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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
La TOILETTE GIVES
REASONS FOR VOTE.
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SAYS NEW TARIFF SCHEDULE is
LESSER EVIL THAN The
PAYNE-ALDRICH LAW.
CALLS 1T THE FIRST STEP
senator States New Bill Marks Begin
ming OF Long Battle Against Monop;
oiy-Partisan Politics Should Have
NO Place, He Concludes.

Madison.-''No tariff measure,
Win Its thousands of rates, can at
tain perfection The question pre-
sented at this time is a choice be-
tween this bill, with its general level
OF duties on manufactured products.
reasonably just to home industries,
except as | indicate, and the iniqui,
tous rates imposed on the American
people by the Payne-Aldrich law is
the way Senator La Toilette begins
MS summary of the reasons why he
voted for the democratic tariff bill,
given IN signed editorial which
made its appearance.
On this issue, which involves the
general welfare of the millions in ev-
cry walk of life, partisan politics
should have no place." he concludes.
The contest is really between the
people and entrenched privilege. 1t
is an unequal struggle, and calls for
the highest service which men now
in public life can render to their
country.
AC u uSIS anu COIN DlUdClOnS III
their relentless oppression of the
public have been materially aided by
the monstrous tariff law enacted four
years ago. Their power will not be
broken when that law is supplanted
by the present bill. But its passage
is significant. 1t marks a change. 1t
is the winning of the first battle in
the long war which must be waged
against industrial monopoly. This
warfare is not against legitimate
business. 1t is against the tyranny
of unlawful combinations, over pro-
tected, over stimulated, over capital
lied. Our Industries will of neces-
sity feel the strain of readjustment
to normal healthy basis-a basis
of actual values. Through this period
we must pass to secure industrial
peace and real industrial prosperity 81
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
BADGER STATE TOBACCOCROP
10000 Acres of Land In Wisconsin Is
Devoted to the Product-AVeraqe
Yield Medium to Good.

Madison.-A majority of Wisconsin
tobacco growers are finishing their
harvest season and in a short time
1t will be completed. ''Medium-to-
Good" is the way James Johnson, to-
bacco expert for the College of Agri-
culture of the University of Wiscon-
sin, terms the average yield in a
greater number of the fields of the
state. While a number of excellent
crops will be harvested, the general
average of yields will not be as high
as was expected earlier on account of
the favorable growing conditions
which prevailed during much of the
season.
In many instances the leaves of the
plant have presented a stunted and
narrow appearance, due in most cases
to partly diseased roots. Some crops
have made practically no growth since
planting, and inspection revealed them
to be badly infected with the root-rot
disease. Spread of this trouble will
mean heavy financial losses to the
tobacco growers. 1t has been esti-
mated that the tobacco acreage for
this year is about 10000 acres, of
which $4,000 acres is in Dane county.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
HIT HIGHEST MARKET PRICE
Easier Done With Grain Crops Than
With Observation-Disclosures Must
Go When They Are Ready.

It Is much easier, generally speak.
ing, to hit the highest market price
with grain crops than it is with live
stock. There are various powerful
interests that aim at certain seasons
of the year to depreciate the prices
of meat products and grain. The
grain farmer is less at their mercy
than the stock farmer, because he
can, as rule, hold his grain for q
few months until the market suits
him. The stockmar cannot do this
with his cattle, sheep and swine to
anything like the same extent Cat.
tie, sheep and swine must go when
they are ready for market. 1t is the
best thing a farmer can do to sell
when they are ready, that is, when
they have reached a weight at which
he cannot add more weight at
profit. The only advice that 1t is safe
to give on this point is to avoid being
market chaser, and to sell fattened
stock when it Is fit to ship There
is large expense connected with
holding fat stock and in many in
stances the market goes the wrong
way. Every farmer knows that with
corn at, say so cents, he is assuming
the role of Spectator by holding a
bunch for higher market, after most
of the food of support and the food
of gain becomes a diminishing guam
tity, diminished to such an extent that
he cannot make a profitable increase
on his stock
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
WHY THE FERTILIZERS FAIL
Farmers Seem to Forget That Physi-
cal Conditions Are as Important
as Plant Food Supply.

