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is only through work and strife that
either nation or individual moves on to
man of mighty effort and usually the
man whom grinding need has trained to
mighty effort. Rest and peace are good
things, are great blessings, but only If
they come honorably; and it is those who
fearlessly turned away from them, when
they have not been earned who in the
long run deserves best of their country.
In the sweat of our brows do we eat
bread, and though the sweat is bitter at
bitter to eat the bread that is unearned,
unW0n, undeServed. America must nerve
herself for labor and peril The men who
have made our national greatness are
those who faced danger and overcame 1t,
who met difficulties and surmounted
them, not those whose paths were cast In
such pleasant places that toll and dread
were ever far from them.
Neither was it an accident that our
they did not shrink from war were never
theleSS heartily men of peace. The man
who will not fight to avert or undo, wrong
is but a poor creature; but after all he is
less dangerous than the man who fights
on the side of wrong Again and again in
a nations history the time may, and in
deed sometime must come, when the ma
uOn'S highest duty is war. But peace
must be the normal condition. or the ma
ton will come to a bloody doom Twice
in great crises, in 1I76 and 1861, and twice
in lesses crises, in 1872, and in 1898, the
nation was called to arms in the name of
all that makes the words honor, freedom
and justice other than empty sounds. On
each occasion the net result of the war
was greatly for the benefit of mankind
But on each occasion this net result waa
of benefit only because after the war
came peace came justice and order and
liberty. If the Revolution had been fol-
lowed by. blood anarchy, if the. Declara-
ton of Independence had not been sup
plemented by the adoption of the Constf-
tuition, if the independence won by the
sword of Washington had not been sup
plemented by the stable and orderly gov
ernment which Washington was instru-
mental in founding, then we should have
but added TO the chaos of the world and
our victories would have told against and
not for the betterment of mankind. So
it was with the Civil war. If the four
iron years had not been followed by
peace, they would not have been justified.
If the Great Silent Soldier, the Hammer
of the North, had struck the shackles
from the slave only. as so many conquer
ors in civil strife before him had done,
to rivet them round the wrists of free
men, then the war would have been
fought in vain. and worse than in vain.
Continued on Seventh Page.)
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TEXAS TWISTER.
Blum Nearly DestrOyed-Num-
ber of Persons Injured.

st. Louis. April PA Post-Dispatch
special from Dallas. Tex. says:
A tornado passed through the south
ern part of Johnson and northern part
of Hill counties about noon today doing
terrible destruction.
The town Of Blum. in Hill county
about IS miles southwest of Dallas was
partly destroyed and several persons
fatally injured. A daughter of DR..
Hanks had a scantling driven through
her body and she is in a dying con-
dition. An 8 year old daughter of Eph
Hunt had both legs broken, injured in
ternally. She is not expected to re-
cover.
Lacey Robertson's wife was caught in
their falling house and crushed so bad
ly she will probably die. The public
school house was wrecked and two pu-
pills names not yet learned, badly hurt.
About dozen dwelling houses were de-
stroyed in addition to the school build
ing and the Baptist church wrecked
much other damage was done, but de-
tails have not yet been received.
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WHERE IS FRENCH
London is Anxious to Know
What He is Doing.

