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Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
Uncle Sans Sober Sailors.

The $4,000 enlisted men have proved
themselves. The great majority were
green when they left Hampton Roads.
To-day they are seasoned seamen, full
of confidence and proud Of having had
a part in so important a demonstra-
ton; and in this connection they have
set an example that will inevitably be
of much good to the navy, says the
Metropolitan magazine. 1t was becom-
ing difficult to get enough men to enlist.
Even with extensive advertising, and
the establishment of recruiting stations
in all sections of the country, there
were not enough men coming in. This
voyage has stimulated the necessary in
terest among the young men of the
country.
Jack ashore has put the prophets to
shame and the temptations he has had
to combat have been great. At every
port of call, Admiral Evans allowed
great numbers Of the men shore leave,
but they were given to understand that
the continuation Of such favOrs depend
ed on their behavior. They were told,
too, that to a certain extent the honor
of their country was in their keeping.
Patrols were sent ashore to watch the
men and the result of all this was that
Jack had a very good time and enjoyed
the hospitality extended him without
abusing it and getting himself in trou-
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
Courts Not Influenced.
LIMITED IS DERAILED.
One Killed and Two Fatally Injured in
Wreck of ST. Louis & San Fran
cisco Train

SPRINGFIELD, Mo, Aug. 90
Northbound passenger train No. 206 on
the st. Louis & San Francisco railway,
known as the Southeastern Limited, run
ming between Birmingham, Memphis and
Kansas City, was partially derailed at
10 this morning, two miles north of
Brandsville, Mo, twenty miles from the
Arkansas state line. James S. O'Nein
the fireman, from Springfield, was killed ;
II. B. Colvin, the engineer of Spring
field, was fatally scalded; a mail clerk
was probably mortally hurt, and several
passengers were more or less seriously
injured. The engine and mail and bag
gage cars turned over and were badly
damaged. The smoker left the track
but remained upright. The chair car
and two Pullmans remained on the
track. A telephone message from the
scene says the accident resulted from 9
defective track.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28

is simply he who despoils life of the
divine, of its ideals, its hopes. its sub
lime sacrifices, who casts the cynics
sheer over youths dreams. over loves
devotion.
1t may make little difference whether
you can agree with your neighbor in
your descriptions Of the divine. 1t
would be an unfortunate thing If your
idea Of that infinite life and love could
be 80 localized and stationary as TO per-
NIT CT satisfactory description. The
thing that ma tiers is whether TO that
neighbor you yourself are revealing
something of the divine and the etern-
ally good and true
We need TO pray to be delivered not
from intellectual atheism; that will
hurt no one. We need to pray to be de-
livered from practical atheism, the life
that denies the divine; the heart that
empties itself of the high and holy by
its avarice, it's passion for the things
that are low and debasing. We need to
seek to escape the diabolic delusion Of
the life that acknowledges the fact Of
God and yet denies HIS likeness in the
living.
You and your neighbor might quarrel
forever as to your conceptions of God
but let each one seek to express that
ideal OF the divine In the daily doing
and you shall find yourselves walking
in the same way, bound on the same
errands, and your feet shall carry you
together to heavens door rs you seek
the ways Of the needy and the sad and
suffering
This world needs God. 1t never will
be satisfied with pictures Of that great
spirit OF love and life 1t will know
God only as we show that love and
life. We might well spend less time
preaching about God If only we would
practice that for which our Ideals Of
God stand. If that word means to you
as more and more 1t must mean TO men,
infinite goodness, tenderness, helpful
ness, affection. then the measure Of your
faith in such being and such qualities
is your own projection of them into the
world 1t Is time that we ceased to
quarrel over definitions and descrip-
tons Of the divine and began to do the
deeds divine.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
UNIQUE ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK.
Remarkable Mechanism Shows All
the Movements o. the Earth.

