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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16

| figure of John Taylor, whose pictur-
esque and terrible character might well
| furnish a hint for modern Sir Walter
Scott, if he were fortunate enough to
/ possess a successor to the great novel
| list:
John Taylor was only sojourner in
Arkansas from 1887 to 1914, but he was
so remarkable a man that he should
not be forgotten. Everybody who
heard him agreed that in capacity for
invective, for whitening, blistering, en-
venomed eloquence, he excelled any
human being that ever spoke, and that
he seemed possessed of a demoniac
power He was tall, lank, red-haired
man, repulsively ugly, with little green
eyes that glistened like those of a
snake, and with a fashion of licking
out his tongue that was strangely ser
pentine. He talked to no one save on
business. When he settled in Little
Rock, whittier he had come from Ala
bama after he had been defeated in
candidacy for the United States senate,
all the bar called on him, but he re-
ceived them with repelling GOODNESS.
and returned no visits. He had wife,
but nobody ever saw her@wonderful
thing considering the small size of
Little Rock at that time.
During the seven years of his So
journ he never crossed any man
threshold, and no man crossed his.
In riding the circuit he always rode
alone, permitting no companionship,
and while in attendance on court he
would, if the weather permitted, live
in a tent pitched in the neighboring
wood, where he might not have to look
on the hated face of his fellow man.
Yet this modern Timon, thousand
times more embittered and malignant
than he of. Athens, was a devout
Christian, assiduous in his attendance
at church, and always speaking with
intense religious conviction. But this
strange, invisible wife did not appear
even on the sabbath.
As a lawyer he was terror. His
knowledge of law was prodigious and
his memory of authorities almost SUI
perhuman. He could write out any of
the verbose, involved common law
pleadings word for word as they APP
peared in Chitty without looking at the
book. He was a master of every techni-
cality by which his adversary could be
Inundated and overthrown. and when
he arose to speak none could resist the
| fierce torrent of his fiery eloquence.
He spared no one and feared no one;
but while he never suggested resort
to personal violence. he always carried
two pistols in the pockets of his long
black coat, in readiness to repel any
attack. In 1855 he reappeared one day
in the Supreme court, much aged, but
still erect, proud, scornful and malig-
nant, and after looking around on such
of his opponents as survived, departed
without speaking to any one, and went
forth upon his lonely way. whittier no
man knew.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16
Making German Toys,

More than $4,000 people find employ.
ment in the manufacture of German
toys, the annual output for export be
ing valued at more than S13,OO0.000.
The manufacturing industry has cen.
tered chiefly in Nuremberg and Some
berg and the surrounding hamlets. The
manufacture of toys has become i'm
portant as a domestic or house indus.
try among the people of many small
villages. Each city has its speciality,
and never figures as a rival to another
district. The products of Nuremberg
are principally of metal tin soldiers,
swords, railway trains. fleets, models
of machinery and other toys for boys
while Sonneberg uses almost exclu.
sively wood, porcelain, glass and paper
in the produc::ii>n of toys best suited to
girls.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16
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The News ~

This large output Of boy bandits will
yet raise up apologists for King Herod.
The public has learned that there is
such a thing as an asbestosless asbestos
curtain.
If things keep on the sheep will be
tempted to shift and try to raise cotton
heeces
ANY country looking for second
hand war cloud would do well TO apply
to Japan.
The Car is troubled with insomnia.
and the Mikado has been unusually wide
awake Of late.
Mexico has evolved the hornles, bull
fight 1t win be boycotted by the horned
cattlemen's union.
King Edward read his speech with as
grave and serious a face as il he had
written it himself
Another thing the theatergoer win de-
mand is an exit that is something more
than a constructive exit
Colombia will get claim that il sent
down that army for the purpose Of Civ
ing US q proper welcome.
The price Of wheat may go up in re-
Spouse to fumors. but it requires more
than rumors to keep it up.
Russia doesn't like our new treaty
with China. That confirms the impress
sion that it is a good thing.
One thing appears certain-Chicago
theatcr managers do not want to burn
money to make their places safe
A Michigan murderer was sentenced
10 prison FOR life within sixty hours after
he committed the crime. This get-justice-
quick idea Should become popular all over
the country.
Perhaps Mr.. Machen saved $4,000
out Of his $500 a year by smoking
5-cent cigars and buying seats in the
gallery
1t il for Tibet to. decide whether IL
viii accept tie inevitable with a pleas
ant look or viii force Great Britain 70
shoot civilization into H.
Now that the Ferris wheel has started
for ST. Lonis the chances for q success
ful worlds fair may be SAG. to have
Frightened up considerably.
Bows might be induced 70 reTaaia On
tse farms ana relse wheat & il were sell
inz al harvest tire for the prices u
resclles wien board Of trade Clique
gets hold OK the visible supply.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16

