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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19
THE NEWSBOY.

Unmnyed. among the motley Of the market
place he stands,
With the deeds Of divers races In his little
grimy hands;
Round the press of throngiug thousa ads. In
the thick of Straiuing strife,
lie viii cry you for a copper an the traf
hckings of life.
Though yOu hail from sunset Islands girt
10y seas of ieweled foam
He can cheer You on Your Journey with a
greeting from your home:
Though yoar heart is linked hv memories
to the countries of the morn
lie can barter you Il message from the land
where you We're born.
Through the StTideut stress of noon, ,te
through the blazing bloom of night
Down tile slow, slack hours OF morning
ere the coming of the light.
In the times of joy and laughter In the
darkest days of dearth,
he can give You brave adventures from
the farthest ends of earth.
At the portals of the city, at the gatcwavS
of the sea,
Whore the ringing wheels of commcrce
shout their sounding symphony
Where the flags of every nation are TO all
the winds uufurled
He viii sell you for penny MI the 70
nance of the world,
Henry NJ Hoyt. Jr.. in Applcton's
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19
ELECTRIC FLASHES.

One of the most novel uses for the
electric motor is reported from Nevada.
Iowa. \ man who is extensively en-
gagged in the poultry business has rugged
up revolving brush driven by a small
electric motor for washing the feet of
newly killed fowls before shipment
The automatic electric egE-bOilers, like
those on the Lusitania and Mauretauia,
are able 10 cook 100 eggs at once, a
clock arrangement causing the basket
containing the eggs To ho.l out of the
Wate~ Mt any halt minute up 10 six min
uteS. Another novelty is IL Self-dump-
lis oySter-cooker for stews. At the eN-
pIration of given time the cooker pourS
It's contents into soup plate ana auto
maticully shuts oft the electricity.
The first rotary converter ~ America,
as well as the largest, was built by the
General Electric company. The ma
chimes are used to change alternating
current into direct current for street
railway service.
by the use of high frequency electrical
currents to reduce the pressure on the
arteries a French scientist believes he
can delay the inroads of old age.
Electric trucks have superseded the
Old horse trucks on the Brooklyn water
front. The old three-wheeled horse
trucks proved at best Il slow method of
transportation and the shod feet of the
horses rapidly Wore out the planking of
the piers making the item for repairs a
heavy one. The new trucks carry three
times as much as the old ones,
y uon-magnetie yacht will be built for
the Carnegie institution COR making mag
netic surveys over certain parts of the
ocean where the earth's magnetic data
The only metal used, outside of the
crank shaft, will he bronze and manga
nese alloy.
\ combined carbon flament and mer-
curry vapor lamp has been introduced in
Germany. Ii is said to give good
white light with an efficiency of 1.O
watts per candle-pOwer,
Electricity is being extensively used in
construction work where the current is
being used for the operation of hoiSts,
pumps concrete mixers, aud the like.
Where compressed air is necessary mo-
tor-driven air compressors are used.
The first alarm of fire by an electric
telegraph system was given ut $50 y. III.
April 10Th, 1852, in Boston.
Street sweepers of Chicago and Bos-
ton carry tiny electric lamp on their
caps to keep from being run over.
The first application of electric heat
ing for household use was the electric
fatiron Now there are hundreds of
thousands of electric tlatirons ia use in
private homes and laundries.
One of the largest express terminals
IN the world, that of the North Station,
Boston, Mass, has been equipped with
an electric package conveyor which min.
imizes the labor Of the employees and
makes safe the handling of the smallest
and most tragic packages.
Printed sheets as delivered from tho
press frequently offset or smear from
undried ink. An electrical method OF
preventing this has recently been pat
ented.
Electrical power for domestic and me
chanieal purposes has already become al
most necessity in Calcutta.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19
A Berlin Device for Breaking the Ice"

