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agreed the other, matter-oftactly-
..How'd she grab Bart Fendall, won
der? It gets me how these guys Il
fall fer baby-dou mflkmaid."
Bart had heard enough With four
bounds he cleared the steps to the sec
ond floor and flung himself into room
at the end OF the hall. A tired, dishev-
eIed little girl with moist eyes and
dropping figure turned in surprise to
meet him.
"Jeau. I'm so sorry," he gasped,
broke1ly. 81 didn't know. u
She drew back stitly. but her eyes
had a hurt look
Don't apologize-Bart," she an
swered in a low tone. IL suppose
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7 ,iniments Wi: Never Cure.

+ vol ere SRieiec Will .sfeuna.-
tisn1. VII, .Sastc time With Iini,aents>
lotions and ether 1oca applications
that never di(' cur Rheunatism, an6
d. not tn T. rut tn. 7s1l- Gvs7,
fol. you VIII nege succeed. Try tbs
sensible oIel O. indine III cause u
the pain, and go after that Remove
the Cause. and there car b" nc pain
You VIII never be rid Of Rheuma-
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poared IA the back q
To Q littlO U ana Ean
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pered partially accounts for the Dane
ing Darretts' present occupancy Of the
room over the alley, WIKI a window
through which to shoot their stumpS-
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-12-06

-Four disciples Of Tschainowsky.
one OF the greatest composers and
teachers woh ever lived, ere to be at
the Grand Opera House Saturday
night, December Z. Tickets at A. G.
Martins. Acv-
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nukE % eRAEroM niEs.

LONDON, Dec 5. = The Duke q
Grafton. aged 81, head OF the Fit1Roy
family and a retired general in the
British army, is dead. He entered the
British army in 1887 and served in the
Cremean campaign. His heir is the
Earl Of Euston.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-12-06

An hour later, as Bart Fendall dis
consoIateIy passed the parlor in The
Garden clearinghouse, he heard two
loud voices, and then at what he heard
he stood transfixed.
eth poor simp.". one was saying,
and he recognized the voice as Flo
Darrett's. 9TH idea OF country Jane
comm up here an grabbin' all tn
favors. An then. cryin' about it in tn
bargain. She's talkin' about Quittin'-
goin' home tonight"
''Y' can't please some people, came
the indignant answer. The lucky sttn
grabbed jes' cause you shot your
cigarette stump In her room, an now
she's yelpin' cause she got some liquor
on her hat, Why, seen tn time when
I'd "a been t1ckled stiff t get Whit
o tn 1oy-water-"
Guess she's a prohibition pill %
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Afta Your Baby Is Born
Thfak Now About the The 10 Come
Afterwards.

whea you hold in your arms your thy
new infant. be sure that you can feel that
before It's arrival you did all In your power
70 give to iG . happy prenatal influence.
Scientists soy that the thoughts and feel
iuSs OF the expectanE mother greatly Affect
the health and disposition OF the future In
For o7er half century Thousands Of woaa-
en- who have Escd tho 6me-ho1ored REM
cdy. Mothers Friend. say that they entirely
escaped nausea. nervousness and that pc
crlEar distressing feeling 80 usual where ma
ture Is qnaided; They THIS pEeSeTTed .
which rejects 50 markedly upco tho unborn
b the regular use OF Mothers Friend the
muscles arc raade and kept son and elastic
10 readily yield TO natures demand for ex-
panSion Without the usual wre0chi2g strain.
The neTeS are not drawn upon. and a. .
consequence the expectane mother IS calm
md serene and tho nights are not disturbed
with nervous tWitchlnGS AID the crisis i
one Of joy and happiness.
Write the Braided Regufator Company.
Dept. <, Lamar Building, Atlanta. Georgia,
for their Nfotherhood Book. Of value to every
woman and get bottle Of Mothers Friend
from your druggist and begin treatment
that will bring zeal results.
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after him. Timidly she opened the
door OF dressing-room B and then
started back, for Woman's hat and
clothes met her eyes and struck her
$50 that Is why?" she gasped to her
self. '4-Tm going-home."
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-10
DEMOCRACY VS.. FINE WRITING
The Latter Is, Beyond All Question
Dependent Upon the Respect
of the Former

