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The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-22
Historic Phars ALA.

1t was on his way to the battlefield
of PharSalia that Caesar uttered the
famous saying to the fishermen. He
had come down 50 Brindisi to cross to
Dyrrachium and. finding no galley.
commanded the owner of Il small sail
ing boat to put him across the Adli-
attic On the voyage a violent storm
occurred and even the experienced
mariners we're terrified. But the great
captain said: Have no fear. You car
ry Caesar and his fortunes"
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-22
Real Hard Luck,

A fat FrenchWOm0n despairingly
says. 81 am 50 fat that | pray for a
disappointment TO make me thin. but
no sooner does the disappointment come
than the JOY at the prospect of getting
thin makes me fatter than eyer"-Lon'
don Tit-BitS
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-22
Deity Turned.

This isn't like the bread mother
makes" said the young married man
80 you are going to start that. are
you?"
Il was merely congratulating you.
Mother never was a very good bread
maker Washington Star
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-11-22
MY UNCLE
WILL
BY STEPHEN c. HARDUcK


cigars were passed / noired that
uae Of my guests, Major 1i-daie. did
not help himself from the box offered
I'm
Don't YOU smoke, major asked.
NO he replied Il do not"
He was the only man IN the room
Who did not smoke. and the others
looked al him with some curil >.ty.
was about to turn The sub,e,, when
he gave rs his reasons for not doing
So in the following story:
| was brought up by IN uncle who
was very rich my parents both died
hen was very young and since he
had no children OF his own it was
understood that / was TO hc his heir
Ny life was not a very pleasant one
for persons whose experience IN bring
ing up their own offspring is nil are
ut Il great disadvantage in bringing mp
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utterly devoid of reason and a sense
~ his duties toward a parent In
deed. it is remarkable that parents
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-04-30
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This Great Book

It's a plain account of how the Presi-
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Some idea of the popularity Of this
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-04-30
The American Government
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN
A Book that Shows Uncle Sam at Work

but one of the 30 chapters which lay before you the workings Of
the greatest Government IN the world the Government which you
are participation and part owner.
No book has ever been within your reach that could tell you what
this book tells No library of books furnish you with all the
facts and anecdotes which this book condnse 400 pages
As man values his Bible for spiritual up his encyclopedia and
dictionary for intellectual up should he value this book THE
American Government for citizenship uplit.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-04-30
35years 2months i2days
81 years | month 8 days
4 years l month 6days

HOSE figures the top of this advertisement show you just
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duce and utilize them.
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story Of unique interest.
The chapter on Public Health in
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-04-30

What DR.. Wiley Says:
United States Department Of
agriculture.
Bureau Of Chemistry,
Washington, D. C.
august 81, 1911.
Mr.. Frederic 7. HGSkiH,
Washington, D. c.
Dear Sir
/ am able to say that the statements
Won haze made concerning the BHreGH
of Chemistry I'll your book q he
.4mcriran Government, appear TO be
fair ard conservative statements OF the
activities Of this Bureau.
Respectfully,
H. ~ Wiley.
Chief.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-07-05
-Nzz1E R01zz1z2y zzeo 70 -nzARrP1

supplied for the royal robe of yellow, valued at
a million dollars, the most costly royal robe in
existence, and the handiwork of savage women
who have long forgotten the art that once was
theirs, when their fingers created feather robes
for their husband chiefs to wear.
Today when royal parsonage dies in Hawaii
ancient kahilis, or wands of feathers are care
fully reconstructed by those who still preserve
the art of putting them together and after the
royal interment they are again taken apart and
put carefully away. In days of old even queens
worked on these, and even the present eX-Queen
Liliuokalani worked with her own hands feather
wand that preceded to the grave poor Queen
Emma. last descendant of the first American to
make Hawaii his home. Again this kahili was
carried before the funeral cortege of Prince
David, and will in time precede Lfliuokalani her
self to the last resting place of Hawaiian kings
and queens the royal mausoleum.
Sometimes one may still observe family of
in Hawaii wearing of the old-time all
but priceless mats but it is tedious work and the
over-educated college-bred girl of Hawaii does
not take toll kindly. Besides the art must be
learned in childhood when the fingers supple
and nowadays the public schools have truant Of
fcers and every family sewing machine. Every
Hawaiian girl. however is an adept at weaving
wreaths and chains of flowers. The lei women
are one of the sights of Honolulu For<the
she loves the Hawaiian girl will still weave
hat OF native fibre around which she will make
q band OF feathers to express her aloha" or love
for the wearer.
AS the native arts and industries in the South
Seas are abandoned one by before the
ward march of civilization, the aboriginal of the
tropics left idle quickly forget how to work
and pass away. In the good old days it took
muscular cannibal full six months to chop out
with primitive stone implements his log canoe.
In New Zealand the most expert wood carvers were
employed for years at stretch fashionng with
stone hatchets the headpiece for a war canoe.
In every South Sea village the sound of the
women beating out tapa cloth heard from
morning till night but nowadays ali these things
are done in twinkng by machinery in civilized
lands sold to the South Sea Islanders for the
cocoanuts they pick up under the trees There
is no further incentive for them to work. nature
seems to say to them, Then why liye?" Civiliza-
ton has clothed the savage and robbed him Of
his hardicrafts but it has not yet succeeded in
making him work for the white man, as the white
man wishes him to work.
IL the good old days of the great king Kane
hameha. ninety odd years ago. every
Hawaiian man was a warrior, skilled in the con-
structon Of artistic clubs and double canoes
almost as large as modern ships. The women
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-07-05
ALMOST FRANTIC WITH
ITCHING ECZEMA

