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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
Motor Truck on rnrm.

three-ton gasoline motor truck as
farm vehicle in place of the ordi-
nary horse wagon is unusual. to say
least. II is a fact, however, and shows
that the rapid substitution OF the
commercial motor vehicle for horse
drawn conveyance is not any means
limited to our large cities. One good
example of the practical use of the
motor truck in farming is afforded at
Conyers Manor, at Greenwich, Con-
necticut
Conyers Manor is one of the most
notable estates in the East, which is
not merely ornamental, but great
farm, operated on a commercial basis,
1t represents 1900 acres of reclaimed
land. and is the home of e. C. Con-
verse. Aside from being beautiful
estate, 1t Is typical of the great adj
vancement which has been made in
modern farming, and especially in the
way OF applying scientific and COM
mercial methods to agriculture. Mo-
tor cars are common at Conyers Man.
-NOl OhAg - lhNAO q A~A 90 sAAA
well-equipped private garage for the
several pleasure cars, but there is
separate garage. :. for the commercial
vehicles, which It is proposed to use
extensively. The basis OF work In the
commercial vehicle line. now on the
farm, is a Packard three-ton truck.
Conyers Manor is about nine miles
outside of Greenwich. THE principal
work OF the Packard truck Is in run
ming back and forth between the farm
and town. It's regular platform e5dy
has special grain body inserted In
side the regular stakes. BY removing
this inside body when II is not de-
sired to haul grain to Greenwich, the
truck with its regular body is ready
for use in other work of carrying fer
tilizer, coal, machinery and general
supplies. Mr.. Converse Is an enthu-
siastic advocate of motor vehicles for
hauling, and makes DO distinction be-
tween hauling in the city and In the
country, He argues that, with suita-
BILE roads, such vehicles as the Pack
ard three-ton truck are particularly
well adapted to farm hauling. Their
greatest efficiency is in the carrying
of approximately full loads for long
distances, with infrequent stops. Ag-
rlcultural hauling meets these re-
quirements exactly. The special mo-
tor truck garage which has been erect
ed at Conyers Manor has room for the
accommodation of four three-ton
trucks, it being intended that eyentu-
ally at least three or four trucks will
be in regular service.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
nnrnm Flour.

The United States Department of
Agriculture gave the durum flour a
good test a few months ago, when it
caused to be baked 40 loaves OF
bread, 200 from durum wheat -four
and 200 from Minneapolis spring
wheat. The loaves were sent broad
cast to people who could intelligently
compare them and of the replies re-
ceived "a per cent gave the E.im to
the durum loaves.
Although this durum or macaroni
flour, as it is often called, Is of com
paratively recent introduction into
country, the growing demand far ex-
ceeds the supply. 1t is made from the
wheat supply grown in the semiarid
regions and contains the highest guam
tity of expansive gluten.
1t is a trifle sweeter than the ordi-
nary flour and furnishes a rich brown
crusty loaf that retains its moisture
longer than any other loaf 1t is the
same -four from which the Frenchman
makes his delightful crusty, nutty
favored French loaf and the Italian
uses in making his Incompatible ma
caroni. Thus far the farmers in this
country have only been able to pro.
duce a $4,000, 000-bushel crop. when
one Of 200,0O0,0O0 or 300,OOo,OOO is de
handed Last year from 100000
to 30,000,000 bushels Of durum flour
was used in Minneapolis alone to mix
with weaker flours, building them up
in that most necessary requisite of the
matchmaking principle, gluten.-Ex
change.
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cording to variety. So rich is 1t in
starch that it yields nearly one-third
of its weight In -four, and its leaves
are prepared for the table after the
manner of spinach.
One reason why it is deemed desir-
able to introduce these plants is that
they flourish In land that is too wet
for ordinary crops, 1t has been as
certained that they will grow we'll in
this country as far north as the Caro-
linas Not only are they useful by
reason OF their edible qualities. but
their high yield of starch affords
prospect of great usefulness for them
as stock food or in the production OF
alcohol.
The yautia seems to have been origi-
nally native OF the West Indies. 1t
was cultivated by the aborigines in
those parts centuries before Columbus
discovered America Even to the
present day its roots, which look
somewhat like sweet potatoes, are
raised on the islands of that archi-
pelago in great quantities, the produc-
ton often reaching ten tons to the
acre. Did the white potato not exist
they would take the place of it admir-
ably.-Exchange
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
A secret signal.

