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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24
UNCLE SANS STAMPS.
A Wonderfully Complete Collection in
Postoffice Department Museum.

Many men in the course of the differ
ent hobby periods of their youth were
struck with the stamp craze. Nearly all
will recall the days that were spent in
securing the neighborhood for new va
rieties, the hours of FASTING and count
ing, as well as many other tasks they
somehow imagined themselves duty
bound to perform.
This fact that nearly all men at some
time in their life were stamp collectors
is said to account for the popularity of
the official stamp collection of the United
States postofice department maintained
in connection with the postal museum in
Washington. Postoffice department of
ficials say 100000 men call ever year to
see the museum stamp collection.
The postoffice department museum is
not by any means new institution, but
many notable additions have been made
to it in the last year. Consequently it is
now quite full of interesting objects. 1t
contains almost everything from a lock
of Charles Guiteaus hair to models of
the big battleships of the navy, but by
far its most interesting feature, accord
ing to the officials in charge. is the stamp
collection. Few visitors miss that sight,
and many Lobbyists" spend hours por-
ing over it.
Uncle Sam as a stamp collector is a
most signal success. He not only has a
complete set of his o7cn stamps but a
complete collection from every other
stamp issuing country in the civilized
world as WELL His collection is valued
/ by the department at 100000, but
stamp dealers say it would demand fig
ure many times that sum if placed on
the open market for sale.
The fact that Uncle Sans stamp col
lection is absolutely complete is a state
ment difficult to comprehend, even to
/, those who have been collectors them
selves. Most of those who were collec-
tors in years gone by will remember how
many empty places there were in their
albums when they gloried in the posses
sion of 1900 to 1000 specimens They
will recall how many new varieties above
the 1000 mark cost from So to $50 each.
also the small fortunes placed on some
| of the specially rare specimens, the kind
which the dealers catalogues related had
only been printed to the number of 100
or so. and but six or seven We're known
I to be in existence.
| Well. Uncle Sans stamp collection
possesses all of these, besides the thou
sands of common kinds. Although it has
| taken hard work, many years and tidy
| fortune to do it the collection today
stands absolutely complete. The only va
rieties yet to be added are those yet to
be issued.-Baltmore American.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24
DISSATISFIED.

The city man worked hard all day
In hope of future JOY.
He dreamed about the rustic way
He trod when but a boy.
Sometime, he said, 'I'lI take my ca &c
Among the flowers and the trees,
And leave the garish lights that blind
The weary townsman far behind
The countrymau exclaimed, "Il make
fortune from the farm;
And then my pile of coin I'll take
And learn the city's charm.
III have steam heat and fancy fare
And travel swiftly everywhere.
The old shack and the weary grind
Forever | viii ieaYC behind.
The artist strives. mid dreams of gold,
To clutch the rich mans prize;
The rich man struggles to behold
Life through the artists eyes.
And so we keep, with strange unrest,
The envious and eternal quest,
DESTROYS of another's state,
Which he cannot appreciate.
Washington Star
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24
DEBT-FREE CATHEDRAL.
To Be Happy Feature of Archbishop Far
ley's Anniversary.

As an anniversary gift TO Archbishop
Farley. who on June II will celebrate
the fortieth anniversary of his ordina-
ton. the priests of the archdiocese Of
New York have pledged themselves to
raise the debt of St. Patrick's cathedral
within three months, so that ii may be
consecrated in September at the close Of
the Eucharistie congress in Canada
Every priest in the archdiocese has been
assessed from $500 to 5000 or more
according to the size and income of his
parish The laymen soon will form Il
general committee TO assist the clergy in
the undertaking. The archbishop him
self has been quietly contributing and it
is expected that by June II a large por-
ton Of the fund win have been sub
scrihed Early this year it was planned
to have special concentration of. the.
centenary of the birth of Cardinal Me
CIoskey. That arrangement was can
celed and now the archbishop announces
that there will be n dual celebration in
the fall with the conservation of the ca
thedral and the observance of the Nc
CIoskey centenary. -Four cardinals will
take part in the ceremony of conSecra-
ton. among them Cardinal Logue of Ire
land
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

