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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-05-16

further he WIS shrewd and business
like Morrison proceeded to turn the
circumstances to money profit.
Before nightfall his queer new pos
session had been carried out of the
cut and removed to vacant store in
the town and a rummage sale contem-
plated. He had hired a bright lad
named Tommy Sands to assist him
in disposing of the stuff. Early the
next morning Tommy had message
to convey from the owner of the va
cant store to Mr. Morrison and start,
ed fo- the lonely home up in the hills.
1t was as he was passing the scene
of the wreck, that way back among the
bushes Tommy made the discovery of
a neglected or abandoned package
from the wreckage. 1t looked like a
wheel encaseu in a stout heavy paper
covering. which he proceeded to re-
move. The wheel" turned out to be
a reel of paper tape of some kind, only
that it was thick and here and there
showed slight protuberances, Tommy
tore open short slit
Why. there's some kind Of a seed
pasted in between the two strips Of
thin paper" he commented. Il won
der why?"
If Tommy had taken the trouble to
read on the covering Of the package,
h would have founi he label: Seed
Tape" That might not have enlight-
ened him, however, for Tommy was
not up to the latest agricultural
wrinkles He tucked the Wheel I'M
der his arm. Gain -g the top Of the
mbankment and starting from just
behind the Robson home, he began to
unroll the tape, BIO. like. He liked to
see it wave and trail. and finally set
tie down into a sort of a gutter that
had once been a footpath. Then he
reached the cabin of Mr.. Morrison
and forgot to tell about the seed tape.
1t was two months before Gladys
set eyes on her brave rescuer, who
had remained all that time in her in
nermost thoughts. The shock at the
railroad cut had Frustrated her. a
fever came on. Eight weeks to the
day Gladys was able to take her first
walk outside
All earth seemed smiling, and then
as she wandered over the field it
seemed as though nature had prepared
a royal surprise for her Her enrap-
tured gaze fell upon a narrow but
continuous streak of lovely blue
Forget -me-nots- by what magic
have they come here?" she cried.
The seed tape had given forth it's
best to that ready soil. She did not
pause to gather the nodding beauties.
Fascinated, Gladys followed the cerul-
can path 10 halt almost at the door of
the lonely cabin where Hector Nor
rison lived
He came forth as though the floral
path had been his message to her. She
shrank back timorOusly. Then graft
tude and it's expression caused her
self-consciousness to diminish.
Hector Morrison accompanied Gladys
back the floral path to her home. What
friends they had become on that brief
stroll!
And after she had gone into the
house out of his sight, but not out of
his thoughts, he reverently lifted a
spray of the blue beauties &c his lips.
Forget me not, indeed" he muir
INJURED softly.
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Italians Invent Marvellous New Breae

A marvellous new bread has been
invented here. 1t is called natural
bread" From $50 pounds of grain,
$50 pounds of the new bread can be
produced.
The grain is sifted and washed,
then left for from forty-eight to sixty
hours in a warm bath, where it ger
inmates and sprouts little. 1t is
then crushed in a special machine and
made into dough, which is baked
The product is grayish in color. with
a fine odor, and has much higher nu-
tritive qualities than ordinary bread.
1t is also preferred by the Italians for
its taste and digestibility.
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dlence got excited and seemed to think
they were the victims of a fraud.
Whereupon the manager addressed
them, and announced that the animal,
usually SO docile, had recognized in
the notes on the keyboard of the piano
the teeth Of it's mother, and positively
The Italian audience was as much
amused with the story as they ex.
pected to be with the sonata, and the
elephant, coming on again and doing
a few tricks, was cheered, and danger
Gus consequences averted.
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Zig. 81 sticks upon the end of the

Zig. 81 sticks upon the end of the
toothpick neck, and the toothpick legs
have beads glued upon their ends.
The duck Gig. 81 is one Of the
many floating toys which can be made.
Fig. 10 shows the head and neck, Fig
II the tail, and Fig II the keel fas-
tened to the under side of the body
to prevent upsetting. The keel should
be of cardboard coated with paraffin.
Tapering corks make splendid pots
for toy plants for a doll house Gig.
15), and plants can be made Of paper
or pieces of artificial ferns.
If you have never made cork jave
lots of fun. Fig 16 shows how to
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-05-16
EIephant's Sonata.

