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VERY SLIPPERY.

The conditions of our sidewalks,
especially those of cement, have been
something awful the past week. Slip
perry is no name for it, On Tuesday
night there was Just enough moisture
fell to coat the streets and walks with
ice and on Wednesday morning, those
who tried to walk out were none too
old or too decrepit to execute a Jig and
some had to keep it up until they got
tired and had to lay down. One man
on Forest street went down so quick
that he struck the back of his head and
had to be carried into residence near
by, and it was some time before he re
gained consciousness. Sand, salt or
ashes should be placed on wa'ks when
they become so slippery.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
IN THE HOMES.

There were many joyous parties held
in the homes of our citizens, some of the
nature of family reunions. From the
glad faces, in each, it was apparent that
old Santa, in his despensation of pres
ents, had not overlooked single home,
no matter how humble. In some he an
peared in person before the gaze of the
delighted children. The steaming tur-
key, with its trimmings Of cranberry
sauce, miuce pie. cel-ry. etc, was in
evidence in the homes of those who
could AFFORD to purchase of the turkey
trust, while others were satisfied with
ducks, geese, chickens and apple dump
lings Holly and mistletoe we're the
principal home decorations, and many
girl of marriageable age, believing in
the old saw, accidentally managed
to get under the mistletoe bow
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
Bilions Colic Preventea.

Take double dose of Chamberlain ;
Collie. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
SIS soon as the first indication Of the
disease appears and threatened attack
may be warded of Hundreds of peo-
pie use the remedy in this way with
perfect success. For sale by all lead
ing druggists.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
WIN THE POOR.

Oar citizens of means apparently for
got the injunction, THE poor We have
always with ye,n and We're not very
liberal in their donations to that class,
only fifty cents being contributed. A
fraternal organization, however. the
modesty of whose members viii rot
permit its name to be mentioned, con-
trihufed the sum of twenty-five dollars.
and with this amount Supt. of Poor
Frank Schneider was able 10 provide
suitable dinners of roast beef, pork,
chickens and rabbits for thirty-five
families, who are dependent upon the
cold charities of the world for their sus-
tenance ard maintenance. The charges
at the county poor farm also were pro-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
vided with a dinner more elaborate
than they ordinarily receive.
NrarUS

Whether money was less plentiful
this year than it has been formerly, oil
whether people outside of town are for
getting their Wausau friends, it was q
noticeable fact that this year the mai
carriers and express companies handled
far less packages than in former years
Last year, just previous to Christmas
mail carriers, besides their usual sack
full of mail, found it necessary to take
with them on their trips hand sled
loaded with packages. This year they
could handle all their mail without the
latter
Nearly all the merchants of Wausau,
in figuring up their holiday profits,
assert that their business has been very
good. The only ones making a
howl, it is noticed, are the ones that
were afraid of using little printers
ink in advertising their wares.
A great many of the lumber jacks
who make this community their head
quarters, were down out of the woods
to spend Christmas, and the ''wet goods
shops consequently grew fat.
On account of fatal diseases num-
Der of Wausau homes this year were
made lonely and sorrowful by the death
of members IN the family.
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AT THE ASYLUM.

As it is the usual custom, the patients
of the Marathon County Asylum for In
sane were that day treated to a dinner
above the ordinar.y, being supplied with
baked goose and ali It's accessory dishes
Each was also supplied NTH some use
ful present by the management, and
some, in addition. received presents
from relatives. On Christmas at least
the lot of these poor anfortunates is 8
happy one.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
Voting Contest
FOR A
Kirnball
Piano

Given by the leading merchants Of Waasau. BY
which a $50 Kimban Piano viii be given away
absolutely FREE to the Church, Lodge. Society
or school OF Wausau voted the most popular by
January IS, 1904. contest 70 commence
October 1st The merchants will isSne
ballots with every 25c cash purchase. which
entities the holder 10 one vote. AL votes must
be deposited in ballot box al Neuling & Bayer :
Dry Goods Store within FIVE days from d-fe Of
sale otherwise they viii be nun and void. II.
@. Lemke. CITY Treasurer. viii count the ballots
and give the vote each week in the Prior and
Record. ard announce the winner ST the end Of
the contest The Piano is now on exhibition at
James Music store. The following merchants
VIII issue ballots.
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MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE SECURITY.

