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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
Poultry Hints.

Young geese are not good breeders.
Goose eggs do not hatch well when
shipped quite a distance.
As an egg producing grain oats has
not an equal among cereals.
Pure refined charcoal is one Of the
best disinfectants for the poultry
yards.
Young ducks should be kept away
from swimming water until they are
well feathered.
Ducks may be advantageously
raised on many farms where they
have never yet been tried.
A goose yields about 81 year in
feathers. the market price being about
40 TO 80 cents a pound.
Soft-sheled eggs are seldom found
where hens are supplied with cracked
bone or small bits Of oyster shells.
Poultry is raised on SIS per cent OF
the farms In the United States. II
would be interesting to know what per
cent use high grade fowls.
Chicks raised in late spring and
midsummer can be made TO lay By
February if they are given some meat
IN their daily ration.
Cleanliness is the keynote Of health.
Nothing will breed sickness so quickly
as 9th, and il is very easy to have the
henhouse become filthy.
Many failures with incubators are
Due lately TO ignorance in those try
Ing to run them. In this. as in every
thing else. a person must learn how
Avoid high perches- They cause
humble foot and other injuries. Breast
bones are often injured BY having
round perches. They should be fat
Above all things look out for lice
and mites. These are the great enc
mics Of our poultry and destroy more
birds. old and young. than any disease.
The breeding birds should not be
kept in the same flock With tie ones
that are being fitted for market. After
certain age the birds that are to be
fattened should be separated from the
others
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
WOMEN AS WORKERS.
Some Figures that, After All, Are Not
Discouraging.


Some Figures that, After All, Are Not
Discouraging.
A statistician has gone to the trou-
bic to ascertain that 80 per cent of all
the divorced women, 81 per cent of
the widowed and 81 per cent of the
single women are engaged in gainful
pursuits, says the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Only about per cent of the married
women are similarly situated. While
the great body of married women are
at home attending to the domestic du-
ties which are naturally set down for
them there is some hope still that the
old order of things is not going to be
completely overthrown. The world
will not be without homes. The fig
ures indicate that "a per cent of the
married men are supporting their
wives, though the women are, of
course, doing their full share in main
tanning domestic establishments which
are bulwarks of morals and good order
and which keep the race from dying
out.
On surface analysis it may seem
wonderful that "a per cent of the mar
ried men find enough to do to support
families, when so many women are in
mems occupations, but the earth is big
and the ordinary attempt at compre-
bending the things to be done and the
number of people to do them is puny
indeed. In the long run there appears
I,o "
woman. the new" woman. etc. like
wise for the womanish man and the
men who depends on the labor and
shrewdness of their wives to keep
them going.
The mixture of the sexes in the act
i've business affairs of to-day would
have scared writers on political econo-
my twenty-five years ago. 1t seems
plain enough. for example. that when
man on a salary gets work for his
daughter in the same occupation at
perhaps smaller compensation than he
receives. he is sapping the foundation
of his own employment and prosperi-
ty: that. in the long run. he will be
simply dividing up his salary among
the members of his OWE family and
driving other men out of employment
The results of Widespread changes
of this sort look. apparently to an en-
tire notwithstanding of society. But
people are not stopping to study the
textbooks They are going ahead wsth
the fashions of the time, leaving the
pessimists and those who have moth
ing TO do but study to read up on po-
| litical economy. A great many wise
books have been impracticable in rela-
! ton to business affairs. II society is
going wrong in putting the gentler sex
in the lines OF employment that We're
! formerly exclusively for men the mis-
| take will manifest itself some day in
serious way. Money panics result
/ from overwrought ambition to get rich
: quick and then follows the travail of
liquidation. And so it is with other
affairs
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
one.Man Cro.a.Cut Saw.

