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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

Had not he better get his carbine?
No; you get the water; I'll attend to
the Indians"
l knew that no Indians were likely to
fool around that water hole while this
troop was in sight of il up on this hill,
and | thought l knew what had scared
him.
When we were within mile of this
water today | had seen an animal put out
across the prairie as though he was going
somewhere and was in q great hurry TO
get there | should have liked to follow
HIM to see that he met with no mishap,
but We were riding in column and | could
not leave without permission; | would
have been given il had asked for it.
This fellow travels under the name OF
the Mexican lion down here: he is some
times only the catamount; it depends a
great deal on where the man is naming
him comes from. / knew him as the wild
cat. He is not half so dangerous rs he
thinks he is; | had a greyhound a few
years after this that could kill him as fast
as | could club him down out of tree
to where the dog could get him: he got
me one ont of the Concho river.
We started now, and rs l passed our
sentry, l told him not to be SO extremely
ready to fire after this; the moon was up
now, and he could see who came there if
We failed TO tell him. | would answer
the regulations told me to do so: and
was supposed 10 set an example hut 4
man half scared to death by Indians"
might not hear him, Brown did not.
We kept on down to the water without
seeing any Indians. There were no trees
down here. and | did not expect to find
that eat here. He might have been in
here after water, and if he had scared
Brown he had no doubt been ms fully
scared himself, and had left long ago
The camp kettle and tin cup lay here
where Brown had left them; the Indians
had not got them.
You are lucky, Brown" l told him.
when YOU come to sign the next pay
roll you won't find due 10 the United
States one camp kettle Nou barely es-
capped having 80 pay for this one. Those
Indians must be long on camp kettles.
they did not want yours. Ii is the first
time ever met Indians who dill not
want the earth"
Brown took up his tin cup now ia get
the water and the moment he struck the
water with it We were Salutel with Il
noise that cannot he hetter described
than rs being like the noise a hoy makes
by raAing a stick quickly along paling
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24
Not Alarmed.

One of the best known Of our circuit
court judges had an enemy, lawyer
who had once been his unsuccessful OPP
ponent in politics, in one of the towns
on his round, and was generally suhe''-
ed to some affront when he T. ,ht'
there, The lawyer took 50 little pains o.
conceal his contempt that one OF '"'
judges friends was moved to ask: =,
Why don't You squelch B: he
needs it,
The judge laid knife and fork aero'>
his plate folded his hands. and. seem
ingiy apropos of nothing ct all. said:
Up in my home town there's q "i.i"'
with an ugly yaller dog that, when"',,,
there is moonlight. sits on her stoop AMI
bowls until the town can't sleep "l''
generally keeps it up till daylight. ...,
He then resumed his dinner. The ir't"'
looked at him in amazement for mo-
ment and then inquired:
We'll. what of it?'' ..,.
We'll" said the judge, slowly; ....,
moon keeps right on."-fhi"a'.i."'
Times
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24
HOW TO AVOID STREAMING EYES.
No Greater Cruelty to Self Than to Ig-
more Care of Optics.

