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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03
TIE BURGLARS HARVEST.
New York Has the Worst Visitation c
Such Crimes in Her History.

New York Has the Worst Visitation of
Such Grimes in Her History.
There are more robberies in New York
City at present than ever before in the
experience of the metropolis. On the
East Side burglars and sneak thieves are
so active that men and women sit up
nights with all manner Of firearms handy
to repel attacks. Five thefts in the re-
gion bounded by Bradford and Fulton
streets, Arlington and Miller avenues
were reported recently in a single night.
In the eastern section of Harlem 30
burglaries have occurred in the past ten
days.
In spite of strongest safes, more cum
ming electric alarm systems and more
complete methods of identifying crimi-
mails, the burglar seems to be feared now
adays much more than he used to be,
An evidence OF this is the tremendous
growth of the burglar insurance bust
ness in this country in recent times. A
title more than ten years ago practically
I'll attempts to insure people against
theft proved futile. Companies were
organized for this purpose, but after
many vicissitudes they ended in failure.
tons have come into existence, and so
large is the business they do that in the
last year they paid over 1884, 14i in
burglary losses. In the same time they
collected $1,3S6,61O in premiums.
This increasing dread of the burglar
is due to the fact that he never was
more formidable or more active than at
the present time. In these days of
greater wealth those temptations which
are so alluring to the thief have been
multiplied. Consequently there are more
diamond robberies and crimes of a SINH
lar character now than in the past. The
discovery of more effective tools and
more powerful explosives has also aided
the robber, and although he does not
attempt as often as he did to blow up
the big city banks, because of their alarm
systems and special patrols, his ravages
in country districts have grown to an
alarming extent. At the present time
four out of FIVE bank burglaries are COM
mitted in towns of less than 1000 inhab-
itants. In the last eight years 776 banks
situated in such communities were at
tackled, with loss of 81 ,25Q, 900. Safes
once regarded as burglar proof have been
SHOWN 10 De Hllle stronger Inan soap
boxes in the hands of expert thieves, and
consequently many companies will not
insure country banks at all.
The modern burglar is more wantonly
destructive than his predecessor. His
use of dope" or nitroglycerine often
causes a greater damage to a building
than the loss made by the theft itself.
Even when he fails of getting loot he
leaves a scene of wreckage behind. OF
the $1,250,000 in losses incurred by
banks, of which mention has already
been made, more than 100000 repre-.
scented destruction of property In rob-
berries of dwelling houses and apartment
houses the damage averages about one
tenth of the total loss.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03

The home of Attorney Warren Leslie
New York, was robbed of several thou
sand dollars worth of property.
Miss Marie Hamill a society girl
and her fance, Neil Wolf, were killed in
an auto accident near Acto. N. j.
The criminal court at STEAMBOAT has
condemned to death the Armenian, Chin
kis Vartanian, a naturalized America
citizen, for the murder of the Armenian
merchant, Apik Undjian, Aug. 90, who
was shot by Vartanian in the Galata
quarter of Constantinople.
Jerry Simpson, who is at Roswell n.
NJ, is now reported to be suffering from
aneurism of the heart, and attending
physicians say there is small hope of his
recovery.
Rainmaker Hatfield closed a contract
for a large sum at Los Angeles, Cal,
with the British government, the Kim
berly mine owners and sheep ranchers to
break the drought in South Africa.
NJ Mccormick and A. Whitaker #
Chillicothe. Mo-, and E. Vaughn and
John Linsey, negro portcrs. were killed
and twenty-seven persons were iniuT ID
when a freight train on the Burlington
ralroad cTaSHeu INTO paSSeHS%F IaID
at Brush, Colo.
The strike of the Montreal dock labor
ers has been broken and half of the 400
men went back TO work at their old
wages. The places of the others have
been filled.
The seven-story power building at
29-3l Michigan street, in Cleveland,
Ohio. owned by William and E. ]. Ker-
shaw and occupied by a number of man.
ufacturing concerns, was destroyed by
fire. Loss 100000.
The Southern Cotton Association,
which held its first annual convention
1T Asheville, n. c., voted that all mem
bers should market their crop as slowly
al possible, In order to distribute the
sals of the staple over the entire year,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03
ECONOMY in the Kitchen.


