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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
TEXAS SALT LAKE MYSTERY

By some peculiar chemical process
that is not understood by scientists
who have investigated the subject, ma
ture is able to convert food water
INTO salt deposits upon a gigantic
scale in the bed of Shafter lake,
body of water more than 1000 acres
IN extent adjoining the little town OF
Shafter Lake. Texas. This lake is one
If the wonders of the southwest. 1t is
FAR removed from railroad transpor
!ation and is within so miles of the
New Mexico line For more than a
quarter of a century and as far back
as there is any historical record the
indians and white people Of the terri
tory within 500 miles Of what is now
>alled Shafter lake have obtained their
salt supply from this storehouse Of
nature. Wagon trains still make their
Iong Journeys to and from the lake,
carrying the crystal salt to ranches,
mining camps and towns.
1t is shown by repeated tests that
here Is no alkali in the soil Of the
scope Of territory that uses the lake
IS its natural drainage basin, and
his fact is borne out by the purity
If the food water. But within a few
hours after the water enters the lake
I becomes so impregnated with salt
hat a white crust forms upon the
surface, resembling snow. In the
Ihallow places the pure water is
quickly replaced with solid mass of
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
New York Farmers.

A list of lectures and amusements
Vas handed TO a western man who
couldn't make up his mind where he
wanted to go. Presently he said:
Great Scott! Where am I? Is
this New York or Kansas? Here are
three lectures on farming advertised
for next week. I'm going, by gum,
and see what the dIbs in New York
know about farming, anyhow"
He went Afterward he said:
why are New Workers interested
in agriculture? l have heard lectures
on farming in every state in the
Union, but nowhere have l seen such
large audiences as in this city. What
ia Ehe explanation? Are those people
es-countrymen who still respond to
tie lure of farm life, or are they city
bred chaps whose farm life is in the
fllure?
There were women, too. Were they
couatry exiles. or IT, promised wives
OF prospective farmers? Wherever
the audience cSme from they were
he most attentive | have seen any
where and restored the lectures with
he most intelligent questions. New
In-s Times
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
Honest Method Best

they have a so-called pull" at So-and-
Sos, and offer to use their influence
to get the reduction in price for their
friends also.
Of course there are times when it
is necessary for every we'll regulated
business concern to cut prices upon
merchandise-for instance, when GER
tain lines refuse to leave the shelves
or assortments are depleted. But in
this case the cut Is general and ap-
plies as well to Mrs Jones as to Mrs
Smith.
Some statesmen who desire to be
clever and who have a high opinion
Of their ability along this line are in.
clined to work this sort Of confidence
game on their customers: They will
take the favored ones CD aside and
inform them that as a special favor,
they are going to let them have for
81 an article for which every me else
is paying $1.25, while in reality 81 Is
the regular profit bearing price.
Z This ruse may work for while, but
it is, nevertheless, bad business. 1t is
we'll enough to impress a customer
with the fact that an article is worth
more than he is asked to pay for 1t
if this is actually the case, but they
must not be led to believe they can
buy it for less money than any one
else can. Honest business methods
pay in the long run.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
LARGEST OF ALL EGGS

An egg of the gigantic extinct bird
.epyornis, Of South Madagascar, is on
exhibition at the Museum of Natural
History in New York.
The aepyornis egg has a capacity
If two gallons, or $50 times that of a
hens egg. The shell is one-eighth
nch thick Lengthwise it is 80 inches
n circumference and 1t measures 26
inches around the middle. Though
termed fossil egg it is not petrifed,
put is in perfect condition. unbroken,
and has a yellow color. The contents
have turned into a fine dust which
comes out, wnen handled through a
small natural perforation on one side.
The aepyornis, like the moa OF New
Zealand, was exterminated by the
hand of man. A few centuries ago it
vas quite abundant. Several incom-
olete fossil remains have been discov-
sred, but No complete skeleton has
,ver yet been found. These show the
,ird was three-toed. of massive pro-
1ortions and short winged. The
Madagascar natives have for many
ears uTed the great egg shell for
ariouz household purposes. In fact
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
"CLIMBS" DOWN SKYScRAPER

