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The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Dear Santa. I am a little boy
5 years old and know all Of my
A B C's and will start to school
soon. | want you to bring me a
pair of boots to wear to school,
some funny books, nuts, oranges,
bananas, and fireworks of all
kinds. Yours truly.
Renyil Mayhan.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

At any rate, Dr.. Green is get
ting quite a lot of free advertising
out of the squabbIe over the SUI
perintendency of the state insane
asylum
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Success is not measured alone
by what a man accomplishes, but
by the opposition he has encount-
cred and the courage with which
he has kept up the struggle for
against overwhelming
odds.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Dear Santa Claus. Pm a little
girl four years old. | want you
to bring me a great big doll and
doll buggy, a little piano, some
apples, oranges and candy, and
don't forget to bring little sister
something pretty, she would like
a little ball. Pm going to be a
nice little girl and look for you
Christmas Eve night, Your lit
tie girl, Wilma Travis.
Sulphur Rock, Ark.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Dear Santa. / want you to
please bring me an air gun, some
roman candles, sky rockets, fire
cracker and some good books.
Please bring brother Don a horn,
a little train, some apples, candy
oranges and bananas, and don t
forget my little sister, Jetrue,
bring her little broom, a doll
and a chair. Your little boy,
Dallas Hughes.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Dear Mr.. Santa Claus. Since
times are so hard and there are
so many children's wants to sup
ply, you need not bring me any
toys this Christmas. You may
bring ma 8ome apples, candy,
nuts. oranges, bananas, raisins,
cakes and some stockings and a
cap to keep my feet and ears
warm this cold weather. am a
little girl 5 years old and live in
the first house north Of the Bap-
fist church. l wish to thank you
in advance for the presents.
Yours very Truly; ~ % -. p.
Madeira Tharp.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11
COLDS & LaGRIPPE

s or 6 doses 666 will break
any case of Chills & Fever, Colds
& LaGrippe; it acts on the liver
better than Calomel and does not
eripe or Sicken. rrice Csc, -" =
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

The Journal IS always ready to
sing the praises of Newark; but
let's make it chorus instead of a
solo.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Dear Santa Claus am writ
ing you to know if there is any
chance for you to bring me some
presents. | know that times are
dull and money is scarce SO I'll
be satisfied with a bracelet, dia-
.nland. ri!ng. locket, piano, and a
china doll, and any thing else you
want to bring me. Your little
girl, Lucille Magness.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11
RUE My IN

Win cure your Rheumatism
Neuralgia, Headaches, CT mps,
Collie, Sprains, Bruises, Gut and
Burns, Old Sores, Stings Of Insects
Etc. An.iseptic AnodyRe, used in
ternaliy and externally. Price Csc.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Dear Santa CIaus.-I want
doll, doll buggy, story book,
little cookstoye, some candy, nuts
and oranges. Alta Foster.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Save a little money and thereby
save lot of worry.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

We seldom find people migrate
full as long as we are in position to
render them further service.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Dear Santa Claus. Please do
not forget me. | would like for
you to bring me a little red wag-
on, a horse, a set of tools, fire
crackers. nuts and candy. | will
be a good little boy and go to
sleep early, you will find my
stockings hanging by the fire
place. Basil Childress.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Dear Santa. will write you
4 line or two. | am a little girl
8 years old and am going to
school every day | haven t missed
a day of this term. | am in the
second grade and love my teach
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Dear Santr Claus. I'm a little
boy Is months old and want you
to be sure and come to see me.
Please bring me a rubber ball,
some big fire crackers, express
wagon and a rocking chair. Come
down the flue my stocking will
be hanging by it. Your little
friend, Arnold Adams.
Cushman, Arkansas.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Dear Santa. l am a little boy
4 years old. | want you to bring
me a knife, drum, horn, nuts,
and some fruit. Paul Adams.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Dear Santa. ! am a little boy
5 years old. | want you to bring
CHRISTMAS pooR alla a Strut.
Oscar Craig.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Dear Santa Claus. Please
bring little sister baby doll and
a bed to put it in and little
rocking chair. You may bring
me, if you please, an air gun,
freeraeker, candy and oranges
for sister and me.
B. f Adams, Jr.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Dear Santa. I am a little girl
10 years old and my papa and
mamma and little brother are
and uncle and go to school. |
want you to remember me this
Christmas and bring me another
large doll with curly hair, two
large vases, a jeWelry box, and a
pair of gloves. Yours truly,
Widdie Mayhan.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Dear Santa am a little boy 5
years old and go to school | want
a gun that will shoot, a toy train,
a horn, some candy and oranges.
Please remember papa and man.
ma. A little boy,
Marvin HARRISON.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Dear Santa want you to
bring me some fire crackers, APP
pies, candy, pecans, torpedos and
a toy horn. Ny stockings will be
ready. intend to be a good boy
so you won't pass me by. Your
little friend, Lehman McHenry.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

