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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-12-23
ship Narrowly Escaped Meteorito.

sup narrowly ESSaPCQ mCIGOTtkSs
The Hull trawler, which recently
recorded that during its voyage in
the North sea meteor fell a few
yards away from the vessel, shaking
1t from stem to stern and rendering
its compass useless, was not the first
vessel to have narrowly escaped dis
aster by the fall of meteorite.
The African FRINGE of the Prince
Line was nearly engulfed in the At
lantic from a similar cause in Octo-
Der, 1906, and the captain on reach
ing Liverpool gave an interesting ac-
count of the escape. He and the sec
ond officer were on the bridge when
the bolt fell from the blue and it seem.
ed to them as it entered the water
close to the ship. to be a huge mass
of molten metal poured out of the
sky. Had it struck us" said Capt
Anderson, I'VE would have been to-
tally annihilatetd without a doubt
another mysterious loss of a vessel in
every way fitted to undertake a voy.
age.
Il am of opinion" he added, that
to some such cause must be attrib-
uted losses so mysterious that neither
seamanship, engineering nor ordinary
theories can explain them. London
Daily News.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-12-23
MUSIC AS A LIFE-SAVER.
Tale From the Vastly Deep That
Proves Truth of Song Warbled
by Poet.

Up from the vastly deep comes a.
tale that proves the truth of what the
poet sang when he warbled to the
effect that music hath charms to
Isooth the savage breast"
The story has been delivered in
New York by the crew of the bark
lPallas, which was wrecked on Grand
iCayman island in the Caribbean sea
during the recent tropical hurricane
When the vessel struck it was in the
night, and in order to cheer up their
comrades during the hours before day
light, two of the crew, who happened
to be musicians, ground out tunes on
fiddle and accordion. That the per-
formers escaped to tell the tale must
be put down as remarkable evidence
of the fortitude and forgiveness on the
part Of the men who were facing
death in watery graves.
However no murder was done, and
when day broke the natives of the
island were seen hurrying to the res
cue in such boats as they could com
mand. They explained that they had
heard the music and had come down
to investigate the strange occurrence.
The whole lot of shipwrecked men, as
well as some chickens and pig were
taken ashore, and grand barbecue
with fiddle and concertina accompani-
ment, celebrated the rescue
All of which points to the moral
that when one goes down to the sea
in ship he should carry some pro-
Queer of sweet sounds-even If moth
ing more than jewsharp-along as a
life preserver.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-12-23
The Enthusiast.

1t was after the football game. Amid
the plaudts of $4,000 enthusiastic
spectators the full back of the vic
torious team had been carried from
the field on the shoulders of his Joy
crazed cohorts. He was the hero of
the hour. BY his unaided efforts de-
feat had been turned into glorious vic
tory within one minute of the call
of time.
He was in the hands of his rubbers
when his chum entered the dressing
room. Il had the pleasure of sitting
next to your best girl during the
game" said his chum.
Did she enthuse over by my play.
ingY" asked the star full back with
that beautiful modesty so character.
istic of the modern gridiron gladiator.
"Well-er-" replied the chum, not
without certain hesitancy, when
you made your As yard run for the
last touchdown, and the flags were
flying. and we were all yelling our
selves into a state of idiocy, and ev.
erybody felt sure of your place on the
All-American team, she turned to me
Ehd said
Hasn't he beautiful hair?"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-12-23
Marriage and Liberty.

Liberty comes in such different
ways! For women it comes most oft,
en- through marriage.
Nine women in ten have more space
after they are married for the exercise
of their Wills than they had before;
therefore we can all see more clearly
what they really are. The most ty-
rannical husband cannot rob a woman
of her authority over her children and
her household. The good woman is
better, the hard woman is harder. the
mean woman is meaner than ever she
was.
Usually a married woman has a
more strongly marked character than
her unmarried sister. Her friends
find it more easy to call up her men
tai face; they are more sure how she
viii act in given circumstances. Mar
rage Is almost always fraught with
some surprises to the student of char
acter. These surprises are loosely
described as changes; but change in
character is so rare an occurrence.
more especially in women. that it
should never be regarded as an ex.
PLANTATION unless all others fail
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-12-23
TRAP FOR KILLING INSECTS
Novel Method of Destroying Moths
and Other insects Which Are
Harmful TO Grapevines.

