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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-11-07
TWO HOMEMADE COASTERS.

Any boy can build himself a sled
that will be every bit as good as
bought one, and as the material re-
.quired amounts to so little the ex-
pense connected with the construc-
ton is trflling. Perhaps just the
right kind of lumber will be found in
the basement or woodshed and in
that case no outlay whatever will be
necessary. Almost any kind Of
wood will serve the purpose. but
straight-grained pieces are the easiest
to work up, and the fewer knots.
cracks and other defects that there
are the better. Of course, putty and
paint will conceal nail holes and
small cracks, but do not depend too
much upon putty magic" because
putty shrinks when it hardens and in
wide crack this shrinkage is enough
to make an ugly hollow place in the
surface of your work.
The double-runner coaster shown in
Fig. l is Of just the proportions that
the average boy finds to his liking
4 feet long and Is inches wide, with
runners 51a inches deep. And as it
III substantially constructed it is a
practical sled for all around pur-
poses.
A pattern for the sled runners is
shown in Fig. 2. Lay off the given
measurements upon piece of 2 by
6 with pencil and carpenters square
Or yard-stick or other straight
edged stick. Most 2-by-6-inch mate
rial is 81 inches wide, though it
sometimes runs a trifie under or a
tri1e over this. Whatever the meas
urement Is, you can vary the width
of your runners accordingly. The
notches along the top edge receive
the ends Of the connecting cross
braces A, Gig. ~, and the foot-bar
9. After checking up your measure
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-11-07

If | were to name the most essen
tial features to successful irrigation
farming in the order of their import
ance. the thorough preparation of the
soil and a perfectly fine seed bed
would get first place. Next would be
well developed and thoroughly ma
tured seeds, plants or trees. Much
care and thought should be given to
the selection of seeds and plants. Then
we come to intensive cultivation, the
greatest and most effective moisture
retainer known to the science of agri-
culture. writes Z. l. Rogers in the
Denver Field and Farm. Altogether
too many of the farmers are depend
ing entirely upon water. OF course
water is one of the essentials to plant
growth, but plants do not wholly de-
pend upon water.
No one thing can possibly perfect
plant development but complete
combination of work, from soil prep
aration clear through to the market
ing of the produce, is what brings
results. No one hobby will insure sue
cess in any business. The water
should be applied through burrows,
seeping to tie roots of the plants or
trees. Floosting is surely injurious to
the soil. Cultivation should follow
each watering just as soon as the soil
is IN condition. and after reading VII
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POSTAL TROUBLES IN PERSIA
Same Word Means Dock, Hides and
Postoffice and Other Things OF
Equal Usefulness.

