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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28
August c, Backus
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY

Mr. August c. Backus is candidate for the Republican
nomination for the office of District Attorney The primaries
will be on Tuesday September ], 1908
Mr. Backus was born short distance from the city OF
Milwaukee OF German parents, and the age of IS years
begun working messenger boy in Milwaukee for the
Western Union Telegraph Company salary of S2 per
month He has worked upin the ranks and is strong clear
headed sensible He four years factory IN
spector and his administration aided greatly the working
boys and girls of the city and labor generally This made
him host of friends He attended the law department
the University of Wisconsin, graduating in June 1900 On
January 1905, he was appointed second assistant district
attorney OF Milwaukee County He made such rapid progress
the district attorneys office that the following year he was
promoted to first assistant district attorney The year M
loving that he again promoted the office of sPeca
assistant district attorney, which place he holds MI
Backus has had charge of the county board the Juvenile DIS
rct, Municipal Circuit aud Supreme Courts for his depart
ment he has personally tried twentyone hundred
He has had wide experience and thoroughly equipped
to 90 with the work
The district attorneys Office the most important to e
interests and welfare of every citizen and taxpayer this com
munity 1t is of utmost every elect man
that office who honest fearless able and conscientious
We have these qualifications Mr. Backus and he deserves
the united support of every good citizen.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28
Australia's Lean Years.


OF conditions in Melbourne and Aus
"A run by steamer down the Yarra
Yarra river showed with what a lavish
hand money had been spent during the
great building boom of the early ninetes.
There were miles of wharves and quays,
without a ship or any sign of trade, but
all waiting for the good time coming.
Australia. indeed. has passed through
some lean years. In the early ninetes
the land and building boom burst and
nearly all the banks broke. thousands be-
ing reduced to poverty, while trade and
commerce greatly diminished.
Then, Just as a recovery was coming.
a fearful drought began and lasted for a
long time, sheep and cattle dying by mil.
lions. One man we met told us how he
had watched his sheep dwindle from Co.
600 to 5000 before the rain came. Now
the rains are abundant again and Aus
tralia has entered ON another period OF
prosperity; but it is likely that another
years, when the same ruin may be re-
peated.
Nothing but a series of storage reser-
yoirs on large scale will meet the
droughts, which appear to come in cycles
OF about thirteen years. So bad are the
effect of these droughts tina. in ten
years the population of Melbourne in
| creased by only 5000: the females in
creased $1,000 but the males diminished
| by 1900, showing what a vast number
of men must have left in search OF
work Chicago News.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28

machine anywhere within the field of the
stations operating capacity.
The success of electrically driven
pumps for supplying water for irrigation
purposes on lands lying along transmits.
sion lines of suburban railways having
been demonstrated by the Puget Sound
Railway and Power company, between
Seattle and Tacoma, the irrigation in
that way of such lands, where irrigation
would be an important help to farming,
is being suggested as a and profit
able field for central sta ION managers
to exploit for promoting tb sale Of
electrical energy in territory tributary 10
their lines.
Electric cooking utensils in kitchens of
railway dining cars do away with the
danger always involved where glowing
Goals and open flames are the rule.
The necessary current for electric cook.
ing can be produced by dynamo driven
by small Curtis steam turbine located
in the baggage car.
The first electric street car line is in
operation in Warsaw, Poland. The en-
ployes work from a. ID. until II 80
p. m. Motormen get 62 20 81 cents
day and conductors 62 to IS cents.
1t is planned to electrify the new
Denver, Laramie & Northwestern rail
road as soon as the first stretch of track
from Denver to Fort Collins is ready. If
the plan is successful electric power will
be substituted all the way to Laramie.
Water is purified by Leon Dion's sys-
tenn of electrical decomposition whereby
an ordinary electric current passes
through the water and separates it into
its gaseous elements. the oxygen gener-
ated accomplishing the work of purifca-
ton. At the separation is formed
ozone, gas which retains the remark
able activity of nascent oxygen and
burns almost any substance with which
it comes in contact. Every living or
ganism is attacked and instantly
burned up by the powerful ozone. Wa
ter containing millions of disease germs.
if thus subjected to the searching ordeal
of the electric current, becomes not only
harmless, but almost chemically pure.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28

