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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1910-01-04

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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1910-01-04

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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27
NOTES OF INVENTIONS

Hardened steel dies are produced by
electrolytic etching in a recently pat.
ented German process.
A Frenchman has invented ma
chine for moving weeds and other I'M
der water growths in streams and
lakes.
The handle of one of the newest
safety razors has been supplied with
a ring tc encircle its users little fin
ger to aid in guiding 1t.
A potstso digger which an Indiana
farmer has patented loads the tubers
into the wagon to which it Is attached
by an endless chain.
PincerH that lock when closed and
which require considerable force to
ifornia inventor.
An incentive Washingtonian has pat
ented combination step ladder, iron
ing board, and clothes rack, which
folds irto small space when not In
use.
In England there has been invented
a pneumatic machine for cutting wire
rope OF CDdlT Wal6T, WQer6 Is
would De inconvenient to use hand
tools.
A coin in the slot machine that
New Yorker has invented to sell news
papers is arranged to accommodate va
rious sized papers and to accept vari.
Gus prices.
Four groups of wings, two of two
wiz, oh,
wings. tapped by cranks attached to
motor. are the features offs flying ma
chine recently invented by German.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27
An Alaskan Luncheon.

Runners of woven Indian basketry,
with white drawnwork doilies at each
of the II covers, were used on an oval
mahogany table. The doilies were
made at Sitka. In the middle of the
table mirror held tall central vase
of frosted glass, surrounded by four
smaller vases, all filed with white
spring blossoms. The edge of the
mirror was banked with the same
flowers. Four totem poles were placed
on doilies in the angles made by the
runners.
Place cards were water colors of
Alaskan scenery. Abalone shells held
sailed nuts, and tiny Indian baskets
held bonbons. The soup spoons were
of horn, several of the dishes used
were made by Alaskan Indians, and
the cakes were served on baskets.
The menu was as follows: Poisson
la Boring Sea (halibut ehowder),
Yukon climbers (broiled salmon, po-
tatoes Julienne), snowbirGs avec
auroraborealis (roast duck with jelly,
Shungnak river turnips, Tanana
beets, Skagway hash (salad), Fair
banks nuggets (ripe strawberries ar
ranged on individual dishes around
central mound Of powdered sugar..
arctic slices (brick ice cream), Circle
City delights (smaIl cakes). Klondike
nuggets yellow cheese in round balls
on crackers), Nome firewater (coffee).
-Woman's Home Companion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27
Industry Everywhere Is Con-
stantIy Calling for Man of
Trained intelligence.
KNOWLEDGE MAKES JOB SURE
Theoretical knowledge Of Prir pies
Underlying Craft Make Dsy La
borar Surer of Holding Job
Than Man Who Can Boast
Only of Strength.

Every one is familiar with the an
cient workers truism to the effect
that there is no labor so crude, coarse,
unskilled, or mechanical that it can
not be done better by man OF train
ed intelligence than by one who is a
mere muscular machine. The fathers
of the old school who reared their
children to earn an honest living
with their hands could not see what
algebra and Latin had to do with the
handling of a pick and shovel.
Every branch of industry In this
country has been developed under the
pressure of competition until the
meanost and lowliest jobs available
are the better handled by men with
come sort of special preparation. A
theoretical knowledge of the pr1ncl-
pies underlying a craft make day Ia
borer surer of holding his job than
the man who boasts the strength OF
his hand and no more.
The farm hand who knows clay
soil from a loan, who knows seed that
will terminate from seed that will
not, who knows what contains phos-
plate and the kind Of fertilizer that
will bring crops out of a given soil,
can outbid any three lads of the old
type who could pull pillow with their
own strength or lift load Of hay in
to position on the barn floor.
The blacksmith who knows how
steel is made and what its properties
are, who knows IN what Norway iron
differs from cast, and the reason that
borax makes a weld possible, will do
better work than the fellow whose
only claim to admiration Is his tradi-
tional blacksmith's biceps.
There was a feeling once among
those to whom was allotted the task
of training our workers that anything
more than the apprentices course ul-
fitted the youngster for his work by
instilling foolish ambitions into him
Fortunately, manual work no longer
is regarded as a degradation, and a
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27
Holidays in the States.

