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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24

The hog market has been reported
weak md lower so long now that it
must either give Its last gasp or get
better pretty soon.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24

creates good 1t is truth of the best evidence
Have you noticed that in days Of good humo
fortune myseriousy favorable? those the day.
when all succeed when oil SMILE all wishes are
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24
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The Pig-Eating Sow.

than once in two weeks, and do not
let the fertilizer touch the foliage.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24

The very first symptom of kicking
should lead US to dispose Of the animal
that does 1t. Life is precious. Never
risk 1t with a horse that kicks.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24

Great Forest Reserves of Nevaaa.
The national forest reserve In Ne
yada now reaches the enormous total
Of S,52S,479 acres says the San Eran-
cisco Chronicle. The total acreage Of
the state, including water surface, Is
something over 100000. Therefore
the forest reserve comprises more than
one acre In every ten The last re-
serve formed was the Las Vegas Ma
tional Forest. locally known as Sheep
Mountains 1t covers an area of 1885,
$40 acres, and is the eighth to be
formed In the state.
In addition to this, the Secretary OF
the Interior has announced the with
drawal Of 616,451 acres In White Pine
and Nye counties, to be added to the
national forest reserve, making total
of over 100000 acres that will have
been withdrawn in short time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24

Dip a wooden rag Into kerosene and
rub it lightly over the hair of the pigs.
Be careful, however, not to get 1t on
the skin, as 1t will blister The smell
of the kerosene disgusts the sow at
once and thus prevents her from TAX
ing the life of her young. AS general
thing it is somewhat Of difficulty to
break a SOW from the habit Of eating
her young after she has once formed
this vicious and unnatural desire. 1t
starts from the SOW being out Of con-
dition; she is feyerish and her appe-
tite demands something that she Is not
getting.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24

The shipping quality of fruit dGter-
mines largely g value. One Of the
first things asked about any new
fruit is: what are its shipping quail
ities?" Many and many fine new
fruit has been brought to the front
and discarded on account of being too
soft to ship" Up to the present time
few fruits have been able to keep pop
ular attention through their usefulness
In the home garden only, yet 1t would
be wise to hold onto them for this rea-
son alone.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24

Did you ever watch beans grow
They come up out Of the ground as If
they had been planted upside down.
Each appears carrying the seed on top
Of the stalk, as If they were afraid
that folks wouldn't know that they
were beans unless they Immediately
told them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24

Fever in sows at narrowing time
may be due to feeding corn ration,
to too little activity during the latter
period Of CESSATION, to constipation as
an outgrowth thereof, and to unclean
water. Provide the right food and
conditions and you will not be troubled
With the SOW which eats her offspring.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24

The young animals should be turned
loOse in roomy shed in the winter.
Plenty of good feed and exercise will
keep them In health and on the grow.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-24

Begin to work the horses carefully
in the springtime They have been
standing about till their muscles are
all soft, and to get right down to hard
work all at once may make them sick
Feed carefully, too, for few days.
Better underfeed than to give too much
on the start
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-02-20

casins Old Tomah had given her, a
skirt and jacket fashioned from Tins
CASTOR garments, a fur cap, and soft
felt hat-she thrust them into a soiled
pillow-case and crept down the stairs.
Once out, she looked about, listened,
then darted up the hillside, straight
for the tote road entrance. Here she
paused, put on her moccasins, and
looked back.
The moon, now above the tree-tops,
shone full upon Tins Place, softening
and %silvering all its ugliness and all
its %squalor, Away to the left stood
Tomah's hut, across the river, a shin
ing path bright and rippled.
In spite of the awful dread of her
situation and the years of her hard,
unpaid, and ofttimes cursed toll, a
pang of regret now came to her. This
was her home, wretched as it was.
Here she had at least been fed and
warmed in winters, and here Old To
nah had shown her kindness. Oh, If
he were only in his hut now, that she
might go and waken him softly, and
beg him to take her in his canoe and
speed down the river!
But no! only her own desperate
courage would now avail, and realizing
that this look upon Tins Place was
the last one, she turned and fled down
the path. Sixty miles of stony, BUSH
encountered, brier-grown, seldom-trav-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-02-20

