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Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
WHEi! she GIVES UP.
The Frenehwoman Of Years Dsgen.
crates Into a Dowdy.

The French have a neat phrase for
the woman who, growing old, throws
on, with the follies of middle age, all
pretensions to toilet, charm or good
looks. They say. in word. that she
has abdfcated.
But when the Partisan queen abdi.
Gates she does it in no half hearted
manner. Her dowdiness is a thing to
make elegant elderly American women
stand aghaSt. The British matron of
mature years is a dangerous siren com
pared with her French prototype.
From being plump, silver voiced
enchantress she changes to an I'M
Wieldy mass of flesh, with baritone
voice. small bonnet twinkling with
Jet placed far back on her parted and
scraped hair and with black clothes of
nameless fashion and depressing dingi-
ness.
This elderly FrenchwOman may be a
dowager duchess from the Faubourg
or the cherished spouse of your grocer
The type is the same.
The fact is that the French are an
eminently practical, not to say mate
rial, race, and the Frenchwoman is the
very embodiment of these national
idiosyncrasies.
What is the use" they would argue.
"of running up bills for dresses and
what not when there is no chance of
any longer pleasing? Why not enjoy
the pleasures of the table, even if your
waist assumes alarming proportions.
when they are the only pleasures left?
Why try to speak in dulcet tones when.
as everybody knows, it is the grand.
mother who has always the final word
In the French family and, whatever
the timbre of her voice, her family will
be sure to listen to it,"
This frank acceptation of old age
and all that it implies is not without
It's advantages, and at any rate, you
are spared in Partisan society the spec.
tacle that is too familiar in other lands
of grandmothers still dancing in span
gled tulle.-London Sketch.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
An Easy Job.

A schoolmaster set as an essay sub
ject to class Of his young hopefuls
what 1 would like to be-" and one
pronouncement. delivered In a bold
half text, was as follows: Il would like
to be d horse driver. When you are
driving a horse you sit and do nothing
You do that all day and feed the horse
at night and your work is done for
that day. Then when Saturday comes
you get your pay. and then you get all
Sunday to yourself" - Kansas City
NewShook
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS

A navy with life-saving record
will be something of which to be
especially proud.
J Evangelist Gypsy Smith has gone to
Pittsburg for the purpose of trying to
induce the people sof that city to be
guod. Gypsy has job that is likely
20 keep him busy all winter and we'll
into the spring.
Is it the idea. in increasing the
Presidents salary TO 500, 600 to get
ADLER men to consent to take the job!
When a muckrake and pitcF fork
become involved in moral combat, 1t
il a good time for by-standers to
move on.
So Charles P. Taft is to get nothing
for his $l6O, 600 beyond kind smile
and the consciousness of duty we'll
done.
Occasionally United States Sena-
tor allows himself to be imposed on
pv financial tricksters in way that
makes the man who answers green
goods circular seem wise by COMPARE
son.
No man knows what a Secret Ser
vice agent may bring forth nowadays.
The esteemed Congressional Record
must louk back on It's more m0Ilycod-
dish DAYS in sheer amazement at
times.
A Southern state is considering a
law compelling pistol toters to wear
bagdes distinguishing rthem from or
binary citizens. We suggest convict
stripes.
Charles Wagner-he of the "Simpie
Life-now has charge of fashionable
Paris church with big, fat salary
attached This is merely another
evidence, we suppose, that the "sim-
pie life" may be made mighty good
thing.
"CUncilmen should be paid sal
ary," asys the Pittsbnrg Post. AZ
az sort of compensation on the side:
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05

who are not allowed an annug. vaca-
ton. Their husiregs r-oEi es them
to be away f ~ hor puch Of the
ti,as, ani .Aei: hug cHp-nses are
necessarily increased by .incessant
travel. The work of the railway
postal clerks is an important part of
all business activities as we'll az the
social life Of the country. The rec
ommendation of the postmaster gen.
eral deserves the attention of Con
gress.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
FAIRIES OF CORNWALL.
SupeTstiticns That Still Live In This
Corner of England.

