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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
BLACK FOREST CUSTOMS.
Youngest Son Inherits Property and
Cares for the Old Folks.

The peasant farms of the Black Forest
are handed down from father to son in a
direct line, often dating back 400 years.
There is no division as in France; all
falls to the heir, only here it is not the
eldest but the youngest son who in
herits. 1t is rare that Bur (peasantl
dies as reigning head. When he gets on
in years he abdicates, IN order TO end his
days in the Leibgedingehaus (dower
househ which stands beside each hof,
(steading)
That he does so in favor of his young
est son is very sensible; were it the elder
he would have no peace for as soon as
he married he would try to induce his
parents to retire just at an age when
power is sweetest and best exercised.
For this reason the practical farmers
of bygone generations decided to hand
over the succession to the youngest,
since when Benjamin is full grown
man father Jacob is old and glad to rest.
This law of inheritance goes by the
name of Vortel Should the heir of his
own free VIII desire to resign in favor
of his elder brother the latter must buy
the property from him. In such a case
the younger may be termed a kind of
Esau.-Antiquary.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

rent FOR another month. Sam, Pendle-
ton directed. as he strolled from the
house down into the valley.
"Queer folks across the way" Sam
said 10 the bostler. House full of silver.
and handsome things. and the ladies just
so ont driving and won't see no callers,
hear"
Something wrong, / guess" the hos
tier answered, throwing a bucket OF wa
ter ON the wheel OF the trap he was
cleaning and spinning it around
Sam acquitted himself without enthu-
siasm of the commission to renew the
rent for another month. Why stay up
in these solitary mountains, the nearest
town being a small place mile away?
Why not go to Bar Harbor or some
civilized place?
Bat Pendleton fingered, and the charm
OF enc mountains grew on him, and the
girl across the way became inextricably
mixed up in his thoughts of Vera, until
he grew amazed and irritably anxious
to see her face to face and get rid of the
absurd Illusion.
1t was in vain he scanned his volumi-
nous mail each morning. No letter adj
dressed in the firm, delicate handwrit-
ing he knew so we'll ever came, and he
still carried in his inner pocket that 1T
tie note, Goodbye, / am gone"
Yes. the days seem to vanish like a
dream in the fastness of the Blue
| Ridge.
The time drew near when he would 60
back to life's tumultuous cares and
| pleasures, and Pendleton was no nearer
an acquaintance with his neighbors. He
could not force himself upon hem, and
she was as elusive as some water splite
or wood nymph.
The world had done its days work, the
san had set behind the SUBMITS of the
ranges in all its accustomed pomp and
| glory. anu faint mists were yelling the
peaks and valleys. Pendleton sat, alb
sorbed in distractiLg thought, by the
side Of a still lake Swallowed by tower
ling i;ernlocSs, when someone came slow
/ ~ toward him through the forest path.
Hers was a beautiful face, laughing
and proud and tender, and the only word
Pendleton could say as she paused be-
| fore hirn, while lie sat motionless, was
Vera"
"Why, I've been your neighbor all
summer How did you happen to conc
to this wild and beautiful placer" she
asked a little while later, as she sat by
| his side, when some very broken and
GREATNESS words had been spoken.
| IendletoT took cut his letter and IN
folded it.
How could you be 50 cruel? So in
humanly cnei To write good bye to
me- Why, did, through al eternity.
You don't mean to say-yon thought
| meant il = era asked in amaz ,m,nt
* Rbptt ROman in the New 0rlaa nc
Times Democrat
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
When If Hurt.

