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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-30
sCRAPERs AT WORK ON GOVERNMENT IRRIGATION CANAL

the State Department in regard to a
new higk4peed telegraph instrument
now being tested by the British postal
officials, which it is claimed will revo-
lutionize the telegraph service of to-
day. The invention is said to be as
great an advance on the Morse inStru-
ment as that was upon it's predecessor,
the single needle.
The new system uses a paper tape.
which, instead of being hand punched,
is perforated by an instrument. The
tape at the other end of a wire rs SINH
larry perforated instead of being mark
ed by dots and dashes. This tape can
be placed upon another machine,
which converts the perforations into
printed words on telegraph forms at
the rate of about 100 to 80 words a
minute. The system is four or five
times as fast as the Morse, and con-
sists of three stages:
l. The telegram is copied on a ma
chine resembling a typewriter. Paper
tape runs through this and is perfor-
ated as each letter is struck.
2. The message, as it appears on the
tape, is run at q very rapid rate
through a transmitter, and an exact
facsimile of the tape is produced at
the other end of the wire.
3. The tape is put through a type
writer with automatic mechanism,
driven by small electric motor, and
the message Icappears neatly printed,
lined and spaced.
This last stage may be described as
being similar in effect to the placing
of paper rolls of music in an automatic
piano. Whereas in that case the per-
forations are the cause of the notes
being struck and the music being pro-
duced. SO in this instrument the per-
forated paper is the cause of the type
writer keys going down and the ham
mers containing the letters striking the
telegraph form and producing letters
and words.
One of the effects of the use of this
instrument provided it be found ulti-
mately TO come up to expectations,
would be a great saving of time, as
wire would be capable of carrying four
or five times as many words as at pres
ent, and fewer persons would conse-
quently be required to perform the
work. Any person able to operate a
typewriter can transmit messages by
the new system.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-30
THE WOMEN ALL PEEPED.
They Fell Victims to ProverbiaI Cur
iosity of Their Sex.

They Fell Victims to Proverbia1 Cur
iosity of Their Sex.
Il witnessed rather interesting
scenes, or, l should say, series Of
events, in front of a well-known bust
ness house the other day." said the man
who keeps an eye open for the curious
happenings of the day, according to
the New Orleans Times Democrat, and
it presents one of the interesting
phases of the average woman's tenn
permanent.
There was large pasteboard fun
mel placed in the show window of the
business place. The small end of the
funnel was placed toward the street
and there was an opening just about
large enough to accommodate the eye.
On placard around the opening was
written in bold letters: For Men Only ,
The large end of the funnel ran back
about eighteen inches or two feet. By
pressing the eye against the glass of
the window at the opening in the
small end you could see what was on
the inside. What was it?
"A shy little woman came along,
stopped and glanced at the sign. She
looked around, up and down the street,
and then started on. But she could
not leave without glimpsing into the
funnel. Thinking she was not watch
ed, she made bold dash for the show
window, pressed the eye against the
glass and beheld all there was to see.
Her ears redeemed somewhat as she
hurried away from the window. What
had she found in the funnel?
Directly another woman came
along, went through nearly the same
routine, blushed, smiled and hurried
along. l saw at least a dozen women
go up against the same game, and in
each case the woman seemed to make
an effort to keep from peering into the
funnel. But they could not resist the
sign, For Men Only 1t was simply
another case of woman's curiosity.
The ruse was clever, and attracted
more women than would have been
reached by some duller plan. No, there
was nothing shocking to be seen. The
house was simply exploiting n GER
tain kind of artificial leg, and 1 guess
this is why some Of the shy women
blushed a bit behind the ears when
they read the advertisement"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-30

AFTER FORTY YEARS.
Glacier May Give Up the Body of
Lord Francis Douglas.

