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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-22
Chess.

The New York IntcrscholastIc Chess AssocI.
alton held meeting at Colum binn Grammar
School yesterday afternoon. It was called for
the purpose OF making preliminary arrange.
mcnts for the NTH annual tournament The
delegates present were:
W. McKennA and II. Richard. Columbian Dram.
mar: W. Ridder and O. schiuter. De La salle Iusti.
tute: W. Eddngsr and q. Do Graz. Hamilton IustI.
tute: g. NewborS and H. Goodheart, Sachs, v.
Manson and W. Pierce. Cutler.
The fret business Of Importance was the
election OF officers which resulted IA ioIIows,
W Mckccnna. President: W. Pierce. Vice. Presi.
dent; W, Eddlnger. Secretary; g.. NewborR.
treasurer. II was decided that the annual
tournament should begin the first weeS in
February Thus far six schools have entered
but 1t 10 possible that Sym's School will be rem,
resented; II IL said that the victorious team
VII challenge the winner Of the Long Island
Association tournament. All the schools viii
begin next week to select their players The
following committee was appointed TO reyisS
DeGran. w. Schluter -
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-22

The competitors eligible for the Branch
medal to be played for on Saturday AZ ,ba
Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club
which Is open only to those mem bers OF Staten
Island gol' clubs who have won a gross score
prize In u competition this season are:
Richmonl County Country Oiub-James parr n
ntewart Chadwick, o. T. Stout, A. r Pnters IN
D Schuyler. N' eua L.
harbor HIN Golf Club-w. A. Hamilton, ], J.nin.
meyer ''"Neh' hook'
staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club-Lou.
LiNhgnton Jr., w. l.. Gnuther, E. L. NichArds II
u. H. Armstrong. r. " Mathew aud A. p Kelley.
This ts the nrst prize over offered under con.
men OF the different Staten Island c,nhsa On
even terms. The competition will be at tbIrtvn.
SIX holes medal MAY. and the winner will be
the years champion OF Richmond county.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
"NO PRESENTS

A Courageous Girl Who Has Those
Words on Wedding Invitations.
a wealthy New Yorker, whose daugh-
ter is shortly to be married, suggested
some time ago that the cards of invita-
ton should bear the words mo pres
entS," says the New York Sun That
gifts should be an obligation at such
time was always repugnant to him, he
said, and upon so personal and intimate
an occasion he wished to do away with
them altogether. He, moreover, said
that if his daughter would give him an
estimate Of just what sum in money the
potential presents might be expected to
| amount to, he would give her check
equivalent to tiff she would only do
without the presents.
The girl thought it over for herself,
and she talked it over with her fiance,
but IN either case the conclusion was the
same, namely, that such Il change from
the established order of things was too
radical for them to consider; at all events
| they didn't care to be the pioneers in
the innovation.
Il know that No presents is some
times seen upon invitations to silver and
golden weddings" said the girl. but
ours is a first wedding. Think. too of
all the people that for years we've been
giving wedding presents to, and who,
Ill sure, would 1eel really nufI II we
deprived them of this opportunity to re-
turn the obligation"
The invitations went out, therefore, in
| the good, old-fashiOned, regulation way,
with nothing about presents upon them
since when, in the good, old-fashioned
regulation way, the presents have been
pouring in from all directions.
1t will be interesting to see if such an
innovation as no presents at Il first
wedding will ever come to pass. There
has for some time been a strong feeling
on the part of many about it, but it will
be a courageous girl, indeed, who will
first take definite stand against it-even
with Il paternal check by way of compen-
SatiOn.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

Ex-COngressman A. T. Goodwin, from
Alabama, writes the following letter:
The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Com
pany, Columbus, Ohio:
Gentlemen-I have now used two bottles
of Pe-ru-na, and am a well man to-day. /
could feel the good effects of your medicine
before had used it a week, after suffering
with catarrh for over year Respectfully,
A. T. GOODWIN
Catarrh in its various forms is rapidly be-
coming q national curse. An undoubte2
remedy has been discovered by DR.. Hart
man. This remedy has been thoroughly test
ed during the past forty years. Prominent
men have come to know Of its virtues and
are making public utterances on the subject
TO save the country we must save the peO-
pie To save the people we must protect
them from sease. The disease that is at
once the NEST prevalent and stubborn Of
cure is catarrh. Public men of all parties
recognize in Pe-ru-na q national catarrh
remedy of unequaled merit. Send to DR..
Hartman, Columbus, Ohio, for free book
on catarrh.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
Effect of Cider on Microbes.

