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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-09
CHAPTER xyI.-fContipuedl

One thing is certain-both Mr.. Over
sndte and his mother must have been
dead bodies with little hope of Christian
ourlal, II that brave girl had not set
1orth on the Saturday night to help
them. Mrs. Overshute had quite thrown
up all hope of erything-save the mer-
cy OF God in better world, and His
justice upon her enemies-when quite
IN the dark this young girl came, while
she was lying down on her back, and
curtseyed, and asked her pleasure.
If Esther had not curtseyed, perhaps
Mrs. Overshute in that state of mind
would have taken her for an angel;
though Etty's bonnet. made by herself,
was not ar all angelical But she knew
her for one of the lower orders, and be-
longing herself to a fine old race, she
rallied her last energies with a power
Of condescension.
However, these are medical, physical,
social, economical and perhaps even ply
geological questions-wherein what re-
mans except perpetual inquiry? Enough
is to say that Russell Overshute. having
long had ringing in his ears. was rung
out OF that, and rung back to life by the
hvely peal Of the fire bell And ever
since that, whenever he is although it
be only little touch of gout-he imme-
diately sends a good corpulent man to
lay hold of the rope and swing to it.
These things are of later date. For the
present this young man lay still in a
very precarious state, with a feeble
mother to pray for him.
But though the house lay still in sad
ness, loneliness and dull suspense. and
though the doctors, having abandoned the
case, had the manners not to come again.
still from day TO day there was some
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your own course, and your course ia
quite sure to be the right one; but sure
ly, my dear, when something important
Is evidently going on about my own child.
you would never have the heart to keep il
from me. | could not endure it: indeed
l could not. l should fret myself away
to skin and bone"
1T would take long time to do that.
my dear" replied Mr.. Sharp. as he look
ed with satisfaction at her fine plump
figure. in the first place, then. YOU
must promise me, whether my plan turns
out well or i'll, on no account to blame
me for it, but to give me the credit of
having acted for the best throughout"
Nothing can be easier than to promise
that. My dear, you always have acted
for the best; and what is more, the best
always comes of it."
Very well, you promise that: also.
you must pledge yourself to conceal from
everyone, and most of all from Christie
pher, everything l am about to tell you,
and to act under my directions"
To be sure, my dear; to be sure,
viii. Nothing is more reasonable than
that | should keep your secrets"
Miranda" he said, II will tell you
something such as you never heard be-
fore. l have made bold stroke, a very
bold one; but l think it must succeed.
And justice is with me, as you will own,
after all the attempts to rob us. Per
haps you never heard stranger story;
but still | am sure you will agree with
me, that in every step have taken am
most completely and perfectly justified"
Luke, | declare you quite make me
nervous. | shall be afraid to go to bed
tonight. Really a stranger, or a timid
person, would think you were going to
confess a murder"
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Cheering Him I'm.

''Ye-es," Mr.. Billings said, reluctant
", in reply 10 his friends remark that
Mrs. Joyce was IAN awfully sweet lit
tia woman" $50 cheerful. Always
sunny; always looking on the bright
side"' Billings friend continued, en-
Enthusiastically.
There's such thing as OVERRIDING
IL at bright side business" said Bill
ings. THE other night was up there
and Joyce-you know how absent
minded he is?-put the lighted end Of
his cigar in his mouth. He jumped
three feet. and was little noisy for
minute. Right in the midst of 1t all
Mrs. Joyce smiled blandly, and said:
"'How fortunate you were. dear,
to discover it Mt once"
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RISKS LIFE TO SAVE GOOSE.
Man Lowered Down an Old Mine
Shaft 700 Feet Deep.

