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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18

w - -. - AANN' Oh It's CONSTITUTION.
Moreover. the court decides it has
the right to go behind the motive of
the Legislature and that the establish
mept of branch penitentiary at
which oil is to be refined by convicts
is clearly a subterfuge.
Attention is called to Gov. Hoch's
message signing the bin providing for
the refinery, in which the refinery
is referred to exclusively as such, and
no reference is made to establishing
a penitentiary.
Gov Hoch, advised of The decision,
expressed disappointment. The Gov
ernor would make no statement as to
calling a special session to take steps
carrying the project through in some
other way.
The decision took the form of re-
fusing to order State Treasurer Kelley
and Penitentiary Warden Jewett to
sign the proposed issue of bonds for
$4,000
Kansas is sorry that it ever spoke so
harshly about Standard Oil, q CORE
spondent declares, and it is said that if
Mr. Rockefeller would intimate a desire
to kiss and make up that State refinery
would not be built. A year ago the best
grade of Kansas oil brought $1.31 bar
eel. Now it costs 81 cents and is going
Ower. \ year ago fuel oil was easily
disposed of at 50 cents Il barrel. Now
1t is pretty much of drug at IL cents
Low grade oils nrn JDwc To 81 cents,
about % cents below the price of a yeal
ago The prospects are that the price
will drop still further. With prices drop
ping steadily the business of drilling new
wells has almost stopped. The promoters
have folded NJ their tents and left.
Kansas oil is being Disseminated
against by the Standard. whose favors
are now bestowed on the Indian Terri
tory. The weekly average run out of
this district has been a tank for each
of the properties. but the Standards
! gaugers have developed sudden and mys-
! ferrous ailments AID are unable to work
half the time. Over in the Territory the
| Standard is increasing tankage capacity
and doubling daily runs.
| The stagnation has made thousands of
men idle Field workers, gaugers, clerks
and bookkeepers are drug upon the
| for other points. Many Of these men
are in bad shape financially. They were
caught in the oil excitement of a year
| ago, and most of their savings have gone
into oil stocks. 1t was fror' the holders
| Of oil stock that all of the legislative
| agitation of last winter really came.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18

Of never-ceasing sunshine-every hour
in the twenty-four. Think of the cura-
tive properties stored in a continuous
sun bath of fourteen weeks! For it is
into such polar day that the Havana
will sail with her crew and thirty can
dldates for the polar cure.
THE PLAN" said DR.. Sohon, recently,
in speaking of the expedition, has been
a dream of mine for many years, and
through the aid of a number of gener
Gus men, it will now be put into opera
ton. 1t is the sequel to my own expert
ence in the polar regions. l accompan-
led Commander Peary in 1897, and was,
at the time, slightly affected by tubercu-
losis myself. | improved so rapidly,
despite the hardships of the journey, and
was so vastly benefited that l was struck
with wonder at what the Arctic regions
could do for persons so affected. That
to repeat, was during the 1897 expedi-
ton.
"Eive years afterward, on accompany
ing the Peary relief expedition, l made
an exhaustive study OF the subject of the
curative properties of the far north for
consumption. In order to bring the read
er to a better realizat ton of this vast and
vital scourge, it may be said that tuber-
Gle bacilli do not necessarily lead to hope
less extremes, but it is the resulting
mixed infection with pyogenic organisms
which occasions danger. The indications
are to have an environment free from all
sources of dangerous extra infection and
to secure such other conditions as to en-
courage a restoration of vitality and Wig
or by which the disease is stihed, so to
say.
These conditions can be met in perfec-
ton in some of the Greenland fjords
The suggestion of their adaptability to
this purpose has nothing strange or ex-
detrimental for its foundation. 1t pro-
poses something easily obtainable and
better than we have at present-the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
PORTABLE FIRE SHIELD.

does not takeup as much room as
hook and ladder, and is drawn to the
scene by horses, who are Immediately
detached and taken out of harms way.
The truck is then wheeled in front of
the burning building and the shield
raised by means of hand gear operated
by the tiremen, the general plan of ar
rangement being apparent from an in
spection of the accompanying cut.
Such portable shield would prevent
the spread of the flames to adjacent
property, and occasionally it might en-
able firemen to approach near enough
to building which was burning brisk
ly to effect a rescue of life or prop
erty which ordinarily would not be at
tempted because of the danger involved
from intense heat, but from which the
shield would screen the rescuing fire.
men
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
Dahts We're Too Much.

