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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12
WILL BLOCK CROSSING.
North Western Train Ready to
Prevent Street Company from
Laying Track.

Fond du Lac, Wis, Dec. S.-[Special.l
The Northwestern Railway company
has placed a train near the Scott street
crossing and will block the crossing in
case an effort is made by the street rail
way company to lay tracks over the right
Of way. A Waterman has been there for
several days and fearing that the street
car company intended to cross, this
means has been taken to block such a
move
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12
HAD TUBERCULOSIS.
State will Pay Part for Cattle Killed
Near GAINESVILLE.

Madison, Wis, Dec S-[Special. L
State Veterinarian Clute held post
mortem examination of twelve head of
cattle killed on the farm of William
Sherman near GAINESVILLE. All We're at
fected with tuberculosis and the state
will pay az proportion Of the loss. The
valuation has not yet been fixed. They
were mostly grade cattle.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12
SUES FOR S25,O00.
Steven Janos Injured by a North
Western Engine While Res
Cuing a Boy.

Marinette, Wis, Dec S.-[Special j
Steven Janos, through his father, Mi
chael Janos, has started suit against the
North-W estern railway for $50, 900 dam
foot became caught in a cattle-guard and
he was run down by a locomotive and
one leg and part of the other foot were
taken off. He succeeded in releasing
the other boy who escaped uninjured.
The complainant alleges that defendants
employees were guilty of gross negligence.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12
STATE WILL BE PAID.
Government Sends $13,O92 for Omar
termaster's Supplies.

Madison, Wis. Dec S.--[Special. 7
Ed Mullen, Wisconsin, state claim
agent, has telegraphed Gov Scofield
from Washington that settlement has
been effected of the second installment
Of Wisconsin's claim for quartermasters
supplies furnished the Third regiment,
Wisconsin volunteers, at the time of en-
listment for the Spanish war. and that
a treasury warrant for the amount, S13,-
092 has been mailed
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12
Death from Exposure.

New Lisbon, Wis, Dec 7.-Harold A.
Hall, city treasurer, was found dead ON
the ice. He had apparently fallen into
the river while skating and succeeded In
getting out, but died from exposure. Mr..
Hall was leader in local musical and
social circles.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12
Not the First Time.

Kate Field used to take daily lessons
in Latin from Walter Savage Landor.
when she was in Florence, and at her
entrance into the room his rugged ex-
preston Invariably softened and he be-
came what his pupil called 'chiyalry in
carnate.' One day he dropped his spec
taces, and as she picked them up and
handed them TO him, he exclaimed, ooh.
this is not the first time that you have
caught my eyes
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12
STRIKE IT RICH.
Two Chippewa Loggers Make a
Rich Find of Gold in
Alaska.

Chippewa Falls, Wis, Dec. S.-[Spe-
cial. Word received here yesterday
states that George and Fennimore CALI
CHAN, two well-known old-time Chippewa
loggers, had struck rich vein of gold
by sinking a shaft $50 feet into the
ground. The Callighans left here two
years ago to seek gold in Alaska and
they made the find near Dawson City,
when their supplies were nearly exhaust
cd
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12

People marvel at the mechanism of
the human body, with it's 1872 bones and
SO arteries. But man is simple in this
respect compared with the carp. That
remarkable fish moves no fewer than
1886 bones and muscles every time It
breathes. 1t has 1890 veins, to say moth
ing Of its 80 muscles.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12
WANTS DAUGHTER
SENT TO PRISON.
AlVina Merkel Charged by Her
Father with Check Raising
at Appleton.

Appleton, Wis, Dec. S.--[Special. j
Alvina Merkel, girl of 20, was brought
before a justice this morning charged
with Embarrassing by her father, Charles
Merkel of Grand Chute. The amount in
volved is but So, but the father is deter
mined to send his daughter to the pen-
tertiary for the offense,. The. penalty is
from one to seven years imprisonment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12
STRIKE AT PORT WASHINGTON
Fifty Mo1ders at ellison Plant Walk
Ont.

