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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Ducks without Water.

While it is difficult to raise duck
fngs without a stream of water III
which to swim, when these birds come
from a long line of pond-raised ducks,
it can be done with fair success if a
little trouble is taken Try this plan:
Let their food be almost entirely a
mash of corn, oats, bran and meat
scraps with some finely chopped vege-
tables or grass well mixed through the
mass. Feed this mixture in shallow
troughs or on clean, fat boards and
have number of vessels of clean wa
ter close at hand where the ducklings
may drink between mouthfuls of the
mash. In other parts of their enclos-
ure have vessels of clean and fresh
water at all times, but not large
enough for them to getinto. The idea
is that if they have plenty of water
to drink they will not want to swim in
it very badly. The plan often works,
hence it is worth trying.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Health and Beauty Hints.

Eggs are easier to digest when
slightly boiled than when eaten raw.
Lettuce, celery. dandelions, crosses
and similar salads are good nerve ton
ice.
\ person suffering from chronic
rheumatism should avoid dried fish.
cooked oysters, pork, veal and turkey.
The sufferer from dyspepsia will
find turnips, spinach, crosses. salads.
celery, sorrels, lettuce, dandelions, ripe
peaches and roasted apples on his bill
of fare.
Some foods disagree with some per-
sons, yet they continue to impose ca
the already outraged stomach by eat
ing the foods that nature intended for
some ole else or for them at 4 later
date possibly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

An indictment containing six counts
against Select Councilman Frank Fl.
Caven was returned by the grand jury
in Philadelphia Pa. alleging violations
of his oath of office by being interested
in city contracts.
DR.. William II. Kelly Of Albany, y.
Y. chief veterinarian of the New York
Department of Agriculture, has been APP
pointed by the State Department al
Washington as delegate for the United
States to the international veterinary
congress to be held a Budapest. Hum
gary, Sept. 3-9.
Daniel Kelly, accused of wife murder,
was found guilty at Gam Valley. ).
.. The jury recommended life impris-
onment.
Gov Cutler of Utah has refused to
issue a requisition for the surrender Of
John Q. Cannon. who is now fugitive
from justice. Botn Cannon and the Gov
ernor are members of the Mormon
church.
Harold Powell Of the United States
Depa4. .aent Of Agriculture says he has
conclusiveIy demonstrated that ripe fruit,
well refrigerated before shipment, will
arrive sound under ordinary railroad re-
frigeration. even after being from ten to
fifteen days en- route.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Spoons for Shoe Horns.

You've seen the girl who is at the
mercy of a shoe horn. If she has lost
or forgotten her own, she goes from
room to room, seeking to beg, borrow
or steal one, as if a pair of slippers
might not actually be gotten on with
out shoe horn.
Now, here is a pointer for her. If
you can't get shoe horn, use a spoon.
This is what college girls do, and they
find it just as convenient as the arti-
Gle designed for that purpose.
Not a teaspoon, but a tablespoon.
Put the handle into the heels of the
slipper and use it just as you do d shoe
horn. When the shoe is on the spoon
handle really comes out easier than a
shoe horn.
OF course, this is merely a substi-
tute, but if there doesn't happen to be
a shoe horn around. it's handy to
know about the useful spoon.-Phila-
delphia Bulletin.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

Strawberry cold cream is more de-
sirable than any other kind when il is
TO be had, because of its bleaching
qualities. To make it put dozen
large ripe berries into two ounces of
almond OIL move from the fire and let
it grow cold, taking care that none of
the water on the bottom is retained.
Melt Il quarter of an ounce of white
wax with a quarter eff an ounce of
spermacettl, and when liquid beat
slowly into the strawberry oil, using
a silver fork. Just before it hardens
perfume with a few drops of oil of
geranium. Use this as any other cold
cream. 1t should be kept in a cold
place.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

