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poles or shafts. There are two neck
yokes and a triple evener. The mid
die horse has one-third of each double
tree. making two-thirds of both. while
each outside horse has two-thirds of
the evener he is hitched to-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-19

n;and. Large imporrations of canned
eggs come from Russia. Germany ana
Denmark. These usually arrive in
large packages and are packed in some
unknown preservatiye and are hermet-
ically sealed. The air is excluded in
some manner, as it will not do to heat
them as in canning fruit, as that
would destroy the value of the prod
uct. Science is still doing wonders,
and we may be able to have full con-
troll of the egg trade of the whole
world in the near future Great strides
have already been taken. but there is
room for more improvement.
Feeding Oats in the Sheaf.
One of the first things 1 learned
when a boy was that feeding sheaf
oats to horses was wasteful. However.
| had to do it last fall and now wish
had saved portion of my thrash
ing bill that way. Several years ago
| read of certain farmer condemning
cow because she leaked her milk,
while he had other cows that did not
pay their keep, although they did not
leak their milk, while the first cow
paid well in spite of her leakage Now.
in the case Of my horses, i have
known them to pass oats with their
manure in so perfect a state that they
would grow, and no scheme of driv-
ing nails in the bottom of their feed
boxes, putting in stones or having
their teeth f1atted by horse doctor
had any effect on them. But, 10! when
| fed them sheaf oats. not the first
yestige of an oat could be seen in
their manure. Now, what difference
does 1T make where or how the oats
are wasted? And if a few pigs could
have access to the stable when the
horses were out in the field, it seems
TO me that sheaf oats would have
the best end of the argument-Farm,
Stock and Home.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-19

IN litigation over the Boston Gas
Company it was charged that Henry III.
Rogers was carrying in his own name
1000 shares Of Butt@ and Boston cop
per mining stock that belonged to J. Ed
ward Addieks and that II was really
property OF the gas company. Mr. Rog-
ers said he probably bought the stock
from Addicks.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-19
Geese ON Lowiands.

lived. They thrive on low-lying lands
which would not be suitable for fowls.
Old pasture is best suited TO their re-
quirements. as they crop the grass
very short. and would likely destroy
the roots OF newly sown grass. They
must be afforded liberty and lots of
grassy range. They are very coarse
feeders ana viii eat nearly anything
in the shape of green food. Although
IL is desirable TO hatch early. it is not
always advisable. as il depends upon
the climate and location. Goslings
need grass. and do not thrive unless
green food is supplied when they can
not get range.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-19

every nerve since the government or
der was issued last June to have the
terms modified in some way The Off
Gals remaining obdurate, all the COM
panies are preparing to close up their
affairs here. Existing policies will be
continued and premiums on them col
lected and settlements made at de
cease. expiration, etc, but otherwise
the American life insurance companies
have no future business in Japan.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-19
A Craze in Potatoes.

1t is stated that the new potato,
Eldorado, has been sold in England at
the rate of $1,000 per pound. This po-
tato was decently originated by a
large seed firm at Essex, England,
and is supposed to be very resistant
to certain potato diseases prevalent in
England At this price the seed pota-
toes bring three or four times their
weight in gold The excessive prices
are probably a craze, which will make
some people richer and finally help to
make many Others poor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-19

The receivers OF the City Trust and
Benking Company OF Baltimore filed
suit in which they lay the responsibility
for the banks failure upon Frank j.
KohIer its former cashier. who left i'm
u.ediately affer the suspension last June.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-19

The Macon and Birmingham Railroad
has begun suit sgssnst K X. Henderson.
recently removed from ne Office OF au-
ditor. for $4,000. charging shortage and
ernbezzlement. Henderson has been i'm
dicted
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Three Horse 10 a Wagon.

Here's a device for hitching three
horses to n wagon. The method ilhls-
trated substitutes two wagon poles for
one, the middle horse between the two
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-19
our Butter states.