Superstiticns That Still Live In This
Corner of England.
Cornwall, that corner of Britain that
has resisted modernism, made a strong
appeal to the maginatiOn of Katherine
Lee Bates, and she writes. of it in her
'Froen Gretna Green to Lands End. a."
IN Cornwall, as in Ireland. the fairy
Is still in possession and folk lore is
almost a religion The small people
have been gay and kindly neighbors,
sometimes whisking away neglected
baby and returning the little mortal
;ell pink and clean, wrapped in leaves
AND blossoms, as sweet as a nut
fEhase are the spirits of Druids or of
Oshe r early Cornwall folk who, as
heat hen, may not go to heaven, but are
too innocent for hell. So they are suf-
fered to live on in their old happy
haunts, but ever dwindling and dwin-
ding, till it is to be feared that by aud
by, what with all the children grow
ing stupid over school books and all
the poets writing realistic novels, the
small people will twinkle out of sight.
'The spriggans, lurking about the
CAIRNS and cromlechs, where they keep
guard over buried treasure, could bet
ter be spared. They are such thievish
and IniSchievous trolls, with such eX-
traordinary strength in their ugly bits
Of bodies, it is more likely they are
the diminished ghosts of the old giants.
The piskies are nearly as bad, as any
bewiIdered traveller who has been pis-
ky led into a bog could testify. The
only sure protection against their
tricks is to wear your garments inside
out.
MANY Cornish farmer has found
a fine young horse all sweated and
spent in the morning, his name knotted
into fairy stirrups, showing plainly
how some score of the piskies had been
riding him overnight. And many a
Cornish miner, deep down in the earth,
has felt his hair rise on his head as he
heard the tap, tap, tap of the knock
ers, souls of long imprisoned Jews
sent here by Roman emperors to work
the tin mines of Cornwall"
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
HIS WEAK SPOT.
The Thought That Made the Merry
Man Iose His Conposure

speaking Of nerve" said a Massa-
chusetts congressman, there generally
Is weak spot in the most colossal va
riety, if it only can be found In this
connection remember my grandfather
used to tell good story.
''Some forty or fifty years ago long
shoreman's eating place in Boston was
the resort also of truckmen and other
taamsters whose business brought them
put early in the morning.
zone gray November morning about
5 o'clock a stranger entered this place
and took his seat among the habitues.
He ordered a substantial breakfast and
ate it slowly and with evident enjoy.
ment. Then he took his lat down from
the peg on the wall and started to go
AS he got abreast of the cashiers
desk, behind which stood the proprie-
tor, he slowed up.
"'Much 'bligei2," he said genially.
SO long,
1.-THE proprietor had a good many
rough customers to deal with, and his
pistol was handy. In a second it was
out and the man covered. Then he de-
handed the price of the breakfast.
"The man, apparently unmoved, look
ed at the shooting iron with curiosity.
It was queer, clumsy affair Of ancient
date, and it was evident that he had
never seen its like before. Suddenly
his expression of curiosity changed to
one of apprehension, even terror. and
he drew back step
"Ts-that-a stomach pump he fall
tered. ,.
'"rhis story has happy ending" the
congressman concluded. "The man
kept his breakfast! Post.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
$3.50 Per Year Strictly In Advance
Sample Copy Free. Advertising Rates are
Furnished on Application.
WdtertOWn Wis Friday. Feb. 5
REPEAL ALL SUCH LAWS

Assemblyman II. E. Rnethe OF
Grant. county. Newspaper man, pos
sessed of good sense has or will intro
duce bill to repeal some fifteen laws
now ON the statute books of the State
including the laws providing tor
state tax commission, county supervls
or of assessments, petit jury commits
sioners. game wardens, state bureau
of vital statistics. civil service COM
ission. state board of veterinarian
examiners, medical department of the
stata university and county supervisor
of highways.
The repeal of the laws specified
would save the Taxpayers Of the state
about $3.50, 900 annually and by re-
pealing the laws creating fire mar
shall, labor bureau, dental examiners,
law examiners and several other un-
necessary boards and commissions
another $3.50, 600 could also be saved
for the people. Reform has been
mighty expensive to the tax
payers of the state, running up
into the millions of dollars over and
ahove legitimate expenditures ana
vet, there are men VINO preach reform
which has been nothing short CT rob-
berry of the people.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
The Good Old DAYS.

