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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27

Fewer men are required to handle
heavy freight where this skid is used,
as a single cartman can push a heavy
box over the rollers with ease, and the
new device makes the operation prac-
tically noiseless. There is no chance Of
the box sliding down the incline, as the
rollers have automatic locks which pre-
vent them from revolving backward.
The skid can be reversed for unload
ing goods from the wagon, or may be
used as a truck for moving burdens on
level ground by using it with the roll
ers face down. With the time saved in
both loading and unloading, the neces-
sity for Fewer men and the great de-
crease OF, danger to both the truckmaD
and the goods, it would seem that this
new skid has much to recommend its
use by express companies, glass. porce-
lain and piano factories and all con-
Germs shipping heavy freight.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27
Rosy Alaskan Picture.

Judge James Wickersham, of the
third judicial district of Alaska. paints
a gorgeous picture of the future of
Alaska. He says that 100000 inhab-
itants will find support in the Valley
of the Yukon, on the american side Of
the line. Time will tell of the unim-
aginable possibilities of this grand re-
gion beneath the Arctic circle. Good
gardening and farming is being done.
Good roads is one of the crying neces-
stiles of the country, as they are of
any new country. During the winter,
however, he says you can have good
roads in any direction without any
expense. What is needed is a general
system by which road that is great
ly needed can be built. The country
has no such system now and no Jaw
From this time on Alaska will have
to be reckoned with as q residence
country. The whole Yukon Valley is
capable of comfortable settlement and
will support an immense population.
There is a popularity of the plant life
of that country in that Arctic yegeta-
tons is found at Lake Bennett and q
country void of trees, the further one
goes north the vegetation increases,
until at Fort Yukon forests of a mer-
camille timber grow. These forests
fade away again before you reach the
coast, and they do not reach the Ber-
ing sea by $50 miles.
The interior is much warmer than
the coast, owing to the dry atmosphere
of the Yukon region. The high coast
range of mountains precipitates the
moisture on their western slopes. leav-
ing dry winter in the Yukon Valley.
Baltimore American.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27
nemoralized BY Jokes.

They we're discussing the eternal
servant girl question. Il thought l
lad a gem in my last one, said me
Germantown woman. but the comic
papers. coupled with my husband $
foolishness in placing such literature
in ner hands. ruined her. Although
a greenhorn. she was most a wiling
enc and / was succeeding admirably
il training her to my way OF DONG
things. when she began 10 gel lns
most remarkable ideas snto her head
You see. my husband brings nome
the comic papers every week, ana i
mas ais habit. after he was through
with them, TO send them out 10 the
Kitchen. trinSzing they might amnse
NARY Well. subsequent developments
showed that the servant girl jokes
made a vivid impression upon her
mind: only she didn't know they
were Jokes. She took them seriously
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27
Battle for Free Coal

The battle for free coai>is now raging
in Congress. 1t is very unequal fight
for the majority party have all the
avenues of legislation blocked against
any bill that the protectionist oligarchy
that rules the Republican party dc not
want to have enacted into law. 1t is
impossible to have a bill reported from
the principal committees in the House
of Representatives unless the leaders
order it, and as they have determined
to stand pat" which means that no
tariff legislation will be considered,
even the duties on coal and beef will
continue to be exacted from the Amer
lean people.
Senator Vest, however, has been
forcing the hands of the Senate lead
ers by his resolution ordering the FL
nance Committee of that body to re-
port bill TOR free anthracite coal. In
his speech he exposed the whole in
EQUITY of the addition 10 the Dingley
bill of the duty on anthracite coal. and
the Republican members of the Senate
are on the defensive, trusting to long
winded speeches to use up the time I'M
til the appropriation bills come from
the House and occupy the remainder
of the session.
In the meantime coal is being ad-
vanced in price by the trust to I'M
heard of figures, the tide water price
now being $10.50. which, with the fer
riage and wharfage charges, will make
it cost the dealers S12. The retail price
in New York is from $14 to $40, ac-
cording to quality and quantity. This
price is almost or entirely prohibitlve
to the poor, and the continuance of the
strike would hardly have been more
disastrous. With the coal famine in
progress the coal barons are reaping
great harvest and viii more than re-
cuperate their losses during the strike.
Why does not the dominant party
in Congress take off the duty on coal
at once and allow foreign coal to come
in and compete and thus help to relieve
the situation? The answer to this
question is an extraordinary one. lis,
fear of the Democrats. Fear that, if
free coal bill is reported, the wicked
minority will propose an amendment
for free beef, or free barb wire or 9th
er trust product. The Republicans
know that a vote on these amendments
would disclose a division in their party
ranks and perhaps enough of the Re
publicans voting with the Democrats
for some of the amendments to pass
them. There are few members of the
House of Representatives who desire
the free list extended to a number of
articles and there are others whose con-
stituents are so decidedly in favor of
free trust products that it would be
political suicide for their representa-
tives to vote nay on such propositions.
Meanwhile everyone is being held up
by the coal barons and the distress and
suffering amongst the poor is almost
beyond belief.
The trust certainly has a firm grasp
on this Republican administration.
How long will the people continue to
support the "stand pat program? And
will they forget when kindly nature
next spring relieves them of the need
of one of their great necessities?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27