: Complaint is made in the east that
while consumers there have been paying
from fifty to seventy-fve cents a bushel
for potatoes, producers within a few
miles of New York have been receiving
only twenty cents a bushel, and others,
in the west, have been getting only ten
to fifteen cents bushel, and in some in
stances have been dumping them on re-
fuse piles to rot, because of their inabil-
ity to market them. 1t is charged that
this anomaly is due TO faults in the sys-
TEN of distribution, chiefly in the line of
transportation. This may be true. as
potatoes are too bulky to be transported
probably over long distances; but there
has been margin enough for some time
between the buying price on the farm
and the retail prices in cities to make
somebody with nerve enough to handle
old potatoes at this time of the year rich
in a hurry
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24
THE NEW HARTMAN MAP.
1t is 10 Feet High and Covers Over $50
Feet of Canvas

The great map before which the late
Il. IL. Hartman spent SO many hours
planning new campaigns has made way
for a still greater map, upon which are
shown about 1900 miles of railroads that
Mr.. Hartman did not live to see CON
The new map is 10 feet high
and covers more than 800 square feet
of canvas. Fifteen men were required
to deliver the geared roller on which it
will be manipulated. When half unrolled
it covers all of one end of the directors
room in the Union Pacific offices ut 100
Broadway.
The new map shows every little branch
of the Union Pacific and Southern Pa
cihc systems including the lines which
the latter road is building in Mexico,
The old map did not show the Mexican
lines, as it was drawn before Mr.. Har-
riman decided to extend his lines about
1900 miles south of the Rio Grande.
The map was drawn at the Chicago
offices of the Union Pacific and more
than year was spent in its preparation.
The cost of its preparation exceeded
$4,000.
More than passing interest attaches
TO the old map, Mr., Hartman was
accustomed to sit for long periods be.
fore the chart. planning an extension
here. cutoff there. branch line be
tween such and such points. He came
to know every spot on the map.
At directors meetings he frequently
directed some junior officer to point ou
certain branch line or some small di
vision point, and was surprised and an
moved that the officer was unable I,
place his finger on the spot without
moments hesitation. lie knew the maj
| by heart and could not understand VIII
Others did not know il equally WELL
| New York Sun.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24
Proud of His Punishment.

The very poorest folk are proud of
something or another. They like to be
marked off from their neighbors. and
no price is too heavy to pay for the
distinction. A naval officer was stopped
hv a dock laborer who claimed to have
been shipmates with him a quarter of n
century before. The officer had forgot
ten all about it, nor could be remem-
Der.
There was me and my brother. sir. -
prompted the man, reproachfully, and
This touched n chord of memory.
II tell YOU what | do remember about
YOU and your brother. The day l left
the ship you were both strung up, one
for three dozen. the other for four. but
which was which"
IL was the four dozen" said the la
borer, proudly.-London Express.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24
1000, 900 LETTERS A YEAR,
How the Rural Free Delivery System
Handles the Volume of Mail.

More than million letters are Fr-
ceiyed and answered by the deparjMe-s
of rural free delivery in year. MANI
Of those received are merely address
to the department, says the booklet.
To save time of opening and reading I'D =
sives not properly directed IS pafL --
the work of the mailing section. IL 't
cludes private postOtiice through WI III
every letter received or sent relative w
rural delivery must pass. The mem
of the postofiice staff are so Wen %.
quainted with the work of all the So.
tons that mere glance at the COME.
Of an envelope is enough 10 direct . -
the section where it should 60
all correspondence is placed on taple "..-
desk without loss of time and all rep
are collected and mailed without .H.t-
fering with the activity OF buTta-
Every one of the half million anu At.
letters sent from this department Is ,1I
led for record by a mechanical sys'--'
which saves the labor of hundred cog.
ing clerks even where the hand coFs .
press or the carbon method has
employed. 4 force of only seFeh' ''-
clerks as needed in this section; ytt, -
addition TO handling and copying I.s p.
they keep a daily record of all the pA..-s
for postage expenses of the depaF' ,--
and sort and examine the HUNDREDS
letters daily received which must be
turned TO the post Office where '-.-
should have been directed.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24
SOLDIERS NEW EQUIPMENT.
The New Hat-Camp Shoe With Buck
skin Sole and a New Field 0vercoat