Expensive food materials are Ike
articles of adornment-they are very
nice of one can afford them, but they
are not always economical.
The difference in first cost is not,
after all, so great as that in the prep
aration of the food. Nothing is more
common than for good piece of meat
to be made tasteless and innutrltious
by being cooked too much or too fast.
In this country people generally want
to eat great variety of food, and they
generally have it, but they do not al
ways have the art of preparing 1t.
Many initiate the ways of cheap res
taurants, or try to cook many things
without taking more time than is need
ed for the proper preparation of one or
two. They demand luxuries, and, be
cause they cannot afford real luxuries,
they put up with limitations that are
both bad and unwholesome.
Such are unable to comprehend that
a dinner that is cheap, simple and
skillfully cooked, is immeasureably
Detter tnan cheap imitation of one,
which, to be good, requires many hours
of labor and much diversified skill.
For instance, a good beef stew makes
satisfying dinner, and may very well
take the place of everything else. An
expert in dining would infinitely prefer
it to a fried steak done brown, soggy
potatoes and turnips, and a quantity
of pie or pudding made with lard or
dripping Yet the latter dinner would
be preferred by many people, because
1t seems to them somehow more re-
spectacle. The stew costs little, is
thoroughly appetizing and is highly
nutritious, that is if it is well made.
and it is about as easy to make it well
as badly
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03
PACKERS PAY FINES.
Indicted Chicago Beef Men Admit Civ.
ing Rebates.

Indicted Chicago Beef Men Admit Civ
ing Rebates.
Four officials of the Schwarzschild
& Sulsberger Packing Company, Chica-
go, pleaded guilty before Judge ]. Otis
Humphrey in the federal court to ac-
cepting railroad rebates in a con-
spiracy to violate the Elkins law, and
they We're fined total of $4,000. This
marked the first victory of the govern
ment in it's prosecution of the packing
companies in what are now known as
the beef trust cases" A certified
check for $4,000 was handed to the
clerk of the court, and the four de-
PENDANTS We're released.
"You are indicted under section 5440,"
said the court in opening his sentence.
You are charged with conspiracy to
commit an offense against the United
States laws. Your counsel has entered
pleas OF guilty, and if you have any
thing further to say other than has al
ready been spoken, you are at liberty to
speak"
The three younger defendants shook
their heads; the fourth, the man of years,
looked at the floor and said nothing, nor
did he make a sign.
Punishment for this offense as fixed
by Congress has a wide range, giving the
court unusual latitude, ranging from a
nominal fine without Imprisonment to a
heavy fine and two years Imprisonment,
all in the discretion of the court. l
have heard on your behalf all OF your
side of this matter and what the gov
eminent wished to present. / am dispos-
ed to consider this case with reasonable
| moderation. The sentence of the court
Il the case of the defendant, We'll, will
be a fine of $4,000 and costs and COM
nltment TO the county Jail until the nne
is paid, and in the cases of Todd, Skip
worth and Cusey fine of $1,000 and
costs, with the same provision in regard
70 the payment. The costs may be dis
Tibuted among the four defendants
To compete with the others it was
stated, according to good authority, the
Independent concern accepted rebates
from the railroad companies. 4 repre-
sentative of the four defendants confer
ed with the Attorney General and sub
iequent trips to Washington were made
with the result that an understanding
| vas reached whereby, upon a plea of
guilty, fine should be assessed and the
Imprisonment clause waived
If the case had gone to a trial the de-
PENDANTS would have met the govern
ment with motion to quash the indict-
ment on the ground that it was faulty.
1t is declared Dy the defense that they
are charged with violating the Elkins act
which went into force on Feb. 10, 1908,
out the crime alleged to have been COM
| mitted is charged to have been perpe
srated Feb. g. 1908. Attorney Boyesen
IN his opening statement in court men
toned this fact, but declared that his
clients did not wish to avail themselves
ot any technicalities. He had been in
structed, he said, to enter a plea of
guilty.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03
SOInerShY Ia TO BE Sold.

