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Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
KAISER'S NEW BATHTUB.
Designed for Tenements-Can Be Used
as a Dining Table Too

The German Emperor is, as is well
known, a great admirer of English do
nestle institutions. When over here he
was charmed with the practical way in
which the British workman living in
modern tenement houses has the use of
a bathroom.
He ordered, therefore, to have plans
submitted 70 him which took particular
note of baths in workmen's dwellings
with a view to fit into small flats for
small families. The bath which was III
timately adopted is meant to serve a
threefold purpose.
This bath is actually already in use
on the Emperor's different estates, and
can with clever continuance of some
wooden parts be changed into a washing
tub. and this again can be changed into
a dinner table. Thus workmen are re-
rlieved from finding house room for a big
bath in their dwellings, and when not in
use for a bath or the washing it Is one
of the most Indispensable pieces of fur
niture as the dinner table of the family.
,-Lady's Pictorial
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
A EireIesS BrOoder.

If hen can hatch a duckling, why
can't bunch of any sort of feathers
hatch chick? AS a matter of fact,
they can, as has been demonstrated by
the fireless brooder invented by a Call
fornia man. In general appearance
the brooder resembles other machines
Of the kind, but there is no space in
1t for the lamp, or other heating ap-
paratus used in the older types. In
stead, a number Of punches Of feathers
are fastened to the under side of the
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
Angoras as Trail Cutters.

Angora goats are doing good work
among the mountains of California
where they are cutting trails for fire
guards through the brushy areas. The
herd of 5000 Is divided into two bands
which are grazed within weIl-defned
areas. They attack the heavy bushes
stripping of the bark and killing all
wild growth There IS plenty Of the
same kind OF work to be done in the
East. but only small beginnings have
been made Perhaps an object lesson
IS needed in the shape of a large tract
Of rough land to be cleared and i'm.
proved with the aid Of the goats.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15

Rye is good grain to feed horses
1t is equal to oats and wheat, but it
must be ground middling fine and
mixed with cut straw or cut hay.
The straw or hay should be cut into
half-tnch lengths, moistened with wa
ter and the rye meal we'll mixed with
it. It is very sticky and horses can
not get the meal without eating the
straw or hay with it, In feeding corn
to horses we always grind half rye
with the corn to make the corn meal
stick to the cut straw. Corn and rye
ground together in equal proportions
and mixed with bright cut straw
moistened with water make a weil-bal-
anced ration, equally as good, as eager
ly sought after by horses and a cheap
er horse feed than oats and hay.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
Hogs and Straw Kicks.

Some farmers think that a straw
rick is a good place for the SOW and
her brood to sleep. This is mistake.
1t is best to keep them away from the
straw pile winter and summer. In the
winter the pigs will burrow beneath
the straw, get too warm and take cold
when they come out into the freezing
atmosphere. Coughing and wheeling
is the result, and the pigs do no good
or die Besides, if burrowed beneath
the straw they are liable to be stepped
on and seriously injured or killed by
the stock running to the rick.
During the summer months especial
ly should the SOW and her young be
fenced from the straw pile. If they
burrow down into the half rotted
straw they will be very apt to con-
tract some disease.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
Changing Bees,

The common busy bees may be grad
ually replaced by the Italian OF Cypr,-
an varieties, by removing the old
queen and substituting a new fertfl-
lied queen Of either kind preferred
II she Is carefully guarded In a small
cage for few days the bees soon
recognize her, and in the course of a
few months the old bees will all be
dead and the new ones will be of the
desired kind. The queen is compelled
to lay numbers Of eggs daily in order
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
Poultry Notes.

Others have built up an egg laying
strain. Why not do so yourself?
Lazy hens cause much of the high
prices for eggs. Make 'em get busy
and hustle
The warmer the weather the more
water required, as more is thrown of
by the body.
Many hen that is otherwise well
fed may fail to lay on account Of lack
of water.
Successful poultrymen, in order to
keep their poultry on a paying basis
are continually culling their fiocks.
One of the great values of green
food it is said, lies in its ability to
aid in the digestion of other things
Farm and Ranch.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
BRINGING Him Back to Earth.

