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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-11-24
LABOR MEN IN UPROAR.
Storm in Convention over Socialist
Resolution.

An outbreak of .hisses from the gall
leries of Faneuil Hail. in Boston, when
socialistic resolutions We're reported UNI
favOrably in the American Federation of
Labor convention Tuesday afternoon,
caused President Gompers to order the
galleries cleared. Amid many hostile ex-
pressions the crowd was expelled from
the building.
For the first time during the conveu-
ton the question of whether the organi-
cation should commit itself to the doe
trines of socialism came squarey before
the delegates. Therquestion was not an
swered, as shortly before 6 O'clock an
day. Some nine resolutions favoring pub
lie ownership and the organization OF a
political party to bring about conditions
the socialists seek were all reported on
unfayorably by the committee on resoluz
tons
At once the long arranged plan of the
socialist delegates to fight for the adop-
ton of their principles was put into OPP
Grafton by Delegate Hayes OF Cleveland.
He offered a substitute for the commit
tees report, but was ruled out Of order
At this point the demonstration from
the spectators led President Gompers to
order the galleries cleared. The elected
people, numbering several hundred as
semgled outside Faneuil Hall and adopt
ed resolutions condemning President
Gompers for his action
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which is conservatively estimated at
3O0,OO0,O00. AS merchant prince Mr..
Field does a business of $60,000000 a
year. But he is not a merchant mere
~; he is the greatest manufacturer Of
dry goods in the world.
In every country on the face of the
globe, where cotton, wollen and silken
goods are manufactured in quantities,
he has factories. de owns scores Of
enormous plants in England, Ireland,
Scotland, France Spain, Italy, Ger
many, Austria and Russia. Even the
Orient is not neglected Flooding Chi
nese and skilled Japanese are num-
bered by the thousand on the pay roll
of the Chicago merchant prince and
manufacturer, and on the other side Of
the equator are vast woten mills in
Australia, the chain extending to South
America, where looms in Brazil and adj
joining republics turn out the finished
product.
Nor is dry goods his only vocation.
No enterprise is better known in the
United States, England and Europe
than the Pullman Sleeping Car Com
pany. In the popular mind, George
NJ. Pullman has ever been deemed the
dominant factor in that vast and profit
able enterprise. When Mr.. Pullman was
alive nine persons out Of ten would
have named him as man of greater
wealth and influence than Marshall
D,,k xxrOJt1A hoUn h0pTO in
error. Marshall Field was and is the
greatest Single owner of Pullman stock.
Pullman was sort of head clerk.
Mr.. Field is large owner Of real
estate in Chicago and New York, and
In the Calumet iron region in Michigan
he owns hundreds of acres He has
heavy investments in railroad secure
ties, and in one road alone owns $1O,-
100000 worth of stocks.
Mr.. Field has been conspicuous as
business man for more than a genera
ton. de was born in Conway, Mass,
August 10, 1885, and when II years old,
firing of the farm, went West. Locat-
ing in Chicago he obtained clerkship
In the wholesale house of Cooley, Far
well & Co, his equipment being health,
brains, sound principles and ambition.
In four years he was made partner
In the firm-1S60. The war came, and
the advance in prices meant small
fortune for the young men who con-
stituted this dry goods firm. During the
four years of the war they coined
money. In 1866 there was reorgani-
cation, the new firm consisting of Mar
shall Field, Levi 2. Letter and Potter
Palmer. Since 1881 Mr.. Field has con-
Quoted the business alone.
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OIL MAKING FARMERS RICH.
Sensational Rise in Price Causes Ex-
ploitation OF Old Fields.


