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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15

squares of alternate black and white.
You observe that rather more than half
the squares are marked with letter or
figure. They're all scattered higgledy-
piggledy, but the whole alphabet is there,
and all the figures are there, from one
to nought."
He folded the parchment to its original
form, and replaced it in the satchel.
Then, from the pocket on the other side
he drew some dozen or more sheets OF
thin vellum, each sheet no larger than
a page of ordinary note paper The
pages were all numbered, and on each
side were six exquisitely delicate little
drawings in pen and ink, each drawing
representing a chess problem.
"You play chess?' he asked.
"Fairly WELL" Harvey answered.
look at this first problem. You have
to mate in two. Queen takes knight
check
BLACK has only one move-king to
bishops third"
Quite so. And rock to knights sixth
is mate" Jethroe once more drew out
the chequered parchment. and pointed
to the square to which the black king
of the problem had been forced. The
SQUARE bore the letter A. THE whole
thing. you see. is a cipher. The square
on which the black king stands at the
close of each problem gives you letter
on the key. Every problem advances
you one letter toward the whole message.
I've solved a hundred or more, and |
shall get through the rest as soon as
have a quiet month to myself Then
shall be"
"What?' said Harvey, seeing that he
paused.
THE wealthiest man in the world
said Jethroe.
ITO be continued.)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
4CHOOk
COLLEGES

Prof. Flinders. the Psychologist, has
discovered in the Sinai peninsula the an
cient temple of Seabit ell Khadem.
Prof Curie. the distinguished discov-
erer of radium, has been elevated to the
dignity of member of the Academy of
Sciences of France.
DIR. A. V. V. Raymond, president of
Union college at Schenectady, n. Y.
refused an offer of $4,000 to become the
pastor of the First Presbyterian church
of Buffalo. His salary as president is
$500
Prof. " A. Cobb of Spencer, Mass,
is to push scientific farming in the Ha-
waiiin isilnds in behalf of Uncle Sam.
He was formerly in the employment of
the Australian government in New South
Wa'es
Prof. Henry C. Davis, a member of
the philosophy faculty ut Yale, has been
chosen as professor of philosophy ard
biblical literature in Washburn college,
Topeka, Kan.
Prof. Albert NJ. Reese Of the Syracuse
university has gone TO Florida under the
auspices of the Smithsonian institution to
e"teCt eSSS Oh tue as.istttoh - WIN ViL
its embryology
The Rev. DR.. Ryan, rector ofest. Pat
rick's college Taur!es Ireland. has beca
commissioned by the YStiean to visit the
Philippines with the vieyy Of establishing
Irish ecclesiastics there.
Ulysses p. Helarick, member of the
faculty Of the Michigan Agricultural
college, has been appointed hortieulturist
at the New York State agricultural ex-
pertinent station at Geneva, with q sal
airy of $1,000 a year.
Prof. Ray Lancaster of Oxford says
that the inhabitants of Mars have car
ried out their vast irrigation problems.
and that they are far in advance of tbs
inhabitants of the earth. and are in
condition of universal peace.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
AL Over the Stnta-

A mysterious murder in the Milwaukee
italian colony is believed to be the work
Of the Malta.
After a fire which Quilted the residence
of Grin Brown at Neenah, the iremen
made the discovery that someone had en-
tered the engine house and stolen three
pairs of rubber boots and overcoats, Ian
terms and wrenches from the hose wag-
ems.
Frank Powell, city engineer, promi-
nent Mason and club man of La Crosse,
has started suit for $4,000 damages
against l.. p. Phillippi, head of the Phil
lippi Directory Publishing Company.
charging alienation of his wife's affec-
tions and responsibility for her suicide
last April
Henry Angermeyer, head of the Nee
nah brewery, drowned in the channel of
a slough. The boat capsized. He was
wealthy and leaves a family.
Robert Kohler, aged SO. president of
the large iron works at Riverside, was
found dead in bed on the anniversary of
his brothers death a year ago The
brother also was found dead in a room.
John Weston was arrested at Neenah
for peddling without a license and fined
So He Immediately caused the arrest
of two girls who were selling garden
truck from a farm wagon. The girls
were discharged the court holding ac-
eording to a recent ruling Of the Attor-
ney General.
President Van Hise. just returned from
two weeks in Colorado, denied a story
that a new policy was to be inaugurated
at the University of Wisconsin whereby
members Of the faculty could not do out
side work, such as teaching in city
schools or writing textbooks for private
gain. Il have never said a thing to any
body regarding any such policy" he said.
1T is a pure fabrication"
Charles Sheets, formerly Of Oshkosh.
is dead at Mazatlan, Mexico. as the re-
suit of an electric shock. He held a re-
sponsible position with an electrical com
pany in Mexico. Mr.. Sheets was for
years superintendent of the Oshkosh
Electric Light and Power Company
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15