According to careful estimate
made by the Department of Agricul-
ture, loss of 100000, 900 is caused to
American farmers every year by in
sects. The losses on plant products OF
the SOIL both in their growing and In
their stored state. exceed the entire
expenditures of the national govern
ment, including the pension roll and
the maintenance of the army and
navy. After giving a long list of de-
structive pests the department says:
Wheat suffers most from insect dep
relations. The Hessian fly, the chiach
bug and the grain plant louise work
annual havoc amounting to per cent
of the crop. The HesSian fly is dis
tinctly wheat pest, infiicting a dam
age in Indiana and Illinois alone last
year of $24,000000. Twenty per cent
of the planted area of Michigan was
abandoned because of it and the loss
in the United States during a single
season has been estimated at 100000
co.,"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Insect Pests at Panama.

So serious has become the scOurge Of
insects in the canal zone that the sup
ply of insect powder in this country has
become exhausted by an emergency call
from the sanitary officers on the isthmus.
A requisition sent by the army medical
department for IS tons Of various insec-
ticides revealed the fact that there were
but 20 tons of the needed materials in
New York.
1t is believed by the medical officers
that the quantity desired on the isthmus
exhausted the supply in the country.
There were purchased at the same time
20 tons of sulphur and 10 iron pots in
which to burn it. together with - tons
of newspapers, which were needed in
the fumigation of the buildings of the
isthmus.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Comfort in Nets.

The woman or girl who is not
blessed with waving locks has, indeed,
a hard time at the seashore, and try
as she will it seems welI-nigb impos-
sible to keep neat and trim, for no
one cares to wear a face veil all sum-
mer. a hair net is the only solution
to this most harassing problem and,
although the pompadour may not be
quite so attractive as during the dry
winter months, net keeps the flying
short hairs pretty well in place. For
tennis or any kind Of sport the large
nets that completely cover the hair
are best. These nets, which are fast
ened on with the small invisible hair
pins, if once tried will never again be
given up by anyone who cares in the
least for her personal appearance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
PENNsYLVANIA's NEW RAILROAD
Gould Will Extend the Wabash System
to the Sea,

The Goulds are to build a rival to the
Pennsylvania railroad. They will extend
the Wabash system from Pittsburg to
the sea. All that was needed was to
buy a few connections and to hook up
old surveys, and this done Mr.. Gould's
line was completion paper anyway.
The Pennsylvania railroad, which has
been working for two years to block the
Wabash, has had agents in the northern
and central districts of the State for
some time leasing coal lands, but has
practically given up all hope of prevent
ing the Wabash from building a road
through the heart of Pennsylvania.
The proposed route has the advantage
of the lowest grade crossing of the Allie
gheny mountains in the State at Cherry
Tree, and the surveys that have just
been completed indicate that, while the
road will be q high grade line cutting
through the hills well toward their tops
instead of following the valleys closely.
it will have practically a water grade
for it's entire length and will shorten
the distance of the haul for the Buffalo,
Rochester and Pittsburg and other
friendly routes from Indiana county to
Pittsburg by about 30 miles.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
NeedIeMnrk Notes

Stock ties four or five inches wide,
of handkerchief linen, stamped to en-
broider. are 80 cents.
Centerpieces To be worked with the
coronation braid cost from - cents to
81 and are always useful articles.
Every other woman who is embroi-
deriug her own corset cover gets a
butterfly design. French fashion pat
terms are also good. A corset cover.
ready stamped. costs S1.a5.
Sets of chemisette and elbow sleeves
to wear with the Short-gown sleeves of
this season are as pretty as they are
useful and come stamped for embroid-
cry at 81 q set.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Trees Not self-Fertile.

