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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

tered blankets for q saddle A short
black clay pipe is generally between
his lips. He sleeps in a blanket on
his cabin floor. He never reads. never
goes anywhere except to a saloon.
He dresses like a ranch laborer, but
wears an elaborate Mexican sombrsro
with a gold and silver threaded bard
about it That is the sole personal
indication Of his rise in the mining
world.
Never Entered Church.
Still another man to whom wealth
has not brought corresponding com
forts is William Soggs, a Texan and
a cattle king in Yavapai County. He
is worth half a million. He cannot
read or write; indeed, he cannot 90
any sum in arithmetic that involves
more than plain addition or subtrac-
ton. His success is an illustration
of what ceaseless devotion to one pur-
pose may accomplish. There is prob
ably no one who knows cattle rang
ing in Arizona better than Soggs. He
has c wonderful memory. an IRON
constitution, and quick comprehen-
sion of business propositions in the
line of cattle growing and profitable
ranges. Since he became a cowboy
on the Texas Panhandle, when less
than Is years old, he has given every
day of his life to cattle raising. Y
is said he knows at sight more than
1000 cattle brands, and there are
some he does not see once in five or
six years.
He was reared on the border of civ
ilization. His mother was a Creek
squaw. He never had even one lesson
in school. Had he had common
school education. the Arizona cattle
men say, he would have been the
greatest cattleman in the whole West
He has a wife and five children. The
family live in a log cabin forty-five
miles east from Jerome, with no neigh
bors nearer than six miles. Every day
is like every other in the Soggs home.
The wife works like a poor settlers
wife, the boys are out on the range
with the cattle and the girls help at
times at branding the cattle, and at
other times work about the home, Sun
days, holidays and all the work goes
on steadily.
Neither he nor any of his family
ever has seen drama, ever heard a
concert or been in a church. Some
years ago the Soggs family went to
circus in Prescott, and to this day the
events of that visit are related as en-
Enthusiastically as If the family had
peered into the open gates of heaven.
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CONCENTRATION OF THE MIND.
Every Faculty Should be Gathered To-
qether to Attain One Object.

