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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
THE PEDDLER'S Pack

~ VERY now and then the swing
JIM ing signboard creaked and
groaned as II it were deter
mined to attract attention. And 1t
was usually successful. In addition to
the name Of the inn, it bore a weather
worn representation of something that
faintly resembled an overgrown sol
dier's knapsack.
What does that signify?' inquired
a traveller, glancing up at the pic
ture.
"Ah! They don't carry things of
that sort nowadays" answered the
gray-hatred landlord, pointing to
pile of commercial travellers sample
cases, but the road boys were not
such aristocrats when | was younger.
Then they used packs just like you
see pictured up there. | was a bit
hard on one of them long ago, and
ever since I've tried to make up for
1t by treating them as well as I can.
1t was in one of their packs that the
biggest slice of luck I've ever known
Sd4hC " me. AS ue spoke lie Suuu-
dered and sighed in manner that be-
tokened some mystery behind his
words.
We were high up on the wagon road
that runs through Serafina pass, and
the name of the little inn, THE Trav-
elers' Refuge" was thoroughly apprO-
pirate, for not a bagman that went
that way but was fain to rest for
space within it's hospitable doors.
The landlord, it was clear, was
most anxious to have an opportunity
of unbosoming himself further, but he
waited until his daughter, a buxom
matron, had left the room. Yes" he
unused, half to himself, II was a hit
hard on one of 'em-there's no mis-
take about It, 1t amt pleasant
story, but like to tell it just to re-
mind myself that the worst thing a
man can have in this world is a hot,
obstinate temper. You see, came to
this coast soon after the gold fever
broke out and settled down in the
.Tosita valley, below here, ranching.
was a widower even then. and had
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
Emery Picks His staff.

Dairy and Food Commissioner Emery
has announced the appointment of the
following assistants and inspectors, au-
thorized under the new law: Second as
sistant dairy and food commissioner,
James G. Moore, Albion; cheese factory
dairy and food inspectors, E. L. Alder
hold of Neenah, J. c. Cannon of New
London, f. E. Carswell of Rchland Cen
ter, Fred Marty of Monroe: creamery,
dairy and food inspectors, Thomas Cor
nelienson Of Cooksville, Rock county;
H. c. Larson of Dodgevii:e, ". Mead
ans of Vernon, Waukesha county;
James Van Duser of Hebron, Jefferson
county.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
brought with me from the states my
only child-a daughter mast Il

brought with me from the states my
only child-a daughter, past II.
''She was a pretty girl, If 1 do say
It, and, being as good as pretty, you
can imagine l was quite wrapped up
in her. or course l was anxious to
keep her with me, and, If not that, at
least looked for her to do something
better than fall in love with a ped
der"
And did she?'
Yes; you see in those days the
country was full of young fellows who
had struck out for themselves and
were trying to get a start by carrying
knlck-knacks around from one mining
camp to another. Some of them were
lively chaps enough, and we'll edu-
Gated; but l was fresh from the
States, with all the Eastern preiu.
dlces, and it almost drove me wild
when Mary told me she wanted TO
marry young fellow who brought his
pack through our district a good deal
Oftener than the trade seemed to re-
ouire. was hot-tempered fool in
those days, so l stOrmed, threatened.
locked Mary up for a week. and sent
word to her lover that l had loaded
NV gun for wildcats and peddlers."
what did Mary do?"
You might have guessed 1t. One
day when l came back from a cattle
sale she was missing. l chased her
- hut
to the tall timber, and It was of no
use. After a while l got letter and
wrote back saying that l disowned
her. and that he had better keep out
of range of my rifle"
What did you do then?'
Suffered, mister-juSt suffered. I
knew l was wrong, but l would have
died rather than give in. For three
years I lived like a toad IN n rock.
hating the whole world. All the pleas
ure I had was in watching the ped
dlers. One evening, after a terrible
rainstorm, one Of the tribe came to
my house and asked for shelter for
the night He was q thin, weak-look-
ing fellow. with his face covered by
q huge-ragged beard. He carried on
his back an enormously long and
heavy pack, and seemed so exhausted.
with his tramp through the mlre, that
l hadn't the heart to do more than
order him off the place"
That was pretty hard" said the
listener.
Il suppose 1t was. The peddler
seemed all broke up when he found l
wouldn't even give him a bunch of
straw in the stable. and no other
house within twelve miles. Instead
of complying. however, he merely
begged that | would let him leave his
pack, which he said contained goods
of value, under shelter from the rain.
I finally consented TO this. So. as 1
had sworn none OF his trade should
ever cross my threshold. carried his
pack inside, while its owner limped
Off to crawl under some bush or
other"
Didn't you feel mean?"
Yes; mean and bitter at the same
time. for something about the man
reminded me of Mary's husband a lit
lie. However. l locked and barred all
the doors and windows, as usual, for
some road agents had been around
these parts about that time, and had
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
"French" Prunes from America.

