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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20
American railroads employ over 1000

American railroads employ over 1000.
600 men.
The San Antonio and Arkansas Pass
Railroad has adopted a pension system
for superannuated employees.
The Santa Fe has decided to construct
a line southwest from Guthrie through
FL Paso and Cement, Ok, into Texas.
A through train service is being plan
ned from Paris to Pekin via st. Peters
burg and Siberia, the trip to be made in
eighteen or nineteen days.
1t was reported at Omaha that all rail
roads centering there had decided to raise
the freight rates on grain between Mis-
souri, river points and Chicago.
President Hartman of the Southern
Pacific has inaugurated system of pen
sions fer I'D employees. Scale Of pen
sions is based on age, service and salary.
Three automobile carriages, each hold
ing forty persons, luggage. lavatory
and a bar, viii comprise "a train" Of the
new railway service to be inauguragsd
in France.
A territorial charter has been granted
at Guthrie. Ok, 10 the st. Louis, lei
Reno and Western Railway ~Company,
capital stock 500, 900, TO build a railroad
600 miles in length.
The Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City
Railroad Company has been given an-
thority by the Secretary Of State Of
Missouri TO increase it's capital stock
from S1,50o,O00 TO $2,500.eO0.
The trunk lines have decided to renew
the anti-pass agreement for another year.
1t forbids the exchange of passes be-
tween the contracting and other outside
roads for the use of employees.
By the completion Of a 300-mile rail
road between Buluwayo and Salisbury
via Gwelo, 1000 miles Of track of HE
Colonial gauge is open 10 through traffic
from Cape Town TO Beira, in Africa.
The Rock Island announces train ser
vice established over the newly construct
ed extension from Lawfon, Ok, 70 Waa-
rika. Ok, where connection is made with
the main line. thus giving another direct
route TO Dallas.
There is az work on one Of the sec
tons Of the Chicago and Northwestern
system in western Nebraska a son of
Sitting Bull, the old Sioux chief who
made the last important campaign IF
that tribe AGAINST the whites.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20

all eFer the country last November had
close relations to the trusts. High
prices foi beef and coal came home TO
the people. and a professor of political
economy was not needed to explain
the phenomenon. 1t was simply case
of organized. and levilized hog. with
the dominant party behind the animal.
The Democratic trend of the city vote
is the product of the enhanced cost Of
living.
AS to the prospect of antitrust legis-
lation by the present Congress, the
Washington Post, Independent in poll
tics, believes that some measure of that
description will pass the house, but re-
CARDS the chances of concurrent action
by the Senate as exceedingly slim. In
view of the fact that an antitrust bill
which passed the house two years ago
last spring, during the first session of
the Fifty-sixth Congress- bill that
was carefully framed and passed unop-
posed-has lain ever since in a Senate
committee room quite undisturbed, is
it reasonable to expect the Senate to be
very hospitable to another house bill
on the same subject?
Antitrust legislation, as defined by
Roosevelt, Littlefield, Knox and Doc
little, was a good enough Morgan" for
the last general election-the fifth Re-
publican victory in succession. 1t
might be fixed m answer for another
turn, for, as Barnum once remarked.
1.-The American public loves to be
fooled"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20
No Excuse for DELAY.

Now that Congress has appropriated
100000, thanks to the Democrats, to
prosecute the trusts, the administra-
ton can have no further excuse for
not gathering the evidence that will
put some of the trust magnates be-
hind the bars. The criminal section of
the antitrust law is stringent enough
to bring any trust baron to time, If it
can be shown that he has combined to
raise prices or to restrict interstate
commerce. There should be no difficult
ty in proving these criminal acts
against some of the coal barons. The
Attorney General of the United States
now has a great opportunity to show
that he is able and willing to do his
duty. If he is at all slack or negligent,
President Roosevelt can show his con
Germ for the suffering people by spur
ring his subordinate to immediate ac-
ton.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20
How to Handle Incubators.

