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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
THE YEAR IN BUSINESS.
Past Twelve Months Has Seen Lean ana
Fat Period in Finance.

Fat Period in Finance.
The year 1904 has been lean and a
fat period in finance The first six
months Were a continuance of the depres-
sion which began in 1908; the last six
have been marked by decided advance
in the securities market, by the quicken
lug of many of the larger industries of
the country. notably the iron and rail-
way industries, while an enormous crop,
whose value is the greatest ever known,
has brought substantial prosperity to the
farmer
The year 1904 has been peculiar in
several respects. 1t has upset the popu-
lar theory that a presidential year must
be an off year" in business. The year
1904 has also seen the marketing OF
bumper crop with scarcely any stiffen-
ing of the money rate. Throughout the
faH months the interest rate was the
lowest it has been for several years. At
the same time the exports of gold have
been larger than the imports by 26OOU,-
600. The total foreign trade of the year
will be about the same as that of 1908.
Exports will show a small decrease and
imports slight increase.
The year 1908 was one of compare
lively steady decline in the securities
market. This was the result of the nat
ural reaction following a period of in
tense speculative activity and much in
tiation of capital. The country was glut-
ted with stocks and bonds. There were
strikes in the iron and steel industries,
and the iron output fell from 1878, DDS
tons in June to S46,605 in December.
The railroads found it difficult TO float
new bond issues: the first Northern Sc
curities decision was dsquieting and the
disclosures of the high handed methods
OF the shipbuilding trust produced a feel
ing that frenzied finance was being car
ried altogether too far New enterprises
requiring large amounts of money were
postponed.
In May of 1904 the stock market
reached low ebb in the matter of prices
Steel common sold at SIS; preferred at
ola4. There was a slight upward trend
in prices in June, but the volume of bust
ness on the exchange grew even smaller.
In July, however, the prospect of large
crops frightened the financial outlook.
The strike in the packing industry and
in the cotton mills at Fall River had
no appreciable effect on the speculate e
revival.
In August steel prices rose and rail
road earnings began to increase over the
corresponding period of 1903. Increas-
ing freight traffic required the companies
to order thousands of new cars The
blast furnaces began to work harder. The
increase in their output between July and
November was from 1,106,297 to ,4S0,-
COZ tons.
The latter months of the year have
seen no labor disturbances of any con-
sequence. Prices have been tending up-
ward. New enterprises are under way.
And while speculative activity may have
outrun the general prosperity of the coun-
try, it is looked upon as evidence of the
confidence in financial centers that the
period OF decline is past and that gen
uine revival of industry is actually in
| progress.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

Just how to make the baby eat is
often more puzzling question than
what to give it or when to feed it.
Very little children, especially those
that have an early morning bottle, are
rarely willing to swallow anything
solid at breakfast time. This is, OF all
meals, the one that gives anxious
mothers the most trouble, yet there
are some children who have so small
an appetite that their aversion to food
lasts throughout the day. All kinds
OF plans have been adopted by mothers
to suit the particular child with whom
each has had to deal. Playing upon
the ina giEation sometimes succeeds:
again the spirit of emulation is
aroused, or it may be that the child's
attention Is so intensely attracted TO
something else that it eats mechanical
" without realizing what il is doing.
Simple brides or rewards are often eff
fectiye, but the moral influence OF
these Is questionable. This method,
however, is better to use than that
adopted by maiden aunt who fed the
boy In her charge scent bag of gum
drops daily before he could be induced
to take his egg.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Concerning Clothes.


Both little checks and big plaids are
good.
Swansdown makes becoming neck
finish.
Small velvet collars reappear on
coats.
The finest waists are noticeably
simple.
The cooked tri-corner nat is jaun-
ty favorite.
Buttons may be the most costly fea-
ture of costume.
The newest sleeves have the full
ness above the elbow only.
Lace bodices, white and ecru, are to
be quite the thing for fall and winter.
The fat stoles IRE no more. The
fluffy ruehe of black and white tulle
is again in favor.
The all foliage hats, with roses and
soft ribbon bows, will be in favor for
the winter dressy hats.
Checked voiles and Examines are be-
ing introduced for the fall house
gowns. The checks are tiny.
To-day we have skirts smooth over
the hips, and with inset or onset plaits
below, and skirts tucked or plated
over the hips and with deep fiounces
or plaits below; but we have few Of
the skirts with plaits all around.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
About the Man.


