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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
Notes for Beekeepers.

Drones do not live SO long as work
ers.
Bees can endure dry cold, but not
dampness.
Good vinegar may be made from
honey. @
More bees are lost in wintering than
by disease.
Lack of ventilation is the cause of
dampness in many hives.
Combs cost the bees about ten pounds
of honey for every pound of comb.
The life of the bee depends on the
work it does. When it labors most
its life is shortest
1t is a serious mistake to let a colony
of bees become overstocked with
drones.
To secure the best results in bee
keeping good movable hives should be
used.
Guides for the brood frames and
boxes need not be more than an inch
in width.
Bees should not be moved during the
winter, nor should they be disturbed
or molested in any way.
Ali empty frames of combs should be
we'll taken care of during the winter
when not in use.
The worst enemy to empty combs in
winter is mice; if allowed access to
them they will destroy them.
Successful .wintering of bees depends
to a great extent on the right kind Of
fall management.
If colonies are found short of pro-
visions during the winter they may be
supplied with food in the shape of
candy.
The entrance to the hives should be
contracted during the winter. Three
inches long and three-eighths wide is
sufficient.
Bees seldom, if ever, take fly while
there is much snow on the ground. If
they are in proper condition they will
not fly at all-St. Louis Republic.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
A Doctor This Time.

Portland May 6th.-Dr. E. A Rose.
a practicing physician formerly of
Yates Center, Kans., was on what
everyone supposed was his death bed.
He had Diabetes, and six of his brother
doctors were in attendance and consul
tation at his bedside. They had done
everything that medical skill could sug-
gest to save his life, but they were at
last reluctantly forced to tell him that
he must prepare for death.
His aunt had been summoned to his
dying BEDSIDE. After the doctors had
given her nephew up, she insisted that
as last resort, he be given treatment
of DoddS Kiduey Pills.
From the very first dose the tide
turned in his favor His life was saved
and he is hale and hearty to-day.
This case and lis cure has amazed the
physicians, and is the sensation of the
hour. 1t is interesting to note that
while many others are being cured by
this great discovery in medicine, the
physicians themselves are among the
first to benefit, and that while she sim
pier and more prevalent forms, such as
Rheumatism, Sciatica, Bladder and
Urinary 1EOuDIe anu eUldAe w edhueSS
disappear before it, the more malignant
forms, such as Bright's Disease, Dia-
betes and Dropsy, which have always
been regarded as incurable, are yield
ing just as easily.
Dodd's Kidney Pills are fast super
ceding all other treatments for Kidney
Disease. and as nearly all human sick
ness and suffering has its origin in the
Kidneys, the use of this wonderful
medicine is becoming almost universal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
Odds and Ends

A mans best friends are his ten fin
gers.
Take a dollar a day for your work if
you can get no more.
Somehow the man with the far-away
look always stays near home.
There are nearly 1900 miles inland
navigation in England and Wales.
1t j. estimated that American travel
ers annually spend SIOO.OO0.oO0 in Eu-
rope.
Kindness is wisdom; there is none in
life but needs it and may learn
Bailey.
Milwaukee. the city Of lumber and
breweries, IS built over twenty-one
square miles OF ground.
The cities which stood the longest
sieges during the civil war were yicks-
burg, Miss. and Petersburg. Va.
In the Lake Erie fisheries BITS men
are employed and S2.T19.654 capiSS1
Last years catch was valued At 81. 49,
500.
New Orleans is the city Of the least
altitude. II Is at the sea level. some
parts of It are actually below the level
OF the Mississippi and protected from
overflow by Ievees. During high water
in many streets of the city the wheels
Of heavily laden vehicles cut through
the pavement ia the underlying SAID
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
GET THEIR READING FREE.
Many Congressnen Are Regular Poach