A common complaint of young stu
dents, and especially of those who are
trying to educate themselves, is that
they find it hard, and at times impos-
sible, to concentrate their attention
on the subject they are studying. Es-
pecially is this the case with dry un-
interesting and difficult problems. AS
mind is continually flying on, making
images and building castles in the
air, Z aer captive by troops of idle
fancies that lead awaT from its work,
sap its energies and reduce it to
condition in which it becomes irrita-
ted and discomposed, the victim of
a futile restlessness and dissatisfac-
ton with itself aDd everybody and
everything else, It cannot tell why.
What is the remedy for this? There
is but one possible remedy for this
defect-this inability u gSther to-
gether the mental powers and concen-
trafe them exclusively on one object,
and that demonstration IN other
words, It is only by continued, siren
uous efforts, repeated again and
again, day after day, week after week,
ana month after zaonth, that the abil-
ity can be acquired TO fasten the mind
to one subject, however abstract or
knotty, to the exclusion of everything
else. The process OF obtaining TINS
sslf-masfery--<his complete command
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trial made him an international figure,
was given the position of bookkeeper
when he first entered the military pris-
on. The work was light and could be
quickly finished, which left the former
captain many leisure hours. which be
spent in brooding over his troubles.
He became extremely nervous and Was
fast becoming physical and mental
wreck when he was placed in charge
of the flower gardens and lawns. This
work occupied most Of his time and
he improved in health. Later he was
placed in the prison hospital. where he
acted as nurse and kept up records for
the physicians.
Carter, during his incarceration,
never associated with any prisoner,
aside from Captain Deming, another
army officer prisoner. who was re-
leased on habeas corpus some time
since. He was. however. always kind
to prisoners who were injured or i'll.
He has been a model prisoner himself
and has won the respect of all the
officials at the penitentiary.
Carter has sued the government for
S723, 900, on the grounds that he was
unjustly convicted by the military tri-
bunal BY winning this suit he will
claim a vindication from first to last.
Carter alleges he never would have
been convicted in a civil court. and
that he was the victim of prejudice on
the part of several officers who were
members of the court martial. He pro-
claimed at one time that he was 8
martyr to military injustice and COM
pared himself to the French army cap
tain. Dreyfus. The suit will come up
in Chicago.
During the last year the ex-captain
has been studying mining engineering,
and If he be successful in his suit he
proposes to spend considerable time in
Arizona and New Mexico, where he
and his uncle, L. ID. Carter, of Dan
Vile. Kan. have extensive interests.
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r
sessions consisting in copper mines,
cattle aid lands.
Orc Blanco is about the last COM
munity in The country where one
would look for the residence Of a
millionaire. 1t is a mere huddle Of
one-story frame and adobe structures
dignified by the name Of houses. They
are built on the sunbaked earth and
there is not a wooden floor in the
hamlet Two little stores, each with
a saloon adjunct, and a blacksmith
shop, make up the business section
of the town. The sparse population
is four-f1fths Mexican. and the com
munity is not at all American in any
of its ways. Yet Black Jim Robin
son. as he is known all over the re-
gion because of his marked swarthi-
ness, has made his home in Orc Blan-
co for thirty years and probably will
never live anywhere else. He is from
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, and was on his
way with an ox-team wagon to the
Pacific coast By the Santa Fe trail
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later copper began to appreciate and
old developed copper mines began to
reopen all over the Territory Pres
emily all the old copper mines were
booming. and with the price OF copper
at 1G. II and IS cents pound. there
was nothing more profitable In mining.
A New York syndicate gave Watson
S45. 900 for a half interest in bis Dur
ham mine. which he would have sold
in 1893 for $1,000, and then went
ahead with the development OF the
property. AT AZ be was poor. and at
so he was easily worth 100000. Such
are the marvellous transformations in
some mems fortunes IN the mining re-
gions the world over.
To see him one would never sus-
pect that The Goddess Fortune had 50
much as glanced al him. He rides
about Globe on scrsggy old bay
horse, with bunch OF greasy. tat
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WORKING PLAN OF HOMEMADE MAGIC LANTERN

inches from the bottom. See Fig. !. We
viii call this the deck. Fasten piece
Of wood fourteen inches long and four
inches wide ON either side Of the box
and deck piece. See Fig. y.
Perforate the bottom of the box with
holes half an inch in diameter. to at
ford the necessary draft TO the lamp.
Elevate the box on two cross-Stieks an
inch wide. See Fig. b B
From an optician or camera supply
house obtain pair of four-inch con-
densers mounted in a brass barrel. and
a quarter-size protector with rack
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

The editions Of books printed two
or three hundred years ago are almost
entirely free from typographical err
rors, which may be attributed TO the
fact that early publishers were gener-
ally eminent scholars, and themselves
gave much attention to the revision of
their proofs. After reading the proofs
they frequently turned them over 10
other scholars with the request to re-
wise and correct and as the printers
time was then deemed matter OF
small consequence, a perfection was
attained which is seldom equaied by
modern printers.
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THREATENED WITH BLINDNESS.

