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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-01-20

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Kidneys are weak, try at least,
only few doses of DR.. Shops
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Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
CIGAR Box Camera,

A fair camera can be made from
two or three old cigar boxes by boys
and girls who are reasonably expert
in carpentry. The writer once saw,
one made in such way by a boy Of
fourteen for total cost of SO cents.
1t took excellent pictures and was
fitted with a lens that consisted Of a
pin prick in sheet of tin foil.
have even heard of using silver foil
paper, such as is often wrapped around
chocolates, instead Of using sheet tin
or brass.
In exposing interior subjects such
as paTlors, sitting rooms and play
rooms a much longer exposure must
be given to the plate. I once took
a dark interior with an exposure Of
three hours.-St. Nicholas
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25

cialists were called from Moscow and
other places, but Notwithstanding
their utmost efforts, the heart of the
great Russian responded but feebly
to the restoratives and stimulants adj
ministered
Count Lyof Nikolaivitch Tolstoi,
usually called Count Leo Tolstoi, nov
elist and social reformer, was born
August 2S, 1928, at Yasnaya Poliana,
in the province of Tula, Russia
When twenty-three years old Toll
stoi entered the army, and served in
the Caucasus and in the defense of
Sevastopol against the British and
French allied forces. He first made
a reputation in literature by series
vastopol, and when he left the army,
soon after the Crimean war, he de-
voted himself entirely to literature.
Tolstoi several times was threat
ened with expulsion from Russia, and
several times, according to report,
was upon the point of being exiled;
but he seemed on the whole to have
been treated with unusual leniency,
in view of his strongly pronounced
views, especially as set forth in A
manifesto entitled THE Peoples
Rights" his criticisms of imperial
acts and his open letters to the en-
peror He was, however, expelled
from Moscow in July, 1901, and since
had resided at Yasnaya Poliana.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
THIRTY KILLED IN
RIOTS AT PUEBLA
Mexico Town Is Seized by RevO-
IutioniSts.
J. S. TROOPS GUARD BORDER
Mexican Natives Flee to Escape Being
ConscripteAWires Cut TO Cap
ital City-Reyes SIS
CominG."

Mexico City, Mex. = Revolt seems
TO be spreading rapidly through
out Mexico. Despite the rigid
censorship now in effect, the govern
ment having confiscated most of the
telegraph and telephone lines, stories
Of uprisings in many districts man
aged to slip in.
Fierce fighting occurred at Duran
go, Torreon, Parral and Gomez Pala-
clio. the latter town falling into the
hands of the rebels.
Three hundred of the federal troops
at Gomez Palacio are said to have
gone over TO the insurgents, who have
turned their attention to attacking the
loyal forces at Torreon.
1t is reported on good authority that
twenty-five persons have been killed
at Zacatecas.
The government troops, it is report
ed, quelled the uprising in Zacatecas
and are in control.
Laredo, Tex. = Reports reaching
This city from what is consid-
cred to be a reliable source are to
the effect that rioting was renewed in
Puebla, Mex, and that 80 persons
were killed in the fighting.
United States troops have been sent
to the border to be stationed at many
points to protect Americans.
The Mexican government is con-
scripting in all frontier towns and
rushing troops to points along the Dor
w &c nf
breaks. Battles with revoHtionists
were reported at several places.
Lower classes of Mexicans are
leaving their native border towns by
scores and coming across to Texas to
escape service in the Mexican army,
while fully 200 have gone into Mexico
from the Texas side to assist the revo-
luton
General Villar received reports that
there was a fight at Camargo, a small
town On the Rio Grande, 120 miles be-
| low Laredo, and that the fighting was
severe. Before the report was com
plete the wires failed.
Reports also reached General Villar
that the fighting was inevitable at Las
Vacas, where the revolution broke out
two years ago, and that bands of men
were gathering in many other small
towns
General Villar believes the govern
ment wires have been tapped by revo-
lutionists, and has been sending mes
sages by way of Laredo and Eagle
Pass.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
Dancer Of Drauqhts.