Man Lowered Down an Old Mine
Shaft 700 Feet Deep.
From Oxford, Warren county, N. j.,
comes the story of Lewis Albert. an
engineer TT the mines, says the New
York Herald, who, for the sake of
goose's life, risked his own for fully
forty minutes on Friday In a daring
and sensational manner.
The goose got over the fence of its
coop, tapped its wings, few over the
opening Of the shaft, when is TOO feet
deep, fell into the black hole and dis
appeared.
On the following day persons pass
ing the shaft heard sepulchral cries
proceeding from some subterraneous
source. Kemple heard sounds and
learned of the goose's plight.
The old hosting apparatus was ex-
amined and found to be useless and
the problem arose as to how the bird
was to be rescued. One man lowered
a hook and line. to which was at
tached a worm, but the goose would
not bite.
Then Albert took long rope and,
selecting u group of miners, he babe
them lower him into the mine.
Albert got down about 200 feet and
a minute later there was a fierce honk-
ing. followed by a signal to pull up
quickly. Albert soon appeared with
the struggling bird in his arms.
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feet of sash lumber, 10000 doors, l.
100000 square feet of glass skylights,
100000 square feet Of iron and felt
roofing, 100000 square feet of burlap
for wall covering, 100000 incandescent
lights and copper wire which cost
$65O,000. Among its assets are two
hospitals complete in all modern
equipments; three greenhouses ready
for utilization anywhere, each 300 feet
long, with many sorts of plants and
flowers; fire department big enough
for city of $4,000 inhabitants, com
prising nine engines and 100000 feet Of
rubber hose; thousands of chairs Of all
sorts; miles Of iron picket and woven
wire fences; hundreds of desks; wag-
ons dump cars and steam rollers
enough to fit up dozen good roads So
cieties and many other sorts of para
phernalia.
Out of the structures, equipments
and furnishings of the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition good-sized city could
be built. The debris would construct
half dozen fairs like that at Buffalo
in 1901, or that which is to open in
Portland, Ore, in June, 1905.
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DID YOU EVER WONDER

Why a baby carriage isn't known as
crycycle?
Why a dead martyr is the only one
VINO is ever canonized?
why that neighborly feeling is near
ly always one of curiosity and envy?
Why some people manage to talk a
great deal without saying anything?
Why so many of our coming men
seem to be handicapped from the start?
Why the company that issues the
map has the only curyeless railroad
thereon?
Why a girl seldom objects when
young man steals something from IN.
der her nose?
Why the average man invariably
makes fool of himself every time he
tries to act up?
Why SO many men who are anxious
TO work when sic6 are just as anxious
to avoid it when well?
why men are nearly always embar-
raised when they propose-either
financially or otherwise?
Why some men are not = black as
they are painted. and some are not as
white as they are whitewashed
Why q man seldom appreciates beau
ty unadorned more than when he re-
ceives the bin for his wife's new ball
gown?
Why the first thing a widow does af-
ter making up her mind to appoint
successor to her late husband Is TO
make mp her face?
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Only MISPLACED.

Mr.. Bixby was on visit to Mr.. Rol-
Inns, his cousin, who resided In another
part OF the country, where manners
and speech were different from those
10 which the visitor had been accus-
toned. Both eye and ear, therefore
were occupied with study and compari-
sons.
There's one thing l notice about
you people here" observed Mr.. Bixby
You don't seem to have much use for
the letter r. Back where came from
it has q. sound, as other letters have.
but here It is practically silent letter.
Why is thatT'
ST haven't the slightest idear," re-
plfed Mr.. Rollins, innocently.
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LARGEST STEEL FLUME IN THE WORLD.

ship, in this county, says a La Sueur
CAIinn.) special to the st. Paul Globe
He never saw a sign Of rat or mouse
about the place; the hens seemed to
get up in the night to eat and drink
and, every night or so, good, fat fowl
was missing from the flock. He locked
the door, but that did no good. He
ed not at all.
He hired man to stay In the coop
overnight, but in the morning the fell
low was gone and was seen the next
morning on Frank Everett's farm in
Cleveland, ten miles away, muttering
to himself and talking about ghosts -
Yesterday the mystery was solved.
Sark climbed up into the loft of the
henhouse to open the ventilators furth-
er, and there he saw, perched on q box
in a long, white row, six big white
horned owls, that had stolen In In the
fall and had been living of his sub
stance all winter.
It was just in the cleaning when
there was too much light for the owls
and not enough for him. but he seized
a club and went for them with the en-
tire winters concentrated wrath and
vengeance in his blood, and they re-
sponded to the battle with an energy
born of full feed and soft snap about
to be destroyed. He lost good deal Of
blood, more hair and all his shirt and
broke up about 81 worth of exhibition
coops with the wild blows he delivered
in the half light, and finally came out
victor and stretched his six unlimited
pensioners IN fuzzy, white heaps on the
floor OF the loft
Some people who hear the story
shrug their shoulders and smile and
think that ii was bats IN tho garnet, s.
and not owls in the loft, that troubled
him, but they are entirely wrong.
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Horseshoe falls every second. This
fiume Is so large that it was necessary
to establish a temporary shop on the
grounds for its construction. 1t runs
through Victoria Park and Is laid in
trench. In order that it may not mar
the beauty of the park lands, the great
pipe is covered with earth, but before
being so concealed was given a jacket
of concrete so that there would be no
unequal pressure of the earth. The
fiume is protected against electrolysis.
From the water that will flow through
this pipe it is expected to develop co.
600 electrical horsepower. Three such
fumes will be constructed.
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violence of Tropical storms.