Little Chance for Justice Brown TO
Escape This Aff1iction.
Physicians who have given his case
consideration declare that Justice
Henry B. Brown, of the United States
Supreme Court cannot escape blind
ness. 1t is not likely, however, that
the country will be deprived of his SER
vices, for with his profound knowledge
Of lazy, his hearing and his alert fac
ulties the essential equipment for his
position remains intact
Justice Brown is a native of Massa-
chusetts and is nearing his 6Sth birth
day. He is graduate of Yale and of
its law school and also that Of Har-
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the local salesday the sales herds
moved from region another the and
competitive exhibitions, the system eliminating
wonderful royal and Smithfeld shows.
When visit the Chicago stock show each fall and
see the marvellous animals filling the thousands stalls
when pet stock the pride of eye close
competition with animals from all over the
Union then the crucial test is at hand Pride vanishes
prejudice has not featherweght and merit only wins
Concet melts away and scales drop from eyes No
matter now; excellent che attainment humbled
though not discouraged and return burning
with ambition to have still better live to go to
the show the next with something better ever
before Then there is the hepulness from
mingng with others interested In the line of stock
breeding ourselves We meet hundreds of people
ing for the improvement of the particular breed that
had captured fancy Business talked over
acquaintances are made friendships renewed and
from the date of the meeting impulses ambitions
started round of effort
The difference between pet and the nearest
perfection is often much greater we ina CINE It
Is for us to narrow this difference possible and
in work towards the Improvement stock
in America. We do it In better way than by our
own direct observation and field complete this
self-educaton as the stock shows.
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Natural Enough.

II don't understand your method at
ALL" said Miss Obesity somewhat irate-
iy to the professor Of physical culture.
Il have just been talking 10 Miss
skinny Bones and she says that rour
advice to her is exercise and diet. Now
Won have told me that diet and exer-
else is what / need. How can you
possibly hope TO accomplish such diff
ferent ends with the same meansY
Asiniplest thing in the world.
answered the professor.
.eYour cases are exactly reversed. A
mere reversion of the medicines Is all
that Is necessary. Detroit Free Press.
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PREVENTION OF DISEASE tyERYBoDrs BUSINESS.
BY AndreK WIS

Z : ! !.
- Everybody is neighbor in a sanitary
I IN sense, because he she possesses the power of
III nfcting disease upon The community de-
III ponds for its protection against disease on the
III united efforts of all its units. Hence the force
of the argument that everybody should be edu-
1 ~ Gated in the due observance Of health laws; and
IN length of days win only become national fea-
- ture when as a people awaken to the con
seriousness of the fact that much disease
by much intelligent cooperation.
Dphtheria always been regarded as an ament apt
to fatal to children. Previous the employment
antoxn the death rate 80 per Since the adop
ton Of the treatment in question the mortality
to IL cent Mrs Garrett Andersons analysis Of the
effects of vaccination with reference the London small
epidemic of 190102 interesting But smallpox an
air borne disease The germs reach far subtle
fashion than do the microbes Of typhoid fever hence
lection from smallpox established is highly difficult
to combat Over and again plain figures have
the tremendous of mortality among unvaccnated
people compared with that found vaccnaed patients
Mrs Anderson finds that 1901O2 1850 patients found
their to the smallpox hospitals of London.
number 1868 died. This represents death rate of III
cinated contracted smallpox. OF these note ITO
Of between 10 and 20 years Il is pointed
out that the early vaccination infancy repeated
must at the period in question regarded as having
largely itself out But in 1901 Is remarkable that
deaths of vaccinated children recorded while the
list showed five chldrens the age of 10
years. These last had not been yaccinated at ALL
If smallpox death rate between the ages of Is and
30 years among the vaccnaed is be estimated
cent and among the over 80 per cent
surely we may regard the influence thus exerted
vaccination, and to it alone. 1 have remarked the
dminuton OF this ament is affected by ordinary
tary improvement such relied upon of
other infectious troubles There seems indeed be no
other explanation of the discrepancies in the figures
vaccination influence
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LOVE THEIR KING AND QUEEN
The Romans Are Stanch Friends of
Their Snvnrairra

