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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05

When Senator Gear of Iowa came
into the Senate chamber the other day
he dropped his SLOUGH hat on the floor
in the aisle beside his desk. Senator
Stewart came striding along. kicking
the hat into the pit in front of the Pres
idents rostrum. and passed along. I'M
conscious of the indignlty to Senator
Gears cherished headpiece
4 page picked up the hat. brushed it
of and brought it back TO its place on
the floor. Senator Gear growled saw.
agely and shot fierce glance after
Senator Stewart.
Soon afterward Senator Gear started
TO 60 to his committee room. just as
he rose Senator Perkins. of California.
got up and addressed the chair. Mr..
Gear stood up to listen TO what Mr..
Perkins was saying Then be thought
of his hat 1t wasn't on his head. nor
was it in his hand He summoned a
page.
Boy he asked severely, where's
my hat?"
The page looked ares.nd and then
edges away.
please. sir" he said in a frightened
voice. you're standing on it"-wash-
ington special
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05
steepIe Climbing.

Vienna has been astonished lately by
some daring steeple climbing. A steeple
Jack celebrated the beginning Of the
festivities for Emperor Francis Joseph's
jubilee by climbing in the night to the
top OF one Of the steeples OF the Notive
Church, BOG feet from the ground. By
means Of the lightning rods and archi-
tectural ornaments, and hanging on II
a yellow and black banner twenty feet
long. He gave a minute description OF
the manner ia which lie accomplished
his foolhardy feat to the newspapers,
few nights later some one else iml-
lated him By climbing the steeple and
stealing the flag
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05

| Don't lose 1t; it's your birthday pres
ent from the ps@vest man in New
York"
1t was lunch Vine when Ted reached
home. Papa sat at the table stirring
his tea absentIy and looking over long
row of figures in the latest paper.
Gerry, do try to eat something"
said mamma, anxiously, from her place
at the head of the table.
Ted went over and laid the crumpled
paper beside his plate, and his father
leaned over and glanced at it unsee-
ingly; but it's contents caught and riv-
eted his instant attention.
ITO Gerald w. Winterburn, to hold
in trust for his son Ted, 75 shares of
the Union Traction stocks, being the
full value of the original cash deposit
Of said Gerald w. Winterburn in the
company's securities.
e.Signed) ALEX. NORTHCUTT,
President Union Traction CO..
He read it over twice and three times
in speechless wonder; then mamma
took alarm at his changed, bewildered
looks, and rose and looked over his
shoulder at the bit of paper in his trem-
bling hand.
ALEX. Northcutt! Gerry, what can it
mean" she asked, in breathless
amazement.
1T means that a miracle has happen
ed, and he has saved me from utter
ruin at the eleventh hour. Alex.
Northcut whom men call skin-fint and
miser! What can have moved him to
such a wondrous deed?'
at was the rose" said Ted, confident
ly. Which was really not all; but the
parents guessed the rest.-LedgeI
Monthly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05

The Filipinos are not well equipped
with arms. The native sword or bola
is their principal weapon. but a hun.
bred men a week are added TO the
death list by this terrible weapon. The
hospitals are overcrowded Over six
thousand men are on the sick list. and
the rainy season is not yet four weeks
old. Neither the correspondents at
Manila nor the local newspapers there
are permitted TO lay the facts before
the public. Yet in this horrible ira gedy
corruption is rampant The lives and
even the deaths of American soldiers
and Filipions alike are compelled to
pay tribute to the ghouls who thrive
amid death and uestilence.
Ii is hard to conceive that the Amer
lean republic is rapidly approaching
period of corruption as deep and de
grading as that which preceded the
downfall of the Roman Empire. But
of the Roman corruption is finding
repetition in the affairs of the United
States. Unbridled corruption and cru
city in the government of the Roman
colonies is repeated to-day in Cuba and
the Philippines. The rottenness of
Rome was no greater than the rotten
ness prevailing in Washington. Rome
went through the farce of popular cleo
tons long after the VIII of the people
had been subverted by the compact and
powerful oligarchy at Rome. Here in
Washington the influence of less than
a hundred men outweighs the senti-
ment of ten million voters. Worse yet.
there are strong signs that every i'm
portant piece of legislation taking mon
ey from the public treasury, from the
ship subsidy bill and the appropriation
bills for building war vessels for the
navy to the Pacific cable subsidy bill,
is mace 10 pay Il tacit tribute TO Mark
Hanna's Republican campaign fund
This is a fearful charge. yet the signs
are only too evident that the favored
interests are the ones which furnish
the Republican corruption fund, and
that they furnish it because they are
favored Only a sweeping Democratic
victory next November-overw
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05
Franks OF a YentriloQuist in the
House of representatives.

