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per. So. after about three minutes Of
ecstacy. for which I'd waited many. many
hours I'd have to quit and take off the
skates and give them to their owner.
Once ! waited on a pond from o'clock
in the morning until . in the afternoon
for boy to let me put on his pair or
skates for little while after he got
through skating himself Finally. at =
o'clock. when 1t was becoming rapidly
dark, he came off the pond and let me
put 'em on. I was just going to start out
for little skate for myself. when the
town constable ordered everybody or
the ice; he said the ice was getting dan
gerous. and nobody'd be allowed to skate
any more till 1t froZe harder. Man. man.
I've had many a keen clip on the jaw. so
to speak, since that time. but sure never
had a more bitter disappointment.
Fact is. though. that i never owned
pair of skates at all when 1 was a boy.
But / sure did always have burned nice
set of holes i'm the heels of my shoes. all
ready in case the skates should come
along, sort o."
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maybe, we'd become wealthy enough to
snag out pair of club skates.
'And now, I see, all the youngsters
have got club skates. Well. the world
moves. I'm glad they've got 'em. Like
to see kids have everything they want.
But / sure do marvel. sometimes. over
how much softer 1t is for young uns. in
every imaginable respect. than 1t used
to be when l was one Of them.
TN the first place when / was a shaver
the boy that owned a pair of skates at
all was going some. Not every boy owned
a pair of skates-not by a blamed sight.
l should say that only about one boy out
Of ten had pair of skates for himself,
and how that one boy out of ten was en-
We'd by the non-possessors Of them, and
followed around on the ice and begged
by them to be allowed to try 'em,
But they were a totally different kind
of skates. and nothing like so expensive
as the club skates, either. l wonder what
the boy of today would say about skate
that had a screw in the heel? The skate
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and, to leave a pleasant impression be-
hind.
No use in talking. there ought to be a
suicide school.
Respectfully submitted to the Society
for Ethical Culture.
Not Keen on Candidates.
Some of the New York newspapers are
beginning to print their usual meaning
less straw votes as to presidential NOM
inees. While these canvasses never mean
anything, 1t is curious to note how strik-
ingly the votes are scattered as to can
didates for both parties. In truth. 1
never noticed such u divergence OF opin-
Ion among average men of both parties
as to presidential candidates as there is
in New York at this stage of the game.
Interest is very lukewarm. Men of nat
urally keen partisanship don't seem to
care what men get nominated as the
standard bearers Of their parties. Mr..
Roosevelt could not get the support of
were candidate. The republicans who
are not bound by the DEGREES of the poll
ticians appear to have little or no in
terest in Mr.. Taft's candidacy. His ap-
pearance at Cooper Union was by no
means a bowling success. The labor
element here seems to be ready to line
up against him. Gov. Hughes lack of
magnetism seems to tell against him here.
Mr.. Cannon doesn't appear to be seriously
regarded here. New Workers look upon
the Speaker as man possessing too
many bucolic proclivities for a presi-
Dental candidate-some of them call him
a farmer" and "Rube." for all his
political sagacity. Mention of Mr.. Shaw's
name only invokes a general smile. Mr..
Fairbanks appears to have made no
progress whatever here. Few New York
ers take 1t seriously that Mr.. Knox is In
the field. Mr.. Cortelyous name is only
occasionally on the lips of groups of Wall
Street men. Mr.. Forakers name doesn't
cause any caps to be flung into the air.
They've only heard vaguely Of Mr.. La
Toilette. one imagines from their talk.
Among the democrats one meets-not
politicians, but unbound party upholders-
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pose, but as I say. I haven't seen a gimlet
for about a quarter of a century.
Every boy of my day. when the ice pc
gan to form, used to bore holes In the
heels of his shoes with q gimlet. even II
he didn't have pair of skates. His IDEA
In doing it was that, If he didn't nave the
skates, why. he had the holes in his heeis
anyhow. and there was always chance.
you see-according to the boys way OF
figurng-that miracle would happen, and
when the mist of the miracle cleared
away he might see pair of skates lying
on the floor or on the ground. Anyhow,
a boy would have a sort of a feeling that.
with gimlet holes in his heels, he'd made
a start, anyhow: it looked and felt like
something doing; and he had the con-
seriousness that in case the skates should
miraculously drift his way he'd be in
readiness to put them on.
mot only that, but the holes In the
heels were useful by way of hint to the
old folks that a pair of skates 'ud come
in pretty handy. A boy sitting in a
chair could poke his feet straight out and
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the spirit strikes me as being Anybody
but Bryan 1t is the plain and unmis-
taxable truth that they seem to be NOR
tally weary of the Nebraskan in this
town. Among democratic 'men on the
street. ! often hear the question. Whats
the matter with this fellow Johnson?"
