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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

Consequently vocational training in its broadcast posi-
aspects of the largest phases of school
activity. This may not the introduction of ele-
mentary agriculture into all the rural schools but it viii
mean the utilization Of agricultural material in the train
ing the pupil that if he enters the agricultural
cation he viii be adequately prepared for it.
The school also develop the spirit Of social
community service know OF nothing better in this line
than the plan used Maine organizing school i'm
proyement leagues.
1t is desirable also for the school to become social
center or at the social center of the neigh
borhood. The school ought to play large part in the
life of the mature people of the community and it may
well rallyng center the educational interests
of adults well as of children.
The school must definitely cooperate with other insti
of the community such the church. the grange
Improvement societies library etc In this connection
there should be frequent joint meetings of teachers and
school patrons for the discussion both of school topics
and of subjects OF general community interest.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

Plttsburg woman gave whOopiue cough
lawn fete to fellow sufferers
China and Japan together produce
12J,Go0 tons Of silk annually.
Taken the world over. the annual ay-
erage rainfall IS sixty inches.
Coffee plantations in bloom are snow
white and exhale a delicious odor. but
the blossoms die in a day.
As near as can be ascersained. the IN
appropriated and unreserved public lands
Of the United States amount % ~. 2.3ss.
107 acres.
Arehaeolosists have discovered the mar
bic quarries which sapDled TIE material
for the famous Temple Of Diana Of tho
Ephesians
At the federal prison at I.earenwort b.
Kan. go prisoners are engaged in build
ing around and over them the very prison
in which they viii be confined
The most northerly railway n the
world win soon be opened Tor traffic on
the island OF Spifz ghsreen. The lao K
shout eighteen miles long.
In parts OF northern australia she ss-
lives i've chiefly on The rats witch swarm
everywhere. and Oh a dininus:fe ssseie,
d dog hardly larger than a ra..
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

vesugations now being made In vari-
Gus parts of the world" So writes
John Elfreth Watkins in the Technical
World Magazine THE ;opgest series
of systematic observations contrtbutino
data to such conclusion have haan
made ceaselessly since July. 1909 or
the Naval Observatory. WASHINGTON
For research along the same lines tbers
has more lately been established about
the earth chain of stations located
at Gaithersburg, Maryland, Cincinnati,
Ohio: Ukiah, California Mizusaws
Japan; Tschardjui, Turkestan; ana
Sharloforte, Italy. In each of tbm
series OF observatories Is mounted !.
zenith telescope used for timing the
passage OF stars across the great arrn
Of the heavens. At the Naval Observa.
tory the research is conducted by a,e
OF prime vertical transit the only
one in use in the Western Hemi,.
phere'
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
Observation-Disclosures
EVERYTHING FRESH.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..


Nothing ever daunted the agent for
Hendersons Handy Hens Nest, but 1t
was unusual for him to meet with such
a genial welcome as was bestowed on
him by Mr.. Eben Saunders when he
was Weakened from his afternoon doze
on the piazza by loud cough.
The cough was close to his ear, but
as soon as IL had done its work the
sgent for Henderson's Handy Hens
Nest seated himself in comfortable
rorlInr-chair at little distance from
his victim.
..Fine day. he said in loud tone,
surprised at the slow smile which over
spread the face of his host.
..Primel" said Mr.. Saunders. with
,rctlon. II never saw a better
~Never knew anything much fresher
than the air you get up on this bill,
continued the agent. as he swung one
OF the Handy Hens Nests into view.
.sWe got most every fresh up here.
said Mr.. Saunders. TRANQUILITY. Vow
there's paint-whats on that chair you
bumped down into in such a hurry
isn't more than three hours old, II it's
that. You'd We noticed it II you hadn't
been IN consid'ahle haste. but
wouldn't try to get out Of il too quick
Young man. you're liable to tear your
clothes
.Twould be better" said Mr.. Saun-
ders. mildly. as the agent for Hender-
sons Handy Hens Nest at last de
tached himself from the rocking chair,
mot to be in quite such hurry next
tine. But seeing you were, can give
you some of a mixture that another
young man left here one day that he
told mother and me would remove fresh
paint and leave the goods Mother and
I've never had occasion TO try 1t. bu,
I should like TO see it work, and I don't
know when / might have another
chance. folks round here not being. as
q rule. in quite such a hurry as you
| appeared to be-"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
NEW CHARTER BEATEN.