The Romans Are Stanch Friends of
Their Sovereigns.
The Romans are quite ready to be-
lieve all the good possible of their king
and queen, but are brought very little
into real contact with them. In the
country in the summer it is different,
however. Then their majesties mix
among the people as much as possible,
and try 10 learn their point OF view,
while maintaining their own incog-
nito. Recently they We're motoring,
and were suddenly overtaken by very
severe storm, gossips the Pail Mall
Gazette. They, together with Gen.
Brusatti, who accompanied them, took
refuge in the nearest house. which
proved to be that of a public school
teacher. They were most cordially re-
ceived. being taken for some gentle
folks from Turin.
Night closed In. and still the storm
maintained its fury. so that they were
invited TO partake of the simple din
ner of the household. which they did
with such mutual pleasure that the
sehoolmaster declared that the king
might have been professor. he talked
so cleverly: and the king said that not
many men had the brain of his host.
They parted with mutual expressions
of pleasure.
The following day much grander
parsonage than his master presented
himself at the schoolnaster's house
saving he had been sent by their maj
estes 10 thank him for the hospital
its received and to deliver several par
GELS. 1t was only then the simple man
understood to whom he had given shell
ter.
The queen is always looking for ways
TO benefit others. One day. from a
terrace OF the castle. she saw some men
cutting hay. and Immediately ordered
food and drink to be taken to them.
Later she descended for walk and.
passing near the spot, stopped to speak
to the mowers They were very much
affected. and. as they had nothing 10
offer her majesty. one old man stopped
and. picking wild flower, presented II
to his queen. In the name OF al OF
US"
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vegetarian-Don't you know that the
strongest animals are all vegetarians.
the elephant being the most powerfulg
Carniyorous Friend-That's all right.
II they weren't 50 strong they never
would be able to stand vegetable diet
Boston Transcript
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years and seven
months imprison-
ment in the United
States penitentiary
at Fort Leaven-
worth. Kan. He
was sentenced to a
term of five years
by a court martial
for alleged frauds
in connection with
the Savannah har-
Dor Improvements.
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ward In 1860 he located in Michigan
and soon after was admitted to the
bar. He was an assistant district at
torney for the United States. subse-
quently became a State judge and was
appointed by President Grant a Fed
eral judge. In 1891 he went upon the
Snnreme Court bench
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s1eens ON enc Floor.

ever quit work. He
used TO go about
Phoenix and Tue
on importuning
everyone who had
any interest n
mining to give kiT
an offer for his
copper, and let him
have a little money
with which to take
care of his invalid
wife and a Grip
pied son. a little
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as the half-breed
Mexicans a N o n 6
whom their lot is
cast. One of these
is James A. Robin
son. whose home is
in the little Next
can hamlet of Orc
Blanco, close upon
the boundary be-
tween the United
States and Mexico.
and who is worth
-. go nnn -
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when the possibilities of making
money in cattle came to him. Forth
with he abandoned the emigrant train
to California, and has been living in
Arizona ever since. He was blessed
with a wonderful constitution and
nerves of iron. He has been through
Indian campaigns that would have
killed most men, and has had fights
for his life and property with Next
can vacqueros and with outlaws that
would make hair-raising narratives.
All the financial ups and downs of
frontier life have been his.
Chief Luxury Is Plug Tobacco.
For twenty years Robinson has been
having an average net annual income
of $4,000, while he and his family
have been living on less than $500 of
it each year. He has a Mexican wife,
whom he married thirty years ago.
There are four young men and five
girls in the family, but only three OF
them remain at home. All the others
have married into Mexican families
and gone out to live in shanties and
mudhouses among the cattle along the
border, just like the sons and daugh-
ters of the poorest cowpunchers and
sheep herders in the region. The home
of this millionaire from New York
would be dear at $3.50. All the furni-
ture and household effects in it could
be replaced for $500. The floors are of
hard-packed adobe, the windows and
doors are of the cheapest, crudest pat
tern, and drop Of paint was never
applied inside or out. The old couple
dress in the same coarse, rude garb as
of old. The old man wears overalls
and a hickory shirt all the time, ex-
cent occasionally when a buyer for a
Chicago or Kansas City packing
house Journeys from Nogales railroad
station. thirty miles across the hot,
dusty plain, to talk over a $4,000 or
$40. 600 cattle transaction in the kitch-
en- of the old house. Then Mr.. Robin
son may put on a threadbare and
faded coat that he bought twenty
years ago in Tucson. There is not a
book In the house but a Cattleman's
Guide and a volume of recipes for cur
ing horse and cattle diseases. This
millionaire's family never takes a.
newspaper, buys no furniture, never
tastes such things as ice cream, candy,
fish or fancy groceries. The old man
saw a banana for the first time a year
ago, when he was In Nogales. His
only luxury Is plug tobacco
Sleeps on the Floor.
Another millionaire who lives in
what may be termed squalor is John
NJ. Watson, of Globe, in ella County.
He owns half interest in the Durham
mine along with a syndicate of New
Workers., and his dividends from the
property come from the company's
Office in New York every ninety days.
They vary from $1,000 to $1,000 four
times a year. Besides. he owns
smaller mine in Yuma County, for
which he has at present a standing
offer of 100000, which yields several
thousand dollars profit every month.
The rise of Watson to wealth was
as unusual as it was sudden. Five
years ago he would gladly have sold
all his mining interests in Arizona for
few thousand dollars and have for
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wei, PIeased with His Work