Port Washington, Wis. Dec. s.
Especial. About fifty molders walked
out of the ellison Manufacturing com
pany foundry this morning on a strike.
The foundry will continue with new
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12

FOR THE CENSOR
First date your news back twenty days;
Talk big of Boer loss
Inserr some facts discreetly stale
And slightly grown with moss.
Then air your dearest theories
What Buffers going to do
Perhaps thipk-I'm not quite sure
The censor'll let it through
New York Herald.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12
ATTACKED BY VICIOUS SOW
Wayne Matsdorf of la Crosse Has
Narrow Escape from Death.

La Crosse Wis, Dec. S-[Special. I
Wayne Matsdorf was attacked on the
farm Of David Drummond by a vicious
SOW. His injuries are very severe.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12

Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant is at West
Point, where she has gone to be near
her son, Ulysses S. Grant, who is ca
Diet there.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12

The report that the Princess Cantu
cuzene was to spend the winter at Nice
and Cairo was false, as Mrs. L. S.
Grant relates the contents of letter
from her granddaughter, which describes
entertainingly the arrival of the prince
and princess in Odessa. After they
crossed the Russion border they were
driven to the estate Of the prince, where
the peasants all along the road collect
ed to welcome them with the quaint
custom of the land, offering them bread
and salt
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12

The locomotive. with rumbling wheels
and a screech of escaping steam. came
abreast of the station. From the ends
Of the three cars behind descended a
hundred blue-coated men, with rifles
flung over their shoulders They were
guards from Western detective agen-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12

Gossip from London says Mrs. Langtry
is going to sell all her racing stud This
she does at the desire of her husband,
who does not believe it raises woman's
position to keep race horses. Since her
marriage Mrs. Langtry's position has
ly falling back into society again, among
her good friends being Lily Duchess of
Marlborough. She is said to be looking
so we'll since her marriage that everyone
who sees her remarks upon it. Mrs. De
Battle is very busy just now getting
ready many dresses of wondrous beauty
for her trip to the United States.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-16

tion OF these local officers as Of more
vital Importance than the election OF
n President" for they are reasoning crea-
lures, and they know that IL Is OF petty
consequence comparatively. They do not
give the same measure OF Importance to n
municipal election, which does not even in
volvc any largo issue Of local policy. as to a
national election, in which are Issues Of
worldwide Importance; much less do they
look upon purely municipal affairs of the
routine sort as "of more vital Importance
Thar tho great questions and problems
which now confront the whole American
people and elevate their political inter-
ests above a merely provincial and paro-
chial level.
That is. tho people Of Philadelphia have
n truer estimate OF relative values in poll
tics than has tho village-like newspaper
which undertakes to rebuke them for not
being confined by It's owl narrow horizon.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-16

Whole, only the buildings for NewportNews
and Blair have yet received flna action in
the House.
Mr.. MERCER, who had charge OF the bill,
defended the appropriation for Blair, in
his State, on the ground that towns as
small had in past years received buildings
from Congress. His list OF the cost OF such
buildings shows, for example. Te%xarkana,
with 3,52S people at the last census, Slo2,-
223.36; Dover, Del, 1901 people md a
third-class Office, SO, 651.O1 Tallahassee,
with 1884 people, $50, 1890; Fort Dodge,
4,s71 people, $76,576.7o; salina, e,149
people, 97,44S.7 10; Richmond, Ky, 5,O73
people, $1,000 Alexandria, La, 2,s6t
people, 100000; Munroe, La, 3,256
people, ~$74,5o4.17; Opelousas, 1872
people, $47, 555.s2; Castine, 9s7 people,
S2o,530,6 80 for n fourth-grade office; Vance
boro,% S7opeople, a So, 1I5,o4 Custom House;
Barnstable, whose Post Office was OF tho
fourth grade, 42,32O.1i; Oxford, with
1,54e people, sos. 94O.s9; Ocracoke, with
Ace people, ~$9,227O7; jefferson, Tex.
with 3,o72 people, S53,o75.2s; Windsor,
with 1,s46 people, 500, 1885; Montpelier,
with 4, 16o people, s16t,651.s1; Abingdon,
Va, with 1874 people, 500 Pas. 80; Harri-
.sonburg, with 2,792 people, St16, 70,
tho Post Office being of the third grade.
The Building Appropriation bill might
be called tall.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-16
Some London Advertisements.