A novel method of killing moths and
other insects which are harmful to
grapevines has been adopted near
Rheims. Posts supporting five-candle-
power electric lamps were placed in
the vineyards, and from each post a.
dish containing water. with a TOP LAYER
of petroleum, was suspended During
the first night these traps were placed
in three parallel rows at distances of.
about 200 feet from each other. the
distance between each lamp being
about rs feet. On the first clear
evening the current was turned on
about eight O'Clock and the lamps re-
manned burning until an hour or so
after midnight. Soon after the lamps
We're lighted the insects swarmed
toward them and were rapidly killed.
either by the fumes Of the petroleum
or by the petroleum itself. The same
operation was resumed the next clear.
night, but the lamps of the two out
side rows were placed about % feet
closer to those of the center row, and
this was repeated on each of five sub
sequent clear nights so as finally to-
bring the three rows within about so.
feet of each other. During the sue.
ceeding six or seven clear nights thel
movement was reversed, in the same.
manner, so as to return the lamps to,
their position of the first night. AS to.
the position of the lamps, numerous
experiments were made during these
trials, and it was proved that the
greatest number of insects were killed.
when the petroleum dish was only a
few inches above the ground
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-12-23

II was the hour of family conf
dences. MIR Buggins had finished his
evening papers, and in slippers and
dressing gown was toasting his toes
before the asbestos fire log, while the
wife of his bosom was putting a few
stitches in the table cover she was
doing for Aunt Mary. and which she
hoped to have finished by Christmas.
u did something today that I've
been screwing up my courage to do
for long time" said Mrs Buggins.
'Yes?" said Mr.. Buggins, mildly in
terested. What was it,"
You know that odious Mrs.
Bjones?" replied Mrs Buggins. We'll.
/ paid her call that have owed for
nearly year"
My Gear. can sympathize with
YOU" said Mr., Buggins. To-day, by
q strange coincidence I paid that
odious Mr.. Bjones bill l had owed
him for quite as long"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-12-23
HOW coc0ANUTS ARE USED
Immense Value Of the Trees and
How the Crop is
Garnered.

A cocoanut tree in the Islands of
Trinidad and Tobago begins to pro-,
duce nuts in four or five years after
planting, and reaches maturity in
twelve or fourteen years. The aver.
age life of a healthy tree is fifty
years, often very much longer. The
production of nuts does not average
more than one hundred a mature
tree. At present cocoanuts for ex-
port are invoiced at from Sl3 to $22,
probable average of $16 thousand,
copra at to cents a pound. and the
ol at 80 cents gallon The nuts
are mostly shipped to Philadelphia
and New York the copra to Europe
and the oil to the other West India
islands
Cocoanut trees are planted about
$50 to the acre, and fifteen to eight
cen feet apart Unskilled labor,
coolie labor chiefly, is paid 80 to so
cents a day, while the pickers get 90
cents thousand, and a higher wage
if the trees are very tall In some
sections the trees are being affected
with bud rot, but every effort known
to science is being used to limit the
spread of the disease 1t is not, how
ever, generally prevalent, but works
most injury in sections where there
is too much moisture Insect pests
have also to be contended with, but
these thus far have not caused much
alarm among the producers. The nat
ural annual death rate of the trees.
as stated by leading horticulturist,
does not exceed five a thousand, and
8 to 10 per cent in sections of planta-
tions where the bud rot prevails.
The cocoanut industry is considered
very profitable, and is rapidly grow
ing here. The largest producer grows
100000 nuts year, another 3,000,-
600, while the remainder are mostly
small producers.
The shells are looked upon as
waste, except as they rot and become
fertilizer, or when used on the large
estates for road making. An effort
was made few years ago to utilize
the fiber as a marketable product, but
the effort proved unsuccessful, prob
ably because it was not carried out
on the right lines
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-12-23
HER PROOF OF IDENTITY
Cashier of Telegraph Company Thinks
II Sufficient and Pays the
Money.