The violence of tropical transforms
Is proyerbial, yet never before has one
been scientifically registered in which
"a much water fell in 50 short time
as at Santiago de Cuba recently. An
English engineer who gagged the rain
fan found that It was at the rate of
over four inches an hour and that be-
tween 7 and 10 O'Clock In the evening
more than a foot Of water reached
the ground. The storm covered near
ly 800 square miles and In places was
heavier than at Santiago.
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THE CURVED BALL.
It Ii the Atmosphere Which Causes
Its Eccentric Shoots.

It Ia the Atmosphere Which Causes
Its Eccentric Shoots.
Almost any ten-year-old youngster
can curve a ball. even though he does
not know why he can do so except
that the leather must be held in a GER
tain way. Possibly half dozen OF
the major league twirlers know some
thing about the science of the curve,
but comparatively few understand why
they can produce their Blenders" The
Scientific American gives the follow
ing as the scientific explanation Of the
matter:
THE pitcher In the field tells US that
the ball curves because he gives 1t
twist, but scientifically this will not
do. Why will the twist make the
curve? If ball were thrown in GER
tain direction and If the force Of CRAWL
tatton were not at work the ball would
continue on in a straight line forever.
Some force OF resistance is then at
work when a ball is made to deyiate In
q curve from its straight course. IL a
feather is dropped IN vacuum In an
exhausted receiver of an air pump it
will drop ike a shot, but IL ii is drop
ped out In the air It Will go down ir-
regularly and slowly, shifting from
side to side.
1T il the atmosphere which causes
the ball to curve. Bearing IN mind
that the atmosphere is q compressible,
afas.fn cos ne find that when the ball
aves the hand OF the pitcher with a
rapid rotary motion it impinges upon
a continuous elastic cushion. and this
moderate resistance. or friction.
changes its course in The direction
which Is given 10 the rotary motion.
Take an outshoot OF righe handed
pitcher, for instance. He impresses
upon the bah rapid centrifugal ro-
tar motion TO the left. and the ball
gees TO the left because the atmos-
phere, eompressible and elastic, Ii
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handsomely to his success in the business of gathering IN
tuition fees -
i coinnierclal SCHOOLS together with private pub
lie schools alike have reegated the flourish in
10 lhe maj resting place of the obsolete To the student
seeking the practical in business fancfu is never
Of and much less taught.
public skill in its mode of recording thought Speed of
cutlon and facility in reading the ypewren page are e
mens winch bring the stenOgrapher typewriter into
tne ~ or business as queen of the correspondence turf
For the bookkeeper and clerk a handwriting clear ar
curate and brief retains its hold and utility OF hand
writing has not absolutely faded into sentiment nor win
schools eliminate instruction in the art while penmanshin
retains glimmer usefulness There seems +o ha
unahmly OF opinion among contemporary proprietors of
commercial colleges and those schools of penmanshin
that some type of plain writing that resembles the time
nonored systems affords the chief advantages
In the meantime, may not writing alphabet be devised
which would be happy medium between Ionghand and
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WISCONSIN SOLONS.
@~e~e@~@e~@o~e>~~s~~~~s


