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Another Choate story.

1t is related of Joseph Choate. that
when he was a very young man, just
starting out to practice law, he was
once retained by shopkeeper to de-
fend him in a suit for damages brought
by an employe. Unfortunately for Mr..
Choate, his client lost his head com
pletely under DISCRIMINATION, fur
nishing evidence so favorable to the
prosecution as to result in 5000
verdict.
The merchant was, nevertheless,
highly indignant with his lawyer for
having lost the case and when they
encountered each other at the court
room door, he clustered:
IF / had a son born an idiot I'd
make him a lawyer"
"Your father seems to have been Of
another opinion" replied young Choate,
coolly.-Harper's Weekly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
CURING A BAD HABIT.



When Sir Sanford Fleming, the
noted English engineer, inspected the
proposed route of the Canadian Pacific
Railway in 1883, he was accompanied
by the Rev. George Munroe Grant. The
party encountered the usual hardships
of travelling through a wilderness, but
has many interesting experiences. One
Of these, says Mr.. Grants biographer,
was meeting the different parties of
engineers stationed along the way.
The most picturesque person asso-
ciated with this exploration of the
mountains was Major Rogers, the dis
coyererer and engineer of the passage
through the Selkirks. Rogers was an
energetic man, renowned for unconven-
tionality but exceedingly profane. The
engineers who were passed on the east
ern slope of the mountains were in q
state of great expectancy at the pros
pect of the hard-swearing Rogers being
host to a clergyman.
Rogers at first was under the impress
sion that Grant, who was addressed as
Doctor" was a medical man. The
day. after the first meeting was Sunday,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
RESTORED CONFIDENCE.
) a& OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


Mrs. Potter had spent week at the
mountains and naturally her neighbors
piled her with questions as to what she
had seen and how she had enjoyed her
visit. 1--WE all know you're fond o.
your house and home" said one of the
neighbors, "but wasn't it kind of a
relief not to have to think of washing
and ironing and baking and sweeping
for good long week and just feast
your eyes on views and sghts?"
YES" said Mrs. Potter, with an alb
sent-minded expression, 'of course the
mountain views are grand. 1 took a
good look at 'em morning and night,
and sometimes between"
For the lands sake," cried the
neighbor. what did you do the rest
part o. the day."
We'll" said Mrs. Potter, looking as
if she had been detected in a crime,
that woman we boarded with. she'd
been using some kind of washing-pow-
der that had eaten holes in her clothes
and table-linen, and she didn't know
how to make her own yeast, nor she
didn't understand the ms an outs of a
boiled dinner.
''She had only been married a year.
and she was brought up away from
New England, so you couldn't expect
anything different. But as l said to
Anna, my duty lay clear before me.
"'You take in the mountain views I
said, and I'll See what | can do at the
kitchen end o. the house
ITO tell the truth" and little Mrs.
Potter looked as nearly defiant as was
possible to woman of her size and
with her features, "those mountains
kind of overbore me, but that kitchen
made me feel as if l was some account,
after all"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
Horse Maintain. HI. Position.

HIS fOS1ttOn.
The horse is always about to be, but
never is put out of business On the
appearance of every new agency OF
transportation the announcement is sol
EMMY made that the horse. after pass
ing through an era of decreasing prices,
will cease and determine. 1t was so
when railroads began to gain Roadway,
when bicycles came into use when the
electric cars commenced to buzz along
the highways, when the auto developed
into something more than a curiosity,
but yet here the horse is still with us,
and more valuable than ever.
Statistics submitted to the House OF
Representatives. In connection with the
agricultural appropriation bill. show
that there has been a notable Increase
both in the number and value OF horses
in the United States In the last nine
years The aggregate Of horses Jan.
/, 1905. stood at 1S,T1S,57S, against
14.367, 667 at the corresponding date Of
1897 Their total value Increased from
$452, 649, 1896 in 1897 to $1.510, SS9,9O8.
This startling rate of increase In
value is no more marked than that OF
mules, according TO the same govern
ment authorities There were 2,21e,-
CO. mules in 1897 and 3.104.U61 IN
1906. and the values were, respectively,
500, 302, 900 and 1884, 6S0,520
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
MONARCH OF THE SEA.
BattIeship Vermont Is Able to whip
Any Ship Afoat.
indianapolis Sun.

