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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

resist playing upon you in pretending
that she had applied It's contents to
herself! 1t really was too bad of her
Please forgive her, and accept very
warm wishes for your happiness. from
your sincere old friend,
PRISCILLA BENTLEY"
Miss Priscilla peered between the
laths of her blind with dim, scared
eyes until Betsy's thickset figure pass
ed out by the garden gate. And then
she got down on to her knees. She
had told her first lie.
"But-bless my soul PRISCILLA
may say, Priscilla now, l suppose?"
An excitable, white-h haired man was
tramping Miss Bentley's sitting-room,
blowing his nose violently the while
I'm ashamed of you! And that girls
jewell I've good mind"-he shot
out protecting arm which gave the
lie to his toto marry her
after all, except that she wouldn't
look at me,'
Are you-are you sure|' faltcred
Miss Priscilla She was smiling, cry
ing, anologizlng, in one fiuttering, EN-
barrassed breath
Am l sure? When she's just told
me that she's promised TO strapping
young fellow in the guardsl Look
what you let me in for! | went this
morning to apologize and explain like
a man, though I've faced less unpleas
ant things on battlefield, Priscilla.
and sctlehow-well, out it came about
your little joke, ma am. And she held
her tongue, and stood looking ont of
the window for minute or two. and
then round she turned with her eyes
all wet--though I'm dattering myself,
mind you. that it was ut the thought
Of losing me-and Go and tell her YOU
| hold her to her joke" says she"
"0h maj or-I-I mean Alexander.
| She must be IA very" Miss PriS-
elias gentle little voice broke sud
denly before an adjective came
Not Il word against her. Priscilla"
| the old soldier wheeled round iiercely
she's the sweetest woman. barring
one''-his rugged face softened into
/ sudden tenderness-'who might have
/ known that heart which she stole
/ when its owner was in petticoats and
bless me, what does the old lady
want this tlme%'
| Betsy was knocking perslstently on
| half-opened door
/ "its that stupid BOY from the print
er's ut the end of the road again,
milmw She said i'm answer To timid
1 inquiry. lie still holds to it that he
left Hill here yesterday by mistake.
It's in MY mind now that maybe it's
note / took from the letter box and
| slipped Mt the back of the clock TO
wait for you. The Woman at Home
-------=--=----==---==
| Four hundred and thirteen miles OF
-, -. 80 b. l,,,tA ~, Alaska
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

they are to-day understood Labor unions me
right to organize that capital interests OF the
one are in parallel degree the interests other In
the United States to-day we have splendid labor
unions, managed In way TO challenge admiration and
we have some OF the worst But the tendency has been
forward The day viii come when American labor
viii have reached such point of excellence in organiza
ton under competent management with logical minds at
the head that capital will have recognize them Arbi
traton viii then be the rule settle differences Strikes
will be known only In history.
But the battle for labor yet won II win NOT he
until all of the unions rid of The minority
OF ranters who rule of them are good
takers; they eloquent the platform yet IL you sft
all th1 say you will not find single practical idea Yet
in some of the labor this country to-day these
men. even in the minority. the others Labor
unions 20 succeed, must be logical
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28
INcoNSTANT MEN AND WOMEN.
Experience Is Costly, but All Must
Have 1t.

