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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-11-25

boarded, and once they were seated a
/ good stroke sent the gondola up the
canal. Under bridges they passed
/ They giiied by little restaurants
/ where Nenetians in olden days talked
/ liberty for themselves and death to the
/ AustrianS. ard at length they came
out upon the Grand canal where thu
/ Riaito curves its ancient blocks Of
marble.
There. This is better"
1t is always better when you are
with me-" said Kitty.
For years Kitty had fought her bat
ties alone. independent and resource
full. and yet here she was leaning upon
the strong will Of this remarkable wo-
man, and gratefully too.
Now. my dear Kitty. we'll just en-
joy ourselves tonight, and on our re-
turn | shall lay a plan before you, and
! tomorrow you may submit il to the
men"
Il accept it at once without knowing
what it is
What beautiful palace" Kitty
'AAtt presently. D'lutlil1 u a llpuNt
not far from the house Of Petrarch
The moon poured broadly upon it. The
gOndola posts stood like sleeping senti-
nelS, and the tide murmurcd over the
steps
Pompeo, seeing Kity'S gesture,
swung the gondOla diagonally across
the canal.
NO, no, Pompeo." La Signorina
spoke in itlliau. Il have told you
never to 90 near that house without
express orCers. Straight ahead
Who lives there asked Kitty.
Nobody" answered La Si@norina.
! though once il WIS the palace Of Il
great warrior How picturesque the
| gondoIaS lock, with their dancing d"u-
bic lights.
The Old palace interests me more
than the GondolaS.' declared Kitty But
La SiSnorina was not 10 be trapped.
From the Grand canal they came ont
into the great canal Of san Marco. the
beginning Il the lagoon.
La Si-horiua' began Kitty.
Thee. | have warned you twice.
II. t"i" .''''' ,''u .'' ""7'
li,'''''' ''''n' hut . am air''u "H'h-
ever "a" 'u '"'' 10" Il" MOI "'loHH
!" my ""liu'
-, All" what ni"NeS you '!iI"A mat
There was Il smile behind the veil.
u" not NHo" uHieSS II Is tual you
az At n''"t ''ei 'eie' III tue 9nlPo'
III nv .'''''I III 'i'e tn'"'e' VI 'Le pa'-
#, al
'S'' NV ! a'n DIT noHe Only III 'he
'"''"'''' III L'i|ceS "nl'h are unreal
an" a. 'H''i"'' i"u are great actlesS'
eiI'' N'''-''' anu le', DIS y Ha'l'
""u," say Ho" u"" oeIoHs' hl''H
:. s:s :::s s:se :. ass; s novel,, z:s
! no thn runIo pnuno,"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-11-25

There's a man who gets fine results
from his business"
whats his business?"
"ChOpping steak in a meat market"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-11-25
Contrary.

1t might seem very strange indeed
And quite against the code.
But reckless trainmen do not go
To make a wreckless road.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-11-25
Saving L abor.

Your husband doesn't smoke"
NO"
Doesn't he care for it?'
eyes, immensely. But he is too lazy
to bite the ends off the cigars"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-11-25

An acrobat ! CHANGED to meet.
And these wise words he said.
I'VE must be light upon our feet
Or light upon our head"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-11-25
More hnnoyind.

They said the house was haunted.
Though ghosts did not abound,
But everywhere you CHANGED to be
A coCkroach was around.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-11-25
A Vacancy Filled.

Harry have cold in my head.
Grace-Well, | suppose tina: is better
than nothing
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-11-25

good stroke sent me gondoiaup The canal.
Is simple. They say that gambler al
ways wins the first time he plays.
propose that each OF you will spare
me what money you can. and Kitty
and | will 20 to Monte Carlo and take
one plunge at the tables"
Monte Carlo OMally brought
down his fist resoundingly. That's a
good idea If you should break the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-11-25
CHAPTER Y.
CNRABINIERI.