When one man operates the cross
cut saw the blade is Gpt TO wabble
more or ;e;-i. making it difficult fol
one man TO get good work from the
tool. An excellent way to strengthen
the blade is to take a hickory pole
about foot longer than the saw, shaw.
ing down the end rather fiat so that
it will be about one-half inch thick
Saw a slit in this end of the POLE
slip it over the saw blade close to the
handle and wire it to the handle after
making two holes, one on either side
of the slit in the pole. The other end
may be treated in the same manner
or a notch may be cut in the handle
of the saw and the shaved end of the
pole so up against this notch and be
wired 10 the handle.
If the pole is a good one this device
will materially stiifen the saw blade
50 that one man can operate the saw
with GOOD results. The illustration
shows the details as follows: Fls're
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08

Weldon caught himself wondering
why he had never before taken an in
terest in women; which mental atti-
tude alarmed him into repeating, RE
member George Snowr' an absurd
number Of times, and started him off
at 11:30 p. m.-for a solitary walk
along the lake. at war with himself
and all the world.
In the gray of twilight the follow
ing evening Weldon, with sure, strong
strokes, sent the canoe Swimming along
the edge of the lake, where the somber
pines were reflected vaguely in the
still water.
The girl reclined on the cushions in
tho bow, looking at him quizzically.
Suddenly he stopped padding and
looked at her steadily until her eyes
fell. Then he heard his own voice
speaking very softly:
Il pitied them once, but now l envy
them-Jones and Ted Brine, and, yes,
even George Snow. 1t is worth while
even to be spurned by you. And so,
Helen, l offer myself as the fourth
She looked up. He saw a strange,
wonderful light in her eyes that
brought his heart to his throat and set
his temple throbbing madly. She
leaned toward him, and the gray twi-
light seemed suddenly to reek with
gorgeous colors.
Late that night in the grill room, at
the table under the great stag's head,
FentoL Tisdale opened a telegram,
read it and swore softly under his
breath.
I'VE have met the enemy" it ran,
land we are hers-completely hers"
1t was signed Weldon. '-Indianap
oils Sun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
Learning a Boys Age.

While the agent MAS selling farm
machinery at the house. the friend at
the gate held his horse and a CONVEX
sation took place with the small boy
of the family.
With grave incredulity. he was say
ing: are you sure you are only niue
years old. l think there must be some
mistake"
The boy was positive: but ~ make
sure: Ma" he called. Amt l just
nine years olds"
Yes. son.
After time he ventnred: Say. mis-
ter. what made you think l was more
than nine years old =
WIZ" said the stranger. Il couldn't
understand how you could get so dirty
in nine years"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
Thirty Years Ago.

General Frederick Dent Grant and
Ida Marie Honore were married IN
Chicago.
The Porte denied the joint request
Of Austria. Germany and Russia to
make commercial treaties with Rou.
mania.
A gale swept the northern coast of
England doing great damage to ship.
ping and costing many lives
After an eight days conference the
Protestant Episcopal general conven-
ton at New York refused to confirm
the election OF Professor G.. e. Sey-
mour as bishop Of Illinois.
The Presbyterian synod Of Illinois,
north, sustained an appeal from the
decision Of the Chicago presbytery,
which had acquitted Professor David
Swing. and directed that the noted
preachers name be erased from the
roll of members.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
Twenty Year, 400.

Fled Marshal Oyama, then Japan
csc minister Of War, with staff OF
officers, was in Germany studying the
administration Of the German war
Office.
Paris dispatches declared that
France had declined proposition from
England TO mediate in the Franco-Chi-
nese difficulty.
The dry goods house Of r. a. Chap
man & Co. and the carpet house Of
stark Bros, Milwaukee. Wis, burned,
with loss of $4,000.
II was announced from Washington.
d. c.. that the rumored engagement OF
President Arthur and Miss Frellnghuy-
sen was fact.
The reported massacre Of Colonel
Stewart and his party by Arabs at
Merawi was confirmed by officials at
Cairo.
Seventy acres area In Carthage, ~
y. was burned with property loss Of
nearly 100000.
The seizure Of secret press by the
ST. Petersburg police disclosed a plot
against the Car and many arrests fol-
lowed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
Feeding Sheen in Troughs.

The design of sheep trough, illus
trated herewith, is one which has been
found entirely satisfactory, all things
considered; it is but little trouble to
make it, but its superiority over the
average trough is so great that the la
Dor spent in Its construction will be
well spent. As shown the trough is y
feet long, 16 inches wide, % inches
high tapered as shown. " it'll the ex-
ception of the Stats which are la-inch
thick and 21a inches wide the trough
is made of 1-inch lumber The sides,
which are nailed on the edge of the
bottom are g inches wide. TIE end
pieces or legs are 3 inches wide and
extend 6 inches below the bottom of
the trough as shown.
These legs, are. of course, fastened
securely to the trough after the latter
is built and are independent of the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
One Hundred Years 400.