Many farmers expect entirely too
much of commercial fertilizers, writes
an instructor for the College of Agri-
culture, Ohio State university. They
forget that the physical condition of
the soil is often just as i'm
portant as the supply of available
plant food.
The condition of the soil depends.
largely upon the amount of decaying
organic matter it contains. By it
clay soils are kept loose and well
aerated, more easily drained and
at the same time capable of holding
more water in an available form.
They have less tendency to gErface
washing, heaving and extremes Of
temperature when well supplied with
organic matter. Sandy soils are made
more compact, more retentiye of
moisture and plant food
In all soils the acids produced by
the decay of organic matter are the
chief agents in getting into disable
form the plant food locked up in their
insoluble mineral particles. If dis
appointing results attended the use of
fertilizers, it Is well for the farmer
to ask himself If he has made suffl-
cient use Of barnyard manure, heavy
sods and green manuring crops in
maintaining the supply OF organic mat
ter of the soil
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
NEW DUTIES FOR THE POLICE
Fourth Glass City Chiefs Also Truant
Officers, Is the Opinion of At
torney General.

Madison.-That chiefs of police
and police officers in cities of the
fourth class are required by the pro-
visions of chapter $50 of the laws
of 1913 to act as truant officers is
the opinion of Atty-Gen Owen, given
to Dist. Atty. Charles Kirwan of
Rusk county. The law says that
these officers may act in such ca
pacity, but the encouragement
holds that the word may, where the
rights of the public are involved,
means must.
In an opinion to the Wisconsin
grain and warehouse commission the
encouragement holds that the pro-
vision of the law which permits that
commission to use $4,000 annually
to promote the grain trade of SUI
perior is not cumulative 1t appears
that the commission heretofore has
not used all of the $4,000 which the
law permits and now wants to ap-
propriate not only the $4,000 for
which the law provides, but to use
that portion OF which has not been
used in former years. This, the at
torney general holds, cannot be done.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30

spools, two of which will fit tight up
on the pencil and the third loose
The holes in spools of different shapes
vary little in size, so you probably
Will fin1 that mother or sister has
just what you want Push the upper
end of the pencil through spool A so
that about one-half inch projects Gig.
81, cover it and the top of the spool
with glue and stick it through the
hole bored in the base Gig. p; press
spool A against the base until it Is
glued fast to it. Slip the pencil
through spool B and stick the lower
end into spool c Gig. u. If spool G
doesn't fit perfectly tight put little
glue on the end of the pencil before
sticking it into spool c.
For the cylinder get some light
weight cardboard that will be easy
to cut, mark out piece 312 inches
wide and 1874 inches long Gig. a.,
and mark off the ten slots at equal dis
tances apart Cut out the cylinder
ISyith pair of scissors or a sharp
knife, then tack its lower edge to the
edge of the wooden base, as shown
in Fig. 5, and glue the ends of the
cardboard together.
The ten views of the circus horse
and hound in Fig. show the posi-
lions of a horse while making one
complete gallop and the posi-
tons taken by a dog while leaping
through a hoop Cut out the four sec
tons of this set of pictures, and paste
them end to end upon a light weight
piece of cardboard so as to make con-
tinuous strip. To hold the picture
strip against the sides of the cylinder,
drive several small brads into the top
of the base just far enough away
from the edge so the strips will slip
between them and the cylinder Gig.
p.
To work the moving picture toy,
hold it by the middle spool with one
hand and make the cylinder revolve
by turning the bottom spool with
the other hand, as is show in Fig. 1.
Copyright, 1913, BY A. Nicely Han)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
Eyes coIored to Order.

Those frivolous persons who are not
contented with the features bestowed
upon them by nature are now able to
take advantage of device by which
it is possible to change the color OF
the eyes.
The patient is first rendered in
sensible to pain by means Of an anaes-
thetic, after which number of deli
cate incisions are made In the eyes,
the instruments being very fine
needles, Into the tiny punctures a
minute portion of coloring matter is
then rubbed.
All that is necessary after that is for
the patient to spend a week in a dark
ened room, until the eyes recover from
the operation, which, it Is asserted.
does no injury to the eight BY that
time the eyes have absorbed and utiI-
lied the coloring matter, and their
hue is changed to blue. brown or gray
as the case may be.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
H0N0RS TO F. A. BENNETT
iwenty-fifth Anniversary of Port
Washington Chair Factory CeIe-
brated With a Banquet.