have had an experience Of ten
years, with four different makes of il
cubators, and have learned few nee
essary things. One is that any incu-
bator, if rightly handled, win give good
results, or when poorly handled will
make failure. The best hatch l have
ever made was 90 per cent, the poorest
90 per cent of fertile eggs. l have raised
with brooder 30 per cent of chicks, and
without brooder on1S about 80 per cent.
/ have found that child cannot oper-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20
blanket. pointed at a straw ha. ara

blanket. pointed at straw ha. ara
asked: How mucheeT'
Fifty cents" said re merchant.
How muchee:' she asked again.
pointing at another article. The price
was quoted. and was followed by an
other query of How muchee!''
Then she suddenly gazed blandly at
the merchant and asked. mildly:
do you not regard such prices as
extortionGte for articles of such pal
pably and Enthusiastically inferior quail
ity? Do you not really believe that
reduction in your charges would ma
teriaIly enhance your pecuniary profits.
as well as be officially proper? / beg
you TO consider my suggestion
She was 4 graCSske of the Carliss
Indian S,.hool-sisw York Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20
In LING wien Present- Day spirit.
publican

In Line with Present-Day Spirit.
1t really seems as if the releg@ ton
of the portraits of Washington, Jeffer-
son. jackson and the rest of the earlier
Presidents to the corridors of the base
ment of the rejuvenated White House
is in accordance with the spirit of the
times, as illustrated in much Of the
political argument OF the day. We
see no reason why the next national
Republican convention should not put
a plank in its atform heartily indors-
ing the action of the leadership which
sends the portraits of the first twenty
three Presidents of the United States
to the kitchen floor of the Presidents
mansion Conn, Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20

There is no more reason for tariff
tax on coal than for one on ice and
the latter necessity-and it almost is
Dingley tariff act
Coal is taxed 81 cents a ton to pro-
tect the coal barons and allow them to
charge that much more proft-in fact
the duty was intended as a subsidy.
The coal barons are important people.
They control United States Senators
and congressman from number Of
strong Republican States, and when
the subsidies have been dealt out in
the tariff bill they demanded that coal
should be protected from competition.
This, of course, was conceded by the
Republican majority that passed the
bill and the Republican President that
signed it. SO there is no escape from
the fact that the Republican party is
responsible for at least 81 cents a ton
of the extortionate prices for coal
which the trust is now charging.
1t is also not difficult to prove that
the Republican party is also RESPONSE
bic for the coal strike, and, until cleo
ton day was near, made no serious at
tempt to stop it. There is a commu-
nifty of interests between the trusts and
the Republican party leaders. A wire
less telegraph keeps them in constant
touch with one another and when i'm
portant elections are about to occur
the contact becomes closer, like the
embrace of lovers.
The party in power is responsible
for the execution of the federal laws
and, in times of stress, at least, when
the antitrust law was VIGOROUSLY be-
ing nullified, the same party should
enforce it. When the beef trust began
to hold up the American people, as it
did last winter, if the administration
had begun proceedings against the beef
barons under the criminal section Of
been but little doubt of their convic-
ton. Mr.. Armour or Mr.. Swift con-
victed and in jail for combining to
fleece the people, would have at once
stopped their extortions and would
have been warning to other monop-
olists, especially to the coal trust mag
mates, when combination to restrict the
output of coal and keep up prices was
notorious. The fear of an impartial
enforcement of the law would have
made the coal barons think twice be-
fore they declined to make a small adj
vance in the wages of the miners. Ten
cents a ton advance in wages would
have settled the coal strike, ten days
after it began. A threat, at that time,
of prosecution by President Roosevelt
or his Attorney General, even il the
beef trust had not been dealt with,
would have brought the naughty bar
onS to time.
No such effort, or even attempt, was
made. The trusts are still in the sad
die, booted and spurred, riding the
long-suffering people to their undoing.
The President has washed his hands
of the wretched business and his ''com-
mission" drags along without much
prospect of either miners or people be-
ing helped by it's deliberations. The
only relief in sight is balmy spring,
which nature fortunately will provide
in due course of time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20
Mulching the strawberry Beds.


