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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-01
LEARNS TO KNOW GREAT CITY

church and with the neither world He
has seen the greater and the lesser
wheels Of administrative machinery in
motion He has learned how to reach
that supreme potentate, the police SER
geant, behind his desk, and how to I'M
ravel and knit together the varying
tales of bystanders.
The streets Of the city are known to
him, barred in the gray morn when the
vast commissary of a great city is
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-01

receptace for the tea basin, whence 1t is handlly
drawn forth at the constantly recurring hospital
ity of tea drinking.
Women and men heavy top boots They
may be distinguished by the head dress Both
sexes braid the hair into innumerable plaits.
sometimes over 100 In sections the plats
are fastened together with bright colored cloth
or with heavy felt band covered with silver
ornaments shells and beads turban with
white fur brim and a red tassel hanging from
the pointed crown is often
Women in the district of Lhasa wear for hair
ornaments a silver halo set with turquoise-a
most becoming head dress, other things being
equal The Tibetan damsel her braids in
coquettish fashion, much does debutante
her fan. II she is wishes to appear confused
she shakes the curtain of buttered locks over
her face. forming a screen, through which she
peers with artful artlessness In regions
remote lamaseries the said to
daub their faces with greasy black cosmetic
lest the lamas might be tempted by their beauty
a precaution which hardly fail to impress the
traveller as rather unnecessary.
Except the great route, which is
thickly beset with spies that travel it without
meeting a military company sent out to turn
the travellers back is impossible, the roads to
Lhasa are mountain passes, in
places only to be traversed by climbing single
file or mounted on sure-footed yaks It is through
such narrow precpitous passes that DR. Shelton,
his wife and little ones have so far made their
way. If they Lhssa they should take the
path travelled by DR.. Rijnhart and her husband
and child they will pass a big boulder beneath
which lie the remains of year-old baby, the
first white child in Tibet.
Doris and Dorothy Shelton who have so far
endured the journey very well, are the most re-
markable pilgrims in the world They the
youngest, and, if their parents accomplish the
purpose to which they have consecrated their
lives, Doris and Dorothy will day romp and
rollick in the somber shadows of Lhasa the
hottest city Of all Asia, where the Dalai lama
lives in his wonderful palace, building whose
immensely and ornamentation battle description,
where many of the houses are literally rooted
with gold, and where the dead are dismembered
then left exposed stone slabs to be devoured
by vultures by the hogs that rummage in the
sacred streets.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-01
The Reporter Sees Its Varied Life
From Above, From Below and
From All Sides

Among the sons of men there is none
who really knows a great city except
the man who has been a reporter In it.
He has sounded its depths. He has
come to know the house of crime, the
house of worship and the house of
7estiya- He is familiar with the
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-01

ten the Intelligent, the educated, the
wellbred anG the advantaged are dull
and hackneyed by a safe life, and how
keen and swift ard quick comes to be
the great guerrilla horde that knows
the street as its hunting ground and
wins by wit and rot By work.-Talcott
Williams, in the Columbia University
Quarterly.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-01
Easy.

What DO you think is the best way to abats
the smoke nuisance?"
There is only one way to do that"
What Is ito"
Buy good cigars
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-01

he's willing to admit that he is in the
wrong.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-01

And every man who owns a dog
thinks the animal has more sense
than his neighbor
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-01

Vast Sums Paid to the Insured.
The insurance companies of the Uni-
ted States in 1911 paid out 1892. $40.
900.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-01
Its LANGUAGE.