Port Washington-Twe years
ago F. A. bennett launched his career
as manufacturer of chairs in this
city and an anniversary celebration
was held.
The local plant now employees 500
men and women and Mr. bennett also
operates plants at New London, She
boygan and Grafton.
As a feature of the celebration, a
banquet was given at the company's
offices. Zimmerman's Military band
furnished music. Employees of the
shop and local merchants and man
ufacturers attended the banquet and
Mr.. bennett was presented with many
gifts. Every factory whistle blew for
fully thirty minutes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
DREHER is CHOSEN HEAD
Assistant Cashier of Marshal & IIIsley
Bank Honored by United
States Body.

Milwaukee.-An unusual honol
was accorded Harold ]. Dreher, as
sistant cashier and manager of the
bond department of the Marshall &
Ilsley bank at Richmond, Va, when
he was elected president of the Am
erican Institute of Banking.
This is an organization that is a
factor in the banking life of nearly
every large American city and has
over $4,000 members.
Mr.. Dreher has been connected
with financial institutions of the city
for the past tn years. He is also a
member of the Milwaukee Bar as
sociation. On two occasions he has
filled the position of president of
the local che 0ter of the institute.
Last year, at the annual convention,
held in Salt Lake City. he was chair
man of the program committee.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
HELPFUL TO BEE BEGINNERS
One Method Which Cannot Fail to AS
sIst Is to Give Delinquent Insects
Good Shaking Up.
By MRS. r. F. JOSEPH

A method l have just learned that
caLnot fail to help beginners in bee
culture is to give the bees a good
shaking when they become delinquent
In their work. When you move them
a short distance to prevent their 60
ing back shake them in front of the
entrance of their respective hives. The
most vicious bees can be made very
tame by shaking. ! shake them of
the comb into large dishpan, When
the pan is shaken about the same as
you would shake a corn pepper the
bees roll over In confused mass and
after a minute of shaking, rolling and
tumbling they can be picked up with
the hands, providing, OF course, that
you do not hurt them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
Felt Gratitude 70 Editor.

A quaint legacy has been left for
the editor Of the leading paper OF
Winterthur, Switzerland The official
received a visit the other day from d
firm of lawyers, who told him that hs
had been left an annual sum OF $40
by a fervent reader, NJ. Holder, who
had just died. The passage in the win
is an amusing one. For many yeais
l have enjoyed my paper and a mug
OF beer every day." wrote the tesla
tor. Il therefore leave an annual SUM
Of $40, SO Of which is to ho paid to-
the editor on January and $40 on Au-
gust / OF each year, on condition that
the editor drinks on these dates q mug
OF beer in my memory in the presence
OF witnesses" The capital for this
extraordinary affair was duly depos-
tied N Zurich bank by the testafoa
some months before he died.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
DRINKS ON TRAIN; is JAILED
ChIcagoan Helps Himself to Whisky
and is Locked Up in La Crosse
County Jail.

La Crosse-Alphonso w. Jones, tray
cling from Minneapolis to Chicago,
was overcome by thirst when his train
passed through La Crosse. In his suit
case was some whisky, and Jones help
ed himself literally. The conductor
brought this to the attention of the
station police and Jones was taken
to central station for violation of the
Wisconsin law which forbids drinking
Of liquor on day coaches of trains. In
court Jones journey was further in
terrupted by sentence of ten days to
the county Jail
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
A MOVING PICTURE TOY.

