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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10

Many farmers will find the rake a
very convenient implement for gather
ing field-sown peas. They should be
raked out when they are damp, the
windows Immediately loosened and
made into punches of the proper size
for loading. They can then be drawt
in when dry without much loss b}
Smelling. l SOW three and one-halt
bushels of the larger varieties to the
acre with the drill. sowing early and
as deep as possible. / find it is better
to leave the surface of the soil ridged
so that when the vines so down, the air
having a better chance to circulate un.
derneath they are not so apt to spoil
Good results have been obtained show.
ing three bushels to the acre checked
G. T.. Campbell.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10
SHE GOT HER BOTTLE OF INK.


But the Parcel Was Big Enough to
Contain Safe.
One woman who lives in Pine avenue
went shopping. This happened last
Monday. She left her home with purple
plumes in her bonnet, and she lost not
one of them in her trip downtown.
She had read an advertisement in a
Sunday newspaper. 1t told her that she
could buy a bottle of ink for l cent.
The woman bought the ink for penny
and asked that it be delivered to her
home. The clerk said nothing. Neither
did the man in the parcel-room. He
worked by himself. Delivering penny
purchase was ripe walnuts to the man.
Next day a wagon with a silk hated
man on the drivers seat and freckle-
faced boy as tiger on the rear step
rolled up in front of the house in Pine
avenue.
The freckle-faced lad ran up the
steps and crushed the electric button
with a thumb which he had used but a
few moments before in shooting
craps" This game, by the way. is one
of chance. He held in his arms a box
OF goodly size. The woman of the house
opened the door
Mrs. SO and SOP" asked the boy with
the freckles.
Yes was the woman's reply.
Kindly receipt this slip"
why, | have nothing coming in such
bulk" the wGE2an said.
But you are So and So?" the free
Killed. boy inquired.
YES" declared the woman. but
there must be mistake"
However the box was taken to the
kitchen and opened with sledge and
hammer. Excelsior was strewn upon
the floor in the woman's wild endeavor
to solve the secret OF the Enclosure. 1t
c!ung in yellow strands about the pipes
of the sink. pulled its way into the door
leading to the wild roses in the back
yard and clogged the passage to the
dining-room.
Then the woman in Pine avenue
found her 1-cent bottle of Ink. 1t was
in the center of this great wad of shaw
ings.
The man in the parcel-room was one of
jest and merriment. He rolled nonsense
into joke and enjoys the fun. even if
it did cost a penny or two more to the
frm.-Chicago Chronicle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10
OREGON RUNS ASHORE
ACCIDENT REPORTED TO THE
BIG 6ATTLESHlP. I
Famous American Man-of- Wer Said
TO Have Met with Most Serious
Disaster North of Chefoo, OF tho
Coast of China.

1t was reported from Shanghai Friday
that the United States battleship Oregon
which sailed from Hong Kong to join
Admiral Kempff's squadron at Taku.
was wrecked on Thursday night on an
unknown rock four miles south OF the
How-k light The How-ki light is on
small island of the Miao-Tao group, fifty
miles north by west of Chefoo. A steam
err OF the Indo-China Navigation Com
pany was sent to the assistance OF the
Oregon.
Something akin to CONSERVATION was
created among officials in Washington
when they heard of the going ashore OF
the battleship Oregon on the coast OF
China near Chefoo. They were lcath tc
believe the report because of so much
unreliable information having recently
been sent out from Shanghai. Aside from
this, they argued that the Oregon has
been considered the luckiest battleship
in the navy, and is under the command
Of Captain Wilde, who has the reputa-
ton of being one Of the most cal sfuE
sailors in the navy. The loss of tho
Charleston, however, was recalled, and
one naval officer was loud in his denun-
citation of the defective charts Of those
waters that are necessarily used by naval
commanders for the want Of more accu-'
rate guides TO navigation. This officer
said that the accident probably was due
to one of these charts being followed too
closely. The Oregon had ON board in adj
dition TO its regular crew 164 sailors and
marines brought TO Hong Kong from MAJ
Mia by the Zafro. The distance the bat
tleship had to travel was about 1,500
miles
The battleship Oregon excited the Won
der of naval men all over the world by it's
long voyage and the leading part it took
in the battle of Santiago at the close of
the journey. The trip covered distance
greater than half way around the world.
yet soon after the ships arrival in GU
ban waters, with no time for reftting, the
battle of Santiago was fought, and in
that contest the Oregon won highest hon
ors.
The ship was begun in 1901 at the
Union iron works in San Francisco. at a
contract price of $3,lS0,000 and was
launched on Oct %. 1894. 1t made it's
official trial run on May II, 1896, exceed
ing the required speed to such a degree
that the builders earned a bonus of $175,-
600 The speed developed was 1918
kuots an hour, the bonus being $4,000
for every onc-quarter knot over fifteen
knots. This performance elated the build
ers, and the City of Portland showed it's
appreciation by presenting Il silver SER
vice valued at $4,000 to the ship.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10