London. April 27.-2 p. m.-The fol-
lowing dispatch has been received at the
war office from Lord Roberts:
"Bloemfontein. April 26.-At the. re-
quest of the high commissioner, Warren
has been appointed military governor of
Griqualand West, while that part of the
country is in a disturbed condition"
This curious dispatch constitutes all
the war news received up to this hour
The country is eagerly awaiting to hear
whether Gen. French succeeded in cut
ting off the retreating Beers, hut of his
progress there is no word. The military
critics of the afternoon newspapers
differ as to the chances of another Paar-
deburg but they agree in considering
the situation in the Free State as being
eminently satisfactory. They argue that
even if Gen. French is unable to inter-
Cept the main Boer forces he may score
considerable success in d series of rear
guard actions, or the isolation of strag-
Cling bodies.
Lord Roberts peculiar reference to Sir
Alfred Miner over Warren's appoint
ment lends itself to the inference that
the communicative of the British
forces in South Africa scarcely approves
of it, and that the previous report that
Warren had been recalled was current
but that he was saved from coming
home by the action of the British high
commissioner
According to a special dispatch from
LourenZO Marques the latest authentic
estimates of the Boer forces place them
at 30, 800, of which 49, 900 are at Kroon-
stadt 5000 at Fourteen Streams. 5000
| in Natal, 700 about Mafeking and 1,00C
| at Pretoria, while 250 have been ordered
north to intercept Gen. Darlington s
| force. The work of entrenching Pre-
| toria is proceeding.
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R. Booth lumber mills, the Mckay Mill
ing company, the Ottawa Electric rail-
way power house, the Martin & War
mex mills, the Victoria foundry, the Ot-s
tawa saw works, the Ottawa Speciality
company, the Pain planning mills and
several other Industries.
AS soon as the members of the gov
ernment saw that the fire was to be
public works telegraphed to Montreal,
Peterboro and Brockville for fire ap-
plianceS and all assistance that could
be sent. But although they arrived
speedily, they were of no avail.
In Hull the business portion is all
gone and over half Of the residences.
The Roman Catholic cathedral has been
saved, together with Eddy's~ sulphite
works. Gilmour & Hughson mills are
also standing.
The only means of communication be-
tween Ottawa and Hull is by boat. At
ter 2 O'Clock the only water to be had
in Hull was from the river.
Chief Benoit of the Hull fire brigade
was injured and taken to the general
hospital in Ottawa.
HOW IT STARTED
The fire originated through a fire in
a dirty chimney, and the high wind
caused the flames to spread rapidly.
Coming to the Ottawa side of the river
and that portion of the city east Of
Division street, the old boundary line
of the city before RocheSterviIle was
annexed, was almost entirely burned
down. Here and there a building re-
mains
The village of Hintonburg, still fur
there east, in close proximity to the
city, was not destroyed so rapidly. The
greater part remains. Meehanicsville,
too, which was reported to have been
entirely swept away, still remains.
In addition to the losses mentioned
there is that of the Export Lumber
company, limited, whose establishment
was at Chaudiere. Their loss will be
very heavy, but is covered by insur-
ance in American and English COM
panies.
The casualties so far reported are
Miss Cook. an old woman who lived on
Wellington street, near the French
church. and who was burned in her
house. An unknown man was found
dead on the Canadian Pacific railroad
track. James Mavin, of Queen street,
west, is reported to be fatally injured,
and some pieces of timber fell on James
Merryfeld, who was taken to the hos
pital.
A prominent lumber man who is not
interested himself placed the losses for
lumber piles at from $4,000, 600 to s5,000,-
900. This is thought to be a low esti-
mate, as the Export Lumber company
same lumber man estimates the entire
loss at about SIS, ,000, ,000
The large cliff which extends from the
| Ottawa river back by Christ church
| and ST. John the Baptist church on to
Rochesterville, was the only thing
| which stopped the whole city of Ottawa
| becoming a prey to the fire. Shortly
after noon the wind which was blowing
previously in a northwesterly direction
! changed to a southeasterly direction
| and in this way what remained of OF
tawa was saved.
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GOV. ROOSEVELT
BRINGS CROWDS
Annual Celebration of Gen.
Grants Birthday.
More Elaborate and Largely At
tended Than Ever.
NEW YORK'S GOVERNOR
Attracts Thousands of People to
Little Galena.
Nellie Grant SartOris and Her
Children Present.
NEW YORK'S GOVERNOR

