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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-01

SKINNER & THAUER,
Lawyers and No5aries Public.
Office in Wisconsin National Bank
building.
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TrlnIaad,. Wonie-fn1 r.al,e.

Recent descriptions of the great lake of liquid asphaItum, or bitumen, in the island of Trinidad. show that not withstanding the enormous quantity of the substance removed every year, the supply is undiminished. The lake coy CTS about 100 aces, and is higher in the middle than at the edges. Near the center the black pitch is semi liquid but toward the sides a crust, fn- tersected with Assures, covers the sur face, and on this crust e man can walk. although when he stands for a time the crust gradually sinks around him. forming kind of basin some yards across. Between S0.O00 and 0.0o0 tans of asphaltum are removed from the fake annually.
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Cultivation es the Re.nan camnaeaa.

cultivation ef the Relnan Camraena.
 Last spring disorders took place ac sastel Gandolfo. a village on the AL oan hills, provoked by peasants agi-
 ating for bread or for land on wHw.h Q cultivate grain. Prince BarberYai. proprietor of much land in the neigh oorhood portioned ont a part of it. which had for the last 100 years been ct f6r pasture. between IA peasants. The terms offered to the peasants were
 imple They were given a three years ease of the land on condition that
 hey should cultivate it with maize or wheat and that one-third of the crops
 hould belong to Prince Barberini and he other tw0-thirds to the peasants. The first harvest of maize has now Aeen reaDed, and the results are most ncOuraging The value of the croD is calculated at $500 lire, and a third. iqual to about 80 pounds. goes into he pockets of Prince Barberini. The wheat has just been sown. and it is fxDected that it will produce f2.608 ire. of which 4.200 lire, or 160 pounds gil belong to Prince Barberini who Rifl thus have 240 pounds q year out of and which has yielded him less than 0 pounds a year. In addition. he has 4ssured a good livelihood to IA stary- ug families.-Lond0n Post
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New Napoleon Lettsr.

The historic chateau of Malmaison ia being restored by M. Osiris. a wealthy Napoleon worshiper. It Is his inten- tion, says the London Chronicle. to turn it into Napoleonic museum. and to present it to the state in time for 1t to form one of the attractions of he great exhibition in 1900. Tn re- pairing the library a very interesting find was made in the shape of a let ter from Napoleon to Josephine. dat ed from the Trianon, August 15, 1913, reproaehing her with not saving mon- ey. He advises her to put her affairs in order, not to spend more than ESQ., 900 year and to save the other ESQ., 900. Thus in ten years she would have accumulated a fortune for her grandchildren. Instead of doing this, however, am told" he continues. that you are in debt. If you wish to please me take care to fill fat stock ing. What do you suppose would be my opinion of you if knew you to he in debt with an income of 5000 Oagp francs a year?"
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pIoop CURE SENT FREE.

By addressing Blood Balm Co.,, 25, Mitchell Street, Atlanta, Ga, any oi our readers may obtain sample bottIe of their famous B. B. B.-Botanie Blood Balm, the greatest, grandest best and strongest blood remedy mas.s Y Cures when all else fails, pimfa. ulcers, scrofula. eczema, boils, bAA poison, eating sores, distressing
 poison, eating sores catarrh, rhe ' tism. Free medical advice incInc when description of your trouble given. This generous offer is worth while accepting. Sample bottle sent all charges prepaid. Large bottles containing nearly quart of medicine for sale by all druggists at ] .00 per bottle. 5. B. B. is always ahead of all other blood remedies for curing blood humors. Try B. B. B. next time you buy a blood purifier.
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Cotton Belt Bulletin.
PINE BLUFF TO CHICAGO
Via cotton Belt Route