Revue Scientifque-M. Bodin has been
experimenting to see whether the ty-
phoid fever bacillus preserves its viru-
lence in cider Cider is often made in
the country with impure water that con-
tains the bacillus. Often, before drink
ing cider, it is diluted with water that is
contaminated. Now the cider kills the
bacillus. NJ Bod;n takes a culture of
typhoid bacilli and immerse them in
cider; at the end of twelve, fourteen, or
eighteen hours at most, all the bacilli
have been killed; there remains not "a
trace OF them in the cider. All cider
contains at least per cent. of maIic
to kill the typhoid bacillus. NJ. Lechar-
tier says: Drink cider in time of cpl
demic and you will be sure that you are
not being infected by it,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
Eden in Africa.

Learned men these many, many years
have wrestled with the problem of Eden
and written learned books about it. No
likely location for it has gone uncon-
sidered. They have placed it at various
points on the river now known as Eu-
phrates-on bleak plains at its source;
midway down its course; on lands now
submerged; at its mouth III the Persian
gulf: they have found it on the plateau
of Pamir in Central Asia; in Arabia; in
the lost continent of Atlantis. a learned
author has even written Il wise and en-
pertaining book to prove that its site was
far to north-probably at the North pole
, and there is more to be said for that
theory than to the uriaarned would seem
possible. But of all the suggested sites,
the latest one is much the most interest
ing For one thing, the country which
includes it is still beautiful, whereas
nearly all the Asiatic sites are now
dreary, barren, savage places, where no
civilized person would care to stay a
moment longer than he could help. For
another thing, it is a country that not
only has a past, but seems to have a
future, for it is part of the region which
Gen. Kitchener's victory over the Kha-
lifa brings so nearly within sight of civ
ilization that England and France are
diSputing with OminOuS acrimOny over
the right to civilize it.
Another good point about it. so far as
we know it, is that it is clean, wild
country not much dwelt in yet except
by animals. Nearly all the places which
are especially interesting to students of
Biblical history are either waste places
where no one cares to live, or they are
loaded up with Objectionable sQuatters.
Palestine is an example, and especially
Jerusalem. The Emperor William, who
has been there, and for whom the old
place was furnished up as much as was
possible, confessed, when he got home,
to the grievousness of his disappoint-
ment. There are dirt and squalor and
beggars and sQuabbling fanatics of all
creeds at Jerusalem, and there is Turk
ish misrule almost everywhere in the
Scriptural East, so that travellers sigh,
and visitors are often sorry that they
came so far to let q Disseminating reality
impair picturesque ideal. We may
hope that if Eden is definitely located
where Mr.. Adams thinks it is, and where
Mai. Kari has gone to seek it, it may be
saved from all ordinations, and kept as
a fit place for piOus minds to recruit
their spiritual strength III. 1t will be
rather far off for American travellers,
but wherever British soldiers go the way
stays open behind them, and problems of
transportation speedily become simplifed
Distance nowadays, to persons with leis-
ure and long pockets, has ceased to be an
obstacle and become pastime. Long
journeys are not so much in request as
short ones, but they are in request. New
places that it would take three months to
visit, and which are worth seeing when
YOU get there, are always in demand.
When a British railroad runs from Cairo
to the Cape branch is sure to reach
out to the new-found Eden, provided that
Maj. Kari, or some one, finds it, and
that the doctors will only agree that it
is really Eden that has been found
Harper's Bazaar.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
STRANGE Funeral Customs.

