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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
MAKES RATHER A BAD START
No Doubt Boy Meant Well, but His
initial Efforts at Keeping Diary
Are Impressive.

This is my first dry so don't mind
the spellin. / wus'nt goin to right it
till a little while longer, only, this
morning was rainy and my ma sed,
William, why don't you begin your
dry, this will be good day to be-
gin. and 1t will keep you out of mis-
chif?" / sed alright, so l went up
stairs and got my big brother Johns
stamp album and began pulling out
the stamps SOS l could right. John
says his stamps are worth a lot of
money but | don't believe it cause
when he wanted to buy football the
other day why didn't he sell EN- and
get the money Anyhow l don't want
him to catch me as / have started
righting in it. The first thing in dry
Is the date so | will now right It.
October 26, 1911-When / began
this dry / forgot to tell you that l
borrowed my sisters pink hair-ribbon
to hold the leaves together more,
and, when big brother John came
home heard him yell awful when he
couldn't find his album so / ran up
stairs to the attic behind big trunk
where ne cant find me. / just now
heard my sister come in and I'm so
scared l darst not go down stairs now
and I'm afraid to right anymore so I'll
have to creep in the trunk and stay
till he goes I'll continu my dry to
morrer.-Newark IN. j. Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
LICE IN THE POULTRY HOUSE
Entire Building Should Be Thorough
ly Scraped and All Refuse Cleaned
Up During Fall.

Before the spring Matched puliets
are brought into the house for the
winter the entire house should be thor
oughly scraped and all refuse swept
up and spread over ground that is to
be plowed this fall. Spray with So
luton of one pound of sulphuric acid
well mixed with 20 gallons of water.
The walls. ceilings, floors. roosts and
nests should be given good coat:
take time to get the solution into all
cracks and crevices. This solution will
destroy the eggs as well as the full
grown lice. Select clear, bright
day The hens should be kept out of
the house for several hours after
spraying. After the solution dries ap-
ply hot lime wash, mixing one ounce
of carbolic acid in each bucket of
wash The roosts and nests should
be given thick coat of the wash
Careful breeders of high-class poultry
dust every bird with some good insect
powder before being placed in winter
quarters.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
BUILD GOOD BREEDING HOUSE
One May Be Constructed cheaply, We;
Strong and Substantiai-Mr. Gil
lum Gives Plan.

| have one breeding house that is
very cheaply constructed, yet strong
and substantial, writes j. S. Gilium OF
Connecticut in the Farm and Home
The shed built on in front is by itself
a pen l9x22 feet, and has no entrance
from the main building. The breeding
house is 13x35 feet The foundation
is made OF plank and chestnut posts
four inches square. set in the ground
three feet, and two-inch chestnut plank
spiked to them.
The plank is one foot below the
natural ground and six inches above
at the west end and about three feet
at east end The posts and plank
were first treated to two coats OF a
wood-preserving paint This foGada-
ton is filled in with sod and soil and
Jamped
The frame OF building is 3Z4 inches,
excepting the rafters, whfyh are 2x6
inches, all covered with tongued and
grooved hemlock sheathing covered
with roofing paper and painted. 1t
has two windows to each pen. OF
which there are five, all 7xl0 feet.
leaving a threefoot alIeyway In the
front of house.
The pens are divided with part
board and part wire partitions. The
roosts are along the side OF partitions
three feet up from the ground and the
nests underneath, which leaves all the
floor to the fowls The food hoppers
are hung on the walls There are two
six-inch VentiIators. one near each end
of house and in the center OF south
wall near the roof Is 4x6-inch open
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT
POINTS WAY TO HEALTH

can truthfully say that DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root is very good medicine,
not alone for kidney trouble, but also
for weak and sore back, as well as for
rheumatism.
About year ago / became Ill and
unable to work, my trouble being a
lame back. l read Of your Swamp
Root In the newspaper and in an Al
manac. Believing it would do me
good, went to my druggist. Mr.. Skin
ner, and purchased a bottle. Finding
relief in one fifty-cent bottle, pur-
chased several more and in a short
time was able TO continue with my
work and am today feeling well and
strong. l always recommend DR.. Kill
mer's Swamp-Root to my friends as
/ believe 1t is as good medicine az
can be found.
AUGUST STRONG,
3414 Washington Ave-, No,
Minneapolis, MINI.
Mr.. Skinner makes affidavit that he
sold the Swamp-Root to Mr.. Strong.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
JUST MAKING OUT A CASE
Uncle Jeth Had Deep Reason for &C.
cupation That Was Seemingly
Improbable.

