Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-10-26

large department store makes manS.
sales IN them. As TO dogs, the Pat.;,y
csc ana Japanese spaniels are still 70.
vorites, although Pomeranians are Ia
coming popular. Fox and irish terr;os-
are still great pets and the marker =
hardly able to keep up with the demand
This is attributed to their small 80.
which enables the ladies to carry tbaIe
IN Their arms on their shopping tours
An ocean greyhound held in leash for
girl. such was the unique honor accor5a5
Miss Margaret Forsyth. daughter of
Alexander Forsyth, superintendent of tbo
chicago, burlington 4 Quincy Railroad
shops, who arrived in Aurora. IN 70
Gently from an European tour.
Al Liverpool. where Miss FORSYTH was
TO embark on the Friesiand, she was toI5
that the boat would sail at ) p. m. Size
was az the dock at ,, but the steamer
had departed. Miss Forsyth did not
shed any tears. She telegraphed 70
Queenstown and started at once for thst
CITY by rail, sailing across st. George's
channel.
The Irish Mail. the famous train Of
Ireland, helped her on her journey to
Queenstown, where the Friesland was
waiting with steam up
An American automobiles traval;n,.
in the region of Dieppe, France VS.
surprised to read on a sign IN 6"Lds
Grass. Short-tailed horses half fran
a day. Long-tailed horses one franc =
day" Thinking he had discoyered d
French Mark Twain he dismountedde ana 4
inquired, but found that he was face n
face with perfectly serious PROPOSE.
ton. The sturdy farmer explained 70
him in the best Norman French thar
during summer the flies annoy the
horses so much that the short-tailed anil
mails are kept busy brushing them off
with mouth as well as with tail, conse-
quently they can only eat half as much
as the long-tailed ones. The eanny Nor
| man farmers know this so well that the
regular tariff of half-price has become
established for the short-tailed horses.
A little yellow dog, which happened
| to be frothing at the mouth, held up
| the entire Connellsville section of the
Baltimore ~ Ohio railroad for an hour
| and half. and it was not until five
| hours afterward that the trains on the
| road began to make their regular sched-
| ule.
office at White Rock, Pa The train
dispatcher just took time to hold up
every train on the division, and then he
| and the operators vacated the office
| Word was sent to Connellsville, and Po-
! liceman John Lowe was hurriedly sent
| to the Office. He reached there about
an hour afterward, looked at the dog
| declared that it wasn't mad, chased If
out of the office, the dispatcher and the
/ operators returned, and the railroad re-
/ sumed business.
| DIR. William M. Starr, to celebrate his
one hundredth birthday at Washington,
rendered a banquet to the Oldest Inhabi-
tant's association.
/ :,
| declared the centenarian to his guests.
There's no secret about it. 1t lies in
stopping just before the limit is reached.
! When l was young l never walked or
ran as fast as | could. | never ate as
much as | could, and / always stopped
while | had some reserve energy"
| DIR. Starr was born at Bull Run, Va,
during President Jefferson's administra-
ton. All of his ancestors were renowned
for longevity. his father dying at the age
| of 103, his paternal grandfather at the
age of 105 and his great-grandfather at
the age of 104 years. DIR. Starr, how
ever. does not attribute his unusual lease
Of life in any way to heredity, but the
fact that he has always abstained from
excuses and has lived close to nature
He is a botanist of renown and has been
in active medical practice here since
1876
Betrayed by the dainty white hands
that, it is alleged, held rifle over travel
ers until they delivered their valuables,
Mrs. George Wren of Tangipahoa, La,
parish is under arrest here, charged with
highway robbery. Her young son,
Charles, is also in Jail, charged with be-
/ ing an accomplish. The woman is
highly respected resident of the place.
The beauty of her hands and her
proud. neat figure gained fame through
out the neighhorhood. One by one those
victims of the slim, alert footpad who
sprung at them ON wooded roads noted
the dainty grace of the 1.-THE figure be-
meath the shrouding rain coat. but what
attracted their startled attention most
was the elegant, tapering fingers which
deity picked out their valuables.
When the sheriff went to arrest Mrs.
Wren she sprang to her rifle, which
rested near the door. Knowing the
woman's reputation as a sharpshooter,
he entered the house with a leyeled re-
vover in each hand and gave her no
chance to use the weapon.
Miss Della Patchett, belle of Cor
doya. Md, could not make up her mind
| Louis Plugge or William Il. Tarbutt0n.
both wealthy young farmers of Talbot
county Ma. She says yes to Louis
| Plugge and he, triumphantly happy,
went to Easton and got a marriage Ii
cense. Then he sent friend, mounted
on a gaily caparisoned horse, through
| the county to ask all his acquaintance
| to his wedding at the Plugge homestead
This was his undoing, for the news
came to Tarbutton's ears Undismayed
/ Tarbutton drove to Easton and got
marriage license. Then he FASTENED to
Miss Della's home.
! "Oh. Willr' cried that wavering
young woman delightedly. ''I'm so glad
to see you, for now l know l love you
best
She drove off with Tarbutton. While
1 100 guests We're waiting for the brids
at Plugge's home she was being mar
ried TO Tarbutton. When the truth be-
came known poor Plugge, in Respondent
! depths. received condolences, not the
congratulations he had joyously antici-
pated.
Escaping from the states prison in
September. 1906, and touring the south
western states as REV ]. Williams,
evangelist" making hundreds of coii-
verts, Allen j. Lawrence has voluntarily
al IN