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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
The Worlds Toy REPUBLICS.

OF the forming of republics there is
no end. If contemporary models be
sought, there is no lack of inf6rnla-
ton, whether the Constitution be for
State embracing only half hundred
souls or twice that number in millions.
The least of all republics seems TO be
that of Tavalora, established in the
island of that name off the coast of
Sardinia. 1t has population OF fewer
than sixty. including the President
and his Congress of six. Originally
the island was owned by the Barto-
leoni family, the head of which ruled
as King Paul l. from 1886 until 1882
In his will he made over the island
to his people, who were to proclaim a
republic for ever. Hardly more con-
siderable in point of size is the Re-
public of Goust, which consists of six
hundred acres perched away up in the
Pyrenees, where 40 free Independent
Republicans glory in their immunity
from liability to any other race. By
comparison with these hamlet COM
luOnW Sd1CuS, E1OIS0uL, WITH us LUTS6
thousand residents, is quite imposing.
But there are only seventy acres of it's
territory. 1t marks the debatable land
at which the boundaries of Belgium,
Prussia, and Holland converge, and
the Morsenetians declining all temp
tations to belong to other nations, re-
main selfgoverning and useful buff
fer. Andorra stretches itself over IT'S
miles of territory, and six thousand
souls own its republican rule. San
Marine, whose consular representative
in England, Mr.. lie Queux, has just
been receiving recognition from the
Parliament there, is twenty-three
miles square, and rather fewer than
ten thousand as to numbers. When
one comes to San Domingo, then Ser
Was level as to territory is reached,
pretty well, for we have to reckon
with over eighteen thousand square
miles, although the comparison does
not hold good as to people, the black
republic being still on the wrong side
of three-quarters of million. -Phila-
delphia Telegraph.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29

are with Franz Joseph Land or Cen
tral Africa. The moment that a small
contingent from the mean streets of
working class London reveals itself
TO the eyes of the west there is an
cutlery. Fashion turns shuddering
away and complains of the men with
the begging boxes; wealth buttons its
pockets and calls upon the authorities
to withdraw their countenance and
the bodyguard of police from "a pack
of impostors." And fashion and wealth
are perhaps wise In their protest. If
these unemployed workers are allowed
to parade in search of sympathy we
may one day see all the lost legjons of
the great abyss" crawling forth from
the alleys and the slums to give the
west an object lesson on the poverty
that the great city hides away In its
hooks and crannies. The women and
the children, the one room helots of
unspeakable slums. the diseased and
desperate Outcasts OF our great guilt
gardens, may form up in one mighty
mass of misery and surge into the
crowded thoroughfares and aristocrat-
ic streets, which fashion regards as
its own.
IS Picture, II you can, London given
up for one day, not to the gay page
ants which on great occasions gladden.
our eyes and make our hearts swell
with pride at the vastness of our en-
pire ana the splendor of our court, but
to dead march OF London's lost ones.
Crowd balcony and windows with
rank and fashion, with the world of
wealth and the middle class well-to-
do, give to the fair maidens and ma
irons who lead life Of pleasure and
of ease the front places on the line
of route. Then let the millions of
Misery Land creep by! Such spect-
aele. If it could be arranged, would
be a revelation which would shock
the national conscience as 1t has never
been shocked before From the win
dows and the balconies the women of
luxury would shrink back trembling.
white faced, terrified. And the men.
the busy gatherers of gold and the
idle squanderers of it. would feel
shame that no written story of the
city's want ana woe has ever made
them feel before. Even as one pic
lures what such scene as this pro-
cession would mean. one feels the hor-
ror Of it. For the comfort of the pros
porous citizen that sort of thing must
be kept within its own area. to be
looked upon only by those who are of
the company Of woe.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
A BRILLIANT AMERICAN WOMAN.
Countess Won Waidersee, Who Has
Been a Power in German Politics.

