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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29
DIFFERENT KINDS OF MULES.
Classification Depends Upon Work
They Are to Do,


They Are to Do.
"The classification of Missouris
great product, the mule, is tho
hardest of all live stock" said John
Grant to a Kansas City Star reporter
'To most people the animal is sim
ply a mule, with a strong inclination
to emphasize his presence with
kick To most buyers he is good or
bad, large or small, smooth or rough,
will probably bring a certain price
on the market or will not be wanted
at ALL Among dealers who supply
the different demands he is classified
according to weight, bone, size, color,
age, mouth, teeth, broken or unbrok-
en-, length and breadth, and also in
regard to the locality Of the buyer.
In the first place, green, unbroken
mules are never wanted. Once in a
while we receive a few and generally
have to sell them at a sacrifice. The
principal classes of mules known to
the market are cotton mules, lumber
mules, railroad mules, sugar mules,
farm mules, levee mules, city mules
and miners. Miners are classed as
surface and pit mules.
Cotton mules are the commonest
kind in regard to number. Their
build makes little difference so long
as they are smooth. Lumber mules
are the largest; heavy boned, rugged
grades, 1873 to 1872 hands or better.
They are used in the big lumber
camps for logging, and must have the
weight for good heavy pulling. SINH
lar to the lumber mule is the rail-
roader. They are used in grading,
hauling and all the work that is
known in the construction of rail
roads. Sugar mules belong to the
fancy class. They must be smooth,
built rangy, small head and neck,
small bones. Farm mules vary III
size, but are formed from the rejected
one of the foregoing classes.
'Levee mules, as the word implies,
are used near steamboats, and docks
for the heavy work. They are gen.
orally single workers and must be Of
the. rugged class. Their looks mat
ter 1ittle SO long as they are sound
and fit for hard work. A city mule in
cludes the small, light grades, such as
you see on delivery. and transfer wag-
ons. The high prices in the last year
have reduced the number greatly.
THE miners are the hardest class
to supply They must be either
da:k bay or black in color White
and sorrel mules are never used.
Where the miners have long shafts, in
the Pennsylvania coal regions espe.
cialIy, they say a white mule resem-
bles a ghost and frightens the other
mules beyond control The pitters
must be long in body, heavy boned
and have good weight.
1.-THE Government buys all classes
OF mules, but that is done according
to contract and prices hold a wide
range. They never buy a low priced
animal and they are rigid in their
examinations"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29


Chagres river. Whether the final de-
cision be for a tide level or for lock
canal, a method must be devised to
control the Chagres when it becomes
q raging torrent, to store water in the
rainy season for use in the dry season
and to send the surplus through some
other channel to the sea.
Under plans of French engineers,
made on a basis of controlling the food
waters on an eighty-five foot level, the
cost was estimated at $36,000,000 and
many Americans have doubted whether
even this enormous expenditure would
protect the canal. AS a result of sur
veys made by Americans within the
last year it is announced here that the
water can absolutely be controlled by
means of a dam at an elevation of
185 feet and at an approximate saw
ing of $27 900, 900 from the French estt-
mate.
In the dry seasons the flow of the
river becomes almost insignificant for
control; the discharge becomes two
hundred times smaller than in periods
Of the greatest floods. Near where
the Chagres crosses the canal location
its tributary, the Bas Obispo river, en-
ters with the water from the drainage
up % the continental divide. Below
Obispo the Chagres flows to San
Pablo through a somewhat restricted
valley with tortuous windings in
narrow alluvial plain, requiring con-
siderable rectification. High, steep,
densely wooded hills narrow In and af
ford the dam sites of the various canal
projects.
Actual conditions do not show any
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29

thirty eight miles long, does appear NJ. an
insurmountable obstacle NJ Lobe claims to have inter
ested Americans, English and European capital
erprise and advisory committee of American and Cana
dian engineers has been appointed to look
eSts of the project on this side of the Atlantic
The idea of an allrail route from New to Paris
originated with NJ Lobe seven years ago. AS member
of the Paris Geographical Society Alaska back
In 1898 and the feasibility Of the
Railway the projected known occurred to him.
He studied the geology and climate of the country
soundngs of Behring Straits which 1t proposed
a and since then has devoted his entire to the pro-
motion of the enterprise.
At the point where his rails would reach the water
Alaska at Cape Prince of Wales Cape at East
Cape the Behring Strait is only trysix miles wide The
chances of successful errage across the
under discussion while gigantic bridge sug-
gested to joint the two continents These plans
did not seem to meet the favor of of the engineers
he had consulted and then NJ de Lobe
of tunnel under the straits and this has been deemed
after investigation. entirely practicable.
Naturally the most difficult part of the project will be
the construction of the tunnel but the the
engineers is that this work be accomplished The
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29
Motor Cars and Dust.

