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The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1916-03-01
Museum Exhibit Shows How Felt Hats Are Made

WAsH1NGToN of us hats and what
w felt but differ
between soft felt one? exhibits
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1916-03-01
A DOLL SWING AND A DOLL HAM,
MOCK.

. Nicely Ha1l)
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-03-17

CONFESSION!
WITH ELEANoR'S DEATH
I was awakened this morning by
hearing my little nurse talking over
the telephone She was, evidently
talking with Dick
Eyes, Mr.. Waverly, Mrs. WaVerly
got the wire last night and she wrote
the notice for Mr.. Sullivan. wanted
her to call you up and let you write
it, but she said she thought she
would not bother you.
Eyes, l knew you would be WOr-
Tied when you saw the notice.
mo, I don't think she slept very
much last night, but she seems to be
sleeping sOundly this morning.
mo, 1 would not come over this
morning if I we're you, for l am going
to let her sleep as long as possible.
Eyes, will tell her as soon as she
wakes up"
When my little nurse came back
pretended to be asleep, for I did not
want to even ask what it was that
Dick wanted me to know. l could
not help feeling very sad about poor
Eleanor, but did not want to talk to
any one about it. You remember that
old quotation from Owen Meredith:
81 think in the lives of both women
and men
That all would go smooth and
even
If only the dead could know just
when
To come back and be forgiven"
Little book, l have been wonder
ing this morning what would have
been the result if Dick had never
seen me and he had married Eleanor,
as he probably would have done.
There would probably have been no
sin nor sorrow in any of our lives.
Oh, little book, little book, I don't
want to think that we are just pawns
g.. roTv -,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-03-17

ANOTHER DOOR CLOSES
Today I have forgiven her, but !
can't help thinking how much easier
it is to forgive Eleanor dead than
Eleanor living.
am not quite sure but I have also
ruined Dicks life by coming into it,
for l am beginning to think that
there is something more the matter
with me than just a broken leg. My
back, my poor back! am not able to
sit up at all Dick says he is sure
it is because of the cast, but l am
getting very worried.
AS soon as Eliene read of EleanOr'S
death she came right over to see me.
Dear Eliene, what friend she is and
how she comforted me. You see,
little book, l knew she would under
stand.
You know, little book, l never told
Eliene anything about Eleanor and
me, but am sure she suspected. To-
day, however, she said all the nice
things she could think of Eleanor
and l was glad, oh, so glad, that
had not made a scandal and blasted
EleanOr's name. AS it is, 1 feel as
though I were in some way to blame
for her death. Poor old Dick looked
as though he had been sick a month
when I saw him tonight and he said
the same thing to me.
We cried little together and he
said: 'Margie, all the hurt that either
you or Eleanor Fairlow had came
from me. hope she forgave me be-
fore she died, for truly did not real
ly mean to wrong either Of you, and
if I had not been. drinking that night
on the train this would never have
happened"
Then, little book, he leaned across
and took both my hands in his and
said: "Margie, have you forgiven
me?"
81 think so, Dick"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04
Great Stream for Trout.

The Russian river in Alaska, which
emptieS into the Kenai about sixty
miles from Seward, is probably with
cut an equal as trout stream in the
world. Unfortunately it is difficult to
get to and few fishermen know any
thing about it. The stream would be
called creek in the states, being
about 60 or 20 feet wide with an av-
erage depth of five feet 1t contains
both rainbow and Dolly Warden trout ::
although the latter do not rank as
game fish among Alaskan anglers.
Tt is not difficult for a skillful an
gler to land 90 rainbows in fore
n00n'S fishing in Russian river, not one
of which will run less than three
pounds, while "a fair proportion will
exceed six pounds. Fritz Won Posth. a
miner. caught rainbow in this stream
last summer weighing a shade under
% pounds. These rainbows are fight
ers to the last ditch and wise to the
nth power. A novice in fishing would
soon be driven to desperation, as he
would get a strike at practically every
cast but no other tangible result than
a snapped line or broken rod. BY using
a large hook and big bait the smaller
trout are entirely avoided.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04

