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Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04
SHORT METER SERMONS

No man ever overshoots his own
moral aim.
All worthy education is training Of
the will.
The dogmatic are always strong on
barking
Counting your blessings discounts
your burdens.
Character is what we make of life's
conditions.
1t takes more than good living to
make the good life.
1t takes a lot of piety to stand up
against prosperity.
He is a foe to truth who would try
to defend it with error.
The holy life is the one that is
healthy all the way through.
No day is long enough to waste any
of it in nursing enmity.
Do heavens business and heavenly
beauty will take care of itself.
The unanswered prayer finds it's
LII IUdSe III LIE dISClJiIucu I63IL.
The man who is going to heaven
never tries to take up all tie road.
You do not secure a clean bill for
yourself by indicting the rest Of hui
mainly.
There never can be sufficient public
virtues in a life to balance private
vices.
Whether earth shall be like heaven
depends on whether heaven is in our
hearts.
There are many things we cannot af-
ford to get for less than their full
price.
Some men think the only way to
preserve the landmarks is to sit on the
| fence.
When a man gets to arguing with
his conscience you may be sure his ap-
petites are busy.
The minister who is thinking all the
time of the limelight cannot do much
for the lives Of men.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04

was $4,000, expenditures S475, 900.
The average number of meals served in
a month is about 100000.
Health On Isthmus.
The Isthmus has been very healthful
since the medical commission cleaned
UP the various cities and villages along
the zone There has been no yellow
fever for three years. The department
Of sanitation is magnifcently equipped
and goes into every part of the zone.
There are two splendid hospitals at
Ancon and Colon and line hospitals at
all the principal settlements along the
canal route. There are numerous dis
penSaries, and a district physician and
an inspecting force are maintained in
each. When DR.. de Clairmont passed
over the zone in 1904 on his way to
Peru, the jungle reigned supreme in all
the settlements built by the French.
Now one sees numerous well ordered
villages, with the jungles and grass cut
away, drainage bitches run in every
direction, there are good sidewalks and
in many places electric lights 1t is a
pleasure to ride over the new road from
one end of the isthmus to the other, and
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04
Facing the Enemy.

Major Cary, who died a few months
ago in England, was the leader of the
search party which rode through the
African bush to find the body of the
Prince Imperial OF France. 1t was
with Lieutenant Cary of the Ninety
eighth Regiment that he went out on
the fatal ride in the Zulu War. Ellen
Barlee gives an account of the tragedy
in her life of the prince, and alsa men
lions a little incident of his boyhood
which is curiously prophetic of the
spirit he showed IN his last fight.
The prince was a bright, jovial
youth, with high spirits. 1.-THE Dear
Boy" he was called in camp When
the corps of volunteers under Cary's
command found his body III the tall
grass it was seen that he had received
seventeen assagai wounds, all in front.
When the prince was a small boy he
was attacked by deep-seated abscess
in his back. An operation was order
ed, and the little fellow submitted
bravely. Something troubled him,
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04
DoN,Ts FOR CHURCBMEN.

Don't kill hope if you would avoid
moral suicide
Don't expect to find rest by retreat
ing from duty.
Don't fail to SOW happiness if you
would reap heaven.
Don't make the mistake of blaming
fate for the fruitage Of your fears.
Don't expect to reap reward until
you have earned it.
Don't consider it less your duty to
cultivate joyousness than to seek holt
ness.
Don't pray with iniquity in your
heart if you want the Lord to hear
you.
Don't expect to safely reach the
shore if you insist on being your own
pilot.
Don't cultivate the habit of serving
superstition if you would avoid enslav-
ing your soul.
Don't fail to see the difference be
tween the works Of friendship and
working your friends.
Don't make the mistake Of basing
your honesty wholly on policy for the
tempter can always show you better
premiums.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04

