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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
ITALIAN CHEAP LIVING.
Railroad Laborcrs Able to Get Along
on Less than $40 Month

Fthilfohu LaDOrerS Able to Get Along
on Less than $40 Month.
That Italian laborers save more mon
ey at the same wages than any other
European immigrants is statement
made in report of the department Of
commerce and labor. The reason is
easily found, says the New York sun.
A great majority of the unsl1illed la
borers in this country are employed in
railroad construction and similar nm
dertakings. which are usually carried
ON where there are no accommodations
for boarding and lodging the men The
boarding camp thus becomes essential
to the contracting company.
In the case of men of all nationaIi-
Ties except the Italians a fixed charge
is made for the boarding and lodging of
each man. The Italians, however. in-
sist ON buying and cooking their own
food
Investigation of the records of a con
tracing company employing many Ia
borers of various nationallties In rail-
road construction showed that the ;tc-
tual cost to the company of groceries,
provisions and payment for cooks. wait
ers, fuel. light, etc, at its boarding
camps was 10 cents neal, or 100 a
week for each man. The men were
charged SIS Il month for board aud
lodging.
The Italians at the camps of the
same company lived mostly on maca-
roni sausage. cheese. sardlnes and
bread, mpcaroni aud bread being the
staples aud the others used very spar
ingly. The average monthly expense
of each lnborer was as follows Tween
ty-tiye one and onc-half pound loaves
of bread at s cents So; thirty pounds
of macar0ni at cents. $2.10; sausage,
sardines and cheese $1.50; lard, 80
cents.
Most of the Italians in addition to
that amount spent an average of So Il
month for beer, cheap cigars and to.
bacco. which with the expense of 81 a
month for shanty rent brought the to-
tai cost of living up to about $40 a
month";
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

the complicated mechanism of the or
binary baseule bridge, and the expense
attending its adaptation to special con
dttions, and made sketch of some
thing new in the lift bridge type.
Mr. Swensson considers the plan he
has drawn fundamentally simple. The
ordinary span is by vertical arms sus-
pended on two trunions which rest on
Fixed portal-formed towers at the ends
Of the bridge. The entire bridge may
be swung around horizontal longitu-
ainal axis SO that when the bridge is
open the movable span occupies raised
inverted position, with enough clear
ance for the largest vessels.
All the devices will be operated FROM
the room in the upper part of the fixed
towers. Automatic gates viii close the
roadway, when the gate bridge is open.
Minneapolis Journal.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
ToMBS OF SPANISH ROYALTY.
Most Gorgeous Burial vaults-Marble
Efigies of Children.


The escurial in which for nearly three
centuries the Kings and Queens of Spain
have been buried is said to be the most
gorgeous burial vault in the world.
1t is an octagonal chamber, SO feet
across, with its walls, save where the
coffins stand. entirely overlaid with
precious marbles. The staircase which
leads to it is of marble with jasper walls.
The general effect is unspeakably splen-
did. In the midst of this magnificence
are the massive black marble caskets let
into the walls, containing the bodies
themselves. They are all exactly alike,
inscribed simply with the names of the
different Kings and Queens There is
room for just six more monarchs and
their consorts.
Of another characted altogether is the
vault devoted to Spain's royal children
princes and prineesses. Here white
marble rules. and very charming are
some of the effigies over the tombs.
place of the little angels" and though
many of the princes who lie here were
not at all angelic in their lives the i'm
preston left by the white marble wings
of the statues is one of spotless purity.
One unfortunate Spanish King, Don
Jaime Ii. of Aragon, is daily on view in
the cathedral of Palma in Majorca. The
sacristan of the place takes you to a yell
low marble monument in the choir, opens
cupboard, and pulls out very ordi-
nary coffin with a glass lid. AS poor Don
Jaime died in the Fourteenth century,
he is not now at all lively spectacle
His mummy is made gay, however, with
imitation royal robes-cottony ermine,
and SO forth.-Tit-BitS
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

