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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
Remedy for BIackIer.

Farmers whose pasture lands are
rich in vegetable matter are most ia
miliar with the disease among calves
known as blackleg. 1t is contracted by
eating the grass on such pastures and
the germs multiply rapidly. There is
no known cure for the trouble. but our
veterinarian tells us that his profes.
sion is familiar with a method of vac
cination which renders the calf prac-
tically immune When this method is
used it should be in the hands of q
skilled worker. The writer has ha6
some trouble with blackleg in the past
and has found the following formula
splendid preventive of. the trouble
but not cure after the germs have
found Judgment in the calf:
If there is danger of the trouble
obtain from reliable druggist sup.
ply Of hyposulphite of soda and give il
daily to the calf mixed with the food.
starting with a teaspoonful for the
animal three months old or younger,
and increasing until the calf from six
months to year old is given a table
spoonful After the animal is a year
old there is likely to be no trouble.
The remedy. or rather preventive, is
worth trying.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
CAN'T BURY THE DEAD.
Striking Livery Drivers Prevent Fu-
nerals in Chicago.


Undertakers' wagons and street cars
have been used for several days in Chi
cago to convey the dead to the ceme-
teries. In nearly every instance the
funerals were watched by union pickets,
who were there to see that no livery car
riages formed part of the funeral pro-
cession. One of the most prominent
funerals was that of Judge Joseph
Hutchinson, for fifteen years on the
bench or the Superior Court. The re-
mains of Judge Hutchinson were taken
TO lakewood cemetery in an undertaker's
wagon, while the private carriages of
his personal friends were used for the
pall-bearers and immediate friends of the
family.
Some disturbance was caused at the
funeral OF Bohemian woman, who was
murdered by her husband. The funeral
was held in st. Procopius Church and a
large crowd gathered ON the outside of
the building-some attracted by the fact
that it was a murdered woman, and 9TH
ers by the rumors of possible interior
ence with the conduct of the funeral.
When Undertaken Anton Linhart
drove up to the church with his wagon,
he was hooted and jeered, but no direct
violence was offered. The police were
forced TO use their clubs to press back
the crowds.
Police protection against strikers for
funeral corteges on their way 10 the GEM
eteries was demanded of Chief of Police
O'Neill by a committee from the Joint
Livery Association and was promptly
promised by the chief He ordered the
police inspectors to afford every protec-
! ton in their power, but refused to allow
the officers to be seated on or drive the
vehicles bearing the bodies.
This interference with the burial of
the dead is the meanest bit of business
the police have had to cope with, to my
knowledge the chief said. II do not
know how the thing could be carried any
further"
Whist the hverymen and undertakers
desired most was protection for their
barns Men are willing and anxious to
work, they said, if given protection.
Threats to injure the men are declared
TO have been frequently made.
No attack has yet been made on ambu-
lances bearing the sick, but the under
takers expressed fears that such would
soon be the case. Chairman Perrigo said
teamsters have threatened to drive the
poles of their trucks through ambulances
Particularly in case of death of diph-
liberia and scarlet fever, in which burial
must occur within twenty -four hours OF
before dark of the same day following
death, the strike is expected to have
grave results. Interference with burials
of such bodies might result in the spread
ing of epidemics
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
BATTLE IN BEEF.
Consumers Hope to Reap the Benefit
of the Cattlcmen's Scheme.

Consumers Hope to Reap the Benefit
of the Cattlemen's scheme.
The announcement is made that the
farmers and the cattlemen, recognizing
the demand of the consumer for cheaper
meat, have decided to establish packing
houses in the Southwest, on co-opera-
tive plan. The idea is to have packing
houses at Fort WORTH Texas, Kansas
ity and East St Louis. 1t is not likely
that any cooperative packing house will
be established at ldcago, headquarters of
the present trust packers, who control
the markets. An Independent packing
house will be in operation in ST. Louis
prior to the opening of the worlds fair.
All signs point to a national fight on
the packing house trust.
The present great packing houses are
combined. it is claimed by the raisers of
cattle and hogs, to keep down the prices.
To end this combine some of the richest
and most influential cattlemen Of the
United States have joined in an organ
ization to establish packing plants of
their own. Wealthy farmers are also
in the plan. A recent circular was sent
out announcing the fact that $5000,000
had been raised to build these co-opera-
tive packing houses. Three times that
sum will be required, but there will be
no difficulty in getting it,
The cattlemen assert that by the OPP
erations of the beef trust they have lost
more than $100,000O00 in profits. At
the same time the consumer has been
charged higher prices. 1t is not out Of
charity nor sympathy for the consumer
that the plan of fighting the beef trust
has been undertaken, but it is believed
that the attitude of the pubic toward
the packers will be helpful to the cattle
men. They will dress their steers and
ship them direct to the retailer and con
sumer
The stock yards at Fort Worth, WHICH
are the finest in the country, are to be
purchased by the cooperative packing
house company and turned into a coop
erative industry. The yards cover 800
acres, and the live stock exchange, built
after the style of the Alamo mission
house. is the finest live stock building in
the United States.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29

