Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-01


the suburban citizen wonder whether,
after all. the man with the muck rake
is not entitled to some sympathy
Washington Star.
Count Boni has found out he doesn't
want any American tainted money. 1t
is a pity that he didn't make this dis
coyery a number of years ago.-New
York Evening Sun.
Professor Garner announces that he
has now completely mastered the mon
key language. He expects hereafter to
be ale 10 move freely in fashionable
society. York Mail
With little more help from the in
dustrial concerns that are destroying
Niagara, any decent otulist in the State
will be able to remove what is lett of
the cataract.-New York Evening Mail
Congressman who insist on contine
uing the Government seed distribution.
to be consistent. should also see that
their constituents are furnished free
hoes and garden rakes.-Toledo (Ohio)
Blade.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says
there will be no more crop failures.
Evidently, the Secretary of Agrlculture
and the head of the Weather Bureau
have been putting up a job.-PhiladeI-
phia Press.
President Roosevelt says that we are
in urgent need of u better coast de
Tense, and everyone who has been up
against the summer rates at the sea-
shore viii agree with him-Philadel-
phia Telegraph.
Let the immigrants come, be they
Irish or German, or Swedes or Slavs,
Or Italians, just as long as they stay
ont of the big cities and the sweatshops
and settle upon the public land to re-
claim it.-Santa Fe New Mexican.
Hyde and Alexander late of the
Equitable, have been dropped from the
directorate of one of the branches of
the Coal Trust. Here's case where
two Jonahs go overheard before the
storm breaks Philadelphia North
American.
Fifty millions of coast defenses looks
as if the role of the worlds peacemaker
were a little dangerous. But, then, that
is only the way of the world. The fell
low who tries to settle the other fell
lows quarrel usually gets into a mess
himself-Haverhill Gazette.
The Government is about to with
| draw the existing stock of postage
stamps and issue fresh ones that will
stick 1t is about time for Uncle Sam
to take away the reproach of tnat gum
which got many a citizen into trouble
with the Recording Angel-New York
Evening Sun.
What did more than anything else to
make Johann Most a person of no inn
pOrtance in this community was the re-
fusa of the authorities to take him
with any great seriousness. He found
it hard to get into Jail, so hard that 1t
took the fight out of him.-New Jerk
Evening sun.
of the weekly decline of enthusiasm for
work among the laborers ON the Pan
anna canal suggests that Lambs SEIZED
ule of employment from II to /, with
an hour out for luncheon, would be
popular on the Isthnus.-New York
Evening Post.
Many of the millionaires of the day
rose from poor, uneducated boys, who
naturally adopted the phonetic mode of
spelling 1t is possible the board to
reform the present mode will adopt the
phonetic system to help the great mon
eyed men out of their trouble.-Fred-
ericksburg (Va.) Star.
Some of the life insurance companies
prided themselves so much or teaching
a policy holder habits of economy that
they held on to his dividends for fear
he might spend them. The directors
who were thus tempted into habits Of
extravaganza are. presumably. to be re-
garded as martyrs Washington Star
A colored woman of Baltimore. los
years old has a distinct recollection of
General Lafayette's tour of this coun-
try. This event seems to have been
stored up in the memory of all old PEG
pie. It is observable of late however,
that the coachmen of George Wasting
ton are getting very Rochester
Union.
The most successful man is usually
the most careworn, and, therefore, the
most unhappy. A tramp has no cares
Mt all, and in the opinion of some phil
osophers the tramp approaches very
near happiness Every healthy man
once in a while feels like going to
Japan to bask in the smiles of the gel
shas-drOpping duties and throwing
duh care to the lotus winds.-Portland
Oregonian.
A large percentage of the population
Of the Isle of Guam are reported to be
afflicted with gangrosa, a tropical dis
ease more repulsive than leprosy, which
destroys the face by slow liberation
and is highly contagious or communi-
cable. The American GovegnJr-Generc1
Of Guam recommends hospitals for the
isolation of the disease, which recon-
mendation has been approved by the
Surgeon General of the Navy. This is
a part of 'the white mans burden. -
Atlanta Constitution.
Mark Twain hopes there may be no
cars or grand dukes in heaven Evil
IDENTIFY Mark expects to go there himself
some day.-ChiCago Record Herald
The Democratic city executive commit
tee of Kansas City, Kan, renominared
Mayor W. w. Rose in defiance Of the
orler Of the State Supreme Court. which
ruled that Rose could not again serve IN
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