class ruin him in another. If you are
a clerk, take care not to behave like
duke
Greatness is only one of the sensa-
lions of littleness.
Self-denial Is not virtue; 1t is only
the effect of prudence on rascality.
Are you going to spend your life say
ing ought, like the rest Of the moral
lists? Turn your thoughts into shalls,
man.
An Englishman thinks he is moral
when he is only uncomfortable.
Every true Englishman detests the
English. We are the wickedest nation
ON earth; and our success is a moral
horror.
1t takes an freshman years of resi-
dence In England to learn to respect
and like a blockhead An Englishman
win not respect nor like anyone else.
No man pretends that his soul finds
its supreme satisfaction In self sacri-
fee; such an affectation would stamp
him as coward and weakling. Wom-
EN- who yearn fer self-sacrifce are mere
ly overworked.
We live in an atmosphere of shame.
we are ashamed of everything that is
real about us-ashamed of ourselves,
of our relations, of our incomes, of our
accents, OF our opinions of our expert
ence The more things man is
ashamed of the more respectable he is.
A modern gentleman is necessarily
the enemy of his country. Even in war
he does not fight to defend II, but to
prevent his power OF preying on it from
passing to foreigner Such com
batants are patriots in the same sense
as two dogs fighting for bone are low
ers of animals.
He who believes in education, Grim
inal law and sport needs only property
TO make him perfect modern gentle
man.
The golden rule is that there is no
golden rule.
II you begin by sacrificing yourself
to those you love- you will end by hat
ing those TO whom you have sacrificed
yourself
Beware of the man who does not re-
turn your blow he neither forgives you
nor allows You to forgive yourself
If you mjure your neighbor, better
not do it by halves,
You have learned something That
always feels at first as if you had lost
something.
Self-sacriiice enables us to sacrifice
other people without blushing.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
A GLAD FAITH.

By Rev. Henry F. Cope.
20, come, let us sing unto the Lord -
Psalm 90 Il.
These words Of the old singer of long
ago, this call to glad uplifting of voices
in song, constitute part of one of the
best known and best loved passages of
worship amongst all congregations in
our day. They recall TO nearly every
memory occasions when they have been
far from empty words, when they have
been laden with happiness, gratitude
and praise giving.
Whoever has said or sung these
words with any freedom Of mind has
felt the uplift of expressing an ex.
ceedingly desirable thought. Yet some
how they contrast strangely with the
place in which they are usually sung !;
they seem rather to belong to some fair
upland or sunlit grove, where men
might come and worship with garlands
of flowers.
We too often picture the Hebrews as
a people wholly innocent of laughter
and lightness of heart, and their re-
ligion as peculiarly one of gloom. We
forget how much of joy there was in
all their ceremonial life, how all their
feasts and holidays and joyous social
occasions were essentially religious.
Piety TO them meant no pain, but the
highest, noblest form Of pleasure.
1t is easy TO see that much Of the
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
COFFEE EYES.
1t Acts Slowly bat Frequently Pro-
duces Kindness.

1t Acts Slowly bat Frequently Pro-
duces blindness.
The curious effect of slow daily pol
soning and the gradual building in of
disease as a result, is shown in num-
bers Of cases where the eyes are af-
fected by coffee.
A case In point viii illustrate:
A lady In Oswego. Mont, expert
enced a slow but sure disease settling
upon her eyes in the form of increas-
Ing weakness and shooting pains with
wavy, dancing lines of light, so vivid
that nothing else could be seen for
minutes at time.
She says:
This gradual failure of sight alarm
ed me and 1 naturally began a very
earnest quest for the cause. About
this time was told that coffee poison
ing sometimes took that form, and
while 1 didn't believe that coffee was
the cause of my trouble, l concluded
to quit It and see.
II took up Postum Food Coffee In
spite of the jokes of Husband whose
experience with one cup at neighbours
was unsatisfactory. Well, I made
Postum strictly according to directions,
boiling 1t a little longer, because of
our high altitude, The result was
charming. / have now used Postum
in place of coffee for about 8 months
and my eyes are well. never palning
me or showing any weakness. I know
to a certainty that the cause of the
trouble was coffee and the cure was in
quitting it and building up the nervous
system on Postum. for that was abso-
lutely the only change I made in diet
erd took no medicine.
My nursing baby has been kept in a
perfectly healthy state since 1 have
used Postum.
mfr. --, a friend, discarded cof-
fee and took on Postum to see If he
could be rid OF his dyspepsia and fire.
quent headaches, The change pro-
duced a most remarkable Improvement
quickly"
There's q Reason" Name given By
Postum Co. Battle Greek, Mich.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

