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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
Our Duty to Porto Rico.

Since the ceSsion Porto Rico has been
denied the principal markets she had
long enjoyed, and our tariffs have been
continued against her products as when
she was under Spanish sovereignty.
The markets of Spain are closed to her
products except upon terms to which
the commerce OF all nations is subject
ed. The Island of Cuba, which used
to buy her cattle and tobacco without
custom duties. now imposes the same
duties upon these products as from any
other country entering her ports. She
has, therefore, lost her free intercourse
with Spain and Cuba, without any com
pensating benefits in this market. Her
coffee was little known and not in use
by our people, and, therefore, there was
no demand here for this, one Of her
chief products. The markets of the
United States should be opened up to
her, products. Our plain duty is to
abolish all customs tariffs between the
United States and Porto Rico, and give
her products free access to our mar
ets.-~From President McKinleys mes
sage to Congress.
Later. as amended: "Our plain duty
is to establish such customs tariffs be-
tween the United States and Porto Rico
as will be most agreeable to the sugar,
tobacco and Standard Oil trusts, and
give her products access to our markets
In such manner as viii not hurt our own
infant industries"
Later, No. 2: Owing to the disap-
prevail OF the nation of the action of
Congress. in taking the sole RESPONSE
bility of imposing tariff duties on the
Porto Ricans. and the contingency of
my defeat next November, if this policy
be continued, / revert to my prior opin-
ion."
Later, No. 5: SIT appearing that the
campaign fund will be seriously i'm
paired by yielding to the Porto Rican
anarchy and conceding free trade,
hereby return to my former opinion"
Later, No. 4 'Damfino where I am
at Who will haul down the fiag?"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27

Immense Work of Engineering in
Pennsylvania VIII He DESTROYED.

Immense Work of Engineering in
Pennsylvania VIII Be Destroyed.
1t Is authorltatiVely stated that the
famous Kinzua yiaduct. the gigantic
iron girdeF and trestie bridge in Nc
hean County, Pennsylvania. south of
Bradford. is to be replaced at an early
date by new and wholly different
structure. Work Oh 1t was begun on
May 5. 1852. and II was completed and
opened for traffic less than four months
later. on Aug. 90. 1882. 1t is 30l feet
high at the highest point and until
the completion of the Garabit viaduct
was the highest bridge In the world.
The Garabit spans the Truyere IN the
south OF France. Is 1919 feet long and
at the highest poins the rail level is
401 feet above the river. Ii was de-
signed by NJ. Eiffel. builder of the fam
Gus tower. and was completed in 1884.
The Kinzua bridge is 1850 feet long.
Its completion gave TO the New York.
Lake Erie and Western Railroad d.
rect communication with the coal fields
Of Western Pennsylvania. Tie Buff
falo. Rochester and Pittsburg has a
traffic arrangements with the Erie FOR
the use OF the bridge. The valley of
the Kinzua. which this great trestle
spans, is fifteen miles south OF Brad
ford and one of the widest regions yet
left in Western Pennsylvania Until
recently. perhaps even yet. bear were
plentiful and deer occasionally found
in this valley. The Klnzua viaduct
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
FINANCIAL Bill is Law.
President Mckinley AfIixes His sigma
fure to Measure.

his
ture to Measure.
President Mckinley signed the fnan-
cial bin Wednesday, afternoon, after it
had been signed by the president pro
TEN. of the Senate in open session.. and
Immediately the measure became a law.
In explaining the provisions of the bill
Secretary Gage said:
1.-THE bill reafIirms that the unit of
value is the dollar, consisting of twenty
FIVE and eight-tenths grains of gold nine,
tenths fine and makes the duty of the
Secretary of the Treasury to maintain
all forms of money issued or coined at
a parity with this standard. 1t puts into
the hands of the SECRETARY ample power
to do that. For that purpose the bill
provides in the treasury bureaus of issue
and redemption, and transfers from the
general fund Of the treasary's cash $780,
100000 in gold coin and bullion to the
redemption fund, that gold to be used
for the redemption of United States notes
and treasury notes. The law permits ma
tional banks with $4,000 capital to be
organized in places of 5000 inhabitants
or less, whereas heretofore the minimum
capital has been $4,000 1t also per-
mits banks to issue circulation on all
classes of bonds deposited up to the par
value of the bonds, instead of 80 per
cent of their face, as heretofore. This
ought to make an immediate increase in
national bank circulation of something
like So, 100000. National banks are per-
mitted under the law to issue circula-
tion up to an amount equal 20 their cap
ital. The total capital Of all national
banks is $G16,000,000. The total circula-
ton outstanding is $253,000,OOO. There
is, therefore, possibility of an increase
in circulation of 1893, 900, 900"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
ANOTHER TRUST PROPHET.

