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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-30
WILD CAT A BABY's PET.
Caught in the WIds, but Is Now as
Tame as Ordinary Tabby.

Tame as Ordinary Tabby.
How would you like to have real
live cat for a pet? This is what little
Elsie Stearns, six months old, and
Helen Stearns, aged nine, daughters
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Stearns, of
$40 North Los Robes avenue, Pas
adena, regard as their dearest treas
ure, says the Los Angeles Times.
They would rather play with this
big California wildcat than with their
smaller domestic cats, and he is just
as good-natured as any Of the rest,
too.
Bengal is his name, and he looks
the part, for his marking is very sim
liar to a Bengal tigers. He is a
beautiful animal, about three and a
half feet long, and very heavy. His
fur is soft and thicK, and it is with
this soft fur that the ro1nd-faced
baby loves best to play.
He was caught when three months
old in the wilds of the San Bernard
inc Mountains, and purchased from
hunter at that age by Mr.. Stearns.
He has been with the family since
that time. He was put right with
several Angora kittens, but he has
grown too large for that now, and
they are obliged to keep him in the
open, for, in his playfulness, he might
break ornaments and dishes.
He is now three years old and
powerful, yet as gentle as an ordi-
nary cat He is devoted to the chill
dren. He will lick the baby's hand
and face and let her play with him
just as roughly as she wishes, with
never a growl or sound, and he is
also fond of Miss Helen. He likes
women and children generally, but
does not care for men. Mr.. Stearns
says the reason for this is that he
has been obliged to take Mr.. Bengal
during the summer and shake him up
in a bag of insect powder to rid him
Of fleas. Bengal regards this as a
decided insllt to his dignity, and
thinks all men must be responsible
for it. He usually growls at them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-30
TIBET ACCESSIBLE.
Now Open to Commerce and Travel
Natives Wakino Up.

NATIVES waxing Up.
Consul-General William H. Michael
of Calcutta, finds that good deal
Of interest is evinced on the part of
both Hindoo and Mohammedan ira
ders, particularly the latter, in OPP
portunities of trade in Tibet, concern
ing which he writes:
There is no opposition manifested
by Tibetans to traders, who are now
passing freely between Calcutta and
Lhasa. The bulk of the trade thus
far is not much, but is on the in
crease. In a conversation with a
Tibetan civil officer, who talks very
good English and whose business is
to suppress illicit distilling. which is
carried on in the Himalayan Noun
tains much after the fashion of Amer
lean 'moonshiners,' | learned that
there is reilly an eagerness on the
part of the masses in Tibet to know
more of the outside world and to
trade with the white people, Tie
little light they have makes them
hungry for more, and it is quite rea-
sonable to conclude that they will be
gratified The Mohammedan traders
of Lhasa are the most active in
bringing out articles for sale, and
their brethren are most active in
carrying articles for trade. Many Eu-
ropeans are making inquiries of the
officials at the British trade agency
at Gyantse as to the safety of trade
efforts in Lhasa. They have been told
that conditions are reassuring; that
the relations with the Inhabitants are
excellent, and that everywhere the
greatest civility is met with. 1t may
be expected, therefore, that it will
store will be in OF grafton in Lhasa
under the management of an enter
prising Briton, anless some keen
American gets in ahead
in referring to the trade aspects
of the situation, the British trade
agent at Gyantee says: Indian mer-
chants have not so far shown any
great inclination to avail themselves
OF the right of access to Gyantse de-
rived from the Lhasa convention He
says, however, there are evidences of
no unmistakable character that i'm
portant trade relations will soon be
opened up between Lhasa and the
outside world The way to Lhasa is
by way of the Eastern Bengal C OAR
jiling Railway to Darjiling, the ter
minus of the road, and then on pony
back and pack animals through the
Jelap Pars into the Chumbi Valley
and on to Lhasa The Chumbi Valley
is only about twenty miles from the
Pars, and is now garrisoned by a
British force. Formerly it was held
by a Chinese force, which was al
ways in the way of the advance of
a European going into Tibet.
Much work will have to be done
and much money expended before a
practicable wagon road will be avail
able connecting Darjiling, the railway
terminal on the southern side of the
Himalayas, with the capital of Tibet.
Yet it will be constructed in good
time, and | would not be surprised
to see the narrow-gauge road, which
does much excellent service in carry
ing passengers and freight up the
Himalayas to a point 5000 feet above
sea level, pushed on into Tibet to
meet the demands of trade. 1t would
be no more difficult as an engineer
ing triumph than the ascent from
the plains to the Darjiling heights. =
United States Consular Reports.
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TOOK HIS DIcTATION.
And Then Got Work as His Stenog-
rapher.

