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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-05-07

Going further along the railroad you
reach the Nenana coal fields and then come
to the Telovana gold region which lies moi
far from the route between Nenana and
Fairbanks. This is a new district, where
something like 500 men are now prospect
ing They took out 100000 worth of gold
last summer, and the possibilities are prom
lsing.
But most important OF all the mining re-
gions SO far discovered is that of Fairbanks
itself The whole country about that city
carries gold As much as So0,OO0,OO0 worth
has already been washed out OF the creeks
and valleys nearby, and the production last
year was three and one-half million dollars.
The most of this comes from pacers quartz
mining is a comparatively new industry and
it has produced only about 100000.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-05-07

The Alaskan mining regions will profit
exceedingly by the cheap fuel that will come
from the railroads. Those Of the Kenai pen.
insula, the Matanuska valley and all south OF
Broal! pass will have cheap coal from the
Chickaloon coal fields, whereas those on the
northern side of the pass and in the Tanana
valley will be supplied by the great coal de-
posts of the Nenana region. The Chicka-
loon coal is from the Matanuska fields. 1t is
said to be equal to the Pocahontas. The
government has mined and tested 800 tons
of it on the vessels of the navy and it is
found to be excellent. 1t can be used for
cooking and it will be the first Alaskan coal OF
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-05-07

wish | could show you the roadbed and
track 50 far constructed. The newralway
looks as though it might form an exhibit in
national exposition. It runs through the
woods, but the land on both sides has been
cleared and the bitches drain away every bit
Of the water. 4 smooth bed OF gravel, ten
or more feet in height, has been made
through the valley Of Ship creek, and this is
OF the requisite width for the track. | have
never seen better looking roadbed any
where, and now at its beginning it compares
favorably i'll appearance with that of the
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
The Indian Sian Language.

white man who visits q foreign
nation finds it hard and sometimes
impossible to make his most ordinary
wants known. The red man has no
such difficulty the problem of a uni
yersal language was solved centuries
ago by the savage inhabitants of this
western world. Should an Indian from
northern Alaska go to Patagonia he
could by means of this universal lam
guage converse with his southern
brethren almost as easily as he could
with his neighb0rs at home. That
would also be the case if he visited
Central America or met the tribes
men of our own western prairies and
mountains. When this language. was
invented no one knows, but every In
dian learns it in addition to his own.
Recently two chiefs of different tribes
met in the Geographic society rOosA-
in Washington and held conversation
that lasted nearly three hours, and yet
neither one knew a word Of the 9TH
er'S language This universal lam
guage is, of course, made up of signs.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
Beating the Shifting Sands.

Confronted by the task of building
highway over a desert of constantly
shifting sands, which in few years
might cover and render useless q road
bed of macadam or concrete, the Cali
fOrnia highway commission has INTRO
duced type of paving which is port
able, so that it can be easily moved to
conform to the changing topography of
the country. Popular Mechanics Maya
zine describes the paving as made of
plank, built in sections u feet long
and feet wide, and hauled by wagons
to the points where it is needed. This
unused thOroughfare extends six miles
across a portion of the desert
lying between Yuma, Ariz., and
Holtville, Cal. The plank sections
are built on by 6-inch stringers. The
units are bound together by iron
strips placed over rows of spikes, one
either side and one along the center
of the roads Roundheaded bolts rum
ming through the planks and stringers
are used to hold the strips down. The
latter, in addition to joining the units
together, keep the spikes from working
out of the lumber.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
~ SEEN B. Sipkin this morning

~ SEEN B. Sipkin this morning
getting out of new twin six"
Louis Birsky the real estater
said to Barnett Zapp the waist manu-
facturer "That Teller goes from a
pushcart to a ottomobeel in less than
five years"
Less than two years, you mean,"
Zapp said. What was the price ticket
business before the war started, Biz
sky? And since then he's been work
ing day and night manufacturing
tags for Tag Days. He told me he
could of sold twice as many tags if it
wouldn't be that it's so hard to get
red ink for putting red crosses on
EN-"
"The war amt been so bad that
way" Birsky said. It's done good
deal to make people give to charities"
''War charities" Zapp corrected.
Charities oder war charities" Biz
sky said whats the difference"
There's d whole lot of difference"
Zapp replied. "a business man which
gives away his money to charity may
OSer care a nickel whether the flood
victims ever dry out or not, just so
long as the newspapers don't spell his
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
ConVaIe Scence.

