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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
TO BE CONTINUED.
A BIG HOG.
One Thousand Pounds of Pork on -Four
Feet

rect.
Baby Jim" passed away in East st
Louis yesterday at the age of q. He
weighed at the time of his death $50
pounds. He was the biggest hog ever
shipped to the National stock yards and
was sold to Armour AZ Co for 8 cents q
pound.
Baby Jim" has been an object of
much interest in Macoupin county, Ill.
where he was reared. Theodore Strobeck
Of Brighten, Ill, kept him, with the in
tention Of waiting until he reached an
even 1000 pounds. he reached this
weight few days ago and was at once
sold TO Trayers d. Travers of Shipman,
Ill. VINO sent him 10 Dragon, Becker q
Go. of the National stock yards.
There was no wild scramble on the
part of buyers To secure Baby Jim" and
be remained in the pens from last
Wednesday before D. Pat Hanna, sales
man for the firm, could find any one to
take the big fellow. Travers d Travers
had paid $40 for him, by weight at
cents a pound. The packing house peo-
pie didn't want him, because he was too
big to be killed in the regular way, none
Of the scalding apparatus being con-
structed for Baby Jim's" class. Ar
mour & 90. finally took the big fellow
and sent him from pig TO pork over the
cattle route, using the apparatus CON-
structed for killing cattle and removing
the skin instead of scalding off the hair,
When this had been done and the big
hog was ready to be cut up he still
weighed 637 pounds. The hams win
weigh about sixty pound each. He was
Of the Chester White breed and was as
active as an average 150-pound porker.
IN shipping him down from ais Macou-
pin county home tbs hog shrgnk twenty
pounds and the frm ehat consigned hin
viii lose money, fer ne was sold at 9
cents net weight, making MIN brinc
S5T.33, a loss Of S126T, without congid
ering the expense Of shipping and mar
keting.-St Louis GlObe-DemocraL
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31

box in front, he had no means of learn
ing what was going on in the rear.
Some twenty or more veterans liter
ally 'froze" to the hind wheels and
endboard, with feet braced securely in
the yielding soil, while as many more
ofhciously assisted the willing horses
ON either side, that is. to hold it, At
length the wagon started, not ahead,
but over sidewise. Oh! how the boys
did strive to save that craft from
going over; but some way 1t would
go, and as boxes and cases rolled out
they suddenly took legs and ran away.
/ succeeded in getting a quantity of
sea biscuit and some potatoes. and by
a little rapid pedestrianism eluded the
guards, who made an effort to sur
round us
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
CHAPTER VI.