Remarkable Mechanism Shows All
the Movements OF the Earth.
All the movements Of the earth are
represented by a remarkable astronOm-
zeal clock which yesterday was placed
on public view at the American Muse
um of Natural History, says the New
York Herald. 1t was designed by Dr.
Herman c. Bumpus, the director Of
the institution, and is the result Of
months Of patient experiment.
1t not only shows the daily rotation
OF the earth upon its axis, but the mo-
ton about the sun. and also demon
strates through all the year the changes
which cause the march Of the seasons.
The earth is globe Of paper com
position four feet In diameter, while
the sun is a StereOpticOn placed at Il
distance Of ten feet. The light from
the stereopticOn shines upon the sphere
in such q manner as to illuminate half
Of 1t at a time. The shadow Of a wire
which is back of the lens corresponds
to the meridian of New York.
The earth is caused to revolve by
means Of a shaft which derives its
power from small Howard steeple
clock This shaft passes through a
wooden tunnel and communicates its
power to bevel gears, which cause the
sphere to be always changing its poise.
BY watching the meridian shadow
the observer can always tell the time
Of day with mathematical accuracy.
No device of its kind has ever been
exhibited in museum for the instruc-
ton of the public, and this astrOnom-
zeal clock rivals in its accuracy and in
the painStaking way in which it is con-
structed the most delicate instruments
to be seen in well-equipped observa-
tories The cOntrivance was construct
ed by W. H. Beers, an expert mechan-
ician connected with the museum.
1t was the original intention to have
merely a globe showing the one motion
Of the earth, but as the scheme devel-
Oped through experiments the present
elaborate clock was gradually per-
fected
On the ground floor Of the museum is
another device showing the revolution
of the earth about the sun on q larger
scale. The orbit swings through the
entrance hall and over the informal ton
bureau and into the hall of forestry,
while in the center of the foyer the sun
shines for all.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
DETAIN BOY EMIGRANT,
Jacob Trass, Whose Parents Are in She
boygan, Wis, Held UP in New
York

NEW YORK, Aug 25.-After stay
ing behind i'll Holland TO take care Of
his grandmother, Jacob Trass, II years
of age, whose parents settled in Sheboy-
gan, Wis, three years ago, now finds
himself liable to be debarred from the
land his father and mother adopted. The
boy got here on the Statendam. He
passed the marine doctors all right, but
was held up by an immigration inspector
for medical examination because OF
defective speech. Three years ago, when
Mr.. and Mrs. Trass came to this coun-
try, it was necessary for some one to-
and take care Of the grandmother. Jacob
and another brother volunteered to re-
main. Recently conditions changed and
Jacob was able to get away. He en-
barked on the Statendam with some
friends of the family.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
Straight From the Animal,

A London gentleman, having taken
a small farm in the country as being
the correct thing to do, as well as to
get little fresh air, had invited some
Of his friends down to see his new
possession.
Having viewed the domain and not
ing the absence of creature life about
the place, one of his friends remarked
with a nice, open place like this,
wonder you don't have some animals
about, as is usual on a farm. Some
cows, for instance, so as to have your
own butter and cream"
''No-o," drawled his host, don't care
about butter or cream"
Some chickens or ducks, then. You
surely like fresh eggs?"
MOO, don't care for eggs. But I've
sometimes thought I'd like a sheep. 1
rather like kidneys for breakfast."-
Liverpool Mercury.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
FRIDAY.

the boss made me git up way in the
mite We had got to town with the
wagon | waz on before Owl carr waz
runen. it was cold an krepy. / kinder
wisht that kud go tn skule agen but
| dident lie: on tho. know Egle Pete
elwayz kept a stiff upper lip.
the milkman stopt often at places
wheF he went inside. Wunst a bum
kun uD tn the wagon an askt for milk
tole him that waz a brave man
altho small an he lated but he waz
bluff al rite but waz shared al rite.
finely we KUN mere our hous. but
we don't take milk of the man / wurked
for 50 / wasent much skared
but we kun til Susen evens hous and
tOle the boss he waz cold an wud
TAX the milk in. waz in hopes Susen
mite know 1t waZ me. / hammered the
bak dore. i maid a big raket
finely i herd sum wun say now git
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
JUDGE BAKER
MIKES REPLY
TO CRITICISM
EXPLAINS WHY STANDARD OIL DE-
CISION WAS REVERSED IN
HIGHER COURT.
WRONG COMPANY is INDICTED.
He Declares People Will Learn That
Tribunals of Justice Cannot
Be Influenced.
CORPORATION HAS ITS RIGHTS.

