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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-29
Time for PRUNING.

Do not prime your trees unAl the
sap has gone cut Of them, and then
prune very sparingly.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-29
Runcoed.

Been taking in any of the country
fairs?"
i've been taken in at most Of 'em.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-29
Tlred Of Il.

Taking anything for your hay
fever?"
yes; I'm taking boxing lessons to
wallop the first man who gives me
free advice"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-29
When all others fail to please
Try Denlson's Coffee.

A little fish in small puddle imag-
ines he is big.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

From the Portland. Ore, Telegram.
 TIT is given out by the Alliance Elm
 ployment bureau of New York that U the average wage of untrained chil- dren who have been working for six months is S4.30 week; that of the trained children $6.S0. Of the children who had worked one year the trained earned $9.5o A week. while the untrained received $o10. Covering a period of two years work the weekly wage of untrained children was $5s5, and of the trained $lO.s4.
 These figures are the product Of care fully kept records and deal with large number of children who, for one req son and another, leave school at the age of IA years or whereabouts and engage Tn some gainful occupation. The training implies some measure of industrial in struction either in the school itself or ih work outside the school.
 In the conditions from which these figures are taken there is raised the question of industrial instruction for chil- dren from a dozen years old and on, ana especially for boys of that age, and i9ci- dent to that there is also the ques- tion of industrial opportunity, or the privilege and, indeed, the duty of teacn- ing children of those years to engage in some congenial and useful occupation
 Sometimes it is apparent that there is danger of over zeal in keeping the child of tender years away from work, and oc- ca casionaly that is the fact, even where the child either by choice or necessity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS

From the Baltimore Sun.
 DHARLEs FRANCIS ADAMS was ,2ne of the Americans of distin- shadowed by ancestral fame. The second President of the United States was his great-grandfather, and our sixth Presi- dent was his grandfather. His father filled a large and important role in our national history as minister to England during our civil war and displayed tal- ents of the first order during period and at post which demanded extra ordinary strength of character as well His son. Charles Francis Adams, who has passed away at his winter home in Washington, had the good fortune not only to belong to a family of eminence, but the better fortune to be able to do it credit. Nature, as a rule, does not en- tail her mental gifts. The great man appears in the most unlikely places and generally disappears without leaving any intellectual heirs.
 The Adams family is one of the few in our political history that has kept it's members to the front in our public life from the begin ming to the present time; and the repre- sentative whose career has just closed supported the family tradition with no small measure of the family ability, and with all the courage and independence characteristic of his stock. A soldier in his youth, a railroad president, tariff reformer, an author, his long life touched
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

the history of his country at many inn portant points, from the opening of the civil war to his death. He typified the Massachusetts mind and the Massachu- setts character at it's best. He was sim gularly free from sectional narrowness, and, though he fought for the union, peculiarly appreciative of the southern point of view and of the greatness of southern leaders like General Lee. The south will always cherish his memory with especial gratitude as that of a gen erous antagonist who did full justice to her motives and her record The old fashioned Virginia or Maryland states man and the old-fas shioned Massachu- setts statesman were. after all. very close together, because they were gen erally gentlemen to start with, men of good breeding, of honor. courage, who were too large of soul to harbor petty malice, and of too broad a patriotism to cherish small animosities.
 MT. Adams made himself into con- meeting link between the sections, and his clear, broad and philoso- phic studies of the civil war have exercised an important influence in modifying northern historical criticism and giving to the present generation of students outside of the southern zone a new viewpoint of that great contest. Let us hope that the fine, strong Amer ican strain of public men whom the Adams family has given the country for many years will not die out with the manly and lovable gentleman whose eventful life has just been concluded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

