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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20
A Model of wifely Devotion.

The prospective recovery of Thomas
Alva Edison has been heralded as "a
victory of science for SCIENCE" and I'M
doubleday surgical skill deserves credit
for the difficult, delicate and dangerous
operation which removed the abcesses in
his ear. But surgeons themselves often
admit that the success of critical opera
tions is sometimes dependent not only
upon the skill of the surgeon, but also
upon the competency and faithfulness OF
the nurse.
In Edisons case his nurse is his wife.
who for a week hardly closed her eyes
night or day, but kept vigil by her
husbands bedside watching every symp-
tom, meeting by intuition the patients
every want, and inspiring him by her
presence as We'll as assisting him by her
care.
History has recorded instances Of
wives who were resentful of their hus-
bands professional pursuits, begrudging
hours devoted to study, and as jealous.
of the art or science, the law or liter
allure which enticed a loved companion
from their society as if his attentions.
We're bestowed upon human rival If
Mrs. Edison has ever been moved by fan
tastic repinings she has concealed the facr
from the world. The probability is that
they are foreign to her nature. Her hus-
band has been accustomed to turn night
into day and to neglect his meals as
well as his sleep when engaged ia ex-
perimental labors. His laboratory and
his researches have engrossed his powers
for weeks at time, and his wife seems
to have sympathized with him and
helped him by leaving him free to fol-
low his bent. Now that he needs her,
however, she is faithful and vigilant by
his side. The world, which owes much
to Edison, owes something to his wife
In an age when the pages of yellow
caprice and connubial infelicity, it is
refreshing to get this glimpse of wifely
devotion, and to realize that whatever
misogynists may believe. and whatever
sensationalists may assert, it is not
unique.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20
The Grand March of Railway Progress

Railroads on this continent have as a
general thing run east and west, at right
angles with the great mountain systems,
and at right angles with the extension
of the continent. Communication be-
tween North America and South Amer
lea is still easier by sea than overland
1t was long ago the dream of states
men to bind the two Americas by a
rail route. That still remains a posi-
bility of the future. But something has
been accomplished toward the realiza-
ton of the old ideal
Only 200 miles of new track are need
ed now to complete a trunk line system
from New York to Panama Only
26 miles of track will have TO be laid Ia
open all-rail communication between
New York and Guatemala City. When
the Guatemalan railway is connected
with the Mexican system. as it will be
soon. the time from New York to Guate-
mala will be reduced one-half The next
link in southern extension will connect
the Guatemala system with the Salvador
system. Then links win be built giving
access TO the Nicaragua and the COSTA
Rica railways and to the line which
runs from Bocas del Tora to Panama.
a journey from New York to Panama
may be possible by the time of the
completion of the Panama canal.
Who can say that the vision of north
and south line uniting Buenos Ayres
with New York by land may not be
realized before men now old enough 10
vote have grown gray? 1t is a biz risL
To bet against progress.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20
PARAGRAPHS.