In an interesting history of his parish
Rev James Murray of Kilmalcolm, Rem
frewshire, mentions that "amid the en-
joyments of the people we must not fail
to notice funerals and he calls atten-
ton to a curious custom which was prev
alent in connection with them. 1t APP
pears a sieve containing clay pipes filled
with tobacco and was handed round just
before the cortege started. Then the
mourners smoked. and when the kirk
yard was reached, as the grave was being
filed. each stepped solemnly forward and
cast his pipe ''amang the moods. Notes
ond OuariaS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
In Winter Use Aliens Foot-Ease.

A powder to be shaken into the shoes.
During winter your feet feel uncomfort-
able, nervous, and often cold and damp.
If you have perspiring, smarting feet or
tight shoes, try ALIENS FOOT-EASE.
1t warns and rests the feet and makes
walking easy. Cures swollen and sweat
ing feet, blisters and callous spots. Re
Eeves corns and bunions Of all pain and
is certain cure for Chilblafns and Frost
bites. Try it today. Sold by all drug
gistS and shoe stores for 25c. Trial
package mailed FREE. Address. Allen
S. Olmstead, lie Roy. n. Y.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
BrOmuS Inermis Ora Ss !

It's the greatest grass on earth-Saizer
says so. This grass, yields 4 to tons
better hay than timothy in dry, rainless
countries; yields even more than that in
Ohio Ind. Mich. Wis, Iowa, ILL.,, Mo-,
hans., Nebr., Mont, yes in every State Of
the Union. Salzer warrants this! POta
toes $1.20 a Bbl.
Send this notice to JOHN A. SALZER
SEED CO., LA CROSSE. WIS. and 10
cents postage and receive their great Seed
Catalogue and sample of this grass seed
and nine other farm seed Rareties free
IL n
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
Onion Seed csc and UpaLb.

Catalogue tells how to grow 1918 bus
per acre as easily as 100 bushels. Largest
growers of Earliest Vegetables and Farm
Seeds. Earliest vegetables always pay
Salzer's Seeds produce them weeks ahead
of others. Coffee Berry 15c. per h. Pota-
toes $1.20 a Bbl.
Cut this out and send with 14c for great
Catalogue and 10 packages Of vegeta BILE
and flower seed novelties to JOHN
A: SAFER SEED COMPANY, LA
CROSSE. WIS. &c. NJ
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
Beware of OintmentS for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury

as mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derange the whole
system when entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be
physicians, as the damage they will do is
tenfold to the good you can possibly derive
from them. Halls Catarrh Cure manufact-
ured by L. j. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, O.,
contains no mercury, and is taken Internal
~, acting directly upon the blood and mu-
GOES surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine. 1t is taken internally. and made in
Toledo. Ohio, by F. ]. Cheney & Co. Test
monials free.
Sold by Druggists price 75c per bottle
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
skiIlful Japanese Counterfeiter,

a Japanese named Takuma has been
turning the skill in imitation with which
his cOuntrymen are gifted to nefarious
ends, and has been convicted at Sydney
of forging seven copies of a rare early
New South Wales stamp rated at $500.
The imitation was so perfect that the
stamps were purchased by dealers and
sent to London, where they passed the
scrutiny of several eyOertS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
Try Grain-O! Try Grain-o.

Ask your Grocer today to show you a
package of GRAINO, thenew food drink
that takes the place of coffee. The chill
dren may drink it without injury as well
as the adult All who try it. like it.
Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure
grains, and the most delicate stomach re-
ceives it without distress. "A the price of
coffee. 15c. and 25 cts. per package. Sold
by all grocers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

w. T. r. Preston Of Toronto has
been appointed chief commissioner of i'm
migration for Canada. His headquarters
will be in London, and he will have
charge Of Canadian immigration not only
in the British isles, but throughout Eu-
rope, paying regular visits to Russia,
Scandinavia Germany, Austria and 9th
er countries where desira bic immigrants
ara obtain bia
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
Every One KNOWS.

Why tri1e with a sprain when every
one knows that st. Jacobs Oil used in
the worst case will so strengthen the in
jured muscle as to make it the best rem
edy for this dreaded pain.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. NEW YORK. n. 2
A SDeCtaCIed Horse.

