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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31

grind melons" The melons are
hauled to the thresher and scooped into
the cylinder, which contains two roll
ers close enough together TO crush the
rind, yet not injure the seed. The
crushed mass then slides into reel,
which is a cylindricalshaped frame
about twelve feet long, covered with
wire netting, with meshes large enough
to let the seed and pulp through. 1t
slopes to the rear and is constantly
turning The crushed melons are car
ried halfway up the side, then drop
and gradually work back and fall out
at the lower end, but not before the
seed has been thrown through the
screen. The seed and the pulp run out
at the side into vat built in the
ground; there the mass lies until the
pulp rots, when it is taken to the river
in barrels to be washed
The washing apparatus is a screen
about twelve feet long. that can be sub
merged The barrels are emptied into
it, and by stirring the pulp is separated
from the seeds, floats on the top, leay-
ing the clean white seed below. Next
the seeds are spread on canvas racks to
dry; when dry they are delivered to thd
wholesale house.
The work of preparing them for mar
ket is only half done. Next comes the
milling, that separates the light seed
and particles of the rind or hulls that
may have remained. After this comes
grading or separating. The seeds are
foated over a screen, the smaller or sec
ond-class seeds falling through, the
larger being carried on, and lastly
comes the hand-picking. as shown in
the picture. This is facilitated by a SIM
pie continuance, worked by a treadle.
The seeds are put in a hopper and run
over a small shaker in the bottom,
which scatters them ON an endless can
vas belt. about one and one-half feet
long and six inches wide, run on two
rollers. The good seeds drop from this
into basket; the bad and different
varieties are picked out and put into
pockets on both sides Of the belt and
run into a sack. The seeds are then
ready for shipment.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31

note that afternoon he read it through
several times; then, after some hesita-
ton, he resolved to go and call upon
May anyway. Il can visit her mother
if she is not at home" said he.
So, early in the evening George went
to Mays house and spent an hour with
her mother.
Leaving early, he happened to be
passing along the main street, when
his attention was attracted by sleigh
which drew up at the curb while two
ladies and a gentleman alighted. Some
thing about one of them seemed
strangely familiar, and he took a step
nearer to find out that it was May.
On the way home May confessed all
to George, except Horace's base part
in the evenings work, but she told him
enough to give him to understand that
he had a faithful little fiancee in May
Harte, and that hereafter she would
not go skating with young ladies who
had brothers.
So May blessed the day. after all,
for it taught her to value true love
when she found it-St. Louis Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31
Some peoples idea of pleasure is to do
the things they can't afford to do.

Edward Fisher, of Rockford, H., was
eating peanuts when one of them To-
Gated in his windpipe. choking him to
death.
Joseph Carter hit Edward Campbell
over the heart with his fist in a friendly
scutfie and he died instantly. This oc-
Cured in Baltimore.
In South Chicago the other day the
axle of a baby carriage suddenly broke
while Mrs. Mary Moran. of $3.50 But-
falo avenue, was out wheeling her IL
months-old boy. The collapse was so
sudden that the mother could not save
the child. which was thrown to the
pavement, fracturing its skull. Ordi-
narily, such an accident scarcely would
make healthy baby cry.
Charles III. Ormond, of Milwaukee.
was treating a horse that was in agony
and in leaning over the animal to adj
just a rope around its hoof, the touch
of the doctors hand caused the nerv-
Gus animal TO strike out with its hoof,
ing him almost instantly.
David Gregg. of Salt Lake City. al
most bled TO death the other evening
without knowing it. He accidentally
thrust both hands through plate glass
window. but did not mind it. Later he
felt a singing sensation in his hands
and tainted. 1t was found that two
arteries had been severed, one requiring
nine stitches and the other six. before
the fiow Of blood could be checked. In
these last few days. however. no other
class of accidents has compared III
fatalities to the accidents in the hunt
ing fields. Scores of men have been
killed or injured while deer hunting.
When one also considers the large
number of sick people who have taken
poison for medicine in dark rooms the
list of these peculiar fatalities win be
greatly swelled.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31