Aiter experiments with the motor
car which he uses daily, the chief sur
veyor of Essex finds that at. a speed
not exceeding ten miles an hour a
motor car creates comparatively lit
tie dust upon properly made road,
but at fifteen 10 twenty miles al hour.
especially with heavy cars, the nui-
sance is intolerable. The expense OF
treating the main roads of the coun-
try outside the urban districts with
tar maeadem would be e1,611, 000.-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29

Some of the bills of fare given in
the newspapers must be of the great
est assistance to housekeepers. In
bill of fare lately printed in a big city
daily, we find this suggestion: Tea,
hot or cold" 1t must be great help
TO a woman to learn that she can serve
tea either hot or cold.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29

you can not always jugde a mans
braius by his salary" said Arnold
White, iecturing to workmen in Lon
don recently. "Togo gets G64S a
year, while Admiral Rojestyensky's
salary is e11,000.
Oil or fat is said to destroy Port
land cement
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29
Not His FauIt

ut seems to me that BHggins
doesn't know his own mind" "Wen,
you can't blame the man He has
been on the jury and has listened TO
arguments of opposing lawyers so
much that he doesn't feel sure Of any
thing"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29
A SPIRIT IN FLESH
Observation-Disclosures

0HE SENATOR was cozy in one
of the secluded Oriental corners
x of Mrs. Aldens large reception
room. Beside him seemed to float an
intangible, indefinable white mist
Was it a dream, or was it reality?
Dare he reach out his hand to grasp
it, or would it at his gentlest touch
softly melt away? Now it seemed for
the moment to be resting lightly,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29

There always remains suspicio-
in the mind Of the most devoted wife
that perhaps she could have done bet.
ter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29

New York has its Venice in a little
shack village built along the water
between Manhattan and r5oney Is
land.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29

It has been estimated that should
any one desire to purchase the rail.
ways of the world his outlay would
amount to something Ike $50 ESQ, 000,-
600.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29
..Ts fUNNEL bEnRrke SraAa
& eee laEw Yopk 70 PARIs.6

From New York to Paris,
France. by rail, is the dream
of a French engineer, NJ. Loicq
de Lobel. The idea is by no
means new one, and NJ. Lo-
bel is confident that within
four years, certainly not much
longer than that it will be pos
sible to step into a Pullman
coach at. New York and go
through to Paris wit b on t
change Of cars. That the prof
ect involves the construction OF
a tunnel under Behring Straits
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29

A married man shouldn't talk in his
sleep unless he is sure of what he is
going TO say.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29

One of the great
problems of canll con-
struction never salts
factorily solved by the
engineers Of the French
Canal c m pany in
wolves the disposal Of
tho Hood wa+ars Of 4ba
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29

A woman gossip is bad enough, but
a man gossip is the limit
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-29

The visits of KIN are terrible lot
ike their letters.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-02-04
When Don Carlos Nodded.

The king of Portugal has the repute
of being a man of careful words, and
1t is hard on him that the translator
Of his little speech at Windsor the 9TH
er evening should fail to realize the
superfiuity of the "and'' before rela-
tive which is not a reiterated one-"I
thank your majesty for the cordial re-
ception you have given us and which
we appreciate" ''The words you spoke
at Lisbon and which have now become
historic" etc Queen Victoria was her
self guilty of breaches of the queens
English in this respect I'VE are in
the midst of a ministerial crisis and
which will be followed by Others" she
once wrote. And her favorite minister
wrote novel after novel in which there
was at least this rampant super6uity
Take a case ut random from "Endym-
ion:" "He had become possessed of a
vast principally and which was not
an hours drive from Whitesbapel."
Nor was the grammar.-London Chron-
icle.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-02-04

