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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17

Why, says a correspondent, shall not
each farmer in 1900 set aside plot, on
which to test seedlings of his own rails
ing or those, secured from others? One
of the most interesting experiments is
starting new sorts of grapes. Take
seed of any good variety, plant ina bed,
and the second year transplant have
secured from Concord all cofcrs- and
many very choice sorts. But liz does
not so much matter what we work at
whether potatoes, corn, grapes, berries,
or beans-it gives great zest to farm life
to create>a newsthing. Start your boys
and girls on that line, and they will nos
hate farm, life.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17
News of Minor Note.

An average harvest Of wheat Is ex.
pected IN Germany
Steamer Patrieian with 100 horses
sailed for Cape Town.
Miss Pauline Hehrlein. 81. st. Louis
school teacher, killed herself
More than 10000 deaths occurred from
cholera 10 a week IN bombay.
Rev. Frank Chase, prominent Method
list, Dansville, y. ", IS insane.
National Wagon Manufacturers Asso-
citation has decided not 70 raise psiccs.
The shoe output Of New Hampshire
State last year was worth $4,000 900.
Banker y. +. Becker ST. Charles. No,
drowned himself. Mensally anbalanced.
Steamer Quito with 100000 bushels OF
corn from America has ssaehed Bombay.
India.
Frank WcnnerhoinA Maysyille. n. r..
viii hang in Iuly Cor numbering Emily
Adolphson.
Gov. Beckham. Kentucky, may call an
extra session OF the Legislature to modify
the Goebel law.
Rev Eenry Mueller, Cincinnati. Ohio.
officially announced that he had accepted
the bishcDric Of Columbus.
sfrs. Howard Gould. New York. will
erect a $50, 600 residence in The city and
a $3.50, 900 house IN the country.
Chagriaed at the capture Of the Taku
forts, the dowager empress has made
wholesale degradations in the army.
Tie States Of Texas. Mississippi and
Georgia have recently abandoned the sys-
TEN Of hiring ont conyicts. but have en-.
ployed them 10 advantage on farms, es>
peclally 10 raising cotton This form Of
employment has been found to work the
least injury 10 free labor and 10 assure
the best returns.
An old negro living in Chapel Hi. Y.
c.. boasts that in his youth b. used 10
earn not a little money by permitting
the students at the University OF Nevtn
Carolina in that town to break boards on
his thick skull. Among tie STUDENTS who
50 amused themselves were James X.
Polk. in later days President Ok She Uait-
81 States.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17

BOXERS ARE RsPuLSED.
Chinese Attack Allies and Are Beate,
After Seven Hours Battle.

Chinese Attack Allies and Are Beaten
After Seven Hours Battle.
A London news agency message, dated
Friday, reported renewed Chinese at
tack at TEN TSn that morning with
twelve guns. The allied forces replied
with the guns landed from the British
hrst-class cruiser Terrible and a mixed,
force of 1000 men made sortie under
cover Of the FIRE of the naval brigade and
attacked the Chinese, who retired after
seven hours fghtng.
Earlier dispatches record severe fight.
ing, notably on July and July g. when
the Chinese developed unexpected
strength and did considerable damage
with artillery. At the bridge near the
French settlement there was hard fight
ing at close quarters, the Russians, with
Calling gun, finally compelling the Chi
nese to retire, although they suffered
heavily. The operations, however Were
ia no way decisive, later messages show.
ing the Chinese were still full of fight
About 500 men were wounded in the
lighting at Tien-Tsin.
A dispatch from Shanghai says; Hsu
Tung, the most determined Halter OF for.
eigners in Pckin and tutor Of the heir
apparent, has been murdered with his
whole household of 300 persons willie re.
sisting Boxer pilagers. The situation y
still grave, for the Boxers, although they
have been moved down by the hundreds,
still believe themselves invulnerablc.
A special from Washington says that
an allied force of nearly 100000 men will
be in China within a few weeks. These
figures are larger than those given here,
tofore, but are based on better informa.
- ,,,,ahcr 6 ;P6se9t Takn and Ticn-Tsin
or,sorco r nnder os990 men. The re-
10000 Japanese troops, 13,06Saso.ai...s.lss OF
$4,000 Russians, 1900 Americans, 'Ff0s !.
600 British, 5000 French and 3,00e ital'
inns
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17

