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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
WHERE LIGHTNING KILLS.
Five Persons in Every Million Liable 80
Be Struck Dead-Ohio's Hard Luck.

Five Persons in Every Million Liable so
Be Struck Dead-Ohio's Hard Luck.
The weather bureau has issued
statement of damage to property and
loss of life through lightning in the
United States during nine years.
1t appears that 312 persons are an
nually killed by lightning in this count
rry. taking fair average. The worst
year was 1898, when 426 Americans
were destroyed in this way In 1898
the mortality was 367. In nine years
from 1889 to 1898, inclusive, five in ev-
cry million of the population We're kill
ed by lightning. The danger seems to
be least in large cities.
Farm hands furnished the most vic
tins. Ohio is the greatest sufferer, the
death rate by lightning in that State
being twenty-four in every hundred
thousand persons of the farming class.
The greatest proportion of fatal
strokes is found in the Missouri Val
ley. on the Great Plains and in the
Rocky Mountain region. In 1898, 1866
buildings We're damaged or destroyed
by lightning. involving loss of ST.
446, $50. During the same year light
ming killed live stock of value of S4S,-
257.
Much damage might be avoided by
grounding wires at intervals along
barbed wire fences.
So far as human beings are concern
ed practically all the deaths occur from
April t. September. the highest record
being In June and July.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
LIKE A SCENE FROM HADEs.
Traveller Comes on the yaudoux Dane,
in Depths of Haytian Forest.

Traveller Comes on the Vaudoux Dance
in Depths of Haytian Forest.
The night grows in round us again.
AS we top the next incline a scream
piefces upward to us. We push on.
Now you can hear the short, suller
bark of the Vaudoux drum, and, adj
yancing from behind a curtain of black
trees, in which are netted stars and
fre-fiies, we come in sight of a great,
red glow set in the heart of the forest.
A group of negroes are dancing round
the fires; 1T Is the wind-up of a three
days-long Vaudoux orgie. Two days
ago black goat was sacrificed to the
sacred snake, and the frenzy of the
Sorshipers is still unexhausted. There
they are, screaming, writing and
swaying, apparently blind to all out
ward things. You rein up your horse
to watch. They take no heed of you,
Tor they have no eyes in this remote
and lonely spot save for their excuses.
defe they are not afraid of interior
ence, not that interference is to be ex-
oected anywhere in the island, but here
In these wild districts, cut off from civ
ilization and the town by the shabby
and unmanageable mud OF the rainy
season and by the painless hills, they
omit all precaution.
Easily you can pick out the Mamaloi.
There she is in dirty white, bound
round the waist with red sash. Oppo-
site to her dances a large, fierce-eyed
splay-footed negro. The fires, the pos
turing black forms, the uncouth bowls
lit is like a scene from hades. You
may be the brayest man in the world,
but when you recollect that the proba-
bilities are hugely in favor of these
same people having sacrificed child to
their god at some date not too remote
your hand goes creeping to your re-
volyer.
When you grow tired of watching,
you turn and make a detour skirting
the far edge of the clearing, and finding
the track again you pass through de-
serted village, the inhabitants of which
are all at the Vaudoux dance. The fires,
which the negro always keeps a light
still shine, mere little glow-worms, on
the bare, brown earth.
While upon the subject of child-sacri-
flee, let me state that, although there
can be no doubt that at certain seasons
of the year, and more particularly at
Easter and Christmas, such sacrifices
do most certainly take place, still. re-
of what has been written upon
the subject, l strenuously believe that
no European, with the single exception
of one, has ever actually been present
on an occasion of the kind. The dead
child scientifically dismembered has fire.
quently been seen afterward, but the
actual ceremony excludes most rigor
ously all save the initiated.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
Another Civil War.

