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

1, f. E. Woodland, cashier Of the
above named bank, do solemnly swear
that the foregoing statement is true to
the best of my knowledge and belief.
5a# ~ f. E. Woodland,
.r.....- va Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this Sd day of December, 1908. ....
Mary E. Burke,
Notary Public.
Correct. Attest:
VIM. Buchheit,
j. f. Pre- Miss,
... % Directors.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04

l, Charles E. Frey, cashier of the
above named bank, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true to the
best of my knowledge and belief.
Chas. E. Frey, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 5oth day Of Nov, 1908.
e zE John G. Conway,
Notary Public.
Correct. Attest:
w. D. Sproesser,
los Terbrneggens Directors.
d. b. Kusel,
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04
RESOURCES.

RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts. .,.......... 1851, 211.92
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 5,579.45
Y. ). Bonds to secure circulation. 100000
Premiums on u. S. bonds. 1880
Bonds. securities. etc. -.-....-;..:.. 126,S44.0O
Banking house, furniture and hx-
lures. :........... e,5o0.Oo
Due from National Banks mot re
serve agents. 1885. ga
Due from approved reserve agents 69,O75.95
Checks and other cash items. 3,230.96
Notes of other National Banks. S,485. 90
and cents. ................. 177.4O
Legal tender notes. ,.- 100000 25,5eo.O5
urer Is per cent. of crculation). 100000
Total. $457, e9s.37
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in. ..-.--S 100000
Surplus fund. -.--. 100000
and taxes paid. ................. 2,56e.13
National bank notes outstanding: 100000
Due to state and private banks and
bankers ....-.-............... 1,49e 81
Individual deposits subject to check 92431 Oe
Demand certificates of Deposit. 35. 1877 OF
Time certificates of deposit-......: 196,117.32
szs Total S457, eeS.37
State of Wisconsin, 6
County of Jefferson az
I, W. F. Voss, president of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true to the best
of my knowledge and belief.
+E w. z. Voss, President.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this Sd day of December, 1908.
Chas. A. Skinner,
--~~ Notary Public.
Correct-Attest: Fred Miller,
0-stEs- d. @. CRUDE,
4 h. Null berger,
Directors /
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04

Smoke --latest Out" Sc cigar.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04

The Misses Belle and Mary Mcneil
lof Marshall were Thanksgiving visit
H. W. Warner, North Washington
street They returned home this af-
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-03-21
Randy Ear All Corners.

The passengers were suddenly
startled by a shower Of rice that
fell from the brides parasol when
she took it from the rack. The
bridegroom, a dark, stalwart chap,
observing the smiles, placed his arm
about his blushing bride and then
faced the passengers, with the fol-
lowing remarks:
81 reckon there amt no need for
me to say we amt been married
long, but / can tell YOU all one
thing--you don't want to smile any
more than's perlite, for she's my
violet, and Pm her sheltering oak,
and | weighs 208 pounds. "-Success
Magazine.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-03-21
MONEY TO LOAN

The Pullman Savings & Loan A $50
citation has money to loan on improved
city property. The principal can be
repaid in small monthly payments,
making the building and loan" plan
a desirable one for the person having
a modest income. The entire loan
can be repaid at any time without a
bonus. The same money you are now
paying for rent will, in few years,
if applied to Building and Loan stock
purchase for you a home. This assn
citation has been in operation nearly
six years and has assisted in building
sixty dwelling houses in Pullman.
Apply to any officer for details of our
plan.
E. S. Burgan. Pres.
lStf w. j. Roberts, Sec.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-03-21