Many are the stories told regarding
ladies who visit banks, telegraph Off
ces and similar places and are asked
to conform to certain prescribed bust
ness usages, such as properly indors-
Ing check or presenting proof of
identity. One of the latest is told by
the Cleveland Leader in Town Talk:
Several days ago handsome WON
an, handsomely dressed and accom-.
panied by two small boys, called at
the Western Union Office to cash
telegraph money order she had re-
ceived from her husband, who was
In Chicago on business. Cashier John
Fl. Cox asked the woman all the
usual questions about identification,
but with no satisfactory results. Alb
solutely she had no documentary proof
of her identity AS last resort, Mr..
Cox said; Now, madam, | would like
very much to give you the money this
order calls for Can't you prove to me
some way that you are Mrs. Blank?'
Hesitating a moment, the woman ex-
claimed; Why, yes, of course can.
How stupid of me not to think of it
before. Then, pointing to the two
boys, said: These, sir, are my sons
Size got the money"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-12-23

railroad wells
kinds OF
IN
Shenandoah
business
q tates.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-12-23


training outside
nalm
sympathizer
the trial of Smith on
the
He patriotic youth
filed his notebook in the courthouse Balnga
Mr. Mccarthy followed Journalism
published
he
quotations.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-12-23

peTed him and in only too ready to apply to the state
for 1t If he has
serve their nation the
should
as much the % al
by
pension or money when the husband alive and able The
deserves and should
WIDOW little children This
nothing the battle
three little children.
bread for them?
Now If this supplied with certain of
state children working
think what difference would
possible
and
chance for hfea haven now"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-12-23
FROM PooRHoUsE TO SENATE

The rise of a man from the lowliest station to
one of the highest in his state is not among the
events that belong exclusively to the past,
is 1t confined solely to the realm of fiction. John
J. Dunnegan OF Shenandoah, Iowa, who has been
elected to the Iowa state senate passed three
years Of his early childhood as an inmate OF
North Carolina poorhouse, being left at the age
of three without either father or mother
When six years of age he was bound out to
a family who treated him with the utmost cru
city. Misery and hardship gripped him from the
cradle and robbed him OF all the joys of child
hood. From the poorhouse, without education,
or aid from others, John Dunnegan has risen
by his own efforts to afiuence and high official
position He has worked as a section hand on
hired man on a farm, has dug wells and cisterns
tide oF barl e.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-12-23
WANTS STATE TO AID WIDOWS

Every widow who has been left with little
children and in straitened circumstances should
receive pension from the state"
Such is the declaration of Mrs. Clarence o.
Burns president of the Little Mothers Aid Soci-
ETY. of New York who is firm in her belief to-
the advisablity of this plan. The important ques-
ton is being brought forward in womens clubs
all over the United States, and any discussion of
it is timely. The opinion of Mrs Burns. espe-
cially is one to carry weight for she is well quail
flied to speak forcibly on the subject She says
in part:
"A man carries gun for his nation. If he is
injured in he receives a pension in recogni-
ton of the service he has rendered to his coun-
try. He feels no humiliation when the money
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-12-23
NOTED FRESHMAN REACHES 80

One of Great Britains grand old men, Justin
Mccarthy recently celebrated in London his
eightieth birthday anniversary and was the recip-
lent Of congratulations from every part of the
English-speaking world. His career has been an
active and useful one part of it passed in the
turmoil of political strife and part of it In the
quietness OF his library. from which have issued
many works of exceptional merit
Mr.. Mccarthy, former leader of the Irish Ma
tionalists. comes of family devoted for many
generations to the OF Ireland. He was born
in rebel" Cork. November %, 1890 He had
literary tastes youth but his chief desire
to be barrister Academic degrees were
then denied to Roman Catholics and to Protes-
tant dissenters. Thus detarred from entering
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-12-23

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herewith
to
first
member
ereaed their
had been abandoned due to the killing the
hurried
doubloons
o to his companions
$4,000 the
session of General Twgg and eventually
until
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-12-23
CAPTURED FAMOUS PEG LEG

OF all the innumerable relics exhibition in
the Illinois Memorial hall in the state house,
none attracts more attention from tourists than
the cork leg of General Santa Ana, the Mexican
commander, which was captured by a company
of central Illinois soldiers The finding of the
cork leg was of the most interesting Incl
dents of the Mexican war. An extraordinary fact,
recently brought to light by Investigations con-
Quoted by the Mclean county historical society,
is that the soldier who first caught sight of the
leg took possession of it and sent 1t to the rear
for safe keeping while a battle was in progress,
is yet living in the person OF Edward Elvin
Elliot formerly Of Bloomington, Ill, and now Of
San Rafael Cal.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-30
NEW YORKER SAYS
BANKERS ARE EASY.
EldS SWindIed Them For
thousands.

