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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14
Sailing the sheep.

l would like to describe an apparatus
for sailing cattle and other stock so
they will always have salt before them
and no waste, writes Joseph III. Yoder
In the National Stockman. For cattle
or horses 1 would prefer to use rock
salt placed in boxes or troughs for the
winter, and scattered about the pas
lures on the grass in summer. Rains
have little effect upon it, and this will
be found both convenient and economi-
CAL For sheep, however, this plan does
not work so WELL The rock salt is so
slow to dissolve that they are not able
to get a sufficient amount of it to salts
fly their wants, hence it is necessary to
use the loose salt for them. During the
winter a box can be fastened up at a
convenient place in the shed, and at the
proper height so they can have access
to it at all times of the day. In sum-
mer, if they have not shed to run
under, the box can be fastened to a
gate post and have roof placed over
1t so as to keep out the rain. If it is de-
sired to use loose salt for cattle, the
same arrangements can be used as have
already been described for sheep. The
roef over the box should be high enough
70 be entirely out of the way of>the ami
mails. Where loose salt is used it is
necessary to be careful to keep sup
ply in the box all the time, as the ami
mails are liable to eat too much if they
go without for several days.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14
RIGHT AND LEFT FACES.
Physiognomies Which Are Stumbling
Blocks to Photographers.

Physioguomies Which Are Stumbling
Blocks to Photographers.
zone Of the principal obstacles in
the way Of successful portrait photog-
raphy," said an old-time local expert.
sis the asymmetry of the average hui
man face. The features of ninety-nine
people out of a hundred are deniably
asymmetrical-in other words, the
right and left sides are different in
size, shape and general contour. We
don't notice this variation unless our
attention is attracted to it, but it is
there all the same. and for some rea-
son that | am not able TO explain it is
generally emphasized by the camera.
What 1 say applies, of course. to full
face pictures only, for when the head
is turned slightly the deyiations are
scarcely ever discernible.
Among men asymmetry often lends
great strength to countenance. Bis
marck was a striking example of that
fact, and so was Gladstone. If you are
skeptlcal take a full-face picture Of
either and cover one-half of 1t with a
card. Then reverse the process and
examine the other side. You will be
surprised. In fact, you Will discover
four different men, all distinct types
New Orleans Times Democrat.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14

his face glowing with pride and affec.
ton. IF you can find another like
Dolly" and Jack went his way, de-
lighted with his visit.
What hypocrite you are, Philip"
cried Dorothy, her face hidden on her
husbands breast But you needn't
get your breakfast downtown any
more. l can cook lots of things"-she
was sobbing now-''b-b-beefsteak and
b-b-bacon and m-m-mu-mutfins and"
Some Internal fool had to tell you
that, l suppose" growled Philip. with
his head laid on her yellow pompadour
Il swear III never do it any more,
Dolly"
you won't need to-" cried his wife,
trlumphantly, lifting tear-stained but
beaming face so near his that he did
what any young husband worthy tue
name would do in his place.-From
What to Eat.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14
Chinch Bugs.

One of the most destructive pests the
farmers of this country have to con-
tend with is the chinch bug. says the
Iowa Homestead. 1t of course original
ly subsisted on wild plants, but 1t
learned very early to prefer cultivated
ones. The new food supply being al
ways at hand when the bugs lay their
eggs and the young are growing natu-
rally causes their numbers to increase,
and the loose soil about the roots of cul-
tivated plants furnished conditions
more favorable 10 the work of the
young than could be found in the I'M
cultivated ground. These facts largely
increased the facility With which the
chinch bug was propa gated, and it I'm
fortunately has few natural enemies.
Its bedbug flavor makes it no very de-
sirable morsel to inSectivorous birds,
and the fungous diseases TO which ii is
subject require wet season for their
propagation in the field. and in wet
season the chinch bug is not very dan
gerous. In normal seasons, therefore,
all the natural conditions are quite ia
vorable to the chinch bug in cultivated
fields, and the farmer must mainly rely
upon his own efforts for protection.
One Of the best remedies in the
world for the chinch bug is to clean
up. If infested lands be burned off
and all the rubbish gathered and
burned in early spring much win have
been accomplished. All the rubbish &C
cumulating along the fences and head
lands should be cleaned: uncultivated
prairie lands adjoining fields should be
burned OF early: corn stalks should be
broken down and burned IN the spring
following q chinch bug year, as It VIII
destroy millions of the insects that
have hibernated between the leaves
and the stalks. Wherever. by reason
OF the previous presence of the chinch
bug. another visitation is probable. no
pains should be spared 70 thoroughly
clean up and destroy all the stubble,
corn stalks, dead grass, fence row rub
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14
THE HEART oE The TREE.