To the objects of interest in the Mich
igan state park on Mackinac Island is
soon to be added monument to Father
Marquette, the gift of the late Peter
White of Marquette, Michigan. Mr..
White was not Catholic, but as a stu
dent of history was deeply impressed by
the beauty of Father Marquette's char
acter and the significance of his services
to civilization, as well as the pietur-
esqueness of the niche which he fills in
the early history of the Northwest. The
statue will be like that in the city of
Marquette, bronze replica of the mar
BILE figure which is in the Statuary Hall
Of the Capitol at Washington. the work
of the sculptor Trentanoye, commits
stoned by the state of Wisconsin. Art
critics have agreed in praising this work
of Trentanove, and students of North
western history have united in according
praise to the part which Father Mar
quette performed in the opening of
what is now one of the most flourishing
sections of the great republic of the
New World. Mackinaw Island, conspic-
uously identified with the early history
of the Northwest, and the rendezvous
every year of thousands of summer Wis
itOrs, is an appropriate place for an
other statue of Father Marquette.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28
Oklahoma Wolf Story.

Orlie Hizer OF near Lawrie was IN the
city yesterday TO claim bounty on a corl-
pie of large wolf sealps. Having ocea-
sion to go down into a gulch. he threw
his shotgun over his shoulder in hopes of
a chance shot at rabbit He noticed
stir in clump of bushes and found
that they contained a wolf part of its
body being visible. With only a single
harreled shotgun he took chances and
fired. Through the cloud of smoke he
saw the animal coming straight at him
and jumped TO one side as its laws
snapped Quickly releading, he fired
again. killing it. On examination of the
bushes he found that he had killed the
Wolf hat he had first seen, and that its
mate had been there also and had made 4
spring at him.-Guthrie Cor. Dallas
News
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28
BADLY TIED.

She Was a girl with a lovely face
And the usual form divine
O., ALLOW her her need of grace
In color and mold and line:
give her tribute for charm and such
might be proud to have won
But mere is the issue: Was that SO much
To hang mans future upong
What did / know of the ways of things
" hen she strolied into my life?
what did know of the hidden springs?
What did / want with a wife?
SO. since | had tickled her idle vile.
" nat could hope but--the crash?
Why, was babe for her lianid smile
toy for her down-drooped lash.
But love that is bred of a long. blue eye
And born on crimson lip
May last sou the thoughtIess month OF
two
But IT. never lasts out the trip.
80 now in such looks as we change / see
Whlch, or course. was bound TO occur
Her wonder what she ever wanted in nae
Meet mine why / ever took her.
Richmond Times Dispatch
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28
Vanishing Old London.

After the eud of this month the "Old
Curiosity Shop" in Portsmouth street.
and other contiguous property leading
into I.ineolnS Inn Fields, will be de-
molished. the freehold having been sold.
and a block of business premises will be
erected. The quaint looking building.
which has had great fascination for
American tourists, is said TO be more
than 800 years old. dating back to the
early DAYS of James L.. but the fact has
never been established that tiais was the
.old Curiosity Shop" immortalized by
Charles Dickens The lucrative attrac-
ton Of the name of the great humorist
Will. therefore. come TO an end. but the
tenants Of the shop have received com
nensatiou, and will carry on their print
ING business in Great Queen street
Par-Mall Gazette.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28
THINGS ELECTRIC.

