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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14
The Mars Signal Station Nonsense.

Prof. Wood of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity. the inventor of the rotating mercury
mirror for observing the heavens, has
given no one authority to use his name
in connection with the project of con-
sructing Il signal station III Texas 10
talk with the supposed inhabitants of
the planet Mars. Prof. Wood says he
does not believe that a mirror one hum
Oh ed miles in diameter would be capable
of sending signals to the ruddy planet.
This is discouraging attitude on the
part of Prof. Wood. but there are other
discouragements. One of them relates
to money. The Texans are eager enough
to get all the advertising they can out
of the new idea, but they are not anX-
ious to throw away money. 1t was esti-
mated by Prof. Pickering that $4,000
coo would be required TO construct the
signal station which he planned. The
prudent citizens of Fort Worth have
agreed to finance the enterprise ION con-
dition that the expense shall not be more
than $4,000" 4 final diScoura cement
is the circumstance that no one knows
that Mars is inhabited. and everyone
knows that if it should be inhabited
there would be no possibility of trans
hitting ineligible messages from the
earth to Mars. or of interpreting signals
from Mars il any should be received
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14
A Sensible and Fair Decision.

The decision of Judge Thomas G.
Jones of the United States district court
at Montgomery Alabama, holding UNI
constitutional the law of that state an
nulling the licenses of corporations not
incorporated in Alabama which when
suits are brought against them take
change of venue to the federal courts
is what might bave been expected.
There was a time when sane men dis
puted the question, Are the United
States a nation?" Grammar has altered
since Grant received the surrender of
Lee at Appomattox, and the question
would be put differently now-"Is the
United States Dation?' To say
They are'' instead of 1T is would
imply a doubt on the subject no sane
American entertains. As a nation. the
United States can command and does
command from the states recognition of
the authority and dignity of federal
courts when acting upon subjects within
their jurisdiction.
Supine indeed would be Uncle Sam if
he permitted the penalization of individ-
uals or of those artificial persons known
as corporations for asserting their CON
stitutional rights when made defendants
in lawsuits. AS everybody knows. there
is class of cases less likely to be tried
fairly by local tribunals in times of ex-
element than by the courts of the Unit
ed States. The courts of the United
States exist for the purpose of irving
cases of this class, in which the opposing
parties are citizens of different states
The effort of state legislatures to estop
nonresident defendants from awaiting
themselves of their constitutional privi-
lege to shift the trial of such cases from
state to federal courts is an effort TO en-
force denial of justice, and the decision
of Judge Jones that such legislation is
unconstitutional seems sound and lust.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14
THE NEW GERMANY.
Berlin Called "a Parvenu City, a Mere
Triumph of Mechanics

There's no European nation that has
altered within a single generation in so
many essential qualities as Germany. /"
says writer in the North American Re-
view. That there has been a change
and a deep change the very stones of
Berlin cry aloud. The great city on
the banks of the Spree, generation ago
little more than placid village, is today
a strident metropolis whose whole styIe
of existence marks the vastness of the
distance that Germany has Travelled in
the last forty years.
There may be plenty of high think
ing done in the capital-done by men
whose salaries, worldliness and activities
make the old type of German professor
seem an impossible anachronism-but it
is certainly no longer city of con-
spicuously plain living. The rents are
such as to open even a Londoner's eyes.
household expenses are proportionately
severe and the clubs, the theaters and
above all the hotels and restaurants
point in a direction that does not lead
by any means to economy.
There are hotels today in Berlin that
are little if at all behind the best of
those in New York True, they are not
built for and possibly are not greatly
patrOnized by the Berliners themselves.
to whom the cafe is still the choicest
mere
presence suggests an emphatic change
from the old ways. Berlin is as much
an affair of our own time as Chicago.
Its past is overlaid by the raucOus and
insistent present. 1t is a triumph of
mechanics and little more
True the labor of building it has
been far more dexterously hidden than is
the case with most American cities. 1t
escapes the deadly uniformity. the
nr0caiH pppta oI1lar nrnaicion Jao,...
full air of having been hit off at a stroke
and dumped down by contract that char
acterize New York. The streets have
curve, are spacious, shaded with ave
nues of trees, faultlessly asphalted and
clean with a cleanliness surprising that
of Paris.
"The white buildings, the crystalline
air. the uniforms and the eternal salute,
the overwhelming intonations of a
planned, ordered, thought out scheme.
combine to produce an effect of which
| can say no more and no less than that
it is handsome. The architecture to be
sure, is riotously, exuberatly Aorid,
but for all that drive from the Inter
den, Linden to Charlottenburg will take
one past a succession of finer, or at any
rate more imposing, houses than either
London or New York can show in such
serried profusion.
yet it fails to convey the London or
the Partisan effect of cosmopolitanism.
In Berlin court ofIicialdom only puts a
little gliding on life full of crudeness
and materialism and society is furiously,
spitefull sectional.
But if not cosmopolitan itself Berlin
stands near enough to the cosmopolitan
whirlpool to be sprayed by the scum.
1t flaunts a coarSeness of depravity that
is not, think equalled anywhere. In
no European capital do the standards
in matters of taste and art rule so low.
Berlin is a parvenu city given over to
money getting, pleasure, extravaganza
and officialdom."
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

