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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

Then her face flushed and she drew a
quick breath.
Are you Amos Crandall?" she half
whispered
Why, yes he answered as he held
his pencil poised. And now, what is
your name?'
She suddenly raised her hand.
"Hark!' she said. Someone is COM
! ing to our relief That was a launch
whistle. Let us see who it is"
i He followed her through the doorway
and to the beach. The wind had gone
down and a naphtha launch was coming
! toward them over the bobbing waves.
The old man shaded his eyes with his
hand
'I'll bet that's Jim there in the bow.
See, he's waving his hat
The girl touched his arm.
Sir" she said in a low voice Il vii!
tell you my name now. ] know why you
came to Fairhaven. | know that you
have been very angry at Jim and that
/ you are here to take him away / am
the cause of this misunderstanding.
am the girl he wrote you about. | am
Anna Holman"
He turned and stared at her.
"Iou!" he cried.
He was quite dumbfounded
The launch was very near now. It's
whistle piped up shrilly.
"You!" repeated the old man. well,
WE'LL"
Then he suddenly put his arm with a
fatherly gesture about the girls shout
ders and stood close beside her when the
launch grated on the beach
"AhoY there Jim :" he lauohinolv
cried to the da2ed young man in the bow
of the boat.-W L. Rose in the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
SOME MARRIED NEGOTIATIONS.


Only about one woman out OF fifty
cares for genuinely clever man. and
that one out of fifty usually looks like
wind-tossed birds nest.
When she can't possibly pick any
other physical flaw in the pretty wom-
an whose looks you praise she says:
But have ever noticed her perfectly
ee-nor-mous feet!"
If you want to see piety exempltied
study the sanity expression of coun-
tenance your wife assumes when she
goes to church on a Sunday morning
and you stay at home reading the
papers.
The man whom your wife is always
holding up to you as superior exam
pie generally is an invertebrate male
who is perpetually apologizing to a
Matched faced spouse for things he
hasn't done.
When you see her kiss and hug her
departing female caller, and then, when
the caller has gone, turn to you with
a wry face and say, "Thank heaven,
she's gone!' doesn't it sort of get you
to guessing?
If some wives only understood that
they merely held their husbands by the
brittle thrall of everyday habit in
stead of by the enduring leash Of love,
they'd be a heap more solicitous for
their future welfare.
No husband who likes peace is going
to observe to his wife, while she's en-
gagged in sizzling her hair with the
curling irons that it's funny all WON
ems hair isn't naturally wavy like that
of a girl he once knew.
A borax-hauling burro of the desert
has it forty ways on the gelatine spined
male biped, who, after committing in
discretions with his eyes wide open,
blabs about them to his wife through
what he calls a stricken conscience.
The young woman whose ideal Of
manly beauty is the impossibly lovely
lummox who illustrates the clothing
ads of the House of Splookenhemer in
the magazines generally marries some
thing about as handsome as q string
of dead catfish.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
A BRAVE DEED HoNoREn
Fire Recalls the Deed of Heroine
Whose Memory Was Revered.

Fire Recalls the Deed of a Heraine
Whose Memory Was Revered.
The exciting scene enacted NJ tho
burning of an hotel at Aberavou. Eng
land, the other day, when a domestic
servant risked her own life and mc-
with severe injuries In saving babe
from terrible death, recalls similar
but far more tragic case which stirred
all England TO pity and admiration
some twenty-three years ago. saws 2
London newspaper.
The heroine OF this latter episode
was one Alice Ayres. She was en-
ployed as servant to a Mr.. Chandler
who kept an oil and color shop in the
borough.
Fire broke out at dead of night. and
in few minutes the lower part of the
house was mass of flames. Mr. and
Mrs. Chandler and one of their chill
dren were suffocated and burned 70
death in their bedroom, although Alice
ran down to try and rouse them. Her
room was above theirs. on the third
hSVAs IA IL HSoAuC I1Cl sCll, were the
three other Chandler children, the Old.
est little more than a baby The brave
girl first threw out bed then dropped
the little ones on it one at a time A.
though she herself was burning all the
while. Then she jumped herself.
Next day she lay dying in Guys hos
pital and a nation incurred Queen
Victoria sent one of her ladies In
waiting especially to inquire after her.
Bulletins were issued hourly, as from
the death chamber of a monarch.
After death the hospital authorities
refused to allow her body to be placed
in the ordinary mortuary, but set aside
a special room for it, which was soon
nearly filed with floral emblems from
all parts Of the kingdom, estimated to
be worth fully $1,000. Twelve fire.
men bore her to her grave and more
than 10000 people attended the funer-
al in IslewOrth cemetery, where is a
magnificent obelisk erected by public
subscription In memory of "the brayest
deed that was ever done"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
THE SACRED GOOSE.
Figures of Fowl Indispensable at Chinese
Wedding-Ancient Goose Weights.