Galena. Ill, April 27.-General Grants
birthday was observed here today. The
event has been celebrated annually for
ten years with some speaker of national
reputation as orator of the day; but the
celebration today was on a much more
elaborate scale than heretofore attempt
ed. Governor Theodore Roosevelt of
New York delivered the principal ora
ton.
Special trains We're run by the rail-
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roads and the announcement that the
famous fighting governor of the Empire
state was to be present brought thou
sands of people into the little city that
was the home of Gen. Grant for many
years. Nearly every business block and
hundreds of private residences were
fairly ablaze with flags and bunting.
The special train bearing Gov. Roose-
veIt, Mrs Nellie Grant Sartoris, her son,
Captain Sartoris; her daughter, Vivian
Sartoris, and other distinguished Wis
itors arrived from Chicago shortly be-
fore the exercises began at Turner hall
After a few Introductory remarks by
President Spare, Rev. DR.. J. w.
Spencleria, of Albany, n. Y, delivered
the invocation. Then, after a song, In
Iiberty's Name'' by a male quartet,
Governor Roosevelt was introduced
amid great applause. He spoke as fol-
lows:
ROOSEVELTS ADDRESS.
Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt, of New York,
spoke as follows:
In the long run every great nation in
stinctively recognizes the man who pecul-
iarly and re-eminently represent its own
type Here in our country we
have had many public men of
the first rank-soldiers, orators, construc-
tive statesmen and popular leaders. We
have also had great philosophers who
were also leaders of popular thought
Each one of these men has had his own
group of devoted followers, and some of
] them have at times sWayed the nation
| with a power such as the foremost of all
hardly welded. Yet as the generations
slip away, as the dust of a. conflict settles
| and as through the clearing air we look
| back with keener vision into the nation s
| past, mightiest among the mighty dead
| loom the three great figures of Washing
| ton, Lincoln and Grant. There are great
! men also in the second rank; for in any
| gallery of merely national heroes, Frank
1 lin and Hamilton, Jefferson and Jackson
| would surely have their place But These
| three greatest men have taken their place
among the great men of all nations. the
| great men of all times. They stood Su-
4 preme in the two great crises of our his
/ tory. on the two great occasions wheT
! Ue9stood in the van of all humanity ane
| struck the most effective blows that have
ever been struck for the cause Of human
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freedom under the law; for that spirit of
orderly liberty which must stand at the
base of every wise movement to secure to
each man his rights and to guard each
from being wronged by his fellows.
gle, and it was his good fortune to win
the highest renown alike as soldier and
statesman. In the second and even great
er struggle, the deeds of Lincoln the
statesman were made good by those of
Grant the soldier and later Grant himself
took up the work that dropped from
LincoIn's tired hands when the assassin's s
bullet went home and the sad, patient,
kindly eyes were closed forever.
NO ACCIDENT
'sIt was no mere accident that made
our three mightiest men, two of them SOL
diers and one the great war president 1t
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300 KILLED.
Filipinos Are Being Civilized at a
Rapid Rate.

Manila, April 27.-About three hundred
of the enemy have been killed recently in
north nocos, including Dodds fight and
the attack on Batoc April 16, when from
six to seven hundred rebels, a quarter of
whom were armed with rifles, determine
edly attacked the Americans, charging
their positions and fighting at close quar-
ters. The engagement lasted all the fore
noon, the enemy burning the town; bat
they were rcpulsed, after the arrival of
American reinforcements.
The insurgents generally are aggressive
in that province. They captured an
American provision wagon near Lapo.
The Americans having obtained evil
dence that the alcades of Lapo, Magsin-
gal, Cabugas and Siniat were holding
treacherous communication with the in
surgents, imprisoned them and burned
Lapo's town hall. There have been sew
eral fights in the province, including an
attack by two hundred insurgents on La
vag, April H. forty of whom were killed
and eighty were captured.
The officers report that the men of the
Thirty-third regiment and Third cavalry
behaved splendidly under very trying cir
cumstances. There were no American
casualties at Batoc where $50 insurgents
were killed and seventy were captured.
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A $4,000 Haul.

Richmond, Va. April 27.-The vault
OF Massanutten bank at Strasburg, Va,
was blown open by burglars early this
morning and $1,000 taken. Negotiable
papers and securities amounting to $75,-
goo were untouched. The burglars es-
capped on a hand car on the Southern
railway.
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Mother 1E. Annunciata Dead

South Bend, Ind, April 27.-Motber
Al. Annunciata, mother general of the
Sisters Of the Order Of the Holy Cross
the headquarters of which for the Unit
ed States is st. Mary's academy, of this
city, died today from heart disease
The funeral viii be held at St Nary's
on Tuesday Her family mama was
Margaret AIcShahery. She was born in
1913 and educated in Philadelphia She
received the habit of the order in 1850
and took the final vows five years later
In 1895 she became mother general Of
the order
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BACK AT WHITE HOUSE.
McKinleys Return to Washing
ton From Canton Visit.

