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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17

self in also viii scream FOR Derc.
Some one must hear me, and then
At present there is no one in the
house. for YOU yourself said that Mr..
Darkmore had gone away. And all the
servants are probably out until dinner
time"
Help. helpw Paula was beating en-
the heavy oaken door. But / knew that
there We're ten chances TO one against
her being heard.
1t had come 10 duel between the two
And it might be that, in her not ungen-
erous passion, the Woman in Gray would
blindly deal justice upon her foe IN a
way that would leave its mark while
life should last. l lay there in the deep
ening shadows, supine. helpless. agoniz-
ing at my own impotence.
And then there rang out a short, stihed
cry from Paula, and there was the sound
of fall. At that, with an effort which
seemed to bring on ooze of blood like
sweat through every pore of my skin, /
burst the bonds of that strange and
dreadful spell which had held me in a
living death. A groan broke from my
lips. At last was enabled to move
tried to rise, but fell again, knocking
down to the floor a pile of books which
only that morning | had left lying upon
the ingle-seat; and consciousness ebbed
from me for the second time that day.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
NEW POSTAL CURRENCY.
Bill Authorizing the Issuance of Post
Checks for Small Sums.

AneCkS Tor small Cumss
An administration bin for the ESTATE
lishment of a postal currency has heen
drafted by the committee appointed TO
consider the question. It authorizes the
Postmaster General to cause to be issued
postal checks Of fixed Denominations, net
above 81, in even multiples of fve apd
ten cents. These are to be redeema5le
or payable at any money order postofact.
A fee in addition to the face value viii
be charged for every check issued.
1t is generally conceded that the pres
emit postal money order system is hota
inadequate and announcement. and Com
gress has been attempting to perfect a de-
sign for currency intended especially for
transmission through the mails. Partie-
ularly since the adoption of rural Iaail
delivery has the ne,d been felt of s,ame
plan for sending small sums OF money by
mail without necessitating a special ielur-
ne to the postoffice on the part OF the
sender.
The committee on postofices and post
roads have had before them measure
providing a post check in denominations
of 81 and down to the denominations OF
fractional currency. 1t was proposes TO
retire the five. two and one dollar Nlls
now issued by the government and sub
stitute the post check and make the Hat
ter the regular paper money for those
denominations.
The proposed post check was nothing
more than an ordinary government rote
SO printed as TO permit its transform.
ton quickly into veritable check. BY
afhXing a stamp and writing upon FRO
vided spaces the name and address OF the
payee this note would become moAey
order, payable only to the payee. ro
forge the signature Of the payee was
mace a penitentiary offense, same az
counterfeiting. AS rapidly as the signed
bills would come into the possession OF
postmasters they were 10 be sent &c
Washington for redemption.
BY this process. should one desire to
make remittance by mail he would SIM
ply take out a bill or piece of fractional
currency, write the name of his creditor
afix and cancel stamp, and it wopld
only require the signature of the latter
to again make the money as good as gold
at the Office named.
The committee Of postal and treasury
experts appointed TO consider the ab6ye
plan for the establishment of a postal
currency, however, submitted an adverse
report. TO the Postmaster General. While
commencing the general scheme. the re-
port said the methods of detail seemed
impracticable. The bill since framed is
supposed TO be free from the objections
advanced and it is said the measure is
likely to be favorably considered by Con-
gress
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
After Twenty Years.

Lusks Springs, Ind, June 9th.-It
would be hard 10 find a happier man
than Mr.. William Catterson Of this
place has been for the last few weeks.
For twenty years his wife had been an
Invalid with complication Of diseases,
Neuralgia, Rheumatism and generally
broken down constitution
Mr.. Catterson had done everything
that loving care could suggest, but in
vain-his wife only grew worse.
Recently, however, he heard Of
Dodd's Kidney Pills and determined TO
give them a trial and was overjoyed
at the splendid result
From the very beginning of the treat
ment she commenced to improve, till
now she is nearly well and Mr. Cater
son is rejoicing. He says: Nothing
ever did her so much good We will
always praise Dodd's Kidney Pills for
the good work they have done for us. .
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
CORRUPTION IN TWO CITIES.
Investigations in ST. Louis and PhiIa-
deInhia Shnw Much Roffeness

