Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-01-22
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Salem, Mass. elected pawnbroker
Mayor. and now he is giving away his
entire salary to the pYor. 1t evens up
things. St Paul Dispatch.
When they talk about new coins,
what's the matter with a Scent piece? 1t
would just fit the modern style Of pric-
ing soods.-Mon;gomery tAla) Adver-
tiser.
If capital punishment We're Gecreed for
every person found guilty Of abdueting
children for ransom, the penalty would
be an excellent fit for the crime-Phila-
deiphia Bulletin.
So small a thing us a semicolon pre-
vents the sale Of liquor in Bostons ho-
tells between II and 6 at night. Be
careful how You punctuate henceforth.-
Kansas City Ssar.
The punishment Of the brigand cannot
be made too severe. If hanging is the
regular thing for the train robber, train
robberies win become much less frequent.
Louisville Dispatch.
The Duke of Manchester says he would
have gone to work long ago, but he
couldn't ind job What this country
needs is labor union for American
ukes.-Pittsburg News
The Oregon's great trip around the
Horn cost $47,9S7 and $50,266 for coal.
1t was well worth the price, seeing that
it proved what our ships could do in the
matter of distance New York Sun.
Villains who are willing to trade on
the natural anguish of distracted fathers
and mothers in order to reap m infamous
reward deserve no more mercy than so
many mad Philadelphia Bulletin.
The simple delights of being ''exercis-
ed and "br.accd" and compelled to quail
ify in Sammy" and prunes at West
Point undoubtedly make life for the ca
diets there well worth living Baltimore
News.
Saloons will never be broken mp by
women throwing things at them. There
certainly could have been little surprise
when that Kansas woman threw stones
at a saloon and hit herself Louisville
Courier-Journal.
\ pair of Chicago professors are claim
ing that the secret of long life lies in the
eating of great deal of salt. The in
ference is that if you want to live to a
good, old age, you mustn't be too fresh.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
One difficulty about titled son-in
law is that the young man is usually
obliged to spend a great deal of money
in order to keep before, the public and
make the title seem 30 amount TO any
thing. Washington Star.
There are more applicants for places
on the staff Of the new army regiments
than for positions on the line. Soldier
ing and sailoring are not attractive EN-
Payments, except for those who do the
commanding Philadelphia Record
The records will soon show that no
class of Americans in that country is
entitled to more praise for its course
during the Chinese uprising against for
eigners than the American missionaries,
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
The secret of success in great modern
business, railroad or other, is not great
profit from high prices on a limited de-
mand; it is the much greater aggregate
profit from the extended demand spring
ing from low prices.-New York Times
As might have been expected, the Chi
cago University elixir of life discovery
has moved various and divers esteemed
contemporaries to- remark that the theory
is to be taken osm grano sails Great
minds in similar thannels aow.-C Chicago
Chronicle.
The effect of good roads upon any conn
Try district is almost to be compared WI III
the effect of good circulation of the
blood upon the vigor tnd heaItiness of
the human body 1t is all-peryading; it
is felt every day and every hour.-Balti-
more News.
The luckiest person, probably, who has
ever lived on this old, round earth is the
American citizen who, in this year Of
grace 1901, is near to middle age. That
condition affords a standpoint for COM
palison that is well-nigh priceless.-Kan-
sas City Star.
VIII the American citizen a hundred
years hence regard the steam locomotive
and the steamship in the same way in
Which this generation recalls the stage
COACH and the bluff-bowed sailing vessels
that transported passengers in 1907
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Speaker Henderson, ultimatum that
no public building bills shall be passed
at this term probably is to emphasize the
fact that Uncle Sam doesn't want to be
bothered with new postoffices while he is
busy planning a Sl50O00,000 canal-St.
Louis Giobe-Democrat
Evidence adduced at the Booz investi-
cation is in support Of the theory that
West Point cadets are laboring under the
misrepresentation that they are being
trained at public expense for the prize
ring instead Of the army.-Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
When the people Of any county or com
munity can be induced to uphold the law
against mob violence, the officers will be
better and brayer and more resolute and
mohs will not be so easily formed 10 pun
ish criminals who should be punished by
the law.-Nashville Banner.
This country is becoming more and
more the object of the attention of the
foreign visitor Last year 10000 cabin
passengers in excess Of the year before
were landed here. In time Europe viii
begin 10 pay back III this fashion a con
siderable part Of the American cash
spent abroad.-New York Sun.
We would suggest that wealthy young
ladies who have romantic ideas and who
long to marry coachmen. baseball play
ers or nobIemen peruSe Thackeray's Sc
quel to 'Ivanhoe." BY 50 doing, they
may. some day. find husband who will
not compel them to seek redress in the
divorce courts.-Albany Press knicker
booker Express.
Considering all that it has accomplish
ed for the world. the present century has
cause to feel somewhat sighted at the
preparations for hustling il our Of the
way. to give a yociferous welcome 70 its
successor Ii Is hy no means certain.
even yet that the coming century is
bringing along the millennium Balti-
more American.
|. There is a religious revival going on
out In Indiana which seems 10 be Of the
genuine kind. A penitent recently CON
fessed that he took bride money from the
Republicans and then voted for Bryan.
A revival that can DO anything for such
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