Flights of wild geese are reported
from the eastern counties in number be-
yond all precedent, result of sudden
chill lately, and their appetite after the
Journey is so keen that some of the
best grazing marshes are threatened
with ruin: nevertheless we learn many
farmers decline to kill birds which they
think almost sacred"
1t was ]. G. Frazer of the Golden
Bough who suggested that the reverence
felt for various creatures in various
parts of the world is a survival of totem
ism. Plenty of evidence has accumu-
lated since then. Caesar mentions, as
schoolboys recolect. that the inhabi-
tants of Britain might not eat the hare
the cock and the goose. In the second
case the superstition is quite lost prob
ably but legendary records keep the
memory of it in Ireland. But of the 9th
err examples enolgh can be found even
at the present day. There is a Goose
Fair" at Great Crosby, in Lancashire
so called apparently because goose is
vigorously forbidden. 1t is even asserted
broadly that the inhabitants think the
goose ''too sacred" to eat-or did not so
long ago. The same feeling ruled in the
Hebrides and other parts of Scotland.
No one believes at the present day
that the capitol was saved by geese or
any other means, but If the story is not
true it becomes all the more significant
in the folklorist's point of view, as show
ing that the bird was specially rever-
enced in the primitive age of Rome
The Crusaders under Walter the Penni-
less, 100000 souls, as we are assured
piously followed a goose and n goat
marching in the van, and a terrible
mess those holy animals led them into.
In Egypt the goose was the emblem of
Sch. father to Osiris; a precious figure
of it is extant. inscribed: The good
Goose greatly beloved"
1t was the national flag of Burma and
of Handy. Ceylon. Wherever Buddhism
rules the goose is venerated. Therefore
it is a leading motif in the art of Japan
and n symbol of peace and happiness in
China. Figures of geese are as indis-
pensable at a Chinese wedding as is
bride cake with US. In both countries
as also in Burma and Siam. weights are
made in the shape of a goose as a token
of good faith. though the connection is
not obvious: but in ancient Egypt the
same custom ruled. and Layari found
goose weights among his first discov-
cries al Nineveh. A row Of gigantic
geese surrounds the great Buddhist
temple of Anajapoora. The devout cher
ish fond fancy that all geese perform
an aerial pilgrimage TO the hottest OF
lakes in the Himalayas every year.
transporting the sins of the neighhor-
hood: returning with a new stock of in
SEPARATION for the encoura cement Of local
piety.-Pall Mall Gazette.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

1t is well known that Elias Howe,
the inventor of the sewing machine. not
only enlisted as a common soldier in
the ranks of the Seventeenth Connecti-
cut regiment, carried a musket, and did
full military duty during the war, but at
a certain iuncture, when national
finances were at n low ebb, he paid sol
diers out of his own pocket Relative
to this incident. =. r. Barnum used to
tell this story:
While Mr.. Howe was counting out
the money referred to, IA stranger, who
was Il clergyman, entered the tent and
said that he had heard of Mr. Hewe's
liberality and had called to ask him TO
contribute toward building church for
his congregation.
Church, church. said Mr. Howe
without looking up from the bills he was
counting: building churches in war
times, when so much is needed to save
our country. What church is it?'
St Peters church. replied the
clergyman.
"'Oh ST. Peters said Mr.. Howe;
well. st. Peter was the only fighting
Apostolic cut mans ear off. I'll go
$500 on st. Peter, but am spending
most of my money on saltpeter now -
Baltimore Sun.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
TelepathY After Wireless.

wireless telegraphy is fact. We
have it now. and just beyond that is
telepathy," said DIR. John Wesley Hill
at the Metropolitan temple.
Not long ago l met man, friend
of mine. with whom / talked. He said
to ME. Think of a name and l thought
Of my mothers maiden name. and like
a flash. he wrote it upon card. That
is telepathy, and that is coming. We
will have it. but il will not come as a
devils sideshow presided over by a me
dunn. 1t will come under the guidance
of Divine Providence.
'The wireless telegraph will yet be
slow beside the lightninglike Interchange
of thought--telepathy We are coming
to new era of the intellectual suprem
acy of man. New York Times.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
Diet Extra.

