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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-05
AS TO CREMATION.
Science Approves 1t and Religion
Does Not Oppose, Says This
Authority.

The custom Of cremation was Roman,
but it disappeared with the Christian
era under the influence of the belief
in the literal resurrection of the body.
It's revival in all countries is coin
cident with broader Interpretation
of the teachings Of Christianity and
with the development of modern sci
ence. The doctrine of the conversa
ton of matter. that the only change
possible is transformation and not de
struction, bears powerfully in favor
Of cremation. The transformation of
the grave is relatively slow, that of
the crematory relatively rapid, but
both processes are the same, and, in
comparison with the duration of the
world both are intolerably swift. We
are cut down and we wither. Whether
the decay is a matter of hours or
years is merely an incident of the
inevitable, says the Brooklyn Eagle.
Those considerations can be felt
best in time of scientific domination
over the intellectual life. The by
gienic and sanitary reasons are most
potent in an era of the rapid growth
of large cities. Therefore, it is not
surprising to know that the revival
of cremation begun about 1880, has
grown rapidly not only in this coun-
try but in Europe. Here we have %
crematories. France has Is. Italy
and England have fewer. The ap-
peal of science is for the new prac-
tice. Religion is not hostile to it, as
is shown by it's adoption by an active
and devout member of a great church.
But sentiment association and the
whole mortuary poetry of the whole
world are opposed to it. Those are
forces which are modified slowly. They
cannot be overcome by shock, and the
attempt would be brutal as well as
useless. But the growth of crema-
ton is accompanying, if not keeping
pace with, the growth of cities In
the next quarter of century the Gus
tom will have become general enough
to aid in the solution of the present
serious problem of finding suitable
resting places for the dead.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-05
Electricity and Modern Navies.

One of the improvements in the new
battleship Kentucky is the increased
use of electricity instead of steam. SAYS
a writer in Munsey's Magazine. The
Kentucky is planned on the principle Of
a trolley line so far as her subsidiary
engines are concerned. There is a
motor which performs each particular
work, and instead of broiling steam
pipe running to it an electric wire con-
meets it with the central engines. The
steam is kept where it belongs-in the
boiler room. This is great economy
of space, and the discomfort it saves
the officers and crew is not easily meas
ured.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-05
.nention this paper
TURKISH MINISTER'S WIFE.
Difficulty In Obtaining for Her in
Washington the SecIusiOn ORR
entalism Requires.

The Turkish minister to Washing
ton finds it extremely difficult to Sc
clude his wife as completely from pub
lie gaze as the customs of his coun-
try require. These difficulties have
been greatly increased of late by the
arrival at his home of a son and heir,
for the curiosity to see 'Sthe little
Turk" is overweening. The new baby
has wonderful wardrobe sent from
Paris, the clothes in oriental designs
and fabrics.
AS no man may enter the apart
ments of Turkish lady madame is
attended by Mrs. Jung, wife of the le-
CATION physician, who is herself a
skilled doctor with diplomas from
home and foreign schools.
In spite of the oriental ceremony
and mystery with which ali Raby'
is surrounded, he is being brought up.
so far as essentials go, on a very
American plan.
Nine. Furrough has with her her
young sister-in-law VINO has received
with her the few times that madame
has been in the legation parlor. No
man, of course, attended these recep-
tions. Nine. Furrough is a skilled
horsewoman and her close confne-
ment to the house in Washington has
told upon her health.
The marriage of Ali Furrough Bey
was a love match of the most ardent
sort. When the minister was sent to
America he left his beautiful wife in
her native land, but returned as soon
as possible and made the necessary ar
rangements for moving the household
to America. To do this he was
obliged to make VOW that the wom-
en- folk should remain as secluded as
in their Turkish home. Just how
difficult that VOW has been to keep
any American will know.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-05
A Merry Old Hen.

