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Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13
For An Idle Moment

A man on emerging from Mammoth
cave was asked what he thought of the
aperture? His reply was thoughtlessly
humorous: Take it as hole, it is all
right"
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13
GERMAN NJ. E. CHURCH

Sunday school at 9 a. m., preaching at
1915 a. m. Prayer meeting Thursday at
1870 p. m. each week.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL

Train No. 30 arrives from Milwaukee and
departs for Madison at $40 III except Sunday
Train No. 222 arrives from Madison at 9:2O
a. m., except Sunday.
Train No. arrives from Chicago and departs
for Madison at 1902 p. M, daily except Sunday.
Train No. 35 arrives from Milwaukee at 6:05
o m, daily except Sunday.
Train No. % arrives from Chicago and departs
for Madison at 6 rs p. NJ except Sunday.
Train No. 214 arrives from Madison at 7:l2
. N daily except Sunday.
Train No. 80 arrives from Milwaukee at 7:45
p m daily.
Sunday Excursion Train arrives from Mil
wauk9e at $50 m, and goes through to Madi-
son, returning at 5:02 p. m
tCarries sleeping car passengers only.
+Stops at Watertown junction Only.
q. w. WEBB, Agent.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13
ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH

Sunday school at 10 a. m.; sermon al
IL a. NJ; evening service at 7:30 p. 10.
All cordially invited.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13
ST. HENRY'S CHrRCH

Low mass at a. M; high mass at 10
a. m.; yespers at 3 p. m.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13
EyANGELICAN LUTHERAN

Rev. Otto Petit, paster. Sermon at 10
a. M, Sunday school, 9 a. m.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13

Let US not talk lii Of our enemies.
They only never deceive us.-Hous~
saye.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13
ST. BERNARD'S CHrRCH

Low mass at 8 a. m., high mass at 1920
a. M; yespers at p. N.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13
ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN

Rev. H. f. Eggers, pastor. Services
9:3O a. N. and 7:30 p. NJ; Sunday school,
ppm.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13
ST. MARKS LITHERAN

Rev. j, Klingman. pastor. Sunday
school at 9 a. M, sermon at 10 a. m,
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13

ALICETON (SALEM) CHURCH
Sunday school at p. m, and preach.
-ng at 2 p. m. All are welcome.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13

Some girls draw too wide a line be-
tween handling powder ray and hand
ling a dusting rag"
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13
REFORMED CHURCH

Morning services 10 a. m.; Sunday
school II a. M.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13
MAILS CLOS

Mails close at the Postoffice as follows:
EAST WEST NORTH SOTTu
900 nj 1915 pint 2:00pmt 1O:5Dam
O0pm+ 9:00pm 900 pint 5:35 m
SIS p mt
800 pm
Watertown and Madison S:15 a IN Cos pmt
Mail for all Rural Routes close at 715 a m
Except Sundays.
Fl. T. EBERLE, P. NJ,
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13
EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT

Rev. Herman Sterz, pastor. Services
10 a. m.: Sunday school 9 a. m.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13

must have been listening at the key
hole"
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13
r. r. TIME TABLES
CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN
GOING SOITTU

CHICAGU q NUKTHW " ESTEKN
GOING SOUTH
Chicago Passenger ................ ..... 5:45 m
Chicago Passenger. r......................10:5 SO III
GAINESVILLE Passenger. ...............6 6 so m
Both 5 45 M and 10 SO IN trains make close
connections at Jefferson Junction for Madison
and all points west.
6:56 m train makes close connections for
east and west at Jefferson Junction.
GOING NORTH
Lake Superior passenger ger................8 .8:2O a m
MenOmiDee passenger eT...................2:35p :35 IN
Rockford Passenger DRIVES WateTtown $50
a n, departs 80 m
Passenger from Chicago arrives OF 9:45 m
and goes no further. PAUL KOHLER Agent
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13

simplicity" he said, just for the pur-
pose of breaking the long silence, lis the
surest sign of greatness" Dear me,
what an egotist you are,' she pleasantly
replied.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13

A lady who had arranged an authors
reading at her house succeeded in per-
suading her reluctant husband to stay
home that evening to assist in receiving
the guests. He stood the entertainment
as long as he cOuld-three authors, to be
exact-and then made an excuse that he
was going to open the front door to let
in some fresh air. In the hall he found
one of the servants asleep on a settee.
wake up" he commanded, shaking
the fellow roughly. What does this
mean, you being asleep out here? You
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13