GOSHEN, Ind, Aug. 2G.-Judge
Fancis Il. Baker of the United States
circuit court of appeals, which reversed
the decision of Judge Lands fning the
Standard Oil company $290O0,OOO re-
piled yesterday to the critics of his
court.
I'm the first place" he said, 1T was
not the Standard Oil company incor-
porated under the laws of New Jersey,
the parent concern that was on trial, but
the Standard Oil company of Indiana.
an offspring, undoubtedly, but Il much
smaller and weaker organization.
Wrong Company Indicted.
But when it came to pass Judgment
II was on the otfenSeS Of the parent
company that the Indiana offspring was
found guilty, and it was in accordance
with the property and revenues of the
parent company that the fine of the
offspring was gagged. If it was the
desire and purpose of the court to pun
lsh the Standard Oil company of New
Jersey that concern should have been
indicted either Jointly or separately and
have been brought into court.
Courts Not Influenced
Every corporation has exactly the
same rights as an individual no more
no less. The parent company is, of
course. more or less responsible for the
acts of the Indiana company. The peo-
pie Will sooner or later realize that the
courts are not swayed by any other in
fiuence than law and precedent What
any one man may say in regard to the
decision of court counts for no more
than his opinion. All l know in reality
about this case is that common thing
has occurred-a motion for Il rehearing
has been filed "
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
SATURDAY.

its purity hard to hav the polise OH
yer trak. al morning lodged them
one big cop got me. but tole him that
I wurked rite around the corner an kud
prove 1t. the bluff worked. but my
heart waz in my mouth.
i tried for wurk a. several phases
kudent get a 90, every thing luzt
dark tn me.
finally / deSided TO walk past our
hous in the alie>. i figured the kuk
mite sc me. / j.st wanted her III let
the folks know Eud live without there
vittels
i walizt past the hous twice. nobody
semed to notes me. waz just goin
around the kOrner to grosery when
run rite into pa. he wasn't ezey be
Klaus we wuz in the strete. he waz
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28

most only way oft in enother end of
town.
my sauseg an brede he'd Civ out, so
went out begen an kun I'll q nice
hous. the ladey who kun I'll the dore
sed she pityed me an tux me inside
an Civ me lots tn etc. she kept taken
tn me an sed i waz much Xix her boy
who crowd up an had gone of.
she Civ me pie an kake an say it waz
pudin tn goin tn skule. but after
awhyel herd some one taken to some
body else In the next rum. then the
ladey went out an herd her say Yes
of1sir he luks like the pikshur Of the
boy in the paper who run off.
when the cop &uln in rendered
what the Ole sluth did wunst an yield
i waz crazey from 8 bug asylum an
pretended III hay + fit an the ladey
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28

what it's kraczed up tu bee, wud
Civ wun OF my fore quarter fer drink
Of water but ges kin stand it awhyel
yet.
got to thinker that If 1 shud lie
for want of water the kids at skule
wud fele purity bad an maybe susen
Evens wud put the wrethe | Civ her
for Kristmes on my gray an maybe
they wud fire Off a salut over my gray
thlnkin' that dide game an with my
butes on az the Teller who kot killed
by Dix OF Egle Pas did.
it must be AZ awfel long ways tn
arizona.
! am mitey tired setI8' down tu
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
MAYOR ROSE MAKES RESPONSE.
Speaks for Home Corners at Darlington
Celebration.

DARLINGTON, Wis. Aug. 26.-The
homecoming exercises were begun yes
terday at the fair ground park.
Speeches of welcome were made by j.
G. Monahan for Darlington and by J. B.
Simpson of Shullsburg for Lafayette
county. Mayor d. S. Rose Of Milwau
kee responded in behalf of the home
corners. In the afternoon speeches were
made in the park by old settlers and
others.
This evening there viii be a reception
at the courthouse. Five hundred home
Corners are in the CITY.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
SHORT METER SERMONS.

