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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
.Tt's Linber-Limb Grant" he ex-

IT'S Linber-Limb Grant" he ex-
planned. There's a reward of five
hundred dollars for him. You'll get
Yhe money. as sure as you're born"
Then he turned again to the burglar.
Say, Grant, what's fellow like you
doing on such fifth-rate job as this?
Methodist parsonage is not just in
your line, is it?"
Limber-LiTab laughed sheepishly.
WELL he explained good-naturedly.
Chicago got too hot for me. ] had
to get out in hurry. and couldn't
get my hands on any money. | had a
fine lot of jewels. but | was so pushed
couldn't use them. came here and
loafed around town for a while. be-
cause folks said Mount Mark was SO
fast asleep it did not even wake up
long enough to read the daily papers.
heard about this parsonage bunch.
and knew the old man had gone off to
get more religion. This afternoon at
the station saw a detective from Chi
cago get off the train, and | knew what
that meant. But | needed some cash,
and so / wasn't above a little job of
this kind. l never dreamed of getting
done up by bunch of preachers kids.
went upstairs to get those family
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
Monkeyinq With the Universe.

1t has been reliably reported that
two New England men are about to
startle the world with an entirely new
power supply. One Of these men is
said to be a consulting mechanical en-
gineer, the other an astronomer, both
in very good standing. The story is
that these two men have gone so far
in the realm of infinitive formula that
they have been able to develop a meth
cd that will enable them to stop the
earth at will for 1872 of a second of
time and 20 bottle up the energy neces-
sary to stop the earth in its product
so created and sell 1t commercially to
the world. 1t is to be hoped that be-
fore the plan is actually put into Gem
mission two other men Of equal abil-
tiles will be found who will be willing
to collaborate with them to the end
that the earth can be started prompt
ly in its revolutions after it is once
stopped, otherwise there will be pain
full absence of market for this novel
power.-Hugh l.. Cooper in the Scien-
tific American.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
LEGISLATURE MAY
ADJOURN MAY IS
DATE SET FOR LAW MAKERS TO
CLEAN Up ALL WORK OF
PRESENT SESSION.
BIG MEASURES TO COME UP
The Young Primary, Statewide Prohi-
bition and the Highway Bills
Are Booked for Immediate
Hearing.

Madison-With May Is fixed AZ the
date upon which the legislature uan
adjourn if it applies itself to the work
ahead, certain members are deter
mined to do what they can to speed
UP the sessions.
Counting week out for the cleo
ton adjournment, this will give the
members six weeks to clean up the
calendars, and unless politicians at
tempt to delay the work the bills can
ne given due consideration and be
passed or killed long before that time.
Among the big bills to have an i'm
mediate hearing is the Young primary
bill. 1t is to come up before the as
sembly committee on elections, and
could be reported in SO the lower
house could dispose Of it by the sec
ond week in April. The senate COM
mittees are in shape to take it up
without delay, and two weeks in the
senate ought to dispose of it.
The statewide prohibition bill ought
to be either passed or killed in the
same time. The highway bill will
take some time, especially because of
the argument which will arise as to
the increase in automobile fees and
the proposition of creating a special
legislative committee to work with
the highway commission.
Another big bill is the one which
relates to the game laws. This sub
ject also has been considered for
months, and several hearings have
been held. Another hearing is SEIZED
uled and the bill should be on the
calendar of one Of the houses early
in April.
The Whittet bill which amends. the
state board of education law is impor-
tant, but it has been considered by a
joint committee, and has been unani-
mously recommended by the assembly
side. 1t should be disposed of by the
lower house without delay and the
senate will have three weeks in April
TO consider it. 1t is understood that
amendments will be introduced in the
senate, and they will send the bill
back to the lower house, but again
May Is seems date far enough ahead
in which to dispose of the bill
Every day of the session costs
money, and the 1917 legislature still
has an opportunity to save something
like 100000 to the state if it adjourns
by May Is.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
Irish EnoIish,

Many persons seem to see, or to
hear, rather, something to be amused
at in the soft Irish brogue. AS mat
ter of fact, most of the words of the
Irish dialect" are not Irish at all, but
the purest of English-English trifle
antiquated, it is true, but nevertheless
the real thing. The ears of Milton,
Dryden, Spencer and Chaucer would
not have been surprised to hear An
Irishman speak of "a rough say" or ga
clane shirt" At the court Of good
Queen Bess the cultured Englishman
carefully garnished his conversation
with "goolde" rings and brave
''swoordes" and bored his friends with
accounts of the smart sayings Of the
"childre" at 'hoom." This was the
English originally imported into Ire
land by the, cultured Irish, and the
Irish have found it good enough to pre-
serve.-Chicago Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
NAVIGATION TO OPEN LATE
Heavy Ice Fields on Lakes Caused By
Severe Winter May Delay
Opening of Season.

