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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22
About Ecrsons.

Allen Northington, prominent citizen of Prattville, was one of the Hillmans arrivals yesterday.
 Congressman J. II. Bankhead stopped at the Metropolitan a few hours yester- day en route from Washington to his home in Fayette, where he goes to spend the holidays.
 Charles A. Ryan, Jr., of Montgomery Is registered at the St, Nicholas.
 Fred w. Boyd of Mobile was one of the Norris late arrivals last night.
 A. w. Hayes of Woodstock is regis tered at the Florence.
 MT. and Mrs. Edward Benett of Den yer, Col, are stopping at the Hillman.
 Prof. ]. D. Patton of Union Springs is spending the holidays with relatives In the city.
 The Rev. Father Dohrety of New Or leans was one of the St. Nicholas ar rivals last night.
 Dr. D. II. Baker of Gadsden was one of the Metropolitan arrivals last night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22
OLD QUESTION REVIVED
 ABOUT JUSTIFIABLE LYING

which answers the impertinent intrusions of those who have no business to know. To refuse altogether to answer certain questions is really to answer them. For instance to lady who does not choose to disclose her age this question is put; You are under thirty years of age, are you not?" If she says, T shall not an- swer you" she has confessed to the thirty years She is justified in reply ing, if she is thirty and does not choose to advertise the fact. "Indeed 1 am. Her interrogator has no right to make her disclose her age.
 This question is a very simple type. There are circumstances often connected with other people which a man or a wom- an is perfectly justified in keeping locked within his or her breast. Yet any smart and intrusive person can so frame an inquiry as to draw these facts out unless a lie is told. In such case as that the lie properly rests on the con- science of the one who drew it out, not on the conscience of the one who told it.
 Whether or not circumstances may ar rive in which man, though blameless, may find himself under the necessity of "perjuring himself like a gentleman" for another may depend more on accident than we suppose.
 Men hate the word 'lie" and liar" because they hate the thing. If the or dinary man did not abominate lying, the epithet liar would not be so utterly in- sulting as it is, "Fibber" is a compli- mentary word. Men can endure it to be called rake" or a scamp" But call a man a liar, and he fights. Why? It is because he despises the lie.
 Yet, as we have seen, every one must lie That Is the reason why so many euphemisms so many soft terms, for the lie and the liar have been invented. Note a few of these beatings around the bush: Untruth, story, fib, taradiddle, fable, white lie misstatement, gloss, fic- ton, exaggeration, hyperbole, cooring, yarn, embroidery, figure of speech, fancy, feat of the imagination, overstatement, shot with the long bow. figmept, vagary. romance, pipe-dream, suppresso veri, equivocation, mystihcation, occultation, mental reserve, arriere pensee, screen. masquerade, stimulation, Machiavelism, buncombe, flim-iam, economy of truth, canard, moonshine, irony, make-believe. pink stuff.
 Probably there are a good many more. I do not keep up with the slang of the day It is instructive on this very head that new terms, like pipe dream" and pink stuff" are coming out all the time. They seem to be needed. The old ones get uncomplimentary and unwelcome. They come too near, as people grow fa- miliar with them. to tn word "le.'
 And the lie is hateful and ever will be. and ought to be, though we have to bend our back to its yoke once in a while.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22
Piq Iron.

There is a little profit in $10 pig iron made in this district, but there is no pro- fit in $950 iron" said a prominent manu- facturer. Furnace men who say they have had any profit on recent sales are not keeping run of their cost sheets.
 But I am sure we will get Sl0 or $1o.25 for No. 2 foundry by the early part of heart"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

ord-Herald.
 Preparations are being made for the establishment of a national bank on the worlds fair grounds A charter has been applied for, and a meeting to elect of- 1cers and directors will be called in a few days. The bank is to be owned jointly by all bankers of the city who have financial interest in the exposition. The institution is to be known as the Bankers National
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
,om the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Castor oil can cure a small boy of most anything if you will let him off from taking 1t.
 When man swears off and has to take his drink alone there isn't half as much fun in it.
 Whether a woman is too thin or too fat depends upon how much her dressmaker knows about her business.
 The man who has sense enough to act as if he had won a prize when he mar ried generally gets all the prizes that are distributed in his family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22
Eskimos Never Wash.