Eight years ago l got eczema all
over my hands, My fingers fairly bled
and it itched until it almost drove me
frantic. The eruption began with
itching under the skin. 1t spread fast
from between the fingers around the
nails and all over the whole hands. /
got pair of rubber gloves in order to
wash dishes. Then it spread all over
the left side of my chest. A fine doc
tor treated the trouble two weeks, but
did me no good. l cried night and
day. Then l decided to try Cuticura
Soap and Ointment but without much
hope as | had gone so long. There
was a marked change the second day,
and so on until l was entirely cured.
The Cuticura Soap we have always
kept in our home, and we decided
after that lesson that it is a cheap
soap in price and the very best in
quality. My husband will use no other
soap in his shaving mug" (Signed)
Mrs. G.. A. Selby, Redonda Beach,
Cal, Jan. Is, 1911. Although Cuticura
Soap and Ointment are sold by drug
gists and dealers everywhere, a sam.
pie of each, with 32-page book, will
be mailed free on application to
"Cuticura," Dept. l., Boston.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-07-05

What made the Quaker face? Not a broad
brimmed hat or a gray bonnet as the fippant as
sert. Costume will not make it, as you may prove
for yourself at the next masquerade. In part, it
was the mysticism, the reserve and the selI-re-
lance of the Quaker mind These things were
the very essence of the society, and they led 10
a suhconscious command to be silent, to be calm,
to hide the emotions Of the too often reDelnous
heart, which in turn helped to mold the faces one
sees in the portraits and among the Frlends sui
left who belong to the old rule
1t used to be said in our Quaker town that one
could tell by their manners the children VINO had
been sent to the Friends school, because once a
week in meeting they had to sit for an hour IN
perfect quiet Think of family, of community
where the heart put under discipline Tor lie!
But this is not all, for have left out the causes
which were chiefly responsible for the most charm
ing element of the features of the old Frlends-an
enduring peace. There have been unpeacetul
Quakers and unpeaceful Quarkeresses. More than
one member of our meeting. so am told, stamped
out of First Day service and slammed the door pc
hind them when the unorthodox Hfcksites began
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-07-05
Peace Made The Quaker Face


their preaching. | have card that one of our an
cestresses was a scold, and there Cousin
Amelia who used to shake her finger at an OBJ
stinate driver when he refused to uncheck his
horse and say: Just wait till thee gets to the
next world Then thee'll see what will happen!
AS have remarked, the Quaker project was not
always successful. But for once popular opinion
is quite right-the Quaker face, particularly the
Quaker womans face, was transfused with peace
Is it not natural? Where could be found the
worlds sweet inn from pain and wear1some tur
moil" if not in the older communities of Friends
communities in which prudence and self-control
kept away poverty; where not only war, but strife
also and civil and domestic discord, were banned
so explicitly that it was forbidden to decide by ma
jorities at meeting; where rivalry in dress and in
station were restrained far fallibe human
nature would permit? How could peace fail to be
resident in a society which believed that God was
not in his heaven, but among us, and that as long
as one lived without aectation did the daily TASK
kept the heart tender and the body pure, all was
right with the world?-Henry Seide Candy, in the
Century Magazine.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-07-05
Mzz2JE W0z9uA MER MZzz wNyA-zD RN

but all over the South Seas the handicraft Of the
native workmen is becoming more and more a
rarity to be snapped up for preservation in the
worlds great museums
In New Zealand it is penal ofense to attempt
to export bit of Maori carving, no living Maori
may be employed upon bit of native art work
for a foreigner. matter what the price offered
the workman may be, he must sell to the gov
eminent. In the New Hebrdes, wood carving ig
all but lost art Today in the native villages,
in the home of a chief where the old fgree
woodwork dividing the hut in two rooms still
stands, only the very Oldest workers in the vii
lagos can repair it properly. Where there are no
old men, clumsy patchwork is made of it, and
for the young men, they know nothing what
ever of the art. Practically it has already died
out.
| had seen the Pandanus tree growing in
Hawaii, | have even sat down and watched the
Hawaiians who, in spite of their childhood spent
in the public schools still preserve the art of mat
making and seated upon the flooring of their
modern piazzas, their legs under them, keep their
fingers busy with the long strips of leaves that
some one else has dried and cured for them. 1t
was not until had spent some time among tho
Fijians that met those who collect their own
leaves and follow the process of mat making from
start to finish.
The womans work in the South Seas is to help
the He builds the canoe, she helps to pad
die it; she creates pottery, he takes it to mar
ket; he climbs to cut down the ripened cocoanut
she weaves the baskets that carry the dried
kernel or copra to the trader. If tapa is to be
made the man helps to gather the bark. And so
it goes, the South Sea island woman has nearly
everywhere in the Pacific achieved her enamel
patton owns her sewing machine and bids
cheerful "kofa" (farewell) to the industries at
which her mother artist. She has attained
equality with man. but the world has lost some
thing that she might gain everything.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-07-05
DUBIOUS
About What Her Husband Would Say.

