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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
OLD FLAME OF HOSTESS.
But He Didn't Know 1t Until a Bad
Break Brought 1t Out.

But He Didn't Know 1t Until a Bad
Break Brought 1t Out.
The sect Of the Schwenkfelders, at
their annual reunion in Allentown,
Pa, were eating their famous feast of
bread and apple butter, says the Wash
lngton Post. The long table was COW
cred with great plates of fine white
bread great dishes of golden butter,
and great bowls of rich brown apple
butter
mo, you are Mistaken said the
Rev. A. r. Schorman, Of Pandora, o.,
to a reporter, 'if you think this is our
idea of a fine banquet. This meal cell
cbrates a historical event-the landing
of the Schwenkfelders, and their first
meal in the new world. 1t was a meal
composed only Of bread and apple but
ter, for the good reason that there was
nothing else to have just then"
Mr.. Schorman, as he helped himself
to the excellent apple butter, smiled.
when you accuse us Schwenkfelders
Of regarding this as a great banquet"
he said, you mistake US and humili-
ate us. You are like the stranger who
visited the home of his boyhood friend.
He and his boyhood friend had not
seen one another for more than thirty
years. Then they met by accident in
New York, and the resident took the
stranger home to dinner. In the hosts
handsome house, as they sat in the par
lOr, the guest said:
$50 you are married, JohnY
"'Dear, dear, yes John answered.
I am married and have three children.
They will be down to welcome you in
a few minutes
well, WE'LL said the guest. Tt
seems strange to think of you as IA
Their And he sighed.
by the way the host began,
didn't you live in Cambridge after
you left Chicago?
"'Oh, yes said the guest I lived
there for some years
"'Then perhaps you met Miss Nc
Wade?'
1.-THE guest gave loud laugh.
"'Met her? he cried. Man alive,
that's a good one. Met her? I was
engaged to her But so v ere all the
other fellows at one time or another.
College boys and clerks. But what's
the matter, John| he broke off, anx-
iously.
miss McWade is my WIFE said the
host, in a strange, dead voice"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
Telegraphic Brevities.

At Newark, Ohio, the wife of former
Cashier Iingafelter has been indicted
for alleged forgery.
Feb. 10 has been fixed by the House
committee on judiciary as the date for a
hearing on the proposed constitutional
amendment providing for woman's suf-
frage.
The coarse freight steamer e. D. Car
ter, building for E. d. Carter of Erie,
Pa, was successfully launched at the
Wyandotte yards of the American Ship
Building Company.
A bulletin issued by the census office
presenting statistics on the manufacture
ing industries of Idaho shows that there
were 362 establishments in 1905, with
an aggregate capital Of $9,4390SS.
Operations have been begun in Home
stead borough, Pa, for the erection Of
the large steel mills recently authorized
by the United States Steel Corporation.
An. expenditure of 100000 viii be
made.
Cassimer Chodzilski, the Chicago
sculptor, will be allowed to submit an
other design for the monument to Count
Pulaski, to be erected in Washington by
means of $4,000 appropriation by
Congress.
The International Stone Masons'
Union in convention at St. Paul elected
Malcolm Geddes of tLat city president
and decided to meet next year in St
Louis.
Although he confessed to having kill
ed Halvord Nyman, a farmer of Fergus
Falls, MINI, by putting poison into a
glass of whisky, John Grenberg was ac-
quilted by jury on account of a plea
of insanity.
The heaviest fall of snow in thirty
years in Nevada, according to dispatches
from Reno. broke down show sheds on
the railroad, isolated several cities and
did great damage TO telegraph and tele-
phone wires.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
AHOOES
(0.L.LEGEs
~ONNNNNNNONN

