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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03
Mining Ditch Eighty Miles Long.

Construction of the largest mining
ditch ever built in Alaska is to be
commenced this year and completed
during the summer of 1907 A company
composed of New York capitalists,
known as the Candle Ditch Company,
has been formed to carry oIt this
project, and a party Of engineers will
arrive from New York within several
weeks to take the first steamer for
Nome and commence the surveys.
The ditch will be eighty-one miles
in length. and will supply water to
all of the Candle Creek territory I'M
der the seventh tier of benches on
both sides of the stream for its en-
tire length of sixteen miles when
completed. The new company was
organized during the last winter in
New York by T. C. Noyes, Fred p.
Meyer and c. E. Heron, all well
known mining men of she Candle
Creek country, and owners of many
claims in the section to be supplied
by the big ditch.
The construction includes the build
ing of a tunnel $500 feet in length,
through the divide between Candle
and Eldorado Creeks, and the total
cost of the construction of ditch and
tunnel is estimated at between $780,
600 anu 1000, 000.-Seattle Post In
telHgencer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03
Small Fruit Farm,

| Small fruit culture will bring the
! family bigger returns than anything
else about the farm. Knowing this, it
| is strange that so many country people
prefer to buy dried fruits rather than
grow them right in their own gardens.
Any soil that will produce vigorous
growth of corn and potatoes will be all
right for fruits. The currant is one
Of the most valuable of our small fruits.
1t is hardy, easy to cultivate and yields
abundantly. Good cultivation and Sc
we're pruning will increase the size OF
the fruit Plenty of old manure should
be spaded in about the roots, and the
soil should be kept clean and mellow.
On account of its hardness the cur
rant bushes are too often left to shift
for themselves, and of course when
left In this condition one need not ex-
pect big, fine-favored fruit. Currants
do best in a somewhat protected loca-
ton.
The gooseberry bushes are also
shamefully neglected, until blight and
disease destroy the prospect Of crop.
With sensible care, such as pruning,
cultivation and the use of fungicides,
the culture Of this fine fruit may be
made certain and even remunerative.
So many of the best varieties are af-
fected with mildew, that no one who
expects to get well-developed fruit
should neglect spraying -Southern
Fruit Grower.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03
fyour Roy Burns Himself.

This Is the time when the mother OF
small boys finds her heart in her mouth
the major part OF the time. Patriotism
is rampant, and patriotism with young
America is synonymous With much noise
and a plentitude of hairbreadth escapes.
If wise, she viii have her indictments
resdy against possihle-yea, probable
emergencies. 4 roll Of linen, or cotton
gauze bandases, a package of absorbent
cotton. a bottle of antiseptic tablets for
cleansing any wound before handaging,
an eUnce OF aromatic spirits OF aulmoniA
for a stimulant in case OF shock, a relia-
bic lotion Cor burns. a paper of pins, pain
of scissors and plainly written What
10 do list. that she can hastily consult
if her memory plays her false
For dry burn there is nothing better
than equal parts Of linseed oil and lims
water. This makes the "carron oil
which che Welsh miners use in ease Of
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03
Frou Invasion in Australia.

Rairnsdale. an Australian township
abont sixty miles from Melbourne
has recently experienced strange
ana bv no means pleasant visitation
An army of frogs. numbering tnous-
ends syarmed into the town, probably
from a neighboring morass. They Gov
cred the roads in all directions and
TIE traffic slaughtered them whole
sale. They even got into the houses,
where the dogs and cats killed them
nv the dozen, while householders in
MANY instances had TO sweep them
ont dead and alive, with brooms and
shovel them into buckets.
The episode caused somewhat CT a
scare in the minds Of the supersti-
tious. and some of the old folk de
clared the end OF the world was at
hand. The invasion, however. finally
passed on TO some more congenial
home 10 sing its chorus of ~Brek-kek-
kek-kek HOAX" which Aristophanes
put into their mouths.-Pall Mall Ca
zette
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03
Diverted Chicks.

