davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-12-14

corn, wheat, steel-cut oats, millet Seed
etc., or commercial chick food in
light litter, such as hay chaff.
5. Feed mash rich in protein which
contains per cent beef scraps after
the chicks are two weeks old, and 10
per cent after they are three weeks
old, or give a mash of finely ground
grains, cornmeal, oatmeal or wheat
bran.
6. Give an abundance of green food,
as short grass on the sod, young oats
or rye, lettuce or cabbage leaves.
z. Keep the surroundings free from
filth. Clean coops and yards frequent
ly to prevent droppings from contain
mating the food.
8. If you can get sour milk regu-
larly, feed it. Do not alternate sweet
and sour milk. This will put the d.
gestive system out of order in a few
days.
o. Keep off lice by liberal use of
insect powder. Grease the head slight
ly with cottonseed oil, vaseline or lard.
Do not overdo at any one time.
10. Remember you can do more to-
ward making a good fowl during the
first ten days of it's life than during
any 40 days afterward.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-12-14

sighed the wandering fiddler from
Vincennes, Michel de Richardville,
bending over his bow. Where were
now those ancient houses Of the Old
Post-the Cardinals, the Andres, the
Burdnleaux, the Racines, the Lade-
roux7 "Vlncennes, and q long time
agoP' Now 1t was Corydon and the
present, with all its coursing blood
In young veins and its fine forgettul-
ness of the days gone by. Laughing
girls and tall youths went into the
flower-decked hall Of the Bullet
cabin, or, slipping out again, wan
dered down two by two in the mys-
teal summer night, beneath the silent
stars, to the bank Of Indian creek,
hurrying by on its long way to the
sea. A lonely youth stood in the
shadows and watched the white, glim-
mering shapes of the maidens, each
with her backwoods cavalier, go by.
A pang of envy shot through him as
he heard their light remarks and
lighter laughter. He was as young
and strong as they, he thought, visit
fully. Was life always to withhold
some of its gifts from him?
Mr.. O'Bannon, strolling deep in rev.
cries of the past, encountered the
lonely youth in the starlight and rec
ognized him with an ejaculation of
pleasure.
"Hal David, my old one, what are
you doing here alone? When 1 was
your age never q dance did we have
that saw me not in the thick of it. Go
up and join them. sober-sides."
David muttered q miserable confess
sion, which the old gentleman would
have none of.
"No clothes, indeedl Since when
were buckslSins not as good as broad.
cloth here in the woods? No invita-.
ton! Fiddlesticks everyone is wei.
come with u.s."
And he dragged the reluctant youth
toward the lights and music.
The gracious lady of the house re.
ceived him at the old mans introduc.
ton, with kindly smiles for David's
shyness; but he was acutely i'll al
ease, nevertheless, among the group
of young matrons who clustered al
Mrs. Bullets side in their silks and
dainty muslins-treasures in the will
derness-and he was glad to escape
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-12-14

to the narrow veranda, where group
of older men conversed in quiet tones
upon the affairs of the Territory. Da-
vid stared at their yellow nankeen
trousers.
Harrison, the governor, who had
come from Vincennes to oversee his
spring planting, and had tarried for
the evening, was among the group.
He turned to young man:
"Mr. Blackford," he said, 1T believe
that you have the distinction of be-
ing graduated from the same college
which President Madison attended. |
myself was a student at Hampden-
Sidney college; but remember hear
ing my father once say that, besides
the institution which was the first
born of all American colleges-his
own college of William and Mary
there was but one which a Virginian
might attend without doing violence
to his family traditions; he might, If
he had no soul, go to Harvard, or, If
he had no stomach, go to nutmeg
institution at New Haven; but as a
Virginian and a gentleman he would
go to Princeton"
Blackford laughed. he was young
lawyer who had just arrived in the
territory, the first of the galaxy of
young men bred in the eastern col
leges who were to achieve distinction
In the new country. His face had at.
tracted David Laurence singularly
there was something in the mans
fine, straightforward look that drew
him like brother. And here was ar
opportunity; he could now crafty
through Blackford an ambition he ha6
secretly nourished for some time, tC
study law In the evenings. He was
growing restless with no greater oc
cupation than measuring silk and cal
Lcuts over store counter. And thC
Law would be a step--One step al
Ieast--toward Toinette.
slave you ever met the president
Mr.. Blackboard Harrison went on
"once only, Governor Harrison.
shall never forget seeing him at oul
commencement exercises last Septem
her; he was there with his two class
mates, Philip Freneau and Judg
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-12-14
CHAPTER v.
YOUNG Men and MaIdens.

