational
system Of the territory was %topheavy,
the Las Vegas Optic makes the follow
ing points:
Ia all matters OF education there
must be the facilities and they Will
provoke the demand.
Massachusetts has eight normal
schools.
The Las Vegas Normal School ex-
tends its preparatory department.
downward, not In competitor with the
public school, but In lieu OF II "the
expenses OF the public schools are de-
creased, and no one, it would SEEM
has cause to complain"
New Mexico has six institutions Of
higher education supported by public
funds. II had a population according
20 the last census Of l53,053. There is
before the writer a report OF the SUI
perlntendent OF public instruction OF
Michigan for a recent year. Michigan
has one OF the best educational
systems, supported at public expense.
OF any state IN the Union. It's lnstitu-
lions OF higher learning, supported by
taxafion, number four, the University,
the Agricultural College, Normal
School, and School OF Mines. -Four