''Rreaking the ice is everywhere and
always a problem for hostesses entertain
ing companies brought together on the
basis of acquaintance with their enter
tainer. but including individuals not in
all instances known to one another. y
German woman has hit upon an eXpedicnt
which Berlin correspondent has
thought worthy of setting forth for the
benefit of the world at large.
The device is very simple and appar-
emily very practical Already it has
been widely initiated in Berlin. Frau
'Hofberg is its originator aud her plan
is to ask each lady invited to furnish
her a card with brief autobiographical
inventory Here is an example of what
these cards contains:
FrauIein Agnes-Very musical. Loves the
theater A frst-nighter whenever possible.
ant at Professors y. Us lectures on Ma.
ture Has travelled much in Switzerland
and Italy. Expects to visit London next
year Conversaton-Trayel, music and art,
advanced literature.
SupDose that Frau Hofberg introduces
to Fraulein Agnes Herr Schmidt, and
asks him to take ,he young lady in to
dinner Suppose tnlt at the time of the
introduction she hands Herr Schmidt
the young Iady's photographed card.
There is no likelihood under such CIR
cumstances that the pair will dcietG'Iy
resign themselves to conYersati"i'%l
utilities like the weather or the table
decorations. If Herr Schmidt also has
been called upon the fill out a similar
card. which is placed in the possession
of Fraulein Agnes. it will permit the
broadening of the field of discussion
should the fraulein feel so disposed.
Even where the partners for the table
are known to one another the employ
ment of the card system may prove
amusing-and it is not absolutely es2"n-
tial that the autobiographical idea shall
always be adhered to.
The Frau Hofberg's plan is calculated
to relieve the unimaginative and STINT
late the lvely-to make those talk now
who never talked before, and those who
always talked now talk the m0re--to
enliven dinner parties and miscellaneous
sncial gatherings all over the world.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19

The receipt of requests by the Mil
waukee members of the United States
steamboat inspection service for early
attention to certain steel craft is her
aided as evidence of eagerness on the
part of owners to get their property in
commissions But it more likely reveals
a feeling on the part of Il few owners
that IT Is well to be prepared even for
what may be now classed with the un-
expected.
There were few visible signs of activ-
lty along the river where many years
ago there were signs galore, and audi
Die evidence III concert volume of the
eagerness of masters and seamen to
break away from winter quarters for
another season Of activity. There is
little demand for tonnage, and with
plenty OF tonnage to draw upon for open
ing business there is to be no great stir
this spring, which in this regard will re-
semDle the spring of 1908.
Existing conditions are due not only
to slackening in the demand for ton
mage, but also to n multiplication OF
carriers under the operations of system
which will probably keep the lakes over
stocked with tonnage of the first class.
In former times owners made addi-
tons to their fleets as fast as they ac-
cumulated reserves sufficient to meet
the cost, There was borrowing to
piece out of course, but it was of an
individual character, and upon private
account. Nowadays vessels are owned
by stock corporations. and shares in
floating property are bought and sold
like the shares of land transportation
companies. This development has made
it easy to produce tonnage while
it is possible to float bonds, and yes
sci property will therefore quickly i'm
crease i'll volume on the slightest indi-
cation of profit.
As an example of how things are now
done, it is stated that a firm of old
time Milwaukee vessel owners made
Oyertures to a prominent shipbuildiDg
company for the construction of steel
carrier for which they We're willing to
pay cash. in full. They We're immediate
ly tempted with a proposition to con
struct two or three ships with the
money in hand and float" the re
malnder of the cost on the bond mar
ket There was no alteration of plans
in this instance, but the proposition OF
the shipbuilders indicates the ease with
which tonnage is multiplied in these days
of stock and bond operations.
With the investment field under eX-
ploitation of this kind there is likely t.
be tonnage enough for the accommodate
ton of maximum volume of business
This is the situation today; and there
will he idle tonnage until the demand
again reaches the maximum and calls al
I existing craft into service. Then the eX-
ploiter will get in his work with j
small amount of cash and larger
amount of bonds and rapidly augment
the fleet
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19
BITS OF SCIENCE.

