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The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-06-18

were apples, potatoes, beets and car
rots, and big chunk Of salt pork
There were also a big chunk of corned
beef and three dozen eggs.
"Why Eliza Taylor, are you here
! again?" was the greeting he got from
the widow
"Yes, I'm here" he laughed, II was
goin' to town and thought might as
well load up few things for you"
When the gifts had been brought In
Farmer Taylor said:
"Widder, am all alone and darned
lonely man."
II know it, Elija," she solemnly re.
piled, "and pity you.''
"And, widder," he continued, "you
are all alone In this world and folks
can't be too good to YOU"
And he solemnly shook his head and
sighed.
And her chin quivered little land
she sighed, too.
When Farmer Taylor came a third
time, which he did in a few days, he
brought big crock of butter, more
eggs and potatoes and corn for the
hens and pig. When he had brought
in the things the widow said:
"Elija, sit down at the table. / have
got nice mince pie warmth for you
in the oven. You are a lonely man,
and, though you are one OF the best In
: the world, you can't make q mince
pie"
"And there's nothin' like EN-" he
said.
"Nothin' like en-" she repeated.
"Widder," he said. as he began to
eat the warm pie, II promised Matilda
never to marry again !"
"And that's what I promised Jo-
seph!"
"But wilder, / have made up my
mind that Matilda, bein' happy herself,
had rather I'd marry than live the way
have to-"
"And that's the way I think about
Joseph" said the widow. "Elija, the
roads are in bad state and it's quite
job for you to bring me things"
mo job at all, widder," was the
prompt reply.
ut must be, Eliza, it must be, and I
was goin' to say that bein' here as you
are, and bein' that it may not be con-
venient for you to come again soon,
hadn't we better-better set the date
and have it understood and over with?
There, didn't mean to say that, but
1t was on my tongue and had TOTO
And they set the date, and when the
day came 'rt'''ss.' %, H"nre married.
'ory,I = IRE Newspa-
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CHICKEN FANCIERS HOLD
THEIR ANNUAL OUTING

The WATERFOWL Poultry and Pet
Stock association held a picnic yester-
day at the Sauerkraut club, which was
we'll attended, and success in every
way. The day was ideal for an outing,
and as early as 8 o'clock the clans be-
gan gathering-in fact several mem
bers had gathered the night before in
order to get a good seat.
The first in order was fishing, and
this chorus was led by John kehr. At
ter five hours of strenuous waiting,
John was rewarded by a tug at the
line and out came a wriggling beauty.
Jealousy on the part of Fred Bittner
and several others who lacked the
technical knowledge of the real fisher
man prompted them to sheer at
Johns efforts. The indignation of
John was bOundless but he resumed
his fishing, and was rewarded by
catching fine potato and later an al
most perfectly good shoe.
About ten o'clock a craft of some
sort was sighted in the offing what
ever that isl, and the battery of guns
OuSAI W UCdl III CdSS tIlG UOdI
proved to be a submarine. However, it
was soon discovered that the ship
was flying the American flag, and it
proved to be a canoe laden with the
orchestra which later picked out some
choice selections.
Taking charge of the baseball de-
partment, Otto Kohlhoff gave an ex-
hibition of fancy batting which was
different from anything heretofore
seen.
Needless to remark that the dinner
was something to be remembered, but
later the egg race was failure, as
the members scheduled to run the race
insisted on eating the eggs before they
got started.
After dinner the guests of honor ar
rived, Prof. Halpin of the hatchery of
the State university, Mr.. Fisk, mana
ger of the Pabst stock farms at Ocon-
omowOc, and Mr.. DeWint, also of
Oconomowoc. Each addressed the
guests on timely subjects, and were
followed by City Attorney E. F. Vie
man.
A number of questions were asked
the experts, among them being a very
important one, and it was answered in
a mastery manner, settling the dis
cussion beyond argument. The Ques-
ton was in regards as to why the
hens were laying smaller eggs now
than formerly, and two reasons were
given, one being that the hens were
laying more but smaller, and another
allies for use in the war.
The outing was a success from ev-
cry standpoint, and all voted it a most
enjoyable time
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WITHOUT THE ROMANCE
Ey GEORGE WADE.

