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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
CALLED FOR IN PERSON.

Mrs. Thompson was the soul of happy
hospitality, shooing chickens, tapping
flies and talking to the eats as she
poured out coffee and handed fried po-
tatoes and meat and great soda biscuits
Primus sat ON the refrigerator, be-
tween two plates of freshly chWned but
ter, and once a great calf stuck its head
in at the door.
II don't think | can stand it nine
months" thought Elizabeth as she drank
her coffee. Maybe I'll let him come for
me in two" Then she felt more cheer
| full.
"You can see the schoolhouse from the
| first turn in the road" said Mrs. Thomp
| son at the gate, as she squinted her eyes
in the sunlight. Its right beyond the
depot and down the bayou little ways
| is the graveyard where Buddy is buried.
Wen walk there some pretty evening"
| Elizabeth squeezed her fat hands gent
| ". 1t was impossible not to like her, and
| vet-how could the material part of her
stand it? She went along, needless of
| the morning sunlight on the fiat fields
where the cotton stalks were standing.
! She did not feel that she could teach
school She was no longer the capable,
well poised female that she had mag
| ned herself to be. She was only little
homesiek girl longing with all her heart
for the sight of big, clean man who
smelled of good cigars.
| Then, suddenly she stopped short In
| front of her was a little red-roofed de-
pot. with some freight cars on a siding,
and telegraph and telephone wires ran
/ into it. She could, if she would, send a
message that minute-and he would
come In his new charaeter-new and
| delightful-she felt sure he would be
capable of anything. She need never
sleep on that feather bed or eat after
| Primus. Neither need she starve or die
| of insomnia. Almost before she realized
| it she was startling the young agent
| with a vision of youth and beauty seldom
seen there. Then her voice failed her.
and she seemed to wait interminable
minutes until he came into his Office
and his voice Travelled over hundred
miles of sunlight space and reached her
lit is l." she said at her end of the
wire. and the young man in the Office
listened eagerly as he wrote meaningless
things with a stub pen. Yes
No, not i'll, but 50 horribly lonesome,
and the eats fight all night and miss
YOU Yes read it. | found
| /. last night No. not angry,
No. no. But | wish |
had read it--Dr you had said it--before
/ bought my ticket"
Then. needless of the agents surprise,
she laid down quarter and He'd from
! the Office. with fame-colored cheeks.
! Elizabeth could never remember after
| ward. when she tried TO recall the details
of that one day of her vocation. how
she found the schoo!house or got through
/ the morning. In after years it was al
WAYS vague dream of diugy. ink
spattered room filed with girls and boys
lall amazingly freckled, At IL o'clock
| she sent them home and. still in a happy
dream, she went to Mrs. Thompson's and
| sat down to soup and tarnips and dried
apple pie, unudled even by the sight Of
| Primus, which sat in the window washing
red tomato soup from his whiskers.
I'm not going back to school, she
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
Some Pluck About Him.

The old gentleman, in his heart. did
not object to the young man as SON
In-iaw, but he was one of that kind
Of gentlemen who like to raise objections
first. and then reach an agreement as
though comforting a favor When the
young man called he was ready for
him.
$50" he interrupted. fercely. almost
before the sutton could commence. Won
want me to let you marry my daughter.
do you?"
The young man very coolly responded:
i didn't say so, did r.
The old gentleman gasped.
"But you were going to say soi'
Who told you | WASP inquired tho
applicant, seeing his advantage.
But you want me TO let you marry
her. don't yong
No"
No" exclaimed the old gentleman.
almost falling off his chair.
That's what | said"
Then what the mischief do Won
waut?"
Il want YOU to give your consent. "
replied the youth, pleasantly. Il am 60
ing to marry her. anyhow. but we
thought your consent wouldn't be q bad
thing to have as start"
1t took the old gentleman a minute 10
realize the situation. When he did he
put out his hand
shake hands, my boy" said he. I've
been looking for a soB-in-law with some
pluck about him. and I'm sure youu
do first class. Kansas City Journal.
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No Room for Uncertainty.

