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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

No one with the instinct of self-pres-
ervatlon should attempt to drive a
horse without first assuring himself
that the animal is under proper control,
and no horse Should be considered as
fulfilling that condition unless he can
be easily and comfortably be held with
one hand. A good test of this may be
made, says Suburban Life, before
mounting the box by taking hold with
one hand of both reins between the
horses mouth and neck, but not near
enough to the bit to pinch tie jaw, and
trying to make him back; If this can
not be done without much effort the
horse is not fit for a novice to drive :;
either his mouth is too hard, or, more
properly, he is improperly bitted.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
Runaway INDIAN BOYS Frozen.

The two sons of Joe Wapahnahcum and
John Owen, 8 and 10 years old respec-
lively, ran away from IT, government
school at the Keshena reservation and
were frozen to death. They started for
the residence of the grandfather Of one
of the boys some thirty miles distant, but
soon got lost Their bodies were found
the following day.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
FORMER PARTY LEADER DIES
Nicholas Miller, Who Narrowly Es-
capped Lynching, Drops Dead.

Nicholas Miller, Who Narrowly Es-
capped Lynching, Drops Dead.
Nicholas Miller, rs years old, one of
the oldest Germans in Racine, and a for
mer Democratic leader dropped dead on
the tracks of the Chicago and Northwest
ern railroad When Abraham Lincoln
was assassinated Miller said that he
would give 500 if it was true. In less
time than it takes to tell a mob was
formed and rope secured with which to
hang him, but he was hustled away and
escaped uninjured. Miller always con-
tended that he did nv make the remark,
but it was narrow escape, and was
due to the high tension Of the country at
the time. This made Miller famous in
the State in those days
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
stnp \ Bow Preacher.

The La Crosse Humane Society has
taken steps under the child labor law to
prevent Oscar Nelie, 1@-year-old prod
ICY, from preaching the gospel to sup
port his parents and large family. The
boy has not been allowed to attend the
public schools but has been presiding
in the city mission end in various halls.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
Comes without a Penny

After walking all the way from Iron
Mountain, Mich. laborer stepped into
the Pound depot with only So in his
pocket and wanted ticket to Milwaukee.
The fare is $500, so the agent told him
to walk to the next station, Coleman. and
there buy a ticket to North avenue and
take the street car the balance of the
way BY doing this the So would just
hold ont
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
sat Up with Dead. wants Pay.

Pay for sitting up with the dead is re-
quested in Probate court in an action
against the estate of Mr.. and Mrs. Jo-
ham Herman of Appleton. found dead
some time ago. John +. Baker wants So
for sitting up two nights with the corpses,
and q cents for oil consumed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
BURY THEIR OWN BABE.

Parents, Too Poor to Employ Under
taker, Draw Corpse on Sled.
Bearing the body of their babe over
the snow and hills to the Mound cemetery
and interring it with their own hands,
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Johnson of Ra-
cine, unable to afford burial by an I'M
dertaker. conducted the ceremony. The
funeral cortege consisted only of the
mourning parents with the body in a
wooden box and on tiny sled
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
The EIYinm For

The flying fox is a very curious in
habitant Of the forest near Moreton
bay, in East Australia. 1t lives in
fiocks and moves generally toward the
dusk Of the evening and the noise pro-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
Truss Wards OF Rnclsshot.

\ metal truss saved Dan Sweeneys
life while he was hunting near Maple
Grove. He was assisting a companion to
climb a tree by boosting with his guns
butt when the weapon was discharged.
the load of buckshot striking the truss
and DETECTING.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
VIM Void. and widow Loses.

Because but one witness signed the
document the will of the late Henry
Schilling of Schleswis vas declared null
in Probate Court and the widow. who
was TO have received the entire estate Of
$1,000 for life. must now accept q one
eighth share. the property being personal
and there being seven children.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
$40, 1000 FOR HIS EYE.
coolidge, Who Lost Remaining optic

Coolidge, Who Lost Remaining Optic
in second Accident, Wins verdict.
Herbert J. Coolidge was awarded $10,-
600 in court from the La Crosse City
Railway Company for the loss of an eye.
Mr.. Coolidge was struck in the eye with
the end of trolley rope while alighting
from car and rendered blind, having lost
the sight of bis other eye several weeks
previous. This is the largest amount
ever awarded in personal injury suit in
La Crosse county. Coolidge sued for
$4,000
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
SnMdnst for Tront.

