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Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

An artist who had been willing to at
tempt the salyation Of the pictures
died before his task was begun. Mr..
Hay found in New York a man conf
dent of his ability to avert the impend-
ing ruin. After working successfully
with the smaller Madonna he proceed
ed to treat the larger.
His object was to remove from the
panel the paint laid on four centuries
before without cracking, rubbing
scratching or bending it. Over the
painted surface were laid scores of
sheets of damp tissue paper. There was
just enough thin paste to cause them
to adhere at certain points. Over the
ridges of paint which in some lines
Botticelli had used to enhance the re-
lief the tissue was moulded by hand
with infinite care. More sheets of tbs.
sue paper were added, until a fairly
thick matriX was formed Then the
whole was laid away and dried for
many days. Face down the panel was
placed upon soft but fine bed and the
masterpiece doctor attacked the re-
verse side with sandpaper. The mag
nitude of his task may be appreciated
when it is said that the panel was an
inch thick. Slowly it was worn away
until there remained between the paint
and the deft hand of the artist only
paperlike sheet of wood. This was
delicately resolved into dust. Then
a linen canvas was nodded to the pig
ment. and when it was secure the
danger of cracking and good for 400
years more. 1t was set in a frame built
in the wall above the fireplace in the
dining room, and there it is to stay.
In the preservation of this painting
Secretary Hay took great delight, just
its loss.
From the sublime to the ridiculous
ranges Mr.. Hays taste in art, for
among his most highly priced posses
sions are the cartoons which have
marked the controversial zenith of GER
tain of his public policies.
In little room just off the hall is a
telling cartoon representing Mr.. Hay
astride the second Hay -Pauncefote
treaty galloping winner under the
wire of a racecourse. One room in the
house is covered on every wall with
originals of excellent cartoons. Some
are adverse to the secretary, some are
are clever. Mr.. Hay has
a high appreciation of wit and is broad
enough to laugh as heartily as any one
at cartoon which good-naturedly
pokes fun at his policies.
Secretary and Mrs Hay do not move
much In fashionable society" Since
their daughters were married there are
fewer social functions in their homes
than formerly, but invitations to din
ners at the home Of the secretary OF
state are seldom declined by any one.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

old maids and old bachelors or mis-
matched couples
The Dogs Mamma-And people who
object to dear. darling little doggies
feelings of decency. Great humani-
tarians always have a tender spot in
their hearts for the dumb creatures.
Come Ko-Ko, mon hijou, embrasse ta
mere!
The Baby's Mamma-Clarence has no
use for the woman who coddles a dog,
and the one who takes one out to walk
tied up in gay colored ribbons is to
him an object of ridicule.
The Dogs Mamma-Victor says the
most foolish spectacle to his mind is
the woman who gushes over her chill
dren, boring people to death with
stories of their smart sayings and pre-
cociousness. If there are children. he
thinks they should be kept in the nurs-
cry until they are full grown. Such
bad form to go on about them!
The Babys Mamma-Of course it's a
mere matter of taste. People without
children find they must gush over
something-dogs. parrots, monkeys!
They never think how ridiculous they
make themselves.
The Dogs Mamma-And people with
abies always act like newly engaged
girls, as if they were the ones who in
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
A Pertinent Question

The late Captain Alfred Rice, a noted
shad fisherman of the Delaware river,
was no less remarkable for personal
cleanliness than for his unequaled
handling of the mile-long seine
Captain Rice insisted upon cleanliness
and neatness in his men. II a man
proved a sloven, he very soon mended
his ways under the captains frank
criticisms, or else he sought another
job.
There was a new man, one shad sea-
son, who always wore dirty white
shirt In shad fishing it is best TO
wear a black Jersey. If, however. a
white shirt is chosen. there is no rea-
son why 1t should not be clean one.
So, at least, Captain Rice thought.
He stood his new mans dirty white
shirts for a month. Then, calling the
fisherman up to him, he said;
Friend. who the deuce is 1t that
you always get TO wear your shirts the
first week for you?"-Minneapol Jour.
nal
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

