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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
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THE PATRIOTIC TURKEY.

Il have had various experiences and
adventures" said Mr.. Turkey, quite
unlike other turkeys"
what adventures have you had 2"
asked Grandfather Turkey.
Both these turkeys were quite old
and they were enjoying a good talk
about 'old times" when they were
young turkeys.
swell, of course, my colors are in
teresting," said Mr.. Turkey.
''They are, indeed" agreed Grand
father Turkey I'm fact / have never
seen a turkey just like you. You are
very different from us. TELL me your
history. Let me hear about your ex-
periences and adventures"
Il will tell you, gobble gobhie, COB
Bile, will tell you." said Mr.. Turkey.
"You see" he commenced, 81 have
very wonderful plumage or feathers.
/ have three splendid colors among
my feathers as you have doubtless no.
ticed.r
Grandfather Turkey nodded his head
and Mr.. Turkey went on talking.
There are three colors which every
one loves among my feathers" he con-
tinued. "and they are the colors, red.
white and blue"
Last year you came here for a lit
tie while and then you went away
again." said Grandfather Turkey.
Eyes, was here for part of a day."
said Mr. Turkey. ut is good of you
to have remembered me, having only
seen me such a short time, and we had
no chance then to become friends.
''Well. came from a farm near by
with my little mistress. Her daddy
owns the farm but she loves all the
animals so we all think of her as our
mistress.
"She came to visit her cousins who
live on this farm and she brought me
over to show me to them. She was
extremely proud of me because l was
the only turkey with these three colors
In my feathers.
'She said l was fine and patriotic
turkey and she loved me, but she
thought perhaps 1t would be nice to
send me to some very fine mani
don't know his name-but he was a
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
"How Glad My Mistress Was to
See Me-"

very fine man at the head of the coun-
try in some way or other"
Don't bother thinking of the mans
NAME" said Grandfather Turkey. ''It
is enough that you were sent TO very
fine man. That is, you were sent,
weren't your"
Eyes" said Mr.. Turkey, 81 was. The
little girl cried many tears on my red,
white and blue feathers but she said
such patriotic turkey should go to
patriotic man who helped his country
and worked for it all the time.
although she was sorry to see me
go she was proud she had such fine
turkey to send. And she put in card
with her name on it and said that Mr.
Turkey was arriving with his best suit
on and would be quite willing to serve
as a Thanksgiving or Christmas treat.
'She didn't put her address in with
me, but l was put in crate and sent
Off
swell, | arrived 1t was at rail-
way station. From there / was taken
in my crate in wagon to very large,
white house-oh, it was large house.
And there 1 was shown to the fine man
and he read what was written on the
card which was inside the crate.
"'Well,' said the fine man, you are
wonderful turkey You have red,
white and blue in your feathers. Good
for you, young turkey, good for YOU
FtBut l was not taken for Thanks
giving dinner nor for Christmas dinner,
for the fine man said he could see ]
was some little girls pet, so after a
good while he found my mistress ad-
dress and back went on the railway
train once more. How glad my mis-
tress was to see me and she read what
the fine man had written on the other
side of her card
"He had said how glad he had been
to see me and that / was nice caller,
but that should go back home to the
nice little girl who had dcne such an
unselfish. thoughtful thing"
$50 you have had adventures !" said
Grandfather Turkey admiringly.
YES" said Mr.. Turkey, "and my
mistress came over on visit here to-
day and brought me along with her. I
feel like very lucky turkey, can
tell you"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
Moral Standards for Children

1t is truth, eternal as the hills,
that every child is controlled by his
imagery. His image, or the great ideal
as he sees it and connects it with his
real life. forecasts his conduct. If a
mother determines the imagery of her
child for the good. the true, the beau
tiful, she fixes the destiny of her child
for the good. the true, the beautiful,
and just as surely will the imagery OF
wrong shape itself into life of wrong
conduct and evil tendencies. 1t is just
as easy to stamp upon the sensitive
brain tissue the right image as the
wrong and the handwriting on the wall
is indelible.-Mrs a. G. Thornburg in
Mothers Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
TO TRAIN CHILDISH MIND
Parents Can Do Much to Assist De-
veiopment During the First
Six Years of Life.

