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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20

A great deal mas been said and writ
ten about those binding storms that
sometimes sweep with resistSass Jury
the western prairies, but without the
experience no one, however vivid his
Imagination. can fully picture to him
self such q storm, much less realize all
that a blizzard means
The penetrating wind, roaring and
bowling. shifting quickly from one
point to another. whirls the sharp par
ticles OF snow into the travellers eyes
and nestrils, binding and smothering.
1t often obscures in q few moments
every vestige of track, rendering trav-
Ell difficult and dangerous
The wolves and foxes that roam the
prairies. IL far away from scrub or
timber when a blizzard bursts upon
them, burrow at once into the drifts
and there abide till the storm is over.
The grouse, or prairie chicken, flying
swiftly, presses its wings to its sides
and pIunges head Erst into the snow
and there is perfectly safe.
The Indian OF the plains IL caught
away from his tepee (tent) sSrapes
away the snow with his foot and
wraps his blanket closely about him,
creeps into the hole he has made and
II quickly drifted over.
But the white man caught out on
ths prairie often becomes utterly be-
vildered, wanders around until COM
plsteiy exhausted. sinks down and per-
ishes with the cold.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20
BRIAR ROOT PIPES.
AMERICA HAS LEARNED A THING OR
TWO ABOUT MAKING THEM.

A Great Number OF Them Are Imported
Here From France and England Hut
the Greater NaEbsr 60 Now Made by
American Manufacturers.
Not SO long ago it would have been
rank heresy for the smoker of pipe
to be perfectly satisfied with anything
in the shape of "briRr root" that did
not come from the other side of the
Atlantic. but the excellence Of the
American briar, as it is now made, is
beyond question, and 1t is now hold
ing Its own against the imported pro-
duct. This is greatly due to improve
ments in wood turning machinery, by
means of which American n.anufactur-
ers are now making the greater part
OF the pipes used, and turning them
out at a price which ten years ago
would have seemed impossible. The
greater number of pipes imported here
formerly came from France, but good
many were supplied by England. The
wood from which they are manufac-
tured here is still imported from Eu-
rope.
The best briar Is French, but a
good briar Is produced in England and
In some parts OF Germany. The wood
comes over in rough blocks, free OF
duty, packed in bags.
The bags hold from 200 to 500 blocks
each. and the importation runs up to
about 5000 bags yearly. When the
blocks arrive they are roughly shaped.
TO shape the bowl and cut away the
superfous wood they are put into the
"frazing" machine. Another appliance
reduces the stems and hollows out the
bowl. after which it assumes some
semblance of what &. is intended for.
1t is then carefully sand papered and
pumicestoned, until it Is brought to
the proper size. The last operation be-
fore the pipe receives its stem and
trimmings is the drilling Of the air
hole.
The stems are made of either cellu-
loid, bone, hard rubber or amber. Am
Der is costly, and Is rarely attached to
the cheaper grades OF pipes. The de-
mand Is steadily increasing. and the
American pipes are supplanting those
Of Europe In this market. Every
smoker nowadays prefers a Driar to a
clay and some prefer 1t to. the meer-
schaum. Much of the present activity
In this demand is said to be due TO the
financial depression OF the last few
years, which drove many people who
had before then smoked nothing bat
cigars to the much more economical
pipe. Another reason given by the
proprietors Of cigar stores is that the
national prejudice against the Pipe Is
gradually giving way to the influence
Of European fashion, and many OF
them prophesy that before many years
the sight of an Englishman walking
down Broadway smoking his briar
root will excite no comment, since the
custom of outdoor pipe smoking is al
ready being treated with a surprising
tolerance by Americans themselves
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20

