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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
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The News ~

They seem to be doing almost every
thing down in Panama except digging.
The pistol and the bomb have won
favor as campaign arguments in Cuba.
Now that the football season has be-
gun, we don't miss the war as much as
we did.
Women's hats appear this year reduc-
ed in size, but not perceptibly ensmalled
in price.
After the exposures in high finance,
three-card-monte seems like a fair and
friendly game.
The life insurance companies seem to
have adopted as a side line the insuring
of political elections.
1t is time to let up on Senator Depew.
He has had 5-cent cigar named after
him without his consent.
Filming the beef trust So, 900 for break
ing the laws is like throwing dpper of
water on a burning house.
Someone ought to lead the Taggart
case into Il remote forest, cover it with
quicklime and forget about it.
Now that Chief Rain-in-the-Face is
dead. only Carrie Nation and a few
others are left to WELD the tomahawk.
That life insurance company that loan
ed $J,000000 TO a negro messenger does
not seem inclined to draw the color line.
Travelling in his private car, John
Alexander Dowie accentuates the fact
that ravin's have been good to Elijah III.
The Mikado's illustrious ancestors
must have been guilty of few moments
pieces.
Is the Panama canal commission
spending that $6j0,0OO a month just
killing mosquitoes and building plank
hotels?
Balloon ascensions will never be en-
tirely safe until they can stretch nets
over large section of the face of the
earth.
Mrs. Chadwick creditors have sue
ceeded in getting $4,561 of the million
they loaned her. But then. she was in
Jail and didn't have fighting chance
for the S4,561.
Mrs. Chadwick is again on trial. which
shows that it is safer to get the money
from policy holders than from men who
run banks.
The general opinion seems to be that
the Senate viii pass some kind of rate
regulation measure-most probably the
railroad kind.
If ballot-box stuffing is to be forbid
den. Philadelphia politicians would be
glad to have some one explain what bal
lot boxes are for.
Uncle Sam is not going to rush right
down and depose President Palma of
Cuba. In fact, Uncle Sam sort of train
ed him and kind of helped TO put him
there.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Western WAY With Flocl,s.
Ripening Cream,

A ripened cream is almost a pure
culture Of acid bacteria, but this does
not mean that the ripening has been
produced by these bacteria alone.
That the Tactic bacteria play an i'm
portant part in the ripering is per-
fectly evident; that they are the sole
causes of the changes occurring in the
ripening is not so evident. The pc
culiar flavor of spring butter which is
so much desired by the buttermaker
is not due to the development of the
common Tactic bacteria. Butter rip
ened during the cold winter months
develops two species of Tactic bacteria
as abundantly and as quickly as does
that ripened in the spring, but the
favor does not make its appearance
To what this spring flavor is owning
is not yet determined. Whether it
will prove to be due TO the large
growth of miscellaneous bacteria dur
ing The first few hours of ripening, or
whether it is due to n difference III
the chemical nature of the cream re-
mains for further research TO decide
American CultiVator.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
BURGLARS ROB BANK.
Blow Safe in RidgeviI1e, Ind, Institu
ton and Get Away with $4,000,

Blow Safe in Rid geviI1e, Ind, Institu-
ton and Get Away with $4,000.
Between 1 and . o'clock Tuesday
morning seven robbers blew the safe
in the Ridgeville, Ind, State bank and
escaped with about $4,000 The explo-
sion aroused Cashier Branson, who hur-
ried to the bank in time to receive a
bullet in the ankle. Before going to the
bank the robbers met the town watch
man, overpowered and bound and gag
ged him. There is no clew.
The wounded cashier made his way to
the home of the bank president, NJ. 2.
Sumption. and the two turned in a fire
alarm. Meanwhile the burglars had sue
ceeded i'll forcing the doors of the safe
and by rhe time the citizens were arous-
ed the cracksmen had obtained their
plumber. All the electric lights in town
were turned on and citizens attempted to
surround the robbers.
But the burglars did not fear capture.
For more than an hour the town was
practically at the mercy of the gang of
the seven robbers, who are supposed to
be Chicago desperadoes and who openly
walked the streets. shooting at every
thing in sight and apparently taking
their time in leaving the scene Of the
crime. The banks loss of $4,000 is COW
cred by burglar insurance and neither
the bank nor the depositors will lose
any money.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Sailing the Lawns