Washington's birthday is a holiday
in all states. Decoration day in all
states but Florida, Georgia, Louisiana.
Mississippi, North Carolina, South
Carolina. Tennessee and Texas. Labor
day is observed everywhere. Virtu-
ally every state has legal holidays
having to do with its own special af-
fairs-battle of New Orleans in Louis
lana, Texan independence and battle
of San Jacinto in Texas, Admission
day il California, and so on. Missis-
sippi is like the federal government
in lack of statutory holidays. but by
common consent independence day,
Thanksgiving and Christmas are OBJ
served. A new one is Columbus day
in few of the states.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27
NEW SAWS BADLY NEEDED
The OId-Fashioned Ones Somehow
Don't Seem to Fit Into Mod
ern Situations.

"You know all the copybook, Nc
Guffey's reader line of talk about Ia
king the advice of ones elders?" be-
gan the sad-eyed, understood little
man on the car. "Sure you do. Now
let me tell you something. See that
big apartment house over there on
the right? And that little business
block right next to it?
"Well, there weren't any apartment
houses or business blocks on it when
/ first clapped eyes on it. 1t was a
bowling wilderness, in fact, and you
could almost chase rabbits up here.
That was about eighteen years ago.
1 had bunch then-and 1 was only
eighteen years old at that time-that
this land would some day jump in
value by leaps and bounds. When
was twenty years old | came into
bunch of $4,000. / went to my guar
dian, an old man, pretty prominent
in estate management and wisdom at
that time, and told him ] wanted TO
soak the whole $4,000 in this block
of ground l pointed out to you. The
block was then on the market for
exactly $4,000. The old gentleman
pooh-poohed me.
"'Go away, boy he said to me, with
a patronizing smile. You don't know
what you want. It's my duty to save
you from such wild notions as this
one you've got into your head. They'll
be shooting rabbits and squirrels out
there on that plot so years from now.
G'way'
81 argued it with him, and he sat
down on me. Then he went and in
vested my $4,000 at three per cent.
Three years ago the man who
bought that same block of ground for
$4,000 sold it for about 100000 cash,
and he's now cruising over in the
Mediterranean or some place or
other, while I'm taking my wife out
for nickel car rides and wondering
where my $4,000 went.
There's got to be new set of
wise saws invented for twentieth GEN.
fury consumption. The McGuffey's
reader kind are moth eaten"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27
Before Days of Free Press.

Many of the restrictions that hamp-
cred the influence Of the press re-
manned in force until the close Of the
eighteenth century in England. 1t was
not till that period that newspapers
obtained the right to criticise the pol
icy of ministers and of the king Mr..
Walter, the first editor of the London
Times, was prosecuted for censuring
the duke of York. He was sentenced
to pay a fine of $3.50, stand in the
pillory for an hour, be imprisoned for
year and give security for his good
behavior for seven years. The order
with regard to the pillory was can
oeled, but he had TO serve his term in
iafI
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27
An Unnecessary Confession.

A hearty laugh was occasioned at
the Birmingham police court by pris
oner who gave himself away in very
delightful manner. The man was the
first on the list, and the charge against
him was merely one of being drunk
and disorderly. He stepped into the
dock, however, just at the moment
when the douir officer was reading out
few of tine cases which were to come
before the court that morning, and a
guilty conscience apparently led him
to mistake these items fer list of his
previous convictions.
He stood passive enough while the
officer read out about a dozen drunk
and disorderlies, but when he came to
one 'shopbreaking" the prisoner ex-
claimed excitedly, THAT was eight
years ago, your honor" Everyone be-
gan to laugh, and the prisoner, realiz-
ing the blunder he had made, at first
looked very black indeed, but finally
saw the humorous side of the matter,
aGd broad smile spread over his face.
His blunder did not cost anything
Birmingham Mail.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27
Too Ardent a Lover.