did you ever notice how the tailors
while measuring man for a suit Of
clothes mix in a few letters occasion
ally among the numbers?" asked a
downtown lawyer recently of friend.
Whenever 1 have been measured for
a suit of clothes the tailor always said
s. B. L. in a subdued voice as he took
the measure for the length of my trou-
sers / often wondered what this se-
cret signal meant and on one occasion
made so bold as to ask, but was put
aside in some casual way. which plain
ly showed me that the tailor did not
wish me to know the meaning of the
mysterious S. B. L.
well, l never knew what these let
tiers meant until one day not long ago,
when l stumbled across the solution
quite by accident. l was waiting to
have my measure taken while strap
ping big fellow was on the rack. AS
he measured the length of the trou-
sers leg the tailor said, 'S3. s. B. L.
yes came back the reply from
the big fellow, and - bowlegged,
too
"All these years tailors have been
accusing me of being Slightly bow
legged and l had never caught on
until l was practically told the answer
in the accidental way. Philadelphia
Record
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
Surface Cultivation.

The first cultivation of any crop
nay be moderately deep, while the
roots of the plants are small and oce
cupy very little soil space Some
farmers, however, cultivate deep at all
periods, during the growing season,
when the roots of the plants are long
and fill nearly all of the soil between
rows They have a notion that the
object of cultivation is to tear the soil
up as far as the pillow went. and they
take small thought of the danger they
are doing to the roots Of the growing
crop.
After the soil has been plowed and
properly narrowed and otherwise
worked down the lower part is in a
good condition for the growth and
spread of growing roots. There is no
need Of tearing It up again during the
season, in fact loosening 1t up to more
than two or three inches will do more
harm than good. The past summer
the writer grew corn on ground that
had been firmly packed and beaten
down with heavy spring rains and
corn on either side of the strip where
the soil was restirred after It had be
come packed by the early rains. All
Of the field was given very light sur
face cultivation, and the strip that
was packed the hardest grew the best
corn.
The best cultivator Is the one that
has the most small shovels. We
never cultivate deeply at any time,
never more than two inches. or just
deep enough to kill the weeds and
secure better results than from deep
cultivation. Keeping the soil loose on
top and packed beneath. and the grow
ing roots untouched, viii give best
results.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
FREE CITY OF THE EMPIRE.
Founded 1000 Years Ago, 1t Is Pic
turesque and Fascinating.