The Assembly had a snort calendar
Thursday and gailoped through it till it
came 20 70oA. which provides that coun-
ty boards could limit the number of days
supervisor of assessment could be en-
ployed to seventy-fve days in counties
OF 100000 assessment. Mr. Cleary
had an amendment making the time
twenty days in smaller counties. lie
believed the seventy-ive day provision
intended to browbeat county boards and
hamper them. Mr. Dahl took issue with
Mr.. Cleary. The intent was to give the
county boards more power. The super
visor could put in as many days rs he
wished. but county boards could limit
I'm TO seventy-tive days 1t would be
fareleal to make the limit twenty days
ne said. Mr.. Cleary called for the ayes
and noes on his amendment which was
adopted by vote of IS to Al. The bill
was then reconsidered on motion of Mr..
Ekern and Mr.. Cleary sent up another
amendment substituting fifty days for
twenty in his first amendment and cut
ting down % per cent from original bill
the number of days supervisors shall be
employed in the larger counties. The sec
ond Cleary amendment was finally adopt
ed by vote of 80 to 80 and the bill
ordered eagrossed. In the Senate the
committee on judiciary reported sub
stitute amendment for 30TS, the drainage
district bill, revising the drainage laws of
the State and recommended its passage.
The committee also reported favorabiy
as committee bill 517S. appropriating
$1,000 to Senator Roehr for his services
In the litigation between Zeno NJ. Host.
insurance commissioner, and the Equita-
BILE Life Assurance Society. The SEN
ate concurred in the Assembly amend
ment to 4OSS (Munson), providing for
the approval in insurance risks by resi-
dent agents.
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WORLDS BIGGEST FLUME.
1t Is at Niagara Falls and Will De-

1t Is at Niagara Falls and Will De-
velop 10000 Horse Power.
The largest steel dune ever built is
at Niagara Falls, on the Canadian
side of the river, where the Ontario
Power Company has secured rights for
the development of 10000 horse
power. The fume has a length of
OSLO feet It's inside diameter is 1S
feet. and ii will divert 1900 cubic feet
of water from the river above the
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rupt before he arrived independent conclusion The
tngushng characteristic of Americans is their ability
assimilate ideas. Whatever American done
abroad he feels equal to attempting at home whether
raising ostrches, olives family trees. AS
catches on that thing is profitable excellent he at
tempts to master and possess it.
1t is the sign of the successful that he is willing
to take suggestions not necessarily them but to
consider them to digest Them and extract them any
kernel of good there be in them Some our busiest
make point of seeing, if only for moment every
one who wishes an interview Such appreciate the
fact that every human brain Las tiny sprou of an
idea about something And that bit of worked expert
ence of so humble person as a washeryoman NAV
exactly complete halfborn and struggling idea of
their Such willing to listen to much trash
IN order TO gain one little half Of idea, much as the
book lover rummages musy shops hour after hour in the
hope of lighting on some rare volume
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SELLING A WORLDS FAIR.
What Becomes of All the Material
When All La Over.

On q bid OF $4,000 a Chicago COM
pany has bought and Is removing
buildings, the material and construe-
ton OF which cost S14,00o.o0o, says
the Worlds Work. This includes all
the physical property Of the exposition
company except the intrammural cars
and street railway equipment. which
were sold to the 81. Louis Car Com
pany for $4,000; the palace OF liberal
1rts, which Is TO be permanent and q
few minor structures.
Thus the company has come Into
possession Of 10000 600 square feet Of
good building lumber. 10000 square
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packed into an elastic cushion Just
ahead of the ball by the swift forward
and rotary motion, and the friction,
which is very great in front of the ball,
steers it in the direction It is turning"
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The normal school appropriation bills
passed the Assembly at the Friday after
noon session under suspension of the
rules. The original bill appropriating
$4,000 for the Milwaukee school and
S115000 for the Platteville school had
been pared down previously to $215,O00
tor the Milwaukee school and the original
amount for the Platteville school. The
two bills embodying the Governors ideas
in regard to dam franchises were intro
duced by the committee on forestry and
lumber. The judiciary committee report
ed in the bill to abolish the dover and
courtesy rights and substitute heirships
therefor, thus putting women on the same
plane with men as regards securing n
share of the estate of her deceased hus-
band. The bill to abrogate the common
law disability of married women as re-
CARDS property rights was also recon-
mended
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ROBBERS WE'RE MYSTERIOUS.