The difficulties of the postoffice in
the Persian gulf are aggravated by
the Persian language, which invests
the word 'poost" as coloquially
pronounced with considerable am
biguity.
"Poos" means a dock or anchorage;
''poost" means hides, skins or leath-
er, and is also the term for the post
office On the coast the final ''t'' is
dropped and "poos'' therefore has to
do duty in three capacities.
A merchant at Linga, says the Pho
neer Mail, recently complained that
his letters were being lost, and a serv-
ant was asked what he had been do
ing with them.
THE first week. was the reply,
when you told me to carry the let
tiers to the poost, | went to the shoe
makers and was putting them among
the poost (meaning leather and skins)
but the man said | should carry them
to the Poos- e-Buzurg." By this the
shoemaker means the big British
postofice.
Then I took them to the Poose Blu
zurg (big dock and threw them in.
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(By w. II. CHANDLER Missouri Col
lege of Agriculture
Spraying is done for the purpose
of preventing injury to the fruit, foil
age and wood of trees and other
plants caused by disease and insects.
Diseases Of plants may be caused by
the growth in the tissues Of bacteria
or fungi. Bacteria usually grow be-
meath he surface and can not be COM
bated by means Of spraying. Some
fungi grow upon the surface, sending
feeding organs down into the tissue
from which they secure nourtshment
reproduced by means of spores which
are carried in the air until they set
tie upon leaf, fruit or wood, where
they terminate and grow, becoming
the injurious fungous tissue. If the
leaves or fruit are covered with a
substance which Is poisonous to the
fungus the spores will be killed at
the time they terminate. Substances
that thus prevent the growth of germ
mating spores are called fungicides.
AS rule these fungicides must be ap
piled in summer when the fruit or
foliage is likely to be infected. How
ever, in the case of d very few dis
eases like peach leaf curl, spraying in
early spring before growth starts is
successful.
The two most important fungicides
(sprays to prevent fungous diseases)
for summer spraying are Bordeau mix
ture and lime-sulphur.
We have two classes of insecticides
(sprays to kill insects). For insects
that eat from the surface Of the plant
poison on the leaves or fruit will
kill the insect. Usually the spray
used in this case is some compound
containing arsenic. The most impor-
tant insecticide is arsenate of lead.
There are also insecticides used to
kill insects that do not eat from the
surface, but penetrate the surface with
their beaks and suck the juices from
beneath. 1t is plain that such an in
sect could not eat any poison placed
upon the leaves, but must be de-
stroyed by spray that kills by COM
ing in contact with it's body. SO in
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new shoot; just before the bloom
opens and again just after the bloom
falls, and give two more sprayings at
intervals of two weeks. If it is very
rainy and the disease has been seri-
GUS in other years, it will be neces-
sary to give even more sprayings than
this. A spraying just before a rain,
however, will do more good than one
given just after a rain. If the vine
yard has been neglected, it may be
impossible to entirely control the dis
ease in a wet season, but 1T can be
kept in check if spraying is done each
year. 1t also pays to clean up the
vineyard each year, cutting out all
punches Of mummified fruit
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ments to be sure that no mistakes
hare been made, saw off the ends
square, then saw off on the diagonals
of the bow and stern ends. When you
have completed one runner, mark out
the other with it as a pattern.
Gut the connecting cross braces A
IA inches long, inches wide and 2
inches thick, and cut the tongues on
the ends to fit the notches in the
runners. Nail the braces to the run
ners, and also drive nails through the
side face Of each runner into their
ends as shown in Fig. 1.
Make the seat out of board IL
inches wide and 2 feet s inches long.
The ends of the seat are shown
square in the illustration, but they
may be curved or cut off upon the
diagonal if you wish to take the ex-
ira time to do this. Screw or nail
the board to the cross braces, Notch
the edges of the foot-bar strip slight
ly, at its center, to provide good
place for tying the sled rope.
Cut two pieces of broom-handle for
handle-bars, and screw screw-eyes
large enough to hold their ends into
the side of the runners. Drive a
nail through each handle and into the
runner, to keep it from turning and
slipping out of place.
You can improve the sliding quail
ties of the runners by greasing them;
but at a small expenditure you can
provide them with shoes of hoop-fron
or of half-oval iron strips, which of
course will be more satisfactory. The
iron strips can be bought at almost
any hardware store. They must be
bent to fit the curved ends of the run
ners, and be drilled for the screws
with which they are fastened i'll
place You can get this work done
at a blacksmith's shop or a machine
shop. Hoop-iron is easy to put on, be-
| cause it can be bent by hand and
noles for nails and screws can be
punched through it with a nail The
iron strips with which large packing
cases are bound can be used for run
ner shoes.
1t requires skillful coaster to
coast with a single-runner coaster,
Gig. 81, and that is one reason why
this unique form Of sled is so popu-
| lar with boys. Any boy can become
expert in handling this sled, though
| 1t requires some little practice gen
orally to get the knack Of balancing
one's self.
Fig. 6 shows detailed drawing Of
The completed single-runner sled, and
Fig. front view of it. Make the
runner A feet long, cut Of a piece
Of 2-by-4, and cut the upright B out
| Of the sane material Is inches long,
] md spike tho bottom of 3 to the top
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Apprec citation.