-One-tenth OF the earth's surface is
UNEMPLOYED.
For every ton of gold in circulation
there are fifteen tons of silver.
The moss modern flour mill in the
world has just been opened at Winnipeg
and has a capacity of 5000 barrels daily
The Japanese lover, instead of an
engagement ring, may give his future
bride piece of beautiful silk to be worn
as n sash.
Louisville was first settled in ITS
by Col. George Rogers Clark, who land
ed with thirty families from Virginia.
on Corn island.
Real diamonds have been found in
Arkansas, said George +. Kunz of New
York before the American Institute of
Mining Engineers.
New York city has on its police force
1877 men whose business it is to open
and close doors and watch the persons
who enter and leave.
When a man was summoned at
North London police court for not send
ing his daughter to school he said she
was his twenty-frst child.
Count Leo Tolstoi has received as a
present from Thomas A. Edison a phono.
graph of the latest approved pattern, and
will receive in return photographic
record of the Russian noyelist's voice.
Capt. Jack Crawford, the poet
scout, says John ID. Rockefeller and
Harold Mccormick will provide funds
for country summer Fairgrounds for
New York city children. Capt. Craw-
ford win have personal charge OF the
first playground opened.
The postmisrress at Muskogee held
registered mail addressed to the Register
of Deeds of Muskogee county for a
month before she would deliver it be-
cause she said she could not find ont
who the register of deeds is. When the
supreme court decided in favor of the
| Democrats this mail was turned over to
the Democratic register.
Asserting that man did not live in
| California at the time of the three-toed
horse. and that the claims of early hui
man life in California. made by Prof. j
| ID. Whitney, the anthropoogist are all
| wrong, DIR. w. j. Sinclair has Just is
sued n bulletin from the University of
California that may revolutionize modern
anthropological IDEAS
Soldier, street cleaner. cowboy and
| worker on odd jobs has been the career
of Gerrile Cave Brown-Cave, recently
| discovered heir TO the estate and title OF
| his English father, Sir Mylles Cave
/ Browne-Cave baronet who died recent.
| ly. In youth he quarreled with his fla
! ther ana ran away 10 America, He says
| he will continue to live in this country
| after his English affairs are settled.
"A rival * the Sunday theaters, music
halls and saloons in Chicago as places
| Of Sunday evening resort has an-
| the field, X is the Chicago Sunday
| Evening club, organized by business and
| professional men. 1t will provide a place
| where strangers IN Chicago and Chica-
| COS downtown hotels can gather Sunday
evenings for undenominational religious
| services.
Bridget Stanton, who died Decemhcr
70, after spending the greater part Of
her seventy years in the employ Of che
| family of the late Rear Admiral Ban
croft Gherardi. left her entire estate,
valued at $1,000 except two small be.
! quests to relatives, 10 he divided be-
| tween the two sons OF Admiral Cher
ardi. both OF whom she nursed when
they We're children.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20

cable engineers standpoint is the in
significant looking teFedo navalis. The
little beast is intensely greedy where
gutta percha is concerned, working irs
way there between the iron wires ana
between the serving yarns. The silica
in the outer cable compound tends III
defeat the teredo's efforts at makins a
meal off the core, and this defeat i
further effected by the core being en-
yeloped in a thin Gaping of brass.
But where the bottom is known 10 he
badly infected with these little monsters
of the deep the insulator is often com
posed of India rubber; which has no ar
traction for the teredo and possesses
a toughness, moreover, which is less
suited for its boring tool than the COM
paratively cheese-like gutta percha.
From one cause or another faults oc
cur in most cables from time to time
These require to be electrically localized
from the cable testing nut and a shin
sent out to the supposed position 10
grapple for the line, pick it up and ef
feet the necessary repairs. When the.
cable has really been hooked and picked
up-an operation which may entail sew
eral weeks or even months, if only in
waiting for favorable weather-the blight
is secured at the bows and afterwards
cut Each end is then brought on board
alternately and tested electrically. If
found to be sound the necessary repairs
are then effected.-Magazine of Com
MERGE
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20
Monument to Shakespeare.

London dispatch says: The committee
which has III charge the movement for
the worlds tribute to Shakespeare
and of which the Princess Louise is the
head, has decided upon the erection of
an architectural monument and statue
to be completed on the Booth anniversary
memorial will cost about 100000
competition for which viii be thrown
open TO all English speaking races
Whitelaw Reid. American ambassador
has been invited to nominate sculpgors
on the committee of selection. which VIII
include Sin Edward j. Poynter, president
of the Royal academy, and the most
prominent sculptors in this country. The
site at the extremity of Portland place.
at present occupied by statue Of the
duke of Kent. which will be removed
and placed elsewhere
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20
The Growing Use o. opiates.