Investigations in ST. Louis and PhiIa-
de1phia Show Much Rotteness.
Another chapter has been added to the
story of civic corruption in st. Louis.
The methods of the municipal combine
and other city officials have been further
exposed; and yet the investigation is not
finished. On Saturday four public men
were indicted by the grand jury. Mon
day a new grand jury was impaneled
to continue the probing into what the
April grand jury declared to be the worst
instance of official corruption ever known
in the history Of any American city.
The present batch of indictments re-
veals conditions that are nothing short
of astounding The report closing the
jury's work accuses a former Mayor of
the city, who previous to that had been
collector, of receiving interest on public
funds for his own private account; it
accuses a retired registrar of securing a
rake-of on printing contracts; it declares
that a member of the present house Of
delegates procured contracts with the
city, using the names of other individ-
uals and imaginary corporations, and
then, q Neaker of the house of delegates,
appre the vouchers for supplies fur
nish 0y himself under these assumed
names.
Under such revelations as these the
grand jurors call their discovery an "as-
founding story of corruption;" and they
add: The villainous venality among the
sworn officers and public servants of our
city should awaken every good citizen
to the urgent necessity Of stamping it
out by giving more attention to public
affairs"
In Philadelphia me principal of a pub
lie school testifies that when he applied
for promotion to another school, where
he would have received $2,065 instead Of
81 $50 one of the directors asked for ST.
600 as a consideration for the election.
When he refused the demand was low
cred gradually to $500. The principal
refused to give anything, although he
knew he was prejudicing his chances,
for two other directors had told him to
listen to what this Matchmaking director
had to say and to take his advice" The
principal told his story to the President
of the local School Board, who said the
director should not have made the de-
mands he did, but if the principal was
elected he odght to remember" the men
who voted for him.
One woman teacher testified that she
had paid 500 for her election in three
monthly instaliments, but one director
returned $50 to her. Another woman
teacher was asked to pay $175, but just
as her uncle was about TO pay $50 on ac-
count the peculiar methods of the di-
rectors were made public. Other wit
nesses told how. in order TO get place in
the schools. it was necessary to see the
ward leader" and secure his support.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
MAGNET FOR eoLD-seEKERs.
Alaska Still Attracting Many Mine+s
and Prospccfors.


Over two dozen vessels. including sit
teen steamships, viii sail from Taconsa
and Seattle during the next sixty days.
They viii carry north 10000 to 1900
MIXERS and prospectors- Many OF these
viii be heavy operators who 90 north
with machinery TO develop placer aid
hydraulic claims on a large scale. Ole
Milwaukee company shipped S56.1l
worth Of machinery on the steamHr
Jeanne. which is under contract 20 land lit
in time TO permit shedding Il TO Solp-
mon river placers before snow disaS-
pears. An important feature Of the de-
velopment this summer will be the orer-
Ing OF Tundra claims which experiments
show to contain gold running from 50 10
50 TO each cubic yayd ia gravel for a
depth Of thirty 70 eighty feet between tie
top layer Of peat and bedrock.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
WAR AGAINST CONSUMPTION.
The Tuberculosis Congress Soon to
Meet in New York.

The Tuberculosis Congress Soon TO
Meet in New York.
New York City viii soon be the center
of interest for all who are engaged in
the war against consumption, for The
third annual session of the American
Congress of tuberculosis viii be held in
that city. There v.ill be four symposi-
ums conducted by men of prominence in
the legal profession. The first discussion
win deal with preventive legislation and
the responsibility of the State gOver1r
ments TO aid in the fight. Tuberculosis
in its pathological. meteorological. med
zeal. surgical and veterinary aspects VIII
be discussed
Within the last few months city or
State administrations in New York, New
jersey and Pennsylvania have taken
steps looking toward the erection OF tu-
bereuloSis hospitals for the poor. The
rich have many retreats. and there is ne
end of pSsces S-hich the merely we'll
TODD and persons in comfortable circum-
stances can 20 for rest and fresh air, hut
the poor have to stay where they are.
AL the new hospital propositions are
based upon the theory that consumption
can be cured. and by simple methods
sunshine. fresh air and ordinary hygienic
precautions There seems 10 be no doubt
about it. except where the disease has
made too great headway. There is nc
end OF evidence that the fresh air method
OF treating the disease IS effective.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17

