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effective and powerful OF educational
schools improve. and the civic spirit of the
community feels a new pulsation. The
standard OF Intelligence is raised, enlight-
ened interest in public affairs is quickened
and better citizenship follows.
THE benign influences of our free insti-
tutions difTuse themselves widely and inn
palpably, but the arm of the government is
directly felt at few points. The mails at
test the visible presence and service OF the
government, and not least among the
merits OF the rural free delivery is its crea-
ton of the satisfying conviction in the
farmer that he shares with the townsman
the manifest advantages OF which the gov
ernment is the direct minister. He feels
that the organized and helpful agency OF
his country comes TO his door. and the ef-
feet is to stir his conscious pride and stim-
uate his loyalty and patriotism.
with all these results clearly indicated
by the experiments as thus far tried, rural
free delivery is plainly here TO stay 1t
cannot be abandoned where il has been
established, and 1t cannot be maintained
without being extended. 1t is a service in
Those who enjoy its advantages will not
consent to surrender them. and every new
route creates demand from contiguous
territory for the same privileges. We are
thus confronted with the problem of grad
ually extending the delivery service over
the whole area of the country where ii is
physically feasible or where the popula-
ton is not so sparse as to make il unrea-
sonable. A project OF such comprehensive
and colossal character may seem formida-
bic and deterrent, but while its difficulties
are not to be underestimated, they are
shown, when examined in the light of
practical tests, TO be far from insurmount-
able.
TASK OF MAGNITUDE.
"We are now carrying the postoffice to
the door of 31,OO0.0 900 of people massed in
towns and cities. The task before us is the
more complicated work OF carrying the
postoffice TO the door OF about q 900 600.
scattered over 1000, 600 square miles of ter
ritory. Its magnitude is not TO be under
estimated. England, France, and Germany
make rural free delivery, their postmen go
ing on foot. But England contains 5o.S67
square miles, France 2O4.092, and Germany
2OSS0. We are already covering with rural
delivery a larger area than England. all
effected within the past two years. BY the
end of the current fiscal year We shall
reach one-sixth of the 21.OOO,OOc to be served.
What has already been substantially ac-
complished is certainly capable of skiold
expansion.
ION the 1st of July, 1893. there were 391
rural delivery routes in operation. With
in the fiscal year. under appropriation
of s450000, this number was increased TO
LIZA On the 1st of July, 1900, the appro-
priation of s1.75O.OOo became available. and
on the 18th of November 2,6lf routes had
CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COL. Sd
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Gen. III. G. oti. Not seeking once.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-It can be def
nitely and authoritatively stated that the
report that General Harrison Gray Otis
is in Washington seeking an official ap-
pointment is without foundation. In fact.
General Otis himself is authority for the
statement that he has not applied for
any appointment whatever under the ad-
ministration. He is not in Washington
on an office-seeking mission, and declares
that there is no warrant whatever for the
published statements to the contrary,
attention
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-10

celebration of the seat of government at
Washington. and there is a possibility of
adjourning from Thursday Until Monday of
next week.
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LONDON. Dec. s.-The visiting contingent
OF the Royal Canadian regiment attended
service yesterday at ST. Paufs cathedral.
returning thence TO the Kenslngton bar
racks. where Colonel Otter had arranged
they should have an opportunity to meet
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expenditures over

Total receipts from all sources. Sl02 354 5l9 y
Total expenditures for the year. 101, 1,74O,2 ~
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WASHINGTON, Dec 9.-The annual re-
port of the postmaster general, Charles
Emory Smith, is largely devoted to rural
free delivery, a subject that is of great
interest to every farmer. In reviewing the
financial operations of his department Mr.
Smith makes this statement of revenues
and expenditures for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1900:
Ordinary postal revenue. .Sl0O, ,S99, f5S Al
Receipts from money-order bus
mess ............... LASS, 1855
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-29
J THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.
The Date of the Second Annual Gymk-
hanna and Bicycle Race Meet
at Merrill.