Here is a good story about the clev-
erness of an Italian Snowman: An eie-
plant was advertised to play sonata
on the piano. A great crowd assem-
bled and money was refused at the
doors. There was a very solid plat
form, and a grand pianoforte. The ele-
phant came on" and was received
with deafening applause. The i'm
presario led it up to the instrument,
when it suddenly turned tail and
walked away Nothing could be done
to induce it to come back, and the au-
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There Miuht Have Been.

A Boston minister who always
breaches to large congregations made
sanctimonious, psalm singing, pro-
fessed Christians who have no real
religion in their makeup target for
his wit. A little boy who heard him
remarked after he returned home
from the morning service: Mother,
l shouldn't have thought Doctor Blank
would have spoken that way about
Christians this morning There might
have been some of them in church. -
Exchange.
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The
Seed [ ape
BIZ
FLORENCE HENDERSON
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-. .S@e 81 -
Copyright, 1916. by W. G. Chapman.


Gladys Robson uttered a scream as
there was a crash. oh! why had she
yentured down the steep slant Of the
slippery, dangerous railroad embank-
ment because it was short cut to
town? 1t was true she had done SO
several times before, and others made
d practice of it, but who could antici-
pate freight train in wreck and ruin
all Of a sudden, not twenty feet away
from her.
Crash
Her senses reeled. She saw bulg-
Ing, sWaying car strike the spot where
ahe would have landed in twenty sec
nnds more. Another car piled up on
it. Pieces of splintered wood and iron
were raining all about ier. The as
cent was difficult Frantically she
st~ove to get beyond danger. She
arasped roots, vines, bushes. A strand
OF tree root gave in her clasp.
q am lost" she said and went Slid
ing down towards the heavy mass that
seemed bound to engulf her
Hold steady abruptly spoke a
gentle. but firm voice clos to her ear,
and closer still a firm-set form halted
her descent and a strong brave arm
encircled ker.
Now then, don't struggle, l can
u anage it," and her rescuer began to
pull her up with him, bracing with his
feet, lifting only when he was sure of
the root or bush he grasped.
Safe and sound!' he spoke with re-
lief and satisfaction. as he lifted
Gladys over the edge Of the top of
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tell them? We would save a great
deal of time that way"
What Ellen had said was as plain
as the nose on Plum's face and | guess
it had occurred to everyone in the Of
flee but Plum loads of times before.
He looked as IL he had been hit at
first and then he just grumbled some
thing that sounded like "All right,
and when he went back to the dicta-
ton he wasn't half so snarly.
| forgot to say that l had been going
home with Ellen for a week or so. She
lived IN the same end of the city and
she was such a little mite, | hated to
think of her fighting the half-past-ive-
O'Clock crowds alone, so | began to go
home with her. And sometimes she
asked me to come and see her in the
evening-she lived with her old father
and married sister and brother, and
such nice, neat little home | had
never seen, and one so full of simple
happiness.
But in Office hours we had little tC
say to each other. That was Ellen's
way-not to let people know all her
business at once
It was one morning when she had
been with us about three months and
was beginning to think of her as the
most important thing about that office,
even It she was only the telephone
girl with only few more dollars a
week than the youngest girl. It was
one OF Plum's nervous days. He wasn't
exactly raging, but snappy and curt.
He was giving dictation at the rate Of
couple of hundred words minute,
and | don't know what got into me
when | said, Pardon me, Mr.. Plum"
just the way Ellen would have said
1t-"but when you give dictation SO
fast l am not able to get it complete.
We would save time if you gave it q
little slower"
Plum stopped short and looked at
me in surprise. I thought for a min
ute | was going to be fired. Then he
said, boy, you are too valuable man
to waste in this work. | had thought
you were merely a machine. 1 see you
have brains besides You can start
in as office manager tomorrow. I'll
see about the raise"
Later, he called Ellen into his Office.
l admit that l went in the next room
where | could hear through the par
tition. l got there just in time to
hear him say:
you are the one woman in the
world who has it in her to make me
even more of a success than l am
l have decided that l want to marry
you
| surely did almost fall over at
that Naturally my first feeling was
one of pride and joy that the girl
had discovered should become Plum's
wife, but just as the little green de-
mon Of envy was creeping in | heard
her answer:
Il am very much honored, Mr.. Plum,
pledged to another"
With that answer humming in my
brain | had to go through with the
days work, and even the note that
told me of a substantial raise didn't
much mend matters. Promptly at half
past five, | started out with Ellen. l
told her I had heard the conversation.
who is it, Elem" | asked impa-
tiently 81 am sure I ought to know
She laughed delightfully."-. SILLY, you
do know, don't you? You hadn't actu-
ally asked me, but thought you knew
as we'll as I that YOU are Mr. Plums
only successful rival"
Copyright, 1916, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
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Mongoose Rat-Catcher.

