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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22
VEGETABLE IVORY BUTTONS.
Half Of Worlds Product is Made in
This Country.

This Country.
In this season of campaign buttons,
which are so prevalent locally, it is
interesting to know that of the but
tons of the other kind, those used to
hold ones clothes on, probably half
of all the world uses are made in
this country A considerable portion
OF this product is turned out in Phila-
phia and vicinity, but this is not a
button center and other places are
much larger producers.
Nearly all the buttons manufacture
ed in the United States are now made
of vegetable ivory, says local deal
er. and of the worlds output of this
substance nine-tenths is so used
Practically this country takes all the
vegetable ivory that is grown. The
best of it and a very large proportion
of it comes from South America, that
from the banks OF the Magdal ena
River in Columbia being especially
choice. It is also grown in Mexico
which produces an excellent quality
and in California So far the Califor-
MIA nut is inferior, at least fer but.
tons, but attempts are being made
to improve it, and it is believed they
will in time be successful
Buttons made from vegetable Ivory
are still distinguished in the trade as
ivory, pearl, rubber, horn or bone but
tons, and they look like what they
are called owing to the c1oseness of
the imitation and the perfection of
the processes. They may be stained
almost any color or highly polished
The nut is not used until dry and
hard. Then it is cut into slabs, and
the forms desired are cut out by dies,
which perform successfully the opera
ton of shaping, making the thread
holes, counter sinking and finishing
Then the button goes to the polisher
Nuts of bad color or spotted are
used for buttons which are to be
subsequently colored, process in
which certain dyes are used in con-
nection with wax. White buttons are
made from the best nuts. There is
considerable waste of material in
scme of the processes, but the result
ing produced is still cheap. The re-
naming one-tenth of the vegetable
ivory not converted into buttons is
nearly all used to make poker chips.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

Grand total .......... .$7S5, 1905
These large percentages of loss are
calculated according to the destruc-
tion of crops at initial and advancing
stages OF growth by their successive
enemies. For example the wheat
and corn crops would have a COM
bined value of about $1,000,000 5000 if
they passed through the season I'M
scathed. The root worm inficts an
initial damage of 2 per cent upon the
corn crop, of $2O,O6O,0O0; the boil
worm affects the ears to an equal de-
gree, and chinchbugs brings the fig
ure up to $6,000,000, while the wire,
army and cutworms, locusts, grass
hoppers, lice and other pests help to
establish the total loss of $4,000, 900
for corn. The Hessian fly scourges
and hurts the wheat crop fully 10 per
cent annually, the damage in 1904 be.
in S40,000,000 Wheat in single
State suffered to the extent of S20,-
100000 during one year. The average
damage from grain plant lice is from
2 to 8 per cent of the value of the
crop. The detriment to wheat from
all sources is 20 per cent, or 100000
900 annually.
The boil weevil, cotton-leaf worm,
and other insects inflicted 100000
900 worth of damage to the cotton
crop last year. The value of apples
shrunk by from 25 to 40 per cent
through insect inroads, notably of the
coddling moth and the apple maggOt.
There are the contingent damages,
too, to be reckoned III, such as the
$S,250,000 expended in 1904 for insect
protection in the apple orchards. The
apple crop lost in all $20,000,000 in
value. Borers and other timber pests
occasion an annual loss to farm for
ests of $100,000,000.
The big graneries and storage
plants of the country suffer constant
ly from every species of parasitic
insect, such as weevils, grain beetles,
and worms, to the extent of 100000,
900 a year, and the annual shrinkage
of food values in private dwelling
from these sources, which, of course,
cannot be estimated, would swell this
total considerably.
Yet it is certain that scientific
means of protection have apprecla-
bly, reduced the great annual devasta-
ton by insect scourges. The cotton
leaf worm alone used to cause a
yearly loss to the growers of $30,000,-
600, while the depredations of the
Hessian fly have been reduced by be-
tween $1OO,OO0,OO0 to $200,000,0O0 and
the coddling moth has been snccess-
fully encountered with net saving
to fruit growers of nearly $4,000, 900
year. The simple eXpedient of 70
tation in crops prevents the ravages
of the root worm on corn to the eX-
tent of S1OO,OOO,OOO annually.-New
York Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