1t was getting dark and very chilly in
the little sitting room over the chem.
lists shop.
Gerry had been lying on the hard, I'M
comfortable sofa all day, and, since the
l o'clock dinner time, quite by herself,
for Phil was at school, and Anne was
too busy with her typewriting to do
more than just run in now and again to
look to the fire.
For things had gone hardly with the
Brown Holland concert party since those
glittering August days when fortune
seemed to smile on them and all the
world was gay; indeed, since the day of
the catastrophe at White Barns, when
Gerry would have been drowned in the
pond but for Sir Roger GTesham's time
ly arrival on the scene, disaster had ac-
tually followed them.
Perhaps the beginning of their troubles
was partly little Anne's own fault. She
had held out obdwately against Gresh-
ans entreaties that she and the children
would remain his guest if only for one
night on that unlucky occasion, so that
Gerry might have a chance of recovering
gradually from the shock of her sudden
immersion in the water. Lady Chill
cote's enraged establishment at discover
ing that the masked pianist assisting at
Sir Rogers garden party was no other
than her own nursery governess, found
vent in words that would have been bet
ter left unsaid.
Possibly the fact of her ladyship hav-
ing secretly cherished hopes that her
daughter Agatha might prove attractive
to the owner of White Barns had added
extra poison to the venom in which her
tongue was dipped, but, be that as it
might the effect of her remarks was to
send Anne. white and naughty, to Sir
Roger to beg the favor of a conveyance
to take herself and the children to the
station in time to catch the 9 o'clock
train. and no representations or prayers
on his part would shake the girls de-
termination not to pass, or let her
brother and sister pass, night under
his roof.
IF you don't let me go-if You refuse
me q carriage or even a cart will walk
every step of the road with Phil, and
we will carry Gerry between US ?" cried
Anne paBSlDHdLEl1. ne CuiiO4h9 was
taking place in the housekeeper's little
sitting room, where she and the children
had taken refuge out Of sight and out
OF speech of the gay company in the
gardens.
Gerry, very white and limp still. but
recovered from her wetting, was slipping
hot negus beside the hastily lighted fire,
attired in the clothes Of the housekeeper's
little niece. Phil, pale and silent, was
busy packing up his beloved instru-
merits: he had only half-comprehended
the nature Of Lady Chilcote's attack on
his elder sister, but when Nan looked
and spoke as she did now he knew there
must be a good reason for it.
aSbe called it an intrigue-yes, she
did-a low intrigue" continued the girl, /
shaking of Gresham's implOring touch |
On her arm. ooh. you didn't hear her
abe was too careful for that She said I.
a. 10 that nice, kind Lady Lewis, when F,
Won were gone to change. She actually /
dared TO tell her that it had begun in /
Brook street that night-you remember, :
when she sent for me to play dance mu- /
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31
LITTLE ANNE OLIVER.
BY LUCY A. LEEDS.

It's Gerryu' shrieked the bow. aShe
fell in the waterl l saw her face turned
up! 1t was white!" His shuddering rem
ueTea MN quite unintelligible.
Wch a smothered exclamation Roger
tossed him into Anne's arms and set off
across the lawn, followed by two, or
three men-servants who had heard the
screams.
Anne only waited to put Phil, half-un-
conscious, into the care of the house.
keeper, who had by this time appeared
on The scene with sundry maids, and ran
after Roger.
An agonizing memory shot across
Anne divers brain as she ran, of what
Roger had told her only that morning,
OF the depth and danger the treaeherous
holes and rope-like tangles of rank wa
ter-weeds beneath the dark and CLASSY
surface OF the hidden ponds; how he had
warned the children away from their
grassy edges, and had added that it was
forbidden to gather the water lilies living
so placidly on the waters breast, for
fear any one might lose their balance
and fall in. And Gerry-her Gerry. whom
she had promised her dying mother to
take care OF all her life-Gerry had
Anne's powers of consecutive thought
were gone; her mind became a confused
blur.
She reached the crowd of chattering,
heightened women gathered by the ponds
edge; she saw some man in his shirt
sleeves running with a long pole, having
hook at the end, and remarked to her
SELF that he must be a gentleman, his
linen was so white, and that he would
probably lose his gold sleeve links, which
were dangling from his tucked-up wrist
bands on his bare arms. Some one. a
woman, caught hold of her and said
something kind. Anne could not hear
what 1T was, because of the dreadful
rushing in her ears, but she noticed that
there were tears on the lady's face. Two
or three more came after that; they
tried to hold her back--it was like some
dreadful nightmare when she struggled
to speak and to move and could do
neither. Her hat and mask had fallen
of long ago, and her white, despairing
face looked like that of some hunted
thing that had been caught and was
struggling vigorously to get free.
Suddenly there was a break in the
crowd-a pause, and sudden silence;
the people were making way for some
thing or some one-a tall dripping figure,
Gresham, covered with mud and green
slime, carrying limp thing in his arms,
all streaming with water. a thing that
they laid down gently on the grass while
man-two or three men, were they doc
tors ?-knelt calmly beside it and gently
raised one of its nerveless hands.
Some one thrust pungent bottle of
salts under little Anne's nose. She felt
she was being supported from behind,
yet could not summon strength enough
to stand alone; she heard buzz of
voices round her, and then at last came
the sound she had dreaded all along
her own name pronounced as though a
long way off, yet with an infection she
knew too well, and could not even at
that supreme moment mistal1e-''Miss
Oliver!"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31