He loves his wife better the more he
waits upon her.
He appreciates his wife more If she
sometimes fails to meet him at the
door.
He is most gracious to his wife's
friends when she makes his friends
hers.
He drives tacks into the carpet twice
as willingly if she stands by and hands
him the lacks.
He is most devoted to the wife who
thinks she is as good as he is and
makes him believe it.
He does the mans work about the
house more willingly if he thinks he is
merely helping his wife to do her
work.
He is most doclle when most fatter-
ed and most fiattered by being credited
with virtues which he does not pos
sess.
He likes best to do something kind
for his wife Immediately after she has
praised him for being an unusually
good husband.
He is always little better than he
might be as long as he thinks that his
wife believes that he is a great deal
better than he is.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
THIS TEMPLE TO Sc PRESERVED
Fraternity Building at St. Louis to Be

Fraternity Building az st. Louis to Be-
come Consum ptives' Sanitarium.
The Temple of Fraternity at the
worlds fair, erected at cost of So. 900.
is to be torn down, Grated and shipped
to New Mexico, where it viii be re-erect-
ed as the largest sanitarium for con
sumptiyes in the world Its hest term
of usefulness has just begun after stand
ing seven months at the exposition as the
club house of the thousands of fraterual
society members who have visited ST.
Louis during the summer from every
State in the Union.
The immense project will be financed
by the National Fraternal Sanitarium
for Consumptives Association, a Missouri
organization, IN which some OF the prin-
cipal men in the State are Interested
The total cost of transferring the temple
is estimated at $50, zoo, exclusive of the
land on which it will stand
A request for the building has been
made to the fraternal orders of America,
which erected the temple jointly, by the
board of directors of the National Fra
ternal Sanitarium, composed of thirteen
prominent Missourians, including Mayor
Rolla Wells of St. Louis and fifteen fra
ternal associations have already answer
ed favorably.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

up on the right side instead Of the
left, as always heretofore.
Exquisitely lovely are the pale green
art nouveau combs with jeweled floral
tops.
The blouse with strapped front and
a long silk scarf pulled through is pop
ular.
Hats of moss, with clusters OF red
berries tucked in the green, arr a love
~ novelty.
Velvet blouses, both simple and elab-
crate, are to be taken into considera-
ton this year.
Gold and silver touches here and
there act as high lights to most of the
evening gowns.
A blouse that is different is of
black taffeta with tucked chemisette
OF white muslin.
There are brown blouses so alluring
that one wants to buy a brown suit
just to match them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

The Empress of Russia spends no
less than $4,000 year on scents,
soaps and toilet waters, which she OBJ
tains exclusively from Paris.
In recent competition. set by
girls paper in England, as to the most
popular heroine in modern history,
10000 votes out Of 100000 were given
for Miss Nightingale.
A perfume which the wife of a Chi
cago millionaire has had distilled from
:. species of water lily is said to be
worth $125 drop. 1t takes thousands
OF blossoms to dli a small vial with
the essence.
The German Empress has a passion
for flowers, but has only recently
turned her attention to orchid grow
ing. She has now some valuable varie-
ties and her orchid houses in Berlin
are extensive.
Miss Annie S. Peck recently climbed
twenty-one thousand feet toward the
summit of Huascan mountain In Peru.
and has achieved the distinction Of
being one Of the worlds most success
full mountain climbers.
A. English writer tells of a pocr
woman OF London who wondered
why the Lord permitted her worth
less husband to live. Il suppose" she
said, 'the Lord has an idea that he'll
repent but / know better"
The life of Miss Dorothy Josephine
Lumley, Of Enham. near AndoveT, En-
gland, was saved by her hatpin. She
was struck behind the head by a re-
volver bullet while on lonely path,
but, thanks to the hatpin. the bullet
was detected from its course.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
CHAPTER XVII