Chicago's Proposed Measure Is De-
feated Two TO One.
Chicago's proposed new charter was
defeated at the polls Tuesday by a vote
of more than two to one. The measure
was showed under in many strongholds
of both parties alike, losing in all but
four of the thirty-hve wards. Fifty per
cent of the registered electors turned out,
and their ballots killed the act by vote
of 59,5S1 for to 121, 419 against
knowledge had hardly been obtained
that the charter was dead than a move
ment was on foot to secure another in
strument that will contain the good fea-
lures of the defeated measure while hold
ing none of the alleged defects that led
the voters to turn it down.
An analysis of the vote shows that the
campaign made by the United Societies
bore much fruit in the shape of ballots
against the measure. A survey of the
situation indicated that the defeat of Che
charter was due most largely to the con-
tention that taxes would be raised I'M
der the instrument, and that the Sunday
closing laws would be put into force.
On the North and West Sides hundreds
of small property holders turned out to
register an adverse vote because of the
taxes argument, while in the thickly set
tied foreign sections a heavy vote against
the act was tailed because of the per
sonal liberty appeal.
The ward gerrymander, too, undoubted-
ly played an important part in the defeat.
The political aspect it gave to the char
ter led many an independent voter to show
ha Hot
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
state News in Brief.

A 3-weeks-old girl was left upqG The
doorstep Of AIR. and Mrs. 4. @. Howard
IN South Byron.
Rev. Father l.. j. Vaughan of Eau
Claire has severed his connection with
church work in that section and he will
hereafter devote his time to lcturing.
Nine persons were injured in rear
end collision of freight and passenger
trains on the Chicago and Northwestern
road at Racine. Slippery rails was re-
sponsible for the freight's crashing into
the passenger train.
A case Of State wide interest will be
tried in the municipal court in Chippewa
Falls Sept. 26, when John GalIus of
Cadott is arraigned on the charge Of
keeping his saloon open on Sunday. The
charge against Gallus is not that he sold
any liquor on this day, but merely that
the door of his saloon was open.
Freight and passenger trains on Wis
consin Central short line between Eau
Claire and Chippewa Falls colided one
mile from the Eau Claire depot. Thomas
Morrow, the passenger conductor, was
injured, but not seriously.
Fred C. Slecker, cheese dealer of Nee
nah, has filed voluntary petition in
bankruptcy, giving assets at $2,471 Sc
and liabilities at S9,21S. His real estate
Is estimated at $1,000 He holds thirty
shares OF stock in the Dale Cheese and
Butter Company, and other stock having
a total face value Of $500, all of which
he estimates as worth S1e0.
William p. Henderson Of Chicago was
sentenced to from ono year to eighteen
months in the State reformatory at Green
Bay for working a fake subscription
scheme in Oshkosh.
Charts i. Ryan has been arrsted ON
a warrant charging him with the murder
or Walter Eccleston, who was killed By a
gunshot wound at the Ryan homestead.
seven miles west Of Tomahawk.
Declaring that her octogenarian hus-
band should be Oslerized, Mrs. William
Bronson, the young wife of a prominent
La Crosse hotel man, brought her aged
spouse into court in an application for
divorce.
The first arrest under the law creating
the Office Of State FIRE marshal was made
at Beloit Within few days there have
been three fires on the farm Of David
Moore. The renter, W. j. Clark, was ,
suspected. and he was arrested on three
charges. two for arson and one for at
tempting to obtain money from iHsur-
ance companies under false prctenses-
Eail was fixed at $500.
AS the result Of a quarrel over game
of cards, Stephen Guidos Of Milwaukee is
charged with stabbing Joseph Smith, a
Iaborer. three times in la Crosse board
ing house. Gnidos was bound over for
trial on a charge Of assault with intent
to XII. Smith may recover.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

this year in the appropriation by Con-
gress of funds sufficient to meet the pro
ject.
The completed plan of the waterway
enthusiasts which seems almost like a
dream, is a series OF canals and dredged
channels that viii make it possible for a
battleship to go from New York by way
of Chicago to New Orleans and back by
sea to New York again.
The map shows the proposed deep
waterway route, including $200000,000
canal across lower Michigan. This sys-
tem when completed, would accommodate
a warship for any part of defensive
war scheme. The portrait is that of j.
Fl. Davidson of Oshkosh Wis, who may
be the new leader of the river and har-
bors committee.
The convention is to consider the i'm
provement of all the water courses Of the
United States and especially those of
the middle West. One of the important
links in the lakes-to-gulf plan never be-
fore mentioned is a canal to connect Lake
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