"Jacomb- Hood. the artist" said an
editor. was sent IT, Delhi by syndi-
cate of newspapers 10 make illuStra-
tons of the Durbar celebration. | met
him week after his return. and we
talked together about the native char
acter.
The Indian. .Iacomb- Hood said. was
not progressive. Things as they We're
suited him we'll enough. lie had no
desire to better them. Hence. OF course.
he rarely made Il great success.
''Jacomb- Hood illustrated tho non
progressive native character with an
incident that befell him in barber
shop.
The artist was shaved in the shop
rather badly. The operator cut him. i'm
fact. twice-once on the chin and once
on the cheek To the last cut .Iacomb-
Hood had 10 apply plaster He said
TO the operator as lie did so:
Its too bad of you to have cut me
twice. You'll lose all your regular
customers ut this rate
Not at all. SIR said the operator. I
am not allowed to shave the regular
customers yet. | only shave stran
gers San Antonio Express
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-02-04
Lord Grinth,rpc.s Eccentricities

One of the most eccentric characters
in England is Lord Grimthorpe. now
nearly ninety years old. but still hale
and busy. lie is Il man of many fadS
and holabies. and one of these is clock
making
His lor,lShip is also IN ecclesiastical
architect of note. and his plans have
been followed in the building of
churches and restoration of cathedrals
He declines any remuneration for his
services. but he insists that his crest.
which is boar's head. shall he promi-
nently displayed in the sacred ediiices
for which he has made designs. This
display of ecccntricity on his part is
not taken altogether in good part by
those whom he has benefited. but there
seems To have been no serious protest
against il.
As president of the Church of Eng
land Burial association. Lord Grim
thorpe is working 10 abolish the en-
balming of corpses. Theoretically seal
ed caskets. vaults and tombs. and 10
bring about the use of wickerwork
collins. which will permit the rapid dis
solution of dead bodies In this latter
endeavor lie has the approval of King
Edward-l.eslie's Weekly.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-02-04
Mckinley az Editor.

II is Il fact not generally known that
Major Mckinley always had fond
ness for editorial writing. During the
winter passed III Canton after the ma
jor had been elected president he wrote
several articles each week for Cleve-
land newspaper. \ few of us. anxious
TO forecast McKinley's policy after he
became president. We're put wise" and
OH one occasion examined the penciledl
manuscript after il had left the hands
of its writer
Tin. copy" must he in existence
somewhere about Cleveland. Some of
il would east strange side lights upon
Mr.. NcKinley's Cuban policy Prior To
March /. 1891. lie as decidedly averse
to Interference in behalf of the suffer
ing revoluIipnists.
have the best reasons for knowing
that 2 bundle of actual photographs
taken among the ''reconcentrados'
opened his eyes To the terrible fact that
General VIEWER was deliberately starv-
ing the nonconbaianiS. And yet the
late president never would have con-
scented To go To war for Cuba had not
the disaster happened to the Maine
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-02-04

Sir Charles Wyndham recently told
an interviewer of his first meeting
with G. Bernard Shaw. I'm those
days" he says. SHAW would not have
a bit of issn about him lie wore soft
shirts and long. flowing ties. which.
with his tawny hair and long red
beard. gave him the appearance of Il
veritable viking. Well. he care i'm
and sat down at the table Then he
put his hand into his right trousers
pocket and slowly drew out small
pocket memorandum book: then he
dug into the left side pocket and
brought ont another. waited He
thrust his hand into a coat pocket and
fished out another of the little books.
then still another and another Final
ly he paused in his explorations. look.
ed over at me and said: 4 suppose
you're surprised to see all these little
pocketbooks. The fact is. however.
write my plays in them while riding
around London OF top Of q bus"
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-02-04
PocoMoKE RIVER LINE.

Baltimore Snow Hill Route
The Steamer Maryland leaves Snow Hill at Il
O'Clock a. m. every Monday and Thursday
weather permitting) stopping at Mataponi,
Pocomokc City p. rm.. Puwell's. Rehoboth.
Cedar Hall. Pitts wharf. Shelltowu, Saxi
Pier. onancock 230p. m. Finney's. Tangier
Island 4.3I p. m. Crisfield p. m. arriving in
Baltimore ; O'Clock next morning
Returninng the Steamer leaves Baltimore
from pier foot of South street mt 800 D. M,
every Tuesday and Friday for points named
arriving at. CrisfieId % p. m. Tangier Island
$50 a. IN Onancock ~ a. IN Saxis Pier She'll
town. Pitts Wharf, Cedar Hail. Rehoboth
Powells.. Pocomoke City % D. m. :, ow Hin
$50 p. m.
IA JoYNES. Superintendent.
MURDOCH Passenger Agent
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-02-04