The recent appeal by Milwaukee re-
tail druggist for more stringent regula-
ton of the sale of opium, cocaine, and
other opiates should receive more than
passing attention. 1t refers to a grow
ing evil which if it is permitted to 20
unchecked will undermine society and
till Warehouses with its victims. The
same complaint by conscious vendors of
drugs has been sounded from New York
and Chicago, where effort is now IN
progress to prevent the sale of opiates
to youths who are unaware of their ter
rlble potency. The dope fiends', in
clude many young people who could
have been saved had they been warned
in time, or had the purchase of their
favorite opiate been difficult.
The danger incident to the common
use of opiates has been brought to popu-
lar attention in France, where young
naval officer who was sentenced to life
Imprisonment for treason in selling mill
tary documents has made plea for
mercy, from the door of his dungeon.
on the ground that he is a victim Of
opium, having contracted the habit of
smoking the drug while stationed in
Indo- China, where the French govern
ment enjoys monopoly of the sale of
opium and derives rich revenue there
from. 1t Is urged, in consequence. that
the French government should renouuce
the traffic and endeavor to save her army
and navy from grave menace.
When the vice of indulgence in OPT
ates begins to sap the military vigor of
a fighting nation the matter of cure is
more likely to receive attention than if
the evil were merely of a social nature.
France cannot afford to ruin her army
and navy at foreign stations in main
tanning trade that brings in good finan-
cial returns. The money would be de-
nv M 4.4Erf lNl.rEs C.
the appeal the young naval ensign
who finds himself a prisoner for life
through the moral ruin wrought by OPT
ates will probably cause France to IN
stitute remedial regulations She ought
to put an end to the opium traffic as
quickly as possible, and the people of
every civilized nation should join her
in the institution of restrictions upon the
sale of opiates which destroy those who
indulge in them.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20
Nelson's Signalman.

1t was in the winter CT 1916 that Mel
sons signal mantle man who hoisted
the famous England expects" etc
was discovered by one who had served
as surgeon on board the Tonnant at
Trafalgar. The signal man, John
Roome. was selling watercress and red
behring's in Blackfriar. He had desert
ed from the navy after the battle. and
this had disqualified him for a pension,
but representations were made to Capt
Pasco. signal lieutenant ON the Victory
at Trafalgar, who used his influence on
the old mans behalf. Capt Pasco was.
at first unsuccessful; he was Informed
by the authorities that there were many
more deserving candidates for Green
witch. Shortly afterward, however, room
was found at Greenwich hospital for
old John. Had he lived in our time he
would probably have received a princely
salary for repeating the signal nightly at
music halls.-London Chronicle
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20
Love and Marriage from the Bowery
Viewpoint.

In Uncle Remus' Magazine Owen Kill
dare. the author who used TO be prize
fighter. has clever short story called
THE Little Loves of Lizzie" The tale
is full of bright lines, which go TO show
that the east siders of New York are
inclined to be epigrammatic and very
worldly-wise in discussing love and mar
rage. Here are few of the aphorisms
After catching a car you feel foolish
for having run after it. It's the same
with love after You catch up with it in
marriage.
In love you dance to music, in mar
riage you face IT,
The milk of human kindness is most
often condensed.
You can't hide love or a bad cough.
You don't have to pump the organ to
find out all the church gossip.
Don't believe a girl don't like kissing
till you get it from her own lips.
a girl looks toward getting married
the same as boy looks towards his first
smoke
Four-ffths of the human body is wa
ter: of women it's mostly tears.
When fellow courts trouble he
usually ends by marrying it.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20
RECENT LEGAL DECISIONS

Inc placing IN writing, alter marriage
I OF an agreement by which each party X
linquishes all right in the others proper
~ III accordance with an antenuptial
parol contract which is invalid under the
statute of frauds, is held, in Frazer vs..
Andrews Qowa) IL Ira. (N.S.) 593,
not to validate the latter, unless it re-
cites that it is executed to furnish eyI-
denee OF the previous one, and to be IN
eitectual where the statute forbids con-
tracts between husband and wife relat-
ing to their property rights.
That street car conductors are not
| bound, as matter of law, to ascertain
that a passenger who has signaled a de-
sire to leave the car is safely off before
starting the car. If they use the highest
care with reference to the matter CON
sistent with the transaction of the bnsl-
ness. is declared in Milmore VS.. Boston
Elev. X. Co., Mass.l II Ira. (N.SD
$40.
The discharge of jury in a criminal
case after they have deliberated for Wo
hours and have reported that they can
not agree is held, IN State VS.. Harris
tl4a.) IL Ira. (N.S.) It's, not to sup
port a plea of former jeopardy inter
posed on subsequent trial. unlses the
court in discharging the jury manifestly
abused its discretion.
\ settlement by the sole heir at law
| of claim for damages for the suffering
of one killed through another's negligence
is held, in McKeigue VS.. Chicago & n.
w. K. Co., (Wis0 IL Ira. (N.SD las
to be binding upon an administrator of
decedent's estate subsequently appointed
who does not need the assets in the adj
ministration of the estate, but will dis
tribute any recovery by him to such heir
A devise of real estate to a religious
corporation, Ito be used as a parsonage
and nothing else, and to be kept for that
purpose and used for nothing else'' is
held, i'll Adams VS.. First Baptist Church
| (Mich) II Ira. (N.S.) 500 not to ere.
ate a condition subsequent which will
cause forfeiture if the property is de.
voted to other uses. With this case is
a note collating the other authorities on
effect of specifying use of real estate In
devise to religious society
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20
THE LAY OF THE LAZY MAN.

Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never TO himself hath said:
TOMORROW morning | will rise
Before the sun lights up the skies.
Il u set this clock SO X will ring
Before the birds begin to sing;
It's strident bell will me awake,
An early morning walk I'll take
And when at an ungodly hour
Next morn. the clock with all its power
Made noise enough TO stir the dead,
ana woke the man upon the bed
Breathes there a man. / now repeat,
Who wouldn't chuck 1t in the street,
And back into the bed then leap,
And with sign go OFF to sleep?
Bohemian.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20
THE OLD GRAPE VINE SWING.

o, that old grape vine swing
On the ellum tree below the spring
Where we used to come to get a drink
When we were boys, and just think
What splendid water we always found.
And how ne often slipped around
To the katcnen, me and Ed,
And found a gooG sized hunk of meat and
bread
o, my, can taste that ham bone yet.
And | swat, sir, / never CT
a swecter Meal az festai heard,
Than that corr bread and water outen the
gourd
Dipped from the pebbly spring.
And drank as we sat In the grape vine
swing. REV. W. Wood, =. ID.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20

The discovery of an excellent bed Of
peat through ditching operations between
Whitewater and Fort Atkinson may
arouse local interest in the substance rs
a fuel for the future, but for some rea-
son practical effort to utilize the mil
lions of tons of peat that underlie large
sections of Wisconsin has not been
crowned with success. When the prob
lem of cheaply converting peat into fuel
that can be as economically handled as
coal has been solved by the invention Of
mechanical process by which the moist
ure can be eliminated from the peat the
people of this part Of the country viii
have less interest in the future of an
thracite mining.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20
NEW USE FOR x-RAYs.
They Are Said to Cure Excessive Per
SEPARATION of the Hands

A German physician has used the Y
rays with success in the treatment of
perspiring hands, condition which is
source of great annoyance to some per
sons.
According to The Medical Record the,
fact that the hands of Roentgen raw
workers become very dry led him to in
vestigate the effect of the rays in eases,
of this sort While it has not been
found feasible to make use of the Roent-
gen rays as means of destroying SUI
perfluous hair owing to the fact that in
order to secure permanent atrophy of the.
hair follicles too great alteration of the
skin as a whole must be caused, it APP
pears that the functional activity Of the.
sweat glands may be abrogated without
undue risk.
The rays must be applied in consider
able intensity, however, and in order to
do this safely it is necessary TO have ar
exact means of quantitatiye control.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20
Annuity for a Greyhound.

Arthur Taylor Newbold Of Bury left
estate of the value of f1S29S. BY his
will. which has just been proved. he
leaves an annuity of f26 for she benefit
of his greyhound, Wildfre H.. whom the
trustees are directed not To part with
either by sale. gift or destruction. or
otherwise. but shall personally see that
he il well kept housed. fed and cared for
until he shall die natural death.-Lon-
don Chronicle.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20
Thrives on Gutta Percha.