Teacher: What do we learn, Jimmy,
from the story of Samson and Delilah?
Jimmy: You don't ever want to let a
woman cut your hair.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30
HISTORY REPEATED

MO MORE illuminating contribution
to modern discussion of economic
~ and social problems has been
supplied than that contained in an
editorial article published in the New
York Independent, which with remark
able discernment, the accuracy of
which is realized by every student of
affairs and of history, recognizes the
fact that history is repeating itself; or,
in the phrase which we have used in
this page: Human nature being an
invariable fundamentally al
ways the same-similar causes produce
similar effects in all ages, subject only
to incidental (and relatively unimpor-
tanD variations caused by circum-
stances and environment"
The editorial writer in the Independ-
ent says: Before the revolutionary
war broke out, privilege and popular
rights were arrayed against each other
in the colonies. Privilege was Tory,
AND CRIED PEACE, WHEN THERE
WAS NO PEACE. The unprivileged
people had their way, declared inde-
pendence, and secured it. But privi-
lcge was only scotched, not killed. 1t
dominated the Federalist party and the
constitutional convention 1t tolerated
slavery and made it a basis of repre-
sentation. The Civil War overthrew
the slave power, but again privilege
was only defeated, not destroyed. The
Dartmouth college decision, by its pre-
posterous and immoral doctrine-which
soon became a dogma-that privileges
OF franchise and exemption conferred
by a state are contracts, which state
may not subsequently invalidate,
opened the way TO an enormous growth
Of what the people, in rough and ready
phraseology, have called the money
nower.' TO overthrow this power by
establishing in law, as in clear THINK
ing, the distinction between private
property and state created privilege,
superior to all state control, is the fight
that is now on. AS in the contests that
have gone before, the people in the long
run will win"
1t is well we may expect the victory
of the people, inaspuch as all that is
sought is a reassertion in every day,
practical business life of the first prin-
ciples of Americanism. The victory of
the people over the twentieth century
Tories will only mean that another big
fight, blOodless but ferocious, has been
added (very late, but better late than
never) to the decisive battles of the
Revolutionary War.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30
THEORY HAS NO ROOM FOR
sELF-PRAlsE OR sELF-BLAME E

Los ANGELES, Nov. 21.-TEditor
Herald: Friend r. n. has at last been
led Cor driyen-we will not too closely
inquire which, to accept the logic of
the case and confess that l prove my
position. OF course he qualities this by
the reservation: From his IF. F. $50
premise, the allness of materiality."
But since "the material" is all we really
know anything about, this is as much
as we could expect from a theologian,
and is indeed, all things considered, a
rather unlooked-for and relatively
handsome concession.
That r. n. at the same time uses the
terms "ranting persitlage," "house of
sand" "egoistic conceit," etc, i'm char
acterization of my utterances does not
annoy me in the least. l always make
(even as l myself expect from others)
some allowance for the heat OF contro-
versy, so long as 1 recognize earnest
ness and honesty in my opponents
method of discussion. But on strictly
ratiocinatory grounds I want to say a
word in regard to that last item, lego
istic conceit," a 8 applied to my position.
(And please read this as not so much
my position as the position / hap
pen to agree with.) Now 1t is of the
very essence of the "heredity and envi-
ronment-no free will" position. and
holding it can be the victim Of either
self-conceit or self-abasement; since
no man can claim merit in his virtues
nor blame for his demerits. Thus the
good in one man cannot be jeopardized
by "swelled head" nor the bad in an
other hindered of betterment by despair
through self-condemnation. 1t teaches
us to look at the past, not as something
to groan about and mourn over but as
something to learn from. 1t teaches
us to view a mans present, not from
the standpoint of blame and punish
ment on the one hand and praise and
reward on the other (both equally un-
deserved and unjust, but with a view
wholly and solely to betterment FROM
NOW ON. Improve the environment.
1t all lies in that.
To declare that a man can rise above
his environment" is like saying of one
who is sinking to a watery grave:
"Why doesn't he show his mettle and
stop drowning? He would if he had
the right stuff in him" OF course he
would. If heredity and previous envi-
ronment had given him legs long
enough to touch bottom, or strength
enough to struggle ashore, not other
wise.
How often, too, we heap praise and
reward upon some ungrateful hog Of a
boastful "self-made" bOunder, as
though 1t were HIS merit that he had
inherited an Iron jaw" and a devil
take -the-hindmos disposition, with
good health and strength to back deft
knack of elbowing his fellows. Not to
mention his (often unacknowledged)
debts to environment, whose help is
often of an unostentatious character
but none the less real for that.
II u c
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30
FAVoRs OVERTHROW OF
CIGAR STAND GAMBLING

