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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-31
Pleasant Meal Times.

Many people must have been struck
by the utter absence of interesting
conversation that is so marked fea-
ture of modern meals. In the olden
days all the wit and brightness of the
day seemed to be focused into the
breakfast and dinner hours, and near
IL all the celebrated stories Of brilliant
repartee that have come down to us
were delivered during a meal. But
nowadays people talk over their wor-
ries and bothers at the table look out
trains and read papers during break
fast, and if they have got anything
disagreeable to say to another mem
Der of the family, very often choose
meal time in which to say it.
Somebody once suggested that chill
dren should be trained to he bright
and cheerful during meals, just as
much as they are trained to eat prop
erly, for the one habit, like the other,
would cling to them when they grow
up and make them much sought after
companions
Worry is very bad for the digestion,
and so is another fashion of seeing
how fast you can get through your
breakfast or lunch; certainly both
things react upon ones neighbor's en-
joyment of the hours that should
bring relaxation and good humer.-
Home Monthly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-31
From Far and Near.

President Roosevelt has appointed w.
Hall Harris postmaster of Baltimore
James O'Neil. who shot his wife to
death at Columbus, Ohio, and who
wounded his son, was captured and lock-
ed up.
The Mexican permanent exposition at
the City Of Mexico, which it was expect
ed would be open on Jan. 1, will not be
open until Feb. l.
In a speed test at sea the u. S. s.
Chattanooga made an official record of
16.7 knots an hour, being a fraction fast
er than the contract speed
The Circuit Court decided to hear the
suit of Prosecutor Goodrich against the
international Harvester Company at
Wapakoneta, Ohio, April %. The 5uit
is under the Valentine antitrust law to
Gust the company from Ohio.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Company now has a surplus of 1896, 900
and $350.000 is due from the wrecking
company. leaving a small balance for
the stockholders.
Harvard university and the Massachu-
setts general hospital are named as bene-
ficiaries to the extent Of more than ST.
100000 in the will Of the late Il. w.
German of Boston.
The Kassan Company. which viii sue
coed to the property of the Kassan Bay
Mining Company of Washington, was or
ganized at New Haven. Conn, with a
capital stock of 81 100000.
The Union Pacific railroad has let CON
tracts for the double-traeking of the
Union Pacific line in Kansas from Kan
sas City to Topeka and for the consfruc-
ton of new line from Menoken and
Onaka. Kan. which will complete a cut
off from Topeka, Kan, to Grand Island,
Neb.
There was a remarkable exemption
from forest fires both in the Adirondacks
and the Catskills during the past season,
according to the annual report Of Col.
William +. Fox, superintendent Of State
forests TO the forest fish and game com
mission Of New York. The total area
burned over during the year WIS 1,63J
acres. with damage Of but 1890.
Fire that threatened to destroy the
village of Spartansburg, Pa, consumed
Eastman's millinery store, Blakeslee's
general store. the Meitzers' shoe store
and three dwellings. The loss is about
So. 900.
The American Banana Company,
through H. L. Mcconnell of Mobile,
Ala. asked the State Department at
Washington TO intervene in its behalf
on account of alleged interference by
thu Costa Rican government with the OPP
Grafton of the company in the territory
now belonging to Panama, but at one
time under the Jurisdiction Of Costa Rica-
The company asks for S2.210,000 dam
ages.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-31
RIOTS IN ALL CITIES.
Points Throughout Russian Empire
Report Spread of Revolt.

Points throughout Russian Empire
Report Spread of Revolt.
Advices from al the big cities and
towns of Russia indicate that there is
excitement everywhere. The red-hag
demonstrations at Helsingfors. Finland,
We're disquieting, but there is no evidence
yet of a general movement
The labor troubles have broken out
in Moscow and other cities. Gen. Rol-
koff, the new governor of Moscow, says
he will adopt the same repressive meas
ures as in st. Petersburg. Disorders
have broken out in Finland, where the
red flag was waved.
Gov. Gen. 1repoff, appointed, is in
supreme command of st. Petersburg. Al
though a state of siege has not been ac-
tually proclaimed, ii practically exists,
the Emperor i.aving conferred upon him
as governor general almost absolute pow
er, authorizing him to use the military,
gendarmerie and every other agency of
the government to preserve order, plac-
ing under his control the government
works and schools and even empowering
him to exile persons who are inimical to
peace. Hundreds of arrests have been
made.
The only decision of the government
thus far is to preserve order at all costs
The government is living over vol
cano and can do nothing else" said a
high official. EVERY other consideration
must give way to the question of public
order"
Maxim Gorky, the famous writer and
advocate of freedom, is reported to have
been seized and thrown into the dungeons
of SIS. Peter and Paul The arrest of
Gorky, whichGit is believed is but pre-
lude to his execution, will, according to
the leaders of the instruction, hasten
the storming of the great prisons of St
Petersburg. Gorky, proposed as head of
the provisional government of Russia,
who, with Father Gopon, has been lead
ing the uprising is the idol of the peas
ants and the workingmen of Russia, and
for years one of the strongest advocates
of Russian freedom. His arrest, it is
declared, indicates that the government
intends to seize and execute all the lead
ers of the strike and of the cause of
liberty as an example to the people.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-31

