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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

Milwaukee is the best place to buy
Dry Goods. Gimbel Brothers is the
best place in Milwaukee. You can buy
everything to advantage here-Silks,
Dress Goods, Millinery, China, Carpets,
Toys, Dolls, and ffty-nine other stocks
Three and half acres Of merchandise
at your service. A postal will bring
quick response. Trade by mail. We
promise as good results as if you come
in person.
GIMBEL BROTHERS. Milwaukee.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
Wisconsin Patterns

Patents for the following Wisconsin,
inventors are reported for this week by
Erwin, Wheeler & Wheeler, So and 50
Loan and Trust building, Milwaukee,
Wis. These attorneys will furnish the
Inventors Handbook free:
John A Kuster, Plymouth, adjustable
mounting for sliding doors; Henry Lucas,
Lake, assgr., steam traps.
Death valley has, to large extent
lost it's terrors to travellers now. Miners
and prospectors cross and recross it with
out fear of death, although human re-
mains are still found scattered about 1t
is now known that water can be found
in Death valley at almost any poino by
digging down few feet, SO parties cross
ing it go provided with shovels and
do not die of thirst
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
GIMBEL BROTHERS. milwaukee,.

The tautawa, a nine-inch-long lizard
Of New Zealand, is said to be the most
sluggish animal in the world.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

recover, his death at this time came with
| out warning, and is a surprise and shock
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-07

the daughter was telling me of herself.
while the mother sat by listening and
smiling. and occasionally speaking. Sew
eral times she left the room and it be-
came less cheerful. 1 would not see her
return. but felt her presence and knew
she was with us.
1t grew later and later. and the time
soon came for me to leave. They both
kissed me. urged me to come again, and
l went back through the halls. out the
great door, down the outside steps and
walked into the street. the gate closed be-
hind me and all the gladness was gone.
A sense of utter desolation. of complete
loneliness. of loss ! had never fe,t so
keenly before came over me. and l tried
bravely TO master myself and not give
way to an unknown wretchedness. l
pushed past cars and cabs and turned
street corners and hurried over crossings.
increasing my speed as l went. II was
after dark when 1 reached our lodgings.
and yet 1 had not succeeded in walking
down that sense CT loneliness.
l entered our room only half conscious
of the brunette's presence, and. hastily
removing my wraps. threw myself on the
couch ard gave way TO my suppressed
emotions in a burst of tears. CHANGING
through my fingers, noticed the bru-
-~ette moving about the room and tried TO
fancy her the mother with the madonna
face. I tried in vain to remember my
mother. Nand wondered how it would seem
to have , home.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-07

the buck dropped a fine shot, yes;
but he had such good light he couldn't
miss it. So far it was all right, but
what next?
JONES'" says he, keep a good watch
out; / must have that skin before a
tiger spoils it, / never saw such a fine
one in all my life, and l wouldn't miss
it for a fortune"
AM he ups to go down the tree
Well, s'wel'p mel you might have
knocked me down with feather That
blasted kid had been bowling for a
tiger to come and eat him for an hour
an more; and now this crack drained
idiot must go and add himself to the
brute's supper,
Well. raved and I prayed and I
cursed at him; it wasn't a bit of good ::
! his British blood was up, and, like
thousands of other youngsters who
make the backbone and glory of our
army and navy, he didn't know what
fear was. but just grinned. They're
| great daredevil fighters, but they
haven't got any more sense than a
sucking calf There's only two places
or earth where they can be safely
| trusted-in bed and leading a forlorn
hope. When I saw he was bent on it
l just grltted my teeth and pulled up
my gun as he slio down the rope In
TWO minutes, he had skipped over the
stream aid had his knife at work on
the buck, the kid meantime trying to
pail up to him as if he was its mother.
Well, sir, | just lay there with tha
muZzle vi my sun sighted on his
head-whe:. the humping Of my heart
DIDN'T shake j. Of. If the tiger would
! only Try t. siesk out on him-for
felt an awful certainty that he would
come--l could save him; but if the
brute sprang Coo help him! Not a
man in the empire could pot a tiger
Oh the jump. except by a fluke.
| As ie knelt there in the moonlight
| I saw him push back from his side the
| scabbard Of an Indian tulwar-a pres
| ent. l believe. from the Rajah OF
Ajmere-to prevent the blood from
! staining it Willie was adrairing IS
COZ ness an1 curalng his cuss. dnes3
| even at that moment there was the
| flash of a ltng black shadow across
| the Nc onlir space, the whirl of a fly
| ing body nrd a huge tigfess flung her
self on him.
| She oyershot the mark, and would
have cleared his STOPPING form and
given me a chance, but he must have
felt it, rather than seen, the danger.
/ With one desperate wrench he drew
1 the sword from its sheath in d long
upward sweep that caught the brute
| fair in the middle, and Glove it clean
! through flesh and muscle to the back
! bone.
! There was a frightful cry of rage and
as the beasts great hind paw con
tracted in death agony it caught poor
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-07