FOR SALE Stown andn o.
6of
% 81 sP 5fns @ se9oR town So and section
f14s
and
ionI eSandsl%
9ande
Oranges dnzof
nw4
S soange0.
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BOTANY MADE POPULAR.

Our Northern Shrubs" by Harriet L.
Keller, is a fit companion for the au-
thor's previous work, "Our Native
Trees" It contains exhaustive descrip-
lions of all native Northern shrubs, to-
gether with many which have been in
troduced into this country from foreign
lands, and 1t will be useful 10 the bot
anist and valuable to the amateur gar
not only the botanical characteristics of
each shrub, but its availability for gar
den uses. The illustrations on nearly
every other page add much to the beauty
of the book.
Owing to the great number of sub
jects treated, the description of each is
necessarily brief, but in spite of this
Miss Keller finds space TO introduce
many interesting facts not directly use
full TO the botanist. An example OF this
is little story which she tells of the
shrub called Gordonia, a towering shrub
or small tree, which bears pure white
blossoms in the autumn. The curious
fact about his species is that the origi-
nal tree was found in Georgia and plant
ed In the Bartram Gardens, near Phila
delphia. in 1890. Since that time all eff
forts to rediscover the tree have been
futile, the wild growth having appar-
to be found in the gardens of this coun-
try New York: Charles Scribner's
sons.
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AN ADVENTURE STORY.

Marjorie" by Justin Huntly Nc
Carthy, author of If I Were King" is
an adventure story, and it is dedicated
TO Anthony Hope. This is appropriate.
for it is much the same sort of story
Mr.. Hope likes to write. but for the fact
that there is no Dolly Dialogue" bust
ness in it, and that the scene is remote
from Zenda.
The time is apparently two or three
centuries ago. and some of the action
takes place in England, some On ship
board, and the rest on a remote island
on which the principal characters are
wrecked. Marjorie, the heroine. is an
admirable maiden, strong. brave, fear
less and tender.
The tavernkeeper's daughter. Barbara
Hatchett. is a close second to the hero
inc in point Of attractiveness and in
terest, and the hero is the usual manly
young fellow. The art of Mr. Mccarthy.
however, finds perhaps it's best express
sion n the villain, and a most satisfac-
tory villain he is, of mixed Dutch and
English ancestry, with a truly Machiavel-
liam capacity for intrigue Cornelius Jen-
sen, for that is his sinister name, is cap
able of anything which the pirate of the
Boys Own Book may do, and Of some
other things not suitable for youthful
reading. Not the most adventurous
youngster would ever wish 10 be ;he
kind of pirate Jensen Is.
AS for Lancelot, the hero's sworn
comrade. he is a little too good 10
be natural (New York: r. IL. Russell
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PRESBYTERIAN AND BAPTIST,


land, organized the Church of the Gull
dees in Scotland. For centuries they
were witnesses of the truth =
The Scotch Reformation was only re-
vival of the primitive Christianity which
the Scotch had practiced for centuries"
And in the history of the Baptists DR..
Vedder makes this statement:
Because they accept the Scriptures as
an authoritative guide Baptists hold that
a church of Christ consists of those and
Of those only, who have been baptized
upon credible profession OF faith, and
walk consistently in accord with such
profession To be a Christian is
to enter into new and spiritual rela-
ton to God, through faith in His Son.
This is to exaIt the spiritual above the
f1eshly in Christ's church to put reality
above form. No man is a
Christian because his parents were
Christians; he can be Christian only if
he has been spiritually born into the
kingdom of God Religion thus becomes,
according to Christ's teaching. a matter
between each human soul and Cod"
While it is true that these doctrines
are held by all Christian sects as well
as by the Baptists, and while other sects
as well as the Presbyterian may justly
claim TO have revived primitive Chris
tianity, the paths by which these diff
ferent sects came to their present stage
of progress and the Importance of their
witnessing for some particular doctrine
AT a time when that doctrine was in
danger OF neglect must always remain
historically interesting, and for this
reason such books as those of this series
entitled THE Story of the Churches, ="
are interesting and more or less impor-
tant. They are written in a simple and
popular style, and the books are mod
crate in price and not too large 10 be
easily read by busy people. New York:
The Baker & Taylor Company
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A BOOK FOR BOYS.