An authority on the subject has de-
clared that there is no greater cruelty,
no greater crime against humanity than
that of non-recognition and scorn OF eye
strain. Headache. sick headache
dyspepsia nervousness" melanchoi-
la, Insomnia, indcscribable suffering
these were some of the more prominent
symptoms that, in various mixtures. rem
dered so miserable the lives Of De
Quincy, Carlyle, Darwin Huxley.
browning. Spencer, Wagner and other
persons less known.
Eye-strain in children should be no.
ticed at once and suitably treated
Many children are met with who blink
lncessantly, and for this involuntary hah-
1t they are often punished by ignorant
parents or guardians. The blinking is
due TO some error of refraction in the
eye, and the consequent effort made i'll
accommodation, or, in less technical
phrase. focusing on the retina or optic
nerve the objects which the child is look
ing at.
\ child kept at near range ocular
work such as reading, writing sewing
and SO forth, finds the page becoming
blurred owing to the lens of his eye fail
ing to focus with accuracy. He then
bllhks and increases his efforts at ac-
commodatlon, and the letters are again
seen clearly After reading a few more
INES the page again becomes blurred
ana the blinking process is repeated 1t
Is performed so often IN the day that
at last 1t becomes Il habit
II not lnfrequently happens that a
snasmodic closure of the lid is super
added to the winking. and later on the
whole face may participate in the act
with the accompanying grimaces peculiar
to chorea. or st. Fitus' dance. Thus a
habit chorea-Which Is not the real
chOrea-is formed, and although it is
wi 70 c11F1 4,I
diligently. Such patients should be sent
TO an oculist. and no time wasted at first
in giving drugs
Migraine is a painful afiiiction; sick
headache, megrim, hemcrania, nervous
headache and bilious headache are othec
names for the same thing. 1t causes a
large number of other symptoms, and is
Itself of varied type, according to the
kind of near work required. and the
temperament of the patient. Out of 1000
cases of this disease ninety-nine out of
every 100 were cured by spectacles.
As one gets older eye-strain becomes
rarer, hence the frequent disappearance
of sick headaches at the age of from
90 to 60 years. Seamstresses, typewrit-
ers. clerks, students, teachers and me-
chanics or handicraftsmen who cannot
stop near-range ocular work or limit it
without risking starvation are great suf-
ferers from migraine and all its melan-
Choly miseries. Instead of drugginc
themselves with dangerous medicines,
which in the end make wrecks of their
constitutions, all they require to do is
to procure a suitable pair of spectacles
to correct their eye defects. The cure
is so ludicrously simple that it is gem
orally overlooked. In children especially
all nervous symptoms should excite the
suspicion that the eyes may be at fault
and lead to their examination by an
oculst. Their appropriate treatment
may obviate lifelong misery. Chicago
Record Herald.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24
A New Vegetable Fiber from Java.

"Kapock" or ''ouate' is a vegetable
fibre, cultivated above all in Java. and
recent experiments show that its buoy
ancy in water is such as to support thirty
to thirty-fve times its own weight, that
is TO say much lighter than cork or the
new wood "marea" from Lake Tchad.
already mentioned by us. In 1901 Hol-
iand received lbs. 600 Kilograms of the
6bre, having n value of 2.000,000f. The
hest fibre sells ut 1.TOf. n kilogram in
Amsterdam. AS the stuff is likely to be
come more and more useful, it might be
worth the attention of tropical colonists.
4 bulletin or study of the subject was
recently issued by the director of agri-
culture. Indo-China. where II Is also
grown. London Globe.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24
ON THE CHESAPEAKE.

THANK vou for your pity. stranger.
That my life upon the bay
Is so full of toll and danger.
And no pleasures-as YOu say.
There are two sides to that picture;
One so warm. and sweet, and bright,
That it truly hides the other
AS the clear sun hides the night
I've a CHEEKY little cottage.
Loving wife and children three,
And ] know this very minute
They are watching out for me-
III an hour, If God so Will Ii,
/ shall be with them again,
Ard the welcome of their kisses
VIII refresh like summer rain.
All nv toll will be forgotten
In the comfort of my hearth,
And the pat of tiny footsteps
Be the sweetest sound on earth
Our supper viii be frugal,
But prepared with loving hand.
No king could feast more royalty
With kingdoms at command.
True. we struggle for our living,
Have our trials here and there,
But I'm trusting to our Savior
We are happy anywhere.
Thank YOU for yOur pity, stranger,
But it's needed not by me;
Give Ii TO some lonely creature,
without wife and children three.
Mary F. ireland in the Magazine O
Poetry.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24
CHARM OF THE GERMAN CURES"
Hardened Society Women Yearn for the
Rest Afforded There.