ana men 1oL WOTk as tbs SLenO9-
rapher.
She was riding into the city on the
morning train, in search of a posi-
ton as stenographer. Having seen
the large, ford man in the seat in
front of her cut an advertisement
from his newspaper and put it away
in his pocketbook, she was just curl
Gus enough to look up the correspond
ing place in her own paper. Finding
there an advertisement for a stenog-
rapher, she noted down the address
and thanked her feminine curiosity.
She then turned to her pencil and
notebook. 1t seemed as if, practise
as she might, she never could keep
her speed up to one hundred words
minute. She tried copying from the
newspaper, but the motion of the car
made the words dance before her
eyes 1ntil they hurt her. She tried
making up sentences as she went
along, and failed. Finally she resort
ed to taking down the incessant chat
ter of two women behind her, but
their talk was often drowned in the
disturbances of a number of young
people still further back, who were
riotously noisy.
The young lady struggled with a
trade on the servant-girl problem,
timing herself by the distance be-
tween stations-two minutes from
Sherwood to Sherwood Corners; could
she do two hundred words? AS her
hand dashed madly over the page, a
large wad of newspaper flew past her
and struck the ford man in the neck
The laughter behind subsidized into
dismayed giggles.
Slowly the large man turned his in
jured neck. He was redder than ever
as he started to speak. The words
fell from his lips, hot but distinct,
swiftly but smoothly. He was telling
the boisterous young people seven
seats back what he thought of them.
The young woman with the pencil
saw her chance, and took it. Here
was glorious dictation. Her pencil
flew. The speech lasted minute
and half, and was cut short then
only by the arrival of the train at
the terminal The stenographer slap
ped her book shul with comfortable
feeling of having done even better
than hundred words per minute, and
set OF in sesfch of her position
When she arrived at the address
she had noted down she was ushered
into a private Office. where sat the
man of the speech. She stammered
a little until she saw that he did not
recognize her. His mind had been
full of bigger things. Then she
smilingiy told him her errand.
do you. think you can take my die
taton?" he said, frowning.
Eyes, sir"
what makes yo1 think so? talk
very fast"
but very distinctly, sir" She pro-
duced her notebook and laid it open
before him. Here's a sample" She
began to read her notes.
His jaw dropped. There was his
masterpiece of the train, complete and
unabridged 1t really sounded very
well, so full Of fire.
When she finished he looked at her
sharply. His face was very red but
his eye twinkled-
THE jobs yours" he said, in a
subdued voice-Youth's Compaaion-
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A Dying Gins.

In the glass collection at the Alu.
scum Of Art in Dresden, Germany,
there is a large drinking cup which
stands apart from all other art objects
under heavy glass case. 1t is Of
Dutch workmanship, and the inscrip-
lions and style show that it was made
early IN the eighteenth century. The
vessel is remarkable because it is
known in the museum, says a Berlin
paper, "as having consumption which
can be communicated to other objects
of glass. on that account it is isolated.
There are remedies against this glass
disease, which is usually developed be-
cause of defects in the glass mixture.
but these have not been applied to the
Dutch vessel in order that the progress
Of the wasting disease may be OBJ
served"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-30
THE HUMANE BURMESE.
viii Not Kill Animals for Food
Snakes, Scorpions and Insects
Spared.