An item in the consular reports on
American prunes reminds US Of
Maraschino cherries. Topsy could not
say of the latter highly priced fruit
as she said of herself, that they 'jes'
grOwed." Growing is only part OF it;
they are made. The French are great
doctors and manipulators. The fruit
is first bleached, then dyed and doc
tored, and so any old cherry becomes
MaraschinO. So it is with many Of
the French prunes that we prize so
highly. The French buy our Ameri-
can prunes in bulk; they put them up
in sealed jars; and then, with
flourish of gorgeous labels and chat
ter of French praise, they export
them back to the United States. We
buy them at largely increased prices,
and eat them, wondering at the ex-
cellence of French prunes. There is
something i'll Il name after ALL
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
Swimming is very good for a girls

Swimming is very good for a girls
figure if it is good to begin with.
What a woman likes about yacht
ing trip is the clothes she has to buy
for 1t.
If girl wasn't jealous of somebody
it would be a sign she was the only
person in the world.
If a boy is real clever he can ac-
quire a lot of knowledge at school use
full to forget afterwards.
The way some women's summer
clothes are made they would look
dressed up if they fell off.
Sometimes it's just as well to 20
home early to make your wife sus-
picious about your health.
If a man had to work as hard to
get his living as he does to get his
fun he would become an anarchist.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
Food for Brood Sows.

Pigs give the best results when fed
regularly During the time the sow
is rearing her litter she should receive
as much good food as she will take;
such food may consist of boiled pota-
toes, cornmeal porridge, bran, and
skim milk At three weeks old the
young pigs begin to eat At this time
they should be supplied with new milk
for which after a short time skim milk
may be gradually substituted Later
a little meal and boiled potatoes may
be added TO the milk and given twice
or three times daily. At the age Of
eight weeks the young pigs may be
weaned After weaving they should
be provided with food in a sloppy con
dition, and provision should also be
made for allowing them a good deal
Of exercise.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

this apron there is a further protec-
ton against the waves in the form Of
an immense breakwater of riprap, con-
s:sting of no less than 5000 carloads
of broken stone.
The top of the wall, widened by fill
ing in at the rear with earth, is to be
one of the most beautiful driveways in
the world
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
To Feed Young Cattle Wen.

As result of an experiment in feed
ing hay with and without grain to
calves the Nebraska Experiment Sta
ton has arrived at the following con-
cluslon. That the cost of producing
gains IN calves is least when consider
able grain is fed along with hay. The
results of an experiment conducted
during the preceding winter also indi-
Gated that the feeding of grain was
profitable from the standpoint of eco
year, with no grain during the sum-
mer while on grass, the results would
go to show that 8 moderate grain ra-
ton in winter, not more than one-third
full feeding along with hay, is most
economical.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
THE I'M MIGRANT.