There is one small New Yorker
who is being brought up in the
way she shoald go. She is young
woman of perhaps three years, and
she was riding with her father in a
Sixth avenue 81" car the other day.
She slipped off the parental knee
and insisted on standing in the
aisle.
"Catch hold of the strap, Pussy"
said her father, She raised one
chubby hand obediently and held it
as high as she could. The straps
were not more than two or three
feet above it.
CHATS right" said the father.
"Get used to it in time. New
York Tribune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-03-21

explain his sudden afluence, and no
one would ever dream of his transgres.
sion.
He was leaning against the wire par
ttion that separated him from Bas-
CONS compartment, and the clerk look
ed up.
Tired out, Tim?' he asked kindly.
IT'S tough job. I'll be glad when it's
done. I'm as sick of money as girl
In candy store is of chocolates
Tim nodded, and Bascom went on
counting the rolls of gold coin, whis-
Ting softly as he worked. Tim started
as the tune caught his attention. 1t
was "Harrigan," and Bascom was
whistling the chorus:
H-a double r-i-g-a-n, you see,
It's name that a shame never has been
connected with.
Harrigan-thats me.
Tim slipped off the high stool and
went over to the water cooler The
iced water reduced his fever. and he
went back to the duh drudgery of IT,
count, his mOmentary madness gOar.
He was proud of his name He r
could face Nell burdcned with B, &
knowledge of guilt; he never could
offer her home that was bought with
stolen money. Tie song had saved
him.
1t was late in the afternoon when H.
tabulated 49,. results Of his count and
took theIl 80 The president The gray
haired oil, l4au gave Il sigh OF relief as
he saw the total.
ut is not as bad as had feared" he
said slowly, passing the memorandum
to the examiner. douglas hit us pref.
ty hard. but he did not deal death
blow"
The bank will keep openG" cried
Tim, a smile spreading over his face
With the bank closed. marriage wish
Neil seemed furtht. away than ever.
THE bank will keep open" verified
the president. And that reminds me,
Mr.. Warning is to he promoted to the
position of cashier. aud he has recon
mended you for his place as assistant
1t will mean Il raise of $500 a year
You are married?"
Tim shook his head.
only engaged" he said simply, But
with the raise can afford to get mar
ried"
Come to me if you want to borrow
money 10 set up housekeeping with, Sc
said the president kindly. We want
our men to have hopes. 1t steadies
them down"
An hour later notice was posted on
the bank doors that the institution
would resume payment in the morning
and the line Of watchers began TO drift
away. The last were still lingering
about as Tim Harrigan came jauntily
down the steps ana hurried up the
street with springy stride to bear joy
fUl news to Nell. And as he STROBE
along the street the smile that PLAYED
about his lips gave place to a pucker
and he WhiStcd-
It's name that shame never has been
connected with1
-Harrigan-that s me-
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-03-21
WONDERFUL READERS.
MacauIay's Almost Superhuman Gift
For Absorbing Literature.

For Absorbing Literature.
Here is an interesting list of the vol
umes read by Lord Macaulay in a pc
riod of thirteen months, during which
time he was also busted with his oil
cial duties as one of the members of
the supreme council of India. 81 have
read 1lschylus twice." he writes
friend; "Sophocles twice, Euripides
once, Pindar twice, Callimachus, APP
pollonius Rhodius, Quintus Calaber,
Theocritus twice, Herodotus, Thucydi-
des, almost all Xenophon's works, al
most all Plato, Aristotle's Politics and
a good deal of his 'Organon,' besides
dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of
'Plutarch's Lives about half of Lu-
clan, two or three books of Athenaeus,
Plautus twice, Terence twice, Lucre-
thus twice, Catullus, Tibullus, Proper
tiCS, Lucan, Status. Silius, Itaicus,
Liyy. Nolieius Patercuus, Sallust, Gaze
sar and lastly Cicero. | have indeed n
little Cicero left, but shall finish him
in few days. am now deep in Arts
tophanes and Lucian."
Maniestly Macaulay had an almost
superhuman gift for reading. Trevel-
yam said of him: "Macaulay's eXtraor-
binary faculty of assimilating printed
matter at first sight remained the same
through life. To the end he read books
faster than other people skinned
them and skinned them as fast as
any one else would turn the leaves.
And this speed was not in his case OBJ
tanned at the expense of accuracy"
Balzac's ability to take in at a glance
half dozen or more lines of a page is
Il well known incident of literature,
and the Frenchman got all the mean
lngs and the shades of meaning from
the page. BalZac was not Il systematic
reader and boosted that he never read
Il book through. But he, too, had the
power of "assimilating printed mat
ter" NJ. Brunetiere says that Balzac's
capacity for absorbing knowledge as
well as learning is not to be judged at
all by the standards of ordinary men.
The same principle incidentally is the
sufficient answer to those who doubt
that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare
because there is proof that he was
never student.
Doubtless these who have been men
toned were exceptional readers. or,
rather, devourers of books. But their
example is interesting not because it
is exceptional, but for the reason that
industry in reading is really not eX-
ceptional The photographers attach
ing to meritorious works of history at
test stupendous research-stupendou
to the man who is content to merely
"do" the magazines. The learned per-
son who occasionally advises that a
reading of Shakespeare and the Bible
SIS enough" has doubtless himself
read wisely.
Even a cursory survey of the subject
convlnces that reading and its amount
depend upon ones temperament and
habit and has nothing whatever to do
With hroe.-Kansas Git Stas.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-03-21
A Filterinu Medium.