A German surgeon in the Franco
Prussian war had occasion to lance an
abscess for q poor fellow, and, as the
sore was obstinate, it became necessary
to use the knife twice. The operation
was not q very painful one, but the pa
tient declared that it had nearly killed
him. and when u third resort to the Ian
Get was proposed, he protested thar he
could never go through the operation
alive.
The surgeon promised to make it easy
for him, and, calling up few of the
loungers, ordered one of them to hold his
hands close over the patients eyes, and
two others to grasp his hands firmly.
This arrangement" explained the
doctor, lis said to prevent pain in such
an operation. Now, lie perfectly quiet,
and when | say Nown prepare your
SELF
The surgeon at once began quietly
with his work, and in a short time had
completed the operation without the
least trouble, the patient lying as quiet
as though in sleep.
When all was done the surgeon laid
aside the knife and said Now Such
a roar came from the lips of the sick
man as seldom is heard from any human
being. He struggled to free himself,
yelling, "Oh, doctor, you're killing met
Shouts of laughter soon drowned his
cries and he was told that the operation
had been all over before the signal was
given. 1t was good joke but it is
doubtful If the poor fellow could ever
he made to believe that he did not feel
actual pain Immediately after that fatal
Now r'-Tit- Bits
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
Porto Rican Proverbs.

A man swimming saw a maiden on
the shore. Seaward a shark toated.
He swan seward.
By San Geronimo a great gun lies use
less. too heavy TO be mounted on the
walls. Some ambitions are like that.
He who eats too freely of the horse
banana ceases for a season to like fruit.
Love is like the horse banana.
Women who eat dulces (sweets) all
day long. at eyentide speak sourly to
their men.
A man refrained from crushing a
land crab. Falling in fit he awoke TO
find his eyes had been devoured by it.
How human is the land crab
When floods sweep the country, pity
the rich planter. The jibaro QaborerJ
has manght to lose except his life, which
is without value.
La algeria tgayetyl has no spasmS as
violent as those of grief. Also it passes
quickly. La triestcza lsadness) viii en-
dure.
The boa is a vast snake harming no
one. The fer-de-lance is tiny, deadly.
and the enemy of all. BuenO! Ponder
the great arm of the plowman and
woman's tongue.
The eolors of the parrot fish are
brightest while it fights for life and dies.
What a price to pay for beauty. Many
women pay the same.
When the band plays "El Borinquen.
watch the arlstocratS. Their eyes can
not conceal the exultation of that little
drop of Indian blood which thrills in
them.
The juice of the sugar cane is sweet
and harmless. Aged, it becomes rum,
and stupeies. Beware of her who, in
maturity. is fascinating.
At Easter time we drive an ehigy Of
Judas from onr towns upon mule
wen castigated. Returning from the
celebration we see friend embrace him.
| thus hugging to our hearts the grim
reality.
From San Juan to San Turce is four
miles. The horse will beat the bullock
on the journey. To Ponce is the span Of
the whole island. For that the wise
man chooses bullocks. Lies journey
il long one.
ii cuentista (the public storytellerl
lies all day and gathers money and APP
plause; but let him tell one lie, at night,
to Ia esposa (his wifel, and biff.--he
will lose, with his other senses, that
imagination by means of which he
makes his living.-The Bohemian.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
TO MAKE AMERICAN LINEN.
Massachusetts, Man Invents Process
Which Makes That Possible.

A Massachusetts inventor has ner-
feeted process of transforming tIay
straw into fiber that promises to add mil
lions to the revenue of the American
farmer, says The World Today, and In
make possible the manufacture of linen
iiber III the United States.
By the laborious process followed
abroad it takes from sixteen to thirty
weeks to transform flax straw into linen
There is first the 'rotting," which in
Belgium is done by weighing down
the flax straw in pools of water exposed
to the sun until the wood or "shive"
is rotted away from the fiber.
Then comes the ''scutching" or heat
ing of the dried straw. After this il is
''hackled' 10y pulling the straw through
the coarse teeth of combs for the pur-
pose of removing snarls and tangles. The
softening and bleaching processes number
twenty-five after all t:,is mas been done
before the finished linen fabric is ready
for market.
Now comes Benjamin C. Nudge Of
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology with a combined mechanical and
chemical process that makes linen out
of straw in twelve hours. In place If
the European method. which consists
very largely in leaving the natural rot
ting process to accomplish the disin-
tegration of straw, Mr.. Nudge goes ct
this work by machinery until the raw
flax fiber has been wrested from the
flax stalk.
Then the chemical process begins, and
can testify from observation that.
using three or four chemical baths. MIR.
Nudge first degums, then beaches.
softens and in the end makes a glossy
white and exceedingly tough fiber out
of what in the beginning locked like a
mass of tangled horsehair
The European method yields about 10
pounds of fiber from 1000 pounds of
straw and sacrifices the seed crop. The
Nudge process secures $50 pounds of
straw after the seed have been saved. IT
converts the ''shive' wasted by the Eu-
ropean method into a pulp for paper
making and also saves the ''tow."
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
A Petrihed Potato.

