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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-02-27

FOR SALE--Jersey and Durham COW,
past two years old; was fresh in Jan
uary 7O3 North Fourteenth street.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-02-27

SlXRO0M house for rent between
Chemeketa and Court, ON Fifteenth
street. Apply l4l7 Court, Phone
l43l.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-02-27

WANTED--At once, few fresh COWS,
heavy mixers. Il, + Long, 100 South
Twenty.fifth street Phone l322.R.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02

fer with our neighbors. There is no
one subject in the whole world upon
which we all agree, therefore it is but
natural that we have many differences.
We can condone the differences OF
opinion and decline to enter into con-
troversies, or we can argue whenever
we have the chance, and engage IN
constant strife
Which is the best way to get along?
The man who argues all his life has
little time for other affairs.
The man who declines to become in
volved in wordy discussions has plenty
of time to attend to his own business.
And in this world it is the man who
attends to his own business who pros
pers
This life is made UP of disputes and
arguments. YOU can argue with your
best friend until you become a pest
and an unwelcome visitor. You can
spend your time discussing the affairs
Of others until, no matter if you win
your arguments, you will discover thar
you have made yourself unpopular.
Unpopularity is not an asset in the
business of life. 1t never paid a divi-
dend. 1t never brought in any wages
And it is strictly your business to
try to make the best of everything
in your community, to help create har-
mony, to boost" your home town all
the time and to help those who can
help you.
Harmony creates peace, and peace
engenders prosperity. Your town
wants peace and harmony, especially
between the people and the merchants.
1t is peace and harmony that make
business good-that add a value to
your own house and lot.
Envy walks hand in hand with NAL
ice down every village street, and
when this pair appears on the street
the white dove of peace futters into
a corner and hides.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
HIS CRITICISM WAS AT FAULT
English General Had Much to Learn
of the Geography of the
United States.

The European has grown SO accus-
his ignorance of European affairs,
especially since the outbreak of the
war, that we have grown to take the
snub submissively, with never a
thought of the even more gross ignor-
ance of things American on the part
of Europeans.
Yet that such ignorance is common
in Europe, even among the educated
and military classes, there is no doubt.
The elder Charles Francis Adams, who
was, United States minister to Great
Britain during the Civil war, used to
tell the following experience with a
prominent Englishman:
Late in July. 1863, there being no
cable then laid under the Atlantic,
steamer from New York brought to
the American legation in London dis
patches announcing the fall of Vicks-
burg and Lees repulse at Gettysburg
On the same day. A few evenings
later l held a reception in honor of
the double victory, inviting all the
pIOmluOHL HSuTSS VI GuSllSu OLlCldf
society.
Among the guests was Maj Gen.
Garnet Wolseley, afterward command
er in chief of the British army. After
congratulating me upon the dual sue
cess of the Union arms, he added:
'Yet | think your generals made a
very serious blunder, Mr. Adams"
I'm what respect?' I asked, some
what mystified; for it had seemed to
me that Grant, at Vicksburg, and
Meade, at Gettysburg, had done about
all there was to be done.
"Why, in resting upon their arms"
explained General Wolseley I'm or
der to make the two victories COM
plete, General Grant should have
Joined his forces with those Of Meade
that night and, by daylight the next
morning. fallen upon the remnants of
Lees army and crushed it"
Though sorely tempted, l considered
my position as a minister and re-
Trained from calling the doughty gen.
erals attention to the fact that Vicks-
burg and Gettysburg are a thousand
miles apart!
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
SATIRE CONTAINS A MORAL
Demand Than Those One
Ones Real Qualities May Be More in
Makes PretenSe Of.

Among the clever satires in Barry
Pains new book, Stories Without
Tears is one which relates how a
publisher went to an employment
agency to secure clever writer.
The agency man told him it would
be easy to fill the order.
We've got $50 clever writer's on
our books he said I'll send few
dozen of the best around to your office
this afternoon and you can pick one.
That do?'
Nicely said the customer, and
rose to go, when he remembered some
thing. BY the way, he said, also
want boy who can be trusted to take
charge of the stamps and petty cash.
Then Mr.. Agency threw down his
pen. He did not book that order. He
gave sigh like a high-power suction
pump. Do your he said in a melan-
choly voice. We'll, if you find two save
one for me. | want one myself
"Oh my poor friends who are trying
to be cleverer than you are, remember
that the world also wants honest men.
And, as things stand at present,
Patent Tills with the Unmonkeyable
Lock are better market than Brain
Fertilizers containing Free Phos-
phorus."
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
Wild Horses.

