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Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14

the principal motives which impeed young to
leave their home. Many of the disappearance which
take place nowadays may be traced to either of these
but the compexiy of modern life has given rise
to many other One young for instance,
left her home because her mother objected to her going
to matinee twice week young man who worked
for $40 left home because his father insisted
getting So a week for his room and board.
The boys who away from home to fight Indians
and who succeed in getting far from home almost
negligible quantity. Only few days ago of the
most experienced observers of tramp life stated that the
lure Of the road had appealed more strongly to
young than it does at the present time In address
ing meeting Of boy tramps this observer, who himself
has been tramp, exposed the faacy of the theory held
by many boys that there is something worth while In
tramp life.
Many of the young who disappear away ito
go the stage. Most of the disappearance of this
class take place in the fall year Young
who have become familiar with the stage through the
work of summer stock companies in their home towns
who have met stage people leave their homes when
mer is and to the city to get places in the
chorus of musical attractions minor members Of
dramatic companies Their parents write to the police
asking that the young be found and sent back
home
The with which persons may live in the city with
out having their whereabouts known makes Chicago the
favorite refuge only persons disappear
other cities but for many persons who find life dstaste
full in the surroundings to which they have become
customed Many of the disappearances found upon
investigation to be in which the missing person
removed to distant neghborIood within the citys linn
its. Sometimes change Of address place only few
blocks has been sufficient to throw off the any per-
sons interested in finding the who has disappeared
Dlsappearances which are caused by business troubles
to be frequent in January and February
in any other months in the year Discouraging discos
concerning the years business drive business
into seclusion Men who watch the reports Of mer-
camille rating agencies look for more dsappearances at
the beginning of the year than at any other time
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
Journalists to Come
COOKS WITH THE DEAD,
Girl Housekeeper Strangles Man-Lives
with Body for Weeks-Is
Arrested.

BERLIN, Feb. S.-More than usual
ly gruesome is a murder story from Leip-
sic. Paul Giegler was proprietor of u
book shop in the GorChenstrasse, and
with him lived, professedly as housekeep-
er and assistant, a young woman named
Minna Doell. About the middle of No
vember Giegler disappeared, but mis-
housekeeper explained, saying he had
gone to Italy on business. As he did
not return inquiries became more press
ing, and the young woman made the ia
tai mistake of altering her story, as
sorting that Giegler was in a Vienna
hospital.
This change of tale aroused suspicious
and when Investigations in Vienna failed
to reveal any traces of the missing man,
a search at his house was decided on
Accordingly the police went to Giegler's
rooms, whereupon the Doell girl jumped
from the window and fled. Investigation
showed that the bed, which was made,
and appaG ntly uuoccupied, contained
Giegler's body. The remains were black
and in an advanced stage of decomposi-
ton. There We're traces that death had
been caused by suffocation.
1t was evident the girl had cooked and
slept in the room with the dead man for
weeks. She had made off with $500,
but was arrested at Halle. 1t was ascer-
tanned she had a sweetheart and he has
also been taken into custody.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14