The rapid and almost sensational in
crease in the price of oil during the last
few months has caused the oil fields in
Indiana aud Ohio to be exploited III q
manner unprecedented except in the
boom days when oil first was discovered
in this territory Operators have been
stirred into activity, and rigs have been
erected to drill for oil over a vast area
contiguous to the known oil fields which
hitherto had been left INFESTED.
The price of the crude oil in Indiana
and Ohio has been advanced over 40
cents a barrel during the past year. and
it is no'w selling from S1.2T a barrel in
Indiana TO as high as $1.32 a barrel in
some Ohio districts That the advance
in price is destined to continue for some
time is conceded by all oil men. and some
of them even venture the prediction that
it will not stop until $1.50 barrel has
been reached.
Agents of the Standard Oil Company,
who buy most of the oil produced in the
Ohio and Indiana fields. are stimulating
the people to drill more wells. Every
where they are urging operators to put
down wildcat" wells. the term common
ly applied in the oil country to test wells
drilled in territory outside of the known
oil belt
The sensational rise in the price of oil
began little more than month ago.
From Sc cents, which was the ruling
price in October 1902, it gradually had
risen to SLIP. Suddenly the Standard
Oil Company. which makes the price in
these fields boosted it to $114, and with
in three weeks was offering SIPS and
higher.
Wells that have long been abandoned
because their howage was not sufficient
to pay the expense of pumping when the
price of oil was less than 81 have been
started again owing To the increased
price.
Farmers who own most of the OIL
lands. which they lease to operators for
royalty ranging FROM oHe-tenth to one
sixth of the output are benefling from
the renewed activity and consequent in
crease i'll their revenues. The marked
and alarming decrease in the production
of oil in the Pennsylvania and West
Virginia fields is declared by oil men to
be the cause of the advancing price In
the Indiana and Ohio fields The produc-
ton of crude oil in Pennsylvania has
fallen. it is said, below the consumption,
and the surplus stock has been decreased
100000 barrels in two years.
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ments a means of announcing their ad-
herence to fashions and their making
of big outlay in the process. So some
thing novel and something snowy is Of
ten the order, and a consequence is al
most as many kinds as there are stylish
wearers. Perhaps white wraps should
be counted as a class by themselves.
They are surprisingly numerous, consid-
ering that they are to be cold weather
wear and that a shapeless garment in
white may look, unless it is adreitly
managed, quite too like garments that
are not worn outdoors But the spot
less white affairs and it is an essential
that they be spotless, are fine as they
can be. Edgings and applications of
Eastern coloriEs are stylish finish, the
amount of such color on a single garment
being small. A deal of white cord in
the large sizes is used, too. Braid and
passementerie of more subdued hues are
employed in greater amounts, an illustra
ton of this appearing in the artists
sketch of a white wrap, with trimming
of braid applique Russian sable APP
peared here, too, for fur is suitable trim
ming whatever the color of the wrap, it
almost might be said, whatever the tex
fIIre
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BOILED SNOW FOR THE NERVES.
The Newest Fad of Nervous Century
SAID to Possess Merit.

The Newest Fad of Nervous Century
SAID to Possess Merit.
Nerves can be cured by drinking tea
made of boiled snow!
This is the newest fad of this nerv-
Gus century. Snow can raise" pan
cakes as well as eggs, and it must have
chemical properties There is and can
be no remedy for bad nerves other
than changing the kind of life which
has made them bad. AS very subordi-
nate to this, doctors drugs may be Of
some use, but even then their use is
small, and when these drugs are taken
without ever stopping the cause of the
mischief the evil is only masked for
a time.
1t is like Sheridan putting the sher-
ifs officers into his own livery at
party, making them masquerade as his
hunkies until the door slammed on the
last departing guest-and thenl
Now, what is the cause, or what are
causes of present-day nerves? There
are two answers. or sets of answers,
the one fattering, the other quite the
reverse. The first Isl 'overwork." Now
adays we are all supposed, or wish to
be supposed, abnornally industrious.
The age is supposed to be breaking its
bones with industry. But is this ac-
tually the case? And while undoubt-
eddy there are many hard workers
very hard workers-is it these who
suffer from nerves? Probably not, for
work, even when excessive, If it be
free from a certain alcoholic element,
which shall be given presently, con-
tributes to steady and strengthen the
nerves.
Nothing is here said of those who
are handicapped throughout life with
nerves congenitaIly weak or diseased.
But even for these good, regular, hard
work will be by far the best tonic. If
we call to mind the men who, judging
from the output of their labors, not CT
their genius, but of their sheer toll,
must have been hard workers, we shall
not find that many Of them suffered
from nervous breakdown, though not
few of them were men Of feeble health
in other ways.
Not many men ever did as much
work as Alfred the Great, who was al
ways ILL., Everybody remembers Mac
aulay's description of William III. as
an "asthmatic skeleton" Besides, 1t
is more than doubtful whether, consid-
cred as a whole, our own age is pre-
eminent in hard work. Our working
classes do not toll as their forefathers
did. Hours of labor are now shorter
than they ever were, while half holi.
days are aoses in the desert of monot-
onous dreariness unknown to former
Observation-Disclosures Press.
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Fashion Notes.