Leave Pine Bluff 1.10D. h.. arrive Chicago llii3 next day. Only one change; through sleepers.
 Meeting of District Grand Lodge No. II G. U. O. of 0. r.. Texarkana. Ark Au.rust lst ta dth, Ise9. rate, one and one-third fares for the round trip; date of sale, July 18th to August 4th. 1892; return limit, August 10, '99 summer Tourist Rates to searcv Springs and Ravenden Springs, from May 18th to September lath. good until October 31, 1S99- Rate: Searey Ark, S4 9. Rayenden Ark. S7,15,
 Fishing Season lSg9. Spirit Lake. Ark. Rate; Pine Bluff s2 co per capita for three or more on one ticket. Dates of sale: Daily un- gil further notice, Return limit: Two days from date of sale,
 summer Assembly International Christian
 Workers Association and Bible School.
 Black Mountain. \. C.. August b to 2t
 Bate-B9und trip at rate of one standard
 fare. Iatcs of sa1g-August l3 Co 2I. fn=
 elusive Return limit August2s. Teachers Convention, Monteage Tenn
 August to $. Rate, Round trip ticket
 at rate of one standard fare. Dates of
 saie July 3i, August ana2 Return limit
 August H.
 Laying Cornerstone 4. N. E. Church south.
 Thornton. Ark, July 50. Kate Open
 rate of one and enc third fares for the
 round trip. Dates of sale. July 2aand 30
 Return limit July 3t.
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Thn whIstIInr Tree

The "whistling tree" is so called from the wind in it's branches making 8 sound like flute. It is the 'tsofar" of South Nubia. and yields the gum of senaar Dr. schweinfurth has shown that the sound is caused by holes bored in the spines of the branches by an insect in order to suck the gum. The spines, in fact. become little flutes.
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Nsmss In the ro.taI Guide.

The following names of postofhces appear in the United States postal guide: Mud, Twin Sisters, Texas Mule, Oregon; Sodom. New Mexico; Yellowjacket, Idaho; Loyalsock, Op- ton, Pennsylvania; Wax, Iowa; Peb- ble, Sawdust, Florida, Seven Guns, Quality, Kentucky; Virtue. Tennessee Wit, North Carolina; Zero, Mississippi; Love. Colorado; Oats, South Carolina Pluck Virginia. Pure Air, Roekycom- fort, Peculiar, Lick Skillet, Missouri; Sassafras, Maryland; Pious, Ohio, Roll ing Stone, Minnesota. Peppertown, In diana.
 The Leaf of Young Grain.-There is much difference in the breadth, size and color of leaf in young grain as it comes up. It is partly dependent on the character of the seed, as the plant sends lip its first leaves mainly from the starchy matter which encloses the germ and which the germ uses until it Is able to put forth roots into the soil. Barley being larger and heavier than oats has always a broader leaf, though f oats are sown on rich land and some what late they will come up with leaf that ass like barley. But this rank growth early Is not regarded fayorably by the ealtivat0r. for he knows that 1t is liable to be followed by rust of stalk. OF grain later in the season. Har= rowing grain that comes up with too small and thin leaf bruises these first leaves, and as it also stimulates root growth it causes the plant to send up new shoots with much broader leaves. This dries out the soil, thus preventing the excessive growth later that invites rust-EX
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Gravitashun presses hard on the man with a lager beer belly, and truth rests hevVy on the man with 2 big in telleet.
 Wen man kwits doing rong and mas- in blunderze he will then hey nuthtn to do do but boast ov how good and wize he iz, and oy how much he otter get fur it.
 I hey seen men hoo he'd no faltz, but I wuzzent shoore wether thay he'd any wirteoze or not. bee without q stinger is hard to distinguish rum q tumBull bug.
 Its eezy at first to play the mean man, but by n by wen the crowd gitz onto yoore curves it will ba5 700 awl over the ground and put you over the fence and out
 No man haz a right too establish a law or custum that will live to oppress the living after he iz dead and decaid Let the living govern themselves. if shay are lit too live at aWI
 A grasshopper tz a small and jooeey thing, and a moeolotiye kin crush thousand eY 'em but 1 wunst saw 30 many oy em on the railroad that the engine WIZ completely stalled and stopt ded
 10 may toe} temperance 6wl 700 hey a mind too. and shout fur high H- cense till yoore holler, but itz the la borin man hoo puts up the price ov beer so often that at last he can't reach it without borrowin a nickel.
 Thay mezzure and wafgh everybody hoo goze to the penitensheeary, sozs thay kin distinguish them rum the jedges and 1awyerze hoo send them Up. Thay ain't goin to trust too the naked eye ware the difference Iz so small.
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A Good Reason.

