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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-11-19
THE BOY AND THE DOG


self no exertion to furnish them with an incentive.
anything which had power to move with the whole
souled abandon Of a cat ought to be kept moving;
otherwise were wasted one Of natures best gifts to
the cat tribe.
Why should They have expected you to prove
your love by going through life with a on your
hearty Did they think cat was easily obtain
ableY They should have known, rs you did, that
cat belongs invariably to high places to fence tops,
to shed roofs, not mpossiby to hagpoes especially
when you were near
But dog belonged to the good good earth; he
always underfoot and readable. How you
ached for a dog. For permanent one. The tran
STORY dog a daily occurrence. He adopted you
your way home from school and came home with
you. far the back door, farther. Then you
taken to task for the happening and were de-
tailed forth with the dog to lose him. Losing
II 1t were nice day.
VIII you forget the admirable dog that alb
soIutely refused to stay lost? that turned up at
nightfall, confident of welcome, that was in the
yard bright and early the next morning, wagging
his tail nineteen to the dozen in rapturous greeting?
the dog that adopted you so hard and fast that
mother. father. cook, aunt, uncle, all-were unable
disabuse his mind Of the legality of the affair?
the dog that permitted perforce to remain and
become yours? Never Pat is unforgetable-a
very Sirius in the consultations of memory.
Pat seemed to be his name from.the start You
never had doubt about 1t. Pat answered to Pat
as to the manner born. He seemed moreover, en-
blazoned with the name Pat from stem to stern.
1t was preposterous to think that he had ever been
called anything else. He arrived on the highway
OF your life already named and tcketed as
yours-like that forward young in
the mythology book who sprang full grown
and completely armed from her fathers head
or helmet something. You were glad she
was armed and you often wondered whether or
not she was legged, too; but as she got around in
the upper world considerably and performed a lot
OF deeds for you to study she probably was. What
q relief Pat was after myths! He so intensely
real
But he was nothing to look at No, indeed.
HIS homeliness OF stern and unimpeachable
character. Perhaps that is why They all hated him
so, for grown-ups are always partial to such OF
their animals nice Notwithstanding their
children. plain child has to walk awfully
straight path. Certainly Pat beauty. He
was OF a dirty white from tip to tip and he had a
diabolical black smudge around eye. Two
black eyes might have been made OF symmetry,
therefore Pat denied them. Nature accorded
to Pat no meanest advantage. His black eye
gave him frightful prescribed and sinister appear
ance. 1t as II hend had fashioned him
in moment OF sport and then had chased him
from Hades with ink bottle.
But he was all yours-that was his one and suf
hcient beauty. He stuck to you no shadow
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Death, life all were mere distractions, lacking the
Importance OF the growing whistle you whit
Ting from Willow.
This something terribly different. Pat
more than a thing,--he was heart which
boundlessly loving; he intelligent mind he
was kindlysand gracious spirit he was incarnatc
good humor; he was the soul of fidelity. These,
then. we're all transient? Oh the unbelievable
cruelty OF It! Unbelievable as it may sound right
here is whore crept in your first doubt about the
God OF your childhood. why should He have both
cred take patY What good was your dog, your
dog to Him who had such worlds OF posses
sons? You dropped your hand upon the well-loyed
body, then-then you sprang frantically to your
feet; you needed some warm human sympathy to
help you bear the dreadful facts which that chance
touch had established.
Coming across Cook you forgot her usual asperl
ties and told her well you could, for the
dry clutch at your throat, of what had happened;
and she said it precious good radiance. Had
she coarsely slapped you upon your two eyes she
could not have shocked you more or decpened more
the blackness OF your misery
You sought your mother and told her. and in
turn were told that perhaps it better 50. The
heartless words "a precious good riddance" shone
Enthusiastically in her relieved eyes.
You were alone then in your sorrow. And before
you-always alone-was the grim and brutal task
OF burying The tragedy 81 all the years to come.
the years when you would suffer alone, and lose,
alone and bury. alone, focused itself in vague
shadow OF premonition you dug out resting
place for your past companion. And talk of orav-
ery--when it came TO lifting that poor paniot
but why talk about It all?