Young Men and Maidens.
May passed and under the lustrous
stars of a June night twinkled the
warmer lights of the little village.
They shone brightest of oil In the
little house of Randolph Bullet,
where candles blazed in their silver
sconces and Lit up waxen floor. His
wife, the grandniece of Lord Corn
wallis of England, was holding open
house. Above the chatter and laugh
ter a Creole violin lifted the foolish
air of the French Voyageur, that had
aoated across the star-g limmering wa
tiers of the river of st. jerome a hun.
bred years before.
Derriere chez-nous Il va I'm etang-
Ye, ye ment,
Trois canards s. en- won't baignans.
Tous du long de Ia riyiere,
Legerement ma bergere,
Legerement, ye mentl
"Helasl Eat vas de long tam ago 7
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-12-14

On the corner of the lanes called
Oak and Walnut the blacksmith shop
of Israel Butt, low barrack of logs,
showed no CLEAN Of light from the in
terl0r TO the chance passer-by. Da-
cid, hidden in the dark passageway at
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-12-14
IRl([IllBlT
WORK FOR BETTER CHICKENS
Ten Cardinal Points In Ralelns Young
FowIs-Give Only What They
Will Clean Up Quickly.

Here are ten cardinal points In rails
Ing young chickens:
]. First feed the chicks when thir-
ty-six hours old. Provide sharp sand
or clean grit. Give them dry bread.
and sweet milk, mixed with chopped.
boiled eggs and dry bread or cracker
crumbs. Feed this once every three
hours for two or three days, then once
a day for ten days or two weeks.
2. Don't overfeed. Give only what
the chickens will eat up eagerly In a
few minutes.
8. Exercise aids digestion and as
similation and keeps the chickens con-
tented in confinement.
4. Give q scratch feed consisting OF
finely cracked grains, as well-seasoned
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-12-14
TREAT POULTRY FOR VERMIN
Fowls Should Be Thoroughly busted
With Some Insect Powder When
Lice Appear.

If lice or mites make their appear
ance at this time the fowls should be
well busted with insect powder. Dust
baths are much appreciated by the
fowls. Keep the chicken houses well
cleaned out, well lighted and well ven
tilated. The use OF coal oil or kero-
sene on all perches and dark places
win aid materially in getting rid Of
the pests
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-12-14
SPOILED OR DEcAYED FLESH
II Eaten by Members Of Flock May
Cause Timber ecE--MuseIes
Become Entirely Useless.

Spoiled or decayed flesh, If eaten,
may cause Imber-neck. This is pto-
maine poisoning.
The muscles Of the neck and body
Become useless through the action of
the poison on the brain and nerves,
and the neck becomes timber.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-12-14
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 900
WHEN SPIES MEET
BY SAMUEL Mccoy

honorable in the soldier In the
plotting against the welfare Of our
nation with his e at least would
do h7
Tme year Larrence young English weaver
coydon Indiana territory intending to kill an old
daughter Tolnee and
clerk Colonel Poseys In Job cranmer and his
LYDIA Britain, David finds congna
Elliott dislike another Elliott
'Tnete and tries to poison her against David
overhears planning
He hides there What he hears and the
which befaI him is told in this instaIment
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-25
SIMPIIFIED SPELLING.
Idaho Eliminates Useless Letters
From Many Words.

