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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-04-11
AneIt the Common Schools.

The editor of one of our valuable
exchanges is very much disgrunt-
led because Charles P. Cary was
reelected TO succeed himself as
superintendent of public instruc-
ton. He holds Mr.. Cary respon-
sible for the conditions effecting
our common or rural schools, for
getting, that almost as much IS
spent on the state university where
educational advantages are enjoyed
by less than one-half of one per
cent of the young people of the
state as on all the high and COM
mon schools Of the state where oo12
per cent of the young people OF the
state will receive the only educa-
ton they will obtain, unless they
go to some of the minor educational
institutions. The fact is, that Mr..
Cary has antagonized that corpora
ton known as the state university
which has been a power III the state
for the past ten years or more, IN
shaping our politics, and Mr.. Cary
is to be commended for working
a desperate handicap, the opposi-
ton of strong faction which has
made every political consideration
bend to the demands of the univer-
sity.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-04-11
SCENE FROM MUTT AND JEFF
At Turner Opera House Next Sunday Matinee and evening

in his despair that Involuntary glance
sent thrill through him. Mary still
cared, then, even as he cared; he
read her soul Alright; there was no
doubling A little light cleaned
through the dark clouds that hung
over him. Even though that were
their last meeting, what matter, SO
long as Mary loved him?
He forced his way through the
screaming, frantic women, pushing
them back as gently as was possible.
and made his way through the guards
to The pit head. The elevator was
just emerging out of the cavernous
gloom. OF the ten volunteers, but
seven had returned; they brought five
men with them-fve living men But
there was no Sturgis there
His demands elected no informa-
ton. Nobody had seen Sturgis.
Four of the victims and three of
the volunteers still remained below.
In that gloomy, subteYranean world,
disorganized by the fact that the ex-
plosion had occurred at closing time,
when all were making for the mouth
Of the shaft, it was each for himself.
None knew where his. comrade lay
AS the elevator waited at the en-
trance Pascoe and half dozen more
volunteers climbed in. The button
was pressed and the cage shot toward
the earth.
1t halted where the slope ceased,
and the men disappeared in the gloom,
shouting to one another Pascoe did
not hear them. They knew the scene
of the accident-but he was bent upon
a single quest. He ran lightly over
the masses of fallen slate and shale
which choked the entrance to Sturgis'
new heading, and then, crouching,
made his way cautiously under the
overhanging, untimbered rocks. Far
behind him tiny electric lights twink
led, a cluster of fairy lamps, but their
light did not penetrate into these sub
terranean recesses. Sometimes Pas
coe, advancing now at q snaiPs pace,
with arms outstretched, collided with
boulders, sharp of edge and jagged
of tooth, which bruised and cut him;
then again he was climbing upon
masses of disrupted cliff, blasted by
Sturgis and not yet removed from the
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the bitter quarrel arose which had de-
stroyed their happiness. The cause
was trivial, as often happens, but the
quarrel became the harsher Words
passed-and Mary threw the ring into
Pascoe's face.
Never come back to me-" she said
as she turned away. She waited for
him to return, but John Pascoe never
did. He had the Welsh obstinacy in
his nature, which makes mountains
of molehills. Each waited for the 9th
er's advances. After three months
Mary married VIII Sturgis, capable,
middle-aged contract miner. He was
kind, when sober, but he was seldom
that. John had heard sinister de-
scriptions of their relationship. He
had done all but strike her; and if
he had not done that, it was because
he knew that the first blow would
never be repeated.
Mary would have left him long
since. She could not bear to think
that John would knew how disastrous
her adventure had been. She hid her
wounds and passed, in the eyes of her
little world, as a docile, submissive
wife
John Pascoe knew the Pennyman
mine like book, for he had toiled in
it's multitudinous galleries for years
before old Pennyman, struck by his
build and air of refinement, had made
him one of the guards privileged
post He seldom met Sturgis.
rs my husband down there?" Mary
had asked, and John Pascoe was ST.
lent. He bowed his head in affrma-
ton.
There's the elevator bell,' he ex-
claimed suddenly. "The volunteers
must be coming up with the bodies
mean the survivors" he said clum-
silly. mo doubt your husband is
among them, Mrs. Sturgis. VIII you
wait here while / go and see?"
For an instant her eyes met his,
and he saw the agony in them. Even
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-04-11
'MARY'S FIRST LOVE
Accident in a Mine Is the Means
of Settling a Lovers
Quarrel.
BY n. M. EGBERT,