True wild horses, intractable and
terrified in mans presence, have been
the subject of some interesting ex-
periments. 1t was long believed that
true wild horses with unbroken wild
ancestry were extinct, but the animals
discovered by PrjevaAski in the Cobb
desert, in Asia, have been pronounced
by Russian naturalists wild horses of
a distinct kind, with no relationship
to the ass. A few years ago about
thirty of the horses were captured
They were mere colts, most of which
have grown to maturity in Russia, but
q few were taken to the estate of the
duke of Bedford in England They
have developed from their shaggy and
awkward youth into animals of good
appearance. They have some resem-
blance to the domestic horse, with the
same neigh and frightened snort. but
all attempts to tame them and make
them useful have failed, and they are
still badly frightened when any per-
son comes within several rods of
them. Efforts Of the Mongolians to
tame the horses have been equally un-
successful
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
Reducing IlIIteracY.

Only fifteen out of every Sne thou
sand children from ten to fourteen
years of age in the United States are
unable to read and write.
These figures just announced by the
federal bureau of education show a
striking decrease in child illiteracy
during the last fourteen years. In 1900
the number of illiterate children be-
tween the ages Of ten and fourteen
was forty-two in every thousand. In
1910 this number was reduced to TWEEN
ty-two. Four years have further low
cred it to more than SS 1-3 per cent.
Assuming only the latter rate of de-
crease. twenty years more may see
youthful illiteracy in this country al
most cease to exist save among newly
arrived immigrant families. Nor can
the present rate of improvement fail
to produce in the same period a
marked change in the percentage of
illiteracy in the entire population of
ten years and over-which in 1910 was
TT, or seventy-five illiterates for every
thousand.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02

and l now feel fine. / am regular, my
stomach is better and my pains have all
left me. You can use my name if you
like. | am proud Of what your rene
dies have done for me. = Mrs. MARY
GAUTHIER, q Ridge ST.. Montpelier, Vt.
An Honest Dependable Medicine
It must be admitted by every fair
minded, intelligent person, that medi-
cine could not live and grow in popularity
for nearly forty years, and to-day hold
a record for thousands upon thousands
of actual cures, as has Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, without
possessing great virtue and actual
worth. Such medicines must be looked
upon and termed both standard and
dependable by every thinking person.
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia T.. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound will help you, write
toLydia E.Pinkham Medicine Co.
(confidentiaD Lynn, Mass, for adj
vice. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by q woman,
and held in strict confidence.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
Teachers Triumph.

Sir Herbert Tree told a story of his
own school days when presenting
prizes the other day at a school
speech day.
"On one occasion" he said, my
teacher admonished me thus:
Herbert. you will end your days
on the gallows.'
"One night, quite recently, when
was acting Fagin in oliver Twist, this
same teacher turned up and he hap
peneG to come around to see me just
when / was being led off with a rope
around my neck.
"'There, what did I tell your he
said, triumphantly."
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
a woman's Ionic.

The following fable, which is prob
ably of Turkish origin, is not without
a touch of truth: AS a woman was
walking, man looked at and followed
her.
why" said she, "do you follow
me?"
Because" he said, "I have fallen in
love with you"
why SO? My sister, who is coming
after me, is much handsomer than /
an. Go and make love to her"
The man turned back, and saw a
woman with an ugly face, and, being
greatly displeased, returned and said:
why should you tell me q false
hood?"
The woman answered: Neither
did --ou tell me the truth; for, if you
were in love with me, why did you
look back for another woman ?"-
The Pathfinder
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02

no vail ascending when eggs are 40
or 90 cents. A few pounds of water
glass will keep eggs perfectly and
they are SO like fresh eggs that they
may be used in almost any way.
The following dishes are for those
thrifty housewives who have supplied
themselves with plenty of eggs, or
who have hens which lay at this
season
Eggs and Onions in Cream Sauce
Cook four small onions in boiling
water until tender, adding salt when
they are about half-cooked Cook four
eggs in boiling water, by covering
them with the water and allow them
to stand in a warm place tightly COW
cred for half hour. Turn cold water
over them and remove the shells
Prepare a cupful of rich white sauce,
using two tablespoonfuls each of flour
and butter and cupful of rich milk.
Season well With salt and paprika and
put the sauce, eggs cut n quarters
and the onions in layers. in a buttered
baking dish. Let the contents thor
oughly heat and serve hot Just the
last few minutes sprinkle with but
tered crumbs and brown
Eggs Baked in Potato Nests.-For
each nest pare medium-sized potatoes
and cook until tender in boiling sailed
water Mash and season with butter
and a few tabIespoonfuls of cream
and whip until Eight and white. On
buttered baking sheet form small
rounds of the mashed potato and leave
a depression deep enough to hold an
egg broken into them. Sprinkle the
inside Of the nests generously with
chopped ham, then drop in the eggs.
Brush the edges Of potato with the
beaten yolk of an egg and brown in
the oven.
~sa
XoSS' N.N
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
TALK ON WESTERN
CANADA
Facts Don't Lie-Western Cam
ada Is Full of Facts-Here
Are Three of Them.

