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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-01-12

The oldest building in England that has been
used for church purposes is st.
Martins Cathedral at Canterbury. The build
ing was originally erected for church, and has
been regularly used as place for religious gath
arinps for more than 500 years
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16

Prof. W. NJ. Hays, assistant secre-
tary of agriculture, is urging the es-
tablishment of agricultural high
schools In farming districts, and there
Il no doubt but that such schools VIII
become a powerful educational factor
in the near future
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
The Whale n Mystery.

Man knows but little about the
whale, although lie has been pursuing
this greatest of animals for over 1000
years. Anciently when natural his
tories contained so much fabulous lore
that they might be classed as fiction
whales were described as $50 feet long
and 100 tons in weight. The extreme
length reached by the sulphur bottom
whale, the largest animal that lives or
has ever lived, is about 50 feet The
whales spouting or blowing occurs
with its ordinary act of breathing out;
the whale breathes in air at far longer
intervals than the land animals. When
it rises to the surface for a fresh sup
ply it expels forcibly from its lungs
the air taken In at the last Inspiration
This condenses in the cold atmosphere
and forms a column of steam or spray.
Originally only the oil of whales was
used, and much of this was wasted by
extravagant methods. And the tremen-
dous carcasses were left to drift. Now
adays the flesh and bones are used for
fertilizer, the viscera for leather, and
scraps for glue, and the whole whale is
used up in 4S hours
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
Interesting News Items.

Roy Nonkin OF Peabody, Kan, was
drowned in Big Sugar creek. He had
gone there with party of fishermen.
The 10-year-old son of William Larner.
living near Dill, o. T., was instantly
killed in trying to stop runaway team.
While handling a 5-year-old stallion
at mis- farm near Laredo, Mo-, Levi
Rench, a prominent stock breeder, was
knocked down and badly trampled and
bitten by the vicious animal.
Sixteen cars of meat for Fort Worth.
Texas, were wrecked on the Missouri.
Kansas and Texas railroad near Paola.
Kan. The wreck is supposed to have
been caused by gang of tramps.
F. D. Coburn. secretary of the Kan
sas State board of agriculture, has ac-
cepted an invitation to address the New
York State Agricultural Society next De
eember. They want him to talk on al
falfa.
4 State meeting for the organization
Of Kansas branch Of the American
Federation of Labor has been called for
Topeka, Aug. -. Is and IA, by Henry
Walker. general organizer.
Five persons were hurt and consid-
erabie amount Of property damaged in a
cloudburst that struck Kingston. Texas.
Walls. awnings and poles were blown
down and the streets flooded.
A loaded wagon ran over the 5-year-
old son Of Grant James at Goltry. o. T.
crushing his head and killing him in
stantiy. The boy leaned over the dash
board to whip the horses and lost his
balance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
WISCONSIN SOLONS.
Insurance bins Are Passed.


After a spirited discussion the Senats
passed eight important bills placing in
creased restrictions on the business O..
life Insurance companies in Wisconsin
Two more bills of the same nature we're
killed. All of these measures had previ-
ously passed the lower house. The big
life companies have been fighting these
bills for four months, and the passage o.
the most important of them is hard
blow TO the companies. The eight bills
passed are as follows:
Increases the taxes Of the Northwest
ern Mutual Life of Milwaukee from 2 to
3 per cent on gross receipts from all
sources except rentals from real estate.
Defines certain words and phrases used
in insurance laws.
AboliShes proxies and gives policy hold
ers the right to vote by mail or in person.
Limits the premium that may be charg.
ed and provides that not more than ona-
third of such premium shall be devoted to
expenses.
Limits the total annual expenses of
company to the sum of the amounts thas
it is permitted to levy on all policies for
expenses.
Limits the salary or compensation
which the Northwestern Mutual of Mil
waukee can pay to any one officer or enl-
ploye to $4,000 year.
Provides for the ascertainment and
apportionment of deferred dividend sur
plus and reports thereon to policy hold
ers. Il
Provides for an annual apportionmens
and distribution of surplus and reports
thereon to policy holders.
One of the bills killed provided for
minimum standard of mortality. limited
the rate of interest to be assumed ans
prescribed conditions for the issuing OF
policies and the valuation of them The
other required companies to place in their
policies a table showing for each year the
provision for expenses and for death
claims and the balsnce held as deposit or
reserve.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
Parole system for Criminals.