The changing bell had reused the
countryside. It was no unaccustomed
sound, the deep, dull reverberations
which called the men to work in the
gray hours of morning, struck sharp
ly for the noon recess, and tolled more
soberly-as it seemed-at six, when
the days toll was over. But those
three sharp staccato calls, the seconds
of silence, and again the three braZen
alarms meant only one thing: There
had been an accident at the mine.
1t had been a fancy of old Penny
man to place bell at the pit head
in place Of the accustomed whistle
perhaps because, in that overcrowded
factory and mining region, whistles
were too plentiful to be readily dis
tinguishable. But for five years the
fore had the three threatening calls
resounded
Nine men cut off by fire Damp"
ran the word, and everyone knew
what that meant Volunteers. were
already below, searching among the
galleries for the unconscious Gictims
of that deadly outpour Of asphyxiat-
ing gases from the clefts and seams.
One woman stood apart from the
rest; unlike the rest, too, she had no
child. She was an American, barely
thirty, one would have said; she stood
trembling, but with averted eyes. She
had no wish to look down into that
inferno One of the guards ap-
preached her. He had not seen her
for three years.
"You, Mary!" he stammered awk-
wardly. "Why don't you go home?
Everything will come out right" 4
She raised her haunted eyes to his.
John, is my-my husband down
there?" she asked quietly, and he
bowed his head.
Three years before John PasCoe
and Mary Evans had been sweet
hearts. Their marriage day had been
set, even the house furnished. when
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irregular gallery.
Then, just as Pascoe found the mar
rowing tunnel too small to permit fur
Their progress, he heard a feeble an
swer TO his cry. He turned and CROPPED
his way toward the source of it,
stumbled over body, and found him
self kneeling at Sturgis' side.
THANK God" he shouted with the
joy that comes to all men who are
given the saving of human life. At
that moment he forgot Mary, forgot
the years of slow cruelty, the useless
ness of the man lying at his feet,
whose death would give back the joy
Of living to both of them. Are you
hurt, Sturgis?" he shouted
my legs are broken, I Think the
miner answered. Somebody shouted
fire damp at the end of the gallery,
and I ran out to see. l passed near
somebody's fuse. The dog had left it
burning, and taken to his heels. /
got the charge and the rock. Who are
you?"
Pascoe did not reply to this ques-
ton. I'm going to hoist you on my
back" he said. Get your arms
round my neck and bend your head
to the level of mine, to avoid bump
ing. Ready? Now"
Sturgis groaned as Pascoe raised
him, and his legs trailed useleSsly.
Pascoe forbore to touch them; thus
the labor was almost intolerable. He
fought his way almost by inches out
of that inferno until the twinkling
lights in the distance began to sepa-
rate and the central gallery ap-
peared.
He was almost upon it when sud
denly his tongue seemed to fill his
. throat; he could not breathe. He
heard the man on his back cry once
and begin choking. Pascoe knew
well what had happened. They had
run into stratum of fire damp, which
had filtered oEt of it's gallery into the
central passage.
Purple in the face, unable to draw
a breath, he staggered on with an eff
fort almost superhuman. He felt his
lungs bursting; then all at once he
was drawing in great gasps of air
again. and the distant shaft appeared,
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-04-11