Boy-Mr smitters wants to know if yoGH lend him an umbrella. He says you know him. You may say that do know him. He will probably un- derstand why you didn't bring the um- brella."
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Ruff City Lumber Go. manafactur= CT and dealer in all kinds of lumber. also sashes, doors, blinds, and all kinds of interior and exterior finish Everything at reasonable prices.
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iron Mountain Rates.

cheap Rates to Arkansas Summer Resortt Tickets on safe up 10 and including Sept. 50 All tickets good returning until Oct. 3l Ms Nebe SS.e0i Searey, @4 25i RaYenden, 6i.1i,
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Kadtans smokIng Cicarettes.

Whenever we think of "Lo, the poor Indian, we picture him in our minds as smoking the picturesque pipe Of peace, yet today we find him smoking cigarettes. It Is enough to make Te- cumseh. Samoset and the rest of the old-time braves rise from their graves with flourish of the tomahawk and a warwhoop. IL is a question how the Apaehes and Navajos of the South western reservation acquired this hab= It. Some say 1t was their associations with the Mexican tribes, who learned cigarette making from the Spanish Others attribute their downfall to the cowboys But, however they came by the habit, they do not smoke paper cigarettes. They simply gather up Ih- dian corn husks and dry them. When q cigarette is wanted the dried husk is thoroughly wet in water, the tobacco placed on 1t and the busk rolled up.
 HOMEMADE PHILOSOPHY.
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Its Flight.

I have shot at looms a great many times or the lakes os northern Wis consin. and on Lake Superior. and have never known them to attempt to escape from danger unless there was wind of which they could take ad- vantage in their attempts to rise. states a contributor. I remember once, in company with my brother, trying to secure a loon as a specimen for mount ing The bird was in 3 lake about three-fourths of a mile long and about 200 yards wide in it's narrowest part. My brother was secreted at one end or the lake, and I in canoe kept the bird in motion, trying to get it within range of my brothers gun, and giving 1t a chance whenever a chance offered. Although harried for two or three hours 1t never once attempted to rise from the water. There was a slight breeze, if I mistake not but not enough to be of any use in the looms attempt to escape by flight. During the chase the loon swan a distance of 200 yards or more under water, repeatedly. with put appearing above the surface. Lake Superior fishermen tell me they have caught them in their nets at great depths. Among those with whom I have talked on the subject 1t is be- lieved that a loon cannot rise from the water without the aid of wind blow Ing directly opposite to the line of Hf0h4
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Professional.

TYR. c. D. SMITH, Veterinary Surgeon and U Dentist treats all diseases of d0mestte ' nimals Office al Brewster's Stable. Teie phone, old "A; new 129.
 All Calls Night and Dav
 Answered Promptly
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Picture Mouldiugs of the lat est styles just received It Fran J. Murray'.s
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Five Thousand Niles of New Road.
 The Railway Age, in its latest issue. estimates that 5000 miles of new road will be built in the United States this year This means an investment of $150.000, O00 and the permanent em- Dloyment at good wages of about 25,000 men The following are the states which show over 100 miles of line un. der contract or under construction: Pennsylvania, 160 miles; West Yir- ginia, 40 miles; Virginia, 100 miles; North Carolina, 182 miles; Georgia, 146 miles; Florida, 153 miles: Alabama, l09 miles; Louisiana. 144 miles; Mich igan, III miles; Illinois. 185 miles, Minnesota, 135 miles; Iowa, 29I miles; Indian and Oklahoma territories. 2O4 miles, Arkansas, 2f6 miles; Texas. 10S miles (including 82 miles of grade most of which was completed last year); California f75 miles; Idaho, POT miles; Oregon, l27 niles Washington, 180 miles.
 San Jose Scale ADroaa.-Dr Prank, one of the most noted scientists of Germany, recently presented paper on the San Jose scale before the Ber- in Horticultural Society. In view of the attitude taken by Germany and France toward American fruit impor- tations and the scale, his conclusions are of interest says Country Gentle man. He says there are two species of scale in Germany which have been thought possibly identical with tho San Jose insect, but that his inYesti- gations prove their dtstinctness. He quotes American entomologists as say ing that the San Jose scale produces three broods yearly. each old female breeding about 500 young. Dr. Frank, however, has satisfied himself that only one generation of about 30 is pro- duced. He thinks it questionable whether the San Jose scale can live in Europe at all. We respectfully sug- gest that the Germans and Frenchmen send a discreet man apiece to America to see the San Jose scale, and learn something about it.
 When the Emperor Rides.
 The German Emperor's private train, in which he travels over the German railways, is a very comfortable affair. There are nine carriages, each of which cost between $1O,O00 and $15,000. Out side these are painted in blue and cream and gold. There is a saloon carriage for the Emperor and another for the Empress, besides kitchen, din- ing and luggage cars, a saloon for the suite, and another for the servants. Finally, there is carriage containing tools and workmen, to make any small repairs that may happen to be re- Quire6 on the journey.
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erfect Content

