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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-03-22

Mr.. William A. Radford viii answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COSf on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building, for the readers Of this
paper. On account of his wide experience
as Editor. Author and Manufactures, he
Is, without doubt, the highest authority
on al these subjects. Address all inquiries
to William A. Radford. No. us wesr
Jackson boulevard Chicago. ILL., and only
enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
The most economical house to build
and to occupy afterward is nearly
square, of mass1m size, full two sto-
RES in heigse& with a good, deep cell
lar and an attic big enough to act as a
bufser against heat in summer and
colo in winter. Such houses give
more room according to the size OF
the foundation and roof than any other
design.
Tbs house here illustrated is typical
OF this style. 1t is 81 feet wide by 50
feet from front to rear proportions
that work to good advantage. There
are certain geometrical combinations
that work to a disadvantage in q
square house, but are easily overcorfss
when you add q few feet to tna
length.
One of the difficulties is the starr
way, which interferes with the proper
laying0ut of the rooms in every shrrs
house. Stairways in dwelIing-houSsn
have caused more gray hairs, and seVs
more architects to early graves. than
any other feature in house building.
There was time when a rough lad
der fashioned with an ak answered
the purpose. 1t was made with the
trunks of two trees for sides, and sec
tons Of smaller trees for rounds,
There was hole through the upper
floor and usually an effort was made
to place the opening where the roof
was high enough so you could miss
hitting the knots on the rafters with
your head. From that time to this.
stRirways have grown in complexity
until we think we have them about
perfect.
This plan provides a projection
which holds about half of the stair
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-03-22

A naval skirmish at Mousquito In
let, Fla, was disastrous in small
way for the Union sailors involved
Lieut. A. H. Budd. U. s. N, Acting
Master Mather and three iackies were
Killed by the Confederates.
washington, n. c., was entered by
a Federal force under General Burn
side. The Union soldiers landed from
gunboats, and marched through the
streets with banners and a band, ex-
pecting to arouse Union enthusiasm.
Inc few people who had remained in
the town We're silent spectators Of the
scene.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-13
AN|MUS SHOWN
BY TESTIMONY
Defense Produces More Evidence
TO Show Conspiracy
Exists.
GRAND JUROR TEsTIFIEs.
Joe East Declares Foreman Ousley
Of Grand jury Said Evidence
Not Sufficient Tor an
Indictment
Associated Press Special.

Fort Worth, Tex. April 13.-The
Norris trial opened this morning
with the introduction of more tes-
timony by the defense as to the al
legged threats made by Charles Dick
lnson against the pastor.
Joe East, member of the grand
jury which indicted Norris for per-
jury, was called to the stand and
testifying said that Clarence Ousley,
the foreman of this grand jury,
said to him in the jury room: 81
don't believe myself we have evil
dence enough to indict him. Mr..
East also testified that Cusley said:
IF we indict him it will destroy his
influence in the state
c. D. Evans, another witness for
| the defense, testified that Banker
Reeves said he, Reeves, WAS worth
"a half million dollars, and that d
g .xAa .pinx TO put Norris In the per
! iatentihry. HEeves had told the vi
ln@Nn ta~k hfs reAAulA fnx caaaanK Nn
Il ris = HAS. per3uyer Nnd *nt~f WAS
sspiece OF paper which Norris b
l. sold him secured by Dallas real
) tate.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-13
WATER SPREADS
Over COUNTRY
Two Of Worst Breaks in Levees
Occurred Late Friday
Afternoon.
TOWNS ARE FLOOD SWEPT
Many Villages Submerged by The
Rushing Waters and Loss Of ;
Lives Is Expected.-Vast
Area Covered.
Associated Press Special.