At the recent National Congress of
Charities and Corrections at Minneapolis
a most interesting paper was read by
Harris R. Cooley, director of public ser
vice, division of charities and corrections,
of Cleveland, Ohio. He described the
working of the parole system, which has
been greatly extended under the admin
istration of Mayor Tom Johnson. Dur
ing the six years of Mayor Johnson's
term of Office over 1000 persons have been
pardoned or paroled. 1t is the theory in
Cleveland that for a man condemned to
prison for the first time there is psy-
Geological moment in which help can be
wisely given. To act too soon would be-
little the wrongdoing; to wait too long
would embitter and harden the individual
into a criminal. Only IA per cent of the
paroled men have been returned to the
statistics, this is, less than the returns of
those who were released after working
out their entire time in prison under the
old regime. The plan has been found to
work exceptionally good in the case of
men who neglected or deserted their fam
lilies. Mr.. Cooley strongly opposed the
imposition of fine as an alternative to
a eerm of Imprisonment. He claims that
a man who tries to steal a franchise or
a canal or a million dollars is in need
of correctional treatment just as much
as the man who tries to steal a ham or
an overcoat. He stated that there was
growing sentiment in favor of moving
penal institutions to the country, where
more of the prisoners could work in the
fields under the open sky. This has been
tried in connection with the Cleveland
house Ct correction and there has been
little trouble with escapes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16

semi-annual, $685., 800, and New York
Central, quarterly, $2,6S9, 230. The
largest amounts to be distributed by
industrial companies are United States
Steel, common stock, quarterly, $2,541,-
SIP; Anaconda, quarterly, $2,100,000;
American Telephone & Telegraph,
quarterly, $2,631 OPS; General Electric
quarterly, $1,304,314; and Western
Union, quarterly, S1,216,757.
Some of the banks and trust compa-
MES have done very well. The Fifth
avenue bank pays special dividend OF
$50 per cent in addition to the regular
quarterly rate of % per cent. The
Colonial bank pays semi-annual divi-
dend of 10 per- cent. The New York
Trust company increases it's dividend
rate from 20 to 81 per cent, New York
Life Insurance & Trust from 40 to 45
per cent, Bankers Trust from 10 to is,
KnickerboQker Ice from 40 to 80, Trust
Company of America from 80 to 40,
Metropolitan from 20 to 81, and United
States Mortgage & Trust company
from % to "a per cent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16

An infanlhle method Of exterminat-
ing rats would be worth mere TO the
people of the United States in single
decade than the department of agrieul-
ture has cost since its establishment,
a bulletin of the department, just is
sued, declares.
1t says she brown rat is the worst
mammalian pest in existence. and
adds:
IF for each COW. horse, sheep and
hog on the farms Of the United States
the farmers support one rat on grain.
the toll lesied on the cereals by these
rodents weuld reach tie enormous total
Of S1oo. oo0.0 900 year.
.Srheir prolifcness is the chief OBJ
stacle TO their extessnination. II three
filters OF ten each are produced every
year. a single pair, breeding without
check and without lesses by death, in
three years would be represented by
ten generations and would number 90
Soa2 individuals The eleventh gen
Grafton. due at the beginning OF the
fourth year. would number over ioo,-
100000"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
DEARTH OF FARM LABoRERs.
Fully $4,000 of Them Are Needed I'm
New York State.

Despite the establishment of agricul-
tural colleges and the agitation for a
return to the land" there are $4,000
fewer farms in the State of New York
at the present time than there were in
1890. And it will possibly be equally
surprising to the average city man to
learn that in spite of this decrease in
the number of farms, the shortage of
farm laborers has grown to such dimel-
sions that the State is advertising in IL
foreign newspapers for agricultural Ia
borers.
These facts have been brought out by
Representative Bennett, who is the chair
man of a committee appointed by Con-
gress to go abroad to study the immigra-
ton question from the viewpoint of at
tracing more immigrants from the agri-
cultural countries of Europe. In addi-
ton to this, the immigration Commits
sion is to make another investigation, the
scope of which will include all parts of
the country, with view to getting at the
real facts as to the shortage of farm la
b6rers throughout the United States, and
by next winters session of Congress its
members hope to be in possession of sta
prove the conditions of employing agri-
culturists all over the United States.
Bolton Hall, who is missionary in
the cause of people taking up small farms
near the large cities and of working them
on scientific principles, says the decrease
in the number of farms in New York
State is owing to two causes. One is the
great rise in land values near the large
cities, and the other is the creation of
vast estates by rich men through the abb
sorption of many small farmers hold
ings. Within the last year alone, he esti-
mates, 1000 farms were sold on Long
Island for conversion into building lots.
In the counties just north of New York
City many thousands of acres of farm
land have gone to make up great estates.
At the present time $4,000 farm la
borers could find employment in New
York State.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
Tn. n,nc.berry Cane Borer.