nicely inside her coat and go off with
it. Well, that lace we got back, for We
sent detective out to the front of the
store, and when my lady sailed out he
walked up as polite as you please and
requested her to forward the lace
But the case that got me was the
ostrich boa affair we had here yester-
day. I had pretty lot of boas tied OF
to a show stand, with tags attached,
Well. this fine lady strolled up and eX-
amined them. l don't know how she
managed it-they being tied on and all
but she certainly got one of the os-
trich boas off that stand and round her
neck without a soul spotting her. Then
out she marched, If you please, and the
boa looked mighty becoming-all but
the tag hanging down her back!
"She had black dress on, and the
little square of cardboard did look so
queer and white hanging down behind
Two OF our men detectives followed her
down the street. You could track that
white tag mile and three-quarters
away. She went into restaurant.
But. do you know, they couldn't arrest
that creature. They'd nothing but our
word to go on. and they don't accept
salesladies' testimony against GUS
toners, apparently, I'm the law" The
pretty shop girl shipped and pushed
tray OF gay neckwear under the glass
top of the counter. And though they
could see the boa and see the tag. they
couldn't have her up, and we never saw
that feather boa again."
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

vented the institution. And when you
Why the founding asylums are ac-
tually turning them away! And If it
comes to that we were all babies once,
ourselves!
The Baby's Mamma-Thank heaven.
we were not dogs!
The Dogs Mammal beg pardon!
What did you say?
The Baby's Mamma said it's pleas
ant weather we are having
The Dogs Mamma-Er-yes-ve
and Ko-Ko hasn't had his walk. Does
he want his little walky-walky? Well,
mamma will det his little fur coatie
ma-embrasse ma mere-and tell her
how much you love her-dat's little
angel! Remarkable, his intelligence!
He knows just as well when 1 say
out" and runs and gets his leash. |
suppose your baby doesn't fetch his
bonnet?
The Baby's Mamma-Oh, very well,
Mrs. Montgomery, if you think dogs
can be compared with human beings
The Dogs Mamma-My dear Mrs.
Waring, you certainly are not angry?
Really, too absurd! [ never quarrel
with anybody, and it would be the
last thing IN the world I'd do to com
pare my bright little dog with any
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

ones children. Do not suppose it for
an instant! oh, must you be going?
I'm so sorry. Can't you stop a little
longer? Pray do, Ko-Ko is so amused
with the baby.
The Baby's Mamma (stif1y)-My
baby is not intended to amuse people
lapdogs. Here, Anna, help me with
this coat! I've had a very charming
call, my dear Mrs. Montgomery; 1
do so hope you will come and see me
soon, and when you come I'd love
to have you bring Ko-Ko, only, as
| told you, baby is not accustomed to
dogs. and Clarence will not have them
about the house-otherwise I'd be so
glad!
The Dogs Mamma-Will Ko-Ko say
by-by-donne la pate? C'est ca? By
by, come soon again-au plaisir!
The Babys Mamma-Shake day.
day! No, no; not how big is the baby?
Shake day-day-yes, day-day. Such
nice time! Good-by.
CThey kiss and part.)
The Baby's Mamma-That nasty lit.
tie dog! / should think she'd be ashamed
of herself!
The Dogs Mamma-That idiotic
baby! How can a woman make such a
fool of herself?
(Curtain.)
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

II tell you some of the women GUS
propositions when it comes to surround
ing things that you could picture in
hurry" remarked pretty little dark
eyed shopgirl In big downtown store.
She was sorting dainty lace stocks as
she spoke, and used them in her ges-
ticulating for the better emphasis of
her righteous Indignation. why, some
of them" she went on earnestly, would
freeze you, simply freeze you. They
look all right, style and all the rest OF
it, and I'll bet they have money in their
pockets, but they steal! oh. my, how
they steal! Anything they can lay their
hands on. whether they want 1t or not.
"Of course the old dodge Of putting
on gloves and taking up handkerchief
and walking of with them is played
out; so is the careless dropping Of a
mum on counter and then carrying
OFF more than the mum. They don't do
those old fashioned stunts much now
adays. Our detectives have arrested
too many of them. See, there's our
head detective. now!" She pointed out
a stout. middle-aged woman dressed in
neat black. who was examining colored
embroideries at an adjoining counter
with an attention which seemed COM
plete.
"she's great" ratified on the pretty
shop girl "Spots tnem every time
that is, whenever it's possible TO spot
them. But say! How would you spot
woman who hauled things of the
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

Nobody could possibly object to Ko-Ko.
He never makes the least disturbance.
The Baby'S Mamma-Pomeranian
have such Il sharp bark. Have you
ever noticed? A regular little snap.
The Dogs Mamma-Oh, but of course
It's nothing like the crying of children.
That's the blood curdling sound! L
knew Il woman once who became Il
raving maniac from Il baby in the next
house. The doctor said she would
never recover her reason if the baby
were not removed.
The Baby's Mamma-The people who
object to the sound of children are al
ways sour, cross grained mortals--have
you noticed? And invariably elderly;
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

