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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
ImDroved Ne.t Box-s.

The accompanying drawing repro
fuced from Orange Judd Farmer, Illus
lrates very well the improved nests de-
Iigned and successfully used by Will
Lam Proctor. of Essex County, Mass.
They are very easily made and the
plan of construction is as follows:
Take three boards, one inch thick by
IL inches wide. and of any convenient
length. The boards are placed far
enough apart to admit of two nests
side by side.
Strips two inches vide and one inch
thick. represented "A the diagram as
b b. are nailed across both top and
bottom &c hold the uprights in place
and make the frame firm. Supports
for the nest boxes are wires. desig-
mated by c In the diagram, and to
put them in place holes are augered
through all the boards, which is best
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
proaress Demands Great Wealth..

No community ever made much pro-
gress with half-million capitalists. The
required investments are too great,
the risks are too colossal for small
capitalists to undertake. People with
limited experience, which small for
tunes imply, have not the foresight,
capacity or industrial mettle, to take
the risk of losses involved in such i'm
mense undertakings. Our great rail
roads, most of which have pierced
large, unsettled areas, have been built
by men of great wealth. In the hands
of small men, timidity and incapacity
to risk would have compelled waiting
until population and business would
make a railroad pay; but in the hands
of these millionaires, with the conf
dence of small capitalists behind them.
the great railroads were built as a
final force to the country's develop
ment and business growth.-Gunton'
Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
ALL OVER THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST IN BADGER
DOM.
Racine Shoe Firm Wins Case-Snicide
in Deserted Resort Gotta Ge-Grain
Case Dismissed at Superior-Goes In

A decision in favor of the Racine Shoe
Manufacturing Company against the
Badger Manufacturing Company was
filed by Judge Belden in the Circuit
Court in Racine The plaintiff brought
suit for S7.l23, claiming that amount due
for shoes manufactured for the defend
ant and sold to the United States gov
eminent. An agreement had been en-
tered into by the two corporations TO
offer bids for the manufacture of shoes
for the United States army. Profits were
to be divided. About 10000 pairs of
shoes were manufactured. The defend
ants, in whose name the bid was offered.
received the money for the shoes manu-
featured. Thr-shoe company a year ago
demanded a settlement from the Badger
Manufacturing Company, but they de-
MED the claim on the ground that money
haO been paid on various other claims.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Otto spenrier KilIs Himself.

Otto Spengler, IS years old, left his
home in Menasha, saying he was going
to visit Dale anu Hortonsville. Three
days later his body was found in an I'M
occupied cottage at Waverly Beach sum
mer resort with a revolver at his side. \
bullet hole through his head indicated
that he had committed suicide His wife
found a note saying he would end his life
and she sent the coroner out after his
body He was at one time cashier of
the bank at Hortonsville and later owned
a large store at Dale. He sold out his
store az. Dale and moved to Menasha to
children
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

q doubt if any of you people down
here in Washington ever saw any
thing like the sort of Irish potatoes
that we raised in Maine this past sea
son." said Mr. A. G. Gardiner, of the
Pine Tree State.
I'VE have one couuty-Aroostock-
that is the banner potato county of
the Union, and this year it broke all
its previous records in the production
of the MurPhys. Don't set me down
as a retailer of romance when l tell
you that | saw among a number Of
giants grown there one specimen that
weighed four and half pounds. Plen-
ty of three-pounders were in evidence,
and the big ones were just as palata-
BILE and luscious as those of smaller
size. W Washington Post.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Snrav the Fruit frees.