Berlin police are taking steps to pre-
vent the best streets from being dis
figured by electric signs. No objections
are offered to the erection of street signs
IN ugly or confined spaces, but they Will
be excluded from the best streets.
Although milking cows by electricity
was at frs ridiculed it has been demon
started that it can be successfully and
protitably accomplished.
Marconi is working upon system of
wireless telegraphy by which wireless
messages can be sent both ways at
once. lie is also experimenting with q
device TO locate the direction from which
a message is coming.
One of the inventors of the General
Electric company has patented device
for holding the recording instruments on
electric vehicles. Until this device was
produced the wattmeters and other me-
tiers were not accurate on account OF the
vibrations. The new attachment does
away with all this trouble.
A large system of electric signals has
just been completed along the line of the
Caledonion railway. Glasgow, which is
the first installation of its kind in Scot
land.
The colors of lightning flashes vary
from white to blue. Red is the common
est in forked lightning, with blue close
ly following, and orange and green less
frequent. White is seen oftenest in
sheet lightning, red and yellow coming
next. Hail usually comes in thunder
storm with blue lightning.
BY adopting the electric drive in Eng
lish rolling mills. the output of the mills
wherever that power has been installed
has been more than doubled
A Chicago church has installed electric
footlights on the floor at each corner of
the Dulnit TO obyiate objections of the
pastor to the light falling on him from
above
The transmission of pictures or the
drawing of pictures, so to speak, by
wireless telegraphy. after the system IN
vented or devised by II. Knudsen, the
German scientist. is giving satisfactory
results and promises to become of prac-
teal use. BY the same system Knudsen
asserts that he can operate a typesetting
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28

Galveston has been noting the strug-
giles of New York in competition with
Montreal for export grain traffic. and
the complaints concerning high rail and
canal freights, aud her business men
are expressing hope that share of the
export business of the West may be di-
verified to the gulf route by way of Gal
weston. But this hope is tenuouS, The
Great Lakes and their connecting links
provide waterway that reaches almost
half way across the continent, and the
natural economic route for export garin
is along this chain. The struggling OF
New York and Boston against Montreal
will serve to stimulate improvements
which win make it all the more unlikely
that any great amount of export grain
will ever so by the gulf route.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28

The July fire loss in the United States
and Canada amounted to S15.323. 100,
being the smallest for any month SO far
during 1908 except May, when the total
was $15,1S1, $50. For the first half Of
the current year the destruction by fire
has reached an aggregate of S141,4S1,-
500, compared with $135.71S.550 for the
corresponding period of 1907. 1t is said
that this years losses have represented
fully insured property TO Il greater ex-
tent than usual, and that but for the
advance in security values which has
taken place of late some of the insur-
ance companies would have been in Sc
rious straits
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28

\ reader who was informed by con-
temporary that his wife's sisters hus-
band is his brother-in-law declares that
"Webster's International Dictionary
states that not even usage sanctions the
claim. "Webster's International SAYS
a brother-in-law is the brother of ones
husband or wife; also, the husband IF
ones sister; sometimes. the husband of
ones wife's sister The STANDARD
Dictionary thus defines the term broth
er-in-law: a husbands brother; a
wife's brother; sisters husband; loose.
ly in England and legally in the United
States, a wife's sisters husband"
These definitions warrant an affirmative
answer to the correlative question; I'm
case our two wives died and | should
die without heir or other relatives would
he (the wife's sisters husband be able
to inherit my fortune on the ground Of
relationship But death would have
TO deal very severely with the average
family in order to bring about this ex-
ceedingly remote contingency,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28

The rage for speed on the water is
quite as pronounced as the rage for
rapid going on land. A resident of Pitts
burg has offered bonus of 100000 for
a motor boat with guaranteed speed of
fifty miles an hour, and the Herreshoffs
are said to be considering the matter.
Last week, after he. race with the
British challengers for the Harmswortn
cup, the American motor boat Dixie IL.
achieved over thirty-six miles an hour
during private trial. This is very fast,
but to win the 100000 offered by the
Pittsburger builder will have TO in
crease this gait by fourteen miles, which
is a good speed for commercial vessels.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28
IN fEPFEcT LovE-A RoNDEAU.

