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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
"Blind" Beggar Gives Somewhat
LaughabIe Reason for His Presence
on That Particular Corner.

Professor Walker was standing at
the corner of One Hundred and Tenth
street and Fifth avenue waiting for a
bus, when his attention was attracted
by the rattle Of few coppers in a tin
cup held by blind man who was squat
ted against the park WALL relates the
New York Times.
The professor was fumbling for a
small coin when the bus swung round
the corner and in his hurry to catch
it he tossed the penny toward the cup
as he turned away. His aim not be-
ing good the coin was on its way to the
ground when the beggar swung the cup
under 1t with all the skill and dexter
ity Of ball player.
The professor was so astonished and
indignant that he allowed the bus to
go and approached the pretended blind
man.
Here" he began, "you are not blind.
l saw you catch that penny. You are
a fraud"
"Yes. boss" admitted the beggar,
"you has 1t right / amt blind myself,
but you see this here corner ts a good
stand and if the blind man that always
sits here was to leave it some other
blind man would see the place and
grab IT. So you see. boss, I'm just
holding the place for the real blind
man. It's his afternoon off. He's
gone to the movies"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
Electrician Stuck to His Post.


When the United States ship Cassin
was torpedoed in October, while on
patrol duty in the war zone, the plucky
destroyer and her gallant crew re-
manned in the open, with disabled en-
gines on q still hunt for the enemy
that had made the attack. Among
the men who made this possible was
William Joseph Murphy, chief electri-
clan. When the force of the explosion
put the radio apparatus out of COM
mission he stood by his post, repairing
and adjusting until communication
was re-established. Here he worked
until this was perfected and his ship
began to get her calls answered.
Murphy enlisted in the navy at Bos-
ton in November, 1911. His wife, Mrs.
Mabel Mary Murphy, lives at 387 East
Thirty-fifth street. Brooklyn, N. Y.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There Is
only one way to cure Catarrhal Deafness.
and that is by a constitutional remedy.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE acts
through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces
of the System. Catarrhal Deafness Ia
caused by an infiamed condition OF the
mucous lining of the Eustschian Tube.
When this tube is infiamed you have q
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when II is entirely closed, Deafness is the
result. Unless the Inflammation can be re-
duced and this tube restored to it's nor
NAL condition, hearing may be destroyed
forever. Many cases of Deafness ere
caused by Catarrh, which is an infiamed
condition of the Mucous Surfaces.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for any
case of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot
be cured by HALLS CATARRR
MEDICINE.
All Druggists 75c. Circulars free
f. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo. Ohio.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
VERY LIKE MOST MOTHERS
Mrs Ripple at First Could See Very
Little in Girl Her Son Had
Chosen for Wife.

Years ago, when the Billows were
trying to keep Dora from marrying
Nathaniel Ripple, Mrs. Ripple was try
ing to keep Nathaniel from marrying
Dora. The Billows didn't think much
of the Ripple family, Claude Callan
writes in Kansas City Star. In fact,
they told Dora that if she took Ma
thaniel she would be marrying be-
meath herself.
Mrs. Ripple didn't know that the
Billows considered themselves better
than the Ripples, so she was not angry
at the family. And she liked Dora.
Il think CORA is a good, sweet
girl" she said to her son, but any
body can look at her and tell she isn't
able to do a days work.
"You can do as you please, but If I
were you l never would marry deli
cate girl like Dora. know how much
work woman has to do in home and
] know that Dora Billow can't do it.
If you were able TO hire help it would
be all right. Your poor old mother
never has had any help, but would be
glad for my sons wives to keep help
if my sons could afford it.
snow, as l said, haven't a word to
say against Dora, but if 1 were you
and wanted to marry / would find a
girl strong enough to make a good
wife. 1t is nice to be pretty. Your
papa will tell you that l was pretty
when l married him, but beauty counts
for very little if a woman is too weak
to do her work.
"Just look at your Cousin Henry's
wife. She is sick half the time, and
that poor boy has to.spend every dol
lar he makes. If Nora had been big,
strong woman, VINO could have helped
him, he would be we'll fixed today"
After listening to this talk Nathaniel
married Dora and in about a month
his mother visited them. When she
returned home she said to Mr.. Ripple
81 think Nathaniel married mighty
well. That little girl had all the
clothes on the line when / got there,
and they were as pretty and white as
you ever saw. / said from the very
beginning that Dora would make Ma
thaniel good WIFE"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

