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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

REBUKE In EPIGRAM.
Joha Giyde's "Reminiscences of Edward
Fitzgerald,

In these days when the height of
nouveau richie social ambition is too often
the desire to cap list of guests with a
tltled name or TO crown with title an
American girl in exchange for the whole
sale recelpting of the lOng-unpaid bulls
OF nohleman, il is not untimeiy to re-
we Fitzgerald story, reprinted with
the following explanatory introduction
Fitzgerald"
"Customarly his manner was that Of
a well bred gentleman, and sometimes
the poiteness of courtesy even in rehuke
was striking. That he could also rebuka
IN an epgram, when he thought ii neces-
Sary, is shown by an anecdote given in
the 'Recollections of Aubrey De We're:
After large evening party, when
nearly all the guests had departed, the
rest remained to smoke. In that party
was man celebrated for his passion for
titles. On this occasion he exceeded
himself All his talk was on the rich
ana great. Yesterday, when l was rid
ing with my friend, the Duke of - =
"On Tuesday last the Marquis of -
remarked to me-" 1t went on for long
time. Tn" party listened some amused,
some bored. Edward Fitzgerald was the
first to rise. He lighted candle. passed
out OF the room. stood still with the lock
of the door in his hand and looked back.
He could change his countenance into
anything he pleased. 1t had then ex-
changed in a minute its merry look for
one of profound. nay hopeless, detection
Slowly AID sadly he spoke: Il once knew
a lord. too: but he is dead Slowly. sad
~, he withdrew, closing the door amid q
roar of laughter.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

but his eyes wandered from the flaming
sails to the sea al the leeward, and then
to the faces of his men.
Gentlemen ne said. turning TO the
officers, you know that in such a case as
this 1t Is customary to consult together
before pronouncing the fate of a man.
Speak, shall we try to save this fellow
by hazarding the loss of the ship? Speak.
and in Gods name be quickr
We stood in groups under the quarter
hight immoyable; the crew towering near
awaited the final decision. And | assure
you that had it been midday one would
have seen those old sailors, those old dogs
of the sea. as pale as Frenchmen crossing
the channel. A midshpman made a
movement as if about to speak. We sur
v,eyed at a glance the vessel, the horizon,
the waves. and the black wall of the
shore at a few cable lengths starboard I;
we were rapidly bearing down upon the
rocks, and no one spoke a word.
Then the commander, in a loud,
choked voice, addressed the crew: On
humanity and our conscience, we. declare
that we can do nothing for this man.
May God have. mercy on him' He
turned to the helmsman, and cried in
forced, broken words, hard port, ;
steady, now steady-about-so.
The great ship righted, swung round,
and delivered her sails to the wind, that
received them with bowls of joy. She
swept over and through the pillows, part
ing them like an arrow.
Il ran aft and unlocked a signal Ian
tern throwing the rays out on the water.
At five or six fathoms leeWard the top
man was being tossed about on a ledge
of waves that every instant threw him
upright.
AS he rose on a crest he perceived
me- and attempted to bring his hand to
salute. l saw him raise himself on the
piece of wreck, fix on me his great star
ing eyes and move his lips as if to speak.
l bent over as far as | could, and put my
hand to my ear. | wanted to hear his
last words-a message to that dear one at
home. Then came to me clear and dis
tinct as though he had spoken at my
side, 'Cap'n. cap'n, the maintop lift broke
on me-
AN enormous wave passed, leveling
the surface of the sea. and l saw nothing
but blackness and the frigates white
wake as it lay rolling like a huge ribbon
| in cloudy masses far astern."
The captain sat for a moment in 81
lence, his coarse, gray eyebrows twitch-
ing, and the wrinkles of his forehead
contracting with nervous jerks. The
moon in the offing had left the sea and
its bright light illumined the water and
shore.
1t was the woman who spoke. what
was the name Of this martyr to duty?'
The captain apparently did not hear,
for he arose and said: Come, let's go
in. | think little game would be in or
der this evening"
But his name|' two or three of us
asked in the same breath.
What he exclaimed, as he turned
his great eyes upon us, as though to dis
cover our motive; then he said lightly,
"Oh. his name, In fact | don't remem-
Der it.'-W. L. in New York Times.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

