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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
Farm Nnfas.

Transplant the early sown lettuce.
Monaghan pheasants are being sue
cessfully reared in Ohio.
The farmers of northeastern Ohio are
making a great thing of the onion crop.
To push along the lima beans and
cucumbers start them on sods in the
hOtbed or cold frame.
Cottonseed hull ashes are in great
demand as fertilizer by the tobacco
growers Of Connecticut.
4 commercial estimate Of the cram
berry crop of the United States for
1900 places it at $4,000 barrels.
All the world seems TO have gone to
raising mushrooms lately. Luckily.
their popularity seems 10 be Increasing
with the supply.
Spurry is said TO be of value as q
catch crop on light, sandy soils, which
it improves when turned under. It re-
quires considerable moisture.
Sow eggplant In the hotbed SSd
transplant high 70 other beds or pots.
Plants must have good beds. for a
check in their growth means all the
differences between profit and loss, says
Bailey.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28

mirror, he had learned to assume an ex-
preston of countenanee that seemed to
him very affectionate, even languishing.
and, having tried its effect upon the wild
ow, he fattered himself that she had
caught correct understanding OF 1t.
With the exception of his occasional en-
ployment of that expression at stated in-
terVals, his visits to Mrs. MulVeil were
as devoid of sentimental demonstration
as were the official calls of the assessor
of taxes.
Seated at a respectful distance from
the buxom widow, Mr. McFarlane talked.
1t could not be said that he kept the
conversational ball rolling" That phrase
conveys altogether too forceful an idea.
Rather his talk flowed mild, persistent
and little muddy. Weather, crops, his
farm improvements, and the doctrine of
regeneration by grace were his staple
themes, interspersed with casually re-
membered fragments of such meager
news of the day as might have come to
his knowledge.
Hetty's reverie was suddenly broken
by an eager clutch upon her arm and
Danny's voice excitedly whispering in
her ear:
Say, sis; amt going to touch off the
congregation with them hornets"
I'm glad you are not, Danny. l hop
ed you would see the wickedness of it,
when you came to think"
"Oh, wickedness nothin'! 1t amt that.
But John Cameron will be at church to-
morrow, and l don't want him stung."
John will be at church tomorrow!
How do you know that?'
Just heard old McFarlane tell nam.
Uncle Dave Henderson brought him
home to-day. That was what made me
change my mind"
And I've changed my mind, too, Dan
ny; you dear, good boy. I'll go to church
tomorrow"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
Te1egraphic Brevities.

Fireman Graves was killed in a wreck.
Parkhill, Ont.
Spiritualists are to hold a national SEES
sion at New York.
Robinson Bros mill, Gloversville, n.
Y, burned. Loss S125,000.
Now said a number Of Southern iron
and steel companies will combine. Capt.
tai is to be S30000,000.
Special Kansas City grand jury will
investigate charges Of jury bribing in
favor Of the street railway.
Moscow viii soon have an association
of working men and women who will pay
from half a ruble to a ruble a month to
form a fund for the benefit Of members
who are i'll or out Of job.
Miss Morris has just been reappointed
lieutenant colonel on the staff Of Gov.
Gambler Of Georgia. Miss Morris is sec
rotary Of the Georgia Society Of Chatta-
nOOga. She is an accomplished horse
woman, linguist and musician.
DIR. Parkhurst, in a sermon in New
York, discussed the problem Of negro ed
ucatiOn, and, after declaring that uni
versal suffrage was blunder, urged ne
grOes to keer out Of politics and prepare
for the future usefulness Of the race.
The Chinese Emperor, through the min
lister Of Japan, will thank that country
for its Intervention in connection with
the Manchurian convention, and viii ex-
press a hope that the good offices Of
Japan may be continued in the future
preservation Of the highest interests OF
Asia.
An immense region in northern Onta-
rio, covering $3.50, 900 acres and stretch
ing from Quebec westward 70 Thunder
Bay, on the north shore Of Lzk> S=re-
rior, is now for the first time recognized
as being excelleHtly adapted for farming.
The district also contains a great pulp
wood forest. besides 1900. 100000 feet
OF pine wood.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
Weights and Measures.


