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The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
LIST SPOILED BY ADULATtON
to Best Advantage the Great Gift
That He Possessed.

It Is only when we remember LISTS
profession that we can read the riddle
he presents. From childhood up, he
was the idolized piano virtuoso. He
was petted and adored all his life He
was smothered all his life under the
adulation showered upon him in every
capital of Europe, showered upon him
in every tangible form by women of
the highest society. His was not
character profound or fine enough to
right itself. He never managed to de-
velop out Of that stage, to contact
with truly nourishing things. On the
contrary, he became completely up
rooted, came to exist entirely in this
modern Capua, came to love it and to
crave the rose leaves and the clouds
Of perfume. His music is largely an
inspiration toward it, an attempt to
perpetuate about him the admiration
and adulation, the glowing eyes and
half parted lips, the heaving bosoms,
1t Is mechanism for procuring for
himself the Pascha power he desired.
Indeed, beside List, Chopin seems
veritable anchorite. True, List in
terested himself in music for another
reason. If it served to procure him
the particular "place In the sun" that
he craved, it furnished him also with
a most engaging pastime. He inter-
ested himself in music as one might
interest oneself in sport as one be-
comes more proficient in it. He stud
led its rules, its teachings, it's tricks
With what keenneSs he mastered them
his compositions show. But that inter-
the major.-Paul Rosenfeld, in Seven
Arts Magazine.
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Poets and Coffee.

Poets have neglected coffee; partly
because poets are greatly under the in
fuence of tradition, partly because
coffee is hard word to find rhyme
for; one had hoped that vers libres
would give scope to coffee lovers. But
the vers-librettisti and vers-librettistae
Chose gentlemen and ladies who write
poetry for the eye and the ear rather
than for the intelligence) have been
equally negligent. Philosophers do
not care for breakfast. Kant took
pipe and stroll for his morning meal,
and If we were to inquire into the
habits of the extremely modern poets
we should be likely to find that they
are equally reckless of breakfast. I
suspect them of cruel or mutton
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
ey EDWARD 3. CLARK.

Copyright 1917, Western Newspaper Union.l
Washington.-Who is Col. Edward
Mandell House who Is to gather war
data for the United States government
for service on a future day of peacel
This is q question that is being asked
by a very large proportion of the peo-
pie Of the United States and in fact
Of all the allied nations.
Colonel House does not wear the
record of his deeds on his sleeve. It
Is probable that if this unofficial coun-
sellor to the president of the United
States were to he, elected to congress
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Why We Read.

We should not, supposing each Of
them to render life as he saw 1t, quar-
rel with Fielding, whose idea of cause
and effect Is that drinking makes q
man fine, genial fellow, any more
han with lola, who wrote a book
called "L'Assommoir." Actually "Tom
Jones'" since it is more filtered work
since it is a product of the authors
experience of life, whereas Zola's book
is a product, not Of experience, but
of tabulations-"TOmJ Jones" will prob
ably have more persistent vitality.
1t Is rendering Of life as it is, such
as 1t Is, a picture of manners. 1t in
Eterests because it excites our curiosity.
After all, we most of us read because
we want to know-because we want to
know so many things.
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and IS mauled and played with like a
kitten. In the daytime Robert flies
away and comes home to roost in the
evening. He has most lovely plum
age Of azure blue and golden yellow.
Robert is a great pet of every
ones, except when he goes out on
washing days and starts to take out
the clothes pegs at one end Of the
line and finishes at the other. Then
he gets some blessings, but takes it all
as a joke, and perches in the nearest
and safest place and laughs and talks
while the angry women peg on the
clothes again."
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05

