Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-10

| GOSSIP Gossip
| Officials of the State Department
are looking at the Cuban situation
with feelings akin to dread Notwlrh-
standing the belief, so hard to uproot
rom the minds of some people, that
lie administration. would be glad of a
valid excuse to pave the way to bring
/ Cuba under the flag, it is fear rather
than hope that besets the officials of
state. Cuba until the last election pc
riod was moving onward in an order
y, prosperous course, and there was
genuine satisfaction in American adj
niniStration circles over the apparent
soundness of the fruit of the tree of
independence. The passions of the
| people, so easily aroused in other
Latin-American republics. seemed in
! Cuba to be checked by an unexpected
| conservatism and a sincere desire 80
| have the world know that the mixed
races occupying the island were worthy
| of the gift of freedom Recent events,
however, have shown that the old
leaven of unrest and turmoil is still
present. The election riots at Glen
fuegos have a deep significance, it is
| feared. They We're not ordinary rows
| to pass and leave no after-effects when
the day of the voting was done. Di-
rect charges of undue and illegal gov
eminent acts for the purpose of up
holding its will are made, and the OPP
position party is strong enough, if it
takes the revolutionary bit in its teeth,
to throw the island back into the
scenes of Civil War which antedated
tie Spanish-A conflict.
Brazilians are like other people in
preferring to buy what is fashionable.
A special agent of the Department of
Commerce and Labor who has been
making an inquiry into the cause of the
comparatively small trade Of the Unit
ed States with Brazil reports that most
of the population, except the very few
who have Travelled in the United
States, have exalted ideas as to the
! greatness of England, France and Ger
many. and the 'fashionableness' of us
| ing commodities produced in those
| countries" They do not yet know in
South America that England, France
and Germany buy many things from
| the United States, and that American
shoes. for instance, are becoming so
| popular on the other side that the Euro
pean manufacturers are copying Amer
lean styles. When they learn this,
through the enterprise of the Ameri
can manufacturer the people of Bra
I'll will begin to regard American
| goods with as much favor as they re
| gard those which are made in Europe.
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The annual report of the United
States Commissioner of Education has
chapter bearing upon the libraries
of the country in 1908. Only those
containing one thousand or more vol
umes are mentioned The North At
Iantic States contain nearly one-half
| the libraries enumerated. New York
stands first, with 924; Massachusetts
next. with ga, and Pennsylvania fol-
lows with 491. Thirty per cent of the
libraries and 40 per cent of the num-
Der of volumes computed for the ma
ton at large are contained in these
States. Taking the country as a whole,
there is one library, containing at least
one thousand volumes. for every eleven
thousand six hundred and thirty-two
| inhabitants.
The growth of the rural free deliv-
cry system continues undated On
July / there were 32,05S routes in
operation, or 1892 more than at a
corresponding period last year. To en-
able better handling of the mail the
| postOffice department is arranging for
the numbering of all rural letter boxes
entitled to service, and authorizing
carriers to deliver mail matter address
ed to boxes by number alone, the
same as is now permitted in the case
of postoffice boxes. The boxes will be
numbered in order, beginning with the
first box reached by the carrier after
| leaving the postoffice, and new boxes
erected afterward will be assigned the
next number in use ON the particular
route.
1t is expected that the Postoffice De
partment will take action to exclude
many of the post cards from the mails
on account of their improper charac-
ter Some of them that come from
| foreign countries are decidedly and
clearly immoral. The souvenir post
card fad has reached astonishing di-
mansions and the mails are flooded
with them. For the most part they
are attractive and artistic. The United
States PoStoffice Department has ruled
| that any card with writing on the adj
dress side must have a two cent
stamp.
| -
Nearly every pen manufacturer in
| America and Europe sent pens to
Portsmouth, with the request that
they be used in signing the Russo
Japanese treaty, but the "old gray
goose" got the honor, after all.
PROPER CARE OF BOOKS.
Never drop a book on the floor.
Never turn leaves with the thumb.
Never lean or rest upon an open
| book.
Always keep your place with thin
| bOokmark