Wide-wrist, buttonless Biarritz gloves
are revived.
Bronze shoes for dress wear enjoy a
limited vogue.
Rubber-faced taffeta is much used for
automobile coats.
Nasturtium pink is the name of new
and brilliant color.
A twenty-five gored skirt is the ''limit"
in extreme skirt models.
The princesse idea predominates in the
dressier style of gowns.
Large velvet roses are very fashiona-
BILE in millinery. They have fluffy cen
tiers like thistledown.
Gold cord is much used on cloth coats,
giving a military touch such as charac-
terized the Napoleonic day.
Gun-metal silk underskirts, dress,
jacket and wrap Innings attest the popu-
larity of this fashionable color.
To be entirely up to date one must
surely have heliotrope house gown ard
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TeIerranhic Rrevities.


Mrs. David Il. Francis has been elect
ed president of the St Louis Woman's
Club to succeed Mrs. James l.. Blair, re-
signed.
The will OF Mrs jamie Stewart Boye-
sen of Chicago, who made small requests
to various charities, wss admitted to pro-
bate at Laporte, Ind.
Dominica Bashetto. who has a wife
and several children in Italy, was so in
sistent that Mrs. Giuseppe Denicola OF
West Hoboken. y. j.. elope with him
that she shot and killed him at her home.
The reports of the Dawes commission
and the attorneys of the Cherokee Nation
show that there are about 4.420,070
acres of land subject to allotment in the
Cherokee Nation. valued at S13. 1873, 600.
Theodore b. Campbell. aged about 80
years. was run over and instantly killed
by a Rock Island train at the depot in
Lebanon, Kan. His home was in New
Haven. Ky. where he had a wife and
eight children.
After being ont forty-eight hours. the
jury az Harfyille. No. found Sam Goss
guilty Of murder in the second degree
and assessed his sentence at ten years
in the penitentiary for the murder Of
Willis Harberson last August
A jury at Little Rock, Ark. decided
against Eugene Miles. who sought to re-
cover $4,000 alleged TO have been lost
IN Furth's gambling house.
The town OF Basin, Mont. was prac-
tically destroyed By FIRE started from
a bonfire built By children at play. The
large coycentrator Of the Montana Ore
Purchasing Company was saved. Loss
100000.
The directors Of the United States
Trust Company at ST. Louis decided TO
go into voluntary liquidation in view Of
the facts that its capital was inadequate
for a profitable business and that the
times were not propitious for increas-
ing il
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Grateful Dog Saves Boy.

Walter De Witt, II years old, OF
Brookdale, n. j., owes his life to the
gratefulness of a mongrel dog to which
he tossed bone the other day. The
dog was a homeless outcast that had
been kicked and beaten and shot at by
the entire neighborhood. De Wits kind
ness won the ours everlasting friendship
and he followed the boy everywhere.
Yours De Witt had a self-made raft on
which he was padding about on Town
House pond when it struck snag and
capsized. The boy could swim but little
and had all he could do to keep himself
afoat The only being within reach of
his voice was the mongrel, branded as
a chicken thief and with hide SCARED
from bullets. but the grateful brute swan
to his assistance and by this aid alone
was the lad enabled to reach the shore
in safety.
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TAILoR's AND DRBsslIAKER's PRODUCT IN CONTRAST