Mr.. j. Pierpont Morgan. whose name
has heen linked with various profitable
schemes. notably a rake-off of ten or
fifteen millions ia United States bond
Transaction less than hundred years
ago, writes'a letter to the public deplcr-
ing freight determinations.
While have no personal knowledge
of such evils, no man deplores then:
more than / do. | supposed that the
interstate commerce law would abolish
such determinations and punish every
body participating in them but it is un=
fortunate that no substantial results
have been accomplished in this respect.
The remedy is in publicity and the law
must be enforced. The railroads suffer
by these determinations. and so long
as the violators of the Law &C free, it
is dScouraging TO the railway compa-
MES, and they must either adopt the
same illegal course or meet secret con-
cessions by an open tariff The remedy
is severe. but ought 10 be. effective.
You committee OF small shippers who
wrote mel have my sympathy and SUP
port in your efforts to conserve railroad
revenue and the protection of ship.
pers."
In the artime increased railroad
revenue" p3urs into Mr.. Morgan's cot
fers. but he doesn't know where 1t
comes from. With such balderdash,
Pecksniffian sentimentality the Chicago
Times Herald (Rep.) thinks it can inn
pose trust benevolence upon a trustGag)
people!
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
1he Lann or MindmiIl..

Great tapping sails all over the land
make Holland look as If Il flock of huge
sea birds were just settling upon Ii.
There are said TO be at least 10000 OF
these windmillS In Holland. They are
employed in saving timber, beating
hemp. grinding corn and many other
kinds of work; but their principal use
is for pumping water from the low
lands into tue canals and for guarding
against the inland freShets that so
often deluge the country. Many of the
windmills are quite simple affairs, but
some of the new ones are admirable.
They are so constructed that by an in
genious contrivance they present their
fans or wings to the wind in precisely
the right direction to work with the
requisite power. In other words, the
miller may indulge in n quiet little
sleep and leave his mill to study the
winds and make the most of them
without his assistance.
IL there is only q little wind every
sail will spread itself to make the most
of it; but if big '.blow" should come,
they will all shrink up and give it only
half chance TO move them. If you
want to see windmills in all their glory,
you must pay visit 10 the land of
MISUNDERSTANDING Dispatch.
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Imperial Magnanimity.

Filled with the consciousness of q
high and holy purpose, President Nc
Kinley on March / instructed Secre-
tary Root to authorize the use of ST.
100000 in affording relief to the people
of Porto Rico. This is the answer
which the administration desires to
make to the charge that in helping the
passage of the House bill it has lost
sight of the interests of the people of
that island There is no authority in
the law appropriating the money FOR
such expenditure, but an amendment
to this effect was added TO the Senate
Porto Rice bill.
This is ali very laudable, but the mis-
fortune of it is the money does not
come out of Mr.. McIlinleys own peck
ct, but out of the royal treasury, which.
in former times, was considered as be-
longing TO the people. Another misfor-
tune is: All this money win be gath
cred in Porto Rican duties by the sugar
trust, tobacco and other trusts. 1t is
too tough. Truly Mr.. Mckinley is a
philanthiopist of royal, nervy, imperial
proportions, particularly when the con-
sumers of sugar and tobacco pay the
bill.
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GREAT COKE ANo COAL YEAR.
Tremendous Output of Both Expected
in Western PENNSYLVANIA in 1900.