The greater part of the Russian
army was concentrated upon the from
tiers Of Turkey. contemplating a serl-
Gus move against that country.
The French general at Naples order
ed the seizure of all vessels suspected
Of carrying provisions to Malta or the
English squadron.
The Russian and British ministers
were received in private audience by
the King of Prussia.
War was declared between England
and Spain.
Six cardinals were named by the
Pope to accompany his holiness to
France for the coronation of Napoleon
NJ Henri, Frenchman, was in
Washington, engaged in translating
into French the life of George Wash
ington, from papers In the possession
Of Bushrod Washington.
Emmett, the Irish patriot, arrived in
America.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
AUTUMN IN THE COUNTRY.

Pumpkin PIE and apple cider!
Cut 'er loose and open wider.
Amt no time like fruitful autumn;
Hick'ry nuts in river bottom!
Who said fall was melancholy?
just the time to be real jolly!
Stir that steaming apple butter;
Fry them dOughnuts-hear' em sputter
See them trees with apples laden;
See the buxom country maiden!
Scenes of plenty, bliss Arcad'n.
Sparkling eyes and rosy features!
Joyous, blessed, happy creatures;
Apple snits and pumpkin slices;
Eggs and butter bring good prices!
Gran'ries full ana runisin' over:
Bullying haymows sweet with clover.
Country sausage! Goodness land sakes
Hurry up them buckwheat pancakes!
My, oh, my! But don't we pity
Poor folks Twin in the city!
--Punxsutawney Spirit.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
School for Training Farmers.

American farmers are the most intel
ligent tillers of soil in the world. An
example of this is shown in the i'm
proved agricultural MACHINERY of this
country as compared with that of 9th
err countries. A large part of this ma
chinery is due 20 one inventions Of the
farmers themselves. In selling farm
machinery in foreign countries, the
greatest drawback to the development
Of the trade is the ignorance Of the
farmer classes. One American Srm's
trade has been so hindered tnat it has
decided to start school of training
for farmers sons at Orusk, Russia,
where the principles of mechanics as
applied to farm machinery will be
taught
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
LIVING FOREVER.
The Dream of the Ages that VIII Never
Be Fulfilled.

The other day we received a copy Of
book entitled. How TO Live For
ever" While not pining for continu-
Gus longevity. we glanced through its
pages. and, as expected. found a COM
pilation OF well-worn rules for hygien-
ic living, with a brief dissertation con-
corning the influence of mind on body.
There were no new or startling aids
toward centenarianism. We had
scarcely laid down the book when a
news item with glaring headlines at
tracted the eye; Perpetual Youth
Possible. The AIicrobe of Old Age
Discovered. Elixir Of Life &c Last
Within Our Grasp" AID the item
read. "Dr Metchnikoff. the bacseriol-
oglst of the rasteur Institute. has dis
covered the microbe OF old age There
now remains only the discovery Of n
serum which shall act upon this mi
crobe and senility will be annihilated. /"
Several days have elapsed. but nobody
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
FEED TROUGH FOR SHEEP.

rack itself. The rack is built by nail
ing the Stats one foot apart on pieces
3 inches wide ana u feet long and
are then hinged to the side of the
trough so that they rest on the edges
of the trough when closed. Two hinges
on each side (srap hinges of course)
will be sufficient. At about the mid
die Of the RACKS bent sasp is fastened
so that Wien the racks are in place
they mag be held so by turning the
hasp over to the other side over a
staple and holding it in place with 4
bit of wood. In this arrangement
either rack may be let down and the
trough thus filled from either side.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
seventy-five Years AGO.