Bracelets have returned on a wave
of popularity.
Broadtail is as popular as anything
so expensive can be.
Flat, rundown collars finish most of
the fur cloaks and coats.
There are big fluffy muffs of mara
bout to match the pretty boas.
Persian trimming is largely used for
vests and gown decorations.
Even the debutante INDUCES in satin,
so soft and light has that fabric be-
come.
Velvet gowns take to themselves
delicate chantilly laces of correspond
ing color.
Sealskin is restored to high favor,
particularly in the close-ftting direc-
toire coats.
The smartest model of a tailored
coat is a tight-ftting affair. sc to 80
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-31
BARRIERS OF FORMER DAYS.
Methods and Appliances in Shops Crude

Methods and Appliances in Shops Crude
Forty Years Ago.
I've been shaying-or, rather, I've
been shaved-for upward of forty
years." said the man whose turn came
next, according to the New York World,
as he watched the barber LAYING Gus
toner's chin with various mixtures.
And | can tell you there have been
more innovations in New York's bar
Der shops during that time than in
almost any other local trade. For in
stance, forty or even thirty years ago
there was one barber shop where now
you will find ten. As for a shop Of
the sort In an Office building, that was
unheard of. For one thing, the four
and five-story office buildings of those
days offered scant practice to an ambi-
tious barber.
Il can remember, too, when boot
blacks became a feature Of big barber
shops. That was considered a tremen-
dous innovation, and the first New
York barber shop with bootblack at
tachment had q run Of custom that
should have made it's owner rich. A
large proportion of New York's BARRIERS
were colored men in those days. Now
you seldom see colored barber.
I'm the old days-and not so very
long ago, either-we were shaved with
far less care as to the grain of the
skin, the growth of the beard, ETC.,
than now, and a shave was a shave.
There were few such modulations as
once over clean, but not too close
and all that sort of thing. We were
shaved and the chin was swabbed
with bay rum and some years ago pow
der was added. 1t is only few years
ago that the use of witch hazel in New
York barber shops became at all COM
mon. The 'hot toweP'-that delight of
the Underestimate still newer.
Yes, the latter-day New Yorker
doesn't know all he has to be thankful
for in the tonsorial line. Ten or twelve
years ago you might still see in the
lower class of barber shops a sign
reading: Shaving, 10 cents. With Bay
Rum, 10 That sign is survival of
the days when regular shave had alb
solutely no accompaniment In the form
of libations and when such additions
cost extra. How would you have liked
to be alive then?
But in one respect the Gotham bar
Der of 1860 had the call on his brother
Of the twentieth CENTURY. He could
trim beard to the queens taste. Nine
BARRIERS out of ten were expert beard
trimmers. Nowadays about one barber
in four can trim a beard so that it
heath'
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-31
~~~OO~~~

Queen Amalie of Portugal is an &C
compHshed nurse. holds doctors di-
ploma and personally takes part in the
MANAGEMENT of certain hospitals and
even in the nursing of special patients.
Miss Ada Eliot, who by common
consent was called the ''Tombs anger
after Mrs. Fosters death in the Park
Avenue Hotel fire, has given up her
work as probation officer for the Court
of Special Sessions in New York City
because Of i'll health.
In order that the old soldier who
enters the national soldiers home need
not be separated from his wife, If she
still lives. the Ladies Of the G. A. r..
in California have undertaken to erect
a number of cottages at Sawtelle, near
the hcme. which viii be turned over
10 the married soldiers for their occu-
pancy.
4 lasso was the means OF saving the
life of a woman who left her hat and
Jacket on the rocks and Jumped into
the sea at Ferrysile, Carmartnen, En-
gland. She was noticed by Edgar
Williams, a local butcher, VINO fortu-
nateIy had his lassoing rope in his
trap. Running 10 the waters edge he
lassoed the drowning woman and haul
ed her safely ashore
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-31

e." answered a taller man coming for
ward, and speaking with a cultural
twang. "Skeary Jem is your name and
nature. Gle me the pick if thee beest
aveared. Is this job to be finished to-
night, or not?'
In a short or long time, as she still
lay hid and dared not show her face
above the gorse tuft, sound of sliding
and falling shale heavily shook her ref
uge. She drew herself closer and clasued
her hands before her eyes, and covered,
expecting to be killed at least. And then
she peeped forth, to know what 1t was
about. She never had harmed any NOR
tai body; why should she be frightened
SO?
In the catch of the breath which comes
when sudden courage makes guip at un-
certainty, she lifted herself by a stiff old
root, to know the very worst of it. Better
almost to be killed and be done with
than bear the heart pang of this terri
BILE fear. And there she saw thing that
struck her so aback with amazement
that every timid sense was mute
Whether the sky had begun to shed
lowering light, or the girls own eyes
spread and bred a power Of vision from
their nervous dilation-at any rate, she
saw in the darkness what she had not
seen till now. 1t was the body of
young woman lying. only with white
things round it, in the black corner,
with gravel and earth and pieces of rock
rolling down on it. There was nothing
to frighten sensible person now that
the worst was known perhaps. Every
body must be buried at some time. Why
should she be frightened so?
However, Esther Grips fell faint, and
lay in that state long enough for tons
of burying rock to fall, and secret bury
ers to depart.
(To be continued)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-31
T. IS f.
'15&A4aaa}N
~~~N@~~~~~o

