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The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20
Berlin BROKER Binds His Life.

BERLIN, Feb. 19.-Max H Meyer
a well-known broker on the Boerse.
shot and killed himself with a revolver
at his villa last night. His mind had
become disordered owing to the loss
of 100000 by the fall in Russian Sc
curities. Herr Meyer had, however, a
fortune several times larger than his
Liabilities
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20
CaIifornians I'm Nc.y york.

NEW YORK. Feb. 19.-The follow
ing Californians are in New York:
From San Francisco. A. Berit-
schoff, at the Cadillac; F. B. Friedley,
at the Imperial; H. M. Abrams, at the
Herald Square; j. L. Bransteed, at the
Astor: r. Hurd and wife. at the
Grand, and A. Mcnamara, at the Her
aid Square.
From San Jose-Miss r. P. Doyle
and Miss Syer at the Manhattan.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20
Baltimore Fire Causes Failure.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Feb. 10
Judge Polk to-day, on motion of the
Attorney General of the State. issued
temporary injunction forbidding
the Millers' and Manufacturers Fire
Insurance Company from transacting
any further business. The company is
one of the Oldest in Minnesota and its
difficulties are due to a heavy loss in
the Baltimore fire. It's assets are
S165. 600; liabilities. $4,000.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20
Ex-NIinister Winston Dead.

CHICAGO, Feb. 19.-Frederick H.
Winston, Minister to Persia from 1886
to 1883 and who was formerly prom
inent in Chicago municipal, political
and legal circles, died at Magnolia
Springs, Fla, in his seventy fourth
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20
Arrested for EmbezzIement.

DENVER, Colo. Feb. 1s.-Charles
NTcCuIIy was placed under arrest here
to-day on the charge OF en- nbezzling
$4,000 from the Plata CObre Mining
Company Of Arizona while acting as
their London representative.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20
Red Cross Convention Postponed.

BERNE, Switzerland, Feb. 19.-In
consequence of the war between Rus
sia and Japan the Federal Council has
postponed indefinitely the conference
summoned to meet at Geneva May IS
to revise the Geneva convention with
the view of improving the treatment of
wounded men.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20
Mereditb Raines Nf,lIer Dies

vACAvILLE. Feb. 1s.-Meredith
Raines Miller, a pioneer of this section.
died here this evening, aged SIS years.
The deceased was a veteran of the
Mexican and Civil wars.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20
Jacob Hess of New York Dies.

NEW YORK. Feb. 19.-Jacob Hess,
formerly Police Commissioner and in
former years a power in local RepubH
can politics, died to-day at his home in
Rye N Y.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20
There are ginger worms and

There are ginger worms and
'red-pePper bugs-queer board
ers-that have to be looked
for, not in Schilling's Best, but
in making it. There are eggs
Of these queer boarders, TOO
small to be killed by grinding.
Don't keep spices warm, or
they'll hatch.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20
Death of Distinguished CIerpvn, y

ST. LOUIS. Feb. 19.-Rev. w. Pope
Yeaman, for twenty years moderator
OF the Missouri Baptist Association.
died suddenly to-day, aged "A years.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20
Racine Insane Asylum Is Burned.

RACINE. Wis, Feb. 19-The Racine
asylum for the insane was burned to-
night. The thirty-three patients were
saved. Loss. $780, 900.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20

When the Mississippi River is at
flood one can drink fresh water from
the gulf ten miles from the rivers
mouth
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20
ArcKinIey's Condition is Improved.

SOMERSET, Pa. Feb. 19.-Abner
afcKluley's condition was slightly i'm
proved to-day. His physicians re-
fuse 70 express any opinion further
than that he is not in immediate dan
ger.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-President Roose-
welt to-day signed the urgent deficiency bill.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12
Box for Carving Eggs.

