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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
When Mother Cans.

l travelled to the village, Nell, and saw
your mother, dear;
Her arms were stained with jam land
juice, her sleeves rolled up to here
The cook stove roared like it was mad,
the room was full of heat,
And Jimmie's face was smeared with
jell and apple butter sweet.
A dozen pans We're on the stove, their
contents bubbling Ger,
And there were apples on the beds and
peaches on the floor;
And when l walked into the house l
slipped upon a pear,
And sitting down, | smashed big to-
mato in the chair.
She took an inventory, Nell: Two hun
bred jars of jam,
One hundred cans of Bartlett pears, and
catsup CHATS for SAM;
Twelve dozen jars of marmalade OF sew
eral different kinds,
And twenty tubs of peach preserves and
watermelon rinds,
And grapes and ounces, berries, plums
and apples-tons or more;
The pantry shelves are loaded down, the
cellar running DER,
But go and get yCu,. cook book, dear,
for thus she s. axe: so course,
want to get NelPs new recipe fer
maxim chill sorce.
indianapolis Sun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
HANGING FIXTURES.

The greatest stumbling block of the
amateur decorator is the hanging CT
pictures. Excellent taste is required
in this art, true eye and a knowl-
edge of suitable combination. For ex-
ample, photographs should never be
mixed with paintings. Have a cor
ner devoted to them and try to form
a design in your mind when hanging
the frames. Do not have the square,
oval and panel frames all hung in in
coherent confusion and never mix old
prints with new ones. The fine eff
feet of a really good old print is often
lost by disregarding this rule. And,
speaking of rules, the first one to OBJ
serve in picture hanging is not 70
overcrowd the skyline. By that ismeant
an imaginary line which should mark
the top of the picture frame This
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
The Doctors wife
EN- MISS N. {. BRADDON
S$SSSSSSSS

stand her dreams? VIII she marry that
good, sheepish, country surgeon, who
has fallen in love with her? He can
give her a home and a shelter; and she
seems such poor, friendless little Great
| ture, just the sort OF girl to get into
some kind Of mischief If she were left
to herself Perhaps it's about the best
thing that could happen her. / should
like to have fancied brighter fate for
her, life with more color in it."
And all this time George was plead
ing with her, and arguing, from her
bushes and her silence, that his suit
was not hopeless. Emboldened by the
girls tacit encouragement, he grew
more and more eloquent, and went on to
tell her how he had loved her from the
first; yes, from that first summers aft
| ernoon when he had seen her sitting I'M
der the pear trees in the old fashioned
garden, with the low yellow light behind
her.
"Of course / didn't know then that l
loved you, Isabel-oh, may / call you
Isabel? 1t is such a pretty name.
have written it over and over and over
on the leaves of a plotting book at
home, very often without knowing that
l was writing it. / only thought at first
that | admired you because you are so
beautiful, and so different from other
beautiful women; and then, when l was
always thinking Of you, and wondering
about you. l wouldn't believe that it
was because l loved you. 1t is only to-
day, this dear happy day, that has made
me understand what l have felt all
along; and now know that have loved
| you from the first, Isabel, dear Isabel,
from the very first"
All this was quite as it should be.
| Isabefs heart fluttered like the wings
of a young bird that essays its first
fight.
This is what it Is to be a heroine"
she thought, as she looked down at the
| cOlored pebbles, the floating river weeds,
under the clear ripping water; and yet
knew all the time, by virtue of feminine
| second sight, that George Gilbert was
gazing at her and adoring her. She
didn't like him. but she liked him to be
there talking to her.
Dear Isabel, you will marry me,
won't you? You can't mean to say no,
| you would have said it before now You
would not be so cruel as to let me hope,
even for minute, if you meant to dis
appoint me-"
I have known you-you have known
me-such a short time," the girl muir
INJURED.
George Gilbert seized upon the words.
"Ah, then you will marry me, dearest
Isabel? you will marry me, my own
| darling-my bautiful wife?"
| He was almost startled by the inten-
sity of his own feelings as he bent down
and kissed the little ungloved hand ~
| ing on the moss-grown stone work of the
bridge.
oh Isabel, if you could only know
how happy you have made me! if you
| could only know"
She looked at him with a startled ex-
preston in her face. Was it all settled,
| then, so suddenly-with so little con
| sideration? Yes, it was all settled: she
was beloved with one of those passions
that endure for lifetime. George had
| said something to that effect. The story
| had begun, and she was a heroine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
CURING TREES OF DISEASE.
Medicine Administered with Good Re-
suits by a Russian Scientist.

