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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
A Girl,
A Man,
A Storm
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1t was the last car through, and was
nearly half an hour late. Standing
about the streets on a snowy, windy
night is not inducive to good nature,
consequently it is not to be wondered
that when at last the belated car
crawled into sight the girl waiting
alone in the deserted square wore a
look OF impatience-a look which
changed to one Of intense discontinue
md annoyance when, upon entering
the car, she found every seat occupied.
Pardon. miss, you may have my
place" began dapper little man, ris-
ing quickly at sight Of a pretty face.
She was about to accept the courtesy
thankfully when her eyes fell upon
the other occupant Of the seat, then
her figure heightened perceptibly and
the naughty look on her face caused
the polite little man to wonder in
wardly as she replied:
THANK you, but do not trouble. l
don't mind standing in the least"
mo trouble at all, 1 assure you;
this Is my STOP" he answered, moving
to the door as the car drew to a slow
halt
The girls cheeks redeemed and she
the man withdrew, leaving her tired
and cold, the only vacant seat in the
car at her side, but one she would not
accept under any circumstances, as she
told herself spitefully. The idea of
alighting and walking presented itself,
but she knew that would be impossi-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
CONVEYS AN ACTUAL TOWN.
Oklahoma Deed of Land Contains an
Unusual Covenant.

Oklahoma Deed of Land Contains an
Unusual Covenant.
A formal warranty deed of land in a
certain county of Oklahoma executed
several years ago after describing the
premises as q certain lot of a certain
block in the original plan or plat of a
certain town, proceeds further to de-
scribe the premises by saying that said
town does not merely exist in the inn
agination of the victim of the boomer,
but real an. tangible town all staked
off with the names of the owners of the
lots, with drives, subways, boulevards,
plazas and a public square, all clearly
drawn and outlined on the original plat
and plans of said town, which town by
the order of all created things is destin-
ed to become the metropolis of the great
middle west" says Case and Comment.
1t further specifies that the tract or
parcel of land was conveyed by the
grantor TO certain corporation organ
lied "fOr the purpose of and with full
powers to lay out, stake off, boom and
build a real city with intellectual frost
work on the window panes of the ever
restless speculater as he gaZes forever
on the outstretched sands. And being a
part and parcel of the same tract or
parcel of land represented by said COM
pany's probable agent, j. Nj. l., as
being the terminal of three grand trunk
railway lines penetrating from the
north. east and south, with terminal
stations, car shops, railway elevators,
tanks, an acre of switch yard tracks,
all laid off in said plans and specifica-
tions of said town."
The habendum clause states that the
grantee is to have aud to hold said land
whether real or unreal with appurte-
nances, etc. And the grantor covenants
that am lawfully seized and possess
ed of same of all the above described
property, ifI am seized and possessed at
all, have good and indefeasible right
60 alien, sell and convey or give away
same if, indeed, l have any right at all,
and that it is unincumbered in so far
as | am able to find out with natural or
unnatural resources or pecuaiary ad.
vantages," also further covenanting
that l will warrant and forever de
fend the title to him. his heirs and
assigns, but no further than it will be
defended to me by said company
against the lawful claims of all per.
sons whomsoever."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
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The italian cabinet has decided that
the excavations at Herculaneaum shall
be carried out by the italian govern
ment with Italian money.
Madrid's Official Gazette publishes
an agreement with France for the con-
struction of three railways through the
Pyrenees An engagement is entered
into for the two countries to build the
lines and construct the necessary tun-
nels within ten years.
Glass bath tubs are being made In
Germany and are said to have advan-
tageS over the metal and enamel, the
principal one being that they are much
cheaper. They are made in a solid
piece, and one can be turned out COM
plete in about five minutes.
Four hundred pounds of obsolete
German pennies of about the same pro-
portion of copper and tin as used in
high conductively electrical castings
have, it is said, recently been pur-
chased at p cents a pound by the Uni
ted States manufacturers, being cheap
er now than electrolytic copper.
During excavation near Prospect
Park, Reading England, a workman
struck his pick against something
hard, and on removing the clay he un-
earthed quern, or hand mill, which
had probably come from the neighbor-
ing Romano British city of Silchester,
which was on the great trade routes.
The relic has been deposited in the
Reading museum.
The coal-testing plant Of the Geo
logical Survey, established a few years
ago, has proved that much of the pres
ent waste from coal mines can be util-
lied to great advantage. For example,
slack coal and other waste sizes can
be formed into briQuets, which for
power-supplying purposes are usually
superior to lump coal from the same
mines. Another product of the mines
which the miners have always regard
ed as waste is bone" coal, which con-
tains more than 10 per cent of ash.
This, it has been shown, can be use
fully employed in gas producing. 1t
is believed that old dumps will also
prove available for this purpose.
The caves of southern France are
the most remarkable in the world for
their wall pictures, made by prehisto-
ric men, who were contemporary with
the mammoth, the rhinoceros and the
reindeer in that country. Some of the
pictures are engraved in the rock,
some are painted with different colors.
They usually represent extinct ami
mails, such as caye-lions and cave
bears A faithful representation of
the rhinoceros, with its two horns of
unequal length, is found in a cavern
at Font-deGaume. The prehistoric
| artists made their paint of ocher OF
various shades, pulverized and mixed
in mortars. Four phases of advance
in this troglodyte art have been dis
tinguished by explorers, most Of whose
discoveries have been made within the
past four years.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
A LAND OF SMOKERS.
In the Philippines Babies Smoke as
Well as Their Elders.