As result Of long experiments made
| in Sicily the ministry of agriculture has
! been advised that rubber trees can be
| successfully cultivated in THAI part of
! Italy.
A new twin screw gunboat for tine
British navy. though 100 feet long by
"a feet 6 inches. draws hut 30 inches ana
is composed of nine hoatable sections
which may be united when ailoat.
For the general advancement of the
shelliish industry, which yields nearly
S0O,0OO,00O a year, national aSSOcia-
ton has been formed by the shelltish
commissioners OF the seventeen states
interested.
The longest tunnel 10 the world, hay-
ing a length of over foufteeH miles, will
pierce the Caucasus mountains on the
line of the Russian railroad from Mzchet
to NladikaykaS, work upon which will
soon begin.
As the spring at Bad Centnermunh
Silesia. possesses marked radiO-acuvity,
a search is being made for the strata
containing radum in considerable guam
tity, through which the water is believed
TO flow.
So successful is wave-powef motor.
the invention of Il Pittshur man, at At
lantic City, \. J., TINT it is to I've tested
by the lighthouse board with a view To-
furnishing power to generate electricity.
BY the addition of the salts of calcium.
barium or Strontium TO arc light carbons
they can be made to give light tinted
yellow, peaft. white or red respectively
The first gives the highest efficiency.
The value of wireless telegraphy was
evidenced shortly after the Italian earth
quake when there was constant COM
munication between the Eiffel tower at
Paris and French warshipS at Messina,
a distance of about 1000 miles.
A census of the American bison con-
Quoted by the New York ZooIogicaL SO
ciety, showed that there were 2O4T of
the animals in existence the first of last
year, 800 of them in captivity in the
United States. and II in Canada.
The abandonment of goats milk MS an
article of diet by all Europeans living
ON the Island of Malta has completely
eliminated a disease known as Maltese
fever and made the island one of the
most healthful in the Mediterranean.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19
The Passing of Genuine Maple Sugar.

People in this latitude are now close
ly upon the sunny days and frosty
nights which characterize maple sugar
weather. and which cause activity in
the sugar BUSH But there will be no
practical appreciation in this locality
of the movement of maple sap under the
Inspiration of returning spring, because
there are now cOmpaI lively few sugar
naples where they were once numerous.
and these are not so grouped that they
can be economically tapped for the
sugar process.
Conditions are more favorable in Yer
mont and other Eastern states where
maple sugar making has amounted to an
industry, but even III these localities
where the sugar maple has persisted
simply because IL has been spared,
change is foreshadowed that hints at
the time when the chemist will be the
handspring of the maple sugar of the
future. The Boston Transcript refers
| to this situation with the remark that
speculation as to the time when real
maple sugar will be a negligible quantity
among the national staples must give
us pause. The price of maple lumber
| has distanced the price of maple sugar
in an ascending scale of value, with the
result that the sugar bush" has sui
! Tered heavy loss that cannot be re
trieved As the Transcript says, "A good
| sugar orchard must be the result of a
half century of growth, ana longer
| time still further improves it # the trees
remain healthy
If il were not for the skill at decep-
ton of the makers aud vendors of maple
sugar there would not be enough to go
around even at the present time. The
manufacturers have 'peced out" the an
lnua harvest with brown sugar, and now
the chemist has taken a hand in the
business 10 make the dwindling supply
last as long as possible. OF course the
pure food law will operate to prevent
complete deception in the future. and
| from being content with maple sugar
| plus cane sugar the consumer will be
| led to serenity with cane sugar plus a
small amount Of maple sugar, aud event
ually to complete happiness in the con-
I sumption of cane sugar treated with a
| chemically produced flavor Of maple
sugar. Then the maple sugar harvest
| will no longer depend upon the alchemy
of spring and maple sugar will he manu-
| featured all the year around
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19
Weary Williams Latest Dodge.