81 wish to thank you" said the play
wright when he had been admitted to
the private office Of the manager of
the theater.
"Sit down, sir" replied the mana
ger. 81 must beg your pardon for not
being able to recognize you. l know
your face. but l can't quite place
you
I'm Thompson, the author of the
play that is running here this week"
ooh, yes! | remember you now.
What can / do for you?"
Nothing. I just came in to offer
you my sincere thanks"
What for?"
81 notice that my name is printed
on the program in letters as large as
those Of the head usher and assistant
electrician"
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HOT SUPPER DISHES.

For those who have supper, instead
Of dinner, at six, a hot dish is almost
an essential, on these cool autumn
evenings. Soups Of various kinds, II
liked, are easily prepared and served,
and furnish a substantial beginning
to the meal
Boiled Dinner Hash.-Chop fine the
vegetables left from an old-fashioned
boiled dinner-a beet or two a few
pieces of turnip and carrot, good
sized quarter of cabbage and a few
potatoes and some of the corned beef
with which the dinner was cooked
Season with some of the broth and
steam and cook in frying pan for
an hour on the back part OF the stove.
Serve hot with dill pickles and bread
and butter.
Delicious Dish.-Take three veal
kidneys and remove all fat; cut a mild
onion as fine as possible, shred and
add a small bunch of parsley, a heap
ing tablespoonful Of each. Add ia
blespoonful of butter to a hot frying
pan and drop the kidneys into It, Gov
er and steam for fifteen minutes, then
pour over a half cup Of sour fruit
juice, and serve.
Lobster In Cream Sauce.-In places
where fresh Holsters are plenty, this
will be a change from the usual ways
of serving it. Boil the lobster in the
shell, and then remove the meat and
cut it in bits. Add the lobster meat
to rich white sauce, and just before
serving squeeze a little lemon juice
over the dish
Sausage OmeIet.-Beat five eggs I'M
til light, add a finely chopped onion,
a small green one preferred; add a
heaping tablespoonful of chopped
smoked ham or liver sausage Season
with salt and pepper and put into a
hot omelet pan.
English Tea Cakes.-Beat two eggs
and add cup of powdered sugar, beat
we'll add a half teaspoon of almond
extract, cup of -four and teaspoon
full of baking powder, mixed together,
with quarter of a teaspoonful of salt
Beat until smooth and then add half
cup of scalding hot milk. Bake IN
gem pans.
Sponge yCake.-When we consider
the>price of butter and the yet reason
able price of eggs, though they are
soaring, a sponge cake is not an ex-
travagant one to prepare. Five eggs,
one cup Of sugar one cup of flour,
teaspoonful of baking powder. Beat
the whites and yolks separately, add
the sugar to the whites, then the
yolks and the flour Flavor to taste
and bake in an angel food pan. This
makes q large cake.
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WAYS OF SERVING APPLES.

Apples are one of our common and
usually cheap fruits. There are so
many ways of using them as desserts,
salads, soups and fresh, in its natural
state An old-fashioned pudding
which is we'll liked by nearly every
body is
Baked apple sauce is delicious. Cut
The apples in eighths and put them
into a covered bean pot to stew. Let
cook for hours, well covered; add su-
gar and cook until we'll Drowned.
For a filling for a layer cake there
is nothing more delicious than a
grated apple added to an egg white
and sugar beaten until stiff. Flavor
with three drops of almond extract.
Stuffed baked apples are also deli
cious. Core good sized apples and fill
of butter and dash Of cinnamon.
Bake and haste with water during the
baking.
Pretty red apples followed out and
then used as cups for salad are most
attractive. A mixture OF nuts, chopped
apple and celery used for filing, with
any kind of salad dressing desired,
may be used.
Sour apples fried with onions are
good; bit of butter add, and be sure
20 have the fat hot when the apples
and onions are put in, Or they will
not brown.
For Partisan apples, peel the apples
mi hnr OF haJ1
cutter into small balls. Put to cook
in a rich strip favored with lemon
Juice. When tender, cool and serve
in sherbet glasses with the juice
poured over them and a spoonful of
sweetened whipped cream for a gar
nish.
Apples baked with rice make most
satisfying dessert, and is especially
nice for the children's dessert.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-11-07
The Hero and the Mob.