Countess Won WaIdersee, Who Has
Been n Power in German Politics.
One OF the most influential Ameri-
can women in Europe is the Countess
Won Waldersee. who is now on a visit
20 her early home in this country. For
years she has been a power at the
German court and in times past was
pitted against the great Bismarck.
The countess was Miss Esther Lee.
daughter of David B. Lee. a pioneer
wholesale grocer on South street. New
York. When her father died her moth
er took her and her sisters to Paris
There Esther was educated.
In 1857 she married Prince Freder-
lex Won Schleswig Holstein. She was
very young then. while the German
prince was an old man. The prince
gave up his titles and made her his
bride. Six months later he died OF
apoplexy, leaving his girl wife $4,000
900. The princess, who held the hon.
orary title OF Princess De Noer, was
At Weisbaden In 1858. when size met
Count Alfred Won Waldersee, whom
she married two years later.
The countess became conndant OF
the Emperor and was said to have
"a ed Bismarck's overthrow. She was
al. 5itious as well as brilliant and she
wished that her husband should sue
. ed the iron chancellor" During the
losing years OF Bismarck's life she
was identified with every movement
tbAt seemed TO weaken his hold on
Imperial favor DR.. Stoker. the court
chaplain whom Bismarck dismissed,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
BUILD UP GREAT EMPIRES.
Railroads the Instruments of Great
ing Wealth and Power.

Railroads the Instruments OF Great
ing Wealth and Power.
Just fifty years have passed since
the ground was plated on which the
Seattle of to-day stands. Just about
the same length of time has passed
since the state of which it is the me-
tropolis was organized as a territory.
In the case of each Of them, how
ever. the real growth has been but re-
cent and 1t has been largely n crea-
tion of the railroads Although Wash
ington was organized as territory in
1858, it had only 1000 inhabitants in
1860. $4,000 in 1870 and $4,000 in 1880.
Then came a jump to $4,000 in 1890
and to $4,000 in 1900. The spring
from the $4,000 mark to $4,000 be-
tween 1880 and 1890 was due to the
fact that Wizards Northern Pacific
railroad, which was completed in 1888,
had connected that State with the out
side world in the interval.
Throughout the whole of the West
and of course through the East and
South also-the railroads have exerted
a benefcent influence. although its eff
fects are not quite so marked on all
communities as they have been on
Washington and its leading city. At
the outset Seattle's expansion was so
slow that as recently as 1880 its popu-
lation was only $500 1t has fine
location on an arm of Puget Sound
through which the Asiatic and Alaska
trade Of large part OF the continent
is pouring, and through which in i'm
measurabIy larger quantity will pour
a few years hence. The lumber indus
try, which has had much to do with
the growth of its State, also contrib
uted greatly to Seattles advancement
1t is the railroads. however, which
have been the chief instrument in that
Northwest city's expansion. The North
ern Pncific road opened In 1883. sent
that towns population up from $500
in 1880 to 1900 in 1890 and it was
in the current decade viii he greater
than It was in the past ten years. The
entire West is growing at a rate not
touched in the decade which had the
1887 panic in it. The new North
west is getting a large share of this
growth. and as the trade with Asia
and Alaska is bound to increase with
great rapidity in the approaching time
Washington, Oregon and California. es-
peciaIly Washington, are sure 10 ac-
quire a much greater Importance
among the commemorative than they
possess now, and this ascendency viii
be shared IN a particularly large de-
gree by their great centers OF industry
and commerce.-St. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat.
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successfully developed In those own
lists outdone In this important field Already they succe
fully treat certain skin diseases disorders with
the electrical bath and the Roentgen ray. the
lead and at the universities of that country expert
menting Is done with the method
Much is expected to result from an experiment per-
formed by Professor Stephen Leduc, Nantes mem
Der of the French Academy Science which proves with
certainty that small alternating acting on the
body will induce sleep and put the body sta of abso
lutte freedom from pain That Is the activity OF the brain
can be stopped by Of without the
least pain being experienced the mpalrng the
tons OF the respiratory organs the circulation
so far the experiments have been conducted upon ami
mails only but the results nevertheless conclusive The
successful experimenter used electrical machine
with small current at first but which be grad
ual,J increased in strength rabbit FIRST used to
experiment and later shepherd dog Neither animal
seemed to experience unpeasantness expert
ment Pnching, cutting pricking burning did
to cause the least pain As the shut
on the animal awoke jumped and about contented
apparently suffering Injurious effect either as to his
physical mental condition Indeed the duration of this
electrically induced sleep could be proracted hours
with the result. Furthermore been proved
that tie human body when under influence of the Leduc
electrical current Is totally insensibe pain when
cocaine Is injected Eminent specialists declare that this
harmless method will supersede chloroform and
ether In performing those operations upon persons with
weak heart which often prove these anes
thetcs used
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five feet lower than that of its near
neighbor. the Black sea, which also
lies far below the level Of the oceans.
The common conclusion all along has
been that the Caspian was simply los
ing its waters by evaporation. but re-
cent investigation shows that this is
not the case. Soundings made and
compared with records of soundings
made over 100 years ago reveal the
astounding fact that there is even a
greater depth of water now than then.
This leaves but one hypothesis thar
would seem at all tenable- that the
bottom of the sea Is actually sinking.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
SENATOR PLuMB's COURAGE.
The Smallpox Marks in the Kansan's
Face We're a Badge of Honor.

