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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-20

Last week the PILoT mentioned that
John Tuttle had met with an accident
while at work in the Menzer mill, at
Marathon City. The end of his second
toe of the left foot was taken off by a
saw dropping upon it. He kept at
work, but last FRIDAY his foot was in
such bad shape that he had to be
brought to Wausau and was taken to
the Riverside Hospital Saturday and
Sunday there were very little hopes of
his recovery. Today he is better and
the prospects of getting well are very
good. MIR Tnttle is one of our oldest
and most highly esteemed citizens hav-
Ing lived here since the early SOS. His
many friends hope for his early re-
covery.
BE good 10 yourself and good to your
friends. When you treat friend TO
whiskey, give kim the best. Harper
Whiskey is the beverage for your friends
and for you. Sold By Delaney 4 Struck,
Mark a. Bells, Wausau, Wis.
The WAUsAU PILor has large land
very competent force of workmen, and
is ready to turn out plain and fancy job
printing in short notice.
Stationary and work guaranteed.
Prices as low as the lowest
Give the FIL0F Office a cali.
Look over Samples.
Get Prices.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-20
Straits of a Painter

Mr.. Charles Henry Hart, apropos Of
VOLTS engraving in the June Century
from Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Mrs.
Greenleaf, records some of the fnan-
cial shifts the great painter resorted
to. While Stuart escaped the old
Fleet by removing from London to
Dublin, he escaped the Irish bailiffs
for only short time and soon found
himself once more in confinement. So
hardened, however, had he become to
this condition of affairs, that one of
his jokes was to tell how he had paint
ed himself out of Jail by painting the
portrait of the jailer, who was so
penetrated at the honor the artist
had done him that he was only too
glad of ian opening that offered for
Stuarts escape.
After residing in Dublin for nearly
four years, Stuart determined to re-
turn to his native land but not having
the means to pay for his passage he
engaged, as its equivalent, to paint
the portrait of the owner of the ship,
John Shaw, a wine merchant of New
York, and he landed toward the end of
1892. The commonly received tradi-
ton that it was his great admiration
for the character of Washington, and
his desire to paint his portrait, that
brought Stuart back to America, is
one of those half truths that are
equivalent to falsehoods. Sir Thomas
Lawrence, upon hearing this reason
assigned, said: Il knew Stuart well,
and / believe the real cause of his
leaving England was his having be-
come tired of the inside of some of
our PRISONS And that was indeed
the fact.
Stuart began a large number of por-
traits in Ireland, for which he was
paid half the price at the first sitting.
The majority of these he left unfin-
ished when he returned to America,
and he confded to r rbert, the author
OF 'Irish Varieties,'' The true inward
ness of his great desire to paint
Washington: 'I'll get some of my
first sittings finished, and when can
net a sum sufficient to take me to
America / shall be off to my native
soil. There l expect to make a for
tune by Washington alone. l calcu-
late upon making a plurality of his
portraits, whole-lengths, that will en-
able me to realize; and If / should be
fortunate, | will repay my English
and Irish creditors. To Ireland and
England / shall bid adieu:'' And
when Herbert prodded him with,
and what will you do with your I'M
finished works?' Stuart impudently
answered: ''The artists of Dublin
will get employment in finishing
fhaTr1
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-20
A Tragic snapshot.