Much attention has been given by the.
military authorities to the new hat rec
commended by the infantry equipment
board That hat is lighter in weigl
than that now worn and has broader
brim and less height of crown. 1t mas
been recommended that the hat be worn
with the Montana ueak" instead of the
alpine crease" on the theory that the
former shape is an aid to ventilation and
affords a water shed which is lacking III
the hat with the crease. 1t will be neces-
sary to avoid the fools cap" elOngation
of the crown, which is the habit of some
wearers of that form of hat
Another article which is being critical
ly examined by the infantry members OF
the general staff is the new ponchO. 1t
is of q form which provides better pro
lection against the rain, being a longer
garment than is the present 'slicker,"
and it is of a composite form which en-
ables its conversion into a very satiSfaC-
tory sleeping bag. This poncho weighs
pounds and 6 ounces and is a factor ~
the reduction of the weight of the infan-
tryman's burden.
The new equipment. Including the per
sonal clothing. the ammunition of 100
rounds, the rife, the haversack and the
pack, weighs Al pounds. The equipment,
without the pack, weighs SO pounds
An important addition to the equip
ment is the camp shoe, weighing
ounces. This has buckskin sole with
a canvas upper and will be found Of the
greatest comfort as we'll as a protection
to the feet in the relief it affords after q
days march. Another new article of aH
parel is the field overcoat, as d,stn-
guished from the longer overcoat, which
is retained for garrison use. The ne"
garment is of canvas. kersey lined ana
of the peajacket variety.
1t will be used for field service Only,
1t has the advantage of abbreyiateo
length and so avoids interference 4h
marching. The sweater is substitute
for the blouse as a garment for the ne.J
more suitable than the present article.
1t viii be carried nominally in the S'LN-
ice kit bag and issued for wear about ras
camp or when the climate requires a1-
ditional protection in the way OF li''1-
Washington Star.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24
A New Vegetable.

Horticulturists are turning tardy at
tention to the possibility of finding a new
vegetable in the ground nut, which
though of excellent flavor and wholesome
for food is disregarded by all but pigs
and children"
Ground nuts, otherwise called lar nuts
or earth chestnutS." have been from
time immemorial fayorite delicacy with
village boys. who are now generally
barred from searching for them in the
gladeS of woods, where they grow best
by killjoy gamekeepers. In GerardeS
time their merits were well known. and
they grew profuSely almost everywhere"
around London. but especially in "a field
adjoining Highcate. ON the right side of
the village, and likewise in the next
field to the conduit heads 10y Marlboro.
near the way that leads 10 Paddington
from London. w Westminster Gazette.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

Sixty thousand tons is now considered
an average crop of raisins in the Smyrna
district of Turkey, in which the acreage
of vines has been immensely increased
during recent years. There are heavy
stocks of old fruit on hand, and with
California now contributing to the
worlds supply, raisins from Smyrna have
dropped from $500 to 81 per cwt., in
boxes, according to quality, to $2.6S TO
$3.50. Smyrna will be joining Califor-
mia in trying to create raisin day and
cultivate a taste for the dried grapes
that will increase the annual consump-
ton; but should people take to dried
grapes there would be boosting of
prices in accordance with the law of
supply and demand that would soon
even things for all concerned.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

