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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25
WHAT a CHILLED CASE" IS.
In Many Instances 1t Is Plated-How
jewelers. Buy Watches.

Not many men know how to buy a
watch" said Walter NJ. Jaccard, ac-
cording to the Kansas City Star, "and
to a large extent they have to rely on
the honesty of the dealer. SO compli-
Gated is the business that even we go
to the factories ourselves and arrange
for special work in order to get the
proper article, for, of course, we could
not assay every case we receive.
Now, how many people know the
difference between a filled case and one
that is plated? A filed case, you see,
is a composition that resembles steel,
with a plate of gold on each side, that
on the outer being thicker than the in
side. Such cases are guaranteed not to
wear through within FIVE, ten, fifteen
or up to twenty-five years-the limit
of the guaranty made by the reputable
houses. If a man offers you a case
warranted for thirty or forty years you
are going to be bunkoed' if you buy it.
When YOU see watches offered for sale
as gold filled for IS or 81. depend upon
it they are plated and mighty thinly,
too.
I'm the matter of watch move
ments," he continued. "the buyer is
really at the mercy of the dealer. In
one big factory about 5000 movements
are made every day. There is certain
to be haste in that sort of output and
the name on the dial does not make up
for imperfeetions. To avoid these a
frst-class jeweler arranges for several
hundred movements to be delivered a
year hence.
"a strictly first-class movement re-
qui es six months, exactly, in its pass
aye through the factory, from the bC
ginning to the finished product, ready
to offer for sale. Such goods are then
stamped with the names of the firm for
which they are made and that firm has
TO stand sponsor for them. The Swiss
watch. in its higher class. is the best
movement in the world to-day. OF
course, there are cheap Swiss move
ments that you can buy for S. or 81.
but they keep good time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25

ers spoil an only child the mothers always retor that is
es uohe oy NE fathers Certainly recital of the in
rants reparees description of his goodness the
nrst Thing In the morning his excellent behavior
"hen no company presenthese sometimes enough
~ urn neaus ana give swollen idea Of Importance but
ts should be the In early days impression is
removed so soon the only child steps out into
ne world ana meets his would rather this over
se than encounter the perpetual nagging the deeply
M cohlcuon hat whatever the child desires to do be-
oes wrong and deserving of reproof The artfu child
oszing the defects of this system conducts himself as
aopit dld after the struggle with the Tar Babv pro
"iuy against the thing that he desires to be done
Some parents have special voice for their children inst
S people snout TO foreigners. cannot think this neces
sary children have hearing that are ouite az
good as they need to be- f =
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25
GILBERT sTUART's BIRTHPLACE.
1t Was Among a Lot of Rhode Island
Towns with Indian Names,

1t Was Among a Lot of Rhode Island
Towns with Indian Names.
Many American geographical names.
especially those of Indian origin, sound
odd in English ears, and are a STUN
bling block indeed to English tongues.
A little Yankee boy in England came
home to his mother fairly fearful with
wrath because his teacher in the geog-
rapny lesson had compelled him to
bound Massachusetts,, with the accent
on the second syllable, and would not
accept his polite correction, thinking
he was trying to play a joke upon her.
his mother had to send a little note,
calling attention to the gazetteer for
confirmation, before the teacher could
be brought to change her pronuncia-
ton.
A well-known story, not new but
true, is that of the slow and stolid Brit
on, on the lookout everywhere Cor the
American humor, of which he had
heard so much, who fell into conyersa-
ton shortly after his arrival in this
country with three pleasant American
gentlemen, of whom, after a time. he
inquired whence they came.
From Oshkosh" said the first. The
Englishman smiled.
From Kalamazoo" said the second.
The smile broadened.
From Skowhegan." said the third.
The Englishman laughed outright.
"Oh, l say" he protested, how you
fellows do chaff! Really, where do
you come from? I'd like to know,
don't you know"
Older, better, equally true and less
we'll known is little anecdote of Gil
bert Stuart the famous painter of the
best portrait of Washington, who spent
much time in England. He was
Rhode Island man, and it was his de-
light to observe the bewildered in
credulity of his English friends when,
on being asked where he was born, he
would reply glibly, and quite truth
fully:
I'm Narragansett, six miles from
Pottawoone, ten miles from Papa
squash, about four miles from Conan
icut, and not far from the spot where
the battle with the Pequots was
fought"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25
OLIVE PEST IN ITALY.
Fly Which Stings Fruit Does $25, OoO-
600 Damage Year.