No connects nj Berlin from d. NJ \
'. train No 5g2. north. aud connects nj Salisbury
ut \. y. +. Il \. Juncti III with y. y. T. Il y
train M. ~. north, and 81 south. when on time
No connects AT y. Y. 4. Il Y. Junction
with \. y. I. X y train No. 81. south. aud at
Rerlin with ID. VI. X V. train 80, SOUTH when on
time.
No > connects at y. Y. z. n y Junction with
y. Y. L X \. train. M 96, north when on time
No. . gets connection at y y. Z. X. y. hume
ton from - Y. T.. Il y. train, NJ 80 North. when
on time.
WILLARD THOMSON, Gen Manager
7 MURDOCH A. ! BENJAMIN
Pass Agent. Supt. 4 Div. Pass Agt
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-02-04
We will
help you.

II you are living in a. rented house,
you. no doubt have long desired to own
yonr own home and have made plans 10
that end. There is no need to delay he
matter. when the Snow Hill Building
and Loan Association is ready to help
Won, and when you realize that the
money You have been paying out every
year for rent would have bought and
paid for home for you, then you will
no longer continue TO pay rent.
Call and see w d. Cordry, Jr.. Sec
rotary of the Association and he will
explain how you can get the money 10
build you house an and easy way by
which you can repay the loan.
Snow Hill Building and Loan
Association.
MARION T. HARGIS,
President
w. ID. CORDDRY, Jr.
Secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
KINEO, Moosehead Lake, Me-, June 8.
Nathan B. Moore of Bingham, who OBJ
served his eighty-seventh birthday Memoir
ial day. and who is still hale, hearty and
active, is one OF northern Names most in
teresting characters well as the oldest
living guide and trapper.
When John Burroughs visited Maine
some thirty years ago 1t Moore who
was selected TO show the great naturalist
the wonders of the woods and waters, and
Mr.. Burroughs pays a fitting tribute to
his guides virtues and skill In his book,
"a Taste of Maine Birch"
'Our guide" he writes Uncle Nathan,
as he was known in all that country, had
been a hunter and trapper for over forty
years; he had grown gray in the woods,
had ripened and matured there, and every
thing about him was as II the spirit of the
woods had had the ordering of 1t; his whole
makeup was in a minor and subdued key.
like the moss and the lichens, or like the
protective coloring of the game-everything
but his quick sense and penetrating glance.
He was as gentle and modest as girl; his
sensibilities were like plants that grow IN
the shade. The woods and soltudes had
touched him with their own softening and
refining influence; had, indeed, shed upon
his soil of life a rich deep leaf-moid that
was delightful. and that nursed.z half con-
cealed, the tenderest, widest growths
There was grit enough back of 1t all, but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
intercollegiate Records
x x x x