and the only ones Chip cared to recall
she had been a happy schoolgirl, and
then came a sudden, tragic end to it
all. Of that she never wished to think.
1t was all so horrible, and yet SO merci-
fully brief.
The one friend life held, her mother,
had been brought home, wounded to
death amid the whirring wheels of the
mill where she worked; there were a
few hours of agonized dread as her
life ebbed away, a whisper or two of
love and longing, and then the sad
farewell made doubly awful by her
fathers frowning face and harsh voice.
At its ending, and in spite of her fears
and tears, she was now borne away by
him. For days they journeyed deeper
and deeper into a vast wilderness, to
halt at last at Tins Place.
Like a dread dream it all came back
now, as she lay there on this one fiat
spot of security-the bridge-and lis
tened to the rivers low murmur.
All through her mad flight the wilder
ness had been ghostly and spectral in
the moonlight; now it had become lost
in inky blackness, yet alive with de-
moniac voices. All the goblin forms
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-02-20
Taft Aaainst the Field.

After Gov. Hughes announced he
would be a candidate for the presiden-
tial nomination a poll of the United
States senate was taken, not including
those who are candidates, and Mr..
Hughes received but two votes, while
Taft received 20 and Knox and Fair
banks live each and the others scat
tering. Ten senators were non-com-
initial. This shows that the fight in
the Republican ranks is Taft against
The field and with the administration
doing all it can to help Taft, ever to
the extent of appointments to office
to influence votes, he therefore should
have the inside track. But there is the
unknown quantity how the delegates
rom some Of the southern states will
vote, for they will undoubtedly hold
the balance Of power. Usually the
administration is all-powerful with the
office holders in the southern states,
but under the policy of Mr.. Roose-
welt Of eliminating as much as posi-
BILE the negro vote there may be a re-
volt against the favored lilly whites"
The darby that a get elected Il dele.
gate to the coming convention will be
sure Of an Office II his party is sue
SessfGi.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-02-20
Why Gagged Birds Die.

80 the canary's dead, eh?" said a
dealer. 1T a a fine bird, towel
worth the $40 you paid me for 1t. But
don't wonder 1t died. You would keep
1t hanging lei the ceiling. That is
why SO many birds die. They shouldn't
be kept UP high at all. Their cages
should be IN tables, not hooks. Up
near the selling the air Of a room is
very bad, especially at night. Indeed,
at night, II you burn oil or gas, the air
is insupportable up there. And partlc-
ularly in rooms where smoking goes
on-you know how smoke. like all
other impurities, mounts-it 10 bad to
hang birds high. Why can't tnAs world
remember the old catch: Birds hung
high i've die,p
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-02-20

Protection Docs Not Protect

That the so-called protective tariff
is not a producer of prosperity has
been forced O the attention of the
most ardent standpatters by the pres
ent prolonged panic. The several
glass industries, especially the window
glass trust, are very highly protected
by the tariff, yet according to the Ma
tional Glass Budget, a journal devoted
to glass and tariff protection, many
of those industries are in a bankrupt
condition and their workmen in a sad
plight. The National Glass company
Is in the hands of a receiver and sew
eral of the nine constituents COM
panies are unable to meet their obi
cations. "The witch's cauldron in
Macbeth" says the Budget, isn't a
patch compared to the window glass
hell kettle that has been boiling for
the past few months" The same au-
thority says the bottle manufacturers
have curtailed production to about
one-half the normal capacity of their
plants. If from 40 to 10S per cent. of
tariff protection does not protect these
glass trusts and manufacturers from
bankruptcy or depression, is not the
evidence overwhelming that protection
does not protect either the trusts or
the w~orkingmen, and yet a Republican
congress persists in reft@ing to revise
the tariff.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-02-20

