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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
MCCOY KNEW HUMAN NATURE
Explaining How the PugiIlst Was Able
to Get His Car Through Jam
Where Others Failed.

Kid Mccoy drove down in his large,
shiny motor. A friend accompanied
him. Coming up the avenue was a
flock of hooting cars. 1t seemed i'm
possible for Mccoy to find way
through.
Lets turn down a side street, Kid"
said the friend. We'll make by it."
Watch me-" said Mccoy
He turned his head to one side, and
looked into the eyes of the alarmed
friend. He drove his car right at the
approaching covey. Their drivers set
up a quacking like lot of frightened
ducks. Mccoy drove on, without look
ing at the road ahead All the other
cars pulled TO one side and made way
for him. As he passed, all the other
drivers leaned out of their cars to
make injurious comment upon Mr..
Mccoy
Get your bluff in first" said Mccoy.
That's the rule in life that applies to
motoring as well as to fighting. If I'd
dropped back and honked timidly ev-
cry one of those guys would have
crowded me a little farther into the
curb. Because they thought | was a
careless, reckless, E-fat mushhead,
who'd as lief have an accident as not,
they gave me the right of way. New
York Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
Model Farm Co.cny.

The Brazilian formal do CONNER
clio" announces that the minister of
finance of the state of Parana has re-
ceived from the Brazil Railway COM
pany a report of the development of
the fazenda at Carambahy, on the
railway north of Ponta Grossa, which
was acquired by the company to DEM
onstrate the possibility of growing
wheat, the latest modern machinery
being imported therefor. Eighty
houses have been built for colonists,
and so far fourteen families have been
established in them. The faZenda
possesses pedigree stock, Swiss bulls
of pure race having been imported,
and includes dairy fitted with most
modern appliances, also from Switzer-
land. for making butter and cheese.
An agricultural expert is on the ia
zenda for the purpose of instructing
the colonists. An arrangement has
been made for introducing colonists
from Holland, and already 400 pounds
of Dutch cheese are produced weekly,
finding market in Curityba, Ponta
Grossa and Sac PaulGl
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
PERSONALS.

Miss Emma KoIter is spending
the day at Edgar.
&C. B. Bird came home this morn
ing from Madison.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Heinemann
went to Chicago last evening.
John Kurtzweil, who resides near
Edgar, was in the city today.
C. G. Knoller came up from Dan
cy this morning on matters of bust
ness.
DR. A. w. Trevitt returned home
Sunday from a business trip to Chi
cago.
A-Mr. and Mrs. Henry SeiIh, ST.,
and Mrs. Herman Seim, are visiting
in Edgar
Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Woodson re-
turned to the city from Chicago on
Saturday.
N. N. Secor, of the Simpson Gar
ment Co., went to Madison last night
on business.
Miss Ella Bagge of Merrill visited
her sister, Miss Lillian, of this city,
Friday and Saturday.
Miss Louise Underwood who had
been visiting in Chicago, returned
home on last Saturday.
DR.. Julia Riddle of Oshkosh ar
rived in the city yesterday and is the
guest of Mrs. S. NJ. Quaw.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Livingston
departed for Minneapolis yesterday
afternoon on a business and social
visit.
Mrs. Robert Markham of Manito-
voc, who is the guest of Mrs. J. p.
Briggs, will return to her home on
Friday.
ID. McNaughton was in Chicago
Friday and Saturday on business for
the Northwestern railway company,
arriving home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. w. Scott, who
have been touring in the west and in
British Columbia for many weeks, re-
turned home yesterday.
e. j. Strupp of Grand Forks, n.
D., arrived in the city Saturday for a
ten days visit at the home of his
mother Mrs Mary Strunn
DIR. and Mrs. l.. E. Spencer, Miss
Cora Tresidder and the Misses Julia
and Anna Hoeflinger went on an auto
trip to Stevens Point yesterday.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
AbbrevIation Gone Mad.

There are people Ia this country
who have so much respect for it's gov
eminent and institutions that they al
most consider those guilty of treason
who spell the capital of the country
Wash" 1t is all they can do to
restrain themselves when they get a
letter dated Wash, D. c." They
would just as soon see one addressed
to Dos, Mass" although Bait, Md,
or Phila., Pa, does not offend so much.
Nobody but a human sloth would
think OF writing on his envelope
Chic, ILL.," or Buff, N. Y" Yet the
practice of unauthorized contraction
has grown to such an extent that 1t is
high time that business houses lay
down the law, as found in the back
part of nearly any dictionary, against
the practice. And If you follow the
feelings of the purists in spelling,
you'd dock the man or woman whole
days pay who is so utterly dead to
patriotic instincts as to address a
letter to Wash, d. C."-Wal Street
Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
SCHOFIELD ITEMS.