From the Worlds Work
 The Eskimos never wash Each layer of dirt and seal-oil is an extra protection against the cold. They never appear to be as dirty or untidy as Indians, but I have vet to see the Eskimo or Indian who would not be improved by an appli- cation of soap and water
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22
From the New York Mail and Express.

From the New York Mail and Express HHE ECLECTIC CLUB of this city, \CV which Is apparently composed
 of or patronized by ladies of some distinction, has been warmly discus sing the question, "Is Lie Justifable?" This seems to be a very general way of putting a problem which is as old as man.
 "A lie" is a broad inclusive phrase May a lie be justiiable?" or When is a lie justihable would seem to put the old question little better. We have not yet come, with regard to these di- verse soft, mixed-up things which are not the truth, to the point of being able to say that any kind of lie may be good Nor can the man or woman live who can truthfuly say that he or she never pre- varicated.
 The proper position in this matter seems to be indicated by the name of the club which has been discussing this question the Eclectic. The wise man is an eclectic liar. He knows how to choose between the truth and the lie He should never tell a lie when the truth would serve his purpose better.
 There is a vast difference, an awful cosmic chasm, between, for instance the multitudinous and innumerable liar who runs half dozen yellow newspapers, and the one who, for a well chosen ethical purpose, or for a personal or political ad- vantage which will far outweigh any monetary errancy on the part of the vic tim. husbands the truth on occasion. The one lies professionally and ceaselessly. He wins money by lying. He does not know how much harm his lies are gonig to do. Many of them are carefully con trived to do harm. Whereas the prevari- cator for a great purpose has the whole weight of the good purpose on his side.
 The other night Senator Depew aroused a good deal of criticism by saying in a speech that one of the hardest things that a politician had to do was to pretend to be friendly to a man when he was really working against him. That is one of the things that a politician certainly must do if he hopes for success. In this regard he is like a general. who must sometimes deceive not only the enemy, but his own people. He has plan which means victory if he works it out But in order to work it out he must keep it to himself. or, in any case, to the inmost cir cle of his staff. All others must be de- ceived.
 Abraham Lincoln, a truthful man. left good many lies to his account. He was a politician. He used political ma chinery to work out great, a noble end. But he had to pretend friendship to many men whom he was secretly opposing. He had to make men believe that he was serving them at the very time that he was turning them down." Otherwise he would have been beaten in many cases in which he really succeeded, and in which his success conduced to the attain ment of the holy ends of freedom and union.
 There is one kind of lying which every self-respeeting person has to practice at one time or another. It is the lying
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

John R. Mclean and the Cincinnati Enquirer are powerful supporters that have recently been pushing Senator Germans band wagon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

Premier Combes of France has the battle of his life in his new bill to abolish teaching by the religious orders ito Americanize, in other words, the public schools.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

Senator Reed Shoot says My life is an open book, and l do not fear for any man to read it." This is all right so far as it goes, but it's the women who are scanning it now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

It is stated that Kitty Hawk, N. G., has been the scene of recent flight of an airship. Perhaps there is some thing in a name after all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

Patti has sure grip on s400,000 to carry back when she uses her return ticket.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

The Chicago clerk who was paid a salary of $9 a week and stole $200 for ready money" certainly had a good notion of what constitutes graft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

Wos Gil picked up all the gold he could lay his hands on when he left his country for the sake of his coun- try's nomenclature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

No pronounced case of brain flag has yet been discovered in Birming- ham. but that is no sign we are not smart enough to have it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

The How Old Is Ann?" problem has been superseded by an invention of our English cousins, entitled "How Old Is Richard?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

