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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-22
STUDY YOUR OWN BUSINESS
Method of Developing Capacity That
Is Certain to Lead to Ad-
Vancement.

You can always get plenty of books
and literature along the line of your
employers business, and when he
finds that you are keeping your eyes,
ears and mind open, that you are
studying his business, he will keep
his eyes Gu you, says Orison SWEET
Marden in RI article in Success Mega
zine. Your employer is not blind. Do
not think because he is not constantly
patting you on the back that he is
not taking your measure.
The first thing the successful en-
ploye must realize is that he is really
working for himself. Every bit of
work he does heartily, honestly, thor
oughly, is developing his own capac-
ity, making him bigger, broader,
more capable man. If he robs his en-
ployer of time or energy, he is rob-
bling himself more because he is prac-
ticing dishonesty, and cultiyating a
weakness which will slowly under
mine his character and destroy his
reputation for trustworthiness.
The men who have done great
things in the world have been pro-
digious workers, particularly during
the time when they we're struggling
to establish themselves IN life.
Young men who are sticklers for
hours, who are afraid of working over
time, who want to leave the office on
the minute or little before, who are
always little late in the morning,
or who take their employers time for
their own personal uses-such en-
ployes never get very far.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-22
A Little Knock for the AeropIane

1t is curious how the bird idea has
chung to the art and science of the fly
Ing machine in spite of all efforts to
shake 1t off. We call 1t the art of avi-
alton, and the artist we call an aviator.
Making these two terms into English,
we would have bird-ation and bird
ator. Clearly then, If we are to be con-
sistent in our etymology, we should
call the flying machine itself avis"
the Latin word for bird.
And yet we do no such thing. We
call the flying machine itself an aero
plane; and this word, with its two spe-
cies of biplane and monoplane, Is an
excellent one for the purpose, because
it means precisely what 1t says. The
word plane as now used in this COM
bination is not derived from the Greek
word which means 'wanderer," Jut
from that which means fiat"
What warrant is there for the asso-
citation of the bird idea with that of
the curious machines that are now
swooping and circling through the air
in the skies of all the nations? Has
man, as matter of fact, realized the
longing of the psalmist, who sighed for
the wings of bird that he might fly
away and be at rest?
l, for one, do not believe it; and
imagine that | would not be alone in
my conviction were poll taken of
those who have some knowledge of the
structure of and the work done by the
nervous and muscular mechanisms
that enable the bird to fly.
When you look at hawk high up in
the air, soaring with rigid outstretched
wings, maintained in his glorious flight
by the pressures between his wings
and-the atmosphere, you have before
you the pretty and inspiring prototype
of the buoyant aviator in his mono
plane. Maybe. Both, perhaps, rest
upon the same mechanical principles,
so far as the buoyaRcy is concerned.
Both are, In their way, monoplanes.
But there" as Lord Byron says, "all
likeness ends between the pair"
The bird Is the absolute master of
the situation. The aviator is absolute
ly at the mercy of 1t. The wing and
the tail of the bird respond to che will
of the bird with the infinite nicely that
mark the conduct of the arm, the
hand and the fingers of man when
they move In response to the man.
dates sent down to them by their mas
ter. the brain. The birds wing, apart
from the plumage that makes II a
plane, consists of millions OF muscle
f1bers, each one of which is directly
supplied by its own nerve-fiber, and
these millions of nerve-fbers (both
sets of fibers are microscopically
smalD connect up with other millions
of nerve-fibers In the spinal cord Of
the bird, and these last connect up
with still other millions of nerve-fibers
in the birds brain, whose batteries
are in certain groups OF the almost
countless cells of the gray matter.
Here we have a mechanism incalcu-
lably intricate; thing very different
from the crude spread of the aeroplane
and its motive power of gasoline.
do not wish to be called knocker,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-22
Gods Promised Their Help

she kindly posed for me after a per-
Torrance at the Lyceum, and when
she asked me the position l would
like her to take / mentioned one she
had assumed in the second act, in
which she stood holding the drapery
in her hand, which was resting on
her hip.
DO you really mean that?" she
asked.
Yes; that attitude struck me as
the most artistic of all ycur graceful
movements" replied.
Well" she said, ''as matter of
TACT my robes had come unfastened
and were falling on. and I was hold
ing them on; but l shall now purpose
ly make them slip In the same way"
And that pose was repeated nightly
during the run of the play.
Even this popular actress could not
escape the cEaff of the gods" She
wss playing Gatatea in Sir W. S. Gil
bert's play-and charming Galatea
she made-When, IN the critical sense
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-22
PHILOSOPHY TO THE RESCUE
Pat Went Without His Steak, but at
That Everything Was Not
Lost.