In Boone County, Iowa, more than
fifty pupils tried the experiment of de-
tasseling part of the corn in a field. They
will make the same experiment next
year, using for SEED the corn raised this
year.
According to a decision rendered by
State Superintendent Dayhof of Kansas
the school boards in the State should
pay for the school books which are need
ed by children whose parents are unable
to buy them. In many towns, there is a
large number of children to be thus sup
piled.
Boston has one in six of her popula-
ton in her public schools, Chicago one
in seven, New York one in seven, Phil
adelphia one in seven and a half.
Out of the ffty-eight cities in the
United States between 10000 and So
600 in population Butte, Mont, pays
the highest salaries to its women teach
ers, exclusive of principals.
New York City has a twenty-five
room school located on a recreation pier.
The pier will be continued for use as
school until next July, when it will be
again converted into recreation cen
ter
In eighty-six cities and towns in Mas
sachusetts, work in music is recognized
in class standing. The teachers keep a
monthly or bi-mOnthly record of effort
in music as well as in geography.
The per capita public school fund this
year in Missouri amounts to S1.34 This
amount, supplemented by county and
township funds, will make the total per
capita distribution as much as two dol
lars for many districts.
Massachusetts has 1877 superintend-
ents, no one of whom has less than ST.
500 salary. This for a population of
100000 is remarkable. This means
a superintendent at not less than 81 800
salary for every 1900 persons.
An unprecedented case is reported at
Fallsburg, n. Y, where it is found i'm
possible to have a school because there
is not a single citizen of the United
States in the district to serve on the
board. All the people are Jews. To
meet the case the district will probably
be added to an adjoining one.
Commissioner of Education Harris, in
his latest report, places the total rim
Der of pupils in the common schools for
1905 at 16,256.O3S, or 20 per cent of the
entire population. The average number
of days attended by each pupil is 'g2.
Counting colleges, private schools and
various special schools the total OF at
tendance is 1855, 1914.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

mile distant from the shaft, but equip
ped in his diving dress he crept that
distance through narrow passage full
Of water and closed the door. This
plucky act enabled the pumps to over
come the volume of water which was.
flooding the working and allowed the
completion of the tunnel to be carried.
out.
Il further interesting case of deep
diving is that of Ange, Erostarbe, who
succeeded in recovering silver bars
valued at $4,000 from the steamer
Skyro, sunk off Cape Finisterre in
over thirty fathoms. In this case the
diver had TO blow away portions of
the vessel with dynamite before he
could reach the treasure chamber
Three dives per diem were frequent
and as many as five descents were
made in one day. The maximum pc
Rod under water was twenty minutes.
The effect of high pressures on the
constitution Is not found injurious
when the work is carried out under
ordinary precautions. A French sci
enlist has gone so far as to claim that
breathing compressed air is a remedy
for asthma and emphysema 1t is also
said to excite digestion, owing to the
great quantity of oxygen carried into
the blood. 1t has been found that a
period of two hours should elapse be-
tween a meal and a descent. In de-
scending the movement should be slow,
and If the pressure causes pains in the
head this can be remedied by rising
gently few feet, when the descent
can be recontinued. In ascending div
ers are recommended not to exceed a
speed of two feet a second.-Pall Mall
Gazette
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
DIVING INTO VAST DEPTHS.
Extraordinary Feats Have Been Per-
formed by Famous Experts.

Extraordinary Feata Have Been Per-
formed by Famous Experts.
At what depth can a diver carry
out his functions? How long can he
remain under the surface? What is
the effect of high air pressures on the
human system? One well-known firm
of submarine engineers limits the
depth Of descent to twenty-five faith
oms, or, say, $50 feet But operations
have been carried out at greater
depths than this. and perhaps the
greatest distance below the surface at
which a diver has succeeded IN work
ing is thirty-four fathoms, or 2o4 feet
This was accomplished by James
Hooper, who descended TO the ship
Cape Horn, sunk of Pichidanque,
South America. and sustained a pres
sure of SS55 pounds on every square
inch Of his body.
Another remarkable feat was = at
of Alexander Lambert, who recovered
S35o,0o0 in gold coin from the steam
ship Alphonso XII, sunk of Point
Gando, Grand Canary, in nearly thirty
fathoms Of water, the actual depth of
the treasure room being twenty-six
and two-thirds fathoms, or leo feet.
This man also performed the daring
feat Of stopping the flooding Of the
Seven tunnel when q door IN the
drainage tunnel had been left open
The door was situated quarter Of Q
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

Little Bill' Howard is once more in
jail at Asheville, n. C. Seven years ago
Ben Ross, a neighbor of Howard, was
found shot to death in his home. How
ard was arrested ON suspicion, tried and
sentenced to be hanged. One day his
wife, carrying her baby in her arms,
visited him in his cell. When the visit
ing time was over the guards opened the
doors and permitted what they supposed
to be the woman to walk out. Later it
was discovered that Howard and his
wife had exchanged clothes and the
murderer had walked out, carrying the
baby. Since then, though there has been
reward standing for his capture, he
has never been seen by the authorities,
until this week, when he was found at
home
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
Distant Dairy Prosperity.