ry-their lessons, their examinations,
their little failures and punishments at
home or school
In order to realize the deadly effects
Of worry we must remember that all
the various activities of the body
breathing, digestion, blood circulation
elimination Of waste and so on-that
all these are under the immediate con-
troll of the nervous system; and that
the nervous system in turn is governed
by the mind.
Now, worry is a kind Of intellectual
pandemOnium-a state Of mental con-
fusion, indecision and distress. Such
a condition of mind throws the nerves
out of order and thus deranges the
functions which these nerves control.
Let us trace this in q single case.
Just as you are finishing dinner you
receive telegram. You open 1t. You
read: rather badly hurt. Come home
Immediately"
Your mind is at once in a state Of
great distress. You plan a journey,
and so on. All the functions of the
body are disturbed. The gastric juice,
several quarts of which were flowing
into the stomach, is at once stopped.
The meal, therefore. cannot be digested,
and the whole mass breaks down and
putrefes. In the course Of this putre-
faction certain poisons are formed,
some of which are exceedingly deadly.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
No Politics in 1t.
MRS. STEVENS SPEAKS FOR BILL.
President Of w. c. 7. U. Appears Before
Senate Committee.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Feb S.-A
subcommittee of the Senate committee
on the judiciary today gave an extended
hearing on the Tillman bill providing
that upon the arrival of liquors within a
state and before a delivery to a consignee
they shall be subject to the operation of
the laws OF the state, in the same man
ner as though such liquors had been pro-
duced in the state.
Mrs. L. NJ n. Stevens, national pres-
dent of the w. G. 7. T., said that in
Maine bogus express companies operate
surreptitiously through keepers of blind
tigers" etc In that way, she said, it
is never possible to trace it to the con-
signee as contemplated by the law as
now interpreted by the supreme court of
the United States, she wanted the law
amended so that the liquor might be
seized at the point of destination with
out regard to the consignee.
Opponents of the bill appeared in the
persons of George w. Yost. president
of the National Vial and Bottlers' Man
ufacturerS association and William Lau-
nier, secretary of the National Glass
Blowers association, who claimed the
proposed legislation threatened their
business, which they said employs 10000
people.
Senator Bacon of Georgia suggested
that when prohibition laws were enacted
in Georgia there was Il big brewery near
his home which everyone supposed would
be closed down.
But" added Senator Bacon, "they
began to make beer mat had no alco-
hol in it. The agricultural department
has pronounced it to be non-alcoholic
and now they are bottling more beer
than ever before"
Representative Julius Kahn of Cali
fOrnia appeared in behalf of the Grape
Growers and Wine Makers of his state
and asked the committee not to close the
hearing on the bill before his people,
representing more than 500, 100000 in
property. could be heard. He said that
the Littlefeld bill would prohibit the
shipping of wine from California to any
other state, but could not prevent the
landing of wine from France or any
other foreign country into American
ports.
THE home is the place to teach tenn
perance," said Mr.. Kahn. THE Ger
mans are the most progressive people in
the world and they drink beer from the
cradle. 1t is the abuse and not the
use of the drink that hurts.''
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
A PLAGUE OF WHITE ANTS.
A Fortune Awaits Their Extermtna-
ton i'm Australia.


ton in Australia.
A fortune awaits the man who will
come to the aid of the people of Aus
tralia with an effective plan TO rid
the people of that country of white
ants.
Not only are they an annoying pest,
but their destructiveneSs is costly.
They have an especial taste for the
woodwork of houses, and the damage
they do reaches into astonishing fig
ures.
Before the white mans advent
houses were unknown. The aoorig
ines of the vast territory knew moth
ing Of such structures, a few sheets Of
bark composing the shelter they tenn
porarily required. But even then the
white ants abounded. They ate the
standing trees in the forest: they de-
youred fallen branches they made nests
in logs and roots.
With civilization and house kuIld-
ing came new spheres for their dctivi-
ty. Wherever woodwork was used, in
city center or bush hut the creature
had to be guarded against, and the ut
most care and precaution were often fu-
tile in the contest. Buildings have had
to be remodeled and sometimes taken
down because of the extent Of The raw
ages. A building in the country, known
to be affected with white ants, becomes
practically unstable. Occasionally the
affected board or joist or several affect
ed ones are removed and sound timber
introduced, in the hope of making good
the injury; but rarely does such patch
ing avail.
The white ant is an unseen worker
1t may have secured Judgment In
a house many years back; genara-
lions of the creatures may have lived
and worked and died without Great
Ing by sound or otherwise the slight
est suspicion Of their presence; and
1t is only when they have consumed
the entire substance underneath that
the she'll Of the wood falls In and dis
aster is revealed
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
MDW[ply[l&ND 9
X&3GWgZE 51r[5RB'