Boston feels quite Inundated because
Surrey, a suburb of Boston, owns a horse
that wears spectacles. He wears them
for a purpose, too, for his eyesight is so
dim that he can't see yard in front of
his nose unless he has on his specs"
Toby goes about his daily duties calmly.
He has suffered from myOpia for two
years Veterinary surgeons recommend
ed some kind of glasses.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
LARGEST IN THE WORLD.
Chicago Furniture House Has Fur
nishcd Nearly Million Homes.


nished Nearly a Million Homes.
To be the largest furniture house in the
world is a distinction which the John NJ.
Smyth Company, $50 to 1G6 West Madi-
son street, Chicago, enjoys. An idea of
the magnitude of the establishment may
be gained from the fact that the building
contains seven and one-half acres of floor
space and that during its third of a cen
fury of business it has furnished nearly
three-quarters of a million homes, or more
than the entire population of some States.
One of the business principles of the firm
is if goods are not as represented they
may be returned and the money will be
refunded. The firm issues a large, beau
tifully illustrated catalogue of household
goods which are retailed at wholesale
prices. It will be sem free on application.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
Five New Italian Operas.

Five new operas brought out so far
this season in Italy have achieved at
least local success. They are Giordano' S
Fedora" Mascagni's Iris" Giannetti
"Violinaio di Cremona," De Nardis
''Stella" and Anzoletti's La Morte d
MoZart''
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

The most remarkable thing about the
town of Nairn is the circumstance that
it lies so exactly on the boundary line
of the Highlands that the Gaelic Ian
guage is spoken at one end of the street
and the English at the other.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

Oil to calm the waves was used on
an unusually large scale during the re-
cent gales in the English channel. The
water breaking over Folkestone pier
made it difficult for steamers to enter the
port till someone thought of pouring oil
into the harbor. when the seas immedi-
ately became smooth
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
Don't Have to Wait.

We don't have to wait for cold, sore
ness and stiffness VIII come on from
excessive exercise, but it will go i'm
mediately after using ST. Jacobs Oil to
soften and strengthen the strained
muscles
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
What Do the Children Drink !?

Don't give them tea or coffee. Have
you tried the new food drink called
GRAIN-O? Il is delicious and nourish-
ing, and takes the place of coffee. The
more Grain-O you give the children the
more health you distribute through their
systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains
and when properly prepared tastes like
the choice grades of coffee, but costs
about Il as much. All grocers sell it. 15c.
and 05c
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

1t is stated that the number of card
holders in the Boston public library-775,
OOO-is greater than that claimed by any
other city in the world
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
Go to Work.

Go to work on lumbago as if you in
tended to cure it, and with the use of
st. Jacobs Oil it can be cured very
promptly and surely. Rub hard for pen
etratiOn.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

Coughing Leads to Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at
once. Go to your druggist today and get
a sample bottle free. Sold in % and so
cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dan.
perOuS.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
SPINNING WHEEL.
PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT.

PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT.
l want to be q magistrate
An Oriental potentate,
A consequential,
influential.
Oriental
POtentate.
I'd like to rule a tropic isle,
Not very big, say one square mile,
Is there for me no
Filipino,
Small caSinO
TrOpic isle?
When l am prince in the Levant
I'll ride the sacred elephant;
The white and creamy,
Slow and dreamy,
Bright and gleamy
Elephant.
And when 1 go abroad in state
My SplendOr soon Will SubJugate
The reverential,
Deferential.
NOneSSential
Fourth estate.
Four and-twenty brown Negrit0s
With fans will keep away mosquitoes;
MaleVOlential,
Most potential,
PeStilential
Big mosquitoes.
., I will be supreme, III bet,
I'll rule without a Cabinet;
A Preferential,
Conferential.
Departmental
Cabinet
And | will be no celibate-
My harem fair syndicate;
A confidential,
Preferential,
Most essential
Syndicate.
Twill be wide open when | IN ruler,
Each night We'll have Il hula-hula,
A soul enhancing,
JOY enhancing,
Muscle dancing
Hula-hula.
Then let me have a tropic isle,
4 little bit of Natures smile,
soft and balmy,
Fair and palmy,
Never qualmy
Tropic isle. Lilo
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