Dear Santa. i want you to
bring me leather doll go-cart,
a great big doll with sleepy blue
eyes, a set of dishes, a stove, a
broom, some nuts, candy, apples
and oranges. Your friend,
Minnie Porter.
The Newark journal., 1914-12-11

B. FAdams, Jr.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14
BREEDING PLACE OF MICROBE
French EacterioIogist Gives Salt the
First Place as an Infection
Ground.

Salt has always been regarded as
g pretty safe thing. but NJ. Andouard,
a French bacteriologist. has been ma
king a study of it, and has come to
the conclusion that it is veritable
hotbed of microbes of all kinds, and a
possible source of more or less severe
Infections
Sea water near the shore. and con.
sequently in the immediate vicinity OF
the saltbeds, contains, we are told by
the Paris correspor dent of the Ian,
Get, considerable quantities of bac-
terra, of which the preliminary clarif-
cation beds favor the multiplication
This naturally is augmented by the
raking of the beds with unclean instru,
ments and the feet of the waders.
The gray salt used for cooking and
baking is of this kind. The fine salt
is less rich in harmful germs, though
not entirely exempt. In spite of the
redissofving and Qualification of the
fresh liquid and the action of heat to
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14
Drowsiness in Church.

Why bald heads nod in church, to
the great annoyance of ministers has
been discovered by Ralph Eyre Of
OsceoIa, Iowa, a senior electrical engi-
neeriHg student in the State univer-
sity. Mr. Eyre has found the scien-
tific basis for the fact that bald headed
men are prone to fall asleep in church
and he has found the remedy for this
unfortunate fact. "a glazing light be-
fore the eyes is sure to produce dr0w-
siness," Mr.. Eyre reasoned. Men with
bald heads and negligible eyebrows
are less protected from glazing lights
than those blessed with abundant hair.
Women who wear hats that shade
their eyes have little difficulty keeping
awake. A little care in placing lights
in a church will have all the differ
ence in the world. Exchange
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14
HER PREMONiTlON OF DEATH
Circumstances That Led Prominent
Woman to Live Ever in Fear of
impending Disaster.

A most touching account OF the
premonitiOn of coming trouble which
she experienced before the tragic
drowning of her children at Paris, was
given by Isadora Duncan, the dancer,
whose poetic interpretations charmed
the people of two continents.
Two months before the unhappy ac
cident, the bereaved woman was con-
tinuously haunted with visions of
death. Consulting her physician, she
vas assured that she was suffering
from nerves" When playing in Rus
STA shortly afterward, so strong was
her conviction, one night, that her
own death was imminent, that she left
letter containing her last words"
on her dressing table, before going
onto the stage. Again one night on
the train she seemed 10 hear Chopin's
Funeral March all night Ions. At the
same time she seemed to see a vision
which produced so vivid an impression
that on the stage next evening, en-
tlrely without rehearsal, she repro
duced it in motion, reducing her audi
ence to tears. "All through my per-
formance, Miss Duncan says: Il felt
is though | were marching to my
grave through an icy wind, and after
ward with a melody of resurrection,
sort Of ecstacy that was not earthly"
The very day of the terrible acct
dent, the mother had packed her little
ones, who had accompanied her with
their nurse to Paris, for a little outing,
where their lodgings were, as she was
TO remain in Paris for the rest Of the
day; and in saying goodbye she play
fully kissed the lips of one of her
children through the glass. Contact
with the cold pane struck q chill to
the mothers heart and strange fore
bodlng overcame her as the motor
whizzed out of sight. A few minutes
later the children were hurled from
the overturned car into, the Seine
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14
EASILY FOUND A LOOPHOLE
Once More Corporation Lawyer Made
Himself Entitled to Admira-
ton of Mankind.

