Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-03

The next number of the Y. M. c. A.
entertainments will be given at the
Opera House, Saturday evening next,
when the Mendelssohn Quartette ap-
pears here. Talent, proper training,
experience and conscientious effort
combine to give to the work of this
company the stamp of the genuine.
Strong individually and collectively,
entertain as well as to sing the more
standard and classical selections. This
famous quartette, during the past sea-
son, travelled twenty-five thousand
miles and gave 1Sl performances, ap-
pearing with equal success in almost
every portion of the United States and
Canada The company is supple
mented with Miss Helen Faye. soprano,
and Miss Marguerite Smith, child i'm
personator, of the famous Smith sisters.
Miss Smith, in her special field of child
lore stands alone, the acknowledged
queen of this realm. The children
themselves were her teacher, their un-
trammeled ways her schooll and she is
the faithful mirror of them all. She
confines herself to the little ones whom
Riley and Field have made so much be-
loved
A certain farmer at Knowlton, who
believes in dong his trading at Stevens
Point, instead of here at the county
seat, was recently greatly fooled by a
pet rooster. He intended going to the
Point to do some shopping, and made
all necessary preparations for an early
start when he learned that his alarm
clock refused to work He accordingly
determined to place his faith in his fav-
orite rooster, who for several years has
made it strict habit to crow each
morning at the hour of four, as punctu-
ally as the coming of day. After the
farmer had retired that night and
slept for several hours, he awoke and
heard the rooster's shrili cry on the
frosty air, and jumping up and awak-
ening the family and hurriedly getting
breakfast, start was made for the
Portage county town. The family kept
travelling and travelling and still no
sign of daylight until they had reached
their destination when a faint light
began to appear in the east. After
waiting on the streets for several hours
for the stores to open they made their
purchases and went home. Figuring
the time it takes to travel the distance
from his farm to the Point the farmer
calculated that it was about eleven
o'clock the evening previous when the
rooster crowed.
That some people are devoid of the
finer feelings which bind kin together
was demonstrated last week, when Jos
Glycznski was killed at Gardner s
camp, mention of the accident being
made in last weeks paper. The camp
foreman notified the boys father of the
death and received an insulting reply
for his trouble, and later a bro ther ar
/ rlNeU III I1e city Auu iHaVS a uSthaho
for the money the young man hao
coming to him and all his personal
effects, stating that the company could
bury him. For such display of inhu
manlty he was severely censured, ano
his demands were met with fiat re
fusal The young man had about s4'
coming to him, which was used fo
burial expenses, and his body was &C
companied to Stevens Point by friend
who saw that it received proper burial
We learned that during she past few
wears. or since the boy has worke,
away from home, he has given nearl,
all his spare earnings to his father, bu
recently had informed him that in tn
future he had use for his money sn'
would contribute ne more. The fathe
refused to allow the body to be brongh
into his house and the remains wer
taken to St. Peters church in Steven
Point, where they were held until th
following morning when burial too
place.