That the so-called draught is only
a concentrated dose Of fresh air, and
that millions suffer for want of fresh
air, certainly represent profound
truths. Nevertheless they leave us
Hnimpressad for much the same state
ments might be said of so many other
things.
Lead, for instance, when distrib-
uted through the substance of india
rubber gloves is as useful to X-ray
workers as fresh air to ordinary in
dividuals; but when concentrated In
the form Of a bullet, exposure to it's
impact is apt to prove inconyenient!
But however these things be, we adj
here to our belief that draughts are
dangerous.
It Is not commonly understood that
the draught is merely the primum
movens, the immediate cause of the
Ill results experienced being in some
cases perhaps a micro-organism, in;
others perhaps a toxin, with which
the system would have been able to
deal effectively but for the local de-
preston of vitality brought about by
exposure to a concentrated dose Of
fresh air. f.[s.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
RAID STOCK FIRMS.
Burr Brothers and Continental Wire
less Heads Arrested

New 4ork.-Postmaster General
Hltchcock took personal charge of
raids on two concerns charged with
using tn mails to defraud the
public out of over s40,0O0,000 by
selling stock on the promise of
enormous dividends. The offices
ralded were those of Burr Brothers,
Inc, and the Continental Wireless
Telegraph and Telephone company
oheloon II. Burr, president of Burr
brothers; Eugene H. Burr, secretary
ana treasurer of the firm, and Frank
II. iooey, its vice-president, were ar
rested In the first raid and held in
Szo,O0Oa bail each. The government
charges that the firm sold between
s40,O00,OOO and $4,000 900 of mining
and OIL stock worth little or nothing.
charles l.. Vaughan, a director of
the Continental Wireless Telegraph &,
Telephone company, Incorporated in
ARIZONA, was taken in the second raid
and held in $4,000 bail. Inspectors
say his company has sold stock to the
amount OF at least 100000 which
ioo OuShC III IO ISIuCH 10 the III
vestors. Vaughan is treasurer Of the
Columbia Finance company, which
acts as fiscal agent for the Continen-
tai company
Both raids are further evidence that
the government means business and
no longer will be content with issuing
fraud orders denying them the use of
The mails, but will press for convic-
tons on criminal charges
Postmaster General Hitchcock esti-
mates that the public has been
heeced out Of at least $100,000,000 by
get-r1ch-quick concerns in the last
five years, but says their heyday has
gone, and said that other arrests, in
volving corporations that have sought
investors the length and breadth of
the country are expected shortly.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25

Hoyt had just concluded the prelim
mary work at Ottawa for the reci
procity treaty between the United
States and Canada. He held the po
sition of solicitor general at the de
partment of justice, in which he was
succeeded a year ago by the late
Lloyd Bowers. He was Of the legal
caiiber which entitled him to consid
Grafton by the president for position
on the Supreme bench. President
Taft had an eminently high regard
for Mr.. Hoyt and he was placed in
the state department by the president
to deal with some of the grave prob
lens which are now before it.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
LONGEVITY of Birds.

An instance was recorded in a Ger
man paper recently Of the shooting Of
a crow with a ring on it's leg bearing
a date Of over 100 years ago. In the
same week q resident in one of the
English counties wrote to the ornith.
illogical press putting on record the
coming of age of his skylark That
letter brought to light the fact that If
twenty-one years Is not exactly a com,
mon age for a lark, 1t is by no means
an unique one. The writer has owned
canaries that exceeded the twenty.
one years of the skylark, and one bull
finch he possessed reached the age of
sixteen years. Exhibition or fancy"
bred birds, on the other hand, are
comparatively shortlived, and the va
riety known as the Scotch Fancy"
the canary with the half-moon shaped
body, is decrepit when two or three
years old, and is becoming extinct.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
DEATH COMES TO COUNT
TOLSTOl AT ASTAPOVA
wife and Children Present When End
Comes-StiI Under Ban
of Church.

