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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07
The Presidents Souvenirs.

| can't forbear mentioning Mr.. Roose-
velt's souvenirs They represent his
democracy far better than reams Of
"reminiscences could. Mr. Mckinley
once had three carloads of such tokens
hitched onto his special train; but Mr..
Roosevelt must altogether have at least
three train loads. He cannot stop to
pat a dog on the head without that ami
NAL being Immediately Grated up by its
fond owner and shipped to IT. R.
Washington, ID. G." Horses and sad
dies enough to tit out a brigade, chairs,
badges, turkeys, guinea pigs, snakes
from travelling sideshow, canes, vases
everything that the generosity of the
American nation can conceive has been
given to him at one time or another.
He used to get flowers and bouquets
by the bushel, generally presented by
some of the young ladies of tire town:
and these offerings would finally pile up
to such an extent that the porter would
be compelled to open the car window and
throw them out to make way for those
Of the next town. An amusing incident
in this connection occurred at a little
Kansas town.
The presidential train was just pull
ing out of the depot when through the
crowd came barefoot boy, running with
all his might and carrying a bouquet in
This hand. He yelled Roosevelt saw
him; so did the whole populace. well"
said the President, Il can't run away
like this and insult the boy" so he pulled
the bell rope and brought the train to
a stop.
The youngster came up breathlessly
and delivered the roses. Roosevelt
smiled and handed him dollar, and the
incident was closed. Later, as the train
was speeding on its way, his 'dee-light-
ed'' smile was a bit troubled, and he
called in the porter.
Jerry" he said, lit seems to me these
flowers are rather withcred, aren't they
The boy must have had a hard time
getting through the crowd"
well, they ought to be withered,"
was the answer. THAT there bOauet has
been on this train for three days, and |
just threw it out of the window back at
that town.
There is Il hoy somewhere in Kansas
who will be captain of industry one
of these days-Success Magazine.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07
Going to Sleep on Geography.

A haggard looking man strolled into q
downtown drug store the other day and
asked the druggist for help. He said he
had trouble in getting to sleep when he
retired. No matter how sleepy he might
be during the day or how much sleep he
might have lost, fTIe" moment his hear
touched the pillow he was wide awake
and lay thus for several hours. The
drug clerk regarded him quizzically a
few moments and then replied:
MY dear man, you don't want med-
cine. What you want is something 10
change the trend of your thoughts. Do
as friend of mine did. He was tro-
bled the same way and found thar the
old folks plan of imagining sheep pass
ing barrier and counting them was ont
of dare. so he began trying to name an
the states in the Union. He soon got them
so he could classify them alphabetical
Then when they no longer interested
him he started on the counties of this
state He now has them at his tongues
end. classified up to the fourth letter
Now he is starting on state capitals aud
their locations; then he will take up
county seats.
"A moments glance at an atlas during
the day shaws him when he is wrong
and the beauty of the plan is that he
rarely has to think along these lines long
er than ten minutes before he is sound
asleep.
ITO make it short, the study of geo
graphy is good narcotic "-PhiIad.h
phia Record.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07
Origin of the Sedan Chair.

When the King of Slams ministers,
protesting against his majesty's favor to-
ward motoring, suggested recently that
1.-THE royal sedan chair" was always ~
his disposal, it is improbable that they
used word reminiscent of the French
town, says a London correspondent. For
it is froIa the scene of Napoleon HIS
collapse that the sedan chain takes its
name, and perhaps remote posterity will
suppose that it had some connection
with that event. But Sedan first pro
duced these conveyances centuries ago,
and they were seen in England in 1881.
One used by James lis Buckingham
provoked great popular cutlery against
the employment of men as beasts of bur
den. Sir s. Duncomhe is credited with
having introduced them to London in
1854. And Bath knows the Pickwickian
sedan chair to this day.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07