Amy Ship Anoat
The Standardization trial Of the bat
tleship Vermont took place off Rock
land over a measured mile This was
to test the screw revolutions at varying
speeds, that is, to find out how many
revolutions of the screws per minute
were required to cover a mile in a given
time.
lncased in ice from stem to stern,
the new battleship cane into Boston
harbor from her trial trip and dropped
anchor off the navy yard. She looked
like a huge specter as she came up
through the narrows, for With the ex-
ception of the tunnels there was no part
OF the vessel that wasn't coated with
ice and the bow and forward part of
the battleship We're burdened with tons
of the frozen water that had been
thrown up as the huge war vessel plow-
ed through head seas at a 17.4-knot
clip.
But the trial board is satisfied that
the Vermont Is the queen of the AmerI
can navy, for they say that she behav-
ed beautifully through it all. She was
required to make eighteen knots but
without forcing her she made 1888
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
THE LAUGH OF A CHILD.

There's the laugh of the dawn in the
waking east,
And the laugh Of the MONDAY sky;
The laugh of the breeze, the delirious
laugh
OF the fame when the night-winds sigh.
There's the laugh of the stars, and the
meadow brook,
OF the sea, and the festal wine,
The frivolous laugh, and the wonderful
laugh
OF the heart at affections shrine:
There's the laugh of the rose at the set
ting moon,
When the night has flown away,
But the happiest laugh, the ineffable
laugh,
Is the laugh of the child at play.
Boston Transcript.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

easily over the four-mile course. The
boat will soon be ready for active SER
vice in the North Atlantic fleet.
Naval Constructor Baxter who has
had charge of the competition of the
Vermont, said. Here goes out
ship which demolishea all records or
the world In naval construction. Not
even Great Britain, the leading country
in shipbuilding, has efer sent one OF
its battleships to sea without pre'imi-
nary deep water trial. But | know
enough about the condihion of the yes
sci to say that she is ready to whip
any other battleship In the world,
of course, giving her a little practice
with her guns
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
Lone-Lived Mathers.

At Jenkintown, Pa, Oct. 81, four
members of one family whose ages ag-
cregate $50 years gathered at re
union. when Isaac Mather, the Oldest
of two brothers and two sisters, cele-
brated his Tooth birthday. There
were also present two sons and one
daughter of the centenarian whose ag-
grerate ages totalled 206 years. 1t is
not believed that anywhere else in the
United States will be found a family
that can present like showing.
The four persons whose ages total
led $50 years were: Isaac Mather,
100 wears old; Mrs. Rebecca Kitchener,
his sister, 81 years old; Miss Ann Ma
ther. his sister. 80 years old, and
Charles Mather, a brother. 81 years
old.
The children whose ages totalled
DOG wears are: Miss Martha Mather.
daughter, 20 years old; Israel Mather,
son. % years old; Isaac Mather, son,
IS Years cid.
Isaac Mather, the centenarian, lives
on the old homestead. built on the
original tract of land granted to his
ancestors by William Penn. at Cheltcn
Hills. In this region ne Is best known
as the Grand Old Man of Chelten
Hills" He Is a Quaker and attends
services regularly on Sunday.
He attributes his long life to sim
pie habits Never in more than half
a century has he retired later than
O'Clock at night, and he is up with the
sun In the morning. His brother,
Charles, at 81, is still in active bust
ness
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
RAIN MARS THE DAY.
INAUGURATION TAKES PLACE
JUST THE SAME.
Governor and Other state Officers
Take Oaths of Office in Senate
Chamber in Madison-Ceremoni
Simple but stately.