In Harper's w G. Beymer narrates
new chapter of history in telling
how the famous scout, Harry Young,
had Gen Early in his power and let
him go
I'm retaliation for the capture OF
Gilmor, Jesse Mcneil. at the head of
a band Of sixty-fiye rangers, had cap
tured Gems. Crook and Kelly from
their beds in hotels in the heart of
the large town of Cumberland That.
like Gilmor's capture. was done by an
armed party of men a performance
all dash and excitement. and with the
penalty If taken, of merely an enemy's
prison When Mai Young set out
alone for Staunton a few DAYS later
to capture Gen Early from his head.
quarters in the midst OF his army. It.
was a deed that was akin to mad
ness. BY every rule of war he was
spy, and nothing could have saved
him What story could be told by
the man who faced death each mo
ment Of those days and nights He
could have taken Early; for two nights
he stood sentry at his very door, while
the faithless Confederate guard-with
whom he had changed places went
into the town sweet-hearting. But
with nearly sixty miles to travel I'm an
enemys country, winter-bound and
hampered by a prisoner. he realized
that some time In the ensuing pur-
suit he must either free Early or Kill
him, and he would not wish to do
either-once he had him. Young after
ward said to Gen Edwards. Had Early
been guilty Of numbering prisoners CT
Of sanctloning It, / could and would
have taken his life. but I did not con.
slider it civilized warfare to kill him
under the circumstances Did Gen.
Jubal Early ever learn who had guard.
ed him as he slept?-and ever after
see in each sentry at his door living
sword Of Damocles?"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31

Teacher-Now, While, you describe
the north pole as nearly as you can
from hearsay.
Willie-I-I don't wont. 10, ma'am,
Teacher Don't want to? Why not?
Wlllie-All I've heard about it Is
what pa said, and ma said II he kept
on talkin' that way she'd take me and
run away over to grandma Boston
Herald.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31

In his article on the career of Maj
Henry Young. the famous Civil War
scout, In Harper's Magazine, w. G.
Beymer gives vivid account of one OF
the most daring of his adventures.
This expedition was made within
few days after the men had been Sc,
lected, dressed in the gray uniforms
and armed with two revolvers each
carried in the tops OF the high boots
and the short, terrible Spencer car
Dimes. Night had fallen when they left
the camp. and for long time the men
rode without knowing where they were
going or the work that lay before
them; then Young halted and carefully
instructed them and told them his pur-
pose. Sixty men were TO attack an en-.
tire brigade of confederate cavalry!
They rode on again in the darkness
perhaps blacker now to each man as he
considered the desperate chances. After
a time they halted and drew off into
the edge OF forest bordering a road
on which Maj. Young had learned the
confederate column would travel, and
there followed wait that must have
seemed endless-the dreaded inaction
just before battle The well-trained
horses stood with drooping heads. like
statues; the raw November night
chilled as though a corpse had sud
denly risen and breathed upon them;
and still the confederates did not
come; the strain must have been horri-
BILE. Then above the dry-bone knock
and creak of the bare branches of the
forest behind them there came a new
sound--the sound of distant cavalry
column, trotting.
Young gave a signal, and the men
stole out from among the trees, lead
ing the horses; at the roadside they
mounted, and waited The head of the
column approached. and they fell in
with it and logged along. slouching in
the saddles as did the worn. sleepy
confederates, to whom they seemed but
returned scouting party duly noted,
instantly forgotten
Maj Young suddenly whirled his
horse about, and fired both barrels of
his shotgun in the faces of the eonfed-
crate troopers. His men followed him:
the shotguns roared like artillery:
buckshot raked the column down
whose bloody lanes the Yankees rode
at the charge. firing their revolvers on
tack, coming out of their midst, was
binding shock to the confederates.
The rest is all told in one word
pandemonium. And all but one union
soldier came through that charge down
the entire length OF the column"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31

Wee Miss Mamma, mayn't take
the part of miIkmaid at the fancy
ball?
Mamma-You are too little.
Wee Miss--Well. ! can be con-
pensed milk-maid Comic Cuts.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-31

The remarkable development of
plant life in the Arctic regions where
the sun is weak is thought to be due
10 atmospheric electrtsity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-04
4 DIRTY MESS.