Fond Parent unc>--.and the fac
ulty are very much pleased with your
work.
Dropped Junior-Yes. they encored
my sophomore year.-PTinceton Tiger.
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The canary stops singing IN bis old
age, but the poet keeps everlastingiy
At IL till the undertaken gets busy.
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STOCK SHOWS ELEVATE STANDARDS.
BY ". 4. Henry. Dean of College OF xricul

HsHFy Dean OF LoIege OF AGFIcuIfure, WISCONSIN,
To elevate the standards of domestic animals
on our farms is one of the greatest problems
confronting US as an agricultural people Con-
slider for a moment then what has helped the
British people to their high attachments in ami
NAL husbandry First Of all was their nsular
condition, causing them to become self-reliant
Then there has been the local free inter-communi-
cation In all matters pertaining to live stock such
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

II Is easy to induce friend TO laugh
at your Jokes. but he doesn't always
DO II In q satisfactory lnannG.
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escape hell because of its suffering, to make
heaven because of its JOY have little effect the tract
which asks by no means unmportant question WHITTIER
you gong is anachronsm but any appeal for the
service Of others will willing sympathetic atten
ton. Young who will Sunday school are
ready to work in boys institute, and have
weared distributing tracts anxious bring COM
Tort to the lives Of their working sisters The
creeping the community socially physically
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-05

the large llustration.-Josep' H.
Adams, in the Woman's HON. Com
panion.
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INDIVIDUAL SALVATION NOT WANTED.
BY the Rev. John WafS

bY Inc KEY JOHN watson { Tan NaCIaren.''l
The old principle of every man for himself Is
dying out from national politics. from the organi-
cation Of commerce, from the life of society and
is bound to die out from religion Dying people
of. say 1880, were solely concerned with the
question of what would become of themselves on
the other side; dying men of to-day forget them
selves in thinking of what is to become of their
wives and children ADneals to the indjvidual 10
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WEALTH is USELESS.
MlLLIONAlRES OF ARIZONA WHO
LIVE IN SQUALOR
Copper King Who Sleeps on a Blanket
on the Floor of His Cabin-Another
Millionaire, Whose Chief Luxury Is
Ping tobacco.

There are several rich men in Ari-
IONA, some of whom far exceed the
million mark. who live lives as plain
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It's awfuily hard on some mems eyes
when they look Cor perfection In them
selves.
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POSES AS A SECOND DREYFus.

Oberlin Nj. Carter, Recently Freed,
Will she II. s. Government.
Oberlin NJ. Carter, former captain
of United States engineers. is free af-
ter having completed term of three
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The hard working clerk Is usually
working for q raise