As an indication of the drollery of
Senator Burton this story is told of how
he finished conference with the re-
mark:
Gentlemen, there is no use in asking;
you cannot get the appropriation"
Don't you think this is pretty hard
on u.s. Mr., BurtOn?' inquired one Of the
spokesman.
You remind me, " replied Mr. Burton,
''of the story of how Solomon Levi bor-
rowed a thousand dollars from his friend
Einstein. Next day the latter was
shocked TO hear that Solomon had he
come bankrupt His annoyance ut the
ingratitude of solomon increased when
he read the list of creditors next day
his own name did not appear. He hast
ened to find his erstwhile friend and re-
proach him.
DO you call yourself my friend. and
You do not even include my name in your
list of creditors-what about that thou
sand dollars | gave you on Monday?"
Nevertheless. ! am your friend
How is thatT
Why. don't you see these men on
that preferred list think they will get
some money-but you know that you
won't-and have no uncertainty to wor-
ry you"
That, gentlemen" said Mr. Burton,
is previsely my position in this matter.
lou might as well know that y0n won t
get anything; there Is some consolation
in certainty. and | know You will agree
with me that there is limit even to
the capacious pockets of Uncle Sam. -
National Magazine.
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said, with flush ON her happy little
face. I've classed them and I'm going
for long walk
She put on a soft. lace trimmed white
dress that made her look like a big baby
and hat trimmed with pink roses. and
5 rolled past the depot again and down
the old bayou by whose banks the dead
were laid away II was quiet, peaceful
spot. Masses of honeysuckle and golden
rod hid the sunken graves. No new
mound struck a note of pain The sad
ness was gone and only the peace of
death remained A little farther on she
found Mrs. Thompson's little freckled
boy, who had been buried in his first
long pants There was marble Slab
with his name and age, and "We Shall
Meet in the Sweet By-and By"
Elizabeth looked at it with misty eyes
i nope they viii. ," she thought. and
that he will be Just little freckled-
faced boy"
Already she seemed to have learned
something of the everlasting Joy and the
everlasting sorrow of wifehood and
motherhood, and so she dreamed on I'M
til the shrill whistle of the evening train
broke the silence.
1T IS too soon to expect even a let
ter she told herself; but with a move
ment like a flower when it trembIes on
its stem she arose and with quick. happy
little feet and a rose flush ON her face.
she went down the grassy path
As she went, tall fair man. who
looked dear and familiar, and yet de
lightfully strange, came hurrying to her,
and so-and so-they met in the sunset
glory of the autumn evening, and. for
getful of all else, he lifted her little face
with his strong hands and pressed his
eager. loving lips to hers
Mrs. Thompson was loud with lamen-
tatiOns when she found that a bold
Lochinvar had come to rob her of her
boarder and Seven Oaks Hollow school
of its teacher of a day; but there was
a delightful thrill of excitement over
it all. 1t was almost as if bride was
going away She hastily stirred up a
cake for supper and tied blue ribbon
on Primus' neck.
It's hard to give you up so soon" she
said tearfully, as Elizabeth stood ready
to go away, but Pm glad you got one
good sleep in my feather bed You must
come back some day, dear, and see us
and the cats again"
I'll never forget YOU" said Elizabeth.
not without few tears in her happy
eyes. ''Some day we will come back and
see you"
So she passed out clinging to her
lovers hand, with a parting back view
of Primus' on the hall table drinking
out of the bucket of water
And to think that you really loved
me all the time" said her lover ecstatil
ally, almost unbelieving, as the night
train rushed through the darkness of
field and swamp, like some enchanted
dragon, carrying them away to the fairy
land of love and happiness.
Yet she said softly, as she nestled
by his side, II think | really loved you
all the time, but | would never have
told you half so soon if it had not been
for Mrs. Thompson's cat."-Juiette B.
McCearley in the New Orleans Times
Democrat.
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TooT OF THE SLY SEA SERPENT.

Now the lamprey and the iatfsh
Are disporting In the sea.
And the lakelet club and catfish
Glide about in widest gee.
And I'm feeling very musty
As the gay moth caracoles
Round this shore inn cellar dusty
For to eat me full Of holes
Yea, I'm weary of this cellar,
Which is not the ocean cave,
And ! long for glory stellar
In the wild wind dimpled wave
oh, know that very shortly
| shall wriggle with a grin
When the boniface so portly
Sends me on my trial spin.
And I'm also very happy,
Full of tar balls TO the ears;
Aud my spirits sweet ana sappy
With the gasolene that cheers.
shall soon perform my skimlet
In most artistic way
On the spiral like a gimlet,
And the bonfface win say
"Oh. he beats my hash and chowder
AS card and fate he balks,
And his actions speak much louder
Than the words which money talks.
So it's of the ocean grotto
That / dream, and all its iZz,
When l shrek my merry motto:--
Turn me loose and let me whizzr'
r.. *. Munkittrick, in New York Herald.
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TEMPLE OF EDFU.
Worship There According to tn.
Dictates of Your Heart.

