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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20
A Lesson in Pruning:

Lewis Terrill one of the biggest fruit
growers in northern Kentucky is firm
believer in winter pruning Of trees. He
says: I'm the first place, establish a
definite object to be accomplished.
Don't go into the orchard simply with
the idea that you are to cut off limbs.
Keep in your mind that the objects are
to give shape to the trees and to re-
move dead and injured parts. Pruning
for the first purpose should be done al
most entirely while the trees are
young. Having decided what cutting
is necessary for each particular pur-
pose, remove the parts, as far as
possible, with the pruning knife, using
the saw only as a last resort. Large
limbs should not be removed where it
is possible to avoid 1t. Parts which
are to be removed should be cut off as
close to the main limb or body of the
tree as possible, so no knots will be
left to decay and make a place for fun
gus diseases to get in and spread to
other parts Cover the wounds with
two coats of white lead and oil. Then
dig around the base of your trees and
remove all sprouts. 1t is a good idea
to dig a circle about a foot or so
around your trees and fill up the hole
with wood or coal ashes. 1t makes a
tree healthy" E. L. HELMS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20
Commerce Commission Reversed.

Another decision of the Supreme Court
bearing upon the interstate commerce
law was rendered recently as to what
constitutes illegal pooling of freight traf-
fc By railroads. The case was brought
abou- five years ago by the California
citrus fruit growers association against
the Southern Pacific and Atchison lines
on the charge that there existed pool
ing arrangement by which the fruit traffic
for the East was apportioned among 1913
railroads, and by which joint rates were
fixed. The interstate commerce commits
sion ordered that shippers might decide
on the route for their consignments. But
the railroads refused to obey, and the case
was carried to the higher courts. The
decision reverses the commerce commits
sion's order by affirming the practice Of
Joint tariffs. If a railroad agrees to trans
port beyond its own lines. it might choose
by what route the goods shall be for
warded. The court is also of the opinion
that the routing arrangement tended to
break up the practice of rebating. The
court also decided that the roads party
to this agreement are not competing roads
within the meaning of the law. At the
same time that it stopped rebating, the
effect was to end active competition.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20

A strong protest was made by Speaker
Cannon in his address TO the Philadelphia
Union League Club against the present
tendency to seek federal legislation for
evils that the States have power to rem
edy. He referred particularly to the re-
cent appeal of Gov. Dawson of West
Virginia to Senator Tillman. saying that
his State was powerless to compel proper
facilities from the railways within it's
border I'VE are all sovereign men, said
the speaker, with the power to assert
our rights, yet sometimes we sit supinely
down and cry to the national government
to help us" When they came to him
with such a plea. he told them to go back,
for they had the necessary power. He
spoke of the 1.5O0 bills introduced in the
present Congress. which it would take
ten years of constant work to enact
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20
IvENs ON TRIAL.

Chicago Youth Charged with the
Murder SS Mrs. HoIIister.
Richard Glines Ivens, who was placed
on trial in Chicago Wednesday before
Judge Smith for the murder of Mrs.
Franklin Hollister, is "a years old. His
father is carpenter and the boy had
no bad reputation until he confessed his
crime. In many ways the appearance
of the youth is not unfavorable. 1t
was on Jan. 10 that ne attacked the
woman at the rear of his fathers barn
at 43S Belden avenue. Mrs. HOLSTER
was church worker and a choir sing
er at Wesley Methodist Church.
The first shot by the defense in the
trial was a vigorous objection to the
admission of any reference to Ivens'
confession, the prisoners lawyer claim
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20
FatteninE of the Hogs.

