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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-25

Let the children, and make fajg'E.
help. Your children will know "uH
your brothers children want.
2-Make a list of all the folks to "r
remembered Do it now. Divide the Us,
among the members of the family, anu
let the ones whose Judgment yon a.U''
report plans before making purchases.
3-lf you have tree, make laGA u.
stead of labor of decorating. Let al ,a'
adults help, and neighbors who haT" "'
children.
A gift is supposed to represent E"9
wealth of affection, not your bans ...
ance.
you will give more pleasure wit. "
thoughtful gift thau with an e\pai'.'
one.
6-Getting a big show for the " ..,
may do for some wedding. but never '"
any Christmas.
7-If the panic or any other upset ''-
made it impossible for you 10 give
usual. write letters instead. Your ii.'.'
will like you all the better, sure. .f
S-Don't leave letters and caT'~
the last moment Write them 81 goo.
convenience and hold them till ri. q.
er time.
ANAL everything to reach .,.
friends before Christmas, aud m''A
packages open Christmas. latr
and late Christmas packages af" gu.
class. I'D
10-Do your shopping early; go"
the crowd; you help the mer'Ha"
Salespeopie, and you get large
ton -#
11-Wrap your gifts caret'N .....
daintily They give 50 much more ..
ure than a sloppy package. eve
rushed as if you begrudged the h.'. I'D.
12-If You send cigars, C!~r"'"-
brand and don't send worse. -..
13-Remember the people WI.
served you. r.a
14-Any poor near you?-Eve.2
Magazine.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-25
So Peculiar.

The janltor Is so polite
Peculiar,
lie keeps the heat up day and night
Peculiar!
The halboys are obligng and they try so
hard TO please
They freely give their services and never
take their ease.
And If You chance to have II cold they
lift their heads and sueeze-
Peculiar! 1t surely is. Peculiar!
The baker stops to have a chat
Peculiar!
The butchers boy takes off his hat
Peculiar!
The paper boys attentive and he stops to
ring the bell, n
The laundry boys rs modest as Il daisy In
the dell,
The gas collector has his joke and hopes
that all are well
Peculiar! 1t surely is Peculiar!
The office hoy is working hard
Peculiar,
lie looks ut you with real regard
Peculiar.
Miss Tappit's working overtime without
the least complaint,
The porter brings cloth aud pail and
wants to clean the paint.
And when YOU say funny thing they
laugh and nearly faint
Peculiar. Ii surely Is, Peculiar,
The elevator waits for you
Peculiar
The starter bows a 'Ilow-dyoudo!"--
The waiter puts Il double pat of butter ON
your plate,
He takes your order promptly and he
doesn't make Won wait.
You wonder till You recoliect the twenty
hfth's the date.
Peculiar? Why, not a hit pc
New York Evening sun.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-25

Once Too Often.

Bernard Robbins. head of the legal
department Of New York's court of tears
this charity helps the poor to adjust
their marital troubles without going to
the expense of lawsuits-said the other
day:
Such work as mine makes you, if you
are not careful, pessimistic about mar
riage, SO that you find yourself telling
grimly over and over again the story
about st. Peter and the widower.
What? You don't know the story
Well. it seems that two souls APP
preached st. Peter side by side, and the
younger one was replsed sternly by the
saint on the ground that since he had
never been married he had never known
suffering.
THE older man advanced with glad
confidence. He stated that he had been
married twice.
But he, too, the saint repulsed, say
ing: This is no place for fools. Kan
sas City Journal.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-25
Youthful FrankneSS.

On leaving his study, which is in the
rear of the church, the pastor of dis
trict in birmingham saw a little boy,
friend of his, talking to stranger
What was he saying TO you. Dck?"
asked the divine, as lie came up to the
youngStar.
He lust wanted to know whether
DIR. Blank WAS the preacher of this
church,
And what did YOU tell himg'
Il told him. responded the lad. with
dignity, that YOU were the present in
cumbrancc. ''-ENchange
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-25
A Question.