The richest man In King Charles
IFS England could not get so good
a dinner as tens of thousands will sit
down to today. Cattle were of a Far
poorer breed vegetables were few and
bad and the commonest conveniences
Of the table were unknown. Fish
knives, for instance, are hardly con.
sidered an extfaragant luxury, but Mr.
Gladstone could remember when they
were not to be found on any table
London Telegraph
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
Absentminded.

Sir John Burden Sanderson was no.
toriously absentmiuded. OF the cycle
of anecdote that gathered around him
much was fabricated. The story of his
boiling his watch while holding an egg
in his hand. often related also of New
ton, is in La Bruyere's "Caracteres."
But there seems to be some foundation
for the suspicion that in his laboratory
he once lunched on a frog and was
afterward found deeply contemplating
a sandwich.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
Meals and Brains.

We give too much thought to our
irving, and it is pleasant to have them
set temptingly upon table on which
fresh flowers are arranged and to eat
them in a room wherein there is not a
speck of dust, but it is not right that
our bodies should be fed at the expense
Of our souls or that the dust should be
taken from every ledge in our house
and left to gather thickly in our brains
Reader Magazine.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
M akinq Ii Clear.

A very young child was saying his
prayers at the bedside in his grand
fathers house. The grandfather. anx
ious to hear the boy. stood at the roon
door, which was sufficiently open fol
him to see and heal. the child After
erts the child reached God bless
grandma and grandpa" At the men
ton of the last named, the boys eye
catching sight Of his grandfather. he
stopped and, pointing his little finger
said, There he fsr'-Phladelphia In
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
In his annual report, the postmaster

In his annual report, the postmaster
general recommends that provision for
allowances for travelling expenses Of
railway postal clerks be made while
the clerks are away from home and in
the discharge of their duties. The
number of clerks on railway duty 10
the United states is 14,0G0. Their
average salary is 81, 1876 and average
travelling expenses is S132. They are
the only employees of the government
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
A GENERAL PROBE

The Legislature will make its in
vestigation general instead of confin-
ing the inquiry to one Individual.
1t Will investigate all of the senator
ial candidates and reach after mem
bers of the legislature. On with the
tnmfoolery and let it be thorough
that no guilty man may escape.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

First Church of Christ, Scientist,
services held every Sunday at 10 80
a. I'm. Subject: Spirit
testimonial meeting Wednesday
evening at 8 100 o'clock. All cordial
ly invited to these meetings. Read
ing ruom, Hertel & Hoffman block.
open every afternoon, except Sunday
from 2 until O'Clock.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
Frank About IL.

Shoe Store Salesman - What size
would you like, madam? Miss Larjun
I'D like No. ., but there's no use
talking about that. You may as well
show me your No. 5s.-London Tele-
graph.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
A Long Wait.

"Did you and your wife take a long
trip on your honeymoon
1T seemed long to me. Her father
had promised to settle a snug sum Of
money on US as soon as we got back"
Chicago Record Herald.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
Considerate.

"And would you marry me If l We're
poor girl, working for living?' ask
ed the heiress.
Darling" responded the accepted
sutton, sit wouldn't be fair. You'd be
doing enough In supporting yourself
Philadelphia Ledger.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05

The man who leads two lives is
judged in the end by the worst Of this
air.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
Wednesday
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH

Sunday services: Holy Eucharist,
1880 3. m. Sunday school, $50 a. IN.
Midday service, IL 80 a. m. Evening
prayer. 1880 p. m.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05

The reason some people can stay out
Of debt is nobody will let them get in
New York Press.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05

EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN.
Rev. Otto PETIT, pastor. Sermon 10
a. m. Sunday school a. m.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
GERMAN M. Il. CHURCH.