a gIlmmering tnIng, gnosuy IN the
obscurity.
He did not dare set Sturgis down,
for the deadly fire damp might be
upon them at any moment again; be-
sides, the pain in his injured legs
would become intolerable with further
handling. He heard the mans quick,
sharp intakes of breath and stumbled
onward He had covered thirty PAGES
when the fire damp was upon him
again.
He felt his. senses leaving him.
The lights III the distance changed into
swinging lanterns He knew that he
could go no further. Very gently he
fell to his knees, letting Sturgis' body
slide off his back upon the ground.
His last thoughts would be of Mary;
he thanked God that he had been per-
mitted to see her once again.
! He thought he heard a distant call,
and tried to shout, but his mouth
only opened aimlessly. Not a sound
came from his closed air-passages.
But it was at that moment that
fresh body of volunteers swung into
the gallery; at the same moment, too,
one of those faint STRINGS of air
which take the place of wind in the
mines, hurried the thin gas into the
heart of the workings. The newcom-
ers fell over the bodies and bore them
to the elevator. Ten minutes later
Pascoe opened his eyes on earth.
At first he could only see the strug
Cling crowd at the pit head, and then,
between the patches of moving color,
he made out an interposing figure
that bent over him. He looked up, to
see Marys face, and all at once he
remembered.
Where is he?" he cried, struggling
to rise, but helpless against her gen
tie pressure. Il found him, Mary; /
dragged him to the central gallery.
He must be near!"
Hush, John!" said Mary. Even
now her face was emotionless. She
showed neither sorrow nor joy. But
| in her eyes he saw that light again
and his being thrilled in response to
It.
"Whsre is he?" he cried eagerly. 81
must go back if he has not been res
cued. L"
"He is here" Mary answered. ''He
| is dead, John"
Then he knew why she had neither
laughed nor wept
Copyright, 1913, by w. G. Chapnfan.S
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-04-11
THOUGHTS BY THE WAY

1t is simply deplorable, that af-
ter long run of big crops and high
prices, which have made the farm
ers rich, that it is necessary a law
should be enacted to create a board
or commission to help them market
their crops. Just as if the farmers
did not know enough to attend to
their own business and get all their
produce is worth. Gov. McGovern
has become very much interested
all at ance in the horny handed
sons of the soil' who ride in auto
mobiles, live on the best in the
land and have bank accounts. His
solicitude for them Just at this time
makes them laugh at his foolish
ness.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-04-11

Big corporations always retrench
at the bottom and never at the top,
for reduction of the dividends
would lessen the value Of it's stock.
1t is always those who toll with
head or hands, that must suffer,
while the stockholders can revel in
luxury, travel around the country
like nabobs and live like lords.
Should this country experience a
financial crisis, which is not i'm
probable, Judging from indications
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-04-11

The President is entitled to great
praise for the brevity of his mes
sage to congress. He said good
deal in a few words and they were
to the point. The reader was not
forced to wade through column af-
ter column of slush to get at the
gist of his ideas and recommended
tons.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-04-11

Assemblyman A. E. Frederick in
an argument before the committee
on public welfare Tuesday in sup
port of his bill for the creating of
commission on public morals,
called the police force of the state
joke. He probably was laboring
under the delusion, that it was the
duty of a police force to look after
the morals of the citizens and that
they should be the judges as to
what is moral and that which is
immoral. Such a commission is
about as necessary as one to look
after the comfort of dogs during
flea time. Out of the hundreds of
bills which have been introduced
during the present session of the
legislature, not to exceed fifty had
any merit.
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Pointed Paragraphs.

Tomatoes and floods teach that
wealth is the most fragile thing on
earth.
1t is getting so that the wol Id is
just as good after Lent as it was
before Lent.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-04-11
Heroes were born in every. section

Heroes were born in every, section
OF the flood stricken region.
1t cost Judge Golf of West Vir-
ginia, only five cents to becme a
Senator. Isn't that enough to
make our Uncle Ike Stephenson
want to change his legal residence?
Live according to your incoms
and the outcome Will be more hap
Ply.
One way to raise the dust, is to
get busy with the carpet beaten.
Spring gowns, we learn will have
Balkan touch; slashed up in the
front, gored behind and cut bias,
no doubt.
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pointing in that direction, the la
boring and producing classes can
thank God that they brought the
condition upon themselves by lis
ening to, and being influenced po-
litically by demagogues drawing
good salaries.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-04-11

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400 Main st. WatertOwn

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prices. Our motto: "MOre Goods for
Less Money at the Fair"
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AT THE CHURCHES
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

First Church of Christ, Scientist. SER
vice held every Sunday at 1880 a. m.
subieet-"Are Sin, Disease and Death
Real
testimonial meeting Wednesday even
ing at 800 o'clock. All cordially invited
TO these meetings. Sunday school i'm
mediately following morning service.
Readlngroom, cor. Fifth and Spring
streets, open every afternoon, except
Sunday from 2:30 until i:3O O'clock.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-04-11

FOR SALE-A scholarship in the In
ternatlonal Correspondence School,
Scranton, Penn, and scholarship in
the Williams Business College, Milwaukee.
Scholarships cost $4,000 each and will
be sold for less than half price. INQUIRE
at the Leader office, Watertown. Wis.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-04-11
Hominy Cakes.