The Panama treaty will be ratified, but it cannot be hurried through before all the facts connected with it are as- certained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

Delegate Kalaniauoale of the Con gressional Directory is Prince Cupid everywhere else. Why not?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

A good share oI the country will not have a green Christmas. Such a Christ mas is not popular in the winter wheat belt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

The worlds great philosophers are now resting in their little urns, where they cannot turn to clay as imperious Caesar did.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

The anti-bath reform that Chicago has started is securing a foothold among the New Jersey farmers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

President Harper is anxious to see his Christmas check, now about due from the Standard Oil office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

Santa Claus is not aware that hard times have come. He denies the alle- gation even if he does not defy the allegator.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

Hand-painted stockings are said to be the rage in England. London's weather affords ample opportunity for displaying them at street crossings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

The reproduction of the Japanese custom of hari-kari in the cases of dis appointed political ambitions would fit this country pretty well after all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

The Russo-Japanese situation is still strained, and the peace anticipations seem to have been altogether prema- ture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

President Roosevelt is the only man who wears the smile that won't come off. It was heritage from birth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

When Chaplain Edward Everett Hale takes hold senators will be expected to get around to prayers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

Winter is certainly an appropriate season to discuss the merits of going unwashed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

MT. Carnegie says our college presi- dents are daughters of the horse leech, and he ought to know
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

The Selma Times has nailed the William R. Hearst coiors to its mast head, so to speak.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

Whether they may be Panamaniacs or Panamese, Uncle Sam is responsible for them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

The Dowies in France are doing as well as could be expected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

Out in Texas when a negro Is lynched he is "benevolently assim- Hated"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22
A Crying Need.

From the Houston Post.
 What do you consider the most crying need of the country just at presenta"
 More ex-Presidents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

Tn eleven months we will all be called upon to go to the polls and elect democratic President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

Senator Hoar has delivered the goods and Is now reading what the papers have to say.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

The Shoot controversy is question that time alone will settle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

Bourke Cochran will soon be where he can give John Sharp Williams lift or two every day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

The senate now has a chaplain who has two eyes and also mind
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

Even our stage carpenters are organ ized
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22
BANK AT WORLDS FAIR.

This is the time to pay poll taxes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22

The Engineering and Mining News says by way of comment on MT. Cat let's letter:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-03-24
GENUINE CRIMINAL.

Peter Dorzinski. late arrival at
Athens, was on Wednesday last SEN
fenced by Judge Silverthorn to serve
seven years in the penetentiary for a
short but unsavory record in that
village Dorziaski filled up on liquor
two weeks ago and exposing himself
obscenely and insulting several women
was arrested He plead guilty to the
charge against him 1t was also
learned, and the man admitted the fact,
that he had just completed term of
one year in the Milwaukee honse of
correction for similar offense
Whes, Sheriff Cheilis took the man to
Waupy.n he looked up his record and
found that he is an old offender. Be-
fore he became of age he spent three
and half years in the reform school.
Later he served three months in the
Milwaukee reformatory for some
offense, then he committed burglary
and was sentenced two years in the re-
formatory, at the completion of this
sentence he was given four years in the
state prison for burglary Before COM
ing to Athens he served six months in
the Milwaukee house of correction and
now he gets seven more years, in all
fourteen and half years in penal in
stitntions and he is only thirty years of
age. He has a wife and one child, the
latter four months old
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-03-24