"By hockey, but I'm tired of this, and
I'm good mind to throw this darned
old kitchen outdoors !"
1t was Farmer Eliza Taylor, who had
been q widOwer for the last five years
and had kept house for himself. He
had come in from a days work and
put some potatoes to boil and some
meat to fry. Then he had gone out to
milk the cows and feed the hogs, and
when he came back the water had
boiled out of the potatoes and the
meat had burned to cinder.
"By George" continued the farmer,
as he sat down to make his supper on
bread and butter, "the good Lord
never intended for decent man to
live this way. The floor Is Uttered
with dirt, my bed hasn't been made
for a week and 1 don't know when ]
have had a decent meal. I promised
Matilda, on her dying bed, that !
would not marry again, but-shucks
What does she care now whether ]
marry or nOt?"
'This Is about 'nuff OF this" ex-
claimed the Widow Frazer, who lived
about three miles away On the out
skirts Of the village, and who had been
widow long enough to be sick Of it.
She had just entered the kitchen with
q big armful of wood that she had had
to split at the back door. Previous to
this she had had the hens to feed, the
IN %ho n 70 70 yo
care of.
II promised Joseph never to marry
again, and it seemed to make him cas-
Ter in his mind when he died, but If
Joseph is an angel, as hope he is, he
ought to want me to take another hus-
band and get rid of some Of this
.drudgery."
The morning after the widower and
the widow had spoken as above, Farm
er Taylor got up with h jaws set and
the light of determination in his eyes.
After q breakfast Of fried eggs and
dry bread he hitched his horses to the
wagon and then loaded the vehicle
with a cord Of stovewood.
"This beech and maple wood is goin'
right to the Widow Frazer's. 1t is dry
as finder and will warm her heart as
well as her kitchen"
An hour later the load of wood was
at the Widows door, and, as his knock
was answered, she exclaimed:
"Why, Eliza Taylor, is this your
'It's me, widder," was the reply,
"and I brought you cord of dry
wood"
"But haven't got 81 to pay for it
this morning"
"There is nothing to pay. I'll carry
1t in and pile 1t up in the woodshed. I
was comm to town and thought you
might like the wood. It's might hard
to be all alone and burn green wood
besides"
When the wood had been nicely
piled up he started back home and for
three or four days he had pleasant
thoughts of her tidy kitchen and the
air of comfort about the house.
THAT'S what want-that's what
I'm longin' for" he unused. II want to
live in a house, instead Of pigpen."
In a week the horses and wagon
were brought out for another visit to
the Widow Frazer's. This time there
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| StudiOus physicians are beginning
to question if laziness is ever a natur-
al characteristic of otherwise healthy
| individuals. Too often they have
found it to be a symptom of an OBJ
scure disease which is not easy to
recognize. Consider the plight of the
| poor white trash" and the "lazy
good for-nothing negroes" of the
south for example.
/ Industrious and well-to-do people
of the north and of the SOUTH too, for
| that matter, have looked upon these
people with what they have thought
to be well merited contempt. But a
few well trained physicians, we'll
equipped with microscopes, have
turned that contempt into sympathy
and pity. By their exact methods of
| the fact that millions of people are
the victims of a serious disease due
to infection by hookworm.
The hookworm attacks people
through the feet. Poor people in the
south, therefore, who, because of pow
erty go barefoot, are especially liable
to infection. Victims discharge the
worms from their bowels. The
wretchedly insanitary privies which
characterize poverty stricken neigh
Dor hoods make it possible for gener-
alton after generation of these worms
to circulate from old victims to new
ones. We have, then, another instance
Of -
cause and effect
The chief symptoms of the disease
are weakness, anemia and tired, list
less feeling. Inasmuch as it is estim-
ated that at least third of the south
ern population is infected, it is easy
to see how this disease, alone, could
have given the south the reputation
of being the home of lazy and shift
less people. Fortunately, cure has
been found which is quite certain,
speedy and cheap. Unfortunately, the
people have become SO poverty strick-
en- as a result of the Civil war and this
disease that many haven't the means
OF paying even the small cost of their
successful treatment
more than any OF us know, perhaps,
tuberculosis, both in the north and in
the south, is responsible for apparent
lazlness. In great number of in
stances 1 have observed and wonder
ed at what seemed like laziness of
friends and acQuaintances who later
were found to be suffering from tu-
berculosis. Nowadays 1 question if
lazy people aren't almost invariably
the victims of some disease which, un-
known to themselves, their families,
and friends, is slowly draining their
energy and life away.
The moral is that people who are
unaccountably tired and listless
should be searched by a competent
physician for possible obscure,
blood-sucking disease.
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Boys Chorus
Accompanies, Miss Lorena Coughlin
and Miss Mary Fitzgerald
"Set Steady"