Charles Nagel, secretary Of COM
merce and labor, says the Irish race
has, in addition to it's sentiment and
romance, a lot of philosophy as one
of its characteristics.
"The best illustration l ever heard
of this" he explained to dinner
party one evening, was the case OF
a poor Irishman who had been given
a fine, juicy piece of steak. Being u
religious man, he placed the stea6 in
front of him, and there, in the shade
of the trees surrounding his benefac'
tors house, he folded his 5Rnds,
closed his eyes, and gave thanks to
heaven for the meal. When he was
in the attitude of prayer, dog rushed
up and captured the steak. Pat
looked around IN time to see the food
disappearing over the hill.
Thank heaven he exclaimed,
again closing his eyes, he left me my
appetite!' The Sunday Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-22
How They Do 1t In Vermont

The state of Vermont contains
prison where the inmates are treated
upon novel plan. They are trusted
and treated like other human beings:
they come and go almost as freely as
the members of the jailer's own fam
lily; as far as possible whatever sug-
gests punishment or disgrace is ban
ished; and they are made to feel that
their imprisonment Is designed to i'm
prove them as men, and to restore
them to social life not only with full
self-respect, but with the cordial re-
spect of the community. To do all
this in defiance of the powerful preju-
dice against criminals" will be called
large undertaking. Up to a certain
point it has been done, and that point
Is so advanced that We may almost
consider the whole victory gained. In
Montpelier, where this prison stands.
the inveterate prejudice against pris-
oners has been sYSpt away. So great
Is the signifca1c6Y eli this achievement
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-22

and | am none. But a conservative
habit of mind will dispose man to
look with considerable calmness on
the antics of those f1orid persons who
directly fall into passion of tears at
their first sight of an aeroplane in
the air. A conservative habit of
mind will likewise dispose a man to
have little faith in the future of fly
ing machines, so far as the Improve
ment" of the present genus of ma
chine is at all concerned. The aero
plane was made possible by the inYen-
ton OF the high speed gasoline engine,
which also made possible the dirigi-
BILE balloon. There is positively no
warrant whatever for the hectic hopes
one hears expressed on all hands that
the world will see "navies of the air"
worked by gasoline engines) replac-
ing the navies of the sea, and the I'M
poetic, II useful railway freight car
If there is any warrant In sound sense
or sound science for the belief that
gasoline enginess will fill the sky with
merchant aeroplanes, 1t has not yet
been publicly discussed.
The only future for the aeroplane
Is one in which the prophet who
POUNDS on fact and not on fancy can
see ambitious and reckless young men
rising in the air Gas they do now for
exhibition purposes, and descending,
in many cases (as they do now, to
certain death or permanent disability.
Other and more hopeful predictions
are for the most part pleasant dreams.
which no earthly law can chasten.
Whereas, the future of the much de-
spised balloon is much the same to-
day as it was when it was first launch
ed more than century ago by its
French inventors.
But this is not saying that men will
never be able to transfer all traffic
from the surface of the earth to some
considerable distance above it. On
the contrary, there are in France a
few bold scientists who are net afraid
to suggest for human industry In gen.
eral future as far beyond the dreams
of the aviators and their warmest
NIShuo do tuS IlSuI VI luS sun Is De-
yond the Illuminating power of a tai
low candle. 1t is held by these cour-
ageous men that what is called mass"
that is, the weight of matter-ts in
reality nothing but electric discharge;
that all the phenomena of matter are
electric phenomena And IL we igam-
inc that scientific investigation will go
on taking the leaps 1t has taken dur
ing the past ten years in the study of
radio-actiEity, the time may not be
far distant when vessel of tbs rte
of the largest ocean steamer-or nUGh
larger, for that WATERWAY b. whirl-
ed through the higher regions of the
earth's atmosphere from San Francis
co to London in few hours. Whirled
and with perfect safety for the thou
sands of men who shall take passage
aboard. The discussion of these posi-
bilities is tempting: but the pcssibili-
ties themselves are so Tremendously
great that one hesitates to go farther
than the barest mention of the sub
ject,
| Copyright, 1911. by the Columbia 'ess
Syndicate.)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-22
2NAIIARoUN
2DsHOUSE