the office until the next day, and whisked
off around curbstones and between troll
ley cars until the cab stopped in front of
a large old-fashioned frame house that
must have been beautiful in the summer.
for there was a broad terraced lawn asd
trees and a leafless vine about the YER
anda.
There was magnetism in that home.
l felt it as soon as L entered the hall.
and a soft. soothing something seemed
to enter my soul and take possession of
crowned by coils of snow-white hair,
seemed the face of a madonna. and when
she took my hand l felt an inexphcable
thrill that told me l was glad and l knew
not why. Every place l looked there
was that same something that was at
once cheering and restful, and then the
mother spoke softly and left the room.
and l threw myself into a chair and was
alone with this new experience.
1 loved the managers daughter this
day. although before 1 had never even
liked her. I loved her gentle voice and
manner. her soft white hands. her deli
cate outlines and sweet eXpressiveness
and the confding way in which she re-
lied upon her mother. and more than all
loved the mothers superior. loving kind
ness and tender thoughts and words.
] was perfectly happy that day.
We visited more than we worked. and
before ! was aware of it had told Of
\my work, the brunette, and our life, and
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-07
Odd Ways OF Strange Persons.

vY-HE escapades Of Sidney Las
cellas, the bogus Lord Beres-
4 ford entities him TO a place
among odd characters" On
his release he married another girl, at
Fitzgerald, Ga.
The pretty 19-year-old daughter OF
Alexander Pelky. one of the towns
wealthiest men, fell head over heels in
love with the smooth-tongued adyen-
turer She has $4,000 in her own right,
but this she cannot touch until she be-
comes of age. Beresford, or Lascelles.
as he was called Ia Fitzgerald, made
desperate love TO the girl and and in
gratiated himself into the good graces
OF her father. He married the one aud
borrowed $1,000 from the other
The money was lost in specu,ations,
and a second S. 600 loan was requested.
This was refused, and he left Fitzger-
aid
The scene now shifts to Worcester,
Mass, where he appeared August ! as
+. 5. Lancaster, general agent Of the
Merchants and Manufacturers Life
Insurance Company, Of Westiield, an
assessment concern recently organized.
He was accompanied by his wife, and
they took rooms at the Bay State
House, the best hotel in the city. They
also engaged pew at All SAINTS Epis-
cOpal church, one of the most fashion,
able churches. Here Lancaster made
the acquaintance Of the cashier of one
Of the city banks. with WI - he I'M
mediately opened small account.
Having taken rooms aL NJ Il. HI
tual building. he furnished them on
credit and advertised for man with a
small amount OF capital as a partner
In consequence OF this. a young man
named Francis is just $3.50 out of
pocket.
The insurance business was not good,
and Lancaster realized that some des-
perate means were necessary to avoid
a crash. 1t was then that he decided
upon grand coup and attempted to
raise money on the prospectus Of an
embryonic Klondike mining company.
Lancaster used every effort TO per-
suade some Worcester capitalist OF re-
pute to head the subscription list, but
they all fought shy Of ii. He had
reached the end Of his rope, and the
only thing left for him was 10 leave
town.
From Boston Lancaster was traced
to Buffalo, where he and his travelling
companion registered az G. II. Davis
and wife, Of New York. II Is believed
that he went from Buffalo into Canada.
and that possibly he has gone to Eng
land. The young wife win come into
her property in about a year. and until
then this remarkable rogue may be ex-
pected to prey upon his fellow meg
wherever he finds them.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-07