Georgotto Fontano, an embroiderer
who lives in the Rue Seyres in Paris,
has found herself condemned to
months Imprisonment for what seems
to her a harmless act.
She was going home from concert
a few evenings ago when she decided
she would like to see her fiance. AS
he happens to be a fireman whose
station is in her own neighborhood it
occurred to her it would be very easy
to summon him to her side by break
ing the glass of the fire alarm and
sounding call.
She did so arr in few moments
fire engines came from several direc-
tons, all laden with firemen, of course,
but alas! her fiance was not among
them, and more than that all the fire.
men were angry, and before she knew
what had happened she was taken to
magistrate, who proceeded to make
the course of true love run unsmoothly
Dy sending her to prison for a month
in spite of her tears and protests that
she thought it would be simple way
OF bringing her fiance to her side.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27
THE MAN WHO KNOWS

hand worker with trained mind no
longer is the anomaly he was In the
eyes of the last generation. We do
not now believe that theoretical train
ing, which develops Q man's miad, de-
prives him of his practical usefulness;
we simply think that 1t makes him a
filter workman.
Technical departments IN colleges,
trade schools Of the higher order and
the contact of the prepared worker
with the unprepared have done a mis-
sionary work in giving work, practical
work, a dignity in the eyes of the
worker and the scholastic man as
well The number of men with COL
lege degrees who are working In
shops, blowing fields, cutting timber,
doing practical work in electrical
lines, and the like, is a good indica-
ton that the practical departments Of
big universities do not make men
snobbish.
Germany, recognizing that all men
cannot be superintendent, master
workmen, contractors, and engineers,
has established a series of public
training schools, like our trade
schools, which fit men to do the COM
mon day labor of their crafts more
intelligently and efficiently than If
they were simply turned loose as I'M
tutored boys and given cumbersome
tools with which to train themselves.
Even the merchants of Germany sub
scribe to maintain schools for the
training their employees.
The men are taught the chemistry
of the articles they handle, and in
case of fabrics they have a knowledge
Of the manufacture as well as the
business instruction which enables
them to meet and handle customers
intelligently. We have schools for
chauffeurs. We hear of schools where
walters receive instruction, not only
In the ways Of carrying dishes in and
out, but in sanitary methods of han
ding food. in modern languages, and
so forth.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27

Four men, three of whom were con-
nected with brokerage concerns in the
Wall street district, were discussing
United States paper currency and the
disappearance of counterfeits. 1--WE
are so sure nowadays" said one of
the party, "as to the genuineness OF
bills that little attention is paid to
them in handling, except as to de-
nomination" To prove his assertion
he took a $40 yellowback from his
pocket, and, holding it up, asked who
could tell whose portrait it bore No
one knew, and by way of coaching
the broker said it was the first treas
uTer of the United States. Again no
one knew the name. ''Why, It's
Michael Hillegas," said the man
proudly. But in confidence, I'll tell
you, l didn't know it five minutes
ago. New York Tribune
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27
ADVANTAGE AS WAGE-EARNlNo
BUSINESS FOR GIRLS.
Gets Good Compensation In Pleasant
Occupation and Is Seldom Out
of Engagements.

l see so little as regards the value
of the modiste as wage-earning bust
ness, 1 am impelled to enter the in
teresting discussion. In the first
place, were girls taught the use of
the needle, they could live better on
small salaries, for goods are cheap
and the cost of making is what counts.
AS a modiste l go into families, re-
ceiving So to $3.50 and even 81 per
day and lunch, working from s a. m.
to p. M, less lunch time, which is
usually about 80 minutes.
When 1 first began this work, it was
at S1.50 per day. AS l was a novice,
| also received three meals, and work
ed longer hours. Finding it more
agreeable all around. and becoming
more experienced in the line of work,
] charged more with shorter hours
and better results. Now 1 have all
the work l can attend to, and in some
Instances am working several weeks
in one family.
/ find that If the house is in order
and the family dressed when the head
of the household returns from BUSH
ness cares and trials, he does not OBJ
ject to the home dressmaking.
Now, to begin or prepare for this
work, girl should enter a first-class
shop and learn to handle material.
After she has mastered this, then the
system will come in, or she may use
patterns, as there are good and have
been tested out by experts. She must
be wide-awake and up-to-date, keeping
well in advance of the styles.
Should she run out of engagements,
an ad in a paper will fill her time
Avoid working for acquaintances or
friends, as in the end she will have
only experiences to tell. Instead
make your work business PROPOSE
ton, not social, and you cannot fail
| consider this one OF the best voca-
tons for women.
No matter where she may be, there
is always a demand for the modiste's
labor. and who can say that the dress
maker of courage and ability has not
achieved as much as any stenograph-
err? An ordinary stenographer gets
IS or $40 per week; after room rent.
board, laundry. car fare, and inciden-
tails, how much has she left to clothe
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27
Pretty Good Definition.

