Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12


The young woman froze him with {
glance.
Il was ordering some new music from
the publishers for No. 3 department" she
exclaimed, Jelly
And then the manager felt that this
was cold world, indeed.
Thomas Moffat, consul at Trinidad, dis
tinguished himself while consul at La
Guryra by refusing TO sign document
declaring the sanitary conditions of La
Guayra to be perfect The town at the
time was in the grip of the bubonic
plague.
"The local authorities were angry with
me-" said Mr.. Moffat recently, "for refus-
ing to indorse their stupid and baneful
policy. They said it was beneficent
policy, but I told them that it reminded
me, in it's ignorant harmfulness. of a
brakeman [ once knew.
"The man was a novice, and on his
uISI lul Jlltl6 WdS WI y ctOOp SiauO w
mount. The engineer always had more
or less trouble to get up this grade, but
this time he came near sticking. He
almost lost his head. Eventually, how
ever. he reached the top.
cat the station, looking out of his cab
the engineer saw the new brakeman and
said with sigh Of relief:
81 tell you what, my lad, we had a
job to get up here, didn't we?'
"'We certainty did, said the new
brakeman, 'anA if l hadn't put the brake
on we'd have slipped back. -
"Hart O. Berg, manager for the
Wrights, was talking at LIE Mans about
their SKILL" said a returned tourist in
New York. Chart told me how Wilbur
Wright got rather impatient with the
aerial pilots he was teaching to run his
machine.
zone afternoon, according to Hart, a
French count, the most promising of
the learners, had slip-Hp and fell. No
harm was done, and the count excused
himself on account of the high wind and
so forth. Wright smiled sarcastically as
he Overhauled the damaged machine.
Hart said it was just like tenderfoot
he Onc4 saw in Texas.
"This tenderfoOt thought he could ride,
and in front of lot Of cowboys mounted
a pony The pony soon threw him. A
cowboy, helping him up. said:
Hello! What threw yOu?'
"'What threw me? Why, she bucked
something fearful Didn't you see her
buck? cried the tenderfoot.
'Buck?' said the cowboy. Rats! she
only coughed.'
A little Elan skunk out of house on
the avenue, glanced up apprehensively
at its front windows, then darted down
the street, says Brooklyn Life. Before he
had trayersed twenty steps, however, he
found himself in the clutches of huge
policeman.
Let me go, officerr' he pleaded, as the
grim custodian of the law held him fast.
"Not much won't. What're you act
ing so suspiciously around here for. eh?"
Il live in that house there" was the
discounted mans explanation. Don't
hold; let me go, [ say"
"Oh, you live there, do you? Come,
that's to thin. You just walk back to
that house with NE and prove it,
"But my wife is getting ready to spend
the day out; you'll get me in fix, Off
cerp'
That's what I'm paid for. Step lively
now. and we'll see what you're game is. "
So back they went, the officer tightly
clutching his protesting charge. When
the front door Of the house in point was
reached an upper window flew up and a
wOman's head popped out.
"On, was he trying to sneak off, Mr..
Policeman" she sweetly asked.
"He was, ma'am. He says he lives
here"
"He does, officer; thank you; he's my
husband"
The policeman stared.
"But bring him in,' she continued. 81
want him to button the back Of my
dress before he goes down to his office"
Scotch joke is going the rounds
which is too good to be lost; and we pub
lish it for the benefit of our (two) Scotch
citizens:
Over in little town near Glasgow the
good minister of the parish fell into an
old excavation as he was going home one
dark evening. Naturally he raised loud
outcries and villager was attracted by
the noise.
whats the matter doom there?" asked
the villager.
Its me, the meenister," cried the cap
tive. Help me OOt0'
"Dae not make such ootcries. parson,'
answered the yillager. "Ye wullna be
needit till the Sawbath and this is only
Tuesday nicht"
County Supervisors Meet
During the week, the following named
supervisors for this city, have been in at
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