take the subject of Mancharia Chicago ReCordHeraId
PRoMIs OUTLOOK FOR CROPS
Weather Bureau Reports Corn and
Wheat in Fine Condition.

Wheat in Fine Condition.
The weekly bulletin of the weather
bureau summarizes crop conditions as
follows:
Texas and Oklahoma experienced very
warm weather, while it was too cool over
the northern portion of the lake region
and on the California coast; otherwise
the temperature conditions We're gener-
ally favorable. Too much rain proved
detrimental in portions of Nebraska,
Kansas and Missouri, and also in Flor
ida and portions of Mississippi but in
northern Alabama, Georgia and the Car
olinas, and over a considerable part of
the middle Atlantic States, Ohio valley
and Tennessee rain is much needed, the
effects of drought becoming serious over
the greater part of Georgia Rain is
also needed on the north Pacific coast.
Over the central and western portions
of the corn belt and the greater part Of
the middle Atlantic States corn continues
in excellent condition, and, while needing
rain in the Ohio valley. the condition of
the crop in that district is generally
promising.
Thrashing of winter wheat is largely
completed in the principal wheat States.
This work has, however, been interrupt
ed by rains in Kansas, and complaints of
injury from moisture continue from por-
tions of Tennessee and the middle At
lantic States. Flowing for fall seeding
is in progress in the southern portions Of
the central valleys.
While rust in spring wheat is more or
less prevalent in the Dakotas and to Il
slight extent in Nebraska, Iowa and Min
nesota, the reports generally indicate that
crop has not sustained serious injury.
Harvest is nearly finished in Iowa, and
is in progress in Nebraska and the south
ern portions Of South Dakota and Min
nesota. but has not yet begun in North
Dakota, where the crop is generally in
excellent condition, with long heads
which are filling well. In Oregon har-
vesting is active, with yields below ex-
pectations; in Washington spring wheat
is ripening rapidly and is beyond further
injury from hot winds.
Nearly all reports indicate that good
crop of oats has been secured. Harvest
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Finds Coin Given Indians.

A metal box, two inches square, was
found on the Allard farm, now owned
by Mr.. Fitzmaurice Of Berlin, by Anton
Disterhoff, an employe. Upon prying it
open with chisel the box was found 10
be filed with a substance like cement.
In the center Of the cement was a small
coin. Mr.. Fitzmaurice sent it to the
State university at Madison for exam
nation, and was informed that il was
French coin of the seventeenth century,
and was known as a 'lepton, or wild
ow's mite. 1t is believed that Marquette
or some Catholic missionary who passed
along the Fox river about 1910 gave it
to the Mascoutah Indians. The land on
which it was found had never been cul-
tivated before. On the same field is an
Indian mound about fifty feet in diane
ter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
oh ApTER X.