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26.-[Editor
Herald: The law abiding citizens of
Los Angeles will have a fine oppor-
tunity at our next election to strike a
blow at one of the worst evils in our
city, at which time they will be called
upon to decide by ballot whether or not
that disgusting and insidious form of
gambling which is now carried on at
the pcigar stands shall be continued,
Why it is that this particular depart
ment of business should continue to
haunt in the faces of the public gross
form of gambling does not appear Pos
sibly the present council, which by a
speCial ordinance exempted them from
the list of prohibited forms of gamb-
ling, could give us some light on the
subject.
Everybody who knows anything
abCut human nature knows that gamb-
ling is one of the most dangerous and
insidious evils which can possibly eX-
ist in any community Theft, robberes
of all kinds, burglaries misappropria-
ton of funds, failures in business, mur-
ders, suicides, broken homes and ruined
lives without number can be and have
been traced directly to this deadly
allurement, which seems to have such
an overwhelming fascination for so
many people.
1t is simply for the strong, for those
who would remove allurements so far
as possible from those who are too weak
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30
LATEST FROM MARS

MRS. DAVID TODD wife of pro-
fessor Todd of Amherst college,
uA says Professor Percival Lowell
has discovered three new canals on
Mars. This contradicts the recent re-
port that disturbances on the planet
had destroyed all life. Mrs. Todd an
nounces there has been no calamity
on Mars, although some of the changes
observed have been more pronounced
than usual. The ice cap which seemed
to disappear, is now growing larger
again and approaching its normal con-
dition.
Professor Lowell is certain there are
three or four new canals ON Mars. The
engineering work on them has been
completed only recently, and they
show signs of intelligent, purposeful
construction and not of haphazard
natural markings 1t is reassuring to
learn Mars is all right. When our
western hemisphere celebrates the
com pletion Of the Panama canal and
the finest system Of waterways in the
universe doubtless we may expect a
delegation from Mars to study our
methods with a view of substituting
them for the effete canal building
methods Of the red planet.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30
SAYS AMERICAN MEDIUMS
ARE EQUAL TO PALADlNO

REDONDO BEACH, Nov. 17.-[Edi-
tor Herald: Seeing such furor raised
in the papers over the arrival of Nine
Eusapia Paladino in this country, with
your permission l will add few words
to what has already been said regard
ing the spiritualistic phenomena. While
[ have no doubt Nine. Paladino Is a
very remarkable medium, L fail to see
why such q noise should be made over
her as we have many, very many, just
as good all over this country. And
as to establish the truth of
spiritualism, any one who denies the
phenomena of modern spiritualism in
this day and age of the world is not
entitled to be called a skeptic He is
simply ignorant, and 1 don't know but
it would be a hopeless task to try to
enlighten him, but just here, before
proceeding further, l wish to say that
any one who goes to dabbling in the
phenomena Of spiritualism alone, with
out studying the philosophy of it, is
treading on very dangerous ground, for
like all good it may be made a curse If
unwisely used.
Having been a student of the occult
in a small way for number OF years.
it has been my privilege on many oc-
easions to witness just such phenomena
as described in the papers produced by
Mime. Paladino. In fact, l have had
similar phenomena, although not to
such a degree, in my own home with
no one present except myself and wife,
but unfortunately / have not been
dead quite long enough for my evil
dence to be accepted, for with many
good people a man must be dead at
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30
DICKENS SEASON

