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The Republican., 1900-12-20

W. A. Sturgiss returned home Mon
day night from weeks trip to East
ern cities.
DR.. John E. Legge has recovered
from the injuries received by him in
the runaway last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Bush, of near
Eglon, were doing some Christmas
shopping here yesterday.
Mrs Edward E. Sollars returned on
Saturday afternoon from weeks
visit to relatives at Romney, w. Va.
Miss Grace Loar is on visit to rel
atives at Grafton. She will remain
at that place until after the holidays.
You will find the finest line of can
dies, ranging in price from Sc to ST 90
per pound, at A. 7. Matthews, Rail
road street.
In st. Marks Ev. Lutheran church
services will be conducted Sunday
morning and evening. The Christ
mas entertainment by the Sunday
school will be held Christmas eye, to
which all are cordially invited.
Don't fail to see the big stock of
books at A. 7. Matthews on Railroad
street. He has almost anything you
can call for in the book line.
The postmaster of Boston, mindful
of the congested condition of the
mails about Christmas time, has is
sued a circular calling upon the peo-
pie to post their holiday mail matter
several days in advance. The advice
is good, and we pass the hint along to
the people who expect to transmit
their presents through the postoffice
department.
Certain eminent physicians declare
that kerosene oil, as refined by mod
ern methods develops deadly gas,
if lamp is turned down low, and
may be fatal to children. The custom
of turning lamps low and letting them
burn all night is a common one in
sick rooms and children's rooms,
where if we believe the above, it
should least be done.
If you want to buy your whiskies
for Christmas and New Years call at
the Schley Hotel Saloon, where you
can buy the finest wines and whis-
kies at the lowest market price. Ori-
ent whiskey at $500 per gallon; Brad
dock, $500; Guggenheimer, $4.00;
Smokehouse, $500; Finche's Golden
Wedding, $500; Mountain State $3.50.
l have the finest imported blackberry
wine at $3.50 per gallon, and all other
kind of wines. If goods are not as
represented money will be refunded
at any time. Thos. F. Burke, Schley
Hotel. Al st
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-13
AtMoral Tribe

In the whole wide world there is not
a class of people to be found who in
flict severer punishment upon them
selves than the Caribs of Central
America. Their religion. which is one
of the most peculiar kind, demands
self-punishment for sins Intentionally
or Internationally committed.
The punishment takes the form Of
starvation and close confinement
If the sin be in the form of a lie,
no matter whether it is calculated to
iGiure another or not, the sinner goes
without either food or drink for three
days. at the end of which it is believed
tl:at the offender has paid the penalty
for his or her sin.
disappearing and using bad lam
guage is punishable by absolute star
walton for two days. Assault, drunk
enness, and other serious sins call for
four days starvation for one week,
three days starvation for the second
week. and two days starvation for the
third week, and one days starvation in
the fourth week.
All sins are punished with starya-
ton. For that reason crime is very
low among the Caribs, who are among
the best behaved and most truthful
people In the world-Pearson's Week
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-13
Manasa1a pi1ot.
NOn-PartISan.

The time is approaching when the
initial step should be taken in prepar-
ing for a non-partisan election in our
city this spring. Nearly everybody has
plan worked out as to how it can sue
cessfully be brought about, and pub
lie meeting will bring to the front the
very best ideas, which may be acted
upon and the ball set rolling. Wau-
sau citizens will make great mistake
if they do not give some thought and
time to this movement just now there
is determined effort to build up the
Wisconsin River Valley; to bring capt
tai here to invest and to utilize the
numerous water powers. With an I'M
broken forward movement, with every
citizen of Wausau in line, much good
can be accomplished for our city. With
the usual good feeling which prevails
here, there would not be one laggard
But to stir up our community by plac-
ing in the field, partisan tickets, the
aspect would be entirely different. At
this time the injury to our city would
be incalculable. Bestir yourselves, ye
who would see Wausau become a great
city. The earnest cry from all towns
along the valley, this spring, is
leave out politics in city affairs :"
Promote good fellowship; live in peace
and harmony and build up your city
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-13
HOTELKEEPER'S TROUBLES.
And the Drummer Thought the Truth
Was Being Stretched.