Most poultrymen are familiar with
the egg carriers used on the market
and those who have a considerable
quantity of eggs to handle use these
carriers; the farmer, however, Is IN
the habit of carrying eggs in a basker
and often many of them become bro
ken resulting in considerable loss. The
illustration shows one of the boxes
which may be made from cheap mate
rial and which will answer as wei. as
the boxes sold for the purpose. ANY
grocer who handles quantities or
shipped eggs will give customer
some of the cardboard filler such as
are up in the crates; then buy some
cracker boxes and fashion neat box
like the one showl., cutting the paste
board filters with a sharp knife so
that they will fit the wooden box.
Boxes made to hold one dozen eggs
and others to hold two dozen will be
large enough. These boxes ought to
have covers with hasp coming down
over a staple so that the box may be
locked If need be. These boxes will
cost but little if made at home as sug-
gested, and If one has strictly fresh
eggs of good size as well as uniform in
size they can be marketed in these
boxes at higher price than If market
ed in basket; try it and see If il is
not SO. AS an extra inducement to the
consumer wrap each egg in white
tissue paper and twist ME ends of the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12
SO Breed of R1ac-. Simeon.

A black sheep belongs to no particu-
lar breed, though at times he appears
i'll the tiocks of nearly all the pure
breeds. In England he is more COM
monty seen in the Suffolk fiocks, and
it is a noteworthy fact that the suffolk
breeders have all they can do to keep
the blackish and gray black tendency
from asserting itself both in the skin
and fleece Black sheep frequently
appear in pure-bred Leicester flocks.
and to some extent in Lincoln and
Devon Longwools, and TIE tendency
is noted il the black spots on the skin:
more frequently seen or the ears of
even the best-bred sheep os these long
wool families, thus terrifying the be-
lief expressed by DIR. Henry Stewart
that the tendency to black in the Lei
cester owes its origin TO the black
ram known to have been used by
Blackwell in the perfection of the
breed 80 years ago. And it is not I'M
reasonable to suppose that the black
sheep which now and then appear in
the Down and long-wool breeds, near
~ all of which have been more or less
improved through the use Of Blackwell
blood, are traceable to that great
sheep builders handiwork.-Sh Sheep
Breeder.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12

armed party, to demand his sword, to
make him a prisoner
If | love Natalie" he would say to
himself at times. why should / shrink
from sharing all that she suffers now
all she may yet endure? Yet il would be
wiser to watch well for her sake and
seek to save, or bear her away; but how
and where tor was the next bewilder-
ing thought
This was. indeed, miserable mood of
mind in which to pass tbs nights and
days of inactivity-of suspense and anx-
iety in which none could share in that
strong, guarded and somewhat lonely
fortress, which was washed on one side
by the Neva and on the other by the
Lake of Ladoga, the very ripples of
whose waves sounded hatefully in the
ears of Balgonie.
oh" thought he, ito be with Natalie
on the side of a green and breezy Scot
fish mountain-to be with her there in
peace and security, far. far from this
lard of suspicion and ferocious despot-
ism. of state intrigues and savage pun
ishments. where every second man is the
spy and the betrayer of his fellow
Home he might never see more; and
now he found himself vaguely specializing
ON the probable comforts and public sen
timent afforded by Siberia, and those
growing cities of the sorrowing and the
banished-Tobolsk and Irkutsk-on the
banks of the Lower Angara.
Ito be continuedl
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12
NEW FEATa IN MEDICINE.
Measurement of the Pressure of II

Measure ment of the Pressure of the
:siood Now Possible.
1t is almost impossible to tell the
tale of surgeons hopes or a physi-
clans expectations so that it will con-
vey to the lay mind the precise de-
gree of information that is ready to be
transmitted, says Harper's Weekly.
When the surgeon or the physician
talks to his mates, as at the doctors
conventions, his facts are understood
and his conjectures are sifted in the
light of the experience of his fellows,
but we laymen are apt to swallow
whole the tales we read of medical
discovery and to be disappointed when
the expectations we form are disap-
pointed. The papers have begun to
disclose, for example, that experiments
are going on thai look to the cure of
Bright's disease by surgical opera
ton on the kidneys. Surgeons no
longer stand on much ceremony with
the kidneys, but deal with them as
they would with the eyes or any of
the duplex organs. taking one out when
it is hopelessly disordered and max
They say one of the new operations
for Bright's disease is to peel off the
outer coats of the kidneys and leave
them to work, as you may say, in their
shirt sleeves. At any rate, some of
the surgeons do some kind of opera
ton which is said to cure the patient,
though the whole proceeding is still in
the experimental stage and there has
not been time yet to determine wheth-
er the cure is permanent.
The pulse has heretofore been the
indicator of the strength OF the blood
currents, but now long series of ex-
periments on animals and humans has
resulted in a mechanical device which
does the work more accurately and
supplies record of the absolute press
ure which can be measured by the rise
of mercury in a graduated tube. The
precise nature of the contrivance used
is too long a story to tell here. but an
inflated rubber bandage around the
arm is the basis OF It, by means or
it the doctors think they can meas
ure the precise effects of remedies
long used to stimulate the flow of the
blood currents and determine how far
and how long they serve the end in
tended. One of the results believed
to have been reached is the conclusion
that alcohol is of less value than has
been supposed in keeping life in fever
patients and surgical patients who are
suffering from shock. In these latter
cases, where the patients life is ebb-
ing because the blood runs too feebly,
outside pressure on tue surface of the
body has been found TO help. 1t is
best administered by clothing the pa
tent in double suit of rubber so
contrived that it can be inflated and
subject the wearer's whole body to
gentle and uniform pressure.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12
forty Years AGO.