IF money talks, what does it say?"
Il guess 1t is buy-buy."
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-01

Grammar is temperamental sort of study"
How do you make that out?"
Because it is SO controlled by it's mood"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-01

A CURE FOR PILES.
Coles CarSolissve stops itching and pain
ind cures piles. al druggists. rs and 5Oc Adv.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-01
sp,ncrT9pS IN Ro$,oya

Examine carefully every bottle On
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the ~ -~--zass@
Signature of GZexzHZAEZSsE
In Use For Over 80 Years.
Children Cry for FIetcher's Castoria
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-01

Of the butter lamps that I'LL the
temples.
They are also infested with vermin,
which they may not even destroy, be-
cause to kill even the humblest OF
animals is contrary to the teachings
of the Buddhist religion. The wonder
full learning OF the Buddhist lama is
also said to be largely a product OF
western imagination. The worship
consists largely in noisy lamentations
In the process of which guns are
sometimes fired, bells ring and horns
give forth deafening blasts.
The Tibetan woman may not be
without beauty. 1t is impossible to
tell. since she does not wash. Men
and women dress much alike, in
gowns Of originally bright colored
cloth, fastened about the waist by
green and red sashes. The baoused
waist portion is always used as the
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-09-23

0A66A n SEOAl
Yesterdays Results.
American League Chicago, 2
l, Washington o.; Philadelphia
"a, St. Louis 2-1.
National League-No games
scheduled.
In its last appearance on the
South Side Washington copied a
pair of games, making the series
for the year Stand Is to 9 in favor
of the Nationals.
Washington won first game in
first two innings, securing a 4-run
lead with Jim Scott in the box.
This was enough with Walter
johnson pitching.
Ellis Johnson, a youngster from
Racine, obliged with some Swiss
movement pitching for the Sox in
the last seven innings. He al
lowed FIVE hits. Washington
scored once in eighth and once in
ninth with two hits in each in
ming.
Johnson was hammered for
twelve hits by Sox, including two
doubles and two triples.
Chick Mattick was the heavy
clouter, pounding a triple, double
and duet of singles in five at
temptS.
Zeider combed three singles
and Collins a triple and single.
Milan was whole show for
Washington, his three hits being
responsible for five National runs.
By stealing three bases-Milan
shattered league base stealing
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-09-23
made nine hits and sox five.

He was responsible with a triple
for their first run. He drove in
two more in the eleventh with
single with sacks stocked.
Shanks of Washington soaked
three hits, one a double.
Rollie Zeider drove liner to
fence in right center in the fourth
inning, but was caught at the
plate when he tried to stretch it
to four bases.
Harry Lord, one of the real
ball players on Sox team, came in
for some hard banning by the
rooters because he was helpless
before Johnson. Some of the two
bit sports howled for Bodie.
Ping was allowed to bat for
Ellis Johnson, and went out on a
grounder.
Sox left yesterday for t.Louis.
They return to South Side to play
Browns next Sunday last home
game.
Cubs wind up their final east
ern tour with games in Philadel
.phia today and Tuesday, coming
home to fight Pirates for second
place.
Connie Mack's Athletics wall
Hoped Browns twice through good
pitching by Plank and Brown.
In first game Eddie Collins
smashed four hits, scored three
times and stole six bases. In one
inning he swiped second, third
and home.
Stuffy McInniss also ran wild,
stealing three times in first game
o.,1 o,,Co -, caCOr11
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1912-04-19
Too High Living.

People are beginning to feel
the burden of Taxation more and
more each year and demanding
retrenchnent along AL lines !.
Officials IN the various positions
do not feel the pinch of the OPP
preston. There is continual
demand for increased salaries on
account of high living. They
should be reduced and get them
enlisted in the endeavor to re-
duce the price of hlgn living.
They are an influential class of
people, generally accomplish
whatever they start out TO ac-
complish; they generally tell the
people what to do and it is done.
Don't forget that the people,
however are beginning to CON-
plain and when you get the peo-
pie riled there is something 60
ing to take place. One must get
out and mingle with the people
and then you can hear them say
something and that not in a
whisper either. There is no use
or sense either in beng burdened
for official families. The people
are right and they can always be
depended upon in emergencies.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1912-04-19
Primary Elections.