Madison correspondence:
For the first time in the history of
the State Of Wisconsin the Inaugural
tion of the State officers on Monday
occurred in terrific rain storm At
ter two days of beautiful weather Mad
ison awoke that morning to a heavy
rain. which froze slightly as it fell.
Judge E. w Keyes, vino is perhaps
one of the best informed residents of
the city and who has followed the inau-
guration of State officers from year to
year is authority for the statement
that never before had Inauguration day
been SO disagreeable and so warm.
Notwithstanding the fact that it was
raining, the plans were carried out as
they had been arranged and the Nation
al Guards and military companies from
the university were in attendance
Capitol Is Decorated.
The wide halls of the old capitol
building were tastefully decorated with
the national colors and over the door
of offices silk American flag was
hung. In the rotunda, the great army
flag which has seen the Inauguration
of every Governor since the Civil War
hung from the Senate gallery and
reached almost to the main floor. The
Office of the Governor was decorated
with the national colors, and a few
palms, placed at irregular intervals,
gave it an air of simplicity which har-
monized with the taste and tempera
ment of the Governor.
From 10 80 to II O'Clock Governor
Davidson stood in those surroundings
of luxurious simplicity greeting hun
dreds of his friends and receiving their
wishes for successful administration.
His broad. good-natured smile, spread
an atmosphere of comfort over the of
flee. with result that his reception
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

herself up the pitch. 81 couldn't
exclaimed the docie wife; 1T would be rude and I'M
ladylike.'
The patient may be reformer, but like other
rIortas expect sacrifice herself cause
She may be good and viruous and still her domineerng
husband likes. 1t is the Is mar
ried to a who does not waste any sympathy on
him that usually proves himself to be model husband
This does not that the sensible woman spends
her married days quarrelng and making up. She knows
that she needs and judgment to a wife
as in every calling. She her energy
she expends It she it to good advantage When
wants to she does not give the ball timd modest
thrust but like the successful football player she waits
until she can send it into the coveted goal
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
sight just ahead of us. If it hadn't

slgnt just aneau OF Us. II tt naun
been for him"
But just then another face, that
Danny somehow seemed to know,
smiled tenderly down on him; and the
next thing he knew q big man was on
his knees beside him, and all at once
everybody's eyes seemed to be filed
with tears.
MY boy my boy!" the big man
sobbed, brokenly. To find you here,
like this, after going back to the old
place TO look for you !"
And then Danny knew just what the
wonderful thing was that had hap
pened. He had found his father at
last !-Pennsylvania Grit.
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All Arranged.

And now" said the dear girl, "you
had better go up and speak to papa
Are you-er-sure he's homer.
stammered Mr.. Sloman.
20! yes: unless he's got tired wait
ing and gone to bed you'll find him Ia
the sitting-room ."-Philadelphi Press
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

Dear" whispered the clipping lover.
what shall we do with the rope lad
der? We shouldn't leave it hanging
there"
"Oh. that's all right" replied the
coy damsel, pa said he'd pull it up
again so we couldn't get back"-Phil-
adelphia Press.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
GoyrRNnR DAVIDSON.

lacked that cold formality which one
generally associates with these func-
tons. With him in the receiving line
were w. D. Connor, President c. K.
Van Hise, Robert NJ Bashford, Dean
E. A. Birge, Lucen Hanks, and Senator
William Hatten.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
PATIENT WOMAN is A MENACE TO THE HOME
By Della Austrian.

The development Of judgment and reason
has taught woman that beligerency is mas
culine accomplishment which only needs lit
tie practice to be acquired. The other day a
woman was telling friend that her husband
was the best of men until something displeased
him, and then he was dreadful. The wise
woman counseled that the next time this man
worked himself into a tantrm his wife shorIS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
Producing Denatured Alcohol.

producing Denatured Alcohol.
If a farmer or other person desires
to go into the business of manufactur-
ing denatured alcohol, at a plant how
ever small" says Internal Revenue
Commissioner Yerkes, "he will be re-
quired to construct his plant in the
manner prescribed by the general laws
and regulations. He will be required
to give bond, the effect Of which Is to
prevent him from defrauding the gov
eminent Of the tax on any distilled
spirits produced by him. He will be
required to establish a distillery ware
house; to deposit the spirits produced
by him in this warehouse to establish
denaturing bonded warehouse, and to
tax pay or denature, just as he may
wish, the alcohol produced by him. All
Of this will be done under government
al supervision, but the government pays
for this supervision. The manufacture
of alcohol does not bear one cent of 1t.
There is no objection to a farmer man
ufacturing his alcohol in his back yard
provided be wants to establish dis
tillery there. If you will take the trou-
bic to Investigate you will find, IN my
opinion, that the laws and regulations
relating to the manufacture Of alcohol
in Germany do not differ to any great
extent from the laws and regulations
in this country"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
The Daring One.