John Collier, the secretary of New
Forks board of moving picture cen
sors, said the other day:
It's no good getting up objec-
tionable picture plays We never
pass them. in fact, we turn them down
so invariably that it seems to me the
composers of such plays are animated
by spirit of perversity. They re-
mind me of old Uncle Jethro Husk
Uncle Jethro sat fishing on the
bank of tiny rivulet when stran-
ger stopped beside him and said:
lis 1t possible that there are any
fish in such small stream as that?"
No. there amt none Uncle Jeth
grunted
"'But you're fishing"
"'Yep. said Uncle Jeth.
"'What. then, is your object?'
my object said Uncle Jeth. is to
show my wife l amt got no time to
sift the ashes"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
Three Who 6ravely and Successfully
Carried on Their Sick Fathers
Work

In the southwest part OF kingman
comfy there lives German farmer,
Rennie Griem, who has been IN III
health the past year. The faTriiy con
sists mostly of girls. One Of these
Girls is a school teacher and two are
students in the Kingman high school,
Hired help has been hard to get the
east season, and the father not being
able to attend to farm work, the girls
concluded to take matters into their
own hands, and last spring as soon as
the eldest daughters term OF school
had closed she went home, hooked UP
TO the lister and working early and
late put In 20 acres Of corn
AS soon as the two other girls were
home from high schoo- they turned in
and assisted in cuItivating the corn
crop. assisted in the milking and cars
OF the stock, sold and delivered the
milk 10 the creamery. put up the has
from % acres OF alfalfa, put up quite
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
COCHISE

No white man has looked upon
cochise and lived to tell of it,"
So ran the New Mexico saying
And for many years 1t was the truth.
Cochise was chief OF the Chiricahaa
Apaches. High in the Dragon noun
talns of New Mexico he had a mighty
fortress where he and his band of 500
"hostiles" lived, and from which they
issued from time to time on havoc
making raids. This fortress was al
most impossible for an outsider to
md. No body of soldiers could pene-
trate TO it.
Cochise openly laughed at the gov
ernment's puny efforts to check his
murderous career. He lived like one
OF the robber barons of old Scouts
would tell him of the approach of
some emigrant train, stage coach
or provision caravan along the
neighboring lowlands. Down from his
mountain retreat he would swoop at
the head of his wild native freeboot-
ers, and would slaughter every white
man, woman and child in the party,
rifiing the provisions, etc, destroying
the wagons and driving off the
horses. mules and cattle.
Wild RaidS on Caravans.
Before troops could be sent to
avenge the crime Cochise and his
band would be safely hidden among
the rocky Businesses of their noun
tains. At last the roads and trails
of the district were practically aban-
doned by travellers. In only one in
stance during all his years of free
booting did Cochise spare any white
man he met That was in the case
of red-bearded hunter and guide
named Jeffords. Why Cochise not
only allowed Jeffords to live but
actually chose him for a dear friend,
no white man ever knew But JEFF
fords was made welcome to the fort
ress whenever he cared to visit 1t.
Cochise, in his own perverted way,
was something of an Indian patriot
as well as robber. He saw the long
trains of westbound caravans that
yearly grew more and more numerous.
He knew the white men were grad
ually invading the west and that they
were little by little driving the In
dians from their old homes. He aimed
to stay this tide of westward emigra-
ton. Therefore he killed every white
man he could lay hands on. Yet, In
course of time, he began to see the
uselessness of such course He
once said to Jeffords:
Il have slain ten white men for
every one of my own warriors that
they have killed. Yet my people
steadily grow fewer and one day they
will vanish from the earth. And the
white mems numbers are no less, no
matter how many ! destroy
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28