They appear to rather like what they've
heard about Mr.. johnson, and some keen
ones say that it wouldn't be much of a
job for Mr.. Johnson's people to get this
state for him at the convention. Oc-
casionally the name of Judge Gray is
heard, but that name doesn't cause any
r1otouS demonstrations of enthusiasm Mr..
Culberson comes in for some of the talk,
but 1T Is generally fel. that his geographic
cal location is against him. The queer
dearth of democratic presidential mate
rial confines the discussion of democratic
candidates within very narrow limita-
tIons.
Not for many presidential years has in
terest in the whole business been so
singularly slight in New York as it is this
year.
For Sunday Base Ball.
1t is more or less trifling, not to say
ornery, to assume the "I-tod-you- at
titude. Yet it seems to be fair in equity
and things to invite attention to the
fact that 1 predicted. in this correspond
ence, while the immense agitation over
the closing of the Sunday theaters was
In progress. that the thing was bound
to work out So that the Sunday theaters
would be wider open than ever. They
are. They surely are. The law, in this
short space of time, has become an alb
solute dead letter All of the Sum
day theaters that were open before the
row began are open again. and quite a
few others besides. The vaudeville folk
work" In costume on Sunday nights.
and it's all right: nobody interferes with
them The whole thing is merely an
other illustration of the old axiom that
the best way to obtain the virtual abro-
cation of an unpopular law is to enforce
it up to the handle. This population
demanded Sunday night theatrical enter
tainment, and they got 1t, and no doubt
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<<~ NOTICE. observed the fat man
with the adipose cigar. that all
the young uns hiking of here and
there 20 skate nowadays have got club
skates. Do they call 'em that-club
skates? ] dunno whether they do or not.
but that's what we used to call them
when / was a tyke. Club skates were
just coming in then-the kind that are
locked on with key. But they were
way out of the reach of us kids They
were. We imagined. only for billionaires.
The human being who. at that time. pos
sessed pair of really-and- truly club
skates. we considered. dwelt in an ex-
alted ether of his own: he was as some
body set apart: he didn't belong with the
common run of mortaIs: he was the candy.
plus, and we used to dream by day and
by night of some remote time when,
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will continue to have it right along. AS
matter of fact. base ball people over
here who know some inside things say
that it Is within the probabilities that
there'll be Sunday base ball III New York
before the coming ball-playing season is
over. Why not? If some of the shows
that are given on Broadway on Sunday
afternoons and nights are all right. why
should SO innocuous an amusement as base
ball be considered perversve of the
public morals? At any rate, the tip is out
that there will be hard fight for Sunday
ball, and the knowing ones prophesy that
the fight for it will win
It Looked ALI Right.
A natural-born acquirer with an ex-
tremely tnsouciant method turned a trick
here the other day the artistry of which
was all the more notable because it was
characterized by such remarkable sim
plicity.
The insouciant one who bore fairish
sort of resemblance to d young New York
millionaire, strolled into 9th avenue
furriers and asked to be shown some fur
coats. He didn't enthuse much over
them, but finally an exceedingly handsome
garment, price-tagged at 81. 400. was pro-
duced and he liked it. 1t fitted him and
he said that he guessed he'd take 1t.
He told them to charge it and to send
it to his house. He wasn't on the books
of the concern, but the furrier folk knew
all about him. and they were pleased to
have him for customer. So they
charged it" and sent the splendid fur
lined garment to the wealthy new GUS
toner's house.
The coat arrived in due time at the
home of the actual young millionaire and
was received at the door by the footman.
who deposited it in the package room.
awaiting the return of the young mil
liOpaire to give 1t to him.
Five minutes after the coat had been
received at the house, however. there was
telephone message. The footman who
had received the coat answered the
phone. The person at the other end of
the wire said that package from such
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-15
State Items in Brief.

RIVER FALLS-Ethel Chapman of River
Falls won the district declamatory contest.
observation-disclosures have
been completed for the first annual home
coming and carnival Of fun, given by the
business men Of Campbellsport on June H.