The old saying that ga pint is a
pound all the world round" does not
hold good with the many grain feeds.
They vary much, and as the papers
when giving balanced rations usually
express themselves in pounds, while
the farmer usually feeds by measure,
dipping it up with the handy twO-quart
measure, it may be we'll to know just
what a quart weighs. We copy from
the Rural New Yorker this table,
which we think is nearly accurate for
weights of a quart. Coarse wheat
bran y pound, coarse wheat middlings
40 pound, wheat, mixed feed, 3-5
pound, fine wheat middlings IL pounds,
linseed meal the same, gluten feed IL
pounds, gluten meal II pounds, corn
meal and cotton seed ~ pounds each.
To dip up a measure full of fine mid
dlings is to give more than twice as
much as to use the same dish full of
coarse bran, which may be a good rea
son why many get the best results
from feeding the finer grain, while
corn meal weighs three times as much
as the an.-Massachusetts Plough
man.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
Clover and Corn for Stock.

If one could raise good crops every
year of clover and corn, there would
be little difficulty in providing stock
with suitable food, says a Michigan
farmer. Glover 1 regard as a double
ration, taking the place really of hay
and grain. 1t is possible to winter
horses and stock on clover without pro-
ducing any Ill effects or reducing them
much in weight and strength. This
would not advocate except as an exper-
iment or in an emergency. What our
stock needs is variety, and while clover
might supply both hay and grain con-
stituents there would be the possibility
of inducing sickness and poor appetite
from the lack of variety. Glover, of
course, produces a direct beneficial eff
feet upon the soil and adds to it more
than the corn takes away. Persistent
cultivation of corn on any field must in
time reduce the soil fertility to such a
low point that succeeding crops will
suffer. With clover as a part of a ro-
tatiOn there would be little chance of
such soil degeneration.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
Changing Seed.

We like TO get new seed for farm
crops from more Northern points, as
the crop not only ripened earlier, but
yielded better. We remember one year
getting some seed potatoes from Yer
mont, and as we did not get as many
as we wanted to plant we bought some
of a neighbor who raised them the year
before from Vermont seed. and finally
finished with a row or so of seed which
had been grown on the farm where we
were. All were of the same variety,
and looked equally good, and all plant
ed the same day The homegrown
seed yielded half as large a crop as
that we got from the neighbOr and
about one-third as that which came
from Vermont We have ripened a
good crop of corn from Canadian seed,
when the frost badly hurt that in our
neighbours field planted as early as was
ours. Seeds from Southern melons
fail to produce good crop in Massa-
chusetts, and we have thought that
other garden seeds were not as good
when purchased from our Southern
dealers as when we knew they were
of Northern growth.-American Guilt
vator.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
CHAPTER XXI.

For the first time in almost half cen
fury, Mrs. Mulveil looked with suspicion
upon the honest face of the tall clock
in the corner of the sitting room. Long
ago, it had taken to running the lunar
changes in a spasmodic, fantastic and I'M
trammeled fashion peculiarly its own, and
she could hardly remember when it might
be depended upon for the day of the
month, but its approximate reliability as
a timekeeper had become q matter of
faith with her. This Sunday morning,
however, its hands pointed to half-past
seven when her feelings, the length of
the shadows and the dew on the grass all
told her the hour was not yet more than
half-past five. Happily, she did not sus-
pect Danny Of having suborned the aged
witness to deceive her. Hetty did, how
ever, gratefully, and furthered his I'M
patient desires, with which her own were
in harmony, by pretending unimpaired
confidence in the vera city Of the clock and
arguing that it would be better to trust
to it, even if by so doing they were
brought somewhat early to meeting, rath-
err than run the risk of arriving there af-
ter everybody else. The result was that
the chores were hurriedly performed,
breakfast hastily dispatched, and the
widow Mulveil's old dearborn" was the
first vehicle drawn under the maple grove
surrounding the church that communion
Sabbath morn.
But hardly had it taken the choicest
location for hitching-near the spring and
where the horses would be under shade
all day-when there were more early
corners, and by the time the sexton ap-
peared to open the church doors dozen
families had arrived, among them the
deacons, whose duty it was to set the
communion tables.
Ito be continued.)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
Raising or Buying Feed.