tween my legs! IL caught the waistcord
of my pajamas, dragged me heavily back
ward, and passed over me into the room
beyond. A piercing scream announced
that it had penetrated thence into my
wife's sanctum.
| rose and followed Pedestaled as if
for photograph. Tffy stood upon the
bed and made threatening motions at
me with his head. He proceeded TO
spring alarmingly up and down about
twenty times upon the quilt which, with
the bedclothes, was my wife's only pro-
lection from his extremely incisive feet.
She continued to scream.
There was an answer from the pass
age. Every dog in our establishment
heard her call and burst, in full cry, into
the room.
Taffy recognized that the odds were
against him, and that the long French
window onto the balcony was open. The
next instant he had passed through it.
Ieaped upon the parapet, tottered and
disappeared. There was thud below!
looked over. With the compliment
air OF one who has long sought and at
last attained well-deserved goal. Taffv
was cropping bed of choice begOnias.
plants which had cost me something
like five shillings apiece to bring 10
their present perfection!
a prey to the tiercest anger | fed
downstairs and eFupted into the garden
to lind an obstacle race in full swing.
The contestants were my gardener and
ms assistant. The prize-Taffy. | made
a hurried post entry myself.
Inc damage done during the next
three minutes simply won't bear think
ing OF: Blooms persisted by the hundred.
gravel flew broadcast, pots were shat
tered, the lawn devaSted Having
thoroughly wrecked my few poor plots.
EaHy sighted for wider worlds to CON
quer. He leaped the hedge. and can't
cred Joyously up the adjoining field
Ana th@n-Fortune deserted him. He
paused by a SHED nj the far end of the
paddock. He peered; he entered.
| raced upon his refuge. gained the
entrance, banged the door. | panted
violently and then perceived that we
were not alone \ man was descending
from the loft who greeted me with sur
prise, and-in spite of my attire-with
respect. | recognized our family butcher
suppose my eyes expressed some be-
'wilderment. for it was he, not |, who
began to proffer explanations.
was just seeing to Il calf or two
as | feed up here. sir he said, pointing
to an adjacent stall.
Surely Fate herself was speaking!
looked at Taffy. | looked at Mr..
Bone. | began to speak-grimly and
decidedly, Finally l went home-unac-
companed.
Bertha greeted me upon the door step.
Where is he. Oh where is hep she
cied
/ made an indignant gesture which dis
claimed all knowledge.
He escaped from the garden-he has
completely Disappeared" | told her and
shut myself firmly into my dressing
room.-Frank Savie in the London
Chronicle
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07
NO MORE SoToL WINE
Uncle Sam Stops the Manufacture Ct p,
Mexican Nectar.

Que of the minions of the Until
States internal revenue bureau from =
Antonio, Tex, destroyed 600 guI,.,
of wine made from the root of the .,,r..
plant at Ysleta, Tex Not only H..
but the word has been passed down n.
line in all the upper Rio Grande bor1.-
region that there must be no more ln3tu
facture of alcoholic liquor from the >or.
Sui Boggs rode all the way from Io,
milo to get supply of the soto wine.
He arrived here the day after it had All
been spilled by the revenue agent. H.,
was Disguised.
1T beats all" he said. What is tni.
country a'comin' to? Here we've bee,
drinking sotol ever since this paff of
the country was discovered by the span
iards, and here comes some kind of I..,.
rulin' made by some jumpin' jack Nm
there at Washington and cuts us I,
lows off from one of our principal la-
tions.
IN bet the man who is responsible
for dom away with maxim sotol never.
tasted the liquor in his life. Sotol Wine
is nectar for the gods.
Il guess | can go without it, but jn>l
wait until the MeXicans along the river
hear that they can't get any more sot7l
to drink and you will see the biggest "a,
odus of Greasers bound for Mexico that
was ever witnessed in these parts
Sotol is to the people of these parts
what whisky is to the men of kentuckv.
Small sotol distilling plants have been h,
operation all through this region from,
time immemOrial.
The sotol grows prOfusely upon thu.
ranches of the extreme southwestern
part of Texas and of northern Mexico.
1t is a semi-desert plant and in drought
it is fed to cattle and sheep in lieu If
grass.
In all the border saloons soto can Lr
bought. 1t has long been a favorte hey
erage with the Mexicans who work upon
the ranches and live in the TERRITORY
where the sotoi plant thriyes.
The sotol liquor is said to possess ,
peculiar quality which nerves men m
| to do desperate deeds. To be a real
/ 'Ombre a man must take a few drinks
of sotol.
! 1t is related that at the time Bill Tay-
lor and his band of outlaws held up ana
robbed the Overland express on the
| Southern Pacific near Comstock. Il few
years ago, they were all more than half
drunk on sotol. When three members
of the gang were captured in the Davis
mountains several days later they had
on hand half empty jug of sotol They
had been forced to tighten their burdens
| by dropping a big bag of silver, but they
| retained the jug of sotol.
| 1t has been said by physicians that
sotol is one of the purest and most
healthful of all alcoholic liquors. Ii
taken in moderate quantities it builds
| up the system.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07
Rio de Janeiro, the City Beautiful.