The manufacture and consumption
If butter in the United States is con-
stantly growing In 1870 we made
515. 100000 pounds, while thirty years
later, in 1900, we made nearly three
times as much, 492, 100000 pounds.
OF the great butter-producing States
Iowa comes first. New York second.
and the others in the following order:
Pennsylvania. Wisconsin, Ohio. Illi-
nois. Minnesota, Michigan, Kansas.
Indiana.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-19

AS rule. gray horses attain great
er age than those of any other coior.
but with increasing years they turn
white.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-19
NEW CENSUS FIGURES.
POPULATION OF UNITED STATES
ESTIMATED AT 70. 900, $50.
Increase in Three Years Has Been
1905, SIA-N New York Still the Great
est City and Chicago Second with
1878, $50 Inhabitants.

The census bureau has issued q bulle-
tin which gives the estimated population
of the United States for 1908, exclusive
of Alaska and the insular possessions
of the United States. at 1900. $3.50. This
is an increase of 3,905,S14 since the cen
sus of 1900. The population is estimated
for 4SS cities having 10000 or more in
habitants in 1900
How Chief Cities Rank.
The estimated population in 1905 Of
the fifteen leading cities and the census
figures of 1900 are as follows:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-19

rough hauling, while it might not be
sufficiently attractive to use on the
road. 1t is comfortable, which is the
main point to be considered.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-19
sanita,r s:tram Hog Honse.

The best hoghOuse on earth is made
by setting two rows of fence posts one
foot in ground and four feet apart one
way. and one post length apart, the
other way. so posts may be used for
stringers ON top. Put cord wood cross
wise on top of stringers and build
straw pile over all, leaving hole in one
end big enough for hog to enter.
They will all follow in and complete
interior arrangement of house TO suit
their hoggish artistic taste.
This house viii always be dry and
comfortable and will save many a
heated argument with the hired man
ABOUT cleaning out and bedding the
hogs. Hogs can be fed out of doors.
or a board feeding room may be built
ut one end of stack with door be-
tween. In summer. pull out posts and
burn straw hoghouse, haul out refuse
and build new each year. Then you
viii have healthy hogs, avoid mango
and many other parasites. l winter
80 hogs every year in this kind of
house.-A. A. Andrews. North Dakota
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-19

Only twelve per cent of the British
army are I'VE feet ten inches. or over.
in height
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-19

deposit Of good quality OF onyx
has been discovered inside the limits OF
Kansas City.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-19
How Chief Cities Rank.
Population.
New York State Is biggest.

"Pittsburg passed Cincinnati: Milwaukee
passed Detroit. and Detroit passed New Or
leans.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-24

NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-Blind Tom has
been killed eighteen times (by the news
papers,, having died. once in an insane
asylum in New York, having jumped into
the Mississippi river at st. Louis, having
been burned to death in a hotel fire in
Cincinnati having been drowned, poisoned
and in other unnatural ways disposed of.
Yet Blind Tom is playing, in vaudeville
again. Those who have heard this musical
imbecile play the piano may criticize his
technique, yet all must admit he plays
from the heart and reaches the hearts
of his hearers.
The sight of him as he answers an encore
by applauding his own music, his sight
less eyes wandering, his black face aglow,
his heavy, senile lips working, is not
pleasant Blind Tom with all his music,
is no more than highly-traihed dog or
horse which can be made to perform for
the public's amusement. His music is a
wonderful gift; it is not mental quality.
Reason he has not, save in the matter
of names and dates. In this respect his
memory is marvellous. "Iom," the blind
pianist, was asked in his dressing room
the other day, "when did you first play
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-24

He never received a penny's worth of in
struction. He simply played by instinct
what he heard others play. He could also
reproduce sounds. A sample of this is
his famous Storm" song, the inspiration
for which he received by lying under tin
roof and listening to the raindrops beat
ing over his head.
when did you first play in London,
Tom?"
81 first played in London in 1866, in
Egyptian hall"
I'm Paris, Tom?"
''l867.."
TN Scotland?"
1896. There, in Dundee, met Pro.
fessor Hurtz, who played for me on the
organ"
Dozens of other tests were made and
Toms memory did not fail him. once
Yet, when asked his age, he said:
"Twenty-three. | will be "a in June
No, Tom, you know better than that
The poor fool nearly cried, and suffered
painfully, declaring over and over again
that he was %.
How tall are you, Tom?"
Forty feet" promptly and proudly,
How much do you weight"
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.erHE SERENADE."

