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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
Making ButtonhnIe..

When making buttonholes in mate
rial always choose a thread twenty
numbers coarser than that which you
would naturally use in the material
For instance. if you are sewing piece
of material with No. 50 cotton, you can
work the buttonholes with No. so.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21

In freless cooking certain things
must be remembered by the inexper-
fenced cook One is that II food is left
indefinitely in the cooker ii viii sour.
soups, stews, vegetables and such
things must be removed after twenty
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21

Steam plows are becoming more pop
uiar In Egypt each year. In tie last
six years over $50 sets of patent
steam pillow OF British make have been
sent to Egypt. Fact set consists of
two engines and one culhvator and
can pillow twenty feddans ttwenty-one
acres) per day.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21

a favorite sleeve IS the one thzt
has no fuIlness at the shoulders. In
stead, the extra material IS put into
tiny darts which are carefully fitted
about the armhole. the material being
cut away underneath.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21

Brigades of exceptionally tall girls
practically rule hospitality all over
the country, declares the English
Iady's Pictorial They need not be
pretty or intelligent. for they are ex-
pected 20 do nothing except be tall.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
Fine sample Of Roman ytrla

The beautiful villa unearthed at
Pompeii is situated. writes the Naples
correspondent of the London Daily
Mail. ne..r the house of Diomed. 1t
consists OF a row of rooms of great
elegance. the largest having marble
floor and frescoes on three walls.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21

Just think Of TIA full table d'hote
dinner for 80 cents: oysters. soup, fish,
roast e-ek. salad. Ice cream. fruit.
dernitasse
@wherz? -
Il don't know-but just think Of 1T"
-Harpers Weekly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
Paraaoxacaa T1f.tory.

Can you give an instance Of where
an uplifting process was also a down
ward movement
~Oh. yes. when they razed the Bias
tilc."-Baltimor American
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
a bitter Blow.


why are you so bitter against
Uncle Nebuehadnezzarg
~He lost his money shortly after
we named the baby for hin" kansas
City Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21

To bIacken a stove when hot clean
first with newspapers, then add a tea
spoonful Of sugar to one teacupful OF
mixed blacking- The sugar makes the
backing adhere to the stove.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21

Flattery IS turned TO good account
when used as 3 guidepost to all one
ought 20 be.-Semple-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
HIS GRANDFATHER'S BOY.

My pa says when he was a boy the
gifts he got were cheap and
SMALL
1t made him glad to even have a bag
of peanuts or a ball;
He never had a camera or magic Ian
tern or a gun,
Nor railroad tracks nor engines that
by windin' with kes- would run,
And, gee. the work he had to Col He
never had no time to play;
oh. what sollum time it must of been
for pa on Christmas day.
He says he had to feed the sheep and
carry wood in from the shed,
And when it started to get dark he had
to hurry off to bed;
They never had no Christmas free with
colored candles burnin bright,
And sometimes snow would blow in
through the cracks across his
bed at night;
He had no paints nor picture books
when he was just little tyke,
And never till he got growed up found
out what ice cream tasted like.
I'm glad I wasn't pa; I guess he hadn't
much to make him glad,
And yet he always talks about the
happy childhood that he had:
1t seems to me that his pa must of
been a pretty poor excuse
At least that's what ma told us once
and pa got madden than the
deuce;
When I'm a man and have a boy about
the size of me, l bet
TIL never boast around about the things
/ didn't used to get
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
Surgery Rendered Painless.

An important development in the APP
plication of the anesthetic known as
stovane has just been demonstrated in
an operation performed at the Sea-
mans Hospital, Greenwich, England,
by Prof. Jannesco, of the University of
Bucharest. Hitherto the drug has been
confined to operations below the waist,
owing to its depressing influence upon
the heart. Now it has been found that
by combining strychnine with stovanes
the depressing effect is removed. The
operation in question was for the re-
moval of tuberculosis glands from
mans neck. A small injection of the
combined drugs between the vertebrate
at the base of the neck enabled the
doctor to cut out the gland while the
patient remained perfectly conscious
and talked cheerfully, no chloroform or
other anesthetic being used. After the
handages had been fixed the man walk
ed unassisted to the next room.
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that y sad. for one whole