Much has been written and said
about feeding hogs, which Is well and
good; but just as much depends on
their care while getting this feed. If
their feed Is put on floor covered with
six inches Of snow, you may be sure
that you are feeding at a loss. They
must have a good, clean feed floor IL
good results are to be reached. Again,
It has been found by carefully conduct
ed experiments that hogs being COM
PEELED to lie out in the cold will con-
sumo fully % per cent more grain 70
make hundred pounds gain than hogs
that are we'll housed. The matter OF
drink is also important. Hogs that are
on full feed naturally will drink lots
of water if 1t is not too cold. They
should be given water at least twice
each day and that no colder than when
first drawn from the well or spring.
Being careful along these and other
lines makes the difference between sue
cess and failure in the business.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20
HlLLBoARDs FOR RELIGION.
Churches OF Colorado Are Adver-
Using EIahOrately


The use of the bill board, the poster
and the placard to advertise religious SER
vices is coming into favor in Denver. 1t
was begun by Rev. Christian E. Reisner,
pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal
church, and if the present rivalry among
congregations in the matter of the con-
spicuous display of their advertisements
is not soon abated theater managers, who
in the past enjoyed q practical monopoly
of the bill board privileges, may be called
on to pay an advance in the price of
space on the boards. Not only are the
churches doing more advertising than ever
before, but there is keen rivalry in the
wording Of the advertisements.
This activity dates from last spring,
when Rev. Billy Sunday, the ex-ball play
er evangelist, held meetings in the Colo
RADIO gold camps. He caused all the coun-
ty seat towns in the neighborhood of the
places where he conducted revivals to be
placarded, and families drove for miles
and travelled across the mountains to hear
his sermons.
Sunday introduced what TO Colorado
was an innovation, in the form of stick
ers, bearing the legend Get Right With
God" These were pasted on sidewalks,
on lamp posts. on the windows of street
cars-in every place where they would
attract attention. One religious cam
paigner slipped into a fashionable hotel
at Colorado Springs one night and pasted
a "Sticker" Oh the bands of all the hats
he could find while the owners were at
dinner.
The Denver Young Mems Christian
Association has adopted modern methods
in raising money for new building. 1t
has set out to collect 100000 in one
month. The organization has rented a
large storeroom on a prominent down.
town corner and there has established
headquarters, much after the manner of
a political campaign headquarters. A
chairman receives reports hourly from his
lieutenants, who have certain districts in
charge, like precinct captains. New sub
scriptions are indicated on a large clock
dial placed high outside the building in
plain view from two streets.
The spirit of rivalry has spread to the
Sunday schools, and school cries have
been adopted by the children. When par
ties of pupils from different Sunday
schools meet they give voice to their
cheers with all the enthusiasm of students
of rival colleges.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20
THE FARMER BOY.

Pulling the weeds from the garden,
Driving the cows home at night.
dropping the corn in the springtinne,
Mailing a pale on Tight
Hunting for eggs in the 5arnyard,
Looking for turkeys assray,
Carrying lunch 10 the reapers,
Tossing the new mown hay;
Riding the horses to water,
Feeding the chickens and cows,
Throwing the hay to the managers,
Down from the fragrant mows;
withdrawing corn-cribs and fences,
Gathering fruit from the trees,
Covering flower beds in autumn,
For fear of an early freeze
Pumping the clear, cold water,
Chopping an arm-load of wood
These are Uhe farmboy's gymnastics;
They're cheap, but none the less good
Unknown.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20
MY PROMISE

NOD HEN Irving Peck came to
( WNW Hiidreth and joined our social
circle my foster mother had
just died and left me the care Of her
daughter Cynthia, eight years old.
Margaret" said our mother the day
before she died, you know what have
done for you?"
Indeed l do" l replied
Nov is your opportunity to make a
return. Cynthia has no kith or kin to
rely on Without your care know
not what will become Of her. Promise
me that you will be mother to her."
Il Will"
ITO do that you must not have chill
dren OF your own. 1 know a woman's
mature. We will never permit any
'child's interest to stand in the way Of
our own. Promise me that you will not
marry until Cynthia comes of age
l was silent.
"At least until she has married.
Again l made no reply.
"Will you not promise me this?"
Il promise you that l will not marry
till Cynthia has a love Of her own
until she is engaged"
My foster mother sighed and turned
away. She knew she had no right to
ask such a sacrifice. What had prom
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20
short Ner-a Notes.

