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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
FUNERAL HONORS FOR A MARE
Trotter Destroyed in Fire Is Given
Obseouies In Keeping With At
sfecSionate Regard of Owner.

Betty Green, a trotting mare de-
was given funeral honors III keeping
with her record of 2:10 and with the
affectionate regard of her owner, Will
liam H. Reichert. The body was
drawn to the grave, on the Walnut
Grove stock farm, by six blooded
youngsters, and was lowered by stable
boys The coffin was rose lined. Mr..
Reichert pronounced eulogy after
recounting the mares track achieve
mentS.
Perhaps Betty Green's terrible form
of death<aroused Mr.. Reichert's sym
pathies the more keenly, but the in
tense love of great race horse by an
owner is a primary sentiment. Maud
S. had more friends than any horse
in history. being approachable, in
quisitive and fond of contact with the
many whom Robert Bonner delighted
in taking to her paddock.
James r. Keene mourned Sysonby
as he would one of his family. This
superb runner had the admiration Of
the east without the popularity OF
Maud S., trotter and record break
er in times when trotting was the
consuming passion. Mr. Keene, who
never bet on the races, was to have
Sysonby's remains preserved but his
only monument is his unique position
among American thoroughbreds.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
TASTY AND NOT EXPENSIVE
bIes May Be Used In the Prepa-
ration Of poimas.

Here Is a way to use up your coarse,
outside leaves of head lettuce, bits OF
cold cooked mutton or veal and cold
boiled rice or even hominy grits or
spaghetti. Use equal amounts OF the
meat and rice; season to taste with
salt, pepper, onion and parsley or
little mint sauce. Moisten slightly
with some white sauce and egg yoik.
roll up In lettuce leaves or tender
young cabbage leaves, tie securely.
and cook gently for An hour in little
soup broth or water. Drain and ar
range on a dish and pour around
sauce made OF one cup OF milk, two
level texspoonfuls each OF butter and
-four, salt and pepper to taste, tea
spoonful OF minced parsley. a little
lemon juice. Never let a milk sauce
staad On the fire after adding egg and
lemon juice. When mutton or veal
is used, or even boiled beef, nice
change may be made by serving an
ordinary white sauce, adding fresh
grated and bottled horseradish instead
Of the lemon juice and egg.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
Tanbark as a Fuel.

Perhaps the most important of
waste fuels in the United States has
been spent tanbark. A rough estimate
would indicate that this material gen
Grated few years ago an amount OF
steam that would have otherwise re-
quired the yearly consumption Of
about 2 100000 tons of high grade coal.
Yet this valuable fuel was at one time
considered a mere detriment and an
expense to the leather industry 1t
was disposed of by dumping it into
rivers, filing in waste ground and by
making roads with it, often necessitat-
ing the paying out Of large sums for
its disposition. This strikingly illus
trates case of how the Improvement
of furnace converted a hitherto sup
posed combustible into a valuable
waste fuel of the auto-combustible
class, and shows how an enormous
waste was converted into an equally
great my.-Engineering Maya
zine.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
HAIR CAME OUT In PUNCHES

S13 q. Second St, Muncie, 1nd.-"My
little girl had a bad breaking out on
the scalp. 1t was little white Jumps
The pimples would break out as large
as a common pinhead all over her
head. They would break and run yell
low matter. Shesuffered nearly a year
with itching and burning. It. was sore
and itched all the time The matter
that ran from her head was very thick
did not comb her hair very often, her
head was too sore to comb it, and
when I did comb, it came out in
punches. Some nights her head itched
so bad she could not sleep.
Il tried several different soaps and
ointments, also patent medicine, but
using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment this summer after I sent for
the free samples. l used them and
they did so much good / bought cake
Of Cuticura Soap and some Cuticura
Ointment. I washed her head with
Cuticura Soap and rubbed the Cuticura
Ointment in the scalp every j.. two
weeks. A week after had washed her
head three times you could not tell she
ever had a breaking out on her head.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment also made
the hair grow beautifully" (Signed)
Mrs. Emma Patterson, Dec. 20, 1911.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept L, Boston"
Adv
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
THE LURE OF THE WEST
WESTERN CANADA ATTRACTING
THOUSANDS OF SETTLERS.

