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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-08

golden favors it is not necessary to
deal in railroads or to erect and COM
bine giant manufacturing plants. She
has smiled az encouragingly on the
man dealing in five and ten cent arti-
cles as on the men who build locomo-
tiyes for the trans-Siherian railroad
Fifty-one years ago there was born
on farm at Rodman, Jefferson Coun-
ty, boy baby. The baby grew to
manhood with no better prospects than
has each of thousand and one farm
er's boys. At 81 he went to Water
town, the nearest town of Importance,
and secured clerkship in a store.
For a month he worked for nothing.
For the next three months he re-
ceived $3.50. per week. Then for six
months he worked for 81 a week. At
the end of six years he was receiving
$40 a week and had married. He
seemed to be at the top of the only
ladder III sight.
But he made up his mind there were
other and higher ladders in the great
outside world From his employer he
secured on credit stock of goods 10
the amount of $3.50 and csme to Utica.
y. Y. Here he opened the first strictly
five-cent store. Only pardal success
followed. He removed 70 Lancaster,
Pa. secured a store 14x35 feet and did
his best. Success followed in a modest
way. He opened branch store in
Harrisburg, Pa. IL feet by 20 in di-
mansions; then another at York. He
made point of paying back his first
loan as quickly as possible, saving ev-
cry cent possible and buying and sell
ing for cash. From this Insignificant
beginning the business hiss branched
out until to-day the farmers boy,
Frank W. Woodwork, conducts "a
five and ten-cent stores in various
parts OF the country, sells goods 10 the
amount OF S10,OOO.0 600 year. is worth
several millions in the clear, and has
lust been elected President OF the
Guardian Trust Company. Of New
York. His advice TO young men IS:
Live well within your means; save
at least one-fourth your income. no
matter how small: never run in debt;
select that business which win be
pleasure TO you."-Uuca On. " Globe.
A good housewife is like the ocean
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-08

One of the final scenes in the life of
this remarkable man was enacted in a
courtroom 1t Richmond, KY, when he
was declared insane. A week pre-
viously Dora Richardson Brock, the di-
vorced child wife of the aged Ken
tuckian. had declared her intention of
going on the stage. 1t is alleged Gen
eral Clay had been insane for several
years, and his mad love Ior a 16-year-
old girl, who was 10 when she mar
ried him, is held to have been largely
responsible for his condition.
At the time of the strange marriage
General Clay was 80 and Dora Rich
ardson was 10. He was cultured,
man of repute in the affairs of the ma
ton, the scion of a famous family,
and the possessor of wealth. She was
illiterate, untutored in the ways of the
world, content amid her lowly sur
roundings.
General Clay treated his wife as a
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child and sought to amuse her and
make her happy. He bought her dolls,
picture books, toy furniture, and the
many other things which have been
made to amuse children. Finally the
old man purchased his young wife a
doll about twenty inches long and fill
ed with mechanical contrivances that
caused it to talk and cry and laugh.
The generals attempt to educate his
wife were futile. She read little and
wrote a little, but she had no taste for
books and art After a few months
she ran away to the home of her
brother. where she received the atten-
lions of a farmer boy General Clay
divorced her, and she married the
young man, whose name was Riley
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cious struggle called existence will rid
thing that could remind me others of the fray l am
about to meet my fellow on a plane OF simple
urbany and decorum Elegance instead force will be
the ruling spirit Therefore will myself in the
most elegant possible to me- prove my sim
certify will clothes too fragile and delicate bear
the stress of battle?" Is not this right reason?
You will find that the people who despise clothes on
themselves and Others may without exception
be assigned to of these classes:
l. Those who cannot afford to dress we'll and who are
ashamed of this inability.
2 Those who too mean too idle or too careless to
expend the toilet the money the brains the trouble
which good toilet demands
3. Those who having been poor careless have
developed into opulence and conventonaties
but who the victims incurabe dressing
badly.
Those who deficient in the perception of beauty
and of that fitness" from which beauty often springs
5. Individuals of dea-an idea which excludes all
other ideas.
Careessness In clothes is sign of careessness in more
important departments of human effort The person whose
wristbands antique the person borrcws and for
gets to return The who appears carry an egg
at each kneecap the confirmed failure who has found the
world too much for him. The person wears flannel
shirt on all occasions is the addis with boring mono
mania or the ignoramus who doesn't know
My assertion is that be the worse that the
vast majority will be the better for dressing well as
their their leisure will all
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-08
HEALTH ON THE IsTHMUs.
Disease Is Gradually Diminishing in
Panama.


