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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

You would hardly expect to find very much of
tic touch aong such surroundings and yet
there horoughfare the city that has such beautiful
color this Almost from end to the other
the lights everywhere of color of
conceivable shadethe bright yellow of bananas, the fra
grant green of great barrels Of watercress punching out
between big Jumps of ice the varegated kale golden
pumpkins the of thousands of baskets of with
the bloom Of freshness still them, the ounces and
peaches and pums and the varying shades of green
represented in unripe heaps of cabbages and
young onions the barrels of glorious red and pink and
yellow apples boxes of and parsnips and
white Chinese radshes mountains of peaches in all their
bewlderng shades bundles fragrant horse
radsh done fearfuly tight that you feel its cir
culaton must be seriously nerfered WITH brown pantans
the garing, glossy red peppers thousands
of crooks of golden butter and cheese in its delicate
shades of yeow-a these things mnge in long revel
of color that makes sight of this delight
who its beauty and mingles with its buse for
first time.
Here and there the sidewalks, instead of being bur-
dened with heaps of grape baskets orange boxes,
filled with crates of cluering chickens stately geese
that stick their heads through the Stats OF their and
survey the scene with solemnty that makes believe
they know what store for them. The meat men
crowd out everything else in the block between 9th
and Franklin street and you nothing wilder
of carcaSses butchers drivers white and blue jump
ers and hundreds of the weknown stock yards wagons
with Their magnificent teams of gray and their c!dnkng
trappings.
Up and down the alleys between the piles of
goods, with loaded trucks along passing one
announcer III some miraculous way without upsetung any
thing or running anybody. Though the wagons
continually moving off from the front of the stores and
going of the loaded with merchandise half
dozen seem to be coming in for every that leaves and
there is abatement in the rush and stir. In this indie
scrbabe confusion with the horoughare choked and
wagon nterlocking other everywhere there
fewer accidents and alterations between drivers
other street in the city The for this is
pie enough Every driver who ventures into South Water
the unwrten rules the guidance of him
self and his team by heart and being fully of
disastrous if he any Of them
he is extraordinarily careful Chicago Record
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01
POWER OF THE MoRMoNs.
Rests Upon the Principles of Irriga
ton, Cooperation and Home making.

Rests Upon the Principles of Irriga-
ton, Cooperation and Homemaking.
The national irrigation congress recent
ly held in Ogden, Utah, directs attention
to the remarkable system of irrigation
and community building found in Utah
to-day.
The Mormons owe their success, their
constant growth and enduring hold upon
their people-in a single word, their pow
er-to the fact that they are deeply root
ed in the soil From the moment that
the first small party Of pioneers lighted
the first camp fire by the banks of City
creek, July 81, 1S49, their policy has
been to get possession of the land and
to make that land yield up to them, indi-
vidually and collectively, a living and a
competence.
Brigham Young and his successors
down to the present hour have been guild
ed by the true instinct of empire build
ers. They grasped at the beginning and
have held throughout their history the
great truth that the earth is the source
of all wealth, and that neither man nor
communities can be poor or helpless so
long as they have firm foothold on the
soil
But this was only part of their wis
dom. The other part was the fact that
they divided the land among a multi
tude of small proprietors. According
to the census returns, the average farm
in Utah is 81 acres.
As many large ranches were included
in the average, it is obvious that there
must have been many which We're OF
even smaller dimensions, and this is the
fact. 1t is not uncommon to find people
living comfortably on two or three acres,
while some of the most famous families,
like the Woodruffs, have lived for nearly
two generations on a 20-acre place.
Utah lies in a high altitude and
northern latitude. 1t has real winter for
several months in the year. Its grow
ing season is not much longer than that
of New England. How, then, can its
people live and prosper on very small
farms?
The explanation is in single word
irrigation. And irrigation is an endless
miracle. 1t eonfers industrial ipdepen-
dence and social equality on communi-
tics that know how to live in accordance
with its laws. 1t has made the people
of Utah rich, powerful and impregnable,
in an economic sense. 1t will do as much
for tens of millions more in the next %
years if it has a chance.
The Mormons have grown steadily for
nearly GO years. and are growing to-
day. because of their policy of irrigation,
cooperation and home-making.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01
SCHOOLS KILLING INDIANS.
Startling Facts Presented to the Gov
eminent for Consideration.