There is in every community a class
OF people ready TO live on Others if the
opportunity offers. Sometimes the OPP
portunity breeds Incidence in those who
exert themselves to good purpose when
the spur of necessity is applied. Very
frequently society has been confronted
with the danger of making paupers by
the operation of machinery devised for
the benevolent purpose of relieving dis
tress.
The latest illustration of this unfor.
tunate tendency comes from England
where the institution of free hospitals
for consumptives Is taken advantage of
by INSCRIPTIONS individuals who prefer
idleness to honest work The medical
superintendent of the Lewisham In
Urinary, lecturing in London recently on
Tuberculosis and the Poor Law" star
tied the delegates 10 the National Con-
ference on tuberculosis by saying:
Open-air and overlooking being the pa
pacca for the moment. the DOsscssOr of even
the smallest tuberculosis focus is stuffed to
rcpletlon He leads life Of complete
dlcucss. waited upon by trained napses,
and has become master 81 the sitna hgn- en-
tsring and leaving institutions as he pieases,
the officials not daring 20 make him work.
He rapidly picks up sufficient knowledge
10 enable him to simulate the more alarm
Ing symptoms Of the disease, md with a
Hide play-actiug can secure admission to
any medical institution In che kingdom.
Human nature being pretty much the
same the world over, the phase Of ma
lingering thus described in England
might under similar conditions develop
elsewhere In that event attention might
be directed 10 the policy adopted in the
English free sauitOrium at Frimley,
where manual work adapted to his state
Of health is required Of every patient.
Not only is this calculated to discourage
malingcrers but IL has tendency 10
keep the really in from brooding on their
nalady, and thus proves rdluabIe adj
luuct to the treatment directly aiming to
pffpVt "a cure
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19
MEALS AT 5 CENTS EACH.
Miss Gibbs Teaches How a Family of Six
Can Live on 81 Cents Day

That a New York family Of six can
live and keep well on daily expendi-
ture of "a cents a day for food provided
scientific dietary principles are followed
is the contention advanced 10y Miss Win
fired Gibbs. dietitian and social worker
on the staff of the New York Associa-
ton for Improving the Condition of the
Poor i'm q dietary manual called, Some
Lessons in the Proper Feeding Of the
Family" about to be published. The
book is to be brought out by the associa-
ton for distribution among the teuc-
ment house dwcllers Too much money
is spent on beer aud coffee and pickles
that should 80 for health giving foods, -
iority of women | call on are ignorant
Of what is best for them to buy to nour-
.sh their families"
Miss Gibbs says that she has worked
ont her 10 2-3 cents a day per capita
menu scientifically and that the nOur-
ishmpnt furnished will just replenish the
strength spent in the course of one aver
age day She would not, however adj
wise this minimum fare unless it is alb
solutely impossible for the family to
spend more on their diet
The food standards worked out by the
government experts at Washington have
been used by Miss Gibbs in preparing
her cheap fare. Following is typical
days bill Of fare in Miss Gibbs sched-
ule.
BREAKFAST
Corn mca. mush MIX and sugar.
DINNER
Beef heart Drowned potatoes. Bread.
Rice with sugar and cinnamon
SUPPER.
Fried mush, stewed prunes. Tea aud milk,
L
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19
The upas Tree.

The upas tree which thrives in
Queensland. ensnares and kills insect
life, and sometimes birds The seed YES
sels Of the upas tree, which are produced
on spreading. iealless panicles, exude a
remarkably viscid substance approaching
bird lime in consistency and evil effect
Sad is the fate of amy bird which. blum
dcriug in it's flight, happens to strike
lagaiust any Of the traps which the tree
ia unconscious malignity hangs ont on
every side. IN such event the seed clings
TO the feathers, the wings become fixed
20 the sides the hapless bird falls 10 the
ground, and a. it struggles heedlessly
| gathers more Of the seeds to which
| leaves and twigs adhere. until by ag-
gregatiou it is iuclo~ed in mass Of veg
etable debris as firmly as a mummy in
| lis cloths
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19

what mixed company! | look about
me and | see tea magnates and Ameri-
can millionaires and upstart politicians
and nobodies without number What is
society coming to, when house of this
kind invites such miXtureT
The King smiled and puffed thought
fully at his cigar We'll, Mr.. Poole"
said he, blandly, after a pause ''at least
we must be thankful that they have in
cluded you and e"'-Lippincott's
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19
OFF THE BEATEN PATH
Israel Zangwill.

Israel Zangwill
During a decidedly stormy passage to
New York Israel Zangwill the play
wright and novelist, said one night in
the smoking room of the Steamship:
1t is pleasant to cross the Atlantic.
but this bad weather is minglng Il good
deal of discomfort with our pleasure.
Life is usually. though, like that-pleas-
ure and pain-half and half.
1t reminds me of an elderly Spinster
who sat near me at the table dhote
one afternoon in Venice, Turning to her
niece, | heard her say:
In Venice at last! All. my dear,
half the dream of my youth is now fut-
filled
Why only half, auntieT the young
girl asked.
II counted ON going to Venice
sighed the spinster. ON my wedding jour
ney,' Boston Globe.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19
Francis ]. Heney.