Just a moment you paused before hiding Pat FOR
ever and in that moment you heard the jeering 5ut
sweet, high laughter of your Aunt Leila The
sound smote you like whip and you covered
above the open grave # stricken by many
lashes. what mischief you up to now" she
calling challengngly. But you cid not an
swer. II you could spare poor unloved Fat the in
suit OF laugh by remaining silent. YOU going
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bidding Society. strew- LY BESIDE YOU.
ing don IS" in the patch Of experiments like tacks
IN advance OF bicycle collectively. They stood for
oil things evil; Individually though They not
10 bad.
Your father was pretty harmless except on Sun
days. He that holy day OF rest to evening
up such he had been unable to attend to
week days after he came home from business.
At least, It seemed. Sunday looms in memory
rs day OF much bistering morally and bodily.
He would have known nothing about anything. il
your mother had not told him, at supper time. But
everything up after the pie-how you had
been kept in at school, or barred out. the
might be- what you had done to Jimmy Baxters
cat what you had said to Jimmy himself; and what
Jimmys mother had said to you--oh, nothing
kept sacred. Your mothers excuse for all this
breach of faith was that she wanted to make
good boy out Of you. First the teacher took a
whack at you; then your mother finally your faith
Err All tor the same thing too
No matter how far away from the house you
were when you were bad you always found that the
news Of 1t got home first. Hearing It, your moth
er used to say she surprised" and your father
rather queer that you should have happened to be
their son. FOR they knew little about you. Your
mother was always imagining you to be the pos
SCISSOR OF a stack OF virtues, highly impossible to
you: and your father generally suspecing you
OF heap iniquitous conceptions, equally impos-
Bbie.
Aunt Leila was the only who seemed capable
or arriving at a decent average you just
boy to her, which smplired lot things.
When you and scrape tumbled into the house to-
gether, Aunt Leila was neither surprised nor
pectant; she merely grnned companonably or
laughed outright.
Some people called your Aunt Leila young
paipapie mis-statement, for she was married-how
Account for Uncle Edmund else? And-even at
that tender age-you knew that matrimony was
very much OF settler. so far as youth was con-
cerned
Now, in the anaiI--or rather, continuous per-
formance-of Bakers cat They were all mistaken.
They thought you did not like cats.
Nothing could be further from the truth. You
liked cats. You did indeed. But you mostly liked
them In motion. And you generally spared your
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BY MARION HILL.

polished of and hailed to church; and when
he finally found you, after painting search and In
the middle Of the sermon his conversation on the
subject poignant. The minister and the con-
gregation all looked at you with remonstrance-as
II you had been the barker.
In the way OF hiding his crimes from the hard
hearted others, you performed service for Pat
which you would have hated to perform for the
Angel Gabriel Your own clustered sins we're few
and fairly coverabe compared with the frightful
things Pat could and did do.
VIII you forget that morning when you found
him careening happily around the garden with
choice rosebush in his Jaws? That beast of plant
was pampered thing, Kind OF family pet and
was all but rocked to sleep every night; It was
certainly watched every minute Of the day and its
wretched buds counted every half hour Well Pat
showed himself a connoisseur. That was the bush
he wanted and other. 1t branched from his
glad head like the horns OF a deer and the more
anguished you became IN attempt to recover It.
the more OF game Pat took It to be- The bush was
a sorry thing when you finally did recover t. You
had to manicure 1t for a full fifteen minutes he
fore you could tell 1t from a pea brush Then YOU
repanted it; and had to rake the whole bed to
hide your traces. Your particular Nemesis must
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that rain-refreshed BAXrER'S CAT.
a slow and somewhat normal AFFAIR. and
attributed to blight
Then tho fearful afternoon when you caught
him trottng to the lawn with the hambone which
was to form the nucleus OF that nights supper
what a soulsearing time you had trying to trim that
mangled bone back to some faint semblance OF its
former seemly SELF and the horror you endured at
the table during the few tense moments that the
maternal eye studied that hone dsa pprovingly and
the cool thankful perspiraton which poured down
your spine when the maternal edict that
servant could be trusted!
The slippers you had to retrieved The chewed
pens and pencils you had to burnt The holes you
had to fill up The footmarks you had to erase.
