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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07
LUNACY ON THE INCREASE.
A Swedish Pr0feSSOr Says That Edu.
Gated Women Are the Chief
Victims,

Hermann Lundborg, of the great
Swedish -lunatie asylum at Upsala,
says that lunacy is increasing among
Swedish women and more especially
among the educated classes. In the
lower classes insanity is brought on
chiefly by the cares of life or intern
perance, but in the educated women
the main cause, he contends, is their
education.
DR.. Lundborg emphatical!y asserts
that the forced training to which this
class of women submit themselves is
znost hurtful.
cit is monstrous," he says, "to sub
ject women to this competition, and
if the competition does not cease eff
fects upon future generations will be
disastrous"
DIR. Lundborg states that the Swed-
ish who have been educated in acade-
mics have remarkably small families
when they have any and that in too
many cases their family relations are
unhappy owing to their inability to
discharge household duties.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07
A COLONY OF SQUIRRELS.
Large Number Are Pets of the Resi-.
dents of q Pennsylvania VIII
1a&e, and Prot exc ted.

Brandywine Manor, Pa, has a large
colony of gray squirrels, but no shoot.
ing is permitted near the village, the
squirrels being the pets of all the resi-
dents of the place, says the Philadel-
phia Press.
A number of years ago the late Will
liam Rettew, who resided in the vii
age, discovered a number of squirrels
in the garnet of his house and cared for
them. Then he became imbued with
the idea of protecting all the squirrels
in the vicinity. In the garnet he ar
ranged neat nests for them, and fed all
that came. The number multiplied
rapidly and they gradually established
homes in the trees in the woodland
near his home.
The worst enemy of the gray squirrel
is the red squirrel, and Mr.. Rettew be-
gan a war of determination against
the latter, which he kept up until his
death. Then his son continued the
work, and to-day there are hundreds of
gray squirrels in the woods for a mile
around the village, but few red ones.
Every resident considers it his duty to
kill red squirrel wherever found.
During the summer the animals NAV
be seen playing about the trees in
every direction, and they are often
found in the houses of the residents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07
CITY KEEPS RABBIT WARREN.
TOrquay, England, Makes Consider
able Revenue Out of Mu-
nicipaI Land.

In 1896 the council of Torquay, Dew
onshire, England with population of
33. 900, purchased the watershed to Sc
cure the purity of the water supply,
but was not satisfied that the four
square miles of land should lie idle.
Portions of the land are devoted to hay,
oats, etc., on which the horses of the
city are fed, and on other parts some
900 sheep Craze. More profitable than
the sheep are the rabbits which abound
in all parts of the moorland.
Men are employed as trappers to
catch these animals, and during the
last 10 months over 5000 rabbits were
sold at an average price of 1879 cents
after paying expenses. The woodlands
are preserved and about % partridges
were killed and sold during the year.
A nursery of more than 10000 fir and
larch trees is maintained, and these
also add to the yearly income.
The land cost the city 100000, says
the Municipal Journal and Engineer,
but it is very probable that the returns
from the industries to which il is de-
voted will soon wipe out this debt.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07
HELPS GOLDBRICK TRADE.
The LOSS of a Bar of Pure Metal IL
Fine Thing for the Con-
1dence Man

The loss of bar of gold recently
by an employe of firm of assayers
prompted some pessimistic remarks
by an officer of the United States as
say office. He said the recovery of the
bar was of no Importance, so far as
his theory was concerned, reports the
New York SUM
every time the loss of gold bar is
advertised" said this officer, cit means
harvest to the hustling gold brick
man. He clips the notice and the news
items bearing on it and seGds them
with a fetching letter to carefully
selected clientele.
'The letter is always work of art.
It tells how the writer, who is honest
but unfortunate, found the bar, or
brick is it is usually called, and feels
that he is entitled to more than the
reward ordinarily forthcoming from
the loser. For this reason he offers
it to the recipient Of the letter, who
is assured of a handsome profit if he
will make the trip to town.
"One of the recipients will accept,
and as the false bar bears something
like the United States seal and the
advertised number of the lost bar, the
details of the scheme are easily ear
ried through.
''The recovery of the bar within a
day or two, as happened in the pres
ent case and almost every other,
doesn't matter, as the clientele sell
dom reads the metropolitan dailies.
eve expect to receive any number
of letters from now on regarding this
bar. Often the fake bars are brought
in for our inspection, but nearly al
ways too late. They have been paid
for. In the case of letters, we advise
the writer's to go easy before buying;
or, if the case is one where the bar
has been recovered, we say SO very
emphatically."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07
INDIANS WERE HOMESICK.
Two Navajo. bucks Who Didn't Care
to Linger in the Metropolitan
Midst.

