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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-07-26

Nearly every morning and evening
last week this city has been covered
with cloud of smoke. At times it
was so dense as to obscure the sun
and lead one to believe that the sky
was cloudy and threatening rain.
Most of the smoke came from near by
fires. Another large fire broke out on
Rib hill, which was burned over two
weeks previous. This fire stretched
for miles and was plainly visible
from the city. Burned leaves and
ashes were carried into the city by
air currents nightly.
Up in the northern and northeast
ern part of the county, in the Wright
Lumber Co.'s and Barker & Stewards S
timber immense losses have resulted.
Both companies will be forced to
cut large bodies of timber this COM
ing fall and winter to save it.
The town of Weston has been over
run with fire and many homes have
been threatened. Land owned by II.
B. Huntington of this city, situated
between the Eau Claire river and
Kelly was partly burned over on
Wednesday Mr.. Huntington had
taken considerable pride in this land.
1t was covered with a thick growth
of young pine and oak and he had
caused it to be underbrushed and had
the limbs, etc, burned, so as to pro-
tect the larger timber from fires.
While considerable damage will re-
suit to the growing timber, the loss
is not as large as reported by Chicago
newspapers, which placed five o's after
figure 5.
The most destructive fires in this
county have been in the towns OF
Franzen and Elderon. This city was
appealed TO for aid on Wednesday by
the people of Galloway, and a IRE
engine was sent down. Fires have
been burning in the woods in that
section for weeks, and on Wednesday
they worked their way TO the Rosholi
branch of the c. \. W. Ry., where
stocks of logs, etc, were piled. The
Hatten Lumber Co., of New London
which is heavy operator in that
section, brought up crew Of mel
from New London 10 fight IRE, anC
the Moore s. Galloway Lumber Co. o.
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has now had public attention drawn to
 it by a tragedy which caused King George to take prompt action.
 A suspect was one morning found deao. It is true that the man suffered from consumption, but the autopsy showed that no food had been taken by the un- fortunate man for at least 24 hours. In- quiry elicted the fact that the time passed without nourishment was proba- bly far greater Five days fasting" one newspaper declared. but probably three would be nearer the truth. It appeared that the contractor had neglected his part of the bargain. The guards were aware of the case, but synically declared that they had no money to buy food with. Certainly to a citizen of northern Europe the methods of the police do seem to be altogether barbarous. For example, it is a common sight in Athens to see small boys of 10 and F years old, their arms tightly bound to their small bodies by clothes line. marched through the streets by policemen with bayonets fixed. After they reach the prison to which have re- ferred the period passed in awaiting trial is a long one. The general public here seems to see nothing barbarous in the infliction of pain.
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that was recently won by this splendid Birmingham boy He is a student at Co., lumbia, and not long since it was learned that he had been awarded two excellent scholarships. The latest news is that he has been given place on the varsity debating team, post for which he com peted with a number of post-graduates in the law department
 Mrs. J. Carroll Long will spend Christi mas with her parents. Col. and Mrs. Nelson, of Selma.
 Dr. D. L. McLeroy has returned from Montevalo.
 Senator and Mrs. Joseph F. Johnston have arrived in Washington, and are at the Cochrane for the winter.
 The friends of Dr. and Mrs. James C.. Vance will regret to learn that Mrs Vance is still seriously i'll.
 MT. and Mrs. Harvey Brooks Roberts will spend the holidays with Mrs. Rob- erts' mother. Mrs. F. E. Taylor.
 Mrs. J. V. Allen, past regent, and Mrs. Charles J. Sharpe, regent, of the local D. A. R. chapter returned yesterday from Eufauss.
 The woman's auxiliary, No. 22 of Typo graphical union No. 104, will meet next Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. c. c. Hudson, at 200 North Sixty-sixth street, in East Lake. full attendance is re- quested.
 Miss Mary Kinney will have two attrac- tive guests during the Christmas holidays, Miss Dorothy Howard of New York city will arrive December g and Miss Mar guerite Howell of Dayton, O., who al- ready has a large number of friends in the younger set, will come December 26. Both will remain until after the holidays and will be among the visiting girls at the cotillon given by MT. and Mrs. Exum at the Country club the night of the 18th.
 Miss Laura Gulfus of Cincinnati Is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Charles Ellis Foust.
 Mrs. T. S. Jordan of Florence, Ala, is visiting Mrs. J. E. Ware on South Twen- ty-first street.
 Miss Frances Warren of Pensacola Fla, who has been the guest of Miss Flora Orr and Miss Dorothea Orr. both in Birmingham and at their summer
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Creating n New Dialect