ly, before you act will you
not do me the honor to ex-
49, plain this visit?'
1T is not he" said one of the cara
5inier 1T is the master. and not the
servant This is Siguor HilIar is it
not?" he continued addressing himself
DO Hillard. The siguor has servant
Hv the name of Gioygnni."
"Vas N,,d ,,b.,t l,,., I,, ,l,,,,., =. ,
10 N'u WAT "'H nv ""i' " war
Eant TINS Visit:
1T is a matter of seven wears" an
Ssyverad rho sn,I-o.,,an ..N,ur s,,.,.
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fa.nr+,,, =, 49,, ,.,. =, .,. ~
s,o 49,, ,,', ''"l'', 'u,''''
: ,il~eu ,''p, ','''' III t,'e street.
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v,,,ni h,d ho,,, flr,,,,-.,n,,,.,, - ,..,'.,
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$50 u.na+ j. ,"o na.na - ti,I i isiH.,,
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know. - ;, D'' nv '>S'''' '"'' 0u S''o"'''
ZEN, ~
,,on,ing ar,na Inv ''''>9 " '''
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,6cors b,d ro,, H. -
s5rossod ~ hta,.
NJ, G-tna ma..,u w., ....,..-..-.
after me But res, e5sv Vas i',,l horn
20 rot in dungeon | am gong north
AS Tor my clothes, send them to Giacam0
Desorta He 3.iII ~3.t ,,e 'oei I" r.,
Holy Mother guard >ou should We never
sneet-1--in
cir in less fa75assed the note to Merrihew
okno,,n. . ) too bad. I've taken great
Gov l., to him. 1t seems that the peas
..I-. has no chance on this side OF the
i'noo' Iter His child painted dancer in
rople2ariS and price on his own head,
Tor Its hard luck And the fellow who
caused all this ttouble goes free"
He always goes free. Dan, here or
elsewhere"
Why, we'd have lynchrd him in
America.
That's possible. We are such an
1mpulSive race Ironically. YES. no
doubt we'd have lyuched him and
These foreigners would have added an
other ounce of fact to their belief that
we are still barbariaus."
Il hadn't thought Of that" Merrihew
admitted
Merrihew became impatient.
''Now out with it. Where and how
did you learn that Kitty is in Venice?"
{Iillard told him briefly.
And so they are all in Venice.
broke? BY George here's our chance
everlasting gratitude and all that,
Wen bail em out and ship EN- home,
How is that for Il bright fdea?"
LET me see" said TIillard practical
by. There are five Of them-tive hun
dred for tickets and doubtless five hun
gired more for unpaid hotel bills II
would never do. Dan, unless we wish
TO go home with them"
But I haven't touched my letter Of
credit yet | could get along on two
shousand."
Not with the brand of cigars you
are smoking, 80 cents each"
mo; we can't bail them out. but we
can ease up their bills till money
comes from home. Not one Of them by
this time will have watch. OMaly
will remain sober from dire necessity.
Poor Kitty kiIligrew, All the Won
derful shops and not silver in her
pockets"
Merrihew paced the floor for some
time, his head full Of impossible
schemes. He stopped in the middle Of
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-09
Sausage Causes a DueI

A duel was fought on Wednesday last
near Carcassonne by Lieuts. Gand and
De Bourmont of the Nineteenth dra.
goons. The affair arose out of the fac,
that Lieut. Gand, Republican and free.
thinker. had been seen by Lieut.. De-
Bourmont eating sausages in a cafe an
Good Friday. Lieut.. de Bourmont re-.
monstrated with the proprietor of the
cafe III strong terms and also spoke in.
sultingly of those who had partaken Of
the sausages. Lieut.. Gand, hearing Of
this. challenged Lieut.. de Bourmont
Lieut.. Gand in the opening bout was
wounded in the right forearm and the
aareTsaries left the ground without be,
ing reconciled.-Le Figaro.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-09
The Status of Aerial Navigation.

The Wrights have had their semi-offl-
cial recognition and their popular APP
plause, to which, by what they have ac-
complished they are entitled. Zeppelin
has had his plaudits-and they are just
ly his due. But there are enthusiastic
admirers of the Wrights and of Zeppelin
who compare these daring inventors
to Robert Fulton, and assert that
aerial navigation is now in a stage of
development corresponding with steam
boat navigation when Fulton made his
first voyage between Albany and New
York city. This shows q want of con
sideration of the problem which the
Wrights and Zeppelin have undertaken
to solve.
What Fulton did was merely to pro
vide a new method of propulsion. Navi-
CATION of the water is an art older than
recorded history and familiar to savage
tribes. What Fulton did was to show
that steam could be used in place Of
oars or wind. Had he undertaken TO
devise a craft which would not only
move upon the surface of the water but
would rise and fall in the element by
which it was supported there would have
been an analogy between his invention
and that of the Wrights or of Zeppelin
which many hair-trigger commentators
assume, but which does not exist.
A correspondent of the New York Sun
very reasonably remarks:
1t is the submarine boat to which the afr
ship must be compared. Possibly the air
ship will make as much progress as the sub
marine and become quite as efficient in its
peculiar medium. Indeed, 1t seems to have
done so already; but who dreams of the
submarine becoming useful for either freight
or passenger service or for any other puT'
pose than to carry small crew, who take
their lives In their hands, and torpedo?
This is obviously true. 1t need not
discourage inventors, and it will not dis.
courage inventors. They know it and
they have known it all along. If it dis
courages investors, it may help them to
save their money. No one who is wise
will invest in airships money which be
cannot afford to lose.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-09
They Were shoo,inr -, Him