Jethroe senior, once more heavily clad
against the weather, found himself alone
in section of a stateroom passenger
coach. with an unbroken run of FIVE
and-twenty miles before him. The wheels
had barely made their first revolution,
when Jethroe opened a small travelling
bag which lay on the seat before him.
and drew from it a brand new pair of
scissors and hand toilet glass. He laid
these down while he unburdened himself
of the overcoat, the tall collar of which
had been so turned up as to leave visi-
HE little but the bridge of his nose and
the keen gray eyes which glowed below
his shaggy eyebrows. He gathered his
great flowing beard in his left hand and
cut ii away close to the chin, and
thrust the severed hair into a paper bag
Then he took a look at himself in the
toilet glass, and laughed.
81 think l shall make a little differ
ence." he said, and so went on with his
task, which began to be more than
little ificult and even in a small way
dangerous, by reason of the uneven jolt
ing of the carriage. He discarded the
glass after one experimental minute, and,
kneeling on the seat before him and
making use of the mirror below the car
rage rack, roughly trimmed away the
whole beard and whiskers as close as he
dare venture There's a change al
ready" he said, cooking his chin at his
own reflection and scrutinizing himself
on this side and on that. Now for the
patent razor. l wonder if shall leave
myself in ribbons"
He returned the glass and the scissors
to their places, and after a little swift
rummaging, found a flask, a shaving
bowl and brush, and safety razor. He
made a great lather, thrust a handker-
chief between his collar and his throat,
anu. with much wincing and grimacing,
began to shave. He made a tolerable
piece of work of it, but shook his head
in grave disapproval of the general re-
suit.
Il hadn't reckoned on that" he said
Thirty years of wind and sun. Cheek
bones, nose and brow. all tanned TO
leather. Everything colorless under the
beard. It's a change. It's a big change.
but it gives itself away"
He opened a window and sifted the
contents of the paper bag into the outer
air little at a time. Then he got rid
of his soapy fragments of paper. packed
his bag, resumed his overcoat and but
toned himself up once more. He had
still five minutes before the train arriv-
e9 its first stopping place, and twice
oi 1rice he arose 10 inspect himself in
the glass.
Its a beginning" he muttered, but
it's only a beginning"
Then the engine shrieked at tee signal.
and the train gave a first sign CO -zzsRt-
ing in its pace. He rose for another look.
"It'H take a lot more thpn t,at," he
said. "a lcs more than that
He had Travelled by crooked ways for
DAYS past, making apparently purpose
less journeys across country, and chang
ing one railway system for another, and
he was now in a city 20 which he was
an entire stranger. He left a porter in
charge of his belongings and walked from
the station platform into the hotei.
II sent a telegram from Burton yes
y-Jones-reserving bed and sitting
room"
Quite right. sir. Roberts, 80 and 81
for this gentleman"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
A Costly strike.

That S1,500.000 has been spent by The
United Mine Workers Union Of America.
Of which John Mitchell is president to
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company was
ASSERTED by a witness before License
Commissioner Keating at Wnkesbarre.
Pa. This witness declared that the
union pays $4,000 ayear. or $1,000 a
day. 4, support the striking miners. and
that from the unions own books it is
show. that $4,000 was spent in buying
return tickets for the men who We're sent
South BY employment agencies to I'LL the
places of the strikers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Telephone Fight Is Begun.

The first skirmish in a three-cornered
fight over a franchise for an Independent
telephone company began at the meeting
of the Milwaukee Council committee on
judiciary the other day. The franchise
calls for term of fifty years and the
promoters said they were ready to spend
$2,000,000, grant free service until 5000
phones were on the paid-up list and then
cut the present rates. Arguments were
presented showing the advantages of
competition and the growth of indepen-
dent companies in the last few years.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
He'd Better Hurry Home.

Arthur Labelle, who formerly drove
a baggage wagon at Appleton, and later
was hotel bellboy, but who disappear
ed last April, is wanted by attorneys.
He has fallen heir to the whole estate
left by his father in Canada, which is
valued at $4,000. II is thought he is
now travelling with a circus. William
Vaughn, a real estate dealer, received a
letter from Canadian officials asking him
to make an effort to find the boy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
THE DIAMOND river
MURRAY