1t is doing no injustice to our esteemed
daily'contemporaries in London to say that
their advertising columns are often their
most attractive part. The advertisements
in any newspapers are interesting. They
give some glimpse of the life of the town in
which they are published. Life is real, life
is earnest, but we cannot all OF us linger
over the reports OF the proceedings OF Par
lament and the London County Council,
and there are moments when the most
monumental leading article on Ritualism
and the Liberal party may seem to con-
tribute less to the happiness OF mankind
than the assertion of a London advertiser
that 1.-THE lovely Nudnce Chdtdin Foncee can
be impaired to any hair, gray, faded or
dark shades alike yielding to the influence
OF Aerine." When such luxuriant scholar
ship can be impaired from Oxford street
in an advertisement, advertisements are
worth reading.
The advertisements OF and for domestic
servants in the London Daily Ne,rs and the
Standard are not without charm for an
American. The subdivisions of domestic
labor, Lady Help" Companion Help"
Mothers Help" Useful Help" and so
forth, are strongly insisted upon. Goodly
stature seems to be considered as important
in female servants as footmen. Thus a
Useful Help, a." recommends herself
as tall, well educated, fond OF children,
domesticated, good needlewoman." There
must be small houses in which this Help
would not be any more useful for being so
high in aim. A Welsh housemaid praises
herself for being very tall, "and we believe
her. Tallness is n gift of the Welsh. Per-
haps they have to have it to see over their
ranges of c~onsonants. But why should a
"plain cook, 40, sober, respectable. strong"
dwell on the fact that she is tall? Surely
a cook is lofty and formidable enough
without being n daughter of ANAK, and in
the crypts Of her art her length Of body is
not needed. She is an invisible deity, to be
judged by her works and not by her size.
1t must be that our English friends con-
slider that their social glory is heightened
by the bodily majesty of the plain general
cook. Even in Chaplain these little vani-
ties may prevail.
Many advertisers want "a respectable
Person to assist in homework" A respec-
table Person. There you have all Eng
land, and it is not necessary to read any
further.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-16
PEACE ANp EXPANSION.
A Prominent Democrat of Alabamh Lashes
the Opponents OF the Treaty,

FROM TIE Atlanta Journal
lam an out and out Jeffersonian and Jack
sonlan Democratl But every now and then l
have to regret some remarkable action OF the
party that has more Of the semblance Of mere
partisan politics than Of sound Democratic
principles and manly craftsmanship.
Who would have thought that there would he
opposition by Democratic United States Sem
ators to the ratification Of the recent treaty OF
peace between Spain and this Governments
The treaty offered a happy. well-adjus'ed
finale to the war, and should have been ratified
promptly by the Senate in twenty-four hours
after 1t was submitted by tho President TO that
body. But mol Partisan policies and v~aulting
personal ambitions must needs rush in. to
tarnish and despoil the we'll executed work.
and thus make capital for Democrats and
would-be leaders of that party. as is vainly
supposed. in the next Presidential campaign.
Woe to the party that thus expects to make n
successful Tight against its own Governments
triumphant conduct Of n war. which that party
Itself encouraged and sustained
What a record for the Democratic party to
face. that through ambitious, wouid-be leaders
1t tried to ignore and defeat n solemn treaty OF
this Government, made with a fallen foe; that
II sought to attach conditions to the treaty.
having no other object. apparently. than to
bring the treaty into disrepute and thus cast
obloquy and reproach upon the head OF this
Government and those who favor ratification.
Woe to those Democrats who aid to precipi-
tate this result by trying to defeat a treaty.
right in itself, and that in no Just sense involves
the after questions which may arise as to the
best use or disposition to DO made Of the new
acquisitions.
Speaking for myself. l do not understand
Jefersonian Democracy to be adverse to ex-
pansion and the acquisition OF new territory.
And ps IN tha phiIippina "a I tbipk thav ora a
good think to have in the family.
JAMES 8, Hook,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-16