A yentriloquist who was in the house
the other day had lots of fun while he,
stayed, and what is remarkable, he
knew enough to stop before he got HIM
self into trouble. He was somewhere
IN the gallery and that is all that any
one has been able TO find out
Gen. Grosvenor got up to make a few
remarks, when apparently Speaker
Henderson threw out this observation
in his direction:
THE gentleman from Ohio win get
off the earth"
1t was the Speakers voice and ac-
cent to a dot Grosvenor had nothing
to say and it Is about the only time on
record. He gasped and SO did every
one else, for Henderson is not like
Thomas B. Reed, who loved to bother
people with unusual ana sarcastic say
ings; he is a considerate and kind man
in the main and would never think oc
being witty at the expense of the
white bearded ohfoan. At the time the
voice was projected into midair he
was peacefully conversiug with the
clerk and didn't even hear the remark
After the first pause OF establishment
there was a general laugh and Gros-
venor did not join, Then the Speaker
grasped the idea that something had
happened, raped with his gavel and
drawled out:
THE House viii be in order"
The sentence was repeated. apparent
~ by an echo, and then il was the
Speakers turn to jump. He looked as
mystified as a man could, especially
as the stenographers turned to look at
him reproachfully. Then the voice
came out of nowhere again. 1t said
Rubber, rubber"
The stenographers blushed and sub
sided. The House roare6 with laugh
ter and wondered what would happen
next. What happened next WIS an
other remark, which seemed to come
from all parts of the house at once.
"Good-by boys, the wars over"
Then there was silence that you
could cut and the doorlleepers began
TO hunt for the ventriloquist, but no
body could locate him and nothing
more was heard. He was wise in his
generation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05
PATENTS AND INVENTIONS.

Any new or useful art, machine,
manufacture or method may be pat
ented.
Improvements upon patent in
France may at any time be made by
the inventor upon the payment Of a
small fer.
The fea to be paid for certified copies
OF pateEts and other papers in manu-
script or typewritten IS 10 cents per
100 words.
Rigid examination Is made into every
claim. and no patent VIII be issued
which seems to infringe upon the rights
II a previous patentee.
Applications must be accompanied by
the gath Of the applicant thar he be
Iievts himself TO be the original in
reD~or OF the right, device, article or
method for which patent Is asked.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05
cRoNJE's SURRENDER.
British Writer'S Graphic Descripfio
of That Dramatic Event.

British Writer'S Graphic Description
of That Dramatic Event.
One of the most dramatic events of
The war In South Africa WAS the sur
render of the brave Boer leader, Gen.
srorje, who for nearly ten days held at
bay the vastly superior army of Great
Britain, while he and his followers
were topped up in the bed of the Mod
der River. near Paardeburg.
Describing the surrender and the ar
rival of Cronje in the British camp a
British correspondent says:
Presently body of horsemen came
past the hospital tents into the camp.
Maj. Gen. Prettyman was one of the
leading horsemen. BY his side a great
heavy bundle ofsa man was mounted
on wretched little gray Boer pony.
And this was the terrible Cronje? Was
1t possible that this was the man who
had held back the British army at
Magersfontein? Great square should
ers, from which the heavy head was
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05
NATION IS IN PERIL.
oNLYA SWEEPING DEMOCRATIC
VICTORY CAN SAVE 1T.
American Republic Approaches a
Period of Corruption as Deep and
Degraded as That Which Preceded