Henry James, the American novelist,
lives at Rye, England, one of the cirque
ports, but recently he left Rye for time
and took a house in the country near the
estate of millionaire jam manufacturer,
retired. This man, having married an
earfs daughter, was ashamed of the trade
whereby he had piled up his fortune
The jam manufacturer one day wrote to
Mr.. James an impudent letter, vowing
that it was outrageous the way the
James servants were trespassing on his
grounds. Mr.. James wrote back:
Dear SRI am very sorry to hear
that my servants have been poaching on
your preserves.
"P. S.-You will excuse my mentioning
your preserves, won't youE'-Florida
Times Union.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
Bad for the Boil WeevfI.

Dr. w. D. Hunter. the government
entomologist in charge of the South
ern field crop, declares, in bulletin
issued at Dallas, that the recent period
Of oppressive heat in Texas played
havoc with that hitherto invincible
enemy Of the planters, the boil weevil
Ninety-nine per cent Of the cotton
plant parasites, he says, are dead. The
heat not only dealt death among the
boil weevil, but at the same time
forced a process of incubation in the
cotton bolls The result will be a crop
usual
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
to supply the great loss constantly

to supply the great loss constantly
recurring by the destruction from
birds, storms and other difficulties
There should be left plenty of honey
for winter supply, and the hives
should be we'll protected from storms
What the beekeeper should aim to do
is 10 SOW such crops as will enable
the bees to lay in large supply of
honey, and he can well afford to do so
If he has a number of hives.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
A Municipal Ding Store.

The high rates at which medicines and
drugs are sold by the private pharmacies
and drug stores of st. Petersburg have
induced the municipal authorities to
start municipal pharmacy, for which
purpose S15, $50 has been recently al
lowed. The city pharmacy will supply
medicines and drugs to all the disinfec-
ton and sanitary departments as well as
municipal hospitals To private persons
drugs will be sold at 20 per cent. dis
count against the normal charges -Daily
Consular and Trade Reports.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
Digging Potatoes.

The time is near when farmers will
be digging their potatoes, and then is
the time to select the seed for another
year; when a hill Of nice, smooth po-
tatoes is found, free from scab or rot,
and goodly number are just the
shape and size wanted for table use,
put them one side. At night gather
them up and put them away for seed
next spring You will be surprised to
see how you can change the type and
improve them in a few years, says a
Vermont contributor to the American
Cultivator We do this every year,
and, while our townspeople are com
planning of their potatoes running out
and buying Of us to renew their seed,
we are planting potatoes Green
Mountains) that started from the seed
that was bought for S. a bushel when
they first came around. If farmers
would take as much pains in selecting
their seed potatoes as they do their
seed corn, we would not hear SO much
complaint about potatoes running out.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
Movable Schools,

The United States Department of
Agriculture recommends the establish
ment of movable schools of agriculture
by the state experiment stations.
Where fifteen farmers can be secured
as students the school may be con-
Quoted for a year or longer The
kind Of instruction viii depend upon
the needs O. the section
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15

The Kansas Agricultural College
grades cream as follows: First grade
cream, 30 or more per cent Of butter
fat; second grade, 25 per cent and less
than so; third grade, having less than
25 per cent butter fat Creameries
like to get high-testing cream, say 30
and above. They make more butter
from this, as the overrun is greater.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15

would have died, /
believe, but for
Doan's Kidney Pills.
My doctor said the
case was hopeless
My back felt as If II
were being scared
with a red-hot iron.
The kidney secre.
lions were painful,
irregular and fu1I of
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
Ask Your DRUGGIST For Aliens FootF.

