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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05
"oLD ABE" IS GONE.
Famous Battle Eagle Persisted in Wis.,
consin CapitoI Fire

consin Capitol Fire.
Above the lamentations over the
burning of the Wisconsin State Cap
itol, with its hoard OF valuable arch
ives and chronicles, are heard the be-
wailings of the "Old Guard" mourn
ing the loss of "Old Abe" the world
famous battle eagle. Hundreds of fam
lily hearths were turned into biyouaC
fires while veterans foregathered to
swap yarns of the bird that led the
Eighth Wisconsin Infantry into thirty
six battles of the civil war from Fred
erickstown TO Hurricane Greek.
The loss of the stuffed bird that for
two decades from its perch under the
great dome had surveyed with imper-
turbable gaze thousands of visitors
and sightseers has stirred revival of
stories of the old war pet. The tales
In the school readers, while they may
serve TO immortalize the intrepid bird
and incidentally TO act as an inspira-
ton for the generation in the class
rooms. are plain and unvarnished com
pared with the narratives that to-day
are passing current among the vet
Grams.
"Old Abe" was captured on the
Flambeau river. between Ashland and
Price counties, in 1861 by Chief Sky. a
Chippewa Indian, son of Thunder Of
Bees. chief of the Flambeau band Of
the tribe Chief Sky caught the young
bird after a climb to the top of a gil
gantic hemlock tree, and a week later
realized on his adventure by selling his
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05

and fair proportions is to escape appear
ing as positively dumpy, she must avoid
the trimmings that seem to divide her off
into several portions. Instead of the
straight roUnd-and-round trimmings she
may select those that encircle her in
waves or scallOps, and instead of unbrok-
en- lines, as in the simpler band trim
mings, she may have every ornamental
line interrupted here and there by some
elaboration of the trimming This last
need not be at all complex to accomplish
the desired end. For such vertical lines,
on the other hand, as her gown may in
clude, che should aim to secure length
Let there be no breaks here, no matter
how much opportunity may seem to exist
for "relief." Don't relieve. but rejoice
in every up-and-down line. no matter
how indistinct, if only there's considera-
BILE length to it.
The one essential in new dress fabrics
is sCftness. a texture for which lace is
especially effective trimming. and the
consequence is that the coming season
is TO be one in which lace garnitures are
to- be valued very highly. All kinds of
lace seem to be acceptable, though the
coarser threaded ones are in minority.
Those of fine thread, however, are made
in bold designs and often are combined
with embroideries. Dyed laces retain
their vogue, and seem likely to be used
more than they were the past season.
Threads of gilt or of color running
through the lace are an especially stylish
touch. Bright colorings will appear in
the embroideries, passementeries and
braids, and from some of the eastern
colorings in such trimmings the women
who delight in rather bold hues should be
able to make satisfying choice. Fringe,
both the silk and the chenille, will con-
tinue in favor, appearing chiefly as Ell
bellishment for the 1ounces of skirts and
as drapery for bodices. Braids present
no end of novelties to the shopper, and
the number of them that include touches
of either gold or silver, or of both, is
impressive. More than a touch is seen
in many, too, especially as to the gold.
Many braids are entirely of it.
Altogether the standards of embellish
ment for spring dresses are suggestive of
eIaborateness, which for summer seems
likely to develop into very highly
wrought styles. Sample dress-ups for
spring are put in the first two of these
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05
I,ked shorter Miles