Rev. d. A. Sanford, pastor Of the
Episcopal Church at Bridgeport. Okla.
is continuing his investigations regarding
the cause of the great and increased
death rate among the Indians of this
country. In his work as minister he
has been connected with Indian mission
airy service and is well informed regard
ing Indian conditions generally. He
makes the statement that an investiga-
ton of the Indian school system would
show more sensational developments
than the alleged Indian frauds in Indian
Territory. Rev. Sanford has returned
from a trip TO Wisconsin, where he Wis
tied among the Wlnnebago Indians. and
gives out the following statement for
publication:
George Kingsley, an educated Win
nebago, employed as government inter
prefer, told me that the death rate is
large-that 20 per cent of the deaths are
from one source alone, consumption.
From various sources / learned that the
use of whisky is very common. One
well-informed man said that one-half of
the Winnebagos drink whisky when they
can get it. He told me how whisky is
openly sold in the saloons in one town to
the Indians.
L visited the government boarding
school for Indians at Tomah. The chill
dren are Winnebagos, Menomonees and
Chippewas. In many respects the equip
ment of the school is excellent; th teach
ers and employees are evidently well
qualified and are earnest in their work.
Like many other boarding schools, how
ever, | found very marked oyercrowd-
ing in the dormitories The beds were
placed close together, with only narrow
passage between. In this way twenty or
more Indian children were sleeping in
rooms, which, in my judgment, ought not
to have more than three or four at the
utmost. For healthy white children 1
should consider this very imprudent; for
Indian children, tainted with commu-
nicable disease, such overcrowding in
dormitories is evidently dangerous. And
is it not plainly culpable?
Il noticed in one school room a boy
with bandage on his head. Scrofula,
| was told, was the trouble; on others |
saw the scars where scrofulous sores
had been healed. Evidently, as among
other tribes, these Indians were marked
ly tainted with tuberculosis. Under
these conditions, with such overcrowd-
ing in dormitoFies, a boarding school be-
comes a ,hotbed for the propagation of
disease. For a time the children may
appear robust and healthy, but in a few
years the hotbed does its work; the dis
ease, tuberculosis, is developed. Seven
ty per cent of the deaths among the
Winnebagos is a condition that tells the
story. The boarding schools are evil
IDENTIFY to blame in the matter. Other
conditions, it should be said, also help
to make this enormous death rate"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

all Texans have IN their great State.
That is one thing that makes senu-
ment against division of the State, but
the real reaSon-the one that out
weighs all the potent arguments for
dividing the State in order 10 increase
the influence of the west in the United
States Senate-is found in 8 more
grave condition.
The reason Texas must never be d.
vided it this: There can be but tNo
kinds Of republics-the considerations
OF States and the centralized govern
ment. which becomes In the end moth
ing but monarchy. The United States
il drifting too rapidly into q moDarchi-
cal form OF government
It Is not even now governed by mea
It Is controlled by money. The power
OF the financial interests is paramc unit
to the power Of the people. The re-
suit win be a dissolution OF the con-
federacy OF States or q monarchical
form Of government. I want Texas to
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01
AN UNFAMILIAR DIALECT.
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An American woman who was lately
in London for the first time is con-
WINGED that whatever the language may
be which til cockneys speak, it is not
English. One of her experiences is re-
lated by the Washington Post.
The woman who wished to see the
city ell by herself. Somebody told her
that if she went to the terminus of
some bus lines-it did not matter
which-and waited a little, she would
hear the conductor call out the places
on the route, and bhen could choose
that which she wished TO wise
She found a place where buses were
arriving and departing, and waited
She heard many curious names, but
failed to understand much that the bus
men said Every now and then the
man on the step of a bus would call
out. "Moblotch! Moblotch!' and she
wondered what part Of London Mob
lotch" might lie. She had never heard
of it before, and she had been studying
London for six months. At last she
ventured 20 address 4 conductor who
locked aprrD3chable.
'Wul you kindly tell me- she said,
"where one takes the bus for Marble
Arch?"
The man looked at her pityingly. Her
American accent was thick upon her,
and he perceived also that she must
be deaf. He leaned toward her and
drew a long breath. Then he beloved;
This is your bus, ma'am" and be-
gan to shout, ''Moblotch! Moblotch"
The visitor had let seven ''MOblotch'
buses so because she never once guess
cd that that is the way Marble Arch
Is pronounced in london.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01
IMMIGRANTS FACE STARVATION.
Parties in Montana Snowbound in
Tents with Nothing to Eat.