Consul General Hughes writes from
Coburg that, according to the German
press, fbroleum, new artificial leather,
has just been invented by a Frenchman.
1t consists of pieces of refuse skins
and hides, cut exceedingly small, which
are put into vat filled with an intensely
alkaline solution. After the mass has
become pulpy, it is taken out of the vat,
placed in a specially constructed machine,
and after undergoing treatment therein
is again taken out and put through a pa
per-making machine. The resulting pa
per-like substance is cut into large sheets,
which are laid one upon another, in lots
of from 100 to 1000, and put in by
draulic press to remove all moisture. The
article is strong and pliable and can be
pressed or nodded into all kinds of shapes
and patterns.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12
HEAT.

From plains that reel 10 the southwark
dim,
The road runs by me white and bare;
| Up the steep hill il seems TO swim
Beyond. ard melt into the glare,
| Upward, half way, or II may be
Nearer the summit slowly steals
hay cart, moving Justify
With idly clacking wheels.
BY his carts side the WAGNER
Is slOuching slowly at his ease,
Half hidden In the MINDLESS blur
OF white dust putting to his knees,
This wagon on the night above,
From sky TO sky on either hand.
Is the sole thing that seems to move
In all the heat-held land.
Beyond me in the fields the sun
Soaks in the grass and hath his will;
count the margueriJes one by one;
Even the buttercups are still.
On the brook yUndeF not breath
Disturbs the spider or the nudge.
The water bugs draw close beneath
The cool gloom Of the bridge.
Where the far elm tree shadows food
Dark patches in the burning grass,
The cows, each with her peaceful cud,
Lie waiting for the heat to pass.
From somewhere on the slope near by
Into the pale depth of he noon
wandering thrush slides leisurely
His thin revolving tune.
In interval of dreams / hear
The cricket from the droughty ground;
The grasshoppers spin into mine ear
A small innumerable sound,
/ life mine eyes sometimes to gaze;
The burning sky line blinds my sight;
The woods far off are blue with haze;
The hills are drenched in light.
And yet to me not this or that
Is always sharp or always sweet;
In the sloped shadow of my hat
lean at rest. and drain the heat:
Nay more, l think some blessed power
Hath brought me wandering idly here;
In the full furnace of this hour
My thoughts grow keen and clear.
Archibald Lampman.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

A lesson in arithmetic is no joke-a
painful reality. rather-yet a Boston
sehoolboy is alleged to have been in
spired to humor by the very worst of
the problems in long division. After he
had failed on the sums the teacher set,
he asked permission to give one. OF his
own. The privilege was granted.
MY aunt has eight children" he said,
''and she doesn't like to favor one above
another. She was at the market the
other day, and she bought eight apples
for them, one apiece; but when she got
home she found she'd lost one apple All
the same, she divided the apples so as to
give each child the seine number. How
did she do it?'
The class hadn't got along to fractions.
and the boy insisted that his aunt knew
nothing about algebra. SO the puzzled
teacher finally asked: We'll, how did
she divide the seven apples so as to give
each of the eight children an equal num-
ber?'
"She made applesauce. Youths Com
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12
SALARIES SHOULD BE JUST.
1t is the Low Wages that Make Serv-
ants UntrustwortLy.

Low wages make dangerous scrv
ants saying which the old bank prcsi-
dent sent for his paying teller. who was
locked up IN wire cage in company
with million dollars in bills, and raised
his salary to Sl5 a week" The novel
which opens with this sentence has been
running as serial in the newspapers
now these $50 years, more or less. Some
times it ends with the flight of the teller;
sometimes he is caught on the pier or IN
the Grand Central station.
The bank president is still free. though
many of him and his shareholders are
poorer than they might have been but
for him and the teller. But the bank
president is not the only victim of the
poorly paid man. Mr.. Broderick says
that he pays his clerks So i'll that they
steal his secrets. Some years ago a poor
~ paid clerk i'll the French marine bu-
reau sold the plans of TOulOn 10 an
American officer, who bought them to
obilge an Italian friend. And now brit
ish workmen who are paid less than the
market rate of wages have sold plans 81
British torpedo boats to the French. II
bank. or a government, or any other
dealer in labor and fidelity wants as GOOD
as there is in the market it must pay for
it.
builders won't pay for the noOntldc peer
the beer is going to be had somehow or
other. even if the price must be had py
sending over to Paris for it. and lnd-
dentally accompanying the order ny 2
full set Of drawings of boat intended
for the destruction of French men-o;-
war. but which may be used. Of course
for the construction of submarine YES
sci which will blow up English mcn-ct
war; so | shall close as | began; ana
accept as the truth the unfollowed dly-
tum of the disappointed bank preSldeh.;
Low wages make dangerous servants.
-Harpers Weekly.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12
BASEBALL REPORTING.
Reporter Grows Enthusiastic in De-
scribinE National Game.

