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New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
CHRISTMAS JOY .
BY HEZEkIAH RUTTERWORTH.
THE CLOCKS OF kENILWORTH.

THE CLOCKS OF KENLLWORTH.
.-rhe clocks are stopped at banquet hour
An ivy spray in my hand I hold,
The kindly ivy that covers the mould
OF ruined walls; it was brought to me
From Kenilworth Castle, over the sea.
o IVY Ivy, I think # that queen,
Who once swept on her way, through the oak
walls green,
To Kenilworth, far in the gathering gooms
Her cavalcade white with silver plumes
They are gone, all gone, those knights of old:
And thou dost cover their castles mould,
Q Ivy, Ivy, dark and cold!
O wv, IVY I see that hour
The great bell strikes in the signal tower,
The banners lift in the ghOstly moon,
The bards provencal their harps attune
The fiery fountains play on the lawns
The glare of the rocket startles the fawns,
The trumpets peal, and roll the drums,
And the castle thunders, She comes she
comes.
They are gone, all gone, those lords of old
And thou dost cover their castles mould,
Ivy, Ivy, dark and cold!
But bark! the notes of the culverin
To the castles portal, trooping in.
A thousand courtiers torches bear,
And the turrets fame in the dusty air.
The castle is ringing "All hail! all hail?'
Ride slowly, O Queen mid the walls of mail,
And now let the courtliest knight of all
Lead thy jeWelled feet to the banquet man,
A thousand goblets await thee there,
And the great clocks lift their faces IN ar
They are gone. all gone, those lords of old,
With their red cross banners and spurs OF goio'
But a young knight said, What are feasts ike
these
When prophets and pilots are sailing the seas
Into the horiZons"
o Ivy, true; Q Ivy, old, $500
The great clocks stare on the cups or gold
Like dreadful eyes, and their hands pass on
The festive minutes, one by one.
"Dving-dying" they seem to say
This too-this too shall pass away,
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
THE CHRIST CHILD.

Again above the hills of Bethlehem
crha round white, winter moon climbs up the
sky. .
Within the light asleep the lambkins lie
close huddled, and the shepherd WatcneS theih
From his lone lookout on the mountain heh.
o. come far tinkling where a passer by
Goads on his camel toward Jerusalem
past midnight, and the shepherd SUMMERS deep
No heavenly voices rouse him from ms Steep
No angels lead him where a mother lies
And God looks up and smiles from bapy eyes
No star lights up the sky this christmas lloII'
For in the heart of man the Christ is born
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New-York tribune., 1902-12-21

And the knights look up, and the knights look
And their fair white brows on the great blocks
frown.
They are gone, all gone, those knight Of DID,.
With their red cross banners and spt IS OF gold
And thou doSt cover their castles mould,
Ivy, Ivy, dark and cold!
On the dais the Queen now stands-and falls
A silence deep on the blazing halls;
She opens her lips-but, hark! how dare
The clocks to beat in the stiffness there1
"Dying-dying," they seem to say
This, too-this, too, shall pass away!
The Queen looks up with stony stare,
The high clocks look On the proud Queen there.
They are gone, all gone, those knights of Old.
With their red cross banners and spurs of gold,
And thou dost cover their castles mould
Ivy, Ivy, dark and cold!
That the hour should last" so said a peer.
The hour shall LAST the proud earl calls;
"Hoi Stop the clocks in the banquet halls.
And the clocks slow pulses of death Were
stilIed,
And the gay earl smiled, and the wine was
And the jewelled Queen at the dumb clocks
laughed,
And the flashing goblet raised and quaffed-
They are gone, all gone. those knights of Old
With their red cross banners and spurs or Sold,
And thou dost cover their castles mould
o Ivy, Ivy, dark and cold.
But time went on though the clocks were deadi
O'er the dewy oaks rose the morning red
The earl Of that sun crowned castle died.
And never won the Queen for his bride,
And the Queen grew old and withered, ana
gray,
And at last in her halls OF state she lay
On her silken cushions bejewelled, but poor,
And the courtiers listened without the door
They are gone all gone. those knights of old
With their red cross banners and spurs of gold,
And thou dost cover their castles mould,
Q Ivy, Ivy, dark and cold!
The twilight fushes the arrased hall.
The night comes still. and her velvet pail
OF diamonds cold drops from her hand
And still as the stars is the star-lit land.
Men move like ghosts through the castles
rooms,
But the old clocks talk mid the regal glooms:
'Dying-dying," they seem TO say
Till the astrals pale in the light Of day
They are gone all gone. those knights of old
With their red cross banners and spurs OF gold,
And thou dost cover their castle 5 mould
o Ivy, Ivy, dark and colo!
o Ivy. true as they listen there
On the helpless Queen the great clocks stare,
And over and over again they say,
'"This tOo-thS, too, shall pass away
And she clasps the air with her fingers old
And the hall is shadOwy, empty, and cold;
Rmt the steps of the moments paused not in the
halls,
Che FOO has gone Ike the lords of old.
Her iewelIed crown. and her festal gold;
All all are gone to the tOmbs of mould.
But the knights, inspired by the virgin queen
TO the wide world gave a grand deIneShe,
Ana thou crownst it's Christmas halls with
O wv Ivy. dark and cold.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
OF SKELETON CONSTRUCTION.

