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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
RAILKoAD1NG IN KANSAS.
A Game of Chance at Times Under
the Law Protecting Employees.

A Game of Chance at Times Under
the Law Protecting Employees.
kansas is a great State" said the
man whose business keeps him jump
ing from town to town in the sun
flower country, says the Boston Her
aid, "all except the railroads, and
these sure did bother me in the first
few months that l, raw fastener
spent within her borders.
1T is a game of chance sometimes,
to get from place to place and it isn't
all due to the fact that the farther
you get away from the East the more
railroad schedules go awry They
have a law in Kansas that no railroad
employee shall work more than sixteen
hours on a stretch and it's that law
which plays the dickens.
"A few superb trains pass through
Kansas-that's what they do, pass
through, scarcely stopping long
enough to say howdy. They are going
to the coast or returning, and once in
a while | can make trip from one
big town to another in true Eastern
style, but for the short local trips that
my business demands it's mixed
freight and passenger trains most Of
the time.
And here's where the law to pro-
tect employees works like wheel of
fortune. The schedule may call for
arrival at particular place in ample.
time for the crews to be changed le
gally, but if lot of freight is to be
handled at preceding stopping places
the delay may be so great that the
sixteen-hour limit may expire miles
and miles short of destination.
And if this limit does not expire
there's nothing for it but to run the
train to the next place that resembles
a stop, If it's only siding, and lay
it off, The next train that comes
along doubles up with the stalled
train and takes the law-protected
trainmen along as passengers.
They mustn't work, mind you, I'M
til eight hours have elapsed. Occa-
sionalIy there is no next train for
more than eight hours. In that case
the crew, having had its legal rest,
may resume work.
This is gospel truth I'm telling
you, for l have been held up in these
stalled trains many time.
"One night l was going up the Lin
coin branch of the Union Pacific, hop
ing to reach Marysville late that
night The train had only one pas
senger car. There was lot of way
freight and we kept losing and losing
time
1.-The sixteen-hour limit of work for
that crew came at midnight when we
were about twelve miles out of Marys-
vile. We we're near siding and into
this we ran, prepared to wait for an
other train or for the eight hours to
expire.
There WASH sign of a house
anywhere, so the passengers, only six
men, then spent the night as best they
could in the car. The trainmen had
the more comfortable caboose.
There we stuck until daylight No
next train had come then, so the six of
us trudged along until we found a
farmhouse. We got the farmer to
drive us into Marysville and beat the
train in at that"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12

Another instance of the fact that
eggs for Matching purposes can be
sent long distance with good results
can be seen in the case of Mr.. W. B.
Borders of Wichita, Kan Mr.. Bor-
ders is a breeder of buff orpingtons,
and sent to England, the original
home of the orpingtons, for 80 eggs
They arrived in good condition and he
Matched rs chicks. Two or three Of
them were killed by accident, but he
has now over 20 of those chicks and
they are the finest lot of bun orping-
tons he ever saw 1t is not so much
the long distances that eggs are
shipped that causes poor matches as it
is the rough handling that they fire.
quently get from express agents and
others. If handled with proper care
eggs can be shipped 10000 miles
away and still hatch a good percent
age of the fertile eggs.-Kansas Farm
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12