Miss Myrtle Larson spent Sunday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Bretzke.
Miss Aureia Wendorf, who is
teaching in the town of Maine, at
tended the teachers convention
which was held in Wausau Friday
and Saturday.
William Wendorff spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Wendorf.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rob Schensnel and
son, spent Sunday at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben. -Wendorf.
John West and sister Irene of
Merrill, spent Saturday and Sun
day with their grandmother, Mrs.
Chas. Prahl.
Chas. Mattke who is working at
Deerbrook, spent Sunday with his
family.
Miss Jessie Flaherty who is teach
ing at Eland, attended the teachers
convention Friday and Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs Emil Prieve are the
proud parents of baby boy who
arrived here Tuesday.
Rev. Doerman of Blue Island, ILL.,,
president of the Wisconsin district
of the Ohio Synod, spent Tuesday
with Rev. E. J. Boerger.
f. B. Fulmer is confined to his bed
with a severe attack of la grippe.
Mrs. w. Hartkopf spent Sunday
with her sister, Mrs. John Gross.
Miss Agnes Muelner of Philips is
spending a weeks vacation with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore
Muelner.
Mrs. Julius Kell spent Sunday at
the home Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Bretzke.
Miss Sarah Singler spent Saturday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Bretzke.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ferdinand Reetz of
Wausau spent Sunday with the lat
ter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Mattke.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aug. Straeck and
sons, Clifford and Milton, spent
Sunday at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Mattke.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Prahl and
little daughter, Dorothy spent Sun
day at Wausau.
Miss Rose Egdahl left for her
school at Brokaw Sunday evening.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
Nil Desperandum.

Percy Darlington rose and brushed
the dust from his knees. Then, draw
ing himself up to his full height, he
gszed resentfuliy upon the form OF
Miss Muriel Muggins. who nonchalant-
ly famed herself the while.
Very well. Miss Muggins," came in
bitter tones from Percy. "Oh, very
we'll! You have spurned me. it is
true! Indeed. you have spurned
me twice! But though despair eats
my heart. shall not die. | mean
to go into the busy world. | win
fight l will win, My name shall
become known and my riches shall
become envied-"
Pardon me for interrupting you.
Mr.. Darlington" inter1ected Miss
Muggins, but when you have &C
complished all thai you may try me
again"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

A number of visiting teachers were
guests at the high school last Thurs
day as we'll as yesterday forenoon.
Many visited the classes of the var
ious teachers, taking the day as their
annual visiting day of which each
teacher has one a semester.
A mass meeting of about fifteen
minutes duration was held last Thurs
day at the high school. Talks were
given by several men but on account
or f. j. Gould's demonstrations after
school, the meeting was obliged to be
cut short.
+. j. Gould of the London Moral
Education league was in this city
last week. Every evening after
school he gave demonstrations at the
high school to the teachers of the
city. He spoke and gave demonstra-
tions at the convention last Friday
and Saturday.
The days vacation last Friday was
greeted with pleasure by the high
school students as we'll as the grade
scholars and this came in quite
agreeably at this time, as Thanks
giving day is another month i'm adj
vance the other and good old Santa
arrives with his two full weeks of
pleasure.
A meeting of the debating society
will be called sometime this week.
The game last Saturday was a sue
cess financially. A big crowd was
present.
The visiting teachers held several
banquets at the Bells House. The
teachers in this vicinity who were
graduates of the Oshkosh normal held
a reunion Friday evening as did also a
numbe. from Stevens Point. After
both of these banquets several toasts
were responded to.
The Amigo high school foot ball
team has disbanded for the season and
yesterday sent word to Nj. Wolf that
they would be unable to play here
next Saturday. Principal /. G.
Painter is trying to secure another
team to play in Amigos stead. If
he is successful the girls athletic
club will serve supper on Saturday
evening.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
Thanksgivins Day Proclamation