WITHOUT expressing an opinion up
on the point, we suggest consideration
of the question whether it is good
policy for democratic newspapers 10
take as much interest as they have done
in the education of the republicans,
We call their attention constantly to
the pitfalls into which they are about to
stumble. They pretend to ignore our
advice but in reality they often take it.
How would it do to let them have the
liberty of pursuing their pet policies ae-
cording 10 their own sweet will, and
if they so wrong suffer the consequence
esq OF course ii is not altogether n
partisan question. The whole country
is interested in the behavior of the party
in power. On the other hand if the
party in power is one of evil tendencies,
will it not, if kept in power, bring great
evil upon the country in spite of all
democrats can say or dos And if that
be SO then is il not better to let such a
party hang itself, by giving it plenty of
rope, than for its political opponents to
make nntiring efforts TO prevent it from
doing injury to the country.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20
STARTLING SUCCESS,
CRIPPLES BEING MADE
TO WALK Alright.
CRUTCHES THROWN AWAY !!
IT is THE WORK OF A
GREAT PHYSICIAN.
THE BONE SETTER
The Truth Regarding His Won
derful Cures in Stranger Than
the Deepest Fiction.
He Manipulates Dislocated Joints,
Fractured Bones and Stiffened
Tendons Without the Slightest
Pain To the Patient-Has
World Wide Reputation.

The Bone Setter is man, who, as a
physician and surgeon, has lived a life
of starting success. He has been sue
cessful in thousands of instances in
performing cures that had seemed alb
solutely impossible. His specialty-if
il can be called II s3ecialty-is in cor
recting the wrongs of the bony system
of the body.
There is no broken bone, no dislo-
Gated joint, no stiffs4sad tendons, no
inactive joint that he cannot rectify.
His treatment is simple enough when
understood, but the uninitiated can
never understand it, His work mysti-
ties the medical and surgical profession
he stands alone in his line. To cure
is his hobby"
The Bone Setter cures without pain.
He manipulates the bones with mas
ter hand. 1t is wonderful work to say
the least. Those suffering from wrongs
of the bony system should see him be-
fore it is too late Find him at the
Hotel Bells, Monday, Tuesday, We'd
nesday and Thursday of this week.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20
As Others See Them.

The Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States has refused
to permit newspaper reporter wear
ing bicycle suit to approach the repor-
| ter's desk in the count room. This is,
under the circumstances, wrong; and
perhaps it is wrong anyway. The cir
cumstances are that the court has not
furnished either dressing room, or
extra clothing for the convenient carry
ing out of its ideas of etiquette. A
newspaper reporter who may find it as
necessary to travel on bicycle, as it is
for the ordinary business mf.n to use a
telephone, can hardly be expected to
travel about the streets with his dress
ing case. If he should hear, while on
his rounds, that there is an important
case on in the court, which he ought TO
report for his paper, and suppose he
had his dressing case along; there is no
dressing room attached to the supreme
court premises. What is he to do
Must he go back to his home, or his
hotel, or wherever he lives, and dress
for the occasion? He would find the
thing all over when he got back.
But the court is wrong for other
reasons: First, the court has set very
bad example. 1t appears on the bench
in much more absurd costume than a
bicycle suit. 1t appears there costtmed
think of it! Nine able jurists, who,
under ordinary circumstances, and not
costumed for masquerade, would be
digniied looking old chaps, don
womens gowns. Is it not a bad
example? Is it not enough to suggest
| to every one else "You see what we
do. If you come before us you may
come dressed as Enthusiastically as you
please. Dress yourself in ladies' cloth
ing or rs clowns. Nothing is barred
here" What sort of liberty is this that
says TO reporters and attorneys: The
members of this court will dress to
make a horse laugh, but you must
appear before them in sober sensible
costume" Second: the court keeps
certain lackeys called pages" The
common idea of page" is boy, at
tending upon some noble lord or lady.
But ''once page always page" in the
supreme court. Ii never turns over a
new leaf. Always the same old page.
Now boy dressed like the "Liltle
Lord Fauntleroy'' is not an unpleasant
sight, but when that boy grows to be a
man and keeps on growing until be is
an old man, and still remains costumed
as the Little Lord Faantleroy well
you have TO see it, really, in order
to sense its utterly groteSque absurdity.
Ii is fully as absurd as the man dressed
in a ladies black gown. Yet there the
gray headed little Lord Fauntleroy's
are in the supreme court room. going
ia and out, doing errands or in await
isg to do errandS for the members of
the court. The conrt perpetuates these
things and yet demands decorum; yes
actually demands deeorum of those who
come before it.
Let the court remove the moat from lis
own eye. Let the court costume itself
like other men, and require its pages
10 consume themselves likewise, before
it assumes censorship over lawyers
and others in the matter of dress. And
even then il would be very question
able act on its part. q forbid reporter
10 appear before it in bicycle suit if
that happens to be his most convenient
business eostume,-as it necessarily
must often be.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20

GIL. VANDERCooK has been defeated
in his race for the assembly in the first
district in Marathon county, but he
does not seem to know it. We have
always given Gil. credit of possessing a
good deal of what is known as ''horse
sense," but it looks now as if the in
tense itching after Office is depriving
him of even that particular virtue.
Every voter in the first district knows
that Gil. never hesitated to make vote
wherever and whenever he could, and
he was not particular, so we hear, of
the manner in which he secured it. In
the face of this he has the gall to ac
cuse Alfred Cook, his opponent, of car
rying on crooked campaign. Drop it,
Gil, if you value your reputation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20
Let Us Have Peace.

