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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-17
SHIP SUBSIDY BILL.
Senator Frye Has Introauc@1 the Re-
undelel measure.

IuOdelG3 MEASURE
Senaf Frye has introduced the new
ship idy bill. In form it differs rad
ically from the bill of the past two ses-
sions. 1t is much shorter and is divided
into four titles of fifteen sections, in all
about 200 words.
The first title, Ocean Mail Steam
ships" is devoted to amendments to the
ocean mail act Of 1891 Under the bill
the Postmaster General is required to
consider the national defense and the
maritime interests of the United States,
as well as postal interests, as well as
providing for the American ocean mails.
The purpose Of this amendment is to
free the United States from dependence
upon British, German and French auxil-
larry cruisers for its ocean mail service
and to substitute a purely American sys-
tenn.
The Frye bin provides seven distinct
classes of mail steamers, and is based
on the progress OF ship building and mail
requirements abroad the past ten years
The general subsidy for all vessels,
steam or sail, which are not rnder mail
contracts, is uniform l cen per gross
ton per 100 nautical miles, for not eX-
ceeding sixteen entries in one year
To promote the building OF new ocean
vessels an additional allowance of one
fourth of a cent per gross ton is made for
FIVE years. Amy vessel to receive the gen
eral subsidy must carry mails, if requir-
ed; must train in seamanship or engi-
neering one American youth for each
1000 tons The owner must agree TO
hold the vessel at the service of the
government if required for defense.
Any vessel to receive subsidy must be
class "A L. and at least one-fourth Of
the crew must be Americans.
The third title, Deep Sea Fisheries"
provides an annual bounty Of 81 ton
for deep sea fishing vessels and of 81 a
month for American citizens when engag-
ed III deep sea fishing.
The fourth title. General Provisions"
provides that a vessel shall receive only
one form of subsidy, and that a vessel
which has received a subsidy shall not
be sold to a foreigner except by consent
of the Secretary Of the Treasury.
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| ed with all the blades open, and therein
| lies the secret of the knife board. The
cunning faker arranges his knife board
so that the rings slide over them as water
! does a ducks back.
The wheel of fortune seems as fair as
any game can be, yet the arrow has a
''sneak" and the faker can stop it at
any number or article he desires. a
wheel may be bought as low as $40, in
Guiding $50 pieces of jewelry, but this
is of the cheapest kind, rings, for exam
pie, being quoted as low as one cent
apiece. With this cheap wheel the first
profit at 10 cents a whirl, without any
sneaking, amounts TO SO, and the busi-
ness requires no previous experience"
A full outfit of 30 pieces of jewelry
costs but So, thus making gain of $50,
and some takers make as much as $50 a
day.
The higher the cost of the wheel the
more easily and quickly the money is
made, as they are fitted with large pins
to separate numbers or colors, and the
arrow point has a screw feather, making
certain winner of any desired number
or color and avoiding all possibility of
dispute.
Nothing is more tempting than the
striking machine, and nothing looks fair
err. But these striking machines are in
genious arrangements, and, in the words
of an advertisement of new kind now
on the market, "can be manipulated
without helper" One of these may be
had for 500, while prize cigars are offer
ed to the takers for $40 thousand.
Red, white and blue is a dealing game.
There is a Layout with three shields on
it, one red, one white, one blue. A box
and sixteen balls, FIVE OF each color and
one dealers percentage goes with the
outfit. Players place their money on a
given shield, a slide opens in the box,
and out pops a ball. If the ball is of the
same color the player puts his money On
he wins. If not he loses. If this was
fair game the player, by the law Of
chance, would stand some show Of win
ming, but as the box is fixed the dealer
can produce a ball of any color he de-
sres, yet any one not in the secret can
examine the box at any time and find it
apparently square, yet it is tricky box.
There are half a hundred tricks work
ed with cards, and all of such q nature
that they can be worked without the
slightest fear of detection.
But the visitor to the fair is looking
for fun. The faker and his outfit enter
tains him and he doesn't begrudge the
money.
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PE)lPlIADo
PREAGnER