~ ''The most remarkable snapshot pic
friend of mine in town in Georgia"
said an enthusiastic amateur photog-
rapher. "Its story is extremely Curl
Gus. 1t seems that he went one day
to a blacksmith shop to get shot at
the men at the forge. The smith was
engaged on a difficult piece of iron
work, and had two helpers. Just be-
hind them, on shelf, was a pint flask
full of yellowish-white liquor, evident
ly the corn whisky for which the ma
tive Georgian has a peculiar liking. As
my friend was preparing to take his
picture, one of the helpers caught sight
of the bottle and communicated his
discovery by dumb show to his COM
panion. The smiths back was turned
at the moment, and the first man
reached stealthily for the prize, while
my friend, unnoticed in the corner.
quickly aimed his camera. 1t was a
comical scene, and in his mind he had
already named the photo The Stolen
Drink The helper uncorked the flask
snatched it and did likewise. Then for
a brief, breathless instant they looked
at each other, and as they did so their
foolish grin gave way to such stare
of questioning horror as | never saw
before upon human. face. / know
because it was then that the camera
clicked and the picture is as clear as
crystal. The flask contained carbolic
acid Within an hour both men were
dead. When my friend took one print
he broke the negative so as to make
the photograph absolutely unique. 1t
shows the forward end of the shop. In
the foreground is the anvil, with the
smith bending over his work. Behind
him are the two helpers, one still hold
ing the flask, looking at each other.
You can see tragedy in their eyes as
plain as print 1t is a frightful and
dramatic tableau that could not be
duplicated by any sort Of art. New
Orleans Times-Democrat
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-20

Giacano Morede FASTENED his own
death to escape a bath. This was not
known at first in the Hudson county
JAIL in Jersey City, where the man
was found hanging in his cell. 1t was
supposed then that his only purpose in
death was to make good his frequent
promise that he would never let the
public executioner hang him for wife
murder He probably would have
killed himself in season to escape the
official gallows, but that time was dis
tant, and he might have been content
to finger along in Jail until near his
day of doom had they not threatened
to give him BATH At that he made
his bedclothes a moose and his cot a
scaffold and took the leap.
All this came out when, after he had
been left swinging for more than an
hour, until the coroner and county
physician had arrived to cut him down
and send him to the morgue, the jail
officials fell to talking about it.
Moredo was the most untidy prison
err they had ever had in the jail His
aversion to water amounted almost to
horror For several weeks he had not
even washed his hands and face, and
his keepers could not drive him to that
simple act of cleanliness. At length it
was resolved to use force, and Tues
day morning at 10 o'clock was the
hour appointed for the washing.
One of the keepers, Patterson. went
to Moredo's cell and told him of the
decision. He was to be taken from his
cell, Patterson warned him, thrown in
to the bathtub, and thoroughly scrub
bed. Moredo heard in silence At
half-past 0 he was dead, but unwash-
cd
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-20

The Merrill Advocate proposes the
name of Hon. A. l.. Kreutzer for gov
ernor, and says THE senator is a
brainy young man and would make a
good governor and an ideal candidate.
Many good republicans think that we
ought to have some young blood in
fused into republican party leadership.
Senator Kreutzer fills the bill This il
not said just to mention Mr.. Kreutzer
in connection with the governorship
but in all seriousness. The senator is
old enough and yet young man. He
is man of admirable executive ability,
If he did not possess sterling qualities
he could not have worked himself up
from poor farmers boy TO his present
position at the bar of the state. Sena-
tor Kreutzer is member of the firm of
Bump, Kreutzer & Rosenberg, one OF
the leading law firms of Wausau Be
side being senator in the Legislature
he is n colonel on Governor Scofield' 5
staff"
The republicans couldn't do any bet
ter than to act upon the Advocates sug-
gestion As Mr.. kreutzer is in the
South and has been for some time, just
how he viii look upon the proposition
Is uncertain.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-20

Ex-CoNsUL MACRUMs published
statement of facts is not met in the
usual way by some republican papers.
They express serious doubts of its
truth. That is better 1t is an ack-
nowledgment that it ought not to be
true; that it would be disgrace to the
United States to have it found to be
true that official messages between this
government and its foreign ministers
are opened by foreign officers and ex-
amined before being delivered, and
that this government does not even ask
for an apology from the'oilender, but
on the contrary preserves q secret
alliance, with the offender. Ordinarily,
most republican newspapers are in
clined to say What are you going to
do about it, if the administration goes
wrong, and when they .betray interest
enough in such things to deny them it
is some evidence that they do not APP
prove them. 1t is, however, not at all
sure that the republican members of
Congress viii permit an investigation
of Mr. Macrum's charges.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-20
Mrs. Goelet,s FORTUNE.

