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Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-01-21
WINSLOW.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Winslow, A. T., Jan. 1S.-Pay day
at Winslow was on Wednesday and
was a quiet one. but it is quieter since.
Fred Seegar has sold his coal bust
ness to Ferdinand La Prade.
A few cases of scarlet fever is re-
ported in town this week. They are
all reported doing well and the dis
ease is we'll under control.
The b. p. o. e. second annual ball
was hello and was a grand success.
Bert Reiberg did himself proud as a
manager and the Elks never do things
by halves.
F. NJ. French. liveryman, sold out
his business to F. La Prade. This is a
good business in WinslOw and Mr.. La
Prade is a hustler and the business
will prosper under his management.
The largest engine in the world Wis
tied Winslow this week. 1t is said to
weigh 131 tons on her wheels, with
water tank complete something over
200 tons. Crowds of people gathered
to see her come in and bring eighty
loaded carr with her.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-01-21
A. E. WALKER
FIRE INSURANCE

Secretary Mutual Building Association
Office at j. q. Baldridge's Lumber Yard
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31
Garry Gold in Quilts,

According to lie Roux, a French ex-
plorer, the natives of Abyssinia have a
queer way of carrying 10 market the gold
that they find in the beds of streams.
They find ii as dust and as small mug.
gets, and put il into large quilts. as
transparent as glass tubes. The brok-
ers who buy it work it up into the form
of circles of the size of an ordinary fin
ger ring. but without closing the circle.
for the purchaser always insists on twist
ing it 10 see that ii does not contain any
adulteratiOn. Experienced fingers can
tell ut once whether the yielding metal
has the exact malleability of pure gold
Philadelphia Record.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31
Lightning Toys with a Mother and
Her Babe

Lightning played strange freaks at the
home of James $. Rowley, lila Wesley
avenue, Evanston, recently. Mrs. Row
ley was standing at her ironing board
when she was suddenly knocked down
and rendered unconscious.
When she recovered she was lying on
the floor and her baby. Is months old,
was standing 10y her crying. She arose
To her feet to find the floor where she
had been standing splintered and torn,
and she was partly paralyzed in her left
side. The baby's clothing was badly
scorched, but he seemed TO be hurt in no
place.
Mrs Rowley picked up the child and
with effort made her way to the front or
the house, to find that II large hole had
been torn in the front wall, She found
that the lightning had torn up the floor
of the kitchen and had made small holes
in the front of the house. 1t had cut Il
picture of Mckinley in two as neatly as
il could have been done with knife.
The lightning had broken the head
from Il plaster statue on a table in the
center of the front room and had torn
the molding from the wall. throwing the
pictures To the floor 1t had also Knocked
the laths from the beams and driven
them into the opposite wall. fifteen feet
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31

| for jealousy with that Jack of Diamonds
| so near my brunette of SpadesY
None" she replied solemnly.
mo danger of her falling in love with
him?'
NO" said the gypsy; "the love cards
are not there"
Here they are, on the other side of
, the brunette-the nine, FIVE and seven of
Hearts"
Shilton drew up nearer in a business
! like way He wanted to get the run of
it all. lon the other side" he said. five,
seven. nne-thosc are love cards! Well,
what does that mean?" He looked puz-
of Hearts. Isn't that myself-that
Jack of Hearts?"
YES" said the gypsy dreamily.
Then the love cards are between the
Queen Of Spades-that is my brunette
and the Jack of Hearts which is my
selfF"
The fortune teller assented.
'Then that means-she loves mP?'
Yes" said the gypsy, almost under her
breath, "she does"
Shnton thought a moment. well.
that's just where you're wrong" he said
mgraciously. and rose with frown.
Then he laughed a harsh, irritated laugh
lyon see,' | knew before | came III. Sc
you will excuse my saying it is rubbish.
But here is a dollar for the cause
As he was leaving the tent Mrs. Parker
Averill passed him, going into it. ''You
poor, dear child!" he heard her say. did
you grow very tired waiting for me? 1t
was so good of you to take my place for
n while. Have you told many fortunesT
He stopped just beyond the tent and
heard the gypsy answer 1t was not in
the mysterious tones he had heard, but in
a girlish voice which he thought he knew
better than any other voice in tine world
His heart leaped up and then seemed to
stand still.
YES" it said softly. "and nobody
guessed in the least that it was l."
He waited n few minutes until, the
long red robe and veil thrown off. she
futtered out of the tent in her filmy
white dress, like a white moth.
Alice he said softly.
With little cry she found herself face
to face with him.
A few minutes later the Jack of Dia-
monds, holding something between his
fingers, came sauntering up to where the
Queen of Spades and the Jack of Hearts
were walking beneath the shade of an
oak tree.
"Do you know" he said, taking no
notice of the Jack of Hearts, I'm so
glad to have found you. I've only Just
learned that this stick pin belongs to
You. | found it two days ago, and have
even worn it once or twice. | am awful
ly sorry to have kept it. You will for
give me, won't You? There were no in
itials."
Its not really mine" said the Queen
of Spades, for the same lack of reason
that girls say many things.
Yes, it is hers" said the Jack of
Hearts. pleasantly, taking it from the
Jack of Diamonds. AT least it is mine,
and it is just the same thing
And then the Jack of Diamonds said:
"Oh" '-Laura Spencer Porter in New
York Daily News.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31
AND THE FOUNTAIN FIXED ON
Story of Brooklyn aud Its "FIavored''
Streets.

