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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13
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Modelling in breadcrumbs, which are
! soaked in liquids of various colors and
are made elastic and almost unbreak-
able by special process, is the curious
new art of Suzanne Meyer, French
woman.
The human breath has been found to
be a fair conductor of electricity, a
spark from a Wimshurst machine being
longer in breathed than in pure air.
Investigating further. Dufour has con-
cluded that the lung and skin exhala-
tons sensibly increase the leakage from
an electrically charged body and it is
suggested that the vapors rising above
a flock of sheep or cattle may explain
the tendency of lightning to strike the
huddled animals
novel charge is brought against the
common bedbug (Cimex lectu!arius) by
DR.. w. j. Goodhue, medical superin-
tendent of the Molokai leper settlement
who regards it as chief agent in
spreading leprosy. 1t is believed to
have greater influence than the gnat
for it comes noiselessly, and during tile
patients sleep, and bedding among
iepers is too little disinfected. After
long research DR.. Goodhue has demon
strated the presence of the bacillus OF
leprosy in the mosquito fCulex pun
gens) as we'll as in the bedbug.
An ingenious apparatus for drawing
the profile of a river bottom is used by
Italian engineers. 1t consists Of a wheel
affixed to the bottom Of a graduated
rod, which is fastened vertically at the
side of a boat In such a manner that
as the boat advances up or down or
across stream, the wheel at the end OF
the rod runs continually upon the bot
tom, the rod rising and falling with
variations Of level. By noting the depth
at chosen intervals of time, the ele-
ments are obtained for tracing an ac-
curate representation of all the sinuosi-
ties Of the bottom of the river, and the
variations of depth. In the saving of
time this simple apparatus possesses an
enormous advantage over the ordinary
method of soundlngs
According to Cosmos. the employment
OF circular disks of iron, turning with
great velocity, but possessing no teeth
on the edge, for saving metal, has be-
come common in many workshops.
Among other places where such saws
without teeth are used Is the celebrated
Krupp gun works, where armor plate
is sometimes cut in this manner. The
process is not a newly discovered one.
AS long ago as 1924 Barrier and Cola
don, at Geneva, experimental with
swiftly rotating disks Of iron They
found that when q disk about seven
inches In diameter turned with a per
ipheral velocity OF ten meters per sec
ond, II could be cut with a steel tool
pressed against it, but that when the
velocity was increased to twenty
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13
BLAcKMAILERs ARE GUILTY.
Two MiIwaukecans Acknowledge
Crime and Receive Sentence.

Two Mi1waukecans Acknowledge
Crime and Receive Sentence.
Frederick Stocking and Hiram Miller,
the two Milwaukee clerks who on Sept.
Is wrote. a letter TO Mrs. Richard Robin
son, wife of the secretary of the Case
Thrashing Machine Company in Racine,
demanding that she deposit $4,000 in the
First National bank of Chicago and
threatening the lives of Mrs. Robinson,
her husband. son and daughter, decided
to plead guilty and be sentenced. Both
had intended making a defense in the Cir
cult Court Nov. u. Stocking pleaded
guilty to the charge of Matchmaking and
was sentenced to serve eighteen months
in the States prison at Waupun, while
Miller, who was charged with being an
accessory after the fact, pleaded guilty
and was fined 5000 and costs. which were
paid by his father-in-law, James Rich
ards, well-to-do resident of Omaha.
Stocking, who had superintended the in
terror decoration of the Robinson home
and found the Robinsons liberal in the
expenditure of money, conceived the plan,
but did not inform his brother-in-law,
Miller, of the deal until after the money
had been placed on deposit to the credit
of Miller by one Luther Roman, alias
Frederick Stocking.
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All Over the State,

