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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03
HIGH JUMPING AT SEA.
A Whale That Jumped Over Boat
-Tunas That Leap 20 Feet.

-Tunas That Leap 20 Feet.
1.-THE most stupendous of all leap.
ers of the sea-" says writer in Out
ing, "is the whale. | have seen a
monster weighing hundreds of tons,
possibly eighty feet in length, rise
slowly and deliberately out of the
water until it appeared to be dancing
on the surface, entirely clear of it,
then sink slowly back.
'Such a leap is on record in the
annals Of the British Navy. A large
whale cleared a boat, going COM
pletely over it, an estimated leap of
twenty feet in air-how many in a
lateral direction was not known.
Exactly how high tuna can leap
i. is difficult to say. I have seen the
water beaten into foam by them four
miles distant. and have a photograph
showing a fish-a black streak at
least a mile distant high in ARA
jump of certainly ten or fifteen feet;
and it is my opinion, based on what
| have seen, that it is possible for a
lusty tuna, az full speed to project
itself twenty feet into the air and
thirty or forty feet in horizontal
direction.
Il Judge the latter possible from
the leap of big tuna which cleared
the kelp and landed high on the rocks
at Santa Catalina. have often stood
in the centre of a school of leaping
tunas and watched them, but the sit
uation iss not one suggestive of re
pose or peace of mind"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03
why scotland,s soil i. Th,n,

An English golfer on a Scottish links
bit the turf ten times for every once
that he struck the ball. His caddie
yentured on sarcastic remonstrance.
"Ha' peety on aud Scotland. sir
said lie. she's suffered over eneuch
at the haunds o. yer countrymen in
the past that We sud treat her sac sain
the lay. Tit the ba', man. an let the
grun 'aiane."
"Confound Scotlandi" shouted the
exaspsrated golfer, fiinging down his
club In a rage. Its lust what DR.
Johnson described it-'stone. water
and q little EARTH"
Sac tie docther said that, did hep
lnon.red the caddie.
He did, and he was a very wise
man, let me tell YOU" snapped the En-
glishman-
Il believe We" retorted the caddie
Nae doot the docther was a yerra
wise man, for there Is muckle O. stane
an waiter in Scotlxnd-oor mountains
an lochs that ye come sac far tae seq
an It's sair Truth that the soil Ia No
vera deep Ye see. there's sic han.
tie o. English bodies comes tae s>ot.
land tae play gawf."-Glasgow Times
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03
HALF A MILLION A DAY.
That Is the Amount Which Chicago
Puts Into Stimulants.

Chicagos consumption Of stimulants is
amazing, according to correspondent.
The money spent in saloons alone totals
up between $120,000,000 and $130,00O,-
600 annually. At least $10,O0O,O00 more
is spent for stimulating drugs in the 900
drug stores in the city.
If tobacco can be classed as stimu-
liant it may be said that there are between
$4,000 and 10000 places in the city
where cigars and tobacco are sold. Proba-
bly, 100000 per day is not an exagger-
ated estimate for Chicago's smoking bill.
At the lowest estimate, taking alcoholic
beverages, tobaccos, and all manner OF
drugs into account, it is impossible to fig
ure that Chicago spends less than $780,
600 per day on stimulants of various
kinds, and the chances are the amount is
considerably higher.
OF this enormous sum, how much does
the worker spend? Fully IS per cent, If
all business men, officers of corporations,
and all men who work with hand or brain,
are included But for the worker, the
saloonkeepers themselves say, they would
have to close up shop in few days. The
remaining % per cent of the SoO0,OOO
must be set aside between women who
lead domestic lives and non-workers of all
kinds. Women perhaps are the heaviest
of all users of drugs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03
CIRCUS LESSONS.

