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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
AGAINST SUNDAY PAPER.
A Clergyman Says 1t Invades Home
Displacing the Bible

In a sermon in the Marble Collegiate
church. New York, Rev. DIR. David J.
Burrell expressed his intense dislike for
Sunday newspapers. There are be-
tween 1000 and 1000 people engaged on
Sunday newspaper work in New York"
said DIR. Burrell, while reporter worked
hard to take" his sermon. '"rhey say it
is not the Sunday but the Monday news
paper which necessitates work on Sun
day. What do you newspaper men take
us for to think we will believe such
things? l am credibly informed that, be-
fore it began its Sunday issue, one news
paper, the New York Tribune, never
allowed any Sunday work in it's offices.
If there was no Sunday newspaper the
work done late Saturday night would
serve instead of that done on Sunday.
Not only the pressmen and the printers
and the editorial writers work on Sun
day, but the Sunday newspaper makes
it day of commerce. The Christian
businessman may go home to his Sun
day rest but if he puts an advertisement
in the Sunday paper his goods are being
discussed all over the city-his trade is
doing it's best days work of the week.
The Sunday newspaper invades the
Christian home and displaces the Bible
and religious periodical.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
LAST OF THE STAGE COACHES.
Used for Carrying Passengers in Early
Days of Texas.


After standing in the alley west of
PatterSon's livery stable since 1878 the
stage coach Sam Houston was torn to
pieces yesterday and the timber cast in
waste heap. The Sam Houston was the
victim of city legislation, it having been
ordered moved from the alley, but being
in such a dilapidated condition it could
not be moved The coach was torn to
pieces and another relic of the early
Texas days has passed into history.
If the old stage coach could talk it
could tell of some hair raising events
that would probably make the "blood
and thunder" stories look like 30 cents
Mex 1t made its first run between Aus
tin and Brennan i'll the year 1871 when
Texas was filled with Indians and bad
men. Six and eight mules were driven
to the old coach, six being driven in good
weather and eight in muddy weather
In its day the Sam Houston was the
scene of many a fight and hOld-up. The
wood was marked in numerous places by
bullet holes, which weres all that re-
manned in history of many Of the fights
in which the coach was the center of
battle. Guards were always carried
along with the coach in the early DAYS
to prevent Indian attacks and hold-ups
by bad men who wanted to rob the mail
Some time ago a movement was start
ed to have the Sam Houston preserved
as historic relic of early Texas days,
but the move failed to bear fruit and
now it is too late.
The Sam Houston made its last run
from San Antonio to Austin in 1873.
1t was abandoned and had to get out
of the way, for the railroad took its
place, and now it had to be taken out
of the alley because it was deemed I'M
slightly and in the way.-Austin States
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
1 WONDER.

When the plays were sound
And the plots were good,
And the chorus gowned
As a chorus should,
We all would roughhouse the whole show
through,
And the ushers did business by two ana
two,
When the plays were sound
And the plots were good.
Now the plays risque
And the plots are worse,
While the lines they say
And the clothes are terse;
But now we Toll through the whole
show
Are we Bladder or better. I'd like TO know,
Now the plays risque
And the plots are worse?
Harvard Lampoon.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
Actor Was Only Acting.

Stephen Phillips, the dramatist and
poet, whose financial misfortunes are so
of +. r. Benson's repertoire company.
An amusing story is told of his debut
Mr. Benson had told him that the great
thing for an actor is to act. 1T does not
matter" he continued, so much what
the words are which the actor speaks
as the impression which he conveys to
the audience by those words" Then he
gave Mr.. Phillips the part of Balthazar
i'm Romeo and Juliet" On the first
night Balthazar managed the first line
of his part. and then forgot the rest.
Romeo. in the person of Mr.. Benson, had
to go 10 his assistance and speak the
rest of the part for him, while Bait
hazar exhibited an agony of speeches.
grief.
What do you mean" Mr.. Benson aft
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
Too Much Pugnacity.

Jerome s. McWade the millionaire
collector of Duluth, condemned in a re-
cent lecture. American pugnaeiousness.
MY morning paper" said he, tells
me how A breaks BIS jaw because he
happens to stumble over BIS foot in a
street car. Arrested for assault, he says:
The man who crosses his legs in a crowd
ed car deserves a licking
THAT sort of ruffianism is int0lerable.
Yet in our nervous irritability, due to our
business life. we are continuously squab-
bling and fighting"
Mr. McWade smiled. '0nly yester-
day" he continued, Il heard of a cop
per miner who was hurrying homeward,
worn out with too hard a days work,
when he came upon another chap under
street lamp.
Hello he said. Are you Dick
Sweeny Of Two HarborsT
The other chap, who was also tagged
to death. snarled out:
!" No. | amt Dick Sweeney of Two
Harbors'
Then the first chap shot out his fist
and landed heavy left on the others
Jaw.
"'Well. take that, then, said he. for
bein' so like him!' st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
Negro Lingo.