Mrs. Mckinley is reminded at every
turn of the sorrow that shouds her
life. When her husband was living he
was by her side whenever her condition
warranted his presence. No matter how
heavy might be the cares of State he
found time to read to her, and every
day before dinner the family Bible was
opened and selection was read. But
these thoughtful ministrations are hers
no more to enjoy, and she turns from
the kind offices which others would
pay to commune will the dead.
After the Presidents funeral it was
Mrs. McKinley's custom 20 go daily to
the vault and sit for a time by the cas-
ket A rocking chair was placed there
for her accommodation, and strip of
carpet was spread on the floor, lest the
dampness might injure her health. Her
friends feared that these visitations
might induce cold and more serious
consequent sickness, and recently their
opportunities prevailed to this extent
thai Mrs. Mckinley is now satisfied to
drive to the tomb, whose gloomy walls
and dark recesses her earnest, pleading
eyes seem to pierce From the tomb she
turns to the family plat where her
children lie and then she returns to her
home, where ever before her eyes is the
memory of two children stricken in in
fancy and the image of him. cut down
like flower in the zenith of his powers
and usefulness, and at the height of his
political fame.
She has no desire in life now save to
die and be with him. This feeling she
expressed soon after the funeral and
the same feeling burns In her longings
still. To those around her she speaks
little. She sits silent, contemplative,
with fixed eyes and pathetic face, her
thoughts being ever on him who is
gone Her sister, Mrs. Barber. con-
stantly attends her, but the most as
siduous care cannot recall her mind
from her own and the nations supreme
tragedy.
She has lost all interest in the little
domestic labors that formerly enabled
her to forget that she was an invalid.
1t was her custom 10 embroider and to
knit slippers and turn out many other
kinds Of handiwork. These little ar
ticles she used to give to her friends as
presents Sometimes they went to
bazars when money was being raised
fos charity. But she knits and en-
broiders no more. The 9qsume so long
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31
Attempt to Burn Two Boys.

Two boys, Eddie Seyberth and Frank
Bonnell, aged Is and 10 years, reached
their homes in Eau Claire the other night
bruised and cut from an encounter with 4
man who robbed them and tried to burn
them alive in a summer cottage. The
BOYS went down Loves creek, two miles
from town. to cut a Christmas tree.
While they were at work a man appeared
ana attacked them before they knew his
intentions. He Knocked both boys down.
backing Seyberth's eye and breaking
Bonnells collar bone. He then strapped
the boys together with a big strap, which
they had taken along TO carry home the
Christmas tree, gagged them and robbed
them of the little pocket money they had.
He started away, leaving the boys bound
in the snow, but returned, and, dragging
them to an empty SIMMER cottage on the
creek, he threw them inside, and, fasten-
ing the door. set fire to the house. The
boys managed to get their hands free and
tore the gags from their mouths. By that
time the flames had gained such Roadway
that it seemed as if they must perish, but
they struggled desperately and finally
loosened their bindings enough to escape
from fhe cottage
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31
WILLING To Obey

Tie proprietor of department store
told this anecdote recently of himself
and one of his employees, a man of 40:
philip is sort of factotum around
here and l pay him SIG q week. One
of his duties is to sweep ont the spaces
behind the counters three or four times
a day. and he never objected to doing
this until lately. Recently the newspa-
pers gave him some fame on account Of
the delicate wood carving that be does
at home in the evening, and the noto-
Iiety swelled his head little. He came
to me the other day and said:
Boss. don't mind sweeping out
early in the morning or late in the
evening, when the stores empty. but
| think it doesn't look just right for me
to be seen doing that mental kind of
work by big crowds of people. l am
not ashamed to do it, only I'm pretty
well known as an artistic person, and
IT looks undignified for an artist to be
seen with broom in public. Can't |
have a boy?
II laughed and replied:
"'Philip. your point Is well taken.
Hereafter, only sweep out when the
store IS empty. When the store Is full
and a sweeping is necessary you just
come and Tell me and I'll take the
broom and do the WORK for you my
SELF"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31