Discipline is one of the spokes in the
circus system wheel, says a writer In
the Cosmopolitan. In the modern cir
Gus no swearing is allowed, as women
and children may hear it. Cards, dice
and drink are prohibited. This is not
the conception which the public holds
concerning circus people, but strength
and steady nerves are needed for cir
Gus feats, and dissipation of any kind
would soon leave the performers with
out n profession.
When a big American circus was
abroad the German Emperor came one
night lncognito and watched them I'M
load the fiat cars. Their system so Inn
pressed him that he had some of the
officers of the German army see 1t and
adopt some OF their methods
In landing the circus outfit the first
man there Is the 'layer-out" He gen.
orally decides in about ten minutes
where his tents are to be placed. As
the building of the white city proceeds,
everything seems to be In confusion, a
tangled mass. Men are running every
way; wagons seem to be dumping their
loads promiscuously but every wagon
is lettered or numbered. so is every box
or trunk, and all have their proper
places. This great tumble of wagons
groaning and creaking in the soft turf
and men shouting and singing Is all
working as one great whole to an end
But although they all work together
each man is taught to think for him
self. and when a man shows ability, he
is soon noticed. One instance ri this
was afforded by young man who was
studying medicine In the winter, anu
thought a season In the fresh air would
harden him for his next winters work.
The only job he could get was as a can
vas man. But he was able TO think for
himself. ami promotion soon came.
The circus child Is not taught BY
blows, but by kindness and patience.
and the circus management insists that
every child shan go to school In win
ter
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03
WHY HE WAS LATE.

The Mlkman's Baby Was Dying
A few days ago people on Linwood
boulevard who patronize certain
milkman missed his familiar before
breakfast ring. 1t was late in the
morning when he finally made the
rounds. And the women scolded.
9Th have to take milk from some
body elseI" one irate housewife snap
ped.
"All right, madam" he said softly
Something in his voice made her
pause.
what made you late?" she de-
manded, still angry.
A tear wavered on the milkman's
eye and trickled slowly down his
cheek.
"When-when l left home" he be-
gan.
He paused and gulped at something
in his throat.
when 1 left" he said, my baby
was dying: l knew some one
would be-angry-with me if l didn't
come. so r.
He could say nothing more. The
woman said gently:
I'm sorry"
Next day the milkman failed to
appear The second day he was
around very early.
eve buried her yesterday" was his
explanation.
No one chided him. They under.
stood.-Kansas City Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03
Ginger Growing in Texas.

Lock Don, the official Chinese in
terpreter Of the United States govern
ment here, may have the distinction
of introducing into Texas a new plant
which may open up very profitable
crop TO the people of Southwest
Texas. About a year ago, while in
San Francisco, Lock Don secured
some Jamaica ginger plants and
brought them to San Antonio and
planted them in his yard. The plants
grew and fourished, and examination
by experts in plant knowledge brings
out the fact that this section is ad.
mirably adapted for raising the plant
These facts were disclosed at a
meeting of the Business Mems Club
by Edward W Knox, president of the
State Horticultural Society, and Dr.
David Griffith. assistant agricuiturist
of Washington, D. G.
The success in raising the ginger
here will be communicated to Wash
ington, in order that the Consul In
China may secure cuttings from the
roots to plsut on the various govern
ment demonstration farms in South
west Texas San Antonio dispatch to
The Galveston News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03
Proats on Young Animals.

1t is a loss to keep an animal four
years If 1t can be gotten into market
when years old, for the years time
saved means labor and food, as well
as interest on capital invested. With
the use Of such beef producing breeds
as the Shorthorns, Herefords, Angus
and Galloways, an average of 1000
pounds per animal has been obtained
In four years, while 3-year-olds have
reached 1900 pounds, and 2-year-olds
1,200 pounds, the daily increase being
over two pounds for the yearlings up
to 2 years old, and from one and one
half pounds to one and three-fourths
pounds for older animals. The live
weights only are given, but animals
have dressed 6615 per cent when In
prime condition
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03


In constructing nest boxes there are
several points that should be kept con-
stantly in mind, writes a poultryman.
l. The box should be of such q
form that 1t can be readily cleaned and
thoroughly dislnfected. If it is NOV
able so that 1t can be taken out OK
doors so much the better.
2. 1t should be placed in e. Dark
place, or where there is only Jus. suffi-
cient light for the fowl to dis inguish
the nest and nest egg.
3. There should be plenty ct room
on two or three sides of the nest. 1t
is a well-known fact that some hens,
no matter how many vacant nests inay
be available, will persist In going ON to
a nest already occupied. If the nest
is so placed that 1t can be approached
only from one side, when one hen is
driving another from the nest there Is
likely to be more or less of a combat,
the result Of which is often a broken
egg. This, perhaps, more than any one
thing, leads to the vice OF gg-eating.
To the writer's knowledge the habit Of
eggeating Is not contracted where the
nests are placed In The dark and open
on two or three sides
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03
RAISING TREES FOR TIES.
RAILROADS Taking Steps to Offset De
pIetion of the Forests.