Have 1t.
Whence comes this dcplorahlc condi-
ton; this uconlpatibility that frequently
amounts to hatred and disgust. thus
opening the way 20 faithlesSncsS and inn
morality? Is it due to the natural in
cOnstancy OF men and women? But men
and women are not naturally inconstant.
AT least, they are constant to one thing
the pursuit of happiness. Ii the man
or the woman one marrieS fulhls ones
hope of happiness, win there not be con.
stancyg But the man or the woman does
not, Why2 The character and person
ality that inspired the hope are still I'M
changed; likewise our desire To attain to
perfect content Ii is the fault of the
new condition We had not rcckoned on
that, Every practical circumstance is a
shock aud a test. Every new situation
that c0nfront@ rs is an enemy to wiring
from us the happiness we counted or
Even time combines 10 cheat us OF our
rights. The charms that easily beguiled
IN hour or two of an evening Satiate
and bore us, when stretched over twenty
four hours To the day, seven days to the
week. and tifU-two weeks 10 the year,
with the prospect of old age confronting
us; the chatter that was cute and catch
ing in the days of courtShip sounds stale
ana undignihed in the new estate. the
style that caught us is commonplace
enough, bereft Of I'll its little arts and
mysteries, and, worst of all the fever
has abated the glow OF uncertainty de
parted, aud he or she Is always there
not extraordinary. not god or q god
deSs not an angel above the use Of a
haSty word or foolish act. ana not. in
the very least, the sort Of person we eN-
pected he or she would be-
This is the first result Of the new con.
dition. II shows us just how much sense
we displayed in the making Of our choice.
IL proves to us how little human hein.s
know Of the constituent parts ot happi-
ness and the ways and means 20 It's win.
ming, when they choose partns.S FOR their
joys and SORROWS who nevCc coull feel n
JOY or sorrow. whose capacity is trjvial
whose understanding is dull whose minl
is occupied 10y the littlenCSscs of mar.
row world or the SordidneSS ot trade. or
whose sincerity depends upon the ap-
proYal of the multitude.
IL is pity that men aud women can.
not have the benefit Of experience. with
out experiencing-bu at least this is a
under which an labor equal
ly-Collier's Weekly.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

A new steam engine tested at Mime
apolis is said to be remarkable for its
ability to quickly get up steam, and to
maintain n highly-eflicient steam pressure
during exacting emergencies. This is a
good quality in fire engine, and il
somebody could match it with lghtness
of construction, the hands of the fire
fighters would be greatly strengthened
The existing fire engines are very heavy.
and consequently difficult to draw to fires
except where the roads are paved or in
the best Of condition.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

The New York Sabbath committee has
been engaged for some time in a warfare
against Sunday theaters and Sunday
baseball It's attention is now turned to
Sunday golf. The committee ask all
church members to use their influence
with golf clubs and country clubs to
which they may belong, to stop Sunday
playing. II may be added as a bit Of
cold and unbiased news, that if all church
members refused to go out on Sunday,
some OF the inks would take on de-
Eswted appearance.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

al now appears that Harvard is not to
Nneft Immediately from the win Of the
Ate Gordon Mckay, but the university
can wen wait until the conditions made
in the will are fulfilled. The Request is
one of the most important ever made
for educational purposes, especially as
the plan of the testator provides for es-
tablishing school of applied science
which will be accessible to pupils who
have had no other opportunities of preyi.
GUS education than those which the free
public schools Afford
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

- for granted that everybody knew that what
they we're spending time in doing To-day many of
+he duties which mothers took upon themselves have
been relocated school In the past education
specfcay the of the home. The schools first
earn was with the childs mental habits Beyond this
only that it's routine be as little disturbed
possible element of affection might enter into school
life through personality of the teacher but it had
place in the curriculum. However much the parents might
help the school recognized function the school
thorities themselves under any obligation to
return the courtesy Certainly step has been taken for
ward Home school have become they should be,
inerdependent The parent is learning how to supplement
the work teacher The teacher for hS part is
longer taskmaser; he Is the parent tem to
during school hours the child looks for sympathy and
recognition.
There is way of learning how to train the
affections your children than by barking back your
childhood and considering how parents salts
ned or failed you your mothers voice tender
sang you sleep in front of the low baseburner? Did
your fathar always greeting to you the minute he
turned the and your eager, watching face
pressed close against the window pane? Whe you
home from school at you SO certain that you
would find your mother there that you never had to
late about 1t? Have you glorious memories of stories that
your father used tell of afternoons in the sand pile
you and the neghbors children of marches in the dusk
OF evening with floating banners paper and Chinese
lanterns2 Were you allowed to share in the housework
making the beds filing the woodbox? Could you al
give parents your childish confidence with
comfortable certainty they would laugh you
tell anyone else about 1t? II happens that you have all
these things and others like these remember you do
need learned dsputaon about ways of training the
tons OF children.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

The discovery of copper in Menominee
county, Michigan, following the iron dis
coveries near Baraboo. Wisconsin, will
lead many to believe that the metal de-
posts of northern Wisconsin run in
streaks southwestward under land hither-
to regarded simply as farming property.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

IL the German Colonial Society, which
contemplates sending a number of young
men to the United States to study the
cottOn-growing industry, will include a
number of experts to knock out the boil
weevil, the visitors can have anything
they want in the entire state Of
Texas--a few hundred square miles of
grass il they want il.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