The vicissitudes of a submarine cable
are many. 1t may be torn by an anchor.
crushed by a rock or seriously damaged
by a coral reef such as abound in fba
tropics. Some of the growths often
found on a cable tend gradually TO de-
cay the iron sheathing wires. Then
again. cable is sometimes severed nv
seaquake 1t may be fatally attacked
by the snout of sawfsh or By the spike
of a sworifish.
But perhaps the little animal that
makes itself most objectionable from the
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20

Count Zeppelin, the German airship
inventor whose balloon with an alumni
UNI casing is reported to have performed
in a wonderful way, is said to be about
to construct a larger ship that will car
nv twelve men and be able TO travel
5000 miles without returning to the earth.
If the Count can produce ship of this
kind. he can cross the Atlantic; but it IS
not likely that he will make venture
of that kind, as the huge aluminium cy-
Under which constitutes the chief pr
ton of the present airsinp has been
taken from its house only during the
most favorable weather. 10 be real
airship the contrivance should be able
TO take what comes in the way OF
weather.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20

rent fiscal year on the 1st of last July
now amounts to S27,090,79S. Slack
times for the people make slack times
for Uncle Sam. 1t is fortunate that
there is a surplus in the treasury so that
the government can pay its way without
borrowing, Notwithstanding the shrink
ace in its income.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20

1t takes thirty days for a tramp
steamer to make the run between Bos-
ton and Buenos Ayres. A sixteen-knot
mail carrier, like those for which the
Gallinger bill provides, would cover the
distance in seventeen or eighteen days.
The enactment of the Gaiiinger bill is
demanded in the interest of the expan-
sion of trade between the United States
and South Amrica.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20

The proposed establishment by the
government of Sweden of line of car
ferries on the Baltic sea patterned after
the carferries now in service on the
Great Lakes is compliment to the skill
of the shipbuilders of this section. The
steel carferries on Lake Michigan are
capaeious and seawCrthy. and they are
rarely compelled to remain in port be-
cause Of weather conditions.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20

The new scout ship Chester's average
Of DDS knots during continuous run Of
twenty-four hours demonstrates that she
is fit for the work for which she was
constructed She cannot keep pace with
the torpedo boats and the destroyers, but
she will have radius of activity Ear
greater than that of the little naval scor-
piODs
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20

The proposition of a Canadian indus
trial institution to dam the st. Law
renee river at the Long Sault rapids for
the purpose of securing electric power
has been laid before a subcommittee OF
the committee on rivers and harbors OF
the House of Representatives. There Is
much to recommend the proposition, from
the standpoint OF navigation, as the dam
would reduce the number of locks III the
canal by which steamers avoid the rap
ids from eleven to one. This would be a
decided advantage, and if the American
and Canadian governments can reach
an agreement as to the compensation TOT
the power. the matter ought to be easy
of settlement. The level of Lake On
tario is not involved.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20

King Leopold's change of attitude iii
regard to the control of the Congo Free
State constitutes evidence of the power
of public opinion. Notwithstanding
studied and persistent denial on the part
of the Kings henchmen in Africa, popu-
lar opinion in regard to conditions among
the natives became such that the brutal
taskmasters had to yield.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20

A plan is on foot in Richmond 70.
cut out some of the famous bends il
the beautiful James river, which winds
its twisting and doubling course toward
Norfolk. 1t is figured that if certain 81
the loops are cut across the actual DIS
lance TO Norfolk viii be reduced by al
least four miles, and presumably me
depth of the river will be increased o!
Strengthening its course. A government
appropriation is of course involved.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20

BY the death of Red6eld Proctor OF
Vermont the Senate of the United States
loses a member who made little noise
but performed much useful work. Mr.
Proctor was in his seventy-seventh year.
His experience in legislation began short
~ after his return from the Civil war,
in the Legislature of his native state. lie
was governor of Vermont thirty years
ago, and in 1889 was secretary of war
in President Harrisons cabinet. This Of
fee he resigned in 1891 to fill the va
eancy in the Senate caused by the resig-
nation Of Senator Edmunds. In early life
Senator Proctor was lawyer Later ne
became identified with extensive quarry
interests, and acquired large wealth. His
report Of the cruel conditions existing in
Cuba went far to arouse public eenti-
ment in favor of the war against Spain.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20

4 case against whisky dealer who
used caramel sugar to color his product
has been taken to the United States su-
preme court, which will decide whether
whisky so colored is adulterated. The
question would seem to ION all fours''
with the coloring of butter, which is
sanctioned by law.