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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
Animals Without Feet.

The hoOfed animals, like the horse
and the stag, have, strictly speaking,
no feet, for they walk on their nails,
and their feet have become part of their
legs. The advantage seems to be a
frightening of the stride, just as a
trained athlete learns to run on his toes
to increase his pace. There is also the
further advantage of no soft part to
be injured by contact with the ground.
Some monkeys have four hands. which
must be a great advantage in climbing.
The absence Of legs as we'll as feet is
an advantage to many animals that
have to travel rapidly through the
water or between the branches of trees
or other Instructions.
Legs would be but an obstruction to
the tadpole while he swims by means
of his powerful tail, but when he
leaves the water legs and feet become
an advantage. So the snake is able
to creep through underwood and into
small holes with far greater ease with
out legs, and even the slow worm
which seems such a helpless animal or
fiat ground, can creep through hedge
with remarkable ease and speed. The
rudiments of legs are to be found il
many snakes, so that there can be but
little doubt that the absence of legs
has proved an advantage and thai
natural selection has removed them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
Here Early and to Stay.


In the very oldest fossil bearing rocks
no insects are found. The very oldest
fossil is kind of polyp, making reefs
of limestone when as yet the insects
had not appeared, and it ''fourished'
in Canada
ed, a creature of such vast antiquity
that IL deserves all the respect which
the parvenu man can summon and Of
fer to it, was-a cockroach. This, the
father of all black beetles, probably
walked on the earth in solitary magnifi-
cence when not only kitchens, but even
kitchen middens, were undreamed of,
possibly millions of years before neo-
lithic man had even a back cave to Of
fer, with the remains of last nights
supper, for the cockroach of the period
to enjoy His discovery established the
fact that in the silurian period there
were insects, though as the only piece
of his remains found was a wing, there
has been room for dispute as to the ex-
act species.
Mr.. Goss in his preface to the second
edition of his book notes says that
what is probably a still older insect has
been found in the lower silurian in
Sweden. This was not a cockrOach, but
apparently something worse. If the
Latin name, Protocimex silurius, be lit
orally translated it means the original
silurian bug.-Spectator.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
rr,ea 70 Raise thc Dead.

A remarkable attempt was MADE IN
Denmark recently to bring back to life
q man who had died in hospital The
experiment was measurably successful,
as resuscitation was effected several
hours after the man was pronounced
dead. DR.. Mag, who was in charge,
was unable to maintain life. however.
The patient had died from typhoid
fever, and Dr. Mag decided to try an
experiment. Respiration had ceased
completely and the body was cold. d.
rect massage of the heart was resorted
to. The chest was cut open directly
over the heart, and through the in
cision the physician passed his hand
and seized the heart. He commenced
a series of compressions, and in short
time the heart commenced to work OF
its own accord. The action of the
heart gradually became stronger, but
the man had not commenced to
breathe. Only after the heart had
been acting half an hour did the first
gasp for air come.
The patient was then assisted in
this for about an hour until finally he
was able to breathe quite freely. At
the same time his cheeks began to as
sumo a natural color. He lay in this
condition another half hour, but with
out regaining consciousness or appear
ing to feel the effects of the incision.
Then there was a reaction and respi-
ration ceased, although the heart con-
tinued to act eight hours longer. A
second effort was made to induce heart
action, but without result.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
KipIing and the Bus Owner.

After leaving Vermont Rudyard Kip
ling bought a place in the little Eng
liSh village of rockingham, and in his
garden were some beautiful trees. One
of these trees, branching over the
road, threatened daily injury to the
driver of the local bus. Therefore he
and his conductor waged destructive
war on all the vulnerable twigs within
reach from the bus roof. Result: A
vigorous letter of complaint from Mr.
Kipling to the bus owner, who is also
landlord of one of the local inns.
That evening the landlord laid the
letter before the select company of the
bar parlor. They advised an attitude
of calm indifference. Also a Cresus
among them offered $3.50 in cash fol
the autograph letter. Both advice and
cash were accepted.
The nuisance continuing, in due
course a second and stronger letter
followed the first. The landlord con.
vened another bar parliament, and the
second letter also found a buyer, this
time at So, as befitted it's increased
violence. And Boniface again "sat
tight" To him next day entered Mr.
Kipling, briskly wrathful. "Why
didn't answer your letters, sir? Why,
1 was hoping you'd send me a fresh
one every day. They pay deal better
than bus drivingw
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
Eating Railway Iron.

