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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19


you might call very sensible old fell
low. do everything right on time,
and enjoy myself hugely
There, there said the Earth. L
must be going again.
What short visits you pay said
Mr.. Moon as he began to show his
brightness again.
"Do you know why 1 do that?' whis-
pered the Earth.
"'No,' said Mr. Moon, and he took
a little walk along the Sky:
Because said the Earth, Grown
Ups think it's wonderful thing when
L call on you then. 1 don't let them
get used to it-and so they think that
it's very, very marvellous Look
at all the Earth People, and then you'll
agree with me-
"And of course, true enough, down
on the Earth, everyone was looking at
the Eclipse"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19

in the way. And
that makes it
d a r k-f or an
Eclipse is a shad-
ow or dark light.
"Mr. Moon was
shining hard. He
was very bright
and the Sky
seemed to be
lighted up by
him. All the
Stars were out
and were twink
ling with joy and
fun, for well they
knew what was
going to happen.
"Mr. Moon was
also looking very
fat and well !
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19

and knowledge and practice will per-
nit?
The boy who is unprepared begins
career with handicap, but it is better
to work for lower wages under a man
who knows his business thoroughly
than to get higher wages under a man
incompetent as an instructor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19
PRIVATE WARS WERE MANY
ANY Pretext Would Serve to Start a
Long and Bloody Conflict in
FeudaI Times.

"Of the many privileges conferred
on the mobiles of Europe by the feudai
system, none was more jealousy
guarded or more frequently exercised
than the right of waging private war;"
DR.. Macmillan writes in the Scottish
Review. This lawless custom was
the cause of untold misery, barbarity,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19

why isn't dinner ready" demanded
hubby as he rushed into the dining
room and found that the table was
not even set.
'I'm so sorry, dearie," said his wife,
abut had no idea you would be home
so early. thought there was double
header to-day"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19
WELL TO CONSIDER FUTURE
Employment That May Pay Good
Money at the Start Is by No Means
Always the Best.

The lure of good wages at the start
ing of a career has caused many a
young man to reach middle age as an
unskilled worker whose services COM
mand little more than he received
when he first went to work.
Any line of work which is easy to
learn viii naturally be overcrowded.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19
Open Confession.

sour romance began in a most ro-
mantle way. She's magnificent swim
mer, you know"
81 notice you don't go out very far
now"
"No. I don't know if she would
save me again"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19
Motorist Opinion.

"The pen is mightier that the
sword T" remarked the earnest citizen.
"That used to be the case" replied
Mr.. Chuggins, as he wiped his hands
on his hip pockets; "but what counts
now is a monkey-wrench or a pair of
pliers"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19
The Bows Version.

1t is from the Boston Traveller and
is supposed to have been spoken by a
clergyman's small son, whose older
brother was to be confirmed at church.
Its like this" quoth the youngster,
"the bish' is going to put his mitts on
brothers beam"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19
have been?'

LACl - OSSAA
"Mr. Moon was
almost entirely
covered by the
Earth's shadow as
he began his talk
" 4 am shining as
brightly as ever,
and l still change
my suit several
times a month. In
fact there's not
much difference in
me-or in my life.
l do much the
same things al
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19
In Motor Through a Shop,

While the store in North America,
especially in the larger cities, has
builded upward or skyward, the South
American establishment has spread
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19
Foxy Scheme.

Tommy, if you'll saw some wood
I'll tell you what I'll do"
whats that, dad?'s
''I'll let you have the sawdust to play
circus with"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19
Not the Same.

Look out how you try to fasten
the boat. You are going to strike the
pier"
Don't be afraid. This isn't going to
he a strike. if it is a tie-up."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19
Simple.

81 wonder why intoxicating bever-
ages are referred to as hard drinks"
POSSIBLY because they are harder
TO refuse than the soft drinks are"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19
Following Suit.

gin this romantic novel of the old
s+vle. almost every chapter embraces
some pretty girls"
"And so do the chaps in the chap
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19

The public library of Cincinnati
makes and lends lantern slides.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19
One Ear for Music.

Molly-My music teacher says
have an ear for music
Dolly-What's the other one for?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-19

OR weeks the German undersea
boat Deutschland occupied the
first page of every newspaper
in the land, to the exclusion of
the Mexican problem and a
considerable part of the Euro
pean war news. Her journey
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-08-04
CHAPTER X
Table Stakes