Whenever lawns are highly ma
nured, as most well-kept lawns are apt.
to be, dressing of salt sometimes dur
ing the winter will greatly benefit
them. Salt in small quantities, as it
must be used when applied to land,
is one of the best solvents known. We
are so used to putting salt in extra
amounts to harden and pickle vege-
tables that we are apt to forget that
in very small amounts it rots them.
Try it on some cut potatoes for seed.
as we knew farmer once to do, and
see the effect. He rotted whole row
of potatoes in this way, so that two
thirds of them never came up. Salt
is especially valuable to release min
eral fertilizers that have become inert
In fhe soil
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Heavy Loss at Marirette.

The recent storm did $4,000 damage
along the north shore of the Menominee
river. Docks have been washed away,
boat houses torn to pieces and fuel sup
plies carried into the bay Many boats,
tugs and gasoline launches were destroy
ed, and logs in the storage booms were
washed away. The seas ran up on the
streets of Marinette and Menominee.
Fishermen all along the shores of Green
Bay lost heavily in nets and boats. The
docks of Ramsey & Jones, Lessen &
Henes, the MenOminee River Shngle
Company and Lyon Brothers were de-
stroycd. From two of the docks thou
sands of tons Of coal were swept into
the bay. There was no loss of life, as
vessels generally needed the storm warn
ings
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
WISCONSIN'S RECORD.
FAITHFULLY TOLD IN READABLE
SHAPE.
Leading Beioit Citizen Dies Auto Tour
ing Party Meets Hot Reception
Storm Causes Loss on Green Bay
Robbers Try to Steal Mail Bags.

Serene T. Merrill one Of Beloit's
most progressive citizens. died at the
age of 80 years. He was born in Frank
lin county, Mass, and spent this boyhood
in Chester county, n H. He came to
Beloit in 1916 and led a life of great
activity and prominence in business and
public affairs. He was member of
the State Legislature in 1876 and -.
In II he was sent by Gov. Washburn
as commissioner for the State to the Vi
emma exposition, and President Hayes
sent him to Paris as commissioner at
large to the Paris worlds fair. He was
also commissioner to the exposition ut
New Orleans He founded Il seminary
in Beloit in 1916 and merged it into
Beloit college when that institution was
started. He was teacher of the first
class in Beloit college and member of
the board of trustees. He built the first
paper mill at Beloit which afterward
became the property of the Rock River
Paper Company.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Grain on Clover Sod.

In an experiment conducted at the
Ontario College on four different Oc-
casions, winter wheat grown on land
on which a crop of green peas was
plowed under produced an average
yield of wheat per acre which was 22.1
per cent (6.25 bushels) greater than
that produced on land on which a
crop of green buckwheat was plowed
under, and 14.2 per cent AZ bushels)
gre tier than that which was grown
on land which was worked as a bare
fallow, having been plowed three times
during the summer. The results of an
experiment conducted in the year 1900
show that the winter wheat which
was grown on red clover sod yielded
20.7 per cent greater than that which
was sown on timothy sod. Two years
results with commercial fertilizers
show that 100 pounds per acre of
nitrate of soda increased the yield Of
about eighty cents per bushel. As a
result of hundreds of inquiries we
learn that in Ontario about thirty
three per cent of the winter wheat is
sown on pea ground twenty five on
clover sod, eleven on barley ground.
ten on timothy sod, nine on summer
fallow and twelve on land following
potatoes, beans, oats, corn and roots.
Many tests conducted at Guelph in
dictate the Importance of sowing nineIy
pounds of winter wheat per acre on
an average soil. The amount might be
for poor land and decreased
for rich soil. If the land is in good
state of cultivation it matters but lit
tie whether the seed is sown broad
cast or with tube drill, but i! the
land is dry or lumpy that which is
sown with the drill is likely to give
the best results. The highest yields
per acre have been obtained from
sowing between August 20 and Sep
tember massachusetts Ploughmau-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

absolutely impossible for the remans wife to join the
club composed of the engineers wives and for the
brakeman's wife-she simply isn't in it."
If the labor question is to be settled must
have the spirit Of brotherhood taught by the carpenter
of Nazareth There are broadninded who have this
larger vision Men who deprecate the bitterness and the
singing personalities which have been injected into the
labor question: which must fought only it's
its and on principle But the agitator whether
he represents employer employee with his pessimsm his
cruel SATIRE his appeal to class prejudice only retard
the growth Of the spirit of brotherhood which prevail
before the golden age be ushered in
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
UnsIacked Lime for Rats.