New York, September pa fora;-
ula for obtaining the complete con.
fdence of the most cautious bank pres
ident was stated today by Adolph
Rothbarth, the hop merchant, who con-
fessed that in the last three years he
victimized New York banks for more
than 100000.
He would be free today, if he had
not grown careless and submitted con-
fiicting statements to two banks, from
one of which he sought to borrow to
repay the other The credit men CON-
pared and caught him.
@All you need he said from his
cell, is a presentable address,, re-
spectacle clothes, good letterhead,
statement of assets.
when I first went to "a bank for
money l told them I might need as
much as $150,00O. They told me 10
go ahead and submit a statement Of
assets, and they would lend me all |
wanted. So / submitted false state
ment. Anyone could have done the
same"
BY letterhead Rothbart meant not
only the printed stationery, but the
right to use it. The European firm Of
Adolph Rothbart & Co., for which he
was agent in this country, was a large
concern and held a position of conf
dence.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-30
MUST GIVE WHITES
THEIR PROPER TITLES

Wilmington, Del, September 81
Negroes in tie City court must SHOW
due respect to white persons, accord,
ingto decision Of Judge E. r. Coch,
ran, this morning. Margaret Pen
nington, colored, was charged with
larceny by Mrs. Margaret Hogan, for
whom she did the family washing
The negress persisted in calling sew
eral witnesses by their first names.
You put Miss" before these yeunx
women's Names" directed the court.
Deed sir, | did not think you woull
allow people to be called mister and
'missus' here," exclaimed Margaret,
referring to former decision of the
court prohibiting white persons from
calling negroes mister or ~mis-
sus." That applies only to colored
people, and you don't get imperti-
nent," replied the court.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-30
YOU TAKE NO RISK.
Our Reputation and Money are Back
of This Offer.

We pay for all the medicine use
during the trial, if our remedy failsa
to completely relieve you of constipa-
ton. We take all the risk. You are
not obligated to US in any way what
ever, if you accept our offer. Could
anything be more fair for you? Is
there any reason why you should hes
itate to put our claims to a practical
test?
The most scientific, common-sense
treatment is Rexall Orderlies, which
are eaten like candy They are ver2
pronounced, gentle and pleasant ~
action, and particularly agreeable n
every way. They do not cause diar.
hoea, nausea, fatulency, gripping, or
any inconvenience whatever. Rexall
Orderlies are particularly good FL
children, aged and delicate persons.
We urge you to try Rexall OrderIies
at our risk Two sizes 10c and Sc.
Remember, you can get RexaH Rem
edies in his community only at OH
store-The Rexall Store. Dodson's
Pharmacy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-30
POLITICAL EVOLUTION.
Washington Post,)

Mr.. Bryan has bolted his party
ticket, and las now become more than
an insurgent. He is in the same atti-
tude as the Conscience Wings" OF
threescore years ago, and lays his bolt
on his morals. He is for county option
as confronted with local option.
And that recalls the past. In the
elder day everybody knew in advance
one plank of every political platform
in our glorious Union. 1t was an ar
rangement of "despotic England for
making Poland of Ireland" Not that
any party cared rap about it, bat
that the Irish had a deal of votes al
pivotal" places.
Then we all knew another plank in
the Republican platform: 1t denounced
the twin relics African slavery at
the South and Mormon polygamy at tie
West, boasting that it had abolished
the one and promising that it would
demolish the other, and so on and so
on. Yet Utah is a Republican state
We mention that as history, and-in no
sense as a reflection.
We also knew in that "elder day"
that every Democratic platform would
contain brilliant and ringing plank
denunciatory of "sumptuary legisla>
bion'' and a demand for personal lib
erty." When writ by "a literary Teller"
it had a sentence or two, or three, of
horror of donicihary visits and the
secret Vaccinations of despotic police.
And it has come to the pass that a
thrice leader of the Democratic party
has bolted his ticket because the head
of that ticket stands for the Democrat
ic doctrine of a full century.
Mistress Nellie Gwynne on a certain
occasion made the cutting exclamation
What company am l come into:
And the Democratic party might
echo it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-30
Deafness Cannot he Cnred