He stole a kiss So quick twas done
She did not know what he was at;
He never stole another one
She gave them 10 him after that.
Ledger.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

For twenty years the Ohio Expert
ment Station produced an average Of
forty bushels Of wheat In three-year
rotation consisting of potatoes, wheat
and clover. On another farm a rota-
tion Of corn, oats. wheat, clover and
timothy was carried on with yield of
twenty-eight and one-half bushels of
wheat per acre. With proper market
privileges for a series of years a clo-
yer. potatoes and wheat rotation will
be hard to beat.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
So Inconsidar,fa

The crew of a certain life-saving sta
ton on the New England coast has had
little to do of late because of the rar-
ity of wrecks In that immediate vicin-
ity. Nevertheless, the crew had In the
past frequently proved its bravery and
efficiency.
One rainy day, at the appointed time,
the crew failed to appear at practice.
The summer boarders on the veranda
of the hotel waited in vain for the ex-
hibition which should vary the mo-
notony of a dull day. Finally one of
them went over to the quarters of the
crew to learn the reason.
Aren't you going to practice to.
day." asked he.
Not to-day. sir"
"Why not?"
Then the brave lifesaver, hero Of
many rough seas in the past, made an
explanatory gesture toward the sky,
and said:
What, in this rain?"-Harper's
Weekly.
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A plutocratic American of the last
century who had seen the green acres
and stately castle of an Irish estate
sought out its impecunious owner
with an offer to buy. Lord Blank,
eager enough to transmute his profit.
less lands into pregnant gold, named a
considerable. but reasonable, price as
one he would be willing to take. Very
WELL said the American. I'll give
that If the pictures go with the house"
After a little reflection his lordshir
answered, Yes, you can have the pict
ures, except, OF course, the family por
traits" Its the portraits / want
said the other. Il wouldn't give q
cent for the rest of EN-" MY prop
erty is not for sale under those CON
ditions,. said his lordship, turning Oh
his heel and walking away, TO the as
tonishment of the parvenu, who funs
stuck up beggar!" after the re
treating figure.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

There are as many different varieties
of dangerous women as there are styles
OF doing the hair.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
FARMERS SHARE IN PROSPERITY.

To-day the American farmer occupies a po-
sition of pre-eminence in the realm of indus
try and commerce. He is the largest con-
tributor to the wealth of the nation. He
does more than any other agency for the gen
era welfare. He is the chief factor in the
country's prosperity, of which he is enjoying
and most deservedly a liberal share
What the agricultural producers of the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

Everything comes the way " some
men but CO.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

1t is part of the love disease for
a girl TO worry more If her young man
gets a splinter In his thumb than II
father gets q telegraph pole in his
arm
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FACTS ABOUT PNEUMONIA.
By DIR. EHs X. Dearborn.