The life story of the late Col. Charles
]. Ellis of Marinette is revealed in she
letter he left addressed to his wife just
before he shot himself. Col. Ellis told
his family that he could not bear the
burden of debt incurred since his removal
as commandant of the Waupaca Soldiers
Home. He had a life policy of $4,000
and he instructed his wife to pay all his
debts, amounting to $1,000, from this and
to keep the rest for the family. The
soldiers reunion was just about to be
held there and he had no money to help
entertain his old comrades. This recalls
the statement made after the funeral by
former Gov. Ed}-arG Gcofeld that Col.
Ellis would still be alive and command
ant at Waupaca if he had not been so
thoroughly honest and conscientious.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
An Anecdote of GorIzr

Anecdotes of Maxim Gorky are on
the wing. Here is one they tell in
Paris. He went to the theater at Mos
cow one evening to see a play by a
popular writer. Instead of paying at
tention to the stage, the entire audi
ence rose and greeted Gorky with pro-
digious reclamation. Then he deliver
ed this address: What on earth are
you staring at me for? l am not
dancing girl. nor the Venus of Milo.
nor a drunkard, just picked out of the
river. l write stories; they have the
luck to please you, and | am glad of
it But that is no reason why you
should keep on staring. We have come
here to see a charming play. Be good
enough to attend to that, and leave
me alone" More delighted than ever,
the audience shouted with JOY. Per-
haps they thought they would get an
other speech, but Gorky jumped out of
his seat and left the theater in dis
gust.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
MnmMmmmmMmmmm@~a~~@@~&~@&
AN INHERITANCE.
>~~@~~~@~~~N~@G@%%@%@&~

0Y boy, have sent for you to
im make very important an
QUO nouncement. Since the Earl
of Ballincorne is dead, childless, you
are the rightful heir TO that earldom.
No. don't smile incredulously, thinking
your old grandmother to be wandering
or in her second childhood, but listen
to what I am about to tell you.
wish could make you understand
the difference in this early part of the
nineteenth century, when Mr.. Stephen
son has succeeded in drawing coaches
nv steam, and the middle of the eight
eeuth century, when coaching was in
ITS prime and we who rode had the
excitement of an occasional robbery.
The highwayman was not the brute
who now murders first and RODS after
1vasd but was often cnivalrOuS, eSpe-
ciaIlv to women. When l was a girl
of 90 travelled from London to
York with my father, and on the road
we met one of those gentlemen. We
were passing a lonely part Of the road
I'm the dusk of the evening, when we
heard an order to the coachman TO
stop. \ masked man rode up to the
coach window holding /, pistol in our
faces ard demanding our valua0 les,
His voice was soft and musical, and
his hand was white and shaDely, and
I noticed that the lace that fell over
1t WAS of the finest texture.
Nv father had but title money with
him. but he did. have a valuable snuff
box that had been presented him by
the king himself He told the high
wayman that if he would send it to
our house in York his messenger
should receive five times its value and
no questions asked The robber scarce
" seemed to hear him. so intent was
he upon me, not the wrinKled old wom-
an of to-day, but with as fair a skin,
as blue an eye, as golden head of
hair rs any girl in England.
Good sir" said the rooDer, II would
not take your snufbox but for the OPP
portunity it gives me 10 take ii to your
house myself, and if decline the price
YOU put upon it please set the fact
down TO the influence of the young
lady beside you. whose beauty and in
nocence prevent ray retaining any ar
ticle of yours. l have the honor, sir,
to bid you a very good evening"
Raising his hat with all the grace of
n courtier he turned away. directing
the coachman to drive on.
That v,ater was gay one in our
set in town, and after attending nu-
merous entertainments at the homes of
our friends we concluded to return the
civflities by giving masked ball. Our
house was lighted with thousand
candles, and the costumes of the
guests were of the richest and widest
variety One of the gentlemen person
ated highwayman, wearing a brace
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
THE WAY.