President Wilson on Thursday is
sued his first Thanksgiving proclama-
tion as president of the United States,
as follows:
''The season is at hand when it has
been our long respected custom as a
people TO turn in praise and thanks
giving to Almighty God for his mani
fold mercies and blessing to us as a
nation. The year that has just passed
has been marked in peculiar degree
by manifestations of his gracious and
beneficient providence. We have not
only had peace throughout our own
borders and with the nations of the
world, but that peace has frightened
by constantly multiplying evidence
of genuine friendship, of mutual
sympathy and understanding, and of
the happy operation of many elevating
influences both of ideal and of prac-
tice. The nation has been not only
prosperous, but has proved its capacity
to take calm counsel amid the rapid
movement of affairs and deal with it's
own life in spirit of candor, right
eousneSs and comfy.
"We have seen the practical compile
tion of great work at the isthmus
of Panama, which not only exemplifies
the nations abundant resources to &C
complish what it will and the dis
tinguished skill and capacity of its
public servants, but also promises the
beginning of new age, of new con-
contrasts, new neighborhoods, new
sympathies, new bonds, and new
achievements of cooperation and
peace.
" righteousness exalteth the nation
and Peace on earth, good will toward
men, furnish the only foundations
upon which can be built the lasting
achievements of the human spirit.
The year has brought us the satisfac-
tiOn of work well done and fresh
visions of our duty which will make
the work of the future better still.
NOW, therefore, l, Woodrow Will
son, president of the United States of
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day, the twenty-seVenth day of No
vember next, as day of thanksgiving
and prayer, and invite the people
throughout the land to cease from
their wonted occupations and in their
several homes and places of worship
render thanks to Almighty God.
"In witness whereof l have hereun-
to set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
'.Done at the city of Washington,
this twenty-third day of October, in
the year of our Lord, 1913, and of the
independence os the United States of
America the l38th.
WOODROW WILSON.
by the president:
"W. ]. BRYAN, Secretary of State"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
Thick.


Attorney General McReynolds said
OF an unwise charity:
such charity, sustaining the shift
less at the expense of the thrifty, re-
minds me OF Farmer Browns hired
man. John.
Johns a good feller.' said Farmer
Brown. but bit khtck-a bit thick
I'll tell you Ast Johns like.
sent him cSt ocst rnorning to thin out
the onion pasch-zs was fine patch.
but overcrow&sk4, He worked day
or two on the sreSs@d then went TO
see what he'd hszn doing.
Well. sir, rrrDd that he'd pulled
out all the bsxpssA.onions and hesyed
them away. les<fzs@ only the smallest
meaness plants fnse@rh row. I asked
him what In ,arrSEson he meant by
such work. and ~ said he wanted to
give the little fes1eW chance-the big
ones had cro~0e1 them out and they
couldn't grow.
-'YsA. Johns q - thick hat
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
clrY pRopERrY FoR 81.

FoR SALE-City Lots. Now Is the
time to get good bargains Crock
ef-Thayer Land Co, at PILOT office.
Three Residence Properties, two on
Grand Avenue and one on Prospect
Ave: all i'm good locations; modern
homes: will 90 at bargains
Two lots in the John on addition.
Two lots in the Schcdeld addition.
-Four lots in Mary Poor's Sd addition.
A residence and lots on First ST.
A residence on Fulton st.
one lot in JOhnson's addition.
A residence on Eft Avenue
A residence on Plumer ST.
A residence on Forest ST.
A residence on First st.
A residence on MclDdoe st.
A residence on Garfield st.
Two lots in Dunbar & Browns add'n
Five acres in city limits: fine for chick
en- raising. Growing in value daily.
Two residences on Grand Ave, both
in good condition, with all modern
conyeniences. viii be sOld at sac
rifice.
one residence on Prospect Ave, ar
ranged for two families, will also be
sold at sacrifice.
All for gale by the
Crocker-Thayer Land Co.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
CITY MANS DREAM OF FARM
II He Can Make IL Come True There
Should Be Great Upllft of
Agriculture.