All fruit trees should be sprayed,
without regard to whether they have
ever been attacked by insects or dis
ease, or escaped. as it is less labor to
prevent attacks than to remedy an evil
after it appears. 1t costs more to re-
pair damage than to ward off danger.
In some States, such as California,
spraying of Gees and vines is enforc-
ed by law. If the grower neglects ais
duty ne is considered as one maintain
ing q public nuisance, and some official
is ordered to spray the orchard and add
the cost to the tax bill of the negli-
gent owner
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
A Bic Grain Rarm

Oklahoma claims to have the larg-
est farm in the Southwest 1t is the
101 ranch in the Ponca reservation.
and is so big that it is necessary to
plant several varieties of wheat in it
one of which ripens several days later
than the other-in order that all of
them may be harvested at their prime.
On this farm the wheat fields are of
one thousand acress each. the cattle
pastures are of one thousand to 1900
acres each. and pasture six thousand
head annually. the corn rows are one
and half miles long. requiring five
hundred mules and three hundred men
to handle the crop, and it takes thir.
ty self-binders three weeks to cut the
wheat crop and dozen or more steam
threshers forty days to thresh it.
There are fifty thousand acres in the
ranch.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Rnhhits in Apple orchnrds.

One of the incidents and expenses
of orcharding on a large scale is the
constant warfare necessary to wage
on rabbits so likely to work great
destruction to young apple trees.
Wellhouse & Son, of Topeka, Kan.
for their orchard in Usage County,
used a carload of lumber on the con-
struction of LOO rabbit traps. For
four orchards they have 1000 traps.
These traps consist of a box %
inches long, made of ordinary 6-inch
lumber, l inch thick, closed at one
end, and with an inward swinging
wire gate, a. in the other end, which
rs shut by contact of the rabbit with
= trigger. b, after he has fairly en-
erred and taken the bait at c. About
feet of lumber and feet of No. u
galvanized iron wire are consumed in
the making of each trap, which costs
complete from 1919 to Is cents. This
trap, as now constructed, is cons1d-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
New varieties of Frnits.

There are many new varieties of
fruits which We're unknown few
years ago. Some of these varieties
may be. and no doubt are. decided inn
provements upon the older ones, but
there are still quite a number which
are not desirable for general and pro-
fitable purposes. 1t is well, however,
TO use a little caution in making pur-
chases of new varieties, for a market
plantation especially. and to try only
few at first. If they prove desirable
ii will not be much trouble TO order
more. and if they do not the loss and
trouble is not great
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Loses Reason at Prayer.

While at prayer before the altar Of
st. Patricl1's Catholic Church in Madi-
son, James Linden a commercial col
lege student, became in an instant a raw
iIg and violent maniac, bent on destroy
ing whatever his hands could seize upon
and determined to strip his person of ev-
cry thread of wearing apparel The
young man is about u years Old came to
the commercial college from Fitchburg
and was a deyout attendant upon church
services.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
sonked Mea1 az DIN NIeal.

TIE result of tests at the Wiscon-
sin. Minnesota, Oregon and Missouri
stations show that on the average 40
pounds of grain or meal when wet or
soaked were equal In feeding value
to 4S3 pounds of dry grain or meal. Il
difference Of seven per cent in favor
CT using wet or soaked meal. This
would indicate that the soaking of
grain is about as useful in increasing
the feeding value as grinding.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Death Proves a Mystery.

The body OF Thomas O'Connor, an EN-
ploye of the county poor farm, was found
in the river at Milwaukee. O'Connor
was last seen in a saloon the night of
Nov. I and stories that he had been muir
dered were scoAed at by those who knew
him best They insisted that he had
left the town on account of financial
difficulties His wife and children were
left pennilesS. O'Connor was well
known in politics and his brothers have
some local prominence.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
watered Farms in Maine.

Irrigation is reported from Maine on
eleven farms in the last United States
irrigated. fifteen were in vegetables
and small fruits. and two in hay. On
most of the farms the water was
pumped from wells and directed upon
the land through pipes and hose. The
cost of the irrigation systems was So
170, or S127.65 per acre, and the value
of the irrigated crops was $2,555, or
S15u.z5 per acre.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Water for Hnrses.

Horses require considerable
amount of water daily. the quantity
varying with different seasons of the
year, the amount of work performed,
etc. The time of watering, whether
before or after feeding. is a matter OF
little Importance and. generally speak
ing, may be regulated to suit the con-
venience of the feeder. Horses be-
come used to either method of water
ing, and irregularity should be avoid
ed, as sudden changes are apt to prove
d;cfnrhino
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

In feeding dry whole wheat there IS
much waste because much OF the grain
is swallowed whole. Any small grain
used for feeding hogs should be coarse
~ ground, for ungrouhd grain is total
~ indigestible, for the outer skin that
protects the digestible portion Of the
grain is unaffected by the digestive
juices of animals. and having no giz-
zard and grit whereby to do the grind
ing themselves, it is not digested, but
wasted.-Farm and Ranch.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Euv1i.h Tobacco.

