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Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-08
Table Mountain.

At Capetown, in South Africa, where
the traveller usually has the first
glimpse of the continent. is Table
mountain, a magnificent natural curl
osity which rises behind the city to
the height Of almost 1000 feet and
has level top about three square
miles in area It's resemblance to a
huge table is so marked that the
dense clouds which collect at times
around the summit are referred to as
the tablecloth. A pretty little flower
which is found nowhere else on earth
grows on top, while on the northern
side of its base is similarly rare
tree, popularity called the silver leaf
tree.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-08
Capt. John SChdtZ Returned

Commander John Schatz of the Wa
tertown Krieger Verein attended the
national convention Of that society
held in New York city the past week.
The delegates took part in the Hud-
son-Fulton celebration and Mr.. Schatz
says the doings were on an immense
scale and the sights during the par
AIDES were magnificent as were also
the brilliant Nominations on the wa
ter and along the streets.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-08
Personal Mention

Albert Solliday is visiting in Mil
waukee.
George P. Traeumer was Milwau-
kee visitor yesterday.
Mrs. Julia Humphrey is seriously
i'll at her home in Sixth street and
her condition is alarming to her
friends.
Arthur J. Bickner and bride have
returned from their wedding tour.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-08
DOINGS TUESDAY
Into the Shadows

James Duffy, an old resident of ely
man, died last evening at his home
after an illness OF several months.
He was about SIS years old and is sur
vived by one daughter and one son.
MIR. Duffy was one of the best known
men in the tow nof Clyman and had
been honored by his selection for var
ious local Offices. He was a man who
in life had host of friends who will
be sorry to learn of his death. The
funeral will take place Thursday
morning to ST. Johns Catholic church
in Clyman
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-08
The Slow One.

would you" he said after they had
been sitting In the dark for a long
time, tebe angry with me if 1 were to
kiss your
She was silent for a moment Then
in tones the meaning Of which was not
to be mistaken she replied:
"Why do you suppose l turned down
the light an hour and half ago"
And yet he wondered, poor fool, how
other young men who had started far
In the rear were able to pass him in
the race Of life.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-08
In the Social Realm

A shower was given by Mrs. w. F.
Richards at her home in North
Eighth street last evening in honor
of Miss Viola O'Brien, who will short
ly be married to Mr.. Ernst Goecke.
Present were Misses Corinne Bart
lett, Irene Jones, Eva Casey, Stella
Casey, Esther Raue Irene. Seibel,
Reedsburg.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-08
Personal Mention

William Kramer attended the con-
vention of Wisconsin bakers in Mil
waukee this week.
DR.. and Mrs. Louis II. Nowack and
Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Brennecke spent
the day with relatives in Lake Mills.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-08
COmmendS Indemnity Company

DR.. T. F. Shinnick wishes to thank
Mr.. Emil Meyer and the Northwest
ern Accident and Benefit Association
of Oshkosh, which company Mr.. Mey-
er represents here, for the prompt and
satisfactory settlement of his claim
for his recent sickness.
DR.. T. F. Shinnick.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-08

slight chance for life by amputation
which was resorted to but he never
regained consciousness. The body
was brought to Watertown this morn
ing
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-08
Improved Farm for Sale

100 acres, half cleared; good building
and timber; including crops and all; 3
miles from C. e N. W. Ry town of
1000; $4,000. 90, one-half down, balance Oh
easy terms; for particulars write
W. j. SCHUMACHER,
2-4t Shawano, Wis.
Smoke --latest Out" SC cigar.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-08
Farm for Sale

A farm Of 100 acres of land, brick
house in good repair, two barns, and all
necessary Outbnildings, well, stock
spring, hog pasture fenced, 40 acres of
timber. Good handy farm II miles
east o. KOshkOnong station, $50 per acre.
Come and see 1t.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-08

New rangesl New heaters! Old ranges!
Old heaters. New prices, old prices,
prices to fit all. The Central Trading
Company.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-08

c. R. JOHNSON,
KoshkOnOng Station, Wis.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12
TEXAS GoADS THE OCTOPUS

of
ground she
wherever tenac can be found
fight between cavalry
of
mouth or the
cavalry made on the ice
UNIQUE and again he quadruped coming victorious
which the right
corporations doing business In the
expeng them altogether in case they per-
ed n
of the OIL com
for which the Texas steer was
expelled the state of Texas.
which
Proceedings 1nst
o
of that the American
considering
this fine she would not
So consented to
should the altogether
terms %
which alluded
has very months
kind food be served and how
boarders their
o
IS
recalcirant the entire within
e
wounded feelings which she
s setting a pace
will find it difficult follow.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12
GEoRGIAS INCREASED REVENUE.


