Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-01
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY



life of wooden boat is four times that
of steel.
Another woman has been elected to
the Colorado Legislature. About a
dozen women have served there before
her
In the matter of drinking" unused
the philosopher with the impresSionistic
nose, BE sure you are right and you
won't get a head '-Philadelphia Rec
ord.
widower who was married recently
for the third time and whose bride
had been married once before herself.
wrote across the bottom of the wedding
| Invitations: BE sure and come; this
is no amateur performance"
Hithereto the population of Japanese
towns of the empire as a whole has
been estimated from the official records
of births and deaths and other docu-
ments, but it has now been arranged
to make municipal house to house in
vestigation, commencing at Kobe.
Guam, which is one of the most unin-
viting of our possessions, will be
equipped with an experimental station
! through the means of which its re-
sources will be investigated and en-
cOuraged. DR.. W. ii. Evans, of the
office of experiment stations, has visited
the island and selected a site for the
station at Agana. The station viii be
conducted under the immediate super
vision of the office, with II. L. V. Coste
noble as an agent in charge.
Lord Lyveden is an ardent peerage
reformer and tells this anecdote: A
| famous statesman of the nineteenth
century was called upon to visit his son
remarking: Here am |, having worked
my way up from middle class home
to a great position, and when l die
you will be the greatest blackguard in
the peerage." The son listened quietly,
and then replied. with terrible irony:
"Yes-when you die
1t is customary in Spain when an
infant first begins % notice things to
place before it a silver coin, a sword,
4 silver cross, a book and some fruit.
The object to which the child stretches
his hand indicates, according to accept
ed belief, his future vocation. The coin
is for commerce, the sword for the
army, the cross and the book respeC
or learning, while the fruit denotes q
farmer or landowner.-The English
man.
The Woman Suffrage Association OF
New Jersey recently celebrated the fif
tieth anniversary of Lucy Stone letting
baby's cradle, be sold for taxes in Or
ange as protest against taxation with
out representation. The suffragists say
that this was the first instance in the
world Of a woman refusing to pay taxes
for this reason. Since then there have
been many similar instances. The last
and most notable perhaps was the case
of Lady Steel, who let her goods be sold
at auction in Edinburg, Scotland.
Lowry is man with Z moderate III
come and one child, whom he IS already
sending to a French master, who is ac-
customed to be paid every Monday, Re
Gently Lowry sent Henry to his lesson
without the usual bank note. That
evening the father looked over the boys
exercise. and this is what he found
Henry doing his best to put into Paris
ian French: Il have no money. The
week is up. Have you no money? Has
your father no money? l need money.
What is the day Of the week? The day
OF the week is Monday. Does your ia
Their know the day of the week."
Friends of the late General Fltz-
hugh Lee have erected a monument
over his grave in Hollywood Cemetery,
Richmond. On the front is the Lee
coat of arms. Beneath are the dates
Of his birth and death, November, 1885.
and April, 1905, and the inscription,
Faithful Unto Death" On the north
side is Major General, G. S. A, 1862
e5; Commander of Cavalry, Army Of
Northern Virginia, 1S64-'65." On the
back of the shaft is Governor of Vir-
ginia. 1SS6-'90; Consul-General to Cuba,
1S96-'9S." On the south side is: Ma
jor-General Commanding the Seventh
Army Corps of the United States 1898;
Acknowledgement of the United States,
retired, 1901"
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe Is getting
more eloquent as her years increase, her
friends declare. She is now nearly
ninety, and the other day at reception
given her in Boston made what her
friends say was the finest speech Of
her life. She said that when she be-
gan to talk about woman suffrage she
never know when to stop. 1T was my
good fortune to get interested in the
suffrage question about the time the
negro men obtained their freedom"
Mrs. Howe said. Then for the first
time [ saw the whole of one sex gov
arned by the whole of the other. This
seemed to me an intolerable tyranny. l
couldn't help but think that after we
had held the door open for the negro
we might at least have been allowed
to go in with him.
A scheme is being arranged for the
protection of the manlike apes in the
German colonies of equatorial Africa
It is proposed III the first place that the
shooting of these creatures should be