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
infamed condition of the mucous lin
ing of the Euctachian Tube. When
this tube is infiamed you have a rumb-
ing sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed Deafness
is the rebuilt, and unless the infam
nation can be taken out and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hear
ing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh
which is nothing but an infiamed con-
dition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case Of deafness (caused BY
atarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars
free
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti.
patton.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-30
Editorial Room, Telephone 80.
Amricus, Ca, September 80, 1910.
POST MORTEM PRAISES.

H. E. Thayer, in New York SUM-
I've noticed when fellow dies, NJ
matter what he's been
A sanity chap or one whose life was
darkly stepped in sim
His friends forgot the bitter words
they spoke but yesterday,
And now they find a multitude of pre-.
ty things TO say.
fancy Wien go to rest some one will
bring to light
Some kindly word or goodly act Ions
buried out of sight;
But, if it's al the same to you, last
give to ne instead
The boquets while I'm living and t ie
knocking when I'm dead.
Don't save your kisses to imprint upon
my marble brow,
While countless maledictions are turl-
ed upon me now;
Say just one kindly word to me while
l mourn here alone,
And don't save all your euIogy to carve
upon a stone.
~ LII uO care IL Wuen L III Q6a1 the
Bloomingdale Gazette
Gives me write-up, with a cut in
mourning borders set;
1t will not fiatter me a bit, no matter
what is said,
So kindly throw your boquets now
and knock me when I'm dead.
It may be fine when one is dead, TO
have the folks talk so.
To have the flowers come in loads from
relatives, you know;
1t may be nice to have these things
for those you leave behind,
But just as far as I'm concerned, I
really do not mind.
I'm quite alive. and well TODAY. ana
while I linger here.
Lend me helping hand at tines
give me a word Of cheer
Just change the game a little bit; jIst
kindly swap the decks,
For l will be no judge of flowers when
I've cashed in my checks"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-30
THE REIGN OF THE PISTOL AND
HOMICIDE.

Again it is the nimb.e and ever
ready pistol. TIE victim is a prom
nent citizen and ex-Mayor of Cofdele.
There was dispute over a division of
crops, the pistol came into play AMI
Juuge Scott is dead. Except for the
presence OF the pistol the difference
might and prosably would have been
amlcably adjusted The pistol probl mi
IS one that must be settled, and se.-
Led rlght.-Savannan Morning News
Like the proverbial poor, the dead .
pistol is always with us. Day after day
it gets in its murderous work Niue
times out of ten there is no excuse for
its use. A slight difficulty, some mis-
understanding that would hardly de.
serve a recourse to blows, let alone to
bullets, and life is shifted out az
deliberately as though it were matter
or no consequence in Georgia to STAY a
fellow being.
How many cases of manslaugLter
have occurred in Georgia the past
month? Memory recalls a half dozen
INCIDENTS without trouble. Perhaps
there have been dozen or more. In
all likelihood there have been more
men slain in disputes over petty mat
tiers IN this state during the month OF
September than in all the British IS
lands with their forty odd millions oi
population.
Tfds is frightfuI stain upon the
good name of the state, a reflection
upon the civilization of it's people, a
standing deterrent to its progress. it
is inexcusable. In all likelihood not a
single person will go to the gallows Of
to the penitentiary for life for any o.
these crimes. The majority WILL in all
likelihood, escape punishment on so,ae
plea OF temporary insanity, or conjur4d
up self defence, or work on the sym
patElies of too sympathetic juries, ami
further encouragement will be given to
others to tote pistols and follow their
example.
Georgia sadly needs few white
hangings and life term sentences, with
no pardons attached, to break up tae
naDlt OF murder that is discrediting it
abroad. And law against pistol tot
ing that provided no fine and that was
rigidly enforced would also go a long
ways toward bringing To an end t,,,e
regime of homicide.