And shall / write for even your ewes
Of that dear love which warmly lies
Upon the silence of my heart?
Alas! too feeble is my art
To echo forth such harmonies.
Silent | watched our loves uprise
From subtler deeps than moonlit skies
Where souls, as planets, swing apart:
And shall / write?
'Tis but shallow grief that cries
And sorrow oft transeendeth signs;
When suns are high no shadows start,
From moons at full the stars depart,
In perfect love all longing dies:
And shall | write?
Armin Trebor in Appleton's,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28

The new trademark treaty with Japan
opens way toward the suppression of
counterfeits of American products which
have been placed upon the Asiatic mar
kets by shrewd japanese manufacturers.
This sinister competition has been in
furious in two ways. 1t has done direct
injury by supplying a demand which
would otherwise have been supplied by
American goods. 1t has done indirect
injury by creating prejudice. for in many
instances the Japanese limitations were
inferior.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28
Late loci chandler Harris.

THE late Joel Chandler Harris said
an Atlanta clergyman, used to laugh
at the way everybody seemed to want a
free advertisement of some sort from the
editor. 1t was the same. he would say,
with the physician-everybody wants
free advice on the health question from
him.
Il once heard him tell about an editor
who served ten days in Jail for licking
the mayor. The warden treated him
very kindly. and at the ten days end,
escorting him to the door and shaking
him by the hand, said
"Well, goodbye and good luck, ed.
And say. would you mind giving the
Jail a puff
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28

rhe assistant dairy and food inspector
who is arresting farmers and cheese
makers in Manitowoc county who main
tain unclean aud unsenitary places is
doing good work that win be appreciated
by consumers of milk and cheese His
activity should stimulate effort to im
prove conditions wherever farmers and
Others in the dairy counties are main
tanning unclean premises which menace
the public health.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28

John Lambert
The late John Lambert the Philadel-
pbia artist, whose blindness brought on
by the dazzling sunshine OF Spanish
summer, caused his death through grief,
was portrait painter of rare talent
lambert, said member of the
Philadelphia club the other day, was a
realist. His portraits were true and
untlattering. 1t annoyed him ire
mendously to be asked to make an ugly
woman beautiful was the same thing,
he used TO say, as being asked to lie.
~ Spruce street matron sat to Lam
bert once. At the end of the third
sitting she professed to be quite satisfied
with the progress of the work.
All but the mouth, she said. Please
make it small and curved. | know it is
a straight, long mouth, really, just as
you have drawn it, but in the portrait
! want you, if you will, to make it very
tiny. Will your
Certainly, madam, said Lambert
III leave it out altogether if you wish .
Philadelphia Record
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28
Germany Wants Eels.

Germany is taking steps to supply
itself with eels. The other day the liner
Kaiser Wilhelm III. called AT Plymouth
and took 90 board for Bremen twelve
cases. each containing 10000 live eeis.
for stocking German rivers. They Viii
first be placed in the laboratory nj Cux-
haven and on attaining maturity win be
turned into various streams
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28

A benefcient course OF procedure for
charitable and philanthropic organiza-
tons is indicated by the work of the
Cincinnati Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION, which has sent two hundred
idle men to the harvest fields of the Da-
kutas. Thousands of men would be
glad to leave the cities for n few months
work in the country if ways and means
could be devised for transporting them
to the farmers who are calling loudly fo-
help.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28

Fishermen on the west shore of Lake
Michigan are organizing for the pur-
pose of urging legislation increasing the
size of the meshes in nets generally.
This is wise move on their part. The
smaller fish should be spared in the
interest Of future business.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28
P. A. B. Widener.

1T was at first thought" said a Phil
adelphia painter, that T. A. b. Wide
ners fine new Van Dycks were bogus.
but they have, of course, turned out to
be all right.
mr.. Widener knows art too well ever
to be duped. He learned in the school
of his friend. John G. Johnson. Those
two men are the finest connoisseurs in
America.
mir. Widener once told me that he
did not begin 10 buy pictures-his gal
lery is the best we have--till he under
stood them He said that to buy ignor-
antly would only be to fail as disas-
trously as an Ogoptz man who went into
chicken raising.
This Ogontz man started to raise
chickens. All went we'll for time with
him His hens Matched a number of
small birds. But these birds, after
Matching. began to die off.
What do you feed them on?' a
friend inquired hearing of the many
deaths among the little chicks
g Feed them? was the puzzled an
swer. Why. | don't feed them at all,
/ thought the hen had enough milk for
them. kansas City Journal.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28
Liquid Gas.n