Mrs. R. King is the owner of cour-
ageous and capable old hen of non
descript breed that she wouldn't trade
for whole flock of blooded poultry,
says the Weston (Ore.) Leader It is
the only hen in Oregon, perhaps in the
United States, that ever fought and
killed hawk. The battle occurred a
few days ago, when chicken hawk
swooped down upon a band of baby
fowls of which the old hen was the
mother. The hen didn't squawk and
run, calling upon her offspring to fol-
low her, but with fierce and well-di-
rected peck buried her bill beneath the
hawks left wing. It was solar plexus
blow and clean knockout. The hawk
seemed surprised and dazed. 1t feebly
arose, flew aimlessly against clothes
line and then dropped into the gar
den, stone dead. That hen will be
queen Of Mrs. Kings poultry yard on
Wild Horse creek as long as she sur
wives.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-05
British N8tUraIiZati On

TO be naturalized in Great Britain an
alien must have lived there for at Least
five years or have served the crown
faithfully for the same period; and he
must continue to reside in the British
jurisdiction, unless he continues in the
government service in foreign coun-
tries. A naturalized citizen has all the
political and other rights, powers and
privileges and is subject to all the OBJ
legations to which natural-born
Briton is entitled or subject.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-05
SUNDAYS AT "VINEACRE.n
Nothing Interrupts These Delightful
Occasions at the Home of the
Composer of "Narcissus.o

Sunday is great day at swine
acre." the home of Ethelbert Nevin,
the composer, at Edgeworth, Pa,
writes Villa Sibert Gather. in Ladies'
Home Journal. All the rela tives ard
all their friends troop into the big,
rambling old house, and Mr.. Nevin
plays and sings for them all day long.
He has choir of little girls, selected
from among the neighbors' children,
who practice with him every Sunday
evening before the lamps are lit.
After they are hustled off to bed he
sits with his Old boyhood friends sing
ing the old songs they used to sing to-
gether when he was just Pert" and
telling stories of those good old days
in Edgeworth. These musical Sun
days are never interrupted at ''Yine-
acre." and in all of his wanuerings in
Europe Mr.. Nevin always kept the
day as they kept it at home. Music
is "a necessary feature of daily life
there. Mr.. Nevin's father is himself
composer and writer of verses, and
the first grand piano that was ever
shipped west of the Alleghenies was
earted over the mountains for Ethel
bert's mother. then Miss Elizabeth Oil
plant, of Uniontown, Pa. When, a
few months ago, his mother was dying,
she would not allow this musical rou-
tine. this old habit of song, to be
broken. On the night she died, sit
ting in the room next to hers, he
played to her, as he had done since he
WAS a hnE
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-05
FRUIT LOSING IT'S TASTE.
Many Varieties, Says This Man, Once
Luscious Becoming Very
Insipid.

"What has become of the fruit that
used to taste?" asked the distracted
man who had just taken bite from
a peach that glowed in delicate shades
of pink and gold. relates the New
York Sun. ''Where are the peaches
that used to have the real taste and
juice and flavor and were a delight
to eat? | have just paid five cents
for large Notwithstanding peach
that is as dry as sawdust and as lit
tie more to suggest that it is fruit
and not cotton batting. Such beauti-
full colors / have never seen before.
and SO far as their merely spectacular
features are concerned the peach of
the day is a great Improvement on it's
predecessors. But it is of no earthly
use for any purpose. 1t is dry and
favorless and does not repay the
trouble of eating it. I can remember,
however, quite another peach which
was common enough some years ago,
although it seems to be rare enough
now The good pears are as difficult
to find as the peaches, and the quail
ity of the ordinary run is just as poor.
They are more beautiful than ever
to look at, but are tasteless. Nobody
seems able to tell just why fruit
should have lost it's quality so COM
pletely. But the fact is remarked bv
everybody. All | can say is that
these two particular kinds of fruit
would never have gained their pres
ent reputation if they had always
tasted as they do now. AS the fruit
stands grow large and elaborate the
quality of the fruit itself seems to
become poorer and poorer
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-05
Phonosraphfc Reminder

An ingenious American inventor has
Just patented speaking clock which
he claims will be of the greatest value
to persons of forgetful and irregular
habits. 1t consists of a clock phono-
graph combination. In place of the
usual striking attachment is phono-
graph. which can be set to speak sem
tence at any time desired, thus becom-
ing an unfailing reminder to it's owner
of the duties of each successive hour.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-05
The Shah and Cheasa

In his slow and costly journey across
Europe, on his way to Paris, the shah
Of Persia tasted Gruyere cheese. He
nibbled it at first, doubtful. Then he
took to eating it largely. and found
gherkins went excellently with it.
Finally he substituted it for bread and.
at a princely salary, he has engaged
one of the most expert makers to ac-
company him back to Persia.
Peacemaker for the Railways
Some years ago one of the biggest
railroad corporations Of this country
employed a confidential peacemaker,
with the idea of preventing suits, as
fas as possible, for personal damages
1t has proved profta BILE innovation
and is being taken up by other rail-
roads.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-05
Hindus Found BaciIIi.