l do not agree with the pesSimists
who think that a democratic civiliZa.
ton is necessarily an enemy to fine
writing for the public, Henry Seidel
writes in the Century Such critics
underrate the challenge which these
millions of minds to be reached and
souls to be touched must possess that
writer's, like actors, are inspired by g
crowded house.
But the thought and the labor and
the pain that lie behind good writing
are doubly difficult in an atmosphere
of easy tolerance and good natured
condescenSiOn on the part of the
readers of the completed work
The novel is the test case for demo
cratic literature We cannot afford tc
pay its practitioners with cash merely
for cash discriminates in quantity and
little more. Saul and David were
Judged by the numbers of their thou
sands slain; but the test was crude
one for them and cruder still in fiction
We cannot afford to patrOnize these
noVeliStS as our ancestors did before
us. Not prizes or endOWmentS OF
coterie worship or, certainly, more adj
yertising is what the American novel
list requires, but a greater respect for
his craft
The Elizabethan playwright was fire.
quently despised of the learned world
and, If a favorite, not always re-
spected one of the vulgar. Strange
that learned and vulgar alike should
repeat the fallacy in dispraising the
pre-eminently popular art of our own
times To Sir Francis Bacon Hamlet
was presumably only a play actors
play. If the great American story
should arrive at last, would we not
call 1T "only a nQYel"?
Turkey Takes Census.
For the first time in the history OF
Turkey, says an Amsterdam dispatch
a complete census of the whole empire
is to be taken. A German statistician
has been appointed to superintend the
preliminary formalities The Turkish
newspaper Sabah, says: 1--WE are the
only nation in Europe, not excluding
even the Balkan states, which pos
sesses no official statistics Of our popu-
lation." The estimated population OF
Turkey before the war was roughly
q, 100000, of which 100000 were
Turks, 100000 Arabs, 100000 Ar
menians. 100000 Greeks, 100000
Kurds, and the remainder Druses
Jews and the smaller tribes. The Turk
ish newspapers have recently shown
some anxiety as to the large decrease
and the prevalence of disease and have
urged the government to take steps to
decrease mortality and increase the
birth rate.
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Our Right to Ship Munitions
BY EDWARD B. VAN VLECK, Professor of Mathematics
University Of Wisconsin.
Council of

The right to buy arms is absolutely
vital to the safety of a peace-loving
| people. The less a nation thinks and
plans for war, the more necessary it
is to import arms in time of sudden
| 'rouble. For this reason shipment of
arms to warning nations by the citizens
of neutral country has been univer-
sal usage and has become an accept
ed principle Of international law. This
right was expressly stated in 1907 in
the seventh article of the Second
Hague Congress of Nations and was
ratified by the United States, Ger
many, Austria, and twenty-five other
states.
The United States has both prac-
tised and preached this doctrine, be-
ginning with Jefferson in 1893. 1t
has always depended upon the right
and power to purchase arms in case
of foreign attack" AS our Secretary
of State, Lansing, said in his master
/ full reply to the Austrian note Of pro-
test: "Ths right which it claims for
itself, it can not deny to others.
Germany's practice has been exactly
like ours. Her factories sold enorm-
Gus quantities of munitions in the
RussO-Japanese and Balkan wars.
They even supplied Turkey in it's war
against Italy although Italy was then
the ally of Germany, and was bound in
triple alliance. Our one-sided sale
of arms to England in the present war
is exactly matched by Germany's sale
to England in the Boer war. The
Beers were shut off from the seas
even more completely than the Ger
| -,
that the Germans on account of their
one-sided sale of arms had the slight
est hesitation in helping England win
the war?
With this past record in selling mu-
nitions it is no wonder that Germany
used Austria as her catS-paw in an eff
fort to stop our sale of arms. In her
protest Austria admitted the legality
of our trade but because it had be-
come one-sided and enormous, chal-
lenged it's neutrality. This was a
strange attempt to make it appear that
our country became unneutral when it
exercised it's neutral rights. Germany
could not risk a fight at sea and wish
ed America to counterbalance this
weakness by withholding food and mu-
nitions from her enemies.
Nobody can claim that we did not
sell to Germany as long as we could.
Copper she imported in enormous and
unprecedented quantities during the
two years just preceding the war. We
know now why. About a year ago the
submarine Deutschland made its ia
nous trip to New London and sailed
away from our harbor loaded with
cargo of nickel.
Much popular confusion exists as to
what neutrality is. Neutrality is an
attitude taken by the government of
nation. 1t does not mean a suspension
of judgment by its people. Before our
entrance into the war neither the Pro-
German nor the sympathizer with the
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-10