The prospect of active work in con-
nection with the ship canal across the
Isthmus of Panama has directed at
tention to the climate of the district.
in which engineering work of excep-
tional difficulty will have to be under
taken. The, results are generally re-
assuring, and with Ordinary care a re-
petition of the horrors that accom-
panied the construction of the Pana-
ma railway need not be feared. The
most noticeable feature in the temper
ature factor is it's constancy through
out the year, the monthly range
in the mean, being confined between
1874 degrees and SOL degrees. The
daily range on the coast is from 6S
degrees to 81 degrees, and in the in
terror from 81 degrees to "a degrees.
1t is easy to see the effect of the
oceans in thus limiting the range of
temperature, but necessarily there is
an increase in the humidity which is
high throughout the year. There is
a great difference in the rainfall on
the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. About
40 inches may be anticipated on the
former, while only half that amount
will fall on the Atlantic side. From
January to April the fall is very slight
throughout the isthmus, and therefore
several successive months of dry wea-
Their can be counted upon, which can
not but be Of great advantage in the
engineering operations Winds are
always light, and give no trouble
Greater velocities than 20 miles an
hour are rarely met with.
The general health statistics are
not unfayorable. Recent inquiries
show that the mortality due to disease
of the climate has steadily diminished
since 1881, while the percentage of
deaths arising from European dis
eases has not increased. Of the to-
tai death rate. 81 per cent, is due to
chronic organic diseases common to
all countries and only per cent. is
is chargeable to local effects. This
material improvement is due in some
measure to the fact that the excava-
tions have reached a level below the
poisonous emanations of decaying or
ganic matter, while on the other hand,
greater sanitary precautions have
reduced the effects Of yellow fever.
Colon has been practically free from
this scourge for some time, but i'm
provements in Panama are loudly de-
manded.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-08
RESURRECTION PLANTS.
Rose of Jericho One of the Most Fa
nous of the Kind.

Rose of Jericho One of the Most Fa-
nous of the Kind.
What is generally known as the rose
of Jericho is. perhaps. one of the most
familiar of the curiosities of plant life
known as resurrection plants. though
other varieties have recently been add
ed to the list of these oddities, says the
Philadelphia Ledger. The rose of Jer-
icho is said to be imported from the
valley of the River Jordan. and is the
resurrection plant mentioned in the BIZ
Bile. The plant when received from
its native home is simply a bunch or
leafiess and seemingly hfeless sticks
or branches clustered together tightly.
When placed in q glass Of water, how
ever. the branches expand. seed buds
unfold, and soon the green foliage
starts out and the plant really grows.
Tee Mexican resurrection plant Is
tn lufy fernlike variety often no
siced In saucers Of water in the for
3 window. This delights the chill
en-, as the plant is so quickly resur-
cted from q dry. hard ball to a green
living plant. When 1t IS dormant it Is
a shrunken round ball OF tightly fold
sd leaflets. dry and dead
Il is dropped In q bowl Of tepid wa
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-08
BEeeAR TAUGHT A LESSON.
what Happened to an AbIe-boded
Tramp Who Asked Aims.