Trafalgar Square, London, was be-
gun.
The Emperor Of Austria presented a
magnificent service Of porcelain to the
Pasha of Egypt.
Francis Scott Key, made an eloquent
address before the African Colonial
ion Society. which met in Philadel-
phia.
Two large mirrors arrived at Phlla-
delphia from France for the east room
of the White House at Washington.
A steam vessel made its first voyage
from Dublin to Bordeaux at the rate
Of ten miles per hour
Provision was made for the free
navigation of the River Rhine, Ger
many.
Angola, Portuguese settlement in
Africa. revolted against Don Miguel.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
forty Years Ago.

Delegates from the Canadian colon
les at meeting at Quebec agreed upon
the basis of representation in the Ca
madam confederation.
Gold in the New York market
dropped from 21S& to 213 and wheat
from $1.T3 to $1.G3, in eight hours.
The United States internal revenue
report showed an income from that
source Of 100000 day.
Confederate forces under Price were
routed in an all day battle near Kan
sas City, Mo-, and were driven south.
wald.
President Lincoln answered protest
by the opponents of Governor Johnson,
In Tennessee, declining to interfere in
the State fight.
Petroleum discoveries were made al
Dundee, Monroe County, Mich
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
fifty Years Ago.

The royal Danish railroad was oEen-
ed by the King.
Two additional asteroids were dis
covered by NJ. NJ. Goldschmidt and
Chacerman in Paris and named Poly
monla and Pomana-
The famous charge of the light
brigade" took place at Balaklava.
Pierre Soule, American minister to
Spain, on landing at Calais from Eng
land, was stopped by the French police
and obliged to return to London.
Several detGchments OF British
guards left London for the Crlmea to
fill up casualties caused by the battle
Of Alma
The remains of the English explor-
ing party under Sir John Franklin
were discovered near Great Fish River
Buck, in the Arctic Ocean.
The American clipper Lightning ar
rived at Liverpool, sixty-three days
from Melbourne, Australia.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
MORE MONEY SPENT IN SCHOOLS
Public Systems of Country Increase

4 >
Expenditures by $16,OOO,OOO.
The report of the commissioner of ed
ucation for the fiscal year ending June
sc, 1904, made public by the Secretary
Of the Interior, shows that 16,009, 361
pupils, or 20 per cent of the entire popu-
lation of the country, attended the public
schools during that year.
As compared with the previous six
years this percentage shows a slight de-
crease in the number of pupils as COM
pared with total population.
The total cost of the public school sys-
tenn is given as $2j1, 45T ,625. This is an
increase of $16.0O0.000 over the previous
year. 1t amounts to S3.15 per capita of
fetal population and $2275 per capita
Ter pupil.
Since 1870 the proportion of male
teachers has decreased from 50 per cent
of the entire number to 26 per cent OF
the entire number the past year.
The egtallment in the private schools
for the year is given as 1,093.S76 By
the addition of pupils in elementary
schools, academies, institutions for higher
education, evening schools, business
schools, private kindergartens, Indian
schools, State schools and schools for de-
fcctive orphans. the grand total of 49,
1S7.01S pupils is reported.
The report estimates that the average
schooling given to each inhabitant in
1870 was 6T2 days and in 1908 1,034
days
The report shows that last year 1878
G32 colored children were enrolled in the
common schools for that race in the for
mer sixteen slave States and the District
of Columbia. The enrolment in 1877,
the first year statistics were taken of the
colored schools, was 571 500.
Since 1876 it is estimated that $780,.
O00,000 has been expended in the educa-
ton of the colored children in the former
slave States and nearly $600,000,00O for
the same purpose for the white children
of the same section.
Ninetysix reform schools are recorded
with 81, 46S inmates, 81 ,603 of whom arr
learning useful trades.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
Skim Mix for PIGS.