vested and it is now safe to speak of
results. Throughout the entire grain
growing area of $4,000 square miles
there has been a uniform production
and high average. Careful estimates
place the yield of spring wheat at 30
bushels per acre, winter wheat at over
40 bushels and oats exceed so bushels
per acre. Barley also has proved an
abundant yield. What will attract the
reading public more than volumes of
figures will be the fact that those who
have been induced through the influ-
ence of the Government to accept of
160 acres of free grant land, or, by the
persuasion of friends to leave their
home State of Dakota, Minnesota,
Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio,
Nebraska or the other States from
which people have gone, have done
well. Financially, they are in better
position than many of them ever ex-
pected to be, and in the matter of
health, in social conditions, they have
lost nothing
The columns of Canadian newspa-
pers are filed with accounts of this
years harvest, writer's vying with each
other in giving the proper coloring to
their reports. These make exhilarating
reading to the man who has interests
In that country. Lethbridge people
claim it to be the keystone of Southern
Alberta, while Calgary people claim
the same for their district. 1t was in
this district that the growing of win
ter wheat in western Canada originat-
ed. It's success there led the farmers
east and west of it to experiment and
what can now be said of one part may
well be said of the whole. In a few
years from now these great plains over
whose breadth for years roved hun
dreds of thousands of heads of cattle.
following the millions of buffalo that
once grazed their grasses, will be
solid grain field covering territory of
over 10000 square miles, and very lit
tie of it but what will yet be worth
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
Worth Heading.

Sixty-nine entirely new varieties oil
roses were shown at recent French
exhibition.
An average orange tree produces
10000 oranges and an average lemon
tree 5000 lemons.
Russia IS the largest producer of bar.
ley; Germany IS second and the United
States close third.
The lucifer match was invented in
1929 after many years Of experiment.
ing by several scientists.
The tungsten incandescent lamp h
the first artificial light by which all
colors can be distinguished.
American plows and cultivators are
turning up the soil In more than sew
enty countries and colonies.
The main doors in a leading New
York hotel are operated by an electric
motor, controlled by push button N
the hands Of a doorman.
North Dakota is to establish bio
logical station on tho shore of Devils
Lake, large body Of brackish water
with apparently no outlet.
The country's slate production last
year amounted in value to s6,216,S17,
an increase over the previous year OF
1927 97 despite the business depres-
sion.
/ Mrs. Keith spalding. Of Chicago.
has just given $4,000 and forty acres
OF land TO be used in establishing
tuberculosis sanatorium at Naperville.
III.
Turkish farmers never use fertil-
izers. nor do they practice rotation of
crops. The same crops are planted
year after year until the soil is ex-
hausted.
One OF the last official acts of the
deposed Sultan OF Turkey. Abdul Ha-
mid, was to revoke an order made half
century ago forbidding balloon as
tensions in the vicinity Of CONSTANT
nople.
The Brazilian ministry of public
works has decided that It's new dry
dock. which VIII be big enough to &C
commodate the largest vessels afioaL
shall be OF the floating type instead
OF the fixed.
A New York undertaken claims 70
have discovered a new method OF en-
calming by which the tissues are pre-
served by outward applications Of GER
lain chemicals without the necessity
Of any incis.on-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
SSSSSSSSSSS
Raspberry Culture.

1t is best to cultivate the raspberry
plants before fruiting time. The old
stalks which grew last summer will
all die by the close of summer this
rear. The canes which will produce
next years crop of fruit will be those
which come up as little sprouts this
coming spring. 1t will be we'll. when
these new shoots get to be 20 inches
high, to pinch them back, so as to
induce branching from the ground UP,
These will be the canes for next years
crop. Those which bear fruit this sea
son can be cut any time after the fruit
crop Is harvested up to the beginning
Of growth next spting DIR. Written,
Missouri Agricultural College.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
Great Crops in
Western Canada
Canadian Correspondence:

Canadian Correspondence:
During the early days in the growth
of the crop in Western Canada, as well
as throughout the ripening and garner
ing period. there is yearly growing an
increasing interest throughout the Uni
ted States, as to the probable results
when harvest is completed. These
mean much to the thousands of Ameri-
cans who have made their home in
some one of the three Provinces that
form that vast agricultural domain, and
is of considerable interest to the
friends they have left behind them
The year 1909 is no disappointment;
IT will bring comfort and happiness.
wealth and luxury to those who are
Following agriculture as a pursuit in
the country now occupying so much of
the attention of the world-of this con-
tlnent in particular. Reports from the
grain fields warrant the note of opti-
mism that has been so prominent dur
Ing the past few months. The crops of
wheat, oats and barley have been har-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12