A correspondent of the Country Gen
tleman says that to keep rodents out
of oats. take unslacked lime. just
sprinkle it over the floor or platform
on which one will put his grain, then
a layer of sheaves and another liberal
spread Of lime. Continue in like man
rar, lining each layer of grain to the
last not smothering the last layer, and
that is all there is to it. | keep rats
and mice out of my corn cribs in the
same way, and it is invariably a sue
cess. l also keep large quantities of
unthreshed oats In barn free from rats
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Lash and Rocks for Auto Party.

While driving his automobile through
Outagamle county near New London re-
Gently, l.. Provost of Oshkosh sustained
severe cash on the face as result of
vicious attack on the part of driver
of team of mules. Mr.. Provost was
accompanied by another man and two
women, all of Oshkosh, and We're ON Z
trip through the northern part of the
State. The automobile was kept behind
the wagon for fully mile and when
finally a wider place in the road was
reached and the Oshkosh automobiles at
tempted to run by, the teamster swung
his rawhide whip viciously, cutting 4
deep cash in the face The driver also
hurled a number of stones. one striking
and slightly injuring one of the women
The Oshkosh people have learned the
identity of the driver and prosecution
will follow
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
MORMON ENDOWMENT ROBE.
II Is Supposed to Be a Sort of Invul-
uerable Shield,

II Is Supposed TO Be Sort of Invul-
nerable Shield.
One of the sweetest Mormon wom-
en- l have known showed me one Of
the endowment garments one time,
carefully explaining, evidently in or
der to ease her conscience for the act,
which is forbidden, that l had prob
ably seen it on the clothes line. The
garment may best be described as a
white union suit, and she told me that
every man or woman who has ever
been through the temple is expected
TO wear such an one for the rest of
his natural life Even in removing
the garment, TO put on a fresh one,
it may not be entirely removed until
il has been replaced by the new, says
Marian Bonsall, in the Housekeeper.
1t is worn night and day, summer and
winter. Woven ones, patterned after
the same style, may be worn in cold
weather. These garments are seldom
seen by GentileS. especially of late.
since the saints have been forbidden
to send them to n public laundry. The
garment is supposed to be Il kind of
invulnerable shield. protection
against disease and violent death. 1t
is particularly distinguished by GER
tain markings, which to the Mormon
mind have deep significance, never
to be revealed. The markings are in
cisions of a V-shape, made over one
breast. the abdomen and one knee.
1 remember my astonishment at her
answer to my question before l had
seen the garment, If it was not the
ambition of every woman of her faith
to be married in the temple, and her
merry laugh as she said: Yes, of all
good Mormon women. but l don't
think So of young girl with pretty
neck And arms Finally she explain
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

in and around Baku. the great pc
troleum port on the Caspian sea, and
thousands of oil wells were fired. The
scenes as the dense, black smoke
poured from the blazing oil, obscurlng
the sky for miles were impressive in
their awful 2randeur. The oil wells
in some Of the districts are close to-
gether. and as the smoke and flames
arose from them they looked like a
forest of blazing pyramids. Many mil
lions of dollars worth of property
were consumed,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
MuTsuHlTo AND 1000 MEET.
Admiral Came TO Report to Emperor
the Return of His Fleet from War.

