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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-28
LECTURE AT PRES
BYTERIAN CHURCH.
On ADMISSION FEE WILL BE
CHARGED AND YOU ARE
INVITED.

Prof. Waitman Barbe. OF our state
University, Will deliver an address
on the subject "The Schools and
The Community" at p. m. Tuesday.
larch 9Th. in the lecture room OF
ne Presbyterian church. No ad-
mission fee
The patrons of the schools and all
others interested in the development
IL our school system. are urged to
ne present.
J. w. TINSLEY,
Supt. OF Schools.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-28

In 1862 Lieutenant Worden com
manded the Monitor. In 1907 the
best housckeepers i'm the land are
i'm full Command and winning three
battles every day.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-28

some Grocers make money on
Their brands. That is all right IL IL
uits You, but he will get Monitor
you insist upon it. 1t will pay you
, INSIST.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-28
THE LAST VOYAGE.

These lines appear to the Specta-
tor. as written by an old carpenter
in a workhouse in North London.
My work on earth is well nigh don ,
| wait the setting of the sun.
hear the surging of the sea,
That beach upon eternity.
! see far off the shadowy ream.
And thither turn the trembling helm.
The winds that blow so cold and
dear
Grow softer as the end draws near.
The distant CLEANS OF silver light
Relieve the darkness of the night;
There stand upon the misty shore
Faint forms of loved ones gone be-
fore.
The voice that once said Peace, be
still"
Now whispers softly, Fear no ILL.,"
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-28
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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-28

Mr. T. Y. Fellows, of Chicago. is
in the city prospecting.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-28

NOTICE: 1 Will sell for
$500 cash, and 80 month
ly payments of 500 each.
a 30 x 125 foot lot, and a
4 room house, renting at
So per month, situate 100
yards from Graham de-
pot. w. A. LINDSAY,
q" Graham, Va.
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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-28

I sail along, yet not alone,
The Saviour takes me for his own
wait his greeting" when land,
wait the grasp of his loving hand.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-28

Prompt personal attention given 10 claims
In Mercer and Mcdowell counties w. Va
and farewell county, Va. Commercial an
corporation Law specially
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-02-28

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Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-20
EEXHIBIT-LECTURE
ON TUBERCULOSIS
In the Assembly Room of
High School Next Fri
day Evening.

There Will be a tuberculosis exhibit
and free lecture on how to prevent the
de. elopment and spread of this most
dreaded disease Friday evening,
January. 3, 1908, in the ssembly room
Of the high school building. This will
not be a scientific lecture, but plain
common sense talk to parents. Pro-
fessor Ravenal will treat the causes OF
tuberculosis, why it is spreading so
rapidly among the children of Amer
ica, and how parents may guard theil
children against its Infection.
The exhibit weighs GU pounds and
contains specimens which show the
disease at different stages of its
developm ent.
Professor RavenaI will explain
these stages in connection with his
lecture. He will also show different
developments by means of stereopticon
views.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-20

We would call the attention Of the
readers CT The Leader to the first of
a series Uf articles appearing this
morning, On "Talks on Character
Building" by Prof. G. M. J..
Badow. Mr.. Badow is in the city
for few days to introduce the plan
of character building OF the Auxiliary
Educational League OF Boston, which
was evolved by Thomas Bailey
Aldrich, Henry Van Dyke, Charles
Elliot Norton, Hamilton Wright
MabIe, Granville Stanley Hall and
others equally eminent III the educa-
tional world, MIR. Badow, at the
University Of Berlin, as we'll as
Chicago. has made the education OF
the child speciality and his work as
far as we can Judge. should be re-
ceived with appreciation, since it
meets q demand of the age and solves
admirably the all important question
"What Shall Our Children Read
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-20