We should be glad to know what the Wisconsin Legislature thinks of itself. anyway. As Is well known, the mill lionaire lumherman Stephenson, claims the office of United States Senator on the ground that he won a victory in the primaries. The fact that he spent something more than one hundred thousand dollars to secure his majority least he admits having spent so much, but 1t is altogether probable that he cashed in a great deal more. However, he thought he had it safe. and on the preliminary ballot when each house voted separately he had a majority in each house. Of course he thought that houses met in joint session he would be elected, but plainly the legislators belong to the class of men who refuse to stay bought When the two houses met in joint session and cast their votes it was found that enough had been changed over night to defeat him.
 And so the matter has gone on. Stephenson cannot get enough votes to elect him and no one else stands any show while he remains in the field. It is said that if another should finally succeed in getting the prize stephen son will contest on the ground that he received a majority of the votes of ca ch house and is therefore entitled to the office. but that would probably not be considered a valid title to the office.
 II is a pretty quarrel as it stands. and however 1t may end the country
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-04

Easily Satisfied Customer Moves Him
 fa tell His TrouhleA.

There would be some pleasure in being a shoe salesman If every custo- mer had his mind made up as to what he wanted" said the clerk to a man who had spent just ten minutes in being fitted. This Is the fourth sale have made today. It took me from morning until now to make three other sales.
 When I got my first customer I could tell that l had job thead of me for it took me five minutes to get the man into the mood to tell me whether he wanted shoes or polish. knew he was the kind of person who required a perfectly straight last and didn't mind admitting the fact, but at the same time wanted the straight toe for comfort and the narrow curving last for appearances. l showed him all the common-sense styles in dull leather, and after nearly an hour he said he guessed after all he would try patent leather. l came near losing my patience then but my blood was aroused and I made up my mind that I would send that man out with a pair of shoes under his arm if l had to show him every one In the store. Finally he found one that suited him and after paying for it he stopped to tell me how pleased he was with the shoes and how grateful for the pat fence l had shown.
 "I had just stepped to the door for a little air after the eXhausting eX- perience when a young man entered the store wearing new suit of clothes in which it was obvious he was taking good deal of pride. He dropped into a sette opposite large mirror and was taking much less interest In the shoes I was exhibiting than in his own reelection in the mir TOT. He had his mind set on certain shoe. but l couldn't supply 1t at the price, and after I brought out nearly everything else in the store he paid 50 cents more and took what he want ed
 "The shoe salesman doesn't general ly have more than two such eXperen- ces in succession, but when a man and a woman came in together, and 1t was my turn to wait on them. l was willing to bank on the good old rule of three. The couple took seats and the woman then told me that it was her husband who wanted the shoes and she had come to help him pick them out. Then I knew l was in for it. The man kept insisting that he knew what he wanted.s while the wo- man told him repeatedly that she knew what was best for him. brought out eight totally different styles before the mans feet and the woman's eye were both satished"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-04
BIGGER AND STILL BIGGER.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has the announcement that a battIeship of forty thousand tons may be ordered built by our government To show what this means it is only necessary to l note the tonnage of some of the ships of our navy and those on the way. The largest shiS in the fleet that lately returned from'tts long trip is only 1s.- 900 tons. Two vessels of 2o.oOo and two of 21,ooo alt now in course of construction. and tke two which have been voted at the present session of Congress are to be o( 26, 900 tons each.
 From these fgureA 1t will be seen how the size and tonNage of our bat tleships have increasea in few years, and now they are speaking of one two and one-half times as lArge as any we now have in service. Tat the cost of such 8 vessel in the first place will be enormous is plain, and tat the cost of keeping lit in service 3in be great should baequally plain. fof the expense of equipmAnt maintainanck and opera tion will be \both heavy aad continuous Nor is this Nl, for our ships must be cared for, and Suitable places found for them when not on duty. It is stated that there are but two or three navy yards in the United States capable of accommodating the 26,o00-ton ships to be constructed, and of course if one very much larger is to be built there must be place provided for it when at rest. The Post Dispatch says:
 Just as the cost of building a bat tleship has been virtually doubled since the war with Spain, so expenditures for dry docks and navy yards must be immensely increased if the mad race in naval construction is to be continued. ana, Illinois. Kearsarge and Kentucky are replaced by vessels of 26,0O0 tons and larger, the people of the United States will perhaps begin to appreciate the penalties of jngoism.
 We do not know that even this will bring the people to full realization of the cost of jingoism. but even If it should. what can they do about 1t? The people are not gifted with that super human provision that would enable them to always foretell what Congress- men and Senators will do. and there- fore they are in a measure powerless. So we suppose the waste and extrava- ganoe will go on as long as the gov- ernment can raise the money in any way. When there is no longer money to pay the cost, and no chance to get it. perhaps the big ideas will be toned down a bit.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-04