Dairying seems to be about the
same the world over, and the account
of expert management in New Zealand
resembles quite closely a similar de-
scription of the dairy industry in this
country. Like other countries, New
Zealand is burdened with careless and
incompetent creamery managers,
which the commissioner of dairying
blames for the low average quality Of
the product. AS a partial remedy it is
recommended that the grading stand
ard for quality be raised. The New
Zealand government supervises ex-
port business, which is the main mar
ket for New Zealand butter, and COM
pels shippers to grade their butter ac-
cording to quality, which is then
marked and guaranteed. The industry
seems to be in prosperous coalition.
The dairy farms have improved their
herds with the addition of thorough
bred stock Of the leading dairy breeds.
Land suitable for dairy farms seems
to bring as high price as in this coun-
try, and the price of creamery butter
seems high considering the distance
from the worlds leading markets.
American CultivatOr.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

In some parts Of Wisconsin farmers
purposes and now they claim that it
depletes the land and they further re-
fuse to grow them. Besides the dete-
rioration in fertility there has come a
phenomenal growth of all kinds of
weeds and they have concluded to call
a halt. There are some things the crop
grower will not even dare to do.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
TIE GRUM BIER.

The grumbler growls at Natures plan
He's sorry that he's human.
He doesn't want to be a man,
Nor yet to be a woman.
He'd hate TO be a beast or such
AS share the fish's lot;
In fact, 'twould not annoy him much
If he were not.
He takes you by the buttonhole
And grumbles in your ear.
He tells you that his very soul
Is shriveled up and sere.
He wishes he were dead and gone,
But whew! you'd make him hot
To hint the world would still jog on
If he were not.
Catholic Standard.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
ASSAULT LAID TO BAKER.

WATERFOWL Man Accused of StrilS-
ing woman.
James Wells, who has been employed
as a baker in WATERFOWL, was arrested
at Oconomowoc on board a Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul train by Sheriff
Palmer and Marshal Vessel, on the
charge of creating a disturbance in the
coach. 1t is alleged that when asked
for his ticket. Wells replied that a wom-
an who occupied seat across the aisle,
would pay his fare. She protested. it
is further averred, and he struck her.
Passengers say when they interfered,
Wells showed fight, but was soor over
powered.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
SHE MARRIED TO ROB HIM.

Marinette Man Says DOttie Wilson
Stole $500 Soon After Wedding.
Threatening to commit suicide, it is
alleged by the police, Hilmer Sherman,
a Marinette man, was picked up by an
officer and placed in Jail. The other
night in Menominee, he was married to
a woman saying she was Dottie Wilson.
She remained with him for two days.
since which time he was unable to find
her, he says. She had arisen during the
night and fed from the town with $500
belonging to Sherman. his savings of a
year. The police charge that the woman
deliberately married Sherman in order to
rob him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
Ha. success Nith Geese.

l have always taken q great inter.
climate l prefer the Toulouse.
keep one gander for every four geese
and keep my flock in little house by
themselves. They go out and in as
they wish. l have never given them
as seventy-fve in one season. About
September l l do not let them run any
more, but pen them up and feed them
ground corn and water. In six weeks
they will gain considerably in weight.
H. H. Hinkler of Minnesota, in o,
J. Farmer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
BANK GETS BAD CHECKS.
Racine Institution Suffers from Al
legged FOrEeries.

Charles w. Bingham, who, it is al
legged, has been issuing forged checks and
drafts on the Manufacturers National
bank of Racine. is not known in that
city. For more than six weeks these
checks have been coming in from differ
ent cities of the country. B. B. Nor
throp, cashier of the bank, says that in
some manner the alleged Bingham had
secured one of their check books He
estimates that perhaps half a dozen boz
gus checks for from $25 to $50 have
come in, and also a number of drafts.
Some of them We're from Augusta. Fla.
Charleston, S. c., New York, and also
Michigan towns.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
weeds as Money Crops.