as game sports as ever heard of. tried
to fight They were finished off ut
once, of course.
The former burgomaster had been
shot and finished off with an ak.
though he had not resisted. because he
wanted to save the lives of his citi-
zens. They told me of one case, in Dix
nude, where man came out of his
house, trying to carry his father,
man of eighty, to the square. where
they were ordered to report. The old
man could not raise his hands, so they
dragged his son away from him,
Knocked the old man in the head with
an ak. and left him there to die. Those
who were spared were made to dig the
graves for the others.
There was a doctor there in Dix
nude, who certainly deserves mill
tary cross If any man ever did. He
was called from his house by the Ger
mans at $3.50 one morning. He left his
wife, who had had baby two days
before, in the house. He was taken to
the square, lined up against wall
with three other big men of the town.
Then he saw his wife and baby being
carried to the square on mattress by
four Germans. He begged to be al
lowed to kiss his wife good-by, and
they granted him permission. AS he
stepped away. there was rattle and
the other men went West. They shot
him, too, but though he was riddled
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
Saws tor CUTTING Metal.

Not so very long ago the discovery
was made in Germany that metals
could be sawed easier and quicker
with rapidly revolving smooth disks
Of steel. than with toothed circular
saws. 1t was found that the cutting
was done by the heat generated by
the friction Of the edge of the disk
agtinst the metal. The metal is melt
ed at the point of contact, while the
steel of the disk, being cooled by the
air, does not reach the melting point.
The disks need no sharpening and do
not wear out 80 quickly as the toothed
saws heretofore used for cutting met
al. The faster the disk revolves. the
greater the amount of heat generated.
and the quicker the job.-Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
AVIATORS ARE ALWAYS BUSY
Americans on the Italian Front Take
Advantage of Every Moment of
Good Flying Days.

On good flying days, every moment
of the day is utilized by American avi-
atOrS in Italy. The men are up at
five o'clock, and by six flying is in OPP
GRAFTON. Men go to breakfast in relays,
so as to econOmize time, and shutdown
finds them grudgingly giving up for the
day. One time-saving device L OBJ
served, says James II. Hare in Leslie's
Weekly, was to make landings some
200 meters from the beach, and to have
the next student ready in boat to
take his place, equipped with his life
preserver and helmet. The exchange
took usually less than two minutes
from the time tie engine was stopped
until the propeller was in action again.
and the flight started. This also elimi-
mated the liability of damaging the n.y.
droplane in Bleaching 1t. as sometimes
the keel is grounded, or one of the
wings strikes an object. pucting the
machine out of commission for a time.
to say nothing of the engine overhead
ing as it "taxis" Ito use the techni-
cal term) to it's landing place.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
One Woman's Work.

Great was the excitement in a GER
tain small town. The local ladies de-
cided to hold an exhibition of woman's
work with view to providing a treat
for wounded soldiers. While the COM
mittee was busily engaged in arranging
the exhibits to the best advantage in
the city hall there came a timid knock
at the door.
When the door was opened a
strengthening object entered. 1t was
q man; his face a mass Of scratches,
his hair stood out around his head like
fluffy grass, his collar was dangling
loosely behind, and his clothes were
little better than rags.
please, I've GOMEZ he said simply
'But-but,' stammered the lady sec
rotary, "this Is not a museum; it's a
display of specimens of woman's
work."
That's all right" he replied defect
eddy; I'm a specimen of woman's
work. "-Rehoboth Sunday Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
snx system Originated by Italian.