tbs wonderful, the narrow escapes
that often were made by soldiers in
places Of extraordinary danger. A
story of that kind was related to us
by E. H. Turk, of the Thirty-first Wis
consin Infantry Volunteers.
During the progress of the battle OF
some of the troops were erect.
ing breastworks for their protection,
the enemys fire cutting down many
of the brave men while they worked,
often turning to pour a volley Of
leaden hail into the enemy's ranks.
Some of the boys were carrying rails;
among the number was Turk, who
was known by the name of Dick Once
when he had a rail on his shoulder
the enemy was crowding them pretty
close. and the order was given to
fire" without throwing down his
rail he turned and fired
Being a tall man, he was a some
what conspicuous mark, bearing the
rail on his shoulder. Some of the
boys noticed splinters fly from his rail
and looked to see him fall; but he
stood erect and calm as If he were
only shooting at squirrels in the
woods at his home in Crawford Coun-
ty. Some of the boys hallooed at
him:
Dick. don't you know they are
shooting at you?"
Taking the rail off his shoulder and
looking at it, he found several places
where the rail had been struck by the
enemy's bullets. He very coolly re-
marked:
well, guess they are"
On examination 1t was found that
not ball had touched his clothes. l
have heard some of his comrades re
late the same.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-09
AN OLD TIMER
Has Had Experiences.

A woman who has used Postum
since 1t came upon the market knows
from experience the wisdom of using
Postum In place of coffee if one values
health and clear brain. She says:
"At the time Postum was first put
on the market I was suffering from
nervous dyspepsia. and my physician
had repeatedly told me not to use Tea
or coffee. Finally decided to taA7
his advice and try Postum. l got 4
package and had it carefully prepared,
finding 1t delicious to the taste. ~
continued It's use and very soon is
beneficial effects convinced me OF is
value. for got well of my nervous.
ness and dyspepsia.
MY husband had been drinking 'o.
fee all his life until it had aiies.1I
his nerves terribly, and l persuaas-
him to shift to Postum. 1t was easy
to get him to make the chang Jul
the Postum Is so delicious. i -s.
tainly worked wonders for him.
1--WE soon learned that Postum t's'
not exhilarate or depress and does no.
stimulate, but steadily and hones.'
strengthens the nerves and the s.--'
ach.
ITO make a long story short, on. 5-
tire family continued to use fo7.'--'
with satisfying results, as show
our fine condition of health, ana "'
have noticed a rather unexpecte4 -'
provement in brain and nerve pow
Increased brain and nerve po"--
ways follows the use of Post"I-
place OF coffee, sometimes in fs
marked manner. There's Rea7o-
Look in pkgs, for the famous "--.
book, THE Road to MELVILLE.
Ever read the above letter
new one appears from tiH1e 10 - No. If
They are genuine, true, ana '-''
human interest.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-09
TarIest of old soldiers.

H. c. Thurston. of Mount Vernon,
Texas, was among the veteran visitors
in Memphis, and was the tallest of
the thousands of old soldiers who
there lived over the days of '61-65.
the Memphis Commercial Appeal says.
He is Z feet 7 inches in height. weighs
22S pounds and is II years of age.
Mr.. Thurston was born in South
Carolina. reared in Missouri. where he
enlisted in company /, Prices com
mand of Burbridge's regiment of Mar
maduke's brigade of Missouri cavalry,
serving as a private. He was wound.
ed in one engagement in the right
side and now wears the cross of
honor
The lengthy veteran is a widower
and, despite his age. is still in the
matrimonial market. His only son is
6 feet So inches tall and from pres
emit indications his grandson will be
as tall as the grandfather.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-09