seem reflection on the intelligence OF
the reading public to repeat it. 1t is
not proposed to do so. Its Topographic
cal characteristics are divergent There
is the level prairie with it's rich deep
loan and underlying subsoil, the high
er and rolling lands with their groves
of timber, the wooded lands rich IN
SOIL The wants of all can be supplied;
some want one kind and some another
and they can all be suited. The man
who wants. to put in his steam ploW
and force the energies of the soil into
immediate production can be suited,
and so can the man who wishes large
tracts for the same purposes, and at
the same time enjoy the companion
ship of the timber. In many parts 1t
is possible to have a hundred mile
square of wheat, without a break. A
writer says: I'VE were driven west and
north of Moose Jaw through 20 miles
of dead ripe wheat, acres of stocks and
we'll worked summer fallows. One of
these fields would yield 40 bushels to
the acre, and another man had oats
that would yield 80 or 100 bushels to
the acre. In this district wheat VIII
average so to 35 bushels. The condl-
tons were never better and through
out the district the people are assured
of most prosperous year." In the
Melfort district, three hundred miles
in another direction, we hear of far
mer whose yield of oats will run from
So to 100 bushels per acre; then trav-
cling over another stretch of three
hundred miles the Pipestone district in
Manitoba is reached and we learn of
more so and 40 bushels to the acre
crops of wheat. So it will be seen that
the splendid crops are not confined to
one district, but are general throughout
the entire country.
Speaking of his experiences while
travelling through the Canadian West,
Thomas C. Shotwell, financial Editor
of the New York American, said that
heretofore he had entertained optimis-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12

Professor j. d. Harris. principal Of
the Warrenton, Va, High School. who
last April shot and killed William A
THOMPSON, editor Of the Warrenton
virginian. on the streets Of that place,
was found guilty Of voluntary man
slaughter. Punishment was fixed at
four years in the penitentiary.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
Grnspinr the DetaiIs.

Cant you get better grasp on
the details of the business?" asked
the senior partner.
This is very large business" ex-
planned the new clerk.
Il know. but you seem to be able
to keep up with the baseball batting
averages without card index"-Kan-
sas City Journal
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12

stringhalt. a spasmodie contraction
Of the voluntary muscles OF the leg,
usually occurs In animals OF high
IL nervous disposition. One OF the
most frequent forms Of srringhait Is a
Jerking up OF the hind leg as the
horse travels. In many cases only When
the horse first starts.
This Is often most severe In cold
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
FIGHT FOR THE REMNANTS.
Standing of Clubs I'm the Principal
Base Ball Leagues.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Army Aids wind sufferers.

BY direction of the Secretary of
War General w. w Wetherspoon, act
ing chief of staff, has authorized the
issue of 10000 of short army rations
to the cyclone sufferers in Terrebonne
parish, Louisiana. This action was
taken on the request of United States
Senator Foster and Representative
BroussaTd
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
A slight Holt.

Brown had just finished a nara
tive that was tedious and long drawn
out.
Say, Brown" exclaimed one of his
audience, you'd make good bank
cashier"
why do you think so?" queried
Brown.
Because" answered the other, you
are never short in your accounts
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
a New Danger.

81 was fined hundred dollars and
costs this morning said the owner
of the aeroplane. sadly.
What for?" queried his friend.
My chauffeur lost control OF the
machine and 1t bumped into and
smashed some fellows air castle
answered the high flyer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
ALBERT PULITZER rs sELF-sLAIN
Brother of New York World Pub
IfSher Commits Suicida

brother of New York World Pub
Usher Commits Suicide.
Albert Pulitzer, brother of Joseph
Pulitzer, publisher of the New York
World, committed suicide in Vienna.
He made doubly sure of death, for he
first swallowed poison and then, stand
from a revolver through his right tenn
pie. An empty poison bottle lay on
the table in the room. Mr.. Pulitzer,
who had suffered a nervous break
down, was greatly depressed over the
inability of his physicians to benefit
him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
unrIed from Auto Into Tree.