Writing on the Canadian West, an
eastern exchange truthfully says:
'"The West still calls with impera-
tive voice. To prairie and mountain,
and for the Pacific Coast, Ontario's
young men and women are attracted
by tens of thousands yearly. The
great migration has put an end to the
fear, freely expressed not many years
ago by those who knew the West from
the lakes to the farther coast of VAN
couver Island, that Canada would
some day break in two because of the
predominance of Continental European
and American settlers in the West"
This is true. While the immigra-
ton from the United States is large,
running close to 10000 year, that of
the British Isles and Continental
Europe nearly twice that number, max
ing total of 100000 per year, there
is d strong influx from Eastern Can
ada. 1t is not only into the prairie
provinces that these people go, but
many of them continue westward, the
glory Of British Columbia's great trees
agricultural valleys, where can be
grown almost all kinds of agriculture
and where fruit has already achieved
prominence. Then the vast expanse
of the plains attract hundreds of thou
sands, who at once set to work to cul-
still room, and great opportunity in
the West. The work of mans hands,
even in the cities with their record
breaking building rush, is the small.
est part of the great panorama that
is spread before the eye on journey
through the country. Nature is still
supreme, and man is still the divine
pigmy audaciously seeking to impose
his will and stamp his mark upon an
unconquered half continent.
The feature that most commends
itself in Western development today
is the "home-making spirit" The
West will find happiness in planting
trees and making gardens and build
ing schools and colleges and universi-
ties, and producing a home environ
ment SO that there will be no DISPOSE
ton to regard the country as tenn
porary place of abode in which every
one is trying to make his pile prepar-
atory to going back East or becoming
a lotus-eater beside the Pacific
The lure of the West is strong It
will be still stronger when the crude
new towns and villages of the plains
are embowered in trees and vocal
with the song of birds.-Advertise-
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
HAIR CUT BY a SQUIRREL
Rodent Barber Gets Busy on Thatch
of Sleeping Oregon Pho
tographer.

Ernest J. Bloom, a Photographer
of Hood River, Ore, who has been
passing the last two weeks at the
ranch of r. E. Scott, secretary of the
Commercial club, returned home with
a portion of his hair gone.
Mr.. Bloom had been working in the
garden and making a lawn on the
ranch. He was taking q nap after
lunch when a squirrel that had been
making its home in the house this
winter, evidently thinking his long
black locks would make an excellent
lining for nest, trimmed off a por-
ton of the hair while he slept
THE rodents teeth must have been
sharp" says the photographer, for /
could scarcely feel him at work there
cutting away the hair. | must have
moved in my sleep and in his excite
ment he evidently pulled some of the
hairs out instead of cutting them
This awoke me and ] let out a yell
that almost frightened the squirrel to
death. Portland Oregonian.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
HIS GOOD FRIENDS
A Seeming Deep Mystery Is
Satisfactorily Explained to
a Trusting Lover.
BY GERTRUDE MARY SHERIDAN.

Il tell you, Dave, that fellow, Ralph
Tilden, isn't worthy of your sister"
said Mart Woods.
"All you've got to do is to convince
me of the fact" replied Dave Briefly,
brother of Rose Briefly, the prettiest
girl in Brampton.
Il can do that asserted his com
panion positively. See, here, Dave,
l make no pretense of being disinter-
ested in this matter. l always liked
Rose, and like her more than ever
now"
I've always known that, Mart.
You and l have always been close
chums, and, of course, / don't favor
a newcomer and an upstart against
you"
Mart Woods smirked with satisfac-
ton at the encouraging words. He
was mean-spirited fellow, according
TO his shifty eyes. Dave was his juni-
or. and callow, and fancying loyalty
to a chum to be the height of human
chivalry
I'm convince you, all right" as
serted Mart. THE only thing is to
convince Rose. She wouldn't believe
anything l might say, and she fancies
that Tilden fellow to be everything
that is good and true"
He'll get his walking papers
mighty quick if he is the wolf in
sleeps clothing you say he is" OBJ
served Dave smartly.
Very well, I'll have some news for
you in day or two" promised Mart.
Eth show the rascal up in his true col
ors"
When the treacherous Mart stated
that Rose Briefly held very high
opinion concerning the young man he
considered his rival, he had not exag-
gerated. Rose had never given the
least encouragement to Mart's ad-
vaces. In fact, she had never known
what love meant until Ralph Tilden
had come into her life.
The latter was a manly young fell
low, whom every girl might be proud
to attract He had been recently ad-
mitted to the bar; his first case in
court had been the defense of poor
woman whose suit other lawyers had
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
Convlcts COLLEGE Students.