Founded 1000 Years Ago, 1t Is Pic
turesque and Fascinating.
For thousand years Rothenburg
has been city. For more than 500
years it was free city of the empire.
1t is not like those ancient towns
which, through, centuries OF strife, pre-
served their entity through being hud-
died near the base of some great c. :
tie; it is not like those towns that
were protected by powerful princes;
for it has maintained itself by it's own
unaided sturdiness. If great barons
came to Rothenburg they came to re-
ceive protection, NO to give it, or else
they came to be entertained with the
lavish openhandedness that made the
city place to which emperors them
selves found pleasure in resorting.
By crusaders and pilgrims, Rothen-
not only for its generous hospitality,
but because, seen from the river, it
bore a striking resemblance to Jerusa-
lem, says Robert Shackleton in Har-
per's. But there was order in those
times of turbulence; and in an old, old
house used by Palestine's pilgrims,
and still known as Pilgrims house,
there is an ancient stone, bearing upon
it an ancient carving of a hand and a
Ratchet, with the ominous inscription:
He who hath quarrels in this house
shall have his hand cut off,
Yet since those early days the town
has been comparatively forgotten.
Even yet it has not become haunt
of the tourist and the traveller, al
though each year few Americans re-
sort thitherward, bringing back tales
of this city that out-Nurnbergs Nurn-
berg. 1t is easily reached, being on a
little branch line from the railway be-
tween Frankfort and Munich
1t is place where the sightseer can
not go wrong, for everywhere is fasci-
nation. There are both stateliness and
beauty. There are towering houses
with criss-crossed fronts
There are deep dungeons under the
rathhaus, reached by stairways drip
ping with moisture, into which not
ray of light can enter; and in one of
these dungeons, some five centuries
ago, the men of Rothenburg placed the
burgomaster who more than any other
in the long burgomasterial line, gave
to the city power and wealth and pros
perity. But they charged him with
conspiring with the emperor, and not
only gave him no light, but edged their
animosity by deliberately giving him
no food 1t is in all a fiercely dramat-
ic story; for friends who were still
faithful tunnelled to the cell and mad.
ly cut through its prodigious wall and
reached the prisoner-but only to find
him dead
Nowadays they treat unpopular bur-
gomasters with more consideration.
Each burgomaster Is chosen for three
years, and at the end of that time he
is either elected for life or gives place
to a successor But an election for
life does not give unchecked power,
for 1t Is simple matter with these
townfolks, If they tire of life-chosen
mayor, to make him 80 crazy with
vexation," as it was expressed to me,
that he is glad to resign and accept
the pension that they palliatively of.
fer. Only recently they thus got rid
of one.
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you. and come down with him by the
Sis train. If you will just stay with
Us till Monday morning, 1 will release
you then, and you can go back to
your beloved Thames. Your affection
ate sister, Louise Carroll"
Rupert read the letter through twice
over with somewhat perturbed face,
then. holding it still in his hand he
went slowly downstairs to the low, old
fashioned coffee-room. where his
breakfast awaited him. He was torn
in twain with conflicting claims. There
was on the one hand Irene, his new
found love, and his duty to make
known his pretensions to her hand at
once to her mother, besides his own
inclination to remain with the girl he
loved But on the other hand. Miss
Carroll was the one person IN all the
world to whom Rupert owed the great
est consideration and affection. To
fail her now. at this crisis of the fam
lily history, would be to cause her
great annoyance and embarrassment.
(To be continued9
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24

have badly to such a darling. as you
are! How could / be such a brute? ?
Don't you understand that I consider
myself the luckiest fellow in all the
world? 1t is so beautiful to think.
too. that have taught you how to
love-that you have never frittered
away your sweet, fresh nature with
half-a-dozen desperate flirtations, as
so many of the girls one meets have
done. Oh! how do you suppose a man
could ever behave badly to anything
that he has Won, as l have won you?
1t is as If you were an angel of limo
cence that has futtered down on
snow white wings to this lower
world"
Presently ne took her home, away
from the tulnbling weir that had
danced an accompaniment to their
vows of love; back into the quiet
waters of the backwater, where the
white swans glided away, ghost like.
amongst the shadows at their APP
proach. and where the water-lilies lay
like shining gems upon the bosom of
the stream.
Good night. my little love-" he said,
as he helped her on to the garden
bank. Keep our secret for tonight,
and tomorrow we will tell the dear
mother together. 1 shall come early.
Go home now, and dream of me-"
Beneath the archway of roses that
filled the night air with balmy sweet
ness, they kissed once again and part
ed. A nightingale sang high up in
the elne tree overhead, a white moth,
with widespread wings. fiuttered past
them. A little breeze, redolent with
mignonette and jasmine, paused for
moment to murmur a caress in their
ear.
Goodnight. goodnight! until to-
morrow!" said the man.
Until tomorrow" echoed the girl,
and the little breeze bore away her
words like sigh.
And so they parted-full of love,
and of hope, and of bright dreams of
long and happy future. When Irene
reached the house. she turned back
once more; but the punt had disap-
peared and she saw her handsome
lover no more. She looked up at the
sky, and 10, and behold the moon
had yelled her beauty behind thin
hazy mist, and a heavy bank Of cloud
had stolen up from the west, half over
the star-flecked sky. She shivered a
little-she knew not why.
IF 1 were superstitious," she
thought-"but then l am not In the
least! 1t would be too utterly fool
ish, for what can take my love and
my happiness away from me new? it
is fixed as the foundations of the
earth itself. And though we are part
ed now for few brief hours, to-mor-
row 1 shall see him again-to- morrow.
happy, happy tomorrow"
Alas for that morrow" for
which she longed!
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
HEAVY LOSS In STORM.
lightning strikes Barn. in Brow