W III. Panlson. a resident of Poysippi.
was brought before Justice OF the Peace
Hubbell. charged with deposirins sawdust
and shavings in trout stream. He plead
ed guilty and was fined So and costs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
OFFICERS STAND HIGH.
Guardsmen Pass Examinations with
Some Excellent Marks.

Three officers of Company E. Second
regiment. W. ~ G.. at Fond du Lac, took
an examination in Oshkosh for promotion
and passed with high standings. The ex-
aminations were necessary through the
resignation OF Capt W. f. Seevc. He
will be succeeded by Lieut.. A. NJ. Trier,
who got a standing Of 1868. Second Lieut.
A. r. Brunei, with standing of 30 II.
will be promoted to first lieutenant to
take Trier's place and Second Sergt Geo.
A. Krippen, who got standing of 9S 2-I,
will be promoted to the position of second
lieutenant.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
Rods Of nI.D in Cin,ler Pile

Wisconsin Central railroad employees in
Ashland discovered the body of a man in
a cinder pile with two bullet holes in
the head. The man had been buried, but
the recent thaw caused the covering on
the body to slide. It is believed he was
murdered with robbery as the motive.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
TRY TO SCARE DEPos1ToRs.

Farmers About MayyIIIe In Receipt
OF Anonymous Letters.
About forty or fifty farmers living near
Mayville have received letters mailed in
that city, which read as follows: IF you
have money in bank, take it out. not safe.
Keep quiet" The farmers came to the
city and showed them to the cashier of
the bank The officers of the State bank
have $1,000 reward out for finding the
person that sent these letters.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
reaching Boys to Grow Alfalfa.

The Farmers institute OF Brown
county, Illinois, is doing a good work
by teaching the boys how to grow al
falfa. They are given the study of bur
letins and books upon alfalfa written
by competent authorities and are then
required to pass written examination
upon their knowledge Of the same.
good prizes are offered for the best
papers upon the subject. The first pre-
MUM is the payment Of all expenses
in attending the short courses at the
college of agriculture and OTHER pre-
miums are given for second and third
best papers.
The Illinois Farmers Institute has
done excellent work in teaching the
farm boys how TO grow corn and the
broadening OF the work by extending in
structlon TO other crops is an example
that might well be followed by other
State institutions.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
For a Course in Lifesnrinr

Raymond Zillmer OF Milwaukee. sophie
more of University of Wisconsin. asks
in a communication in the Daily Cardinal
thar course in life saving be established
in the university. lie referred to the
recent establishment of such course in
Columbia university.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
Girl wants 10 Be a Citiyen

Miss Maud Mcpherson OF Waterfowl,
has applied t, William Rohr. clerk Of the
courts. for letters OF citizenship. This
IS the first application in that county an
der the new law. Miss Mcpherson is a
Canadian
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

Tuberculosis was discovered in thirty
nine head of cattle belonging to three
Oshkosh men and the animals will be
slaughtered AT once
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
ICE FAMINE FEARED.
Breaking Up of Mississippi River at
La Crosse Earliest on Record.

bTIHhIHE II VI lIISSfSSfUDI
La Crosse Earliest on Record.
The warm weather of the past few
days has caused a breaking up OF the
rivers at the principal ice harvesting
points in the northwest and communities
depending upon that district for ice are
confronted with the certainty of an ice
famine next summer. At La Crosse the
Mississippi river is open, the earliest on
record. and the harvesting OF ice there
and at all neighboring points has stopped
with only small part OF the sual sup
ply clIt
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

Literally fed animals not only pro-
duce more but better manure than
poorly-fed ones
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
GYRoscoPE AT SEA.
Ocean TO BE Robbed of One More
Terror nv the Device

Ierror By the Device.
The purchase OF the German rights
of the Sehllck gyroscope by the Ham
burg-American line foreshadows the
near practical use of this invention for
ayerting the rolling OF ships at sea.
says tie New York World Expert
ments made with the device on the See
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

The practicable line Of production Is
TO maintain good health with early ma
turity.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
HALF A LID Is COMPROMISE.