Two cups of cold, boiled hominy.
one cup of flour, one quart of milk,
three well beaten eggs, one teaspoon
of salt. Mix thoroughly and bake
at once.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-04-11

The C.E. at $50 p. M
Leader, Mrs. n. Carter Daniel.
Topic; Il Can Do All Things"
Sololst Miss Valetta Lehman.
Chufeh Service at 80 p. m
Address by DR.. c. f. Connolly of Ply
mouth Church Milwaukee.
Entitled; : Optimism.
spring Fair, April 18th, 7;3O p. m.
Admission 10 cents.
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A fool Judge in Philadelphia,
whose name has escaped US, re-
Gently decided that a mother, in
the eyes OF the law, isn't a person.
The case came up under the act
empowering counties to allow cash
to a pers N for the custody and
care of dependent children. A
mother is person when taking the
census, when guilty of an infrac-
ton of the law, and The mother of
children is certainly a person and
not an animal as the ruling of the
learned Judge would indicate. 1t
is just such decisions as the above
that bring the bench into ridicuie
and contempt. Good law is based
on absolute justice; and Judge is
always safe in leaning a long way
toward justice in his rulings.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-04-11

The people in this state, in fact
the nation, have been surfeited
with so-called reform for the past
ten or twelve years, and yet the
demagogues are claiming that the
country is in a frightful condition;
from which the inference must be
drawn, that reform" has been a
failure. In spite of demands for
reforms which do not reform, the
people are becoming rich and en-
joylng comforts never dreamed of,
and by reason of the calamity howl
of demagogues, drawing good sal
aries, the people are made dissatis-
fed with the present condition.
The reform most needed at this
time, is the squelching of the dem
agogues who are trying to keep
themselves at the front by preach
ing the doctrine of discomfort.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-11-07
PERSONAL
Comings and Goings Of Local
People and Others

W q. FORSTER general superin
iendeut % the q a g. railroad. Is
over from Goldfiad
JOSEPH JOsEPHs. president Of
the MacNamara Mining company. is
up on his regular visit to that prop
erty.
MRS W. e HARDING left this
morning for san Francisco, where
she goes for the benefit Of her
health.
JOE McEACHEN, travelling sales
man, came in this morning from
Reno.
JOHN G. KlRCHEN. manager of
the Tonopah Extension, who has
been in Carson CITY for the last few
days, returned this morning
MRS. FRANK CAyANAGH and
daughter, Mary, are back from San
Diego and Coronado Beach where
they spent from the last 18th of
June.
c. A. JUMPER, minwright now
employed at the Keane Wonder. pass
ed through Tonopah this morning for
Carson City, where he is a witness in
the federal court in a damage suit.
CHARLES MILLER, who left here
for San Francisco two months ago to
have a toe amputated at Lanes hos
pital to offset blood poisoning, re
turned this morning in good health
CLAUDE SMITH. first recorder Of
GoldfieId and one OF the organizers
of the old Kewanas company which
was recognized as one Of the best
prospects in that camp. is visiting in
TonOpah
w. S. JOHNSON was pulled in off
the desert last night By machine
sent out by the Consolidated Auto
company, which was notified by tele-
phone that he was stranded thirty
miles out The advice was sent in
from Spanish Springs
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-11-07
ASSESSMENT NOTICE.