the open cars all winter because she so
fears close contact with the passengers,
will straightway moisten the lead with
her lips, and proceed to write in a per-
fectly contented frame of mind, max
ing repeated trips to her mouth with,the
pencil. Children seem to be of the he
lief that it is next to impossible to
write with lead pencil until they have
wet the lead in their mouths.
And about fans, have you ever no.
ticed how most people will bite and
bite on fan that in every way bears
the evidence of old age, and having
been bitten many times? 1t seems to
make no difference in the world-the
fact that the fans are common prop
erty, and that they as much belong to
the tobacco-chewing men as they do to
the sweet-faced, refined, dainty women
does not matter. They seem 10 be hap
Ipy in the pastime of biting on indefin-
itely.
when sores appear that do not come
from fever, were l to suggest such a
source as have just described, nervous
prostration would be the result in many
cases. Washington Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27

United States Senator George c. Ver-
kins was elected to succeed himself by
the California Legislature.
The Kirlsas Legislature met at TIC.
peka. Gov. w. j. Bailey presented hin
message, which referred wholly to State
ISSUES.
Gov. Mirphy OF New Jersey, in hig
messaee I'd the Legislature, defended HE
state against the charge that It was too
liberal In granting charters to so-callea
trusts.
Gov. Hant personally delivered hi
message at the joint session o. Thc POr.1
Rfcan Legislature lie reported thu
treasury Id excellent condition. az fit.
lows On hand from the insular revenners
S37s.6TO: trust funds. $3.50 ,G35; due from.
the United States. $I2l.l2S.
IN his Message to the Utah Lesissa-
ture Gov. Wells laid particular stress GU
the need f8r additional irrigation laws
that the State may benefit more from
the reeergt congressional actiVs looking
toward the reclamation Of arfi iandfs
The message deals at some kngth wi.h
The question 4 forest reserves and the
withdrawn from settlemcnt lsy the Ints-
aor Department Of ever 100000 acre.
IN that State 70 be used for forest re-
serves was strongly opposed. LeglslS
tive action 70 remedy this is urged.
James u. Peabody. Republican. su>-
ceeded Jaines r. Orman, Democrat, az
Governor RI Colorado The inauguEl
ton was made the occasion Of the greas-
est military parade ever seen ~ Denyef.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27
TWO SOURCES OF GERMS.
Moistening Lead Pencils with Lips
and Biting Church Fans.

MoisteninE Lead Pencils with Lips
and Biting Church Fans.
Great attention should be given to
two apparently unimportant things
which | assure you can and frequently
do cause no end of trouble" said one
of Washington's best known physi-
clans one day last week. THE trouble
is seldom traced to its source, viz, the
lead pencil evil and the biting at the
rim of the fans which are placed in the
pews of churches for the accommodate
ton of the congregation. The lead pen
ell evil seems to be principally confined
to women and children. In moment of
hurry a woman will borrow pencil
from an unkenpg man whose pencil,
for the most part, occupies the space
behind his ear.
AT the request for his pencil out il
comes, and the fastidious lady who
breads the street cars. and will ride on
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27