hazarded a guess as to the identity of ths successor of Paul Cook. :
 Jack Betlea hinted that Doe Roberts had aspirations of becoming bard and was ably supported in the idea by Charley Greer. However, on being queried. the ascetic political scribe derided the impu- tation with scorn. A few more days passed and the "TIomely Homilies' disap peared and were replaced by 'Syds Serib- blings." By this time Charley Greer was positive that Ralph Silver was the mys- terious "syd." but Jack Bethea asserted. that he had straight tip that Ellis C.. Hollums was the guilty party.
 When Silver was informed of the grave. suspicion against him he talked fight and only the remonstranees of several seribes kept him off Greer. while sHonums was so shocked at the apparent treason of his friend Bethea that he partially collapsed.
 With angry denials on all sides from Silver, Roberts, Hollums and Charley Mandy of the authorship of "Syds Scrib- blings the mystery deepened until Allen Krebs, the newest cub intimated that Sydney Lazarus, who is a mattress manu-. facturer and well known civic booster. was really the author of "Syds scrih- blings" The announcement was received by the midnight crew very calmly and everything would have been lovely if Charley Greer had not remarked:
 Well, I guess the European war also affected the mattress business.''
 But it turned out that Syd was only try ing his hand for awhile just to show what he could do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
NEWSPAPER CLUB STORIES

Former Lieut.. Gov. Henry B. Gray
 has recently purchased Hudson Six and
 he's tickled to death with his new car and
 is learning to drive it himself'' observed prominent club member yesterday. "The governor is certainly good booster for
 the Hudson, and he is equally as proud of being his own chauffeur. Now, of course as everybody knows.
 even the cleverest of us cannot become expert ehauffeurs in a few lessons. and there are always those who are a little timid about driving with a novice The l lieutenant governor, however, ignores the fact that he is beginner, and so a few evenings ago he invited pretty young lady to go out with him in his new car
 and she promptly accepted the invitation
 The lieutenant governor, who does every l thing that he attempts just little better | than anybody else, was getting along fla ! mously. he thought. and as they sped around Highland avenue in the big Hud- i son after pause in the conversation, the pretty girl looked shyly up at him and i'm nocently said:
 Governor. can you drive the car with one hand yet?" -
 Quick as flash, with his inimitable
 wit, Governor Gray came back with the reply:
 No; but I can stop the darned thing" A few days ago column under the cap ton of 'Homely Homilies.' appeared on the editorial page of The Age Herald over the signature of "Syd," and when noticed by the boys in the office several
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10

til it resembled Minnesota skating rink in January.
 Shut off the water from the street, please" pleaded Dubinski.
 'I'll do no such thing" retorted Mulcarty, flor the honorable court told me to keep hands off that water key"
 And so the water kept on flowing and freezing as it flowed until Dub inski hunted the judge and secured mandamus forcing Mulcarty to shut off the leak.
 But, through it all, Mulcarty saved himself from contempt-but he didn't save a doctors bill, for Dubinski caught him unawares and cracked his head with a brick.
 Moral: Don't walk so straight that you lean backward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
The Free Dispensary Building

Birmingham is to have the largest and most modern free dispensary building in the south, with the excep- tion, perhaps, of one in New Orleans. A few years ago small wooden building was fitted up for a tenn porary free dispensary to be operated as department of the medical branch of the University of Alabama, estab- lished in this city. So great was the demand for an institution of this kind where the walking sick" could be treated and supplied with medicine free of charge that prominent mem bers of the medical profession and President Denny of the university agreed that Birmingham's temporary quarters should be replaced by a large, modern building of brick con- struction. A money raising campaign was then inaugurated. Although it followed close after a whirlwind cam paign in behalf of long established and popular institution, the subscrip- tions totaled something like 5000 sum sufficient to justify the uni versity authorities in starting the work of construction. It is stated that of the amount subscribed $22, 1000 has been paid. The architects plans have been accepted and shortly ground will be broken for the build ing, which is to be completed by Oc- tober 1.
 The new dispensary will cover a large area. It will be three stories high and will be handsome in appear snce. It will cost not less than $30, ,0O0, and when it is furnished the total outlay will represent at least $35,00O. President Denny and those who are aiding him in this free dis pensary enterprise hope that some of Birmingham's we'll off and gen. erously disposed citizens will come forward within the next few weeks with proffers of financial assistance,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
BenZ0l

