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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08

so suddenly that we were almost thrown
from our seats. The big balloon flutter-
ed, then almost collapsing, it darted off
In an opposite direction.
Several minutes passed and we could
see through a rift in the clouds below
us that we were once more above dry
land. The professor prepared to leap.
You will not drop through the
clouds" l gasped.
Certainly" be replied. ut will be
something novel, and people seeing me
fall from the clouds will marvel the
more"
| have always been considered dar-
ing. but for the first time in my life I
began to feel nervous. l watched the
professor seize the bar of his trapeze
and put his legs over the edge of the
car.
You had better descend few thou
sand feet" he said as he turned his
head then sliding from his perch on the
edge of the car he was gone.
Down he went like lead. | thought
his parachute would never open and my
blood ran cold. But just before he en-
tered tieecy cloud the silken umbrella
opened wide and swayed from side to
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08
IN A BALLOON.
~0~~~~~N~~~

60 y athlete tells this thrilling
I9A story of his adventure in bal
e~~@ loon.
can do anything that any other
man can do on trapeze bar, but l don't
care to perform on trapeze above the
clouds with nothing but q big silk UNI
hrera between me and the sky and
bank of mist between me and the solid
earth several thousand feet below.
was to go "a 5000 feet, then come down
with a parachute, performing on bar
as 1 descended.
When l reached the grounds the
mammoth air ship was stretched out
upon the grass. hut soon it began to
swell as the workmeu began to initiate
the great silken bag until at last It
bounded up and down, held only by two
| stout ropes.
At last all was ready, and to the net
work each side of thu balloon was At
tached a folded parachute, so arranged
that the weight Of a mans body wonid
break the strings that held them in posi-
ton, and allow him to descend.
The huge bag Of air. 30 feet by No
feet. ioated free. and We stepped into
the circular wicker basket 1t was nv
first ascension. but l did not feel in
the least afraid Instead feeling of
eXhilaraton took possession of me. and
l watched the men below as we scared
upward With the speed of a rocket A
| slight breeze carried uS toward ~, ,.t,.
err and noticed an anxious look on the
professors face rs we foated out over
the silvery surface.
We VIII strike another current Of air
higher up he said and threw ont sew.
eral bags Of sand.
Now quickly we shot upward. right
through cloud Ike an arrow then
through another, and for severa, ma,
ments the earth was shut out from npr
view. The professor was right. We aid
strike an opposing current Of air ,nJ
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08

naming parachute, but my courage fail
ed me- | determined to wait until the
gas grew cold, and when the balloon had
descended to a point 1900 feet above
the ground | would take the parachute
and make the jump But the balloon did
not descend and soon the air became so
rarefied that | found it difficult to
breathe. 1t was icy cold, and even
though the sun was shining brightly
and the only clouds in view were those
a thousand feet below 1 was almost fro
zen.
/ stood in the center of the little car
and waved my arms about but had to
breathe so hard that the exercise was
assembled. The cold was so intense that
my lips cracked, and the air so light
that they bled freely. Soon my nose be
gan to bleed. l was too weak now TO
think of descending by the parachute.
1t was as much as | could do to stand.
Suddenly my fingers clutched some
thing l pulled 1t toward me. and a
moment later felt that the balloon was
descending Pretty soon full conscious
ness returned to me, and realized that
! had pulled the string of the valve
and had let the gas out of the balloon.
now became frightened at the We
locity of the descent, and again turned
to the parachute, but the strings that
held the bar TO the car had given way
and the trapeZe was now swinging Il
dozen feet away. The only way for
me to reach it was to jump for it, and
this did not feel disposed to do. Still,
we were descending rapidly. and as the
car dashed down through the clouds l
noticed that the balloon was again in
the under current and driving toward
the river. | must either Jump for the
trapeze now or run the risk Of being
drowned. Thousands of times in the
circus l had taken such leaps, but now
knew that a slip of the hand meant
death. But there was no time to hest
tate, SO balancing myself on the seat of
the car with the aid of rope, 1 sprang
out into space. My hand clutched the
bar and in an instant l was descending
with terrible velocity.
was certain that the parachute
would never open. but it did, and a
thousand feet above the earth my
downward flight was checked. The
great awning above swayed from side
to side and gently descended. l passed
over the roof of a house. then glided
through the branches of spreading
tree. felt an awful jar all over my body
and realized that l had reached the
earth once more. l don't care to leave
it-that way -again.-Chicago Daily
News.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08
FREE MEALS FOR PUPILS.
England Experiments in Feeding Under
fed chool Children.