the Autobiography which he would pre-
pare for the congressional directory
would rasd like this:
Edward Mandell House, Democrat OF
Austin, Texas; born 1858; elected to
the congress- November. -----.
In this brief. ultra-modest. if you will.
way would this Texan be prompted TO
write an autobiography, justified
doubtless from the viewpoint of other
chanters.
Who is Col. Edward Mandell House.
who, until the day when the final order
"Cease Firing" comes, is to study In
behalf of the government Of the United
States the economic. the geographic.
the democratic and the humanitarian
problems which the American counsel
lors at the peace table must seek to
solve after manner which the people
Of great democracy can approve?
Consulted by President.
In the Washington dispatches some
thing like this is read several times a
year: Colonel House has been in the
city for twentyfour hours as the guest
Of the president He will leave for
New York tomorrow morning"
Beyond this the reader gets nothing
from the dispatches except the word
that the president and his visitor dis.
cussed Mexican matters, or European
matters, or it may be, but in this lat
ter case rarely, political matters.
The public has known little more
about Colonel House than that he Is
man frequently consulted by Wood
row Wilson and a man In whose judg-
ment on political, economic and legis-
iative matters the president puts con-
f1dence. There is q sort of glamour
about men and things which are mys-
ferrous. 1t would seem that because
Of the attraction which mystery has
for the people, as shown If you will
In their gluttonOus reading of detec-
tive stories and the like, that writer's
of the news of the day in part have
chosen to treat the goings and COM
ings of the colonel and his conferences
with men Of affairs as If they were
a deliberate attempt to hedge them
In and hide them from public knowl-
edge.
1t is just as possible to get at the
truth in the case of Colonel House as
1t is In the case of any other man
whose doings are of public interest. 1t
is modeSty not mystery which has been
the basic difficulty.
Colonel House will not tell you that
he is a modest man. as | know from
personal contact with him. To claim
modesty for ones self is to be immOd-
est. He does go from his present abode
In New York city to Washington occa-
siOnally or frequently as the requests
may come 70 give what he can Of "the
counsel of his views" to the president
Of the United States. Why should he
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to Locke's Human UNDERSTANDING

to LOcke's Human Understanding"
and from this latter book Of ''dismala-
ties" to the lighter minded reader,
down to everything heavy and semi
heavy which was published to the
week of his death. Senator Hoar kept
his mental condition balanced by turn
Ing not merely from the heavy to the
light on occasion, but to the actual
featherweights of fiction. He read
mick Carter"
Woodrow Wilson, it Is said, turns
away from the studies Of states, past
and present and in prospective to the
reading of what the English call penny
dreadfuls, and what the Americans in
the old days called yellow backs. 1t
is said that the speaker Of the house
of representatives, Champ Clark, stops
frequently his mental digging into all
kinds of history to take up for relief
purposes books of the kind which
make boy happy.
Reads Good Fiction.
In the library Of Colonel House
there is plenty of good fiction. He
does not turn to Nick Carter, nor to
1.-THE Hidden Hand" Of Mrs. e. D. E.
N. Southworth, nor yet to "Owl Face,
The Pawnee" of Beadle dime novel
fame, but he manages to keep the men
tai balance even by an evening lamp
hour or two with the writer's of fic-
ton who can lay claim to what the
book reviewers call literary merit.
Today Colonel House Is entering up
on the work Of preparing material
which one day, perhaps far in the fu-
ture, will be serviceable to the Ameri-
can commissioners at the great peace
conference. Another has written this
concerning the choice by the president
Of Colonel House for this work: "He
is peculiarly qualified for it by his dip
lomatic experience of recent years, by
his study Of political problems which
the war has raised and by his integrity
of mind and character"
Sherlock, will you tske On the
House Mystery CaseT"
Mystery my dear Watson, there
Isn't any,"
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believe IS able to make his knowledge
serviceable, for old as it is let US say
1t. history repeats itself.
Woodrow Wilson did not meet his
friend Colonel House until the days
when he was holding office as COVER
nor of New Jersey. 1t is said by
friends Of Mr.. Wilson that almost In
stantly he came to understand why
the Texan had been Of service along
constructive lines to some of the gov
errors Of the state in which he has
lived most of his life. For six or seven
years Mr.. House has been the conf
dant and the counsellor of the presf-
dent of the United States, and SEEM
ingly time enough has gone by and
things enough have been proved or
disproved to give certainty to the
word that Woodrow Wilson has found
Edward M. House an advisory asset.
There hardly can be much Of real
mystery about man who twice since
this great war began has been sent
abroad as a special commissioner for
the president Of the United States. Col
onel House has been twice in Berlin,
five times In Paris, and frequently in
other of the great European capitals.
Some day it may be that Woodrow
Wilson will write what may be called
an photographed review of his nd
likely that the part taken by Cold&l
House in the shaping of some of the
policies Of the president may be given
the page place which many men be-
lieve that it deserves.
No Mystery There.
While living in New York Colonel
House resides in an apartment not
very far uptown. It Is homelike
place where good books are found and
where good friends may come. 1t is
genial place and no curtain of mystery
hangs over the door of any one OF its
rooms. Men go there and are well
come. They go and they talk. Man
learns as much from man as he learns
from books and more perhaps II we
believe the ancient saying about the
proper study Of mankind.
asked Colonel House what his rec
reations are. He said, "Friends, read
ing and walking" His library shelves
show the kind of books that he has
read still Is reading and will continue
to read, for those in the book cases
are made the companions day by day
of the others as they come from the
hands Of writer's worth while.
No man probably can read politics,
legislation, economics and history con-
stantly without getting some of DIR.
Dry-as-Dust's characteristics, So 1t Is
that Colonel House does not read the
four formidables constantly. He turns
to fiction and here one finds something
Of possibly more than passing human
interest.
George Frisbe Hoar, OF Massachus-
etts was one Of the scholars in politics.
1t was said Of him that he had read
everything from AristoDhannS' Frogs
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SURGEONS AID TO RECRUIT
Young Man Undergoes Operation
to Pass tho Physical
Examination.