The enthusiasm of seedmen frequent
ly leads them to make statements in
their catalogues that are not borne out
by actual practice under all conditions.
A given forage crop may produce
abundantly under favorable conditions
in climate very different from that of
Oklahoma. A forage crop that does
well here may yield very poorly else
where. For this reason farmers every
where should be cautious before buy
ing largely of untried seeds and plants.
There is an experiment station in each
State that is on the watch for new and
good things, and these stations are in a
position to know the truth about such
things. - s.-s r -,
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promised to do all sorts of things which
the last Congress might have accom-
plish@d had the Republicans been sin
core
McKinley and ImperiaIism.

Those who desire to maintain the gov
eminent of the United States in the
form which has given freedom to its
citizens and opportunity to all its pe0-
pie should fight the Republican party
with unfailing persistency and courage.
Mckinley has shown by his acts that
he is opposed to the principles upon
which this government was founded,
and that he fayors Imperialism, thing
which is greater menace to this eoun-
try than was the doctrine of secession.
And that the Republican party pro-
poses to support Mckinley and his i'm
perialistic ambitions is shown by the
platform adopted by the Republican
national convention at Philadelphia. In
all the turgid rhetoric of that document
there can be found no reference; to the
declaration of independence nor the
constitution. Both of these immortal
documents are opposed to Imperialism
and, therefore, neither of them could be
referred to by the makers of the Re
publican platform, intent on establish
Ing lIApCl III lHc OAttcu DldlcS.
All the issues which are opposed by
the freedom loving people of this cohn-
try are Endorsed. Imperialism, milf
tarism, the trusts and the tariff. to say
nothing of the single gold standard,
are defended in set terms or approved
by implication. Assuming to denounce
trusts, yet approving commercial COM
bines in the Introduction of this resolu-
ton, the platform stands as a weak con-
tradicti0n to the facts.
During McKinley's administration
nearly a thousand monopolies have
been created with combined capita!
of five thousand millions of dollars, and
not one step has been taken by the Re
publican attorney general or the Re
publican congress to curb this creation
of trusts. Hanna represents the COM
bines, and Hanna contracted the con
vention, declared the platform and NOM
mated the candidates. The issue is
made up. Do the people want Hanna.
Mckinley and Imperialism, or Bryan
and free government ?-Chicago Dem
ocrat
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10
sha,.o, Of webster ana calhoun !,


Senator Thurston of Nebraska has
discovered that Mark Hanna is an ora
tor This is very kind of Mr.. Thurs
ton, who will not succeed himself in
the Senate, and who would probably
not object to some recognition at the
hands of another Hanna Mckinley adj
ministration. How the Nebraska Sen
ator could have seen anything in Han
mas address at Philadelphia more than
vulgar, arrogant, bullying self-asser-
ton, it is hard to understand. Hanna's
utterances were those of a man men
tally bloated with the idea of his own
selfimportance, and the only credita-
BILE thing about them was that they
were evidently original. No secretary
worthy of the place would have franz
ed such composition. 1t was Hanna
throughout, domineering, dictatorial,
egotistical, the incarnation of vulgar
pluctocracy, the fitting master and
mouthpiece of the trusts whose motto
is money. and who Will tolerate schol-
arship only in so far as it is their tool
and their slave.
Hanna an orator. Shades of Daniel
Webster. of Clay, of Calhoun. Sumner,
and T.incolni To such base sycophaney
has the Republican party come at last
under the rule of the trust juggernaut
of which Hanna is the fitting symbol
New York News
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10
THE RIVERS GOSSIP.