John Hassler, steeplejack of Phila-
deIphia, recently astonished the citi-
zens Of that town by ascending on
the face of an 1S-story building. with
out mechanical assistance of any sort
using only the grip that he obtained
by hanging to the interstices of the
stonework with the tips Of his fingers
and digging the tips of his toes into
the spaces as he felt his way to the
ground.
The building was the Morris build
ing. a new structure at the corner OF
Broad and Chestnut street, Philadel-
phias busiest center. The steeplejack,
whose sole object In attempting tho
daring feat was to show that 1t could
be done, swung himself from the roof
by rope. and. dangling at giddy
height from the sidewalk, felt for a
safe spot on the sheer face of the
building from which to commence his
descent. When he had secured a good
hold with the tips of his fingers, he
kicked the rope out Of the way and
began his finger and toe descent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
UNTRUTHFULNEsS OF CLERK
SURE TO HURT BUSINESS.
Giving the False Impression That the
Customer Is Obtaining Special
Values Is UnWise.

prominent merchant once dis
missed a salesman whom he over
heard saying to shopper: I'VE usu-
ally sell that for $1.25, but seeing it's
you, I'll let you have it for ST."
The article regularly sold at 81.
Nothing could injure a business more
than to make customers feel that per
sonal influence governs prices. In the
first place an intelligent buyer cannot
help discovering the salesman's du-
plicity, and. aside from the fact that
it is against all good business princi-
pies there is another thing to be con-
sidered
Some people, foolishly enough, al
low themselves to be persuaded that
they are of special importance and
can buy goods at that particular store
at lower prices than any one else.
They become accustomed to looking
for reductions and feel angered if
called upon to pay the regular price
for anything.
But, worst of ALL they spread the
impression among their friends that
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
Stenographer viii Find Big Of
flee Is Best Business School
for the Beginner.
DISCIPLINE Is INVALUABLE
Hard and Varied Work VIII Keep Her
Mind Alert and Teach Her to
Adjust Herself to All
Kinds of People.

The work here is hard,' said the
manager of the big Office where there
are more than fifty stenographers en-
ployed, but l don't think you'll regret
1t If you come here. Our office is a
irst-class training school. | don't
want you to come thinking you're 60
Ing to have 'cinch,' but if you do
come and make good you'll find that
we appreciate it and that the training
you have had will more than compen-
safe for the hard work.
His words proved true. Through
tears and tribulation the applicant
struggled through the many difficult
ties in that big office. and when she
finally took another position she fully
realized how invaluable had been the
experience she had had in that big,
hard school
To a stenographer who really wants
to become proficient in her line Of
work there is nothing like serving her
novitiate in a big Office. A girl who
goes directly into a small office, where
she is perhaps the only stenographer,
or one of two or three, and stays
there, not only has nothing to COM
pare her work with, but she is with
out the stimulus impaired by the feel
Ing that one Is a part, II only small
part, of a big, compact whole. To a
girl who is inclined to think that 1t
doesn't make any particular difference
whether she is punCtual or not the
rigid discipline which must be main
tanned where there are SO many per-
sons employed is the best thing in the
world.
The timid girl learns to control her
nerves. She becomes accustomed to
being sent to take dictation from
strangers who may glare at her and
shout in a most distracting way II
she fails to grasp every word on the
instant She finds out just where the
fine line is drawn between Intentional
rudeness and mere business abrupt
ness. She learns to adjust herself to
the many kinds of people with whom
she is thrown In sharp contact. After
she has become thoroughly convinced
all the conceit having been extracted
from her system, leaving her humbly
resigned to the fact that she is of alb
solutely no consequence, she may be
surprised to find that some one has
noticed her efforts to do good work,
and the thrill which comes with this
discovery is worth much past anguish
of mind.
The variety of work with which the
stenographer in a big office has to be
familiar keeps her on the alert, so
that her mind has no chance to fall
into the habit of taking maps. She
learns to form new words in short
hand quickly. She learns to admire
the neat work of the good stenOgraph-
er and to shudder at the sloppy
work of the Indifferent one.
Quite often material for really
good stenographer is spoiled because
a girl goes into small office and per-
haps works for a man who is ignorant
or Indifferent and she has no correct
standard to live up to.
To take a more personal point of
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
FLIPPANT KIND is NOT WANTED
IN BUSINESS OFFICES.
Always Trying to Be Smart and vi
Vacious, She Becomes Wearisome
to Both Customers and En-
ployers.