delightful to her no longer appeals. All
her thoughts are attuned to one heart
chord and that vibrates only to the
memory touch of Williams Mckinley.
Similarly, in former times. Mrs. Nc
Kinley loved music and was as happy
as a school girl in the midst of little
family functions and the quiet enter
tainments furnished by her friends. But
these, too, are of the past. She no
longer cares for them. 1t is doubtful If
she ever thinks of them. Her mind has
but one subject and that subject alb
serbs all her thoughts. waking and
sleeping.
AS to her physical health, she is as
well now as at any time in many
years. That is, she is in her normal
state of invalidism. But it is not her
mere physical condition that gives the
most anxiety. Some day it is feared
the awful load of sorrow that weighs
upon her mind will prove too heavy
and her life will go out at the same
time Hers indeed is q melancholy, pa
thetic widowhood. Her frail body sub
mits to the encroachments of time, but
her heart is divorced from it and lies
buried in the grave.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31

incidentally, kissing-is the means of
disseminating pernicious microbes at
the rate of 100000 shake-or kiss
have not been without effect-at
least as far as the grasping of hands
is concerned.
The members of a certain club in
Ostend, says the New York Times who
voted general handshakinS nuisance,
have conceived a novel way out of it,
in their opinion, infringing the rules
of common politeness.
Just within the entrance Of the club
house a wooden hand, attached to
silken rope, which, in turn, is attached
to a bell, has been suspended. As a
member enters he grasps the hand and
pulls it and the Naturalization of the
bell, which is audible in every room
of the house, is accepted as the equiv
alent to a hearty handshake by all of
his fellow members.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31
PINES FOR HER DEAD.
MRS. M'KINLEY CRUSHED UNDER
HER GREAT SORROW.
Presidents Widow Spends Her Days
Thinking Only of the Past and Await
ing the Messenger of Death-Life
Has No Interest for Her.

The saddest woman in all the land to-
day is its former happy first lady"
Mrs. Mckinley. who in the sorrowfui
atmosphere of her home on North
Market street, Canton. is pathetically
solving the poets problem of living
on earth with her heart in tie grave"
For her the world, as she formerly
knew it and had lived in it. is no more.
Its sunshine and it's joys. its pleasures
and its allurements, its ambitions and
its glories make no appeal to her. The
sun of her life has Set-extinguished
by the infamous deed in Buffalo's TEN
pie of Music-and she sits in the dark
ness thinking of past splendors and
happy joys and bathing her soul in the
reflected rays of memory. Her world
Is now her home and-the cemetery;
Westlawn Cemetery, where in the fam
lily plot her two children lie and the
vault where soldiers stand sentinel over
the dust of her hello and idol and the
nations martyr.
Throughout her life, from the time
when as Ida Saxton she pledged lier
faith to William Mckinley, she was
wrapped up in him. While inspiring
him with her own stblime faith in his
abilities and in heaven, she learned,
on account of physical feebleness. to
lean upon him and they grew up in
happy, wedded life in as close a COM
partnership of Spirit as the ivy and the
oak. The oak is now fallen and the
ivy is bent ard torn. deprived of its
support
In the North Market street house
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31
substitute fer Handshake.

Since the shooting of Mr.. Mckinley
the question of abolishing the practice
of promiscuous handshaking by the
President, as tending to detract from
the dignity of the office as well as
Offering the element of danger, has
been agitated in pulpit and newspaper,
but there are many persons who object
to this mode of greeting, even in the
form of one of the courtesies of ordin-
airy life This objection has become
especially marked on the continent of
Europe, where the alarming warnings
of scientists that handshaking- and,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31

fit for grazing. About ten years ago
some tracts We're cleared and drained,
and it was found that the soil, a rich
dark loan with sand, was ideal ground
for the raising of many sorts of seeds
The industry has developed, and now
these garden lands sell at from $45 to
500 an acre, and rent for from 81 to Sc
an acre annually.
The pictures here shown are from
photographs made on one of the j. c.
Robinson seed farms and in the ware
house of that gentleman, who is at the
head of one of the great business inter-
ests of that part Of Nebraska The
seed threshing machine is loaded to
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31
she Rul.,. Manchester.