Since the borer began to destroy
the blackberry canes the old and well,
known Wilson varlety-the largest and
most attractive Of all blackberries-has
almost been obliterated in some sec
tions, but where growers have united
In the work of cutting away the canes
and burning them the evil has been
greatly lessened. One slovenly fruit
grower in a neighborhood who leaves
his canes may cause loss to the whole
community by propagating new crop
OF borcrs. The study of the life his
tory OF each Injurious insec, at the
several State experiment stations has
dos,e much TO enlighten farmers in re-
ga~ TO preventing injury from para
sits and insects, but all methods sug-
e sted demand vigilance and work on
the part of the fruit grower, and he
will not succeed unless he is willing
70 Go everything that Is required.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16

year. The payments are S1S097,674
greater than those of last July. Some
corporations that never before paid
dividends come up smiling with profits
for their stockholders. Others that
were obliged to suspend dividends now
cheerfully renew, and many companies
announce an increase over their regu-
lar dividend rates.
The dividends to be paid are: Rail-
road, $50, 75O,OS9; industrial, $41,017,-
273; traction, S7,0S6,675; bank and
trust companies, $7,7O0OOO; total, S92,-
553,O3T. The amount last July was
$50, 753, 331. The interest payments
will be as follows: Railroad, ST. $780,,
900; industrial, S11, 450,000; fractions,
So, 100000: government, $3,52S,S0S; to-
tai, SS,32S, sos, as compared with $685.
030, $40 in July last year. Among the
railroads the most notable increases in
dividends have been made by the Van
derbilt lines. The largest amounts to
be disbursed by railroads are Chicago
& Northwestern, semi-annual, $3,4S6,-
Gel; Lake Shore & Michigan Southern,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
spars by Railroad.

The time was when all the spars
and masts used in constructing vessels
on the Delaware were RATED down the
Delaware or the Susquehanna river.
The first raft that ever came down the
Delaware having been raft of spars.
Now they are brought from the Pacific
coast by rail, load of spars more than
100 feet in length and from two to
three feet in thickness having reached
the East.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
THE COST OF CRIME.
In One Year 1t Amounts to More
than $1,000, 100000.

The detailed cost of crime in the
United States presents some astounding
figures. In 1907 the cost of crime in
The State, county and city authorities
outside of Greater New York spent for
il $40, 6O5, 472.16. In 40 States New
York excluded) the expenditure was
S697, OS0.oO0. Criminal losses by fire to-
tailed S100,00G,000. BY customs frauds
the national government lost S60,0O0,-
600. During this one year the loss in
wages of 100000 State prisoners was
S2S,0S0000, while the loss in wages Of
10000 prisoners in city and country
jails was S33,0o0,oOO The grand total,
therefore, of the cost of crime in the
United States reaches the stupendous fig
ures of $1076, 327 ,605.99.
The cost of religious work in the
United States is enormous. The cost
OF foreign missions, comprising all de
nominations. is 100000; home mis-
sions expend the same sum. We spend
for education, $20G000,00O: for church
expenses and ministers salaries, $780,
100000. Hospitals and dispensaries for
the sick poor cost US S100,000,000; for
sanatoriums of all kinds we spend $780,
100000 City missions and rescue work
of all kinds demand and receive $1,000
600; humanitarian work of every kind.
S12.0O0,0o0. Our Young Mems and
Young women's Christian Associations
cost S5.00o,OOO: while all other moral
and social work in the United States
requires an expenditure of So,000,00o.
The total expenditure for hr-aanitarian
and religious work is, then. S549. 900, 600.
As against this. the total cost of crime
in the United States for the year reached
the incredible total of S1,076.32T ,605.9S.
That is TO say we spend more than
S500000,0O0 a year more on crime than
we do on all spiritual, ecclesiastical. ply
steal, humanitarian. educational and heal
ing agencies put together.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
Peat a, Horse Fecd.