Ashland-Indication here are that
lake navigation will open later than
usual this season owing to the heavy
ice fields. The coolest winter in years
has left ice foes more extensive than
have been known for long time, it Is
reported.
Ice in st. Mary's river averages rs to
20 inches; in Green Bay, Is to 80
inches. In northern Lake Michigan ice
is reported to extend practically
across. Conditions at various northern
ports are reported to the weather bu-
reau as follows:
Duluth harbor, ice % inches; foes
extend beyond vision; Bayfield,, harbor
ice % to "a inches; no open water
visible; Washburn, harbor ice 80
inches; Ashland, harbor ice 30 to SO
inches; Portage canal, entrance gorg-
ed solid; Manitowoc, upper harbor ice
80 inches.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
FAVOR REFERENDUM
EVJUE BILL GOES TO ENGROSS-
MEMT AFTER HOT DEBATE.
Lower House Advances the Statewide
Prohibition Measure b.
Vote of So to a..

Madison The assembly, after a
sharp fighting. advanced to engross-
ment the Eyjue bill for statewide
referendum on prohibition, the roll
call showing fifty-two members for
the measure and forty-four against.
Unless there is a change OF senti-
ment in the house the bill will be
passed and messaged to the senate.
where the vets will be given another
opportunity to make stand
That Gov. Philip will sign the ref
erendum if it escapes defeat in the
legislature is regarded as certain.
In the amended form suggested by
Assemblyman w. t. Evjue, the bill
provides for popular vote in the April
election of 1918, instead of in the fall
election of that year. A. c. Otto's
amendment that the saloons are to go
out of business in July, 1920, if Wis
consin swings Into the prohibition col
umn, was made q part of the meas
ure.
Before this vote was taken. two sub
stitute amendments and several
amendments went down to defeat. The
procedure, of Speaker Lawrence c..
Whittet seemed to aid the dry forces,
who centered their efforts on getting
roll call on the main question,
worked without hitch. Attempts by
the vets to have the bill and amend
ments sent back to a committee, to
take recess or to adjourn all failed.
Consideration of Assemblyman John
Campers substitute amendment, for a
referendum on Jan. /, 1920, on a bone
dry proposition marked a decisive
turning point in favor of supporters of
the Evjue bill. Had the chair ruled
that the amendment could be received
the matter probably would have gone
over under the rules, but Speaker
Whittet preferred to let the members
vote on whether they wished to re-
ceive or reject the substitute. BY 48
to 40 the assembly declined to receive
the amendment, and from this point
on it was smooth sailing for the drys.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
IT'S TRULY AN ILL WIND
THAT BLOWS NOBODY
GOOD AND THIS WIND
BRINGS LUCK TO THE
PARSONAGE.

Mr.. Starr, widOwer Methodist
minister, is assigned to the con-
gregatiOn at Mount Mark, la.
He has five charming daughters.
Prudence, the eldest, keeps
house for him. Fairy is a col
lege freshman. Carol and Lark,
twins, are in high school. Con-
stance is the "baby." The ac4
tivities of the Starr girls-Pru-
dence's work, Fairy's school af-
fairs, the pranks of the young
sters-and the family perplexi-
ties make the story; it is simply
a recital of glOrified hOmely in
cidents. This installment de-
scribes the capture of a burglar
in the parsonage.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
Service Makes Boy Scouts Healthy.

People who deride or are concerned
at the employment of Boy Scouts in
the duty of coast watching will be en-
lightened by the observations of Doc
tor Aldous, chief commissioner for
Portsmouth, who found sickness is a
rare thing among them and wishes
that more Scouts could be put on this
duty, which is making such big. healthy
lads of them. He enumerates several
cases of boys of fourteen who have
gained materially IN weight and chest
measurement in three months or less,
and the zeal they display is surprising
when it is considered what q great
change it must be for town boys TO
be dropped on bleak and lonely part
of the coast.-London Globe.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
Appreciation o. Authors.