$50 you sert Bill Smiggens to Con
gress %
I'VE did" answered the keeper Of the
postoffice and general store. Il guess
did as much as any one TO get him elect
ed
bill is a powerful talker. But I didn't
know that you were any particular
friend Of his"
mo. We had a difference long years
ago; and l always said was goin' to
get even Bill prides himself on his
speechmakin'. and nothin' makes him so
unhappy as to have somethin' dom and
him not IL it. I've been reliably inform
I'd that when a man makes mis- debut in
Congress the people that have been there
for some time previous look down On
him kind Of supercilious and make him sit
uuiet and listen. And that'n Jest about
XIII Bill. Washington Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17

JUGGLER HARD TO SUIT.
Balanced a Piano and Girl Weighing
40 kiIos on His Chin.

Balanced a Piano and Girl Weighing
AZ Kilos on His Chin.
A peculiar case has come up in
Rome. A circ2s manager, Augusta
Frediani, had contract with an equil-
ibrist for ten representatives the lat
ter to receive IA for each. The chief
feature of his exhibition of strength
was to be an iron rod, balanced on his
chin, supporting a piano and girl
playing it, who weighed forty-two
kilos. ISL
All went merry as a marriage bell
until when ON the eve OF departure for
Rome Rofiz, the equilibrist, telegraph
ed from Paris that the pianist had fal-
len i'll and he could not fulfill his en-
ga cement. Never MIND" was the an
swer, Il viii find some one here. .
And then tAs weary search began.
Women and girls of all sizes and
weights were brought forward, some
of fifty kilos, some of twenty-five and
one of thirty-two, but Rofiz stuck TO
his forty-two and would rot give way
an ounce.
At last one day the required forty
two kilos, minus a few grammes, was
found. and it was arranged that she
should wear little more jewelry All
seemed in train when it was suddenly
! diseovered-as a kind of afterthought
that the lady could not play the
piano. THAT makes no difference"
said f Ndiani. ''let her pretend to do so
and thu orchestra will do the rest"
Not at ALL" retorted Rofiz, her play
ing herself is part of my exhibition,
so play she must"
Rofiz says he was brought TO Rome
under false pretenses. says the London
Pail Man Gazette's correspondent in
Rome. and is suing Frediani, and all
for want of musical lady who weighs
forty-two kilos.
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{.s:A(SS:ssf; SIDE
Jhe News ~
Lucky we don't have to eat coal.
recover.

Lucky we don't have TO eat coal.
Packers look innocent, but the price Of
meat looks guilty.
Hailstone stories double in size for
each hundred miles they travel.
Mount Pelee will never be satisfied IN
Ill it has the island all to itself.
Down in Martinique they are suffering
principally for the things that money
cannot buy.
Mount Pelee is lot yet IN a mood that
| would encourage basket picnics on its
shady slopes.
In the coal situation all is quiet. The
coal dealers are putting up the price as
noiselessly as possible.
That Franco Russian alliance has to be
kept pumped full OF mutual compliments
to make it run smoothly.
Considering that their cause has been
regarded as a wreck for some time, the
Beers saved lot out Of it.
Cuba is shifting for itself, but 1t would
not be safe for any Of the big boys TO
throw stones at it. just the same
At any rate the Chicago teamsters sue
reedcd in taking the minds Of the packers
off their larger troubles for awhile.
Several weeks Of talk about the Philip
pines gave the Senate a glorious chance
to rub the mold off its stock Of platitudes.
The surplus money collected for the
Martinique sufferers might be devoted TO
the relief Of the beef trust. which says
il has been losing money for the past
three months.
4 Michigan man who had not learned
to spell in his youth left 100000 for a
home for indignant" women. The fe-
male portion OF his heirs are now prepar-
ed TO prove that they are Indignant"
they having been cut out by the win.
About a year ago Kansas was suffering
from a drought. Now no Kansas home
IS considered web equipped without =
boat.
Martinique Night be sufficiently row
dy island to ksep the worlds anarchists
amused Il they gere 70 be coionized
there.
Possibly the trusts would be will.sss 70
run the United States for the people Il
they we're approached on the subject with
due humility.
Doubtless the wretchedly poor walk
ing between Martinique and solid ground
Is what keeps the inhabitants OF the ISL
and from going where they could read
about the volcalo.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17