Sh.lI the United States of America
continue to be a free republic, and the
friend of free and struggling republics
everywhere, with equal privileges to
all? Or shall the United States become
imperial in fact if not in form, with
special privileges for the few, the
denial of the consent of the govern
ed" military rule over subject peoples
and unwarrantable corporate or trust
exactions from cur own people? Shall
we continue to stand upon the Declara-
ton of Independence and a strict con-
struction Of the Constitution, or are
they to become forgotten documents in
a new-fashioned era of heavy arma-
ments. great military budgets and vast
military establishments to Cypress the
people of our colonies, or In time, per-
haps. to overawe the people of our own
land?
Republic or empire, which? That is
the great question for the people to de-
ternine. 1t underlies and overshadows
and exceeds in its vital Importance all
other issues Of this last year of the
nineteenth century. Albany Argus.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21

A lady had issued invitations for a
dinner of twelve, and on the morning
of the appointed day, when comforting
with her footman, she discovered that
one of the twelve silver shells in which
scalloped oysters We're to be served had
been misplaced. Rigid search for the
missing article having proved unavail-
ing the lady decided that, sooner than
give up that course. she would simply
decline oysters when they were hand
ed TO her, and so the eleven shells
would be sufficient.
1t happened that when the oysters
were served st dinner the hostess was
engaged In a very animated converse
ton with some of her neighbors, and,
forgetting her determination, she took
one of the shells of oysters and set it
before herself.
If the servants heart fell in conster-
nation at this he gave no external sign
of Il, but, speaking in tones distinct
though low. said respectfully: Eek
cuse me. madam. but you said I was TO
remind you that the doctor forbade you
eating oysters. London Tit-Bits.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
For the Horses.

There is a deal of horse energy ex-
hausted in fighting flies.
Fresh, clean bedding is as welcome
to the tired horse as to the tired, or
hired, man.
Water horses often as possible; lit
tie at time is better than a deluge at
long intervals.
Better a shady outdoor feeding and
resting place at noon time than filthy.
hot, fy-infested stable.
Sunlight and fresh air in the stable
constitute the insurance policy
against sickness and death.
1t is asking a deal of farmer to do
much culrying of horses in the summer
season, yet the more Of it done the bet
ter for the horse.
Work the horses easily for the first
hour or so after eating. They can do
their hardest work easiest after the last
meal is partly digested.
1t is doubtful If any one little detail
of farming pays better than keeping
horse stables clean and sweet during
the summer. And If kept fiyIess there
is good profit in them.
Give little water before feeding.
even II horse is warm; then give hay.
and last good, clean oats; and give
good long incoming. Both man and beast
win do more and better work for IL
For sweet charity's sake, do not in
nict pain upon your horse. Cruel yank-
ing on the reins, stroke Of lasn or kick
from a heavy boot the patient. noble,
faithful horse should be stranger TO.
II he does not do your bidding on the
instant il is because he does not under
stand what you want Be patient The
abused horse-one that Is constantly *
pecting blow-cannot be as valuable
servant as the kindly treated one.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
Merely Conversational.

A young man, to make conversation,
said at garden party to a young girl
whom he had just met MY first name
is strange one. 1t begins with A. I
bet you can't guess ii" 81 shan't try"
said the girl Il have a strange first
name myself. It's Oleada." The
young man marveled over Oleda, asked
where it came from and what it meant.
"Oh, don't know the girl said I'D
have to ask my mother to find out I'd
be ashamed to do that. 1t would look
so foolish! What is your first name"
"AIine is ARABIA" said the youth. She
laughed heartily at ARABIA. "Oh, Ar
abar' she cried. isn't that terrible?
l never heard Of such a name. Where
did you get it?" The young man said:
"Read your Old Testament ARABIA
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
ONE COMMON AIM.
Democracy Presents a United Front
Against a Common Lnemy.