the girl. "Well-say! How abour
your treatment of Mr.. Adams? You
owe him about two hundred thousand
Simply business" returned Lonmer
Adams was an impracticable man He
couldn't have used penny more than
he was getting. AS matter of fact,
he struck for forty, the fool and that
was what raised my anger. If he'd
asked hundred I'd have given it. Say,
come, now. what did you do it for?
Just fifty from Ellsworth"
The woman thrust her jaw forward.
I'll tell you," she said. you ruined
my fathers life, you kept his nose to
the grindstone, you drove him into his
grave through lack of the recognition
which ought to have been his. My name
isn't Ferguson at all-it's Adams I'm
Mr.. Adams daughter, see? And when
he died in poverty [ vowed to get some
of that money back. Did l do it? Eli?
Did / do it?"
well come to that later" said
LOrimer. ''NOw that I've found the
leak, of course l shall have to stop it.
You won't expect to stay"'
well, / should say noti'
"But I'll give you q hundred a week
to get that job with Ellsworth and
find out what you can for me-"
What? Do you take me for that
sort of woman? l haven't a thing
against Mr.. Ellsworth"
''All right" said Lorimer sOothingly.
But if he doesn't live up to the terms
of this bargain?"
'"Then you can count on me-" said
the secretary tiercely. But not I'LL
then. Good afternoon, Mr. Lorimer
and don't forget your treatment of
Adams has cost you a few thousand
dollars more than if you'd been white
man."
When she was gone Lorimer sat
down at the telephone in turn. Give
me 1920" he told the operator at CEN
trail.
Hello! Is that you, Ellsworth? Say,
that woman spy that | gave those fake
papers to about the flue-well, I've
got tired Of her. I'm sending her to
you
AThe deuce you are, Lorimer," an
Swered Ellsworth.
Eyes. Cut down her wages. and
give her a few fake papers to betray to
me. I'll keep on putting up fifty
weekly"
Say, Lorimer," said Ellsworth in
annoyance, isn't this hobby of yours
pretty expensive one"
'FOh, well. j owed something to her
father" said Lori1ner Besides, Els
worth, so long as we both employ her
We'll know she isn't betraying either
of us to the other and with a woman
of Miss Ferguson's ability it's neces-
sary to keep her out of mischief some
how. / call fifty apiece cheap, don't
you? So long!"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04
BASEBALL EDITOR Is HURT
Makes Unkind Comment on Question
Asked by Sweet Girl Viewing
National Game.

Gilligan, the Demon Swatter, stepped
up to the plate.
1t was the last half of the ninth
inning with the score tied and two men
out
Gilligan swung at the first ball and
missed.
The next one was a ball, and the
next and the next.
The umpire called the next one a
strike, though 10000 fans disagreed
with him.
''This one tells the tale" said every
body to his next neighbOr.
Gilligan gripped his bat firmly, dug
his spikes into the ground and swung
with all his might.
Crack! The ball sped as if shot out
of a cannon, far over the center field
fence, while the Demon trotted round
the bases amid the plaudits of the
multitude
When the excitement had subsidized
a bit, a 'girl-Oh, she was a beautiful
girl. You ought to've seen her-well,
anyhow, this girl touched her escort
timidiy on the arm and asked in dull
Get tones:
Does the batter have to pay for the
ball when he loses it over the fence
like that?"
And yet some people thought WON
en- should be allowed to v0te.-New
York World.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04
PITTSBURGH ON EDGE OF ASIA
In Baku Persian and Tartar Million
aires Ride in Jeweled
Cars.

I'm afraid that / shall have TO tell
my REORGANIZATION that the Cas-
plan is very little TO look at. at least
from Baku, writes II. g. Dwight in the
Century. 1t has no color and it smells
outrageouSly OF kerosene.
Baku. however, is something TO look
at (Baku is the Russian transformer
sian seaport on the Caspian sea.) 1t
is kind of Pittsburgh dipped in Asia,
ana it tickled me beyond measure. Not
So long ago it was a wretched fishing
village inhabited chiefly by Persians
and Tartars, who We're too stupid to
sell their land to proving oil pros
pectorS. So those same PerSians and
Tartars now roll in gold. And they
don't know what on earth TO do with it.
The consequence is that nobody but
millionaire can afford to live in Baku
But what fantastic hodgepodge of
civilization and barbarism What
types, What costumes What NOR
ais!
lined, emblazoned, gilded, ieweled
skithering there on the edge of AsiaI
It's too good to be true, but / shan't
tell You about it. What want to tell
you about is a park the Russians have
made there on the shore Of their Cas-
plan. They always do those things
well, you know. No green thing will
grow for miles around Baku but those
Russians have cOaxed a few trees to
sprout in tubs in that tidy little park,
and bands far better than | ever heard
IN Central park play you Tschaikowsky
and RimskyKOrsakof, not to say Wag-
ner and Verdi and Bizet And you
should see the extraordinary crowds
that listen-the Russians, the Persians,
the Armenians, the Georgians, the Les
ghians, the Tartars, the wild, the
swarthy, the fiery, the rainbow col
ored My son, when in doubt, go to
Baku.
sat there in the park one after
noon, shifting their Caspian, tapping
my foot in time to their "Glinka,"
when | suddenly made a discovery:
That coon song we used to sing
when we were young. Lou, Lou. |
Love YOU came out of life for. the
Car"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04
Cooperation
c.
BY FRANK FILSON
Copyright, 1916. by w. C. Chapman)

