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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-12-03
sad Narrow Escana.

Neenah.-John Myhre sustained,
several broken bones aSd narrowly
escaped death in a looal pGpey mil.
when caught in the revolving shafr
OF : pulp machine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-12-03
Nav Be No Inauraral Sal.

Madison, The question of wheth-
er or not an inaugural ball viii be
held this year viii be decided BY the
governor TWO years ago there was
a protest against it. but il was held,
nevertheless.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-12-03
Gives Property to Nuns.

Racine.-Mrs. Mary Brio5y, Do
ser township widow, has decided to
the Sisters OF st. Francis leo acres
of property on Eagle Lake, provided
they will support her for life.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-12-03
pa, Poultry E..hIbit.

La Cross. 1.-The tvelsty-sseond an
nual shor. al. The western Wisconsin
Poultry association VIII pc held here
Dec. 5 10 10. Silver trophies valued
at $500 will be awarded.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-12-03
DAMAGE BY Rats.

The department CT agriculture says
hat rats do an annual damage OF
s1oa.e eco. We have not yet heeI
told hew mach this figures 10 the rat
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-12-03
Open industrial School.

Janesville.-T first, enrolment
OF the new night industrial school
shows 205 pupils. OF this number
dressma1ing and plain sewing shows
the largest number, sixty-six.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-12-03
CONVENIENT CART FOR MILK
TWO Buggy Wheels and Axle Used In
Its Construction-Handy for
Carrying Fertilizer.

saw a homemade cart. made from
the two wheels and an old axle of
buggy, says a writer in the Rural New
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-12-03
Charge Deer Hunters Use Dogs.

Marshfield- Returning hunters
complain that dogs are being used
to run down deer in many of the
northern counties.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-12-03
Mot the Same.

'eYou used to call your wife Kit.
ten"
Il know, but she has grown since
then. Judge.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-12-03
Get Best Cow.

Like a dairy COW, the best way to
get q high-class farm horse is to
raise him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-12-03
Cattle Are Poisoned.

Marinette.-A number of cases of
poisoning of cattle and other farm
animals are reported in this county.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-12-03
MOI Aooordlnn 70 Rule.

Her emotions are ungrammaticaL"
What do you mean by that"
"All her rduods are tense"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-12-03
A Handy Milk Cart.

Yorker 1t was used TO wheel three
cans of milk and feed or fertilizers
around farm or barn. The illustra
ton shows how it was made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-23