forgotten that n sad, for one whole
day. worn the necktie she had given
him for Enthusiastically Life.
Mrs. Spooner = Smoke. smoke,
smoke! John, you're just smoking
yourself to death Spooner-It's for
your sake. Maria l want to get
enough coupons to get watch for you
for Enthusiastically Eagle.
Uncle Silas-I see by the Enterprise
tibet yer son Eds cum home fer ter
spend the hollydays. Uncle Abner-
Yep; Eds spent all the money he
could git holt on. so 1 guess they
hain't nothfn' else fer him ter spend
Judge.
Ethel just bought a fifty-dollar
lamp as a Christmas present for nam
ma. Edith--And what shall you get
for your father? Ethel-Oh, / shall
get something real nice for papa with
the trading stamps / got with the
lamp!-Judge.
Mrs. Speyer-The Newweds can't
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
NEGRO SOLDIERS HIT.
New Evidence Said to Fix Guilt Con-
clusively in Brownsville Case.

SA0oANC1y Al o1OWuSN111S OdSC.
That the Shooting up of Browns
vile, Texas, was done by members of
the Twenty-fifth Infantry, colored,
who were in the fort at the time their
companions were running through the
streets of the town, firing right and
left, is said to be proved conclusively
by evidence now in possession of the
military court of inquiry into that ia
nous case None of the members of
the court would discuss the matter,
but it is intimated that demand for
the abolition of the negro troops will
be made by the Southern delegations
in Congress. Thus the bitter debate
Roosevelt administration threatens to
be renewed The evidence discovered
by the officers who compose the court
is said to be susceptible of complete
proof. Certain members, it is report
ed, made personal examination of
buildings across the road from the
fort in Brownsville. They discovered
bullet holes in the sides of three
houses. Continuing their investiga-
tions, they discovered the bullets,
which were of the regulation army
design. Following back the line of
fire, as shown by the track of the bull
lets, the marksmen could have been
nowhere else than within the barracks.
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25 LOST IN GAS EXPLOSION.
Fire Following Blast at Hamburg
Does Millions Damage.

Does Millions Damage.
The explosion of two gas tanks in
the so-called 'Kleines Grasbrook." on
the Elbe front, in Hamburg, Germany,
was followed by an extensive fire and
the loss of many lives. The explo-
sion was due to a leak in a new gaso-
meter. Escaping gas entered the re-
tort house. where 1t came in contact
with the fires, causing terrific explo-
sion. twenty-five of the workmen who
were employed near the gasometer dis
appeared in a mass of flames which
shot up to a great height. Firemen
could do but little. Nineteen lives are
known to have been lost. while four
teen other workmen are missing. The
fire gained rapidly and threatened the
old gasometer, containing $4,000 cubic
meters. A terrific explosion soon oc-
Cured and the tower became a mass of
flames, which leaped hundreds of feet
in the air, sending fragments of glow
ing coke far and wide over the city
and harbor. The new gasometer which
exploded was the largest in the world,
having a capacity of 100000 cubic me
tiers. The city appropriated 100000
marks (S3,500,000) for its construc-
tion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21

Comptroller Shows Growth of Sue

Comptroller Shows Growth of Such
repositories in Foreign Countries.
IN the annual report of Comptroller
ol the Currency, Lawrence o. Murray,
tnere Is a comprehensive table of the
growth OF postal savings banks the
world over which serves to emphasize
the need for such banks in the United
STATES. The table shows that thirty
I"a'f countries or colonies have such
banks and that, during the last dec
ade, the number of depositors in these
banks have increased from 20,1S2,SS7
to 4O,320,3O3. or nearly 100 per cent,
Wniie during the same period the de-
posits have increased from S1.13S. AL
s44 to $685., 299,S15. or approximately
70 per cert. DURING the decade the
average deposit g, each depostor has
fallen from $685. 10 s49S3. While
the number 81 depssitors in postal
savings bapKs is AZ per cent of the
number III depositors in all foreign
saving, banks, the deposits are only
about q per cent of the total deposits
in such banks.
In the thirty-four countries and de-
tendencies having postal savings
banks, the united kingdom leads in
the number of depositors and amount
OF deposits-that is, 11,01S,251 and
1871, 1894. 1913. respectively In Japan
there are S.013,193 depostors; in TIA
lys 5,10S,S02; France, 5.O34,99S; Bel
GUM, 2,106,237; Austria, 2,064,403;
Russia. 1.7SS,990; Netherlands. 1,4O1,-
$40, and British India, i,262,763. Ca
madam postal savings banks have but
l55,S95 depositors, but their deposits
amount to $45,190.4S4, making
the average deposit account $28s.SS,
by far the largest average account in
postal savings banks in any country.
The report shows $4,000 banks with
an excess of 25.0O0,O00 deposit ac-
counts, capital aggregating $1,S55,9S7,-
56S and individual deposits of more
than $14,OO0.0O0,OoO.
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star of the East.