Here is a bulletin, issued by the
State Department of Idaho, giving the
state creed as regards simplified forms
in spelling.
Ugh has caused the waste of gal
Ions of ink and millions of minutes
Of time by its needless presence in
such words as though and through;
to say nothing of the stupid and bur
densOme task of learning to spell q
simple word in so foolish a fashion.
This is only one of the many useless
and burdensome spellings, each
trifie in itself but really heavy bur-
den on childhood
Idaho is getting rid of the com
monest and useless of these extra
letters. Some months ago the State
Board of Education authorized the
use of certain simplified forms, and
the board required the publishers of
the new spelling book to include the
Idaho list of simpIified spellings as
follows:
Il. Use the following Spellings for
these words and their compounds and
derivatives: tho, althO, moro, thru,
rhine, draft, and suIfur.
al. In all words where there is a
choice between
1. The dipthong ae and the vowel
e. use e: esthetic, medieval.
g. Final cite and ct, use ct: quartet
g. Final mme and M use m: pro-
gram, telegram, etc.
f. Final IL and |, use 1: fulfill
5. Final illness, use lness: fulness,
dulness, etc.
g. llful and lful, use lful: skilful,
joyful, etc.
7. Sc and re, use re: economic,
analyze, etc.
8. logue and log, use log: catalog
dialOg, etc.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-25
FREE TRADE.

The free trade act passed by the
present administration, put corn,
wheat and hogs on the free list. The
farmers are now forced into a un-
equal competition with cheaper for
eign imports.
The same Underwood law put cattle
on the free list and reduced the duty
on horses.
The protective tariff levied duty
of cents a dozen on imported eggs
The Underwood law lets them in free
and now 50000,00O dozen eggs a
month are coming into the United
States from China where living con-
ditions are probably the cheapest in
the world
War prosperity hides the' effect at
present but the fact remains that if
the Payne-Aldrich protective tariff
law had been in effect during the last
nine months of 1915, we would have
collected $91 ,656, 161 more than we
did under the Underwood free trade
law. This money which should have
gone into the United States treasury
went to foreign countries, and we got
the stamp tax Canada is in the war
and had no stamp tax.
Did free trade reduce living eX-
penses? Compare the expenses of a
few years ago with this years.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-25
~Oo9c="
|[=I3NIEslI
[CE;l\(!lx1lIa's.!sSA lo ~, .:u, N1sS1
A04gHl[Ili INSTRUCTION buRtlUVs9?lzW
Sw atuuAsno1h DGMcpa
WORKED TO LIFE.

For the want Of balance or adjust
ment between working ability lessen
ed by desease and necessity to earn
money many consumptive is now in
his grave who should be filling a use
full place In the Work-a-day world.
Consumption of itself is not very
deadly desease. It's course is long
drawn out and the great difficulty in
it's cure rests in making arrangements
which will permit patient to pursue
his treatment long enough to become
really we'll and strong.
At Muirda1e Sanitorium for Tuber-
culosis (Milwaukee) a superintendent
of recreation and employment gives
all of her time to studing individual
patients interests and abilities Much
hitherto unsupported and unused tai
ent has been discovered with the re-
suit that many useful and beautiful
articles are being made by the patients
The superintendent, herself, is thor
oughly trained in arts and crafts work
and is able to lead, instruct, and
develop the ability of her pupils.
While there is little or no danger of
the spread Of the desease through
articles handled and made by patients
trained to avoid spreading of disease,
every precaution is taken to make
such infection absolutely impossible
For the most part, work is confined to
articles which permit of disinfection.
Great benefit in the condition of
some of the patients put upon graded
work has been observed. One patient
who had been steadily declining was
nevertheless permitted to do a little
work because he pleaded so hard for
the opportunity. Under careful OBJ
servatiOn his condition was found to
be no worse for an hours work each
day. Gradually his work periods were
heightened. To the amazement of
doctors, nurses, and fellow patients
his physical condition began to i'm
prove rapidly. Supposedly a hopeless
case, this patient improved until it
was possible to discharge him as an
arrested case. To-day he is regularly
employed as timekeeper for a crew of
outdoor laborers. This is another
part of the system. Employment of
patients after leaving the sanitorium
is not left entirely to accident or nee
essity. Efforts are made to bring the
discharged patient and a suitable job
together.
Good results are dependent upon
intelligent and painstaking observa-
ton Of daily symptoms of patients.
Thus employed, these measures consti-
tute steps in the cure Patients treat
ed in this manner will present fewer
relapses for they will be conditioned
to take their required employment
normally after leaving the sanitorium
and without undue and fatal strain
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-25
NEW VARIETY OF CORN.
Natures Early and Gives Large Yield
Good For SiIO and Crib.