the Downfall of the Roman Empire.
| Washington correspondence:
The Cuban frauds grow in size and
| significance every day. There does not
seem to be an honest man in the SER
vice. From the beginning the depart
ment at Washington declared with abb
solute positiveness that there was cer-
tainly one honest man, and that WAC
Postmaster Thompson of Havana. The
Senators from Indiana and every one
from Postmaster General Smith up and
down declared that Thompson was all
right. They argued, as did Abraham,
who pleaded for the city of the plain,
that If there was one honest man in
the Cuban postal service the service
should not be entirely condemned
Alasi Thompson had already fallen
by the wayside. Thompson is under
arrest and has confessed that he Dor
rowed" money from the money-order
funds, that he instructed his subordi-
mates to juggle with the stamp ac-
counts and that whenever an inspec-
ton was TO take place he would put in
money to cover the defalcation and lake
it out the next day. Alas. poor Thomp-
son, A great deal of sympathy is ex-
pressed for him in administration or
gans, seemingly because they expected
him to be honest, though he has turned
out like the rest of them. As for Nicely,
the head center of the corruption in
Cuba, the administration will now con
slider itself lucky if the extent of his
looting does not reach 100000. Never
was there such a close corporation
worked for the benefit of the insiders
as the Cuban postal service.
AS for the administration, while with
one breath there is a loud declaration
that every criminal shall be punished
with the next breath orders are issued
In every direction to administration or
gans in this country and to the officials
in Cuba to minimize the whole affair
into the smallest possible compass.
Postmaster General Smiths newspa-
per, the Philadelphia Press, has scarce
ly mentioned the fact that there has
been corruption in Cuba. But there it
is, hanging like q milestone of corrup-
ton around the corrupt neck of q cor
rupt administra ton.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05
Announcer Ideal Shattered.

She was kindly faced woman, and
it was easy to see that she was bub-
bling over with love for the little folk
She walked modestly into the Office Of
the city editor and inquired:
'.Will you please tell me which one
of the STAFF 1t is writes oil those pretty
little stories about childrenF l know
he must love the little folks, because
ae writes such nice stories about them.
want TO tell him a precious little
story about my darling boy, who IS
only
That's the man over there, inter
rupted the city editor.
which one. pray"
THAT one with the corncob pipe In
his mouth and swearing at the office
boy.~-Omaha World-H Herald
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05
BOB WHITES MESSAGE


A meadow wind, and bar of song
20 Bob Whitei o Bob Whiter
The morn has tangled the breezy call
an the floating fringe of her vapor-shawI.
And tasselling corn-tips wave it along
20 Bob White-Bob White''
Blowing white clover is in the sound
20 Bob White. o Bob Whitel"
Snatch of wild locust in dim wood-ways.
Hint of the earliest haying days
When honey -blobs grow ruddy and
round
20 Bob White-Bob White~
Yellow June apples are turning ripe
20 Bob WhiteI o Bob white!"
There's stile half-lost in rose-vine's
hold,
And moss-lipped spring that is deep and
cold,
You know it ali when you hear the
pipe
20 Bob white-Bob whitey
a missed refrain in the autumn chill
20 Bob Whitei o Bob White.''
But dreams will Turk in the frosty fell,
And echoes ring like silver bell,
When Winter tiptoes over the hill
20 Bob White-Bob White."
Youths Companion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05

thrust forward so that he seemed al
most bumped; heavy face, shapeless
with unkempt, gray-tinged black hair;
lowering, heavy brows, from under
which small, cunning. foxy eyes peered
shiftily. A broad brimmed gray Boer
felt hat was pulled down low, a loose
brown oyercoat, ordinary dark trou-
sers; nothing military, not even spurs
on his brown veldt boots. The only
thing he carried that seemed to speak
authority was a thick, heavy stocked
whip of hide, which he grasped and
swung as one accustomed to use it. BY
his side rode his secretary and inter
prefer, long, bony young man, with
struggling red beard and very light eye
brows and eyelashes. They passed into
the square of highlanders, who had
been drawn up to receive them.
'Commandant Cronje, was the brief
Introduction, as the Boer leader swung
himself heavily off his pony and, curt
~ answering Lord Roberts salute,
shook hands.
9 1 am glad to see you. 1 am glad to
meet so brave a man. was Lord Rob
erts' brief welcome
"The two generals sat in chairs al
ready provided and the formal surren-
der followed.
Gen. Cronje sat deeply sunken in his
chair, with his hands in the pockets of
his overcoat, and sullenly regarded the
scene Every consideration was maid
him, but until the last syas seen of his
bulky form driving away to Modder
River in the close carriage which had
been provided for him, his set, hard
ened face only suggested that the bit
terest hour of his life was being
barely endured by the man whose
pluck. whose capacity and whose
straightforwardness we, his enemies,
are the first to admit"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05
The Land OF the Lazy.