Thoroughly wearied out, Helene had
sunk asleep on pile of straw in the hut
How long she slept and what woke her,
she knew not, but dim sounds as Of muf-
fled whispers in the immediate vicinity
of the hut, brought her a feeling OF inse-
curity, and she listened, without moving
on the straw, as il her heart were in her
eyes. At the same time she looked out
and saw that the white mist had risen
from the lowlands, and WINS lying outside
the hut and had partly flied it.
''She is quite asleep" said one voice.
which she recognized as Quayle's, in a
hoarse whisper. Now is the time. Go
and do it! Don't you remember Toulon !?
Don't you remember the galleys? Don't
you remember what we both suffered
Are you going TO let her escape this time.
now that we have got her in our hands?"
Helene thought her heart was standing
still as she listened. A cold perspiration
pearled on her forehead, and, in spite
of herself. she felt the color fade from
her cheeks and neck, and her whole
body growing chill.
'No.'' was Henri's reply. 81 not do
it. not do it."
''Well. then" was Quayle's nearly
Kissed retort. IF you are such coward
and such a eur. l will do it myself"
Helene had risen on one knee, with her
back to the wall. InYoluntarily her hand
wandered toward her satchel, and her re-
yolver was in her grip.
The most unexpected had happened
She had been prepared to meet dangers
such as surrounded any expedition like
the one she had undertaken. but to be
entrapped by a pair of dastardiy muir
derers, far away from all possible help.
made her shrink in haggard tremor. But
when the first thrill of horror was past,
her natural bravery asserted its sway
She bit her lip. and. revolver in hand.
determined to sell her life dearly.
Thus she waited. with her eyes afre.
and the moments seemed hours. On n
sudden she saw a head appear in the
doorway. a sharp-faced. bearded man.
whom she recognized as Qaaylc, was
crawling toward the hut. She could see
the profile stand out black against the
mist of the outer air. and without know
ing what she did. she raised her revolver
and fired. Quayle started up with
scream. and at the same moment another
dark figure. a burlier one. Henri. appear
ed behind Quayle, and gripping him by
the neck. swung him round and hurled
him TO the ground
Helene rushed TO the door, revolver in
hand The two men were rolling on the
ground, shouting and screaming, seeming
inextricably mixed up one with the 9TH
err. She could see that at last Henri
was on top of his opponent, holding him
down with all his might when q fash
shot up out of the confused mass of
limbs ant arms, and Henri gave a yell
and staggered away. At the same time
Quayle jumped up and fred again. while
Henri leaned against the corner of the
hut, and gripped the wooden walls with
all his might.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

In 1903 the gross income of the rail
roads of the United States was $1,90S,-
S57, S26.
The sixteenth annual convention of
the National Association Of the Railroad
Commissioners was held in Birmingham,
Ala.
The immense power house of the
New York Central now building on the
Hudson, near Glenwood, is rapidly APP
preaching completion.
The Lake Shore is reported as hav-
ing decided to abolish the pay cars as
the means of paying employees, and will
hereafter pay the men by checks.
The steel rail manufacturers of Eu-
rope and the United States have organ
lied gigantic combination for the CON
troll Of the markets of the world.
What is reported to have been a sue
cessful test Of an automatic train-stop-
sing device was made on the Niagara.
st. GATHERINGS and Toronto railway
The American Shippers Association
has filed an appeal with the Interstate
Commerce Commission against the en-
forcement of the proposed uniform bill
of lading.
The international Brotherhood of
Maintenance of Way Employees, at its
fifth biennial convention at St Louis,
has voted to abolish the strike benefit
fund. on the principle that workmen
should not be paid while ON strike
Railway pension funds in the United
States originated with the pension fea-
ture of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company, instituted Oct ], 1884.
participation in which is based on four
years membership in the company's re-
lief department, of which the pension
feature is an auxiliary.
A detailed statistical report Of the
Treasury Department Of Mexico, just
issued, shows the tonnage of freight In
railway cars received over the border
from the United States from July / to
Dec. /, 1908. to be 41J.567 tons. and
out Of Mexico into the United States
for the same period Of 1871 tons.
A circular issued by the Transconti-
mental Passenger Association giving the
results of the handling Of the tickets solo
in connection with the conventions of the
knights TempIar and Odd Fellows. az
san Francisco, shows that y 900 tickets
we're validated. representing n revenue
to the railroads Of at least 81. $50 600.
Every department Of the Maine Cen
trails earnings shows gains for tho ifs
cal year. 1904. total income from op-
Grafton amounting TO Sc, IA, 900 last year.
as against s6.541, 900 the year before.
Baltimore alone now handles half as
much grain as New York on the aver
age. and Philadelphia about one-thjrd
IS much, bnt both combined do not yet
equal New York as a grain port.
Control Of the Pan-American railroad.
hitherto vested in Nebraska capitalists.
is reported to have passed to new
syndicate. whseh includes a number of
well-known american railroad men.
among them being Howard Elliott, presh-
ident Of the Northern Pacific.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
About Indian Wires.