The Heard family of Washington,
Ga, preserved unchanged in their old
house the room in which the Confeder-
ate cabinet held its last meeting
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

The Syracuse Academy Of Medicin,
has declared that it shall be misde-
meanor for any fellow of the academy to
contract to treat the members of q So
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

Senator Gear of Iowa, is amusing his,
friends by an odd habit of always carry
ing his hat with him, even when moving
only about the Senate chamber,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

The Prussian government earns $50,
000,OO a year through lotteries; the Ital
ian government S12,000,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

For the past two years each convict
in the Missouri state prison, has earned
3 cents day more than the cost of keep
ing him
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

Caro- is sure to have beet sugar
refinery. The necessary capital has been
subscribed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
Lanes Family Medicine.

Moves the bowels each day. In order
TO be healthy this is necessary. Acts
gently on the liver and kidneys Cures
SICK headache. Price. % and Soc
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

What is known as Sheep's-Canyon
bridge on the Burlington 4 Missouri road
is to give way to q solid filling of earth
and masonry. 1t is one of the highest
wooden bridges along the Burlington sys-
TEN, being 112 feet high and 400 feet
long. 1t will require 100000 yards of
stone and earth to make the fill and the
cost will be 100000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

The average age at which womer
marry in civilized countries is said to bt
2312 years.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

Soldiers in the Italian army are al
lowed two hours III the middle of the day
for a nap.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

IHE PUBLIC AWARDS THE PALM TO HALE's HONEY
OF HoREHoUED AND TAR cough remedy. Of
Druggists.
PIXIES ToOTHACHE DROPS Cure in one Minute
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

Mrs. WinsIOW's SOOTHING SYRUP for children
teethin", softens the gums, reduces Inflammation,
allays pain cures wind collie 25c bottle.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

Two bottles of Piso's Cure for Con-
sumption cured me Of bad lung trouble
Mrs. j. Nichols, Princeton. Ind,
Mar. &c, 1895.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

WANTED.-Case of bad health that RIP ms will
not benefit. Send 5 cents to RipanS Chemical Co..
New York, for 10 samples and 900 testimonials.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

well-known scientist of the Smithsonian
institute, says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
One anecdote not new in it's point, but
memory-refreshing in the location of the
phrase His colleague in the House, the
late Gen. Rosecrans, tells it: II remem-
Der one day some one on the other side,
| forget his name, was making a strong
prot Chinese speech, winding up some
thing like this: The Chinaman is clean,
he is temperate, he is frugal; what fault
have you to find with him? Cox piped
out He wears his shirt outside his
breeches' The House was crowded,
and that was the last of that orator and
his Chinese speech
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

The other day a man in Kansas went
home in a bad humor, and, as is the way
in Kansas as i'll New York, spent some
of his i'll humor on his wife. Presently
he went out doors, and the wife, re.
sourceful woman, locked the door and
told her husband that he could not come
in until he promised to be decent. This:
in Kansas, as it might here, enraged the
husband He danced about and declared
he wouldn't be good. He threatened,
and it may be presumed he swOre. though
it is not specifically stated. Then he
went out to the barn, gathered all the
eggs he could find and bombarded the
locked door. The wife put her head out
of the window and said that now he
should not get in until he cleaned the
door besides promising TO be good. The
shades of night descended and the air
cooled off, The wife ate her supper and
the man sat on the steps. 1t became
darker and cooler Finally the man took
a bucket and a broom and scrubbed the
door as it had never been scrubbed be-
fore The tacit surrender moved the
wife. and she let in her spouse to the
remnants of the supper, which he ate
meekly and then went to bed. As the
late lamented Ruth Ashmore used to say,
women need but to employ little tact
to get along nicely with their husbands.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
HEALTHY MATERNITY.
Two Grateful Women They Received From


The climax of life force in is capable motherhood
The first requisite for good mother is good health.
Health of body health of the generatve organs
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

The workable area of coalbeds in
Colorado is 500 square miles.