Lord Francis Douglas.
The brief announcement came from
Switzerland the other day that in all
probability the body of Lord Francis
Douglas would be delivered up by the
Zermatt glacier within a few months
Among the scores of tragedies enacted on
and around the Matterhorn of recent
years, that in which he figured, although
discussed in many countries and tongues
at the time, has been generally forgotten.
1t was 40 years ago, on July A. 1865.
and the first time the Matterhorn was
ever scaled
Since then the glacier has withstood
every effort to discover traces of the
body. During the interval the glacier
has been descending at the rate of about
Il inches a day until the portion of it
where the body was buried is now in the
valley where the huge area of ice is ac-
cessible to search. Judging by one or
two precedents it is probable that the
body when found will be in a perfect
state of preservation.
If the remains of Lord Francis Doug
las are found it will be a case of history
repeating itself. In 1920 the ascent Of
Mont Blanc was atteD6ted by a Russian
and two Englishmen, with seven guides.
They were approaching the summit when
an avalanche swept several of the party
down a sharp slope of 200 feet and toss
ed FIVE of them, all guides, into one of the
glacier creVasses.
One Of tie five was saved by a long
barometer strapped to his back in such
a way as to bridge the crevasse and
hold him suspended until assistance ar
rived. The alpenstock of another saved
its owner in the same way. Three men
were lost in the depths of the great
glacier.
DR.. Forbes, the English geologist, made
several excursions to the Mont Blanc
region and infinitely studied the move
ments of glaciers about that time. Dur
ing one visit he completed his estimates
of the velocities of several Swiss gaciers,
and expressed the belief that the gacier
which swallowed the three men would
deliver its dead at the foot of the noun
tain within 80 or possibly 40 years.
His prediction came close to the truth.
Forty-One years after the catastrophe
the remains were cast forth at the foot
of the glacier
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-30

that careful dress is insisted upon large Eastern house
has recently put its boys who parcels wag
to the door in complete and stylish uniform matching
that of the drivers the wagon and which kept
as neat and even perfect condition.
One peculiar outcome of this cultivation of
good appearance has become evident yocations
even when uniform is not actually worm employed in
various ways to wait upon the public urged to dress
becomngly, and all less after the same patten
With women in the great shops this is only obiga-
tory but for the better uniformity the changes winter
to summer requested to be made upon certain
date AS for instance the change from waists to
white made the 18th of April and back again the
18th of October This has resulted in such good being
followed that these employees have prestige among their
class both outside well in the store There
satisfaction in claiming acquaintance with people who
this apparently superior look which is upon
friends relatives of the opposite whether
They to these shops to buy all they can
and according to the superintendent of of them
rule helps greatly to increase the marriage rate
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-30
IN THE SUNLIGHT.

The clouds came up on a summer day,
And covered the clear blue sky;
They hid the face of the sun away,
While the sudden storm swept by;
And the stricken flowers when the fierce
wind blew
Bent low to tNe tempest's power;
But they smiled in spite of their tears
of dew
In the sunlight after the shower.
The clouds came up when my life was
I, bright,
/ And covered the sun away,
And my heart grew chill in the sudden
night,
And longed for the vanished day;
But the clouds passed by with the sum-
mer rain,
And then, like the storm-tossed flower,
My heart looked up and was glad again
In the sunlight after the shower.
New Orleans Picayune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-30