Rev. Francis +. Clark writes from Rio
de Janeiro to the Boston Transcript:
After seeing most of the principal cities
of the world, | had settled down to the
opinion that Budapest and Stockholm
We're, on the whole. in my estimation. the
most beautiful of modern capitals. but +
had NOT then seen Rio de Janeiro.
For all its wonders of nature the trav-
eller is prepared. He has heard of them
he has read of them. he has perhaps
dreamed of them; but for the wonders of
the city itself he is not prepared. unless
he is very much up to date. for they
have largely been created within the last
two years Suddenly Rio de Janeiro
seemed to arouse itself from the sleep of
centuries and say: Il will be beautiful
as well as great, and | will make nv
streets and the buildings which line them
worthy of the unrivaled situation which
nature has given me-" But this was no
easy undertaking. 1t would have stag
gered Il Boss Shepherd or Il Yankee mag
nate with tens of millions at his disposal.
In an old world city it would have been
thought absolutely impossible. but these
South American cities have n way of
laughing at impossibiities wide Buenos
Ayres as well as Rio de Janeiroe They
may seem comparatively dormant for
decades, and then suddenly emerge from
their chrysalis. like one of their own bril-
liant butterflies that dazzle the fields i'm
their blue and gold glory,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07
LIGHTHEART LANE.

Where the birds in hedges blossomy
Their lyric notes repeat,
Till II corning drips with melody
Mellliuously sweet;
Where bees from Drumming buttercups
AmbrOsia, nectars drain
o no, but let's 20 lettering!
O hey, for Lightheart Lane!
Where ways stretch cool and shadowy
To lure the laggard feet,
And little winds leap laughingly
Down ranks Of ripping wheat;
Where wild blooms pelt the butterflies
With gusts of rosy rain
o no. but let's 90 lettering!
o hey, for Lightheart Lane!
Let's leave the clash and clamoring,
The dust and din and heat;
Let's quit the cramping sordidness
And struggles of the street:
For one full day of joyousness
Let's slip the gives of pain
o no. but let's 90 loiteringi
q hey, for Lightheart Lane!
Hilton X. Greer in Lippincott's.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07
Both of One Mind.

A fat Irish woman, bearing a numl,r
of bundles, entered a crowded tram car.
The only semblance of Il seat she coul
find was a small space at the right # a
disagreeable youth. Into this space,
sufficient only for an individual of orl.-
nary size, the feshy Irish woman
squeezed herself, much TO the annoyauD.
of the youth. After a moment or so r.e
Irish woman produced a cheese ~au.-
wich. which she proceeded to devanr
disgust and drew the skirts Of his fro.s
closer to him. Il suppose. me lad, Goo.
naturally said the woman. that y":
prayfer-r to have a -gintleman ~,fto
mkt to ye|' Il certainly would.
snapped the youngster. 80 would
calmly responded the fat person.
Illustrated Bits
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07

And devil-chasers are as scarce r.-
adays' as they were in the days Of ",
The. average farmer will drive ufr..
out OF ms way to avoid close r.,
cause he fears its effective mean.
defense, but more because traditjnn -,
endowed the animal with powers ~ ''.S
most preternatural magnitude. and
the absence of proof to the cont,
tradition keeps the whiphand over ,..,
mon sense. Superstition was ever 0...I
to oyerturn.-From a Night VII.
Jersey Skunker," by William II. Kin
ell. in The Outing Magazine.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07
Kansas County's Coyote Bounties.