eled road lay ahead of her! Sixty
miles through the somber silence and
persistent menace of a wilderness,
peopled only by notwithstanding crea.
lures, y~ellow-eyed and sharp-fanged!
With only a %sickening, soul-nause,
ating fate awaiting her at Tins Place,
and her sole escape this almost insane
flight, she sped On. The faint, spectral
riffs of moonlight through interlaced
fir and spruce as often deceived as aid
ed her; bending boughs whipped her,
bushes and logs tripped her, sharp
stones and pointed sticks bit her;
she hurried over hillocks, wallowed
through sloughs and dashed into tan
giles OF briers, needless of all except
her one mad impulse to escape.
Soon the eve present menace Of a
wilderness assailed her,-the yowl of
a wildcat close at hand; in a swamp,
tie sharp bark of a wolf; on a hillside
above her, the boot of an owl; and
when after two hours of this desper-
ate fight had exhausted her and she
was forced to halt, strange creeping,
crawling things seemed all about.
And now the erratic, fantastic belief
of Old Tomah returned to her. With
him the forest was people by a weird,
uncanny race, sometimes visible and
sometimes not-"spites," he called
them, and they were the souls of both
man and beast; sometimes good, some
times evil, according as they had been
In life, and all good or i'll luck was due
to their ghostly influences. They fol-
lowed the hunter and trapper day and
night, Turing him into safety or danger,
as they chose. They were everywhere,
and in countless numbers, ready and
sure to avenge all wrongs and reward
all virtues, They had a Chieftain also,
a great white spectre who came forth
from the north in winter, and swept
across the wilderness, spreading death
and terror.
To Chip, educated only in the fan
tastic lore of Old Tomah, these terrors
now became insanity breeding. She
could not turn back-better death
among the spites than shaving to the
half-breed; and so, faint from awful
fear, gasping from miles Of running,
she stumbled o. And now a little
hope came, for the road bent down be-
side the river, and Its low voice seemed
a word Of cheer. Into its cool depths
she could at least plunge and die, as a
last resort.
Soon an opening showed ahead, and
a bridge appeared. Here, for the first
time, on this vantage point, she halted.
How thrice blessed those knotted logs
now seemed! She Rugged and patted
them In AFFECT gratitude. She crawled
to the edge and looked over into the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-02-20
THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF
GEORGE WASHINGTON

BY VALERIE HOPE

We are so accustomed to pictures
Of George Washington in a rigid atti.
tude, with sternly compressed lips
and generally %forbidding expression,
that we forget he was eyer young and
a human being of flesh and blood like
the rest of us.
Instead of being a cold-blooded
prig Washington was magnetic in per-
sonality and a great social favorite.
He was the finest horseman in Vir.
ginia, an exceedingly graceful dancer
and a dandy in %ruffles, gold lace, vel
vet, silk stockings and diamond
buckles, who caused a furry in femi.
nine hearts whenever he appeared.
Young Washington was always fall,
Ing in love, and after his engagement
to Mrs. Gusts was announced his
mother wrote to a friend: 81 have had
a great deal of trouble with George.
but 1t is all over now His first 1T
tack of the heart occurred when he
was ID years old, and the object of
his affections was Miss Frances Alex
ander, aged II, whose fathers plan
tation adjoined Mount Vernon.
Imagine him pining and signing and
grating his teeth in despair, just hike
any young American lover in these
Gays! 1t is amusing now, but at that
time it was a very serious matter to
George Washington! Not much is
known of this courtship, and soon
after ne lost his heart TO Miss Lucy
Grymes, whom he often referred to
afterward as his "Lowland Beauty
About this time Washington wrote
a letter to Dear Sally" in which he
said: Il am almost discouraged from
writing to you as this is my fourth to
you since l reed any from yourself. |
hope you'll not make the Old Proverb
good out of sight out of Mind as it's
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-02-20
Presidents MESSAGE Criticised.