SKlfn MIX LOT E-1ESs
Relative to an inquiry concerning
skim milk and pigs, will say that when
two weeks old the young pig will be-
gin to take skim milk from a separate
trough. OF course, only a little will be
consumed at that time. but it should
be supplied, two or three times daily
at nrst, and twice daily later. At first
skim milk alcace may be given, but
later cornmeal. barley meal or mid
dlings should be added. Allow the
young pig to eat practically all it viii
of the combination. Often 1t is best
to have the trough from which the
pigs feed in a special nclosure where
the pigs can reach it. while the dam
is kept away. If this plan is followed
the pigs Will gradually wean them
selves when about ten weeks old, or
at least there will be no trouble in
finally separating them from the dam.
Carefully conducted experiments at
this station have shown that to get
the largest returns from both milk and
meal, not over three pounds of skim
milk should be given for each pound
OF cornmeal or other grain. Where one
has large quantities of milk he may
feed as much as fsom six to nine
pounds of milk with each pound Of
grain, but in that case the returns are
no so economical as where the milk
does not run over three pounds for
aaah Mound Of
There is no better single feed for
rigs than skim milk Often where
large numbers of pigs are handled
there are runts or pigs of condi-
ton, understood, etc. Always separate
these from the main lot and fed them
separately, giving special care. One
will be surprised to see how the I'M
likely specimens will improve with n
little care and extra allowance of milk
and grain.-Prof w. A. Henry. in
Hoard's Dairyman.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
Rest Egg Preser,Aers.

In a test with various egg preserva.
tives at the Ontario station, the two
leading successful substances were
lime water and water-glass solution.
Eggs put up in lime water scored for
ty-one out of possible fifty, and those
in water-glass in proportion Of one part
to seven of water scored 49, out of
a possible fifty The addition of salt
to the lime water failed to secure as
good results as the lime water alone,
and creased eggs put up in salt were
not equal to the others mentioned
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
Corn Loyg Grown in the West.

Corn, which is one of the staple
products of Kansas, has been grown
ON the soil Of that State for hundreds
of years. Perhaps the first mention
Of Kansas corn is found in the chroni-
cles of the famous Coronado eXpedi-
ton Of 1851. How long it was cult
yated there before that time is not
definitely known.
Corn and other vegetable products
were cultivated by the prehistoric
races of America from a very primi-
tive period and Kansas has been oc-
cupied by man from an extremely re-
mote time, as the famous Lansing
skeleton well attests. Bourgnont
found the Konzas Indians, from whom
the State derived its name, raising
corn and other vegetables at their vii
lagos on the Missouri River nearly two
centuries ago.
Prof. Thomas Say. the naturalist OF
Major Longs expedition, visited this
same tribe in their village near the
present site of Manhattan in 1919
Col. Zebulon NJ. Pike, in the journal
Of his expeditions in 1906, refers to
the Pawnee Indians. who were raising
a sufficiency of corn and pumpkins
Their pumpkins were cut into thin
slices and dried in the sun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
Retter Dairymen Needed.

A writer says: When | see a COW
with a good. sharp back, a deep body.
clean head. and prominent brig1i
eyes. two large milk wells and dou-
BE extension milk vein, and those
about the size OF 4 niger. / say at
once: What pity that this cow did
not have an owner as well bred rs
she. In order that her bodily functions
might have been developed and her
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08

An unhroken record Of father and son
having voted for every Democratic can
d;date for President from the beginning
u the party up TO the present time is.
perhaps. represented by no other living
man than Joseph Hayden. 81 years old.
Of Uniontown. Pa. who this fall east
his eighteenth vote FOR the national ticker
of his parfy. His father vogod IN the
FIRST national election.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08

l shows how the end of the pole is
split and slipped over saw blade and
wired; figure . shows split end with
holes ready for wire and figure 3
shows one of the handles of the saw
with a slight notch cut in it to receive
tho end of the pole.-Indianapolis
N-avvS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08
puck. REFUSE 20 swim.

Local naturalists are puzzled be-
cause none OF the twenty-four ducks
Mt Brandywine Park. Del. viii go into
tins ~ater. They merely DIP the T bills
in the wafer and then huddle together
along the shore
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08

Peuny Martin. Benjamin Martha. Al
GER Butler. ;. g. Eaion and J. II.
Palmer. citizens OF EutawvslIe. Fla. the
last two mentioned being peace offers.
were arrested on suspicion Of completely
o. the iyachiag CT kit Bakhard. negro.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08

Reports Of a Chinese victory over
the Japanese were sent out By the CHI
nese from Tientsin.
James Anthony Froude. the kstor-
IAN. died in London. England
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-08

full powers given pip. Hes capacity
is from 5000 to 10000 pounds of milk
yearly; her production does not exceed
half this amount