Sunday school at a. M, preaching
at 1O:15 a. m. Prayer meeting Thurs
day at Z 80 p. m. each week,
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05

The acts of this life are tbs destt1I
Of the next.-Chinese Prcyerb.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05

ALICETON (SALEM) CHURCH.
Sunday school at 100 p. m. and
preaching at 200 D. m. All are well
come.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05

ST. BERNARD'S CHURCH.
Low mass at 300 a. m. high mass
at ~ 80 a. m, vespers at p. m.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
AT THE CHURCHES.
FIRST Nj. E. CHURCH.

Sunday services AT 10 a. m. Sum-
day school. Lesson: "True and False
Brotherhood. Acts 4. 32-5, IL. Ep-
worth League, at 80 p. m. Topic
Our Messiah" Leader, the pastor
Public worship at IL a. m. and Z 80
p. m. Theme of the forenoon ser
mon: TESTS. - Thsme of evening
sermon: 1.-The Problem in our great
Southland" The First of a series of
Sunday evening addresses on the
Home Missionary problems in the
south and on our great frontier. Maps
illustrating the topic will be used and
special music rendered.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05

ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Sunday, school at 10 a. m. /; sermon
at IL a. In. evening service at Z 80
p. m. All cordially invited.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05

81. HENR4'S HURCH.
Low mass at 7 go a. m. High mass
at 10 100 a. m. Vespers at 3 o. m.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05

ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN.
Rev. Fl. f. Eggers, pastor. Ser
vices 80 a. m. and 7:3O %. m. ::
Sunday school 2 p. m.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05

ST. Marks LUTHERAN.
Rev. j. klingmann pastur. Sunday
school at a. m. Sermon 10 a, m.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05
PIPERSVILLE M. 4. CHuROH

The time of holding the Sunday ser
vices has been changed from 9 a. m.
to p. III. The order of services for
fall and winter will be as follows:
Public worship and sermon at |
p. m Sunday school at 2 D. m. En-
worth League at 7 80 p. m. twice a
month.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-10-21
Seaboard Owners to Get Road.

Asheville, N. c., Oct. 19.-The Sea-
board Air Line railway will be re-
moved from receivers hands Novem-
Der T.. This action was taken yester-
day when United States Circuit Judge
J. C. Pritchard approved the plan of
reorganization of the Seaboard Air
Line railway company and signed a
final decree directing receivers S.
Warfield Davies, R. Lancaster Will
liams and E. G. Duncan to deliver
the property to the railway company.
The plan of reorganization was that
which has been hitherto substantially
approved by Judge Golf. The decree
was presented by General Counsel
Leigh R. Watts and Assistant Coun-
sci James F. Wright, of the Sea-
board and the Continental Trust
company, on whose complaint receiv-
ership was granted, was represented
by Innes Brown, of New York.
The decree sets out that no persons
in interest objected to the plan OF
reorganization or decree. Mr.. Watts
entered the consent of the Atlanta
and Birmingham Air Line railway,
which has recently been included in
the Seaboard system.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-10-21
Cotton Goods Sell Freely.

New York, Oct 18.-Cotton goods
have been selling more freely at high.
er prices especially in the fabrics OF
print cloth yarn, construction fol-
printers, bleachers, jobbers and in.
vestors. Fall River sold 100000
pieces during the week, Of which
about $4,000 pieces were for future
delivery running into March OF next
year. Prices have advanced nc to
Nc yard. Bleached goods have
been advanced a second time, the base
price of 10 cents yard now ruling on
fruit of the loom bleached muslins.
Fine cottons are also slow, selling IN
first hands.
Mills are now being forced to buy
cotton at the higher prices, and they
are laying a price foundation on
cloths that will secure them against
loss. Curtailment of production has
virtually been agreed upon by man
ayers representing more than TO-
0O00,000 spindles, this measure Is re-
garded as more productive for the
mills, rather than antagonistic to the
market.
Agents think there will be a re-
stricted consumption of cotton goods
in consequence of high prices. Cen
eral dry goods trade is making steady
progress.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-10-21
ANOTHER BANK FOR AIKEN.
Savings Institution Will Open foI
Business About the Middle OF
Next Month.