Washburn Decides to Be Closed Part
of Each Sunday.
What promised to be one OF the bitter
est lid fights in the history of the State
has about come TO an end in Washburn
with a compromise to allow the business
places to remain open half a day on
Sunday. Mayor Sweet. after closing ev-
erything tight for one Sunday. has about
decided that the people have got enough
of what he says they were looking for
in the way OF lid
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

Lining the soil which is sour will
help
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

Better methods, better stock and bet
ter tools have doubled the productions
of more than one farm.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

The amount consumed above the life
sustaining point brings the profit.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

There are no better friends to have
in the garden or on the farm than the
toads. If they could be protected ana
encouraged to live there, they would
eradicate many of the grubs and cut
worms The great enemy Of the toad
is the small boy who kills many every
year of the useful animals. The boy
regards this as innocent sport, not
knowing that the toad is most yalua-
Bile insect destroyer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

When a man fails TO attract atten
ton in any other way he can be ex-
act.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

Some men are oorn great-then pro
coed TO slump
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

Proper shoeing of the horses in the
winter means much to their comfort
as well as to the sound condition of
their hoofs
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

Some onion growers claim that car
bolic acid emulsion often gives salts
factory results in combating the onion
maggot. Dissolve l pound hard soap
or one quart soft soap in a gallon Of
boiling water; add one point of crude
carbolic acid and emulsify by agita-
ton. One part emulsion is used to
thirty parts Of water applied at the
root
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10
Texts with Barley.

At the Montana experiment station
the average results OF a two years test
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

When you are feeding out bunch of
hogs there is nothing pays better than
the use of q tank heater. 1t is sur
prising how hogs will go through Sc
we're spell of weather on dry corn and
water with the chill taken off. 1t is
cheaper to warm the water with cobs
wood or coal than to do 1t with corn
after the hog drinks it.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

Plan the beginning OF a system Of
crop rotation next season. Keep a
record of the results and see whether
it does not give better crops and leave
the Land in more productive condition.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-10

Bristles are all right, but do you
like to see them on the back of man?
They will grow there, though, If you
don't give your hogs the best care you
can. The man who makes hog of
himself for the sake of saving . cents
today will find that he will lose 81 to-
morrow by not having pork to sell.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-29
Temperance Notes.

Missouri had eight local option
counties on January 1, 1903. On
January l Of this year there were
siXty-one.
Samuel L. Carleton. at one time
head of the world organization OF
Sons of Temperance. died recently at
Portland, Me-, aged eighty-siS years.
Maine has no shop vending intoxi-
cants openly, or advertising its bust
ness by any liquor sign: there Is no
distiller, brewer of strong beer, blend
err or rectifier in the State.
Prohibition in the South is in no
way a political maneuycr, but an In.
spiring movement of the masses OF
the people. 1t is an intellectual
awakening and a moral revolution.
The Italian Popular Society for the
Suppression of Alcoholism has ar
ranged for a series of eighteen pubic
conferences in varios;s parts OF the
country for the purpose OF perfectlns
and developing the organization.
Men are not at liberty to murder
with the sword; they shall not be at
liberty TO murder with the bottle.
Men are NOT at liberty to destroy
homes with fire; they shall not be at
liberty to destroy homes with strong
drink.
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APT XII.
Continued.