TOHN HAY secretary of state. is in
tensely human. From those fortu-
nate enough to know him person.
ally and from the fewer number who
may be termed his intimates, he at
tracts sincere affection. At 66 years of
age he still unfolds in his home and
among his close friends delightful
personality, which Is the equable COM
plement of his brilliancy in affairs of
state.
The statesman who will best be re-
membered as premier of the Roosevelt
cabinet is in all his relations a man of
simple directness. He is something of
pessimist concerning himself, looking
at his own works, as it were, through
the little end of a telescope. Yet this
tendency does not affect his clear
vision of other men and their works
or his appreciation of all that is good
in life.
The Hay home in Washington. a
comfortable large red brick house at
the corner Of Sixteenth and III streets
northwest, reflects the individuality of
Its owner. Just within the portals one
used to be reminded of Mr.. Hays
famous "Pike County Ballads" for on
the north wall of the entrance hall
hung a picture of Jim Bludsoe. the red
light of his burning steamer playing
on the river pilots breast and face.
Underneath the memorable lines:
"I'll hold her nozzle agin' the bank
Till the last galoot's ashore"
The Hay family, which, when in
Washington, resides in this house, con-
sists of Mr.. and Mrs. Hay. Two charm
ing daughters have been married, the
secretary's oldest son met with sudden
death a few years ago in New Haven.
and the youngest son, Clarence Hay. Is
away at college. Secretary Hay Is
essentially a home man. Within the
four wallis of his comfortable resi-
dence he spends most of his time. This
recalls a story of years ago. At his
bachelor dinner one of his friends re-
marked:
And how long VIII your honeymoon
last?"
why" replied Mr. Hay, IT expect
il to last the rest of my lfe."
Every weekday morning Mr.. Hay
has been accustomed to work from
o'clock until 1880 at the state depart
ment. Such matters as require his
attention after that hour he attends
to at home. The room in which he
usually receives visitors is on the first
floor. A great fireplace occupies part
of the wall space on one side. Com
Portable settles offer inviting repose
within the genial glow. At one end
of the room is big desk where Mr.,
Hay works.
The Hay library contains everything
that is good. The taste OF the secretary
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
THE SIMPLE LIFE

One day a mighty strenuous man
Took up "The Simple Life
A little book OF Wagner ways
TO quiet human strife.
He read 1t in the urgent style
That stirs him TO FenoWh,
And after he had picked 1t up
He wouldn't put II down.
He doomed and doomed '1'he Simple Life
Wherever he was at
Affinity Of contrast-whatT
Well, let 1t 60 at that
Whatever might have been the cause,
Results were quite the same,
And everybody. following him,
Whooped up the Volumes fame
Until, gadSooksI 1.-The Simple Life"
AS any one may see.
Today IL representative
OF strenuosity ..,
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
TT HE Dogs Mamma-So good of
/ you, dear Mrs. Waring, to bring