darling, see the long, weary life
stretching before me. See the work to
bedone here and you lowering like some
bright bird just out Of reach. Could /
drag you down to share this poor old
nest? No, no, it would not be right. l
have served duty too long to dare de-
sert her now"
"Butyouare so young" she murmur-
ed, leaning her face ON his shoulder;
he could feel her breath against his
cheek.
His heart beat so fast he thought it
would strange him, and that moment
of rapture paid him for the suffering of
years.
$50 young and so ambitious
there is the invention down at the mill
1 am sure that is going to work WELL"
Yes; but l have been to the village
to-day for the last time trying to raise
even $50 to pay for the patent, and /
can not do it. Nobody has any faith in
it; they think it is boys scheme, and
I'm quite discouraged"
Vii IL OhAg AldNA lAlS
Eyes, but you have not, my darling;
nor would l touch one penny of 1t if
you had. No, you must go back to your
relatives I shall never marry, dear,
but L shall cherish your memory as my
one blessedest gift. Now, don't feel
badly-don't."
They were both sobbing together by
this time; she put her arm up around
his neck, and their two tear-wet faces
nestled against each other like two
grieved children.
Aunt Hannah put her white, fiabby
face in at the door to say that dinner
was ready, and. seeing the young PEG
pie standing together there, she started
nervously and exclaimed:
Laws sakes! that's courtin' now,
amt it," And as they neither moved
nor spoke she went softly across the
floor and whispered: "Ralphie, boy, are
you goin' to be married.
Yes, auntie," answered Gertrude,
"and we want your blessing"
But you want your money, too. don't
you?
Eyes, certainly; the marriage por-
tion," said Ralph, bitterly, brushing the
tears from his eyes and trying to face
his lonely life once more.
'eThen come upstairs" she laughed
out, in her queer, wild fashion.
"What does she meanY" asked Ser
trude. warderingly
Il do not know" Ralph answered. Il
have not heard her speak so many
words at a time in ten years."
Reckoning them to follow her, she
climbed the worn old stairs up to the
dusty garrett, where broken chairs and
long-idle spinning wheels made up the
furniture.
Down behind the big chimney crept
the daft woman and drew out a large,
loose bundle of rags, in which was sly
ly hidden rolls of strong parchment.
They opened them there in the
changeful light that fitted through the
time-stained window.
There was $4,000 in gold-the price of
the farm lands. Not n great fortune,
it is true, but fabulous sum for the
young people, who were married ere
long. to the great wonder of the village
| folks.-New York News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17
Concerninr Fences


The fences between pastures and cul-
tlvated fields should be made strong in
the spring before the cattle are turned
out, but it is we'll to keep watch of
them at later times, especially if the
pasture grows scanty. Then a look
over the fence at field of corn or wav-
ing grain is a temptation that should be
guarded against. as it may not be cas-
lily resisted. Then in some localities
there are a class of trespassers who
think little of throwing a stone off the
wall or letting down a rail in the fence
to make an easier passage for them
selves when they go that way cunning.
fishing or berry-picking. Such parties
should be punished. but it is not always
easy to detect them. We have seen a
half rod of stone wall that had been
thrown down, apparently to get out
some woodchuck or rabbit, and left, as
If the ones who had done the mischief
thought there was no need of any wall
there.--American Cultivator.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17

An Adrian Comfy (Missouril court
has been wrestling with peculiar law
suit, in which rats cut the principal
figure. A farmer named Sturgeon hir-
ed one Walker to kill the rats on his
place. agreeing to pay cent apiece
for the tails of loco Of the victims.
When 100 tails had been presented for
tally, Walker asked $50 as pay for
his services. Here the trouble began.
for the farmer refused to pay for any
number less than 1000. He also claim
ed that Walker tried TO palm off mouse
tails on him as tails of young rats. The
hired man secured a favorable verdict
in the lower courts, but Sturgeon viii
continue his legal fight to escape pay
mont
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17
Minter-Killed CIovcr.