We hear some funny things in Fleet
street sometimes, and the following
definition of the height of aggravation,
by a gentleman in rather shaky boots.
whom we encountered in a wellknown
hostelry the other day, struck us as
being particularly choice.
THE eight of haggravation, gentle
men, said this pothouse humorist, set
ting his pewter on the counter and
looking round proudly, with the air of
one about to let off a good thing, "the
eight of haggravation-why trying
to ketch flea out O. yer ear with
pair Of boxin' gloves. London Tit
Bits.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27
PLANTING Weddina Oaks.

Princess August Wilhelm, wife of
the kaiser's fourth son, has set herself
the task of reviving one of Germany's
oldest customs, that according to which
newly welded couples Immediately af-
ter the marriage ceremony plant cou-
pie of oak saplings side by side in a
park or by the roadside of their ma
tive town.
The town of Mulchausen, in Thurin-
gia, is the first to respond to the prin-
cess appeal. A municipal official ap-
pears at the church door after every
wedding and invites the bride and
bridegroom to drive with him in a car
riage to new road near the town and
there plant oak saplings.
The tree planting idea was started
by former elector of BraDdenburg
with the object of repairing the raw
ages caused by the 80 years war. The
elector forbade young persons to mar
ry until they had planted number of
fruit trees.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27
STELLITE A NEW METAL
PROMISES TO HAVE PRACTICAL
USES UNLIMITED.
Can Be Cast and Ground Into Tools
With Edge as Fine as Hard
est Steel.

Scientific journals have recently re-
ported the discovery of a new metal
dubbed stellite, which promises to
have practical uses unlimited. 1t Is
an alloy of 25 per cent. chromium and
rs per cent. cobalt This combination,
discovered by Elwood Haynes, can be
cast and ground into tools with an
edge as fine as the hardest steel. lus-
ter like silver, impervious to rust, nj
trio acid and disinfectants like mer-
curic chloride, and highly flexible. All
manner OF lathe tools, cutlery, razors,
chisels and surgical tools have been
constructed from IL and they are In
many respects superior to steel or iron
alloys used for similar purposes. Up
to this time cobalt has been largely a
waste product in the smelling of cop
per and silver in various parts of the
world. Great quantities are taken out
at the town of Cobalt In Ontario and
in the German copper mines. But no
practical use has ever been devised
except In the manufacture of cobalt
blue
The first experiments Mr.. Haynes
made were with an alloy of nickel and
chromium, afterwards adding small
quantities of aluminium. The metal
obtained wss hard and brittle, with q
fair cutting edge when ground into q
blade, but 1t showed green tarnish
after sons exposure. After some ex-
pertinent with cobalt and chromium
he was able to melt the metals at high
temperature and run them into slen-
der bars, which when rolled out into
strips could scarcely be scratched
with a file. A kitchen knife blade
made from the alloy was used two
years without sign of rust or tar
nish, and Notwithstanding the fact that
pure cobalt is highly magnetic. the
alloy scarcely responded to the mag.
net at ALL While the metal is ex-
tremely hard, 1t is flexible and can be
ground to q smooth, keen cutting edge.
A stellite lathe tool will cut steel
shavings at the rate of 200 feet a min
ute, at which speed steel tool of the
best quality would burn. Notifications
of the alloy will scratch glass and
even quartz crystals There Is no
evident reason why the metal should
not be serviceable in everything from
axes down to watch fittings.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27
Vivid at Least.