of the most accurate IN the world, vary
ing but six seconds year.
The addition of a teaspoonful of salt
peter to pot of glue will not only act
as a deodorizer, but will aid the glue to
dry more rapidly and to become harder.
Many attempts have been made in
Germany to isolate the active principle
of cobra venom, but in none has the
product obtained approached a state of
purity.
The number of postoffices in the Unit
ed States is nearing the $1,000 mark. al
though thousands have been discontin-
ued since rural free delivery was intro
duced.
The next Brazilian Congress win he
asked to provide for the irrigation az
the northeastern states of that country.
where there are vast tracts of land that
only need water to make them immense.
~ productive.
Vessels of the German navy have been
equipped with novel lifesaving appara-
tus resembling a huge basket with IFS
sides made OF rope ladders. Lowered
over the side. several persons can climb
it at time.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14
Another Famous Painting for America.

If the Duke of Norfolk has sold me
Holbein portrait of Christina Of Den
mark to Henry G. Frick of Pittsbur- ~.
100000. the English public has no rI-o.
TO criticize him, for he had given 'le
British National Gallery Il month 'I-
ton on the famous painting. at the SAN.
price. The Duke is a rich man. bnt even
rich men are sometimes pressed l'
ready money. 1t is well known thai, ist
Dukes largest expenditures are for 'F
jects of charity.
The portrait was painted at t4a 'n
stance of Henry VIII of England ri
time when he was looking for VIZ
Christina, who was well aware of ..t
Bluebeard characteristics of Henry p'
quite content to have her portrait pain
ed by the famous artist, told him I" =!
to the monarch that she admire a.II
Hugely, and if she had two heads No..-
be willing TO take the risk of maTTA.---
him. but as she had only one she lI'S'
decline his flattering offer. =
The Kings marriage to Ange,. -,
Cleves was brought about by his lal..-
in love with her portrait. But the
had fiattered her so much that when ~ -s
landed in England Henry began % s
disappointed. and six months after -4
marriage he procured divorce.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

pering to Miss Copsley, to say nothing
of holding her hand, from the first line
to the last
THE Greek classics will never be
equaled," observed Mr. Blenkinsop's
aunt, slightly confused between Homer
and Omar
My little room has been turned into
a Persian garden" said the gratified
Mrs. Blenkinsop.
Omar Khayyam in West Kensing-
toni" exclaimed the temperance lady
with enthusiasm, as she drained her
lemonade to the dregs
Mr.. Blenkinsop slipped out of the
room.
1T wasn't what I call amusin'!" he
said to himself YEARLY, and went down
stairs to get whisky and soda.-Pegqy
Webbing in the London Leader.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14
Old Boom in Railway Ties.

The Advocate prints the following in
regard to the railway tie boom of the
eighties. In 1SS1-2-3 the humble rail
way sleeper was king of not only in Saw
yer, but almost everywhere that cedar
grew in any considerable quantities.
Never before nor since within the same
period of time had there been so many
ties cut and banked as there were in
those three years, and when spring ar
rived all the piers and banking grounds
were covered with this product of the
forest. Prices were also high. and there
were any number of loads brought to
market ON which the lucky owners real
lied more money than they had seen for
some time previous. On January II the
price was driven up to 80 cents apiece
and when this was noised abroad tho
market became so overloaded, that soma
of the buyers quietly dropped out. fear
ing that they would ue unable To pst
their money back. 1t is related thar ono
of the local dealers found himself wifi
something like 100000 ties on hand tba
following spring, when the price had
dropper back to p and 30 cents each
But it was a great harvest for the farm
ers, who succeeded in getting every cent
they had coming
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

President Taft's reversal of one of the
Roosevelt orders setting aside land for
preserves has been cited as evidence
that the present executive il not in sym
pathy with the forest conservation move
ment. Forester Pinchot of the Depart
ment of Agriculture states that this in
ference is unjust to the President who
has simply restored to the public domain
an area which after investigation fol-
lowing the preceding order was found
to be fit for agriculture and therefore
properly tract for settlement. Agri-
cultural science is advancing rapidly
and areas which were one considered
unfit for farmers are now fruitful The
change has been made in some instances
by the installation of irrigation plants,
and in others by the encouragement
of intensive dry farming operations.
Projects for the reservation of lands for
forestry therefore require closer scrutiny
than heretofore.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

The explosion on the Italian submarine
boat Foca, by which eight men lost their
lives, was due to the ignition of the ben
zine reservoir. The ship was literally
torn to pieces, and bodies of men were
hurled into the air like rockets. The in
cident was a terrible illustration of the
dangers attending the use of volatile
fluid like benzine in the confines of n
submarine boat. Had the explosion oc-
CURED while the ship was submerged at
practice all hands would have been de-
stroyed with the ship.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14
She Had No Case.