street lighting, namely, on Seconu
street south of the intersection of Mil
waukee street; In Milford street north
OF. the Northwestern Railway crossing :;
in the Sixth ward near the inter-
section of Garfield and Lincoln streets
and in North Church street near the
Fifth ward hall eaId committee re-
ports thereon as follows: That in
view of the fact that the aggrt gate
amount paid for street lighting is
steadily increasing SO as to become
burdensome to the tax payers, and in
consideration of the Mayors last
communication to the council IN which
he requested that the city be careful
IN the matter of increasing It's accounts
for street lighting, your undersigned
committee does not deem it advisable
to report favorably on said petition S
or any Of them.
The committee reports that the cost
of street lighting, with the present
number of lights is as follows:
70 electric arc lights, at $40. 90. 81, :
900. 90; 10 electric arc lights, at $50,
$500 90; 3 incandescent lights, at $50.
$50 90; 66 gas lights, at $50, 81, $50 90.
Total cost per year, 81, $50. 90.
The committee returns the above
petitions for lights to the council
without recommendation and asks that
they be disposed of IN open council.
A petition was presented to the
council asking for the paving Of Cady
street, between Third and Fourth
streets. The matter was referred to
the board of public works and and
the committee on streets and bridges.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-20
Communication.

Fargo, N. D., Dec. 16, 1907.
Editor Leader: Out in the Flicker
tail state, Roosevelt is regarded, as the
only man in the Republican party who
can defeat Bryan in case of his
nomination by the democracy for the
presidency. Republicans and democrats
alike have the utmost confidence in
his honesty and desire to serve the
people as whole without regard to
class or the masses. The union men,
and the unions are strong here are to
a man In favor of his nomination and
election. What is true of this state
will hold good in every state and with
out that vote our party cannot elect
it's candidate.
In this state there is an "insur-
gent party within the Republican
party which in many respects is very
similar to our halfbreeds at home.
They are republicans where it suits
their convenience and pleasure to be
such, otherwise they JUN hands with
the democrats and defeat the republican
nominees as they did last year in
defeating the republican nominee for
governor. The insurgents" have
an abnormal appetite for Office and
at the present time are after Senator
Hansbrough who is one of the very
best men the state has had in the
senate since its admission into the
union, but that cuts no figure and
they will rry to encompass his defeat
and fail.
There is singular anomala out
here. The Irish vote the republican
ticket. There must be something IN
the atmosphere which influences them
to vote right. Should not be surprised
that If John Ryan, William Kelly, M.
Began, Ed. O'Byrne and M. Burke
We're out here they would do the
same thing, and that recalls to mind
story the writer recently heard.
A Irishman came from Wisconsin to
engage in business. After remain
ing a couple of weeks decided to
return to his former home. Beng
asked his reason for going back
when there were good opportunities
for making money replied: That he
would not remain in any country
where the water ran up hall and
the Irish voted the "donled' repub-
lican ticket.
There is only light covering of
snow, the weather is mild and the
people contend that it is the best
winter thus far ever experienced but
there may be change and winter
run into to June as it did this year,
for North Dakota weather is mighty
ION sartin.
n =
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-20

linz of action and formulate q demand
upon the leaders of the party which
they will be obliged to notice.
The writer deprecatss the intro
ductiOn of either racial Or national
demands in state politics, but il is q
notorious fact that Scandinavians have
of late yeas received the lions share
of the offices, al houch the Germans in
the state out numbered the Scandina-
vianst two to one. The reform (?)
movement in the party has been
responsible in a large measure for
the existing conditions in the party
which has been aided by German
votes without which the Republican
party wor Id have met with defeat.
The Nors6 and the irish have been
played against the German who is
now awakening to the fact that he
is of no account when it comes to a
distribution of the Offices and proposes
to know the reason why he is ignored
There is no doubt, but that there
will be a large attendance at the con-
ference and Watertown should be we'll
represented.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-20
WdtertOWn. Wis. Friday, Dec. g
ANOTHER "CORPORATIoNIsT'r