SO far as the skirt is concerned. The
trouble is that all, or nearly all, the
trimming on the bodice should harmon
ize, and as bodices bear proportionately
more trimming than they did, care must
be used in selection of a scheme or the
total cost will be discouraging. Velvet
bands often mark the top of the founce,
ending just before they reach the front S
trimming. Again, bands of embroidery
or of applique design hold this position,
and quite as effective, and perhaps better
from the viewpoint Of the economizer,
are rows OF ornaments. These may be
small and moderately sparse in the dis
tribution, so the echo of them on the
bodice will not call for great outlay.
Here and there is seen following of a
trick for scattering such ornaments
about in hit or miss fashion. For any
but very skillful dressmakers it is lazy
work to indulge in such haphazards, and
in the general scheme having mention
here it won't do ut all. The latter re-
quires an easily recognizable plan or de-
sign that should be traceable in both
skirt and bodice. 1t appears in com
pick fashion in many model gowns,
schemes too elaborate or fanciful for
moderate wardrobes, but the pl sence of
such models should not discourage the
searcher from taking up with equally
fashionable design of simpler charac
ter
Not a few of the latter are found in
the field of tailor gowns, and are admir-
able there, though in direct rivalry with
a great deal more that is handsome and
inelaborate. Current tailoring makes a
fine showing of comparatively simple
schemes of establishment. 1t hardly
could afford a wider choice. The trouble
is here that even the simplest gowns of
really good grade are costly.
Perfection fit costs as much as snowy
finish, yet by care the expenditure can, be
made to accomplish more than it usual
ly will Choosing one of the novelty
rough goods will mean costly result in
three cases out of four, no matter what
the manner of trimming The newness
of these weaves and the big demand for
them keeps their prices up, especially of
those that can be depended on for dura
bilitJ. And gown of material of this
sort that wouldn't wear well would be
downright extravaganza. Standard
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the lawless deed.

the 1awless deed
There is one sufficing answer to all
! Tic i..o iiGSufferable efforts of the admins
tration to bring its naked buccaneer-
ing under the shelter of international
law and diplomatic usage:
Would Theodore Roosevelt have
dared to act toward Great Britain or
Germany as he has done toward Co
lombia?
1t is because Colombia is too feeble
to fight that the courage to dtspol her
has been found Were she able to
fight us, or to find allies to give her
strength she herself lacks, the whole
world would hold her justified in de
claring war against us for what Mr..
Roosevelt has done at Panama
Colombia must submit to Roosevelt,
unless the American Congress shall
come to the rescue of American honor.
for the same reason that Panama sub
mitted to Henry Morgan, pirate, who
overpowered and looted the city.
What excuse can be offered for this
astounding crime?
None that any honest man win offer
or accept
"But it will give us the canalr' cry
the Presidents supporters.
The canal can be had without pay-
ing for it the price Of national charac-
ter and giving us before mankind the
rank of a robber state.
1,
planting in the mind of every Latin
American republic the conviction that
we are not its friend, but the enemy
| above all others to be dreaded-with-
out giving it solid ground for the belief
that the Monroe doctrines real mean
ing is that we intend to keep European
plunderers away only that we our
selves may more safely steal, and that
nothing Central and South America
have will be secure when circum-
stances arise that may cause us to
want it.
In order to get an interoceanic canal
it has been. and now is, only neces-
sary that President Roosevelt should
obey the law. The Spooner act COM
mands that. upon failure to get from
Colombia the concession for the Pana-
ma Canal, he shall turn to Nicaragua
and Costa Rica, which are ready TO
deal with us honorably and quickly.
Instead of obeying the law President
Roosevelt has chosen to commit a
deed of lawlessness, in the seizure Of
the Isthmus of Panama, che like of
which has never stained the MS cry of
this republic.
If President Roosevelt shall be sus-
tanned in this Panama crime by his
party, then his party would sustain
him in any freebooting foray against
the lands and sovereignty of our weak
er neighbOrs that might be agreeable
to the wishes and interests of such
another aggregation of greedy specula-
tors as we see collected in and around
the rotten and scandal-coated French
Panama Company.
The honor of the United States has
| been dragged in the mud of Panama.
Chicago American.
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Hanna to the Rescue.