The fail had given the old lady Il de-
cided shock, but was nothing serious.
However, as the days went by and
Aunt James accident became q thing
of the past young Doctor Avery still
found 1t necessary to continue his
daily visits. Only one might have
thought that Kitty and not Aunt
he and Kitty sat on the veranda shell
tered by the huge wistaria vine.
IT'S a wonderful vine!" Doctor
Avery remarked during a sudden pause
in their conversation.
Kitty nodded without enthusiasm.
''And a wonderful old house." he
went on, land you are a wonderful
girl, Kitty. Do you know 1t was the
wistaria that first attracted me to you /?
l used to look over here and see this
quaint old place, with it's mantel of
green leaves, and think that it looked
like stage already set for a beauti-
full maiden with smooth, dark hair
like 'Evangeline's.' And then one day
| looked over and saw the maiden, Just
as I had pictured her. only far sweeter
and more beautiful. And then when I
came to know her-Oh, Kitty, I have
no right to ask it, but could you marry
meY
''I-could," whispered Kitty and her
answer brought his arm around her
After he had gone she sat alone in
the leaf shadows, dreaming.
1.-The wistaria," she unused; che no.
ticed me first because Of the wistaria.
l used to hate it, but nOw-why love
the wistaria !"
After they were settled in the little
apartment-which was not so snug and
ugly after all under Kitty's magic
housewifely touch-Kitty used to look
over at the old brown house, with its
huge Towering vine, and sigh softly
But it was not a sigh Of regret, quite
the opposite.
81 love to look at the wistaria," she
would say. II can see how you felt
about it-but oh, John, it's awfully
lonesome being picturesque I'm so
much happier here with you"
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NOTICE TO OWNERS OF DOGS.
In the City of WatertOwn In Both JET
fersOn and Dodge Counties.

Notice is hereby given to all owners
of dogs in all the wards of the city of
Watertown that they shall cause each
and all such dogs to be confined at
leash, kept in a dog-proof enclosure
or muzzled
Muzzling shall be construed to
mean the use Of any device which
shall positively and effectively pre-
vent dog from biting or striking any
other animal or person with it's
teeth. Such a muzzle shall be secure
ly fastened to the nose and head and
shall have at least four straps or
wires running back from common
center in front of the nose, in addi-
ton to one or more running around
the nose connecting the other straps
or wires
Any dog found running at large I'M
muzzled shall be impounded or de-
stroyed
The owner of any dog failing TO
comply with the provisions OF this no.
tice will, upon conviction thereof, be
punished as provided by the ordin-
ances of this city.
This notice is made and published
in compliance with and amendatory to
like notice published by the order
OF the Wisconsin Department of Ag-
riculture.
Dated April 10, 1918.
Chas Pieitz,
lust Chief of Police
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AUNT'S W!STARiA
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BY HILDk MORRIS.
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Copyright, 1917, by the McClul
per Syndicate