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 We have been awaiting the time when the sporting writers would take up avia- ting and dignify it with dialect that is all it's own.
 For instance. how is this for mild example:
 'aThe premier sky pilot to negotiate the upshoot was Le Blanc. the pretty boy from gay Farce. Froggie made a good getaway and split the ozone smartly on the first grade, hitting up the pace to a mile per on the side swirl over the bunch of briny water along the east shore.
 with his chugger tuned up to D sharp the parlyvoo put rings around the high tower and did the swift swallow swoop along the ragged edge of a chunky cloud-jolting old gravitation in the short ribs gently settled down two hol>. and sldplet from the happy little bangs where his birdie makes it's nest.'
 HoW's this for a starter?'
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A Mexican War story

From the National Magazine.
 Danville, Kentucky recruited leyies for both the Union and Confederate causes and after the war was over the veterans of both sides used to sit in the glow of the corner grocery store fire and re- hearse tales of the great conflict. Night after night they would convene here to expatiate on the dreadful battle scenes of which they were eye witnesses. The adventures were aglow with romance, and many a hearty laugh rang out over scenes that were just bit modified in the re-telling
 There was one man who always re- mained silent, and had an annoying way of seeming bored when they launched into their best yarns. Finally, they could stand the pressure no longer: they asked him why it was that he had nothing te say. "Warnt yuh in the war;" they de- planded.
 ''Yessir." he nodded sagely, T was"
 What war?'
 Mexican
 "Goodi'' the crowd exclaimed in cho- rus Now we'll have something new a regular rouslng story"
 John puckered his mouth. shifted his knees and scratched his head he tried to recall some scene of carnage that would thrill with the days of Chapultepee or of General Scott storming the Moline del Rey Then he shifted his quid to the other side of his jaw, and said:
 Well. I want to tell you fellows that fin that Mexican war we had some mighty great experiences Mighty great. yep-them was the days when they had reel warrin. I warn't in many battles myself, but 1 want to tell yuh I was out in a tent on a mountain down there, and there come along one of the goldarndest rainstorms I ever heerd tell of And that was a rainstorm. tool His eyes kindled as he burst into the most hilarious laughter; his sides shook and the tears rolled down his cheeks.
 But the veterans were speeches. witf Indignation when they reflected that tht most thrilling stories they could recount had failed to bring a smile or word from this Mexican "coffee-cooler," who be came almost hysterical at the recolec- ton of experiencing the "goldarndest rainstorm he had ever heerd tell of in . tent down in Mexico.
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MIR. THOMAS WATSON HOST AT DINNER

In the private dining-room at the Coun- try club last evening MT. T. J. Watson, who is to be a groomsman at the mar riage of Miss Genevieve Jackson and MT. Charles Martin Spencer, entertained at dinner.
 The table was lovely with a decorative motive of pink carnations and lilies of ths valley. In the center was a tall vase filled with flowers and surrounded with four smaller vases. The place fayors were French Cupids. The guests included Miss Jackson, Miss June Jackson, Miss Mari anne Hamilton, Miss Olive Howard, Miss Fannie Dunn, Miss LeMay Caldwell, Miss Isabell Caldwell, MT. Spencer. MT. John Beckwith of Albion, N. Y, MT. Robert l.. Gregory, MT. Will Wilson, MT. Chase Perkins, MT. R. A. Bailey of Nashville, and MT. Chenoweth.
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popular visiting girls during the holidays. She comes Thursday to visit Miss Car rie White Bean, whose guest she was during the summer. Miss Clifford all ready has many admirers in society who will be delighted to welcome her and 2 number of entertainments are planned in her honor
 Mrs. Noise Klein of New Orleans Is the guest of her son and daughter, MT. and Mrs. E. NJ. Friend, SoS1s South Nine teenth street.
 The "United Presbyterian" of Pitts burg. Pa, Egypt and Israel" comment ing upon a recent work of Col Will lard Brewer, says: Ut is a monument of toil," referring to the painstaking re- search which was required to gather to- gether and place in book form the many historical facts Colonel Brewer is an Alabama man and has a number of prominent connections in Montgomery.
 