Chris Esslinger was killed near Boyd
by the bursting of circular wood saw.
Theodore j. Foljahn. proprietor of the
Rome roller mills, is dead, aged 81 years.
The 4-year-old son of Simon Christian
sen drowned in a creek near his home in
Barron.
The smallpox quarantaine at the State
hospital for the insane at Mendoza has
been raised.
Bishop Isaac Lea Nicholson of the
Milwaukee Episcopal diocese died after
long illness.
Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Smith of the town
of Lyndina celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary.
A fall of six feet from a scaffold killed
Bernard Wagner, Manitowoc carpenter.
lie was 70 years old.
While hauling wood Jennis Smith of
Shell Lake was struck by cars and he
and his four horses killed.
Owing to a shortage of cars thirty
farmers left their loads of sugar beets on
the streets in Pound all Sunday.
Judge Donovan sentenced George Sher-
idan of GAINESVILLE to FIVE years in the
State reformatory for robbing a saloon.
Burglars entered the Mcdowell hard
ware store in Pewaukee. Only razors and
shelf goods were taken. At the saloon
of Eli Anderson the robbers held high
carnival, emptying several whisky barrels
and taking pool balls and portable bar or
naments.
Eugene Robinson, As years old, of Nee
nah. was murdered at Summit Lake,
where he was employed in a lumber camp.
The Peshtigo Lumber Company of
Peshtigo, owned by Perley Lowe of Chi
cago, has begun Improvements that viii
cost $4,000.
Floyd Arbuckle Of Shell Lake. aged
about 10 years, had been a bad boy at
school. In order to escape punishment
he took a horse belonging to Archie Sha-
Yer and rode out into the country. He
will be sent to the reform school as in
corrigible.
DR.. r. Kerr was called to Samuel
Van Ramps farm in the town of Free
dom and found well-developed case of
anthrax. Ten head of Van Ramps herd
have already died.
By twisting off iron bars across a rear
window in the State Bank building at
Milton Junction. robbers reached in and
unlocked the door and made away with
S12 in cash and valuable jewelry.
The Chicago aud Northwestern railway
deposited with Secretary Of State HOuser
check for 100000. being the fee for
fling the report Of the recent increase Of
its capital stock from S100000-000 to
S2O000o,oo0.
Since the Inheritance tax law has been
in force. Wisconsin has collected over
500. Oo0. Milwaukee county has paid
about S9S.tO0 of this amount.
By the birth OF a son to Mr.. and Mrs.
William Woods Plankinton the 2filwau-
kee Hospital Association viii lose for
tune Of 5000. 600. bequeathed it on con
ditiGn thar there was born no male heir
of the fourth generation
As a result OF his train crashing into
an ore train Frank Gaul. engineer on a
Great Northern freight. died. The wreck
occurred at Saunders. For FIVE hours the
engineer lay beneath his engine. conscious
most of the time. and suffering most ex-
cruciating agony.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13
Practical GfrIhond.

whatever else may be laid at the
door of the school girl OF to-day, she
can't be said TO be impractical said a
Virginia matran who has been visiting
friends in the city. MY friend has a
17-year-old daughter who has been
spending vacation with her parents.
For sophisticasion she is ahead of any.
one l know. l felt myself a child in
worldly wisdom beside her.
"She is as pretty as a picture. and
when she sat on the front steps in the
evening admirtng glances were cast in
her direction every time a man passed
the house.
"One young fellow was evidently
hard hit 1t got so he would walk
half the evening and almost fall of
the curbstone in his efforts to look al
the girl. Finally | asked her II she
had noticed him and If she knew his
name.
know his name? Well. I should
say she replied. I've found out his
name and where he lives and where he
borrows his money Washington
Post
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13

confidence that she didn't need to
open the letter. since there was only
the envelope, upon which In faint char
acters were rotations that told all her
brother had to say. Before the
latter left England, the girl said. she
and he had devised a system to cor
respond without expense. They agreed
that when either received a letter, he
or she was to handle 1t fondly, while
protesting inability to pay the charge,
and after reading the secret notations
to return the letter to the postman.
Rowland Hill went back to London
and devised the scheme to compel the
payment of the postage before send
ing the letter in the mail. Thus from
a poor girls cheating the government
Of England out of shilling was born
the modern postage stamp.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13


