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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
womau's Most wiusome Age.

5 Why do women hesitate to tell their
age? BY common consent 1t is regard
ed as very rude and boorish to ask a
woman a categorical question regard.
ing the number of her birthdays. Yet
there should be no elffidence on the
point, and reticence on the subject is
hard to explain. Except for some rea.
son connected with business which
may find In accommodating years han
dicap, man is usually very open
about his age and as ready to proclaim
1t as his wife and sister are TO conceal
theirs. Probably the feeling In the
matter had its origin in the long ago
when matrimony was the ordinary
woman's only desirable goal. and when
as she grew older her chances OF fad.
ing a mate diminished perceptibly.
The situation has so entirely changed
and .spinsterhood has become so inyit-
ing thai we should expect TO discover
an alteration In the manners Of women
on this point and to find them quite
candid as to their claims to maturity
or the reverse. Fifty years to-day looks
as forty did q score of years ago. Thirty
always very Wilson'S age, the age
of s-oEIan's most captivating beauty
IS not now to be distinguished In
freshness and bloom from twenty-five
Outdoor life is doing for women what
nothing else can dc-making them
beautiful and keeping them yoang.-
Golfers Weekly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
4HOOKS
40 COLLEGES

London spends $40 a year on the edu-
cation Of eGen child in the public schools.
In the Danish high schools the cost OF
educating students, including everything
except clothing, is SGD year.
The Yale faculty and corporation arc
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of opening a
bank for the use of college students.
Massachusetts, imposes a tax of 6 per
cent on requests coming 20 universities
and colleges from outside the State limits.
Wesleyan University, at Aiddletown.
Conn, may found an annex for women
students on the plan now in vogue at
Harvard and Brown Universities.
In the University library at Ithaca.
y. Y, there has been placed a memorial
tables to Clifton Il. Brown, student
who fell in the charge Of San Juan.
AZ Amherst College thirty-cigbt States
are represented among the students.
Massachusetts, leads wirh III, New York
has 70, Connecticut has %, and Pennsyl-
vania 10.
The women's department at Cornell
University viii be rendered more demo
cratic next year. An effort viii be made
to get two women in each dormitorr
room By increasing the price Of e room
occupied only by one.
The total paid for college education in
this country Il about Si00,0O0OOO annu-
ally, 4 sum nearly equal 10 the entire civil
expenditure OF the Government.
The sessions Of the third and fourth
years OF the Bowdoin Medical School will
be taught hereafter in Portland. Me-. ON
accouR: OF clinical advantages there.
Ar investigation Of statistics relative 20
college women in America is being made
by the Association Of Collegiate Alumnae
for a tabulation to be sent to the Paris
exposition. The questions asked OF col
lege women relate to health, expenses
in college. exercise, postgraduate occu-
patton, and marriage or non-marriage-
Yale has sixteen graduates in the Fifty
sixth Congress. The five In the Senate
are: Edward o. Wolcott. ex-'65; Williams
NJ. Stewart, -; Thomas &. Plat, ex-T55:
Chauncey Nj Dcpcw, 90, and George r.
Wetmorc. 81 Those in the House Dr
Representatives are. Ebenezer j. Hfil,
ex-'g5; John Dalzel. to; Francis e.
NewlaEds. exit; Thomas Hedge. 81:
John K. Thayer. co; Charles a. Russell,
'73; Charles f. jog. -: Charles y. Eow-
Ter. &c: Victor II. AIetcalf. az l.. S.s
Henry ID. Greene. ~. and Aaron v =.
cochrase, 20.
In Nebraska there are al log school
houses. 5lI built OF sod, one OF baied>
straw and one Of steel.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27

