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I ceremony A MARRIAGE .MARKET I the records until with the keeper of city 30 days have elapsed. There is a title of $25 upon the officiat ing justice or preacher if the marriage MILWAUKEE HAS ONE AND BUSI is not recorded; If tlie groom is willing NESS IS LIVELY. to pay that much for secrecy no record is made. All through tlie law there are loopholes for scheming men and wo Bnt a Collapse la Threatened — One men to slip through. Preacher Ilan Married 3,079 Co u pies Milwaukee probably has double ti»l in Three Year«—Lax Marriatre Laws number of marriages of auy other city of W i.coti.ln — Prosperous Justices, In the Union, in proportion to popula I Instant, and if a crime is committed seem to be nothing to prevent farmers tion. While eloping couples from the which calls for swift retribution or a from installing telephone systems neighboring town and cities of this Profitable for Preacher«. chase after the offender the instant which would be independent of the The Milwaukee marriage market Is State come to have the knot tied, most in danger of a collapse. Not tliat there i of the business comes from Chicago. wings of electricity will aid in the pur- companies which charge such exor In Chicago tlie lawmakers evidently bitant tariffs. Private lines among is a slump in prices or a falling off (either lu supply or demand) of hy regard till' wedded state as a danger step toward easily and neighbors or lines to town, with a meneal material, but because tlv* high ous o’ie. for they make It hard to get cheaply constructing a farm telephone small exchange and switchboard in the er morality of tlie town lias made a into and easy to get out of. Divorces Hue Is to get the telephones. Cell bat- (»ostoffice or general store, could be can be easily obtained, but there are teries are a prime requisite, and can easily and cheaply Installed, and when all sorts of difficulties to overcome be ordered at any hardware store; so once in service the farmers would fight when you want to get married, particu <an tlie transmitter and receiver. It before relinquishing them. larly If secrecy is desired. It Is neces will take some studying to understand The practical utility of the independ sary to procure an expensive license just what part this equipment plays in ent telephone may be realized by tak and the publication iu tlie daily papers the whole ensemble, yet It Is simple ing the case of an Isolated settlement of the names of tlie parties mentioned and practical when projierly compre not on any railroad. Everyone must in the document makes secrecy almost hended. The barb wire fence should I«' drive to some other town to see any- ; impossible. That is why Milwaukee Is utilized where there are no breaks, and l»ody or to find out what is going on. If popular with elopers. The boats that The practical utility of having a where wire loops can be employed to they had a telephone line, even a sin They use it every day and near neigh come up the lake, especially on Sunday, bring scores of unmarried couples who ' telephone on the farm is fast being connect with other farms, Where this gle instrument in the settlement, the bors come into call up the town. It is return home as brides and grooms in demonstra tisl In many agricultural dis cannot be done, however, wire can be advantage would be enormous. The connected with an exchange, but p< >- the evening. Cases are known where tricts, and the system is bound to strung from tree to tree, across coun- original cost would be scarcely any pie are accommodating iu a small town boys and girls have got Into a flirtation spread. Outside of tlie business as(>ects try or along tlie highways. No Insula- thing. $10 or $15 perhaps. After that and if anyone wants a message trans oil the Ixiat and when they reached of the project, the social side of tlie tion is necessary, the wire being sim there is no expense and the conve muted to somebody there is no .rouble shore were married, half in jest. But question has helped on construction. ply fastened to the limb with staples. nience will never be appreciated until about its being delivered at the other From tlie experiments of a mere boy Sometimes bare spaces may need (Miles. tlie line has been In operation for end. They call up in the morning and the tie is binding. Willie all the preachers and not a there lias grown in one eastern section These iumm I not be the great, tall, well awhile. There are a hundred and one find out what price Is offered for some thing off the farm. If it is satisfactory few justices reap tlie financial benefit a system with sixteen wires, covering a bargain is made over the wire, per of these lax laws, the principal Itenefi- seven townships. The demand has haps, or decide to drive in with a wag ciaries are Rev. Wesley A. Hunsberger, spread, in tills Instance, for telephonic on. If tlie market is low a trip is saved. service, until now farmers miles apart D. I»., pastor of the Grand Avenue REV. WESLEY HUNSBERGER. The possibilities are endless. A tele Methodist Church, and Justices of the sit in their homes with receivers at gram arrives hit' at night. The opera protest against the business of marry Peace McWharter and Hayden. Tlie their ears, and listen to speeches, songs tor at the town can hasten to the wire, ing eloping coiqiles. For a number of location close to the boat docks is what and recitations sent whirling over the years tills trading In marriage cer brings them the trade. The latter have | wires, or express with one another, read the dispatch, and save a long and tificates lias been flourishing there anil runners at the dock to advertise that with readiness anil convenience, what tedious trip into the country. Another thing tliat will be brought shall be done to kill the weevil and about some day will be the storage of keep up tile price of wheat. the surplus energy developed by wind The farm telephone is the outgrowth mills in storage batteries and its use of no corporation, and no charge is to light farms and farmhouses by elec made for rates. It should either be a tricity. Tlie ouly drawback to the purely personal venture, or conducted < k ' scheme now is the great weight and on the lines of tlie Grange, for mutual considerable cost of storage batteries. Improvement and benefit. Tlie person -Vj But an immense amount of energy starting into this enterprise will find could lie accumulated by a windmill enthusiastic helpers. Farmers instant and converted inio electricity, stored up ly realize tliat they have an opportu .