Tremendous Output of Both Expected
in Western Pennsylvania in 1900.
This year viii witness the greatest
era in the coke and coal regions of
Western Pennsylvania in their history.
In the ConnellSville coke region more
new ovens viii be built than in any
previous year, and the coke production
will be increased fully 20 per cent.
There are now projected and in the
course of erection more than 1000 new
ovens. which will be put in operation
by the middle of the coming summer,
which will run the total of the coke
region up to 21,000 ovens. At the be-
ginning of the present year there were
in operation in the region 1904 ovens.
During the past twelve months the
price of coke has nearly doubled, and
the demand to-day greatly exceeds the
production. At the present price, So,
the business is most profitable. Two
years ago coke was selling for 81 ton.
The production of the coke region for
1897 was S,5O0.000 tons, while during
the year 1899 9,529.0O0 tons was ship
ped from the Connellsyille region. The
1897 product was valued at $4,000, 600,
while that of last year represented q
value of $20.50O.000. The enlarged ca
pacity will increase the product for
1900 to about 100000 tons. with a
value of nearly $30,000,000.
just now there is famine in coke.
The famine is not acute because coke
can be had for immediate delivery. but
only in small quantities. Coke makers
are Just now getting So ton for fur
mace coke and 1925 for foundry coke.
Western Pennsylvania coke is now
bringing $3.50 at Cincinnati and $3.50
at st. Louis. All kinds of coal have
greatly advanced in prices, and today
there is not an idle mine in all Western
Pennsylvania. In many cases the
wages of the miners have been adj
vanced greatly. The coal famine has
induced many large rittsburg consum-
ers to bay up coal lands. and many new
mines will be opened soon. A large syn
dicate, formed of Pittsburg consumers,
has obtained control OF more than
100000 acres of rich coal lands
around the city, and will operate mines
TO supply their manufacturing plants.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
The Umbrella Bird.

The umbrella bird. which has some
resemblance TO a crow both In size ana
plumage. Is so called from wide crest
which spreads out above its head like
a parasoi. This crest is composed of
long slender feathers, rising from a
contractile skin or the top OF the head
The shafts ara white. and the plume
glossy blue. hair-likc, and curved out
ward at the tip. When the crest is laid
back the shafts from compact white
mass sloping up from the top OF the
head. and surmounted by the dense
hairy plumes, but when fully spread
the top forms perfect. slightly elon-
gated dome. of beautiful shining blue
color. The length of this dome from
front to back is about Eve inches, the
breadth four TO four and half inches
This bird is native of the islands Of
the South American rivers, being sell
dom If ever seen on the mainland.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
Easily demonstrated.

A simple. quick and effective method
of resting tired eyes has been discoy-
cred by a French author. He had been
obliged TO spend almost the entire night
writing an article that must be ready
for the printers ia the morning. His
eyes gave ont at last. and he was COM
PEELED to stop a while to give them
rest. Turning from the half-anished
page of manuscript, the eyes of the
writer fell upon some gay scraps of col
.ored silk which formed a part of
patchwork quilt upon which his wife
had been working before she went TO
bed. The gay colors seemed to have
peculiar attraction for the wearied
eyes, which remained fixed on them
for several minutes. On resuming
work the writer found his eyes almost
as fresh as they We're on commencing
his work. Subsequent experiments
gave the same result, and now this
author (whose name is not given has
his inkstand so surrounded by brilliant
ly colored striped silk material that his
eyes must rest on the later every time
that he dips his pen into the ink In
this manner. it is claimed. the eyes are
kept fresh and feeling easy. even after
hours of work. The experiment. costs
but little to try, and is easily made, al
any rate. whether the story IS an inyen-
ton or not.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
,1iAA'a4a1sASsiASGsAGse.AsA9iAse-
{ CHURCH AND CLERGY. <
= ~ ne AZ ~ an. ANi1

