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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-24
An Ant That Spins.

The spinning ant is found in India,
i'll Ceylon, in the islands of Malacca
and in Australia. This ant weaves its
nest between two leaves of tree,
preferably the mango. 1t begins to
build or to weave by drawing two
leaves together. To do this it runs a
line of its working material--material
similar to the spiders thread-the
length of the leaf and around it. While
at work it clings to the leaf with its
nails and at the same time draws on
the leaf nearest to it with it's mandi-
bles. Sometimes the two leaves suit
able for nest building are too far apart:
then the builder calls in it's fellow
ants, and they help to form a chain.
Each ant clings to the waist of it's
neiShbor by its mandibles. Thus en-
chained, they work to build the nest
of their cOmrade.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-24
The Library of the Bible.

The Bible is not a book, but a Ii
brary-perhaps l should rather say q
literature. 1t is composed of sixty-sfS
different books, written by between
forty and fifty different authors-writ
ten centuries apart, in different Ian
guages, to different peoples, for differ
ent purposes, In different literary
forms 1t is the selected literature OF
fifteen centuries. It includes law. his
tory, poetry, fiction, biography and
philosophy. 1t is to be read as a lit
erature, judged as a literature. One
may therefore reject a book from this
collection of literature and yet believe
in the literature. It is not like paint
ing which either is or is not the work
Of one master. 1t is q gallery Of paint
ings, In which some works may be
originals and others cOpies.-Lyman
Abbott
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-24
ne First Atlas

The first modern atlas was the work
Of Abraham Ortelius. Dutch geogra-
pher, who died SIS years ago. His
monumental treatise, entitled 1.-THE
atrum Orbis Terrarum,' was first pub
hshed at Antwerp in 1870 and was re-
vised and reissued five times during
the authors lifetime. 1t was folio
volume containing nearly husdred
maps, representing the different coun-
aries and continents as they were then
known. Although this atlas was a
momentous achievement, yet bright
schoolboy today could draw maps from
memory with better approximation
to correctness. Even England and
Scotland appear In this pioneer volume
with amazing distortions of coast line
and relative area, and many other
maps in the volume bear only a slight
resemblance to those of today.-New
York World.
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LET THE PEOPLE RULE.

1t cost the state of New York $780,
900 to count 1000 soldiers ballots
Australia, which advocates arbitra-
ten of labor disputes, has passed a
bill to suppress the l. W. w.
Frank A. Vanderlip president Ma
tional City bank. New York, says: I'VE
are a country of economic illiterates. -
A 19-year-old girl in Brooklyn, N.
Y, is suing home for girls for $4,000
charging brutality and gross neglect
Two members of New Yorks vice
squad" have been arrested on the
charge of criminally assaulting a girl
IA years old.
A New York woman who thought
she had married a wealthy baron is
suing for divorce. She had married a
pauper
A noted insurance man says that
Americans are a nation of suicides
hurrying to death at 43 years because
they live too well.
Twenty-Five great nations are ex-
perimenting with laws to avert or adj
just railway strikes. The United
States alone is without an efficient
system Of strike prevention.
The meals of 1,400 Berea college
students, without coffee, tea or butter
cost cents a day and the students
thrive. The meals of the Carlisle In
dian school which is producing not
able athletes, cost 16 rs cents a day.
Atlanta, Ga, elected a millionaire
business man, Asa G. Gambler, to the
mayoralty by more than a two-to-one
vote over Brotherhood locomotive
engineer who claimed to have the
support of all the labor element.
Let the people rule!-Leslie's.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-24