BABCOCK-Two children, a boy of and
a girl Of years, of Mrs. Albert Masten
of FesIey, were poisoned by eating wild
turnips. The girl died. The boy will re-
cover
RACINE-Papers from Goldfeld, New, say
james E. Keelyn, former newspaper man
Of Racine, has struck it rich. The story
goes that he and others have cleared UP
100000.
BARABOO-The United states Steel cor
pOration has purchased 1000 acres Of land
in this section and the trust has also taken
over large tract in the vicinity Of Benton,
in the mining district.
KENOSHA-Kenosha had a double we'd
ding Saturday, the result Of a double elope-
ment from Benton Iarbor Mich. The par
ties were Miss Letha Wheaton, aged 10,
and Edgar Tilstrom. and Miss Margaret
Dew and Stanley Riley.
BELOIT-Edwin Hinsdale Of Elgin high
school won the interschOlastic decldmatOTy
contest and Z. {. Courier of East Aurora
high school got second place. Douglass
Little of Geneva, Ill, received honorable
mention
BELOIT-President E. D. Eaton of Beloit
college has been selected to read a paper
before the International Council Of the Con
gregational church at Edinburgh. Scotland,
III 4
a few weeks through Great Britain
RACINE-Sheriff D. Elmer Roberts. who
a few days ago was announced as a candI-
date for Congress on the Republican ticket
against Congressman H. a. Cooper, re-
turned today from a trip through The dis
trict and withdrew from the race
DELAvAN-The class of 1908 Of the Wis
consin school for deaf numbers eighteen,
exercises will be held during the week Of
June 8, and Sept E. W. Walker plans to
make the exercises more elaborate than
usual.
La CROsSE-Twenty-f years after he
had left unpaid a $50 board bill at the
Hotel Water Rhein, long since out of exist
ence, William Claus of Merrill, Wis, came
to La Crosse, looked up the heirs of tue
hotel man, and insisted upon paying the
obligation.
OSHKOSH-The County Superintendent
association of the state will hold its an
nual meeting in this city on Tuesday, May
&c
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-15
DIES IN THE FAR WEST.
James Duff, Former District Attorney
of Marquette County, Succumbs
in Washington.

PACKWAUKEE, Wis, May O.
James Duff, district attorney of Mar
quette county for several terms, died
at his home in Wenatchee, Wash, this
week. Mr.. Duff was born i'll Phila-
delphia January %, 1914. Left an or
phan at an early age, he was reared by
his aunt and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. Adrian
Barber, influential and respected resi-
dents Of this township for many years.
The earlier years of his young manhood
were spent on the Barber farm. Later
he learned the trade of painting in Chi
cago and other cities, went back to his
native city, Joined d volunteer militia
regiment and assisted in suppresslng the
railroad riots at Reading in 1872.
Returning to Wisconsin he studied law
at Portage, was admitted to the bar in
all courts of Wisconsin, made his home
in Packwaukee and was elected district
attorney of Marquette county several
times on the Republican ticket, even in
normally Democratic years. Throughout
his life he was actively interested in
church work. having been a charter mem
Der of the local Presbyterian church.
Five years ago he moved to Washington.
Mr. Duff was married to Miss Mil
Ter, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. John X.
Miller, for many years residents of this
village, now living at Chippewa Fails.
He is survived by the widow and four
children, three daughters and one son,
two sisters in Pennsylvania and by a
cousin living here who is nearer to the
family ties of home life than his own
sisters.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-15
STEAMER HITS BRIDGE
APPLETON EXCURSIONISTS HAVE
EXCITING TINE.
Lawrence Athlete Raises Young Lady to
Safety and Is Then Knocked
Down

APPLETON, Wis, May 11.-[Spc-
ciaI. What is said to have been the
failure of the bridge tender of the St.
Paul railroad drawbridge to respond
promptly to the signal to open the bridge.
caused bad wreck for the Theresa OF
Oshkosh with Il boat load OF excursion
lists about midnight Saturday night.
Twenty members of the Theta Phi
fraternity Of Lawrence university and
their young lady friends left the first
lock III this city Saturday afternoon for
Clifton on their annual boat ride. Sup
per was eaten on the boat and after Il
cruise on the east shore of Lake Winnie
baSo the return trip was begun about
$50 clock
1t was just Il o'clock when the boat
passed through the Menasha lock and
half an hour later Capt. George Tryon
of the Theresa blew the whistle ut the
usual point for the St. Paul bridge 10
be opened. At the same time the speed
Oh the boat was slackCued as the cur
rent was strong and the craft practical
" drltted with the current for the quar-
ter OF a mile to the bridge.