Senator Taylor of Tennessee tells Of
an old negro whose worthless son was
married secretly. The old man heard IF
it and asked the boy if he was married
Il amt sayin' amt the boy replied.
Now, You Rastus," stormed the old
man, Il amt askin' you is you amt: is
askin' you amt you is.''-Troy Times.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
A Christmas Vampire.

49,
A Christmas Vampire.
A fool there was. and he made a gift,
Even as you or H.
He bought it with taste and care and thrift
(For a lady his friends thought rather
And when he gave it. the lady shifted,
Even as you or H.
oh, the Judgment and taste and time we
On the gifts at Christmastide;
Which we give to the lady who isn't
pleased
(And now we know she could never he
And never be satisfied.
A fool there was, and he gave his cheque
Given as you or H.
For a necklace of pearls without deck,
land 1t didn't the least suit the lady neck
And She never thanked him a single speck!
Gwen as you or ~
oh, the. chink we lose and the think we
On the things we buy with pride.
To give to the lady who never is pleased,
land now we know she can never be
pleased
And never be satisfied.
The fool was fleeced to his last red cent,
Gwen as you or H.
She threw him aside, when his gold was
(And nobody cared where the Lady VENT
And the fool gave way to loud lament
Gwen as you or H.
And it wasn't the loss, and it wasn't the
The reason that same fool CRIED
1t was coming TO know that she never was
pleased
Seeing at last she could never be pleased
And never be satisfed)
Carolyn Wells, in Smart Set.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
Mime. Gadski 10 Live in New YORK

Nine. Johanna Gadski of the Metro
politan Opera company and the concert
stage, has taken steps toward purcdas-
ing a house in New York city. This is in
direct refutation of the charge against
foreign singers that they do not take in
the amount of money which they garner
from the box offices The prima donna
new home will be situated on the upper
west side
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
Lending a Hand.

Alfred was spending his fourth birth
day with his grandfather, who presented
him with n large-sized child's trunk for
his playthings. In the evening when he
returned to his home his grandfather car
ried the trunk. Alfred feared the trunk
was too heavy for his grandfather and
wished to help him, When told it was
not, he said: Hold my hand, grand
father; that will make il lighter The
Delneat0r.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
An Aged Heiress' Marital Exploits.

Miss jeanette Suffren, the ill-starred Jer-
sey heiress, has once again paid for the
folly of having tried, at the age of "a
years, to marry and retain the love of
man in his twentieS. Chauffeur Frank
Hiscock has done just what his brother.
''Hostler Bob Hiscock did-deserted
her. "Hostler Bob got $1,000 out of the
gray-haired old woman for his marriage
to her. What Chauffeur Frank got is
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
OF Course Thev would.

My 5-year-old grandson was fond Of
drawing pictures of animals. One day
he brought me sheet of foolscap COW
cred with drawings of all the animals he
was familiar with and wanted help in
spelling the names l noticed one was
not labeled and asked if he had forgotten
it. "Oh, no, granny, ] thought any one
would know that was n cow by the little
handles underneath. The Delineator
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
One Recommendation.

The Customer-Can you recommend
these complexion powders?
The ChemiSt-Well, madam. ] can't
say that they will wash like the natural
but they won't rub of on
q coat sleeve."-Sketch.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26

wards demanded. ''by going on the
stage without knowing your partE
Il was only doing what you told me.
You said the great thing Oh the stage
was not so much the words you speak as
TO act Well was acting. London
Tiff ifS
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
Appreciation.

The Lady Fare-You cannot cheat me,
my man. | haven't ridden in cabs for
twenty-five years for nothing.
The Cabby-layen't YOU, mum? Well,
you've done your best.--New Zealand
Free Lance.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
Thrift, Horatio, Thrift.

Tourist (as he falls down a precipice
and sticks)-Blow it if only could give
up my room for tonight. Undergraduates
Blaetter.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
Summer Engagements.

He--When shall we get married?
She-Oh, John! why do you take our
engagement so seriously ?-Fhegende
Blnetter.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
The Commercial Bard.