Atchison, Kan.-Ben Byrne, an
Atchison young man, has undergone q
major operation so that he could quail
ify for the army. He is In the Atchi-
son hospital.
Byrne went to Hlawatha to join
Company F, Kansas National Guard,
but did not pass the physical examina-
ton. He was much disappointed and
on returning to Atchison decided to un-
dergo an operation and after recov-
ering made another effort to get into
the service.
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CHR0N| C
Sufferers

want to talk to you. The fact tina,
you have been treated elsewhere
without benefit does not discourage
me in the least l am helping men and
women every day, effecting cures
many times in cases pronounced in
durable by others, so that l feel sure
can do as much for you My counse
will cost you nothing but my charges
for treatment will be reasonable an,
not more than you will be willing t.
pay for the benefits conferred.
treat rheumatism. Nervousness
Stomach and Heart Troubles. G;
tipation. Urinary and Kidney Di
eases and Diseases peculiar to wome
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Service Is Our Motto


broth.
To return, as / have said, no poet
has celebrated coffee. Shakespeare
came too soon. Pope has mere ref
erence:
Coffee, which makes the politician wise.
And see through all things with his half
shut eyes.
But in Pope's day coffee was an
affair of afternoon and company did
not appeal to romantic sentiments as
breakfast coffee does.-Henry Dwight
Sedgwick in the Yale Review.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
SENATOR BAEKHEAD
CARRIES big STICK"