The meat and milk that you forced to pilfer!
The milk matter was easy, though; for trine Of
water added to the pitcher fixed that. But obtain
ing meat q harder job. You endured all the
pangs OF a father OF family with strike on
and the price OF beef up" You used to try sliding
your portion of the to Pat at dinner time,
der the table; but he exposed the combine by
swapping his Jaws gratefully together and slobbng
audible appreciation OF your bounty. Then, OF
And why? Wasn't 1t your meat, once it was on your
platter
Blu. they begrudged Pat everything, his
optimism. he could not so much wag his tail
that somebody did not make unpleasant mention OF
neas--the inference being that Pat shook neas
from that amiabe stump much as dew is scattered
from a waving branch. Fleas, Who ever heard Of
such thing? Why. II you had been given FIVE
cents each for every nea Pats whole body you
wouldn't have had money enough to buy bicycle
a high-grade one, that is. And queer way they
had OF transferring the odum to you of all that
that every solitary flea plague spot due to
your stained and mutilated soul; that had you
been fair and un~mrched from your infancy up,
Pat would have been nealess. The absurdity OF
this never struck you until 1t was years too late.
At the time you felt that IT was all more or less
probable, Sins and their punIshments were mys-
teries together. You never quite knew what every
thing was all about Such times as your con-
science pure as an Easter lily, some one
would box your head nearly on your shoulders;
and loads OF times when you staggered and shud.
dered under the knowledge OF crime too awful for
words somebody would give you penny for being
a good boy. You got a penny and ease OF
mind to enjoy 1t; never.
The only one who always understood you was
Pat. II you in sorrow, answering sorrow
would leap Immediately to his loving eyes. and he
trotted faithfully beside you with gambol He
was never ready for rabbits until you we're. II YOU
we're in fear, he hesrtened you. II you were fol
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have been to a ball
ga me or something
that morning; for
1t mercifully came
on to rain. Seldom
indeed did the OIL
ments conspire any
way but against
you. Still, rain it
did, and you we're
saved, for the sub
sequent death Of
49, l q
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Copyright 1908 BY Thomas II. Mexico,

r-yAs your fault7
Certainly not. 1t was the fault entirely
w of that inscrutable abstraction which
they call Providence
Providence made you a small boy to begin with;
and Providence additionally saw to 1t that every
ming which was most undesirable in the way OF
log should follow you home; yet when this combi-
vaton resulted its usual disaster, Providence al
ways discreetIy stood and left you to get
put of the mess as best you might, by yourself
Really to be a small boy is to be but q hanger
On by surerance to the ragged edge OF the world,
belonging to no rightful OF enjoyment and
possessed OF weird disquaincations which shut one
put of each and every kingdom-animal. vegetable
pr mineral
They were very iliogica-you thought-also
very numerous. For to an abiding Mother ana
rather were added variable Nurses and Cooks a
fairly constant Aunt. her attendant Uncle, and
whole droves OF Intermittent Grandparents And
II seemed to be the chief business OF everybody
either to berate you for not being around when
they wanted you to be around, tc berate you for
being around when they wanted you not to be. And
the only safe rule to go by to hurry out Of the
way the very minute you found yourself wanting to
rtay, and vice versa
Very illogical. According to Their Dictum no
,ooner did you succeed in outgrowing the shameful
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condition Of wanting
privileges for which
you we're too young"
than you found you
had entered that
shameless state Of COW
citing diversions for
which you were too
old" II there were a
period OF exact suita-
bility, you missed It;
1t leaped by you in the
night. No morning
ever dawned upon it.
They were formida-
BILE only when massed
together into a For
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-11
MILWAUKEE SANITARIUM.

