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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16
WHAT A PRETTY WORLD THIS is.
BEAUTIES SURROUND COUNTRY DWELLER.

n a. as he
on hill with grazing
other spread before him. with the
~ in his
INTO tue west Mnt Ooyn exclamation Tor the ruler of the greatest
nation earth! But it Ovab
Did country
you could hear the rain playing the shingles
the seed
it? 1t m erept the old patchwork
but the sk comfortable
and maybe dad wasn't
to your eyes and mother pokg the
could lie aed no longer Out jumped seconds
and bechesa dressed GOSH those bully collars
10 ocngs no shoes Then the tin
bench beside the kitchen
The squeaing peeyishy bawng hungry
The spotted sucking
clothes line was whispering his pathetic little meod as afraid
fromh i'm
Then pastures milking yard
walked the long winding path through the lot
sand there and there tles
quarreng with the yellow butterflies
peke hammering
grass were full diamond dewdOp The cpmunk
his And dad
Kitchen where mothers fixing up fried salt pork and milk
gravy potatoes AID gdde cakes with new maple and
Oh Lord Oh Lord who wouldn't
world is pretty
Did hickory
from m mouse and look up and up! Way far cloud sailing
along in the blue that
BILE that God sending
furnishing people way of India? How other farmers boys
that halo Of heat that quyerng the woods
ture? How cool it is under the hickory What blamed
securing themselves the road kick
little wooy caerpa hanging
He's coming down lower and
The world is nrettv
home
blossoms the birds bees the blue sky the green woods the singing
brooks and all the world which indeed
Chronicle. ''N '4- D''''
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16
THE uNGulDED BRIDEGROOM.
Room for Instructions on How to Look
Properly Happy.

Properly Happy.
A thoughtful young man of Wash
ington was heard to decry the fact
the other day that while there is a
deluge of don'ts and dos for the bride
to follow-how to enter the church,
how to behave during the ceremony,
what to wear, and so on-the bride
groom must shift for himself.
There is absolutely nothing to guide
a man but his own awkward self, and
it isn't fair" he said. From the time
a girl is old enough to hear, she I'M
derstands the Importance OF having
things done properly at wedding,
while the prospective groom is some
thing necessary to complete the pic
ture, but a secondary considera zion,
and nothing short of inspiration, can
get a man through a marriage cere-
mony gracefully.
I'm order to impress the bride and
spectators that he is enthusiastic about
1t, he appears with a sort of frozen
grin on his face thpt you expect to
melt at any moment and run down his
collar. Ii he is too frightened to re-
spond in loud voice some of his
brides girl friends will whisper that
he was unwilling from the first
again, If he replies in loud, stern
voice, another bunch in another direc-
ton of the church will huddle together
and express how glad they are that
they are not marrying him, while the
attitude of many is that they are sign
Ing away their life and all worth living
for. So | think it about time" con-
Guided the thoughtful young man,
that somebody is writing a few hints
or how to behave that we may appear
enthusiastic about being married.
without being ridiculous and a target
for the people to knock at."-Washing-
ton Post.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16

Hile House at Kilbourn was badly
wrecked by the explosion of gasoline
light machine Mrs. Hile was hurt and
William Brewer, a plumber, also. The
loss will probably exceed $1,000. The
building ~w&s d fine three-story hotel,
newly built. The explosion took place
in the cellar under the dining room. The
floors over the cellar on the first floor
are all completely torn to pieces. The
floors on the second story and the walls
are all torn up. The side walls of the
building are bulged and thrown from
the supports. The glass fronts and win
dows are broken and the whole house is
wreck. The explosion was caused
by leakage in the gas lighting appara-
tus. William Brewer was in the cellar
filling the water tanks and inspecting the
apparatus and for some reason he must
have lighted match, when the whole
cellar was involved in the explosion of
the escaping gas. Mrs. Hile was in
jured by the flying debris. The loss is
estimated at $1,000
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16
OHIO REPUBLICANS
Meet in Columbus and Indorse Both
Roosevelt and Hanna.