sIn a late sojourn In Honduras" said
r. Il. Givens to a Washington Post re-
porter. Il came to the conclusion that
il was q paradise for lazy man. Every
thing grows Iuxuriantly. with but little
labor or the part of the natives, and
many crops do not need replanting
more than once 81 eight or ten years.
7he country offers fine inducements To-
enterprisIng men, but it Is hard for a
white man used - civilized ways 10 90
down there and dwell among an ignor-
ant lot of natives who are 100 years be-
hind the times A man would have no
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05
corrnntion il the Philipnines.

What is true of Cuba is trebly true in
the Philippines There the censorship.
which Gen. Otis declared abolished last
September, is more active and oppres-
Siye than ever Private letters from
the Philippines make the snoSt horrible
charges in regard 10 the condition of
affairs Ii is declared that the war has
degenerated into a massacre. in which
hundreds of Filipinos are being shot
down weekly. whether armed or IN
armed. The Filipino soldiers are now
called bandits and robbers in order to
md a convenient justification for the
abandonment by the American army OF
the rules and decencies of civilized
warfare Not only have over four hun
dred volunteer officers rendered their
designations. but h.:hsfreds of Ameri-
can soldiers ere in prison for absolutely
refusing TO obey orders 10 shoot I'M
offending Filipinos.
The instruction is blazing from one
end Of the archipelago 10 the other In
and around the American outposts
large bands of insurgents are constant
" lowering. attacking whenever the
slightest advantage is to be gained
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05

eongeniai society, and nliglt as well be
in exile. The natives usually live in
bamboo houses, though in the towns
the dwellings are of adobe. Children
go naked for the first two or three
years of their life. and the attire of the
adults is rather scant. The Govern
ment is liberal with concessions In or
der to encourage the development of
the country's resources, bat 1bere is
no general rule governing Tie granting
of privileges; 1t all depends on how
good a bargain may be driven. The
climate is very salubrious, and laziness
is about the only prevailing disease"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05

region is such that no person can re-
main exposed there during a summer
night without contracting the disease.
Drs. Sambon and Lowe will take
with them a mosquito-proof building,
and in it they will make their home
during the summer. If they manage to
live and keep their health where no one
else has succeeded in doing so, and yet
have no advantages over the others ex-
cept protection against mosquitoes,
then the case against the mosquito will
be considered complete. and the gov
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05
whac Do the Children DRINK

Don't give them Tea or coffee. Have
you tried the new food drink called
GRAIN-O? 1t is delicious and nourish-
ing, aud takes the place of coffee. The
more Grain-O you give the children the
more health you distribute through their
systems Grain-O is made of pure grains,
and when properly prepared tastes like,
the choice grades of coffee. but costs
about Il as much. All groeers sell it. Ice
and 05c
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05

in the world, with instructions to stay
there all summer and see if it kills
them. II they return home unframed,
then the worlds most fatal disease
next to consumption-mala will be
at the mercy of science. If they die,
the government will pay the funeral
expenses and the theory about malaria
will be upset.
The theory relative to malaria is that
it is caused by special kind of
mosquito. This mosquito abounds in
the eampagna, lying seven miles out
side of Rome, and the condition of that
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05
Very Low Rates

The b., G. r. & n. Ry. will make very
low rates to Sioux Falls, S. D., for the
A. o. U. w. meeting in June.
Call on your ticket agent for rates,
limits, etc, and see that your tickets read
via this line.
Jno. q. Farmer, A. G. r. 4 T. A., b.,
C. K. & N. Ry.. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05
TO WIPE our MALARIA.

Two Englishmen to ExDeriment-Their
Lives a Possible Penalty.
Two Engllshmen, DR.. Sambon and DR..
Lowe. of London, are to make an inter
esting experiment AMI take their lives
in their hands for the sake of human
ity. These two men are to so to the
Roman campagna. the deadliest place
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05
ingly sweeping at that-can save the
country from its peril.