RAILROADS Taking Steps to Offset De
pIetion of the Forests.
E. A. Sterling, Forester OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad. has just re-
turned from an inspection of the
large wood-preserving plants in the
Far West. He reports that with the
growing scarcity of timber for ties
and other railroad lumber the large
Western railroad systems are going
into tree planting and wood preserv-
ing on large scale.
Western railroads." said Mr.. SteI~
ling in talking of his trip through the
West, "are now treating large per-
centage of their ties. piling, and con-
structing timber with cEeosote and
other oils.
in addition to treating the timber
the Santa Fe is planting eucal yptus
trees on a 9,00O-acre tract near San
Diego, Cal. The timber manager OF
this company has seen sent to Aus
tralia. to look up new species of trees.
THE Southern Pacific operates two
plants at West Oakland, CAL, one at
Houston, Texas, and another at Los
Angeles, CAL Red fir and pine are be.
ing treated. In the Northwest the
Oregon Railway & Navigation main
tains a zinc chloride and creosoting
plant at Wyeth, Oregon, while COM
mercial plants are located on Puget
Sound
ssrrhor. 80 c+;l1 v,,ob divorcitv of
opinion as to the best process of
treating timber, but one marked tend
ency is the use. of creosote instead
of such chemicals as zinc chloride.
AS a protection against a possible
diminution of lumber for railroad ties
i'm the future the Pennsylvania Rail.
road has undertaken large tree plant
ing operations since the appointment
of a Forester. Work upon largo
basis is progressing at Mount Union,
Penn, where about 225,0OO trees have
been planted At Altoona 100000 or
more red oak trees were set out last
Spring. At Hollidaysburg forest
nursery" is being created, about 135
pounds of seed being planted this
year in nursery beds, and many trees
being set in nursery rooms for use
next year
With the planting of last Spring
the Pennsylvania Railroad has about
1000 acres under cultivation. About
2,25O,000 trees have been set out, in
addition to the seed planted. The
planting is being carried on with great
attention to scientific detail.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03
Good Food for the Chickens.


The poultry department of the Con-
necticut Agricultural College, managed
by Professor G. X. Graham, finds a
very successful soft food Is made up
of 30 per cent oornmeal, SO per cent
ground oats, including hulls, % per
cent low-grade -four, and The balance
of bran. 1t Is mixed with ckm milk
to soft dough and fed as much an
will be eaten up quickly. When skim
milk cannot be had, beef scraps and
water are used, but with less salts
factory results. To get good grade
OF oat feed, Professor Graham finds It
desirable to buy whole oats and take
them to the mill to be ground, thus
avoiding the excess OF bulls which are
found In most of the boughten feeds.
Regularity In feeding, he finds, more
Important than commonly believed.
Birds, like people, he finds, soon learn
to look for meals at certain hours, and
thrive better If fed at the regular time
This food Is of special value In finish
Ing chickens for market, causing them
to put on very fine quality of texture
of flesh desirable for the choice pri-
vate trade. Where the result is merely
to produce most weight without regard
to texture, he considers 1t doubtful
whether any grain will give results
equal to whole corn.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03

There is no better way to preserve
apples for long keeping III an ordi-
nary house cellar than to pack them
"a oats. Choose none but the perfect
fruit Of your choicest varieties. See
that each apple Is sound clear through.
Put layer of oats In clean bar
rel and on this single layer Of ap-
Piles. so laid in that they hardly touch
one another Add another layer of
oats, then apples again and continue
until the barrel Is full when II can be
headed up. Barrels packed In this
way should be left in the barn or in
some tight outbuiIding until the APP
proach OF winter weather. 1t will take
low temperature to inJure them.
When there Is danger Of their freezing
move the barrels into the cellar and
leave them until wanted.
The secret of their keeping Is that
the oats absorb any excess OF moisture
and keep the apples In an even tenn
perature. Even Il one app.e should
rot It would not affec. its .s,osrest
nelzhbor. When the apples are taken
out for use the oats can DO fed to
poultry or other stock
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03
SUBSCRIBING CUPID.
Chicago Women Unionists Are In
Favor of a Marriage DowrY.