OF the immense fortune left by Og-
den Goelet, who died on his yacht, the
Mayfiower, in England, on Aug q,
1897, his widow, Mary r. Goelet. will
receive an annuity of $4,000 This
amount Justice Beach, in the Supreme
court, decided the widow shall re-
ceiye, even though the property set
aside for her fails in itself to yield that
amount annually. The sum must be
paid over each year to Mrs. Goelet re-
CARELESS of the property stipulated in
Ter husbands will.
Months ago Mrs. Goelet desired to
have a judicial construction placed up
on the viii Of her late husband, and a
friendly suit was instituted by her.
which ended with the decision by JUS
tice Beach.
Ogden Goelet left his great wealth
almost exclusively to his widow. bis
son, Robert. and his daughter, Mary
Wilson Goelet The fortune has been
estimated at as much as $4,000, 900.
By her husbands win. in addition TO
the $4,000 annuity, she has the use
for life of the great Goelet mansion,
the Cliffs at Newport. the use of the
Goeiet residence. COS Fifth avenue: a
trust fund of $500. 000> and all the
magnificent paintings, furnishings.
gold and silver ware in the two man
sions, and the stables OF horses. OF
which Mr. GoeIet was so proud.
His son and daughter are also as
equally extravagantly provided for.
their interest in the VIII being esti-
mated at as much as S10.O00.OO0 each.
which viii be enhanced considerably
on the death Of their mother-Buffalo
News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-20
Business Woman.

| have never found a woman bat
Ting her way in the world who. has
not grown more sympathetic with HUI
man suffering, more patient with the
little trials of life. more lenient and
forgiying with the erring, and more
appreciative of home and family ties.
Independence, self-reliance, and the
adoption of honorable business meth
DDS need not destroy the inherent gen
tlenesS of woman's nature, uniting
her for the exalted station of an az
fectiOnate wife and tender mother.
And as the lessons Of the practical
realities of life must come sooner or
later. must be learned by most WON
en-. if they be learned in early wom-
anhood, the dream life displaced BY
the real life, no rude awakeningS''
TO the world as ii is awaits the WON
an. When acquainted with the trials
business and professional men the
wife can more fully appreciate the
wear upon the nervous system due
to the constant grind OF daily cares.
Knowing the real work of life. she
becomes q companion indeed. fully
appreciating the joys of success and
the disappointment of failure, shar-
ing IN both alike with her husband.
and when thus appreciating the feel
ING of nervous exhaustion and irrit-
ableness. she quietly passes over
these manifestations. which 10 the in
experienced woman often proves the
beginning Of estrangemenf. as be-
tween such and a detected husband
there can be but little real companion
ship and sympathy Woman's Home
Companion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-20
SATISFACTORILY SETTLED.
Could Easily Settle Outside What He
Could Not in Court.

A little while ago Lawyer Hackett
Of Somerville purchased some land
over which there had been a lawsuit
for years, until the parties had spent
half a dozen times what the land was
worth. Hackett knew all about it.
Some of the people wondered why he
wanted to get hold of property with
such an incubus of uncertainty upon
it. Others thought that perhaps he
wanted some legal knitting work and
would pitch in red-hot to fight that
line-fenee question on his own hook.
That's what the owner of the adj
joining land thought So he braced
himself for trouble when he saw
Hackett coming across the field one
day.
Said Hackett: whats your claim
here, anyway, as to this fences"
Il insist" replied his neighbor,
that your fence is over on my land
two feet at one end and one foot at
least at the other end"
We'll" replied Hackett, "you go
ahead just as quick as you can and
set your fence over. At the end where
you say that 1 encroach on you two
feet, set the fence into my land four
feet. At the other end push it into
my land two feet"
But" persisted the neighbor, that
is twice what claim"
81 don't care about that" said
Hackett want you to take enough
so you are perfectly satisfied you have
got your rights, and then we can get
along pleasantly. Go ahead and help
yourself"
The man paused abashed. He had
been ready to commence the old
struggle tooth and nail. But this move
of the new neighbor stunned him. Yet
he wasn't to be outdone in generosity.
He looked at Hackett.
Squire" he said, "that fence amt
going to be moved an inch. / don't
want the blamed old land. There
warn't nothing in the fight but the
principle Of the thing. "-Lewiston
Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-20
BEECHER WAS UNSPANKED.
His Intervention Also Saved His Friends
From Trouble.