No perfection apart from pruning.
Only those who love really know
Definitions cannot go beyond expert
ence.
The love that springs from heaven
sweeps men back there.
The keenest condemnation of i'm
purity is the silent pure life
The best fitting for divine work Is
faithfulness in daily work.
The open mind Is the only one that
can stay In the open way.
The lights Of the world do not In
vite the world to watch their smoke
No man ever died of poison by bury
ing the gall of malice in his own
breast
Spiritual wealth may often depend on
willingness to experience material pov-
erty.
The potato cannot understand why
roses are popular, since they cannot
be eaten.
Painting people with depravity
seems to be a poor way to produce de
sires for purity.
People who relish mud are apt to
talk about the need Of realistic studies
In morals.
The gloemiest hearts on earth are
those that have never earned any glow
of gratitude.
Goodness cannot become habitual
unless we will be better than we alb
solutely need to be.
He becomes a drag rather than a
leader who makes his appeal to the
prejudices Of the people.
When a man sets up to be a guide
to heaven just watch to see if he goes
before in the hard places
It's an uphill proposition counter
acting the six days street with one
hour In Sunday school basement
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28

Stables and Rhymes" are among the
books which have fallen into disrepute
with the two members of the Passaic
board Of education. Mr.. Hettema de-
clared that he did not approve of fairy
tales as reading matter for children. and
expressed the opinion that money being
expended for such works was being
thrown away when it might be profit
ably expended for books on history or
some other subject OF practical value
Mr.. Adams expressed similar senti
ments. and in forceful terms denounced
the authors of the fairy tales which
have been widely read for many gener-
atoms.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
THE ORTHODOX ATHEIST.

By Henry T. Cope.
God is not in all his thoughts
Psals K, 4.
There are at least three kinds of
atheism-that which denies the exist
ence Of any infinite and eternal spirit;
that which, while affirming, with much
emphasis and elaboration Of detail, the
existence OF such spirit, yet lives as
If there were none; and that which,
whether affirming or denying the fact,
puts nothing of the divine into actual
living
Ones intellectual conclusions as to
the existence Of such a God as men of
the past may have been able to picture
may have little Importance. The fact is
that, as to the Specifications of the
Deity as conceived by others, and par
tfcularly as pictured by the past. we
must all be, If we are living thinkers,
atheists
The important thing is not whether
we can all agree as to the precise de-
tails Of the Deity; the important thing
Is whether we will see somehow the
divine in our lives and somehow come
to express that in our living Many a
man says In all honesty that be cannot
believe In God simply because he has
failed TO cramp his intellect into con-
ceptons long since outgrown, which
have been offered to him as essential to
faith in the divine
Yet the man who cannot believe in a
God in that way may still have the
sense Of a higher life that somehow
wraps US all in itself; of reaches Of be-
ing far beyond our discovering and
charting; Of life from which all our
life springs. and Of goal and ideal of
life to which all our best life turns.
The divine is not n matter Of details
God is not a matter of grammar. Faith
in the divine is always the conscious
ness and hope of that which defles de-
scription. You have no right to call
yourself an atheist or so to label an
other simply because old descriptions
are rejected He is the true atheist
who seeks to bury his life In the dust
and sway from the divine. He may be
well Informed on theories of the divine
he may be that dangerous person the
Dtously orthodox aheist.
The man who makes this life of ours
an empty thing, who robs this world of
lis beauty and glory, who steals from
lies song the note that the morning
stars sang together, the heavenly chord,
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
Machine Lays Concrete Walk.

a machine, consisting of a travelling
mold and of a winch for pulling it
along, is now being used in constructing
cement sidewalks. The concrere for the
base of the sidewalk is shoveled or
dumped into the front part of the mold.
and the finishing mortar is fed into the
hopper in the middle. This hopper is
so designed that it feeds a thin layer of
mortar onto the concrete base as the
mold travels forward. Thus a complete
and perfect sidewalk is delivered at the
rear end of the machine.-Populsr Me-
chantcs
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28

that | erned my daley brede today.
wurked hard enuf
the milkman haz a nice dauter.
tote her wunst today that / expect to
be King or sOmethln' some day. tole
her expected to go al round the wurld
some day an she buged out her eyer.
found a button in one poket that
Susen Civ me las woke an believer her
fikel I'll my love Civ it to this girl.
tole her that she is a dreme an that
she wuI lux vel in manshun Xix mine
is tn be an after super she civ me
is for my piller tn Slepe on.
the boss drove me to bed at Z oklock.
the life Of some wurkeh men is hard.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
Must Have FAIRY Tales.