The Lake View Cycle Club, composed
of some fifty of the leading young men
of Merrill, Wisconsin, will celebrate the
glorious Fourth by holding their Sec
ond annual Gymkhanna and Bicycle
Race Meet and promise to royalty en-
tertain each and every one who visits
their city on that date.
The gave "A most successful meet
last year, at which $500 in prizes was
given, and to assure good attendance
this year they have decided to increase
their prize list and have repaired their
track at an expense of over $500.
Wheelmen will do well to make their
arrangements so as TO take in this meet.
Low rates viii be given on all roads ut
that date. The completion of The Lin
coin, So, Zoo hotel, guarantees the best
of accommodation in that line Entry
blanks will he furnished and all queries
cheerfully answered by l.. j. Bruce,
corresponding secretary.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-29
NEW INSTITUTION.
May Locate Here With Proper En-
couragement.

a direct proposition has been made
to l.. A. Rose, secretary of the Wiscon-
sin Valley Advancement Association,
to place factory IN Wausau, one that
will give employment to a large num-
ber of men, and will create market
for from 30,000 to $50, ,O00 worth of farm
products. This matter will be dis
cGsSed at the meeting of the local adj
vancement association, which is called
for Saturday evening, at the court
house, at 7:30 o'clock. This win be fol-
lowed by another meeting, at which a
representative of the company making
the proposition to come here, will be
present. Everybody interested ia the
growth and prosperity of our city
should be present
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-29
EVERETT BOOMING.
Mr.. and Mrs. James McCrossen Re-
turned to Wausau on Wednes-
day Morning.

Mr.. and Mrs. James McCrossen re-
turned home from Everett, Washing
ION, last Wednesday morning, after an
absence of over four months. Both are
extremely well and look as if the
climate of the West fully agreed with
them. Mr. MeCrossen thinks that
Everett and vicinity has bright future
before it. When he arrived there last
January there was every indication of
boom, and while he owned some prop
erty he at once bought more, and has
since erected six buildings. He organ
lied what is known as the 'Wausau
and Everett Improvement Company" /"
in which the following well known men
are interested: James McCrossen, E.
A. Foster, w. Alexander and j. c. Cur
ran. The company now own consider
able real estate and 100000, 600 of stand
ing timber. Mr. McCrossen thinks that
Everett will grow from its present pop
ulation-10, ,000-to $4,000 people within
five years 1t has one of the best har-
bors on the Sound; is the terminus for
the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific railroads; has six large saw
mills and the same number of shingle
mills; Ex-Gov Cluff, of Minnesota, is
just now engaged in building large
saw mill with a capacity of 300, 900 feet
every ten hours; this mill will have in
connection box and sash and door
factory; its great smelter will have q
monthly pay roll, after the 1st of June,
OF $4,000; its large paper mill is in full
operation; railroad just completed to
the Monte Cristo" aud 'Silyerton"
mines. The government has appropri-
ated S450,000 to put in fresh water
dock, and work is to commence on this
July 1st.
Over 200 buildings have been erected
in Everett this spring, and many more
are under way Many of these build
ings are large and of solid brick Labor
is scarce and wages high There are a
good many people formerly of Wausau,
Merrill and Rhinelander living at
Everett, and those who have been
struggling TO hold on to property dur
ing the hard times will now reap their
reward.
Mr.. McCrossen finds it necessary to
return to Everett to look after the bust
ness OF the company, and says he may
be absent only few weeks and may
be for six months He leaves on Sat ur
day.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-29
FISH AND GAME PRESERVE.

E. +. Greyson, chairman of the COM
mittee appointed by w H. Bradley to
form Fish and Game Preserve Club,
has issued circular calling a meeting
of the committee at Tomahawk, on
Tuesday June 18th. The committee is
as follows:
E.. F. Greyson of Tomahawk, chair
man; ID. n. Winton of Wausau; Paul
Browne of Rhinelander; w. H Flett of
Merrill; A. NJ Pride of Tomahawk; w.
V. Silyerthorn of Mosinee; c. F. Cole
man of Eagle River; Jesse Sipes of
Hazelhurst; g. E. McDilI of Stevens
Point; E. Oberbeck of Grand Rapids.
and ihe intention is to secure a territory
covering some fifteen or twenty miles
bordering on Tomahawk and Big Rice
and nearby bodies of water in Lincoln
and Oneida counties. A free offer has
been made of several acres of land on
the bank Of the Big Rice River, few
rods from the depot at Heaford june
ton, on which to erect clubhouse and
for use as grounds. An effort is being
made for special transportation to en-
able the committee TO visit this site
Quite a number of outside the commit
have been invited to be present at the
meeting. and the same promises TO be 3
large as well as an interesting one
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-29
LARGE GENERAL SERVICE.
The Observance of Memorial Sunday
in the Opera House Thorough
Success.-An Excellent
Sermon by Rev.
Carrier.