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bohnsack spent
Saturday in Watertown.
Freda Heitz visited several days with
her grandmother near Milford.
La Verne Albrecht spent Thursday
with Mrs A Birkholz.
Mr.. and Mrs Alfred Miller and
daughter visited with friends in Hub
bleton.
Mrs. Ben Lehman spent last week
with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Aug.
BirkhoIz
Miss Frances Bergdoll visited Sun
day at the Topel home at Hubbleton.
A large number of friends were very
pleasantly entertained at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer West Friday even
ing the occasion being their first wedd-
ing anniversary. The evening was
spent at cards and music after which
a dainty luncheon was, served.
Phil West spent Friday in Water
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. P, Bergdoll visited
Tuesday at Grellton.
Mrs. Aug. Birkholz spent Tuesday
with her daughter Mrs. Ben Lehman.
A social gathering was held at the
Bergdoll home Monday evening. Those
present were: Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
West and daughter Marcella, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Heitz and daughters Freda
and Mable, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter AL
brecht and daughter La Verne, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred Miller and daughter Verna,
William Stark, John Beerbaum, Henry
and Albert Heitz, Edward Wollitz and
John Stark.
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W. hIOsARsoU'h nplucua

The tothpick chewing habit is not a
pretty one nor is the picking of teeth
in public places to be commended.
Nevertheless, the toothpick does not
deserve the disrepute into which it has
fallen. Instead, as a health instru-
ment, it deserves revival of patron
age
So deeply has it fallen under the
ban of polite social usage, that it is
now frequently a difficult matter to
find good one in many homes. This
is pushing refinement" altogether too
far.
Because 1t is not considered polite to
clean ones finger nails in public is no
reason for throwing away nail files.
Similarly, there is no good excuse for
eliminating toothpicks. Each one is
a necessary and important tool in the
process of keeping clean. And keep
ing clean is a life assurance policy
The mouth offers ideal conditions
for the growth of germs. 1t is moist.
warm and sufficiently dark to make
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-24
CHAPTER 9.

Robert PauPs projecting device
mentioned last week, became popular
ly known throughout England as the
Theatrograph. 1t was established in
public favor almost Immediately but
this development on its commercial
and amusement side will fall more
properly under the head of a future
chapter.
Meantime, as already limited other OF
the pioneers were working on similar
devices, and perfected them, to the
point at least of commercial exploita-
ton, at almost the same time. Most
noteworthy of these, in view of in
fluence later exercised on the industry
through it, was the Cinematograph
invented and manufactured by Lum-
iers and Sons of Paris. Whether the
Paul or the Lumiers device was first
perfected in the manufacturers private
work shop is matter of controversy
1t is however, a matter of record that
during the year 1896 Paul's Theatre
graph was creating its first furore in
London, and, during this same year
the Lumiers were just beginning to
astonish Paris with their Cinemato-
graph. That their public appearances
were practically contemporaneous may
be gathered from the fact that neither
was able to supplant the other in its
country
Like Eastman and Walker in the
United States, the Messrs Lumier were
promoters of very considerable dry
plate business in France. They first
became interested in motion pictures
through an observation of the early
Edison Microscopes that invaded the
Paris market. They turned their at
tention first to manufacturing raw
cellulOid film then devised a motion
picture camera and finally perfected
their projecting apparatus for the
screen.
Seemingly Paul, Lumiers and the
other experimenters of this same
period were working along independ-
ent lines. Consequently their various
devices embodied certain marks of dis
tinction, but this primarially in
smaller details. In all of them, the
predominating principle was virtually
the same. We find a very good reason
for this being so in the fact that each
had the same fund of previous inven-
tions and proven experiments to draw
from.
Since this essential was the same in
these first machines, and remains the
same in the improved machines of to-
day, l shall now try to explain it de-
tachedly. and without application tc
any particular device.
Chief among the previous inventions
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-24
The History of Motion Picture Industry
By
BEATRIZ MICFELENA