They were swapping tariff yarns.
You know Simonpure Spring wa
ter-that Canadian water" a drum
mer said.
Sure, sure, Mike" they chorused
We'll, just before the Dingley tar
if bill passed, a bunch of Boston boys
bought the Simonpure spring. They
thought to get rich by importing the
water under the new tariff law.
But Dingley, bless his heart
Dingley put a duty of 25 cents a gal
Ion on spring water and the Boston
boys were in a pretty fix"
What did they do? What did they
do, eh?
Why, they sought out a corpora
ton lawyer, of course, as you or I'd
have DONE
Lawyer they said, we want to
break the law
The corporation lawyer thought
hard. Then he winked.
Freeze your water" he said. In
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14
Why No Smoke in Caesar?

Sweet lavender is now on the mar
ket and on the side-table, and the
smell of it is clean, sweet, and de-
licious. But did you ever smoke it?
This business of the tobacco trust
worries the smoker who may have to
pay more for his pipeful. And then
comes the glad news that we are
growing tobacco-and even cigar COW
erings-in England, in order to beat
Sumatra at her own game. And al
SO comes a Madrid professor, inquir-
ing what the ancient Romans smoked.
Fine old pipes have been dug up in
Spain from Roman settlements, but
they have no trace of tobacco or
opium. Yet they are adorned with
bas reliefs picturing the lavender
plant. And in 1276-before tobacco
came to Europa Spanish writer
said that whoever smokes lavender
feels active, ardent, and vigorous. ,"
But why is it that smoking never
crebt into Roman literature?
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14

cious grimace; behind him crowded
the soldiers of the commune, rifles
slung, craning their unshaven faces
to catch a glimpse of US.
"Buckhurst," l said, what the devil
do you mean by this foolery?" and I
started for him, shouIdering my way
among his grotesque escort.
For an instant I looked into his dead
ly eyes; then he silently motioned me
back; a dozen bayonets were leveled,
forcing me to retire, inch by inch.
The Countess de Vassart was al
ready in the hall. facing Buckhurst
with perfect composure.
He turned and addressed US, suave-
ly. bowling with horrid, mock defer
ence to the countess:
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14
CHAPTER XXI.
Like Her Ancestors.


j leaned in the embrasure OF the
ed lanterns, which dangled from the
halvards at Saint-Yssel The soldier
FallanG had so far kept his word
three red lamps glimmered through a
driving mist; the white lanterns hung
above, family shining.
Full in the freight of the room sat
the young countess, lost in reverie.
hands clasping the gilt arms of her
chair. At her feet dozed Ange Pitou.
L am afraid story | have to tell is
not going to be very cheerful" l said,
land | am also afraid that | must ask
you to listen to it,
She met my eyes with composure,
leaned a little toward me- and waited.
And SO, sitting there in the tinted
glare, | told her of the death of Del
mont and of Tavernier, and of Buck
bursts share in the miserable work
Madame, am paining you" said;
'but | am going to cause you even
greater unhappiness.
Tell me what is necessary" she
said, forming the words with frightened
lips.
Then I must tell you that it is nee
essary for Mademoiselle Elven to leave
Trecaurt tonight"
''Why?"
1t is better that l do not tell you,
madame"
Tell me. 1t is my right to know
Not now; later, if you insist"
This is dreadful" she muttered.
IF | did not know you,
IL | did not trust you so perfectly,
trust you with all my heart!
Oh, are you certain she must
go? 1t frightens me; it is so strange!
] have grown fond of her And
now you say that she must go ] can
not understand cannot"
No, you cannot understand" | re-
peated, gently; but she can 1t is a
serious matter for Mademoiselle Ell
ven; it could not easily be more seri-
Gus. 1t is even perhaps question of
life or death, madame"
In heavens name, help her, theni'
she said, scarcely controlling the
alarm that brought a pitiful break in
her voice.
I am trying to-" l saids And now
! must consult Mademoisele Elyen.
Will you help me?"
What can | do?' she asked.
Stand by that window. Look ma
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14