vmYyHE OLDEST railway man in
New England if not in the
4 country, is Waterman Brown,
who, though so years old, is
still employed at Woburn, Mass, as
the Lowell road sixty-siX years. He
lost an arm in an accident while firing
On the road in 1850. He is eccentric
and is so renowned as a collector of
curiosities that people all over New
England send him presents of queer
things. Among the cGriosities he has
is bit of the first rail laid on the
Lowell road in 1884. He has a model
of the Stephenson, the first locomotive,
and he owns the first engine bell ever
made. He has 400 circus tickets in a
trunk. They were given to him in the
last thirty years and he never used
them.
II was Tuesday morning two weeks
ago that Mr.. Brown received a small
box containing a solid silver elephant,
arranged with pin to fasten it to his
lapel. In the box was note, unmis
takably written by a woman.
He was told the other day that there
would be an assistant to help him soon
and that then whoever was in charge
must be there every minute right at the
gate. "Railroading is getting too fine
for me-" he said. Il have to be here
from 3 in the morning to II at night
and Sundays. | can eat my dinner in
Just seven minutes. | have my cap
right by the chair where l can get it
and the house is right over there, side
of the track "
His memory, especially concerning
the history of the road, is wonderful.
He said:
Il guess people don't know that the
Boston and Lowell railroad was built
more to carry freight than for passen-
gers. You see it was this way: In
1884. | guess it was, two men We're
driving around in buggy. They were
looking over the ground with an idea
to build a forty-foOt macadam road from
Boston to Lowell, to team cotton over.
The old canal wouldn't accommodate
all of it even then. Well. just about
that time they got wind of the engine
Stephenson had made and they turned
to that instead of their ylacadam road.
But I ran the first gravel train, yes
Qaughing). you can say that l ran Ghe
first gravel train on the road with
oxen"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-07
AN
EXPERIMENT
IN SONG.

Browly served full apprenticeship as
a bachelor before he was married, and
now he is the proud father of a girl
baby. He has his own ideas as to how
she should be reared, and when Brow
ly has Ideas they are not subject to re-
vision
Mrs. Bromley" he said one morning.
i believe that your family boasts some
musical ability?"
Yes, dear; we've had distinguished
yocalists for generations back. I'm an
exception, but you know how charm
ingly Bess sings"
Tine gift is hereditary. Mrs. Browly,
but it can be dwarfed. if not entirely
destroyed. That nurse you have is
about as musical as a jay bird. Her
efforts at singing are as entertaining
as the filing of cross-cut saw. Her
nasal notes cut like a two-edged sword
and her lullabies are enough to awaken
the seven sleepers. The impression
made on the wax-like mind of the baby
will utterly wipe out her grand heri-
tage of music Don't count the cost.
but get cultivated singer to act as
nurse.
Mrs. BrowIy complied BY getting )
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-07