What definite means can the home
adopt for the best development of the
child in the first six years of his life?
First, with regard to the things which
surround the child-furniture, pic
lures, books, toys, clothes and orna-
ments. In how far may these lend
themselves to his development?
In the room in which the child
spends most of his time indoors, the
furniture ought to be plain enough so
that he can do no great harm in play
ing freely about. A small kindergar-
ten chair and table to work on are
almost indispensable in the child's
room. A good blackboard should be
hung securely on the wall, for from
the hour he can toddle the child will
delight in chalk markings, and these
even then will have value because of
arm and hand.
The pictures on the wall in the
child's room ought to be distinctly for
him, and hung low enough so that he
may take them down and handle them
whenever he chooses. Every child
likes color and delights in the "story
picture" the picture which has story
connected with it.
The child may be taught to discrimi-
nate between his own things and those
belonging to others by being allowed
to visit the family living ROOM where
mothers and fathers books and their
pictures and furniture are used with
care and caution. In this way it will
also be possible 10 lead him gradually
into an appreciation of the adults
standard of art in pictures. music and
literature.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
Doctor Yourself.

He pressed his "germihal" nose fat
against the candy case, his round blue
eyes fixed on the tempting array of ALL
day suckers, but he reached his money
up to the drug clerk, this baby with the
sweet tooth, and lisped: "Plethe give
me 10 cents worth of asafetida, cause
ma, she don't want US to get the flu"
swell, I'll be jiggered," said by
stander "Asafetida instead of candy I
I'll bet on the former as germ
knOckdOwn, though, but when had
thought of it?
''Forty years ago when we kids went
to the country district school with
bag of the perfume tied round our
necks, did any flu germs dare turr
its guns on us? Not on your life.
Elk me up quarters worth, joe"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26

bit of it. me lads" and trying to sing,
Pack up your troubles In your old kit
bag" only they could not do much
singing on account of the waves that
slipped into their mouths every time
they opened thep. That was just like
Limeys. though,
Some Of the. boys were just climbing
up the Jacobs ladder on the Moewe
when the old Georgia let out an awful
roar and up went the deck and the
hsfches high In the air in splinters.
One fellow let go his hold on the lad
der aud went down and he never came
up. The Germans were making for the
Moewe in the lifeboat and we reached
it Just before they did. Up the ladder
we went and over the side and the
first th'Gg we caught sight of was the
German revolvers in our faces drilling
as all into line.
The lifeboat brought back the ships
papers from the Georgia and we had
roll call. They kept US up on deck in
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26

as that made it practically alright the
only air the $50 of us got was through
the ventilators. That hold was GER
tainly foul.
They next day some of the men had
got cigarettes somewhere. In a few
minutes they as well as the rest had
lit up and were putting away in great
style. / divided cigarette with an
other fellow. Remember, we were sit
ting and standing on ammunition all
this time. 1t shows how much we
cared whether school kept or not.
The Germans saw the smoke COM
ing out of the ventilators and they
were crazy with fright. A gang of
them laid below and rousted US out
with whips.
They lined us up on deck and read
us the riot act.
They drilled us down into the coal
bunkers. 1t was simply terrible there.
Coal dust to breathe and eat and sleep
on.
(TO BE CONTINUED
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
Nature Not to Be Thwarted.