About 5000 immigrants arrived IN
Nev York last week, making a total OF
over $4,000 arrivals for the month. This
breaks az records. as the greatest NUN
Der OF immigrants arriving during any
previous month was in May, 1893. when
1900 immigrants arrived. About per
cent Of the immigrants are dep0-ted, most
OF the deportztions being based on the
likelihood of the immigrants becoming
public charges. The prohibition against
the entrance Of persons with contagious
or incurable diseases operates 20 prevent
nany others from becoming citizens.
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a thirteen. Million Doliar HoteI

New York City, which is growing fast
er than ever before in its history and
which IS doing as much building this yea-
as in anT two years previously, Is 10 ha
e new hotel which is 10 Guido even t4e
Waldorf-Astoria, which nets its leasss
$1,000 a year. The new building il 20
them Charles NJ. Schwsb, j. j. Mitchell
John W. Gates and G. A. Fleming. They
will erect a building twenty stories higa,
which viii cost 100000 and win De
the most magnificent hotel in the worA-
The site cost $4,000. 900, 50 that the total
investment VIII be s13. 200.
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TOO MUCH MUSIC.
Rag Time and Other Selections DriyiIsg
Chicago West Siders Mad.

Rag lime ana Other selections DriVIft z
Chicago West Siders Mad.
Complaint after complaint is coming TO
the police station at Desplaines street,
says a Chicago dispatch, because Of tae
talking machines which are producing
raucous tones from morning until nigkf.
A wild-eyed man rushed into the statipn
the other day with hair disheveled a&id
clothing awry He begged to be sent to
the Philippines. or Martinique. or Pata-
gonia-he didn't care where, so long as
he could have at least five minutes pf
peace and quietness.
Its these internal talking machines,
he said. They are driving me crazy
and not only me, but hundreds OF others
You'll soon have TO start an emergency
insane asylum in my neighborhood IL iii
keeps up much longer. It's a fright SeEl1
rue TO Martinique. The music Of an eT-
ploding volcano would be sweet for a
r1taura -
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ness, while a population without lands is
a bowling mob.
In support of his argument that agri-
culture is the basis of commerce the
president of the Great Northern Railway
and his mel in the Northern Securities
Company called attention to the need of
material aid to irrigation. He compar-
ed railroads to schools and religion as
among the great educators of the people.
He said:
For the first time in the history OF
this country thousands of our farmers
are seeking homes N the Canadian North
west, owing to the cheap lands offered
in that country and to the difficulty of
securing such lands in the United States.
"A wise system of irrigation by the
general government can be made not only
self-sustaining but a source of income.
Lands that without irrigation are given
away or sold at a nominal price can be
sold as fast as they are furnished with
water at $40 an acre or upward and the
cost would be little, if anything, more
than half that sum"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
THE BIG COAL STRIKE
MINERS HOPEFUL OPERATORS
REMAIN OBOURATE.
Mine Owners Have $500 Police Guard
ing Their Properties and Protecting
Nonunion Men Conditions Which
Cannot Lon. Continue.