lightning Strikes Barns In Brown
County, but Rain Saves Crops.
During an electrical storm between
II and 2 o'clock on recent morning
about $4,000 worth of damage was
done to farmers barns and farm ma
chinery in Brown County. The barn
of Peter Comes was totally destroyed
with considerable hay and grain, some
farm machinery and fifteen horses and
two cows. The loss is $4,000. The
barn belonging to Louis Johnson, town
OF Alloway, and a COW stable were
also struck by lightning and destroyed,
but the horses nd cows were gotten
out. The loss is $4,000. The barn of
John Mitchell, in the town of Ash.
waubenon, was struck by lightning
and destroyed. One horse was killed.
The heavy rains which accompanied
the electrical storm were of great val
ue to crops, especially corn, cabbage
and potatoes. The rain probably
saved the crops.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
IN ROLE OF A LABoRER.
Kenosha Judge Who Wandere,
from Home Factory EmpIoye.

Kenosha Judge Who Wandered
from Home Factory EmpIoye.
Judge Joseph r. Clarkson again en-
tered into the activities of his home
town of Kenosha, and for the first
time since he returned from his
strange wanderings, which ended with
his becoming common laborer in a
button factory in Sabula, Iowa, greet
ed his friends with old-time cordiality.
He still refuses to reveal the secret i'm
pulses and longings which caused him
TO go away from his home and his
friends and remain concealed from
them so many weeks Judge Clark
son is himself again, but he will never
return to the practice of law. He
gave up his profession and his name
VIII be written down on the pay roll
OF the Simmons Manufacturing Com
pany as a wage-earner He has not
sought place of preference, but his
only request in seeking a job was:
Give me place where l can do man.
ual labor, where | can work with my
hands and enjoy the pleasures of the
man who is absolutely engaged in the
production of something OF tangi-
Bile nature
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
The Farmer a Business Man.

Inc It armcr n business NAAns
The old-fashioned farmer used 20
leave large part of his business to
chance. His selection of crops was
mostly guesswork, for he knew moth
ing of the chemical properties of his
land. He invited bankruptcy by de-
pending upon one or two things. and
he allowed other parties to market his
produce, taking what they were will
ing to give him.
Through the agricultural schools the
farmer has been taught how to utilize
his resources to the fullest extent and
how to curtail waste, turning by prod
ucts 70 account.
He learns what his soil will grow
best, and in getting seed he takes ad-
vantage of the Improvements on ma
ture. He hastens his harvesting with
labor-saving machinery. 1t has just
been shown that the farmers of COM
munity may combine to purchase
still for denatured alcohol and make
a good profit from their corn husks
and garbage.
The Department of Agriculture has
been experimenting to this end, and
it is announced that still of suAselent
capacity to serve rural neighborhood
may be installed for little over ST.
000 The farmers of France have made
this enterprise pay Spokesman
Review.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
Farm Automobiles.


improvements In road machines
have brought them to a degree of use
fitness that Is interesting to farmers.
Formerly automobiles were so heavy
and the power so uncertain that farm
ers preferred horses. During the past
year great improvements have been
brought about in safety. in easy rid
ing, in the application Of power to the
best advantage, and with all the Inn
proyements the price has been lowered
until 1t Is considered a good PROPOSE
ton to invest in an automobile and to
save the horses.
A business farmer has great deal
of running about to do, In spite Of tela-
phones and other modern improve
ments, and It seems TO be a question
between keeping driving horses and
an automobile. There are men who
prefer horses because Of their associa-
ton with live things. There are
others who have less sympathy with
animals and those men often get
along better. with a machine. They
can drive It as hard as they want TO,
so long as they do no damage. and
It is nobody's business.
There are 50 many styles and varie-
ties Of automobiles on the market this
year. and so many good ones among
them, that It is very difficult to point
out any particular machine, out on
general principles an automobile, to be
serviceable, must have abundance OF
power, and It must be comparatively
low down
1t is said that the cost OF keeping a
good automobile IS less than the cost
of keeping one horse. and that the
care, when figured in time is not
much different The horse must be
fed the same. whether he works or
not: al least there Is very little differ
ence in the cost Of feed or time III
feeding. But the expense OF a ma
chine stops as soon is It comes to rest
that Is. all the expense except IN
terest and depreciation Business
farmers. Of course. take all these
things into account Economy does
not consist In saving all the dollars
possible. but investing them in such
way as to get the best possible re-
turns.
Improved roads have done great !.
deal to introduce automobiles into the
country OF course, We have a great
many improvements yet to make, brt
In most places the principa: roads are
IN good condition during the summer
and early fall. Some people don't
care to ride In an automobile In COLI
weather. anyway, but It Is a greIt
satisfaction to know that the machine
may be put inside and left for the
day or month. and that there are no
extra grain or hay grinding teeth and
Jaws working night and day Ia our
Agricultural Epitomisr.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
GASOLINE CAUSES FIRES.
Careless Handling of Liquid Costly,
Saws state Fire Marshal