The Smallpox Marks in the Kansan's
Face We're a Badge of Honor.
C. r. Snyder, who is writing a his
tory OF Kansas, gives chapter to Sen
ator Preston B. Plumb, and quotes Jo-
seph Bratton, one of the Usage pio-
neers. as saying:
Il fought and licked a man once who
said that Plumb was a coward knew
that he was no coward from a Bur
lingame instance with which | was
familiar. Along about the spring of
1860 when we were running the hotel,
and the stage from Lawrence TO EN-
poria stopped at our place for meals,
Preston B. Plumb was on 1t one night,
and during supper heard talk Of small
pox having broken out here. A man
stopping with |. B. Titus came down
with the disease, and as soon as II
was known what it was he was car
ried off half mile up on the hill TO
an empty hut and left there alone to
die.
mo one being willing to nurse him,
Plumb. hearing of the case. resolved
to stop of and go and look after the
man, even at the risk of his own life,
He got George Bratton to FIX up bas.
ket OF toast and eatables, take his
light and q roll of blankets, and show
bin to the sick man. Mr.. Bratton did
so, going near enough to help Plumb
all he could Plumb found out the
sick mans condition, and cared for
him that night. The next morning
learning that Abel Policy had once had
the smallpox, he got him to admit the
sick man to his cabin, because II was
more comfortable. They two cared for
the man the best they knew how laatn
he died.
when all was over Plumb cleaned
up. changed his clothes, and continued
his journey on re- zsIS;r>eria. only 70 be
taken down With the dreadful disease
himself and to be carried OF to one
side and undergo the forced absence
OF friends care; ana at last, wher
he was over the disease, to De branded
with the marks the balanct, of his life
That was true courage"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
The Idea of Culture.

The idea of culture has always in.
cluded quick and wide sympathy
with men; it should hereafter in
clude sympathy with nature, and par.
ticularly with its living forms-a sym
pathy based on some accurate obser.
walton of nature. The bookworm, the
monk, the isolated student. has never
been the type of the cultivated man.
Society has seemed the natural set
ting for the cultivated person, man
or woman; but the present concep-
ton of real culture contains not only
a large development Of this social ele-
ment, but also an animate creation
and to those immense forces that
set the. earthly stage for man and
all related beings C. w.
Eliot, in tie Worlds Work
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business for the If horses bred with
object will not be seriously
affected by overproducton There has always been and
there always will fair demand for any Of the recog
nzed market types of horses.
Under existing conditions there at least four distinct
classes of horses which farmers profitable pro
duce. The first and most important is the heavy draf
carriage coach then the roadster
horse and the saddle horse There is market for other
classes of horses the present time but of them
commands high prices and most Of them the insists
which bound appear from time the
produce horses OF The first four classes mentioned
The heavy draft horse is Of the profitable
classes OF horses that the farmer breed The draft
colt be bred vito less risk liability accident
than those Of the lighter classes Some Of the essential
points to be considered in selecting draft horse Good
feet and legs, plenty Of weight well developed body
and good style and action. weight
from 1880 upward the the better provided 1t is
bined with quality and good feet and legs.
Next in importance TO the draft horse the carriage
horse Some who naturally adapted educating
and training horses produce carriage much
probably than draft horses The ideal carriage
horse is animal of high excellence FORM style action
speed and education He be of standing
from 1913 to 1862 hands high and weighing in the neghbor
hood OF 2O0 pounds AID upward Another class
an good demand at the time is the gentlemans
driving horse, commonly the roadster
good and valuable roadster should be considered
necessarily racehorse Few racehorses make salts
factory roadsters The saddle horse always good de-
mand The real high class thoroughbred possesses more
quality than any other horses Horses of this
class often called combination animals being useful IS
ssddle or harness horse
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
TO PREVENT BURGLARY.
Tools Guarded Day and Night, Though
no Burglar Could Initiate Them.