A singular instance of grating is that
reported from a New York private hospi-
grated on to rich mans head. The
poor man in the case was a waiter, who
may be said to have given larger tip
than he ever received. But rs he was
paid $4,000 for the contribution, he is
content
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

expression but she is beautiful Queen Mary and the
women of her day simply ugly we get to the
highest exposition OF beauty and charm the world
has ever seenbeautul bewitchng unhappy Mary Stuart
fairly bafied for. though grace and dig
the of boodshed conspiracy crime expiaed
its sins on the block at Foherngay The beauty Mary
Stuart must have been dream, of opinion
for the who fought and died So in many
cases from passion inspired by her dazzling and I'M
speakabe charms
1t is not however, till the days of Reynolds Gains
borough and Romney that compelled admit that
there be truth In the opinion of many that there
real beauty England in those times there
is to-day. The Duchess of Deyonshre, Lady Spencer
Lady Tavstock, Mrs. Arlington, Mrs. Lnley the grand
mother of the three beautiful Sherdans Kitty Fisher
Sions Mrs. Graham and the Duchess Cumberland are
whom any painter have exulted in painting
for they possessed beauty of feature and coorng
criticism gainsay. But, thereafter, with the ex
cepon of few dignifed pictures by Lawrence
peared The of day have detersorated or
lost the charm Of their grandmohers but there the
beauty in the early Victorian and it is be-
eve because the fashion ugly grotesque and
coming the highest degree. The long waists the crno
lines poke befounced would have
ruined the beauty Of Venus while the ringets the BAN
deaux and chgnons utterly destroyed the beauty and
shape every head and the hair which covered it. There
is no beauty great absolute to be enhanced
by framework in which it is set and the lovely
OF every age their charm the background
in which they stand
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

Dowie contemplates founding several
additional Zion cities. But he is prob
ably opposed to having more than one
Dowie
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

Deer stories have taken the place OF
fish stories among the sportsmen, who
generally bring home the small deer and
leave the large ones for explanations
which constitute yarns more or less ac-
ceDtable. The truthful man never misses
hardly ever
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

Dwellers in fats were pulled up with
a fellow-feeling when they heard that
Alfred Vanderbilt is to live in an apart
ment house; but they are cast down by
the information that his rental is $4,000
q year.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

The record trip of the Lebaudy balloon
--ffty-four miles in one hour and forty
minutes-doesn't warrant the use of the
name flying machine. Dowie's proposed
railroad will be able to beat it.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

Dowie now threatens to build rail-
road from Zion City to Chicago, TO get
even with the existing lines. He has a
stock of wheels for a beginning.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28
cHr DRENss AFFECTIONS TRAINED AT HOME.
By csra Roche HoMland

When you come to think of it, is it not strange
| that otr mothers had such nice children? In our
own case the marvel will be IL our children are
not paragons, SO hard do we strive after perfee-
ton But our mothers-their methods, compared
with our own, were quite elementary. They just
brought us UP In the best way they knew, and
they did not say much about it, for they took it
for granted that everybody knew that was what
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28
LABOR UNIONS BENEFIT MEN.
BY c. r. Yerkes, Railway Naenate.


American labor unions have a tendency to raise
the mental standard of the men. They train
mans intelligence. The man who is most fit gets
ahead, / believe in the survival of the fttest
What is In a man will come out If he hasa chance
The brainest mechanics, the men who think and
have a chance to show the results of their think
ing, are the men who make the best capitalists
l believe every mechanic should have a chance to
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28
THE DtCADEScf OF fEMINiNE BEAUTY.
by Lady Femme

Looking at the pictures and miniatures of a by
gone age. one often wonders whether beauty is a
fact or question of opinion The pictures Of
the women of those days do not impress us with
a high standard of what we consider beauty.
They are all more or less of a manly type and
DO not convey any idea of the delcacy and re-
fnement we associate with real feminine beauty.
Queen Elizabeth is wonderful in annea ra nce a nd
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

train himself to be a capitalist BY this that he
should have the opportunity to train his mind that
could far his mental equipment is concerned be
position guide and direct well orders
of Others tell you there is nothing grand in the
intelligent mechanic. He is of use in the world.
believe labor unions do not believe in trusts as
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-28

Four hundred and thirteen miles of
railway are TO be built in Alaska.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-15
Washington, Alexandria 4
Mt. Vernon Railway.
In effect November 2, 1902.
LEAVE ALEXANDRIA.