Much clover gets winter killed be-
cause the frost lifts it up. when the
ground freezes, and when it thaws
again the soil settles away from the
roots and leaves them bare to be dried
up by the sun. A going over with a
heavy roller would press these roots
down into the soil and firm the soil up
to them, so that they would take hold
again and grow. The more porous the
soil the greater the liability of frost
throwing and killing the roots of clover
and grass. Even the trampling of cattle
and sheep over field may help,to save
the roots of the clover, though the roll
er is preferred, as it can be made to
reach every part of the field.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17


New York: Lately, as is we'll known,
the tendency in the iron and steel trade
has apparently been toward demoraliza-
ton, and in consequence of this good
many people have been quick to jump to
the conclusion that the eliminating point
of the extraordinary industrial move
ment has been reached, and that nero
or less serious reaction is now to be ex-
pectcd. In the opinion Of the best judges
Of the situation there is nothing alarm
| ing in the reaction that has taken place
in the metal trade. The industrial activ-
ity of the last two years has been so
great that it has been all along merely a
question of time when production should
overtake the demand That point was
reached few months ago, and the move
ment now is to readjust prices to new
conditions The stock markets have
shown much better tone. although the
strength has been based upon political
rather than trade aud industrial condi-
tons. The majority OF commission
houses, however, continue to advise their
customers TO exercise caution in the mat
ter of loading ZIP with stocks and not get
too enthusiastic.
Chicago The wave OF speculation
which struck the wheat market when it
first became known that serious injury
had been done to the spring wheat crop
gave every indication during the week
of having spent itself for the present.
A further reduction in the price was the
result OF continued liquidation by the
longs rather than Of any doubt regard
ing the seriousness OF the crop disaster,
which was the initial reason for the re-
cent 22-eent advance. Half Of that inns
proyement having now been relinquished,
it remains q question whether such re-
action is sufficient to represent elimina-
ton of the undue enthusiasm OF outside
SPECTATORS 1t has still to be proved
that the markets of the world will even
now admit the reasonabeness of pres
ent prices, even conceding the gravity of
accidents to the crops OF this country,
both winter and spring 1t may be in
view OF present plenty they viii be more
inclined TO hang back until willingness
or the reverse Of American farmers to
part with the new crop has demonstrated
how far the serious damage TO the crop
in particular localities has affected the
sum total ca tie seasons production. A
speculative attempt to advance the price
of corn has so far succeeded that about
l cent hushel has been added to the
price since the end of the previous week,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17

For January 1900, there We're exnort4
ed $3.50 mules, against 53S head in
January, last year. The export of
mules for the seven months ended jan
uary, 1900. comprises a total of 22,264
head. against 1884 mules for the cor
responding period in 1898, the former
valued at $1,947, pa. and the latter at
$431,372 Evidently the wars are OF, adj
vantage to the horse and the mule
growers, and the, end of the wars will
not end all, because the whole horse
and mule supply is reaching low point
and it will take number Of years to
catch up with the demand.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17
Eert;lixer yaInes

According TO the director of the New
Jersey experiment station. il has been
estimglte.i chat if nitrate of soda is
rate.z IT 100, blood and eottonseed meal
weaid be about 30, dried and ground
fish and hoof meal 90, bone and tank
age 65, while leather. ground horn and
Wool waste range from as low as to
as high as 80. From these figures it is
10 be seen that nitrate of soda is the
most effective form of nitrogen.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17
Washing Wool.

Sheepmen are quite generally aban-
doning the washing of wool on, tlse
sheep or any other way. The price re-
ceived fer washed over unwashed wool
is now not enough to pay for the work
and for exposing the sheep from colds
from the water. The centrifugal ma
chimes that wash the wool so quickly
and thoroughly are TOO Keen eompeti-
tors of the shepherd. Perhaps the
washed wool is really little more val
liable but ifsitis. the buyer is uRwill-
ing TO make inducements III the way of
better prices.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17

How often the thought comes home to
me,
AS the moments hurry away,
Of the many things / intend to do
Somehow, some time, some day.
There are promises that have not been
kept,
y Though [ always meant to be true,
But time is too short for all the things
Ihat body intends to do.
VII answer letter, or read book,
viii write a bit of rhyme;
w4d do the things that j ought to do
Some day when 1 have the time.
80 Look beyond, as hope and plan
For the days that are just ahead,
While the day that is here goes into the
grave
With its opportunities dead.
To-day is the only day we have,
Of tomorrow we can't be sure;
&c seize the chance as it comes along
Is the way to make it secure.
or every year is a shorter year,
And this is a truth sublime:
a moment misspent is jewel lost
FROM the treasury Of time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17