method Of dealing with the rat His
shop was-one presumes-full enough
of poison to send the whole street to
the cemetery. But he pinned his faith
to small animal, which was taking
a siesta on the best chair. A mon
goose, he explained, as he carefully
stroked it's tail Now how many mon
geese Gf that is the pluraD are re-
CURED to deal with how many rats?
And where do you get a mongoose,
and what do you feed him on-if he
wants anything but rats LONDON
Chronicle
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Several Possible MeaninuS.

The Thinker-"I've got letter from
my son out West His Friend
What is Tom doing now?" The
Thinker-'That's what l can't make
out. He says he is engaged in the de-
struction of weeds. Now. that may
mean he's smoking a good many
cigars or that he is trying to induce
some widow to make second venture,
or it may mean that he is doing farm
work"
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HANDY THINGS TO MAKE FOR
MOTHER.

For the sleeve board Gig. u you
will require wood three-quarters or
one inch thick, out of which to cut
pieces A and Gigs. 2 and 81, and a
carpenters "dovel'' stick about two
feet long from which to cut four
pieces five inches long for connecting
A and B. Figs. and 3 show the meas
urements for cutting pieces and B.
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Help! Help!

The transforming Ministries were a
stunt at the town hall.
"Mistah Middleman," said Bones
why do yo' all resemble er cedah
tree?"
'Ah dunno, Mistan Bones" exuded
the man who was acting as center
piece. why do All resemble a cedah
tree?"
Cause yo' all done stay green de
yeah round" answered the genial
Bones.
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His OHerinu,

James," said his mother, did you
put your money in the collection plate
at Sunday school today"
Nom" said James, Il didn't"
why didn't you?"
We'll, you see, when | got there |
found out all the other boys had two
cents except me and Freddie Brown,
SO we matched for EN- and Freddy
won"
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Where to Find EN-.

Il would like to see the toughest
cowboy in these parts said the tour
list
We'll, there he is across the street.
replied the hotel landlord of a Texas
town.
who, that little runt?" said the
traveller. "Why, he looks like ten
derfooti"
Yes" answered the native. That
why he is so blamed tough
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-05-16
Thrift.