A story that makes genuine plot, a
consistent telling of the story that makes
the plot interesting, dash of Spanish at
mosphere that makes the settings pictur-
esque and adds romance; splendid lyrics
and witty book that makes the wheels
of the vehicle; delicious Victor Herbert
music that makes the "hubs"; and an
artistic company-The Bostonians- that
make the motive powerful these are the
elements offered by the management Of
The Bostonians, who come to the Ia
coma theater on Saturday and Sunday
These, in short, are the ingredients that
make "The Serenade,' which is the comic
opera offered for The Bostonians' engage
ment Saturday, Barnahee and Mcdonald
head the cast, which. this season, is
one of the strongest in the annals Of
that famous organization. The Boston,
ans orchestra remains feature.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-24
MODIFIED CUSS WORDS
INSTEAD OF PROFANITY

LONDON, Eng, Feb. 24-one Of the
probable results of the work of tho So
ciety for the Suppression of Profane and
Obscene language is the compilation Of a
dictionary Of Substitutes"
There are occasions when the mildest,
best tempered person finds it necessary to
use abnormal language. Mrs. Malaprop,
1t win be remembered, found the blessed
word 'Mesopotamia' Of benefit at times.
1t is easy to imagine that cabman who
wished to express contempt for a fare
would be delighted to be able to say, "You
rumbumptious, slantdicular pin-headi"
A classical instance of the triumph
which may be achieved il that Of Daniel
OConnoll who ended a flow of terrible
language from an applewoman by telling
her that she was rectangular parralleyo-
gram"
The poor woman gasped for breath, and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-24
N1SSVdlIl( ItI6llhN
aTHE CHIEF JUsTICE. \.

Daniel Sully, the popular actor, comes to
the Tacoma theater tonight in new play
entitled "The Chief Justice" written by
Fitzgerald Murphy. This star has now
been before the theatergoing public for
years, and his annual visit to this city is
always welcome, especially when he comes
with new vehicle for the display Of his
inimtable art. 1t has been Mr.. Sully's
avowed policy for the past two years to
appear in new play every season. For
this reason he discarded "The Parish
Priest and appeared last season in "The
Old Mill Stream" His new play this sea.
son. "The Chief Justice" is by far the
most ambitious effort he has ever under
taken, and it is said that, in the character
of the brilliant jurist, Hon. Michael 0Con
nell, he has achieved the greatest success
Of his histrionic career.
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The piano9' Toms lips worked, he slut
tered painfully, and then said
"Gen. Bethune my master, would not let
me come into the parlor. But | used to
hear the young ladies playing the piano.
After they had left I would go in and
play what / had heard them play"
Toms master was General Jas. N. Be
thuhe, a planter near Atlanta, Ga. His
son, Colonel John G. Bethune, was for
many years Toms manager. Colonel Be
thune was killed in a railroad wreck in
1884.
One. day, while Tom was a boy, the fam
lily discovered him playing at the piano,
and after that they made great pet Of
him. His mother was a house servant
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elares, should be enforced rigidly every,
where. He would have the board Of health
know Of every case and have it supervise
the treatment He would have the family
and friends of the patient instructed In
the danger and see that the precautionary
measures, are taken Then, he says, when
you kill every germ given. off by the pa
tients, before it finds Judgment in another
human, you viii soon do away with the
disease. He thinks cities should forbid
splitting on streets or sidewalks and en-
force the law against it. Thus, he says,
will tuberculosis be exterminated.
VIM. b. KENNY.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-24