Copyright, 1916, by w. G. Chapman)
IL can't understand it, Miss Fer
guson," said Lorimer of the Manufac-
turing company. Here are the Ellis
worth people bringing out their new
patent flue on the very same day as
ourselves. And it has the same fea-
tures-that escape which we have been
having patent litigation about. am
sure someone has betrayed usp
He smashed his fist down on the
table. Three times during the last
year the Ellsworth people had come on
the market with an imitation of one of
the Lorimer patents. Of course, one
could go to law. but Lorimer was tied
hand and foot in many legal fights, and
meanwhile he saw the profits of his
factory being snatched from him.
'If | could find the scoundrel I'd
fay himl" he swore. Miss Ferguson,
It's either you or Sanders or Benz"
Sanders was the company secretary,
Miss Ferguson Lorimer's private sec
rotary. Bent was the head Of the fac
tory.
''Of course, when l spoke Of you it
was in jest" Lorimer went on in a
Modified tone. "But it's black be-
trayal, Miss Ferguson. Do you think
it's Bent?'
1.-THE Ellsworth people evidently
have a man at work here somewhere"
answered Miss Ferguson in even tones.
'I'II find him." swore Ferguson.
''And I'll rip the hide off him when
do"
Miss Ferguson looked curiously after
Lorimer as he went out to his lunch.
He was a man of about forty years
he had been fighting the Ellsworth peo-
pie for five or six years, and hitherto
successfully. Miss Ferguson had been
with him for nine years, and had seen
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04
COULD NOT CORNER MIKE
Mr.. Fiaherty Ready With Explanation
for Failure to Keep Awake
in Church

One Saturday evening Mrs. Flaherty
said to her husband, who is success
full contractor: Mike, Father Burke
is to preach tomorrow at St Patrick's
church, and you've often told me you
wanted to hear him.
Yes, Jane. l do want ITO hear him.
They say he's fine speaker"
But, for PHYS sake, Mike, if you
do come with me, keep awake You
know you're always falling asleep cur
ing the sermons"
''Fll do my best Jane"
Next day, when Father Burke began
to preach, Mike watched him for five
minutes, and then dropped off to sleep.
When they We're back home Jane gave
Mike a tongue flashing.
well, Jane" said Mike in self-de-
Tense, its just this way. When l
engage Il new hand | watch HAN to see
If he's on the job. AS soon as l find
he's efficient and Woodworking | don't
bother about him any more. Now. as
soon as Father Burke began l saw he
was right on to his job, and so I didn't
worry about him. And then, ia spite
of myself, / let go.''-Everybody
Magazine.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04
War Prices in Paris

one hears great deal about the
rising cost Of living in Germany. re-
sulting from the British blockade but
comparatively little about the priva-
tions of the allies. The following Ier-
ter from an American engineer in Paris
tells something of the hardships of
the City of Light:
Gold boiled ham costs ninety-five
cents a pound and each thin slice
comes to ten cents. Butter is uneat-
able at less than siXty-fOur cents a
pound, and everything is in proportion.
Gasoline is twenty cents Il quart AL
coho1 is out of the question, as it is
now fOrty-eight cents a quart as com
pared to fourteen before the war.
Sugar is fourteen cents Il pound.
Il believe the war won't be over
before next year, so we settle down
to it as a fact to be borne It hits
everyone except few. | am comfort
able, have enough to eat and good
bed. but living in juste' (narrow) I
Just about come out even."-Wall
Street Journal
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04
Caressed the Wrono Hand

