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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

was all affability:. and I knew was
safe-for the time. at least
THE major commends you highly
as a good man and true. Captain
Ireton," he said. and truly the letter
did contain a warm hearted common
dalton of the bearer" whose name,
for safety's sake. was omitted; and
not only this. but the writer desired to
have his man back again. Then my
Lord added: You are here to take
your old service again. assume ?"
1 hesitated There be things that
even a spy may balk at; and the TAX
ing OF the oath of allegiance to the
other side conceived to be one Of
them SO / said:
Il have worn many uniforms since
/ dotted that of King George. my Lord
and"
He laughed cheerily. but me no
butts Captain Ireton; once an English
know. shall assign you to duty In
my own family"
At this 1 made bold stroke. Let
it be then as an officer of her service,
and your Lordship's guest for the
time Believe me. it is thus may best
serve your-ah-the cause"
"As how?" he would ask
/ smiled and touched the braided
jacket of my hussar uniform.
"As an Austrian officer on a tour Of
observation in the campaign I may go
and come where others may not, and
see and hear things which your Lord
shin NAV wish to know Does vaur
Lordship take me?"
He laughed and rose and clapped me
on the shoulder
you may call the guard now, Cap
tain"
1T is your Lordship's meaning that
1 should be quartered here Tin this
house?" I gasped.
And why not? All, my good Cap
tain of Hussars, l have made you my
Der of my family so that l may keep
an eye on YOU"
He said 1t with laugh and another
hearty hand clap on my shoulder, and
1 would fain take 1t for jest Yet
there be playful gibes that hint at glib
bets; and / may confess to you here,
my dears, that left my Lords pres
ence with the conviction that my ac-
quittal was but reprieve conditioned
upon the best of future good behavior.
So 1t took another turn of the audac-
ity screw to tune me up for the battle
royal with Gilbert Stair and the petit
logger, Owen Pengaryin
Ito be continued.)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15


17S5-The second society for the abol-
ition of slavery organized in New
York with John Jay as president
1S04-Great banquet in Washington. in
honor of the acquisition of Louis
lana.
1S54-Main line of the Great Western
Railway of Canada opened for
traffic.
1S55-The eastern coast of Canada Wis
tied by disastrous storm, many
lives being lost
1S5s-order of the Victoria Cross in
stituted.
1S5S-Queen Victoria officially named
Ottawa as the site of the future
Confederated Provinces of British
North America.
1S65-Lord Monck opened the last Cam
adam Parliament
1S6S-Academy of Music, in Albany, N.
Y. destroyed by fire.
1S70-virginias political rights as a
State in the Union restored.
1S71-Eighty lives lost by explosion on
the steamboat w r. Arthur, near
Memphis Statue CT Abraham
Lincoln at Washington unveiled.
49,. The British Columbia Legisla-
ture passed resolutions in favor Of
joining the Dominion.
lS74-Morrison r. Waite appointed
chief justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States.
1SS2-Charles Guiteau sentenced to
death for the murder of President
Garfield.
1SS5-A statue of Sir George R. Carter
unveiled in ottawa.
1Ss5-Fan of Khartoum and death of
Gen. Gordon.
1SSs-New South Wales celebrated its
centenary as a colony. :. Thomas
Greenway became premier OF Man
itoba
1S9O-Dominion House of Commons
unanimously voted a resolution OF
adhesion to the mother country.
1SOS-Alaska boundary treaty signed
by United States and Great Brit
ain.
19O5-Robert NJ. LaFollette elected Uni
ted States Senator from Wiscon-
sin. :. Conservative party won in
the Ontario elections.
1906-The Canadian Pacific steamship
Empress OF Ireland launched on
the Clyde.
1907-Twenty- eight persons killed in
explosion of carload of powder at
Sanford, Ind
190S-John r. Walsh, president of the
Chicago National Bank, found gull
ty of misappropriating the funds
of that institution.
1909-George e. Chamberlain elected
United States Senator from Ore
gon. Secretary of State Root re-
signed and Robert Bacon succeeded
him. Jose Miguel Gomez inaugu-
rated President of Cuba. AM
bassador Bryce and Secretary
signed the Newfoundland Fisheries
Treaty =. -Four lives lost in the
burning of the Southern Hotel at
Fort Worth, Texas.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