Yet, at the beginning. Cochise had
no especial grudge against the gov
eminent. The first clash, when he
WIS young man, came about in this
way: Some horses belonging to a
New Mexico army post were stolen.
The local commandant arrested
Cochise and several of his Apache
followers on suspicion and put them
in a close guarded tent. Cochise alone
escaped with three bullets in his
body by cutting his way out of the
canvas and breaking through the cor
don of guards Furious at the insult
to which he and his braves had been
subjected, he captured settler and
sent word to the commandant that If
the other Indian prisoners were
harmed he would kill his white cap
tive. The commandant paid no heed
= the warning, but hanged the
Apaches he had seized. Then Cochise
made good his threat. and declared
war to the death against the white
man.
Finally, during President Grants adj
ministration, Cen o. o. Howard was
sent to New Mexico to try to patch
up some sort of peace with Cochise.
He met Cochise's nephew, Chic. who,
with Jeffords, offered to conduct the
general to the mountain fortress if
he would agree TO take no soldiers
along. Howard consented. Bravely
he went to the hidden stronghold of
the old chief walking as it seemed,
straight into the jaws of death. For
he knew Cochise's hatred of the
whites and he was going to him alone
and defenseless.
A Generals Heroic Act.
Perhaps the one-armed generals
calm courage pleased Cochise. Per
haps, weary of long, useless warfare,
the chief was glad of an excuse for
peace. At any rate he greeted How
ard like brother and listened to the
terms of the treaty which the general
and prayed to the Great Spirit for
guidance. The Spirit seems to have
Endorsed Towards requests, for, aft
er the prayers, Cochise said:
mo one seeks peace more earnest
ly than l. Even as your soldiers obey
you, so l will obey the President at
Washington"
He called his tribesmen together,
and with solemn formality the Great
Peace" was cemented at Sulphur
Springs. In reward, Cochise received
large strip of excellent public land
for his tribe, and his adopted brother,
Jeffords, was made Indian agent for
the reservation. Thus the -obber
barons" melodramatic adventures
wound up tamely enough, and he end
ed his days in the humdrum role of a
friendly Indian"
(Copyright)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
Business Instinct Strong.

photographer tells as a joke on
himself that a woman, accompanied
by little boy. came into his studio
the other day. Il want my pickcher
took" she said. II see that you take
pickchers for four dollars c dozen this
week. so come fer mine. And |
want this little boy took in the same
pickcher with me-" Yes, madam
but. of course. we made an extra
charge outside this special rate when
two pictures are taken at once" "Oh."
says the lady, but I'll keep the boy
in my lap. That's the way do in the
street cars. and no body ever says
anything"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
Section of Hopper.

eat at any time of the wheat. cracked
corn, kaffir or Egyptian corn. and a
dry mash composed of one part corn
meal and two parts light bran. well
mixed Each bin has a small hole at
the bottom, covered with slide into
the trough to regulate the flow of
grain as it is eaten. so none is lost.
1t contains enough to feed two or
three dozen fowls for about month,
and can be cheaply constructed out of
packing cases. with a roof of tarred
paper. 1t should Se set in the yard
on two-by-four boards to prevent
moisture from the ground molding
the feed.
TIE designer Of this hopper has
used it for several years and states
that it saves one-third of the amount
of feed formerly used and increases
che egg production very greatly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
The selling makes profit or loss.

The selling makes profit or loss.
Don't keep pullets that seem weak
through the winter
Pullets Matched right and fed right
should begin TO lay in October.
Women are better fitted by nature
than men for poultry keeping.
Turkeys are at their best from No
vember Is to the first OF January.
From the feed the hen Haust get
lime for the shell, oils and mineral
matter for the yolk and albumen for
the white.
One of the most difficult problems
for the poultryman to solve is how to
easily provide pure. fresh water for
his fowls.
Give the birds clean nests and
roosting places. study their likings
and needs. and the egg yield should
be increased
The essentials for winter eggs are
hens that come from strain of good
layers comfortable quarters, and an
abundance of food.
Th-eefourths of the diseases could
be traced TO impure air, dampness. i'm.
proper food. close breeding and i'll
chosen conditions
Almost s5 per cent. Of the dressed
poultry shipped to the eastern market
is frozen solid in the west and then
sent east for storage
Women as a rule are more progress
siye and quicker to seize a new idea
and put it into practice in the poultry
yard than the sterner sex.
Eggs are produced wita less trouble
and expense than anything else the
poultryman handles. With them thu
cash returns are steady and sure
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28