I. G. T. Moore, Underhill, Man.
Came from Bruce County, Ontario,
1882, with a capital of $500. Home
steaded quarter section. Now owns
$500 acres for which he paid average
of $20.00-worth today $4,000 per acre.
2. James Steel, Battleford, Sas-
katchewan. Came from Perthshire,
Scotland, 1904. His fare advanced to
bring himself and family to Canada.
Took up homestead, which he sold
later $500 per acre, buying 1000
acres at $500 per acre. Has been
very successful in mixed farming.
Values land now at $4,000 per acre,
and is worth $4,000. "If / had re-
manned in the Old Country my gray
hairs would have been passport to
the poor house." he says.
8. H. J. Smith, Glover Bar, Alberta.
Came from North Michigan, 1898,
without capital. Now farming 500
acres. valued at 5000 per acre. Pur-
chased originally at $500 per acre.
Engaged in mixed farming. Cows
average him $4,000 a year.
All this talk about the exploitation
of labor by capital, class distinction,
living wage, high cost of living, and
SO forth, doesn't hold the slightest
interest for the Canadian farmer.
Why? Because he has proved that
you can't begin too poor to become
rich in Canada; that free homesteads
preclude the possibility of being
robbed of freedom and independence;
that the high cost of living can't hurt
the man who grows most of his own
necessities; that his labor brings re-
ward in exact and just proportion to
time and intelligence invested.
If those who whine at urban condi-
tons would give little time to in
vestigating those suburban, they
would likely spy clear way out Of
their difficulties. For the first step,
drop a card to any Canadian Govern
ment Agent.-Advertisem
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
LAWYERS Still Use Quill PENS.

The quill pen is not quite extinct in
London. The legal profession, which
is very conservative, clihgs to it te-
naciously, and none of the courts
would be completely equipped without
plentiful supply of good goose quilts.
Have you noticed what an indispens-
able accessory the quill is to counsel,
whether in ostentatiously taking a
note, making a speech. or in helping
to point warning finger at a hos
tile witness London Chronicle.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
For Eve Years
| was
Troubled
with a
Chronic
Disease.
Peruna
Cured me
Sound
and Well.

Mrs. Maggie Durb;n. 20S Victory
ST.. Little Rock. Ark, writes: II was
troubled for five years with a chronic
disease. l tried everything ! heard
Of but nothing did me any good.
Some doctors said my trouble was
catarrh of the bowels. and some said
consumption Of the bowels. One
doctor said he could cure me: took
his medicine two months. but It did
me no good. A friend of mine adj
vised me to try Peruna and l did so.
After | had taken two bottles / found
it was helping me. so 1 continued its
use. and it has cured me sound and
we'll can recommend Peruna to
any one, and If any one wants to
know what Peruna did for me IL they
will write to me will answer
promptly"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
Degeneration of the Hous.

No jokes are better appreciated than
those that are made unwittingly by
sober-minded men. Not long ago
solemn member of congress was hold
ing forth in that body in a pessimistic
strain about what he telt to be a great
falling off in the character and stand
ing of that august body. Since
came into this house four years ago."
he announced with the utmost gravity,
1.-The confidence of the public in it has
much diminished"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02

and wiped, into thin slices, to the
core. Reject the seeds and core. To
the sliced oranges add six quarts of
water, cover and let stand over night
Next morning bring to the boiling
point and slowly simmer for three
hours. Add seven pounds of sugar
and cook until clear and like jelly
South American Marmaiade.-Take
equal quantities of sour oranges and
sugar. Crate or slice the yellow rind
from one-fourth of the oranges, cut
the fruit in halves and scoop out the
pulp, rejecting the seeds. Drain off
as much juice as possible, put it with
the sugar in saucepan and STIR
cooking Is minutes, skim and add
the pulp and rind and boil for 20
minutes or until the mixture jellies.
Amber Marmalade.-This is one of
the cheapest and finest marmalades
Take one grapefruit, one orange,
and one lemon, slice pulp skin and all
very fine, rejecting the seeds and the
cores. Cover with five pints of wa
ter and let stand over night. In the
morning put on to cook unit! the pulp
and skins are tender, then add five
pints of sugar and cook until the mix
ture jellies. The flavor of this mar
malade is very good and the last
glass will be as delightful as the first
Grapefruit rmaIade.-Wash
dozen fine oranges and half a dozen
grapefruit. Cut them in thin slices
from the outside to the core, reject
ing seeds and core, add lemons,
sliced in the same way. Mix all to-
gether and add six quarts of cold
water, let stand over night. Next
day bring to the boiling point and
cook for two hours and a half, until
the pulp is thick. Add seven
pounds of sugar, and when it is trans
parent and jells, pour into glasses and
cover as one does jelly
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
TENDER SENSITIVE SKINS
1uici<ly Soothed by Cuticura. Moth
ing Better. Trial Free.