An endowment of $4,000 to the New
York Metropolitan museum of art by
George \. Hearn is announced.
J. [. HARRISON remarked his divorced
wife at Youngstown, Ohio. HARRISON
some time ago killed l.. V. Bergman.
whom he found in his wife's room, and
was acquitted.
Robert ]. Thompson of Chicago. secre-
tary of the Lafayette memorial commits
sion, has written to Washington setting
Oct. 10 as the date for the dedication of
the Paris monument.
William NJ. WINS charges District At
torney Jerome of New York with having
received large slice of his 100000 cam
paign fund from the Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company.
Surgeon General Nicholas Sem of CHI
cago has been appointed a member of a
committee from the Medico-Legal Society
to secure papers to be read at the inter-
national medical congress in Lisbon.
April 10.
Friends of Ellis Wainwright, the veal
thy brewer, expect him to return to St.
Louis from his European exile. as it is
declared that the death of Charles H.
Turner has removed the principal witness
in the doodle" case.
The Greenwood Lake division q the
Erie railroad was blocked by 300 tons of
rock near Hewitt, n. j. Passengers were
transferred around the landslide.
A New York scientist paid S20.60O for
the Willamette meteorite in Oregon. He
viii present the fifteen-ton mass to the
American Museum of Natural History.
Union and non-union printers clashed
at the Knickerbocker Press, New Ro-
chelle, n. Y. The police called on the
sheriff for aid to suppress the trouble.
First Lieut.. Arthur H. Freshwater,
Twenty ninth infantry, has been dropped
from the rolls of the army by direction
Of the President for desertion, having
bssa absent without leave thee months,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20
Counting Cost of Farming.


Farmers are now in a position to
know pretty well if the operations of
the last year have been profitable In
some sections crops have been partial
failures; in others, some crops have
been so good that prices rule exceed
ingly low, but taking the country
through, farmers should have had a
prosperous year. If not, what has been
the trouble? One thing worthy OF
serious thought is whether one is wear
ing out his farm. This is quite likely
to be the case In the older States.
If the crops have been satisfactory,
have we, in growing them, furnished to
the soil enough fertility TO grow the
crop and still return to the soil the
plant food which 1t contained before
the seed was sown? If not, we may
consider that just so much we have
taken from the vitality of the soil, and
that. in consequence, the next crop will
be correspondingly smaller.
While old-time farmers thoroughly
haIieve in the old rule Of making the
farm grow everything needed for the
living of the family and stock before
manning to sell any part Of the crops,
conditions may change this rule slight
" One would not be justified in rails
ing hay for one or two animals, when
the soil would bring him much bet
for return If it grew strawberries. for
,,,omnle At this season of rest each of
us should carefully look over the past
and search for the mistakes quite as
earnestly as for the successes Elk
change.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20

ing that the confession was extorted
from him by the Sweat box process of
the police. The court overruled the OBJ
lection.
Franklin c. HOLSTER, husband Of
Mrs. HOLSTER, was put on the stand.
He said he last saw his wife alive the
morning of Jan. -, before he started
to work. The next day he identified
her body at an undertaking establish
mpnt
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20

Old Woman" of America, the Ponce
Girl of sixty years ago, who blazed a
path through the wilderness of wom-
ans rights. Every act of her life has
been consistent with the principles
which she has taught to others. She
has never advocated spinsterhood as
plank in the suffrage platform, though
it is a privilege she has reserved for
herself.
Born at South Adams, Mass, in the
Hicksite Quaker Settlement, in 1920,
life for the child was very quiet, tran
quill and devoid of events such as
might be expected to have rraspired
to form so strong and resourceful
personality as the world has known
Miss Anthony to be. AS a child, Susan
BrOwnell Anthony was as gentle and
obedient as any little Quaker maid.
No hint of her coming worldwide in
fiuence was manifest until she had
grown up. In 1852 she addressed
large convention of men teachers A
clergyman who was present compli-
mented her afterward
You spoke ably and WE'LL" he said
but 1 had rather see my mother and
sisters dead in their graves than to
hear them speaking from public plat
form"
She preached the doctrine of suffrage
and equal rights, and no one grasped
her message, not even the women them
selves. Her very name became a term
of derision. She was caricatured, in
suited jeered denounced, and still she
went on preaching. Fifty years ago
woman's rights stood for dress reform,
for neglected home duties, for so-called
unwomanly women and for rabid polit-
ical tendencies. Susan B. Anthony said
that woman should have the right to
vote. The world gasped and asked
what for She tried to teach women
their own power with the ballot and
they laughed at her, saying they did
not want it.
In 1872 Miss Anthony cast vote.
She was arrested and fined for illegal
voting. 1t was the entering of the
wedge. She never paid the fine. To-
day four States in the Union have
granted the suffrage TO women twenty
three States have given them the right
to vote at school elections, and In New
York women taxpayers may vote upon
all questions affecting the taxation of
property. The wedge has split the
trunk. Some day the tree may fall.
Officially Miss Anthony has with
drawn from public life With her sis
ter Mary she lives in quiet, pretty
home in Rochester, n. Y. Life and
time slip by in the little home as tran
gully as in the old Hi site Quaker
| Settlement"
Visitors call, expecting to find a fee
bic old woman, with memory dulled
and faculties failing. Instead, they
find one erect and stately, with mind
attuned to every new thought or new
movement in the advancement of WON
en-. Letters came to her from ali over
! the world asking her advice or direc-
! ton, and she answers them pc -sonally.
| When she was so she learned to oper-
ate a typewriter, and up in the garrett
of her home she has her own private
''den," where even sister Mary does
not intrude, aud there she spends many
| hours.
Don't make yourself unpopular by
4
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20
How Peanuts Grow.