"Set Steaoy.
She was chewing gum vigorously
and audibly. She was witness In
court.
what is your nameT asked the
lawyer.
: Minnie"
minnie what?"
minnie Moore"
Minnie, tell the jury all you know
about the character Of the defend
anti"
But, after much discussion by law
yers, the question was overruled and
the following asked:
'Were you at your home last fall on
election dayY'
The witness, however, angrily
shook her fist in the face of the digni-
fed jury.
'Now, you all jest set steady. I'm
not a-goin' to hurry about this. I'm
a-goin' to answer that first question
before say one word about that last
one"
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Memorial a Mile High.

In connection with the event of the
reunion of Confederate veterans at
Washington, the Star of that city
gives the following account of the
wonderful monument financed by the
United Daughters of the Confeder-
acy:
About sixteen miles from Atlanta
nature has been lavish with her rock
formation, and has erected the founda-
ton and background for the most
wonderful memorial the world has
ever known
This is Stone mountain, which is q
solid rock, rising about 5000 feet above
sea level, and will truly be a monu-
ment mile high. The monolith was
the property of S. E. Venable, who
recently presented to the United
Daughters of the Confederacy deed
to the face of the mountain, which is
the most precipitous side, and upon
which will be carved mammoth fig
ures by that great sculptor, Gutson
Gorglum
At the base of the mountain an as
sembly hall will be cut out, and in
this will be kept archives and memen-
toes. This hall will be 100 feet long
by 60 feet IN depth 1t is to be sup
ported, or adorned, by thirteen col
umns, representing the thirteen states
which seeded.
No dynamite is to be used, but holes
are to be drilled and the rock be-
tween actually chiseled away. The
gigantic figures, each fifty-feet in
height, will be on projection above
this hall, and may be seen several
miles away.
Mr.. BOrglum has been at work up
on his models for months in his studio
in Connecticut, and when the huge
steel scaffolding is ready, will take
them to Stone mountain for the cut
tiers and scupltors to copy. The most
prominent figures will be Robert E.
Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Da-
vies, Forest, Johnson and Gordon,
while in marching order will follow
infantry, cavalry and artillery, extend
ing about 5000 feet around the face of
the mountain. All material will be
carried to the top of the mountain af
ter the road, with it's serpentine
curves, which is under construction
has been finished, and will be lowered
to its place by a steel scaffold. which
will be securely riveted to the cliff.
Powerful cables will hold it, and other
cables will lower and carry up the
men who will work while held in
place by straps.
When all is ready, Mr.. Borglum will
block out in white paint the figures
which are to be chiseIed out. A part
OF the steel equipment will be a circu-
lar staircase, also set solidly against
the rock
Telephones will be installed for the
use of the workmen, who will begin
on the lower parts of the figures, and
the platform upon which they will
work will be raised by the cables as
the work progresses.
Mr.. Borglum will have his office on
top of the rock, and he, with skilled
assistants, will follow those who
roughen out the work, and with mallet
and chisel will chip until the features
and forms assume a lifelike appear
ance. Mr.. Borglum thinks it will take
about ten years to complete this
unique and stupenous memorial.
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BIG CARNIVAL SHOWS
ARRIVE IN TOWN

The Evans Carnival company arriv-
ed in Watertown Sunday for week.
stay, and from appearances Water
town will be given a week of good
clean amusement.
The concert given by the Royal Ital-
ian band yesterday at Riverside park
was attended by a large number of
people who were surprised at the
splendid organization, and highly
pleased with the program rendered.
This band is way above the standard
Of the usual bands with organizations
Of this kind, and music lovers en-
ioyed real treat The band will be
heard daily on the down town streets
this week
Everything is in readiness at the
carnival grounds, and it is expected
that big crowds will visit there night
ly and in the afternoons during this
week.
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WILL NOT MARRY ON FRIDAY
Most Women Still Cling to This Old
Superstition But French Girls
Think That Day Fortunate.