Parties IN MOuIdnaF IN
Tents with Nothing to Eat.
Word has been received from the
Trout creek district in Montana that
there are several parties of immigrants
along the Spokane road in the west end
of Missoula County snowbound and IN
the verge of starvation. In one party
near the Idaho border is a family of five
showed up and without provisions or
money. The family is living in an eight
foot tent with the snow up TO the wagon
bed. unable to get out or secure food for
the stock. Three other immigrant par
ties are reported along the trail showed
up in the passes and all in a precarious
condition. Efforts were made 70 send out
relief parties
As result Of deep snow and extremely
cold weather throughout Montana heavy
sheen losses viii result. Reports from
Sweet Grass County say the binding
snow has scattered sheep over EiS9ntains
and lowlands into sections where not
vestige Of food can be found. Two bands
of sheep belonging to NeaSy and Neon
nell got away from their herderS and
are scattered in the hills Wild animals
driven from mountains by snow and cold
are raising havoc with stock The tenn
perature is from 20 TO % degrees below
zero.
Z. Heinrichs. German farmer living
near Palmer. Iowa, was frozen to death.
Heinrichs was driving home from Mason
when the team ran into a ditch. throw
ing him into a pool of wafer He was
frozen before reaching home.
Not since 1891 has il been as cold in
November in New Orleans as it was
Thursday with the thermometer register
ing so degrees. Intense cold prevails
in the sugar region.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

be big enough to stand alone when the
dissolution of the Union shall come
This is reason enough for never diyid-
ing this State.
Mr.. Reagan is an octogenarian and
is the champion long-distance office
holder in the world. He was a legis-
lator of the republic of Texas, repre-
sentative from Texas to the United
States Congress long before the civil
war, postmaster general of the Con-
federacy. representative in Congress
ard United States senator from Texas
after the war, and upon retiring from
the Senate became railroad commits
sioner of Texas. He gave up his office
a few years ago to write his memoirs.
He is still strong power in the poll
ties OF Texas
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

directory Congress
about his The that the
half
the
period republic
thing without putting into the effort everything that could be honestly adj
c. in
his moved Pike County indiana when Joe Old Inc
his who then IL
He had
of his
when he removed to Tuscoa ILL., He set out
held
perhaps point
the
he nteoks his little fingers AS he
Suddenly
Mr. then begins violent assault upon the
with the index finger of his right He pounds it, he
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

Sometimes the fruit ON single tree
Is worth more than two or three acres
Of wheat. There is tree in Northern
Delaware 20 10 so years old that has
produced an average OF $50 worth OF
fruit annually for nearly twenty years.
One year the cherries sold for $50 Six
years ago this old patriarch bore fifty
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01
Nor Phntngranher.

"If you don't mindr' suddenly ex-
claimed the timid young man. who had
finally screwed up sufficient courage TO
turn out the gas.
You needn't have done that. Mr..
Slowe." said the sweet girl. calmly.
a dark room is not necessary for the
development of this negative. Phil
adelphia Press.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

Bessie Knecht. The sleeping girl is
dead. Miss Knecht was taken TO a hos
pital in Salt Like City last February ia
an unconscious condition After fort5-
seven days she partially revived, F1t
soon sank into a eomatose condition
again. and never fully regRined con-
ncioaGness
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