Fairy tales and fables will continue
to be read in the public schools of Pas
sale. n. J., even though Harry A. Hette-
ma and John Adams, school trustees
strenuously oppose this class of litera-
ture. At a meeting of the school board
these two members made an unsuccess-
fuI effort to exclude all textbooks CON
taining such subjects. Superintendent
Woodley and Mr.. Seger. trustee. de-
Tended the books which the two trustees
so vigorously condemned. Hans Chris
tan Andersen's fairy tales. Mother
Goose robin Hood Arabian
Nights" "Grimm's Fairy tales and
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
NEARLY STRIKES MULE.
Democratic Mascot Has Narrow Escape
from Lightning Bolt During
a Storm.

LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 26.-During
the storm early today the windmill at
the home of William J. Bryan, located
close to the barn where the Democratic
mascot mule is stabbed, was struck by
lightning and damaged slightly. A cas-
ing was melted by the bolt. but this has
been replaced and the mill is again turn
ing. A large bale of hay reached Lin
coin this morning from the Bryan
Bailey club of Forney, Tex, addressed
''To the man who keeps the Democratic
mule, Lincoln, Neb."
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
ST. LOUIS BANKER DIES.
J. c. Van Biarcum. Well Known Finan-
cier in Middle West, Succumbs to
Bright's Disease

ST. LOUIS. No, Aug. 25.-Informa-
ton was received here OF the sudden
death this morning of J. G. Van Blair
com of the National Bank of Commerce
of st. Louis. and one of the best known
fnanciers of the middle west, at his
summer home in the Adirondacks, near
Old Forge n. Y His death was caused
by Bright's disease
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
Excited No Comment.

Tess-Of course, I knew that Nav
and Bess were bitter enemies, but do
you mean to tell me that they actually
engaged in a fist fight?
JeSs-YeS.
Tess-Why, what a scandal. 1 de-
Jess-Oh, nobody noticed it, They
went to a bargain store to do it.-PhiI-
adelphia Press.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
ASK UNIFORM STATUTE.
Associated Fraternities Want Legisla-
ton Which Will Have Same Eff
feet on All Branches.

CHICAGO, H., Aug. 25.-Delegates
to the eighth annual meeting of the AS
ISOLATED Fraternities Of America today
discussed the advisability Of presenting a
uniform bill in the different states gov
erning the fraternal societies in issuing
certificates and paying benefits and fix
ing a minimum rate for members. For
ty-eight fraternal societies have mem
bership III the association.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28
BOAT MAKES FAST TIME,
Kron Prinzessin Cecele Lowers Record
in Run from Cherbourg to
New York

NEW YORK. Aug. 25.-The fastest
time from Cherbourg to this port over
the short course of 3O49 miles, was made
by the steamer Kron Prinzessin Cecelie,
which arrived here today. The time of
the passage was 5 days II hours and =
minutes with an average speed of 1924
knots an hour.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28

NEENAH, Wis, Aug. 26.-[SpeciaLJ
Albert Dahms, Gus Ziemann and Theo-
dore Johnson of this city, on their way
to Hayward to attend the state mer-
chants meeting, were in a train which
was deraiIed yesterday at Hurley but
no one was injured. The tender Of the
engine jumped the track, derailing the
cars, but they remained upright on the
ties
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28

anyhow. ! ges they viii wisht they had
ben respecktfel ter me when they here
how I hev got up in the world after
awhyel an am rich an own lots oe
hOuze2. i am off termorrer fer nevada
tn get rich digen gold. hey bin watch
Ell a car beln loded to go to arizona
an / kin walk the rest OF the way.
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i walkt al mite but from what the
! kun tn a milkmanz hous this morn
ing an askt for wUrk. he askt what i
kin do an seq any kind uf honest toll
that's respecktabel an he put me at
wurk fedin kowZ.
never did Xix kOwz much. they are
al rite in summer tn lux at. but new
er did Xix tn wurk around them. feIe