 Miss Hermine Heutschel, a Birmingham girl has composed catchy instrumental number, "The Rooster Waltz" which has just been issued by the publishers.
 Mrs J. S. French and children of Berk7 ley, Cal, are guests of Dr. and Mrs. A. H. French 924 South Thirteenth street.
 Julian and T. O. Smith, Jr., are hunt ing in south Alabama. They are expect ed home early in the week.
 Mrs. Maury Nicholson and Miss Nina Nicholson, who have been visiting rela- lives in Ithaca, N. Y, returned home Wednesday.
 MT. J. W. Wright of Union Springs and Mrs. James Robertson of Arkansas have been called to the bedside of their mother, Mrs J. W. Wright who is very i'll at her home, 1922 St. Charles street.
 Miss Olive Howard of Warren, O., is expected today to be the guest of Miss Genevieve Jackson.
 MT. and Mrs. Joe Franklin of Lehigh are spenging a few days with MT. and Mrs. John W. Anderson at Norwood Place.
 Mrs. C. B. Durand has returned from a visit to her parents, MT and Mrs. J. E. Hendricks, of Montevallo. The friends of Ralph Harris, son of MT. and Mrs. L. F. Harris, will be inter- ested and gratifed to know of an honor
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CHAPERoNS FOR
 THE ID M IT nANCE

The R. M. ITS, who have sent out in- vitaticns for their Christmas dance. have invited the parents of the boys who com pose the membership to be chaperons. They are Dr. and Mrs. J. s. Brown, MT. and Mrs. Henry l.. Badham, MT. and Mrs. w. W. Crawford, MT. and Mrs. R. F. Collins, MT. and Mrs. E. J. Dunn,<Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Henniger, Mir. and Mrs. A. S. Leath, Mrs. Hulse, MT. and Mrs w. H. Kettig, Mr. and Mrs. A. w. Nell son, Mr and Mrs R. A. Lewis, MT. and Mrs. George V. Long, MT. and Mrs. lR. P. Wetmore. Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Myatt, Mrs. F.. B. Norton, Mir and Mrs. c. c. Hedt, Mir and Mrs. John w. Tom linson, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Saunders, Dr. and Mrs. George Eayes, Mir. and Mrs. Seymour Perkins, MT and Mrs. B. F.. Moore.
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home at Mentone, will be among the popular visiting girls of the holiday sea- son. She will arrive in time to be one of the attendants at the Lathrop-Orr wedding, which is to be one of the bril- liant events of Christmas week.
 Mrs Sue Bowie Orr left yesterday afternoon for her home in Talladega, after a visit to MT. and Mrs. Sydney J. Bowie.
 Miss Elizabeth Bowie is expected home Wednesday from visit to Mrs Wnham Riley Owens in Anniston.
 Mr. and Mrs. J. w. Whatley are at French Lick Springs for week or ten days.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

ANNOUNCEMENTS
 The Ladies Aid society of the Vest minister Presbyterian church will give a bazar at Forbes Piano store Tuesday and Wednesday. Candy and cakes as well as fancy articles will be sold. | The ladies of the Richmond Place Bap- tist church will conduct a bazaar and oyster supper tomorrow from to o'clock, at the store on Twelfth street and Avenue F. Candy and fancy articles will be sold.
 The Womans Missionary society of the First Christian church will observe 1 Christian Women's Board of Missions day at the church today. They will have charge of the morning service. Tomor- row the state jubilee rally for missions will be held at il o'clock. Miss Florence Miller of Indianapolis will speak at both services. All who are interested in mis- sions are cordially invited.
 General Sumter Chapter D. A. R. will | hold its postponed meeting Tuesday at S:3o with Mrs. Gus T. Brannon, 2626 Han over Circle. The delegates to the recent conference will report and 1t is hoped that the entire membership will be in attendance.
 The r. w C. A. board will meet Tues 
 the association building.
 At the Eleventh Avenue M. E. church this morning the quartet will sing Dud- ley Bucks Arise! Shine, for Thy Light Is Come" and Mrs. Palmer and MT. Me Gill will sing for the offertory, 70 Morn ing Land," by Phelps. In place of the regular evening service at 7:30 the song service, which was postponed last Sun Joxy pn nf ant weather will be given. The programme as announced will be rendered and the quartet will be assisted by a number of well known musicians.
 The seat sale for the Birmingham Choral society concert Wednesday even ing will begin at the Jefferson theatre tomorrow morning at o'clock. NOTES AND PERSONALS
 Mrs. T. IT. Lamar, who was fomerly Miss Lottie Fleming of this city, but has spent the past two years in Mexico. is the guest of her parents, MT. and Mrs c. c. Fleming, St. Charles street.
 