Modern society boasts of its organ
izations for preventing cruelty to ami
mails as the outcome of civilization.
Across the water is an undeyeloped
country of kindness. Protection of
ell life is as natural to the Burman
as is his breath. To be merciful to
the beast is no half way precept with
him, and the little child responds to
it as readily as the average English
speaking boy gives action to his i'm
pulse to stone squirrel or Kill a
snake. Yet there may be drawbacks
to living in a country where all liy-
ing creatures are respected after the
manner Mr. Fielding describes in
THE Soul of a People"
Never were any people so kind
hearted as the Burmese, so hospftable,
SO charitable in act and thought, and
so gentle with all animals.
All butchers in Burma are Indian
born; no Burman will kill COW or
bullock, or sell meat There is no
law now against such practice, but
no respectable native will kill for
food, sport or revenge. Fowl and
fish are, indeed, sacrificed for eating
purposes, but every one despises the
fisherman; he is a sort of outcasts
and the Staying of fowl is done re-
luctantly
A Burmese lady married an Eng
lishman who kept ducks for his own
table. One day she went on visit
to friend, and took every duck with
her, bestowing them on various house
holds where she knew they would be
allowed to live and be treated with
kindness. Then she returned and
confessed to her husband that she
could not bear the thought of their
being killed.
Mr.. Fielding was much troubled by
the house sparrows which infested
the roof Finally, in desperation, he
shot at them with rifle. His neigh
bors demonstrated.
You should build a sparrow COTE"
they said, when he tried to excuse
himself. Then they would leave you
III POdNCs 1nOS Ollly w duI " lldhC
nests for their little ones.'
If a Burmese woman walking in
the fields should see a scorpion, she
would not think of killing it.
Poor beast" she would say STEP
ping aside so as to not injure it.
1T has never hurt me, why should
hurt it?"
If an insect is troublesome in the
house, the Burman will carefully
catch it in his handkerchief and put
it out doors. 1t is hard to get the
servants to rid the house of ants.
They will kill che most deadly of vip-
ers, but even many of the poisonous
snakes they will not slaughter.
Mr.. Fielding met once two little
boys carrying jar and seemingly
much interested in its contents. He
asked what was in the jar, and they
showed him lot of baby vipers.
They had CHANGED to find the nest
when the mother was absent-she
woIld have killed the lads had she
been there-and they had secured all
the little snakes.
What are you going to do with
them?" asked Mr. Fielding.
'Show them in the village"
'And them"
why, let them go, of course"
If an animal is i'll or hurt the Bur
man gives it the best of care, but
never kills it to put it out of mis-
cry.
Poor beast" he says. LET him
live his little life," and he gives it
grass and water until it dies.-Youth's
Companion.
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fifty things that can't
the general welfare would need
fortunate than
inclination
letter would
exactly with
inyeter ate
respectable beside the chain
letters,
partaking
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rampage of general misdemeanor, and
with the expenses of the family Verg
ing upon the last straw that broke the
camel's back, than to run to meet the
postman vaguely hoping for letter of
good tidings. and receive chain letter.
Dear Friend" this missive begins,
"pdease make a half-dozen copies of
this" ETC., ending with the gentle re-
quest for dime to assist poor widow
to buy a little home, or an ambitious
girl to continue her education.
Having just refused ones own child
a coveted nickel with which to pur-
chase chewing gum, and being at the
moment trying to divide 80 cents in
such a manner as to get 60 cents worth
of groceries, one cannot at once get sin
touch" with the chain letter.
Being of a somewhat iconoclastic
turn myself, 1 do not find it at all diff
cult to break the chain without cere-
mony but there are soft-hearted people
who hesitate do so, and rob themselves
of much needed dimes, not to mention
the matter of infictlng upon six de
fenseless friends the six copies of the
chain letter.
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unpeeIed Fowls.

A philadelphia settlement worker
tells o. two fresh air fund children
who sazed in some wonder at a num-
Der Of live chickens running about the
place in the country to which the
youngsters were taken.
Haven't you ever seen chickens
befofe?" asked the kind woman in
charge of the expedition.
eOh. yes. mum. answered the ED.
est child knowingly. we seen lots
Of EN-: only ii was after they was
peeled. -Harper's Weekly.
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ArithmeticaI Hi.torx

A teacher was lnstructing a class Of
young pupils in history, says a writer
in the Philadelphia Bulletin. She ask
ed one of them how many wars Eng
land fought with Spain.
six the little girl answered
"Six." repeated the teacher. Emu
merate them, please"
Zone, two, three, four, FIVE, SIX" said
the little girl, cheerfully and conf
IDENTIFY.
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snrmounting AM ob.tac1e.

do you know the poet was asked,
there Is no rhyme for month";"
Get OUT" he responded What's the
matter with this:
"a note is made for thirty days,
And sometimes the indorser paysf"
whats that got to do with it,"
"Why, You chump, thirty days Is a
month Philadelphia Ledger.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-30

Live sponges furnish homes for
oysters, mussels, crabs and other
small animals, which often Eve in
the sponges their entire lifetime.
Sometimes the creatures grow too
large to get out, remaining until they
die.
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Annnrent TO All.