District Attorney Heney Of San Fran
cisco, a short time after his woundine,
discussed with reporter at his bedside
one of his statements about the San
Francisco hoodlers.
They expect me to retract that state
ment, do theyI' he said, grimly well,
if | did retract it, my retraction would
be like the Tombstone editors.
He, you know, printed a story to the
effect that rival EDITORS father had
served thirtyseven years in Jail Pres
sure was brought to bear on him. and
finally he agreed to rctract that state.
ment. In his retraction he said:
1--WE find that we were mistaken
when we said in last weeks issue thai
The Clarion editors papa had passed
thirty-seven summers in the peuitenti
airy. All efforts of friends TO have hi.
sentence committed to life Imprisonment
failed and the old man, as a matter OF
fact. was hung Minneapolis journal
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19
Bismarck.

On the anniversary of the death Of
Bismarck a collection of anecdotes per
tanning to the IRON chancellor appeared
in Stuttgart, among which are these:
After Emperor William l. had returned
Bismarck's resignation with the word
"Never" written boldly across if, Bis
marck spoke again of his falling strength
to the Emperor. II am much older
than YOU" said William, "and am still
strong enough to ride" yes your
majesty" said Bismarck, the rider usu-
ally outlasts the horse After the peace
of 1871. Bismarck went to Frankfort
on-the-Main When he entered the no.
tel. where he had often been "A guest. the
bead porter said: Il hardly knew your
highness IN civilians clothes" You
are just like the French people" an
swered Bismarck. "thcy never know ms
until we put on our uniform. London
Mail
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19
King Edward

A pleasant tale is now being told Of
the british King and his tactful grace
I'M administering q rebuke. Not long
ago he attended a garden fete mt house
more remarkable for its lavish hospital
ity than for its observance If British
traditions and among the guests to his
surprise he encountered Poole. the ia
mons tailor This latter gentleman APP
peared 10 be both disturbed aud dis
gruntled.
"Oh, your majesty" groaned he,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19
Minnie Madern Fiske.

Minnie Madden Fiske, whose knowl-
edge of the New York slums is profound.
condemned at recent dinner the sterile
work of a certain charity society
In fact" said the noted actress, this
society reminds me very forcibly of Il
Cincinnati tramp.
This tramp, ragged and forlorn. stood
up one cold morning in the police court
dock, and the magistrate, frowning at
him said
Profession
Inventor was the reply IN a hoarse
voice.
What have you invented?' asked the
magistrate.
Nothing, said the prisoner. still more
hoarsely; but I'm trying to- 'f'-Minne-
apoliS Journal
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19

In New York the theaters have n
seating capacity ot 123, 795. Then comes
London, with 12O9J0 and Paris takes
third place, with S3.33l,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19
| C*.%[
| Sir Hermann Weher's Rules.

following extract from Means for the
Prolougation of Life by Sir Hermann
Weber:
/. To maintain the vigor Of OH or
gans. the general vitality and resisting
power of the body by regular daily
walks rides. respiratory and other ex-
ercises.
. To practice moderation in eating.
drinking and all bodily enjoyment.
,. To endeavOr to Obtain an album
dance Of pure air in the house. and to
spend as many hours as possible every
DAY in the open air.
l. To couuteract the inherited ten
denotes to various diseases.
s. To create as far as possible the
habit Of going to bed and rising early
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19

Gist
The following letter is not manufac-
tured. 1t was written by New Hamp-
shire boy:
My Dear - -:
Il made a Esquirmo hut.
Il had slids 1 of which the double runer
almost ran into the stone wall. Another
time the double runer broke threw the crust
and tipped over and of us were thrown of.
Another time was on my sled and ran into
the tree and was thrown about one foot of.
Il am going to buy revolver and fire it
the of July eve
Goodbye, -
1t is typical small-boy letter, be-
cause it is confined to news. The edi-
torial style develops later. The adult
celebrates his opinions. The boy at six
states what has happened, is happening,
and is about to happen, and lets it so
at that.-CollierS.