Ages ago the Hindu medicine man"
knew all about disease germs and mi
crobes, although he was jeered at by
western scientists because he called
them ''little worms" And, after all.
when we moderns ''discovered" what
he had known all along, we could find
no better name for the new organ
preted, is little sticks"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-05
RAILROAD DIRECTORY.
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul.
Chicago s. hwestern.

GOING SOUTH.
Chicago Fast Passenger -. ...... $40 a IN
Mail 10 so IN
GAINESVILLE -. o;oI p III
New Rockfo, dWatertown train. Leaves
Rockford 600 A NJ arrives at Watertown
$50 A. M and goes no further. returning
leaves Watertown so M arriving at
Rockford 5 90
GOING NORTH
" 2:32 p m
.rrairb+ 7:05 m
Passen ger from Chicago arrives at Water
town 9:25 m and goes no farther e..
train for La Crosse Winona, ST. Paul ana
intermediate points c. pono
6:32 M train connect direct TOT 81. az"
OH am train connects direct Win train
FIR Madison. and Minnesota and DaKota
points.
a. except SUNDAY.
FRED NJ NEWTON Agent.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-05

Up to September . The United States
had contr buted $3.50 -. !, 40 for the re-
lief OF the famine sufferers Of India.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-04-06

An eminent scientist, who has de
voted much study to the subject,
says "that Of all alcoholic drinks
beer is the very wolst.' One Of its
evils is the ease with which the ha-
bit Of drinking beer is cultivated.
Beer is the most pernicious Of all
alcoholic drinks because no other is
80 seductive. All classes Of people
regard it disgrace to drink whisky,
hut the intellectual elite Of our peo.
pie glory in immoderate beer drink
ing" He also says: "No other drink
so greatly leads to inte importance. :
Another indictment is made against
beer. II is declared that no other
alcoholic drink so quickly spoils the
appetite for normal food.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-04-06

are such silly things. So futile, SO
useless. They wind him and every
one else up 10 a net OF. impossible
predicaments, and before he can get
out Of it, the plain, old everyday
truth has to come along and cut the
string.
The woman who tells white lies,
making herself out to be more popu-
lar, more attractive and more i'm
portant than she is-who cares any
thing about what she says?
There's a strange thing about lies.
You never can remember them.
Scheme, plan, lay out your story
never SO we'll, learn it by heart, re-
hearse it-you'll slip up somehow
in the telling of it.
Why? No one knows.
Why shouldn't it be as easy to
memorize a nice, plausible tib, and
stick to it, as it is to learn a ny other
story by heart? 1t ought to be.
But it is not. The real truth about
what happened keeps throwing its
word in like an irrcpressible small
boy, and you cannot hush them.
A woman | know was mending
rip in her gown the other day.
"Don't do that" said friend. "If
you mend anything while you are
wearing it, it's sign that some one
will tell lies about you."
"Oh, said the woman, 81 know.
That's nothing. l can stand that.
Nobody will believe them. The
truth is what / dread" She was
right. No one ever does believe
Ithem-for long. This injured in
nocence we hear so much about in
the novel and the drama are seldom
either very innocent or very much
Injured
i What a mans reputation is that
he himself usually is judged to be,
lby a jury Of his peers, OF course.
,lThere are those who Judge by such
|, a narrow code that any man who
, differs from them in the smallest
particular Of his conduct OF life is .
: villain. They are not the world,
! however. You can't keep the truth
down.
I When woman tells me that she
left city because she was talked
( fabout," l don't have to 60 to that
city to find out all want to know
of her.
y The mean, cruel, malicious lie
seldom hurts any one permanently
except the one who tells it. Him
|, lit does hurt, and hurt irreparably.
He gets so he cannot speak the
rtruth, and when a man reaches that
stage, there is but little left for him
flto do but die. .-Winifred Black, in
4 ,|New York Journal.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-04-06
HuntIngburg Argus.