control of the right of way for military
purposes without too serious inconven-
fence of regular traffic, and property
owners in the districts to be occupied
or trayersed by the combatants are be-
ing warned what to expccS and what
compensation the War Department will
allow them for the Inconvenience they
may suffer. All the branches of the army
will be represented in the maneuvers,
but the navy will not take part. the force
afoat having purely naval problems TO
work out next summer.
1t is probable that the usual army
problems at Forts Riley and Thomas
next summer will be much curtailed in
order that the War Department may
concentrate its resources TO make the
New York campaign more memorable.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16
TO GUT OR SPLIT GLASS.
1t You Know tiow, it Can Be Done
Easily and Without a Diamond.


IT You Know How, it Can Be Done
Easily and Without a Diamond.
1t often occurs That glass tubes of
various dimensions have to be cut
where a diamond is not at hand, ss
in shops and power plants where OIL
and water gauge tubes must be needy
fitted. The usual method adopted is
to fie small groove around the tu6e
and separate the glass with a sharp
rap at the place weakened by the
file. The result is not always salts
factory, because the ends often break
, unevenly owing to the difficulty of
making straight groove with the file.
Better results are obtained when only
small incision is made with a file,
just enough to cut through the enamel
of the tube, on one side. and not all
around. While the tube is still
warm from the friction of the file, the
thumbs opposite the file incision, and
the forefingers around the tubing,
close to but not covering the incision.
Pressure of the thumbs invariably
causes the tube to break in as straight
and clean a line as though cut with a
diamond
Another method is to use a fine
saw blade (the finer toothed the bet
ter, for a saw is only another form
of a fila), and this should be kept
fed with fine emery, carborundum, or
pulveriZed silica sand of hard grit.
moistened with camphor, oil, turpen-
tine or water 4 straight, steady
and even stroke should be made, and
when the work is carefully done
against a gauge the cut will be as
true as though it had been ground.
Nor is even a toothed blade neces-
sary, if suitable hard and finely
gritted abrasive is used and regu-
larly fed between the glass and fine
wire, watchspring, or blunt but even
blade of an ordinary table knife. The
latter will be somewhat slower, of
course, but a fine steel wire run at
high speed, like a handsaw, if regu-
larly fed with fine emery or carborun-
dunn, will give very satisfactory re-
suits, not only for cutting either
straight lines or curves in window,
but plate or optical glass in such
thickness as makes cutting with dia-
mond difficult, precarious or impossi-
bic.
Window glass, especially single
strength, can be accurately split
either in straight or curved lines by
first making an incision through the
enamel of the glass, and then holding
a hot iron close to the incision till
fracture is started. The fracture will
follow the hot iron with remarkable
fidelity. The iron should be prefer
ably round and somewhat blunt and
with bulky head Qike an ordinary
fire poker), so as to retain its heat
well for long cuts, especially for thick
sheets, to keep the fracture going
when once started, even if two heated
irons have to be used.-National
Glass Budget.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16
Revenqed on Mankind.

Jupiter. angered at the insolence Of
his boy Amphion. laid the youngster
across his knee and vigorously ap-
piled one Of Hebe's old slippers.
Confound him." muttered Am
phfon. as he left the paternal pres
ence, smarting with pain and rubbing
himself, ..I'n get even for this some
day"
Subsequently Anphiun invented mu-
sic.
Think of the trouble that VIII
make for somebody" he exclaimed,
with savage gIee- Think Of 'Hia-
watha. the Stein Song. and saving
The Chicago orcheatra.-Chicago Tri-
bune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16
BIBLE IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Free Hand Translation Into TagaIog,
Vasayan and Pampangan.

