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HOLMES CENTENARY.

Poet, Author, Essayist and Physi-
clan, Was Born in 1909.
One of the most distinguished Amer
leans of that great group born in 1909,
a century ago, is Oliver Wendell
Holmes, whose birth date falls on Au-
gust 90 DR.. Holmes was ushered into
life beneath the classic shades of Har-
ward, at Cambridge, Mass. The grace
full conversationalist, The Autocrat,
died October 7, 1894, in Boston, in his
Seth year, almost the last of his great
generation.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, because of
his simple and unObtrusive personal
itv, his lack Of assertiveness, has not
received the fame that is due him.
His claim for eminence is fourfold.
Not only was he a dainty, lyrical poet,
whose highest notes rank him among
the best of his native land. but he
also is among our most brilliant essay
lists, has secured fame as a novelist,
and. besides, were all these neglected,
would yet be among the most eminent
OF his profession because of his con-
tributions to science as physician and
surgeon.
A Bostonian to the core, springing
from the best New England families,
his broad humanity endeared him to
the whole country. Holmes graduated
from Harvard in the class with Chan
ming, with the great mathematician
Pierce, with the historian James Free
man Clarke, and won wide fame al
most Immediately by the publication
of "Old Ironsides," his poetical protest
against the breaking up of the historic
frigate He studied law and afterward
graduated in medicine. In 1886 ap-
peared his first volume of poetry, in
which were poems fully worthy of his
genius and hardly surpassed by any
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
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OUR FLAG AT TOP OF WoELD.
By DR.. George Clark Pee,

By DR.. George Clark Peck.
Nothing shall be impossible unto
you.-Matthew IT: 20.
There Is a new flag at the top of the
world. 1t pleases our vanity that it
is the Stars and Stripes, but 1t might
have been Dutch or English or Rus
sian, and the lesson would be the
same.
That new flag at the pole is mans
flag. 1t Is more than national; 1t be-
longs to mankind. 1t stands for the
aspiring, bound-bursting, unconquer-
able spirit of man. And 1t is fresh
illustration of the great phrase Of this
ancient scripture, which forbids US to
write the word impossible" against
any undertaking.
Such is the first lesson of this new
achievement. Who shall dare set linn
itation to man-fight or bounds to his
ambition, or brake to his soul? Not
only is it true that what man has done
he can do. He can do more, because he
day he will ask a still greater thing
than Peary and Cook have asked or
won. He will push his banner to the
top Of his own soul and claim a change
Of It's climate.
But what better off are we with a
new flag at the pole? Not much, per-
haps, according to the testimony. Yon-
der is no new territory worth annex
ing, no mines to work or furs to gath
er, or forests to cut. There is the sat
isfaction Of being able to say: 81 have
arrived" But there is more than that
The results of such defiant daring are
to be sought in man himself He Is
larger for having essayed so much.
His undertaking has helped to make
his soul" as the French say. 1t is
thus always. No pain or strain or
heroism Is wasted II it leave a ode
post from the unseen" in the soul of
man.
. This latest triumph is prophecy, too
1t harbingers a day when earth shall
be one neighborhood-no North or
South, no East or West
What the arctic explorer has done
for geography the lover of mankind
shall yet do for his race. We are still
small, provincial, selfish. We are op-
timists, according to the sarcastic sug-
gestion that can optimist is a man
who does not care what happens so
long as it does not happen to him"
But that day must pass, will pass, is
already passing. We are learning that
no man liveth to himself or dieth to
himself; that every man has a stake
in every other man on earth; that we
must open the world wide in order to
save our own hearthstones intact.
Seven centuries before Christ a half
naked prophet gltmpsed a golden age
in which the Wilderness and solitary
place shall be glad and the desert re-
joice and blossom as the rose and sor-
row and signing shall fee away"
That bright prophecy Is coming true.
I don't know that Cook or Peary has
shortened the path to its consumma-
ton. But the new flag at the top of
the world says that nothing worth
while is impossible.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
DEATH IN AUTO PLUNGE
WOMEN KILLED WHEN MACHINE
JUMPS SEATTLE TRESTLE.
Chauffeur the Only One of Eight in
Car to Escape Injury-Driver
Is Arrested.

SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 23-Three
women were killed and three men and a
woman seriously injured by an automo-
bile containing eight persons, jumping
off trestle today at Fourth and Weller
streets, short distance from the Union
station here. As soon as the car landed
on the Tide flats, % feet below, the gaso-
line tank exploded, and flames shot up
80 feet. A fire engine was called and
the tiremen dragged a woman from I'M
der the blazing automobile after they
had been throwing water on the wreck
for several minutes. The driver, Henry
ElZer, who had been twice arrested for
reckless driving, was taken TO the city
Jail; Only he escaped unhurt.
The dead:
FRAZER, WINNIE.
TWO YOUNG WOMEN, names believed
to be Johnson and Porter.
The injured:
f. E. Lindsay.
Thomas Finch, q chauffeur
Christine Anderson, aged 16 a waitress
AXel Anderson, aged %. a waiter.
The party had been out all night,
Joy riding" and visiting various places
of entertainment At Fourth and Wei
Ter streets, a sharp turn is made in the
trestle, but the machine ran straight
ahead and crashed through the wooden
railing
When the firemen arrived two women
were dead, with all the clothing burned
from their bodies. They had been killed
instantly. Another woman, horribly
burned, was hurried to the city hospital,
but died before she could be treated. All
the men were bruised and burned and
one suffered a broken leg.
After the fremen had cared for all the
victims in sight they turned water on
the blazing automobile; then a woman
imprisoned under the overturned car
screamed: I'm burning to death" The
hremen got her out by prying up the car.
The chauffeur, Hizer, went over with
the machine, but finding himself unhurt,
ran at full speed toward town. telling
man who tried to stop him that he was
going for help. The police afterward ar
rested him. He told them that the steer
ing gear broke just as the machine was
making the turn.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
CARE FOR VICTIMS
OF THE HURRICANE
RELIEF WORK STARTED IN PROV
INCES OF LOUISIANA STRUCK
BY TIDAL WAVE.
LIES TOLL WILL COUNT 100.
Carcasses of Cows, Horses, Hogs and
Dogs Strew PrairieS for Miles
Around
100 DROWN IN NORTHERN SYRIA

NEW ORLEANS. La. Sept. 23.-To
persisted in Terrebonne parish during
Mondays hurricane, it is believed to-
day that Il score or more will be added
in Terrebonne alone. Additional reports
of death III other sections of Louisiana
are also being received and the toll of
human life exacted by the hurricane will
count perhaps hundred people when
the final count has been made.
Further details of property loss,
reaching millions of dollars, come in with
the gradual restoration of communica-
ton. Relief parties in TerrebOnne parish
are continuing their work. Five hun
dred sufferers from the storm are being
cared for at HOuma, the parish seat of
Terrebonne, and in surrounding neigh
bOrhOodS.
few fishermen, with the almost for
lorn hope that missing relatives and
friends may be found or at least their
dead bodies discovered or that they may
resurrect some of their lost belongings.
remain upon the scene Of their desolated
homes.
Whole Families Lost
The families of Thomas and Walter
Rhodes, numbering fourteen people are
now reported as being almost certainly
among the dead in TerrebOnc. Others
who have not been located and who are
believed to have persisted are Dick Gray,
wife and seven children; Nerret and fam
lily of four: G. Bolt ami wife and Nor
way Foray.
The carcasses of cows. horses, hogs,
and dogs strew the praires for miles and
thousands of dead birds and musk rats
are floating on the waters of the bayOuS.
The bodies of three fishermen were found
in the Louisiana marshes several miles
southeast of New Orleans, it was report
ed today. Two children near Boise du
Tacre La, were drowned when skiffs
in which the families were fleeing struck
distractions. Two were killed by the
collapse of a house near Clinton, La.
No trace of the crew of nine men on the
Eloop Seven Brothers. wrecked near the
Rilogets, twenty miles east of New Or
leans. has been discovered.
Will Distribute Relief.
A relief expedition, equipped by the
Louisiana game commission, left New
Orleans today for the gulf coast, going
direct to Lake Catharine. From there
the expedition will make its way to-
wards GulfpOrt, distributing supplies ana
rendering aid to sufferers.
Severe Rains in Syria.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. 23.-Tor-
rental rains have caused the loss of 100
lives and the destruction of 800 houses
at Hons, town of northern Syria.
France Has Floods.
PARIS, Sept. 23.-Southern France, es-
pecially Provence, has been visited by
heavy storms accompanied by earth
shocks. Considerable damage has been
done, and railroad communication has
been partially interrupted by the floods
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
PRAYER.
By Henry f. Con.