Secret service organizations ana
spy systems. as well as detective bu-
reaus as part Of municipal police
forces, were originated by the Mar
Quis D'Argenson, ndtlve of Venice
who went to France In 1887 and be-
came head of the police department.
D'Argenson first achieved fame as
state secret agent in Venice. In
Paris he organized municipal secret
agency that would now be called de-
tective bureau. After he had trans
formed the Paris police force from a
disorderly band into highly efficient
body of gendarmes, he turned his at
tention TO international affairs and in
augurated a system of espionage in
foreign nations likely to be at war
with France.
Carl Stieher organized the Prussian
spy system on the model furnished by
D'Argenson's force and sent thousands
of men into Austria and France be-
fore the wars against those countries.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
Spirit of France.

AS in the early days of 1914, French
troop trains are decked with peoples
and roses, with every flower of field
and garden. And just as In those days,
when the war was young, the poilu,
after four years, rides up to the front,
blithely, Justify singing and with roses
stuck In his cap and blouse. Germany
told the world that France was 'bled
white" Germany lied, and knew that
she lied. The soul of France, reflected
in the eyes and voices of her fighting
men, is both unvanquished and unvan-
quishable.-Stars and Stripes, Paris.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

with bullets he lived, somehow, and
begged the German officer to let him
accompany his wife to the prison
where they were taking her. This was
granted too, but on the way, they
heard the SOUND of firing. The soldiers
yelled, ode Franzosenw and dropped
the mattress and ran. But it was only
some of their own butchers at work.
Doctor Laurent carried his wife and
baby to an old aqueduct that was being
rebuilt by the creek. There they lived
for three days and three nights, on the
few herbs and the water that Doctor
Laurent sneaked out and got at night.
Doctor Laurent says that when the
Germans killed and crucified the civil
ians at Dixmude, they first robbed
them of their watches, pocketbooks.
rings and other things. There was a
Madame Tilmans there, who had had
three thousand francs stolen from her
and was misused besides.
These were just a very few of the
things that happened at just one place
where the Germans got to work with
their 'kultur." So you can picture the
Belgians agreeing on German peace,
while there is a Belgian alive to argue
about it. They will remember the Ger
mans a long time, I think. But they
need not worry: there are lot of US
who will not forget, either.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
Such is Art.

Pauline Frederick is fond of telling
a story about one Of the picture plays
in which she took part 1t was a muir
der mystery drama, leading up to the
grand scene where the judge puts on
the black cap preparatory to sentenc-
ing the unfortunate prisoner to death.
zone day." said Miss Frederick, Il
went to see myself perform In this
film at one of those small moving pic
ture theaters where the orchestra con-
sists of single pianist.
Imagine my feelings when, directly
the Judge donned the black cap, the
young woman at the piano started
playing Where Did You Get That
Hat?"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

work for me and ] know it will help
others if they will give it fsir trial. I"
Mrs. LIZZIE COURTNEY, 108 9Th Ave,
West, Osksloosa, Iowa. q
Why will women drag along from day
to day, year in and year out, suffering
such misery as did Mrs. Courtney, when
such letters as this are continually being
published. @Every woman who suffers
from displacements, Irregularities, in.
fiammation, liberation, backache, ner-
vousness, or who is passing through the
Change OF Life should give this famous
root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, trial. For
special advice write Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. The result
Of its long experience is at your service.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
All Soldiers Are EataIists.

Practically all the soldiers become
fatalists about death. You see men
You see them escape by a miracle.
Gradually you come to believe, as
Tommy puts 1t, when a shell comes
over with your name on it. you viii
get yours" In the meantime, "Why
worry? You never know your luck"
That's the way they put it.-From
Pictures Burned Into My Memory"
by Charles w. Whitehalr.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
Mistaken identity.

Prof. William Howard Taft was In
New York recently, and In the course
of his short stay took an automobile
ride along Riverside drive. At Nine
tieth street young woman, five years
old, saw the big touring car coming
swiftly down the drive. After one long
look at the big person in the rear seat
she jerked the nurses apron and
screamed with delight.
"Alieel Affect asked the nurse, ex-
itedly, what is it7v
FATTY Arbuckle's growed a mus
iaehe just like papa's ."-Argonaut.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
CHAPTER VIII.
On Runner Service.