large corporation that had been trying
for some time to buy it. in order TO
erect a cotton mill there.
Ralph Nydack came home and pack
ed his trunk, but his motions were I'M
steady, mis- face pale, and before night
he was sick, very sick.
There was little that two helpless
women could do for him; the farm
hands were dismissed, all but Jared,
who was to take care of the COW; so
they sent him off for the doctor, but
when he returned Ralph Mydack was
dead.
Ten bitter years dragged slowly by.
The little money in the bank was soon
exhausted. and partly on charity. part
" By the few vegetables neighbors
helped them raise in the garden patch,
the two old women and the awkward,
sullen boy lived on.
Ii was we'll known that large sum
Of money had been paid to Mr. Mydack
Cor his farm, but the corporation had
failed Immediately after, so nothing
was done about the cotton mills, and
from the hour of payment, when the
legal papers were signed, all trace of
the money disappeared as effectually
ms though it had been dropped into the
sea of oblivion.
LAWYERS searched the old house.
hooked over the few papers that Mr..
AIvaack had evidently intended 10 take
With him, searched his wearing apparel.
and gave up in despair.
little Ralph grew up stout, healthy
lad and when he was 10 he asked some
Of the neighbors to help him rig the old
sav-mlll anew. that he might saw logs,
and thus exc out his Scanty support.
Everybody felt kindly toward him,
and season after season, when the Wa
tor was high. he would work night and
dav among the fragrant pine and hem
lock logs. earning quite an independ-
enee.
II was here that Gertrude Kendennis
found him one day early in June.
he had seen her bright face about
there the year before. but had turned
away from her pleasant words Win a
moodiness that was almost rude. For
what had his weary, toilsome life 20 dc
with beauty or kind words
What. Indeed? And yes she would
not let him be. She went every day auG
watched, as 10y reslstlesS fascination
that pitiless. great saw tearing its slow
way through the logs making them use
fur while seeming only to destroy them
He was 20 years old at last and sh,
WAS 10.
She had been fusslng about the old
house. making Cruel for Aunt Huldah
aud trying to coax a smile on Aun
Hannah's stolid face, but really only
waiting for Ralph to return from tn,
village.
He came in soon. and seeing he
standing alone in the clean. poorly fur
alshed room he went straight 10 her
and. taking both her hands in his. h
said:
Now, Gertrude-Mlss Kendennis-
you must not come here in this manner
People are talking Of it down in tn
village. and If your uncle should hea
OF it he would send you 10 a hummer
and Kill me outright"
"oh. you do not want me here" sh
said. trying 20 speak playfuliy, br
with little moan in her voice.
I del do be answered. putting hi
arm about her. holding her close, an
touching her hair with a quick. cares.
inc motion God knows It IS wors
than death to send you away, but. n
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17

placement is $500 tons. The indicated
horse power is 10000, and Steam is gen.
Grated by boilers of the Niclausse type.
She has twin screws. All the vessels
armament was Nude in Russia and con-
sists of the following: Twelve 6-inch
guns, twelve 75-millimeter guns, six At
millimeter guns, two Baranovsky guns,
two 37-millimeter, four broadside tor
pedoes, each at bow and stern, sixteen
Whitehead torpedoes, thirty-fiye float
ing mines and six small torpedoes for
steam launches. The Variag has four
tunnels and two military masts, resem-
bling the Columbia of our own navy,
and an after bridge on the plan of the
cruiser New York.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17
NEWS OF WISCONSIN.
A WEEKS RECORD or STATE
HAPPENINGS.
officer Shoots ana Kills { Burglar
Masked Robbers IiI-Treat an Aged
Couple Shoots Her Former Lover
Sisters Defender Is STABBED.

Officer John Macarthur shot and lSilled
a burglar at Amigo. Macarthur saw two
men coming out of Managers store on
East Fifth avenue and followed them.
They turned up the r. broad track to-
ward Kellogg's lumber yard He order
ed them to halt when one turned on him
and attempted to kick the revolver from
McArth9r's hands. Macarthur ordered
him TO throw up his hands. but he made
another rush and Macarthur shot, the ball
Entering his stomach. Macarthur shot at
The other man, but he escaped. The
Wounded man was taken TO the Lag
ande Hotel, where he died. When he
realized he was about to die he gave his
name az Ri.iy Walsh, Of Akron, Ohio.
He is about so years OF age, ) feet s
inches tall, dark brown hair and mus
tache and Roman nose. The two men
belonged to gang of seven tramps whom
the officers gathered in.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17