The general service held in the Opera
House at 10:30 o'clock on Sunday morn
ing, for the proper observance of Mem
orial Sunday, was very largely attend
ed, the seating capacity of the house
being taxed to It's utmost A large
chorus choir occupied the stage, and il
was directed by f. NJ James. Cutler
Post g. A. r attended the service in a
body, occupying seats to the front
where they could distinctly hear the
words that fell from the lips of the
speaker, the Rev. w. o. Carrier. A
solo was feelingly sung by an old sol
dier of the Rebellion, J. n. James,
father of E. NJ James of this city, and
his voice showed trueness and sweet
ness of tone that is seldom heard from
one of his years. A collection was tax
en- for the famine sufferers in India,
about twenty-five dollars being realized
for that purpose.
The sermon delivered by Rev. w. O.
Carrier was a very strong one, depict
ing the growth, patriotism and large
heartedness of a liberty loving people.
He described the causes which led up
to the wars of our country, wars that
were in the interest of humanity at
large, and not for a selfish or one-sided
purpose. He paid glowing tribute to
the memory of the soldier dead, for
whom this nation can do but little to
show its love and depth Of gratitude;
and 70 the living, he gave thanks for
the noble example they had set us, Civ
ing into the hands of new generation
the principles which they helped to pre-
serve, and charging them to bear them
onward and upward, unsullied and un-
spotted rs when they were first wrought
out by men who had felt the heel of
despotism upon their necks For all
these blessings, u grateful nation will
strew flowers upon the graves of its sol
dier dead, tomorrow, Wednesday, May
Both.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-29
AT WAUPACA.

Prof Robt. B. Kanouse of the Reuter-
Kanouse Concert Co., now chorister of
the Congregational church at Madison,
has been engaged by the management
of the Camp Cleghorn Assembly at
Waupaca as director of the musical de-
partment of their Assembly which is
held at the chain of lakes each year.
The assembly dates for this year are
July 31st to Aug. 18th inclusive.
An elaborate program has been pre-
pared and it contains such names as
Hon. John Sobieski, of Missouri, the
Polish Patriot, Hon. Lou j Beauchamp,
of Ohio, the Laughing Philosopher, I"
Hon. Otto Dorner, of Milwaukee, Sec'y
of the Good Roads League, and a mum
ber of others.
This is the only Assembly in Wiscon-
sin which charges no admission fee to
the grounds.
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-29

Mrs. Staples will receive pupils for
vocal instruction. If
Jerry Bradley, under-sheriff of Mara
thon county, was in the city, last Fri
day, serving papers and greeting old
friends. We understand that Jerry
will be candidate for sheriff, this fall.
1t may not be seemly for US to select
officers for Marathon county, but the
writer lived fourteen years in that coun-
ty; during that time he came in con
tact with some good men and Jerry
Bradley is one of them. He is one Of
the old settlers of that county, has made
careful, painstaking under-officer and
it Is 10 more than fair that he should be
given one term as principal.-Colby
Phonagraph
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name for fair dealing and uprightness
which is far-reaching in that vicinity
AUGUST MANECKE