A foolish little immigrant
HAS crossed the unknown sea,
And landed on the shore of life,
A citizen to be.
he did not bring a single cent
No baggage was revealed;
Upon what scenes he turned his back
His lips are ever sealed.
He may be homesick, who can tell?
The tears are in his eyes;
No doubt he finds this foreign shore
A land Of strange surprise.
All. foolish little immigrant,
What tales were told to you?
Did you believe that work was light,
And gold on bushes grew?
Good luck to y while you are here,
And long the me you roam:
You cannot take a dollar back
When you go sailing home
New York Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

An unbroken civic existence for
twelve centuries is almost incompre-
hensible to US, conceived as for our
selves. Can we imagine the celebra-
ton in the year 2814 of the twelve
hundredth anniversary of the fret set
tlement of the Dutch on this island,
asks the New York Mail Can we sup
pose that in that distant year there
will be even as much resemblance be-
tween the life that will be found here,
and between the form Of government
now existing, as there is between the
life and institutions Of the existing
English town of SherbouTne and those
amid which ST. Aldhelm moved when
he disturbed the solemn Druidic wor-
ship in the corner Of Britain? How
long since, in that year 2S14, will the
last skyscraper have been taken,
down, and the last subway opening
have been clolsed up forever and over
grown with trees?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
Heat Kill. Col. n. r. Nelson.

Col. \. r. Nelson, for many years o
La Crosse business man, with connec
tons throughout the Northwest, and Il
past grand master Of Odd Fellows of
Wisconsin, is dead from heat paralysis
Several years ago Col. Nelson obtained
a verdict of $4,000 against the North
western Railway Company for carrying
him past his home station when he had
been stricken with paralysis and was
hurrying home for medical aid. 1t was
alleged that the delay thus caused in
reaching medical treatment made the dis
ease incurable.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
New Railroad to North Crandon.

As result Of the government APPROX
ing the application of the Green Bay,
Oshkosh, Madison and Southwestern.
Railway Company for a right of way
through the Menominee, Stockbridge anG
Muncie reservations of Wisconsin, CON
struction work will be begun soon. 1t is
said that Green Bay will not be on the
revised route of the road, which will pass
from Madison through Oshkosh, Mena~
Sha and Appleton, thence to Shawana
and through the Indian reservation" tc
North Crandon. A rich pine and hard
wood timber country is tapped by the
route at its northern extremity.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
A Place for Bronze Grass

There is place for bronze grass on
some farms, especially where the land
is low enough so that in the winter
time small areas of thin ice form. I'm
der such influence most grasses are
killed out, notably red clover, nam
moth clover, alsike clover. white clio
yer, timothy and red top. Bronze grass
and quack grass seem to be able to
stand the adverse conditions produced
by the ice sheet Bronze grass is thus
a great ally to the farmer that is I'M
able to obviate such conditions. Even
quack grass may yet be made useful.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
To Be Tried in Denver.

Mark Sufferau, the 15-year-old lad
who was arrested in ManitowOc on ad,
vices from Denver Colo. authorities,
was taken to that city by Sheriff Baird
of Denver. The boy was employed as a
messenger for the American Express
Company and the officer declared that he
was charged with stealing property val
ued at more than 5000. A valuable ring
and necklace have not been located, but
two watches were found.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
A Land of Big Creameries.

The creamery business is carried on
very extensively in New Zealand and
Australia, having been rapidly devel-
oped by the advance of cold storage
system, which permits shipments to
be made in good condition to the mar
kets Of Europe. One concern pays
S15O,OOO monthly to producers of milk
and cream, and quite a number of
creameries have a monthly milk bill
Of $25, 900 and more.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
Cure for "Foot Rotu of sheen.