The Broad Ripple car was crowded
and she and her young man were stand
ing just inside the rear door.
She leaned against the young man
and he held to the door which served
as support for the conductor also.
She reached over and patted a hand
the conductors hand. Passengers
on the rear platform smiled. The con-
ductor winked and squeezed her hand
Block after block the caresses con-
tinued. She looked eontentedly up at
her young man-and he didn't know
what he was missing nor what the rear
platform passengers were laughing
about Neither did she.-IndianapoliS
News.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04
Had Learned His Lesson.

After one of the reservations had
been opened, the white community was
annoyed by the promiScuous swear
ing of the noble red man, numbers of
whom seemed quite unaware of the
strength of their recently acquired vO-
,cabulary. This condition became so in
tOlerable that several arrests were
made and jail sentences imposed. 1t
was not long before the native sons of
America realized that swearing in pub
lie was very bad business, and they
quit. One of these Indians was wit
ness in a case of some Importance in
the local justice court, and had testi-
fed to certain facts which greatly eX-
aSperated counsel for defense. With
his hand appraised the lawyer impress
sively Numbered: "Now, Nick, will
You swear MOI shouted the In
dian. ME no swear! Swear talk no
good here-gettum jaili"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04
SEEK PRESERVATION OF ELK
Nation Is Waking to the Danger oF the
Extinction of Animal in This
Country.

There are, according to estimates
made by the National SpurtSmen,
about 100000 elk in this country, OF
which 2,200 are in captivity in 125 diff
ferent places. The largest herd, num-
bering, according to the government
census, between $4,000 and $1,000, is
in the Yellowstone region. In the
summer these elk range in the vicinity
of the continental divide in the park.
Since the settlement of the valleys the
elk which are forced to descend from
the mountains in the winter in order
TO obtain food have starved in large
numbers. Since 1909, winter feeding
has been provided by the state of
Wyoming and the federal government,
and recently congress appropriated
$4,000 for the purchase of 1000 acres
near Jackson, Wyo., where sufficient
hay can be raised each year to feed
the herds during the winter. During
late years the government has expert
mented with small herds numbering
about 100, which have been transferred
to 13 different states for the purpose
of restocking reservations. In this
way it is hoped that wild elk can be
retained in this country permanently.
The Adirondack herd was rapidly APP
preaching extinction when the govern
ment and the state of New York took
q hand. 1t is believed that after the
fate of the buffalo many states VIII at
tempt to encourage the propagation of
elk in country which is unfit for farm
ing
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04

the business creep up until, in place of
a small shop in a tenement district, it
had its own buildings and covered a
i block uptown.
Lorimer trusted her absolutely. He
| had no secrets from her. Not even
that about Adams.
Adams had been the man who set
ILorimer on his feet. A genius without
practical sense, all his inventions were
|; appropriated by the man who hired
him for $50 q week. The patent fiue
was his, as were the other patents
Adams was ;widower with one daugh-
ter.
He had finally left Lorimer in a rage,
because he wanted $40 a week, which
Lorimer was ,disinclined to grant. All
that was before Miss Ferguson en-
tered Lorimer's employment.
Lorimer came home at two, and left
the office at six. Miss Ferguson had
the keys; LGrimer never came back
after he had put on his hat and coat
At six O'Clock he said goodnight and
went away. Sanders had already
gone, and Bent did not come through
the office on his way from the factory
AS soon as Lorimer had gone Miss
Ferguson went to the safe and I'M
locked it. Swiftly she distracted
certain set of blue papers and, return
ing to her desk, began jotting down
memoranda from them. She puzzled
over them for Is minutes. At the end
of that time there was a telephone
ring.
The telephone operator had gone
home, leaving the switch connected
with the office. Miss Ferguson took
down the receiver.
THAT you dad?" she called. "Yes,
| have them for sure. The f1ue attach
ment. I'm just copying the data. No,
there isn't much of a secret about it
It's just what you expected it would
be. Tell e. that I'll have the papers to
him by the first post-my copy. of
course"
Somebody chuckled behind her Miss
Ferguson turned, TO find herself look
ing into Lorimer's face
$50 it was You, just as l suspected"
said Lorilner, chuckling again.
The secretary sprang to her feet in
panic. Touch me if you dare." she
screamed.
I have no intention of touching YOU.
Miss Ferguson" said Lorimer. MY
remarks of this morning We're simply
destined to put you into an uneasy
frame of mind. l have suspected you
for a good many months"
We'll, you've caught me with the
goods" she answered defantly. What
are you going to do about it?'
Il don't know" said Lorimer. why
did you do it? I'm paying you $50
week. How much does Ellsworth
pay?"
Fifty" snapped Miss Ferguson
"And I'm to get hundred as soon as
you find out and discharge me-
Ellsworth won't pay you a penny"
said Lorimer HE isn't white. What
did you do it for?"
"You call yourself white?" demanded
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04
No Threats.