~ Id Jacob Tomlinson. the her
nit of Mission Valley, Texas
~ is looking for a wife. He has
inserted the following i'll sew
eral country newspapers:
WAN1'ED-To form the acquaintance Of
9 young lady; object matrimony. i am
IS years of age and win give the young
lacy VINO meets my approval $500 cash on
nette, handsome and not over 10 years OF
age. All Applications must be accompan-
led by photograph. Address JACOB
IOMlINSON, San Antonio, Texas.
Tomlinson is a peculiar character
He has one of the most beautiful homes
in Mission Valley, a rich section OF
country northwest of San Antonio He
made his first appearance in Mission
Valley fifty years ago and settled upon
100 acres of land. He built comfort
able log cabin home and lived all alone.
He had number of single-handed en-
counters with Indians. and the slaugh-
ter which he invariably made on those
occasions gave him a reputation for
bravery in that neighborhod. He has
continued to live the life Of a recluse
ever since.
He makes occasional visits to San
Antonio for his mail and supplies but
this is the farthest he has been from
home since he began his hermit life
In the early days he was a hunter and
trapper and made considerable money
out of the sale Of furs and hides When
the wild game became scarce he de-
voted himself to stock raising and agri-
culture He laid up money each year
and added to his landed possessions,
until he now has farm of 5000 acres,
one-half Of which is under cultivation.
Several years ago he built a new
house. 1t is situated on a hill in the
center of his tract Of land and Is
unique in construction and arrange
ment. 1t is built with bamboo rods.
intertwined so as to make many kinds
of pretty figures. These rods are nailed
to the framework of the house. The
roof is matched with reeds. 1t has
seven large rooms, all handsomely fur
nished. The floors are all of hard wood
stained and covered with furs and rugs
of great value.
One of the rooms is used as a library,
and is filled with several hundred vol
umes of choice books and the latest
magazines. Uncle" Jacob is a great
reader and spends much Of his time ~
his library. He always has performed
all of his household duties, even cook
ing his own meals. There are few per-
sons who ever crossed the threshold OF
his home. He keeps a number OF men
employed on his farm, but they occupy
houses at the farther end of the large
tract of land and are never permitted
to visit their employers home
Uncle Jacob has never told the
secret of mis- early life. 1t is believed
that he came from the New England
States.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-07

Y AMES PAYN, writing in the INDIE
pendent, tells of a man who went
~ to a house where he was not
known and stayed there three
weeks. The husband and wife, not
being on good terms, each thought the
stranger was the others guest.
The most extraordinary instance,
perhaps, Of one moving in the best
society of his time, always at a great
expense, and with no APPARENT means Of
livelihood, was Beau Fielding; his
death too by the hand of one fated -
play an important part in the affairs of
Europe, made his case still more re-
markable. Beau Fielding was a young
man of fashion in the reign Of William
III. His house, We read, was sumptu
ously furnished; his hunters, hacks and
racers of great value, and he kept a
table of princely hospitality" He had
no ostensible source of income; all that
was known Of him was that he was the
fifth SON of Thomas Williams, an i'm
pOverished gentleman of Leicestershire.
Evelyn describes him as very young
man, civil and good natured but Of
no great force Of character" and very
sober and of good fame" All attempts
to discover his secret were in vain;
"in most careless hours of amusement,
he kept strict guard over his tongue,
and left scandal to conjecture what it
pleased"
He redeemed his fathers estate and
portioned off his sisters, and when
demonstrated with on his extravaganza,
replied that however long his life
should last he would always have
enough to live in the same way. Some
said it was he who had robbed the
Holland mail, for which another man
suffered; others, that he depended upon
the gambling table, though he never
played for large sums. He was the
enigma of social life till his career was
cut short by duel. His adversary
was, at that time, a young man about
town, like himself, John Law, who
afterward became founder of the ia
nous Mississippin scheme by which
half of France was ruined. VIA the
mysterious Beau died he left only a
few pounds behind him and not a scrap
of evidence to enlighten public curl
Osity.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-07
A TIGER EPISODE.