%N that Uncle Sam finds II necessary
to buy two million dollars worth OF
paper in a year. the old gentleman
II has decided that he had best become
a connoisseur In paper Likewise is
his interest accentuated as regards
commonplace thing as Irvine. for $500
600 Of his money goes each season for
strings for the packages into which he
ties his mail. Even the humble rubber
band calls upon the frugal old Yankee
for an appropriation almost equal to
that which he pays his first-class hired
man. the President.
These and thousands OF other articles
are bought In such quantities that the
purchaser OF them Is finding IL advisa-
bic 10 learn all about many things in
order TO determine whether or not he is
being cheated. To this end he is pick
ing up men who are termed experts and
putting these men, supplied with every
help that the modern laboratory can pro-
vide, and is asking them to tell him all
about lead pencils or hose or dyna-
mite. as the case may be. One of these
well paid experts may spend an entire
year in studying five-cent lead pencils
and the expense may be $1,000. Yet the
money is well spent, for the next year
the government can write a specifca ton
for lead pencils upon which all the world
may bid in competition. Without this
specification the alternative would have
been to order from the manufactures
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the layman knows little OF what nose
should be, how 1t should be made. what
demands to make in ordering 1t. But the
government has set out to find out these
things at it's testing plant at the bureau
of standards. It knows just the thick
ness of the rubber coating on the OUTSIDE
and the inside of good hose. 1t knows
how many layers of canvas go to making
up the inner walls. It knows just the
quality and the amount OF glue that
should be used in sticking these layers
together.
u
There are exhaustive tests. There Is a
machine. for instance, that measures the
pull necessary to break a piece OF the
inner lining. This lining has got to have
a certain strength In all its hose. The
outer lining has got to have a certain
strength "A given pull must be neces-
sary to pull the canvas or an inner
layer from its fellow. The canvas must
have a certain strength. When hose Is
ordered all these points are specified
and when the product is delivered from
the lowest bidder 1t is tested with refer
ence to each Of them. The government
has learned how to buy good hose.
The rubber in bands. used to the ex-
tent of $4,000 last year. are tested in a
similar way. There must be certain
strength to bands of certain weight. They
must stretch so far. They must en-
dure certain strains so long. There should
be so many of each class in q pound.
They are ordered to live up to those re-
Quirements and tested for them when
delivered. Similar tests are made Tor
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known to be producing the desired grade
of pencil.
Further than this, when the order for
pencils is filed Uncle Sam refers the
materials received back to its laboratory
that they may be tested to determine
whether or not they come up to spec
ifcations. IL is a great scheme to check
on these big purchases. yet, strange to
say, 1t is only within the last two years
that IL has been resorted to.
Take the matter of paper for instance,
one OF the very biggest purchases that
are thirty tons of paper used in these
departments every day. Yet until re-
Gently no one knew of what this pape
was composed nor whether paper bought
was up TO sample or not.
Today the government orders its paper
of so much rag, SO much wood pulp, 80
much filing II tears the samples sub
mitted into the nsinutest fibers and counts
the proportions OF each. determines the
material of each. Then. when the goods
are delivered it again reduces the material
to It's component parts and determines
whether or not they are ns same pro-
portions as were the samNS.
Il
Good paper is made of rags. II would
not seem that there were enough rags to
go around but they do, and all paper ex-
cept the wood pulp paper used in print
ing the daily press and for scratch tablet
purposes are made Of rags. Rag paper
is the only kind that viii endure. Wood
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as high as 10000 year It is worth fig
uring on. Then when such an order has
been placed 1t is important to know
whether the Irvine ordered is being deliv-
cred.
So the government has built up COM
plicated machines for testing Irvine. 1t
wants a Irvine Of a certain strength. yet
it does not want it too strong 1t must
be strong enough to hold a bundle OF
papers together, but not so strong that
the pOstman cannot readily break of a
piece Of 1t with his hands SO standard
Of strength is set up. Delicate machines
are installed for measuring the breaking
point Of Irvine. Other machines are made
to wind and unwind balls of Irvine. and
In the process automatically measure IL.
Certain numbers of yards should be con-
tanned in certain weights. Length ana
quality Of fiber is tested and search IS
made for fiber that would make better
Irvine for the purpose. The Irvine rae
tories are visited and methods are stud
led. The government finds out just what
1t wants in the way OF Irvine. Then It
writes q specification for Irvine and asks
all the world to bid to supply that Irvine.
and turns the contract to the lowest bid
der, who gives bond to supply the article
specified. 1t Is thus bought much cheaper
than II the desired article were searched
out among Irvine already manufactured
and the order given to the producing fac
tory without competition.
Every government building in the land
il supplied with emergency fire hose. All
the government lawns are sprinkled with
hose for which the taxpayer pays. Yet
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nrst suggested differentiating between pa
pers the statesmen for the big factories
laughed at the idea of telling what a
paper was made of after its manufacture
was completed. They held that an expert
judgment from appearances was the
facts.
The government turned samples over to
its experts. They developed methods of
wetting, whipping to pieces and reducing
to shreds the given paper When this is
accomplished the pulplike substance that
results is spread out under a powerful
magnifying glass. 1t is spread so thin
that but ten f1bers may be seen in q
given space. Each fiber has an appear
ance that shows whether 1t is linen, cot
ton or wood pulp. Even the quality Of
fiber Of the given class may be deter
mined. If two out Of ten f1bers are linen
tho paper is 20 per cent linen. II six are
cotton the paper Is 20 per cent cotton
rag. If it is all wood pulp that fact Is
readily discernible.
So the government Is able to order pa
per with given percentages Of the mate
rails that ordinarily go into paper and
assure itself that 1t is getting what 1t or
ders. It is able to say what should be
the materials that enter into any paper
the right paper for that purpose. 1t Is as
surfing itself that the paper for It's rec
ords will be here for its grandchildren.
The Irvine that an ordinary individual
uses In the course OF . year does not cost
very much, but when such an order runs
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SCIENTIFIC I'm THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS

betting for the governments machinery
and for lacing to tie the belts. Vast
quantities of lubricating oil Is used every
year on this machinery and this is ike
wise tested. The process is without end.
There is the single item Of cement for
the locks at Panama. Five million dol
lars worth Of 1t is used every year. Four
ways kept as a reserve at North Hamp-
ton, Pa. under lock and seal. There II
is examined and approved before IL is
again loaded under seal and sent under
seal to the Canal Zone. The great guam
titles of material that go into the dry
docks Of the navy yards, the bridges OF
the government roads. the ironsides of
the men OF war. are all likewise tested.
But the small items are no less I'm
portant The government printing ONCE
and the bureau Of engraving and printing,
where the money is made. use vast guam
titles of ink. This Is all tested and must
be up to standard. It must be shown
that the passing OF years will not affect
it. 1t must be standardized and bid upon.
Enough Of 1t must be bought every year
to float half dozen battleshtps.
The writing fluid for departmental use
must be similarly tested. Many old docu-
ments are today illegible because Of the
poor ink with which they wepe written.
There is the same quality to be looked
for In typewriter ribbons 1t in q we'll
known fact that the dies that make the
best appearing copy when fresh are not
enduring. When typevntse ribbons Are
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arena and fashioned to suit the individ-
ual ability of the fighter or the particular
form of fighting the battle may assume
in different sections of the country. Here
will be found every form of literary
weapon. from the small, caustic leaf1et,
containing but a paragraph Of satire that
pierces like a steel-jacketed bullet, to the
heavy forty-page solid shot carefully
compiled from statistics, or the oratori-
cal bombshell, loaded last winter by some
farseeing political general on the floor of
the House or Senate with a view of burst
ing this summer and scattering destruc-
ton and dismay in some distant strong
hold of the enemy
Great sheafs of argumentative arrows
to be shot from the stump are turned
out by the hundred thousands and ship
ped at once to the waiting political ar
cher, while in the storerooms row on
row Of statistical tables, pregnant with
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pulp paper contains chemicals that in
time devour 1t. Right here the govern
ment gives the public a tip. II states
that libraries and such are wasting their
money when they bind files OF neWSpa-
pers. In ten years these VIII not endure
casual reference. They Will fall to
pieces.
The government has learned a severe
lesson in this respect. In many OF It's
departments are the results OF exhaustive
and expensive scientific investigations.
These results are recorded on poor paper
and the paper Is falling to pieces They
must be copied or lost. The conoltlon ID
due to the fact that the government did
not know what sort Of paper 1t was using.
At the bureau Of standards the govern
ment has all manner Of devices Tor test
ing paper. One Of these Is little ma
chine which will automatically fold a
piece of paper back and forth until II
breaks Ledger paper should stand
lot of folding. This tests the endurance
of all such papers. Another device pulls
a piece OF paper until 1t breaks, testing
its strength. Its weight and its thick
ness to a millionth OF an inch are Inn
portant when great quantities are being
bought.
But the most important test OF all IL
that which resolves the paper into its
component parts. A salesman might show
a sample. for instance, that was good
rag paper. Then he might I'LL the order
with wood pulp paper made up IN sucn a
way that the layman would not know II
from che original. When the government
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call attention to that. Reuben can see II
plainly: but the congressman does so all
right, being q little more of the 'artis-
tic verisimilitude.
If Reuben could have sat In the gallery
when that speech was delivered he would
have seen a timid man hurrying through
a manuscript which he seemed to be read
ing for the benefit Of nobody in particu-
lar. or If he was. no one was profiting by
his opportunities.
On the floor there are seven members.
all the rest having faded away since the
beginning of the days business. Four OF