\ woman in Williamsburg had her
husband arrested the other day on the
charge of having failed to provide for
her support. When the case came up
before the magistrate, the prisoner, who
acted as his own attorney, maintained
that he should not be compelled to sup
port his wife under the circumstances.
In explanation of his argument he sub
mitted to the court n cute which, he
said. his wife had written and left for
"Paul-Your supper is in the oven. 1
have gone to a show with the only man
love. Charlotte" After the magis-
trate had read that note he ordered the
complaining woman out of court and
dismissed the complaint without further
ceremony.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

The era of fast clipper ships is recalled
by the fact that the steel ship Erskine
NJ. Phelps has just arrived at Norfolk
after a run of one hundred and four days
from Seattle the fastest time on record
between Puget sound and an Atlantic
coast port. This remarkable voyage will
tend to make investors wonder why the
sailing ship cannot be retained to ad-
vantage for service over long distances.
1t ought to make them feel that perhaps
auxiliary ships would be worth while
ships that can use sails when conditions
are as favorable as they must have been
TO the Phelps to carry her around the
corner over 1880 miles of water in so
short time, and which can turn on their
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

The War Department will in July and
August next use the new military tract
near Sparta for drill purposes, and give
northwestern National Guard batteries
an opportunity to drill with the 'regr-
lars" Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Mich
igan and Minnesota guardsmen will take
advantage of the opportunity to receive
instruction on the new range. The Ma
tional Guard of this state is now amply
provided for in regard to camps, drill
grounds, and ranges, with this govern
ment reservation at Sparta and the state
reservation ut Camp Douglas.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

DR. Elwood Worcester of Boston, the
founder of the system of mind healing
known as the Emmanuel Movement. has
broken down through oyerwork in his
special cause and has himself become a
patient for whose recovery the principles
uf the science are being employed The
Doctors illness may he cited as evidence
that in his devotedness to the healing of
others he neglected the development of
conditions IN respect to his own bodily
health which could have only one result,
The demands of the physical organiza-
ton must receive attention or there will
be no foundation wherein to pursue
mind-building
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

Canada's GOODNESS to the representa-
tives of American commercial bodies de-
string reciprocity who assembled at De-
trot justifes the title which Kipling
gave her-"Our Lady of the Shows -
Canada was almost unrepresented at the
conference. The circumstance that there
are articles on which Canada imposes a
higher duty against the United States
than against other countries has been
cause of friction. This seems
to have been brought up, and elected
from ]. A. Mcdonald of Toronto the re-
tort that the Canadian tariff was inn
posed to meet prohibitive features of the
Mckinley tariff. Mr.. Mcdonald assert
ed that representatives would never
again go from Ottawa to Washington to
negotiate for reciprocity. There is hard
ly likely to be any satisfactory reciproci-
ty without friendliness toward the ro-
ject on both sides.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

James J. Hills announcement that
every farmer in the northwestern wheat
belt is blowing for a bumper crop" will
be reassuring for those who have been
giving full weight to bull predictions as
to the relation to supply and demand in
the near future. There will be bread
enough 20 go around, and whenever there
is belief to the contrary farmers will
SOW for bumper crops and supply the
necessary wheat.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

Antoine Henri Becquerel, the French
physicist, has reported to the Acai my
of Sciences that seeds which he dried in
a vacuum at temperature of 2J3 below
zero retained their terminating force.
This is interesting, but not more Won
derful than the reported termination of
seeds which had been shut up for cen
turtles in Egyptian tombs. Prof. Becquer-
ell is said to look upon his experiment as
demonstrating that life is not a myster-
ious principle, but simple physical and
chemical function of an organism pro-
duced by the substances and forces of
its cosmic environment" The deduc-
ton looks like a non sequitur.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