By Henry F. Cope.
But thou when thou prayest, pray
to thy Father which is in secret. -
Matt, vi, 6.
No matter what a mans theories
may be about prayer it is almost GER
tain to be the case that at some time
he will pray and quite likely that he
will pray almost habitually. 1t also
often happens that those who protest
most vigorously as to their faith in
prayer though often assuming the pos
lures and phrases Of prayer, neverthe-
less actually pray least truly and eff
fectually.
To many prayer is a habit surviy-
Ing superstitious practices. They them
selves really fear to go to sleep with
out praying lest they should thus Of
fend the Deity and thus some terrible
calamity befall them. Perhaps from
childhood they have been taught with
foolish forms Of prayer to beseech the
protection Of heaven against a world
Of demons.
So long as children are led to think
of their world as peopled with powers
of evil, spooks, COLLINS and bogies.
they readily and steadily pray to some
good power to ward off such evil be-
ings, especially during their sleeping
hours. When you stop to think about
1t, great wrong is being done to
childhood by sending the little ones
to dreamland with their last words a
petition in regard to dying before they
wake.
Half Of the petitions of the world
grow out of fear. Men are afraid
either Of the one they address or of
some other superhuman power or of
impending imaginary disaster. Still
other prayers grow out Of sloth; men
ask for blessing on the crop they
are too lazy to cultivate or for the
bread they will not earn, or the vir-
tues they will not fight to win.
1t is a good thing that many pray
eTs remain unanswered. Doubtless
most petitions fail to secure the spe-
cific thing requested. This would be
an utterly immoral world if a few
hasty or even fearful words could put
some of US al so great an advantage
over the rest, if prayer might give Us
benefits unearned and undeserved
There are higher levels of praying.
They grow out Of the conception Of
The friendship of the vaster world Of
the spirit, out of the feeling that life
lies beyond this clay-environed life of
ours, that spirit to spirit may speak.
The infinite one loses awesome males
ty in winning affection, and, where no
voice is heard nor words are framed,
the heart goes out in true prayer, in
communion and aspiration.
Prayer is friendship with the In
finite, the reaching out Of the spirit
Of man after the life of the spirit be-
yond US, the search for sympathy
deep and broad enough to feel with
all our needs, to pity and be patient
and encouraging when we can hope
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24

for no sucn help from those who art
limited by living on our present level
Prayer is the hearts hunger fol-
communion, the life that is IN us, thai
life which seems to feel back before
the cradle and reach out beyond the
grave, seeking its own, calling for its
companions, deep calling unto deep.
1t is aspiration. 1t is as natural as
breathing. 1t cannot wait for times
and seasons, for it must be continuous.
Friendship would be a poor thing
if it never got beyond the privilege of
asking favors of the friend. Yet how
many there are who talk of their af,
lection for an infinite friend who new.
er seek communion with the friend ex.
cept to recite some tale of woe, to pre-
sent some series of needs, or proffer
some requests.
II you measure prayer as you meas
ure business, by what you get out of
1t, there is nothing strange in its emp.
t1ness. If it is merely a superstitious
act, performed to placate an imagt
nary almighty adversary, the sooner
your life is free from such a soul-par-
alyzing habit the better.
No man ever prays until praying
rises from commercial petitioning to
simple intercourse of soul. The world
Is a barren place, bounded by empti.
ness behind and darkness before, un.
less the deepest and best in us finds
touch with the life that envelopes all
our living, unless the soul within de-
ties the limitations of science and
seeks its own atmosphere and inter.
course of friendships.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
SENATORS AT ASHLAND.
Arrive in Private Car to Investigate
Conditions on Odanah Reser-
walton.