In the second place, they perceive that, but
for the competition Of American products,
their native-Rrown grain and meats would
command higher prices. They would be
glad, If the industrial population OF Ger
many would permit 1t, to bar out our food
staples altogether, and they would like, at
the same time, to persuade us to admit
their artilcially stimulated beet sugar on
terms identical with those on which we
admit tho cane sugar of Cuba. The exor-
bitant pr~etensions, however, OF the Agrarian
party are quito as annoying to the Berlin
Government as they are to the United
States, and we may be sure that Kaiser
WILLIAM II. has no intention of sacrificing
his manufacturing and operative subjects
to the selfish claims of the agrioulturlsts.
There Is nc reason, in the nature OF
things, why the interests of the German
Empire, considered as n whole, should
not be reconciled with those OF the United
States by a commercial treaty which should
involve equitable concessions on both sides.
All that is needed to assure the conclusion
OF such a treaty Is the renewal OF the cor
dial relations which have usually existed
between Germany and the United States,
n renewal which will be furthered by the
official disavowal Of the hectoring behavior
OF Admiral voN D%1EDERICHs, something Of
which the American Ambassador in Berlin
seems to be wholly and unduly ignorant.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-16
A S~uburbnnite,s Contempt for the CITY,

To THE EDITOR OF THE UN-Sir As I was
swiftly moving toward town this morning, in a
steam heated. luxuriously appointed, vesti-
buled train. 1 read in your columns third
column. first page) an account OF the alleged
disccmforts OF n mythical suburbanite In the
recent blizzard. AS this is not the first time
you have been led astray in respect to subur-
ban life. | will tell you about 1t. for l am tired
OF this Jolly OF the suburban dweller. who is
really, beside the urban prisoner in an airless
house. a sybarite OF the highest class.
Out in the elegant borough OF Sampsonville.
for instance, last Sunday. while the poor I'M
fortunate city man weltered through the storm
over uncleaned walks. the Sampsonvillian went
l~eisurely to church In pleasant paths swept
bare by a preceding snowplough: and after he
had sacrificed to Mother G.undy and satisfied
his gregarious instinct he returned to his we'll
warmed house and grabbed the uncertain
John-pot with no Raines law to keep him hun
cry or side door to sneak through. THE side
board was, good enough for him. No hard
But the next morning the vestibuled. luxuri-
ously appointed train-with the assistance OF a
TO the inhospitable western shore Of Manhattan
only n TO ma troubles beginning; Half 2 dozen
ground and lofty tumblers was running up one
aHot6sr & RRS For F y ths rest lns sss aisg was d4 PIsG
up. Having gone from his residence to his
station in a Jolly trolley the Sampsonvillian
had to walk from the ferry to his office In MAN.
haitian +, oyer 9.tncleaned sidewalks through
houses. No transportation except the red
gymnasium and the yellow juGgernaut around
dead mans curve. But even with his walk
from the ferry to Broadway the Sampsonvillian
from Brooklyn and almost days ahead Of the
people from the grizzly bear and Deadwood
Dick districts of Manhattan borough.
Tuesday was the same, only worse. but when
he desired to 20. home the difference in con-
Nnnipnpa was still mora m arb cd o. RI roaGa b;o
regular train the luxurious suburbanite, ali
unused to uncleaned and snow-blocked walks.
was obliged to leave his Office a long time
ahead Of his, regular hour in order to wade
through the drifts where cars were supposed
to runl
Give me no more of vour tales OF the mythical
suihurbanites No more pictures Of Lonely
Vile! No more libes at Mr.. Isolate, till you
have cleaned your streets and started your cars
and imported from the rural districts some
conveniences for getting about. You are not
in it with, Sampsonvillians. or even with the
poor devils, who have TO live in Moptclair. In
the somewhat abrupt but expressive language
OF the snowed.in east siders. Come of. give us
SNowBoUND IN New YORK, Feb, IA
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-16
Immortality and the New PsycboIopv.