A Mich. woman tried Postum be-
cause coffee disagreed with her and
her husband Tea is just as harm
full as coffee because it contains caf-
feine-the same drug found in COT
fee. She writes:
My husband was sick for three
years with catarrh Of the bladder and
palpitation of the heart, caused by
coffee. Was unable to work at all
and in bed part of the time.
4 had stomach trouble, was veal:
and fretful so l could not attend t,
my housework-both of us using cof-
fee all the time and not realizing il
was harmful.
"One morning the grocer's wits
said she believed coffee was the cause,
eof our trouble and advised Postum. /
took it home rather dubious what my
husband would say-he was fond OF
coffee.
But took coffee right off the table
and we haven't used cup of it since,
You should have seen the change il
us, and now my husband never com
plains of heart palpitation any more,
My stomach trouble went away in two
weeks after l began Postum. Ny chill.
dren love it, and it does them good.
which can't be said of coffee.
"A lady visited US who was usually
half sick. / told her I'd make her a
cup CT Postum. She said it was taste
less stuff, but she watched me make
it, boiling it thoroughly for Is minutes,
and When done, she said it was SPLEEN
did. Long boiling brings out the fla
vor and food quality" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, THE Road to Wellville."
Ever read the nbove lettere A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-07-05

cess to the box containing them, it had
been found impossible to discover the
culprit. Whether the rajah dismissed
his retinue or put them to death on
suspicion. the thefts continued with
unbroken regularity.
In his perplexity and distress the
raiah thought at the famous firm in
London He wanted to catch the thief
besides preserving his jewels.
The rajah's order was for an ex-
ceedingly complicated lock. He want
ed a safe fitted with eight different
keys. one for each of his servants
and one for hi1 self, A piece of glass
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-07-05

wove some of the most
wonderful feather robes
ever worn by royalty, and
to this day the few old ma
tives who still preserve
alive the art of beating
tapa cloth, turn out de-
signs the like of which is
to be found nowhere else
in the Pacific, real works
of art, while the few Ha-
waiian mats that are still
woven rank above any
made in the South Seas.
Modern aniline dyes have
lightened the labors, of
the Hawaiian remnant Of
native cloth makers, but
| have many a time come
across the Fijian men and
women in their forests
working all day long with
a will digging roots and
herbs from which to ex-
tract colors. The time has
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-07-05

about eight inches square was to be
let into the front of the safe.
To carry out his wishes the LOCK
must be so constructed that upon the
opening of the safe by any particular
key the photograph Of the opener
should appear Immediately in front
of the glass. to remain there until an
other key had been inserted. Thus
it would always be possible 20 tell
who had opened the safe.
Whether this unique lock answered
it's purpose is not a matter of his
tory, but 1t was a clever DEVICE
Sunday Illustrated Magazine.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-07-05
Rather an Open Secret

A very important citizen was drawn
on a jury, week or two ago, and |
met him after he had been discharged.
He seemed to think that he was en-
titled to be on the bench, ar the very
least.
What was your verdict in that
.case?" | asked.
The defendant was unanimously
acquitted on the first ballot
Indeed? And how did you vote ?
That, sir, is one of the sacred Sc
crets of the juryroom. cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-07-05

ventive faculty of their designers, or
the technical skill of their workmen,
it was determined that the customer
should have what he wanted.
dian rajah. After the manner of dusky
potentates, he suffered from the dual
possession of dishonest servants and
magnificent gems. The gems had been
disappearing at an alarming rate. and
although only seven servants had &C.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-07-05
ASTONISHING Experience.

The whale, after parting with Jo-
nah was gazing after his retreating
form.
IF any one had told me- murmur
ed the great mammal, bitterly, that
would find man ready to jump down
my throat, | never would have swal
lowed 1t whole"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-07-05
indian Rulers Shrewd Idea Which
Taxed the Ingenuity of the First
of Experts.

British lockmakers received an order
that taxed all the ingenuity of their
experts. 1t being point Of honor
with the fira that no order, however
uselessly itSanious. shall battle the in
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-07-05

A splendid and highly recommended
remedy for tired, weak, infamed eyes,
and granulated eyelids, is Paxtine An
tiseptic, at druggists, 25c a box or sent
postpaid on receipt of price by The
Paxton Toilet Co., Boston, Mass.