Aiken, Oct. 19.-The Aiken Saw
ings bank is the latest banking insti-
tuition for the city of Aiken. The
bank will be ready for business about
the 18th of November. The corpora
tors are: Messrs. ]. P. McNair, r.
w. McCreary, I. N. Eubanks and c.
K. Toole, all of whom are business
men of Aiken of the highest stand
ing.
The Aiken Savings bank will fill a
long felt want in this city. There
has been no savings institution here.
The Farmers and Merchants bank
has operated a savings department,
by means of issuance of savings GER
tificates, but as this has been found
to not meet the wants and needs, the
gentlemen named, all of whom are d.
rectors in the Farmers and Mer-
chants bank, decided that new in
stitution for savings alone, is needed
in Aiken, hence the organization OF
this company. The new institution
will be run in connection, probably
with the Farmers and Merchants
bank, but will be different concern.
The capitalization of the company is
$4,000. The books Of subscription
will be opened on Tueday, October
26, at the Farmers and Merchants
bank.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-10-21
The Marvel of Cotton.

Figuring in round numbers, Du'
near enough to show the trend, We
get some results that are impressive
Ten years ago the South was max
in 10,O0O,O00 bales of cotton. This
Welded in money $3O0,000,O00. No"
the South makes 100000 bales
which, at current prices, will yield
for the crop nearly sS00,O00,OOO.
This section now has an aggregate
of 100000 spindles in all It's cot,
ton mills. The cost Of a cotton MILL
such as is usually built in the South
is $40 per spindle. Therefore the
total cost of all the cotton mills In the
South is about s200,000,000.
Gross advance in the value or the
cotton crop now over what it was ten
wears ago is something like $5OO,0OO,-
900. Out of the profits from one crop
the farmers could buy all the cotton
mills and have s300,0OO,OOO proh'
left over.
The s2OO,OO0,0oO for the cotton
mills is invested for a long time.
The s5O0,OO0,000 increase when
the farmers receive is annual.-Char-
lotte Observer.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-10-21
EXAMINES PHOSPHATE BEDS.
State Geologist Sloan Investigates De
posits at Branchville.

Branchville, Oct. 19.-State Geo
loeist Sloan, of Columbia, was In
town last week examining the phos-
phate bed that was discovered here
last winter on the lands OF Mrs: M. Il.
Murry. When the discovery OF phos-
phate deposits was first made here
there were quite number of sharks
teeth and other geological specimens
that indicated strongly that there IS
a bed of phosphate deposits here that
is well worth considering. Since that
time there has been more excavation
done and more deposits have been
found. 1t looks as though the depos-
it may be sufficient to warrant the es-
tablishment Of phosphate works at
this place.
Mr.. Sloan is certain that the de-
posit is phosphate but he does not
know how great the deposit IS OF
whether it is enough to justify In 60
ing to the expense Of establishing a
plant here sufficient to manufacture
the material. He will look into the
matter, though, later this week.
Then the workmen will dig deeper
and wider and see to what extent
the deposit goes. After their labors
are completed the owner of the Land
will know better what she will 90
with the bed. It is believed by a
great many people here that the bed
is rich and that it will be worked
soon. If this discovery proves that
the bed is rich enough to JUSTIFY es-
tablishing plant here it will certain
" mean a great deal for BranchVlue
and vicinity in a financial way, for
then we can get our phosphate and
fertilizing materials at home, without
having to go to Charleston and pay
big price for It.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-10-21
To Arrange Election.

WATERFORD, Oct. 19.-Notice has
been given by County Chairman
M. P. Howell, calling the county ex'
ecutive committee to meet at the
court house here on the 25th OF Oc'
tober for the purpose of arranging
a special election to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of D. G. Sanders
1t is probable that the first primary
to elect his successor will be held
Tuesday, November 9th, and the sec
ond primary, if necessary, November
23rd.
The general election has been or
dered by Speaker Whaley of the
house of representatives, to be held
Tuesday, the 7th of December.
Considerable interest is being taken
Just now in the county as to the sue
cessor of Mr.. Sanders. No announce
ment has yet been made as to who
will be the candidates.