■mil later released to light up a *’arm- nity to build tlielr own lines at nominal house. Of course this would be chiefly cost. As the great bulk of tlie farmer’s available iu tlie winter when the business is, after all, with other farm evenings are short, because in tlie sum ers, and with local dealers in the near mer it is light until almost it o'clock, est town, lie Is practically independent and then the average farmer goes to of tlie long-distance companies, and bed. But that plan will lie developed serves all his needs by a short line to by-and-by and indeed 1ms been alreadv tlie town and to tlie homes of ids near in some places, but the expense under est neighliors. Tift' experiments al eaeb season lias seen nil Increase, t.iie present sy»t,.n is almost prohibi- ready made will soon become popular, waukee lias become the Gretna Green ve. and the near future will doubtless see of Chicago, and the entire West is There is no doubt but that in the city a farmhouse with a telephone as natu pointing the finger or shame at her. the telephone is a constant necessity rally a part of Its equipment as is a Tlie whole blame lies with tlie lax mar JUSTICE m ’ whartek ’ s marriage mill windmill or a cistern.. for tlie transaction of business. In the« riage laws of Wisconsin country it would seem to lie fully as ATTENDING THE CONCERT BY ’PI ONE. they will perform tlie ceremony cheap Communication between farmhouses necessary, where everyone is isolated ly and speedily, but. while they do a Itt time of peril or trouble has always and communication is necessarily slow good business. Dr. Huusberger catches been slow and tedious. Fire, murder, trimmed [>oles of the telephone com things that a settlement the cream, because there is a lingering robbery and other disasters which nat pany, but material cut In the woods, would want to get into communication and difficult by ordinary methods. For sentiment that marriage should be a urally enlist the sympathies of neigh and branches lopjied off. with a town for. If they had a line to every need of tlie farmer lie must drive religious ceremony. Dr. Hunsberger boring farmers are liable to occur al When a line is complete, part or all some near village they cotlid have mes to town, no matter how great tlie dis undoubtedly holds the marriage record most any time on a farm far away barb wire fence, or current carried sages transmitted over the long dis tance or how bad the toads. Often it of tlie country, having united 2,079 from its nelghlior. If the place Is left, aloft on a home-made line strung to tance wire to large cities, and if a farm means merely a trip both ways to order couples during the past three years. as is often the case, in charge of the trees, roofs and poles, the farmer has er wanted something in a hurry instead something by telegraph or to get some His fees have probably averaged $4 women while the men are at work far a decidedly new luxury secured at a of writing for it and waiting for the thing that might as well be sent out each a total Income for tlie three years away in the fields news of some im very low expense. An instrument com slow delivery of the mails there lie frolli the town. With tlie telephone of $8,316 from tills branch of his min portant hapiM'iiing can be transmitted plete costs but $6 and wire is $2.70 a could ca.. up his dealer in the city, or system in operation ills labors will be isterial work. One Sunday lie married only at the cost of a Jong journey, mile. If the liarb wire fence method is der I, by wire and have it come out by lightened incalculably and his time eight couples anil a memorandum iu Ids which many times is out of tlie ques ustMl the wire costs nothing, for it is al express tliat day. saved immeasureably. own writing shows tliat his receipts And. after all, the barbed wire fence In one of these settlements where a tion. But if on tlie wall of a farmhouse ready on the ground, strung anil ready for tills service were $76.50. The hangs a telephone connected with a for service. With hundreds of miles line Is now in actual operation it is system should commend itself to the preacher is not ashamed of his work. neighboring system a dozen or a score of barb wire fence practically continu claimed by its users that they abso farmer through its simplicity and its He says: farmhouses maj’ lie alarmed in an ous all over the country, there would lutely could not get along without it. ease of operation and equipment. “Men who rail against me for marry ing people— merely because they come In large numbers are like the foxes who concluded the grapes were sour when they found they were beyond t..eir reach. They become very bitter munity will ere long demand a repeal and full of acid, solely liecat.-ie they do of these statutes and the substitution of not get a part of tlie fees. It would lie others mole In accord with the Chris vanity for me to suppose tliat I marry tian sense of propriety. about 000 collides each year because I Rai WK IO AN ELECTRIC DRILL With It u Six-foot Bole Can Be Bored in One Minute. TOUTING KOK WEDDING CUSTOMERS. All a man needs to get married in Milwaukee is a girl. He may take lus first cousin, In case he cannot find a 15-year-old woman outside his own family who will have him. He will not have to bring the parents’ consent JUSTICE M WHABTER. If the parents live outside the State, Dor does It matter if the girl Is under 15. so long as she will mvinr tliat to be her age. No license Is required and the preacher Is not obliged to register am handsome or popular. 