to make any comment on what you hap
pen to oyerhear between my wife and
me-"
"Will you take it back. if you please?'
Blame asked again, as the other had not
spoken.
Haven't l taken it back?" Hackett
demanded. 81 said you happened TO over
hear, didn't I? have taken it back"
Every well. And now for my question
again. Don't you think those little en-
dearments between man and wife are
best kept private? Tell me now"
- don't see what it has to do with you
at all. Ned. You need not be a meddle
some fellow. Let a man mind his own
concerns. will youT'
Il don't see what it has to do with me-
either" said Blame. The iron grip on
Hackett's arm began to tremble percep
tibly, and while the captive wondered
what this might mean he found himself
suddenly released, but confronted face
to face. Il do see one or two things"
Blame was saying. Il do see that you'v
married one of the best girls in the
world. and that you're as worthy of her
as l am to be an angel. l do see that
you DullA iitI anu Shdil Ut AeI, hkt inc
mongrel you are Business of mine ?
You may thank your stars, my lad, that
it's no business of mine, for if it were
you'd suffer"
Now, come, Ned" said Hackett in an
almost genial and altogether allowing
and friendly way; you go too fast and
too far. You do now really. I'm in
the most abominable heap of trouble.
I've had shameful luck lately, and moth
ing seemed to go as it ought to go. And
I've had news tonight that enough to
put any fellow orft of temper"
go your way" Blame answered, with
with you"
Il shan't bear any malice for what's
passed between US, Ned" said Hackett.
very WE'LL said the other. Least
said soonest mended."
'Neds queer" thought Hackett to
himself as he went on his way. He's
very queer. He used to be prowling a
good deal about old Howarth's house
himself. Is that it?''
So the one effect of Ned Blane's in
reference was that it gave Will Hackett
a needle to prick his wife with, and he
made up his mind to use it.
ITO be continuedl
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
BABES OF CONGRESS.
The kindergarten Class Is an I'M
usually Large One.


usually Large One.
Every Congress has its babes, but the
kindergarten class of the Fifty-eighth
Congress is unusually large, says a
Washington correspondent. There are
no less than FIVE men in the House who
are under 80 or have just turned their
thirtieth year.
The youngest is Burton Lee French,
Idaho's sole representative in the House
He is 2S years old. His father was a
pioneer in Idaho and he is a graduate
of the university of that State and also
Of Chicago University. At % he was in
the Legislature and so brilliant was his
course that he was elected to Congress-
by a majority of 7.000-the first Repub-
lican chosen for Congress in Idaho in
decade.
Morris Sheppard of Texas is three
months older than French. He succeed
ed his father in the last Congress and
has already become a man of influence
among the Democrats.
Another young member full of prom
Use is Frederick Lands. who comes from
the Eleventh Indiana District. Lands
has just passed his thirtieth year, but
Tor more JAan ten years he mas Deen
famous in Indiana and outside as a cam
paign speaker. His nomination and cleo,
ton to Congress attracted national atten-
ton from the fact that he defeated in tho
Republican convention the veteran.
George w Steele. who had been mem
Der Of every Congress except three since
the Forty There were other can.
didates before the convention. which last
ed three days. and it was on the 1,012th
ballot that Lands was nominated. liz
1900 he made $40 speeches in Indiana,
being detailed to accompany President
Roosevelt and Senator Hanna through
the State.
Asbury Francis Lever, who represents
the Seventh South Carolina Di, riot. is
the youngest man the State ever sent to
the House OF Representatives He is
four months older than Sheppard Of
Texas. and, Ike Sheppard. this is his
second term in Congress He was elected
10 Ill the unexpired term OF Representa-
tive j William Stokes. and was here
as n member during both sessions Of the
Fiftv-seventh Congress
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
skim Milk for Cows.

