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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29

such. This was by no means all. a
far more ingenious and laborious
scheme was devised for the purpose
OF making Korea and 7Manchuris rs
well known to the japanese soldier as
were the charming valleys of his na-
tive land. Sections of the Asian con-
tInent held by Russia were reproduced
In typographical minnteness, and
maneuvers were executed upon these
supposititious centers Of activity. Thus
the entire surface OF the country
which was 10 be invaded was made
familiar to the men who were to fight
the battle.
AS a further instance OF the extra
ordinary foresight and adaptability
shown by this unique people may be
cited the readiness and ease with
which the land forces made the pas
sage Of the rivers. Every point in the
detail OF these often perilous under
takings. was worked out 10 It's moet
definite finish long before the army
set foot on Asian soil. 1t seems in
credible, but il is fact nevertheless.
that the material for making the
bridge across the Taifse at Liaoyang
was ready to put in place many weeks
before ii was needed. Much OF it, ia
deed. was brought over to the main
land when the army of invasion
landed
This bridge was work which illus
trates admirably the depth and effec-
tiveness of japanese resources. 1t was
made OF boats separable into sections
so carefully fashioned that they could
be put into a harmonious whole with
surprising quickness- The exact loca-
tion OF the crossing was determined
before the embarkation of the army
for Korea, and there was consequently
neither lack nor oyersupply Of ma
tersaL The sections were 50 small and
the wood Of which they were con-
structed war 81 Light that they
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
YOUTH AND LOVE

Youth anI Love fell out one day,
Said Youth to Love: "Pll go my way
And leave you broken-hearted.
I'll go through life without your aid;
III gaze on neither man nor maid
And foolishly they parted.
Of went naughty Youth alone;
He hummed q tune in merry tone
And never looked behind him;
While Love, at home, was sad and sore
And longed for merry Youth once more
Alas. she could not find him!
But Youth had not been walking long
Before he hushed his merry song
His heart was full of sorrow.
He found it hard to stay away
From Love, if only for a day
He came back on the morrow.
For Love and Youth apart would die
Like flowers without dew or sky
They'd fade if they would severl
AS long as there is tide and time
In every land, in every cline,
Youth and Love will be together.
Philadelphia Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
thirty Years AGO.

Forty persons were drowned by the
sinking of the packet Empire at New
Orleans.
The government Of Saxony forbade
the practice of cremation.
Gladstone and Archbishop Manning
were engaged in spirited exchange of
press interviews on the relative de
nland Of church aud state on a Roman
Catholic.
England was thrown into state OF
excitement by the reported death of
Queen Victoria in Balmoral castle
st. Petersburg newspapers announc-
ed that the government had deter
mined to Introduce system OF COM
pulsory education.
Lieutenant Governor V. Y Smith
proclaimed, himself the lawful Cover
nor Of Arkansas instead of Governor
Garland, elected under the new consti-
tuition, and appealed to the President
to sustain him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29

1t was not until the Carbohydrates
war, writes Joseph Strong, that eau
casians began to suspect that the lit
tie brown men or tne Mikado's empire
We're not like other orieatals; that they
were quick-witted, alive to the main
chance and willing to do. Notwith-
standing the object lesson taught the
nations by this wonderfully illuminat-
ing campaign. they were only aroused
and not fully wakened The western
world soon relapsed into its former
apathy concerning Japan's eff1ores-
cence. Japan in the meantime contin-
ued to unfold silently; SO unostenta-
tiously, indeed, that Russia, who most
Ce all had reason to observe, was
lulled into fatal lethargy.
1t is interesting to turn back to the
opening of the present war and re-
view the opinions of those who ex-
pressed themselves as to the probable
outcome of the quarrel Those opin-
ions were the best judgment of the
military experts of all nations, but
time has discredited them. Some Of
them admitted the naval superiority of
Japan and predicted temporary sue
cess for the audacious islanders. Not
one of tsem professed to believe that
the lsId forces Of the Mikado would
prc'fe formidable to thc Cars well
trained and highly disciplined troops.
The whole world shuddered at the in
evitable disaster which awaited the
little brown men at their first contact
with the Cossacks of the Don. Those
Cossacks of the Don; Less than a
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
STRANGE HATS OF The EAsr
Same for Marriage and Same fer
Burial