hE
Dictates of Your Heart.
Edfu, in its solemn beauty. in Ire
perfection of form, says Robert IA.
chens in the Century, seems to me f.
pass into a region altogether beyond
identification with the worship of aDv
special deity, with particular atJrib.
utes, perhaps with particular lilnita.
tions; one who can be craven unoo
walls and upon architraves and pillars
painted in brilliant colors; one who
can personally pursue criminal. like
some policeman in the street: even
one who can rise upon the world In the
visible glory of the sun. To me Edfu
must always represent the worll-wor.
ship of the Hidden One;" not Amyn
god of the dead, fused with Ra. with
Amsu or with Khnum; but that other
Hidden One" who is god of the nanny
hunting grounds of savages. with
whom the Buddhist stri res to merge
his strange serenity of soul, who is
adored in the holy places" by the
Moslem and lifted mystically above the
heads of the kneeling Catholics in
cathedrals dim with incense and mer-
rily praised with the banjo and the
trumpet in the streets of black ENGLISH
cities; who is asked for children bv
longing women and for new dolls by
| lisping babies; whom the atheist de-
MES in the day and fears in the dark
ness of night; who is on the lips alike
of priest and blasphemer and in the
soul of all human life.
Edfu is the temple of the Hidden
One" 1t is not pagan, it is not Chris
tian, it is a place in which to wor
ship according to the dictates of your
heart
Do you care about form? Here you
will find it in absolute perfection In
proportion it is supreme above all
other Egyptian temples. Its beauty of
form is like a music. It's design affects
one like the chiseled loneliness Of
/ perfect sonnet While the world lasts
no architect can arise to create a
building more satisfying, more calm
with the calm of faultlessnesss more
serene with a just serenity. Or so it
seems to me- l think of the most love
! ly buildings / know in Europe, of the
Alhambra at Granada, of the Cappella
Palatina in the palace of Palermo.
And Edfu | place with them-Edfu
utterly different from them. more diff
ferent perhaps even than they are from
each other, but akin to them. as all
| great beauty is mysteriously akin.
have spent morning after morning in
the Alhambra and many and many an
hour in the Cappella Palatina, and
never have | been weary of either or
longed to go away And this same
sweet desire to stay came over me In
Edfu. The Loulia was tied up by the
! high bank of the Nile The sailors
were glad to rest. There was no steam
ship sounding its hideous siren to call
me to its crowded deck So | yielded
to my desire, and for long / stayed at
Edfu. And when at last l left it
said to myself, This is a supreme
thing" and knew that within me had
suddenly developed the curious passion.
for buildings that some people never
feel and that others feel ever growing
and growing.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
Nc Language Of the Game.

"IIe amhIed TO the Acne sack
The pestle wieider soon was whitfield;
"Tmps waved the orator way back;
"A Wilbur Wright the batter bitfed";
Ills here again. o brothers all
The pleasing language of baseball.
lie leaned against the hurer's slant
The catcher pegged him by two feet;
"Of bingles we were somewhat Scant =;
such spitball serves were hard to beat ;
Reside it classic tongues seem tame
The language of the glorious game,
lie whanged the shy, elusive pin,
The garden guardian speared the
sphere;
The beacheriteS yelled, oh, you Bill'r'
Red Casey was the cannOneer';
No doubt of t-spring has the tloor-
When baseball talk has hloomed once more.
Denver Republican.
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The Nomad.

l wish my pa en- ma would find
Sum place they like en- settle down;
I'm purity sick NV mOvn' vans
En- Twin everywhere in town,
For just about the time the kids
With which a Teller wants to play
Look in en- say, who's that new kidT'
By Joe, we up en- move away.
En- when the neighborhood is got
A gang of boys you bet your boots
You can't get in with EN- right off
They've got TO know all new recruits,
En- fight with EN-, en- look EN- up,
70 find out if they'll do or nay;
En- just about when I'm to pass,
BY hockey poke, we move away.
But what is sadder still is that
This always movm ev'rywheres
Deprives boy of what his heart
Most Graves en- that is love affairs.
If haply he lights near a maid
Whose love for him is all too plain,
En- bliss is right around the bend
Why, there is where we move again.
Clark McAdams in st. Louis Post-Dis
patch.
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WHY HE WAS WILLING.