Beginning with the next fiscal year
OF the postal department, which com
mences July lst, the Misses Judith
Goeres, Anna Kuhlman and Kate
Powers, clerks in the Wausau post Of
lice, will have their salaries raised from
$500 to 5000 per annum Notice to that
effect has been received from the de-
partment.
Ex-Gov. Bob Taylor, Of Tennessee,
lectured to an audience at the opera
house Tuesday evening last that com
pletely filled that house. His lecture
on the whole was we1f received, and he
proved himself a speaker of unquestion-
able accomplishment. Though other
speakers may have Deter style of de-
delivery, Mr.. Taylor makes up for this
defect with other talents His language
is fiowery, his bursts of eloquence gilt
tering with inspiring sentiments, his
humor broad and he has great fund
of stories and just enough poetry to
Illustrate his thoughts. All through,
his lecture was punctuated with good
stories that kept the audience in good
humor and all went away more than
pleased This lecture ended the Y. NJ
T.. A. course of entertainments for 1902
3, and the entertainment committee is
to be complimented on the class of
amusements furnished The course as
a whole was successful to the manage
ment from financial standpoint, and
another sill be arranged for next sea-
son. Already lecture bureaus have fur
nlshed the committee with their pro-
spectus for next year and the committee
has great deal OF material to select
from and undoubtedly will secure some
of the best talent to be had for next sea-
sons amusementS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-03-24
JACOB MILLER DIES.

Friday morning, at his home on Jack
son street, Jacob Miller passed away
after an illness of several months, his
ailment being pronounced by physicians
as cancer of the stomach. Mr.. Miller
was a native of Switzerland being born
in that country in 1879 In the year
SO he emigrated, with his parents,
to the United States lie resided
Ia different sections Of the state
at various times, following differ
ent occupations, until about nine
years ago when he came to Wausau
and purchased the steam laundry of
Huebsch Bros. He conducted this
business until about year ago, when
he sold out To the Wausau Laundry Co.
He than bought the Livenuore property
on jackson street and has since oper-
ated a cigar box factory He had been
in i'll health for long time and the last
few months had failed rapidly By
iudicous forethought he has amply
provided for his family for he carried
an Insurance policy of 81 coo in the
Bankers Life ms. Co. and one of s., 900
in the Moder Woodmen He is sur
viyed by his ife and two children, An
drew, aged Venteen years, and Viola,
aged eleven years The funeral was
held Sunday tfternoon from ST Pauls
church, the hsv f Schaer conducting
the service The ceremonies were
attended by the Modern Woodmen
lodge, nearly 200 turning out.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-03-24
Pardee's Drug Store, The Yellow Front
DON BE
FOOLED

Advertisements having appeared in
various publications wherein Sears,
Roebuck & Co., offer Wheeler & Wilson
sewing machines, we wish to warn the
public thst they are not our author"
lied age1ts and that we do not sell our
machines to them nor any other cata-
logue house or department store.
Their advertisements are not for the
purpose Ct ptomoting the sale OF our
machines. They are Using our rePuta-
ton as makers of the highest grade ma
chimes only, in order to getthe namss of
possible buyers and persuade them to
purchase orc oftheir cheap STENcILED
MACHINES, the manufacturers of
which they are, evidently, ashamed to
make pubiiy.
If you want a genuine Wheeler &
Wilson matyhine, do not waste your time
writing to slyone who is uiiable to fur
nish it. THE genuine Wheeler Will
son machine, made by us and backed by
our warranty, is for sale BY our author
ized dealers only. When you buy
Wheeler & Wilson, you get machine
that is MACHINE, backed by areputation
Of so years unparalleled success.
Wheeler 4 Wilson Mfg. Co., Chicago, Y;
For Sale by JAMES MUSIC co
Wausau, Wis.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-03-24
CLUB MEETINGS..