1t is not generally known that tobac-
co is grown somewhat extensively in
several districts in England So also
is Indian earn. Inc great bar to sue
cess in the culture of the tobacco plant
during recent years is the want OF the
sun. but it is fact that many cigars
smoked in London are formed OF ma
terial grown within radius OF forty
miles from BowbeIls.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
To Soon Spanish Farming.

American capital win be used 10
open up large areas of undeveloped
farming lind in Spain. if the 5000
600 company. announced TO be under
way In New York, succeeds in its at
tempt Apparently. the plan is to start
factories for leaking agricultural ma
chimery and to introduce extensive irri-
CATION snd other ambitious projects
All this would be a great turning Of
the tables since the days when the
whole Of America was mainly a STAMPS
ing ground Of Spanish adventures.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Tho Farm surnIus.

The farm surplus should never be
sold in its original condition If it can
be changed TO something else with
profit. Hay, when fed to dairy cows,
and only the butter is sold, leaves a
portion of the profit on the farm, as
the butter is derived mostly from the
air, and it is to this fact that cream
cries which return the skim milk and
whey to their patrons have done much
to increase the fertility Of some farms
by rendering the manure of the farms
more valuable.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

with loaded wagon drawn over blues
grass sward In wagon weighing
1000 pounds it was found that a load
weighing 1922 pounds coull De drawn
on wide tires with the SANE force re-
CURED to move 1900 pounds on mar
row tires. Moreover. the wide tires
did not injure the turf, while the mar
row ones cut through it.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
"a niftn.1 Nnrine lr

Ascum-I read in the financial news
this morning that money is easier
now. What on earth does that mean?
eigh-Perhaps il means that
it goes easier" I'm sure don't find
that it comes any easier Philadelphia
Press
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Mirne.ota Dairv Firure..

The report issued of the State dairy
and food departments shows that the
6S1 creameries of Minnesota which
have been inspected during the past
season consume evesy day 100000
pounds of milk The figures for the
year show that a.. 1000 pounds OF
butter are produced by these creamer-
les and sold for S1T,S0o,O00. of which
So. 100000 went directly into the peck
cts of the patrons of the creameries
The ISL creameries are furnished with
milk by 10000 cows out Of the 915.-
GOO cows in the State
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
Find. Mine of Platinum.

Knute Thompson, a mining expert,
has discovered platinum in paying guam
titles in the town of Dunn. He has
found evidences Of a former excavation,
which convinces him that this is the lost
platinum mine described in the reports
of the early explorers of northwestern
Wisconsin.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
The Real Effort

1T is very hard, said the girl with
the new fall suit, for girl not to ap-
pear to be trying to attract attention"
1T is a great deal harder" asserts
the girl with the red-trimmed hat. ''for
her to attract attention and give the
appearance of not trying TO make an
effort to have it appear that she is not
trying to attract attention. Judge.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
snnerior Grain Case Dismissed.

The case of the State against the Min
nesota grain inspectors was dismissed
by Judge Haily in Superior, and the
twenty-three defendants were discharged
The court held that there had been no
violation of the law. that the Superior
Board of Trade had fewer members than
the law requires, in order 10 he compe-
tent to make the mplaint, and further.
that even if the board had been in good
standing. that Homer T. Fowler, the
complaining witness, did not have the
support of the board.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

At an experiment station Il has beea
demonsu ateG that 1t requires 70 per
cent more power TO d~aw load on
wager with 11a-inch tires than one
with a 3-inch tire. NTH a Baldwin
dynamometer careful tests were made
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
How she Knew Ii.