Medicine Administered with Good Re-
suits by Russian Scientist.
While the science of animal medi-
cine is obviously antiquated, it is GER
tainly much more advanced than the
science of vegetative medicine Ami
mails are treated locally and internally
with curative medicines, while aside
from fumigation and spraying of dis
eased plants, the first CLEAN of light
is just breaking in treating diseased
plants and trees with indictments,
some nutritive, and others curative
A Russian investigator has just re-
ported the result of some 500 expert
ments of this character which he con
Quoted by introducing into the trunks
nutriHye salts. both in the dry state
and in solution.
Experiments were made with oaks,
poplars and sycamores, which suffered
from frost, diseased white acacias,
pear and apple trees. In all cases the
results were more or less favorable.
ChlorOsis, or bleaching of leaves, was
treated successfully with iron sui
phate, as well as a destructive fungus
disease of the grape vine known as
anthracnose. Fungus disease of the
apple and oak were also successfully
combated by administering medicine
internally, as it were, allowing the
plant to distribute them to the dis
eased cells in this way.
The extensive changes of the tissue
of old trees into gum, as Familiarity
encountered on cherry trees, a process
known as gummosis, was effectively
treated by solutions of acetic, oKalic
and tartaric acids. Of greater signif-
canoe, however, was the attempt to
combat the numerous boring insects
that infest orchards and forest trees
by poisoning them by the introduction
of poisonous solutions into the sap
For this purpose arsenic, copper sui
phate, manganese and barium were
used, and the results were quite salts
factory in destroying the bark borer,
apple moth and one species of plant
louise. With an extension of the knowl-
edge Of plant pathology and physiol-
ogy, the new method of healing, n0ur-
ishing and stimulating trees may be
looked for to assume proportions I'M
dreamed of at present.-Boston Tran,
script
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
WHERE GEORGE ELIOT WROTE.
Little House in Which She Created
"Middlemarch" Described.

Little House in Which She Created
"Middlemarch" Described.
You raise your eyes from the roses
and see before you a little old house,
almost hidden behind the screen Of
ivy and of roses on its walls, says
writer in the Pilgrim. The tiny, dia-
mond -paned windows of the second
story you do not observe at first-not
until a ray of that blinking sun filters
between the dark green leaves and
glints from them.
The path, in which you stand, leads
to a door, so low you must stoop to
pass within. To either side are long,
narrow windows set into the wall
horizontally, also diamond-paned and
opening outward on their hinges like
the others. To the right of the house
stands an ancient cider mill and all
to the left is garden. Roses there in
rank profusion grow, and honey
suckle and great, staring Dutchman's
pansies, with row of overseeing
hollyhocks behind, and again beyond
a lattice, blue with morning glories.
The hedge of hawthorn breaks and
runs around this fairy play-yard and
the house, leaning in its age, is so
miniature as to seem, almost, the
abiding place of pixies and of elves.
To the left of the hallway leading
from the fairy door is another open
ing into a room with lowering ceiling
and floor but ten feet square Be
fore you, close against thu wall, is
couch with a queer old-fashioned writ
ing board fastened to the pillow at
the end nearest the window. Across
one corner of the room is low book
case and desk 200 years old, with a
quaint carved buffet on beyond.
Ii is to see this room you've tramp
ed the long three miles, for here the
novel "Middlemarch" was written.
Discovered by her on ramble
through historic Surrey one day,
George Eliot entered the historic
room and fell upon this sofa tired of
tramping. She begged the privilege
of remaining just a week. That one
week heightened into many and those
who lived thereabouts came to know
the sad-eyed woman who lay upon
this coach and wrote and wrote, never
leaving the task before her, save for
one brief hour each day at sunset,
when she would go out into the road
between the hawthorn hedges and
there walk back and forth before the
fairy house.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
R1oomers for Children.