f. r.. Rowland of Topsham brought 10
the Brunswick Record Office this week
what might be called q stone potato. Ii
was found by Mr.. Rowland in the Pur-
inton field on the Meadow road The
stone is shaped like small potato, and
resembles q variety common in Top
sham about fifty years ago called the
"Chenango," or philadelphia" potato.
The shape is perfect, the indentations
for the eyes and where the stem would
be attached are we'll defined, and when
found about three-fourths of the sur
face was covered by a thin br0wnish in
tegument very much like the skin of a
potato. In those places where the IN
regiment has been removed the stone
shows white just like a potato MIR.
Howlaud's theory is that by some pc
cnliar and unexplainable process of ma
ture a potato has turned TO stone ia
fifty years. Scientists may dispute this
theory ON the ground that the condi-
lions were not right for petrihcation and
that fifty years would be too short a
period in which to produce such a
change. 1t may he interesting TO some
TO know that this stone potato was
found within quarter of mile Of
Mount Ararat No one need imagine,
however. that Uncle Noah lost this po-
tato from his store Of provisions in the
ark. -Kennebee Journal,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

ably settled. the contentious heretofor.
arising over the jurisdiction over ST.
employees operating electric contrivance.
such as moving picture shows.
Tke first time in history that the Rrir-
ish public ever asked Parliament f..
laws 10 protect women and children w.
in the year 1900. after an epidemic 81
fever among the underground workers
The protection which Parliament accorI,
ed was to restrict the hours of labor for
children 10 twelve. and to set the age a.
Q years when the child might be EN-.
ployed This action was the real ba-
ginning of organized protest on the pag4
customs
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
Trouble for the Editor.

Il can't keep the visitors from coming
up" said the office boy dejectedly.
when / say you're out they don't be-
lieye me. They say they must see yop"
WELL" said the editor, lust tell
them that's what they all say. / don't
care if you check them, but / must have
quietness."
That afternoon there called at the of
fee lady with hard features and an
acid expression. She wanted TO see the
editor. and the boy assured her that
it was impossible.
but | must see him." she protested
I'm his wife,
That's what they all say" replied
the hoy.
That was why there is new boy
wanted there.-Catholic Tribune.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
Out Of His LING

Reginald DE Koven, the composer.
tells of grocer and druggist whc at
tended Il Wagner concert. As the pro-
gramme did not please them they began
talking of music in general and on Wag-
ner in particular
Another example of the fact that
every man wants to do something out
of his line" said the druggist.
That's all right" assented the grocer.
"Now. I'm grocer. but I've always
wanted to be banker"
You'd probably fail" added the drug
gist. Look at me. I'm success as a
druggist; yet I've always wanted to
write book. This man Wagner tries
his hand at music. Just listen to it.
And we all know he builds good paror
ears Philadelphia Ledger.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
He Is Ny Friend.

Who hath himself the Life-test fifty borne:
Who Loss hath met and brayeIy spelled ii
Gain;
Who joyed in service, yet must needs be
served;
.nlute-hath heard the cruel speech OF
Pain;
Who this, all this,-ah, noye.-hath deeply
known,
And still. benign, hath dropped a tear for
He is my friend. why, then, may re-
pine?
Though lessened In the self-same school OF
Loss;
Though still for me the unattained becks;
Though mo one knows!' be still nv moan
by night;
Though double deep the ills Of life uprolI.
Though this, all this,-ah, more,--I deeply
know,
And inly marvel what the days may bring -
May repine? He is my Friend Enough.
j. b. r. In Lippineotts
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
A Child's Dictionary.