Since Birmingham will soon have plants making 15,000 gallons of benzol daily, great many people are asking what is benzol? Where does 1t come from? What is it good for?
 In reply to these questions The Age Herald will publish tomorrow full page genealogical tree" of the Patriarch Goal Tar" and his hun dreds of descendants. Benzol and toluene, both of which will be recov- cred here from coal gas, are promi- nent members of the great "coal tar family, with numerous decendants of their own.
 Sundays chart will show the vari- ous aniline dyes that are made from benzol.
 It will show the various well known drugs and chemicals coming from the light oil group to which benzol be- longs, including benzene, benzoic acid antipyrine, acetylene, paraffin and score of others.
 It will show benzol to be an owr brother of phenol, from which comes aspirin salol, phenacetine, resorcin, galic acid and numerous others.
 In other words it will answer just the questions you have been asking. It will show you which of the "coal tar" family yields chewing gum, which yields explosives which lubri- cants, which illuminants and dozens of other things.
 It will demonstrate to you how gas from Birmingham's coal is about to yield practically everything from in- digo to benzoin, from ethyl violet clear through the spectroscopical scale of rainbow hues to flaming red
 When you were boy, did you ever hear of putting Thigh life' on dogs back to see him cut up? Well, Thigh life" is carbon disulphide, an owr child of benzol.
 Scores of other interesting facts will be shown in tomorrow's chart which by the way was prepared by Benjamin Nuckels, F. c. S., F. l. C.. and revised by Wallace c. Nuckels F. c. S., both of London, so it is au. thoritative. It will appear in Sundays Age-Herald through the courtesy oi Samuel Rand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS
n the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the C1nclnnatl Enquirer.
 One reason why poker is the great American game is because you do not have to wait until the next day and get news
 paper to see whether you won or lost.
 Some marriages result so happily that
 the wife judges the husbands s true worth
 by the amount of insurance he carries.
 Maybe if woman would talk less her
 husband would talk more and she wouldn't
 have to do so much guessing.
 The flame of love is grand thing. But
 it takes a weekly pay envelope to keep
 the pot boiling after you get married.
 The trouble with a lot of the suffra- gettes is that they carry their platform in their faces.
 Do not complain because the lad who was graduated from college had to take a $12 a week job selling groceries. He
 might have developed into a genius and then his family would have had to SUD- port him.
 If the Smithsonian institute ever in- tends to make collection of American Stuffed Idiots it had better get busy now before some of the state legislatures ad- journ and the specimens scatter to their native barnyards.
 If a mans fingers are crooked from hard work he is ashamed of them. But If he got them crooked playing baseball heis mighty proud of them. One advantage of being poor is that you can buy an antique chair for a dime at a junk store But if a millionaire wants to buy an antique chair he has tc go to an antique store and pay 5000. Cheer up What you consider bad ,ucl, would be regarded as good luck by some people.
 Consider the thermometer. It ofter takes a drop too much at night but that doesn't prevent it getting up early the next morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
GOSSIP IN LONDON
From the Philadelphia Evening Tele-