through disappointment or calls else
where. soon leave, and thus the
class is the loser. There are young
men In the class from almost ev
cry State in the Union; some have
come to study medicine and law, Others
to work. One of them, a young man
from Nevada. who Is studying engi
neering at Columbia university, says
that the welcome given him, total
stranger, when he entered the class
one Sunday morning soon after his ar
rival in the city. cured him of his home
sickness and gave him courage to re-
main and finish his three years II
study.
Mr.. Rockefeller never tires OF preach
ing to the young men on the desirable
Ity OF sociability and sincere friend
ship. Any one coming to the class is
met at the door by either Mr.. Troxell.
the president DR.. Foote, the vice pres
ident or one of the other officers. and
receives a bsndshake and a welcome
whose sincerity cannot be mistaken.
He is uSrered TO seat, introduced
TO the young man sitting next to him,
and after the session is led out into the
| adjoining room and Introduced TO Mr..
Rockefeller, who spends some time aft
er his class in talking socially with
the members. To stranger all this Is
revelation in city where he at first
sees SO little sociability about him.
Mr.. Rockefeller receives many re-
quests for assistance and is perfectly
aware that there are those who Join
the class merely for what they can get
out OF il. but his reading OF human ma
ture Is such that he can easily pick the
sincere from the insincere. and those
who come for merely selfish purposes
/ seldom achieve their ends. Mr.. Rookie
Teller assists a great many who he
/ thinks need II. and this he does quietly
and sincerely.
Mr.. Rockefeller was early In his
/ youth taught the value OF money. He
has known what II is to work with his
hands. As q boy he never had large
allowance Of pocket money. The first
money he ever earned was a few cents
/ from his father for Putting up fence
i posts around the park In Cleveland
which Mr.. Rockefeller owns. This
money he put in the bank. He was not
content 10 let the money lie idle. Even
as a child the accumulating instinct
was strong In him. BE was anxious TO
have his father invest the money he
had from time to time deposited, and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13
NEW MARIscHAL COLLEGE AT ABERDEEN.


illustration dedicated recently by King
Marha College and Kings College The
In
demolished
attending the Aberdeen school Marscal College
of the
grant be a college
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13

you look uncommonly cheerful" re-
marked the junior partner to the Sc
nior, as the latter threw back the
cover of his desk and prepared to at
tack the mail.
do II" asked the senior, smiling. 81
didn't know it"
you look as If somebody had left
you money" pursued the junior. "You
want to take care how you come into
the office beaming like that or the Of
fee boy will be asking you for a
raise"
The senior composed his features to
an expression of gravity for a moment,
but the smile came out again, broad
ened and broke into laugh. That's
not so bad either, considering" he said.
But l give you my word 1 never
thought of it before"
"Of the boy?"
things have been going wrong with me
this morning? l don't know when l
ever got up feeling uglier. See my
chimp"
"Cut yourself, didn't your
Eyes, cut myself. but that wasn't
the only thing. 1 got up late to begin
with and that nearly always makes me
mad when want to get up early for
any reason. 1 figured on finishing rak-
ing up the leaves on the lawn and
burning them In the back lot before
breakfast. l worked like mailer last
evening on the job and 1 had quite a
pile raked up. Well. when l looked
out of the window saw that the wind
had come up and scattered them all
over where I'd raked. That was
enough to make a man mad, wasn't
it?
Certainly" said the junior sympa-
thetically.
"Then, when l took up my trousers
the change fell out of my pockets and
one coin rolled under the bed. l
struck a match to Sic where 1t was
and the flame caught the fringe of the
counterpane and 1t got scorched pretty
badly. 1t was a Counterpart that my
wife thought a great deal of. too. l
burned my hand a little beating it out
not enough to hurt great deal, but
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13
VAN AUNEN Is RECEIVER.
First Step Taken to Wind Up Affair


First Step Taken to Wind Up Affairs
of Mexican Plantation Company.
The first step indicating the dissolution
of the Mexican Plantation Company was
taken in La Crosse when Judge Fruit in
the Circuit Court appointed c. 5. Van
Auken receiver. Creditors and stockhold-
ers joined in asking for this action, but
there was a controversy between the fac
tions in regard to the appointee. The
Mexican Plantation Company is capital
lied for 100000. A great amount of
stock was sold in all parts of Wisconsin
many people of small means being among
the purchasers. The failure is attributed
to the high price paid for ehe plantation
from the first holders and to the i'll luck
attending its operation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13

serves not only aggravate the trouble by increasing
the number of the unemployed but at the same time it
diminish the birth rate of those who have to
pay the taxes.
The does not live who suggest plan for
relieving the poor which does not aggravate the trouble
and make it We may on for years and con-
tnue to contribute increasing for the sup
port and increase of the unfit but the time must eventu
ally arrive when get to the end Of our tether.
We shall have bred such vast horde of the worth
less the lazy and the unfit that they will completely
overwbem The laws Of nature such that X the
Individual sins the Individual has to suffer but If the
nations SIM they SHINING at the present time by
the artificial production OF vast number of unfit citizens
then tie nations must suffer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13