There have been many complaints
lately from parties who have pur-
chased few plum trees, from one to
half dozen, mostly of the new varie-
ties claimed to be the best. The trees
blossom freely but they get no plums
If few set they drop when not larg-
err than peas. One man threatened
to cut down half dozen fine looking
trees for this reason. We advised him
not to do so. but to get one or two
trees of some of the old-fashioned
American varieties, say a Gage and q
Lombard or Damson, and set near
them. Some of these new plum trees
need to be fortified with the pollen
from other varieties to make them
bear any fruit. Others are only par
tally Self-fertilizing, and will bear a
few plums, but not many when there
is only one variety. The climate, To-
cation or weather is sometimes less
favorable to self-fertilizing than at
other times. and a tree may bear some
fruit one year and not again for sew
eral years.-American Cultivator.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

earth's little ones more often in ig-
norance than in reckIessness or abso-
lutte malice. But it is worked none the
less surely, and there is really no eX-
cuse to-day for the didn't know the
harm" of parents or stupid nurses. No
ordinary father or mother or faithful
caretaker would MAIN the body of a
child by any avoidable means. Is it
not passing strange that any one of
them should take the more terrible
risk of manning the infant mind
through groundless fear?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

medium of rats, says Major L. L. Sea-
man. The hog on the farm is great
hunter of rats and eats his victims.
He eats the rats infected with trichino-
sis and so contracts the disease. 9th
e. rats, whenever they get the opLor-
tunity, eat the ca-casses of hogs which
have died of trichinosis, and so d
vicious circle is established and con-
tinued from hog to rat and rat to hog.
Then again the rats eat parts of other
dead rats, and it is also true In some
cases that hogs may eat parts of other
hogs that have been infected with
trichinae. So there are really three cir
cles in which this disease moves-one
is the large one, made up of hogs and
rats, and the others are smaller, one
Of them being made up of hogs and the
other of rats exclusively. The two
smaller ones, however, are tangent to
the larger circle and therefore SIM
ply widen It's radius.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
As to Summer Meals.

The general discarding of hot soup
at dinner and scaiding tea for the
midday meal should not be too lightly
entered upon during our warm season.
Hot liquids really cool the body as a
final result and are much more health
full than the iced beverages and cold
dishes that form so large a part of the
Southern hOusekeeper's menu. And in
the gray days of rain and storm that
come upon us in the midst of our hot
test weather they will be found to
cheer as well as cool Who would care
for iced tea when nature is weeping
herself into a perfect passion without
and the water is running into little
pools and puddlts, almost as dreary as
the occasional ice surfaces that form
during the brief Southern winter?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

of tenderest interest, the pivot on
which family life turns. The first req
uisite is to make it attractive, that
none of its inmates will care to lin
ger long outside of its limits. All le-
Ultimate means should be employed to
this end, and no effort spared that can
contribute to the purpose. Many
houses, called homes, kept with waxy
neatness by painstaking, anxious wom-
Ell, are so oppressive, in their nicely,
as to exclude all home feeling from
their spotless precincts. The very
name of home is synonymous with per-
sonal freedom and relaxation from
care; but neither of these can be felt
where such a mania for external clean
illness pervades the household as TO
render everything else subserylent
thereto
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

Edna Dow came under the influence
of Margaret Fuller, Emerson, Alcott,
Clarke and Parker. She aided in form
ing the Boston School of Design For
Women, the Women Medical College,
the New England Hospital For Won
en- and the Horticultural School For
Women. During the civil war she was
secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Soci-
ETY.. She was president of the Massa-
chusetts Woman Suffrage Association
in 1879 and has long been identified
with this reform.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

how much better off you ought to be.
You might have married millionaire!
Just so, but you might have married a
mendicant!
Show a smiling face at home and a
tranquil one abroad; be too proud to
complain if you have cause of griev-
auce, too wise to affect cause if you
have none, and, above all, take les
son from the most human of poets and
the most poetical of human beings, and
thank heaven fasting for u good
mans love"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Banish the Bogy-NIau.