GOO feet high, where rock cuts sixty
and seventy feet deep and fills of an
equal height were necessary. Some
portions of the road cost at the rate
Of 5000 a mile. During the short
period while it was under construction
100000 pounds of freight were hauled
over 1t.
To Use Hydraulic Gates.
The waters of this Roosevelt dam
will be controlled by the largest by
draulic gates ever built. With their
controlling mechanism, they will
weigh 100000 pounds. When the reser-
voir is full, they viii be capable of
discharging 10000 cubic feet of water
a second They will regulate the
supply of water in canals fifty miles
away.
The gates are to stand at the head
of a 500-foot tunnel which has been
driven through the side of the can
yon, and through which the waters
of the Salt and Tonic Rivers will be
diverted while the dam is being built.
1t is estimated that the dam will be
completed in about two years.
The excess water from the enor-
nous reservoir will be sent through
pipes into water wheels or turbines,
and the power generated will be taken
sixty to seventy miles distant to cen
trifugal pumps, by which other water
viii be raised to higher planes in the
Salt River valley. 1t is estimated that
each horsepower developed will irri-
gate ten acres. at a distance of sixty
miles. An area Of no less than $4,000
acres Is to be reclaimed by this sub
sidiary power project.
Estimated Cost Of Dam.
The estimated cost of the uam and
power plants viii be $3,200,000 Up
ward of 100000 acres of land in the
vicinity Of Phoenix will be reclaimed.
Most of this land is now In private
ownership. In fact, practically all the
land which will be furnished by the
gravity system-that is, without pump
ing-is embraced in the lands of the
Water Users Association. a voluntary
organization of the settlers who are
to be benefited by this work, and
which has pledged 100000 acres to the
government 10 guarantee the repay
ment of the cost of the work. The
land to be reclaimed by pumping is
still public domain. and it is not likely
that there will be water for it within
three years.
Settlers Arriving Already.
officials of the reclamation service
are not encouraging settlers TO go and
take up homesteads in the public do
a in the vicinity OF the Salt River
project But, nevertheless. settlers are
going in even now. and pre-empting
homestead rights under the national ir-
rigation act After fling claim they
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-30
BOERS AGAIN "TREKKING."
Now Deserving the Transvaa1 for Ger
man East Africa.

man Last AIElEds
While the British have been drafting
a constitution for the Transvaal colony
under which all burghers of the late
South African republic may vote for
members of the first VOlksraad, a large
number of Beers are on the eve of de-
parture for German East Africa More
than 1000 Beers will leave the Trans
vaal in May to take up farms in the
highlands of German East Africa, 100 to
$50 miles inland from the Indian ocean.
This party alone will represent the
speedy removal of 5000 or 1000 per-
sons, as many of the men win leave
their families behind until they have
cleared fields and built houses.
Last year two committees went to
German East Africa to spy out the land.
They found good soil for general farm
ing along the line of the Tanga railroad.
and were delighted with the rich growth
of grasses on the great high plain lear
the northern edge of the colony, which
they said was better adapted for cattle
raising than the veldt of their native
land. When they went home they recon-
mended these new farming and grazing
regions, where every condition, they said,
promised prosperity. Fourteen Boer
farmers and their families, numbering
"A persons, did not wait for the exodus
this spring, but packed up their belong
ings and started at once for German East
Africa.
This movement Of the Transvaal Beers
to a foreign land, !, 400 miles north of
their former home, is significant of their
antipathy to British rule.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-30
FACTORY-MADE PUPILS,
Educational Methods in Vogue in
Many Schools Criticized.