million dollars
TO the five hundred and
dollars
dollars while
growth
a
million previous
The disbursements also na ed during the and
explained
during last large amount of due payments the
things
this
which
should
contrary, should witness a substantial increase.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12
SCHOOL, TEACHERS PAY.

school teachers salaries are being
increased. But the movement is not
violent Let nobody throw his hat
In the air and cry hurrah-just yet
The school teacher is still the
poorest paid server of the public.
DIR. Elmer Ellsworth Brown,
United States commissioner OF edu-
cation. has made a report showing
that the average monthly wages of
men teachers has increased from
forty-six dollars and ffty-three cents
in 1900, to ffty-six dollars and ten
cents in 1907, and the average
monthly wages OF women teachers
has increased from thirty-eight dol
lars and ninety-three cents to forty
three dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Il is a gratifying sign But it is a
deplorable reflection upon the sense
of justice OF the people OF this coun-
try, particularly when 1t is remem-
bered that the larger number Of
teachers are paid only during the
months when they are employed, and
receive nothing whatever during va
cation.
II the annual incomes of teachers
were given, instead of monthly sal
aries, the figures would be all the
more significant.
There is no profession or occupa-
ton so underpaid as that of school
teachers. And there is no profession
or occupation that ought to be better
paid.
The average cook or housemaid
gets a larger compensation than the
average woman school teacher, con-
sidering that they are provided with
bed and board.
Not long ago a committee Of the
state Teachers association Of In
diana reported that twelve thousand
and thirty-five teachers in that state
received less than five hundred dol
lars a year, and that the annual
average salary was four hundred and
twenty dollars and thirty-two cents.
The average salary OF the high school
teacher was six hundred and eighty
four dollars and eighty-one cents
about the same pay as that of the
street cleaners in Indianapolis
No work requires better character
and training than that Of teaching.
No work counts better for good
citizenship and social progress.
No work deserves better pay. But,
somehow or other, we are slow to
realize this ideal. The gradual in
crease, though small, is gratifying.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12
THE FARMER FEEDS THEM SILL.

ON yesterday the president and
which the farmers
from forty Inherent hundred and
twenty replies sent out by the
department agriculture.
rhe report brings the farmer in our
49,
do we realize that there are only the
people who live on farmers?
worlds history there have Oeen
other people combined?
mink then shop theatre or rail-
the farmer ,
MATERIAL which our food ana our
uxuries represent the proht on the
produce - ,so
Inc earth yields living to her price
earth and brings forth gram
and timber wool nd
Then the rest of us take natures
onou and giving aim as little as possible proceed to
toll order that we may each nave
three meals wearing clothes and sleeping S
The mines are needed to work
up product; and ships to haul IT. Tor com
with; wires with which to fence the ahu VI up
to telegraph marke quotations
bankers loan on it; the lawyers
split hairs over it, the doctors care LOT Tue
the world which working over
farm produce.
stop if you single human being
life does not depend daily upon the Skill
and Industry OF he
president Roosevelt did really appointed his
Countrywide commssiOn-and all the funny men haS0ed lot 81
RMS commission has reported
grave o
First-Co-operauon organization
children; schools that
life
especially good roads and
children take at
real farm life When they
see that we are only jealous dignity and
independence
fit boy to judge rotation
trolley
flourish in the exact ratio that us
furnish the necessas
luxue at home When
children instead
Will be ROBUST
that in the city awaits them
mockey
neighbory love- then the Jay
recreation to comfort
end to the specu
to the wasting Oh
know that they have as
other parasitic
nutritious
e is a without title
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12

Ieled exaltation of Professor Booker T.,
of Tuskeegee, by President Roosevelt.
The question has arisen in connection
with the report that Mr.. Taft will aban-
don the referee system in the south.
Prof. Washington has for seven years
been the referee-general for the south
ern states, and chairman of the entire
advisory bunch. How will he stand with
Taft? Only time will tell.
Prospects Bright for Forest Reserve
The chances for the passage of the
weeks-Lever bill, providing for the crea-
ton of an Appalachian and White noun
tain forest reserve, at this session, are
good, and the friends of the measure are
confident that it will receive favorable
consideration in both house and senate,
if-yes, there is on IF-Speaker Cannon
viii only consent to its being called up.
The speaker is regarded as not unfavor-
able to the bill as it has been reported
by the committee on agriculture, and it ID
believed that he will make possible the
consideration of the measure.
John H. Finney, of Atlanta, secretary
of the Appalachian National Forest asso-
citation, has Offices in Washington and
he has been on the job, so to speak, ever
since congress met, and much of the sue
cess that has been achieved thus far Is
due to his wise and untiring efforts
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12