Pearl Island" by Andrew Caster. is
advertised as story for boys. OF the
Robinson Crusoe" kind, and incidental
ly this suggests that Defoe's classic was
so that an imitation of ii ought logi-
caIly to be acceptable to grown people.
In other words, Defoe wrote for the
public of his day, and used the language
which hero OF the sort he described
naturally would use.
But Mr.. Caster has not done this, and
it is difficult to say just what he has
done Imprimts, two boys, wrecked on an
island in the Indian Ocean. This island
contains as many queer things as the
famous Robinson abode, and. of course,
the ship is conveniently abandoned
can get anything they want from her
when the authors invention gives out.
Equally, of course. they talk in stilted
English and carry encyclopedias in their
heads. Now, all this is not realistic.
Everybody knows that boys of eighteen
do not learn by heart scientific facts
about the prehistoric animals of the
earth. and the flora and fauna of remote
islands, with a view of being shipwreck-
ed some day.
In fact, all three or the people on
three copies of Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary. 1t is fortunate there was
not whole settlement of them, or the
authors supply of words might have
run out. (New York: Harper & Bros.)
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THE STORY OF HOME MISSIONS.

sEI EAvENING THE NATION: The
l. Story of American Home Mis-
SONS is the title of the first adequate
history of home missions which has ever
been written 1t is the work of Dr. Jo-
seph B. Clark, secretary Of the Congre-
gational Home Missionary Society, who
has had in the work the assistance of the
secretaries Of the boards of other gects.
The result Is a fairly comprehensive
work, which is at the same time not so
bulky as 10 be wearisome.
The author takes up. as is obviously
necessary, a good part Of the history of
the country in explaining the history and
work of home mission societies, and points
out the fact that large part of the early
settlement was accomplished by religious
refugees of one sort or another. 1t may
seem TO the ordinary reader that he gives
little too much prominence to the re-
ligious element in our early history. It
must be remembered that at the time OF
the settlement of this country religious
differences were much more bitter and
general than they are now, and that
these differences had much more TO do
with hereditary temperament and social
tradition than they had with religion.
The fact that Puritans, Quakers. Eugue-
nots, Separatists, or representatives, Of
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other sects happened TO settle various
parts Of the land does not necessarily
mean that they were more religious than
other folk, but merely that they hap
pened to be OF this or that faith. and that
their circumstances favored emigration
10 the New World. Their religion really
had much less to do with the character
of the civilization which they established
than their nationality. the climate, and
other circumstances which had nothing
to do with religion
However that may be. it does not CON
Germ the general subject of home mis-
sions, and there is no doubt that in
the educational influences at work in
our country. particularly in what used
10 be called the Northwest Territory,
the home missionary societies played
an important part. They made 1t pos
sible for young men OF college train
ing and in many cases of good family
and position TO go out as teachers and
clergymen into regions too sparscIy
settled and too poor to have paid
for either unaided; they helped these
pioneers OF education to establish
schools and churches, and form nuclei
of civilization in places which must
otherwise have lapsed into something
very like barbarism The primitive
conditions of pioneer life in the Middle
West were very different from those
of pioneer life in Colonial times in the
East (New York: The Baker & Tay-
lor Company
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An Ecclesiastical ROmance~~-The Story of High Priest