Lovers of Tennyson win be interest
ed to hear that the Somersby estate is
in the market. The center of attrac-
ton there is, of course, says the Acad-
envy, the rectory, a picturesque, ram
bling structure with a dining room
which externally resembles a chapel.
The room in which the poet first saw
the light overlooked the lawn and the
church, perhaps 1.-The Gods house. of
THE Two Voices" where his father
officiated, stands on low hill oppo-
site the house. The garden is full of
associations of Gin Memoriam," but it
should be remembered that the trees
time-"the towering sycamores" and
1.-The poplars four have gone and the
whole place is a wilderness. A gray
old grange" the reputed residence of
1.-The Northern Farmer" stands close
to the rectory.
A little way from Somersby is "the
brook that swerves to left and right
thro' meadowy curves" passing IN its
course three mills, one of which may
have suggested certain points in the
landscape of ''The Miller's Daughter"
1t is also the subject of the poem
known as "The Brook" On the same
estate is a wooded dell, deep, wild and
shady, which is called "Holywell
Glen" Here Tennyson wrote Byron
Is Dead" 1t is not improbably 'the
dreadful hollow which 'grides and
clangs its leafless ribs and iron horns"
and should appeal to readers of
Maud" Not too far away is Mable-
thorpe, perhaps "the lovers bay" men
toned in 1.-THE Golden Supper and
the seaside resort where Tennyson for
the first time saw "the hollow ocean
ridges roaring into cataracts."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03

In large measure, the comfort and
good health of the baby depends upon
the attention given to the matter of
personal cleanliness. A neglected baby
is seldom a healthy one, and not al
ways a comfortable one. Especial at
tention should be given to the nap
kins, not only as regards frequent
changes, but seeing that they are prop
erly washed and cared for. Chatting is
usually the result, not only of neglect
to change them at the proper time, but
of improper washing and drying them.
One should never be used a second
time without washing, and when the
change is made, the discarded cloth
should at once be put into a pail Of
water kept for that purpose, and at
least once day-in hot weather often
er-the cloths should be we'll shaken
out of this water and dabbled up and
down in clear water, then washed in
good warm suds, boiled about twenty
minutes, washed out of the boil wa
ter, the soap suds we'll rinsed out Of
them, and. hung to dry, if possible in
the sunshine, but certainly out Of
doors. When perfectly dry, fold as
the cloth is to be worn, but it is not
necessary to iron them (and many con-
tend that it is better not. If the skin
has become chafed from lack of at
tention, or if a rash should break out
from the same cause, keep the skin
well rubbed with pure sweet oil, over
which sprinkle thickly corn starch or
talcum powder Do this every time
the baby is changed. and the skin will
heal rapidly. If the skin should be-
come very sore at first, do not battle
the baby until it begins to heal, as wa
ter is irritating to the chafed parts.
When you begin putting him in the
bath again, use for the bath a cupful
of table salt, or sea salt. to the tub of
water; or put pint of bran into a
cheese cloth bag and squeeze it under
the water for FIVE minutes. Keep the
baby clean and sweet smelling, no mat
ter how cheap, or how elaborate his
clothing may be. 1t is not always the
baby who is the finest clad who is the
best taken care of-Exchange,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03
CHAPTER XVIII

Jethroe hurled himself from the sad
die threw the reinS TO Harvey, and
took the injured mule by the head. The
beast was plunging madly, and it was
touch and go for a new stampede with
the whole team. Jethroe set a revolver
close to the wounded animals head and
fred.
Now" he said. 'we're in tight cor
ner. There's nc shelter for a mile.
What's to be doneT"
You're captain here. sir," said Har
vey.
He had been thinking much of Jeth-
roe's latest words, and had been making
up q mind of his own concerning them.
Now the chance was here to show him
self whether or no the mind would stand.
Wen give 'em as little to FIRE at as
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03
An ohscuring Feature.