A travelling salesman for we'll
known firm has just returned from a
six months business trip through the
west Last night he was invited to
| join some of his friends, and during
the evening told of many incidents
| that had happened to him during his
| trip
The greatest man for anecdotes that
| ] ever heard Of" said the salesman,
was a hotelkeeper in Julian, Neb. He
kept a small place, but there certainly
had been number of strange incl
dents within its walls, if you were to
believe the proprietor. l don't say
the man lied, but he certainly did some
remarkable tricks with the truth. The
first night l met him he nearly knock
ed My eye out, his talk being some
what as follows:
Z" bookkeeping is a strange thing
and we have to put up with a great
many things to please our guests. I
remember one night an old fellow with
a bronzed complexion came into the
hotel and asked for a room. He was
accommodated, but stayed upstairs
only few minutes, after which he
came down and said that he was sea
captain and could not sleep in such a
quiet room. Don't you know that
had to put him into a room next to
the bathroom and keep the water turn
ed on all night so that he could sleep?
But that's nothing to the trouble
| had ore day when an Indian medi-
cine show struck this town. They had
troupe Of performers. some animals,
and real, live Eskimo. That fellow
was bird. They said he was from
Greenland, but he wasn't so green.
can tell you. He was all wrapped up
in furs though the weather was warm.
put him into a nice comfortable room
and he kept the bell ringing continu-
ously ordering absinthe frappe every
few minutes. Finally, the manager of
the show, who went up to see why the
Eskimo was drinking SO much, came
down and told me that the little fell
low was trying to get cold and couldn't
sleep in that hot room. Don't you
know that before we could get that
fellow comfortable we had to put him
to bed in the refrigerator!
"'Tbat was a fearful night, and I'll
never forget it. They had a trained
bear with the show, and that animal
was trained, let me tell you. About an
hour after supper (the bear ate in the
dining room just like the other folks,
sitting i'll a chair, the bear ups and
walks in to the bar. The man who
trained it told US to give the bear some
bottled beer. Well the bartender
made mistake and put up ginger ale,
and lost an ear by his foolishness You
wouldn't believe it, but the bear drank
! 81 bottles of beer without turning a
hair. 1t didn't even make him talka-
tive.
GAS said before, that was a fear
full night. The other things were bad
enough, but when one of the small
snakes got loose and crawled up the
speaking tube we were nearly out Of
our senses. The bells kept ringing and
| the tubes whistling, but no man had
the nerve to answer the call. A man
who put his ear to one of those tubes
was liable to have the snake come out
! and bite him. We never did use the
tubes any more, but put in electric
bells the next week New York
| Telegraph.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-13
aerrmann,s Carios Sold.

Recently the household furniture,
pictures, books and curios that be-
longed to the late Alexander Herr
mann were sold at auction in the 9th
avenue art galleries, New York. The
articles of the greatest interest in the
collection were the works of art and
bits of bric-a-brac that the great ma
gician had picked up during his trav-
els in foreign countries. Many of these
brought large prices, and there was
spirited bidding also on the few pieces
{of legerdemain apparatus that were
exhibited for sale, says the Dramatic
Mirror In the crowd of buyers were
to be seen number Of prominent the
atrical people and many collectors of
curios.
The first days sale was not altogeth-
er satisfactory to Nine. Hermann,
and a number of articles were bid in
by her to save them from sacrifice. But
many buyers found bargains in spite
of this. Two pairs of silk stockings,
once in the wardrobe of Empress Car
lotta of Mexico, were sold for $3.50; a
Swiss carved jewel box brought only
$3.50, and valuable canes, swords and
daggers went for prices ridiculously
low
On the second and third afternoons
far larger assemblages were present
and much higher figures obtained. The
carved pieces of furniture, jewels and
watches that had been presented to the
magician by various royal personages
were keenly sought after, and many of
them sold for sums far above their in
trinsic value. The collection was val
ued by Hermann at 100000, but it is
doubtful if talSings at the auction came
within many thousand dollars of
reaching that figure.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-13
orr Own War.