The iate John Il. Proctor. president
OF the Clyl Service Commission. was a
student Of the University OF Pennsyl-
vania In 1868 and 1864. and in his col
Iege days liked nothing better than to
set out carly on frosty morning and
walk twenty-five or thirty miles
through the country.
Once he met an IriShman on the road
TO Morristown. He and the Irishman
plodded along together a matter az six
or seven miles. They stopped and read
each milestone, aud Proctor said:
Il think that milestones cheer road
up wonderfully. don't your"
Faith, an 1 do that" said the Irish.
man. II find them great comfort II
would be an improvement. though. II
they was nearer one another. wouldn't
ftp
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captive for bushel of corn. The bird
was carried to Eau Claire just as
Company G was being mustered in.
The lumbermen from the pine woods
voted in the eagle as a volunteer and
after a surgeons examination it was
added to the nst OF recruits and be
gan its course from obscurity to fame
When the company marched into
Camp Randall at Madison in 1861 sa-
lutte was fired in honor of the bird,
which became the mascot of the whole
regiment. 1t went through the war,
carried into battle aloft on perch,
from which it rose screaming to the
length of its cord. At the end of the
war the bird was placed on exhibition
once in Chicago. Its value had risen
form the original bushel of corn to SIS
for each feather that fell from its
plume, while p. T. Barnum offered
$4,000 for permission to place it in
his circus.
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is indicated by the pictured brides dress,
which was white mousselline de sole
and alencon lace. In this picture, too,
are a low-cut gown of white figured lace
net over black silk, with a spangled lace
bertha and black silk fringe for trim
ming a blue yelQurs chiffon. shirred and
finished with guipure yoke edged with
jet pendants, and. gray wolfe trimmed
with passementeSie and embroidery, both
in black. These black trimmings on gray
materials will be one of the up-to-date
touches of spring.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05
HORRORS OF MODERN
NAVAL WARFARE

Few as are the people who can i'm
agine battlefield on shore. they are
vastly fewer who can picture with any
certainty the scene of a naval conflict.
Terrible, too, as are all scenes of
warfare, there seems something akin
to sacrilege, to destruction of Gods
own realm, In man daring to carry
his bloodthirsty. destructive animosi-
ties out upon the stainless blue of the
pure sea. Yet here, no matter how ter
riic the slaughter, how widespread tie
destruction wrought by man upon his
fellow man, the merciful sea. impol-
l1table, reticent. Immediately effaces
all trace thereof-hides mans mis-
doings from the gaze of high heaven,
nor allows the poor remains to lie and
MI the air with pestilence.
And this, of course, more so now
than ever has been before. In the
days when Britain became the sover-
walls were handled and fought
through whole days in closest proxim-
1ty with their enemies, it often befel
that ships hulled through and through
with shot drifted for many days,
while the handful Of unwounded sur.
Yivors accomplished tasks such as
make the mind reel to think Of.
But modern sea warfare has changed
nearly all that. For more terrible.
but mercifully far more swift, will be
the conflict between hostile fleets in
the future. There will be scarcely any
such thing as the lingering agony,
long drawn out, of the old days of sea
lighting. For one thing. modern iron
ciads and cruisers going into action
will choose the lesser of two evils CON
fronting them. Because of the deadly
peril of splinters and of fire. every
thing of wood in their fittings, even
20 the boats, will be cast away at the
beginning Of the fight
Then, when the battle is Joined, the
seaman must needs have a heart of
brass incased in triple steel, a mind
that refuses to mediate upon the i'm
mediate possibility of one of those ter
rible twelve-inch projectiles plunging
down upon his vessels deck, and out.
amid the disintegration of all her gang
lions of energy, through the bottom.
rendering her an easy target to an I'M
injured foe. and her sinking a matter
of minutes.
And when she sinks, stone-like-
pumping being, if possible to a yet IN
damaged engine. a manifest absurdity
In that rent fabric of steel-with her
must go all her crew. 1t may sound
cruel and hard-hearted to speak of
their end being mercifully swift. but.
In view of the horrors of The old wood
en- ships floating on, veritable charnel
houses, when the battle was over
there was hardly any other term appH-
cable
The modern man-of-war will not. at
any rate, prolong the agonies Of her
crow when she is scuttled. She will %
down quick into the pit in a halo of
steam, a vhirling vortex of waves. and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05

