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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
Open Your Windows

Some very interesting experiments are being made at the State Agricul- tural college of Missouri
 For instance:
 There are in the whole world at pres ent just IT cows that give TOO pounds of butter or more per year. Five ot these IT are at this college.
 How those cows must be pampered. you say. And you have visions of warm, sanitary stalls in a beautiful barn.
 That is where you are mistaken All the winter long, except during very severe storms, they spend the day In the open fields.
 Another experiment.
 This one was made in fattening beef cattle. One bunch was put into a sh ed entirely open at one end; one bunch was put into the open; a third bunch was kept in fine, warm barn.
 The cattle in the open fields, staying there day and night, thrived best. or course they ate more food to combat the cold. but they gave more beef per pound of feed than the others.
 What l want to emphasize is this:
 If the healthiest, thriftiest cattle are brought up in the open fields, how can human beings, who need oxygen just as much as cows do, hope to thrive by cooping themselves up and keeping the fresh air out?
 The point of the observation is in the answer.
 The other morning. in order to catch an early train, 1 walked downtown. In traversing the streets for nearly two miles l kept a lookout for open win dows.
 How many? Just twol
 Most of these people not only kept their windows tightly closed during the night. but worked all day in closed of fees or shops.
 And lest they should get breath of pure oxygen they rode to their work in street cars containing foul air super heated by hot stove.
 They know better, most of them,
 One could almost wish that persons who so deliberately violate this reouire- ment of well being might be taken by civilization and forced into the open air as the Missouri college controls its cat tie.
 Some wait until they get tuberculosis and then woo the pure air for d cure. And nature is kind enough, even when her free offerings of oxygen have been spurned, to come with healing in her wings.
 Is there a lesson in all this for you. misguided one?
 Think of the experiments with the Mi,1ouri prize cattle, and
 Open your windows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03

turn to. vogue of the large checks, once so popular with everybody.
 The prevailing footwear of the police and second-story men this year will be gumshoe, as heretofore.
 Ladies' hats will be smaller this season than last, but the bills will be just as high as ever, if not higher.
 Sheath gowns made of panne rubber are the latest novelty from Paris, and are likely to prove popular, their elastici- ty allowing of a great freedom of move ment by the wearer.
 The French poodle will be the prevailing dog during the coming season. last years Pomeranian suitably barbered and given a few lessons in French by phon- ograph, will pass muster if the owners prefer not to go to the expense of getting a new dog.
 A utilitarian headdress for women dur ing the current season has the double advantage of obscuring the stage at the theatres where improper plays are per- formed and serving as comfortable sofa cushion between the acts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03

buggy he carried his dinner Tn tn pan under the seat.
 Nor was his action eccentric. He was merely out and out stingy. It was thrift run to seed and resulting in plain penuriousness.
 And there are others. They may not wash their faces in the horse trough, and they may replace the broken panes in their windows, and they may have rich furniture and expensive rugs, but in order to be absolutely rich they will sacrifice things of more value than fur niture or curtains.
 Some of these people that they may get money they do not need will sacri- flee comfort, health, companionship of family, friends, happiness. Strange?
 You smile at Louis Hinton carrying his dinner under his old buggy seat or at the nigga rdliness in trifles that dis tinglished the late Russell Sage, but many a man anxious for surplus dollars will go further than that.
 For the same of money he cannot use many a man will sacrifice not only ma terial things he will blunt his con- science and atrophy his soul.
 It is easy to be rich-if you will pay the price.
 The question is, Does it pay?
 Does 1t pay to stunt oneself for tn 0 sake of money one cannot use? Does it pay 10 rob oneself of spiritual things for the sake of material things-mate- rial things that one does not need?
 If so, then Louis Hinton was wise to save the cost of wash basin and live on bare floors.
 If so, then he is also wise who denies himself, lets go friendship, even honor and self respect, in his chase after ex- tra dollars.
 Some of these men are called great financicrs. They are not.
 They do not get value received for what they buy. They pay too much for what they get. And they are cheated every day of heir lives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
Heart To Hedrt Talks
By EDWIN A. NYE Copyright, 1909, Dy American Press Association