DE river talk on ever han
he gossip FIR en- free;
lie know de secrets er de Ian,
En- tell 'um ter de sea.
lie run long whar de garden grow
Wen Springtime melt de snow;
He tell de Sea Win, EFF you blow
Dat way you'll fin rose"
lie Lily in -e syarden spot
Say, Rock me. please, ter resp
he take de fines err de lot,
En- wear 'um on he breas'.
Z ale know des whar de Sunshine keep
En- kiss de rose ter red;
He see de Moonlight 90 ter sleep
Pom top de vi'let-bed.
He tell 6e news er ever place,
En- wen yo' Sweetheart pass
He give her back her purity face
Des LAX lookin' glass;
he pass de big house en- de hut,
En- spread de gossip free
q Mister River, tell me whut
My Sweetheart think err me!
-Woman's Home Companion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10
In Illinois.

It is evident that the steering com
mittee of the Republican party ia nj
nois is alarmed over the situation. The
members of this committee do not hest
tate to say that the German and Irish
vote is going TO be Democratic. There
are many reasons why this is so. but
one of the strongest of them is the anti
Boer attitude Of the Republicans. The
Germans and the Irish are lovers of
liberty. and believe in fair play. They
have no love for England and they
sympathize with the Beers. The Dem
ocratic party has defended the princi-
Piles of free government. and there
fore the German and Irish vote is GO
ing 10 be cast for the Democratic can
didates in Illinois.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10
The XaIne of a Windmill.


We take the following from the
Farming World, as it tells what many
would like to know: "The Wisconsin
Experiment station thus sums up the
value of wind mill: TO test the econ
omic value of the pumping done by the
mill 2la-horse power gas engine was
put to running the same pumps, and it
was found that it cost 90 cents to run
the engine ten hours, and in that time it
pumped 1902 cubic feet of water,
while the average for the mill was 81
93S cubic feet in ten hours. Hence, it
cost 80 cents to pump as much water
with the engine as the mill pumped in
ten hours. As the mill had an average
Of 141a hours per day, it would have
cost 43 cents to pump as much water
with the engine as the mill pumped
each day, or $156.95 for one year of 500
days. Tests made in grinding corn with
the power furnished by this windmill
showed that when the wind had We
locity of nine uliles an hour, it would
grind about 100 pounds an hour; a We
locity of twenty-fiv miles per hour
groundf over 500 pounds per hour, and
velocity Of thirty-five miles per hour
ground over 1000 pounds per hour.
The 25-mile wind enabled the mill to
develop about , % horse power. The
work done shows that in a whole year
the mill would grind 1860 bushels
The 21a horse power engine was able to
grind on the same grinding mill as
much in 1876 days as the windmill would
grind in 365 days. it costing 90 cents a
day 70 run the engine. Hence, when
applied to the corn mill the power of
the windmill was worth 136x93 cents,
or $13464 per year"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10

The native laborers on the Boer
farms-often thirty or forty miles from
the nearest village-have hard times
compared to their brethren who work
in the dorp town; they are badly fed
badly housed. and too often treated as
If they were cattle. One often won
ders why an ill-used family of Kaiirs
does not pack up its few cooking pots
and leave a cruel master; but the real
reason OF the Kafirs' submission is that
they are always induced to make agree
ment 10 serve for certain time-per-
haps Il year or two years and il they
go away within that period they can be
brought back. beaten. and put in the
tronk (as the Jail is called. The only
food given Kafirs on the farms Is
mealles corn. of which they make a
very coarse flour and tnen boil into a
thick porridge; and perhaps once a
week they get a piece of mutton as A
treat for specially hard work.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10
DEWEY CANNON UNVEILED.
Greatest Day in the History of Three
Oaks, Mich.

Greatest Day in the History or Three
Oaks, Mich.
"Three Oaks against the world" was
the burden of the paean Of JOY and tri-
umph sent mp by the citizens Of the new
celebrated Michigan town Thursday.
Nearly 10000 enthusiastic visitors joined
the chorus till it rolled away on the west
wind like the cheers of Dewey's yictori-
Gus seamen. Helen Miller Gould, guar
dian angel OF the American soldier, cheer
ed, too. At O'Clock in the afternoon she
pulled the silken strand that bound the
flag petals of a monster lily over
the bristling cannon captured by Dewey
at Manila, and then the glory of Three
Oaks was ut its zenith. For the first
time the jealous world looked on at the
prize token of the towns generosity to
the Maine monument fund. Russell A.
Alger, general, Governor and Secretary
of War in order, watched with smile
of triumph for his State and for the town
of Three Oaks, while President II. w.
Warren of the village board unfurled
new silk ensign to the whipping breeze
and bade the band play THE Star-Span-
gled Banner"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10
Catching xabbits.

