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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21
Beautifyinr the Farm Home.


This is a matter which receives little
consideration ON the average farm
With every possibility for making their
homes the most beautiful, so far as i'm
mediate surroundings are concerned,
farmers are apt to do little or nothing
toward this end.
The United States Department of
Agriculture has issued a bulletin, No.
1S5, devoted to the subject Of beautlfy-
ing the home grounds. 1t is filed with
timely suggestions as to the lse of
shrubs and flowers, and also contains
working plans for laying out the
grounds about the home. 1t gives
some valuable suggestions on the main
tenance of the greensward. This bull
letin can be obtained by writing the
department
True 1t is that the average farmer
has little time for what he is inclined
to call ''fussing'' with flower beds and
the like Nevertheless, it would pay
him 10 find little time to devote to
this subject of pleasant home grounds.
Almost every woman takes a keen de-
light in flowers. Often her flower beds
are the only recreation which the
farmers wife has. Too often these are
hidden at the back of the house. Com
paratively seldom are ornamental
shrubs to be found on. the farm. These
things rightly combined can go far to-
ward making the home attractive, not
only to its inmates, but to everyone
that passes. The labor involved will be
comparatively insignificant when the
results obtained are considered. Home
is. or should be, the most beautiful
place on earth. Why not avail yourself
of natures joyfully given cooperation
in identifying its immediate surround
ings? Here is a subject to interest ev-
cry member of the household Have
well-kept lawn, no matter how small.
The front yard is not needed for a
hay crop. Plant trees, shrubs and flow
ers. Beautiful surroundings have an
ethical value in influencing the home
life.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21

1T is quite d-d-different thing, il
only it d-d-does not cost any MORE said
Grandet.
Yes But a liquidation can be pri-
vately arranged without having recourse
to the Tribunal of Commerce" said the
president. How is a man declared
bankruptY
fes-howf' inquired Grandet. IA 81
have n-n-never thought about it."
In the first place. he may himself
file petition and leave his schedule with
the clerk of the court; the debtor himself
draws 1t up or authorizes some one else
to do SO, and it is duly registered. Or,
in the second place. his creditors may
make him a bankrupt. But supposing
the debtor does not file a petition, and
none of his creditors make application to
the court for a judgment declaring him
bankrurt-now let us see what happens
them
'Yes-let us s-s-see.o
I'm that case, the family of the deceas-
ed, or his representatives, or his residu-
airy legatee. or the man himself. if he is
not dead or his friends for him. liquidate
his affairs. Now. possibly. you may in
tend to do this IN your brothers caseY
inquired the president.
"Oh, Gran0ct" exclaimed the notary.
"That would be getting very handsomely!
We in the provinces have cur notions of
honor. If you saved your name from dis
honor-for it is your name-yeu would
be"
Sublime cried the president, inter
rupting his uncle.
To be continued.l
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21
BEHIND THE HUMAN EYES.
Invention Has Been Perfected for Pho
tographing the Cavity.

Invention Has Been Perfected for Pho
tographinG the Cavity.
The difficulties opticians have expert
enced in arriving at an accurate dag
nosiS of the complaints from which
their patients are suffering have led
to experiments in photographing the
eye. For this purpose an instrument
has recently been invented. affecting
optical science in general, and the fur
Their development of the eye special
ists;s profession in treating eye dis
eases and faulty vision in particular.
According TO a German exchange the
assistant of the university clinic OF the
Royal Charity Hospital. DR. Walther
Thorner. has succeeded in solving a
problem which had received much at
tention from many others before him,
but with little or no success. He has
managed 10 photograph the back
ground of the eye and obtain good pic
lures OF it. TOO. His invention repre-
sents material improvement on the
opnthalmoscope invented by Helmholtz
in 1850. The latter. however. only adj
mitted of viewing the background of
the eye.
The fact that all attempts to photo
graph the interior or the background of
the eye had remained fruitless so far
was due to the peculiar construction OF
the eye. II is difficult TO light up the
interior to such an extent as TO enable
one TO take a photograph Of il. and
even in the use of strong sources OF
light the exposure would require so
much time that the eye would have 10
be fixed, which would mean great In
convenience TO the patient. Now DR..
Thorner has constructed an apparatus
with which be first succeeded in pho
tographing the eyes of animals. espe-
cialiy cats. ~,c
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21
Make Cottolene al Homo.