The pathway to the Land of Life
Passes the threshold of my door.
1t turns down yonder narrow street,
Hedged by the dwellings of the poor.
1t winds beside the house of woe,
Under lit panes where watchers wait,
Who strives too swiftly on that road
Reaches the end too late.
But he who pauses, turning back,
For deed of love- FIR word of cheer,
Faithful, unhasting, unafraid,
Nor wondering if the end be near
Lo! where the shadow blacklist falls,
While yet he seems midmost the strife,
Enters through the uplifted gates
Into the Land of Life.
independent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
NEWS OF WISCONSIN.
A WEEKS RECORD OF STATE
HAPPENINGS.
Seeks for Buried Treasure Near West
Denmark = Slew Himself on Account
of Debt Burden Jealous Husband
Shoots Farmland.

The neighborhood a few miles west
of West Denmark is severely wrought up
over the mysterious visit of a stranger
who claimed 10 be from Indiana. While
this was not the man 's~frst appearance
in this Badger community, his quest was
not known and generally talked about
till now. He went to the home of Henry
Shields, a farmer near West Denmark,
seeking board and lodging for a few
days and asking permission to dig Tor a
treasure which he asserted MAS lliddeh
near a vacant house on one of Mr.
Shields farms. To this house is attached
a legend in which hobgoblins and sprites
of various sorts play a prominent part.
The stranger pretended to be in close
communion with these unnatural beings.
After making peculiar signs and gestures
as though talking in blind language to
some unseen parsonage, the Hoosier he
gan digging with all his might The So
lent work went on half a day at a time
and hole after hole was dug within a
radius of few rods, but nothing reSem-
bling treasure was unearthed, and the In
dianian finally gave up the job in de-
Spair. One old settler of that section
has his own solution of the matter. AT
an early day" said he, "the neighbOrhOod
in which the haunted house is located
was inhabited by cutthroats and horse
thieves, and many say murders We're
committed there. The homes of these
outlaws were made the rendezvous of a
gang of thieves that made regular trips
from northern Iowa up into Minnesota
and northwestern Wisconsin. The dep
relations of this gang were notorious.
Several of them We're finally captured
and sentenced to long terms in the peni-
Tertiary This mysterious stranger, it
is my belief. is either acting for one
of these thiey IS. who must long ago
have been released from prison, or, in
spired by their stories, he is searching
for money which they stole and secreted
before they were captured"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18

of pistols in his belt. with an ugly
looking knife to match. He came up
to me and asked me to dance. The
moment he spoke l recognized the
man who had robbed us on the road
from London.
l permitted him to lead me in the
minute. He danced so gracefully, his
figure was so symmetrical, he was so
courtly in his manner that every one
noticed him. When the dance was
finished he led me away to a widow
where we stood partly screened behind
the curtains. Then he handed me my
fathers snuffbox.
How did you dare come here?" 1
asked.
Il would have dared anything to sec
you again, he replied.
go at once" l said. you will be
caught. Every one has noticed you"
Il would willingly hang for the
pleasure l have gained in one dance
with you"
Despite the danger he ran, we talked
together so continuously that we began
to excite attention. A strange happi-
mes thrilled me. This fascinating high
wayman had caught the fancy of a
young girl naturally full of romance,
and to know that he was risking his
life to be with me was supremacy de-
lightful. l feared for him, but could
not bear to let him go. Finally, saw
my father coming toward us with
flashing eyes. l knew by the way he
looked at my companion that he had
vanished in the crowd, slipped
through the garden. and my highway
man passed off the place in safety.
Later, when my father found me,
gave him the snuffboX. He sent out to
notify the police that the highwayman
was in town, but he was never caught.
One spring morning, | was sitting in
the garden in the rear of the house.
when above the wall l saw the head
of Il man. l was about to scream
when he spoke. 1 recognized the
voice of my highwavman lover. He
persuaded me to make an appointment
with him in a wood near the city, and
there we met on several occasions. He
confessed that he was the second son
of nObleman who had taken to the
road from a keen love of adventure.
He finally persuaded me ct one of our
meetings TO go with him TO d magis-
trate and be married. | never return
ed TO my home, but sailed TO France
with your grandfather.
Don't start. don't bend your head
Tor shame, at learning that you have
descended from-I will not say high
wayman-a nobleman whose love for
adventure bhghted his life and made
him an exile. My husband was be-
loved by all who knew him and wor-
SHIPPED by his wife and children. Even
in those youthful eScapades he never
benefited by shilling dishonesty, and
many a person whom he stopped on
the highway and found in need he
helped.
The Earl of BalhGcorne, his brother,
dying, the title and estates descended
to his only son, who died. childless,
yesterday His death leaves you the
next in line Here are the papers con
| firming you A. your Pittsburg
Press.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18