About 200 years ago the Dutch de-
stroyed every nutmeg tree in the Mol
uccas, and planted the trees in their
own possessions, so that they might
have a monopoly Of the trade. De
spite this action, however, the is
lands were constantly being restocked.
For long time the thing was mys-
terry, but finally it was solved. The
doves of that region are of large size
and readily swallow the seeds of the
nutmeg tree. They traverse wide
stretches of sea and land In a few
hours, and they deposit the seeds, not
only uninjured, but better suited for
termination by the heat and moisture
of the birds system.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
KaiseFJs Last Rise

''The kaiser" said Representative
Bell of Georgia, complains because
the Americans use shotguns. Shot
guns have a spread of Is feet.
In repulsing charge they are
deadlier than machine guns. So the
kaiser holds that it is unchivalrous to
use them.
'rThe baby-killing kaiser, the begin
ner of poison gas war and liquid flame
war, is Mortified that shotguns should
be used against him.
1.-THE kaiser has sunk so low that
when he dies he'll need a balloon to
get to hell"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26

october is so called from being the
eighth in the year. according TO the
old Latin calendar. 1t was styled wine
month" by our Saxon ancestors. The
festival of the Rosary is celebrated
Oct. 1 in honor of the Virgin. who is
especially invoked in the devotions FOR
success. believed to have been obtain
ed through her intercession in the pay
tle of Lepanto, in 1871, when the Turks
were defeated.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
color.RIind Bees.

Bees have no ability to detect red;
In other words, to bees red is the same
as black. A noted biologist recently
determined exactly all the colors and
shades of color bees can see, by feed
ing experiments. In a few hours bees
would learn that the professor put
sweets In blue or yellow dishes, but not
in gray dishes; and by varying the de-
tails i was easily possible to discover
the color senses of the bees. They
were found to confuse red and black
so uniformly that il was evident both
seemed bla;k to the bees.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
when aJack" Is Abroad.

The name Jack or John Is very
common one and seems TO be found IL
general use in many countries. true
it is not spelled and pronounced as
we use it In America, however, II
means the same thing and the Jack
Of our United States will be Johann,
in Bohemia or Sweden, "Jaos" in For
tugaL "Jean'' in France, Hans" or
johannes" in Holland and Germany,
Juan" In Cuba, Giovanni" in Italy,
"Ivan" in Russia, Jan In POLAND. aud
"Janos' in Hungary.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
Felt Ills Importance.

Herbert was asked to hand the tools
to his father, who was under the car
trying to repair it. For this his ia
Their praised him, telling him he had
been of great assistance. When they
reached home and explained to his
mother why they were late Herbert
promptly added: "Yes, and if there
hadn't been two OF US men along we
might not be here yet"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
Avoid Improbable Moods

their twin sisters. "grudges." serve abb
solutely no purpose. If some one
hurts or wounds US generously forget
it. Time heals the deepest cuts and
makes us drawer aid wiser for the
experience. Let us love life and its
worthwhile things and avoid all I'M
profitable moods. Otherwise happi-
ness will never come our way, and If
we search for 1t, it will flee from US
like a phantom, for after all it is the
state of our mind.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
CHAPTER XVII.
Landed in GERMANY

They had a coolie crew on the Var.
rowdale and when they routed them
on deck the coolies began to pray, and
though it is nothing to laugh at I eould
not help but chuckle at the way some
OF them went about talking to their
various gods. They were beginning TO
smell danger and were pretty nervous
Every one of the coolies had a cane
and pair of Palm Beach trousers
Inc Huns were loading them in the
lifeboats to be taken back to the
Moewe with their sea bags and one of
Iaem got too nervous and was slow
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
IInIift of covote.

The despised coyote has lived to see
the day when his pelt is sought In the
fur markets of the world as one OF
the prizes of the trapper's pack. The
skin of the prairie wolf today brings
a price up to SIS, according to the
quotations in the fur buyers list. Up
till last year this fur was a drug on
the market.-Dawson News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
Appealing to Real Influence.