More than fifty convicts are enrolled
at the State Agricultural College at
Manhattan, taking the various courses
offered at the college. They are, so
far as is known, the only convict col
lege students in the United States.
Few, if any, of the convicts have ever
seen the college building, and it will
be some time before any of them can
see it, but nevertheless they are en-
rolled students doing regular work.
All the convict college students are
inmates of the United States peniten-
tiary here. They do their class work
in their cells and mail their lesson pa
pers to the college for correction.
Some Of the convicts are studying ag-
riculture, some civil engineering, 9th
ers mechanics, and some are studying
dairying. Nearly all of the students
enrolled in the agricultural or dairy
courses are men employed on the
prison farm or in the dairy.-Leaven-
worth Dispatch to New York Times.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
Our Modest Wants.

1t is a remarkable fact that the vast
majority of men look forward through
the years of their greatest activity not
to winter nome in Florida, or south
ern California, or at Cairo, Cannes or
Nice, nor to summer home in the
among the peaks of the Rockies or the
pines of the Sierras, or somewhere
along the New England coast, but
rather, to a 40-acre farm on the out
skirts, easily accessible to a market,
where they might crowd the accumu-
lated experience and wisdom of life
time into the intelligent management
of a chicken yard.-Christian Science
Monitor
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
Parliamentary Suspension.

Sir Henry Lucy drops hint from
the Gross Benches" in the Observer
as to the suspension of members of
the house-and the vagueness of the
penalty. Can it be true that members
get themselves named and suspended
on purpose to achieve a compulsory
holiday? Eight pounds week will
make for modest comfort at Brighton
or Eastbourne. The member of par
lament is paid whether he is in the
house or at Margate or in the Clock
Tower. Budapest has more drastic
way. If the member is suspended he
is fned 16 shillings a day. That
teaches him to behave. Now that we
pay our representatives we might
make payment conditional on their
representing us in the proper place
London Chronicle.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
FROSTED RICE FOR HOT DAY
Few Desserts viii Be Found Superior
TO This When II 10 Properly
Prepared.

Cook cupfni of rice In a pint OF
boiling water until dry, then add
pint of milk, a tablespoonful OF but
ter, the grated rind of lemon and
the beaten yolks of four eggs; butter
g. pudding dish and pour in the mix
ture; cake until the pudding is frm;
beat the whites Of the eggs until stiff,
add four level tablespoonfuls OF sugar,
tablespoonful Of lemon juice; spread
over the top OF the pudding and bake
very slowly until the meringue has
pulled and taken on a lovely golden
brown color; close all the draughts OF
the stove and il necessary leave the
oven door open, as all meringues must
be cooked very slowly at not much
more than a drying heat.-Emma Pad
dock Telford in Washington Star.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
aat of the Ham.

The last of the ham has many posi-
bilities, says the CommOner. When
all the meat that il will yield for nice
slicing has been taken off, put the end
over the fire in a kettle OF cold water
and cook until quite tender. When
about half done, add about two table
spoonfuls Of vinegar to the water.
When cold, remove any skin, cut the
meat from the bone. rejecting all girls
tie or bits of bone, put through tho
chopper twice and measure; to each
pint allow a gill of milk, one table
spoonful of dry mustard, two dashes
of tobasco pepper and two eggs. Cook
In a double boiler for ten minutes.
This Is fine for sandwich filling or
served cold for supper or made the
foundation of hot dish.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
Exoneratinq the kinQbird.

