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Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
WOULD GUST PRINCIPAL
Parents in Lakeview District, Collinwood,
O., Show Bitter Feeling Against
Teachers.

CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 16.-[Spe-
ciaL With the opening of the schools
yesterday the horrible disaster at Collin
wood last March, in which LA lives
were lost in the Lakeyiew school, was
again brought before the public. Feeling
against Miss Anna Moran, principal, and
Fritz Hirter, janitor. OF the Inflated Lake
view school, runs high. and ali injunction
will be asked by the parents of the dis
trict asking that they be restrained from
continuing their connection with the Col
linwood schools. Miss Moran and Hir-
ter. together with number of other
teachers from the Lakeview school, have
been assigned to the Clark avenue school,
where the children of the Lakeview dis
trlct are temporarily attending classes.
but the designations of Miss Moran and
Hirter are all that are demanded by the
parents of the district
Violence is feared by the police against
Miss Moran and Hirter, and Chief of
Police Mcllraith will keep a guard
around the schools TO which they have
been assigned. Hrter's home is being
guarded by the police from sunset till
sunrise.
Despite the fact that they knew the
schools TO which their children had been
assigned We're insutiiciently protected
against fire, the parents bravely brought
their little ones and insisted that thew
be present at the opening sessions. Wom-
en- clad III mourning left their children at
the schools Ill the morning and called for
them when the schools closed
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
HARTMAN TO GET ROAD
Rumored That Wheeling & Lake Erie
Will Pass from Gould Control as
Result of Suit

CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 16.-Under a
new action for receiyership B. A. Worth.
ington again was appointed receiver OF
the Wheeling q Lake Erie Railway COM
pany by Judge TayIer in the United
States circuit court here today. Mr..
Worthington was appointed receiver of
the company, originally, few months
ago in the proceedings begun by the Ma
tional Car Wheel company.
The Central Trust company of New
York yesterday began foreclosure pro-
ceedings, in the interests of the bond
holders, it is said. 1t is intimated by
those familiar with the situation that the
suit of the Central Trust company may
take precedence over the original suit.
1t is further intimated that the new suit
will result in the property of the Wheel
ing & Lake Erie Railway company, pass
ing out of the control of the Gould inter
ests and into the control of the Harri-
man-Rockefeller group of railway tinan-
cierS.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
NiQht SWeatS & Couch.

E. W. Walton, Condr. S. P. Ry,, TIT
Van Ness ST., San Antonio, Tex,
writes: During the summer and fall
of 1902, my annoyance from catarrh
reached that stage where it was actual
misery and developed alarming symp-
toms, such as very deep-sested cough,
night sweats, and pains in the head and
chest. I experimental with several So
called remedies before finally decided
to take thorough course of Peruna.
"Two of my friends had gone so far as
to inform me that the thing forme to do
was to resign my position and seek
higher, more congenial climate. Every
one thought 1 had consumption and L
was not expected to live very long.
"Having procured some Peruna, de-
cided to give il a thorough test and APP
piled myself assiduously to the task Of
taking it, as per instructions, in tho
meantime
1.-THE effects were soon apparent, all
alarming symptoms disappeared and
my general health became fully as good
rs 1t had ever been in my life.
"I have resorted to the use of Peruna
on two or three occasions since that
time to cure yself of bad colds"
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
"THE PALE GIRL. "
Did Not Know Coffee Was TIL