AT wedding seats are reserved for
the parents and relatives, this is usu-
ally done by stretching a white rib
bon across the church aisle.
At small dinner or tea the con-
versation should be general, it would
be bad form to devote ones self to
the next neighbor exclusively.
When a gentleman asks mutual
friend to introduce him to a lady it is
customary to ask her permission be-
fore the request is granted.
When visiting you should ask per-
mission of your hostess to have your
friends call. If strangers to her they
should invariably be introduced.
At dinner it is not necessary to
wait until all have been served, it
is perfectly proper to begin eating as
soon as two or three have been served
A bride selects her bridesmaids
from among her most intimate friends,
if the bridegroom has a sister she is
usually asked to be maid of honor.
When giving house party the pc
Rod of the visit should be definitely
stated in the invitation, this will pre-
vent any confusion or misunderstand-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-31
Beauty,s Downfall.

A warning note is struck by lady,
who has both medical and literary
skill, against the reckless disregard of
those laws which make for beauty.
We Americans are growing palmer,
she AYERS, simply because we allow
even our children to be affected by the
stress and strain of modern life. The
smartness, the ability to look after
themselves and the athleticism Of the
women and children OF the present
time spell physical ruin. Beauty is
rarely seen nowadays in its unadorned
style Lovely women are artificial
products, and really lovely children are
as scarce as auks' eggs. The reason
is that our expressions have grown
anxious, eager, cold, our limbs and
members are strained out of shape bv
over-exercise and our compilations and
hair are starved for lack Of nerve
force The exquisite compilations, lux
uriant locks, delicate features and
clear, innocent-looking eyes that one
associates with beauty are so seldom
seen as to be quite remarkable when
they are. and we are threatened with
a still further decrease Of these ele-
ments OF good looks unless we bring
back our gifts TO the plain and PRINT
tive style of upbringing. which per
haps after all is the best for them.
The larger life" certainly has its
drawbacks
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-31
Hints for the Housewife.

Sprinkle clothes with hot water and
a whisk broom.
Rub celery on the hands to remove
the odor of onions
Mix stove backing with a little
ammonia to prevent it burning off.
Add few drops of ammonia TO the
bluing water to whiten the clothes
Add a little sugar to milk to pre-
vent it sticking TO the vessel while
boiling.
Add one or two tablespoonfuls Of
sugar to strong turnips when cooking.
Place an apple in the bread and
cake boxes TO keep bread and cake
moist.
Mix a little cornstarch with salt be-
fore filling the salt shaker, to prevent
its clogging.
Add a tablespoonful of kerosene to a
pail of clear hot water to wash the
windows.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-31
Mem wiz MARY a laugh.