DR.. Hiram G. Cortlandt, the we'll
known theologian of Des Moines, said
in a recent address:
Thomas A. Edison tells us that he
thinks the soul is not immortal; but,
after all, what does this great wizard
know about souls? His forte is cleo.
tricity and machinery, and when he
talks Of souls he reminds me irreslst.
IDLY of the young lady who visited the
Baldwin locomotive works and then
told how locomotive is made.
You pour she said, a lot Of sand
into a lot of boxes, and you throw old
stove lids and things into a hlrnace,
and they you empty the molten stream
into a hole in the sand, and everybody
yells and swears. Then you pour IL
out and let it cool and pound it, and
then you put II in thing that bores
holes in It, Then you screw It to-
gether. and paint It. and put steam in
it, and it goes splendidly; and they
take 1t to a drafting room and make
a bluep rint of It, But one thing for
got-they have to make a boiler. One
man gets inside and one gets outside,
and they pound frlghtfully; and then
they tie it to the other thing. and you
ought to see It go!'"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27
CITIES ARE ovERCRoWDED
Measures Urged to Take Surplus Pop
Llaton to Country to
Till Soil.

The congestion committee of New
errors strongly urges that measures
be taken to remove the surplus popu-
lation into the country where the soil
ray be titled and a ready relief accom-
plished not only for themselves, but
for the entire people. The popula-
ton of the cities is increasing three
and onehalf times as rapidly as that
of the rural districts, and the result
is unsanitary conditions that brought
about 100000 preventable deaths in
the cities in the last year.
DR.. Walter Laidlaw, secretary of the
Federation of Churches and Christian
Organizations IN New York city es-
Inmates from 1910 census returns the
total population of continental United
States at 91,343,S40, OF whom 34,191,-
606, or 37.43 per cent, are living in
cities of 1900 or over. Whereas in
1900 there Were in the country only
100 cities with a population of $4,000
or over, there are this year with five
cities to be heard FROM at least 225
cities having a population of $4,000 or
over, the total population of these cit
les being, approximately, 2S,000,000.
The population Of these cities has in
creased since 1890 ALTO per cent,
nearly three and half times as rap
idly as the rural population, which has
increased in the EAST decade only IL
per cent. The reral population is es-
timated today as only 57.252, la. In
New York 1,S2s651, or over two
thirds of the states increase of 1874,
SOS in population. was In the city of
New York.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27
French Official Etiauet.

The wives of the new French minis.
tiers share in the honors conferred on
their husbands, the degree of defer
ence due to them being infinitely es.
tablshed by the "protocole." When
the wife of minister enters a room,
if any deputies or senator's wives are
present, they are supposed to rise
and remain standing until she is seat
ed. Other ministers wives may rest
in their chairs, but should the prime
minister's wife arise they also must
stand to attention. And even Nine.
BRAND (if there were such person.,
would have to show similar Difference
to the wife of the president of the
chamber With her. according to the
protocole, "e'est la representation ma
tionale qui entire, lie suffrage univer-
sci la France. London Chronicle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-27
Two Very Old adias

We have heard a great deal lately
about long-liyed people, but it is prob
able that the oldest two people in the
world today are Frau Dutkievitz and
another old lady named Babavaslika.
The former lives at Posem, in Prus-
sian Poland, and was born on Febrr-
airy 81, 1885. She is therefore one
hundred and twenty-five years old.
The latter, however, is nine months
her senior, having been born In May,
1884.
She is still fairly hale old woman,
and for nearly one hundred years
worked in the fields. Her descendants
number close on leo, and these now
make her a joint allowance. She lives
at the village of Bavelsko, whose
neighborhood she has never quilted
during the whole of her long life. She
remembers events which happened at
the beginning of last century much
more clearly than those of the last
40 years.-Dundee Advertiser.