There is no period in a woman's
life that SO completely changes ner
whole existence as marriage, and for
that very reason she is apt to be more
superstftious and fanciful at that time
than at any other, and while supersti-
tons are fast becoming thing of the
past there are few women who will
not hesitate before making Friday
their wedding day, says London Tit
Bits.
June and October have always been
held as the most propftious months,
happy result being thought by some to
be rendered certain If the ceremony
Is timed so as to take place at the
full moon or when the sun and moon
are In conjunction.
In Scotland the last day Of the year
is thought to be lucky and If the moon
should happen to be full at any time
when wedding takes place the
brides cup of happiness is expected
to be always full.
The good people OF Perthshire who
have had their banns published at the
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-06-18
ALI In the Family.

Angus MacBroth, the village inno-
cent, stood outside the farmyard rub
bling himself, while on the other side
Of the gate an Infatuated bull paved
the ground savagely.
ibid the black bull get ye?" asked
the farmer anxiously, as he came run
ming up.
did he?" snorted Angus. 'D'ye no
see I'm rubin maser. But ah'n get
even WI him, the brute!''
Ten minutes later he returned to
the farmhouse, his face spread In a
smile.
save dune it." he told the farmer.
save got even wi that black heart
over yonder."
"Whit wey" asked the bulls owner.
''Weel, I jist went tae the wee broom
calf and fetched him whack-sick a
bonnie yin, tae, DER the lug, an says
I tae him: Moo. gang an tell yer
feyther ABBOTT that" ----'
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FRIENDSHIP.

What Is so great as friendship, let
us carry with what grandeur of spirit
we can. Let us be silent--so we may
hear the whisper of the gods. Let us
not interfere. Who set you to cast
about what you should say to the Sc
lect souls, or how to say anything to
such? Wait, and thy heart shall speak.
Wait until the necessary and everlast-
ing overpowers you, until day and
night avail themselves of your lips
Emerson.
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Hot and Cold Air.

'Do you know" asks DR.. A. L. Bene-
dict, the editor of the Buffalo Medi-
cal Journal, that warm air can be as
pure as cold! Do you know that q
window open an inch, with the wind
blowing 80 miles an hour, and with the
outdoor temperature 20 or 80 degrees
F. below the initial indoor tempera-
ture, will renew the air in bedroom
more quickly than wide open window
on q hot still summer night?"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-06-18

end Of one and are married at the be-
ginning of another quarter Of a year
can expect nothing but good things.
The day Of the week Is also Of great
Importance, Sunday being a great
favor1te In some parts Of England and
Scotland. And although an English
lass would not marry on Friday, the
French girls think the first Friday in
the month particularly fortunate.e
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-06-18
ICE CREAM FOR ELKS.
ParlOr Opened in New Club House
Friday Evening.

An innovation at the Elks new club
house is an ice cream and soda water
parlor, opened Friday evening. It Is
situated on the ground floor near the
North First street entrance and has a
very inviting interior, being decorated
IN manner suitable for such a room.
New furniture of cream color is in
harmony with the surroundings. The
service will be supplied to members
and their guests each day after 2
o'clock
The mandolin orchestra furnished
the inspiration for an informal dane
ing party which followed the opening
Of the parlors.
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Where Was the NIuht SCHOOL,

w 90 AVS INISuS 0SuOOtb
think have match here in Mas
sachusetts for the Korean woman who
did not know her husbands name.
knocked at door; a lady came;
said, II am making business direc.
tory Of the town, and need the name
Of this family" She gave the sur.
name; asked the given name. She
replied, ed" I said, "That may mean
Edwin, Edward or Edmund. Which
should writer" She answered, II
don't know; I haven't been married a
great while" At another time and
place I asked the usual questions and
received answers as usual But the
surname was anything but English, and
I said: "Ill have to let you spell it for
me-" She replied: II don't spell 1t;
John does. christian Herald.
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Applied Mathematics.

Children, children" exclaimed the
fond hen mamma, cackling loudly In
Joy. Gather about quickly and see
the bee-yew-tiful, long worm I have
just found. Isn't it dream? Now
the problem is, how will we divide itT
"Mother, allow me to suggest" said
the tiniest chick, who was destined to
become a large, heavy-set rooster
"that the problem might be solved by
long division"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-06-18
Delicatessen Store in Main Street
Sold to Grand Rapids Man.