The peanut vine differs In one re,
spect from all other plants In the
world, so far as we know. The flower
OF the plant grows downward and after
1t falls the pod that contains the little
nut Is literally forced into the ground
by the rapid growth OF the rigid stalk
from which 1t depends.
If you would like to see this interest
Ing process, plant few raw" peanuts
in your yard or garden, and watch the
vine as the flowers appear and fall.
You will notice that If from any cause
the plant is unable to push the pod into
the ground the peanut will at once
cease TO grow and will remain unde-
yeloped.
This explains why the peanut Is
sometimes called the ground nut"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20

till Cynthia should become engaged
With her engagement you are free
She is engaged or was engaged to me
l have broken the engagement"
What for?''
'Tc marry you"
l saw it all. He had duped Cynthia
to absolve me from the letter Of my
promise.
Did she deserve this? Was Irving
justified in it? I do not know. In q
year after that she married. and then
l accepted my freedom.-Cedar Rapids
Gazette.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20
The original New ENGLAND

Not one nan in a thousand living on
the Pacific coast knows that as a mat
ter of fact the accents of our mother
tongue were heard on the beach not far
from San Francisco forty-one years be-
fore English was spoken on Plymouth
Rock. More amusing still is the fact
that the original New England was on
the Pacific coast, for Francis Drake
in 1879. at the close of a months stay,
took possession of the country for his
sovereign, Elizabeth. and named the
new acquisition Nouva Albion New
England) because he thought the white
cliffs near what is now Point Reeves re-
sembled the chalk cliffs near Dover
Outing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20
Packing Pork.

Clean the barrel thoroughly until ali
bad odors are removed; then cover the
bottom with three inches of salt and
pack In layer of pork, closely filling
the space and covering the whole layer
with salt three inches deep. Pound it
down solid with an ak and start another
layer, keeping on in the same way
until the pork is all packed. Cover the
whole with a half bushel Of salt and
let 1t stand few days, after which
clean cold water should be added. A
float with fat stone on top will keep
the meat from rising above the surface.
This plan requires more salt than COM
monty used, but is very sure for keep
ing meat.-Amerlcan Cultivator.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20
Chinese Cabbage.

Success has at last attended the eff
forts, which were began as early as
1910, to cultivate the pe-tsai, or Chi
nese cabbage, in France. This vegeta
bic is very nourishing, and forms Il
most important article of diet in China,
but the European climate seems mimi
cal to it, but the cultivation is still so
costly process that the pe-tsai remains
luxury suitable only for the gour-
mand who does not mind expense when
be wishes to enjoy a novelty of the
table. 1t is anticipated, however, that
this favorite product Of Chinese gar
dens will eventually become widely
known in Europe.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20