Then it will not be hard D..
Perhaps not even very painful
The key turning in the door startled
US. Buckhurst entered, and through
the hallway l saw his dishevelled sol
diers running, flinging open doors,
tearing, trampling, pillaging, wrecking
everything in their path.
Your business will be attended 10
in the garden at dawn" he observed,
blinking about the room, for the bright
lamp light daZzled him.
The countess did not even glance up
as the sentence was pronounced she
looked at me and laid her left hand on
mine, smiling, as though waiting for
the moment to resume an interrupted
conversation.
He went away, sIamming and lock
ing the door; and | heard Mornac com
planning that the signals had gone out
on the semaphore and that there was
more threachery abroad
CTO BE CONTINUED
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14
Good in EuttermiIk.

In his examinations Dr.. Ellie Metch-
nikoff, the Russian author Of the the
DRY of phagocytosis, has observed that
the germs which curdle the Bulgarian
milk are larger and more powerful
than the ordinary germs. This germ
has the effect of stimulating other
germs in the body, tending to increase
the life Of a person The white cor
puscles Of the blood, or leucocytes,
which DR.. Metchnikoff terms pha-
gocytes (cells which devour), are moth
ing more nor less than the defensive
army Of the corporal system. They
especially struggle against the nh
crobes of putrefaction. This germ
bacillus Bulgaricus being extern.
siyely introduced in this country.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14

| turned to Eyre. This is interest
ing" l said, grimly Il set signals for
the Fer-de-Lance to land In force.
Somebody has changed them. You had
better get ready to CO."
Sylvia had shrunk away from Eyre.
The countess looked at her blankly,
then at me.
Madame" | said, there is little
enough of happiness in the world-so
little that when it comes it should be
welcomed, even by those who may not
share in it,
And | bent nearer and whispered the
truth
Sylvia" murmured the young
countess, incredulously. "a spy And
she brings this-this shame on mel"
Sylvia turned, standing unsteadily.
For long time they looked at each
other in silence, their eyes wet with
tears. Then Eyre lifted Sylvia's hand
and kissed it, and led her away, clos
ing the door behind.
The countess still stood in the cen
ter of the room, transixed, rigid, star
ing through her tears at the closed
door. With deep drawn breath she
Strengthened her shoulders; her head
dropped; she covered her face with
clasped hands.
What have l done?" she cried,
brokenly have l done that this
shame should come upon me-"
You have done nothing" l said,
neither for good nor evil in this
crisis. But Sylvia has; Sylvia the
spy. That a man should give up his
life for a friend is good; that woman
offers hers for her country is better.
She has done her duty; the sacrifice
is still burning; l pray it may spare
her and spare him"
The countess looked at me scornful-
ly. Il think that we are not fitted to
understand each other"
1T remains | said, for me to thank
you for your kindness to us all, and for
your generosity to me in my time of
need. 1t is quite useless for
me to dream of repaying it.
shall never forget it. | ask
leave to make my adieux, madame"
She flushed to her temples, but did
not answer.
AS | stood looking at her, a vivid
flare Of light flashed through the win
dow behind me, crimsoning the walls,
playing over the ceiling with an in
fernal radiance. At the same instant
the gate outside crashed open, hub
bub Of voices swelled into roar; then
the outer doors were flung back and a
score Of men sprang into the hallway,
soldiers with the red torch-light dane
ing on rifle barrels and bayonets.
And before them, revolver swinging
in his slender hand, strobe Buckhurst,
red sash tied across his breast, his
colorless eyes like diamonds.
Speed and JacqueIine came hurrying
through the hall to where I stood;
Buckhurst's smile was awful as his
eyes flashed from Speed to me.
Behind him, close to his shoulder,
the torch-light fell on Mornac's smooth,
false face, stretched now into a fero-
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14
Interesting LEGAL Opinion.