Iron for the blood has evidently been
prescribed for the quails of Florida; at
least, these birds are eating steel rails
on the tracks of the sugar belt near
Rupnymede. The report, which is well
authenticated, does not charge the
quails with actually swallowing the
rails. but it does say that they pick
away their particles wherever they fiHd
a rusty spot where they are loosened.
From several points in the state
comes the report of holes found in steel
rails, and in cases they are large
enough to seriously weaken the ma
terial. Where a rusty spot starts and
is picked out, it naturally holds mois-
ture, continues to rust. to be again
picked out, and so the work of destruc-
ton goes on.
Railway engineers really believe that
the quails take the iron tonic because
they are not well and find that it re-
lieyes their distress.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
Not Second Sight.

In happenings that SAVIOR of the SUI
pernatural there is often less rather
than more than is "dreamt of in philos-
ophy."
In the English county of Wiltshire
there lived a woman whose deceased
husband had been pig dealer. After
his death it was her habit to remark
to chance visitors, without looking out
the window:
That's a nice lot of young pigs,
those"
Where" the person present was
sure to ask.
Comm down the road" was the in.
variable reply. They're in a cart,
and, what's more, there's a fine fat
SOW among EN-"
And it would not be long before a
cart would appear and in it litter of
pigs and among them the sow which
the woman had perceived at such a
distance up the road. One day Wis
itor, who saw in this exhibition an
evidence of second sight, exclaimed:
'How do you do it? 1t is simply Won
derfulr'
"'Tain't no miracle" was the modest
reply. I've just got my ear trained
to pigs-that's ALL
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
The shrinkage of England.

With regard to the east coast a sorry
story has to be told, the county of
Yorkshire, for instance, from Bridling-
ton to Spurn Head, has been disappear
ing, it is calculated, at an average rate
of six feet year. 1t is said that care
full observation of a certain u mile
stretch shows that the cliffs 40 feet
high have been eaten away by the
waves for 132 feet in 40 years It is,
however, at Spurn Head that the great
est ravages have taken place.
In Edward rs time the village of
Ravenspur, a seaport near Spurn Head,
sent more than one member to par
lament; in 1899 and 1471 Henry "
and Edward ", respectively, landed
there, but very soon after the latter's
visit tha entire town was swept away
by the sea. Today the village of Kiln
sea alone stands upon the head; the old
site of the village, once fair place on
a hill. with a fine old church, destroyed
by the waves in 1896, is now some
hundreds of yards below high water
mark, and when New Kilnsea joins it
the sea and the Humber will not take
long to destroy the entire promontory
and make things very unpleasant at
Grimsby.-Good Words.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
Bargaining In the Orient.

In Smyrna, Turkey and Egypt the
bargaining language is about the same.
What you give, lady?'
81 won't give anything! l don't
want it! What! Do you think I
would carry that back to American"
But you take hold of him. You feel
him silk. l think you want to buy.
Yer cheap. Only four poundw
-Four poundsw 1 say in French.
ooh, you don't want to sell. You want
to keep it! And at that price you
will keep itr'
Keep itp' in shrill scream. "Not
want to sell? Me? 1 here to sell! /
sell you everything you see! 1 sell you
the shopr' More wheedlingly, "You
give me 40 francs?'
NO" in English again. "I'll give
you So"
America! Libertyr' he cries, hav-
ing cunningly established my nationali-
ty and fiattering my country with
oriental guile "How much you give
for him? Last price. now. Six dol
larsr'
We haggle over last prices" for a
quarter of an hour more, and after
two cups of coffee amiably taken to-
gether and some general conversation
1 buy the thing for $3.-Lilian Bell in
Woman's Home Companion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
One View of Our Women.