The Illuminating material known as
liquid gas was discovered three or four
years ago by Hermann Blau, the Ba-
varian chemist, BY a process of rectifi-
cation the methane and hydrogen con
tanned in it are separated from the gas
and by a pressure of forty asmospheres
are reduced to the liquid form in steel
receivers. The compound can be used
in the place of petroleum. alcohol and
aceylene, and it is said TO give a light
of beautiful color, preferable to that of
the electric light.--philadelphia Record
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28

The British wheat crop this year will
be $4,000 quarters below last years.
The American harvest of wheat, it is
now estimated, will yield somewhere in
the neighborhood of 7S1 100000 bushels,
compared with 634,0S7,00o year ago
American crop statistics and also the
prices for farm products are cheerful OBJ
jectS OF contemplation this year.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28
Senator Proctor.

The late Senator Proctor" said Il
Burlington. VT, man. hated these inter-
national marriages where a titled for
eigner marries an American girl with
four or five millions.
Il heard him say once in Burlington
that he'd believe in the sincerity of such
marriages when he saw an English duke
or an Italian prince marrying an Ameri-
can girl who was poor.
Then he smiled grimly and ended:
- If | were a millionaire and We're
giving my daughters aud a dozen mil
lions to some young count or earl I'd
have the church decorated only with
marigolds.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28

In taking steps for the construction Of
an immense drydock, one thousand feet
long, the White Star Steamship COM
pany reveals the expectation of its man
ayers that ships Of that length will
eventually make their appearance. The
tendency toward the employment of big
ger ships should cause builders of docks
and canal locks to make ample provision
for marine development in the near
future
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28

Before they reached Auckland, the
battleships of the American fleet had an
opportunity to display their seaworthi-
ness in steaming in the teeth of a heavy
gale Despite their heavy armament and
the tremendous weight of enginery and
mechanical equipment, the modern bat
tieship is buoyant and quite dry in heavy
weather.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28
Richard Mansfield.

The late Richard Mansfield was a
patient sufferer in his last illness, and
he retained his good cheer to a marked
degree. One day he told his physician
that he believed he would not live many
weeks longer.
'Boshr' SAID the physician. You are
good for a long time yet. Why, man
alive, did you cen hear of anybody near
death with legs and feet as warm as
yours?''
Yes" replied Mr.. Mansfield, elots of
them. For instance, there was Joan Of
Are and the Salem witches. Harper 5
Weekly.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28

The loss of eight lives by the burning
of the steamer Permier, at landing on
Lake Winnipeg early Thursday morning,
would not have occurred had the boat
been properly watched during the night.
Fire is peril of steamboat travel that
must be reckoned with by those whose
duty it is to safeguard passengers as
much as possible.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28

The president of the fishery section Of
the Brussels Chamber of Commerce has
made interesting experiments in the car
riage of fish. Soles caught by Ostend
boats of the Portuguese coast which
were packed IN a special vegetable paper
turned out after sixteen days in
much better condition. both as regards
freshness and flavor. than those packed
in ice. After all, there is nothing like
paper,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28
Banzai.

"Banzai" is the only Japanese word
that most of us know. According to
contributor to Notes and Queries. it is
Its birthplace was the Imperial univer-
sity of Toxic. 1t was invented by Dir.
Shigeno, one of the highest authorities
ON japanese literature, in response to
request for an equivalent to the Eng
lish "Hurrah." AS a brief way of ex-
pressing congratulations, "Banzai' has
travelled all over the world
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-28

As Count Zeppelin has been subsisting
en- expectation for many years, the dis
aster which compels him to experience
another season of effort and waiting to
show what he can do in the line of aero
nautics, will serve to renew his youth
and keep him active longer than would
be the case were he to reach the goal
of his ambition at single bound.