Germany is n strange and well-regulat-
ed country. The wonder is why we as a
nation frequent ii SO much The proprie-
tor of our hotel attributes it to the fact
that re English drink too much cham.
payne at home zey come to Germany to
get we'll" Which is about the truth of
the matter. Champagne for dinner and
supper every night for three months is
apt 10 play havoc with the constitution
OF the strongest, and since most women
ind il impossible to keep up the pace"
without it they have to pay the penalty
sooner or later. Whether it be due TO
champagne or nerves or govt or any 9TH
er of the ills TO which flesh is heir, Ger
many at this time of the year is full of
English and Americans doing water
cures. What with the Quantity | have
imbibed and the quantity which deScends
from the skies the world at present seems
largely composed of water, and with a
continuation Of these conditions | should
not be surprised ii we should eventually
get water on the brain.
The great charm of this sleepy Ger
man watering place is its very dizziness.
Once year at least the heart of even
the most hardened society woman pines
Tor period of rest when she can cease
from waving her hair and let what mind
she possesses become blank, When the
only excitement is a new arrival at the
hotel. or the fact that il is another wet
day life grows extraordinarily simple and
ones brain repoScfully vacant To eat
and drink, sleep and walk. take baths
and so 70 church on Sunday is the whole
duty of woman when going through the
cure. There being nothing else Ia do
we do it oil aSsiduouSly-A Countess in
London Outlook
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

A Boston report states that the old
schooner America, which over fifty years
ago brought across the sea the mug that
Sir Thomas Upton would like to ''lift,"
will be one Of the FIRST yachts to enter
for an ocean race for the proposed Lip
ton cup. II the America should enter
the race her presence would show the
difference between the old-time craft and
the modern racing machine. The latter
craft generally makes fast time to the
scrap heap after meeting brief engage
ment on the water.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

The Atlantic Yacht club is reported to
be willing to accept the custody of the
international cup for ocean racing to be
offered by Sir Thomas Upton. 1t is
said that the club will supplement Sir
Thomas gift with three additional tro-
phies-cups valued at $500, $500 and
$500, 10 go TO the second, third and
fourth yachts. The Atlantic club would
be fit custodian Of the proposed cups,
as a number Of its schooners have this
season engaged in outside races along
the Atlantic coast. These schoOners will
probably be the first to enter the contest
for the proposed Upton cup.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

People who disbeieve in dosing will
enjoy the following new anecdote of DR..
George NJ. Shrady OF New York: The
doctor met one of his fashionable pa
tients, n woman who thinks she is al
ways ailing, on Fifth avenue the other
day. Immediately she began to pour out
her troubles. ooh, DIR. Shrady," she ex-
claimed, "I'm completely exhausted.
can hardly walk. What shall take?"
''Take?" said the doctor suavely, as she
waited breathlessly for prescription,
''you might take cab"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24
A Tilt in Back Bay.

Mrs. Grimes-Why should yen iahr IL.
Mrs Barnes cause: You don't know "''.
never saw her. in fact. -.-.-
NTr. Grimes-No. but In sure she We.
he unusually good looking and unc'l.l't,i,..,,
~ bright. else she wouldn't pe ';.a.-
,Fhauf "a much nv women who are ue''4'.
good looking nor intelligent ''-
Transcript.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24
North Carolina Figs.

Four or five bushels Of fresh figs
brought to Charlotte have led to the hint
that North Carolina, where the figs grow
naturally. might profit in raising them II
dry and preserve otherwise. Why not +?
North Carolina farmers have hardly be
gun 10 touch their possibilities in con-
function with industries Fig-packin:
nlants RAY lead 10 other forms of di-
in agriculture and manufac-
turiuS.-So Southern Farm Magazine.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

Chicago employers are taking precau-
tons to discourage the spread of the
gambling craze among their clerks. It's
bad enough for the heads of concerns
to be afflicted with the notion of making
fortunes III day.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

The ''sports" who are predicting that
Champion Jeffries will hold the worlds
belt for life have evidently forgotten
what occurred to John L. Sullivan after
he had held the belt against all corners
for twelve years.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

If the steam" that is wasted in class
rushes could be conserved for use on the
gridiron, the game of football would be
more strenuous than ever.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

Perhaps the Pittsburg astronomer who
has discovered n new spot on the sun
might discover himself to be mistaken if
he were to level his telescope at Old Sol
from some point beyond the zone of
Pittsburg's spotted atmosphere.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

Only fifteen of the thirty-four automo-
biles which started from New York for
Pittsburg in the endurance test have
reached their destination. The other
nineteen didn't fall by the wayside, but
got stalled in the middle of the road.
AS test of endurance, it was sort of
minority nffair.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