And where is the dear child?"
continued Mrs. Standard. "Oh, Lion
ell, when 1 think of what might have
been but for your bravery. And is
it all settled? Where did you leave
her-does she want me?"
"Meaning?" inquired Babrock, la
conically.
"Why-why, Sybil! Haven't you
come from herr"
"Eh?" said Babcock. "Sybil!
Haven't seen a sign of her!"
Horace, what does this mean! Do
try and collect yourself-this is Mr..
Lionel Babcock."
The coloncl's jaw dropped as he
bowed mechanically. Then, then
who was the other fellow" he mur-
INJURED blankly.
"Ah!" commented Mrs. Standard,
in a bitter undertone, eff you have
come all the way from India for
this"
And probably the Agricultural Hall
did not contain a lady for her years
and position in a worse temper.
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A Tree 1900 Years Old.

Whatever the age of the trees in
this country, the Prince of Wales a
assert that he has seen n in Japan
twelve hundred years old. A giant
pine, with its branches supported by
stout props, it is a permanent sacri-
flee to Buddha. Kobo Daishi built
a pagoda in honor of Buddha twelve
centuries ago, and in front of it he
set his pine as a perpetual Offering,
in place of flowers, which should in
the ordinary course be offered.
Twelve hundred years is a long per-
iod in which to trace the history of
a tree, but it is only half the age
of the present dynasty, and they were
able to tell the prince as plain a tale
of the pine trees growth as of the
descent Of their present emperor.--''
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-29
Better Off Without Saloons.

Kansas City, Kan, a city of almost
100000 population, is the largest
prohibition city in the United States.
1t has'been represented that the town
has gone bankrupt" since the sa-i
looms were ordered out, that business
has been ruined, and that people are
moving away Nothing could be far
Their from the truth. Leading bust
ness men and bankers of Kansas City,
Kan, declare that business was never
better than now. Miss Farrow,, city
treasurer of Kansas City, said to the,
writer that there had never been more
cash in the city treasury than now;
all judgments have been paid and the
city employees are paid in cash in.
stead of scrip Is heretofore. The In
come of the city is just as large, de-
spite the fact that hundreds of sa-
looms or joints have been closed. c..
l.. Brokaw, cashier of the largest
bank in Kansas City, Kan, has en-
ployed from his own resources a corps
of stenographers to reply to questions
about prohibition features in Kansas
City. John w. B~riedenthal, a prom.
inent banker and politician, says the
business and professional men are,
aroused at the statements sent broad
cast by brewery interests, that Kan
sas City is suffering in a business way
because of the saloons being closed
Business was never better" Is the
general sentiment Of every business
man in the Kansas town. The labor
ing man, as well as the business man.
is realizing that the city is far. better
off without liquor stores.-"D.," in
the Christian Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-29
"A Ditch is O Stream.

Judge Clyde, of Charles City, Ia,
has handed down a decision which he
took under Amusement at the March
term in what is known as the Honey
field ditch case. Honeyfeld filled up
a ditch that went through his farm
and which had been in existence some
fifty years. Honeyfeld is compelled
to open the ditch within sixty days,
and is pe~rpetually enjoined from fill
ing it in again. The ditch was put in
to drain some land on the other side
of Honeyfeld's farm, a mile or so
north of the city. The decision is in
effect that a ditch when legally put in
stands and is the same as any other
stream of water.-Country Gentle
man.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-29
BURMESE BUDDHISTS.

