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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-26

last November. Mrs. Emily Sprague of
the daughter, with whom the mothtor
resided, died Dec. %, 1898. Since
that time Mrs. Wainwright has still
remained in the home, being cared
for by her granddaug hters, Mrs. Ida
Ball and Miss Wander Bic. Her descend
ants are Eugene and Fred Spragne
OF Minneapolis, Charles Sprague of
Milwaukee, and Mrs. Ida Snracne
Ball ,of Milwaukee, grandchildren bv
her daughter; Mrs. Emma Brown and
Mrs Hattie Meier of Chicago, grand
children by her son. There are also
eight great grandchildl en- and three
great great grandchildren living.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-26
M arriage Licenses

friedrich Dexheimer and Merida Bel
Barney, both of Fort Atkinson.
Rhynold Schmidt and Elsa Clara
Schmidt, both Of Aztalan.
Herman Freitag of jefferson and
Louise Gloede Of Watertown.
Chas. r. Burdick and Ida E. Water.
house, both Of Watertown.
Emil Peshak of Sun Prairie, Dane
county and Clara Mott of Waterloo.
Emil H. Blank and Veronika A. H
Barthel, both of Ixonia,
George Przylujsz of Milwaukee and
Stella Kowalski of Palmyra.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-26
Were Married.

Tuesday afternoon occurred the mar
riage of Charles r, Burdick and Miss
Ida Waterhouse, the ceremony taking
place at the home OF the bride, 2O5
Friedrich street, The groom is en-
ployed as fireman on the St. Paul
'oad between this city and Milwaukee.
The bride is a daughter of David Wat
erhonse and is a popular young lady.
The couple will make their home in
this city.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-26

III Will be o. interest to many people
to know that Watertown has a lady
citizen who will on next Tuesday, the
29th, attain to the ripe old age OF
100 years. The lady in question is
Mrs. Della Wainwright land ha, re-
sided here since 1852.
Mrs. Della Foot Wainwright was
born in Middlebury, VT, Sept. 29th,
1903. On juno 1st, 1928, she was
married, her husband being a business
man in Montepelier. He died on June
II, 1852, leaving her with a daughter
and son. Mr.. George Wainwright
the son, of Bismarx, N. D., who died
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-26
Interesting Announcements

interesting AnnOuncemenr
W. c. Matthew, the photographer
at 3O63 Main street, has recently dis
posed of all his outside studios and
now announces to his trade that in the
future he will devote his entire atten-
tlon to his ,Watertown gallery. Having
remodeled and refnished the interior
of his gallery he invites the people to
call, as he is prepared to turn out first
class work in the latest styles and at a
low figure. Remember the place,
Watertown's oldest photographer.
3064 Main street.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-26
To Enlarge Plant.

Owing to their rapidly increasing
business, the +. Kunert Manufacture.
ing company will enlarge their plant.
The capital stock will be increased by
$4,000. Options on the property
across the street have been secured al
which point larre brick building will
be erected. Twenty-Five new hands
will be employed and large number
OF improvements will be added to the
plant throughout. This will add much
TO the industrial grywth and advance
ment of the city.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-26
LETTER LIST.

List OF letters remaining at the postof-
nee Tor the week ending Tuesday, Sep
tember 22d, 1903.
MissiMinnie Anderson, Aug. Brann, Mrs, N. J;
Champion, Miss Dorathy Henschel, Will Harder,
Arthur Hornmerna Mrs. D. Kent Mrs. Cord
Lahge, Mrs. Willie anger, L. D. Marshall, Miss
Wegener, Mrs. T. Vrtebus
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-26

We are offering for limited time
only, the WOman's Home Companion
and this paper at a ridiculously low
figure. Come and see about it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-26
Old Resident il Dead

Marshall Nelson of Summit, Wau-
kesha county, died at the home of
Jacob Hansen in Concord at the age
of 60 years. He was UNMARRIED.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-26
James Meehan Robbed.

James Meehan. farmer residing
about 5 miles west of this city. while
returning home from the Jefferson
fair at the depot in Jefferson was
robbed of a sum of money
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-26
Circuit Court Adjourns.