What did you do with that car
load of eggs that was condemned by
the board of health?"
I'm going to make a lot of money
on those. I'm having them made into
gas bombs to ship to the war zone"
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make one by inserting a needle in the
bottom of a tapered cork, and feath-
er in the top.
Enough cork furniture can be de-
vised to furnish a dolls house COM
pletely. Fig. II shows a bed. This
has a cardboard mattress, cork feet,
and a pillow of two tapering corks.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-05-16

The table carrying the work is sta
tionary in new bandsaw for cutting
metals, the saw and its driving mech
anism being movable
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thought at first he would eat her for
it or send for the patrol wagon for her
he was so mad, and then the mad ex-
preston seemed to fade away and he
looked just natural. He told her which
number he wanted and everything
went as smoothly as you please for
the rest of the day.
Ellen had charge Of the office boys
that was part Of her job-and not long
after that the boss went off on another
TRADE One OF his clients had refused
to renew his contract and so he was
taking 1t out on US. had never
thought before that it was unfair. Well,
that day he had it in for the office boys
and they were so scared that they
couldn't even answer question with
out stammering. | know how it was.
for it wasn't so many years ago that
was in their shoes Ellen stood it about
as long as she could And then, with
a lot of dignity tucked away in her
little person she walked into his room.
Mr.. Plum" she said-I was taking
his dictation at the time, so | heard
her-"I wish to make suggestion.
When you speak so abruptly to those
BOYS you actually terrify them. with
the result that they don't know wheth-
er they are telling you the truth or not,
and it takes them twice as long to do
what you want them to because you
don't take time to tell them. Will you
please give me your orders and let me
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-11-29
odist church Sunday afternoon.

odist church Sunday afternoon.
The box supper at the school house
last Saturday night was a grand sue
cess.
Dolf Spirow and family of White
county are visiting friends and rela.
tives at this place this week.
Jim Jones who has been very sicl
for some time is no better at this
writing.
Mr.. Metzger is on the sick list this
week.
Mr.. Nortwing and wife of Cane,
were guests of Sam Simmons ane
wife Of this place Sunday.
The Sunny Gap school is getting
along fine under the management OF
Prof. w. N. Jones and Miss Orvia
Crow.
Everybody remember the box sup.
per at the school house next FRIDAY
night, December /.
Well, guess Woodrow has gone
to buying land too, since his re-elee.
ton, from the way land is going up.
November %.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-11-29
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The log cabin Democrat., 1916-11-29
GREENBRIER ASSN
5TH SUNDAY MEETING
Program of Exercises at New Liberty
Baptist Church, Friday to Sun.
day, December 1881.

The following program has been ar
ranged for the fifth Sunday district
meeting of the Greenbrier association
to meet with the New Liberty Mis-
sionary Baptist church:
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20.
10 a. REORGANIZATION and report
of the clerk of the last meeting.
IL a. m.-Introductory sermon by
Rev. c. T. Parks.
2 p. m.-"Are the Commandments
given by Moses binding on US today
as they were at the time they were
given?" Led by A. ]. Weaver, Elder
P. H. Glover and ]. L. Garrett.
3 p. inflow may we best CO.
operate with our. missionary on the
field?" Led by Elder J. B. Routh,
John Cupit and Elder w. E. Roberts.
7p. m.-Preaching.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 80.
$3.50 a. m-"Are any heathens saw.
ed without any knowledge of the Cos
pel?" Led by Elders w. C. Hammil,
j. O. Cantrell, Claud Bolding and Liv-
ingston of Pickles Gap.
10 a. Inflow long can a member
neglect attending church and retain
membership" Led by Elders Claunch
S. w. Cotton, L. NJ. Sipes and G. E.
Owen.
II a. m.-Preaching.
p. m.-"What was delivered tc
Peter and called the keys of the king.
DOM" Led by J. NJ. C. laughter, A
J. Meadors, A. F. Bush and C. T
Parks.
3 p. m.-"What becomes of the soul
Immediately after death?" Led by
Rev. H. Sanders, R. F. Adams, Maui
rice Hall and Robert Cowen.
z p. m.-Preaching.
Sunday, 10 a. m.-Sunday school
talks.
Sunday, II a. m.-Preaching.
E. F. Simmons,
J. H. Hall,
R. N. McHenry,
Committee
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-11-29
GINNING TO NOV,
"A 1857 BALES
CROP IS ABOVE AVERAGE
Unexpectedly Large Ginnings in No.
vember Brings Total Close to
10000 Mark.