A lady in Michigan Farmer SAYS:
1 noticed a request in the Farmer Of
April 8 for a. recipe for making cot
tOlene, and as l have made it for some
time. 1 win send my way. which
think is very nice. / use no other
shortening except butter or cream.
use it for everything anyone would
use lara for, and think it far superior
and much healthier. 1t makes splen-
did doughnuts.
Get a can OF best cotton-seed OIL
Then we buy the very best beef suet
the thickest and best we can get, and
try ii out ourselves, so we know just
what kind of suet we are using. When
it is tried out l use oil and suet. In
making be sure to heat them up to-
gether or it is liable to drain a little
l had some do tals, and l knew had
not been so particular about heating
It l think ten pounds Of suet before
it is tried viii make sufficient for one
gallon OF oil. perhaps more. I always
measure mine after 1t is tried.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21
Training the Chickens.

The natural instinct of fowls
prompts them to roost high above
the ground, not for sanitary reasons,
but to be out of harms way, where
they cannot be molested by maraud-
ers which prowl about at night, ready
to pounce on them Cor their suppers
For this reason the young chicks
soon make their way to the fence-top
and from there to the tree-tops, and
when once they have acquired the
habit ii is very hard to break them.
They soon develop crooked breast
bones and humble foot, or worse still,
catch cold, which in time changes to
roup. and all our work is wasted. They
should be compelled to roost on the
ground, in or near their coops, until
they are four months old, after which
they should be taught to 20 to the
house. and for them separate one
should be built They should not be
compelled to fight for places on the
roost with old fowls but should have
a quiet place all by themselves.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21
CHAPTER Y.

Now, il ever in his life, Grandet dis
played all the shrewdness which he had
acquired in the course of his long expe-
rience of men and business, and all the
cunning which had gained him the nick
name of 'old fox" among those who had
felt his teeth little too sharply
"M-m-monsieur lie P-p-president. you
were s-s-saying that b-b-bankruptcy-
Here the trick of stammering which
ii had pleased the vine grower to assn Al,
so long ago that every one believed il
TO be natural to him. grew so unbearably
tedious for the Cruchot pair that as
they strove to catch the syllables they
made unconscious grimaces. moving their
lips as if they would fain finish the
words in which the cooper cntangled
both himself and them at his pleasure.
The present business required more
deafness, more stammering. more of the
Macy circumlocutions in which Grandet
was wont 10 involve himself. than any
previous transaction in his life; for, in
the first place. he wished to throw the
responsibility of his ideas on some one
else. some one else was 10 suggest his
own schemes TO him. while he YVES TO
keep himself to himself. and leave every
one in the dark as 10 his real intentions.
Monsieur de B-B-Bonfons. you were
s-s-s-saying that in certain cases. p-p-p-
proceedings in b o-bankruptcy might be
s-s-s-Stcpped b-b-b-by-"
AT the instance of a Tribunal Of Com
merce. That is doue every day ot the
year" said NJ C. de Bonfons, guessing,
as he thought at old Grande1'S idea, and
running away with il. Listen he said,
and in the most amiable way he prepared
to explain himself.
Il am listening replied the older man
ineelly. and his face assumed a demUre
expression. He looked like some small
boy who is laughing in his sleeve at his
sehoolmaster while appearing TO pay the
most respectful attention.
when anybody who is in large way
Of business and is much looked up TO,
Ike your late brother in Paris. for in
stance. is likely to find himself insol-
vent"
-Ins-s-solvent. do they call it."
Yes. When his failure is imminent,
the Tribunal OF Commerce. 10 which he
is amenahle has power by a judgment to
appoint liquidstors to wind up the bust
ness. Liquidation is not bankruptcy. do
you understand 1t is disgraceful thing
10 be a bankrupt. but a liquidation re-
fleets 40 discredit Oh a man"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21
TIE users DAUGHTER
By HOMIE RAIzAc
CHAPTER vIII.-fContinued.,
By fioNRE DE BALzAc