From the Philadelphia Evening Tele-
 graph.
 The whole street creaks with officers, says the London Daily Sketch. Here clothes look as though they could only have been made yesterday, so new are the outlines of her widespreading skirt, and the tilt of her little hat, but she is un- disnayed that passers-by do Iiot look at these wonders, but only fall to arguing as to the exact significance of the red band around her officers cap.
 It is banality to say that Bond street is like the Rue de la Paix. It is no more like the Rue de la Paix than St. James park is like Versailles. The Rue de la Paix is obvious to the stranger. It is, as a thoroughfare, spectacular, inviting, while Bond street Is intimate and almost secret. Bond street has something of the serenity of the High street of county town, where nobody need advertise be- cause everybody knows everybody, and there is nowhere else to go. It is the tuck shop of Mayfair, just as Hyde park is it's
 
 down it's pavements with the secure air of children on their own garden paths.
 The Society of the Sons of the Amer ican Revolution In New York state re- ceptly presented an address to President Poincare on the subject of educating young people in the public Achools in America as to the aid France gave the United States in the early days of the American revolution.
 Paris does not seem so depressed as I expected to find it, but at night it is very dark, and the orders are very strict that shutters must, be closed and the blinds dra wn before the lights are lit,' writes an American in Paris to the Evening Tel egraph. The little shops which open in the street have but dim light, and that one shaded mostly by dark papers on the street side.
 .'To start what I should have said in the beginning Is that of course I looked up the boxes in Havre. Six were on the Roehambeau, which a French gentleman who was on the boat kindly saw shipped directly to Paris. I saw the agent who they said handled nearly everything that went to the American ambulance.
 .I motored out twice to the American ambulance; in fact, I have spent all my time there. It is really thrilling what America has done to aid suffering human ity. 1t seems to be the most tremendous thing that has ever been attempted. l know those working for it want to hear about it, so have tried to get something written by someone working there and who would know. There are two large class rooms which can be used as wards. One is called New York and one Boston. Of course, I was anxious to see a Phila- delphia ward. The only one I saw had eight beds in it, but l was told by the committee that there were five such wards, making 40 beds in all. There are several men running ambulances I know who can probably tell me a lot about their work, which is a very important branch. One thing I was told was that everything from Philadelphia was of the best''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
WAR ECHOES

Buffalo Evening News: Why concern ourselves with the Mexican affair."! IS recurring question that usually marks the end of debate on conditions to the south Of us.
 Perhaps the report of Consul w. E. All ger of Mazatlan is the best answer to this query. We are, first and last, a com mercial nation At such times as modesty is otherwise employed we take advan- tage of it's absence and boast of being the greatest commercial nation in the world. Unless we disregard this, then, the Mex icap situation is continuously important to us.
 Consul Alger cites trade incident that doubtless obtains throughout the republic
 Nearly two years ago a firm in Mazat- Ian ordered three carloads of blows and other agricultural implements. These ar ticles are still at Nogales, Ar1z.' tnere having been no propitious time for for warding.
 The American implement business 1T Mexico has, in times of peace, amounted to many millions of dollars annually Anything that discourages the exchange of goods for money is to be corrected. promptly.
 Louisville Herald: If Italy actually joins in the war. it will be fought wholly on territory inhabited by Italians. Thai is a very great advantage.
 Geographically considered, the border. land between Austria and Italy is Italian ethongraphically nearly as much so, al the populations using the Italian language From the Pass of Stelvio, where tho boundaries of Italy. Switzerland and Aus tri.l join, to the northern end of the Lake of Garda, to Borpheto. to Monte Piom bino the extreme northernmost point O the Italian line, and then east-so it runs Here there is no natural frontier but jus an open plain and. for a few miles. { canal.
 The salient of the province of Tren and the southern Tyrol is virtually sonl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
OUR LITTLE PRAYER

From the Andalusia Star.
 The classic little prayer that always ap- pears or this page is written by Dr. Henry M. Edmonds of Birmingham, and is taken from the editorial page of the Bir- miIgham Age-Herald. The Star is diia- tory about giving proper credit This should have been done long ago.
 Editor E. w. Barrett of The Age-Her- aid Is entitled to credit for a happy thought and Dr. H. M. Edmonds is doing great good with his brief daily appeals.
 These little prayers are widely read, showing full appreciation. Perhaps one dozen country weeklies in other states clir these little prayers from the Star and reproduce them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
A Trifle Too Straight