The most successful growers of straw
berries in the country have decided that
spring cultivation is not desirable, al
though for years this was the universal
practice. They do the cultivation for
the year after the plants have fruited,
and in the winter mulch the plants
lightly. putting on only sufficient to
keep the plants from being heaved out
of the ground by the alternate freezing
and thawing of the soil III late winter
and early spring. The mulch is left on
by some growers until after the picking
season, when it is raked up in piles and
burned to destroy the insects in it; 9th
er growers rake The mulch off in the
late spring and burn it, applying fresh
mulch, which is allowed to remain dur
ing the season and until after picking
Either plan is good, but the main thing
is to apply the mulch and do it as soon
as the ground is frozen. While the
plants may not need protection from
the winter. the mulch will assist in pro-
tecting the crowns and the delicate run
ners and new plants which set late in
the season. and ii keeps the soil from
becoming compacted by the heavy rains
of winter. In all sections where there
Is winter, mulch is desirable for straw
berry plants. and as ii costs but little
and is quickly applied, there is no ex-
cuse for rot doing the work and reap
ing the profitable returns.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20
An III Wind that Blows Etc.


The Standard Oil Company advanced
the price of kerosene oil one cent per
gallon on Dec. 10. This makes 31a
cents advance since the beginning Of
the coal strike. The New York Co1l-
luercial says:
There has been no advance on the
Standard Oil products shipped to for
eign countries, because there is no coal
strike there, and because there is COM
petition with Russian oil.
THE Standard Oil Company has
been using every possible means to de-
velop the use of kerosene in heating
and cooking stoves since the beginning
of the coal strike. The increased con-
sumption, a Standard Oil official said
yesterday, had been very large. The
general impression IL Wall street yes
terday was that the Standard Oil Som
pany Is trying to make its profits large
enough to pay so per cent dividend
during the present fiscal year"
The coal strike is a God-send to the
hungry Standard Oil trust. 1t is coin
ing money out of the misfortunes Of
the poor
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20

sary scarcity and consequent advance In
the price of Unanimous coal. Upon close
Investigation it appears that there is ma
such scarcity and therefore no justitica-
ton for the exorbitant figures which the
dealers are demanding. The output, it
is claimed, has been actually greater than
ever before. If it has not been it is be-
cause artificial restrictions have been put
upon the miner by the coal owners. 1t
would appear that the railroads have as
many cars for the transportation of fuel
as at any time in their history"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20
our Red sisters, Educotion.

Major Pratt, the United States army
officer who is in charge of the Car
Isle Indian School, admits that many
of his graduates who return to tribal
life fall in Indian ways again.
Therefore he IS doing all he can to
prevent the educated Indians from go
ing back to the reservations.
He tells of an incident he saw at a
western Indian agency. A squaw en-
tered q traders store, wrapped in q
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20
A Crow Farm.

The latest thing in novelty farming
is a crow farm. The owner OF this
farm lives near the Susquehanna Riv-
er, in Pennsylvania. and his business
is said to be quite profitable. The de
mand for crows is from the millinery
trade, the crows being used to decorate
hats. He matches the crows In incuba-
tors. In fifteen days they hatch and
two weeks later they are in a condi-
ton to be beheaded. The head and
feathers are sold 10 millinerS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20
CHICAGO CIER6YMEN
DISCUSS The COAL FAMINE.

The coal famine, its cause and effects
and the sufferings of humanity which
have resulted from present conditions,
were discussed by several pastors during
their sermons Sunday
DR.. Emil G. Hirsch of Sinai Temple
said: 'The coal situation must for the.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20


reaching and discs
trous in its effects.
1t could have been
avoided had the
voice of reason and
justice been heard.
Consequences, how
ever, have been
claimed which are
not legitimately CON
nected with that un-
happy c o n IL i c t.
Among those which
have been enumer-
ated arc the necps-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20

The bald. hideous fact that girls I'M
der 13 years Of age, infants in body
and mind, watch and serve spinning
machines from dark until dawn, on
their feet for twelve night hours. do
ing work that would tax the endUr-
ance of men and getting the pitance
OF By cents an hour, is in itself a fear
full indictment Of the officers Of the
commonwealth. - Philadelphia North
American.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20
steel Truafsa Generoritr.