There were no contractors in the
DAYS when the Parthenon was reared.
The men VINO designed and built that
immortal temple worked for the works
own sake, because they loved it and
had their hearts and souls in it. They
were not looking for graft they were
not thinking of the dough" there was
In it; they were thinking Of their art,
Of their city, and of what they could
do for that city's lasting glory-Rev.
Thomas B. Gregory, Uniyersalist, New
York City.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04

the friendships of those who are living
in larger life, that love can never die.
that affection enlarges despite the de
Gays Of time and grave, and that some
thing of the self which is the basis Of
friendship is immortal
This sense Of the persistence Of
friendship is more than a state Of feel
ing; 1t is the first flower of immortal
ity; it is the eternal and divine in US
answering to eternal and divine In lives
that have been loosed from our limita-
lions. 1t has nothing to do with al
legged communications from the other
world. It is the deep, abiding and
strengthening sense that the web Of
love cannot be cut by the keen edge of
death, that friendships abide through
all, that love is immortal and loving
the measure Of our Immortality.
No wonder the immortal hope burns
low when unfed by this secret supply :;
no wonder men doubt the future, when
their hearts find no vital contact with
its life, when they must depend on
Nhol lAC iiCSlu may ACdoOtA 1lOLu tliulS
ses and probabilities.
1 am not worried as to life beyond,
because l know there is love beyond.
The only going out from life need to
fear would be going out into world
where love was not. Precise plans of
eternal redemption lie beyond my rea-
,soning, but on the fact of infinite
friendship I rest and know that the
eternal affection will find me and teach
me the larger life of the world where
love shall have its liberty and shall
be the law of all.
I know not where | shall meet those
friends, where father and mother and
child will wait, but a love light, that
| burns clear within, will lead me to
them and l shall know them by that
| light Love will come into it's own
| friendship into its fullness. The bar
riers will have been broken down. We
shall know even as we are known, for
we shall love even as he loves.
SO what can i do better in these days
than cherish this hope, magnify this
life of loving, make more friends that
I may have greater fullness of living
there, and if the great hope of that life
be this free fullness of friendship, bring
into this drear world as much of that
life as I may by being good friend to
as many as I may?
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04
FIGHT FOR A S. PROM
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WANT AD-
MISSION PRICE RAISED.
Contend That Big Social Function of the
Year Cannot Be Conducted Prop
erly on a So Basis.

MADISON, Wis, Dec. 2.-[Special !
Students at the University of Wiscon-
sin believe that the faculty will raise
the price of admission to the annual
junior promenade, which is to be held
February 10, 1909, from So to So. The
faculty social committee, composed Of
Profs. e. A. Gilmore and J. 4. A. Pyre,
and Capt. Ralph Mccoy, met with Prom
Chairman Gordon S. Falk and repre-
sentative body of students last night III
order to ascertain student sentiment in
regard to the proposed change.
The students contend, and the faculty
committee appears to agree, that the So
admission fee is not large enough to
finance the promenade, which is the
greatest social event of the year at the
university. Because of the inferior quail
ity of the accommodations offered at the
last two proms, tickets to which were
sold at So by faculty order, the attend
ance has fallen off, and large deficit
was incurred last year.
1t is believed by the Students that if
the faculty will authorize a So PROM a
large number of alumni will attend. and
get in closer touch with the university.
Both faculty and students feel the need
of awakening among the alumni a great
er interest in the university.
At the next faculty meeting, which
probably will be held December IA. the
social committee will bring the propo-
sition before the faculty, and will also
present a petition for a So prom, which
has been signed by about $50 prominent
ulty will take definite action at that
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04
INSURANCE SCHEME BARRED.
Unauthorized Company Cannot Act
Through Another, Says Gilbert.

MADISON. Wis, Dec. Am insur-
ance company which is not authorized to
do business in this state cannot by a
subterfuge circumvent the law and get
Wisconsin business by means of having
it's business written by an authorized
company. This is the opinion of Attor-
ney General Gilbert, given in reply to
an inquiry from the department of insur-
ance.
The United States Annuity and Life
Insurance company of Chicago has a
clause in its policy concerning expenses
that is unlawful in Wisconsin and there
fore the company could not operate in
this state, but the company had a CON
tract with the United States Operating
company Of Maine by which the latter
is the solicitor of business for the OBJ
iectionable company, and the agency
company contemplated operating in Wis
consin. Mr.. Gilbert puts up the bars
against the operating company entering
this state.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04
COLLEGE HEADS MEET.
Presidents Van Hise and Hughes Issue
Call for Beloit Gathering
December 49,