Days OF Financial Stress Make Farm
Lands Look Rich.
A staff contributor OF a Southern
newspaper has taken up the question
of the return to the farm of many who
had forsaken it for the glitter of the
city. He says: 1T is well-known fact
that the history of this governments
shows that those men who have been
most successful In life and who have
left their impress upon its people and
Its institutions as statesmen, soldiers.
inanciers, have as rule been those
whose youth was spent on the farm.
and 1t is to such as these that there
comes with overmastering power THE
CALL OF THE SOIL. More especially
does it come with redoubled persuasive
ness, greater power and sweeter plead
ing to the man of affairs when the
clouds Of financial unrest begin to dark
en- the sky; when the cry of panic
causes people to lose their wits and act
like stampeded cattle; when with rea-
son or without reason there arises be-
fore him the specter of ruin, grinning
In his face and waving its gaunt arms
in threatening gesticulation
The pitiable state into which some
men were brought by the recent finan-
clal furry, which happily is now pass
ed. suggests these reflections. Some
were ruined and very few became In
sane because of their losses. Two or
three took their own lives.
1t Is when such times come
that the statesman, the great finan-
cier, and the man of affairs becomes
tired OF the struggle. He lays down
his pen, turns from his desk and
listens to THE CALL OF THE SOIL.
There are hundreds Of cases through
out the United States of those who
have money in the banks and are look
ing for investment in lands. No
investment Is better or safer. Take
for instance. the lands in West
ern Canada that can be bought
at from $40 to SIS per acre
which yield a revenue equal to and
often greater than their original cost.
These lands make a certain invest
ment. During the past two months
large investments In these lands have
been made, some Intending to use the
lands for farming purposes OF their
own, others to resell to farmer
friends. The agents Of the government
OF Canada located at different points
throughout the United States have In
their possession particulars of districts
in which there are free homestead
grants of 100 acres, each accessible to
railways, markets. schools, churches,
etc. These are valuable lands. These
agents will be pleased to give informa-
ton to any DESTROYS of securing and
will tell all about the railway rates,
etc.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
A Test of Faith.

They were cross-examining, in a CHI
cago court recently, bookmaker who
had been caught in the tolls for playing
some other game than his own The
third sub-assistant district attorney was
was doing his best, none too successfully,
to shake the testimony of the defendant.
you're sure of thatg' he yelled, as
the bookmaker stuck to an assertion that
did not suit the case of the state.
Sure, am certain" came the answer
you remember that you are under
oath p
II do that
'And you'd swear to this statement Of
yoursY'
Swear to it? why, Mr.. Lawyer and
Judge. your honor, I'd bet a hundred on
it any day."-Spare Moments.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
sHnRr METER SERMONS.

The best way to work for a raise is
to raise your work.
Preparation is the best prayer for
success In any undertaking.
He has no principal in heaven who
has no interest IN humanity.
When a man knows he is a martyr
You may know that he is not.
The man who is always figuring fol-
himself cuts a poor figure at last.
You never will tighten the world by
burning the candle at both ends,
Some men think they must be good
because life tastes SO bad to them.
Nothing dries up the heart quicker
than bathing it in the mists of melan.
choly.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
nnNr,s FOR cHuRCHMEN.

Don't stop for praises, lest you miss
perfection.
Don't think your gifts to God will
atone your thefts from man.
Don't pray for what you are unwill
ing to make proper effort to gain.
Don't defer the right determination
for thereby you make a wrong one.
Don't try to have one religion to live
by and another to die by, for the ex
pertinent is likely TO result In so great
confusion that you viii have difficulty
In making your peace with God
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