LEAVE ALEXANDRIA.
For Washington, from corner King and
ROYAL streets, week days, at 545, 615, $50,
Z AZ zoo. 7 Is. 7 30, 7 As, 7 So, 8 Is, $50, 100,
o S0' 1000. 1925, 10 so, II 20 and II AZ a. m.
70 20. 70 AZ 90, 90, 46, 2 TO- 2 46, 05, 3 80,
346. AIS. 436, 455, %, 5 As, Cos, 80, 6 90,
7i5' $50 s 80, 9 10, 9 so, 10 80 aud II 20 p. m.
Snndays-70O, SIS, 900, AS, %, $50,
II % and II 80 q. M, 70 20, u 90, 20, 100,
. 90 $50. 800. 3 80, APO, 4 so, 5 20, 8 80, $50,
90 7 20, 7 80, 8 30, 10, $50, 1890, II 2Op. m.
Leave Alexandria for -Four Mile Run lin
addition to local trains for Washington, week
days, at IL 80 p. m. and IL 80 o. m' cuhuays
II So p. m. and 1885 m.
LEAVE WASHINGTON.
For Alexandria from the corner Of Pennsyl-
yania avenue and l3l street, week days, 620,
80. 7O5. 720, 735, so, sos, 835, 900, $50,
10 GO 1925. II 90, II 80 a. IN. II 90 noon, II 20,
10 40 los texpress), %, So, 2 OF (expressl,
| . 80, 3 So. 8 80, 4 O5, 4 ID, 435, 455, IL, %
| < 40 sos, $50 705, is, 80, s 30, 10, 300,
| 10 30. II 20 and ~ 03 D. m.
Sundays 40, 900, 945, 10 30, II 90, ii 80
a. m. 1900 noon, u 30, 90, 80, 200, 2SO,
400. $50. AGO. 430, 500 $50, 600, $50, 200,
73O' 755, $50. go, $50, 1880 Hop. N.
and u 03 a. IN.
FOR MOUNT VERNON.
Leave Alexandria for Mount Vernon, week
days. $50, s 40, 1892, IL 80 a. m. II 30, 81,
80. 327, 447, s 40 and 9 OF p. m.
Sundays OF, 93S a. M, II 80, 232, 4F,
6 40 and 8 OF p. IN.
FOR RossLY
Leave Alexandria for Rosslyn, week days,
l7I5 56 S3O. 900. 1000, 1850 IL AZ a. M,
~ As, 2 46, 3 40, 4 SO, %, 545, $780, 600 ana
s. Sundays M az, Is, 900, As, 1850, 115Oa. m;
70 30, 80, $50, $50, $50. $50, 80 and
750p. m.
Leave Rosslyn or Alexandria, week days,
749. S 30, 9OS, 9 80, 10 SO, II 27, a. m, IL 81,
50, p, 80, 5 10, 6O2, 629, 702, IA and
Snndays-s Sc, 9 4S, 1927, II q a. m, p q
127, 227, 1927, 427, 527, 627, 727 and S2S
p. m. en-.
Baggage checked and carried on the follow
ing trains from Alexandria for Washington
week days: $50 and 10 25a a. M, 20, 8 % ant
607 p. m.
Sundays-s Is a. m. and 6 COP. m.
Parcels carried.
Freight carried daily, morning and evening
in each direction. No freight accepted unles
delivered at the station at least 80 minutes be
fors the departure of the freight trains.
CLARENCE p. KING, j. CoLyIN
President Superintendent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-15
Time Tables as Biographies.

ct never realized the value OF tlme
Tables until got hold of a class o.
bows old enough to take an interest D
geography" said a New York puDho
school teacher. so far as the study o.
maps goes, / can get better result
from the use of time tables than iroN'
all the Biographies in the market Nap
that have been prepared for the pur,
nose Of cultivating the youthful miA''
in the matter of locality are shunneo
as bugbears by all except the studlouS
few. But lust set a dozen boys aroun'
q nile of time tables and tell them 10 IL
cate certain cities, lakes and rivers
and they will work like beavers anC
come out letter perfect every time TO
most children time tables and accompa
nvIng maps are source of unlaliin'
interest both in and out OF schoo
hours. It is true that this unorthodo'
method may give the boys exagge'
ated ideas as to the importance OF cei
tain railroads, but they seem to g
enough good out of the lnVeslis"Uo
to counteract such impressions
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-15
Tho GhiiInlnl.