Did Not Know Coffee Was The Cause.
In cold weather some people think
cup of hot coffee good to help keep
warm. So it is-for a short time but
the Observation-Disclosures on the heart
to weaken the circulation and the re-
action is to cause more chilliness.
There is a hot, wholesome drink
which Oak. girl found after a time,
makes the blood warm and the heart
strong.
She says:
Having lived for five years in N.
Oak, l have used considerable coffee
owing to the cold climate. AS result
I had a dull headache regularly, suf
fered from indigestion, and had no
life in me.
II was known as the pale girl and
people thought l was just weakly.
After a time l had heart trouble and
became very nervous, never knew what
it was to be real well. Took medicine
but it never seemed to do any good.
''Since being married my husband
and l both have thought coffee was
harning us and we would quit, only to
begin again, although we felt it was
the same as poison to US.
'"Then we got some Postum. Well,
the effect was really wonderful. My
complexion is clear now, headache
gone, and have great deal of energy
I had never known while drinking cof-
fee.
Il haven't been troubled with indi-
gestion since using Postum, am not
nervous, and need no medicine. We
have little girl and boy who both
love Postum and thrive on it and
Grape-Nuts."
There's a Reason"
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich. Read The Road to Well
vilIe," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
HARTMANN NETWORK
Railroad Magnate Believes People in
West Are Becoming Less Hostile
to Big Companies.

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-E. II. Harri-
man returned to this city yesterday aft
er an absence of seven weeks. the great
er part of which time he devoted to an
inspection of the Union Pacific system
and the Southern Pacific railway. Mr.
Hartman denied that he contemplated
any immediate financing for Southern
Pacific or Union Pacific He ridiculed
the rumors of any possible control of the
st. Louis and San Francisco system,
which has been matter of gossip in
financial circles recently.
why have the stocks of Union Pacific
and Southern Pacific been so exceeding
ly strong recently" was asked.
Because they We're too weak before"
was Mr.. Harriman's quick reply
The rail magnate declared that he ia
vOred an increase in freight rates and
that the general public is becoming less
hostile to railroads, especially i'll the
west Though declining to discuss the
political situation. Mr.. Hartman assailed
the interstate commerce laws, denounc-
ing them as a menace to railway devel-
opment. He said there is as much trade
with the Orient now as before the recent
change, but that th3re is more competi-
ton on the water now.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18

An amusing story is told of an Eng
lishman in Paris. After some hours of
sightseeing, one day he lost his way
and could not get back to his hotel. He
asked first one and then another, but
the foreigners apparently did not under
stand their own language. At last, in
sheer disgust, he tore a leaf out of his
pocketbook, wrote upon it the name of
his hotel, and silently presented it to
the next passerby. The man looked at
him compassionately, beckoned him to
follow, and without n word they pro-
ceeded up one street and down another
Finally the wanderer saw the door of
his hotel, and forgetting in his relief and
gratitude all the difficulties of the Ian
guage, he turned to his companion and
said, THANK you very much. l am
greatly obliged to you" The other
stared at him in amaz cement, and then
blurted out, you duffer. why didn't
you speak before? l thought you were
deaf and dumb The good Samaritan
was of his own ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Bits.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
WHICH WAS RIGHTP
See IL You Can UntangIe the Knots
in This Problem.

See IL You Can UntangIe the Knots
in This Problem.
A young man named Enathlus de
sired to learn eloquence and art Of
pleading, and he bargained with Pro
tagoras the ancient Greek sophist, for
instructions, agreeing to pay one-haIf
of the fee down and the other half on
the first day he gained a case. 1t
took the young man so long to learn
that his tutor came to the conclusion
that he was delaying his start in bust
ness to avoid paying the other half of
the fee, so Protagoras sued him for the
money.
When the case came up for trial Pro
tngoras said to the young man: You
act most absurdly, young man, because
in either case you must pay me. If
the judges decide against you. YOU
must pay, and if they decide for you
you must pay, for you Will then have
gained your case"
You are wrong" replied the young
man. Il will win either way. If rbe
judges are for me, I will not have TO
pay, and If they are against me I will
not have TO pay, for this last was the
very bargain between us-namely. if T
did not win my case"
The judges considered the case in
applicable, and as they could not see
their way to any decision they adjourn
ed the case to a day that never came
for any Of the principals. On Prota-
goras' side 1t was case of losing when
he won and on the young students side
winning when he lost.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
BANKER MOROSINI DIES.
New York Italian Philanthropist and
Art Collector Passes Away at
Home on Hudson