Many Congressman Are Regular Poach-
ers at the News Stand.
THE inclination of the average Amer
lean citizen to get something for moth
Ing is we'll illustrated by the propensity
of members of Congress to poach on
the news stands" said boy who
stands behind the counter at one of the
big uptown hotels. Il am not the one
to say that it is with the intention of
saving a few pennies that Congressman
wander over here in the morning and
open one of the papers for perusal. 1t
may be that they do not realize that
they are committing a trespass and
are taking something for which they
give no return, but it is fact that
many big men have that little trick,
which you may, if you want to, call
observation-disclosures. They frequently
buy papers, but more frequently do not,
especially if it is paper from out of
town. l could point to you at least
half dozen representatives who make
it rule while Congress is in session to
come up to my counter every morning
and look over the pile of papers. The
Senators are not much better, and all
of them seem to think that what they
are doing is beyond criticism. Two
or three men come every day and go
through their home papers without ever
thinking of buying them.
These habitual poachers are the
most annoying, because they never by
any chance buy. The casual class in
cludes those who come to look at a
paper for a special reason. A friend will
have told them that there is an article
in such and such a paper which is of
interest to them, and they come merely
to have look at the article tosee what
is in it. If they want the paper for
further refernce- they, buy it; if not
they put it back i think I'll put wire
netting over my stock next year by
way of remonstrance against the Con
gressional poaching habit" Washing
ton Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07

According to the report, of the United
States Commission of Agriculture, New
York State consumes as many eggs as
England, both disposing of $1S,OOO,-
600 worth of hen fruit annually. The
United States yearly consumes $780,
100000 worth of eggs and poultry.
Canada exports $3O,OOO,OOO worth of
eggs annually. The egg industry is
worth $15O,00000O more than all the
dairy products of. this nation. The
poultry products of this country aggre-
gate more in year than any single
crop. OF all the country's industries
the poultry industry is most generally
pursued. Last year the poultry earn
ings of the United States amounted to
over $300,000,0OO, being a greater value
by So, 100000 than our entire wheat
crop, $105,000,000 greater than our
swine brought US, $3O,0O0,OO0 more
than our cotton crop, more than three
times as great as all the interest paid
on mortgages during the year, $112,-
100000 more than we spend for schools,
and yet there are people who think the
hen small potatoes"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
Corn for the Silo.

There is a popular notion that the
ensilaging of corn adds something to
its value which is not contained in the
original material. This notion is wrong
and the greater the feed value of the
product put into the silO the greater
will be the value of the ensilage. Corn
should be planted for the silo but little
if any thicker on the ground than it
should be planted where the object Is
to produce grain. Corn is distinctiyely
O sun plant. and if it is so thickly seed
ed that the SIN cannot reach all parts
Of the growing plant there is produced
a product which is lacking in digesti-
bility and which is not relished by
farm stock.
A few years ago some experiments
were conducted by the Cornell expert
ment station, the object being to de-
termine what method of planting corn
produced greatest food value. Certain
plats We're drilled in thickly so that no
ears would develop, other plats were
planted with the rows 40 inches apart
md with the plants close together in
the row, and other plats were planted
in hills from 3 to 31a feet apart. While
n larger quantity of produce was OBJ
tanned per acre where the corn was
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
He Lives Next to Mckinley.

An irate gentleman, who found him
self obliged to pay two dollars instead
of one dollar for his new dog license,
created scene in the office of the Col
lector of Water Rents and Licenses.
When the man applied for his re-
newai he was unable to show either lis
1900 certificate or tag. The clerk ac-
cordingly refused 10 issue the license
for less than two dollars and the appli-
cant, Indignation blazing from his
eyes, angrily asserted that poor men
who came to the City Hall We're robbed
Systematically.
Il have a dog" he shouted. and I
paid for the license. Now. just be
cause the license was stolen off the
dogs neck You ask me 10 pay two dol
lars for new one. I live right next
door 10 Mr. Mckinley and he knows /
had a license last year"
Mr. who:" asked the clerk. with a
startled look. as doubts OF the mans
sanity fitted through his mind
Mr. Mckinley shouted the man.
Who is he:' said the clerk, N 4 con-
ciIiatOry tone.
The dog catcher. of course, said the
man Who did you think he was?'
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
Growing Table Ree,s.