in
City, H.
DID, to show belief the religion
Walter and
Mitchell Mrs Harold Mitchell All
with
fromp paralysis and atism
of by
ham and numbers about 300 The members originally belonged
church believe
the body spirits
and
the three with of devil
and they determined the evi spirit
at the bedside of
Greenhaugh snened by
order that the
considered
became weak could
making motion The worked
that according Greenhaugh Smith in
recton life
Then the ms
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
STANDARD OIL PROFITS.

Earnings from 1899 to 1906 shown
to Be $49O,315, 1874.
Sensational disclosures regarding the
fabulous earnings of Standard Oil were
brought out in New York at the hearing
in the suit of the United States govern
ment to dissolve the corporation. Adroit
questioning drew from the reluctant lips
of Clarence G. Fay, resident comptroller
Of the Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey, the admission that in seven years
Standard Oils total profits amounted to
S490,315, 1874, or something over $70,00o,-
600 a year.
Mr.. Fay was also forced to admit that
in 1899 the profits were nearly $S0,000,-
600 instead of $34,000000 as set forth on
the books of the company. The Standard
Oil managed to cover up its great earn
ings in that year by deliberately failing
to credit the earnings of nineteen subsi-
diary companies that contributed vast
sums to the parent corporation. This
is the first time the eompany's earnings
have been made public.
Figuring on the capital stock now out
standing-$9S ,339, 3S2-this is an annual
profit of something over 10 per cent. Fig
ured on the basis of the Standard Oil
trust, which had a capitalization of $10,-
100000 when it was dissolved and reor-
gained into the present company with
out any additional investment on the part
of Mr.. Rockefeller and his associates, the
annual profit is something like 700 per
cent. On the basis of the original Stand
ard Oil Company, with capitalization
of S1,000,0o0, the annual profit is little
more than 1000 per cent. On the basis
of the little refinery Mr. Rockefeller had
when he started out, with an invested cap
ital principally of nerve, the percentage
of annual profit is-well, the stusisticians
haven't figured that out yet.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
BLAST ON JAPANESE SHIP.
Twenty-Seven Men Killed by Ex-
plosiOn on the kashima.


plosion on the Kashima.
Twenty-seven of the crew were killed
and many were injured ON the Japanese
battleship Kashima by the explosion of
powder after target practice near Kure.
Tie Kashima, under command of Captain
Koizumi, went to Kure, where the wound
ed were placed in the hospital. The dead
included lieutenant, two cadets and one
staff officer.
Details regarding the effects of the ex-
plosion are lacking. but it was terrific and
the ship was severely damaged. The blast
followed an attempt to remove an unex-
ploded shell from the gun. A majority of
the bystanders were fearfully mutilated.
The explosion is under investigation.
1t occurred inside of the shield of the
starboard after ten-inch gun. 1t was not
the shell which exploded, but powder,
which evidently caught FIRE from the gas
emitted from the breech when opened to
reload the gun. The hull Of tho kashima
is not damaged.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
ONIONS AND EGGS JOIN UNION.
Tomatoes and Peas Likewise Anil
nted-Au Must Bear Label.