"The first step in an honest effort to
correct the trust evils from which
we suffer-" says Senator Vest, lis to
remove the protection the tariff gives
to monopoly and force it into world
competition
That is just plain good sense.
Tariff duties are levied to protect
domestic industries from foreign com
petition by raising the price of inn
ported articles to the consumer.
But when the domestic producer
proves that he does not need to be
protected against the foreigner by go
ing into the foreigners own home mar
ket and underselling him there, why
should the tariff duties be allowed to
remain!
The protectionist can give no honest
answer to that question.
1t is grotesque to say that an Amer
lean trust which sells its good cheaper
in England that it does here requires
protection against the competition of
English manufacturers
The only effect of retaining the tar
iff duties in such cases is to empower
the favored trust to rob the American
people.
The Bo1ax Trust furnishes one of
many examples of how the Dingley
tariff works There is a duty of
cents pound ON borax. American
borax sells in England for 2115 cents a
pound. in the United States for X
cents. That is to say. the duty of .
cents is added to the price whenever
an American buys pound of borax.
This is a bald swindle, yet is prac-
ticed by all the great trusts which
| have high prices for the home con-
sumner and low prices for the for
eigner.
Not all our monopolies are created
by the tariff, but most of them are.
| 1t needs only a vote of Congress TO
destroy these monopolies. but that vote
will not be given so long as the Re
! publican party remains in power. All
| its influential leaders, from President
Roosevelt down. refuse to admit that
| there is any relation between the
trusts and the tariff. To admit the
truth would be. of course. to confess
the need of tariff revision, and very
naturally the taliff-protected trusts
would fight that tooth and nail.
In the Republican party there are a
great many voters that want the tar
| in reformed. but the leaders of the
party. the men that shape its policy,
are in full political partnership with
| the trusts, and viii consent to no leg
4 islation hostile TO monopoly.
| The only way TO vote against gov
eminent by the trusts for the trusts
Is 10 vote against the Republican par
/ ty.-Chicago American.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27
(}Ds1;lgsstss

Representative Kirk Of Tuscola offer.
ed in the House Thursday concurrent
resolution indorsing the opposition Of the
Michignn delegation in Congress to the
Cubsn reciprocity treaty and urging CON
tinuation Of such opposition. The neces-
sity for protecting the beet sugar indus.
try is urged. The resolution was laid
over one nay under the rules. Repre-
sentative Powell of lonia introduced a
bill in the House providing the death
penalty by electricity or life imprison-
ment, as the jury may decide, for any
person found guilty of numbering the
President Of the Um,ed States or any
member of his cabinet while in Mchi-
gan 1t was referred to the judiciary
committee.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27
WHEELED sKlDs FOR TRUCKING.

Our illustration shows a new roller
skid, which has been designed by
Eduard Scharrer, of Stuttgart, Ger
many, for the purpose of loading and
unloading heavy boxes from wagons.
With its use all necessity for turning
the boxes over and over as they arc
forced up the incline to the wagon is
done away with, and there is conse-
quently considerably less danger of
damaging the contents of the package.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27
THE WAY OF THE WORLD.

The way of the world is a wonderful
way
Wonderful in its madnessi
IT'S mad endeavor from day to day
That ends each night liz -sdness.
For men are greedy to compass wealth
With schemes unjust and vicious,
Or seek for pleasures, by sun or stealth,
And call their sins delicious!
The way of the world is a sorrowfuI
way
Sorrowful in its grievingi
IT'S a grievous fear that friends hatray,
And none is worth believing.
For men will sell their honor for gain,
And women their virtue give
Tor ripples of joy on seas of pain
That flood the years they live.
The way Of the world is a sickening
way
Sickening in its meanness!
It's mean existence with husks Away
To pail the soul with leanness.
Far better the ways of Christ. with
peace,
With rags, and a crust and coldl
a little from God, with a heart content,
Is better than boards of gold!
Atlanta Constitution.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27
NAY ResuIt in Great Good.