AVO 1Eb COisfO1tA IlONlSI
Prof. j. Laurence Laughlin, head
of the department of polictical
economy at Chicago university, is in
curing some risk OF finding himself
denounced as a Corporations" and
paid advocate of predatory wealth.
Hear him: public men who, in
order to juggIe with the mob for
personal advancement, have recklessly
attacked the railways and corporations
have done great damage to public
confidence and injured the good in a
rough and ready pursuit of the bad.
The bull in china shop method will
not do with the delicate mechanism of
financial affairs.''
Prof. Laughlin evidently agrees
with another and perhaps still more
distinguished authority on economics
and finance, Prof. Sumner of Yale,
that indIscriminate corporation bait
ing, reckless and ignorant legislation
actuated by the selfish motives of the
demagogue, and the general craze for
ripping things open and tearing things
down sedulously worked up by poll
ticians for their own profit are to a
considerable extent responsible for
present difficulties.
Prof. Laughlln, like every sensible
man whose heart is right, admits
there were abuses to be cured and
rascals to be smoked out. But he
has no respect for the judgment OF
the farmer, cited by President Mel
len, who threatened to set fire tt
every barn in the neighburhood be-
cause there was a skunk under one
of them. -MilWaukee Sentinel.
No state in the union, possibly
with the exception of Kansas, has
been injured to the same extent az
Wisconsin by idiotic legislation pro
posed by jack rabbit politicians fol
the purpose of appealing to the cupudity
and selfishness of the masses who in
the end, suffer more from such legis.
lation than those at whom it is direct
ed. Kansas relegated its Jerry Simp-
sons and Pfieffer to private life,
sighted itself and has prospered, anC
so will this state, when the people
have recovered from their politica
dementia and listen to reason, rather
than to the yawp of demagogues who
are actuated IN their fight against
corporation not from any interest il
the people, but by selfish. persona
motives.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-20
OUT OF THE CURRENT.

The Milwaukee Free Press hoists
the name of R. M. LaFolIette for the
republican presidential nomination.
That name has familiar sound. but
we Cortelyou, that a blast from the
Cannon Knox TAFT over Forakers.
Jefferson Davis, senator from Arkan-
sas, unloaded himself In the senate
Thursday much to the disgust of
the aristocratlc members of that
distinguished body of trust defenders.
1t may be true ttat his manners and
language were coarse and that he
would have appeared to better ad-
vantage in bsrnyard, but they needed
plain talk and Davis gave it to them
without any regard for senatorial
decorum.
The democratic national convention
will be held Al Denver, Colo, July, Z
1908 to nominate William j. Bryan
and no doubt adopt platform that
will be silent or non-committal on the
important issues in which the people
are most interested. 1t has been
truly said that the democracy always
does the wrong thing at the right
time and it is to be presumed that
history will repeat itself.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-20

1t took eight generations OF con-
scIentious upright, true men 20 make
one Emerson. He says Glitch your
wagon to the stars The highest
ideals are never too high!
What are our ideals? What ideals
have we for our child dear
reader? Are we satisfied with our
selves and therefore think that if our
CT ildren grow up like US, Trey will
be good enough? Or is there some
quality that we have not developed
when young, and have vainIy striven
to cultivate when it was too late i?
Let Us hope that only the latter be
true although you are able to cite
cases of the former. And if so, are
you. as an anxious parent, not question
ing yourself concerning what you
could do, to develop all those qualities
which you know are dormant in the
wee little baby and which YOU know
will later make all the differences
between cultivated and an unculti-
waited mind, between a character and
sham?
What then determines character.
The same that does the engraving :
Thought, As we think so we are, so we
feel, so we act. How then can we
guide thoughts in order to become
somebody some day?
~ clf .,Cro
educational failures by charging rs
per cent of our losses and gains to
hereditY and the rest to environment.
This was easy and very convenient
to stiffie our conscience. Today the
leaf has turned and we pay less
attention to heredity and all attention
to envoirnments. And rightly We
may do SO, since we have ever so
many cases where nUble ancestry and
exalted station Of life has not pro-
tected a man from falling and BE-
coming criminal. while OH the other
hand We can cite many d case where
q son of a criminal has become
useful true citizen. Socalled heredity
should have been strong enough to
keep IN both cases the individual on
the level of his parent.
Environment was stronger and made
the criminal and the man.
Before we go into the meaning uf
environment AMI then come to the dis
cussion of means and ways to building
character and produce better type
of manhood and wumanhood let US sum
up. hope to have shown that char
acter is the one attainment that dis
tiuguishes US from the dumb brute,
that 1t is essential to cur success. l
have defined what | understand char
acter to be and that it is mainly de-
ternined by environment
Ito be continued.)
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-20
WILL DEMAND RECOGNITION.