brooklyn has some streets the names
of which suggest soda water tlavors. and
perhaps il is not surprising that Il Wis
itor was mixed up. as told by the Eagle:
"A soda water fountain was tiZzing mer-
rily near Borough hall recently. and the
white-j acketed young clerk was kept
hopping about in response to orders from
a dozen thirsting women, when there
driftcd into the place middle aged man,
carrying Il fat gripsack. 1t needed only
a glance to decide that he was from the
country. In fact, he said so himself. an
nounciug To the clerk: Young man. I'm
from up the state. and got sort q lost
in Brooklyn. Can You tell me where
can find Plymouth Church? | want To
see the church where Beecher preached
'Cert'nly,' said the polite dispenser Gf
fluid ecstasy. This is Fulton street.
Yes Go right down the street To Pine.
apple Yes And the next is Orange
Now see here. Young man. | spose the
next is Vanilla. You needn't think I'm
to be made game of that way. Tn a
justice OF the peace up the state. I'll let
YOU know, and l won't he insuted. The
stranger paused in his anger ana added:
Want these women 10 think you're
smart, don't YOU? He went out and
slammed the door. The fountain kept on
tiZZing,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31
POISONED ARROWS.
The sumpitan of Borneo, the Most
Deadly of All Savage Weapons.


Most remarkable. and perhaps most
deadly of all savage weapons, is the sum.
pitan of Borneo. 1t is extraordinary that
the Dyaks. barbarous and uncultured as
they are, should have anticipated the idea
of our rife and bayonet it is not known
how many centuries before the secret of
gunpowder was discovered. Their gun
is a blow-pipe of hard, light wood, some
eight or ten feet in length and about an
inch in diameter; and their bayonet is n
kind of broad, sharp-edged and pointed
spearhead. This is bound to the head of
the blow-gun by means of strong rattan
or brass wire, and it is so arranged thar
1t does not interfere with the fight OF the
darts.
This, at first glance, is a deadly wean-
on at close quarters in the hands of a
dashing warrior like the Dyak; but If ia
even more effective at a distance, for the
little arrows made from the spicules ~
the sage palm are tipped with the poison
OF the upas tree. The arrows are 50
small that they inf1ict8only a puncture
like that of pin prick; but, by virtue
OF the poison, many a man has died five
minutes after being hit. This fact. CON.
pied with the marvellous delicacy of CON
structlon and consequent accuracy of tba
sumpltan in the hands of the experienced
Dyak marksman, makes it a most for.
midabe weapon -0
In the attack led by johnson in 1870
against the Dyaks of the interior, he LOST
upwards of thirty men under the fotoI
1re OF these weapons, and not one of
them showed any wound more dangerous
looking than mere pin prick of the skin
The advantage that this weapon has
even over the rifle is that in the densa
1oIlage Dyak marksman may lie con-
cealed and pick off his enemy witbon+j
betraylng his whereabouts either nv ths
sound OF a report by fash or sinoka
Altogether it requires an intrepid soldier
TO face the silent and deadly sumnitan
Warfare by poisoned missiles is nowhere
so perfect as in Borneo, and yarions
savage races do what they can in the ART
The fans use small poisoned arrow
which they discharge with cross-bov
but, though the poison is very deadly
1t is neither so carefully made nor cana,
bic of such arruracy of aim as the sum-
pitan arrow of the Dyaks.
Indeed, it is so blunt that it freouent-
y hits without penetrating the skin.
The savage tribes of Guiana also use moi
son known as wOurali on their arrows.
which are not only multi-barbed with the
tail of the singing ray, but have cum
nlngly detachable points. The Maoris of
New Zealand, and many Polynesian,
tribes. having 10 poison which thew can
use for the purpose. adopt the next best
thing, and tip their spears and darts.
with hardwood from the trunk of the
ponga, or tree fern, the beauty of this
wood, from the savage warriors point
of view, being that it is of a highly irri-
wounds very Quickly.-New York Even
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31
Don't Believe All You Hear.