Tomatoes and Pens Likewise Anil
ated-Au Must Bear Label.
Garden truck bearing union labels
is the latest thing proposed In New
burg, N Y. Farmers In that vicinity
have organized and asked for utilization
with the Central Labor Union, says the
New York World.
The only rock In the path Of the
brand-new idea Is whether a union
label can be affixed to vegetables. II
farmers can overcome this difficulty
they will be welcomed by the labor
unions and walking delegates will in
clude kitchen inspection among their
duties.
The farmers recently met at Sears
vile and formed the Orange County
Union. Their idea is to cut out the
middlemans profits and sell directly to
consumers. For some years exactlons
by, commission merchants have grown
and profits to tillers Of the soil have
been cut. The plan is to form COM
pany composed exclusively of members
OF the union to operate a large ex-
change in Newburg and deal directly
with the people. selling union potatoes,
tomatoes, cabbage and garden truck of
all kinds slightly below present non.
union prices. To secure cooperation of
the labor interests the farmers have
asked to Join the Central Labor Union.
Union men In Newburg are enthusiast
tic over the project aud saw they viii
need no eompulsion to purchase union
vegetables If the prices are lower. 1t
is acknowledged. however. that the
question of how to place union labels
on goods Is perpieXing. and unless soly-
ed may keep the farmers outside the
oreastworks of organized labor.
1t is maintained by some persons that
every vegetable must be slammed
Thereupon critics ask how II VIII he
possible to label ripe tomatoes without
sQuashing them. Others say It will not
do merely to label pea pods. but that
each separate pea must receive its GER
tihcate OF character. This would also
create work for the unemployed. Then
there has arisen the problem OF how
succotash can be labeled
When II comes to eggs, some of the
labor men say 1t may be necessary TO
include hens In the union. If this be
done the question of keeping them from
working overtime and the matter of
limiting their output viii have 70 be
solved.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
The Nation of shopkeeper..

Napoleon must have been right
after all. We are a nation OF shop
keepers. There is nothing In the shop
we are not ready to sell at price.
says the London Saturday Review.
We would no doubt sell the Great Seal
Il We could get a good enough Offer
from Mr. Plerpont Morgan. Shak-
speare follOs, first editions OF Walton,
the portraits Of Reynolds. Of Rom
ney-these and any other national
heirlooms, only given a fat enough
offer. we are happy TO part with to
any foreign nation that has the taste
and money to buy them. We can mt
them up as coony as Charles Surface
did his forhearS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

plan of the waterway men ever be real
ized would be:
From New York up the Hudson
through the improved Erie canal to Lake
Erie, down Lake Erie to the contemplated
Michigan and Erie canal, across Lake
Michigan to Chicago, down the backward
flowing Chicago river and the sanitary
canal to Joliet, through the proposed ex-
tension of this canal to the Illinois<siver
down the Illinois to the Mississippi to
New Orleans and around through the gulf
and the Atlantic to New York.
That is something of a dream, but the
canal enthusiasts say it will be accom-
plished.
Chicago delegates see great possibilities
in this canal, but they win let the pro-
ject rest temporarily and join with the
whole Mississippi valley in a demand that
Congress improve the great river and the
Illinois and complete the twenty-eight
miles of ditch over the divide from the
canal begun by the sanitary district of
Chicago to the Illinois river.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

and in the long years when pleasure longer aures
when ambition is dead and the baubles of life for which
you vanished in thin air, you will her
knocking shadow but again feel her soft caress
you know :. IN quiet days by the old home fire
side
No earthly pleasure IS so genuine as home yet it Is
reproach these days Of false pleasures to be "home
body" this respect the people of old Virginia We're
the most envabe in the world Though visiting
matter Of daily occurrence the passion of every
Vrginian's heart
Home might be tumbledown house, floors might be
bare and every evidence of departed glory greet the
eyes of the newcomer he heard apology for
the absence Of any essential to comfort intima
tion int of his friend might be improved from
a worldly point Of view. The haeur with which such a
suggestion would have been received would have wilted
the most aggressive advocate Of progress
And truly when sat at the Preside of these people,
and saw the sefsatsed countenances Of the old folks
at home and heard their intelligent converse. he was
constrained to admire and envy the spirit of pride in
which the Virginia gentlemans family believed in them
selves in their home and their surroundings and would
not have changed them for kingdom.
Let us them again suggest the exaltation of the In
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

diyidual life. perhaps it would frank to say
the selfish life; for ii is the belief of very respectable
minority that progress does come by meetings,
societies. organizations but by homes for which
devoted dyes-selfsh families contentedy work
ing A home is about all that for.
One family is fair amount of responsibility for
The you mix outside interests with the in
e-ests OF the home the more you destroy domesticy
Home makes good soldiers good lawmakers good citi
zens The vagran life Of those who merely eat and sleep
at home whose lives fun of petty social political
interests is not calculated insure stable sturdy race
OF people in coming generations
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
OKLAHOMA GOES DRY.
Election Returns from New State
Indicate Success of Prohibition.