A record of current prices of ninety
six commodities in every day use. as
compiled by Bradstreet's agency, shows
that the cost of living up to this time
had reached the highest point since
such figures were kept, exceeding even
the prices of March /, 1907, when they
went soaring in anticipation of the pam
ic. Bradstreets figures are based on
actual wholesale quotations per pound
over a wide area of markets. The lat
est index number is $9.12g3, whicr
means that the cost of one pound each
Of the ninety-six commodities at the
prevailing wholesale rate would total
that sum. This is a gain of Ill since
Jan. /, 1909, but only S.5 over the first
of 1907. But it should be understood
that this list of articles is not confined
to foods alone, but includes textiles,
hides and leather, coal, oil. building
materials, drugs, etc, as wen as bread
stuffs and provisions. The rate Of In
crease in foods alone is much greater.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

No one who realizes the deep care
with which tariff schedules are framed
to trick the public will be surprised
to learn that the Aldrich-Taft law con-
tains a provision for increased taxes
ON imported Bibles.
The Dingley law imposed a duty of
% per cent on all Bibles of which the
chief cost was the paper. The Aldrich-
Taft law added a little joker which
fixes 40 per cent rate on Bibles of
which the chief cost is leather.
This means an extra tax on all the
better editions, which are of English
publication elmost entirely, American
Bible production being mostly in cheap
bindings. Bible importers have mott
fed retailers that prices are going up.
Thus the tariff begins to get in its
work on Christianity.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
Cronning Sod Land.

Sod land is very good for almost all
crops if the season is seasonably wet
and other conditions are favorable
One of the worst troubles with corn in
sod land is that the cutworms living
in the sod destroy much of the young
corn BY blowing sod land for corn
in late fall or early winter many OF
the cutworms will be destroyed. Also
when the land is plowed at this time
the sod will have more time to settle
and decay, and the corn next season
will stand dry weather better. If the
sod must be plowed again next spring
no harm. but much good, will be done
Flowing any land twice for a crop on
disking well after blowing is labor
well spent
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
Crop rotation Necessary.


Look at the farms upon which the
same crops have been grown year in
and year out If they are not to be
seen in your own locality, come down
to the experiment station and see plots
so handled Compare these with farms
where rotation is practiced. What is
the difference? On one the yields are
high, if not increasingly high, at least
uniformly so.
Grass or clover and cleaning crops
must be grown in rotation. Something
must be at hand to utilize them. What
can do this to better advantage than
sheep and cows? Manure, moreover,
must be supplied if fertility is to be
maintained The sheep is one of the
best manure producers and spreaders
to be found anywhere.
The farmer is dependent upon the
soil for his gains, no matter In what
form he markets the produce. Unless
he maintains the soil fertility from
year to year he is curtailing his gains
by lust so much. Manure and crop
rotation are necessary to the mainte-
nance of fertility No other way has
yet been discovered for keeping the
soil fertile than by enriching it by de-
caying animal and vegetable matter
and by growing upon it successive
crops that keep the soil in good phys
ical condition, and keep the available
supply of plant food high.
On a farm so managed either sheep
or cattle must be kept to furnish the
necessary manure and consume the
necessary roughage.-Prof. T. B. Mum
ford
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

AS To dreams, there was discussion
at the club lunch, and one man re-
marked that no man dreamed of him
self as drawer than he is When the
dream came the dreamer was always
the under dog. He was in horrible
danger and never did anything pic
turescue to face it. There may be
men who are brave in their sleep, but
it would be interesting to find one
man outside of the dozen sleeping cow
ards who is hero in a dream.-Lon-
don Chronicle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
Costly Counsel.

ct can understand all you have to
say on the subject in an hours time, -
said the judge.
BEG pardon, your honor" persisted
the young lawyer, "but l shall con-
sumo at least five hours In my argu-
ment"
Very well; have 1t your own way"
said the judge. with resignation. But
it will take the prisoner about five
years to tell why he employed you
-Harper's Weekly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
The TeIephone on the Farm.