He-And SO you think that if wom-
en- had the ballot they would have
minds of their own and be able 10 give
logical reasons for their beliefs?
She (decisivelyl-I know they would.
He--But how do you know it?
Sae-w Why. because.-Kansas City
Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

fossI bIiitieS of Poultry Business.
The next thing in New York may
be an egg corner. The eggs laid in
the United States every year by hens
are worth fully S145 100000. The poul-
try sold brings $139, 100000. To haul
to market all the eggs that all the
hens lay every year would take train
of cars SEC miles long This would
reach from Washington to Chicago,
where everybody eats one egg a day,
or total of 100000
The great American people are only
beginning to realize what boon they
have in the great American hen, and
they are cultiyating her and her pro-
geny. They are providing incubators
to raise her little ones that she may
not be interrupted in her work of de-
livering the daily egg for the daily
consumption of not only the Chicagoan
but all other townsmen.-New York
Commercial.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
From steam TO ELECTRICITY.

The results OF the change from
steam to electrical power on New York
elevated railways are: A reduction Of
cost per passenger from 2.24 cents I'M
der steam to lbs cents; an increase in
gross earnings of $4,000, accompan-
led by decrease in expenses Of
SEQ nshn
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

cred well-nigh perfect, cost and eff
cheney considered, and is the result
of twenty years of experimentation
in making traps, and studying the ma
ture and habits of the rabbit.-Farm
and Home
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
I'm Cnnrn Free State.

The eight societies at work in the
Congo Free State are represented by
I'll missionaries. 9Sc native eyangel
ISIS. S27 native teachers. 5.641 Sunday
schools.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

A sack of -four and barrel OF pota-
toes win convert 8 poor family quicker
thSn carload OF gospel tracts.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

Secretary John NJ True has compiled
the reports of the yields OF the various
farm crops of the State for the season of
1902 1903. as follows.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

That There Is a shortage Of horses
IN the country may he true. and yet
there IS remarkably little difference D.
tween receipts this year and last.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

This is cold world-but what does
the coal dealer care?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05
PIG. Ent Charcoal.

II is said that charcoal IS very
valuable hygienic agent for pigs. II
Is a corrective. and acts as q prevent
i've against various diseases arising
from disordered digestive organs II
some charcoal. or even ashes. are put
in the pigsty. the pigs win soon show
they ike il.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-09-17

supper, Lloyd's mother said to her hus-
band:
well, how did you do today Did
you have a good cleanupW
Lloyds father sighed and said: mo,
little woman; l am sorry to say that
our pay dirt Is running out am
afraid we made a mistake in not stick
ing to the farm"
well, Lloyd, how did your cleanup
turn out?" his father asked?
Lloyd brought out the gold pan and
the pretty rocks, and handed them to
his ia ther. When the men caught sight
of the coarse gold dust and nuggets in
the pan, and the pieces Of rich gold
quartz, you should have heard them
shout.
Where did you find thatY they ex-
citedly asked. Come and show u.s."
And without waiting for supper they
started for the place. Lloyd could hard
ly keep up with them, they walked 80
fast.
When they got to his rocker Lloyd
showed them where he had shoveled
up his dirt. Taking his pick, his father
struck the rock that cropped up in the
bottom of the gulch. He picked up
fragment that was broken Off and look
ed at it. 1t was quartz heavily yeined
with gold. He handed it to his part
ners, and caught Lloyd up, tossed him
in the air, and said:
10 Pnnn1
the ledge from which all the placer
gold on the creek has come"
The men broke off several pieces of
quartz and then covered up the out
cropping ledge.
1t was pretty late before anyone
went to sleep in camp that night. Next
day one of the men drove over to the
nearest town with a wagon, to buy
picks and shovels, fuse and blasting
powder They called the mine "Lloyd's
Luck" though his papa said 1t ought
to be called "Lloyd's Pluck" because
he had worked 50 hard. Several min
ing experts for big companies had as
says made, and ii proved a very val
liable claim. Indeed, so valuable was
ii that in the course Of a month Lloyd's
father, who had all along felt that the
life of a mining camp was too rough
for his wife, sold out his share to his
two partners, and, with Lloyd and his
mother, returned to their farm, which
they were now able to keep up as 1t
never had been before, and to send
Lloyd to college as soon as he became
old enough 30 enter.-St. Nicholas.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-09-17
Be Willing to Be Nervous.