In Germany the consumption of peat
is constantly increasing, says the Sci
entiec American. As bedding for stock
only the second and third layers are
used. The blocks of peat are dried by
air or in a kiln; they are then shred
ded by machinery and sieved. after
which they are compressed and packed
in bales by means of Stats of wood and
iron wire.
For fodder only the top layer is used.
1t consists of moss and the tibers of
partially dried parts The dried peat
is then ground and sifted and mixed
with molasses in the proportion of 20
to - of peat and 20 TO 20 of molasses,
obtained in the manufacture of sugar
from beets. This product is guaran-
teed TO contain 80 10 10 per cent OF
sugar.
Horses fed with this develop glossy
coats. gain in appetite and are free
from collie. Neat cattle are said to be-
come less subject TO foot and mouth
disease. The addition Of Al pounds
TO the daily feed OF mich COWS is said
10 increase the daily yield of milk
about 55-l00ths of gallon.
In the province OF Hanover from TO-
coo 10 $1,000 tons are used every year,
while Germany as a whole consumes
$4,000 to 100000 tons.
The value Of peat for fuel is shown
By the fact that it contains 81 per cent
of carbon against so per cent in wood,
70 in soft coal and So in hard coal.
The so-called ''forfmuil" or turf dust
is sifted out of peat and used for pack
ing fruit. such as tomatoes and other
products. while null" a hy-product
Of peat. Is used in potash works as a
f,.@..
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
Formosan sIeeper..

The Los Angeles-Pacific Company,
operating electric railways to several
beach resorts near Los Angeles, Cal,
has imported 10000 sleepers from For
mosa. These are of hardwood, most
of them being of nara, wood much
used in the East for interior work
The cost of the sleepers at Los Angeles,
after tariff duty is paid, is reported to
be but slightly III excess of that of
Oregon pine.-En gineer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
Miss. snge,s Latest Gift.

Mrs. Russell Sage's latest benefaction
is an endowment fund of 100000 for a
pathological institute TO be run in con-
nection with the New York city hospital
and city home on Blackwell's Island. The
purpose of the institute is TO inquire into
the problems of disease, more especially
the diseases of advanced life. and the i'm
provement of the city's poorest sick and
aged in two of its largest institutions.
The institute viii be organized by Drs. E.
c. and j. c. Japeway. and viii be under
their direction. although il is expected to
be closely associated with the department
~ charities
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16

It is a step In the right direction to
have the boiler of the steam thresher
tested, but it is not enough; the en-
gineer should hayea touch OF the same
test. Inefficient engineers ace some
times at their posts when bad acci-
dents occur.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
ReguInr Temnest.

$50 you went around to Daphne's
house to propose. How did you make
outY'
"why, I stirred up tempest There
was a cloud on her brow and her eyes
flashed lightning"
Gracious"
@Then her mother stormed."
"Whew -
sand the old man Numbered"
"Great boreas. Trouble certainly
reigned. What did you do thenY
"Wby. hailed cab and got out OF
the neighborhood."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16

Dr. Robert Bel. il prominent physician.
of London, Englsld. holds that cancer is
not caused by any o-organism, bit is
the result of faulty diet and consequent
improper sanitation of the body. In a
recent lecture he announced that bad
eating and drinking was one of the chief
factors in the production of cancer. One
of the special causes was the eating Of
too much red meat, but in general the
persons who ate freely of vegetables and
milk was better able to resist Che APP
proach OF cancer. In his whole life he
had met only one cancer patient who was
a vegetarian
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
wisconsin Not to Bar Tirht..