Chase, az Leeds, that this enterprise
which is operated by an American firm.
will prove profitable. With the opening
recently of a large, roomy, three-story.
centrally located store, the English shop
pers had the opportunity of entering and
looking around without being pressed to
buy. Crowds of persons constantly visit
ed the place. On the opening day more
than $4,000 inspected the rooms. Five
such stores now have been opened in the
larger cities of England by American
enterprise. Leeds is the shopping center
of at least 100000 persons.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

1t is reported that the Department of
A agriculture has decided to modify its
order prohibiting the 'freshening" of
oysters, so that oyster-handlers may treat
them in fresh water if the bivalves are
so labeled that purchasers will know
what dealers are selling. This will leave
the consumer where he has been for
many years past, except in the purchase
of canned oysters, which will show the
label on the tin. No dealer will be con
spicuously anxious to acquaint a pur-
chaser with the fact that he is buying
"fresbened' stock, and it will be impossi-
BILE to label every oyster. If "freshen-
ing is dangerous or injurious it should
be prohibited utterly.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

Chicago capitalists have Incorporated
n sea-to-sea railroad enterprise in Hon
duras, and will proceed TO construct the
new road without delay. The line will
not figure in transoceanic freighting on
through line service, but will merely car
ry products OF the interior of Honduras
to the coast and also develop agriculture
in the interior. Central America will in
few years be completely transformed
by enterprise of this kind. and then the
DAYS of "2x4' revolutions will be over.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

The FIRE loss in the United States and
Canada during May was heavier than
for any previous month of the current
year, amounting to $1S,S23, 200. 1t brings
the total for the first four months of
1910 to SS6.045300, compared with $780,
367100 aud sos, 9S5, $50 respectively
for the corresponding periods in 1909
and 1908. The margin in favor of the
current year as compared with last year
from the insurance standpoint is now
whitfield down to about S3,000,o00, but
that worries the companies less than the
heavy decline in values of securities.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24
The Initiated Debutante.

'"That remark" said Senator Depew
as he dissected an opponents argument
Mt dinner in Washington-"that re-
mark was malapropos.
sit was in fact, so malapropoS that it
reminded me of the dainty debutante.
fresh as an April dawn. who cried out at
her first dinner party:
This pudding tastes just like nous
tache cosmetic.
''And then, when everybody stared at
her. the debutante blushed as red as a
peony. Washington Star.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

A fire Mt Stoughton, Wisconsin, which
caused a loss of twenty-five thousand
dollars is said TO have been due to de-
fects in electric wiring. As electricity
comes into general use, there will be cor
respondingly greater danger of fire in the
smaller centers, and therefore more need
than ever before of fire apparatus with
which TO cope with sudden flame. With
gasoline fire engines that can be brought
into play quickly every small center of
population would be in position 10 pro-
tect itself against destruction, as any
body with a knowledge of the workings
of an automobile could handle an engine
in emergencies.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24
tap, voice, then the sound of quick

tap, voice, then the sound of quick
feet.
He dragged open the door, advanced
a step, and waited, looking up.
She ran halfway down the stairs,
paused. leaned over the banisters to look
at him, at his straining eyes
then she ran the remainder
She came round the corner at the bot
tom of the stairs, GREATNESS, and her
hands went out to him of themselves.
He took two strides and caught them.
"Oh" he said.-Adam Stern in Lon
don Leader.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

The ice-cold geyser discovered in Vel
lowstone park not only uspets the accept
ed theory as to the origin of periodical
natural fountains, but adds a feature of
economic value to the scene of natural
wonders. Heretofore tourists have been
able to catch fish and swing them from
the river into a geyser basin of hot wa
ter, to be cooked while still upon the
hook. Now they will be apie TO catch the
fish and swing them into cold storage.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24
A dispatch from London, dated yester-

A dispatch from London, dated yester-
day, says:
Mr.. Roosevelt refused today to comment
on the resolution adopted by a committee
Of the International Arbitration and Peace
Association, which declares his Guildhall
speech 10 be dangerous precedent in deal
protests against his advocacy of harsh
methods in Egypt.
1t will be long time before Mr.. RoOse-
welt will hear the last of the adverse
comment which his Guildhall deliverance
seemed carefully calculated to provoke.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