RIPON, Wis, Dec. Especial. DIR.
r. C. Hughes, president of Ripon col
Iege, and President G. II. Van Hise Of
the University of Wisconsin, secretary
and president respectively of the Wis
consin Association Of College Presi-
dents and Deans have called the annual
meeting for Beloit on Friday, December
10. The principal subject for discussion
will be a report by President Van Hise
and Dean Birge of Wisconsin on the col
lege curriculum. Among other matters
of mutual interest which will be brought
up will be the plan of President Hughes
for the athletic organizations of the col
leges of the northwest Wisconsin, north
ern Illinois and Minnesota. If acted upon
favorably it is likely a meeting Of the
representatives Of the colleges of the dis
trict will be called soon after
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04
every few miles there is clean tropical

every few miles there is clean tropical
village.
There is a station on the isthmus
for lepers and new insane quarters at
Ancon. The lepers have now been plac-
ed on a point in the bay west of La
Boca, near Panama.
The death rate on the isthmus has
been as follows: In 1905 it was 53 per
cent, in 1906 40 per cent, in 1907 AZ per
cent, and the total deaths in 1907 num-
bered 1878, of which 104 were due to
accident. The native death rate, COM
pared TO the whites, is 3.21, and the
cause of this is that the white man
stands the conditions on the isthmus
three times as well as the negro, a
statement that would have been con-
tradicted three years ago, but which
experience has proven true.
Pneumonia claims more victims than
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04
year was more than 10000, out Of which
only forty-four were rejected.
Fashions in Horses Tails

Horses tails have been subjected to
curious changes of fashion. In the
time of the Stuarts the English coach
horses tail was worn long and flowing,
and was cut square, like King Charles
charger at Charing Cross English
Country Life says that it was adorned
with ribbons on gala days, and strap
ped up in a leather case in winter
weather; thus a certain harmony was
preserved between the wig Of the mas
ter and the tails of his horses.
BY the time of George H. a short
wig and a pigtail had taken the place
of the flowing curls in which the cava-
Tiers of Charles 1. and the rakes of
Charles lis court delighted.
The brilliant idea occurred to Lord
Cadogan, a cavalry officer of that pc
riod, to reduce the tails Of his dragoon
horses to a short dock. Possibly this
was with the view Of saving his SOL
diers the trouble of cleaning those long
tails, and avoiding the nuisance Of the
splashes uniforms and accouterments
must have received from such hair
StreamerS.
Or it may be that the debased taste
Of the age made him think the appear
ance of his regiment was really i'm
proved by bobbed tails That is a
question which history does not de
eide.
The next step was to turn bobtails
into plugtails, by cutting all the hair
for the last two or three inches Of the
dock. Having thus succeeded in dis
figuring the hind quarters of dragon
horses, some monster devised the addi-
tionai barbarity of cropping their ears
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04
ALICE GRAFT in LAW
SCHOOL VENTILATION TAX SAID
TO BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
State Treasurer Dahl May Be Enjoined
from Paying Money to Rural
Schools.

MADISON, Wis, Dec. 3.-ESpeciaII
One innocent looking law passed ut
the last session of the Legislature may
be taken into the courts for test of its
constitutionality. This is a law author
izing each rural school district to spend
$50 for the ventilation of schoolhouses.
Just what the reason for its passage
was no one seems to know, since country
schoolhouses as rule are VIGOROUSLY
we'll ventilated through ill-ftting win.
dowS. broken floors and worn out doors
but the law having been passed. human
ingenuity was equal to the test of meet
ing it. OF course furnaces could not be
put under country schoolhouseaS so a
stove was devised, with a zinc enclosure
and it was set forth that by means of
this zinc envelope the fou! air in the
room would be thrown into the stove
and hence sent up the chimney.
When objections were made to the
charges of SI5 or more it was said fur
Their that the state was paying $50 there
Of The signature Of one school officer
would generally be secured on the repre-
Sentation that if the others did not care
TO sign, there would be no contract. The
second man would generally be secured
on the representation that the first had
signed so that by seeing members of the
board separately a majority usually was
obtained.
AS there are 1000 district schools in
the state, the amount of money the state
will pay out of this law will be 5000 900.
but none of this can be paid until the
T-1OO mill tax comes in.
Now, there is some talk of enioining
State Treasurer Dahl from paying out
any money and of questioning the CON
stitutionality of the law on the ground
that it is taxing the whole state for the
benefit of but a part.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04