Wisconsin corn breeders have de-
VelOped new variety with which to
push the corn belt northward."
According to reports from E. J.
Delwiche, in charge of northern
branch stations of the College of Ag-
riculture, the new early dent variety,
known as Wisconsin No. 25, is show
ing up favorably this season under
varied conditions of soil and climate.
It is about ten days earlier in matur-
ing than Wisconsin No. 8, which has
heretofore been the most promising
variety for the regions of the state
having short growing seasons.
''At the Spooner station the Wis
consin No. 25 is yielding more than
IS bushels of shelled corn an acre"
states Mr.. Delwiche "The corn was
fit for seed on Sept 10, and ripe ears
could have been selected Sept. /.
The variety also did we'll at Conrath
on a heavy silt loan soil Reports
from cooperating farmers throughout
the north who grew this variety on
test this year. are nearly all favorable.
AS several hundred acres of Wiscon-
sin No. % were planted during the
past season, a considerable amount of
good seed will probably be available
Names of growers will be supplied on
request"
Mr.. Delwiche says that this variety
will do for either crib or silo 1t
grows from seven to nine feet high,
is leafy, and not course in stalk. The
ears are medium size, and of deep,
well denied, and much harder than
most dent varieties, although not
flinty in character. Twelve to sixteen
rows to the ear is the rule. The pro-
portion of corn to cob averages about
IS per cent, which is unusually high
for northern grown variety.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-25
RICHWOOD-ROUTE 1.

F. F. Plasil has purchased a Jeffrey
touring car
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Stueber have re-
turned from their honeymoon at Iowa
last week, and have taken up house
keeping on the groom's farm.
Capt. H. S. Wheeler of Delafield was
a caller at Frank Prahl's home Sun
day.
Mrs. Herman Radloff and Miss Mil
lie Wuestenberg were shopping at Wa
tertown, Monday.
Mrs. John Marsche and son Tavern
of the town of Emmett, visited her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. Burmeister
Sr., Saturday and Sunday. Her moth
er Mrs. Burmeister being quite i'll for
several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Prahl spent
Tuesday at Watertown.
The ladies of the n. n. club will
entertain their friends to a dancing
party at the hall Friday evening.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-25
PASTEURIZED WHEY.
Whey Should Be Pastuerized To
Obtain Best Results.

More Wisconsin cheese factories
ing to patrons.
These reason for the adoption of
this system of sanitation and business
economy have been set forth by j. L.
Sammis of the Dairy department OF
the University of Wisconsin:
1T checks the spread of live stock
diseases, transmitted from farm to
farm in whey cans
Patrons prefer the warm, sweet
whey in place of the cold, sour pro
duct. Animals like it better and
maintain better health by its use as
food
"Pasteurization of whey improves
tanks, cans and milk do not become
infected with the impurities of pre-
ceding days. Zone Swiss cheese fac
tory in the state which was on the
point of closing down in July because
Of 'bloated' cheese. installed a system
of pasteurization of whey, which stop
ped the trouble at once.)
FOUL doors around the whey tank,
so persistent and annoying in many
factories, are often greatly reduced
by pasteurizing the whey
THE cost involved is small A few
feet of galvanized iron pipe and a
steam valve, plus a small quantity of
coal each month will do the work"
Minnesota already has law provid-
ing for the pasteuriZation of whey,
and Ontario, Canada, has adopted a
similar one to go into effect next
April. Why not Wisconsin?
Farmers as we'll as dairy manufac-
lures are becoming interested in the
nto
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-25
FIRST NOTICE.


You get a bargain when you get
The Youths Companion for 1917 for
$1,000 issues crowded from cover to
cover with the reading you most en-
joy But you get the best of the bar
gain if you subscribe the minute you
read this, for then you, will get free
every number of The Companion
issued between the time you subscribe
and New Years. If you send your
$500 at once that means a lot of read
ing for which you won't have to pay
cent. And then the long, glorious
81 weeks Of Companion reading to
come after! Let us send you the Fore
cast for 1917, which tell all about what
is in store for Companion readers in
1917
By special arrangements new sub
scribers for The Youths Companion
can have also McCall's Magazine for
1917-bOth publications for $2.10.
Our Electromagnetic offer includes:
l. The Youths Companion-52 issues
Of 1917
2. All the remaining issues of 1916.
3. The Companion Home Calendar for
1917.
4. McCalPs Magazine-12 fashion
numbers of 1917.
5. One lucent Mccall Dress Pattern
your choice from your first number
of the magazine-if you send 2-cent
stamp with your selection.
THE YOUTHS COMPANION,
st. Paul St, Boston, Mass.
New Subscriptions Received at this
Office.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-25
PROVED BIG LOGIC.

