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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-22

one Of the younger Of the women knows
how to knit. Throughout large areas the
pride Of the housewife is great store of
preserves, dried, and picked fruits,
berries, and vegetables exists chiefly in
history, and dependence is placed mostly
upon the local store for the products Of
the cannery and the evaporation.
1t is protested that the frequently
published statement tlfat farm life has
made the women Of the farm especially
prone to insanity is calumEv. There is
no statistical authority for the assertion,
and the author of this bulletin has
endeayOred for nearly a score of Yeas to
discover the originator of the fabrication,
with indications that the irresponsible
author was for many years a popular
writer on domestic subjects.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-22

Our milliner is using a shredded
wheat buscuit for rat, am the constable
is working on the case. trying to find out
if she is violating the pure foot law.
Rev. Hanks has had a plug hat ever
since the days of James g. Blaine March
ing club and has it rugged up to take
collections in at the meetin' house.
When a feller drops a $500 nothing
happens. When quarter is dropped in
horn blows and when u penny is drop
ped in a gun goes off. All the regular
members Of the church are badly powder
burned aud look like battlescarred vet
erans. when the plug hat is passed
around among the regular congregation
Old Cap NhippIc says it sounds like the
battle Of Gettysburg.
Virtue is its own reward, especially if
Il Teller is running a seven column paper
in one column town.
I'd hate to see a lady chaW tobacco or
smoke pipe, but, by crackpy! I'd rather
see 'em doing that tn IN kissing poodle
dogs.
Amariah TilsOn, our talented and
versatile barber, adyertises his shop for
sale cheap and will locate permanently
in some other midst.
A base drum and "A Politician amt no
good without wind.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-22
Into The Shadows

Tide funeral of Mrs. Katherine Capelle
took Place Tuesday afternoon from the
residence If Herman G.. Block Services
were held in ST. Luke's church at 2
O'Clock, the Rev. I'll. SterZ officiating.
Mrs. CapeIle was a native of SaXony.
Germany, where she was born May r.,
1888. She came to this country when II
young lady and after her marriage set
tied iii WatertoWn where she resided for
the past thirty five years. Her husband
preceded her to the grave more than
thirty wears ago. She is rurVived b, nine
children: George Krebs, MayvlIe; Mrs
Henry Peters, Mrs. Il. &. Block, Water
town; Ernst Krebs, Antioch, Cali. Simon
Capelle. Larium, Mich; Mrs. Chirles
Ziilman. Mi WaukeG; Mrs. G.. f. Allen,
Vancouver, B. c.; Max CapelIe, Chicago;
twenty-five grandchildren and twelve
great-grand chidI ell also survive. WheD
sons-inIaw speak atfectionateIy Of
m0therin-Iaw, it is evident that she il
good woman and has a place in the
hearts Of all.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-22
Washington Letter.
Washington, D. c., Nov. Is, 1912
Democratic Discussions.

Washington, D. c., Nov. Is, 1912
Democratic Discussions.
The Democrats are now beginning to
have their troubles and divisions which
have been SO disastrous to the Republic
cans in the past and the recent campaign.
1t is now certain that the Democrats
will not only have the presidency and
the House but the Senate as well.
They stand pledged to progressive legis-
lati0n and when they reOrganize tt e
Senate, Senator Simmons who is the
ranking member on the committee of
Finance for the craftsmanship which is
The important committee ia the Senate
and will control the tariff legislation, is
"standpatter" and reactiOnary. How
the DemOcats can make that committee
a progressive with Simmons chairman
is the problem now confronting them.
Mr.. Bryan is anxious to have Senator
Gore, Of Okla, made chairman Of that
Committee as he is in hearty accord
with the views of Mr.. Bryan and PreSi-
dent-e1ect Wilson. 1t il not thought
however that Senatorial courtesy viii
permit Gore to take precedence in this
matter notwithstanding the wishes of
Bryan. Wilson or anyone else. 1t is very
evident however from utteranceS Of
Wilson that he does not intend to have
the tariff so radically revised as to cause
hitch or depression in business which
now looks very promising
DEMOCRATIC LUCK.
The Democrats have certainly been
enjoying most unusually good luck dur
ing the past few years They now come
into power with the biggest crop which
this country has ever produced and which
the Department. of Agricultural esti-
mates is worth more than ten billions of
dollars. At least one tenth Of this crop
will be shipped abroad which will bring
into this country one billion of dollars
in "c0Id cash" which will be a great
stimulation to all business and indust
rles and which 'insures prosperity of The
country for at least year and half.
| REPUBLICAN OUTLOOK HOPEFUL.
Now that the returns are all in and
have been carefully analized the fact
stands out that if the Republicans had
| but one candidate a progressive they
would have sweep the country as the
combined republican vote which Was
given to Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft was
far greater than that received by Mr.
| Wilson. S the simple fact remains that
when the republican party gets together
on common grounds they will be irwin
cibe as heretofore.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-22
The P6rilS of the Republic.