President Roosevelt is fond of
preaching; but in this tedious sermon
he combines, to his W disadvantage
and that of the causes he aims to
serve, the lurid style of Jonathan Ed
wards with the eXuberant vituperation
of Thomas w. Lawson. Per
haps some of those who have admired
him hitherto will now admire him the
more. But many who are not included
either among his blind and
ing supporters or among those who
cordially disapprove him will regret
that he has een fit to give to congress
and to the country a document like
this, that ~ovesreaches itself by its
diffuseness and deficient self.restraint.
Providence Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-02-20

DARK, gurgftng water. Up above lay a
faint ripple of silver. Here. also. she
could see the moon almost at the
zenith. and a few Pickering stars.
A trife Of courage and renewal of
hope now came. Her face and hands
were scratched and bleeding, clothing
torn, feet and legs black with mud.
But these things she neither noticed
o felt-only that blessed bridge of
logs that gave her safety, and the
moon that babe her hope.
Then she began to count her
chances. This landmark told her that
five miles of her desperate journey
had been covered and she was still
alive. She began to calculate. How
soon would her escape be discovered,
and who would pursue her? Only
Pete, her purchaser, she felt sure, and
there was a possible chance that he
might return to his cabin before doing
SO. Or perhaps he might sleep late,
and thus give her n or two hours
more of time.
And now, cheered by this triling
hope and lessening sense of danger,
her past life came back. Her child
hood in a far-off settlement; the home
always in a turmoil from the strange
men and women ever coming and go
ing; the drinking, swearing, singing,
at all hours of the night, her constant
fear of them and wonder who they
We're and why they came. There were
other features of this disturbed life:
frequent quarrels between her father
and mother; curses, tears, and some
times blows, until at last after a night
more hideous than any other her
mother had taken her and fed. Then
came a long journey TO another village
and a new life Of peace and ~quietness.
Here it was all so different-no red.
shirted men to be afraid of, no loud,
voiced women drinking with them.
She became acquainted with other
children of her own age, was sent to
school and taken to church. Here,
also, her mother began to smile once
more, and look content. For two years,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-02-20
ne Of the greatest pleasures in living

n Of the greatest pleasures in living
in Fairfax in often hearing from you
and hope you'll not deny me.
81 pass the time much more agree
bier than what l imagined l should as
there's a very agreeable Young Lady
Lives In the same house where l re-
side Miss Mary Cary that in a great
measure cheats my sorrow and defect
edness tho not so as to draw my
thoughts from your Parts. | could
wish to be with you down there with
all my heart but as it is a thins AL
most impractakable, l shall rest lay
self where | am with hopes of shortly
having some minutes of your transac-
tions.'
So we find the susceptible George
interested in three fair damsels at
once; Sally" the 'Lowland Beauty
and Miss Mary Cary, which recalls the
story of the man who could never
shoot a bird, because just as he had
aimed and was ready to shoot at one
bird another bird flew in the way.
In 1853 Lucy Grymes, the Lowland
Beauty, married Henry Lee and be-
came the mother Of Lighthouse
Harry" the Custer of the revolution.
One of Washington's most serious
love affairs YES with Miss Mary Cary,
and there is no doubt that she was in
love with him, but her father pre-
vented the marriage by handing out
the Alaskan negative.
There is a letter on record in which
Washington asked Mr.. Fauntleroy's
permission to make a proposal of mar
riage to his daughter lin the hope of
a revocation Of a former cruel sen
tence." But the fathers reply was
u~nfayorable, as usual, and Miss Betsy
afterwards married Thomas Adams Of
Williamsburg. 1t is a tradition of
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-02-20
coMslNes PREVAIL, AS USUAL.
Provisions Of Pure Fetd Law Not En-.
forced by Republicans.

