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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Wohurn Abbey.

The Duchess of Bedford, who died
In 1859, was rather weakminded, and
unhappily her education did little to
disguise the defects which nature had
imposed upon her. Her great dread
was to have a visitor az Woburn abbey
who would ask her hard questions
about the foundation and history of
the abbey. So if she had savant in
the party she always asked a man of
higher rank to meet him, 50 that she
might not be taken in to dinner by
the savant. Once, as bad luck would
have 1t, she got Lord Stanhope, the
historian, who, though he had to take
her In to dinner, was none the less a
savant. AS soon as he sat down to
dinner he began the dreaded inquiries
about the date Of the abbey. The poor
duchess, much frustrated, said:
81 have very poor head for these
historical things, but | will tell you all
l know The founder was a crusader
who, finding himself in great danger
in battle, vowed that If he got home
20 Europe safe he would do anything
the Pope told him. He got back safe
and went to Rome, and the Pope told
him to build Cistercian abbey, and
he built Eoburn abbey. That's all
know"
Lord Stanhope said, THAT is exactly
what / wanted, for if you can tell me
which Pope it was I can approximate
" fix the date"
"Oh," said the duchess, Il always
understood 1t was the Pope Of Romeg'
Manchester Guardian.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

specially constructed for him whne
Dewey was sitting over there waiting
for the cable to be mended. Col. Scott
says of the former leader of our little
brown brothers:
HE apparently has no means and is
pra ctically living off his relatives. Ro-
sario, Filipino whom Aguinaldo be-
friended at one time during the strug-
gle between the United States and the
fnsurrectos,' perhaps contributes more
to Aguinaldo's support than any one
else. 1t was supposed, you know, that
Aguinaldo had taker large SUMS Of
money that rad been collected to aid
the Filipinos in their struggle, but
happen to know tat he is as poor as
church mouse. lie has a small farm
near Cavite, not far from Manila,
which he is farming. He goes about
without any of the fear of assassina-
ton that possessed him for some time
after his capture. He is indeed de-
throned leader"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
forty Years Ago.

Communication south Of Cairo, H.,
was shut off by the freezing of the
river.
Several steamboats, were sunk and
many others injured at st. Louis by the
breaking up of the ice in the river.
Major Gen. Thomas attacked and
routed Hood and his Confederate forces
before Nashville, Tenn.
A Union expedition along the Roam
oke river was reported to have de-
stroyed 100000 worth of Confeder-
ate commissary stores.
President Lincoln ordered draft OF
100000 men to make up credit deficien.
cies in the previous call for troops.
Hoods Confederate army, routed at
Nashville, retreated beyond Franklin,
with Thomas in pursuit.
Several Chicago policemen were ar
rested by federal authorities on charges
of assisting enlisted men to desert.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

and rough plowed this fall will do bet
ter work than if all the preparation
is done in the spring. There will be
enough of the fine work to do in the
spring, so why not do some of the
coarse preparation now? Many things,
such as rhubarb and asparagus, for
example, are much helped by a pro-
lection of manure put on in the fall.
These are good places to put some of
the coarse manure, the fine portions OF
which will permeate the soil and be
of benefit to the plants in the spring.
Then there are the hardy perennial
plants and the shrubs, all of which
will be benefited by manure as soon
as the ground is frozen some and there
is no danger of a warm spell and the
manure melting the twigs to new
growth. In such places, however, the
fine, half-rotted manure should be
used, not the coarse stuff which will
attract mice and result in the shrubs
being gnawed. Carry out these sug
gestions about using little manure
this fall and notice the improvement
in the plants next summer
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Within Our Borders.