from which the projecting principle
was drawn, were the motion picture
camera, in which the ceiluloid film
passed from one magazine across the
cameras lens and into another maya
zine and with an intermittent motion,
the light being regulated to keep pace
with this intermittent advance, by an
opening and closing shutter arrange
ment; the Kinetescope, in which the
film carrying the finished pictures,
unwound and wound from one spool
or real onto another, very much as the
raw film did in the camera-the chief
difference being that, instead of pass
ing in front of Photographic lens
the film in the kaleidoscope passed in
front of magnifying peephole and the
stereopticon, in which an intense light
placed to the rear of the photograph
printed on glass plate, and thrown
through it, projected the photograph
in a graduation of white and black
light and shadows, onto a curtain or
screen, and enlarged the picture ac-
A motion picture projecting machine
divides itself into three parts; ID the
rear part, (2) the middle part, and 90
the fore part. To the rear is the
strong light, in the middle is the glass
condenser which condenses and there
by intersifies the light rays; and to
the fore are the projecting lens and
the devices for winding the celluloid
film from one reel onto another so
that the succession of photographs,
which it carries on it's practically
transparent surface pass in front of
the lens and allow the condensed light
to project through them and throw
them, one after another onto the
screen at the rate of sixteen per
second
It should be here recalled that this
rate of sixteen per second is the same
at which the pictures were taken in
the camera, and consequently means a
duplication of the speed with which
the subject actually moved when be-
ing photographed 1t is to be noted
also that in the projection machine, as
in the camera, the film moves forward
with an intermittent motion and that
the projection of the light and shadow
effects onto the screen is regulated, to
keep time with it, by shutter attach
ment.
With the projection machine, we may
consider that all necessary equipment,
of scientific or mechanical character.
has been invented for the motion pic
ture industry. This epoch of scientific
experiment and invention was very
intricate and tedious one, but, withal
romantic and of tremendous conse-
quence.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-24

town Of Watestown and MIR. Walter
F. SchuraeeEs spn iofsssdhn Schu-
macher Of the town Of 1xnnia VIII take
43aeesa adsk's church Thursday
afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock. They viii
be attended by the Misses Martha
Lemke and Edna Schumacher and
Messrs Urich Schumacher and Herman
Lemke. Mr.. and Mrs. Schumacher
will reside on a farm in the town of
Watertown. Many friends extend con-
gratulations and best wishes.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-24
Calendars of the Aztecs.

Calendars are probably the oldest
form Of literature in the world. The
cards which appear by the millions in
all civilized countries nowadays have
their counterpart among the most an
cient known races. The Aztecs. for ex
ample, were well supplied with calen-
dars, and several of them have been
preserved to this day. They were pub
lished in stone and set up In public
places
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-24
Lingering Coughs Are Dangerous

Get rid of that tickling cough that
keeps you awake at night and drains
your vitality and energy. DR.. Kings
New Discovery is a pleasant balsam
remedy, antiseptic, laxative and
promptly effective. 1t soothes the
irriated membrane and kills the cold
germs; your cough is soon relieved.
Delay is dangerous-get DR.. King IS
New Discovery at once. For nearly
fifty years it has been the favorite
remedy for grippe, Group, coughs and
colds. Get a bottle to-day at your
Druggist, SOC. 8
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(To be continued.)

an ideal disease germ garden. The
food which gathers between the teeth
furnishes lodging place for count
less numbers Of disease producing
germs as we'll as the ordinary ones of
decay. When, therefore, overnice
people refrain from picking their teeth
they are merely too nice" to be really
clean.
The tooth brush is all right as far as
it goes. 1t is a perfectly obvious fact.
however, that it doesn't go far enough.
While some clean part way between
the teeth, none go all the way around
all of the surfaces unlesssthe teeth are
as far apart as those of the common
public wash room comb Something.
therefore, in the nature of toothpick,
or stout thread, is necessary to keep
the teeth decently clean. Polishing
the front and back surfaces isn't
enough. The margins between the
closely set choppers and grinders are
the most difficult to clean and hence
most likely to decay and TO harbor
disease breeding organisms. The pro-
per use of the toothpick in the proper
place and at a proper time is a good
habit and one that should be encour-
aged especially in childhood, the great
habit forming period in life
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-24
Tine tables.
CHICAGO & ~ ORTHWESTERN
SOUTH