Il tried ALIENS FOOT-EASE recent
ly, and have Just bought another supply.
1t has cured my corns, and the hot, burn
ing and itching sensa ton in my feet which
was almost unbearable and 1 would not
be without it nOw.-MrS. W. J. Walker
Camden, N. j. Sold by all Druggists, CSC
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15

The ". S. Government has bought %
Gross $500 bOXes) Of Rough on Rats
to send to the Panama Canal Zone, be-
cause it does the work. The old relia-
BILE, that never fails. The unbeatable
exterminator. 15c. Csc, 75c.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15

If it's Your ye Use Prttit's Eye SaIve.
for inflammation. stys. itching lids, eye
aches, defects of vision and sensitive TO
strong lights. All druggists or Howard
RIOS
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15

No matter how long your neck may be
or how sore your throat, Hamlins Wizard
Oil will cure it surely and quickly. 1t
drives. out all soreness and inflammation
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
Not nv A eSOD

Mrs. Hen, having performed her owl
parous function, took a constitutional
around the yard. Returning to her nest
she found it empty and clucked angrily.
What's the trouble, ma ann" asked
the rooster.
It's mighty funny she grumbled.
''that | can never find things where a
lay them. Boston Transcript
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15

Constipation causes and seriously ag-
gravates many diseases. 1t is thorough
| Iy cured by DR.. Pierce's Pellets. Tiny
sugar-coated granules.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15

Window glass manufactures have
been introduced into China, and the prod
uct, which is novelty there, is rapidly
becoming popular.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15

The increased cost of living in India
generally and in Calcutta particularly is
severely felt not only by Europeans, but
also by Indians
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15

In an English village an official no
tice reads as follows: "rhe public are
warned against using the we'll for domes-
tic purposes unless previously boiled
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15

The theory Of gravitation was ad-
vanced by Kepler in 1917, seventy years
before Newton announced his discovery.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
.Snon3IQIuK

Hostess-It's beginning to rain. You'll
get wet. l think you'd better stay to
dinner
Departing Guest-Oh, dear no. It's
not raining so badly as all that.-Sydney
Bulletin
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
WISHED DEATH MIGHT COME

To Relieve the Awful Suffering OF
Advanced Kidney Disease.
William Gibson. Greenup, KY, says:
Three months I was in bed, and
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15

MRS WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP for
Children teething: softens the gums, reduces In
nsmmation, allays pain, cures wind collie. p
cents a bottle.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15

Whiteboards are being substituted
for blackboards in some of the English
schools.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
PILES CURED AT HOME BY
NEW ABSORPTION MEIHll.

If you suffer from bleeding, itching blind
or protruding Piles. send me ysur address,
and / Will tell you how to cure yourself at
home By the new absorption treatment; and
will also send some Of this home treatment
free for trial, with references from your
own locality IL requested Immediate re-
lief and permanent cure assured Send no
money, but tell others Of this ofer. Write
today to Mrk n Summers, Box z Notrs
Dame, Ind
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-12-31
First Of the Monthly Sale DAYS

Hutchinson Gazette, Dec. o.
the first of the menthly sale-days
held in Hutchinson today under the
auspices of the Retail merchants
association has proven to be such a.
success that there's no question about
the future sale-days to be held.
There has not been such a throng
OF people in Hutchinson since the
fair this fail, and it was remarked at
the registry headquarters of the trans
portatlon bureau they came from
every part of Southwestern Kansas.
The regular trains on all roads
were crowded this morning bound for
Hutchinson and the special train over
the Hutchinson & Southwestern
brought another big crowd.
The parade this forenoon was wit
messed by large throng. Close to
100 automobiles were counted in the
parade, the Automobile Club turning
out in full.
The parade was headed by the
city police force in automobiles. fol.
lowed by Holidays band occupying
three automobiles abreast. After the
long line of autos came the farmers,
from miles around who had brought
of all kinds, vehicles. implements,
and farming material of all kind.
The sale proper opened at one
o'clock this afternoon, on West Sec.
ond avenue, the livestock and other
goods being auctioned off. Buyers
from every part of the country were
here to buy in the stuff. The auct.
iOneers in charge were S. NJ. Crolts
and d. T. Dennis, of Hutchinson and
E. E. Potter of Sterling.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-12-31
Poison or Food?