Wreckers are raising the steamer Gid
den from the channel of the st. Clair
fats canal-with dynamite. There are
divers ways of raising sunken ships, and
this is one from which the diver is elm
mated.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

OF course Bishop Fowler's advice to
young men-that they should marry wom-
en- with common sepse-has also a vice
versa application.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

The Langley airship will make no more
flights until its operator can equip HIM
self with a diving suit.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

The sons of Senator Flat are by no
means easy Bosses" when it comes to
managing their fathers affairs.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

According to his own declaration from
the pulpit, in Zion City, John Alexander
Dowie will be ''out for the stuff, dur
ing his tour in the East.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

Heavy tragedy is soon to have more
weight. Jeffries announces that he will
again take to the stage.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

1t is of course only the pig part of
the iron production that can be promptly
cur-tailed.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

During the racing season more than
T,0OO,000 a day is wagered on horses.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-24

-Forty-tnree per cent Of the inhab-
itantS of Cincinnati are OF German
blood.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
Free Trade or Free Robbery.

wipe out the schedules on the
products of the steel trust or we will
be ruined" wrote the Independent
manufacturers of harvesting machin-
cry to the president.
Wipe out the schedules on the
products of the steel trust or we will
be ruined say the independent man
ufacturers of hardware.
THE tariff is not responsible for
the trusts nor for the evils of trusts"
says Senator Allison.
1.-The question of regulating the
trusts stands apart from the ques-
ton of tariff revision" says the presi-
dent.
The democratic party proposes free
trade in the products of trusts to
save these Independent manufacturers
from being ruined and the American
consumer from being robbed in ex-
tortionate prices, due to the monopo-
~ the trusts enjoy.
The republican party denies that
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
Need an Excuse Bureau.

j. q. Bowman, writing from Pitts
burg, Pa, to the Chicago Examiner
about the shortcomings and sins of
the republican party and its need of
an Excuse Bureau" says:
"a man would starve if he were to
try to live today on food not con-
trolled by trusts.
The republican party should es-
tablish a bureau of excuses and eX-
PLANTATION for the coming presidential
campaign. The people will be anX-
ious to know what has become of
prosperity.
about the only thing left of the
wave of prosperity visible to the
plain people is the high cost of liv-
ing.
The captains of industry are re-
cruiting the army of the unemployed.
The trusts have been weighed in
the balance and found wanting-ev-
erything in sight.
''The paramount issue of the next
campaign will be: Can the working
man be fooled again?
''The audience is impatiently waiting
for the curtain to rise for the second
act for the comedy, Teddy Fights the
Trusts"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
ALamentabIe Spectacle.

Benjamin Adams. said to be a lineal
descendant of two presidents of the
United States-John Adams and John
Quincy Adams-was recently sentenc-
ed to jail in Washington. ID. c., for Is
days. Several friends offered to pay
Adams fine, but he refused, saying
he preferred to become a martyr TO
principle. Three years ago he became
convert to socialism. He lives in a
small house on the outskirts of the
capitol city and he occupies his time
in collecting tomato cans, which he
Strengthens out, soldiers together and
coats with white paint. Then he let
tiers them with inscriptions such as
Socialism is the answer to the Lords
prayer" and Socialism is new world
movement" After he has duly letter
ed them, he tacks them up in public
places. This attracted the attention
of the police department and the UNI
fortunate Benjamin, through whose
veins flows dOuble-dyed presidential
blood. was summarily arrested, run
in and sentenced to Jail.
That n descendant of the blue
bloOded John Quincy Adams, the
man eloquent" should be thus treated
in the city of Washington is a sad
commentary on the degeneracy of the
family stock or on the degeneracy of
the times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
NEWS IN OUTLINE