Huntingbur Argus. NJ, 49,,
A few days since we read the fol-
lowing sentence in letter adressed
to one Of the Republican committee
men Of the county and signed by a
"would-be" prominent republican,
Of this city: "After next Saturdays
meeting, let us write letters to our
secretary, Reutepohler, asking for
Hubbard's resignation" Ofall un-
nerve it strikes US that
this takes the whole bake shop. If
the writer can attain greatness in no
other way he seems in a fair way to
do go as a political anarchist. On
the very face Of his epistle he stamps
as too utterly selfish to ever
consider the good Of the party ex-
cept as it may affect him.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-04-06

There will be held in the C. P.
church at Ireland, Saturday night,
April 14th, a silver medal contest,
which will be very interesting, as
the class is a large one and willhave
good music:
March Miss Hardin.
Song Choir.
Prayer. Rev. Banta.
A Drunkard's g Warning, Chas. Funk.
A Fight for Freedom,
VIM. Burlingame.
Song. Miss Cooper.
The Terrible Charge,
Miss Mary Wineinger.
Blessed Savior, Thee Love,
V. d. Boyles and A. Glezen.
Converted Rumseller, Elsie Green.
Music violin and piano,
w. 4. Denote and wife.
Old Soapy. ). Miss Lyllian Cooper.
Music !. DIR. Johnson and wife.
The Hatred Of Rum. Il. II. Kelso.
Recitation. =. Miss Clara Dillon.
Song-The Boy. Miss ]. Harrison
and sister.
Young American War Cry,
Miss r. Hardin.
Song-Kings Of the Main,
v. D. Boyles.
The Religion Of a Christian Con.
science. -. ... Miss Susie Gray.
Music. w. 4. Denote and wife.
Recitation. miss Grace Holder.
Temperance Solo. Mrs. Johnson.
Recitation. Miss Jennie Blackwell.
The medal will be presented by
our superintendent, Mrs. Jennie G.
Lennon. Everyone isinvited; ad-
5 cts. >.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-04-06
The Ten Most Famous Americans.

EDITOR The St. Louis
Post Dispatch offered 500 a few
weeks ago for list Of the "Ten
Greatest Americans. | sent them a
Hist. The measly ignoramus did
not give me the prize nor even hor-
orable mention. 1 now appeal to
your sense Of justice and right to
see that the wrong done me is right.
Ii herewith submit the list |
sent to that "Yaller Journal" and
the list they gave the prize to, and
desire the candid public to vote on
the subject, and thus notify the
publishers Of the Post Dispatch
that they were victims Of a delusion
and snare when they turned my
list down. The list which captured
the five plunks was as follows;
Washington, Jefferson, Franklin,
Edwards, Marshall, Webster, Emer-
son. Lincoln, Grant, Edison.
The list | sent and which won
(nit) is as follows:
/. Peter Longshott, the creates,
raiser Of crawfish and hooppoles ol
the age. What is Washington com
pared to Longshott? 2. Military
Park Mormon, the great lecturer
and author of a famous history 3
ISilver-top with the Roman nose ant
stantorian voice. 4. G.. T.. Dicky
the great literary reviewer ant
author of the Evansville Courier 4
ghost stories. 5. The Only Rura
Statesman, who is now fishing TO
some thing else. 6. The Logroller
whose famous "MY couNTRYMEN,
: paralyzes the denizens Of Cracker
neck. z. DI. Killemquick, tn
, author of "Pipe Of Peace Lake"
, and manager of the Frogtown Quar-
tette. 8. Gussie, the great, wh'
I knows more about politics than h
, does about X. r. crossties and Law
suits. 8. The Cornfield Commedian
who holds on to his office in spite o
, the factional war which RACES abou
his head. 10. The Independent
> Dutchman, who wanted P. o. all
! got the Council Proceedings.
Isn't that the best list Of Famou
Americans? Of course it is. The
aggregation Of back numbers wht
won the prize are out Of date, Will
, mine are fresh, VERY FRESH. Say
does the P-D man know he's living
COMPILER
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-04-06