Favor of Marriage Dowry.
A capitalistic cupid. with love darts in
the form of $500 dowries and working
girls as his targets, Is the latest sugges-
ton as an antidote for rsce suicide. Cupid
is to be an agent for labor unions il
these ideas are carried out. 1t was adj
vocated by eighty women workers belong
ing to unions. who assembled at Hull
House, in Chicago, a few days ago.
The gathering was one of the first
three, held simultaneously, in this coun-
try. Another was at New York and the
third at Boston. 1t was Miss S. r.
Breckenridge, assistant dean of women at
the University of Chicago, who suggested
the dowry idea.
I'VE believe in this PLAN" declared
Miss Breckenridge. 1T places the mar
riage question upon a serious basis.
Unions have their death and sick benefits
and marriage benefit or dowry would be
in order. If a woman unionist is going
to be married she must be taught it IS
serious undertaking, but, at the same
time, plan that is favored by the or
1.-The experience she acquires by being
q r7ioaist and wage Garner will enable
her to spend money wisely after she is
married. She will also learn that when
her husband works and brings his wages
home to her she must also bear her share
of the burden. 1t has been suggested here
that women workers who marry, some
times return to their old tasks. 1t would
appear to me that if matrimony is not a
gainful employment it ought to be-"
'sThe plan of giving a dowry to q wom-
an when she marries is now il vogue
among English and German unions" de-
clarei Mrs. Raymond Robins, who acted
as chairman of the conference.
There were others present who thought
that a stipulated sum of 500 or $500
should be given to a woman wage Garner
when she becomes a matron by the labor
organization with which she has been
identified
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03
TO Measure Corn An CRIB.

1t Is usual to calculate a bushel of
ear corn in the Grip as two and one
half cubic feet in volume. In Profess
sor c. s. Plumbs book on Indian
Germ Culture" he gives this rule for
measuring corn in the crib: Multiply
the length, breadth and height Of the
crib together In feet to obtain the cubic
feet of space 1t contains Multiply this
product by 4, strike Off the right-hand
figure, and the result will be the mum
Der Of shelled bushels
1t will be observed that this rule
really figures two and one-hsif cubic
feet of the ear corn as equal to a
bushel, says A. NJ Ten Eyck In Kan
sas bulletin 147 on Indian Corn" II
is only approximately correct to cal
culate the number Of bushels Of corn
III the crib in this way. II the corn IL
dry and sound. 1t will usually pay the
seller to weigh the corn rather than to
sell 1t by measure.
II the corn is shelled, fifty-six pounds
Us a legal bushel, but with ear corn
the weights inquired Tor DuSnel vary
according to the dryness OK the corn-
1t Is usual to allow seventy pounds Ok
ears for bushel OF sheIled corn IL tho
corn Is dry and sound, Sat when
husked and hauled from the field corn
often contains high percentage Of
moisture, and the weight required for
bushel often varies at husklng time
and during the fall and early winter
from seventy-fve to eighty or ninety
pounds. Doubtless. also, u new corn
y sold In the crib by measure It would
Be fair to allow 5 to 10 per cent greater
volume for the measured bushel. say
two and nve-eights to two and three
quarter cubic feet
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03

SHOE PoIIsHER- truction- It consists
Of plate, to which is hinged flexible
support for the shoe. This support Ii
oraced by har hinged to the plate. The
stand can be secured to the kitchen
wall at any point desired, and when not
being used occupies very little space.
Hooks are provided for supporting
brushes, etc, where they can be readily
grssped. and holder placed ADORE thu
shoe for the box OF blacking. This shoe
blacking stand Is so simple In construc-
lion that any one can make It
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03
DO YOU KNOW YOUR GRocERp
He Respect. the Woman Who II
Hard to Please.