Count AppOnyi has rendered his res
ignatiOn as president of the lower
house of the Hungarian diet.
The king of Greece has been ap-
pointed an honorary admiral of the
British fleet.
The Hungarian government has Off
cially decided to participate in the St.
Louis exposition.
&. r. Schrader, of Richmond, Ind,
was arrested at Chicago for attempt
ing to pass an alleged forged check for
1898.
Thomas w. Lawson defies f A.
Heinze, the Montana copper man. and
offers the Butte miners union $4,000
to persuade Heinze to visit Boston
and repeat a statement Heinze receut-
ly made about Lawson that wasn't
complimentary.
Professor Mommsen, the German
historian, is dying of apoplexy. He is
SO years old.
Mary MacLane has passed through
Chicago on her way to Boston from
Denver where she has been writing
for a newspaper.
George T. Hoagland, pioneer and
millionaire phiianthropist, is dead at
st. Joseph, Mo.
Willard Lee was hanged at Atlanta
for the murder of Miss Lila May SUIT
ties. May 20. 1902.
Thousands of persons took a final
look at the features of Mrs. Booth
Tucker, the Salvation Army consul, as
her remains lay in state at Chicago.
She will be buried in England.
David NJ. Parry has been elected
unanimously president of the new en-
ployers' association-the Citizens In
dustrial association.
PierDont Morgan is at Chicago, as
alleged, trying to straighten out that
city's traction difficulties.
Francis Schlatter, said to be '"The
Healer" who attracted attention in
Denver eight years ago, has started to
walk to that city from Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31

Our Iowa exchanges are filed up
with appeals to the voters to elect this
good man and that good man to office,
and our New York City exchanges are
overlooking with pathetic effusions on
the wickedness of Tammany, while
our Ohio exchanges are lining up
their readers for the candidates of
their party. 1t is a comfort to be an
onloOker and not participant in the
exciting roundup of a political cam
align. The citizens of Illinois are
luckily exempt from an election this
fall. except in a few counties where
county commissioners are to be cho-
sen.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31

Rudyard Kipling once visited the
late Cecil Rhodes at Lekkerwiin, one
of his fruit farms at Paarl, South
Africa. One morning Rhodes went
round his farm before breakfast, leav-
ing his guest, who was not so ener-
getic, behind. Time went on, and
Rhodes did not appear. Hunger soon
reused Kipling to action, and in a
short time he was very busy on his
own account. AS Rhodes returned he
found his trees bearing a new kind of
fruit in the shape of placards inscrib-
ed in huge black letters with Fam
inc" Eve are starving!" Feed us!"
etc. On reaching the front door he
was confronted with the following, in
still larger type: For the human
race-breakfast tones the mind, in
vigorates the body. 1t has sustained
thousands; it will sustain you. See
that you get it" Then in the house,
on every available wall, he Game
across other mysterious placards, in
more and more pathetic appeal: why
die when a little breakfast prolongs
life?" Larger and larger grew the
type: ut is late, it is still later" lead
ing at last into the little breakfast
room, where he found Kipling read
ing his paper in peaceful innocence,
but very hungry. 1t did not need
much ingenuity to guess the author
of these broadsides.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31

Philadelphia Record: No one will
be surprised to learn from a Wash
ington dispatch to that eminent re-
publican newspaper, the New York
Tribune. that there is grave concern
in the department of the interior over
certain evidence just reaching Wash
ington relating to land frauds of gil
gantic proportions in the western
country" This is in connection with
forest land reservations. under an
amendment to an appropriation bill,
commonly called rider" which was
introduced by Senator Stewart, of Ne
vada, and went through congress with
out discussion Senator Stewart
dozen years ago was the attorney for
the head of a syndicate that swindled
the country under surveying con-
tracts. This new scandal viii have to
be Investigated by congress, and the
testimony will come along in time for
use in the presidential campaign.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31

1t is seriously claimed that the care
lessness Of the Pullman company in
disinfecting cars in which cOnsump-
tives travel to the health resorts is
doing much to spread the malady.
This agitation, the Bloomington Bull
letin thinks. will be warmly welcomed
by many people of means but thrifty
instincts, who have long been looking
for a good excuse for sitting up all
night in the day coach and saving the
two dollars.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-31
stockholders, NreetInr.

Rock Island, III, Oct %, 1908.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Peoples Power com
pany will be held at the Rock Island
office of the company, corner Seven
teenth street and First avenue, Fri
day, Nov. q, 1908, at $3.50 p. m, for
the election of directors, and any 9TH
er business that may come before the
meeting.
PEOPLES POWER COMPANY.
S. S. Davis, Secretary.