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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

Miss Mary cambridge Peck of Ster-
ling, Mass, has presented to the min
eralogical museum of Harvard univer-
city a collection of minerals made by
her grandfather and father. The gift
contains about GOO specimens, some of
which are of considerable value, and all
of which will be useful in adding to the
resources of the meteorological museum.
Miss Peck's grandfather, who started
this collection, was Prof. William Dam
bridge Peck of the class of 1882, who
held from 1906 to 1922 the position of
first Massachusetts professor of natu-
raj history" in Harvard Her father,
DIR. William Peck, was also a graduate
of Harvard, receiving the degree of Alb.
in 1888 and the M. d. in 1885, For this
reason Miss Peck thought it appropriate
that the collection should come to Har-
ward. From Miss Maria Whitney of
Cambridge the university has recently
received a gift of $4,000, the income of
which is to be used for the maintenance
of the Whitney library in the Museum
of Zoology.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

Within radius Of six miles, taking
Hopkins Mills, r. l., as a center, there
live in the township of Foster six peo-
pie whose combined ages make a total
Of 56S years. OF these the oldest is
Mrs. Laura Hopkins, aged 90, and the
youngest, Mrs Eliza Bancroft, is 81.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

The Duchess of Marlborough, who is
now visiting her mother, Mrs. o. III. p.
Belmont. will sell candy at charity
b-saar next Saturday at Harbor Hill,
Roslyn, L. l., the Clarence Maekay
place Mrs. Mackay, who was then
Miss Florence Duer. was a bridesmaid
at the wedding of the duchess.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

Mrs. Margaret Ash of the miscellan-
eous division of the bureau of engraving
and printing at Washington, recently
celebrated the forty-fourth anniversary
of her entering the service of the govern
ment. During the Civil war Mrs. Ash
was appointed a printers assistant in the
bureau.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

The Litchfeld, Conn, County Bar as
ISOLATION has appointed a committee on
the purchase and preservation of the
Tapping Reeve Law school, the first law
school in America. The school was
bought recently by d. G. Kilburn, clerk
Of the superior court, who feared it
would fall into other hands.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

Venerable Ira Haworth of Kansas
City recently exhibited to friends who
came to congratulate him on his Goth
birthday black walnut cane whitfield
out and presented to him by Abraham
Lincoln in 1860. "The cane,'' said Lin
soln to its recipient, sis to use when you
get old. | know you will live to be old,
because the good die young
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

achieved long fights in their kite-like air.
ship, and their ideas as to the important
considerations of buoyancy and equilibri-
UNI are based upon repeated private ex-
nnrimertS
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

A New Jersey man is said to be a
claimant for a share of the estate of the
Duke of Portland. When Americans
want foreign money they generally seek
it through the channels of the probate
courts. When foreigner wants Ameri-
can money he usually seeks an American
heiress.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

A famous English violinist who died
recently at the age of Sc was G. III.
Swornsbourne, who lived at Cambridge
and was affectionately known there as
''White-haired Bob" The Bob is of
obscure origin, but for the epithet he did
not have to wait for old age; he was an
albino. with white hair and eyebrows
and pink ewes
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

DIR. Leonard Atwood, Of the geological
survey, has returned from a nine months
stay in Alaska He visited and inspected
twenty coal deposits in southeastern
Alaska, in the vicinity Of Nome, and in
the Tanana district. He reports that
they are all of the best quality for steam
ing purposes, and will urge that large
expedition be sent by the government to
Alaska next year to exploit all sections
of the territory
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

If it be true, as reported, that the
United States government has obtained
control of the aeroplane flying machine
constructed by the Wright brothers. of
Dayton, Ohio, the experiments to be con-
Quoted by the government in the develop
nent of the machine for war service
VIII attract the attention of aeronauts the
yorld over The Wright brothers have
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

-Four generations live under one roof
in Reading, Pa. The oldest person,
Thomas ]. Wilson, is rs years, and the
youngest is a girl aged IS months.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