Nhen within Il short distance of the
bridge, Capt. Tryon discovered The
bridge tender had not responded to his
signal. He signalled to the engineer 10
al
yelled to the eXcursiouists to prepare
FOR collision as the current would car
ry the boat against the abutment of the
bridge.
Few of the young people had time to
move. Elmer g. Sherger of Evansville.
the hero of many Il football. basket bali
and track event ut Lawrence, was seated
IN the bow Of the boat, on the lower
deck, with 4 young lady. and seeing that
they could not set back, the tall athlete
picked the young lady up bodily and as
as the boat struck the abutment, lifted
her to the bridge in safety, although he
was knocked to the deck by the collision.
capt Tryon gave orders to the eXcur-
slonlstS to put on life preSeryers. The
strong current carried the boat through
the draw and dashed it onto the rocks
on the south shore and for time it
was feared the big double-dcck steamer
would turn turtle The lifeboat was
lowered and the passengers more fright
ened than injured were carried safely to
shore after nearly an hour of the most
excitement they had ever had.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-15
TRY BANKERS IN JUNE.
Morse, Curtis and Heinze Plead Not
Guilty to Indictments Against
Them.

NEW YORK, May 6.-The trials of
Charles w. Morse, Alfred II. Curtis and
f. Augustus Heinze on charges growing
out of their conduct of New York banks
will begin in June, according to an an
nOuncemcnt today by United States Dis
trict Attorney StimsOn. All three were
arraigned in court today and pleaded not
guilty to the indictments against them.
Curtis was formerly president and
Morse vice president of the National
Bank of North America of this city.
They are accused of conspiring to de
ceiyc the bank examiners by making false
entries III the banks books to conceal
loans alleged to have been obtained in or
der to promote speculation in the stock
Of the American Ice company and the
Consolidated Steamship company, in
which they were interested.
Heinze is accused of over-certifying
checks to the amount of $4,000 as
president of the Mercantile National
bank for the benefit of the firm of Otto
Heinze & Co.. of which his brother was
q member
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-15
Affairs Are Closed Up.
BOAT OWNERS FIGHT,
Order from Government Engineer at APP
pleton Threatens a Long
Controversy.

APPLETON, Wis, May 11-[Spe-
cial. IA score or more owners of pleas
ure launches who house their boats on
the upper Fox river in this city have
received orders from L. NJ. Mann of
Oshkosh, engineer in charge Of the gov
eminent improvement of the Fox and
Wolf rivers, that their lighthouses must
be moved, and giving as the reason that
they INSTRUCTED the flow of high water
and thus interfered with navigation.
The owners. of the houses and Humph-
rey Pierce, who owns the land along the
bank of the river, have raised a large
sum with which to fight the order and
have already appealed to Senators La
Toilette and Stephenson and to Congress
man Kuestermann to take the matter up
with the war department at Washington.
The owners claim that they do not in
terfere with navigation in the least, but
that the real cause Of the order came
from the refusal of a young man to take
Engineer Mann across the river in his
launch d few weeks ago.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-15
ATTEMPTS TO KILL TWO,
Kenosha Husband, Estranged from His
Wife, Shoots Her and a
Boarder

kENOSHA, Wis, May Ii Spe-
clal Herman koehler and Mrs. Mar
tina Schleyer, who were shot here yes
terday by Martin Schleyer, the husband
of the woman, in a fit of Jealous rage,
are still alive and the physicians believe
that the woman has a chance to recover
koehlcr, who was shot through the liver
and the left lung, is unconscious but
notwithstanding this fact the physicians
state that his wounds are of such a ma
ture that death may come at any time
Every possible effort is being made to
have kOehler make a statement in re-
gard 10 the crime, but up to this morn
ing he has 0ren so weak from loss of
blood that it has been oclmed unsafe
to get Il statement fro u him. 1t is
held by The officials that Mrs. Schleyer
might not he allowed to give evidence
against her husband. ECphIel, it is ad-
mittcd, made a great sacrifice for the
woman, as the stories told by people
who witnessed the Shooting are to the
effect that be threw himself directly in
the line OF tho bullets fron, the revolver
Of Schleyer IN order ID protect Mrs
Scnlevcr
Schleyer today seemed anxious, how
ever, to keep the facts in the case from
relatives in Chicago and Rochester, N
Y, and urged that no story of the at
tempt he had made on his wife be sent
to these cities. To the sheriff he became
confidential and admitted that he had
done the shooting. District Attorney
Baker took up the case this morning,
but it is probable that the hearing of
Schleyer will be held open until after
the condition of his two victims is made
more certain.