We may not always agree with the
verdict of the jury before it is given,
but as good citizens we should accept
it as truth when we know what it is.
1t has been true for few years past,
according to the verdict of the Ameri-
can people in 1896, that the men of
Wall street whom erstwhile we igncr-
antly called sharks) and men OF their
like in other large cities, and owners of
stock in railroads, telegraphs, express
companies, insurance companies, trusts
ETC., are not the sort of men the Pilot
has taken them to be. They are really
| a TToTyy humane, and benevolent lot of
men, whose chief aim and purpose in
introducing this new tangled idea of a
gold standard into the United States
was so that they would not be COM
PEELED to pay dishonest dollars for
what they buy, or to the men whom
they employ. 1t seems the people, or
at least fair majority of them have
decided that to be the case 1t is the
verdict of the American people, that
the class of men above mentioned had
no sinister design to increase their own
already enormous wealth, but desired
to pay honest dollars for what they
had to buy.
1t seems to be also the verdict of the
American people that there is no
danger of Imperialism. The verdict of
1900 does not approve imperialism, be-
cause the republican party disclaimed
it. The people have simply refused to
believe the naughty accusations we
made against the present administra-
ton, and have accepted instead the
assurances of the administration that
there really has been no war in the
Philippines for the last six months, ex-
cept few ''robber bands" of Tagals,
who would disappear as soon as Nc
Kinley was reelected, and were only
kept in the field through hope of
Bryan's election. Well, as the people
have accepted this, by a fairly decisive
majority, we take it we ought also to
believe it. Now everything will be
lovely, unless the republicans them
selves begin to throw doubt npon the
point by calling for big army of oc-
cupation in the islands Keep the pres
ent army there until the ''robber bands"
have had time to find out that Bryan
was defeated, but let the boys come
home then. That, of course, is
what Mckinley will do.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20

AGAIN there is disposition on the
part of Marshficld rustlers and Toma-
hawk hustlers to form new counties
with their respective towns as county
seats Now, this is all we'll enough to
talk about but when it comes down to
the reality of the thing it is altogether
different proposition. A realization
of their dreams would mean that there
would have to be large slice chopped
off from the western part of Marathon
county, also large slice at the north,
leaving the county among the very
smallest of the state. The time is ripe
TO Illustrate these schemes and our
State Senator and Assemblymen should
al once unite with members of the leg
iSlature whose counties are proposed to
be divided and make determined
effort to prevent any such division.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20

REPUBLICAN papers are now publish
ing the startling" announcement
made by Admiral Crowninshield, chief
of the navigation bureau, that there
are not sufficient men to man the navy;
and the further Startling" statement
made by Adj. General Corbin, that the
next congress will be asked to swell the
regular army from 1900 to 100000.
Those gentlemen are starting in rather
early after election to work up public
sentiment, but sentiment or no senti-
ment, there must be a large army to
carry out the schemes of the present
administration.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20
A ChInara NntInn.

The Chinese, SO far as can be learn
ed from history, are the oldest nation
on the earth They are, to us of ex-
IRENE modern ideas, a strange people,
and some Of their ways and fancies are
not to be explained. The most pains
taking scholars and antiquarians ap-
pear to have failed, In many pArticu-
lars, to discover the motives that ac-
tuate the individuals of this prehis-
toric race. Yet, doubtless, the cere-
monies that we see them going
through In mining camps on the Pc
cific coast are all to them as full of
meaning as the rites of modern relig-
ion are to the believers in Christian
ity The Chinese, in some respects,
dox In the church militant, who be-
lieve In a personal life. c7 the present
human frame In the world beyond. The
Chinese custom of decapitating their
enemies slain in war is explained by
the statement that they believe that
1t world without !. head is prima facie
evidence or having committed some
crime. and punishment is awarded ac-
cordingly. Hence, the horrible mutt
lation which took place on the evacu-
alton Of Shanghai by the Taipings,
when the imperial officers gave orders
for the decapitation of every rebel
body, and even the cofins containing
the remains of prominent rebel lead
ers were broken open and dishonored
to insure their punishment hereafter
Hence, also the anxiety displayed by
the friends of officers who lost their
heads during the rebellion to recover
them and stitch them on to the bodies
agai4. as much as one hundred and
thirsy-three pounds having been paid
by the officers Of the imperial army for
the head of a friend.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20
HAS ACCEPTED.
Rev. S. n. Wilson, Will be Pastor
of the Presbyterian Church.