Washington. - Senator Bank
head Of Alabama startled his
colleagues by stalking into the
chamber just before the recent
adjournment with the aid of
hickory stick six feet long. The
senator is no lightweight and ne
. towers over the average man,
but prop so entirely out of all
accepted proportions caused
comment.
Senator Knox's curiosity was
such that he demanded an ex-
PLANTATION.
IT'S the stoutest bit of wood
ever cut In Virginia." said the
owner. -
Quite a good deal Of It," OBJ
served the Pennsylvania senator
do you know that If that stick
were cut In two, and one Of the
parts had a nice silver head on
it, it would make a most appro-
pirate gift for friend?"
mot on your life," responded
the gentleman from Alabama,
quick to reject the hint. This
was sent to me by friend. / am
going to take it down home If
you fellows ever get through
wind-jamming here and adjourn.
1t will be just the thing for ME
to use when 1 60 prowling
around my farm"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-05
COLONEL HOUSE,
WILSON'S FRIEND
NOT A MYSTERY
Unofficial Counsellor of the Pres
ident Is a Modest But Well
Posted Man.
STUDENT OF WORLD AFFAIRS
Now Gathering Data on Economic and
Other Problems Which Must Be
Solved at the Peace TabIe-Has
Qualifications That Go to Make
Sound Diplomat.

AUTHORS NOTE-Men have made o
mystery of the life and the doings Of Col.
Edward NJ House. the friend and adviser
OF Woodrow Wilson. II there has been
mystery, It Is none Of the ColonePs MAX
ing. venture the hope that whatever
may have seemed to be hidden is dis
closed In this article. the material for
which was obtained in the only way In
which such material can be obtained by
direct personal contact, inquiry and
of,,hv
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CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN.
South.

Chicago passenger-------ll a. IN.
ticago passenger-------- 1:oV p. Id.
4 eS lille paSSenger------- 40 y. H.
u M train makes close con-
ections for the west at Jefferson
action and also for Milwaukee.
Both 11:O7 a. n. and 7:15 p. m.
.tIls make close connections at JET
ON Junction for Madison and all
POINTS west
North.
Green Bay passenger------1:oo a. NJ
cen Bay. Sundays only----S:lO a. I'd.
G. cen Bay passenger p. u
Northern higan---------o:Zo p. II
Rockford passenger arrives at wa
.ertown at $40 a. m. and goes no
artheI.
The 1855 a. m. train makes connec-
ION at Clyman junction for trains
east
The 100 train south makes connec-
lions at Jefferson junction for points
east
A tra'r goes west from Clyman
junction at 4:45 p. m.
*r.hese trains leave daily except
sunday
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Train NO. "A IeaVoS WdIeItOWu III
the east at 1850 p m. Sunday only.
Train NO 80 arrives from Milwau-
kee and departs for Madison at $3.50
~ except Sunday.
Train No. 410 arrives from Madison
at 9:19 a. NJ, except Sunday.
Train No Z arrives from Chicago
md departs for Madison at 3:11 p m.
tally except Sunday.
Train No. % arrives from Chicago
md departs for Madison at 6:45 p. m.
except Sunday.
Train No 80 arrives from the east
i $50 p, m daily.
Sunday excursion train arrives from
Milwaukee at 10:G2 a. N. and goes
through to Madison, returning at $40
20
Train No. 81 arrives from Milwau-
kee at 1925 p. N. and goes no further.
*These trains stop AT Watertown
notion only
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-08
WILL SOON BUY TIRES
LIKE ALL MERCHANDISE

1T is our prediction that In a few
years the motoring public viii be buy
ing tires on a merchandising basis,
in much the same manner that they
Guy clothes, shoes, etc" says the local
manager Of the Automobile Tire com
pany, Of New York. There is really
no good reason why tires should be
sold with a guarantee that they will
run a stated number Of miles To any
thoughtful man il is obvious that tires
could be sold cheaper II the selling
plan were changed and then the care
Iul man would pay only for his own
tires instead Of paying FOR the guar
antee on the tires OF the careless and
abusive user who gets the careful
Users money when an adjustment is
made
our company has felt the need Of
having a good tire we could sell guar
anteed as TO quality. but without
spectre mileage. We feel that we
have the tire in the Beacon which we
have recently placed on the market
BY selling direct from the factory to
consumer through our own branch
stores We are able to sell Beacons
about 25 percent below the lowest
standard list price and offer the pub
lie quality tire which gives salts
factory mileage and wins US friends"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-08
MAXWELL CLOSES LEASE
OF BIG CHALMERS PLANT