Circuit Court Adjourns.
At the conclusion of the case of E..
j. Manning VS.. School District No. 6
of Fort Atkinson Tuesday, circuit
court adjourned until Monday of next
week. The case of Bertha Heth vs..
August Kruger ct al. will come up
for trial then and the Feldschneider
e.2sa
case has been put over until Wednes.
day, September 80.
The fine of $15 and costs in the case
OF the State VS.. Herman Kraft of this
city, who plead guilty to charge of
assault and battery amounted in all to
$62.62.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-26
Real Estate Sales.

Chas. David has bought a part o1
OutlOt % in the Second ward for $1,000.
Edward Gnatzig mode the sale.
The 200 acre farm of Adam Neis in
the town of Oakland has been sold tc
John Gormley for a consideration o1
$1,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-26

lightning and destroyed by fire.
lhe re-opening of St. Pauls church
and the Harvest Home Festival will
be celebrated on Sunday next, Oct. 3.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-26

Continued On page two.l
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-18


John G. Havemeyer, of New York has
sent broadcast throughout the country a
circular letter, in which he sets forth his
views on patriotism, and in the collec-
ton of thoughts or what he chooses
to term thoughts there is this: "The
teaching of patriotism" in public
schools is illogical and harmful and will
lower the tone of citizenship with the
coming generation. The salutation offer
ed piece Of bunting called the Flag is
form of idolatry". If this sentiment is
not treason to the flag it comes as near
as possible and not be the real thing.
1t would be far better for all con.
cerned if there were more people
who paid tribute to the flag. It
was this same tribute to the flag and
honor to the country that gave to Mr..
Havemeyer the privilege he is abusing
of sending his anarchistic doctrines
through the mails and living in coun-
try where personal liberty is as sacred as
the tenets of the church.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-18
Fool Legislation.

Perhaps the average lmbecile asylum
does not contain greater proportion of
real idiots than the average legislature.
OF all the numskulls that have furnished
amusement and disgust for sensible peo-
pie that class Of numskulls is the most
pltiable who are continually proposing
new laws to protect people against the
folly of their own acts.
But no man can do thing so silly
that another man many not rise up and
beat him. As if to lay all idiotic legis-
lation in the shade, Senator Horton, Of
this state, has introduced INTO the State
Senate a bill to prohibit any person who
has weak lungs from kissing another.
The bill reads: "Ifa physician testihes
that person has weak lungs and such a
person kisses another, he shall be found
guilty of a misdemeanor."
If only bill could be introduced to
prevent people who have weak brains
from devising laws, we certainly believe
that Senator Horton would be eternally
prohibited. It is just such horse play in
law making that has brought law into
such disrepute among the common peo-
Pile. When Lawmakers lose all semblance
of decency and dignity, they must ex-
pect that they will finally produce in
people a strong disgust of the whole
matter.
The average person regards the law as
something either to be ignored or out
witted. It is generally conceded that
law making is trade, that law is joke,
that mem bers of the legislature vote for
or against laws either from personal
vanity or political purposes.
At any rate, the grist of laws that are
ground out by the average Legislature of
today is disgrace to our civilization
and is the cause of more law breaking
tA40u UAC NA1"ludl GuS SO.Cdll-
ed criminal class. ~.
The present Legislature is not an ex-
ception, by any means. The members
have worked harder and as result have
introduced q great many more bills than
any former body, and among them are
some that are more ridiculous than that
of Mr.. Horton. It Is an idle and pre-
posterous abuse of the use Of the peoples
money, and the time spent is all but
wasted. Laws do not make government,
The fewer laws people have the better
they are governed, and the common
statutes of this state are becoming so
complicated by reason of amendments
and other changes that an ordinary man
must of necessity consult a lawyer on
points that should be so plain that "a
wayfaring man though fool' might not
err therein. - @...."
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-18

Representative Peterson last Thursday
succeeded in getting resolution passed
almost unanimously by the house for the
appointment of committee to investi-
gate the operations of the Chamber of
Commerce in Minneapolis, and was ap.
pointed as chairman of the committee.
The resolution was called forth because
of the arbitrary ruling that the Chamber
has of fning the members for buying
below certain margin. It is presumed
that this is IN the nature of trust.
There is little reason to believe that
anything will come out of the 1nvesti-
cation, but it will do no harm and may
serve to put the Chamber of Com.
melce in better light. The transac-
tions of this body are but little under
stood by the average man.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-18
New 0lm Review.
Wednesday, March IS, 1903.

