Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-03

accomplished Japan win see to that.
| Portland Argus
We really don't see how Uncle Rus
sell Sage can expect the Lord to wait
until he reaches par, when he can
be had at S9,-8oston Journal * !
/ 1t is reported that Senator Warner,
of Missouri, walks and talks in his
sleep. He will be entirely at home
! at the average session Of the Senate. e
1t has just been discovered that
Jupiter has a seventh moon. Jupiter
must be poor place for private street
lighting ompanies.-Chicago Record
| Herald.
The French government is decorat-
ing mothers of large families with
cross Race suiciders will think the
emblem chosen highly appropriate
Philadelphia Ledger
We take it that even the Japs will
now adj lit that the ilustrious anees-
| tors of our Mr.. Roosevelt must have
something on those of the Mikado-
Charleston News and Courier.
Like all disease, graft develops va
rious phases, but it is the same all
ment after all. The diagnosis is never
difficult, as the symptoms are almost
invariably the same.-Dallas News.
The pacification of the Russian peo-
pie is proceeding with gratifying re-
suits from the autocratic point of view.
| Forty have been killed and more than
200 wounded in the latest lesson
| Pittsburg Dispatch.
a glance at the years fatalities in
] dicates rare degree of business acu-
/ men on the part Of railroads III kill
ing off so many employees and sparing
the lives of those to whom they might
look for cash fares. - Detroit Free
! Press. sfa
No one is surprised to see a new
| theory of the creation of the sola-
system advanced by Il Chicago univer-
! sity professor The only remarkable
| thing is that he didn't claim that he
had a hand in it himself Boston
! Globe.
A railway mail clerk is suing the
| government for the money spent in
meals during his trips. Uncle Sam
might come back at him by charging
up railway fares for all the time he
was riding in the mail car.-Newport
News Press.
Japan was thrice armed because
her quarrel was just says Baron Ko-
mura. Nonsense. Japan was thrice
armed because her army and navy de-
partments hustled night and day to
make her thrice armed Colorado
Springs Gazette.
That battle Gen. Linevitch would
have won if it had been fought will
perhaps go down into history as a
great hypothetical victory, but it will
| probably be forgotten by the major
| ity of people in Il very short time
Washington Star
Recent revelations show that there
is graft even in collins A man may
be compelled to give up all along the
fine of earthly activities. but when
he at last gives up the ghost he should
be let out gracefully. - New York
Evening Telegram.
The story that Grover Cleveland is
a rich man is denied. He is probably
in better condition than being rich.
He is well enough off 10 have what he
wants, to do as he pIeases and not be
fretted about the stability of his in
vestments.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
1t is announced that between fifty
and sixty M0rmons in charge of a
bishop have reached Butte on their
way to Alberta. Canada. to take up
homesteads. Perhaps they will take
up the farms deserted by those other
deiectable pilgrims, the Doukhobors.
st. John q. B. Times.
Just think how Mr.. Rockefeller
would have been "stung' had he pur-
chased peace as suggested by the
Paris crowd. That the thing was
worth neither a kOpeck no. sou
leads to the belief that Tom Lawson
inspired the Frenchmen to try to
"goldbrick" the philanthropist.-
lUth IlN tllluS IeleSEttll.
"The fierce and warlike Cossack'
has been disgraced by the war with
Japan, and shown TO be Il four-fusher.
He is terrible and valiant when it
comes to fighting unarmed women and
children, whom he shoots down with
out mercy. When confronted by Jap
anese rifemen he runs like Turk
Memphis News-Scimitar
The railroads furnish the express
companies cars, and carry the express
on a percentage basis. The govern
ment pays from - to 12J per cent
rental for postal ears and then pays
the railroads about eight times as
much for transporting the mails as
they receive for hauling the express.
Puzzle: Find the cause OF the deficit
in the p. o. D.-The Commoner.
1t is noticeable that whenever Uncle
Sam launches a new warship the event
is chronicled in the European news
papers with as much detail OF the
armament and speed of the vessel as
is given publication in this country.
1t is just another bit of evidence that
the foreign powers are coming TO a
conviction that the United States is
strictly in the international SWIM
Pittsburg Times
1t has been stated that one reason
for the popular impression that insur-
ance is now too expensive is that the
rates to-day are based upon the old
English mortality tables of sixty or
seventy years ago. despite the fact that
with the advance made in medical sci
ence since then the present longevity
rate is greater than it was then; that.
in other words. the average man lives
longer to-day than be did then. If
this is true. there seems to be sub
stance in the contention that revision
of these mortality tables, and of the
insurance rates based upon them. is