Roosevelt and Hanna.
Ohio Republicans met in State conven-
ton at Columbus Wednesday. The open
ing session began at o'clock in the af-
ternoon and lasted little more than an
hour, when an adjournment was taken
until Thursday.
The feature of the days brief session
of the convention was the speech of
Senator Hanna, in taking the gavel as
temporary chairman. His Endorsement
of Roosevelt was unequivocal and warm
ly received.
He painted a verbal picture of the
monument which he said was built by
the Republican party in the countrys
general prosperity, and at his climax
Numbered: LET the Republican party
write an inscription on the base of that
monument in letters that all who run
may read: Hands off,
II once said let we'll enough alone,'"
the Senator quoted a little further along.
Il now say, for Gods sake keep on let.
ting well enough alone"
Senator Foraker was made the perma.
neut chairman of the convention. Fol
lowing his speech eulogizing Senator
Hanna and President Roosevelt, came
the adoption of the platform.
The resolutions commend President
Roosevelts ability and adherence to Nc
Kinley principles, and favor his nomina-
ton and the reelection of Lanna as
Senator. The platform also protests
against any change in the tariff or other
national declarations. Certain planks in
sist on the enforcement of the amend.
ments for negro suffrage or the reduc-
ton of the representation of Southern
States in Congress and the electoral col
lege. The resolutions also favor legis.
lation to stimulate local bank circula.
tons.
Myron T. Herrick was nominated for
Governor by reclamation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16
CARS TO RUN SWIFTLY WITHOUT WHEELS.

Letters patent issued by the and European
rauoadng which, according
viii without wheels
speed creation Professor c. Albertson
Western Railroad been placed
needed
the load
The scheme N 5 a follows
is powerful electric which
the
would
train propelled friction OF
experiments have actually
speed claimed by
the magnetic train is made possible largely
Who'll donea
accidents
mechanical
the
the eoeer would simply turn on magnetic power
pressure upward greater
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16
NEWS OF WISCONSIN.
A WEEKS RECORD OF STATE
HAPPENINGS.
Wife Murderer Has Narrow Escape
from LynchinG-Hote1 Wreck at Kill
bourn-Fire Panic In She boy gan Fac
tory-Suicide of Racine Contractor.

At Sparta wildly excited crowd of
hundreds of angry men attempted to
lynch Samuel Montgomery, who murder
ed his wife in Warrans. At /: 80 o'clock
in the corning a hundred or more men
made a dasa toward the rear of the Jail.
but volley over their heads By the
guards checked the movement. Sheriff
Cassells, with his small force of deputies,
fearing inability to cope with the mob,
appealed TO Governor La Toilette, who
ordered Company X and the Sparta COM
pany to proceed 10 the Jail at once. The
lyRching was thus prevented. During
the inquest at Tomah, in which the jury
decided that Montgomery murdered his
wife, mob of 300 people attacked the
officers. A call was sent to Governor La
Toilette, who ordered out the militia.
The Sheriff and deputies stood off the
mob, and Montgomery, faint with fear,
was spirited out of the back door and
rushed TO a waiting train, which took
him TO Sparta The mob made an at
tempt to stop the train, but the attack
was warded off at the point of guns.
During the inquest the small daughter of
Montgomery testified that her father sent
her into the pasture May 81, and when
she returned her mothers neck was brok
en- and her head crushed. Her father
stood over the woman, she said with the
look of fend. A $1,000 insurance pol
icy on the wife's life was made payable
to Montgomery
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16