 Miss Carroll woodson, who is a stu dent at St. Mary's college, Raleigh, N C., is expected home Saturday to spend the holidays with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Greene Woodson.
 
 Eldredge Reese is expected home from the Tennessee Military institute Satur- day to spend the holidays with his pa- rents pr. and Mrs. George Reese
 Miss Eleanor Matthews, who is visiting Mrs Thomas M. Owen in Montgomery and has been an admired guest at a number of brilliant affairs, is expected home Tuesday.
 
 MT. w. Burke Savage of St. Louis is the house guest of MT. and Mrs. J. W. Savage MT. Savage will be in Birming- ham December 15, and will also DC the guest of his parents during the holi- days He is a former Birmingham man, hut now holds a responsible position with the St. Louis Drug company. Mr. Robert D. Johnston of Upperfilie } Va, is the guest of his brother, MT. J. z. Johnstons in Norwood. Miss Jessie Clifford will be one of the
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Not What He Asked For

From Judge.
 small boy hurried into the corner butcher shop and told the proprietor his mother wanted a nice,- tender turkey for Thanksgiving, and she wanted 1t dressed: The butcher selected just such pird frcm the lot in the window, and said with satisfaction.
 Heres a dandy, my boy-just what your mother wants! .
 NO, it ain'tr' returned the you,a' tTliat turkey hasn't any clothes oh'
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Birmingham Special, . New York train. One block from BROADWAY.

NOTICE, BRICKLAYERS All members of B. & M. I. U. No. 1, Alabama, are requested to meet Tuesday night at 7::30 o'clock. Business of importance.
 IKE WINSTON, Pres. J. w. ELLISON, Sect.
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MRS. HARDY TO BE
 HOSTESS AT TEA

A pretty event of Christmas week will be the afternon tea at which Mrs. C. M.
 Tardy will entertain Tuesday, December 20, in honor of her daughter, Miss May Tardy.
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THE GROWLERS
 SEND OUT CARDS

The following cards are put:
 "The Growlers club, Monday evening December 26 Country club. Dancing, o clock"
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.ADAMS-DASH

Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Dash requests the honor of your presence at the mar riage of her daughter, Hattie Mary, to MT. Edwin Calvin Adams, on Monday evening. the 26th day of December, 1910, at S:So o'clock, 2304 Twelfth avenue, Bir- mingham; Ala
 The above invitation has been issued.
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Society
tCoNTrNUEp FROM PAGE as,

CONFINED FROM PAGE 3S) Wheelock, Miss Myrtle Miles, Miss Eliza beth Dearborn, Miss Elba Smith, Miss Mabel Wheelock, Miss Besise McCrossin, Miss Mary Lanier, Miss Fredrika Fer guSon.
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GREEK LETTER SOCIETY
TO GIYE MoRNING MAsQUERADE