The shillalah is not mere Suck
picked up for few pence or cut casu-
ally out of the common hedge. Like
the Arab mare it grows to maturity
under the fostering care of its owner.
The shillalah, like the poet is born
NOT made. Like the poet, too. 1t Is
choice plant, and its growth is slow low
Among 10000 blackthorn shoots per
hans not more than one is destined 10
become famous, but one of the 1O'ooo
appears Of singular fitness. As s. soon as
discovered it is marked and dedicated
for future service. Everything that
might hinder its development is re-,
moved. and any ofrshoot of the main
stem Is skillfully cut off. With constant
care it grows thick and strong upon a
hulbous root that can be shaped into q
handle.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-15
dec15 ID

BY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TkOsl
dated August 3lst, 1898, executed by Annie
NJ Hamersley and James +. Hamersley, her
husband. 10 Lewis Mex. Bell and others
trustees of the Alexandra Perpetual Building
Fund Association, recorded In Deco BOOK ~,
mage 554. Of the Land Records OF Alexandria
city. Virginia, and being thereunto required
hy the Board Of Directors OF said ASSOCIATION
the undersigned trustees OF SAID association
will. at twelve O'Clock NJ, ON
SATURDAY,
the 3fst day Of January, 1908, =,
in front of the Royal street entrance to the
Market Building, in the City of Alexandra,
Virginia. offer for sale at public auction, Dr
cash. ALL THAT TENEMENT AND IL ~
OF GROUND situated in the said city , On inc
west side Of Henry street, between MlIke'
and Gibbon streets, and bounded as follows
Reginning on the west side OF Henry stree.
one hundred and twenty-six feet seven II cne'
south of Wilkes street, thence southwark!
and binding on Henry street twenty-five iee'
thence westwardly, parallel to Wilkes street
one hundred and twenty-three feet, hye inches
thence northwardly, parallel to Henry slrest
twenty.fiye feet; and thence eastwaruly
naraliel TO Wilkes street, one hundred an'
| twenty-three feet, five inches to the beginning
together with all rights and appurtenance
thereunto belonging.
All conveyancing at the cost oil the pur
chaser.
WIN. L. LATHAM, Trustees.
DANIEL REUBEN,
jan13 I'd
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-15
alexandria Gazette.
THURSDAY EVENING, JAN. Is, 1908.


Tho aboriginal blacks Of Australia
nave n queer tradition about the flood
They say that at one time there was no
wafer ON the earth at all except IN tns
hodv-of an immense frog, where men
and women could not get at 1t. There
was great council on the subject anu
q was found out that If the frog couid
no made TO laugh the waters would run
ont of his mouth and the drought DC
ended. g.,
So several animals were mace "
dance and caper before the frog 10 -
duce him TO laugh, but he did not even
.r,,Ie ond so the waters remained ~
b,s body. Then some one happeneu U
think of the queer contortions in'o
which the eel could twist itself, ana Il
was straightway brought before In
frog and when the frog saw the wris
cling he laughed so loud that the whoi'
earth trembled, and the waters poure'
ont of his mouth in a great HOOD u
which many people were drowned
The black people were saved iron
drowning by the pelican. This thought
ful bird made big canoe and wen
with It all among the islands that ap
neared here and there above the SUI
face of the water and gathered III III
black people and saved them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-15
A reason For Conversion.

Old Moses, who belonged to Judge
J. of Macon. Miss, ''befo' the wan
was for many years sexton ana Il
deyout member of the Presbyterian
church. says Harper's Monthly. Short-
lv after the war the colored Methodists
of the community held rouslng meet,
ing in which Moses loudly professed
conversion and joined the Methoulst
church. Some days afterward the
fudge met him and asked: flows ms
Nose? I hear you have Joined the
Metbodlsts. thought | brought you
mn better than that"
Nose took off his hat ana soieimniy
scratched his woolly pate as he rcpiieu
eyes. sir, massa, OATS so-dats So ne
Presbyterian people am mighty me
people, an de Presbyterian cEurch an
n mighty fine church, but, massa' doh
YOU t'lnk it am powerful dismal fer
nipger?"