will not forget that this man went af- ter the office in a business way and bought legislators just as he would buy car loads of lumber. He failed to adopt the preoaution of having them all tied down, so some of them keep getting away from him. However the matter may end. there will be little to be proud of. and 1t strikes us that the advocates of the plan of electing Senators by the primary plan cannot get much satisfaction from this Wis consin affair. If steph enson Is elected 1t will be a plain case of barter and sale. and if he is defeated 1t must be equally plain that at least a portion of the legislators violated their pledges after accepting bribes. That is the way 1t looks from this distance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-04
l MORNING THOUGHT
sY ,. MARVIN NICHOLS.

I don't know any article I have en-
 The Thomsen's scientific
 sas ss ss%qay %sies of sss sssss; in He Ourselves" It awakened the deepest thought. So many of--us-the most live within the narrow ranges of the mere senses of sight and hearing and touch. We forget that back of the more powerful vision whose range has no outlying borders. One June morn ing long ago ! stood and watched the seas from thss afaTs prety bns Into erald green as they leaped through light into the chasm far below. Since that day I have not seen this mighty Falkland yet. with closed eyes, and removed bv hundreds of miles, have stood again on the brink and have seen a far more beautiful Niagara. The by the flight of years. It is one long sweet vista over which they look. not with straining eyes. but with a vis- yea years. And then there's the he ear resitis Withs goldenhaird girl that nestled closer to my breast as the, the twilight come on darkness. have felt the velvet touch of her baby hand as if to make sure had not left her alone; And when
 
 would put her of to happy Hand again. Oh, that's been so long ago--so long now since the silent chariot stood at yond W the stars But that inner m % ear' @ Many are the hours in the dead of night that felt the touch of her van ished hand. Do you know that Bee composed after he became deaf? An the melodies we sometimes hear when all other ears are deaf to the. music xnrh IA uAn 4,,t l begin to dream of my loved and lost Tn those silent hours my listening love can hear the rustic Of wing.
 A celebrated critic in the theatrical world declares that maybe If those who who shout so loudly for the up- lift of the stage would turn their at derstanding of what makes good effective. Of all the powerful intin- fSr GqSTs ya and .aSe receives the least serious considera- tfon. Most of us are profoundly ignor- ant as to what makes good play or We merely accept the record made up. on our emotions without any discri- imitation. We don't take the trouble explairE.he why's and wherefores. The Public That Pays is satisfied with its own ov n ,i,; tastes and judgment. without any desire 10 take the initiative In raising the standard. And the manager Is no altruist. He believes 1t is his business to conform to the stan dard. That Is why there are So many foolish plays.
 
 Because some spiritual lnterlocutor proposes to go your celestial baif is no sign your crime Is forgiven or that the world will ever forgot your mean ness.
 Any way you take it last money is a sordid business