A boy may have his own moving
pictures at home by making the sim
pie little machine shown in Fig. 1.
This toy consists of cardboard cylin-
der with slots cut in it's sides, which
is mounted upon a wooden base fast
ened to the end of a stick, while the
pictures are made on strips of card
board and represent a man, horse,
dog, or whatever the subject may be,
IN action, drawn in just the positions
IN which it would appear in a series
OF photographs taken in rapid sue
cession. The strips of pictures are
placed, one at a time, inside of the
cylinder close to the sides and facing
in, then the cylinder is whirled around
by means of the stick upon which it
is pivoted, and by looking through
the slots in the sides you see a num-
Der OF men, horses or dogs, as the
case may be, moving just as they
would appear upon the screen at &
regular moving picture show.
The wooden base for the cardboard
cylinder is the first thing to make
Gig, p. Upon a piece of board one
half inch thick describe a circle five
and one-eight inches in diameter
with compass, or if you haven't a
compass hunt up jug or china saucer
of this diameter and mark out around
its rim. With a scroll saw or a cop
ing saw it will be easy to follow the
circle in saving out the base, but
with large saw it will be necessary
to cut off first the four corners of the
board close to the circle, then the
eight corners thus produced then the
sixteen corners and SO on until it is
as round as you can get it, and
then finish off the edge with coarse
fi,e, chisei or sharp jack knife and
sandpaper it until perfectly smooth.
Bore a one-quarter inch hole in the
center Of the Ease, then get a lead
pencil six inches long Cor white a
stick to the same size) and three
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
BRIDGE AFiRE DlTCHES TRAIN
Oriental Limited Is Destroyed in
Crash at Trempcaleau-AH
Escape Injury.

La Crosse.-Oriental limited, No. 81,
the finest train on the Great North
ern-Burlington system, a coast train
from Tacoma and Seattle to Chica-
go, lies a heap of ashes and twisted
IRON at Trempealeau bay, long bridge
is totally destroyed by fire, 800 feet
OF track are torn up, the main line
OF the Hill system is out of commits
sion between La Crosse and Mime
apolis for an indefinite period, and
yet not single person of the 100
passengers and army of railway en-
ployes was injured sufficiently to re-
quire the use of a bandage. The re-
markable escape of passengers and
crew is the most striking feature of
the wreck, which occurred twenty
miles north of La Crosse. Despite the
vast damage to property, despite the
fact that the train was running fifty
three miles an hour at the time of
the accident everybody is safe.
The train was travelling at its limit
of speed to make up lost time and
had just rounded the bay above the
village of Trempealeau, when the
trestle work ahead, over which an
other train had passed but forty min
utes before, was discovered afire.
Engineer A. J. Hadley and Fireman
Guy Atkinson, both of La Crosse, at
the risk of their lives, stuck to their
posts. The engine passed the bridge
safely, but the tender and the six cars
behind it were thrown off the tracks.
The wrecked portion of the line may
be out of use for a long period, one
Burlington official expressing the opin-
ion that loss in property would be
$780, 600.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
MILLIONS IN DAIRY BUSINESS
Sheboygan County Has 1906 Cheese
Factories, Three Creameries and
One Condensed Milk Plant.

Sheboygan.-Some idea of the size
of dairy business Of Sheboygan coun-
ty may be obtained from the annual
report of County Clerk c. w. Fisher,
which shows that there are 1O6 cheese
factories, three creameries and one
condensed milk plant in the county.
The cheese factories received III, 377.-
261 pounds of milk, produced 1857
$50 pounds of cheese, selling for 81
S90.SS5.4O. The creaIneries received
5,717,S05 pounds of milk and made
16S,58S pounds of butter which sold
for $112,529.63. In addition, 625,357
gallons of milk were sold outside the
factories and 24,5S2 pounds of butter
and 21,705 pounds of cheese were made
on farms. There are 55,64S mich cows
and II, $50 other cattle in the county.
valued at nearly one and a quarter
million collars.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
Made Actor Feel At Home.

Frank Moulan, the comedian, is a
golfer and he tells very amusing
story of an experience in Chicago.
He was to attend a dinner and had
been told that he was to be seated
between two prominent judges. 4
must thing up something profound to
say to them" said Moulan to himself,
Sand maybe l will be able to get a
story across during a lull in their
conversation"
After an exchange of greetings and
the usual platitudes the comedian
seated himself between the two learn
ed jurists, and this is the conversation
which he heard:
Did you get out today?"
mo. Very unfortunately, l had a
case which detained me. Did you get
away?"
Yes. Had a good round. too-an
SO. which is very satisfactory, in
deed"
And during the entire dinner golf
monopolized the conversation and fur
nished a topic which enabled the
actor to participate freely and to his
entire satisfaction.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
Profitable Industry,