"Yes. l have a pretty big mouth"
said the candid man, but 1 have
learned TO keep it shut. l got my les
son when l was small boy. l was
born and brought up on farm, and
had the habit Of going about with
my mouth wide open, especially if
there was anything unusual going on
One day an uncle whom had not seen
for years paid us a visit. Halo, uncler
said l, looking up at him with my
mouth open like abarn-door. He looked
at me for a moment without answer
ing. and then he said. Close your
mouth, sonny, so l can see who you
arer"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03

them with respect, even if they seem
Anticipated to you in all the smart up
to-datedness of your college education.
To do your best to keep her youth
full in appearance, as well as in spirit
by taking pains with her dress and The
little accessories and details of her
toilet.
Not to shock or pain her by making
fun of her religious prejudices if they
happen to be at variance with yours,
or if they seem narrow to your ad-
vanced views.
To introduce all your young friends
to her and to enlist her sympathies in
youthful projects, hopes and plans, so
that she may carry her own youth into
old age
TO talk to her about your work, your
studies, your friends, your amuse-
ments. the books you read. the places
you visit, for everything that concerns
you is of interest to her.
If she is no longer able to take her
accustomed part in the household
duties, not to let her feel that she is
superannuated or has lost any of her
Importance as the central factor in the
family.
To remember that her life is monot-
onous compared with yours, AID to
take her to some suitable place of
amusement, or for a little trip to the
country, or to the city if your home
is in the country, as frequently as pos
sible.
The girl who endeavors to pay back
what she owes her mother is the one
who will be most sought after by the
people who are worth while, and be
apt to make the most successful life
Success
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03
Washing am Evening Shawl.

Many beautiful evening shawls are
ruined by home washing, and frequent
dry cleansing is costly. If washed by
the following method an umbrella
shawl will retain its original appear
ance. Soak the shawl in a warm suds
of white soap. Do not rub soap on the
shawl. Squeeze the suds through it,
but do not wiring When clean rinse
in weak suds of the same tempera-
ture as the first water. Throw in
heap on clean sheet to dry, turning
occasionally. When dry, pin in shape
on sheet, then sprinkle with cold
water to raise the fluffy fiber. A knit
ted or crocheted shawl so washed will
appear like new.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03
Return of the Elton Goa.

The return of the Eton coat will be
hailed by most women with jo1. 1t
is a very near relation of the bolero
but it is usually characterized by coat
like collar and tiny revers, also point
ed fronts and plain coat sleeves. A
popular everyday costume of the sum-
mer is the plated skirt and the Elton
to match. 1t is a style which is even
more useful that the old coat and
skirt we have loved so long and so
wisely and which even now we shall
not entirely part from, although the
coats are longer and the skirts more
deliberately made.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03
Cotton Made from Wood.

Some recent experiments have been
made in Bavaria in regard to preparing
artificial cotton from pine wood, and
it is said that the new process allows
it to be made cheaply enough so that
the artificial cotton may compete with
the natural product. In the method
which has proved the most successful
the wood, which has had the bark re
moved, is cut into thin sticks or fibers
one-sixteenth of an inch or less in
thickness. These are placed in large
horizontal copper cylinder lined with
lead, into which steam is passed.
When the separating action of the
steam on the wood fiber has been pro-
longed sufficiently an acid solution of
sodium sulphite is added and the cylin-
der is heated under a pressure of three
atmospheres during thirty-six hours.
The wood, which has become COM
pletely white, is washed and then
passed through a crusher. After wash
ing again the fibers are further whiten-
ed by a chloride of linz treatment. The
matter which is thus obtained is dried
and constitutes a pure cellulose which
is then heated under pressure with a
mixture of nitric and hydrochloric
acids and chloride of zinc The pasty
mass thus formed is mixed with a lit
tie gelatine and castor oil, which gives
a certain resistance to the fiber
The cellulose is then formed into fine
threads by a spinning machine and
these are washed in a carbonate of
soda solution and dried. These threads
are said to form a very good fabric
when woven and can easily be dyed.
Although the experiments have as yet
been carried on only in the laboratory,
there is no doubt that the process may
be applied on a large scale, thus COM
ing into the European market as
competitor for the imported cotton.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03

could have been - = " NDf"
held responsible were killed. The court
'nds that Ensign Wade was at fault
il failir :, to see that the steam valves
and safety valve were overhauIed at
the proper time and kept in good or
Ger, having accepted the verbal state
ment of subordinates that this had
been done in March.
-
DIR. Eugene Oswald, the secretary of
the Goethe Society, has written a book
on the legend of Helen as treated by
Goethe, Homer and others
-
The late c. ]. Hamlin of Buffalo. n.
Y, the veteran trotting horseman, left
an estate of S1,543,O00, mostly in gilt
edged bonds, to his wife and three sons.
Joe Jefferson's son, when abroad sew
eral years ago, telegraphed the veteran
actor as follows: "Send me $500" The
answer was: what for?" Back came
the response, For Willie" Willie
got il
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03
Shopping in Sunshine.