associated Press Special.
Greenville, Miss, April 13.-The
two levee breaks which occurred
late yesterday at Panther Forest,
Arkansas, and near Roosevelt, La,
are expected to prove to be the most
damaging yet to occur in the history
of the present Mississippi river
flood
The levee at Panther Forest,
which was thirty-two feet high,
was not even considered as being
threatened with danger when sud
denly hundred feet of it gave way
during a rain storm. The raging
waters rushed madly through the
gap and an immense territory is be-
ing flooded. Numerus villages are
expected to 60 under water, includ-
ing Arkansas City and Lake Village,
Arkansas. and Lake Providence,
Lallulah and Delhi, Louisiana.
The Panther Forest leyee In Chi
Got county. Arkansas, was the firsy
Ito 60 The second break occurred
near tha town IA Eaat CRrroll pArirt
tnAnaed In honor cf the former presi
,>xa,.o1 49,, ~,
49,. 49,. ~,
49,, 80. ~ srsatar nsrt ~ rh;cn
County ana that part 81 Desha 10
aIread Inundated from the Modot
Circle crevasse Or z week ago an
unt., Il n,aats M watar coming
from the Roosevelt breach and
spreads to Bartholomew bayou, just
inside West Carroll parish. Practi-
cally all OF Madison parish to the
south of the Roosevelt crevasse and
possibly corner Of Texas VIII be
flooded.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-13
REBELS CAUSE WILL
NOT Be RECOGNIZED
ATTITUDE OF THE REBELS HAS
INCENsED THE AMERICAN
GOVERNMENT.
Associated Press special.

Washington. April 13.--It seems
certain that the cause of the Next
can rebels will never obtein recog-
milton in Washington. The state
department is incensed Mt the ac-
ton of the rebels IN matters per-
tanning to this government. The
Fountain execution and the rebal
interference with the mail of Amer
leans are only some OF the Causes
which have riled ahc department.
here. X ~ the otficiAI view that this
rehele are naanenvcFxnx iii Mn @yfovi
70 precipitHtn tIztery cation, but II 4
u esHni ttictaliy sisted that sR the
are expecttnk this they are aocme
!, ITO failure.
il Any Mexican leader who, In VOL
/ ton of the International code, d
liberateIy brings aLasat the execi
tion OF a prisoner or war is eonsis
cred guilty or murder. and II b
comes within the Jurisdiction or tb
United States can be arrested ane
punished.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-13
LIVES THREATENED
BY BREAK IN LEVEE
1t is Feared the Rushing Waters
Msy Claim Heavy Toll.
Associated Press Special

AEsOCldbcu IiCss SbNNiah
New Orleans. La, April f3.--It is
feared that many lives may be
claimed as toll to the floa1s that are
rushing inland through The leyee
breaks which occurred on the river
front in North Louisiana last night.
East Carroll and Madison parishes
are considered az the real points OF
danger Territory twenty miles
wide by forty miles wide has already
been inundated by the waters es-
Gaping from the Mississippi river.
Eighteen lives are in peril at
Roosevelt, La, and hundreds or
families are marooned on house
tops ia Nacison parish. Steamboats,
are unable to stop near the Louisi-
ana crevasse for rescue work for
fear of being wrecked and the pas
sengers being drowned in the mad
ly rushing waters.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-13
TWO PARTIES HDLDIN6
STATE PRIMARY TO-DAY
REPUBLICAN CONTEST IN PENN
sYLvANLt BETwEEN TAFT
AND ROOSEVELT.
BE Easy Winner on the Demo-
cratic Tiekct.---Iiaiu
IL Falling.
Associated Press Special

Philadelphia, Pa, April f3.-~it
is raining In many sections of this
state today and 1t IL expected that
this viii have tendency to Tighten
the vote Tn the primary election
which is now on. The principal con-
test Is between Taft and Roosevelt
for the republican endorsement for
the presidential nomination. Gov
Wilson is expected to be an easy
winner on the democratic slate,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-13
Meeting OF Farmers.

There was a meeting of the far
ners from the Vicinity of Waxafa-
chic in the county court room this
afternoon. Fl. *. Taylor OF the state
agricultural department talked ON
diverslfication, seed selection and
cultural methods.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-13
ARRESTED
AND PLACED IN JAIL.

Accused OF shooting Defeated
Candidate for City Marshal.
Associated Press Special
Brownsville. Texas, April Ia,
Seven policemen are IN Jail here
today In connection With tho shoos-
ing last night Of Anders ufesti, Il
defeated candidate for city marshal
Tho shooting grew out Of political
troubles. lfresti may recover.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-13
MORE EVIDENCE PRODUCED TO SHOW EXISTENCE CONSPIRACY AGAINST NORRIS
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QUICKEST AND CHEAPEST.