The average salary paid to Methodist
preachers in the United States last year
was $473.35.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton in Rome is now six years old and
is in iourishing condition.
Efforts haze been started in Brooklyn
to give the gospel in some direct form
to every adult during 1900.
Last year the Presbyterian Church in
England contributed 100000 to missions
and other plihanthropic objects.
Two young Christian Cinnamon in
Iloilo have started a movement for the
Christianization of the Filipinos.
An international congress Of Roman
Catholic workingmen will be held in
Paris during the coming summer.
An effort will be made to raise S., O00.-
900 to insure the perpetuation of the d..
l.. Moody institutions ut Mortified.
The Methodist Year Book, which has
just been issued, shows in the United
States 7,5S3 ministers and 2,S7l,S49
prObationers.
The Congregational Church Building
Society received for its work last year
nearly $250,000. The loan fund now ex-
ceeds S650,000.
Publishing firms state that the rise in
the price of Bibles is caused by the ad.
vance in paper, and Lot by desire to
form Bible trust.
The Rev. DIR. Guinness Rogers has re
tired from his pastorate Of Grafton
Square Chapel, London, after a minis
try Of fifty-four years.
The nonconformist church choirs OF
London will hold singing contest at
Crystal Palace in June, in which ehoirs
viii compete for prizes OF money and
1000 adult singers viii give a concert.
4 movement is on foot to reorganize the
City Of Bradford. England, from a
church point Of view. The building Of
new churches, the removal Of unnecessary
ones, and the Encouragement OF parishes
are included in the scheme.
The Mohaumedan students at Cam
bridge University have formed an assoc
citation which meets for prayer and the
study Of the Koran.
Bishop Charles +. Mcdonnell, Of
Brooklyn. has asked leave to 20 TO Rome,
and about twenty-five prominent priests
Of the diocese viii 80 with him.
The Bishop OF London, speaking at the
Royal Society Club, defined a cab as
place where the women ceased from
troubling and the wicked were Ct rest.
The Rev Mr.. Steytler Of Cape Town.
pro Boer clergyman. has closed his ac-
count wita the leading grocer. saying
thar he preferred TO deal with a Dutch
man.
Cardiaei Vaughan Is magazine own
er as xeil as a churchman, being pro-
prietor OF the Dublin Review.
President Anderson OF the Southern
Mormon mission field says that there are
1900 Mofmons IN South Carolina and
10000 10 eleven Southern States.
The Rev. Dr. Howard Osgood, the Old
Testament scholar. has resigned the place
OF head Of the Rochester Theological
Seminary. which he has held for twenty
Eve years.
The Church Army or England has sen
to the front a number Of is eyangclists
to help the military chaplains and aid in
hospital work. Sir Charles Warren -
al active acherent Of the army.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-27
POWERS w ARMED OFF
BRITAIN GIVES NOTICE THAT
INTERVENTION MEANS WAR.
American State Department Receives
Lord Salisbury's Answer, Which
Plainly Says Keep Outdoors Now
Determined to Fight to the End.