He Respect. the Woman Who Is
Hard to Please.
Under the title, do You Know Your
Grocer" the editor Of Woman's Home
Companion makes this comment:
There are a few of the intimate de
tails OF his business life which our
obllging grocer does not wish you to
know. And that is why he sends a so
licitor TO your kitchen door every
morning. why he assures you that your
children will be served as honestly and
promptly as yourself. and why he is
highly elated when you put in a tele-
phone and join his list OF telephone
customers
1.-THE telephone and the order clerk
or solicitor have probably done more
to XIII the housewifely instinct In
women and further the ends Of care
less or INSCRIPTIONS grocers than any
other labor-saying household institu-
ton OF the century. Ever the most
competent Of housekeepers can always
find one thing more 10 do at home
and when the solicitor takes such g
friendly interest In her needs and what
her family likes. or the telephone can
be used without changing from the
house frock to street suit, she is very
apt to drop the habit Of marketing. A
New York grocer established one year
In q new and prosperous residence dis
triee thus summed up his trade:
1--WE must make special appeal for
the telephone and solicited trade, be
cause our store and stan OF clerks Is
not large enough TO accommodate Gus
toners II they called every day to mar
ket- Two-thirds OF our trade Is Sc
cured either by telephone or by solicit
Ing. and the women never come TO the
store except when they happen to be
passing on some other errand. or when
| there is some mistake In the bill Yet
It takes half our clerks to wait on the
remaining one third Of the trade
women who come here every day. and
who waste our time picking over goods,
changing their minds waiting for
change. deciding between this brand
| and that
-Thsn you DO not care fer tAs wen
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03

ton expects be in dollars. No other
that which carries the dollar sign with 1t is
considered Efforts which not worth the dollar
efforts not worth expanding. Somebody made
million dollars in certain line of work-that is
whiei Some else has a salary of 100000 year
to show for his progresswhat the chances there?
To him there chance in life that Is not measured by
the possibilities of money above the necessities of simple
living.
Andrew Carnegie is an example of the worlds master
of millions Carnegie will not allow the mention of death
in his presence IL he escape it. You young men
who your hopes in life for the accumulation of
a million dolars-have you any idea of how many mil
lions this Carnegie might give you In exchange for
your youth merely?
What can it mean when the master of men and
lions in his old age will not suffer reference to death
In his presence? Simply that in this old he is
Tossing to frultlessness of his past life. 1t is
fesson his failure in finding those things in life
which should have rpened him. mellowed him given
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03

SECRETARY TAFT goods properly or send them out IN the
sizes desired by the Chinese but this sunnecked lack
of business sense disappearing slowly and our mer
chants are becoming aroused to the Importance Of his
trade which has grown without government encourage
ment and which has great future.
There is no reason complain Of this governmental
Indifference The United States and the other powers
favor the open door and If they wise they will
courage the empire take long steps in administrative
and governmental reform the development Of the re
sources China the Improvement of the welfare Of
the people
To do this will add to China's strength and posi-
ton as elfrespecting government and aid her In pre-
pairing resist possible foreign aggression In the seek
ing Of undue and exclusive proprietary privileges Thus
foreign aid will be required enforce the door
and the policy of equal opportunity for all
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03

low. This can be done fairly aeon
rately by examining their teeth. OF
course. the care and management and
feed modify things to some extent, but
until the sheep is years old its aga
can be very nearly estimated. At o.
near the age of year the two middle
permanent incisors appear. These can
be distinguished from the lamb teeth
by their shape and size, the lamb teeth
being smaller with narrower crowns
AT 2 years Of age, or thereabouts, the
second pair, one tooth on each side Of
the first pair, comes in. AT 3 years Of
age the third pair, one tooth on each
side of the second pair, appear, and
when the sheep Is 4 years old 1t has q
full mouth of teeth, four pairs OF Inc
cisors. 1t is needless to say that the
sheep does not have incisors, front
teeth, in the upper jaw. When a sheep
has full mouth it is safe to say that
1t Is at least or years of age, after
which its age can only be guessed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03

an who want to see what she buys for
her family to eat?
THE man had saving sense of hu-
NOR. and replied:
I can't say that we really care for
her-but l don't mind adding that we
respect her."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-03
The Ifmt.

Riggs-You don't seem to be paving
as much attention to Miss Glggleton As
you did and she's such popular lady
too what's the matterl
Griggs-I got enough. 1 didn't mind
her popularity so much. but III bs
hanged II I'll stand for mimeograph
love letters with my name nned ir
from any female on earth Toledo
Blade