Star of the East. that long ago
Brought wise men on their way
Where. angels singing TO and fro.
The Child of Bethlehem lay
Above that Syrian hin afar
Thou shinest out tonight. 0 Star.
Star of the East. the night were drear
But for the tender grace
That with thy glory comes 10 cheer
Earth's Ioneliest. darkest place;
For by that charity we see
Where there is hope for all and me-
Star OF the East. show US the way
In wisdom indebted
To seek that manger out and lay
Our gifts before the Child
To bring our hearts and offer them
Unto our King in Bethlehem.
Eugene Field
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21

he thus rests his efforts he is old and
no longer leads an active life OF use
fulness, and man or woman who
does not lead life of usefulness is
as good as dead.
Age is mt always a matter of time;
it is quite often matter of condition.
We have all of us known beautiful old
men and women of four-score who
have never grown old in spirit, but
have kept apace with life. Each New
Year brought new hopes and new res
olutions. They were full of inspira-
ton for all around them, and ready to
meet every emergency with the wis
dom and wit that come from years
wisely spent. We have also known
men and women who though still
young in years were hopelessly emu
led, who had learned no lesson from
life, and seemed to have exhausted in
their youth all pleasure and hope OF
pleasure. They make no resolutions
for the New Year. Hopelessly blase,
they try to live for the hour.
Nothing is more deplorable than a
life with no object to live for. The
fact that we have tasks each day to
do. something to look forward to,
something to plan for the future, is in
itself great blessing; when this is
done for others it is the greatest bless
ing we have. If we could have our
food provided for us as the mamma of
the wilderness was provided for the
wandering children of Israel, it would
not be thing to be thankful for; it
would be a curse. We would soon
weary of the monotony of such an in
ane existence. Our resolutions for the
future, our exertions and our hopes,
lift us each year to higher plane,
and thus we
Rise on stepping stones
OF our dead selves to higher
things. New York Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21

Council of Trent closed.

i563-Council of Trent closed.
1640-Portugal became an independent
kingdom.
1654-Expedition under Penn and ven-
ables sailed for America.
1666-The Scottish Covenanters exc
cuted in Edinburgh.
1Ss7-St. Paurs cathedral. London,
first opened.
17O6-The Colonial Assembly of North
Carolina repealed acts of intoler-
ance.
175S-British flag raised over the ruins
of Fort Duquesne. and the place
named Pittsburg.
1764-Jesuit order suppressed in
France by Louis XIV.
1775-United forces of Arnold and
Montgomery advanced against
Quebec.
1776-washington's army occupied
Trenton, N. J.
17S3-British evacuated New York.
17s7-Delaware. the first State. ratified
the Federal constitution.
17s6-Great fire in Savannah. $50
houses destroyed.
1S0O-The Austrians defeated the
French al the battle of Hohenlin-
den.
1S04-Napoleon l. crowned in the Ca
thedral of Notre Dame, Paris. -.
British ports in the West Indies
closed to American commerce.
1SOS-Madrid surrendered to Bona
parte.
1S14-Gen. Jackson arrived at New Or
leans and declared martial law.
1S16-A Philadelphia theater was the
first to be lighted by gas.
1S1S-Illino,s admitted to the Union.
1S19-The Savannah, the first steam
vessel to cross the Atlantic, reach
ed Savannah on her return trip
from England.
1S33-First newspaper issued in Chica-
go.
182S-Monroe Doctrine declared.
1825-Nicholas l. succeeded to the
throne of Russia.
1907 Ope GES5oIy AF1. lSSuSu d JUN
against slavery.
1s4O-Remains of Napoleon l. landed st
Cherbourg.
1S59-Execution of John Brown.
1S61-Jefferson Davis elected President
of the Confederate States of Amer
lea. John c. Breckenridge ex-
PEELED from the United States Sem
ate.
1S62-Gen. Grant started on his expedi-
ton into Mississippi.
1S63-Gen. Longstreet raised the siege
of Knoxville, Tenn.
1S67-Committee of the House reported
in favor of the impeachment Of
President Johnson.
1SS4-President Diaz of Mexico began
his first term.
1sS9-Henry M. Stanley reached the
eastern coast of Africa at Baga-
moyo.
1S9S-Union of Nicaragua, Honduras
and Salvador dissolved.
1S99-British defeated the Beers in the
bloody battle of Modder River.
1904-President Roosevelt visited the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition at
st. Louis.
190S-Nord Alexis, president of Hayti,
ded from Port au Prince. /. (. Agree
ment between United States and
Japan on Pacific ocean affairs was
announced.
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CHRISTMAS AT
CAMP OWENDALE
BY LENA BL1NN LEWIS