The Isthmus Of Panama has under
gone tremendous changes during the
occupation of the Isthmian Canal Com
mission. writes DR.. A. DeClairmont, ex-
consul for Peru from Ohio, who recently
returned from South America by way
of the Canal Zone.
The wonderful progress in the cut
ting through Of the canal is now quite
apparent to the traveller. From now
on, it will be a question Of hard work (;
hitherto it has been more or less n
question Of organization, such as at
tending to the sanitary department, put
ting up dwellings and commissary
stores for the employees Hundreds of
men are being discharged every week,
such as carpenters, machine men, boil
ermakers, etc, who have prepared the
double bed Of the railroad and built
the machine shops 50 that the work
will go on without interruption.
The regular employees and engineers
will devote their time to the actual
work, which is moving so rapidly that
it is the belief Of every one on the
isthmus that steamers will be passing
through the canal within five years, a
prediction which appears quite reason
able when it is remembered that all
that has to be done now is the cutting
Of the Culebra, a cut Of about eighty
feet to canal level, and the building
of the locks.
While the city Of Panama is han
ding many more millions of dollars
than it ever did during the French oc.
cupation, there is much dissatisfaction
in that the profits are not so great as
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04
FREE MURDER SUSPECT,
Italian, Thought to Have Killed Joseph
Faretta Friday, Arrested at
Kenosha, Wis.

KENOSHA, Wis, Dec. 3.-[Special.
Salvatore DANA, an Italian, was ar
rested here Wednesday night on the be
lief that lie was Filippo Tomasello,
wanted in Milwaukee on charge of
numbering Joseph Faretta at 164 Detroit
street last Friday night, but after he
had been examined by Detective Leon
ard Schweitzer of Milwaukee and an en-
ploye of the Pfster-Vogel Leather com
pany he was released.
A man hunt at once was started in all
the Italian districts in Kenosha for trace
of Tomasello, as it is thought that he
is i'll hiding here.
Chief O'Hare last night received
tip that the murderer of Faretta had
come to Kenosha on Wednesday and he
at once picked up DANA. The arrest
ed man carried revolver, which con
tanned four empty chambers. He is still
held in custody pending orders of the
Milwaukee police department.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04

any other disease. In 1907, 11,745 were
treated at the commission hospital. A
newcomer on the isthmus nowadays
wonders at the absence Of mosquitoes at
Panama and Colon and the settled parts
Of the canal strip. The reason is found
when it is stated that during the
last year more than 2,736 gallons Of
mosquito oil was sprinkled on the
streets and low places. A very rigid
inspection is made Of all passengers and
crews on boats, and those touching at
unclean ports are held in quarantine for
five days. The vaccination against
smallpox for 1907 amounted to 34,5S9
cases. The immigration for the same
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04