American women separate them
selves more each year from the life of
the country and affect to smile at any
of their number who honestly wish to
be of service to the nation. They, like
the French aristOcracy, are perfectly
willing, even anxious, to fill agreeable
diplomatic posts at first class foreign
capitals, and are naively astonished
when their offers of service are not ac-
cepted with gratitude by the authori-
ties at Washington. But let husband
propose to his better half some humble
position in the machinery of our gov
eminent and see what the lady's
answer will be. A New York woman
was transplanted to a western city,
where she was told that ''the ladies of
the place expected her to become their
social leader" 81 don't see anything
to lead" was the amiable response
From Eliot Gregory's worldly Ways"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
NJ Family to Rnasf Of

Miss Cardinals Mr. Burbank a
man of family?
Miss Yirginia-Not that anybody
knows of.
Miss enthusiastically told me
that he is the father of several chill
dren.
Miss Virginia-Has a house full Of
them, but he can't trace their lineage
beyond his common old grandfather
Denver News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
EnfaI GIuffnnN

A messenger employed at the railway
station in Praga, Warsaw, made a bet
that he would eat at one meal FIVE
fowls. jar of sour cabbage, two mel
ons, ten pounds of fruit, six cucum-
bers, with bread, and, besides, he
would drink gallon of vodki native
spirit, six bottles of beer and three
siphons of soda water. A numerous
company. assembled to witness the
feat, which was successfully accom-
plished, and the bet was paid. The
man, however, was found dead in bed
next mOrning.-London Standard
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
Time 1t Was Killed.

Particular Diner-This fish, waiter
Truthful Waiter promptly)-Was
killed this morning, sir.
Particular Diner Capproyingly)-You
did quite right TO kill it, because it
had been on shore so long that it must
have forgotten how TO swim, and
would have been drowned if it had
ever gone TO sea again.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
REWARD OFFERED

Twenty dollars reward offered for a
pocket book lost. which contained a
certified check and two tickets for the
Lyman Twins in A Merry Chase which
viii be here Saturday night.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
Posted In spite of tae Rule,

Collector am afraid TO present this
dun in person to Mr.. Grump. Had we
not better forward it by mail?
Manager-Yes, but remember this is
the only instance where we win violate
our motto, Post No Bills. ohio State
Journal
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12

can umbrella is a good deal like a
fellows hair" remarked the observer
of events and things. III you lose it,
you seldom get it back again"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
DIR. A. l.. BROWN.

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office over
Mueller & Quandts shoe store. Residence
nection. Special attention given to diseases of
women and children.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12

In Japan handkerchiefs are made of
paper, cords are twisted from it, and
limitations of Cordova leather are skill
fully contrived from it.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
PHYSICIANS.
IA. WALTERS. NJ D.

SURGEON and HOMEOPATHIC PHYSI-
- CLAN. Special attention given 10 Gynae-
cology and OFFICIAL Surgery. Telephone Is.
Office and residence $40 Third street. Office
hours from II to $50 and evenings
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
DIR. G. r. BUGBEE.
DIR. KANOUSE,

Office over Bueler & Berkholder's Cigar Store,
Third Street, Residence 526 Jackson Street.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12

HOMRPATHETIC Physician and Surgeon.
Office and residence 517 Grant street.
Telephone 62.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-04
STATE NEWS.
FRANKLIN.
NEW SHARON.

Ida Swift passed away at the home
of her father. Charles Cookson. Thurs
day, May 80. after a long illness.
Work will be resumed in George H.
Browns coat shop the coming week.
Lee Dresser has bought the house
lot and stable formerly owned by Mrs
Warren and is preparing to build a
house IN the place Of the one burned.
All hope that there will be something
more effective than talking done in re-
gard to organizing a brass band.
Fred Prince. in the north part OF the
town, has n contract to furnish 1000
ties for the F.. :. & *. II. r.. besides
lumber for the depot ut the village.
The railroad commissioners meet Mt
Pennington the 9Th OF June. TO adjust
the connections between the Sandy
River X. X. and the F.. s. & X. X. r.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-04