The New York Chamber of Commerce.
How is this? The New York Cham
Der of Commerce rebukes the Presi-
dent by unanimous vote for having
forced. the Porto Rican tariff BILL Is it
possible that this is the same Chamber
of Commerce which only a few weeks
ago Endorsed the subvention of Ameri-
can ships, and gave as its reason the
fact that such subvention was in har-
mony with the protective tariff policy
Here is the resolution,
Resolved, That the Chamber of Com
merce of the State of New York re-
cords its emphatic opinion that every
consideration of honor, justice and hui
mnnity demands that trade between
the United States and the Island of
Porto Rico shall be unrestricted by
any customs duties whatever.
If the President gets himself disliked
by such body, body whose annual
dinners have been turned into Republi-
can love feasts for several years past,
how is he likely to stand with the con-
servative element of his party New
York News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27

three times he dropped out OF sight
All these years mother and son have
been searching for each other. The
boy made n habit of working until he
had saved 500. when he would leave
his work and renew the search for his
parents. He says he will now take up
the search for his father, Pet0r Pippin.
The mother married j. FL. Lyles after
her divorce from Pippin. The reunion
recently in st. Louis was a joyful one.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
MYSTERY OF THE HANDSPRING.
Some Breakages Not Yet Understood
Despite Much Investigation.

Some BreakaGes Not Yet Understood
Despite Much Investigation.
Despite the investigations regarding
the structure of mainsprings and the
efforts to improve them; despite the ex-
perimentation and iheorizing on the
subject, some Of the causes or the
breaking of mainsprings remain an I'M
solved mystery. Many. indeed. are the
known causes responsible for breaking.
such as faulty construction or temper
ing. careless handling. leading TO the
formation of rust and poor ftting. but
after all these which are recognized
have been eliminated there st!ll re-
mains the fact well known TO watch
makers that the best springs will. In
spite of the most careful handling and
proper adjustment, unexpectedly
break. sometimes in n number OF
places. 1t viii thus happen that of tETo
springs made at the same time by the
same process. of the same material.
tempered In the same way and handled
with the same care. one may last for
years. while the other may break after
two weeks use. or even while being
placed IN the barrel.
When * is considered that the spring
is but from COS 10 .0O9 OF an inch in
thickness: that the material must be
subjected TO q process which shall give
il a high state OF elasticity. and IL the
same time enable Il to do its prescrlb-
ed work for years. a slight molecular
d.sarrangement il IFS structure m9y be
expected to occur from causes TOO n
significant for observation.
Many jewelers. state that Il IS their
experience that they hays many more
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
AN ANGEL uNAwAREs.


suppose for every act Of lsve and duty
An angel in the path OF life should lay
A lovely rose OF sweet perfume and
All. even then,s how bare would be the
way
Suppose for every kindly word unspoken,
Ter every fault which careless hands
had done,
For every resolution made and broken,
A thorn beneath our erring feet had
grown
All! then the way would be one stretch Of
anguish.
With only. here, and there a flower to
cheer.
Our feet would fa!ter and our spirits
langHish.
And life would be a burden hard to
bear.
But seldom are We outwardiy rewarded
According to the deeds which We have
done.
The pure in heart are by the world
discarded;
TAe wicked harvest where the good
have soWn.
And yet to every keare in darkness hid
There comes an angel. whom we cannot
see,
Who strives to keep US from the paths
forbidden.
And in the narrow way where faith
may be.
His name is Conscience. and he brings as
roses
Sweet roses. borrowed from the brow
of Peace,
DE- thorps on which remorsefuI thought
reposes.
Regrets whose sharp tormentings never
Then let us strive temptations storm to
weather
Let every thought and every deed i'm
prove,
Iill Conscience finds no cruel thorns to
gather,
But crowns the soul with soy, and
peace. and love.
Richmond Religious Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
An Anomaly.

Speaking of the Payne-Foraker bin
Senator Pettigrew. of South Dakota,
said the other day: Il am opposed to
the Payne Foraker bill. Trade. we are
assured by President Mckinley, fol
lows the flag. But the Constitution
doesn't. Did you ever hear of such an
anomaly?
Il contend that we cannot maintain.
under our Constitution, an empire and
a republic ar the same time. The ten
dency seems to me toward Imperialism
and empire. The republic must not
fail or the empire win stand; the en-
pire must fail or the republic cannot
stand.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
JUST NAcclNATEo, HAAS AZ.

The Pretty Young Woman Made the
Passengers Angry.
IS There was something strdklngly pic
toriai.i the appearance of young
lady who sat in the upper left-hand
corner of Jackson avenue trolley car
during one of Its outbound runs the
other morning. says the New Orleans
Times Democrat. 1t was due, no doubt.
to many things-to the aristocratic
slenderness of her figure; to her wide.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
A Reforrner.