Judge Jenkins in lecture to the
Marquette University Law students
said in part:
The majority does not possess un-
linn tied power" said Judge Jenkins.
1T is merely an organic part Of the
state, and its powers are as we'll defined
in the cOnstiti0n as those Of the judici-
airy, the executive AMI the legislature.
The rule Of the ority is without con.
science, because the individual regards
himself merely as the ninety milliOnth
part Of the public conscience.
"POitical salvation viii not come with
a change of po itical leadership in G v
ernmant. 1t will not come until the
people acquire reverence for law and or
der and true sense Of morality. Politics
today are regarded as war, with offices
as spOiIs for the yictOrs.
Grave apprehension may be felt for
the future if The public conscience b.
not aroused TO greater sense OF moral
duty. The people have right TO deter
mine the form of government, but the
sovereign power resides In the constitu-
ton, beyond the reach Of the majority,
and sacred allegiance is dne to the con-
stituti0n as being the sovereign power
of the state"
THAT our material success uling the
laot century is unprecedented in the
history of nations, but unless moral vir-
tue and high ideals are cultivated, we
are III danger Of becoming mere ciVi-
liZed animals"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-22
And Coarse Pores Always Re-
pulSive.
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moves these Homely Spots
The Greatest Remedy in
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Get "YAAK" Specially

Have you ever seen so many careless people
with sallow rough faces, scraggy, hollow cheeks;
street cars in the stores, and at social gather
ings? They ought to know that their friends
turn from them in disgust.
FreckleS and coarse pores are an ugly sight in
society and business life Refined folks usually
avoid meeting those with such repulSive looks.
The very worst cases of pimples blackheads
and blotchy rash, frecl<les and coarse pores can
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Apply little at night. and every morning; you
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II your facial blemiShes of long standing, it
is best that you get the larger size box You will
surely need it for necessary results. Beware of
substitutes, don't listen to it, but demand the
'Yaak" special. Ask the druggists in town for
it, they get it from the wholesaler. Or else we
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without delay in your own town, or else
any Of the above Chicago firms will ship
at once.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-22

structed at a cost of $1,OOO,OOO
and after work extending over sew
en- years The entire tract of
land included in the new yards covers
772.36 acres of which 250 acres is now
covered by tracks. There are four sep
arate sets of tracks, Yard No. 1 in
Guiding 14S9 miles Yard No. 2, 1867
miles: Yard No. 3, 1898 miles and Yard
No. 4, 9.71 miles, with three miles Of
repair track. 3.91 miles of engine house
leads and 1.01 miles connecting with
the Indiana Harbor Belt, the completed
new yards comprise 5616 miles of
track, with a total capacity of 2,750
freight cars.
Q An immense round house with So
locomotive stalls is the central point
of the immense group of buildings COM
pleting the equipment of the yards.
This affords entire independence of the
round house at Fortieth Street which
now can be used entirely for motive
power moving into the city. IN addi-
tion to the round house there is large
coaling plant of the bucket hoist type,
sanding plant, engine hostler's house,
pen stocks and a clinker pit with de
pressed tracks by means of which Gin
derS from the engines may be dumped
directly into freight cars.
An engineers and firemen's building
and a complete hotel and lunch room
provide elaborate facilities for the COM
fort of the railroads employees. I'm
mense store houses. oil houses. steel
water tanks and large office. building
and many other structures are included
also in the extensive array of new
buildings. The company is constructing
a great viaduct across the entire yard
to carry the Wolf road across the
tracks. removing all danger to vehicles
and pedestrians.
C. & n. W. Ry. freight trains are
handled to and from ProviSo. the road
crews coming to this point with inbound
cars and starting from this point with
outbound cars. Arrivals at Previso
from the north and the west are in the
morning, and departures for the north
and the west are in the evening.
Where interchange with eastern
southern or other western carriers is
made through the medium of the Indi-
ana Harbor Belt Railway the service OF
the Indiana Harbor Belt is such that
the arrivals from the north or west in
INC hioAAihS are udHuleu III aulple l1Lno
for connection with departing trains
for eastern, southern or western lines
which always leave in the evening
Where business moves from points in
the east or south TO the west or to the
north a similar schedule is in effect
|, making it possible in each and every
instance to transfer loaded cars from
one carrier to another carrier, effectine
. such interchange in such a way thai
the first connection is always possible
thereby insuring between points in the
east and the south and territory in tht
north and the west continuous schedule
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-22