Absorbent cotton is highly rec
commended as a filtering medium.
1t acts rapidly and is therefore OF
great value in fltering volatile ele-
ments. For ordinary household
use it is specially recommended be-
cause of its inexpensiyeness and
ease Of management. A large fun
mel must be provided, and the cot
ton is pressed more or less firmly
into the neck, according to the sub
stance to be passed through. Some
liquids are much more difficult to
manage than others, and this must
of course be allowed for. A little
practice will show the housewife
just how closely the cotton must be
packed to insure success in filtering
the various liquids with which she
has to deal.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-03-21
THE MALAYS.
Their Lives Seem to Be Governed by
Their Superstitions.


Malays will resort to any and
every conceivable pretext to avoid
paying money on Friday. They be-
heye that if they pay their debts on
this day they will be oyertaken by
poverty and want. Tuesday and
Saturday they consider generally
unlucDy days, and if they shave or
cut their nails on either of these
days thereafter they will always be
in trouble and will perhaps die soon.
The Malay never sleeps in the after
noon because of the fear that to
waste the hours of daylight tends to
shorten life. If a Malay finds his
clothes to have been bitten by a
rat he is sure that it signifies bad
luck, and if he can possibly afford it
the clothes are given away in the
name of charity. There is a species
of bird called in the Malay country
rowk rowk, which lives in the fields
, and does not build a nest. 1t is be-
lieyed that whoever obtains rowk
rowk's nest will become invisible by
| placing it on his head. OF course
the Malays believe there is such a
nest hidden away somewhere.
The Malays always abstain from
taking food during an eclipse Of the
sun or the moon and are exceeding
ly careful about their baths, so as to
prevent the attack Of contagious
diseases. The crow is a bird of es-
pecially i'll omen to the Malay, and
if it IS heard cawing near habita-
ton it means death to some one of
the inmates. In some other parts
of the world if an owl alights on or
near a house and boots it is said to
mean death or desolation"-the
house may be burned or sold for
debt or other misfortune. If a
black cat crosses the road in front
of Malay he will at once turn
back and pursue his journey by an
other way. The crossing of the
black cat signifies danger involving
the loss of life. In some other
countries a rabbit crossing the road
has the same significance. The dis
agreeable habit of biting the finger
nails is almost unknown among the
Malays. They believe that if in
duiged in the habit will surely lead
to poverty.
1t is considered by the Malay to
be a very lucky thing to see a pig
or a Chinese funeral before the sun
] rises. Whatever he attempts on
this day will be sure to prosper.
Dreaming of jumping a brooklet as
sures the dreamer that he will die
in a short time. Then the faithful
Malay dreamer gives aims to the
poor and behaves gently and kindly
to all about him in an endeavor to
pacify the gods and persuade them
to lengthen his life. To see a mon
key in the morning is an evil omen,
and it signifies that the day will be
a bad one for trade. All of these
omens have palliations, and the wise
Malay usually takes each one as a
warning of danger or misfortune
that may be in part if not wholly
avoided.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-03-21
Reversed.

The foreign visitors to China had
asked to see a native execution, and
the governor Of the province for a
consideration had consented to
oblige them.
"Have mercy, your highness," >
walled the wretched criminals as
they cringed before the governor
"Have we no chance?"
"None whatever" responded his
highness cheerfuIly. dts a case of
taels | win, heads you lose "-Bo-
hemian.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-03-21
BIDS WANTED.