81
Against a Common Enemy.
-Four years ago Mr.. Bryan, amid
scenes of great excitement and bitter
ness, was suddenly called to.party lead
ership. This year he is summoned with
deliberation and with unanimity to the
same high place. -Four years ago his
nomination was resisted by nearly
third of the convention. There were
many boilers from the convention.
There was general dissensions among
Democrats, which led to open rupture
and the assembling of a convention
that put in the field alleged Democratic
opposition candidates. Now mark the
difference. There is no evidence any
where within the organization Of pro-
test or opposition. The convention was
unanimous, and it was not forced
unanimity of elements hiding secret OPP
position, but of people who believed in
the man and the cause he represents.
and whose agreement on a unanimous
nomination was the most sincere act
of their political lives. The Chicago
Chronicle, which four years ago OPP
posed Mr.. Bryan, now joining in hearty
and vigorous support of his election,
says: 1T may be stated with emphasis
that never in the history of the party
has Presidential candidate been
placed in the field with greater unanin-
ity or with more genuine eordiality on
the part of his supporters. 1t is plain,
therefore, that Mr.. Bryan has been a
growing man, and impressed himself
upon his party and upon the country
His energy, his zeal, his sincerity can
not be questioned even by his most i'm
placable foes. He is stronger to-day
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
SILENT SAM.


~ I was a strange conglomeration of
humanity that occupied the mining
camp in Rocky GuIch. Prospectors
and Adventures from all parts of the
globe were there assembled. There was
Red Mike; there was Badly Slick, who
had made and lost fortunes at the card
tables; there was Coyote Pete, who had
orcspected in every gold field upon the
face of the globe; there was Silent Sam,
so called because of his Discrimination
to join in conversation; and Talkative
Bob, who received his appelation for
a dissimilar reason; there was st. Louis
Joe, who dispensed liquor to the min
ers; and Tipsy Tim, whose sole ambi-
ton was to pan enough dust to keep
himself in chronic state of intoxica-
ton. There were others, but among
them all 70 representative of the gen.
tier sex until Joe Hardy-Honest Joe,
they dubbed him-drifted into the camp,
accompanied by his brave young wife.
Some way the camp seemed different
after Mrs. Joe" came There may have
been no less drinking, but there was
less brawling; there was perhaps just
as much gambling, but there was less
shooting; and when Joe's baby came
wave Of reformation actually swept
through the camp.
1t became the custom TO gathel
around Joe's cabin every Sunday, and
the baby was gazed at with mingled
awe and admiration. As months went
by Babe, as every one called her, de
VelOped cute and affectionate ways,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
Measuring a Tree.

Surprising a woodchopper in the
Maine rorest is told to get out mast
for a yacht. He knows that he must
find a tree which is straight for sixty
feet below the branches. 1t would be
very troublesome to climb trees and
measure them with tape measure, so
he, without knowing it, uses practical
trigonometry. He measures off sixty
feet in a straight line from the tree,
and then he cuts pole, which, when
upright in the ground, is exactly as tall
as himself This he plants in the earth
his own length from the end of his
sixty feet
For example, if he is six feet tall, he
plants his six-foot pole fifty-four feet
from the tree. Then he lies down on
his back, with his head at the end of
the line and his feet touching the pole,
and sights over the top of it. He
knows that where his eyes touch the
tree is almost exactly sixty feet from
the Weekly Bouquet.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
SELECTIONS FROM INCOMING FASHIONS.

Its bodice bloused frankly, and this ar
rangement is still fashionable, though the
belt must dip positively The dress re-
naming was a combination of silk and
cloth. White taffeta-surah gave its
skirt, and was embroidered at the knees
with gilt threads. The rest was dove
gray nuns yelling and white mingled
with the gilt of its embroidery These
cloth and silk combinations are being
pushed for early fall wear, but are not
being accepted so cordially as their beau
ty would seem to warrant. The light
weight cloths of to-day are delightfully."-
fine of texture, fit in every way for mat
ing with silks, and the combination
presents wide field for ingenuity in the
finish. Yet women are slow in adopting
them, though fashion leaders give their
Endorsement.
Copyright 1900
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
picture was white foulard figured IN law