did YOU threaten the president ,ot
the broken bank at Tumlinville into
paying back your money!" asked a
friend t'Shucks, not" replied Mr. Gap
Johnson of Rumpus Ridge, Ark. 81
got to town along in the shank of the
evening, went to his house, kicked in
the door and found him in bed / just
calmly drug him out by the hair of
the head, damned nay gun into his ear
and asked him whether he'd rather
gimme my 1even dollars and a half
or keep the money to pay his funeral
expenses? That's all."-Kansas City
Star
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04
The kntiClimax.

The revival meeting was tense in
it's interest, and the evangelist was
waxing eloquent. He arraigned the
laXness of the church people and pres
ent-day evils in general, and every
one was too absorbed to notice the
growing uneasiness of two lads on
the front seat
With the question, whats the mat
terY' pronounced in tones of thun-
der, the preacher reached his climax.
The two boys had risen and were
starting for the door. One of them.
hearing the preachers question,
wheeled and said: Jaw, / got the
nOsebleed. THE Christian Herald.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04
Pink for a Baby Girl.

Why pink Tor baby girl and blue
for the boy? The reason for the dis
tinction is not very clear. We are told
that in Russia and in America blue is
used in the preparation of the outfit
for a baby if the parents desire a boy
and pink if the preference is for a
girl, and then the old stork brings just
whichever one he pleases regardless
of the color scheme; so the wise moth
CT uses both pink and blue in her lay
cite. A Russian maiden not only wears
pink in her girlhoad, but adorns her
wedding trousseau plentifully with
this hue.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04
Reasonable Precaution.

The lady was complaining to her
dairyman some time ago regarding the
quality of his milk.
tShort o. grass feed, mum; short O
grass feed this time, o. year." said the
jOcular milkInan. Bless you, them
cows o mine are just as sorry about
it as | am. | often stands and watches
'em cryin', regular cryin', mum, because
they feel as how their milk don't do
EN- credit You don't believe it?"
ooh, yes, believe it," said the lady
but / wish ia future you'd see that
they don't drop their tears into our
can"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04

TO get better and am now well, am
stout and able to do my own homework.
I can recommend the Vegetable Com
pound to any woman who is sick and
run down as wonderful strength and
health restorer. My husband says 1
would have been in my grave ere this
If it had not been for your Vegetable
Compound. Mrs. BLANCHE JEFFER-
SON, 7O3 Lyon ST., Des Moines, iowa.
Before submitting to q surgical opera
ton it is wise to try to build up the
female system and cure its derange-
ments with Lydia z. Pinkbam's Vege-
table Compound; it has saved many
women from surgical operations.
Write to the Lydia e. Pinkham
Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass, for
6dyice--it will be confidential.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04
Ideal Wife.

Miss Marion Pomer0y Smith. the
Cape Cod heiress who has just won a
legal contest for the control of her
huge fortune, believes in women's
rights.
''There will be fewer divorces" she
,saiG to q reporter, -''when men treat
women as their equals.
"'Do you know the kind of wife my
ideal is?' a married man once said to
me.
"'Of course do said I. Your ideal
wife is the Kind that's tickled to death
over a birthday present of bag of
-four
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-04
Food Required by the Aged.

4 great English physician. DR..
George Cheyne, states that after fifty
years of age the amount of food should
be decreased gradually. At eighty, if
a man becomes SO old, he should eat
about as much as q child of five A
man should take especial care of him-
self between the ages Of thirty-two
and thirty-fve. by studying his consti
tuition and regulating food, exercise
and pleasure.