The farmer of to-day is one of the
most progressive citizens of this pro-
gressive country. Whenever he is
thoroughly convinced that a certain
tool or piece of machinery will do his
work better, do more of it, or increase
his income, it is not very long before
he owns that tool or machine.
The first thought that comes to the
farmer is: "What good is telephone
to me-" This is but natural ques-
ton. The farmer, above all. is prac-
teal man, and the value of the tele-
phone has not yet been demonstrated.
He cannot see the utility of it. 1t will
not milk the cows, plough the soil, nor
make the crops grow. What practical
benefit, then, can farmer derive from
the telephone.
He can understand that 1t might be
aiust the thing for the capitalist. He
can see how merchants and city folk
can use it, but the farmer cannot find
time to fool around the house talking
over a telephone Some farmers argue
that they have gotten along so far
without telephone, and why not the
rest of their days?
This same argument, II carried out,
would have kept hundreds of our i'm
movements now considered absolute
necessities, of the farm, and would
thus have retarded the marvellous
march of progress Thousands of farm
ers. however, are quick to recognize
the value of the telephone to the rural
resident. They see the improved con-
ditions that its adoption viii bring
to them and their families and the
consequence is that the building Of
farm lines is going on at hvelier
rate than ever before.
In spite of this fact, some farmers
even vet are undecided as to the wis
dom of this universal improvement
They fear that it is a. needless waste
of hard-earned money. But the farm
or who has had telephone for a year
or more knows why so many farm
lines are being built To him the rea-
scr Is plain. II is because the tele-
phone is a money-saving. time-saving.
labor-saving addition to the farmer
that pays its own way
The farm telephone has come TO be
recognized as necessity. No one
auestions the statement that time Is
money. and very few VIII question the
statement that as time saver the
telephone has no equal. Time Ii an
smportant factor on the farm
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
The prirht Bo.fon Bov.

Rider Ito small boy)-Here, l say.
hold this horse, will you?
S. BIS he vicious?
R-No.
6. B.--Does he kick?
R.--Noi
S. B.-Will e bite?
R-Noil
S. B.-Does it take two to hold i'm ?
r. (frenzied) --No.!!
S. B-Well, then, hold i'm yerself!
Harvard Lampoon.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

Alfalfa IN HOG DeveAOpment.
AS a pasture for sows and young
pigs, alfalfa proves wonderfully help
full ration for growth in pigs. Ex-
periments have shown that pigs make
better growth when the dam is fed
considerable alfalfa than those from
sows fed the best of commercial ra-
lions but with no alfalfa. OF two sets
of pigs, one fed clover, rape and soak
ed corn, and the other with access to
alfalfa in lieu of clover and rape,
those having alfalfa seemed to grow
the more rapidly.
For brood sows, 1t Is a most val.
liable food, either as hay, soiliHg
crop, or a pasture. The litters of such
sows are generally large and vigorous,
and the dams have a strong flow of
nutritious milk. Alfalfa meal in slop
may be used with profit where the hay
is not to be obtained. It is also claim
ed that sows fed on alfalfa during
pregnancy will not devour their young,
its mineral elements seeming to sat
isfy the appetite of the SOW, while
contributing to the fetal development
of the pigs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
sfudv in SIN Lie.

This" said the artist, who was
showing a visitor through his studio,
SIS a study in still life"
still lifel" echoed the visitor in
establishment. why, 1t looks like the
portrait of a man"
Yes, explained the artist, sit is a
portrait of Mrs. Enpeck's husband. =
Chicago News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

Rlggs-What did she do when you
kissed her?
Briggs-She said. "Oh. this is so
unexpected"
Riggs-What did you say then?
Briggs told her that the unex-
pected always happened.-Harvar
Lampoon.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
VIVA, women WIN wear.

