Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-17
CINDERS.

Good evening-how have you been
since we started on our long vacation
Its quite a ways to Colorado and its
still farther to California and when you
get there you'll find lots of fellows who
want to wager with you that you're just
about in the middle of the United States
and they never lose. If you look in
your geography you'll see that the tip
end of the Aleutian ISLANDS, running
ont from Alaska, and just about as far
west of San Francisco as San Francisco
is west of New York, so when you ar
rive at the Golden Gate, if you look at
it the right sstsy s.s, ygca are in the middle
of the country and the sporting gentle
men of the coast never lose
Several occurrences of the past three
or four weeks seem to be worthy of
note-for instance: that little exhibition
of German guunery down at Maracaibo
we might put it in the form of propo-
sition something like this: if it tax,
three German gunboats week to make
absolutely no impression on mud fort
mounted with guns made in 50 and
garrisoned by three half breeds and
mule, how long would the G. e. b.
keep above water if they should meet
squad of Uncle Sans play things"
composed of the Oregon, Texas, Brook
lyn, Wisconsin and Illinois? 1--WE sur
mise the Kaiser is working on -prob-
lem somewhat along this line as you
have doubtless noticed there has been
less of this reckless shcot;n around
1t is with poignant sorrow that we
hear of Mr. j Poverty Morgan's strait
ened circumstances. 1t is the more to
be deplored inasmueh as Mr. Nor
gan's Incarceration in the poor house
would be an irreparabe loss of amuse-
ment to our people-and we must be
amused But the fact of the matter is
he can't pay his taxes. His firm made
only S42, ,0O0,000 last year aud this paltry
sum is hardly sufficient for the pew
rent. We suggest monster donation
party to help him get through the win
ter. We have an old pair of magical
spectacles that have made us rich and
we gladly part with them for Charity's
sake. By looking through the upper
half whatever you own is doubled in
value and when you use the lower part
whatever you owe is diminished by half.
Take them, Mrs. J. Poverty NJ, take
them, and may you live long to exer-
else your genius for making monkies of
governments and automatons of men !
Mr.. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil man,
sent messages to the k.aders of the Sen
ate day or two ago They were short
and sharp and pretty clear. "We do
not want any trust legislation Itmust
be stopped"-that was the substance Of
all of them 1t was not intended that
these messages should become public
property but the President made them
So We have often wandered who is
running this country and we believe
the time is coming when "a great light
is going to dawn We know that
every few years we make terrible fuss
and a lot of noise and send motley
throng of congressman and governors
and legislators and presidents into our
Commonwealth HalP' to govern us,
yet we have never known who governs
the governors, but if we can keep
Roosevelt in the White House few
years longer we may find out.
The water agitation has subsidized.
What happened?
The Government building site is quite
white with snow
A young man in old Martinique,
Climbed Mount Pelee to get a wee pique
There cume big roar
The young man took soar ~
His arrival is looked for next wiqIm.
MILES ANGUIsH.