the dramatic temperament conjoined
with the business instinct and a thor
oughly good heart. The combination is
good for him, but death to the spiritual
fty of any church over which he hap
pens to throw the effulgent light of his
presence. IN plain terms, he is the high
priest OF religious vaudeville.
There is a lot of human nature in
this book. II one could help liking Car
naquay the cleverness would be less
great than it is. but throughout the
story the author plainly shows his I'M
derstanding OF the character of his hero.
and of that hero's genuine desire to be
a good fellow. He does not put himself
up on a pedestal above poor Carnaquay;
he meets him as the other clergyman in
the book does. man to man. He has
drawn in this sensational preacher a re-
markabie portrait, and one which should
be preserved as a type of this stage
of American development
But he is not as good at arithmetic
as at character drawing. When he says
that Emmanuel Church had never kept
minister longer than seven years, that
ii had had nine ministers, and was for
ty-three years old. and that only two
OF these ministers had stayed more
than four years. he asserts an impossi-
bility. New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.}
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TOR a long time it has been a mys-
terry that the fiction writer's so
generally ignore clerical life in
their hunt for material. The clergyman
seldom figures in novel, or if he does,
he is only a minor character. Harold
Frederic's '.Damnation of Theron Ware"
has been the only notable exception to
this rule hitherto. But here comes 4
new writer, Bradley Gilman, who is not
only familiar with the scenes and at
mosphere of clerical work, but knows
how to write Of them, and in Ronald
Carnaquay, he has written novel
which deserves a prominent place in the
bed rock OF American fiction. It is not
great, but it is truthful, humorous. sub
tie. strong and good; in fact, it Is d
capital book.
Mr.. Gilman's power of analysis is the
first thing noticeable in his style He
rot only knows Ronald CarnaqUay and
his type. but he knows how Ronald Car
naquay came to be- What is more, he
portrays with a merciIess but truthful
hand the shan1s and follies of the mod
ern congregation. and shows plainly the
difficulties which a really able and
honest clergyman must encounter. At
the end of the book the thoughtful read
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THE INEXHAUSTIBLE MR.. ABE


Into at the Culture Factory" The Man
VIVA Had a True Friend to Steer Him
Along" and THE Summer Vacation
That Was Too Good TO Last" Practi-
caIly the only household problem which
is not more or less discussed here is
the servant question, and 1t is rather
curious that Mr. AIDE has kept his hands
off that so long II seems as If topic
which forms the ground OF conversation
of nine out of ten of the matrons of
America would be peculiarly suited 10
his genius. but perhaps ne was afraid OF
the wrath TO come. 1t is safer TO satirize
4 womans taste in clothes. literature
or religion than to hint that she does
not know how TO manage her servants.
Cure for the Art Fad.
One of the richest morsels in the
book is that which is favored with
High Art" the sad tale of a man who
loved home, and his wife. who loved art
In the home. and the two things are by
no means synonymous. This is part OF
what happened:
Zone Day, when the ProvIder struck
the Premises, he found the Workmen
putting Red Rurlap on the Walls or the
Sitting Room.
Why the Gurny-Sack?' ne asked.
Can't we afford Wall Paper?'
Love of Art is the true Essence of
the Higher Life said the Esthete. and
she began to read a Booklet bound in
the same paper that the Butcher uses
VIXEN he wraps up a Soup Bone.
"AII the Furniture was straight up
and Gown. 1t seemed 10 have been
chopped out with an AK, and was
meant to hold up Members OF the Rim
cceros Family.
ION the High Shelf was a Row OF
double hand.ed Shaving Mugs. crippled
Beer Stems. understood Coal Scuttles,
and various Copper Kettles that had
seen Better Days"
This is good medicine for the art COM
plant (New York: r. H. Russell e.
Coz
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RECIPROCITY IN HISTORY AND POLITICS
adial of Question:

sumes much more widely extended
form than any that has yet been promis-
ed, he has no interest in it save in q
vague and very general way. II, there
fore, he sufficiently analyses the situa-
ton to consider his own interest as a
consumer, he is likely to become q tariff
Irevisionist. rather than reciprocity ad-
vocate. In short, the contest over reci
procity treaties, save in exceptional
cases, necessarily narrows to a conflict
of opposing interests. Some manufac-
their goods and to stimulate the foreign
demand for them. Others are unwilling
Ito sacrifice a jot of their protection in
order to build up the trade of their
friends in other lines of industry, by
enlarging the demand for the goods of
others at their own expense. The rati-
ffcation or rejection of reciprocity
treaties, therefore, becomes a battle of
special interest highly demoralizing to
the legislative body"
| THAT is another significant sentence.
conveying. as it does the idea that some
struggles are more apparently demoraliz-
| ing to legislative bodies than others
Such a struggle as that over beet sugar
inevitably results in the seeking out of
every weak and corruptible place in
Senate and House, and too often creates
an impression that both houses are de-
! generate and decadent, when they may
| be in reality On higher grade of hon
esty than a generation ago.
Question of Recirocity.
| Finally, the authors say:
eff reciprocity is to be successful as
| policy it will need a total reorgani-
cation in its scope. But there is
no immediate prospect that any such
measures will be taken. Nothing short
Of drastic tariff revision, or its equiva-
| lent, could accomplish such results, and
! for this the prospect just now seems
well-nigh hopeless. Even could a Con-
| gress be elected which would possess
the energy and courage to introduce such
reciprocity measures, it would not be
likely to wait for the slow and hesitating
action of international negotiation 1t
could cut down duties, open our ports
| to the products of Canada, Mexico, and
| South America, and could trust to the
natural forces of international trade to
keep the balance of our commerce be-
| tween the United States and those coun-
tries even. In short, il we
should ever approach the stage of de-
veiopment in tariff matters where reci-
procity could be had, we should not
need it New York: The Baker &
Taylor Company.
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| er is inclined TO think that one reason
why clergymen of the present day, in
Protestant sects, are not more notable
figures, is that they are obliged to fritz
ter away their time on many things
which are essentially unimportant, or
run the risk of being left without a
chance to do anything at all. There is
surely as much conservation and saint
illness in the world as there ever was.
but the very qualities which make a
man invaluable as a counselor in real
trouble. or in any priestly Office make
it impossible for him to snub imperti-
nent members of his congregation who
insist on his wasting valuable time in
furthering or checking their schemes
for social precedence.
Ronald Carnaquay is the kind of
clergyman once aptIy dubbed a ''pul-
piteer." There is no disrespect to the
profession in using such a term: he
would probably have used il of himself
at certain stage of his development.
He is not in the least like Theron Ware,
but he is the sort ofsman Theron Ware
might have been with a large addition
OF backbone. He succeeds in his labors
to build up a church among people
strongly inclined to make their church a
social club, because he is not a bit above
being the president of the club, and it's
advertising agent to boot He possesses
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A BOOK ON TREES.

With the Trees, by Maud Going, is
series, Of which the other books are
with the Wild Flowers and Field.
Forest, and Wayside Flowers" 1t is one
OF those dainty books dear to the heart
of the amateur botanist. full of bits of
historical and legendary lore as well as
scientific information.
The book is, in short, charmingly writ
ten, and scientific truth is not sacrificed
to literary effect In fact, as in ref
erence to Macaulay found in the chapter
on the growth of trees, the author does
not hesitate to destroy some pretty
in the case. Macaulay tells a story of
certain young baroness who fell in love
with the hapless Duke of Monmouth.
and died of a broken heart after his
execution. 1t is stated by the English
historian in sonorous accents that her
name, carved by the dukes hand, was at
the time of writing still visible on a
tree in the park near her home. But,
Miss Going observes, this was $50 years
time the name would either have been
buried under layers Of new wood or
sloughed off with the bark But there Is
enough romance which rests on a solid
foundation OF fact in this book to satisfy
the most fanciful reader CNew York:
The Baker & Taylor Coz