Every right-feeling city man looks
forward to spending his old age on a
farm in the country This is a true
statement. but subject to modifica-
tons.
In the first place, the farm will be in
the country, but not too far in. The
idea is to have 1t near enough the city
to run in for night at the theater and
get home again by 1890.
The farmhouse will be a little more
complicated than farmhouses usually
are. 1t will be hot-water heated and
vacuum cleaned 1t will have of tiled
bathrooms perhaps three, a Dutch
kitchen. an oak painted dining room,
q library, billiard room, den, smoking
room, a Louis Quatorze drawing room
and bedrooms with period furniture.
Farmers whose tastes are not so SIM
pie will doubtless add pergola and a
sunroom to this plain, but serviceable,
equipment.
The farm, whether 1t is 10, so or
100 acres, must have a COW, chickens
and a garden. The COW will lay milk
and butter, the chickens will lay eggs
and broilers and the gardens will lay
vegetables and small fruits. Also
there will be an orchard that viii lay
apples. Since the farm is to be self
contained, 1t will raise its own violets,
mushrooms and American Beauty
roses, and will. of course, have gaso-
line well at which the automobile can
be watered While the owner Of the
farm yfl not engage in the actual
manual labor OF filling the soil, he
expects greatly to assist nature by ex-
ercising al Intelligent supervision
over the growing crops. With him
bossing the job and half a dozen farm
hands doing the chores, agriculture
may wei. appreheDd a great uplift.-
Toronto Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28

The Atchison Globe tells of a pa
thetic sight on Main street the other
morning. An old and very poorly
dressed colored woman was in q
frenzy of grief: she walked up and
down the street moaing and wringing
her hands and searching for some
thing she had lost When asked what
her trouble was. she walled that she
had lost her ticket TO heaven. She
explained that in her church each
member who paid a certain sum OF
money was given such ticket This
old colored woman believed implicit
iy in the power of her ticket, to her
IT represented a berth in heaven She
had paid for II with hours OF back
breaking labor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
Turkish women's Strong Point.

Turkish women are said to have one
accomplishment in which they excel
the women Of all other nationalities.
They know how to sit. Hester Dom
aldson Jenkins calls attention to the
fact that the Turkish verb to sit Is
used where occidentals would use to
live, or stay, or visit. To the ques-
ton, Where are you living?" one
gets the reply, 81 am sitting in SIAM
boul" Or, to the question, Are you
married." the answer win be mo. /
am sitting at home" And when they
sit they sit quietly, Gin the perfect
repose of sleeping cat. They don't
have to keep their hands busy. They
crochet or knit They Just sit.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
THINGS THAT ALMOST HAPPEN
Steamboat Captain Tells Why His
Hair Is Nearly White, Though
He Never Had an Accident.

1T Is the things that almost hap
pen which cause gray hairs in this
business rather than the things that
actually occur" said q veteran cap
tain of an excursion boat to a New
York Ssn man.
When / was thirty-three years old
| was running boat to Coney Island
On one occasion, in the lower bay, fog
settled down thicker than mush
held compass course and everything
went smoothly enough until it was al
most time TO change the course and
head from the bay toward Coney l
had heard a boat-by its whistle 1
further up the bay.
Even though / could not see the
bow of my boat, / was hanging with
my head out of the pilot house win
dow and straining my eyes to see.
when my quartermaster, who was
standing on the very peak of the
bow called for me to reverse. / rang
for full speed astern and threw the
wheel hard to port
The fog lifted for an instant and
dead ahead of me l saw scow with
Dynamite written on its side and a
red flag floating above it. / kept the
wheel hard over and 1t seemed to me
the engineer was an eternity in get
ting the engine reversed. We just
grazed the scow. learned afterward
that it had been I'm tow of q tug and
that the hawser broke and the tug
crew had lost sight of the scow in
the fog.
When 1 got home that night my
wife pointed out a gray hair-the first
had ever had.
'In all my experience I've never
had serious accident, but as you see
have head full of gray hairs
caused by things that almost hap
pened."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28

EIGHTY ACRES, 3 miles from Ringle,
20 acres cleared; house and barn, at
$1,000
40 Acres in T 50, Il 8, at 300.
10 Acres, 80 rods from city limits, in
town of Wausau, 800.
so Acres, Il ~, Il =, 800
- Acres in II %, r. 3, $1,000.
40 Acres ia town Of Texas 81 900.
40 Acres ia town of Weston, 81, 200.
so Acres, te@n OF Flieth, 80 acres IN
der pillow: house, barn and orchard,
AZ miles from city, a. $500.
ALL for sale by CrOckerlIhayer Land
Co Pilot Office.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
without Food Twenty-eioht DAYS.