In an automobile crash at Bath
Beach, New York, one OF a party of
six men was hurled straight up in the
air and did not come down. 1t was
not until after a long search. in which
parishioners of church joined, that
Reginald Boyd was found lying uncon-
scious across the limb of a tree.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
NEW DREADNoUGHT LAUNCHED.
British Sea Fighter, the Neptune, Be-
Ifeved Unsin kabIe by Torpedo.

The Neptune, Great Britain's eighth
battle ship of the Dreadnought class
or the eleventh, including the three
battle-ship cruisers represented by the
Inflexible, now participating in the
Hudson-Fulton celebration at New
York, was successfully launched at
Portsmouth, England. by the Duchess
of Albany in the presence of a great
crowd The bulkheads of this super
Dreadnought are so heavily armored
that experts consider her practically
unsuitable by torpedo.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12

Come. fly with me" he whispered
low;
BE mine, be mine, while life en-
dures,"
s.But first" she said, 4 want to know
What make of aeroplane is yours"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12

A son was born Thursday to Crown
Princess Frederick William of Ger
many. formerly Duchess Cecilie OF
Mecklenburg-S chwerin. This is the
third son born to the crown princess.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12

A French scientist is out with an
argument that the contraction of the
solid part of The earth has caused it
to take a pyramidal .crm. the faces
being the basins Of the Atlantic. Pa
cific and Indian Oceans. the fourth
being within the Arctic circle
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
DoubtfuI Honors.

why is it easier for a man who
has Job to get another Job"
well. an employer will often give
a man good references in order to get
rid Of him" louisville Courier-Jour-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
WY She Griexe.-

why is 1t that Rosamond appears
so unhappy? Did she not marry a
counts"
Yes; but he turned out to be no
count Harvard Lampoon.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12

An unknown man. about 80 years
old, jumped from the upper steel arch
bridge into the Niagara river and was
drowned The body appeared on the
surface for an instant and then was
lost to view.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12

In a quarrel in cell OF the county
prison at Holmes5urg. Philadelphia
suburb. over the possession of a loaf
of bread. Anton Zachish killed his cell
mate. Pietre Crambrane, by slashing
his throat with razor
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
Ends Life at Home of sisters.

George Z. Taber, of Humeston. Iowa.
committed suicide by shooting at the
home of his sisters in New Bedford.
Mass. Mr. Taber came east two
months ago because of i'll health.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12

Downe-Yes, went to a 5 o'clock
tea with my wife yesterday
Demonstrations, Didn't it almost
drive you crazy2
Downe-0h, no; didn't mind II.
own a boiler shop, you know.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
THING.

Huh. You think you are smart.
don't youg"
Sometimes I do, and then l happen
to look at what / married and | am
ready TO confess that l am not
Houston Post.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
neniea POISON. Leap Is Fatal.

Failing to persuade her physician to
administer poison TO end her suffer
ings. Mrs. Minna Pohl an invalid, 70
years old. committed suicide by hurl-
ing herself from a second-story win
dow of her home in Baltimore.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
The Rrufe.

Sh@I see there's a man in France
who has murdered three of his wives
In succession. I'd like TO see the man
who would murder me.
He-So would /, my dear.-Aliy
SIopers Half-Holiday.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12

And Modern Science sim Triumphs.
DO you believe surgery can ward
OF old age?'
"Oh, yes. Frequently the patient
dies under an operation" -Philadel-
phia Public Ledger.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
s1nn-nnn E.ire at nrick Plnnf.