NEW YORK, Sept. 1G-Giovanni p.
Morosini, Italian banker and philanthro-
pist, died very suddenly yesterday after
noon at his country place in Riverdale,
in the upper part of New York city,
overlooking the Hudson.
OF recent years Mr.. Morosini, al
though practically retired from the bank
ing business, kept an office with Wash
ington 2. Conner, broker. His particular
fad was the collection of pictures, armOr
and worries. His collection of carved
worries was the handsOmest in the world.
He made many gifts to the Roman Cath
Ollie church. He also contributed heav-
lily to the Garbaldi monument fund,
having been in his boyhoOd soldier
under Garibaldi. He was IA years old;
His wife died in 1898. He is survived
by one son, Otillio Z. Morosin, who
married Mary Bond the famous Eir-
ginia beauty, and two daughters-Miss
Giulia Morosini, the noted horsewoman
and beauty, and Mrs. Victoria MorOsini-
Schilling, who eloped with Ernest Schil-
ling, the family coachman, some years
ago, and was disinherited.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. 16.-James j.
Hill, chairman of the board of directors
Of the Great Northern Railroad COM
pany is celebrating his SEVENTEEN birth
day. When he arrived at his office short
ly before noon, he was the recipient of
congratulations by mail and telegraph
from many sources.
Late this afternoon, Mr.. Hill met praC-
tically all the old employees of the Great
Northern and was their guest at one of
the most interesting functions in the his
tory of the west. This evening a dinner
will be given Mr.. Hill at the Lafayette
clubhouse at Lake MinnetoEka.
The party, comprising besides Mr.
Hill. large number of employees of the
road from high officials down, was
hauled from the Union depot to the lake
by the first locomotive ever brought into
Minnesota. This engine was put in op-
Grafton forty-two years ago on which
what was then known as the first divi-
sion of the st. Paul and Pacific rail
way.
Today's trip was piloted by Al Smith,
the oldest man in the engine service of
the Great Northern, who is running be
tween st. Paul and Breckenridge.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
Desert Cures for Snake Bites.

The rattlesnake has part all his own
in the desert practice of healing. Rattle
snake oil cures rheumatism and the
Stiffened joints a man gets working down
in a wet mine; the oil rubbed in the
ears cures deafness, and n rattlesnake
skin, tanned soft and supple as chamois
and worn around the waist, will keep
man we'll on the hardest trip-but the
dust from the rattles will cause blind
ness which nothing will cure.
There is a plant which the rattlesnake
fears-he will not crawl across it, and if
it is dropped on him he uncoils and
crawls away. Perhaps this is only bit
of myth, but every desert man knows
the golondrina-the creeping plant with
tiny, round, gray green leaves and mi
mute white blossoms with brown CEN
ter.
"Rattlesnake weed grows in the lit
tie open spaces from the pines to the
white sand hills that shift back and
forth in each years wind. The leaves
pounded into a wet mass are bound on
a snake bite, and the victim, man or
animal, is given huge draughts of the
bitter, dark tea, into which the whole
plant is stepped. The gOlondrina tea is
used as q liniment for rheumatism too,
and the Mexican women know that it
dyes cotton cloth an enduring purplish
black.
If the goIondrina is too far to find
there is another desert cure for any
snake bite-a cure well enough attested
and one with which many an Indian has
fought bullet wound and saber cut and
mastered incipient blood poisoning. The
leaves of any fat leaved opunta, but
especially the common prickly pear, are
thrown on a campfire till the thorns are
singed off and the skin puffs up in wa
terry blisters, then split open and bound
hot on the wound. SO many a pack
mule has been restored to place i'll the
train and many limb that physician
would have amputated has been saved
to do its owner good service on desert
trails.-Out West.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
How and Where to Register for a Farm
in the Rosebud Reservation.