It is not an uncommon thing to
meet fasteners in London streets
wearing their national head-dress.
They are oftentimes dressed in Eu-
ropean mode with the sole exception
of their has. The latter anomaly
is the outcome of struggle between
the eastern and western modes. The
west has not yet succeeded in her
work against the hat The hat exer-
cises such far-reaching influence
IN Asia.ic life that its position is not
easily assailed. A mans hat is in
vested in the nearer east with dig
nifty which has no parallel in the west.
II is his lifelong companion, says the
London Taller. He wears it not only
in~the stree. but also at his Preside
and in his shop while working. The
Mohammedans go so far as to keep
their hats on while in their mosques.
Persons who are lacking in courage
and moral strength are reproached as
mot being worthy to put on man.
hat because they will bring disgrace
to IT." and are advised ito put on in
stead their wives shawls."
When a man has been staying away
from his town over long and his par
ents wish to bring him home they Sc
cure his hat and then proceed TO get
a maiden and make all arrangements
for the wedding. The priest carries
out the marriage ceremony on the girl
and the hat, and one beautiful day the
distant traveller learns that he is now
a married man, and as it is disgrace
full in the Asiatic's eyes to leave ones
family in the care of others he hast
ems home.
In many countries OF the east 'wo-
men must weep" There are towns
almost without man Prosecutions,
heavy taxes, and debts of landowners
compel them to emigrate always,
however, with the cherished hope of
earning enough money to return to
their families; but, unfortunately,
some of them die in exile far away
from the paternal roof, and then the
hats of these unfortunate victims of
,.-..stalsc--, ---..-' s. arc sent back
to their families. They put it in the
coffin, the ordinary funeral ceremony
is held, and the hat is buried in the
family cemetery.
In the cemeteries of the Caucasus
and surrounding countries you come
across tombstones bearing the follow
ing inscription: Here is buried the
hat of --, was born N Is, died
10, in foreign land. All who
read this please pray for his soul"
The most important of Asiatic hats
are the following: The turban, which
is a piece of long white linen eneir-
cled round the head, and is used in
India and in Persia, in the latter only
by the priests. No Christian inhabi-
tants of those countries wear the tur-
ban. In Turkey, however, the red
fez is worn by both Christians and
Mohammedans. Fur or ramskin is
the principle article of construction
in the hats. They are worn in the
Caucasus and in some parts of Persia,
and are very heavy and never wear
out. 1t must be understood that the
customs related here are preserved by
the older generations only. The new
generation is in every way copying
the manners of western civilization
and shedding the ancient dress.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
forty Years Ago.

A school census made by the CON
troller placed the population of Chi
cago at 169,353.
Sheridan sent an army through
Front Royal in the Shenandoah Val
ley, capturing many prisoners, guns
and horses.
Chicago was the hiding place of hun
dreds of men who had fled from their
homes to avoid the draft, and many
army officials were searching for them.
Three bounty Jumpers, arrested and
convicted of deserton in Chicago and
st. Paul, were sentenced TO be shot
at Fort Smelling MINI.
Reports circulated throughout the
North that the movement of Sherman
through Georgia toward Charleston
was intended to give Georgia and
South Carolina an occasion, desired by
them, to secede from the Confederacy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
One Hundred Years Ago.

James Monroe was appointed min
lister to Spain.
The French governor of Guadalupe
forbade the shipping of newspapers to
the colony.
Owing to long dry season the
coffee crop of Mexico was a complete
failure
Three hundred slaves were employ
ed at the shipyards' at Antwerp, Ger
many.
As the south wing of the capitol at
Washington was not completed, the
members of the House of Representa-
tives met in the library of the build
ing.
All talk of war between England
and Spain had ceased, notwithstand-
ing the capture of the treasure frig-
ates, for which no reparation had been
made.
The Hibernia, at that time the larg-
est man-of-war ever. built in England,
was launched at Plymouth.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
AN oLpTIME ORDER.
Guides Excluded from Treasury Since
Treasurer Spinner's Time.