sWhat is probably the most complete
equipment possessed by any railroad
for the handling and interchange of
freight about a great center of traffic
has Just been finished by the Chicago
and North Western Railway near Chi
cago. Announcement has just been
made by the railroad that its immense
additions to yard capacity at Proviso
and the Des PLANES Valley Line, the
North Westerns belt line extending
about the city to the north, have been
completed Coming after the opening
of the North Westerns new passenger
terminal in Chicago, completion of this
immense equipment for handling freight
gives the Chicago and North Western
Ry. facilities unsurpassed anywhere
else, for the handling of all kinds of
traffic
The new Des PLANES Valley Line
reaches from ProviSo, H., point five
and one-half miles west of the city
limits on the main line between Chi
cago and Omaha, nOrthward to Des
PLANES, on the Wisconsin Division, be-
tween Chicago and Madison, and then
northeastward to a point on the Chi
eago-Milwaukee Line Just south Of
and one-half miles.
At Proviso this new line connects
with the Indiana Harbor Belt Rail-
road, Jointly owned by the North West
ern and the New York Central Lines
The North Western thus has practically
under its own control belt line ex-
tending from point on Lake Michi-
gan twenty miles north of Chicago to
T al- \TinhiraY1
south of Chicago crossing and inter-
sectfng without exceptions every rail-
road that enters the city. Not only
that. but this gives the North Western
in reality two belt lines about the city,
the first being that extending from
Fortieth Street through Mayfair to
meet the Milwaukee Division at Evans
ton.
The Des PLANES Valley Railroad is
heavily constructed throughout with
double tracks and is safeguarded with
a complete system of automatic bridge
safety block signals. The road is sol
idly ballasted with gravel. By its
means the railroad will be enabled to
relieve Chicago of an immense tonnage
of freight not destined for this center
but which heretofore has had to move
through the city. Traffic congestion
within the city thus will be greatly les
sened. Freight coming from the north
destined for the west will move about
the new belt line and start westward
from Proviso., Likewise freight com
ing from the west and destined for the
north will turn northward at Proviso
avoiding the delays incident to switch
ing in the congested yards within the
city.
To make this possible the complete
terminal, interchange and switching IA
6hties at Proviso have been con
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-22

month; the value Of the stabling fOI
the IabOrer's horse, if he had one, was
estimated to be 45 cents to 81 per month
and the laundry service for the labOrer
was estimated to range from 70 cents tC
81 a month.
The increase in the purchasing power
in the wage rates OF farm labOrers as
compared with that Of workingmen was
ascertained by the Bureau of Labor. The
purchasing power cf wages, in terms of
retail prices of food from 1890 to 1893,
is regarded as being 1000. For the peri
Oh 1899 to 1907, the purchasing power in
the case Of wOrkingmen increased only
to 101.4, but, in the case of farm labOrers,
the purchasing power Of wages per
month in hiring by the year and season
increased to 110.1; the purchasing power
of day rates Of wages for harvest work
increased to 111.5, and of day rates for
other than harvest work to 1852. Not
withstanding the increase of retail
prices Of food, the rates of wages Offarm
labor have Increased in degrees suffici-
ent to make as a new result a subStan-
tiaI rate of increase.
The wages Of women for domestic
labor on farms receives attention. This
subject was first investigated in 1902.
In hiring by the season, the wage rates
, Of the domestic labor Of women on the
farm are higher than in hiring by the
year. The monthly rate by the season
was 1911 in 1902; $11.95 in 1905; and
$l202 in 1909 The Western division of
States has an average rate far above the
average for the United States in 1909
namely, s21 80; the rates for the North
Atlantic and North Central divisions are
little above the national average, while
in the South Central division the aver
age is 1892; and in the South Atlantic
division, S. %. The foregoing rates are
with board.
When the domestic labor of women
was employed by the day, the day rate OF
wages was 81 cents in 1902; 76 cents in
1906; and II cents in 1909.
The reIort declares that in farm
household matters the situation is acute
with regard to the supply of hired labor
Country girls as well as city girls seem
to regard household labor for hire as
undesirable. Joined with this fact is the
other one that the women Of the farm
er's family are neither able or willing
80 repeat the manual labor perform
anceS 0f their grandmOthers on the
farm. Besides this, the farmers stand
ard of living has risen, certainly on the
medium said better sort u farms IN the
North and West; and in perceptible de-
gree the women of the farmers family
have engaged in social functions which
are beginning to be incompatible with
the performances of household labor
without the aid of servant. The social
obligations undertaken by them are for
the Grange, the wOmen's clubs, the
Maccabe es, the WOmans Christian Tenn
perance Union, the local church, the
farmers clubs, and list that might be
much extended.
The Old-time domestic industries are
all but forgotten. The women of the
farm make no more soap, candles, or lye
and so Oh with long list of domestic
products of former days; it IS rare that
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-22
Remembers Home City.