The Households Brick CompaEy's
miami. located al Households, n. Y.
was destroyed ~ fire. LOST $l00,500;
insurance S25, 600.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12

Twenty million false teeth are sent
to England from this country every
year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-12
How 10 Cnre For the nnrse.

pW ~ Ntre KOr the Horse.
A hat Is a great protection to a
horses brain in hot weather. They
can be bought at any store for 25
cents.
Sore shoulders are caused by III
fitting collars. and. nothing else.
A man who will work a horse with
a sore shoulder and make no attempt
TO cure it, or change the collar. ought
to be compelled to wear iil-htting
shoes that would raise new crop of
blisters every week.
If the horses are taken off dry feed.
allowed to run to grass and worked
hard on hot days, look out for collie.
Work teams ought to be allowed to
run in the pasture at night. 1t is
cruelty to eonfine them in hot stalls.
The horse that sweats freely is in
good condition.
During the heavy work in hot
weather horses ought to be watered
between the regular resting periods.
1t does not make much difference
whether horses are watered before or
after eating. 1t is largely matter
of habit, and experiments show that
one time is about as good as another.
A horse that bolts his food cannot
have perfect digestion any more than
a man who eats in the same way
Try cutting the bedding straw for
your horses into inch lengths. 1t
makes fine bedding, absorbs liquid
readily. is easy to handle in cleaning
the stables, and also in the manure
carrier and spreader-Farmers and
Drovers' Journal.
Can Women Succeed with PouItryf
This Is the heading of a recent ar
ticle In a prominent poultry journal
1t makes a woman smile to read 1t.
Can women succeed? Did you ever
stop to think that the moment any
thing in the live stock line begins to
pay-or In most other lines, the men
step in and take command at the helm
then? In the poultry business 1t Is
more conspicuous than in others,
do think The bulk of the poultry and
eggs sold in the United States are pro.
duced by women and children. Then
ask If woman can succeed In poul-
try.
When 1t comes to selling fancy
fowls, shipping these. or any kind, to
shows, and judging, men certainly
bava tolyan tha 1aod A u,oy,ou a. {,,a4
as womanly shipping fowls for exhi.
bition and judging them at shows and
fairs as staying at home cleaning after
and caring for them, and am glad to
see that some women are pushing into
the public part Of the business. All
but judging, / know of no women
judges. And why, I'd like to know.
There is a field for woman right
here If she will only push into It,
There isn't one phase of the poultry
business adopted by men that a wom
an could not do better If she would
Any intelligent woman is capable OF
starting a poultry place and taking
care of 1000 fowls a day as we'll as
any man-if she wants to-and has
moderate degree of strength. If she
hasn't this last she Is not fit for any
kind of work requiring the amount OF
muscle a woman should aspire TO.
The work is healthy, II carried on
with system. and women are. as a rule.
neater and more Clearly about work
than men.-Ida M. Shepler in TWEEN.
tieth Century Farmer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-03-17
Notice

R. B. Webb, contractor and build
 er. who has been doing the brick work for the Pine Bluff Water and Light Company over year, is pre- pared to do your brick work. has a special line of jacks and am prepared to do your foundation work and any kind of brick work, boiler setter, flues and chimneys and am able to furnish you any kind of reference you desire
 I am able to furnish most any kind of bond necessary. See me and save money before you let your contract. All work guaranteed. Write me for plans and specifications at 1120 West Second avenue, or ring old phone S57. Pine Bluff. Ark. 3-2 If
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-03-17
HINEMON SCHOOL
 DAMAGED BY FIRE.

Monticello. March 16-The dormi- tory for young men at Hinemon Col lege was destroyed by fire at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. the total loss amounting to $10,OO0 Nobody was injared in the fire, and the stud ents were ablese.to save the greater part of their personal effeets.ss@%
 The citizens of Monticello have thrown open their homes to the stud ents and this hospitality has prevent cd any cessation of college work.
 Steps will be taken immediately to rebuild the dormitory.
 The loss was partially covered by q, 500 insurance.