The l.. 4. & st. L. has quietly
passed into the hands OF j. PierponI
Morgan and his associates.
This has cropped out following
the announcement that a hearing
for the purpose Of taking a decree
for the sale of the property will be
had soon before Judge Woods ol
the United States circuit court ol
appeals.
Representatives Of the syndicate,
Receiver Jarvis and all interested
persons, will meet to complete the
transfer. Evansville Courier.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-04-06

commerce voted to give a subsidy Of
s4OO, 900 a year for twenty years
to corporation for a Pacific cable,
rather than let the government own
a cable OF its own. The Hanna
Payne shipping subsidy bill is 50
anxious to shovel public money into
private pockets without return that,
although it purports to be measure
for the encouragement Of American
shipping, it allows American own
I RS Of foreign ships TO dip into the
treasury along with the rest, and
even subsidies foreign owners oi
foreign ships provided they have q
majority Of American partners.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-04-06

Inc undersigned, Trustee of Balm
.aluge township, Dubois county, will at
shd 70 Township business on Saturday
~ every week, at Frank Betz's Office on
N,fth Main street, between Eighth and
sHlnth, IN Jasper. The Township Ii
srafy and Indiana School Books are at
'''ae place. WILLIAM SHULER, Trustee.
Alg. l6, lS97-y.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-04-06
~Madison township Republi.

s~Madison township Republi'
cans nominated their ticket as fol-
lows :-Trustee-W. 4. DeMott
Assessor--D. j. Whitsett; ]. p
w. H. II. Botkins; Constable-W.
0. Harris; Advisory oard-T. H.
Green, John Green, ]. II. Lennon
Surervisors---J. B. Myers, Lee Til
man, Jas. Burlingame, Henry 8
Ell, Martin Harris.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-04-06

i, Nollce is hereby given that the under
.aKned, Trustee Of HARRISON township,
Sa S,.l attend to township business on each
nasuf1ay saturday OF the year, at my office, and
spensons having township business To
a,nsact - are required to present it to him
49, me township library will be kept al
my home in Haysville.
GEORGE Nix,
''R' z5, 1897. Trustee.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-04-06

D~Louis T. Koerner, Of Hunt.
ingburg, has on the recommends
ton Of Democratic chairman Viii.
son, been appointed to gather the
manufacturing statistics for Jasper
and Huntingburg for the census de.
partment.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-04-06

~ The schools Of Hall township
closed last week, after sessions Of
no days. Most Of the schools
close this week or mex. and general
ly had terms Of 12O days-some
longer.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-04-06

~A G. A. r. Post at Ellsworth
las been re re-suscitated.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-23
SUSCEPTIBILITY OF TREES TO
LIGHTNING.

In connection with Professor A. j.
Henry's statistics as to loss of life and
injuries resulting from lightning in the
United States in 1899, it is interesting
to note the results of a recent inquiry
by the German government into the
effect of lightning upon trees. OBJ
servatlons were made by overseers OF
foresting stations scattered over an
area of $4,000 acres in the district of
Lippe. The forests comprised 70 per
cent. of beech trees, 13 per cent. of
pines, IL per cent. of oaks, and 6 per
cent. OF frs. OF PSI trees struck by
lightning So per cent. were oak, q per
cent. fir, and 8 per cent. beech and Z
per cent. pine. These figures snow the
extreme susceptibility of the oak to
lightning stroke, and the large and
disproportionate percentage of Us
attack upon the fir. The beech ap-
pears to be almost immune from
lightning stroke. While 20 per cent.
OF the forest trees were beeches. they
received only per cent of the strokes,
or about one-ninth of their propor-
tionate share. 1t has often been as
serted in England that the beech was
never struck by lightning. While the
German observations disprove this
broad assertion, they amply justify the
common belief in the rarity of the
occurrence. Professor Henry observes
that the zone of danger from lightning
extends over several feet, and cites
instances to show the error of tue
prevalent opinion that it extends but 4
few inches. Five hundred and sixty
two persons were killed and $40 in
jured by lightning in the United States
in 1899. The most common form of
disability from the stroke is partial
paralysis.