What is your objection to me as a.
son-in-law?" inquired the young man
with the melancholy expression,
who told you | didn't like you"
asked Mr.. Cumrox
"Gwendolyn."
"Clever girl. She is saying that SO
as to make you more popular with her
mother"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26

! our wet underwear and it was very
cold indeed. Then the first mate and
the old man and one of the German
officers called off the names and we
found we had fifty missing.
The Boche commander had gall
enough TO say that he was not there
to kill men but to sink all ships that
were supplying the allies He said
England was trying to starve Germany.
but that they would never succeed and
that Germany would starve the allies
very soon.
After roll call some of us asked the
Germans for clothes, or at least a
place TO dry ourselves in, but Fritz
DIX DIAN or THE MoELnE =
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
Renairlnn Ais rrees

Little Harry one day asked his moth
er who made the trees. and was told
that God made them. A few days later
an old colored man came to trim the
trees, and the little fellow, seeing him
at work, ran to his mother and ex-
claimed: "Ob, mamma, Gods in the
yard repairing his treesv'
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
AmnIe Justification.

81 heard that farmer using naughty
words when he was saving wood this
morning" remarked the city child to
his mother.
Well" explained the parent, per
haps the wood was knotty."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26

py-go-lucky method of dumping every
thing into the Congressional Record
resulted in a wrangle in the house not
long ago when Minority Leader GilIett
took Congressman Helm of Alabama
to task for bit of sharp practice in
inserting political matter in the
Record under leave-to-print. 1t so
happened that this political matter
was the appeal of the president for a
Democratic congress, and it was in
serted long after Haflin secured his
leave-to-print permission, and, in fact,
there was some doubt whether the Ala
bama man had ever secured the ex-
tension which he had used. The wran-
gle was very hot while it lasted and
was quite amusing. bet it ended as
usual without any reform being effect
ed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
Shedding Liqht.

There are persons whose very pres
ence spells cheer and inspiration.
There may be times when we can do
nothing to help our friends, but we can
always be something to help them II
our own lamp of faith and love burns
clear.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
Alert SUSPICION.

1--WE won't quit till the kaiser goes
out of business" remarked the en-
phatic citizen.
''No," replied Mr.. Dustin Stax; ''and
what's more Wen see to it that he
doesn't try to start up the same old
shop with a bunch of dummy direc-
tors"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
Power of Attorney.

"What do you tell your mother when
you are bad, Sammie?" asked the WIS.,
itOr
'I-er-I don't tell her nothin'," said
Sammie with shudder. "She finds 1t
out soon enough to suit me-"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
Act of Christening.

Little Hazel has attended a church
christening and upon her return home
her grandmother asked her what they
did. Nothing MUCH replied Hazel,
except wash a little kids hair"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
Real Masters of Slam.

Things have come to pretty pass"
whats the matter now?"
'I've got -year-old boy who
can speak better slang than can"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26

time bomb in the engine room and two
on the bridge. Meantime they had
brought over several boatloads of hard
tack and we threw it into No. 8 hold.
This was TO be our food for some time,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
Bears the
Got to Shut Him Up.

MET your new neighbors YETI"
"Not yet, but expect to have to
call on them shortly"
"That so?"
Eyes. They've got a dog that howla
all night"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26

When the terms of war settle
ment are really being discussed
not meaning peace teams, for it
is about settled that peace will come
when Germany is beaten-the Ger
mans will find out something about
their standing with the rest of the
world and will possibly learn some
thing about how their barbarity has
resulted in making them the most de-
tested of all nations. 1t has already
developed that our people, judging
from what representative men have
said, do not favor having Germany
made a part of the much-talked-of
league Of nations. The general impress
sion seems TO be that Germany will
not keep any covenants she may make,
and consequently it is of no use to
include her as one of the nations in
the league. There is also a desire,
which receives comment of a favorable
nature, that the present allied nations
hold Germany in allegiance until such
time as her people recognize that she
will never again be allowed to play
the part OF a mad dog in world which
prefers peace conditions.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26

Again 1t has been found out that the
Congressional Record is in sad need
of a managing editor and that its col
umns should not be allowed to be used
by any individual senator or member
for any purpose he sees fit. The hap
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26