Boys in Nebrasl.a. a ferretless coun-
try. carry with item when hunting a
coil of hose aboat an inch in diameter.
which they pay out down a rabbit hole
until the botto=a is reached. meanwhile
drawing the mouth Of a sack over the
hole. A cheerful stout down the hose
brings the rabbit cnt at his best pace,
plump into the SSek. The hose eyi-
IDENTIFY does the Lasiness as quickly as
the ferret, with no vsxatIous delays.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10

With a view OF promoting and in
creasing the interest in good roads the
Office of pIrblic road inquiries of the
United States Department OF Agricul-
ture has recently inaugurated move
ment to interest the authorities and
students Of the agricultural and me-
chanical colleges in the subject Of road
Improvement. To this end object les
son road work has been done at the
Agricultural College of New Jersey.
New Brunswick; at the Agricultural
College of Rhode Island, Gingston; at
the University Of Tennessee, Knox
vile, and at Clemson College, Calhoun,
< n
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10

The Agricultural Epitomist says
some of the farmers in the South have
succeeded in growing larger crops after
COW peas when they have taken the
vines off for fodder and plowed under
the roots and stubble, than when they
have plowed the whole crop under. Ii
scarcely seems reasonable, and yet
there may be abundant reason for it..
But whether this is exact or not, the
crop of COW peas and vines are esti-
mated to be worth about $40 per acre
for fodder, and we should much prefer
to feed it out and use the vast, the
excrements of the cattle that eat it to
fertilize the soil with
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10
East L. a Eactor.


Owing to the issues which have
sprung up during the last four years
under the Republican administration
the East is going to be an important
factor in the Presidential campaign.
1t is evident that the Democrats have
gained greatly in strength at the East,
says the Chicago Democrat, and that
New York and New Jersey may be con-
sidered as reasonably certain to so
Democratic next November.
In 1896 New York gave Mckinley
26S,0O0 votes over Bryan, and that was
such a tremendous republican majority
that Democrats were fully justified in
calling the Empire State 'the enemy's
country" But in 1898 there was a mar
yelous slump in the Republican major
ity which sank to the slender total of
$4,000 majority for Roosevelt Since
then Democracy has been gaining
steadily, and it will be surprising if the
small Republican majority is not
wiped out this year
New York has Sc electoral votes, and
these, added TO the 20 expected from
Kentucky and Maryland, would make
So and put the Democrats in position
of exceeding oDulence as TO votes. IS
for New Jersey, that State gave Mc-
Kinley $4,000 the advantage of Bryan
in 1896. but in 1898 the slump from Re-
publican majorities showed that the
grand old party's majority had fallen
to less than 5000.
Now, with New York, New Jersey,
Maryland and Kentucky properly
swung over, the Mckinley electoral
majority of 90 would be converted into
a Bryan lead of 81. Democrats can no
longer say that the East is the en-
emy's country"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10

If farmers would select their largest
and plumpest grain for seed, they
could seed much less heavily than they
do and grow larger crops as well. The
same thing is true Of garden seeds.
One had better pay 81 a pound for
plump, well-deyeloped and well-ripen-
ed seeds than to have inferior seed
given to them. Probably seed will av-
erage better this year than il has some
years because of the favorable weather
for ripening and enring 1t. but we re-
peat our advice to the gardener to test
his seed by putting some of it between
damp clothes to see how much will
terminate before sowing American
Cultivat0r.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10
Working the Government.