Rev. S. n. Wilson, of Evans
vile, Indiana, accepted the call as
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church
of this city, last Friday Rev. Wilson
has been pastor ut Valparaiso, Ind,
and occupied the Presbyterian Church
at Anderson, where Henry Ward
Beecher at one time preached. From
there he went to Evansville as pastor
of the Walnut Street Presbyterian
Church, which is the principal church
of that city. On the evening of the 18th
of November, the largest congrega-
tional meeting ever held in the First
Presbyterian Church in this city voted
to extend call to Rev Wilson, and
there was not one dissenting voice
The unanimity. enthusiasm, and cordi-
ality was DO doubt the outgrowth of
the work of the former pastor, Rev w.
o. Carrier. Over 80 snames bad been
given Ia The pulpit committee out of
which Iev Wilson was selected.
4 committee WAS sent 10 Evansville,
"a cog, and every thing just as had been
represented Rev Wilson was invited
to come To Wausau. aud he did So. re-
naming ten days, and was entertained
by 4 great many in the church who
were delighted with him personally.
He pieacheS strong gospel sermons and
is msn of more than usual force, easy
and fluent in his delivery. strong aud
convincing in his argument; gentle and
tender in his ministry, and withal. a
strong man socially. He viii come to
Wausau with his family at an early
date
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20

The Wausau Wochenblatt gives
about as absurd reasons for democratic
defeat, at the recent election, as we have
heard of, and we do not believe that a
person of any sense can be found who
will endorse them. 1t is certain that
the WoeheE1latt cannot get one reput-
able democrat in Marathon county,
who will come out and endorse its
sentiments, in full, as to what caused
democratic defeat It's statement that
the Irish in the party and the Catholic
Church drive voters out of the party is
preposterous.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20

The Milwaukee Journal is not taking
much stock in the reorganization
talk of Messrs. Dickinson, Whitney,
Cleveland ct al The Journal very
sensibly suggests that the discussion of
democratic policies is always proper,
and that the question as to who shall
manage the party organizations in
state and nation can come up in no
other way than at the regular conven-
tons of the party. When we get to
these bridges we will cross them just
as we always have done.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20

Up to today. which ends the hunting
season. there were issued 7a5 deer
licenses
The county board adjourned to Janu-
airy Sth.
That blue agate ware bels=- sold at
Finders Penny Store is the finest thing
on the market for the money.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20

A student OF Spanish annals has
added an interesting chapter to the
history Of prices by revealing from the
archives OF the Eseurial what It cost
to discover the new world. The sti-
ponds Of the discoveries. at all events,
did not amount TO much. The pa of
an able seaman was only, II seems, 10
francs a month. while q captain drew
only 50 francs. OF about 3 guineas, a
month. AS for Christopher Columbus
himself, his earnings were at the rate
Of 1900 francs. or $500 per annurn.
Even in Spain salaries have risen since
those days.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20
METHODIST.

Rev. Frank A. Pease, pastor.
Preaching at 1880 a m, and 7:s0 d m. Sunday.
Sunday School at II clock
Mission Sunday School. 6ls Lincoln Ave, (of
9Th street) ESQ % m
West Side Mission in Markstrum's store, d. m
Junior League, Sunday al $3.50 . m
Epworth League, Sunday at $50 D. m.
There will be meeting of the Sunday Schoo
Board on thursday evening, the close of praye
meeting
The Ladies Aid Society VIII meet with Mrs
Chas. Turner on Wednesday aft ernoop.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20
WAUSAU BOOM COMPANY.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Wausau Boom Company
will be held in the office of the secretary
OF said company, in the city of Wausan,
Wis. on Monday, November %, 1900.
AT o'clock p. IA
H. l.. WHEELER. Sec,y.
Dated WauSau, Wis, Nov ~, 1900.
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pEEsByTERIAN.