A pound of copperas and eight
ounces of carbolic acid to a gallon OF
water will make cheap and effective
disinfectant
During the past ten years the Rus
sian government has spent 1914 ,510,-
600 on improving old railroads and
building new ones.
Brass may be given a color resem-
bling old pewter by boiling 1t in a
solution of cream of tartar containing
small amount of chloride of tin.
The discovery of coal beneath the
chalk cliffs Of Dover has given rise
to the hope that 1t may be found in
workable quantities elsewhere in the
south of England
According to the estimates of Lewis
b. SullweH. presented before the
American Institute of Electrical En-
gineers, the Niagara Falls hydro-elec-
trio plants during the year 1908 saw
ed more than a million tons of coal,
which otherwise would have had to
be burned in order to produce an
equivalent amount of mechanical ener-
gy. During the same year, says Mr.
Stillwell, the Interbor0ugh Transit
Company in New York, by It's electric
system saved nearly a million tons of
coal from the amount that would have
been consumed by locomotives Mr..
StillWell has also calculated that when
the application of electric power In the
coal mines of the northumberland and
Durham district of England Is COM
pleted there Will be a saving of 1850
900 tons Of coal per year for use else
where than at the mines
At a recent exhibition In New York
A saw made Of vanadium steel for
wood-cutting was tried on iron. 1t cut
through a twenty-penny nail with ease,
and without injury to the teeth. An
iron pipe an inch in diameter was
easily cut with the same saw. Mr.. J.
NJ. Flannery described the superior
work of vanadium-steel tools intended
for metal-cutting. American tools OF
this kind were tested in comparison
with the best steel tools that could
be obtained from abroad. The other
steels needed grinding after cutting so
axles, while the American vanadium
steel worked without attention up to
400 axles. The following is said to
be the best composition for steel of
this character: vanadium. O32 per
cent; tungsten. 1871 per cent chro.
MUM, 5.95 per cent; carbon. 0.6S2 per
cent; manganese, 007 per cent: sill
con, O.049 per cent.
Prof. John G. McKendrlck doubts
the, correctness of the general belief
that when a human being is bereft Of
one sense his other senses compensate
him by becoming more acute Expert
mental tests, he says, show that The
blind cannot tell the direction Of
sounds better, or hear sounds farther
than those who can see, Their sense
of touch, too, is no more acute. Ii
fact, some tests have shown 1t Is actu
ally less acute. In general, the sense!
of the blind are, on the average, les.
acute than those of persons who car
see. Professor McKendrick think!
that the ability of the blind to fint
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-09
A Vegetable Cow.

The Japanese have discovered q
very cheap and good substitute for
the mich cow in the form of a tiny
bean. The juice extracted by a spe-
cial process from the bean is said to
be an excellent vegetable milk, the
properties of which render 1t highly
suitable for use In tropical countries.
The preparation is obtained from
the Sofa bean, a member OF the legu-
minous family of plants, and very
popular article of food among the
poorer classes of Chinese and Japa-
nese. In making the vegetable milk
the beans are first of all softened by
soaking and are then pressed and
boiled in water The resultant LIQUID
is exactly similar to cows milk in APP
pearance, but Is entirely different in
its composition. This Sofa bean milk
contains 92.5 per cent water. 3.02 per
cent protein. 2.1S per cent fat, 0.o3
per cent fibre, 1.SS per cent non
heterogeneous substances and GAL per
cent ash. Some sugar and a little
phosphate of potassium are added in
order to prevent the elimination OF
the albumen, and then the mixture is
boiled down till a substance like CON
densed milk is obtained This "con.
densed vegetable milk" is of yellow.
ish color and has very pleasant
taste hardly to be distinguished from
that of real cows milk.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-09
GERMANYS RAILWAY SYSTEM
It's Cost Low and the Business Needs =
the Country Well Served

We OSIfeQ
Although the German railways H.
like the French system, were not gu III
ceived and built as a whole, and M
haps because of their lack of cobesHtSI--
which has enabled them to avoid sou
of the faults of centralized system a-lS
secured to the unimportant towns fbc
benefit of an efficient service. the g.
man system is today very complete an
responds very well TO the business -,
cessities of the regions served.
Thanks to cheap labor and to the f,o,
that the country for the most 06rt !.
level, so that it was possible to ov,ij
extraordinary outlay in building tSi-
lack of unity in the construction Of O.
man railways has not had the infIuen.,
it might have had on the cost of the -.
adjustment. Between the Hool, ~,
Holland and Berlin the railway does r,t
pass through a single tunnel (thcra i
in fact not a single railway tunnel in
the whole of north Germany, nor dosa
it pass through a single deep cutting ~
along a single high embankment. Bril-
and viaducts across rivers are the onIy
engineering works of special importarra
that had to be undertaken.
In 1899 the total cost of all the Cor.
man lines, now amounting to almost 80
900 kilometers, was stated at 12.4,l@'
03SST5 marks, or an average cost e
no more than 253, 615 marks a kilome-ar
-Moody's Magazine.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-09
KILL HORSES WITH BARLEY