amp WHO ASKED Aims.
A beggar approached a husky young
man at Broadway and Wall street,
and, exhibiting three cents in grimy
hand, told a piteous tale of a job
near 10th street, and cents lacking
to pay the fare.
Sure" said the young man Hard
luck, isn't it? Haven't the change.
but drop aboard the car and I'll pay
the conductor. It's good for Hundred
and 'steenth street and more, and the
jobs yours"
The tramp suppressed his disgust
as best he could, and the athletic chap
hustled him in the car with laugh
and slap on the shoulder.
At Liberty street the "panhandler'
made for the door; and there met
the husky young man, who playfully
pushed him back and said: at ism ;
Hundred and 'steenth street yet. Don't
you be anxious, for I'm going all the
way myself
AT Canal street the beggar appealed
to the conductor. Get off if YOU
want" said the conductor, who had
been taken into the. secret. "but I'm
thinking you're better off on, and
that's no joke. Look at the fists on
the man"
AT Houston street the applicant for
aims sneaked for the front door, but
the importunate man. too, was "on, -
and threatened him demolition. So
he planned strategic movement. in
the execution of which he worked his
way, seat by seat, to the DOOR
AT Sixteenth street, where the car
stopped for transfers to and from the
crosstown lines, ne saw his chance,
and took it. The conductor was busy
letting 'em off first, please, the young
man was gazing at the sky, whistling
soft air. So the beggar slipped to
the platform and reached the step
There a ponderous woman, bound to
be first to board the car. halted him
for moment.
1t was fatal The young mans
hand fell on his shoulder, and the
young mans voice shouted Wow"
in his ear. The shout and surprise
gave him an impetus that carried him
to the sidewalk in bound, regardless
of all in his way. At full speed he
galloped across the lawns and crocus
beds of Union SQUARE. Without
breaking his stride he hurdled over
line of benches, and as he landed
on the walk an eYer-ready policeman
fell on him with his club.
When the car went on again, with
the indignant, ponderous woman be-
rating the conductor, the husky young
man saw his sorely battered charge
disappear in the grasp of the law,
whereupon the seeker after innocent
diversion smiled as he reflected on the
amusement to be had for five cents
in New York.--Mail and Express.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-08
RuIIdInas Cracked bx prouaht.

For seven or eight years the Mid
land and some of the Eastern coun-
ties of England have been steadily
drying up. Many of the beautiful old
churches that lie along the valley Of
the Meme, near the Huntingdonshire
and Lincolnshire fens. and along the
junction lines of Northamptonshire
ana Huntingdonshire have been show
ing alarming signs of splitting, and in
very few cases have the engineers
been able to arrest the harm. After
the third or fourth year Of drought
the mari of the subsoil began to
shrink, and the effect was at once
seen in cracks in the walls, which in
some cases threatened actually to split
the churches in two. To redress the
balance nothing would have been of
any use but such an amount of rain
as would restore the quality of the
clay and mari It has come at last.
and many buildings, old farm homes
as vel as churches, VIII be saved
Philadelphia Record.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-08

beai> above his head broke loose
from dt5 fashenings and fell upon and
crushed the life out of him, and he
was dead with the words of his story
yet upon his lips.
Not word was told the woman,
and she died ten years later without
the mystery having been explained to
her When the name Burke was men,
TONED to her it did not affect her in
the slightest, and no more did tne
name of her husbands ship. The
past was so completely dead to her
that she would positively have re
FUSED to recognize her husbands
elaim.-Chicago News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-08
A TelItaIe Envelope.

A genius has invented an envelope
which records Of itself any attempt
70 tamper with its contents. The flap
ia imbued with some chemical com
position which. when operated on by
dampening process, or any other
means of penetrating to its enclosure,
records the transaction ~ causing
the words Attempt to open" to APP
pear. 1t is thought that the irquisi-
tive will think twice before pursuing
their researches in the face of such
an invention.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-08
rock. Afterward Brock was killed by

Brock. Afterward Brock was killed by
a train, and the love of the aged sol
der and diplomat for the young coun-
try girl then sprang to life again, and
he sought to have her return to White
hall as his wife in as ardent fashion
as when she first left him to go back to
her brothers humble shack in the
woods.
His children interfered, however,
and prevented the reconciliation. By
the proceedings in the insane court
they blocked his plan to leave his
whole estate to. Dora Richardson. He
was confined to his home with a nurse
and guards.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-08