Preaching at losg m, aud 7.sl p m. Sunday.
Sunday School 1T Il NJ
YPSts + meeting III $50 D m
intermediate \ r \ G E messing 6:St. u m
Junior p ) g meeting at 400 y m
Sunday school at vest side chapel every Sun
day at 300 o'ciock.
Glass for Bible 81 uiiy every MnnIay evening st
7:31 sharp.
In the morning there are plenty Of free seats
ror strangers and all seats free in the aning.
The Ladies' Aid society viii meet with Mrs
w. 4. Milroy en- "Wednesday afternnnn.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20
AN ERROR.
Makes it Necessary to Have Another
Meeting of the County Board.

The Committee on Equalization, APP
pointed by the County Board, agreed
to assess the city forty per cent of the
returned valuation, on real estate, but
in making out its report the committee
failed to make said reduction and the
full valuation was sent in and approved
by the Board without the error being
discovered. Last Saturday. Mayor
Anderson called upon the G Junty Clerk
to get the exact figures of TIE assess.
ment and while engaged in looking it
over they discovered the error, which,
if allowed 10 stand, would increase the
taxation of the city on real estate to n
considerable amount The advice of
several OF our lawyers WAS sought and
1t was found necessary to call another
meeting of the County Board, This the
County Clerk has done and the same
win he held at the Court House on
Monday next. November 9th.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20
ST JOHN 5 CHURCH.

Rev. W. J. Cordick Rector.
Holy Communion at 80 a. m
Maiins and Sermon at 1880 A. m.
Eunday-schnul and Rector's bible class, at u m
vested choir OF 70 boys and men render the
music at these services
Evensong and Sermon At 7:S0 o. m.
Friday kvensong, address and choir re-
hersal at 7:Sa,
Weekly rake sale on Saturdays. at French's
ST Martha's Guild meets on "Wednesday after
noon with Mrs. VIM. Gillian.
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@amsa1a gi1nt.
TUESDAY. NOV. 20. 1900.
ublishe6 weekly and entered at the Post OEice
at Wausauas second classmatter.

THE PHILIPPINE war keeps right on,
despite the fact that republican papers
asserted that it would end with the
election of Mckinley.
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CHURCH NOTES.



Rev. Adam Fawcett Pastor
Sunday School. IL ~ m
Prayer meeting on Thursday evening at 80
Mission Sunday School on the West Side at 5
O'Clock on Sunday afternoon.
Young peoples meeting at 6:4s D m.
Prayer meeting from tn g.
The Ladies' Aid Society meets with Mrs
Sam Armstrong on Wednesday afternoon
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20
GERMAN DAprIsr, l2i2 srxrH sr

Rev Albert Tilgner, pastor.
Preaching at 9:30 m and 80 D m
Sunday-School at Ii m
Prayer meeting at 7:S0 Thursday evening.
Women's Missionary Society meets en- the first
Wednesday of each month
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20
GERMAN NJ. E. CHURCH.

Rev. II. f. Mueller, Pastor.
Preaching 1875 a. m. and $50 p, N. Sunday.
Sunday School at 900 a. m.
Epworth League, Sunday at 700 p. m. and
Friday 1880 p. m.
Junior League on Saturday at II :l5 a. m.
Prayer meeting i'll church at 1880 D. m. Wednes-
days.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20

N Campbell, Secretary.
Gospel meeting for men, at D m Sunday
Special singing.
Bible reading Tuesday evening, 7:s0
Bible class for ladies meets in the Associatio n
parlors every Monday afternoon at 4:l5 sharp.
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FIRST oHURCH OF ouRIsr. scIENTrsI

Sunday service IL a. IN.
t'hildrens Sunday School - 10 m.
Wednesday evening meetitg As.
Reading rooms open DAILY from to 4 p. MI. also
Tuesday and Friday from 80 TO O'Clock q N.
At Christian Science Rooms 81 Third street
III, stairs
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20

There are now ever 25o.eoo words in
the English language. Acknowledged By
the best authorities. or about 10000
more than In the German. French.
Spanish and Italian combined.