Speak softly look with kindly eyes
On him who slowly moves along;
Harki Hear the cat-calls and the erica
OF anger from the thoughtless throng.
See how they threaten him, as though
He were a wolf to drive to bay;
All tickle mob: A week ago
Flags DER him fiuttered to and fro
He was a hero yesterday.
You that have pride within your breast
Because the mob applauds you now,
Pray God for courage; go in quest
OF some dark nook; there humbly bow
And learn humility and strive
To find the strength to bear dismay;
Before this evenings shades arrive
The mob will wish to burn alive
Men who were heroes yesterday
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Zero in Vacuums.

A scientific worker recently sue
ceeded in exhausting a vessel to a
pressure of two ten millionths of d
millimeter OF mercury flour one thou
sand millionths of a pound per square
inch), which is the highest vacuum
ever attained experimentally. At this
pressure one cubic millimeter of gas
would still contain about eight and a
half-millionth molecules-a number
equal to nearly twice the population
Of New York City.
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English and the Drama.

The English people are by nature
theatrical, and by long training the re-
verse. This is evident from the num-
Der of great dramatists and fine actors
the nation has produced, and by the
lamentable lack of appreciation shown
toward the drama by the masses. The
efforts that are being made to restore
the drama, in all it's phases, to it's
proper place in life by those who
realize these facts are, in the nature
of things, bound to be somewhat tardy
of achievement in industrial centers.
Herbert Antcliffe, in T. P.'s Week
ly, London.
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secticides for sucking insects are
sometimes spoken of as contact
sprays.
Black rot is the most serious enemy
Of the grape. The disease may be
seen on the leaves as dark spots,
showing larger on the under side c.
the leaves. 1t also affects the fruit,
causing it to rot, the mummified fruit
hanging on the punches, as shown in
the figure.
The disease is not easily controlled
when it has become serious. Spray
with Bordeaux mixture 5 e: 5 !: so, when
about the third leaf is forming on the
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Fhen Abelard, long, long ago, so madly
u loved fair Heloise,
Sc thought the streams would cease to
= flow, the joy forsake the morning
breeze,
Unless she might for aye be his-might
be Of him the dearest part
But Fate ordained it otherwise and
wrecked his hope and crushed his
heart:
Yet morning breezes gladly sway the
dewy roses on the vines,
The brooks go laughing on their way. the
sun with undimmed splendor shines.
Perhaps you sit alone and grieve and
deeply loving, all in vain,
Have madly made yourself believe no
June will ever come again;
But other men will learn to love and 9th
maids will learn to weep
Long after you have closed your eyes and
found forgetfulness in sleep,
And not a star shall fade or fall, and fra
grant petals still will spread,
Though they become convinced that all
the joys the world possessed are
dead.
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WrOnoed.

81 understand that Burrill has mort
gagged his home to buy an automobile"
mo, that's a mistake. Burrill would
never do anything so foolish. The
mortgage was put on his home for the
purpose of raising money to enable
Mrs. Burrill to buy pearl necklace
and have a box for the season at the
opera"
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ter of its length. The side pieces c
are 4 inches wide and 10 inches long,
and together with the triangular
blocks D they strengthen the connec
ton between A and B. Cut the seat
board F Is inches long and inches
wide, and nail it to the top of post
B; then brace it with two wooden
brackets nailed across post B, front
and back.
Copyright. 1913 by A. Nicely HaNO
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Married Too Younu.