4 II LEAST once year. about this
n time, everybody should take down
AA Dickens Christmas books from
the shelf and read them again.
"But," you say "they are out of
date"
They are not out of date and never
will be out Of date as long as English
speaking civilization wears its present
jacket and refuses to alter the style
THE STORY OF OLD SCROOGE
AND MARLEY'S GHOST COULD BE
WRITTEN OF CONDITIONS IN THE
UNITED STATES TODAY. Our civiH-
cation has not Travelled one inch beyond
Marleyism, and if the ghost Of any Of
it's types were to visit the earth it
would be weighted, as Marley's was,
with ledgers and account books and
statements of profit and loss and all
about percentages and not a word
about PEOPLE.
Dickens Christmas books never can
be improved upon, and never can pass
out of date, because they chronicle
types that must persist as long as con-
ditions are governed by the same gen
eral laws of cause and effect, material
gain and spiritual loss, that Dickens
portrayed in an allegory less violent
less morbid, less tremendous than
Jekyll and Hyde, but not less effective,
because far more persuasive.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30

least two thousand years before he can
be believed on such subjects. But these
same doubters will go back some two
thousand years, take up their Bible
and read in the second chapter of Luke
the most wonderful account of spirit
manifestation ever recorded, and be-
lieve every word of it.
Now a word on the fraud side OF the
question. Suppose Nine. Paladlno or
any other medium has been or is de-
tected in fraud; does that prove sys-
tenn that Is the foundation of all re-
ligions wholly fraudulent? How many
preachers of the gospel have been de-
tected in and convicted of crime. and
will any one on that account declare
that Christianity is wholly bad and
calculated to lead men and women into
crime? Bear in mind, please, that it is
written If a prophet is deceived: II, the
Lord, have deceived that prophet" And
when Nine. Paladino or any one else
is under the hypnotic or complete psy-
chologic control of a spirit, either in
carnate or decarnate, they cannot do
anything or say anything but what the
operating power Wills they should do
or say. T. ].
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30
DR.. COOK

nR. COOK is reported to be break
ing down under a nervous strain.
~ Persons who doubt Dr. Cook s
story would not accept as evidence in
favor of its truth a statement made
by him several years ago outlining the
most feasible method of reaching the
pole. Yet the fact he formed certain
plans, and, according to his assertions.
lived up to them, is well worth con-
sidering
Dr. Cook when interviewed in Brook
lyn years ago said there was one
method by which the pole might be
reached, and that any man who had
pluck enough to use that method would
probably discover the pole. Even at
that time (and this will be found in an
interview printed in the New York
papers) DR.. Cook said the chief trou-
BILE of a solitary journey to the pole or
one undertaken by white man with a
few natives, would be the difficulty Of
disproving accusations of fraud or of
mistake brought by men to whom an
unconventional method is an illogical
method, and an Illogical method an i'm
possible method.
There have been instances Of men
of this kind at all important crises of
human history, and they are known as
"bigots." Some early scientists were
burned by them, others imprisoned for
life. DIR. Cook has only been ragged"
to the verge of nervous prostration.
Doubtless he thinks himself an ill-used
man, but as compared with other pio-
neers, he is lucky.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30
AT THE THEATERS

AUDITORIUM-"Th Man from Home
MAsON-"The Talk of New York" Thurs
day).
BURBANK-"The Heir to the Hoorah"
BELASCO-"In the Bishops Carriage"
MAJEsTIC-"Th Singing Bandits"
ORPHEUM-VaudeviIe
GRAND-"The Teuderfoot"
LOS ANGELES-NaudeyIIe
FISCHER'S-Musical comedy.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
OLYNPIC-Musieal trlvesty.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30
coRRECTS ERROR IN HIS
LETTER ON ENVIRONMENT

POMONA, Nov 17.-[Editor Herald:
Please permit me to correct an error
which made in my letter which ap-
peared in today's Letter Box, which
reads 'If the environment of our an
cestors, whether tree or cave dwellers,
had not been changed, driven, perhaps
forcibly, from their abodes into strange
and new environment, we would have
been tree or cave dwellers even now"
should read: "If the environment of
our ancestors whether tree or cave
dwellers. had not been changed, they,
driven, perhaps forcibly" etc.
CHARLES u. WHITE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30

ever made such a promise.
The Herald is frank to say that it does
not believe Los Angeles will ever have the
kind Of government that it should have in
every department until an honest mayor is
permitted to appoint the right sort of
members of the civil service commission.
If the machine organ can find any
thing to object to in this statement
on the part of one of the most ardent
supporters Of Mayor Alexander and the
good government ticket it is welcome
to it,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30

The power secured by the boss and his
assistants under the machine has un-
doubtedly Injured TO their pecuniary benefit,
and it is seen in the large fortunes which
they now have. How their money was made
has not been disclosed. If l were able, "a
i fear / shall not be, because public duty
calls me elsewhere to cast my vote in Gin
cinnati at the coming election. I should cast
It against the municipal ticket nominated
by the Republican organzatiOn.--WIlliam H.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30