The late Frederick r. Coudert, the
noted lawyer and wit had great fond
ness for children. He collected indefat-
gably the quaint sayings of children,
and one of the treasures of his library
small manuscript volume, called
~ Child's Dictionary" and these are
some of the definitions that Mr.. Coudert
would read from it:
''Dust-Mud with the juice squeezed
out of it,
notwithstanding off sleep
Apples The bubbles that apple trees
blow"
"Backbiter-A mosquito"
"Fan-A thing TO brush the warm off
with"
''Iee-W Water that went to sleep in the
cold. - Boston Herald.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
Musings Of a Gentle cynic.

Nothing is impossible, except some
people,
The average mans idea of economy IS
to tell his wife how to save money.
1t is possible for a young man to be
so fast that he never gets to the front
The more applause man gives anI
the less advice, the more popular he VIII
be.
Don't try to grasp an opportunity by
putting salt ON its tail.
Love is as necessary to a woman VIE"
has acquired the habit as tobacco Is 10
a man.
The pretty girls face may be her
fortune, but the homely girls face Is
her chaperon.
The theory that it is never too lare
to mend is very comforting to those "i3'
are in no hurry to begin.
An optimist is a pessimist who Hos
ahOus it.
The average man isn't satisfied 80
hold his own. He wants to hold diS
neighbours too.
Misery loves company. It's the WON
an who is unhappily married that snees-
most at old maids
Some fish viii only lie on a sandy
bottom. but the average fisherman WIZ
lie anywhere.
1t is very evident that most women
have taken postgraduate course 'h
the school for scandal
The olive branch is an emblem "I
peace. but the taste for olives is gen"E-
allT an acquired one.
The early worm clutches the ohltH&I!
notice.
Hope is good thing to have, but yo'
can't get it cashed at the bank
Some nlen are not satistier 10 let iH'.
money talk. They want 1t TO Use
megaphone-NewY York Times.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
Political Pastry.

Were going TO have q banquet
TO greet our honored guest;
Wen have some brilliant spoken Thoughts
And Others nnexpressed.
Wen have roast squad and terrapin,
The living will be high,
And yet the reigning sentiment
VIII be, please pass the pie!
Our statesmen great, our statesmen small
The tickle public sense
VIII stoutly struggle to enthraA
BY wondrOus eloqucnee,
But midst 1t all you'll seem to hear
A telepathle sigh
That finds general response
The words, please pass the pie!
Washington star.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

ton that any of my friends would like
TO ask, i beg them not TO hesitate. /
shall be only too happy To answer any
inquiry IN my power
An old lody in spectacles that gave
her severe, stern look. rose and said
why do wet tea leaves kill reaches 2
THE scientist didn't know they did.
let alone the tause of the phenomenon;
Because, madam. when roach
comes across wet tea leaf, be says,
Hello, here's blanket" and wraps
himself up in it. catches cold, and dies. =
Los Angeles Times
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
Extreme Newness.

Il have something new in the way of
plot for farce
LAS to how p
THE action hinges on a case of mis-
taken identity"
I'm afraid that's little too new
sighed the manager as he motioned the
boy to open the door.-W ashington Her
aid.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
Quite Believable.

Ascum-I understand some doctors
contend that onions are good for weak
nerves. Did you ever hear of that?
Dr Bright - No but / can readily
imagine that they'd lie rather good for
weak breath.-The Catholic Standard
and Times
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
Not Noticeable.

Prospective Buyer-Heavens! 1t must
be a terrible experience to run over a hui
man being,
Auto Demonstrated smilingly - Not
with this make of car my boy; it's
equipped with the best shock absorber on
the Brooklyn Life
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
January was a Het Ore.

Australia has experienced some teri .L
heat this year. A letter GAZE
Melbourne. January 81, published la
Hamburg paper, gives these deta--
'Thcre hove been so many deaths.
conse !uence Of the seorching heat ,..
funerals had to be postponed he'als
there we're NOT @lough grave digcegS
attendants Thousands of inhaoiia!'
sleen ant Of doors
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
When He Fought Best.