in the past, because the commissary
stores Of Uncle Sam supply its en-
ployes with goods at a reasonable
price.
Admiral Walker, who first reported
in favor of the Nicaraguan road, so
angered the French Panama company
that they made a reduction Of $70,O0O,-
900 on their previous figure, SO that Of
the $40,00O00O paid to the French
company, $27, 474,OOO went to the canal
The Panama railroad received $685.
600, and there was paid for the plans,
maps and abstracts 100000. This
also included 10000 acres Of land that
went with the railroad; 625, 1000 acres
of land under the Wise concession.
2,265 buildings in the city of Panama,
in Colon and along the line of the call
al, and three steamers of 1000 tons
each.
The Isthmian Commission, May 4,
1904, took possession of the property,
which included, at that time, 115 store
houses, 10 large warehouses and II
parks or yards scattered along the DC
miles of canal road.
French Inventory.
According to the last inventory of
the French, the canal property repre-
scented a book value of $29OOO,O00.
Most of the stuff has been thrown on
the scrap heap, and in 1906 a dealer
in old iron bought two shiploads, pay
ing 100000. while hundreds of tons
have been going to New York as ballast
on the Panama steamers.
Many hundreds of engines and ma
chimes have been put in service and are
now at work on the canal. The Ancon
hospital, one Of the finest on the 18th
mus, cost the French upwards of So
100000, and De Lesseps house, also al
Colon, 100000. The building now oc-
cupied by the American legation cost
100000. The commission is now quar-
tering and caring for about 25,00O men
and the experiment with laborers from
Spain has proven very satisfactory.
There were 4,317 Europeans at work
on the canal June 80, 1907, as well as
14.606 natives Of West India.
The Panama railroad has a force OF
5000 laborers and 5000 Europeans
During the year 1907 nearly 1900 mer
were out Of the ranks every month. Al
the present time the labor cost is small.
er, owing to the progress of work and
the reduction of forces in many of the
departments. 1t seems that the labor
problem is still unsolved.
The wonderful progress of the Ameri
cans on the IsthmuS is seen every
where Cottages are well built and Of
picturesque appearance. There are So
houses for married employees and 223 FOL
single men; all told there are 52S no
tells, is mess houses and 10 kitchens
There are 80 miscellaneous offices an(
club houses, making a total of 2,20>
buildings
The American department, called The
Canal Zone, is divided into two Gus
tom districts, known as Ancon, on The
Pacific, and Cristobal, on the Atlanti.
side. The steamship lines entering An
con are the Pacific Steam Navigation
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04
LEAPS FROM Carr HURT.
Green MOtOrman Causes Panic on OSh-
kosh Line and Three Passengers
Are Hurt.

OSHKOSH, Wis, Dec 81 Special
Three persons out of six who were on
the electric car on the West Algoma line
Of the Wisconsin Traction company,
were injured when the mOtorman, Rollin
Miracle, became alarmed at the flashes
of the controller and ran from the car.
The passengers not knowing what was
the matter, followed him and Mrs. Zerna
Naugusta fell and received 4 scalp
wound. Miss Margaret MessIer, nor
NAL school student, received a cut over
her eye and her back was injured. Roy
Thomas, also normal school student,
received a sprained ankle and Il scalp
wound.
The motOrman was a new man. The
car was going at q fair rate of speed
when the passengers jumped
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04
STATE FAIR PROFITS SMALL.
State Board Gets Little Better Than an
Even Break for 1908.

MADISON. Wis, Dec. 3.-The 1903
state fair viii only a little more than
break even. Figures given out by the
state board of agriculture show the ex-
penditures to have been $1O1,9 as
follows: Premiums, $29,5o!; speed pre-
NUNS. S2S,45O; attractions, $13 400;
judges, $1156; expenses in preparation,
S8195: advertising, S7S5G; permanent
improvements, $13.324. Receipts so far
scheduled total $100,725, as follows:
Gate Cate receipts, SO, 225; grandstand. Sl5,-
800; privileges. $4,000; appropriation
from state. $4,000; miscellaneous, S1S,-
200. In the latter classification a few
thousand dollars is yet to be received
which will bring the receipts about
$4,000 over the expenditures This will
be added to the surplus Of $4,000 which
the board now has on hand.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04
NORTHWESTERN MAKES CHANCES
Officials Are Shifted at Many Northern
Points

GREEN BAY. Wis, Dee. 2.-The
Northwestern railroad has made sey-
eral changes. w. f. Armstrong, as
sistant superintendent of the Peninsula
division at Escanaba, has been made as
sistant superintendent of the Ashland
division at Amigo. He succeeds William
Denis, who has been made general super
intendent of telegraph at Chicago. G. E.
Helmer, trainmaster at Escanaba, sue
ceeds Mr.. Armstrong, and w. J. Keat-
ing, chief train dispatcher at Escanaba,
takes Mr.. Helmer's place; 6. W. DALEY,
superintendent of telegraph of the Wis
consin division, succeeds L. r. Pechan,
resigned.