1 attribute tlie unique sltuatlou to the fact that my church Is the first one on the way up town from tin* excursion boats. People see the church. They conclude the par sonage is close by. It is the location, nothing else, that has caused the won derful marriage record for tlie Grand Avenue Church. No change should be made in the law which will Increase the expense of getting married. The mar riage ceremony should be made as cheap as possible. It will be better for the country anil society when we re turn to the habit of our forefathers and encourage marriage at tlie earliest pos sible age that is legal. I would favor more publicity. I have nothing to re pent or regret In my wedding record. I have been conscientious lu It all.” Justice McWharter, who has 1.000 knots, declares that he Is In business because It Is profitable Justice Hayden, who has a score of 481 for last year, says it pays his office rent and typewriter's salary. The economy and practicability of using electricity in mining coal has been demonstrated, ami its more gen eral Introduction should greatly cheap en the price of our winter fuel. Only a few days ago a Philadelphia operator said that in the course of a few years coal will probably Is* selling at tlde- holes are «irllhsl by electric power ef fects a great saving and largely in creased output. The weight of the drill represented, with post for a six- foot vein, is only 152 pounds. This can easily be handled by one man. The drill works so quickly that It takes the greater part of one man’s time to at tend to tlie feed mechanism and augers together with starting and stopping the drill, while the other man is arranging and picking the places for the holes. By the time he has another place ready the drill has finished the preceding hole and is ready to be moved. Two men can very quickly reset the drill and then get It startl'd again. This machine has drilled enough holes in ten hours to “shoot” or blast down 800 tons of coal In a seven-loot vein. It consumes about three-horse-power, and the one shown In the cut Is a Jeffrey machine. mark of distinction Merode ever re ceived. After that, when Leopold openly paid attentions to her and she and the gay old King had merry times in and out of Paris, there was gossip tliat spread throughout tile world. Merode Is young—Just past 20. She is slender and her features are small Her manner Is quiet and refined. A GAY PARISIAN. Cleo de Merode Is the Sensation of the I>ay in New York. New York music hall patrons have been worshiping at the shrine of Cleo de Merode, the gay Parisian beauty and ballet girl. Cleo's appearance cre ated a sensation among ttie gay New Yorkers. Her visit to New York is for the purpose of filling an engagement in one of the music halls, which will net her $1.500. At its conclusion she will return immediately to Paris. Merode’s fame and money-earning qualities rest ujion an uuevtable basis. Tons of Food Wasted. A weekly newspaper in London gives some curious facts as the result of re cent inquiries throughout the British metropolis and provinces into the sub ject of wasted food in workhouses. These show how tons of b ’end are wast ed every week and consigned to the swill tut». It is a common custom, also, it appears, in some workhouses to throw away plates of untouched meat. This Is owing to the hard and fast rules of the local government board. A fixed quantity of food Is ordered to be served to each inmate, whether it is wanted or not. and. as nothing is allowed to l»e used, a second time, all that is left be comes waste. Geniuses Gain Fame While Young. According to Professor Halleck over 80 i»er cent, of the greatest musicians, artists, poets, and scientists became fa mous before the age of 30. “In the case of the vast majority," said the Professor In a recent lecture in Phila delphia, “the brain attains its maxi mum weight by the age of 15. Exam ination of sections of the spinal cord have shown that between the time of birth and the age of 15 there has been CLEO I>X MEBODE. BORES A SIX-FOOT HOLE IM A MINUTE. 100 per cent, increase In the number water for the price now (»aid for min of developed nerve cells, while an In She is not a great singer, not even a ing It—namely, 45 cents a ton. crease of only 4.6 per cent, has been great dancer. In Paris she gets $10 a Enthroning an Archhi.hop. The picture shows an electric drill shown after 15. week for kicking up her heels in the Whenever a new archbishop of Can which is used for making holes in the ballet of the Grand Opera and no one terbury Is appointed he has to pay out ever discovered that she had talent in What Was Required. nearly $4.600 In fees before he can be face of the coal seam. It Is capable of “So you are the music teacher that any line. But she was beautiful and “enthroned.” Some of the recipients of drilling a six-foot hole in one minute. one night when King Leopold, the this tax are the officials of the board In this connection it is Interesting to answered my advertisement?" wicked old monarch of Belgium, sat in “Yea. sir.” of green cloth, the gentleman usher of note that coal undercut by machinery "Well, sit down here and play a cou the front row her shapely figure and the black rod and other similarly obeo- does not require as powerful cartridges handsome face appeared to him and he ; lete and useless functionaries. I for the blasting as coal undercut by ple of duets, so I can see what you can applauded her. That was the first hand, and the rapidity with which the do.”—Answers. More Territory for England. The rapid rise of the land about Hud son Bay is said to be the most remark able gradual upheaval of an extensive region ever known. Driftwood-covered t»eaches are now twenty to sixty or sev enty feet above the water, new islands have appeared and many channels and all the old harbors have become too shallow for ships. At the present rate thia shallow bay will disappear in a few centuriea, aiMing a vast area of dry land or salt marsh to British terri tory in America. , Somehow, when an old maid finally succeeds in getting married, her baby never looks Just right