-~~~~~~~~~~-~~-~N~-N~N
There were a half dozen fellows sit
ting about the fire in the lumber camp
at 0wendale. The burning pine knots
sputtered and cracked in the great fire.
Dlace and the shadows about the room
gnly emphasized the shadows in the
rough faces of the lumbermen
Guess well open up the new trail
tomorrow, boys" the foreman, Pete
Hennesey, said conclusively, as he re-
filled his pipe "Quite a storm. that
last night. Make pretty tough loggin'
for a day or two, but when it's once
settled-umph! Pete stopped short.
The fellows were not responsive.
Twas Christmas ever and thoughts
flew as fast and as furiously as the
snowflakes. Finally the cook broke the
circle about the fire as he placed a huge
pan of dough on the hearth, prepare
tory to the morrow's baking.
Wonder how the kids are doing
down in the shanty," he said half
aloud as he stopped at the window and
looked out into the night.
It's no place for EN- herei" Big
Joe, as everyone called him, left his
chair, kicked it over and strobe across
the long room.
The situation was this: Samuel
Howe had me his small family to
the camp early in the fall and had
built the log shanty. 1t seemed he
had come to stay, and when some one
would discourage his keeping his wife
and children there during a long. cold
winter of northern Michigan, his wife
always laughed cheerily and said she
would so much rather be with Sam.
But trouble comes even in the seclu7
sion of the forest. No one thought the
tree would fall that way, but the shouts
of the warming were too late and the
two little Howe boys were left father
less
''She wanted to stay, 'y'know," Pete
said, as he blew rings to the ceiling.
Yes, yes, but it's tough just the,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21

WiDterburE, writing on the Spirit of
Christmas" in the Womans Home
Companion. ''Or if even the open fire,
the mistletoe and the family gather
ing are beyond us, must we disdain
the homemaking attempts of the
steam radiator, and find no comfort
in the dainty elaborateness of a we'll
spread table. catering to the needs of
a refined modern taste? Suppose the
misanthrope (for the recluse who
lives only in an imaginary Christmas
is a misanthrope) came out of his
shell and gathered the young people
about him to charm their ears with
tales of the old ways of holiday-keep-
ing when he was boy Would not
this be better than grumbling out pro-
tests against the new ways that have
their own reasons for being, and offer
in turn their own measure of enjoy
ment to willing spirits? Genial old
age is always welcome presence, and
it never suggests any contrasts that
put us out of conceit with the pleas
ares that lie within our reach But.
carping, even il it proceeds from the
patriarch, is an infiiction severe
enough to blight any holiday.
I'm the nature of things there must
be holidays. How poverty is
that soul which does not recognize this
necessity and throw itself heartily into
the work of helping forward the good
time youth and all unspoiled minds
accept with gratitude. There is no
predetermined set of conditions Tor
holiday making that need tie adven-
turous hands. and If traditional Gus
toms belonging to Thanksgiving and
Christmas are vanished beyond recall
we can harmonic the day with our
present abilities.
My sympathy is with those who
wish to bring back upon Christmas
day the sweet old traditional observ-
ances. | love them well. even those
that are known TO me only by hearsay
and were outgrown in that shadowy
But no one thing is indispensable TO
happiness with any of us. unless with
children, and not even with them if
judicious substitute is made. What
ever we have, or whatever we lack, the
quality that makes the occasion is the
spirit we bring to it. Good will never
fails to create good time. 1t finds
merit in rain, lifts fog and lights
a CHEEKY blaze within that passes for
the sunshine in its absence. And good
viii has not passed away with chival-
ry, nor persisted under the onrush of
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Cranberry Jelly.