Careless Handling of Liquid Costly,
Says state Fire Marshal.
The present hot weather has been
the direct or indirect cause of more
than one-half of the fires which have
occurred in the State within the past
thirty days" said State Fire Marshal
L. M. Purtell, in Madison. "One of
the results of the hot weather is the
more general use of gasoline or oil
either for stoves or in pleasure crafts,
and during the past month more than
one-half of the fires have been from
the careless use of gasoline. The care
less handling of matches during the
present dry weather, particularly by
children, has been the cause of numer-
Gus fires. One during the past few
days was caused by throwing a light
ed match into pile of rubbish, which
resulted in the destruction of over
$4,000 worth of property"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
STRANGE DISEASE TAKES TWO.
Racine Girl and Brother Die of
Paralysis of spinal Column.

Racine Girl and Brother Die OF
Paralysis of Spinal Column.
A sad double death occurred in Ra-
cine the other night of acute ascend
ing paralysis of the spinal column,
said by physicians to be the first of its
kind that has ever occurred here.
Della Ostenson, aged 81, and William
Irwin Ostenson, her brother, aged Is,
were the victims. Miss Ostenson was
taken sick on Sunday and her brother
on Tuesday. The disease appears to
have struck both of them in the feet
and worked its way up to the brain.
The deaths occurred within an hour
of each other Miss Ostenson had just
been graduated from the Oshkosh Nor
NAL School and had position as first
assistant principal in the Stockbridge
High School. Her brother was grad
uate of the Winslow school and was
to have entered high school this year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
DIvoRcEE GETS ESTATE.
Legacy of 100000 Goes to Former
Wife, Despite Former Settlement.

Legacy of 100000 Goes to Former
Wife, Despite Former Settlement.
Judge Fowler, of Fond du Lac, has
reversed the decision of Judge Cleve-
land, of WinneEago county probate
court, in the matter of the will of the
late Allen BATHS. The will provided a
legacy of $4,000 for the divorced wife
of BATHS, who is Mrs. Frances Mae
Manitoba The principal heir, Martin
T. BATHS, of this city, contested the
will and Judge Cleveland decided that
Mrs Manitoba was not entitled to the
legacy, having received settlement at
the time of the divorce. Judge Fow-
Ter, however, claims that there is moth
ing in the law to prevent the legacy
and that she is entitled to it, The
total estate left by the deceased was
about 100000
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24
ESCAPE FREAK FLASH.

Sleeping Family Are Not Harmed
by Neutrality-suspicious. Wrecked.
During the electrical storm which
ragged at Beloit and which was the
worst ever experienced, lightning
struck the home OF Emil Fornecker
and demolished it, Mr.. and Mrs. For
necker and their two children were
sleeping, but were not even dazed by
the shock The only room in the
house not struck was that occupied
by Mr.. and Mrs. Fornecker and the
only other place where the plaster
was not knocked from the ceiling was
directly over the bed occupied by the
children in a room upstairs. The
laths and plaster were torn from the
walls, and floors were torn up.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-24

Efforts are being made to Introduce
In the Southern States certain useful
vegetables hitherto unknown to this
country. which are known in tropical
regions as the yautia, the dasheen and
tbs taro. The last named is already
familiar as an ornamental plant.
under the name OF caladium. or ~ele-
plants ear" All three are nearly re-
lated, and their starchy. edible roots
are highly priced in warm attitudes
These roots. indeed, resemble the
common potato in composition and In
flavor That OF the yautia, for exam
pie, when properly cooked, is net cas-
iIy distinguished from the ~Trish"
tuber II is sometimes white. some
times red and sometimes yellow. ac-