1t is announced from Vienna that
by experiment in the Imperial Academy
of Sciences nearly three grams of radium
have been extracted from 10000 kilos
Of pitchblend at one-third the cost of
previous production. As the cost for
raidum has been about $3,000,000 an
ounce, the success of the Vienna expert
ments will not invite orders in ton lots.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

William Stoll. once famous clarinet
sOloist. who played with Jenny Lind,
Rubenstein. Ole Bull and other great
musicians, died on Sunday in Philadel-
phia. aged 81.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

Mayor j. NJ. Grace of Mascot, Neb.,
who is the father of twelve children,
all of whom are living, is the manager
Of a baseball team, and thinks of start
ing out next season with a nine of his
0xyn
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

Rev. DIR. Edwin +. Hellenbeek Of
Binghamton has accepted the post of as.
sociate pastor of the Fifth Avenue Pres
byterian church, New York, and will
take active part in the evangelistic cam
paign recently begun by Rev. DR.. ].
Ross Stevenson, the pastor. DR.. HELEN
beck has been pastor of the West Pres.
byterian church in Binghamton since
1901. and only recently resigned as presi-
dent of the New York State Christian
Endeavor society.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

Eugene D'Albert recently celebrated
the twenty-tifth anniversary Of his first
public appearance as pianist. He was
born in Glasgow, studied with List, and
has become an out-and-out German.
After writing number of unsuccessful
operas he has ut last won big success
with his "Tiefand." In Berlin, Cologne.
and Frankfort this opera has been so
much applauded that number of other
theaters have put it into rehearsal.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

With $4,000 as their profits for the
football season of 1907, the Yale grid
iron experts can figure neat return on
every successful kick at the inflated zig
chin
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-08-01
Easy to Win $4,000 in Prizes.

You would consider it good days
business if you made $1,000 net, and
you can do this over and above your
regular days business if you grow
Lilly's Best Seeds and exhibit same
at your state fair. All you have to
do is to hang up in a conspicuous
place a card bearing the following in
scription: Grown from Lilly's Best
Seeds"
The Chas. H. Lilly Co. offer this
prize of $1,000 at each of the state
fairs of Washington, California, Ore
gon and Idaho, making $4,000 in all.
If yours is the best collection of
vegetable or farm products, according
to the opinion of the official judges,
if they are grown from Lilly's Best
Seeds and if the exhibit card is placed
to this effect, then get an award from
the judge or secretary and mail to
Chas H. Lilly Co., Seattle, Portland
or San Francisco, and upon receipt of
same they will send you $1,000 in
cash. If you are going to exhibit
write and ask them for one of their
display cards and it will be sent you
free of charge.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-08-01
ENCOURAGE the Fine Stock Raiser.

Editor The Ranch: l have this
morn read with special interest w. D.
Goodrich's article, 'It Pays to Raise
Registered Stock" on page Is of the
July LIST issue. 1t is a remarkably
good, practical article, and you should
have such one in every issue. The
Pacific northwest is annually losing
millions of dollars from lack of quail
ity and care of the stock raised here;
and some of the breeders of choice,
pure bred stock are getting discour-
aged from lack of appreciation of
their efforts and lack of markets for
what they raise, when they know their
customers would double their profits
by buying and using better breeding
stock. A trip through almost any
part of the northwest will prove to
any good judge that much of the stock
raised is scarcely worth what little
feed and care they get. Yet most of
the owners could easily get better
stock that would yield a big profit
No good fruit grower now cares to
raise scrubby Gull fruit, but it is far
worse trying to succeed by raising
scrubby Gull stock. Yours truly,
L. K. COGSWELL.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-08-01