From the Missouri to the Big Horn
$500 squaw men testify that there is
10 wife like the Sioux woman, because
there is no mother-in-law like the
Sioux mother-in-law. This is why
many ranger argues that the Sioux
tribe will be assimilated by the whites.
Facts confirm this prediction, for re-
ports from the reservation are that
more than 800 Indian maidens became
the wives of whites in the last year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
rabs finish many a bodice back.

Tabs finish many bodice back.
Plush is much used in smart head
gear.
Soft fabrics prevail for afternoon
wear.
That Frenchy little velvet bow is
being overworked.
Warm colors reign supreme in the
complete wardrobe.
A curious red on the crushed straw
berry order is favored.
Hand embroidery on tucks is dainty
for the debutante's frock.
The tiniest fans are of peacock
feathers with tortoise-shell sticks.
Skirt flounces caught down at the
bottom in puff effect are new-old.
Every gown has its shoe or slipper
to match and the stocking follows suit.
1t is odd to note that many of the
new hats for fall and winter wear lift
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

be krown officially, although there
seer-s certain incongraity in the
tern. She is said to be alone In her
honors upon the high seas, but she
must share them OF ne examiners
books with a young estern woman.
who last year won license as master
and pilot on steam vessels on the Ohio
and Mississippi Rivers. Her task may
require less knowledge of navigation
than that OF the Philadelphia. but en-
tails as feat of memory an exact
knowledge of every berd. bar, snag,
landing, island, eddy, cutting bank.
and practically every other feature, at
all stages of water, in fifteen hundred
miles of constantly changing river.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
women In Counting Rooms.

Women are coming TO the front rap
idly as bookkeepers and accountants.
In 1890 over $4,000 filed these respon-
sible positions in commercial houses OF
the United States, and in 1900 their
number had increased TO nearly 1900
or over 100 per cent. The number of
men in the same business in 1890 was
131 600, and in 1900 it was 10000, an
increase OF only about so per cent
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
New Belts in Pretty Patterns.

Quite the prettiest things among
belts that have appeared for long
time are shown in the accompanying
illustrations. The first, an Oriental de-
sign, comes stamped in colors-after
the manner of the cushion tops so pop
ular just now-on a background Of lin
en- colored crash. This particular pat
dark and light blues, and is outlined in
black embroidery silk. The spider
webs are done in gold thread. Green
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
Women BARRIERS in India.

In India, where a mans trade is al
most always determinedsby that of his
father, the village BARRIERS form aclass
apart. They always marry in caste;
their wives, like themselves, are de-
scended from countless generations Of
BARRIERS. These women shave and cut
hair as skillfully as their husbands,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

$T5,000,000. He began life at Fairha-
ven, Mass. seyenty-four years ago, sold
papers, became a grocer's clerk, and
drifted to Pennsylvania, where he
struck OIL" He is credited by many
with the conception of Standard Oil.
-
Admiral Dewey's portrait. by w. ID.
Murphy of New York, has been hung in
Nermont's State capitol at Montpelier.
-
Benjamin Campbell, who has been
appointed fourth vice president of the
Great Northern, in charge of traffic,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

of Standard OIL"
is one of the fore
most financiers in
the country. He il
an executive vice
president of the
Standard Oil Com
pany, and controls
immense interests
in copper. insur-
ance and transpor-
tation corporations,
and is said to be
worth uopa than
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

fathers and brothers. Most customers
steer clear of them, however. The bar
bers' wives are most in request as
nurses and are useful In attending
sick children. The BARRIERS wife has
regular customers in all the Brahmin
widows of the village, who must have
their heads shaved twice month or
so, in token of their mourning.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