ever had. but Pittsburg will be clean when get through"
 These words, uttered by District Attor ney William A. BlalSely, ought to be ap- propriately framed and hung in the of flee of every public prosecutor in the land.
 T shall do my duty if my best friend deserts me- That's the stuff of which strong men are made.
 It hurts to lose ones friends
 1t hurts to the core to find out that your friends do not measure up to their high calling of loyalty.
 And it takes a brave soul to go on alone.
 But what if the towards of the com munity are wrong and you are right2 Are such deserters worthy of your friendship? Is it not worth while to have found them out?
 It must have hurt the heart of Heney when SC many influential people turned against him when he was braving death for the sake of San Francisco.
 But there are compensations.
 Blakely of Pittsburg will find, as Folk of Missouri found, that when the high and mighty desert you the great public will take you up.
 That, after all, you are but exchanging coterie of pusillanimous people, pseudo friends, and gaining for yourself a far wider circle of real and worthy friends.
 Indeed, one should count himself for trnate when he loses a friend who would keep him from doing his duty and gains a host of friends who will applaud his well doing.
 And it is a cheering sign of the times that strong young men can now win a reputation by doing right.
 But above all it should be remembered by every well mentioned man that
 Ones best friend is himself
 You must live with yourself and do business with yourself as long as you are you.
 You cannot get away from yourself, not in an eternity,
 You can fool your friends or the public. or your family a part of the time, but you cannot fool yourself all of the time, not if you try 1000 years.
 And If you can win your own respect by listening to the monitor of conscience. why. it doesn't matter, because there is one friend who will always stand by you yourself
 If Blakely does his duty and cleans Pittsburg he will have with him his very best friend-himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03

 When the family moved to another towr Joe remained in Reading. Several year. later when MT Gordon returned to Read ing on business old Joe heard he was In town and went at once to the home of Mir. Gordons sister They were al dinner and at one of the open windows Joe took his stand, a pleased grin or his face. After Joe had asked about each member of MT. Gordons family Mir Gordon said. Where's Harve now Joe?" Harve was Joes brother.
 He's daid, suh. returned Joe. "A woman in Font Smith shot him.
 "What did they do to her?' asked MT Gordon.
 They put her in the penitentiary for lfe-she didn't stay her time, out tho, said Joe.
 she didn't? Why .not?' asked MT. Cor. don.
 She's daid.' said Joe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
The Weight of the Rome

large man and a small man wanted to get at the. bottom of a canyon to look for gold
 The walls were precipitous, and the only way down was by means of rope It was decided the larger man should lower tho smaller one.
 As precaution the rope was put about the lighter man, and he was lowered little way to a slight shelf and each time was easily drawn up by the man at the top
 So far so good.
 Finally the full descent was made in the manner agreed upon. But when the small man wanted to get up again-hor- rors,-the man at the top could not pull him.
 They had failed to reckon on the weight of several hundred feet of rope
 In the story Is touch of human na- ture
 A busis~ ss man, fairly prosperous grows discontented with his slow but sure progress toward independence. He decides upon a coup. He buys far be- yond his ordinary ability to pay. depend ing upon a phenomenal trade which he confidently expects. The custom does not come to his counters as anticipated. Unable to meet his bills, the first thing he knows he is down in the canyon of Debt. He cannot get up save as the referee in bankruptcy pulls him out.
 Too much rope
 Another man speculates on the board Of trade. He has made little money in the bucketshop and decides that the old humdrum methods of business are too slow for him. He wants easy money Ore day he is at the bottom Of the can yon of Speculation It was sudden descent. He can't get out because of
 Too much rope.
 Still another man forms the habit of drink. When he gets the habit he Is iT danger but does not realize it. Cant he quit when he wants to? The rope vii pull him out But the coils grow heavy and when he gets to the bottom thcrt is-
 Too much rope. A married woman indulges in Irritation There is no danger. It is only harm less diversion She does not mean to b' untrue to her husband. It is so compli mentary to find that "some soul is twill to yours" But there is no stopping place.
 Too much rope It may be stated further that the smal man who went down in the canyon al most starved before they got him out. Some who go down that way never ge out There is too much rope. His Rcat Friend
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
A modern st. Francis