Professor L. E. Sayre, dean of the
School of Pharmacy of the University
of Kansas, has been asked to deliver
series of lectures on the loco weed,
Of which he has made sudies cover.
ing period of more than twenty
years. Professor Sayre hopes that
means may be discovered by which
the poisonous effects ;of this weed
may be counteracted- indeed, he
finds that the nutritive qualities Of
this plant are so great that if by some
method Of curing, the harmful ele-
mentS could be eliminated, there
would be available an important
source Of food supply for the stock
of the plains.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-12-31
Draws from Far and Near

The registrar of the University oil
Kansas received this week a letter
from a Japanese, Yoshio Foruya, in
San Rafael, California, saying that
the writer wished to study political
science in the University. In de.
Scriblng his preparatory work, Mr..
Foruya said: 81 have been learned
five years at high school in japan
and am now attending high school in
this country" There are no lap.
anese at the University this year,
though there have been sever Il in the
past. One of them received degree
from the University and is now a
successful engineer in his native
country. The foreign students this
year are from Russia, Austria, and
Spain. There are German, Scandi.
navian, and French clubs at the I'm.
Iversity, but many of their members
are native Kansans who are merely
these languages.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-12-31
ElumePatOPS' Test Easy

Any person of good judgment, who
has received an ordinary common
school education, can readily and
easily pass the test to be given an.
plicants for census enumerators'
places on Saturday, February 9th,
the date finally set by U. S. Census
Director Durand, according to an an
nouncement from the Census Bureau
today. This will be a comforting as.
surance to the several hundred thous.
and who are believed to be contem.
plating application for the places.
1t was emphatically stated at the
bureau that the test will be an emf.
nently reasonable and practical one,
similar to that applied to applicants
at the Twelfth Census. 1t will con.
sist of fillingout a sample schedule
OF population from a description, in
narrative form, of typical families;
and, in the case Of enumerators
whose work will be IN the rural dis.
tricts, they will be called upon to fill
out an additional sample schedule of
agriculture, from information fur
niShed by the Census Bureau.
All persons, whether women or
men, who may desire to become Gen.
suS enumerators, must be citizens of
the United States, residents of the
district for which they
wish to be appointed; must be not less /
than Is nor more than 10 years of
age; must be physically able to do the
work; must be trustworthy, honest,
and of good habits; must have at
east an ordinary education and must
be able to write plainly and with rea.
:onable rapidity.
Those who can comply with these
requirements are invited TO put in
heir applications, as there will be at
east $4,000 enumerators' places to
,e filled by the middle Of March in
PREPARATION for the enumeration be-
inning April 10Th. L
Application forms with full inStruc. u
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-12-31
Engineers Organize
a great state

A new Kansas society was organ
lied at Topeka last week, the first of
its kind to be started,ln the state.
The members are municipal and
county engineers, together with a few
others engaged in similar lines of
wo'k. Its efforts will be along the
line of improvement in public high
ways and in the handling Of general
engineering problems. W. G. Hoad,
of the University of Kansas, whose
expert advice is sought by cities and
towns all over the state is an officer
of the organization.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-12-31
LdEefIIsIna Kansas

"Ask for our book, Kansas, a lit
tie story Of great state" is line
seen In the advertising of a Kansas
railroad printed in the Chicago Trib-
une last week. THIS is but one of
many similar advertisements appear
ing in the metropolitan papers east of
the Mississippi. "Kansas, a state
whose resources have never been
scratched" "a All of which makes
good reading for the Kansan. who
knows that;in material resources and
In educational advantages Kansas is
a great state.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-12-31