VI
you, dear Mrs. Warning, to bring
your baby! You know how fond
am of children. Couldn't the nurse
take him upstairs and let him look out
of the window or something?
The Baby's Mammal felt sure you
would be glad to see him, dear Mrs.
Montgomery. Isn't he just the darling
est little fellow? Four months old to-
day.
The Dogs Mamma-Just Ko-Ko s
age.
The Baby's Mamma-Ko-Ko?
didn't know you had any children!
The Dogs Mamma-Children! The
idea! Ko-Ko is my dear little Pomer-
anian-the sweetest thing you ever
saw-not a white hair on him and the
most Intelligent
The Baby's Mamma-Baby is just
beginning to COO; Clarence is sure he
will say daddy" soon.
The Dogs Mamma-KoKo sat up
and begged when he was month old;
puppies are so bright! All! Here he
how he understands French! Remark
able, isn't it?
The Baby's Mamma-Baby will show
you how big he is if you ask him. Now,
Toodles, show us; how big is the baby?
Isn't that cute?
The Dogs Mamma--Um; yes. Come
here. Ko-Ko. Maintenant, dome la
pate. There! Did you ever see any
thing more clever?
The Babys Mamma-Toodles, will
you clap hands, clap hands till papa
comes home? Oh, no, baby mustn't be
shy. Come; clap hands, clap hands!
1 think it must be the dog. You see
(with the smallest accent of scorn), we
never have cats about the house.
Clarence thinks it a waste of time to
make pets of them when there are
children. Baby, perhaps, is a little
afraid. No, no, TOodles; doggie won't
bite. Nice doggie Now. clap hands.
clap hands-funny how they never will
show off before people!
The Dogs Mamma-Oh, Ko-Ko al
ways does! He is the most obedient
little fellow. Now, donne Pautre patte
tout de suite, Ko-Ko! What did
tell you? He always shows off!
The Baby's Mamma (getting slightly
flushed)-Will Toodles show us? This
little pig went to market, this little pig
stayed at home-never mind the doggie
he won't hurt baby!-no, the third
nnger! This little pig had nice bread
and butter and-oh, baby mustn't cry.
Come, now what did this little pig say
all the way home? Was it Wee, wee.
wee"?
The Dogs Mamma-He seems rather
peevish, doesn't he? Perhaps he Is
teething or sleepy. That's one thing
with Ko-Ko; he is never peevish. AL
ways the most amiable little bow-wow.
l will make him do his latest trick for
you; Victor only showed him last night.
Up, sir, up! Beg for it! Bravo! Did
you ever see such perfect little angel?
The Baby's Mamma-Oh, no, babys
not at all peevish, or sleepy either He
had his nap before we left home. He
is notf accustomed to dogs. that's all.
He saw a mad one in the street once
when he was two months old, and I'm
sure he remembers it Muvver's baby. !
muvver's little Toodleums! Yes. bad
doggie to fwighten baby. Go way, bad
doggle! Now. will Toodles pat-a-cake,
pat-a-cake, bakers man? Come. show
the lady how nicely you can do 1t. One, |
two, three-Pat-a-cake. pat-a-cake |
bakers man, bake me cake
The Dogs Mammal wouldn't try to
make him IL he doesn't want to. Chill
dren are so peryerse. He looks as If he
were going 10 bawl and 1t gets on my
nerves so when children bawl
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

counters and dropped them in little
heap on the floor, hidden by skirt, and
picked them up under the pretence OF
tying her shoe? And sometimes when
you do spot them you can't arrest them,
and half the time you can't get the
things back. l saw a woman take a
SIS lace collar the other day, fold it up
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
Dlsenohantment

Dlsenohantment
He met his fate
At half past eight
She was divine
Long after nine;
But Just at ten
All, that was when,
With coon song whang,
She played and sang!
New Orleans Tilaas,pameeFat
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-15
State News in Brief.

Stephen Lotus, ~ years DID, was
crushed to death in the Northern quarry
near Spring Lake.
cal works and some money the other
night at the Neenah public library.
Fire on Friday destroyed the Wanna
kee Creamery Company's creamery, ice
houses and all machinery. The loss is
$1,000.
Through drinking lemonade left stand
ing over night in a tin water tank at the
Neenah city hall, eight persons were
made ILL.,
The La Crosse and Southeastern Rail-
way Company has completed its road and
on June q ran it's first train into La
Crosse.
Graft indictments to the number of
thirty EIGHT, involving twenty-one per-
sons. have been returned by the Milwau-
kee grand jury, business men as we'll as
officials being accused.
William Boyer, farmer of the town
of Menomonie, died suddenly while in
the city on business. He fell from his
wagon to the pavement. 1t is thought
that heart failure was the cause.
Dissatisfaction prevails among real es-
tate men of northern Wisconsin over the
action of the wisconsin Legislature in
passing the rate law and shutting off
the homeseekers' rates.
The Madison chief of police has de-
termned to enforce the ordinance against
saloons with back rooms, and r. B. Hall
was fined $25 and costs. 1t is under
stood other arrests are to follow.
Odanah Indians in Ashland have
drawn up resolutions asking for the pay
ment by the government of tribal moneys
due them which amounts to about S15,-
900. to be used in repairing their side
walks.
William Meyer of Orangeville was
struck by lightning that tore the heels
from his boots. The lightning hit the
corner of his barn and ran down the
spouting, knocking Mr.. Meyer down. He
was somewhat stunned, but recovered.
General G. c. Hilton, proprietor of the
new Hotel Hilton, died suddenly in Be-
lott while receiving guests at the hotel.
He was adiutant general of Illinois under
Governor Altgeld and was in the Civil
War. General Hilton was connected with
hotel enterprises at Chicago for many
years.
DR.. Ohio Fielder, city chemist of Mil
waukee. was married in Sheboygan to
Miss Elizabeth Morris, who was too i'll to
go to the church or leave her bed.
Watt c. Gregg, whose wife shot her
four little children and herself at Grand
Lake. Colo. went from Walworth County
to that State in 1891. He came to Wis
consin frorA Indiana in 1874.
DR.. G. G. Mears was taken to st. Ag-
nes' Hospital in Fond du Lac, suffering
with septic poisoning Of the right arm.
The poisoning is the result of contact
with an instrument used in an operation
on a tuberculosis patient some time ago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-15
Rich Plum Pudding.