The report of the commission and the
settlement of the strike business in
the anthracite regions OF Pennsylvania
should not and probably viii not end
the matter so far as these coal roads
are concerned. IT Is among the posi-
bilit1es that the bullheadedness of the
railroad presidents VIII after al intre
10 the general good by being the means
OF breaking up one OF the most gigantic
conspiracles for defrausling the people
that exists in this country Peoria
journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27

which they have always professed to
have so little confide 1e. Mr. Vests
assertion that the A snt duty was a
hold-up is undoubtedly correct. All such
duties are hold-ups, whether imposed
by Democrats or Republicans. The
only difference is that it is a little easier
to hold up the Republicans than it is
the Democrats, because of trained
party opinion and the influence of
party members who are men of large
commercial airs Indianaps
News
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27

If any use is made Of Senator Hoar's
antitrust biz II win be 10 staye of all
antitrust legislation Not even Mr.
Hoar's device OF postpOning the opera
ton Of his bin nearly two years can
save ii. IN fact. the only way 10 reach
the trusts il time TO do any good 10 the
public is to repeal the tariff protection
which they now enjoy Boston Post
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27

She began making aii SORTS Oh ofs
mards,y even to the asking OF a pings
nonoS -et ar the kitchen. You may bet
Iieve me or not, but il Is true. ShS
had seen picture OF lot Of serVans
girls playing ping pong with police.
man. and | suppose her next move
would have been to ask for a police.
man TO keep her company And that's
only one of the many extraordinary
results OF reading those comic papers.
Oh. yes. she's gone.'-Philadeiphia
Record.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27
A Limitation to Labor pisputes.

While it would be much better TO
abolish strikes and lockouts altogether,
it is nevertheless important to have a
definite decision defining the limits
within which each side to a contro-
verSy Of that character may 90. Pub
lie opinion viii thus be more capabse
of judging of the merits Of disputes
ana the maintenance Of law and order
viii lie rendered much easier---Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27
Mr.. Hoar ana His Party.

From the general tone of Republic
can comment upon Senator Hoar's anti.
trust bill it is pretty safe to predict that
the Massachusetts sage will be about
as successful in his war against the
trusts as he was in his attack upon i'm
perialism.
The Republican party esteems and
venerates Mr.. Hoar only so long rs he
keeps his hands off the various forms
of favoritism which that organization
fosters and protects.-Chicago Chroni-
.Ia
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27
Modest Worth.

81 don't see," said the sensible girl,
''how you could bring yourself to run
around after that actor; such conceit-
ed stick as he is
You're mistaken replied the mat
inee girl. Hes just as modest as he
can be. Why, when | asked him whom
he considered the greatest actor in the
world he actually blushed and replied
that it wasn't for him to say."-Phila-
delphia Press.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27
GSI S.sl,:iii,

Senate JOINT resolution No. !. for the
submission of the capital removal lues-
zion to v0te Of the people, came to fhe
House from the committee on State af-
fairs, and was passed to its third read
ing and placed on the calendar for final
passage. Upon roll call the removal res~
olution passed the House by vote Of
20 to 1G. There was little excitement,
and no sensations attended the proceed
iugs
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27
4 - ShaIInvx Argnnlerlt.

Senator Al0rich's argument that the
Democrats placed duty of 40 cents
on coal in 1894 Is not effective, Even
though they did. the set was not right.
and il IS surprising that the Republic
cans should attempt TO justify nem-
selves by quoting an authors. in
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27
WORKING Harm to the Negro,

Regretful surprise is a mild term for
the feeling aroused in the United States
by President Rooseyelt's nomination Of
colored man to the post of collector
Of the port of Charleston. Even the
sincerest admirers of the Pres dent
cannot help regarding that appointment
as an nl-considered act, which will do
rlors harm than good TO the very peo-
pie whom it is intended TO benefit
namely, the negroes.-New York Her
aid
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27

Modern science is making itself>felf
in Persia A traveller from that coun:
try reports that prisoners arrested for
onenses against the state are branded
by means of acids imported for thar
purpose
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27
THE "NEW METHODISM," PROPOSED
AT A CONVENTION OF CHICAGO CLERGYMEN.