Very much in the public eye at present
Is Seymour W. Tnlloch, a former cashier
of the Washington postofice, who has
preferred charges in connection with the
postofice scandals rejecting pretty much
upon every public official with whom he
ever came in contact.
Tulloch lost his job in the Washing
ton postofice in 1900, when Postmaster
John A. Merritt came in.
Versions of the event differ. Tulloch
says he had been very energetic in show
ing up Irregularities and that having
shown too much enthusiasm in bringing
matters of this character to public no.
tice, it was deemed for the good of the
service and for the good especially of a
number of gentlemen occupying high
places in the service to quietly discon-
meet him from the payroll. At least
that's what Tulloeh says. Postmaster
Merritt explains that he came into the
postofice and found a stranger occupy
ing a confidential position, not protected
by civil service rules. He simply di
vorced the stranger from the position.
Tulloch is wealthy, ard acquired a
good deal of his wealth in the employ
of the government, covering a period of
eighteen or twenty years. He is the
treasurer of this Episcopal diocese, d.
rector of the Washington Park Seminary,
also of the Board of Trade, and of the
highest standing in the community.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16

SUM {gSp7alj

Jay Taylor, who ran the first Wagner
sleeping car in 1865. is dead.
Owen Mccarthy of Saratoga is the
oldest man in New York, being 103
Russell Sage. at Sc years Of sge, SAs
just employed a valet to tag aF0und."
James A. Dumont, .sappointed steam-
boat inspector at New York, is so years
of age.
Gen. Lew Wallace has been asked to
get up a Ben-Hur chariot race for the
Indiana State fair this fall.
Through recent purchases. John d.
Rockefeller now owns 1900 acres in the
famous Sleepy Hollow valley.
NJ. Rostand. the Partisan playwright,
figures among the numerous Humbert
victims. bur bis loss is small
Brig. Gen. Eli Long, who died lately
at PlainfeId, n. j.. was twice brevetted
for gallantry during the Civil War.
THE son Of Mrs Hetty Green Is becom-
isg more and more prominent in the
.bs2uess and political affairs Of Texas.
The sons IF the late Rodney Wallace
hav.s gwen $1,000 to smith College to
found Scholarship 10 bear their fathers
name
Mrs. Mary Neville who celebrated her
1o0rh birthdaT az Youngstown. Ohio, re
Gently. has SIX sons. al veterans Of the
Civil War.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16
FORTY YEARS AGO.

A large number of women were ar
rested at Demassville and Williamstown,
KY, for expressing sympathy with the
rebels, and were ordered deported south.
Two companies of infantry from
Camp Douglas took possession of the
Chicago Times office and destroyed part
Of its morning edition.
A peace convention at Cooper insti-
tute, New York, adopted resolutions de
nouncing the Civil War as unconstitu-
tional
The London Times predicted that the
American Civil War never would end,
except through the failure of men or Of
enthusiasn1
The na@jnal convention to urge a ship
canal between the great lakes and the
Mississippi was opened in tent at Chi
cago, with Hannibal H0mlin, Vice Pres
ident of the United States, presiding.
The Illinois House of Representatives
adopted resolutions denouncing Gen.
Burnside for violating a God given
given right" In suppressing the publica-
ton of the Chicago Times.
Gen. Payne inaugurated a system Of
hiring ex-slaves to their former masters,
the latter contracting to pay the men So
monthly and the women So
Gen. U. S. Grant was criticised for
exposing himself to rebel sharpshooters
by sitting on fence and whiting dur
ing the Vicksburg bombardment.
Gen Burnside forbade the circulation
of the Chicago Times and the New York
World in the department Of the Ohio.
-Four thousand rebel prisoners reached
Cairo, ILL.,, and were started by train for
Indianapolis.
Gen. Burnside threatened to hang ev-
cry rebel officer in his possession If Gen.
Bragg retaliated for the formers execu-
ton of two rebel spies.
A mob of Milwaukee women attacked
a United States draft officer with clubs
and stones and severely injured him be-
fore he could escape.
President Lincoln revoked Gen. Burn
sides order suspending publication of the
Chicago Times.
Gen. Pemberton, Confederate com
mander at Vicksburg, Miss, appealed to
Gen. Joseph e. Johnston for assistance,
declaring that his provisions would last
but thirty days longer.
The United States government con-
tracted for large supply Of wooden
arms at $50 each, which were TO be
supplied to wounded soldiers free Of cost.
President Lincoln's policy was indorsed
at a large union meeting in the Chicago
court house square.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16