If there isn't any Santa Claus, who is il
turns your feet
Toward the shop where gifts are smiling
as you walk along the street,
Who is it sets you thinking though you're
busy as can be-
About the songs and laughter round the
children's Christmas tree?
Though you vow this Christmas bust
ness is a nuisance. anyhow,
There's an influence at work that clears
the frowninG from your brow;
The small tin trumpet sounds a blast that
wakes your soul serene
To homage for the doll who is a lady and
queen.
And the once prosaic world where it has
been your lot to dwell
Is realm of destinations meath some
mystic fairy spell
If there isn't any Santa Claus, who is IT,
day by day,
That turns our thoughts to Christmas
strive to shun it as we mayI
Who comes at this bleak season armed
with telepathic arts
And by generous suggestion dominates our
minds and hearts,
Washington Star.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-25
From Bad to Worse.

\ miner in Scotland was visited by
friend. and among the places of inter
est shown was the pit mouth. Seeing
the cage lowered with the stout steel
rope, the friend exclaimed: My word,
| shouldn't like to 60 down there ON
that rope" Why" exclaimed the min
er, "Aw wadua Xix ia gang doom there
without itr'-Loudon News.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-25
A Cargo of Five Thousand Cats.

Japan, it seems. is infested with rats.
and the reason is explained by a Paris
contemporary, VIZ. that the Japanese
cats. which are not prolific. are pam
pered to an extraordinary degree. Dur
ing the last few days. the chrouicler pro-
ceeds, ship has left one of the princi-
pal German ports with 5000 cats on
board. These on arrival are to be set
tied in the various maritime towns of
the Mtkado'S dominious, and we further
learn that the present consignment of
cats is to be followed by four others.
each of 5000, The name of the priu-
cipal German port is not given,-London
Globe.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-25

cession as it wendell ifs way slowly to-
ward the cemetery ON the hill in the dis
lance All business was suspended, and
even the children seemed deeply inn
pressed with the solemnity Of the Oeca-
sion.
The stranger in the town presently APP
preached one of the townsmen and asked
him with proper Difference who was hay
ing so impressive funeral.
They're burying Deacon Tightwad, "
replied the citizen
''What was the complaint pursued
the stranger. who desired TO show
proper interest III the late resident of the
town who called for such unanimous trib-
ute from the populace.
oh. no complaint at all, replied the
citizen. Il guess everybody's satisfied"
New York Times.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-25
The Town Wasn't Complaining.

The travelling man emerged from the
little hotel in the center of the country
town TO find what appeared to be the
entire population gathered in the main
street silently watching a funeral pro-
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-25
Yuletide Doggerel.

ulClluC OpSSCACls
Wen sing a song of Christmas,
Its berries red. its bills,
Its sloppy mud, its rain, its snow,
Its many thousand Ills.
Wen eat the hot plum pudding,
All floating In blue blazes,
Which mystic light does burn so bright,
Our eyes it almost daZes.
And underneath the mistletoe
Wen kiss our aunts and cousins,
Our wife, and all the pretty girls
Wen osculate in dozens
'Tis Christmas! Merry Christmas.
And Wen assuage our grief
BY amply eating cold mincc pie
And UNDERGONE roast beef.
Wen stand beneath the mistletoe,
Wen sit upon the holly,
Wen fill the chldren's stockings full,
And shout that we are jolly
And cheer to think it's Christmas,
And eat all we can stuff,
TIL indigestion seizes us.
And we cry, Hold, enough
SO when the doctor calls next day,
He finds us very queer;
We give a groan, and feebly moan,
Then ii is very clear,
If Christmas day were once week
We shouldn't long be here.
Illustrated Bits.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-25

Bronson-What are you going to give
your wife for Christmas this year?
WoodsonI dunno. She locked it away
in the closet before l had a chance to
see il
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-25

Fred-There goes Mrs. Jones. She
used to be decidedly pert girl.
.Jack-Isn't she still pert?
Fred-No. Marriage seems to have
tanned her, and now she's an expert.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-25

Advertise in this paper, and make your
wants known to your home people.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-25
A Timely Ballad.