Where are you going, my pretty
maid?"
I'm going a marketing. sir" she said.
And where is your basket, my pretty
maid?"
I'm wearing It, sir. upon my head
Cornell Widow.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

Many man has made good iiving
who has made a poor life. Some men
have made splendid lives who have
made very moderate and even scanty
liyings.- Success Magazine
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

The average wheat yield of America
is only about fourteen bushels to the
acre, while in England the land that
has been farmed for hundreds of years
averages about thirty bushels,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
nnnhIInr His Joy.

Her Enthusiastically / won the
prize in the lottery. and to-day you
come and ask me for my daughters
hand.
Suitor-Yes. you know one bit OF
good luck always brings another.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

Friend docking over Browns unfur-
nished fiatl-And what is this passage
way for!
Brown-Passageway, Great Scott,
this Is the dining room,-Boston Tran
script.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
plentiful water ON Dairy Farms.

Plentiful Water ON Dairy Farms.
Every dairy farm should be well
supplied with pure water. 1t may
come from a well or cistern, where
the country is level and in hill coun-
tries the water may often be brought
in gravity pipes from the spring to
the house and barn. Iron pipes are
cheap, and it is easy to carry the wa.
ter to any point desired in the house
or other place if only you have a good
spring on a higher level
For cooling the milk or butter ii
is better to have large cold spring
and set the milk products in the wa
ter as near the head of the spring as
possible, where the water Is the cold
est. For watering the cow and other
purposes it should be brought in pipes
when possible.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
A Double Caiainx.

You didn't seem able to understand
what l was saying over the telephone
to you this morning at your Office"
NO wonder. While You were call
ing me up my boss was calling me
down.-Baltimcre American.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
When He Pound liz.

aHe found that he loved her after
ALL"
Eyes, after all the other girls had
turned him down. Houston Post
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
Tree Planting to reclaim Farms.

During the past year $500 acres
have been planted to trees in the
Eastern States by private citizens who
are trying to make the wornout farms
yield again. Many wealthy men be-
lieve that these abandoned farms will
pay we'll if set in trees and well cared
for The acreage will probably be
increased greatly this year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

Little minds are tanned and sub
dued by misfortunes: but great minds
rise above them. Washington Irving.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
Import. OF human Hair.

More than 200. 600 pounds OF human
hair are exported from Hongkong to
this country annually.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
Election of senators by the People

Election of Senator'S by the People.
This is a time for election of Sena-
tors by the people, so far as that is
possible under our system. Ordinarily
the Senate, in its constitutional func-
tion of a check upon the hasty i'm
pulses of the House Of Representatives,
serves the useful purpose of imposing
reflection and elaboration in the pro-
cesses of legislation.
But we now confront well-considered
popular demand for legislation that
has been hung up for from five to
ten years by the combined forces of
House organization and Senate con-
servatism. These strengthen and sup
port each other. The House organiza-
tion could have been overthrow soon
er but for its refuge in the citadel Of
the Senate. Now it is pretty certain
to be broken down one way or an
other in the next elections.
How will that help thorough legisla
ton for land law reform, conserya-
ton of natural wealth, railroad and
corporation. unless the Senate can be
brought into line also by similar
change? That is no more possible now
than 1t has been in the past, If Sen
ators are to continue to be chosen by
the old method of machine intrigue in
the legislatures, financed by interests
opposed to the legislation in question.
Though direct election Of Senators
by the people is impossible without
constitutional change blocked by the
Senate and the state legislatures. many
states have found ways to accomplish
it indirectly. In some of them, the
primary nomination OF Senators is pro-
vided for by law and the legislatures
obey the peoples mandate, though it
has no legal force. In others the party
In power has been forced by public
opinion TO hold a voluntary primary
election by which the legislature is
guided
II win be found that most of the
newer Senators by whom the old or
ganizati0n is attacked and the progress
sive legislation Of this administration
and the last supported, got their seats
in this way States that have TO choose
Senators in the legislative sessions Of
1911. If they have not already pro-
vided for some indirect: popular choice.
should lose no time in doing 80. That
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

day from the time he was about 4
months old, and he grew like a weed.
He was part Clyde, and both bone and
muscle were well developed for year.
linpn
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

Labor-saving devices are appreciated
more on the farm than ever before
1t seems almost impossible to get help
to do the necessary work, and we are
obliged to farm differently and to use
mechanical means instead of hand
labor
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

might be LIE solution of rather uh
promising contest in this state.-MiH-
neapolis Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

WHY. how could he.