James Hin and John T. Linsley. driv-
ers for department store. AID Ernest
II. TrekeIl. a driver for the United
States Express Compsny, union men,
were fined 500 each in police court At
Kansas City for stoning wagon driven
b. non-union man
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

Independence Mo, viii offer the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad seventy five acres
Of land in Elm park and bonus Of S10,-
900 il it win locate its $4,000 car shops
there. The company has decided that it
win not locate the shops in the Kansas
City East bottoms because Of fear Of
GcoHg
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

prediction that the
American republic
was Fastening TO
its downfall. Re
Gently the question
of dividing Texas
came up for dis
cusslon. and this
led Reagan TO eX-
press himself IN
opposition.
| do not base my
opposition, he said,
upon the nride that
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

ing Secretary Hay
for the United
States and NJ. Bu-
>nau- V arilla for the
republic of Panama.
By the new treaty
the width of the
canal strip is made
ten miles instead of
six and the United
States is granted
the use in perpetuity
of the canal zone
from ocean to ocean,
xr~tfl, O~oI.,r,-o
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

Lieut.. Albert NJ Beecher, e. S. n,
fell from the forward turret TO the hand
ling room OF the battleship Maine, dis
lance Of forty feet. The vessel had
race with death in an attempt TO get tho
injured officer to Newport TO secure med
zeal aid, and lost.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

the Postofice De-
partment at the be-
ginning of the scan
dals has grown
steadily weaker, His
friends fear the end
is not far off. Gen.
Tyner has had a
most interesting ca
reer. Most of the
contemporaries of
his youth and Early
manhood have pass
ed away. Honored
s-...s....s
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

Despite the fact that the cost of run
ming the United States government is in
creasing at a rapid rate, Uncle Sam is
able, after paying all expenses, to put
aside more cash each day than he did
on the corresponding day last year The
statement, which sets forth the transac-
tons of an ordinary day, shows that the
total receipts of the government from all
sources for the average day to be $2,020,
S36.55, and the total expenses of the day
$1,S30,0G0, thus leaving balance of re-
ceipts over expenditures in the treasury
of $40, S3655. In other words, the gov
eminent collects nearly 100000 more
than it has any immediate use for. The
collections for one day are at the rate
of $S4,201.52 an hour for twenty-four
hours, which means that every minute
there pours into its strong boxes from
the pockets Of the people $1,403.3G, or
$23.39 second.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01
Tolerates Nothing Home Made.

Mrs. Gaddie-I see you're going n
for society. Has your daughter made
her debut yet?
Mrs. Nurich--Uell. should say not.
She got all them things made 10 order
In Philadelphia Press.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

Presidents Lincoln, Johnson. Grant.
Hayes, Garfield. Harrison, Mckinley and
Roosevelt, Gel, Tyner properly belongs
10 regime extending from the Civil
War to President Harrison's retirement
from office He became intimate with
President Grant while in charg of the
army mails in the West during the Civil
Ward. Later he rved in Gen. Grants
cabinet as Postmaster General, having
been III the meantime a member of Con-
gress from the district represented by
Nice-President Schuyler Colfax, whom
he succeeded in The House
-
The special session of Congress called
in order to pass an enabling act for the
Cuban reciprocity treaty marks the six
teenth occasion on which Congress has
been extraordinarily convened by the
Chief Executive The last preceding
session of this nature was held at the
outset of President McKinley's first
term of office and the first special ses-
sion was summoned shortly after John
Adams assumed the presidential duties.
During the life of the country ten Pres
idents have hitherto availed themselves
of their right to call Congress to assem-
BILE before the customary time, the first
Monday in December. or these Presi-
dents Jefferson and Hayes each exer-
cised the privilege twice, while one,
James Madison, summoned Congress in
extraordinary session no less than four
times About half of the special SEES
sions have been convened to deal with
legislation relating to wars already un-
der way or in prospect. The first itself
was one of this class.
-
Colombia will not get $10,000,0O0 from
the United States, nor from the new re-
public of Panama, nor from anybody
else. 1t has been rumored for several
days that the managers of the little
isthmian nation, acting under advice
from the United States government,
would consent to pay over to Colombia
as a peace offering the $10,000000 in
gold which they expect 10 receive from
the United States as the price of the
canal concession. The theory was that
by giving the Colombians the money
salve would be placed on their wounds
and they would consent to subside and
make no more disturbance. Unfortu-
nateiy for the Colombians, there is no
Foundation for the rumor. High officials
of cur government deny that they have
ever given or thought of giving any such
advice to the little republic which is now
sheltered under the wing of the Ameri-
can eagle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