Gen. U. s. Grant. the new commander
in chief of the United States army,
started for the front with his staff
A bill was introduced in the House
at Washington for the construction Of n
ship canal from the Mississippi river to
Lake Michigan.
A French war feet was reported at
the mouth OF the Rio Grande river pre-
paratory to making demonstration
against the United States.
Congressman owen Lovejoy of Illinois
died in Brooklyn. n. Y.
Secretary of the Navy Welles adver-
tised for negro Seamen TO join the United
States navy, because OF the scarcity Of
white sailors
A bill appropriating 100000 for n
United States navy yard at Cairo. H.,
was introduced in the House at Wash
ington.
Frank Blair and Gen. McClurg in the
House of Representatives at Washing
ton. created excitement by denouncing
each other as liars and scoundrels.
Civil War existed in Edgar and Coles
counties, Illinois. body Of armed Com
federate sympatiizers being encamped
near Charleston, with Union soldiers
whom they had taken prisoners.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12

1t often becomes necessary to move
a fence from one part of the farm to
another. 1t is a simple matter to move
posts, but the wire presents more
difficult problem. The most common
method is to slowly and laboriously
roll it up on barrel, haul 1T TO the
place where 1t is wanted and as slowly
unroll it again. A much better and
quicker way is to take a couple of old
wheels, the larger the better, and fas-
ten them together by mailing pieces of
board to the spokes next the axle.
The wheels when fastened together
should be about two feet apart. Now
take two planks and fasten firmly to
the sides of the wagon box so they
will extend backward about four feet
Mount the wheels on these planks so
they will turn easily. Fasten one end
of the wire to one Of the boards ths t
connect the wheels and drive astride
of the wire. One man turns the wheel
while the other drives, and the wire
can be rolled up as fast as the team
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12
One hundred Years Ago.

The execution of Due d'Enghien took
place in Paris
The navy yard and marine barracks
at Washington were established.
Russia issued an imperial edict al
lowing land owners to grant freedom to
their tenants that the serfs might raise
money TO pay their debts.
A great change was taking place in
mems dress trousers taking the place OF
breeches and long stockings.
At the request of the American min
lister Napoleon Bonaparte sent minis
ter to Tripoli requesting the hey TO lib
crate the officers and crew of the frigate
Philadelphia.
Congress passed bin for the division
of Louisiana territory into the southern
district of Orleans and the northern dis
trict OF Louisiana.
The Governor of Cuba prohibited
French privateers from carrying Ameri-
can products into any part of the island.
Gen. Dessalines, Governor of Hayti,
admitted massacre of whites on that
island.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12
seventy-five Years AGO.

The Journey from New York to Bos
ton was made in twenty-one hours 10y
stage.
Workmen on the PENNSYLVANIA canal
who struck for higher wages and COM
mitted acts OF violence were captured by
officers and the leaders put in Jail.
Stephensons Rocket" the first mod
ern locomotive, was travelling on a reeu-
lar schedule at the rate of from twenty
five TO thirty-five miles an hour.
Prominent merchants of New York
agreed to spend few minutes every day
at the coffee houses TO give strangers n
chance to transact business with less
trouble
Manufacturers of bedtickinG, japanned
ware and rope began successful opera
items at Wheeling, w. Va.
The arcade" just completed at Provi-
dence, X. l., was said to be the most
costly and elegant building of its kind in
the United States.
The extensive salt water ponds of Key
West were examined with view Of
using them for the manufacture of salt.
Achille Murat, son OF the late King
of Naples, was candidate for a seat in
the Florida Legislature.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12
Thirty Years Ago.