If one has a separator in the dairy
there is no objection to feeding the
skim milk to the cows. provided it is
given them while sweet-that is, when
not stale or in any way soiled. 1t is
best fed back TO the COWS mixed with
bran, and adds materially to the food
ration. generally increasing the milk
flow decidedly. The plan of feeding
skim milk from the creamery to cows
should not be carried on, for such milk
is unfit even for swine, unless one is
reasonably sure that it is from the
milk of the same day. 1t is probable
that the feeding of skim milk will be
found most profitable when given tc
hogs or to the poultry. but where this
stock is not kept in sufficient quantity
to consume the skim milk it may be
safely fed to cows under the condi
tons named.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
Deem Cultivatiou.

Deep cultivation of some crops is
equivalent to pruning the roots. This
is especially the case with corn, which
sends its roots in every direction. close
to the surface of the soil. Expert
ments in cultiyating corn show that
when the roots were cut two inches,
four inches and six inches below the
surface, the increase of crops was
greater when the cultivation was shall
low. the greatest harm being done by
deep cultivation at the last stages Of
growth of the plants. The object
should be TO simply loosen the top soil
when cultivating corn and TO avoid
cutting the roots as much as possible.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
Epgs in Winter.

Shipping eggs in winter requires
careful packing. Eggs are liable 10
become frozen in the crates when the
cold is intense, although the crates may
be made tight and the eggs inclosed in
paper partitions. There is no remedy
for the drawback, and the only safe
plan is to keep the eggs until the
weather moderates. Sawdust is some
times used in the crates to fill up the
spaces and prevent the ingress of cold
air, but it only adds to the weight.
If one has the time to bestow, the eggs
may be wrapped in wadding, and plac-
ed in the paper partitions; but the mer-
chants who receive them may object
to the extra labor imposed upon them
of removing the covering from the
eggs after arrival.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
THE THREE rs AND BUSINESS.
Boy Who Can't Add or Spell May Have
Views on "Civics.o

Boy Who Can't Add or Spell May Have
Views on "Civics."
The Northwestern Miller makes a
complaint that will fall on deaf ears.
1t mourns the lost art of writing. a
loss which it attributes to the univer
sal typewriter. 1t pleads, as many
newspapers and men and some old
fashioned teachers have pleaded, for
more attention to the rudiments of
the schools. But what is the use? If
the typewriter has had much to do
with the waning of legible handwrit
ing. at least it should have increased
the number of good spoilers. Yet
spelling is departing. too.
Once boys and girls had to learn to
write and spell by means of hard
work. The way to spell is to SPELL
The way to write is to write Such
were the moldy theories of our fathers
and grandfathers. Improved and sci
entific methods of teaching have come.
Different views of the comparative
value of studies prevail. Our children
learn, or are supposed to learn, more
things than their unfortunate parents
used to; learn them in jig and quick
step, to music, with many pretty trills
and frills and fiourishes; and those
wretched three Rs are openly derided.
Business men, owing to their want
of training in the modern fashion, kick
violently Many of them say that
they can't get boys from the public
schools who can write good, plain
hand, spell well or even count and
reckon well. Carrying bundles is all
most of them are fit for" we heard a
merchant say the other day of these
products of the march of improve
ment
Doubtless such an assertion is a saw
age exaggeration, and business men
should not insist on their antiquated
notions. A boy may be weak in arith-
metic, and yet be able to sing a song
or have very earnest views about
''civics." Judge him by what he
knows, not by what he has not been
taught to know. Besides, machinery
will supply the deficiencies of educa-
ton. Mechanical addition subtrac-
ton, multiplication and division are
wonderfully exact. Spelling, like edu-
cation, is being reformed Why force
anybody to learn it while it is in a
fluid or uncertain state? Writing is
already obsolete Arithmetic may be
only survival. Business men expect
too much.-New York Sun
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
Homemade Wagon lack.