ASHLAND, Wis, Sept. 23.-[Spe-
cial. l-Senators Clapp, La Toilette and
Cox, representing the forestry depart
ment and Holcomb, representing the In
diana department, Secretaries Hannah,
Warner and Mcneil and two stenogra-
piers arrived at Ashland this morning
in their private car and at II o'clock
they went to Odanah. Senator La Fol
lette says the investigation will be pub
lie but he can give no lead how long it
will last. Evening sessions will be held.
If the Indians say all they want to the
committee. it will be in session a month,
but the committee will try to get through
in a week. Special Agent Farr and In
dian Agent Campbell accompanied the
party. Senators Page of Vermont and
Brown of Nebraska are not here yet.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
Steamer McVea in MarshaPs Hands.

GREEN BAY, Wis, Sept. 23-Thc
steamer Charles McVea of the Waggoner-
Roulett Steamboat company's line was tied
up Saturday by Deputy United States Mar
shall Weber Of Milwaukee The boat was
attached by the Cargill Coal company, who
hold a bill against the transportation com
pany for coal received during the present
season. Since the boat attached the
members of the crew have filed liens
against the craft for wages due them to
date. 1t is estimated that about $1,000 IS
due the different seamen who have been
are some merchandise bills. The boat Is
now lying at the company's own dock and
will be unable to move from now until
The matter has been adjusted.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
CHINAMAN LATEST AVIATOR.
Secretly Makes Aeroplane and Will Get
Patents in China.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. %
Fung Joe Guey, an Oakland Chinaman,
is the latest aspirant for aviation honors.
Working in hidden retreat on the Pied
mont hills. three miles from Oakland,
he has constructed an aeroplane, which
is equipped with a triple-expansion en-
gine and made two successful flights
over a distance of several miles. 1t was
not until Guey had perfected his inven-
tion that anyone knew of his hidden
workshop or his aspirations to become a
great aviator. He will go to China
within the next few weeks and take out
patents on his invention. While work
ing on the aeroplane Guey erected a
wireless telegraph apparatus on the hill.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
CATHOLICS CONDEMN DRY LAW.
Temperance, However, Recommended by
the Central Verein

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept. %
The German Roman Catholic Central
Verein adopted without debate a resolu-
ton c0ndemning prohibition as a cure for
the liquor evil. 1t was one of a score
or more resolutions of a religious and so
ciaI nature on which the organization
took action and was one of the few
which escaped a lively debate over some
of the provisions. The resolution against
prohibition is in line with former action
of the central verein, and while denounc-
ing enforced abstinence from liquor, rec
ommends temperance.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
BARS STATE MILITIA,
Labor in Evansville, Ind, Protests at
Celebration and Workmen OBJ
ject to Soldiers.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Sept 23.-Be-
cause of protest by labor unions, COM
panies of state militia from this city and
Mount Vernon, O., are not to enter the
German day festivities, which will be
held on Wednesday of next week Gov.
Marshall and his staff will review a pro-
cession and it was intended to have a
military feature. The committee in
charge of the arrangements, however,
today acceded to complaint of labor I'M
ions that 1.-The militia was organized to
fight union labor and union workmen
should not be asked to march behind sol
diers"
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
MARRIED NIECEs CONTEST.
Waukesha Woman's VIII Tends to Dis
courage Marriage, They Say.

WAUKESHA, Wis, Sept 23.-The
question of whether it is against public
policy as discouragiDg marriage for a
testator to leave property to an unmar-
ried person IS raised in the contest over
the will Of Mrs. Clara NJ. Bacon Of this
city. II. Noble Campbell Mrs. Bacon's
son, died in May, 1908, and according to
the provisions Of his mothers will, his
portion Of the estate would be divided
among the four unmarried nieces, the
Misses Mabel Peterman, Margaret Mo-
Bile. Esther Noble and Dorothy Noble.
However. two married nieces, Maude
Noble McMicheaI and Georgiana Her
berton have claimed a share of the es-
tate on the grounds that the provision
in the will by Mrs. Bacon is against pub
lie policy as tending to discourage mar
riage.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
KILL NINE PRISONERS.
Guards at Penitentiary at 0sh, Asiatic
Turkey, Quell Riot Among Con-
viCts with Muskets.