-Nashville American.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08

Canadian cor espOldence:
What are the settlers of Western
Canada-and most of all the farmers who
have emigrated from the United States
doing this year," | was asked by the
editor of one of our big American maya
zines n short time ago, by which | was
assigned to travel through the great wheat
provinces of the Dominion West to dis
cover just what the conditions were there.
and how the many thousands of Ameri-
can farmers in this ''Eldorado of Wheat
were prospecting.
This was my fourth journey through
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. /
followed close upon the 10000 good Amer
ican farmers who left the States to make
new homes for themselves in these prov
inces last year-and in different words.
this was how / answered the question
OF the editor quoted above:
Imagine first of all, train of forty-ton
cars LIZA miles in length-a train. in
other words, which would reach from
New York City to Denver. or from the
Canadian border through the States of
North and South Dakota. Nebraska, Kan
Sas, Oklahoma and Texas. and for 80
miles down into old Mexico, and you will
have some idea of this years production
of grain in the three great provinces Of
Manitoba. Saskatchewan and Alberta.
In 9th r words, it will take moro than
100000 cars to carry the grain production
OF these provinces alone this autumn
II person were standing al one point,
and this grain train passed him at the
rate of twenty miles an hour. he would
have TO remain in that one spot for just
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08

year. nder ordinary conditions the Aew
settler makes living during his first year.
He builds himself cabin or rude board
home. and if lie has not much capital of
his own he works a part of his time fOr
his neighbors. for work is always plenty
and wages good. The second year, how
ever. he has in his own grain. Ii Is a
common saying throughout Manitoba. Sas-
katchewan and Alberta that the settler
makes good living the first year, builds
himself a good home the second. and Is
independent the third
Until had become thoroughly acquaint-
ed with these thousands of my people who
have emigrated to Western Canada. and
with the conditions now existing among
them. | was inclined to believe with other
hundreds of thousands of Americans that
Canada's wheat lands were considerably
overestimated There are a large num-
Der of land companies in the United
States whose promoters very much dis
like to see good American farmers taking
up land in Canada when they have vast
tracts of their own to dispose Of One
of the stories" frequently seen in Amer
lean papers is that the good homestead
land. or free land. of the Dominion is al
ready taken up. Millions of acres OF the
best land in the world are now open 10
American settlers i'm Manitoba, Saskatche-
wan and Alberta, and these acres are of
fered TO them absolutely free. with
taxes so low. after they have gained
possession. that they may almost be count
ed as nothing.
To-day three great railroads stretch
across Western Canada. and within q few
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
GOmpers' Man for Taft,

Evidence is plentiful that the effect OF
Gompers' attempt to influence labor for
Bryan is not very productive of results.
An illustration in point occurred at a
monday meeting in New York of the
Commercial Travellers Republican As
ISOLATION. John w. Armstrong, an or
ganiZer for the International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers, who was
sent TO Maine by President GOmpers to
make speeches for the Democratic State
ticket, came out for Taft and Sherman.
In his speech he said
The men whom have met and con-
versed with in the American Federation
of Labor are, as rule, of the opinion
that it would be unwise to support Mr..
Bryan. The election of Mr. Taft means
the resumption of business upon safe
and sound lines. | have an abiding
faith in the intelligence and loyalty of
the workingmen to vote for Taft and
the party and principles that made it
possible for our workingman to occupy
the eminent position he does, as COM
pared with the position occupied by the
unfortunate brother in the Democratic
South, where the Democratic party has
opposed the enactment of factory laws,
child labor laws and the organization
of workingmen."
Vice President Philip Davis and Sec
rotary S. T. Ingram Of the Central La
Dor Union of Terre Haute, Ind. issued
statement regulating the announce
ment that Samuel Gompers is to speak
in Terre IIaute under the auspices of
the central body of organized labor.
Vice President Davis said: Members
of the Central Union are divided on
party lines. and for this reason it is
not just that the union should invite
Mr.. Gompers to make Democratic
speech. Let him come at the instance
of the Democratic central committee.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08