Southern Italy, and especially Apu-
LA, owes its income, beside from wine,
to oil, the province of Lecce producing
f2,S00,000 worth yearly, that Of Bari
f1,800,000 worth, and that of Foggia
100000 worth. All this, which repre-
sents a considerable fortune for those
districts which are among the poorest
of the peninsula, has been spoiled in
these later years by an insect called
the olive fly, which stings the young
fruit, and has produced only in one
year E5,0OO,O00 damage.
1t is an insect half the size of the
house fly, rather attractive In appear
ance, having gray body, orange head,
green eyes, surmounted by two black
spots, and irridescent wings, which,
however, 1t does not use, as it hops
instead of flies. The female alone does
all the harm, as she is provided with
a special sting with which she per-
forates the olives, introducing into
each an egg, and being able to produce
from 300 to 400 one after the other
Thirty days are required for the incu-
baton of the egg, and 1t is estimated
that in one season each female is re
sponsible for about 100000 flies.
1t seems that the first time that this
scourge was recorded was in 1777. in
the province of Genoa, and since then
many systems have been studied TO
fight it, but with little success, mas
much as the only means found of kill
ing the fly also killed the fruit. Now
the Government has sent DR.. De ellis,
who claims to have discovered a rem
edy, which will be a real blessing for
the afflicted regions.-Philadelphi
Ledger.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25
HEROIC TREATMENT.
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Wise mothers do not bring up their
children by exact rule, like the mikado
OF light opera fame. They endeavor
instead ito make the punishment fit
the crime when punishment seems
an unavoidable part of education, as
it sometimes does. Mrs. Crosby was
much distressed by her small sons
habit of fighting. He came home from
school frequently with his jacket torn
and with telltale patches of crimson on
his face.
No amount of serious reasoning or
stern reprimands appeared to change
his ways, and Mrs Crosby was search
ing her mind for some method of stop
ping the pugilisdc tendencies, when
an unexpected opportunity offered it.
self.
She was sitting in her upper win
dow one afternoon, looking down on
the sidewalk, when she saw her son
approach a boy about his own size, and
demand in a lordly way an orange
which the boy was just beginning to
peel. The owner of the orange was
reluctant TO part with 1t, and the
young highwayman had no mind to
talk him into it; instead, he struck the
boy with his sturdy fist and knocked
the orange out of his hand In mo-
ment the blow was returned, and Mrs.
Crosby noted, with rather painful sat
iSfactlon, that the boy, although less
rugged-looking than her own son, was
trained in boxing
She suppressed her natural desire to
put stop to the fight, and with as
much composure as she could muster,
saw her son receive a thorough
trouncing. When at last both the vic
tor and the victim seemed satisfied,
and the stranger started to regain his
orange, which had fallen on the grass,
Mrs Crosby leaned out of the open
window so that the recent combatants
could see her She threw a quarter
toward the owner of the orange and
said, most graciously, Please take
this, and thank you so much for whip
ping my son. He needed it very
badly"
The boys were equally surprised, but
their sensations otherwise were entire
ly different. One grinned happily. The
other went slowly into the house as
sore in spirit as he was in body. and
if he ever fought after that it was only
when battle was forced upon him
Youths Companion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25
DEATH OF JULES VERNE.
Famous French Writer of Fiction Was
a True Prophet.

a True Prophet.
Jules Verne died recently in the
midst of a generation that scarcely
knows him. AS a novelist, once Of
worldwide popularity, he had outlived
his day and his fame. Because the
marvels that his inventive brain con
ceived and which fired the popular i'm
agination thirty years ago have be
come everyday commonplace.
Around the World in Eighty Days"
appealed powerfully to the public in
1872 because OF its mOnstrous improb-
ability. But now that the globe may
be circIed in sixty days or less with
out particular hurry. the romance has
died out of it as the dew-sparkses die
in the full light of day.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea" forecast the submarine boat
which las become a prosaic reality.
The dirigible balloon has not yet come
under The complete control that his
Imagination gave it, yet it has been
removed from the realm of romance
to that of science.
He was a great master of historical
romance, though the history was be-
fore him. not behind him His was
true prophetic vision. and ii was his
misfortune to have seen his once de-
licious dreams merge into duh reality.
Jules Verne. perhaps more than any
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25
ODD Names for Newsna ners.