The President has signed proclama-
ton opening that part of the Rosebud
Indian Lands in South Dakota, generally
known as the Trip County lands, and
designated Judge James w. Witten.
the Chief Law Officer of the General
Land Office, to superintend and conduct
the registration and drawing to be held
IL October, 1908.
Persons who desire to register for this
drawing should go to CHAMBERLAIN
or PRESHO, South Dakota, via Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad.
between October and October II and
there sign and swear to an applica-
ton for registration which will lie fur
nished by the officer administering the
oath.
These lands embrace $4,000 acres,
part of which have been allotted to In
dams, and are located on the south side
of the State of South Dakota, and ad-
join the lands in Gregory County which
We're opened in 1904. They are desirable
for farming and stock-raising purposes.
Similar lands in adjoining counties are
selling for $50 to $40 an acre.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
BETTER THAN BERRIES.
Harriet Hosmer's Delight When She
First Finds Modelling Clay.

F1nOs
An old school friend of the late Har.
riet Hosmer, the sculptress, has recent.
ly related some interesting anecdotes
of her childhood. Her first modelling
it appears, came about through a blue,
berrying expedition. Hattie" as she
was always called, had gone to the Der.
ry pastures with her foster brother
Alfred.
'"They had tramped farther thar
usual, when all of a sudden Hattie
stumbled upon big clay bank. 1t was
just as if she'd been looking for it al
her life Out went all the berries from
her nearly full pail, and into the pal
went big double handfuls Of the soft
clay.
Then she fairly rushed home, sal
down on the back doorstep, and there
modelled her first figure, a representa-
ton Of the little shaggy yellow dos
who was at that time her chiefest
treasure. After that she never forgot
the clay bank.
"Why, when she was at bOardins
school with the rest of US she made
casts of all our hands, and they were
beautiful. She did one of Mrs Sedg
wick's, 1 know-she was our head mis-
tress-and I remember that Mrs. Sedg
wick said it was truly exquisite and
wound it all over with the soft. smooth
silver paper she used for her finest
laces."
In a day when the athletic, outdoor
girl was yet unknown, Harriet Hosmer
against all convention, at the impera.
tive call Of a free nature, rode, swan
padded, hunted, fished, climbed, tramp.
ed, and studied nature-to the horror
and dismay of the excellent housewives
Of her town.
you should have seen her collec.
tiOns," said her old friend. "She had
bugs and beetles, squirrels, rabbits and
birds, and even an old fat woodchuck
that she had shot and wounded herself
We girls could never see how she could
Go 1.-THE things are $3.50 smelly
and unpleasant"
Even when her study of her art had
taken her to Rome, among fellow ar
lists and great folk who praised hel
and made much Of her, she yet KEEP
enc relic Of these happy days, oddly
tucked in amid the clay and tools and
glistening marbles of her studio. II
was an old, dilapidated crow's-nest, the
prize Of a daring climb, reduced to dec
orous service as a darning basket.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18

Apropos Of beads, etymologists tell
US the word comes from the rosaries
which from time immemorial have beer
used to keep count Of prayers, for "bid
dan" is to pray in the old Angle Saxor
tongue, and ''beadsman" is one employ.
ed to pray for others. "Beodan." te
proclaim, is a kindred word and has
its outcome in the bidding prayer" OF
our universities, when pious fouDderi
are remembered to the edifcation Of
graceless undergraduates and in tb.
bidding" Of an auction room, when on.
proclaims to what price one is wiIlfno
to go. The tiny balls Of wood or pear
or seeds or gems strung together for the
purpose of counting prayers are used
by Hindoo worshipers of Buddbs h1
Greeks by Persians, by Roman Catbn
lies. And from those prayer chapIet,
the word has passed to mean an,
pierced round ornament-Modern So
ciety.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
Taking the PriyiIepeS.