The department of agriculture has
granted certificate of good character
to the kingbird, sometimes known in
the rural districts as the bee martin,
a species of fly catcher which inhabits
nearly every part of the United States.
The Eingbird has been under indict-
nlent in many sections as a destroyer
of bees and foe of apiarists.
Experts now declare that it kills
only the drones and the useless bees,
and is, therefore, a boon to the bee
raiser. BESIDES that, it preys on many
harmful insects and protects farmers
chicken yards from depredations of
crows and chicken hawks, which it
savagely attacks
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06

declined because she could not pay
a fee. Ralph had won the case,' it's
details got into the public prints, and
he had earned golden opinions as to
his professional ability and his phil
anthropic unselfishness
All unconscious of the def plots
being woven to disturb their happi-
ness, Rose and Ralph passed some
pleasant hours. On the spur of a
vague suspicion regarding some of the
movements Of the young attorney,
Mart fancied himself possessed of all
the attributes of a skilful detective in
running down his "clews,'' as he was
pleased to call them. He came to
Dave Briefly one day, elated and con-
fident
Well, I've got the goods on that
Tilden," ne announced. Twice a
week he leaves his Office at about
eight o'clock in the evening. He
never gets home until two in the
morning. A fellow who does that reg
ularly is up to something, isn't he?"
LAS what, now" challenged Dave.
We'll, carousing around. This is
his night for going on one of his mys-
terious excursions. l watched him the
last time"
Where did he go?''
Don't know. l started to follow
him He either suspected me and
slipped me, or lost him in the crowd.
| know this, though-he was headed
for the seamy side of the city"
That isn't very definite" observed
Dave Il don't want to make any
mistake"
There won't be any," insisted Mart
Are you nerved for demonstration? ?"
"Of what?"
"A running down of our suspicious.
See here, Tilden is keen As they make
them If he suspects that he is being
followed, he is clever enough to lead
a false chase. Let US be on hand to-
night to take up the trail when he
leaves his Office"
I'm agreeable, provided We can do
it. / don't want to blunder myself
into a laughing stock"
Say advanced Mart with spirit;
I've arranged a great plan. Well
disguise ourselves
How" questioned Dave, obviously.
1t took a long time for Mart to in
duce his companion to join forces with
him His plan was simple one.
They were to blacken their hands and
faces.
We'll pass in the crowd and in the
dark as negroes explained Mart.
"Oh, don't be so squeamish. If moth
ing comes of it, we'll get an idea of
local color in our ramblings, anyhow"
At length Dave agreed to the propo-
sition When at about eight o'clock
that e-eHing the young lawyer, Ralph
IifGeL. left MS Office, where he had
been at work writing and studying, he
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
Southern Wafnes.

Two cupfuls Of -four. three table
spoonfuls sugar, three eggs beaten
separately, one and one-half cupfuls
milk, half a cupful cornmeal, two
level teaspoonfuls salt, one table
spoonful melted butter, three tea
spoonfuls baking powder and one and
one-half cupfuls boiling water will he
needed Cook the meal IN the boiling
water. stirring occasionally; then add
the milk, sugar the -four, baking pow
der and salt sifted together thorough
ly; stir in the yolks of the eggs
beaten until thick, the melted butter
and the stiffly beaten whites Of the
from
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
MEMORY IMPROVED.
Since Leaving Off Coffee

Many persons suffer from poor
memory who never suspect coffee has
anything to do with it.
The drug-caffeine-in coffee, acts
injuriously on the nerves and heart,
causing imperfect circulation, too
much blood in the brain at one time,
too little in another part. This often
causes a dullness which makes a good
memory nearly impossible.
Il am nearly seventy years old ant
did not know that coffee was the
cause of the stomach and heart trou-
BILE / suffered from for many years,
until about four years age" writes a
Kansas woman.
"a kind neighbor induced me to
quit coffee and try Postum. | had
been suffering severely and was
greatly reduced in flesh. After using
Postum a. little while / found myself
improving. Ny heart beats became
regular and now | seldom ever no
tice any symptoms of my old stom-
ach trouble at all. My nerves are
steady and my memory decidedly
better than while / was using coffee.
Il like the taste Of Postum fully as
well as coffee"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Write for booklet, THE
Road to Wellville."
Postum comes in two forms.
Regular unjust be boiled).
Instant Postum doesn't require
boiling but is prepared instantly by
stirring level teaspoonful in an OF.
binary cup of hot water, which makes
1T right for most persons.
A big cup requires more and some
people who like strong things put in
a heaping spoonful and temper 1t with
a large supply of cream
Experiment until you know the
amount that pleases your palate and
have it served that way in the future.
There's a Reason" for Postum.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
a New Metal.