Treasurer SPinner's Time.
A recent dispatch stated that United
States T. easurer Ellis H. Roberts had
issued an order prohibiting the profes-
sional guides from plying their voca-
ton in his portion of the Treasury
Building. This dispatch also stated
that "the men who steer visitors
about the capitol are in state OF
high dudgeon over the order, and as
sert that the colored messengers OF
the department are to blame"
One of the city guides is reported
to have complained that the messen-
gers want to make the tips them.
selves" and to have added, "our bust
ness was just about ruined by all
these big automobiles before the or
der was issued. i guess, now, well
all be driven out of the trade"
AS a matter of fact, there has been
such an order in force at the Treas
ury Department for many years, long
before Mr.. Roberts ever dreamed, per-
haps, of being made Treasurer. The
order prohibited guides from showing
visitors through any part of the
Treasury Building, with special refer
ence to the section presided over by
the Treasurer, in which is stored mil
lions of money and government Sc
curities. 1t is said this order was
issued at the request of Treasurer
Spinner and has been in effect ever
since.
The guides are allowed to escort
their patrons into the TNeasury Build
ing as far as the Office of the captain
of the watch There they are turneT
over to an employee of the depart
ment, wh3 conducts them through the
big building and into the money
vaults, if the necessary permission is
secured from the Treasurers office.
The tour of the building having been
completed, the visitors are returned
to the waiting guides. who proceed
with them to other points of interest
about the city.
The Treasury is not the only gov
eminent department which prohibits
professional guides from conducting
visitors through the buildings. SINH
lar orders are in effect at the National
Museum and other places. At the
museum the guides are required to
wait at the main door until their pa
irons have found their way through
the building as best they can.
The guides have several times dis
cussed the adyisability of trying 10
have these prohibitive orders rescind.
ed They say with the seeing Wash
ington'' cars and vehicles and certain
grating" hackmen, who seek the
patronage of strangers. the business
of guiding has become "a precarious
proposition"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29

i've and simple profoundly touching Perhaps there
is something bracing and sustaining atmosphere
of the place. with its reminder that death and
pain the lot to be borne with forttude that
each may help the other at the place. accord
Ing to general testimony of and happiness and
spite of pain and DEATH feel the presence the Gyer
of Life
for themselves quail and coward the thought Of the
death of Others. The slaughter of aecon-that is or
seems to be- the great tragedy decays may
operate more powerfully than any fear that the individual
entertains himself Faith this terror
To think of death of passing
erto think thus for oneself for Others is have
peace at last.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
twenty Years Ago.

The French forces captured and oc-
cupied Tamsui, China.
The official canvass of New York
state was completed. assuring the
election of Cleveland as President.
A treaty Of commerce between the
United States and the Spanish West
Indies was concluded with Spain.
The tribunal IN Paris proclaimed the
absolute divorce Of Nine. Patti from
the Marquis de Caux.
The third plenary council Of the
Roman Catholic Church was In session
at Baltimore Nd.
At Paris committee Of the Cham
Der of Deputies recommended the
abolition Of life senatOrships.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
Mary and the Hero.
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c. HERE was no question as to
hero OF the Huntville cadets
= annual ball. Maurice Haworth,
lieutenant in the United States army,
stationed at West Point and detailed
to inspect the Huntyille military
school, looked the part and played it,
too.
II Lieutenant Haworth were the
hero. Mary Morris was at least the
belle of the ball. She had always
been the most popular girl in the
town
she was sympathetic, jolly, intelli-
gent, generous and very sure of her
self, whether discussing the cost of
the gown she was graduated in. the
ten commandments or the conduct of
love affairs. she gave definite, assured
and Interchangeable opinions.
Mary. coming to the ball rather late,
was Immediately surrounded by a
clamoring group of very young ca
diets and very old bachelors, men who
had gathered around generations of
Huntville girls.
From this masculine ambush. she
eyed the lieutenant making himself
agreeable on the other side of the
room. His appearance impressed her
jim fact, impressed her very deeply.
"Haworth wants TO meet you" said
her stout. unimaginative brother;
.shan bring him over?"
us he as good as he looks ques-
toned Mary.
.sFsrst rate" returned Jim. II met
him at the school. last night" Then
added with grin. "Qulte the sort
you're always talking about-a girls
ideal.
Under the influence OF moments
rash conviction. Mary whispered:
Jim. believe you're right. / have
a feeling I'll meet my fate when
meet him"
Even as she spoke the words she
wished them unsaid, for Jim's eyes
twinkled wicke~Ay.
However. when the lieutenant stood
before her. tall. broad-shouldered,
brown-eyed; when she found his bow,
his smile. his voice exactiy What tney
should be. she realized she had met
the man of her dreams and promptly
forgot her rash confidence TO her
brother.
He begged for all the dances she
had left She hesitated. knowing that
every girl in the room would count
them and hate her. Then he looked
into her eyes and she let him write
his name four times.
How you can dance he exclaim
ell, after their first turn.
1T takes two To make poetry OF
motion" she replied.
why don't you and your brothei
come up TO one or our ballsf l al
ways go. in spite of being an old
stsger."
"Sing1lariy well preserved for az
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
Fifty Years Ago.