Here's the story of a man who didn't propose to take any chances whatever on getting himself into contempt of court, and it goes to verify the old saying that "it is pos sible for man to be so straight that he will lean backward"
 It happened, this little incident did, in Omaha, Neb Omaha is a great town for double tenement houses one-story buildings with a partition all the way through the middle from front to back and family living on either side.
 On one side of this particular tene- ment lived Dubinski On the other side lived Mulcarty. A common water pipe served both families. Dubinski was surly type of man and he con- plained that the Mulcarty family had shut off the water, the key to the etlCCt SOuAlCCtiOh pCiiS oii luc Aul- carty side of the house. Mulcarty ad- mitted that he had temporarily shut off the water, but explained that he did it for fear the water pipes would freeze and burst, the weather being exceedingly cold at that time.
 Dubinski hurried to court and ob- tained restraining order enjoining Mulcarty from in any way thereafter tampering with the water connection
 Next day Mulcarty's prediction came true. The pipes did burst-and the rift came on Dubinski's side o1 the house ard filled his basement un-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
Fifty Years After Appomattox

Yesterday marked the fiftieth an- niversary of Lees surrender at Ap- pomattox. There are still many sur vivors of the war-thousands of those who fought for the Lost Cause-and all of them must have recalled with profound emotion that Hateful 9th of April, 1865, when one of the bloodiest conflicts in history came to an end.
 With peace restored the building up of the waste places began. Sectional bitterness continued for sometime, however; continued throughout the reconstruction period and a little while after. But when the war feeling did die out north and south became more firmly united than they had been in ante-bellum days. No nation could be more strongly joined together than ours is today, and in recent years the veterans of the Union army and the veterans of the Confederate army have vied with each other in paying tributes to the heroic dead who fought on the opposite side.
 The thought of Appomattox will always bring tender memories, but there is no ranking. The principles for which the men of the COS battled are still cherished, but when the Con- federates, outnumbered and wasted, accepted the arbitrament of the sword, the cause was relegated to history. The south is distinguished for it's patriotism; and after the bloody chasm, which had been kept open for several years by certain class of politicians, was closed it was not long before southern prosperity was in full swing. The progress of this section has been marvellous indeed. The Baltimore Manufacturers Record of this week contains valuable article -"After Fifty Years in the South: An Inspiration" It begins with this paragraph: eff anybody had under taken fifty years ago, when the hope of the Southern Confectionery died, to forecast in detail that the eleven states constituting it would in 1915 surpass in practically every material way the whole United States of 1865, he would probably have been regarded as a wild dreamer. But the facts of today would have vindicated his judg- ment and faith"
 And then follows table of illu- minating figures.
 As the mind turns to Appomattox, old and young alike should feel the heartstrings played upon, but in re- viewing the past sentiments of peace and good will are uppermost and in looking to the future all the men who have done their part in upbuilding are animated now more than ever by a desire for noble achievement in the working out of this country's destiny.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-10
TRAINED AND UNFRAMED

would engage in some gainful occupation. the fact that he experiences sense of manliness when he earns his first dollar. There is no man of average experience in life but cherishes a pleasant memory of that first dollar he earned. He re-, garded that event as the dawn of his in divdual independence, and it was practi- cally that.
 There is the hope, and some progressive striving, to arouse this spirit in the boy while he is yet in school. But we have made but bare beginning, and it will be years, probably past the present genera ton of boys, before the system that we hope for will be developed to anything like perfection.
 The point is, that a big percentage of boys do, and in many cases must leave school, because they and their families have come to the realization that what they will learn in school will not contrib ute to the main business of getting a liv- ing, and that is the present and the press ing duty. It is right at this point that the future and improved school system will keep an educational grip on that boy, per he must in the meantime.
 Industrial training, whether it be given in or out of school, provided it is given under proper conditions, is good for the boy, and we should not establish any le- gal age limit that will arbitrarily deprive the boy of it's benefits.