his home, White
Hall, in Madison
County, Kentucky.
His demise was
due to general ex-
haustion.
The stirring life
which General Clay
led had begun 10
tell ON him in late
years. lie believed
that d conspiracy
to assassinate him
had been formed
and some years
ago fortified his
home at White
Hall and entered L
life of exclusion
that ended only a
few weeks ago.
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ter, and soon one frondlike tip curls
slowly outward, then another and an
other, and in a short time there is
green plant, great loose expanded
rosette of fine fernlike leaves, odd and
beautiful.
This experiment can be repeated
many times, the plant curling together
tightly when dry and expanding into
new life when soaked in water. The
asteriscus pygmaerus is the only resur-
rection plant that develops blossoms.
In reality it is the blossom that is res
directed from dry, hard shell-like
substance to a full-blown flower.
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is tradition to the effect that when
Orme, the Saxon pirate from whom
the town derives its name, decided to
construct a kirk, or church, as an
expiatory offering for his evil deeds,
his two daughters quarreled over the
design for the structure One deter
mined to have a tower, the other was
equally resolved to have a steeple.
AS neither OF them would give way
the pirate chief acceded to both their
wishes, and the curious may see the
tower and spire still keeping watch
side by side on the surrounding coun-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-08
AN ArchitecturaI Curiositv.

There are many churches through
out England which are without tower
or spire, but there are few churches
which can boast Of having tower and
spire side by side. One of these is
the parish church of Ormskirk in Lam
cashire. The tower is built over the
porch at the west end. and the spire
is placed as closely as possible to It
The origin of this architectural freak
has not been ascertained. but there
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-08
STEALING SERVANT GIRLS.
The Desperate Straits to Which Some
Housekeeper Have Come.

The Desperate Straits to Which Some
Housekeepers Have Come.
A new phase Of the everlasting serv-
ant girl question has recently come to
light-the hiring of servants by wo-
men going actually to other persons
houses and offering girls higher wages.
This prevails to an alarming extent IN
nearly all the large cities.
A woman who wifi do this-well,
she will do other things of which
strong language could be used, and yet
these women are TO be found among
the best people-that is, it should be
added that they live on the best streets
In town, but a woman who VIII hire
away her friends servants cannot be
strictly said to be entitled to any po-
sition This happens every day and
can be accounted for to certain ex-
tent by the scarcity of servants, and
the desperation of housekeepers, who
Will resort to almost any means to OBJ
tain them
Not so long ago something Of this
kind happened to a Chicago woman,
and in recounting the affair to friend
she said she felt pardonable degree
Of pride for the manner in which she
handled the matter. This woman lives
in a fat and had just hired general
homework servant.
About two days afterward the bell
rang, and when Annie. as we viii call
her, went to the door she noticed that
the girl went out and closed the door
and stood talking to some one in the
hall. SO the mistress OF the house sus-
pected something and went to the door
and opened it. There stood woman
whom she knew by sight. but had new
er met, and she was evidently endeay-
oring TO hire away Annie. for the girl
was very red in the face and the wo-
man was very white when the door
opened This conversatiea ensued:
Mistress Of the House Whom did
you come to see?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-08
Largest Bottle in the World.

The largest bottle ever blown has
recently been made for exhibition at
the st. Louis Expedition. II holds
forty-fve gallons, AID required forty
pounds of molten glass, drawn from
the furnace and shaped on the end Of
a huge blowing pipe.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-08

tol. Slaves held in Rhode Island were
largely of the house servant class, and
bore the names of their owners. A
sincere affection often existed be
tween the masters and their slaves.
At Princes Hill Cemetery, there are
graves of about so slaves. Many Of
these slaves served in the American
army during the revolution. Some
were in the service as long as seven
years. and served faithfully. 1t was
largely on account of this service that
the act was passed which abolished
slavery forever in Rhode Island.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-08
RECKONING TINE IN MILLIONS OF YEARS.
aY On Indrew KiISon