Wash quart of cranberries, drain
them and put them into double boiler
while they are still wet. Cover closely
and cook until the berries are broken
to pieces. Turn into jelly bag and as
soon as the fruit is cooled enough to
be touched squeeze hard to extract all
the juice To a pint OF this juice add
two cups of granulated sugar Return
to the fire. boil up Just once. then pour
into a mold wet with cold water.
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have as much money as we thought.
Speyer-How do you know? Mrs.
Speyer-Why, i see she has tied her
holly wreaths with the ribbon she
had on that red and white dimity she
were at the beach last summer
Town Topics.
Jonah was giving the details of the
episode. But" they asked, did your
wife believe you when you said you
had been three days in the whale?"
Yes" he returned. "She said I had
given her much more improbable ex-
cuses before" With a happy smile
he went down town to buy her a
handsome Harper's Bazaar.
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same. imagine there wasn't anything
to go back for. See here, boys!" and
Bis Joe set his foot on the upturned
chair. Il heerd them kids talking only
this morning bout Christmas. and lit
tie Sam said as big as you please,
Course he'll come. Tommy. he allus
did at home
But. Sammy his brother argued.
he'll never find US away up here in
these big woods
"'Well,' Sammy said hopefully, we
can hang up our stockings. anyway.
and maybe-hell stop on his way to
somewhere else
Nov. you see. boys. Tom. he knows
about how things are here and he did
his best TO. discourage Sammy. He
said: But. Sammy. Santa Claus used
to come down the chimney at home,
You know we used to let the fire go
out: but here why we couldn't do that
and he would fall right into the
flames
Then you'd ought ter seen that kids
eyes snap. That youngsters a ca-Ker.
I'm tell you what Wen do. ne said.
excitedly Wen fasten our stockings
on the outside OF the chimney. Then
he can't miss them. Tommy
And that's what they've done boys.
Now. it's up to US to play Santa Claus"
The men all filed out in the moon
light and took look at the shanty.
Sure enough. there were two black
stockings. securely fastened to the
chimney and blowing in the wind
Big Joe shut the door with bang.
then went 10 his bunk and took from
under it a small red box He looked
at the contents carefully. then selected
a pearl-hsndled knife and laid it on
the table I've had It since wss a
little shaver down in Indiana" he said
huskily. No one said word. but. one
nv one. other treasure boxes" APP
peared and polished agate. a deer's
tooth. a red silk handkerchief and 9TH
err trifies were contributed With each
one went some tender memory OF home
and other Christmas times, perhaps.
The men carefully wrapped each arti-
Gle in many papers and tied them with
colored strings. The cook donated two
bright red apples and two doughnuts.
They then all Clipped in and two sill
yer dollars were set aside. one to be
placed in the toe Of each stocking. Big
Joe. was elected TO act as Santa Claus.
They fastened a string Of sleighbells
around his waist and watched him as
he climbed to the roof of the shanty.
Sammy's DRAINS had been Of Christ
mas and the ringing Of the bells half
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NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS.
Looking Hopefully Forward n Sigr
off Youfhfulness.

Looking Hopefully Forward n Sign
off Youth fulness.
New Year resolutions belong to
youth, and the spirit of youth. When
we grow old we are Indifferent to the
succession of years, and they go by
as months without epoch. Woe be
to us when we cease to form new reso-
lutions on the opening of new
year," 1t is an indication of old age
when we cease to look hopefully for
ward and to plan meeting the new du-
ties and experiences the coming year
must bring. The man who feels he
cannot advance and grow wiser and
better with years is in an unfortunate
place. AT whatever time in his career
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awoke him. He called out in his sleep,

awoke him. He called cut in his sleep,
Santa, is that you?" Then, waking. he
whispered from under the blankets.
Tommy. Tommy! He's surely coined.
for l heard his bells aringin'"
The boys mother, too, had heard the
bells and had crept softly to the win
dow in time to see six dark figures dis
appear behind pie of logs. and in her
heart she blessed the tender-hearted
lumoermen.
Say, boys" Old Pete said, as they
turned in for the night. Lets take a
day on tomorrow and give the kids a
Merry Christmas" And they did.-De-
troit Free Press.
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CHRISTMAS HUMoR.

Madge-Miss Passay has volunteered
to get up a booth at the Christmas
bazaar and sell kisses. Isn't it awful.
Marjorie Dreadful. my dearl l never
thought that girl had the face to do
it-Smart Set.
But the love you profess to have
for me-is it an unselfsh love-a love
so strong that 1t could even make you
humiliate yourself for my sake?" Syl-
vester Carhuncle was hurt. Had this
girl, Leonora Careyhammer, so soon