Worship of the image of Buddna
as practiced in Burma is wildly de-
lineated in the photograph on this
mage. 1t is the boast Of the Burmese
that nowhere, unless possibly in Cey-
lon are the teachings of the great
Gautama preserved and followed
with the purity that they are n
Burma. Yet taking the teachings as
they have come down to us, NO n
can conceive of the teacher accepting
or in any sense approving the rites
practiced by his followers of this gen.
Grafton; they are so utterly alien to
his doctrine as We conceive il. The
Buddhists priests have their OWE wa
Of reconciling the formality, the rites
and ceremonies of the worship IN
their temples with the Buddhism that
Gautana taught, but to Us it seems
that it is removed from it as far as a
pontifcal mass in st. Peters is from
the simplicity Of. a Quaker meeting.
The extraordinary fact is that eau
tama, born as is supposed il $40 B.
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C.-about the time that Ezra and
Nehemiah were gathering their peo-
pie to return to the Holy Land by per-
mission of Cyrus-began to declare
his faith in opposition to the Brah-
manism which had dominated the
thought of India for more than a
thousand years, should have been
able to establish il single-handed. and
that in our time, twenty-five centuries
later, it survives and is the creed OF
five hundred million human beings.
AS far as we can gather from the
traditions that have come down to
US. Gautama revolted from Brahman-
ism, and like Ecclesiastes, sought
spiritual peace by various means. He
first tried philosophy, and then bodily
austerites by which he nearly lost his
life. At last he made his great dis
covery, as he states in his sacred
writings, that ITO ease from sin, to
get virtue, to cleanse ones own heart,
10 the only way to peace. This" ne
said, lis the doctrine of Buddha.'
To die to desire, to make absolute
self-surrender to God, to be utterly
Indifferent to the world, sustained
by the inward life, ito be nothing"
until finally individuality was swal-
lowed up in the Nirvana, that was
Buddha's idea as it appears to the
modern student. 1t is difficult to un-
derstand how such a doctrine could
have become corrupted into the Bud
dhism that kissed the toe Of an image,
if we had not seen men p~rostrating
themselves before a crucifix and pray
ing before a relic.-Christian Herald.
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A Feat of Communication.

The story of what may be calico
a remarkable feat of communication
is told in Harper's Weekly. Thirty
seven years ago, it is recalled by the
writer, it took Stanley nine
of travel through the vast equatorial
forests of Africa to reach Ujiji and
find Livingstone. During almost his
entire journey he was lost to com
munication with the outside world.
At 1890 p. m. on Wednesday,
March 20, a cable despatch was sent
through the Western Union Tele'
graph Company from New York to
Nairobi, in British East Africa, a
station thirty days march from Liv-
ingstone's headquarters; and a reply
was received through the Postal
Telegraph Cable Company shortly
after noon on the following Friday
an interval of less than fifty hours.
The cable despatch vas transmitted
first to the Azore Islands, and thence
to Lisbon, Gibraltar, Malta, Alex
andria, Port Said, Suez, Alden, Fan
zibar and Mombasa, on the East
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-29
Bees Left 1O2 Pound Slab.

At Lawrenceburg. Ind, a slap OF
honey eight feet long, eighteen meme
wide and four inches thick, weighing
1O2 pounds, was taken from the ratt-
ers in the attic of the home OF JACOB
F. Schaefer, a section hand. The
house is located on a little knoll near
the railroad bridge that spans the
Big Miami River, and is surrounded
by a honey locust grove. sahaeter
had noticed a number of bees busy
about the house for several weeks
and, with a neighbor. made a search
and found the honey.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-29
White Africans.

The Berbers, who, although Afri
can, are as white as Europeans, are
the oldest white race on record. says
an explorer. They are supposed tt
have come from the south of Europe
in ancient days, the Dundee Adver
tiser says, and, although their Ian
guage md customs are entirely diff.
ferent from ours and their religion
Mohammedan, they are probably
closely akin by descent. Blue eyes
and fair hair are not at all uncom
mon among the Berbers, and many
of them Save rosy cheeks and feat
ures SO like our OWL that were they
dressed n British fashion they woult
easily pass as natives OF the BRITISH
Isles.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-29
Too Much For the Glass.

She was only a substitute teacher,
still she should have known better.
Suppose" said she in the mental
arithmetic lesson-"suppose Mary
has five oranges and Gladys gave her
eleven more. Then, if Mary gave
Winifred six, how many would she
have left?" There was a long pause.
"Well?" she prompted, impatiently,
"it's easy enough"
please, teacher" spoke up the
smallest girl, 1--WE always do our
sums in apples. New York Tri-
bune.
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African coast. Thence it was sent
inland to Nairobi by telegraph, N
from that point was conveyed thirty
miles to the house of the recipient.
the total approximate distance being
slightly more than 10000 miles. Ow-
ing to the difference in time between
New York and Nairobi, the message
lost eight hours in transmission, and
consequently was not received till
Observation-Disclosures the two days
occupied by it's journey and the re-
turn of the answer might have been
shortened considerably.