t1CtSsS VI
Oklahoma has ratified the enabling act
and become a State so far as Oklahoma
and Indian Territory are concerned. Re
turns from the largest cities and coun-
ties of Oklahoma and Indian Territory
up to midnight Tuesday indicated that
the constitution of the proposed new
State has been adopted by 4 large major
ity: that the prohibition clause of the
constitution has been adopted and that
the Democratic State ticket. headed by
c. y. Haskell OF Muskogee for Gov
ernor. has been elected over Frank
Frantz, the present territorial governor
of Oklahoma, who was the Republican
nominee In the enabling act Congress
provided for prohibition in Indian Terri
tory for twensy-one years from Jan. /.
1906. The prohibition clause voted on
applies the same provision to the Okla
bona side OF the new State.
All OF the elements of a national cam
paisn were at hand in the canvass Secre-
tary of Var Taft was the chief represent
alive of the Republican side and William
j. Bryan was brought in to answer Sec
rotary Taft and to lead the Democratic
fight for the constitution and the Demo-
cratic ticket.
The election was held under the terms
OF the act OF Congress granting joint
statehood to Indian Territory and Okla
homa Territory. The statehood bill was
passed at Washington after a strenuous
fight which was carried through several
sessions of Congress. President Roose-
welt interviewed on behalf of the people
of the territories, and, while each terri
tory was anxious for separate statehood
compromise was affected by which the
friends Of statehood accepted the joint
bill rather than have none at ALL Imme-
diately after the statehood bill was sign
ed by the President the battle for the POI
litical control Of the new State opened.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
a Neeaea omclal.

In an Interesting paper NJ. Nozre
and N. Bouyer relate the extrao-din-
airy care which Emperor Nero took OF
his voice. At night Nero lay on his
back with thin plate of lead on his
stomach He abstained from fruit and
all dishes which could hurt his voice
In order not to damage the purity Of its
sound he ceased haranguing the SOL
diers and the senate. He attached to
his service an officer specially deputed
to take care of his voice He talked
only In the presence OF this singular
official. who warned him when he
spoke too loudly or forced his voice
and, If the emperor, carried away by
some sudden ut of passion, did not
listen TO bis remonstrance. II was his
duty to stop his mouth with a napkIn
Modern Medicine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01
SCORES OF HORSES DIE.
strange Epidemic Causes Loss OF

Strange Epidemic Causes Loss of
Thousands of Dollars for Farmers.
Horse owners in Neenah and Menasha
and the rural districts adjacent thereto
are making an effort to have the State
veterinary surgeon visit the localities
mentioned and Investigate the epidemic,
which is still prevalent among the horses.
Ordinarily, the last days of August have
marked the passing of the disease from
this district but this summer no abate-
ment of its rayages is yet apparent,
hence the alarm now being felt. Fully
200 horses have died since the epidemic
first appeared, entaiing loss running
into thousands of dollars.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-01

The Producers and Consumers Inter-
national Equity Union and Cooperative
Exchange has Just been Incorporated un-
der the laws of New Jersey, with 81 oO0,-
600 capital stock. and the articles of in
corporation say the objects Of the ex-
change are TO protect thu interests and
rights Of organized producers and con-
sumers; to bring farmers. producers and
workers into closer communication with
the cooperative unions of the country,
and to cooperate with the American Fed
GRAFTON OF Labor in promoting the sale
and use of goods bearing union labels"
The incorporators are MiSsourians.
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Wisconsin
State News
SUICIDE UNDER TRAIN.
Fond Du Lac Man EmuIates Recent
Milwaukee Horrors.
~~~N~N~~0~~

Fond Du Lac Man EmuIates Recent
Milwaukee Horrors.
Because he was troubled with insomnia.
William Wilson, aged 46, an inmate of
the county poor house. ended his life by
throwing himself under Northwestern
freight train at Fond du Lac. Wilson
has made several threats of late that he
would put himself out of the way, and
reading of the two horrible suicides that
occurred in Milwaukee recently, he told
Supt. Kenyon that he thought that good
method to end his life. The other morn
ing when he heard the whistle Of the .
o'clock train. he dashed out of. the house
and ran toward the railroad track.
Stretching himself fat across the rails.
50 that his neck was on one rail and his
ankles on re other, he permitted the
train to pass over him. leaving a fright
fully mangled body The head, which had
been severed from the body, had rolled
down the embankment, and was several
yards from the place of the suicide. VIII
son formerly lived in Alto. He had no
relatives