If a plant out of its right place may
be termed a weed, then it must also
be true that weed for which a right
use has been found becomes a useful
plant. 1t may be that no plant is real
ly a weed if only its right use can be
found The recent experiments at the
Vermont Experiment Station suggest
that profitable market may possibly
be found for the roots Of the much
hated witch grass, which have certain
medicinal values and are in more or
less demand from drug concerns. The
common sorrel, another weed almost
RS Objectionable, Is in France consid-
cred a profitable crop. The plants are
grown very much like dandelons, the
leaves picked carefully, washed, well
cooked and put up in tins or small
casks and shipped to all parts of the
world for use in cooking and as
salad plant The demand must be con-
siderable as hundreds of acres are de-
voted to the crop.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE.

Sensational Explanation Given by
Attendants at Racine Asylum.
Herman Pfeiffer, aged 26, former
prominent inspector of the United States
government, is dying at Racine county
hospital, with a crushed skull. He has
been an inmate two years. 1t is alleged
that relatives attempted to kidnap him.
The attempt failed. Later he made an
effort to escape from his room by means
of a bed sheet, it is alleged. Reaching
the window sill he fell and struck ON
his head, is the story of attendants
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

and Is undoubtedly the most rapid mo-
ton of which it is capable. Any gait
acquired by training which may diff
fer from this will be instantly dropped
when fear is .ycited. Under circum-
stances of this ind the horse, in COM
mon with other suimals, will break
into full run. A high authority. how
ever, expresses the opinion that the
rapid progress made in the breeding
of the trotter warrants the belief that
within the next decade we will have
the horse that will flee for his life in
the trot," and that, TOO, from trained
instinct, and not in isolated instances.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

The Carney Lumber Company of
Marinette has sold the output of its
mill at Owen Sound, Ontario, for the
year 1906 to the Hines Lumber Com
pany, Chicago. They will cut 100000.
600 feet of pine, and the consideration
is $500 600
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
Even Bears Have 70 Rest.

"Why do bears sleep through the
winter?" asked the boy WHO As study.
ing natural history.
Because" answered his father, "ths
President does not go hunting then.
They've got to sleep some time
Washington Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
Wisconsin
State News
TO INVESTIGATES COMPANIES.
Insurance Business in This Stat,
VIII BE Thoroughly Gone Into.

Insurance Business in This State
VIII Be Thoroughly Gone Into.
I'VE propose to make the most thor
ough and complete investigation of life
insurance that can be made and one that
the people will have full confidence in.
No other would be satisfactory or any
thing but a farce 1t necessarily would
take long time and entail quite an ex-
pense but we believe the people win be
satisfied with the investment" So spoke
Senator Roehr, of the special insurance
investigating committee appointed at a
recent special session of the Legislature
to look into the subject of life insur-
ance in this State. The committee met
for the first time in the State capitol the
other day and organized by selecting
Senator Frear chairman and Assembly
man Ekern secretary. Other prelimi-
naries to organization and investigation
were made and after a session an adj
journment was taken for about two
weeks. When all the details have been
arranged the investigation will be car
ried on from Milwaukee.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
LAUNCH BIG MINE COMBINE.

Wisconsin Capitalists to Subscribe
for Development in Lafayette.
Probably the largest mining company
ever organized in southern Wisconsin
was launched at a meeting of local and
outside capitalists in GAINESVILLE, with
capital stock of 100000, of which $780,
600 has already been subscribed. The
company has purchased 1000 acres of
farm and mining lands in Lafayette
county, which is supposed to be rich in
zinc and lead.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
Fire Quickly GueIIed.

The fire in the room under the
church was quickly extinguished, and
did little damage. The police investi-
gated the report that the church was
overcrowded, but could not substanti-
ate it. The pastor insisted that it was
little more than half filed, and that
there was no occasion for anyone being
injured if the congregation had re-
manned calm.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

Last Preparatory Steps Taken for
Milwaukee-FOnd du Lac Line.
The Wisconsin Rapid Transit Com
pany has filed with the Secretary of
State a deed of trust for $2,000,000 as
the final preparatory step to beginning
work on its proposed electric line from
Milwaukee to Fond du Lac. The Mil
waukee terminus will be on Atkinson
avenue, forming a connection at the city
limits with the Third street car line.
1t is doubtful if a franchise emitting
the new company to enter the city will
be asked. Philadelphia capitalists, it is
said, are interested.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
DIVORCE WAS NO JOKE.
Sharon Man Must Now stand Suit
Brought by Wife.