a notion is abroad that a girl, to be
popular, must be more or less gay and
sprightly. that she must be vivacious
and have high spirits. The business
girl is particularly apt to think this.
She is entering a world Of strangers,
and in order to make an impression
she thinks she must make a noise.
So, many a girl laughs loudly, talks
flippantly, tries to be smart or to
make clever repartee.
In nearly every office, behind nearly
every counter, is a girl of this sort.
But if you study the Office closely, or
If you watch the life back of the
counter, you find she is not the girl
who Is really liked the most. There
may be about her a sort of superficial
popularity. People may stop and chat
for a few moments. or fling her re
mark in passing. But she IS not the
girl chosen for real intimacy and long
hours of friendship; unless, indeed
there is something more to her than
her noise and fippancy. And there
usually isn't.
For this girl, who is always trying
TO say something smart and clever,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
A FINE NIGHT-CAP
The Best Thing in the World to Go to
Bed and Sleep On.

"My wife and find that teaspoon
fuls Of Grape-Nuts and a cup of hot
milk, or some cream, with 1t, makes
the finest night-cap in the world" says
an Allegheny, Pa, man.
1--WE go to sleep as soon as we strike
the bed, and slumber like babies till
rising time in the morning.
1T is about years now since we be-
gan to use Grape-Nuts food, and we
always have it for breakfast and be-
lore retiring and sometimes for lunch.
] was so sick from what the doctors
sailed acute indigestion and brain flag
before began to use Grape-Nuts that |
could neither eat, sleep nor work with
any comfort.
"I was afflicted at the same time
with the most intense pains, accompan-
led by a racking headache and back
ache, every time l tried to eat any
thing. Notwithstanding an unusual
pressure from my professional duties,
l was compelled for time to give up
my work altogether.
"Then I put myself on diet OF
Grape-Nuts and cream one, with an
occasional cup Of Postum as a runner
up, and sometimes Z little dry toast. /
assure you that in less than a week I
felt like a new man; had gained six
pounds in weight, could sleep well
and think well.
1.-THE good work went on, and was
soon ready to return to business. and
have been hard at it, and enjoying it
ever since.
Command me at any time any one
enquiries as to the merits of Grape
Nuts. You will find me always ready
to testify" Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book, 1.-THE Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs. There's reason"
Ever read the above Ietterf new
one appears from time to- time. They
are genuine, true, and full OF huAaan
interest
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
SCIENCE NOTES

Powdered pumice applied with wash
leather will remove f1ngermarks from
books.
Australia has prohibited the ex-
portation of the plumage, skins or
eggs of native birds.
Projectiles fred even from the heav.
lest guns, when they penetrate con-
crete do so without splirtering It
There are 1850 electrical works and
central stations in Germany in addi-
ton 10 more than $4,000 private
plants.
Carbon deposits which blacken a
gas mantle can be removed by burn
ing a little common salt on the
burner.
To economic on ushers New York
moving picture theater has installed
small incandescent lamps on the
backs of the seats, arranged to burn
only when the seat Is unoccupied.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
Good Advice

Professor B!ackie gives the follow
ing advice to Young Men," but it will
be we'll if every feminine reader of
this page will follow 1t:
Never whip your brain. All high
pressure is dangerous Study to
think as quietly and easily as you
breathe. Never force yourself %
learn what you have no talent for.
knowledge without love will remain
a lifeless manufacture, not a living
growth
BE content to be ignorant Of many
things that you may know one thing
well. and that thing which God espe-
cially endowed you to know.
1T requires fire TO fuse the mate
rails of thinking, no less than to melt
the iron in the foundry.
But remembe: this, however
strong you may be. physically, IN
strike a blow, and however sharp,
Intellectually, TO recognize q fact and
10 discern a difference, your success
in the game of life depends on the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
Noisy Girl a Bore