Meantime the experts urge a campaign
of education in every city, town and viii
lsge in the land.
Tuberculosis is known under the names
of consumption, decline, scrofula, maras-
mus, lupus and white swelling. 1t is con-
tagious, therefore EVERY NEW CASE
is PRODUCED BY EXPOSURE TO
SOME OTHER CASE. CONTRACTION
LIES ALONE AND ENTIRELY IN THE
PUS GIVEN OFF in the sputum of con,
sumptives, the pus in abscesses or lupus
and in the discharge from the bowels in
marasmus and tuberculosis of the bowels.
1t finds an entrance into healthy person
in three ways: First, through the stom.
ach; second, through the lungs; third,
through an open wound.
Through the stomach: BY eating meat
or drinking milk from tubereular COW.
By eating. food from dishes used OF handled
by a victim of the disease, BY kissing the
lips of patients. BY swallowing dust IN
fected with germs.
Through lungs: By inhaling dried up
tubercular pus in the form of dust.
Through an open wound: By getting the
pus in cut or sore.
All patients here are supplied with spit
cups of paper or china. In these cups is
put solution of 80 drops of carbolic acid
to one-half cup of water. All expectoration
is into these cups. The solution kills the
germ. No patient ever deposits sputum
anywhere else. Another solution used Is
eitric or tartaric acid sublmated tablets,
one-half tablet to one-half pint of water.
The cups are emptied and scalded in boil
ing water twice day.
When out Of doors the patients use hand
kerchiefs of cheap cloth or paper and ex-
peetorate into them. These are burned az
soon as the patient goes indoors. The
sanitarium has a crematory for the de.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-24
EXTERMINATE CONSUMPTION
IN Three GENERATIONS

SARANAC LAKE, N. Y, Feb. "a
Can consumption be cured?" Thousands
ask the question. And on the answer ex-
perts differ. Some say 1t can. Others
declare it can be arrested 80 times out
of 100, and cured in so per cent of the
cases. All agree on one point;
1T CAN BE PREVENTED.
As far as the cure goes, the task is sim
pie enough with the open-air treatment in
incipient cases. DIR. Trudeau and all other
experts divide patients into three classes.
lncipients, advanced cases and far adj
vanced cases,
A patient is pronounced apparently
cured when the rational signs of phthiss
and the bacilli in the expectoration have
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-24

been absent for at least three. months.
The disease is said to be arrested when the
cough. expectoration and bacilii are pres
ent but all constitutional disturbance has
disappeared for several months. In all
cases, the experts say: Cure sometimes,
relieve often, comfort always" The aver
age stay of patient here is eight months.
So firm are the doctors in their faith in
the open air treatment that they believe
tuberculosis can be made an extinct or at
least rare disease in three generations.
Is tuberculosis really SO prevalent and
fatal? Yes, the statistics of the United
States government show that 100, 900 people
die annually in this country from it.
Is. tuberculosis commumicable-cont
ious? Yes-and for that very reason, also
PREVlENrABLB. The modes of COM
muncation are we'll known, comfortable
and not mysterious, Pasteur, the famous
French doctor, said: at is in the power
of man to cause all parasitic malades to
disappear from the world" DR.. Trudeau
believes that in a hundred years case
of consumption will or should be the result
of criminal carelessness. The mortality in
New York alone was reduced Is per cent
in 1903
To begin with, the old theory of heredity
has been exploded. One CANNOT IN
HERTZ consumption. One can inherit a
predisposition to tia weak constitution
The cures are effected under the segre-
gated care and simple scientific treatment
and discipline, of appropriately situated,
equipped and managed sanitaria. DIR.
Trudeau believes that every state should
haua fhaea NIT IL
working men and women. Consumption
is a condition with which only public regu-
lation can deal adequately. This is not
the task of philanthropy, it is the duty
of the commonwealth, of the municipality.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-24

"The most important STEP" announced
the congress of experts in session at Balti-
more recently, sis to prevent the spread
of the disease. To begin with, every case
should be reported by the attending physi-
clan. Next, the state or city should dis
tribute printed information, locate special
hospitals for the incurables to prevent the
spread OF the germs, and enact laws for
the protection of the public"
Foreign countries are recognizing the
danger Germany has "a big state sanitaria
caring for 10000 patients and 80 per cent.
of cures are reported. The German life
insurance companies find it good invest
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-24
"RosEMARY.D