The return from illness to health is
like coming up from dive, supposing
the time from when the swimmer frse
sees light through the water until his
head rises to the surface to be the
affair of weeks. The change in phys
icaI condition may be slow, but the
change in orientation takes place in
twinkling and is complete. The eye
no longer looks down into unplumbed
deeps, but back toward the light of
day; curiosity for the ultimate yields
to a golden memory of familiar things
friends, household goods, books,
barking dogs, the freshness of grass
and trees. The body has reasserted
itself. The dreaming Imagination is
dragged away from it's goal by the
gallOping senses. Eye, ear, touch,
taste start upon rampage. Especially
does the appetite for food wax furious,
discovering itself endowed with power
to transform a coddled egg into some
thing rich and strange, and to illumine
chicken broth with a charm that no
art can equal. The universe lately
shrunk to the Sickroom, now rises
again like the genie out of the bottle
in which he had been imprisoned; the
siclIrOOm becomes a house of deten-
ton, and at its door, as in a seashell
clapped to the ear, the convalescent
hearkens to all the rumors of the outer
world.-Henry Dwight Sedgwick, in
The Atlantic.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
WHERE DEATH Turks ALWAYS
Bullets Sing Without ceasing, and
Birds Sometimes, in "No Mans
Land" on Battle Front.

But 1t is a wonderful thing, that
strip we call No Mans Land, running
from the North sea to Switzerland
500 miles. All the way along the line,
day and night. without a moments
cessation, through all these long
months, mems eyes have been glaring
across that forsaken strip, and lead
has been flying to and fro over it.
TO show yourself means death. But
| have heard a lark trilling over it
in the early morning as sweetly as any
bird ever sung over an English
meadow. A lane of death 500 miles
long, strewn from end to end with
the remains of soldiers. And to either
side of it all through those 500 miles,
q warren of trenches, dugouts, saps,
tunnels, underground passages, inhab
tied, not by rabbits, but by millions
of rats, it is true, and millions of hiv
ing, busy men, with countless billions
of rounds of death-dealing ammuni-
ton, and a complex organization as
closely ordered and complete as the
organization of any city in England
From a British Officers Letter in the
Forum.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22

Zapp, which she has been taking voice
production for years already, and
every time size opens her mouth, Zapp,
it goes through you like a knife.
Three times already on account of
that woman my wife drags me to bene~
fit concerts for them poor wounded
soldiers. l tell you, Zapp, it brings
the war pretty close home to you. l
amt suffered so much with my ears
since 1 got mastoiditis that time with
private room in Doctor Eichendor-
fer's sanitarium."
"And people has the nerve to say
she's kind hearted too, Birsky,"s Zapp
said. Il don't suppose that woman
wishes them poor wounded soldiers
any harm, Birsky. but l bet she hopes
the war would last anyhow through
the concert seasons of 1861 and
1917-1S. Yes, Birsky, before these
here war sufferers concerts. was
pulled off the only chance such a sing
er would got to figure in the newspa
pers is in case the Board of Health
refused to pay any attention to the
complaints of the other tenants in her
apartment house and they carried the
matter to a Magistrates Court"
"Sure | know" Birsky said. There's
many a Teller has sit through one of
these here benefit concerts thinking
of them poor wounded soldiers laying
comfortably in hospitals sOmewheres
in France and has said to himself
after all what is it so terrible that
Teller should lose leg or an arm.
Am l right or wrong?
Listen, Birsky, you are talking
now from concerts" Zapp said, "aber
the time when you really begin to
figure that maybe if you'd stayed in
the old country you'd of been a whole
lot better off even reckoning Zeppelins
and liquid fire and everything, Birsky,
is when you go once on war benefit
bazaar What some kind hearted
ladies will do in the way of making
change for the sake of them poor
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22