The City Democratic Execu-
tive Committee met Monday,
April 18th, and fixed the dates
for the primary elections:
Saturday, June 1. 1912, and
Thursday, June 6, 1912.
Managers appointed-Stanley
Carroll, Harry Nash and George
Davenport.
Clerks-Henry Reynold and
Ethan Richey.
Candidates are requested to
give their names to the chairman
of the committee by May 18th,
and pay the assessment to cover
the expense of printing the tick
cts for the primaries.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1912-04-19

Mrs. Stella Tomlinson and
children are visiting under their
parental roofs.
Mrs. Halle Grow, Miss Annie
Richardson and Miss Allye Nor
gan were among those shopping
IN town this week.
Little Miss Maurice Harrell is
visiting her grandmother Quinn
and other relatives near Chapel.
Miss Ilah WOOdson entertained
a number of her friends with
musical Saturday mig ht.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1912-04-19
Indiana Governor Tells Why
He Forsook Law for
Politics.

Washington, April g." Do
you know why I forsook the
practice of the law in Indiana to
enter politics?" asked Governor
Thomas r. Marshall of Indiana
of an audience at a Y. M. @. A.
meeting here Sunday. "Well, it
was to preserve my self-respect.
l wanted to get into a profession
where my conscience could oe
given breathing room, where
I wouldn't have to wink one eye
at the truth"
The governor deplored deca-
dence in the practice of the pro-
fessions of law, medicine and
theology.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1912-04-19

Sabbath laws for the benefit OF
|people and officers alike?
Recently lady asked an off.
eer why the Sunday Main street
rendezvous were not broken up?
He replied, "we cannot get suffi-
clent evidence to convict"
1T seems to me' she said,
"that at least the boys who
lounge around the streets and
stores on Sunday might be sum-
moned before the grand jury to
tell what they know about law
violation"
These women who are in dead
earnest about life and home pro
tectlon, while ballotless, can in
fuence voters and Will not hesi-
tate to do so to secure the best
men for Office.
During the discussion it devel-
oped that a certain iaWless ele
ment in the town. thus far pri
vately, proposed to run tor
mayor a man whom they declared
would, if elected, grant the ut
most freedom in the violation of
LIQUOR and other laws.
1t is to be hoped that such an
experiment will not be tried but,
if so, a few women may be safely
counted on to make a Home Pro-
lection fight.
The women at this meeting
further expressed preference
for educational and social lines
of work in the temperance reform
deploring the inertness of men
in legal suasion, thus forcing the
gentler sex to the very 'front.' Of
the battle ''for God, and Home
and Native Land"
Where" was asked sis the
Anti, Saloon League, and what is
it doing to enforce our liquor
laws?
In the study of local admins
ira tion the women affirmed the
necessity for good, lawabiding
citizens as aldermen to support a
mayor with enough backbone to
fearlessly execute the laws, and
are watching the papers for such
announcements.
(MIsS) M. L. MONTGOMERY.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1912-04-19

in the case of Clarence Horn,
charged with manslaughter.
Horn, some months ago. be-
came involved in a row with Ros-
coe Shropshire, a young white
railroad man, and beat him over
the head with a heavy walking
stick.
Shropshire died as a result of
the blows.
$ Horn, who is a beggar with
one leg, was tried on murder
charge at the last term of court,
and a mistrial resulted. When
the jury failed to reach a verdict
last night it was generally be-
lieved that another misGrial
would result.
Horn took the verdict philo-
sophically.-Vicksburg Post.
The deceased resided at Stur-
gis in this county where he has
relatives.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1912-04-19
STURGIS LOCALS.
BY MISS SALLlE BEViL.

Hon. G.. Odie Daniel was in
town last Thursday and Friday.
Miss Sula Thompson is d guest
in the home of r. L. Hannah
this week.
Supt. A. E. Green and ex Supt.
w. Fl. Miller were among the
visitors of last week.
Green school was suspended
for ten days. Miss Bevill has
been quite sick but was able to
resume her school duties last
Wednesday.
Mrs. Doss Shropshire departed
Thursday after having spent the
past few weeks with her mother,
Mrs. Gussie Shropshire.
MIR. Paul Bell was looking
after his personal interests here
Sunday last.
Mrs. Allye Green and Miss
Tommie Atkins have finished
their schools and are to be with
.homefolk for a while,
Mrs. Owen Green. Mrs. Emma
and Mrs. Mollie Hannah are on
the sick list this week.
Mrs. Gussie Shropshire visited
her daughter, Mrs.Jennie Dabbs,
in Ittabena, recently, and was
accompanied home by her grand
daughter, little Miss Vivian
Dabbs.
Among the home girls that
took county examination We're
Misses Mary 4 Cooper, Bertha
Landrum, Birdie Kolb and Edyth
Sullivan, all of which came out
successfully.
: Miss Virgle Graham is visiting
her sister, Mrs. James Kolb.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1912-04-19
Got Boy Drunk; Set him Atire