While wagon jacks are comparative
~ low in cost, some of the cheaper
ones are not desirable. If one has
some leisure during the winter jack
such as is shown in the illustration,
can be constructed readily and at very
little cost The lumber used should
he of some tough growth and the join
ings should be well made. Material
2x3 will be strong enough if of good
lumber. The upright piece should be
about two and one-half feet long and
be mortised into the base, although it
may be attached in any other desired
way. The base is three feet long and
the upright piece should so into it one
foot from the end.
A long mortice should be cut IL the
upright as shown, and holes made as
shown, so that pin may be used to
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
CrowdinG the Trees.

When trees become thickly branched
and crowded as to space they are moi
improved by cutting the ends of the
shoots, which merely aggravates the
evil. They should be judiciously thin.
ned by the complete removal of some
of the branches. A sldllful operator
will remove one-third or more of the
branches of a thickly set tree so that
the ordinary observer will not perceive
that any pruning has been done the
tree looking as natural in its ramifica.
tons as if it had not been disturbed,
and this should be the aim i'll all prun.
ing operations as applied to street
trees.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
forty Years AGO.

Twenty United States war vessels
sailed in chase of the Cromwell line
steamer Chesapeake, which had been
captured by rebels who boarded it in
disguise at Portland Me.
Gen Halleck, commanderin-chief of
the United States army. in his annual
report exonerated Gen. L. S. Grant from
the charge of disobeying orders.
Fernando Woods resolution for the
appointment of commission to visit
Richmond and negotiate peace with the
rebels was defeated i'll the House at
Washington, only hfty-nine votes, all
Democratic, being given for it.
The first committee to plan the re-
construction OF the Southern States was
appointed in the House at Washington
on motion of Winter Davis.
A great mass meeting was held at Gin
cinnati, Ohio, addressed by "Parson"
Brownlow and Gen. Rosecrans, to stir
up enthusiasm for enlistments in the
Union army.
An order forbidding the distillipg Of
,orn whisky in Illinois and Ohio was
reported under contemplation by Presi
dent Lincoln, because the corn crop was
130,000,000 bushels under domestic needs
while the demand for the army was
enormous.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
when England Will Be Coal Hungry.

England has just been informed by
the royal commission ON coal supply
that she may expect coal famine in
the year 1945-which is not so far off
when you come 70 think of 1t.
The coal in the tight little island"
will not be by any means exhausted
in 1915. but all of it which lies at a
less depth than 1900 feet will have
been taken from the earth and burned
up.
1t is estimated that all of Englands
coal will have been transformed into
heat and smoke by the end of a period
of from $50 to 800 years. After that
time, If coal is still to be used as fuel,
II will have to be brought from the
United States or China. Nobody knows
how large the coal deposits of China
really are, but they are known to be
immense
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
Cae l.undred Yesrs ago.


Pans or several foreign gunAoats were
brought SO Washington to furnish ideas
Tor an American navy.
The Postmaster General reported that
100 resto.ileeS had been opened in the
CS;tei States. of which lJ9 were in
New York. 1879 II Virginia. l02 in Penn
SylvaHia and l2 in Chic,
\ good strong black girl. rs years
q.d, and free from vice. was advertised
for sale in New York City.
The twelfth amendment providing for
the election OF President and Vice Pres
ident of the United States separately,
was sub:aitted by Congress FOR ratidca-
ton b. the StStts.
Co .ssioAed officers and pr'vdtes who
should descend the Mississippi river on
the threatened expedition against New
Orleans were voted l5o acres of land
each by the Kentucky Legislature.
The entire expenses of the State De-
partment ut Washington FOR one year,
including S4G,550 for the diplomatic ser
vice, were reported at $4,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
CHAPTER IX