The bounty on coyote scalps has
reached a stage where it is one of the
big bills met bS,~I,her -cnm2stSSsaz e commissions
ers at each session of the board. and 10
such an extent has it grown that many
persons make the hunting of the coyote
n business for the very reason that it
pays and pays big.
Scalps are turned into the county at
the regular 81 rate in punches as high
rs fifty to a man, while a count shows
that upward of 500 coyotes We're gath
cred in durigg April. May end June of
his year in this county, and the treasury
has been touched 81 per head. 1t has
truly reached stage of the greatest i'm
nortance. financially if not Otherwise
irnnekn CAnitnl.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07
Tupelo Now Used.

Tupclo. timber which in its best
grade closely resembles yellow poplar,
is now being extensively cut for tim
her in the south and promises to be-
come Of great value in view of the
growing scarcity of suitable wood for
lumber. II appears that the wood is
useful for a considerable variety of pur-
poses, hut "s not durable in contact
with the ground, and requires much care
in seasoning" Besides being largely
used for packing boxes Mr., Holroyd
states that il has almost REPLACED cy-
press and pine i'll tramwayS." The tree
is found from southern Virginia TO
northern Florida and westward TO Tex
rs. Arkansas and Missouri. and is fire.
quently associated with cypress.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07
Last of Famous Lumber Boom.

The world famous Susquehanna boom
at Williamsport is soon to become a
thing of the past. 1t is stated that the
lumber companies now putting logs into
the West Branch will close out their
stock in two more annual drives. after
which the boom company will erect q
sawmiu themselves and manufacture the
lumber contained in the boOmsticks
rafting platforms and crib timbers. A
stone crusher will be employed to make
the stones with which the
cribs are filed, and the boom will be
entirely Observation-Disclosures Rec
ord
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07
Norwegian Whale Fisheries.

The Norwegian whale fisheries eXtea
over nearly the whole of the Arctic sea
from the north of Norway toward So
bergen. and even to the Shetland islands
The whales are shot from small steam
ers. the bomb harpoon being used.
is IN arrow shaped iron spear furH
with a line. 1t is discharged from
small cannon. 4 whale will dra-
vessel a long distance until il hs,
exhausted and expires. ii is then
TO the anchorage. where il i strip
the bluhber This whale fishery VS.
gun in lS2S. Thirty whales Were Iii,
the first wear. One thousand amt -
whales Were taken in 1891 whl.
men were engaged on twenty-Cv,
erS. At first only the blubher was
ICED for train oil: now the bone
crushed for manure and the flesh r.
for fertilizer-BoSton Transcript.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07

be exhibited in next years salon. The
senator sat for the portrait in Washing
ton last fall. and completed the sittings
at the artists studio in Paris this sum
mer when he went over to be married.
With the exception of Nine. Rosa Bon
heur. this American artist is the only
woman whose works have been pur-
chased for permanent exhibition in the
Luxembourg gallery in Paris. She ana
Rosa Bonheur have the honor of being
the only women painters who have been
decorated with the cross Of the Legion
Of Honor.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07
Skunks.

The trade of the skunk-hunter is one
of the Few occupations Of the present
that is not overcrowded. Nor is il likely
10 be. The animal bears a bad name,
and is summed among men for reasons
which border on the supernatural No
fre-hreathing dragon was ever gifted bv
popular superstition with more terror
inspiring powers of defense than this
little pariah of the wilderness. Indeed
with due regard to the fitness Of the APP
relation. one may term the skunk the
MephiStophcIeS Of the four-leSEed world
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07

The accident to the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company's steamer Acapulco,
ut San Franrisco, recalls The recent ac-
cident to one Of the big German trans
atlantic lines, She filled while lying at
her dock, and rolled over ON her side
Carelessness in regard to sea cocks, or
in trimming the fuel OF the cargo, is re-
sponsihle for occurrences of this kind.
because ships are stable when they are
properly hallasted
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07
Bank of the Negus- Negusti

According 10 Daily Consular
Trade Reports. a bank has been t~..
lished in Ahyssinia under q deere ,
sued by the Emperor The headQnaE
are to be in Adds .tbeba but the '..'
is TO be directed from Cairo. and
formed under the auspices Of III" y.
tional Bank Of Egypt. The Briti>H
sui at Ad1is-Abeba says that since
granting Of the concession the ir>'..
has been the object Of much i1'-
and has had against il the i-uHr-
banking matters Of the public
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07

That story from Wilmington is a good
one. Think of mosquitoes being so fero-
cious along the shores, of the Delaware
Bay as to interfere with the delivery of
the mail by intimidating rural letter car.
riers! What is the use of worrying for
fear that the telegraphers' strike will
cripple the newspapers, while the news
papers can supply yarns like that?
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07

The venerable yiolinst. Joseph Joa-
chin, now &c. has this summer for the
first time been unable to accompany his
famous string quartette TO London. and
it is feared that his intirmities will COM
pei him to give up public appearances
altogether. In London, by the way,
successor for him is already being found
in the boy violinist Mischa Elman.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07
Paternal Duties.