Upon a sandy loan land which had
,een for ten years heavily manured and
.ropped with table beets ard celery, 1t
vas found by the New Jersey station
that the use of nitrate OF soda in
mounts varying from four hundred
% seven hundred pounds per acre. in
,hree equal applications. fastened the
maturing of the crop. At The first pull
ng and making of twO-ponnd punches,
here was 63 per cent. more on nitrated
plots than on those without the nitrate.
At 4 Secoad pulling. four days later,
he nitrated plots gave 135 per cent
more lunches. and al third pulling,
.hree days later, there was 1TIa per
sent more. after which they produced
Ibout equal amounts. The greatest
gain per acre by use If nitrate was
where they used seven hIndred pounds
per acre. S2T.10. more than where nj
rate was not used Ttis was due TO
:he higher price obtained for the earlier
1ullings. and amounted = about IS for
svery dollar the nitrate cost.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
Treatment of the Hired Man.


Because a man is working for wages
on a farm or anywhere else it is not
necessary to make him feel that he is
a mental or a mere machine to be
wound up every day to run for 81 many
hours. l never worked as a farm
hand, but during some ten years or
more in business houses in the city
only had one employer who gave me
to understand that l was nothing but
a machine to run ten hours a day.
only stayed with him a year; another
year would have killed me. Every
man in whose employ l was, this one
excepted, made me feel that l had
some responsibility outside of the gen
eral routine of my work. These men
would discuss methods and ask advice,
and it was no unusual thing for me to
be left in full charge of the business
for weeks, and il one instance several
months. In every day l was made to
feel that the success of the business
somewhat depended upon me. l was
not only to do a certain an cunt of
work, but was expected to have eyes
and ears open and be ever on the alert
to further the interests of the firm, and
that l succeeded in so doing is one of
the happy memories of life.
If our farmer community would ele-
vate the position of the farmland by
the same kind of treatment that the
successful business man of to-day en-
ploys toward those in his service there
would soon be better class of help in
the field, a brainy, thinking, seeing
man about the farm in place of the
careless, shiftless. ne'er-do-wcll farm
hand of bygone days.-New York Trib-
une.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
BEST LEGS IN THE WORLD.
American Made Artificial Extremitie.

American Made Artificial Extremities
to Be Controlled by a Trust.
Americans have the best legs II the
world-that is, when they are artificial
and are made in the United States.
They are most life-like and seryieeable.
and great quantities of them are ship
ped abroad.
The modern artificial leg is work OF
art. Its rise dates from. the Civil War.
This started a boom in made-to-order
supports, and the business has been
kept up since then by the number of
railroad and trolley accidents which
have severed limbs. Another reason
why the demand is so great now is the
growing use of antiseptics in surgery,
whereby blood-poisoning is avoided.
Now man may have his leg removed
with little risk; formerly the chances
for life were against him. Hence a
large proportion of those who lose their
real limbs depend upon the artificial
ones.
Time was when all that was left for
the man who lost leg was peg. That
is the sort that Silas Wegg wore in the
Dickens story. Now, however. few
''peg-legs' are to be seen. The artificial
limb is a work of art and can often de-
ceive the best observer, especially If
the wearer has been using it long and
his become expert. Every improve
ment possible to think of has been add
ed to them, with ever the idea of sim
plicity in view, till now the leg can be
used almost as well as the natural one.
Willow enters into the construction of
them, and they cost for the best 800,
while it costs So to $25 year to keep
them in good condition.
Old soldiers are allowed a certain
fixed rate per year by the Government
for artificial legs. Many of them take
this money and get along with pegs"
or clutches. Few women wear artificial
legs; seemingly few have need for
them. The practice now is to fit them
even to children, who thus grow more
symmetrically than if they walked on
clutches in the formative period of
their lives.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
A country of Centenarians.

OF all the countries in the world Ser
via contains the most "old'' people who
have genuine claim to the name centen.
arian. In this little country there are
575 persons more than 100 years of age.
Ireland comes next in the list with 57S,
but, her population is much greater. Spain
has 401 out of a population of 11,O00,-
600 and France counts 213 among her
3S,000,000 inhabitants. England, Scot
land and Wales can only muster 1872 in
the three countries. Germany can only
show seventy-eight out of a population
of 55,000,000, while Norway can lay
claim to twenty-three in 100000 and
Sweden twenty in 100000. Denmark
has only two and Switzerland, although
her people are naturally hardy, cannot
claim even one.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
Poor Butter Versus Bntterina.