Sensible mothers are going to let
their little girls wear boomers with
their winter suits. These boomers
may match the stockings or petticoats
thus for instance, a child wearing
black shoes will have a pair of black
Where brown shoes and stockings are
worn the boomers will carry out the
color note. 1t is not so desirable to
have the boomers made of the ma
terial of the dress. 1t is too suggestive
of the boys knickerbockers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

In the garments and fabrics which replace earlier
displays the of the fall opening mored and
plain stufs which look delcously antiquated, rubbing
elbows with the novelties distinctly twentieth century.
In general effect the lines of garments greatly
changed skirts remaining the two lengths of the summer
and bodices continuing the look of coquetry which the
fussy short sleeves and dainty vest effects give But there
touches without number, and perhaps the
important of these the revival of the draped
tunc effects observed and suggestive of
the old time oyerskrt to need the meres looping
sides to be one The model of consists of gored
lining finished with shaped founce and hung with
tunc of circular The tunic fits the back
without peats and the bottom which may be hemmed or
trimmed reaches to the top of the founce The of
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Becoming CnIors.

For the blonde, the delicate yellow
of ripe corn is identifying.
Violet is allowable only for a face
quite free from yellow tints.
Usually the soft-toned grays look
well with yellow or brown hair.
The tint of the orange is becoming
to the brunette with a fair complex
ion.
Browns are becoming to the clear
skin crowned with golden or brown
hair
Blue is remarkably becoming to fair
skins, but only the darkest shades are
favorable to brunetteS.
Creamy white is almost universally
becoming and the introduction of
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31


Buckles of peacock blue and green
are liked.
The popular velveteens have a soft
chiffon finish.
Satin seems to be especially dear TO
the dressmaker's heart.
Observe the preponderance of the
chenille hat in the milliner's window.
Black broadcloth is the dressiest
choice possible for the autumn tailor
| made
Fur boas will not be quite as long
as those of last year, according to
early models.
The chiffon veil has a new use. 1t
is tied into a big bow and tackled to
the back of the hat, with floating
ends.
One of the new hats has a huge
crown of gay-fiowered black silk and
not few have scarfs of this antique
material.
A funny little round white hat of
corded silk. for child, has the
! straight brlm edged with q Dand OF
mink fur.
Broader shoulders point to the epau-
let, and it is confidently asserted that
this mode is to be reinstated the COM
ing sSlson.
High Napoleon collars and reTers,
with attractive and dainty lace era
vats, are in evidence nowadays on all
noteworthy toilets.
There is the loveliest tea gown OF
champagne liberty satin in empire
style. covered with fluffy pillows Of
champagne valeneiennes.
BurnouS wraps are worn by the
modish and one cloudlike affair OF
silky muslin is in three layers-hrst
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
A Psalm of Farm Life.

Tell me not in broken measures
Modern farming does not pay,
For the farm produces chickens.
And the hens-do they not lay?
Eggs are high and going higher,
And the price is soaring fast;
Every time we get to market
1t is higher than the last.
Not a coop but it produces
Every day an egg or two;
SO each farmer gains his millions,
Even though his hens be few.
Every egg Is very precious,
And the hens are held in awe;
When a hen begins to cackle,
Then the farmer goes "Haw, hawl'
In the broad and busy farmyard
Struts a rooster now and then,
But the shrewd. bewhiskered farmer
Only notices the hen.
Trust no rooster, howe'er snowy
Be the feathers in his tail;
Paw attention to the biddies,
And your wealth viii never fail.
Lives of farmers all remind US
We may roll in wealth some day,
If we hustle to the market
With the eggs our pullets lay.
Chicago Chronicle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