!" AAANA1 AS Asst a SaShih6 III ehbe sASihkeJ
AUGUST MANECKE,
eldest son of the Wausau jeweler, has 8
fine jewelry store in the Cherney build
ing, and carries a full and complete
line of fancy goods, clocks, watches
and silverware, besides being a dealer
in sewing machines and all kinds oi
musical instruments. August is skill
full and accomplished workman and
makes watch and jewelry repairing 8
speciality
NEW POP FACTORY.
Henry Shortner, former Marshtield
man, opened up new pop factory in
Edgar about year ago, and he has a
splendid establishment with all the
modern conveniences for making pop
lemon sour, birch beer, etc. His goods,
wherever they go, speak for themselves,
having won for him large trade,
which keeps him very busy filing or
ders and ministering to his customers
Henry is fine fellow and good busi-
ness man and deserves the liberal pat
ronage of his customers.
JULIUS E. MARQUARDT,
general blacksmith and maehinist, and
captain of the Edgar fire department,
is an oldtimer in Edgar and has a
large and increasing trade among the
farmers of that section. He attends
strictly to business and besides his gen.
eral blacksmithing does all kinds OF
wood work and repairing of machinery,
etc. He is man of good business
habits, skillful machinist and gen
eral all round favorite with the boys.
JOE PIwRNIC,
wagon-maker, has large and increas-
ing business, making all kinds of wag-
ons, sleighs, and doing general repairs
in all kinds of wood work. Joe has
grown to manhood in Edgar and is
successor to his father in business, who
owned and operated this shop previous
to his death in '91
JACOB sTRUPP,
blacksmith, is one of the boys that
makes life worth living in Edgar. He
has fine large shop and you can hear
his "bellows roar" and the steady blow
of his hammer from morning till night.
Besides doing all kinds of general
blacksmithing and wagon and sleigh
repairing, he makes fine horse shoeing
speciality.
c. d. RIFLEMAN,
owns a hotel and saloon in Edgar;
he commenced business about two
years ago, and has, by untiring zeal in
behalf of his guests, and by good busi-
ness management built up patronage
second to none in the place Charlie"
is well known all over the county as a
fair and square, honest, upright, down
right, good business man, and deserves
the general patronage of the public.
Edgar also has Cooperative Stock
Creamery Co., of which Herman Am
haus is president Julius Kroening vice.
president, and Gustav G. Hermann
secretary and treasurer. This is one of
the largest and well equipped creamer-
les in the county, and has a weekly
average of 400 or 1000 pounds of but
ter
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-29
Question Answered.

Yes, August Flower still has the
largest sale of any medicine in the
civilized world Your mothers and
grandmothers' never thought of using
anything else for Indigestion or Bill
iousness. Doctors were scarce, and
they seldom heard of Appendicitis,
Nervous Prostration or Heart Failure,
etc. They used August Flower to clean
out the system and stop fermentation
of undigested food, regulate the action
of the liver, stimulate the nervous and
organic action of the system, and that
is all they took when feeling dull and
bad with headaches and other aches.
You only need few doses of Green's
August Flower, in liquid form, to make
you satisfied there Is nothing serious
the matter with you. Sample bottles
at q. Naffz drug store.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-29
AT THE COURT HOUSE.
of the Local Advancement
Association.

meeting OF the Local advancement
Association.
There will be Il meeting of the Local
Advancement Association at the Court
Honse next Saturday evening, June I'd,
at 1880 o'clock. The purpose of the
meeting is TO consider "A proposition
made 10 the Secretary of the Wisconsin
Valley Advancement Association, by
a manufacturing institution for Wau-
san Mr.. Rose Will bc at home, address
the meeting and present the PROPOSE
ton to the citizens 1t i also requested
that the members of the Ladies' Auxil
liary Association be present, as matters
pertaining to The forthcoming trip of
the editors of Wisconsin to the valley
will be discasse,l Officers will be elect
ed for the advancement association at
this meeting.
WALTER ALEXANDER
w. IL. MYLREA
Jos. REIsER.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-29

The finest ice cream soda in the land
Young's.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-29

Ii sweet young widows want to
'keteh' some sweet hearr in the sunny
tangles of their golden curls, they'd
better take Rocky Mountain Tea Great
Medicine, soc. Ask your druggist w.
w. Albers.
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ANT1DoTEs FOR POISON.