Educational Methods in Vogue in
Many Schools Criticised.
My boy advanced rapidly in all his
studies except one last session and
because he failed in this he was not
permitted to enter the higher grade.
This session he is playing with his
lessons, having really only one to
study, and i doubt il he is studying
that"
So spoke mother, according to the
Memphis News-Scimitar, and in what
she said she expressed the experience
of a good many mothers, whose boys,
for one cause or another, fail to
pass"
There should be some remedy for
this. OF course rule and regulation
are necessary in schools as elsewhere,
but causing a boy to throw away
large part of a school session should
be avoided if possible.
Children have no aptitude for certain
studies. Some can never understand
grammar or see the sense of it. Some
might study geography all their lives
and never be able to bound the county
in which they live. Some might put
in years on the study Of mathematics
without ever learning how to add up
grocery bill. There are certain studies
that children cannot understand and
never will understand. Their minds
are so constituted. 1t is not because
they do not learn. Their objection to
study is not based on laziness or in
difference, but because of the useless
ness and unproductiyeness of study.
What is the use Of studying what can
not be learned?
The old remedy for this was fog
ging. This was in the old, barbarous
days, not so very remote either, when
physical punishment was the panacea
| fOrall mental obliquities and when peo-
| pie who did not do and see and be-
| lieve as others wanted them to do and
see and believe were supposed to be
exercised only by larruplng or tortur-
| ing the one so possessed.
| We have outgrown this so far as the
| infection of physical pain is concerned,
| but we have not outgrown it sufficient
! ly to rescue us from the folly of ex-
! pecting the impossible.
If a child has no aptitude for Zig
ures" and cannot keep up with his
class he should not be cast into outer
darkness on this account. set back and
prevented from learning those things
for which he has special aptitude.
There should be some fexibility to the
| rule.
The trouble with our pupil factories
is that they are like shoe factories and
all other factories where products are
turned out on a lage scale. Each indi-
vidual must adjust himself to the vari-
Gus phases of the process without any
regard to his individual characteris-
tics.
With the private tutor the pupil
learns what he can learn and what he
cannot learn he leaves alone. This is
not practicable in the public schools,
of course, but the rule that keeps a
child back because he has no genius
for a particular study makes a lag,
gard of him and should be relaxed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-30
BREAKING HER Engagement
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~ EAR MIR. SMITH: You see
u even from the first words of
~ my letter you will gather what
IT is | have to say. l can no longer
call you George. In fact, L never
ought to have called you George at
all. l was young and rash and had
not taken everything into account.
However, it is better that the mistake
should be rectihed now than when 1t
is too late. That is what papa said
last night
Yes, George, I told papa last night
all about what was then our engage
ment. He says that it can never, new
e- be; or, at any rate, we had better
take time to think about it. He had
no prejudice against you personally;
in many ways he admires you, as, of
course, anybody would do who had
the privilege of knowing you. should
saw that he really was deeply attached
to you, but it was certainly his idea
that we had better not be engaged at
present He says that your income is
not sufficient | am not a strong wom-
an and | have never been used to
roughing it. Suppose l fell i'll. Think
of the misery of it; you would never
be able to endure an invalid wife. l
know l seem to be in health and that
I have generally It good appetite and
so on. but these things are very deCep-
tive. Under any strain, as. for in
stance if l had TO do any kind of
work, l feel sure that l should col
lapse utterly. so under the circum-
stances. however hard it may be, l
feel it my duty to write and to break
off our engagement
What l am going to say now has
nothing to do with the above, but as
/ happened to be writing l thought l
had better mention it, Do you remem-
Der saying that Miss Adelaide Jones
was the most perfect and complete cat
YOU ever met? You were quite wrong.
feel that l ought to mention this in
order that you may do her more JUS
tice in future l saw her this morn
ing and 1 have told her everything,
and anything more considerable and
angelic it would be impossible to con
ceive. She said that she had heard
of the engagement and knew from the
first that it could never come to any
thing. Then she told me the reason
why.
OF course, George, you are not an
swerable TO me in any way now, and
il is really no concern of mine, but
think you might have told me what
passed between you and Miss Brown
If l had known how far things had
gone between YOU should never fol
one mouent have permitted what
did.
At the same time you must no
think that | am blaming you. Oh
course she g not beautiful, very fal
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-30

made. The mill has capacity of 300
barrels a day. 1t is estimated that
100000 barrels of cener. will be need
ed to build the dam.
An Important Adjunct.
Another very important adjunct to
this big work is a wagon road which
has been built from Roosevelt to Globe,
the nearest town, forty miles distant,
Another road, three miles in length,
was built, leading TO the timber in the
Sierra Ancha, where about 100000
feet of timber has been sawed for use
in che work.
Some idea of the difficulty rncoun-
tered in the construction of the road
to Globe may be inferred from the
fact that in some places, where it ira
verses the Salt River canyon, 1t is cut
through solid rock sixty to seventy
feet deep, while Fish Creek hill is
climbed at the base of vertical cliffs
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-30

Take California 1t is half again big Italy, and
1t will raise the products many people,
Nevertheless it has only million and half popua-
uOn, while Italy has thrty-two millions The irrigation
works of California will bring in land
uhls Is so in many other States And then Texas.
That State could this country enough
cotton to cothe our people for all time to come.
The West has hardly begun be. At present 90 per
cent of people live of the River We
support fully many west of that river
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-30