The taxation of stored grain in eleva-
tors to the owner of the elevators, is
practically the same law as is in operation
in South Dakota, land the effect is that the
farmers who were in the habit of storing
their grain and thus escaping taxation
are now paying tax on all the grain they
own, for the elevator man charges the
tax on the stored grain up to the farmer
and takes it out of what he has IN storage.
1t is shrewd way of preventing a man
from dcdging his taxes.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-18
Coal Rate Comes Down.

| The work Of the Commercial IIn;nn =
regard to the lowering of the rate Of
coal to this city Is at last bearing fruit,
and the rate on hard coal that has been
$3.50, since the 10th Of this month IS
$1.95. This is direct result Of the fioht
that has been N made and won by the rail-
road commissioners in the courts Of the
state and finally in the supreme court Of
the United States.
The case eliminated from the action Of
the Commercial Union several years ago,
when It demanded the investigation Of
the matter and brought it into the courts.
The supreme court has only recently
handed down decision on the point.
and even since that time the railroads
have maintained the same rate, until G..
a. Ottomeyer acting for the Union IN
formed them that the matter would be
again taken up, and Mr.. English agent
for the St. Louis informed his company
of the fact and on the 10th of March the
rate was reduced from $3.50 to $1.95.
This recognition Of the rights Of the
cities to protest against the rates fixed
by the roads for hauling freight, is some
thing that will be of interest to all the
cities in the state aud shows that effective
work may be done by an active organi-
cation of business men. In this case
there is great Gre dit due G.. A. Ottome yer
for the persistence he has manifested in
this matter and the 6rmness he has ex-
ercised in the determination to win out
IN the case. Many have been skeptical
in the matter, believing that the roads
would over tide the decisions but he has
chung to the belief that city would be
benefited and now the question arises
will the railroads give the dealers the
rebate to which they are entitled2.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-18
GOOD SEEDS.
Farmers Are Paying Particular At
tention to What They Plant.

We are glad to learn that the farmers
of this section are paying especial atten-
ton this year to the matter Of planting
only reliable and tested seeds. A great
logue of Northrup, King & Co.. the re-
liable Minneapolis seedmen, which is sent
free to all who send postal card re-
questing it. These seeds are sold in the
best stores nearly everywhere in the
Northwest, but catalogue is handy and
will give much reliable information. The
advertisement in this paper gives the
address.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-18

legislature and he is becoming recog-
nized leader.
There is evidently a surplus Of farmers
in the East; that is, too many for The
acreage, or we should not have witnessed
SO many Of them migrating to the Cana,
dian Northwest last year. The opening
Of new lands in our own country by
means of national irrigation works will
t1rn the tide of home-seek ers on the land
to the great undeveloped West, thus add
ing largely to our national resources and
increasing our national greatness, in
stead Of taking wealth and population
out Of our country, as the Canadian i'm
migration is doiDg.-B roadax.
The hero OF the famous dog tax law
has introduced bill in the house that
will practically compel all newspape,
and magazine subscribers to pay in ad
vance, and If such subscriptions are moi
so paid or collected during the year in
which the paper was subscribed for, the
price is forfeited and the paper will moi
be entitled to recover. This is another
of those abortions that some of our won
de:ful statesmen, (God save the mark,
are trying to shove onto the people as
law. Why not say that if a man buys 8
farm and does not pay for it at the END
! of the time set for payment, the man
who sold the farm shall lose the farm and
| the amount due. The man who intro.
duced the bill may be SNARE enough but
he certainly lacks good judgment.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-18

Senator somerville il doing as much
in the way Of making name for him
self this session Of the legislature as he
did last. His opinions and views have
much weight with the members of the
legislature and he is becoming recog-
nized leader.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-09
TRIMMING.