Fair of the l. o. Nj. A, Birsky, I
dred decks of cards out of Lurie the
stationery jobber. L even bought them
from the sporting goods booth myself
at five dollars for the lot. Birsky, and
every deck was perfect excepting for
a couple of missing high spades and
the joker So you could. take it from
me, Birsky, if some one donates
cigars to Charity bazaar, if they
amt exactly fireproof they're anyhow
of slow. burning construction, and in
trying to smoke a boxful you could
take off a couple pounds in weight
principally around the cheeks
Even So" Birsky said. IA Teller
stands a better show TO get his
moneys worth by buying articles at
bazaars as by taking chances on
things. | bet in my time I've took
chances ut bazaars on everything from
oitermobiles down to pianos, and its
my opinion, Zapp, that before the
oiterlnobile company allows the car to
he put on exhibition at the bazaar the
donation committee has got TO execute
a surety company bond in twice The
amount of the list price of the car
that the winning number 31416 will
he pasted to the bottom of the hat and
the car returned TO the company upon
the presentation Of such number with
in twenty-four hours after the close
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
Bodily Housekeeping
(BY V. M. PIERCE, M. d.

The subject of drinking water with
meals has been misunderstood.
In recent years investigation by
means Of X-rays, the observations of
scientists such as Cannon, Grutzner,
PavlOv, Fowler, Hawk, prove that an
abundance of water taken during di-
gestion is necessary in good bodily
housekeeping.
If your kidneys are sick, or you suf-
fer with lumbago or rheumatism at
times, pain in the back or back of the
neck, take little Anuric before meals.
This can be found at any good drug
store. Therefore my advice to young
or old is, always drink plenty Of pure
water. And for long life, occasionally
take tablets of Anuric three or four
times day.
Anuric acts-much more quickly
than lithia. You will find it dissolveS
uric acid as water does sugar,
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
Why Labor Is Scarce,

Here is one reason which you may
have overlooked why labor is growing
Scarcer every day in the United States:
We have now in Pennsylvania alone
225,000 automobiles. One-third of them
are pleasure cars driven by chauf-
feurs, an army of $4,000 able-bodied
men removed entirely from produc-
tive work.
The army of pleasure car chauffeurs
in the whole country must exceed half
million men-all nonproducers. In
deed, there is another great big army
of men building pleasure cars to be
operated by these other nonproducers
of essentials.
They used to complain In Germany
that every taxpayer had to carry a sol
der OH his back. We vary it in the
United States by carrying u chauffeur
on our backs, says "Girard" in the
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
Sound Advice,

"Now, looky yur, CoOnrod!" said
Mr.. Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge,
Ark, addressing one of his sons.
There's time to fight and time
not to fight, just the same as there's
time to c'ng and time to dance, and
don't want you to get 'em mixed.
Don't be too proud to fight when it Is
time to fight, but don't be too dad
burned anxious. BE sure you're right,
then let 'er rip! as the poet got Off.
But not only be sure you're right, but
be certain you're sure, and then hop
to 1t like bagging wildcats. You can't
unblack a feller's eyes or unjust his
nose, after you've BACKED 'em or
busted it."-Kansas City Star.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
Don't Know Own Names.

The case of the witness ut Kingston
police court who did not know the
name of the thorOughfare wherein he
lived could easily be paralleled any
day in London's mean streets. More,
instances have been known where q
wife did not know her husbands, and
consequently her own name. In the
easy going fashion of the poor streets
people are known by some short title
such as Bill or Ginger. Very well,
Liza from the pickle factory gets ac-
quainted with a young man under such
a name, and eventually marries the
said Bill Or Ginger without ever know
ing his peoples surname. Why, then,
should these Bohemians trouble to
learn the names of their own Streets
London Globe.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22