Detroit. Mich. sept SIN a letter
sent out by Hugh Chalmers TO all
Chalmers distributors and dealers. he
advises them Of the lease OF the
Chalmers plant and equipment for five
wears TO the Maxwell Motor company,
Inc.
that Chalmers cars viii continue to
be built in the Chalmers shops The
details OF the lease have already
been worked out but ratification or
the action OF the boardsof directors IS
necessary. and a ueetingof the stock !
holders is called for September 10. for
this purpose. The surplus capacity Of
the plant will be utilized by the Nan
well company for other purposes.
Mr.. Chalmers viii be chairman OF
the board OF directors and Mr.. Morse
viii continue to be in charge OF the
selling division
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-08
WHAT'S SMART
FOR MILADY
IN AUTO TOGS

" ESTEE caPes are almost like the
" care coats except that they
swing free from the shoulders
and are not confined below the arm
Sits. one particularly pretty one IS
OF cell blue bureIla cloth lined with
silk Of the same shade. The vestee
is quite long. has two pockets and is
held in place By a belt which runs
around the waist
The cape has a convertible collar
and buttons covered with the cloth.
The vestee may be discarded at any
time. for If snaps in place with little
catches Another cape IN the same
model is In old blue cloth. with white
Eaberdine lining and collar trimmed
with brass buttons.
Among the jersey coats there is one
I'm blue that is sleeveless and has a
draped shoulder cape that falls over
the tops OF the arms II has q wide
dark blue steuciled border around the
bottom and on the edge Of the cape
drapery and is finished at the waist
with a soft tubular sash with fringed
ends.
A sweater shawl is an addly woven
has a serviceable hood. finished with
a tassel at the back and ties at the
front II is long enough and full
enough 10 be warm and coy gar
ment for evening rides
A novelty in a raincoat for men is
the new tan Eabaruine with a light
plaid lining 1t is made with an in
verted plalt on each side, starting at
the waistline on each side and allow
ing an eighth-inch fullness on either
side when the wearer is seated. A
small loop strap holds the plaits flat
and close when the extra room is not
needed The coat Is fully raglan, back.
with coat sleeves and convertible
collar.
Another unusual coat is en- Ameri-
can Beauty silk popliu. Il Is a regu-
lar sport coat model. having a tan
brocade lining The collar is the wide
fringed scarf style, and the cuffs
button up TO a point For one who
wants striking looking coat there
Is tan silk. with a gay plaid trimming
Of khaki wool The plaid is green. yell
low and deep tan and appears in col
lar, cuffs and lining Of sash. and also
In wide side panels at each side OF
the plated coat skirt. The white
9roacclotn blazer is also a very pOpu-
lar sport garment.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-08

corps. together with their civilian ad-
visers, have reached the conclusion
that it is only by a thorough stand
ardization program, by which all
manufacturers Of parts can be turned
TO making the same interchangea
designs, that the army can be assured
Of ample supplies for possible greater
demands on the capacity OF the in
dustry in the future. 1t is pointed
out that not only will the demand for
motor trucks grow as more Ameri-
can troops 60 abroad, but that if fu-
ture allied offensives should drive the
fighting more into the open, more
rapid and extensive supply transport
facilities viii be needed. The stand
ardiZed motor truck, whose design is
finally TO be completed under the de-
partments authorization, Will be en-
tirely suitable for commercial pur-
poses, as well as being the best mill
tary machine vet designed.
The decision Of the government to
adopt standardized designs Of motor
truck parts, announced at the Co
lumbus meeting BY Capt. ". ". Brit
ton. engineer Of motor transport,
Quartermaster corps, provoked protest
from a number Of manufacturers o.
motor trucks.
Standard makes Of motor trucks
viii probably be purchased through
out this year, in the opinion OF Maj.
c B. Drake OF the Quartermaster
generals office, but those bought
thereafter will be OF the govern
ment's standardized type.