A. NJ. OnrlSCldnSen, dSeu ot years,
died in Kenosha as a result of inhaling
gas in a foundry.
Samuel Beckwith has disposed of the
Sherwood Forest summer resort prop
erty to Lee S. Ovitt of Waukesha in
exchange for the new Ovitt block of that
city, for 100000.
\ peculiar fact in connection with the
death of Charles Michel, the pioneer
brewer in La Crosse, was that a couple
of weeks ago he was reported to have
been found dead in bed
With her engines disabled. flying a
signal of distress, and with her crew
exhausted through lack of food and ex-
posture, the little launch Mischief fish
ing boat from Kenosha, drifted aimless-
ly in the wind in midlake off kenosha for
more than nine hours the other day. At
the end OF this time the crew was res
cued by the tug Engel, and brought
into the harbor.
In order to save the girl he loved
from being sent to the industrial school
Archie Dunn If La Crosse pleaded with
Judge Brindley to be allowed to marry
pretty 16-year-old Nina Spierce, whose
home is in Sparta. The gri came to La
Crosse, and since then las been gener-
ally incorrigible, it Vas alleged. While
she was willing to marry the young man,
she told the judge she thought the best
place for her would be at some school.
She was sentenced to the House of the
Good Shepherd, Milwaukee.
A 14-year-old boy stood before Judge
4
on a charge of tempting to murder.
The defendant is John Mitzka, who is
alleged TO have stabbed young Eddie
Grohall on election night after a dispute
at wedding.
After forty years in business in She
boygan Joseph Sehmitt. father of the
largest family in the city, has sold out
70 two of his twenty-one children and
retired. Mr.. Schmitt is so years old. The
family of Mr. Schmitt has long been
famous for its size. OF the twenty-one
children, sixteen are living.
Hiram e. Tracey. in order to spend
Christmas in La Crosse jail- with his
two sons. stole jackscrew from the
Milwaukee road and was sent to Jail for
it. The sons were sent up Dec. for
stealing old iron ana the father decided
on doing something to get in jail with
them.
Harry Miller. arrested several weeks
ago ON a charge of robbing the Wauke-
sha office of the United States Express
Company. pleaded guilty in the munich
pal court to burglary in the night time
and was sentenced to eighteen months
at Waupun by Judge TuIlar. MilIer's
mother was murdered in Waukesha by
Paul Kroening several years ago.
Twenty-six head of imported Short,
horn cattle belonging to A. III. kraus-
kan of Richmond Center. and Robertson
& Rissen of Lodi, were burned at Par.
ker. s. d., in FIRE set to cover the
theft of one of the herd. The loss is
! $4,000
George Tuchek. who is charged with
Z, having killed a mysterious stranger IL
La Crosse soIsle weeks ago by holding
his head under water. will have TO an
swer the charge of murder. Since ths
preliminary examination, in which he
was bound over on a charge Of man
slaughter in the fourth degree the ofsi
cials are SAID to have found evidence t.
warrant their changing the charge
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Growth of scored societies.

Every fifth man with whom you shake
hands in the United States and in Brit
ish Columbia is member of a secret
organization, counting out his possible
college fraternity.
Ten years ago a liberal estimate was
one man to every eight in secret orders.
At the present rate of growth in the
United States and in British possessions
to the north the present ratio of one to
FIVE may be three TO FIVE in 1914. For
in the United States, where the popula-
ton Increases one-tenth in a decade, the
figures of the secret societies in ten years
have been almost doubled.
In the year 1904 the figures of the
secret orders, reported by the central or
CARNATIONS, show a membership of
1.414,173.
In 1894 these figures, reported in the
same manner. showed membership Of
only 4,126,S75.
Thus while the population of the Unit
ed States and Canada was increasing a
possible 20O00.000 the memberships in
the secret societies were increasing near
" 1900, 000-a virtual doubling Of these
rlemherSliDs
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Fifty Years Ago.

Armed collisions took place in east.
ern Kansas between the two political
parties, those favoring slavery and
those against it.
Residents of Missouri crossed the
river and voted in Kansas, thus making
large Democratic majority, which
favored slavery.
Kamehameha Ill, King of the Sand.
witch Islands, die,l, and was succeeded
by Prince Alexander Liholiho.
The st. Lawrence river was opened
to American vessels.
Rufus Choate joined the political
party called the ''Know Nothings" and
became q candidate for the Senate.
The steamboat Westmoreland was
sunk in Lake Michigan and seventeen
lives were lost.
Kansas was being settled by New
England emigrants, who were resolved
to fight against slavery in the new ter
ritory.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
why Grass CROPS Die ONT.