wood, with good deal of the paint clir4
ped off; there was a painted dressing
table, a square loking glass, with brass
crnamentation about the stan1 and
frame-a glass in which George GiiDert's
grandfather had looked at himself seven
~ years before. Isabel stared at the
blank white walls, the gaunt shadows of
the awkward furniture, with horrible
fascination. 1t was all so ugly, she
thought; and her mind revol.ed against
her husband, as she remembered that he
could have changed all this, and yet had
left it in its bald hideousness.
And all this time George was busy
withw his surgery, grinding his pestle in
so cheerful a spirit that it seemed to
fall into a kind of tune, and thinking
how happy he was now that Isabel Slea-
ford was his wife.
CTo be continued)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

this skirt therefore, is that of double founce and the
model is in two lengths trained the other quite short
Other skirts draped only at the Sides with shaped
hounce maybe finishing the drop there and the skirt fall
ing unanimously all round In fact there few skirt
models which show a medium course They are either
short enough to display in its entirety the most dapper
footwear else the fall upon the floor is exaggeraedy
long
Another quite important feature new styles is
the empire coat for tailor Made of plain satin
strapped plainly stitched English Scotch tweeds
such empire coat frocks very dashng though style
to suit plain cloth the less ee-
materials The skirts of the long very full
matter solid the texture the gown the sleeves
follow the prevailing elbow cuts
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

Surgeon General r. NJ O'Reilly of
the army has submitted an exhaustive
annual report on health conditions to
Secretary Taft. The report says that
the enlisted strength of the army. as
shown upon the monthly sick report,
was 5S,740, and on the returns of the
military secretary 60,139 and calcula-
lions are made up on the latter figures.
There were 1856 admissions to the
sick report" during the year, 4J6
deaths from all causes and 1877 dis
charges for disability. The figures,
DIR. O'Reilly says, show a steady and
progressive improvement in the health
of the army.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

vet, and some fancy braid of the
shade between; and the waist part is
so handled that there is Il straight en-
placement in girdle effect all around.
The sleeve is puffed at the elbow to
display the lace friIls that make a
smart finish. The skirt is circular in
cut, plated over the hips and finish
ed with tucks.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

The perfect hostess causes all her
guests to feel at ease and perfectly at
home while in her house. The stiff
reserved woman who seeks to keep her
guests in awe is failure as a hostess.
In the small towns as well as the
larger cities newcomers must wait for
the old residents to make their first
calls. This is true in every city except
Washington, d. c., where this custom
is reversed.
In writing letters and notes dates
ard numerical designations, as the
number of the house, may be written
in figures, but quantities should be ex-
pressed in words. As few abbrevia-
tons as possible should be used.
Good breeding is indicated by the
promptness with which answers are
sent to all invitations received. If
one would only realize how much an
xiety a tardy answer causes the hos
tess immediate replies would be the
result.
If church wedding is followed by
a reception a card of invitation is en-
closed with the invitation to the cere-
mony. If the ceremony is limited to
the immediate family and a few init
mate friends, the reception invitations
are sent to all friends and acquaint-
ances not invited to the ceremony.
The silver wedding or the twenty
fifth anniversary. is nearly always
celebrated and the occasion of much
rejoicing. The invitations usually
bear the date of the marriage and the
date of the anniversary; a monogram
of silver may head the invitation.
Gifts of silver should be sent and the
variety to select from found in the
stores is almost unending.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

The folly of maintaining custom
houses to serve the interests of poll
ticians is clearly outlined by James
r. Reynolds, second assistant of tlfe
United States treasury, who says that
of the 157 custom ports in cur country
III do not pay expenses. Crisffeld,
Md, received $2270 in customs last
year and $2,7 was paid out for
salaries. Beaufort, n. c.. took in S1.55
in revenues and the salaries paid to
gather this tiny sum were about ST.
500. All told these III offices, where
the receipts fall behind the expenses,
cost the government nearly 100000
every year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

In many of the latest imported med
els all of the elaboration seems to be
lavished upon the bodice and the
skirt is, comparatively speaking, plain.
In silk-warp henrietta of a pretty
shade of rose pink the bodice is ar
ranged with the part over the Shout
ders plain, and the draped portion
starting from the side seams toward
the front The chemisette is outlined
with piping of Jacqueminot red vel
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Free Advice.