Miss Mugley-I always thy to retire
before midnight. 1 don't Ike TO miss
my beauty sleep.
Miss Peppery-You really should try
harder. You certainly don't get enough
NJ it-Pbiladelphia Ledger.
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ue;re.x TO 100000, 900.

Sonora Creel, wife OF the Mexican
ambassador to the United States, Is
the richest woman Of the diplomatic set
in Washington. She is the daughter
and heiress OF General Terrazza OF
chihuahua. whose wealth Is estimated
at s20O, DOC, 600.
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Aging.

MARY Ellen Lease says men have
not improved any since the days of
Adam"
MARY Is older than l thought
Houston Post.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-30

The life of the mercury arc lamp IN
some cases amounts to 1000 hours aid
more. The conducting material Of tie
anode is either mercury alone, grapl-
tie and iron, or nickel.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-30

Mrs Florence Elizabeth Maybrick.
who spent fifteen years of her life In
an English prison on the charge of hav-
ing poisoned her husband, Is touring
the United States studying penlten-
tiaries and State institutions. Mrs.
Maybrick, after her awful experience
in the English prison, considers her
self consecrated to the work of advanc-
ing prison reform. She has visited many
prisons In this country and lauds In
the highest terms the industrial work
that is carried on in them. AT one time
a petition with 100000 names attached
was sent to the English authorities ask
ing for Mrs. Maybrick's release.
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mighsier than the Gun.

Rupert-When your brother WI
camping out did he kill anything?
Hubert-Yes. nearly everybody. Z
wa the cook London Tit BitA
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nothing delightful after particularly naggng when the wheels
Of the domestic machinery children
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The Blue Mountain Forest Associa-
ton of Newport, n. H., has shipped a
carload OF deer to Pennsylvania All
the deer were taken from the associa.
tons park.
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The heaviest cat in Thomaston,
Conn, is owned by Willard p Barto.
1t recently tipped the scales at twenty
four and one-haif pounds.
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Legend OF the Poppy Plant.

The poppl plant has been known to
man from time immemoriaL 1t did not
make its appearance in the flora of
China until about the eighth century of
the Christian era. But the beginning
of the fifteenth century. opium began
to be introduced in considerable guam
titles. and the Chinese government en-
couraged home production. BY the mid
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-21
NEED OF FARM LABOR.
(Senator Latimer of S. c.

(Senator Latimer of S. c.
"The matter of immigration is not
only of vital Importance to the whole
nation, but to us of the south, it is of
extraordinary interest"
For that reason l appreciate being
member Of the commission author
lied to examine into conditions both
here and in Europe. The senatorial
members of the commission are Sena-
tors Lodge, Dillingham; and myself;
from the house are Messrs. Howell, of
New Jersey, Bennett, of New York,
and Burnett, of Alabama Then there
are to be three commissioners from
private life, to be named by the presi-
dent. I do not know just when we
will meet to form our organization,
but we will be compelled to await the
presidents action in the matter of ap-
''My opinion is that the majority of
southern people are anxious to secure
labor from foreign countries if We can
get the right sort of immigrants.
Perhaps an influx of Europeans
will help us to solve the negro ques-
ton in the south. In my state we
have 0,000 negroes, as against some
thing more than 100000 whites. be-
lieve the proportion is about the same
in Mississippi. All over the south the
cry is for more labor. The negroes
are deserting the farms, preferring
life in the towns or seeking employ
ment in railroad or lumber camps. I
was obliged to let a considerable
amount of land go uncultivated this
year because of the inability to Sc
cure farm laborers."
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-21
IMMIGRATION COMMISSION.