The American Ship Herald was fired
on by a British man-of-war
The Canadian legislature voted
100000 toward the British patriotic
fund.
New Granada prohibited the expor-
tation of guano.
The city of Boston adopted new
charter.
A telegraph line was opened be-
tween Paris and Bastia.
Eighteen British and twelve French
ships were lost on the Black Sea.
The mosque Of the Sultan was
blown down by the storm which
wrecked many other buildings in Con
stantinoble
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
HOW QUAcks Perform eMlRAcLEs."
by r. P. o'connor.


Quacks have twoA advantages over regular
J ] !: !. !
/ Mpractitioners In the first place. all the quack's
4 III successes trumpeted abroad by his grateful
J. III Ipatens while of his failures the world hears
H nothing, since likes confess the Stiffness
4 II of having had "a charlatan. Few
A u events in history are well attested as the
\ IN miracles wrought upon the tombstone of Deacon
- Francois de Paris in the churchyard of st. Me-
dard aud yet they derded by the Jesuit because
they Jansenist Miracles by the Protesants
they Catholic miracles; by the DOCTORS they
were quackery and by the scientific because they
assumed to be supernatural. Yet medical and
of science Protestant Catholic and Jesuit would and
all have admitted the evidente of the
ling of these miracles to he overwhelming If their creed
calling training had prejudiced them against
evidence The tombstone only cured neurocs but In
sped the convusionares that stood lay upon with
supernatural eoquence or knowledge, endurance
Imagination quite effective 70 kill as to cure Two
physicians walking together in the outskirts OF Ednburg
stopped experiment upon laborer The senior doctor
thus addressed him: my good man, you've business
to be work. to be out be anywhere but bed
Allow me to examine you" Having looked at his tongue
felt his pulse and sounded with sethoscope his lungs
the doctor shook his head ominousy
to go home and to bed forthwith The man. who
perfect health, went home and to bed-from which he
never rose. He dead within week
The fear Of death is be dreaded than death
ITSELF" of the wise maxms Pubus Syrus; or as
Isabella puts it, he OF death is apprehen
SION Only the other day George Meredith said ta. doc
and parsons fostered artificial fear death;
this also the opinion of Montague Bacon and Jeremy
Taylor. Here too, imagination plays great part
times in fastening and always in msrepresentng death
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
AN Oh SAYING FALslFlED.
lightning Struck Washington Monu
meut Thrice in a Year.

lightning Struck Washington Monu-
ment Thrice in Year.
According to Colonel G. S. Brom-
well, superintendent Of public build
ings and grounds, the Washington
monument was struck by lightning
three times during the last year. First.
on Sunday, July IA, 1908. No damage
was done to the monument but the
lightning entered the motor-room from
the shaft, burning the insulation from
the telephone wires. jumped to the
switchboard, burned out the under
load coil for the l. I. e. circuit-break-
er and relay coil, thereby stopping the
running of the elevator until the relay
coil was rewound
On the morning OF Wednesday,
April 81, 1904, the shaft was again
struck The bolt entered at the top,
burned out the telephone there, thence
passed down the iron columns to the
lower floor through the shaft alley to
the motor-room, where it burned out
relay coil on the switchboard;
thence along the electric cable to the
dynamo-room in the power-house,
where it entered the ground.
Lightning arresters were at once
placed in the motor-room at the monu-
ment to protect the switchboard and
machinery there. and to protect the
machinery in tie pit, and on the bot
tom floor Of the shaft one-half inch
copper cable was connected with Nthe
bottom of one of the iron columns in
the drum pit and grounded to the
water pipe in the motor-room. To
protect the switchboard of the gener-
ating plant in the power-house a No.
copper wire was grounded to the
water pipe in the lower engine-room,
and when the plant is not in opera
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
Seventy-five Years Ago.