A heater article of the National
had never been put up on the
home grounds, and when the visitors
picked up the stick in the final with the
tally standing %, every body, from the
oldest fan to the youngest paper-seller,
was standing on his seat and yelling to
the local slab artist to serve up his
choicest assortment of roundhOuse bend
ers, and keep whatever guy was hand
ling the ash pivoting at decisions. The
twirler was up to the business, and laid
EN- over so fast that the receiving end of
the battery, who wears the brd-cage and
llver-pad, looked as if he were Smelling
peas. The first two victims only tore
rents in the atmosphere, but the third
guy connected, and laid off a flaming
grasser which would have made a pro-
Jeetile from a 13-inch gun look like a
bean-bag tossed from one baby to anoth-
er. The man on the difficult corner was
right there, though, and tagged the
horse-hide pill with his sinister talon, as
sisting it over to the initial hassock in
such short order that some one yelled de-
risively: "That fellow runs like an
Orange street automobubble." The home
aggregation came to the bat. Everyone
was confident that they were going to
pound the sphere around the lot, but the
opposing team ran in a new guy with a
slow south wing, and before they were
onto the fact that they were not putting
the willow onto the yarn as they had ex,
pected there were two men down and two
strikes on the next guy. But, oh
Phoebe! on the next delivery he became
the father of a bouncing swat which
landed in the last row of potatoes in the
outer garden and enabled him to press
down three buttons and scratch the rub
Der. Did the crowd go wild? say. die
You ever see Il game of ball?"-Yale Rec
nNI
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12
Beers Teach British How to Fight.

The Beers have taught US many ingeni-
Gus tricks of war, says n London news
paper. Inspectors of Notifications would
not have dared to suggest before the war
that barbed wire would play so promi-
nent a part in our defenses as it has.
They would not have dared. for their
reputation's sake. to advise that we
should make good the ground as fast as
we wen it. by erecting a chain Of block
hoxses from one end Of the country to
the other. Inspectors Of cavalry would
have hesitated before proposing the re-
forms that the light-riding Boer rendered
compulsory.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

Surveys made in constructing the
Northern railroad of Guatemala have
unearthed wonderful sculptured stones,
carved in grotesque forms and inscribed
with text which probably tells the story
or purpose of their erection. Most of
them are rectangular, thirty to forty
feet long. The ruins cover large area.
and it is presumed that they are the re-
mains Of an ancient city. As was the
case with the Egyptians, these primitive
people had marvellous ability 10 handle
great stones and lift them into position
The same work taxes the engineering re-
sources of the men of today.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

Paris is to celebrate the hundredth an
niversary Of Victor Hugo's birth on Feb
ruary 26, 1902, and one of tn. incidents
of the celebration will be the opening
of Musee Victor Hugo. This is the
house on the Place des Vosges occupied
by Hugo from 1880 to 1871 n which
year he went into exile. The uuseum is
to contain among other things ali the
drawings and pen-and-ink sketches of the
poet, and all the most striking paintings
and illustrations of various sorts sug-
gested by his works The building is Il
gift TO Paris by Hugo'S heirs.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