these belong to the orators own party;
of the other three-the enemy he is 30
fiercely and fearlessly routing-one is
reading his home paper. one Is writing Q
letter to his bank to get his note renewed
and a third Is killing time manicuring his
nails while he's waiting for his wife GO
come up and take him out in the new
auto. If any of them feel any cring1ns
fear they conceal II cleverly. One can
easily imagine the astonished bewilder-
ment and dismay that would seize upon
the embattled orator should one OF the
three serried host of the enemy take him
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as being somewhat buster than week
days. The rumbling machinery whirs IN
cessantly and tired shift is replaced by
shift indifferent as to all times of day or
night. Wagons flash In, receive their
bulky cargoes and hurry away to the
nearby railway station. to return in few
minutes for more. All night long, from
the many tiers OF windows that pierce
the ten-storied building. the electro-Iner-
curic lamps fling their blue glare far and
wide across the darkened city. silhcuet-
ting to the gaze of the daybreak pedes-
trian the sweating workers as they fit
busily back and forth. 1t is the busiest
place in the United States-it Is business,
magnified, multiplied, raised to the Nth
power.
And 1t must needs be busy. this giant
ammunition factory. for II must turn out
the main supply of missiles and proJec-
tiles for the battles in this, which prom
ises to he the hottest campaign that ever
added heat to a superheated summer
And not to one. but to both belligerents
must it supply their material; material
made according to models approved by
the veteran warriors of the political
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cidentally, several hundred seats III
House and Senate!
This is the tally OF the annual out
nut OF Washington's great ammunition
factory, or rather, will be for the year
ending the LIST of the coming Novem-
Der. according to one of the expert
manufacturers engaged in the work. 1t
will be a record breaking year in this
regard.
The present summer is the capitaIs
Quadrehnial season of special rest and
quiet-the presidential year. To Washing
tonians June Is. of all months. the
LATEST of the year. Its soft, languor-
Gus days drive drowsily away every
thought but of seashore or mountain
Tapped in the breezes OF the young
summer. the city dozes in sleeping
auietude the spell of this presidential
YEAR adding TO its somnolence. Even
in the nails of Congress, so lately strl-
dent with the raucous protests OF the
steam-rolled. there is heard only the
droning monotone of the reading clerk.
and anon. the low, dull quash of the
veto Senators, representatives, cab1-
net officers. in short. every official big
enough to get away without being
machine. have betaken themselves to
the convention or the country, and
only the mid civil service clerk now
pads softly through the twilight corri-
doris OF the departmental buildings.
In governmental Washington 1t is night
all night in the nighttime, and every day
is Sunday Save in that ammunition fac
tory the great building of the government
printing office at the corner of North
Capitol and II streets northwest. There
II is day all day IN the daytime and there
is no night; Sunday is distinguished only
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printed in document form, outside of the
orators district.
The form of many OF these indirect eff
forts Is oftentimes very amusing. The
member who is going to make the speech
writes 1t out, garnishing it with trim
minis" served up for the special benefit of
his constituents. Thus. he will challenge
the serried array of the opposition with a
thunderbolt of eloquent argument. and
pause for a reply. do | hear none?'
goes on the speech. after what the reader
plainly sees was an appreciable pause to
give the dismayed hosts of the enemy.
after such fierce onslaught, time to pick
itself UP and find out where it's at. Then.
Il hear none, continues the orator in
impassioned tones; mot one OF You can
frame one single word in answer Ha,
ha! Ha, ha. And he plunges forward.
does this 'whirlwind orator. scattering
still farther to the four winds the al
ready scattered foe.
All this makes mighty good reading for
the farmer along about O'Clock of an
October night, when it's Just beginning to