With view to encouraging officials
and workmen on the Imperial German
Railways, the government has eStab-
llshed a fund from which awards are
made to men who invent any appliance
which may be useful in railway prac-
tice $3.50 was paid to employees last
year from the fund
When a traveller i'll the grand duchy
of Baden wants to send a telegram
while he is on the train, he writes the
message on a post card, with the re-
quest that it be wired, puts on stamp
and drops it into the train letter box
At the next station the box is cleared
and the message sent.
1t is now demonstrated, according
to the Engineer, that the reason COPPER
and iron will not alloy is on account
of the carbon that the iron absorbs
il melting. If the iron and copper be
melted together in clay crucible, so
that no carbon can be taken up, the re-
sulting alloy is perfectly homogeneous
and free from any separated nodules
1t has long been recognized that va
rious forms of dust, when mingled with
air in certain proportions, are capable
of producing destructive explosions
when brought into contact with flame.
This danger sometimes exists in flour
mills A historic instance is the ex-
plosiOn of three flour mills at Mime
1iC in Il
strated, by experiment, that two ounces
Of -four in two cubic feet Of confined
air, when ignited, would cause a vio-
lent explosion, and 1t was calculated
that the contents of a flour sack dis
tributed through 1000 cubic feet Of
air would cause an explosion capable
Of throwing a weight of $500 tons to a
height of 100 feet. Recently S. f. Peck
ham has shown that any dust that will
burn may cause an explosion. An in
stance is known where sugar dust in a
confectionery factory caused an explo-
sion, and In another case dry soap dust
proved equally dangerous.
How hot Is the suns surface? This
long-disputed question receives a new
answer from Prof. J. NJ Schaberle of
the Ann Arbor Observatory Formerly
the effective surface temperature of
the sun was estimated at millions Of
degrees. Then came a revulson from
these extreme estimates, and lately the
tendency has been to place the solar
tmperature as low as 5000 degrees Cen
t1grade. Prof. Sch9berle returns to
higher estimates. According to his
calculations, assuming the correctness
Of Prof. Poynting's value for the abso-
lutte temperature Of the small black
particle which serves as the basis of
calculation, the suns Temperature
would be 100000 degrees. But he
adopts another value for the black
particle, from which he deduces a tenn
perature Of 10000 degrees. Prof.
Schaberle uses for his researches a
specially constructed rejecting tele-
scope Of two feet aperture and three
feet focus, which he describes as 'by
far the most powerful telescope for
this kind of work ever constructed -
He promises additional facts and cal
culations. In the meantime it seems
best to say that we do not know how
hot the sun is
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
UNCROWNED, SHECOMES
New York Gets Visit from Duchess
D'Uzes-Going to Shonts
Wedding.

NEW YORK, Feb. S.-New York is
about to receive visit from the famous
Duchess Dues, known as the I'M
crowned queen of French society. The
duchess is on her way to attend the
wedding of her brother, the Duke de
Chaulnes, and Miss Theodore Shonts.
The duchess before her marriage to the
premier Duke Of France was De
Luynes and is closely allied to all the
historically great families of France.
She was educated in a convent and was
married at the age of IS. To her hus-
band she brought a dowery of nearly
$1,O00,O0O. In society, the duchess is
brilliant woman. Her vivacity and orig
inaIity have made her a leader of the
exclusive set and her followers have will
ingly submitted to her sway.
She is a noted sportswoman, fond of
the hunt, an expert at tennis and dar-
ing aerOnaut.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14

toned abOve-which thus serves q turn
Of the reptile which has attacked any
one, and which-the snake being gen
orally killed on the spots naturally
at hand. The gall bladder is extracted,
its contents filtered and the fluid in
jected under the skin. The method
sounds somewhat complicated, but no
snake-bitten person will complain if by
this means he escapes a rapid death.
The experiments made have given the
best results, those recovering from the
poisonous bite of a South American
snake coming off with nothing worse
than an abscess at the point of pene-
tration Of the snakes tooth.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
QUEER CURE FOR SNAKE BITE.
Bite of the Reptile Said to Be an
Antidote.