diner visited al J. Il. Clark's. Friday ana
Saturday.
Horace Kouudv has gone 10 BELGRADE to
act as a guide in that section. for sum
msr tourists.
Frank Norris Of Boston. - visiting at
\ II Eailsys.
Mrs Menla Butman ~ chnrlcsiown.
Mass. who has been IN town visiting her
father. II. X. Tuwurcnd. returned nome
last week.
lie " Jones 81 AZ work IN Augusta for
the Augusta Lumber Company.
The District Lodge ~ | q q. T. viii
meet with Pleasant I'LL Lodge ~ ms
town, Wednesday.
WEST GARDINER.
The largest string 81 pickcTel seen this
sr.rS-s- ~ taken from the mill pond re-
Gently. by Warren Davis and sh"rman
t-AtIabaH. Th"r- wrr" about twenty. some
weighing five pounds.
Mrs Mary Am"s az Hailnweil. is visit
INK her mother. Mrs. Arch Horn
on account ~ the continued wet wealth
or very few ~ tbs farmers hay. don" amy
planting. ana gardens generally remain
implanted
Mrs. Caroline CIoueh returned to Au-
Fusta last week with h"r s"n. J"hil
ClouEh. Her pleasant hom" ON ia" neck
will hc closed for few weeks
LITCHFIEI.D PLAINS
4 netltlon was recently. circulated here
mail route from Richmond
MIR and Mrs. Fred Metcalf Of Hope
dale Mass. are IN the place called bY
the death ~ Mr.. M,tcairs mother. Mrs.
were held from the Plains church. sun
Jay. Rev. II a. Lnckenbach officiating
An interesting thank offering service
was held at ~" church SUNDAY ne
amount collected IN offerings Was Slo-oS.
Mr.. ana Mrs. f. NJ IApham were made
Lappy Saturday. by the udv' NJ oi a son
FAYETTE.
June Sth viii ~ chiidren's day with
Startling Grange.
Mr.. \. 4 CaunrrelI has been quite sick
since Friday. requiring the services q =
phy stefan.
Mss Alice NJ Hewett came home,
Woo ncsday. and returned to her work nj
Nick.ry < HIS Augusta. Monday.
1t has been 50 wet Tor week very little
,--rrri1g has been done. There j. consid-
cradle corn to be planted.
ir. ana Mrs. \. q. Underwood are still
vis hing in Lewiston.
CHURCH HILL
II Gro Will be- service at the chapel
at J. n ncNt Sunday.
Mir III Wentworth - Nassa boro. was At
his btuther's. sunday.
Mrs. Collins ana Mrs. IIartshorn q Wa
terviiIe. visited their sister AIRS j. Nj
Camph, II. THURSDAY
q. /. Wentworth has gone to Squirrel
Island 9, work
Wilbur Lewis OF Riverside. was on the
Hill. sunday
FARMINGDALE.
Mrs. Clara Gear of Newcastle. has
been visiting her sister. Mrs. Charles
Wight.
Miss Mamie Welch is spending a
week at Ocean Point.
Work in the shoe factory has been
very dull for Il few weeks past, caused
mostly by the lack of help in certain
departments.
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CENTER MONTVILLE.

GEM Elk MON1 WILLIE.
Mr. and Mrs. c. II. Clement and p. 3.
French have moved back from Camden.
Mrs +. b. Johnson has gone to Port
land. where her husband has employment
in the Reform School.
f. a. Sproul is buying wool. as usual,
this month. tt
A horse belonging to A. c. Morse OF
KNOX, broke a leg while towing behind a
wagon. The animal was killed.
f.. l.. Bennel, has finished work in the
blacksmith shop at V. Thompson's, this
season. and commenced work in the paint
shop, last week.
Harry Splonl Of Freedom is staying
with his uncle. T.. \. Sproul. ut present.
The arrangements made for outdoor
SPORTS ~ III. oIdssoW eAn.bl,.on are
cel!ent. and the authorities have arranged
LOT continuous succession of hiSh-ciass
hxtures on the specially constructed
''"rtS Ground. which comnrises a four-
zap cement track for cycles, a cinder
ca 400 .teucs,iians, 4 ,api IA footDali
pitch. with ample dressing rooms and
Stand accommodation for $500 spectators
Yacht rGces on the Clyde, in which Sir
.hoiiias Upton $ SHAMROCK H. Will i.ure
nave also been arranged under exhibition
auspices. z Va
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KENNEBEC.
EAST PITTSTON.

Fred Hanley. who has been passing
few days in this place. returned to
Boston, Sunday night
The wet weather of the past week
has hindered the farmers greatly in
their work.
Sunday was observed as Temperance
day by the Methodist church. Prepa-
rations are being made for Childrens'
day which comes on June o
A. +. Moody Of Hallowell, spent
Memorial day at his home.
DIR. Libby was called to Dresden.
Sunday. to attend Mrs. E,lbridge Nc
Fadden.
Miss Sadie knights, who has been in
Gardiner. through the spring, is spend
ing a short time at her home
Mr.. F. a. Scott has added millinery
to his stock of goods.
Mrs. Walter Heath is very i'll at the
home of her mother. Mrs. Caroline
Benner.
The lawn party at the home Of o. w.
Nash has been postponed until
Wednesday night on account of the
WeitneT.
MARANOCOOK.
Mrs. o. T. Whittier returned to her
home in Dover, N. H.. last week
Mrs. w. S. Butler came to her cot
tage among the pines, May 90. A lady
friend came with her.
Rob Brann has resumed his duties
as station agent at MaranacoOk Grove.
Mrs. Charles Fay is at her cottage
among the pines.
Two half grown deer have been seen
by several people near Beaver brook of
late. They seem quite tame.
Harold Leslie returned from Boston,
last week.
Freight No. Il, brought n fine new
steamer from Portland to Maranocook,
June l. The steamer was built nv
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-04