Of the bazaar and that this agreement
shall apply to and bind the parties
hereto, their heirs, executors, admin
lStratorS, successors and assigns. Yes.
Zapp, five thousand people may be
taking chances on that oitermobile,
Zapp, but the oitermobile company
amt, you can bet your sweet life."
well, if the common people was
more charitably inclined" Zapp said,
there wouldn't be no necessity for
bazaars. Former times people used
TO was charitable just for the sake of
being charitable. The way they fig
ured was that if they wouldn't be
charitable, understand, maybe they
would be Jonahed with q little bad
business or they would break leg
oder something, but nowadays when
everybody knows about cost b0ox-
keeping and reckons the overhead and
loading, understand, you couldn't
fool business men that way no long
err Either they want merchandise for
their charity like rotten cigars and
other stuff, or you must give EN- pub
licity"
SAY" Birsky exclaimed, cit don't
harm business man that his custom
ers should see his name down for ten
dollars or so in the annual report of
an orphan asylum or a hospital"
''Sure, L know" Zapp agreed. "If
business man gives to charity he ex-
poets to get an order from a custom
er, and if he gives to war charity, he
expects to get an Order from the
Kaiser"
For my part" Birsky said, II would
whole lot sooner get an order from
customer as from the Kaiser, be-
cause if you should get Black or
White Eagle of the Second Class,
what are you going to do with it,"
Wear it on the outside of your
overcoat. [ suppose" Zapp replied.
And get arrested for imperscnat-
ing an officer!" Birsky said. Il would
as lieve go to the German bazaar and
buy them yulcanized cigars"
THAT amt so foolish neither"
Zapp concluded, ''if you carry along
the exact change"
Copyright. New York Tribune.)
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
WHY SHE CAN OUTTALK YOU
ton That Women Need Less
Lung Power Than Men.

A woman can talk longer than
man because she uses less force in
speaking than the man does. A Ger
man professor has proved by actual
and very delicate measurements that
the barytone singer uses far more
energy than the tenor and that the
bass singer uses more force than
either.
The range of voices differs greatly,
so the percentage varies to the same
extent, but as a general result it was
proved that the tenor uses only from
one-Seventh to one-Sixteenth of the
lung power of the barytone or bass.
The difference between the force used
by the contralto and the soprano is
also marked, and the contralto who
sings in very deep tones uses at
least ten times the force of the thrill
ing soprano.
The explanation is so simple that it
is surprising that the investigation
was not made long ago. 1t has long
been known that the tenor or soprano
brings the vocal cords close together
and keeps the edges only vibrating by
the emission of air. The bass or con-
tralto leaves the space between the
cords wider open and has to vibrate
very much more of the membranes,
so that a considerably larger amount
of air is required and much more
force is expended.
Persons with high, squeaky voices
often seem to be very loquacious, and
the reason is now plain-they can talk
with far less effort than those who
take a. deeper tone and have to use
more air to utter their words.
Here lies the real explanation of the
ease with which q woman can outtalk
a man. She has the advantage of us
ing from one-seventh to one-sixteenth
less lung power and even though her
lungs may be smaller the difference
is never so great as that between the
amount of air required.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22

wounded soldiers would be consid-
cred already rough work by q Coney
Island waiter"
Don't [ know it?" Birsky said. IF
der lieber Colt would of took my
wife's sister cousin by the name
Mrs. GvornilT seriously, understand,
they would of been obliged to call the
police reserves, on account she stands
in the middle of Madison Square Gar
den the day before the war bazaar
closed and says she should never stir
from that spot if it was a five dollar
bill I gave her. So what could [ do?
I took the cigars she sold me and
change for a two dollar bill, and /
assure you, Zapp, I would as lieve
have smoked the change. Some of
them rough stOgies which they sell by
tobacco and cigar booths in war bene
fit bazaars acts like they were fuses
manufactured for the Canadian Shell
Committee and timed to light in thir-
ty, sixty and ninety days"
Them cigars was probably donated
by the makers" Zapp said. "If a
Teller donates merchandise to a war
relief bazaar, Birsky, he don't take it
so particular that it's good, up-to-date
stuff When | was on the donation
committee of the Fifth Grand Annual
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
TOO KEEN ON THEIR SPORT
Anglers Would Have Done Better to
Have Read the Other Side of the
Notice Board.