Bible belongs to the childhood of the
race, to the days when men took life
less seriously and when they cared less
than we do for the scientific explana-
lions that lie back of phenomena. Life
was simpler: tie universe was smaller
their gods . e-s, nearer and more easily
understood. As we have passed from
childhood perhaps it has been unavoid-
able that we should lose some Of the ir-
responsibility and simplicity of those
days
Sometimes it seems. however, as If
the race had lost childhood and passed
over manhood, as If we have grown pre-
maturely old. We have forgotten the
child's smile, but have not found in the
mans heart deep happiness. 1t is
poor kind of progress we have made,
as race, If we have found in the
passing centuries no deeper springs of
JOS than we knew long ago. We take
our religion not too seriously, but too
gloomily. 1t would be better to wor-
ship with the ignorant simplicity and
the genuine gayety of those who once
danced before their affairs than to con-
tinue perfunctorily to go through the
motions of a manufactured and mourn
full mimicry. Ii your piety is a pain
full thing to you and pleasureless
thing to others it probably is all pre-
tense after all.
If we have forsaken the garlands of
Greece and the festivals of Judea, what
of joyousness has Christianity in their
stead? If the Christianization of the
nations means that the whole world Is
to be uniformly clad In somber suits
of Sunday blacks, with countenances 20
match, it can only be regarded as
doubtful benefit.
1t is no use talking about the bless
ings of faith unless we look and act
as If we really are blessed. 1t is no
use believing In cloudless heaven II
we pass all these days in the shadows.
The "joy of the Lord is of little use in
this world unless it is the kind of a
joy that a man can see and desire to
share.
knowledge and the laden houses of
goods; but, alas, we walk through them
with empty hearts, for we have not
yet learned how to live. We are pick
ing up life's lead and despislng its gold
We are blind to the sweetness and light
in life, to the wayside flowers of joy
to the deep sources of thankfulness
We need to lift up our eyes to see
how good world this is, how fair its
morns, how bright its moons, how glori
with the little tangled chaos of our
own making, too little with Gods great
glowing universe, that compels the up
lifted eye, the expanded chest, and the
singing heart.
We need to take our faces from our
ledgers and to look into other faces, to
learn larger faith and love for men, to
rejoice in friendships. to find the thrill
of the broad and upward way, to find
time to live and let the making of
living take care of itself for while.
After all, all our shadows come from
our suicidal selfishness, and gladness,
deep and enduring, is found only in the
life of self-giving. There will always
be a song in the heart when the hands
are busy with loves service. The best
way to sing to the Lord is to serve our
fellows. for so our song starts another,
and soon there is chorus of heavenly
hanpineSs
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

NOVEL IDEA IN BRIDGES.

Minnesota Genius DeviScS stroc-
ture that swings Above Water.
with the idea in mind of bridging
the Narrows at Lake Minnetonka in a
manner more slightly, economical and
feasible than the boh-tail draw span
with a clearance of sixty feet, Eric
Swensson. consulting engineer, has lie
signed a lift bridge intended to avoid
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
HYMNS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW (
The Divine VIII.


The Divine Will.
l worship thee, sweet Will of Godl
And all thy ways adore;
And every day live, long
To love thee more and more.
Mans weakness waiting upon God
Its end can never miss;
For men on earth no work can do
More angei-like than this.
He always wins who sides with God.
To him no chance is lost:
Gods will ia sweetest to him when
1t triumphs at his cost.
III that God blesses is our good,
And unblest good is i'll;
And all is right that seems most wrong,
If 1t be his dear will
] have no cares, 0 blessed Will
For all my cares are thine;
live in triumph, Lord, for thou
Hast made thy triumphs nine
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
nonhle Tracking the Road.

The Chilean government has begun
work on double tracking the main rail-
way line from Valparaiso to Santiago,
a distance of about 100 miles, which will
require large quantity of new steel and
many thousands of new ties. This, with
the harbor improvements, will greatly re-
lievc the congestion in that port, which
for the last year has been a hindrance
TO business.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

good things-thinss
which Americans as
well as Englishmen
appreciate and en-
joy. In the follow
ing collection Of cpl
grams from his
caustic pen one may
find several thoughts
worth considering
The characters
tics that make a
..s.n..N - ntnn
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

As a rule the smaller the income a
young man commands the larger the
chrysanthemum he sends his girl.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
Where He Was.

Caller--Is the professor of applied
physics in?
Boston Butler-No, sir. He is at pres
ent occupying the chair of applied lath.i
er-Harper's Weekly.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
A FEW EPIGRAMs.