The lady sitting in the great west end
specialists waiting room was certainly
inclined to embonpoint She was even
plump. Nay, more, she was what is
be frank she was elephantine.
Al Il summons from a powdered arts
tocrat in purple breeches, she rose and
waddled into the physicians sauctmn.
The great man east up his hands in hor-
ror.
My dear lady he exclaimed. but
you are--ahem!-morei inclined to emhon-
point than ever. Have you been follow
ing the treatment prescribed. Are you
quite sure that You ate what | ordered:'
Everything, answered the portly pa
tient, with a gesture of surprise.
The specialists brow wrinkled in per
pleXity
'And nothing elSe?''
Nothing whatever" replied the lady
except, of course. my ordinary meals. >
Answers.
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delicious humor and hooking skepti.

delicious humor and a mocking skepti-
cism.
THE bishop of Ballarat rode one night
into little township of his diocese that
he had never visited before. 1t was late
and rainy The only building with Il
light III it was the Office Of the local pa
per. and the bishop knocked on the door
with his crop stick.
Hello belowr cried a voice, and a
head popped out of the window above.
81 am the bishop of Ballarat, said
the prelate mildly viii you be so good
as to direct me to an hotel?
From the roomful of compositors
came a loud burst of laughter, and an
other man stuck out his head and said
to the bishop in a tone of kindly reproof:
Look here. old man, you've had
about enough hotel for one night. Go
on home and go to bed. or you'll get
run in as sure as shootin' boston
Herald.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
RECENT LEGAL DECISIONS.

The right of a railroad company to
confer upon selected hackmen or ex-
pressmen the right to solicit patronage
in its depot grounds is sustained in Ore
gon Short Line r. Co. vs. Davidson. 80
Utah, 3T0 "a Pac. 10, 16 L.R.A.(N.S.)
III.
The conductor of a train which has
injured stranger. while on the road.
far from the office of the company, is
held, in Bonnette VS.. st. Louis, /. NJ. &
s. r. Co. (Ark) 112 s. w. 90, 1G
Ira. (N.Sl 1881. to have implied au-
thority to employ a physician to attend
to his needs. but not to employ assist
ants to the physician.
a railroad company is held. in New
York c.. & III. X. Co. VS.. Price &C. c. Az
159 Fed. $50, 16 L.R.A.(N.S) 1103. not
to be negligent in failing to erect a fence
between its tracks and a vacant lot used
by children as a playground to prevent
them from trespassing on its tracks, and
thereby mourning peril.
That track walker has a right to
rely on the giving of signals required by
statute to be given for highway cross
ings is declared in Hoffard VS.. Illinois
G. r. Co. iowa 40 n. w. 446, 16
L,R.A.(N.S) 1917.
A statute recurring the blocking of
frogs in railroad switches is held, in
Cooper VS.. Baltimore & o. r. Co. &C. c.
Al 159 Fed. 81, Is L.R.A.(N.S) rs,
10 apply in favor of an employee Knocked
down by his engine and dragged along
the track, so that he can hold the rail-
road company liable for an injury
caused by his foot catching in an un-
blocked frog while in that situation.
To entitle an employee to hold a rail-
road company liable for an injury re-
ceived from the explosion, while he was
walking or running along the track
pushing a hand car, of a torpedo placed
there as signal it is held in M;ze vs.
Louisville Il y. r. Co. (kyD 105 s. w.
90S, 16 Ira. (N.S.l 1854, that he must
have been unable to discover its pres
ence by the exercise of ordinary care
A passenger desiring to leave the
train at a flag station where the train
stops only on notice, is held. in Rock
Island, A. & l.. K. Co VS.. Stevens. 81
Ark. 436. 105 S. w. 1882 16 Ira
(N.S) 1882, to be bound to notify some
employee of the train of such desire; and
in case the train is crowded so that it
becomes evident that the employe will
not reach him in the regular discharge
of his duties before the station is
reached he must seek him
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
A Tax on Tea Would be a Blunder.