The Commercial Bard.
/ sing of spare-ribs prime
My roundelays.
That is the sort Of rhyme
That pays.
No theme of war or love
Attracts my muse.
] sound the merits of
Fine shoes.
| laud no damsel's looks
Unto the skies.
I'd rather sing of hooks
And eyes.
No epic runes l bleat;
My efforts terse
Are all confined to street
Car verse.
Louisville Courier journal
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26
Were e but Possible!

Commissioner of Immigration Rob
ert Watchorn said recently of an i'm
migrant
He was bad case. He was as
ignorant of government as the two
Polish policemen were.
Two new policemen were once put
ON the Warsaw force. They did good
work. they arrested a lot of people
then suddenly they resigned.
why are you reSigning?" the SUI
perintendent asked.
The older of the two men an
swered respectfully:
" We are going to start a police
station of our own, sir. Boris here
will make the arrests. and l will do
the filming, Washington Star
Old Lady to Cook will have boiled
egg for my dinner, and keep the water
to make yourself some soup with.-Bon
Niyant.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26

Little Willie-Say, papa, give me a
photograph on my birthday,
Papa-No You will disturb me very
much if l 30.
Little Willie-No, sir. I'll only play it
when you're asleep, sir.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26

The One-Did it do any good to prose-
cute Littleton, the coal dealer, for us
ing fraudulent scales
The Other-Yes, | hear that he's
mended his weighs
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-26

Advertise Your Goods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-06
Brisk Trade.

Our store has only been open for one month and therefore I cannot draw com parisons of trade this year with last year." said Abe Kaufman of A. Kaufman & Co.,, yesterday, but I can say that our business is more than twice as large as we anticipated. I have had 12 years ex- perience in Birmingham in ladies' and misses ready-to-wear. and l have never seen the demand for high-class, artistical- ly designed clothes as good as 1t is now.
 T account for our brisk trade by the fact that we are able to show absolutely new models of foreign and domestic makes at phenomenally low prices. An other fact that enters into the consider ation is that our New York and Paris buyer is the largest in the country.
 q am thoroughly acquainted with the average spending power of Birmingham people and consider it better now than 1t has been in some time. My associate in New York, one of the shrewdest judges of conditions concerning this class of trade in the country, writes me that he is delighted with our business here and that it reflects healthy condition in Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-06
Plttsburs'S Glory Departing

When" said Henry c. Prick recent ly, "the United States Steel corpor. ation broke ground for Gary, it practi- cally sounded the death knell of Pitts burg" MT. Prick thinks the steel and iron interests will be centered in the towns about the Great Lakes, although they are far from Connellsville, and the surfaces of those lakes are frozen solid one half of the year.
 G. Wilfred Pearce writing in the Manufacturers Record expresses doubts concerning the wisdom of the concentration of efforts on the part of the Steel corporation in the lake dis. tricts. He says the late Henry H. Rogers, who was a director of the Steel corporation, urged greater de velopment of the Birmingham district The place vacated by the death of MT. Rogers was filled by the election of J. P. Morgan's son. There are now four members of the Morgan firm in the directorate of the Steel corpor-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-06

ation, and it really rests with the con trolling power of the Southern railway to say to what degree the resources of this district shall be developed. At present the general trend is toward Gary and Duluth, although this dis trict will soon have a river open to tidewater the year round. Judge Gary and the Morgan interests are the arbiters in the United States Steels development policy, and no one knows this district better than they do, and no one has larger interests in the south than have J. P. Morgan and his as- sociates. The Age-Herald has con- fidence in the judgment of these men, and it fully believes that both Judge Gary and the Morgan interests will decide as a business proposition that the south shall share with Gary in the iron and steel development of the country. At any rate it is known to be the purpose of the Steel corporation management to greatly increase the operations of the Tennessee company and to expend many millions in i'm provements within the next two or three years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-06
Incidents In Jury Room.

Some amusing things sometimes hap pen in jury room," said a recent juror, and that notwithstanding the solemn duty involved. Last week l served as juror in one of the county courts. The case was damage suit. The case was long drawn out and tedious, and was fin ally submitted to the jury On the first ballot the jury stood to for the plain tiff. Finally the jury got together and the question of damages was considered, resulting in an agreement, after some wrangling, with one exception. One juror held out for a larger sum. and for hours stubbornly held to his position. The ever1- ing drew near, and the bailiff was called and informed of the situation. He told the foreman the judge had ordered them to be held over night and said he had ordered supper. How many suppers did you order?' asked the foreman. Twelve, of course,' said the bailiff. Then in a voice filled with indignation and disgust the foreman howled, Make it Il suppers and a bale of hay "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-06
Electric Furnaces for Steel