picture was white foulard figured In Law
en5er. Yoke, collar and fchu were white
multi with trimming of lace in points and
point this fact even more plainly than the
Insertions. Black velvet supplied the
belt. This fchu arrangement is worth
consideration. Fichus are newer than
boleros more dressy than the simple
jacket finish and more easily contriyeG.
Delicacy must be their characteristic. In
the second picture the gown at the left
displayed another feature of bodice elab-
GRAFTON that is abundant. This was its
modified sailor collar. which was fine
duchess lace. Two bands of this lace
trimmed the skirt near the hem, but the
feature that dominated the skirt adorn-
ments was the pair of cream satin sash
ends embroidered in pale pink and green
silk floss. Sailor collars more or less
modified in form and in a wide range
of materials are plentiful, and more or
less of skirt trimming to match is de-
sirable, though not an essential, accom-
paniment. In the gown next this sailor
collar effect was outlined by narrow black
velvet run through its edge, and was not
matched in the skirt. Pink organdie was
the goods here. 1t was over white silk,
and was combined with all-over embroid-
cry run with the velvet. Compared with
these Two the remaining linen dress of
this trio was simple, yet it was quite
different from what is generally classed
as simple in linens. 1t was white, and
its trimmings were folds of scarlet duck
and bands of red and white braid Bought
as new designs, such gowns are away UP
in price, but the average dressmaker cal.
copy them reasonably.
Dotted fabrics are abundant in the
summary stuffs, and come in for as much
trimming as do plain goods. In the con-
Guiding picture is shown a gown of white
Swiss sprinkled with pale blue silk dots
and made over light blue surah. Its trim
mings were embroidery in light blue silk
floss, black chantilly and black velvet for
belt and bows. The dash of black for
light gown is an old fancy that holds
well. A genuinely simple dress was next
this. 1t is linen colored pongee and had
a stitched belt of the goods and a row OF
pearl buttons that counted as trimming
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
Notification of a Doctrine.

When the joint high commission fall
ed to dispose of Canada's newly con
ceived and stubborn pretensions to ter
ritory that would give her seaport for
her Yukon province at the expense Of
the integrity Of our own coast line, 1t
was announced that Secretary Hay
would take the controversy into his
own hands, separating 1t from other
questions in dispute with the dominion.
This rumor Of a provisional, prelimin-
airy and temporary recession from our
previously undlsputed frontier is the
first news from that quarter.
1t looks like proposition put forth
tentatively In order to ascertain
whether public interest is so much en-
crossed In the Presidential campaign,
in affairs in China and in other matters
at home and abroad that IT VIII either
tolerate with Indifference a surrender
Of territory or acquiesce submissively
N practical notification Of the Mon
roe doctrine.-New York Sun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
In the Wrong Place.

A characteristic story of General
Scott is told in connection with the
sword presented to him by the State of
Louisiana. through the Legislature. at
the close OF the Mexican War.
He was accosted one day by a man
who said. General Scott, 1 had the
honor of doing most Of the work on
the sword presented 10 you by the
State Of Louisiana. l should like to
ask il 1t was just as you would have
chosen
Its q very fine sword. sir. very
fine sword indeed" said the general
II am proud 10 have 1t. There is only
one thing should have preferred diff
ferent. The inscription should have
been on the blade. sir. The scabbard
may be taken from US, but the sword.
neyer!'
The sword cost about FIVE hundred
dollars, the principal expense being in
the scabbard. which was richly chased
and ornamented.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
do Fowls Need Exercise2

As fowls are ordinarily fed exercise
is positively necessary to enable them
to digest the food they take. A ration
of grain in large part and other things
in small part means that the fowls
will have to develop muscle and energy
to do the work of grinding. But it is
possible to so feed the fowls that exer-
else will not be of any value. This is
shown by the French method Of fatten-
ing fowls. They are shut up in cage
and fed on soft mash several times
day. They are given no room at all for
exercise, yet keep perfectly healthy and
develop meat and fat at great rate
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21

Up-to-date Farming tells what per-
feet winter wheat should be. 1t should
mature early, as a few days delay in
harvesting may give rust, blight or in
sects a chance to injure the crop. and
it must be prolific in yield. One vari-
ETY. will often produce twenty bushels
or more above the yield of another on
same soil and simila- conditions. It
should have stiff straw to prevent the
stems from falling or lodging before
harvest, which will result only in
shrunken and imperfectly matured
grain. It must be hardy in winter. as
some varieties winter kill much more
than others, and it should have a thin
skin. Some kinds have so thick skin
that there will be several pounds more
of bran and less OF -four than with 9th
er thinner-skinned sorts, which makes
them undesirable for the miller. Can
al these qualities be combined in one
variety. and who win first offer such
variety to the pubEc2
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
Maybury a strong Candidate.