will eventually be able to laugh at trouble and to get
chummy with success What would you think of shoe
maker who, after making part of shoe last be-
last keeping up this method he had nnay spent all
MS money for stock and had nothing lot of half
finished shoes to show for it, Foolish way to do isn't IT?
But it's more foolish than for young man to tackle
line of business every little until he grows too
old to learn any business thoroughly
Everything in nature is fitted one thing well and
spends its whole life doing it. You hear of the ant
going into the honey making business; nor of the bee
building ant hills for change. its place
IN the world and sticks to it. and that what boys must
do if they would accomplish great things OF course boys
are somewhat handicapped compared with the bees
and ants. You boys not often born with knowl
edge of just what kind of last they're fitted to peg
away on But nearly every boy early age displays
aptitude for something and if that aptitude properly
developed the of selecting last is smplfed
remember always to keep your ambition up top
notch Whatever you do try do it better
fellow. At school make it point
class; and at play don't be satisfied you
jump the farhest throw the straghtest Then when
you enter business life this matter of getting ahead will
become a habit.
Now l want to give you another thing to think about
while you're growing up and preparing to win fame and
fortune in the commercial world 1t is this: Don't
do what you like-do what you That's a good
panion piece for stick your last Don't let
ton of something you don't know lure you away
thing you do. Do what you and stick That's
wisdom.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22
Old Books and American MiIIionaires.

Lord Rosebery talked of second
hand books and secondhand booksell
ers but not in the sense understood
by the real lovers of books, as were
the old book collectors and the old
booksellers. That is a race gradually.
but apparently very. surely, dying out
in this country. 1t is a lamentable
sign of the times, for the care for old
and rare books is a test of true cul
tire which cannot fail. No Unculti
waited soul could take an interest in
old books, but he might in pictures
and china. Their external attraction
is greater. How many now among
our greater mobiles collect books? Yet
If is precisely their fathers that built
ND the great libraries in the past.
They made the libraries and their
sons sell them. Ask Mr.. Quaritch and
Mr.. Sotheran whence come tL5 pur-
cnasers of rare books today? Not
from this country The American
millionaire can put the British mil
lionaire to the blush: he could, that
is. if the British millionaire knew
enough to understand what there was
TO blush about-London Saturday Re
view
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

But on the other hand the young man beginning to
work for the first time will find the routine of office life is
not entirely nmca to his chances Of success even if he
does not attain it by remaining with firm and working
up" The discipline of large firms office the regular
hours for reporting and the regularity which work is
done will teach him promptness to begin with The nature
OF the work will teach him that desirable quality concen
traon and the system under which modern offices
will teach him expedition.
This is not bad training for the young who is going
to make business his Even if little exuberant
lost through bending for long hours desk
the worker in way loser if he acquires exchange
steadness and complete control of his mind
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22
THE HARM OF INSECTS.
DAMAGE OUR CROPS TO THE
AMOUNT OF HALF A MIL
LION A YEAR.

The Big Granaries and Storage
Plants of the Country Suffer Con-
stantIy From Every Species of
Parasitic Pest-Grand Total of
Loss $785, 100000.
The prevention of damage to the
estimated extent of $685., 900, 900
wrought by insects each year upon
crops in this country would enable
the United States to create a new
gold reserve greater than that of Rus
STA. The Chicago Daily News has
obtained statistics from experts of
the Department of Agriculture at
Washington showing that the aggre-
gate operations of insect pests upon
staple and miscellaneous crops, and
upon the forests and products in
granaries and storehouses, occasion
annual losses amounting to about
$7S5, 100000, distributed in this wise:
Amount
Product Value. of Loss.
Cereals !. So, 1000, 600, 900 5000, 900, 900
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22
81 crows Roba un AGAIN.