Sir Walter Raleigh had been complaining oi
the tower to Queen Elizabeth.
"Fie Sir Walter" she rejoined. that's the
most modern building in town It's SKYE
scraper. In fact, a great many people nave
reached the sky from it.
At this gentle hint the captive forebore to
press the question further seeing it was indeed
Of skeleton construction
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
DEAR TRAVELLING IN CUBA.
1t Ia ComfortIess, but a Change in
RaiIroading Is Near

1t Ia ComfortIess, but Change in
Railroading Is Near,
Cuba has. PA railways. with more
than 1000 miles of track for the lot yet
travelling in Cuba IS not cheap. There
are lines which charge passengers II
cents mile
The average rate is about cents for
first-class passengers and cents for
second-class, and travel on some of the
lines means many hours of miserable
jolting over a wretched roadbed
Freight rates are as exorbitant as pas
senger rates. So detrimental is the
railroad extortion to the welfare of the
country, in fact, that a modification of
rates by military order was talked of,
but the legality of the step was doubt
full
The entire railroad system Of the ISL
and is valued at $7O,OO0,OOO. But of the
124 lines only seventeen are pubic lines
in the generally accepted sense.
The rest are private roads, buiIt for
the transportation of sugar cane to the
grinding mills. 1t is a curious fact that
five Of the principal lines, representing
nine-elevenths of the public rosds, are
controlled by British capitalists.
Cuba had a railroad forty-three miles
long between Havana and Guines,
which began to run only a few years
after the first American line was
opened. but the development of rail
reading under Spanish rule was on
very different scale. Some people
might not call it development at all.
But all that has changed under Amer
lean occupation. A new line now in
process of construction by Sir William
Van Horne and his associates of the
Cuban Central Railway, connecting at
Santa Clara with the line from Havana
to Cienfuegos, will revolutionize the ISL
and's railroad system, open commune
cation with Nipe, the best harbor on
the whole Cuban coast .ice, and pre-
pare for profitable cultivation TN area
estimated at 100000 acres, or about
one-third Of the total area of the island.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17

CO HE car service department Of a
big railway can at almost a mo-
nent's notice tell shipper of
fast, or what the railway people call
manifest, freight, just where any par
ticular car is en- the line. The sys-
tenn Which makes this possible IS one
which is only in use on about four
roads In America, and was introduced
on the line of the Grand Trunk oy NJ.
@. Sturtevant. who previously operat-
ed the system on the Illinois Central
under the supervision OF the inventor
John M. DAILY.
Mr.. Sturtevant, in explaining II TO g
newspaper writer, said that to his mind
1t was what might be called a graphic
system, for The reason that the opera
tor had before his eyes at all times
the exact position of every car OF fast
freight on the line
To get an idea of this system 1t will
be necessary to refer to the accompany
ing illustration. 1t will be seen from
this that large board representing the
line between Chicago and Portland is
one Of The principal adjuncts. This
board or chart is divided up into sec
tons showing the division points and
the principal stations between these
points. 1t is on this board that the POI
sition Of every moving car or fast
freight train is shown.
All Shown Upon Tab Board.
The system Is conducted by tele,
graphic reports. and consists of Il spe-
cial way bill, which accompanies each
car Of freight; label which is placed
on each car and which tells switchmen
and others that it is manifest freight,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17