81 compliance with
Method1sn the
enthusiastically
the
statement d Chicago
paid chors tabeaux rainbow
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27

toned, archly: MARRY a woman who,
according to gossip, uses rouge and
bleaches her hair? Why, DR.. Thorn
ton"
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81 AND cURzoN TIE vcerey and yerne Of India who
la celebration Of
- Of to India, married
untitled
something the people Of the East
Aghans
and the OF this study
which showed the touches OF master hand
ovematch
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27
Unnecessary Conventions in Ohio

Unnecessary Conventions in Ohio.
Boss Hanna has nominated his
friend Herrick, of Cleveland, as the
candidate of the Republican party for
Governor of Ohio. He win allow tie
party to hold a convention next fall
and indorse his selections for Governor
and other candidates. Quite a number
of Republican editors of that State
want the party to hold sn old-fash-
ioned convention and make the nom
nations in the ancient way. These are
supposed to be sympath.zers with the
ambition of Congressman Dick, whom
Boss Hanna placed at the head of the
State Committee. For the past seven
years Boss Hanna has had undisputed
control OF the Republican party of
Ohio. AS the Republicans of Ohio evil
IDENTIFY like to be bossed the objections
of these Republican editors win prob
ably be futile. What is the use of
holding Republican conventions any
way? They are expensive luxuries,
and, under the modern boss system
entirely unnecessary Exchange.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27


you know be as you could make 0
Won But your have because you PROBABLY
shawl in
around with idle hands hshy seeking
Others contributing anything
I'M
children with their stockings and make your own PED
roro Way didn't the laundry lists and mark th
and yourself Eousehoh
enough know how be nice ons
n were never asAeu again ou ha o
Harper
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27

The Washington Post says: The
Chicago Chronicles devotion to the de-
cadent, the almost fossilized heresy of
free trade is so intense that it never
omits a possible opportunity or resists
temptation to show its rabid animos-
ity toward the triumphantly vindicat-
ed doctrine of protection. Indeed the
Chronicle hunts for such opportunities
and invites that temptation, ignoring
the abundant proofs that its idol is.
for all practical purposes, as dead as
the Oldest Egyptian mummy"
Free trade is 'fossi'ized heresy"
and an Egyptian mummy" is it? 1t
never was more animated than now.
Not for years has there been as much
free trade-not tariff reform, but radi-
cal free trade-talk, both in and out
of Washington, as curing the past
four months HunGfeds of newspapers
are demanding t6at coal, beef, steel,
hides and numerous other trust prod
ucts, be put on the free list. A free
trade mass meeting was held in Fan
ONAA I'm, 4pOStOi4' VA 1NN. w. -
great audience yelled itself hoarse for
free trade in coal, beef and other ar
ticles.
The tariff tax now has more enemies
in Boston than the tea tax had when
Bostons famous tea party was in
session. So lively is this free trade
mummy that it has aroused the Re
publican party from its Rip Van Win
kle slumber. Speaker Henderson got
frightened and fed when he saw this
fossilized heresy' approaching under
the banner Iowa idea" Babcock and
other Republican Congressman are in
Producing free trade bills as peace
offerings to this free trade mummy.
If President Roosevelt had thought
that free trade was a mummy. instead
of live issue, he would not have adj
vocated free coal in his message to
Congress.
The free trade mummy is so much
alive that it is creating CONSERVATION
in Republican ranks. 1t will break
all of their old protection idols and
bric-a-brac fetiches if the Republicans
try to keep it in their museum of an
tiquities.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27


scholars
literary and theological institute thought
that
planned Nethodm for all classes and in refined
elegance dignity worship which
the methods Salvation methods believed
The Methosm Weys idea Mehodim
himsel loved
They
would that the
things did the Old it
certainly them. CAMDEN NJ COBERN"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27

Owing % the delays Of the law ~
tre@.. providing for the construction Of
the PanWia canal can be raiiled ~ the
Colombian Congress before about JuHe
! next.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-27

Al Sop.S. sfeAlester, burglars broke
INTO the stfsa ~ che Jones Ianufactnr-
ing comIssly aud By the use II nitFogly-
cerin hlea. the door OF an iroa safe
xhese was but S. IN tie cash drawsE'