Chattanooga, Tenn, April g.
A special from Gadsden. Ala. ;,
says: Wheeler Beasley and his
wife, Della, are under arrest
here charged with assault with
intent to murder. They operated
a blind tiger near Gadsden and
Monday sold whiskey to Ezra
Busby, a 16-year.old boy, who
became badly intoxicated.
Fearing the drunken boy would
attract attention, 1t is alleged
they placed him under a brush
heap and set it on fire after sat,
urating the wood with oil. His
screams attracted attention and
he was dragged out with his
clothing burning. He may die.
IN. 0. States.
That is one way the illicit yen-
dors of whlskey will do to con-
cea, their crimes. There are
others that have been resorted to
and succeeded. " Dead men
don't tell tales" "'Tis. bliss to
be ignorant" especially about
blind tiger menageries.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1912-04-19

would be of more value to the
country than the great railroads
that now penetrate 'our great
commonwealth. From the pres
ent outlook the people will have
to pay very large bill this year
to maintain the state farms. 1t
is impossible, as it now appears,
for the state farms to do any
thing towards sustaining them
selves.
We need public highways and
could have them if the state
would adopt the suggestions em
braced IN the above. though i'm
feet and crude. For the last four
months the public roads of the
state have been such that the
farmers could not get to the mar
kets if they had had crops upon
crops IN oyeraowing abundance.
Let's initiate the railroads,
build up the dirt roads and get
ready for the opening of the
great Panama Canal. If the
railroads will not give reasona-
BILE rates, just drive on to our
own Gulfport or any other place
without taking out.
We are living in the great
spirit of road building and there
is a great work for our good
thinkers.
We hope that the matter will
be taken up at the next session
of the legislature and discussed
and some steps taken to formu
late a real plan for the enactment
of law.
This lis matter that the peo-
pie are interested in. Country
life would be more desirable in
every respect and property
would have real and stable
value. The subject needs no ar
gument, but some thinking and
all can come to one general con-
clusiOn.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1912-04-19
Attention! Veterans Forrest
Cavalry!

Headquarters for the Forrest
Cavalry Corps at our next Cen
eral Reunion, will be rooms 100
and 10, Hotel Lanier, Macon,
Ga. Ali members of the Corps
are requested to call and register
and secure badges. They are
requested to make it their social
headquarters, for meeting and
fighting battles over with the
comrades they meet.
And you are especially request.
ed to be present at 10 O'Clock a.
M. on Wednesday, May 9th,
1912, and unite in the election of
a new Commander and the trans
action of any business at the
Corps.
Fl. A. Tyler, 1t. Gen'l Com'nding
The Forrest Cavalry Corps.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1912-04-19
The w. G.. r. u. Takes No
tice.

At the last meeting of the w.
@. II. u, much interest was ex-
pressed IN law enforcement,
which interest was quickened by
the fact of the approaching mu-
nicipal election and the az
nouncement of candidates for the
various Offices.
An animated discussion ensued
and without rejecting on past
administrations the women de-
clared themselves in sympathy
only with the officers who would
rigidly enforce the law, especial
ly such laws as Sabbath obser
vance, the sale of tobacco to
minors, gambling, the liquor
laws and the closing Of houses
of ILL fame.
Why, in the face of splendid
Sunday laws, should some stores
stand open all day and young
boys and College students con
gregate there from early morn
ing until late at night. What at
traction is offered to catch in
net the simple by the way? And
are not soft drinks dispensed
contrary to law at more than one
place on the Sabbath? If this
privilege is granted one Or more
places in the town. why not all?
The writer, some time since.
had occasion to procure on Sun
daya bottle of medicine for a
sick member of the family, when
behold the school boy who re
turned with it brought. aalso, a
writing tablet purchased Of the
same firm. Is it not time our
newspapers were printing the
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1912-04-19
The State as Farmers, Elk.
pensive and IN Conflict with
The Principles and The
Spirit of the Organic
Law of the State.