If you had a most trustworthy stew
ard in charge of your home, and if at
your door stood a man who clamored
for your stewards job, and said he
wanted to fill your house with a hun
crew who, anXiously crowd
ing about him. awaited the result Of
his attempt to displace the man you
trusted, what would you say to the
applicant with the gang? Well, that's
what Los Angeles will say to Smith,
de push and de gang, when the Best
of Cities is a week older.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30

Again has the inefficiency of the
coroners office been demonstrated by
the careless dilatoriness of inquiry into
the cause of death of a body found
under circumstances which afford JUS
tfable ground for suspicion of muir
der. Abolish "ye croWner." This an
tiquated office, instead of helping JUS
tice, hinders it.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30

After ALL it's a case of conscience.
All the conscientious voters of Los An
geles will vote for the Good Govern
ment candidates. And that will elect
the Good Government candidates and
give this city a conscientious, RESPONSE
BILE government.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30

It is of no use to say what "might
have been" but it is impossible to re-
frain from remarking that presence
of mind would have saved the lives Of
the unfortunate Jacobs family. When
an automobile breaks down on a rail-
road track, don't wait for the chauf-
feur (amateur or professionally to
tinker" it, but GET OUT OF 1T I'M
MEDIATELY AND GO TO A SAFE
PLACE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30

IIeaIy, Yonkin and Lyon, logical sue
cessors to the Three Tailors of Tooley
street. eve, the people of England" i"
said the three tailors. "We greater
and better than the people of Los An
geles." say Healy, Yonllin and Lyon.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30
Public Letter Box

TO CORRESPONDENT intended
for publication must be accompanied by the
name ana aduress of the writer Ehe Herald
gives the widest latitude to correspondents,
but assumes no responsibility for their views.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30

The worst evils that affect local gov
eminent arise from and are the inevitable
result of the mixing up of the city affairs
with the party politics of the nation and the
state The lines upon which national parties
divide have no necessary connection with
the business of the city; such connections
open the way to countless schemes OF plum
der and civil cOrruptiOn.-Theodore Roose-
ali
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30

to resist them, to do away with these
things utterly and forever to the full
extent of their ability. No one will
stand for an evil like the one men
toned, which leads directly on to the
entire dangerous list of gambling de-
vices, excepting those whose trade it is
in some form or another to take ad-
vantage of the weakness of their fellow
men. C. c. PIERCE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30
Every other Sound There

Yeast-I see there is much dispute as TO
whether whales can utter any sounds.
Crimsonbeak-I guess they can't, or they'd
got EN- on the photograph before now--Yon"
kers Statesman
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30

one week from today will be cleo
ton day. one more week of discussion,
and then citizens will take action which
will show Los Angeles is permanently
in the leadership of good government
cities
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30
GOOD GOVERNMENT TICKET

VOTE 1T STRAIGHT
For Mayor
GEORGE ALEXANDER.
For City Clerk
HARRY J. LELASDE.
For City Attorney
LESLIE r.. HEWITT.
For City Treasurer
c. IL. HANCE.
For City Auditor
JOHN ;. MYERS.
For City Tax and License Collector
CLARENCE NJ. TAGGART.
For city Assessor
WALTER MALLARD.
FOR
MEMBERS BOARD OF EDUCATION
CVote for Seyen)
MELVILLE DOZIER.
HERMAN w. FRANK,
JAMES NJ. QUINN,
ROGER :. PAGE,
JOSEPH SCOTT,
FRANCIS W. STEDDOM,
FIELDING j. STILSON.
FOR MEMBERS OF COUNCIL
Vote for Nine)
JOSIAS j. ANDREWS,
MARTIN Il. BETkOUSKI,
MILES :. GREGORY,
ROBERT NJ. LUSK,
Il. L. O'BRIEN.
RICHMOND PLANT,
WILLIAM j. WASHBURN,
GEORGE WILLIAMS,
JOHN ID. WORKS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30

Snow and blizzards, blizzards and
snow. The weather reports from the
eas:Iand should make us fonder tnan
over of the westland.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30

A voter who doesn't vote is in the
same class with a motor that doesn't
mote.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-30

DO not put off until tomorrow the
Christmas shopping you can do today.