sble Morgan finally turned Mr. Baer and said what
do think about it? Mr.. Baer replied ." think it
be done"
Mr. Morgan looked at him moment and with a hearty
slap on the back exclaimed: You're my l
man who do things. At the meeting Baer made
good his promise, and aferward the thing
plished
As Baer had already made for himself and
was well known this incident perhaps weight
showing Mogans view of the subject and his prompt
way OF putting it in practice than proving the certainty
Of recognition and opportunity.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
High Postage Rates in italy.

The postage rates are becoming one
of the burning questions in Italy,
where they are the highest in Europe,
and the circulation of letters and post
cards, by consequence, the lowest. The
lowest postage for any letter is
cents, and for post card about 8
cents. This heavy rate has often been
made the subject of complaint, but
now something like an organized
movement for a reduction has been
set on foot. As chambers of COM
merce are taking the question up, it
is probable that something will have
to be done.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
ATHLETICS ARE RURTFuL.
At Least That Idea Seems to BE- Cain
ing Ground.

John Cranston, Harvard's former foot
ball coach and center Of the great team
which defeated Yale in 1890, IS Of the
opinion that the severe strain undergone
By college athletes units them 10 a great
extent for business or professional life.
because Of weakness induced by oyerex-
ection.
Il have had several serious spells of
sickness since leaving college, which
attribute to the great strain Of my ath-
letic training" says Cranston. ION the
whole, | cannot say that athletics have
benefited me any in my business career.
l sincerely believe that / would have
been better off in my life since college if
| had left athletics alone"
With the idea Of ascertaining the ac-
tual effect Of the long training and the
great efforts incident to contests, college
presidents are collecting statistics regard
ing the health Of famous athletes and
their accomplishments in the affairs Of
life.
These statistics viii not be ready for
official publication before next October.
but President Jones Of the University of
Illinois says that undoubtedly they will
cause much surprise to the men who de-
clare that the college athlete develops
into the vigorous man who does things.
Italy makes 100000 a year out OF
foreign visitors
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
Shot Down by Angry Husband.

In fit of anger and jealousy. it is al
legged, James Smith, well-to-dO farmer
a few miles from Unity shot and fatally
wounded Roy Loney. 1t is declared that
Loney, who is a farm hand employed by
Smith. was guilty of paying too much
attention to Mrs. Smith. 1t is not believ-
ed that the victim can survive. but if he
does, it will be due to Smiths care in
calling physician before giving himself
up to the authorities. There has been
bad feeling between the two for some
time, it is believed, though neither of
the men showed it, Loney was employed
on the Smith farm for several years an.
is we'll known in that vicinity.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
Eleven Log Drivers Drowned.

Eleven log drivers were drowned in
Chippewa river at Little Falls dam hy
the swapping of boat. The dead:
Oscar Barquest. Cadott; Max Billiard,
Flambeau; Saul Bracket, Eau Claire
Byron Ferguson, Chippewa City; Louis
Gokey; Andrew Goneyl, Jim Falls; Ole
Horn, Chippewa Falls; Bert Larry, An
son; Pattock Lepden, Stanley; Joseph
Polequin. Drywood; Adolph Toutant, Ca
dott. Five others who were in the cap
sized boat reached shore
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
Cellar Deaths a Mystery.