BY DAVID MURRAY

This way, sir"
Jethroe followed the waiter and stood
by while re lighted the fire, the materials
Of which were already arranged.
ANY orders, sir?"
Barber in the hotel?'
Yes sir"
''Send him here"
The waiterd melted self-deprecatingly
away, and in a few minutes returned to
usher in the barber. Jethroe stood by
the window with his collar still turned
above his ears and the ribbons of his
tapped travelling cap tied beneath his
chin. He reflected that he had been bare
ly glanced at, and that he could make
what change he would without exciting
observation.
''Just trim me up, will your he said
carelessly, as he threw his cap and coat
upon chair.
The man hustled about, spread a cloth
upon the floor, set a chair in the midst
of it, smothered his seated client in a
wrapper, and took professional look at
him.
much off, STRIP
make me as smart as you can, my
lad" Jethroe answered, with a laugh.
''I've been abroad this twenty years, and
I'm going to an old pals wedding to-
morrow"
Il can take them twenty years off you
in twenty minutes"
Take it." Jethroe answered.
The barber beamed, and set to work
at once. He cut the grizzled wiry hair
away by the handful, and then fell TO a
more delicate manipulation. He trim
med the bristling eyebrows close, and
shaped the struggling mustache.
"a touch of cosmateek, sirY' he said,
almost pleadingly.
Anything you like" said Jethroe,
laughing again. MAKE a job of it."
The man fell to work once more with
a dark, viscous mixture and a miniature
brush and comb. Then he produced a
hand glass with a triumphant flourish,
and Jethroe, looking into it, saw a wholly
unfamiliar face.
They won't know me, he said.
The neat dark eyebrow, the trim dark
mustache, the military crop of the griz-
zled hair, the absence of the beard, had
made another man of him. When he
had paid and dismissed the artist who
had wrought this change, he strolled into
the bedroom, and, finding there a full
length cheval glass, surveyed himself in
a sort of wonder The metamorphosis of
the head seemed to have changed his
whole personality. His figure was still
1.-THE and upright and the well-cut, dark
tweed suit he wore sat smartly on him.
The neck gear won't do" he said smil-
ingly. THE vanished beard has left me
a throat like vultures. And the boots.
The hat will be another. III mend all
that straightway."
He rang his bell, gave his orders, and
in less than an hour was equipped to
his liking.
Upon my wordr' he declared, as he
examined himself anew, I'm a very pas
sable looking fellow. l was never much
addicted to personal vanity, and
haven't given my attractions much Of a
chance of late years. You're very well
preserved, Martin, and you'd pass for a
hard-bitten forty anywhere"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Will Soon Leave Office.

Gov. Robert NJ. La Toilette will relin-
Quish his Office as Governor of Wiscon-
son in September and go to Washington
in October as United States Senator.
Whether the Governor will call an extra
session of the Legislature to receive his
resignation or merely file it with the See
rotary Of State is not known, but his sup
porters expect him to adopt the latter
course. The Governor is practically
through with the cares of his office and
has turned all matters over to Lieut.
Gov. Davidson.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Family Had Twenty-seven Children.

What is believed 10 be the largest
family in Wisconsin, and possibly in the
Northwest, has been discovered at the
Holland village of Little Chute by cen
sus takers. Mr., and Mrs. Anton Nerkul-
len are parents of twenty-seven children,
all but three of whom ere living and
most of whom are still under the par
entail roof Mr.. Verkullen is 81 years
of age and his wife is one year his
senior. The date of their marriage was
June /, 1875. In the family are three
sets of twins. The twenty-four living
children are almost evenly divided, four
teen being boys and ten girls Five of
the children are married, and the Oldest
son is the father of four children.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15

lations are warned that they make them
selves liable to answer in the courts. 1t
is announced that no more illegal restric-
tons on travel or commerce will be toll
Grated. 1t is understood that the action
taken by the board of health has the
full sympathy of Gov. Blanchard and
that as a result, at least in Louisiana,
there will be a modification of the pres
ent onerous guarantees.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
NEWS OF WISCONSIN.
A WEEKS RECORD OF STATE
HAPPENINGS.
Child Eiopes with an Ex-Convict-
FusiIiade Of Bullets for Auto Party
ee-Cornered Telephone Fight in