Chemists tell US THAI oats cut for hay
contain as much nutritive value as they
do when ripened. so far as the grain
itself goes; still there is loss by grain
rafting ont when too ripe, and loss
of the feeding value of the straw in
ripenlng. We think every farmer who
grows oats for home nse win find a
profit in cutting them while the grain
is -.in the dough" or soft enough to
crush between the thumb and finger
and curing them for hay. Both horses
and cattle eat them greedily. leaving
no straw. and seem to keep in quite as
good working condition as il fed on
timothy hay and dry oats 1t Is q saving
also Of the labor Of threshing. and there
may be another saving-they may be
harvested before they begin 10 rust. BIZ
the way. hnw mary know that the rust
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17
ne ana Rnh on Pennle.

Two masked men entered the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ned Brennan, living three
miles northeast of Mount Hope, tied the
old couple, who are about SO years of age,
by the feet and hands and searched the
house, securing S163 III money, a 5000
deposit check and S11o in notes The
notes and check were found in their barn.
The robbers left there and went to Mr..
CASTERS place., took a span - horses
from the barn and drove them about
eight miles toward Bridgeport and turn
ed them loose. where they were found
next morning.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17
Accommodations.

We asked the farmer his opinion Of
the rural free delivery OF mails. 1t is
a good thing" said the farmer, having
first excused himself from speaking in
dialect upon the plea that he had been
ordered by his doctor 10 avoid great
exertion. 1T is a great accommodation
in the busy season OF the year TO get
our green goods circulars uninterrupt-
edly. Under the old system 1 have
known the time when / didn't see a
green-goods circular for six weeks dur
ing harvest and haying. Detroit
Journal
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17
Sell the Wrong Hens.

1t is natural for the hens to lay and
when they do not produce eggs in the
summer or fall the cause should be in
vestigated. When eggs cease to come
in the farmer sells the molting hens.
which is just where he makes his
greatest mistake. The ones TO dispose
of are those that are fat and in high
condition. If the poultry on the farm
have the attention given them that is
received by the cows the farmer would
soon learn TO know more about his
nocks ana understand how to correct
his mistakes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17
-as
ATTAex CUTLER. S ESCORT.
British General Forced TO Fight After
Seeing Roberts.

Seeing Roberts.
Late news from South Africa reports
that the Bucrs Intellectually attacked
Gen. Buffers escort between Stdndeiton
and heidelberg Saturday as he was re.
turning from visit to Lord Roberts
The Beers attacked F'icksburg garrison
at midnight Tuesday, but were driven of
after forty-fve minutes sighting.
Gen. Brabant July 3 occupied Dern-
berg, between Senekal and Winbnrg
which served as base for bands assail
ing conveys Col. Mahon Of Gen. Hut
toms mounted troops July 9 and en-.
gagged 1900 Beers east Of Broakerspruit
and drove them off. The British casual.
ties numbered thirty-three.
Commandant thinner tried 20 recap
ture RustenburG July :, bur waS driven
back. Thirty -four Of Strathronl's horse,
under Lieut. Anderson wers attacked
by 200 Beers east OF Standerton July g..
The British soon took possession Of a
kopje, upon which they successfully with
stood the attacks Of the enemy
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17
Meet and Wed in Ten Hours.

Ten hours after she had met G.. \.
Lueck Mrs. Birdie Hall was his wife.
He is young man who used to be con-
nected with the Davidson theater in Mil
waukee. She is young widow whose
home is in Manstee, Mich, and she is
socially quite prominent there. The
meeting and the wedding took place in
Manistee and the young couple announce
that they will live there, as Mrs. Lueck
has property interests in that town.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17

John Wurzer. of MulIoy's Lake was
fatally stabbed by Ed Drew at Mulloy's
Lake. Drew, it was claimed, had used
insulting language to Wurzer's sister and
Wurzer interfered. Drew followed Wur-
ger out of doors and stabbed him four
times, once just over the heart, once in
che neck, arm and leg. Drew escaped.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-17
Shoots Her Former lower.

In sight of her mothers grave Ada Ar
lington shot and killed her former lover,
John Resburg. at New st. Louis. She
then carr.ed him into her house, crossed
his hands on his breast, placed nickels
on his eyes and sat up all night with the
dead body. She went to West Superior
the next day and gave herself up. She
states that the man was intoxicated and
tried to break into her house.