The following new intercollegiate records
have been established in championship
meetings this year.
MAY 20-NEW ENGLAND INTERCOLLEGIATE
A. A.
Running broad jump-w. p Hubbard Amherst,
% feet ~ inches. Former record, % feet On
inches
22o-yard low hurdles-R. G. Leavitt, Williams
Discus throw-F H. Ehmke, Brown, lie feet s
inches Former record: lis feet inches.
record. 1.564s held Jointly BY E. Hoiiister. Har
Pole 1auit-w Dray. Yale. il feet 10Y inches
Former record. II feet inches, held by Ward
McLanahan, Yale.
JUNE s-wEsTERN CONFERENCE A. A.
Discus throw; c. Garreis, Michigan, 40 feet
sso-yard run. D. Lightbody chicaso I57~
Former record, 1.5sM, held by E. Breitkreutz
one-miie rum. D. Lightbody. Chicago, 4.25
Former record, 4slas held by G. R. keachie,
Former record. lO.o2ss. held BY n. A. Kellogg
Pole vauit-E. c. Glover. Purdue. II feet o..
inches. Former record, II feet inches, held by
G. e. Dvorack, Chicago.
inch. Former record. % feet s3a inches, held by
Ii. NJ. Friend. Chicago
Following is a record of the important
outdoor dual games held between the lead
ing colleges:
May 7-Pennsylvnnia defeated Columbia rs tc
A, at New York. Cornell defeated Princeton, "A
to 49, at ithaca. N. Y. New York University de.
feated Lehigh, 79 to 20 at New York. Trinity de
feated Union 73 to 40, at Hartford, Conn., Dart
mouth defeated Brown, OF to IS, at Hanover
Mass. Chicago defeated Illinois, 20 to A. at Chi
cage. Indiana University defeated Purdue 631s
TO 4S5 at Bloomington, Ind
May 12-Cornell defeated Pennsylvania, Sc to 81
at Franklin Field; Pa.
May 13-Yale defeated Princeton 79h to 24h al
Princeton, N. ]. Carlisle defeated Lafayette, IS
to 43, at Easten. Pa. Lehigh and Rutgers tied
As points each, at South Bethlehem, Pa. Wesleyan
defeated New York University, 50 to go, at Mid
dletown. Conn. Chicago defeated Wisconsin, IOs
to %. at Madison, Wis., Minnesota defeated North
western. "A to 81, at Minneapolis. MINI.
May 20-Yale defeated Harvard. 65h to 1884,
at New Haven Conn. Princeton defeated Coium.
bia, 651a to 3s1a, at New York. Lafayette defeat
ed Rutgers. 50 to SO, at New Brunswick n J.
Annapolis defeated Haverford. SO to a. at An.
napols, Md. Amherst New England Inter
collegiate championships at Worcester, Mass
scoring 3SA points Dartmouth was second. with
36l.. aud Brown third. with II. Chicago defeated
Michigan, I09a to 55is. at Ann Arbor, Mich Illi
neis defeated Wisconsin. "a to ~. at Cham.
May 26 and 27-Cornell won thirtieth annual In
fereollegiate track and field Championship al
Franklin Field. Pa. with 20ys points, Yale was
second. with 2Sk and Harvard third With 2nIh
June 'S--Chcago won annual western conference
meet at Marshall Field, Chicago with b6 noinfs
Mi.higan was second with Ss, and Purdue third
with 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
LOCAL GIRL ATHLETES

high schools among the girls, with the ex-
ception of the work at Western High
School, is free work, which consists OF the
different drills without the use Of. eppa-
ratus, and which to great extent retards
the development of the girls, which would
be accomplished in shorter length Of time
If the apparatus was at hand for use in the
classes. 1t is not the purpose of the direc-
tor that the girl should be learned in the
athletic side, but that she should be edu-
Gated physically. and the instructors do all
in their power to convey to the gfrlish mind
that the work in hand is not to prepare her
for the athletic field, but to give her per-
feet physical education. There is a tendency
among the girls which Is quite natural, and
that Is shortly after they start the training
in the schools they Immediately want to be-
come active in every form of exercise which
is being done upon the floor, and the result
Is that the director has been forced to COM
pile a series of rules which do not allow the
girls to become members of any of the
basket ball teams until some time after
they have taken up the athletic training.
The advice constantly given by those in
charge of the athletics is to wear loose
clothes, as this greatly aids in the work to
be accomplished by the instructors In the
schools where there are no gymnasfumS the
rule is to exercise with all the movements
of the head, shoulder, arms and other parts
of the body. Another form of exercise is
what is known the dancing step, and Is
a very fine means of starting the physical
work with the young high school girl
All of the physical training is given after
the regular school hours, and here 1t Is that
the younger girl Is taught the earlier and
the older girl the later part of the system
of physical instruction which is used by the
instructors The different foot movements.
as well as running and jumping, are taught
the beginners, but when the notion strikes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11

the dark blue and white of Central, the red
and white of Western and the colors CT
Technical
Central won because her representatives
were the best relay runners. and as these
events counted more than the others the
dark blue and white piled up the largest
number of scores. Technical, which is a
youngster In athletics as far as the local
high schools are concerned. showed that In
q few years 1t will be more than probable
that the boys of the manual training school
will be setting the pace instead of their
brothers who are attending the Central
High School, as is now the case. In the
relay races Kent sprinted for Central, and
in each event he did his work well. He has
marvellous speed, and when the runners
come into the stretch running neck and
neck he rarely has any trouble in winning,
as 1t seems easy for him to forge to the
front each time when the tape line is being
neared.
Morse of Western High School showed