Situated upon one of the most
beautiful wooded hills in the State
of Wisconsin, high above the noise
and traffic and yet practically in the
center of the city, are the group of
elegant buildings that comprise the
Milwaukee Sanitarium, an institu-
ton that has gained a national repu-
tation in the treatment and cure of
nervous and mental diseases. These
magnificent grounds and their COM
Portable buildings, shaded by natural
growth of oaks, elms and pines, furnish
an ideal place of rest and quiet and an
nually receive patients from all sec
tions of the country. The sanitarium
was established in 1884 and it's growing
popularity has necessitated the con-
struction of new buildings from time
to time until it has at present facili-
ties for attending to a large number
of patients, employing over a hun
dred people, three physicians, both
attendants and masseurs, as well as
nurses and other attendants. Indi-
vidualized treatment and adaptation
to the particular needs of each pa
tient are the guiding principles. The
wide separation of the different
buildings, give seclusion and pri-
vacy to the occupants of each
Buildings consist of the West House,
which is provided with attractive
rooms, single or en- suite, with or
without private bath; the psyche
pathic hospital, with most modern ap-
planes, baths and separate
grounds; new gymnasium and rec
reation building, with physical cul-
ture equipment billiards, baths, etc;
the main building and a modern Of
flee building and bath house.
Over twenty-five acres of land are
owned and occupied by the Milwau-
kee Sanitarium, and a more ideal
location would be difficult indeed to
find. DR.. Richard Dewey, the med
zeal superintendent, has long been
identified with the Sanitarium and
has been eminently successful in the
treatment of nervous and mental dis
orders. He is likewise a resident Of
Wauwatosa and is prominently iden-
tilted with it's commercial and social
welfare.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-11
WAUWATOSA FUEL, FEED AND
LUMBER COMPANY.

One of the busiest commercial
concerns in the city is the Wauwa-
tosa Fuel, Feed and Lumber Com
peny conducted by o. Helgesen. This
business, which was established fif-
teen years ago, now reaches all ter
ritory in and around WauwatOsa, as
well as having fair trade in Mil
waukee. Prior to two years ago the
business included milling, but upon
Mr.. Helgesen becoming sole proprie-
tor at that time the milling depart
ment was discontinued and the other
branches enlarged and improved.
Purchasers of fuel, feed and lumber
readily recognize the advantages to
be derived in trading with a respon-
sible house which carries the goods
in stock-with a dealer experienced
in buying and who is here to make
good any Irregularities that may
occur.
The plant, which is centrally To-
Gated at Nos. SO, 35, 81 and 80 West
.ain street, on both the Milwaukee
and street railway tracks convenient
to both shipping and delivering, car
ries an unusually large stock of lum-
Der and building material, all of
which is kept under roof. 1t en-
braces everything required in the
construction and finish of buildings
from foundation to finishing touches
the painter. Building construc-
lion in Wauwatosa has been very ac-
tive during the past year, with fiat
tering prospects for even better bust
ness during the year 1909. Over
two million shingles. for one item,
were sold at the yards this year,
beating the record of any season dur
ing the past fifteen years. Lime,
plaster, cement, adamant, paints,
sewer pipe, drain tile and brick are
also included in the building ma
terial The highest grades of choice
family -four and leading brands of
feed. baled hay, savings, etc, are
also carried in stock.
In the fuel department the best
grades of hard coal in all sizes are
always in stock. as well as superior
soft coal, coke and wood. Deliveries
are made to all parts of the town
and surrounding territory-'phone
Wauwatosa No. 80, A new coal ele-
yator Just constructed has a capa-
city of unloading eighty tons of coal
from the cars in forty minutes, OPP
Grated by one man. This ingenious
and practical continuance was in
vented and constructed by Mr.. Hell
gesen.
The Wauwatosa Fuel, Feed and
Lumber Company is a concern whose
responsibility and commercial stand
ing is we'll known and recognized as
among the best. The proprietor,
,,r. O. Helgersen. has been a resi-
dent of Wauwatosa fifteen years.
during which time he has built up
an excellent trade and invested lib
orally in city property. The best
goods the market affords, accurate
weights and measures, lowest prices
and square deal to air is a COM
bination that cannot lose, and it is
.such a precept that has built up the
excellent patronage of the Wauwa-
fosa Fuel. Feed and Lumber Com
pany.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-11
ii. p. HEMsrNG COMPANY.