Bids will be received for the con-
struction of a building to be used as a
boys private dormitory under the plans
and specifications to be seen at the
office of JohnKlemgard, Pullman, Wash.
Bids will be opened Thursday, March
II, at pm. The right to reject any
and all bids is reserved.
Pullman Development Co.
24t2. John Klemgard, Sec.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-03-21
THE LOVELY ONION.
'dors, Joys, Virtues and superstitions
of the Puneent Bulb.

A London real estate agent SAYS
hat the smell of onions cooking in
n apartment house is source of
nnoyance to the great majority
t the flat jewellers. In the novels
i George Gissing there are con-
tant illusions to the smell of fried
ltsh in the houses where his half
tarved authors and poverty strck-
n women were obliged to live.
Vow, as it seems, one ouionizcd flat
makes a whole house wretchcd.
There are boarding houses so
'harged with the smell of rank
poking perpetrated for years that
he very walls emit it, as in the
memorable pension where Rastignac
ecame acquainted with Nautrin,
put the onion is not here the chief
|'ifender. The smell of onion soup,
lear to the Partisan concierge. still
fingers gratefully in the nostrils of
he American after many years as
he thinks wistfully of his student
lays No reflective person as lac
limbs the stairs of an apartment
louse is offended seriously by smell
1f onions as he passes a door He
links of the glory of bocrstcak
mothcred in onions, of onions
looked in cream, of onions dry, bat
Unfolding their hearts, Of fried on
ons as a side dish for heroes. He
links and signs, for his own Ara
Della cannot endure the smell, not
moving that fine line, "husband
md wife defying the world with
mutual onion"
The ancients frowned on the bulb
IS food and classed it with garlic
ind lecks, as Of an acrid nature, of
lnwholesome juices. "Whcn twice
BOILED they give little nourishment,
put when unboiled they do not
flourish at ALL says Paulus Aegine-
a, and Burton, advising as to the
IIlpt Of thp unpIlnph oly 6IeO1 ICcae
Ibo onion % tronbIosono - Tho
head.
Tho noo,1o o+ 1oroo now mo hood
% those SAVINGS re tho man Who
miles Of tLo con0;ot;no orinions
# d;otists tbo onion i ba.I[hrnI
rbon nI,inIv ho;Iod Asa cb;Id bn
vas tanobt that Il vas oood,for .
,old Tbnso Same onc;onfs tbonobt
,iob1v Of Il os = modioino II occa-
lions q rand Growth Of hair il
,rooI-s hard +u,,ors Cbou-od i i
- In i','i - '''i''Oi'' ~ ~ j."
| )enehClal IN paralysis OF the
.onoue II is pminnnfIv rubnfo-
I,ient. It's Juice is useful in sulfu-
sion and dimness Of vision from
.hick humors Dioscoridcs recon-
nends it as a cataplasm with salt,
ne and honey for the bite of mad
LOG. There are many today who be
iieve that onion Juice is of assist.
lnce in deafness. Italians in tho
aorth end heat the insides of LITTLE
onions and stuff them in aching
ears Of their children. They leave
Them there for weeks. An onion
put under the pillow will bring
dreams of the loved one. The thick
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-03-21
Our UqIy Ancestors.

CAL our ancestors" said a physi-
clan, "were pockmarked, and small
poX was recommendation if you
were looking for work.
"What | mean is that you could
not get a job if you had not had
smallpox. No one wanted a serv-
ant who was liable at any moment
to be stricken down with the loath-
some disease; hence"-he opened a
newspaper volume of 1774-"hence
'hel p wanted ads. read like this;
Wanted. A man between
twenty and thirty years Of age to
be footman and underbutler in a
great family. He must have had
the smallpox in the natural way;
also a woman, middle aged, to wait
upon a young lady of great fortune
and passion. The woman must have
had the smallpox in the natural
UaV'"
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-05-17
DAWES LETTERS