There were a dozen business blocks
under construction in MirapOlis, with
a proportional number of dwellings
and suburban villas at various stages
in the race toward completion. when
it began to dawn upon the collective
consciousness of daily increasing
citizenry that something was missing.
Garner the real estate plunger from
Kansas City, first gave the missing
quantity its name. The distant thun-
der of the blasts heralding the ap-
proach of the railroad had ceased be-
tween two days.
Up to the period of the silenced dy-
Mantle thunderings new industries
were projected daily, and investors.
tolled in over the high mountain trails
or across the Buckskin in dust-en-
crusted automobiles by methods best
known to a gray-mustached adept in
the art of promotion. thronged the
lobby of the Hotel Metropole and
bought and sold Mirapolis corners"
or 'insides" on a notwithstanding
scale of prices.
A strange mania for holding on, for
permanency, seemed to have become
epidemic. Many of the working men
were securing homes on the install
ment plan. A good few of the villas
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-08-04
BY FRANCIS LYNDE

81 thought / would-yes. What
shall / tell Miss Massingale when she
asks about you?"
You will probably tell her the first
idiotic thing that comes into the back
part of your head. And if you tell her
anything pifflous about me I'll lay for
you some dark night with pick
handle"
Grislow laughed reminiscently. "She
won't ask" he said.
why not?"
Because the last time she did 1t
told her your scalp was dangling at
Miss Genevieve's belt"
They had reached the door of the
log-built quarters and Brouillard spun
the jester around with shoulder grip
that was only half playful.
IF / believed you said any such
thing as that I'd murder you!" he ex-
ploded. Perhaps you'll go and tell
her that-you red-headed blastoderm!"
Sure" said the blastoderm. and
they went apart. each to his dunnage
kit.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-08-04

Every married woman gives her hus-
band credit for. possessing good judg-
ment at least once in his life.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-08-04

could boast parquetry floors and tiled
bathrooms. One coterie of Chicagoans
decided to build a six-storied office
building, with a ground floor corner
for the Niquoia National bank with
modern conveniences and that the
chosen building material should be of
nothing less permanent than mono
lithic concrete.
In harmony with the same spirit the
newly incorporated Buckskin Gold
Mining and Milling company plowed
deep burrows to bedrock across and
back until the face of Jacks mountain
was zigzagged and SCARED like a vet
eran of many battles.
In keeping was the energy with
which Mr.. Cartwright and his munich
pal colleagues laid water mains, strung
electric wires, drove the paving con-
tractors, and pushed the trolley line to
the stage at which it lacked only the
rails and the cars awaiting shipment
by the railroad.
This was the situation on the day
when Garner, sharp-eared listener at
the keyhole of opportunity, missing
the dynamite rumblings. sent cipher
wire of inquiry to the East, got a
rush" reply, and began warily to un-
load his Metropolitan holdings. Being
a man of business, he ducked to cover
first and talked afterward; but by the
time his hint had grown to rumor size
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-08-04
GRANDEUR AMAZING
Nature Has Wrought Great Changes
to UpIift Their Magnificent
Peaks-volcanic Work.

Nothing in the worlds history is
more impressive than the story Of the
Alps. Ten or twelve million years
ago, possibly far more, long unseen
line of weakness, a crack or assure
in the earth's crest. stretched away
from France eastward hundreds of
miles. On this line followed huge vol
canic outbursts-
Next ensued vast slow subsistence.
which went on through geologic
epochs until where Mont Blanc now
rears its summit 1880 feet was sea
fringing an old continent. Large riv-
ers emptied into it. Deposits of mud,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-08-04

sand, gravel were laid one on another
as the sinking went on until the layers
became $4,000 feet, or nearly ten miles,
thick.
Then at last commenced a great
uplifting; the struggling subterranean
forces raised huge load. For ages
this went on until the rocks, crumbled,
crushed, ccntorted, rose above the wa
tiers and continued to rise, forming
lines of mountain chains and making
Switzerland a tableland.
Every hour since then rain and
snow, river, glacier and avalanche
have been sculpturing into peaks and
carving into lakes and valleys that
vast platform with its recent sedi-
mentary covering and primeval gran
tie core.
The result Is Q land of unequaled
grandeur.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-08-04

When business again opens up in
Mexico that country is expected to Of
fer an important market for auto
mobile and motor trucks and delivery
cars. 1t Is now. nearly four years
since Mexico was eliminated as a mar.
ket.
OF approximately 1880 employees
OF the Bell Telephone system eligible.
under the plan published on January
1, 1915. to become stockholders of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company, $4,000. or almost half. Dur.
chased stock.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-08-04
FROM FAR AND NEAR

Shears have been invented that lack
finger loops. a spring opening the
blades after they have been pressed
together.
A United States government engi-
neer has patented and dedicated to
the public easily transported appara-
tus for mine rescue work in cases
where the regular hosting apparatus
has been damaged.
In Asia tusks are possessed only by
tho male elephants.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-08-04
SYNOPSIS.
g.