Where the farmer grows the fodder
and grain for his animals he is justified
in feeling that it has cost less than it
would if he paid the cash for it in the
market if he has been successful in get
tang good crops. He has made a mar
ket for his own labor, the labor of his
team and use of tools, and for the ma
nure that was a waste product OF his
stock. All Of that forms a part of his
profit, and the crops may be said to
have cost him the seed. hired labor and
fertilizer bought. But it may not be
the cheapest feed for him to use. He
may be able to sell it and purchase 9th
er food materials that would give him
enough better results to repay him for
the labor of drawing both ways. Bran
and gluten feed produce so much more
milk than corn meal that he may sell
the corn he has raised, and buy the
other feeds which he does not raise.
Other foods are better for hens than
the corn, or even than oats. The man
who tries to be so Independent as Meth
er to buy nor sell, had better set up
a hand loom and a cobbler's bench, to
save spending money for clothing. We
could fatten hogs and cattle on turnips
and onions cheaper when we sold them
and bought our corn than we could to
have fed the roots, and We thought
cheaper than if we had grown the corn.
Exchange.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
If a Democratic administration b

If a Democratic administration had
attempted to initiate the currency as
is being done under the present adj
ministration, Wall street and the bank
ers and the Republicans would have
raised a howl declaring that the coun-
try was being ruined. During the
Cleveland administration the Demo
Gratis favored the coinage of the silver
seignorage and the Republicans voted
against it, but are now under Mckinley
engaged in grinding out these fifty
cent" dollars as fast as the minis can
work. Democrats, however, can view
with complacency this carrying out Of
their platform by the Republicans, al
though the latter have to deceive their
own followers. by doing under cover
what they declared would be ruinous
to the country.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
How TO BUY Beef.

Among meats beef leads off as the
most expensive; but it is also the most
nourishing for people in good health.
Porterhouse and sirloin steaks and the
rib-roasts are the choice for general
family use Fillets for roasting and
steaks cut in a special way are much
higher in price, and are not seen on the
average table Hotels and restaurants
have them always on hand, and they
are not so expensive in such cases,
where all the buying is done on a very
large scale. thus reducing the price of
every pound. If the hOuSekeeper OF
small or average means will adopt this
perfect plan of purchasing her meats
in fairly large quantities she will re-
duce her butchers bill pecceptibly,
and at the same time give her family
better cuts and more. When there is
family of from four to six people it is
an advantage TO buy from ten to fifteen
pounds of beef ut a time. If this is
bought from what is known TO the
butcher as the best part If the small
Of the back" the houSekeeper will have
the best cuts for her table at a very
moderate coSt.-WOman's Home Com
naniCn
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
How TO Treat Your Guest.

Remember. there is such a thing as
OVERRIDING the attention paid a guest.
Do not feel that you must be forever
1T her elbow; do not think it necessary
10 plan something for every minute OF
her day. Nothing is more annoying.
People, even when visiting, like 10 have
moments to themselves. They like to
go To places where they feel at home.
and no woman feels AZ home if her
hostess is continually 81 her hand sug-
costing things for her amusement; nor
does II couduce TO her comfort if she
feels that the whole houSehouId has
been turned upside down because of
her eoming.-WOman's Home Compan-
ION
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
A Notion Worth Attention.