The Rev Geoarge b. Wood has taken
up Episcopal missionary work at Column
bus, Wis.
The Rev. J. p De 3. Kaye of Iron
wood Mich, has been called as dean of
Grace Episcopal Cathedral, Topeka,
Kan.
The Rev II. NJ. Denslow of Muncie,
Ind, has received a call to the pastorate
of st. Johns Episcopal Church, Lafay.
cite, Ind.
Memorial Baptist Church, Brooklyn,
has rendered call to the Rev James II.
Stair of First Baptist Church, Hacken-
sack, y. j.
Mgr. Donate Sbaretti, Archbishop OF
Havana, has been appointed Apostolic
Delegate to the Philippines and has left
for his post.
Third Presbyterian Church, Pittsburg.
has begun the construction Of its new edi-
fee, which will seat 100 and viii cost,
including chapel, 100000
The Rev. Asel Bronson, member Of
the Upper Iowa Conference Of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, celebrated his
ninety-fourth birthday a few days ago.
The American Missionary Association
has 700 missionaries scattered through
its widely varied fields. The association
closed the last year without debt and
with 100000 in its treasury.
The annual address Of the bishops Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church notes
gain Of 81, 1000 in membership. and that
S13, 900, 900 has been raised for the TWEEN
tieth century thank offering.
Bushwick Avenue Congregational
Church. Brooklyn, has called DIR. Charles
T. gaylis Of Cincinnati to its pastorate
DR.. Baylls was formerly pastor of the
Peoples Church, South Chicago.
DIR. S. Edward Young, pastor Of Sec
ond Presbyterian Church, Pittsburg, has
returned from a tour Of Russia, where
he made a study Of the language, church,
condition Of the people and the genius Of
the Russian government.
There are now about thirty women pas
tors Of Unitarian churches in the United
States. The latest addition to their
ranks is Miss Estella X. Padgham OF
Syracuse, y. ", who has just been or
dained. and who has accepted cali %
the passionate Of a church at Perry, Pa.
Miss Padgham Is a graduate Of Smith
College. and took course in theology az
the Theological Seminary at Meadyiile,
Pa
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nairx (iInnninr..

Those people who consider milking
irksome win never make good dairy
men.
The dairy woman who churns before
"sun up in the morning often makes
firm grained butter without the use OF
ice.
The reason some farmers never ex.
tract the latent gold in dairy COWS is
that they persist in looking to the grain
and corn fields for it.
1t is a parody on cleanliness re tTy to
strain filth out Of milk when it might
have been obyiated by the exercise Of
the most ordinary precautions.
Despite all of the laws to the con-
trary, skinned cheese is yet sold for
"full cream" and oleomargarine for
real butter. Where is the remedy?
1t is curious fact, and yet true, that
come of the most profitable moments
any one engaged in dairying can spend
are in repeated washing of the hands.
While it pays to raise good hogs in
conjunction with the dairy, It never has
or never will pay the mandatory to
keep the swine quartered near cheese
factory or creamery.-Exehange.
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Weiphts for Barn Use.

Frequently the farmer wishes to feed
a given weight of this, that or the other
stuff and has no scales at hand to
weigh it.. If he has a quart measure
handy, he can use 1t to measure out
the required weight. The quart weight
of various feeds is as follows:
Cottonseed meal, 1.5 pounds; linseed
meal, old process, IL pounds; gluten
meal, IL pounds; gluten feed, IL
pounds; wheat bran, coarse, IS pound;
wheat middlings, coarse, s pound, and
fine, IL pounds; mixed wheat feed, g
pound; cornmeal, 1.5 pounds; oats, II
pounds; rye bran, g pound; H. o. dairy
feed, Z pound, and Victor corn feed, Q
pound per quart. These weights are
worked out by the Connecticut expert
ment station. With these equivalents
at hand the feedman may know where
he is at when he desires to feed by
weight
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00GIE country fair is the harvest time