Spain ordered 5000 stands of arms
to equip her soldiers who were going
to Mexico.
Political riots occurred in London.
President Guerrero of Mexico relin-
pushed the extraordinary powers
granted to him by Congress on account
of rhe Spanish invasion. }
The City Council of Washington
passed n law prohibiting gambling.
The Siamese twins were exhibited
in London.
Troops of Monterey revolted against
the governor of California, with n
view to give all offices to Californians.
Sam Patch killed himself by jump
ing the Genesee Falls st Rochester,
n. Y.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
Cuhic Feat

The poet has long been the mark OF
the hunorist. Some modern poetry de-
serves the shafts of satire, like this
one. which the Princeton Tiger hurts
al it:
Meter" explained the teacher.
"means measure. thus q sas-meter
measures gas. Can any one tell me
what neter in poetry measures|
Then a bright boy answered, Hot
air"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29

The Secretary Of the Treasury Is
sued a cell for bids for SJc.O0o0O0 .
per cent bonds.
oklahoma was swept By a sand
storm, which prevailed for four days
and did much damage.
Frank G. Ives, at New York, defeat
ed Jacob Schaefer at bilIlards-con
Riordan, sparring partner Of Bob Fitz-
simmons, died from a blow from the
pugilist at Syracuse. \. Y.
Lexington, Ky. had sensation an
The marriage Of CassIus NJ Clay, octo-
genarian. and the 14-year-old Dora.
President Cleveland, through secre-
tary Greshsm. extended to japan and
China an offer Of his services in bring
Ing about peace.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29

See here" exclaimed the city edit
or. "Sou speak Of the bride as being
led TO the altar
.well:' replied the new reporter.
well. that's nonsense. There never
was a bride who couldn't ind her way
there. no matter what the obstacles
might e.''-PhiIadelphia Ledger.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29

from the under sde and the completed part pushes
the surface Eventually these parts
together unite and fill in the intervening spaces forming
the top, o- grinding surface of the TOOTH 4
Now, the influences that decay Of teeth
microorganisms, bacteria and the mouth much
may abhor the idea is hotbed for their culture and
opment They there IN endless variety; good
some bad, and possibly Indifferent The air we
breathe is full OF them and somethe good ones doubt
ARE essential TO our health
If comprehend the will understand that
he does not attack tooth singly collectively,
They however feel and thrive and multiply enormously
teeth despite or doing they give an
acid that has corrosive action upon tooth structure; and
also glutnous substance that and them
to certain extent against their enemies the saliva
that might in the right condition render acid
This glutlnous patch, plague forms anywhere
TOOTH especially readily
kept free by the action Of tongue and lips and the
teeth masticating If dislodged
by the brus not rendered inert by other conditions
of the mouth corroson Of the tooth substance begins
Once begun films of food will attach themselves more
readily The pits and assures referred exceedingly
favorable places for food accumulation and them
the places where with
Once acavty Is formed fills with food and the conse
quent multiplicity of microbes.
Personal efforts will do much keep the teeth free
injurious agencies but is futile deep
pits and When decay has started 1t is
mistake neglect It. Decaying teeth in time may
only be put in good repair and saved but menace
to their fellows Is removed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29

were easily moved about and did not
even require ponies to transport them.
Two man. with a section strung upon
a pole. could carry it without great
fatigue.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
Safe

"Your pa and ma are going to take
you TO Europe with them, aren't
they?' asked the caller.
"Yes'm." replied the little boy.
"And aren't you afraid?'
''No'm; l amt afraid o. nothin'. I'm
been vaccinated. Phiiadelphia
Ledger.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29
Why TEETH DECAY.


Nature made teeth perfect in the beginning,
and no doubt they were intended to serve full
lifetime. Relatively few people have any idea
how a tooth is developed. From the germ deep
in the jaw bit of enamel begins to form. If 1t
is to be a grinding tooth from two to five bits
begin to form separately. or one for every cone
shaped prominence the completed tooth will have
The building I'D and broadening ont of thesA