Prevention of oat smut by hot air
treatment of the seed is a new idea
advanced by the Oregon station. Seed
was heated in a laboratory hot air ster-
ilizer. 1t was found that exposure to
heat in a wide range (from $50 degrees
to 200 degrees F. for ten minutes did
not affect termination. 1t is suggested
that hop and fruit driers could be used
for this purpose. 1t does away with
ali the apparatus needed in the hot
water and chemical solution treatment
and obviates trouble of drying the seed
and the danger of injury to the seed
through termination, mold or decay,
which may occur with the wet method
In one instance seed so treated pro-
duced but a single head affected with
smut, and this might have come from
one kernel of accidentally untreated
seed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28

the green crop would be good FERTILE
er on which to grow some other late
crop, as winter beets or cabbages, or
to set tomatoes. or to sow spinach or
kale for next spring. But more than
that these plaques of plant lice are sell
dom troublesome more than two or
three years in succession. often disap-
pearing as suddenly as they came,
while if no peas are to be found they
can as well live on the clover as on
peas. If there are peas they prefer
them to clover. and they are destroyed
with the peas.-Exchange
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
CHAPTER XX.-(Continued.)
By J. II. CONNOLLY.

81 see. A charmingly systematic and
improving course. You need more time
for reading, a home of your own to do
your reading il, and somebody to look
after what you read. And l need some
body to brighten my home and be new
interest to me, superior to my books, of
which / think l have had enough for a
while. l want my bottle of bachelOrdom
broken to let me out into the current
where the rest of the fshes-who at least
look happier-are swimming. Suppose
we combine our requirements and in 50
doing find satisfaction for them all. Let
Us get married. What do you say:'
Mary hesitated, hung her head, felt her
cheeks reddening with blush unseen III
the deepening Obscurity of the evening
and sighed a gentle:
YES"
Perhaps she had not long cherished the
hope that some day Uncle David would
make such a proposal to her; possibly
her pulses did not at that very moment
thrill with the triumphant consciousness
Of achievement; certainly nothing OF the
sort was apparent in her timid, submls-
sive, maidenly manner-but then, 1t IS
very hard to guess at what a woman
really thinks and feels at such moment
1t is altogether probable-fOr Mary had
a warm affectionate heart, inclined TO be
sentimental and even rOmantic-that she
would have liked to hear love at least
referred to. But she was sensible enough
to understand that it is not always those
who say love" most glibly who feel 1t
most truly. A man like Uncle David
does not marry without the incentive OF
love, and when he asks woman to be
his wife, she will do well to be satisfied
with his proposal in the form he chooses
to make it.
A serious, reflective silence fell upon
both, which, after a few minutes, Uncle
David was the first to break, resumlng,
in a business-like way:
so much being settled we may as well
60 on with the arrangements for carrying
the agreement into effect. When shall
we be married?
The abruptness of that summons to de-
cisive action startled her, and she an
swered, with little nervous laugh:
why, having waited so long, it would
hardly be becoming for US to be in haste
now"
The longer we have waited, the less
time we have to waste. 1t behOOves US to
do promptly whatever we have in view,
he replied, Dramatically.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
Persimmons from Seed.

Persimmon seeds are very easily
sprouted if treated properly. If they
have become very dry, it is possible
that termination will be slow, or per
haps they will not grow at all. They
should be mixed with sand, kept moist
all winter and planted in the spring
when the soil is in good condition. 4
depth of one or two inches is about
right to cover the seeds.-Rural New
Yorker.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28

CoadUctor-Keep your eye on that
Blankville passenger, and see that he
doesn't get carried past his station. He
doesn't travel very often.
Bra6emau-How do you know?
Conduct0r-He isn't s woman. and
yet he's got the window up.-New York
Weekly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
Ration for Hogs.

don't think il profita Die or necessary
TO give a pig all the milk 1t can drink 70
produce the most rapid growth. says S.
F. Barber. in National Stockman. 1
mostly dilute the milk from one-third
70 one-half with water, and then by the
addition OF foods rich in protein those
foods which produce the blood and bone
materian can develop a pig very rap
idly. Pigs should be fed bulky foods,
such as coarse bran. Buffalo gluten
feed, oats chop, etc. never feed corn
TO pig under five months, and then
only 10 TOP them out.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28