In five minutes from the commerce
ment of her downward plunge there
VIII be no sign that she has ever
been. and only if other vessels be very
near will there be any possible chance
| of saving a handful of stalwart swim
! mers whose superhuman struggles
have wrenched them clear of the de-
vcuring. downdragging eddies. More
! than mere handful there could not
| be in any case, since another tremen-
/ dous difference betw cen past and pres
ent sea fighting is that the steel-clad
monsters go into battle with hardly a
man visible, almost all OF them hid
den behind massive walls shut in from
the devastating impact of large pro-
jectiles, as well as the horrible hall
Of Hotchkiss and Maxim bullets.
The pomp and pageantry of sea war
fare in Nelson's day, with its stripped
crowds OF men swarming about >the
incumbered decks. and streaming flags
from every mast. have gone with the
towering ranges of sails and nimble
sailors who leapt about aloft handling
them even during the height of battle.
Inc new man-of-war goes into the
fight grim. unadorned, and apparently
proceeding by her own volition, like
some unthinkable marine monster be-
gotten of the elder slime
Nor will the elements interfere either
to retard or accelerate the issues as
once they did. Whether it be calm or
storm, blue sky or fog. night or day,
the battle will be joined
TO a landsman, and even q a mer-
chant seaman, there is something pc
culiarly terrifying in the notion of a
sea fight in a fog. 1t is a time Of
terror even in peaceful navigation,
since the great sea breadths seem to
have contracted, and ones faculties are
kept at their utmost tension in case of
running across another ship, Fog is
the only elemental condition that sue
ceeds in making the great, wide sea
look little place, where not merely
navies have no room to float, but It
seems impossible to avoid colliding
with the only other ship that was in
sight before those fieecy walls of mys-
terry closed in upon the seafarers Yet
the modern sea warrior among us is
trained to welcome that terrifying con-
dition of things, to. dash at utmost
speed through the thickness and burst
upon his enemy with the sudden I'M
expectedness of the lightning stroke.
And TO add to all these terrible con-
6itions of modern sea warfare we have
now the submarine. Not content with
the mighty arena OF conflict afforded
by the open surface of the sea, in gale,
or fog, or calm, the sea fighter must
now descend into darkness and ST.
lence. the realm of the utterly UNI
known, in order that he may haply
hurl, at one fell blow as from a burst
ing volcano, into blazing, boiling ruin
and death. eight hundred lives, and
the revenue of a principality. For man
has even extended the battle ground
of the sea.-Frank 7. Bullen. in Lon
don Daily Mail
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pictures These gowns were sketched in
brown vOile, black velvet and fancy
braid, with Irish point yoke. for the
first; rose taffeta and dark rose velvet,
for the second: light blue tafTeta. guipure
and fancy landings, for the third. and
gray Toile trimmed with hand embroid-
cry in darker gray, for the last example.
Both the taffetas and the voiles OF these
dresses were new weaves. markedly soft
and pliable for the silk. and thin and
open OF texture for the voiie-
TafTeta is on hand IL many novel
weaves. bat all have the softuess that
Is a comparatively new characteristic
for tais silk Silk pongees and weayes
that resemble il very closely in ali bat
the names are shown IN attractive array,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05
VERY LATEST LEAP YEAR FAD.
Verses on Heart Shaped Cards Sent to
Young Bachelors.

Verses on Heart Shaped Cards Sent e
Young Bachelors.
One clever girl of this city, either
in a spirit of fun or with serious pur-
pose, has introduced a leap year fad
whereby all the girls may have a
chance without in the smallest degree
detracting from their characteristics
modesty or proving aught to the con-
trary that "a maiden hath no tongue
but thought" says the Washington
Post
Conveniently many Washington
Beau Brummel discovers himself to
be somewhat bewildered upon the re-
ceipt of four dainty pieces of paste
board, cut into heart shape, each piece
being tied with a little bow Of differ
ent color ribbon, the color scheme bear
Ing some especial significance.
Upon the first card is written lean
year, 1904, the date being followed by
a verse:
Please answer
If you can guess
The happy Miss
Who is willing
To make it Mrs,
Who sends these bows
And n dozen kisses.
The second card reads:
II winsome - came TO WOO
With loving ways as lassies do,
And if her heart were good and true,
You would not say her nay. could you?
If you do not care jot,
Why, burn the lot.
Upon the third is tied bow OF
pink, cream and blue ribbon:
If of me you sometimes think,
Send me back the bow of pink;
If Of me you sometimes dream,
Send me back the bow of cream;
If your heart for me is true,
Send me back the bow Of blue.
The fourth and last card, being tied
with a bow of red, cotton, and hello.
trope. implies:
IL your love for me is dead,
Send me back bow OF red;
If you have poor me forgotten,
Send me back bow Of cotton;
If with me you will elope,
Send me back the heliotrope.
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height Of eight inches is the fashionable
belt
One Of the new crepes would he ap-
propriate for a reception gown. Mirror
et0ile. Dresden, panne. satin crepe. etc,
are among the most desirable weaves.
Line an evening wrap OF white cloth
with a fine grade Of satin duchesse in
the new delicate shade OF rose. or use a
silvery rose brocaded satin, which would
be charming
Chiffon yeiver is light il weight and
pliable As he name suggests, and all
manner OF elaborate modes may be de-
veloped in this beautiful fabric; for
dressy functions nothing could be mora
elegant
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05