The crime is still causing excitement
in Kenosha and hundreds of people Wis
tied the Schleyer home this morning.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-15
WAUkESHA FARMER
VICTIM OF OGRESS
FRIENDS OF FRANK RIEDINGER Be
LlEVE He WAS MURDERED BY
MRS. GUINNESS.
DISAPPEARED IN FEBRUARY.
Answered Matrimonial "Ad" and Said
He Was Going to Indiana
Town.
HIS CASE IS LIKE ALL OTHERS.

WAUKESHA, Wis, May 11.-[Spe-
cial. THAT Frank Riedinger. well
known young German farmer of the
town of Delafeld, who disappeared a
year ago, may have been victim of
Mrs. Belle Guinness, the Laporte, Ind.
murderess, is the firm belief of his neigh
bors and friends.
Rledinger left his home in February
1907, to so to some town in Indiana
near chicago, to marry a woman with
whom he had become acquainted through
matrimonial advertisement, and never
returned. The circumstances of his dis
appearance are almost identical with
those of several of the Guinness victims
a few days after his departure, a letter
was received by Gabriel Heinzelmann, a
neighbor, who was caring for his live
stock during his absence, postmarked at
Chicago and purporting to come from
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-15
SHOOT DOWN CONVICTS.
Russian Political Prisoners Make Oar
ing Attempt to Break Their
Bonds.

ALEXANDROVSK, May Ga group
of important political prisoners made an
effort to regain liberty here today. Some
of them were killed in the attempt, but
ten got away. The prisoners were led
by llIinsky, the man who assassinated
Gen. Count Alexis z. Ignatieff at Tver,
December %, 1906. They attacked and
disarmed the prison guards while at eX-
crcise in the prison yard. Three of the
guards were killed and six injured with
their own weapons. The prisoners then
made a dash for liberty. The guards
summoned help and pursuit was begun,
during which two of the escaping men
were killed and four wounded. Three
others. including Illinsky, were recap
turcd.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-15
DEMANDS JOINT RATES
Roads to Provide for North
Pacific Points.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May c.
On its own initiative, the interstate com
merce commission today instituted an i'm
portant proceeding against the Chicago
& North Western, Union Pacific, Oregon
Short Line, Oregon Railroad & Naviga-
ton and Northern Pacific Railroad COM
panies. Sometime ago an informal COM
plant reached the commission reciting
that there was no satisfactory true route
and joint rates for the carriage of pas
sengers over the lines of these railways
between Chicago and points in the Pa
cifc northwest, Portland, Ore, and Seat
tie, Wash, being specifically named.
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after he went away the trunk was sent
back to the house, and used to stand up
stairs. l saw some clothes III it that
the man used to wear.
Babes Murder Suspected.
L guess one was Il baby brought to the
house by a man and woman in car
Rage. When they went away they dld
not have the baby.
L remember Mrs. Guinness said some
thing about it-that she thought they
murdered it. She went into town and
told the sheriff about it, but he did not
pay any attention to it,"
Sheriff Shutter would not permit
crOss-examinatiOn of his prisoner, and
objected 20 pCintblank questions as to
Lamphere's knowledge of the Helgelein
case.
Denies Part in Plot.
1t was pointed out that the sutton of
the widow was a large man weighing
over 200 pounds, and that the handling
of his body alone would have been a
hard task for Il woman.
Look here" called the prisoner, as
he was taken away, Il don't know any
thing about that. and l don't know any
thing about the fire, except what | told
a long time ago"
Carried Big Revolver.
"She used to tell me not to talk to
Helgelein. and one time when she found
us together in the sitting room she drove
me out of the house.
eve got along all right before that
and she used to come to my room at
night; but after HeIgelein came she had
no use for me. The big revolver found
after the fire was one she used to carry
all the time. and | was afraid of her"