NGSdydn anu
During the past two years and a
ha,f a number of Protestant mission
aries. mostly Presbyterian and Meth
oiist have been engaged in making
translations of certain Of the new
Testament gospels into the Tagalog,
and then the Vasayan, the Pampan-
gan and perhaps already the llocano
dialects. Their object is, of courses a
mos. laudable one, from the stand
point of every one who believes in
the education OF the individual will
and judgment in religious as well as
in all other matters; 1t is to give to
the Filipinos, who are really without
a religious literature, a chance to
learn of Christ's life and mission in
their own everyday tongues, in which
most of the masses can read at least
a little. 1t is an enterprise magnifi-
cent in scope, all the more reason
for expecting to make progress slowly
in it.
II is to be feared that the transla-
tions hurried into shape at Manila
and hurried off the presses in this
country, are hardly such as could be
desired to be made of THE Book. !"
However jealous the missionaries
must be given credit for being in ac-
curing a practical speaking knowl-
edge of the dialects of the natives
with whom they are at work, not
one of them is in any sense a scholarly
linguist, and there is all the more
necessity for careful, scholarly work
in the half-developed, imperfect
forms of written speech, such as the
various Malay dialects are. To be
sure the American missionaries have
had the assistance of several natives
of more or less pretension, mostly less
to scholarship in their own dialects.
They are. however, at least no better
qualified for painstaking work of this
sort than their American colleagues,
and. in addition, know almost nothing
Of the Bible, as is to be said OF every
Filipino. even the best educated.
Under the circumstances, one is
compelled to wonder just what sort
of an impression of the Bible will be
obtained by those Of the Filipino
masses who read these TRANSACTIONS.
Occasionally one hears defender OF
the friars praising their devotion in
mastering the native dialects and
their scholarship as preachers and
writer's in these tongues. AS mat
ter of fact, the great majority of friars
even after long residence in the coun-
/ try, preached so atrociously in the
dialect that the better educated ma
/ tives used always to be laughing
about their sermons behind their
sleeves 1t is scarcely probable that
/ our Protestant missionaries in the
! few years In which they have been al
work among the Filipinos. are capable
of doing better, if as well.-Outlook.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16
The Yernacnlar.

This was the conversation between
the girl with the gum in her mouth
and the other girl with the gum in her
mouth:
"Aincha hungry"
"Yeh."
$50 my. Less go meet"
"Where?"
"Sleev go one places nuther."
so dy. Ika meet mo stennyware
Canchoo?"
''Yeh. Gotcher money!"
"Yeh?"
$50 w Gotcher aptite?"
"Yeh. Gotchoors?"
"Yeh. Howbout place crosstreet?'
"Nothin' teet there. Lessgurround
corner"
''Thattledoo zwell zennyware. Mighta
thoughta that first. Getcher hat"
lima gettinit. Gotcher money"
"Yeh. Didn'cheer me say had it.;
Already"
"Yeh."
"K'mon"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16
WHEAT GOES SOARING.
Russia ia panese War News Advances
Cereal TO High Price

Russia Japanese War News Advances
Cereal TO High Price.
Russo-Japanese war news has had the
effect Of sending the price of cereals sky
ward on the Chicago Board of Trade.
Wheat went soaring and the advance in
other grains was almost rs great May
wheat market broke from all restraint
and went to the highest point reached in
years. Already firm and strong, rs the
result of the weather and crop reports
from the various heatgrowing States
and foreign markets. Mag wheat proved
a gold mine for the fortunate traders on
the bull side OF the market.
The excitement was intense when the
markets begun to advance not only the
shorts attempting to cover, but the in
vestors, who are long on wheat, demand
ing more. Outsiders all over the country
Joined in the buying movement, conf
dent that a big boom ia all the grains
would send wheat TO 81.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16
CONFINEMENT.
envy not the famous men

] envy not the famous men
OF any time or land,
Horatius may have hello the bridge,
I've held Myrtiila's irand.
Though Shakespeare may have written
plays
And sonners not a few.
y ct to Myrtilla 1 have penned
A joyous billet-doux.
Drake may have circled round the globe,
And though that pleased his taste,
Suffice for Inc to have my arm
Around Myrtilla's waist.
Though Sherman may have made a
march
From Atlanta to the sea,
A wedding march right up the aisle
Is good enough for me.
Life.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16
Canary Birds in London.