y Some short while since we
made a few observations concern
ing the State Farm, making a
few suggestions. We are graft
fed to know that some good
. thinkers approved OF the general
suggestions expressed therein.
We wish to state in advance that
what we may have said, or may
say, are not perfect expressions,
nor what we say is intended to
convey the idea that we are cor
rect; no. not with all our ego and
self-conceit will we arrogate that
matters must be as we see or
suggest, but that these things
must be solved and worked out
byaothers better qualified than
ourself.
However, we are more con-
vinced than ever that it is not
she proper thing for the state to
own and operate large farms as
it does now. From every view
point IT is most undesirable. AS
a demonstration for farming
there has been but little, if any
in that direction, accomplished
We often see in print what the
trustees of the penitentiary pay
into the state treasury. and great
prominence is given and the
great dailies proclaim and dis
seminate throughout the coun-
trv, but no such publicity is
given to much larger sums ap-
propriated to conduct these
farms Or large plantations. If
you don't know it, the state owns
about four plantations and they
are a great. expense to the state.
They have got them and as long
as they own them they must be
run in some kind of fashion.
Every few years more lands are
added and that, too, at fabulous
prices, though it is represented
to the people that at dirt
cheap" prices. These lands are
always adjoining the state lands
and made valuable because they
do adJoin them.
The improvements of years, or
very considerable of them, may
be and are carried off in smoke
and fame. The state is not able
to carry It's own risks; it is too
poor and tax ridden for that. It
has abandoned the policy of in
suring it's property and thou
sands Of dollars had to be appro-
priated to supply losses incurred
by confagrations of different
state properties. The state has
to pay out large sums annually
for live stock to run these great
farms, governed by large sala-
ried officers and managers.
Tt seems to US that it should be
the policy of the state to divide
up these lands in small blocks,
40, 80, and in no instance more
than 100 acre blocks and sell
them at the prices that they are
worth in the market. and in that
way encourage farming by the
people. Put the convicts upon
the public roads. The farmers
of the country and the state
stand in greater need of good
roads more than great state
farms. It would be better for
the convicts. EVERYBODY could
see how the convicts are treated
AFT the hands of those who are
over them. We could have good
roads in the course OF time that
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1912-04-19
Find Beggar Guilty of Man
slaughter.

Something of a surprise was
caused this morning when the
jury brought in averdict of guilty
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1912-04-19

The Misses Marguerite Miller, Annie
Saunders and Knoxie Jackson will at
tend DANCE next week in Brookyllle,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-04-19
SPELLING BEE MANIA ABROAD

A revival of the useful spelling bee
has been brought about IN Kansas and
Did veterans in the Orthog raphic art
are contestiog with the youthful SPELL
ers. The OCCASIONS draw larger crowds
than political meetings and all con-
cerned are benefited.
At Oswego a successful spelling bee
was engineered by the ladies of one
of the churches and the proceeds
from the entertainment, for such it
proved TO be. were devoted to a nause
building fund. All classes of people
took part in the contest.
At Olathe last Saturday a county
spelling match was held In which
contest however the words we're writ
ten. The winning lady misspelled
only two words out of a list OF 200
Sixty-tive pupils took part in the
contest, fifty from the rural schools
and fifteen from the high SCHOOLS in
the country. Five from each town
ship had been selected by elimination
contests last month. There were
three. pupils who missed only five
words, twenty-one who missed less
than ten, and twenty-five who missed
less than twenty. Some of the words
missed we're "divIsible, vinyard,
sycamore, mOrtise, retrocede, phth
isis, supercede, heinous, exceeo.".
While the teachers were grading the
papers a second contest was Leld, |
this time orally. A young lady also
won this contest.