Hamilton Wright, in an article writ.
ten to Farm Journal from Manila,
says of the great Cagayan Valley
about to be opened up by an American
railway:
Tobacco raising is the chief in
dlstry and tobacco smoking appar-
emily the chief amusement of the peo-
pie. Everybody smokes in the Caga-
yam Valley-men, women and children,
from two and a half years up to the
grave. The women smoke huge Gig
ars from thirty inches to three feet
In length, and as big around as a
mans wrist. A cigar OF this size is
called tobacco grande' Some of the
cigars are so huge that they can not
be conveniently ihandled, so they are
suspended by a string in the middle
from the ceiling of the dwelling room.
lhese extraordinarily large cigars
are called 'tabacos de familias, or
family cigars. and are puffed by men,
bers of the family, mostly the women
and children, at intervals for a cou-
pie of days, until they are all smoked
up. The tobacco grande7 lasts a ma
iron of the Cagayan Valley from a
day and a half to two days.
For hundred and one years, from
1871 until 1882, tobacco raising in
the islands was a monopoly of the
Spanish government. 1t was during
the monopoly that the natives learned
to smoke from the agents of the gov
eminent These officials were bad
lot, it seems; they oppressed the peo-
pie terribly. Though the Spanish had
taught the natives to smoke. it cost
the native big fine sometimes to do
it.
No other section of the Philippines
has such remarkable record for the
diversity and abundance of its pro-
ducts as the wonderful Cagayan. On
the overlooked lands of the Cagayan
River they raise one crop of corn and
one crop of tobacco on the same land
in one year, and they have been do
ing this for more than $50 years. In
two years they can raise two crops
of tobacco and three crops of corn.
They make staple products of corn
and cotton, rice and sugar cane. The
sugar cane is of the very finest. They
raise camotes, Irish potatoes, onions
and peanuts in enormous quantities,
and they produce cocoanuts, guava
and copra for foreign shipment
Strange to say, they raise oranges in
this valley and have an immense
orange as large as mans two fists
together, which, though green when
fully ripe has a delicious flavor and
is not acid, as in the case with some
of the Philippine oranges. Cotton
grows wild. 1t is not indigenous to
the valley, but took to the soil when
transplanted, and now people regard
it almost as a sort of pest that must
be burned out. Almost every strang-
er who comes up the Cagayan likens
it to the Mississippi River.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
Knew No states Rights.