That peculiar structure, the sod house.
attracts much attention at the ExpoSi-
ton. A Western paper states that sod
houses, or, us they are locally termed,
''soddies," are now being built in large
numbers in eastern Colorado. They are
made of oblong pieces Of sod cut from
the prairie, about eighteen inches in
length. seven inches broad, and from
three TO four inches thick. No founda-
ton is required, the sods being simply
laid on the prairie, and up goes the
structure. "Soddies" are cool in sum-
mer and warm in winter, and when the
mow-laden wind is whistling without, a
coy sod house, in which there is n good
corncob fire, is not TO be dcSpised.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

Ernest L. Harris, United State con
sular agent at Eibenstock, has informed
the state department that valuable min
eral treasures have recently been discov-
cred in Palestine, and that it is safe to
say the industrial awakening of the Holy
Land is no longer dream. He says it is
true that the greater part of the once
hourishing country is a barren desert, the
lines Of communication are miserable,
and traffic is unsafe aside from the one
railroad from Yafa to Jerusalem. Mr..
Harris says that the newly discovered
mineral deposits lie on both sides of the
Jordan and the Dead sea. The salt de
posits of the Dead sea also could be de-
veloped into an industry. The consul
considers phosphate the most important
of all deposits, and says the immense
fields of that mineral to the east and west
Of the Jordan need only better means of
traffic and communication in order to in
sure their development. This, it would
seem, is not far distant as the Turkish
government is planning a continuation of
the Yafa-Jerusalem railroad, and steam
boats are already plying the Dead sea.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12
TENNIS CHANGES.
Substitution OF Darker Colored Net
Considered an Improvement.

Tennis experts and players generally
are interested in the proposed changes
suggested for another season The new
style net will be made of fine light
brown Irvine. with a top band Of white
canvas. When the English players were
here last year they pointed out that the
white nets under the dazzling sunlight
made it difficult to see the bah as it
bounded IN the opposite court, a trouble
that is obviated with the new nets. The
ball next year will be harder. hut the
Variation in weight and size SO slight
that it will not affect the play in the
cliUhtASt -
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

1t transpires that the British royal
yacht, which nearly capsized when she
was launched, and upon which $3,000O 600
in all has been spent to make her sea-
worthy, has again been condemned.
King Edward will now probably go to
the designers of yachts for his next royal
craft, and permit the admiralty to de-
tion of warships
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

deposit. But Winnebago's shallowness
makes it remarkably rich in fish; indeed,
it is one Of the most productive known.
Shallow lakes always have more fish
than deep ones. chiefly, perhaps, because
there is more vegetation on the bottom
of a shallow one. Vegetation does not
flourish in deem water
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

The Menomonie man who killed him
self after reading patent medicine "lit-
erature," may have yielded his life be-
cause Of fear that it would be neces-
sary TO invest fortune to cure all his
imaginary ills. Had he been a more
careful reader he might have discovered
that cures for almost every ailment that
flesh is heir to are sometimes offered in
NM hnftln
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

The new German steamer Kronprinz
didn't break a record on her maiden trip,
but she met a wave that damaged her
superstructure and showed the captain
that it isn't safe to negotiate the waves
on the diving bell principle.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

The British people consume nearly six
pounds Of tea per head of the population
or an increase Of one pound per capita
in sixteen years. There is ne Other
country which in any way approaches
this. Holland is the only country in
Europe where the consumption Of tea
exceeds one pound per head. III Russia
and in the United States also. which
are the other two large tea consumers,
the consumption amounts TO under one
pound per head.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

A Methodist minister and his wife were
pelted with eggs and driven out of Wich-
tia, Kansas, by parishioners who were
worried by church troubles. What would
have occurred if the church people had
permitted themselves to become angry ?
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

The decision of the Minnesota court in
the case of the estate of man who
thought when he came to die that he
had money to burn, will warn other &C.
centric characters from trying TO send
their money to the crematory. The
world is too practical to take such or
ders as evidence of the possession of a
sound mind
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

The marriage in Rome Of an American
woman whose maiden name was Mary
Reid to Prince Don Giuseppe Rospigliosi
is another case of the joining of oppostes,
when viewed only from the standpoint of
the student Of nomenclature. But, what's
in uanp9
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