Congress authorized the appoint
ment of a commission of nine to study
and report the immigration situation
both in this country and in Europe.
This commission is to consist of three
senators, three members of the house
of representatives and three civilians
to be named by the president Sena-
tor McLaurin, Of Mississippi, was COM
PEELED by home affairs to decline
place on the commission, and so Sena-
tors Dillingham;, of Vermont, Lodge, of
Massachusetts and Latimer, of South
Carolina, were named The house
commissioners are Howell, of New
Jersey, Bennett, of New York, and
Burnett, of Alabama. The president
has not yet announced the three ap-
pointments he is to make. When he does
he is to name their salaries. The ex-
penses of the congressional members
of the commission will be paid, and it
is expected that the commission will
visit every country in Europe from
which immigrants come to us.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-21
A NEW FARMERS UNION.
(Chicago Journal.)

\CuICdSO JOuTudI.)
Former attempts to unionize the
farmers of the United States have
generally ended in politics and
disaster. The Grange and the
Farmers Alliance, while they lasted,
had some power, but they passed
away as soon as politicians began to
control them.
The Farmers Union" recently
born in Texas, and now numbering
nearly 100000 members, is organized
on different lines. Instead of trying
to force down the prices of goods
they buy, its members aim to get bet
ter prices for what they SELL They
aim, by cutting out middlemen in both
buying and selling, to get the best
possible prices for farm products.
The new Farmers Union" is alli-
ed with the labor organizations Of the
various states and with the American
Federation of Labor. The union is
strongest as yet in the south and west,
but If present gains continue for a
year there will be 100000 organized
farmers in America, or nearly so per
cent of the entire farming population.
This is perhaps the first time that
farmers have entered the ranks of
union labor for the avowed purpose of
forcing up prices. The theory of the
new union is that if working men, in
all branches of industry, receive high
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-21
ENDORSED IN LOUISIANA.
Hardshell, La, March 8. 100

Hardshell, La, March 8, 1907.
Hardshell, F. e. G. Union No. 1876
met in regular session and the follow
ing resolution was offered by A. M.
Nichols, our lecturer:
We, the Farmers Union of Hard
shell Union, No. 1885, of Vernon par
ish, La, do most heartily endorse the
great speech made by that most wor-
thy son of Georgia, Hon. Thomas e.
Watson, in Atlanta on the night Of
January %, 1907.
Resolved, first, That We also most
heartily appreciate and hail with joy
his willingness to cooperate with uS
and help us in our strenuous efforts
to throw off the chains of slavery
which bind the toiling millions to the
moneyed oIigarchy Of Wall street,
New York City
Second, That we know we have in
Mr.. Watson a friend that has been
weighed and not found wanting.
Third, That we believe that it
would be a blessing to every farmer
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-21
THE FEED OF A HORSE.
CDR. Butler, of Raleigh.)

DR.. Butler: can average ration for
a thousand pound horse doing very
hard work, is about Is pounds of grain
and 12 to Is pounds of hay Instead
of Is pounds of fodder and Is founds
of corn, would take pounds of pea
vine hay and to pounds of stover,
and then add 10 pounds of corn and
pounds Of cotton seed meal, and get
better results. If l had oats to feed
and had some peavine hay or clover
hay, do not think l would feed any
cotton seed meal at all, because it is
bad to feed unless you can mix it with
something else. If / did not have any
peavine or clover hay, would certain
ly put some cotton seed meal in the
ration of hard working horse, unless
l had plenty of oats, and they were
cheap"
This is important testimony from
the highest authority, and should in
terest every farmer and horse owner
in the south. We send thousands of
dollars into the northwest every year
for corn. We send into the northwest
every year thousands of dollars worth
of our cotton seed meal. Nobody is
benefited by this but the railroads.
If we keep our cotton seed meal at
home to feed it will help us, and DR..
Butler says it will help our horses
and DR.. Butler knows.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-21
LOW FARES IN WISCONSIN.

Madison, Wis.-The state railway
commission has handed down a deci-
sion in the two cent railroad fare
question. 1t is ordered by the COM
mission that the railways in the state
give a fiat two and one-half cent pas
senger fare, and it is recommended
that family mileage books Of 500 miles
be issued for $40.
The last legislature enacted a law
creating the state railway commission
with power to fix rates and regulate
service. The decision just handed
down Is the result of an extended
hearing before the state railway COM
mission, during which time represen-
tatives Of the various railways operat-
ing in Wisconsin have appeared be-
fore the commission, when the ques-
tons of rates and service were thor
oughly reviewed.