in the end bores. Most of us are not
smart and clever all the time, and
to try to keep up the appearance OF
being, which seems necessary when
with a girl of this sort, is a strain.
We may do it occasionally or for a
brief while, but when it comes to
keeping at it continually, We would
rather sidestep her Then. too, her
cleverness is often mere sparkle and
froth. There is nothing really clever
or funny about it. And to keep pre-
tending there is and forcing a laugh,
is wearisome. And. too, the girl who
is continually laughing noisily about
nothing gets on ones nerves. So that
the f1ippant, noisy, smart girl is not so
popular as she thinks, or as she may
on the surface, seem to be.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
Growth of Cotton Industry

There were 1,206 establishments en-
gagged in the manufacture of cotton
goods in 1909, which compares with
LOTT in 1904 and 973 in 1899, an in
crease of "a per cent. during the de-
cade
This percentage does not begin to
show the real advance in the indus
try, because the average capacity of
the establishments was increased
materially during the period.
The value of products manufac-
tured increased from S332,SO6 900 in
1899 to s616,297OCO in 1909, an in
crease of IS per cent The total cost
of the principal materials used was
1922 ,SS400O in 1909 and $151, 100000
in 1899, gain Of 112 per cent.
The cost of materials, hows~r,
does not include the cost of fbers
other than cotton, mill supplies, SOAP,
oil, fuel, containers, etc. A large per
centage of the increase in the cost
of principal materials is due to the
greater cost of cotton.-America
Wool and Cotton Reporter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17

u the walls of three rooms and broke
plaster from all parts of the house.
It then lifted the bedclotnes from the
bed in which Mrs. West and her
young grandchild were lying. The
crash which accompanied the bolt
awakened Mrs West and the boy and
covered both with SCOT and plaster
ing. They found the bedclothes
against an opposite wall Neither
was in any way injured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17

salt. This manufacturing process
goes on constantly, but Is specially
rapid during the hot months of sum-
mer, due doubtless to the effects of
evaporation.
The basin which forms the bed of
this remarkable salt lake has the
appearance of being the crater of an
extinct volcano. 1t is situated $50
feet below the surface of the sur
rounding country. The lake has no
outlet, hut the food water that enters
it is never sufficient to cause an over
flow.
The method that is used to extract
the salt from the bed Of the lake is
primitive. 1t consists of boxes to
which are attached wire ropes that
are operated by horses and pulleys
upon the shore. Men with shovels fill
these boxes with the salt and the
loads are hauled ashore and dumped
in piles to await transportation to the
different markets. Each box has a ca
pacity of about 500 pounds. In this
way it is not unusual for one man to
get out from one to three tons of
salt daily. The depth Of the salt bed
ranges from six inches to six feet.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
MUNYON BREACHES
HOPE PHILOSOPHY
New Association Gaining Many
Members.
FAITHS CURATIVE POWER
NOTED HEALTH EXPERT
GIVES REASON FOR BIG
SUCCESS In MEDICINE

Tremendous success has attended the
organization of the new Munyon Hope
Cult" Professor Munyon claims that he
has secured more converts than he even
anticipated. and says that his Hope
Cult is growing in leaps and bounds. It
Is said that the total membership of the
association throughout the United States
Is now well over the half million mark
In a statement for publication Prof.
Munyon said:
II want to talk to every sick, ailing and
respondent person in this city. 1 want
to preach my new creed to them 7
want to tell them about my new philoso-
ply of health, which Is the fruit of a
lifetime OF study and experience in deal
u want to expound the Great Truth
that have learned that thee is more
curative power in an ounce of Hope than
in pounds OF Dope That sick people
should not take medicine except as
medium through which the great cura-
tive power of Hope may be made effec-
present state Of the worlds progress be-
cause they give patient physical sup
port and strength and renewed vigor
with which to brace up the will power.
one knows, from the action of the proper
medicines, that he or she is feeling bet
ter by this inspired hope and faith,
which complete the cure.
Il think that probably a million per-
sons at least in the United States have
declared themselves cured by my medi-
cines, and I know that these people have
nbu LNb pest remedies neOlCal science
had to offer. 1 have always contended
that If there is any virtue in medicine
my followers should have the best, but
I verify believe that more than one-half
OF those who have been lifted to health
from the bondage Of chronic illness,
through taking my medicines, have been
really. cured by the knowledge that they
had the utmost in medical lore at their
command. and the Hope this inspired.
Il am not In any sense practicing
physician I employ at my laboratories
In Philadelphia a large staff of expert
physicians and chemists, and I have
many other physicians in various cities
of the United States detailed to give free
advice to the sick and afflicted. My
headquarters are at Munyon's Labora-
tories SD and Jefferson SITS, Phila., Pa,
and I have there a staff Of duly register
ed physicians and consulting experts,
and to all who desire 1t I offer the best
OF medical advice absolutely free Of
charge"
Write today, addressing Prof J. NJ.
Munyon personally and your letter will
have a special care.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
BY FLINT AND STEEL
mATcHLEss GAS LIGHTER SEEMS
RETURN TO OLD WAYS.
Mechanical Device, However, Comes
at Time When Soft Pine Stock
Is Disappearing.