TU UIN ID MUHNINU MASd ID EHADF The following card has been sent out: Sigma Delta Omega, Margaret Allen school Thursday, December 29 at 1o:3o clock. asquerade-dancing.
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Iwant a desirable home close in. Want it very accessible. Must be a bargain; for about $3500 cash. Address Bar gain" care Age Herald.
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Birmingham Special, <" The steel car train, Observation cars.
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" remounts to the number of 5000 in South Russia. The proprietor of large stud farm in this government informs me that the Ottoman commissions have for the time being practically cleared the southern market of all the best animals for cavalry and artillery service. The commissioners are now buying horses in Central Russia.
 Turkish cavalry remounts are every year bought in Russia but never before have the purchases been on so large scale. They will this year. I am in formed aggregate about 15,000 horses.
 The Zionists in Russia have experienced another demonstration of the govern ment's hostility towards their movement despite the personal assurances given by NJ. Stolypn to the Zionist president, Herr David Wolffsohn of Cologne, some two years ago, that they would not be inter- fered with in their activity.
 A number of young adherents Of the | Jewish national movement, delegates from various towns in Poland met in Lodz few days ago with the object of considering measures for extending Zion ist propaganda in Poland. They. were surprised by the police and IS were ar rested. These comprise six young men of Lodz and six of Lublin, the others being delegates from Lomiza, Dwinska | Groddo Petrokov, Pinsk and Kalisch. It | is expected that the Zionists of Warsaw will provide legal assistance for their comrades at the impending trial. 1 Domicilary searches have taken place in the houses of Zionists in Kalisch- Tcherngov and Benderny, followed by confscation of propaganda literature and correspondence. It is feared that the leader of the Tchernigov Zionists, a poor | cher with large family will ha ey- pelled from the town.
 | King George of Greece has new claim upon the gratitude of the people of his little kingdom by ordering his govern ment to reform the prisons of Greece, which are among the worst in the world. I Even in the capitol Athens, one may every day witness barbarities which one | would expect to meet only in semi-savage countries.
 In the very heart of the city of Athens is large and rambling building where prisoners are kept to await their trial. | Here in cellars, the windows of which are on level with the pavement, languisli
 for indefinite periods suspects of all classes and ages. Herded togther, these unfortunate men peer through the win dows at the curious spectators, without sustenance or means to obtain it they
 climb to the level of the street. and thrusting their hands through the bars irnportune the passers-by for aims. Chil- dren and old men, sick and hale are it appears, thrust together in a place of common confinement. There the healthy 1 become diseased, some of the weaker die, and the innocent are initiated into the knowledge of vice.
 This chamber of florro1s, which ia passed every day by hundreds of Greeks
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Mrs. Noise Klein of New Orleans is the guest of her son and daughter, MT. and Mrs. E. NJ. Friend, S0Sls South Nine teenth street.
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MT. and Mrs. Joe Franklin of Lehigh are spenging a few days with MT and Mrs. John w Anderson at Norwood Place.
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Mrs. c. B. Durand has returned from a visit to her parents, MT. and Mrs. J. E. Hendricks, of Montevallo.
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The Ladies Aid society of the West minister Presbyterian church will give a bazar at Forbes Piano store Tuesday and Wednesday, Candy and cakes as well as fancy articles will be sold.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1910-01-07

In German tests 10000 bullet holes at
close range we're necessary to bring
down a balloon, the small holes, not
cleanly cut permitting little gas to es-
cape. The new field guns for destroying
balloons can be tilted to 20 or IS de-
Important as the screw propeller now
u.s. its action seems to be very imper-
fectly understood. In his late investiga
ton at the Technical high school Of
Charlottenburg, Prof. Oswald Flamm
used simple testing apparatus, consist
ing of glass tank about 80 feet long by
Pc feet wide and deep, over which runs
on a railing a small car, which is at.
tached to an electrically driven propeller
immersed in the water. A cord passing
from the car over a pulley suspends a
cup for weights, giving means Of mea-
surfing the push of a propeller. Two
powerful electric ears at one side of the
tank send their rays through the wafer
to a camera on the opposite side, and
make it possible to obtain perfect photo
graphs in one-thousandth of a second.
The propellers tried we're somewhat less
than four inches in diameter, II differ
emf including all standard types
having been tested. With the apparatus
described the propellers were studied in
action, and it was shown contrary to old
theory-that screw at high speed does
not lose efficiency through cavitation, "
or the forming of vacuum behind the
blades, and also that the push is not in
creased by inclosing the propeller in a
tube to prevent escape of water at the
sides. Propeller efficiency seems to be
based on sucking action. The retard-
ing attributed to cavitation" is really
due to air sucked down, and remedies
are placing the propeller deeper and Civ
ing the vessels stern a long protective
overhang. From his tests and photo
graphs Prof. Flamm has designed very
efficient screw with increasing pitch and
narrow blades, power being wasted by
by wide blades.
Though peat fuel has been abandoned
on Swedish railways, it promises better
results at power stations. The new
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1910-01-07

central electricl station in the Prussisn
district of East Friesland uses peat from
the neighboring moor, and it is expected
that this supply will yield steam for
driving the generators a century. The
plant, which cost $3.50, 600, can furnish
several thousand horsepower of energy.
More than $50 miles of wire distribute
the current, which is already used for
harbor works and other purposes, and is
likely soon to operate two railway lines.
A quartz tube enclosing a spiral OF
nickel or other wire is the unit of the
new Bastian electric heater The incan-
descence of suitable group of tubes
gives heat for cooking or other use, and
the wires are easily renewed when
necessary.