Farmers, their wives, sons aid daugh-
tiers and those helperT on the farms
must decide whether 6utterine shall
have the preference to butter on the
tables of citizens of cities. 8utterine
now has the preference to much of the
butter which is put on the market
\ good, even quality of batter can
be produced on every farm every week
in the year if pains be taken with the
cows. the feed, the milking, the milk.
the cream. the churn, the chufning and
keeping the butter after it is churned.
Much of the spoiled butter Is spoiled
after churniug by being placed where
1t can take uD the Odors from vegeta-
bles. meats or the tobacco smoke from
the pipes of men who sit snd smoke
their tobacco in the kitchen while the
crock of butter sits ia the pantry or
cupboard near by.-H. w. Phelps.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07

toms, and no woman should allow
herself to reach such perfection of
misery when there is absolutely no
need of it. The subject of our por-
trait in this sketch, Mrs. Williams OF
Englishtown, Nj, has been entirely
cured of such illness and misery by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and the guiding advice of Mrs.
Pinkham of Lynn, Mass
No other medicine has such record
for absolute cures. and no other medi-
cine is "just as good" Women who
want cure should insist upon getting
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound when they ask for it al store.
Anyway, write a letter to Mrs. Pink
ham at Lynn, Mass, and tell her all
your troubles. Her advice is free.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07

sue sat on the top step, n rueIul little
object in the noon sunshine. Even the
pOstman pitied her.
''Sick?'
NO. Only sorry"
What's up?'
It's my birthday. I'm four"
The postman shouted with glee. but
she looked soberly sadder than before.
Don't like to be four, Ell? Don't feel
well. eh:"
Yes, | feel well. but I'm hungry"
Had breakfast?"
NO. Nurse is away at her wedding;
and cooks cross. Mammals making
me Il sweet little dress for my party to-
night, and I'm not bothering her.
Thtre'H he things TO eat at the party,
and I'm going
"Where'S brother
Brothers making me a jumping jack
fer my present. and he slapped me be
cause l peeked."
More blessed to give than to re-
ccive" unused the postman. And so
ycu haven't had no food, ELI -
oh, yes. l haven't not had nothing.
I've had piece of bread and an icicler'
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07

1t is desirable that the ripening of
cream either naturally or artifcially
should be At Il temperature not exceed
ing Is degrees. and aftee the ripening
has been completed-that Is. when the
tactic acid has been well developeC-it
should be refused still lower before
thurning. say not 10 be above 80 de
greeS, and some Of the best butter has
been made AZ II degrees. Cheese also
ripeSS best at a low temperature. The
experiment stations have said that
cheese r,pened AZ 65 degrees was bet
ter than that which was allowed 10
stand in a higher temperature and that
ripened al - degrees was much supe-
rior 20 that at g. degrees.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07

There Is more cstSrrh In this section Of the
country than all other diseases put together, and
until the last few years was supposed to be in
enrahle. For great many years doctors pro-
bounced IL a local disease and prescribed local
remedies. and by constantly failing 10 cure with
local treatment, pronounced It incurable. Science
has proven cStarrh 20 be n constitutional dis
ease and therefore requires constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure. manufactured by F.
J. Cheney & Co. Toledo. Ohio, Is the only con-
Stitutional cure on the market. II is taken In
teTually In doses from 10 drops TO q teaSpoonfJi,
IL acts directly on the blood and mucous sur.
faces OF the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case Il fails 70 cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials. Address,
+. !. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, O.
sSs- Sold by Druggists, sc,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
Stealing from the Farm,

4 man can steal from a bank, mer-
chant or a corporation, but he can not
steal from old mother earth on the
farm. The soil may be robbed in a
sense by being made to grow worthless
products. but the man is never bene-
flied thereby. y man may beat his
neighbors, but he can never beat his
farm. 1t is always and ever true that
whatsoever q man soweth that shall he
also reap.-Field and Farm.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
Horses Coming Back,