 C oME of the newspapers take occa-
 sion to gibe at James Eads Howe A-< and his hobo convention
 Howe is one of the remarkable men of this generation. He is the grandson of James Eads, the great engineer who devised and built the Eads bridge at St. Louis and the Mississippi river jetties.
 James Eads Howe inherited the for tune his famous grandfather won. a fortune of several millions.
 He gave away every cent of it.
 Though he was comparatively poor at the time of his inheritance, he refused to touch any part of the money. as signing it over to trustees for the ben eft of humanity.
 That was several years ago.
 Meantime he works as common la- borer, carrying his dinner bucket to and fro. associating constantly with workinginen and seeking to aid them in every way.
 Once a year he calls a convention.
 Some who attend are "hoboes,' at tracted by the free banquet which is a part of Howe's programme. But many others are self respecting men out of employment.
 Howes motto is. "The manless job for the jobless man."
 He is trying to induce the govern ment to establish employment agen- cies in the large cities, after the man. ner of Germany and France; also. in so far as possible, to colonize poor fam lilies on cheap lands.
 Who can deny the worthiness of such aims?
 Like Tolstoy. who labored al the peasants task in pea sant garb that he might teach and guide. so James Eads Howe lives the workingmans life. does the daily task of the common laborer, that he may be in touch with those he yearns to help.
 He is man of culture, is modest, and there is about him no mark of the crank.
 No one will deny his sincerity
 For years MT. Eads has lived up to his ideals.
 It may not be your way of doing things or mine. but it is Christlike St. Francis threw his wealth on the altar of St Peters and took upon himself tho VOW of poverty. James Eads Howe has laid his fortune on the altar of hu- nanity and lives life of poverty that he may help his toiling brethren.
 If all of us lived up to our ideals as come down to earth in day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
Fashion Notes.

From Judges Library.
 Red waistcoats will be largely worn by the robins during the spring and summer seasons.
 popular feature of mems dress in Boston and Philadelphia this spring will be the noiseless necktie-a great relief from the rather loud neckwear of recent years.
 The revival of business of all kinds throughout the country indicates the re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
The Way It Seemed
From the Smart Set.

From the Smart Set.
 The benedick was in mournful and reminiscent mood When I think, lie said to himself "of my predecessor. who died and left me to lfi' his widow, who drives me to drlri | feel as if he had stuck me for t.e 'iiiks.y
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
Jnkey,s Instincts

From the National Monthly.
 Old colored Joe had for many years been man of all work for the Gordons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
A silly Woman

A Chicago wife is trying to get divorce on these grounds:
 Her husband. She says in her complaint. Of heroism so evident in the leading male figures of novels in size grace or dar- ing"
 Ehieu!
 If this woman should succeed on these allegations, where would the rest of mar ried mankind appear?
 Very few average husbands are able to measure up to the heroes in the pages Of Meredith, Nicholson and McCutcheon either as to size, grace or daring"
 Of course the Chicago wife has merely read herself into vapid imbecility, but she IS nevertheless a pronounced type of other women who compare their every day husbands with the armored knights who, with caparisoned horses and nod ding plumes, amble through the pages of Booth Tarkington and Walter Scott
 Pitiful?
 It is pitiful not only from the side of the honest, striving husband, but pitiful because the woman who pines for a hero in jingling harness is not able to recognize the real husband hero at her side.
 There is a heroism in doing one's plain duty that is worth more than library of book gallantry.
 Looking for heroes?
 You will not find them in the velvet doublet and sillken hose of "rhe Prisoner of Zenda.'' but in the ready-made gar ments advertised on special sale in the newspapers
 Many an underszed. und-shouldered, hard-worlsing husband is living in daily martyrdom for the sake of his family And the pathetic part of it is nobody, least of all his family, is able to see the sacrifice. And scarcely does the victim himself realize. He does not complain and would laugh at being called hero. Heroism?
 How is the rescue of a fair maiden from some high castle tower to be com pared with the daily grind of devoted man toiling like the slave of a galley to give his wife position or comforts or working himself into his grave to give his children such an education as was denied him when a boy?
 Romance?
 It is the romance of reality,
 Stupid and blind, the woman who sighs for grace and daring in her husband and who cannot see in his daily self-ab- negation and heroic striving the beauty and the grace of true chiva1ry.
 Cheated
 Louis Hinton of Elizabeth City, the richest man in North Carolina, died few weeks ago.
 Hinton, it is said. owned real estate in almost every state of the Union and stocks and bonds in nearly every large corporation in the country.
 His wealth is roughly estimated at s2.00G,000, and 1t may be nearer $5,O0O,- 900.
 r,,; .i, house, which contained barely enough furniture for actual needs, no carpets and no curtains. Window pancs were lacking in half the windows.
 Every morning before breakfast Hin ton washed his face in the horse trough. his only basin.
 When he drove to town in his rickety
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-25
CATARRH SUFFERERS
Good Thing to Know.