Required: One and one-half pounds
OF finely chopped beef suet, half pound
OF fresh bread crumbs, half pound
glace cherries cut in halves, six ounces
or Hour, one pound stoned and finely
chopped raisins, one pound clean and
stalked sultanas, one pound cleaned
and stalked currants, one pound
chopped peel, one pound sugar, six
ounces chopped almonds, one pound
timely chopped apples and one grated
nutmeg, quarter pound corn flour, the
strained juice and grated rind Of four
lemons, one ounce baking powder, ten
beaten eggs mixed with one gill Of
mIlk and one gill of brandy. Mix to-
gether the dry ingredients. Beat up
the eggs and mix them with the milk
and brandy, and stir into the other in
gradients thoroughly. Put into the
molds or basins, which should be we'll
creased, or into pudding cloths, which
should be scalded and Toured. Boil
them from ten to twelve hours.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-15
Only when his pipe went empty did

Only when his pipe went empty did
he find speech. 'Say, Oil chap, got a
match?" And when he'd smoked IL
out again-"Say, old chap, got
match?' in the same words, as If he
had never asked me before. Finally
he reached conclusion, stood up,
heaved a heavy rock over the edge
that went bounding and splintering
and echoing away out Of sight.
you know, by Jove, our touchy
friend, Buffalo Bill, was right last
night. A fellow can look at this
long time and not see it. I hadn't
seen it yet myself, you know. Why,
it's twice as big to-day. It's t1,emen-
dous-it's positively awful, old chap,
in way. If l gaze at it any more
it will be big enough to drop the whole
Of Great Britain into, with the houses
Of Parliament on top, and then, my
dear fellow, you would be wanting my
binoculars first thing. before I'd had
look, to find the clock tower. By
the way, my pipe has gone out"
"For the fourth time since break
fast" / rpolated-Scribners
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-15
A GRAND CANYON SUNRISE,

Beautiful Spectacle that Is Visible an
Long as You Wish to Have 1t So.
Now, q sunrise in the Grand Can
yon lasts as long as you please. Each
hour is a sunrise, for some cavern
deeper than the last, and III fact there
are many where it has yet to rise for
the first time since the canyon was
made by those ages of running water.
So all this time we two sat on fat
ledge, with our heels dangling. our
elbows on our thighs, watching while
the clock and the sun and the shad-
ows went round. But the human
mind thinks largely by comparing one
thing with another, and, since there is
nothing like that inf1nity of red and
yellow cliff and pinnacle and pallisade
which we watched so long and silent
~, know of no way to describe after
all our looking.
Hamilton, l could see, was think
Ing hard and feeling much over It.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-15
OUR TONIC AIR.
One Reason Why We Have the Bes )
Weather Service in the World.

One Reason Why We Have the Bes
Weather Service in the World.
When the amazed European asks us
what makes the sluggish mind of the
Immigrant to stir and waken in the
United States, and then to climb, at
first hesitatingly, but soon with vigor
and confidence, to the top round in
the ladder of success, we are accus-
toned to reply, Its in the air." and
we are right. The spirit which fired
our fathers to cross the wide Attain
tic, and which in less or equal degree
still animates the thousands annual
ly seeking our shores, is fed and
famed by the cold winds from the
northwest.
The cold wave is born in the heav-
ems miles above our heads, usually
over the Rocky Mountain plateau.
Suddenly a mass Of bitterly cold air
will tumble down upon Montana. It
rushes down as though poured through
an enormous FUNNEL. AS it falls it
gains momentum, and, reaching the
earth, spreads over the Mississippi val
ley and then over the Atlantic States,
covering them like blanket. It scat
ters the foul, logy, breathesoaked at
mosphere in our towns and cities, and
puts ginger into the air. We All our
lungs with 1t and live. New waves
are always coming, following each 9TH
er in regular procession like the waves
on seashore.
1t is fitting, then, that nleteorology,
the science of the weather, should be
distinctly American product and
that the people Of the United States
should have the best weather service
in the world. The United States gov
eminent spends $1,5O0,OOO year on its
Weather Bureau, which is more money
than all the governments Of Europe
combined spend for similar service. 1t
has a staff Of many hundred skilled
experts and trained observers who in
all parts Of the country are constantly
on the watch to see what the heavens
will bring forth.-Century.