Brouillard. chief engineer of the Niquoia
irrigation dam. meets J. Wesley Cort-
wright and his daughter, Genevieve. and
explains the reclamation work to them.
Cartwright sees in the project big
chance to make money. The financier tells
Genevieve that the engineer "Will come
down and hook himself II the bait is well
covered" Cartwright organizes COM
Iany and obtains government contracts
10 furnish power and material for the
dam construction. A busy city springs
up about the site. Steve Massingale
threatens to start a gold rush IL Brouil-
lard does not influence President Ford to
build railroad branch to the place. thus
opening an easy market for the ore from
the Little Susan" mine. On a visit to
Amy Massngale at her fathers mine
Brouillard finds she understands him bet
ter than he had thought. He tells her of
his need for money to pay off his dead
father's debts and that to be free he
would sacrifice anything save his love for
one woman. Though his influence is vital
10 the building of the railroad extension
she tells him to be true TO himself. He
decides for 1t. Mirapolis. the city of num-
Dered days, booms. Cartwright persuades
Brouillard to become consulting engineer
or the consolidated electric power COM
pany In return for 100000 stock.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-08-04

(TO BE CONTINUEDl
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-08-04

What do you think Of a high.
saIaried government employee
who would "sell out" his pub
lie trust for private gain--even
II he did so in order to win hap
piness for the girl he loved?
Isn't this country suffering right
now from too much of just that
sort of thing?
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-08-04

It Stirred HE Bile, Though.
I've Just left Walker. He's laid up
In bed" Bilious attack" "Automo-
bilious. He was knocked down and
very badly bruised"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-08-04

What steps will erouilIard
and Cartwright take to stop the
threatened panic and save them.
seIves-or do you think they
will be able to get out Of the
mess without losing their In
vestments?
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-08-04

Imitation is the sincerest form Of
battery, and the jackass is . much
battered animal.-Judge.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-09-07

1t is a common thing to read of some
unfortunate girl leaving her nameless
child on the doorstep of a neighbor
and then seeking ~Obscurity from her
home which knew her in her innocence
with her child in her arms for this
would break the confidence of her
mother, the only real true friend she
has on earth. SO the child is left to be
cared for by hands and hearts and
minds that know not its history or the
grief which surrounded its advent into
the world. The mother of the babe
has trusted to the common heart of hui
mainly to care for her haplcss and
helpless offspring, and her trust has
been justified. Everywhere it is the
same story. Childless women, and
even women with large families, reach
out to care for the deserted child. To
the childless oma the advent of a
waif baby is like an infusion Of new
blood into the veins. Children are a
woman's natural right and almost a
necessity. The bloom Of youth is often
retained beyond the years Of full life
and glad existance exhilirated by the
warmth and love and companiOnship
Of a child. The child is the lamp which
lights her footsteps through the twi-
light zone of life to the grave. The
the child-ever calls and calls-and
when the waif is found it is seized
upon like a boon from Heaven to fill
the vacant place in the childless home.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-09-07
ARE WE LOSING TT

Brookings has always been repre-
sented in the defensive military forces
Of our state and nation. The members
of Company tx" Of the First South
Dakota Volunteer Infantry, were a
credit to the state and city because of
their valor and loyalty in 1898 and
1899, doing excellent service in the far
away Philippines in the nus of hu-
mainly.
Our boys now or duty at the Next
can border are no less a credit to our
state and city than were the boys of
'98-'99, though the later organization
has not yet been compelled to under.
go "a baptism Of fire" but every re-
port obtainable from the border indi-
Gates that each man In the company,
and In the regiment for that matter. Is
honestly doing his duty under trying
circumstaces.
Back Of this c is the reason
that every member of both organiza-
lions had received previous military
training under eficient leaders, the
names Of Col. Frost and Col. Wales
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-09-07

standing for high ideals from the mil
itary standpoint, that of effectiveness.
The efforts of those ~endeavoring to
recruit a company for the Fifth regi-
ment seems to meet with a general
apathy among the men who are liable
to be called out for military service
and that includes every able bodied
man between the ages of 10 and As
years, regardless of the fact that he
has not enrolled as a member of an
organized military unit.
Which is the greater credit to your
self, your city, your state and your
nation to have it said of you, that you
fitted yourself by careful training TO
do the best there was in you if called
into the military service or to have his
tory record that you were untitled for
service through lack { previous pre-
paration?
H2yc "" no pride in the achievements
of the boys Of other days along these
Iill'o . - a illDD more t11ttllNt lndG
a reasonably well drilled body Of men?
Are we going to allow ii to be said OF
Brookings that her men are blind to
the advantages Of military training
not alone for military service, but for
the duties of everyday life?
The officers of the Fifth regiment
are men who have had previous ex-
p]criencc in active service, and anyone
joining this organization will have no
need to fear that he will not be a mem
Der of the best trained, most carefully
drilled and thoroughly equipped rcgi-
ments the State of South Dakota has
ever contributed to the cause of law
and order, or the nations defence.
Get in while the going is good. Other
places are trying to get into this rcgi-
ment and unless we respond quickly,
our chance may be gone, and we bring
discredit upon our citizenship. Let's
hold up our heads proudly as men who
are ready to do their ddty and not be
obliged to hang them in shame, or try
to make XCuse to cover our laxity.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-09-07