We hear OF some who say they win
not try 10 grow gre peas this year.
because theT lost their -<-y iast year
by the sphis or plant lice on the vines.
We wouSd not cease TO plant them for
two reasons. If the insects came on 50
abundantly as TO threaten destruction
OF the crop. we would pIow them in.
which would destroy eYe-J insect, and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
ROUND TILE.

always slight opening, and there Is
a possibility that soil may pass into
the tile and obstruct the passage. AT
ter the tile are placed a small piece OF
building paper laid over the joint just
before replacing the earth will insure
against obstruction.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
How Long to Grow the Same Plants.

Beans may often be grown for ten
years in succession upon the same land
and peas even longer, but egg-plants
have been found to deteriorate after
the third year. and tomatoes, melons
and most other vegetable fruit plants
need new land frequently. if not every
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
Drsining or a Greek Iake.

Lake CopaiS, in Boeotia, famous in
antiquity for its eelS. has now been
cOlcpleteIy drained and turned into
4S.0t40 acres OF arabic land.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28
MRS. LYMAN j. GAGE is DEAD
Wife of the Secretary of the Treasury
Sinks Into the Final Sles q.


Sinks Into the Final SleSp.
Mrs. Lyman j. Gage, wife Of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury, died at 9:5e
o'clock Friday evening at their home 10
Washington. d. C. The immediate cause
of death was heart failure, result o.
wasted strength due to an attack of the
grip. Mrs. Gage was conscious alniosi
to the last moment. At the final momeni
there were present at her bedside heI
husband, her daughter Mrs. Pierce Oh
Evanston, H., DIR. Johnston and 4 train
ed nurse.
Mrs. Gage was taken i'll on March u
while on visit to her daughter. On
that day she wrote the Secretary that
she had had a chill and that the doctor
had ordered her to bed. For ten days
she remained i'll at Evanston and then re-
covered sufficiently to so to Washington.
Immediately after her arrival there she
suffered a relapse and went to bed again,
never to rise. Rheumatism supervened,
accompanied by low and persistent fever
Her strength gradually wasted, and for
several weeks Secretary Gage has lived
in the shadow of the approaching death
Of his helpmeet.
Mrs. Gage was loved by all who knew
her. Though never fond of formal So
ciety, since going to Washington she had
endeavored to do her duty as the second
lady of the cabinet During the past
winter Mrs. Hay, wife of the Secretary
of State. has been in mourning, and this
has thrown more than the usual burden
upon Mrs. Gage. But friends of the fam
lily deny that devotion to social duties
had anything to do with the breaking
down of her health.
Marriage Has It's Romance.
Mrs. Gage was Miss Cornelia Lansing
of Albany, y. Y, a member of one of
the well-known families of the East. As
a very young woman she became the
bride of Lloyd G. Gage, a brother of
Lyman J. Gage. Lloyd Gage had been
semi-invalid for many years and in Il few
years became more frail and weak and
the climate of Colorado was sought with
the hopes that it might give new life to
the sufferer. He soon died, however,
leaving his widow in the very prime of
lie. Lyman ]. Gage had likewise mar
ried, and shortly after the death of his
brother sickness and death entered his
family and left him widower. Mr..
Gage was then an employee of bank.
Since the death of the brother Mr..
Gage and his siSter-in-law had been in
correspondence, the grief of both proving
q bond of friendship and sympathy. How
ever, there had been little exchange of
sentiment and the story goes that the be-
trothal finally came by telegraph. A let
ter from Mr.. Gage to his sister-in-law
told her that after mature deliberation he
had come to the conclusion that she was
the woman to he his wife. He earnestly
hoped that she agreed with him. If so.
he begged her to telegraph him the one
word Yes" If she did not no answer
was necessary. The marriage followed
at the home of a relative in Denver and
was a most happy one.
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4 baby cuts his teeth before he is on
speaking terms with them.