A pious citizen has a 15-year-old SON
who does not promise to be exactly
chip or the old block" Not long ago
the father discovered TO his sorrow
that his boy and several others OF the
neighborhood had habit Of matching
nickels. The wrathful parent led the
erring lad TO the time-honored attic,
where hangs a certain strap. The boy
didn't have any agreeable impression
Of what was to come. and. on the
ground that It Is only the first plunge
that counts. he called out: Say. dadl
I'll go you heads or tails for two lick
ings or Doneiv
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pended on symbols in the buoyancy
chamber of the torpedo. Attached to its
axis is steel spring connected with the
tooth gearing. A rod to the air lever
actuateS il. When the lever is thrown
back the spring is released. and the
gyroscope spins around at the rate Of
1900 revolutions a minute. In his book
on '"Torpedoes and Torpedo Vessels. I"
Lieut.. Armstrong. of the British navy,
says:
The gyroscope works a ssrvo-motor,
actuating a pair of movable vertical
rudders placed in recesses in the YER
IDEAL fms. These rudders, be IT re-
membered, are therefore supplement-
airy to the small adjusted vertical rud-
ders ordinarily lifted. but which mar
be discarded IL a gyroscope Is being
used II. now. the torpedo from any
cause. external or internal. be de
nected out OF the line OF fire. the gy-
roscope. by maintaining its axial posi-.
ton in the line OF fire. acts on the
servo-motor. and by means OF the yer.
teal rudders steers the torpedo back
again to its original position"
Thus the torpedo Is endowed with 8
brain. so TO speak, that directs is
course through the waves on its mis-
sion OF death.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05
Rome Older Than RomuIus

Excavations conducted by Prof
Airoh In Rome's forum prove that ths
eternal city existed long before the
time OF Romulus, its supposed founder.
Prof AiroIi asserts that Bsruscans es-
tablished the city Of Rome on Aventins
hill. from which they descended TO
fight the Sabines.
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His Aim.

W. B. Yeats, the Irish poet, tells an
amusing story Of Marion Crawford, th'
novelist. According TO Mr.. Yeats, 4
lady asked Mr.. Crawford il he though
that anything be had written woulC
live after be had gone. Madam,
Crawford replied. what am trying
to do is 70 write something that vii
enable me to live while am here"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05
Tree Planting in China

Tree planting in northern China Is
being strenuously enjoined by the au-
thortties. not only as a productive in
custry for the people. but alike as a
means of strengthening the river en-
bankments against foods and OF check
ing drought says the Golden Penny.
OF late years trees have been cut down
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05
FAVORS TALL WOMEN,
FASHION is KIND TO THEM THIS
SPRING.
Plump and Dumpy Sister Must Avoid
Many Current Styles of Trimming
and Seek for Long, Uubroken yerti-
cal Lines-New York Notes.


o n SHERATON
has been extended
TO the tall, finely
formed woman in
e cry department
and feature of the
spring fashions. If
women who were
plump and short had
something of an inn
ing two and three
winters ago, they
now are compelled TO
make up for it fully.
All manner of stylish
trimmings are APP
piled in horizontal
lines, and almost to
the exclusion of YER
teal lines. This one
noint is q sore trial
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for short women. for such trimmings if
used freely as is the usual manner, have
the effect of cutting the height up into
sections and so making a woman seem
shorter than really she is. The conse-
quence is that if the woman of moderate
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05

Exclusive OF locomotives we man
ufacture $4,000 engines OF 1000. 600
horse power every year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05

Orders have recently been executed
in Japan for q supply Of fishing nets
for Alaska, valued 81 $4,000.
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soldier he
Of
weapon II So he will surely be interested
dimensions The
them
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05

Tie cost Of the pension roll is sI75
a year for every man. woman and
child in the United States.
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Making war ON PIumage Hats.