OSH, Asiatic Russia, Sept. 23.-A
group of nineteen prisoners attempted to
escape from the local Jail last evening.
While walking out for exercise they at
tackled their wardens, wounding five, and
then made break for liberty The re-
naming wardens summoned military
guard who fired on the fleeing men. Nine
were killed, nine others were wounded
and one prisoner got away.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
st. Johns Academy Open.

DEL AFIELD. WIS, Sept. 23.-St.
Johns Military academy opened its
doors Wednesday to the largest enrolI-
ment in its history The new cadets are
an exceptionally fine set of boys, and the
old school starts out on its second quar>
ter century with the very best prospects,,
All parts of the country are represented.
Even Mexico and the allan islands
have good representa-
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
HUNGARIAN CABINET IS OUT.
Difficulties in Path Of Wekerle Ministry
Previously Disrupted.

BUDAPEST, Sept. 23-The resigna-
ton of the Alexander Wekerle ministry
was decided upon at a cabinet council
Wednesday. The difficulties which led
to the resignation of the first Wekerle
cabinet Oh April p of this year still
exist and the ministry has remained in
office up to the present time only on the
special solicitation Of Emperor-King
Francis Joseph.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
OMAHA CARS RUNNING.
Traction Company Sets Wheels in Mo-
ton on All Lines After Night
of Excitement

OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 23.-After a,
night of many wild rumors and someI
display of lawlessness, in which numb
Der of cars were badly wrecked, nearly
a dozen of imported carmen injured, one|
boy shot and large number of arrests
made, cars were running today on pracI
tically all lines, though not in the num-i
bers usual in normal times. 1t is I'M
derstood that a conference is to be held.
today between the three mayors, Dahl
man of Omaha, Koutsky of South Oma-
ha, and Maloney of Council Bluffs, to
endeavor to devise some means of bring
ing about q settlement.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
BOMB IN PATH FOR PRESIDENTS.
Explosive Found Near Platform Where
Taft Will Meet Diaz.

Ell PASO, Tex, Sept ga bomb
was found last night in the rear of tho
customs house at Jaurez, Mexico, a fewl
feet from the platform which has been,
erected for the meeting between Presit
dent Taft and President Diaz on Octoi
Der 16. More than thirty arrests were
made. Jaurez is across the Mexican
bOrder
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
Gets Control of Bank.

WITTENBERG, Wis, Sept. z3.-The
whose home is at Rosholt, Portage coun-
ty, will have the controlling interest and
with him will be associated the three
jacobson brothers and P. c. Schlytter
residents and successful business men Of
this village. Henry L. Schlytter viii be
cashier.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
HURLBERT MAKESGOOD.
American Aviator Takes Successful
Flights in Bipropeller Aeroplane
at Lucerne.

LUCERNE, Switzerland, Sept. %
A new American aviator, Dane Hurl-
bert, has made several successful aero
plane flights here lately. His machine
is different from existing aeroplanes in
somuch as it travels lengthwise through
the air and has two propellers, one in
front and another behind.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
M'CLUNG IS TREASURER,
Yale University Official Selected to
Succeed Charles H. Treat at
Washington.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Sept %
Lee McClung, the treasurer of the Yale
university, has been selected as treas
urer of the United States, to succeed
Charles II Treat
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
Farmer Killed at Neenah.

NEENAH, Wis, Sept. 23.-[SpeciaI. /
John Simon, farmer living at the town
Of Buchanan, near here, fell from wagon
load Of cheese, striking the ground and
the heavy load, passing over his neck.
killed him instantly. Simon was As
years of age.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
Odds and Euda

The man who marries for money de-
serves all he doesn't get.
There are now over 10000 members
in the French Aerial League.
A forestry list credits California
with LES different species of trees.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24
Teachers Meet October %.

LA CROSSE, Wis, Sept 23-[Spe-
cial. 1.-The annual meeting Of the West
ern Wisconsin Teachers; association will
be held in the new normal school in this
city October % and %.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24

The greater than Washington
statesman is admiringly discovered al
most as frequently as the greater than
shakespeare" playwright.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-24

''Wot became o DAT scheme ter start
a national order of hoboes called de
Sons of Rest?"
1T petered out. De work wuz too
hard
TOO hard. 1 didn't know dere wuz
any work connected wild it"
Sure Dey wuz expected ter parade
once a year.'-Detroit Times.