Chicago Passenger. .,,,.-...5:l7 d, III
*Chicago Passenger. l1:05 a. n
*Chicago 80 d. m
GAINESVILLE Passenger. .........7:l5 D. IN
:3o a. III. train makes close connec-
lions for the west at jefferson Junction
also for Milwaukee.
BOTH O0 q. IN. and 7:15 p. m. trains
make close connections at jefferson
junction for Madison and all points
west
NORTH.
*6reen Bay passenger. 7.s5 q m
dreen Bay. sundays onlg $40 y ",
screen Bay Passenger. 2.43 n m
Northern Michigan. . S.o5 n ~
Rockford Passenger arrives nj Nater.
town at 9;4O a. m and goes no f,rther
The 7:55 a. M. train makes connection
at Clyman Junction for trains east
A train goes west from Clyman Jur.
ton at 8 p. m.
*Ihese trains leave daily except Sundsy
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, & ST. PAUI
EAST.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-24

Why borrow troubles? Or anything
else for that matter; You can get
almost anything but trouble very cheap
of The Central Trading Co. Adv.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-24
To Help Him Out.

"You are lying so clumsily," said the
observant judge to litigant who was
making a dubious statement of his
case, that l would advise you to get
a lawyer "-Browning's Magazine.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-24
HERE AND THERE

Y The ''toddle" is the latest! The
"toddle" be it known is dance Of the
ultra modern, ultra-sQuirmy type. 1t
comes from that cesspool of all things
unrefined, HN'Yawk"
Prof. e. A. Ross of our own state UNI
iversity tells us that the modern dance
is first cousin of the 'hootchie koot-
chic" of the South Sea islands. Many
think the relationship is even closer
than that. Even the savages would
look at the modern dance with horror
says the professor.
And well they might
The modern wiggle-giggling, wigg-
ling, prancing, squirming, side-step
back-step, one-step, lock-step, jump
ing, falling, tumbling, sprawling; they
entwine and unbend, embrace and I'M
fold; snuggle, juggle, cuddle-on with
the dance, let joy be unrefined.
They used to dance the two-step
now they squirm the one-step. 1t used
to be the good old waltz; now its
prance and waggle and hug. Mother
tipped the minuet; daughter jigs tod
de; father held her on his arm
Johnny hugs his lass. Grace and dig
nifty once ruled-now it's grace and
only aim-and little enough at that
The ballroom revolutions done; the
dance is now squirm. We're horri-
fled, and then we laugh-then join the
madly wiggling throng-perhaps cit
amt SC bad"
ITO the pure all is pure" they say.
So ION with the dance; let joy be un-
confined" and also unrefined
Some of the boys who went to the
fire at Cooney Friday evidently didn't
hear the fire OUT whistle.
The woman who used to light the
kitchen fire with kerosene now uses
the fluid in her tin lizzie.
Have you seen the first robin yet :?
1t is about time Bert Smith was MAX
ing his annual report.
New potatoes are quoted at Sc a
bushel and strawberries are soaring
high. The high cost of food is as
nothing compared to the high cost of
drink
Max Then, the popular plumbing
supplies salesman, if one can be pop
ular in that particular line, likes the
skat game and so used is he to carry
ing off a prize in Watertown that he
left orders Monday evening to have
the coin Of the realm shipped to him
But he didn't win and Gap" says it
wouldn't do him any good if he had.
Trade at home is a good motto.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-24

IRAN NO. AZ, arrives from Milwaukee
al zoo y. H. Saturday ana ounda, only
Train No. A leaves W aterLovu far nm,
eaS' aI 4:oo u. ~, Saturday ana oundu,
only.
Train No. 80 arrives from Milwautao
an" "epaf1s Iof Madison al S:Ig y m
eACopL ounudJ. "
Train No. 4lO arrives from Madisou ~
9:1o d. M, except SUNDAY.
Train No. arrives from Chicago an,
departs for Madison al 3Ii u. m. daily
except Sunday.
Train No. % arrives from Chicago and
departs for Madison al 6:38 D. m. except
Sunday.
Train No. 81 arrives from Chicago
daily at 1925 .. N. and goes no further
Train No. 80 arrives from the east =
7:50 p. III. daily.
Sunday excursion train arrives from
Milwaukee at 1905 a. m. and goes thru
to Madison. returning at 5:45 D. m.
*St0Ds at Watertown junction onlv
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CHR OpR ACTOR
70i FIFTH STREET WATERFOWL
Ii you are sick and have tried every
thing and did not receive help. try chi
ropractic (spinaD adjustments, and get
we'll Consultation free
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New potatoes are quoted at Sc a
bushel and Strawberries are soaring
high. The high cost of food is as
nothing compared to the high cost of
drink.
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Rueben Spangenberg