three days and three nights to see the
end of it.
1t would carry past him more than
100000 bushels of the best wheat in
the world, 10000. 900 bushels Of oats and
20.000,O0O bushels of barley, for these
figures. according to very best estimates
that can be given at the present time,
show what the settlers of Western Canada
have raised this year in the way of grain.
Never in the history of any country
has there been a more prosperous year
for farmers thar the present one in the
dominion West. So enormous has been
fhe grain production that nearly 2J,00O.-
800 pounds of binder Irvine were required
for the crops. Oats this season
have gone as high as one hundred
bushels 10 the acre, while over large areas
or country the average has been as high as
eighty and ninety bushels. The wheat
yield has been a. high a fifty bushels to
the acre. and from figures already in it
IS believed that the total will show an
average yield of between twenty and TWEEN
ty-fiVe bushels TO the acre throughout the
three provinces.
1t is difficult for one to understand
just what Western Canada means to the
farmer until he takes at least one trip
through that country. As yet the vast
grain lands Of the three western prov
inces, with an area large enough to sup
port the population of a nation, have
hardly been scratched. In other words. il
may truthfully lie said that 80 ,en-
sious production Of these prov day
is that of a few pioneers. year
the United States took up new homes
for themselves there, and from the sta
tistics of the past two or three years each
one of these settlers will be harvesting
from 800 TO 1000 bushels of grain next
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08

Several efforts have been made to
capture three bands of wild horses
feeding ia the neighborhood Of Kit Car
son.
Among the group that runs wild
about twenty miles north OF the town,
says the Denver Republican. are said 10
be powerful horse and an equally
handsome mare that would make
team worth about $IO0. A huge sorrel
animal with a blaze face. a Tail that
reaches the ground and a heavy. flow
ing name Is the leader Of the band. and
is said to be so wary that up to date
all attempts 10 run down any member
of the group has resulted in failure.
Whenever a man appears on the hori-
zon the stallion sounds the alarm and
starts the band off In the other direc-
ton. led by small roar broncho. The
sorrel himself brings up the rear.
swapping at the mares 10 make them
run faster, and If too hard pushed he
will stride off TO himself.
The country where the band roams Is
known as the Little and Big Springs
section, and the farmers In that yicin-
ity are watching their own horses close
ly TO keep them from Joining the wild
herd. A domesticated horse Is often
coaxed away by a band OF wild ones
and in a few days is as Wild as the
rest
There is said TO be another band, led
by a big brown horse. about twenty
miles south of Kit Carson. and third.
led by bay, not quite so far of. Some
Of the horses have brands, while others
have not
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
NO GUSHER
But Tells Facts About Postum.

But Tells Facts About Postum
I've have used Postum for the past
eight years" writes a Wis. lady, "and
drink it three times a day. We never
tire OF it.
For several years | could scarcely
eat anything on account OF dyspepsia,
bloating after meals, palpitation, sick
headache-in fact, was In such misery
and distress l tried living on hot water
and toast for nearly a year.
IL had quit coffee, the cause OF my
trouble. and was using hot water. but
this was not nourishing.
Hearing OF Postum / began drinking
it and my ailments disappeared. and
now ! can eat anything want without
trouble.
MY parents and husband had about
the same experience Mother would
often suffer after eating, while yet
drinking coffee My husband was
great coffee drinker and suffered from
indigestion and headache.
after he stopped coffee and began
Postum both ailments left aim He will
not drink anything else now and we
have IL three times a day. / could write
more, but am no gusher-only state
plain facts"
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Greek. Mich. Read, THE Road to Well
ville," in pkgs. There's Reason"
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full of
human interest
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
WILL VOTE FOR BRYAN.
Times Too Prosperous for One Kan
sas Farmer, He Says.