Mud stains can be removed from a
black cloth by rubbing with a raw
potato.
The juice of raw onion applied to
the sting of an insect will remove the
poison.
Russet shoes may be kept clean and
bright by rubbing them with a slice
of banana and polishing with cloth.
To make starch for black lawns boil
two quarts of wheat bran in six
quarts of water for half an hour. Let
1t set cold, then strain. You will need
neither soap nor starch if this is used.
If thick add cold water. This prepare
ton viii both cleanse and stiffen.
Nutmeg should be used sparingly to
procure the best results in the way of
delicate and delightful flavor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-22
Beware of the Rut

board bill each month, get couple of
new suits Of clothes each year, and
plenty to smoke, eat and drink, and
have enough left over to take in quite
respectable amount of the good
things OF life. OF course, you realize
that you ought to be getting more and
that your salary has increased slight
ly in the last few years. Other chaps
seem to be mounting the ladder of sue
cess with lightninglike rapidity.
They're dragging down bigger salaries
each year. More than that, they are
almost certain of further increases in
the future.
But you are still ambling along at
the same old job and the same month
ly pay envelope. You have planned
many time to change 1t all and go
after something better. But one month
runs into the next and one year into
another. with you still doing business
at the same old stand. Next year
not this one-is the time you'll make
the big effort to show what you can
make of yourself. Then you'll cut
loose from the routine and strike out
for your fortune. But stop moment.
Two years ago didn't you make the
same declaration? And two years be-
fore that, too?
Which brings us, Horace, to the
question of whether 1t pays to live il,
the present and let the future take
0f kn i've
to the future solely. 1t Is so easy to
drift along in an environment that
is reasonably comfortable and to dread
any change that reverses the old or
der. 1t is disconcerting, to say the
least, to pass up certainty and jump
line of work, or In the same line with
another firm, one has to make good
all over again, and convince the
strangers that one is really worth his
salary. At the old stand they know
all about you. Your know their ways
and they yours.
Just look ahead, and ask yourself
whether your Job Is leading to any
thing worth having in the end. What
are the men ahead of you making
the men who began where you are
uow long years ago and gradually
worked up to what they have at pres
ent? Are their positions worth hay-
ing? Have they accomplished that
which you would be satisfied to let
stand as the result Of your life's
achievement? Is the game worth the
candle?
Presently, unless you keep on climb
ing up, you'll be pushed off clear to
the bottom. And there, there is no
room for you. Only at the top-on
each step higher up than the one you
now occupy-is there room. Fix your
eyes on the topmost step-or fall off.
Climb-or slip back. Look out for
the future and the present will take
care of itself!
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-22
Lemon Syrup.

For an excellent lemon syrup that
may, be kept on hand for emergency
use pour three quarts of water over
four pounds of granulated sugar, and
let 1t stand, stirring occasionally, I'M
til the sugar is completely dissolved;
then set over the fire and heat grad
nally until the boiling-point is reached.
Boil ten minutes; then add three pints
of lemon juice, and strain. Turn the
syrup into perfectly clean bottles;
cork tightly, and keep in cool place
For plain lemonade dilute the syrup
with ice or charged water to suit the
taste.-Harper's Bazaar.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-22
Jelly Cake. Rolled.