Great Britain, in her answer received
by the State Department IN Washington
TO the overtures for peace submitted by
the United States Government in behalf
of Presidents Kruger and Steyn, serves
notice on all tie nations Of the world
4hat she will not tolerate any interfer-
ence by any OF them with The prosecution
of the war in South Africa. This ultl-
matum is distinctly set forth IN Lord
Salisbury's response, the declination 81
the Boer suggestion that the United
States be permitted to mediate being APP
plicable by Lord Salisbury to ANY ma
ton" 1t is regarded as warning to
Russia and France that If they attempt
to bring the war to an end before the
British Government is ready to make
terms of peace the two continental pow
ers must be prepared to fight Great Brit
ain. That is the plain English of Lord
Salisburx's brief reply.
Lord Salisbury has probably voiced the
will OF the majority of the British peo-
pie by sending notice to Presidents kru-
ger and Steyn that her majesty's gov
ernment is unprepared TO assent to the
independence of either the South Afr3-
The correspondence between the South
African executives and the British prime
minister was laid before Parliament.
Lord Salisbury places the sole response.
bility for the war on the republics and
announces Great Britain's determination
not to acquiesce in the further existence
of Boer independence in South Africa
The dispatch received from the two
presidents does not read much like the
Supplicatiou of a thoroughly beaten and
penitent foe. 1t is regarded in London
rather as a reasonably frank statement
of the situation from the BpeF point of
view. containing, too, pronounced sug-
gestion that unless the independence of
the republics shall be recognized the war
will be continued to the limit of the abil-
ity of the republican allies. although the
overwhelming pre-eminence of the Brit
ish empire is conceded
Washington officials take the note from
the British Government compacently,
and say that, having done all that inter-
national courtesy could demand, nothing
further will be done except to act as
medium for the transmission of messages
between the contending powers.
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dreamy eyes, the exact color Of wood
yiolets; to the great black forest of oS-
trich plumes that formed her hat; to
the geometric curve of the towering
collar of her cape At any rate, she
looked as if she might have sauntered
out of the pages OF some Journal of
fashion-a beautiful denizen of picture
paper land, where skirts always hang
in just the proper folds aud trousers
never bag at the knee.
Everybody looked at her, the men adj
miringly and the women coldly, as they
always do when another woman is bet
ter dressed, and size withstood the scru
tiny with regal composure. She did
not seem aware that anybody else was
present. At last the car neared her
corner. and when she had pressed the
button and the wheels were almost at
a standstill she arose calmly and glided
down the aisle. She was at the door
when the car came to a full stop. and,
seeing her stagger slightly from the
shock, the conductor instinctively laid
his Land upon her arm.
1t was courteous and respectful act
and one that might have saved her
from fall. but the instant his fingers
touched her sleeve the naughty beauty
leaped backward as If she had seen an
apparition. Her delicate face went
pale and her dreamy eyes blazed.
Don't touch me. sir" she exclaimed.
with a harshness that shocked and as
tonished every hearer. The conductor
was a plain. kindly man. and, flushing
with modification and chagrln, he
turned back to his platform, while the
young woman gathered her skirts and
passed swiftly through the door. We'll.
| must say" remarked an elderly gen.
tleman who had taken In the episode
over the top of his newspaper, that
was about the most painful exhibition
of supercillousness ever witnessed In
my life. Pshaw! No wonder the poor
are embittered" There was a growl
of approval and the conductor thrust
smiling face through the doorway.
Don't blame de young lady. gents"
he said. cheerlly. "She explained it all
when she was gettin' off. She didn't
mean nothin'. You see, she's just been
vaccinated."
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story. Under Orchard Boughs.s In the
Nowadays. and though you have
changed the names of the people and
of the place knew at once that 1t was
our story. But. dear. you should not
have ended it as you did. When Fred
Reynolds falls asleep in the little rail-
way station. where he is waiting for
bis train, and the young girl comes in
with her armful OF apple blossoms.
whose fragrance. stealing into his
dreams. mikes him fancy himself once
moro Ia the old orchard; when he
wakes to find 1t but a dream, and
knows at last the one thing his life has
lacked in the midst of Its seeming pros
perity; when. seized with sudden
heartsick longing for sight OF the
Faith he had known. he rushes to the
ticket Office and asks for ticket to the
little village; ali. Ford. why did you
not let him carry out his first Impulse.
why did you make him hesitate and
turn his back on the hope he might
have made his own?
II cannot say more than this-if you
Fl
care to come to Rayn0r you will find
me waiting In the old orchard. and yon
will find me still
FAITH THORNE."
Ford Ashcroft crushed the letter In
his hand with muttered imprecatcn.
Coward he said to himself tiercely.
Couldn't have found enough literary
material without dragging poor little
Faith into print? 1t was q dastardiy
thing to do. but who would have
thought she would have seen the thing
And now"
He hastily put the letter In his pocket
as the sound of voices was heard In the
hail. The next moment the door was
thrown open and two children rushed
in, the older one exclaiming breath
lessly. Papa. papa, the carriage has
come, and mamma is ready, and you
said you'd go to wide wiz US to-day.
cause it's my birthday, and I'm years
old"
Ashcroft picked up the child and
gave her half dozen kisses in honor
of the day. Then he went for drive
with his wife and little ones, the
pathetic letter from Faith Thorne still
in his pocket.-Chicago Times-Herald.
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malnsprings to repair after warm,
humid day than at any other time.
Others believe the breaking to be due
to electric disturbances. stating that
after an electrical storm they find that
many of their customers bring their
watches TO them for repair. The sud
den cooling and consequent eoDtrac-
ton of the tightly wound handspring.
caused by the removal OF the watch
from the body on cool night following
a warm day. is believed by some TO ac-
count. In measure. for the accidents
mentioned. So far. however. no en-
tirely satisfactory explanation has
been suggested. The only conclusion
to be drawn from the acknowledged
facts OF the case is that it is not safe
for the matchmaker to infer. merely
from the breaking OF a handspring.
that it Is OF an Inferior grade. nor for
his customer TO believe the watchmak-
er deficient in skill because the main
spring Of his timcpiece has snapped
shortly after being replaced.