Washington, April 27.-President and
Mrs. Mckinley arrived in Washington
at O'Clock this morning from Canton.
Accompanying them were Captain and
Mrs. Lafayette AGcWilliams, of Chicago;
Dr. Rixey; Mr.. VIM. S. Hawk, of New
YORK; Mr.. George Barber, of Canton;
Private Secretary Cortelyou. and Stem
ographer Leonard.
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BACK IN ENGLAND.
Landing of the Queen Witnessed
by Thousands.

London, April 27.-Thousands of per-
sons this morning witnessed the landing
of the queen at Holy Head, where she
arrived yesterday on her return from
Ireland. The royal special train start
ed southwark at IL o'clock amidst an
enthusiastic demonstration. On the ar
rival Of her majesty at Chester. the
mayor and corporation of that place
presented her with an address
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Sir John Bridge Dead.

london, April 27.-Sir John Bridge,
the former police magistrate of London,
is dead He was born in 1924, was edu-
Gated at Trinity college, Oxford; was
called to the bar in 1850; was appointed
a police magistrate at the Bow street
police station in 1872, and was chief
police magistrate for London to 1889.
In 1880 he received the honor of knight
hood
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AND NOW CHOLERA.
Is Added to the Other Affections of
India

London, April 27.-A special dispatch
from Bombay says:
The cholera is raging fearfully at the
great camp at Cobra. where thousands
of famine stricken natives are receiving
relief. A hundred and fifty corpses
We're removed yesterday, but one hun
dred others had to be left because it was
lmpOssible to procure bearers.
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" Gather Indications.

Chicago, April 27.-For Kansas: Part
" cloudy tonight and Saturday. with
possibly local showers: variable winds
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lcontinued On sixth Page.l
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lc0nIinued aa SGD Pase.l
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Continued on Seventh Page.l
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-05-12
BRIEF NOTES OF N0TABLES.

Bishop Potter of New York makes
it his rule to read certain amount of
Greek every day of his lie.
William u. Hall. Il street-car con
ductor of ST. Louis. is in active service,
though he just celebrated his eghtieth
birthday.
CONGRESSMAN Charles Il. Lands. him
self an editor, declares that the editorial
writer is by far the most influential man
in the country.
President Loubet of France is posing
for Denis Puech. the well-known French
sculptor. who is making bust of the
chief executive.
During the past fifteen months of his
presidency of Oherlin college DR.. j. II.
Barrows has delivered 191 sermons. lee
lures and addresses.
The lord mayor of Sheffield. Eng.
has commissioned Onslow Ford to exc
cute Il marble bust of Queen Victoria
for the new town hall.
About $50 women servants are en-
gagged by Emperor William to look after
the twenty-five royal palaces and castles
that belong to the crown.
The Duchess of Cob0urg better
! known as the Duchess Of Edinburgh. is
| said to lee extremely popular in the Coun-
/ try where she noW resides.
Among sir John Lubbock's ecccn-
! tricitieS is his fondncss for insect pets.
! He once had wasp which would lie
still in his hand and be stroked.
The late Gen. John Bidwell. Cali
/ forpia'S notable pioneer bequeathed 500
each to the national committees of the
| Liberty and the Prohibition party.
Senator Depew - OF the opinion that
| had there been Il successful national uni
! verSity at Washington fifty years ago
! there would never have been Civil war,
: Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy. leader and
/ founder of the Christian Science church
in this country. is very i'll at her home III
| Concord, y. H., with cancerouS trou-
| bic
Since spring really began Congress
man Iittleheld of Maine has shown 4
/ fondneSs for violetS, and nearly always
wears bunch of those flowers in his
/ coat.
Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale is de
/ livering his course of lectures on Rem
/ iniScences of Emerson. Holmes. Lowell
/ and Longfellow" in indianapolis and the
1 West
The Princess Beatrice of England
/ has become quite an expert hockey play
{ or and is 50 devoted to the game that She
( plays nearly every day when at Windsor
castle.
DR.. Enrique Jose Verona. who is sec
rotary of the treasury for Porto Rico.
( has won a reputation among Spanish
I speaking nations a an author. critic and
historian.
--Rev. Newell u. Hills. whose with
/ draway from the Presbyterian church
has excited 50 much comment. owns what
, is said 10 be the best private library in
( Brooklyn.
/ Mrs. Gertrude Atherton. the au.hor.
{ has taken up her permanent residence in
( England She diSlkeS London. however.
/ and has a little cottage called Merryhill,
B II. Ia. = d. -. 81
/ -Adna Adams Treat of Denver, Col.
4 is probably the oldest Mason in the
world. having joined the order in Feb
ruary. 1892 Mr. Treat is now in his
/ lG3d year and still in vigorous health.
! Capt. T. Jenkins Hams, the sea-story
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-05-12
Manning Glover.