The public in general will sympa-
thize with the young woman who said
that of all her experiences of hotel life
the head waiter was the hardest to live
up to. Who has not qualified before
the hauteur Of the porter or the off
ciaI? The following, taken from the
Washington Star, shows that others.
in a higher walk Of life, might like to
adopt some Of the traditional char.
acteristics of domestic or clerk.
Remember" said the patriot, that
so long as you hold public office you
are a servant Of the people, a plain
servant
Great Scott" answered the subur-
ban resident, who had just been elect
ed. Can I act as naughty and over
bearing and take as many holidays as
all that?''
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
OUTSIDE WORK COSTS PLACES.
Government Clerks with "Side Lines
Are Dropped from Service.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 10
Government clerks must give their IN
divided services to Uncle Sam. They
are not to be permitted to do any out
side work This policy may be an
nounced after the experience of several
young clerks in this city, who have been
requested to resign.
1t has been a common practice here at
headquarters for aspiring clerks to al
tend night colleges, and, after securing
diplomas, practice professions after office
hours These sO-called shutdown" doc
tors, dentists, lawyers, architects, etc,
were able materially to increase their
incomes Protests were made by regu-
lar members of various professions. com
planning of the unfair competition of the
''sundowners," who cut prices.
Following instructions from the Presi-
dent notice has been served upon all civil
service employees that those who resign
to take up political work during the
present campaign will not be reinstated
after election day.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
DISPENSARY is HIT ONCE MORE.
Court of Appeals Sustains Decision
Against South Carolina Plan.

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 1S-1he
United States circuit court of appeals in
a decision handed down sustained the
opinion of Judge Pritchard in the ia
nous case of the Fleischmann company
and others against the South Carolina
dispensary commission, holding in effect
that state cannot conduct liquor traf-
fic, that being a private business. Ia
regard to jurisdiction the court says
that in the conception and adoption Of
the eleventh amendment it never entered
the minds of the trainers Of that amend
ment that sovereign state could en-
gage in the liquor business and become
a trader by buying and selling an article
of common traffic in competition with the
citizens of the country
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
WHEAT TOUCHES S1,O9 Il
Tremendous Sales to Mlllers and Elk
porters Are Reported on New
York Market

NEW YORK. Sept 16.-In response
to tremendous sales to miliers and e1-
porters, the speculative wheat market
today made new high levels for the crop,
touching 1O91a for December at the
close. Europe bought upwards of SOO,-
900 bushels today alone and sales of
the past three days are estimated at
fully 100000 bushels.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
GIVES BIG CHECKS TO GIRL.
Denver Bank Interferes to Moderate
Chicagoan's Generosity.

DENVER. Colo, SEPT. 1G.-UnIess re-
strained through the appointment of a
conservator, Louis Bu-k, who says lie Is
veIl-to-do Chicago m2:chant bids fair
TO exhaust in a few days $4,000 bank
deposit through his sudden eStravaga nee
and generosity to gil, unit! few
Gars ago a perfect stranger. Within
four DAYS Burk has gwen to Miss Mar
qaret Grifing checks which she cashed
emounting to S1400 ana Il check for
$500. payment on which was stopped by
his bank. Burk became sick few days
ago and the girl -ook care Of him. 1t
was while he was Getting well tnar be
gave her the checks
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
CONSIDER NEW DEVICE.
Block Signal Apparatus for Stopping
Trains Will Practically Elm
mate Operator.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept 16.-A
train-stopping device, which it is claimed,
will practically eliminate the telegraph
operator as a factor in the movement of
railroad trains is now under investiga-
ton by the block signal and train con
troll board of the interstate commerce
commission. The system has already
been installed on eighteen miles of the
Sante Fe railroad in southern California
and is said to be in successful opera
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
TOO WINDY AT FORT MYER.
Orville Wright Postpones Test of Hi:
Acceptance

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. 10
There was a ten-mile wind blowing at
Fort Myer, Va, today and Orville Wright
announced he probably would not make
Il flight before tomorrow. He has al
ready taken up his machine in a twelve
mile breeze at the army aeronautical
testing grounds 1t was pointed out that
the wind today would strike the aero
plane in the rear while standing on the
starting track and Mr.. Wright claims
that if there is a wind it should strike
the aeroplane from the front.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-18
CHARGED WITH FRAUD,
Dr.. George Morton, New York, Alleged
to Have Secured 100000 Under
False Pretenses.

- PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. 10
Dr. George Morton of New York was
arrested at a prominent hotel here today
on fugitive warrant from New York,
charging him with false pretenses. 1t is
alleged he secured 100000 by means of
fraudulent notes. He will be arraigned
for a hearing this afternoon. The name
of the prosecutor is not yet publicly
known in this city.