Water for More than 100000 Acres.
The secretary of interior recently let
reservoir dam in the world
1t Is to BE called the Roosevelt dam.
Near 1t is new town, also called
Roosevelt Both are situated in. Ari-
iona, about seventy miles above Phoe-
nix, on the Salt River, near its junction
with Tonic Greek.
The dam is the main feature of one
OF the largest OF the government irri-
cation projects. 1t is located in can
yon Of the Salt River, just below its
above named. 1t will be 270 feet high,
40 feet long, 16J feet thick at the
base, and 16 feet wide on top.
This dam will create lake twenty
FIVE miles long and between a mile and
a half and two miles in width-the
largest artificial reservoir in the world.
It will be constructed of broken range
cyclopean rubbie" and Portland ce-
ment. The stone of which it will be
built will be quarried from the walls
on each side of the canyon. 1t is CON
templated that work on the structure
shall be carried on continuously day
and night.
Free Electricity.
Electricity for night work will be
furnished free by the government. The
waters Of the Salt River have been
temporarily harnessed to an electric
power plant, which develops 400
horsepower, by means of turbine,
under head of 220 feet fall. The
power thus developed runs a cement
mill and does all the hosting, drilling.
digging, etc, for the construction of
the dam.
The cement mill is located about
1000 feet from the dam site. and has
been equipped with all the most mod
ern machinery for making Portland ce-
ment Clay is taken from the ground
within a mile from the mill, and one
corner of the mill stands on a bed OF
limestone, which is one of the prin-
cipal ingredients. Close at hand are the
sand and other materials from which
bricks, as we'll as cement may be
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-30

build their houses and do what they
can to comply with the law in regard
to bringing half of the eighty acre
tract under cultivation. OF course.
they can grow nothing until they have
the water, and it is required by law
start with a rather dry and tedious
prospect.
They figure that when the water
does come they will have the pick of
the land. and will become proprietors
of rich and valuable farms, repaying
them for the money, labor and time
spent in demonstrating in the desert.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-30
Te1egraphic Brevitiea.

Safe blowers secured 81, 300 in cash
and nearly $1,000 worth Of merchandise
at the general store of Todd & Bosch
at Alexandria, Ky. The safe was blown
to pieces with blasting powder
Cofrustees of the Hyde estate refuse
to accept the resignation Of James w.
Alexander as a trustee, and serve notice
that suit will be brought to Gust him I'M
der charges of being recreant to his trust
The executive committee of the Afneri-
can Bankers Association at New York
decided on Washington as the place for
the next annual convention of the asso-
ciafion in October.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-30
STREET CORNER PHONES.
To Be Scattered Around the Streets of
Cities Like Letter Boxes.

To BE Scattered Around the Streets of
Cities Like Letter Boxes.
1t has been only few years since
the installation of the first public tele-
phone, but now that feature of the
business is one of the most popular as
well as the most profitable OF the sew
eral different departments maintained
in connection with the up-to-date tele-
phone plant. This particular line has
been cultivated and nourished until at
the present time there are no less
than 10000 of these public stations In
this country, says the Philadelphia
Record. They are to be found in near
" all drug stores and similar estab-
ushments in theSlarge cities as well
as the hotel and theater Hobbies, and,
in fact, all much-frequented places.
This applies to the business section
of the cities to a very great degree.
for the reason that suitable places in
the residential sections for pay sta
lions are difficult to secure. but it is
the desire of the telephone companies
to offer the most liberal accommoda-
IlUuS VI LAiAo NAloA dNNEA anu TIC DIOD-
lem of increasing the number of pub
lie stations in the residence portions
of the cities is a matter which has
been given some considerable atten-
ton.
With this view in end, there is
about to be introduced into a number
of the larger cities a street corner
telephone service, which will not only
be the means OF affording great ac-
commodations to the persons living in
the vicinity, but will also in a great
measure be the means of breaking
up the practice of annoyance to which
subscribers are subjected from their
neighbors using the instruments in
emergencies.
These instruments have been in ex-
perimental use in the city Of Bridge