When navigation closes ON the Great
Lakes, the Chicago Drainage Trustees
will. if granted permission, increase the
flow of sewage down the Illinois and
Mississippi from 100000 to 100000 cubic
feet a minute. but they do not expect
to so thicken the water of the Mississippi.
that navigation will be closed there also.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

pa Zimmermans persistent demand
for security for money that he proposed
to advance to satisfy Manchester's cred
itors finally forced the guardians of the
ducal monetary sock to fetch the knitted
treasury forth and thus keep the debts
more closely in the family
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

Physicians generally will be deeply in
terested in the report from New York
of the cure Of a case Of lockjaw by the
injection of a serum into the brain. The
success which has attended the use OF
antitoxin for the cure Of diphtheria has
made therapeutics in this line very at
tractive to the medical profession.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

The French cientists who are afraid that
Czolgosz may get hurt in the electric
chair are backed by a long line of pre-
cedents in the annals of capital punish
ment in the United States.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

Prof. Marsh of Wisconsin. in speaking
recently of the peculiarities Of Lake
Winnebago, said that it is remarkable
for its shallowness. Although it is about
twenty-eight miles in length, and ten or
twelve miles in width, it has depth of
only twenty-five feet This is due 10 the
fact that the lakes outlet is constantly
deepening and that its inlet is gradually
filing its bottom with a sandy or earth
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

According to a report from Clinton,
Indiana, concerning a disappearance act
by the bottom of the Wabash, it is safer
TO sing ION the banks" ETC., than to
wade into the water.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12
A Courage Producer.

Il remember one particularly inteFlS,--
ing moonShiner who was present al w
last term of court. He came 10 tow
from Eastern Kentucky loaded 40" i
with mountain dew think he had y
bottle in each pocket. and he was e''t
FELLOW, too. He wanted everybody ~
take drink. One day he said 70 me-
'Pard. have nip Certainly, | SAID
he took me at my W" word 3Ya and pulled out 2
bottle about foot long. it was fun -
the real white corn. 'Pard.' he. SAL ~,
there's some juice that'd make a Tan' 10
60 up and spit in a dogs face. Lou
Vile Courier-Journal.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

Rockefeller is a loser to the extent of
100000 by an embezzlement at Kansas
City, but he refuses to be bothered over
the trihe
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

The proposed baseball trust may be
said to be an attempt TO corner the dia-
nond
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-12

Fishermen of San Rafael. Cal. car
tured man-eating shark seventeen iev'
long in net.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-03-29
An American Sword Factory.

There is only one sword factory in
the United States-a Massachusetts,
concern-and that one has ample ca
pacity for supplying the domestic de-
mand for swords, even under the
stimulating conditions of the Cuban
and Philippine wars. The saber lost
Its efficiency as cavalry weapon as
far back as the war OF the rebellion
and the increased range OF rifles has
made the sword equally obsolete as
an implement Of actual combat.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-03-29

Peruna is the woman's friend every
where. 1t Is safe to say that no woman
ever used Peruna for any catarrhal de-
rangement but what it became indis-
pensable in her household.
Letters From Women.
Every day we receive letters from
women like the following. Women who
have tried doctors and failed women
who have tried Peruna and were
cured.
Miss Katie Klein, 6126 Bartmer ave-
nue., st. Louis, Mo-, writes:
"Peruna has done me more good for
catarrh than the best doctors could.
had catarrh so bad. but after taking
Peruna it is entirely gone, and l feel
like different person"
Miss Anna Prescotts Letter.
Miss Anna Prescott, in letter from
ZIG South Seventh street, Minneapolis,
Mimi, writes:
al am sincerely grateful for the
relief have found from the use of Pc
runa, ! was completely used up last
fall, my appetite had failed and felt
weak and tired all the time. My drug
gisf advised me to try Peruna and the
relief I experienced after taking one
bottle was truly wonderful
al continued its use for five weeks,
and am glad to say that my complete
restoration to health was a happy
surprise to myself as well as to my
friends. "-Anna Prescott.
A constant drain Of nervous vitality
depicting the whole nervous system
causes the mucous membrane surfaces
to suffer accordingly. This is the con-
dition called systemic catarrh. 1t very
nearly resembles, and there is really no
practical difference, between this con-
dition and the condition known as neu-