The willingness OF the steel trust
officials TO arrange things conveniently
FOR the purchase of stock in the big
concern by its own employees would
be more impressive IL the market for
those securities had been better in the
last few months Cleveland Leader.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20

thing the public is
convinced; that is
that in the matter
of coal prices it is
being held up
Some invisible foe is
crying hands up
and rifing our peck
etbooks to the tune
of from So to 81
for every ton of coal
we buy. just who
the footpads are
who are doing the
business no enc
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20

lists and the blind seliishness of labor
driven to despair is the wrong inflicted
upon us by imperfect legislation, cow
ardly politics and the Indifference of the
benehciaries of this system to every i'm
plication of justice and social RESPONSE
bility. Charity is makeshift 1t is an
insult to our intelligence to say that
charity is the only remedy for this shame
full situation
Rev. r. A. White of the .Stewa1t Ave-
nue. Universaiist Church said: 'Of one
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20

sure If the present Inconvenience, sick
ness, suffering and, directly and Indirect
ly, DEATH hastens the time when the
people shall control their own, it will
not all have been in vain"
Bishop Samuel Fallows of St. Paul's
Reformed Episcopal Church said: The
PennnsYlvania coal strike has been far
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20
BIG SKIRTS COMING.
FASHION FOR THE CLOSE-FIT-
TING is RAPIDLY CHANGING.
Thin Sisterhood Will Rejoice, While
Women of Stout Bui1d Are Lament
ing-Ways in Which FuIiness at Hips
Is Acknowledgement Hints.

Err the radical
change in styles
that the new year
is ushering in,
women will mourn
or jubilate accord
ing to their girth.
Plump women will
cling to the tight
skirt as it passes
s ! 0 W | y out of
standing, and the
thin sisterhood will
put it away with
hearty good rid
dance. Much as
approyers of the
cut may regret its
fall, they should
recall that it has
~ +.
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thus teach them to be led ana become
bridlewise. Ride them about now and
then when you have time In the
spring when it is soft hitch them with
a gentle horse to sorne light work for
a few times and your colt is about
ready for service.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20

moment be met by
appeals to philan,
thropy. But it is a
d tr e S S j ng and
shameful condition
for the American
nation to find itself
in. Coal is as clear
ly an article of ne,
cessity as is wheat
or any breadstuf.
That this staff of
life should be al
lowed to be the bone
of contention be-
tween the brutal
agofisr, Of eanifal-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20

He-Don't you know | have fallen
into the habit Of talking to myself
lately:
She-I suspected as much. You look
as il you were awfully bored
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20
New YORK. correspondence:

Of stylishness, and if they reflect, they'll
realize that warnings of its going have
been in evidence all winter. Since fall
there have been examples that skirts
were as tight as they well could be, and
tighter than a wearer could sit down in
with comfort. SO why complair of the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20

end IS paSeu a loop
Of stout wire, b, S
or 10 inches long.
The lever, d. should
be four or five feet
long. A common
fence staple should
l.. ,rrnl - a - hold
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20

test will not be al
lowed to talk about
the progress of the
experiments. Sec
rotary Wilson has
given orders to adj
NIT no newspaper
men to the place
where the men are
being fed, and for
them to refrain
carefully from Civ
ing out any informa-
4ion Tho raagon for
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20
BLESS GROWTH IN CLUTCHES.
Increase Fails to Keep Pace with Pop
ulatiou.

ulation.
According to DR.. II. X. Carroll, gov
eminent church statistician, the church
membership growth in all denominations
in the United Statss has failed to keep
up with the increase in population. DR.
Carroll says the church membership gain
last year was 10 per cent, while the
population has been increasing at the
rate of &c per cent a year. The total
church membership in all religions he
puts at 2S,G9S.O2S, a gain of 403,743 over
year ago. He gives the population Of
the various church families and the per-
centage of increase of communicates last
year as follows:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20

the loop b. BY this method wire may
be frightened for several posts at the
same time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-20
HOW THE EGG SHOULD LOOK.