sasoit's safety while the savage king,
with 20 of his men, went with Stan
dish to hut where Governor Carver
of the colony waited to receive him.
There solemn peace treaty be-
tween Massasoit and the colonists was
drawn up and sworn to- This was the
first diplomatic document recorded in
New England Nor did the king ever
break his word. He made his sub
jects keep peace with the English, and
helped them within generous gifts of
corn and meat. Indeed, had his atti-
tudc toward the pilgrims been differ
ent the colony might well have per
ished AS it was, the rigors of climate
and hunger were not aggravated In
those early years by fear of Indian in
vasion.
Massasoit was born in Massachu-
sets about 1880. He was hereditary
king of the Wampanoags and ruled
territory that stretched from Cape
Cod to Narragansett Bay His people
had numbered about 10000. But short
ly before the landing of the pill
grims at Plymouth in 1920 terrible
epidemic (supposed to have been vel
low fever) swept the land, leaving
barely 300 of the 10000 Indians alive.
Twice Saves Colony.
In the summer of 1921 an embassy
from the pilgrims visited Massasoit
near Narragansett Bay. He received
them in a scarlet hunting coat and
oil hoi ~ Af ba &c
Carver had sent him-and renewed
his pledges of friendship. Again in
1923, when Massasoit lay i'll, Winslow
visited him and tried TO cure him by
means of such simple remedies as he
knew Out of gratitude the king told
Winslow of plot another tribe of In
dams had formed to massacre the set
tiers. BY this timely warning he
again saved the colony. In 1884 when
Roger Williams fled from Puritan per.
secution in Massachusetts the king
received him as an honored guest and
for weeks gave the great philanthro
pist shelter and refuge
Massasoit died in 1860. And with
his death fed the last hope of peace
between Indians and Massachusetts
colonists. His son, King Philip (whose
career has been described in an ear
lier articlel, became the settlers dead
~ foe The bonds of peace sealed by
Massasoit and the pilgrims were
ripped asunder in a series of wars that
ended only when the Indian power in
New England was utterly crushed.
(Copyright.)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
GIRL FARMERS IN KANSAS

an amount Of prairie hay and other
feed crops and attended to the multi
farious duties on the farm all by
themselves, receiving no assistance
from man during the entire season.
The result is a field of corn which
competent JUICES say will yield an av-
erage of so bushels to the acre and all
the rest of the farm work up in ship
shape. The girls having attended to
the pressing duties Of the farm and
their father being in better health.
they win resume their places in school
for the coming term--Kansas City
Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
BYE as a Poultry Feed.

Rye / have found an excellent grain
for poultry. especially young stock
and laying hens, If fed in a way so
they viii eat it. One way l use 1t is
to have it ground coarsely with corn
and oats and fed in mash Another is
to boil 1t until 1t cracks open. This
makes an exceptionally good ration
for laying hens. ana nearly every day
during the winter my hens get a mess
of it, Treated in this way, II has
much the same qualities as wheat,
says writer in an exchange. Care
is necessary, however. not to feed too
freely at first. as II is laxative in its
effects, until the hens become accus-
toned to it. Its value considered. it
is a very economical grain to feed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
LUNCH COUNTER FOR CHICKS
Poultry Raiser of Many Years Expe-
rence Describes Hopper He
Finds to Be Satisfactory.

The builder OF this self-regulating
hopper for feeding poultry has found
by many years experience that 1t
pays to let chickens have constant
supply of wheat and other grain. and
he claims that it is economy in the
long run to use hopper that supplies
feed at all times but prevents waste.
The old-fasnioned method of throw
ing cut grain for the chickens to
scramble for results in the overfeed
ing Of the strong and greedy fowls.
and the consequent waste of feed
while on the other hand the weaker
and less aggressive of the flock do
not get their share.
This homemade device is designed
to solve the problem. and the hopper
is so arranged that the chickens can
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
Nests Can Be Cleaned.

inches deep. Put fourinch board
in front of nest. carved out slightly
as in illustration The partitions. top
and bottom (A), are fastened to nests
with leather straps (C) hooked on
nails. Another four-inch board CD.
which is fastened to partitions, is
placed in front of nests for the hens
TO fly up ON before entering the nests.
When you want to clean nests. un-
hook straps Co and letebottom fall
down find this an easy way to keep
nests clean. writes e. Fl. Schultz in
the Farm and Fyreside.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
MASSASOIT