INC ketuTn OF MS FIeet from War.
Sunday was made memorable in the
annals of Japan by the public entry
into Toxic of Admiral Togo. who came
to report to the Emperor the return of
his fleet from the war.
The distinguished naval officer was
met at Shimbashi station by ministers
of state, generals, admirals members
of the diplomatic corps and hundreds
of officials and private citizens, who
extended him Il warm welcome to the
capital He was accompanied by his
staff and Admirals Kataola, Kami-
mura and Dewa, together With their
respective stats The party entered
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

sion think there be doubt that that mission is
defeated Russas this time to stay
think the Gar will withdraw the small human
tiles that have been forced him and his me-
daeVa barbarsms with relieved spirit and immeas-
urabe joy think Russian liberty has had its last chance
and has lost it. think nothing been gained by the
peace that remotely comparable to what has been sac
feed by it. One more battle would have abolished the
waiting chains of billions upon billions of unborn Russians
and wish it could have fought.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
MILLIONS GONE UP IN SMOKE.

One Result Attending the Terrible
Riots in the Russian Caucasus.
The recent disturbances in the Rus
sian Caucasus, apart from the enor-
nous loss of life which resulted in the
bloody encounters between the Tartars
and Armenians, were enormously cost
ly to property. The great oil industry,
located in the richest petroleum field
in the world, received such a check by
the torch of the incendiary that it will
require years to re-establish it on its
former basis. Refneries were destroyed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
BOLD Attemnt to stea1 MaiI Raos.

Two men made a bold attempt to
steal the United States mail bags at
the Northwestern depot in Marinette.
They ran from behind freight cars up
to the mail wagon and grabbed two of
the bags, but were discovered. Mail
Carrier Roberge shot twice at the fleeing
men, They dropped the mail bags and
diSaDpnared
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Saves Train and Gets S25.

Tire st. Paul road has sent so and
a letter of thanks to Hattie Lentz the
16-year-old girl who saved a freight
train carrying five men and valuable
freight from crashing through a burned
bridge Oct. 4. The girl is daughter of
Il farmer near GAINESVILLE.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Farmers Are Up in Arms,

The farmers of the town of Muskego
are up in arms over the alleged depre-
datiOns of Milwaukee hunters who come
to that vicinity Sundays Much prop
erty has been destroyed, it is claimed
The hunters are said to carry nippers
with which they cut wire fences to avoid
the trouble of climbing over. 4 valua-
bic horse belonging to Martin Baas of
that town was recently shot and killed
by a hunter
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

may be quite unnecessary. 1t Is al
ture time. The table or chair that
seems so charming to-day may not be
found to have any real utility to-mor-
row. 1t is not the change in fashions
that should be awaited, for such a
method would only result in confusion
and unseemly mixture 1t is rather to
avoid filling ones rooms and burden
ing ones self with more than one &C
tually needs
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
JAPANESE PEACE A DISASTER.
BY Samuel L. Clemens MARK Twain.

BY Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain.
| hope l am mistaken, yet in all
sincerity 1 believe that the Russo
japanese peace is entitled to rank as
the most conspicuous disaster in polit-
zeal history. During the war Russia
was on the high road to emancipa-
ton from an insane and intolerable
slavery. l was hoping there would
be no peace until Russian liberty was
safe. l think that this was a holy
war in the best and noblest sense of
that abused term and that no war
was ever CHARGED with q higher mis-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
ed that the garment reached to the


ed that the garment reached to the
neck and to the elbow
\ small but interesting incident in
connection with the endOwmcntS is
that each woman is given Il new name
which she is never to tell to a living
soul except her husband. 1t is by this
name that she is supposed to be adj
mitted into the glory of the hereafter.
One Mormon woman, however, her
mirth getting the better of her Sc
crecy, confided to a Gentle friend of
mine that she and her woman friends
who had gone through the ceremony
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
The SECRET OF A LONG LIFE.
BY Russell Sann.

Work is the best recipe for a long
life. My happiness lies in accomplish
ing things, and so long as l am per-
mitted to live l shall continue to work.
There is nothing in money itself
worth struggling for after one has
enough for his needs. In the begin
ming determined never to get excited
about anything, to preserve a serene
disposition and a COOL clear brain, and
to this and to hard work l attribute
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
THE PROGRESS OF LABOR.
nr Rer. charIes SfeIzIe.