The egOtistical announcement of SEN
ator Hanna during the Ohio campaign
that continuance of undisturbed bust
ness conditions demanded his return to
the Senate, will soon be put to the
test. 1t is to be hoped that Senator
Hanna's statement, that his reelection
will preserve the industrial and bust
ness situation from disturbance, will
be verified and that confidence, which
he believes to be the basis of prosper
ity will be preserved The signs of the
times, however, do not bear out his
representations. as since his election
was assured the stock markets have
| again largely declined and three banks
failed, two in Colorado and one in
Iowa, the day after election. That
sure barometer of business, the iron
and steel market, is becoming more
and more demoralized and on Nov
9th the steel billet pool reduced its
prices from $27 to S23 per ton The
Steel Trust being the dominating pow
er in the pool would not have agreed to
this cut unless the conditions required
it. Cut nails have also been reduced
% cents a keg and other products of
the Steel Trust have also been reduced
in price in like proportion. While these
cuts III prices are taking place in the
wholesale market, the reduced price to
the consumer has. so far, not material
lied and probably will not for some
time. The reduction foreshadows the
much more serious problem Of reduc-
ton in wages that must certainly fol-
low in the spring of 1904. Then viii
come the crucial test of Senator Han
mas statement that his reelection was
necessary to preserve the industrial
and business situation from disturb
ance"
There may be no panic such as oe-
Cured in 1892 and 1893, lat readjust-
ment of prices and wages is under
way and the result may be as disas-
trous 70 business and labor as in the
former trying times. That the process
has already commenced is certain, for
the New York Journal of Commerce,
Nov 9th. reports that new scale of
wages has been signed by the employees
of the American Sheet Steel Company
Mt Scottdale, Pa. 1t goes into effect
on the first of the year sn'l carries a
reduction of 20 per cent l.. the wages
of the skilled workmen. The same
newspaper reports on the same day
that 5000 coke ovens are idle in the
Connellsville region and the remaining
1900 ovens are only running about
half time. With an industry in such
shape reduction OF wages is sure TO
follow
President Roosevelt and the Repuhl-
can party must nurse Senator Hanna
with the greatest care for their future
evidently depends ON his well being.
As for the rank and file of the Repub-
leans. they will have TO get along with
the rest of Us.
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Ameriean Honor in the Mud.

What Theodore Roosevelt, armed
with the power which the Presidency
of the United States gives him, has
really done at the ISthmuS OF Panama
is To seize the territory of the United
States OF ColcmS4L 4 country with
which we are AT peace.
II is an act Of force, pure and sim
ple--an act of piracy.
The attempts made 10 cloak the pir-
aey by using the Republic of Pana-
ma" created expressly for the commits
sion OF the crime. deceives nobody and
cut adds the Sffense of hypocrisy TO
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weaves OF newly stylish color or newer
weave OF unassertive character viii be
8 safe resort. Then as to finish, there 5
4 choice that may confuse the Shopper,
rather than the Limitation to a very few
acceptable forms that often are avail
able The variety existing here IS sug-
gested By the two tailor gowns Of these
sketches: choice from all must be left TO
the individual. The first Of these dress
Is was blue venetian and steel-beaded
passementerie. and the other was brown
cheviot and velvet, velvet buttons and
fringed ornaments Of darker brown.
Women have settled on the lighter.
softer weaves Of silk as favorite dress
stufR and dressmakers have set about
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one Of the darker plum shades for street
wear this season.
Forty-fve inches wiz be the length
most favored By femininity for their sep
arate top garment, whether OF a semi
fitted or a loose design
A so-called Nancy Brown set" con-
sisting Of a hat, boa and muf Of one
color tone Of lace-trimmed chiffon, is one
Of the novelties OF fashiondom.
Wide. attached fiounces. of plain chif-
fon, with three or four lows OF tucks
at the bottom. form touffant and attrac.
tive finishes for the skirts OK evening
gowns OF silk. crepe de chine or similar
stuffs.
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susTAINs CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
Ohio Supreme Court Declares IT May
Be Practiced in the State.

Be Practiced in the State.
The Ohio Supreme Court holds that
Christian Scientists violate no Ohio stat
utes in practicing the teachings of their
creed. The matter came up on error in
the case of the State versus Sylvia and
Leotta Bishop from Butler County. The
defendants were parents of an S-year-old
daughter who was badly burned but,
being Christian Scientists, they refused
to call a physician, it was alleged, and
depended entirely upon their religious
Treatment for relief.
The child died, and later the grand
jury returned an indictment charging the
parents with manslaughter. In the trial
the judge charged the jury to bring in
a verdict of acquittal on the ground that
no existing statute had been violated.
The prosecutor of the county, Holmes
Gard, carried the question up on oxcep-
tons. which the Supreme Court overruleJ
without comment.