who said, "Yo cain never tel wen dat
fool null am goin' to balk."
This is entirely wrong when one
makes as much of study of the gaso-
line engine as is ordinarily made of
the growing of any farm produce. The
gasoline engine, at least the better
ones, are not at all complex and do
not require close attention in but a
few essential points. None of the
points are difficult to understand.
1t is true as has been said in a pre-
vious article in these columns, that
when one pays $50 for a gasoline en-
CINE, he usually gets about $50 worth
and seldom, if ever, any more.
C. H. Palmer, manager for Monroe
& Shelton at 1915 Western avenue,
Seattle, in an interview concerning
their engines, said in part:
Our aim has always been simplicity
combined with durability and efficien-
cy. We realide that the farmer hum
dred miles from the main store, has
not the opportunity to secure repairs
and we therefore have built our en-
gines SO that he will not have to give
careful attention to but very few
things. When he does give careful at
tention to these few points, his engine
will run along smoothly and give him
no trouble.
Our engines are shipped complete
and ready for immediate operation.
"All that is required to start them
is to fill the cooling tank with water,
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-08-01

the base with gasoline and connect
the battery wire. Thereafter, all that
is required is to keep the engine sup
piled with gasoline, the cooling tank
filled with water and the gear parts
we'll oiled with first class lubricating
oil. Our sparker is supplied with a
device which automatically cleans it,
so that there is never any danger of
the sparker becoming gummed up
from dust, etc. This always insures
a perfect spark.
Our engine will burn distillate as
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-08-01

readily as gasoline, and the former
costs less than half the latter.
Most of our engines are built on
skids, making them portable. This
does away with the necessity of ex-
pensive countershafting and enables
the farmer to move them from point to
point. This enables him to utilize
them at his feed CUTTER his churn, his
wood saw, his pump, or at any other
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-08-01

point where he might wish power.
''It is impossible for us to go farther
into details in this interview, but we
would be glad indeed to supply any
information and prices of our engines
to any farmer who may be interested"
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-08-01

Utility Of the Gasoline Engine.
A great many farmers seem to labor
under the impression that the gasoline
engine is something on the order of
the southern mule, owned by the darky
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-06

Coeoanuts Cheap in Cuba.
Cocoanuts sell for about a cent and
a half apiece In Cuba.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-06

and man, were uncertain and slippery
and that Il was best to keep the secret
courtshlp from all eyes and cara. Mrs.
Lincoln told Mr.. Lincoln that, though
she had released him in the letter spo.
ken OF. yet she would hold the question
an open onc--that Is. that she had not
changed her mind. but felt a. nj.
ways. - The marriage Of Mr.. Lin
coin and Mary was quick and sudden
one or two hours notice" How poor
Mr.. Lincoln felt about II may he gath.
cred from the "reminiscences of his
friend ]. II. Mathaly. who says shat
Lincoln and himself. In 1912, were
very friendly: that Lincoln came TO
him one evening and said. 'Jim I shall
have to marry that girl" lie was
married that evening, but. Matheny
says. che looked rs IL he was going to
the slaughter and that Lincoln had
often told him directly and indiyidu.
ally that he was driven into the mar.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-06

Springfield. ILL.,, Feb. 10, 1872.
Dear speed-Yours OF the list inst. came
TO hand three or four days ago. When
this shall reach you you will have been
Fanny's husband several days. You
know my desire to befriend you II ever
lasting. that l VIII never cease while
know how to do anything.
But you will always hereafter be on
ground that i have never occupied. and
consequently IL advice were needed
might advise wrong. do fondly hope.
however, that you VIII never again need
any comfort from abroad But. should
lie mistaken In this. should excessive
pleasure still be accompanied with pain
ful counterpart NJ times, sun let me urge
you, as have ever done. to remember In
the depth ana even agony OF despond,
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-06