ped off early in the morning at Chandi
village, where | got the stuff for our
camp, bundle of bamboos, some stout
cord and a young kid for bait. We
then struck across the country, keep
ing well in the open, for the Chandi
River, little half dried stream that
quenches the thirst of more tigers in
week than all the other rivers in a
month. We crossed this stream about
three in the afternoon, and on the edge
Of the jungle l found a young banyan
tree, up which | scrambled with the
help of the youngster, and in short
time had hacked a space clear to fix
my bamboos, which nailed and dashed
into a kind of platform, strong and
roomy enough to hold us both con-
fortably. Then l slipped down by a
knotted rope which was to serve us
as a ladder.
Next we drove a stake deep down in
the bank of the stream, and tied the
kid to it, scratching it's hind leg with
a knife SO it would bleat; and, having
ehucked our grub, blankets and rifles
up, We Skinned up the rope ourselves,
and made everything comfortable.
Then | began to breathe little easier;
for it would take a pretty clever tiger
to get at us up there.
We were none too soon, for night
drops quick out there, and the long
gray shadows were creeping over the
land before we were safely housed.
We made a hearty meal and had a
good slug of brandy to keep the chills
of; then We lay smoking and talking
in whispers, laying fiat on our bellies
with out eyes and our Martins sighted
on the vague form Of the kid that was
dimly visible in the gloom.
Later the moon came out, great
big, round, creamy thing, looking
somehow awful solemn sailing III
there 50 still and mountaineering
there SO still and mournfullike;
and the plaintive cry of that poor little
kid, as it shifted round after its mother
all added to the ghostlineSs of the
whole business. | amt superstitious
but I own l did feel uncommon queer
that night.
| think maybe | got a trife drowsy
anyway, my eyes were so misty that
| lost sight of the tip of the gun and
the kid together. Then there was a
loud rustic, and l was back in Chandi
jungle with jump that fetched my
heart into my mouth. But it wasn't a
tiger, just a ring buck; but say, what
buck! In all my hunting days in
India | never clapped eyes on his equal.
He stood for moment shifting kind OF
suspicious, then walked up to the kid
and began nosing it. | felt Simpson
stir in the shadow where he lay, and
the next moment his Martini spoke and
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-07

self-proclaimed prima donna. She sang
for the whole neighborhoCd without ex-
ira charge. She dressed five times a
day, and had her meals sent 70 her
room, and was off duty most OF the
time because her throat was not right.
When she heard Aunt Bess@' sing she
went into a taEtrum Of Jealousy, and
after a stormy scene with Browly
served notice that her engagement was
at an end. AS the baby was thin. the
mother worried and the servants up in
arms. Browly told the high-prieed
nightingale to go, and now bright.
plump German girl presides in the
nursery and baby is Justify singing
songs Of her own composition. Browly
Is showing a commendable disposition
to move within his legitimate domestic
orbit.-Detroit Free Press
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-07

Presently the brunette came 10 me and
placing her arms tenderly around my
neck. pleaded in low, sweet tones: Don't
don't take on so, Madge. You will break
my heart. I can't bear it. What is the
matter? Have you lost your position,
dearie? Tell me all about it and You viii
feel better. Don't sob so, Madge. I'm
working, you know"
''No, no I moaned. Worse. it's
worse. I never realized it so fully before
but oh, I wish 1 had a mother. a sister
and a home
She withdrew her arms from about me
stepped back and looked at me earnestly
for minute as if doubling my words
then slowly walked to her dresser. and be
gan taking down the braids Of her long
black hair.
rs that alp" she said Il thought
something was the matter"
THE TYPEWRITER GIRL.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-07
SENTENCED FOR 209 YEARS.

Williston Palmer is the name of a
white man against whom there are
sentences of 209 years in the Georgia
penitentiary. Palmer was originally
sent UP for eleven years from south
Georgia for burglary. Shortly after
ward, While working in the mines Of
Dade county, he attempted with other
convicts to escape. and in the melee
that followed he killed two of the
guards. He was tried some time ago
for the killing of the first guard and
got ninety-nine years. He was then
put on trial for the killing of the other
man and got ninety-nine more years.