Mrs. Corncribber-I reckon our Hen
merry las Joined the law and order
league at Yale"
Mr.. Corncri5ber-Wh dc you think
that?
Mrs. Why. he writes
shat he's helped to break up four
shows at the opera house th.s week.
Them theaters Is very pernlclous
things. you kRcW.-Jndge.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
Mr.. Reid Alarmed.


Whitelaw Reds talk at the. Massa-
chusetts Club dinner would serve adj
mirably III good part as an anti-im-
perialist campaign document. He is
alarmed ut certain dangers which his
Paris pence policy threaten to bring
upon the country. The possibility that
the new possessions may become part
of the United States through the force
of the constitution Or otherwise stag
gers him. 1t threatens to "plunge us
over the precipice." How would Mas
sachusetts relish ''having this mixed
population" (of Porto Rico), "a little
more than half colonial Spanish, the
rest negro and half-breed. illterate,
alien in language, alien in ideas of right,
interests and government, send in from
the mid-Atlantic two Senators to bal
ance the votes of Mr.. Hoar and Mr..
Lodge?"
Very good. Make the people of Porto
Rico citizens now, give them also the
constitutional rights of free trade and
so on. 'and you have already made the
island potentially a State" Exactly
And behind Porto Rico stand the Phil
ippines! And so the constitution be-
comes "a crazy quilt under whose dirty
folds must huddle the United States of
America. of the West Indies, of the
East Indies and of Polynesia; and pam
demonium is upon u.s." And again:
what holds a nation together, I'M
less it be community of interests, char
aeter and language, and contiguous ter
ritory? What would more thoroughly
insure its speedily flying to pieces than
the lack of every one of these requi-
sites? How manifestly under the in
congruous hodge-podge of additions to
the Union thus proposed, we should
have the exact conditions which have
invariably led to ssch downfalls else
where!'
Again very well spoken. But who, be-
sides the President, has done more than
Whitelaw Reid to attach this hodge
podge TO the fortunes of the nation and
annex it hard and fast as territory Of
the United States Springfield Repub-
lican.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
A "Hoieyn Terror.

If the Republicans failed to pass the
Porto Rican tariff bill they would put
themselves in hole, as far as the
trusts are concerned. and if they passed
it they would put themselves in a hole
so far as the voters are concerned. The
situation confronting the.g. o. p. seems
to be ''holey" terror. Kansas City
rT;oaoS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
senator PettiGrew Wants Light.

Senator PettiGrew Wants Light.
The Senator from South Dakota is a
thorn In the flesh of the Mckinley adj
ministration. He troubles their spirits
by his reasonable demand for infor-
nation concerning department mat
tiers. His last escapade is TO demand
the war record of Adiutant General
Corbin. whose promotion is opposed on
account of his bad record, but alas! as
Pettigrew discovered in the Philippine
imbroglio, the record of the court mar
tial that sat on Corbin for cowarsliee
and various other delinquencies turns
out to be missing. The Senator viii
now become :. double-dyed traitor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
Dress Makes the Man.

There were those who insisted that
Abraham Lincoln was not a statesman
and unfit to govern the country because
his pantaloons bagged at the knees,
just as there are Americans who
claim that the Beers are not entitled to
their freedom because they do not
battle every day and part their hair in
the middle. The proper badge of states
men under the Mckinley administra-
ton consists of knee brooches and
dropped "h's."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
No Suppression of Facts.

One thing is certain, there will be no
Hannaizing of the proceedings of the
National Democratic Convention ut
Kansas City as there was at Chicago
four years ago. Kansas City newspa
pers are not actuated by the kind of
partisanship that countenaces the
garbling and suppression of facts.
Kansas City Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
FOUND HIS MOTHER.
Claude Pippiu's Search Is Rewarded
After Twenty-three Years.