RESCUE EULA MINING CON.
PANY Location Of principal place
af business, san Francisco Location
Of works, ronopah Nye County, NJ.
vada.
Notice is hereby given that at 4
meeting 81 the Board Of Directors.
held on the 18th day OF October.
1873, an assessment tNo 81 IN One
l) Cent per share was levied upon
the capital stock OF the corporation,
payable Immediately in United States
gold coin. to the Secretary, at the
office Of the company. Room PCS,
Russ Building. San Francisco Cal
Any stock upon which this assess
ment shall remain unpaid on the
25th day OF November. 1913, win be
delinquent and advertised for sale at
public auction, aud unless payment Is
made before, will be sold on MON
DAY. the Goth day OF December
1913. to pay the delinquent assess
ment, together with the cost OF ad.
yertising and expenses OF sale.
By order Of the Board OF Directors
CHARLES D. OLNEY, Secretary.
Office Room 2G5 Russ Building
san Francisco, California O2Ow4
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-11-07
FIND A CACHE
OF EXPLOSIVES
IN OLD BARN
PERCUSSION CAPS. FUSES AND
WIRE TERMINALS AMONG
GRIM RELlcs.

OAKLAND. Nov. Discovery OF
dynamite percussion caps. fuse. cleo
trio wires and terminals and switches
for discharging dynamite or nitro
glycerine. and a bunch 81 skeleton
keys in an old barn near the home
OF Edward r. Davey. 1876 Glenn ave
nue., In the Piedmont district, has
led to an investigation 81 the police
as 70 the origin Of the mysterious
cache It Is thought that the para
phernalia may have been secreted
in the barn BY a gang OF yeggmen
and safecrackers. or that it might
have been abandoned BY some Of the
dynamiters who several weeks ago
blew up the transformers and high
power wires Of the Pacific Gas and
Electric company.
The fuse. wire and caps were
found by Davey's son. Ed. who in
formed his father Of the find Davey
notified the police and Inspectors
Thomas Gallagher and H. f. E.
Green were detailed on the case this
morning. They brought the outfit 10
the city hall, where it will be closely
examined.
Neighbors state that the old shed
has been abandoned for some time
They declare they have seen no one
either entering or leaving the place
The district is near the Fortieth
street line OF the Key route. and
would be a strategic point from
which TO operate IN making overt
attempts against the Pacific Gas and
Electric company or could be used
as safe hiding place for safecraek-
ers operating in the central Oakland
district, as il could be easily reached
by two street car lines and would
also provide a speedy means Of tax
ing cover by fastening to San Fran.
cisco. Il is also a location that
would not attract attention.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-11-07
RECIPE FOR MAKING
GOOD HUSBANDS

one OF our lady subscribers. who
says she enjoys this department Of
our paper. hands US the following re-
cipe for making good husbands, which
she has tested and it worked like a
charm.
First-Be a good wife; in so doing
you win have a good influence over
hubby.
second-Treat him to kind words.
kisses and good dinners. Prepare
the dishes he likes best, if your
means will allow
Third Keep his room in order no
matter how often he scatters things
around; put hats and boots where he
win always know where to find them.
Fourth Never scold: no matter
how wet the wood or how much the
stove smokes, tell him you like it
that way; smile and go on.
Fifth Make him believe he is an
the world to you, as, indeed, he
should be Tough at his jokes, no
matter how stale.
And, last but not least. keep all his
buttons sewed on and all in their
proper places, and an his socks well
darned Then, if you don't have a
good husband, we will say that you
must have remarkably poor material
to work on.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-11-07
ADJUSTMENTS


Batisf Theattr.
al the Butler his egeuug 'he us-
aaI hiFhe'ass program Of pictures
RIn b shown. a. follows "The
Rlehtfm Heir a picture taken from
Sir Gilbert parkers story The Lane
That Has No Turning by the Edison
company The Love Theft" an Essa.
nav comedy drama; The Bensfactor,
q LubiH drama, and a vitagraph com
edy. when Glasses Are Not Glasses. %
An amusing story 81 the manner In
which a bibulous sutton tries 10 de-
ceiYe his future wife as to his habits.
Some glasses Of whiskey are left ON
his bureau before he goes to call on
the widow. with whom he Is having
dinner He sends a boy to fetch his
eyeglasses, which he has forgotten,
but tells him just glasses The
youngster comes back with the whis-