Proved to Be Six White Owls and Not
Uneasy Ghosts.
All winter long T. NJ Sarl< has been
troubled in his mind over events in his
henhouse in his farm in Judsor town
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singing bird, and it does sing We feel that are
being cheated horse that is destined the course
we say, ought to be able to dray horse may be
setter dog must set We claim that ought
be what it is called and is capable of being ought
to come and live in the spiritual ranges being
Ii ne does not he not man. is not true to the highest
and nobest conception of his being You and
sympahize and be tender and helpful all by yourself
with nobody to love, with whom sympathze toward
whom you are to be helpful The very fact of cuvatng
these things which constitute you the highest truest
sense of the word of necessity puts you vital and
helpful relation to your fellow men.
what then? The church is the only organization on
the face of the earth that has this cultivation of man
hood TINS development Of the highest most essential
characteristics of men and women its one essential aim
Inc church exists for this 1t is place where these fac
ues and powers appealed to- where they are called
out and developed where they directed and brought
INTO play This is what the church for and there is
no other organization in all the wide world the one aim
ana end and object of which is make manhood and
womanhood.
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DO THE HARD THING Fl

things disagreeabe that your life may contain
no dsagreeaPe duties Bend before the wind that you be
not broken
able duties Bend before the wind you broken
Every position in the world has its drawbacks every
me OF work has its disagreebe SIDE and failure many
es can be traced to this Sinking from attending
dlsagreeabe seemingly unimportant, difficult task A
mother breads to punish her child She can't bear the
scene it VIII cause and she lets the small go uncor
reeted until it grows great.
An employer thinks it and small to speak to his
hep about being on me and the few are lost
each day. other leaks stopped his business
ruined.
If you have with the success you think your
EFFORTS merit Just cast about for the dsagreeable portions
of your work from which you shrunk You will find
hem ana you may not attach any Importance them but
be assured they just that important they have kept
you from the success might otherwise have achieved
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SEARCH FOR IDEAS TO REACH SUCCESS.
BY John A. Rowland.

One great secret of success is to be always
on the lookout for new ideas Who is the sue
cessful farmer today? The man who is using
all his ideas, plus those of his ancestors plus
those of his rivals, plus those of the scientists
and experimenters. Take the commonplace idea
of rotation of crops. If man waited to prove
that he couldn't raise wheat year in and year out
on the same patch OF ground he would no ha nix
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xxa1Id rertaInlv scare Him

It is safe to say that the man who
had the first case OF good old-fashioaed
jumping toothache thought he was
goner-Dero.t Tribune.
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sehography? After century more such device would
DC suppianted by higher IDEAL By overcoming objections
urged by selfcenered people universal system of
eeoralng thought by pen might continue vogue till the
genius OF invention should have discovered more accept
able way.
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little growth of liveliness. Hardenow
came almost daily, having put his class
of striders under a deputy six-leaguer;
the Squire also might be expected; and
even Zachary Grips.
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HANDWRITING is PASSING.
BY Elmer Il. Rogers

rl oy EIner Z. Rogers
The unsophisticated professor" of penmap-
snip who up to within a few years made his
perennial winter pilgrimage throughout the rural
districts clad in long tailed coat and wearino
coachmans plug hat, has passed away.
he gave lessons in ornamental penwork. His
dexterlty in the doing of fancy pen-skating. that
resulted IN faneiful BIRDS chickens, and other
animals of q forgotten ganlnoicnl nno naaOa
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If q pair Of shoes are too small they
may fit woman, but II they are too
large she has a fit.
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IS COINS TO CHURCH A DUTl2
nY Fey. ninof aaraoe.

rhe highest and finest thing in a man is love-
sympathy, tenderness pity, helpfulness. No mat
ter what your theological ideas may be- no mat
ter whether you believe in God and the future
life or not, so much is true. The highest and
most characteristic thing in a is this which
we call spiritual. And when we say that a man
ought to be man it means that be ought to
climb up and live in these ranges of his being.