In case you have overfed chicks on
too much starchy foods till diarrhea
has resulted, the following ration has
been found beneficial in correcting the
| trouble:
Bran three parts by measure, corn
meal two parts, cut clover two parts
meat meal one part. Let the birds have
access to this at all times. Feed roots
and cabbage, all they will eat, and one
full feed of whole grain an hour before
they go to roost. Let this be wheat
one night, barley the next, corn the
third, and then go over the list again.
Give no medicine. Deep litter for exer-
else in getting the grain, with fresh
water several times a day. When the
animal supply of food has been too
small the birds fill up constantly on
starchy foods, overtaXing the liver and
digestion. Diarrhea and breakdown are
the natural outcome of this method of
feeding Growing birds will stand high
feeding, but when bird has reached
maturity more careful feeding Is re
quired.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03
SELECTING Seed Corn.

The experiment station of Ohio fur
nishes valuable information In a bulle-
tin on the selection of corn for seed,
the selection being made during the
growing OF the plant in the field, which
ought to have the careful attention OF
growers OF corn everywhere Taking
Dent corn for the purpose, it is scored
SIS follows: Yigor of plant, 20 points !;
position Of ear, 5 points; weight Of ear,
80 points; length of ear, points; uni
formlty Of plant and ear, ~ points,
and shape Of kernel and size Of germ,
10 points.
Very important Is the note which
gives the dlsqualifcatioLs, as plants
growing under less than normal stand I,
plants lying upon the ground or bad
ly broken; plants diseased; plants ma
turing 100 late or too early. To select
the seed corn from such plants Is fatal
to the following crop. The vlgor OF the
plant is indicated by the circumfer-
ence of the stalk below the ear; by It's
upright growth and by It's leaf devei-
opment and freedom from disease
The ideal position of the ear is such
that 1t does not pull too heavily upon
the plant. The weight Of the ear Is to
be determined By scales when the ear
IS thoroughly air.dry.
The plan Of uniformity Of plant and
ear is based on the habit OF growth and
vigor Of plant as well as size, shape,
color and indentation of ear. Corn
growers everywhere should proflt by
these points, which wili mean decided
~ improved crops.-Etehange.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03
AUNT cHLoE,s Fo'rH OF JULY.

Come. .chillun, git up-all de cas-. hit Is
bright
En- es pink es dat quilt on de company
bald
De hoe-cake it sfzzlin', de coffee jes' right, !
En- de rose by de winder poke In Its gold
LAX it noddin' Good mawnin'," en- look
lax 1t say:
What lazy folks. sleepin' dis time O dc
dsy!"
Susannah Magnolia, roll outer dat COT
You gittin' too lazy to draw yo' own
bref.
Eff you don come erlong while de vittles is
We can eat 'em all up. en- you sholy git
lef';
Yo' pappy en- me isn't gwine fer tub wait
We's gwine tub de doins befo' It git late.
lowed dat'd fetch y all runnin' right
fas-
JENNY en- Sam, git away fun dat cake
wild his po' little eyes ony jes s. half awake
In is little blue nightshut en- ony one
shoe
Come, honey, tub mammy-she waitin' fur
you.
Whit dat? My good lam, how dat chile
mex me jump!
He shoot off s haid wild dem crackers, I
know;
En- powder I low he be daid es a stump
When de time come fer startin', en- den
he KANT go.
You, Gawge, drap dat 'volver, you crnary
tad,
You kill you'sef, den won't 20 pappy be
mad?
Heah. Washington, gimme boost fun de
back
Come 'Lando, en- set in he nanny own
lap.
You, Sam. en- JENNY, quit Qua'rin, right
smack
Mex room dar fer jimmy, 'longsids O. 'er
pap.
Now let dem two mules kick dey heels up
en- fly
hi, chlllun, we gwine tub de Fo'th o. July
Harriet Whitney Durbin, In Leslie's
Monthly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03
COULDN'T FIND saE GOLD.
Robbers Cave Did Not Give Up Its
Wealth to q Dreamer.