Prof. 81. George .Nisdrt in he .NiuSt,snM Csutury.
When this p%sychical energy which has dominated us
during life has disappeared. and death has reduced
our active being to a mass of mere inanimate matter,
what becomes Of the soul" what is the fate Of this
energy2
Does reason give us good ground for believing, or
even hoping, that 1t will survive the destruction of
the body No one, | think, can venture to affirm
that nature affords lis any certain evidence that a
future life awaits us. On the other hand, the last re-
hnen1ents Of science. including the new psychology.
40 not anord us one new argument against its posi-
bility. Men knew. centuries ago, that when the
brain was out the man was dead. and there an end;'
and We know essentially no more now, and We prob
ably shall know no more. in spite of any increase Of
physiological knowledge.
There are persons who foolishly imagine that they
know a great deal about the condition of the sonl
after death. But. in truth. We cannot in the
least picture to ourselves what the sepa-
rated soul may he like, or what the means
and methods of its activity. The only soul"
OF which we have any experience ia unable to
think without mental images-sensuous magma.
tions-and it cannot possess these without a brain
well supplied with blood, and 1t could never have
acquired them save by a persistent use of the va.
rlous organs of sense-the eye, the ear, &c. How.
therefore. the soul can act intelligently without a
brain, we can have no conception of. nor how it can
know any material things. Bat our inability to I'M
derstand what is beyond our experience in this re-
Hpect will be seen to he Of less weight in considering
the question when we recall to mind how unable we
are to understand analo gous matters which are within
our daily and hourly experience.
1t is most truo we cannot understand how" the
soul can reason. imagine. or perceive without a brain
and without organs Of sense, but it is no less true
that we cannot understand how" the soul can rea.
son. imagine. or perceive with these organs. How"
knowledge is possible. here and now; how" the
joint action of our eyes and brain produces A field of
vision with varied objects within 1t. who can even
pretend to know? The simplest sensation is pro.
iouhdly mysterous, We have, therefore, no right
10 dogmatiZo ne TO possibilities of action, the coudt.
tons Of which are quite unknown to MS; and, for my
self. ! must confess see no impossibility in the soul
assuming that 1t can and does persist after deatlD
being able to approLepd and appreciate other beings
like Itself and existing under conditions similar 10
It's own II any such a faculty really exists. a very
important and consolatory reflection follows from IT,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-16
Foollsbness to BE Suppressed.

With our future in the Philippines yelled
enough by uncertainties to forbid states
manship in its senses from seeking to bind
the United States irrevocably against annex
alton, the a~nti-expansion leaders in the Sem
ate recently urged their policy upon that
body with the cocksureness OF astrologers.
The craze for divination has nowcome upon
the House of Representatives. Mr.. MCRAE,
a Democrat, of Arkansas, takes the Iron
hand OF fate in his own" and under
takes to be a mind-reader on the same
lines. At the moment when we have won
Eastern territory greatly desired Of all ma
tions, and, to the mind of every military
and commercial expert, pregnant with I'M
known advantages to this republic, Mr..
MCRAE wants the United States to say
that it will abandon the territory offhand
Ind come home.
Thu policy of forcing an anti-expansion
tsolution through the Senate under pres
alre of the need Of %ratifying the treaty Mr..
VCRAE thinks he can apply successfully in
The House to the bill appropriating S2o,-
100000, which the treaty prescribes shall
be paid to Spain. This is his resolution:
Provided. that in making this appropriation for
the extinction of Spanish sovereignty over the
Philippine Islands. the United States disclaims any
disposition to permanently annex said islands to the
United States, but. on tho contrary. asserts its de.
termination. when an Independent Government by
the Inhabitants of said islands shall have been estab.
lished therein, to transfer to said Government all
rights secured under the cession by Spain. and
thereupon to leave the government and control of
said islands to the people thereof"
We still live confident that the American
House of Representatives Won't be overcome
by the mania affecting Mr.. MCRAE and
the majority ofthe Democracyin Congress.
Years hence, perhaps, it may become clear
to the people of this country that territory
distant from the Washington Capitol as
many miles as the Philippines cannot
proftably be kept in any political connec-
ton with us. The experience OF civilized
countries, and Of this country in particular,
however, points the other way. Indeed, it
points so strongly in that other way that
only third-rate craftsmanship or actual
folly can favor at this time the McRae
resolution or anything like it.
The conduct OF the Senate placed upon
the House the task Of preserving the repu-
tation Of Congress for common sense in re-
spect to the treatment Of our new possess
sions. 1t Is for the House, therefore, to
squelch all anti-Philippine resolutions and
address itself to the task OF getting our
Eastern possessions into the order that per-
mits sober consideration Of their affairs.