THAT Americans are not without APP
probation of their great authors
after the great authors are dead-was
demonstrated at sale in New York
city, where a collection of 33 Telegraph
letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with
engraved portraits, brought $1,000 from
w. FL. James. In the collection were
letters to Hawthorne and his family
from Emerson, Whittier, Bret Harte,
Browning, Eugene Field and Irving.
Two thousand dollars is q good,
round price to pay for few old let
tiers, even if they were written by or
to an author of the repute of Haw-
thorne. 1t is easy to imagine what
Hawthorne would have thought on the
subject if he could have foreseen this
transaction when he was writing juve-
nile classics like the "Tanglewood
Tales" and "Grandfather's Chair" for
S. G. Goodrich, and receiving in remu-
neration sometimes no more than $50
a volume.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
SUMMER MILK PRICES HIGH
Green County Farmers TO Receive
Average of $2.12 Per Hundred
Pounds for Next Six Months.


Monroe-Green county members Of
the Milk Producers, association will
receive an average price of $2.12 per
hundred pounds for their milk during
the coming six months.
This will be an increase of IL cents
over the average price for the last six
months, and the first time in the his
tory Of the dairying industry when
the summer price has been higher
than that Of the previous winter.
These prices are for milk testing 3.5
per cent butter fat, and it is agreed
that an additional cents will be paid
for each one-tenth of 1 per cent above
this test, or that cents shall be de-
Quoted for each one-tenth of per cent
milk falls below that test.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
DADDY SEWN[N(
ARY TALL nl
~ MARY GRAHAM BONNER
cHILDREN,s CIRCUS.

"This way to the big show" some
children were shouting. "Come right
along" they said "This Is the way to
see all the wonders of the age. Look
at the Frog Child, the Snake-Lady. the
Toad-Man, the Turtle Babies"
All the children went in the direction
from which the shouts and orders were
given.
The children who were shouting
were very much excited. Admission
to the show, ten cents" they kept say
ing. Its the most wonderful show
In the world"
There were dozen children giving
a play-circus which was supposed to be
very much like 4 real one. They had
asked all their friends and the money
they received was to go to a children's
ward in hospital. Everyone of their
friends came and soon the circus be-
gan First of all there was a long
parade while some of the children beat
drums and others played tunes on
combs covered with tissue paper.
Two little girls rode ponies and on
the heads of the ponies sat two mon
keys made of cloth! They had bead
eyesl
A boy did lot of fine tricks on a
rocking horse, and there were all the
usual circus tricks, although perhaps
not some of the more difficult ones.
After q little while q boy came out
on the platform and said,
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and
Girls, Cats and Dogs, we have now to
offer fine performance side show
We have shown you the regular acts
of the circus and we trust that you are
pleased" Here followed great deal
of clapping and shouting.
"And," the boy continued, "we are
now to have the great privilege of see
ing the Frog Child, the Snake-Lady, the
Toad-Man, the Turtle Babies. Step this
way, Ladies, Gentlemen, Boys, Girls,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03

floor. and hold both hands over your
head, you'll be we'll treated. If your
hands are not up we fire on, sight. Get
your revolvers ready, boys"
Then the officer opened the door.
Evidently the burglar was wise enough
to appreciate the fuulity of fighting
against odds His hands were above
his head, and in less than a second he
was securely manacled.
The chief officer had been eying him
closely. Say :" re exclaimed. "Aren'i
you Limber-Limb Grant?" The burglar
grinned, but did not answer. by
Jovel" shouted the officer. 1T is
Call the girls down here" he ordered
and when they appeared. gazing at the
burglar with mingled admiration, pity
and fear, he congratulated ther with
considerable excitement
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
BILL To PRESERVE
PIONEER CAPITOL
INTRODUCE MEASURE TO RE.
STORE OLD TERRITORIAL
HOUSE AT BELMONT.
URGES PURCHASE or LAND
Senator Platt Whitman Advocates APP
preparation of $500 Be Made for
Poject-First Session of Leg
lslature Held in 1886.