Yes said the typhoid germ, Its a
funny thing about me-"
Whats that?" asked the grip microbe
why. | do my best fighting when I'm
down. Catholic Standard and Times.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
Rheumatism Does it.

Capt. Chandler, the army's chief aero
naut, said at a dinner in Washington
the other day:
The aeronaut, to get along must
keep his wits about him. Under the
most adverse circumstances he must not
lose his head. Always he must be alert
aud ready, like-like--wel like sci
enlist / used to know
This scientist gave a scientific lee
ture in a church one night, and N the
lectures end he said heaming on his
audience condescendingly:
Now, if there is any scientific ques-
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
Care Nothing for Trees.

II is difficult in England TO arouse an
interest in the preservation of forests
because of the universal substitution of
coal for wood as fuel
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
The First Step.

Applicant What is the first thing to
do before you get marriage license?
License Clerk--Think it over, young
man; think it over.-Ill Illustrated Bits.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

The Preacher-There was one time in
my life when | had no difficulty in hold
ing an audience.
The Bishop-When was that?
The Preacher-The night j proposed 10
my present wife.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

l. NJ. i. Cunius-They say that Easter
is a movable feast.
NocasllFd like TO put it off for about
three years
~..~
Prudence.
There's many a true word spoken in Jest
For the speaker sees only too clear
He mustn't dare say 1t au sereuX lest
lie get a good rap on the ear.
-...-
How much is your butter pouud?'
Best butter, madam, or - butter ~
The Tatler.
-.s.~
One Fellows Sacrifice.
Crabshaw-Every spring he takes whis-
ky and Quinine.
CrawfordDoesn't Lent make any diff
ference to himg
Erabshaw-Oh. yes. He then gives up
the quinme.-TOwn Topics
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

It Pays to Advertise.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

A recent conference between President
Gompers Of the American Federation of
Labor and representatives of the Inter
national Stege Employees union and the
Brotherhood of Electrical ,sorkers annie
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

Andrew Furuseth. secretary of the
Sailors Union of the Pacific, is to be
one of the fraternal delegates represent
ing the American Federation of Labor
at the annual meeting of the British
Trade Union congress in Nottingham
next September
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

The weekly rest day bill, which pro-
vides that employees of all classes shall
have one day of rest in the seven, was
recently approved by the Italian Cham
Der of Deputies and is expected to be
come a law.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

There are now more than 100000
persons employed by the railroads of the
United States-twice as many as were
thus employed ten years ago.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

Ernest Mills has succeeded William
ID. Haywood as secretary and treasurer
Of the Western Federation of Miners.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

The new federal law. limiting til,
hours of railroad telegraphers To nine !
days was the cause. indirectly. o. putting
several hundred trainmen, who had beer
carried as extras to work. besides about
GOO additional operators on the yarjou,
roads, Of the country. The extra ex
penditure by the roads probably vii
reach about $10,Oo0oo0 annually.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

Florida has new child labor law
which prohibits the employment of chill
dren under II years of age. The
women's clubs If the state were chiefly
Instrumental in bringing it about.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

Unio3 printers throughout the United
States nave contributed $4,000 to the
Amos Cummings memorial fund.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-05-01
MAN CRUSHED TO DEATH
Tannery Workman Caught in Revolving
Drum Is Swung Around
and Killed.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, April Is, 1908.
Caught with his head and upper part
of his body inside a huge revolving tan
ming drum, Frank Otto, laborer in
the Albert Trostel tannery on Commerce
street, was this morning carried around
in the machine until his body struck a
projecting beam. The drum continued
to revolve and crushed the mans body
against the support until life was ex-
tinct. Otto had stopped the machine by
throwing the belt off the pulley to a
loose pulley but neglected to tie the
lever. When he projected his body over
into small door opening into the tank,
the jar of his body released the belt
and in moment was carried up and
around
The body was caught at the top of
the drum between the beam and the
machine. where it remained until the
coroner removed it. He lived with a
brother at 80 Locust street and was 80
years old and unmarried.