\ complaint which farmers frequently
make in connection with stable manure
is its failure to produce much benefit on
cloycrS. 1t is only natural, however. that
stable manure is not the right fertilizer
for clover, COwpeas, or other plants be
longing to the So-called lcguminous fam
lily. because these crops have the faculty
of drawing their own nitrogen from the
atmosphere; hence. as stable manure is
valuable chiefly for its nitrogen. il fur
niShcs the ingredient of plant food which
these crops do not need from an artificial
source. The application of stable ma
nure to clover or peas is like carrying
Goals to New tStle." CI0vers need only
the mineral forms of food and can at
tend to their own nitrogen. Their cult
walton. under proper conditions. is Il dis
tinct gain to any farmrr.- Bryan Tyson
in Farmers Advocate
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In a big, sunny barn chamber stood a
basket filed with hay. In this soft nest
= proud mother cat was purrins her four
babies to sleep.
One was maltese, with sky-bue eyes.
Two were black and white But one
was black all oyer-not a white sock to
his foot nor even a white necktic under
the dear little chin. He was the one /
chose.
named him Col Brooks. A pretty
big name for 4 kitty baby, wasn't it!
Wen, he was darling from the very
start He loved and trusted everybody.
Yon should have seen him step up to
our big dog Rufus, without one sign Of
fear, cOaXng him To he friendly with the
sweetest of loycmaking
And cid Rufus, who mp to that time
had hated the very sight of cat, fell
in love with the little colonel on the spot.
Col. Brooks had never slept by him
self so he would have been very home
sick il Rufus had not shared his bed
with him. Uncle Will made it his busi-
ness 10 SEE that they went to bed early.
But one night. when Uncle Will was
very late in coming home, he found Il
black kitty on the front doorstep. cry
ing 10 be let in. He supposed, of course,
il was Col. Brooks. SO he picked him
Up, PIT him on the cellar stairs, and
tod him to 90 straight to bed,
Then Uncle Will seated himself To read
the evening paper But no sooner was
he settled in the easy chair than u black
kitty. for all the world like the colonel.
Jumped into his lap purrng like "A small
steam engine.
rs this you, Col. Brooks?" cried Uncle
VIII. Didn't | just put you down cel
ldrE How did You get up hero
Ill. I.
own eyes. SO he took the eat under his
arm. and went down the cellar stairs
10 have this strange matter explained
But when Uncle VIII reached the foot
of the stairs. the qucereSt thing hat
pened.
Another black cat came out to meet
him
And what was the most puzzling Of all.
the eat on the cellar floor was Just like
the cat in Uncle Wits arms. and the cat
IN Uncle Wills arm was just like the
cat Oh the cellar floor. Not a white hair
on either of them, and just the sam"
size, Oh dear ne. How was Uncle win
kitty"
Just then a snore came from The box
where Rufus lay asleep.
Ohio cried Uncle viii. "I'u take
both eats over to Rufus. He'll know
which is Col. Brooks inside Of two min
uteS. | should say So In just one tail
wag. Rufus knew what ia do lie gave
growl that sounded like small clap Of
thunder
And 10 aud behold the kitty under
Uncle Wills right arm lcaped to the top
Of the woodpilc, kissing with anger and
fright.
But the little black kitty under Uncle
Wills other arm gave spring straight
into the heart of Rufus warm bed. and
began to rub noses with his big friend
Then Uncle viii knew that this ono
WAS Col Brooks. But. if it hadn't been
FOR TINT wise old Rufus. he might never
have found ont 10 this very day Emily
J. Langley in Youths Companion.