A new story of Henry Ward Beech
er was told recently at Plymeath
church prayer meeting by DR.. e. X.
Cressey, of Brooklyn Hills, L. I. 1t was
a story of DR.. Cressy's boyhood. One
day his mother left the house, eau
tioning him and his brothers that they
must be very quiet and not romp while
she was gone. There was hairbrush
with which Mrs. Cressey was wont to
punish violations of the domestic stat
utes when any such occurred in her
well-ordered household, and the young
sters promised to be good and remain
ed still as mice. Presently Mr.. Beech
.er arrived to make call on the Cres-
seys and found no one to receive him
but demure-looking boys. A flash of
anticipation came into his eyes as he
joyously told his young hosts to pre-
pare for the romp of their lives
But mamma told us we mustn't
romp," protested the future doctor Of
philosophy.
"Tll take all the responsibility, re-
piled the great preacher.
w Heu MIS-. OTeSSeV uedFeu tue uOuSc
on her return she heard indications OF
a small riot. Filled with indignation at
this unheard-of rebellion in her quiet
little republic, she rushed into the
house with words of stern rebuke
trembling on her tongue. At the door
she paused petriied. Henry Ward
Beecher was fat on his back on the
floor, with a parcel of young Indians
apparently dancing a ghost dance on
his PROSTATE form and emitting shrill
yells. The appearance of the avenger
instantly froze all the rebels into silent
CONSERVATION except the arch-insur-
gent. Climbing to his feet, the un-
abashed clergyman said:
Mrs. Cressey, pro- aised my friends
here to take all the responsibility for
this outbreak and''-here he reached
for the hairbrush and presented it to
her with Chesterfeldian bowl am
ready to take whatever is due them.
You may begin at once"
But for once there was an infraction
of the laws in the Cressey household
that was not punished. Mr.. Beecher
went unspanked
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-20
The New Caucus Law.

The last legislature did away with the
preliminary meeting nuisance, and
passed a general caucus law which en-
failing some work upon political com
mittees, is believed to be a great inn
provement upon the old law governing
nominations
Section one of the new law simply de-
fines the meaning of "caucusesn and
provides that party nominations not
made under the provisions of the law
shall find no place on the official bal
lot
Section two, which concerns our city,
provides that there must be filed with
the city clerk in case of city elections,
and with the county clerk, in case of
general elections, the names of chair
man and secretary of the political party
represented, and also relates to the con-
vention appointments of such commit
tees. All nominations must be certi-
fed to by the committees. The county
and city committees consist of a chair
man, secretary and one member of
each town or ward A treasurer and
assistant secretary and an executive
committee is also provided for.
The committees decide the day of
the holding of the caucuses and con-
yentions and are to publish the dates in
the newspapers and by posting, said
caucus of one political party to be held
on the same day, and in cities during
the same hour. No caucuses shall be
held open for less than one hour
The caucus officers are defined as a
chairman, a secretary and two teliers.
All votes must be by ballot on white
paper, and must be deposited in box
in full veiw of the officers, who shall
canvas the votes
Polls tests of caucus voters are made
necessary and a violation of the pro-
visions of the law, which include clauses
against bribery, or disturbance of eau
Gus or convention is made misde-
meanor.
No person shall vote or offer to vote
more than once for the candidate or
delegate or set of delegates in any one
caucus held IN any caucus district in
which he shall not at the time be resi-
dent and duly qualified elector, and no
person shall vote or offer to vote in any
caucus where candidates and delegates
are to be chosen, if he has already vot-
ed at the caucus or any other political
party for candidates to be voted for, or
for delegates to be chosen to conven-
ton to nominate candidates to be voted
for at the next ensuing election.
Officers of political committees can
secure the pamphlet by writing to the
secretary of state, at Madison, for a
copy.-Stevens Point Gazette.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-20