Upon the ability of the operators to
keep their mines free of water the safety
Of SOL, SOC, 600 OF invested capital de-
Ponds. That is the sum locked up in
the various mines in the anthracite dis
tricts. In addition. to this the prosperity
of six great counties-Columbia, Schuyl-
kill, Northumberland. Carbon, Lackawan-
ma and Lnzerne-hangs by the same
thread. Tie lperators process ability 70
operate the pumps and thus keep the
mines from being flooded and ruined.
That they have succeeded to some extent
since the strike of engineers, firemen and
pump runners is certain, but whether
they can continue is quite another mat
ter.
Monday between 75 and so per cent of
the engineers, fremen and pump men
quit work. The operators Immediately
rushed into the places of these employees
bosses and clerks, supplementing these,
In SO far as they could, by non-union
men imported from the great cities. In
this way they have been able up to the
present 20 keep the pumps in action and
no great losses have resulted. Some
collieries, which can be kept clear be-
caEse they drain into others, have been
closed completely, the operators thus be-
ing enabled to husband their forces the
more.
Miners Are Hopeful.
The miners claim that this condition
will not long continue They say, first
that many of the clerks, bosses and
green hands will play out and, next,
they are sanguine that they can prevail
upon the great majority of the men who
remained at work to cease their labors.
That many of the latter will be induced
to quit work is probable. Few of them
can bear the odium of being called
"scabs" and being hooted at in public
and when the ostracism extends to their
wives and children ii is to be expected
that many of the men will join their COM
rades in making the strike more COM
plete.
The operators now have $500 coal and
iron police guarding their properties and
protecting the non-union men the COM
panies have imported to run the pumps
These men are all armed with rifles.
Meantime all the great collieries remain
shut down and not a pound of coal is be-
Ing mined in one of them. The miners
remain hopeful and confident.
The operators still remain obdurate rel
alive to the miners demands They will
make no concession; they will not hear
of arbitration. They are determined on
fighting the issue to a finish. The min
ers are asking for about cents a ton
increase in wages and would forego thei1
other demands if this were conceded.
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TEN KILLED IN a TORNADO.
Storm Deals Death and Destructit,
Near Lake Park. Mimi.


Near Lake Park. Mimi.
Ten persons were killed and many hurt
in a tornado which swept across the
country twelve miles north Of Lake Park,
MINI, at 8 o'clock Monday afternoon.
The storm devastated a strip Of country
three miles long and two miles wide. Mae
farm houses were destroyed and their en-
mates crushed and manned. Barns ald
other euthouses were blown down ald
crops were ruined. The church at Span
gels was demolished and several other
buildings in the little town were dam
aged.
Lake Park is a small town in the north
western part OF Minnesota, PIT miles
from St Paul, about thirty three miles
from Moorhead and forty miles east Iof
Fargo, n. d., and is situated on the main
line Of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
1t is in Beecher County and has p0ptl-
lation Of 600. Spangels is country DIS
trict near Lake Park.
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lie attention. Her desire to escape it is
honest, and she resorts to many subter-
fuges to avoid it. For nineteen years
she has been living in the little village
of Central Valley, about fifty miles from
New York, where her husband taught
school. Mr. and Mrs. Palma have six
children, and they are indeed a happy
family. Mrs. Palma would not have ex-
changed her simple New York home for
the palace at Havana were it not for the
devotion of her husband to the island
for whose freedom he struggled as an
unselish patriot, being finally driven out
INV Spain
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Courtship Too Expensive.

TeSs-You don't mean to say they have
broken off their engagement
Jess--Yes.
Tess--Why. / thought they were Ier-
fectly devoted to each other.
Jesse they are. You see. they have
broken off the engagement so that he
may save money enough to enable them
to get married.-Philadelphi Press.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17

CIara-Is It true that Mabel is suing
her husband for divorce?
Maude-Yes. and | don't blame her.
She was handicapped right from the
start.
Clara-Why, how's that?
Maude-Her husband had indigestion
before they were married.-Chicago
News
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CHAPTER NJ

! cannot tell hoT long | lay there.
between the fireplace and the high oaksn
seats which presented their carved backs
to the main portion OF the room. What
81 last reused me 70 ccnsclousl%ss agaln
|. do not know. But ! awoSe suddenly,
as though from long sleep, WITH heavy
lidded eyes already staring opei.
had been stabbed IN the oalS. Mho
could have been mY eaemys Who had
struck mes Would Il ever be known
Then I began TO wonder At the strange
condition in which / now las. Hours
seemea TO pass. Yet il may oe that my
torture was measured By moments
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
ONE FARe FoR THE ROUND TRIP
Via tse Grand Trunk Railway system.

Via the Grand Trunk Railway System.
Chicago TO Boston, Mass. Selling
dates June -, Is. IA.
Chicago to Portland, Me-, Selling
dates July TO 8, inclusive. One fare
plus one dollar for round trip.
Chicago TO Providence, r. l. Selling
dates July 7, s. Q.
For liIaits, time tables and further
Information, apply to Geo. w. Vaux,
a. G. z. and I. A., 135 Adams street,
Chicago, Ill