is bound to be yours when you get ieside of one of our faultlessly laundered collars, cuffs or shirt The color and finish are exquisite. There are no frayed edges or torn button holes to annoy you from any work done at this up-to-date laundry.
 RWERICHN-EXCEhSIOR
 laundry Go.
 2ts u1est Barraaue st.
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you like him to

SIyvfa-sI wonder whether he'll be 8 soldier or q sailor?"
 Mamma-"W Wouldn't you like him to be an artist, like papa ?'
 SNYia-"Oh, one in the family's quite ughp'-Tit=Bits. erphMcE -rAcrIcs oE A LOON.
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nR. A. ". TROUPE. Pine BluifN Ark AO Office Hours, , to p, m Telephone
 efice with Anders0n-Meye Drug Store
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4 cheap coat does not make a cheap man. but 1t makes hIm feel that way at Simes.
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It's Dependence Upon Inc Wind to Assist

STRANGE rAcTIcs oF A LOON
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Gravitashun presses hard on the man with a lager beer belly, and truth rests hevVy on the man with big in
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: raanna. hal ha0n - - hn
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Leave Pine Bluff I:l0 D. h.. arrive Chicago ili45 next day. Only one change; through sleepers.
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have shot at looms a great many times or the lakes oe northern Wis
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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-02-23
CECIL COUNTY YEHs.

Elkton, Md, Feb. IS. Several men,
bers of the Junior Order of United
American Mechanics of Elkton APP
peared before the Cecil county school
board and requested the board to in
struct all teachers to carry out the
provisions of the law relating to the
reading of the Scriptures in the schools.
1t was stated that in some schools the
Scripture was dispensed with and the
reading Of prayer substituted. The
board ordered that the law be COM
piled with.
Ray Campbell, a farmer at Wood
lawn. Cecil county, died at the age Of
"A years. His child's death preceded
him by a few days. His wife is in n
critical condition, and William Camp
bell, his father, is dangerously i'll.
Miss Elizabeth Reese OF Westminster,
a graduate Of Western Maryland Col
lege, has been appointed to succeed
Miss Susie q. Smith as teacher in
the Elkton high school.
Mrs. Ida Loveless, wife of Capt.
Richard of the steam tug Roman, died
at her home in Chesapeake City yes
terday morning, aged 80 years.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-02-23

Dover. Feb. ls.--Rather an uncom-
mon thing occurred Thursday morning
in connection with the official duties Of
Sheriff John B. Wharton, who has his
Office in the county building here and
which adjoins that of Clerk of the
Peace Robert s. Downs. George P,
Fisher, a young man residing in Phila-
delphia, but formerly Of Camden, came
to Dover to secure marriage license.
He visited the Office of Clerk Downs,
but not finding that official or his as.
sistant present, as they both were kept
away by the storm, he asked Sheriff
Wharton il he could not accommodate
him in that respect. The genial sheriff
willingly consented, and having the
keys Of the office of the clerk Of the
peace, he secured for Fisher the neces-
sary license which he accepted and a
few hours later took unto himself Miss
Martha Richards, of Camden, as life
partner.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-02-23

AMERICANS RUSH TOO HARD.
Consequently They Fail To Extract the Real
,Ioys Ont of Life.


In the Ladies' Home journal Edward
Box deplores the sense of rush that has
taken possession of the American
arising from this condition of unrest.
Take our family life today" he says.
"Look around one's own family circle,
look into its life, look into the families
we know, and tell me il | am SO far
wrong when / say that what our Ameri-
can families need more than anything
else is more time with each other (;
more drawing together; more moments
of being alone with each other; a
greater extraction of the peace and
comfort from those material surround
ings which each so earnestly strives
for, and all are too much satisfied to
strive for simply to possess, and
nothing more. We are all too much in
a hurry in America to allow of our
knowing and enjoying each other; our,
lives are too full with the things which
ought to be secondary and which we
have allowed to dominate us. We are
all too busy; men and women, girls
and boys-all of us. We arc not getting
the rich beauties ont of life; the
greatest enioyments out of living
Rush and haste are too much upon us.
The sweet balm of peace and quiet is
an unknown delight to thousands Of
our people. And much of the cause,
disagreeable as it is to say it, lies with
our women who have of late allowed
their lives to become too full. l will
not say that they have neglected, to
any alarming extent, the fundamental
duties of wifehood and motherhood.
But | do say that the danger of doing
SO in the very near future exists, in
many an instance, if things are allowed
to go on as they have gone. -
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-02-23
MARRIED UNDER DIFFICULTIES.