What does he plant who plants tree?
be plants friend of sun and sky;
ne plants the flag of breezes free;
The shaft of beauty towering high;
he plants home to heaven anigh
For song and mother-croon of bird
In hushed and happy twilight heard
1ne treble of ems harmony
1aese things h. ants who plants a tree,
" nat does he plant who plants tree?
he plants cool shade and tender rain.
ana seed and bud of days to be,
and years that fade and flush again;
ne plants the glory of the plain;
de plants the forests heritage,
Ahe harvest Of the coming age,
: ne JOY that unborn eyes shall see
1hese things he plants who plants a tree.
what does he plant who plants a tree?
ne plants, in sap and leaves and wood,
IN love Of home and loyalty,
And far-cast thought of civil good
dis blessing on the neighborhood
Who in the hollow of his hand
Holds all the growth of all our land
a nations growth from sea to sea
etIrs IN his heart who plants a tree.
Century.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14
Cost of MILK.

1t is important to know the cost Of
production, and if weighing milk will
induce us to compute the cost let those
Of us who do not know begin weighing
at once, says S. w. Marble in Practical
Dairyman. Mr.. Carnegie, the great
steel manufacturer, it is said, paid $40,-
600 a year to keep records of the cost
of production of his Steel 1t is stated
that every wheelbarrow of material
that went into the furnaces was weigh
ed and recorded. 1t was the special
work of a bookkeeper to keep those
records, and every time they turned out
an order for steel, whether for bridge
or for ship, or whatever it was, it
was figured out down to the very last
detail. He knew the cost of every
piece of steel that was turned out.
Now, If he could do it st an expense
of $4,000 on his business, the farmer,
with twenty cows, says Prof. Henry,
could afford to spend five days work
q year on his business, because the per-
centage of difference would be a great
deal less on the f1ve-day investment,
which is all that is needed, than to Mr..
Carnegie on his $4,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14
Tit for Tat.

1t is Characteristic of those who are
severe on others that they cannot bear
severity. Dean Swift. the seyerest
satirist of his day, was one day dining
with company of gentlemen, one OF
whom he had made the butt of his ridi-
eule, with repeated sallies. At last the
Dean poured upon a piece of duck some
gravy intended TO be eaten with a
roasted goose. The unfortunate gentle
man. seeing this. Immediately said:
MY good dean, you surprise me-you
eat duck like goose" The company
reared, and the poor dean was so con
fused and mortified that he flew into a
rage and left the table.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14

the flowing effect Of the front. Two OF
these two morning dresses appear in the
next picture. The left hand one was
white muslin finished with ruffies and
white lace and held by a belt of white
crystal beads. The other was in the rev
tea gown style, and combined nile green
silk and white China silk The latter
gave fchu and front. 1t requires fine
discrimination TO accomplish much elab-
Grafton in morning gown without en-
croaching on the characteristics Of even
ing dresses. So the wise course is TO be-
gin with simple materials and to avoid
highly wrought additions.
Lace was never in more general use.
Even shirt waists are lace trimmed, and
for the dress-up sorts the fashion has
gone away beyond the liberal amount Of
insertions that appear in ''see-through"
waists. The newer use of lace is to apply
1t, which, of course, can be done without
interfering with simplicity of outline. A
sample of these waists is put in in this
last picture. 1t was white linen lawn,
and was ornamented with fine tneking
and bands of heavy white lace. Slender
women should take advantage Of the car
rent fashion for pleated and box-pleated
waists, with some variation on the yoke
setting low enough to give the long bust
line admired Shirt waist sleeves should
be large, and though the shoulder may
be fitted long and close, the rest of the
sleeve should be easy enough to bag. The
best model shirt waists, unless they are
distinctly Of the fancy bodice type, do not
have undersleeves. Undersleeves, how
ever are a boon to the woman whose
arms are pot qnite in proportion. She
can correct their lines if her wits are
equal to simple trick. A double Or
triple pulled undersleeves coming from
an oversleeye stopped at just the right
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14