For foot rot" Of sheep one Of the
simplest and most effective cures is
the following, says American Cultiva-
tor: One-half pound bluestone, one
half pound common salt, one quart
water. Boil in an old saucepan for
ten minutes. The bluestone will then
be all dissolved. The above can be
used as lotion dressing, or made in
larger proportion can be placed in
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

Where is the man who remembers
the early day haymaking when all the
outlying prairies composed the hay
meadow? When the time for making
hay was in the month of September
the strong wind days! These winds
are commented on by Sam, who says
he placed his straw hat up against
the barn and the wind held 1t there
for three days as if it were hanging
on a nail. No boy could build a load
of hay then, and no man could make
stacks worth looking at. We worked
at night when the wind was less Sc
we're and slept during the day. We
had natures tools largely in making
hay then. A mower and a rake con-
stituted the improved machinery.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

troughs to run sheep through after be-
Ing pared The bluestone attacks the
fungous growth, while the salt
cleanses and hardens the foot. In
dressing for foot rot care should be
taken to remove all loose hoof and de-
cayed parts without injuring the foot,
cutting toe veins, etc, and preserv-
ing as much as possible of its natural
shape. In dealing with very hard
hoofs a hot iron will be found very
useful for burning the hoof, thus rem
dering it soft and easily pared away.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
Old Pass Holders in Luck.

Attorney General Sturtevant has given
an opinion holding that the new anti-pass
law. aimed to make the old one more re-
strictive, is not applicable to certain Off
Gals holding passes before the law went
into effect.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
Arronted Authority

80 your wife does not approve of
baSeball?"
NO" answered Mr.. Meekton. Hen
rietta can't stand it to see any mere
man bossing people around the way
the umpire does. "-Washingto Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
He Is Bound TO Keen Busv.

Lightning set the bell in church
steeple ringing recently and Brother
Williams exclaimed: My, my! 1t sho
has come ter pass dat de devil is ring
in folks ter meetin' Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

The question has always been
mooted among railway experts
whether increase OF speed increased
the accident risk. To the lay mind,
whether scientific or unscientific,
there will probably be little question
that beyond a certain limit the risk is
increased in a constantly accelerating
ratio. Until some catastrophe occurs,
however, it is not probable that the
public will be alarmed, and it is
matter of record that accident to the
flyers is rare, possibly because of the
greater caution which attends TO the
running, concludes the Baltimore
American.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

1t sometimes happens that man
who poses as social lion before mar
rage looks very much like q truck
morse asterward.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

If human life is worth more than
machinery. then Japan owes Russia,
having killed more men.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

Don't allow the hog troughs to be-
come dirty or filthy, nor the floors or
ground around them to become sour
and foul. Such places become rocking
with disease germs-become a pest
house. Aim to keep the pens clean
and sweet, giving them plenty Of sun
light and air, sprinkling a little air
Stacked lime around in them often and
spraying them occasionally with
strong solution Of carbolic acid. This
will disinfect the hog house and de-
stroy disease germs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

One little flower TO a living man is
worth more than wagonload of floral
smblems to dead one.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

All the records of history and all
the facts of common experience sup
port the statement that men do not
die of hard work, but that hard-work-
ing men who shun dissipation and
avoid all waste of vitality live the
longest, states the Boston Globe. 1t
was said of William Pitt that he died
IF old age in his forty-seventn year,
worn out, not by hard work, though
he worked hard, but by inattention
to his health and by unphilosophic
worry and chagrin. President Rocse-
welt today in his forty-seventh year
displays the eXuberant energy or
youth, not because he leads an >asy
life, but because, while working har-
der probably than any other officer
of the government, he pays, as he has
always paid, close attention to his
health, and avoids the means of weak
ness and debility.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

A COW to do her best needs more
than what she can get out of good
paSturage.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

The wearing of sandals has become
a distinct fad in footwear. Lynn,
Mass, is manufacturing a million
pairs a year. Not only are they on
the feet of children, but simple livers
everywhere are affecting them. It
must be confessed that in promot-
ing this fashion the manufacturers
run a distinct risk to themselves. Sup
pose that society's next step is to go
barefoot, suggests the Boston Tran
script.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