showing the point at which 1T Is left
and the reason why. When this occurs
the peg representing the particular car
is removed from the train block and
placed on the board opposite the station
at which it was set out. There it re-
mains with the conductors report I'M
til such time as it is lifted by another
train. In case conductor fails TO
make report showing that he is run
ming one car short of what he took
over, the fact will make itself known
when the train reaches the next ter
minal point and another conductor
turns in his report, Then the wires
are made hot to find out where the
particular car is, and it does not take
long to do it. In this way all delays
are detected, and the car service agent
knows exactly how his trains are run
ming. Is the reports are received show
ing the movements of the trains the
information becomes a matter of rec
ord, the time being transcribed from
the consist and district terminal re-
ports to a register. When the train
reaches it's destination the time CON
sumed is computed, the time on each
district and at each terminal point be-
ing taken into account. and If the
schedule time is lot made the causes
of the detention are noted.
Find Any Car on Short Notice.
In cases where the line has been in
terrupted on or account of accident or
ether cause. the amount of business
affected is at once apparent, the entire
situation being observable at glance.
If in such cases it is necessary to
make detour in order to pass the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
Concerning NIillionaires.

A writer who is himself q multi
millionaire, says it will be a great mis-
take to shoot these gatherers-in of the
yellow metal, for, as he says, they are
the bees that make the most honey,
and contribute most to the hive even
after they have gorged themselves full
The remarkable fact is stated, that the
masses of the people in any country
are prosperous and comfortable just in
proportion to the number of million
aires in that land.
In Russia, with its population little
better than serfs, living at the point
of starvation, upon the meanest posi-
BILE fare, such as none of our people
could or would endure, you do not find
Scarcely one millionaire excepting the
Emperor and a few mobiles who own
the land. 1t is the same, to a great
extent, in Germany. There are only
about two millionaires in the whole
German Empire. In France, where
the people are better off than in Ger
many, you cannot count one half dozen
millionaires in the whole country. In
the old home of our race Britain,
which is the richest country in all Eu-
rone-the richest country in the world
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
TRApPERs' kNeLL SOUNDED.
Fur Bearing Animals win Prohabl,
Be s.Farmcd" in the Ftstmre.

Fur Bearing Animals win ProhabIy
Be EARNED" in the Fntnre
The trapper's life is not all beer and
skittles. not one long round of pleasure
and success. Every pelt that comes to
his hand is procured only after a vast
amount OF woodwork that would
make the ordinary laborer shudder.
And yet when the fashionable woman
selects garment that suits her fas-
tidious taste. out of the many that are
shown her. how little does she realize
what that fur may have meant to the
mar who got 1t, the man who braved
the bitter cold that he might Contribute
a few pelts to the great marts of the
world. and get in exchange bare live
lihood.
But perhaps. after all. the trapper is
man to be envied. especially SO If his
country is one rich in fur bearing anil
mails, for then he can make a good ,iv-
ing, and, greatest of all luxuries, lie his
own master. The lives of trappers In
different parts of the country are prob
ably very much alike. varying chiefly
with the climatic conditions. In Flor
ida, for example, the life is seen in its
easiest form-mild climate and album
dance OF food animals-furs. too. are
plentiful, but owing to their thinness
they ere of much less value than those
from the northern countries.
In Canada the furs are thicker and
better, but the difficulties are increased
because of the climate. The winters are
long and snowbound. There are days
togetherof raging storm. Not only must
the trapper know the weather, but he
must be prepared TO meet it with for
titude, wherever he may be. The eoun-
try itself is immense in geographical
area. The trapper must be self-reli-
ant and know what to do in an emer-
gency. Like the animals he hunts, his
native wits become acute.
With the increasing demand Cor furs
and the extravagant demand Of fash
ion which requires that fur garments
be Of different shape and styla each
year, the fur-bearing animals IN their
wild state are becoming scarcer year
BY year, so it is safe to conjecture that
fur farms will in the future supply the
markets and the trapper Will be a man
of the past. Those who come after us,
says Country Life in America" will
read of his life. and it Will be like
fairy tale. AS the large Indian birch
bark canoe laden to the gunwale with
furs is passing down the quick flowing
rivers of time and civilization, so will
the picturesque trapper slowly but
surely fade out of existence.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17

Spanish hordes, armed with muskets
and cannon. Their defense was made
quate, and an endless stream of their
life-blood poured over the fertile land
of their birth.
Before the attacks of their powerful
antagonists they gradually faded away
and each day became less able to carry
on the fight Their lands were wrested
from them and parceled out to the in
vaders; the captured natives being en-
shaved as tillers of the soil. Unused to
hard labor in the fields. the captlyes
weakened and died, until at the end Of
fifty years persecution it is estimated
that 100000 of the original population
had disappeared. All the horrors of
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
Comnanions in CourtesY.