The recent sale in London of pair
of canaries for go has directed public
attention to the boom" now raging in
these diminutive pets. Since King
Edward took up the hobby of canary
breeding prices have been steadily ris-
ing, and in many instances birds have
changed hands for four times their
weight in gold.
The most expensive variety are
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16
LAWYER WHO WAS A TERROR.

Strange Character of John Taylor of
the Early Arkansas Bar.
At the last meeting OF the Arkansas
Bar association. says Law Notes. the
president. George b. Rose, delivered
an interesting address on The Bar OF
Early Arkansas in which he set MIN
self the task OF rescuing from oblivion
some members OF the early leaders
Of the bar and reconstrueting the con-
ditions under which they worked.
Among them is represented the curious
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16

illness. 1t is somewhat like walking
typhoid, which accounts for the recent
fluctuations in the fever and general con-
ditions of the patient.
1t is realized that the Senator's adj
vanced age and his rheumatic conditions
make the case n more serious one than
in younger man, but the belief is ex'
pressed by his family that he will re-
cover, although he will be confined to his
bed for a considerable period The pres
ent plan is to take him to Townsville,
Ga, as soon as he Is able to be moved
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16

except his regular
household is per-
mitted to see him.
His sole diet is
milk and no stimu-
lants are being
used at present.
Mrs. Hanna insists
on personally at
tending the patient
much of the time.
The physicians say
that the outlook is
hopeful for recov-
cry. They say that
the case is what is
known as irregu-
lar typhoid and is
less serious than
,,,,,f ,re ns, - 4t.&
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16

simplest haIf-dozen rules which s1s-
ern the clubman:
ID Let them come down.
Cd Stay in your blind.
3D. Lay for big ducks.
(4.) Get only your own birds.
(5) Shoot all eripples until deaf
(6.) Don't sing or shout constantly
There are others, but these are
enough.-Los Angeles Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16
GREATEST SINCE CIVIL WAR.
Extensive Army Maueuvers to Be Held



Within $50 miles of New York City
early next summer there win be held the
greatest exhibition OF mimic war ever
attempted on this side of the Atlantic.
Gen. Corbin, commanding the Depart
ment of the East, is making plans to
mobilize $4,000 troops, including all the
regulars east of the Mississippi and the
militia of New York, New Jersey, Con-
neeticut, Pennsylvania and perhaps sew
eral other States. to take part in land
campaign similar to the annual maner-
vers of Germany and France.
The plans involve the establishment of
OF great military encampments forty or
nifty miles apart, and a hostile campaign
between the two bases. Stimulating all the
conditions OF an actual state OF HOSTILE
ties. Negotiations are now in progress
with several railway lines to arrange
their schedules for the, period Of opera
tions, so that the opposing forces may
seize sufficient rolling stock and assume
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16

suggested to the Ladies' Association of
the Union" that they secure the coach
for the museum at Mount Vernon, and
Mr.. Frey notified Mr. Dodge that he
could have the ancient carriage. The We
hicle is said TO have been used by Wash
inGton on his journey to New York for
his first Inauguration.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16
What 20 Mnnted.

Mr.. Nuritch-Yon'ye resigned your
situation again?
His Son-Yes, sir. 1t was too hard.
Mr.. Nuriteh-Too hard. Don't you
know that no situation is perfectly
easy?
His Son-Yes. sir; that's why / pre-
fer no Philadelphia Ledger.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16

Each day brings its separate and
distinct opportunities for doing good.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16

Refinement creates beauty every
where 1t is the grossness Of the
spectator that discovers anything like
grossness in the obiect-H azlitt
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16
FEVER SEXES HANNA.