No criminal could ever get away
from big Sim" by the cross-country
method He is familiar with every
foot of ground in eastern Nevada and
can outtrail a ki-yo-te. As deputy sher-
iff of Eureka he engaged in several
long chases, always with success. His
capture of a horse thief known as
spanish Abe" was the toast of Eureka
for MANY a day
This spanish Abe" was a bad actor
who made it a business to appropriate
stray cattle and the blooded mares of
the neighborhood With a companion
he was finally rounded up and incarce-
-ated in the Eureka jail. The next
night. however, the criminals forced
the window of their cell and took to
the brush. mounted on the fieetest ami
mails they could steal. big Sim" hours
later hit the trail" in pursuit. Span
ish Abe" turned toward Utah and was
changing horses along the road.
big SIM" renewing his mount like
wise and cutting cross country, gained
on the fugitiveS in the desert. Pur-
sued and'pursuer had been riding con-
tinuouSly and the horses We're giving
way under the strain. But Big Sim
kept on. and they saw he was well into
Utah-near Fillmore. to be specific
when he brought spanish Abe" and
his companion upon level with his
gun and clapped on the handouts.
''You amt got no right TO take us
Sim" the Spaniard whined. Were in
Utah.
"Eats, :" big Sim" replied. I'm ne
surveyor. Come on."-White Pine
New, News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21

grief with
assaultng
object drubbing.
She
likely unlimited
killing herself thing
bo If don't they will houeeper and
will getting
thing husbands
herself
the habit ncuabe however subject to
launched regular beared debuch Of this most
fascinating
which
could realize
how they little what
parlance be termed aznesJuiet
Chicago Journal
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
FIRING WITH OIL.
An Entirely Different Job From Firing
Locomotive With Coal.

Firing locomotive with oil is
very different matter from firing with
coal. In Texas on account of the
low cost of fuel oil many lines burn
it in their engines.
1.-THE oil is stored in tanks in the
tender and enters the frebox below
the door. A small pipe called the ato-
mizer connects with oil pipe just as
it reaches the frebox, which sprays
the oil evenly all over the firebox,
which is lined with fire brick.
"The firemen has five valves to
operate-the oil valve, to regulate the
supply of oil; the atomizer, to spray
it; the heater, which heats the oil in
the tank; the superheater, which
heats the pipes connecting tank with
firebox, and the blower, which must
be working a little when steam is
shut off to create draught enough to
keep oil burning.
Firing an oil burner is a very par
ticular job. The operation of the oil
valve and the atomizer must CORE
spond at all times with the amount of
work an engine is doing not enough
fire starts an engine leaking and too
much oil makes black smoke, gums
up the tues and MAKES less steam.
ut is then up to the fireman to get
down on the deck and fill UP funnel
with sand to clean the fiues. By put
ting the end of the funnel into a hole
in the firebox door the sand is drawn
through the fiues and out the stack.
"Firemen on helpers and yard en-
gines prefer coal, as it requires less
watching, but on through freight,
especially on the heavy bills, oil is
all right. The engineer can drop
her down a notch or so, and just as
quickly can the fireman give her a
little more oil and the atomizer.
"The hardest work an oil-buner
fireman does is to take water. 1t is
not a dirty job, either, but | have
never seen a fireman wearing a white
collar It is all he can do to keep
clean overalls. The pay was just the
same as for the coal burners in that
locality.
In reference to hiring experienced
firemen, some roads do and some do
not. but think they all prefer to make
their own fremen, as they will stay
through the slack times when boom
er will not.
Just ten minutes before l ap-
preach The master mechanic for a job
an honest knight Of the scoop, wear
ing the regulation 1O00-mile shirt.
round black hat and the badge of
our noble order, called upon the same
gentleman and stated his case, but
was told that there was nothing do
ing.
Il was wise to the master mechanic
on that particular railroad, and before
I asked for work l visited second
hand store and fitted myself out with
longlegged boots. sombrero and a big
red handkerchief Call I lacked was
gum. and then ! told the master me-
chanic my trouble
HE asked me if I ever fired an
engine. / replied that had never
fred one but that l had seen lots OF
them. He wanted to know what I had
been working at. and I said that
had lust come down from the Pan
handle. where / had been chasing
longhorns all my life. / got the job"
Locomotive Firemen's Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
Anticinnforr Gloom.