Believing that spot in whieh an
immense fortune had been buried had
been revealed to him in dream,
George Woods, a Clinton trapper, ac-
companied by c. L. Henry, also a
trapper, has dynamited a cliff in the
vicinity Of Robbers Cave in an at
tempt to find the treasure. Though
the attempt was unsuccessful, it has
revived stories of a generation ago
to the effect that hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars in gold and money mad
been secreted in the bluffs near the
famous cave.
According to the tales which were
prevalent two or three decades ago.
the great fortune had been buried ID
the cliffs by a band of thieves when
had infested that part of the coun'
try. 1t was said that after a raid
the band would meet near Robbers
Cave and in the presence OF every
member the spoils would be buried
in a predetermined spot. According
to the tale the robbers managed to
get a large fortune before they were
apprehended.
Since the apprehension OF the
thieves an air of mystery has always
lowered about the cave, which was
appropriately named Robbers Cave
by the residents of the country. The
great cavern has been the Mecca OF
many hundreds of people, all of them
intent on discovering the hiding place
of the robbers loot. None OF them
has been successful, however, and
finally the search was given up.
The cave itself bears well the air
of mysticism which surrounds II. II
opens from one of the bluffs over
looking Thousand Island, and is a pic
turesque spot. Every summer many
thousands of people gaze into its
great depth and wonder where the
bortom really is No one has been
found who is brave enough to descend
into it far enough to determine the
exact depth Some years ago an ex'
petition was formed and went to the
spot armed with long ropes. One
of the members was tied on the end
of rope and cautiously let down
into the mouth of the cavern. He
went down several hundred feet, but
found no bottom.
A number of other expeditions have
since been formed, but no one has
had the courage to explore the cave
to its bottom Rushing water can al
times be heard in the cavern, and
current of fresh air constantly issues
from its mouth. AS no outlet mas
been found, it is believed by many
that the cavern is really great tun-
mel under the Mississippi River, with
its outlet somewhere on the Illinois
side. This explanation, it is believed,
clears the mystery of its bottom, the
current of fresh air and the sound
of rushing water.-Clinton correspon-
dence Chicago Record-Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03

burns. 1t should have a place in every
closet where household remedies are kept.
In applying it. shake the bottle, saturate
soft cloth with the mixture and lay
over the burn. Then cover closely with
cotton batting or flannel to keep out ev-
cry bit of air, and secure the whole with
light bandage. Burns may also be treat
ed by covering with a thick layer of any
bland oil, like vaseline, sweet oil, linseed
oil, cocoa butter, cold cream or almost
any fat that is not rancid Glycerine
should not be used. 1t is too irritating.
Soft powders like -four, laundry or corn
starch may also be busted on thickly.
then bound on.
For a scald or burn by steam no treat
ment gives better results than dressing
of saturated baking soda. Wiring out
cloths, lay on the burned surface, and
as they dry pour on more of the solu-
ton.
Shock" which is always present in
severe burns, requires the administration
of stimularts The amount Of shock or
collapse after any bad injury or sudden
fright differs with the character of iudi-
viduals. Some succumb to it much more
readily than others. When serious the
temperature drops below normal. the face
is pale, pinched and anxious, the pulse
slow and feeble. the body bathed In a
cold perspiration. Sometimes there is
shivering Sometimes the mind wanders
Place the patient at once in horizon
tai position, the head slightly raised. Ad.
minister stimulants, alcoholic or aromatic
vinegar. If whisky or brandy is used
give a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful of
hot water every ten minutes, until five OF
six doses have been taken. Surround
the body and legs inside the thighs and
under the armpits with hot water bags
hot stones-anything to give warmth
but take care not to burn your patient
If the injury Is to the head follow the
same treatment, but omit the alcoholic
Observation-Disclosures Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.

Here 1t Is, the Fourth" ag'inI
Eakes alive how time does spin!
Don't seem like it's sixty year
Since l first begun TO hear
AL the loud, tarnation noise
We stirred up when we was boys,
AL Of US a-wishin' powder
Was lots cheaper and lots louder
RecolIect with what delight
Used to be up half the night
Helpin' fire the anvil or
Maxim other sounds OF war?
Used to wish the earth was drilled
Out inside and powder-flled,
And that | could somehow just
Touch her of and hear her bust!
Weren't no eannon-crackers then.
Kind O. wish there had a-been-
Then they would "a sounded sweet;
Now they lift me OF my feet.
I've begun to think that noise
Was invented just for boys
Fourth o July don't seem to me
IT ell like what it used to be.
Just as patriotic, still
Somehow / don't catch the thrill
OF the loud, tumultuous joy
Like | used to when a boy.
Eothin' doin' then but /
Had finger in the pie;
But that finger, as you see,
Cot bowed of eventually.
Nixon Waterman In The sunday Maya
zine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03