Pat Grove, the kidnapper of Eddie
Cudahy. has again startled Omaha,
Neb. With. one companion he held up
and robbed two street cars within
three blocks of the Omaha city Jail
and police station They got the re
ceipts Of both cars and escaped
There were no passengers aboard.
we are firmly convinced that it
was one of Groves jobs" said Chief
Richmond of Council Bluffs I'VE
know he was in town Sunday"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22
EDUCATION OF INDIANS.
Vast Sum Expended on the Nations
Words Since 1859.


From 1879 to 1908 inclusive the ma
tiOnal government has expended S402,-
100000 on the Indians. In 1903 the
amount expended was $13000,O0o. OF
this sum S3,161, 900 was for the sup
port of schools. There were 25T In
dian schools in operation in 1909. rep
reSenting an investment of 100000.
OF these 81 were reservation boarding
schools, 26 were boarding schools stu
ated outside of the reservations and
near the centerS of civiliza don, and 140
We're Gly schools, located close to the
camps of the parents of the pupils.
The oldest and largest of the non
reservation boarding schools is that at
Carlisle, Penn, established IN 1879,
which had an enrolment Of 1,074 pu-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22
Seeing Things.

Mr.. Crimsonbeak-W Wife, Wen have
to get rid of some of those hatracks in
the hall.
Mrs. Crimsonbeak-Wha on earth
are you talking about? We've only got
one hatrack in the hall!
"Why, when 1 came in last night l
thought saw six or seven. Yonkers
Statesman.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

1873, and for a time
was Minister of the
Interior, but does
not rank as a re-
former, and is, in
fact, alleged to be
wholly opposed to
the modern spirit.
1t is said in his
favor, however, that
but for his restrict
i've measures the
prosecutions of the
Jews might have
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

JOHN +. sIEN EMS named for the task
which Wallace deserted, puts his heart.
his brain and his wonderful physical
energy into every task. He did that
when he whipped the son of a great
railroad president with whom he had
personal alteration, and he did it
when. as 4 scout on the plains. he car
ried a message from one military post
TO another. being obliged to hide neck
deep in swamp for twenty hours to
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22
CLERKS MUST PROVE THEIR VALUE.
BY Jonas howard.

1t may be said fully that the general atmos-
phere of the large Office employing 400 or 500
clerks is bad for the ambitious young man. There
Is a narrowness to office work that leaves its
effects on the men who follow it. There is the
unvarying routine, the minute petty details, the
stunted horizon, the dreariness of indoor work,
which Is sure in time to sap the vitality, energy
and ambition of the worker
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

by the standards
of that religion,
which he holds
to be his most
priceless posses
sion," has been
the Nemesis of
StandardOil and
Mr.. Rockefeller
for some years.
She is a writer
of note, her best
Ia i
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

been stopped with
a postal fraud or
der pending an in
vestigation, had OBJ
tanned several mil
lion dollars in de-
poSitS ana stock
subscriptions. The
postal inspectors
have found that he
did not Use his
own money in the
organization of the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22
HOW BOYS MAY WIN SUCCESS.
Y W. L. Douglas, Governor OF Massachusetts.

Recently, in talking to delegation
Of brlghtfaced boys, told them that
they should, in order to make the most
of life, obey the old maxim, Stick to
your last" If you don't you'll find that
old ogre, called trouble, bobblng up In
your pathway every now and then, and
you'll never get to be on speaking
terms with success. Fortune you know,
favors the brave. In the battle of life
the really brave man is the one with
courage enough to stick to his LAST
in the face of early rebuffs and TEN
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

great work on the
isthmus OF Pana-
ma, He will build
the canal, honestly
and well. He has
I h e soldier in
stincts of bravery,
loyalty and obedi-
ence to superiors.
He is as rugged as
the hills"
Mr.. Stevens, who
IS the e n gin e er
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

Japan, in place
of II. AIuravieff,
the original selec-
ton for this inn
portant office, is
called t b e
"strong man Of
Russia. He be-
gan his career in
the government
railways, work
ed his way to
the head of that
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22