South Carolina is likely to be de-
prived of that McLaurin Tillman con-
tinuous performance. after all. At
least, the expected summer campaign
is off as the governor refuses to accept
the designations. He feels that it would
be a Kilkenney cat affair for the
Democracy of the state, and he is
probably right. Still, if he only knew.
it, South Carolina has long suffered
from an over-supply of Democracy and
would profit by losing some Of it. The
state needs more business men and
fewer political bigOts.
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The anti-mosquitO campaign in Ha-
vana is now being carried on in most
systematic and determined fashion.
The crusade is not because the mos
quito murders sleep but because it
transmits yellow fever. The kerosene
can is the weapon used. The new war
against the combined pest is by organ
izing the sanitary force into mosquito
brigades. These inspect the whole city
clean out all places where stagnant
water is found, and pour kerosene oil
wherever standing water exists BY
this means it is claimed the insect has
been 50 completely suppressed that
there were but two cases of yellow
fever in Havana during April. and
none at the opening of May, when the
latest report was made Now that the
mosquito. season is upon us in the
United States there is keener inter-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-04

In the death of James A. Hearn the
stage loses a popular and notable
figure. More than that it has lost
great American dramatist. How full
of homely and genuine human nature
and CHARACTERISTIC local color are
Hearts of Oak: "shore Acres" and
Sag Harbor!' Those wholesome plays
50 familiar to us all and of which we
never tire. Above all Mr.. Hearn
placed character. He was writer and
an actor with the highest ideal. Such
men as he in portraying such charac-
ters as Uncle Nat and Captain
Dan solve the problem of elevating
the stage and of making it a great
power for good in the world.
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HANCOCK.
MARIANIl.IE..


Mrs. Joseph Frost is very Ill.
Maggie Philbrook is In very poo-
health.
Rev. d. p. Smith held meetings here
on Sunday. one ut District No. 3, and
two at the school house in District
No. .
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Frost have gone
10 Bar Harder for a short wedding
trip.
The body Of Mrs. Elisha Graves, who
died at Brewer two weeks ago. was
brought here for intermcnt. Many
friends and former neighbors gathered
to do respect and honor to the beauti-
full life which had gone out. Mrs.
Graves true Christian character was
felt by all who came within her intlu-
tnce.
At District No. new flag was
lung to the breeze. May 30.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-04

Some of the anti papers are in
clined to buck at the supreme courts
decision in the insular cases and to in
sist that the minority must be right
because it agrees with them. Who"
inquiries one paper, will undertake to
say that five of the supreme court JUS
tees were right in their Interpretation
of the constitution and the other four
wrong?" Most impartial judges would
probably say that the chances are in
favor of the ma jority's being right.
But it is not necessary to say either
one or the other. The majority Is
right because it is the majority. The
decision as rendered will stand. Even
the "antis" will admit that there is no
ambiguity about that part of the con-
stitution which says that majorities
shall rule in this country.
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LINCOLN.
SOUTH JEFFERSON

Mrs. u. \. Cannon supplied the Fre'
Baptist pulpit. Sunday. and gave an in
tcrcStinc sjEmon on Temperance.
The meet ug- house is to receive . new
coat OF paint. within a few days. If the
weather is suitable w. +. RuSgies anu
Albert Boynton. are to do the work.
The next meeting of the Benevolent So
cicty will be h, Ia with Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
liam Fish. jane H.
Mrs Carrie J. Farnham and daughter,
arrived home, from Concord, Mass, for
.he summer. last week.
Several from this place attended the
Memorial exercises 1T ToGus, May -.
John *. Erskine Of Fast Boston, il
spending n few days at his home in this
place.
The farmers are anxiously waiting fol-
fair weather to finish planting.