Wilson.
- The biologists and physicists do deal with
I IN time in the everyday sense Their coin
1 ~ is not centuries but epochs, and they draw
vi the bank of time for thousands but for mil
M lions of years. There may be little
" difference, indeed between the views of
l. u who asserts that the Of the earth is 100000
IN 600 of years and those Of another who is content
80 with say 100600000. Both deal with periods
inconceyably long duration, and far the
controversy without the confines of everyday
computation But the problem is nice taken as it
The biologists have always stood out for imt
able duration, least for periods which great
that the ordinary mind is simply appalled, by the attempt
to compute them 1t is the physicists with their views
regarding cooling globe who endeayor to place
curb geological aspirations and demands.
The geological time sheet has be compiled differently
indeed, from the chronologes of If reckon his
tOrical events estimate the lapse of time which has
occurred since their happenings IN years II 1t were nee
essar would be easy enough calculate the hours that
have since the great eruption of Vesuvus
the Roman invasion of Britain This historical chronology
takes back, of course hstorys beginning Beyond
this prehistoric period where of def
mite dates yet conrive from the evidence of hero
gyphs and such like data TO estimate correctly the times
of persons and figuring the early history
When pass backwards in time to the fossils which
form the record of the rocks the
problems Of relative chronology The geologst only
determine the age of rock other object study
by comparing it with other formation The age of
the has be calculated in relation series
of circumstances. If say that the coal is younger
NATION than the old red sandstone to be true
because invariably the coal lies above the
the succession Of the rocks with
red above the COAL and the older lower is
ITS place In the earths crust thus settle the the
and the other relatively position the rind
OF our world If in certain series find quite
different set and higher rank of fossil animals and
plants tnan in another SERIES justified in regarding
the former representing younger than
All through these considerations it will noted there
Is no mention of years. Unless could be of the
periods required for rock formation 1t would impossible
to say in historically many ages have elapsed
he hall ont
or the azure main to form part islands of ours
Needless to say do possess data for the cal
culaton of the worlds respect least the rock
formations whereof its This is why the
historic method cannot apply to cosmical affairs.
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a new idea on that
occasion which sur
prised the scien-
tifc world almost
as greatly as the
tremendous theory
of natural selec.
tion-the Darwin
ian theory-which
DR.. Wallace and
Charles ID a T w | n
discovered i n d e.
nondantIv nf GA oh
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tie ranches of the
west, or to the
newly discovered
oil fields of Texas.
She may be found
and wooed and
won in every walk
of life, and always
stands ready to
reward industry,
integrity and abil-
IT, no Win har
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OYSTER SHELL "cuLM HEAP !"
Great Banks Find Ready Sale for Sew
eraI Purposes.

eral purposes.
The average citizen may not know
that oysters are planted. cultivated
and harvested like any other crop
says the Philadelphia North American
a person who engages in the industry
being known as an oyster planter
Thousands of acres of oysters are un.
der cultivation in Hampton Roads.
which, during the harvesting season
is often literally alive with the reapins
machines of the oystermen.
When the oysters are from one and
half to two years old they are usu.
ally large enough to be sold, and, as
a rule, part Of them are sold at this
age and the rest in the third or fourth
year, after which time the ground is
allowed to rest a year before being
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nlminishine Heights or blood.

1t is suggested that the height OF tie
MississippPs floods could be dimirlsh-
ed. with great incidental profit to agri-
culture, by building reservoirs In It's
western branches.
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MARRIED A FAMOUS LAWYER.

She was Ruby Hamerstrom, of st.
Louis, and writer of some note. Mr..
Darrow, a lawyer, of Chicago, repre-
scented the United Mineworkers in1the
arbitration proceedings which settled
the great coal strike. The couple wiz
spend a year In EuroDe.
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CURING His Heart Dlsease.

Physician-Your heart seems to be
affected. You must either stop smok-
ing or give up your girl.
Patient-Thats easily remed'ed-
Doctor, hand me my pipe, please
Chelsea Gazette.
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THE COMMON SENSE OF RULES FOR DRESS.

One Of the most striking examples of the
meaning of clothes is shown in the institution of
evening dress, which some hasty people despise
as mere ridiculous and hollow Journalism SAVIOR
Ing of contemplate ostentation But the man
who puts on evening dress with an understand
ing mind says this: "The days work is done:
will cast ali its preoccupations from me. Until
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-08

After a man has passed 175 pounds,
he is less of a heart breaker and more
of q hammock wrecker.