Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-02-04
NOTES OF INTEREST.

Gov. Carroll of Iowa has received from
the custodian of the national cemetery at
| Shiloh stick of wood from the oak tres
| under which Gen. L.. S. Grant spent the
| night in the lull between the two days
| battle at Shiloh. This oak tree stood
| at the edge of the battle ground in what
| is now the national cemetery. The tree
| was blown down during Il destructive
| hurricane this fall. This stick is just
| long enough for cane, bur is in the
rough, being left that way that Gov,
| Carroll can have il carved in any way
| he sees mt. The stick is somewhat de-
| cayed. but when finished will make Il
! handsome cane. The story of the tree is
| that after the first days battle Gen.
/ Grant went to the old brick house with
| the intention of making it his headQuar-
1 ters. 1t had been converted into Il hos
| pital. and the groans of the injured and
dying were too much for the general SO
| he went out under the old oak tree. and,
| with his back To the trunk of the tree.
passed the night there, sleeping IN SIT
| ting position
If man should lose his way in New
York, or wish to obtain Information as
TO the location of a certain address, no
will do we'll TO ask police officer or
some other man for directions He will
find it much safer to do this, even # 1t
would be more convenient To appeal to
any woman who may be near. The ex-
perience of n fireman employed by the
Edison Electric company the other day
shows that man addressing woman
in the public streets, even for Il perfectly
legitimate purpose Is taking desperate
chances. The fireman referred TO had
orders 10 60 to Il certain address late Mt
night, but could not find his way. He adj
dressed q strange woman and asked her
for information, but, instead of giving
him the desired information. the husky
damSel hit him square in the mouth, dis
lodging several of his teeth and knock
ing him down, Just then policeman
came along and, upon the demand Of the
woman, arrested the fireman He was
discharged in the night court. as the ath-
letc woman did not appear against him.
A black eat owned by Mrs. James
Field of Sheridan, Wyo,, went to sleep in
Il coal scuttle. and being of about
the same hue as coal was not noticed by
Mrs. Field when she replenlshed the fire
in the kitchen range. The cat was
dumped through Il lid hole in the top
of the stove and was forced down on the
hot Goals. 1t awoke with hair-raising
yowl and crawied over the Goals TO the
rear of the fire box. then turned aud
made its way back to the hole through
which it had entered. escaping by this
exit The animal was severely burned.
Being confined to his home by sickness
and not wishing to detain the prisoners
for another day Recorder Hugh III.
Mara of Bayonne ~ j., held court over
the telephone. First the compliments,
then the defendants gave their sides of
the case over the telephone. In IA few
minutes the judges decisions were sent
over the wire.
While passing through the foreign set
Element in the McI<ees Rocks district
in Allegheny county, Pa, recently, two
pittsburg missionaries saw n house the
suualor Of which was striking, Meet
ing a newspaper photographers on the
way, il was decided TO take a picture
of the place. When the mistress of the
house. who was standing in the door
way, saw the artist set his camera she
ran in. slamming the door after her.
! The elder missionary, who speaks
dozen different languages and dialects,
| volunteered to coax the woman to stand
for a photograph When he raped on
| the door she came out and he began to
speak to her. He addressed her in POI
| lish but she shook her head. Then he
| tried in succession Magyar. Lithuanian,
| Russian. Bohemian, Hebrew, Greek
| French German and others, but it was
/ of no use the woman kept shaking her
fhead She did not understand amy of
| the languages.
at is no use" he said TO the men
standing at the gate. Il have eX~
! hausted all my languages, but she does
not understand any of them"
I'm try her" said the other mission
| airy. and hc went to the woman In
moment she was laughing and nodding
| her head that it was all right.
When the picture had been taken the
missionary who had failed asked tho
other in what language he had spoken
to her. English" was the reply.
John Hagermans father scolded him
SO hard for letting a stranger steal his
yalise TINT John left home, and when he
went back recently IN Il forgiying mood
| aud wealthy he found the old man dead.
| The IIagermans lived Mt Washington, N.
| j., and it was thirty-three years ago that
| John, who was a trustful sort Of lad,
| fell out with his father and got the scold-
| ing. He jumped Oh freight train then.
went to pttsburg, and finally TO Illinois,
| where he became Il contractor and gained
| riches. He found his old mother still
! alive at Washington and will make times
| good for her so long as she lives.
|
John y. Rockefeller in his pew in the
| Fifth Avenue Baptist church, New York
| city, is as hOspitable as he is wealthy.
! When the pew Is not filed by members
| Of his own family he is generous in in
| wiling into 1t strangers who otherwise
| might have to stand or he crowded UNI
comfortably in other pews. Such was
his attitude Sunday morning, for he well
coined three strangers into his pew and
| made room that they might be comfort
able and listen to the sermon of Rev.
Dir. Charles II, Aked, pastor When the
service was finished Rockefeller shook
hands with both women and asked them
if they did not like DIR. Aked's address
He bowed 10 them as friends Of his APP
preached him and turned away. Then
| one of the two strange women asked
| who the man was, and an usher replied
"That is John y. Rockefeller" The
| women gaspcd.