A recent guest at Tandagaree, the
country seat of the duke of Manches-
ter, was taken by the young duke into
a large room. which was fitted up as
a nursery. The room was filled with
toys of al sorts. Here were soldiers
and hobby horses and the playthings of
a, boy, and here, again, dolls and doll
houses and the various gew-gaws and
baubles which interest little girls The
young duke who is not credited with
much sentiment. said to his guest that
the room had been the nursery of him.
self and his twin sisters, both now
dead. He kept it just as it was, with
the toys scattered over the floor. as the
three children had left them years ago.
He is alone surviving.
No one takes more interest in this
room than his American wife, who al
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31
WHERE SEEDS ARE GROWN BY TONS.

Thousands of acres of land in Douglas
County, Nebraska, are devoted to the
raising of garden and field seeds of
many kinds, and the chief industry of
the busy town of Waterloo consists in
finally preparing. asserting, packing
and shipping hundreds of tons of seeds
annually. Shipments are made to all
parts of the United States, to Canada
and Mexico.
Thirty years ago the lands now de-
voted to seed culture could be bought
for 81 an acre. 1t is situated in the
valley of the Platte, between the Elk
horn and Platte Rivers. was covered
with rank vegetation. and not deemed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31
Brief state Happenings.

NJ. s. Meyer & Co.'S eigal9factory at
Milwaukee was damaged $4,000 by fire.
John Bonett, a farmer residing near
Potoski, fell from his wagon and died
instantly. His neck was broken.
John Martin of Moundsville was killed
in a runaway accident He was thrown
from sleigh against tree and his neck
broken.
1t is reported that the Miller Brewing
Company will erect theater in Hurley
on the site of the Klondike, recently de-
stroyed by fire.
John MeQuaid. residing at Station,
was frozen to death. He was overcome
while driving home and was found in a
snow drift He was 80 years of age and
leaves a family.
George Brant Of Chicago was set upon
by two men in the yards Of the North
western road in kenosha. He was rob
bed and beaten TO insensibility. When
found his face, hands and feet were
frozen.
Theresa Wytosch, the 17-year-old or
phan girl who disappeared from Arcadia
some weeks ago. has been found in ST.
Arcadia because she did not ike the peo-
pie with whom she lived.
The handsome new school building Of
Holy Name Church IN Sheboygan will
contain a billiard room, bowling alley
25x91 feet, and a library 25x4o. The
school building, old and new. viii cost
about $4,000.
A peremptory writ 81 mandamus has
been issued out Of the Circuit Court to
compel the continuous operation Of the
Washburn. Bayfield, and Iron River Rail-
road. which has been ordered To be torn
up and sold By the United States Court.
The road announced that il would cease
doing business. The proceeding IS a most
unusual and extraordinary one. Pubic
feeling runs high. as the county gave
S1S5 600 in bonds 10 the road.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31
WHILE THE WORLD GOES ON