I'VE have tools for opening safes, /"
said the foreman of the machine
room of safe factory, that no burg.
lar could initiate even if he got them.
But it would be one of the most diff
cult things in the world for him to
get even a sight of them. The tool
room is guarded as closely as a bank
vault. A Waterman stays in it all
night. We are very careful about en-
ploying our men. They must give
bonds and have the best of references.
The chances of burglar getting into
our employ for the purpose OF learn
ing our methods is scarcely worth
thinking about
Very frequently we have hurry
calls for man to open safe where
the clerk has forgotten the combina.
ton. You can readily imagine that
with a bank or trust company it is an
essential thing to have the safe open
before business begins. When we
send man out he takes a wagon
load of tools. for he must open the
safe without running TIE lock, and he
does not know precisely what the
trouble Is. He carries a photograph
of himself, with our credentials on it.
Nor will he open the safe while alone.
Some bank official must remain with
him, no matter how long tie Job
takes. That is for our own protec-
ton. Some very queer alleged rob-
berries have been charged to men
sent out to open safes.
ITO mechanics in our business it is
laughable to read that a full kit Of
burglars tools have been found be-
side safe. AS have said, 1t would
require an express wagon to carry
them, and burglars don't work that
way. II they care to take chances
by blowing up safe with dynamite
it is another matter; but these fol-
lows nearly always get caught.
"A police officer told me that burg
lars make their own tools. The big
crooks are all spotted and are afraid
to go out and buy the material for
them. Some of them send their wives
and children. AS general thing they
don't work in New York. A man
making tools in a fiat or tenement
would be likely to attract attention.
They get a house somewhere in the
suburbs. Philadelphia, where they
can get brick house for $40 month,
is a great pace for them" New
York Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
Harvard,s Increasing Mail.

Harvard University is to have six
mail deliveries daily, beginning with
the opening of the college in the fall.
At present there are four deliveries,
as in the business portion Of Cam
bridge, at 7:45 and IL a. M, and 3:15
and SIS p. m. To enable this in
crease to be made, BILLY" Prentice,
the college carrier for thirty years,
will be given an assistant The ia
vored section will be only the route
now taken by billy a small Sec
tion of the business portion of Cam
bridge on Massachusetts avenue and
the buildings within the college yard,
The change has been granted through
a request of the university authori-
ties.-Boston Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
BRIGHAM YoUNe's BEGINNING
Had Hard Struggle as a Carpenter
Near Rochester.

mad Hard Struggle as a Carpenter
Near rochester.
About the year 1880, Brigham Young
and family settled in Port Byron, says
the Rochester Post-Express. 1t was
then known as Bucksville, and boosted
of 100 inhabitants. There was no ca
nal or railroad in those days, and the
settlers had to hew down trees in or
der 10 make n clearing in which to
baild a house. During the first few
years of Youngs stay he made his
home with Squire Pine, who lived in
the corner of Pine and South streets.
The Pine house is now about 100 years
old. 1t is now owned and occupied by
Mr.. and Mrs. James d. Dixon.
Brigham Young was & carpenter, and
old residents of Port Bryon say that
work was scarce and he was always
hard up. 1t was long time before
he saved money enough to buy lumber
TO build his own house. 1t was his
intention to build himself a fine house,
but It turned out TO be q very ordinary
frame structure. 1t was built soon
after the Erie canal was put through,
and was located near the heel path
side of the canal The Young house
has long since been moved. A part of
the original structure now stands back
OF the Newkirk livery stables, and is
unoccupied.
Brigham Youngs family comprised
his wife and one son, Brigham, Jr,
who died recently at Salt Lake City.
Young at that time was a firm be-
lever In MormoniSm. He left Port
Byron, or Buckville. in 1850. and went
to Utah, and subsequently became Ia
nous as the Lender of the Mornons.
In after years, when he WIS famous,
one OF his cd acquaintsuces wrote to
him and asked him II he was the
Brigham Young OF Port Bryon, and If
he were could he pay Squire Pine for
a large b ard bill Squire Pine was
then an old man and in poor circum-
stances. In a short time Squire Pine
received a letter from Young, and in
closed was the money in full for his
board with interest. Young was then
a rich man and said he was very glad
TO pay up his old debts.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
The Fashion Spreads.