place will meae any arm all right. Such
sleeves are plentiful with walking, driy-
ing and church gowns.
Slender women should be sure not to
lace tightly. A line almost straight from
under the arm over the hip is admired
now. To help this effect the simplest
gowns are charming. Made of liberty
silk, satin or of some type of quaint old
time lawn, the look is as much as posi-
Bile that of a flowing robe belted in easily.
As a rule, bodice and skirt are separate.
the pleats that seem to be made by belt
ing really being carefully laid, the throat
exposed in what is called the half low"
may be draped lightly with dainty fichu
or ribbon, or lace may finish the neck.
All-over lace effects continue popular
and so many are their variations that
there seems no reason why they should
lose their vogue in a popularity that be-
comes common. The most desirable re-
suits are secured by embroidering net
with ribbon or bands of lawn after the
net has been applied to the gown. The
too-huffy tendency of the lighter silks is
corrected by swathing with all-over lace
Stimulating a princess overgown, or an
overdress and blouse or eton. A deep
butter color net embroidered with ivory
colored lawn is always good. Black net
is covered with design in white with
good result.
Copyright, 1900.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14
For Controlling Horses.


The control of vicious and runaway
horses is a matter that has often been
the study of the inventor, as numerous
devices already on the market attest;
but there is always roon for improve
ment, and the illustration shows one of
the newest forms. 1t is the inventors
Intention to have the appliance used
especially for those animals which
are in the habit of taking the bit be-
tween their teeth, which, as is well
known, makes it almost impossible to
control them with the ordinary reins.
The new apparatus consists of two
straps threaded through guiding de-
vices attached to the thills of the vehi-
Gle, the forward ends of the straps
connecting with the bit in the animals
mouth and the rear ends passing
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14
Ya1ne of Oats Hay.

Chemists tell us that 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 out when too ripe and a
loss of the feeding value Of the straw
in ripening. We think every farmer
who grows oats for home use will 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 If fed on
timothy hay and dry oats. 1t is saw
ing also of the labor of thrashing. and
there may be another saving they may
be harvested before they begin to rust.
American Cultivator.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14
News of Minor Note.

Immense forest fires in California.
Whitecaps at Platte City. Mo, logged
10 Berry because he would not dismiss
his housekeeper.
England holds Colombia responsible for
the death Of Reginald Paris, British
subject, killed during the war.
The Prussian Government Is about TO
take measures to preserve various kinds
of trees that are in danger Of o<termina-
ton.
There are only two surviving Ameri-
can Yice-Presidents. Levi +. Morton of
New York and Adlai Il. Stevenson Of
Illinois.
For sn army OF 10000 men and 10000
horses for three months II IS estimated
that II 600 tons Of food and forage are
necessary.
The extensive arid regions Of northern
Mexico are to be irrigated by canals froia
aid extended by the Federal and State
governments.
Paris police are much stirred up by
rumor that Esterhazy, Dreyfus' chief ac-
cuser, intends to return to tho French
capital in disguise.
Mrs. Ann Slate Of Brooklyn, ~ T..
whose son Dan" figured in Mark
Twain's 'Innocents Abroad" was 100
years old July u.
Mr.. Robert Y. Hebden. New York
manager Of the Bank Of Montreal, al No.
80 Wall street, has received single gold
nugget fEom the Klondike region worth
S135. 600
CheyalIer Trentapove. scelptor OF
Washington. has been awarded ,s1 ssii-
tract for erecting $4,000 monument to
the Confederate dead, that will be placed
In Springfield, 40.
1t is thought that Bloemfontein viii
ultimately become the Federal capital
Of south Africa and the residence Of the
governor general, while Johannesburg
will be the capital Of the Orange River
and Transyaal colonies.
Mrs. James Gadsen, Schuyler. Neb.,
shot and fatally wounded her daughter,
Alice. 10. The woman is demented, and
imagined her daughter was to be chopped
up.
The wire clothesline was the cause CT
n least dozen deaths last year That
number Of woiaen were struck by light
ming and killed while removing clothing
from the line.
There are to-day but three bands Of
seminoles left in Florida 50 completely
have ssese people been disintegrated that
no tribal relations now exist between
them: they have no acknowledged chief.
and they recognize no mans authority.
They number about 600.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14
Dairy Figures.