Warm was the Irish he2rt and win
ming the way of the late Lord Dufferin
shortly before he left CT lada. and
while be was In residence at Rideau
Hall. he was walking one windy day
when he came upon an old Irish labor
err who was intending the roadway.
AS was his wont, the governor gen
erai stopped to have chat, and the ole
laborer stood bare-headed, the vino
blowing his thin. white hair roughly
about
''Put On your hat" said Lord DUFF
ferin-
Not before your excellency," replieI
the old man.
Then" said his lordship. taking OF
his own hat. IL you win expose YOU
gray hairs 10 this wind out Of deferenc,
for my position. / must expose mine Il
1t out Of respect for your gray hairs"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17

point on the line where the trouble ex-
ISIS the check on the traffic is not re-
linquished. as a record is made of its
delivery to the connection handling it
in order to make the detour. Upon its
return to the Grand Trunk line the rec
ord is re-established.
What are the advantages of this sys-
tenn over the old system is a question
which naturally crops up in the mind
of the uninitlated. A personal inspec-
ton does not take long to make this
apparent. In the first place it is not so
expensive, and instead iof taking q
months time to get at the bottom OF
any trouble it can be accomplished in
few hours
Another advantage which the system
has is that it lends itself to the making
arrangements for the arrival of trains
at certain time. which is something
that cannot be counted on under the
old system.
1t has been found also that the sys-
tenn has done great deal in keeping
what is known as the dead freight on
the move. "a when the fast freights are
making schedule time the trainmasters
on the different districts have knowl-
edge OF just exactly what time they
have for moving this class of freight.
The following list will give an idea of
what the railway company considers
fast freight:
Agricultural implements, butter, can
ned goods. cheese. coffee. dressed beef,
dressed poultry. dry goods. eggs, fresh
fish. fruit. glucose. high explosives,
leather goods. liquors. ale. beer. live
stock Through shipments). machinery,
merchandise. packing house Pre- lucts,
paper. provisions, rubber goods cigar,
syrups, tobacco. tea. vegetables. hides,
paint. tinware. vehicles. beans. pulp
wood. chair stock and whiting.
The above articles may be manifest
ed at any time without asking any
questions. but for articles outside OF
this list a special order must be re
celved from the car service office.
1T would seem that the one great
feature about this system is that the
shipper does not have to watch his
freight. The company does that fol
hln.-Montreal Herald and Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
VALUE OF BERMUDA ISLANDS.
They Occupy for England SingularIy
Commanding Position.

They Occupy for England SingularIy
Commanding Position.
Imperial England knows what she IS
about. Those islands (the Bermudas)
besides being used as garrison for
her troops and safe-land-locked har-
Dor for her warships, are link in the
chain that connects her American prov
inces in Canada and Nova Scotia with
her possessions in the West Indies. The
Bermudas occupy for her, politically
and commercially. a singularly COM
handing and an unrivaled position,
says a correspondent of the New York
Mail and Express.
Spain parted with Cuba because she
was forced 10, and she sold to the
American nation the Philippine Islands
for mess of pottage. Denmark, fol-
lowing suit, for a few million kroner,
made over to us her West India pos
sessions. Catch England parting with
the Bermudas, She would no more
let them go than she would give up
her great strongholds in the Mediter-
ranean Sea, Malta and the invinciSle,
unyielding rock Of Gibraltar. No pow
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
A GIANT TREE SECTION.