Tie Republicans have made a new de-
parture in having their campaign text
books for this fall prepared in a govern
ment office and at government expense.
Mr.. O. p. Austin, chief of the bureau
of statistics, has immediate charge or
the work, and is deyoting time TO the
preparation of the figures and to the
writing of other matter. Mr.. Austin $
salary as chief of bureau is a very III
crative one, and the bureau Is supposed
to be devoted to the preparation or inn
partial and non-partisan statistics. The
campaign text book, on the other hand
is well understood to present informa
ton of a decidedly prejudiced charac
cater While the statements printed
therein purport to be and are generally
more or less correct they are ex parte,
and do not show the other side of the
argument. The Republican text book
contains some 400 or 500 pages, and it is
not fully made up and printed till some
time after the national conventions. 1t
is the guide of the thousands Of speak
ers and spell-binders who work for the
success of the Republican ticket. With
in its covers they find skeleton for
their arguments on almost every topic
under the sun that can enter into po-
litical discussion on the stump. The
Republicans frankly admit that Mr..
Austin is preparing the book and is us
ing the government clerks to help him
compile it, but excuse the fact by say
ing that his name will appear in con
nection with it, AS usual, the book will
be put forth as the production of the
national committee. Mr., Austin is de-
seryedly respected, and it is understood
that he is doing this work only at the
behest of his superiors in the treasury
department and the White House. But
he discloses anew the old Republican
game Of working the government for all
it is worth.-Lawrence (Mass) News.
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a lin-1ie-sircla Chnrnh.

The rector OF St Mary-at-Hin
Church. Monument (the Rev. W. Car
lne). in whose church the electrophone
has for some time been installed, is
now arranging for the introduction of
large gramophone. to be used AZ the
1.15 o'clock daily lInelight service in
the church. BY means OF the gramo-
phone the eongregation-wholly com
posed of city merchants and clerks
will hear brief addresses from the lead.
Ing dlgnitaries of the church and from
number OF prominent laymen.-Lon.
don Globe
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10

beSore being fed Vast quantities OF
corn fodder are yearly ruined by being
left in the field cut and uncut during
heavy fall frosts that take much of
its nutriment. If silo is not ON the
farm, store the corn stalks under cover
after curing, and when about to feed,
cut in a machine that will split the
stalks as well as cut them. Moisten this
fodder with ground grain and all Of the
stock, even the horses, will thrive upon
it.-Exchange,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10

CounterfeiJing was once punishable
by death in England. a fact which led
q judge in passing sentence on a man
convicted OF that crime to say: Il can
hold out to you no hope Of mercy here
and saust vrge you TO make prepare
ton for another world. where / hope
you may obtain that mercy which
due regard for the credit OF our paper
currency forblds you to hope for now
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10

If lambs are fed a little grain daily
from the timc they can lie learned 10
eat if. there Is almost no trouble at all
in weaving them, and they need not
shrink in weight or worry for the
mother. They may be left with her.
and they viii not nurse any more than
perhaps to take suck when they are
tSlrsty. but as the eve is not nursed
regularly her milk loses both flavor and
NURTURE quality after few days and
.lhe lamb no longer likes 1t. The habit
may remain for few days. but seldom
longer. and he has weaned himself.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10
Corn ,la a substitute for HAY.


The experienee of last summer, so
far as the hey crop was concerned,
ought TO put farmers on their gusrd
to avoid a like result this year. To TIE
man whose experience in growing for
age crops is limited. corn should be the
crop on which 10 bank, not only for
needed summer fodder. but TO harvest
as substitute for hay, II needed. The
soil should be well fitted and enriched.
and the seed Of the variety selected
drilled LII so that II may be dropped in
three rows at time. Cultivate in the
usual way. and that portion not used as
green food 5uringsthe sammer should
be harvested before frost in the fall
If well tut cured and housed. this corn
st0ver will make an excellent substi-
tute for hay il properly manipulated
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10

boards, all complete, but without a
floor which is not really required. The
size is seven by five feet and seven feet
high. The wheels are of wood, made
of five or six pieces foot in diameter
nailed together, crossing the grain of
each pieces To- prevent splitting. Fig.
2 is eleven by eight feet, and will east
ly hold hundred fowls. 1t will cost
about one-fourth more than Fig. l.
These portable houses are moved from
one location to another by one horse
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10

Bryan is the man of the people. Of
the constitution and of popular liberty.
Mckinley is the man of the great cor
perations. of classes that would be
greater than the constitution and of
special privileges TO the wealthy few,
which are gradually destroying popular
liberties and open opportunities for all
-Danville QlL} Press.