ooh. DOCTOR" moaned the suffering
young woman. Il have such an ex-
cruciating pain in my side"
"Um-yes. What seems to be the
nature of the pain?" asked the ply
stefan. Does it cover the side. or is
it confined to one spot?"
1T seems to be scattered all over, y
explained the patient "Just as If 1t
were in hundred little spots all at
once"
"Ah!" unused the physician This
corroborates my theory of the in
Auence of current fashions upon the
human system. You have what we
would colloquially term drop-stitch
in the side. Judge.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
Dolls Made of Steel.

A novelty that promises 70 become
a staple in toyland is the doll made
entirely of steel. This innovation is
of American origin and manufacture,
and, although samples are out, the
quantity manufactured the first sea-
son will be limited owing to the diff
ficulty of getting the required steel.
The parts of the doll are fastened
together with wire springs, and the
foot is made fiat, so that the doll can
stand alone. The body and limbs
are hollow and the doll is lighter than
the ordinary doll of the same size. as
the steel shell is thin. 1t is also very
durable Philadelphia Record
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29

Government chemists are much in
terested In obtaining ink which will
be lasting. Many government doeu-
ments have to DC written in ink. and It
is desirable that the ink should remain
legible as long as the document re-
mains intact notwithstanding the
popular idea that everything made in
the olden times was perfect the oldtime
inks were by no means perfect. The
original copy Of the Declaration Of
Independence is almost undecipberable.
Only one signature. that Of John Han
cock. stands out clear and bold.
All acts OF congress are filed with
the State department for safe-keeping
and registered. Up to few years ago
it was customary to engross the acts
Of congress by hand wila pen and ink,
but now they are printed. 1t is claim
ed that printers Ink will outlast writ
ing fluid and that there VIII be 20
trouble for future general tons to read
the acts OF the present congress.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
GIANT BLocks OF GRANITE.
Pillars of the New York Episcopal
Cathedral the Largest in World.

Pillar. of the New York Episcopal
Cathedral the Largest in World.
The cathedral of St John the Di-.
vine, which is now in process of cree
ton In New York, near One Hundred
and Thirteenth street, will be one of.
the most commodious and imposing
houses of worship in the world. Some
idea of the character of the edifice may
be gained from the figures of the pro-
portions of a couple of granite col
umns received In New York on Fri
day last and which are to make part
CT an arc of eight about the altar of
the cathedral They were brought
from Rockland, Me-, on q lighter spe-
cially built for the purpose. Each
column is in two pieces. The lower
piece is six feet in diameter, thirty-six
feet long and weighs about eighty-fve
tons. The upper piece is eighteen feet
long, six feet in diameter and weighs
about forty tons.
The contractor who had the job of
carting the four pieces of granite from
the lighter at the foot Of West One
Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, to the
cathedral site is having a wagon built
especially for the purpose. The
wheels viii have tires twenty inches
wide TO keep the burden they viii car
ry from damaging the payements. The
rear axle is a solid steel forging eight
inches square, and the front axle
soiid efooI forging seven Inches SQUARE
The wagon will not be hauled By
horses, but by steam engines anchored
at intervals along the route. To place
the columns in position pair of what
builders call shears" will be used.
These shears viii be of Oregon pine
Twenty inches in diameter at the small
Ter end, and ninety-six feet long. 1t
Is estimated that 1t will take six weeks
to get the columns in position.