Especially when preceded by hot
bath with Cuticura Soap. Many COM
forting things these fragrant super
creamy emollients may do for the
skin, scalp, hair and hands and do it
quickly, effectively and economically.
Also for the toilet, bath and nursery.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. Ky,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
He Needn't Despair.

A Scotch girl who had accidentally
cut the point of her index finger with
chopper was coming from church
with her finger bandaged.
WHAT'S the matter wi yer haun' +,
Miss PARRISH" queried an admirer
who accompanied her home.
oh replied the young lady, Il
chopped wee bit off my forefnger."
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
AnSMere

Juvenile wit sometimes is doubly
pointed.
How many bad boys does it take
to make a good one?" a tactless social
worker once asked of a class of lively
street urchins.
"One if you treat him well" came
the quick reply.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
To Be Sure.

PA, what is the short and ugly
word ?"
1T depends on the circumstances,
son. A word that is pleasing ordinar
lily can be quite transformed when
spoken by person who is in an ugly
mood"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
WOMAN IN
BAD CONDITION
Restored To Health by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound.
Montpelier, VT. eve have great
Faith in your remedies. | was very ir-

regular a n q w q .
tired and sleepy all
the time, would have
cold chills, and my
hands and feet would
bloat. My stomach
bothered me, | had
pain in my side and
a bad headache most
Of the time. Lydia
E. PinKham's Vege-
table Compound has
dot,a mo loIc IF uood
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02

best. This, then, is the
season for making the
sirups and marmalades
which we will enjoy
through the year.
The English prefer
their marmalade rather
more bitter than we do
English MarmaIade.-
Cut one dozen large fine
ORANGES well wash ed
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02

Gus kinds and re-
mark upon the
high price of eggs.
If one would be a
little \ forehanded
and pack a few
dozen when they
are 20 cents a doz-
en- there would be
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
Couldn't Dictate.

''Is there any war news today?"
Not a word"
Whats the matter?"
"The enemy captured our generals
stenographer"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
Iaxk.- Tle,<sseA..
Return Engagement.

He says l am the first girl he ever
kissed"
Nonsense. He has probably kissed
hundreds"
You don't understand He means
he met me here six seasons ago"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
More Effective,

First F'ather-Do you turn out the
lights when your daughters beau
stays too late?
Second Father-No-I turn out the
young man!
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
Formation of Character.

No great characters are formed In
this world without suffering and self
denial-MattheW Henry.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
Mot So Swift

you city people think you are swift
with your trots and your tangoes.'
well, can you country people beat
them?"
q don't think they've got anything
on our kissing games"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
A estion.

He's his own worst enemy"
''Then he ought to apologize to him
self and start all over again"
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Exact Copy of Wrapper.
Children of Larger Growth.

Children of Larger Growth.
Little Marion and her next-door
neighbor, Donald, were engaged in an
absorbing conversation.
who are these anarchist people?'
asked Marion.
why" returned the boy, ''they
want everything everybody else has
got, and they never wash themselves"
ooh, see,' replied the little miss,
a great light dawning, they is the
little boys growed up!"-National
Monthly.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02

A hen sits still and earns her corn,
but it's powerful few men who can
do it.-Macor News.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02

In Illinois the average salary of
the $500 men teachers is s722.67 a
year.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02

The wise wife never insists upon hav-
ing her own way. She merely has it,
and says nothing.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
IAMlH
G6ABINEG
Virtue may choose the high or low de-
gree,
IT'S just alike to virtue and to me.
Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king,
She's still the same BELOVED, con-
tented thing.-Pope.
TOOTHSOME MARMALADES.

During the months of February and
March the oranges are cheapest and
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02

The croaker generally has little to
say, but is willing to keep on saying
Indianapolis Star.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02

YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TELL YOU
Ery Murine Eye Remedy for Red Weak, Watery
Eyes and GRADUATED Eyelids; No Smarting-
Just Eye comfort. Write for Book of the Eye
by mail Free. Murine Eye Remedy Co.. Chicago
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02

The man who is pleased with him.
self is usually easily satisfied.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02

There is nothing so mean and hate
full as one woman who refuses to tell
another woman a secret.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
EGG DISHES.

About this season OF year we be-
GIN to look for eggless dishes of vari-
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02

There is no remedy for time misspent;
No healing for the waste of idle
ness,
Whose very languor is a punishment
Heavier than active souls can feel
or guess
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
Covering a Eat Man.

It takes a broad cloth coat to cover
the big fat man.
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Must Be.

you say that she is sending your
letters back unopened. Then you may
be sure that she has given you up"
'Why?"
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The Reason.
loaded"

why was that man fred?"
81 think it was because he was
loaded