We believe such a censorship of the
war news as would eliminate from the
reports the CHASTITY figures of Philippines
killed in each of the little skirmishes
which are of daily occurrence in the
Philippine Islands, would be welcome
thing to the American people. No one
among us is heartless enough to feel
proud of the stereotyped report. Capt.
so and so, with a battalion of infantry,
attacked and routed body of 200 Phil
lipinos at, such place, killing fifty. .
While the sameneSs of these daily
butcher bills rs the English call
them, gives ground for suspicion that
they are not as bad as reported, we
don't like to read them. They seem an
insult to the ordinary American citi-
zen's sense of humanity,-a taking for
granted that he would be pleased to
hear of the slaughter of these poor
MalayS who have plenty of courage and
patriotism, but do not seem TO know
how to fight Americans. We viii bless
the day when the islanders give up the
fruitless struggle, and leave their des-
tiny in the hands of the American peo-
pie. They make a great mistake in
thinking that the views of the admins
tration are approved by the people. A
few years military occupation of the
islands would seem to be an absolute
necessity now The war has made that
necessary, for it has destroyed civil
government, as war always does. II
the PHILIPPINES had been left to them
selves after they drove out the Span
iards from the few places they held, we
do not doubt they would have got along
excellentiy. Their success in govern
ing themselves in the larger part of the
islands where, until the last week, they
have been unmolested by our troops,
proves their capacity for self-goyern-
ment conelusively. But before they
submit war viii have visited all the
islands, and viii have destroyed civil
government there, and a military gov
eminent of more or less duration must
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-13
The Icennan's Loss.

How'd you like to be the iceman?"
Snyder, the calculating barber, was ar
tistically executing a quickstep on the
razor strop when the above little ditty
foated in from the busy thoroughfare,
causing a smile of contempt to fit
across his features. "That simply
makes me weary" he remarked, as
with flourish he daubed the patrons
face. 'You hear that latest acquisi-
ton in the way of slang phrases re-
peated by men of every station, just
as if the iceman's lot was an earthly
paradise. AS matter of fact, the in
dividual who embarks on a career
which involves the marketing of cou-
gealed moisture doesn't have to run
around searching for his troubles. How
many people, do you suppose, ever
think of the amount of money that
drips right out Of the iceman's hands
when the sun beats down on his heav-
lily loaded wagon? Don't amount to
much, Ell? Well, you'll change your
opinion when | bring up a few figures
for your consideration. Starting out
with ton of ice, estimate that melt
ing alone causes a dead loss of about
100 pounds to the dealer. This doesn't
seem much but when you calculate
that about 1000 wagons a day right
here in town lose that amount the fig
ures are amazing. One hundred thou
sand pounds, at, say, 10 cents per hun
bred, runs up the tidy sum of 500.
Three hundred and sixty-five times
500 gives us the annual loss locally as
$36, 500. Takes a little nerve, doesn't
it, to be an iceman? Then, if during
the summer these drippings could be
collected, / figure that they'd supply
all the hospitals in town with ice wa
ter baths for sunstruck patients. Froz-
en-. into solid lump, if the entire of
these drippings could be collected, l
figure as a 10-story building. Then
again, the waste when the cakes are
cut is enormous, to say nothing of
what vanishes into the air when the
ice is whisked clean with a brush
broom. But without going into further
details, l think you'll agree that the
man who peddles ice has enough trou-
BILE to worry him into an early grave.
Tonic? '-Philadelphia Record.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-13
WOMEN OF THE PHILIPPINES.
Indulge in No Greater Exercise Than
Driving Shopping.