One night a man named Bartel and
i were detailed for runner service and
were instructed to go TO Dixmude and
deliver certain dispatches TO man
whom l will call the burgomaster and
report to the branch staff headquar-
tiers that had been secretly located in
another part of town. We were TO
travel In an automobile and keep
sharp watch as We went. for Dixmude
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
up in the Air

Corporal (name deleted by censory
is the champion optimist in the (de-
leted by censor) regiment. On his first
visit TO Paris an air raid was In prog
ress, and as he observed the Parisians.
all intent on the Taubes, he said to
his companion:
There's one fine thing about this
air stuff"
"And that is-?
1T keeps you looking up"
"(Reply deleted by censor. Gar
toons Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

Her-Darling, do you still love me?
Him-Angel of my existence, adore
you.
Her-Do you dream of me, precious
one.
Him-Nope, celestial being, do not
Her-You mean thing, explain your
self at once.
Him-Because 1 can't sleep for
thinking of you.
(And they went into another clinch.)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
A New WAY to Shave

Tender skins twice day without irri-
tation by using Cuticura Soap the
"Cuticura Way" No Shiny mug, germs,
waste of time or money. For free sam
Piles address, "Cuticura, Dept. x, Boe-
ton." At druggists and by mail. Soap
25, Ointment 25 and 50.-Adv.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
WAS Takinq No CHANCES.

'Why not marry" said the benedict
to the misogynist, ''and have wife TO
share your LOT for better or for worse? p
And the disgruntled one growled: 1T
sounds all right; but some of these
shareholders blossom into directors p,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

eW1u pdiuS-dn q
nothing seemed to
do me any good. A
friend advised me
to take Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vege
table Compound. /
did so and got re-
lief right away. L
can certainly re-
commend this valu-
able medicine to
other women who
suffer, for it has
done such GOOD
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
Murderous.

Bell-How did she cut him dead7
Stell-LOoked daggers at him.-Chl-
cago Daily News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
| IN MISERY
FOR YEARS
Mrs. Courtney Tells How She
Was Cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Oskaloosa, Iowa" For years was
simply in misery from weakness and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

Massachusetts has 100000 voters I'M
able to read or write English.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

Appleton -Ninety-four men of Co. 1,
One Hundred Fiftieth Machine Gun
battalion, formerly Co G, Second Wis
consin regiment, are reported to have
been killed or wounded in action, or
missing, by Maj Charles A Greene,
who returned to Appleton after six
months in France with the Sixty
fourth brigade. The casualties include
killed, seriously wounded, 65
slightly wounded, IL missing and 1
gassed. The report is complete to
Aug. 5.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

Madison-In ruling to the district
attorney of Ashland county, Atty
Gen. Spencer Haven held that a Dem
ocrat who had been nominated on the
Republican ticket must continue as
the Republican candidate.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
DEPEW is CAUGHT IN ZEPPELIN RAID AND HAS EXCITING
EXPERIENCE

synops-Abert N story service
in the United which of chief
petty officer frsta The world starts after ne
his honorable discharge
the top" his
fight.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

Owen-Ennis Kruger, youngest of
the quartet who resisted the authority
Of the United States in the admins
tration of the armF selection law, is
dead, and one brother, perhaps two,
are trapped by federal deputies near
Policy, twenty-five miles from here.
Ennis Kruger, 20, was shot to death
IN barn two miles southeast of Pol
ley, according to United States
Marshall Joseph Gantz, who brought
the body to Owen. Frank Kruger,
81, eldest of the brothers, is in a hos
pital at Chippewa Falls, having sur
rendered after the first battle on the
Kruger homestead, in which he was
wounded. Leslie %, and Louis, 26, are
still sought.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

Madison-Lieut w. c.. Weiss, com
handing officer of the University of
Wisconsin training detachment, has
received official notice that officers
training camps have been thrown
open to civilians over Is and less than
rs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

Kenosha-Jack Jungwirth, of Osh-
kosh, who has been shown many cour-
tesies by community war workers in
Kenosha and who had been received
into many of the best homes of the
city, is in Jail here. confessed de-
serter from the United States army.
He was arrested at the suggestion of
agents of the American Red Cross and
will be turned over to army officers
He deserted. it is alleged, from Camp
Merritt, Feb. o.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