Charles O. Ryan, DR., Nae Thrilling En-
perience IN Making His Way to the Resi-
denne OF tho Bride-eiect.
Charles g. Ryan, Dr., OF this city, q
brakeman on the Landenberg branch
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, who
left this city on horseback on Tuesday
week for the purpose of going to
Landenberg, Pa, to be united in
marriage to Miss Clara Hughes was in
the city this morning. All difficulties
were overcome and the marriage cere-
mony was performed.
On Tuesday he made an effort to get
some person to take him to Landenberg
in o sleigh, but nobody was willing to
risk the journey, although he offered
$50. The distance between this city
and Landenberg is 10 miles and after
securing horse and saddle he started
out horseback. He hoped to arrive
that day, as 1t was tho day set for the
wedding. He left this city at 4.30
O'Clock in tho afternoon and succeeded
in reaching Wooddale, distance of IL
miles, where his horse gave out. He
attempted to secure another horse to
ride tho remaining eight miles, but no
person owning % horse would hire or
sell ono on account of the weather.
Mr.. Ryan then started on foot, but
after going short distance he fell into
a drift of snow - feet deep and was
rescued with great difficulty. 1t was
fortunate for him that some of the
residents followed him. He reached
Hockessin, where he was so exhausted
that he was compelled to remain at the
hotel all night.
In the morning he again started out
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-02-23
MgsiclrAL rIEornio1Ass.
Some OF tho Papers To be Read at tn
Convention In Ssptembsr,

convention III SeptemDers
In connection with the convention Of
the National Association Of Municipal
Electricians which will be held in this
city next September, exhibits will he
made Of electrical apparatus used in
various departments OF municipal work.
Some of the papers to be read ut the
convention are as follows:
Tho Laws and Government of the
Wire Department OF Boston," Com
missioner Thomas W. Flood.
Licensing OF Employees Engaged in
Electrical Work and the Improvement
of tho Quality Of Work and Material"
Capt. William Brophy of Boston.
"Advisability of Concentrating the
Control of All Municipal Electrical
Interests Under One Head" Morris
W. Mead OF Pittsburg.
"The Underground System as APP
piled to the Fire Alarm Telegraph"
.. L. Wheeler, city electrician, Spring
field, Mass.
1.-THE Police Signal System Of
Boston," John Weigel, superintendent
police telegraph, Boston.
(, Aerial Construction of Fire and
Police Telegraph Lines" w. H.
Thompson, city electrician, Richmond,
Va. M
progress and Development of the
Municipal Electrical interests of
CANADA" G. F. Macdonald, Ottawa,
Canada.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-02-23
BRYAN TO M,KINLEH.
The Late Candidate Pays His Respects to
His Successful Opponent.

his successiui Opponent.
Grand Rapids, Mich, Feb. IS. w.
]. Bryan spoke here last night under
the auspices of the Kent County
Democratic Club. In denouncing the
proposition to increase the army, he
asked why it was necessary and said it
certainly could not be on account Of
any disaster that had occurred under
Republican rule, because we are told
that the people are peaceable, pros
porous and happy. Continuing, he said:
Do you want q new policy that
makes it necessary for you to have
three times as many soldiers to take
care of $4,000, 900 people as it took to
take care Of 100000 of people Do
you think, my friends, that it ought
to take twice as many soldiers to bring
the blessings of benefcient assimilation
to 10000, 600 aliens as it required to do
the work among 10000, 600 of people? I
have not said anything as bad against
the Republican policy as that. The
President is more severe in condemn
ing his own policy than 1 have ever
been, and when he says it will take
$4,000 soldiers to make the people
accept and enjoy that kind of govern
ment he 10 going to give to them, he
condemns his policy more than / do"