Aunt James house was not impress
sive, in itself. 1t was very old house,
square and brown, topped with
square brown cupOla that gave 1t de-
cepuVe appearance of size. 1t was not
a large house, and 1T stood on corner
lot opposite an enormous new apart
ment building which quite dwarfed it
by comparison. The apartment was so
new and glitteTing, so proudly dis
claimant of anything that was not up
to-date that it would have made Aunt
James house look almost shabby had
1t not been for one thing This one
thing was the glory and the splendor
OF the old brown hOuse-a huge wis
taria vine that covered one whole side.
Kitty Carow, the young niece who
had come to be Aunt James cOmpan-
ion, did not like the old house. 1t
made her hOmesick for the tight little
New York apartment she had left.
Aunt Jane" she ventured to say
one day, why don't you build apart
ments here? You could put a large
building on this lot"
Aunt Jane lifted Mortified hands.
departments she exclaimed in a
tone of whitening scorn. do you think
l would dig up the wistaria for apart
mentS?"
And very soon Kitty found that the
WlStarla was the very soul of the
mouse, almost it's reason for being
Aunt Jane fairly worshiped the wis
tarla. The fact that it darkened some
OF the rooms did not matter, the huge
vine was too sacred to be trimmed.
Kitty used to sit behind it's shade and
long, inwardly, to use the pruning
shears on it,
But very soon Kitty found that the
wistaria had it's uses. There was a
young man in the apartment build
Ing across the way, very handsome
young man. He came and went in q
huge gray motor, apparently always in
hurry, always looking very impor-
tant. Kitty learned that he was a
physician. By using the wistaria as a
screen she could watch his cominos
and goings quite closely and without
being seen.
When it came time for the Wistaria
/ to bloom Aunt Jane put on a sort of
holiday manner. She dOnned her best
gown every afternoon and sat on the
veranda where she could be seen, rock
ing gently, by the people who passed
by or stopped to admire the wonderful
towering vine. She made Kitty put on
white frilled frOck and sit there too.
One afternoon Kitty came in from
the veranda to fnd Aunt Jane lying
on the floor in the sitting room, groan-
ing.
II was trying to straighten pic
ture and l fell" she exclaimed. 81
think my legs broken! Get a doctor.
quick! %
Kitty helped Aunt Jane to the couch
and ran across the street AS luck
would have it young Doctor Avery was
just getting out of his car.
aunt Jane!' she said. "Please
come at Once!"
Doctor Avery found that the leg was
not broken after all. but he lost n
time In getting Aunt Jane to bed and
ordering q QurSe from the hospital
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DESTINED TO BECOME DESERT
Great French Colonial Territory In
North Africa Seems to Hold Out
Little Promise.

Wadai was the last point of colonial
expansion of the French before the Eu-
ropean struggle drew their energies
and attention homeward The great
African territory was added to the
French Kongo only a short time before
the war broke out.
Very few white people have actually
visited Wadai, but tales of the region
are numerous both in upper Egypt and
In Tripoli. Occasionally some of the in
habitants of the little-known region
can be seen in the bazaars of Khartum
or Algiers. Wadai lies at the
head of caravan routes that cross the
desert both from the Mediterranean
and the Nile. 1t bears a bad reputa-
ton, even for North Africa.
1t is known as one of the last strong
holds and sources of supply of the
slave trade. Its people are divided
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-10
Sandy of the Engine Room.

"The chief engineer, Scot. {.
Certainly and always! Passenger ship,
freighter, yacht, from here to Suez
and back again, the man in charge Of
the engine room probably is q Scot.
There is no special reason for it; it
just happens that way. There is the
old story, told with zest today by trav-
elers who will swear that they wit
messed the doings, of an American and
an Englishman who beguiled the time
away in Shanghai by waging goodly
sums on their odd achievements Of
knowledge. The Englishman, Of course,
was behind in the game, but finally he
hit upon brilliant wager; he bet that
every ship making ready to sail that
day carried Scot in the engine room.
So to every engine room door they went
and called SANDY" Mac" And ev-
cry engine room gave its reply. The
story must be as old as the steam en-
CINE. The bet could be won today.
1.-THE chief engineer, a Scot."-New
York Sun.
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allies violated neutrality because he
expressed his convictions. Neutrality
is not such pathetic silence regarding
the issues of the war as we have seen
IN the senator of our state. Neither is
it lettering of the government, an
impossible delicate balancing OF the
interests Of two warning countries.
Neutrality is correct action in accord
ance with international law.
Lansing could not agree to "modify
the rules of international law on &C.
count of special conditions. In fact,
Germany, having entered the war I'M
der well known rules, made at the
start what the world regarded as
foul lunge on Belgium, with no UNI
pire to call her down, and then wanted
the rules changed during the course of
the game With cheek characteristic
of recent German diplomacy she asked
it in the name of neutrality.
Pacifists have argued that even If
legal and neutral, it is still not moral
to allow the expectation OF instruments
to kill But where can one draw the
line between the sale of firearms and
the expectation of copper, nickel, cot
ton, and other materials wherewith to
make them? In modern warfare Pc
troleum, clothing, food, are all ammu-
milton. To stop their expectation
would have brought our working
classes great industrial distress. Our
government would not have been NOR
ally justified in doing this. In fact, il
the sale of munitions is questioned on
the score of neutrality, we must then
ask and answer the question whether
it would have been moral to withhold
our aid to an outraged humanity.
Above all, the sale of munitions was
wise. The whole world was afire.
There was danger that at any moment
some unforeseen circumstance, such
as the sinking of the Lusitania, would
drag us into the caldrOn. Our army
was puny, our congress was inactive,
our peace-lOving president opposed to
preparedness. The increase OF our
munition factories was our only prepa-
ration for black emergencies. To have
suppressed 1t would have been suicidal.
If the right to trade In arms with
neutrals is abandoned, each nation
must depend upon it's own supply OF
arms. Victory will go to the side
which makes concealed preparations
and springs Unexpectedly upon its foe.
The small nation, no matter how CIVIL
lied, will lie helpless before the big
one All nations will be forced to keep
armed to the teeth. Military service
will become universal and the organ
ization of the world will be based upon
might.
Such militarism is an abominatiOn
to our people. 1t is a recession from
principles of mercy and forbearance.
1t reverts to the law of the jungle. In
the New World we have lived in peace
for century with no military line be-
tween US and Canada. European poll
cies have fenced each country with
military border. Shall we allow the
military lines of Germany to touch our
shores?
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-10
ALL WORK TOGETHER
FOR COMMON good