Brought by Wife.
Luther Arnold, wealthy farmer, mer-
chant and cattle buyer of Sharon, has
been served with summons in an action
for divorce brought by his wife. Cruel
and inhuman treatment and the trump
ing up of charges, in order that he might
secure divorce, and infidelity are charg
ed in the complaint. Last August Ar
mold was granted divorce at Kenosha.
Mrs. Arnold failed to appear in court,
the summons and complaint having been
given her by son, as she believed a
joke was being practiced on her. When
ed she had it set aside.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
More Money for Poor.

George Yule, president of the Balm
Wagon Company, has made a gift of
$500 to the Kenosha hospital. Mr..
Yules gifts to the hospital now amount
to $4,000. The money is to be used in
providing care for charity patients.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
carl Hits Dxpres. wagon.

In a collision between a street ear
and an express delivery wagon in Ke-
nosha Motorman George Johnson was
seriously injured and Jake j. Disch, a
wel-known comedian, and James VIII
son. driver of the express wagon We're
slightly hurt
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

Mrs. Lillian Clifford McCabe of Mil
waukee has fled petition in Circuit
Court in Oshkosh for a revision Of the
judgment granting her the legal Gus
tody of the children, Otis and Marion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
FOX PELT FOR MISS ALICE.
Wedding Gift Is Paid for by Rich
New York Man,

Lucian Kennedy, a GAINESVILLE fur col
lector, has shipped the New York firm
of Reveillon Freres silver fox pelt
valued at $500, which will be a wedding
gift to Miss Roosevelt from a wealthy
New Yorker. Crowds have viewed the
pelt, which was purchased for a nomi-
nal sum from the Canadian trapper.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
Two switchmen Are Killed.

Switchmen John f. Dwyer and John
S. COnrey were killed in a collision be-
tween two engines in the Northwestern
yards in Baraboo. The men were stand
ing on the rear footboard. Steam from
the water tower obstructed the view of
the engine and caused the collision.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
kenoshn Bank DoubIes stool,

At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the First National bank in
Kenosha, the capital stock was raised
from $4,000 to 100000. The entire
issue was taken by the present stock
holders
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
pics in Homo of 81 Years.

julius Woodruff died, aged %, in he
same room where he slept for fifty-oae
years. He owned a farm few miles
from Baraboo and in going back and
forth had travelled a distance equal to
that of more than three times round the
earth
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
Mnnito,yoc Suicides Home.

Miss Ida Grutzmacher, who commit
ted suicide in Milwaukee by inhaling
chloroform, is the daughter of Fred
Grutzmacher of Manitowoc. She
had been in Milwaukee for some time
and was living with her sister.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

1t Is more economical to keep the
calves growing rapidly even though it
does require more feed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
BRINGS LEBERMAN,s BODY.
ShebOygan Man Identifies Remains
a XNiIIinr,, smart IN

at Williamsport, Pa.
William c. Calhoun arrived in She
boygan from Williamsport, Pa. sAe 9TH
er day with the remains of Alfred LIE
herman, who died there about four
years ago. He succeeded in identifying
the body. Ieberman's family did not
know of his death until this summer.
when a friend in Milwaukee casually
remarked that she had read the account
of his death. Search was Immediately
commenced and nearly a thousand let
tiers were sent to every city and village
in that State. They finally succeeded in
locating him at Williamsport, where he
had died about four years before.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30
vENEERING PLANT is BURNED.

Fire Destroys Factory at ManitOwOc
and Costs Fireman's Life.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Wis
consin Neneering Company in Manito-
woe. Nothing but the walls of the
building remain. The buildings contain
ed much furniture ready for shipment.
The loss is estimated at 100000, fully
covered by insurance. John Hall, Il
member Cf the city fire department died
from injuries received when the building
cOllanSed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-01-30

Because so many sheep were carried
of and killed by wolves, farmers near
Waunakee are organizing a giant wolf
hun.