AND now the British experts will be
puzzled to know how Gen. Cronje with
less than 10000 men managed to be-
siege Kimberly for three months, and
have men enough left to stop Gen.
Methuen and force of nearly 10000
British at the Modder river. Where
are the remainder of the $4,000 Beers !?
$4,000 at Ladysmith and in front of
Butler. 5000 or 10000 with Cronje
5000 at Mafeking and 5000 or G 900 at
Stormberg and vicinity. That figures
up altogether less than 10000. Where
are the other 10000? "Bobs'' had
better look out or he may meet more
enemies than he can handle on his
march to Bloomfontein. There are a
lot of Beers somewhere, as unaccounted
for, or else their strength has been
vastly overstated.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-20

Two democratic senators voted for
the currency bill and one republican
againstit, the bill passing by II majority
of seventeen. 1t will not take long for
the house to dispose of the measure,
and then congress will be able to get
down to routine business, another
pledge having been redeemed.-Wau-
sau Record.
No democratic senator voted for the
currency bill. Any senator who voted
for it, and who calls himself demo-
crat, proved that he was not one, and
proved it most conclusively by that
vote.
Another pledge having been re-
deemed p Pray what pledge? When
and where and to whom did the repub-
lican party pledge itself to turn over to
Wall street the control of the volume
of currency? No, indeed that party
never dared TO make such a pledge.
The republican party makes pledges,
but it does not keep them The things
that party does when it gets into power
are not the things it has promised to
do, but the things it has not dared
threaten to do. If this currency bill is
pledge redeemed" the pledge was
not made to the people, but was a
secret pledge made during the cam
paign of 1896 to the Wall Street Bunco
Brigade, in consideration of liberal con-
trihutions to Hanna's big corruption
fund We would like to have some one
point out to us any pledge in the repub-
lican platform of 1885, to pass this in
famous currency bill.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-20

PERHAPS the next republican plat
form will not boast of the Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty, as one of the wonderful
achievements of the present admins
trations foreign policy. Would it not
be too bad if the American Senate
should reject treaty that is spoken of
so highly by the nations of Europe ?
What debt of gratitude those nations
will owe us if we spend billion or so
of dollars in building ship canal, and
then give them all an equal right with
ourselves in it. Great generosity that.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-20

About twenty of the lady friends of
Mrs. K. ii. johnson sprung a genuine
surprise on her last evening. They
met, by agreement, at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. W. H. Mylrea, at O'clock.
1t was a ghost party and the costumes
were arranged just before starting for
the Johnson residence, which was
reached at 7:30 O'Clock. They found
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson just preparing
to go out to the entertainment at the
Opera House. As the ghostly crowd
walked in, one of the more musicallv
inclined, seated herself at the piano
this proved to be Mrs G. c. Yawkey)
and executed a dirge to which her
companions with solemn tread, marched
around the apartments at the con-
clusiou, another Mrs c. F Danbar) in
sepulchral tones. made remarks APP
propriate to the occasion. Masks were
then removed and an evening of whist
playing was enjoyed which was fol-
lowed by refreshments, ali on the
ghostly order-augel's food etc Mrs.
X. II. johnson won the prize of the
evening which was wonderfully
handsome memento of mortality-a
miniature skeleton Editor johnson
made his escape and attended the en-
tertainment probably to get rid OF the
ghostly recollectionsl whilst Mrs. John
son, ably assisted by Miss Marie, made
the evening memorable one to the
visitors, for its extreme pleasantness.