New York Stables Report a Heavy
Death Rate Due TO Western Grain.
More work horses have died this
year in New York and throughout the
East than in any previous year, and
there is hardly large stable In this
city which has not had one or more
deaths since March, the New York
Herald says. The deaths have all been
caused by intestinal trouble and yeter.
inarians attribute the prevalence of
this disease to the mixing of a very
large percentage of barley with oats
that are shipped here from the West.
Barley is both cheaper and heavier
than oats, which gives larger profit
to those who mix large quantity and
sell 1t for the lighter grain. Ordi-
narily there is from to 10 per cent
of barley used. but this year the per-
centage has run as high as so and 60.
DR., James H. Forster, of 1886 West
51st street, veterinarian who has
charge of horses in many of the
larger stables, said last night that
there was no question, from the post
mortems that had been held. that the
excessive quantity of barley was re.
sponsible for many of the deaths.
Barley is very hard grain for
horses to digest" said DR.. Forster,
and 1t ferments rapidly. causing collie
and in many cases death. know that
in the Western States horses are red
both barley and corn without injuri.
Gus effect, but horses In this climate
cannot live on that kind of food"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-09

thelr way about, which seems to i'm
ply acuter senses, is really due to In.
voluntary concentration of attention.
enabling them to tell directions and
TO perceive air-currents and changes
OF temperature which escape the at
tention of other people.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-09
The glory that we garnered when YOU
father went to war.
National Tribune.
A Friend at Court.


AS scout for the Confederate army
William L. Royal had many narrow
escapes. He describes one adventure
in his "reminiscences" Although he
was only 10 years old at the time ht
had been a soldier for two years
"on March 20, 1864, got into 6
brush with some Federal cavalry ant
was shot through the left hand an6
taken prisoner. The headquarters OF
the command, under Lieut.. Col Tim
othy O'Brien, was at The Grove, il
the lower end of Fauquier County, Vir
ginia, where the regiments had beer
stationed for several weeks.
AT The Grove there were two
churches, and nothing else; one was
Presbyterian church, on the north
side of the public road, the other a
Baptist church, on the south side. My
mothers home was distant only two
miles from The Grove. My father, d
Presbyterian minister, had built the
Presbyterian church at The Grove, and
preached in it for twenty years. He
was buried at the back of the church
THE officer in charge of the party
that had captured me was lieutenant
in the Second New York Cavalry. He
had frequently ridden over to my
mothers house, and had made the &C
quaintance of the family They treat
ed him courteously, and he had prom.
ised my mother that if ever fell into
his hands he would see that | was
properly treated.
when we got to The Grove l was
put in to the Baptist church. After a
while | was sent for and taken over
to the Presbyterian church When
entered | saw a table, round which
were seated five or six officers, with
Bible on the table. / was ordered to
be seated, and then Colonel O'Brien
read an order. 1t was about like this:
Colonel O'Brien-The first bush.
whacker you catch, you will try by
court-martial and have hung.
General Fitzpatrick
Colonel O'Brien told me l was about
to be tried by court-martial on the
charge of being bushwhacker. The
situation was about as terrible as a
boy of 10 could be confronted with
BY degrees 1 recovered possession of
my faculties, and pleaded my cause
more earnestly than l have ever since
pleaded one. Finally was sent out
I'm the course of an hour Colonel
O'Brien came to me and told me the
court had acquitted me. / doubt If In
all my career my life has been In as
much danger as it was that day.
After the trial l was put in an am
bulance, to be carried to General
Meade's headquarters. My friend, the
second lieutenant, came to the ambu
lance with some loaves of bread for
me. / asked him how 1t was l es-
capped
'He told me he had promised my
mother to look out for me If / ever
fell into his hands, and. that he had
just taken the stand In the court that
l should not be hanged, and had final.
ly brought majority of the officers
over to his side"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-09

Adolph Tpperwn
Grand American handicap conducted by the Chicago Club
mna the big
that Is easily
who
experts
since she has followed shooting pasme
proved her aim with each public
100 She of
OF possible
feat which and minutes 800
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-09

Bought an automobile yet?"
farmer was asked to-day. "Huh!" ha
replied. Il haven't had the graphic.
phone fever yet"