A warning against probing too deep
ly into the motives of man is con
tanned in his story from the New York
Sun. A tale of jurymen appeared be
fore a certain Missouri judge, and
every man explained that it would
mean disaster to him to serve at that
term of3court-all but little fellow
at the end of the line, hunter who
had lived in a cabin on the creek all
his life
You have no excuse to Offer
asked the surprised judge.
mo, sir"
Haven't got sick motherinlaw,
needing your attention."
mo, sir; I amt married"
What about your CROP"
Don't raise anything"
NO fence to fix up?''
Haven't got fence on the place.
You think you can spare the TING
to serve on jury two weeks"
Sure"
The Judge sat a while and medl-
tated Reaching over, he whispered to
the clerk, who shook has head In per.
plexity. Then the judges curiosity
got the better of him.
You are the only man who has got
the time to serve your country as q
juryman," he said Would you mind
telling me how it happens?"
Sure not" the little man replied,
promptly 81 heard you was going to
try Jake Billings this term. He shot
a dog o mine oncet."
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
WHEN RHYME IS ON THE BARD.

When the sap is in the maple, when the
honey's in the bees,
It's task amazing simple to write Home
Folks rhymes like these!
When the dew is on she clover and the corn
is in the silk,
Wher the crow is in the rooster and the
cows foot in the milk.
When the corn is in the fritter and the
smoke is in the ham,
When the down is on the gosling and the
fleece is on the lamb.
When the worm is on the fish hook and the
blush is on the morn,
But-beware the frosted pumpkin and the
shock of fodde" cornl
When the quack is in the duckling and the
lilac in the bud
When the patch is on the trousers and the
bare foot in the mud;
When the hoe is in the garden and the red
is on the rose,
When the curl is in the fish worm and the
freckle on the nose;
When the hen is on the door knob when
w., the hopper's in the grass,
When the chirp is in the cricket and the
apples in the sass,
when the syrup's on the pancake, when the
tick is in the clock,
But-beware the frosted pumpkin and the
fodder in the shock!
When the tang is in the cider and the cider
in the jug,
When the hay is in the meadow and the
June is on the bug,
When the sting is in the skeeter, when the
buzz is in the fly
When the germ is in the water and the pig
is in the sty;
When the prune is in the boarder, when the
hOnk is in the goose.
If you're bound to write a. Folk Rhyme
there is hot the least excuse
For n running out of subjects-when the
darn is in the sock
But-beware the frosted pumpkin and the
fodder in the shock,
u. w Boley, in New York Times.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
WELL PAID FOR WRITING ADS.
A Kilkenny Agency Pays One Man Over
$1,000 a Week

Kilkenny Ireland, claims to have the
highest salarie3 advertisement writer in
the World. An agency in that town says
in plain terms that the salary OF one Of
its advertisement writer's ''at the present
time is $500 sterling a week, which is al
most $2435 in American money"
The statement is contained in a letter
to Whites Glass Advertising, which had
referred to an English agency which
paid one of it's writer's f400 sterling a
week, as having reached the record top
notch in salaries for that line of work
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11

see You carrying about with you day
and nightT
'Chleroform, said Smethurst
What the deuce are You doing with
chloroform here on the boardwalks'
THAT big dub of a Jones. said Smet-
hurst. has threatened to give me a
sound thrashing the first time he meets
me. and as soon as ! see him coming
I'm going to take good dose. / don't
propose to suffer if / can help it.
Rhilndelnhin RecOrd.
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An Inventive Genius.