toward perhaps vugarfty or ne
respect from being held to too close
quarters with them.
The higher education for at its best Is general
and for it must often eliminate in speciality
In the latter boy often his genuine ineec
tua awakening such the girl had earlier found In
literature art, language history. Is unedncated
to-day who is not master in field small though y
be- Girls acquire appropriate accept authority but by
the general testimony they inferior and
90 to pieces when texts laid aside and they are
thrown upon their powers 1t is just this that
evokes the best that is in a boy
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13
ORIGIN OF POSTAGE STAMP.
BarmaId's Plot Made Its Need
Plainly Io be Seen.

BarmaId's Plot Made Its Need
Plainly ia be Seen.
Chicago postal officials have officially
announced that the origin Of the post
age stamp had been definitely discov-
cred after much investigation and
turning Of the leaves of ancient official
fOlios.
The story of the origin OF the mod,
ern postage stamp is the tale OF a lit
tie deception practiced by serving
woman in a little inn in remote Eng
lish country many years ago.
Rowland HILL then postmaster gen.
eral OF his majesty King George ".
was doing the Haroun Al RsscSid act
in rural postofiices he had stopped
one night at the little inn. which. In
the typical manner OF English inns, had
It's ale served by a pretty barmaid
The postman. entering. announced a
letter from Australia for the wench.
and said the charge upon II amounted
10 shilling. The barmald took Ii in
her hands. and eyed both sides OF the
paper. which had come half around
a
the world. most wistfully. Then. wip-
ing her eyes. she returned it TO the
pOstman with sigh. saying that she
was too poor 10 pay the charge.
Rowland Hill pitied her distress and
himself advanced the shilling. The
girl had said; 1T is from my poor
brother In Australia. whom haven'r
seen for years"
whea he told her she was free 10
open the letter. she manifested some
reluctance. and no delight Her EN-.
barrassed manner aroused the suspi-
cions OF Mr.. Hill
Before leaving the Inn next morn
ing be questioned the barmaid al
lergth and finally drew from her the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13
Attack on spelling reform.

In the course of the discussion before
the New York board Of education, on
the question of adopting the simpIified
spelling letters were read from numerous
story writer's disappearing Of the reform.
Prof. Brande Matthews, who was pres
ent, was greatly incensed by a letter from
Molly Elliott Sewall, referring to "ths
crazy spelling advocated by certain cranks
of high and low degree" Other writer's
quoted against the movement were WI1ar-
ton, Aldrich, Scollard, Page, Johnston,
Crawford, Allen, Wiggin and Green. The
vote was deferred until a subsequent
meeting.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13
N.gro Artist Wins Prize.

The $500 Harris prize for the best
painting at the nineteenth annual exhi-
bition Of American paintings, now open
at Chicago, has been awarded to Harry
o. Tapner, a Pennsylvania negro, for his
work entitled THE Disciples at the
Tomb" Mr.. Tanner is a Pittsburg art
ist. who has studied in the best Paris
studios. His works have been hung in
the Luxembourg, the Carnegie institute.
the Philadelphia academy of fine arts
and elsewhere
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13
SAFE AT BOYD BLOWN.
Burglars Secure Several Hundred
Dollars in store.

Burglars Secure Several Hundred
Dollars in Store.
The Boyd Mercantile Company's store
in Boyd was entered the other night and
the safe blown to pieces. the burglars
escaping with several hundred dollars.
The force of the explosion was so great
as to blow one of the heavy outer doors
of the safe through the steel ceiling ff-
teen feet above it. Another charge was
needed 70, the inner doors. Soap had
been used to deaden the noise and the
shelves and clothing in the store were
covered with big pieces. The money box
was carried away. w. d. Maxwell,
jeweler, who is located in the store, was
in the habit of depositing all of his
watches in the safe each night. At the
time of the robbery there were several
hundred dollars worth in the safe, most
of which were damaged. No clue has
been obtained.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13
OK 600 to siberia I'm a Year.