If you now own Hyomei hard
rubber inhaler w. w. AlberS wants
you TO know that he will sell you a
bottle OF HYOMEI for only 80 cents.
Remember this, all who suffer with
catarrh-a bottle of HYOMEI pro
nounce it High-o-mel is put up in a
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to accommodate the vast army of
people who already own Hyomei in
haler.
w. f. Albers will sell it to you at
that price and give you the opportun-
ity to begin at once to rid yourself of
vile catarrh and the snuffiling, hawk
ing and splitting that 60 with it.
Many people through years ofneglect
have let catarrh get strong hold upon
them.
No matter how chronic your catarrh-
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to cure them if you give it half a
chance. Just breathe IL, that's all,
and its healing, soothing, antiseptic
properties will make you feel better
in day.
If YOU own an inhaler get a 80 cent
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-25
NINUs DIs NJ
JOINT RESOLUTION NO.


Providing an amendment to section 3 of
article ~ of the Constitution of the state of
Wisconsin. relating to apportionment.
Whereas, AT the biennial session of the legis-
latuFe for the year 1907 an amendment To the
Constitution of this State was proposed and
agreed to by a majority of the members
elected to each of the two houses which pro-
posed amendment was in the following
language:
Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly con-
curing, That Section of article ~ of the
Constitution of the State of Wisconsin be
amended to read as follows:
Section 3. At their first session after each
enumeration made by the authority of the
United States, the Legislature shall apportion
and district anew the members of the Senate
and Assembly, according TO the number of in
habitants, excluding Indians not taxed, SOL
diers. and officers of the United States Army
and Navy"
Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly con-
curing, That the foregoing proposed amend
ment to the Constitution Of the State of Wis
consin be and the same is agreed to by this
legislature.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-25
CITY COUNCIL.

An adjourned meeting of the city
council was held Thursday evening.
An ordinance regulating the storage
of infiammable oils in the city was
amended so as to allow such oils to
be stored in steel tanks buried in the
ground. This action was taken to
allow the Waldhams Oil Co. of Mil
waukee, to open branch here.
Certain First ward residents petit
toned the council for the opening of
street which will give them an out
let to civilization. AS it is as present
those living down in the southeastern
part of the city have got to travel a
long, zigzag route to reach Grand Ave.
The matter was referred to the COM
mittee on streets and bridges.
A communication was read from
an advertising concern located in st.
Paul, MINI. This company offered
to erect lamps along Third street and
pay for the lighting, if allowed to
use lilCll lOi duNCl Using u dliSpdi Cll-
cies. This was referred to the COM
mittee on lighting.
The name of one of Brown, Gilbert
& Winton's new additions was changed
from Spring Park to Forest Park adj
dition, at the request of Neal Brown.
The board of public works was in
structed to investigate complaint
made by residents of the Ninth ward,
which is to the effect that the large
swamp in the ward is still swamp.
Years ago ditch was dug through
it, to drain it into the Elm street
sewer. The ditch has become clogged,
backing up tbs water aid max
ing a great lodging place in sum-
mer for bullfrogs and mosquitoes.
The street and bridge committee
was instructed to ascertain what can
be done in regard to purchasing more
land for widening Canal street where
it crosses the G. & n. w. tracks.
Residents of that section are kicking
about the grade which will meet the
ends of the bridge on that street.
The finance committee reported
that it was not ready to report the
estimated amounts which must be
raised by taxation the coming year
for the support of city government.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-25
STATE OF WISCONSIN,
County of Marathon-ss.
County Clerks of