The French Parliament decided TO de-
termine by vote whether that country
should be a republic or a monarchy in
the future
The first interstate commerce bill pass
ed the House at Washington, the result
being termed granger triumph
John g. Whittier, Gen Banks and
Charles Francis Adams were aIaong the
candidates voted on to succeed Charles
+. Sumner as United States Senator
from Massachusetts.
New York business men" held a mass
meeting at Cooper Union TO discuss the
national finances, William Cullen Bry-
ant presiding ami Edward Atkinson Of
Boston delivering A speech against Ben
Butler
boom was started in the New York
stock market on rumors that so. 1000
600 would be added to the national cur
rency, and that the free banking bill
would be passed by Congress
The British government proposed 10
the United States to establish special
tracks" for vessels crossing the At.
lantic
The Carlist rebels under Pedro Aban-
to were defeated by Spanish government
troops at Santa Guiana.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12
Diseases of sheen.


The diseases which have been found
most troublesome and stubborn are
those occasioned by parasites. OF
these there are several different spe-
els.
Scab is caused by a parasite, but 1t
is external rather than the most dan
gerous, which are internal. The latter
are: Stomach worms, lung worms,
intestinal worms, tape worms and
nodular worms.
For tape worm oil of male fern
seems to be the favorite remedy, a
teaspoonful being a dose. Two tea
spoonfuls of powdered areca nut is
also a good remedy. One teaspoonful
of turpentine given in milk is said to
be effectual Most of these should be
given after fasting and followed with
a laxative.
The latest remedy for stomach
worms and nodular worms is what is
known as the iron remedy. Give in
grain sulphate Of iron (copperas'
sometimes called green vitriol and
must not be COMPOUNDED with blue Wit
rion. dose being ten ounces of the
drug to thirty-five lambs. Give daily
two weeks, then stop one week and
give again. Mix in water and apply
the water to the grain.
Gasoline is also considered good
remedy for stomach worms. Some
danger accompanies this remedy, as
1ambs often die after having been
given doses of gasoline. A dose con-
sists of one tablespoons! in four
ounces of milk.
A solution of i per cent coal tar is
also good wornn remedy given in
doses of two &c four ounces.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12
NEWS OF WISCONSIN.
A WEEKS REcCs5 OF STATE
HAPPENINGS.
State Land Sales Over for Presen.-
Two Companies TO Build Sugar Fac
t0ries-Great Dam Nearly Finished
Man lives with Broken Back.

CHER Clerk B. J. Castle of the State
land commission said, when speaking
of the sales of public lands: The public
sales are over for the present. but we
still continue to dispose of land at pri-
vate sale. Our sales this winter win foot
up about $12S,0O0 or 10000 acres. The
greatest sale was small piece in Fond
du Lac. 1t was appraised at ST00 and
sold for $3.50. Originally it was bought
from the late Mrs. Hamilton through her
son-in-law. Col. c. X. Pier. with the
Smith and Ward trust fund for the ben
fit of the Soldiers Orphans home. In
1895 the Legislature authorized its sale
by Col. Pier. representing the trustees of
the home. The colonel died before sell
ing it, and the Legislature transferred
the duty of selling to the commissioners.
eat the recent sale a representative of
the Pier family appeared and lodged a
protest, but he'eommissioners ignored it
and the sale went on"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12

The rabbit pest of Australia is fast
becoming an important source Of In
come Exports show considerable
expansion. The figures are as fol
lows: 2,SS9, 112 pairs in 1900, 2.092..
T27 pairs in 1901, 1914 ,210 pairs in
1902, 3.650,oO0 pairs in 1903 This in
dustry has become an important ons
in Victoria. over twenty million rab-
bits were utilized during the year for
export purposes. or these, 1880 900
were exported frozen in the fur, and
from ten million TO twelve million
skins were shipped and large number
OF these animals canned and disposed
Of IN Europe.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12
fifty Years Ago.