At the headquarters of the above
firm. No. 207 North Main street, is
carried an unusually we'll selected
stock of cutlery, clocks, guns, rifles,
revolverS, ammunition, skates, cleo
trio toys and supplies, fishing tackle
and all kinds of novelties in the line
of sporting goods, toys and the like
incidentally, if you are looking for q
present for the boy, you are more
than likely to find it here The firm
carries fine assortment of talking
machines and records, bicycles and
motorcycles. The Hemsing Company
also conducts manufacturing and
repairing business which is looked
after by expert machinists and cleo
tricians, repairing automobiles, mo-
tor cycles, bicycles, sewing machines,
clocks, electrical instruments, etc
Tools of all kinds are sharpened,
keys fitted to locks, locks repaired
and rubber vehicle tires of all kinds
are furnished and fitted on the
wheels. Electric light and bell wir-
ing is done to order, and made a
speciality. In short, all kinds of
manufacturing and repairing requir-
ing the services of an expert in this
line is propmtly attended to.
Mr. H. p Hemsing also has con-
troll of the electric lighting business
in Wauwatosa for the T. M. E. r. e
l., Co., looking after all local cleo
trio light business, including con-
tracts for service, lamp renewals,
payment of bills, etc.
Individual mem hers of the firm are
H. p. and B. f. Hemsing-the for
mer superintendent of the lighting
company and the latter manager of
the firm. Both have been residents
of Wauwatosa for over twenty-five
years and have an extensive and
favorable acquaintance, both as
successful business firm and experts
in electricity and mechanics. Tele-
phone calls to Wauwatosa 240X save
many trips to Milwaukee.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-11
LUETZOW'S MARKET.

The best of everything and plenty
of it is motto that has made the
meat market of Charles Luetzow
popular with everybody in Wauwa-
tosa. This market, which is CEN
trally located in the Smith-Lefeber
building, is thoroughly well equipped
with modern machinery and furnish
ings and is kept as neat and attrac-
tive as a clean kitchen. Only the
choicest meats are carried and the
pure food laws are strictly lived up
to. The market is divided into an
apartment for customers, an en-
closed cashiers office, receiving and
storage rom in rear, and a large mod
ern refrigerator holding eleven tons
of ice and five tons of dressed meats
The basement is fitted up with ma
chimes for grinding sausage, manu-
featuring lard, etc. power being fur
nished by 10-horse-power motor
Mr.. Luetzow cuts up from four to
six hundred select hogs every win
ter, making his own lard, sausages,
and the like, and curing the hams.
shoulders and bacon-a superior
quality of home-cured meats. In adj
dition to this, however, the market
carries all the popular brands of
hams and bacon put up by the lead
ing packers, so that customers have
all kinds to select from. Delivery
wagons are run to all parts of the
city and orders are filled and de-
livered on short notice, telephone
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-11
BECKER 4 MORTIMER.

To meet the demands of an ex-
acting constituency in the line of
groceries and provisions in these
days requires something more than
big stock and low prices The
successful grocer of today must he
thoroughly posted in all the products
of all countries, must study the mar
kets carefully, must be a shrewd
buyer as well as a conscientious
salesman, must know all the individ-
ual tastes and wants of his custom
ers and follow the pure food laws.
Following these principles care
fully has made the grocery of Becker
& Mortimer at Wauwatosa one of
the busiest and most popular stores
in the city Its business, which
reaches all hooks and corners of the
suburb and extends into the sur
rounding country, is each year show
ing a substantial and satisfactory
growth Stock embraces the fore
most brands of staple commodities,
including fresh fruits and vegetables
direct from the best producers. while
the canned goods department con-
tains the best products of land and
sea food from all countries. Com
petent and alert salespeople are en-
ployed, and as both members of the
firm look after the wants of the
trade personally. the percentage of
errors in filing and delivering orders
is very small.
Purity of product is a maxim with
the firm that has enabled the house
to make permanent customers of
those sending trial orders, and con-
sequently steadily increasing pa
tronage has resulted in Becker &
Mortimer's grocery being one of the
busiest concerns in Wauwatosa.
Fresh butter and eggs may always
be depended upon, as we'll as the
finest of fresh fruits and vegetables
in season. Just at present low prices
are made on large or small orders of
candies, nuts and confectionery-a
fine assortment being presented for