Doctor, / want a little advice"
said the notorious dead beat"
whats the matter with you p
asked the physician, curtly, for he
scented no fee.
Il have insomnia dreadfully. What
shall l dol"
"Sleep it cleveland Leader.
A bachelor always looks at woGs
ans hat and shoes, but pays no atten
ton TO the rest Of her wearing ap.
parel.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
ayEggEE1|IlE|2zDpIa
7-fIIi[l -
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N0oo0oonon-

President Roosevelt is mapping out
lot of work to occupy the attention
of Congress when it next assemblies.
Questions that are of great moment to
the business world and the public in
general are TO be placed squarely be-
fore the legislators for action. The
Presidents attitude ON the railway
rate question has rot been modified
since he first directed attention to The
manifest evil that has grown mp un-
der the inSidious system of rebates.
Mr.. Roosevelt strikes the keynote
when he says the highways must be
kept open to all on equal terms. The
abuses of the private car line and the
private terminal track and private
side switch system must be stopped,
the President says. There is little
doubt that the majority of the people
echo his sentiments in this regard. II
the President has his way, power to
revise and regulate rates will be in
vested in the Interstate Commerce
Commission. Another measure of
great Importance that will be recon-
mended by the President is a bill TO
prevent bribery and other forms Of
corruption in Federal elections. State
courts have showed in a lamentable
number of instances that they are not
beyond the baneful influence of ward
leaders, and attempts to punish vio-
lators of the sanctity of the ballot box
have ANONYMOUSLY failed. The alb
solute publication of politics probably
will ever remain an iridcscent dream,
but there is little dodbt that Fed
eral statute, asking The trinl of Offend
ers against tie ballot out of the con-
troll of State courts, would be long
step forward in a commendable eff
fort to free the ballot box OF fraud.
Federal control of insurance is another
question that will be discussed in the
Presidents message. The disclosures
that are being made in the inyestiga-
ton in New York have aroused
storm of indignant protest from policy
holders who demand that their inter-
ests shall be protected and safeguard
ed by Federal control.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

cream lace makes an otherwise i'm
possible color wearable.
Bright green is becoming to the
pale, but clear, skin, but not to a high
or muddled complexion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

The new Anglo-Japanese treaty
differs from the earlier treaty n
several important particulars. 1t runs
for a period of ten years; it embodies
a recognition on the part Of Great
Britain of the paramount political
military and economic interests Of
Japan in Korea, and on the part of
Japan of the right of Great Britain to
take such measures as she may find
necessary for safeguarding her Indian
possessions; it applies the principle of
"the open door" for the commerce of
all nations to Korea and, most im-
portant of all, it pledges each power
to come to the assistance of the other
in war not merely when its ally is
attacked by two powers. as in the
earlier treaty, but when it is involved
in any war in defense of its territorial
rights or special interests lin the re-
gions of eastern Asia and India"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
Infringing Children.

4 sure way to ruin chDd's temper
and to make him nuisance in the
household is to let him have thing
because he cries for il or because he
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

skyline must take a height common
surate with the size of the room;
what that is must be left for the in
dividual to decide.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
BUZZARDS OF SOCIETY
TlRELESS VAMPIRES EVER BUSY
IN FASHIONABLE SET.

Matchmaking the Weapon of the
ScoundreI Who Worms His Way Into
the Confidence of the Rich at New
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31

The japanese prisoners in Russia
have been occupying their time in
making miniature warships, toys, and
paper flowers, at which work they are
said to be very skillful.
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dark gray, then silver gray and on top

Stiff linen collars have taken on a
new style. They are made to fit the
neck snugly and button with two jew
eled buttons at the back.