Madison-The first territorial capitol
of Wisconsin at Belmont, now Leslie,
may be preserved as one of the his
torical land marks of the state. A
bill to accomplish this purpose has
been presented in the upper house of
the legislature by Senator Plat Whit
man of Highland and has been given
hearing before the joint finance COM
mittee
The bill calls for an appropriation of
$500 to purchase sufficient land and
to move the old capitol building to the
site of its location where the first
territorial session of the legislature
was held.
The first session of the legislature
of the territory of Wisconsin convened
at Belmont on Oct. rs, 1886, and ad-
journed on Dec. 8 of the same year.
The session lasted forty-six days and
there were forty-two laws passed and
placed upon the statute books.
During this first session, several
counties were organized" declared Mr..
Rindlaub. Among these counties
were Portage, Green and Grant, the
last named being formed by dividing
Iowa county. 1t was at this season that
a law was passed providing for trus-
tees for the village of Milwaukee and
naming the first board. Among the
laws passed was one establishing the
university at Belmont in Iowa county,"
The vote on the permanent location
of the capitol was taken on Nov. %,
1886, at which time Madison was Sc
lected. The following towns were COM
petitors for the place: Fond du Lac,
Dubuque, Helena, Portage, Milwaukee.
Racine, Belmont, Mineral Point, Platte
vile, Astor, Cassyille, Belleville, Wis
consinapolis,. Peru and Wisconsin
City.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
"CAsCARETS' FOR
SLUGGISH BOWELS
No sick headache, sour stomach,
biIiOusness or constipation
by morning.
Get a 1O-cent box now.

Get 1O-cent box now.
Turn the rascals out-the headache,
biliousness, Indigestion, the sick, sour
stomach and foul gases-turn them
out tonight and keep them out with
Cascarets.
Millions of men and women take a.
Cascaret now and then and never
know the misery caused by a lazy
liver, cIogged bowels or an upset stom-
ach.
Don't put in another day of distress.
Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach;
remove the sour fermenting food;
take the excess bile from your liver
and carry out all the constipated
waste matter and poison in the
bowels. Then you will feel great.
, A Cascaret tonight straightens you
out by morning. They work while
you sleep. A 10-cent box from
any drug store means a clear head,
sweet stomach and clean, healthy liver
and bowel action for months. Chill
dren love Cascarets because they
never grippe or sicken. ADV.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
Tricks on a Rocking Horse.

Cats and Dogs. Come right inside the
tent at your left and there you will see
these things. There Is no extra charge
for admission"
All the children at once began to
troop to their left through the side
tent.
What could it mean2" they asked
each other. What surprises they were
getting!
When they were inside the tent how
they did laugh! One of the children
was in a green suit gust as Mr.. Frog
would wear and really looking quite
a good deal like grandson of Grandpa
Frog. He was hopping about singing
in a queer croaking voice,
"Galloo, Calico, Goog-a-room, Goog-
a-rOom."
Another child who looked like q
snake. because she wore an imitation
snakeskin, said, "Come and see the
Snake Lady. eat things whole" And
as she said this she swallowed a tiny
crumb for snakes eat things whole.
81 am the Toad-Man, come and see
me-" grunted the Toad-or the child
who was dressed like one.
"We are the Turtle Babies. We
snap, we play, we draw in our heads
under our shelIs!" And sure enough
they were doing all these tricks.
Their costumes were really quite
wonderful, although they had been
made mostly out Of paper.
All the children who were looking on
were quite delighted and said,
1--WE think you are marvelous" And
all the children dressed like animals
made bows and said thank you in
voices that sounded a great deal like
the voices of snakes, toads, frogs and
turtles.
But Just then Grandpa Frog was
waking up and his swamp was very
near the spot where the circus was be-
ing given.
"Whatp he exclaimed. ''Have any
of the children dared to get up before
l said they could? It's spring when l
get up. Then the winter is over-but
not before" He hurried to the spot
where he heard the frog sounds and
there saw the children all trying to
hop around and talk like he did.
"Ah." he said proudly, putting on his
spectacles for he had had his eyes
closed so long, "they can't help but
admire me-" and he woke up the other
frogs, while the toads, turtles and
snakes seemed TO wake up at just about
the same time. I'll but the snakes hur-
ried to the circus to see what was hap
pening. The snakes were too busy at
once trying to see about their new
spring suits but the rest of the crea-
lures came who had been copied, and
they all thought it great honor to
show them at their waking-up time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
Sixty Millions for Eurs