MISUNDERSTANDING by his wife,
children, Doctor Makovetsky and the
other attending physicians, Count Leo
Tolstoi passed away peacefully in the
lonesome little railway station Of the
town.
Efforts Of the church to gather the
famous reformer into it's folds eff
fected nothing, as neither side
yielded -.-------
Several of the physicians were
greatly overcome by the approaching
death of Russia's great writer.
His, heart beat it's last apparently
without a clear moment to enable
him to say farewell or cast forg1v-
Ing look upon his wife and children
Iolstoi, accompanied only by Doctor
Makovetsky, left his home at Yasnaya
Poliana for the purpose of ending his
days In solitude, to which he more
and more inclined during his later
years. His pilgrimage led him to
the monastery at Shamardine, in the
province of kaluga, where he re-
NAMED as the guest of his sister,
Marie, who is nun in the cloister.
Learning that his retreat had been
discovered, he insisted upon proceed
ing on his journey to the Caucasus,
where he hoped to spend his last days
close to the Tolstoian colony on the
shores of the Black Sea.
But during the railroad journey he
was overcome with exhaustion and
the cold, and Doctor Makovetsky was
compelled to have him transferred to
the flag station at Astapova, where
he was made as comfortable as pos
sible In the rude wooden building.
For five days he had lain there suf-
ferfng first from bronchitis and later
from Inflammation of the lungs Spe-
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
GIVEN CHANCE TO REFORM
COLONY of Mercy" in New Jersey Re-
stores "DoWn-and-Outers" to
Self-Respect.

Where the lost find themselves
where the outcasts of great city are
restored to self-respect-thisd describes
the Keswich Colony of Mercy at
Keswick Grove, n. J. More than
that, now, it has become a monument
10 the nobility and self-sacrifice Of
The late William Raws, who founded 1t,
thirteen years ago and who gave his
life to its success.
Here is one place where the down
and outs" are made welcome, says
the Philadelphia North Americana
Here is a beautiful spot in the Jer'
sey pines they are privileged TO cali
home
Seven miles from a saloon, in a
country that nature has done her best
20 adorn, the atmosphere of the col
ony is the very opposite of that OF
flustling, bustling city, which has no
room for those who cannot take care
OF themselves. That Is why it has al;
ready saved 5000 souls. Worthless
soafers, hardened slaves to drink and
dissipation, find not only physical
strength, but moral incentive. They
learn TO like healthful work, they
grow 10 love the little chapel in which
they worship thrice a day. Before
they realize It, they have been regeR
Grated.
Natural remedies are always better
than medicine, as modern doctors now
agree. So It is that the cures wrought
at this colony are permanent. Those
1t saves have learned to be grateful
for a relief from bondage that amount
ed to living death.
All the buildings in the eight hum
dred acres that are the colony's were
erected by the men who followed the
example Of Mr. Raws and saved them
selves Even more, the farming and
the Industrial work that keep the
colonists busy may soon make the in
stitution self-supporting.
There Is just one ironclad rule that
will exclude any man who is anxious
to reform. If he is ever caught swear
ing he must leave the place forever.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
HEALTH AND INCOME
Both Kept Up on Scientific Food.

Good sturdy health helps one a lot
to make money.
With the loss of health ones income
is liable to shrink, if not entirely
dWindle away.
When a young lady has to make her
own living, good health is her best
asset.
Il am alone in the world" writes a
Chicago girl, dependent on my own
efforts for my living. l am a clerk,
and about two years ago through close
application to work and a boarding
house diet, | became a nervous in
valid, and got SO bad off it was almost
impossible for me to stay in the office
a half day at a time.
"a friend suggested to me the idea
Of trying Grape-Nuts food which / did,
making it large part of at least two
meals day.
To-day. | am free from brain-tire,
dyspepsia, and all the ills of an over
worked and improperly nouTished
brain and body. To Grape-Nuts L
owe the recovery Of my health, and
the ability to retain my position and
income.
Read 'The Road to Wellville,' in
pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter. new
one appears from time TO time. They
genuine, true, and full of human.
interest.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
WOMEN STORM PARLIAMENT.
Militant Suffraqettes March on House
of Commons-Many Arrested.