ate one, as it requires brains, common
sense and judgment, with knack for
surmounting unexpected difficulties.
Too much attention is worse than not
enough, twice day, If properly adjust
ed, being all that is needed to look af-
ter a machine.
Avoid too much moisture. | use none
now, having nearly spoiled hatch in
that way once. Cool and air eggs once
each day, and turn twice Don't fuss
with eggs or chicks. Extremes of heat,
say from 90 to 10 degrees. not 700 long
continued, will make shells tender, and
give better hatches Chicks are as
healthy as those Matched under hens,
and have neither lice nor mites to con-
tend with. One incubator holding 200
eggs requires about the same care as
three old hens on forty-five eggs. A
moisture test is absolutely necessary.
The picture shows how the egg should
look at different periods. A cave or
cellar is the best place to operate an
incubator. A brooder should face the
south and have sunshine.-Mrs. L. NJ.
Luton, in Farm and Home.
Feeding Damaged Corn Fodder
1t Is utterly useless to feed damaged
corn fodder to cattle that are designed
for market, for they will not gain a
pound of fat on it. If possible, avoid
feeding the frosted fodder at all, but II
it must be given the stock, furnish it
only after they have been well grained
and had a fair supply Of good rough.
age; give it to them largely for the pur.
pose of keeping them busy when they
are in the barn between meals. They
viii eat a little of 1t and break up most
of it, so that it can afterward go to the
hogs to nose over and from there to the
manure heap. In many sections the oat
crop was heavy, but in many instances
badly damaged. If too badly damaged
to sell to advantage, it may be fed, to-
gether with barley and oilmeal, to great
advantage, giving it freely TO cattle
that are being fattened as wcll as to
mich COWS. In feeding this mixture
the oats and barley should be ground
together and the oilmeal added after
ward and well mixed through
To Tighten Barbed Wire.
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this is fear that the public will not
| take the experiments seriously, owing TO
| the fact that some writers are treating
them lightly and in humorous way.
-
To avoid discriminating against re-
! ligion by discharging a seventh Day Ad-
ventist because he refused to work on
| Saturday and also to avoid the threat
ened conversion Of its other clerks to that
| faith if the matter was ignored, the
| Treasury Department has solved the
question By transferring the Seventh
| Day Adventist from $1,000 position to
one paying only $720 year, thus making
him pay for his holiday. =
49,
The House committee on public build
| ings decided to report fayorably bills for
| the erection Of a building for the Su-
preme Court and the department Of jus
tice. and one for the Department Of Ag-
riculture. The Supreme Court building
will cost S7,000,000 and win probably be
erected on a lot adjoining the Congress-
ional library The agricultural building
viii cost S1,500OO0.
-s-:-
The court martial which IL to try
Major f. r.. Glenn Of the Fifth infantry
at Manila. decided TO summon Gems.
Chaffee aid Smith from the United
States as witnesses. Major Glenn is
charged with willfully killing seven pris-
oners of war. 20 the prejudice Of good dis
cipIine and iD violation OF the sixty-ssc-
ond article of war.
49,
The cost of the twelfth census is now
figured out to have been s12.s54,SlS, and
II is further added that this Is an average
cost Of 1914 cents per capita in the Unit
ed States.
Az cert stamp bearing the portrait
Of Martha Washington has been placed
on sale. This Is the FIRST postage stamp
bearing the portrait OF woman ever Is
sued by the United States government.
-:--:-
Internal revenue receipts for the last
fiscal year were SCI, S67. 800. The aboH-
ton of war tax caused decrease Of
500. 100000.
AS an act Of grace ard without the
question OF the liability Of the United
States. . President Rooseye cit recommend
ed that Congress make petuniary repara-
ton TO the heirs Of two italians killed
by a mob ct Erwin, Miss. July II, 1901,
-.--
The amount deemed necessary to run
the various governmental departments
for the coming fiscal year is placed ar
S5S9, 1SE3. 112.
-
By Postmaster General Payne's order
all woman employees Of lis department.
win lose their positions Oh becoming mar
ried.