CHAPTER N1ll.-tCOntiQued
Eugene said nothing, and raised her
eyes to heaven. Her generous instincts,
so long represaed and dormant, had been
suddenly awakened, and every kindly
thought had been harshly checked as it
had arisen. Outwardly this evening
passed just as thousands of others had
passed In their monotonous lives, but for
the. two women it was the most painful
that they had ever spent. Eugene sew
ed without raising her head; she took
nonotice Of the work box which Charles
had looked at so scornfulyl yesterday
evening. Mime. Grandet knitted away at
her cuffs. Grandet sat twirling his
thumbs, absorbed in schemes which
should one day bring about results that
would startle Saumur. Nanon was spin
ming; the whirr of her wheel was the
only sound in the great room beneath the
gray-painted rafters.
Our tongues don't go very fast" she
said, showing her large teeth, white as
.blanched diamonds
There is no call for them to co. an
swered Grandet, reused from his calcu-
lations.
He beheld a vision of the future-he
saw eight millions in three years time
he had set forth on a long voyage upon
a golden sea.
Let us so to bed. l will go up and
wish my nephew a good night from sou
al, and see If he wants anything"
Nine. Grandet stayed on the landing
outside her room door to hear what her
worthy husband might say to Charles.
Eugene, holder than her mother, went
step or two IN the second fight
We'll, nephew, you are feeling I'M
happy? Yes, cry, it is only natural, a
father is a father. But we must bear
our troubles patiently. Whilst you have
been crying / have been thinking for you !;
/ am a kind uncle, you see. Come. don't
lose heart But you are all In the dark, !"
Grandet went on. That's bad-that's
bad. One ought to see what one is do
ing. What, wax candle! Where have
they fshed that from? l believe the
wenches would pull up the floor of my
house TO cook eggs for that boy"
Mother and daughter, hearing these
words, fed to their rooms and crept into
their beds like frightened mice.
Mime. Grandet, you have a lot of
money somewhere, it seems" said the
vine grower, walking into his wife's
rooms.
Il am saying my prayers, dear" fall
tered the poor mother.
Very WELL, Good night. Tomorrow
morning l shall have something to say to
you"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21
Fashion Notes.

dSAAOA 4NOlGSs
Velvet ribbon tabs are used with good
effect.
Tucks of all widths are noted on new
dresses.
Wrinkled ribbon festoons have an old.
time flavor.
Coarse laces trim the canvas fabrics
to perfection.
The wheat pattern is conspicuous in
the new laces.
A fob of contrasting velvet edges the
neck of a smart eton.
Shirrings about the hips are liked for
light weight fabrics.
Gaugings are recognized rivals OF the
much favored shirrings.
Double skirt effects are seen in both
plain and elaborate rigs.
Waterproof parasols available for rain
or shine are the latest novelty.
Marabout stoles will serve as scarfs
for evening wear this summer.
Shaped lace founces form part of
some of the very fetching examples.
The newest skirt tuckings turn toward
the front and taper to point at the
knee
Dainty toques Of peach color straw
braid are draped with lace in correspond
ing tint.
The red hat is the correct thing to
wear with a black and white striped or
checked gown.
Thin louisines and shaded taffetas
have quite superseded the erstwhile pop
ular foulards.
Between the rain umbrella and the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21

snug about the hips Some are pleated
from about the knees downward IN ways
that add weight considerably, especially
when the activities are considered for
which the suits are planned. But the
get-ups thereby are made TO look unlike
the absolutely plain-skirted ones. 50
that's excuse enough for those who wear
them.
Transparent and semi-transparent
dress materials are notable for the
beauty Of the Powered sorts In some
great blossoms are sprinkled al over
che ground, while In others tiry bioem
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21
Destroying Bon WeeviI.