Take one cup OF white sugar, half
teacup of sweet milk. two eggs, one
cup of flour, two teaspoons of cream
Of tartar, quarter of teaspoon saler-
atus. pinch of salt and such flavor
ing as you like. This will make two
cakes in square tin; have the oven
ready, put the cakes in and while
they are baking get cloth and the
Jelly ready on the table; as soon as
they are baked take them out and
turn them one at time on the cloth,
spread quickly with jelly or MARINA
iade, roll up tightly in the cloth, lay
them where they will cool; handle
them carefully or they may fall; cut
them with a sharp knife in slices.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-22
Self Depreciation, a Common
Failing, Out of Place in the
Business World.
LESSEN WORTH THE NEEDING
Advice Given TlmId stenographer by
More Experienced Companion
Might Be Applied to Any
Workman in Any Form
of Employment.

The timid new stenographer gave a
little SILVER of mingled admiration
and awe as the presidents amanuen-
sis came into the room and put her
notebook on the copy holder and her
pencils in the drawer of her desk. in
preparation for her mornings work
The timid stenographer folded her
hands and gazed at the older girl adj
mjringly.
"If he should ever ring when you're
not here" she said, with a little quiv-
ering laugh, I'm going to put on my
hat and run home"
Then you'll be a goose" responded
the other. You'd better be glad of
the opportunity to try and see IL you
can do 1t. Do you want to keep on do
ing the same, little, old, easy things
all your life?"
But Pm so afraid Of doing things
wrong, and l get so discouraged when
I make mistakes" pleaded the young
er girl.
Then don't let people know II"
said the presidents stenographer.
IAN over-bold girl is an nbominatton,
but you simply must have, or must
act as If you had, reasonable amount
of self-conf1dence."
"But I'm such a miserably poor
buffer" sighed the dmid stenogra-
pher.
Il don't advocate bluffing too
much" said the older girl, "but where
there is real capability behind 1t land
there is in your case), little bluff
ing is mighty good thing. When l
was in the shorthand school," she con-
tinued, after a moment, "the teacher
came to me one day and asked me
If wanted to go out and try certain
position that she had to fill. 1 told
her that l didn't think l could do it
ard l wouldn't dare to try. Then she
gave me just such lecture as l have
been giving you.
Il was thoroughgoing little goose
and rather obstinate. too, expect, and
hesitated so long that finally she
got rather provoked and told me she
had to send some one right away and
didn't have time to argue with me
any longer. Then she went over to
a girl who l knew wasn't nearly as
well educated as was, couldn't read
her notes nearly as well and who
didn't try half as hard, and this other
girl put her hat on Immediately and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-22
CHIEFS VACATION NOT A PERIOD
OF REST FOR THE OTHERS.
Serious Mistake All Too Frequently
Made and Just as Often Bitterly
Repented OF.

Most business girls look forward to
more liberty, less hurry, no call-downs,
no overtime, no docking for hardness,
in short, kind of annual restup from
the perennial hardships.
If one of the popular Office employees
is commissioned to take the chiefs
place, so much the better. There will
be ease and Ice cream sodas between
hours when duties aren't pressing, and
no tattling When the boss returns.
If the glum strawboss gets his seat,
the old hands who have good stand
ing with their regular manager are 60
ing to ms Ike 1t hard for him. Unless
the pressure of business is severe they
won't come to time, and more or less
disobey his rules. In case of COM
plant and argument they trust to
their regular chiefs previous good
opinion to support and defend them.
: This. Of course. is speaking of the
average and below-the-average girl
She who is above the average may
argue with herself like this: If the
boss pro tenn recommends me, the reg
ular one is sure to take notice.
There is a personal satisfaction for
keeping your record clean even when
no ones the wiser If you don't
You can never tell what vigilance
committee the chief has placed about
you to discover the shirkers and gen.
eral mountaineering
You can never tell when the CHIEF
shows up unexpectedly finds you
out shopping or otherwise delinquent
You can never tell how he deter
mines the next-in-line for promotion.
You can never tell how he deter
mines the next-in-line for discharge.
The thing for me is not only to be
on the alert, but on the square toward
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-22