The disciples of Izaak Walton had
found a perfect stream for the exercise
off their art, and they settled them
selves for a days fishing, undeterred
by a notice board. The board, which
had been painted by an amateur. read
as follows:
''Notiss-These grounds is privet,
and yer carn't fish ere. These fish
nin't the kind to be tempted by
wurmS, and there"
Here space ran out, and the injunc-
ton was left uncompleted. For two
hours the anglers sat by the stream
tempting the trout, not with worms,
but with the very latest and most ex-
pensive bait"
But nothing happened. Then sud
denly appeared the owner OF the
grounds and the author of the notice
board.
Hi, you two! Ave yer read that
boardY
We'll, yes, we did. But-er-we
thought you wouldn't mind, and we
couldn't find your house, or we would
have"
''Oh, it don't matter 1 on'y thought,
seem yer af1shin' there, that you
admit read both sides of the board. If
you ave, of course, go on amusing
yourselves -
A hasty glance at the other side of
the board showed that it continued the
exhortation begun on the front, as
follows:
amt no fish" London Answers
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
Hard TO EXniain.

Mother, how do they hang people?"
asked Wallace.
81 don't know, dear, and l should not
tell you if / did know. Don't let your
thoughts run on such awful things"
But, mother, the boys say that
Sheriff Jackson does it, and he's q real
nice man. 1 was going to ask him to
let me see him do it some day"
ooh, these terrible man-children, -
said mother, as she put her fingers in
her ears.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22

say that l have been in good health
since and able to do considerable
work at the advanced age of seventy
two. 1 am glad you induced me to
am cured.
Dodd's Kidney Pills, SOC per box at
your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y. Dodd's Dyspepsia Tab
let's for indigestion have been proved.
SOC per boX.-Adv.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
Movable Birthday.

Eugene was not quite four, but his
MOTHERS habit of deferring pleasures
he wanted to enjoy Immediately was
inclining him to pessimism.
"When are you going to the movie
show?" has was asked.
Il am going on my birthday" he
returned promptly and decidedly, but
l s'pose they'll keep putting that Off"
Christian Herald.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
All Settled,

Papa" said the sweet girl affec-
donately, you wouldn't like me TO go
away and leave you, would you?"
Indeed | would not, my dearest"
said the wealthy father fondly
.I'm so glad" sighed the girl. "Now
I'll marry Mr.. Poorchap. He's willing
to live here"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
Knows Her Own Wants.

Mother, may | have some more
pie?" said Lucy.
mo, dear, you have had one piece,
and that is enough"
Now, mother, you think yCu know
all about my stomach, and you don't
at all, for it wants another piece of
pie"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
AN APPRECIATIVE LETTER.

Mr.. M. A. Page, Osceola, Wis, I'M
der date of Feb. 16, 1916, writes:
Some years ago / was troubled with
my kidneys and was advised to try
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22

Dodd's Kidney Pills.
1t is now three
years since / fin
ished taking these
Pills and ! have had
no trouble with my
kidneys since. l
was pretty bad for
ten or twelve years
prior to taking your
treatment and will
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
Constant Peril.

"Do you fear for the future Of your
countryT
"Of course" replied Senator Sor-
ghum. 'My country has always to
face the chance Of my landing in the
minority or even being retired to pri-
vate life."
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22

Men sometimes worship women be-
cause they are unable to understand
them.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
New One.

Il always motor on the qui vive."
Il never heard of that make
Baltimore American.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22

If girl removes the family portraits
from the front parlor, it's a sign that
she is afflicted with social aspirations.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22

IF giving doesn't make man better
1t wasn't the right kind Of giving.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-22
Natural Tendency.

Il see soft coal is going up"
What did you suppose it was going
to do when it is put on a fire?"