ACu 'GhNVi SA44uASh
In England the question of feeding
school children is being discussed. Just
as it was debated in this city not long
ago. The Countess of Warwick con-
tributes an article to the F0rtnightly Re-
view in which she says that hundreds of
thousands of children are passing
through English elementary schools with
little other result from their education
than Opthalmia, spine curvature, nervous
irritability and the seeds of consumption.
In one school in a very bad district
100 per cent. of the children are unable,
by reason of their physical condition. to
attend to their work in a proper way,
while 80 per cent, during six months of
the year, from October to March, re-
quire feeding by the authorities"
A school inspector estimated the num-
Der of actually underfed children in Lon
don schools as approximately 122,000 or
l6 per cent. of the elementary school
population This does not cover the num-
Der of children improperly fed.
A feeding agency in Lambeth COPIED
with from II to 10 per cent. of the
school children and in the poorest dis
tricts % to 30 per cent.
In the Sums of Edinburgh n large
proportion of children were found to be
half starved. DR.. Kelly, Catholic bishop
of Ross, says hat in the south OF Ire
land children commonly came to school
underfed.
In March i. was stated in the House
of Commons that 20 per cent of this
class of children. covering about 1,000.-
900 children in the British isles, were
in an entirely hopeless condition"
The London School Dinners association
alone gave To, Cos meals a week to
board school Children. of which 10000
were given free. Yet some districts APP
pear to have been scarcely touched
In the day industrial schools, where
the children had three meals a day. they
were found TO be bright and intelligent,
physically and mentally satisfactory. So
potent a factor was the regular and
wholesome supply of food that although
they lived at home their condition was
thoroughly satisfactory
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08
Caught Big Shark on Fish lin.

While fishing off the terminal ,,,.,.
about noon yesterday \. Con-, ''S
hooked an eight-foot shovel-nosa ' ,Li y
and drew, it up to the dock with nm lIa "a, d
binary fish line. 'U ol
The, monster was easily drawn in asa,
made but little resistance until n baa,%,;..'l-
line was thrown over him and tba s .s'S
knot began to tighten, and then the fnni
commenced. The water was dashed in,D
strength of several men was re1niro5 ~. d,
prevent its escape. Two boat hooks We,.
finally brought into play on tie NAL
and sides of the big fish and very s"oS
It was conquered and hauled on the doct
1t was hideous and frightful looking onf
was viewed by numbers of people in m.
afternoOn.-Miami Record.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08
WORST FORM OF ECzrv,

Black Splotches All Over F.o.
ed Parts Now Clear as Ever a. S1ileet-
by the cuticura Reme6ia- 1'ea
About four years ago !
fiicted with black splotcbas . I"S az
my face and a few covering nv over
which produced a severe ttcb,[.- 'oly'
tation, and which caused mo '''I'
deal of annoyance and sneor,. sIeat
such an extent that l was Is 10
call in two of the leading nbrs'14 %
of my town. After a thoronrh WINS
nation of the dreaded comnl,t... N'1ll'
announced it to be skin e,.zar,a '1ey
worst form. They treated mo e.. ." us
same for the length of ono -. '1e
the treatment did me no good ~. DuI
my husband purchased a SET 80 ''l,'y
Cuticura Remedies. and after ns,,,,. ,ae
contents of the first bottle az O. ''7
Resolyent in connection with fbo ga
cura Soap and Ointment. the broo,... u
out entirely stopped l coptinoo5 lug
use of the Cuticura Remedies - 1e
months, and after that every ST.. ga
was entirely gone and the arFoo.-l
parts were left as clear as eyer M Lu
Cuticura Remedies not only r,r.,, -e
of that dreadful disease ecza,oo t
other complicated troubles as well IT,
zie E. Sledge, $40 Jones Ave S.,
Ala, Oct. 2S, 1905" ''''
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08
HIS ANsW Err.