Whenever the grass seeding fails,
the blame is usually laid upon the
weather. but this is not always correct.
even in part Grass belongs to the
same botanical family as wheat. only
the grain has had a greater develop
ment of its seed.
All farmers understand that the
wheat crop needs phosphate to be
grown successfully year after year, on
the same land. To be sure. the soil is
cultivated. and there is new Sc eding
with some manure each year for the
grain crop.
Yet farmers think that grass. with
our reseeding. and without new sup
plies of mineral matter, will continue
TO grow. The result is that the grass
gradually dies out and is replaced by
MOSES or other weeds of low organiza-
don that can live without mineral
plant food.
Not only is the amount of grass less
ened. but its quality is also impaired
by lack of the mineral. On land that
has long been without phosphate cat
tie will not thrive. and cows which
give milk will take TO the eating of old
bones to secure the mineral nutrition
they require.
Farmers who have learned that
ground bone is good TO make hens lay
are apt to forget that the more bulky
cow has an equally wonderful opera
ton 10 perform. That is, TO take from
her grass feed the nutrition required
10 make milk. which is less concen-
rated than the egg. but contains very
hearty the same kind of nutrition.
When we began to use mineral ma
nures on grain, we found that the Sec
Snd and third crops of grass seeded
With the grain Gid not pan out as they
used to do. 1t is far better TO apply
the phosphat with the grain The
grass seeded with it viii get the eff
/, fects OF the mineral fertflizing Ior as
!; least two years thereafter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Oae Hundred Years Ago.

Great damage was done by floating
ice in New York harbor.
The fleet fitting out in Spain for
Florida was dismantled and a treaty
ratified by which American merchants
would receive indemnity for their
losses.
A Paris paper published a statement
of the expenses of the coronation of
Napoleon, making them $930y000.
The British consul at Honduras or
dered that mahogany should not be ex-
ported in any American or foreign ves-
sci.
A new quarantine order in Holland
required all American vessels to enter
The port of HelvGetsluis.
Thomas jefferson and George Clinton
were unanimously chosen President
and Vice President of the United
States.
Congress appointed committee If
five to consider the project of erecting
a permanent bridge across me Poto-
mae river at Washington.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Thirty Years Ago.

Persistent rumors We're afioat in Ger
many that Bismarck was about to re-
sign through pique at the Reichstag.
Boston was visited by a series of
fires, causing q loss of $1,00O,000 worth
of property.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies at
Rome voted an annuity to GarlbaIdi.
Efforts to introduce the mixed school
system at New Orleans resulted in o
strike of the white children at this
schools.
King Kalakaua of the Sandwich ISL
ands was presented to Congress. He
was welcomed by Speaker James G.
Blaine in the House.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Seventy-five Years Ago.

The instruction in and about Smyr.
ma was quelled by beheading a few of
the insurgents.
Greece was declared Internationally
free and independent.
Severe weather prevailed in all parts
of the British Isles.
A treaty of peace and alliance was
ratified betw cen Buenos Ayres and
Santa Fe.
Gold and silver were discovered near
DeVonshire, England
France, Russia and England could
not come to an agreement as to what
title the new ruler OF Greece was to
assume
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands
was appointed by the King admiral Of
the navy and colonel general of the
land forces.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Tax Officer in Trouble.

Judge Tarant oyerruled the demurrer
in the case against Frank Himmelstein,
a former deputy tax commissioner IN
Milwaukee, charging him with having
used his official influence to secure the
sale of school lots to the city Hinmel-
STEMS demurrer stated that although in
city position he had no more influence
in the deal than if he were private
citizen. 1t was pleaded that the statutes
under which the charges We're brought
are class legislation and unlawful, de-
priving some citizens of rights which 9th
ers have. 1t is alleged that the land
deal involved $4,000 and that Himmel-
stein netted for himself $3.50 of that
omnlpt
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

The appended personal paragraphs
from a Minnesota country weekly may
provoke the scorn or the wrath of
narrow Americans" but in the broad
er view they are reasons for rejoicing.
They show that the aliens Of a few
years back are assimilating, being in
corporated into the national life, be
coming the kind of citizens it is worth
while to notice in the papers.
L. Glubka Is helping ]. Droskowski
put up hay.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Januzewski, of
Perham, visited with Mr.. and Mrs.
Martin Wojechowski last week.
August Jasdzewski, John Kardash
and Joe Lapos were at North Prairie
Sunday.
Vincent and Clara Wotska visited
with Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Krottochinsky
at Swan River Sunday
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Mormon Divorce After Death