The Webster school has been presented
with two fine paintings by Henry Fuer-
mann the Chicago artist, a former resi-
dent of this city who does not forget his
home city, as has been evidenced hereto
fore by gifts of paintings. The pictures
were on exhibition several days IN the
show window of the jewelry store of W.
d. SprOesser & Co.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-22
VOLUME LII
Wages of Farm Labor.

The wages Of farm labor is the sub
Ject Of bulletin recently issued by the
L. 5. Department Of Agriculture. 1t was
prepared by direction Of Secretary Will
son by George X. Holmes, Chief Of the
Diylson Of Production and Distribution.
Ii contains the details Of the latest OF
series Of 10 investigations covering
period Of Al years, and a summary OF the
preceding Investigations is included III
the bulletin.
In contracts of hiring by the year,
with board. the wage rates of men per
month increased from $1009 in 1866
to $18.05 in 1909, or gain Of 1873 per
cent. The gain from 1890 to 1909 was
35.8 per cent.
In contracts Of hiring by the season,
with board, the wage rates Of men per
month increased from $1269 in 1866 to
s2O.80 IN 1909, or 63 8 per cent.
The wage rates of men per day, with
hoard, for day labor, were ascertained
throughout the period, and were found
to increase from $l.04 for harvest work
in 1866 TO 81 43 In 1909, or 37.5per cent.
From 1890 to 1909 the increase was %. A
per cent, and from 1899 to 1909, 300 per
cent.
For farm labor other than harvest,
with board, the wage rates Of men per
day increased from 81 cents in 1866 to
S1.03 in 1909, or 609 per cent. The per-
centage Of incre is3 from 1890 to 1909
was 43.1, and from 1909 it was 37.3
AmOug the geographic divisions Of
States in 1909 the highest rate Of wages
per month in hiIing by the year, with
board, is found in the Western group,
where the average was $31.30. Next in
order was the North Central division
with $22 p; third in order was the North
Atlantic division with S2D.73; the South
Atlantic States had an average of $14.-
%; and 10 rest Of al was the average Of
the South Atlantic States, $13.10.
Rates of wages do not express the real
wages received by the farm laborer in
this country. Apart from The changes in
the purchasing pow # of money wages
there ara various extras that supplement
wage rates. In this inyestig .tion an
attempt was made 10 get information
with regard to the value of supplement
tary allowances. 1t appears that the ave-
rage monthly value of the dwelling, gar
den, and other appurtenanceS, the use of
which was part of the real wages paid,
without board, in 10 8, ranged from 81
70 to So, thrOi.x, ouC the lt.aited States,
and the amount when wages were paid,
with board, ranged from 81 to $3.50.
The average value Of feed for cow,
horse, swine, or poultry, per month,
ranged from Sill to So IL; the value of
pasturage for cow, horse, or swine rang
ed from 90 cents to S1.61; the value of
fire wood for family use, and the team
to haul il, ranged from $1.06 to S239;
the occasional use of team for hauling
was valued at 48 cents to S1.70. and the
occasional use of horse and buggy. prob
ably reaching as high frequency as
weekly use, range from 81 cents TO 81 81.
The estimated value of the fruit given
to the family of the labOrerS was report
cd to be worth from 80 cents to $1.64 per
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NUMBER ID

1t is our endeavOr to make
every one feel at home in this
bank, however small his de-
poslts. Business and Profess
sional men and especially
FARMERS
will find
it to their decided advantage to
do their BANKING BUSINESS
WITH THIS BANK.
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Suffer Heavy Loss.

The pl mt Of the Van Camp Packing
company at indianapolis was partially
burned Saturday, causing loss esti-
mated at S4u0,O0O. The loss is fully Gov
errd by Insurance. The fire throws Oui
of employment about l POO persons. The
piNut will be rebuilt and the work con
tiuup.
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School Board Convention,

The Aun Ial Convention Of he school
officers Of Dodge County viii he held III
the Court House. in the city Of juneau
Oh aOnday, Decembe 2nG, 1912.
All school officers are requested tC
attend this meeting. School Clerks
should be present, as required by law
An interesting program will be offered
and an opportunity Will be gwen f0l
free discussion Of school questions.
Meeting called to order at II o'cl ck
a. I'D.
John Kelley, c.. Supf.
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Presented with Cold Watch

M. Davy, the manager of the Goslings,
our home baseball team and pennant
testimonial Of the members of the team
for his splendid work during the past
season in making The team the best in
the league.
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must Pay Cash.

The jefferson county board Of Super
providing that county road taxes here
after shall be paid in cash. Albert lI0ge
super visor for the Second ward in this
city voted against the resolution which
the farmer members Of board being
against the same