By special aerogram from Yokohama
 August s, 2O03.-'The Russians have an-
 nounced that they are about to evacu- ate Manchuria. ."-Cleveland Plain Deal CT.
 "No." said the fond mother, "ot
 course little babies don't cry when they are ill heaven" j.. .,.-a.,- .--,
 "we all know that" growled little
 Tommy; If they did it, wouldn't be heaven. Philadelphia Record. Mrs. waldo-Cecil-He has a barrel of money! 4...4 s...s...sts ,r..s. .~s.,s. Edith Waldo Cecil-But is he all right socially? MT. Waldo-C -Cecil-oh, yes; he hasn't the least idea how he got it!-Puck.
 Your daughter plays some very diff ecult music" said the visitor. q should say she does.' answered
 MT. Cumrox serenely. Her teacher says she plays things that nobody ever thought of attempting to write. '- Washington Star. ..... "I don't want to be too easily won, she said. NaCuraly, ne coHceueu'
 "So, if I say no now" she went or
 anxiously, you won't get mad about
 it and never ask me again, will you?"- Chicago Evening Post. Fidgett-Do you ever take any notice of anonymous communications? Midgett-No; not unless the writers | names are signed to them.
 Fidgett-Yes, I suppose that does | make a difference; never thought ol that.-Boston Transcript. ' Charley, dear,' said young Mrs
 Torkking, ''how do they trim the sails ! of yacht?"
 "Why-er-they just trim 'em; that's all." T know. But what kind of trim | ming do they e?"-Washington Star 'The mosquitoes don't seem to be as
 numerous as they were last wtek," sait the first Jersey Boarder. . ''No," replied the other, tthe hunting | season opened the first of September you know. and guess some of the gun, l ners have been taking them for reed
 birds. "-Philadelphia Ledger.
 What do you think of our author | friends success?"
 'It's the irony of fate. After he has gone on record to the effect that tho | public is totally lacking in artistic dis | crimination and wants nothing bu trash, he gets out book that makes {
 universal hit. t."-Washington Star. Woodby Riter--I have called abou the manuscript left with you las week.. ''' Editor-Oh, yes, you called your stor, a Novel! Without Hero,' I believe Woodby Riter-Yes.
 Editor-Well, it has a hero now, ant I'm the man. I actually read it through to the bitter end.-~Philadelphia Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-09
DEFER ENT.

Those who rode on the old 'B. & O." and who haven't ridden on it since will
 be much impressed by .he accounts of the run of 12S miles in two hours and five minutes by regular train on that lroad the other day from Chicago Junc- ton, Ohio, to Garrett, Indiana. The average time on this run was about sixty-one and a half miles an hour. In order to make this average a speed as
 high as eighty-five miles an hour was Iattained for part of the run. There was a time when an attempt to make such a run as this on the B. & o. would have resulted ill disaster, but the road is now in very different shape than it was when people could easily get sea- sick by riding on it. During the re- ceivership money was spent lavishly and by the millions to reconstruct the
 track and buy new and modern equip
 ment Since the receivership ended the NOEh udS UeeH GOilLlIluGQ anu dQQlClOIldl
 millions have been expended in equip
 fnent and reconstruction, in reducing grades and curves and in laying heavy
 steel rails. When the main stem of the road was made it was the fashion to follow streams, drilling and blasting
 was a far more costly and difficult op- eration than now, cuts and tunnels were avoided at enormous cost in grades and distance, and the costliness of curves
 was not appreciated. Indeed, it is said that in early railroad construction some unnecessary curves were made because the engineers received extra pay for them.
 The new B. & o. seems to be all right,
 and it has a good advertisement in it's
 great run. The variety performers who
 have been so fond of telling their ex-
 periences on the B. & O. will have to
 get some new jokes.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-09
4 SUGGESTJON,

As almost everything is taught in the public schools nowadays, and as the girls are perhaps especially burdened by the conglomeration, We are reluc- tant to suggest that anything ought to be added to it. even if it would be greatly helpful. But it would be a good thing for the girls, and incidentally for the men who are going to love and care for them, if they could be taught while at school how to get on and off street cars. Then when they became women with babies and bundles at least some of them would remember the teaching and not go around putting themselves in imminent danger and soaring all beholders. It is a living wonder that so many of them live through their street-car performances. They get on and off the cars in the most reckless fashion. They seem to pay no attention to the rules and the efforts made for their safety. Their habit of getting off a car facing the other way from the way the car is go- ing is particularly full of danger and fright. Of course it shows that they are thoughtful. and that they are think ing so deeply that they are not mindful of the things that more frivolous man is mindful of, but for their own good and the good of those who worship them and work for them they ought to be little less deeply thoughtful when on their travels. If while girls are be- ing taught to think in the public schools they could also be taught to think about the way to use street cars so as to be safe and so as to not scare the men almost to death it would be well. We make this suggestion because we don't know of any other to make. All the others have been made, and there is no change. Perhaps there will be none now, but there certainly ought to be.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-09