To argue with nervous anxiety.
either in ourselves or In others, is
never helpful. Arguing with nervous
excitement of any kind Is like rub
bling a sore. 1t only trritates it. 1t
does not take long to argue excited or
tired nerves into inflammation, but it
Is q long and difficult process to alay
the Inflammation. 1t Is a sad fact
that many people have been argued
into long nervous illnesses by would
be kind friends, whose only intention
was to argue them out of Illness
Even the kindest and most disinterest-
ed friends are apt to lose patience
when they argue, and that, to the tired
brain which they are trying to re-
lieye, is a greater irritant than they
realize. The radical cure for nerv-
GUS fears Is to drop resistance to pain.
full circumstances or conditions. Re
sistance Is unwillingness to endure
and to drop the resistance Is to be
strongly willing. This vigorous will
ingness" is so absolutely certain In its
happy effect, and 1t Is so impossible
that it should fail, that the resistant
impulses seem to oppose themselves
to II with extreme energy. 1t Is as II
The resistances were conscious imps,
and as II their certainty Of defeat
in the case of their victims entire
"willingness''-ro them to do their
worst, and to hold on to their only pos
stble means of power with all the
moro determination. But every sharp
attack. il met with quiet Willingness"
brings a defeat for the assailants, I'M
III finally the resistant imps are con-
cuared and disappear.-Leslie's Month
ly Magazine.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-09-17

Foreigners who visit this country
often express surprise at what seems
to them an excessive use of ice by
Americans American visitors abroad,
III turn, are frequently annoyed At
being unable to obtain ice, and wonder
how Europeans get along without it.
The difference is not altogether one Of
luxury. Habit has much to do with
it Moreover, the range Of temperature
is smaller in Europe than ID this coun-
try. The summers are cooler and the
winters warmer Ice is not SO much
needed, and Jack Frost is not so gen
erous in providing it.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-09-17

who Is the head of the copper smelling
works at Copper Cliff, when he was
stricken with peritontis. He was re.
moved to the hospital at Copper Cliff,
where, Notwithstanding the attend
ance of a specialist from Montreal, he
died,
Henry Clay Taylor was born In
Washington, d. c., In 1845. His faith
er, wellknown publisher was an In
innate friend Of Henry Clay and the
son was named In honor of the Ken
lucky statesman, His mother was a
granddaughter Of Col. Charles Simms,
friend of Gen. Washington.
Appointed to the Naval Academy In
1860, the rise of young Taylor through
the various grades of the service was
rapid He was made ensign three
years later, and assigned to the steam
sloOp Shenandoah, which took part in
the bombardment of Fort Fisher. He
was appointed a master in 1865, and In
1868 a lieutenant commander Ten
years OF his life were devoted to pur-
suits which have more to do with the
bureau work of the department than
with active service.
His most conspicuous service was
done in the Spanish-American war.
Capt. Taylor was assigned In 1897 to
the battleship Indiana. He escorted
the forces of Maj. Gen Shafter to San
tiago, directing fifteen naval vessels
and convoy Of thirty-five transports
with such skill that the last vessel
came in sight within an hour after the
appearance of the Indiana. On the
night before the naval battle of San
tiago the Indiana was assigned to the
duty Of keeping watch on the harbor
The Indiana did splendid service In
this battle, and was In turn engaged
by the Spanish cruisers as they came
out She inflicted heavy damage on
the Vizcaya and the Colon
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-09-17

1t appears from a tabulated state
ment of the results of the annual tar
get practice issued by the Navy De-
partment that the gunners of our ieet
have attained a very high degree Of
accuracy. This is particularly true
with regard to guns OF five-inch caliber
and upward. The North Atlantic and
the Asiatic battleship squadrons have
distinguished themselves by records OF
1927 per cent and 1884 per cent re-
spectively The cruisers have not
done so we'll as the battleships. The
explanation Is simple enough. The
larger vessel constitutes steadier gun
platform in a seaway, and, its guns
being placed higher, a more perfect
range is secured This conclusion Is
emphasized by the fact that the gun
practice of the torpedo fiotillas was
very unequal.