Great interest is being shown in the
meetings of Vomen's Federated clubs
to be held il this city on the 18th and
10Th OF April and the members of the
/ Ladies Literary club are meeting with
great deal # encouragement in the
preparations for the reception of the
visiting ladies. The PRESBYTERIAN
church has been secured as a place in
which TO hold the general sessions,
while the members of the Wausau club
have rendered the use of the club house
as place Of reception TO the visitors
on the evening of the 14th As yet the
/ program has not been completed, but
the ladies have been assured of the
| presence of the following ladies of
/ prominence:
| State President Mrs. Thos Hoyt
Brown, Of Milwaukee,, who will speak
on Some Essentials in Club Life .
/ Dist Nice-President Mrs f. W.
| Thomas, of Medford who will preside
at the meetings
! DR. Annette Shaw, of Eau Claire.
! Mrs. Ellen Sabin, of Milwaukee
Downer college
Mrs. Lutte Stearns, of the Wisconsin
State Library Commission Madison
! Each of The nineteen clubs of the
! district will make a report, and these
are expected To furnish great deal of
| information along the lines of club
work
! The president of the local club has
appointed committees for the carrying
out of the work and the following are
the chairmen:
General Arrangement-Mrs. W. c..
| Dickens
Invitations Aiys Lillian G. Craven.
EntertainmentLM Mrs G S Curtis.
Credentials-M Mrs d L. Plumer
Federation Pins-Mrs c. &. Parlin.
Press and Printing Mrs A. A Book
Music-Mrs d. T Jones
Social-Mrs r II Johnson
Place of Meeting j. A. Porter.
Transportation-Mrs. p V. o. Van
Vechten
Finance-Dr. Margaret Trevitt
The program. it is expected, will be
quite extensive and interesting and will
perhaps be made complete this week
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-03-24
HELD UP.

The following taken from the Marsh
field Times is in reference to man
known here, he being brother of +. j
Ritleman who lives in the north part of
the city:
George Riileman of Edgar, was held
up ana relieved of about len dollars in
cash Tuesday evening Rifleman, who
is stranger here, was on his way to the
$40 Northwestern and inquired as to
the location of the depot of two young
men he met, who indy agreed to pilot
him They led him across the Central
avenue school grounds and when some
distance from the street knocked him
down and went through his clothes.
RiAemau made a fight and was quite
severely bruised up. Que of the high
waymen he described as short and
heavy set, while the other was of slight
build No clue has yet been obtained
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-03-24
LIVE STOCK SHOW AND SALE.

The live stock exhibit and sale al
Marshfield Wednesday was success
so far as the grade of cattle shown was
concerned but the accommodations for
purchasers were poor. Altogether
forfy-tive head of cattle were sold bring
ing to their owners the sum of 81, 800 on
an average of Sl70 per head. Some OF
the best stock there was purchased by
Marathon county people and will re
main or be brought to this county, the
sum of 81 800 being paid for nine head
or an average of 5000 per head. Robt.
Freeman, of the town of Emmett, was
the heaviest purchaser, he buying four
head for the sum of 81, I,260. The pur-
chases made by Marathon county peo-
pie are as follows:
Baron of Glencoe, bull, to j. FL. Ken
nedy, Wausau, $40.
The Last of the Barons, bull, to s. +.
Graves, Spencer, $135.
Director General, bull, to H ID. Smith,
Wausau, Sll5
Baronial, bull, to g. f. Guenther,
KuOwlton SlJ5.
Happy Jack, bull, to Duncan Bros,
Wausau So
Lucy Dagmar, COW, to Robt. Free
man, Mosipee, $40.
AfCiiiC DVil, COW3 " ISOOI. Il OCliidHs >
Mosinee. $780,
Blinkbonny 41st, imported Scotch
heifer, to Robt Freeman, Mosinee, $420.
Calceolaria 9th, imported Scotch
heifer, to Robt. Freeman, Mosinee, $500.
There was good attendance at the
roundup many being present from
different towns of the state and some
from neighboring states Gov LaFol-
lette and Prof Henry of the state uni
versity were expected to be present and
make addresses. The latter was called
to Texas few days previous, and the
governor was prevented from attend
ing by washouts on the railroad. 1t is
welcome news to know that the herds
of this county loses nothing by the
sale, but really profited by it, The
cattle bought by Mr.. Freeman are said
to be beauties and well worth the stiff
prices paid for them An effort is be-
ing made to arrange a similar cattle
sale in this city at the conclusion of the
county fair next fall.