Notice is hereby given that at general
election to be held in the several towns, wards,
villages and election districts of the state of
Wisconsin, on the first Tuesday succeeding
the first Monday, being the Sth day of Novem-
Der, 1870 the following officers for Marathon
county are to be elected:
A county clerk in place of John King, whose
term of office will expire on the first Monday
of January, 1911.
A county treasurer in place of Herman Vet
ter whose term of office will expire on the
first Monday of January. 1911.
A sheriff in place of John Sell, whose term
of Office will expire on the first Monday Of
January, 1911.
A Coroner i'm place of Willard c. Dickens,
whose term of Office will expire on the first
Monday of January, 1911.
A Clerk of the circuit court in place OF
Alfred A. Book, whose term of Office will eX-
pire on the first Monday of January, 1911.
A district attorney in place of Frank p.
Regner. whose term of Office will expire on the
first Monday of January. 1911.
A register of deeds in place OF William r.
Chellis, whose term Of Office will expire on the
first Monday OF January, 1911.
A surveyor in place of Ransom II. Brown,
whose term of office will expire ON the first
Monday of January, 1911.
Given under my hand and official seal at
the court house in the city of Wausau this l4th
day of September. A. D., 1910.
JOHN KING.
(SEAL) County Clerk.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-25
PERSONALS.

Henry SchuIze spent Sunday in
Merrill.
Miss Kathryn Alexander visited
in Merrill over Sunday.
James Hull visited in Whitewater
a part of the past week.
Mrs. John Knippel spent Sunday
in Merrill, visiting relatives.
Mrs. o. Teipner, who had been
spending several days in Merrill, re-
turned Sunday evening.
w. II. Mylrea went to Stevens
Point on Wednesday in his automo-
bile, returning in the evening.
Miss Caroline Degner returned to
her home in Athens on Saturday,
after few days visit in this city.
"A. L. Kreutzer departed for New
Orleans on Wednesday evening. He
will be absent until November 1st.
Miss Alice Mooney of Necedah,
who had been visiting friends in the
city, returned to her home Thursday
Mr. and Mrs. j. D. Ross, Jr., have
been visiting in Chicago. They re-
turned to their home in Schofield on
Thursday.
Mrs. E. E. Ramsdell left Saturday
noon for Oshkosh to visit relatives
and friends until after the meeting of
State Federation of Woman's clubs.
Mr.. and Mrs NJ. C. Smith, mother
of Mrs. Frank Kelly, returned home
Thursday from an extended visit in
Neenah, Menasha and other points.
George Silverthorn departed for a
brief stay in Chicago on Wednesday.
OF course he took in the worlds
championship series of base ball
games played in that city last week.
H. M. Thompson, of Milwaukee,
W. II. Mylrea, of Wausau, and G. j.
Roseberg, of Appleton, were in the
city short time Wednesday, stop
ping here for dinner while on their
way 20 Stevens Point Mosinee Times.
Mrs. Sedate Pier and son Colwert
and Miss Sedate Amundson returned
Saturday evening from trip south.
They started for Fond du Lac in Mr..
Piers automobile and got as far as
Waupaca county, when they found
the roads 50 bad they were forced to
return.
The following ladies will attend
the fourteenth annual meeting of
the State Federation of Wom-
ems clubs, to be held at Osh-
kosh October 26-29th: Mesdames
W. H. Nablo, c. E. Turner, r. S.
Dickens, w. G. Dickens, G. D. Jones,
S. NJ. Quaw, E. E. Ramsdell and Miss
Nina Kickbusch.
Mrs. II. II. Grace of Superior,
spent Wednesday and Thursday in
We Lsau, visiting relatives. She had
in Chicago to meet her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. James McCrossen, who had
been visiting in the East and were
returning to their home in Pasadena,
Cal. Mrs. Grace returned to her
home in Superior on Thursday night.