Bite of the Repf1Ie said TO BE an
Antidote.
Take q hair of the dog that bit
you" is an old saw that as q sug-
gested remedy, has led many a man
out of the frying pan into the fire, and
it cannot certainly be recommended as
a cure suitable for modern times when
an antidote Is more recommendable
Dogs are not, however, the only ami
mails whose bite is to be feared, and
those people whose travels have led
them to far lands know that poison
Gus snakes are much more to be dread
ed, says Chambers Journal. Though
by far the greater number of those
persons thus bitten die, there is GER
tain number who recover, thanks to
prompt measures, and thanks also to
the administration of the exact rene
dy which any particular snake bite re
Guires.
The poison elected by the tooth of
asps and serpents varies as much as
does the poison from the spoken words
of the wicked, and it has lately been
iscovered-especialy in Brazil, which
seems to hold the record for its variety
Of death-glying snakes the serum
with which those bitten are treated
should vary. according TO the kind of
snake. But this, though advantageous
to know in theory, is Of small practical
use, since the traveller cannot be sure of
having exactly the right serum with
him at the moment of the fatal bite.
It has lately been reported that, on
the principle of the old adage men
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
laps GET MARRIAGE LICENSE.
Trouble Over Color Description and Conn
promise with yellow

NEW YORK, Feb. S.-First Of it,
kind since the new law went into effect,
a license to marry was yesterday issued
at the city hall to a japanese couple. The
applicants were Kannosuke Kawanaka,
q student of the Yale Divinity school,
and Miss Yuki kitamura, % years old,
of New Haven, Conn. Both were born
in Japan. Their only difficulty in Sc,
curing the license was in one item OF
their descriptions of themselves, the tive
placing the word white in the space
reserved for classification according te
color. When the clerk demurred to this
and suggested that they describe them.
selves as colored they demurred in turn.
Finally q compromise was reached
whereby the word yellow was inserted
in the color column.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
ALICE STAMP THEFT,
Grand Jury Indicts Two Mepg Charg-
ing Annual Steals of
$4,000.

PORTLAND, Me, Feb. S.-Georgc
Frederick Terry, general manager of the
Sawyer Publishing company at Water
vile. and Henry w. Bosnian, who for a
number of years has handled the second
and third class mail matter in the Wa
tervilIe postofice, were indicted in Unit
ed States district court for alleged joint
conspiracy to defraud the government Of
postage.
1t is alleged the government has been
robbed of many thousands Of dollars a
year for several years by Terry and
Bosnian. the amount being as high as
$4,000 annually.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
Flies.

The astonishing abundance of flies
during the latter part of the summer is
accounted for by the estimate made BY
an eminent entomologist that the pro
geny of single house fly in the course
of one summer will number 2OSO. 800
1t if were not for the innumerable enc
mics provided by nature for the de-
struction Of the fly, the whole air
would be filled by the end of August
with swarms Of flies, which would rem
der life insupportable.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
PALACE UP AT sHER1FFs SALE.
Foreclosure on Unfinished Home of One
of Carneqie's Partners

PITTSBURG, Pa, Feb. 8. Love
joys Folly" the $25O,OOO home of Fran
els 7. Lovejoy, Andrew Carnegie's
young partner, in Braddocl avenue, is
to be sold by the sheriff within thirty
days. Lovejoy, who obtained $16,0OO,00O
as has share when the United States
Steel corpora ton was formed, defaulted
recently on the payment of interest on
$4,000 mortgage held on the property
by the Fidelity Title and Trust com
pany. An execution was issued and
Mr.. Lovejoy did not attempt to defend
that suit. Lovejoy began the erection
of the magnificent home about two years
ago and it is still uncompleted. Inc ga
rage alone cost $4,000.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
THE CRIME OF WORRY

How This Deadly Epidemic Under
mines the Health.
Worry Is the epidemic Of the day
an epidemic more widespread and dead
~ than any pestilence that has ever af-
flicted this long suffering world
Everybody worries nowadays. The
man worries about his business. his
family relations, and SO on. The wom-
an worries about her household, her
children. her clothes. Worst of all,
even little children do not escape wor-
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14

Picture
Railway n World Reindeer Seller
smallest Inhabitants calls his home
Altogether $4,000 they scattered
height four rarely than that However they
lived the fd climate Of the far north
land
10 thrive n q climate
milk with food its hide
sled will swiftly draw the sled load exceeding 200
throughout
senwid These shift
To
to
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
Traunmi11nr Held Insane

ST. LOUIS. 20, Feb. S-A jury in
the probate court has formally declared
f. Joseph Traunmiller, former manager
of the Excelsior Brewing company, to be
insane. Joseph L. Lademan, brother Of
Traunmiller's divorced wife, was APP
pointed guardian under $4,000 bonds
Traunmiller is now in the state asylum
for the insane at Fulton, Mo. Mrs.
TraunmiIler, his divorced wife. is at the
home of her parents in Milwaukee.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
Mnline Man a Suicide.