| GSSIE country fair is the harvest time
for the genial faker. The faker is
q not a husbandman and he sows not,
| and neither does he gather up and bind
into bundles, and yet, when the harvest
season is over the faker has more money
than the honest farmer who has TILED
many golden acres. For the faker gets
up early in the morning and goes TO bed
late at night, and he makes money all the
livelonS day.
The temptation TO get something for
nothing, or at least much for little, to
fiirt with coquettish fortune, is irresisti-
bic. Though man knows full well that
the faker is not at the fair merely for the
sake Of his health or for a pleasant out
ing, and that his tricks put to shame
those of the heather Chinee, still the vic
tim will take the one chance out of
million of beating the game. He doesn't
beat it, for the game wasn't rugged up
so that he could beat it. Still he is will
ing to take the chance, and he suffers no
disappointment when he fails.
Chief among the catch-penny attrac-
tons of the faker is the cane rack. The
cane rack Outht does not cost the faker
much. 4 net rack may be bought for
from 60 cents to S1.25 and a canvas one
for from 90 cents to S1.30. Canes cost
from 30 cents a dozen to $1.50 per dozen.
Rings cost 60 cents per hundred. With
this outfit and a permit the faker sets
up his rack on four stakes, which are
purpOsely loose, so as to allow the rack
to sway slightly. Then he plants his
canes.
The cheaper ones predominant, but
canes with swelled heads are occasionally
seen and here and there are crooks, some
reproducing a miniature, a lower member
missing, the torso of Venus. The rings
vary from one and one-qquarter to one
and three-qurters inches inside diameter
The heads of some of the canes are al
most as great in diameter, and those with
crooks are turned in such way that it
is almost impossible to ring them unless
the ring is dropped Immediately upon
them. 1t is difficult even to ring the
smaller canes, for they stand loosely in
the rack, and a side blow tips them so
that the ring slides off.
Next in favor is the knife board. A
board costs from $1.50 to $3.50, and
complete outft-board, 100 rings and
eighty-four knives-may be had for
S1450 and upward. Knives may be had
from 80 cents a dozen to 1898 a dozen.
These knives. the cheaper predominant
ing and costing about two and a half
cents apiece, are conspicuously display
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Changing Mixers.

What effect does a change oc mixers
have on the yield of COWS? This de-
ponds both on the COWS and on the
mixers. A comparison of the daily av-
erage of nine COWS was recently made
in the Kansas Agricultural College; the
average yield both before and after a
change of mixers showed that there
was practically no difference. In both
cases only one out of the three regular
mixers was changed. At election time
last November all the regular mixers
were absent from three to seven milk
ings, and the regular routine of work
was of course more broken up than II
only one mixer had changed The to-
tai yield for the herd was cOnsidera-
bly, less for this period, and the yield
in individual cases dropped nearly one
half in seven milkings. The more ner-
vous the cows the more they were af-
fected. A continual change Of mixers
would mean more or less irregularity in
the manner of handling the herd, and is
not advisable. Again, good mixers are
scarce, and the change is likely to pro
duce a poorer for the better hand.
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black and dark brown peltry has reyers
sad collar of white or gray furs. Chin
chilla. which promised earlier in the sea
son TO be a leader, has been 10 some ex-
tent supplanted by mink and sable, al
though it is still used for trimmings,
boas and mcsG Ssckets or long cloaks
are seldom made of it, doubtless because
its perishability was proved so recently.
Couarettes and short shoulder capes are
plain, falling in long tabs in front, these
rarely adorned with tails or claws. Short
and three-quarter rippled eapes are hand
somely lined with some light silk or satin.
but are not finished with different fur col
ssrs or revers. Many Of this season s
capes do not show reyers, the medici col
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quality. Pattern is described as being
an important factor, the several vari-
cites being known as ''pinfire," when
the grain is very small; harlequin"
when the color is all in small squares,
the more regular the better, and the
''fashfire," or ''fashopal," when the
color shows as single fash, or in. very
large pattern. Harlequin is the most
common, and is also popularity consid-
cred the most beautiful. When the
squares of color are regular and show
as distinct, minute checks Of red, yell
low blue and green, it is considered
magnificent. Some stones show better
on edge than on top.
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FEEDING and Watering Fo,

CC0An& anu =" AOWArs
Where there is a scratching shed con-
nected with the poultry-house, all of
the feeding should be done there. IT,
however, this valuable addition can not
be had. and the feeding and watering
must be done in the roosting room, some
provision should be made so that the
food will be neither wasted or soiled
by the fowls, says the Indianapolis
News. Crates are inexpensive. and are
readily constructed of light material.
The Stats should be of smooth lumber
and placed so that the fowls can get
their heads in and out without diff
Guilty. They should be open in front and
on both sides. if placed against the
walls of the house, or, If set in the
open space, they should be open on both
sides and both ends. Each crate should
have solid floor of boards and a hing
ed top, so that the pans of food and
water may be placed in position with
little trouble, and the crates be readily
cleaned. If the house is so small that
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-17
Preserving Eggs,