Professors of metaphysics know that
it is an exceedingly cruel and danger
GUS thing to frighten little children
with bugaboo stories. Under no cir
eumstances ever try TO control tender
childhood by its fears or try to impress
the 'bogy-man' upon delicate baby
nerves. The mischief Of needless,
cruel fright is perhaps worked upon
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

young woman. The stitches have the
merit of originality, which is a strong
point in their favor. There is little,
if any, embroidery, the design being
generally confined to stitchery, and
the combinations are charming as re-
CARDS both color and line.-Brooklyn
EA ole
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Delight in Disorder

\ sweet disorder in the dress
KindieS in clothes i wantonness;
A lawn about the shoulders thrown.
Into a fine distraction;
An erring lace, which here I'D the
Enthralls the crimson stomacher;
4 cuff neglected., and thereby
Ribands to flow confuSedIy;
A winning wave. deserving note.
In the telnptuous petticoats
A careless shOestring, in whose tie
/ see a wild ciyility;
Doth more bewitch me than when ar
Is too precise in every part.
Robert Herrick.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Air the Closets.

Closets should be aired the same as
bedrooms. and the coming architect. if
a woman, will see to it that closets in
which clothes are hung are provided
with window, be it ever so small,
going out TO the yard. This window
will be SO protected that in neartr all
weathers it may remain open and sup
ply the closet with fresh air and Light.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Finger Nails.

For discolored or stained finger-nails
teaspoonful of lemon-juice in a cup
of warm, soft water is Invaluable. A.1ls
is one of the very best manicure acids.
1t will loosen the cutiele from the fin
ger-nails as well as remove discolora-
tons. Brittle nails may be cured by
soaking them daily for few minutes
in blood warm sweet oil.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
After the Shnr,nnn

Those who take cold easily after
washing the hair should rub little
eau-de-Cologne or other spirit into the
scalp after the hair is dried. If the
hair is washed in the evening it should
not be left until late, or there will not
be time to dry it thoroughly. Besides
being exceedingly bad for the hair to
go to bed with it damp. it is running a
great risk of taking cold.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Renovatinp Grass Land.

One of the first results of the con-
tinuous grazing of land by mich COWS
or young stock is the exhaustion of
the phosphoric acid which such land
contains. The quantity of this plant
food material removed in a single year
may not appear very considerable
when worked out by analysis, but I'M
der the most favorable conditions the
percentage of phosphoric acid in the
soil is very small and when the land
is graZed for a number of years and
no manure is applied to it with the
object of returning the phosphoric acid
carried away, the exhaustion event
ually assumes so serious a form as TO
considerably diminish the grass-pro-
ducing capacity of the land For re-
storing to the soil the phosphate thus
removed the best artificial dressings
at present at the command of farm
ers are super-phosphate and basic Stag,
the last named of which is found spe-
cially valuable on soils deficient in
lime. Other plant food materials also
get carried away IL the same manner,
of course. but that which is the first
r. become exhausted is the phosphoric-
acid.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

John Hyde, chief of the bureau OF
statistics in the Department of AgricuI-
ture, resigned, declaring that the cot
ton growers had organized to force
him out of the department and that
his health was too poor to enable him
to continue the struggle. Secretary
Wilson said that Mr.. Hyde has not
been implicated in any manner in the
irregularities that resulted in the dis
missal of Edwin S. Holmes, the asso-
ciate statistician. charged with being
guilty Of giving to brokers advance
figures of cotton crop statistics.
Hyde's letter of resignation was al
most sensational.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Leisure Not a blessing.

Leisure is not essential TO spiritual
growth or happiness. The most mfser-
able people IN the world and the most
material are found among those who
possess abundant leisure. The people
who find life dullest and most uninter
eSting are those whose lives hold no
necessity for achievement-Ang
Morgan in Chicago Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

Dr. Theodore S. Palmer of the gov
ernments biological survey is the
guardian of all the game of the Unit
ed States. He knows every quail COW
ert in the country; he can number the
herds of elk in the Western mountains.
and he knows every runway of the
deer of the Adirondacks. This physi-
cian-naturalist provides for the pro-
lection of the game in Uncle Sans
preserves, and sees to it that the
poacher shall not escape punishment.
The doctrine of states rights bars gov
ernment action in the matter CT law
making for any sections OF the country
save territories, the national parks and
the forest reserves, but this fact does
not prevent DR.. Palmer from being the
adviser in chief of nearly every body
Of legislators in the land when the
game laws stand in need of revision.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Hone-Keeninc.