The names Of American newspapers
are a study in nomenclature. In Ar
kansas are the Buzz Saw and the
Back Log; California, the Condor, the
Wasp and the Tomahawk; Colorado.
the Rather and Yesterday and To-Day;
Iowa, the Postal Card, the Unit, the
Nucleus and the Firebrand; Kentucky,
the Salt River Tiger. the Push, the
Boomer: Missouri. the Missing Link
and the Cyclone; Nevada, the Rustler.
Oklahoma rejoices In the Dinner Bell
and the Plain People. South Dakota
has a Plain Talker. In West Virginia
Is the Irrepressible. Missouri has the
Crank and the Entering Wedge. Wyo-
ming reads Bill BaIon's Budget-PhiI-
adeiphia Ledger.
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ideals are the men and women of to-
day who have grown up without some
knowledge of Anderseu's wonderful
fairy fancies His rhetoric often
| faulty, his syntaX perceptibly bad in
many ways, Andersen never fails to
so straight to the heart of the imag-
nation of a child. His judgment and
beautiful simplicity not only in choice
of subjects but in language reflect un-
erringly the thoughts of babyhood.
Everything Andersen touches, whether
it be an animate or inanimate object,
becomes In the mind of the child at
once alive. The broom and the doll
are as much living creatures as the
cat. The rag carpet is transformed
into thing of life, and not until long
after the glamour of the baby dream
has passed away do these inanimate
things take their proper and prosaic
places.
Andersen was born in the ancient
city of Odense, Denmark, April ,, 1905.
Nowhere in his earlier life had he any
material surroundings that gave prom
Use of the wonder-worker he was after
ward to become. His parents were
poor and shistless people and the boy
had little regular instruction and few
child friends. Long before his fifteenth
birthday he fell passionately in love
with the stage. and the happiest and
most hopeful hours of his early life
were in his fourteenth year. when he
started off for Copenhagen armed
with a lette- of introduction to a fair
danseuse at the Royal Theater, given
him by her father-an old shoe cobbler
of her native village. When he intro
duced himself to the young woman
and told her he had come 10 make him
4 self a famous actor. she took him for a
I lunatic and showed him the door
Then followed four years of hard
ship, during which time the boy traY-
/ eled through many parts of Europe,
working his way along from village to
village and gradually gathering in his
mind material for the beautiful de-
scriptive volumes he was afterward to
write about Spain. Italy and Germany
volumes that, owing to the wonder
full popularity of his later child stories,
are not as we'll known as they deserve
| 10 be.
OF all Andersen's works his II Ser
| rig"-"In Sweden"-is his mos beau-
tiful story of travel In this volume
are found some of the most stirring.
/ life-like descriptions of the habits of a
( people and the character Of a country
that have appeared in modern times.
/ In 1888 came mis- wonder stories. con-
taining the famous "Tinderbox" and
/ Big Claus" and Little Calus" In
7 lS4T he was the guest of Charles Dick
+ ems ut Gadshill. and six years later be
/ dedicated his Poets Day Dreams TO
/ Dickens. "Improv5sa tore" was the re
suit Of a tour through Italy. II IS full
of exquisite descriptions of italian life
1 and scenery.
Andersen was the most ungainly fig
ure OF a man imaginable. He often
said. himself. that he was the uglieSt
human being in Europe. What is
probably the best knowa OF all his
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25