children or else enlarge this building.
1t is filled to overlooking with the
handiwork of Brookings county young
sters, it being found necessary to place
some of the exhibits in the Women's
building, and this without showing any
thing from the Bookings city schools.
Hours may be spent proftably in this
building. Supt. Blakely and a corps
Of assistants emulated the busy bee
these assistants We are inclined to the
opinion that being county superintend-
ent has its advantages.
Nearby the Brookings Hospital has a
neat exhibit. We find it hard work to
make u Typewriter recommend hos
pttals, surgeons or undertakers, but it
S a good hospital and if you have need
TO enter n you have no call to go
away from home to get the very best
care and attention.
The Women's building has this year
been enlarged by the addition of a sec
ond floor, splendidly arranged. Mrs.
j.. L. Squirting is in charge ably assist
cd by Mesdames Geo. Sexaucr. Smith.
Rudolph, Tidball, Hutton, Colegrove,
/ Ientz and Miss Mabel Jarman. The
display is ~stupendous, and must be
'-.lrQ ia no nnrania+lJ W. h,,nr
around a long time hoping against
hope that we might be asked to sample
some of the pies, cakes or other
goodies. Nothing doing.
In this same building Davis & Co.
have an exhibit in which is shown a
bed masquerading as a table. With
one of these you might keep house in
one room. The pOstomce and the
Sulfragets have exhibits here also.
We are for both.
The Poultry building is full and we
caught Supt. Sayre and Judge Hess
making the awards. We would tie a
blue ribbon on the whole show.
The Agricultural building, \. Fry,
Supt., contains the State College ex-
hibit as well as the display of grains,
grasses, fruits and vegetables raised
in Bookings county. The pumpkin is
here, A wonderful showing by a Won
derful county.
The live stock departments are i'm
menso. Twenty-Five additional pens
had to be erected and at that there is
not Don enough. j.. A. Kcck, Geo,
Duff and Charles Yule are superintend-
erts of the swine, horse and cattle de-
partments respectively and they are
some busy, believe us.
Taken all in all, this Silver Ami
ycrsary Fair of Brockings county is
really and truly the greatest ever. An
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-09-07

The thought of the age is turning 70
a better race for the future. Out Of
this thought is developing, of course,
some fads and false notions-and some
evil. But that better men and women,
both morally and physically. should
be developed all will agree. Religion
is doing, as 1t always has, it's share.
Education, too, is experimenting the
work of the church. These two forces.
IL unhampered, will in time solve this
problem of the ages. Ancient Greece
and Sparta and Rome tried to solve
this problem. They failed because
they forgot the Creator and approach
ed 1t from only the human side. They
did not take into consideration that
man has a spiritual part and that If
this part remains ~undeveloped all
efforts toward building up the race
must end in failure. Honor, integrity,
purity and righteousness come from
the spiritual side of man. They must
grow and expand IL man is to grow
better. Let the advocates Of a better
race remember this and forget the
fads.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-09-07

The eight-hour work day is all right
in some cases but in many walks of
life, and under. the present system, it
Is impossible to make an eight-hour
day cover the work without loss or
disaster to the business. We need not
mention any line. Practical men can
apply the test to their own or neigh
boris work. Where labor ~organiza-
tions fall down is in attempting to cut
the hours and at the same time force
a raise OF wages. Let them be salts
fed with a reasonable days service In
hours and then go after a living, re-
spectacle American wage scale. All
men will concede them this. and SYM
pathize with and aid them in getting
1t. Labor should be well paid and well
cared for, but labor should remember
that unless business prospers, too.
there a be no present or future pros
perity for labor. There ought to be a
middle ground where conflicting inter.
ests can meet. There ought to be more
honesty and less selhshness on both
sides. There ought to be frequent
consultation between employer and
employee. The cards should DO laid
face up on the table so that both a
see. When business is not good labor
sympathise with and aid en-
pIoyer, and when business Is good en-
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-09-07

other year there must be PROVIDED al,
ditional space in every department.
The officials deserve the heartleiI
thanks of the county. They have per
formed a thankless, hard and dltlcui'
task in a splendid way.
Paul butcher should be arrested lor
supplying all the youngsters in the
county with whistles and Geo. CooeI
owes Ed. Squirting a nickel. Coming
back from our tour of inspection MI
Cobcl took Mr.. Spurling's Jackson for
a iitncy and rode without predicting.
We had seen so much that Brook
ines county had produced that it didn't
seem right.
Some Fair.