War on the boil weeyil is being Wig
orously pushed. A report on the sub
jact says: The Louisiana experts de
stroyed the weevil most ingeniously.
The infested fields were carefully in
spected and the weevil areas were
clearly determined. The cotton was
then pulled up and burned throughout
this area, leaving here and there a
sentinel stalk to serve as a trop upon
which scattered weevil might gather
in search Of food should any escape
the rigorous treatment here described.
After burning the stalks. the ground
was SPRAYED with crude OIL
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21

merchant in covering a frame of any
size desired.
The pongee frock generally needs q
touch Of color, as It is trying 10 the COM
plexion. Red and shad.s OF pink are
much used with 1t. but yreen is TO be the
most popular.
Omber or shaded effects have become
such craze that even the veil OF shaded
chiffon Is being worn By smart folk Ia
the morning. These ara worn over the
face, crossed In the back, with the long
ends brought forward and knotted loosely
IN front.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21
The Use of Lime on Land.

Some of those who have lime to sell
in Ohio are advertising it as fertil-
izer, claiming that 1t is better and
cheaper than phosphate" The Ohio
experiment station would earnestly
warn all farmers against using lime as
a substitute for manure or fertilizers.
When used as an adjunct TO liberal
manuring or fertilizing, lime may be
made to perform e most important
service, but its use rs a substitute for
manure or fertilizer means ruin to tile
soil. Where clover is failing to grow,
the use ofslime is indicated. For this
purpose the common quick-lime is all
that is required. A very convenient
form of lime is made in some parts of
the State by grinding quick-lime into
coarse meal. This can be applied with
the fertilizer drill or the manure
spreader, using about 1000 pounds per
acre 1t costs $3.50 to $3.50 per ton at
the kilns. 1t must not be expected that
lime will bring prosperity to the clover
crop. In the Ohio stations expert
ments lime produces very little effect
on clover on unfertilized land. Man
ure or fertilizer must first be used be-
fore lime will produce any lasting ben
eft.
Farmers should not be misled by the
claim that certain methods of prepar-
ing lime will prevent its injurious Of
feet. If those methods do what Is
claimed for them, they will prolong
and increase that effect, and the APP
parent increase OF crop which follows
the application of such lines will be
paid for by a certain and more COM
plete degeneration of the soil. Lime is
not fertilizer and its use as fer
tilizer will bring ultimate loss.-Ohio
Station.
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all alike. Much white is seen IN these
weaves, but white is not to rank so high
this summer as it did year ago, so it
should not be taken up to the exclusion
of something newer The open weaves,
especially. seem to have lost their favor,
though the exquisitely fine sorts in white
never will pass out. Sorts with fancy
borders and striped and checked weaves
are new this season, and many of these
goods are to be had at lower prices thar
new materials usually command.
The first of the summers showings
of new taffetas had them seem wondrous
for softness and suppleness. the contrast
with the crispness that used to be asso-
ciated with this silk making the new
kinds all the more impressive. But later
stocks of these goods are still more no
ticeable for this same quality. If when
skirts had TO swish and crackle, a wom-
an would exterminate her pin money
in order TO attain that from frou, what
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21

two MADE twelve Inches long and two
twenty inches long and put on in place
of clevis, as shown in the sketch. This
throws the four-hourse evener over
fac enough so that the third horse can
walk on the land. Geo. Fleming, in
Iowa Homestead
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21

the other 16x10 inches, four pieces of
2x4 four inches long for legs. Fasten
two of these legs to the longest board
per board to the lower board Cut
half circle in the upper board to fit the
milk pail, as shown in the device The
pail rests on the lower board and is
thus kept clean"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21

As a labor saving material, try sal
soda IN cleaning milk Jars, crooks and
tins. Many of the cantankerous no
tons taken by milk. shown In its
foaming ana frothing and refusal TO
churn, are due to the mysterious bac-
terra that are left In the cracks and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21
Good Milking Stool.