w. r. Johnson, an independent mis-
slonary among the Navajo Indians of
northern Arizona, was lately spending
few days in Kansas City looking after
business connected with his work. He
brought with him two Navajo bucks
with the usual unpronounceable
names. She-She-Nief and Pesh-la-Ki.
Et-Sette are the suspicious titles of
these braves, the former meaning
Long man Of his tribe" and the latter
signifying ''the silversmith.'
The two Indians accompanying Mr..
Johnson, says a local report, intended
to remain here for some days taking
in the sights but were finally over
come by inconsistencies and requested
the missionary to send them back to
their squaws and sheep.
Mr.. Johnson says that there are
about 10000 Navajo Indians in north
ern- Arizona. Over third of them live
On their own Or rented land and draw
no money from the government. These
Indians are poor, but independent,
and do not depend upon Uncle Sans
bonnties for living, but earn their
daily bread mostly by raising sheep
and making Navajo blankets, which
have become famous throughout the
clothing markets OF the United States.
Although civilized in many of their
customs, the Navajos live in little
novels consisting of a framework of
poles covered by dirt.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07
VARYING SIZES OF FISH.
Surprisfng Fact Concerning Separ rate
Species Learned at the New
York AquUrium.

Inere are Dig ISn ana nCtle aQuIG
fish of the same species, as there are
big men and little men. Strange and
unaccountable as it may seem, it is
demonstrated fact that there ara fish
of the same species and of the same
age which differ greatly in size. In
some cases it is possible to explain why
there is a disparity in size. At the
aquarium, for instance, there are fish
which have not grown for several
years, which would have increased in
size had they been in their native
habitat. In their cases it is known
that their Nopfnement has something
to do with this failure to grow.
A visitor to the biological laboratory
of the New York aquarium few days
ago was surprised to be told that
fish in one Of the round glass jars,
which was only an inch or Whereabouts
in length, was more than year old.
Such a fish in it's native waters prob
ably would have been four or five
inches long, he was told.
That there is also an unaccountable
reason for this difference in the size Of
fish was shown by Mr.. Spencer, who
has charge of the aquarium. "You
would be surprised 20 know" said he,
"that in fish hatcheries you will often
find fish Of the same kind and the
same age which are not at all alike
in size. Some will be only half as long
as the others. Sometimes it is neces-
sary to take out the smaller ones, be-
cause the larger ones swallow them"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07
warton Destruction.

The buffaloes of the west have been
treated almost as wantonly as the for
ests of the east. Of course, it was nee
essary that both should be thinned out
considerably to make room for an adj
vancing civilization, but it was not nee
essary nor was it wise that either
should be brought SO near the point Of
humiliation, says the Boston Tran
script. The contempt for and hostil-
ity to the sublime primitiveness of
this country that have marked an adj
vance more resistless than any of the
old buffalo migrations have been pain
full and unpraiseworthy features of our
la ST century DEVELOPMENT.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07
Played His Own Dead Maxcb.

A tragic incident occurred at the
Pergola theater in Florence recently,
reports the London Mail. The orches-
ira had just finished playing the funer-
al march which closes the last act Of
Franchettis "Germania," when one Of
their number, q. well-known performer
on the French horn, named Carlo BULL,
fell lifeless on the ground. An apo
plectic stroke had killed him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07
Hundred Acres of SQUIRRELS.