1t was the dead of winter in 1921.
The handful of hardy English pill
grims' who had landed a few months
earlier at Plymouth Rock were strug-
Cling to keep body and soul together
in The bleak Massachusetts climate.
Their provisions were scanty, their
dwellings rude and insufficient. Their
prospects of maintaining life on that
desolate, cold coast seemed worse
than doubtful Had the bravest, most
hopefri OF them all been told that the
wretched little colony would grow and
flourish until it should one day become
the bulwark of American iiberty-he
would have laughed the idea to scorn.
Or, rather-as the pilgrim fathers
frowned upon such idle joys as laugh
ter-he would more probably have had
the rash prophet clapped into the
stocks.
welcome, Engishmen!"
The pilgrims worst fears were of
an Indian raid The enmity of the
savages, they knew, would be the fore
most barrier in the way of their col
ony's prosperity and permanent life.
So, when, one day, during that first
bitter winter, an Indian advanced from
the forest toward a group of busy
Plymouth settlers, they grasped their
muskets in alarm. Their fear changed
to amazement as the savage halted
and called to them in perfect English:
Welcome, Englishmenm
The native. Samoset by name. had
picked up the words from certain Pc
nobscot fishermen. He went on TO
say that he vas a messenger from the
great Indian king, Massasoit, ruler
of the confederacy of Wampanong
tribes, and that he brought from his
royal master assurances of peace and
friendship.
A short time afterward-March 10.
-Massasoit himself with so war
riors drew near to the colony. The
king was ready to greet the white men
as friends, but was equally ready, in
case of hostile demonstrations on
their part, to destroy them. Thus,
though he bore food and furs with
him, yet he and his braves were
armed and in full waipaint Edward
Winslow, delegate from the pill
grims, went icrward TO meet Massa-
soft. a little behind Winslow followed
Capt. Miles Standish with a handful
of musketeers, ready to fire into the
ciump of Indians at the first sign of
treachery. Winslow laid presents be-
fore the royal visitor, then consented
to remain behind as hostage for Mas
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
Attractive to BUYER.

a neat and attractive package al
ways is at premium. Remember
this when dressing and shipping poul-
try 10 market this fall. If there is
any chance for an increased price the
dealer is going to give It to his Gus
toners that send in the neat boxes.
Ard it also pays well TO sell nothing
but fat birds. A few poor and scraw-
ny ones mixed in with a box of good
ones win cut down the whole price
Feed the poor birds up before selling
them
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
Wanted to Be More Earnest.

Rev. Sylvester Horne. the Liberal
NJ. p, from London. was talking about
religion at dinner in New York.
TOO many of us in our religious OBJ
servances." he said, ARE like little
Tottenham Court Road girl.
This little girl said one night to her
new nurse:
'''Oh, must / sleep in the dark?'
"'Yes, MISS the nurse answered.
"'Then wait a minute said the lit.
tie girl III get up and say my pray
ers more carefully"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
NESTS CAN BE KEPT CLEAN
Detailed Instructions With Illustration
Showing How Hens are Made
More Comfortable.

In order to make easy to clean"
nests. first take a sixteen-inch board
(A). one inch thick and whatever
length you desire to make your nests.
Then fasten hinges (B) on bottom
side and fasten bottom to wall with
hinges Then make your partitions
twenty by sixteen inches by twelve
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28

zoo w. w dSHiHS lOlk
St, Ionia. Mich, says:
II had kidney trouble
so badly, that for six
months / could only
get around with a
cane or crutches. The
backache grew gradu-
ally worse until | was
compelled to take to
my bed. While still
in bed, l began using
Doan's Kidney pills
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28

stomach and there was no cure. | al
most thought the same, for my breath
was offensive and 1 could not eat any
thing without great misery. and I grad
ually grew worse.
FINALLY I concluded to try Peruna,
and I found relief and cure for that
dreadful disease, catarrh. l took five
bottles of Peruna and two of Manalin,
and 1 now feel like a new man. There
is nothing better than Peruna, and
keep a bottle of it in my house all the
time"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
Cold Storage Eggs.

II the law becomes generally effec-
tive that cold storage and preserved
eggs must be labeled and sold as
such, there viii be little If any dam
age done to the poultry business. In
that case they will not compete with
TIE fresh-egg market, and the latter
viii naturally get better price.