South America and northward the South Atlantic Gulf States
1t has been brought
The s blamed OF the disease.
Frost yellow
of
yellow
S by toxin 10 a
Sometimes TAX ssevend
The attack with ch sudden
gradually maaral
symptoms The
is nause and
The yellow ki
or ~ .--.
In severe small hemorrhages take place into the skin and
membrane vomit
bleeding usually
consciousness,
Mortality pdemics
In others
Heat moisture bad drainage uneanness
is
Is to
yellow Different
a
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

OSHKOSH NOrCu-
western, the staff
of which paper he
Joined as a report
er in 1867. He also
is noted as a liter
pry man, formerly
Easing the pen name
of SANDY Broad,
and is the author
of the story, "The
Man from Osh-
kosh." Col. Hicks
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

of the constitution
al government of
the United States,
it is certain that the
gravest crisis that
the Congress has
had TO deal with
was in the time i'm
mediately after the
war.
Upon the laws
passed by Congress
the entire future Of
the country, both
the North and the
South, depended.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

leans and in some
parts of the State is
Or. Beverly War
ner, rector of Trim
ity Church. He is
a noted churchman
and author. He
has been command
ing the great army
of citizens of the
Crescent City III
their fight against
4 -. 90. -. 81. -. - - -
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

of the rest habit certain overworked business man.
believing he the verge of prostraon fed
to the coast for vacation and After two weeks
stay he felt well he had but stay
while longer ito put the finishing touches" as he told
himself After two weeks having gained pounds
conceived to grow fat so he wrote to his
partner that he would stay month longer sore up
energy for the years business"
Confound your stored up energy, wrote his partner
reply THE business don't need energy-it needs
more energy that's on tap and need it quick"
The scientist who announced long since that he had
discovered the which produces the disease azness
may not have been wholly in error
Let work fearessly with joy in life that teaches
sleep only when needed and then will faculties
be lively and useful and enjoyable All to the srenu
life
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

Si-AAoAeS VII IL. lue lledu OIrIudI
branch of the ears service, position
he attained in 1888, and in 1893 he
became finance minister of the empire.
Two years ago he fell from the grace
OF the grand dukes by declaring
against the war with Japan, and was
removed from office to the insignificant
post of president of the committee of
ministers. Born at Tifiis. in the lower
ranks Of the Russian people in 1S49,
he has always upheld the privileges
of the autocracy and believes fully in
the despotic form of the Russian gov
eminent. He is an advanced states
man, and while in power tried to create
conditions of progress in the empire by
building up industries, manufactures
and commerce.
-
General Durnovo. who has been ap-
pointed Governor General of Moscow.
held the same position in 1872 and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

$50 your daughter graduated?" said
Duddson. u suppose she saved the
country on commencement day2''
YES" answered Mr.. Briscoe, ''she
saved the country a great deal She
was taken il, suddenly and couldn't
read her essay. "-Detroit Tribune
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

W T. King of the Dominican astgon-
omical observatory is in charge Of the
new big refracting telescope at Ottawa.
which is the biggest in Canada and ranks
after the giant ones Of the United States
1t is nineteen feet six inches long, with
a fifteen-inch lens and a maximum mag
nifyiug capacity Of 1900 times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22
In His Case, for Instance

Tommy-Papa, is q mans wife his
better half?
Representatives,, Tommy. And
sometimes she's his four-fifths.-De-
troit Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

MISC IDA IAhBELL huONu DIOuuc-
tions, prior to her Standard Oil articles
in McClure's Magazine, being a life of
Lincoln and a short life of Napoleon
BOnaparte. She was born in Ohio in
1857, was educated at Allegheny Col
lege, and for some years was the edi-
tor of the Chautauqua.
-
Col. John Hicks of Oshkosh. Wis.
who has been appointed Minister to
Chile, is the owner and editor of the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

quito, as the transmitter of yellow
fever, and against dirty streets. DR..
Warner is general superintendent of
the working forces of seventeen
wards.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22
DON'T REST TOO OFTEN.
BY Paul W. naytty.