Modern life with its haste and hustle.
leaves TOO little time for the joys of IA
tberhood. One father comes home late
from business tired and peevish. aud cam
not devote much time to his children.
aven if he Would, Another has had
enouch Of the cares and worries of the
3av. and seeks dissipation outside the
home. Yet fathers can give their chill
lreu something better than money: they
can give Observation-Disclosures Moaat-
.chrift.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07
Rights of Man Who Walks.

Only in Great Britain. so far as
know does the law hold that a foot
passenger has an equal right to the high
yav with the wheeled traffic, and that
II is the duty Of the driver of the latter
n avoid at all costs the former. even if
he has to do so at considerable inconven-
fence and often danger. In other coun-
tries. on the contrary, it is the duty of
Tho pedestrian TO give way To the
Wheeled tratic.-The Car.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07

The extent of the achievements of mo-
tor engineers who are striving for speed
on the water is indicated by the perform
amce of the Den, craft twenty-three
feet long, built by a Herreshoff, which on
trial trip went at the rate of thirtytwo
miles an hour at three-quarter pressure.
This is tremendous pace for craft
only little longer than skiff.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07

Prince Oui vi, one of the Korean dele
gates to The Hague who have arrived in
this county to seek redress for their
countrys grievances is only % years
of age, and is no stranger in Washing
ton. as he was educated there while his
father was the Korean minister.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07

DIR. Frank H. Bostwick of plain6eld.
y. j., has arrived home after having
spent five months in Morocco as the
special dentist TO the family of the Sui
tam As assistant to Or. llorestau
Aquilar of the Spanish court. nr. Rost.
wick has worked for several years ON
the teeth of Spanish royalty. usually
spending about nine months out of the
year IN Spain. His new title. "Dentist
TO Ills Shereehan Majesty. the Sultan
at Morocco makes him subject to calls
from tile east al any time. The doctor
brought home with him a large Moorish
saddle. gold mounted aud carved stir
rups and hit being also of gold. Besides.
lie received gold mounted brcastplate
and heavy gold collar. part of the ac-
eonlremeutS of the royal Moor when
riding These were Sits from the Sui
tan personally, and accompanying them
was a richly embroidered saddle cloth of
the SuItan'S own colorS. This is said TO
b" the only instance in recent Years in
which a foreigner not a member of the
court has been known To he lllowed So
wear chest, Colors
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07

Lord Strathcona's prediction that lin
few years Canada will have as large
population as the United States, if not
larger one" may be fulfilled, but the
United States won't he idle in the mean
,lae in the matter of growth.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07

The Bellerophon, which succeeded the
famous Dreadnaught in bearing the hon
or of being the biggest battleship afloat,
has herself-heen- sncceeded by the Teme-
raire, a still larger battleship. The Brit
iSh admiralty seems to be convinced that
big guns require huge platforms. The
Temeraire will carry ten 12-nch guns,
and will be able to fire eight of them
hroadside
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07

John X. Dos Passes of New York, in
an address before the Virginia Bar as
ISOLATION at jamestown, advocated for
the government of New York city the
Texas plan Of a commission with five
members.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07

An eight-foot canal was recently
opened i'll Canada which enables pleasure
craft aud small commercial vessels to 90
from the kawaitha lakes to Lake Sim
zoe, a distance of 1GO miles. The sig
nihcan e Of this new waterway lies in the
fact that it is part of the route for the
proposed deep canal to connect Georgian
bay with the 81. Lawrence river at Mon
treaI. This much-mootci connection
with the sea would be very short cut,
and Canada will doubtless undertake its
construction in the course Of few years.