Letter in the New York Sun.
Like yourself and many others, ]
have been amazed at the World in its
Wilson and Peace or Hughes and
War" logic, but George B. Lockwood.
editor of the National Republican,
printed at Munice, Ind, seems to have
made this reasoning clear. 1 inclose
clipping from his paper DE- ed Oct. 7.
QUOD Frat DEMONSTRADUM.
How does President Wilson figure
it out that there will be war in case
of Republican success? His mental
processes are evidently something like
this:
War is hell.
1T Will be hell if get licked.
Things equal to the same thing are
equal to each other
Therefore there will be war if |
get licked.
"Quod erat demonstrandum. Glass
in logic dismissed Milwaukee Free
Press.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-25
A Confession.

Perhaps you do not recognize me,
Sir, but | am the man who eloped
with your daughter a month ago, said
the young man.
'Humph! And what will you have
with me?'
Il have come to asked you to for
give me?'
Gladly, sir; there's my hand -
They shook hands i'll silence
Il must congratulate you on your
speed" said the young man, with grow
ing familiarity; you nearly caught
us before we got away
Il wasn't trying to catch you"
Really" Intercepted the young
man.
NO. grunted the old gent; 81
just wanted to make you go faster"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-25
A New Way To Get Money.

August Wiggenhorn, our local jew
eler, tells a good one on himself. A
man whom he knew slightly, left a
valuable watch with him as security
for a ten dollar loan. About a week
later he returned and redeemed the
watch with a check on a company for
which he claimed to be a salesman
The company refused to honor the
check, and now Mr.. Wiggenhorn is
wondering
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-25

There are several good and suffi-
cient reasons why President Wilson
has kept us out of the European
war" They are as follows:
mo European country wanted to
fight us.
2-All the belligerents wanted us to
keep strictly out
3-The American people were bitterly
opposed to butting in.
4-Congress wouldn't stand for a war.
Sit would have required two years
for the United States to get on
war footing.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-25
Rheumatism Follows Exposure.

lowed by painful twinges of rheuma-
tism or neuralgia. Sloan's Liniment
will give you quick relief and prevent
the twinges from becoming torture
1t quickly generates without rubbing
and soothes the sore and aching
joints. For sore, stiff, exhausted mus
cles that ache and throb from over
work, Sloan's Liniment affords quick
relief. Bruises, sprains, strains and
other minor injuries to children are
quickly soothed by Sloan's Liniment
Get a bottle today at your druggist.
25c.-Adv 2
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-25
FARMERS AND THE EIGHT HOUR
LAW.

Many farmers have written to the
fear that a general eight-hour law,
affecting even farm hands, may soon
be enacted by the Democratic party,
according to George A. West He said
they told him of the impossibilty of
operating a farm under an eight-hOur
system. He received such letters re-
Gently from the southwestern part of
the state and from Door and Chippewa
counties He said that this fear seems
to be widespread Many of the let
tiers declared that tor this reason
many farmers will vote for Hughes.
Mr.. West was in Raymond, Racine
county, the other day. He said that
one farmer told him that many in
that district are apprehensive of such
law and that most of the Democra-
tic farmers in the vicinity are going
to vote for Hughes.
Railroad Men and the Eight Hour Law.
Because they believed that the prec-
edent set in the Adamson law would
be followed by regulation of wages
and hours of labor on railroads by a
federal commission, four railroad men
came into the state central committee
headquarters in the Republican house
ana exchanged Wilson buttons for
Hughes buttons. They did not want
the railroad brotherhoods to be de-
prived of the privilege of conducting
their own negotiations direct with the
roads for changes in conditions, they
said.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-10-25
S2.6O6.75 FOR 1875 HOGS.

The largest amount of money ever
paid to one man in this vicinity for
hogs was paid to Leonard Spangler of
Bloom last Monday, when J. G. Hull
& son purchased his drove of 1875
hogs. The check was written for So,
606.75 which amount does not repre-
sent all Of Mr.. Spangler's money for
this year. He has sold about $500
worth of hogs previous to this time.
hog raiser in this country.-Viola
News