It amounts, indeed, to nearly one hun dred per cent The drink monopoly
 agents sold in the province, which has
 population of about two million and
 half, 3,427,61O vedros (9,273,750 gall
 lons) of vodka for drinking, in addition
 to a quarter of million vedros (676,4 400
 gallons) of higher quality spirit, large
 proportion of which was used in the
 manufacture of liqueurs and fancy bev- erages. These amounts were not mere
 ly sales for transport elsewhere. as
 might be suspected in the case of a
 great commercial centre like the prov ince of Moscow, for out of total of 8, ,427, 7,61O vedros 3,014,641 vedros were re- tailed from the government drink shops. of which there were Gil in oper- ation. The strength of the vodka, pure
 spirit qualified with water, is 40 per cent. The total amount accruing to the government was 3O,664,7S4 Tubles (about | SIG, ,O00, ,OO0), of which no less than 22,- 79S,1 ,140 rubles was clear profit, an in-
 crease on the profit of the previous year of 1I.S45.9O6 rubles, or more than
 $6,OOO,OOO These figures for only one province out of half a hundred indicate the vastness of the revenue which the
 government derives from the liquor monopoly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-09
MEDICINE MEN.
The Priests and Physicians of Savages
 Worthy of Some Study.

The Priests and Physicians of Savages Worthy of Some Study.
 It has been the custom to relegate the
 medicine of savages to the limbo of the
 merely negligible. Yet, connected as it is with magic and superstition, it is
 none the less well worthy of the most careful study. Among most savages the medicine man occupies much the same position as that held ill civilized communities by two of the learned pro- fessions-physic and divinity. The
 medicine man is both priest and physi- elan, and is at once the repository of all that tribe knows, fears and believes In very low stages of human develop
 ment, however, he is at best only ma- gician, dealing in terrors, possessed of occult powers, but laying claim to no special medical knowledge.
 Thus, among the aboriginals of North Queensland, the tribal doctors do not attend specially on the sick-an invalid being cared for by wife or mother. Nor, as MT. Walter Roth, the Northern Pro-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-09

or they cough up an arrow point or
 small, sharp piece of stone or bone
 which they suppose has been transfer
 red from him to them by the evil spirit of another sorcerer. The medicine men
 or the EsquimauX are even more ex- traVagant in their pretensions. They say that they can prolong life indefi-
 nitely, and excuse their own mortality on the ground that when they die they
 nave been overcome by some stronger
 medicine man. They profess them selves able to change into wood. stone or animal, or even to walk on the wa ter or to fly, but they make a condition, which IS that mo one must see them" An Esquimau medicine man rubs the seat of his patients disease, blows on
 the part and then withdraws his hand, slowly and as if with difficulty, in or der to show that he is hauling out a
 heavy weight of pain" "At the same
 time he looks upward, rolls his eyes and groans." Then he throws the dis
 ease Violently away, and, breathing
 more freely, demands immediate pay
 ment of his fee
 Among the Esquimaux, as among the Australian blacks and the red Indians. there are women doctors. As set-off, l however to the foregoing account of savage medicine men, we should quot the recent remark of Dr. Gould, the
 well known American ophthalmologist: Tt is remarkable" he says, that saw
 ages and barbarians have learned so
 many great medical truths, and are so successful in the treatment of their dis I eases.''.
 The ancient Ineas, for instance, were
 in the habit of chewing cocoa leaves to sustain them during fatigue Europe
 ans noted the fact and discovered coca and cocaine. Many medicines are trace able to the pharmacpoeia of the medi- cine man, and much in surgery has long
 been known to savages. Such, for in stance, are massage, the use of splints and the treatment of fractures.-Lon- don Evening Standard. .sss