There are 100000 milk cows in the
United States, distributed over $780,
600 farms of three or more acres, and
100000 more owned in towns and
cities and on small country places,
making about 100000 in all. The
product of 100000 of these COWS is
consumed as milk and cream, either
fresh or condensed, that of 11,000,0 900
is made into butter and that of 1,000,-
600 into cheese. The average yearly
consumption of dairying products per
person is twenty-five gallons of milk,
twenty pounds of butter and three
pounds of cheese.
There are about 1000 creameries
and cheese factories in the United
States. Nearly all of the cheese is
made in factories. Only about one
fourth of the butter is factory or cream
cry made, the other three-fourths be-
ing farm and home produced. The an
nual consumption as milk and cream
is 1,750,000 gallons. The production of
butter is 1,5000O0,00O pounds and of
cheese 3O0,000,000 pounds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14

New York trade reports are stu some
what irregular, but the general tendency
of conditions seems to be toward improve
ment. Money continues easy, notwitn-
standing the rapid approach of the season
when demands for large amounts WIZ
come from the South and West for crop
moving purposes The banks at all the
large centelS are unusually we'll supplied
with funds, and the surplus of the New
York banks is about double what it was
at this time in 1890. There is also an
abundance of money throughout the West
and South this year. and the demand,
therefore, is not likely to fall so heavily
upon the Eastern banks, as has been the
case heretofore. The volume of business
transacted in stocks is still comparatively
small, bat the tone of the markets has
lately been growing stronger and they APP
pear to be gradually broadening out.
Chicago speculation in the grain mar
kets has been far from active during the
week, and the course of fluctuations
somewhat Irregular. Wheat and the spec
ulative commodities of the provision mar
ket were higher at the close of Saturdays
session on the Board of Trade than they
were on Saturday of the preceding week,
while corn and oats We're lower. An ex-
eellent crop of corn seems highly proba-
BILE, and fairly good crop of oats has
been secured. Notwithstanding some
drawbacks which prevent the crop in its
entirety from being spoken of IN the
superlatfve degree. Those conditions
were conducive to weakness in prices.
Spectators in wheat have been finding
it increasingly difficult to come TO deb-
mite conclusion with regard to the proba-
BILE course of prices for the season upon
Shich they are now entering, in conse-
quenee Of which business has Lacked the
spirit that chJracterizes period of
strong convictions. The domestic wheat
crop was never more puzzling to estimate,
and there never was season when more
vigorous and searching inquiry was APP
piled to the problem. In the sections of
the winter wheat country where the crop
has been damaged by the Hessian fly,
and in the spring wheat region, where
drought destroyed a heavy proportion of
the crop, the usual difficulty of apportion-
ing the extent of the loss in its true rela-
tons to the whole-always difficult
Problems this season rendered doubly
prone 80 miscaIculation owing to the seri-
Gus damage elere damage has occurred
and the excellence of the crops where
they escaped the ills of the devastated
farriforv
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14

