Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31

One Ohio legislator has hit the nail ON
the head. He says there is too much
egislation.-Toledo News.
Subject for Miss Stones lecture when
she starts out: How | died. lived and
died again. Buffalo Times
The fellow that first penned: what
goes up must come down." never had any
experience with the price OF coal.-To-
ledo News.
1t does seem that the Indians were
| dying rapidly enough without getting
them interested in football.-Topeka
Journal
As usual the principal business of the
majority in the House of Representa-
tiyes will be to apportion the jobs.-De-
troit News.
In few days they will begin charging
admission at the ST. Louis fair grounds.
| This is a huge endeavor TO be previous.
st. Paul Dispatch.
Ii President Roosevelt really wishes to
escape office seekers occasionally one of
those new submarine boats would be just
the thing Washington Times.
Those in charge are now inclined to
believe that the ship subsidy baby was
dead when first left on Senator Hanna's
doorstep. Rapids Press.
The time may even come when the
courts will rule that legislative employees
are not entitled to salaries that have not
been earned.-Detroit Free Press.
If Mr.. Carnegie is looking for ma
tional board to spend $10000,000 for him
| Congress will be glad to show how easily
it can be done.-Grand Rapids Press.
A baseball catchers mask might be rec
commended to Servia's queen as the way
of mitigating King Alexander's face
slapping habit.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The beefeaters in Philadelphia, who
pay from 20 to % cents per pound for
their steaks. are helping to make million
aires out Of the packers in western cities.
Philadelphia Record.
According to the Boston Commercial
Bulletin, promoter is one of those fell
lews who can sell you colander for
washbasin. We have yet to hear bet
ter definition. Buffalo Times.
What with beef soaring slyward and
potatoes and apples already there, we
shall soon have to be content with such
cheap things as turkey, pate de foie gras
and strawberries.-St. Paul Globe
Experience has effected great change
in Senator Platt. When he is thrown
down now by a President, he calmly
brushes the dust off his clothes and
claims he slipped.-Detroit Free Press.
Out in California they have imported
from China a beetle which eats the San
Jose scale, the pest of fruit growers. But
now they are trying to find something
which will eat the beetle.-Buffalo News.
If it wasn't for Theodore Roosevelt
some of the magazines might be lely
put to it for interesting matter. They
are making copy for him in surprising
| ly continuous way.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer
Harper's Weekly refers to the Tam
many leader as ''the late Mr.. Croker, an
choice, and New Yorker by profession,
whose favorite color is the long green"
Buffalo Times.
The sad lesson of the trouble in Hol-
| land is that real royal queens" Ike or
binary feminine mortals, are likely to
make a mess of it when they try to re-
form rakes By marrying them.-New
York Evening Sun.
If mathematicians can be relied on, q
number of Tammany braves will he oblig-
| ed to make cuts in their bill of fare. 1t
| is estimated that their annual loss in
plumber will be about $4,000. 000.-Co-
| lumbus, Ohio, Dispatch.
The tendency appears to be in the d.
rection Of fewer elections and longer OF.
| fetal terms. Alabama has limited regu-
lar legislative sessions to one in four
years, and has fixed the Governors term
at the same Psychological Journal.
If Sampson is entitled to prize money,
| it seems as though the law should be
amended so as to allow share to the
| Secretary of the Navy and the President.
| They had as much to do with smashing
Ceryera's fleet as Sampson did.-Topeka
Journal.
Senator Hoar has flashes OF genius yet.
He advises the nations to all deport their
anarchists to one island where they could
establish their ideal community without
any law. After time the survivor could
be brought away to some insane asylum.
Buffalo News.
Prince Henry may be brute of a
drunken German, ard he may not. The
young man seems to have had a very
good reputation among his associates be-
fore he. was married, and it seems I'M
likely that he should have so soon fallen
from grace.-Detroit Free Press.
1t is easier to define anarchy than to
discover anarchists. The wretch who
hates all forms of government and who
undertakes to subyert them if he have
| ordinary gumption will not discover him
.Ie ~ I,og han nd -r1a
| tunity. The red-mouthed procaimers OF
anarchy are the least dangerous of the
| Philadelphia Record.
IF were a juror" said man, in a
| murder case where the woman on trial
for her life presented herself in court ID
| q Gainsborough hat wreathed with feath
| srs-well, don't know that | should de
eide upon verdict Of guilty just on me
| hats account, but it would certainly do
,nuch to prejudice me against the WON
an'-New York Evening Sun.
The introduction Of bill in the Senate
to make lynehing a federal offense and
providing the death penalty for partiei-
pating may seem a drastic remedy, but
not more so than is required. The in
/ ability or unwillingness of the States to
| deal with violators of the law invites
the enactment Of such a measure. Pro-
| lection of life should rise above State
| lines.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Maple syrup has long been intimately
associated in the American mind, and in
the American stomach as well, With
| buckwheat cakes. And recent attempts
to push the sale Of this saccharne com
modify in Austria and Germany have
failed, apparently because the character
| istic Yankee pancake is unknown in those
] countries. An opening is thus revealed
for a twofold missionary enterprise
| New York Tribune.
| In declaring that the man who deserts
/ his children should be punished with
| death the President Of the American HUI
name Society may be going a triHe too
far, but such a person is undoubtedly
| guilty Of a social crime of great gravity.
/ 4 man sometimes has good excuse for