The investigation into the case of Unit
ed States Senator Reed Smoot of Utah,
being conducted at Washington before
tne Senate committee on privileges and
electiolss, brought out the singular fact
that President Smith, head of the Nor
mon claych, exercises the power Of d.
vorcing dead men from their widows.
The power of the church over its mem
bers both in this life and after death is
absolute This point was emphasized to
show that the primary allegiance of Reed
Smoot was TO his church and not to the
laws Of the State or natioA.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

FLANNELS a CURSE TO HIM.
Writer Tells of Tortures He Endured a.
q Child.

At the age of l found myself-in-
felix!-removed to a town possessing
a bleak climate and many wooden man.
ufactories, says a writer in the Allan
tic Monthly. It was the custom OF the
house mothers to buy flannel by the
niece. direct from the factory; red fiaE-
mel. hot, thick, felled like Laplander,
and the invention of Lucifer. Out Of
this flannel was cut garment, a con-
tinuous, all-embracing garment, Of neu-
ter gender, in which every child In that
town might have been observed fam
ing Mephistophelianlike after the
morning bath.
A pattern was given to our mother.
The hair shirt laugh when l read!
Nv definition the hair shirt must have
nossessed geographical limits of at
tack. but my fannels left no pore I'M
tickled, untortured; they heated the
flesh until scarlet fever paled into a
mere pleasantly, and they soured the
milk Of amiability within me forever.
The rotation of the seasons reduced it.
self to terms of red flannel. In the
autumn when the happy fowls and
foliage alive molted, shed the super
fuous, when bracing October set the
body in glow, alone of living things
must be done up in flannel.
And spring, that season Of vernal
Eourgeoning, was the time when /,
too, like any other seedkin, slipped
free of all stuff incasings, and could
sprout and spring in air and sun, clad
in blessed, blessed muslin. l shall
never forget the corroding bitterness
induced by fannels. At times they
absolutely reduced me to flsticuffs with
my religion, so that filial piety, the
ordaining Of the seasons. and the very
catechism itself, hung in the balance
Of the conflict. l believe / can hardly
overestimate the spiritual detriment
done me by my flannels.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Twenty Yeers Ago.

England was stirred up over re-
ported plot to dynamite Windsor Cas-
tie and kill the Queen.
Stories Of trouble between the Grand
Duke Servius of Russia and his wife,
Elizabeth of Hesse, were sent out from
London.
The text of the Nicaraguan canal
and the San Dominican treaties was
made public by Congress.
Thirteen bodies were recovered from
a burned orphan asylum in Brooklyn
and over 100 children had not been ac-
counted for.
The worlds fair at New Orleans
opened.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
GOLDEN COLLAR LAID ASIDE.
Aguinaido il Now cuItivating Rice
and Potatoes.

AEuinaido is Now cultivating Rice
and Potatoes.
Col. William f. Scott, who is In the
United States on leave OF absence from
the Philippines, was interviewed at
Kansas City the other day, when he
made an interesting statement concern
ing Aguinaldo. 1t appears that the
former leader of our island wards has
gone out of the business of rebellion,
or patriotism, or whatever they call 1t
over there, and turned his attention to
the propagation of the potato and the
production of hemp and rice. The
dauntless warrior who made it neces-
sary for Funston to swim a river with
his sword in his teeth, has apparently
put away ambition, along with the
golden collar, the silver stick and other
emblems of sovereignty which he had
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
increasing Manure Value.

The Ohio Experiment Station has
been doing some good work along the
lire of proving how the value of stable
manure may. be increased by proper
handling 1t is peculiarly gratifying to
the writer 10 read the report because
it suhstantiates that which Re has so
persistently advocated for years. The
experimenters found that stable man
nre carted TO the field and spread soon
after il was made gave a crop return
in value amounting TO So cents ton
OF manure value and that when crude
phosphate rock was occasionally
snrinkIed on the manure value of is
cents more was added, more than the
rost of the phosphate. The crop on
which the experiment was tried was
ON clover sod plcwed under for corn
In the experiments wheat and clover
followed the corn without further fer.
filizing and with satisfactory results
This report is one more proof that
farmers are lightly losing many dol.
lars they might save with little effort
If they would give more tine to study
ing their business.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
unnauaILand Deal.