A decision by the supreme court of
Minnesota is not supported by many
authorities but is regarded by the New
York Law Journal as "of much inter
est and essentially just" 1t is the
case of the city Of Minneapolis versus
Canterbury, in which it not only ap-
plies to an officer of a municipal cor
poration the obligation of absolute
faith in dealing on behalf of the city,
but similarly, as with an agent in be-
half of a private principal, holds him
liable in direct action to recover the
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14

induce a disqualification, there still
remain about 2,400 microbic colonies
to the grain Of white salt. On a ham
cured in salt liquor, NJ. VanErmengem
found the very poisonous bacillus bo-
tulinus.
NJ Andouard concludes from his OBJ
serTations that salt is a substance
more or less impure from both the
chemical and meteorological point OF
view, and that serious measures are
called for refining. sterilization and
clean packing-to put an end to the
disorders that may be caused by this
product
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14
Course in Natural History.
tut at our country estate

'Uut at our country estate
why, l thought you lived in city
boarding house?"
Z do, but we have an old hen Of a
landlady; her husband is a hog, and
the star boarderess is a cat; her son
is bounding US all the time for a pen
ny; one of the boarders is mulish, an
other has horse-laugh; even / seem
to be a lion among the women there.
And as for the rest of it, one of her
daughters is a pippin, another a
peach; their aunt is a lemon; there's
a regular pumpkin-head there and
"a" But the inquirer had fed
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14

proceeds of the breach of his public
trust inuring to his public benefit.
The court laid down the rule that
where city officer, while acting in
an advisory capacity to a committee
of the council charged with the seIec-
ton Of site for a building to be used
in connection with his department,
purchased certain land with the view
of selling it to the city for such pur-
pose, and conveyed it to a third per
son, who, pursuant to the plan. sold it
to the city at an advanced price, the
officer became trustee for and liable
to the city to the extent of the diff
ference between the price paid by him
and that paid by the city"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14
Lights of London.

London will be one Of the best
lighted cities in the world when the
installation of a new system of cen
trally suspended lamps using high
pressure gas with inverted burners
has been completed. Although the
amount Of Illumination viii be in
creased by 5000 candle power, it is
estimated that saving of about s34,-
600 year will be made over the old
system.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14
Quick ExpIainer.

You needn't take your shoes off
in the hall" said Mrs. G. We're, hoping
to conceal the fact that you have been
out till o'clock in the morning"
mo concealment intended" replied
her husband. 81 was merely getting
a little practise in the new fad Of
tangoing in stocking feet"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14

port it in cakes and bottle it on this
side of the border. There amt no
duty on ice
Aren't these corporation lawyers
wonders? The scheme worked and
it's still working. Simonpure spring
water is drunk all over the Union
today and on every gallon Of it,
thanks to that corporation lawyer,
the government is robbed Of 25 cents. +"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-04-14

While this discourse is recorded
only by St. Luke, still there are many
things mentioned here to which our
Lord made reference on other occa-
sions. Last Sundays Easter lesson
made break in the sequence of les
sons we have been following, and shall
follow for several succeeding Sundays.
Leaving the chief Fharisee's house
wherein he criticized both host and
guests, great multitudes" followed
our Lord. Turning, he uttered some
of the severest and yet the most won
derful words that ever fell from his
lips, as we shall see if we follow all
of this part of our lesson series.