f7 Pneumonia Is classed among the infectious
]. !" ! !.
WI diseases, but likely the dipococcus- pneu
M monia Is the result of disease instead Of the
] WI | cause of It, Childhood and old age, those of
w | lowered vitality, and those much exposed to
/ n lnclement weather and alcoholic devotees
| X especially liable 20 pneumonia and. having
In ! had 1t once, are predisposed to the second
60 attack
The death rate In the United States for pneu
monia averages about % per cent and stands next
to consumption tubercuosis In frequency as cause of
death 1t usually begins with hard chill, and is fol-
lowed by a high fever, with pain In the lungs and
short catchy respiration and peculiar flushing of the
the side Of the afflicted lung for, fortu
nately 1t often involves but lung and should
1t be the left side heart involvement seriously comp
Gates the case.
When taken with chill It Is always best to call In
your physician, for chill usually trouble ahead,
unwise time In home experiments. Put
the patient in bed in we'll ventilated room, preferably
upstairs with southern exposure and keep an
even temperature 60 degrees Oil the chest both back
and front and with layer Of lambs wool Avoid
compress and ice packs The food should be light
and easily digested, broths, soups, milk, whey,
we'll beaten eggs given raw, and not much of anything
at d time save cold water ad libitum.
Visitors should not be admitted to the sick 1t is
ba5 enough SICK without being critically inspected
by curious friends who usually tell doeful stories
maintain a hopeless silence and woebegone
tenances that would strike terror to burglar. If the
patient is able to care whether you do do call,
card expressing sympathy and good Wishes flower,
your message, and will not njure the patient
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
To Get rid of CockIeburs.

A correspondent of farm paper
says:
Cockleburs can only be extermnated
by pulling up the last one of them in
a field for two years running The
necessity for the two-year treatment is
accounted for from the fact that every
cocklebur, according to our correspond
ent, contains two seeds, one of which
will grow the first year and the other
one the second. BY planting corn for
two years running, and taking great
care not to leave a single plant in the
field, it is claimed they can be exter-
minated.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

United States have done is graphically set forth In the
annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture What
the possibilities of the future may be conjectured
has been achieved. The product Of American
farms this year than $2,000,0000GO greater
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

You cannot make low-headed horse
lock toppy and stylish by refining with
a tight rein, nor improve the style Of
lofty-headed fellows appearance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

When snow is on the ground, rab-
bits have a hard time securing food.
and will eat anything that ,will pre-
v>nt starvation. 1t is then they girdle
trees and do damage which Is not with
in the power Of the farmer to repair.
Smearing the trunk with blood or wrap
ping the trees with tarred paper or
mosquito netting two feet from the
ground serves as a protection
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

If a garden Is manured heavily and
not kept In growing crops all through
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

Fowls that get little charcoal and
a few sunfower seeds once or twice a
week will have red combs and bright
plumage.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

Ask a cattle feeder in the corn belt
how he is coming out with his steers.
and he will say that if his steers don't
make him any profit his hogs will ler
him out. So often does this happen
that the hog has come TO be an inn
portant factor TO reckon with in all
cattle-feeding operations. Indeed, IL II
were not for the grunters, the business
Of cattle feeding might be precarious
one. There is a sad lack of profits, as a
general thing, in handling hogs. just
because there is sorry lack of man
agment somewhere. The essentials
are the countless little things which
no one can teach another and these
have more to do with it than general
rules. The blood, the care, the warm
shelter, the proper food are all on the
list, but only the practical man learns
those which are not written.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

II possible, select your brood sows
when the pigs are or months old
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

How boarders abuse boarding housesi
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More money may be made from or
chards on thin land when the trees are
set close, twenty TO twenty-five feet
apart, than when only half that many
are set. The trees shade the ground
better, and heat and drought will not
DO as much damage as when the great
er part of the ground is exposed to the
sun to burn up the humus and dry the
moisture out of the soil.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

A thorough farmer can get more out
of the scrub than scrub farmer can.
AS a rule that kind Of a farmer does
not keep the scrub any longer than he
can help. A scrub farmer will soon
make scrub out of pure-bred ami
NAL.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

Heaves, frequent coughing and diff
Guilty in breathing in horses, can nearly
always be traced to feeding dry, dusty
hay. Dampen all hay now before feed
ing
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

A substitute for human hair is nov
made from eellulose and nitrocelluloSe.
according 10 a German scientific perl
odicaL
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

Hogs shipped into the stock yards
show the result of too much inbreeding
by careless farmers who reason that it
does not pay to get new boar each
year while they have one which will
breed, and they lose enough in a litter
or two to pay for a new sire.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

Sunshine, crude carbolic acid and
air-slaked lime win keep the hogpens
sweet.