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= to let the people OF Waxaha- Z
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= to buy, sell or exchange. Try =
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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-13
THE PRICE OF WHEAT
JUMPS UP -FOUR CENTS
Sensational Advance Made on Gem
oral Cr'p Scare a. kesl't az
the River Floods.
Associated Press Special.

Chicago. April 13.-~-on account
Of the general crop scare hs the re-
suit Of the Mississippi floods wheat
shot uD four cents this morning, go-
ing TO s1,10 per buBhei July
~ eat IL up Two cent? 10 % and
ene-eighth. Later the prices fell Off
somewhat
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-13
sian KiIInd Near elnner.

Gilmer, Tcxns. April 49,. Horny
Hutchinson. son OF r. w HUTCH
inson, was killed while loading logs
seventeen miles from Gilmer,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-13
TWO ARRESTS MADE IN
CONNECTION WITH MURDER


San Antonio, TsxEa. April l5.
Two negro 'voodoo'i doctors have
been arrested On suspicion 10 con-
neetion with the killing Yesterday gf
q negro family III five. the ssFcnFslr
Stances III tha tfh y rscsslifag I'M
oposAt ions u szs teriosa 'lxs|
ssaan I whxs r4xcd the negro
popusafien III Isuusaiana
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-13
NaturaIized Mexican.
Press Special.

Mexico City, Mexico, April 13.---
FL Parcial. a leading Mexican news
paper OF this city, says that Thos
Fountain, the American who was ex-
ecuted by The rebels, although born
in Texas, became naturali2ed Mex
lean citizen at Parral some years
ago.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-13
FRENCH ARMY OFFICER
IS DASHED To DEATH
Associated Press Special.

Associated Press Special.
Paris, France, April 13.---Lieut.
NJ. H. A. Boncour, Of the French
army, was killed this morning when
his aeroplane fell from a great
height as he was making a cross
country flight.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-13
HENRY PUBLICITY BILL
REPORTED TO The HOUSE
Measure Provides for Publication of
All Contributions aud Disbursc-
mcnts In Campaigns.


Wapltlassou, April ~ Cad
grasafiau Hsnrya bill, witch pros
yidoa for publicity 81 60 all eontri-
hutlons 10 campaiga funds. togetlt-
Ell With their disbursement and aps
plying 70 the offices Of president
and vice president was fayofaplg
reported 20 the house today
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-16
NJ. A. HANNA.
Is not the wording Of that etter verv interestng

Is not the wording of that letter very interesting
Mark Hanna the powerful in politics, addresses
"NIy John Mr. Archbold the powerful finance
he the representative politics Of the Standard Oil
acknowledges with thanks John D. Arehboids
letter of the instant with enclosures"
And he the time that he will soon coming
back for
told what
was Archbods letter for what Mr. would
"cau again OF the Standard Oil paymaster
AS you this letter remember the
whom addressed election
describes himself holding the bag to
say collecting money that o decide election.
And John D. Archbod of the Standard OIL is man to
whom he goes TO FILL UP THAT BAG.
This and kind published May num-
Der of Hearst Magazine and to be published Of
of magazine will constitute important page
IN THE REAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES when our
Republic and birth the financial industrial
lyzed in days to
Another letter the May number Of Hearst Magazine
by John D Archbold Mark Hanna In this
Archbod called upon when the bag needs filing why
he very objectionable legislation Columbus killed per
manenty
Many letters Archbod of the Standard Oil appear
portant the who understand HOW THINGS ARE
the inside politics and finance the United
very intelligent Mr. Achbod, good paymaser and
political director for great trust
very good thing for the country large that these
given the people TO WHOM THEY BELONG prov
ing they conspiracy by the people and
a plan 10 by financial organization
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-16
The Easy Way Out
Bv LOUIS E. THAYER.