The use of electric furnaces in mak- ing steel seems to be steadily gaining ground, despite the fact that rails and structural steel can be made at less cost in open-hearth furnaces. Electric plants for actual service have been in- stalled at the Krupp works in Essen; at Volklingen in Russian Silesia, and at two or three places in Sweden. The products of an electric steel furnace are as acceptable and seryiceable as are the products from bessemer or open-hearth furnaces, and the only ob- jection to electric furnaces relates to relative cost of production.
 America is nothing if not progress sive, and yet there is not an electric furnace in this country. Nor does there seem to be considerable interest taken in the new way of making steel. In England on the other hand the Shelf field university is about to install a small electric furnace for experiment tai purposes. It desires no doubt to see if steel can be made by it suitable for the uses of cutters. Steel for cut lery and tools is now made by the crucible process, and it is possible that high grade steel for such purposes can be made at less cost in the electric furnaces
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-06
SOCIETY" OF THE STAGE.
Playwright Relies on Imagination For
 What He Lacks In Facts.

Alan Dale in the New York American.
 It is perfectly conceivable that society people look upon stage society people as the ingenious inventions of the fertile playwright It is nearly certain that they regard them as little more than stage types-companion pictures to the hero and the villain and the 'comic relief Some of the "society'' plays are really ferocious diatribes against the fashionable com munity; the moral of these plays is in- variaply that gold is a snare. and that the lack of it is a virtue. Yet nothing ever happens. And if the stage is of any use at all, something should happen. It is said that foolish play like An Eng lishman's Home" has driven England to look to it's national defenses; but the thousand and one plays that have been aimed at the folly and vanity of drawing rooms never appear to have driven any body to live in the kitchen!
 Perhaps another very good reason why ''society" is so invariably bounced upon by playwrights is the fact that they really know nothing about it. And that Is very good reasn. You say it gives their imagination a healthy scope; it also makes them seem very important it adds ito their vanity. The playwright who is living in a hall bedroom at two per, and whose aspirations do not soar above a room and bath'' at an obscure hotel, likes to picture ornate libraries, exotic conservatores and magnificent picture galleries in the homes of the rich. He feels that he can do justice to these elaborate themes; that he can imagine, even if he doesn't knowl For ''color" he can chat with the chauffeur, or the butler or even the cook, and-well, thou sands and thousands of people will revel in his pictures, though thousands and thousands of people do not deem them worthy!
 And so we get society play after society play A fact that is distinctly worth re- cording, however. is that in spite of all the subtleties of Fifth avenue and River side drive the really successful plays are not society plays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-06
VALUE OF TRAVELLING
From the Boston Globe.

From the Boston Globe.
 IF, as reported, President Taft jour
 neys this summer to the northwest \ and Alaska, and subsequently returns by way of the southern states, he should be able to accomplish what many of his predecessors have not, namely, ac- quire much useful information in regard to the wants of the American people, which he could not obtain by remaining in the White House.
 A President who travels for the pur- pose of getting into closer contact with the people and securing accurate infor- nation of the nations activities and op- portunities becomes a stronger chief ex- ecutive He obtains his data at first hand and later, when any question of extreme importance comes up for con- alteration in the cabinet, the President is in a position to know fully as much about it as the member of the cabinet from that section.
 The idea of having the members of the Presidents cabinet travel is also a good one, for if they are not acquainted with the actual conditions of governmental af- fairs, besides those in the particular sec ton they come from, their opinions are not so valuable when called on to pass judgment on matters of grave importance in other parts of the country.
 The heads of government in many for eign lands make it a practice to become intimately acquainted with the affairs of their empires through frequent journeys. Most of the European countries are very small in area compared with the United States. It is more essential, therefore, that presidents of the United States should not consider they are obliged to keep close to the seat of government all the time. The residents of Washington are usually ill-informed as to what Is really transpiring, politically and other wise, hundreds and thousands of miles away. The wise senator and represen- tative cannot even ascertain accurate ly what Is going on in his own state without frequent trips to the same for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Bessemer's Prosperity.

The improvement In business condi- tions at Bessemer within the past few weeks has been marked said T. A. Vel Ter. T keep in close touch with Bessemer but l was agreeably surprised myself when I accompanied northern visitor to that city a few days ago. Every in- dustrial plant in and around Bessemer is in operation. Not in two years past have evidences of prosperity in that part of Jefferson county been so cheering.
 My northern friend was, of course, favorably impressed. And not only is Bessemer giving a good account of itself now, but it has an exceptionally bright future There will be extensive industrial development in that city within the next F months"