A New York yachting writer re-
marks that the schooner Shamrock, once
a proud bearer of the New York Yacht
club pennant, has been "humbled" by
conversion into fishing boat with gaso-
line engine. The service may be humble
in comparison with the royal service of
well-kept racing craft, but it is far from
humble in comparison with the fate of
the latest racers for the Americas cup,
the majority of which have gone to the
scrap yard with their first paint on their
plates.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

The movement for the devsing of san
itary rules for all passenger trains and
railroad stations is not aimed at the
carrying operations, because it orig
mated among them, and was suggested
by DIR. w. A. Apologize, chief surgeon
of the Southern railway. The railroads
have always been leaders in promoting
the safety and comfort of the travelling
public, and they will cooperate earnestly
with the United States Public Health
and Marine Hospital Service in combat
ing germ diseases.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

The opinion of Colonel G. Med.
Townsend, Of the United States Engi-
neer Corps, that lake vessels have
reached the limit of length at six hun
bred feet because of structural consider
atoms embracing the present permissi-
Bile width of from fifty to sixty feet,
Is in accordance with that of marine ex-
perts generally, who like the colonel are
looking forward to wider steamers-pos-
sibly seventy-ive feet-with maximum
draft of twenty-five feet Boats of this
kind will be tremendous carriers that
will still further improve the economies
of bulk freighting on the Great Lakes
and make the possibility of interchange
able lakes-to-ocean tonnage still more
remote.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

Secretary Meyer has ordered the new
naval collier Cyclops to take an expert
mental cargo of ten thousand tons of
coal to the Pacific coast, in order to de-
termine whether it will be possible
to thus proftably use such naval auxil-
larry vessels in times of peace. The for
eign carriers have been demanding high
freighis for the transportation of coal
to the various depots, and Secretary
Meyer is anxious to reduce the cost of
this particular service. If the Cyclops
can carry coal cheaper than the foreign
ers offer to do the work, it would be a
wise thing to build fleet of naval col
liers and keep them continuously busy
during times of peace. This would serve
to maintain the vessels so that they could
be called to special duty in emergencies.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

The utilization of the old ram Katah-
din for target. off the Indian Head
proving grounds serves to call attention
TO the fact that like the dynamite cruiser
Vesuvius, the Katahdin was to revolu-
tionize coast defense. Rear Admiral
Daniel Ammen had a struggle in getting
Congress to make appropriations for her
construction, as did Lieut.. Zalinski for
that of the Vesuvius, but those who OPP
posed then, may have been right, after
all. If all the money that has been mis-
takenly spent in naval development could
be recovered, somebody could build a
navy without drawing upon any other
account
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

Now comes an English physician
named Tanner with the following start
ling statements before the Farnham
Rural District Council:
The increase of appendicitis general all
over England l believe is greatly due to
preservatives in food. Not that preserya-
lives themselves do harm. but the presence
of decomposed food which they disguise
does. Personally l have attended thirty
cases this year held to be due to this cause.
The war for pure foods is very large
ly war against the use of modern chem
ical personalities. That the English
physician is justified in his distrust near
ly everyone who has attained to years of
discretion will believe.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

1t was ex-President Roosevelt who
Africa 1t was Colonel Roosevelt who
shot the lions. 1t is Doctor Roosevelt,
with the ire-new degree of d. G.. i.
conferred by the University of Oxford,
who sails today from England for New
York. New York is preparing to well
come Tnddv
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24
Five-Cent Stores in England.

That distinctively American institution.
the ; and 10-cent store, has been intro
duced into England. bearing the name
of 3 pence g cents and g pence Q2
cents store. and it is believed. according
to United States Consul Benjamin f.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

Stability will be compelled by business
interests, ana peace viii reign on strip
of land that has been the scene of fight
ing ever since its discovery.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

President Taft and the people are to
be congratulated on the progress of the
movement for postal savings banks.