Mrs. Elmer Burtness, aged 80, and
Della Burtness, her sister-in-Iaw. aged
y, We're found dead in the cellar of the
Burtness home at Orfordville, when Mr..
Burtness returned from work. Death is
supposed to have resulted from cellar
damp. While the coroner's jury returned
verdict of accidental death, considera-
BILE mystery attaches to the affair, and a
further investigation will be made.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
A BOY IN A FARM.
BY Charles Dudley Warner.

- Say what you will about the general useful
I Mness of boys, it is my impression that a farm
M without boy would very soon to grief.
III What boy does is the life of the farm. He
l B lis the factotumy always in demand, and always
! lexpected to do the thousand and things that
l. Il nobody else will do. Upon him falls the odds
IN land ends, the most difficult things. After every
go ibody else is through, he is to finish up bis
work is like woman's-perpetuslly waiting on others
Everybody knows how much it is to cook good
dinner than to wash the dishes afterwards Consider what
boy on farm is required to do-thngs that must be
done life would actually STOP 1t is understood in the
nrst place. that he is to do all the erand to to the
store to the post office and carry all sorts of messages
ne had many legs the centpede they would tire be-
fore night His two short limbs to him entirely in
adequate to the task. He would like to have many
legs as wheel has spokes and rotate in about the
way This he tries do and the people who have seen
MIN turning carwheels" along the side Of the road
posed that he amusing himself and idling his time
ne was only trying TO invent mode Of locomoton
So that he could economic his legs and do his errands
with dispatch practices standing his head
in order to aceustom himself to any position Leapfrog
IS one OF his methods of getting the ground quickly
lie would Willingly go errand any distance If he
could leap-frog it with few boys. he has natural
genius for combining pleasure with business this is why
when he is to the spring pitcher Of water he
Is absent long, for he stops poke the frog that sits
on the stone If there pen-Spout put his
over the spout and squirt the little while He
the one who spreads the the cut It, he
1T away in the barn. he rides the horse to cultivate the
corn and down the hot weary rows he picks up the
potatoes when they dug; he brings wood and water
and splits kirdling; he gets the cows
the Whether he is in the house house.
there is always something the
winter he shoves paths in the he grind
stone He knows where there lots of wnergreens and
sweet flags but instead OF going them is to stay
indoors and apples and rasns pound
thing in mortar And yet with his mind schemes
or what he would like to do and his hands full
don he is IAN idle boy who has nothing busy himself
with but school and chores He would gladly do all the
work II somebody else would do all the chores thinks
ana yet doubt If boy anything In
tne world, or was of much a man, not en-
Joy the advantages of liberal education the way of
chores
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
Hens Recover Stolen Money.

Hens scratched up $1,000 in notes.
bills and other negotiable paper which
was stolen from the Prairie du Sac bank
in n robbery two years ago. The papers
had evidently been brought to Baraboo
and hidden under the elevator in an old
bill book, where they remained till I'M
earthed and scratched into the street be
side the elevation
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
Cigarette Clubs to Evade NewLaw.

Kenosha has taken the lead in the
formation of cigarette clubs in Wisconsin
formed among the adult smokers in the
city. 1t has for its purpose the purchase
of cigarettes for the members. In this
way it is claimed that the cigarettes are
bought in large quantities and the opera
ton Of the new law makes it cheaper for
the smokers than under the old regime.
The club has thirty-fye members
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18

retiring one night at 10 and another at
u o'clock. unless the rising varies, too.
Eight hours sleep one night and six
the next is not the way in which to
WOO and keep health, and if a similar
habit of taking nourishment is encour-
aged there is little hope of reaching
old age in a creditable condition. II
ever you are tempted to prove or dis
prove these statements, try going to
bed at o'clock every night for three
months, and rising at and eating at
6, u and again, with never a break
in the routine. The result will sur
prise Minneapolis Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18

a unanimous opin-
ion. The opinion
was written by
Justice Green. The
establishment and
operation of the re-
inery is declared
to be a work of
internal improve
ment in which The
State is Specific.ll-
ly forbidden to en-
gage by a section