Pacific engineers believe the eastern
quagmires is the result of the wash
| ing down for centuries of silt from
the Bear river. This has filled in a
deep canyon and they believe persist
ence will result in finding the solid
bottom. While they do not offer to
explain the other quagmire, they be-
lieve the same result may be obtained
! there.
| The greatest difficulty is expected In
the western quagmire, which is now
giving most trouble. Here the wind
sweeps the entire length of the lake
and the waves are high. The water is
thirty feet deep. 1t is the intention
to build ten miles of trestle across this
portion. but so far the foundation has
not been secured.
The engineers have decided on an
experiment which they hope will solve
the problem. They have started on
the building of immense cradles" of
timber, which will be filed with stone
and lowered into the lake. BY anchor
| ing these carefully and binding them
closely together it is hoped that they
will stand the strain.
All manner of expedients have been
necessary to carry on the work, says
the New York Herald. Trouble began
as soon as the lake was entered. Areas
were encountered where the salt and
sand made an apparently solid bot
tom. Perhaps 1t was solid and the
pile driver would sink only couple
Of inches at stroke. Again the pile
might go through the crust and sink
out of sight at the second stroke. In
other places the mud was so soft under
the crust that 1t would not bear the
weight of the construction train with
out some device to aid in the support
In such a case planks were laid eight
| feet to the south of the permanent
roadbed, a temporary track laid and
| light cars of rock were sent out to
be dumped over the side. forming the
permanent roadbed.
When the water was reached the
temporary track was extended by sand
bags. These were loaded on RATS and
piled out to the place desired There
| they were piled into piers, and timber
stringers were placed across, the track
being laid on these. 1t was in this
way that the first quagmire was
reached.
According TO the best Information
obtalnable. the two quagmires have
already cost the company about $1,000
600 more than estimated. while with
good luck from this time on the work
on the lake portion of the undertaking
cannot cost less than S4,0O0,000-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16
The DEAF AND BLIND.

A boor who never saw but with his eyes.
Whose dull ears told him all he ever
heard,
Proved without doubt that Soul" was
but a word
Without a meaning; and that Para
disc
"God"-"H eaven"-these were nothing
more than lies;
That Immortality" was quite absurd,
Created" misprint-please read "oc-
Cured"
He proved all this, for he was very wise.
And not one flaw showed in his argu-
ments;
His word has stood the test of many
years,
And it will stand the tests of centuries
Yet each true heart knows with faith
intense
It's true for those who hear but with
their ears
Only for those who see but with their
eyesl
indianapolis Sentinel.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16
FLEE FROM THE FLOOD.
Five Thousand Illinois People Leave
Meuaced Land for Safety