Il congratulate you on the fine recep-
ton which l heard you were honored
with out in Indiana someone recently
remarked to Senator Fairbanks. who has
just returned from the Republican con-
yenti0n in Indianapolis.
THAT reminds me-" said the senator,
'of an old but always true story. In a
sleeping car a man was Snoring most
loudly and nobody else in the car could
sleep. Finally it was decided TO awaken
him and compel him TO quit snoring or
stay awake. So, after much difficulty,
he was aroused
What's the trouble?' he asked.
Your snoring keeps everybody in the
car awake and il has got 10 stop
How do you know l Snored?' ques-
toned the disturber Of the peace.
:" We heard YOU was the reply.
"'Well. said the man who Sn0red, as
he turned over TO go 70 sleep again, don't
believe all you hear
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31
GROSS DECEPTION,

This is an age of dire deceit:
In sorrow / declare it:
Some shattered dream each day we meet,
Lntll we scarce can bear il.
y hair upon the butter lay:
Nay. readc-, do not quarrel
And vow the topic brings dismay.
1t is TO point a moral.
Observe how subterfuge and guile.
Where Ger we turn. O'ertake US,
Until we wear the cy MICS smile
And hope and trust f0rsake Us.
For this is why the theme is fraught
With solemn dissertation
The strand was from wig. well wrought
The butter, imitation
Washington Star.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31
GAS TORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
signature s2s@s '5e Of IzAz2ezzx
A Faithful Widow.

At Clarendon lives a lady who on
April 30, 1894, was left a widow. Her
grief for her dear departed was so strong
and it has continued undated to such
an extent that every year, when the an
niversary of her husbands death comes
round, she attempts to commit suicide.
Seven times had she done so and seven.
times had she been prevented from car
rying out her object Yesterday she lit
her chatting dish for the eighth time and
again the neighbors rushed into the room
in time to prevent the rash act. When
restored TO consciousness the woman ex-
claimed, my darling, you won't lose
anything by waiting Wait until next
year."-Paris Messenger.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31
Five Dollars a Square Inch for a Lot

Once more the high price record for
real estate in New York city has
been broken. The new record. more
over, does not belong to any fancy
little parcel within the shadow of the
stock exchange or in the retail dry goods
section. but to the little gore lot at the
northeast corner of Third avenue and
One Hundred and Forty ninth street.
Its ''frontageS" are six inches on Third
avenue and fourteen inches on One Hun
bred and Fort y-ninth street. and a care
full survey shows that its area is approx
imately forty square inches.
For this lot J. Clarence Dayie has
paid to Samuel @. Walker 5000, or 81
per square inch. At this rate an ordi-
nary city lot could he bought for the
modest sum of 81 100000. The taxes on
the little lot amount to 6S cents annually.
Mr.. Davie is not the owner of adjoin-
ing property, but intends to handle the
lot of forty square inches all by itself
under a scheme which, if practicable,
will yield an annual return of about 600
per cent. on the 5000 investment.
Mr.. Dlvie says that the stOop line
privilege covers strip five feet wide on
both the avenue and street frontages of
his lot. and that this will afford sufficient
area for Il covered entrance and also for
n flight of stairs leading downward.
Once below the surface. according TO
Mr.. Davies ideas. his ownership of the
little gore will entitle him to construct
vaults under the sidewalk fifteen feet
further toward the curb on both streets,
so that with the FIVE feet of stoop line
privilege and fifteen feet of vault he will
have Subterranean chamber about 20y
20 feet, which he thinks will be readily
rentable at, say, 500 per month, or 5000
a year.
Above ground the advertising sign
man will be allowed to go as far as he
likes" for a monthly stipend of $50. max
ing an annual income of $1,000 for the
entire enterprise.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31
With a proViso.