Springfield, Feb 70. 1Si2.
Dear Speed-I received yours OF the 18th.
written the day you went down to VIII
liam's place some days since but delayed
answering It till should receive the
promised one of the 18th, which came last
night. l opened the letter with intense
anxiety and trepidation--so much that.
although It turned out better than ex-
pected. have hardly yet at the distance
of ten hours, become calm.
tell you, Speed. our forebodlngs (for
which you and are pecullar) are all the
worst sort OF nonsense. | fancied from
the time I received your letter of Satur-
day that the one Of Wednesday was never
to come. and yet Il did come. and. what
Is more. II Is perfectly clear both from Its
tone and handwriting that you were much
happier. or II you think the term prefer
able. less miserable. when you wrote II
than when YOU wrote the last one before.
You had so obviously improved at thu
very time / so much fanccd you would
have grown worse. You say that some
thing indescribnbly horrible and alarm
ing still haunts YOU. You will not say
that three month9 from now. I will ven
ture when your nerves once get steady
now the whole trouble win be over for
ever. Nor should you become impatient
Mt their being even very slow in becoming
steady. Again. you say you much fear
that that Elyslum Of which you have
dreamed so much " never to he realized
Well. II Il shall not. I dare swear II will
not he the fault Of her who IL now you,
wife. ! now have no doubt that It IL the
peculiar misfortune Of both you and me
TO dream dreams Of Elysium far exceed.
Ing all that anything earthly can realize
Far short cf Your dreams as you may he
no woman could do more to realize them
| than that same black eyed Fanny. If yor
could but contemplate her through my
! Imagination II would appear ridiculous tc
| you that any ono should for n moment
think of being unhappy with her, My old
| father used To have n saying that "1f yot
make n bad bargain hug II all the tight
! er," and II orcurs TO me that. n the bar.
| gain you have Just closed can possibly
| he called n bad one, n IL certainly the
most pleasant one for applying thai
maxim to which my fancy can by any
! effort picture.
| / write another letter, lnclosing this
which YOU cnn show her II she desires II
| ! do this because she would thlnl
strangely perhaps should you tell he
| that You received no letters from me or
| telling her you do, refuse to let her SCI
them. close this. entertaining the con
ndent hope that every successive letter
| shall have from you (Which / here pra!
may not be few nor far between) ma,
show you possessing a more steady hant
and cheerful heart than tho last preced
ing II. As ever. your friend,
LINCOLN
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-06

Springfield ILL.,. Feb. .. 1912.
Dear Specd-Your letter OF the 25th Of
January came to hand today. You well
know that I do not feel my own sorrows
much more keenly tfan do yours. whcr
I know of them, and yet ! assure you
was not much hurt by what YOU wrote
mo of your excessively bad feeling at the
time you wrote. Not that | am less capa-
BILE OF sympothizing with you now than
ever. not that I am less your friend
than ever. but because I hope and believe
that scur present anxiety md distress
about hcr health and her lifc must and
win forever Danish those horrd doubts
which lTow YOU sometimes fclt as &c
the trEtr - your affection for hcr. II
they car once and forever he removed
land almost feel prcsentiment that the
Almighty has sent your present aiIiictlon
expressly for that obiect. surely nothing
can come IN their stead to fill their Inn
measurable measure Of misery. The
death scenes of those we love are surely
painful enough. hut these we are pre-
pared for ard expect to see; they happen
to all, and all know they must happen
Painful ms they are, they are not an
unlocked for sorrow. Should she, as YOU
fear. he destined to an early grave. II Is
indeed great consolation to know that
she Is so well prepared to meet It. iIcI
religion. which you once disliked so much
i Will venture you now prize most highly
But | hope your melancholy bodings ms
to her carly death are not well founded
I even hope that ere this reaches you
she will have returned with improved and
still improving health and that you will
have met her and forgotten tho sorrow;
OF the past In the enjoyment of the pres
ent. / would say more II I could, but Il
seems that ! have said enough. Ii really
appears to me that you yourself ought h
rejoice. and not sorrow, mt this indubita
BILE evidence OF your undylng affection fol
her.
why. Speed. II you did not love her
although you might not wish her death
you would most certainly be resigned I,
It. Perhaps this point Is no longer a ques
ton with you and my pertlnacious dwell
lng upon II Is rude intrusion upon you
know the hell shave suffered upon tina
point and how tender l am upon II. Yo,
know ! do not mean wrong. l have beef
quite clear of hypo since you left even
better than l was along In the fall.
have seen - but once. She seemed yer,
cheerful, and so / said nothing to he
about what we spoke Of
Old Uncle Billy Herndon Ii dead. ant
II In said this evening that Uncle Bel
Ferguson will not live This. believe 4
all the news and enough. at that. unles
II were better
Write me Immediately on the receipt o
this. Your friend as ever.
LINCOLN
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-06
Continued Next Issue,
Listen