Menaced Land for Safety.
The Sny ieyee, thirty-five miles long
and protecting 100000 acres Of land
along the Mississippi on the Illinois side,
is in danger and at least FIVE thousand
people have left the lowlands or are pre-
pairing to leave.
Hundreds of acres of rich farming land
have been flooded by the breaking of the
Green Bay bottom levee, south Of Bur
hngton, Iowa, and below Warsaw, ILL.,,
train service has been cut off by this
breaking of the Hunt levee. All low
land in the vicinity is submerged.
In st. Louis railroad tracks along the
river front are submerged and all roads
are seriously embarrassed. Passenger
traffic to Kansas City and the West and
Northwest is badly crippled.
At Carondelet (South ST. Louis) the
river is four miles wide, extending on the
Illinois side to the Mobile and Ohio
tracks, which alone serve as a protection
to thousands of acres of farm land. In
North st. Louis the stream is three miles
wide. No estimate Of the damage done
can be given until the water subsidies.
Kansas floods are receding and the
cost is being counted up. Engineers who
have gone over the situation in Kansas
City estimate that the cost of rehabilita-
ton will range from $5000,00o to $6,00G,-
600. Unless great precaution is observ-
ed a terrible epidemic of sickness may
follow the food. The whole terminal
system of the railroads in the bottoms
must be rebuilt. The bridges alone will
entail an expenditure of several mill
ions. Sewers are entirely washed out
and must be replaced, and a complete
new pumping station must be constructed
on higher ground. As the water sub
sides a sliiae-coyered tract of land five
miles square is being disclosed, and it
hourly becomes more apparent that the
task confronting the two cities is q stu
pendous one.
At the stockyards $500 hogs and 300
cattle were drowned.
The death list will be very much small
er than first estimated, as the early re-
ports sent out were greatly exaggerat-
ed because of inability to get communica-
ton with many of the stricken districts.
Armourdale and Arg entina, suburbs of
Kansas City, Kan, have issued appeals
for aid. Contributions for Argentina
will be received by DIR. d. f. Chopper,
Mayor, and for Armourdale by the Ar
mourdale State Bank of Commerce, Kan
sas State Bank OF Home State Bank.
Six bodies of unidentified food victims
at North Topeka were picked up Thurs
day. Sanitary conditions there have been
made worse by the breaking Of sewers,
but no acute suffering is reported. The
North Topeka death list is now seventy
one, with thirty identified.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-16
STOP POSTAL ABUSES.
PROTESTS OF COUNTRY MER.
CHANTS ARE HEARD.
Rura1 Carriers will Not Be Permitted
to Act as Agents for Mail Order
Firms-complain From All Parts
of the Country.

Owing to the vast number of COM
plants forwarded to the Postoffice De-
partment at Washington by the proprie-
tors of country stores md other local in
dustries, an order has been issued dis
continuing the practice of sending to a
large number Of manufacturing concerns
and mail order firms throughout the coun-
try daily bulletins containing informa-
ton regarding the establishment of local
routes, their location and the names of
the carriers.
This practice of distributing informa-
ton wholesale WIdeT government frank
was held to be- uljust discrimination in
favor of the Big concerns of the country
and against the industries of the rural
communities
The second step in the endeavor to
correct the existing conditions will be
taken by Postmaster General Payne
within a few days, when he will issue
an order calling the attention of the
employees of the rural free delivery SER
vice to that section of the postal regu-
lations which prohibits a carrier on a
rural route from acting as agent for any
firm in the sale of commodities to patrons
along his line of route.
The third step will be taken by the
Postmaster General some time in the
near future by resembling the order is
sued some months ago instructing each
postmaster to post in a conspicuous
place in his office the names and 6d-
dresses of patrons along the rural routes
branching out from his headquarters
Ever since this last order was issued
the department has been deluged with
complaints and petitions, requesting,
urging and even demanding its revoca-
ton.
One OF the most serious aspects of the
case is considered to be that with regard
to rural carriers acting as agents for va
rious concerns. 1t is this practice which
more than any other has enabled the
mail order firms to secure a strong foot
hold in rural communities and to make
great inroads into the business of their
local competitors.
Many of the petitions received said
that rural carriers in certain communi-
ties acted as purchasing agents Cor com
mission houses which dealt in eggs, but
ter and cheese; others who represented
large dairymen, went about on the look
out for bargains in cows and contracted
for the delivery of milk at railroad sta
tons, while still others bought hay, corn,
wheat and other farm products for the
firms represented by them.
These same carriers or others, the
complaints asserted, acted as agents for
sometimes as mary as a dozen firms and
sold more different things than they
bought. They took orders for clothing,
both for men and women, canned goods,
-four, stoves, lamps, harness, sewing ma
chimes, in fact everything that is includ
ed in the assorted stock of a country
store and many things that are not.
The officials of the Postofice Depart
ment declare that every effort will be
made to prevent the alleged discrimina-
ton against local industries and TO pre-
serve the popularity of the growing ser
vice, which is daily becoming a more inn
portant branch of the postal system.