son, Lyman ]. Gage, Samuel L. Clemens
MARK Twain). William Jennings Bryan
James Cardinal Gibbons, Samuel Com
pers, John A. johnson and other leaders,
desire that publicity be given in the cell
ebrations to the fact that the birthplace
of Lincoln is, on that day, being dedi-
Gated as a shrine of American patriotism.
Addresses by prominent citizens de-
scribing the Lincoln memorial, thus ac-
quainting the public and especially the
school children, with its existence. will
be particularly in place.
A glance at the historic careers and
events that have been memorialized by
the American people will show that the
coming celebration of the Lincoln CEN
tenary is of vast import.
In 1889 Grover Cleveland called upon
the people of the United States to cele-
brate the centennial of the Inauguration
of Washington, and a monument was
erected in New York city, memorializing
the event.
Two other great memorial events in
American history are the Philadelphia ex-
position of 1876, which celebrated CEN
tury of independence, and the Chicago
exposition in 1898, in honor of Columbus.
to celebrate the fifth centennial of the
discovery of the continent.
In that first 10 years of the 18th CEN
fury was born, in New York, Willard
Fillmore, in 1900: in New Hampshire, in
1904, Franklin Pierce; in North Carolina,
in 1S0S Andrew Johnson. In the wilds OF
Kentucky, in 1909. another child saw the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12

niche in the worlds hall of fame.
Roosevelt, as he stands before scores
of thousands at the entrance to the log
cabin, may picture the lonely figure OF
shiftless Thomas Lincoln, carpenter,
standing with his young wife. Nancy
Hanks. in that very spot 1O2 years ago.
When he was years of age Thomas
Lincoln had seen his father killed by
Indians. As the youngest son. he received
no inheritance; he became a wanderer,
until Nancy Hanks became his lodestar
They lived for a year near Elizabeth
town, KY. Then Thomas Lincoln heard
of the spring near Hodgenville, and
there he took his wife to the little one
room log cabin. The struggle for exist
ence was almost hopeless. The farm was
stony and fruitless. About all 1t pro-
duced was the water from the SPRING
and Abraham Lincoln. They both sprang
from the very heart of nature.
At last Thomas Lincoln gave up the
Kentucky farm as a bad job and moved
to Indiana, where, with his wife, his lit
tie daughter Sarah, and little Abraham,
they lived in a shed of poles and logs,
open on one side, sleeping on mattresses
of husks for a year, until the carpenter
father could put up a log house
When Lincoln became of age he could
only read, write and cipher: Yet, with
the possibilities the United States affords,
he assumed the presidency of the nation
within three decades. That will be Roose-
velt's inspiration.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12

central celebration of al will be held on
that day at the Lincoln farm, two miles
south of the little village Of Hodgen-
Vile. KY. the geographical center of the
state.
Here, contemplating the sublimity of
the deeds of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore
Roosevelt, with only twenty days of his
presidential career then remaining, will
Informally lay down the burden of his
great office.
No president before him will ever have
faced greater inspiration.
Even the occasion of Lincoln's Gettys
burg address could not have meant so
much to Lincoln as this OCCASION of cele-
brating Lincoln's great centenary must
mean to Roosevelt.
There would have been no Gettysburg,
but for Lincoln; no heroes graves but
for this great sad, noble man.
For the American people on this day
Roosevelt will accept from the Lincoln
Farm association, of which Robert j.
Collier, of New York, is the founder, the
farm on which the great president was
born, and will lay the cornerstone of a
noble memorial hall of granite, the de-
sign of Mr.. John Russell Pope, of New
York.
This building will cover and house the
little one-room log cabin in which Abra-
ham Lincoln was born and on the exact
spot where it stood when the bare-footed
little Abraham trod its earthen floor.
This gift to the American people by
many thousands of American citizens,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12
HEROIC SURGERY.

The doctors OF Georgetown uni
versity hospital have just witnessed
one OF the most remarkable surgical
operations ever performed in this
country.
II consisted or nothing less than
the grating OF the leg OF a dead
man on the stump OF the leg of a
living man, whose leg had just been
amputated.
The bones OF one patient had
been so shattered that amputation
was necessary. In the same hos
pital was a dying man. Permission
was secured from the relatives of
the latter to secure his leg, in the
event Of his death. He died, and
MS leg was amputated above the
knee and this was in turn Joined to
the stump of the living man.
The operation itself, aside from
the boldness Of it, was one of the
most skillful ever performed. 1t
was necessary to solder the bone
and to attach the Iigaments together
in the shortest possible space OF
time and yet with absolute accuracy
and skill
This was done in a manner which
reflected the highest credit upon the
surgical profession.
The patient upon whom this op-
Grafton was performed is still living
thus far and there are hopes of his
recovery.
Medical and surgical skill have
made such marvellous advances dur
ing the past few years that we
hardly wonder at anything that
may be accomplished, but the opera
ton in question is so daring that
1t cannot fail TO attract general at
sention and it's ultimate success
viii be watched with the closest IN
terest By the public in general.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12
LNCOLNS BIRTHPLACE WILL Be DEDICATED FEB. z TO
THE NATION AS A SHRINE Of AMERICAN PATRIOTISM