MOLINE, H., Feb. S-Frank w.
Gould, president of the Union Malleable
Iron company and president of the board
of trustees Of the Western Illinois hos
pital Tor the insane at WATERFOWL, com
mitted suicide in his bedroom today by
shooting himself in the mouth. No mo,
tive IS known for the or.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
NEW YORK TALK
SETS DOUMA AG0G
MILUKOFF, WHO LECTURED ON
RUSSIA, ADVISED TO RE-
SIGN.
BIG PARTY IS COMING HERE.
Opening Made by Professor Who Is Now
Under Fire Will Be Fol-
lowed Up.
PARTISAN ENMITY is TANNED.

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. S.-The
demonstrations in the Douma Friday
against Prof. Paul Nulukod, leader of
the Constitutional Democrats, arising
from the ilI-feeling created by his re-
cent lecture i'll New York on the politi
cal situation in Russia. engrosSes the at
tcntion of the entire press of this city,
which today unites in deploriug an Incl
dent which tends to fan partisan en-
NIFTY and endanger the chances of the
Douuha 5 success.
The occurrences of Friday probably
will be followed by Il resolution ccusur-
ing Milukotf for lack of patriotism and
unparhamentary conduct III visiting a
foreign country to stir up Il sentiment of
hostility, while occupying a responsible
position i'll Parliament.
Not Confined to Fanatics.
The participation of the Octobcrists
i'll the demonstration, under the leader
ship of Alexander }. Guchkotf, is regard
ed as showing the feeling against Prof.
Mllukot is not confined to reactionary
fanatics like Vladimir NJ Purishkevich.
but is shared by members of the Consti-
tutional party, which up to the present
has maintained amicable relations with
the leader of the ConStitutic"al Demo
Gratis.
In some quarters Nlilukoff is advised
to resign and seek vindication ut the
hands of his constituents, but this he de-
chneS to do. and announces his inten
ton of insisting that the report of the
commission on national defense, concern
ing which strategic questions will be
discussed. be read in closed session of
the DOuma.
Journalists to Come.
Upon American initiative large party
of Russian liberal journalists is being or
gained to visit the United States to
continue the movement begun by Prof.
Milukoff. The oppositional press of st.
Petersburg. Moscow, Kiev and Odessa
has been invited to send delegates, but
the conservative newspapers have not
been.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
COMPLAINT MADE TO HUGHES.
Sale of Park to New York Tangles Bor
Ough President

ALB f9oS win Gov G gI 69gCnafges
Borough President Bermel of Queens.
by Attorney General Jackson. The
charges grow out of the investigation be-
fore the grand jury of Queens county
concerning the sale to New York city of
Kissena park in Queens county.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
Sna phptti Is Rnmharded

ST. LOUIS. Mo-, Feb 8.-The ex-
plosion of a bomb, evidently set off by
enemies. wrecked the front of the Spa
ghetti manufacturing establishment of
Viviano Bros, SO Biddle street.
Vito Viviano asserted he has no
known enemy and is at a loss to account
for the explosion.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
MRS. MCCORMICK ILL AT OPERA.

CHICAGO. Ill, Feb. S.-Mrs. Harold
T. Mccormick. daughter of John D.
Rockefeller was taken suddenly i'll dur
ing the second part Of the programme at
the Auditorium theater last night and
her husband.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-14
Strictly Appropriate.

Gladys-Why is Miss StrictIeigh
wearing only balf-mourning for her
brother?
Gwendolyn--He was only her half
brother, you know.-Baltimore Amer
lean.
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$50 Miss Elder took advantage of
leap year and proposed to Cholly, eh g'
Yep. But Cholly succeeded in get
ting the fatal day put off till June;
How did he do it,"
'aTold her it would take him that Iono
to get his trousseau ready."-Cleyeland
Plain Dealer.