London. Militant suffragism
once more militantly attacked the
British government, and came off
as usual defeated and disheveled
AS a result, 116 of the women
and their sympathizers were ar
rested and must appear in the Bow
street police court The suffragettes
reopened hostilities against the gov.
eminent at noon and marched 1000
strong On the parliament buildings
Led by Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst,
the women made q determined at
tempt to force the police Gordon
about the house of commons and,
reaching Premier Asquith, to insist
upon the introduction of a woman's
suffrage bill
The women made every effort with.
in their power to break the lines,
bringing into play some rare military
strategy and football tactics. Fight.
ers in the front ranks retired many
times to make way for fresh reserves,
but the police were too strongly in.
trenched. Orders had been given the
officers to make as few arrests as
possible, but it soon became neces-
sary to Jail as many Of the women as
could be captured.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
Inventor Gets Rich Reward.

San Francisco.-The first payment
of a total of s17,O00,000 which is to
be turned over to George Gates, a
seventy-year-old G. A. r. veteran of
San Jose, who invented the concrete
railroad tie, is now in escrow in the
Croker National bank. A syndicate
of eastern railroads has been formed
to buy the patent rights of the San
Jose man and 100000 was given to
Tuesday and by January 2, 1911. the
total of ST. 100000 will be placed to
his account
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
u. S. SAILORS RIOT IN FRANCE.
Clash With Gendarmes When They
Are Elected From Cafe.

Cherbourg, France. - Sailors at
tached to the second division of
the United States battleship feet,
now in the harbor here, and gen
darmes clashed in the streets. Riot
ing continued for some time Many
Of the gendarmes and sailors were
injured, none seriously
Two hundred bluejackets on shore
leave visited cafe in the city and
became disorderly. They were ex-
PEELED from the place and then, &C
cordins to stories, began to stone the
building. Gendarmes were called.
The sight of the French forces
seemed to infuriate the sailors.
The sailors finally desisted and
peace once more reigned.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
Note From the Eastwood Bugle.

Somebody took the rope off the bell
In the fire engine house to use for a
clothesline, and now, when there is a
fire, the constable has to climb up
into the tower and ring the bell with
hammer. Somebody took the ham
mer the other day and, when Hank
Purdy's corncrib ketched fire, the con-
stable had to hurry down to Hill
ker's store for to borry a hammer.
Hilliker had lent his hammer to Dea-
con Renfrew, who lives four miles out
In the country, and by the time the
constable had got there and hunted
around in the barn for the hammer
and got back to the engine house, the
angry elements had done their worst
and Hanks cOrncrib was mass Of
smoldering ruins.-Judge's Library.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
Kidding Worse Than Cutting.

Talk about making good with your
friends, a New Orleans man told
everybody he knew that he was going
to Philadelphia for the dual purpose
Of seeing the worlds baseball series
and having a slight surgical operation
performed. Reaching this city, he
consulted a specialist, and was told
hat an operation was not necessary.
But, DOCTOR" the New Orleans
party urgently interposed, 'it must be
done"
why must it," wonderingiy quer-
led the surgeon.
Because" was the startling re-
joinder of the southern man, 81 told
all the boys at home that | was going
to have an operation performed, and
If I don't make good they will kid the
life out of me. "-Philadelphia Tele-
graph
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
PUTS BLAME ON HoMEsTEADERs
Secretary Wilson Says They Help
Make Hiqh Prices.

Secretary Of Agriculture
the West in part for the present high
cost Of living, in an address at the
opening here of the United Land and
Irrigation exposition.
"The homesteader," he said, is re-
ducing the field of operations of the
ranchman, which is reducing the meat
harvest of the west and becoming
quite a factor in the cost of living"
Other causes, he said, were the
great immigration to this country and
the movement to the cities. The re-
cent tumble in prices of meat he at
triDuted to drought in the range coun-
try and to the big corn and oats crops.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
TELLS OF PROGRESS ON CANAL
Report of Isthmian Commissioners
Shows Work Advancing Rapidly.