and remember the next time you SUI.
fer from pain--caused by damp wealth.
er-when your head nearly bursts
with neuralgia-try Billiards. Snow
Liniment. 1t will cure you. A prom
inent business man OF Hampstead,
Texas, writes; 81 have used your
liniment. Previous to using IL | was
great sufferer from Rheumatism and
Neuralgia, am pleased TO say that
now am free from these complaints
/ am sure | owe this to your liniment
Sold by Ritter Bros. Drug Co.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-06
sprlngneld. Ill. July 4. 4

Springfield. Ill. July T. 1sil.
Dear Specd--Yours of the 18th June was
received only day or two since. 1t was
not mailed at Louisville till the 18th. You
speak OF the great time that has elapsed
since | wrote you. Let me explain that.
Your letter reached here u day or two
after had started on the circuit. | was
gone five or six weeks. so that | got the
letters only few weeks before Butler
started to your country. l thought II
scarcely worth while to write you the
news which he could and would tell you
more In detail. ON his return he told me
you would write me soon. 80 I waited for
your letter. Az to nv having been dis.
pleased with your advice. surely you
know better than that. | know you dc
and therefore win not labor to convince
you. True. that subject Is painful TO me,
but II Is not your silence or the silence
OF all tho world that can make me forget
IT, / acknowledge the correctness OF your
advice. too. but before | resolve to dc
the one thing or the other | must gain
my confidence In my own ability To keer
my resolves when they are made. In that
ability you know I once prided myself
ms the only or chief gem of my character
That gem | lost. how and where you
know too we'll | have not yet reGained
It. and until do 1 cannot trust myself IN
any matter of much Importance. 7 be-
lieve now that had you understood my
case Mt the time we'll M / understood
yours aftorward by the aid you would
have given me ] should have sailed
through clear but that does not now az
ford me sufficient confidence to begin tina
or the like OF that again.
You make kind Acknowledgement OF
your obligations to me for your present
happiness. | am much pleased with that
acknowledgment. but thousand times
more am ! pleased to know that You en-
JOY Il degree of happiness worthy OF an
Acknowledgement. The truth Is | nm moi
sure that there was any went with me
In the part took IN your difficulty;
was drawn to It as by fate. IL | would
! could not have done less than | did.
always was superstltous: I believe Got
made me one OF the instruments of bring
ing your Fanny and You together, whirl
union have no doubt he had foreoranin
cd Whatever he designs he will do fol
me yet. stand still and see the salvation
OF the Lord Is my text just now IL, n'
You say. you have told Fanny all,
should have no objection to her seems
this letter but for its reference to oul
friend here Let her seeing II depend
upon whether she has ever known any
thing OF my affairs. and II she has moi
do not let her.
do not think can come to Kentucky
this season. I am so poor and make s,
little Roadway in the world that l droI
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-06

ppiilgnelht ffN' ~ 1874.
Dear Speed-Yours OF the 18th inst. an
nouncing that Miss Fanny ana YOU are
mo more twain, but one flesh" reached
me this morning. | have no way ur tell
ing how mucn happiness | wish you both
though believe ynr both can conceive IL
| feel somewhat jrnlous OF Moth OF You
now--you Will he 50 exclusively concerned
for ono another that ! shall he forgotten
entirely. My acquaintance with Miss
Fanny Il call her this lest YOU should
think | am speaking Of your motheD was
too short for me TO reasonably hope to
long be remembered by her. aud stll
am sure shall not forget her soon. Try
II you cannot remind her Of that debt
she owes me, and he sure you do not In
tcrferc to prevent her paying II.
| regret TO learn that YOU have Resolved
to not return to Illinois. | shall he very
lonesome without you. How miserable
thinFa soon to bc arranged In this world,
II we have no frlcuds. we have no pleas
ur". mud. " We have them. we are SUR
To- los thcm and he dcuhy poincd by the