AVE you living felt that WASH worth
while?
you been tied miserable crouch that wouldn't
nit you to mile
have been where the whole world looks black and
the minutes actually crawl,
And you couldn't help thinking how woud be just put an
end to it all
right it easy end all of this trouble and
The waiting despair and for those who
weary of life.
say you have fought just long you coudyou have
toled just as long as you can
All WE'LL IT IS EASY TO DIE LIKE DOG BUT IT S HARD
TO LIVE ON LIKE MAN
You bitter all Of mankind and even God goodness
you doubt
There's nothing trouble around and
brighter way out
You faithfully oed task declare but everything
to
sight of the beauty around while
have grown deaf to all
So you think simply withdrawo just take leap
the dock;
The rpp will hardly close head your friends will
be over the shock.
There nothing left for the chap who's bad whom Fortune
has held under ban
BESIDES IT IS so EASY TO DIE LIKE DOG, AND so HARD
TO LIVE ON LIKE MAN
All YES easy say you licked to give the struggle
and yield;
It cinch your back the foe and heedy from
Ii is easy to throw you find too heavy
to bear,
easy shy your duties because you know that some
trouble turks there.
be weakng and do things but go to the work OF
the strong
Go wage your fight hard and the hours
and long
Cling to vour smile as you go your way sing trouble
FOR REMEMBER IT'S EASY TO DIE LIKE DOG, BUT IT'S
HARD TO LIVE ON LIKE MAN
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-16
irts With Bows Meanest

of lovers, and who play with pas
sion as a child plays with fire. sac
rifiCe the lads 10 their egotism
They lure the boys on They
coax the very hearts out of their
bosoms. They bind them hand and
foot, and make slaves of them.
They fan every flame of desire. and
then, when their evil work is done,
and the boy, no longer a boy but
suddenly turned man. gulps out
some wild love appeal TO them. they
turn and laugh at him. They are
so surprised. SO Virtuously indig-
nant. They never should have
thought it OF Jimmy, or Tomme,
whom they thought such a nice
lad
1t is the fashion to ridicule calf
love; it is the best and purest love
of a mans whole life, and the pity
of it is that so many boys break
the alabaster casket at their I'M
worthy feet. For no youth ever
comes out of a Irritation with
married woman upscathed 1t
leaves him with broken faith and
blasted trust and every ideal of
womanhood smirched
In the beautiful old play of
Nance Oldfteld" a young boy, who
IS poet, fails in love with an ac-
tess who is much his elder, and
the lads father induces her to cure
him of his romantic fancy. She
does this by dispeHiug the Illusions
with which he has surrounded her,
and by showing herself to him so
fat. and middle-aged. and sordid,
and vulgar that he turns from her
8.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-16
NV Old Friends Son
Bv WINIFRED BLACK

world not good enough for her
now.
The little hands that we're so
white and so useless-what heavy
work they do now, and how we'll
and courageously they do it, too
Let US look her up and tell her
about the good times we used to
have with her mother, when all the
world was full of love songs and
the only thing the moon was for
was to look pretty for us and turn
an ordinary walk into a romantic
adventure.
Who is that hobbledehoy over
there? Come to town to go to
school. they say. Doesn't seem to
know many people, and he's always
on the porch waiting for the post
man every morning. Some of the
boys in his class call him "the
Jay" I wonder if he's so very
homesick yet.
Why. his father used to drag you
on his sled when you were not half
so big as this boy of his. Why not
tell the hobbledehoy about it, and
tell him what a fine fellow his faith
err was. and is, too? He is little
worried about it now, he IS so diff
ferent from the rest of the kind in
his class.
Who is so lonesome on earth as
a boy away from home among
strangers
Rest light, little mother, in your
low grave. l knew you once and
loved you, and for your sake that
boy of yours shall never want for a
friend as long as / shall live. Give
me your hand, dear boy with your
mothers eyes. No, l won't senti-
mentalize over you. l won't lecture
you I'll just love you and never
say a word about it-boy fashion.
Hard, Whose voice was that in the
March wind-the voice that used to
sing 50 clear and gay?
"Chnltn. keep in de middle Of de
road.
oh, den. chillen. keep in de middle
of de road;
Don't YOU look to de right.
Don't you look to de left.
But keep in de middle of de road"
What a quaint darby accent she
could make and how We used to
love to hear her sing the old jubilee
song, "Des Keep to de Middle of de
Road
Dear friend. your little dancing
feet walked down Swallowed roads
before you came to the end, didn't
they?
But you sang all the way. they
tell me. Keep in de middle of de
road" Ven. that boy of yours
shall keep there, too, il tnere is any
virtue in love and ernest effort to
help him to remember.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-16