Some remarkable qualities are
claimed for steelite, new metal
which is composed of rs per cent. OF
cobalt and the remainder of chro
MUM. 1t may be cast and ground to
a fine edge, is impervious to rust and
the action of acids and highly flexible
AS a lathe tool it will cut steel at the
rate of 200 feet minute, speed at
which steel would ordinarily burn
Certain notifications of this alloy will
cut glass, and even quartz crystals.
Steelite is said to be particularly suit.
able for watch fittings
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
These Revised Versions.

Mayor Woodruff of Peoria turned
with disgust from a revised version
OF Mother Goose" He said: When
one wishes to give child a present
Hans Andersen, or Grimm, or SLOW
emily Peter-one finds these books all
revised. all spoiled. Give me orig
fnal versions. I don't like revised
readings, which are usually as uH-
satisfa ctory as the young wife found
them This young wife, after a
stormy scene, cried: 1t was different
before we married. All, yes, you
loved me then-and now!' I love
yoyi now and then said her husband
calmly Revised version. don't you
know
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
EARLY MARRIAGE THE THING
DR.. Eliot Firmly of Opinion That 1t
Should Not Be Put Off Until
Middle Life.

DIR. Eliot, whose name was men
toned as American Ambassador in
London, is strongly in favor of early
marriages. Here are his views
You will hear some young man say,
L cannot invite a girl who has been
brought up to do nothing for herself,
and to have every qualification and
every luxury provided for her, to
marry me, until l can earn an in
come which will enable her to live
with me in that way l have two re-
marks to make about that doctrine
that if a girl has been brought up in
that manner, the sooner she has a
chance to live differently the better
for her; and, secondly, that it is only
fair for young man who loves a
young woman to consult her as to
whether or not she wishes to marry
him before he can earn a large In
come.
THE young woman has q clear
right to say word on that subject
to the man she loves, and not to be
obliged to wait till he is thirty-fve
years old before he asks her to marry
him. This is a matter of looking
ahead at a critical point in your lives.
Young men are not in the habit, per-
haps, of contemplating this aspect of
marriage. 1t would be wiser to do SO.
The sooner you begin to think about 1t
the better-first, because it will be
thinking about the most important
event in your lives in respect to the
development of your own characters
and to the happiness not only of your
selves, but of the women you will
marry, and of the family life which
will normally result.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
The Verdict.

A Chicago politician invited his
cousin from the old country and had
him appointed a smoke inspector. This
was in the old days. He was turned
loose to inspect without any instruc-
tons whatever, and this is the report
he rendered at the end of the first
month:
Il certify that | have inspected the
smoke of this city for the thirty days
past. | find plenty of smoke and ap-
parently of good quality. Respectfully
submitted"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06
Renewing Feather Ticks

When changing feathers from one
ticking to another make the ticking
the size required, leaving an opening
about two feet long at one end. Sew
or haste this opening to the opening in
the old ticking. Shake the feathers
from the old to the new tick Do not
remove all the hastings at once. Sew
the new ticking as you take out the
basting thread. This will prevent the
feathers and down from fying.-Mc-
Calls Magazine
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-06

Out of town, where a woman may
spend about half her time in her gar
den at this lovely season, it pays to
have work aprons made with two big
pockets. one with flap, which may
be buttoned securely. Very often |
want to keep little change in my
pocket or receive some from the
tradesmen Now, 1t is quite safe and
handy in my buttoned pocket, as are
my keys and thimble. In the other
pocket l keep my handkerchief. Be-
fore / made such aprons l was con-
tinually losing the contents of my
pockets, as l stopped over my work
Exchange.