copyrighted by Franklin H. Head 19OS+)
My dear heavenly father-were you really
a COST when you got acquainted with
Mary Christ, or was her name Christ, be-
fore she married her old uncle Joseph
CHRISTI Papa has picture of you and
Mary, taken the first time you met, but
it is not the picture of a COST at all, but
of a flashy young dude wearing an epod.
Is it meant for an epod or nite-gown?
Is it longer than David's was? Mary looks
affuly ashamed in the picture. 1t is dark
in the picture, but there is a long streak
of lite coming out of your hand, which hits
Mary on the back and makes the room lite.
Papa has another picture, taken by
another man at the same time but they
don't look bit like the same people. 1t
is called the Annunchiashun Papa is max
ing a collection of all the Annunchiashun
pictures he can get. What does Annun-
chiashun mean? Is it sacred? Our Sunday
school teacher don't say, she never has
been Annunchiated. Joe has, when he got
religion; or at least he thinks so; but he
gets his big words all MIXED up, which
makes IL worse tnan IL was DeIOre ana L
never can tell for shure what Joe has
done, by what he says. In this last picture
you have on an epod that comes clear
down past your feet, also wings and are
flying in at the dore and there are 16
little babys flying in thru the transum.
You look like shure enuf COST in this pic
ture and Mary is sacred in the picture. CESS
she thinks you are all costs and are after
her. There is a white dove goste, rite
Is one Of them Jesusg You look more like
over her head, that is afire and makes the
hole room light. don't think it is
stable 1t looks like the harness room of
stable, but l never saw a stable dore
with a transum. Is the dove yours? Is it
heavenly dove? Do Doves 60 to heaven
the same as mules and horses and dogs?
Do horses and Burros and dogs turn white
there the same as darkeys and doves dof
What all kind of things go to heaveng Do
they all turn white there? Do they all
wash in the blood Of Jesus? If conclude
to go there may wash in the waterf I
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-05-17
BLUE GRASS BLADE

GOD: Gentlemen, Saints and Angels; I
was but young and foolish God in the days
of Adam and was guilty of many mistakes
yea, all the Mistakes of Moses was guilty
of and / acquit Eve of all blame and she is
welcome to the whole crops of knowledge
apples. 1t had been well that 1 partaken
largely of that fruit. Instead l fattened upon
hattery and while 1 made man of clay, man,
in time, made monkey of me. My former
decree in this case is reversed
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-05-17

am white now Is there any fish in the
river of life? Papa says he thinks there
is lots of suckers, but 1 don't care much
for suckers. They bigyht we'll enuf but
are not hardly worth the bother. They
don't no as much as Holsters and not half
as good to eat.
In haste,
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-05-17
DAVE.
WARNING TO THE PRIESTHOOD.
(By ]. H. Vincent.)
In haste,

When all this universe was laid,
All things were good that God had made;
When did he ever change his will,
And all things with corruption fill
The bible says all things were good,
And Adam in mis- Image stood,
While he in deepest slumber laid,
From his rib his spouse was made.
The serpent came, from whence or where
Did God this evil prepare?
Was it his will the serpent lied
Or in the garden he should hide?
Who gave him power, or employ
The human soul to ere destroy,
Or who was father of the thought,
The soul should be with ransom bought?
Was it the righteous will and plan
The serpent bring this curse on man?
Is he not then his servant too
And serves him better far than your
Did blood of coats appease the gods,
Or human blood that drenched the sod?
Oh priesthood, why sell watered stocks
On heaven to your confiding flocks,
When life shall end, then who will pay
For worthless stocks you sell today?
viii God receive at heavens gate,
This watered stock for new estate?
Oh! fatted priests, have you no shame,
Why don the frocks or take the name?
Was honest toll your fear and dread
That from the field of toll you fled?
How can you pay this debt you owe,
For all this seed of sin you SOW?
Then from the brain shake off the rust,
Ere you are laid beneath the dust;
Throw off the mask and all disguise
From meath the sod you'll never rise.
Meier sell your blessings or your prayers
To simple folks that you can scare.
For with the lips you cannot bless
For no such power do men posses;
For natures law you cannot change,
Are not your blessings void and vain.
This world is growing far too wise,
You cannot hide your base Disguise;
Retract the fraud your tongue has said
Before you're numbered with the dead2
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-05-17

By working altogether we can ac-
complish results quicker and easier
than by trying to play lone hand.