Once upon time Wag interrupted
a grocer who was afiiXing a cardboard
sign announcing that he sold Boston
crackers. One of the small nails en-
ployed in the operation had been set so
that it pierced a letter of the inscrip-
ton. The wag threw an intimation of
menace into his voice. DO you see what
you've done?" he inquired. You'd bet
ter look out. There was an awful row
started in this country once by putting
tacks on t in Boston "
Not only in Boston. but everywhere
else in the United States where people
drink tea there will be fault-fnding with
the tariff revisers if they lay an impost
on that favorite beverage of millions of
temperate Americans. The people who
pay the tax on tea will include a great
many of the very poor, who can i'll af-
ford it. Time out of mind tea has been
the drink of working women, as well
as of poets like COwper and philosophers
like DR. Johnson The wasteful expen-
| ditures which have led to the necessity
for increasing the income of the govern
ment will constitute a darker scandal if
they are made the excuse for Il tax on
the poor wOmanS tea.
Once there was Il theory that tea could
he grown in this country at profit.
Commissioner of Agriculture lie Due
made costly and protracted experiments
with it, but found that with fair com
pensation for American labor the cost
of cultivating the plant and picking the
leaves is too high and always will be
too high to afford any hope of profit
in the tea industry.
There is no expectation of benefit to
the country by the proposed tax on tea.
There is grave danger of raising up
opposition to the Republican party that
will be felt at the next Congressional
election. The reyisionists would do well
to revise their revision by restoring tea
to the free list.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

Two citizens of kincardue had the
joke on IA Kincardine hotel keeper. They
dropped into the hotel and said they
wanted the bartender to decide bet for
the drinks.
Give us the drinks now" said they.
land you can decide afterward which of
us is To pay for them"
After the landlord had furnished them
with some good sealed stuff, he inquired
what the bet was.
We'll" said one, he bets that when
the lighthouse falls. it will fall toward
the lake. | bet it will fall the other
way. Kincardine Review.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
MARCH.

Who's afraid of your cold and blowing
OF your wind and hail and blowing,
March!
Do the worst that you can do, sir,
Rave and blow
But don't | know
That the spring is just a-springing?
That song sparrow yOnder singing
Told me so.
While you're bowling. yowling, squailing,
! can hear the robins calling,
Spring.
Something new comes with each conner
Bluebird brings bit of summer
On his wing.
Rave. old wind-your roar and bluster
Can't scare pussy-wilOw' cluster,
Drowsy woodchucks rouse from sleeping,
Wild arbLtus vines are creeping,
Snow fed mountain brooks are leaping
To the lake,
All the world Stirs shyly Deeping,
Half awake.
Farm Journal.
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Unfit That Would Lift

The question of farm uplift is still ex-
citing a good deal of discussion in va
rious parts of the country but the gen
eral conclusion seems 10 he that the kind
of uplift the farmer needs most is not
the one that will provide every farmer
with a circulating library to be attached
TO the plough, or cozy-corners for the
cows to chew their cul in, but the more
practical sort that will lift the mortgage
off the roof of the Harper's
WeeklN
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
Mut:neers Go TO Canada.

4 party of some thirty men. formerly
sailors on the Russian Cruizer Knaiz Pc
temkin. who have been employed i'm the
petroleum factories in Roumania, have
left for Canada. Ii will be remembered
that the crew Of the Kniaz Potemkin
mutinied and many of the men took ref
uge in ROumania.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
Psvchical Phenomenon.

Prof. psychs (who has been hit in the
back by a snowball).-An unmistakable
impact as of a blow from a handl and
not a soul in sight. Most remarkable in
stance of phenomena--Or shall | saw
noumena-extending over area of con
sciousness. Not apparently prior, nor
from intuition alone, but seemingly trans
cendental. Most eXtraordinaryLLife
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
A Tender Feast.

a tenderfOot went out to Yuma,
And there he encountered puma
And late they found
Just a spot on the ground
And puma In very good huma,
Douglass (AriZ.) Despatch.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
The Guest of Honor.

\ characteristic story is told of an oc-
casion when Lord Avebury had to un-
dergo a surgical operation. His friends
endeavOred to persuade him to take
chloroform. No thanks" he replied,
Il would much rather be present at the
operation. M. A. p.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
Humorous FootpRd.