What is the use of it all-thc booming
cannon at sunrise, the 6recrackers all
day, here and there parade and a
ems with rockets and Roman candles in
the evening, till at last, along in the mid
die of the night, there is a welcome ST.
lence?
1t is what is left of an old and chang
ing fashion of observing the anniversary
of American independence. We celebrate
the day In a different way from that
which appealed to our grandfathers, but
there are few so pessimistic as to think
that freedom and national independence
are less highly priced by seventy-fve mill
ion people to-day than by three millions
hundred and twenty-six years ago, even
if not so much is said about them now
as then.
The decay of the Fourth of July ora
ton does not mean that we forget the
significance of the time, but only that we
do not need to remind ourselves that we
are free. We make the anniversary a
gala day, instead of devoting 1t to con-
gratulations on our liberty. We let the
British lion alone, instead of twisting his
tail. We no longer need to whistle to
keep our courage up when we think of
England.
Picnics and trolley rides, golf and base
ball, bicycling and tennis are now pre-
ferred to the old-fashioned customs on
''the day we celebrate although some
of those still survive. The significance
of the anniversary has not been forgotten
in the change, nor will ii be allowed to
pass from the memory so long as it Is
celebrated at all. There may be less gun
powder burned by the next generation,
and the grafton as an incident may dis
appear altogether; but the national holt
day will remain a day full of meaning,
for all that, when free people enjoys
its enveloping and surrounding and en-
wrapping freedom as unconsciously as 1t
breathes the all-embracing air.-Youth's
Communion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03
Dance Favors for the Fourth,

For the Fourth of July dance there
are enormous crackers or swapping mot
toes in ui-colored isinglass. An extra
loud snapper is in honor of Independence
day, and the caps and aprons packed into
the small space are all in patriotic coll
ors. Other dance favors are tiny canes
wound with tri-colored ribbons, and small
pistols which, when the trigge- Is pulled,
send out a small japanese folding fan,
while those of larger size shoot forth
diminutive parasols in the same colors,
with the cutest of fringed edges
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03
A Terrible Presentment.

In ten years, in ten cities of the Unit
ed States, the casualties Of July 4 were
as follows:
Persons killed, LOO.
Persons injured, 1888.
Fire loss, S5,659, 900.
This is a terrible presentment. II in
dicates that the Chinese idea of patriotic
display, as employed by Americans, is
Sanguinary in the extreme.
There is no sense in such celebrations
OF the great day. Patriotism surely is
something more than desire tc explode
powder and make a loud noise. Yet we
seem TO believe otherwise.
All over the country there goes up q
demand for sane celebration of the ma
tons birthday. 1t win win in time, and
when il does. there will lie no inuocents
slaughtered. loCkjaw will find few vic
tins and the day and night win not be
hideous with the boom and crsckle and
splitting of cannon. firecrackers and rock
As
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03
Pennsylvania Town to Stop Swearing

Pennsylvania Town to Stop Swearing
Over in Glassport the authorities
have commenced a campaign against
another class Of public offenders
those who use profane language on
the streets or in public places-and
a novel plan has been adopted. The
officers have been furnished with tab
let's and pencils to keep tab on all
the swear words and profanity they
hear and a fixed list of fines has been
so arranged as 10 make the punish
ment fit the crime" For mild brands
a fine of 40 cents has been liked and
for stronger brands the users viii
have to 5say 81 cents each. whether
the scheme will have the desired ef-
feet remains to be proVed.-Washing-
ton Observer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03
ArtichoIses Valuable Crop.

The value of artichokes is not gen
orally understood. Last spring a Mis-
souri, farmer planted nine bushels
of the tubers on three-quarters
of an acre and in the fall har-
vested 800 bushels This would
make 400 bushels to the acre, Some
years ago this farmer raised 600 bush
els on one acre, with but very little
cultivation. Not only do they make
the cheapest, but in many respects the
healthiest hog feed grown, being nat
ural specific for cholera Once planted,
the hogs will do the harvesting, and
after the first year there will be no ne
cessity for planting. Some think that
articholles can not be eXterminated, but
this is easily accomplished by letting
the tops grow about foot high and
then pillow them under. But why exter-
inmate a crop that will bring you $25
to $50 worth of hog feed every year
without the trouble and expense Of
planting or harvesting?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03


spending millions for target
let's hard that there
will again De
it, Is the
o the
doesn't to fort
fine 1t gets into
the when flowers
black
patriots to-day than be-
behind they
thinking much about
in their hearts
patrs Because they trying do their
They toll till their
They do hest
opportunity the affairs world than
blood
combined armie and of the world.
earth
that Of that
Gods theman World.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03
Nnf m EXnInSinnisf.