Numerous methods of preserving eggs
are in use, says Field and Farm. The
idea of all of them is to keep out the
air so that oxygen decay may be arrest
ed for considerable length of time. es-
pecially if the eggs are perfectly fresh
at the start and are kept in cool, dark
place. The standard method most used
by spectators and dealers is to put
eggs in lime water The process is as
follows, this recipe having been widely
sold at 50 under pledge of secrecy. Take
two gallons Of water, twelve pounds Of
unslaked lime and four pounds of salt,
or in that proportion, according to the
quantity of eggs to be preserved. Stir
several times daily and then let stand
until the liquid has settled and is per-
fectly clear. Draw or carefully dip off
the clear liquid, leaving the sediment
at the bottom. Take five ounces each
of baking soda, cream of tartar salt
peter and an ounce of alum. PulveriZe
and mix these and dissolve in one gall
lon of boiling water and add TO the
mixture twenty gallons of pure lime
water This will about fill cider bar
rel. Put the eggs in carefully so as
not to crack any of the shells, letting
the water always stand an inch above
the eggs, which can be done by placing
a barrel head little smaller upon them
and weighing it. This amount of
liquid will preserve $50 dozen eggs. 1t
is not necessary to wait to get a full
barrel or smaller package of eggs, but
can be put in at any time if fresh. The
same liquid should be used only once,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-17
SENIOR sAGAsrA.

Senior Praxedes Mateo Sagasta, the
Spanish premier, whose health has com
pletely broken down from catarrh of the
stomach, is 20 years old, and has been
conspicuous in the political lfe of Spain
since 1854. when he was first elected to
the Cortes. The story Of his life would
present the vivid and stirring history Of
his country from that time 70 this. In
1897 he succeeded the late CanoyaS del
Castillo as prime minister, II was he
who forced the recall OF Weyler from
Cuba, replacing him with Blanco. No
statesman in Spanish history has averted
more crises than he, or SO often rescued
the country from dangerous and humiliat-
ing situations
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medallions Of lace are set into the chiffon
and around these the embroidery vines
trail.
Long, narrow, oyershaped dots Of black
are TO be seen on neekwear. One stock
has large white lace bow. with these
dots IN black velvet rs much as a quar-
ter Of an inch long. A big tulle bow has
smaller dots Of velvet the same shape.
There is scarcely a fur which is not be-
ing smiled upon by fashion this season,
but novel combinations may be rpcog-
nized in a coat OF sealskin, which bears
vest and revers Of miniver, and a long
ulster Of ermine with deep founce Of
ermine, and high collar and cuffs Of sa-
BILE.
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MKinIey's First DiK.omauc Victory.

The first social incident Of Presi.
dent McKinley's first administration
was his granting Vice President Ho-
bart precedence over the ambassadors.
Lord Pauncefote is known to have re-
ported this innovation to his foreign
office, which is said TO have thereupon
inquired in TO the custom of other
countries. 1t was eventually agreed
that Mr.. Hobart should be regarded as
the heir to the Presidency and there
fore on the same social footing with
the crown princes of European mon
arches, whose social rank Is second
only to that Of the heads of state. their
royal parents.-Ladies' Home Journal
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-17

Never try to lay up big bank ac-
count by raising scrub stock, says the
Farmers Advocate. If you have a good
grade of stock and cannot afford to buy
one or more thoroughbreds, you can
make your grade stock better by liberal
feeding and good care. Stunning young
stock, though they may be thorough
breds, will in a short time reduce them
to worse than scrubs, because scrubs
are never used to and do not receive
but very ordinary care. The thorough.
bred does expect liberal feeding and
good care, and will degenerate without
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Extra rdinar, Feed.

The statement is going the rounds
that a Holstein- Friesian COW in an ex.
pertinent at the Missouri Experiment
Station consumed daily, in a seven day
test, fifteen pounds of bran, three
pounds of oil meal. 1881 pounds OF
ground corn and oats, 1894 pounds OF
corn silage and 7.57 pounds of clover
hay. This amounted to 31.31 pounds OF
grain feed and 4O.51 pounds Of rough.
age. daily, or a total of 219.17 pounds OF
grain feed and 2S3.57 pounds of rough.
age for seven days.
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pesirabIe oualities in am opal.