Bacon-Why doesn't some budding
genius build clock that won't run
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
Feeding sklmmiI< TO Colts.

In reference to the feeding of skim
milk to colts, L. c. Litehfeld writes
to the Melbourne Leader as follows:
I'VE have brought up a z-year-old FLY
on skimmilk. This was a standard
trotting FLY. and was a large and
vigorous animal, larger at 2 years old
than her sire or dam were at matur-
ity. This mare had rather a hard
show till she was 5, as she was
'farmed out for her keep, but the bone
and constitution given her by liberal
skimmilk feeding in colttood and the
disposition to get there which was
born in her never went back on her.
and a few months OF careful handling
after her return was enough 10 put
her in nice trim agaia- We have fire.
ouently fed skimmilk te colts, both
trotting bred and drafts. 'Fith the best
results. In the autumn of 1905 we
had quite a number or horses Desir-
ing to wean colt, we put. him on sep
arated milk. He soon learned that
when We came to the 'cowhouse to
feed the calves he was I'd be fed, and
would climb into his manaer with fore
feet Al d beg for skimmilk- We fed
him frtsm pint to three pints twice
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15
c,vtng chickens Large RIMS.

Giving Chickens Lnrge Runs.
Houses and runs should be in pro-
portion. 1t is seldom that the yards
are large enough to keep the fowls
active and healthy. In cities and vii
lagos il is no unusual sight to see a
good sized house and run no larger
than the house in the area covered
The result IS perfectly bare and often
filthy ground plot.
The area of the yard should be al
least ten times that of the house in
which the birds are kept, and if the
yard is larger, it will not be excessive
in size. n fact, you cannot give the
hens too mach range. and if you can
not give them free range, the area OF
the run should be so large that part
of it will remain green through the
entire growing season
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

When trees are affected with peach
yellow they should be exterminated,
root and branch.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

The faster you can make the pullets
grow without putting on extra fat, the
sooner they will begin their life work.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

A field of turnips will supply rich
table for the hogs, from which they
can help themselves and grow big and
fat
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

The brood SOW that is mature can,
with safety, raise two filters year,
and can be carried cheapiy and easily
from the weaving of the spring litter
to the coming of the fall litter with
out much grain.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

Build 1t on the principle OF the gas
Yonkers Statesman.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

All like fruit, but too little OF it
Is found on the farm, many times. Put
in more fruit trees and bushes. The
health of the family will be better if
there is a generous fruit diet.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

If you don't want to buy tarred pa
per take some rolls of wall paper lying
around the house and paste over the
cracks. 1t will make the place very
much warmer
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

To fatten ducks do not allow them
to have access to a swimming pool.
as the exercise of swimming keeps
them down.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

1t may not be generally known that
soy beans make the finest egg-pro-
ducing food for poultry. The beans
should better be cracked until the
chickens are educated to eat them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

17S5-The second society for the abol-
ition of slavery organized in New
York. with John Jay as president.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

The bruise of an apple may not at
once develop into rot, but it will make
brown spot which disfgures and less
ems the value of the fruit.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-03-18
Weekly We ather Report.

Temperature and precipitation data
from the records of local office, U. S.
Weather Bureau; Lakota building,
Rapid City, S. d., for the week enc
ing Thursday, March II, 1910:
Highest temperature during week,
SO, on the 18th.
Lowest temperature during week,
49, on the 18th.
Average daily temperature during
week, 49.7.
Normal daily temperature for the
week, 300.
Average daily excess in tempera.
ture during week 1873.
Average daily excess in tempera.
ture since March 1st, 1853.
Average daily excess in tempera
uure since January LIST, AZ.
Total precipitation lin inches) dur
ing week. 600.
Normal precipitation for week, O.19
Deficiency in precipitation for tn,
week, 0.19.
Excess in precipitation sine,
March 1st, O. 90.
Excess in precipitation since Janu
airy lst, 022.
HARRY o. GEREN, Director.