(There ts positively no limit to the fool
things rabbit will do. once it is fair
ly started on its way.) Then the es-
perimenter drew of from this exhaust
ed rabbit quantity of serum which he
injected into two fresh rabbits. These
fresh rabbits he now placed in reVolv-
ing cages, and, as check, or control
placed two fresh uninjected rabbits In
two other cages. and then put on the
power.
Away went the revolving cages.
Trust rabbit for doing any desired
quantity of purely Improbable laborl
what he was expecting. The injected
rabbits were quickly exhausted, where
as the uninjected ones merrily whirled
their cages, both OF them as fresh as
daisy and veritable gluttons for
work.
The first point was proved. Inject
into fresh animal the serum of q
fatigued animal, and the fresh animal
is at once, without stroke of work.
fatigued In a degree that varies with
the size of the Dose But the main OBJ
ject Of the experiment was to produce
an anti-toxi1 for fatigue; a serum that
would make the rabbits immune to
fatigue. The experimenter by repeat
eddy treating a fresh animal Nth in
creasing doses of serum from
fatigued animal, believed 1t possible
that the body OF the treated animal
would react against the poison in such
a way that new doses would have no
effect. BY taking the serum of this
now immune animal and injecting it
into the body of another and fresh an
imal, the experimenter hoped to make
this last rabbit immune, and able to
work Indefinitely without fatigue!
The results of these latter expert
ments do not seem to have been quite
as satisfactory as were those of the
former
While the body of the injected rab-
bit would react to certain degree
against the injected poison, 1t would
not react more vigorously than 1t
would to the toxin of fatigue produced
in the ordinary way by labor; at least
the results In the second line Of expert
ments were not what might be called
startlingly encouraging.
And yet 1t is not to be expected that
this patient German will let his idea
go by default. The secret of success
in all scientific research Is a patience
and power of waiting that are almost
godlike. In these desirable qualities
the German mind excels all others;
and the Germans therefore lead the
world in this kind of unremunerative
and slavish toll. But If he did not
succeed at one coup in banishing
fatigue from labor, our German has
made good start. No doubt In time
an anti-toxin for fatigue will be dis
covered. No doubt the Edison of the
future when he desires to work a week
or two without resting will only be re-
CURED to apply at necessary intervals
to the nearest doctor for the injection
of the few hundred units" of the anti
toxin needed, and merrily work away.
Nor is it to be imagined that he will
permit his pupils and assistants to
doze away valuable time behind the
bales in the warehouse when few ad-
ditional units will keep them whistling
like sawyers at their work for three or
four weeks at time.
Copyright, 1911, by the Columbia Press
Syndicate.)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-22
Bill Was IIs.tul

A minister was assigned to a small
parish in England not long ago, and
upon his arrival found his new field Of
labor all that could be desired with
the exception VI oiu Bill Johnson. Old
Bill was very much addicted to look
Ing upon the wine when f. was red.
and the new minister at once an
nounced his intention of bringing him
to see the error Of his ways.
well, of course, we know you mean
right, parson," one of the elders said,
slowly. stroking his white beard; but
1t would be a mighty bad thing for
the place If old Bill was to quit drink
ing"
'Why. what do you mean, brother?"
the puzzled minister asked.
Well, parson, it's like this" the
elder explained. There amt q more
convincing talker nowhere than old
Bill. Every time he gets drunk and
sobers down he gets somebody to sign
the pledge with him, and the other
fellow pretty nearly always keeps it"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-22
EMPLOYEES Who Show Proml...

In every large establishment there
are few employees who show prom
Use and are sure of promotion. They
stick and dig and hang on to their
task when other people are In hurry
to quit. They do not measure their
hours by the clock, or their obliga-
tion to their employer by the amount
of salary they receive; they do not
feel that, when they begin work
earlier or stay later, it is an injustice
On his part not to pay them for over
time.-Success Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-22
Family. Enough.


Horace, fve-year-old, has broth
er nine, and sister three, and with
his father and mother, he deemed
this family large enough. When,
therefore, he was told by his aunt
that a little baby was to be added to
the family, he protested:
81 think papa and mamma might
better spend their money for more
strawberries and powdered sugar for
me-" he observed, Indignantly.
On a certain day doctor came to
the house and Horace thought he
knew what that meant His spirit Of
revolt nearly got the better of him,
however, when a second doctor came.
A few hours later, after the doctors
had departed, his Aunt Ella told him
he had new little brother. Horace
frightened, and tirtoed to his moth
ers room. Its all right, mamma"
he assured her. There's only one