Why do love you. you ask? Why, dear
To tell half the reasons would take me a
year,
For your heads proud poiSe, and your
graceful walk,
For the way that you dimple and smile
and talk;
For certain Unborn daintiness
Which shows itself in your mind and
dress:
For your ready wit with no cynic turn,
For the charity which | fain would learn !;
For your woman's heart where all sweet
ness lies,
For the fearless truth of your loving eyes !;
For the soul that is pure as the angels
above you
But chiefly love you, because love
you!
Puck.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08
DIETS AND THE DOCTORS.
Scarcely an Article of Food that Is
Not Condemned.

Scarcely an Article of Food that Is
Not Condemned.
What with the vegetarians who eat
no meat and the rheumatic sufferers
WHO eat no fruit and the gouty VITO
take no nitrogen If they know It and
the dyspeptics who eat only foolIess
foods, life stands to lose one IF It's hief
joys, square meal, says the Medic al
Journal. And it Is not quite true that
instinct rises superior to theory aud
that after all people eat what is good
for them. Readers and thinkers are
deeply Influenced by chemical symbols
END 1t is not rare for pallid dyspep-
TIC of tuberculosis tendencies to endesIyor
to practice the economies of metaDolism
ingeniously set forth by some of the
physiological chemists. 1t is high time
somebody raised a voice in protest, for
surely no people stand in so little need
of this counsel as do ours. Our hus-
Ting population requires a good deal of
nutriment and is suffering from lack
rather than repletiOn.
long enough in America to be thorough
~ acclimated. We speak of
the effete populations OF Europe, out
no one who has seen them would ever
cal. the European peoples effete, and
the impression is ineffaceable that what
we need here is better cooked food ard
more of it, rather than the diet Of feds
that now captivate our nervous coun-
trymen. 1t would certainly be difficult
to construct any scheme of diet On
which the profession would agree.
There is scarcely an article but finds
condemnation somewhere among us
The banana, dear TO childhood, IS de-
nounced by the paediatrist as unwnole
some, though whole populations live
upon it; while no printed diet list
would include pork and bacon, which
Dr. Woods Hutchinson insists are the
kcystones of our national greatness.
Even in the dietetics of disease-ths
rather than health being our chosen
realm-utter confusion and disagree
ment reign. Chemical formulas of h0r-
rifying elaboration lead one 10 condemn
red meat In govt. another to pronounce
it a nutriment readily assimilable and
easily disposed OF. And the quarrels
over foodstuffs permissible to the rhau-
matte are equaled only by those over
carbohydrates in grave diabetes. 1t is
a crying need of the time that the pro-
fession reaches a consensus of convic.
ton and teachings on the basic facts of
nutrition in he1lth and disease before
they attack the more venial superstI-
tiors and absurdities Of a much beset
lalU. First OF all. brethren, shall we
not cast out the beam that IS in our
own eye?
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08

but it does make life unbearable to have al
ways and eternally picking
A woman who nags at the table spoils her husbands
and her own digestion with sick stomach is
dangerous to home happiness The nagglng woman lies
in wait for her husband If she can't catch him meal
time she'll him at night and pitch into him. A
who loses sleep is to be the next day
The nagging keeps herself and her husband
the edge of big from morning until night
and from night until morning.
Would have knucke down and be a meek
sheep taking everything and standing everything with
angelic smile? Indeed not l would have her learn
that good, big is worth a hundred days of nag
gng If there must be quarreling in the family.
woman learn to go at it right. If a man deserves
onguelashing let the wife say all she has say
forget to weep until she has finished.
There is satisfaction in having a quarrel and
being done with It, good, lively, two-sided quarrel
where each has his say and says with but
is nothing but dismal unhappiness in a home where
finishes the job but is always ready to
begin where she left off.
If man wanders from the path of rectltude give
him fits and be done with IT. If he is good enough
is be thankful, and for the love of Digestion tempers
and home morality, let him alone.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08