A rare old philosopher is M Teller
of Paris, who has invented process
for the preservation of meats in the
open air. He has just been decorated
with the cross Of the Legion Of Honor
at the age of eight-six. Although a
whelms his with joy, much more than
the $4,000 francs of the subscription
opened in his favor THAT is for my
son." he says. This son is twenty
years old. Il have lost a great deal
of time in my youth" says NJ. Teller
to his friends. Il married too young
[ was only sixty"
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AII-ArotInS

Julius Caesar, said the teacher
who was showing her class through
the museum, was the greatest all
around man the world has ever
known"
eff he was built like this statue of
him." replied little George, Taft has
him beaten to a FRAGILE"
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TWO Hundred Years From Now.

"And do you belong. to any societies.
Mrs. Covinsky?"
oh, yes. | am member Of the
Granddaughter of the Broad Palm.
One Of my ancestors, you know, be-
came very wealthy by securing the
tipping privileges in all the coatrooms
of the public schools
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,mcotent RAGE.

1T las been a long time since /
have read any contemporaneous
poetry that moved me to tears" Only
the other day l read poem that
moved me to tears. How did it
move you 500" 4 wept because
couldn't get at the author. Birming-
ham Age Herald
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All Right, But

What is to be the subject of your
lecturer" asked the chairman of the
entertainment committee just before
he introduced the speaker Of the eve
ming.
1.-The Social Cosmos
All right; but l don't see how
you're going to make it go in this town
without a few lantern Slides"
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Steady Income From Hens.

A well-kept fock of hens means a
steady incole-enough to keep you
in spending money while you are wait
ing for your crops to grow. That one
thing is enough to recommend poultry
keeping as a suitable side line" for
the boy farmer
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Iekk@ TaeuxA
Didn't Understand,

What is the object Of your So
ciety?"
ITO prevent gambling among won,
en-"
Nonsense 1t cant be done"
Certainly gambling can be stop
ped"
Gambling? l thought you sai. CAB
bling
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Mo Standing,

why is that doctor regarded as 3
sort of Quack2"
Because he will use any kind OF
treatment which will relieve the pa,
TENT
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Avoid Scrino Rushes.

Every acre turned over now is that
much less work for next spring. And
only the man who has outlived num-
Der Of spring rushes knows how i'm
portant it is TO reduce the intensity of
them
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In the Hall.

She-John, what on earth are you
doing down there at the clock?
He (meekly)-Undertak a great
labor work, dear; trying to call off a
bad strike.
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Peanuts SPLENDID for Hoos

Peanuts make a splendid feed for
both hogs and COWS and wherever
they can be grown they should be
used, for they furnish nourishment and
variety
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Dairyinq and Hoqs.

The dairy farmer can raise hogs
cheaper than anyone else and nat
uraly this makes a better profit for
him from this one line.
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Not AIIIIrinu.

Many plain girl has become a fine
looking old lady, but few girls appear
to think it is much of a contamination
TO be worked up to-
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Thouohtfui Housemaid.

''Mr. Wombat is in the parlor,
Miss" Tell him I'm out" Just as
you say, Miss, but he has beautiful
0ox nf candy with him"
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Had All the Symptoms.

WAS Hamlet mad?"
81 don't know about that, but In
sure ne was a dyspeptic."
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Invisible.

There may be more foolish-looking
things than boys with pipes in their
mouths, but we have never seen any.
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For Love.

Men have died for love"
Yes; but lot more have been
sorry they didn't"
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The first time there was plenty of wa
ter, but the next week the water was
low, and l had to dig a hole in the
sand for them"
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Splendid CIeverness.

Some men are SO clever that they
can do nothing and make it seem i'm
portant.
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Do you feel that you'd like to quit? Don't
Get to feeling you don't fit? DON'T
Do you want to yell "all in
Cause your winds little thin,
And you think you'll never win? Don't.
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THMa1HE
.6ABINEE
zzl:,sz.Ia'|AaHE9IIEIy
H11'i. No: Z Avs Tvs

COOKERY consists of the knowl-
~ edge of the mutual influence of
ingredients and the judicious management
If heat