W. J. Burnett, a wealthy banker OF
SapuIpa. T. T., committed suicide In the
Grand Avenue Hotel, Oklahoma City, o.
T. II Is said be was addicted 70 the
morphine habit. which was indirectly the
cause OF the suicide.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

1t sometimes happens that the wom-
an who is disappointed in love isn't
in marriage.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

Brig. Gen. Reuben +. Bernard, a vet
eran Of the Civil War, who participated
in JOB battleg aud skirmishes in that
conflict and in subsequent Indian cam
paigns. died recently at his residence IN
this city.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

A girl never thinks young man 5
heart is in the right place unless she
possesses It
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

Alice Roosevelt, the Presidents daugh-
ter creatld not a little surprise a few
DAYS ago by appearing on horseback in
washington riding astride. The young
lady has persisted in the innovation,
however, aud now all the society girls are
ordering bifurcated riding habits.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01
Is SHARPLY CRITICISED.
Predicted That the Country Was Has,
teuiug to Its Downfall

John Ii. Reagan. the last of the Old
Guard of the Confederacy, has come in
for some sharp criticism for his recent
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01
SIGN A CANAL PACT.
TREATY WITH PAN ANA CON-
PLETED AT HAYS HOME.
United States Given Absolute Sover-
eighty Over the Canal Zone-CoIom-
bia Is for War, Threatening to March

A new Panama eansi treaty was sign
ed in Secretary HAYS house in Wash
ington the other evesing the signers he
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

four peach baskets OK delicious fruit,
or about LOO pounds. And all Of this
fruit has been a free gift from nature,
as the old tree has stood In a doorysrd
all these years, unattended and IN
cared for except in cherry tIme-Ohlo
Valley Manufacturer.
Don't believe ali you hear; but BE-
sure to believe all you say.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

The growth of the postal business is
exemplifed by what has been done in
the downtown section Of New York.
Here the putting up Of so many tall
Office buildings has made necessary the
quadrupling Of the carriers within a
short time. Some Of these buildings
alone keep busy a dozen carriers. Some
twelve years ago the sale Of stamps in
this quarter ran up 20 100000 year.
Now it surpasses S17,0O00O0.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01
dyrA@E|1sEgD0s
IIITIlIIIl
GOSSIP
~~~~NN~~~~~

Former Postmaster General Tyner il
SAID to be dying. He has been Ill a
long time, and since his retirement from
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

RoumanIa supplies wheat, wine and
hides.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

A formidable feet of revenue cutters
is to be maintained upon the great lakes
Not long ago the old Michigan was the
only government vessel upon those wat
ers Now, however, the United States
has the Tuscarora, the Morrill, and the
Dallas upon the lakes, and to this fleet
will soon be added the Mackinaw. The
Tuscarora is to be assigned to Lakes Su-
perior and Michigan, the Morrill, to HUI
ron and Erie the Dallas to Ontario and
the Maol.gIaw to St. Mary's anchorage
as station ship. This feet will be aug
mented as fast rs available appropria-
tioas will permit, it being the purpose Of
the government to have American inter
ests upon the great lakes thoroughly pro-
tected, especially in view of recent de-
velopments, which indicate that the Ca
nadians will attempt n stricter enforce
ment of their laws.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-01

In his annual report Captain Charles
Young, acting superintendent of Sequoia
and General Grant national parks OF
California, urges the acquisition by the
government Of the land in those parks
which is owned by private individuals.
Owners Of large tracts in S9quoia Park,
he says. are beginning to sell off tie
large timber, so that where once was
fine forest OF SO magnificent giants
there now is but stumps and sawdust
piles