A remarkable feat of involuntary
fasting was performed IL years ago
by corporal in regiment of French
colonial infantry. On his way TO work
one morning a man heard cries pro-
ceeding from a disused mine. near
Brest At the bottom OF an excava-
ton nearly 100 feet deep Corporal
Andre Desrats was found in so weak
a condition that he could hardly artic-
ulate a word. When he recovered his
rescuers learned that. after accident
ally falling into the mine. Desrats had
been imprisoned for twenty-eight
days without anything to eat or drink.
But pig can beat man. DR.. W.
B. Carpenter in his Manual of Physiol-
ogy records that q pig weighing Ice
pounds was entombed by the fall of
portion OF the chalk ellis at Dover. II
was dug out 160 days later. and found
to be still alive. but rssdaced In weight
10 90 pounds. e
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28

THE republican papers are telling
of the cut in mems wages which is to
be made this winter in the logging
camps. This statement is made up
out of whole cloth The truth of the
matter is that it is impossible to
secure enough men to fill the places
open at the old prices.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
THE WIZARD OF WISELAND.

1t can be readily seen that there
are great opportunities for the display
of ingenious and intricate scenic art
in the stage settings as well as of a
wierd and beautiful transformation
and of bewildering and fascinating
costumes. Over 200 costumes are used
i'm the presentation owing to the
great variety called for
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28

RIPoN COLLEGE will get $40, 900 from
John d. Rockefeller. Wausau has
managed to get some $50, 600 out OF
Carnegie for its library. Wonder il
we could not get enough out of
Rockefeller to put a nice piece of
Statuary on the library grounds
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
Old Indian Flre-Produeer.

Nsnaimo; the Coal City of yancou-
yer island, has just secured some in
teresting Indian relics, presented to
the Native Sons post OF that city by
W. Chapel of Gabrioia island. Among
the specimens is an admirable exam
pie of stone axhead and what, for
want OF a better term, may be called a
kinder" This is q fat. circular rock
With hole in the cetner. There is
also an oblong. lemon-shaped stone
which fits in this hole. The natives
used TO create a spark by revolving
the small stone IN the hole.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
OLD CITY HALL.

The old city hall will be used for
the Industrial school the old council
room and the room formerly used for
the city engineer will be used for this
pdrpose. The lower rooms with the
exception of those used for cloak
rooms will be used by the city
electrician, Paul Reiche.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28

sallors, Desloes the men VINO superIn-
tended the rigging and arming of the
feet.
The centenary celebration, there
fore, is a tribute to the prowess Of a
New England state. 1t was said years
ago by historian that there never
was an expedition of Importance to
the country which was made up SO
largely of officers and men from
single state
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28

~ THESE BIG RETURN BRGNGERS cost
you only Five Cents per line. Five or Seven
words make line.
II you want 10 buy or sell or exchange your
Real Estate II you want to rent or have some
thing for rent II you want help or position:
IL you have something for sale or have lost or
found something the want ads. will bring the
desired results.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
FARM PROPERTY FOB SALE.

FoR SALE-A farm Of 100 acres, ~
miles from Wausau, 30 acres under
plow: good houses and barns; stream
running through property. For sale
cheap. Enquire of Crocker-Thayer
Land Co., PILOr building.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28

REUBEN G. TwAITEs, for twenty
five years Supt. of the State Histori-
cal society and noted historian, died
at the general hospital in Madison
with kidney trouble last Tuesday. He
was sixty years of age.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28

JUST think OF it, a Milwaukee man,
aged 80 years old, William Weiss,
was found frozen to death last Tues
day. This is quite an advertisement
for the Cream City as sure summer
rosort
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28

AN explosion in the Goodyear
Rubber Co.'S. building in Milwaukee
last Sunday night resulted in the
death of eight tiremen and the in
juring of eighteen more.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28

THE latest Mexican question is:
How long will it take Huerta to reach
a vessel on the coast when his sue
ceSSor is elected ?-Racine Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28

The home of the Parker LCcky
Curve in Wausau is 5l6 Third ST.
C. Ii. lngraham, Jeweler and OPP
tician.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28

FOR SALE FL. Kennedy Of the
town Of Wausau, offers for sale lils
big farm in the town Of Wausau, IN
Guiding stock, machinery, etc. II
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
National German American Bank

Report of the condition of the
National German American Bank, at
WauSau, in the state of Wisconsin, at
the close of business, October 2lSt,
1918:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28

W ANTED-sgl acres OF partly improved
farming land. Send description and
prices to +. O. Box IS, Wausau,
Wis. o2l-4w