ever may be the particular charm which wins love-
tbs womanliness and the making virtues which
hold it
Wherever the true wife Ruskin she carries
the atmosphere Of home about her The only may
be her head the gowworm in the nightcod grass
may the only her FOOT but yet
is; a stretches far round her.
better than ceed with cedar painted with vermilion
shedding its quiet light far for those who
less"
Is not this thought for a to cherish that
she herself may be home to those who love her that
without her therein the four walls of
would be just four walls and her rooftree only shell
ter? Is she not fortunate that upon duty
Of keeping the hearth fire lighted those loves
may gather round it. and each day their bond Of
union and affection? Is she not blessed that being
good she sets In the windows of her soul light which,
shining out the darkness of the outside may
be beacon to tired traveller who has his way
The sweetest love stories in the world the love
stories of happy married OF all the poems
written most tender triumphant 1.-THE Son
nets from the Portuguese written by who loved
her husband with great love that in some moods he
seemed to her near she could not think him.
And of all the euoges Of wfehood that written
that description of Tennysons wife certainly most beau
tfulthat she walked by his side for than forty
years. quckening his insight strengthening faith full
filing his every hearts desire"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25
JAPANESE sWoRoMAKER.
Famous Swordsmiths of Nara Prac-
tice an Ancient Art.

tice an Ancient Art.
The forge glowed at the back Of the
little open house, and the clank-clank
Of the hammer on the steel caught my
quick attention, because had read Of
the famous swordsmiths of Nara, and
this might be one Of them. l ap-
preached the entrance and sat down
upon a little stool that stood on the
ground below the raised platform that
always SERVES for a counter" in a
Japanese shop. Immediately the smith
forgot his work and set upon me with
his stock Of blades, although 1 think be
rather scorned to show them to a
mere woman who could not appreciate
their projections.
over the forge was n sort Of Shinto
tori on which were strung the usual
Shinto prayer epbIems Of twisted rope
and strips of paper. and, remembering
the stories I have read about how the
famous swords Of Japan have been
forged with solemn religious rites IN
der just such a representation Of the
sacred gateway Of the gods, | was
fascinated
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25
RAvAass OF SPOTTED FEVER.
1t Has Recently Claimed Hundreds of
Xictir ms in, Nexx-

Victims in New York.
So alarming have the ravages of
spotted fever, or as it is medically
known, cerebro spinal meningitis, be-
come in New York, that the committee
appointed by the Health Department
to investigate the disease and, if posi-
bic, find a cure has been directed to
carry or its work with all speed, as
the number of persons who daily fall
victims has reached alarming proper
tons. Last week 131 persons died from
the mysterious malady,. as compared
with 50 the week before, The total
number of DEATHS for the past eight
weeks is 543.
Physicians in all parts of the city
have been called to attend hundreds of
cases of the disease in its milder form
Statistics prove that only from % to
80 per cent of the afflicted persons re-
cover. The disease is prevalent in all
sections of the country For two weeks
the New York Board of Health has
been deluged with letters from health
departments offering remedies for the
cure of the complaint. Many of them
are from veterinary surgeons, who adj
here stoutly to the assertion that men
nights is similar to the disease of dis
temper in dogs, and physicians do not
deny that the symptoms are almost
identical.
Health Commissioner Darlington be
lieves that the disease is non-conta-
gious and will be stamped out by the
warm weather, but admits that the
Identical germ has not been discovered
nor cure found One of the leading
New York specialists in children's dis
eases makes the statement that tho
severity of last winter is responsible
for the epidemic, the principal victims
of which are found among the young.
1t is confined chiefly to the tenement
districts of the East and West Sides
of New York, he says. The weather
compelled the poor to remain indoors
and upon these improperly nourished
persons the bacteria readily fed. An
other physician SO, u.s.:
Il have found that among children
who have succumbed many suffered
from ricketts,, weakened state of bone,
muscle and blood, due to improper
feeding during infancy. Such children
are more liable to take the disease. A
child affected that is properly nour-
ished and in which the formal func-
tions of the body are stimulated,
stands a better chance of recovery
than one in whom those conditions are
neglected"
The disease has lately appeared in
Chicago and other cities of the Middle
West to an alarming extent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25

other literary figure, marks the transit
ton into the worlds most wonderful
period. So swiftly has his wild fiction
changed into more wonderful fact that
he was left as forlorn milestone that
is passed.
He was only story teller. But who
can doubt that his thrilling tales had
tremendous psychic effect and i'm
parted the spark of inspiration to
calmer minds of mechanical genius /?
Even in the most material things
dreams must go ahead of accomplish
ment. 1t is only the dreamers of I'M
heard-of things who point out each
step Of human progress. But for i'm
ag1nation that dares to explore the I'M
trod depths of mystery ahead, all adj
vancement would cease.
The world needs its bold dreamers,
with their far-fying fancies, as much
as it needs the hard-headed. hard
handed ones who can eaten these Gy-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25