The influence of the whisky trust,
the glucose trust, the beef packers
combine. the Patent Medicine associa-
ton and others whose products are
covered by the pure food and drug
act has been too much for what vir-
tue the administration possesses.
There is no doubt that President
Roosevelt favors the law and has in
tended to have it enforced, but to set
tie the many vexatious questions that
arise he has relied upon so-called ex-
perts, Including the board of food and
drug inspection, and the too many
cooks employed seem likely to spoil
the broth. The president is more in
terested in politics-personal politics
and has but little time to give to
details of the pure food law.
For instance, the whisky question
was first taken up by a select council
in the department of agriculture, was
then discussed at a cabinet meeting
and pondered by the president, was
then passed upon by the attorney gen
e:al, went back to the department of
agriculture, and has lately been
through the internal revenue bureau
and the attorney generals Office once
more. The benzoate of soda question
was prayerfully considered by the
board of food and drug inspection and
the decision was ratified by the sec
rotary of agriculture and two other
cabinet officers. Then it was taken up
by the secretary of agriculture again
and was by him referred once more
to the board. 1t then passed to the
president, who called the board into
consultation, and that is its status at
present. The corn strip question is
in very much the same position and
the sulphur issue, although not quite
so far advanced, is not very different
ly situated. Meanwhile, although
many suits for violation of the law
have been recommended to the de-
partment of justice by the department
of agriculture, but few have been
brought. The question is therefore be-
ing asked how far President Roose-
welt intends to have the law en-
forced. For a good while the presi-
dent has been regarded as the main
stay OF the law and he has at times
taken some unq~uestionably positive
steps in support of it. His recent ac-
ton in appointing still another board
OF scientists to pass upon some mooted
questions will, of course, operate as a
postponement and will to some ex-
tent weaken the present efficient board
of food and drug inspection by show
ing that the administration has not
full faith in its rulings.
1t is evident that at least some of
the administration and other lesser
officials are either not competent or
else are trying to favor the interests
affected. The delay in enforcing the
law against those who disregard it
is very unfair to those who are hon
e5tly trying to obey the law, for in
most cases the pure preparations are
not as enticing to look at as those
which are adulterated. Meanwhile
the health of the people, especially the
sickly and the children, is injured by
the delay in enforcing the law, while
q Republican administration is playing
politics for the perpetuation of its
no-ynr
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-02-20
A RELIC OF WASHINGTON.
Memorial Pitcher Made Shortly After
the Death of First President.

Mrs. Edward A. Stevens, 206 West
Lake street, Minneapolis, is the pos
SCISSOR Of a rare Washington memorial
pitcher, a limited number Of which
were made shortly after the death OF
George Washington, December Ia,
1899. This pitcher was originally
owned by Mrs. Stevens g~reat-great-
grandfather, and has been handed
down from family to family.
1t is made of common ware, glazed
over Its surface Is badly cracked
and shows marks of extreme age. AL
though 1t only holds a quart, Its pres
ent owner would not part with 1t for
q quart Of gold, holding it priceless.
On the side shown in the picture Is
an ode to liberty for the gaining Of
which Washington gave his best years
in the service of his country. On the
streamer surrounding the ode are the
names of the Is states in the union at
the time Of Washington's death. They
are: virginia, Maryland, Delaware,
PennsslyanIa. New York. New Jersey,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-02-20
Sometimes Hubby Is Entirely Unable
to See the Joke.

This lis a simple trick, and every
married woman can perform it; but 1t
requires the assistance OF a confed-
crate with e big bag of shining tin
ware on his back. First get a hus-
band with an extra pair of slightly
worn trousers in his wardrobe; then
have the conference.-the man with
the bag of tinware-come to the back
door and knock gently. The wife
must then peep out in a frightened
way. and Immediately the mar with
the tinware tells a tale that re-
sembles q mining stock advertise
ment. The wife stops to think a few
minutes. Suddenly she must rush to
the wardrobe, but only after the man
rattles the brilliant tinware to arouse
her. The wife must walk back to the
man again with the trousers. The
man must take them and hand the
wife a few tin pans. All the while
the man with the tinware must smile
happily. AT last the transaction is
completed, and, presto change! the