The statehood bill, with Arizona and
New Mexico eliminated, passed the
Senate Friday evening by a vote Of 81
to 80. Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory are to be admitted into the Union
as a single State,to be known as Okla
homa, under the provisions of the
emasculated measure, which now goes
back to the House for concurrence or
inconvenience. Thus has ended, as
far as the upper branch of Congress is
concerned, one of the last of the nota-
Bile fights over making States out of
territories that ever will agitate the
country.
Previous to the adoption of the
amendment removing the Arizona New
Mexico joint statehood feature, the
Foraker amendment providing for the
referendum as to those territories had
been adopted by a vote of AZ to 20.
All the Democrats with the exception
Of Senator Clarke of Arkansas, who
was paired against the position of his
party, voted to strike from the bill as
it came from the House all reference
to Arizona and New Mexico. The Re-
publicans who voted with the Demo
Gratis were Alger and Burrows of Michl-
gan, Buckley Of Connecticut, Carter OF
Montana, Flint and Perkins of Call
fornia, Foraker of Ohio, Gallinger Of
New Hampshire, Hansbrough of North
Dakota, Hepburn of Idaho, Scott OF
West Virginia and Spooner of Wiscon-
sin, twelve in ALL
For the second time within the last
two years the Senate refused to follow
the lead set by the House in enactlng
statehood legislation recommended by
the President. Last session when the
joint statehood bill was passed by the
Senate it provided for the admission OF
Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one
State and of New Mexico as another,
the Senate striking from the bill at
that time all reference to Arizona. The
DILL Welt DdCh W tue IIOuSC, w hSAC IL
remained until the adjournment Of
Congress without any action being tax
en upon it.
The bill passed by the Senate goes to
The House, where the insurgents will
make an effort to have rne Senate
amendments agreed to without the ref
erence of the bill to committee. They
fear that should the bill reach the COM
mittee on territories it will be kept
there until The end of this Congress q
year henco, rather than risk a fight
with the Genate. The insurgents claim
that if the House is given an opportuni-
ty to vot~ on the Senate amendments
they will be accepted.
The passage of the bill by the Senate
does not end the fight. Statehood con
tests are argays important and hard
fought Few bills have been before
Congress In recent years which have
awakened the degree of interest shown
In this measure. The debates in both
houses ON the subject filed the CALLER
les, and few abSentees were recorded
when the votes were taken.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20
Egg DeaIers Lose HenviIy.

The phenomenally mild and open win
ter, which has kept the hens Industrious
has smashed the egg market and the cold
storage men and wholesale dealers are
facing losses mounting into the millions
In New York City there is to-day a sur
plus of cold storage eggs estimated at
10000 cases, or 21,600,000 eggs. There
is, besides, a surplus of fresh laid eggs
of unknown quantity. Eggs are almost
dirt cheap. Storage eggs are selling at
from 6 to 10 cents a dozen, while fresh
laid eggs sell at IA cents or a little more
a dozen wholesale
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20
For Corpornte Regeneration

Judge Grosscup of Chicago, n an adj
dress before the Hamilton Club. Tues
day night, said that two forces con
front the individual in this country to-
day, enc being the Indifference of the
State and national governments to the
character of their corporation offspring,
and the other the rising current of
genera! public ownership. He thought
these currents, however, flowed from the
same source. namely, the separation of
the people from the corporate domain. He
said the thing to be done was to begin
at once the work of regenerating the cor
poration by having the government take
charge of it from its birth.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20

Early Scarlet Horn, or some of the
Forcing sorts, for our cooking. ANY
Of the larger and coarser varieties are
good enough for stock We always
wanc some carrots in our meat soup for
fiayoring. Young carrots, boiled or
baked with beef, or boiled and served
with a rice cream sauce, are most
delicious.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-20
HER EIGHTY-SIxTH.
Grand Celebration of Miss Susan B.
Anthony's Birthday.


AnthOny's Birthday.
There was a notable gathering in
New York the other night when WON
en- authors, artists, architects, doctors,
lawyers, preachers and business WON
en- in general met at the Hotel Astor
in celebration of the eighty sixth birth
day of Susan B. Anthony, the pioneer
of all business women. Preparations
had been made for more than 1000
guests. Nearly all of them were WON
en-women from all over the country,
from Maine to California; women
whose names are household words
and, more than that, women whose
names are known in the legislative bod
les of every State in the Union.
Susan B. Anthony, after fourscore
years and six. stands to-day the Grand