The people Of Watertown should
work together and in harmony for the
be no rancor or i'll feeling on the
part of any one There is room for us
all to do our bit for the betterment of
the city. Help to bring people here to
live. Help to establish new industries
and thereby give employment to our
people at remunerative wages.
Bitterness, rancOr and the like atti-
tudes between citizens should be elm
mated and in place should be a spirit
Of good will to ALL
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-10
CHOOSING a Wife,

1t was Sir John More, father of the
more famous Sir Thomas, who said: 81
would compare the multitude of wom-
en- which are to be chosen for wives
unto a bag full of snakes having
among them a single eel. Now, If
man should put his hand into this
bag, he may chance to light on the eel;
but it is hundred to one he shall be
stung by snake" Sir John had evt-
IDENTIFY lighted on SNAKE" which ac-
counts for his lack of chivalry.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-10
True GospeI Of Work

Work is the glory and delight OF
life, and the only acceptable excuse
for being in this world, and the OBJ
ject Of all practical investigations OF
the principle Of fatigue and recovery
Is to find out, not what is the least
possible amount of work that a hu.
is the greatest amount that he can dc
without decreasing his working capac
ity. Such is the gospel of work, which
those who are not of the elect may
regard as hard MISUNDERSTANDING
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-10
Proof of Innocence,

1.-THE fair defendant will be acluit-
ted, of course"
81 expect So" replied the prosecut-
ing attorney LAS soon as she mount
ed the witness stand and smiled at
the jury, nine out of the twelve began
to tumble with their neckties and slick
down their hair. Birmingham Age
Herald.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-10
lost
Marriage Licenses.

Leslie Crosse, Edith Schroeder, Lake
Mills.
August c. Schumann, Bertha Al
wardt, Watertown.
Henry A. Willie, Fort Atkinson. Hat
tie Hack, WATERFOWL
Charles Bendall, Milwaukee, Flor
ence Braman, Jefferson.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-10
Donates Photograph to Soldiers.

citizen of WatertOwn has donated
a talking machine to the boys in
quarantine at Camp Grant. Those
having records to donate, and which
will be shipped with the machine,
should call Phone 354-J.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-10
EVerybody,s Doing Il.

No one in crowd of men Is so des-
picable as a poor spender. Don't put
your hand in your pocket and keep 1t
there. Buy Liberty bonds while 9TH
erS are buYing.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-10
Bonds Are Police Protection.

Everyone knows the value Of po-
ice protection. The purchase of Lib
erty bonds provides the government
with money to build ships to police
the high seas and guard Americas
commerce.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-10
United States Food Administration
Daily Food Bulletin
WISCONSIN

USE WHEAT FLOUR, SUGAR, SPARINGIY
Retail which should
Variation retail
goods These CHARGE
should
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-10

Invest a little money in a News
Want AID. 1t will return a profit.