Shows Work Advancing Rapidly.
Wasnington.-Sign that the Pan
anna canal is moving rapidly along to
completion are contained in the an
nual report of the isthmian canal
commission for the year ending June
80, 1910, which has just been made
public.
The construction of the lock gates
has been contracted for and will be
completed by June 1, 1913. These
contracts have been awarded to the
McClintic-Marshall Construction com
pany Of Pittsburg, Pa, their bid for
the entire work being s5,374, 474.S2.
OF the s375,20 900, which it is es-
timated it will cost to build the canal,
there remains only $127,199,53142 to
be appropriated. The total classified
expenditures for canal work to June
80, 1910, amounted to S191, 258, 1888,
of which S31, 1SS, 42637 were the net
expenditures during the fiscal year
covered by this report
The health conditions on the is TIL
mus are reported by the chief sanitary
officer as an improvement over those
of the preceding year. The total ad-
missions to hospitals and sick camps,
including those sick in quarters, netted
for the year 26,539. The daily average
of sick was 23.01 out of every 1000
employed, as against 2349 for the pre-
ceding year. The total number Of
deaths among employees was 548,
equivalent to an average of 1854 per
| co
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
LEEDS WIDOW EVlCTs KIN.
Personal Belongings of Fernc Park
burst Removed From Mansion.

New York. = Mrs. Nonnie Stew
art Leeds, widow of William B.
Leeds, the tin plate king who left
her $4,000, 900, was the woman be-
hind the scenes in another eviction
that took place at the big Stewart
mansion in Montclair, n. J. All the
personal belongings Of Miss Ferne
Parkhurst, Miss Leeds sister-in-law,
were removed from the house by stor-
age men. Mrs. Stewards lawyer re-
ceived from Mrs. Leeds lawyer the re-
ceipt from the storage-house. This
was the first knowledge Mrs. Stewart
and her daughter had that the latter's
possessions had been removed.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
PAY HONOR TO MISS WILLARD.
Members w. c. T. U. Deposit Flowers
at Foot of Leaders Statue.

Washington. - Around the statue
of Frances E: Willard, which
the state of Illinois had placed in the
nations Hall of Fame at the capitol,
500 members Of the National Won
ems Christian Temperance union,
which is in convention in Baltimore,
gathered to pay a tribute to their
noted leader.
The principal feature of the gath
ering was an address by Miss Anna
A. Gordon, vice-president general at
large Of the w. G. T. u.
At the conclusion of Miss Gordons
eulogy, as the chorus of America"
Tesounded through the hall, each
member Of the Illinois delegation
passed by the statue and deposited a
flower at the feet Of the leader of
their cause
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
GRIDiRON TOLL is IA KILLED.
Decrease in Fatalities Is Shown From
Former Year

Chicago.-A total Of IA dead and 43
seriously injured was the price paid
for football by it's followers during
the season just closing, despite
the use of the new rules, which were
brought into being in an effort to re-
form the game and make it less per
ilous to the players.
During the football season Of 1909
there were % players killed and "a
injured Of the latter, eight died be-
tween tho close of the 1909 season and
the opening of the 1910. Two years
ago there was one less death than in
1910, but the number OF injuries ran
much higher. There were 134 youths
SO badly hurt that they were forced
to have the attention of surgeons.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-25
S17,OOO,OOO for a Patent.

ian Francisco. = The first pay
m mt Of a total of ST., 600, 900
w ,ich is to be turned over to George
Cites, seyenty-year-old G. A. R.
veteran of San Jose, who invented
the concrete railroad tie, is now in
escrow in the Croker National bank.
A syndicate Of eastern railroads has
been formed to buy the patent rights
of the San Jose man and 100000 will
be given to him when the contract is
signed and by January 2, 1911, the
total of $17,0O0,000 will be placed to
his account.