The Democratic party has given the
people of Michigan a gubernatoriai
candidate of the older school-no brag.
no buster, no bosSism, no blutfing, no
intimidation, no fake reforms" If
the people of the State are dissatisfied
with the reckless and corrupt manner
in which the affairs of the common
wealth have been administered they
have it in their own power to bring
about better state of things. If they
desire a government that is not the
plaything of demagogues on the one
hand and corporate interests on the
other, the opportunity is theirs. They
can find no fault with the candidate
They can find no fault with the plat
form on which he stands.-Detroit
News
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
Thinning Potato Plants.

An experiment well worth trying is to
thin out the plants in each hill of pota-
toes-with view of reducing the guam
tity of small potatoes-to one stalk in
each hill This must be done before
the tubers are formed. The rows
should be at least three feet apart and
row. While results from this practice
have been really wonderful, it is adj
vised that each person try it on small
plot before going into it extensively.
Not only were all of the tubers of good,
marketable size by this plan, but the
yield was wholly satisfactory.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
lie. Mrs. Joe had a Bible. and Silent

pie. Mrs. Joe had Bible. and Silent
Sam was asked to read chapter. He
did so, and then the little form was
lowered into the messy bed prepared
for 1t. One by one the men passed the
open grave, tossing in their last offer
ing to Babe, fresh blooming flowers
gathered from the mountain side, anc
as they turned from the grave they
each took Joe and his wife by the hand
in silent sympathy.
Silent Sam was the last to clasp their
hands, and as he did so he said:
"Good-by, Joe; good-by, Mrs. Joe.
I'm going home to my little Teller an
the woman."-Buffalo News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
wisconsin's Deep Well.

The well on the grounds of the Good
Shepherd, in the town of Wauwatosa,
Wis, has been bored to the depth of
$3.50 feet, one of the deepest wells in
the world. The contractor has con-
cluded that he cannot obtain a flowing
well and therefore stops. The water
rises within eighty feet of the surface,
and is soft, limpid, of excellent quality
for drinking, for washing or culinary
purposes, and is in such abundance as
to furnish water sufficient for the needs
of 1900 or 5000 persons. The water
will fave to be pumped up by an en-
CINE, which will cost $500, ana then the
institution will have all the water it re
quires for century to come.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
Covers for Hay Stacks.

A farmer of Jewell County, Kansas,
says the covers he made for his alfalfa
hay last fall cost him $50, and that they
preserved more hay than you could put
in a thousand-dollar barn. He sawed
sixteen-foot 2x4's in two, bolted the
ends together, placed them six feet
apart over his stacks and nailed on sid
ing, making a complete roof in six-foot
panels. He bored holes in the down
hanging ends of the 2x4's and tied
weights to them to keep the wind from
blowing them off. His alfalfa comes
out as green sqnd bright as it was the
day it was put up. He says the covers
paid for theIhselves this season, and
they will last for years.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
Why Not Divide CHM ?

If Imperialism is good thing, why
not now join with the other world
powers" in the partition of China? We
have much better reasons for Selling
slice of that empire than we had for
taking the Philippines. 1t is larger
field, both for our trusts and FOR our
missionary statesmen" At the pres
ent rate of progress the E1lipinos will
soon all be clvilized-that is to say,
dead-but In China Hanna would have
unlimited scope for "Christianizing"
the heather. Columbus, Ohio, Press
Post
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21

protects both buyer and seller. We once
heard huckste. say that Nc man was
fit for peddler who could not get forty
quarts of string beans out of bushel,
and clerk more anxious to please his
customers than to serve his employer
will not get much more than three
pecks out of the bushel. The legal
weight for spinach, daDdelions and beet
green's there is twelve pounds to the
bushel, but we have seen farmers pack
fifteen or sixteen pounds in a bushel
box, and have seen the retailer make
two pounds I'LL a peck measure. which
would give about eight pecks to the
bushel box.