The constituent from San Francisco
was telling President Roosevelt about the
extraordinary qualifications possessed by
himself for the job in the consular serv-
ice which he was seeking. Senator Per
kins was smiling aud approving listen
er.
And do you believe the senator here
will give YOU his endorsement for this
place. asked the President.
Il haven't a doubt Of it." the applicant
replied Il am quite willing TO rest my
chances on what the senator may say.
Very well" said the President. turn.
ing to the senator.
But on one condition." the applicant
added with haste providing only that
l be permitted TO leave this room after
thn SpnofOrn
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31

The tourist who ascends Nesuvius does
so at the risk of his life. Ii is said that
1000 tourists have been killed since il
has become a fad to make the ascent
of the volcano. Formerly the trip was
made on foot or horseback The fact
that the central cone of Nesuvius col
lapsed few days ago. and that long
and deep cracks have made their appear.
ance. gives rise TO reasonable belief that
startling volcanic disturbances are immi.
nent. Strange as il may seem. the re-
gion is very fertile. and wine growing
is an important industry.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31
Laid Up for Sixteen Weeks.
ST. Jacobs Oil and Vogeler's Cur
alive Compound Cured Him.

have been a great sufferer from RhAu-
matlsm for many years. was laid up with
Rheumatic Fever for nine weeks in 1895, and
again for sixteen (I6) weeks in 1906. tried
many medicines / saw advertised and others
L was recommended; finally was induced
to take Vogeler's Curative Compound, which
did me more good than all other medicines.
In fact, feel quite different man since
have been taking the Compound. All my
neighbors and friends are quite surprised to
see me about and looking so well. l can
only say that Vogeler's Curative Compound
taken internally and by using St. Jacobs Oil
optwardly acted like magic in my case. I
had been taking medicines for years without
obtaining benefit, but Vogeler's has practi.
cally cured me. have recommended Vog-
eler's Curative Compound to a lot of my
acquaintances, and they tell ne that it has
worked wonders.
Wishing YOU every success in the sale of
your Vogeler's Curative Compound and S.
jacobs Oh, 1remain, gentlemen,
"Your obcdient servant,
"GEoRGE CLARKE, Gardener,
"z3 Beechcroft Road, Sure"
Sendto St. Jacobs Oil. Ltd, Baltimore, for
a free sample of Vogeler's Compound.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31
Exchange of Commitments.

Among the stories being told of the
late Cecil Rhodes is this: When taking
leave of the German Emperor after sew
eral interviews in relation to Africa his
majesty said: Il wish you were Ger
man, Mr.. Rhodes, for then | would ask
you to become my minister of foreign at
fairs" The Kaiser was somewhat start
led at this enthusiastically blunt reply:
IF your majesty were only an English
man | would have suggested that you
come TO South Africa with me and be-
come my business manager"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31