Milady is spending S60,000,000 a year
to crafty her fancy for furs. Practi.
cally all furs sold to the women of this
country are of American manufacture
Returns 10 the bureau of the census
show that only s3.000.0o0 worth of furs
were imported during the past year
The American fur industry is now rep
resented by 1,241 establishments EN-.
ploying 1927 wage earners with an
annual production worth more than
S50 600 600
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
ARE WARNED OF NEW LAW
Industrial Commission Calls Employ
ers' Attention to Federal Child
Labor Law Effective Sept. I.

Madison-The industrial commits
sion has sent a letter to all employers
in the state in which it calls atten-
ton to the federal child labor law.
This law becomes effective on Sept.
1, 1917. 1t forbids the employment Of
manufacturing operations, and the en-
ployment of children between IA and
16 years of age for more than eight
hours in any one day or forty-eight
hours in any one week. The penalty
for violation of this law is exclusion
of the products of offending manufac-
turers from interstate commerce.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
Better Price for Producers.

Monroe-Green county members of
the Milk Producers association will re-
ceive an average price of $2.12 per
hundred pounds for their milk during
the coming six months. This will be
an increase of IL cents over the aver
age price for the past six months, and
the first time in the history of the
dairying industry when the summer
price has been higher than the previ-
Gus winter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
A GiXeaWaY.

Mistress-Bridget, some of the
bedclOthes is missing. Was any of 1t
left out of doors overnight?
Bessie (aged six)-Bridget isn't to
blame, mamma. / know where it is
Papas got it.
Mother-What do you mean, childf
Bessie heard some of the folks
next door sayin' this morning they
saw papa with three sheets In the
wind.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
cUTIcURA HEALS ECZEMA
And EaLhes That Itch and Burn-Trlal
Free to Anyone Anywhere.

In the treatment Of skin and scalp
troubles battle freely with Cuticura
Soap and not water, dry and apply
Cuticura Ointment. If there is nat
ural tendency to rashes, pinples, ETC.,
prevent their recurrence by making
Cuticura your daily toilet preparation.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard. Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
SpeIIers VIII Compete.

-Thirty-nine of the forty
towns in Marathon county will particl-
pate in the preliminary contests for
entrance to the annual spelling bee''
to be held next fall. More than 1000
pupils of rural and state graded
schools will participate here.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
Want Military Trainino.

Beloit-Beloit college students give
evidence of their patriotism in trying
to form a signal corps unit of the re-
serve army. Over 125 students have
signed an agreement to join the re-
serve corps and are asking for mill
tary instruction as part of their col
lege work.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
Acquitted Of Arson Charge.

Kenosha-J. J. Steinbach Evanston,
ILL.,, charged with arson in connection
with the $4,000 fire which destroyed
the ice houses of the Harry Lawler
company at Twin Lakes on Jan. 8,
was acquitted in the Circuit court
here.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03

jewels I've heard about, and one of
the little ones gave the alarm. ! al
ready had some of them. so 1 came
down at once. l stopped in the dun
geon to get that money, and first thing
! knew the door banged shut. That's
all. You're welcome to the five hun
dred dollars, ladies. Someone was
bound to get it sooner or later, and
I'm partial to the ladies, every time"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
Teachers Given Advance.

commonwealth present superin-
tendent of schools, A. L. Halverson,
and the corps of teachers were offered
their present positions for another
year at the meeting of the board of ed
ucation. Increases of salary were
given four.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
Reets to Be Packer.

Waugau-The Wausau Canning COM
pany, which heretofore has packed
only peas, will include beets during
the coming season. A considerable
part of the 1917 harvest has been con-
tracted for.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03

81 wonder what will happen in con-
gress when the new congresswomen
get the floor"
That's easy. None of the men will
ever get a chance at it again. Bal
timore American.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
Travellers Plan MEETING.

Oshkosh-Committee of the Oshkosh
council OF the United Commercial Ira
velers of America are busy arrang-
ing a program for the nineteenth an
nuaI convention of the Wisconsin
grand council of the q. C. 7. to be
held here June Z, s and Q.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-04-03
HAVE AFFECTInN FOR TREES

(TO BE CONTIN CED1