Circassian Girl-So you we're held
up, Ell? Why didn't You ask the high
wayman to spare you7
Living Skeleton did and be SAID
you are spare enough
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
A Comparison.

Adam and Eve were not. I'm sure,
Like Pittsbnrg snow at all;
Yet they, like II, werz very pure
And white-before the fan.
-Lippincott's.
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An Understanding.

Hub during quarreD-You talk like
an idiot.
Wife-I've got to talk So You can nm
oerStand me.-Boston Transcript.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

One Of the best ways TO keep a COOK
is to let her know that you don't care
how soon she begins to pack her trulA-
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
Skepticism Of Australians.

Melba. describing Australia in an in
teryiew. said:
my fellow countrymen are like your
westerners of the '70s.. They have
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
Qualified.

Use the side door, roared the guard
Of the New York subway train,
An right Young Teller" replied the
stranger from west of Hoboken Il kin
Use il all right-I'm from dry town"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
-

Ryer-Why SO sad. old man?
Dyer-Somebody promised 20 loan me
SO today and I've forgotten who il
was.-New York Herald.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
No Hope.

"Wut's hydrophobia - asked Weary
Watkins, as he spelled out the article in
the piece of newspaper which he had
picked up.
1T means hatred Of water" repEed
his pal, "and it is fatal disease"
Then run for the doctor" cried
Weary, as he fell back with a groan
I'm dead man. Tit Bits.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

Wifey-You must give up something
during Lent.
Hubby-Be reasonable my dear
Didn't you make me swear off everything
at New Years?
50
"Why hide you. light under a hushel''
When pint measure will answer the
purpose ? Judge.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

y
shopping in all this rain?
Mrs. Askitt--Certainly. l saved up 50
for a rainy day and this is the first
chance I've had to spend it.
$50
A Matter of Fashion.
Crhe printers story as told 10y the spaees).
Ne prynter manne who sets this rhyme
q know hime very welel-
Spendes mostlie allie his leisure time
In companye wythe Nell.
Ande Nell was fare in face and line
Aye, blythe as well coulde be-
And up tile nineteen hundred nine
COnformcd &c styles decree.
Ye prynter name is fatte and rounde,
Two hundrede poundes, wis;
No finer couple coulde be founde-
Thcye quite resembled this:
Yette time doth mennie changes bring
Aye. changes frequent be-
And now We thin-spaced maids ye thinge
by Fashions last decree.
Ande Nell by womans subtle tricks,
Hath grown bottle thin ande tale;
While he, who weighed two hundrede six,
Diminished notte at allei
We leave We pryuter name to tell
BY implements of trade
The difference now, when he ande Nell
Go on We promenade:
II
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
For the Fighting Apostle.

John u. Wells in Buffalo Evening News.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

Mr.. Askitt-You're surely not going
shopping in all this rain?
Mrs. Askitt- Certainly. l saved up So
for a rainy day and this is the first
chance I've had to spend it.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

\ new pleated shirt is made Of heavy
crash material in white. Down +he cen
ter pleat is a broad band of hello in q
basket weave pattern and the same en-
Enlistment is on the cuffs-Fairchild's
magazine
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
MEMS FASHION NEWS

Smart shops are showing very COM
plete lines of white flannel outing suits,
plain white serge suits and also self and
fancy striped affairs that are unusually
handsome. One is almost terapted to
consider the southern trip a necessity for
the sake of an excuse to purchase one
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-09-17

Miss Jessie Cowles of Detroit is
the guest of NJ. Hartsing and wife.
j. Emch and wife of Toledo and
M. Burgermaster and wife and Adam
Emch of Maumee were Wednesday
guests Of Ben Emch and wife.
If you have never tasted those SUI
perior salted peanuts which Champney
sells, you don't know what good pea
nuts are. 29a
-Chas. Sawyer of Defiance was a
recent guest of his aunt, Mrs. John
LaFarree, who returned home with
HIM for short visit.
The Journal erred last week in
giving the democratic vote for town
ship trustees. The corrected figures
are: Brossia, 1873; Lintner, 1872; Die
bert, 1O7; Neiderhouse, 1O6.
The Stork has been busy in this
locality and Thursday last brought a
boy to the home of Joe Curtis. An
other little boy was presented to Jul
ius Wetzel and wife, and Dan Neider
house and wife were also favored witt
fine boy on Sunday.