When palms have outgrown the or
binary pot, deep boxes will be found
very satisfactory for their further 5e-
velopment. Let them be about fifteen
inches square at the top, taperlag to
about ten inches at the bottop and
at Least twenty inches deep. Twenty
four would be better. In such boxes
the roots can run down, and that is
what the palm likes. They never
spread out very far. on all sides, If
given a chance to go down into the
coil
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

Slande-ous stories told Of three
young women in Brooklyn-three sis
ters-drove two OF them into the Flat
brsh Asylum for the Insane. and pros
trated the third 50 that she lies at the
point CT deeth-a nervous wreck. After
the gossipers had done their evil work
they were forced TO - nit that there
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

famous Llanthony
Abbey in Wales.
His name isl Joseph
LEICESTER Lyme.
and he was born
in London in 1887.
He was ordained a
priest of the En-
gllsh church in
1850, and speedily
began the attempt
of restoring mon
asticism. His re-
ligiOuS name is To-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

which claims a mil
lion circulation,
was born in Ar
kansas thirty yes -
ago. At IA he be-
came the devil Of
a country printing
Office. Two years
later he obtained
employment in the
composing room OF
the Dallas fTexJ
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

has the reputation
of being one of the
m o S t progressive
traffic men in the
West. He has ris-
en- to his present
position, which is
said to COMMAND o.
salary of $4,000,
from the tele-
graph desk. He
was born at Lib
erty. Ind. in 1853
- s...s.,I a. - ,..tn
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includes legalized
pooling, q court of
i II t e r state COM
merce and the
abolition of the
private freight car
and side track. was
appointed as Secre-
tary of the Navy
last June. As vice
president and traf-
fic manager of the
Santa Fe, a posi-
ti0D which no held
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

TO call him a liar
and a charlatan, is
a noted mine own
er and cattle mag
nate, He is at the
head Of the Greene
Consolidated Cop
per Company and
is part owner of
the Turkey Track
Cattle Company.
Mr.. Greene was
born in New York
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

A young woman of Philadelphia has
successfully passed the examination
prescribed by Congress. and has been
granted a license as master OF steam
vessels On all seas. Master" she win
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
silk forms the lining of the belt, which

~ AAA'oAS0 N4tA a. pOAAAS ob wv ShN'
The other belt is of heavy white
linen. The design, tinted in light blue,
and outlined with double row of
heavy white luster cotton, is especially
pretty, having the effect of Roman en-
broidery, or cut-work The dots are
raised and worked solid. The belt is
lined in light blue China silk.
Collar and cuff bands come in de-
signs to match the belts and the whole
makes very attractive set to wear
with shirt waist suit.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

IL n $ Herald. HIGH K. TAYLOR.
where be rose 10 the position Of man
aging editor.
L. r. Loree. former president Of the
Rock Island system, proposcs 70 go
abroad In Russia he will be the guest
Of Prince IIiilsoa, head Of tie railroads.
Of the Cars kingdom
There IS 2 windmill built in 1902 on
the farm al Etc.singham. England. where
Rudyard KiplinS now lives.
-
Morris Fitch Q weI-kaown abolition
list and friend Of Wendell Phillips. IS
dead.
.-;-
Thomas J. Hurses. for six years Mayor
of Seattle. Is dad n Alaska.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
no Sharon scissors.

Take a small glass bottle and gently
initiate cutting on its neck, turning
the scissors first to the right side, then
to the left. Tighten rivet with the
screw driver
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03
when sweening a Room.

When brushing carpet sweep to-
ward the fireplace; otherwise tina
draft from the chimney draws tho
dust In that direction. and so scat
terra It all over the room.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-03

natius of Jesus, and his followers wear
the old English Benedictine dress, and
in their services use the Sarum Missal
of the Ante-Reformation Church. In
1S90-91 Father Ignatius made mis-
sionary tour Of America Six years
ago he was ordained priest OF Liam
thony Abbey by Archbishop Mar limo
theus of the Syrian Church.
-
William Cornell Greene, who, it is
claimed, asserted he would invade
Thomas w. Layson's Office in Boston