The Breunig delicatessen store at
314 Main street, conducted by Miss
Marie Breunig has been sold to Mr.
Glebke Of Grand Rapids, who will
take possession about July 1. The
new owner will be in Watertown this
week to become familiar with the
trade before taking it over alone This
store has been popular trading point
Tor many OF our people and Miss
Breunlg has always been a most cour-
teous and obliging proprietor.
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Girls wanted at the /. T.,
Henry Co. factory. Get
PRESIDENT EARLING HERE.
Well Known Railroad Man Calls on
Friends.

President A. ]. Earling of the Mil
waukee road, and his wife were visit
ors in Watertown ON Sunday. Mr..
Earring began his railroad career
while young man in this city and at
one time was resident Of the place.
During the day Mr.. and Mrs. Earring
were guests Of Mrs. John Throne.
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Real CIeverness.

"He's clever photographer"
Makes pictures of people as they look,
I presume" "Cleverer than that. He
makes them as they think they look"
Detroit Free Press
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Bird Seemingly Needs No Rest.

The golden plover of the Pacific
ocean nigrates from Alaska to tbe
HaWo2tan islands. Its flight takes II
1000 miles across an islandless sea.
JOB printing promptly and neatly
executed at the News office. The
union label is in use at this office.
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commencement PRO-
GRAM AT ST. BERNARD'S


graduating exercises of St. Bernard's
school, held in Turner Opera house
Friday evening.
The class play, 1.-THE Land of Night"
was presented with exceptional ability
by the young tots. The story of the
play is laid in the Province of Dark
ness, Kingdom Of the Sky. The prin-
cess of night has her mantle of dark
ness stolen, and she thinks that it was
taken by the strange creature which
has been flying through the clouds. A
crash frightens the entire population
Of the star kingdom, and it is seen
that it is an areOplane which people
had thought was a strange creature
Jane Leeds Jogway, president of the
Woman's Rights club of Kalamazoo,
enters with her valet, James, and are
taken to the king. The Princess Of
Night is seen by Jack Travers, who
painted her picture on earth as a peas
Princess of Dawn takes a liking to
Jack Travers' chum. Difficulties be-
tween the King of Night and King of
Dawn on account of the loss of the
mantle of darkness, is smoothed over
and the mantle is returned by a child
OF the earth
The songs by the different grades
were well rendered, as were also the
instrumental numbers.
In addressing the graduates, the
Rev. Thomas Hennessey said: "You
are leaving us now and your mind is
expanding and enlarging, but no mat
ter how long your journey may be,
no matter how pleasant your walk in
life, l hope that you will always have
welcome thought for ST. Bernard's."
The program:
l. Alouette (piano) ---Tschyskensky
Miss Rose Fitzgerald
The Light of Youth
Seventh and Eighth Grade Chorus
In Days Long
Seventh and Eighth Grades Chorus
Butterfly
Primary Grades
The Pop Corn Vendors faction song)
Third and Fourth Grades
THE LAND OF NIGHT.
CA dreamland drama in two acts.)
The Cast:
Princess Of Night, daughter of King
Moon -Eugenia Coogan
Six Star Maids, her Attendants
Polaris- Mcknight
Zeta-----------------Catherine Burns
1ota-------------------M Mary Hagerty
or
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Invest little money in a News
Want AID. 1t will return a profit.
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DISPOSE OF BUSINESS.

Smoke Ginger, sc cigar.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-18
IN THE MILLENNIUM.
How This Old World Will Wag In the
Good Days to Come.

Good Days to Come.
My gracious, how cheap everything
is g%etting!'
II understand there hasn't been a
case of divorce in the last ten years."
II think our national stability is
greatly due to the patriotic spirit Of
our congress, don't you?'
aren't these modest fashions just
too cute for anything? I'm sc glad
they will stay that way"
ut certainly is a pleasure to pick up
a newspaper these ~days-always good
Jews and plenty Of it,"
Brown tells me his wife disobeyed
him yesterday. Did you ever hear
anything like it?"
Eyes, dear, I have to use my car all
day long. l don't know what I'd ever
do if gasoline wasn't free"
II am q poor man; but, thank hcav
en-, l still have the courts"
mo. child, there wont he any more
wars-the rulers Of the world are all
good men,"
GLOW foolish we women were to
clamor for tho vote when all we want
ed was the millr!M1inn.."
"Dcar me. what Il horrible night
mare l had last night! l dreamed l
was living in the twentieth century,
Edmund j. Kieler in Life.