absence parents church Sunday, Eyira in
ved Sgnora Cassls to lunch and then disappeared to
her fathers gum wherewth to shoot her She fired
twice at the aged Sgnora who only slightly wounded
fed, shrekng pursued by the Infatuated Evira. Final
y her cries brought both since by this
time Elyira exhausted that she also lay moaning
the ground
This belief in the power of the evil eye, which to-
day almost universal in Italy, and general in
Of England Scotland and Ireland, be found
in the Bible and in the writings of the fathers
Eat thou the bread of him that hath evil eye"
says solomon in the Book Of Proverbs There spe
cal and laws against the influence of the evil
eye in Rome. To-day, in Deyonshire Cornwall and In
other parts of England any untoward event is called "a
wsht thing Probably hypnotism is answerabe for the
extraordinary universally Of this superstition of the
malign power of evil eye will. Some years ago
there appeared strange story from a physicians
book Of a girl patient, detained in lunatc asylum for
a murder committed under hypnotic influence. The girl
amiable cultivated and absolutely sane day
took her fathers revolver called upon whom she
hardly knew and against whom she had grievance
and shot him dead Her intense hatred of the
vicarious, infused into her by a doctor who had help
lessly hypnotized her. This doctor hated the
dered man that he wished him dead, and his wish
father the thought and act of the girl he controlled
hypnotlcally he brought at last to confess
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08
Safe All Around.

He-Aren't you ever afraid to be in
the house alone?
She--Not at all. 1 own loaded re-
volver.
He-But aren't you afraid of that?
She-Mercy, no! l keep it locked in
a trunk where it can't possibly 90 Off
Detroit Free Press.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08
Shakespeare Lived Too Soon.

Shakespeare said, Throw physie to
the dogs said the man who loves to
quote.
Yes" said the man with the speckled
vest. but If Shakespeare were living to-
day he would write it canned meat -
indianapolis Star.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08
Where Cars Are Buried

The remains of all the Cars of Russia
since Peter the Great are Inferred in a
memorial chapel built on one of the il,
ands of the Neva. All the ceptotanbs
are exactly alike, each being a block Of
white marble, without any decoration
whatever, bearing only the name of the
deceased Emperor.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08
DECADENCE OF GREEK DUE TO TEACHERS.
By Andrew Lang.

The educational trouble about the classics
Is really an affair of the history of learning
and ought to be looked at in a historical light
If, as is claimed boys end in knowing neither
Greek nor Latin, that has always been 50. In
the enormous majority of cases boys have not
learned Latin. or Greek or anything else, ex-
cept reading. writing and a little arithmetic
We are no worse among the upper and
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08
WARNING TO NAGGING WOMEN.
By Cynthia Grey.

Mrs George Adler, of Cleveland, recently
accused her husband of neglecting her and her
children. When brought into court Mr.. Adler
said: Before l will live with my wife again
l will go to the workhouse; she is always
naggng met
When man says anything about nagging
he says always nagging. He could stand a
nag or two now and then ANY man could
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08

WeuthleF mluuIe CIASStS, UdIDdIIdIIS, WHO nate
books and live IN the open air. than we always have
been The human boy of these classes never learned
anything literary way except in the where
he naturally bookish
The thing begun when there was no modern liter
allure except poems and romances. Then Greece
discovered by the learned and every gentleman must
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08
whore the Interest Iar.

She-When it comes to cosby con.
versation. she's very interesting.
He-Why, she's not interesting as 9
taIker at all.
She-Oh, l mean as a subject-Phll.
adelphia Ledger.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08
EVIL EYE FELT BY MAN AND BEAST.
By r. p. O'COnnOr

In Marceise, in the province of Verona,
has just occurred an extraordinary event
that of the influence of the evil eye. Elvra
Iseppi, the daughter of a Marcellse landed
proprietor, lost all her hjoh spirits, and be-
came as morose as she had been sociabe.
She had been overlooked" and the wicked
witch was an unfortunate old woman, pen
stoned school teacher Signora Cassls. In the
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08

What has become OF all the old-fash-
Toned warts? Who has them? Have
You got any?
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08

a dog has no right to be fat
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08

81 y athlete tells this thrilling
IAA story of his adventure in bal
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-08-02
ORDER YOUR
Abstracts ofTitle
rom THE
LANGDOM ABSTRACT CO..