= sad lenouemens to an elopement
came to pass al Kenosha, when 15-year-
old Mary Rummell daughter OF William
Rulnmell. d farner living near Genoa
junction, discovered that the man who
had won her confidence. not only had de-
serted her, but that he is an ex-convict.
The child eloped with Fred Lichtenteller,
Kenosha man. recently released from
the States prison. where he served a
term for wife abandonment. He brought
the girl to Kenosha and left her in care
of his parents. The girl had been will
ing to go ON with the ceremony despite
the fact that her sutton was thirty years
her senior.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Raises Railroads. Taxes.

The State tax commission, acting as
a State board of assessment, announced
the preliminary assessment of the rail-
road property in the State for the cuI4
rent year. There is an increase of over
$S,OO0,000 in the total valuation. and
about II cents per 81 900 in the average
rate of taxation. The board will begin
hearing the protests of the railroads, if
any are made, on Aug. 16. The total
valuation of railroad property in Wiscon-
sin as fixed by the commission is 1929
200 600
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Bullets for Auto Party.

What was either an attempt to assas-
sinate, effort at hold-up. or act of ven
geance on the pare of irate farmers on
auto scorchers took place near Corliss,
and the victim was Richard Robinson.
the wealthy secretary of the Case
Threshing Machine Company of Racine
Mr.. Robinson was making a trip through
the country with his wife and two chill
dren when he was shot at several times
from ambush. All of the bullets went
wild. One theOsy is that the shooting
was done by robbers from Chicago, who
have been holding up machines in that
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
ing is now finished, except in extreme

ing is now finished, except in extreme
northerly districts. where it is well adj
vanced.
Cotton shows some Improvement in
Tennessee, western North Carolina,
northern Alabama, Mississippi Arkan-
sas, Oklahoma and portions of Louisiana,
but elsewhere over the cotton belt the
crop has deteriorated. Picking is general
in southern Texas and in some central
counties of that State, and has com
menced over the southern portions of the
eastern districts
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Els EXPLANATION.

How is it, Brother Grifey, that you
never contribute to any worthy cause?
Your money is clean"
"Tain't."
"Then keep it."--Cleveland Plain
DeNler
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Big Dynamite Plot Fails.

An attempt was made to dynamite the
Indian ford dam, which furnishes power
for GAINESVILLE and Edgerton. The charge
failed to explode.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
Definition.

Smart-Why do you refer to Mrs.
ToSsem as hay widow?
Tart-Beeause hay is grass w.lh al
the greenness dried out.-New York
Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15

Now and then one gets an amusing
glimpse of the variety of duties which
the President is called upon to perform.
While he was settling the difference
between Assistant Secretary LOOMS
and Minister Bowen, and deciding
what should be done in the case of the
Santa Re Railroad Company, and ar
ranging for a peace conference be-
tween Russia and Japan, a delegations
of Gloucester fish merchants called
upon him to complain of the conduct
of the mackerel. These incOnsiderate
fish, formerly very regular in their
habits, have lately become dissipated
and erratic. They take long and fire.
quent vacations, without giving any
indication as to where they are going
or when they will return, and in other
ways give evidence of leading a double
life. The Gloucester fish merchants,
who have so often fed these mackerel
and looked after them so tenderly, are
naturally hurt. They want the Presi-
dent to get after the rebellious schools
with his big stick, and compel the
mackerel to be good; and he promised
to have the fish commission make an
investigation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15

Why is it that one never sees the
portrait of an angel in trousers or OF
the devil La pettcoats?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15

Reckless chauffeurs are doing al
they can to bring discredit on auto
mobiles, and they become so -cudaciOus
in breaking the speed laws that the
need of more rigorous enforcement of
the statutes, both in Europe and in
this country, is made apparent by fire.
quent disasters on both sides OF the
ocean-New York Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15

The United States produces $4,000
600 metric tons of coal year, wirth
at the mines S4s5, 100000 and costing
consumers nearly a billion dollars.