order has extended into China and
Japan; in the latter country ten differ
ent denominations are united in the as
ISOLATION, the Presbyterians leading. In
dia has over 500 societies; there is one in
Jerusalem: the Armenian Christians
have taken it up; Persia reports forty
associations; Syria twenty, Korea about
a dozen, and they are scattered here and
there throughout Africa wherever mis-
sionary efforts have extended. 1t is
firmly rooted in Australia, and last year
the junior rally in Melbourne called to-
gether 10000 boys and girls with their
fathers and mothers. Of the European
countries, Germany is the one in which
the order has thriven most aboundingly,
but it shows gratifying signs of healthy
and vigorous growth everywhere.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25

warning 1 had ever received from any
one on the subject and-well-of
course l would not listen"
Il should think not, indeed" Ruth
said promptly. 81 do not wonder that
you called him stupid. 1 hope that
tooth is all right now, Clarice; it has
done mischief enough, should say"
1.-The tooth has been pulled and
have had a nights sleep, thanks"
Then perhaps you would not object
to hearing the story over-Jim," rails
ing her voice. Il think that you may
come in now"
Jim came, obedient to the summons,
and Ruth, after a murmured BLESS
you, my children" had the good taste
to leave the room hastily.-Waverley
Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25
IN THE FIRELIGHT.


The ire upon the hearth is low,
An1 there is stiffness everywhere.
And, like winged spirits, here and
there
The freight shadows auttering go.
And as the shadows round me creep,
a childish treble breaks the gloom,
And softly from a further room
Comes: Now l lay me down to Sleep
And somehow, with that little prayer
And that sweet treble in my ears,
My thought goes back to distant years,
And fingers with a dear one there;
ana as l hear my child's Amen,
My mothers faith comes back to me
Crouched at her side 1 seem to be,
And mother holds my hands again.
On, Tor an hour in that dear place,
On, TOR the peace of that dear time,
On, for that childish trust sublime,
On, for glimpse Of mothers face!
Aet, as the shadows round me creep,
do not seem to be alone
Sweet magic of that treble tone
And Now | lay me down to Sleep"
Eugene Field.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25

fairy stories, 1.-THE Ugly Duckling," Is
really the disguised story Of his own
life. Long before his death, which oc-
CURED in 1875, his admirers had erect
Ell statue in his honor, and the state
gave him magnificent funeral. But
the monument to Andersen that will
endure as long as civilization lasts is
the love and affection of juveniles,
bathed in the little storms of tears and
laughter through which all modern
babyhood passes as it reads his WON
der Tales" and his Picture Book
Without Pictures"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25

ent Abroad and especially in GERMANY
wise In their day and generation the Germans n,eto
insurance compulsory After the age is every worker
e anu female Is required to contribute to fund II
ose whose incomes exceed $500 per annum choose to
JON eney may only they the whole premium and do
not snare its cost with their employers Four classes of
insured are dealt WITH the being respectively 500
4o ana sZO per year and above $40 not exceeding
5000 The weekly payments the four classes are
rs = ~ and cents but the employers contribute their
own and supplementary share premiums They see
@ Doth tner own and their employees are pune
tuay paid every week
Alter nve years payments worker is entitled to sick
pension and there liberal provision for those who are
aseu' oy Whcn they can after years payment ony
IRA" pension Servant girls other female workers
may continue to pay premiums after marriage A mans
Woo" or MS Children If under 10 years draw
Inc pension for which he subscribed The great feature
Oh THIS scheme Is that it is not charity but true nsur
anee Would that statesmen here could snare time
to study the German scheme nauguate one for
masses -
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-25
POET OF CHILDHOOO'S HOUR.

Hans Christian Anderson, Danish Au-
thor of Wonderful Tales of FairyIand.
The world has recently observed
the one hundredth anniversary Of the
birth of Hans Christian Andersen, au-
thor of those wonderful tales of fairy
land which are so dear to the hearts
of children, and in every schoolhouse
in Denmark, where he was born, as
well as in every part of the civilized
world where little boys and girls
dwell, the occasion will be remember
ed with song and music and gay,
happy thoughts.
Poor, indeed, in memory and lack
ing in the fullness of childhood's