Mrs. ]. H. Lyles. of st. Louis. has
been reunited to her son after a sepa-
ration OF % years. The boy Claude
was a boy of 6 when his parents sepa-
rated, the father taking the son with
him 10 Canada, where he placed him
in convent school under an assumed
name. After visiting the boy two or
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27

The war department has given out
some details of trade with the Philip
pines for the three months ended with
September last. 1t appears that Great
Britain is taking much OF the export
trade of the islands and that Europe
altogether commands over two-thirtls
of this trade: while of imports into the
islands Europe contributed s.. Do. $50
and North America only S331.475. And
vet we understood that trade follows
the fiag.-Springield Republican.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
Mhr nidn,t They Do solnething

Ii some OF them ox-ofiicials, Sena-
tors. Governors. Cohgressmen and
town marShals WHO are going about the
country telling people what ought 70
he done 10 cure the evils which affiict
them. would explain WHY they didn't
do something when tncy had chance,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27

their advice would receive some recog-
milton. What the country needs is an
entirely new dispensation with fresh
intellects. capable of acting up to their
convictions. AS long as tie party is
in the control of hamfatters, sinks,
trimmers and ex-officials, sood-by.
Democracy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27

There is no use depreciating the ISL
ands, East or West, says Whitelaw
Reid to the Massachusetts Club. And
then he proceeds TO depreciate them in
the most scathing manner possible. tell
ing his hearers what perfectly hope
less, degraded, hybrid lot their people
Springfield Republican.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
Relvian Cities.

Antwerp in a century has risen from
5S.O00 10 $4,000. an increase OF 3S3 per
cent I.iege has advanced from 46.ssss
to 10000. Client from $1,000 to 49,
600: Brussels from G6.0o0 to $1,000
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27

There is one thing certain: the sons
OF the women who play cards sill day
wiz never torment their wives by
Boosting OF the good pies their mothers
used 10 make.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
Gigantic Moth.

The largest insect known to ento-
mologists is a Central American moth.
called the Erehus Strix. which expands
its wings from eleven to eighteen
inches.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27

A girls idea Of doing hard work is
shs time she spends calling her brother
10 come and oil the wood box.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27

. Times have changed: it IS no longer
possible to and man whom girl caa
astter By saying she prays fox him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27

has been a point of excursion and an
object of curiosity for sight seers ever
since it was built. Gen. Grant was
taken there on one occasion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
So che Rriti.n sax

The Boer believes the earth IS dat.
and that 1t would be impossible for rlv.
ers to flow northward IL 1t were round.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27

OR three days Ford
Ashcroft, editor of
the popular Nova
Days Magazine. has
been kept at home
by n wretched cold.
To-day be felt al
most himself again.
b ut a whistIing.
driving snowstorm.
a fierce blizzard,
such as sometimes
c+rtI-ac Nary Vo~i- -
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27

A little item from the Manila Tribune
gives a fair idea of The cost of living i'm
Americas Oriental capital. Lee You, a
Chinaman, runs restaurant and the
prices are given in Mexican money Steak
is worth % cents; bacon and eggs, the
same; pie, 10 cents coffee, 10 cents; tea.
5 cents; chicken, or chicken pot pie, CD
cents pork chops, % cents. Ii the prices
are reduced to American money they
would be just about one-half.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27

A mo- ia later the editor was startled
70 fin6 Among his personal mail at the
offi "a envelope bearing the postmark
Of Iynor.
my Dear Ford: ] have read the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27

The Manila (P. H. Times states that
the attendance of children at the Ma
Mia schools was 4,S49 for the month OF
November last, gain of thirty-two girls
and thirty-one boys as compared with the
previous month.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27

A well-known Cuban correspondent, j.
d. Whelpley, writes from Havana under
recent date that the feeling against an
neXation to the United States is surpris
ingly strong on the island. The Aneri-
can who visits Cuba to-day, he says. will
be astounded at the strenuous demand
for independence and the strong feeling
of resentment, Enthusiastically manifest, at
the continued presence Of Americans In
control of the islhna !"
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-04-05
Laws OF Medic, and Per.l,n,.