The aristocratic Philippine matron
and her daughters indulge in no great
er bodily exercise, if they can help it,
than that required for driving or shop
ping. But the peasant women shares
her husbands work. whatever it may
be, laboring at the pillow behind an I'M
calmly carabao twater-buffalo) in the
paddy-feld, or helping to pole huge
iorcha, or cocoanut raft, up or Gown
the river, besides attending to her do
nestle cares. And I take pleasure in
saying that, whatever it's proprietors
rank or station, the native Philippine
nipa hut is invariably a marvel of
neatness and cleanliness as to its in
terror; far superior in this respect TO
the average Spanish dwelling-house, be
it that of a merchants clerk or that of
the governors general. So far as the lat
ter are concerned, a decent servant-girl
such as are employed in America and
England, would not be content to re-
main in one two days
Hundreds of girls are employed in
the great cigar factories, and others in
the converts labor to weave the far
famed pima lace of the Philippines,
several at time squatting on the floor
around a single frame, picking and
manipulating with def fingers the in
finitesimally delicate fibers. Some
times they work for months to COM
plete single mantilla or handker-
chief. These native women are rarely
employed by the European residents
as domestic servants, except in the
capacity of lady's maid or children's
nurse, and even these positions are Of
ten occupied by boys. They are very
unreliable, and the utter absence of
the sense of gratitude, so characteris-
tic of the entire Philippine race, rem
ders it an almost hopeless and very ex-
asperatlng task to attempt to train
them as servants. Their only redeem
ing feature is their sense of absolute
personal cleanliness, but in spite of
this many European women prefer to
go to the expense and trouble of i'm
porting a Chinese anna from Hong
Kong or Canton rather than to intrust
her children to the care of a native
girl; although when in her own capa-
city as a mother the Filipino, so far
as observation goes, leaves nothing to
be desired.-Woman's Home Colnpan-
ion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-13
MAN HAS NO SENTIMENT.
THEREFORE HE MAKES THE
BEST TYPEWRITER.
The Slow, but Sure Worker, Is Bet
ter in the Long Run Than
the Snowy and tho
Speedy One.

There are tyewriters and type
WRITER'S" observed a department Off
cial to a Washington Star reporter.
Some are good, very abod; and some
are bad, very bad; but they all go to
make up class. A good typewriter
is a comfort and blessing for every
minute in the seven-hour day of de-
partment life, and the bad typewriter
is bad every minute of the same time.
By a popularity Of the law making
the appropriations, the bad typewriter
draws as much salary as the good
one, though the latter stands the bet
ter chance in the way of promotion,
which is so slow as to be discourage
ing. / have had and now have some
of both kinds with me and, while one
hastens the work. the other CORE
spondingly holds it back. 1t is no
special advantage to have a type
writer who is phenomenally rapid
unless she or he is at the same time
clean in the work The bad type
writer writes at an alarming speed
but more than counterbalances it by
the time spent in making ensures,
putting in words that have been left
out and cleaning up the work gener-
ally. The bad typewriter is often per-
sonally a more agreeable person that
the other kind and his or her errors
=
the time that is taken up in making
corrections and comparing the work.
my observation is land 1 have had
a great deal Of opportunity to observe
after fifteen years experience with
them that what is known as the me
dunn typewriter is the best in the
amount of work that IS turned out.
The typewriter that loads up a ma
chine with erasers, rubbers and pa
per and the like is one that should be
avoided if it is possible 10 do so. A
slow writer seldom has any use for
such accessories, and as erasing is
slower than writing it is best to Sc
cure the writers who do not use them.
Ninety-nifIe out of every hundred err
rors made by typewriter are made
by too much speed, which. in my
opinion, is but another word for care
lessness. think have observed an
other thing carefully enough to ex-
press an opinion on the subject, and
that Is the older the typewriter the
better-I mean the writer. not the ma
chine. For instance, writer 40
years of age can be depended upon 10
turn out more perfect work in a Civ
en- time than a 20-year-old writer,
though the latter may have the most
speed as far as actual writing Is con
cerned. 1t is not rapid bursts OF speed
or grand-stand finishes that count. 1t
is the writer who stays there. and is
as good and correct in the last half
of the day as in the first half. In
other words, ike in everything but
horse-racing, reliability is better than
speed alone, and reliability doesn't
hurt a horse, either"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-13

precede and prepare the way for re-or-
ganization.
As to permanently holding the islands
we will find, by sad experience, unless
we are wise enough to comprehend a
fact that is already obvious, that we
can never do it with either pleasure or
profit. The Malay, like the American
Indian, never forgets favor, nor for
gives a wrong What we have already
done to these people makes it sure that
for the next century the lives of Ameri-
cans will not be safe in the Philippine
archipelago if we attempt to hold the
islands as colonies. Any people who
had just won their liberty by war
against an old oppressor would be
stung to the quick by having that lib
erty wrested from them Immediately
by another stranger and by stranger
from whom they had every reason to
expect kindness. sympathy and fair
treatment. No people on earth could
be more aggravated by such treatment
than these Malays. We must let them
go. This we should do any way be-
cause the spirit of democracy can not
abide with imperialism. They are as
opposed as God and Mammon, and the
same people can not serve these two
masters. But whether we are sagacious
enough to see this truth or not, we
shall be compelled in the end to do
what we ought for our own preserva-
ton to do as soon as practicable
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-13