Once upon a time the teacher Of
elementary physics interested his
class by pulling off his shoes on a
winters day, disclosing some home
knit wooden socks. He produced a
piece of wooden carpeting and spread
it on the floor just under gas Jet
Thus prepared, the teacher danced a
short hornpipe on the carpeting, open
ed the gas jet, touched his finger to
the gas and an electric spark lighted
the gas-or failed, occasionally, to do
So
To show that we are progressing,
however, does not require even the
apparatus newly designed for light
ing a gas fame without a match. 1t
is sign of progress that school teach
ers have quite wearing home knit
wooden socks and stockings-perhaps
a sign of progress that grandmothers
nowadays can't knit EN-.
AS to the matchless gas lighter,
however, it has come into the market
as a substitute for matches just about
the time that match making soft pine
Is disappearing. This mechanical gas
lighter, however, seems to be retro
grade move in principle, after all, in.
volving the flint and steel" of our
grandfathers' time.
A bit of roughened file material is
fixed to one end of a wire which
doubles back into a spiral spring and
forward again to hold the flint in con-
tact with the steel Springing the
ends together, the gas is turned on,
the spring released. and as the flint
strikes upward against the file sparks
are driven downward into the flow OF
gas that has been released, lighting
it.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
Put Heart Into Your Work.

Do not look on your work as a dull
duty. If you choose, you can make
it interesting. Throw your heart into
it, master its meaning, trace out the
causes and previous history, consider
it in all its bearings, think how many
even the humblest labor may bene-
fit, and there is scarcely one of your
duties which We may not look to with
enthusiasm. You will get to love your
work; and if you do it with delight,
you will do it with ease Even if at
first you find this impossible, if for
time it seems mere drudgery, this may
be just what you require; it may be
good, like mountain air, to brace up
your character-Lord Avebury.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
COLLISION BETWEEN BULLETS

It is not often that two bullets
meet in midair. 1t undoubtedly has
happened, but neither has left enough
of itself to tell the tale
Here, however, is a case of a bullet
striking and piercing another bullet
1t happened in a recent shooting con.
test at Grenoble, France, when a Bel,
gian lead bullet was struck by a cop
per bullet fired from a new model
Lebel rifle. The bullets were found
sticking in the butt in the position in
which the accompanying photograph
shows them. The Belgian bullet had
struck the target first and the French
bullet had followed it.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17
Some MOSQUITOES.
tent so BAG

Eyes" said the traveller who had
Just returned from South Africa. Il
was one day so annoyed by mosquitoes
that l was compelled to take refuge in
an old iron safe which lay discarded
on the veldt.
'My first, emotions of joy at my
happy deliverance were hardly over
when the mosquitoes, seeming me. be-
gan to drive their stingers through
the safe. Fortunately, had ham,
mer in my pocket, and as fast as their
stingers came through the iron I
clinched them, until at length such
D.. host Of them was fastened down in
this way that, when they started to
fly away, they carried me and that
safe miles.
Then, one by one, they died with
The exertion, and was able to come
out with safety. Yes, wonderful
things happen in foreign parts.
Ideas.