Horses are again coming back in the
harness. 4 big concern in Chicago
which invested heavily in all kinds of
horseless vehicles to do their transpor-
tation have abandoned them and gone
back to the horse. What with keeping
them in repair and the charges for
electricity, they found that the new
method cost twice as much as the old
method.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
If Coffee Poisons You.

ruins your digestion. makes you nervous
aud SallOw compieNioned. keeps you
awake nights aud acts against your sys-
TEN generally, try Grain-O. the new food
driuk. Ii is made OF pure selected grain
and Is healJhful. uouriShing ami appe-
Using. II has none OF the bad effects II
coffee, yet il is just as pleasant % the
JaS;e. and when properly prepared can't
he told from the finest COtfSeS. Costs
sh0ut L as much. II is Z healthful table
drink for the children and adults. Ask
your grocer for Graip-0. 10 and 25c.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07

When the catarrh reaches the throat it is
the bronchial tubes is called bronchitis; ca
tarrh of the lungs, consumption. Any inter
nal remedy that will cure catarrh in one
location will cure it in any other location.
This is why Peruna has become so justly
famous in the cure of catarrhal diseases. 1t
cures catarrh wherever located. Its cures
remain. Peruna does not paliiate; it cures.
Mrs. Frederick Williams, President of the
South Side Ladies' Aid Society of Chicago,
Ill, writes the following words of praise
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
This Roy Was Shrewd.

Tommy. aged 3. had pony aud dog,
and, while he liked them both. he liked
the pony best. One day a visitor. to test
his generosity. asked him If he would
not give him the dog. NO" replied the
little fellow. hut I'll give you the pony"
This surprised his mother very much
ami she asked him why he didn't give the
dog instead. Don't say 4 word, mani
ma" whispered the little Schemer. when
he goes 10 get the pony I'll sic the dog on
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
90 YOU FEEL LIKE THIsp
Pen Picture for Women.

I am SO nervous, there is not
well inch in my whole body. am so
weak at my stomach and have indi-
gestion horribly, and palpitation of
the heart, and am losing flesh This
headache and backache nearly kills
me, and yesterday nearly had hyster-
les; there is weight in the lower part
of my bowels bearing down all the
time, and pains in my groins and
thighs cannot sleep, walk, or sit;
and | believe / am diseased all over !;
no one ever suffered as i do"
This is description of thousands of
cases which come to Mrs. Pinkham's
attention daily. An infamed and ul-
cerated condition of the neck of the
womb can produce all of these symp-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
A New Radish.

The mongri, or edible podded radish,
is a new vegetable from Java which
is now recommended by the American
Consul in New Zealand, where it has
been tried. 1t is as easily grown as
the ordinary radish, producing enor.
nous crops of long pods, which are
crisp and tender. with a delicious fla
vor. Persons who cannot eat the COM
mon radish because of its indigestible
qualities should hail this new variety
with pleasure.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07

drilled in thickly. yet it contained a
higher per cent of moisture and was de-
ficient in protein and in fat.
While the money value of the broad
casted corn is not very different from
the value of that grown on the other
plat, this estimate does not take into
account the digestibility of the various
enthusiastically Gentleman.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
Marketing Farm Produc4s

Selling grain and hay from the farm
in bulk reduces the profit in two ways.
1t is expensive to handle and haul
and it takes away elements of fertility
that should be saved and returned to
the soil. Feed hogs, sheep and cattle
and so market your product in the
most condensed form and in the east
est way, on the hoof, and keep ND the
land while you are cropping it.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
A PRODUCTION from Asphalt.

After having experimental for sever&d
years, a Copenhagen chemist has sue
,ceeded in producing a material called
'solicum." which possesses qualities thar
will render it of the greatest importance
to the caoutchouc industry. 1t is pre-
duced, it seems, from asphalt, and can be
used for the manufacture of inoleums
rubbers. insulators, etc. 1t is also claim
ed that the material can be used as
paint, in all colors, and that it is abse-
lutely waterproof.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07


Hospital. She has
the following TO
say about Peruna:
Il have had fire.
quent Opportuni-
ties to observe the
wonderful curative
effects of Peruna,
especially on per-
sons S u # G T 1 Il (
with a cOngested
condition of the
head, lungs. and
stomach, generally
called catarrh. 1t
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