The Russian government under Pre-
mier Stolypin, continues its policy of ar
rest and exile for every one suspected Of
opposing it's program. A report shows
that $4,000 people have been exiled to ST.
IBERIA since the manifesto Of Oct 30, 1908.
An imperial decree removes all class re-
strictions regarding state employment, and
all persons are declared equal before the
law. Peasants are released from the
communal system and viii be allowed to
dwell where they please. The poll tax
will be abolished Oar, 10.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13
DID BIBLES SAVE HIM.
John SeIeski. Carrying Load {
RooJ-s Thrown High in Air.

John Selesl<i, Carrying Load of
Books, Thrown High i'm Air.
Did the fact that John Seleski had a
number of Bibles in his buggy save his
life. when his rig was struck by freight
train? This is a question that is agitat-
ing Pound. Whether their presence had
anything to do with his escape or not. it
is considered miracle that Seleski is
able to be about. Seleski was trying to
cross the Milwaukee road tracks in front
of a freight. He was 100 late, and his
buggy was struck. Seleski was thrown
thirty feet and landed without a scratch
The buggy was demolished but the horse
was not hurt, although the harness was
stripped off him. The Bibles were scat
tered for some distance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13
BRIDE SAYS "YEs. FOR GROOM.

Chicago Man, Unable to Speak Eng
lish, Has Help i'm Service.
There was an unusual marriage in Ke-
nosha when Miss Pearl johnson and Os-
car Nero, both of Chicago, were united
by Judge r. II. Slosson. Miss johnson
said she was AZ years of age and the
groom "A. The groom was handicapped
by the fact that he could not understand
or speak English. The bride came to the
front and insisted that she herself would
act as interpreter. He was sworn and
while the judge read the service the wom-
an interpreted all of it. or at least such
parts as she considered binding to the
groom, and made the answers for him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13
STARTS FOR sCHOoL-MIssIN
West AIIis Boy, Headed for Law
renee University, Disappears.

West AIIis Boy, Headed for Law
renee University, Disappears.
Since Arthur A. Ehlert of West Allis
started for Lawrence university on Oct.
u nothing has been heard of him. Presi-
dent Plantz upon receiving a letter from
the boys mother investigated and found
no such name on the enrolment list.
When Ehlert was graduated from the
West Allis high school two years ago he
wanted to go to a university, but Frank
Ehlert, his father, was not wealthy
man. Arthur went to work for the Allis-
Chalmers Company with the Intention of
saving all his money. When he left home
he did not bid his parents good-by, but
pinned a note on his bed telling MS moth
err that he was going far away and would
send her money as soon as he could. He
told friend that he was going to school
\ search at other colleges has proved un-
awaiting.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13

John Hay was chatting about his lit
erary experiences with an intimate
friend. when the latter asked;
John. what feature or phase OF this
writing business has impressed you the
mostg"
well" was the reply, and the speak
er's eyes twinkled mischlevously.. 80
far as am concerned. it's the things
that the critics fish out OF fellows
printed stuff that he never put there.
But / suppose that critics, like the rest
OF US. have TO show excuses for living. {"
Success Magazine
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13
DIES OF POISONED LIQUOR.
Milwaukee Man Expires and Post
mortem Reveals Cause.

Valentine Szuleski, a saloonkeeper, was
placed on trial in Milwaukee on the
charge of having administered a drink
to John Werner. laborer, aged %, who
died from its effects. DIR. George Rub
land. city chemist declared that there
was a large quantity of mercury found
during the post-mortem examination of
the dead man, enough to cause death. 1t
is believed that liquor of this nature was
sold to other persons.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13
Methodist Publishing Merger

After the executive board of the Freed
mans Aid and Southern Educational So
ciety had approved the plan, all of thS
publishing interests of the Methodist
Episcopal church had finally been consol-
idated with headquarters at Cincinnati.
This includes the Board of Education So
ciety. the Sunday School Union, the
American Tract Society and Freedman's
Aid Society.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13

to decrease until the age of thirty Is
reached and then it falls off entirely.
This is the of the average human being OF
course Dr. Osler says there exceptions That Is
to say, there of who have not lost the
power of learning in old age Yet there are very
few where does not literally have to hammer
new ideas into a mans head after he has reached the
age thirty.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13
Billiard Clerk Gets High Post.

From billiard hall clerk to an impor-
tant appointment in the Chinese empire is
the rapid rise of Syerre Babberstad of La
Crosse. Babberstad is a native of Nor
way. a graduate of the University of
Christiania and speaks five languages. He
will have charge of the custom house at
Tien Tsin