Times Too Prosperous for One Kan
sas Farmer, He Says.
Saline County farmer, who came
to the country in the early days and
accumulated six or eight hundred acres
of farm lands, who has raised lots of
wheat and corn and always voted the
Republican ticket. national. state and
county. declares that he is going to vote
for Bryan this year, says the Salina
(kan.) Journal. His argument is a
peculiar one and from Democratic
standpoint is a good one. Mr.. Farmer
says he is land hungry and wants more
Kansas lands, but because il is too high
he is unable to acquire 1t. He declares
that the price of wheat is too high, and
likewise the price of corn. With q low
er price on wheat and corn and other
farm products tue price Of farm lands
is bound 10 decline and when the price
has been reduced he will be enabled 20
purchase more farms.
Mr.. Farmer Says the election Of Bry-
an is sure to reduce prices on every
thing wheat, corn, rye, alfalfa. oats.
hogs. poultry and farm haLds and the
land itself
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08

miles on each side of these roads the
great part of the population of settlers
live. Beyond these narrow belts are
millions of acres of the best land in the
world and it is safe to say that within
ten years it will be almost entirely taken
up-and American farmers will occupy
great portion of it. No farmer in this
country has to carry his crops far, for
every few miles along the railroads towns
or stations are laid out. and at every
place there is a huge elevator. and some
times several OF them. each holding from
10000 to 10000 bushels
\ few paragraphs back. | made the
statement that many American land com
panies are trying to give the impression
that the free homestead lands of the Do
minion are about gone. To show how
ridiculous this is. | will give the iisurrs
which have been secured through W. ]
Kennedy, of the Department of Immigra-
ton. who has made an exhaustive inves-
tigation of this subject According to
the results of his investigation there are
at the present time more than l0O,-
600 free homesteads already surveyed
and awaiting settlers. and in addi-
ton TO those there are vast tracts of the
best land in the world which have not
yet been surveyed. and which will be
homestcadcd.
And from my long experience in the
Dominion West. | confidently believe that
during the next two years nearly all Of
these homesteads vii have been taken up
by good American farmers-the farmers
from our own States who are making
Western Canada what it is today. Years
ago the best advice in the world was.
Young man. 90 West" To-day it has
changed in small way. Now it is ::
Young man. 90 to Western Canada"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
Interesting Bits.

More than one-fourth of all English
newspapers are published in London.
In Russia there are no fewer than
eightysix general holidays in the year.
The Great Wall of China will soon
be undermined in one place by a rail
way tunnel.
CalifOrnians buy more basebals and
bats, proporticnately than the people
of any other State.
Every day the inhabitants of the
United Kingdom wear away Sl,OO0O00
worth of shoe leather
1t is said that Lake Erie produces
more fish to the square mile than any
other body of water in the world
Yellow is far the most permanent
color in flowers. 1t is the only one not
affected by sulphurous acid fumes.
TO save Andover Seminary it is pro.
posed to make it Il great training
sosOol for missionaries, home and for
eign.
The person who discovers a method
of communication between planets will
receive $4,000 from the French Acad-
envy of Science.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
Marian Life Dying.

A sadder interest attaches to such
existence-that it is, cosmically speak
ing, soon to pass away. To our even
tual descendants life on Mars will no
longer be something to scan and inter
pref. 1t will have lapsed beyond the
hope Of study or recall. Thus to us il
takes on an added glamour from the
fact that 1t has not long TO last, for
the process that brought il to its pres
ent pass must go on to the bitter end
until the last spark of Marian life
goes out. The drying up of the planet
is certain to proceed until its surface
can support no life at all. Slowly, but
surely, time will snuff it out. When
the last ember is thus extinguished the
planet will roll a dead world through
space, its evolutionary career forever
ended.-Prof. Lowell in Century.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08
Labor Vote BaIks mt Bryan.

A proposition to indorse Bryan in
accordance with the policy of President
GOmpers of the American Federation Of
Labor was turned down Sept. "a by the
United Brewery Workers of America,
representing 10000 workers, in conven-
ton at the Labor Temple, New York
City. The English and German secre-
taries of the committee said that such
a resolution was joke.
The action of President Gompers of
the American Federation of Labor in
aiding Bryan's campaign is repudiated
by James Duncan, second in command
of the organization, in a letter made
public Sept %. Mr.. Duncan, who is
first vice president of the Federation
and also secretary treasurer of the
Granite Cutters International Ass0cia-
ton OF America, advises .aboring men
to rely upon their own judgment in
voting at the coming election.