Girls spend considerable time try
ing to find out how to be popular. 1t
is natural that a girl should seek ap-
proval and admiration. Her popular
ity means a good time, boxes of caDdy,
theaters, dances, flowers, everything
thai the hearts of the young delight in
The girl that is popular is the girl
who laughs Not the girl that sim
pers and FUCKERS or giggles, but the
girl that laughs and means it. The
girl that laughs can have candy and
flowers and theaters every day in the
week.
Men flock about her. They adore
her. She laughs herself straight into
the hearts of beaux and admirers and
straight into all the good times that
a girl can dream Of
She laughs, but she is careful when
she laughs. She laughs with her
beaux, but never at them. She laughs
at what they say when they say IT,,
but never afterward She laughs at
their jokes, but never about them. She
never laughs at anyone's blunders or
misfortunes.
She laughs when the beaux give her
flowers, she laughs when they give
her candy, she laughs when they take
her to the theater. Why shouldn't
she? Her laugh is her fortune. Above
all, the girl who knows how to laugh
knows when to laugh and never laughs
wnen she should be silent.
She merely goes through life with
her laugh ready and into many dark
corners does she flash its cheer.
Many a heart she makes glad just by
passing. Many a burden she lightens
by the music of her voice.
Women forget to worry when they
hear the cheerful girls laugh. Old
men are warmed at the sound of it.
Young men listen and follow it, pay
court to it, marry 1t. For it is the
laugh that keeps the heart young, the
laugh that keeps the face bright.
What man wants a wife that can
not laugh? And the boy following
the laugh is looking for a wife. He
may not know it, but he is. And he
will find her when he finds that cheer
full, wholesome, honest, wholesouled,
healthy laugh.-Kansas City World.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-31
DE4S MA;IERS
10 Sss
-N1S~

Chciago-Cattle, common to prime
$500 to $500; hogs, shipping grades.
$4.00 to $4S5; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.15 to S1.1S:
corn, No. 2, Ale to 43c; oats, standard.
29c to Bic; rye, No. 2, 73c to 75c; hay.
timothy, $3.50 to $500; prairie. 5000 10
S11.50 butter, choice creamery. 27c to
29c; eggs, fresh, 22c to 24c; potatoes.
26c to 36c.
Indianapolis-Ca shipping, $500 TO
1913; hogs, choice light, $500 TO $3.50;
sheep, common to prime $3.50 to 81 ~:
wheat. No. 2, $1.1S to $1.21; corn. No. 2
white, 42c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white,
30c to 32c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $500: hogs.
$500 to $40; sheep, $500 to $3.50.
wheat, No. 2, Sill to $1.13; corn. No.i2.
Ale to 43c; oats, No. 2, 29c to Bic; rye.
No. ., zoe to TIC.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $500:
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, S1.20 to S1.22.
corn, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; oats. No.
2 mixed, 32c to 3Sc; rye, No. 2, SIC to.
S5c.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to $4.65; hogs.
p1.VO 10 SO.JJs SHtep, P%-OO 10 94.ZJ.-
wheat, No. 2. S1,20 to $1.21; corn, No. 3
yellow Zoe TO 46c; oats, No. 3 white.
&c to : &c; rye, No. 2, Sic to &c.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. northern.
S1.09 to Sill: corn, No. 3, 41c to 43c;
oats, No. white, 30c to BIC; rye, No. I,
roc to Sic; barley, No. 2, sic to 52c;
pork, mess, $12.57.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed SI.16 to.
S1.1S; corn, No. 2 mixed. 44c to Die;
oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to BIC; rye, No. 2.
Sic to SIC; clover seed, prime, $7.9O
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, 800
to $3.50; sheep, fair TO choice, $500 10
S4.75; lambs, fair to choice, $3.50 to
S7.75.
New York-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50:
hogs, 800 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$5.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.19 to $1.20;
corn, No. 2, Sic to SIC; oats, natural,
white, CSC to Doc; butter, creamery, 24c
to &c; eggs, western. 25c TO 27e.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-31
CHICAGO.