If the milk is kept too long in too
low a temperature it will not raise
much cream
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

Fashionable ladies in New York
City are now affecting a cunning lit
tie lisp. Wen, that's more innocent
than good many things they have af-
fected during the past few seasons,
AYERS the Chicago Record Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

The San Francisco Call says: en-
surance companies are places of de-
post for such surplus wealth of the
country as is devoted to that form
of protection of property or use of
savings against the accidents and mis-
fortunes of life. They are all trus-
tees merely, as much so as the banks
and trust companies. The public has
the same interest in their right adj
ministration and honesty Of manage
ment."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

The lady managers of the st. Louis
Fair have turned back $4,000 of the
100000 allowed them out of the Gov
eminent appropriation. This not only
shows that currency has been given to
somewhat mistaken ideas about Amer
lean women, comments the Boston
Transcript, but proves the utter lack
of understanding on their part of the
political system that makes our appro-
priations.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

The amount of cream in the milk
is what tells the grade of cow.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

To milk a COW requires time and
slowly and steadily. Some cows have
very tender teats, and if you want a
wen disposed cow, be gentle in your
treatment towards her. A good COW
is naturally impatient and does not
like rough handling. With constant
irritation any cow will fail in guam
t1ty Of milk.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

The last pint of milk is very much
richer in cream than the first pint. Be
sure to get that last pint in full.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

Make the prints of butter look at
tractive, they will sell much better,
and of course have the quality of the
best
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

Ordinary petunla flowers profusely
all summer. thrlves anywhere and self
sows.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

Setting out fruit trees is an art that
very few people have learned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

A number of English greenhouse
gardeners have been visiting the
French gardeners in the vicinity of
Paris. They found the market gar
dens to consist chiefly of two acre
lots, many of them devoted to grow
ing early lettuce and other vegeta bles
under glass. The soil was prepared
with extreme care ard is practically
all artificial.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

Scatter the floor of the pen with
straw cut in lengths not over an inch
SO that the hen can teach her young
how TO exercise for the grain.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

After saving man from bleeding
to death by tying one of her skirts
around his arm a Jersey City girl
tainted, She evidently had read in
the books just what heroines should
do remarks the Chicago News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

Successional plants of corn and
peas should be made at intervals of
ten days or two weeks. Some plant
early and late kinds Oh the same day
and thus secure a succession, but it
a series of paintings of the same va
rietyr
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

The young folks like to have a few
dollars they can call their own. 1t
makes them think the farm is all
right Not that the dollar is all there
Is of life on the farm, but ropes are
made of strands and this is one thread
In the cable binding the boys and girls
to the country The boys and girls
are the best stock ON the farm, and do
not let us forget it.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

A heavy plank thrown from
bridge by two mischievous boys de-
rallied an express train while it was
running out of Philadelphia at So
mile-an-hour rate. Some day care
less person will drop a match in front
of one of these SO-mille-an-hour fly
ers and then-we'll feel more like re-
turning to the simple life in railroad
journeying.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

There are $4,000 orchards in Vir-
ginia alone in which neither a sprayer,
a pruning knife nor a pillow has been
seen in fifteen years. Great oppor-
tunities down there for orchard men.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

The size of any success in this
world is Just the size of man-soma
man. There is not a single develop
ment in business or politics that does
not illustrate this fact There is not
a failure that is not the result of the
lack of a man.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
MOTIFS AND COMMENTS.

A Japanese cadet has just been ad-
mitted to the Naval Academy at An
napolis, 1t might not be bad idea
now to send an American cadet to
Japan, thinks the Springfield Republi-
can.
Some one has called attention to the
remarkably large number of actors
who have reached the age of three
score and ten without sensible i'm
pairment of their usefulness-a cir
cumstance which, of course. proyokes
the well-worn triviality that pedes-
trianism is excellent for the health.