In judging an opal, color is of the
greatest Importance. Red fire. or red
IL combination with yellow. biz and
green, are the best. Blue by ftSelr is
quite valuless, and the green opal is not
OF great value unless the color Is very
vivid and the pattern very good The
color must be true; that is 10 say, it
must not run in streaks or patches, al
ternating with q eolorless or inferior
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shown. So long as there is no pressure
on the wires between the ring and the
horns the nose ring is simply held up
ward without any discomfort to the
animal. Should the bull rush any 9TH
er animal or attempt to get through
any fence the pressure pulls the nose
ring upward causing considerable pain.
1t requires very few experiences to
teach the animal that any misbehavior
on his part Is attended by suffering to
himself. One prominent breeder says
even the fercest of bulls is quickly
tanned by his device.
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can,ibalism Among Swine.

In nine cases out of ten where sows
kill and eat their young the trouble is
due entirely to improper feeding, and it
will be generally found that such sows
are fed on a corn diet almost exclusive
Iy. The brood sow needs protein be-
fore and while she is nursing the pigs.
During the period when the brood SOW
is on the range she should have an
abundance of green food and in some
variety, rape especially being good for
her. The grain foods should be bran,
peas, oats, and little or no corn, and
when confined she should hare plenty
of clover hay TO take the place of the
green food of the summer. Aside from
the danger of the SOW eating the young.
the corn diet is too heavy, nearly al
ways exciting feverish condition bad
for both the SOW and the pigs.-Ex-
change
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NOT MANY NOVELTIES
NEW IDEAS IN USE OF FuRS ARE
LACKING.
They Are Very Fashionable. However,
and the welI-to- Do Are Buying Gem
erously-Peltries Used in Combine
tion and for Trimming.

'LENTIFUL as
the array of styl-
ish furs is becom-
ing, it is not
marked by start
lin g novelties.
Not even to APP
pease fashionable
women can fur
riers induce a
new kind of ami
NAL TO shed its
skin, or an old
one to surrender
a new sort of
pelt. So for new
ness, reliance is
put on methods
of employment,
and these. in
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New York correspondence

furs, rarely change radically from one
season to another. Changes there are, of
course, and they not only appear in al
most every item of the furrier's stock,
but are sufficiently marked to make the
new garment readily distinguishable from
the old Yet on the whole this years
styles resemble those of last season. No
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Feefinr Grnin - Shern-

Sheep make the best use of grain
when it Is fed in its original whole,
dry condition Masticating their food
thoroughly. the finest weed seeds are
totally fined and destroyed. Finely
ground grain forms a sticky mass in
the mouth and seems distastefuI to the
sheep.
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pay a special VISIT
to the Gar, is one
of the most pictur,
esque figures in all
Europe. Brother OF
the imperial master
of Germany, he is
the only man to
whom the emperor
will allow the
slightest touch of
familiarity, and he
is the kind Of Il
man who will moi
allow even an EN-
peror to forget that
the divine right
does not exempt its
holder from nurply
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Starting in the Poultry business.

Starting in tAe Poultry business.
Beginners in poultry keeping try to
do too much at the start. This applies
quite as much to the average farmer as
to any one, for it is admitted that the
farmer. as a rule. knows comparatively
little about poultry. After man Las
gone through the various trials of three
years with poultry, he is in a position
10 extend his business with profit or to
give it up in disgust. If the latter is
the result it is proof conclusive that he
is not fitted to the business. or that he
has not profited by his experience. In
either ~ase the loss viii not have been
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TRAPS TO CATCH TIGERS

Powerful Steel Suares that Hold the
Brutes Securely.
Capturing tigers by novel method
is now being adopted in Sumatra and is
proving almost invariably successful.
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in Australia. The
device is thus dc.
scribed: "a BLOCK
of wood is screw
ed on to each
horn and n wire
stretched from
block to block
and also to the
nose ring, as
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white velvet. The other was mixed brown
and red camel's hair, with loose waist
coat of red and white striped velvet.
Chenhsette and sleeve puffs were cream
lace. Hop sacking and the heavy basket
weave are made into general wear suits
and are lined with stitching or bands of
panne velvet to match the color of the
gown.