The coronation of Queen Victoria is
graphically portrayed in Rosemary"
Louis Parker's romantic play of the nine
tenth century, in which John Drew and
Maude Adams appeared for one season at
the Empire theater, New York, and in
which Howard Kyle will appear at the
Tacoma theater Tuesday, March |. Rose
mary" enjoys the reputation of being the
most thoroughly enjoyable comedy import
ed to this country from England, As Sir
Jasper Carew, the central figure Of th'
play, Howard Kyle is said to have achiegcS
the greatest success of his career.
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ment to contribute 70 the maintenance Of
these hospitals.
France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Nor
way, Sweden, Italy, Roumana and Eng
land are building sanitaria. England es
pecially is active in the work, and Canada
has two new ones at Montreal and OF
tawa. In Canada Sunday afternoon lee
lures are given after services in the
churches on the prevention and cure Of
the disease.
In the United States the government ha.
military and naval hospitals at Ft. Bay
ard and TT. Stanton, Tex. Massachusett.
is the only state with assanitarium. 1t i.
located at Rutland and the cost per pa
tient is $9.O8 per week. Several states hav,
commissions appointed, but politics and
graft delay the work.
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struction of infected waste.
Relatives are not permitted to kiss pa,
tients on the lips and shaking hands is not
encouraged. Patients use separate eating
utensils, which are washed after being
boiled in antiseptic solutions. The bed
clothes are boiled before washing and
everyone who handles anything used by a
patient washes his or her hands in strong
solutions Immediately. No one is per
mitted to spit in anything that is not
prepared for that purpose
Strangely enough, the breath Of victim
of tuberculosis Is devoid of danger.
All these precautions, DR.. Trudeau de-
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MORTALITY RECORD

II. j. Locke died yesterday afternoon
at one of the city hospitals from the eff
fects of surgical operation. He was
so years of age and the son of Robert
Locke Of Hillhurst The funeral services
will be held Friday afternoon at | o'clock
from the family residence in Iillhurst.
George L. Kennedy died of consumption
yesterday at the home of his mother, Mrs.
S. l.. Kennedy. The funeral was held
at o'clock this afternoon from the resi-
dence of the deceased Interment was in
Spanaway cemetery.
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then crawled home and died Of a broken
heart.
Even the lowest ruffian would pause Il
called parallelepiped or an obtuse -angled
rhomboid. The term isosceles triangle has
at times been used with paralyzing effect,
There are occasions, too, when women
want to use strong expressions that might
merely be considered vulgar. An excel
lent smile for "an ugly cat" is "a plain
superficies."
For general use the more reconcile
ordinations Of the middle ages might be
revived.
People would instinctively select from
the dictionary the appropriate word. They
would have their choice of
Well, I'm fingered.
ODDS bodl1ins.
Go to.
Gee-whz.
SILVER my timbers.
BY me haldome.
Dds fish.
Great Scot.
Jumping Jehosophat
Scissors.
Tare an 'ouns.
Tarnation.
Wirroo.
BY James.
And whole host Of learned, loose-jointr
ed, scientific words.
There is fortune--or ut least q modest
competency--aw the photographer
who shall compile the Complete Dictionary
of Substitutes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-24
BUILDING PERMITS

Building permits were issued yesterday
as follows: L. A. Mergel, one-story dwell
ing at South Fifty-tighth street and
Thompson avenue, to cost $780, Mr.. Will
lyeson, repairs at 1916 North Seventh, to
cost 800; G. Fl. Derbyshire, one-story
dwelling on South Eighth and Traitor
streets, to cost 1920; Andrew Christian
son, story and half house, to cost
500; j. O. Parker, one-story barn on
North Twelfth and Steele streets, to cost
$3.50; Edward Loonan, shed at 9l0 X
street, to cost $50.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-24
MARINE CLIMPSES

"A crew from, the government engineer
effice sounded the channel opposite the
Commercial dock this morning and found
that the channel has not shoaled there
The middle ground will soon be thing
of the past. About three days more and
the strip, which is 300 feet long and %
feet wide, will have travelled through the
dredger's pipe over to the filled-in ground.
The steamer Jeanie is due at the Com
mercial dock this afternoon. She has
quantity of freight there for San Fran
cisco.
Captain Bradford left today for Iakatag
bay, Alaska, where he, with a party OF
50 men, will commence work on the beach
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So"
2 Chow far is the hotel from here%
-Four thousand miles. p
"How long will it take you to walk it?'
"Three minutes"
b When Tom was not being questioned he
stood almost motionless. He almost never
sits. He twitched his hands, worked his
lips. muttered. His teeth are yellow and
protruding. His face is heavy and without
a line of intelligence. His big shoulders
droop and his arms hang like an apes.
In this caricature of a man there is the
love and genius of music and marvellous
memory for names and dates-nothing
more,