Il am told, Mr.. Edison" said an acquaintance
to the grea. inventor day, that you sleep but
five or six hours out of the twenty four. How do
you do much work on so little sleep?"
so little Sleep" asked Edison, whimsically
why, sir, 1 get lots of sleep. In those FIVE or
six hours get all the sleep that I've paid for, and
that's a good deal"
A false theory lands MANY mon into +ho o,,i1.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

only remedy for the ills which this mutual seshness has
engendered.
Should the divorce be granted? That depends
tensity of their seshnes and the acuenes of conse
quent misery. Married unmarried such people
be miserable though it must be admitted that
people will be miserable the closely they are
united and therefore miserable in wedIock. Still
their ses their pain intoler
able they ought to be made live together because
is large chance that the gift of children, the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

" oo UUIH ut -iU-
burn. n. Y, in 1S47, and was taken
to Wisconsin when child. His
father was killed in the civil war and
he worked his way through college,
but soon won name for himself after
he began newspaper work. During
the Harrison administration he was
Minister to Peru. Colonel Ficks has
been conspicuous in local educational
and library matters, AMI has present
ed the public library with several fine
pictures and with numerous art treas
ures gathered in his travels
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

When a woman's daughter tells heI
she cannot dance the mother always
says: why, your pa says 1 am 4
good dancer"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

J. Alden LOring OF New York mas
made such a thorough study OF birds and
beasts that it is said that he knows each
by its cry and can answer them in their
own language.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22
MOSQUITOES SPREAD YELLOW FEVER,
WHOSE SYMPTOMS ARE DESCRIBED.
An acute specific disease.
PeStrictad to oortoin oaoors

Restricted to certain geographical Limits
characterized by high fever of short duration.
gastro-intestnal disturbances hemo rhages into the
skin and mucous membrane, and yellow tint of the
skin.
First recognized definitely in West Indies in 1647.
1t is infections.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

To the man working in the sun: The
man lying in the shade isn't having as
good time as you think he is.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22
WHEN DIVORCE SHOULD BE GRANTED.
BY Prof. William De Witt Hyde.

The majority of people to-day are as selfish
and hard Of heart as those to whom the law Of
Moses permitted divorce. They marry for one or
other Of the selfish motives-sensual appetite
sentimentality, vanity, love of power, desire for
pleasure They are speedily disappointed. The
men grow hard, brutal, cruel; the women grow
queruous bitter censOrious. Drink and poverty,
gambling and extravaganza, often aggravate the
conditions and both parties look to divorce as the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

The only words the average man
addresses to his wife at party arei
Come on. let's 90 home"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

NJ. SergiuS Juliewitsh de witte
whom the ear appointed chief of the
plenipotentiaries to make peace with
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

One of the central figures in the
crusade being carried on to crush the
epidemic of yellow fever i'm New Or-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

ported to be extremely subservient to
the desires of PobedOnOstseff, the
powerful head of the Holy Synod.
Among the other offices that he has
held is that of Governor of Ekaterin-
oslav, and during the famine ia the
Volga provinces he failed to cope ade-
quately with the situation.
-:
Miss Ida Tarbell, who renews her
attacks on John d. Rockefeller, claim
ing the RIGHT to adiudge him guilty
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22
little LSeSSopS
in PatriotiSm
NN>~NONN-~-N~~N

While there is little doubt that the
period of the Civil war had been a
most critical one for every department
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

IIttIIN. n IV VTUIII-
ised in his prospectus, and that he
has been lending the banks funds to
himself.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

Edward G. Lewis of St Louis.
whose novel scheme of doing bank
ing business by mail exclusively has
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22
HAS SEEN MANY HAROsHIPs.

His Isthmiau Task Has No Terrors for
Engineer Stevens.
Nothing but death or q physical
breakdown" say his friends, will
chase John +. Stevens away from his
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-22

Silks which are intended for water
ing must be of good quality.