Nikola Tesla, the man who harueSsed
Niagara, was talking TO an interviewer
about inventors
The successful inventor said Mr.
Tesla. smiling, has an odd, quaint mind,
a mind full Of surprises, Thus Sme;-
hurst | am convinced, was an inventor
at heart. though circumstances had made
n grocer of him.
''Smethurst. during his seaside holiday,
was seen upon the boardwalk with Il
large bottle under his arm.
4" 'Smethurst.' said an acquaintance.
what have you got in that bottle that
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11

j sat behind her in the pew,
But saw not choir nor preacher;
basket hat eclipsed my view,
Worn by darling creature.
/ heard the music of the choir,
1t may have been q sonnet,
Don't know; but thought | heard a Tyre
Behind that hloomin' bonnet
Some words the preacher spoke | heard,
Others mere air-waEe motions;
The blasted brim before me stirred
My anger IN devotions.
II $ been our reg'lar rule through life
To go to church each sunday,
As reg lar as IL is for wife
To do her washin' Monday.
Now we've resolved let what will come,
To have our prayers and sonnetS
Each Sabbath day at our own home,
Where there's no boundin bonnctS
To hide the blessed face of Him
We love- although not seeing;
Who knows each thought hidden within
The secret Of our being.
Aud ut the gate we shall approve,
II we shall hear Saint Peter
Command all wearerS to remove
Big hats before they enter
d. III. Kennedy, in pittsburg Dispatch.
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Ethics Of the Case.

Look here Doctor said the ex-pa-
tient. coming into the physicians office
with determined expression. i've just
had the X-rays turned OH me, and
find that when you operated or ne Won
left pair of surgical scissors in me"
Bless met says the specialist. II
had missed them Thank You so much
my good man. ! will add their cost to
your bill. Life.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
The swamham Tinker and His Dog

Ine SW3nhnm Tinker ana his Do~
Two quaint figures are carved on
the two top pews ana reading desk O,
Swaffham Church. According to leg
end. tinker had dream bidding him
60 to London bridge and a stranger
would reveal to him how to find a p0-
of money So of he went with his
dog, and at the bridge a stranger
stopped him. saying, Last night ] ha"
dream bidding me 60 to Swaf1haM
and dig in such and such a place ana
there find pot of money. but don G
believe in dreams" Then back went
the tinker. dug for and found the pot
as described and also an inscription
bidding him dig deeper, which he ala-
and found another, and with them re-
stored swafham Church. The cary
ings were put up to perpetuate Dis
memory.-L0ndon Strand
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
A Confessed Culprit.

Father, what are you licking me
forE"
What am | licking you forT'-whack
You young thief'-whack-"di didn't
hear you tell the boy next door that At
the hall game this morning '-whack-
you stole the third bag and ran homeY'
-lndependeut
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
Chance for Beggars.

Begging must be profitable in Paris.
judging from recent advertisement in
a Paris paper: For Sale-Present hold
or retiring to the country, good situation
for one legged man; neiEhberhood of che
EtoiIe; hours Of work. p. IN. to I p.
ny receipts, from IS I'D to rs; regular
pIsSerShy, children and strangers; any
infrmity would suit.'-London Globe.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11

Manager-But, don't you think it looks
odd for you TO wear your diamonds in
The character Of the deserted Wife,
Actress Certainly not. You must
have observed that | have selected for
that purpose the very smallest and plain
est diamonds | own.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
The Same PrincinIe

"Fust time you've ever MIXED 4 COW.
isn't it," said Uncle Josh to his visiting
nephew. WAL, y do it durn sight bet
tern most city fellers do"
1t seems TO come natural somehow y
said the youth, Gushing with pleasure.
I've had good deal of practice with Il
fountain pen. '-Everybody Magazine.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11

Bess tyearuinglyl Tell NE. Frank, DO
YOU really and truly love me, darliugs
Frank tmcauly-I certainly did when
| told yoH 50 for the 1--WE thouSandth
time six seconds ago; but now-WeN, you
know. we men are 50 changeable. Bo-
hewian
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
It's All IN the Name.

I.istlessly turning the leaves of the
new city directory. Mr. John Jones dis
covers that there are 694 men of his
name in the municipality.
This will never do" he declares. Il
must get ont aud make a name for my
self"
That very afternoon he applies to the
court for permission to change his name
10 AlcihadeS Chugwatcr D0hhelpeunick
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11

SPECIFICS amazement is one OF the
things that go without saying.
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Il suppose" said the casual acquaint-
ance. the day after the wedding, 1T was
hard to lose your daughter"
No" replied the brides father. at
did seem as if it was going to be hard
ut one time. but she landed this fellow
Just rs we were beginning to lose all
hope '-pittsburg Observer.
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Do everything reason tells you 10 CO
unless conscience vetoes it
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Deyoutly to Be Wished.

No shade of discomfort would creep
Ger any Christian nation
If every sort of food were cheap
As food for conversation.
Washington star,
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Advertise in this paper, and make your
wants known to your home people