81. P. Kellor is the owner of hum
dred-acre squirrel park on one of his
farms two miles west of Ripley, Tenn,
reports the Nashville Banner. The
trees in the park consist mainly Of
oak, hickory, beech and a few pecan
and chestnut. There are several
varieties OF squirrels-gray, black, fox
and few white. At almost any hour
Of the day scores of the little nimble-
footed creatures can be seen sporting
around the cribs and barnyards on the
premises, and seem to be quite gentle
occasionally few of them stray of
in adjoining woods, but return.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07
NERVOUS DEBILITY,

Vital Weakness and Prostra-
ton from overwork and other
causes. Humphreys Homeo-
pathic Specific No. %, in use
over 40 years, the only success
full remedy. 81 per vial, or spec
ial package for serious cases, SO.
Sold by Druggists. ntprepaid receiptof price.
Humpheys Med. Co. William 4 John Sts. Nv
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07
Spotted Dogs Out Of style.

The old black and white spotted Dali
matian dogs, better known as coach
dogs" that were so numerous and pop
ular throughout the United States
from 1869 to 1882, Inclusive, appear to
have become extinct in this country,
having, like the Newfoundland, which
has shared the same fate, gone out OF
style.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07
A Tough Mistake.

A deranged man walked into Geor-
gia hotel while the guests were at
breakfast and announced drama tically
that he was "the devil" Some of the
guests fled the scene; but one cool
headed fellow, motioning him to
seat, said: ''Tackle this steak, then;
It's tough as where ycu come from"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07
Cities without Mayors.

Two American cities, and only two,
have no mayors. They are Washing
ton and Pittsburg. Washington is
governed by district commissioners
and Pittsburg, under the ripper act. .
has q recorder, .
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07

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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07
For Piles.
Sample mailed free.
One application gives relief.

The continued use Of Hum
phreys' Witch Hazel Oil per-
manently cures Piles or Hem
orrhoids-Extern or Internal
Blind or Bleeding, Itching or
Burning, Fissures and Fistulas.
Relief nnediate-cure certain.
Three Sizes. 25c., SOC. aud 81 90. Sold by
Druggists. or sent prepaid on receipt of price.
HQmDhreys' Medicine Co., Cor. William and
John Sts.. New York.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07

The Republican Office Is thoroughly
equipped for all kinds of Job printing.
We are here to do business and are pre-
pared to compete with any office in the
county in prices OR quality of work. You
will do we'll to see us before placing or
ders elsewhere.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07

The school Milwaukee Made Famous.
Hoffmann's College, Largest in Wis
consin. English, business. shorthand
All students employed. Begin now.
Write for catalogue. Third and State
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07

1872 ~
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08
Marsh Men Are Like Apes
i'm Stature and Action

1.-The all scientific Australia
British New Guinea Sir Francis Winter and the
details
the dwarf Ahgaambo tribe This
in
Nelson
IS story o discovery:
back beyond native
and the
walk hard ground
After shouting
The
broad,
weaklooking This last feature
long slight,
joints The
while standing
he looked to be
being have
another dwarf
height 26
This dwels with his people
declared "a stanch
stumbled
upon o. expedition He small and
which allowed fall
with of
with the points uppmo
fall the pit These natives
concealed
will strike OF the
good stature and ware
armed with formidable
clubs
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08

critics who were cold with him when he
gave us "a Gentleman of France" have
gone into raptures over his portrayal OF
"Rafiles" They agree re e.. that IT. BelleW nst IL IN
tractive personality on the stage TINS
year Both the play and the company
are as warmly commended
The "Chaperons' Club at Weber and
Fields is disorganiZed now that the NC
Coy Sisters have left there. The qualified
members were Mrs. Mccoy and Mrs. De
Haven. the latter the mother of the young
advises us to get in before l o'clock be-
cause he hasn't an all-night license.
While waiting to go home with their
children the mothers, 1t is said, would
perior talents of their respective Off
springs. thereby furnishing much amuse-
ment to members Of the Weberfields fam
lily,
Orrin Johnson, as a star in Hearts
Courageous" must have been doleful
failure in New York. One writer says that
the funniest line in the piece when 1T was
at the Broadway theater was that utter
ed by an actor who has the opening
speech of the second act. Looking around
he says: why. there Is no one here" "
This line was always good for laugh
when the few in the audience sized up
the meager gathering and reflected upon
the downright truth OF the statement, ex-
cepting of course the deadheads, who are
not counted.
So Julia Marlowe is to follow in the
train of her distinguished predecessor,
Clara Morris. and retire from the stage
to take up literary work. Miss Marlowe
announced in Chicago last week that she
will retire temporarily with the end of
her Windy City engagement and return
to her home in New York, there to begin
the writing of a series of articles on the
drama, which are to appear in one Of
the magazines. Literature has been
hobby with Miss Marlowe for some time
but it was not thought that she would
desert her chosen profession for the new
work. Disappointment over her inabil-
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08
Here's to the Horse.