An Englishwoman says it is her law
never to shop except on sunny day.
She never, she insists, makes a mis-
take on a sunny day. She declares
there is nothing one can buy safely
but stamps when the sun is absent
There is a good deal in her theory.
Shopping on a gloomy day is good
deal like writing a letter when in lit
of the blues. The sun comes out, ones
mood changes, and one regrets what
one has said, and what one has bought.
In spite of this, as every one can
see, it just takes a rain to bring wom-
en- out. When the weather is the worst.
then the fair ones HE themselves to
shop, each under the impression that
all the others will stay home, and she
will have the whole store to herself.
And maybe this is why so many
things have to be taken back"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03
Gives Her Hair a Rest.

It's strain on the hair to be curled
and coiffed in devious ways all winter.
and many fashionable young women
are giving their locks rest just now
by dressing them very simply, minus
the Marcel wave and various other ad-
ditions to beauty. One girl discovered
that she was running her hair by too
frequent treatments and eurlings. and
the result is that among her friends.
visits to the hairdresser have grown
less frequent, for whatever else the
summer girl can afford to lose she
can't afford to lose one strand of her
hair
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03
women's Tempers.

1 recently saw it stated somewhere
that women are much better tempered
than men, This, of course, is a self
evident proposition up to a certain
point. Women, as a rule, are more
self-possessed and have a greater con-
troll over themselves than men, who
want everything their own way, resent
all trouble, cannot endure the smallest
discomfort and are rarely unselfish.
But in justice to men it must be said
that, generally speaking, they have
very much more to try their nerves.
London World.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03

claim. He had been offered handsome
sum to come out and fight in the cause
of justice.
"Justice?" asked Jethroe.
well, that's how they put it," said
the wounded man. He wasn't judge
and bench. 1t was no particular affair
of his, and fifty quid was fifty quid.
wasn't it? and not so particular easy to
lay hold of these hard times"
"And how about Tom Monboddo"
asked Jethroe.
cTo be continued)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03

siXty-one years of
his eventful exist
ence Mayor Collins
crowded more into
life than the ma
jOrity of public
men. In turn he
was an Office boy
in Boston. a farm
er'S boy in the
West. a coal miner.
also engineer in
Ohio. law student,
legislator. Judge
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03
Irish Crochet Lace.

AS the season deepens the demand
for lace, and handsome lace at that.
increases. One sees fewer of the fine
varieties but great many of the
coarser laces. Indeed the heavy lace
has come into its own as never before
and the Irish crochet lace heads the
whole list in popularity. 1t is the lace
of laces for wear this summer and fall.
All the coarse laces are liked and are
used for trimming laces and for whole
suits, as nearly as possible, because so
very much more effective than the fine
laces.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03
Sponges.

If sponges are used for soap they
should be rinsed out daily; otherwise
they are sure to become Shiny and
most unpleasant. In any case they re-
quire periodical cleansing. Dissolve
some borax or soda in warm water
and let the sponge soak in it for an
hour. Squeeze it well out and then
people make it a habit to put their
sponges outside the window after US
ing them n order that they may air
and dry IN readiness for the next us
ing
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03

the winner of the
first choice in the
governments land
drawing for the
Uinta reservation.
This means that
Daniels has come
into a fortune Of
anywhere fro m
$4,000 to 100000,
for such is estinat-
ed the value of the
first pick of the
hOmpStpadS i'm tbp
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03
Duean,s Gran.

Dugan-Does tainted money mako
amy diff'rince wild your"
Grocer-I should say not.
Dugan-Weli, change this tin dollar
bill FIR me. IT'S tainted an Old rither
have tn pure an unsupported article
Detroit Tribune.