Little as his presence was suspected,
Ned Blame stood in the darkness. under
the shadow of the hedge, and heard nore
than enough of his successful rivals
speech and tone TO make his blood roll
and his heart ache anew.
BY the time Hackett's diatribe was
over. however. the boiling food had all
subsidized strangely. He was bitter with
/ in until his heart loathed its own bitter
ness. but he was completely master of
/ himself. and he knew it. The honestly
/ incenSed husband slammed the door be-
/ bind him Sc the mind that now and so
escaped witnout retort, and at the same
time gave force and point to his injunc-
ton. He strobe angrily down the little
gravel path and fumbled for moment
/ az the gate. In his wrath he shook at it
so noisily that he failed to hear Blanes
+ footstep, and it was something of a
shock TO him TO see the somber figure
/ booming so closely on him in the dark.
"Hillo," he said. starting back nerv-
ously.
Good night. Willr' said Blame. pass
ing an arm through one Of his with sin
gulsrly firm deliberateness. Ned's arm
clenched on his old companions so firm
" that Hackett felt as though he were
in custody, and made a half-unconscious
movement To extricate himself, but the
arm which encircled his felt like a bar
of iron.
Don't you think. Will" said Blame.
strenuously but quietly controlling Hack
ett's footsteps TO the measure OF his
own. that you'd better keep those little
endearments private-ehg
OH cried Hackett- gladly SEEKING on
the chance this gave him. -.you'ye been
eavesdropping, have you, Neds Come.
now. that doesn't do yoa any special
credit. does it,"
Now III warn you,- said Blame. with
curious dryness aud ccolness of tone
which very much chilled his involuntary
companion, there's nothing l should so
dearly Ike at this minute as for you to
give me a reasonable chance OF quar-
reling with you on my own account. VIII
you take that back. il you pleasey'
We'll" said Hackets, who liked less
and less the iron pressure on his arm.
II don't recognize your right, you know,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
Twenty Years Ago.

The first bill 10 create an interstate
commerce commission was introduced at
Washingtol by Representative Ebenezer
Hoar of Massachusetts.
Claus Spreckels cornered the Hawa-
iian sugar crop Of 100000 pounds,
giving him control over the Pacific coast
markets.
Frank James, the notorious bandit,
then under arrest for the Blue Cut train
robbery, was released on bail at Kansas
City and Immediately rearrested for the
murder Of Banker Sheets at Gallatin,
while United States officers tried to se-
cure him for four other bank robberies.
President Chester A. Arthur charac-
terized arctic exploration as cruel in.
human, useless and insane" and express
ed hope that after Greedy was rescued
there would be no more Of IT,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
calves CheapIy Fattened.

Prof. Roberts of the Cornell station
claims that TO fatten calves success
fully on skim milk and grain 10 sup
ply the butter fat. the calves should
first be fed a moderate amount OF new
milk for a few days. and then skim
milk should be gradually substituted
so that at the end of few weeks the
ealrss would be fed entirely on skim
milk If seven pounds of corn meal IS
mixed with one pound of linseed meal,
old process preferable. he finds II viii
make fairly good substitute fer the
butter fats of the new milk.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
thirty Years Ago.

A national negro convention in Wash
ington, ID. c.. appealed to Congress for
equal privileges with whites in hotels
and sleeping cars.
The Rev. Charles Edward Cheney was
conseorated bishop of the Reformed
Episcopal Church in Chicago
The United States Senate, after
long debate, failed to confirm Attorney
General Williams as chief Justice of the
federal Supreme Court, aud sent his
nomination back to the Judiciary com
mittee.
Great destituti6n was reported among
the new settlers in northwestern Iowa,
blamed chiefly TO the "land Spectators
and cormorant railroads." in the Ian
guage of the times.
Capt Gen. Jovellar issued an address
to the people Of Cuba declaring he must
surrender the steamer Virginius to the
United States or plunge the island into a
war in which Spain would refuse aid.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
Fifty Years Ago.

The naval affairs committee of the
House of Representatives presented
bill appropriating $3,000,000 for the CON
struction of six steam frigates
The annexation of Hawaii was pro-
posed Mt Washington to end the slave
trade there
Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois
presented two commissioners from the
Egyptian pasha to President Pierce at
Washington.
Robert Nj. McLane, the new United
States commissioner TO China, sailed
with instructions to secure trade privi-
leges to the heart of the empire,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
R.es in Cold storage.

A method new to many beekeepers
is employed at the apiary of T. B.
Jones, At. Norris, ~. Y. About Dec.
!, the swarms are removed to the
cold-Storage building, where hives are
placed III tiers for winter keeping. The
building is Try and dark, and the bees
keep in a quiet condition, and with less
loss than By ordinary methods.