The Euterpe club program Saturday
afternoon consisted of the following
numbers:
Romantic Period Mrs. VIM. Stone
I'm --Grieg
Hunters Song Grieg
Mrs Arthur Kuenzie
Traeume ------------- Wagner
Elizabeth's Prayer Wagner
Mrs. Edward Brandt.
Mrs. Lofty and I----Anonymo
My Ships at Sea--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Mrs E. J, Herman
Still vie die Nacht- Bohm
Mrs Arthur KuenZie
Romance Greenfield
Mrs. Elizabeth Green
AHSeluS ------------ CnamlnaQe
Mrs. Arthur Kuenzie, Mrs. E. j. Hoer-
mann
Mrs. Elliot Wise
The marriage of Miss Wilhelmina A
Lemke, daughter of II. Lemke of the
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Have you seen the first robin yet
1t is about time Bert Smith was max.
ing his annual report.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-24

kitchen fire with kerosene now uses
the fluid in her tin lizzie.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-24

fire at Cooney Friday evidently didn't
hear the fire out" whistle.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-24

Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Fuller were SUI
prised by a number of friends Thurs
day evening in their home and a de
lightful time resulted for all. TIL
proposed sleighride party was met
amorphosed into a most delightful
house party with all the accompani
ments
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-18
100000 Chinese Sent
To France via N. Y.
New York Central Reveals
Secret Traffic in Farm
Labor

Washington, April Il. One hundred
thousand Chinese have passed through
New York in the last year on their way
TO farms i'm the south OF France. Sena-
tor Calder was informed to-day by
New York Central officials, who are
afraid that the Department of Labor
will interfere with the traffic.
The Chinese. used as farm laoorers,
made il possible for 100000 more
French soldiers to be put in the
trenches. They have been taken IN
charge a. Montreal, where the great
est secrecy was maintained. transferred
20 New York. and thence sent TO France
The Department Of Labor had no OBJ
lection 10 the coolies passing through
the United States under bond, but u
did object for some reason to the
routing Of the Chinese.
The situation is particularly inter
esting TO Senator Calder. because OF
the request Just sent to him from New
York that he permit the bringing IN
Of Chinese labor to meet the present
food situation in the United States.
81 would have TO think the proposal
over for some tine Mr.. Calder said.
"Undou5tedly there would be many
objections 10 bringing Chinese into tkI,
country. might favor It. but 1
would have TO think il over, and to hear
what objections might be raised to it,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-18
Socialists at Hague
Decry Patched Peace
Dutch Pleased at Defeat of Tx
trcmists in Russia

The Hague. April T.. ln'crna'ona
Socialist circles are gratihed al Tho
latest ucws from Russia. which ind
Gates chat the new regime ~ becoming
frmly established. with tine power OF
rho Socialist tztrcmist- very small
compared 20 that OF those who favor a
lasting rather than pstchcd-up peace
\ reserved attitude la adopted I'm re-
gard to the expected outcome o. t'e
conference 20 Doc held AZ Stockholm hu'
the International Socialists are kcen.t
auNiou, 20 miss no chance Of maNra
their influence felt i'm the eventual TO-
organization Of Europe.
30 programme has been drawn w
for the conference hut a sharp con
Gict Of opinion Us likely 20 develop
The Dutch delegates themselves are
divided between the standpoint Of the
Russian Minister Of Justice. VI. kcr-
ousky. and President Wilson's peace
programme.
Meanwhile pacif7t circles at Tic
Hague arc active and an executive meet
ing Of the big anti-War council has hc'n
called for tomorrow 10 consider
among other things. the possible dis
patch OF Populations TO the capitals -
the Central Powers. The Dutch
pac.fste apparently arc inclined 10
urge that tho Central Powers make
clear that they are aiming at pcac'
with the entire Entente. rather than .
separate peace with Russia. They are
also agreed that u is desirable that ia"
Central Powers publish their peace
terms