There was a cigar store opened up
town the other night, and as the build
ing was not provided with steam heat
gas radiator was supplied. Three
hours later a huge plate mirror directly
behind was cracked from top to bottom
by the unequal expansion in a tight
frame.
bad luck to have mirror break, y
commented a customer as he stood at
the cigar lighter. you'll have seven
years bad luck"
81 don't mind the glass breaking, . the
cigar man explained 10 a friend. Il
can pay for a new glass, and I'm not
superstitious, but can't have the new
mirror for g week, and meantime every
man who comes in here is going TO
tell me it's bad luck to have the glass
smashed. Sure. its bad luck. Don't
| have to stand here and pretend I'm
hearing that fool remark for the first
time? I'm liable to kill some one be-
fore the glass is replaced I've heard
II at least fifty times so far. and this
is only the first day."-Chicago Inter
Ocean
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
Keepinm CbameIeon. Auv.

Chame,eons can be kept alive for
years b. making a frame to fit over
plant in fowerpot and covering it
with mosquito netting, which must be
long enough to tie with a string about
the pot. Keep the pot in the sunniest
window and water the plant every day
through the netting. You will be sur
prised to sc how eagerly the little
creatures viii drink the running water
after they get over their fear. Set a
wire fly trap for flies. which you can
liberate under the netting. The chame-
Icons will not be backward about help
ing themselves.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
Unavoidable.

There was some confusion as To
which side of the street cars should
stop.
Let US make It rule" said the
motorman, to notice on which size
the people are waiting, and then stop
at the other"
But suppose there are people on
both sides?" ventured one less hard
end in experience.
"Oh, as to that" replied the In.
structor. "of course, it's impossible
not TO oblige somebody once in a
while Philadelphia Ledger.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
WOMEN WHO ARE ADDICTED TO THE ovERwoRK HABIT.

Have you ever contemplated and marveled at
the nervous woI-lan's passion for oyerwork and
speculated upon the ACCESSIBILITY of taking legal
methods for curing her of it? 1t seems to me
that If, when the victim Of the oyerwork habit
shows a disposition to go upon a rampage, she
were simply corralled by big policeman and
taken to rest cure establishment for a few
days it would be blessing for society in gen.
eral. Have you ever noticed that when wom-
an is afflicted with the work habit, the scker
she gets the harder she works, until she falls
..all of a heap" wreck from nervous prostra-
ton, or, what is far better, dead and gone to
an untimely grave?
Unhappiness is a frequent cause of overwork.
The happy woman is prone to sitting down on
the back door steps in fine weather, watching
the pickering shadows of a vine or tree play
ing with the cat or idly following the flight of
the birds or the clouds sailing away In the sky,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21

lence expresses more than whole hours
of conversation.
Come in, jack she whispered. Il
want you to-"
Forgive me, dear" he answered,
while they were waiting for the door
to open, 81 was wholly to blame-it
was my fault"
mo. Jack" she quickly interrupted,
" all mine But, DEAR" little roguish
smile showing through the still undried
tears, you will always remember that
you spoke first, won't you?"-Boston
Post.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21

The Delaware and Eastern railroad
has arranged an extension to connect
with a branch Of the Boston and Maine
at Schenectady and thus compete With
the Ontario and Western in toe delivery
Of Pennsylvania hard coal to points in
New England and also with the Delaware
nrd Hndenn
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
MRS. HENRY SIEGEL.
Once a Reporter, Now Mistress OF
Three PaIatial Mansions.


The skyrocket career of Mrs. Henry
Siesel is still the topic of many con-
versation y the drawing rooms of New
York. Here has been a romance that
reads like fiction. She was young
widow, Mrs Marie Wilde, petite, pref
ty and intellectual and employed by the
New York Press as a writer of fashion
articles. One day she was assigned to
write up Siegel-Cooper opening"
While obtaining the facts for that
days copy" she CHANGED to meet the
head of the house, who has been al
luded to as 'the little man with big
ideas" Their friendship grew and one
day this Napoleon of the department
store business offered the charming lit
tie widow position which many an
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
ON DRESS PARADE.