An Unexpectedly large ginning in
Faulkner county during the period
from November l to November IA,
brings the total number of bales GIN
ned to the latter date practically to
average total yield for the past seven
years, which is 1882 bales. What
ever is ginned after November Ia
from the 1916 crop will be that much
more than an average crop for recent
years.
According to figures supplied the
Log Cabin Democrat today by w. R.
McHenry, county agent for the census
bureau, 1887 bales had been ginned
in Faulkner county prior to Novem-
Der Ia. To the same date in former
years this compares with 1888 last
year, 1896 in 1914, 1888 in 1918
and 1878 in 1912.
The ginning for the period from
November l to November ID, while
the lightest in the past five years, was
heavier than expected, when the early
maturity of the crop and favorable
weather for gathering were considered
During this period 1882 bales were
ginned this year, comparing with
1874 last year, 4,066 in 1914, ALL ir
1913 and 1929 in 1912.
The 10000 bale crop for Faulkner
county predicted by the Log Cabir
Democrat several weeks ago was
thought by many at that time to be
an over-estimate, but the figures tt
November Ia show that it was ratSSi
an underestimate and the total yield
of Faulkner county will be consider
ably in excess of that figure
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-11-29
FIVE CONVICTS FREED.

Little Rock, Nov. 2S.-Five par
dons were granted yesterday, upon the
recommendation of the penitentiary
physician, who certified that the con-
victs are affected with contagious dis
eases, and that their pardon is neces-
sary for the protection of others in
the custody of the state. They are !:
Will Smith, Pulaski county, burglary
and grand larceny, June IS, 1915, four
years; Charles Wood, Lonoke county,
grand larceny, February Is, 1916, one
year; Bella Mcneil, Pulaski county,
grand larceny, April 27, 1916, three
years; Fred Burleson, Garland coun-
ty, carnal abuse, July Is, 1916, one
year; Marion Richardson, Garland
county, May 8, 1916, grand larceny,
two years.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-11-29

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S. A. McHenry, chairman of the
Democratic County Central Commit
tee, is here today on business.
Our store will close tomorrow at
$50 o'clock a. m. for the remainder
of the day on account of Thanksgiv-
ing. w. M. Harrell & Co. 1t
DR.. H. B. Hardy of Greenbrier, rep
resentative of Faulkner county in the
lower house of the legislature, is here
today.
For gasoline, oils, air, repairs OF
anything else in the automobile line,
call Douglass & Co., garage. Phone
287.-52-dtf
Several Conway Shriners will at
tend ceremonial session at Al Amin
temple, Little Rock, tomorrow. A
class of so is to be led over the hot
sands.
w. N. Carter Of near Kings Bridge
is business visitor to Conway today.
j. NJ, ]. H. and T. ]. Fowler and
u. L. Leonard of Damascus are tran
sacting business in Conway today.
Wanted-An agent to represent the
best selling article on the market in
Faulkner county, 100000 year
easily made. Write or call quick, in
vestigate, No. 1T Central St., Little
Rock, Ark, "The Salesman."-dw1t
Woodland lodge No. II, X. of P.
will meet tonight at 1880, and only
quorum is desired as move is on
foot to increase the dues to 81 a
month. Don't come. w. H. Duncan
X. of R. and S.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-11-29
ONE DAY EARLIER.

On account of the THANKSGIVING
holiday, the Saturday Evening Post
and the Country Gentleman are
on sale today. Both are unusu-
ally good this week. Among the fea-
lures in the Post are "A Good Rooster
Crows Everywhere" by George Pat
tullo; Palms and Parasols," by VIM
n. Handy; "The Bull Market in
Ships" by Will Payne; "Not Every
Mans Came" by VIM. F. Smith;
Meal Ticket VS.. Heavy Date" by
John Crowfoot, and others. The
Gentleman contains many interesting
stories for women. Call phone IL fol
a copy.