Prompt action in cases Of accidental
poisoning will frequently save life. and
1t Is very important to have some
knowledge Of the best methods Of treat
ment in cases of emergencies. The first
thing ID to produce vomiting, so as to
eject the poison from the stomach.
Mustard. salt and water, a cup of luke
warm water and a little soda or pow
dered borax added. or an active emetic
may be given. The following table Of
simple antidotes will be found useful:
Acids-Milk, chalk. borax water.
Copper. verdigris. zinc, corrosive sub
Innate and creosote poisons may be
treated by producing vomiting and then
administering white of egg and sweet
milk.
For poisons from alkalies, lead or
mushroom. vinegar and oil should be
given freely.
For cases where the cause is not
known 1t will be found safe to give an
emetic. followed by stimulant in
sweet milk.
For external poisons. such as poison
ivy or other plants. battle the affected
parts with strong borax water. apply q
poultice of tansy leaves. moistened with
sweet cream. and keep the system in
good condition by taking some cooling
simple medicine.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-07-27
Try to Capture Aquinaido.

New York. Especial "A Washing
ton dispatch to the Journal says: Gem
eral Otis 10 expected to effect the cap,
ture Of Aguinaldo within a week. Az .
result Of the situation It was decided by.
the president and his official advisers
to cease American military operations
on the island OF Panay with the occu-.
patton Of 1loilo. It Is believed that
lif Aguinaldo is captured. or his army
on Luxon destroyed and he fees, the
rebellion will be at an end.
One Of the cabinet officers said after
sthemeeting that an aggressive cam-i
paign against Aguinaldo was necessary
for the reason that the American army
must be relieved OF the constant and
wearisome guarding against surprises
by rowing bands Of gueFrillas and be-
cause such warfare would be kept up,
as long as Aguinaldo remained at large.
Instructions were sent to General
Otis to advise General Miller TO sus-
pend operations on the island Of Pa
nay. General Miller is expected to as
sumo control Of the city Of Iloilo. raiss.
the American nag on the public build
ings, assert American sovereignty over
the whole island OF Panay and main
tain order under . military gpvern-
ment similar 70 that with which ~
was familiar a Maniia.
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Yet for even this telegram he half
apoIopized two DAYS later:

apologized two days later:
Most certainly intend no injustice
to any, and If have done any deeply
regret it. To be told, after more than
five weeks total inaction of the army,
and during which period we have sent
to the army every fresh horse we pos
sibly could. amounting in the whole to
1913. that the cavalry horses were too
much fatigued to move, presents a
very cherries. almost hopeless, pros
pect for the future, and 1t may have
forced something of impatience in my
dispatches
One pleasant feature of Mr.. Lin
coins relations with his generals was
the heartiness with which he acSnowl-
edged every advance. God bless you
and your army" was the gist of many
a telegram, many q verbal message
which he sent. Perhaps of all these
corAatulatory messages none is pleas
anter reading in the light Of later
events than the presidents letter to
General Grant after Vicksburg. In a
way it may be called Lincoln's first
recognition Of Grant:
Major General Grant: My Dear
General do not remember that you
and I have ever met personally. I
write this now as grateful acknowl-
edgment for the almost inestimable SER
vice you have done the country. wish
to say word further. When you
first reached the vicinity Of vicksburg,
/ thought you should do what you
finally did-march the troops across the
neck, run the batteries with the trans
ports, and thus go below, and never
had any faith, except a general hope,
that you knew better than I, that the
Yazoo Pass expedition and the like
could succeed. When you got below
and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and
vicinity. thought you should go down
the river and join General Banks, and
when you turned northward, east of the
Big Black, feared it was mistake. I
now wish to make the personal ac-
acknowledgement that you were right and
1 was wrong. Yours very truly.
IA. LINCOLN"
Comparatively little of these close re-
lations of Lincoln with his generals was
known to the public during the war. It
was not until twenty years after his
death, when his secretaries, Messrs.
Nicolay and Hay, published their great
work, which must remain for all time
the most important source for the his
tory Of Abraham Lincoln, that the
greater number Of these wise. keen
and kind letters were given to the pub
lie. It remains to be seen whether 20
years from now Mr.. McKinley's chosen
biographer will be able to lay before
the world any corresponding docu-
ments.