Republicans of German parentage are
becoming restless and oisgusted. and
it is said to be planning vigorous
campaign to secure recognition from
the party IN the state for candidates of
German anticendents. With the ex-
ception OF Emil Baench, who was
placed upon the ticket in 1894 as
lieutenant governor to strengthen the
ticket and sidetrack John @. Koch of
Milwaukee who was an aspirant for
the gubernatorial nomination, no man
of German birth or parentage has been
recognized by the party in this state.
To the end, that concreted action
may be taken looking 70 a fair and
Just recognition Of the Germ an re
publicans, CO ference will be held
at Milwaukee soon after the begin
ming of the new year to decide upon
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-20

A tickling cough, from any cause, is
quickly stopped by DR.. Shops Cough
Cure. And it is so thoroughly harmless
and safe that Dr.. Shoop tells mothers
everywhere to give it without hesitation,
even to very young babes. The whole
some green leaves and tender stems of a
lung-healing mountainous shrub, furnish
the curative properties 30 Dr.. Shops
Cough Cure. 1t Gains the cough, and
heals the sore and sensitive bronchial
membranes. No opiHm,a no chlOrOfOrm
nothing harsh used to injure or suppress,
Simply a resinOus plant extract, that
helps to heal aching lungs. The Span
iards call this shrub which the doctor
uses, "The Sacred Herb" Always de-
mand DR.. Shops Cough Cure. W. IL.
Meyne Drug Co.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-20

Some years ago one of our best
known educators made the statement
that a large percentage of cur college
boys and girls of today did not come
UP to the expectations held by their
teachers and parents on account of
lack of character building. This is a
startling announcement, that gains in
value as We consider the experience
of the one VINO made it. But that it
is true anyone of our advanced men of
science can confirm and more, we all
if we dare to look squarelY in our own
and our childrens faces must confess
that among TWO kinds Of men IL this
world-those who sail and those who
drift, thUse who choose the ports to
which they will go, and go there with
or against the wind and those who let
wind and tides carry them where thay
will-we have as get too many who
belong to the latter class. To which
class do you belong and therefore to
which will you boys and girls belong =?
Success is always in the man WHO
wins 1t, not i'll conditions But you
must have qualified yourself to be the
winner, We have scientific and com
mercial schouis and colleges. Have
they made man of you or will they
make men of your boys and true
women of your girls? Never unless
you have gone there with one reQul-
sta, the one that business men pay
the highest prices for that society
needs, demands and admirers, the one
that will liftsyou out of no matter
what modest position into command
ing one, commencing the respect,
esteem and love of your fellow men.
This requisite is character. What Is
character? Webster defines chrac ter
as the sum of qualities which distIn
guish one person from another, good
qualities or the reputation OF possess
ing them. The Entomology of the
word gives US a still better exG lana
ton "charasein" in Greek means to
engraVe, to cut deep. TO furrUW.
VINO does the engraving? l say
our thoughts. The sEers of all ages
have said so and have therefore
though word and deed endeavored to
teach rs to think right thoughts
and thus engrave right images in our
minds, for thought is all.
Webster says: "the sum of quail
ties we possess. The greater this
sum, the greater will be our Ct ar
acter. In order to make this sum
large We can not afford to overlook
any qualities that make man what
Re should be and We can still less
afford to wait until ties are BET
ter" until 1--WE have more leisure"
The character building CT a child be-
g'-s hundred years before it Is born.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-20
A REAL WONDERLAND.