(First publication Jan. %, last Feb. 2o)
Notice of Final Settlement and As
sighment.
State Of Wisconsin. County Court for Marathon
County:-ln Probate.
Of the county court 10 be held in aud for said
county at tie Court House. in the citT of Wausau,
iu said county on the 4th Tuesday, sseing the
27th day. ct February. a. D. 1900. at 10 o'clock.
A. NJ the following matter vi / be heard and
considered:
The application Of @. 0. Graham. admiDistra-
town IF Brighton. in said county, deceased. for
the examination and allowance nf his final ac-
count. of his administration and for the assign
uIent of the residue of the estate Of U. II. Brown
decreased. 60 such other persons are by law
entitled to the same.
Dated January z3ri. 1903
Rv order of the court.
HENRY MILLER. County Judge.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-13
Meat supply of England.

Little more than a half of the bill
that London settles every year goes in
to the pocket of the English farmer
From the ends of the earth comes this
vast supply. This great ogre of city
of ours, before whose gastronomic eff
forts the featS of all the giants of le-
gend and fairy tale fade into insight
canoe, has taken his toll of the wild
ranchers from boundless western pra-
ries. of the beautiful chestnut-coIored
herds of the Andalusian mountains. Of
the piebald-coated cattle that the hon
est Dutch tends as their own children.
and of the sturdy oxen of the north
German plains Canada and Australia
send us lambs and sheep. the River
Platte our OK tongues. Hamburg and
Rotterdam our pigs. What an adver-
tisement for the Navy leagUel What
an object lesson for those who declare
our fleet is overgrown.
1t passes human comprehension to
think what would become of London il
our command of the sea were lost and
the foreign supplies failed If the 80
600 live cattle from America that swell
the metropolitan cattle herd during the
year never reached their destination:
IL Hollands half million of sheep were
forced To remain on the home pastures
lin short. if the 10000 tons of meat.
neither bred nor fed in these islands.
that London annually consumes. ceas-
ed to appear in the butchers shops of
the metropolis--CasselTs Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-13

A new telephone will shortly be
placed before the public. It's distin-
gushing merit is that it enables con-
versation to be conducted without the
necessity of the listener holding the
instrument to his ears. A representa-
tive of the Daily Chronicle was pres
ent when some experiments were
made with one Of the instruments,
and speech was clearly heard through
various resistances at a distance Of
thirty feet-London Chronicle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-13
mErHoDIsT.

Rev. Frank A. Pease, pastor.
Preaching at 1890 m, and 7:30 m, Sunday.
Sunday School at II o'clock.
Mission Sunday School, 6ls Lincoln Ave., tofi
9th street) $50 D m
Junior League, Sunday at $50 m
Epworth League, Sunday ESQ pm
Prayer meeting in the church, Thursday even
ing at 80.
The Ladies' Aid Society meets with Mrs. A.
H Grout on Wednesday afternoon.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-13
PRESBYTERIAN.

Rev, W. O. Carrier, pastor.
Preaching at 1890 IN. and 80 m, Sunday.
Sunday School at II m
1PSC meeting at 6:e.ee n
intermediate Y z & + meeting, $50 pm
Junior p G Z meeting at 400 p m
Sunday school st west side chapel every Sun
day at 5 90 O'Clock.
Class for Bible s,rdy every Monday evening al
1850 sharp.
In the morning there are plenty of free seats
for strangers. and all SEATS free in the sN ening
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-13

"Oh, why" protested the Little Fish,
''do you eat me?"
Because" replied the Big Fish.
'it's Friday"
This fable teaches that casuistry is
able TO give something of the color If
virtue to almost any cd deed.-Detroit
Journal.