After an hour of humorous discussion,
the Assembly killed the Hughes anti
sights bill, which prohibited any actress
or woman performer from appearing in
public with skirt falling less than four
inches below the knees. Simon Smith of
Beloit said Jaw should be passed requir-
Ing ball room gowns to come at least fou-
inches above the waist line He said that
ne believed society women offended as
much against propriety in wearing eA-
tremely low-cut dresses as actresses did
in wearing short skirts.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16

The motion to acquit having been over
ruled in the trial of Edwin S. Holmes,
former assistant statistician of the Agri-
cultural Department for sale Of crop re-
ports. Holmes took the stand in his own
defense. He directly contradicted the tes-
timony of Broker Van Ripper as to the
giving of signals TO confederates by the
height of his Office curtain. He said he
had no relations with Theodore Price ex-
cept to try 10 interest him IN a private
crop report venture.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
TWO CUBS AT ONE SHOT.
Ladysmith Man Does Better than
President Roosevelt.

Chris Biller of Gates county has out
done Roosevelt in lear hunting exploits.
The other day he killed two cubs at one
shot. The cubs were in tree, one above
the other, out on boughs Biller got d.
rectly under them and shot tom through
the head. The mother bear and one cub
got away. o. E. Anderson of Ladysmith
shipped his two bear cubs, which were
captured near there two months ago, to
big Otto" the animal trainer and col
lector, Chicago. Mr.. Anderson had no
suitable place to keep his pets, and as
they were growing so rapidly on cows
milk they had become quite care. Their
antics attracted much attention.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
AUTO KILLS A WOMAN.
Anna Steffen of Appleton Run Down
by John McNaughton.

While walking from car to the cross
ing, Miss Anna Steffin, aged 80 years,
was instantly killed in Appleton by an
automobile owned by John McNaughton,
wealthy paper manufacturer Fred Van
Ryzin, the chauffeur, has been placed
under arrest. Those who witnessed the
accident say that the machine YVES moving
at a rate of about eight miles an hour.
When she stepped off the car Miss Steffin
evidently believed that there was not
room for her between the auto and the
car, and so she made a dash for the
curbstone, running directly in front of
the machine. A broken neck and internal
injuries caused instant death.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16

Lincoln Beachey. the aeronaut. who has
sailed in his dirisible halloCn over the tops
of several American cities. repeated the
exploit the other day. when he sailed in
his airship from an amusement resort on
Staten Island across the harbor and over
the city. alis Ating at Battery park. Con-
tact with tn crowd of spectators injured
one of his T~opellers. and 10 this he laid
the disastro ending OF his voyage. for
the ship be ame helpless when he was
midway owe. the civ and drifted in the
wind over last river, where il settled
upon the ST mast of buoy. destroying
the gas bag
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
Three years ...$75.4S $62.:

The cost includes the original cost
of the trees. two requirements of near
~ 40 per cent in all (trees were killed
by severe winter, and all labor ex-
pended on the trees and land at from
81 to $3.50 per day and 81 for team.
ii also includes the total cost of grow
ing nurse crops Oceans, popcorn and
little garden truck between the trees
in summer and of sowing oats as
cover crop during winter. Trees were
pruned. sprayed. cultivated, mulched
with straw, and protected from mice
and rabbits during winter by veneer
wrappers, and borers dug yearly. No
rent is included. The receipts are from
the nurse crops of beans and popcorn.
1t will be noticed that the first crop
was nearly total loss of account OF
dry weather. With good seasons and
no loss from wister killing l believe an
orchard can be paid for by nurse crops
before 1t comes into bearings. B.
Hartman, Athens, Mich.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
Killed by Lightning.

Mrs. William Harp, residing about a
mile east of Ellsworth, was struck and
instantly killed by lightning during a
thunder storm. She had arisen to close
a window when the bolt struck a tree
in the yard. Several children were asleep
in the room and were not even awak-
ened.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-16
Wisconsin
State News
vEToEs sTocK BILL.
Gov. Davidson Withholds Approval
of Whitehead's Measure

Gov. Davidson has vetoed Senator
Whitehead's bill relating to the issuance
OF stocks and bonds. The measure, he
Claims, would. if enacted into law, give
ieorganized railroad companies unrestrict-
Id powers insissuing securities and would
give the holders of preferred stock an
unfair advantage OYER. the holders of COM
mon stock. The Governor advised the
author of the bill to withdraw the meas
ure until final action by the Legislature
had been taken upon the Wilcox substi-
tute 10 the Hagemeister stock and bond
bill, 90 S, which was passed by the SEN
ate. but reconsidered and laid over until
July 8.