who have Joined in the contribution that
has extended over three years, will in
clude the ragged, sterile old farm which
Mark Twain has called with poetic hu-
NOR THE Little Farm That Raised a
Man"
That the American people feel the in
spiration of this coming event is shown
by the fact that committees in many
cities sought at the general offices of the
Lincoln Farm association, "a Broadway,
New York, for advice as to the trend
that local celebrations ought to take, in
view of the Kentucky celebration.
No uniformity of program in the cities
has been arranged, but the trustees Of
the Lincoln Farm association, who in
clude William H. Taft. Henry Waiter
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12
A Missouri Conrtship.

From the Memphis mol Democrat.
One of our budding young gallants called
on a maiden a few nights and valiantly
offered to brave the darkness of the backyard
to bring a bucket of water. He reached
the yard set the bucket down and turned
the crank vigorously for several minutes His
efforts met with failure and he returned to
the house with the statement that the pump
was out Of fix On inspection 1t was found
that he had set the bucket down by a wash
tub and had been busy turning the clothes
-gr5=ET-.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12

rollary OF the story, which was not at al
generally printed. is this:
sss
The Sequel
The principal of the school, when her
attention was called to the letter of the
California mother, said that it's contents
did not have much significance, as the
daughter of the Pacific slope lady was
not even in the party and nobody had
ever intimated that the presidential ire
had been excited against her.
But the mothers letter has found Sc
cure Judgment in the minds of the pub
lie, and is accepted as true bill against
the newspaper man, and as a complete
acquittal of the president. 1t may be
pardoned if the statement is made that
this correspondent never sent out a word
concerning the original story, and only
writes the foregoing because of a desire
TO keep the record straight.
If His Colleagues Could Decide 1t.
1t is distinctly in the interest of a
straight record to allude to certain con-
ventional statements in Washington dis
patches these days to the effect, or in the
words, Senator Hopkins colleagues art
deeply interested in the Illinois situation
and assure him daily that they are very
DESTROYS of seeing him returned to the
senate" ETC., and so forth and so on.
Senator Hopkins has not received such
assurances, however well it may sound
to say such things. The plain truth is
that he is the least beloved of all mem
bers of our house of lords.
The senators on his side of the chamber
tolerate him, but they do not love or like
him. As for the Democrats, they do not
make the slightest pretense of esteeming
him. He is captious, sour, sore, dOmi-
neering.
Southern senators dislike him because
of his old fashioned and out-of-fashion
dislike for the south. Sectionalism very
rarely crops out in the senate, and 1t
generally manifests itself first in some
thing said by Senator Hopkins.
The most trivial case presents to him
an opportunity to make a fling at the
section south of the Potomac and Ohio.
of which lynchings. ballot-boX stuffing.
peonage and other crimes are the burden.
He has never been known to utter on the
floor of the senate kindly word for the
south or a southern man.
Democrats and Republicans alike are
hoping that the deadlock in the Illinois
legislature will result in Hopkins defeat.
Where and how will Booker Washing
ton stand in the Taft administration
This is an interesting question 70 south
erners who have watched the unparal-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12
HOW'S THIS?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. ]. CHENEY e. Co., Toledo. ..
We, the undersigned. have known F. j.
Cheney for the last 10 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his firm.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken intel naiiy,
acting directly upon the blood anu snu-
cous surfaces Of the system. Testimonials
sent free. Price Is cents per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
ton.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12
BUILD SPECIAL ROAD
FOR 7. RS PARTY
HODGENvuLE.

HoDGENVILLE. Ky. Great
preparations are being made ~
Hodgenville and the Lincoln farm
for the presidents visit. The farm
is three miles from Hodgenville,
; over what is usually one of the
; worst stretches of roads in Ken
; lucky. To make it passable the
; county commissioners and the ILL
, nois Central railroad officials have
decided virtually to rebuild the
; roadbed. The railroad company is
, furnishing crushed stone, while the
, county commissioners have made
, appropriation for the work Of lay
, ing the stone.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-12
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