Couderay - Frank Valesh has sold
5000 pounds of comb and extracted
honey from his thirty-one swarms of
bees. He sold the honey at prices
from % to "a cents per pound. netting
him over 500.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

Eau Claire-Francis Xavier Schill-
ing, former member of the state legis-
lature and Of the Marathon county
board, was found guilty on six of eight
counts of an Indictment charging him
with attempting to obstruct operation
of the selective draft and making dis
loyal utterances. Schilling's attor-
neys filed notice of appeal and bonds
were fixed at $4,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
!" News of the
BADGER State

Madison Wholesale and retail
druggists throughout the country have
received communications enlisting
them in the drive to save fruitpits and
nutshells for the manufacture of car
bon for army masks by Lieut.-Col. F.
+. Simpson, chief of the section of
medical industry, war industries
board. They are asked to establish
points of collection for pits at their
stores. Two hundred peach pits or
seven pounds of nutshells will supply
carbon of one mask. They must be
cleaned and dried before they, are
turned in. Bakers have also been no
tined by the United States .ood admin
istration, and confectioners and res
taurant proprietors in various cities
have begun serving fruits at cost in
order to secure supply of pits for
the masks.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01
DepeW Is wounded In a brush
with Germans. See next install
ment.
JUST HOLDING PALS PLACE

GRO BE CONTINUED
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

Wausau-Charged with making Sc
ditious utterances, George Lubunski
of Tomahawk was arraigned before U.
S. Court Commissioner ]. p Riley.
He waived preliminary examination
and was held to await the action of
the grand jury. In default of $4,000
bail he was committed to the county
Jail at Madison
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

Wausau-In papers have
been sent to Madison % be filed with
the secretary of state for the Glandon
Dairy company, now in process of
formation. The company is being or
ganized to operate a cheese factory
at Glandon and will issue $4,000 worth
of stock. s1,400 of which has already
been sold
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

Oshkosh-Otto Spaedtke has been
officially reported as having died of
wounds received in action. He joined
Co. F of this city in 1917, when only
II, and went across with the Rainbow
division. He was wounded July 30.
He was the oldest son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Spaedtke. A brother is in the
navy. Official notice has been receiv-
ed here verifying unofficial reports of
the deaths of Sergt. Elmer Bulls,
Louis Suess, Sergt. Richard Procknow
and Corp Walter Thorne
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

Madison = According to a telegram
received from Food Administrator
Hoover by the Wisconsin Food Admin
istration, the maximum price for wet
beet pulp direct from the factory is to
be 80 cents ton, for wet pulp out of
the silo the maximum may be $1.25
ton, and for dry pulp $40 ton f. o. b.
factory.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

Baraboo-Mrs. Rose Clayton Smith
was arrested here recently According
to a United States officer she sent "a
telegram to a soldier at Camp Han
cock, Ca, telling him the Red Cross
would do nothing and for him to send
her $25. The telegram fell into the
hands Of government officers and an
investigation was made.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

Madison-When the Madison board
of education discovered that German
was being taught in the Randall school
here, it lost no time in busting the foe
tongue. Teaching German is limited
to second and third year high school
students.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

Widespread rumors that
courses in the Wisconsin College of
Agriculture would be discon hnued
during the coming year were declared
unfounded by Dean H. L. Russell on
his arrival here from Washington,
where he has been in conference with
officials Of the war and agricultural
departments.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

La Crosse-Two days after the
common council passed resolution
making it an offense punishable by
revocation of license for saloon
keeper to have his place open on Sun
day, Harry MERCER was arrested for
violation of the order. A test case is
assured
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-01

Madison - A. H, Long, Prairie du
Chen, is being urged by Third dis
trict leaders, to make the race for con-
gress as an Independent against ]. G.
Monahan, who defeated Congressman
John M. Nelson. Judge Long is a
Democrat, and is now postmaster at
Prairie du Chen.