1t is declared by Mr.. Bryan that the
Senate of the United States is not def
initely lost to the people, and that if
he should be elected in November with
the almost certain Democratic gains,
the free silver force in the Senate
would certainly be considerable and in
the end decisive. The st. Louis Globe
Democrat, a rabid gold standard organ,
comedies this much, and that Mr.
Bryan's election will be a serious
breach in the gold standard intrench-
ments and would give prestige to
further efforts to break them down
completely. The majority against sill
yer in the existing Senate is not over
seven. OF the thirty Senators whose
terms expire March next, seventeen
are Republicans, including one each
from Kansas, Montana, West Virginia,
Oregon, Idaho, Nebraska, Wyoming
and Colorado. Two gold Democrats go
out at the same time. The Demo
Gratis are likely to fill two of the three
vacancies, those in Delaware and Utah,
and Bryans election will bring in a
Democratic Vice President, who would
vote in case of a tie. Thus far the st.
Louis Globe Democrat.
Still further extending the idea, the
people of the Western States have
reached the conclusion that they are
misrepresented in the Senate. Colorado,
Wyoming, Kansas, Montana. Idaho
and Nebraska are represented by six
Senators, who were elected on the pre-
tense of being bimetallists. and who
voted for the single gold standard, the
placing of paper money in the hands of
the banks and the creation of a bank
trest controlling all the business of the
country There is no question that the
people of each and every one of these
six States are absolutely opposed to the
things for which their six Senators
voted, and the evidence is accumulat-
ing that they are taking exceedingly
great care not TO permit any of the six
TO further misrepresent them after next
March. The change of these six States
alone win cut the gold majority In the
Senate in two. without taking into ac-
count gains that may be made in other
parts of the country. kentucky has al
ready elected a silver man to succeed
Lindsay In Louisiana Caffrey has been
defeated overwhelmingly in the prim-
aries by a silver man. The review OF
the whole situation viii therefore ap-
pear to be one of great hope TO the
Democracy and TO the cause Of the peo-
pie. and that the election of Mr.. Bryan
will not be. as has been SO often al
legged, a useless expenditure OF votes
and the placing of helpless incumbent
in the Presidential chair. Success.
however. can only be attained By con
slant efforts to abide by unity OF pur-
pose. There never has been a time in
the history of the country when the
lines have been so clearly defined be
tween the cause OF the people and that
Of a special class
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05
Where Success Lies.

The administration and its masters
and serfs have created the Presidential
issue of 1.-The trusts against the consti-
tuition" which is to dominate the cam
paign of 1900 They do not dare to
meet it squarely in their platforms, and
they will not be able to anywhere else.
indeed if a united Democracy under
competent leadership could be certainly
assumed, the situation in which the
Hanna administration and machine
have placed themselves would destroy
the last hope of Republican success in
November Washington Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05

Ask Your Dealer for Aliens Foot Ease,
powder TO shake Into your shoes. II rests
the feet Cures Corns, Bunlons, swollen, Sore,
Hot, Callous Aching, Sweating feet and In
growing Nails Aliens FootEas makes
new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all druggists
and shoe stores 25c. Sample mailed FRieE.
Address Allen 5. Olmsted, lie Roy, n. u.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05
Vehicles in Havana.

The favorlte means Of transportation
In Havana Is by one-horse yietorias, OF
which there are thousands Two per
sons are enabled to go 10 any point
within the city limits for peseta,
which is equal to about IA cents.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05

defeat Hannas robber schemes is to re
tire Mckinley to private life. This is
in a fair way of accomplishment, and
if the voters do their duty next Novem-
Der both Mckinley and Hanna viii find
their occupation Chicago Demo
Graf
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05
How Thouphtfu.,

Mrs. Storm noticed that you
pinned a pink on his coat before he
started for the Office.
Mrs. Tempest Yes. covered the
spot where a button has been off for
over a week.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05

-he hump on the back Of the drome-
Diary Is an accumulation OF peculiar
species Of fat which Is a store Of nour-
ishment benefciently provided against
the day Of want, TO which the animal Is
often exposed. The dromedary or
camel can exist for long period upon
this hump without any other food.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-05
The Length of II.

'Has the giraffe been sick long2"
asked the veterinary surgeon, as he en-
tered the park Enclosure.
Yes" replied the keeper II should
say it was rather long He has sore
throat. Chicago News.