SOuta Dakota, with its rich silver
mines, bonanza farms, wide ranges and
strange natural formations, is veritabe
wonderland. At Mound City, in the home
of Mrs. E. D. Clapp, wonderful case OF
healing has lately occurred. Her son
seemed near death with lung and throat
trouble. "EXhausting coughing spells
occurred five minutes" writes Mrs
Clapp, when [ began giving DR.. Kings
New Discovery, the great medicine, that
saved his life and completely cured him
Guaranteed for coughs and colds, throat
and lung troubles, by Chas. A. Gamm
druggist. soc. and 800. Trial bottle
rec.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-20

When the stomach. heart or kidney
nerves get weak. then these organs al
ways fail. Don't drug the stomach, nor
stimulate the heart or kidneys. That is
simply makeshift. Get prescription
known to druggists everywhere as Dir.
Shops Restorative. The Restorative is
prepared expressly for those weak inside
nerves. Strengthen these nerves, build
them up with DR.. Shops Restorative
tablets or liquid-and see how quickly
help will come. Free sample test sent
on request by DR.. ShoOp, Racine, Wis.
Your health is surely worth this simple
test. ". H. Meyne Drug Co.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-20
Commemorate Whittier.
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

At the opening exercises at the
High school yesterday morning, exer-
cisas appropriate to the life OF
Whittier were held, the occasion being
the Tooth anniversary. Prof. E.
Doudne gave a talk on the life OF
Whittier and described several of his
poems. while Douglas Pierirz spoke
on the life uf the celebrated poet.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-20
DR., SHOOP'S FAMILY MED. CO.
RACINE. WIS,

Trial Catarrh treatments are being
mailed out free. on request. by Dir. ShOop.
Racine. Wis. These tests are nroving to
the peOple-without a ppDny's cost-the
great value of this scientific prescription
known TO druggists everywhere as DR..
Shoop's Catarrh Remedy. Sold by ". H.
Meyne Drug Co.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-20
Nov. %, '07.-6t)
NOTICE.

By virtue of judgment of foreclosure
and sale made III the above entitled action,
on the Both day Of July 1907, and The
stipulation Of the parties, the under
signed sheriff Of Jefferson County, state
Of Wisconsin, will sell at the West Door
of the Court House, in the City Of Jeffer-
son, in said county, on Tuesday, the
the Seventh day Of January, 1903, at
the hour Of twelve o'clock noon of that
day. the real estate and mOTtgaged
premises directed by said judgment to be
sold, and therein described as follows,
the South half Of lot Number Five ~,
in Block Number Seyenty-twO, az in the
First Ward Of the City Of WatertOwn. as
per Cole Bailey & Co.'S Plat of the village,
now city Of Watert0wn, County of JEFF
fersOn, and State Of Wisconsin.
Terms Of Sale Cash.
Dated, November 18th, 1907.
ANDREW BULLWINKEL,
l.. B. CASWELL, Sheriff.
Plaintiffs Attorney,
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-20
Election of Officers.

At the annual meeting of Branch
No. 1870. Catholic knights of Wis
consin the following officers were
chosen:
Decentralization Mueller.
Vice Presldent-J oseph Schaefer.
Secretary William Kehr.
Financial Secretary-John Benke.
Treasurer Hoefer.
Trustee, three years-F'rank Kress.
Delicate to State Council-William
kehr.
A!ternate-Anton Mueller
At meeting of Lincoln Lodge, No.
20. knights of Pythias, held last even
ing. the following officers were elected
tor the ensuing year:
C. &C A. Kohn.
V. CO. V. Knaak.
K. r. S.-Chas. b. Kunert.
P.-W. P. Roseman.
M. A.-Paul kohler-
M. + e. B. Parsons.
M. E.-W. F. Brandt.
l. &C. A. Vaughan.
o. G.-Gust Exner.
Trustee, 3 years-G. A. Stallmann.
Delegate-C. K. Blumenfeid
Watertown Lodge No. 81, |. D. O.
F. at a regular meeting last
evening elected the following officers
for the ensuing year:
N. G. William Krebs.
V. &C. l.. Schmidt.
Secretary - George Henze.
Treasurer-Frank Tercnski.
Trustee, years-O. Fl. jacob.
The list of the appointive officers
will be made known at the first
meeting In January.