Several references are to be found
in the Scriptures relating to the laws
of the Modes and Persians. The
phrases which have become so famil-
lar to Bible and other readers regard
ing the unchangeableness of these
laws are taken from the Books of
Esther and Daniel. When the enemies
Of Daniel were afraid of his popularity
they formed conspiracy against him,
obtaining an idolatrous decree, which
Daniel was accused of breaking. They
pressed the king to sign the decree,
saving, Know, o king. that the law
of the Modes and Persians Is that no
decree or statute which the king es-
tablished may be changed" 1t is not
to be understood from this, however,
that a royal decree was in every sense
trrevocable or beyond the possibility of
modification or repeal, but rather that
edicts could not be caprlciously al
tered, and that the despot was bound
and regulated by past decisions and
presidents. How decree could be
neutralized, even though it could not
be reversed, is shown in the Book Of
Esthe-
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-04-05
A Candid Publishes.

IN the recent death of j. Schabelits.
the famous Zurich publisher and au-
thor, the world of art and letters has
lost one OF It's extraordinary charac-
tiers. He was a shrewd business man.
nm excellent linguist, skiiisul writer.
and probably the most savage publish
er who ever lived. When he accepted
the famous memoirs OF Count Won Ar
MIN, he wrote on the postal card, with
the acceptance, the proyiso: Il reserve
the right to correct your Internally bad
grammar" To an aspiring poet who
had submitted manuscript, he answer
ed by postal card: II refuse to be dis
graced by printing your doggerel. I
don't return the copy because you did
MT inclose enough postage. If you will
send 1t, with the price of this card,
will send 1t to you, but | don't think
the stuff Is worth the expense on your
part. One of his postal cards to a
novelist read about as follows: For
heavens sake, come and take away the
unnamable mass of paper you left here
for me to look at" An ambitious his
torian was crushed by the following,
written, like all Of his correspondence,
upon postal card: You are making
the mistake of your life. You don't
want to study history. You want to
learn how to write
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-04-05
No smoking In Aby.slnia.

Three travellers, one Of whom is an
American, were in Abyssinia recently
One afternoon after their midday cot.
fee they lit cigars. Hardly had they
done so when an official who was pass.
sng informed them through an inter.
prefer that smoking was prohibited in
that country, and that it would be well
fer them not 10 indulge in the practice
IN public. The travellers took the hint
The use Of tobacco, they learned after.
}fard had been prohibited in Abyssinia
since the year 1912. At that time
priests were in the habit of smoking
N churches, and the main object OF
the law then passed was to stop this
practice. After a few years, however
the law was made applicable to all
classes OF the people, and today strang.
efs in Abyssinla are politely informed
that If they want to smoke they must
80 where none Of the natives can see
them Or can smell the seductive weed
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-04-05
Liberty aud Brotherho..u,

OF liberty there are two ktnds-tha
false where man Is free TO do as liz
likes; the true, where he Is free 10
do what he ought to do the will OF his
Father And to do that he must be
free, not merely outwardly and politi-
cally, but inwardIy-in the spirit. That
inward liberty must be the cause and
reason of his outward liberty His
heart must be free from all degrading
preJndiees and falsehoods OF equality
there are two kinds-th false, which
reduces all intelleets and all characters
to dead level. and gives the same
power to the bad as the good, to the
wise as the foolish, ending thus in
practising the grossest inequality. and
the true equality, wherein each has
power to educate and use whatever fac
alties or talent God has given him.
and there are equal opportunities for
lsasqual characters, and every man Is
rewarded. not according to the guam
tity he has done, but according to s..e
proportion between what he has done
and what he was able to do, SO that of
him to whom little is given, little is
expected and he to whom most Is
given carries only with him the more
awful weight of responsibility.
OF brotherhood, also. there are Two
sinds-the false, when a man chooses
who shall be his brothers, and whom
he will treat as such, when he claims
his own class as brothers. also when
he claims man of his own opinions as
brothers, and not men who differ from
him; and true brotherhood. in which
a man believes that all are his broth
ers and not of the flesh, or of the man,
but of God. whose Children they are all
alike. when he feels it absurd and i'm
possible and practical denial of the
very name of brotherhood. 10 fraterniza
with one class and not with his en-
emies, as absurd as it would be in
him If, from private prejudice, he called
only one Of his mothers sons brother,
and denied his eternal and God-giyen
relations with all the rest.-Charles
Kingsley,