be cozy around the sitting-room fire. He
doesn't know all this is, as Pooh-Bah
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that the case rarely reaches the appellate
court until the power has been invoked
from an error in dealing with evidence
committed both by the trial judge and
the appellate court is intintesimal as
compared with the injustice done by the
present practice and the delays and ex-
pense to which not only the parties but
the litigants' in the same court are put
by repeated new trials.
This power OF appeal becomes some
times an awful burden. A brakeman who
was injured in 1882 recovered damages
from his road twenty-five years later. He
received $500 under the New York sys-
tenn which gives two appeals from the
trial court, one to the court OF appeals.
He changed his testimony repeatedly dur
ing the trials. The court of appeals itself
has said that sometimes the plaintiff will
change his testimony in every trial: "Oh
justice. justice. what crimes are COM
mitted in thy name"
One man who had fought a case for
twenty years at length abandoned 1t
when his lawyers settled the matter for
$4,000 and kept the money for their fees
during that period. There had been nine
trials.
Much OF this interminaole delay would
be saved If the jury answered specific
questions and the courts merely applleu
the law to their findings. entering judg-
ment accordingly, with no new trial of
facts, whenever the trial judge makes a
mistake Of law.
Mr. Storey feels strongly that the
power of the judge should be increased.
He should influence the result in lower
courts as In higher.
TT is not believed that suitors get
less justice in federal courts on this
account.
.In the states, on the other hand. the
whole tendency Is to reduce the judges
influence and to increase not SO much
the power Of the jury the power of
the skillful advocate upon the result
Of the trial. This is wholly wrong"
The unwillingness to let the judge
charge the jury on facts is the more
absurd because in the most compli-
Gated and important cases the judge
must himself decide the facts. In such
cases as the suit to dissolve the Stand
ard Oil trust, in patent causes which
involve millions of dollars. the. judge.
or often a lawyer appointed by the
judge to act as master. determines the
facts.
Mr. Storey thinks 1t ridiculous that
when a Judge sitting alone has such
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death to the aspirations OF the political
opponent. stand ranked like SO many car
fridge clips Of the Mauser rife, ready to
be requisitioned by the captains in the
field. Indeed. practically the sign now
hanging outside the door Of the govern
ment printing office is: Ammunition
served at all hours"
1t is principally for the 400 and odd rep
resentatives in Congress that this vast
hoard Of literary shot and shell is manu-
featured. Many of them come up for re-
election this fall; even now, though Con-
gress is still in session. they are girding
up their waistcoats and preparing to
hasten from the task of saving the coun-
try's national life in the halls Of the
Capitol to that more imminent one Of saw
ing their own political lives on the stump
at home. The days when the congress
man was satisfied with handsomely en-
bossed expression of confidence from the
hands of admiring constituents expired
when the first mutterings of the coming
campaign were heard last spring: what
he wants now is votes-votes. votes, moth
ing but votes.
And the congressional candidate is find
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to be ordered samples are gotten. the ink
is soaked OF. analysed. tested for endur-'
ance. The amount Of service In the
cloth OF q given ribbon is tested. The
best OF all the qualities OF all of them.
are written into q specification and the
world Is asked to bid The result is an
excellent grade OF supplies at compare
lively low prices.
The things the government buys are in
Vulnerable. The present method OF test
ing supplies Is new. The experts have
not established standards on many OF
the things bought. The specification for.
a standard lead pencil. for instance. 10,
very hard to write. The government can..
not yet write II SO as to get just the
But 1t will be able to write II soon. So,
will II be able to order all its supplies in'
such q way as to get the best possible.
It Ii working out the problems OF buying
on Q scientific basis.