Some of the Sayings which Have
Made G.. Bernard shaw Famous.
George Bernard Shaw just loves to
talk, but unlike many men afflicted with
that complaint, he really says some
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

Enpec-My wife threatened to leave
me last week. but changed her mind.
Smart-Why don't you sue her for
preach of promise? Kansas City
Times.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

Servant worries In Spain are reduced
to minimum, not because the domes.
tic class is an ideal one, but for the
reason that nothing very exalted is ex.
pected of ii, Servants are taken less
seriously than in England and allowed
fuller play Of those impulses natural
to their youth and class Spanish ser
wants sing oYeF. choir work as Il matter
OF course. AS they wash in the court
yard they talk and laugh freely over
the wall with neighboring maids at th,
tub. their mistress proximity on th,
balcony being no hindrance TO out
bursts of merrlment-- Woman's Life.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24

pEn WETTINc Urol cures or money ie1.II-s
pLV HLitihu ed A vegetable meGisD
for children or adults Price s. eo'H''
bottles for SIS
SRoL @ % - NNlcAL c.
S2e Eleventh Ave. Mnwaukee. VIZ
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ATTENTION HoAEsEEKERs go Acres So -,
Government land for farming and -,
ing. MILLIONS OF acres TO choose from, ~.
soil. Water plentiful Send 25c " 800.
Tor fun Information. WIEBkE Cu'S ~
tors. Miles City. Montana.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-10-08
Obe Jeffersonia

Father, [ have always known you
as a just man. Your enviable repu-
tation for honesty, square dealing
and justice to all men is the founda-
ton upon which your great business
at Dallas has been built up. I ask
you, now, as man, is it just to con-
denim a person of whom you know
nothing? But [ am yet loyal to the
best old father on earth. [ would
do nothing to cast cloud upon your
pathway in your declining years. I
will make you this sacred promise. I
saw Nellie here, in this house, as [
entered, and will bring her to your
bedside. After seeing her and talk
ing with her, if you ask me to give
her up, I will do so, and drive her
from my presence that instant, and
go home with you.
"God bless you, you are yet my
own son. the old man cried with
great warmth. "But I cannot bear
to look upon that creature, George.
Give her right upright now. Go
to her and tell her that it is my wish
my command, and you must obey
it,
"No, father, that would be unjust,
and entirely unlike you. Do you
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-10-08

accede to my proposition ?"
eyes, bring the girl here. Can
my little nurse be present at the
interview"
eyes, father, I will bring her
also. -
George left the room, and few
minutes later re-entered leading the
young nurse by the hand. The old
man had conjured up a look of stern
disgust, and was holding to it
tenaciously when the young couple
entered. They stood by the bedside
few moments amid painful
silence, which was broken by the
voice of the aged father:
"Why don't the creature come?
Has the scheming hussy's heart
failed her at the thought of facing
an outraged father?"
"She is here"
"Who is here?'
"Nellie Slower adcap Nellie -
who saved your life and is nursing
you back to health and strength
again.
Ignoring his pain, the old man
rose up in the bed and gazed from
zone to the other in blank amazement.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-10-08
PAGE SEVEN.

His face turned red and white by
turns, and he vainly essayed to speak.
Finally, he sank back upon his pillow
with a groan, and fairly shouted:
"Of all the mean, internal, abomi-
nable, contemplate tricks to play on
a helpless sick man, this stands at the
head Begone! Leave the room! Get
out of my sight before get up and
throw you out, you miserable schem-
ers!"
They quickly retired, but in a few
moments Nellie stole softly back into
the old mans chamber. She left the
door slightly ajar, and after a time
George cautiously approached and
peeped in. Nellie was kneeling by
the bedside, her head bowed upon the
invalid's pillow, while he softly
stroked her lovely brown hair.
1t is still said that the wedding in
the Bolton mansion at Dallas eclipsed
In grandeur any event ever seen in
the state of Texas. The fair bride g
father and mother, two of the most
respected people of northern Texas,
were present, and seemed as proud of
their new son as Banker Bolton was
Of his new "Madcap" daughter
The Banner of Gold.