The trGest homes are often in houses
not especially we'll kept, where the
comfort and happiness of the inmates,
rather than the preservation of the fur
niture. is first consulted The object
of home is TO be the center, the point
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

1t Is generally supposed that a
sow's milk gets richer as she grows
older, but an experiment conducted by
the Michigan station shows that no
perceptible change takes place.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

Edna Dow Cheney,
author, preacher
and reformer and
famous in days of
yore as 81 journalist
and a stirring agi-
tator in women's
movements. Edna
Dow was born in
Boston June 81,
1924. In 1858 she
married Seth Will
lis Cheney, the ar
fist EARLY in lifp
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

The scrub farmer seems to have an
affinity for scrub stock 1t takes a
thoroughbred man to appreciate thu
oughbred horse or COW.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

There is no reason why corn md
cob meal should not be fed to cattle,
sheep and hogs. 1t can be fed to
those classes of stock without regrind-
ing, though better results will, as a
rule, follow reSrinding, as the particles
are finer and more quickly acted upon
by the digestive juices. In a finely
ground condition the sharp particles of
the cob are not so likely to injure the
digestive organs. One of the great adj
vantages of grinding the grain and cob
together is that it lightens the grain,
which is rich and heavy and not al
ways thoroughly digested and assini-
lated. Corn and cob meal will, Cf
course, give better results, as a rule,
when fed in combination with other
grains.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

The War Department has invited
bids for the building of more than
twelve hundred miles Of railroads in
the Philippine Islands. The bidders
must be citizens or corporations of
the United States or the Philippines.
Eight hundred and thirty three miles
of the railroads will be in the Island
Of Luzon. The right to operate tele-
graph lines along the routes will be
reserved by the government.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

About 100 years more will be re-
quired to complete the work of making
d typographical map of the country.
which was begun by the United States
government in 1882. The work is
being carried on in cooperation with
the States. New York, for example.
having appropriated annually $4,000
to S2J, 900 as its share. There never
has been "a typographical map of the
United States published other than
rough sketches. For that reason the
government work will be one Of the
largest ever made.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

President Roosevelt has directed a
milder and more discriminating en-
forcement of the Chinese exclusion
act, to the end that Chinese who are
not Of the prohibited classes may re-
ceive as courteous treatment as the
citizens of other nations. Resentment
in China against the United States be-
cause of this act and the methods Of
its enforcement is taking the form of
an organized boycott in Chinese cities
against American goods.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

By Jan. / next the Isthmian. Canal
Commission will have spent the last
penny of the preliminary appropria-
ton of S10.0O0O0O made by Congress
two years ago TO construct the Panama
canal. Congress has also passed
rule making it misdemeanor TO spend
the public money in excess of the APP
propriations. and it has also failed 70
enact any Panama legislation for over
a year. This is one of the reasons why
President Roosevelt sees the necessity
of a special session of Congress be-
ginning early in November.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

Gull out the poor sheep as fast as
possible. It never pays to raise poor
scrub animal Of any kind. Make room
for the good ones.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

Peach stones should not De planted
this spring unless they have been
mixed with sand and eft outdoors last
winter TO freeze
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

Clean out the si'J and have it ready
for filling the winters supply of sill
age.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08

There is brewing the biggest kind
of scandal that will perhaps insinu-
ate itself into the navy, war and in
terror departments because of the way
persons are committed TO the st. Elz-
abeth Home as insane without hav-
ing been so adjudged by Il court OF
competent Jurisdiction. 1t has been
the habit in the Army and Navy De-
partments to commit persons there
who were supposed to be insane This
was done on the certificate of the
army and navy surgeons, none of
whom has qualified as an expert on
mental diseases. Thousands, it was
asserted, have thus been committed in
like manner from the soldiers homes
throughout the union. In the latter
case it is alleged that the institution
collects the pensions averaging SO
per month per person and collected be-
sides from the government $50 per per-
son for the keep of the inmates.