SAW him. at the theater the
other day-my old friends son.
He had only a few lines to
say in the play. but there was
something in his voice and in the
way he carried his head that at
tracted my attention. l looked on
he bills-yes, it was the same name
let's see, ten, fifteen. sixteen. sew
enteen. lust about that by now. my
friends son-the little tyke who
dra gged me to the nursery to see
his new rocking horse-January he
called him. | remember. the last
time l saw him. What bright eyes
he had and what a smile! He
looked as if there never was going
to be ANYTHING for him in the world
but music and laughter. And now
his father is dead and his mother
lies in her low grave. too. and he's
out in the world alone fighting his
own fight. Shall look him up l
thought. mo. he'll think me bore
he looks happy and prosperous.
I'll lust send him loving thought
over the footlights and let it go at
that"
But in the next act the boy stood
silent for a while and watched the
star and her troubles, as his part
babe him do and there was some
thing wistful and strained about
his face that called to me like a
we'll loved and well remembered
voice. and ! cahnged my mind.
l went back and hunted up the
boy. and he looked at me with eyes
full of unshed tears when l men
toned his mothers name, and all
the rest of that week we were
friends, the boy and I. And now
we shall be friends as long as we
live, the two of us. And he did
need me that very day, too. He
was trying to make up his mind
about something, and we talked the
whole tangled. foolish, complicated
affair all over. the boy and l, and
| helped hinS decide TO do the
square thing, even if it did turn
out to be a little troublesome, and
I almost heard my old friends
voice calling to me in the March
wind. and it never sounded sweeter
in all the times have ever heard it.
What's become of the children of
our old friends?
Some of them are little vet and
some are at school somewhere away
from home, perhaps in the very
city where we are.
What's become of the girl that
was the idol Of the home we used
to visit? Wonderfully clever we all
thought her-she bored us some
times with her caprices and her
little spoiled ways. but We never
dared let her mother think so. Poor
child, shes spoiled no longer
She IS making her own way now
alons-and nobody marvels at her
cleverness or thinks the gray old
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-16
The Bungalow
BY MINNA IRVING.

n a butter dish. flies
: carried from the
they them d
And all vegetables they send
The panks
nd crawling inside
/ found a caterpillar
But what must when bungalow.
We can not sit upon porch. a is there
every they an Win and angry
The shingle eaky. ri ne bed
Is soaking from bath
an tattooed
NJ owls and horrible nights:
she friends WHY YOU 60
And buy in ana bungalow"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-16
Copyright i912, by international News Service.

THERE are men who are wolves
in sleeps clothing, who prey
upon young girls and who are
one of the menaces of society.
There are women VINO are ser
penis in satins and laces and dia-
monds who prey upon young boys.
who are equally dangerous. and
who do just as much harm in the
world
Every mother is ON her guard
against the evil man and does the
best she can to protect her daugh
ter from him. but few mothers ever
realize the danger their son is in
from the unprincipled woman, or
seek to guard him from an eNpe-
rience that may be as blighting to
him as any misfortune that could
befal his sister would be to her
do not speak here of the So
called bad woman the recognized
and publicly branded painted lady.
She is an enemy out in the open,
who MAY be openly fought Be
sides which she is not half SO dan
gerous to a boy as is the woman
who is SNUG and good without and
charnel house within; who OBJ
serves the letter of morality while
breaking its spirit Al the worst,
the scarlet woman only pliers his
pocket, but the white robed hypo-
critic robs him of his soul.
Therefore, when your Jimmy sud
denly begins to hang around Mrs,
Blank. and to be always at her
house. and running her errands. and
driving her car for her and play
ing tennis with her. and is out on
the links with her. don't be idiot
enough to laugh good -nauuedly at
his infatuation and congratulate
yourself that he's fallen in love
with woman old enough to be his
mother instead of With some girl
Of his own age that he might want
To inarrN.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-16
Parents Duty to Guard
Young Boys.

That is what the married tiirt
does for every young boy who
comes under her baleful influence.
She kills the high and holy things
for him. She Stays his enthusiasm.
Such an affair leaves a wound on
his soul that never heals.
1t is the duty Of parents to pro-
tect their young boys against these
vampires as much as they can. and
they are found even among Your
own friends Be craftily suspicious
Of any married woman who has a
horde Of Young cubs following her.
There Is only one woman on earth
who has legitimate liking for the
society Of Young boy, and that is
his own mother.