Enthusiastic members OF LoEdon's
Audubon Society propose a law TO au-
thorize the conhscation Of all hats dec
oratSi with the pl1msge OF song birds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05

When the Mississippi River IL At
flood one can drink fresh water from
the gulf ten miles from the rivers
mouth.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05

Orders for locomotives for India and
South Africa have been placed with
Leeds firm
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05

Colombia has had seven eonstitu-
tons and the title OF the republic has
been changed three times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05

In Italy there are $4,000 skilled
workmsn engaged in the manufacture
OF silk
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Court OK Arbttration.

THE reason can't set along with
my wife Is that she wants to submit all
our differences To arbitration"
ITO arbitratiouy'
Yes. She always wants 10 -sSer
disputes TO her mother. Town and
Country
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05

y small smaller
stat - 1890 t+N
ar to graduates OF institutions According
w OF Chicago and just issued
young women bachelors
hs ten still unmarried
| ms
In the Of the graduate Yale
account Tor his Discrimination
% estate The young oomate of his boyhood days who did
oege remained
around for Greek roots the oomate home learning business
RED The college graduate has lost all this
support for family Often this
the girl "bacheloThood
No will that she fitted education fulfilling
larger independence and individuality hence mony
ceiyed in the hopeChicago
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05

A Los1-s Character usually loves
her enemies. and is impudent TO her
friends
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old in
golde
Careeness is often species OF
ali marke he
the forgot the caress and lost himself in business
to be
silly that he didn't for her
and that unreasonable for her to ex
solv to be kind loving, patient
complained the recipient of kisses Domestic ne
abuse When learn to think when they emen
in will be real happiness in the world
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05

Kyroscope. 1nlS is
a delicate appar-
atus for keeping a
torpedo straight in
its course. e We n
through a distance
OF 1000 yards. 1t
is a small. weight
ed, wheel-like OBJ
ject. carefully sus-
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The TraSedy of Little Things.
BY the Editor of the MiIwa111xee JourI1s

the Editor of the milwaukee, Journal
Judge spectators City laughed when
testified that his wife him only mechanical
lawyers devoted minutes to the question,
what They that it sauta-
ton given through of duty and then they laughed
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Marriage Among
University Graduates.
- the EditOr of the Chicaoo R

q Ute FXeCOrd-
@ the higher education discourage
OF marriage for both the young
iessened By a university college education?
These old and much questions but interest in
them has been revived concerning the grad
ate OF Yale and Harvard The records
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COmmerCialiSm.
Every Good is Connected With 1t Now.
By the Editor of the Chicago Chronicle

Almost Every Good is Connected With 1t Nov"
Rv the Chicago CHRONICLES.
world and there certainly
spirit of commercaism and laying al
A. commercialsm The churches do it,
wtho
churc
which
desire
fashionable
make
naa for he higher life far
sordd Yet these
very rejoice which the husband
length
the
The m is
attacking the foundations without
coni5 climate
with the excess of activity in the business ora
law OF the truly humane spirit
religious world all lgh ana tere VIII oe no
brought agains commercial spirit
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evil
patriotic communities
friend America the
cratic experiment"
corruption" which friends Americans
enough deeply rooted enemies beeye brought to an
bravery the part of individuals in the republic 1t not fantastic to aver
should feel that his direction contrbu
standing temptation do act of private virtue but
that his
contribution bribery fund to dishonest boss
national dgaeef he had the
the bearings of his individual action would be easier for
Arisoe idea the in life Of
citizenship and the making righteous people
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05

ana me constant
coTpacas as
mtv their employ their promotion young man should
himself higher
NOT m TO appear which he is actually placed
be world
downfall should
a be
sell he should
elSast
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THE DEADLY TORPEDo'S METAL BRAIN

1t has been stated that much of the
Japanese success in naval fights
arouSd Port Arthur was due to the