A profitable industry Is being de
veloped on many of the government
irrigation projects in the production
OF honey, and reports indicate that
this honey is superior in quality. AL
falfa is the chief source from which
the bees secure their supply. and as
It blooms constantly from early
spring till late in the fall. the bees
have something to work on all the
time, which allows greater amount
Of honey to be stored.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
REJUVENATE AN OLD ORCHARD
Is Very Largely Due to Judlcious
Use of Prune Saw

By S. VAN SMITH. Colorado Agricul,
tural College.)
. Our attention is being called every
day to the example of some farmer
with an idea, who takes a pruning
saw and goes into an old and unprofit-
able orchard and makes it pay attrac-
tive dividends. Proper cultivation and
spraying are important factors in
such a rejuvenation, but the increase
in size and color Of fruit is very large
ly due to judicious pruning.
In old orchards which have been
neglected the thing most noticeable
is the fact that the tree tops contain
too much wood too many limbs.
Many Of these are large limbs which
should have been cut out years ago
whel. they were small and the shock
to the tree would not have been so
great, to say nothing Of the saving of
plant food used in the production of
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
Train Is Money Loser.

Madison, Officials of the North
western road before the railroad com
mission offered testimony that the new
train operated between Watertown
and Fond du Lac in the evening and
early morning lost money at the rate
OF SAT to $50 per day. The company
asks for permission to discontinue the
service. Herman G. CRUDE of Water
town said the reason for the small
earnings was the poor service.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
Crushed BY Locomotive.

Misunderstanding a ride on a
Northwestern train which he thought
was going to make through run to
Milwaukee, Louis Kosak, aged is. was
fatally injured when the locomotive
backed into the round house. He was
crushed between the engine and the
wall. Frank, brother, aged IS, saved
his life by jumping a second before
Louis
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30
Two Killed by Gas.

Madison.-Two men, Andrew Land
strom, Y, and Andrew Swenson, &C.,
were found dead in their bed in a
rooming house at ia North Fairchild
street They had been asphyxiated by
gas escaping from a range. They
were poor and lived together in the
apartment in which they died. Land
strom was tailor and Swenson a
laborer
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-09-30

his Way One Can Consider the
Stalks From Which the Ears Are
Taken as Well as Ears Them
selves.
conditions. Seed corn that is not
thoroughly dry before cold weather,
will in the northern climates, freeze,
which will cause the kernel to expand,
thus injuring the germ or little plant,
lowering its vitality and often destroy
ing it, so the kernel will not germi-
nate.
Few farmers save enough seed corn.
One bushel of shelled corn will plant
from seven to eight acres. One hun
dred to one hundred and twenty Sc
lected ears will make a bushel of
shelled corn. At this rate it will take
from twelve to fifteen ears to plant
one acre 1t should be remembered,
however, that the first selection is
not always perfect; and oftentimes
upon second selection and germina
ton test, half of the first selection
will be thrown out. Thus 1t is seen
that there should always be selected
in the fall at least twice as much
seed as the farmer expects to plant
There is little danger of getting too
much seed corn. Any surplus, if the
seed is good, can usually be sold at a
fair price.
In case one has no special seed
plot in which his best and earliest
maturing ears were planted it is then
! necessary that his seed be selected
| from the field The most practical
method to do this is to go through
the field with a sack tied across ones
shoulder and select the choicest and
best matured ears. Two rows of corn
may easily be examined at once. Dur
ing the process of selection, consider
alton of the strength and character Of
the stalk, the height of the ear from
the ground, and the size of the shank,
should be noted.
A stalk does not necessarily have
to be large to be a big producer. A
tall spindling plant lodges very cas-
lily. The stalk should be of good size
and strong at the base, gradually tap
ering. and not necessarily tall Strong,
vigorous stalks of medium height,
usually produce the best and earliest
matured ears. The ear should be at
tached to the stalk by a medium-sized
shank, which is long enough to allow
the tip of the ear to hang down.
All ears in a cornfield will not ma
ture at the same time. A variation of
fifteen days in maturing of ears in
field is not uncommon. One of the
reasons why a good selection of corn
cannot be made from the shock or
from the field late in the fall, is that
one is unable to tell the time the ear
matured