nate bands with linen in the bodice. Pale
blue buttons held the bodice tabs. AT
the left in the large cut is scarlet duck
trimmed with bands of scarlet and white
cotton braid. BolerO. collar and belt
were trimmed with fine soutache braid,
and front, collar and long cuffs were ecru
all-over lace. Next comes a lavender
foulard, with sleeves and upper part of
bodice of white lace. A cape of the goods
with a silk and lace ruffle and a tiny
black velvet collar was an accessory.
Third in this row is white organdie
over rose pink surah. Embroidery in
red and green, bodice belt of the surah
and undersleeve puffs of white organdie
were other details. A black and green
cross-barred silk grenadine remains in
the picture. 1t had vest of corn-colored
taffeta fastened with tabs and crystal
buttons, sailor collar of the goods and
a black velvet belt Still another type
of these dresses holds the center of the
concluding Illustration. N it were blue
India silk dotted with white, heavy ivory
lace, black velvet bands and white null
sleeve puffs.
Fashionably the tea gown has been I'M
der cloud for some time, but once more
it is becoming the fashion for the hostess
to array herself for informal entertain
ing in the tea gown style of dress. In
country houses the hostess often appears
at breakfast in some flowing and dainty
costume combining all the ease of wrap
per with the grace and beauty of a more
formal costume. Such dress is invaria.
bly, trained and long all around. 1t may
be princess, empire or vatican at the
back, but the preference seems to be for
the empire. The front is usually flowing.
and the throat is barred. Indeed, it is
usual to allow the neck to show almost
as in a demi-evening gown. Many charm
ing effects are accomplished by draping
fichus All soft and delicate materials
are used, and bright as well as delicate
colors.
The gown so popular some years ago
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14
MAN AND WIFE FIGHT A DUEL.
PhiIadeIphians Engage in Combat
Fatal to Both.


Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Sinclair pulled
triggers at the same instant and both
fell dead in front Of their villa at Duff
ryn Mawr, a select suburb of Philadel-
phia Saturday evening. They had quar-
relied; the woman was armed and dared
her husband to touch her. Then she
threatened him, and in tit of passion he
challenged her to shoot him down like
a dog"
With the deyilishness of a woman, cul-
tured and advanced, Mrs. Sinclair delib-
erately entered the house, procured a re-
yolver and, handing it to her husband,
said: 1--WE are equal now. ] dare you
to fight me like a man." Sinclair coolly
proposed duel, his wife agreed, and be-
fore Mary Clark, the servant who heard
and saw the preliminaries, could summon
help the man and the woman husband
and wife-had deliberately paced off five
yards. counted one, two, three--hred and
died in their tracks. Sinclair was shot
through the right eye and his wife was
killed by a bullet passing through her
forehead on line with her nose.
Mrs Sinclair was an ultra type of the
new woman. She affected manly dress,
rode diamond frame bicycle and enter
tanned her friends with red" teas at
which tea was never served.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14
Rees the Fruitman,s Aids.

The necessity of cross-polination of
fruit bloom is a subject that should
never be considered threadbare. Prof.
Cook says his sister in California was
wondering, in 1891, why her fruit trees
were not bearing as well as usual. The
trees bloomed, but the fruit did not set.
Mr.. Cook suggested that it might be
caused by decrease in the number of
bees, and accordingly an apiarist was
engaged to remove his bees to The
place and at once there was a marked
benefit She has kept the apiary there
ever since. She feels that she can at
ford to pay for the presence of the
bees, and she is right. While other in
sects might help toward pollination,
this incident shows that bees are the
thing for the business, and that in their
absence the hope of good fruit crop
rests on slim ndation.-American
Bee Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14
A Lost City.

An entire town has recently been dis
covered in the dominions of the Gar,
of the existence Of which no one seems
to have had any idea. Deep in the
forests of the Ural lies fourishing
city, the inhabitants of which speak a
curious language of their own, and
seem to form a sort of ideal common
wealth, in which taxes and taxgather-
ers, among other troublesome things,
are unheard Of There are people liv-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14
10 CONTROL ISLANDS.
Philippine Commission Will Take
Charge Sent 4.


On Sept. l the commission headed by
Judge Taft viii become the legislative
body Of the Philippines, with power to
take and appropriate insular moneys, to
establish judicial and educational systems,
and to make and pass all laws. No mon
ey will be permitted to be drawn from
the insuar funds except by authorization
of the committee. Judge Taft and bis
colleagues will also exercise certain exec
utive functions. For instance. they will
appoint judges, officials in the educational
department and officers Of municipalities
which the commission establish pending
elections.
Gen. Macarthur will be tho executive
head to enforce the laws Of the commits
sion. and he will conduct the government
in accordance with the same until the
commission recommends TO President Nc
Kinley the appointment Of civil gov
ernor. There has been an increase of in
surgent activity during the last three
weeks, especially in the way of ambushes
and attacks upon small parties.