The regents of Kansas University have
purchased fifty-one acres adjoining the
campus ON the west. The terms are a
little peculiar in that no fixed price was
established. The seller. an elderly per-
son, is to receive an annuity of 5000 dur
ing her life The first payment was made
by popular subscription contributed by
the citizens of Lawrence The Degisla-
ture viii be asked to make provision for
future payments.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Takes Babe from Mother.

The infant of Mary Dove of La Crosse
has been committed to the State school
at Sparta. The testimony showed that
the mother was in the habit of getting
drunk and leaving the babe to lie in the
wagon box covered with hey. Upon one
occasion the horses were allowed to eat
hay from the box and the babe was badly
bitten in the face
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Row wouuded and Burned.

Emil Whttstock. aged 10, shot him
self through the left side with a shot
gun. The flash from the gun set fire to
the barn. His body was badly burned
before the flames were got under con-
troll. The young man was the son of
Charles Whittstock, a farmer living near
Berlin.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Ten Years Ago.

Capt. Schmittberger described to the
Lexow committee the system OF police
and official graft in New York.
Russia placed a contract with the
Bethlehem Steel Company for the ar
NOR plating for the battleships Sevas-
topol and Pehopavlovsk.
Word reached America Of the death
In Samoa Of Robert Louis Stevenson.
the novelist
Dispatches from Toxic announced
that the war between China and Japan
was practically at an end.
In the United States Circuit Court
at Boston the Berliner telephone pat
emit was declared void.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Succession of Vegetables.

The garden should hold very i'm
portant place on every well regulated
farm. Not only are good fresh fruit
and vegetables desirable from health
standpoint, but they are more econo-
rnical than meat and canned goods.
City people pay out large sums of
money for fruit and garden truck and
then cannot secure 1t so nice and fresh
as the farmer can have it if he will.
At the Epitomist Experiment Station
we have planted at intervals lettuce,
radishes. onions, peas, beans, corn,
cucysmbers, cabbage. etc, and we are
now using fresh peas, lettuce and rad
ishes. Just as nice as those grown ear
uer In the season. Late paintings OF
all these are now coming on, that are
looking fine. assuring Il liberal supply
of vegetables until frost or later. 1t
is not yet too late for planting peas.
radishes, lettuce, turnips, and in case
you have good strong plants, cabbage
may be transplanted Try crop of
fan vegetables once and You will likely
follow it up in the future.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

A certain prince, says the South
China Post, has engaged foreign cir
Gus troupe TO perform for the delecta-
ton OF the Empress Dowager and her
retinue The troupe has been engaged
for ten days at cost Of $4,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Bnnana Peel Costs Life.

From the effects of fall on a banana
peel some weeks ago Hiram Smith, one
of the oldest members of the Manitowoc
city police, is dead, aged 56 years. Since
the accident he had been confined to his
home
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
BOYS Burn to Death.

Fire destroyed the home of Joseph
Covey at Atlanta and his two boys,
aged 8 and II, were incinerated. They
formerly resided at Barron. The fire
was caused by the explosion of a lamp.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

All the noted people the world has
produced, have been workers; still.
there are a few who do not believe
work is respecta Bile.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

whenever farmer admits that lie
ls 100 old to learn he is entirely too
OLD to farm. To know what is right
and not do it is as bad as to know
what is wrong and to do it.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

There is such a thing as having too
many friends. In friendship quality
counts for more than quantity There
are fool friends borrowing friends and
uncongenial friends What we need
is fast friends.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Places for a Little Manure.

FIaVes TOT a f1tt're
Those who grow yegetaoies III large
or small quantities may NOT Know
that the soil devoted to them manurei
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

4 man is usually borrowing trouble
"nen he borrows tools and implements
from his neighbor. Never borrow
trouble.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

Don't wait until the ice crop is ripe
oerore making arrangements for the
next crop of ice.