On exhibition at the American Mu-
scum of Natural History will soon be
seen the largest section Of a tree ever
brought from forest which Is consid-
cred the finest specimen of it's kind in
the world, says the Baltimore AIneri-
can
The fast passing away Of the giant
redwood trees--due to the ak of the
commercial lumbermen-those majes-
tic relics of the forest primeval and the
great Ice age. Is rapidly going on, and
1t will only be question of time when
all save those standing in the govern
ment and State reservation groves viii
be destroyed
This huge black Of redwood. now
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
A sidewalk Conversation.

From which State does the new
Pension Commissioner haill"
"WareY
Yes, where?"
"That's right"
What's right?"
Ware"
"Confound it; said where"
81 know you said Ware"
well, whereY
"Sing it if you want to.s 1 told you
Ware"
You didn't tell me where"
well. you knew Ware, you idfotle
Knew where?'
yes, yen knew Ware"
You're no gentlemanr"
you're a pig-headed doltw
And they hastily part in a towering
rage.-Cleyeland Plain Dealer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17

There is an institution In Duluth
that employs about fifty people, and
among others is genial. jolly, good
fellow, who long ago lost faith in hair
restoratiyes, and is the possessor Of a
waist measurement Of many inches.
An East End lady dropped into the
store day or two ago, accompanied
by her pretty little 4-year-old daughter.
The big man was somewhat attent-
i've to the child. and when the lady had
finished the business she had come to
transact the little girl said, In a clear
voice, as they left the office:
who is the man bigger round an
our rain barrel. with the awful shiny
head Duluth News Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17

er VIII ever wrest them from her-not
one foot of ground-until she has lost
every ship and her last drop of blood
No; instead of parting with any OF her
colonies her policy is to increase them.
Nor will England permit emigration
to or an increase in the population Of
her garrison towns-Bermuda, Gibral-
tar and Malta. With some precautions
airy measures she will allow sightseers
and tourists to enter Gibraltar, but
strangers may not settle there perma-
nently; nor may an alien own a foot
of ground in the Bermudas. She wants
only British subjects in these places,
and even British subjects are not al
lowed to vote in Bermuda unless they
own real estate there.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17

government. renewed hope and ambi-
ton have flooded the hearts of the
Cubans, and if they promote their fu-
ture advancement with the same de-
gree Of unfaltering persistency that has
marked their strife for freedom, the
ultimate success Of the island republic
is assured.
Since the departure of Columbus, the
history of Cuba has been one OF inces-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17

SAINT bloodshed. Her natives were of
mild disposition, happy temperament
and easily satisfied They did not re-
sent the coming Of the Spaniards, but
extended to them a hand of generous
hospitality. The invaders abused this
good feeling, however, and began at
once an unparalleled system Of OPP
preston, which continued for centuries.
Rapine, pillage, torture and butchery
fell upon the unfortunate islanders. The
Cubans had only bows and arrows,
pointed with fish bones, and clubs hard
ened by fire. with which to resist the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
This hrse black of redwood. no


skillfully polished, forms a striking
big tree exhibit, whose like cannot be
seen outside Of visit to southern Cali
fornia. An idea Of rs gigantic proper
tons is wildly shown in the .llUstrn-
ton BY the sIx-fOot man staining at
the base, whose figure reaches Only a
third Of its height The diameter is
more than IS feet and the eircuIufer-
ence Is IS. and it is surrounded by a
fringe Of cinnamon colored bark a foot
deep in some places.
The tree began to grow $50 A. d.. and
was - feet in diameter when cclum-
bus reached our shores, and waen cut
down it was 1910 years old. Some OF
the trees in the same vicinity ere said
to be from 5000 to 5000 years 9ld.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
Doctor for a MIX Company.

The latest addition to the star OF a
fully equipped London milk company
is a doctor. BE IS specially employed
to watch over the company's infant
customers. what Is one baby's milk
is another baby's poison, and this COM
Dauy,s doctor Is there to prescribe how
MUCH and OF what strength the daily
tipDlt. shag consist. no charge Is made:
the perplexed mother sends a postcard
or calls the company up on the teie-
phons. and round comes the doctor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17

In the great glove houses OF Brussels
and france the cutters can earn even
higher wages thai the cutters OF the
most fashionable tailors Of London and
New York. So difficult is the art OF cut
ting gloves that niost Of the principal
cutters are known to the trade by name
and by fame, and the peculiar knives
whicE they use in the business are so
highly priced that they are handed
down from genera zion to generation an
heirloosns-