In the past the Cannon Ring
fought against the railway rate law,
the meat inspection law and the Pure
Food law, but was finally forced to
act by an aroused public and by
Theodore Roosevelt.
Really, this Cannon Ring is per-
fectly, hopelessly rotten. 1t is in no
sense a Republican Institution. Can.
non was elected Speaker last March
through the assistance of Tammany
Hall.
The Cannon Ring is sodden with
political vice. 1t is drunk with long.
continued power. And now, quite
aware that its day is over, Cannon
himself is well known to be ready,
when next the Congressional cards
are shufled, to throw the power to
the Democratic half of the Ring in
order to prevent progressive and in.
telligent men from grasping and
welding this power. For Cannon
hates progress and intelligence as
Richard III hated manly beauty.
Naturally the little group of clean
thinking, right minded Republicans
In the House have no place in the
Cannon Ring; so they are called In
surgents. These Insurgents know
the truth. They are fighting for two
essential things-honesty and prog.
ress.
II taxes courage 10 be an lnSur-
gent. Such an one finds the whole
power Of Government apparently bent
On crushing him. The Ring works
ouSily to dlscredit him in his district.
Cannon throws him off his commit |
eeS. The Senate machine bears
Town on him. President Taft and
lie Cabinet, with all their powerful
lilies, wo against him. And yet
here stands today, wondering
ON lines if the whole world is con-
piring for evil, but continuing blind
y and sturdily to fight for those
entials-honesty and progres
This is why Success MAJ e is
Cannonism and is sup. +
ng the lnsurgents.-F Succe
iapaZine.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-12-31
From Exam" Papers

The following answers are taken
from a number collected by a teacher
in the Topeka schools:
"a blizzard is the inside of a hen."
"Oxygen is thing that has eight
Sides"
"The Cokoo never lays its own
eggs"
"a mosquito is a child of black
and white parents"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-12-31

OuCC6SS Un UdnnOnISm
There is a strong political cast in
this number of Success Magazine.
We have gone so far as to sacrifice
> something of the charm and good
cheer which our readers have a right
to expect from US each month. We
j. are presenting, within the vigorous
"Cannonism" cover, a complete and
authoritive summing up of the effect
OF those deep currents of public
thought which are steadily and in
evltably undermining the vicious ma
chine of thei Congressional lords and
mlsrule
In word, this is one of our fight
ing months. And since we are fight
ing we propose to fight honestly and
hard.
In the course of our attacks on
"CannoniSm" we have perhaps ap-
peared to say some pretty severe
things about the Speaker and his
Ring. But we have never told all
we know. We cannot now tell all we
know. For some curious reason the
American public revolts from the ug-
ly, sinister facts of the amazing mis-
representation which today makes
our Government in some respects &C
tually the most backward in the civ !
ilized world.
But there are few disagreeable
truths which we have no right to !
withhold. If the public-if you, the !
million or more Of you, who read
these words-could for one short
hour look in upon the actual work
ings of the Cannon machine; if you
could see the motives which guide it;
if you could feel the atmosphere of
dishonesty, treachery, vice, and de.
pravity in which it moves and
breathes; if through some real per-
sonal expert pee you could be
brought to cA4nprebend the virtual
daily treason of the men who com.
pose this machine well, you would
an uncomfortable state of
mind as regards the present welfare
and the future prospects OF your
nation.
Everybody who knows the life at
will at once recognize
the truth of this statement. 1t is
notorious that the drinking, the gam.
bling, the revelry, are the indulgen-
ces of men who in politics gro Sc.
Verely Irregular. "n,n ne '-regu
lar" Republicans sought Democrat d
whence did they t
them? From Tammany Hall the t
vicious, tie depraved. I
These things are significant of the
whole basic difference between the
moral ideals of two elements in the !
House. rhe man who lead a Dem.
ocratic minority into Cannon's camp
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-12-31
Our Special Offer

tons for filling in, and complete in
formation concerning the test and the
method of a, pointment, can be Sc.
cured by writing to the supervisor of
census for the supervisors district in