-
Trade conditions manifest CO.
hesiveness which has gathered
strength from the weeks activity in
important branches The primary
markets for foodstuffs maintained
steadiness in both grain and provi-
sions: jobbing transactions in general
merchandise for spring deliveries
opened up well. and manufacturers
negotiated new business engaging ca
pacity in a large degree Prices have
become more clearly defined for raw
material and factory product, and
their firmneSs makes it less difficult
to close undertakings involving heavy
OUTLAWS.
Lumber, leather and finished steel
were in good demand. and additions
made to active furnaces reflect
further gain in the consumption of
pig iron. Marketing of grain and live
stock exhibits increase, and, despite.
the obstacles of severe weather in the
West, railroad earnings emphasized
the movement of commodities.
Recent bank statements disclose an
ample supply of money, and the higher
total loans over two months ago made
better showing than had been ex-
pected. Mercantile collections geney-
ally are without adverse features,
defaults being lower in both number
and liabilities.
Travelling statesmen have forwarded
satisfactory orders fer staple mer-
chandise and report favorabIy as to
the trade prospect Forward bust
ness thus far accumulated makes Il
good showing in dry goods, clothing
and footwear. Jobbers expect some
expansion in their operations, and lit
tie hesitancy is seen in securing sup
plies for country requirements. Con
sumption of winter lines has made
notable progress, frequent recorders
indicating that replenishment is going
on at numerous interior points.
Grain shipments, 2,291 ,463 bushels,
present a slight excess over those a
year ago, and receipts, 3,419, 3S1 bush
els, compare with 4,173,512 bushels.
Price changes were fractional: corn
closing higher, wheat and oats lower.
Domestic demand for provisions was
OF fair volume, quotations showing no
change in pork, but being shade oft
in lard and ribs.
Failures reported in the Chicago
district numbered 81, against As last
week and 81 year ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-31
WHY MEN AVOID MINISTRY,
Ministers Give Reasons that Keep Them
from Pulpit.

from Pulpit.
In an article in the Worlds Work
on 1.-THE Decline of the Ministry"
Everett L. Tomlinson raises the ques-
ton, what deters men from enter
ing the ministerial profession" Mr..
Tomlinson gives the result of his cor
respondence.
The replies and explanations of
twenty successful ministers, condensed
and classified, are as follows:
l. The lack of freedom. The min
lister is looked upon too much as one
who is hired or employed. If he devi-
ates from the theological position he
assumed when in his inexperience and
immaturity he declared his views,
then he is certain to feel the force of
the opposition often shutting him out
even from opportunities of labor and
service. He is looked upon not as the
minister of ehe church. He is expect
ed to be defender of the faith rather
than a teacher or a student.
2. The short and shortening period
of service. The reasonable certainty
that after he is 40 years of age his
services will be less in demand and
the dead-line of 90 no imaginary boyle.
8. The difficulty of maintaining a
home on the meager salaries given.
That a clergyman's salary usually was
little less than what was expected
of him.
4. The continual shifting of his
home and field.
5. His subsection to the pettiness
Of the attacks and demands of petty
people.
6. The present beneficiary SYSTEM"
which degraded the entire body. :
These twenty men, every one of
whom is a successful pastor, were
asked if they had their lives to live
over again if they would select the
work they are now doing. Seven re
piled "Yes" enthusiastically, three
were somewhat undecided, nine re
piled NO" positively, and one declared
that if he could avoid being ordained
he would be only too glad TO take up
the work. And every man of the
twenty declared that preaching in
itself was the highest pleasure of his
life
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-31
Thf. and That.

Fire destroyed the G. T. Perry soap
factory in Helena, Mont, entailing a loss
estimated at $4,000, insurance $1,000.
4 new record has been established by
Cripple Greek, Colo. the output Of the
gold mines for the year being 50, 800, 900.
A memorial meeting in honor Of the
late Samuel NJ Jones, Mayor Of Toledo.
Ohio, was held in New York at Cooper
Union.
Gen. Boone, a half-witted negro, who
brutality murdered Mrs. Matte Maben, a
white woman, New Years night. was
captured by posse Of his own race and
lodged in Jail in Memphis.
Patrick orrigan. aged 60. an insane
patient in a Newark. y. j., hospital. at
+acked one Of the attendants and was 50
severely injured before he could be over
powered that he died shortly afterward-
Mrs. Eliza S. Mckee, daughter Of Dr.
r. S. Sutton of Pittsburc. has fled an
application for divorce from A. HaT
Mckee after il b41 0een announced that
he had settled 100000 on his wife and
children. The master recommended the
granting Of a divorce.