The fearse was white that yesterday
Stood for a while before door;
The box was light and small that they
Who were his little playmates bore;
The world goes on-gay lovers sing,
The shouts of happy children ring
Out gladly as they did before.
All. yesl The world keeps going on,
And people plan and children play,
But some ones dearest hopes are gone,
And some ones heart is torn to-day
A heavy silence fingers where
Gay laughter used to ring, and there
Are useless toys TO put away.
] weep not for the little one
Whose sinless heart shall know no
care
Not for the child whose shouting's done,
/. Around whose brow the curls are fair
But all my grieFous tears shall be
For them, alone, that have to see
The high-chair standing empty there.
Chicago Record Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31

c. HE different manners by which
people meet death are peculiar.
q When an engine boiler blows Up
without scratching the engineer, and
when the prick from a needle causes
death in a few days, one has reason to
wonder.
Blanche Young, of Wabash, Ind, was
the victim of a needle point In sewing
she stuck the point deep in her finger,
but continued with her work. The poi
sonous fabrics caused the injured mem
Der to swell terribly. Blood poison de
veloped and she died in agony.
Edgar z. Seeger, Chicago travelling
man, earelessly picked pimple, which
appeared on his face. with a pin at
Ithaca. \. Y, and died shortly from
blood poison.
Withsss.u week the dentists chair cost
three lives in more or less direct way.
AT Sioux City. Iowa, the filing of a
tooth caused a stroke of apoplexy to
DR.. Adelaide f. Kilbourne, and she
died as she was leaving the chair. Al
Loyal. Wis. an aching tooth drove Kim
bal ]. Berry TO s. dentist. 1t was mo-
lar, far back in the jaw. and was so
firmly rooted that in the pulling of il
the jaw bone was fractured. Blood poi
son set in. killing the patient in a few
days. In Chicago the other day Miss
Mamie Ferry, of Oak Park, died from
fear of, the dentists chair. to which she
was going.
Little Barbara Bothman. of Jackson,
Miss, was the victim of the acorn. She
complained of pains in her side and
was obliged 10 submit TO an operation.
In the appendix the acorn was found,
much enlarged from the heat and moist
ure. The child swallowed it at play.
She died from the operation.
/ LLOYD Rogers, of Galesburg. Ill, so.
q grain of corn in bis trachea and was
! seized with a violent lit Of coughing
from which he died.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31

ways refers to this trait in her hus-
bands character as one of the most
lUvable. From those who know the
couple and who have seen them this
year, it is learned that the little Ouch
ess has absolute control over her hus-
band, and that he obeys her as a child
would an elder person. Her influence
on him has been wonderful. and he
has now settled down to a quiet domes-
tic life. Occasionally the old desire to
be a bohemian is revived, says the
New York Times, but his wife watch
es him very carefully and makes him
give a good account of himself, which
he never fails to do.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31
FIvwbeel Goes Through Body.

While saving wood with circular
saw at New Diggings, Charles Thompson
was instantly killed. The fywheel burst
and piece over a foot long passed com
pletely through his body and was found
over 100 yards away. He was thrown
several yards by the force of the blow.
Young Thompson was on his way to Ben
ton for load of coal. but stopped to
give the workmeD the use of his team.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31
scotoh Grouse i'm Prussia.

The acclimatization of the Scotch
grouse in Silesia, on the East Prussian
crown moors, and on the Eihfel. has
proved so successful that in the last
mentioned district a thousand birds
are now seen where thirteen months
ago there was not single one. The
experiment is to be repeated in other
Prussian provinces.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31
KeunsIia Man Missing.

Arthur Martin, an employe of the Pen
noyer Sanitarium in Kenosha, has been
missing since last Monday. Martin dls-
appearance was very mysterious, and the
matter was to-day referred to the police.
Martin had considerable money in his
possession.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31
Tubes or Ocean Liners.

The boiler tubes of liner If placed in
a straight line, would reach nearly ten
miles, and the condenser tubes more
than twenty-five miles. The total num-
Der of separate pieces Of steel in the
main structure of the ship is not less
than 10000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31
Uninhabited Islands.

Between Madagascar and the coast
of India there are about 10000 islands,
only 600 of which are inhabited, but
most of which are capable of support
ing a population.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-12-04
chrIstmas sale.

Handkerchief and Christmas sale
will be held by Trinity Guild on We'd
nesday, Dec. 4th, p. m. to p. m,
at the residence of Mrs c. c. Kneisley
on North Broad street. Refreshments
served