De Lily dress up all in white,
De Vilet primp in blue,
De Rose put on a gown er red
En- say: Il sweet ez your
En- den dey had a picnic
De weather look so fine;
But de blizzard blow de sleet en- snow
En- de sun fergit ter shine
De Lily shake en- SILVER
De Rose say: How is you?"
En- de Vi'let-he make answer:
II feelin' powerful blue"
En- still de blizzard blowin'-
Des toss 'em lef' en- right,
En- dey went ter bed en- kivered
Wild freezin' sheet er white!
Atlanta Constitution.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
cnnrress snent zoo. ooo, GOO.

Clerks Of the House and Senate COM
mittees on appropriations have made
their annual complete statement Of the
expenditures Of the last session Of Con
gress. showing a total of $92O,f9S, l43, OF
which about S1J0,000,000 went for PEN
sions. S212.OO0.0O0 for the postoffice, near
5000, 900. 900 for the army and navy, and
eli 600 600 FOR the civil list
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
TOO Roomy.

@Gracious exclaimed the econom-
jcal mother, Il thought had cut down
this old suit of your fathers so it
would fit you, but it seems entirely too
large yet"
yes, ma" replied the bright boy,
especially the wide ex-pants. The
Catholic Standard and Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
AutomobIIe Baggage Truclsr

Judging from the success Of a trial
otor-driven baggage truck in the Phila-
pdeHphia station Of the Pennsylvania, il
IS expected that these new vehicles viii
now be adopted in all the larger stations
Of the country.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
youthfuI Enthu.Ia.n,,

Editor-That new man puts such an
unusual amount of fresh stuff into his
work
Seasoned Reporter-That's only be-
cause he's so green-Baltimore Ameri-
can.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21

The diocesan convention Of western
Massachusetts recently considered the re-
quest of Bishop Vinton for reduction
Of 81, 900 in his salary, making 1t $1,000.
The bishop explained that as his official
residence was complete, and he would no
longer have to pay rent. be would prefer
not to receive the full amount Of his
salary. The convention declined to make
the reduction on the ground that it would
b. inconsistent with the dignity of the
diocese
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
Could Be Both.

when that new theater In your town
was opened was the house papered7"
@Oh, dear, no! II was all frescoed.
Baltimore American
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21

A paradox Of fight also demonstrat-
ed by experiment is that the stronger
the wind blowing against certain
form of curved wing-surface the less
resistance does the bird offer TO Il
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21
She mad Nearly warmed 1t.

One cold winter night a kind old
southern lady, remembering that there
were no steam heaters in her maids
room, and wanting her TO keep warm,
said;
MARY. you must take hatiron to
bed with yoE."
Next moraing. when she came down
To Breakfast, she asked:
well. Mary, how did you get along
with tie iron last night?"
"weli. ma'am, got it most warm
before morning. Judges Library.
Swallowing your Indignation will not
satisfy your thirst for revenge
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21

Attending TO your own business is
the NEST effective way to nght oompe-
tttion-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21

Frederick l. Allen, commissioner oil
patents at Washington, has resigned, To
take effect June !. and will practice law
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-07-27

From 1000 to 800 bodies are re-
ceiyed In the morgue In Paris every
year, These represent suicides and
murders aud not the deaths that occur
In the ordinary course OF events. And
OF these self slaughters nearly half are
drowuings, which means that every
day at least two persons jump into the
Seine; two poor wretches who have
failed to find life worth living In
the months of October and November
suicides by drowning in Paris are don.
BILE what they are the remainder OF ths
year. The prospect of having to sur.
fer the hardships OF another winter,
begging about In the cold and sleeping
out IN the snow. Is too much for many
a fate cursed wanderer An interest.
ing fact revealed by the suicide Stats
tics OF Paris Ia that women show a de-
cidsd dislike to drowning as a means
Of Violent death. Four times as many
men as women are flshed out OF the
Seine. The records show that asphyx-
lation is the favorite way with the
weaker sex for shutting OF this NOR
cal coll" when 1t has ceased to be bear
aba.