Mrs. Victor Boyer received word by
Tuesdays mail of the death of her
thirteen year old brother, Floyd Brewer,
at Salem, S. Oak, who died of appendi
cites on Tuesday of last week. Her
brother was apparently in good health
when Mrs. Boyer left South Dakota,
returning from u visit with the family
a couple of weeks ago.
Travellers about the county report see.
ing a great many prairie chickens this
summer and predict hat the fall hunt.
ing will be good. 1t n feared that the
heavy and continuous rains and cold
weather during Matching season would
have been disastrous to the. birds, but
this seems not to have cen the case
and better hunting than for several
years is predicted provided that the
usual slaughter by those trying on,
their dogs" ~ not permitted before the
SEASON o., ems.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-08-02

Use "Hannah's Pride" flour.

Use "Hannah's Pride flour.
j. j. Robson, the Osnabrock butcher,
was a visitor here on business Tuesday.
Birtch & Liebeler can sell or locate you
on a homestead in the Canadian North
west.
Attorney J. G. johnson is in the city
for a day or two this week attending
court.
Deputy Sheriff .Thos. Devaney was
up the line as far as Wales on Saturday
between trains.
John Wang, one of the Nekoma mer-
chants, was here on business Friday &C
companied by his wife.
Jos. J. Fischer and Oldest son, Frank,
went north to their home at Wales on
Saturdays train returning from a trip
to the state fair at Fargo.
l have buyers who want twenty-five
quarters of Cavalier county dirt. If
you want to sell a good farm for what it
is worth tell me about it. E. A. Wads-
worth.
: Mrs. Afford, accompanied by her
daughter, Mrs. Leona Krag, from
Chicago, we're in the city from Iona on
Sunday visiting with Mr.. H. D. Parsons,
a brother of Mrs. Afford.
Judge w. J. Kneeshaw came over
from Pembina on Monday to hear the
argument in a number of court cases
that were not disposed of at the term of
court that lately reached an adjourn
ment.
(: Alex Schwartz,a former Langdon boy
who of late years has been out in the
Canadian Northwest and is now in
business at Strathcona, Alberta, visited
here a few days last week with his
brothers leaving Monday for the west by
way of Winnipeg.
William Stevenson. of the firm Of
Hunter & Stevenson has an unusually
fine sample of wheat on his farm three
miles east of town. Harvey Centre
farmers claim that Bert Welsh has the
finest field of wheat in that township
It stands almost six feet high, and is a
heavy crop with heads of an enormous
size.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-08-02
Gossip and Notes.

u Tuesday was election day in the newly
Eorganized township of Osford, formerly
1.-THE western half of Monlrose.
Barley is being cut this week on the
farms of j. Debrow, j. X. Hamilton and
others in the vicinity of Langdon.
There will be no services at the
Episcopal church on Sunday evening,
lowing to Rev. Burleson being at Sarles
The Ct. Northern during the past
week has laid a cinder path in place of
The worn out length of side walk across
their right of way to the depot.
n The interior of the city school build
u ngs are being painted, plastered and
otherwise put in proper repair in readi-
ness for the opening of the fall term
early next month.
d A rainfall of an inch and a quarter on
Friday night and another half inch
Il Monday morning has left on the ground
ALL the moisture that is necessary to
q carry the crop through to harvest
u Hannah was quite badly shaken up in
the wind storm of Tuesday last week.
Buildings suffered considerably and
many shade trees were uprooted. The
storm was a great deal severer at Han.
nah than in this part of the county.
Ia Tuesday the Langdon Juniors went
to Dresden and played two games, and
were successful in winning both. The
sscore in the first was Is to 6 and in the
second IL to II. They returned so elat-
led that a challenge is likely to be issued
to the heavyweights for a game to de.
scide the championship.
III There was a big barn dance Tuesday
5Sevening at the farm of John Fischer al
&Mt. Carmel. The attendance numbered
almost two hundred, many from Lang.
dor being there, while nearly all of the
young folks in Mt. Carmel took in the
event, which has been looked forward
TO by many from year to year as ar
annual affair.