The Horse-''Here's to that bundle Of
sentient nerves, with the heart OF wom-
an, the eye of a gazelle. the courage OF a
gladiator. the docility Of a slave. the
proud carriage Of a king. and the blind
obedience of a soldier; the companion OF
a desert plain. that turns the moist fur
rows in the spring in order that all the
world may have abundant harvest that
furnishes the sports of kings. that with
blazing eye and distended nostril fear
lessly leads our greatest generals through
carnage and renown, whose blood forms
one of the ingredients that go to make
the Ink in which all history is written.
and who finally. in black trappings, pulls
the humblest OF us to the newly sodded
threshold OF eternity. Rider and Driver.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08

to see him again. as this Will be his last
appearance in America for some time.
1t is thought that the nonSucceSs of the
play will under the circumstances not in
terfere to a marked degree with his tour,
which, by the way, is to be quite an ex-
tenSive one.
The children playing with Maxine Ell
lott in Her Own Way are all re-
markably bright youngsters and, in fact,
each one considers herself-not forgetting
the one boy--alnost as clever as any of
the older players. The boy. Donald Gal
scenes Of the play has to ride big hobby
horse The other day Miss Elliott, think
ing to please the youngster said to him:
Donald, I'll tell you what I'll do, if
just like thiso The youngster looked at
her rather pityingly. my dear Miss FL
lott" he said, "you must understand !
do this hobby-horse business because ii
is in the part-not from choice
The new scene provided by George AIDE
for the second act of Peggy From Paris
has made hit. Mr. AIDE saw the possibili-
ties of humor in the typical janitor Of a
big apartment house and has introduced
cooks, French maids assistant janitors
and nurse maids The scene takes place
in the courtyard of an apartment house,
and Mr.. Savage has provided for 1t new
when the janitor Is the real boss of the
modern apartment this bit Of satire in
Peggy From Paris is keenly relished.
Robert Edeson is devoting his leisure to
playwriting. In collaboration with Byron
Ongley. member of his Soldiers of For
tune company, he is preparing for his
manager, Henry B. Harris. stage ver-
sion of "Conjuror's House." story OF
the Hudson Bay territory, by Stewart
Edward White.- author of 1.-THE Blazed
Of Forest III life The i' scenes % are u.i laid al
Hudson Bay. a locale heretofore unused
for dramatic purposes. Mr.. Blossoms role
will be that of Trent, young voya-
geur.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08
How St. Paul Deals With Neglected
and InCorrigibIe Children

told him that the shop keeper had
gone across the street and coaxed him
to go in and rob the TILL He went in
and took the money and was caught as
he was going out of the door, while the
other boy ran away. ' cte,t.
Judge Hine sentenced him to the
training school, but suspended the SEN
tence and placed him in charge of the
probation officer for six months. ,nf
Freddy was taken from the court
room to my office, where. in the pres
ence Of his sister, I appealed to the
boy in a fatherly away.p~ It then devel-
oped that Freddy was a. good and
helpful boy about her home but that
he hated to go to school, and would not
learn when he did go. He said he was
willing to go to work If he could get
a job. After considering the matter
for few moments I~stepped to the tel
ephone and called up one of the large
business houses In the city and asked
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08
Piano Clubs Success

is assured. Only few pianos left, Nearly
so people in and around St. Paul have been
made happy. We are more than satisfied. We
offered the people of the Northwest an oppor-
tunity to get a 5000 piano for s2a5. To do
this it was necessary for US to get 50 pianos of
one kind at one time, and the only question
was. will the piano buyers appreciate what we
are doing for them We are glad to say they
have appreciated it. and nearly 50 have joined
already. Every one is satisfied, and thinks
his piano is the best. The terms are so low,
SO down. and s1.5o per week. that any one
can join,z Piano sent home same day you join
the club. We were the first to inaugurate the
Piano Club the same as we were the first to
introduce the easy payment plan.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08
Lands closed to the public.