]. G. Matthews describes device
for milking stool which he likes very
much and has used for some ti,ue.
Take two boards, one 20x9 inches and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21

clu0eu 10 SEM
you my plan. 1t
consists of hav-
ing three horses
walk on the land.
with the fourth
in the furrow.
Take four pieces
of strap iron
(wagon tire will
answer. h ay e
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21

seams of the rnlk vessels after they
have been washed In good hot water
and rinsed out Use little salsoda, in
the warm wash water and these harm
full germs are destroyed You cannot
see them. but they come there and stay
there in nearly all milk vessels during
the spring and summer season. POI
son them with salsoda.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21

trails about in beautiful sprays. Some O.
the larger coverings are bold, indeed.
but they are to be worn, and will have
the effect of rendering pleasantly incon-
zpicuous the more moderate examples of
the same treatment White and cream
whites arc often the ground colors, so
the bloom stands out pretty well. These
materials are employed for evening and
dancing dresses. some made in the ex
IRENE of elaboration, others in reasonable
simplicity. Not all evening gowns are
planned to be wonders of highly wrought
effects, but You may depend that the
comparatively simple one that doesn't
have it's origina. touch will not rank as
much of success Three evening dresses
are put here by the artist, a pink or
CANDY trimmed with white silk embroid-
cry, white dotted lace finished with
black satin ribbon and lierre lace inser-
ton, and asyellow silk null set off with
passementerie and embroidery. When
Powered stuffs are combined with plain
weaves, as is permitted by the fashions,
oew grade of gown is touched and an
Other field of old-time styles is invaded.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21

A mole's home in the earth has al
ways four or five outlets; by means
Of one or the other the inmate IS gen
orally able to elude any danger.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21

observing in the Hints and De
vices department several methods for
hitiching four horses to pillow l con-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21

Repentance Is the golden kew that
opens the palace Of eternity. Milton.
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FertiI;ziny the Corn Cron.

The editor of Practical Farmer says:
Many farmers have gotten so accus-
toned to the use OF the convenient
commercial fertilizers that they have
come to the conclusion that with every
crop planted it is necessary TO use
some complete fertilizer, and daily We
get letters from farmers in all parts
of the country asking for formula
for fertilizer for the corn crop. We
have in years past experimental large
~ in fertilizers for various crops, and
in no instance have we ever found that
a complete fertilizer of nitrogen, phos-
phoric acid and potash. ever paid its
cost to the corn crop. Experiments
made during series of years at the
Ohio Experiment Station have shown
the same results. OF course, the appll-
cation of a complete commercial fer
tilizer will increase the crop of corn,
but If the farmer will have test plat
unferdlized we are certain that he
will find that the increased crop did
not pay the cost OF the complete fer
tilizer. A constant dependence on the
commercial fertilizers simply for the
production of crops for sale is not good
farming. The true Office of CONNER
cial fertilizers is to enable us the bet
ter to improve our lands through the
growing of legumes for forage and
thus to increase the amount of the
homemade manure. The eornfeld is
the place where the homemade ma
nure can be the most probably used,
and it should there go broadcast with
manure spreader, and should have
the further aid of a clover sod. In the
Middle States and North this Will be
red clover, and in the South, where the
corn follows the cotton crop, 1t should
be crimson clover or yetch sown
among the cotton the fall before. Then
the cultivation of the corn crop will
be the best possible preparation of the
soil for the sowing Of fall grain. Acid
phosphate and potash on the clover
will make the com0lete fertilizer for
the corn more cheaply than the use of
factory mixed complete article, in
which the nitrogen is the most costly
part, and which in the way we have
outlined we get practically free.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21

Government ownership Of all wire
less telegraph stations at points where
oyer-the-sea communication is posi-
BILE has been decreed by the cabinet,
and the Navy Department is putting
the order into effect One result will
be that Marconi will be forced to move
his stations TO Canadian soil. In place
of the Marconi station on the Nan
tucket ightshlp the department viii
establish its own plant, using a modi-
fication of the Slaby-Arco system in its
eight stations. The government will
make no charge on messages to and
from ships at sea.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21

If wealth does not bring happiness.
it puts up pretty good imitation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21

Employees in the White House for a
long time have been Ia the habit Of
soliciting subscriptions from and Of
fering tickets FOR sale TO persons who
call at the executive mansion The
custom had become so general as 10
be nuisance and an order has been
issued putting a stop 70 the abuse.
Messengers and doorkeepers bad fall
en- into the habit Of reading newspa-
pers. magazines. etc, while on duty.
This also has been ended by the same
order