The worlds record for st
$50 miles day and for sal
325 miles.
English is studied by % pd
the students attending the highd
in Egypt.
Electric railways are rapi
placing the old-fashioned obliged
Switzerland.
The original Ramona" Of
Hunt Jackson is said to be living
Temecula. Cal.
Probably the first sprinkling G
were those sent before the Kings cOd
in England in 174S.
Since the accession of President Diaz.
in 1876, MexicO's trade has increased
nearly 600 per cent.
Horses. CRATES and ostriches have
the largest eyes of land creatures, cut
fetish of sea animals.
Many Beers in the British concentra-
ton camps are studying medicine, Law
and civil engineering.
There are, according to the census re-
turn just published, 25,906 British sub
jects resident in Paris.
Grows have no fewer than twenty
seven different cries, each distinctly refer
able to different action.
In the poorest quarters and tene-
ments of London there is nearly always
a flower pot in the windows.
-Four narcissi blooming on one stem
is a floral freak now to be seen in an
allotment garden mt Wisbech.
Guernsey has one telephone to ev-
cry forty-six inhabitants of the island
The system is state controlled.
An official report gives the estimated
additional cost necessary to complete ST.
berian railroads as S36,050, 900
1t is said that it costs twenty times
as much TO make rifle in China as it
would cost to buy one in Europe.
1t is said that about 100000 inhab-
itants of the Philippines acknowledge
Arabic as their sacred language.
A German report shows that the
number of cases of cancer has greatly
increased during the last decade.
The systematic use Of capital letters
in writing and printing was not COM
menced until about the year 1870.
The number of wool-bearing sheep
on farms has decreased in n decade from
40,117173 to 39,937. 573. or % per cent.
Ecuador has Il record in Volcanoes
three active. five dormant and twelve ex-
tinct Eleven of these peaks have new
er been climbed.
- Nearly every county in California
has been heard from atlirmativey on the
ItN"t lph VI hldhluE all eNHlDlL 1T the
Worlds fair at St Louis.
In the Canaries the banana is never
cut with a knife because the fruit when
cut through exhibits what is regarded as
q representation of the crucifiXion.
Two classes of the population of St
Petersburg are specially addicted to eat
ing horse meat-the Tartars because
they like it, the students because it is
cheap.
During the year 1901 thirty-six as
teroids were discovered. all but one of
them at Heidelberg, by photography.
This brings the whole number charted
up to AIS.
The highest mountains in the world
next to the Himalayas are the Andes of
South America. In Bolivia twelve peaks
of the Cordileras de la Paz rise to over
10000 feet.
Prof. Charles Butler Whittier is the
latest addition to the law faculty of the
University of Chicago law school, which
will be opened Oct. | by Prof. Harper.
Prof. Butler is now assistant professor
of law in Leland Stanford University.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury.

as mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derange the whole system
when entering 1t through the mucous surfaces
Such articles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians. as the
damage they will do is tenfold to the good you
Cure, manufactured by F. j. Cheney g. Co.. Tole-
DO o., contains, no mercury, and is taken inter-
nally. acting directly upon the blood and mli-
cous surfaces of the system. In buying Halls
Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. 1t is
taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by
F. j. Cheney s. Co. Testimonials free
H-Soid by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31
The Distinction.

In a recent speech Booker T. Wash.
ington related the story of a negro who
purchased a third-class ticket. and was
assigned To a seat with the firSt-clasS
passengers in a stage coach. He was
unable To understand the distinction. hut
when the stage tumbled into a ditch the
driver called out:
"FlrSt-claSS passengers remain in Your
seats second-clasS passengers get out and
walk. third-cass passengers get ont ana
push. "-Philadelphia Press.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31
Not Milk.

The milk wagon was upset The
lad who was in charge stood by the
roadside weeping bitterly. Tut. tut.
little bow" said Il sympathetic stranger,
there is no use in crying over split
milk" I'm not. mister" answered the
honest youth between Sohs. Il guess
YOU don't know much about this bust
ness, if you think that. Baltimore
American.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31
Train q Mile Long.

A train one mile in length sounds Ike
a record. But that is what was recently
hauled over the Thunder Bay and Wabi-
goon section of the Canadian Pacific
railway. 1t comprised 100 cars. Sit
uate next to the engine was a testing
car. The train was sent over the road
to ascertain exactly the tonnage that
could be handled on the various grades
between the lake and leveler sections of
the prairie. With this knowledge gained,
plans will be prepared to lower the
improve the road to allow of the haulaEe
of the maximum tonnage both directions.
A portion of the 100000 appropri-
ated for the Improvement of that sec
ton will be applied to this work.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31

Someone has circulated that it would
take typist 300 years Of working time
to write Dear Sir" and "Yours truly"
70 all the letters III year.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31

Brazil mas a coast line of nearly 5000
miles, with ffty-two seaports.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-05-31

We are never without a bottle of Piso's
Cure for Consumption in our house
Mrs. e. NJ. Swayze, Wakita, Ohio, April
II. 1901.