DULUTH, Mimi, Nov Acting under
orders from Washington the Duluth land
office was compelled to close to the pub
lie a tract of nearly 100000 acres Of land
in Itasca county. The lands We're former
ly an Indian reservation, but were ceded
to the government by the Chippewa In
dians in 1895. 1t consisted of two tracts,
one comprising 115,342.78 acres and the
other 4O,S09S0 acres and was known as
pine lands and disposed of by public
auction Sales have been so small that It
is now withdrawn and will he held until
there is greater demand.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08

the proprietor IL he had use for a boy
like Freddy. I was told to send the
boy around in the afternoon. Freddy
was engaged. He is now delighted with
his work. is we'll liked by his employers
and has been doing well ever since.
Had this boy been treated roughly
and sent off among boys worse than
himself in a training school. he might
have developed hardened temper and
eventually turned out badly. Similar
cases are of almost daily recurrence.
and they are all treated In much the
same way"
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08

Miss Adams physical limitations and
that they long to see her back in her
element-iight comedy.
Laura Burt who has been abroad so
long that her friends had almost lost
track of her, is back in her native coun-
try, having returned last week from Eng
land with Sir Henry Irving's company,
in which she is seen this season.
Jean Richpin, the French dramatist is
on the high seas. bound for this coun-
try to witness the performance of his
Anna Held has just scored big sue
cess.
Kyrle Bellew was welcomed to New
York with open arms So far as the news
papers are concerned he has made the
most substantial hit of the season. Ihe
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08

mache; while one of his brothers was
christened 'Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor
Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchen-
wyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma Nevill
Dysart Plantagenet." The real difficulty
pellations when the christening clergy
man has succeeded in pronouncing them.
London Daily Chronicle.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08
Loads of Names.

Imagination staggers at some Of the
! Christian names borne by certain scions
| of the Tollemache family. One of them
(son Of a Lincolnshire parson) matricu-
two ago, as Leo Quintus Tollemache Toll
1emache de Orellana Plantagenet Tolle-
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08
IMPoSToR USED THE
NAME OF Robert GoELET
In This Way He Sought to Gain the Hand
of a Young Woman.

Oi
NEW YORK, Nov. 7.-Convinced that
an impostor used their name to gain the
hand of Miss Eleanor Anderson, tele-
graph operator in an uptown hotel the
family of Robert Goelet had employed
detectives to find the man, with instruc
tions to leave no stone unturned to clear
up the mystery which day or two ago
took the form of an announcement that
the young millionaire was about to wed
Miss Anderson. The latter story was
quickly denied, but the Anderson family
insisted that a man representing himself
as Robert Goelet had presented to their
daughter letters of introduction and that
he also used cards bearing that name.
The letters were forgeries The i'm
postor went so far as to show Miss Ander-
son her future home on Fifth avenue and
all preparations had been made for the
wedding when the story got into the
newspapers and thus reached the man
who was supposed to be taking the lead
ing part in the romance. Thus far no
trace Of the mans true identity has been
secured.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08

ity to secure suitable new plays is said
to have had much to do with the ac-
tress taking the step she has. Next season
Miss Marlowe begins a three years joint
starring engagement with Z. H. Sothern
In a revival of akespearean plays. This
latter venture is to be under the direction
of Charles Frohman. SO if Miss Mariowe
lives up TO her present resolution she will
not long be an absentee from the foot
lights.
Sir Henry Irving does not seem to have
made very deep impression In New
York the past week with his mammoth
production of Dante" In fact, it is re-
garded by most of the critics as too
gloomy and mystic to meet with any
think like popular favor, but as the fa-
nous English actor has such a wide
spread following in this country his many
friends will doubtless be just as anxious