"There goes a girl" remarked the OBJ
serving person, who is shy % patriot
ism"
How do you know that?" asked the
hyStauder.
"She refused to use powder or wear
bangs on the glorious Fo0rth," explained
the o. ID.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03
Undoubtedly.

There is at least one thing" observed
the Norwood philosopher, that viii never
become popular in this country"
What's the answer" asked the Mt
Auburn man.
"A noiseless Fourth of July replied
the philosophy dispenser.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03

When the wife dies first. the hus-
band, on an average. survives nine
years: while if the husband dies first
the wife survives eleven years, &C
cording to insurance statistics. states
ID English paper.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03

The Sultan Of Turkey is far from
being an indolent sovereign He has
been described as the imperial con
Wet a designation which is not in
appropriate, for he works on an aver
age fifteen hours day.
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The FRENCH FOURTH.
stmiIarifies in the Holidays OF me
sister Republics.


sister Republics.
The French Fourth of July, coming as
it does on the 14th of July, recalls 70
both Frenchmen and Americans ehe oa'e
Of the destruction of the Bastlle ana the
generous republican sentiments thal al
the time vibrated between the TWO couh-
tries. Just as the Declaration Oh lnue-
pendence was acclaimed by Frenchlneh III
those early days, so in America the news
of the destruction of the Bastile was re-
ceived with hurrahs Of rejoicing as a new
declaration of the rights of man
Like our own Fourth, tie French 14th
oonas in the hot month of July, when the
GREAT cities are deserted by the posing
fashionables and are in the full posses
sion of the great mass OF average demo
cratic citizens. As on our own Fourtn,
Il ia a dav of iced refreshments, with
the streets and houses decorated Win All
| kinds of festive flags and bunting. AS
with us, there is the smell OF powder IN
the air, a pandemonium of explosions III
| the streets, and everywhere the smaH boy
with his crackers, cannons, drums, horns'
flags and lanterns.
Fairly in the morning everybody orna-
oants his windows with Venetian Ian
terms. flags and bunting. Here. again,
tbe colors are the same-red, white and
hIpe Salyos of artillery announce the
dawn; the bells are rung in the church
| towers of all France; the marines or ey-
ery warship on the coast fire the great
guns. while in each city, town and village
| as the sun rises they chant:
''Dcmine. salvam fac republican
In CITY. town and village the trumpet
ers salute the day in the open squares,
and the hot sunlight of July falls on a
population proud to be republican.
In Paris the fete opens on the night
az the 18th with immense torchlight pro-
cessions of choral. patriotic. gymnastic
and shooting societies, led by brass bands
| that plav the patriotic songs whose words
| are known TO all-the "Chant du Depart"
| Tho sNIarseillaise." the Mothers of Al
SAGE" and Returning from the Review"
With them the multitude sings itself into
| A sort OF drunkenness as the grand old
| words roll out from the memory. Then
woe 70 the i'll advised swell who dares
10 smile mockingly, Within the past five
wears men have been half killed for moth
| ing more when the hot ghost OF 1IS9
walks the streets of Paris Tor one night
in July. There are fierce words for chill
| dren even In those old songs. as
| We envy the fate of Barra and Viala.
They died, but they conquered!
| Both Barra and Xiala were Toys of the
/ great revolution. Every school child in
| France knows their history.
As with us, the boys are much In evil
! dence upon the independence day Of their
| republic. While their fathers and their
mothers sleep or sit beside coo. drinks in
| shady cafes. amused by hundred vag-
rant nountebauks, the boys of France for
one day In the year make more noise than
| their elders-Washington Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03

The United States Signal Service
made the worlds record by flashing
sun-ray messages between mountain
peaks $50 miles apart.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03

The man who is most benefited by
what he has heard and earned at farm
ers' Institutes is the one who puts them
In practice.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03

Now, honor bright, is there any good
reason why a farmer should not grow
plenty OF strawberries for home use?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03

Keep fresh lime scattered around hos
pens, feeding pens and troughs. 1t is
one of the best and cheapest disinfect-
ants.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03

Pork Is what we make it. There Is
as much in the feed as in the breed,
doubtless, when it comes to producing
wholesome and good-havored meat.