Advices from Hongkong announced
the defeat of the Chinese imperial army
by rebels,
England opened the Crimean war by
declaring hostilities against Russia.
The Duke of Parma was stabbed AT
Turin by an unknown assassin.
The Spanish authorities surrendered
the brig Black Warrior to Capt. Bullock
on his paying $4,000 under protest.
The English Baltic fleet sailed through
Wingo sound TO Kiel.
Slavery was abolished in the republic
of Venezuela.
The Emperor of France announced
that Russia had placed herself in the
attitude of declaring war against France.
The Orange Free State was forming
a government
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12
She Found Out.

40 I love Georgey' unused Clara,
softly. '.or is II simply a sisters affec-
ton that / feel for
Just then Bobby burst noisily into
the room and interrupted her medita-
tons.
"Get out of here. you little wretch
she shouted. and, selling him by the
arm. she shot him through the door.
"Ah, no." she sighed. as she resumed
her interrupted train of thought my
love for George is not sisters love.
IT is something sweeter. purer, higher
and Bits.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12
wood Ashes for House Plants.

1t is not generally known that wood
ashes. mixed with compost, are very
beneficial for most pot plants. Palms
are wonderfully benefited. AMI so are
erotons. dracaenas, marantas. in fact,
all foliage plants. In many instances,
when the plant has nearly exhausted
the soil. if the top be scraped off to a
little depth, and a spT'pkling Of wood
ashes and fresh soil be added, the
plant will be all right until time to re-
pot To many a aver of flowers this
hint, to add little wood ashes TO COM
post. will bring many a frightened
flower and much improved foliage
The mixture should be worked into
the earth Immediately or some Of the
ammonia in the manure Will escape
into the air and be wasted.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12
overdone Gardening.

One of the misforhnes of garden
lovers is that they frequently plan to
do more work than can be carried en-
successfully. Almost every one who
builds a house thinks he would like
TO have a nice garden. and the nice
garden is consequently arranged. But
when ii is found as il too often is
found, that it requires an expensive
wages bill to keep the place in good
order. what was expected to be
pleasure becomes an annoyance and
a bore. A small place. well cared for,
and everything kept up nice and or
DERBY gives far more satisfaction
than an overgrown place that is drag
on the means of its owner. In all our
operations we are too apt TO think we
can do more than we really can. In
gardening matters it is especially so.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12
SONGS OF THE oJlBwAs.
They We're Far Ahead of All other
Tribes in This Art.


In an interesting sketch on Indian
music in the Southern Workman, Fred
erick r. Burton writes as follows of
the songs of the Ojibwas:
Composition of melody does not re-
auire education. Writing it is quite
another matter, but for ages the learn
ed composers have recognized that the
most potent melody is that which orig
mates with simple people. When the
songs of a nation are expressed in
periodic form it follows that the peo-
pie. musically considered, have taken
long stride out of sayagery. Apply
ing these observations to the music
of our North American Indian, l find
that in all tribes except the Ojibwa
there is only a crude manifestation of
form. A reaching out for 1t is clear
enough in some instances and more
rarely there is semblance of period,
but in the latter instances it is attained
through a monotonous repetition or a
single phrase In the songs of the
Oiihwas there seldom occurs one that
is not couched in well-defned period
and this is the chief technical of struc-
tural difference that distinguishes the
music of this tribe from that Of others
The form of the Ojibwa song is usu-
ally perfect and that is why the lay
man would naturally refer to it as a
tune.
Unhappily the ojibwas are inclined,
as they come into contact with civil
ization, to neglect their own songs,
using in preference the songs OF the
paleface. This is regrettable In every
way; they are losing one of the finest
distinctive features of their ancient life
and we aye in danger OF losing the one
beautiful type OF folk songs which Is
wholly indigenous % this continent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-12
Eight for sugar Control.

The announcement of the incorpora-
ton of the Eau Claire Sugar Company
is believed to mean fight between two
big companies for the control of the beet
sugar industry of the State, feature
of which will be the building of four or
five big beet sugar factories at a total
cost of about $4.OO0.000. These factories
will probably be at GAINESVILLE. Eau
Claire, Chippewa Falls. Madison and
Fond du Lac and will cost in the neigh
borhood of S1,0O0,OO0 each. The James
Vile and Eau Claire plants are said to be
assured and will be built by the so-called
Davidson interests. The other plants,
it is said, will be built by the Wisconsin
Sugar Company.