Senator Is Found to Have an Attack
of Typhoid.
Senator Hanna is i'll with typhoid fever
in Washington. The Senator is being
closely guarded from visitors and no one
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-16

Some artists who are welded to their
art evidently married in haste and are
repenting at leisure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-08
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.

Schedule effective June IL, 1904.
Trains leave from Pennsylvania Station.
7:35 am. Daily. Local for Harrisonburg. War
renton Danville and way stations.
1851 am. Daily. Washington and Florida Lin
tied. Through coaches and sleeper TO Columbia
Savannah and Jacksonville. Dining car service.
1115 Daily. United States Fast Mall
First-class coaches and drawing room sleeper to
New Orleans. Dining service.
4:OI m Week Days. Local for Harrisonburg
and way stations on Manassas branch.
1855 pm. Daily. Local for Warrepton and Char
800 pm. Daily New York and Atlanta Ex-
press. First-class coach to Atlanta, sleeper to
Washington to San Francisco Mondays. Wednesday,
and Fridays. Dining car service a la carte.
1000 pm. Daily. New York and Memphis Lin
Ing car to Roanoke. Knoxville, Chattanooga and
Msnphis; sleeper to New Orleans. Dining car
ic:ss p.m Daily. Washington and Southwestern
cars to Atlanta and Macon; sleepers to Augusta,
Eashyille Atlanta, Macon Memphis, New Orleans
TRAINS ON BLUEMONT BRANCH.
Leave Washington $40 an, 1:30 pm, 4:45
week days for Leesburg only. 11:30 p.m Sat
washington s:ol an. s:lo am. s:25 pm for
Through trains from the South arrive Washington
pm and S:5O pm daily. Local trains from Har-
daily From Charlottesville s:25 am. and $50
Tickets sleeping reservations and detailed In.
forma ton can be had at ticket Offices 705 18th
Station. Baggage checked through from hotels and
Phone 1e4o P. n. R. Cab Service.
y. H. ACKERT, Gen. Manager.
W. H. TAYLOE, Gen. Pass. Agt.
L. 8. BROWN. Gent Agent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-08
SOME ODD CoURTsHIPs.
How Field Marshal Waldersee Got His
Wife.
je30- dads

From the Chicago News.
OF the late Field Marshal Count Valdez
see it is said that he proposed to Princess
Noer, who became his wife, under the fol-
lowing circumstances: The princess had
been shopping and had a small parcel in
her hand when he met her, saluted and
turned around to accompany her to the
door Of her residence. The princess held
out the parcel to him. He looked distressed
She affected not to understand why. He
reminded her of the severe rule prohibiting
military men of every degree from carrying
IN the streets parcels or even ladies' wraps.
She told him that the rule was absurd, and
mat in this instance it must be disregarded
or else. He laughed took the parcel
and called next day to know what penalty
he would have incurred had he not broken
the rule. She made a saucy reply Both
banded words half gay, half sentimental,
with the consequences that the visit ended
m an engagement.
Among the Yao Midos. one of the many
Burmese-Tartar people, the young men WOO
their wives absolutely without words but
to the sound of music. On the first day of
winter they have great feast at which all
the maria geable girls gather and listen to
the music made by the bachelors, who sit
under the desire tree each playing his
favorite instrument. AS the maiden he
loves passes him the youth plays louder
and more feelingly. If the girl ignores him
and passes on he knows that she will have
none of him: if she steps up to him and
lays flower upon the instrument he jumps
up, grasps her by the hand, taking care not
to drop the flower, and they go away to-
gether.
When Dyak Of Borneo makes love he
helps the girl in the hardest portion of her
daily toll. If she smiles upon him. no mat
ter how sWeetly, he does not Immediately
respond but waits until the next dark
night. Then he steals to her house and
wakens her as she lies asleep beside her
parents. The parents, If they approve,
make no sign, but sleep on, or pretend to.
If the girl accepts she rises and takes from
her lover the betel and sweetmeats he has
brought her. That seals their betrothal and
he departs as he came, neither speaking
nor being spoken to-