Can a large relief fund never be ad
ministered without a scandal? Now
there is a prediction of trouble at Mes
sina over the lack of judgment shown in
the expenditure of the sums which Were
contributed for the relief of the suffer
ers by the charity of the world. A dis
patch from Rome says:
More than three months after the great
disaster Messina is still a city of pestilence
ruin and darkness. There is no light, nC
means of transit, no sanitation, no water
there are no buildings fit for occupation, nc
streets open to traffic. Swarms of flies are
buzzipg over the area of desolation. The
food sold to the hut-dwelers has in part
been dragged from the ruins of wrecked
shops.
The state of things provokes complaint
from the people in the stricken district
and criticism from the government, and
predictions are not lacking that there
win be an explosion before long.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

The discovery that pious sailors at
New York used missionary yacht to
facilitate smuggling valuable articles in
hand baggage during visits to a floating
church for which the yacht served as
tender, reveals the necessity of extreme
watchfulness on the part of the revenue
officers Piety is cloak that has prob
ably covered a great deal of sin of this.
particular kind
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

The public is looking with interest for
further developments regarding the Snug
Cling system which was discovered at
New York, and which may have defraud-
ed the government of millions of dollars.
The stopping of the contraband importa-
tons will give American fine feathers"
a better chance than those which have
been brought from "far birds" without
paying toll to Uncle Sam.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

New Jersey has placed on its statute
books a law prohibiting the marriage
of persons affected with transmissible
diseases. 1t has also enacted a marriage
license law similar to that which is in
force in Wisconsin. South Carolina is
now the only state in which marriages
may be performed without a license.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

Even Germany is not exempt from for
est fires. Children playing in the woods
the other day started blaze which con-
sumed 10000 pines and almost complete
ly destroyed the town of Hagen, near
Munich
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14
A Million Visitors a Year.

Independence hall. which was bought
by the city of Philadelphia from the
state for a large sum, and on which
S2OOOOO has been spent for restoration.
is visited by an average of 100000 a
Observation-Disclosures County Magazine.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

Considering the extent to which Alb
dull Hamid feels for his family, it Is
strange that he should have been willing
TO keep his brother-now his successor
close prisoner for thirty-three years.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14
motors when the winds are battling or

The government is soon to expert
ment with an acetyline beacon on Bran
ford reef, a few miles beyond New Hay-
en- harbor, in Long Island sound. 1t Is
proposed to install an acetyline light
which can be seen for five or six miles,
and operate this light with what is
termed a sun valve, that will turn on
the light with the disappearance Of the
sun, and turn it off when the sun re
appears in the morning. At first blush
this scheme appears to have a fault il
the fact that the valve will not operate
when the sun is obscured by clouds
but this will simply keep the light ablaze
while the dark weather continues, and
when lights are required earlier in the
evening and later in the morning.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

From the standpoint of the Western
world. the humor exceeds the pathos
when the captive ex-Sultan expresses So
licitude for his family
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

1t has often been said that our trade
with South America will grow with the
cultivation of semi-social relations. This
being reasonable, there is more than
passing interest in the fact that the
Hamburg-Ainerican line has made ar
rangements for an excursion cruise of
eighty days from New York along the
coast of South America, after the man
ner of the excursion cruises to the Medi-
terranean sea. There is no reason why
tourists should not find South American
journeying worth while, and if a con-
siderable tide of travel of this sort should
develop in the course of time business
would follow as a matter of course. Only
it would be more pleasing were the ex-
cursionists carried by steamer with Old
Glory at the peak
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

The first test of the new government
of Turkey viii be its efficiency in stop
ping the massacres of Christians.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

Advertising Pays. Try It.
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-01
Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys
EMMA LE DOUX TO
FACE A new TRIAL
Physicians Deny That Woman
Charged With Murder Has
Tubercular Trouble
Especial Dispatch 10 The CALI

STOCKTON, Nov. 30.-Emma lie Doux
will have to stand trial for the second
time on the charge of having murdered
Albert n Mcvicar. The case has been
set for February 2.
1t was reported that the woman was
suffering with tuberculosis. Drs. r.
Harbert and S. E. Latta were selected
by District Attorney George f. Nc
Noble to investigate the prisoners con-
dition. They have submitted the fol-
lowing report:
I'm compliance with your request for
a report on the present condition and
state of health of Emma lie Doux, we
beg leave to submit the following:
That on November "a, 1863, we visited
the Jail and made physical examina-
tion of said person, which was mega
tive so far as there being tubercular
infection of the lungs or any other
part of the body.
'At this time we made application of
the Moros tubercular test and on No
vember 26, 1909, patient was taken to
Doctor Harbert's office for further eX-
tuberculosis the results were negative.
She has a slight pharyngitis and a
chronic Inflammation of the cervix.
Neither of the above affections are Sc
rious or greatly detrimental to her
general health. The patient was re-
turned to Doctor Harberts Office again
on November 81, 1909, and further ex-
amined, with the same result as stated
above