NJ reads history knows that the condition of the
4 vi workngman to-day is infinitely better than it
w WAS a century ago. Whatever other causes have
been at work to brig about this change, much of
1 u it must be attributed to trades uniOnism.
f%AN There has been steady progress like the ire
800 sistble sweep of a mighty river Eddes have
been formed which to mark the backward course of
the stream The pessimis has the eddy and pointed
to it indication that there has been only backward
Indifferent the fact that the flood just beyond
reveals true progress
The condition of the skilled American workingman to-
day superior that the royalty three
ago He has better home more cOnyeniences more
books of the things that make life worth the living
The increase in wages the shortening of his hours of
work the multiplication Of his comforts his
t:Onal advantages his superior position citizen and
as man-all these have made the average wor1ingman
a progressive, rghtthinking human being.
AS already noted conditions ideal There is
much that needs to be adjusted Because of this among
the socaed MASSES" there a feeling which
many fear 1t is supposed this feeling indicates
may be uprising destructive of order but no
need fear agitation carried by honest intel
hgent 1t is sign of life and growth an indi-
cation Of better things The good sense Of the
American people will that it all right But
Rome was not built in day. The bitterness in human
society will not be healed by arbitrary Of men
into classes. Any class movement in this country be it
a workingmen's movement employers movement is
to fail
The rich frequently accused of fostering class
spirit However that may be- this unfortunate spirit not
confined to the prosperous. The spirit sometimes
exists among wOrkingmen The journeyman frequently
treats his helper with the greatest contempt The
chancs in trades consider themselves superior
those engaged in some others Because workingmen
are privileged to white linen shirts while at their
work they despse the labOrer whose toll compels
made of wool cotton This spirit of caste has
road town the of the engineers the remen and the
orakemen are formed into exclusive womens clubs. 1t
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IIUI dIUIIt WIdI SUCCESS I nave at
taned but my health and strength at age when
who attain it may be considered useless
do not believe in quitting business The older man
long he retains his faculties the valuable
is he to the community enjoy life and shall die
The business outlook for the country to
aging though do not like the of the spirit of
speculation Reckless speculation is like overndulgence
in Iiquor-the reaction is bound to come.
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-
and "in concert from the first up to the sixth reader
Burns Gray, Longfelow, Byron Moore-grave humorous
impassioned-were drilled into the school children I'll
wager that more orators produced from McGufeys
fifth reader than from any class eocuon that
love of true literature born reading
the classes in English" in schools of to-day Stop
any American born the streets to-day
to rece the Village Blacksmith and it is almos certain
that he will brace, feet apart put hand behind his
back, and say: Under spreading chestnut tree"
The literature of the public schools to-day
thing below the standard Of fifty years ago. students
read more they read more practical matter newspapers
magazines recent books and poem the standard elias
sizes They get much good reading timers got
but find it diluted with lot of bad or what is worse
mediocre literature. find that the best chance the
public school pupil of to-day 10 get really good matter
to go into one of the languages He gets the in
French or German and mediocre stuff in English The
method of teaching English to-day is broader
method but doubt that it incucates true and lasting
love for good reading and the old style did We
did not get much in those days, but got the best
Regardless of the class of literature schools of
to-day the children certainly missing something in not
reading Of the things that they they
had seen.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Not Passed. Arer AN.

Bicker-So you're not going to mar.
~ her?
Wicker-No. she's woman with a
past.
Bicker-But you told me she said
the past was dead
Wicker-True, but I've discovered it
was one of those cases of suspended
animation-Detroit News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

rel of unslacked lime is enough for p
600 or 1900 bushels of corn or eight
tons of sheaf oats"
Western Way with FIocks.
Many focks of Utah are put out I'M
der leasing system. The lessee pays
all expenses, makes good the losses
and returns to the lessor two pounds
of wool to the head and six lambs in
the hundred. This plan mas so fa-
proved satisfactory all around, but a
larger cooperative company makes
different terms. The lessee pays all
expenses except the taxes, makes all
old stock good, has three-ffths of the
lambs and two-thirds of the WOOL
These terms have been so favorable TO
the lessor that they will be somewhat
modified another year.-Farm Prog
ress,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

A woman runs almost as fast when
she sees mouse as man does when
he hears G. baby crying.