Two separate debates were taking
place on the senate floor at the same
time one afternoon. One was between
Senators Williams Of Mississippi and
New of Indiana, and the other between
Congressman Walsh Of Massachusetts
and Anderson of Minnesota. That was
one of the days when che house was
only in session for few minutes.
Walsh drifted over to the senate to
see what was going on there, and An
derson came in while later. House
members are entitled to the floor, but
they are not entitled to take part in
the debate. At the same time, as hap
penea in the case of Walsh and Ander-
son, they became so interested in their
own conversation that they almost
drowned out what might be termed the
regular debate between New and VIII
lams.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26

Since the influenza epidemic closed
the galleries of the senate that body
of Legislators has relaxed to a consid-
cradle extent. When the galleries
were occupied there was an extremely
solemn dignity about the senate pro-
ceedings. But now that the audience
has been restricted to members of the
press gallery the senate seems more
human. On the other hand, the house
has lost good bit of its noisiness and
disorder since its galleries We're closed
to the public. There is no doubt that
a congressman's feelings are a whole
lot different when he has several hun
dred strange eyes focused on him from
what they are when no one is around
but his colleagues, although it seems
to affect senators and representatives
in opposite ways.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
BOYCOTT OF HUNS
limited IN SENATE
PENRosE BRINGS UP QUESTION
OF TRADE DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST GERMANY.
DEFINITE REPLY is AVOIDED
Presidents Appeal for Election Of
Democratic Congress Put PoIiti-
cisns In Diiemma-Iiow Closing Of
Galleries Affected Senate and House.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

Washington.-Up to within a short
time talk of a boycott against Ger
many after the war has been unoffi-
cial. in various newspapers and peri
odlcals, and in desultory sort of way
Wnere persons in small groups have
given vent to their decided views. But
recently the discussion has become of
more public nature and has been
ninted at in congress- One of the
rather pointed references to the pos
slble discrimination of boycott was
question put by Senator Penrose of
pennsylvania TO Senator Hitchcock of
Nebraska, the latter being chairman
OF the foreign relations committee.
Penrose asked Hitchcock if there was
any reason to believe that the United
States could not make tariff laws
after the war which would exclude
German products. While the answer
was not given definitely, yet the point
was not raised that such laws would
De incompatible with the Constitution.
1t was evident that the Pennsylvania
senator had In mind the possibility of
commercial discrimination against Ger
many when the war is over. The sub
Ject under discussion was the third
OF President Wilson'S Ia peace points.
which the Republicans have been
claiming would prevent the United
States from making it's own tariff laws
In the future, and Penrose was at
tempting to show that this third point
II incorporated in any peace treaty
would prevent trade determinations
against Germany. That this boycott
against that country is being freely dis
cussed shows what intense hatred has
been aroused in this country against
the Huns.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
lmportan, to Mothers

Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, that famous old remedy
for infants and children, and see that 1t
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26

Politicians of both parties were very
much in the air as to what would be
the effect of the presidents letter
asking the country to elect a Demo
cratic congress. Even the shrewdest
and most observing politicians were
unable to say whether the letter would
cause a landslide towards the Demo
Gratis or would prove a boomerang and
elect Republicans. OF course, as usual
in campaigns of this kind party lead
ers and others claimed that the effect
would be helpful to them. The Dem
ocrats asserted that an appeal of this
kind could not but win Independent
and wavering votes, because the coun-
try is naturally inclined to support
the president. While Republicans
claimed that the letter would prove
to be a boomerang and react against
the Democratic party, at I e same
time they were very angry, and Sc
verely criticized the president for TAX
ing such an unusual course. Alto
gether the situation was somewhat
amusing to the onlooker because of
the dilemma in which it seemed to
place politicians who are regarded as
knowing the political game from be-
ginning to end.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
Optimistic Thought.

Merit does not always receive its re-
Wnrd.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26

DEck Plan or TIE h1oEkE